The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, NOITEIBER- 18, 1841.

motion of the shuttle in Manchester ;
it stops the hammer at Sheffield; it keeps ships
rotting at anchor at Liverpool; and while it thus
puts an end to a whole multitude of occupations,
it actually staives those who are engaged in
them. Such facts have been proved, over
and over again, years ago ; but the Post, not
having entered into the controversy till the case
against the landed aristocracy had been made
overwhelming, and being ignorant of all that
had previously been done, assumes that its own
ignorance is common to all the community. To
arguments its patrons have replied by asserting
that they " will have it so ;" facts they answer by
threats; and now those who show that their mo-
tives are as sordid and base as the results of
their conduct are mischievous, ought, it is said,
to be punished. The Tories are sustained in
power only by terror; they are the authors and
patrons of penalties and punishments, and no
man can be surprised that they are ready to have
recourse to them to bolster up their falling cause.

We anticipated, in The Sun of yesterday, the
reports of the trial of QUENJSSET, in the Paris
Journals of Tuesday. Other ne-Ws they contain
none of much interest, save that the impression
gains ground that Louts PIIILIPPE seriously
meditates the overthrow of the Spanish Govern-
ment. In this nefarious design his MAJESTY, to
the disgrace of the British press, is encouraged
to the utmost by that tool of Royalty the
Morning Post. It is, however, some conso-
lation to the people of England to know that
the Post stands alone as the abettor of the trea-
sonable designs of the King of the FRENCH.
None of the leading organs of Toryism espouse
the side of the Post. Neither the Times nor the
Herald can be brought to mount the tricolor in
a crusade against the liberties of Spain. We in-
vite attention to the gross insult offered to the
Spanish Government and nation in the following
extract from the Post's first leading article of
this morning :
Let us suppose that the time-honoured Earl, who pre-
sides over a certain scientific society should, under the
influence of some new theory of animal government,
throw down the barriers which confine the tenants of the
Zoological Gardens, and leave it to the• rhinoceros to
keep in order his companions the bears and monkeys ?
Under such circumstances would anybody be astonished
if a certain Noble Marquis, the nearest neighbour,
should send back their old keepers to control the beasts
in their saturnalia, and draw up a cordon protecteur of
armed servants to keep the danger at bay—shrewdly
opining that if the gifted Earl lived in the Regent's
Park instead of at Knowsley, he would have post-
poned the experiment.
This suppositious apologue, however homely, exem-
plifies what Lord Palmerston much more elaborately
effected in Spain, when he severed the last link of
established hereditary Government, and let loose upon
society the desperadoes of every extreme opinion to
be guided by the brute force of Espartero and no
less truly illustrates the measures which Louis Philippe
had recourse to in his own defence. And still the latter
is the course which has so violently moved the wrath of
our Radical Contemporary who has vented his spite in
accusations of family ambition on the part of Louis
Philippe.
We really know not whiCh most to be sur-

prised at, the falsehood or the insolence of this
illustration. But if the name LOUIS PHILIPPE
be inserted in the place of the word of ESPAR-
TERO it will be passably correct. Had ESPAR,
TERO received CHARLES X., flying from the ven-
geance of the French people, with open arms-,
and provided for him apartments in the Palace
of the Escurial—bad he allowed the Royal exile
to hold a Court there of Carlist refugees to plot
the downfal of the Government of July—had he
supplied the leader of a body of French insurgents
with 40,0001., and arms and stores, to raise the
standard of revolt at Bayonne, Bourdeaux, and
Toulouse—and had he, in the event of the failure
of this infamous scheme, marched 50,000 men to
the French frontier to establish a cordon sani-
taire preparatory to an invasion of France, then,
indeed, what the Post calls a " supposititious
apologue," would not be ill applied to him. But
to whom does it really apply ? Have we not suf-
ficiently indicated ? Hear what the Tory 'Herald
says in its first leader upon the subject :
For ten years Europe believed the King of the French
to be a profound and benevolent statesman; a conviction
is now rapidly, though unwillingly, spreading that he is
only a cunning and a selfish politician. The laurels
which he won in preserving peace whilst his subjects
were bellowing fur war his Spanish intrigues are rapidly
rotting from his brow. _ _

