The Sun.
London, England, 1824-09-24 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Exturcts frem the Morning Papers, Sept. 24.

[THE TIMES.]
There are those who will recollect to this day,
the part Which we took in the attack upon the
:Danish fleet at Copenhagen; how we applauded
that act, as a wondrous display of British, energy
and courage, and how we maintained the pro-
propriety of the enterprise, upon the acknow-
ledged principles of the laws of nations. A tardy,
but irrefragable proof that our opiniops were
right, and the conduct of our Government just
and politic, appears in the Memoirs of Fouche.—
e are aware that some doubts have been ex-
cited as to the authenticity of the work. The
doubt, however, our readers should be informed,
i#, whether all that Fondle wrote has been pub-
lished ; and in that doubt we have no slight rea-
sons for participating : but every sensible man
must perceive, from internal evidence, that what.
ever is published is by the hand of that reputed
author. We have no reason for flattering the
public that the ensuing part Of the, work will not
be subjected to the same censorship... In the fol-
lowing manner, then, Fetich° writes of the.en-
terprise to which we allude
• " About this time it was that we learned the success of the
• " attack upon Copenhagen by the English, which was the first
" derangement of the secret stipulations of Tilsit, by virtue of
" which the Danish fleet was to be placed at the disposal of
• " France ! Since the death of Paul 1„ 1 never saw 'Napoleon
. " give himself up to such' violent transports of passion. That
• - which astounded him most in that vigorous stroke (virsfweux
" coup de ittain) was die promptitude with which the English
" littrifstry took their resolution. He began to suspect some new
" qeachery in the Cabinet, and gave me orders to ascertain if
it had nothing to do with the ill-will created by a late re-
" aJ,"--that of Talleyrand from the Office of Foreign
Secretary.
The publication of such a document as the pre-
ceding is unlucky for those who have written
histories,, in which that action is comprised, do-
'scribing it as " base,' unprovoked, cruel," and
we know not what. As to other sapiences, who
:,..only:marle speeches ou the occasion, present effect
yr,al probably all they aimed ttt : we humbly act
upon 'more durable principles. The justice of
the•Copenitagen expedition is now, we presume,
finally settled.

• [NEW TIMES.]
The private accounts which we receive from
Spain continue to present the' same melancholy
picture of disorganization and confusion which
has displayed itself for years past ; and the
change of. Government seems to produce little
more ease, as has been eloquently said on another
subject, than the change of position on a bed of
„agony. A recent letter from Cadiz mentions some
impressive particulars. " An English Gentleman
(says our Correspondent) came hither a few days
ago from Gibraltar. lie wits escorted part of the
way by a detachment' of General O'Donnell's
Royalist Army from
.Algesiras: the men had
nothing like discipline, and many of them amused
themselves with singing Constitutional songs all
the. way. You must not, however, suppose from
this that they would not be ready enough to
plunder or ill-treat any body who had the mis-
fortune to be marked out to their vengeance as a
Negro, for that is the term of reproach for a
Constitutionalist. Shortly after the affair at Ta-
iiffa, about 30 half-pay Spanish Officers were ap-
prehended at Huelva, and brought prisoners to
Seville,where they were beaten,pelted with stones,
wounded withknives,andotherwisecruellytreated,
on their way to the gaol, by the common people—
not froth any loyal feeling, but merely from that
love of cruelty and licentiousness which, 1 am
sorry to say, characterises the Spaniards of the
present tiny. At Seville the populace frequently
seizeladies in the streets, and cut off' their hair,
if they'think it too long ; sometimes, in the same
brutal.. manner, they shorten the petticoats of
the ladies: The gates of Seville are closed
every' evening at sunset, and never opened till
sunri4; and this is rendered necessary by the
bawls of robbers. which are prowling about in
every direction through the country. In shor4
there are every where such scenes of horror and
confusion as can scarcely be conceived by any
but an eye witness; and what is passing at
Madrid is even worse than we experience in
Andalusia"

[MORNING POST.I
Wt received last night, by express, French
Papers to the 22d inst. and the Etoilc of Wed-
uesday. The civil, militury, and religious bodies
of the State having done fatiguing the new Mo-
narch with their addresses, had resorted to an
employment less likely to prove. irksome to its
object—that of sprinkling holy water over the
dead' 4c,ing. From morning till night the con-
course of iprinklers, we are told, was interrupted,
but oohing Was *Rid about, the tears that, were
shed. The funeral ceremony, according to the
Quotidierme, was to take 'Aire yesterday, which
is much earlier than it had been originally an-
nounced. nut this may relate to the mere rend.
ing of, ti,e Service, and not 'te` the
lation "of the body to the AtiVey of St.
The same Paper .contains an article. evidently
from the pen of Viscouut Cliateauhriatid,` which,
though written in the same,spirit,ns.the last, be-
trays more of the author's secret feelings towards
the Xing by whom he . was twice disgraced„...:
Uncleer tip pretence that the infirmities of Louis
X VILL precluded him from exertions. which the,
present Monarch is personally rnore able tcymake,
it points, out many things which be had not done,
or willeh, will be better done by his suocessor.-.
ln opposition to the reign which is ended, it
states tbat, the reign ,whicie begins 4‘, will be im-
pressed with the two distinctive and character-
istic Wl:(pes ,t t, Charles X.—goodness and sin
celity. 460 are, not, disposcd to dispute the
fact, for we believe Charles X..to be by nature
eminently good and sincere ; but the manner in
which 'the ennouncement is made implies that his
dePatt4d,4rOther .was deficielit in those virtues.
qui§ksevere, charge., however, is that which
m1)(4444,014 following passage It is above
all favinie;c!f individuals,
,of services rendered
to thi" 140,144r.0hy, of ancient acts of devotion
to thq,:Eltrunili ,of victims ..not' yet consoled,' of
talents neglected, that,we.expectmany changes.
The soul of our '.Priuces will speak should there