The Sun.
London, England, 1823-02-07 00:00:00

character and conscientious vigilance—revolution, I
thus rightly understood, is an object of the
deepest solicitude to every human being whose
heart is not cold and callous as " Tomeo's
hoary brow." Let not the intelligent among
men be cheated out of their reason and their
'conviction by the hired cant of the ignorant or
the selfish, 4vho denounce the use of the fire be-
catlse there have been destructive conflagrations,
and reprobate water because we often read of
drownings. The Peninsula excepted, there is
not a nation on the Continent to whom a revolu-
tion, with its worst possible evils, would not be
incomparably preferable to the regular rotation
of human life in their present condition:: If
Great Britain is superior to every continental
nation (and that she is, bear witness all that is
peculiarly characteristic of humanity), it is be-
-cause we achieved a revolution more than a cen-
tury ago. Spain now claims our respect be-
cause she has effected a revolution; she claims our
admiration, because she has had ttke magnanimity
to avoid irritations and extravagances to which
she was peculiarly exposed ; she claims our
warmest sympathy because she is calumniated,
insulted, and threatened by the vilest, yet most
mischievous combinations which human society
can admit. Spain then claims the liveliest and
kindliest Interest of all enlightened and good
men, as being engaged in the great work of revo-
lution.
[MORN! NG HERA LD.]
Accounts of Tuesday were received yesterday
from PUris. The war party appears at the top
of its wishes and of its speed. The march of
regiments, or battalions, from Paris and other
garrisons continues with„ if we may trust the
Journals, increased activity. The Nuke of An..
gouhaniti:s baggage had left. Paris eight wag-
gonS`t at is not at all unreasonable that he,
should provide himself for a compaign, whiCh
may not, be very• speedily concluded. 50..,
heavy a personal train, however, may some-
what encumber considering the face of
the countryy, and the sort of warfare upon
whist he is about to eater. Possibly the Consti-
tuthinal Guerillas may have an opportunity of
unburdening him before longuit does not appear
who- is to be the real and effictive Commander--
in-Chief. If it be Marshal Victor, the Minister
of War, he is not without some ominous remi-
niscences of the late Spanish war, and in the
same capacity in which it is said he is now toact.
The battle of Talavera, as well as we remember,
was lost by the French, under the nominal
command of the intrusive King Joseph, with
this Marshal for his monitor. It is not alone
by land that warlike preparations are going
on. A naval armament is to be immediately
in readiness at Brest. The Ultra enthu-
siasm seems:to have seized even the King of
France. shall be with you in heart, not
being able to be so otherwise," said he to a
suptrjor Officer, named Castelbajac. The name
is familiar in Ultra politics--but it has not yet
made a figure in the French armies, As to the
sally itself) it is not of,the happiest—and only
lays the august person who uttered it .open to
malice and derision. A Sovereign who had
fought many battles, but was now infirm and old,
might so express himself with.propriety and with
effect, or it might have teitte with §eme grac
from.some of his predecessors. But it is the mis-
fortune of the ruling party and the Royal Family
in France to speak and, act us if ideas, habits,
and sentiments had retrograded two centuries at
le restoration.

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[IIIE TIMES.]
A calm, a momentary calm,- has succeeded to
the general stern, 'of indignation which was
showered down when Parliament met, on the
violent measure denounced by France against
the unoffending people of the Peninsula. We
are unwilling to interrupt this repose : -would it
May be of geed omen ! Tranquillity, at least, it
is said, affords opportunity for reflection. We
suppose the Opposition abstain for a while
from pressing measures upon .the House of
Ceinmons,. hi order that the effect of the
late general expression of feeling may be '
lcnowri before (if we may use so homely
phrase). the dose is repeated. This conduct, on
'the part of Opposition, will appear. considerate
and prudent. Never, however, did such unani-
mity prevail upon any question whatever in this
country, as upon the iniquity of the principle pro.
mulgated, and that of the course threatened to
he pursued by the French Government against
the Spanish nation. The cry of indignation
was universal,: and 'C the sound of it is gone
forth .to the ends of the earth." The King
of France possessed many friends in this country,
there was a favourable opinion respecting his
personal character, the qualities of his head and
heart. - What could his wicked counsellors mean

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by putting such a, speech into his Majesty's
mouth ? %irks it really their object to snap asun-
der all the bonds of alliance which he bad formed
during bis residence among us, and to cast his
friends and admirers into a perfect destitu-
tion of, all the means of defendiug bins when-
ever his character was assailed, or Iris claims
impugned ? If so, they have succeeded' to
a marvel ; and it is only in his own power to right
himself in the public opinion, by casting such
counsellors from him. These are the hopes
which we cherish perhaps—with futile fondness :
for we must not disguise that the French papers
speak incessantly of the activity with which pre,
parations are making for war; how regiments
are marching (whose hearts are but ill-af-
fected to the cause), and ships put in commis
sion. The Spaniards, we trust, are equally (were
we going to say ?) ay, ten times more than equally
active : for how great is the object for which
they are conteuding, compared to that which
may have moved the wicked Ultra Royalists to
attempt the invasion of the Peninsula.? The
British Ministers, it is said, would have declared
their opinions with much more freedom—wonld
have spoken out with newly more frankness
cagainst the conduct of the French Government,
in the invasion of Spain, if they had been fully
a ware of the extent to which they would have been
supported by the nation at large, That spirit
which they have wanted in the Senate, we hope
j they will transmit to the saloon, and inferm,