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LONDON,
SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1824.
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We have received the Paris Papers of Wed-
nesday and the Etoile of Thursday, and have
.given extracts from theni in a preceding column.
lire almost destitute of political intelligence,
11,1' since the re-establishment of the Censor-
-B"iP, are entirely so of political reflections. The
funds had experienced a considerable decline,
:Ivhich is, with much appearance of justice, attri-
~hilted to a suspicion that the real object-of the
French Covernment in stifling the expression of
Public opinion, is to veil the designs %;hich it is
maturing against South America. Very un-
favourable intelligence is also said to have been
received from Spain, where it is alleged that
open insurrection has at length broken out in
ifavour of the Constitution, and that part of the
,troops have joined in the revolt. This news,
liowever, requires confirmation. If it be we11..-founded,
..-founded, we fear that the men who have ventur-
.ed, with arms in their hands, on the assertion of
their.couptry.'s rights and liberty, will fall vic-
tlols to their patriotism. The mass of the Spanish
Population is so completely swayed by the
Priests, that there is but little probability of
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success a. civil 'war, undertaken against
the tyrannof a Clergy
supported by army which is
a formidable foreign
P°ssession of all the ports and fortresses of the
4iitgdonl. A civil war, however, if any consi-
derable
portion of the people embark in it with
.energy, can scarcely fail to force beneficial re-
forms of some kind or other on the Government,
:whatever may be the fate of the patriots by whom
it will have been kindled ; and the French will
taught, in the expenditure of blood and trea-
sure which it will cost them to keep Spain in sub-
jection, a salutary lesson against the conversion
a cordon sanitaire into an invading army.

An Evening Contemporary, who is in the habit
'3l giving to his own lucubrations an air of official
'tutl'°"itY) yesterday recapitulated a variety of
r°"()" 'l'Y the British Government has resolved
to await the issue of the crises in Mexico and
Peru before for recognizing any one of the
!Jew South American States. The paper to
which we allude has been the constant thick and
Min advocate of the South Americans ; and its
sudden and seemingly miraculous conversion to
other sentiments and opinions, like that of the
-407.ning Chronicle, has excited no small conster-
nation amongst those who had pinned their faith
to the oracular declarations of these
,worthies on
the state of the South American question and
of South American affairs. At any time,
during the last four months, the same
ma-
/4)11'11gs, the, same conclusions, and the same an-
nunciation of the determination come to by Mi-
nisters, relative to South America, as thoke which
have at length been adopted by our Contem-
porary, may be found in the columns of TUE
SUN, and in the columns of TUE SUN alone. It
was an ungracious task to stand opposed to the
Popular delusion on a subject so deeply involving
the mercantile and pecuniary interests of a vast
Portion of our fellow-subjects ; but there are
thousands who now wish that they had attended

to our 'warnings.

°ispatches were yeste-rday recei
of at the Co-
-111,41 Office, Downing-street, from the Marquis
"1 LI.ASTINGS; at Malta, and Sir FREDERICK
0 1
Arl).AVlmp) at Corfu .but they contain no intelligence
ortance:

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