The Sun.
London, England, 1824-08-20 00:00:00

rhlOrtNlo, POST.'

We received last night, by Express, French
Papers to the 18th instant. The state of Owlr
columns furnishes abundant proofs that the Mi-
nkiPra do not mean to let the Censorship become
in their hands a brulternfidriten. It. is astonishing
bow quickly they have reconstructed and set in
motion the wheels of that tremendous Engine.
The Ordinance by which its revival was decreed
Was. piihlished iu the cenrse of Monday, and even
before the appointment of Censors had been sig.
*tilled, the Papers of Tuctiday morning came out
so clipped and defaced as to show that they had
already entered npon the exercise of their office,
and had done it with a:degree Or ion, which al-
most surpasses credit. The great object seems
to ltave been to prevent the' press from complain-
ing of its .being Hence not a word ha-
ving that tendency ,has :•been allowed to appear,'
and as the Journals in self.defence leaven blank
in the place of etpr'y 'ailicl-e•sillida is marked out
by the censors, the public ore enabled to judge
'of the "teffi of th'e iiteratl and lull tical slaughter
which has been committea. itt this instance the.
Ultras have been greater kufferers-thiri. the Libe-
rals ; .which corroboNtes-our Itstertinn that the
present mealittre' is cilielittlloce-od
ae:duit
former. The Journid dot Debalvi,"it) 1, • d,e, t t
y
organ of a Minister, displays in its intetior- a

yawning vacancy of two columns and a half out of
four of which it is composed. Here, we have no
doubt, Chateaubriand had poured forth one of
those effUsions which, two months ago, all the
Journals, of the Administration. would have ex-

tolled us a model of sound reasoning, loyalty, and
eloquence, and which the grave Moniteur itself
-would have copied. Now he is not permitted to
'address a word to the public, through the

medium of his own Paper, and as the
Chambers are closed, and even if they were
opened the debates in the Peers are secret, he
is disarmed at once of all the influence which
reasoning and talent could exercise upon the
country. This is indeed muzzling an adversary
with a vengeance, but it does not pass wholly
unavenged ; for the appearance of so many
blanks in the Papers (even the Constilutionnel
has lost a column end an half of its contents)
cannot fail to raise universal indignation and dis-
gust, and to injure the Ministers so deeply, as
the most profound arguments or pointed sarcasms
of their antagonists could have done. They play
a desperate game, and they play it with a de-
gree of desperate boldness which might succeed
with the strong, but which must ensure the ruin
of the weak.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
We fear it will turn out that another fabrica-

tion has been palmed upon the public, as gross as
that one to which we alluded on Tuesday, and
we lament to say, for equally disgraceful pur-
poses. On the 13th instant, was copied into some
of the Morning Papers a letter, purporting to
have been received in London from New York,
under date of 17th July, stating that the
schooner Eclipse, Captain Marshton, at that in.
stint had arrived from Soto la Marina, bringing
ad vices " that General Bravo had entered Gun.

dalajara on the 13th of June, after a rapid
march, where he was received with the most en-
thusiastic acclamations." The same letter then
adds as follows :

" The troops Immediately abandoned Quintenar, and joined
the brave Mexicans. In the evening the city was illuminated,
And public rejoicings of every description took place. De-
serted by all his followers, Quintenar had fled for safety to the
province of Sonora. Thus has tranquillity been restored, and
the union consolidated between two of the most populous and
interesting provinces in the New World, and schemes discon-
certed which had extensive ramifications. After remaining in
Guadalajara a few days, It was the intention of General Bravo
to put himself In communication, or rather to form a second
line of operation with General Gant!, who commands a con-
siderable body of faithful troops in the province of Santander,
and closely watches the coast at the same time, in the event of
Iturbide daring to make un attempt at landing. Gen.. Garza
is a man possessed of immense property, and is the same indi-
vidual who first opposed the I.'4x-Eutperor when he caused
twenty-four Members of the Congress to be arrested. Illy
fidelity fora moment cannot be doubted."

