London, Thursday, Decembe...
In the.Paris papers, which arrived yesterday up to the latest customary period,>axe various debates, assertions, and contradictions, on the subject of the evacuation of the Peninsula by the Army of Occupation. The news that the French were to retire is " toogood to be true." They may be diminished-perhaps only changed. Yet the time for their removal must come; and then, if FERDINAND be allowed to reign in despotic dignity-so let him. The people aud their Sovereign will be worthy of each other, A monstrous tale is fabricated in a Madrid paper, against the unbappy men wbo have been recently executed at Coruana by the Governmeat. They are represented as hav- ing, (luring the existence of the Constitution in t823, carried out to sea and drowned, with circumstances of peculiar cruelty, between forty and fifty persons whose only crime was attachment to the unlimittedI Monarchy, the Inquisi- tion, &c. The details of the transaction savour strongly of romance: we do not believe a word of theni; but that no particle of doubt may exist in any mind, we call upon QUIROGA and VIGo, who are now in London, to contradict the report. The affair of the projected or rumoured indemnities to the emigrantc seems to agitate the interior of France. It is very true that a difference is made at sales, between a pro- perty of unbroken descent, " un bien patrimonial," and one acquired by the revolution. And we are not sorry that the pessessors of the latter should be a little sensible of weak- ness of their title. This may serve as a lesson to future revolutionists, and even reformers, at least to leavepro- perty inviolate, however they may tamnper wvith the politi- cal institutions of their country. LONDON., THIURSDAY. DECEMBffR 9, 1824.