The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON. TUESDAY, AtTGUST 27, 1839,

Letters have been received in town from Admiral
STOPFORD'S fleet, dated the sth of August. At
that time the Gallant Officer, with five sail of the
line, was lying off' Tenedos. Her MAJESTY'S
ship Vanguard, in company with five sail of French
line-of-battle ships, had gone further up the Dar-
danelles. Both squadrons were daily expecting re-
inforcements. The Daphne had arrived from
England.

The following are extracts from the Gibraltar
Chronicle of the 13th instant.
" Her Majesty's ship Talavera has arrived at Malta from
Paros.

" The Talavera will proceed to England next week,
having been relieved by the Implacable • and the Rodney,
Asia, and Minden, will most probably be sent home like-
wise as soon as the Ganges, Powerful, and Revenge, join
the squadron. The latter has not yet passed Malta. Al-
though the intelligence from Egypt stated, that the Otto-
man three-deckers bad got. out some of their guns for the
purpose of getting into the harbour of Alexandria, that
bis Highness the Pacha was fitting out-the officers and
crew in the Egyptian uniform, changing some of the
crews, and apparently preparing to unfit and re-..
main in ordinary; yet nevertheless the general opinion'
that prevailed amongst the officers of the British
squadron was, that Mehemet Ali would not retain the
fleet be has so cheaply got possession of, but would restore
the same to the Sultan as soon as he was assured by
France and England, that his doing so would not be equi-
valent to consigning it into the hands of Russia, whose
silence and tranquillity, under the late occurrences in the
East, were quite unaccountable. In case of restitution
of the Sultan's fleet, those of Great Britain and France
will give it escort; and Said Bey, the Pacha of Egypt's
son (a naval character), will be iavested with the tempo-
rary command.

We learn that the Hastings and Benbow ships of the
line may be expected here from England in about a fort-
nigh t.—Mediterranen.

-4' The Phenicien brought this morning our Cadiz Tiem-
pos. We see, by one of the Nos., that the accounts
which the Editor has received from Valencia, are still
more incomplete than those which reached us on Monday.
He understood General O'Donnell to be still attacking
Tales, the occupation of which we were able to announce ;
and, as to the second part of the intelligence, his information
seems again to have been more scanty than our own, for he
cnly says, that the Brigade of the:Plain had sustained a
severe loss, without stating where, or giving any other par-
ticulars."

The French Journals begin to entertain confident
hopes that the Spanish question is at last about to be
settled. According to the Courrier Francais, the French
Cabinet is on the eve of assuming an attitude which
must convince the friends of Don CARLOS that his
cause is hopeless. Ten months have elapsed since the
Frency Commissary quitted ESPARTERO'S head-quar-
ters ; and now it has been thought requisite to replace
him by no fewer than three officers, M M. ZARGOZIA,
GUILHON, and JARDOT. Another, and not less strik-
ing proof of the disposition of the French Cabinet to
abandon the neutral policy of the last five years, is
indicated by the promised publication in a few
days of General MaitoTo's opinions on the
best means of effecting the pacification of Spain, con-
fidentially addressed by him to General HARISPE in
1836. in answer to certain questions proposed to him
by that officer in the name of the French Government.
MAROTO is reported to have then declared, that French
intervention was the only means:of terminating the civil
war, militarily and morally. That the Basque provinces
would never have supported Don CARLOS had they
known the extent of his bigotry, fanaticism, and weak-
ness ; and that they continued to fight for him from a
principle of honour which would disappear before
foreign intervention. "As to Don CARLOS," states
this remarkable document, "he would willingly give
himself up on receiving personal guarantees. If the
French army on the frontier showed itself merely ready
to enter, and would issue a manifesto, declaring for the
rights of ISABELLA, but determined to interfere between
both parties and stop further effusion of blood, guaran-
teeing an amnesty and the Fueros, under necessary
modifications, to be considered in a Congress—the
Cliristino, or constitutional army, not to occupy Biscay
for a certain time, say five years—after snch a manifesto,
the French troops entering would meet with nothing
save benedictions."

