The Sun.
London, England, 1830-02-27 00:00:00

LIST OF THE MINORITY

OF T Witt:Ty-FIVE, WHO ♦OTED FOR THE MOTION OF MR. D. 1%

171 RV KY,
" That it is destructive of the ends of public and private justice,
and inconsistent with the duty of any Member of this House,
t• vote in Committee on any 13111 in which he is directly per.
sonally interested.
Baring, Sir T.
Blake, Sir F.
Bernal R.
I Cave, I. 0.
Duncombe, T.
Denison, W. J.
Dawson, A.
Grant, It.
Hobhouse, J. C.
Howard, Henry

Maberly, J. Thomson, C. P.
Marshall, NV. Wait h man, Aid.
O'Connell, D. Whitbread, NV. H.
Sykes, D. Warburton, H.
Stewart, J. Wood, John
Sebright, Sir John Wood, Alderman
Taylor, M. A.
Tennyson C. TELLER;.
Tratit, W. H. Harvey, 1). W.
Hume, 7o6eph

The French Ambassador left town yesterday morning I
about ten o'clock in his carriage and four, and proceeded
to the residence of Prince LEOPOLD, at Claremont. His
Excellency remained with his Royal Highness upwards of
two boon, and then returned to town. His Excellency,
on his return to town about four o'clock, proceedel to the
office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and
bad a long conference with the Earl of Azzanzim.

LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1630.

The Lords of his Majesty's most Honourable
Privy Council had a Meeting this morning. Those
present were the MASTER of the ROLLS, Sir CHRIS-
TOPHER ROBINSON, and the Right Hon. JOHN
WILSON BROKER. Their Lordships were occupied
the whole morning in hearing arguments on Appeals
remitted from the Colonies.

We have only space left to point attention to
the Meetings at Manchester and Aylesbury on
the distress of the country. The speech
of Lord NUGENT is particularly eloquent, honest,
and convincing : his Lordship is indeed a Reformer
of the " right sort "—and will, we hope, live long
to witness and enjoy the triumph of principles which
he has advocated with admirable consistency
through good and through evil report.

The following, from our Paris Correspondent,
would have appeared yesterday did room permit :

" PARIS, ?EIS. 23.

" Rumours cont;nue to circulate of an adjournment of
the Chambers immediately after the opening of the Ses-
sion; but a reason exists which appears to render such an
event impracticable, and which it is not impossible may
have escaped the attention even of the advisers of the
Crown. The law by which the sinking fund is regulated
expires in the month of June, 1830, and before that pe••
riod a new law on the subject must be passed. This, it is
believed, will be an insurmountable objection to the ru-
moured adjournment. The same cause may even affect
the possibility of dissolving the Chambers before the
month of June. As the dissolution could not be effected
until after the discussion on the Address, which, accord-
ing to the French Parliamentary forms, must he attended
with considerable delay, the time which would remain for
convoking the Electoral Colleges, and afterwards assem-
bling the new Chamber, would be protracted beyond the
period when it thus appears that Legislative intervention
is indispensible, unless a dangerous crisis is to be hazarded
in the public securities of France.
" According to the calculations of the Gazette de
France, the Ministry may reckon on 200 votes out of the
MO member, of which the Lower Chamber is composed.
Of these, 120 belong to the extreme right, and 80 to the
right centre of the Chamber. The remaining 230 are
composed, according to the same authority, of 200 of the
extreme left and left centre, and SO of what are called the
defection. it is now distinctly admitted, therefore, that
the Cabinet is to he left in the minority : and, from the
invective% with which the defection' is loaded, it is to
be presumed that the hope is now abandoned of gaining
over any part of the thirty calumniated voters.
" The direction of the financial operations relative to
the conversion of Dutch Bonds into Rentcs Perpetuelles,
has been accepted by the house of Willing, jun., on terms
to which the house of Hope and Co. refused to accede.
" It is stated in the Corfu Gazette, that Mr. Gordon,
the brother of the English Ambassador at Constantinople,
hal embarked on board an lonian steam-boat, with most
important dispatches for Patras. The same journal an-
nounces the total evacuation of the Morea by the French
troops, and the daily augmentation of the British naval
forces.
" A report is current this morning, the origin of which
I have been unable to trace, which states that a new Pro•
tocol has been signed at London on the subject of Greece,
by which that of the 6th of July has been modified in
one essential particular. The new Greek State is, it is
said, to be henceforth formally recognized as completely
independent of the Porte, without even the existence of a
nominal suzerainte. This concession is understood to
have been the condition stipulated by Prince Leopold for
his acceptance of the Crown ; and will, no doubt, prove
a very desirable portion for the people who adopt him as
their King. If this report is to be trusted, the affairs of
the new State arc now definitively arranged.
" The Globe has received a third citation, to answer
for the boldness with which he has entered on his new
career of daily political discussion."

