The Sun.
London, England, 1824-09-10 00:00:00

[MORNING POS'rd

French Papers to the Bth inst. and the Doila
of Wednesday reached us lust night by Express.
They contain some interesting intelligence from
Spain. ft was brought by an extraordinary cou-
rier to Paris, and comes down to the 4th lust.
The landings made by the Constitutionalists at
-Tarifa and other points were premature, and
have only served to afford a fresh opportunity
for Ferdinand to gratify his thirst for blood.-i---
01,Donnel, who
.seems to share a portion of his
-Master's temper :and to know his taste, had not
waited for his commands, but with a degree of
expedition which savours a little of Oriental im-
patience, had shot 36 of the Constitutionalists
taken at Tarifa in less than two days after their
surrender, and was pursuing the trials of the
other 100 prisoners " with extreme diligence, for
the purpose of applying to each of them the pu-
uishment which he merited." Ferdinand, how-
evete, was unwilling not to have a band in the
killing of his own 'subjects, and therefore caused
,Minister (sarcastically called 44 of Mercy
elld'Justice") to publish in his name a Decree
to 44 put things out of their regular course, in
cadet 'to 'faciliate prompt piMishoients." This,
it is CalCulated by the merciful King and Mi-
nister, " will inspire all with :confidence in the
rectitude and invariable justice of his Majesty,"
And certainly, it is a new way of 'doing justice,
and .one calculated to create much confidence in
who diSpense it, to order men " to be sum-
'marily tried, and their sentences carried into
litfect," before any report is made " of whatever
may be done." So that should the authorities to
whom the after Report is to be made, find that
through some. mistake one individual .has been
shot, in the hurry of Justice,, for, another, the
only remedy would be to cause ,the right person
to march to execution, and to dispatch two vic.
tims for the same offence. It is evident
,chat
such extreme measures must defeat their own
object. Instead of making examples.of Rebels
to deter imitators, they tend to create them,—
For, what, man can bear to exist under a sys-
tem where his life is put at the mercy of every
tool of tyranny and military hireliog, without a
single law to „protect him! It appears that
the individuals .shot by O'llonnnel were not
all soldiers, or officers: some were townsmen and
peasants; their deaths will not be unfruitful. For
,every single enemy that Ferdinand has destroy-
ed,,he has created a family of foes ; and however
ins may succeed' in putting doWn insurrection
with the aid of the French, the time must come
when he must rest for support on hims'elL 'Then
will private vengeance supply the out, of poli-
tical feeling, if the latter have ceased to exist,
and the king who has not a friend among his

people, will not long have a people to rule and
to oppress.

