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FOR THE SUN. POPULAR COM riTUTTIONS. Popular Constitutions seem to be the element of the Jacouins. All the dernocratical party be longs to them, and as that party represents phy sical force, it will not fail to overthrow the moral force of Aristocracy, if Aristocracy is not com bined with force, and supported by all the moral cailses which operate upon the minds of the People. The Constituent Assembly of France, in mak ing, a Cons. itution, destroyed at the same time all the mural virtues, Religion, parental autho rity, the reverence of intetiors towards those of higher rank, whilst all the foundations of social order were held in ridicule, awl treated with con tempt. The Leaders of the new Sect, seeing their party and principles so well established in France, speedily diffused their doctrines everywhere, anti, strong in the example and the power of France, they proceeded more or less openly to the radical rerorta of Europe. The Aristocracy were every where attacked, and are so at the present moment ; for were we to listen to what is said around es, we should hear repeated this Jacobin phrase, " Popular Constitutions are become an °NNW:4 OF EURorE to I.7lticit it nittst submit:* This opi niem once avowed (to make use of the vulgar ex pression) " we howl with the wolves," that is to say, we half smite with the Jacobins to raise their edifies., stied to pail down our own. Have People well veil-coed on this opinion, which is laid down berme hand, as a rule of conduct ? Let Elltal•e well remember that it was also Opt- NiON in which was (wooled a title in France to resolve on that terrible Revolution which conti nues to harass . the civilized world. Thus what has latest done in France in the name of ()emote, it is wished to do througbout Europe under the same sanction, and if credit is given to such a notion, the same credulity will precipitate the same consecrences. Oristoon is certainly some thisig, but we must distinguish between that which is the echo of truth, and that which is the reverberation of falsehood. The duty of those who are entrusted with the higher public func tions, is to conform to one, and to repress the ocher. Yet, at this momeut, it is sufficiently proved, that what is honoured with the pompous title of the Oetnton OF Euaore, is nothing more than the audacity of some, exagee rated by the weakness of others.---People, we find, are in teeth y tether disposed to caress the monster, titan to combat with him. Everywhere, at present, fear is t ea for pi advice, and imagination creates Guints, where, in fact, there is nothing extraordi nary, bat the horrible atrocity of a few miscreants, vile, base, aud incapable. The sympathy ob servable between the Jacobin principles and po pular Consitutions merits all the attention at Statesmen ; for, if they are well informed, they on ht t.. kuow, that io France it is not for the aecnri'y at Freedom that a popular Constitution i s (lea-witted, but that in reality that form of Constitution which may procure them the enjoy. tent of the vice, di , order, and licentiousness, witieh for nearly thiry years have characterized revolutionary Frenchmen. We refer on this sub ject to all imparti el observers, who will unani mously acknowledge that Liberty is only the pretext, and that licentiousness is the object in view. it is, in reality, the GENIUS OF EVIL that wishes to reign at whatever hazard.* If such be the effect of popular Constitutions, is it not the fits! duty which European Sovereigns owe to their people, to modify the Constitutions of their own Statta in such a manner, that all access to the horrible doctrines of Jacobins should be precluded% To give them an asylum, under any Legislature whatever, is to give them the power of increasing and multiplying. — To allow them such an asylum in the French Constitution, is to give them a lever to overturn 11. e world. England is not and cannot be in cluded in these reflections. The moral and phy sical circumstances which insulate and distinguish her from other Sovereignties, render it a country by itself, The men of property in England : , whose number and riches have rendered it the best constituted Aristocracy that ever existed, are a hody not to be found elsewhere. The People of the Continent cannot imitate England, because England possesses materials which they want, but which they nevertheless arc endeavouring to acquire, without perceiving that the English Con st notion is like the Enigma of the SPH tr,lx ; it ontti seem that England gives this Enigma for all Ealope to interpret under the pain of Death, and it is much to be feared that, in fact, it will lead to the destruclion of Europe, if the Nations of the Continent persist in the error which seems to le p releloiatteate among them—that of imitating a Constitution, which the Want of similar ele &octal retitle' s it impossible for theta to attain. A. D. PARLTAME,NT. HOUSE OF LORDS, Jutv 3. Their Lordships met this day at three o'clock, by virtue of his Majesty's Commission, to give the Roy,l Assent to sever,ll Bils of a pub:ic mid private nArlite, among others to the Foreign En listment and scotch Duelling Bill. 11OL'S8 OF CO::MONS, JULY The SPEAKBfI took the Chair at three o'clock, and was iintnediately after summoned to attend the House of Lords, to hear the Royal Assent riven by Co;ninission to several ptibiic and private Bills. Tile [loose resolved i!self i-ato a Com mittee on the Aisessed 'l%o;es Bill, and the Be port was ordered to be received on Monday. The those also resolved itself into a Committee on the folio ‘vitig Rills, the reports of which were se verally i,rrlered to be received on Monday :—The New South Wales Dories Bill, deceased Officers' Arrears Bill, the Irish Excise Licences Bill. 