So (sir the noted letter on Mexican affairs, as
ushered to the public in the most unblushing
manner ! It no doubt had the effect proposed,
for it cannot be expected that every one is pre-
pared to calculate the distance from Mexico to
Guadalajara, or the time it would take to con-
cert a plan of operations between a Commander
in the latter district, situated on the Pacific, and
one Doing in the province of Santander, on the
Gulf of Mexico, with an immense continent be-
tween them. How General Bravo was to con-
cert- a second line of operations with General
Gaiza, so as to watch the coast from the Itio del
Norte to Vera C:1117, en imme►nse distance, with-
out a ship, when the former had to come from the
Pacific to the Atlantic side► of the Continent, re.
mains yet to he explained by the writer of the
44 Letter, received in London by the Just New
York packet." This letter, at the time, ap-
peared to us to Contain more inconsistencies and
snore impossibilities than we ever before saw
huddled -together in the same compass ; but
as it appeared in a respectable Evening
Paper, was described as having been received
in London, and way, in short, ushered to
the world as o genuiue piece of information, we
waited anxiously the arrival of the next New
York packet, and yesterday all our surmises
were fully confirmed. We carefully perused' a
regular file of New York papers, to the 24th
July, yet we found in them no such arrival as the
one alluded to from Soto La Marina ;—no such
schooner us the Eclipse,—no such Captain as
Marsbton ;—no such news as the Guadalajara
promenade with Gen. Bravo as the Commander.
We did, indeed, find in a New York paper of
23d July, some news, and the latest received in
the United States from Mexico, of a very recent
date, of which we subjoin the extract, and it by
no means confirms the story of the noted letter
brought by the former New York packet. We
hope and trust there will be an end to these abo.
minable fabrications, as disgraceful to their au-
thors as they are to those who employed them.
The public have been over and over again duped
by these insidious practices, and it becomes the
duty of those papers, which, no doubt, have un-
consciously lent themselves to their circulation
and supportOo let the world know under what
circumstances they have been duped. These are
investigations which the Stock Exchange are
called upon to enter into, and no honest man will
refuse his aid to them:—

MExico.—We collect from Mexican Papers,
to June 16th, that much disorder prevailed in the interior,
though We'do not find that the existence of rtnyreallyformidable
inwurrection is acknowledged. Thu Governor, CungriNs, and
troops of the State of Jalisco were at open war, however, with
the Supreme Government. General Nicholas Bravo had been
ordered by the latter to occupy with his► division Guadalajara,
the capital of Jalisco; but the authorities were determined to
resist the measure, and a torte had been collected For the pus.
pose, at the head of which the Governor Quintanar placed him.
self. The latest doeurnents which we find on the subject are
two proclamations of Bravo, who was approaching Guadala-
jara, to his troops, dated Ist and 2d of June, headquarters of
La Barcit ; and orders, dated 6th June, of the authorities of
JtabiCO, prescribing measures of defence for the capital. Blood
• was expected to be soon shell—General Lopez de Santa Anna
bad arrived with his division of troops at Campeache, Al Corn.
mandant.General of the " Free States of Yucatan." Ills pro-
clamations, like those of Bravo, breathed the wannest loyalty
to the Federal Republic. They disclose at the saute time cir-
cumstances of dissatisfaction among the people and soldiery,
and machinations in favour of Iturbide, which seems to us to
bear a very ominous character._

[MORNING), HERALD.]

Tuesday's Paris Papers—the first puhlication,,
under the restored regime of the Censorship,
were received last night. The police, by whi(l.
the Censorship is exercised, has done severe exo.
cotton ttlion two of the Journals—the Constitu-
tion-mil and ,fournat des Dan's. 1,1„;re are t;c.
viral enormous blanks ill l)oth Journals—Ow ar-
ticles de:tior.d tor ehem being suppressed. No,
xplanation is gitieo or "perhaps allowed, nor

any necessary. The Quotidienne, a Royalist
Journal in opposition to M. de Villele, has
crouched to the last, and declares that it can go
on as usual—only abstaining from any thing that
could touch certain personal sensibilities. It Is
to be observed of the restoration of the Censor-
ship, that it is aimed, at and provoked wholly
by the Ultra opposition—that is, the opposi-
tion of his own party and friends, to M. de
Villele. Now a Minister who has found him-
self obliged to shut the mouths of his own
party—who has certainly not conciliated the sup-
port of any other—who has a majority against
him in the Chamber of Peers—and who secured
a majority in the Deputies only by the most flag-
rant abuses in the late election—is it possible
that such a Minister can long maintain his seat ?
It appears to be reducible to this dilemma—either
that the Minister must fall—or that Parliamen-
tary and public opinion have no weight in France.
Another formidable point for M. de Villele is
this : the party which he has silenced—or must-
zled—is too intemperate in its character, and too
during in the consciousness of its own Royalism—
or Ultraism—and even of its services and sacrifices
in the cause of the Bourbons—to rest quiet. The
tone of opposition too was in general temperate and
even feeble. There was not a single article which
should disturb the equanimity of a Statesman
possessing an intelligence of ordinary compass, or
having any notion of Constitutional Government
end a free discussion. The pretence set forth in
the Royal Ordinance, for restoring the Censor-
ship of the Journals, even, is shallow and absurd
in the extreme—it hi, that the Courts of Law had
decided that the Journals have an existence de
jure, and not merely by the sufferance and breath
of the Government. Is it not monstrous to sup-
pose that a person's property in his time,- his in-
tellect, and his capital, should exist otherwise
than de jure 9 Even a Government purely ab-
solute will hardly strip a subject of his property
without some indemnity, real or pretended, if it
acknowl,dges any fixed system of justice or mu-
nicipal law.