[BRITISH raess.l
The Editors of the factious press are driven to
great difficulties at the present moment to find
materials for the gratification of their readers.—
Two or three papers of this character have ac-
tually expired from inanition ; and others which
now hold up their heads very loftily, are threat-
ened with the same fate. In this alarming con-
dition, every circumstance which will afford any
reasonable excuse for abusing his Majesty's Mi-
nisters is seized with unexampled avidity. It
nappened that the last month's allowance to the
Spanish refugees was not paid on the usual day.
A Morning Paper heard of the fact, and, in an
extacy of joy that it had at last found out
something which would enable it to compen-
,
sate for its apparent supineness for several pre-
vious months, published a tong and furious
article on the ingratitude of the British Govern-
ment in leaving to perish 66 the Spanish Patriots
who took up arms for the Lords and Commons,
and liberty and property of England—nay, for
the support of the Ministers themselves in all
their rightful attributes and powers." Mr. Can-
ning, we dare say, little suspected to whom he
owed office, or he would not have manifested
such Culpable indifference towards his Spanish
patrons. This article was copied into all the
other papers of the same politics, morning and
evening, and a general expression of indignation
was reiterated on every side, for the base deser-
tion of these Spanish " Champions of the House
of Brunswick." To such a length did the
criminal absurdities of these Journalists lead
them. Yesterday, however, we had a reluctant
acknowledgment from the bellwether of the fac-
tious flock, that on " an immediate and correct
representation of the sufferings endured by these
unhappy foreigners, the evil was no sooner
known than remedied. Instant attention was
paid to the subject by his Majesty's Government,
and a notice was yesterday, we understand, put
up at Newton's Hotel, near Leicester-square, a
place much resorted to by the refugee Spaniards,
announcing that their monthly pensions, due on
the 17th ult., and hitherto unaccountably with-
held from them, would be paid up this day." Our
readers will, of course, take it for granted that
the editor of this paper expressed his regret for
having given currency to the folly and calumny
he had written respecting this trifling delay.—
They will, perhaps, expect that he humbled
himself in sackcloth and ashes, and asked pardon
for his sins. Quite otherwise, however, was
his conduct. He persisted in ascribing to the
King's Ministers an intention of discontinuing
their allowances to the exiles, and took credit to
himself that he terrified them out of this design
—This is a specimen of the mode of vilifying
pu authorities. If something be not done
precisely at the moment when a Whig journalist
thinks it ought to be done, he directly heaps upon
the Government every variety of scandalous im-
putation which his ingenuity can invent. If the
thing be done afterwards, be dilates on the
importance of the press in controulling the agents
of power, and intimates that he compelled them
to rdrrink into compliance with his directions;
if the thing be not done at all, he enlarges
on the profligate contempt manifested for public
opinion, and predicts the establishment of a mi-
litary despotism. In another column we have
given, from an Evening Paper, a correct state-
ment of facts relative to the allowances granted
by his Majesty's Government to the Spanish
refugees, and we trust after this notice that
these unfortunate persons will, for their own
sakes, in future avoid the advocacy of men who
take up their cause only as a God-send to ca-
lumniate the Ministry, knowing as they well do
at the same time, that if the work of charity be
abandoned by Government, there is no other
body by whom it can or will be continued for u
week.

DiORNING CHRONICLE.)
In our report of the proceedings at the Man-
sion House, yesterday, will be found a statement
to which many parallels may at all times be

found in England—namely, that of an individual
reduced by Chancery delay to subsist on the cha-
rities of the country. The victim of delay in
question is, it seems, far advanced in years, so
that Equity will soon be enabled to swell her im-
mense treasures with the wreck of the pauper's
estate. The Lord Mayor observed, " that the
case -was like a vast number of other cases which
are pending in the Court of Chancery, a proof of
tl►e frightful consequences of getting within its
controul. Pauperism had not so desperate a
promoter." By the bye, the Noble Lord who
has so long presided over the Court of Chancery,
might amuse himself in the retirement, to
which he must some day submit, by draw-
ing up such a list as his recollection would

furnish him with, of the Chancery suitors
who during his long incumbency have hanged,
drowned, or shot themselves, or died in a work-
house. It( this 'occupation he would no doubt
feel all the satisfaction which the old soldier
experiences, in fighting 'his battles over again,
from the day he first fleshed his sword, A better
means, too, could not be devised for resisting the
approaches of that arch fiend, Ennui, who usually
finds an entrance into the retirement of men who

have long played a conspicuous part in life, like
his ,Lordship.. Nothing astonishes foreigners
more than the patience with which the English
support so dreadful an- evil as the Court of Chan-
cery. They do not make sufficient alloWance
for the influence of custom. That dreadful disease
the plague, 'creates little alarm in the countries
Which are constantly subject to it. It never
deadens the= desire to accumulate property,—

nay, the clothes of the victims are regularly pre-
served and worn. In like manner we see men
contending for the spoils of the victims of Chan.
eery, who hardily seem conscious that they them-
selves are exposed to the ruin which has over•
taken so many others. No person ever refuses to
take an office in Turkey, though exaltation usually
leads to a violent death. The Court of Chancery
furnishes a curious illustration of the strengh of the

tendency of society to rise superior to diffi-
culties. Without the proof which it supplies,
it would hardly be believed that a cowl-
try could advance in wealth in which :no

property is secure' from challenge, in which
litigation has no assignable limits, so. long
as litigants have means, in which the man with
the weightiest purse has his adversary completely
at his mercy, and in which numberless victims of
delay are constantly dropping into the grave with.
out obtaining the redress for which they sought,
and to which they are entitled. The ability of
society to support the evil is very much against
the chance of redress. The Lawyers who have
an interest in the continuance of the evil, are by
far the most influential class in this country.