The Sun.
London, England, 1823-02-07 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

ff‘.7I4ACTS FROM THE DAILY NtOIIN I G PA PEII,Si
February 7, 18'2.3.
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[stottsresio posT.]
Paris; Papers to theLtleinst. arrived yesterday
by express. Their :contents, are highly impel--
luta and deeply afflictine; for it appears that the
voiee of justice and moderation, whether uttered
by the Any to whom the Bolo:1)0114 owe their
Crown, or by the same part of the lAgislature
by w hom the real interests of France ought to
be protected, is treated with equal disregard.—
the Tifinkters are evidently carried away by the
vieletfee of the Ultra Faction. After having long
resisted and: frequently exposed; in their own
journals thts.;*ngers of the policy which that
infatuated party
,attempted to 'prescribe, they
now yield pct :Ldopt its language,
and run counter to all the strong represere-
tatiens Which they
_made themAlves In their
hour' of prudence and of wisdom. In the
Sitting of the Chanitier of Peers on Monday last,
acct AddrestewaS Proposed, echoing the sentiments
of the Royal Speech,. and breathing the same
hostility' to the independence of Spain, and
throughit,to the peace of Europe. The spirit of
justice, however, was not quite absent on this
occasion, and to the honour of France and of her
Legislature, Peers were found who Lett sufficient
courage end patriotism to expose the iniquity of
the war proposed, and the perils with which it
could not fail to be attende4 and to move an
amendment, embodying their salutary, views and
sentiments. It was,then that. Messrs. de Villele
and Cliateaubriat* shaking off that moderation
by which they had hitherto deep distinguished,
and espousing those Vito principles w Melt they
had hitherto combated„ boastfully proclaimed'
ofthat France Would act us France 'Ought to act;-
and that slikwould not lay doWn her arms till
order was ruatored in Spain."
[srottsitNocuaoNicrE.l.
It will be seetq front the extracts which we
haVe given from the Paris Papers of Tuesday,.
that appearances are more and more warlike in
that capital. No doubt the report of the una-
nimity 'of the British Parliament: has not yet
reached the
,French Government. Louis has not
yet learned‘that the 'conduct of liiiliinisters has
received from all rants and conditions, in this
country the Most unqualified condeirmation
that the Prime Minister has unhesitatingly pro.'
nouneed their pretexts for war false and unjust,
and their policy pregnattiwith danger to France
and to Europe. I the Government and 00.,
union felt in the satin:• manner, their pride mighrl
take the alarm at the severe moral lesson read
to their, on Tuesday evening;. but as the Govern.,
meet .are ‘i'e are rattierindittiOto
think that their fears will gain a victory overtheir
pride.—Wejti common %c hit most observers, hesio,•!
long observed that things on the Continent were ati;.!l
'vaneing tOwardeacrisis. The Governments have al-
mostevery where mistaken the course which it was
proper forthem to follow.Titere is in the present age
an ir4'esistil4e tendency to advancement in know-
ledge, Industry, anti eivilization'i and they ought
to have placed themselves in' .11armouy With it.
The Government which allows to this tendency
a free scope, reposes necessarily on a solid foun.
-dation. Art intelligent, induatrious, and wealthy
people are lovers of order, and tranquillity, and
can with difficulty be induced to recur to violent
measures, while a poor and ignorant. people are,
on the other hand, easily excited to disorder.—
, Nothing astonished so meth the natives pf the
misgoverned countries of the Continent as the
ease with which order was maintained by night
and day in Holland prior to the Frenchltevole.
Con and in England ,tt constable's staff has al-
most always been, foutid more effective in tenor..
ing-obedience than a numerous grits d'armerie In
other States. Nothing, in short, but the most Ile.
grant wrongs will ever stimulate an intelligent
and industrious people to Insurrection and
rebellion ; and when earth:Li distress leads to
riot or tesistance to the laws, the great body of
citizens, interested in the preservetiee of, order,
will always rat g.e themselves.of the side of au.
• tbority. But, most of the Governments of the
Continent seek their security, not in the industry
• Isola intelligence of the people, but in their igno-
rance and debasement ; and the very instruments
On whirls they rely for keeping the people ender,
constitute the chief danger to Thrones in all
times of difficulty. If suCh is 'the state of a
country that the people have little or nothing to
dread from convulsion, the soldiery will form
but a very precarious support to a thronfs 1110
May easily be:induced to assist in overturning it.

[KEW TiMES.]
We know nor that we can add much to our
iesterdny's remarks. Ministers are placed in a
delicate and trying sitUation. They are no
doubt animated by a true English feeling to resist
any views of aggrandizement w hich may be appre-
hended•from the Continental Powers ; nor would
it be comionaitt with policy or with truth for them
to admit that Britain is incapable of sustaining with
audiwinished effort the great cause of national in.
dependence, should such an effort on her part be-
come necessary. But the immense interests of
our commerce and manufactures are not to be
rashly put to ba4ard. Dreadful indeed would
be the consequence, if to the agricultural distress
now proailing should be added the ruin of our
European trade, which forms full to o-thieds of
our exports. Neutrality, therefore, we repeat,
as long as it can be preserved with honour, is
the obvious policy of Great Britain ; but we will
add, that it should be a neutrality firm, fearless,
and prepared for any contingency.

[nityrisu mass.]
The first object of attention to, the whole
world at the present moment i, Spain. Revolu-
tion, by which is meant such a change in the
*fairs of a nation as takes place in those of an
individual when he renounces habitual inebriety
and becomes attentive to his interest, active,
discreet, or when lie dismisses riotous and dis.
bonest hervauts, and employs persons of good