The Sun. — London, England, 1820-04-25 00:00:00

MR. THE SUN. LIBERTY THE PRESS. EITITOR,—The Gazette de France, a Paris Plier, exclusively devoted to the Ultra Royalists, has winouneed, on the authority of letters from England, that it is the intention of one Ministers to apply to Partiantent for further re•ttictions upon the Press, or in other words, for the estu- Hist.ment of a Censorship. There is nothint: surnri,ing in this announcement, looking at the (I.Artur Iron) whence it proceeds ; for the Ultra Nopliqs.would Wad ly hail the introduction of bnci) a measure in this CMlllity as a sanction to the restrictir2 or ra:her desirtie;ire, regulations xchicit Atey, in the inotniml. of i!iumphlot Hve co:oriv, d n. intrudlice in 0131 . 11 (It'fl•d;iCi of (LC Chartri. (ft' 11 IZoyalists long the %ictiliP+ .)t H tivSr , ►ric faction, rribbeti of and insolted their persnns, tip pressed by the Anti:tree and neglected b:cr the Snse re;4n;—thet.thr-i Rovaii , t4. „teat in their down -1.11 and nobit: in their sutTeringt, the t.toi fit \l':11(3!1 hung aroan►i tht it tort ortes, the oniv good th a t Plovidenee intends, when, Nit(' a cilos- tcning hati, it strikes the priste how +II nature. They have refoen); , ered rifvhirg but their ‘vrotigl. Ori their startrititti, which, since the ilestoration, has been but too often the standard of revMt, they have only one rallying word, " recover;" whilst the Revo!otionis's, who boll the lost rights and priklleges ot the tii ras, cry l• avail)." The Liberty of the Pitss, by each. abo-eel, iota been, with the ultras, like the o'er-feeding ser rent , which, in its hungrrtage, is choaked by the food which should sustain it. If theLitieral , haste been licentious, so lave the Ultras, bat with h difit , rent view ;--tthey Lousy that it; a country v5,1,1-le Il'ete is hardly a medium bytwern open ty ranny and opt n revolution, the Press inns( till t o serwt , their tutu. They ‘vere right ; the Press has fall, n, and the opponents breathe. For n time they ctied shame ; but the ct \' " followed the ey.ertrion, and not averteil it ;" and now they do all they can to gain , hat sanction here which local circurnstances could not tot nigh. Our Eng lish Newspapers, speculating upon the grave an nouncement of the Paris Journal. are very indig. snmt indeed that the French Ministers, who •are supposed to he the inventors of the rumour (for it) a censorship they must take the odium of all that gives offence), should *endeavour to reconrile the French na tion tin ir slit very, by telling them that• we also are about to be matte slaves. Now, Sir, all this indignation ;aright he vet y well spared, and it would, be so, but for a very simple circumstance, which will I - cc-04e tittle elocidarion. There is an old Spa nish story which. runs thus—" A Castilian Moor had two %Lees ishom be ponished for stealing, by cutting off t heir hands ; the slaves of a neigh., hoofing Chief instantly proceeded to the house of the Moor, and demanded his life ; they told him it was but n'iost sacrifice for his cruehy.—liut how .have I offended you said the Moor ? Thou art the frienn'of our master said one of the sh i r e ., and ma! advise him to do as thou bast done, for we ion have stolen, and therefore, that thy ex ample may not reach him, we are lucre to strangle thee." Thete can be little difficulty in' the appli cation of ibis story—l take it to mean this—that when one rogue suffers, other rogues make corn- mon cause with the snllcrer, and cry shame the pro.ectror, This is preeis•Jy the case with our radical and ovosition press gentlemen. Con sciousness of guilt sits heavily upon them, and they fear the rod as much as the Castilian slaves feared amputation. And they may, for if any thiT , g stands in the woy of the