The Sun.
London, England, 1831-04-26 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. -

(From the Portsmouth Herald of Sunday.)

PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 23.—8 y a late order of
the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, gun
brigs are in future to Lave a gunner, borne as part
of their complements.
We mentioned some few weeks since, that Mr.
Sheffield, late a student in the School of Naval Ar-
chitecture, in this dock-yard, was appointed overseer
of a steam-vessel, then in progress of building for
Government, in Fearnall's yard, Limehouse. A se-
cond steamer is in progress in the adjoining yard of
Cox and Curling, under the immediate inspection and
superintendency of Mr. Cutfield, al.o formerly a
student in the same institution.

PROMOTIONS, APPOINTMENTS, &c.—Captain C.
Graham is re-appointed to his Majesty's ship Rattle-
snake, on being recommissioned. Lieutenant L.
H. Butterfield, of his Majesty's ship
.Pallas, is ap-
pointed to the command of the Brisk gun-brig.
Lieutenant J. W. Noble is appointed to the Pallas,
vice Butterfield. Ueutenwits G. Goldfinch and
J. ~Heysham are appointed to his Majesty's ship
Pearl on being recommissioned. Mr. A. Lane is
appointed Surgeon, Mr. G. A. Munro, Assistant-
Surgeon, and Mr. F. Lean, Purser, of the same
ship. Mr. J. H. Windom, Mate of his Majesty's
ship Ferret, is promoted to the rank of Lieutenant.
Mr. P. Sailer, of his Majesty's ship Talavera, is
appointed Sur4eon, and Mr. D. Jardine, of his Ma-
jeiry's ship Hyperion, is appointed Assistant-Sur-
geon of his Majesty's ship Stag. Mr. G. 11.
Dobbs, Assistant-Surgeon of his Majesty's ship
Waispite, has been promoted to the rank of Sur-
geon, and appointed to his Majesty's ship Light-
ning, vice Jeffery, appointed to his Majesty's ship
Tribune. The following Lieutenants are appointed
to the Preventive Service on the coast of Kent,
viz.—J. M. Laagtry, A. S. Wight, Z. Mudge, W.
Whitfield, G. S. Biker, W. Beckett (b), T. A.
Butler, T. P. Wheeler, C. E. Biessett, Lawless,
r. Ross, H. E. Wingrove, J. It. Benson, S. H.
Laston, G. Alexander Leafy, G. Drew, W. G.
Peaine, W. Squire, E Nickoll, A. Nagle, S.
Brokenshaw, J. Evans (6), R. Clough, C. A. John-
ston, J. Kiddie, J. Jeayes, It. Hunter, C. Puckett,
Humphrey., G. Glhan, V. P. Hunter, J.
Stephen, 11. B itt, .J. M. Bate, J. Duni!, all of the
'Dfiitclaivnenrian!C. T.
Poynter,
.VS. Hall,
w.sea
SlVli ili,tst,nii: soi E. Jull, W.H.
W.E.Curlewis,
of the Hyperion; J. Elwin, It. Mcrgan (6), NV. J.
T. Heaslow, J. E. Knight, R. T. lidevain, 0. L.
Campbell, E. El. Pace, and J. F. Baker. Coin-
mander E. Rayner, rt tired Commander at 7s. a day,
is appointed retired Commander at Bs. a day, vice
Walton, decewed. Lieutenant R. Palk is promoted
to the rank of retired Commander at 7s. a day. Mr.
1. Richards is appointed Purser to the Ordinary at
Portswouth, vice Henderson. Captain .1. Claveli
is appointed to the Ordinary at Ryinoutli, vice Pil-

old. Lieutenant W. Sturgess, of the Ordinary at
Sheerness, is appointed to the Ordiryery at j Ply-
,nouth, vice Casey. Mr. T. F. Jessep is appointed
Purser to the Ordinary at Plymouth, vice Crowley.
Lieutenant G. Wilson (a) is appointed to the Ord;-
oary at Chatham, vice Pollard. Lieutenant E. Med-
-ley is appointed to the Ordinary at Sheerness, vice
Sturgess, appointed to Plymouth. Lieutenant J.
Goldie (a) is appointed to the Ordinary at Sheer-
tess, vice Muir. Mr. T. Stones is appointed Purser
to the Ordinary a' Sheerness. The Rev. N. T.
Royse is appointed Chaplain of the Pallas. Second
Lieutenant T. Hurdle, of the Portsmouth Division
d Royal Marines, is promoted to the rank of Firs:
Lieutenant, vice Robertson, who, e death we an-
jounced last week, and who was buried with military
honours on Monday last at Hablar. First Lieute-
nant W. Pearce, of this Division of Royal Marines,
is appointed to his Maje,ty's ship Rattlesnake.

