The Sun.
London, England, 1824-01-13 00:00:00

THE LONDON SOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts front the Morning Papers, Jan. 13.

[MORNING POST.I
Advices have reached this country, that for
more than two months past a naval armament of
considerable magnitude has• been preparing at
Brest, in order to proceed towards South Ame-
rica. The article in the Journal des Daats,
--which we published yesterday, is taken, in
conjunction with these warlike preparations,
as a treacherous warning that France and Spain,
as the instruments of the Holy Alliance, will en-
dixav'hur to re-establish the ascendancy of the
Peninsula in the New World. For our part
lve have no such apprehensions, although we
are certain if the Governments of this country
and the United States had not expressed a deci-
sive opinion on the subject, a war with the for-
mer Provinces of Spain would be inevitable. But
against whom would the Highs Allies now de-
clare hostilities ? Not against South America
only, but Great Britain and North America also !
And then the contest would be between the two
greatest maritime Powers in the world on one
hand, and States with comparatively no marine
on the other, under circumstances rendering the
success of the Belligerents dependent upon naval
operations ! But if we look a little closer at
the subject we shall find that the field for
hostile intrigue, if not for direct hostilities,
could not in the event we allude to be con-
fined to the NOW World. Is then the present
state of Europe, or even of the Peninsula, so
voluntarily tranquil—so docile to the dictates of
the Holy Alliance, that the Continental Sove-
reigns have nothing to fear from the machinations
of an enemy among their own subjects ? En short
the idea of a war at the present moment, which
unlike the attacks upon Naples and Spain, would
be an aggression on established hohourable Go-
Nernments, is preposterous in the extreme. If
the new Republics of South America were left
single-handed to brave the concentrated power
of Europe, like the Constitutional Governments
of the Peninsula, we should indeed tremble for
their fate ; but happily the interests of more than
oue nation will not admit of so unjustifiable a
violence on the liberties of mankind.

[MORNING CIIRONICLE.I
Letters received yesterday from Bayonne, re-
ferring to advices from Madrid, mention that
King Ferdinand's Ministers, completely worn
out by their frequent disappointments, had come
to a private determination to resign their offices,
unless they were able to carry their point, and
obtain from the King his consent to an amnesty
decree of a reasonable kind, such as they would
hare no objection to send forth to the public of
Europe, on the present momentous occasion
The Marquess tie Casa-Irujo was greatly irri-
tated at the successful manner in which the Clergy
bad hitherto thwarted all his measures, and he re-
solved to make one strenuous effort, and it' this
should prove unsuccessful it was expected be would
feign illness, or under some other pretext leave
the Spanish capital. The Marquess is said to
have had a long tete a tete conversation with the
King, in which he represented to him what was
said of Spanish affairs in foreign countries ;
.and
also insinuated the strong disposition there was
in several of the provinces, where an abundance
of mal-contents was to be found to form
Gderillas ; also urging, as a powerful argu-
ment, that if any disturbance took place in the
country through the want of prudence, it was
questionable whether France would again take
upon herself to interfere. The Marquess also d welt
on the exhausted state of the Treasury, the great
arrears due in every, department of the Govern-
anent, the impossibility of raising taxes or direct
.contributions, and also the clamours of a number
of those who had professed to be staunch Royal-
ists, but Who, it was now evident, were only ac-
tuated by the expectation of gain and places, in
which they were disappointed. The King is
said to have answered, that he trusted to Provi-
dence, and the protection and support of his
Magnanimous Allies.

[THE TIMES.]
A fatality seems to hang over Spain, the spell
of which will never, be broken without some
horrible convulsion. No variety of :circuit?.
stance—and she has experienced some—pro-
duces any change of action among her in-
habitants ; crisis calls up, as in other coun-
tries, an increase of moral power to direct the
course of accidents, or to provide against the most
obvious evils. The State appears to have gone on
for so many ages like a piece of cumbrous and
self-acting machinery, without impulse or exa-
mivation from the eye or the hand of man, that
when at length the worn-out, wheels have stop-
ped, no surviving artist has skill enough to, re-
pair their imperfections, or ,to renew their mo-
tions. Intelligence - there existed among the
Constitutional Spaniards, by it was an
intelli-
gence nursed by meditation, and neither sharpen-
ed by., nor fitted for, the management of great af-
fairs. The Cortes fought their , battles in the
clouds; they converted abstract principles
into playthings,. and forgot that they were
only valuable when made subservient to the
gond of society. These creatures who have.suc-
ceeded the Cortes, make a far more effectual use
of their Passions than the others did of their
principles.- No one can say that copidity,
hatred, ambition, and persecution, have slept
since the return of the absolute K ing,, as, active
patriotism did under the Cortes.; Wit still
the machine of the State is motio'nlesS—there
is- ne State—there is ,no Government, :for the
-laws Mere not obeyed—there is no 'acknowledg-
ed. authority only where there is a prepon-
derating faction. All things are hastening to.
anarchy. , and there pronates to be no redemp-
tion but in a deluge of Flood. To show. how
wretchedly calculated beforehand were'the means
an.d consequences of the enterprise for Ferdinand's
restoration, let us only look at his condition now
that he has been restored. Already he shares.,
the disgitst of the serviles with their mortal one;
mks of the Constitutional :party, and with the