trine;i scatted check ,:poo their licen:ionsue,s, it is a worthy 1 , . , a10n3y which allows their sin to live, rather than that the hand of chasti!iemeot should by tire slightest pressure wound the Constitution. The French Ptess was said to he like a child, and re. ytired leading strings ; but the English Press is a maniac, and needs a straight waistcoat ; the one bore as little proportion to the other, as a moose does to an elephant. Let us begin with the - Daily Press—the free Press, as it was called ; and tree it certainly was, cotupared with what it is now. The French Capital, yvben I let; it four months ago, bad about 8 oprosi!ion nttwspapers, t he chief of which were, the Independunt, tbb Con stitutionel, the Censcur, and the Retionte—the uth(rs wert• mi!lt-and-water stuff, but these tour were radical; that is to say. they favoured radi• calism rather than loyalty; but they were fools in their malignity to our raoicai miters, of whom ti , ey were rather the pupils titan the tutors. There were 7 or S periodical pawphlets against Illittisters; for the French Radicals were never hold en-ugh to say any thing against the Mo• starch—they did nor hilt know their tras h —if t hey had possessed as mu( h Muck as on'r Radicals, tut y would have ploiited by the kave they hat! to Iviite to y do‘vn limo as tyrants, monsters, earl natural agents of fraud and cruelty. The Oread of nilibi3iinient could be no barrier, for dur Radical makes it none—he sows the seed and the poison grows—it supports hurt in the Hall of Jus tice, where he spreads it tearlessly—the Judge's of fice saves him not trout insult, and :he sacred Ma jesty of ileaven passes not uolectured ; the instrte ntenis of mischief go wi!it him to his cell ; he still writes on, anti mocks the funk that scull him there. a:i the Frei}, h political pamphlets there was not one that advocated the cause of deism—mark this! not one;—and yet France has.been called a Land of I)::ists What ! was reverence for Christian rule so great that none dare I).. , ard it ! Here is a Land or Christians—hear it, ye trait inclining Ra dicals abroad ;—here, where the very Jew' should 51111031 hide his unbelief—here a host of open rici,m. Where are the French CARLILES, their , heir WooLatts, their j:vANsas, and their COIILETTS Where are their Deists' Maga• zinc s,—their " Apologies for Deism,"—theil ! " Chris ian Creeds retoted,"—their " Black Thvai Ittpoblicaos, Registers, and Union .:;eitools ? Where is their " Chronicle," to bear e false record against the Ruler ; their " Stafes• man," to vive .laws ; and their " Times," to frame fond tales .of magisterial butchery." Where their Examiner," their " News," their " Champion," their " IVlrig," their " .Struday. nonitor ;" in abort, where can the French Phi losopher cull flowers' of blasphenty and garlands of sedition ?" All this have we, and yet we have no Censorship., In France, the hand of Justice could strike quickly under former laws—Oppres sion even wanted no engine to COmplele its power—a paltry Magistrate, the creature of some creature's crew ore, could harass arid perplex the journalists —a Jut y nominated by a Prefect chosen by the King decided on their guilt rr innocence -Ind yet they. have now a Censorship.—Well may the- Biitish Radical Pt - ass Contributors exclaim, " We like it i k ot ;—if they were guilty what are W e ?" 