THE KING INSULTED BY THE BO-

ROUGH FACTION.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)

Never was so gross and flagrant an insult offered
to a Prince, as was on Friday offered to cur beloved
and revered Sovereign, by some Peers of the Realm
in their places in the House of Lords To what
excess will self-interest and other sordid motives
lead men! Sir R. Peel, who is now pleased to
play the part of leading Anti-Reformer, as he once
did that of chief opponent to the cause of civil and
religious liberty, was demoniac with fury, as a person
possessed, and resembled one " having a devil."
His face was pale as a sheet—his lips wore the hue
of ink—and it was said by many who saw him,
that by the entrance of the Black Rod he was pro-
bah'y saved from an apoplectic fit. Whence all this
111,y ? Because common decency is wholly disre-
<Yarded by this gentleman and his accomplices when
'there is a question about touching the darling rotten
boroughs. This is Sir Robert Peel's present cue,
and the borough faction nary possibly fancy they
have got a good supporter. Let them not deceive
themselves. In a month, he, and Mr. Goulburn,
and his brothers, may just as swiftly wheel round.,
and be for Reform, ballot arid all, as they did in
1829 on the Catholic question.
Lord Mansfield, who lectures by the hour, in his
prosing conceited way, for decorum of discussion in
newspapers and for Peers' privileges, arid seems to
think he has a monopoly of loyalty, exceeded all
bounds of common decency in the very presence of
his King, when his Majesty was actually -entering
the House of Peers. It is said that the good-na-
tured King asked," What is all that noise ?" and
was answered " The Peers debating," which some-
what astounded his Majesty.
Next to Lord Mansfield, no one forgot himself so
shamefully as Lord Lyndhurst; and we would just
ask the Ministers one question—especially the Lord
Chancellor, in whose gift the high office of Chief
Baron is, whether Lord Lyndhurst was promoted to
it upon an understanding that his Lordship would
oppose his Majesty's Government ? Lord Lynd-
hurst apparently has made some great miscalcula-
tion, as well as lust his recollection of his late pro-
motion. Does he think that the conduct of the
Ministry cancelled the obligations he lay under to
them—that conduct being only the sin of coming
forward in an honest support of Reform—the cause
which Lord Lyndhurst himself once very honestly
supported ?
But what shall we say of the Peers who had the
decency to complain of the Lord Chancellor for
leaving the House to meet his Royal Master—on
being summoned to do so by the Usher of the Black
hod! They actually said his Lordship should have
put the question, arid remained arid kept his Majesty
at the door, while Lords Mansfield, Lyndhurst, arid
Co. were carrying on their violent debate Here
let us contrast with the conduct of Sir Robert Peel,
Lord Mansfield, Lord Lyndhurst, arid Lord London-
derry, the dignified demeanour of the Duke of Wel-
lington arid his party, who abstained from giving
their presence arid countenance to such violent and
outrageous scenes. They well deserved of their
King and their country. Their line of conduct is
plain, and consistent, and honest, and intelligible.
They oppose Reform. We think them quite wrong.
But they do err conscientiously and fairly. The
petty distinctions taken by the others, who are
furious against the Government measure, but have
misgivings that some Reform must pass; so
they affect to be some Reform. \Ve say affect,
because every argument they use, every topic
they appt al to, is distinctly directed against
all Reform, the smallest as well as the
greatest. Arid, accordingly, Sir Robert Peel, Mr.
Goulourn, arid all, were against every kind arid de-
gree of Reform, from the first in tart of their corn-
ing into public life, down to the hour when they dis-
covered, t'other day, that it might be convenient for
them to affect some reforming opinions. But these
gentlsmen are nimble in their evolutions. How
quick did Mr. Goulburn turn round in favour of the
Catholic question on the day of the King's Speech,
1829 ! He had always been against anything like
concession to Catholics till that hour ;arid ever since
he has been an emancipator. So of Sir R. Peel
arid the Test Act. He as quickly wheeled mound,
and came to be for the repeal, the moment he srw
Lord J. Russell's motion was carried; though he
said most solemnly that he deemed it ruinous to the
church. Again we say, these men cannot be either
respected or trusted. But to support them as tools
of Anti-Reform, some Dukes and Lords are now
subscribing thousands of pounds. Let the people
be on their guard, and let all good men meet so foul
and corrupt an attempt of the faction by the Sove-
reign subscription.
(From the Morning Herald.)
Sir Robert Peel, in the short and tumultuous
debate which preceeded the prorogation of the House
of Commons on Friday, was pleased to break a
lance with the Press—that Press, by the bye, to
which Sir Robert Peel owes no small portion of the
reputation which he has gained with the country.
Among the frightful consequences which the
Right Hon. Baronet foresees as likely to flow from
Reform is this, that " the country would be sub-
jected to that system of journalism which had
brought countries from a state of happiness and con-
tentment to the fever of excitement and the verge
of misery." \Ve should like Sir Robert Peel to
tell us what species of journalism it is that he ap-
proves of; or what spirit of moderation he would
wish the Press to assume when it has to record
such scenes ofseditious incendiary disorder as was
displayed in the place and at the time when be him-
self used the expression which we have quoted.
There is one journal, at least, which, as it lauds
S r Robert Peel to the skies, may be taken, we
imagine, as the organ of his sentiments, and his
beau ideal of journalism. The last number of that
journal lies before us, arid frotn it we extract a few
specimens of the tone of moderation arid charity in
which both persons and things are treated :-
1. Alluding to the Lord Chancellor (we suppose) this
Journal says, " Lord Mansfivld gave the heartless char
latan who occupies the highest station in the country a
moral chastisement much more severe than any he has
evt r corporeally received."
2. Lord John Russell in tiresome paper is styled," that
spooney," and " the penny trumpet of Woburn."
3. The Lord Chancellor's amertion, that the Howe of
Commons had by a factious vote stopped the supplies, is
three times called a " lie," and printed in capital letters,
to confirm and authenticate its grossness.

