The Sun.
London, England, 1823-11-07 00:00:00

that Ministers were till lately grossly igno-
rant with respect to South America, and we fear
that the interests of the country will suffer from
that ignorance. The French have taken
them completely by surprise. They have al)
their information to seek, when the French
are already in the field. We believe (but
we do not state this positively) that our
naval force round Cape Horn amounts to but
one frigate and a smaller vessel, which are em-
ployed in collecting money and freights for.the
benefit of 'the Captains and Commanders. The
Commodore is stationary at Rio Janeiro, 4,000
miles from the scene of action, with orders to
keep himself at the distance to avoid giving um-
brage to the legitimates. Such are the fruits of
the system of foreign policy pursued by our Mi-
nisters. A few months ago, and the independence
of South America appeared to be established on an
immovable basis. Spain, exhausted by 'efforts to
regain her Colonies beyond her means, wasobliged
to abandon even the hope of them, and was
busied in efforts to improve and regenerate her-
self. Now a great and powerful kingdom renews
the war in her name, with a command of resources,
from which every thing is to be apprehended.
The crisis has approached which will determine
whether the brilliant prospects opened to Eng-
land in Mexico,and South America are to be for
ever closed. The invasion of Spain might have
been prevented, as the invasion of Naples might
have been prevented ; but though France did not
disguise her designs against the Spanish Colonies,
Ministers chose to remain silent.

[MORNING POST.]
French Papers to the 6th instant, reached us
last night by express. They confirm the report
mentioned in those of the day before that Mr.
de Villele had prevailed upon the King to use
his privilege, us in 1816, and to dissolve the
Chamber. The Orlilmam, which is the most
violent of all the ultra publicitions, laments
as a calamity a measure which it recommended
five weeks ago, when it imagined that Ultra
influence would triumph in the Cabinet.—
The Quolidienne is more guarded in its ex-
pressions, and only suffers it displeasure to be
implied. Meanwhile the Journal dcs Debats,
the acknowledged organ of the victorious Mi-
nister, preserves an obstinate silence, which is
imitated by the ilionileur. It is therefore itnpos.
sible to ascertain whether the alarm of the Ultras
be well founded, and the hopes of the liberal
Royalists likely to be realised. Notwithstand-
ing the Success which has attended the French
arms in Spain, an appeal to the People would
be a dangerous experiment for the administra-
tion of the election laws of France allowed
the People to have more than a nominal
in-
fluence' In the choice of their Representatives.—
The power of the Government since the last
regulations, amounts almost to nomination,
and in the case of a general election will no
doubt he exerted to Its fullest extent. It is not
to be expected, however, that the new Chamber
(if the dissolution really take place) will be
wholly Royalist. The present became so after
the secession of the Opposition, and the Minis-
ters have found that it did not answer their VIC.W.S
as WC ll as one in which parties were more equally
balanced. They have experienced dictation
where they expected only support, and perhaps
wished for subserviency. In order to free them-
, selves from the trammels which were thus im-
posed upon thorn when they thought that they
had reached the acme of political independence,
they will probably introduce a Sufficient number
of active Liberals into the New Chamber to
divert the attention and neutralize the power of
the Ultras, and without going quite so far as
Mr. Decazos, they' will endeavour to obtain the
faculty of doing all they please, by playing off in
difficult moments jarring interests and ambitions
against each other.

rnitiTisn PRESS.J
The Deputies of the, Cortes have acted wisely
in withdrawing themselves from the tyrant's
power. The proceedings against Riego, which
are now developed,'spew the, whole extent of the
ferocity of Ferdioand and his minions. The crime
charged by the indictment of the Royal Fiscal
against the fallen chief, compromises the entire
Deputies of Constitutional Spain ; Galiano,
by
it is openly denounced as another traitor. The
offence (calling in, the language of the sanguinary
accuser who has prepared the charge for the
death of Riego, the confiscation of his property,
and the horrid dismemberment of his body as a
convicted traitor) consists in Ferdinand's coma
pelted removal from Cadiz to Seville--in the
creation of a temporary Regency proposed in
the Cortex by the patriotic Galiano—antl, in the
further words of this 'foul indietmeut, " in all
those acts of violence and revolt which manifestly,
64 constitute, according to the laws of the abso-
" lute Monarchy, the crime of high treason,
" which these laws punish with the 'pain of
" death, anti other infamous penalties." Thus,
it appears, that Riego's noble efforts in the Isle
of Leon, in 18 O, by which tyranny was over-
thrown it Spain, told a free (ionstitutioe esta-
blished, haie been passed by, and an aOt of ne.
cessity (in which he was no further implicated
than were the ,entire of the Deputies then
assembled with him at Seville), is tortured intd
an individual crime of treason, and denounced as,
the forfeit of the; life of the fallen chief. What
now becomes of the tyrant's voluntary ampesty ?
Can this thirsting tiger be trusted even for a mo.
ment Every. Deputy in Spain is involved in
this horrible proscription ; and the circle of
death, now drawii around Riego, invelves ever);
one of them individually also. 'the minions of
the despot were afraid to proclaim, as if a "fatal
offence, the announcement of a free Coosa.
tution, which he himself had solemnly and
repeatedly sworn to maintain, end had pre•
tended to accept with the greatest satisface
tion. Riego's death, however, stems resolved
on ; the tyrant's blood.hounds are now upon
him and barking for his blood. Angouleme
is said to have interfered for his preservation
we are not sum prised should ;if tin gallant
Chief he murdered, the Duke never can wipe
'from his hands the stain that will rest upon' them':
, he might have preserved him in the first !Wail/ICI, ;