1-fere blasphemy and sedition openly d'ely in•tice and 114,01 Ht ChastiSewent, and yet we hav ! , 0 Censor , hip ! Let 'tire It ench keep their Cen , o,..hilr thearselves, for it savours strong of d ; but it e gre , irest lover of Conn hherty here may tahly desire some more el le-wive cuitsiituliorial -I est rnint to prevent his licen trohsness from doing harm, lather than for it when it has done the mischief. Mr. - Wuirrnam is reported, during his Ministry, to !lase; used die following worth to a great political, Character THE BEST CI-41,CE. upon the licen tions part otehe E'resi 1 , TO ENCoVRAGE ME RE PAET OF IT ; but all do not agree with. me to give this eneouraKentent—well, then, they wrist take their own cour•e, and the Press will get' the better of +bent, for no British Minister will etre'• venture to propose 'a Censorship." I am, Sir, your %et y obedient Servant,_ G. M. THE KING'S , Bliall-DAY. Yegterday the Ceiebrntt►►u of the litNGli Birth- Elav plac e , by cotonnorl of his MAJESTY, in vend of the 12th of August, which was observed by Ali rank; with every demonstration of rejuic- ink;; the.tnorning was ushered in with Ihe ring. int.; of bells, and the flags on the steeple's of the were displayed, rind at one o'clock the Park and Tower guns were firvd• 1 At ten o'clock the Watermett (f the Navy Pay OE7e nve,-trcd in their new sca ,) rit t cirrascs, in. chiding vockings, to the number of ten, with their coxswain at their head, at the residence of 111 r. Robinson, the Treasurer of the Navy, who, after inspecting them, presented iticm with a com pliment to think the King'!. health. Ti!e King's .Guard mounted duty-with the holi day colours, &c. At oue . o'clock the Park And Tower guns dis charged a double Royal salute. It haviug been generally misrepresented, and repored, that there was to be a Drawing-gown on the celebration of the King's Birth-day, a great crowd assembled round the Palace in Pall and in the Palk ; and so generally was /his., rotnour believed, that the only inquiry teas, when the Drawii , g-lloom was 10 begin. Numbers of the Ivc,hiii y and Gentry were led into serious' errors, by it being represented that they %tete to leave their names of whetetts llosoeb: proceeding was required, as such custom, is now it being contrary to Court et'cinette to leave intuits to the Sovereign, as was the cot ;mu kept up with the late King. The Mail Coaches, as usual, pataded the prin. Opal .streets of Loudon with iietv Coaches. On the whole of them Were Imperials iu the front seats for two outside passetigers, the back•bnot unicli improved, and the whole arr:lngement the same, with the addition "G. It. IV." Previous to the'srarting of the new coaches from Milibrnk-rote, tvi:h the conchmen and guards in their new clothing, Mr. Widier, the 6 , ,iltier of the coaches, gate sumptuous entertainment to the Mail Contractors—Charles J obii , on, Esq. the surveyor anti superintendant of Mail Coaches, in the Chair. after dinner, the King's Beal ii tvas with four times four. - ..• ....... " The Postmasters-General"—" Fuatici , "'The Whed,." _ Sir HENRY PARNPLL, 1 7 11• P. was pre sent, and on his henlth being drat 3:, he r e t urne d thanks. particularly for the general improvement of poring in Ireland. The Marquess of Worcester, Mr. Cox, and many. wrier G:nflemen of distinction ..vere pre sent, to admite tie peculiar selection and excel lence of superior horses, particularly the light greys belonging to the Dover, iu complime n t to the French, with new harness, ornamented with blue and orange ribbons ; as were the tour beau tiful hays in tie Portsmouth Mail. • The folorviog is the order oft he Procession of his MAJESTY'S Mail Coaches, April 24th, 1820 : Two Horsemen—l. Bristol, Mr. Waterhouse, Swan with Two Necks, Lad-lane-2. Bath, ditto—A Horseman-3. Exeter ditto-4. Holyhead, by Coventry, ditto—A Horse man-5. Liverpo ditto-6. Manchester, ditto—A Horse man-7. NotNots.ien by Ipswich, ditto-8. Worcester, Mr. Wil la!), Bull and Nlooth Inn, Bull and Mouth-street-9. Bir mingham, ditto-10. Leeds, ditto—A Horseman-11. Glas gow, ditto-12. Edinburgh by York, ditto—A Horseman -13. Poole, by Southampton, Mr. I' agg, Bell