The Sun.
London, England, 1822-08-07 00:00:00

[TIiF`TIME3.]

The public look with more or less of attention
to official speeches at the opening or closing of
Parliament, .according to the general importance
of the measures which in the one case are likely
to be announced, and in the other to be retraced.
Yesterday gave birth to no less than two doCu-
ments,of the retroSpective kind—the-Speech of
his Majesty, and that which was delivered at the
bar of the Lords by the Speaker of the House ,of
Commons. The King was concise and the sen-
timents put into his Majesty's month were not
such as required to be criticised, The Right
lion. the Speaker was somewhat More diffuse in
.his harangue. -We shall notice, however, but
one passage, wherein he affirms, with respect to
the agricultural distresses, " it was obvious
" that the only efficient relief within the con-
" troul of Parliament, was such a reduction of
"taxation as could be effected consistent with an
" adequate provision for the services of the State,"
&c. Now hare it is needless to make any fur-
ther remark, than that whatever pains Lord Lon-
donderry might have taken in compounding the
Royal Speech, it is plain that his Lordship could.
not have been 'consulted about the getting up of
the Speaker's. The Noble Marquis would have
taught.the Right Hon. Gentleman a sounder doe-
tririe than that of ascribing relief to any diminu-
tion of taxes: for all the world ht;ard\his Lor&
ship declare, not many months ago, that " if the
" whole mass of taxes could be swept aWay at
4c. once, it would have no
‘material 41ft-deuce' in
" relieving the distresses of the oatioti!"

[IrORNINQ HERALD.]
The following are stated to-be faCts reiPecting
the mysterioui departure of the Earl of Ports-
mouth froM Edinburgh :—Lord and Lady Ports-
mouth had for Malty months resided in that city;
and' her Ladyship being in a delicate state of
health, and in the family way, had put herself
under the medical management of Dr....Tatnes
Hamilton, jun., as her physician and acconcheur.
His Lordship never left his Lady, and uniformly
evinced the most conjugal attention and affec-
tionate solicitude for her, and seldom quitted the
room, except to take a walk or an airing,' and
paying a morning visit to Mrs'. Norton, of Abbey
'Hill, a relation of his first Lady. On the morning
of his Lordship's departure he breakfasted with his
Countess, and left her about one o'clock, in perfect
good humour, saying, he should soon return, and
would take an early dinner with her, at three
o'clock. He was soon after seen passing the
Royal Hotel, from which a son of Mrs. Norton
joined his. Lordship, and after a short conversa-
tion they both got. into Mrs. Norton's coach and
drove off, and were soon folloWed by Mrs. Nor-
ton's chariot, With post horses, in which was a
person who called himself Colonel Cook ; over-
took the coach on the road,: where they all got
into Mrs. Norton's chariot and drove off on the
London road, and, it since appears, arrived in
Surress after having travelled 440 miles in 51
hours. The Noble Earl, it seems, had not made
the least preparations for the journey, not even a
singe change of apparel.

[NEW TIMEs.]
The latest accounts from Spain are contained
in the Echo du Midi (a Paper published in 'the
South of Fiance), from which we have else-
where made extracts. These advices come up to
the 2-3 d of July, from the head-quartets of the
Spanish Royalists, at Urg,el in Catalonia. They
state the important fact that tho famous manufac-
tory of rnusqnets at Rippol is in,,the hands of the
Royalists, who keep it fully employed in fur-
nishing their troops with arms.' The important
town of Vich is asserted to have surrendered, after
a desperate -resistance, to the Royalists; and they
were closely pressing the fort of Cardona.-
-From other parts.of Spain the intelligence was of
a similar complexion. A feature of the present
-hostilities, which strongly recall to mind the
Guerilla warfare of 1809, and the following
years, is the necessity which the Liberal faction
are under of ,guarding their Couriers by detach-
rrents of troops. No less than GO Militia were
employed to escort the Courier from Madrid ;
and yet even this strong body was attacked by
the Royalists, who wounded the Courier and
four of his guards. The Courier from Pampeluna
was missing. In Navarre, the Royalist 'Chiefs
Quesada and Juanito are still in force. In
Guypuseoa the Liberal; have been beaten at
Arpestia and Vergara. At Veza the Royalists
also obtained the advantage, taking 415 prisoner's.
these advices r 1 is positively stated, that a

. NORNING CHRONICLE.]
We received the Paris Papers of Sunday last
night by express. An. article under the head of
Trieste, from the Allgenzeine Zeitung, represents,
on the aut4ority of an official Report publiihed
by,the Admiralty Of
_Hydra and Speizia, dated
the sth July, the havoc made in the Turkish
fleet at Tschesme to have been very great indeed ;
Tile Admiral's. ship was blown up, three other
ships of tine line were set on fire and sunk, seven
frigates run aground near TsCheStne, and the
-greatest part of. the crews perished in the waves.
The. Greeks are. said., on
.getting rid of the Capi;*
tan; Pachai to have prepared an expedition for
f.t will be seen, from the letter of our
City correspondent, that accounts have been re-
ceived or the complete success of this expedition.
'lit-Journal des Daats enters at some length
into the. disgractfel 'affair at the Theatre Porte
St. Martin. A.-contemporary seems to be of °pi-
' nion, that the Ultras are More implicated in thiS
.affair.than theliberals.. We believe there is no.
reason for any such distinction. The genteel_
audience which acquitted itself so heroically
against a few defenceless actors, was, we un
derstand, perfectly national. The most dis-
gusting part of the whole is the .tone in
which the• affair is spoken of by most of
the Journalists. The French taste and our
own differ not a little with respect to poetry
in general, but more particularly Dramatio
Poetry. -We think their. Tragedies exceedingly
dull; and they think ours exceedingly barbarous.
ThoS'e who have pushed their researches the
farthest in matters of taste, will perhaps be the
most disposed to allow that nothing certain can
ever be laid down respecting it. The French.
however, are very Papal in their notions' on. this
subject', and having satisfied themselves of' the
infallibility of their own oPinions,theY view with
a species- of 'horror •whatever•is not strictly or-
thodox. M,
.de Chateaubriand would much
sooner subscribe to the doctrine of the sove-
reignly of the people, than renounce his opinion
that Shakspe.are is a barbarian ; and the theatrical
critic in the Constitztlionnel is not more con.:
fident of his own existence than he is that the
French Tragic Theatre is the first 'of all The,
atres, and'Corneille and Racine the greatest of
all Poets,

[MORNING POST.]
The Sitting of the French Deputies on Satur-
day'last was generally quiet,. with a momentary -
exception, occasioned by Mr. Benjamin Constant
telling the Ultras that-they 44 dared" not answer
him because the Minister -(Mr. De Villele) for-
bad their doing so, being apprehensive that truth
should come out,. This expression gaie so much
Offe'nce,that Mr. B. was called to order. The
Left then accused the President of partiality
and want df conscience, in calling Mr-Benjamin
Constant to order, when he had not done the
same to Mr. ReVeliere two days before, when
that'Depaty had charged them with conspiring.
Il shoh discussion
.then arose on the question,
whether the President had any conscience or
not, Which terminated as usual in such cases
without prodUcing conviction on either side.
Mr. De Saint Aulaire deposited a proposition
oh the table of the-Chamber, demanding-that the
Attorney-General of the CoUrt Royal of Poitier,
be brotight to the Bari to reply to the charge of
having been guilty of serious offenCes against the
ChaMber of-Deputies, and to be condemned to
the punishment ordered by the law. That pro-
position was to be discussed on Monday in the
Bureaux.