The Sun.
London, England, 1821-05-23 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MOANING PAPERS,

May 23.
jNEw TIMES.]
The Funds were a shade lower yesterday than
the day before. Some persons thought fit to at-
tribute this to the gloomy character of the news
from Spain.; but we believe it was nothing more
than the natural fluctuation, which after so con-
siderable a rise naturally produces some small
reflux. Spain is certainly in- a wretched; dis-
tracted state ; but, to the rest of Europe, this is
comparatively a matter of indifference. Ab-
stracted from, the pain we always feel in con-
templating human misery and degradation, there
is no reason why the present state of Spain should
give ns any alarm. Our readers will do us the
justice to remvriber, that from the very outset
of n revolution, which was inconsiderately hailed
by many persons in this Country as a triumph of
liberty, we anticipated the evils which are now
so dreadfully crowding upon the Spanish
peqle. It was from no apathy to the great
cau,,n of freedom that we entertained these
seutilents ; but it was from a deep consic-
tiini, that 'the principles on which the revolu-
tion proceeded were really hostile to freedom.
What do we now behold ? The very refuse of
mankind signing lists of proscription (such lists
as the miscreant Cobbett recommended in this
Country), including the names of the most dis-
tinguished individuals in the Kingdom. Hence
a -reign of terror is established in the capital and
in all the great towns. Happily the wild moun-
tainous districts with which Spain abounds fur-
nish a refuge to loyalty. The brave Spanish
Yendeans will not submit _to the bloody yoke
of their tyrants. They resist, and they will
conquer. The blood of the murdered Vinuessa.
-will not in vain cry for vengeance to the generous
Spanish nation. The base and infamous Ministers
who could excuse that execrable assassination
will be held in detestation by every man possess-
ing a spark of honour; and the personal dangers
which surround the King and the Royal Family
will at length awaken the great mass of a loyal
people to the necessity of a Counter-Revolution.

. [MORNING POST.]'
With respect to the Greek Insurrection, it is
not surprising, from the lingering character of its
first movements, that it should be unattended
-with success? For our own part, we never
rested its 'merits upon exaggerations of present
evil and possible good, such. as are the cheat-
ing phantoms of Revolutionists.—not upon
any supposed rights of the Greeks to a special
inheritance of liberty, for 'their governments
in their most shining ages were scarcely bet-
ter promoters of happiness than that of mo-
dern Constantinople--but, upon the visible and
palpable fact of oppression exercised beyond all
precedent, even in the most .barbarous ages of
man. We shall not at pre'sent indulge in the
expression of the ideas which crowd upon us in
this respect ; but we cannot help unequivocally
avowing that we should have been most happy
to have witnessed the establishment of an inde-
pendent kingdom, filling exactly the place of the
urks, as the more liberal and natural guardian
.of the. Dardanclles, and rescuing one of the
finest portions of the earth, not merely from the*
immediate pressure Of inhumanity on itself, but
from the condition,.of a barrier against the pro-
gress of civilization to the immense regions of
Asia.

[MORNING HERALD.]
.The Greek Insurgents proceed with a firm-
ness, or a desperation not reconcileable with the
acknowleged poverty of their. resources. The
Tnrks, with their characteristic slowness, have
yet Made no effort to put them down. Of this
result, however, there is every probability. The
news from Spain is .painful in the extreme.