The Sun.
London, England, 1818-12-18 00:00:00

LONDON JOURNALS.

IFROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF TEM DAY.

[Morning Chronicle.l

The Spanish Mail received yesterday did 'not
'furnish any accounts of a Revolution having actu-
ally broken out in Spain ; but at tills we are-riot
astonished, for the reasons we shall proceed to
give. The Mail from Madrid to London usually
arrives in 15 days, whereas an Express comes in
halt the time. The letters which reached town
yesterday from the. Spanish capital are dated the
.3d inst. ; but if the Government has received dis-
patches from Sir Henry Wellesley, which appears
to be the general opinion, the Messenger must
have left Madrid or the Escurial on the .6th or
711), therefore, in all probability, hr is three or
tour days .before-hand with the post. Sonic con-
sidereible doubt of any rernark,ible occurrence was
yesterday manifested in the City, owing to no ex-
press having reached mercantile houses, to whom
the information would have been so extremely va-
ludble. ft a popular commotion has, however,
taken place in Spain, we conceive !bar the depar-
hire rut an express, unless covered by an Ambas-
sador's privilege, mothd have been impossible ;
irdeed no. merchant, in such critical moments,
would have ventured on the expetiment, and in
Sp in commuuications are easily cut off. The
014 additional information we hale gleaned is,
that a foieigo Nobleman of considerabr rank had
arrived in the Spanish capital horn
Aix-la-Cha-
pelle, with dispatebes to King Ferdinand himself,
containing, as it was supposed, a remonstrance
Irom the Allied Sovereigns assembled in Congress.
On the 3d, we understand that he was still wait-
ing for ihe result of his mission, which, it was
evident, had created a strong sensation at Court,
and this had been increased by the public feeling
openly expressed at the strange and unexpected
occurrence. It was understood that he was the
bearer of an admonition to the King, urging him
to change his measures, and seek a reconciliation
with his people. l! is reported that this news
bad produced a most electrical ct among the
people, and the hotel of the Nobleman alluded to
was continually surrounded by an immense con-
course of people, and the Sovereigns
who sent him, as the liberators and saviours of

their 1.061111. y, and calling down benedictions
upon their heads. As, however, a great deal of
demur and dilemma had been evinced at Court,
and some apprehensions were entertained that the
1 and his advisers would treat the application
with contempt, and persist in their old systems, it
is added, that a secret association had been form-
ed to support a change of measures, and that the
persons thus pledged to each other in the capital
amounted to 40,000. These are the only parti-
cid:ll.s of vny authority we have been enabled to
obtain. Until half-past four o'clock yeverday,
various rumours were afloat on 'Change ; but we
could give no credit to any of them. Every
body appeared anxious respecting the article of
Tuesday ; and that anxiety was increased in the
evening by the repetition of a mysterious an-
nouncement in an article. The Spaniards
know nothing but what conies by the regu-
lar post to the 3d; we were assured, however,
that letters had been intercepted and opened. By
some it was said, that Ferdinand VII. had de-
stroyud himself, and by others, that lie had been
murdered. Certainly something extremely se-
rious has occurred in Spain, though we cannot
precisely state what it is.

Count Las Casas, we understand, has sent to
Lord Liverpool (with a request that it should be
laid at the feet of the Prince Regent), s copy of
a Letter addressed to him from St. Helena by
Count Bertrand, and which appeared in our paper
some one since. This letter, it will he recol-
lected, pointed out in the most feeling terms the
unrequired hardships adopted towards the Ft ench
by Sir H. Lowe, the indignities Count Bertrand
himself was obliged to undergo, and the ill state
of health in which Buonaparte then was, front the
multiplied privations he was forced to suffer. We
can well imagine the feelings of Las Casas on
the perw.al of this letter, but from the past in-
difference shewn to the complaints of the Ex-Em-
peror and his followers, we are inclined to think
the Royal ear will not be offended with the sub-
ject of his applications. Ilow remarkably con-
sistent and applicable to the present epoch are the
words of Dioclesian, as related by Gibbon. " it
is," says Dioclesian, " the interest of fo►tr Or
five Ministers to combine together to decei►e their
Sovereign ; secluded front mankind by his exalted
dignity, the truth is concealed front his 'know-
ledge; can see only with their eyes ;he hears
nothing but their misrepresentation ; he con-
fers the most important offices upon vice and
weakness, and disgraces the most virtuous and
deserving among his subjects : by such acts (adds
Dioclesian), the best and wisest Pt inccs are
sold to the venal corruption of their Courtiers."---
(Ibid.)

[The Times.]

A communication of sonic interest to the money
market reached Loudon yesterday morning. It
appears, that after long discussions amongst the
contractors and principal capitalists of Paris, the
result of which teas made known to the Duke of
Wrllington and Lotd Castlereagh at the Due de
Richelieu's, it was agreed between the
'tench and foreign Ministers, " that the last loan
should he definitively reduced to 12 millions of
ientes, to be paid in IS months ; and that the re-
mainder of the principal,viz 100 millions of francs,
ihould be paid in cash by France herself, in nine
months after the time given to Messrs. Baring and
Co., which extends the term of final payment to
27 months." We do not question the expediency
or wisdom of this new and fourth mmlification of
the original bargain, on the faith of which the
Allied troops chi!, without the slightest retrograde
tnovement or indecision, actually evacuate the
French frontier. We are desirous only, that the
progress of the thing should be understood. The
first agreement was, that the sutras due to the Al-
lies should be liquidated within 9 months ; then
12 were proposed on the part of France, and 18
wombs were conceded to her : now a farther pe-
t iod of 9 additiOnal mor.the is asked and granted.
It it be true, indeed, that Mr. liarigg had still in