and Crown, Hol born-13. Dover, Mr. Eames, Angel, St. Clements, Strand— A Horseman-1 5. Portsmouth, ditto-16. Gloucester, Mr. Horne, Golden Cross, Charing-Cross—A Horseman-17- Norwich, by Berry, ditto-18. Chester, ditto—A Hui setnan— Two Horsemen. In the evening the public places of amusement, and the Royal tradesmen, illuminated their huts es. The Assembly on Monday the 241 h, bein4 . the first held in honour Of his present M JESTY ' S birth-day, will be in the great ballroom, Edin burgh ; and as all the company will be dressed in coloured clothes, and the Naval and Military Officers,, with the Yeomanry, in their toll ulll - it is expected to - De the most brilliant As sembly that has taken place for a long time past. ' His Grace the Doke of \Vat-LINGTon has had his mansinin (Ansley House) filled with work people lately. The grand banquetting room was opened for ti►e first time on Sunday night, inn. initiated in a style of the most reSpletittent bril liancy. This matchless apartment, whkelt dine at least one hundred persons coninunlionsly at one long table, is lighted in the day by a single window %Nit dimensions next the l'ark,, pilastres arc simple, and very agreeable to the eve. Tlie furniture is not yet complete. A dit►- tier was given to try the effect ; it was a party en funtille. HAMBURG I-1 PAPERS. ST. PETERSBURGH, MARCH 31.—it will be re- membered that the Jesuits, when they were nisbed from'--Saint Petersburgh its Isls, were al lowed to remain in the Governments of Nlohiion and Witepsk, but on condition of not taking. In to their schools any pupils except of the Roman Catholic religion but it having been discovered that they have continued, without regard to the hulls of the Holy See and the law-s . of the empire, unlawfully to seduce united Greeks to the Roman religion, and have even carded on intrigues in Su ralvia and Siberia, where they had tin business at all, his Ntijesty, on the representation of his Minis . - ter of Worship and Public Education, has ordered that they shall . be immediately sent out of the conntry, and their academies at Polw , k and Wilna aholis! , ed, and measnres•sh4ll be taken respect ing that which, after the report of the Unman ;N:letripolitan Bishnp, is to•be put in their place. ThoQe among the Jesuits who were born in Russia may remain in the country, and enter into an other order. - STOCKHOLM, APRIL 7.—Au impost duty of 40 schillings Hamburgh Witco per lb. ih imposed on Spanihh, Portuguese, and floe Saxon wool, by a decree of the iloyal Board of Trade, rimed April 3. BPRLim, APRIL 1 I.—The report that M. Wol ter, bookseller as Ileidelberg, loth been arrested by order of a foreign Government, is onfoutoled. FKANEF9RT, APRIL 12;—We hear no more of the opening of the Diet, which Was to have been on the OM of Aptil. Some say it will be on,l he Isr of May, • [l:he Austrian Observer contains a long account of an iftsurrrciion at Aleppo, under the date of Constantinople, Feb. 25. It was stippresr,ed sfrer a violent oppositiod on the pert of the insurgents. "f be Tartars win conveyed the news to Constan tinople also carried the herds of the ringleaders, which were dislrl•iyed on the gates of►he Seraglio.] THEATRICAL REGISTER. • . Performed Lest Nig-ht. THEATRE ROYAL, Dtturry-LANE.--Ring• Lear : King Lear, Mr. Xean ; Edgar, Mr. Rae; Goneril, Mrs. Glover ; Regan, MP,. Egerton ; Cordelia,, Mrs. W. West. After ' which, What Next MEATHE ROYAL, CoVENT-GARDEN.—I-Tenri Qnatre Henri, Mr. Macready; Eligene, Mr. C. Kenible ; O'Donnel, Mr. JObusitonel Florence Saint Leon, Miss Stephens Louison, Miss M. Tree. After which, Harlequin and Cinderella. . 4 * Fur LITERARY REVIEW, see the First Page. Sr. `.Lars; —Holiday at the Exchequer, Bank, and South Sea House. IV! A I untvEn.