ThC.:line of conduct lately pursued by Louis Philippe
towards Spain is as disastrous towards his own power as
it is to a good understanding between France and Eng-
land—if not to the peace of Europe. The present ha-
mersion of the French Court in Spanish intrigues—
hateful to the people of the Peninsula—in dynastic po-
licy and in family compacts, finds little response in the
feelings of the French nation; and if on the approach-
ing meeting of the French Chambers DL Guizot is ob-
liged to bend before the wrath of French Liberalism,
the whirlwind will have been unloosened by his Monarch.
But after all, the condemnation of the CITIZEN
KING might have been left to the blundering
writer in the Post. Take another extract
:
And first we will ask why was Christina driven from
Spain, end her two children—girls, at the age most need-
ing maternal protection, given in pledge to her enemies—
made over as passive political instruments to such gentle
governesses as the "divine Arguelles," and the still
more sublime Espartero—to be taught, perhaps,
that to despise and hate a mother is the first study
of those whose duty is to represent God's power
on earth ? Was Christina banished because she
deluged Spain with blood by *abusing her power over her
bigot husband in his dotage—when, at the approach of
his last agonies, she procured the vain sentence of abro-
gation of a fundamental law of the kingdom ? Or was
it because she degraded the hallowed precincts of
the Escurial by making " the funeral bake-meats
serve forth the orgies of a degrading union ?" !
our Contemporaries apparently cordially approved
these abominations, and the price of their com-
placency was radical concessions in the consti-
tution of the Government, which the degraded
Queen conceded freely, in her first absorption by her
unhallowed passions. But, as in the monkish chronicles,
we are told that he who sells his soul for a temporary
vantage to the evil one, will, at no distant clay, have both
body and son!, and even life, claimed as the penalty of
unhallowed good fortune—so did Christina find that her
unnatural allies ultimately claimed from her the whole
of that powe r by which she could effectually uphold
the infant Queen and her kingdom. In a word,
it was after flying from Madrid to the coast, and
there refusing the last concession, one which would
have placed lu:r at the mercy of each desperate party as
it triumphed in its turn, that Christina was torn from
her children, and forced to embark for another land.
What enorndty was it, then, that Louis Philippe should
give her an asylum ? How could he fail to reprobate,
with his uttaost energy, a state of things in Spain, which,
if imitated in France, might bring him from the throne
to the block ; and, feeling thus, how could he otherwise
than give fair chance of success to those who, in the
name of Christina, would restore the last semblance of
constituted amthority and of legitimate power in the
Bourbonic mime ?

Si then, because the Spaniards rid their coun-

try of a wc,man whom the Post represents as a
monster of depravity, they are to be denounced
as objects of regal distrust and abhorrence ! But
then what becomes of the morality of the King
of the FR;t;.NCII, who took to his bosom and con-,
fidence, a woman so notoriously infamous'?
Could Mx-rope regard as other than an enemy
of morals 'mid social order the Prince who Would
not scruple to replace such a woman at, the
head of the Government of a nation, whom. the
Post tells u s she scandalized by the flagitiousness
of her crimes? The Post asks why she was not
banished for her first and most flagrant offences?
The Post is an indiscreet organ of the aristocracy,
or it would never ask such a question, even by
implicatiors. Were the people to assume the
right ofbaui shing Sovereigns for theirprivate vices,
GEORGE IN would never have reigned in Eng-
land, Lotrfs XVIII. would never have reigned
in France, nor would FERDINAND VII. have
figured as nlme crowned dupe of MARIA CHRISTINA.
So long as -the Ex-Regent's crimes were of a pri-
vate nature the nation tolerated them ; but
when she turned. the Palace into a Royal brothel
—when hue bastard offspring crowded the apart-
ments of 13 me Infant Sovereign—and when it was
discovered. that she bad formed. a conspiracy to
overthrow the Constitution purchased by the
blood of Spaniards, then, and not till then,
did the Spanish people compel her to
descend fi!om a station which she dis-
graced, an d to 'relinquish a power which she
abused. this is the woman whom the Post
lauds Louis PHILIPPE for attempting, by "des-
picable inizigues
and marriage huxterings," as
the Herald
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Captain Burton, from Sunderlanda for Rouen, was
coal brig, Phca.
Sunday night,, and totally
driven ashore. oft' Havre, at the Point des Neibcs,
wrecked. A boy was lost,

