The Sun.
London, England, 1824-01-16 00:00:00

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Drar., .TAN. 15.--Wind
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Ilarris and Berwick.diire East Indianten, with the rest of the
outward-bound. wdaridi-ebaodt_tn dap.
Mead—apparently
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a coaster,
a tbicktbgwhere she continued at
5 p. in.
POETS/40171'11, JAN. Is.—Wind N.V. —Arrived the Three
Brothers, Kyger, from Dort. Sailed the Louisa, Walker, for
Grenada t Ilanry Porcher, Thomson, for Madras ; and Frede-
rick, Willhelm, for Leghorn.-
PLY3fOI.7TH, JAN. I4.—Wind variable.—Arrivcd the Lord-
Exmouth, Barrett, from Meu,.d.
FALMOUTH, JAN. l4.—Wind N.1;.--Sailed the Elko
Douglas, Rice, for Suncalore ; and Briton, Pederson, for
Naples.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 14.—Arrived the Echo, Pomoroy, from
:11 aranham.
Conx, JAN. 12._—.Arrived the Dorothy, Forster, front
London, to take troops to Jamaica.

The 3lercey, Gloves, from Newcastle to Charente, found:rzd
near the Galloper Sand the l3th ult.; crew saved.
The Corneby, from Sunderland to Plymouth,
on the Goodwin Sand last night, but is expected to be got oEI

TUE LON DON jOURNALS.

DAHX
frgzi: the Morning nTers, Jun. 16.

rNEW TIMES.]
Tilt! Constitutional Association has once more
c citified itself to the applause of every virtuous
and honourable mind. It has dragged to punish-
wet the Publisher of a Libel on the memory of
That venerable Monarch whose name will ever be
Ileac. to the hearts of Englishmen. A more vile,
brutal, or impious production never issued from
sKe Press than Lord Byron's Vision of Judgment.
It was the death-blow to his Lordship's poetical
eepotation—it was as disgraceful to English lite-
rature as it was offensive to English feeling, and
;liewect the Noble Ithyinster to be as weak in
head as he was wicked at heart. Good men of
all per.ties doglt with fondness on the moral
wcrth of George 111., and felt a deep
and sacred sorrow at the touching recol-
lection of the maladies of his old age.—
We r,ll .felt towards him as towards a ta-
ttler : and the heartless scoffs at his virtues
and his sufferings were as much insults to
his subjects, as if they had been his sons. In
preferring the indictment, therefore, the Con-
stitutonal Association stood forwerd as repre-
sentatives of every thins; that was honourable and
virtuous in national feeling : they did their duty
as as loyal subjects, and as honest Englishmen:
and the Jury that tried the cause did their duty
by delivering a verdict of Guillyagainst the Pub-
lisher. It was industriously given out at one
time, that if any of Lord Byron's works should
he prosecnted, he himself would come home
to brave the prosecution. lie has had abun-
dant time to do so— but he has perhaps
acted more prudently_ in making his Pub-
lisher the 'Scapegoat. As to the latter per-
son we know nothing of him, but that, he set up
a. shop to sell a disgraceful publication called
The Liberal, which contained the Libel in ques-
tion, with much other offensive and vulgar mat-
tes ; but entirely failed in the course of three
or four numbers. it was stated in a Sunday
Paper, that out of the ashes of this abortion of
infidelity, and of another feeble attempt of the
same sort,. called The Freethinking Christian's
igagtaine, was to be set up a new Review
under the auspices of a number of notorious
Radicals. If so, the present verdict will pro-
bably cool the ardour of some of the contribu-
tors ; or, what is more to the purpose, will make
file intended Publishers hesitate to engage in so
worthless a speculation. We cannot quit this
gib,ject without once more reminding the Calum-
niators of that most excellent and truly patriotic
Tststaution, the Constitutional Association, that in
no one instance has a person prosecuted by them
been found Not

CllitONIcLE.7l
A few weeks ago, we published a Report,
dated. the 18th of August, of the Mexican Finance
Minister, M. Arrillaga, relating to a new Loan,
he. expressed himself ready to ne,gociate
with t.:e agent of Messrs. Barclay, of London,
who had caused a very singular notice to be
printed and circulated in Mexico. Previous to the
arrival of the agent or partner of Messrs. Bar-
clay, in Mexico, Mr. It. Staples, connected
with a London house, had made an offer of
a Loan to the Mexican Government, a lead-
ing feature of the proposals for which was,
that the Government should receive, as part,
thereof, the claims of certain individuals for sums
seized by Iturbde, when in power, which sums
the•new Government pledged itself to reimburse.
The proposals of his competitor being deemed
more advantageous to the Finance Minister, as
expressed in his .aforesaid Report, several long
statements were laid before the public, and the
Congress, proving- the contrary, in consequence
of which the former arrangements were quashed,
and the Congress ordered the negociations to
begin de novo, in conformity to their decree of
the 27th of August. No large loan for the Go-
vernment of Mexico had, therefore, been defini-
tively arranged up to the middle of September;
but as Mr. Staples, in his new proposals, insisted
en the reimbursements of the SUMS seized by
Iturbide, by their being taken as part of the loan,
it was not thought. he would be the fortunate
candidate. We have before us a very volumnious
correspondence on this subject, a large portion of
which .consists• of • letters from Mr. Staples, in
which he exhibits several numerical proofs of the
superior advantages from his proposals, and
answers from the Finance Minister ; but we have
deemed the present little outline sufficient for
the information of the British Public.

