The Sun.
London, England, 1835-10-16 00:00:00

spi.ltlT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

To what shifts must not Toryism be driven when its
retainers ask credibility for mendacious assertions so
astounding as the following impudent declaration of
the Standard :

" Twelve months ago," says the Standard," we regretted
as premature the change that then took place (the dismis-
sal of the first Melbourne Cabinet,) and we saw in that
change nothing but the success of a Whig stratagem to
reconcile the Whigs to the revolutionary party by a last
desperate effort. They had so often rallied the zealots of
anarchy to their support by intimations that they must re-
tire, that the threat had lost its efficacy ; and how no-
thing less than an actual execution of the Menace could
succeed. The straightforward, honourz:ole, and unsus-
pecting character of the Monarch chabled him to execute
the stratagem with the utmost w:tvantage. They obtained
the dismissal for which they intrigued and falsified, and, of
course, retained their position in the corps of the disaf-
fected. So far the artifice triumphed, and we never con-
cealed the uneasiness which the triumph obtained for us at
the time."

So the Whigs procured their own dismissal, in order
that they might be borne back again by Radical assist-.
ance I The Whigs, who arc taunted perpetually by
Tory organs with their love of place, intrigued to get
out of place upon the contingency of regal..ning place by
means of a closer alliance with the " Revolutionist
party I" A most profound and (I..eep-laid scheme truly
this I And the readers of the 'standard must have an
amazing flood of new lint thrown in upon them on
arriving at the discov-,ry of this new species of intrigue
on the part of Ministers. We suppose we shall next
hear that the -apostacy of the Times was an intrigue of
the Ministry, and all the difficulties of the past session
and the pertinacious opposition of my Lords the Peers
were also contrived and managed by these most sin-
gular politicians. But we rejoice to perceive in
these absurdities, which the cleverest 'Tory prints
put forth to conceal their despair, the proof that things
are not quite as they should, he in their own camp ;
and that it is pretty wea understood that another
manoeuvre, like that of November last, is not to be
played off on the nation, nor likely to be sanc-
tioned in those high quarters where the selfish de-
signs and affected loyalty of Tory intriguers are, we
believe, now appreciated pretty much at their true
value. Hence all this wincing, all this perversion of
ingenuity and employment oCparadox,, to account for
a simple and obvious circumstance. The Liberal Mi-
nistry will remain in office, not because Tory in-
triguers have abated their enmity, or altered
their tactics, but because the nation supports
that Ministry, and the Sovereign is not insen-
sible to the important truth. Therefore take consola-
tion, gentlemen--pursue your travels to Rome or to
Kalish, as you list. Should Sir Robert again visit
Italy—we surmise that no courier will again disturb
his classic researches—we should as soon expect that
a prospect of fulfilment would be offered to the ambi-
tious dreams of the Orange Duke by a hasty summons
from Kalisch or Berlin. The Standard concludes
with the charitable wish :
" We therefore hope the Melbourne administration may
continue without disturbance as long as any considerab],,
portion of the people do not abhor it to the top of it de-
serts ; but in perfect correspondence with this trope, we
cherish a strong anticipation that its last hour at hand."
This is the point upon which we are at issue. We
maintain that the Melbourne Ministry has the confidence
of the country. We imagine that confidence to have
been shown in the return of a Parliament which re-
jected its predecessors in spite of the blandishments of
Peel and his " conforming" policy. When the confi-
dence of the country shall be constitutionally shown
to be withdrawn from the Government, which it cannot
be but from their own culpable negligence or a deser-
tion of principles, which even their bitterest enemies
have not dared to charge against them ; then, and not
till then, will the benevolent wish of the Standard be
likely to be realised, and we also may be found among
the number of those to rejoice that " its last bow is
at hand." We may observe in passing, that the
Standard pays a very sorry compliment to the penetra-
tion of the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel,
in making them thus the dupes of their reforming op -
ponents.—Morning Chronicle.
Most of the Palis 'papers contain long articles in
