The Sun.
London, England, 1817-04-10 00:00:00

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.]

If not into a war of hands, we are getting Into
a war of words, mud) too hot, and troublesome
for quiet peapla. To-the South Americans, who
are not to be' satisfied without revolting against
their Mother State, we are indebted for this
luxury :' and truly, as if Atherica and insurgency
were convertible terms, never to be remembered
or mentioned asunder, each excites a sympathy-
for the other.—The season bath rather gone by
for the open profession of revolutiOnary.
pies : it is not exactly safe to do a, very great
deal more than insinuate and. recommend, and
hook them in, by some underhand contrivance : the
coalesced Monarchs, who have just put theta down
itj :Europe, cannot be very decently required to
.put them up elsewhere; 'to unfight their'OWn
triumphs, .or to unsettle their own crowns.—
Tbereforei• they are only requeStett- to spare the.
-snake SW" they have sciitched : when it has
'wriggled a little longer, and recovered a little more
yelj(1111,, they will he naked to receive it again into
bosoms. The southern sun will rethe Abe
•
rePtiii wonderfully
The-Insurgents want nothing but 'time. And it
is to be accorded them under the pretty, techni-
cal, independent, international, pretehce.of 'neu-
trality. Exactly so did the French Rebellion be.
gin to travel'uver those steps which the Spanish
Rebellion •.is" preparing to trace. The Powers
were solicited to be neutral. Neutrality brought
'intercourse—intercourse, recognition—recogni-
tion;amity—amity, alliance—alliance, assistance.
.•
,And so it progressed by degrees ; no two of which
'conic! perhaps: have been jumped over at Once ; but
each whereof led consecutively and inevitably to
•the other.

if the Sovereigns are not prepared for travel-
ling to. the end of this mischief, they had better
not set nut on the jottrney •

Neutrality may, to Le sure, help England to a
west
bitter retaliation. It may repay—rather, it
may revenge4—by a blow in the South the wound
thatemote herself so, deeply in the Nprth. But
the retaliatiou would be useless : it would be un-
just : it would be perilous. Site has seen the ar-
row which, was
.03)0 at her recoil into the ar-
cher's bosom : for leer own sake, therefore, she
will keep the peril of such another shaft in its

quiver.
There is nothing in theory so easy, or'in prac-
tice so difficult,„as neutrality. Whatever despotic
GoVerninents may do, free Stats, at least, cannot
closely observe it-. Often it is disguised hostility,.
defying opposition, and'eluding exclusion : more
injurious, and consequently more unjust than. that
open hostility,. which may .be vanquished, and
can be shut nut; which at least Call always be
resented. : Neither is this 'the smallest of its tnis•
chiefl, that it leaves the chance of victory untie-
ierthined, and encourages the• prolongation of
contest.

Laying.aside, however, abstract' principle. If
England stand entirely neutral between Spain and
her insurgents, she must look' on while the one
destroys the other. If she mediates, she must
dictate the terms of her mediation ; and it she
does not enforce its terms, her Mediation is use.
she at once interferes in the quarrel, site
utast at once declare her party. There is no mid-
, .11
Niint, between absolute neutrality and post
f k.
ItiVe:iuterfereilce.
vitNit' she must not indulge the Revolters with
tjllite autrality in their behalf which would lead to
actual warfare. England is bound by the law of
nations, antlstill.more by the law of honour, while
professing the neutrality of her State, not to permit
the activity of .bet subjects. 6110 cannot suffer
among them a trading adventure upon the profits
of a war, nor a factious speculation upon its con.
Acqueuees. Her nanufacturers are not to vend
asastance to Itebellion, neither are her demn-
ltdtpres to export it. England is to be at War)
I I
or at Peace, upon principle must not traffic

