The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-12 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1847.

Abdication seems to be the fashion just now amongst
the crowned heads of Europe. First, there is an
egregious clamour among some of the pretended fol-
lowers of Sa. DA BANDEIRA, for the resignation of
the Portuguese diadem by MARIA DA GLORIA. The
demand might possibly have proved not altogether
distasteful to the population now subject to her
Most Faithful MAJESTY, though it would have ob-
tained but little encouragement from the honest old
patriot who seconded DAs ANTAS in imparting a
character of reason and dignity to the insurrection.
Then there are incredible rumours, brought almost sur-
reptitiously into circulation, that his HOLINESS 15 re-
solved to withdraw from the supreme direction of the
Papal Government, in consequence of the opposition
experienced by him in the development of a liberative
policy. Scarcely has this on-dit subsided—having
been scattered " like the baseless fabric of a
vision," or rather like the hired assassins
of MErrEamca—when a more accurate report is
bruited from the shores of theof
LEOPOLD is about to resign the royal Continent that
authorityhisl toal a
Belgian regency, and seek the renovation
in the retirement of a dis-robed and dis-annointthd
Sovsreign. Another intimation is borne across the
wilderness of Lithuania, that the Autocrat of all the
Busszas is about to escape the dangers by forsaking
the pomps of despotism. Each of these insinuations
we conceive to be very nearly as veracious as the
average amount of court gossip; and we are satisfied
that the KING of the BELGIANS was the only one of
those Monarchs who ever seriously contemplated the
dernier ressort of abdication. Otherwise we should
be compelled to imagine that the repugnance of
ANNE BOLEYN to wear a golden sorrow was be-
co unusually contagious. The truth of
such assertions would imply that BYRON'S
republican vaticination was upon the eve
of being realised by that gradual dispersion of
royalty, which might prove
Itmerely the preliminary
of its ultimate annihilation.
to the old supposition would give credibility
that Sovereigns were becoming
blasé, and that the vision of BENJAMIN CONSTANT
was soon to become a reality.of the w Happily, however, for
the tranquillity
world, Rome,
Belgium, and Russia, have not been simultaneously
thrown into confusion by an abrupt change the
supreme authority. Desirable as some such of
modifi-
cation or transference of power might be in such
Cabinets as that of St. Petersburgb, no sane man will
deny that such a modification or transference would
be liable to prove perilous were it effected with any
undue precipitation.
A fifth abdication has been whispered about as not
improbable, and we are reluctantly compelled to ac-
knowledge that matters are in this instance tending
to that consummation. Ever since the honour of
Queen ISABELLA was compromised by her forcible
marriage with a Prince she notoriously loathed,
the
infammachinations of the infamous agents in that most
ous transaction have been directed to render the
continuance of the young QUEEN'Sreign more and
more distasteful to
unfortunately forherself.
Unfortunately
for Spain,
Spanish
independence, and we do
believe also unfortunately for the Orleans dynasty,
those odious intrigues ar
successful than their originatorsing day by day more
could at one time
have conjectured. By the conspiracy of a debauched
mother and an unprincipled
uncle,i IsAseeea has
fallen into the toils of
such
short n intricacy,
ic
the
her extrication will be littleaoy, that
mira-
culous. Had CHRISTINA and LOUIS p
sold this ill-doomed Princess as auiLIP PE
slave
is huckstered in the elave•market, they could not