The Sun.
London, England, 1823-10-14 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

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Extracts from the Morning Papers, October 14:
[I4IOaNING rant.]:
We find that we are not solitary in the opinion
Which we expressed yesterday, that as a war,
the contest in Spain was terminated. On this
sehject, we regret to say, a perfect unanimity of
sentiment prevails. We regret it, not because-
we think mentimity a disgrace or an evil, but be.
Cause in this particular case doubts would be
consoling, and it is founded on groutuls,which ex-
clude their possibility. Let it not be imagined,
however, that we are advocates for interminable
war. None can abhor its .ravages more than we
do, or feel sincerer gratitude for those able
Statesmen, whose well tempered energy has
saved us from its visitation, without any sacrifice
of our national honour. But in the case of Spain,
in the case of a people with whom wet., unyield-
ing war, was all—was national honour, national
independence, national prosperity, we cannot
forbear, lamenting that it should have been carried;
on generally without spirit, and closed without any
of those pathetic giorivit which half-redeem the
lose of a just came and well-fought battle. Of
the justice of the Spanish 'cause, we have all
along expressed our conviction. That conviction
remains unshaken. It is not in the power of
results to alter the nature of things or of actions
w meg does riot become right because it is trium-
phant, neither can discomfiture and ruin convert
right into wrong. The Spaniards had the ap.
probation of all honourable and unprejudiced
minds, because they acted on principles of strict
justice, and notwithstanding the provocations
'which they had received, proceeded to the at-
tainment of Constitutional freedom, without re-
venging past injuries. If the checks which they
imposed on the excesses of an ungrateful
and sanguinary tyrant can be called a revolu-
tion, that revolution was distinguished by no-
thing so much its by the temper with which it was
carried into effect. Unattended with violence,
unstained with blood, it formed almost a solitary
instance in the history of nations, of a people re.
suming its rights without abusing the power
which it had acquired over its oppressor. It
excited universal astonishment and almost uni-
versal admiration ebe time ; and would still
continue to present the same character of dig-
nified moderntion and patriotic 'wisdom, had not
the apprehensions of other Despots and the
intrigues of France endeavoured to force it out of
its own channel into one of reveuge and violence.
Theattempt failed, but the peace of the land was
broken, 11(1(1 the internal troubles excited by na-
tive traitor.; let :d by foreign enemies, were used
by their real anthers as a pretence for the inva-
sion of the Peninsula. That such iniquity should
be 'triumphant, is one of- those dispensations of
Providence which permit the temporary success
of guilt in order to insure its ultimate chastise-
ment. That it 'should have found defenders eyed
in this land of justice and patriotism is a
hisiriili-
uting consitwroti.n, lo.biett is only softened try
the knowledge that they were few in nninber..—
The many, to the eternal honour of England,
were loud in their reprobation of such hypocri-
tical villainy, and although the result has disap.
pointed our hopes, we are proud of having joined
our voice to the torrent of indignation poured
against, the unprincipled aggressors.