in c:rocr. S,!:e. must not put herself forward as a
mrcenary, whether for gain or fur malice.—
Really, we know not what character, Or what
name, the Queen of the Ocean.w'ould'henceforth
aetinire, it she descended from her proud etni-:
net= to peddle with insurgency ; to chaffer her
principles for bales of muslin or strips of land ; to
huxter her assistance for dues and duties to''
make an export and import bargain of that deci-
sion which bath concentrated all Europe against
Revolution, and struck down illegitimate Mlle.
No.—lt England must abandon her ancient and
honourable principle; let it, at least, be aban-
doned with the appearance of honour. Let not
the last remaining virtue—her, holdness—be cast
aside in the general dereliction. Let her be 16
Spain as in the Bellum Servile, which ended in
1783, Spain was to her : an open foe, though
an nnkind and an 'unwise one. But let her not
suffer every factious abettor of Rebellion, who
violates her own laws at home nr those of other
States abroad, to conspire the injury of her Allies
and 'of herself to speculate on the nurturing of
Treason In AmeriCa until it shall regain strength
enough to re-occupy Europe.
It is hard to be thus eternally exposing and
confuting the arguments of revolt, A single case
.can never establish a precedent against, principle
they should not therefore be. hashed and raked up
out of old addresses,' and resolutions, and mani-
festoes, which are as distinct from the present
question, as the North is from the. South.
COlony cannot acquire upon the colonized land
any other rights' than those which its members
possessed upon the parent soil, and carried out
with them. lirhatever rights the aboriginal na,
tive may retain, the emigrant Colonist cannot
invest`himself with their' aboriginal character.—
The Spaniard who desires such, must go.back to
Spun for their exercise :-a-he cannot assume
Mexican right upon Mexican • ground.--As well
might an English settler in Ireland kick against
England; and assume milesian:itidependence-. As
well might have---430t we will, urge the argu.
ruent no farther.

.
SUpplidio.l thiCri doloso.
For England to ally herself openly With the
Spanish Rev:oho s, were chiugerous : to abet
them privily, were disgraceful. Preferring, how-
ever, the danger to the disgrace,.
:We had rather
that". she sent 16 them an army of soldiers, than
an horde of refugees ; an expedition of- gentle-
men, rather than a banditti of outlaws. She
may be plagued with evil spirits at, home : but
her laws are—or aught to be—suf icieutly potent
to lay them in a circle of, her own describing.'
The domestic constimptioti bad enough., Pod
knows but it cannot justify the foreign expor-
tation. Republican France landed her maupaii
sujefr in South Wales :--•--England. has no right to
send her's to South America.

Itwas yetterday confidently asserted in the po-
litical -circle?. that lluorraeauTr. would shortly be
'removed from St., Helena ; and Malta was men
tionert as the place of his future abode. It was
added, that to effect this object the Emperor of
itusstA had very earnestly interested himself ;lint
our Own_information upon the subject warranty
us in pronouncing that thhr statement is Hot alto-
get her cotreet.--(ilforriing Nast.)
BEIGOTOi, APRIL 9.—The NMI! R4ORNT
returns "tor Carlton-house at the beginning of next
week, ESA Levee appointed. to be held onThurs-
day next; The 'PRINCE REGENT continues to
devote the greatest part of every afternoon to rid-
ing along the cliff., and about 'the town and
neighbourhootL • .
kTreasury warrant has, it is understood, been
issued tO'persOnS official situations otidee
Government of a thousand a year and upwards,:
recoerimending to them to relloquish, ,or to .stih-
.scribe, a tenth of their salaries for the use of. the
State,lu consideration of the. public distresses ;
and holding forth the example of the Lords of
the Treasury themselves, who have given up for
the present, or for a limited time, a tenth of the
stipend attached to their situations—
Tuesday afternoon, betueen four and' five
o'clock, a Gentleman, whose' name we under-
stand isTtYltNifß, arrived in Downing-street, in a
chaise and four, with dispatches from Constan-
tinople.' He formerly held a situation in the Fo-
reign Office. •
Two Couriers arrived, on Tuesday evening, at
nearly the same time, from the Duke of Wet.-
LINGTON last night dispatches were sent oti, in
answer to his Grace.

Lord CASTLE‘RiAGN had a relapse of, his indis-
position yesterday morning. Ills physician was
sent for express to his Lordship's seat, at Cray, in
Kent.

