The Sun.
London, England, 1823-06-19 00:00:00

MEIta&TILE SilifFiilNG,

nl'llo[l'6l, JUNE 17,-.-IVitTa S.—Arrived Witte port the
-Barkworth, Green, from Bombay, Sailed the 12th. January,
from the Cape of Good Hope the 4th April, and 'St: Helena
the 17th ; lett at St. Helena the Repulse, for On the'
27th April, on the Line, spoke his 'Majesty's shipjetpiter with
Long AstuERST on board.; the same day the Matas, from
London for Bengal. The Barkworth passed several Spanish
privateers cruising in the Bay of Biscay.
PEAL, 111.---Wind .E.N.E.—Ca' me down •from the
River and remains the Thontas tirenvile, Manning, for Cal..
cotta 4 also and sailed the Ceres, Ady, Lisbon ; and Aid, Pal.
mer, Quebec.

HALF-PAST Stx.—The passengers of the Thomati Grenville
are now embarking ; the ship is preparing to sail.
-PORTSMOUTII, JUNE 18.—Wind N.E.—Arrived, the In-
dus, Wright, and Camilla, Kitson, from Memel, On the Mk
instant picked up off the Galloper a draft of nets, 29 in number,
marked on the corks 1.C., T.C. W.W., Ote, which
have been landed here in good conilition., - •
FaLst o Tit, JUNE 17.—Wind E. to S.E.---Arrittcdthe Suc-
cess, Brun, from London.

HAYLEY'S MEMOIRS:-.--The of this
work, for which, with another of his pnaluctionithe Author
received upwards of 5,0th11., has already created n consider-
able sensation. His enemies seizing the opportunity, have not
failed t calumniate,
o camniate, whilst his friends have been ready
to defend him. Meanwhile the demand for the Wark increases
as it becomes known that it contains the intimacies of a long
life, passed amidst connexions of the very first otddt among
the distinguished names mentioned are those of
,Hibbon, Dr.
Beattie, the Earl of Charlernont, Lord Chatham, rthe poet
Caper, Captain Cook, the Earl of Egranont, the Duchess of
Devonshire, Mad. de (leas, Jonas Ilanway,, the philanthro-
pist 'Howard, Sir It. liothian, lord Ilartlivicke, Lady Hes-
keth, Lord Holland, Bishop Lowth, Lady Luctui, the Bishop
of Landoll', Sir Simon Le Blanc, SMalcolm e poet Ma..
son, Manuontel, Lady Melville, Sir John Miller Mr. Pitt,
Lord and Lady Powlett, the Duke of ltichinondt 'Lord Shef-
field, Lord Spencer,
Spencer Mrs. Sidtions, Miss Sewartl,Lord Thus_
low, Dr. !Parton,, Mr. Wilberforce, with many others of his
more. private friends, whom it would be impossible to piaci-
eitionse.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, June 19.

[THE Tistts.]
A Spanish Cabinet Messenger arrived last
night in London. He was dispatched by the
Mock Regency at Madrid to Mr. Canning, and
we know that the letters which he brings for the
British Government, dated the Bth instant, are
for the purpose of requesting that England will
acknowledge the Regency, according to the ex-
ample given by the Courts of Austria, Prussia,
and *Russia, together with their underlings of
Naples, Sardinia, and "zd genus °pane." Now,
then, it is to he seen whether Mr. Canning will
lay the honour of England rroskrate at the feet of
a French General and his traitorous associates,
the Spanish Regency. Wo shall see whether
our neutrality is as honest as Mr. Canning
boasted, not two months ago. 'Neutrality com-
mands that the messenger should be immediately
sent hack with a peremptory declaration, that
England cannot consider the French-Spanish Re-
gency in any other light than as a parcel of
traitors against their King and country.

