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merits made in the Paris Papers upon this subject'
be correct, we cannot doubt the correctness of
the King's opinion; -but if the urging of a false
pretence deceive, as no doubt it has, the far greater
part of those who repeat the clamour against tht
Ministers, it would be wise in the King-to strip
the conspirators of this pretence, which is the
right arm of their strength, and by withdrawing
his confidence from the present Ministers, conciliate
the confidence of the great mass of his subjects,who
are supposed to be now deluded. The Ministers
themselves seem to entertain the same opinion, for
we are assured that on the morning of the 6th inst.
they in a body offered their resignations to the
King. They urged the necessity of the measure
to his Majesty, and it would seem that a discus-
sion of some length took place between the King
and the Ministers. The conversation, however,
was terminated by his Majesty rising from his
chair with great warmth, and positively com-
manding them individually to maintain his post.

THE LON-DdiNt JOWINALS:

DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING FATEILS
December 21.

[HORNING POST.]
French Papers to the 18th inst. have reached
us. The Censors seem to have already suspend-
ed their labours, for not one of those numerous
blanks which hitherto gaped ominously on almost
every page of the Parisian journals, is at this mo:
meat visible. They perhaps retired at the same
time as their colleagues from office, and had no
successor appointed by the Ultras, who disdain
to avail themselves of the last services of an ex-
piring law, which they have no intention of
re-
newing.
This virtual restoration of the liberty
of the Press has not yet led to the expression of
any party violence, and from the general mode-
ration of tone which prevails, it is easy to per-.
ceive that all sides are now resting on their oars,
unwilling perhaps to bestow commendation, but
unable to find cause for opposition and blame.
-it appears by a semi-official article in a declared. .
-Ultra Journal, that the new Ministers intend to
act as we had anticipated, and to substitute laws
for punishing the Offences of the Press, instead of
those which prevented publication. The most
interesting intelligence contained in theSe Papers
is that which relates to the events in Spain. .1f
it be 'correct in all its details, the crisis of the
Spanish Monarchy is come. Like its transatlan-
tic possessions, the whole kingdom seems now
falling in pieces, and ready to sub-divide itself
into petty ,Republics or States, according to the
disposition of the people in the various provinces,
.cr theerambition of their leaders. Mina appears
already to have rendered 'himself - independent in
• Galicia ; and as he possesses the love and confi-
dence of a large portion of the army, we should.
not be surprised to find that he aimed at more
extended empire. The King, who has returned
to Madrid, seems at last fully alive to the dangers
of his situation, and resolved to meet them with
a manliness of spirit, which, though it may be
too late to conquer them, may at least produce a
struggle worthy of a Monarch, and, if he should
fall, the fall of a hero. Circumstances have se-
verely tried the unhappy Ferdinand ; and how-
ever great the errorsof his former course may have
been, it.is impoisible not to feel compassion for
" a Sovereign docimed to see empire departing
gradually from him, and the throne becoming the
first step tAtlie scaffold.

[NEW TI3I Es.]
The French Funds appear to indicate not the
smallest degree of that alarm which has for years
been predicted as the necessary consequence of
elevating the Royalists to power; on the contrary,
public credit is rather improved than deteriorated
by the nomination of M. de Villele to the, Minis-
try of Finance; which, we confess, is more than
we expected ; because the reputation of his pre-
decessor, M. Roy, as a Financier, was deserv-
edly great ; and the removal of a man of known
talent from any office is apt to be followed by at
least a temporary want of confidence in
hisbim-
mediate successor. The present circumstances
then afford a strong proof that the Constitutional
Royalists, as a Party, are regarded in France
very differently from the way in whiCh they 'Ave
been represented here : their views and interests
are neither in fact, nor in the opinion of the in-
fluential part of society, opposed to the views and,
interests of the people.—lt may perhaps be not
uninteresting at the present moment to retrace
the snccessive changes which have taken place in
the political arrangements of France since the
downfall of Buonaparte. Even before that
event, we had taken one view of the Party
divisions of that country, from which view we
have never found occasion to vary. It has
indeed been made matter of private remonstrance
and of public charge against us, that neither in-
terest nor influence could bend us from our opi-

nions on this subject, or induce us to hold a lan-
guage to the public which in our own consciences
we were convinced was alike false and pernicious.

.2.,r*o4ism.;G HERALD.]

This, to be.sure, does not constitute a very heivy
charge on our integrity ; but we are well aware
that,j4,may subject us to the imputation of ob-
stinacy, unless we can offer some satisfactory ex-
planation of our reasons for dissenting from so
many wise and grave authorities. We appeal
then in the first instance to the event. We pre-
dicted the downfall of Buonaparte, and he fell.
We predicted the downfall of Fondle, and he
fell. We predicted the downfall of Decaze, and
he fell. in saying this, we lay claim to no
greater sagacity than belongs to any other indi-
vidual ; but we do lay claim to the merit, if such
it be, of long, laborious, and patient investiga-

