The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-09 00:00:00

TO_ THE KING.

" Sire,-20,000 French families interested in the Spanish
funds, reduced to despair by the ruin with which they are
threatened, come with confidence to make known to you their
situation and their wishes. '

" The laws by which private men are governed ought also
to govern States ; honour is a duty of all. A Government
has no greater right to deviate from its paths than the most
obscure individual. How, then, are we to conceive that in
the early days of a new Government, during peace, in the
midst of the riches of Europe which were offered to it, a Mi-
nistry should have proposed an act of bankruptcy? Whose
enemy is it thus—the foreigners whom it robs, or the nations
whom it seeks to dishonour ?

" If Spain has to complain of the original agents of her
financial operations, let her bring those men to justice—the
tribunals will dispose of them in a proper way. But because
deception was practised,—is it now to be renewed towards
others ?

" Sire—When you published the quadripartite treaty, we
conceived that it consolidated our rights, the more so as we
thought that Spain could hereafter enter with security upon
that constitutional regime wherein uprightness confers power.
Who, then, would have foreseen that a Government allied to
France would labour to do injury to Frenchmen ?
" Sire—Be our aid, our refuge. Your support can alone
save us from dreadful disaster. We implore it as a favour, n e
will look upon it as an act of beneficence.
" We are with the most profound respect, Sire, your Ma-
jesty's most bumble, obedient, and faithful servants."
(Here follow 3,000 signatures.)

..
The King, who bad given a very kind reception to the
delegates, said, in answer to the address of M. Cailleux,
that he had reason to hope the project of the Minister To-
rene would be modified, that his ambassador had made
energetic remonstrances against it, and that the English
ambassador was to have done the same.

It is probably owing to that answer, which must have
been known at the Bourse between half-past two and three
o'clock, that the rise of nearly five francs took place in the
current value of the Royal Loan and the Spanish funds
towards the latter part of business at the Bourse.
The French funds, which seemed not to go beyond 75.
50, and which every day were drawing closer to 75, after
an effort in a forward movement, have nearly reached 76.
We hope this, and the rise in Spanish funds, may be main-
tained, and that the King's words were faithfully reported.

THE LAKE DISTRICT.—The general desire to
see this interesting district, so far from subsiding into a feel-
ing of mere indifference, seems of late to'have acquired more
eagerness and activity than have been manifested at any former
period. The diversified scenes which environ the Lake of
Windermere,—some remarkable for wild sublimity of barren
crags, forlorn dells, and precipices where the " cataracts blow
their trumpets," and others for their picturesque loveliness and
beauty,--have lately attrycted to that neighbourhood an im.
mense number of the admirers of lake and mountain scenery.
During the last few weeks, the daily arrivals at the Salutation
Hotel, Ambleside, have been so numerous as to exceed the
means of supplying all the parties with the requisite aceom.
ichotfhe travelling
village,
modation ; in act the Hotel has been daily filled to overflow-
ing, and, in consequence, many family parties, on reaching
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owing to its crowded state, was unable to yield them. Among
other distinguished visiters, we may mention Lord and Lad"
Harrowby, accompany by Lady Harriet Ryder. Wilson Pat-
ten, Esq., M. p., and family, lately left the Salutation Hotel,
where they had been staying upwards of a week. Sir William
Bolland, Knt., his lady and family, after sojourning upwards
of a week at the Salutation Hotel, proceeded yesterday on their
way for Keswick.—Kendal Mercur