-1 Dublin, 1 Wat,rford, 1 Gottenburgll, 1 France, I Ilamburz►b. DUE Dublin, l W'atrt;orc t Oottenbuigh, I Li,Lion. FIIGFI IVATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO •NIOR:110 kV. Morning, 38 wintites after C. I Evening, 50 minutes attvr 12. T 14: a SOLield t2VIS DICER?: FA 1AL , 31 AUDEAT ? LONDON, 7'UESIMY, APRIL 25, 1820. We received this morning the Paris Ports of. Saturday last. Thi Chamber of Deputies no meeting on Friday. There w.. 49 to be a public Sitting of both Chambers on Saturday. The Commi:tee. on the new Election Projet assembled (Si, Friday. .A Royal Ordonnance, in the illonileur; appoints the Sieur SEGUIER, tl►e Prefect of La Alcurthe, to be Pretect of the Department of Co:6 d'Or.—(There is no news in these Journals: ft am Spain.)—The fonovviog are extracts : " PAnts, 22.—Yesterday the Count Situeon introduced to the King the President and . Semetaries of the Chamber of thintties, who pre-. sewed to his Majesty the projet respecting abe financial accounts, agreed to by the Chamber on Thursday. His M ,, jesty afterwards transacted business with the Marquess de Latour N:aubomg, Minister of War, and the Duke de Rickel The King then transacted business for three boors with the Count Simeon. His Majesty is still afflicted with gout in the knee, and continues to dine in his apartments. " M. Chevalier, one of the authors of the Bi bliotheque Historique, was arrested on Thursday. The cause of his arrest is not stated. " M. de Vatistnenil, one of the Substitutes of the Procuteur•General, made his report yester day to' the Chamber of Accusation, respecting affair at the subscription called national. The Cour Royale will pronounce its attf..4 at a S. übFe- Tient Sitting. If it shonld deem it fitting to pro ceed in the affair, the Government will be ad,. dressed in order to obtain, first, authority front the Chamber of Deputies to prosecute nine of its members who signed the subscription ; a:nl, secondly, the referring all the accused to the Chamber of Peers, in case the Count Lanjuinais shall find himself compromised. " T he brochures entitled Apercus IlistoTiquea, forming a continuation of the Bibliotheque Ilisto rique, and the Galerie, forming a continuation of the Mincrre, have been seized by order of the ocureur du Rui. FIVE PER CENT'. Friday 74 f. 10 c. DEFEURCD STOCK Of the spa March, 1817, lOO 1. We. e2ci Sept. 1 819, 90 f. 50 c. 2241 March, 1840, 3B f. 50 c. " MUNICH, APRIL 14 —Our Envoy, NI. d Zeutner, has ol.rained from the Cupgress of Vienna, that thcre sli4il be no atten4pt zna 2gl a!tvr tile Constitulion s now etta bli s h e d in Ger' many." • The attack upon tilt Established Clergy by N ' ff : l LA r.IBToN, on Saturday last;St, -the jion d° Tavern, a t wh a t was ca ll e d t h e W e stmoll Bgcl Dinner, was one of the most - reprehensible deck' mations that perhaps was ever heard upon a 9 411 . 1 ' far occa3ion. But the political conduct of th il Gentleman has been s o v er y ex t raor di nar y (b et even yowl; and inexperience cannot be r e ' ceived, as a due apology. The Morning Chronicl e of this day attempts to explain this shockia, abuse upon a Sacred Order, which may alnd be considered as an attack upon the Churcb itself - , by limiting that abuse to the Clergy in 0 / neighbonihood of Doehatn We shall, on til l° occasion, make .the Chronicle refute itse/t by the following extract from its report yesterday, of th e Meeting in question.? --Speaking of the Clertd Mr.Laras-robt said, " in this instance, (the Wesr madam! Election) 'there had been arrayed agoin sC the cause of independence, the Magistrates, an d a Body, who, from the earliest times, load enlisi themselves in tit,. maintenance of slavery, " meant the Clergymeu—(great applause)--a clap' of men, who, instead of inculcating