The Sun.
London, England, 1824-01-22 00:00:00

IHE LONDON JOURNALS.

DA I IX

Extracts from the Morning Papers, Jan.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
Nlonday's Paris Papers reached our office last
night : they continue to give, even under their
esisting controul, a most melancholy account of
distracted Spain; that wretched country,through-
ent her provinces, is now a prey to the most
dreadful anarchy. Plunder and assassinations
sere everywhere prevalent, and still increasing.
N.si-eg,ninary contests between the two parties, the
.lea'aatiss and followers of the Constitution, were
daily taking place. At St. Jago a deadly fray
of this description had just occurred ; one hull-
-vidual was killed on the spot, and several
wounded. The prisons were everywhere crowd-
ed with victims, and neither amnesty nor orders
of any sort had been issued for their release.—'
Letters from Corunna, dated the Ist of January,
sta:e the arrival of the royalist Contreras,
the new Captain-General of Gallicia, in that
town. The prosecutions against the - Con-
stitutionalists were inveterately continued there.
—Several had been arrested recently, and
confined au secret, charged with being concerned
In the noyade of sixty one Royalists, while Vigo
was Governor. Madrid, at the last accounts,
was a gloomy scene of distrust and terror ; not
i night passed without new murders. The
.roved of churchmen, archbishops and bishops,
collected in that capital, had been peremptorily
•ordered to their dioceses, and were gradually
quitting for that purpose. They mere looked upon
as the most determined opponents of any liberal
measures, and their departure was hailed, in
consequence, as the herald of the amnesty 30 long
expected, and of other conciliatory measures,
calculated to restore something like tranquil-
lity in Spain. A plan is stated to have been
discovered, framed by these Prelates, and the
General of the Cordeliers. Almeida, who was
at its head, to overturn Irujo's Ministry, and
effect an important change in the Government,
by calling Ferdinand's brother, Don Carlos, to
,t)-ie Throne. The statement rests, however, on no
good authority, and is, probably, only one of
the many rumours of the Spanish capital or Ba-
yonne. Telaru, the French Ambassador, is said
to have received important dispatches by a cou-
rier extraordinary from his Court, and to have
irnthediately addressed to the Madrid Cabinet a
pressing note, urging the promulgation of the
amnesty, and the immediate execution of the
other measures promised several months since.
It-was subsequent to this note the order was
given to the Spanish prelates and priests to quit
Madrid. Berea, Colonel of a Royalist regi-
Ment, had also been ordered to leave that ca-
is:tel- with his soldiers, having declared that he
erou4l not answer for the fidelity of his fol-
lowers if the amnesty was promulgated. The
Madrid populace was daily becoming more
hostile to the French garrison, and several of
the latter had been assassinated in the streets.
—Fresh troops were ordered up in support,
and the Spanish soldiers were all sent away.

[MOP.NING POST.]
French Papers to the 20th inst., and the Eloile
of Tuesday, reached us last night by express.
'Y heir contents are not important. A Conven-
tion has been concluded by the Governments of
France and Spain, to indemnify and reimburse
their .respective subjects for the losses which they
suffered by captures at sea during the late war.
An inquiry had been previously instituted to as.
certain the amount, and as it was found to be
nearly equal, it was agreed that the two Ge-
vernirents should be considered acquitted to-
wards each other, and should take upon them-
selves the reimbursement of their own subjects.
The Journal des Debuts regards this arrange-
ment as a masterpiece of policy ; and not satisfied
with making it the subject of the following
panegyric on the late appointment of a Superior
Council of Commerce, seriously declares that it
must decide the fate of the approaching elections
and the question of a Septennial Chamber
" The Opposition Journals," it exclaims, " do
all they can to rob the Government of the merit
of having issued the fine Ordinance which esta-
blished a Superior Council,of Commerce. What
will they say- when they read this day in the
Moniteur the Convention concluded between
France and Spain relatively to the captures
made at sea in the course of 1823 ? how does
it' happen that a Government which is repre-
sented as treating commercial interests with so
much.. disdain, should- have paid so much at-
tention to them, that its first treaty with libe-
rated Spain should 'be one securing the French
commercial property captured by Spanish priva-
teers during the last six months ? Not only the
disasters which we were told would overwhelm
our merchant navy during our contest with Spain,
have not occurred, but the few accidents which
had taken place have, by the present arrange-
ment; been retniclied. A Government that gives
such answers to the declamations of malevolence
.--that proceeds with a firm and tranquil step
towards, the object which it has in view—.
that abstains from no measure which it
deems necessary, notwithstanding the calum-
nies of enemies and the occasional misunder-
standings of its friends—such a Government
must necessarily obtain confidence and es-
teem. This confidence and esteem in fact aug-
ment every day. The battle of . the
,elections,
and the question of a Septennial Chamber, may
be considered as already gained on the part
of: the- 'Monarchy. And after_ following with
frankness the Constitutional System, 7feeling
no dread of the liberty of the press, but on
the contrary committing to the tribunal of pub-
lic opinion those questions which most deeply
interest • the State, it is impossible but that
public opinion should not ultimately do justice
to those who are entitled to it. The Ministers
for the first time will mount the tribune without
fear; both the Peers and'the Deputies will know
to what'subject their attention is tool-be called :
opinions, will be formed beforehand on the merits
sk f :tbe: project of law, to be discussed ;, the de-
bates- will be shortened,- and we can. prophecy