The Sun.
London, England, 1826-12-21 00:00:00

pyre. Eisl sad jot he obliged la spite of ourselves to take* part lea
the matte. ; Unfortunately it no longer depends on the Minister
to seettriNus that mournful peace. Fortune has chained us in the
Peninsula. We most run from the field of our triumphs. The
Cabinet fehich feels that such measures cannot be imposed on
our troops, unless to lead them' against. the enemy, thinks to re.
move all; contrary ehances,, by autisting all the wiiiiies of .Great
Britain. 1 But supposing that our secret influence permitted us to
iaek tido refuge, there is great doubt of our security in that su-
baltern
character. Those were combinations calculaWsl far •aeedi-
tion of a few houri. There is nitie—thera is entire war. Spain
has invaded Portugal : it will he invaded. It has cast a rsuln-
tion on that kingdom. It wished M see fulfilled the promises of
the Marquess of Chaves ; It.: will see thou ofisrinafuwej.Eug- '
lead must . oppose :Spaniards to Spaniards-41v to B.‘„ Is it
iitppose4 that its. moderation can ;arrest the refugee* on the put
of the Cprtes on the Portugueseirontier ?a.--A field of buds knows '
no frontiers, The Erigliela Cabins cannot forbid the unfortu-_,
nate,,wlthout coentry, to, fight for themselves, :when they will
tight for it ; cud without the inevitable movement of proecritted '
armies, there is something else which will draw diem into a pp,
longed cowed, on the:soil of their country ; it is the eluteselutesye* '‘ ,
-
we have seen pus. The Councils which hive governed „Spaiii '
are those, by the aid of which the conflag.ration is aprOdt , . _ • ,
• Here, the veil, falls r the chancei of the Ifiture present ;Main-',l
selVes in all their truth. What shall wade then? Always the
same answer. Allies of the Catnarills, we shall recommence the
attempting, to give life to its rrgiroe of barherous blunds.; or
allies of generous ideas, we shall toes ourselves in effort!, to pro-,
duce a constitutional reeolution, destined thus to deceive ell Inir:
efforts-t-to go beyond all our wishes. Finally, perhaps, thefeals;
a middle party out of it exists; we shall endeavour to discover at,
we shall know how to tempt it. The Ministry, in order to Sod else
sooner; the fortunate calm, which 'flees from them, will do their'
utmost, to secure at the same time the triumph of the Poittigneee
Constitution sod Spartish absolutiiim. They will put in the Offler
1 the Day of our .soldiers, hatred of the Charters at the sources
the Tagus, affection for the Charters at its trio utli They will
e ceive that they can thus conciliate all interests, except ir
the n-
timid &pity and the rights of humanity, Whicleihi.not calculetes'-'
xt
Combating under the English atariduish, the Priringtieu in tise
pay of the Army of the Faith, how can we manage ter repular
without the bloWs.are confoundell, the Constitutional Spaniards
enrolled in the English ranks? All this is mad—all this is im-
possiblo—and,yet it is, highly probeblt. '
' In the mean time, will England confine her victory to Portugal,
end will she be disposed to do so ? If she neither ran nor will,
What will happen? Cod knows! One thing alone it is easy to
foresee, and that is, that another hand than that of Prance will fix
the destiny of the people of the Peninsula, and after all that bite.
mead of late years, we ought really to felicitate them an account
of this! But we, ourselves! the honour of our'eourstry ! Minis-
ters of the King, what have you done with it? • .
Whether we quit the 'Peninsula or remain there, our. glory is;
equally compromised. If we adhere to the deeiralshe elliance,,of
England, we deliver over Spain to her; we fly from her standards.
if the war produces contacts, collisions innumerable, we Sian us
the world on fire; and as Mr. Canning has declared in tlicHouse
of Commons, Lurope may expect the most frightful results.
Thus we have made of our policy an inextricable labyrinth,: a
bloody chaos. The Ministry can no longer do anything for, the ,
salvation of Spain, or for the peace of France. We are at the
mercy of fortune. She may dispose of us; she may throW us
at the mercy of the breeze into Monarchies' or Liberty, into the
old errors of the Holy Alliance or the vassalage of England.' Our
position is so else, so complicated, so full of difficulties without
end, of perils . without profit and without glory,
:that there its
wherewith to inspire all that is not French with much joy or
much compassion.
Hence, see horn we are spoken of at Westminster. All the
speech of Mr. Canning, in what enrift,l'M us, may be reduced fu
these terms:-.-" People are mistaken respecting the (welliesion
of Spain by the French.' We have allowed them to penetrate
into it, in order to let them entangle themselves in their blunders.
We liaVe allowed them to make good their quarters there, because
their strength, their wealth, their consideration, are exhausted
.by this bleeding wound. She burns to quit her deplorable pout.
But her Chiefs are so, deficient in ability that they are struggling.
el the bloody talkie,' .Without power to extricate thenutelvat lima
it. The day,'hOttititert will come when it will please ue to allow
the French atanii.rils 'to withdraw. Fur to remain there iti ,
spite of us, would -he to draw down on their heads afforiod
punishment." .
..
Such is the position' in which the Ministry have, placed. na,,in
the judgment of the world. And yet these Juttettals reßock,ita ~
all simplicity, the superb accounts, in testimony of the imettla
deuce which the British Cabinet repose. in ours, and of the
sincere alliance which unites the two Crowns i What States-
-1 men thine are who boast as of .4 triumph of the irony, of
shall ota'sasy menaces, of the threiguer—who bout of them aco,
sure means of keeping up the public funds—who console them.
wives with , the immcuse depression of the national. considerit;;
Min, if they can avoid that of the funds I What an alliance is
that, iii which one of the two coutracting parties acts in such
a mintier, and holds such language ! To believe that there is
in this molter for security, and guaranto of rept**, would
be a strange error. It is, its those who provoke it, an additional
blunder and wrong. Let us assure ouraelves that the King and
. the Chambers will do themselves justice. The hour of public
conscience taking vengeance will at !WI/tit come. There is a
limit to the patience of the throne ; and where should we be, if,
after having tormented our interior security, troubled the course
of our pl'at'eful prosperity, lost in subversive squabbles years
Which Providence gave us to draw front them wealth, power, sta.
bility—our glory could even be shattered with impunity ! For-
tunately, glory is the loolv ark With the French.
One alone of our Ministers ran alone contemplate with awn/ ;
froid his works :we mean the Count tie Corbiere. Ile has given .
a proof of possessing as much pad senses as the three Oppositions _
and all France. If he has for so long a time set only two masons
to work at the triumphal arch, it is, undoubtedly because he
judged that the war of 113519 was not terminated.