ROM al e Pulpit charity and good will among Wien, were solely occupied in fonzenting broils (1 44 disturbances, and who always erred, it such initna' culate persons could err, on th;e side o f des potibm." Now we leave all men who .have ani respect for decency, decorum, liberality and justice , to say whether this scandalous attack trpon th e most • venerable class of men in society if not an abuse upon tie Clergy in general and tiC all tunes, and whether ti:e following vasage iu the Chronicle of • OW d v ao,otmts to any justification of so odious , a ca!ntiirty, or i 6 contined to a parcicul.tr body of rocn of that order ;—`‘ Gentleman (lir. 10113- TON) liad described a port:;on of the CtergY connected with the Darlt,:ot i‘,11." We now not whether the Law can inflict ell punishment , upon the .utterer of so giOSS 3 libel upon a body of filth without whoa Society could ouly exist in the most b , it' barons state of Ai beim, and .the most bor' ride depravity, but if there be any penal ju" risdietion that can be appeded. to on the oc enion, we earnestly hope that the iN.Terohcrs of the Church, ail of vt hoot are libelled by sweeping calumniation, will appeal .to: id, anti hold forth N Yearning against such (laving lice , •- tiousness, s which, cannot be cxcmcd by t he orgies of Bacchus, the Icvity of yowl!, or the ran cour of Party. In fact, the abuse of the Clergy wki• of so gross a nature, that even Mr. littouGnisM, to honour whom. the Dinner took place, and tho particular friend of Mr. LANIBTON, found it necessary to rise- in their docuce, and to say, " that the condeinnation which had. been pass' cd on.llie Clergy in genera, could only, be ap plied to a par} of them. Some of the most zea lous friends Of independence were to be found among those be hail mew low(' of that body."-- fie " veal oily eulogised the conduct of the C!cror of the Church of England, with nearly all of tv;,ont he ltnd It4d communication on the (It the , Education Comatittce; and on that ibjeCt Which he could speak withont prcindic, eoulj assert that their conduct, with scarcely a singe ex" ception,was zealous, benevolent, and praiseworthy inthe evretne." Thus is the Chronicle, in its attewc to limit the calumny to the Clergy of airhani, refuted not only by the express words of Mr. LAMBTON himst If, bat by the contradiction a his friend, Mr. BROUGHAM ! 1113 MAJESTY arrived in town yesterday after.. noon, 80 , 0 aster 1011 r o'clock, at Isis Palace ill Pall Mall, from Windsor Palace, escorted by A party of Light Horse (Lauccrs•) The KtNo's birds-day having been kept yester• day, the 'louses of Parliament did not sit. Duke and Duchess of GLOUCESTER bad A dinner party yesterday. On Sunday the Princess SOPHIA rode out with the Duchess of GLoucKsTint in her carriage, anti viewed ittisscll-square, and its neighbouring provemenls, which It ace t aken place since bee kleyal Highness was in LonOoti. Yesterday, about one o'clock', .the Princess AU' GUSTA arliVed at the ding's 1 1 ,1130! in S. James' 9 Pot k, ;rpm her seat at Frogniore, where her Roy4l received visits Irmo the Duches s Ur GLOU - CUSTEII, the Pt inCCSS SOPHIA, &C. D i the cyCiiiiic ;set' Ropil ilighiresS diilrd with di ll ' Dtike non Dochuss of - CLAAENCE• Prince LroPoLD dined with the Duchess of NRNT yesterday, :it the King's Palace at lien' sifivon. Yesterday, Fit twelve o'clock, a Cabinet Coup" cil was - held at the Foreign Office, which 'sat in deliberation tii about balt-past two o'clock. The Lords of the Council assembled yester ,l4 at the Council (Mice to hear appeals. The Cortrity of Limerick has bcen placed tind e r the Peace Pre,eiv:.tion Act by the Lord Liet"' tenant and Privy Council. An extra orciet ) ! l Police will, therefore, be pkced tbrbogliout 00c ' County.