The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-24 00:00:00

TILE LQND9N JOURNALS.

DAJLY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, September 24.

ENEW TIMES.]
"apt night we received the Paris JoUrnals of
Sunday: In a letter from Frankfort of the 17th
it‘ is said that the Emperor of Russia was
expected in Mostow ,on the Ist inst. whence he
would repair to Odessa, thCre to await the ar-
rival of the Courier from the Emperor of Austria,
who to appoint a place for an interview with
him . The Emperor of Austria' was to, 'leave
Vitiana on the 18th inst. according to the ac-
minis. The affairs of Spain are naturally, sup-
posed to be the subject which is principally to
engage the attention of the two Emperors. -

• [MORNING CHRONICLE.]
We are enabled to state, on good authority,
that Ministers have received information of the
ve.commencement of hostilitiel on the- 9th instant
before Cadiz. This event is of great importance
inaesisting us to speculate with respect to the
blue. Indicating as it does a firmness on the
part of the Constitutionalists, we are warranted
in interring that. they.haye good ground for, their
confidence.—lt was stated in, a Morning Paper of
yesterday, that Sir Robert Wilson. was at Gib.
raftni on the Ist of the month.--We have occa.
sion,to know. ihat our gallant countryman is really
in Cadiz, and that he took an active part. in
the negociations which pt eceded the re-com,
mencement of hotilities.

. .
[THE TimEs.]: •
. .
There 7appears in the accounts transmitted.
through Bayonne, an official narrative of a victory
obtained by Milans over the French army, con-
sifting of 10,000 men, and commanded bx Moncey
in person. The, engagement took pbtee On the
28thT ult., at Artafulla, some leagues N.E. of Tar-
ragona. it .Was maintained with extraordinary
obstinacy on both sides, and was terminated by
'a decisive bayonet attack along the whole line
on the part of the, .Spanish infantry, who broke
the enemy and drove them off the .field—the
cavalry of Milans
,pursuing them for several miles
and in various directions. Milans makes the
French Joss, amount to near 1,700 men, of
,whom
170 were priSOttertetitat of the Spaniards to some-1
thing more than 600, This was a battle as glo-
rious to the patriots of Catalonia, as it was dis-
graceful to the other Spanish armies. had the rest
•f Spain acted with but an hundredth part of the
spirit and honour displayed in thii single province,
where would his Highness of Angouleme have been
on the '2Bth of. August ? and what mystiticatiohs
ontst.not the french Government have attempt-
ed, to_hide from its own subjects and from EU-
rppe the extremity of its disappointment and de-
feat ! Milans on this occasion, from the facts de-
scribed in till ,rapta.t, tritrA have
.out-Qeneralled
the French, as completely sa his brave troops
out-fought thum. His name and that of the
it-
iustriou Mims will have a splendid task assigned
to them by history ; fur it is they only that can
redeem from utter infamy a people whom so many
slaves and cowards, and traitors, would, without
them, have everlastingly, disgraced.

[ultrrsu rims.]
Nothing has coutributed so essentially' to the
progress of corruption, and the increase of abuses
of every kind, as the opinion which many have
taken great pains to propagate, that no party
is
to be trusted ; that Whigs and Tories are alike
regardless of every interest but their own, and
that there is no difference between them ; that
the former are aiming to obtain the seats of office,
loud the latter possess them. If this representa7
(ion were correct, it would follow that all those
bortheus and abuses of which we complain must
be perpetuated ; and to look forward to such a
prospect without hope, can have no other effect
than to damp the spirit of patriotism, and to dis-
courage all its efforts to restore, the protective
*0 practical blessings of the Constitution. The
ordinary exercise'of wisdom would certainly lead
to a very different mode of acting. If the
public ~are to be served, they must encourage and
animate, those who would serve them. If the
main body of the Whig leaders are to ho thus
swept aside .from our estimation, and made to
rant. with the couinion. herd of mercenaries, we
must be content to abandon their aid, and to re-
sign all clain to their service ; it is not to be'ex-
pected that they will struggle to support our
eights„that they may divide the degradation Which
has sunk the character of those againit whom
they have maintained them ; it is not to be asked
that they, should fight with us, and for us, on the
side of freedom, only to be counted, after all, in
the same class with the low and base retainers
whose designs they have opposed. Is it a use-
ful lesson to the rising generation,, to instil
into them the notion that liberty and the love
of our country, are mere ,pretences, at all
times and in all men ? Can any advantage
arise from giving currency to such a doc-
trine If those who maintain it take credit for
soperior penetration, they deceive themselves ;
it requires only a want of candour, and nn inca-
pacity for discrimination to arrive at this conclu-
sion. It suits those who would fain

--•lteacti
'rho height of their aspiring, unoppostd.
Nothing can square so well with their purposes
as that all resistance should be given up, on the
part.of .their ,opponents, from chagriu—on the part
of the people from 4e90.15kr.

