The Sun.
London, England, 1823-12-19 00:00:00

;rliE LONDON' JOURNALS.

DAILY •
&trade from the Morning Papers, D.C. 19.

(MORNING POST.]

The French Papers to the 17th inst., which
reached us at a late hour last night, are again
Ved with descriptions of new fetes to celebrate
lite triumphs of the Spanish campaign, or rather
io eve them a degree of importance which they
100 110 t intrinsically possess. As notwithstand-
, istg the fondness of the Parisians for public ex-
, bibitioes, the pompous entry of the Duke d'Au-
, goaleme had produced but little effect; some-
thing of a more solid nature was provided on
Monday last, and whilst the capture of the 'fro-
, *Aden) was acted by the military in the Elysian
fields, distributions of eatables and wine were made
various places to the multitude,whosp loyalty was
wonderfully excited by the gratification of their
stomachs. In the afternoon a grand dinner was
given to the Princes by the City of Paris, at the
Hotel de Ville, which was attended by Monsieur,
the Duke and Duchess d'Angouleme, the Duchess
•f Berry, and the Duke and Duchess of Orleans,
and their daughter. The Municipal Body having
received the Royal Visitors at the foot of the stairs,
the Comte de Chabrol addressed them in a com-
plimentary strain, which drew the following reply
"from Monsieur I n the little which I am about
to any, you will infer from the emotion which
I experience that I cannot express all my senti-
ments. My son's glory belongs wholly to France
and to the army, since he went in obedience to
the orders of the King to fight, conquer, and
pacify." The banquet was followed by a
theatrical sketch, in honour of the circumstance,
and by a brilliant ball. In an immense chamber,
called the Hall of the Garden, lighted by six
thousand wax tapers, upwards of six thousand
persons were assembled in the richest and most
elegant dresses, and the scene is stated to have
been most magnificent. Thus was splendour em-
ployed to weaken or efface the remembrance of
political iniquity.

Drortrwso cnitorricmi
No information has been received from Paris
later than what was known, and the speculators
in the Consols, which opened yesterday at 86i L,
have coesequently been permitted to devote one
day to reflection. During this account, although
the Jews have severely smitten the Philistines,
still it is not their interest entirely to destroy
them. The Bulls appear inclined to close their
accounts, but the Bears, although vanquished,
are not deficient in game, and feel no inclination
to allow their opponents to retire from the contest
without punishment. Great efforts have been made
to obstruct the retreat of those who have benefited
by the late considerable advance, and a decline.
of z per cent. in the value of the Consuls has been
the natural consequence. The last price was 86
sellers, This alteration lets been occasioned by
the state of the account, for there is not even a
rumour in circulation calculated, in any respect,
to. change the popular opinion. Money also con-
(inties to be extremely abundant. During the
last century the highest price of the Three per
Cents. was in June, 1737, when they reached
11.07, and the lowest price of. the Three per Cent.
71taduced, was on the lit of June, 1797, when
they were sold at 47. The public debt is as.
Completely an article of commerce, as are corn,
Apiritstor any other more tangible property. It is
subjected to changes in its value, in proportion
to the rate of profits. When the rate of profit
it high; the price of stocks must necessarily be
low.

[THE TIMES.]
The affairs of Spain being arrived at a pave,
the public attention is removed to the late trans.
Atlantic possessions of that country. Are the
French to conquer those also ? [tumour states,
that they are paving their way to intrigues on the
spot ; and' we are vary certain that they are
striving to justify the attempt here, by very false
representations of the condition of the countries
sipiest which they are suspected to meditate aa
eaterprize. Vessels arrived from Vera Cruz and the
Havannalt bring intelligence of the arrest of the
*french General La Motte, and of several spies
of‘the same country, in Mexico. They are said
tii have been discovered in a treasonable corres-
pondence with the French Ambassador at Wash.
Linton, and have been thrown into close confine-
relent, Various accounts unite in the statement,
that all Frenchmen had been ordered to quit the
entintry. With respect to the other point,
it- is only necessary to glance upon the
extracts which we present every day from
the noYalist journals of France, to per-
itelve how studiously the writers represent the
revolution of the South American States as Unde.
Wed, nod the party in them attached to the do-
minution of the mother country as yet in force.
YV,rt should lie content to fouud our policy upon
thii their statement, and to say, if Old Spain finds
fry adherents in her late trans. Atlantic posses.
itons so numerous, let her, by their assist.
once, recover her dominion. We should be con-
tent to carry on our commerce equally with Old
&id New Spain, as With any other two indepen-
dent belligerents ; but the necessity of calling in
Franc*, proves that without her the contest is decid-
; en d Friance has no more right to interfere for the
destruction of the independence of New Spain,
thaw we have to interfere for it, protection.
erance pretended, on her invasion of the Petits•
sole, that the reformation of the Qovernment
Was not couselidated-7that the people, as a
40Eib were. 6011 in love with ao Inquisition
IVO, RS OS4O. ging ; the result of the war has
pcovecthp falsehood of those pretences, for
tAe ICtm is ,set: .free, and yet French troops
of rcessity,, be, left in the Peninsula,
to pre,sfaye th,ott ordqr of things to which, it had
tipeu spid the Spaniards were so well dia»
posed. In like unqnoer, should the trans,At.
tantic states he brought io that submission to
tileir late Sovereign, Ferdioana, of which it. Is
odd they are desirous, and of which they contain
IT many pArtisnus„ by means'ot,a, Freuch,arrny,
it wilr PP, 0104 drat`: k:reLlCtr.trOopS pre. no.