The Sun.
London, England, 1823-05-30 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Extracts. from the Morning Papers, May 30.

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His Royal Highness the Duke of Angouleme
entered Madrid on Saturday last, the 24th, at
nine in the morning. Ills advanced guard had
occupied that capital on the day preceding.—
These two facts may serve to explain a little
article in The Morning Chronicle of yesterday,
which was conceived in the following terms :
" We regret to learn, that the Geueral Meeting
for the relief of Spain, announced for Monday
next, is to he postponed till the ensuing week."
A very wise and prudent resolution ; only for
the words tc till the ensuing week," we appre-
hended we ought to read 44 sine The ,
Times too has already begun to rat. " If''
the Spaniards are to be so subdued," says that
consistent Journal, 44 they deserve no better
fate." Now, this might wend pretty well,
if it had not been said before ; but we were
told in January and February 1821 that the
Neapolitans were heroes, Hans, prodigies of va-
lour, and miracles of patriotism. In the April
following they were conquered ; and then The
Times found out that they " deserved no better
fate." Tlie fact is, that what we have said and
repeated over and over again—whit we have
been abused, slandered, and calumniated in the
most base and infamous manner for asserting,
now turns out to be true. We have bad to
encounter not merely popular prejudice, but the
opinions of men whom we most highly respect
—we have had to oppose the errors of all parties,
and to make -a sure and certain sacrifice of our
own interest—or else to 'abandon the great
and paramount duty of a Public Jonranlist:---the
speaking of the truth. It will at least-be granted-
that we did not do our duty by halves,—The
false and calumnious iosinuations" against- our
motives, for doing what we have done, pass by
us like the idle wind. We disdain to notice ma-
lignity so vile, and folly so prepostOrous. But
the justice which we Claim of our friends, as
well us of our foes, is to look back upon our
opinions and see whether they were not cor-
rect—to examine our statements and say whether
they were not true. We know well that we
have been called Ultras, Serviles, Ministe-
rial Hirelings, Pensioners of the Bourbons.—
All this moves us not a jot more than the scur-
rility of Ilene or The Times. It is our pride to
know that we have written more and longer ill
support of the practical principles of true Li-
berty then any other living Writer, be he who
he may.—Especially have we laboured to pro-
mote the cause of real freedom in Spain ; and
not less within the last twelvemonth than we did
Nvidle Wellington was wresting tho Peninsula
from the gripe of Buonttparte. We say distinctly
and decisively that Louis XVIII. has conferred
an inestimable benefit on Europe by putting an
cmi to the tyranny of the Jacobins in Spain ; but
if he should attempt to go further, and to subject
Spain, directly or indirectly, to his own authority,
then, we say as decisively and as distinctly, be
ought to be resisted by the whole power of ling-
land, and sooner or later he would be made to
desist from his pretensions. We certainly do not
apprehended that the present French King, or
any of his successors in our time, will engage in
so rash and perilous an enterprise. We believe
that France wilt cordially join with England in
securing to Spain a free and independent Govern-
ment; because it' is as obviously her interest as
it is her duty to do so. Not that we desire to
see either England or France too, busy in tinker-
ing up a Constitution for a third country. Let
us at length be wise enoukh to learn that all na-
tions have their own ideas of freedom, their own
habits of enjoy meet. their own views of prospe-
rity and well-heistg. The Jacobin faction being
lut down in Spain, King Ferdinand ought to be
eft as much as post,ible to Spanish counsels; and
the path pointed out by his own Proclamation in
1814—a path from which he ought never to have
swerved—is that which we should now wish to
see him to follow.

[MORNING cnitoNtet,c.]
By letters lately received from Seville, we
regret to learn that the town and places adjoin-
ing are not so. Constitutional as vie had hoped
they were, and that the. Cortes were in a critical
situation owing to the change of Ministers, in
consequence of their having expressed a desire to
negnciate, which it was feared a majority would
second. Indeed our letters add that the French
expect to settle every thing in a few days. We
lament that such a termination of so gallant a
struggle for liberty should be expected ; but our
information is of that nature that we cannot with-
hold it. We hope the expectation will not be
realized. If, it be, all we can say is, we hope
the Cortes will meet their deserts ; for,in that
case it ‘vill be difficult to equal them in baseness
and imbecility.

A great dent of mystery still hangs over the
affair of Abishal, for it appears that the exist-
ence of a plan to write to him through the me-
dium of Montijo was known both in Paris and
London three weeks ago, and
,also that Abisbal's
answer would be published as soon as it was re-
ceived. Had he been inclined to serve the in-
terests of the French by treason, on a grand scale
against his country, he would have kept the cam-
mend of his army till the French got near Ma-
drid; yet, on. the 29th of April, he sent oil nine
squadrons of cavalry to Badajoz, conformably to
the orders of Government, a quantity of powder,
and 200 prisoners belonging to the revolte'd
Guards. There is something very curious in
this affair. Time will chew what it is.--(ibid.)