[THE TINES.]
A. report was current yesterday afternoon in
the city; said to be founded on information which
bad reached the Government offices, that the
exertions of the French party in Madrid had
been successful in retaining the existing Spanish
Ministry in
.power, whose original appointment
bad been owing to the same influence. The ob-
ject of the opposing party, the ecclesiastical in-
terest, had been to effect the restoration to office of
Sae4 .the -King's Confessor, without whose sup-
port the church property could not be considered
whoßYL.,"itaß from responsibility in behalf of
public credit. That of the French party is ob-
viously that of securing an administration of such
a oust as may give them a chance at least of being
reimbursed the expences of Ferdinand's emanci-
pation. -This rumour, which is too vague to be
entitled to much confidence, had the -effect of
improving the tipan;sh Bonds about one-half per
cent. near the close of the market.

[MORNING POST.]
• We received last night by express French
Rapers to the-14th inst. and the Etoik of Wed-
nesday. The'.Quotidien:nd notices the alarm ex-
pressed by some of our contemporaries at the
sailing or 1130.0 •troop from Brest •for Martinique
and Guadaloupe,-and says, with much apparent
justice, " We, see ;no 'reason why it should ,be
thought extraordinary that France should send
ttoops to her 'colonies, especially at a moment
wkcn haVe taken place among

the Blacks on several points and have given a
dangerous example. But those haunted with
the idea of South America see phantoms
every where, and wiill soon imagine they be-
hold winged battalions flying across the ocean."
It would appear from this that the Ultras them-
selves, or at least the branch to which the Quoti-
, dienne belongs, had altered their opinion with
respect to the policy or practicability of a trans-
Atlantic war, and began to think, like the Mi-
nisters, that peace was preferable to a contest
which could not be carried on two months with-
out becoming almost wholly European. The
Etoile contains some intelligence from Spain,
which is calculated to give a just idea of the
wretched state of that country under the sway
of the restored Monarch. At Cordova some
Constitutional placards have been stuck against
the walls, the Governor offered a reward to dis-
cover their authors, and announced that they
should be shot. At Badajoz the Military Com-
mander being probably a better-tempered man,
only issued Proclamations to induce the inhabit-
ants to become Royal volunteers. Meanwhile
Ferdinand continued to postpone the promised
amnesty from day to day, and as a preparatory
step to the re-establishment of the Inquisition,
had taken all its confiscated property out of the
treasury, and placed it under the care of the
Collector-General. In France the attention of
the Parisians has lately been occupied by the
trial of Rose Vivier, for stabbing her lover. We
gave the details of this case some weeks ago,
when the act of accusation first appeared. She
was found guilty of the attempt on Monday last,
but the Jury having negatived the charge of pre-
meditation, sentence of death was not passed
upon her, but she was condemned to forced
labour for life, to exposure in the pillory,
and to he branded with a red hot iron. The
other trial which promised to excite some inte-
rest, that of several French Officers for a con-
spiracy against the Slat►, who have all made their
escape, but whose alledged accomplice, a woman is
in the hands of the Police, has been put off i❑ a
singular manner. -Messrs. de Lafayette, father
and son, Manuel and several other distinguished
Oppositiottists who had been subpoenaed as wit-
nesses, neglected to attend. The Court conse-
quently postponed the hearing of the case till the
next sessions, but on the motion of the Attorney-
General condemned them to pay a fine of 100
francs each, besides the expences occasioned by
the delay, and if not forthcoming of their own
accord next February, to be brought by force
before the tribunal.

