The Sun.
London, England, 1831-01-27 00:00:00

PORTUGUESE REGENCY LOAN.

An advertisement having appeared in the Courier of the 25th
instant, setting forth the most unfounded Propositions, it be.
comes necessary to reply to them.
Proposition I—ls meant as an attack upon the Marquis St.
Amara, and to deny his being the Minister from Brazil to this
Government. It is only necessary to give this foolish assertion
a direct and full contradiction. He is the accredited Minister to
this Government.

Proposition 2—Assumes, that if the Marquis St. Amara be the
accredited Minister to this country, that he has no authority to
' act for his Government in any matters of a financial nature,
without leaving•them open for the sanction of the Brazilian Le.
gislature. Now, the advertiser seems so ignorant of the " Law
of Nations, and the Diplomatic Practice between Courts," as
not to be able to make a distinction between an Act which has
already passed the Legislature and one which has not. And for
- his information alone, it becomes necessary to state that the
debt due from the Brazilian Government to the Portuguese Go-
vernment has already been ratified and sanctioned by the Brazi-
lian Chamber.
Proposition 3—Admits, as far as regards Brazil, that in
Treaties and Conventions between Sovereign and Sovereign,
nothing is required but the ratification of the Emperor, and that
the Chambers have nothing to do with them, let them disap.
prove of them ever so much ; and yet with marked inconsistency
it contends, that, as respects the debt due from the Government
of Brazil to the Government of Portugal, although it has already
been agreed to by the Chamber, and inserted in the Great Book
of Brazil, and not that only, but the interest thereon, up to the
period of the usurpation of I)on Miguel, has been regularly
voted, and regularly paid to the Portuguese Government by the
Government of Brazil, without any recognition being requited
of the 18231 ondholders for the knowledge of any parties other
than the respective Governments, it still requires a new ratifica-
tion ; and yet the writer finally asserts, that treaties once signed
and ratified, cannot be " touched or meddled with." Now, the
Convention acknowledging the debt due from Brazil to Portugal
has been signed and ratified, and therefore, according to this
reasoning, it cannot require a new ratification.
Propositions 4,5, 6,7, 8,9, are mere reasonings on erroneous
premises; they are answered in the foregoing observations, and
having, therefore, no foundation, they all fall to the ground.
The writer, however, of the advertisement, seems excursive
in his wanderings; he first of all assumes positions which he
cannot maintain, and then arrogates to himself a power which,
if he had it, must be supernatural—that of knowing beforehand,
right or wrong, what the Brazilian Chambers would do if certain
things were as he states them to be; whereas his apparently
gross ignorance of the whole subject makes him state matters as
they are not, and brings him to conclusions as erroneous as his
facts.
The whole case seems to be summed up in this :—The Go-
vernment of Brazil owes the Government of Portugal a debt re.
cognised by the Chambers and by the Emperor. The interest
on this debt was punctually paid until the usurpation of Don
Miguel, and the payments were then suspended until the Re-
gency, as Donna Maria was a minor, could be installed on For.
tuguese ground, and in the meantime the payments were regu.
larly voted by the Chambers as due to the Portuguese Govern.
ment, in virtue of the Convention entered into in 1823. That
event has now taken place, and the Regency, as representing
the legitimate Sovereign of Portugal, has called upon the Bra-
zilian Government to fulfil its engagements, and pay up the ar.
rears due to the Portuguese Government. The Marquis St.
Amara, Minister Plenipotentiary duly accredited from the
Court of Brazil to the Court of London, having full powers from
his Government, has guaranteed, on its behalf, the payments
faithfully and punctually of the necessary interest and sinking
fund to the representative of the said Regency, without any in-
tervention whatever in their application.
Had this debt, due from the Government of Brazil to the
Government of Portugal, not been recognised by the Chambers,
and the interest thereon not regularly paid to the Portuguese
Government, up to the period of Don Miguel's usurpation; and
had same new claim been set up by the Regency of Portugal;
then a iecognition of the Chambers would have been necessary,
i
but, in the present case, the Executive Government of Brazil s
merely called upon to pay punctually and faithfully an amount
already voted by the Chambers to the Government of Portugal ;
and the Marquis St. Amara, in virtue of his full powers as
Ambassador and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Court of
Brazil, has recognised the justice of the claim, and has formally
and faithfully pledged his Government to the punctual payment
of all sums due in respect of interest and Sinking Fund on the
said debt due from Brazil to the Portuguese Government, to the
Representative of the Regency of Portugal, 'without any inter-
vention whatever in their application,
The foregoing answer to the absurd propositions contained in
the advertisement referred to, must, in the opinion of all impar-
tial persons, be considered a direct refutation of the assertions
of the anonymous advertiser.
The Agent of the Loan having thus fully replied to this attack,
and having before explained, in the most open and candid
manner, every circumstance connected with the Loan, he will
not think it necessary to answer, hereafter, any anonymous cor-
respondents who may continue such advertisements, either from
interested motives, or from an anxious endeavour to frustrate
the objects, and to defeat the exertions of the Queen to recover
her dominions.
THE MAR.KETS.-(THIS DAY.)

GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF BRITISH CORN,
For the Week ended Jan. 21, 1830, made up fl'om the Returns
of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England
and Wales, per Imperial Quarter.
Wheat-7es. 6d.1 Oats ......... 245. 9d.18ean5.........385. 7d.
Barley.-- 40s. 2d.1 Rye 425. lid j Pease-- 41s. 6d.

•
IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX WEEKS PRECEDING.
Wheat—..-6Ss. &LI Oats 245. 3,1.1 38s. Id
B 383. 5d.1 Rye 41s. 3d.1 424. 9d.

DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN.
Wheat.........,.165. Bd.l Oats --.—.. 10s. 9d. 8ean5.........-12i. 614.
8ar1ey.....—.. 45..10d.f Rye —..—.. Bs. Od.l Pease ....-- 6s. 6,1.

HAY M A RKETS.—( At per Load of 36 Trusses.)
CUMBERLAND (LATE ST. JA MES'S.)
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay 12 0 to £2 5
New Meadow Hay 0 0 0 0
Useful Old Ditto
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 15 4 0
Clover Hay 2 15 5 5
Oat Straw 11 12 to £1 14 1 Wheat Straw... 116 118
Supply moderately good, trade very dull, and prices stationary.
SMITHFIELD.
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 5 to 12 15
New Meadow, Hay 0 0 0 0
Useful Old Ditto 3 0 4 0
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 4 0 4 5
Clover Hay (extra fine)....£s 5 „Generally
Oat Straw 11 Btoll 10 1 Wheat Straw 112 116
A great supply, and a dull trade ; prices as last quoted.

LEWES MARKET.—Jan. 21
White Wheat (per quarter) £3 12 0 to £3 14 0
Red ditto 3 7 0 3 12 0
Barley
Oats, New 1 4 6 1 7 0
Beans . 1 12 0 1 14 0
Oil Cake. New l2 0 0 net thousand.

BRIGHTON, JAN. 26.

.
ills MAJESTY, accompan;ed by her Royal lEghneFs the.
Duchess of GLOUCESTER, took an ;airing yesterday in J,
carriage and four, with corkers.

MAJESTY gave audience to Sir HEN ILV HOTIJAM.
His Highness the Prince of ORANGE arrived at the
Pavilion on a visit to their MAJESTIES. His Highness
was on the promenade in the course of the day. Tl:e
weather being dry and frosty, the display of fashion .bles
on the promenade and drives exceeded are`• thinz of the
kind during the season. Most of the Royal suite were
amongst them. His Royal Highness the poke of G Lou-
CESTER rode on horseback. Lady Easm, and Miss
MITCHELL drove in a close carriage.
TI e influx of company within the la't few days 11,1
been greater than at any farmer period; the lio!els are
crowded to excess.

The bind of the ath Dragoon Guards played for some
time yesterday at the Bedford Hotel, the neighbourhood of
which was crowded with fashionables.

His Highness the Prince of ORANGE left Brighton this
owning for London, with the intention of returning to-
morrow evening.

The Royal dinner party yesterday included the Prince
of ORANGE, Mrs. FITZHERBERT, Captain end 'Miss SEY-
MOUR, Colonel and Mrs. DAWSON DA MER, with the Royal
Family and suite.

The calls at the Palace yesterday were exceedingly nu-
tre-ous.

There have been several arrivals at the Palace, amongst
them Colonel GEORGE FITZCLARENCE.

LORD MAYOR'S ENTERTAINMENT.

