The Sun.
London, England, 1821-10-08 00:00:00

oscillations"—a -sign of health in a free.
people, or serving to shew the public virtues
which animate the majority of Spaniards.—
There was some trilling about the trans-
marine piovinces, and a specks of official
astonishment discovered that their deputies
had not yet arrived at Madrid: It was al-
lowed' on the Aid that substitutes, should be
suffered to sit for the representatives of the
Phijippines and of Peru, but of none other of the
colonies. Some fears of the plague are said to
have disturbed the public mind of Madrid, and
to have contributed in some degree to a suspen-
sion of the political agitation and animosity which
had been observable before the arrival of the
melancholy reports from Barcelona. At Lisbon
there took place a grand ceremony on the 15th
of September. The occasion was the laying the
first stone of a monument to be erected in honour
of the Constitution. The King attended, but it
is observed that his Majesty did not take a lively
share in the general expressions of gladness and
triumph which proceeded from the great body of
his subjects.

[BRITISH PitESS.]
We on Saturday announced, that the new
Lord Mayor of Dublin had commenced his reign
by a violation of the peace effected under the
auspices of the King, during his late gracious
visit to that city. It is some consolation to learn
that his Lordship's exertions to resume the torch
of discord has not been seconded by his Mends
in office. At the Sheriff's dinner, on Tuesday,
an application was made to him to give the
offensive toast, which he declined in the most
prompt and decided manner, declaring that he
would neither propose a toast, nor allow any
other person to propose one which was not con-
tained in his list.

SIR. ROBERT WILSON.

(From The British Monitor of yesterday.)

On Friday a meeting was held at Southwark, for the purpose
of raising a subscription for Sir ROBERT WiLsosr, who, how-
ever, wishes to decline becoming a pensioned representative in
Parliament ; the gallant General forgets that the late Mr. Fox
was also for many years a pensioned Representative. It is far
froin my intention to say one word more than is necessary about
Sir ROBERT, as we are old acquaintances ; and I cannot shake
'a man by the hand, and immediately after sit down and write
against him. Were I capable of doing so, I should deserve to
be hunted out of society. But I cannot, consistently with my
public duty, pass over Sir ROBERT'S inconsistencies; and in
reviewing them; it will be necessary to contrast his past honour-
able and manly conduct with his present political career. Sir
ItonEnT has been in the army nearly thirty years, and had al-
ways conducted himself with honour, and at the same time gave
proofs of much ability. During the Peace of Amiens he wrote
a book on the Egyptian Expedition, •in which he stated some
well-known disgusting facts respecting BUONaPARTE. 4rhe
statements of Sir ROBERT wore afterwards confirmed by seve-
ral
other writers, who visited Egypt many years after. Nay'
Buo-sAratotE and BERTHIER have confirmed it in several of-
ficial letters to the Directory, which appear in a very volumi-
nous work, entitled " Correspondence ioedite de BuonaParte,"
from which I have occasionally given extracts in this Pa-
per. Not many years after the rupture of the Peace of Amiens,
we find Sir ROBERT most honourably employed in the
diplomatic career, and attached to the Embassy ofiLord
HUTCHINSON at- lir head-quarters of the Russian Em-
peror, then at war with France.—[Some strange anecdotes con-
nected with that Embasiy came to my knowledge when I was
at NAPOLEON'S head-quarters at that period, but which I must
decline stating for the present.] 'Mien the war was under-
taken by this Country to assist the Spaniards against BUONA-
PARTE we find Sir ROBERT actively employed, and though
he did not command English troops, he, nevertheless, always
led his legion, which consisted of Portuguese, in English-pay,
where his services were required. Even at the battle of Tale-
' vera the dispatches of the gallant Commander sore testimony
of Sir ROBERT'S exertions. In consequence of an expression
contained iu those dispatches, which displeased Sir ROBERT,
!he quitted the Peninsida, and on his return home he was ap-
pointed Aid-de-Camp to the late King. Soon after, our Noble
Secretary for Foreign Affairs conceiving a high opinion of the
diplomatic talents of Six, ROBERT, attached him to the Em-
bassy at Constantinople. But before he got there, Russia was
at war with France, and Ministers immediately sent an ex-
press to overtake Sir ROBERT, ordering him to proceed imme-
diately to the Russian head-quarters Ile was present at the
battle of Borodino, and was at Moscow with Count RosTor-
sc uric; he assisted him in his plans for burning that city, for which
he received much abuse from BE OxapanT E, in the 23d Bulletin,
dated from Moscow. During the disastrous retreat of the French,
Sir ROBERT was valiantly combating by the side of the Hetman
PLATOFF, and the gallant veteran told me that Sir ROBERT
never once quitted him from Moscow to Wilna.* In the sub-
sequent campaign, Sir ROBE nT was still employed as British
Commissioner at the head-quarters of the Allied Sovereigns.
However, soon after the downfall of NAPOLEON, to the asto-
nishment of all Sir ROBERT'S friends, we find him enlisting un-
der the banners of opposition, thereby condemning his own
conduct and principles ; for if the conduct of Ministers was so
bad as it is now represented by him, why did he serve them ?
! Nay, why did he., quit his .military career; and accept of!rt di-
' plomatic mission e All this time, till the commencement of
the year 1814, we find, Sit-Tour:as: going hand in hand with
Ministers, but et the end of that very year, these Ministers he.:
I came the objects of his dislike and aversion. Ever since that
period we find him retrograding. His conduct respecting La-
VALETTE, although a gallant and humane action in private
life, was nevertheless highly criminal in the situation of Sir Ro-
BERT WILSON, for having, as a British officer, lent a man
convicted of High Treason his regimentals, and procured a pass-
port surreptitiously from our Ambassador. Every one then ex-
pected that our Sovereign wiruld have done that which he has
now done; but his only punishment was a public reprimand.—
Nay, even. tithing the period when he was confined in France,
Sir ROBERT'S family was provided for by the generosity of his
PRESENT MaJEsTst, according to Sir ROBERT'S own state-
mtmt. Dow did he -thew his gratitude ? By deserting his new
associates ? (who, by the by, will never sincerely love Sir RO-
BERT, because he served his country and wrote against Buo-
NAPARTE.) Oh no ! quite the contrary, as from that period he
became the constant, ardent, and diligent champion and leader
of all the boutte leper not only of England but of all
ceannies. In return for the present Kisto's bounty, he
became the Champion too, of his bitterest foe—the late QUEEN'
His conduct at her funeral was censured even by some of his
best friends. Sir ROBERT, notwithstanding all his freaks, was
too much petted by Ministers; to have continued overlooking
them might have produced fatal consequences for the British
Military service ; as there is is no instance of an English Ge-
acting in the way Sir ROBERT did at the QUEEN'S
funeral. lam sorry my duty compels me to say thus much,
but-the inconsistencies of Sir ROBERT I could not pass over
in silence, especially as it is evident, from the whole tenor of
Sir RonEns:'s conduct, that his hostility to Ministers is nothing
more than a personal and private pique, and consequently the
public—even his Southwark constituents, have no right at all
to take up the quarrel.—For if Sir II onEnT acted with and
supported Ministers till 1814, surely their public conduct since,
could not have been so wicked and corrupt as to induce Sir
.ROBERT to dispintinue his support.