The Sun.
London, England, 1823-03-19 00:00:00

CORN EXCHANGE, MARcu 19.

There is a short supply of most kinds of Grain at market
this morning, and Wheat remains dull at Monday's prices ;
in Barley there is no alteration in the price ; Beans and Peas
sell on full as good terms as last quoted. There is a fair trade
for Oats at rather better prices.

CURE FOR. BURNS.—If the patient will imme-
diately bind the part affected with jeweller's cotton, the pain
will be almost instantly removed. The cure has been tried, and
has never failed.

Co aoNaas'lNQUESTS.—Yesterday, an Inquest
was held at the Duke of Clarence Tavern, Kent-road, before C.
JEStstrr, Esq., Coroner, on the body of M. Frances fllimthall,
an old woman who for a long time resided in Bowyer7s-lane,
Kent-road, scarcely having the common necessaries of We,
and what she had was from the contributions of some Ma-
rinible individuals in the neighbourhood. Saturday night
lot, the dete nett went to bed at her usual hour apparently in
good health, but in the morning she was found dead hi her
bed. On searching her room considerable property was found.
Verdict—Died by the Visitation of lied.

TI LONDON JOUKNALS.

IXTILACTS FROM TIIE I k,Y 11101INING 'PAPERS,
Mardi 197 18'23.

[MORNING POST.]
Our Ministers, it will be seen from what passed
in 'the House of Commons last night, have no
longer any expectation that war between France
and Spain can be avoitied.—The intelligence
from France and Spain, and the preparations
made by the Government of the one to effect,
and by the Government and the People of the
other to repel, an unjust and unprovoked aggres.
had lately assumed too decisive a character
-mot to render the hope that peace would be, pre-
served between those two countries little short of
a voluntary delusion. Delusion, ,or hope, how-
ever, is now entirely extinguished ; for after the
Declaration made by Mr. Secretary Canning in
the House of Commons last night, in answer
..to the question put to him by Sir James
Mackintosh, it is evident that the interference
of Providence alone could prevent a consum-
mation which it perhaps allows, in order to bring
down condign punishment on the heads of `those
to whom calamity has yielded no fruit, and ex-
perience no wisdom. Sir James Mackintosh
having inquired whether Ministers thought that
any reasonable hope remained to prevent the
iniquitous invasion of Spain, and, in case all
hopes were given up, at what time the Papers
relative to the negociations should be submitted
to Parliament Mr. Canning, with his wonted
manly candour, replied that he should deceive
the House if ,he asserted that the hopes of ad-
justing the differences between France-and Spain
were not totally extinguished, or at least so far
meakened, as to leave hardly any expectation
of a favourable result. He then added, that it
was -the intention of Ministers, on an early
'day after the recess, to take his Majesty's corn-
mands to submit to both Houses of Parliament
the amplest accounts of all the negociations which
had taken place with a view to prevent the inva-
sion of Spain and the breaking out of a dangerous
war, unless something should happen in the in.
terim to change their view of the subject. He
would then originate a discussion on the Papers;
and, to act fairly by. the House, he would now
add, that his Majesty's Ministers did not see any
necessity to involve this country in the contest.—
This would be consoling, if we could be assured
that the necessity would. continue remote. We
hope for the best ; but when we look to the wise
engagements of this country, we cannot but feel
some apprehension that the aggressions of France
will hasten the day when our Good Faith will
no longer permit us to remain idle spectators of
the contest. Be this however as it may, it is
gratifying to see, from the orders given at our
naval stations, that our affairs are not entrusted
to it cioveinment which will suffer itself to be
taken by surprise ; and we cannot but commend
that wise foresight which, before the necessity
for interference on our part is positively felt,
secures a powerful force, which with brief notice
may be prepared to act 'whenever the honour and
the interests of the country may call for its exer-
tion.

this answer was received were of course intended
to mark very different feelings by the different
individuals who gave utterance to them. •