The Spanish Subscription at length assumes
that character and importance which is due to the
cause. The Public will partly perceive by the
Daily Papers, and partly learn from the general
voice, that Meetings are every where convening,
and local contributions raising, in aid of the 0p..;
pressed People of the Peninsula. A Meeting
has been held at Chichester, of certain inhabit-
ants of the county of Sussex, Sir Godfrey Web-
ster in the Chair, at which a series of resolutions
were agreed to, sympathizing in the injuries of
the Spaniards, and determining to advance them
pecuniary aid. The inhabitants of Clapham and
its vicinity have met for the same honourable
and humane purpose. The inhabitants of the
iVard of l3ishopsgate have signed a Requi-
sition to their Alderman to call a Meeting.—
Among the Companies of the Metropolis,
that Of the Tin-Plate Workers has •been the
first to skew its brethren of similarsocieties that
it feels for an oppressed people, though fo-
reigners. We cite these rather as examples of
what may and will be done, than as forming a
summary of what has been done. The ball is set
a rolling ; and we have no doubt it will gather in
its descent. The brave Spaniardi will at least
see, that if we cannot fight for them, we can feel
for them. Meetings of every description .are on
the point of assembling ; their result, will prove
beneficial to the inhabitants of the Peninsula, by
producing pecuniary' aid ; and useful to those
who assemble, from the exercise of free discus-
lion. We cannot close those notices without re-
commending with our warmest earnestness to the
grand London Committee, the most active exer-
tions, mingled with the most peculiar care and
attention to their proceedings. The world feels
that much depend* upon them; the Spaniards
feel the same in a yet more acute manner.—,
(

[WORN'Nta IlEttALli.)
There is no intelligence from Seville later than
the bth, at which time, it is stated, intentions
were entertained of removing the King to Cadiz,
and the Cortes to the hie of Leon, from which
Cadiz is but a league and a half distant. It is
scarcely to be supposed that this statement is
founded in truth, because the Cortei" could not
do any act which would sooner lead to their dis-
solution than that of separating the seat of their
deliberations from the residence of the Govern-
ment. The French could find no sort of diffi-
culty in cutting off the communication between
Cadiz and the Isla, for the road between the
two towns is a causeway, the foot of which
is washed by the sea on both sides. The
French might 'detach a thousand men from
Port Saint Mary's across the Bay of Cadiz, land
them on the causeway, and thus completely
dissever the King from the Cortes. There is
no doubt that the approximation of the French
division to Seville will ha'e obliged the Cortes by
this time to cvine to some decision as to the place
of their removal, but we apprehend that whore-
ever they adjourn to they will not separate them-
selves from the King. It is the season of all
others the least adapted for the congregation of a
multitude in Cadiz, and upon the slightest symp-
tom of a plague, could the Cortes think of de-
taining the Royal Family within the sphere of
its influence? Besides, although the Cortes might
succeed in shutting themselves up within the walls
of that city, would they not go into it with the
certainty of cutting themselves off tram the rest
of the Peninsula ? 'ft has been mentioned
to us that they will not either proceed them-
selves, or permit the King to go beyond the
Isla on that side, but that they will remain in
the Isla until the pursuit of the French shall
compel them to retire, and that in the last resort
they will, with the consent of the British Govern-
ment', take reftwe in Gibraltar. In this state of
thinga,Creat Britain would have )t in her power
to negociate for Spain, and to exercise in reality
that intervention in the arrangement of her un.
fortunate affairs, which M. do Chateaubriand
pledged himself, in the late negociations, to call
for, when the proper time would arrive. Consi-
dering the Insincerity—we had almost said du-
plicity—with which the French Ministers con-
ducted themselves towards our Government
in the progress of those negociations, it
might well be doubted whether they would
not take measures for reducing our inter-
ference to a mere shadow, if they would allow
it at' all. With the King and Cortes on our side,
propositions might be made worthy of England
to originate, and of Spain to accept. We might
pat to flight altogether that monstrous principle
set forth in the speech of the King of France,
that 66 Spain could hold her institutions only
from her Sovereign." We might secure to the
Spaniards the liberty of (lie Press, and what
more nearly -concerns ourselves—we should pre.
vent the accolnpliihment or one of the main ob-
jects of this unjust war—namely, the renewal
and maintenance' of a French interest in Spain,
destined.to, pp iirathinate over that of England. We
could haves wished that the Spaniards had been able
meerthe French on' equal terms, and have

driven them back beyond the Bidassoa, and then
have taken their own time to modify their Con-
stitution. But this is a hope whose ground is
every day diminishing ; and should it totally
disappear, we see no happier means for solving
their difficulties than that to which we have al-
luded. It is another question, how far such a pro-
ceeding on the part of the British Government,
as that of affording an asylum to the King and
Cortes, would be likely to expose us to the dan-
ger of ultimately Committing our character of
neutrality. This, however, is a question which
it seems not at all necessary to discuss at this stage,
for " come what may," could we refuse hospita-
lity to any of the Belligerents who might demand
it ? There are at this moment Royalists and
Constitutionalists in Gibraltar, and if the Duke
of Angouleme happened to be so hard pressed as
to find it convenient to Ily within our ramparts,
would not the Governor receive him ?