" FARIS, FIB. 24.

" The accounts which have for some time arrived in
succession from the territories occupied by the Russian
troops beyond the Balkan, as well as from Poland, seem
all to point to a state of things which cannot be very satis-
factory to the Government of St. Petersburgh. The dis-
content of the troops has been so open and undisguised,
as to have already produced the dismissal of several supe-
rior officers; and it even appears that this refractory spirit
has shown itself i❑ portions of the army which had no
active share in the late war. The origi❑ of this general
feeling of discontent may, it appears, be every where traced
to the same causes. The men murmur at the precipitate
conclusion of the treaty of peace witk the Turks, and at
the loss they have sustained in glory, and in profit too,
perhaps, by having thus been prevented from entering as
victors into the capital of the Ottomans,
" At the same time it is scarcely comeealed that the true
source of the agitation, under which the whole army is
suffering, is of a more •ital and important nature. The
investigations hitherto set on foot by the higher authorities
have not yet succeeded in probing the evil to the bottom ;
but it is strongly suspected to emanate from the very
centre of the Russian power. From the same source,
whatever it may be, the same disaffected spirit appears to
have spread, not only over all the provinces of the Mus-
covite empire in the more limited sense of that term, but

" These estimates may all be regarded' as contempora-
neous, since the oldest of them, that of Malte-Brun, is
dated in 1810, while that of Graberg appeared in 1613.
The works of Pinkerton and Hassel were published in
1817, and the calculations of Balbi are dated in 1829."

Dutch Papers of the 24th instant have been re-
ceived. They contain some proceedings of the
States-General, which we have not space fcr.

For some days past the North Sea, along the
Dutch coast, has been covered with ice to the dis-
tance of about a mile, and near to the batik it is
piled up to the height of several feet. The oldest
inhabitants do not remember to have seen such a
quantity of ice on the coasts.

But little change has taken place in the state of the
rivers in this country : the water continues to fall. The
accounts from Germany are distressing, the breaking up of
the ice in the Moselle and the Rhine has caused greater
disaster than in 1823.

If the Powers of Spain were as effective as her
efforts to disturb the peace of the South American
Republics are pertinacious, the equipment of an•
other expedition against Mexico would be an event
which other Governments, and especially that of
Great Britain, could hardly view with indifference.
There is little doubt that the Spanish troops lately
shipped from the Havannah are destined to attempt
a repetition of the late descent upon Tampico, and,
strongly as we hope, and firmly as we believe, that
they will susta'n as signal a defeat as on the last
occasion, the event suggests some considerations
which ought not to be overlooked by our Govern-
ment, in the maintenance of the strict impartiality
it has professed to observe between Spain and her
liberated Colonies.

