The Sun.
London, England, 1810-12-11 00:00:00

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EPItICh -SIXPENCE RAI.rPENNY,

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I want of rational hbetiy'ttirtongus,Sp:ii;) wns depriv-
ed of the mean 4 of appreciot Pig the true pi inciples
• of that Revolution. •90 rnticit sly, vast when: the
infamous Peace of Bssilea-toOk cur- nation
was-entirelylgnorant cif the:poiip'ic4l.stateof.C;-atic,,.
OurGoverninent, led by a most pot/ vie and stupid
taveyorire, was inetpable of knowing tine interests of
Spain. They. abantlated • themselves socc'fi,sio?ly
and without any diszerritnenj;- voile various mc.i-
difications- of the •Freticti Gl.w.cl.otnent ; an 9 from
the Cons,eution ,to Jll4. Etnpire We followed all
the viciSsitudes...til-thlst ':-Revolutain in our ,
anctri tillithettriornent- $-tvv. .pur strong .places
taketri- and th,. Verfidint,s i.with a ,trerrren-
, dons artily,..•ini tote-".very Heart of hz.i:)ki.nt;do,tr.
—Till saes unhlppy-Tnovqent itoittra.n as. all 'we'd
to speak of ihe Fr -itch Goverimnent .but in the same
terins as of our :own. ictogi've eticomiums
to Buonaparte was deethed.as.,a.ciitne of the first
•.1-0 those dreadftan'ays were sown. the
seeds.of that kirvest *which Spajo-ii now reaping.
But look round. the •world, 111 sk., only na ion.
which his eslvaped,those.horroris England; which
was sayed.much.by the energy of its :Gotzprnment,_
but more than •all by the hoes ty of the- •press ; by
honest rryn were enabled to si:qea..l the anti-
dote more rapidly ihan French their poison;
a-tid the general 'Mori-nation which had been disse-
minated through .he•frecclotti tno press, enat)l.-d
that country to sec their dangers and avoid '
He wound up has speech with a pw.verful appeal la
i he. rent-7,•ed ;,pirit.of liherty in Spain, in support of a
free press.
Brigadier GUNZ. ALAZ Said, lhat any °new ho o;!-
po.sed'the Liberty the Press .was a bad Spaniard.
expression proloceil consid'erablc..altercation
brtWeen the General and ticylt-:.; Deputy, whO had
taken a strong part aglin,r-ii.
A pitit§T then rus,i.and said, " The first tie was
religion—to defend ihe Apostolica, y
Rninaira Religion ; and th& whatever militated
against it must be wrong." f-lecited a number of
the original Canons of the....C.ourch, to prove, that
no works could be pub!isho the leave of
the Council or f3sliop and from thence be infer-
red, that the Liberty of the Press was.contrary to
Religion. ,
Senor Mxt.srose, . and in a long and ingenious
speech endeavoured to de"feat the argument of the
preceding spe.,k::r. Tile drift of Senor !Alexia's rea-
soning
,was,as follows:—" No ()lie will deny that
Christianityhas existed ever sitiLe the beginning of
the world, because, although our Saviour bad not
descended, time moral precepts which form its ba,i;
bad been praclied.by Moses before him, and writ-
ten in the heart of man. In like manner the Liberty
of the Press has existed from the days of Adam, for
printing s nothing but-a faculty of writing ; and the
Liberty is the same, whether the mattes to br coin-,
municated engraven on trees, inscribed on wood,
or printed on paper." He' went on to prove that in
those countries where the Liberty of the Press did
not exist, the invehtion of pinning had been pejo-
diCill ; and he said it was far better to enjoy a small
repast with freedom than_ a banquet of State whets;
caprice suspended the sword over one's head, ,
E 1 Senor CURA D ACGECIRAI rose and argued
in favour usl the Liberty of the Press, deduct!), its
necessity through a long train of syllogisms, which
began with the origin of civii society.
El Senor BAXCENA, Diputado Tan el Regno de
5ev.1.13, in an artful and apparently impartial view of
the case, viewingtbe,Liberty of the Press as highly
desirable was of opinion that that liberty. would be.
best secured by a previous censorship than by (Me
-subsequent publication.

Senor GARCIA Da i4a-REttos (suplente por la
orov'ncia de Soria) followed on the same side, and
in the' same style. 'He said that.'he conceived the
censorship belore or ailer publication would be
Tinian), inefficacious for preventing. the pollution of
the pre-s., Whon,a b 00,.; against religion or morals
was published, was easy lo withdraw it and to
punish the author ; but who can restore the purity
of the faith which had been blasphemed, or of (Le
charaeter which had been traduced,? He said t;,at
it wa,i almost impo,.sible DO find a Committee capa-
ble of lodging of what was an °Wet-ice:against " Esta-
bli4bed. Laws," (the words of the report) as lals
were liable to be changed every day. He therefore
conceived, that many culpable writers would goun-
punished. His speech was very plausible, and pro-
duced a visitde etfdel.
General (oNizaLas (suplenle or la provincia de
Jaen) was .convinced, that' whenever the first ex,
ainple of seve:ity wa% given, all existing manuscripts
would speedily.be des4O-yed.

Senor GALLEGOS lose,' and in a i!swet to the speech
of Garcia Herteros, that if ;here was a tioliti-
cal absurdity:in the wothl, it W;s the ides in ulcated
by that Gentleman, ti.at ilk. liberty of the press co..id
exist under a previous- c,•nsorshio.' Liberty is the
tight Which every wan possesses of doing 4thatever
he pleasei, which is not contrary to or human
laws, or injurious to his neighbour "Shively on tNe
other hand is when min are sub.ie-&ed- without a re•
mody to the caprices.olother3, Whether enetcised at
the moment or not. How I i en, can the press be free
when subieaed to the paL,sioni, the cvrice, Or
corruption of an inditi,lb.,l-? H'c then urged the folly
Ut prLnientive laws. -,Eles-aid, "I am a free agent, and I
nay at any time possess myself Jf a sword, but no matt
tells-me that 'my hands oiost be tied lest I commit a
0)4,0er. lam at liberty to go into the street and
rob a man, bqt no man for tear of that turns the
key of my door. Free v, ill is left to us l.ut
knowing the ,punishment intlided or cruzie., we
are. led to avoid them. As to the diaiculty of know.
in, what are fundameektal laws, it i,ludicrou.s
talk of it. The Tundamentol laws are those oV
the Cortex bake beef) assewbied, u 4 which thwy