The Sun.
London, England, 1824-09-15 00:00:00

ply the place of what might be .rejected,
so that these unsightly chasms, which speak
so plainly' to the eye, may be avoided." As
we hold that the necessity for subjecting the
Press to a previous censorship can under no
circumstances be maintained, we cannot view
but with disapprobation these suggestions for the
'more effectual exercise of an authority, which, in
odr opinlo,.ought not to exist. It ill becomes
the Fired press of England to point out how the
' shackles of the French Press may be more closely
riveted. Even if the articles prepared were
"such as are known to be inadmissible," we do
not see why the Editors are not to be at liberty
to leave blank the space which they are not al-
lowed to fill as they like. Besides, it might
happen that if they had prepared twice as much
matter us their papers would contain, the supple-
mentary articles might be as little to the taste of
the censors as those already expunged. The next
step would be, in the natural progress of things,
to give the censors the right of inserting, In lieu
of what they had erased, such other matter
as they judged pore fitting for circulation
amongst the subjects of Most Christian
Majesty. The suggested remedy for the " un-
sightly chasms" is, therefore,; inapplicable
and incomplete. In fact, a censorship over
the Journals of a country like France,—
advanced as she is in knowledge and civilization,
—cannot co-exist with the improved institutions
she now possesses. The French people, if they
are to have any share or interest in the manage-
ment of public affairs, must know by means of a
free press what is the true character of the acts
of their Government. A representative branch
of the Legislature, and a press that cannot utter
a word displeasing to the delicate ears of men
in authority, are incompatible with each other.
One of themmust soon be abolished ; and it is easy
to foresee, that if the representative and judicial
institutions of France be subverted, the political
calm that now happily prevails in that country-is
not destined to be of long duration. The as-
sumption, however, that " such articles are pre-
pared as are known to be inadmissible," in order
that "a feeling may be created that all
geuce and all reasoning worth reading are prohi-
bited," is, we believe, wholly groundless ; and
we must say, at the same time, a most unfair im-
putation against the French Journalists. It is.
not their interest to send forth blank sheets.
However a certain portion of the public might,
for a time, sympathise with them as to the op.
pression beneath which they were sinking, the
consequence of these vacancies, often repeated,
would be a material reduction of the sale of the
paper. But we are not compelled to rely
upon inference. 'We have facts which disprove
the imputation. We have, through our private
Correspondent, given publicity to several pieces
which have been condemned by the censors ; and
we would appeal to any impartial arbiter
whether any of those pieces was so decidedly
offensive in its style and composition that it might
beforehand have been known to be niadmissible,?
It would be very pretty amusement, doubtless,
to write articles in order to have them rejected ;
hut we are afraid it would be too ruinously ex-
pensive to a public journalist to induce him to
persevere many days in such a luxury. He would
soon be taught to feel the truth of the old adage—
Quaquefois le jeu ne vaut pus la chandelle.

DIORNING litatALD.
Little doubt can be entertained dial the French
fleet, • which was recently announced to have
passed by Madeira, is destined for South Ame-
rican stations. We do not, however, apprehend
that it is instructed to offer any visible or pith.
pable succour to the few Royalists who remain
in any of the States, or even to the expeditionary
troops which Ferdinand may hereafter be able
to send thither : for after what has passed be-
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England. Open and direct assistance to the views
of Spain upon her late colonies forms no part of
M. de Villele's policy, because he knows that it
would put the peace of Europe in jeopardy. But
he does not therefore abstain from pursuing,on the
question of South America, the same underhand
line of conduct which fomented a civil war in
Spain, and afterwards placed that country in the
hands of France. We look upon the presence of
a French fleet in the South American Seas in the
same light as we viewed, the French troops in
the Pyrenees ; we consider it as sent out for the
purpose of affording that moral aid to the anti-
independents, which every one feels can be af-
forded by its merely looking on with a glad at-
tention wherever the cause of despotism is trium-
phant. It can convey the correspondence of
the Royalists from one part of the coast to ano-
ther; it can disseminate, or fabricate intelli-
gence unfriendly to the hopes .of the Patriots :1
it can permit the Royalists to say that they can
receive aid from France, an assertion which the
presence of the fleet will countenance, while the
contradiction need not come till after the mischief
is completed. It can, in short, render many
nameless benefits to the cause of Ferdinand, and
inflict as many injuries upon those who resist his
projects, without, at the same time, committing
the French Government in any measure which
may not subsequently be disavowed, or explained
away by the efficacy of diplomatic jargon. Thus
have we seen the collection of the French troops in
the Pyrenees explained away under different Pre-
texts,and its real object absolutely de nied,until the
very hour it entered thePeninsula.fs it not therefore
incumbent on, our Government to give the true
and obvious construction to these underhand pro-
ceedings of France, and take steps at once for
rendering them ineffectual ? The plain sense of
the different Governments in South America has
taught them to suspect that the agents sent out to
them by France are no other than spies, whose
only real mission is to inflame party spirit, and to
divide those who can be strong only while they
are united. After the several declarations made
by France upon the subject of those Slates, it is
not wonderful that they have acted upon
such suspicions ; indeed, the cooly'
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