Viscount MELVILLE, and the Marti of Admi-
ralty, finished their 'inspection of. the Dock-yrird
at Pater„ nepr Milford, oh "4‘loothiy lase; • and the
following morning set off for Plymouth, to examine
thearsenal and breakwater there.
The oiler two intended Dukes are: said to be
the Marquisses of BLICKINGHAId3HIita and Colll4*
WArfLIS.. .
This' morning, at ten o'clock, at St. Jamea's
Church,- were married by the Bishop of Cut-
CURSTRO, CHARLES Earl 'of MARCH, eldest son
of the Duke of ItictistoND, to Lady CotaLtNE
PAGAT, eldest danghter. of the Marquis Of AN-
GLESEY.—The following are the • Relatives who
were present
The Duchesses of Richmond and Argyle,, I ha Marquis and
Marchioness of fluptley, the Countess ulliathorst, the La-
dies Lennox, the Ladies Paget, the Ladies Bathdrst, Lady
Berkeley, :lady Ann. Wyndham, Lady Sarah Bayly,
the Earl of Uxbridge, Lard George Lennox, .Lords,WilLadi
and Arthur Paget, Sir Arthur Paget, and the lion. Captain
Lady CAliOLt~if3 PAGE? iWAS fed to the Altar,
and gneh aWav by her brother the'Eatl of 'lsx-
DRIDbi; the'lltrytis of ANGLESEY- not being
present. 'The Bride-maids were—the Ladies.
hat: and GEORGIANA PAGET; Immediately after
thereerenfony, the happy Pair set off for Molcomilt
the seat of •the Earl of MARCH. •
Mr. KEMBLE is engaged to Play lihtebeth,
Brutus. King John, anti King
Theatre. The first op-
nce wits to be last Tuesday ; the last next
/lax:
at Pen
tzdd k,
Newcastle
peara
Tuesday, and for the Benefit of this " wcil.graced
Actor.",

DE:11711 OF :MARSHAL MASSENA.

We extract some account of this once cele-
.
twitted: man from the Aleniteiti of the hig, which
we received last night
" No caw MAS.SEN A, Prince of Esling, Duke.
of Rivoli, Marshal; of- France, Grand, Cross of the
Royal Order of. the Legion of honour, Corn-
mender of the Royal and Military Order of Saint
Louis, Grand Cross of the Orders of St. Ste-.
.plten of Hungary, of St..Hnbert,. of Fidelity, of ,
i...aden, and Hesse d'Armstadt, born at Nice on
the Bth May, 1758 ; died at Paris in his hotel,
Rate de Bourbon, 4th of 'April,' in the morning,
after along and a severe illness.
" After ,having served three years at sea, in his
youth, be entered 'the army of France in 1775, be-
ing attached to the Royal Italian regiment, in
‘vhich he had an uncle a,captain. He becautc,
successively, chief of the 2d battalion niche Val.,
Colonel of the cl746vant regiment of the Sarre, and
General•of Brigade 'and•Division in 1793. Ile al- .
'ready, in 1794; enjoyed the command of a corps
020;000 men,,tdestined to the expedition against
Oneille and the siege of Saorgio. He commanded
there constantly the advanced guard of the. Army
of Italy,.took a principal 'share in.all the great
affairs of that arnry.;-anil- acquired the name of thc
" Favourite Child of Victory," Hostilities having
recommenced iu 1'799; he conducted, in Onality
of General in Chief of the Army of the Dottake,
that memorable campaign of Switzerland, which
the battle of Zurich rendered so decisive and so
glorious ; 70,000 prisoners were the fruits of this
campaign;' where he 'had to 'contend against two
great Captains, Prince 'Charles and Marshal Su-
warrolf. He immediately afterwards assumed the
command of the wreck of the Army of Italy, in
the campaign of 1805, and at its head penetrated
into Germany. He was afterwards charged with
the cqrignest Of the kingdom of Naples ; .and sub,
sequently sent to Poland.; whence he returned to
France at the peace of Tilsit.
" The. war called 'hint 2gain into Germany in
'lBO9. jhore, after several honeurable combats,
he receifeitqh'ilie Otitis of Esling the title. of
Prince, WfterliliThig sustained the shock of the
enenty's•ri.ght, aid saVed theFrencir army by his .
able eondtiet'itnal invincible courage. He after-
wards acted.a brilliant part in 'the battle of %Va.
gram, in which he was seen, though' sick and
sOftering, advancing at • the head of his* troops,
and animating them by' his example. He ended
his military career by the command of the army
of Portugal in 1810 and 1811. He here dis-played
anew the'firtnnesi of his character in the midst or
difticultiesiall9kinds with which lie was tut.-
rounded, and! 10hich he hail to surmount. tie •
has left behind, liticonsolable at. his loss, a widow..
tviro'sons'ititlrulaughter married to Lieutenant-
, General Contit Reille,iiisTpupil, who was hiaftE)t.
Aide-de-Camp 'from 17984'