The Sun. — 1824-05-27 (London, England)

BRITISH PRESS.]  A number of unhappy Spaniards have sought refuge, within the last week or two, in this country, destitute, in fact, of every thing. They have fled to these shores, to escape the bands of assassins that awaited them on passing the Pyrenees ; they were wretched prisoners in France for months, and there every possible privation and insult was dealt thorn ; but in France they would not be suffered to remain, unless they could point out some certain means of support— to Spain they dared not return, but at the risk of being entombed in horrid dungeons, or butchered in cold blood by a fanatic populace. In that unhappy country all the agent's of 'evil have been unloosed ; it is now a scene of anarchy and blood from end to end ; Tyranny and Fanaticism, in their most odious, forms,-every -where present themselves—Freedom and Knowledge are equally proscribed. Though the Inquisition is not revived in all its past horrors, it actually exists in its worst spirit. The ancient ordinances. of this dark tribunal against mental improvement of every sort have been renewed, and confided to the enemies of all knowledge—. the Spanish monks and clergy. No recorded amnesty has issued as yet from Ferdinand or his Ministers. The concession, however :blotted by exceptions, exists only in name ; there is still no security for the humblest follower of the Constitution. The rabble are in arms in every great town, incited by the Monks and the Ser. viles : they are in ceaseless agitation, and continual murders are witnessed in noon day ; these. horrors are perpetrated under the violated names of loyalty and religion. The French see thern:— they followed on .their invasion, but they take no. effectual steps to arrest the authors, or prevent -the cotnmissidn .of the same appalling crimes.— Under such dreadful cirettnistanCes, the Constitutional Spaniards who were prisOners itt.France could not pass the Pyrenees, but to bare their throats to the assassins. Those. who returned to Spain were flung into dungeons, or many of them Murdered. No resource therefore remained to in France but to thrOW the surviving captives themselves .on 'these shores, however destitute ; and here, accordingly, they have arrived iu hundreda, And utterly unprovided. Their present melancholy situation is one deserving the best sympathies of this country ; they have been ruined in the cause of liberty ; the Constitution for which they fought might have been too theoretic, and filled with faults, which tune and experience would probably have corrected„ bUt compared with the code that now curses 'Spain; it was a system of perfection. The benevolence of this country, which never yet shut its hand against its just peal, has already supplied some thousands for the support of the Spnisk exiles, but that slender. fund has, we be-.  neve, been exhausted, and Ministers, highly to their credit, have supplied theirloss, and stepped forward to the aid of the hapless refugees. 4utif the inhscriptian-3vitich existed a. month or two since could lie renewed, many of these duals now anxious to .quit England for South America, might there find, compatriots and a home—and contribute with .their swords td the defence and independence of the New World.-To Spain they cannot turn while the present dreadful system continues—a_system only supported by the presence of French troops within that country, who are the body guard of ihe tyrant, and which must crumble into dust within a week after the last French battalion ,re-crosses the Pyrenees. • - - •  [