'fire Irish Elections Bill to he considered this day three Weeks. The following' Bills were severally ordered to be react a tlirti time on Monday next :—the Exclie goer lidls Bill, Irish Treasury Bills Bill, Plate- Glass BM, Irish Insolvent Debtors Bill, Irish Pri sons Bills, I,rish Permits Bill. And the following Bills were severally read a third time and passed t the Navy Agents' Allowance Bill, the Vessels' Caries Bill, the Sthlth \Vales Trades Bill, the Irish Fisheries Bill, the Sweet and Made Witres Bill, the Coffee Exportation Bill, the Silk-Mann factore Bill, and the Crown-Glass Bill. A message front the Lords aiiiiounced their Lordships' agreement to the Cltaiitable Founda tions Bill, with certain amendments, to which they prayed the concurrence at the (louse, NEW wair. Mr. Lu Hi NGTII moved, that the Speaker do issne his ‘slit for the election of a knight of the .shire for the shire of Wilts, in the roma of Paul Methuen, E.:9., who had since his election ac cepted the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hon dreds.—Ordered. LONDON JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. [Morning Chronicle.] According to accounts from Naples, of the 14th ult. the eruption of Etta had assumed a less alartning character, but the two villages of 2;41- faratto and Milo were still menaced by the lava, which bad extended over a space 14 mile, in length, and between two and three in breadth. The city of Catania had been saved by the south winds from the effects of a shower of cinders, and which continued failing for several days. (Morning Post) Both Houses of Parliament sat on Saturday. The business yet remaining is greater than has been known for near a quarter of a century ; anti unless a great part of it be postponed to next year, it is utterly impossible that the present Sethion can terminate (as some of tlee Papers have ventured to state) with the present week ; and we much doubt whether even the following week can bring the whole of the business to a conclusion. The difficulty which this great incumbrance of im• portant subjects naturally occasions, will, we trust, lead to some better regulations for the con s•ocation of Parliament in future. According to the present state of things, several Public Bills must either be entirely deferred, with perhaps great inconvenience to public interests, or all tire provi sions of a complicated Act must be passed in mass, and with a total neglect of that precision and clearness so necessary to a general law. The immense volumes of our laws are already of great practical evil to the country ; but Bills like these now about to be passed upon the spur of the moment, must necessarily be repealed and amend ed by several others to be passed irs the ensiling Session—a necessity which of course adds to the bulk and number of our Statute-books, and ren ders the daily administration of the law propor tionably obscure, uncertain, and expensive. By the Act recently passed for the Consolida tion of the Ditties of Customs, the exemption in favour of Wood from British North America, and the other Colonies, is only continued until the 20th of March, 1820 ; which we regret for the reasons we have so frequently urged on the :ob ject ; and we are equally sorry to notice that the bounties, remission from ditties, and other in• dulgencies, given to the traders from Newfound land, have not been extended to the traders from British North America, who bring here the same articles as those from Newfoundland, being engaged in the saute fisheries with them.—(lbid.) laforni us that the King of Denmark had assented to the conditions. The King of Sweden and his son were to give up a part of the revenue allotted to them by the Storthing, in order to hasten the liquidation of the debt. The Hague Cotr-ant of the 30th ult. contains advices from Madrid of the 13th and' 15th, e vithielrs.tate that theUrriter counts of the banditti were not exaggerated. One robber of the name of Melchor is said to have had a baud of 300 men under his command, and to have laid whole districts under contribution. One of the Brussels Papers gives a letter from Iron, which, like others that have preceded it, bears strong marks of Netherlandish manufacture, and contains not a syllable of news. The King of the Netherlands has remitted that part of the sen tence of Buchoz (one of the conspirators in the plot to carry off the Emperor of Russia), which condemned him to be exposed in public and to be branded. