The Sun.
London, England, 1823-08-20 00:00:00

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TII E LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, August 20.

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[MORNING POST.]
Po ench Papers which arrived last night,
admit at length openly that the Bayonne Tele-
graphic communication was unfounded, and that
they had " too favourably interpreted the autho-
rization which the King and the Royal Family of
Spain had obtained, to quit their residence occa-
sionallyond to drive through the streets of Cadiz."
"If could not be believed at Madrid," says the
.Quotidienne, 44 that without some powerful motive,
the Corte would have relaxed the excessive rigour
which the Royal ,Family had originally experi-
enced ; and it had been supposed that the most
viplent members of the, ReVolutionary party had
been compelled to give way to circumstances. It is
however, unfortunately, 'nit too certain, that King
ii'ertlinand, though treated with greater respect,
is still at the mercy of Rebels." This is the first
time that the French Ministerial and Ultra Jour.
pals have condescended to notice, and in some
measure to apolegize for, •the falsehood of the
intelligence which. .they had communicated. It
is not the first time, however, that there has been
occasion for such an apology. Many are the
instances in which both Telegraphic Dispatches
and regular Bulletins have contained gross un••
truths, which the next official Report unskil-
fully exposed ; but never till now had a sense
of shame prevailed so far as to produce something
like an attempt at excuse. The symptom may
perhaps be deemed favourable ; it is certainly ex-
traordinary ; and if it displayed itself in the con-
duct of the Government as well as lit the publica-
tion of intelligence,some hope might hp entertained
that, the sacred claims of justice would no longer
be disregarded, and the independence of an un
offending. people violated and threatened with
annihilation. These Papers make no allusion
whatever to the excesses and murders said to
have been committed in the Spanish capita.' by
the Royalists, on hieing falsely informed that the
King had been:restored to com'pkte freedom.--
The specimen which they. give, hpwever, of the
conduct of the people and the surrounding pea-
santry at'Saregossa, is calculated to confirm to its
fullest extent the intelligence of the sanguinary
scenes at Madrid. • 44 On the 20th ult." says
,the
Quotidierine (a Paper which can only he credited
when it states that which makes against its po-
litical opinions) 44 numerous parties occupied the
principal points of the town. At about eleven
o'clock nearly 8000 peasants penetrated into. Sa-
ragossa, went to the houses of ,the richest indivi-
duals suspected of being 'ConstitutionalistS,..toOk.
them and shut them up in'the Church of the In-
quisition. In less than two hours, that Church
contained. upwards of 1,500 individuals. SoOn
after a Deputathut front the insurgent popula-
tion repaired to the Spanish General, 3oachimn
Fereyra, „tisk leave to plunder the houses
of the persons who had thus been arrested.
This General, indignant at such a proposal,
painted in such odious colours the violence about
to be perpetrated ; he spoke with so much elo-
quence and persuasion, and was so well seconded
by the. officers of the French Garrison, that
the intended pillage did not take place, but
it was impossible to obtain the liberty of the in-
carcerated individuals. In consequence of, this,
and in order to avoid the horrors of some scene of
blood, (for it is stated that the people were de.
termined to sacrifice the prisoners if the troops
bad made the least movement, to set.them
,freeo:
General.Fereyra and the Colonel of the Freud,
division dispatched a courier to the,Regency
to
inform' it of the unfOrttinate events whiehf. were
passing at Saragossa. 'The return of that courier
was expected with- great impatience."

[TII E TIMES.]

The Paris Papers of Sunday, which,arrived last
nighticontai o nothing new on the subject of Catiiz
and are in other respects quite barren of
ligence. Even the Quolidienne admits the tele-
graphic announcement of the counter-revolution
at Cadiz to be founded in mistake. We wish it
could be safely inferred from the eagerness of
the French Ministers to publish this intelligence
on such eqUivocal authority, that they have no
more reasonable ground for expecting that the
event they announced will be realized. The ac-,
counts which the Ultra Papers give of the state
of Cadiz are too extravagant to deserve credit.--
According to them, the Ministers, the Corks,
the troops, every human being in the Isle of
Leon and ,Cadiz, wishes to surrender. The
Quolidienne says, that not only has the mo-
derate party been long since disposed to
treat, but' that Riego has proposed, if his
past conduct be forgiven, to bring the King over,
to Puertcr de Santa Maria. If all this be true,
what keeps the French out of Cadiz ?--The
Journal deS D6bats of Sunday contains the law of
the.lst:of July last, promulgated at Berlin, for
the 'organization of provinciatjassemblies for the
provinces of Brandenburg!' and Lower Lusatia,
lvhich furnishes a specimen of the extent to which
mighty Potentates feel bound by the obligation of
a solemn
,promiso to their subjects. The King of
Prussia stood pledged, since 1814, that a consti-
tution should be created for Poland more cott
formable to 44 the spirit of the age" than those
institutions, .which indeed were only royal or-
' dens, by which they had been formerly governed ; '
and now, in 1823, after nine years, out comes the
long promised constitution. As the machine is
cumbersome, and the description complicated,
‘‘e may state shortly, that the whole Prussian
Monarchy is to be carved out and parted off
into provinces, each of which is to haie
its distinct representative ; .but especial care
is taken to promise, that these little par-
liaments, or separate corporations, are to have
no sort of intercourse with each other.—
Prisoners chained down in separate dungeons
might as well think of combining their force
against the gaoler, as the representative bodies or
Prussia, When' thus constituted, against their
Executive -Government. But the system will
not answer its design : its nakedness of-, all real
securities of freedom Will fill the reflecting Ger-
mans not merely with disappointment, but indict-

nation, for it is an attempt to 4upe as well as
drive them. The States cotrqiosing the Prus-
sian Monarchy are singafarly devoid of a com-
mon spirit : the several provinces are congre-
gated, but they have never been united.—
The founder, therefOrelof a system of legislation
for Prussia ought to regard as tire first principle
of his task the drawing together the dispersed
voices and interests of the people into a common
centre, and enuring them to that frequent inter-
course of reasoning by a discussion of general
rights and obligations, which would •teach them
that every measure adopted by a part of the
commonwealth for its own welfare would be felt

through every other.., This plan now promulgat-
ed is a plan to,alicnate, instead of to consolidate,
the several provinces ; and to weaken, instead of
strengthening, the whole Prussian State.