4. The King's Privy Councillors are called " hacks,"
with various other terms of ignominy.

5. And, lastly, the most insulting terms are used to-
wards his Majesty in the following words, the purport of
which cannot be misunderstood :—" As tile- procession
passed the Banqueting House at Whitehall, the Reformers
in the crowd cheered lout ly."
1-le:v we pause. If this is the species of journalism
which Sir Robert Peel delights in, we would wish
to know what it is that be dislikes. Perhaps we can
tell him. It is the journalism which has aided and
is aiding a patriotic Monarch and his Ministers to
loose those bonds of worse than feudal despotism it.
whirl, the best interests of the country have been so
long bound up; it is that pre,s which has done mole
to fan and keep alive the spirit of rational freedom

•ban any other causes united, and whose not leaqt.
merit it is to draw down upon itself the hatred and
the censure of that selfish fiction, whose reign must
oon give way to a fair and equal distribution of those,
public sights and privileges, which, by their perver',
Jim' of them, have been converted into pub!ic wrongs,'

(From the Times.)

Mr. Spencer Perceval has written us a letter in
relation to the corduct of h;s Tory friends, which
ye insect for the positive reason that the Hon. Gen-
tleman has requested us to do so, and for the nega•
tive one, that we cannot find in the said production,
any thing which should induce a rational Tory
publish, or a Whig in his right senses to suppress
The object of Mr. Perceval is to show that Lord
Brougham made an erroneous assertion (in his more.
courtly language, the Hon. Gentleman calls it "0
direct and unqualified falsehood"), when he wated,
tt at the late House of Commons had stopped the
supplies. Now, if there be falsehood in the bosi•
nets, we make bold to say that it is net on the side
of Lord Brougham. With a view to forward the
public business, Ministers sought the 'auction of the
House of Commons to the ordnance estimates. 'Fel
stead of receiving the report of the Committee,!
Mr. William Bankes moved to adjourn the House,'
and that as a mere party measure. The COEISei
quence was, that the report became " a droppel
order," and the public service remained unprovidd!
for ; and that at a moment when it was notorionol
that steps were in preparation—indeed the formol
notice of them had been given—for rendering it incr
possible that his Majesty's Ministers should mill
on the Government for eight-and-forty hours longer
without resorting to a dissolution of Parliament.
Mr. Perceval may amuse himseif with words, but
the common understanding of the country bears out
in its fullest sense the cutt;ng reproach of Lord
Brougham.