(MORNING HERALD.]
The French Government appears to give a
ridiculous importance to the proceedings about
to be taken against some half dozen obscure ad-
venturers, who being politically compromised in
France, Passed over to Spain, during the late
invasion, from London, Brussels, and other
places where they had sought refuge. It is most
likely that there are sufficient grounds for pro-
ceeding against them as French subjects, bearing
arms against the country of their allegiance. But
it is quite absurd to call it a conspiracy to sub-
vert the Government of France. Even on the
showing oft hose V. ho drew up the act of accusation,
which is at once a statement of the
case anal an in-
dictment, there is nothing tangible. The ex-
tracts of letters given are mere
bombast—and
that which is represented as mysterious seems
nothing hut simple nonsense. The late Portu-
guese Ambassador, M. D'Oliveira, and Mr. Bow-
ring have their names intimately connected in
this act of accusation with the alleged designs
and proceeding of the conspirators. What rela-
tions of confidence or intimacy existed be-
tween these several parties, we have not the
remotest idea, nor any disposition to in-
quire. But a question necessarily suggests
itself, why did not the French Government
proceed against Mr. Bowring, who was arrested,
and M. d'Oliveira, who was in France, and who
on such a discovery should at least have been
ordered to depart forthwith? It is quite evident
that the information now put forward was pos-
sessed at the time. Another almost burlesque cir-
cumstance is this—of all the accused, seven in
number, one only is in the hands of justice—and
that one a woman—the wife of the conspirator
Chauvet. The charge against her is. being the
bearer'of several unsealed letters, which contain
scarely any thing that could be construed into
legal guilt. The name of General La Fayette
is introduced, as it has been is almost every con-
spiracy in France—but as he has never been
molested, it may be presumed that these are
mere acts of malice, or the manoeuvres of
a party to compromise his name, if not his
safety. The great probability is, that this
trial for conspiracy is got up to influence the
elections which are about, to commence.—
The trial of time solitary female accomplice—the
only member of the association within the ter-
ritory of France, and who was by her single skill
to upset the French Government—comes on at
Paris next Tuesday. Her fate is to be dermin-
ed by a Jury. The absent objects of the accu-
sation will be condemned of course, as their non-
appearance is regarded as an admission of guilt,
and sentence of . death will be proßounced on
tl:em par contumace.

[aarrrsu PRESS.]
From Tuesday's French Papers it appear;
clear that armed resistance is again organizing in
Spain. That result we have long foretold. It
was, we knew, impossible that the Spaniards
could sink at once from complete liberty into an
utter bondage, or that any people could submit'to
the atrocious tyranny that now outrages all Spain.
Armed bands are gradually starting up through-
out the provinces ; and we shall be deeply disap-
pointed if, before three months pass away, the
entire country is not again in open insurrection.
The Moniteur of Tuesday details the proceedings
of a Constitutional corps of forty men (which,
however, was probably much more numerous),
and who, at Ay Hon, so far hack as the 11. th of
last month, had an open encounter with the Al-
Cade and Royalists. The account acknowledges
they " made a good stand," but were forced
ulti-
mately to retreat, leaving three prisoners and two
men who lost their way. On the 15th another

band were in arms at the village of Lund as,
and the same Alcade had to encounter with
them. The Restaurador, from which both de-
tails are taken, asserts they were put to Bight.
But what confidence can be attached to the state-
ments of this print ? In Cordova, it appears, as
open discontent and disturbances also prevail.
The Constitutionalists in that city post up pla-
cards, denouncing the tyranny restored by fo-
reign bayonets, and urging to a general resistance,
the people of Cordova. Solins,the Governor, had
offered rewards to discover the authors, and trace
some horses belonging to the National Militia, but
it does not appear the offer produced any effect.
These partial disturbances are only the prelude
to future and more decisive scenes. Spain will
soon be one wide scene of blood and strife;
all parties, too, will unite in common hatred, and
‘var upon the French. The wretched Ferdi-
nand, notwithstanding these fearful omens, pur-
sues his career of infatuation unchanged. From
some recent symptoms, it would appear as if
the Inquisitions would be re-established to prop
his falling tyranny : the latest accounts from
Madrid, in the Etude, state, that especial pro-
tection had recently been extended to the
members of this dark tribunal, and that Fer-
dinand, wishing to place under an analo-
gous regime the property of all kinds
which belonged to the Inqusition (in which
are comprehended the pensions and revenues
of the Canons), has taken from the Treasury
the administration of this property, pensions, &c.
and given it to the Collector-General de Espalios.
This is probably but the prelude to the installa-
tion of the Dominicans in full power, in the
halls of this terrible tribunal again. No-
thing but the strong remonstrances of the
Foreign Ministers has hitherto delayed its
restoration ; it is earnestly desired by the ty-
rant and the fanatics ; the strongest desire is ma-
nifested by the present Government to uphold
and keep sacred, in the hands of its numerous
members, the property of the church, for tem-
poral and spiritual tyranny to go together ; but
it must fall. America now yields no funds, and
the immense possessions of the church are the
only resources Spain possesses; there is no other
security for any foreign loan.