The Lord Mayor gave another dinner yesterday, at
the Mansion- house. This, we understand, was the lass
of that series of entertainments by which the Lord Mayor
has endeavoured (and we think successfully) to compen-
sate far the one great banquet which is annually given at
Guildhall. The feast was conducted upon an extensive
and splendid scale, which did ample credit to the taste and
the hospitality of the Lord Mayor, and his guests were
lavish in their praises of the entertainment. Among the
guests not connected with the city, were the French Am-
bassador, Prince Talleyrand, the Bishop of Landaff, the
Master of the Rolls, the Vice-Chancellor, Mr. Baron
Vaughan, Mr. Justice Alderson, Joseph Hume, Esq., and
Joseph Marryat, Esq., M.P.
The following toasts were received with great ap-
plause :—" The King,"—" The Queen,"—" The Princess
•lictoria, and the rest of the Royal Family,"—" The
Army and Navy." These were succeeded by the usual
civic toasts.
The Bishop of LLANDAFF proposed the health of the
Lord Mayor.—(Much cheering.)
The Loren MAYOR returned thanks. He said that
although he might be indebted to personal friendships for
having heal raised to the distinguished office lie Lad the
honour to fill, yet lie could not conceal from himself that
the toast, which the Right Rev. Prelate had done him the
honour to propose, would not have been received by such
an assembly of his fellow-citizens in so flattering a manner,
it his conduct as Lord Ma) or had not met with their appro-
bation.—(Cheers.)—He had no private interest to serve,
no sinister object to attain, and all he looked for ward to
was the approbation of his fellow. citizens. This it would
ever be his duty to deserve, and he trusted that his exei-
tions for the attainment of this end would be so far sue-.
cessful, that lie should not quit the mayoralty without that
reward which ought to he the highest and the only object
of a civic magistrate's ambition, —the thanks of the citi-
zens of London.—(Cheers.)
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The LORD Mayors proposed the health of his Majesty's
Ministers,
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pose, which would, he was sure, be most cordially received.
The time had been when to foment animosity between
this country and France would have been considered a
most praiseworthy service: but both nations now saw
their real interests more clearly, and were anximis to cul-
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propose was the health of " His Excellency Prince Talley-
rand, the French Ambassador."
Prince TALLEYRAND returned thanks shortly in French.
He said it was his earnest hope that neither France nor
England would ever depart from those principles of amity
which they both at present advocated. No two countries
could be better situated for alliance, since now they both
presented the grand spectacle of liberty, founded upon law,
and guaranteed by national probity.---( His Excellency was
received with loud and general cheering, which was re-
peated on his retiring from the hall.)
The MASTER of the ROLLS proposed the health of the
Lady Mayor, es, which was drunk with three times three,
and the Lord Mayor returned thanks.
The healths of the "Master of the Rolls and the Vice-
Chancellor" were then drunk, and those two learned per-
sonages returned thanks, as did also Mr.. Baron Vaughan,
for the toast—" The Judges of the Land."
All the toasts that were given were well received, until
The LORD MAYOR rose to propose the health of " Mr.
Hume, M.P. :or Middlesex."—(Hisses.) After an cult-
gium upon the Hon. Member for his public services, the
Lord Mayor said, that the opinion he thus expressed was
not only his opinion, hut that of the county of Middlesex,
who had chosen Mr. Hume as one of their representatives
in Parliament.—(Loud hisss ) After a short pause, the
Lord Mayor continued—" My Lords, Ladies, and Gentle-
men, I have heard those marks of disapprobation with the
deepest re fret. Far be it from me to deny to any one his
undoubted right of forming his own opinion upon the con-
duct of a public man; but allow me to remind you, that
Mr. Hume is our guest, and that it is no more a part of
hospitality to treat him thus, than the festive board is a
proper place for the demonstration of angry or hostile feel-
ings.—(Cheers, mixed with a few hisses.)
The toast was then drank amidst applauses and hisses.
Mr. HUME then rose to return thanks ; but very little
that he said was heard. The persons who received him
with hisses appeared to us to be a very small minority, for
their noise was soon drowned in the applause of the rest :
but cheers prevent a gentleman being heard as well as
hisses, and no sooner had the cheers subsided than the
hisses were recommenced, and upon that the applause be-
gan again. We understood Mr. Hume to say, that
formerly he had received the approbation of the city of
London for his public conduct, end that since then he had
done nothing which could justify them in chang-
ing their good opinion of him. He well knew
what excitement was caused by a contested election of any
kind, and he made every allowance for this ebullition of
angry feeling, thought he could not help feeling that this
was hardly a proper place for displaying it.—(Hisses and
cheers, and a cry of " What did you interfere for ? You
are no liveryman.") If any one had fault to find with
him, all he asked was that they would do so in a proper
place.—(Hisses.)—Did they suppose that he who had
never feared to oppose any Minister, however powerful,-L--
any party, however numerous,—was to be disquieted by
the citizens of London because be had thought one indivi-
dual better than another for a certain situation ?—(Cheers
and hisses.)—He was not disturbed when he felt that he
was acting conscientiously. (Common Councilman—
" Let's hare a song.") lie entertained the highest
opinion of the public conduct of Mr. Alderman Wraiths
man ; but if he had had 500 votes, instead of not having
one, he should have been a dishonest man if, thinking as
he did, he had not acted as he bad. He had nothing to
do with party feeling in the contest between Sir James
Shaw and Mr. Alderman Waithman: they could not ac-
cuse him of being 'in a league to prevent every one having
a fair hearing, but he left it to them to consider whether
they were conducting themselves fairly by him n0w,..--
(Hisses.)—He would not trespass any longer upon them,
and he felt himself very disagreeably situated in having
been obliged to say thus much. However, this proceeding
had given him another proof of how essential it was that
votes at all elections should be taken by hallot.—(Hisses
and cheers.)