[MORNING POST.]
The mere announcement of the -noble and ra-
pidly filling Subscription commenced in Great
Britain, will have infused a new spirit throughout
Constitutional Spain. The arrival of the first
supply from British sympathy will have afforded
arms and ammunition to the PairrOts, who only
want weapons to rise in defence of all that is
dear and precious to man. The King and the
Cortes will have retired within the Gibraltar
of Spanish liberty, and the whole face of the
contest will be changed or changing. The
effect produced in France by Mina's incur,
sion seems, according to every account, to
have been far greater than could have been
anticipated, and the alarm of the Authorities
and of the Government itself, excessive. This
alarm was encreased by the good conduct which
he and his troops observed, as it served to con-
ciliate the feelings of the people. Some regrets
arc ever► expressed that he committed no ravages,
but paid regularly for all that his army had,' as
the plunder or destruction of villages would have
cured the French in those parts of all sympathy
for the sufferings of Spain, and of the marked
disposition which many of them entertain to
succour rather than to oppose the injured.—
This circuinstance alone may alter, not the wishes,
but the intentions of the French Goverment.—
It must slew them that the continuation
of the contest is not without danger for them,
and that it is their interest to moderate their de-
mands rather than incur the risks of a protracted
war; but above all will they,be influenced by the
solemn testimony which the spontaneous.offerings
Of a free people bear to thetjustice of the Spanish
cause, and the iniquity of its enetnies,and by the
dread of the effect which it will produce amongst
their intended victims. They will feel that a shield
is extended overthe fallen, and they will suspend
the meditated blow, lest that shield should be
succeeded by a sword. In, this manner will this
noble Subscription be doubly useful to the friends
of Constitutional freedom, that is to say, all the
enlightened part of the population in Spain. It
will enable them to fight battles, if battles must
still be' fought ; and it may induce their °pyres.
sors to render the rood to peace lois difficult, by
itbandoning the idea of restoring absolute des.
potiSm. Let then degenerate Britons cease to
diShonour 'the land in which they live and the
language in which they write, by vain efforts to
chill the sympathy and to check the liberality of
-the Free Brave, for the Brave who would be free.l

[BRITISH PH Ess.]
Lord Nugent's Bill for the Relief of the Bri-
tish Catholics was read a second time last night,
and ordered to he committed on Monday. Some
opposition to part of the detail was made by Mr.
Bankes. Mr. Peel declared his disposition to
restore the elective franchise to the Catholics
of England without any restriction. The de-
claration does him credit. Sir George Hill,
the Orange Advncate, was the only Member
who went so far as to oppose the principle of this
most equitable Bill. Ireland, according to this
liberal and enlightened Representative, has en-
joyed no tranquillity since 1793, when the elec-
tive franchise was restored to the Catholics ! " A
Daniel—yea, a very Daniel come to judgment."
" Oh, wise, Sir George, how much we honour
thee!" We can tell, the Vice-Treasurer that it
is the conduct of men such as he has shewn him-
self, that has reduced Ireland to its present de-
plorable state, and not the restoration of their
undoubted rights to the great body of the people
of Ireland. Sir. George Hill, and a few more of
the vile party to which he is attached, are
firebrands in Ireland, who will never suffer
tranquillity or union to prevail among its
people. With his principles and his attain-
ments, each worthy of the other, no opposition he
can give any liberal or conciliatory measure, is
matter of surprise ; the Only astonishment would
be, how he could open his moth to utter a single
enlightened or informed sentence. We would
as soon expect humanity or toleration from a Fa-
miliar of the Inquisition, as any thing liberal or
enlarged from such a man as Sir George THU.--
There is a privilege in Parliament to say things,
which those who utti;r them there would not
do out of doors. 'ln this way the Patrician Sir
George assails, hi his armour of privilege, the
principles and loyalty of the best blood in Eng-
land, and asperses the conduct Of nine-tenths of
the suffering people of Ireland. This, too, from
an Irish member. Common courtesy should have
restrained the attack in one case, and common
truth and justice in the other ; but it is suilicienf
to say it came from the Vice-Treasurer, and
Member for Lomlonderey—the liberal and dis-
interested Sir George Bill, who has a place, a
sinecure, in these times ton, of 1,500/. a year!