The Sun.
London, England, 1817-04-08 00:00:00

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111.., We are sorry we have not room to-day for.the impor-
tatit notices of the Manchester Ptiat,. and present state of
the lorintry its those parts, which appear in that excellent
prositkial paper, The Leeds IntelligeOei.
Many Articles are unavoidahly postponed.

THE SUN.

BOUM QUI3 FALsUNI AUMMT

LONDON,
TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1817.

The Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday

reached us this morning.
M. de Gueven, a Dutch Priest, has arrived at
Oin—e,-as it is believed, on an important mission,
viz. that of reconciling the schisms which distract
th! Belgian Church. Tic Fgate of the Irish CA-
tholicks hi also said to occupy much of the atten-
tion of the Roman Court.
A Letter from Lausanne of the 28th mentions a
number of successive earthquakes, up to the 14th,
which have affected the whole chain of the Alps,
and caused much iert:or as well,. as injury by ava-
lanches.

The French Funds are filleted at 63, 60. oo

Pi May.
'Two American vessels have anchored at Pa-
It'is conjectured that- they bring the 1,i,!
Beioltitioni'of the Coniress relative to the recl,i-
nuition made by Mr. PINcKNBY. It is further
conjectured that some difficulties still exist in these
negocintions, as the Americans were not allowed
to ewer the Port directly.

It is stated that''Prince fiLtitDBNBERG is pre.
poling a generid law forintrodtming the Liberty

of the Press into i‘;hidt will be rOm
gated.prior to the New Constitution. • . • -
The Bishop'of GIIHNT has, it seems, only re-
tired to his country house on the French frontiers.

A letter from Lisbon of the Gth March notices
the arrival there of many English Officers in the
Portuguese service, who have been ordered to join
their respective corps. It further states, that
General liEnEsFortp had set out for London (to
which great interests chlled him), after inspecting
every one of the strong places on the, frontiers
between .Spain and Portugal. The Portuguese
Army is affirmed to be on a respectable footing.
A hope is tacked to the end of these tvat like state-
ments, that an amicable adjusunent of existing
disputes may be effected. •

It appears that the reclamations in Spain, with
regard to Olivenza, has occasioned sonic military
preparationkin Portugal.

A subseqttent column contains the very satis-
factory statement of the improving Finance of the
Country, which, by anticipation, we promised
our Readers. The result of the whole is a stir,
plus of revenue above the expenditure of the
quarter, of 687,8781. No wonder thefunds rise,
and the disappointed faction write tomes to
prove that this is owing to every cause but the
true one—the renewed security, and increased and
increasing prosperity qf the Country.

To laugh, might be to sh..:w a want of grnee;
But to be grave, exceeds all power of face.

The seply of BERNADOTTE to the Swedish
Addressers is curious. While it affects to stile
Counter-ltevolutioni ReVolution, it in the- same
'moment reprobates and vindicates revolutionary
principles. The plain meaning of this absurdity,
into which BEEINADOTTE found himself irresistibly
driven, is, that RevolutiOn was and is good exactly
so lays it placed him upon a Throne, and nor a
step farther. The person and the thing, for which
consistency is renonuced,-ought terbelv.ell worth
the sacrifice :—at all events, if consistency must
he renounced, the less said about the renunciation,
the better. We do not like to see it argued upon,
and dwelt upon, with so much 'gratuitous com-
placency.

Let us put the question to its fair test.---S4-
pose a traveller just landed in Europe, wholly
ignorant of her last three year's history, should
read this speech of BERNADoTTE'S, and then be
told, that her Sovereigns had coalesced to pat flown
not only the effects, but the principles Of Revo-
lution that they had succeeded in their Coali-
tion ; and that the rightful Monarchs of France
IN:Thrlos 'flirt been recoqtr-1 on tl)ei, thrones.
....Suppose this traveller enquiring after GUSTAVUS
AtioLrutts.—Suppose the answer which of course
must he given,—SupP9seJihn.then saying--"'Yoti

" wish to deceive me. Revcilation is still in her
" full vigour. see one legitimate Sovereign
" stilt excluded from his throne : 1 cannot believe
" the others restored to their's.ll—lmagine then
the surprise, the incredulity, with which this
stranger bears the sequel :—when be is assured,
that the thieves of revolution are broken up, and
its receivers ungorged ; that Louis is quietly in
Paris, and FERDINAND in Naples ; that BUONA.
PARTE is transported, and MURAT executed...-.
No—lie will never believe it.

And, indeed, how should he ?---GusTAvus did
no more titan what the. 'other legitimate Sove-
reigns have done, except that he did it at a diffetent
time, and perhaps in a bolder manner. He was
the only Continental Sovereign who did not, in
one eligency or the other, shake hands with Re-
volution : and
.be is the only Continental Sore-
reign who has not either recovered or retained his
Throne. We might call it hard, but we will only
call it curious, that he should. suffer by the same
principle whereby they have prospered. We will
also call it curious that hiS—successor we were
going to say—that his excluder should, in revolu-
tionary language, and upon revolutionary .doc-
trines, deprecate revolution.
BERNADWITE has advanced- soine positions
which might have suited a professed Revolution-
ist, holding by his sword the gains of his award ;
and others, ‘s hich might have suited a ligititnate
Monarch, Itnid.ng by his right the descent of his
right. He did not like to be the former, and he
could not be the latter : he managed, therefore,
to mix them up together, and fancied himself to
possess the advantages of both with the disad-
vantages of neither. This impossible union can
have no other effect than to induce the.advantagea
of neither wick the disadvantages of hiuh.
For the first time we have learned, that :ft
Dynasty of half a dozen years is upon the
fundamental laws" of an ancient kiogdom.
We are now. talking of principles, not of acts :
or we should advert more strongly to the assertions,
that " the free choice" of Sweden altered the
inheritance of her Throne ; and that its present
inheritor ‘f.'clid nut seek it." We shall stipulate
only for retaining our own opinion, and snake no