[moamiaa POST.]
Jt appears evident that the Duke of Angou-
}eine, as we have, already observed, either made
threats which he could not realize, or failed in
their execution. Another contingency is just
possihle• Offended as he has justly been with
the conduct of the Madrid Regency, he may be
unwilling to carry things to an extremity with
the Censtitutionalists. lie may, wish to keep a
counterpoise which may prevent the encroach
meats of a party already hostile to France, eve'n
before it has reached the plenitude of power
with which the total extinction of its rival would
invest it. However this may be, two-thirds of
the present month were to elapse before any

thing serious should be undertaken against Cadiz
or the. Isle of Leol. Time it thus gaMed : the
equinoctiitl gales are approaching ; the dissen-
sions between the French and the Royalists in
Spain ere increasing ; and the storms of the ocean
rind the tempests of human passions, will be mar-
shalled in their strength against the enemy,
whenever
he attempts to consummate his work
Of injustice and iniquity. The Journal de,t
Dtbats states, on the authority of private letters
from Frankfort, that the Emperor Alexander
intends to carry his present tour as far as
Bessarabia and Odessa. At this place he is to
wait for the answer of the Emperor Francis to
the invitation which he has sent him to pay him
a visit at the camp, of Bretzlarewsky, or in the
town of Czarnowitz. Prince Metternich and
Count Nesselrode are to join their masters
wherever they meet, and they are to discuss im-
portant affairs. An " energetic negociation with
the Ottoman Porte," is even mentioned.. But
though it is represented as a secondary object,
we have no doubt that if the meeting take place
it will be the primary one. Now that through
the subserviency, imbecility, and injustice of
France the West of Europe is involved in flames,
Alexander will not long conceal his designs on
the East or delay their execution. If.the Em-
peror of Austria accepts his invitation, he be.
comes his Ally ' • and that war which every effort
of this country has been used to prevent from
bursting upon mankind, will no longer be under
the controul of the sense, the policy, or even the
force of one single and unsupported power.

[MORNING HERALF4I
On Monday we alluded to ati .article ~ which
appeared in a Morning:PaPer, on the subject of
South AmeriCa, We'have since seen another on
the same subject in the same paper; but it goes
still further than the preceding article ; it ends
with art but recommending our Government to
acknowledge the independence of South America.
We quote its own words, " A shield would
then be raised before the New Republic, upon
which the house of Bourbon would hardly dare
to strike." We remember, previously to the
French army entering Spain, that another Morn-
ing Paper recommended Mr. Canning to " throw
his shield over the Peninsula," so that both
our. contemporaries are familier with the same
figure of rhetoric-. Mr. Canning was to throw his
shield over Spain, and he is now to do the same
thing over. SpattiOt SOUth America. There is one
part of our contemporary's remark, in his last ar-
ticle, which is rather
,at variance %sill) what has
been stated relatiie to :the South Amerlcao Re-
publicans having achieved the work of their in-
dependence, for it appears that Morales, one of
the Royalist Chiefs, has, in a short space of time,
been able lately to wrest from the Colombians,
Maracaibo, Coro, and other places in their ter!.
ritory. Now this is in direct oppoSition to what
has been slated as to Spanish South AMerica
being almost freed from the troops of Spain. We
give, as follows, the words of our contempo-
rary Many of our, intelligent merchants
have wondered whence Morales could draw those
resources which have enabled him, while wholly
bandoned by Spain, not only to maintain !his
footing in Venezuela, but within a very short.peri9d
to wrest from the Colombians, Maracaibo, Coro,
and'other places in their territory." This para-
graph, as far as it goes, sitows that the South
AmeriCan Republicans have not almost annihi-
lated the Spanish American Royalist armies-7
and therefore, that some of these colonies may
come under the denomination of rebellious colo-
nies. Our contemporary calls upon the Mer-
chants of London. to hold a Meeting on account
of the two French ships which have been seen off
La Guayra, and it follows up such recommenda-
tion by advising meetings i n all parts elthe country.
For our part, we sheuld have no objection to these
meetings : on the contrary, we should like them
to take place. But whenever the subject of war
is to be considered,. we cannot forget the already
too large unpaid war bill; and, in contemplating
a future war, we cannot persuade ourselves
but, that a large increase of taxation would be
the consequence. We hope,.should these meet-
ings take place, that some of the company will
`have the courage to start up, and, gently hint to
:the Merchants especially interested, the conse-
quences of another war, previously to their advis-
ing the. Ministers the course they would_ have them
,to steer. Our contemporary,. in recminnending
!vigorous exertions, always keeps out of sight the
'expetece and taxation with which such exertions
would be attended. Meetings could do no harm,
and they would, at,ell events,let the people of'
'England hear the argithients for and against the
!policy of our ecknoWledging the independence
of these new States, which, if carried into
efrect, is to enable " Mr. Canning to throw
his shield over the Sonth American Continent."
Should the French, however, prOceed in their
apparent determination of interfering in that quar-
ter,. then the' question
.would naturally be dif-
ferent, and our Government would be justified
in coming forward, which, however, wouldpro-
Whig end in war, both against France, Spain,
and not Improbably the Holy Alliance, whom we
cannot help thinking would like to dispossess uS
of our Greek Islandi, with a view, eventually,
to divide our possessions in the East. If, unfor-
tunately, this question should eventually,plunge
us into a war, we ',hope it will be -prosecuted
vigorously, and that those-who' recommend that
which shalt cause an expenditure of thirty
or fifty millions aL.year beyedd the , present
expenditure,' and if fairly provided for,
should cause the taxation of the country to
be
.doubled,, will net at. the Same time put
forth their customary cant, about "_Retrench
-
meat," " Economy," " gradual payment of the
National Debt," " lamentable consequences of
plunging a high-spirited nation into Debt," and
so forth, for that would be like the coudtrytnan:
in /Esop's. Fables, who hlew Wet and cold out
of' the same mouth—in fact worse, fer he blew
equally. But our contemporary boggles at
.100,000/.. in, one breath, while he all but recom-,
mends an expenditure of 100,000,0001. duo;
.
ther breath. For our parts, in case of war hap-
pening, we hope the Ministers and the people
will have the courage to meet the expenditure
every year, as it may occur, and not again have

recourse to the Aisdraceftil' 'MOW of `rafilbg' the'
supplies by means of usurious Loans. 'rho* can
be no doubt.but that war would answer the pur-
pose of 11(14?ney7lenders, Stock-brokers, Under-
writers, and Newspapers, hut leis the interest or
the people generally to keep from it, if it be
possible.