answer to the one published on the previous day by
the Journal des Debats, relative to the state of affairs
in Spain. It appears to us that a great deal too much
importance Is attached in Paris to what that paper says
regarding Spain its ability is unquestionable, but it
is equally clear that in the many articles on that sub-
ject which have appeared in it within the last four
weeks, it has not spoken the unanimous sentiments of
the French Government. What greater proof of this
could we point to than the reproaches incessantly
addressed by the Debats to the Government, for not
having consented. to the much-solicited intervention
during the Ministry of Count Toreno ? Even in the
article to which the papers before us reply, the pre-
sent posture of affairs, which the Debats looks upon
as nearly desperate, is entirely ascribed to the refusal of
the French G overnment to interfere. In its article of Tues-
day, however, that paper acknowledges that the time for
interference has now passed, " for It would be ridiculous,"
it says, to think of taking part against everybody, as we
should have to do, under present circumstances in Spain.
The Debats despairs that M. Mendizabal will suc-
ceed in restoring order in Spain, and deplores what it
; conceives his weakness in having made concessions to
the Juntas, instead of meeting them with energetic
measures. The other papers express, on the contrary,
the firmest conviction that M. Mendizabal will suc-
ceed in restoring order, and praise his good sense in
having met the wishes of the Juntas, instead of plung-
ing the whole country into civil war, as he would have
done had he persisted in the absurd course adopted
by his predecessor, Count Toreno. What energetic
measures could, in fact, M. Mendizabal have recourse
to, supposing even that he had been so inclined ? had
he an army of 100,000 men to send against the factious?
A smaller one would have been of no avail in a country
up in arms against the Government, and having besides
to contend against the northern provinces, in obstinate
'rebellion in favour of the Pretender to the crown. The
few regiments doing duty in Madrid could not be
spared for any such purpose ; even if they could, the
consequenCes of sending them against any of the armed
juntas would infallibly hare been twofold ; in the first
place, the troops would have sided with the insurgents
instead of fighting against them ; and in the second
place, they would have left the people of Madrid free
to rise against the Government, as wouldmost certainly
}lager been clone had the capital' remained without any
military garrison at all. And, after all, what disgrace
could there be in yielding to the unanimous voice of the
people of Spain ? Was there any thing unreasonable
in their demands ? Did these go beyond the regulation
of monasteries and the appropriation to the State
of much of their immense, and to them, useless,
wealth ; the establishment of a Constitution of
which individual liberty, the freedom of the press, an..l
the reign of laws formed by real represent;dives
of the people, should be the • l
principal
abases ; and,
finally, energetic measures for driving Don Carlos out
of Spain, and putting down Carlism effectually ? A
patriotic IVlirtister could not treat such just and mode-
rate demands otherwise than M. Mendizabal has done,
even if he had had 100,000 faithful troops at his dis-
posal : if he had acted as the Mats regrets that M.
Mendizabal has not, he would have been worthy of
the severest punishment attached to the crime of high
treason. The ill humour exhibited of late in the
Journal des D'ebats against M. Mendizabal probably
does not arise from any real conviction that the course
he has adopted since his arrival in Madrid is not the
proper one, so much as because he is not a •likely man
to take advice from and act under the influence of the
Doctrinaire Ministers of France. The situation of
M. de Rayneval in Madrid has undergone a serious
change. lie is no longer the chief counsel, and the
souffiv-42ileur of the Prime Minister of Spain, as lie
had accustomed himself to be under the Administra-
tion of Martinez de la Rosa, and of Toreno espe-
cially. M. de Rayneval, and his friends of the D'ibats,
therefore think that it is all over with Spain. To go
on under a Prime Minister who is resolved to see
things with his own eyes, and to act according to his
own best judgment, appears a monstrous deviation
from the most proper path to the would-be interlopers
of the French Doctrinaire generation I Besides, M.
Mendizabal labours under the reproach of having
spent many years of his life in England, where he is
Universally respected, That such a man cannot hint