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed an Saturday Night. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.—Othello : Othello, Mr. Yoimg; Desdernona, Mrs. Faucit. After which. Bon Ton. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET, DRURY-LANE COMPANY.-- A Bold Stroke for a Husband: Don Cxsar, Mr. Mundell; Olivia, Mrs. Glover. After which, Honest Thieves. oEATRF. ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-HoUSE.—My Own Rival : Principal Characters by Mr. Wrench and Miss Kelly. After which, The Jovial Crew, To which was :schist!, Fire and Water. [Morning Herald.] The Stuart Papers, which were in possession of Cardinal York, of Rome, have been transmitted from Rome to England to the Prince Regent, who has appointed Dr. Starrier Clarke, and four other gentlemen as Commissioners under his royal warrant, and Mr. Pullen as their Secretary, to examine their contents, and to report to his Royal Highness, from time to time, till the whole of their contents is ascertained. It is expected sonic very important information respecting the His tory of England, at those periods, will be ob tained from them. The investigation i 3 to be conducted in a private manner. The papers are extremely voluminous, and filled several large packing cases. They have been deposited in St. James's Palace, in the late Queen's drawing room, where the Commissioners, with their Se cretary, sit to examine and investigate the con tents of these ancient documents. [New Times.] Yesterday we received Mails from Hamburgb, Holland, and Flanders. From Stocithotm we learn, under date of the 14th ult., that before the departure of the King of Sweden for Scania, the negociations respefting the Norwegian debt to Denmark had been amicably terminated finder the mediation of Gent Britain. Lord Scram:ford. the British Ambassador, carried on the negocistions with the Swedish Government, in the name o f his own Court and thor advicei E SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICERE FALSIJM ALIDEAT ? I A )N DON, MONDAY, JULY 5, 1819. We received yesterday and this morning the Paris Papers of Thursday and Friday last. The Budget ot Ways and Means was still the tedious topic ot deliberation in the Chamber of Dvputies. After lingering through the Sittings of ‘Vednes day ar.d Thursday, the discussion was again ad journed till Friday. It is now said that the Ses sion of the Chambers will not be 4erminated till the 20th instant. The KING has resumed his former airings, go ing out regularly every day. His MAJESTY, 013 Wednesday, held a Council of Ministers, and OA Thursday transacted business with the Minister for Foreign Affairs. By a Royal Ordonuance published in The Moni teur of Thursday, the City of Colmar is elevated to the rank of one of " our good cities." The Marquess de RIVIRRE, late the French Am bassador at Constantinople, is expected almost immediately at Paris. One of the Journals states, that the petit grants livres opened in the Departments for the transfer of sunk, contain entries to the amount of 1,400,000 francs of reface. The following are extracts : " PARIS, JULY 2.—A great tumult took place yesterday at the School of Law, amongst the Students, in consequence of the suspension of M. I3avoux, the Professor of the School, by order of the Committee of Public Instruction. The Gen darmerie were called out to disperse them. " The King's journey to St. Cloud is said to be certainly fixed for Thurday next. " According to the accounts from Berlin, there are more suicides committed in that capital than in any other great city in Europe. Lately a Coun cillor of Regency gave himself several wounds with a knife, and fell senseless, but it was supposed he would recover ; a wine-merchant shot himself through the head, an *wizen killed himself with a poniard, several women have also attempted their own lives. " The Count Capo d'lstria is expected at Paris next week. FIVE PER CENTS. 'Wednesday 6Bf. 90 c. Thursday 69 f. c. DEFERAED STOCK. Wednesday. Thursday. Of the 22d March, 1817....84 f. 90 c... 83 f. 55 c. 22d Sept. 1817.... 87 f. 20 C... 87 f. 55 c. Niarcb,lBlB... 85 f. 20 c... 85 f. 55 c. f. 2 ,1 Sept. 1318. f. 40 c... 83 f. 53 c. 22d March,1819...81 f. 40 c... 81 f. 50 c. 13RELIN, JUNE 18.—The King is entirely restored to health. The report is revived, that his Majesty will proceed about the middle of July to the waters of Teel)lite, in Bohemia." New York Papers to the llth June arrived this morning. Tbey contain the following paragraph respecting the re-capture of Porto Bello : (From the commercial Advertiser.; BALTIMORE, JUNE 1, 3 P. rit.—Arrired the schooner Samuel Fleetwood, in 25 days, from Porto Bello ; left the seboonor Sea Serpent, Joanna, and Mary Ann, of Philadelphia, stink by the linv.ii:rc u lui. with about SOO men_ under General LEAGUE, attacked Porto Bello, and to° l ‘ lI'GREGoa's whole army, while they were asleeP s General Al‘GrsaGoa jumped out of bed, ran t° the shore, and swam on board a vessel ; all tbe rest were marched off to Panama-500 Priv ates and 76' Officers. '. (From the Commercial Advertiser of the loth of June.) The State of Kentucky is in considerable con" motion, occasioned by the pressure of the timer' which is not less felt, but rather more tranquillf borne, in the Atlantic States. Besides the fleeting in Frankfort, there have been County Meeting ° all over the State. The resolves passed at th ese iNieetiugs are :-1. A suspension of specie Par tnents by Banks. 