The Sun.
London, England, 1821-10-26 00:00:00

TILE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY EXTRACTS FROM TIIE MORNING PAPERS,

October '26.
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[MORNING HERALD.]
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There are still most afflicting accounts from
Spain. Independently of the grief and alarm ex-
cited in Madrid by the authentic accounts from
Barcelona on the one side, and Malaga on the
other, the enemies of the present Government
circulate fabricated news of the bursting of the
contagion beyond the. sanitory lines, by which a
most wanton and inhuman shock was given to
the public mind. One rumour announced that
the distemper had passed from Catalonia into
Arragon, Murcia, and Valencia, and that the
inhabitants of those provinces were flying in all

directions to escape being bound w i thin the sanitory
• cordon, an imprisonment regarded with the ut-
most horror. The agitation upon the reception of
this news at Madrid was dreadful—comparable
.only to the state of mind in a crowded theatre
upon a cry of fire: The id;_a was that the flying
inhabitants would 'scatter the contagion over the
capital and the 'Whole kingdom. The French
medical men, who so generously devoted them-
selves to the interests of science and humanity,
had arrived at Barcelona, the chief seat of the
disease. Their arrival caused 'a
gleam of joy
over the wretched population. hey report
the number of deaths there of the yellow
•fever at 12,000. They arrived on the 9th,
sent off their despatches on the 10th- instant,
ind had already commenced their heroic mission.
We find repeated, under the date of Berlin, a.
rumour respecting an important proposal of the
Emperor of Russia, titer an interval of some
months. The report is, that his Russian Ma-
jesty' has proposed to the Allied Powers a vast
plan for the 're-establishment of the ancient
kingdom of Poland in its utmost integrity—
requiring at the same time, of coarse, that
Austria and Prussia should restore their re-
spective shares of that barbarously dismem-
bered nation. This appeared rather a singular

project on the part of Russia when first put
forth. The revival of it, however, is brought
more within the ordinary policy of that power
by the annexed statement, that the Emperor
Alexander requires, as an equivalent, the esta-
blishment of an Eastern Throne, occupied by a
Christian, and, of course, a Russian Prince.
The Cabinets, however, of England and Austria
insist upon the inviolability of the Turkish Em-
pire in Europe.

[MORNING tiIItONICLE.I
The Meeting at the:City of London Tavern
'was numerous and high-11 respectable, such as
the paramount importance of its subject de-
Inanded. The injustice which has called.fortb
this demonstration of feeling was, indeed, of so
glaring a nature, that there are few countries of
Europe in which the account of it has not been
received with surprise. The sound and inde-
pendent part of the People of England, by corn-
ing forward in this manner, to atone, as far as
they can, for the injustice committed by a Go-
vernment over which they. have, unfortunately
no controul, and which is controuled neither by-
law nor discretion, afford a proof that the recol-
lections of better times are not lost on them, and
that they are alive to what their duty demands
from them on so important an occasion. If pas-
sion were not always blind, we might wonder
why Ministers should have so causelessly thrown
this slur on the Army. They have at once de-
prived themselves of all the influence which the
supposed independence. of the Votes of Officers
might on any occasion give them.

[sionNING rosT.]
The .City Meeting, as it is called from the
place where it was held, rather than from the
company of which it. was composed,, took place
yesterday, for the purpose of recommending Sir
Robert. Wilson's case to the generosity of our
great commercial capitalists. Our readers Will
naturally suppose that a,City Meeting must have
been attended by men of weight and consequence
in the Metropolis itself---by the Merchants and
Bankers of the City—by the Leadinc, Men in
City.politics—in- short by. persons who would
'give such an assembly some share of character
'with the Country. What then must he their as-
tonishment whenthey shalt learn that the whole
charge of representing the
.City upon this occa-
sion fell upon the shoulders of honest Mr. Faye'',
.of Common Council notoriety! Without a single
helpmate from his own boon companions, was he
obliged to toil beneath a load, rather increased than
lightened by the presettce of Mr. Ifume, Mr. G.
Bennett,. Mr. Lambtou, and Dr. Lushington.—
Even Alderman WTood absolutely withheld the
benefit of his wisdom, the Knight of the Cause-
way being, no doubt, in search of fresh adven-
tures. Frcm whatever cause the absence of those
worthies may have originated, -we are-quite sure
that they will regret it upon reading the report ;
'of the 'proceedings. They haire true Alderrnanic 1
appetites- for the tit bits of sedition, and the most 1
torpid palate might have been stimulated by the
food whiCh this meeting supplied. With the
exception of Mr. Hume (who merely promised,
with a grave face, to prove in law that the King's
prerogative. gave his Majesty no power over
the officers of his Army !) the Gentlemen
whom we have enumerated thought proper,
to indulge tlAeir usual propensities to such
art extent, as implied. little less than utter,
conteMpt and defiance of all. law. No one
'indeed could ' expect that they would suffer
such a golden opportunity for libelling the Go-
.vernment of their country to he thrown away.
'But they have carried their andacity farther.
They --have no longer attacked the Monarch in
his advisers : they havo openly, bravely they
will perhaps call it,-waged war upon their Sove-
reign himself. It is to 64 his persecution and
tyranny " that they have chosen to ascribe the
late exercise of his Prerogative,- audit is now
.or him personally that they demand reparation
.and self-apasement ! ,

VHE
The conduct an result of yesterday's meeting
on the case of Sir R, Wilson were such as to