The report is in general circulation that the order has been dis-
patched for the return to Franee of the troops whhh we have lone
kept at Madrid, and of which . the number is nt.t large enough to
maintain, whatever may happen, the tranquillity of a capital,
ruled by the party which has atiOrded military aid to the Portit•.
guese refugees. This order is not applicable to the trixies, we
have at Barcelona and Cadiz; and the cause of this diflirence is
obvious.

(From the Journal dee Debars of Tuesday.)
pARIN, DEv. IB.—Ws said the Ministerial policy wed with
so inischelcill, that it ended with recoiling upon the Continent
the power of England, a lamentable fault, which malls that
which cotild effet.t in the treaties of Vienna and NOS, a kind of
counterpoise to the prejudices raised against France by thetie tree-
ties--.-a fault for which the Contiesental powers will tiev'er ce.l4e
hereafter to reproach that deplorable administration that ()isolates
France. Without doubt, it would not be neceseary to lieteit
to these powers in every thing which credit injUre the liberty or
the honour of our country ; but it would be a rrplirks* fitly
to think °timely's instil:iris' on the Continent. and to place Out.
selves in such a situation that the instiko raid continental polity
would have equal reason to complain of us. Let us triarcli neither
behind Mr. Canning nor M. Metternich.
We lobed if it were possible for us to remain with ets
little, force in Spain, while England occupied the cuiriiiy arid Ilia
ports of .Portugal with its hoops and its vessels'? Five thousand
English have landed at Lisbon, Among theft trdopa are all the
infantry regiments of the guard of George IV, and tile corps of
OaValty) which anfitninrem the plan of a permanent occupation,
and of little import:in, c could one foresee the fortuitous cate••uf.pa
military movement in the event of civil war. Though peel*
may lie very desirable, cannot one say, as Mr. Canning haw mitts
that there are two positions when people are obliged so 'hove
recourse to artna—namely, when national honour and puhlio
are yompromieed." If we hail no troops in Spain, Au wiF
oPtltt;°annyofimPmoretduigatael' by the
but the prelewouultisti be
iihnrh"hinstriek'lltilt",
in the Peninsula enniphcates the question, anti ottnPita titS
minds of all.

This is the moment at which the
efficiency of an arniy up-
pears to be diminished. The Prussians. say they, "ftaPY'vithtlitkia
in Prance. Our frontiers fall into rithis ; but to-day let tit attand
to Spain.
it canna be denied that the movement of Portuguese refugees
took :pito.e with the ari:ol;n tiot, of, that party which our oasts
catned to triumph spa,s. 't fiCle maeses,-eo ungoveruabliftemid
whi,.l, follow tile inipulees of those who direct them, without
obeying iv] authoelty, hold the Engliah in horror: The Spanish
Govt,„„tieot wife no regard for that nation; Atiti:Abe
l .lwoen the '":ittlniwh Republics by Orgtt Britain, ia a fia*l,
c
ar,4l 141,kiitig wound in the bosom of,every Spaniard, whatever
tv the class arid politics' to which lie heloup.
while F.ttitiarul openly declares tie her ally, and. felicitates tia.in.
having done, conjointly with her, every thing which was, in our
power to prevent the invasion of the Marquis tie Chaves,with what
eye must we be looked at in Spaio?, If a war should arise, not
lertween us and Engliol, bot between Spain and, poytugal,,aud if
the English, the hitter to preserve the peace at the furetiqtif-POr-
tugal, should place garriunisim the frontiers of:Spiin, lit ii hat a
mittlatitili would We fins) tairgelcet,`,,

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