The Sun.
London, England, 1824-08-03 00:00:00

LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts
.from the Morning Papers) Aug. 3.

[THE TIMES.]
Wt' cannot yet learn that there ha% appeared
any disavowal from the Imperial Fantdassy here,
of that placard, or hand-bill, or whatever else it
professed to be, forbidding Lord Holland, and
some three or four ladies, by name, to trespass
on the Austrian territories. At first, we really
did not conceive such a flight to be within the
range of even the most Imperial intellect, and ac-
cordingly we treated it with contempt. What, to
declare war against a single English nobleman—
an unwilling traveller, during the summer season,
to whom exercise and change of climate have been
prescribed for ill-health ?—Against four harmless
and unconnected women ? 'To warn them off from
the purlieus of the great Austrian prison-house,
like poachers from a manor Spring-guns for
66 Lord Holland !"—" Lady Oxford, beware of
" man-traps !"—" No blue-stockings here, my
" Lady Morgan !" And is this the dignity
of the oldest empire in Europe ? Is it come
to this pass with the representative of the
C.:mars, the Lord of Germany, and (alas !)
of Italy too ? Prince Metternich, we fear,
the profound Prince Metternich, has plunged on
this occasion into a depth to which common sense
can never follow him. He wishes at once to
terrify and to punish ; but he merely proves the
activity of his own fears, and the impotency of
his revenge. lie leads the whole world directly
to a conclusion the most mortifying to these
ancient dynasties, and to the cause of all "pater-
nal Governments"—namely, that their subjects
Are without the shadow of loyaltr--that their
power has not one grain of stability —that Despo-
tism totters to the very earth,since it stands at the
mercy of even a passing stranger, male or female,
to subvert it. There is one other point of view in
which this jealous extravagance of Austria seems
to call for a snore serious notice. lied Prince Met-
ternich been satisfied with warning otT a British
nobleman, because he feared that his outrageous
" radicalism" would cut up the Austrian empire
by the roots, he had the power to do so : it was
a breach of national courtesy, no doubt—a vio-
lence to the laws and habits of civilization, and
a slight to the friendly Government whose sub-
ject he sought to chastise ;—but his right so to
degrnde his own Sovereign was unquestionable,
if he pleased to exert it ; at least so far as Eng-
land was concerned. Not thus with the second
reason assigned by the author of the Austrian
ordinance for his attack upon Lord Holland.—
He tells us, that the insolent language of that
Noble Lord in Parliament was a substantive
cause of the prohibition. No British Senator,
then, is to exercise that privilege of free discus-
aloft, which his own Sovereign dares not impugn,
without incurring the open vengeance of a foreign
Power ! Has this presumption, we beg to know,
in its full force, and with its eventual and in-
evitable consequences, pressed npoa the minds
of his Majesty's advisers ? Is it to be borne
that, in a public document, addressed to
every Government, and to that of George
the I'ourtls, King of England, at the head
of them, a foreign Court shall presume to tell
an hereditary counsellor of our gracious Sove-
reign, in what manner he shall discharge his sena-
torial duty to his own King and country ? Is it
to be endured that foreign despots shall attempt
to controul the free agency of English legislators,
or infuse by terror their own hateful and unmanly
spirit into the very sanctuary of our laws? This,
we affirm, is not inPrely an insult to the honest
and patriotic Peer against whom it has been for-
mally directed ; it is u grave offence to the Le-
gislature of Enaland, and to the King Itim,elf as
a part of it. Mr. Canning, if he sees the aggres-
sion in this light, has net ve and ability to enforce
u proper atonement. Let the Right Honourable
Secretary look to it • the system so begun has no
definite lerinination—it most he rebuked at once.
As for the charge of radicalism upon Lord Hol-
land, we at first construed it into ignorance : but
it is pure and pitiful malice. Prince Metternich
cannot he so ill-informed himself, or have em-
ployed such utterly ineffective agents, as to rank
Lord Holland with a party to which he has ever
beets decidedly opposed. They wanted a nick-
name for the Noble Lord, and "radical,'' as
being the bitterest, was the first they thought of.

[MORNING POST.]
French Papers to the Ist inst., and the Elate
of Sunday, arrived lust night, by Express. The
Funds, instead of recovering, had experienced a
further fall. They closed at 07 frs. 15 cents.,
and are said to have sunk so low in consequence
of reports circulated on the Paris Exchange
that an insurrection had broken nut in Spain.
—The Quotidienne contains intelligence from
Madrid to the esd ult., which tends to con-
firm, if It did not create those rumours :
for it says that detachments of French troops
had beets seta to Oviedo in consequence of
serious conflicts which had occurred between
men of both parties, and that a certain RUM-
tier of FA-Constitutionalists, who were the op
gressors. had made their escape into Portugal.
It would certainly appear from this statement
that the banner of the Constitution had been
temporarily raised in that quarter, and that the
movement had not been entirely put down, for
otherwise the " aggressors" would not have been
able to effect their escape, and to retire where
they may collect greater strength), and make all
the preparations necessary for their return. 'llw
*moo communications from Madrid state, that the
disgrace of tie late Minister, Count or
hi*
litant"""lsly followed the first interview which
situ "e" ith"ion Ambassador, Mr. d'Oubril,
King had with
Ferdinand, "which induced
some persons to ino,4int, that he was 5501
a stranger to the measure." They add that
s"trlohtti'glayin.f7litilititlikrYtiltt:faittit:ll6r!ila more'
vir ea every day rt
the Peninsula."—
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