The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-02 00:00:00

we fling at them with scorn their infamous in•
sinuation that the patriotic Sovereign of the
empire sanctions their proceedings.— Times.
We are happy to perceive that the press is
not silent on the sufferings and merits of the
poor Spanish refugees. A short pamphlet,
signed " Civis," and addressed to the inhabi-
tants of the town and county of Leicester, re-
commends a subscription for their relief, and
paints in feeling language the claims of these
exiles to the favour and compassion of the
people of England. To say that there is no new
argument advanced upon this interesting subject
by the author, is no disparagement either of the
excellence of his purpose, or of the zeal and
talent exhibited in his address. The cause and
miseries of the Spanish patriots are too familiar
to the minds of Englishmen, to need being
illustrated by any novelty of observation ; but as
it may rouse the attention of those who, without
being ignorant of their ditties, occasionally slum-
ber over them, to see the manner in which it is
now proposed to exercise the public beneficence
in favour of these unhappy foreigners, we will
quote the concluding page or two of this little
pamphlet.
" Even were we to admit that they (the
Spaniards) were mistaken as politicians, we could
not deny our respect and sympathy to their ho-
nourable conduct as private men, and their dreadful
reverse of fortune. The task recommended to us
by the most elevated functionaries of the realm, is
the, more incumbent on all who have any influence
over public opinion, after the numberless proofs that
have been given by the inhabitants of our town and
county, that their hearts are ever responsive to the
call of charity and benevolence. Our hospitable
and high-spirited nobility and gentry will he prompt
to come forward as they have been ever wont to do
on such occasions, when they know for whom it is
that their good feelings are sought to be interested.
They will appreciate the unmerited misfortunes of
those who, born like themselves, and accustomed to
affluence, are now perishing at the doors of their
London mansions—for they would rather perish than
beg—and, such is their national pride of character,
are content to leave, almost without complaint, their
cause to God, and their justification to futurity,
when they shall have found that home in a foreign
grave, " where the wicked cease from troubling, and
where the weary are at rest." Cut off from all they
hold dear upon earth, their only hope, after heaven,
is in England ; for Ferdinand, still hating those
whom he has injured—hydropical with the blood
and tears of his subjects, and exasperated by the
escape of Ms victim-benefactors, on pain of death,
prohibits. even communication between them and the
friends they have left behind. The clergymen and
tradesmen of London and its vicinity have borne
their full share in the burden of humanity : the for-
mer have exerted themselves zealously and success-
fully in their respective churches. and parishes—with
the latter the very name of a Spaniard is sufficient
to reduce the fair price of any article in their shop,
and even to obtain, in some instances, the neces-
saries of life gratis. Our clergy will doubtless fol-
low the pious example of their brethren. No re-
ligious distinction will induce them to refuse to do
for Christians what they did in 1826 for the unen-
lightened Africans, in a way so worthy of their
sacred calling. They will not deny that aid to the
emigrants of an ally, which they formerly gave to
those of a hostile nation, at a time when its rulers
refused quarter to our soldiers, and threatened our
Mores with all the horrors of invasion. Several of
our most respectable and independent tradesmen
have already expressed an anxious wish for an op-
portunityto contribute proportionably to their means,
to arty fund or subscription for the Spanish Re-
fugees. Our fair fellow-townswomen, and the
tubes of the county, will be most admirable auxi-
jiaries in a cause so peculiarly interesting and con-
genial to the feelings of their sex and station—the
cause of the. desolate and oppressed, of the father-
less children and widow.' I will answer for the
goodwill of the working classes, whose own hard
condition has taught them to feel for the wants of
others ; and we know that the poor man's mite is as
acceptable in the eyes of Him whose religion is
Amity, as. the most splendid gifts of those can be who
are clothed in purple and fine linen, and fare sumptu-
ously every day.' Their sympathy is all they can be
expected to bestow ; but it will be an indelible dis-
grace to the leaders of the liberal party, if they
suffer to 'die, like the beasts that perish, these pa-
triots who have staked their all for posterity; and
if they refuse their powerful help at so eventful and
critical a moment to the heroes and martyrs of that
generous cause which they profess to love. It will
he easy to determine the best means to be adopted
in furtherance of the object of the London Com-
anittee—their zeal, and that of .many charitable in-
dividuals who have sent contributions from all parts
of the country, will, I fear, again be disappointed,
if not followed up by some general demonstration of
the public feeling on the subject ;' as, for instance,
by the appointment of a Provincial Committee, or
by making amusement subservient to benevolence,
and consecrating the profits of a ball, bazaar, or fes-
tival, to a cause so justly anti universally popular.
The cravings of cold and hunger admit of no delay—
let us save from a situation amongst us which is a
'standing national reproach, the flower and elite of
Spain—whose freedbrit and prosperity it is our inte-
rest to encourage, were it only from political and
commercial motives. Though charity begins, it
does not end, at home ; and after due provision for
our own sick poor, and those who have the more
immediate claims ❑pon us, we are called upon by
every precept of Christianity, to extend our suc-
Aour, and to do as we wortld be done by to these
hapless exiles--the most honest of our'Allies. It is
partly with a view of inducing abler and more influ-
ential pens to advocate this cause, that I venture to
enter upon it, and entreat your favourable considera-
tion towards it."

Our own conviction upon the subject has
long
been, that it is the bounden duty of Go-
vernment to provide for all the Spanish exiles
from the public treasury. Two or three good
sinecures would cover the whole sum required.—_.

Ibid.

The excitement in Ireland at the present mo_
merit amounts almost to frenzy. We refer our
readers for a specimen to a report, copied from
the Dublin Evenang Mail, of a meeting of the
Protestants of the county of Tyrone on Friday
last. One of the speakers, the Rev. Mr. Hor-
ner, whose speech was rapturously applauded,
-iees, in his mind's eve, that consummation so
devoutly wished for 1-)y all good Ascendancy men
in Ireland—a Catholic rebellion—and actually

revels in the anticipation of the eDmplete exter-
mination of the mere Irish. But let ig,:hear this

Minister of a religiOn of Mercy speakkfor
Now shall the scenes be described,
when those atrocities are required by a numerous
and irritated and a triumphant host ?—(Loud
cheers.)—l can conceive, Sir, that all that is
recorded of past severities shall be light compared
with what may .their be inflicted ; I conceive
that even the alternative of Connaught may not
be left as a refuge for the a
loose to fugitives,(cheors)—
ino-
but that an zndtgnant nation, given
i
its resentment, and measuring punishment only
by provocation, may rid the country of them
altogether, and resort?itself
~fron,
the cruel
necessity qfchastising them again!--(Cheers.)"
Cheering at the idea of exterminating seven
millions of people, and leaving not even a
coiner of their land for a refuge
.to them !
cheering/A the idea of a massacre, in extent far
beyond anything the world has ever yet heard
of! U the savages ! But they are the wok
pier handle, We have made both Catholics and