but the rest of the crew remained in the rigging till
the morning, when a boat put off and fetched them,
five in number, ashore. , One was so much injured that
he died soon after. During the storm on the same
night, as a Correspondent of Calais informs us, a
French brig, from Cronstadt to Nantes, with a cargo of
hides and tallow, was wrecked to the north-east of
Calais, and.eyery soul on board perished:
" The conferences," says the Ministerial evening
journal, " have been resumed at the Ministry of Foreign
affairs between the French Commissioners and the Bel-
gian Commissioners. The French Government has ap-
pointed as its Commissioners the Baron Deffaudis, Mi-
nister Plenipotentiary, formerly Director at the 'Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, and M. Magnier de Maisonneuve,
Councillor of State, Member of the Chamber of De-
puties, and Director at the Ministry of Commerce. The
Belgian Government is represented by Count Lehon, its
Minister Plenipotentiary, The different statements on
this subject which have been given by several journals
are incorrect."

The Gazette de France publishes the following extra-
vagant assertion :—" We can affirm that Admira Stop-
ford declared while at Malta that if the French fleet had
been stationed on the coast of Syria he should have been
obliged to abstain entirely from taking an active part, as
he was not authorised to fire a single shot in the pre-
sence of the French ships. ' They make me,' added he,
a second Nelson ; they talk in the papers of giving me
the title of Duke of St. Jean d'Acre ; but all my glory
comes from the retreat of the French fleet.' " Such a
tissue of absurdity has rarely appeared, even in the Gazette.
The Arnhenische Courant gives the following, as the
principal points of the Constitution intended for the
Grand Duchy of Luxemburg. " There is," says this
Journal, to be a Chamber of Deputies elected by per-
sons duly qualified, but the sittings are not to be public.
The members are to be repaid their travelling expenses
from their homes; according to the distance. The Ses-
sions aro to be opened by the King Grand Duke, and
are to last a fortnight. The-King is to have the power
of dissolving the Chamber, and convening a new one, and
may be represented for the Duchy by a delegate, to be
chosen from the Royal Family, and who is to reside in
Luxemburg."

An immense quantity of Roman coins have just been
found at Rennes, where some excavations are malting in
the bed of the river for new quays. One hole that was
made produced upwards of a bushel of ct.ppor coins.
There are many of the reign of Tiberius.
M. de Briqueville has been elected to the Chamber of
Deputies for Cherbourg. He had 275 votes'', and the
Ministerial candidate, M. Quenault, 246.
The Bishop of Beauvais, whose death we have an-,
nounced, was the Abbe•Colhret, formerly editor of the
Gazette de France. •