This proceeding appeared to cast a gloom over the
festivities, and, after another toast, the Lord Mayor and
hie guests at the upper table retired; but not until they
had drank Mr. Home's health in a manner which seemed
intended to mark that, whatever opinion they might enter-
tain of the matter in dispute, they all disapproved of the
manner in which the Hon. Member had been treated on
such an occasion, and in such a place.
The Lord and Lady, Mayoress gave a hall in the ever-
ing. This was very numerously attended, and the dancing
was kept up till a late hour.

--
We are requested to state that the Second
and Concluding Volume of the Rev. Mr. GLEIG'S Ilistcry
of the Bible, forming the Sixth Number of the " National
Library," will be published with the Magazines on the Ist
of February.
We are sorry to learn that our apprehensions
are already verified. The farmers of several parishes in
the West of Sussex have reduced the wages of their men ;
aid renewed dissatisfaction has been the consequence. At
Billingshurst the wages of unmarried labourers have been
lowered, as we are informed, to six shillings, and of tLe
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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

It appears that on Monday last Mr. O'Connell,
and the other individuals who had been held to bail

on the same charge with the learned gentleman, of
" having assembled and constituted a meeting pro-
hibited by the Lord Lieutenant's proclama6on, and
also of having conspired, by shift and device, to
evade his proclamation," came before the Court of
King's Bench, in discharge of their recognizances,
when Judge Jebb delivered a charge, in the course
of which he declared it as the opinion of the whole
Court, that the acts imputed to the above parties
were offerers against the statute 10 George IV.
The charge of the learned Judge is said to have
" created a sensation." Indeed, it is calculated to
produce some sensation here, as well as in Dublin,
from the new and more distinct light which it
throws upon the nature of the offence, for the
alleged commission of which Mr. O'Connell and
iris fellow-agitators were arrested. The public
had been abused in this case, as in many others,
by a misrepresentation of facts. We had heard
from the speeches of the leading demagogues, or
from the Press in their immediate interest, nothing
of any charge but that of " conspiring to evade"
the Lord Lieutenant's proclamation.—a f:tccies
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culpability unusual, at least, in terms, and likely to
raise doubts and misgivings amongst the public, as
to the tenability of an arrest upon any such infre-
quent charge. But now the truth begins to show
itself: the main offence—(whether it be proved
hereafter is another questien)—the main offence is
one, upon the nature of which no two honest men
can dispute. The accusation is, not merely that
Mr. O'Connell, &c. had conspired " to evade" the
proclamation, but that they had actually violated the
law, by having assembled, and constituted a meet-

in defiance of the legal auhority by which such
meeting had, under the sanction "of the Act of
Parliament, been formally prohibited. Again,

we say, the charge tray not be proved, or J the
bill may not be found, and so the accused parties

may, in the eye of fl_: law, turn out to be com-
pletely innocet,t ; but all shadow of doubt (if the
short report of the proceedings extracted from au
Evening Paper be correctevery doubt must at
onee.disappear, that an arrest on such a charge, if
grounded on affidavit, has been strictly legal. With
regard to the specific agitation for !he " repeal of
the Union," the accounts which we have seen from
Ireland would lead to the belief that many of its

former advocates begin to look at the business witl
mingled alarm and di.gust ; and that many more,
who had observed Mr. O'Connell's proceeding,
with mere indifference or curiosity, are beginning tc
manifest an undisguised hostility toward. the whole

