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London, England, 1823-01-25 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

TyanAvTA FIWM TIIE DAILY MORNING PAPERS,
January 18'23.

[THE TIMES.]
All the late accounts from Paris have been
-tinged with the gloomy colouring of the time and
place whence they :originatd. That which we
nave received since our last publication, con-
tained in the letters of Wednesday's date, is war-
like, and nothing more. It forebodes every
Thing ; bot decides nothing. The answer of the
Spanish Minister,' having supplied food for mind-
ration to the whole world, may now, it is to be
feared, perform a different function, and serve as
a pretext, to some of those who rule or pretend
to rule the world, for breaking up every form
of amicable intercourse with the Spaniards. En
pursuance of this purpose, NI. Lagarde has been
recalled. Let the immediate issue of this crisis be
as unfavourable as it nty, the confidants of the
war patty rather incline to discredit the intention
of invading Spain with an army composed of
Frenchmen. They talk of rendering liberal aid
In arms •and money to the broken remnant of the
-rebel forces, and encouraging them by all the
expedients in their power. They talk further of
selecting from among the Spanish renegadoes
and another Regency—more dignified (0 than
that of Urgel and of accrediting to it the Mi-
nisters of the Holy Alliance. How the whole
series of inopostions made by the Holy Allies to
:France, regarding the employment of German or
Russian troops as auxiliaries, can be reconciled
with the situation of the Bourbon
,Government,
and with the temper of the French people, it
would be at least premature to discuss.

[MonMING 11 ERA 1.1).]
We yesterday received the following letter
up to and inclusive of the 6th of January, from
our correspondent at Madrid. We give it
as we received it, without making the least al-
teration

MADRID, SATURDAY, JA 4.-17011 r expresses arrived
here last night with dispatches from the Courts of Paris, St.
Petersburgh, Vienna, and Berlin, for their respective Ministers
here ; and it is understood that in these dispatches notes were
inclosed, which are to be presented to the Cabinet of Madrid.
The llfonfteur, of the 27th, also carried by the French ceurier,
containing the instructions which the French Government have
forwaeded to Count de Legarde, the ambassador here. This do-
eument was published in the Espectador to-day, and although at
first persons were inclined to take it in a warlike sense, yet when
they coupled it with the fact of Montmorency's resignation,
and considering the flattering terms in which it speaks of the
iipanish nation, they considered that its purpose was pacific.—
Others conceived that it was drawn up with the view of cover-
ing', as well as possible, the retreat of the French Cabinet
.from the steps into which, perhaps, they had been urged
by the passions of the Anti-Liberal party. By the same
channel private letters front' Paris arrived here, which at-
tribute the victory of M. de Villae chiefly to the support
which his representation received from the Duke of Wel-
lington. It had been positively determined at Verona,
the lettera add, that the French Army of Observation should
enter Spain as soon as the season would allow, and
'Montmorency pledged his Government to this unadvised
resolution. His resignation, and the King's immediate
acceptance of it, prove that his Majesty was chagrined at
.the:pnduct of his Representative, and his name has already
;swiped a pre-eminence here in the catalogue of those rash and
weak-headed Ministers who have been the bane of their" country
ard the enemies of mankind.

•
[NEW TIMES.]
We regret to say, that the complexion of yes-
day's intelligence left little hope that a conti-
nental war could be averted. England has done
every thing in her power to maintain peace be-
tween the adverse parties ; but it is to be feared
that her exertions will be in vain. We long
cherished the idea that a moderate party might
arise in Spain ; for we were too well assured that
the predominance of a frantic democratic fac-
tion there must involve their country in all
the horrors, of civil war, and then of inva-
sion. Unfortunately there has been no wisdom,
there has been no patriotism, there has been no
energy in Spain, capable of arresting the Revo-
lutionary torrent, or of standing midway be-
tween Despotism and Anarchy. It is announced
in The Elate of Wednesday that the Regency,
exercising its authority in the name of King
Ferdinand, will be formally recognised by Aus-
tria, Russia, and Prussia, us soon as their Am-
,bassaders who have just left Madrid shall reach
'Paris. We know not on what authority this
assertion is made ; butt if true, its conse-
qutmic,..i may be moat important.

Dutivsu
French intelligence of Wednesday is, of
no value. The Mode, that echo of Ultraism,
swys, that France refuses the mediation of Eng-
land, and moreover that the Ministers of the
Three Magnanimous, recalled from Madrid, are
to—betake themselves to the itinerant Court of the
Itegency• Both statements we believe to be un.
true ; the first is most certainly a fiction. The
Englibh Government is not more interested or
More zealous in preventing a war than the
Government of France. The Etoile is evidently
the organ,' of Russia. In Charles the Second's
reign French gold used to flow into England, but
it was for Statesmen and Legislators. The cha-
racter of the aje is changed, and foreign foes of
political improvement now direct their influence
to the public press. It is a very offensive, if not
an unparalleled instance of human degradation,
that men should, for any rewards which foreign
wealth can give, devote their services to the sub-
version of the throne and the annihilation of
liberty in their native country.

[MO►tNING CIIRONICLEd
Flom the disavowal of the Government
Pamphlet so soon after the appointment of Mr.
F. Robinson to the Chancellorship of the Ex-
chequer, it may be infered that the financial
views in it do not exactly coincide with his
own. We have heard it indeed said, that
the Right 'Honourable Gentleman used to
be very merry occasionally on the subject