The Sun.
London, England, 1808-10-18 00:00:00

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1808.

A Mai' reached town this morning from Si.
tily. -Every thing is quiet in Italy, though it is
obviouS that the 'event's which have occurred in
'qpain have produced a very Strong etre& upon the
minds of the Italians. SooMAP.jaTE has 'issued a
pecree, perhaps the most tyrannical that ever was
L.,sued by any Tyrant, in which heforbids the-peopleof
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Italy to speak about the affairs of Spain, and the se-
verest punishment is denounced against those who
offend against this Decree.

Dutch Papers to the gth inst. reached town last
night ; they contain news from Paris to the 4th.
The long etTeeted meeting between the Emperor of
RUSSIA and BUOI+APART has 4t length taken place
at Erfurth. The,l
Meeting took place on the 27th
ult. Ii4,roNAPApT4 rode out of the town, attended
by a number of his vassal Princes, to meet the Em-
peror. Nothing has.yet occurred which can atTord
the slightest clue to the projeets which BUONAPARTE
has formed, the execution 'of which he undoubtedly
expeas to facilitate by means of this interview with
ALEXANDER.

A Morning: Paper that has been remarkable for
the vehemence of its attacks upon the Convention
in Portugal, has accused Gen. HCPE of having
issued a tyrannical Proclamation in Lisbon, ordering
all Taverns to be shut at six o'clock in the evening.
--The simple fa& is, that it was necessary to adopt
every precaution to prevent the Portuguese from
putting the straggling Frenchmen to &ail), and
until the Portuguese Government could assume
its funCtions, the British General thought it proper
to adopt measures to secure the peace of the City;
and this is called an ate} of tyranny.

As the fomenters of public discontent are so aelive
in their attempts to produce new Meetings for the
purpose of petitioning the Throne on the subject of
the Convention of Cintra, we feel it out; duty to
persevere in opposing efforts which can obviOusly
arise from none but bad motives; since the object
-has already been granted, and therefore to address
the Throne again on the same subject, is positively
to manifest a distrust of his MAJESTY'S gracious pro-
mise. Though the words in his MAJESTY'S An-
swer are doubtless engraved on every loyal heart,
yet we shall repeat them, in order more strong-
ly to, convi& the mischievous spirits who are
so solicitous to sow divisions among their country-
men, of the glaring absurdity as well as male-
volence of their proceedings. His MAJESTIC'
with a proper 'consciousness of that regard to
justice and the honour of his Crown, which has ren-
dered him the object of love, gratitude, and vene-
ration to his SubjeCts, and of respedt to all mankind,
says, in answer to the Address from the City of
London—an answer that ought,' doubtless, to serve
for the whole Einpire, and prevent all further im-

portunity-
-64 I should huve hoped that recent occurrences would twee
convinced you that I am at all times READY to INsTIruTI
INQUIRIES, on occasions in which the CHARACTER of the
Co UNTR Y, or the UONOUIt. Of ray ARMS, is concerned, and
that the interposition of the City of London could not be ne-
cessary for INDUCING ME tO DIREcr DUE INQUIRY tO be
made into a transaction which has DISAPPOINTED the Hurts
and EXPECTATIONS of the NATION."

Now we put it to the reflection of any man who
means well to the Country to say, whether his MA-
JESTY could have expressed himself with more per-
spicuity on the subject, and whether he does not
manifest a previous determination to have the subject
in question duly investigated ? And here we can-
not help expressing our wish that all rash, but well-
meaning men, who have thought unfavourably of
the - Convention of Portugal, had .acted upon
the principle which has influenced' his MAJES-
TY on this
.occasion... Our gracious Monarch
does not apply any epithet to the ConVention
itself, which would be pre-judging a matter that is
to be the subje& of examination, but he refers to
the feelings which that Convention excited in his
,Subjects—feelings in which, by his own acknow-
ledgment, he fully participated. Yet the People are
most, indecently told not to be " lulled with the pro-
mise of inquiry already given," though that promise
came from a Monarch whose charader is uni-
versally. revered,, and whose word is entitled to im-
plicit confidence ! !—Let the People, then, not be
misled by the artifice, of Fadion, to pray. 14r what
his MAJESTY has promised to grant, but rest assured
that a full investigation will take place ; and that if
punishment is found to be due, it will properly and
effectually be awarded.

We noticed, on Saturday last, a most scandalous
attack upon the charaCter of Sir ARTHUR WELLES-
LEY, reSpeaHlg the Battle of Assye, and as the au-
thors of that attack have shrunk from tie subje&,
and- endeavour to find a miserable refuge in hypo-
thesis and inferences, deduced from premises in-
vented by themselves, we shodld have let the matter
rest, if we did not think it necessary to put a final
stop to all malicious misrepresentation on an affair so
honourable to Sir ARTHUR by inserting this day an
article sent to us by a Correspondent, in which the
military tal:mtS and condu& of that gallant Officer
are placed in such a point `of view as may, perhaps,
silence even the malevolence of his, secret enemies,
at least upon this occasion. We cannot, however,
drop the .subjeei Without expressing our abhorrence
Of the full exLvit of that malevolence, since, in order
to defame Sir Axrnu4, his enemies have not been
content with a biiskt.attaa v-pon him, for which pur-