The Sun.
London, England, 1823-12-09 00:00:00

ately allowing them to return to their homes.—
The decree orders" that the Chiefs of the Roy-
" alist Corps should forward to their inspectors,
" a list of all the corporals, drummers, and
soldiers under their' orders, in order that
tc when these lists have been forwarded to the
" Ministry, absolute discharges may be trans-
" mitted to those: who wish to return to their
44 homes." This is in fact disbanding the rabble
of the Faith, the,advanced guard of the French
army when it entered Spain. Ferdinand can-
not pay them : his treasury is without a ducat ;
and the mere guard of halberdiers who now sur-
round his person are the only troops who will
be retained. Such are the present resources
of Spain—such the happy state of its people !
The second Decree is a humiliating confession
from the tyrant, of utter and abject poverty.—
But, in place of attributing the unexampled
miseries that now afflict Spain to the execrable
government that so long paralysed her best capa-
bilities, and has now returned, under a foreign
power, to'curse and desolate the country again,
the perfidious despot imputes " the painful situ-
ation to which the Spaniards have been reduced"
to the democratical faction that governed them.
" It calls (he says), particularly for his sovereign
44 attention, and requires his paternal solicitude
" to dry their tears and heal their wounds."—
Here is a tyrant affecting commiseration for the suf-
ferers under his rule, and every day adding, by
new and more atrocious acts, to the weight of
wretchedness and misery that too deeply affect
that country. It is clear, however, that things
are very far from tranquil in Spain; deadly
strife had already begun even in the capital, be-
ween the French and Spanish soldiers and in-
habitants ; several have been killed on both sides.
Neither the French nor Spanish Papers dare to
give any true account of the affair ; but private
letters from Madrid, which we have seen, speak
of it as most sanguinary and serious. These
letters say, that numbers of the French garrison
were continually assassinated in the streets at

night.
[MORNING CH RONI cm]
We bad imagin(4l that Mr. Justice Park really
postponed the trial at Hertford on account of the
prejudice which he supposed to have been excited
against the Prisoners in all minds but his own, by
statements in the Newspapers, and which preju-
dice he would himself have shared, had he not re-
ligiously abstained from reading any of the state-
ments in question. One of our cotemporaries, how-
ever (The Times) has endeavoured with great shew
of plausibility, to prove that " the real and just
cause of the suspension," was '6 the novel and
lamentable occurrence that gave occasion to the
Mandamus," and that the whole of the declara-
tions of the Learned Judge, belonged to a class
of allegations for which there is a well-known
term in the law of England.—ln that case we
must say, that without reference to the un-
fortunate catastrophe, the thing wus admirably
managed, for from the earnestness of manner,
we could have sworn that the Learned Judge
spoke from the bottom of his heart. It is asto-
nishing what perfection in the art long practice
gives. Not one approximation to sneer, none of
those equivocal tones which, in spite of the po-
sitiveness of the language, infuse a suspicion into
the hearer. What simpletons we Journalists are,
with our impulses, our convictions, and all that
But habit is a second nature. However, another
time we shall not be so credulous. Jeremy Ben-
tham had, indeed, warned us beforehand, that
the difficulty lay in the opposite direction from
that which astonishes us; but there is nothing
like one's one experience.

[MORNING HERALD.]
Saturday's Paris Papers were received yester-
day. The news of the French capital is but an
echo, growing now somewhat fainter, of all the
66 pomp and circumstance," fulsome congratula-
tions, bad witticisms, and worse verses, which
have signalized the return of the Duke of Angou-
lone. The share of the King of France in doing
honour to his nephew—the business which he
transacts, and the fact of his taking an airing
in the suburbs of Paris,—disprove the rumours
of the extreme state of bodily infirmity to which
he was reported to be reduced. Some para-
graphs in these papers indicate that the respective
partisans of General Guilleminot and Marshal
Victor are still engaged in eager contest and in-
trigue for the supremacy of either of these
rivals. The friends of Cuilleminot send Victor
as Ambassador to Vienna; and those of the
latter send the former in a similar capacity to
Constantinople. In the mean time Victor is at
Paris, paying his court to the King ; and Guil-
leminot, notwithstanding his reported return,
was still at Madrid, where his presence appears
to be far from unnecessary. The latest accounts
from Madrid describe that capital as by no
means tranquil. A quarrel took place, on the.
30th of November, between some Spanish and
French soldiers, in which, one of the former was
killed and three wounded. The intervention of
the respective officers prevented more serious con-
sequences. The spirit of the people at Cadiz
seems still mere violent and alarming. An
Order of the Day has been issued, which proves
the deadly hostility entertained against the
garrison. it commands the inhabitants not to
pass on the same side of the way on which a
sentry is posted. This must arise from the fear
of assassinatiee —at least, of attack. Indeed,
we have heard that, since the occupation of
Cediz, a great number of French soldiers have
fallen victims to the rage and hatred of the people'
of Cadiz. Yet it is under these circumstances
that the French Journals announce—with,,
as we think, little appearance of truth—that
the French troops are to be withdrawn from
Spain in six months. it is true that their remaining
is not without embarrassment in' the exhausted
state of the Spanish treasury, which is descrihed
as utterly unable to afford any thing towards
their subsistence ; and whatever may he the new
Consitution of the French Chamber of Deputies,
it is likely that after having voted 100,000,000'
francs for war, a similar vote for (laming
the expellees of, peace would he received with,
some 111.1furnour. Two Decrees have re(AntlY
been issued by King Ferdinand—the one
having for its abject a reduction of all sale-