The Sun.
London, England, 1823-03-28 00:00:00

TUF LONDON JOURNALS.

rxTRAcTs Ettom THE DAILY MORNING PAPERS,
March 213, 1823.

[THE TIMES.]
k letter of some- authority states, that the
-Preach Bourbons are to make new propositions
to the Spanish Government before the war corn-
Menet!. What propositions can they make ?
llo.they mean' to retract that insolent passage in
Louis XVI4I.'S speech, asserting " that the Spa-
cc can have no' free Constitution except
"' they receive it from the hands of their King?"
Seth a- recantation as- that. indeed, might be a
peace-ofrering; but the Spaniards expect it not
from the creatures who now for a moment domi-
neer in France. What, then, is necessary for the
preservation of peace ? Simply, that the Bour-
bons of France do not make unprovoked war
upon their neighbours. We defy the aggressors
to• point out any writing, speech, or approved
act, by which Spain has attacked' the indepen-
dence of Franey. When have the Spaniards ever
said that the principles prevalent in the Penin-
sula, be they right or wrong, ought to be ex-
tended to ether countries ? They were reforming
their Government at home, totally intent upon
their own atrairs—endeavonring to set bounds to
the despotic power of a King, whose moral quali-.
ties cannot he sufficiently described : they spared
him who had never spared them :' they were
thinking as little of the other countries of Europe
as of the regions in any other planet', when sud-
denly the Bourbons of'France, a family who owe
their present enjoyment of unmerited power
More to the Spanish people than to any -other
people or potentate in Europe, turn round upon
their benefactors---prescribe rules of action to
them—with which, if they do not' comply, they
threaten to invade their country, and massacre
its inhabitants. The history of the' world
hardly presents an instance of such atrocious
hational iniquity ; and now we are told,- the
aggressors offer fresh terms' to buy off the
menaced wrong! What terms, we again ask
The Spaniards want no terms. They have none
to 'offer : their country is their own; it is not
the country of the French Bourbons : and terms,
'that itS inhabitants shall act thus and thus in it
—terms dictated by' foreigners—are terms of
insult more 'lnvoking, 'though less sanguinary,
than invasion itself. There are no terms neces-
sary for the preservation of peace. Let the
Bourbons remain -tranquil, and the world is a
peace.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
Plots, it appears, are thickening- hi Europe;
from the extreme south they have journied to the
frozen north, anti are spreading alarm in these
distant regionA, Where nil was calm before. Two
Ifitnburgh Mails arrived yesterday,. with Papers
to the 21st, and from thorn it appears a most un-
precedented and artful plot has been discovered
in Sweden, the object of which was to circulate,
by the medium of forged dispatches, an account
of the intended assassination of time King and
Royal Family. We often thought that Russia
looked with jaundiced eyes on Sweden, and' re-
garded with more than jealousy the dynasty and
Government of Charles Jean. While the Bourbons
have been, spreading their emissaries in Spain
and Portugal; filling the provinces of one country
with faction, and in the other inciting Amarante
to revolt, Russia, diverted for a while from its
plans of spoliation against the Turkish provinces,
This turned its eye to the scene of ancient in-
trigue in Sweden, and its perfidious agents are
now more than probably busy in that king-
dom. Alexander's brother-in-law, the fanatic
Gustavug Adolphus, is yet a wanderer, and the
upstart Bernadotte has sate firm on the throne of
the Goths and Vandals, and felt the iron crown
of Sweden " press his laden brow."

rmonNusa row.]
The Houle of Commons adjourned last night
to Thursday the 10th olApril, after an amend-
ment moved by Lend A. Hamilton, to make the
adjournment three days shorter than the time
proposed, had been negatived without a division.
The amendment was of course only intended to
be vehicle for a speech or two, to which no
reply was thought necessary. We regret that
any Gentlemen having the slightest Pretensions
to political reputation should, on the eve of full
information being afforded respecting a subject of
great importance, pursue so unworthy a course as
to decline waiting for it, and indulge in blind
guesses, which they ventuied to call opinions.—
Such conduct cannot pnitiibly fail to lessen their
character in the public estimation,—and to cause
regret in the mind of every admirer of manly
candour and political respectability.—Mr. Secre-
tary Canning merely took occasion to read the
stipulations contained in the treaties on which
his answers to the questions lately put to him
were founded. These, it is hardly necessary to
observe, bore the Right Ifon. Gentleman com-
pletely out in all that he bad previously stated
on the subject,

cw. sms.)
The French Itentes closed on Tuesday at 7Sf.
20. This is a sufficient answer to the exulting
hope of The Old Times that treason bad spread
throughout the French army. It turns out that
the conspiracy had little or nothing to do with
the army. It was manufactured in London,
in Paris, and in Spain ; but, after di!, it in-
volved a very small number of individuals, most
of them already condemned or exiled, traitors.
Half a dozen individunls were arrested in
the neighbourhood of Paris, and a few others
were taken going toward the Pyrenees. The
departure of the Duke of Belluno, it is asserted,
had ~o connection with the conspiracy: yet we
oannot help thinking that he will do right to
make tik most miscue personal investigation into
the state of every regiment in the. whole line
before hostile operations are commenced, which
'trill now be in about a week.—Our Own
Money Marktt evinced yesterday a per•
feet confiden6e in the maintenance of order.—
Consols opened at 7.4. A sale, to the extent of
between 4 and 500,0001. Consols, was made in
the morning, yet the market remained km until