A letter from Brignolles, in the Semaphore of Mar-
seilles, mentions an accident, which might have been
fatal to a magistrate in that part of the country, not
long since. Ho was going in a cabriolet to Artignocs,
and had to pass over a bridge, which was only 10 feet
wide without parapets, and was thrown over a ravine
nearly 30 feet deep, with a torrent, at the bottom. His
horse shyed at the glittering of some water while going
over the bridge, and fell with the cabriolet and his
master into the stream below. The animal was killed
on the spot, but the gentleman contrived to get out of
the water, and to hold on by some rocks. Fortunately,
another person, who was coming along the same road,
heard the noise of the fall, became aware of the accident,
and, having summoned the neighbouring peasants, suc-
ceeded in rescuing the magistrate from his dangerous
position.
The Augsburg Gazette still endeavours to alarm
France respecting the health of Herry- of Bourbon, and
the frequenters of the Palace every where repeat this pre-
tended news. We know in the most positive manner
that the Prince has not met with any accident, and the
repose to which he is condemned is only a measure of
prudence.
Two armies are marching to the North and to the
South, to overturn or to protect the two revolutions
which have been produced by ours. Leopold will be
aided by our troops; Espartero will be threatened.
It seems that the warlike impulse is given this time
by the Napoleon of Peace. The dread of a republic on
one hand, and the desire of obtaining for the Duke of
Aumale the three hundred millions of Christina on the
other, are the two moving powers of the policy of the
moment.—Gazette de France.

We have the following letter from Toulon of the
11th November :

"For some days past there is a degree of activity in
our road, which under the present circumstances sur-
prises us.

" We have announced the sudden departure of several
vessels, two:of them ships of the line. Yesterday the Medea
frigate also left the port, end it is said that the Trident
and Marengo of the line have received orders to prepare
to put to sea. The Marengo has landed its 36-pounders,
in order to be able to take more men on board, which
clearly shows that it is going to receive troops, but it is
only to Africa that it can go to fetch them. It is then
intended to reduce our army of occupation, in order to
increase the army of observation, which is to be formed
on the rrontiers of the Pyrenees?
. . .

P.S. We are this moment informed that the Diademe
of the line, Captain Tronde, and the Andromede and
Alinerve, which are under quarantine, hare just received
orders to be ready to put to sea. All the resources of
the port are placed at the disposal of these three ships,
which are in great haste.—Commerce.
We are requested to make known the following act of
justice of the King of Prussia :—" It is notorious that,
in conformity with a policy adopted •during the last war
in Poland, the German Journals have not ceased to re-
peat that General Uininski, a prisoner of state at Glogau,
was upon parole, and that he violated it, by leaving and
taking an active part in the war against the Russians. The
General did not fail to refute this assertion, which was an
attack upon his honour, by positive proofs; but the hattrel
against him was not disarmed, and one of the principal ma-
gistrates of Prussia went so far as to repeat the accusation
in an official letter. The General did not hesitate a
moment to make his complaint to the King of Prussia
direct, and to supplicate him to become his judge in an
affair which affected his honour so closely. The King
ordered all the documents connected with the residence
of the General at Glogan to be presented to him, and,
after having examined them himself, he decided that the
accusation against hitn was unfounded, and gave orders
that the result of his inquiry should be communicated to
the General. Thus, by a truly royal act of equi y, is
an end put to a calumny which has existed for ten years.
The well-known Hotel des Trois ibis, at Basle, has
just been sold for 260,0001. The purchaser intends to
pull it down, and to erect a new and splendid building,
to bo called the Hotel .Baur, in its place. This specula-
tion has been entered upon in the expectation that the
Strasburg railroad will, ere lung, bo completed up to the
town.

An extraordinary suicide lately took place in the
forest of Argues, near Dieppe A young man had been
seen for some days wandering on the borders of the
forest, and as it was supposed that he was a criminal
concealing himself from justice, the gendarmes went in
search of him, but he was not to be found. A few days
ago, however, he was discovered by some sportsmen
hanging from the branch of a tree at only a few paces
from the road. There was found upon him a memoran-
dum book with the words " Augustus Renard " written
in it, which is supposed to have been his name. The
medical man who examined the body declared that
before the man hanged himself he had nearly starved
himself to death.

A circular order has been issued by the Danish Go-
vernment, directing t,he of districts to discover
whether secret associations of workmen exist in their lo-
calities, and to report upon them. It is stated in the
circular that the Government, in concert with those of
the neighbouring States, has agreed to make mutual de-
nunciations of all such associations in their respective
territories.