There is not, so far as we know, any one gene-
ral principle by which the right of interference, or
the duty of non-interference, with the conduct of
one nation by another, can be abstractedly deter-
mined. The acts of a State, like those of an in.
dividull, must always depend upon time, place,
and circumstance,—so that what is its duty
at one periori may become exactly the reverse
at another. There is no permanent political code
for the world, neither are politics, if they at all
approach the dignity of a science, any thing more
than an experimental one, or a science consisting
altogether in the observation of circumstances. To
apply to those circumstances that morality by which
the happiness of mankind is best promoted, is the
first duty of Governments—their second being to
advance the prosperity of their own subjects to the
utmost of their ability. Whenever, therefore, more
permanent good may be effected by interference
than by neutrality, such interference is not only
justifiable, but required by that moral law to which
nations and individuals are alike subject, and of
which HOOKER has said, that " its seat is in the
bosom of Goo—its voice in the harmony of the
world."

We are far from saying that the British Govern-
ment ought to assist Mexico against Spain, in the
present position of those Powers towards each other,
because, however desirable to Great Britain the
peace and prosperity of Mexico may be in a
commercial point of view, and however inju-
rious the perpetuance of such hostilities to a
large portion of mankind, yet so certain is Mexico
of being eventually freed from these annoyances by
her own arms, that there is no better reason for
giving her foreign aid, than for assisting a man fight-
ing in his own defence, who is on the point of sub-
duing his wrongful assailant. In a war of exter-
mination, on the other hand, such as that of the
Turks and Greeks, the standers-by ought no more
to remain neutral, than to suffer the murder of an
innocent person whom they have the power of saving.
This is the sole and sufficient justification of the
Greek Treaty, the only real reproach of which is
that it was made several years too late, and that
Europe had heard for so long a time unmoved those
cries, which NIEBUHR, in his Roman History, bitterly
calls " the swanlike strains of a slaughtered nation."
That England should have countenanced the
Mexican descent upon Cuba, on any other grounds
than for the preservation of her own consistency and
character for fair dealing, cannot, from what
has been said, be at all inferred. Our frus-
tration of that measure was undoubtedly an in-
defensible breach of our neutrality, made in

furtherance of the odious and abominable attempts
of Spain to check the growth of American freedom ;
but our true policy was to have left Spain and
Mexico to themselves, because, of the triumph

if the ynung Republic over her decrepid
ancestor, there never could have been any ra-

•ional doubt. As to there being any prospect of the
Annexation of Cuba to Mexico, Rich a speculatio►►
is at present perfectly frivolous. Neither does there
exist in that island any disposition for such a con-
nection ; nor does it hold out advantages whatever
to induce the inhabitants to desire it. The inde-
pendence of Cuba would be merely nominal, for the
Mexican Deputies must always prevail in the Legi-
slature; and the protection to be afforded by a State
without money itself, and, in truth, insolvent—in
want of both soldiers and ships—and far from en-
joying internal tranquillity—would, to Cuba, be not
less imaginary. A supply of Mexican produce might
be a benefit, if the charges of carriage and freight
would not enhance the price to the consumer in
Cuba so enormously, that it has been calculated
sugar and flour would cost full six times as
much as they could be produced for on the
spot. There appears therefore no inducement to
the Cubans to substitute an Union either with
Mexico or Colombia, for their present dependence
on Spain, which has uniformly governed them with
a degree of practical tolerance and liberality very
far exceeding that displayed in the Mother Country.
The resident in Cuba, is molested neither in liberty
of opinion, ►►or of action, and is taxed very mode-
rately,—advantages which naturally produce con-
tent with his present rulers. The free population
is very large, being to the slave as 64 to 36, whilst
in Sr. Domingo, before the Revolution, the slaves
exceeded the free men in the r►tio of 87 to 13, a►►d
the population is said to be now about the same in
the other West India Islands. There is therefore
little fear either of a slave insurrection, or of any
other in Cuba at present, nor does there appear any
reason for doubting the continuance of the Spanish
rule in that Island, unless the free inhabitants be in-
duced from circumstances to declare their i►►de-
pendence of the Mother Country. Would that the
moderation with which Cuba is governed, had been
imitated by the prudent relinquishment of a futile
claim to those Colonies, which are jewels severed
for ever from the Spanish Crown, that they may shine
the more brightly with an independent lustre !