Monday's Paris
_Papers are chiefly taken up
with pretended private letters from Spain, which
describe that 'country as on the eve of a flesh
revolution.
,We repeat our conviction that these
accounts are for the ,most part fabrications. At
the same time it is evident that a great ftrinent
.reigns at Cadiz and Corunna. By the. last ac-
,counts Gen. Mina had been dismissed from his
command and ordered-into- exile, and was about to
"obey the order, when the populace prevented his
departure. The'King, however, and the Royal
Family, it is said, were received at Madrid with
great enthusiastn,.on theirseturn from the Escurial.
41e is made to say, in these private letters that
his revolted subjects were preparing to dispose
of him as the French did of Louis XVI., but
that, unlike that,Prince,„ be should die sword in
band at the head of his.. guards." The person
who put this absurd speech into the mouth of
Ferdinand' had certainly" no regard in his compo-
sition to what ..are called the dramatic probabi-
lities. .At the same time,' that unhappy Sove-
reign, whether through his fatilt,. or that of his
subjects, is in. an afflictiug, and even perilous, si-
tuation. The• object of the discontented, pro-
-7.leSsedly, is to displace the present, and restore the
late Ministry, which contained persons of known
Talet.atidttationalconfidence. The perinanent de-
Ptriation,Of the .Cortes has privately advised the
King todisrniS'shis present Cabinet. Butthis he re-
::uses to dp, until the full Cortes shall have come
. l,t resolution on the conduct of the Ministers.
Thls stibject was to be discussed on the 7th, the
after„the date of the last -.accounts. In the
.)text, therefore, we may:expect some interesting
„netv.s,: Four 'of the Ministers are particularly
;':oahn:OicionS. Some of• the French " liberal", Jour-
. nets describe these as Judges tinder the despotic
• Governinent; and still preserving the same cha-
,. .
StActer tor insolence and, Corruption, for which the
;tribunals were notorious. At all events, this
. Admiasfration has proved itself so utterly in-
. coippetent to enforCe .own •authority and that
....-Orthe laws, that -it should have made its retreat

ton : and we know that our sources of informa

tion have been purer than those on which most
other persons have relied. It is a lamentable

truth that from the commencement of the Revo-
lution to the present hour, most of the political
agents, most of the private correspondents of
newspapers, most of the writers of travels and
memoirs on France, have been either ignorant or
unprincipled. A regular manufactory of delusion
has been carried on, against which it was imposr
s&to guard, but by a degree of exertion, which
fetTtliought the subject deserved.

[THE TIMES.]

The Dublin Papers of Tuesday last announce
the actual opening of the Special Commissions at
Limerick—(see TIIE SUN of yesterday)—on, the
15th instant, with a detail of the formalities
which attended that proceeding. The two
Knights of the Shire were on the County Grand
Jury. The foreman of the City Grand Jury
was the lion. J. Vereker; and in each list are
to be found the names of many of the princiyal
families in that quarter of the kingdom. Baron
M'Clelland delivered the charge in the County
Court, reciting and explaining the provisions of
the Whiteboy Act of 1776 ; and of the Riot
Act which was passed by the Irish Parliament
in the 9.7 th of his late Majesty. The Learned
Judge recommended it to the Magistrates,. to ar-
rest any persons who might be in the secret of
the insurgents ; whom also the Magistrates were
bound to swear, and on their refusal to swear,
to commit them to prison. He further advised,
that all " suspicious" persons roving about,
and strangers in, tile country, and " likely
to diffuse the wicked spirit" now afloat,
should be called upon to give ball, and

• • • ' [BRITISH- PRESSM
I%e riaular receipt of 'the Paris 'Papers" of
Morxday last has added .but little to.the informa-
tion which 'we had previmisly collected from the
arrivalS,.of , The Moniteur of the same .day by

express,', The most important part of their con
tents reNfei to the, affairs of Spain -; but updi

In case of refusal committed until the next Assizes
These last enumerated acts of magisterial prero.

is.subject we must repeat the exception which
we have already taken to the truth of this in-
telligence.' from the palpable spirit; of .exagge-
sation that prevails throughout it. According
to the accounts now brought by the Paris Papers,
the revOlntiollaryspirit;
„or at"' least the feeling
of-opposition, .to the present Ministers, which
bad prompted Cadiz, Seville, and Corunna to
acts .of open" rebellion,
.haS likewise manifested
itself with.equal energy in Barcelona, Valladolid,
Pampeluna, Medina.:Sidotlia, and other places ;
so that the conspiracy, whatever may be its Ob.

gative and duty are strong indications, it must be
acknowledged, of dangerous times, and are mani-
festly such as must seek their justification in
cases of extreme necessity. The' number of pri-
soners for trial in the county gaol are 49, of
whom 4 are charged with murder, 13 with as-
sembling by night and housebreaking, e with
highway robbery, 2 with having arms and gun-
powder concealed,2administering unlawful oaths,
12 assaulting Crown witnesses, and 12 sundry
other offences. In the city of-Limerick there
are 24 for trial, of whom 3 are indicted capitally.

• . .
i
..‘ ject, presents strong evidence that t embraces a
very considerable portion of the whole kingdom.
The greater part of the reguiar army, and also of
the militia, are said to have declared against the
Ministers ;" and very forcible remonstrancest over-

We shall now have speedy means of ascertaining
what repressive power belongs to the criminal
law of Ireland, and how far the example of con-
dign punishment inflicted on the guilty will be ca-
pable of deterring others from an imitation of

_ .
stepping: in too'many instances the respect due to
the',Chief Magistrate, of the tation; have been
presented to the King, requiring him to yield to
the evident sense of te people, by dismissing the
, obnoxiois members of his Cabinet. The King
appears to be imPressed with the belief that the
chauge of the Ministersis but a pretence to conceal
the real object of the conspirators, and that the
expulsion of the Bourbons, and the subsequent

their crimes. If hunger and despair be the sti-
mulants which drive the whole population of an
Irish county •to midnight assemblages, and to
simultaneous seizures of arms, with which they
expect to carry by main force an improvement of
their own destitute condition, it is easy to talk
of reclaiming such a people by punishing some
for an example ; but it is not'easy to cure de-
spair by terror. It is evident that- to something

formation' of
,a federative republic, are the-pur- lin the nature of conciliation we must hdve re-
vtges•really sduglit to be attained: ' If the state- I course, if there is any rational prosp,ect cherished