The Sun.
London, England, 1823-04-08 00:00:00

LONDON JOUANALS.

tXTBACTS FROM TUX DAILY MORNING rAFEItS,
Apra 8, 1823.

tMOR.NING POST.]
lhat,the attempt of the French Government
to 'overthrow the new born freedom of Spain,
should excite the political jealousy and alarm of
the French nation for the safety of whatever de-,
gree of liberty and security it at present. enjoys.
under the Charter, was the natural and necessary
consequence of that iniquity. It must be con 7.
stonily borne in mind, that the party in France
which has most zealously urged the. Government
into this unholy war, is composed, principally of.
men' who, although they may not have the. bold-
ness to clothe their wishes
.in Words, or even as
yet to give them the'form of a distinct project,
van, , scarcely be without very ardent wishes
to re-enter as quitkly as,..possible upon .the
enjoyment of those extensive domains,. and'
those. feudal privileges, of which the revo6
lotion and their adherence to. the- banished
family deprived them. The ancient Nobility
and' the Chunk of France were stripped by
the course of the Revolution of immense pos.,
sessions, whiCh were successively sold to support
the expences of the Revolutionary Government
and by the original, as well as by subsequent
sales anti divisions, these possessions,. being iu
truth a very large proportion nithe whole lantitd
property of France, are now owned by persons
generally. of the middle class of society, and by
su great a number as may, be said, without ex.
aggeration, toleave not a single fondly in. the
country..belonging to this important and power-
fel class without a direct interest in the inviOlit-
bility of. the present tenure.

[Tux Ttmesa
The news from Paris is rather curious : some
part out may provoke a smile—preceding intel-
ligence has been more calculated to call forth a
groan. The first thing worthy of notice is a 4 pro.
position presented by the Minister of War to
the Chamber of Deputies/for forty thousand men
of the class of 1823. A new loan, it is thought,
will be as necessary as a new levy of moll- but
here an inquiry springs up—who is the Minister
of War ? and the solution of that question will
bring with it the disclosure or a most ludicrous
intrigue. Victor is, we believe, actually out of
office; and l)ijeon, who was thought to be only
a temporary substitute, is bona fide War Minister.
It is a pity that the occurrence to which this
change is ascribed did not take place on the Ist of
April, it is so like ono of the pretty little fraudu-
lent incidents- of that day of foolery. It is
said that Victor's colleagues had been for some
time dreadfully tired of hips : he was thought
to be more iotent on providing places for his fa-
mily and depsdepts, than zealous to accelerate
the preparations for the war. When, therefore,
the plot broke out in the army, the present
danger and probable consequences were map•
nified to him : he was induced, to believe that he•
was the only man capable of arresting the mis-
chief, off he flies, at two o'clock in the morn-
ing (the Countil in which this movement of his
was. determined on having separate( only at
midnight),—his place in the Ministry is filled up
immediately, being announced in the Moniteur
six hours after his departure/
,and thus his re-
turn blocked up.' When arrived at the head-
quarters of the Duke of Angoulerne, his High-
ntss refuses 'to receive him : there is no place
for him there. Like the dog in the river, he has
'matched at the shadow, and lost the substance.—
Men have been removed from office before, ban gre,
mat ; but no one was ever thus made to run
away from what he, possessed, in order to snatch
at that eget' he could not gain. Such, at least,
is the story now current in the political circles of
Paris:—The proclamation on entering Spain is
expeeta to appear vary soon, but a frosts delay
in the act is said, to have occurred from the in-

adequacy of Victor's operations, and the neces-
sity of sup Plying his deficiencies. The French
troops, however, it is still said, will move between
the 10th and the 15th inst. Lord Fitzroy Somer-
set had arrived at Paris, anti would set forth im-
mediately fora rngland. Prince Hilt's order of
the day on his arrival at the army has been
published. It is somewhat in the Buonaparte
style, and, it will be observed, countersigned by
Guilleminot, not Victor.

[IIIOItNING CHRONIc
Notwithstanding the wretched condition of the
French army, it has been determined, we be-
lieve, that it shail immediately entur Spain. It
is difficult to form a conception of the extent of
the rapacity of The different individuals employed
in providing: supplies for it. It was deemed that
the presence of the Duke rle. Belluno, uniting as
he does in himself the power of Minister and
4onernl, could alone stop the progress of the evil.,
The. Ultras, arc greatly disappointed at finding
the Spanish army in a much better state than
they nitre led to suppose, and at The spirit which
pervades all parties in. Spain. Mina's army, has
greatly embarrassed them, and has necessitated
the subtraction of, almost one-half of their force
to watch the frontiers. Bow they are to reach
Madrid with their remaining force, and keep
Their communications open, puzzles all military
men in this country. The price of forage is
already enormous. If the war last any time,
the good people of France will have cause to
remember the cost of it. There is one cqnsola.
tion for us amidst all our mottifications at
this time, that we shall have to pay no -sub-,
'tidies ; for Ministers having determined to re.
main neutral, while France, aided by Russian
and Austrian and Prussian troops, is to at-
tempt the subjugation of the Peninsula, they
cannot afterwards propose fresh taxes to lighten
their Allies of part of the burden, If the
should be hard pressed, and the Monarchical
principle endangered, it would go hard, no
doubt, with Ministers, if they did not then mato
an effort in behalf of their old cooneciions—the
great Despots.

Lri TIMES.)
We)ament to see that The Mornirtg uhivniele
lkin beefs so, advised as to give up its columns