The Sun. — 1823-11-20 (London, England)

LBUITISII PRESS. T The murder of the hapless Riego at Madrid on the 7th, is full of horror. The agonizing de. tails, while we read them, make the blood rut cold in the veins. The manolos and wretches o that capital were not, it appears, the exclusive actors in the scene : the French garrison were abroad ; they patrolled through the streets, and kept order during the time the work of death was going on. While a murder so foul as this rests on the French arms, perpetrated on a man whom Angoulerne surrendered to his assassins, and who was executed under the guardianship of his armed platoons in noonday, how can the Bourbons hypocritically affect to reprobate the sacrifice of the Duke (rEegelen ? ce Blood will have blood, they say," in the words of Shakspeare ; and a further retaliation may yet attend this family. They are fast dragging down execration and ruin on their own heads. We hope we may live yei to see their final down consummated. It is unnecessary for us to 'Nita attention to the correspondence, which will he found in our columni, by which Madame Riego and the brother of her unfortunate husband made au agonising anti despairing effort to save the pa. triot's life. There will be but one feeling on ii throughout England, Again we say, public meetings ought instantly to be called, to expr,ess the indignant sense of the nation on this most atrocious act, the most liberal subscriptjous also should be entered into, to afford to Madame, Riego all 'the comfort ,and consolation she can receive' in this country, under her present most dreadful circumstances. It will he the only decided way for this country to strew its abhorrence of the present execrable system in Spain.. This is a time when the people 9f, ',lnland should not he quiescent ; the character and safety of Great Britain are involved in the issue. Could the tyrants of Europe succeed in their combinatiens, the horrors that are now enacting in Spain would be vepeuted here. The shocking accounts from Madrid describe a population resembling demons ; the dark port, raiture of their infernal carnivnl resembles Dante's hell • it is dreadful to see priests and monks, the ministers of a meek. Redeemer, crowding the balconies and sending forth their yells of joy at an execrable murder. The very .graves of•the departed not :sacred from the sacrilegious Wretches who fate 4 that!-vile capital on ,this occr sion ; they celebrated.the festivals of their, saints, by defacing and despoiling the tombs of the dead;  they tore the very bodies of the patriots from their graves, and scattered their limbs around. The infernal detail of another murder, perpetrated by those licensed monsters, on a constitutional officer attached to the corps of the celebrated Empecinado, will be read with horror. These are the results of the French invasion—this the Saturnian reign of happiness the tyrants of Europe combined, at Verona, to entail on Spain : this is the liberty and happiness in store for the nations of the New World, if the armaments now in contemplation reach those shores. Let the French Cabinet fling its hordes there, and Mexico, Peru, and Colombia, will become a common Golgotha ; murders and proscription will multiply in thousands. The first Cabinet Council of our Ministers met on Tuesday, at which nearly the whole Cabinet were present. The state of Spain, and the consequences arising from it, must occupy their most serious attention. We trust measures will be adopted which will preserve the character and iufluence of the country, in a crisis every way so important.