scheme of that selfish and cunning, but, in all es,en,

tial points, indiscreet and shallow revolutionist. The
run upon the banks has ruined him v.iih a
most important class of men—the buyers and
sellers in every part of Ireland. The banki,
under his menaces, have, as was predicted
weAs ago, by this
.journal, been fi,rced to contract
their discounts, and thus to withhold the means 01
doing business from the farmer, the cattle-dealer, the
petty merchant, the shopkeeper, throughout the
whole island. There is, therefore, to that extent an
end of profits—that is to say, of comfort to the
middle orders, and of subsistence to the poor whore
they employ. The beauty of this system of ini-
quity and inhumanity is, that its authors, aware, as
they .cannot fail to be, of the embarrassment they
have caused to bankers,and the consequent privation
to those who have been hitherto assisted by the,
useful and wholesome practice of banking as it has
been lately carried on in Ireland, are striving, with
unheard-of tregchery, to throw the blame upon the
banks themselves! and to reproach them as if it
were a crime, with that very measure of self-pre-
servation into which they have been driven by
O'Connell's savage warfare against their property—
we mean the diminution of their discounts. Never

was effrontery or dishonesty pushed to so disgrace-
ful an extreme as this. But, as we said before, the
juggle and juggler are fast going; a power which had
been asleep begins to arouse itself,—that of common
sense,—t\ hich cannot long be cheated into the sa-
crifice of every interest most valuable to civilized
men, and which has commenced, though late, to
bring together its resources for the protection of
life, and liberty, and property, against that spirit,
the unchecked predominance of which would expose
them, one and all, to ruin.—Times.
The Bristol Mercury of Tuesday last contains a
long report of the Bristol Reform Mee: inky, of which
we gave an abridged account in the Chronicle of
Monday last. It says the meeting was " compo'ed
of as great a proportion of talent, industry, aye,and
of wealth too, as ever was collected within the -
of the city ;" that the resolution " in favour of bat-
ht was carried with only six dissentients ;" arid
that, with respect to the clamour which Felix
Farley's Journal " has taken such care to set forth,
and which, it would seem, sounded in his ears mot
harmoniously, if he will but take the pains to trace
it to its source, we have no doubt he will be sly
thing but pleas,d with his investigation ; establish-
ing, as it certainly does, the fact that the people have
set their minds upon Reform, and that they have
determined not to adopt any other means of obtain-
ing it than those likely to effect its speedy accom•
plishment.”—Morning Chronicle.
Accounts, which may be relied on, from

North, have been received, which augur favorably
for the Poles. When it become necessary to ino•
vide for the movement of the Russian army, it wa,
found that the materiel and nnakitions of every de-
' scription were not forthcoming. This will surpri,e
no one who is at all acquainted with Russirt, where,
from the highest to the lowest, all is pillage and
plunder without mercy or measure. In Mr. Wefi-
ster's Travels it is observed, that " Venality and
corruption pervade all ranks in Russia; and the
employ6s of Government, from the very inade-
quate remuneration they receive, are compelled to
commit acts of extortion in every possible shape, in
order to be able to gratify the taste which 'they all
hive for a luxurious and expensive mode of living."
He mentions a fruitless attempt of Count Woron-
Z3W to check the evil by cleansing out the °likes
and punishing the delinquents; but the successors
were undeterred by the punishment of their pre•
decessors—" all is corruption nd plundering of
Government and the public." Time is ever} thing
to the Poles. They are publishing addresses
to their brethren . the Russians, which may not
be without their effect. We must bear in mind
that discontent is universal among the Russian
gentry. Before the first partition, Poland, in ex-
tent, considerably exceeded the double of the Bri-
tish dominions in Europe; and Rousseau, in his
" Considerations on the Government of Poland," in
1772, conceived it impossible to introduce a gocel
Government into so vast a region. " The first
reform you require," he says, " is in.your extent.
. Begin by circumscribing your limits, if you wish to
reform your Government. Perhaps your neigh-
bours are thinking at rendering you this service.
would undoubtedly be a great evil for the dismem-
bered parts ; but it would be a great good for the
body of the nation." If the Pelts should succeed
in regaining their ancient limits; and were to profit
so far by experience as to afford protection to in-
dustry, how soon might they be enabled to set
Russia or any other power at defiance. With even
the half of their ancient limits, a good Government
and laws might render them sufficiently powerful
for self-defence. Russia will be benefited as much
as Poland by the independence of the latter. " God
alone (as a philosopher observes) is equal to the
government of the world, or half the world."
Mor ?Zing Ch.ronicle.

The following paragraph, copied from the Kentish
C'bronicle, appeartd in our Paper a few days ti
nn Dearman Pain, who was convicted of rso
forgery,
at A rO7
at late Canterbury Sessions, and upon whom sentence
was not passed, in consequence of her pregnancy, was last
wee!: delivered of a fine boy in Westgate gaol. The poor
creature is doing extremely well, and appears totally igno-
rant of the awful situation in which she is placed."
This unfortunate woman is one of th
our mitigated law of forgery—that law which Sir