The Memorial Bordelais has also an article on this
subject, in which it is stated that great events are pre-
paring in Spain for the pacification of the Basque pro-
vinces. Measures are rumoured to be under considera-
tion which will enable the QUEEN REGENT, on opening
the Cortes on the Ist of September, to congratulate the
country on the near prospect of that repose which is so
essential to the moral and physical improvement of
Spain. What these measures are the Memorial Bordelais
does not inform us, farther than that they will include
among them a combined intervention on the part of France
and England. We are not over sanguine upon this point;
although otherwise satisfied that the civil war in
Spain draws towards a close. This is likewise the
opinion of the Journal des Debals, in an article an-
nouncing that the Ultra-Carlist revolt against MArtoTo
has been put down by General Elan, greatly to the an-
noyance of the Pretender and his wife, the secret insti-
gators of this movement. " Every one in Spain feels,"
says the Debats, " that a compromise between the
Carlist and Constitutional party is approaching. The
former wish to preserve their privileges and the officers
their rank. But the moment of pacification has not
arrived. In human affairs it is often necessary that all
hasecsonbecludseiovneloipseadr—rivaeldl tahte,irevcehnanwchesenexthhaatusctoend.,
their phases a
before
elusion is inevitably foreseen."
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allusion was to be made tO him personally, no
sooner had him there than he poured forth a. tor-
rent of abuse against him, such as we believe never
before proceeded even from en Ilpiiopai mouth.
Mr. HEAD it appears, in spite of the injunc-
tions of his Bishop, persists in reading the Scrip
tures, and has thence discovered that a fAbe doctiine
has crept into the Baptistiiai service, as set forth in
the Prayer Book. Baptism, he contends, is nothing
more than the outward and visible ‘Tkit of that
inward and spiritual grace, called "regeneration ;"
Iwhereas the Bishop of ExEtEit and the Prayer
Book, hold that it is the tnetms of regeneration, and
that all who are baptised according to the ritual, are
To facto regenerate. It is clear that there is a
wide difference between these dogmas. The Rector
appeals to Scripture, to show that he is right and
the Prayer Book wrong, and brings forward a
multitude of texts to prove his position. We fear
this will avail him little. It will most likely
enhance his punishment—his guilt it certainly will,
in the eyes of the Bishop. For if a clergyman
be once suffered to pick holes in the Prayer Book,
if he be allowed to assert that there is any thing
there that is at variance with the Gospel, good bye
to Conformity—adieu to the bond of union that
holds the Church together.
Such arrogance as this is altogether intolerable.
What right has the Minister of a religion, the
tenets of which are made part and parcel of the law
by Act of Parliament, what right can the Minister
of such a religion have to set up his private judg-
ment against the deliberate opinion and solemn de-
cision of the Church and the Legislature ? Is not
this throwing contempt upon the " wisdom of our
ancestors," who settled this and other points of
doctrine three hundred years ago ? No, every man
who becomes the Minister of a State religion, by
that very act debars himself from all right and title
to murmur against or question the soundness of any
doctrine, or the propriety of any form which the
State has prescribed. He makes a voluntary
and plenary surrender of that right which is
the natural inheritance of every rational and
immortal being, the right of judging for him-
self in all matters involving religious obli-
gation. He transfers this privilege—and it were
well for him if he could transfer his responsibility
also—to the Church; must believe exactly as the
Church believes, and push his inquiries after truth
not a step farther than in her formularies it is said
he shall go.
Mr. HEAD; and men like him, think this a very
hard case. They wince at the restraint which the
Church imposes upon their free will and free
thought ; but this is eminently unreasonable, be-
cause they knew, or ought to have known, that
they resigned this free agency as religionists, when
they entered her sacred precincts. t'The terms of
the bargain were before them; they were simply
these—" Here are such and such doctrines to
be inculcated, such and such ceremonies to
be observed, such and such canonical obedience
to be yielded to ecclesiastical superiors. As an
equivalent for any trouble or annoyance attending
this sacrifice of independence, here are ' so much
monies.' " Now, such a bargain can only be
broken with honour in one way. If the malcon-
tent Minister of the Church finds the yoke too
galling for his neck, he may slip his collar. He
may throw up his office, but he must also relinquish
its emoluments. On this part of the question Mr.
HEAD is, in our opinion, not quite orthodox, but we
cannot at present afford more room for this discus-
sion, which will be resumed in a future article.