[NEW TIMES.]
Consols improved in the afternoon of yester-
day, leaVing off at 74, without any apparent
cause except the demand of the public for Stock.
Spanish Bonds cease to attract attention; in
Scrip nothing at all was done ; and securities of
1820 and 1821 remained at their ruinous discount.
It will be seen that Mr. Canning last night inti-
mated that all hopes .of accommodation be-
' tween France and Spain had nearly vanished ;
but that nothing had yet occurred which
threatened to involve this country in any
contest. The preparations, therefore, which
continue to be made in our ports of naval equip-
ment can only be regarded in the light of pru-
dential vigilance, and not of any serious appre-
hension of war. This foresight and activity must
meet with universal approbation ; we can only
maintain our neutral character with dignity, by
sheaving that we are fully prepared for any ex-
ertion that the national honour may demand.—
There seems to be an infatuated adherence on
the part of the self-styled Liberals of Spain and
Portugal to the wickedness and oppression of the
Slave Trade! In the course of yesterday's de-
bate, Mr. Canning mentioned that Portugal had
absolutely refused to concede either of the points
I given up by the Government of the Netherlands.
The first was, that every ship taken with one
slave only on board should be subject to the same
consequences as if she carried a cargo of them ;
and the second, that a ship evidently fitted up as
a slave ship should equally be regarded as en-
gaged in that traffic. The first point Spain had
conceded, but not the second.

[BRITISH PRESS..I
The war between France and Spain appears,
on the highest authority, to be now inevitable.—
Mr:Canning was in his place again last night,
having recovered from his late indisposition, and
short but most important convergttion took
place bets een him and Sir James Mackintosh
on the subject of our relations with the French
Cabinet. The latter asked, 44 Whether the ne-
gociation in which Government had been engaged
to prevent the violation of the independence of
Spain—a negociation of the weightiest moral re-
sponsibility in which any Government was ever
engaged---was yet concluded ?" Mr. Canning re-
plied—" That the negociation was not yet at an
end, but that the hopes to which Ministers had
clung, of preventing war between -Trance and
Spain, were nearly extinguished, and that nothing
had taken place'which wonld necessarily involve
this country in war." Mr. Canning says " neces-
sarily"=---but this is a term of most extended
waning. We all know how state necessity has
been drawn in to sanction every possible aggres-
sion and- crime :

, ‘‘ It lends its► ready veil to every treason,
" And teeming mischiefs thrive beneath itslihade."
Nir. Canning has too much sense to be blinded
with the delusion, that if decided war rage
throughout the Peniusula Great Britain can re-
main a mere spectator. The Courier may talk of
maintaining a neutral attitude, but that mainte-
nance can only be in arms, and how slight is the
line of demarcation that separates an armed
neutrality and actual offenpive war. Th‘i
whole question comes to Otis", if France be
successful in. the commencement of the campaign,
and Spain and Portugal are likely to sink in
the struggle, will our Cabinet suffer the ambi-
tion of one country again to be dominant, and
the independence of two Kingdoms to be de-
stroyed ? Already the aggression is vie►ved with
a watchful eye, and we are preparing one of the
strongest arms of our strength in case of the ne-
cessity of interference. Ten guard-ships in the
different ports have had their crews ordered tube
increased, and several large frigates and-sloops
are also preparing for sea. . .

[MORNINO lIF.RALD.]
A large majority of the two Houses of Parlia-
ment—perhaps also of the most influential part
of the population of the country, approved and
supported the strict union of councils and co-
operation between the British Government and
the great powers of the Continent, immediately
before and ininn after the fall of Buona-
parte. This policy may have been questioned
and questionable ; but still it was defensible
upon British principles. Its supporiers urged
with earnestness, and no doubt for the most
part with sincerity, that England had a com-
munity of object'and interest with the powers
of the Continent in putting down Buonaparte--
and, after the champion had been personally re-
moved, in chaining down Buonapartism itself.
The union of England then with the great Con.:
tinental Monarchs, not only in 1814 and 181.5,
but daring the three following years, in which
the alliance was occupied in settling the new state
of Europe, was perfectly reconcilable with the
principles of British freedom, and the interests of
the British notion. But when Buonapartism,
term of wide import, commensurate with French
revolutionary ambition, ceased to be formidable,
the great alliance, at least the Continental part
of it, changed its object, and entered upon a new
career—lL re-establishment of that order of
political society, founded upon implicit obe-
dience in the subject, and absolute, unquestion-
able power in the Sovereign, which prevailed,
and was indeed recognized in almost all the Mo.
nrchies of Europe, until the French Itevohitior
gave so tremendous and fatal a shock to the in,
stitutions and opinions of ages. Since the Con
tinental alliance set out upon, this new enter
prize, its partisans in this country, from being a
majority, have become a very small minority,
mere fraction of the nation, both within and with-
out the walls of Parliament—a small minority,
we may venture to assert, even in the bosom of
the Cabinet. But this party is, at the same time,
stirring, strenuous, •i;ossessed of great and va-
rious means of influence.. It may even be con-
ceded, that the gate of the Continental Alliance
is still open, and that England would be received
, into the great oligarchy of European Monarchies
I
(if this expression be allowed) with a competent
.! share of power as a member of the supreme Eu-
ropean Directory.