2. A liberal effusion of pall ° by the Banks. 3. An extra call of the Legi slll. titre. CITY BANK OF BAL-rxrdoeE.—The Philauor milli Paper states, on the authority of passengers, i bitt the Baltimore Bank was robbed on Wedne'll night of 18,000 dollars in specie. Tl,e sec °° ' Teller, on whom suspicion had fallen, was 61*# rested and committed ; and on Thursday 11/ 0° dollars of the specie were found, and restored the vau'es. Halifax Papers arrived this day to the 15. b EMIGRAN rs.—The Halifax packet brought 0 213 passengers ; the Enterprise, 103 ; gev erti other vessels, with passengers, had sailed fr ° ,l Ireland, for British America and the Un it ''' . Sc ate,. Tl.e Yellow Stone Expedition, under the cg r ' s4 'nand of Colonel A-rx.txsoN of the 6th Reginlefi arrived at Ancitnaii on the .Ith of 135 r mollr6 aa►d sailed same evening towards the destine► (4; A New Brunswick Paper, of May 29, " 59° " we understand from tl►e best authority, thAt Excellency Lieut.• Governor and Council, h' ilc directed forty lots of land, of 100 acres ea' ft, t 0 he surveyed for Emigrants from the Mother Co''`' ' try, in each of uhe following situations ; rn C l ' 3 ' l kttt. k...:ounty, on the road from St. John's Andrew's; is King's County, and in 1.° "" County." As The Morning Chronicle this dsy a d v erts t° " the evil of legislating in the Dog Days,' 144 ly again a'k whose !atilt kit owing tb iS (Palters of impott>inct Lave unavoidably b et° I,(wpotiedi Have not its own political friendi trodnced motion att.er motion, and debate sue t debate, occupying the whole attention of the 11 gislati.re, and wearying the patienct of lII° Conn , ty ? The Chronicle ed(l4, that " tij° reme , y is easy, and nothing but sinister mot'`: can operate to prevent the applicati 1) At it." And what is the rcrnetly ? Why. Parliament should assemble in the middle November, instead of the last week in Linton; and with an adjournment even of a fortnig ht z 4 v- Christmas, it might always rise at the en d May."—But might not another and a better rein etv be proposed ? Might not a certain Party refr is i from the introduction of Questions not esseotil'i to the honour and interest of the Empire, 1111 cease to interpose discussion after discussion , 4111‘ parently for the purpose of driving Ministers °lj ial i and getting themselves in ? Has any really b s .f ej i , proposition been brought forward to which nisters have not given their assent ? Have (Ile not abridged the Expenditure as much al l ; Bible, consistently with the proper business of State, and the National dignity. Ministers 1 161 0 s gloriously succeeded in putting an end 50 io enormously expensive and long continued wart well as one so lust and necessary that it was 0 lutelv inevitable, the burthens arising from Wh ich e are not to be removed at once, but Minister s 04. 0 s doing all they can to lessen the weight of cuss burthens, and to restore the full blessings of Pc' sc o f with all practicable celerity. It is absurd, Otis; as 'well as unjust, to complain of delays o n t o one band, and of haste on the other ; for, if t whole of every year were devoted to Parliame nt° t proceedings, Government would be likely to W e s with such obstacles, while an OPPOSITIONe gisf t: and especially if the Opposition should be 0 4 1 0 ed rather by the spirit of Party than of lob virtue. 1; THE DUKE OF YORK'S COUNCIL, &c. --On F a r , day the Duke of YORK. left town for Wi, (l l - ,11. On Saturday, about 12 o'clock, his Roy al 1 7,te nest held a Council in the Palace upon the e t of the King. The five Phyttcians were all o f tentlance, anti made their Quarterly rc rort . 11g the state of his Majesty. Yesterday the 10;1°41 bulletin was exhibited at St. Jaates's " Windsor Caste, ja il 3 1 : 0 s "His Majesty's bodily health; continues to be 1 1 '°" there has been no sensible alteration in the state of big jetty's disorder during the last month." , a 1) (Signed as tl gt ' it PAUL METHUEN, Esq. has determined to his seat in the Howe of Commons, a" (1 ..00 BENETT, of Pythouse, is again a candida !e County of Wilts. c atf e Prince LEOPoLD visited the Cobourg on Saturday, and was received by the 0"`; 1 7,1)• with that marked respect 9 nest Lai universally excited, 4 . 1 * For Tilt COLONIEI, SRI. the First Page. PRICE OF STOCK% THIS DAY AT TWELVE o'CI.OCII. 3 pet Cent. Rid ..68iiii Ex. Bills, 2s. pr. 4 per Cents 55 ; 1 41 Otnniurn. ••• •. • Ais• Bank Erns; Ann. 171 Cons. tor Acc0unt.....69-11 India Bonds Js 7s. pr. MAILS. 3statvan-2 0-ablin„ 2 Wnterford, I Holland, I Gotten burgh, I Fr, rice, Q Hamburgh, I Flanders, 1 America. Dur.—l Holland, I Gottenhurgh. HIGH WATER Al' LONDON BRIDGE ro.MORROW. Murniftg, 30 minutes after IR. I Evening, 55 minutes after 12.