The Sun.
London, England, 1825-05-31 00:00:00

sincerity in its engagements to abolish the traffic,
This is a brief outline of the contents of the
papers in the Correspondence, Class A. The
other series of papers we shall notice at a future
opportunity.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
In the Times of yesterday an article was pub-
lished to prove what we believe every body well
knew before it appeared, viz., that the Spanish
Government is in a state of extreme distress for
want of pecuniary resources. Having promul-
gated this important discovery, the Editor deem-
ed it advisable to call the attention of his readers
to it in the following words :—" Our readers will
" find in another column an official report on the
" present state of Spanish finances. We would re-
" commend an attentive perusal of it to those who
" are disposed to contract for a new Spanish loan."
—When we first stated that negotiations were in
progress for a new Spanish Loan, the Times posi-
tively, and in the most express terms, contradicted
our statement, and declared that Ferdinand was
resolved never to acknowledge or consent to pay
-the bonds of the Cortes, even as much as the
value of the paper on which they were printed.
Subsequently, in order to support its credit, the
Time: asserted that advices had been received
from Madrid, confirming:, "almost to the letter,"
the declaration it had issued on this subject.--
On the instant we sheaved the utter groundless-
ness of the pretended information of the Times ;
and that journal has prudently been silent from that
time until until yesterday, respecting a matter on
hicli, either in ignorance, or thro' worse motives,
it had endeavoured to mislead the public. Now,
when the facts can no longer be concealed, it
strives to escape from the moral weight pressing
upon it, by sending forth a document exposnig
the penury of the Royal Treasury at Ma-
drid, and accompanying it with advice to
" those who are disposed to contract for a
new Spanish Loan," to peruse the publica-
lion attentively. But we are not disposed to suf•
fer this shallow but swaggering paper to shuffle
itself as easily as it wishes out of the responsibility
it has incurred. Let it fairly acknowledge that
the articles to which it " pledges its character,"
were without foundation. If it will not, it must
sink uuder the disgrace of convicted falsehood.
An artifice so palpable as that of yesterday, will
not enable the Times hereafter to talk of the new
Spanish loan as one of those events to which it
had previously referred, as within the scope of
its all-comprehensive knowledge of passing
events.

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
It appears by accounts from Milan, that an
extraordinary Ambassador from the King of
Spain was expected there on an " important
Mi►sion." The Austrian Minister at the Spanish
Court had already arrived at Milan ; hut nothing
is said, which could throw a light on the negocia-
dons to be carried on in that City in the name of
the Spanish Government. Should they refer to the
claims of that Power on South America, they
could be merely intended, we presume, to obtain
some pecuniary compensation for the losses it has
susta►ned ; for, as to the resumption of sovereignty,
even the Court of Madrid would scarcely set up
such a pretension at present. Should it be ad-
vanced, however, under any form, certainly no.
other Court would listen to it ; and, as to an in-
demnity in money, the season is gone by, when the
demand could have been reasonably made. It is
possible, however, that this mission has no connex-
ion with the former colonies of Spain ; but may
apply to the embarrassing situation in which this
Power would be placed, should the King of Por-
tugal carry into effect the political reforms, with
which he has been, it is said, occupied for some
time. A. it would be difficult in this to main-
tain despotism in Spain, perhaps Ferdinand means
to call upon the Holy Alliance to interpose
its good offices, in order to prevent the danger
wits► which he would see himself menaced, if
uniformity of rule, or rather misrule, were
not kept up in the whole of the Peninsala.—
The intelligence respecting the Greeks in these
Papers is of the most favourable description. A
letter from Augsburg states, that at the depar-
ture of the last courier from Trieste, a rumour
prevailed of a sanguinary battle having been
fought in the environs of Motion, in which the
Egyptians were signally defeated, and it is ad-
ded, that a part of them had laid down their
arms. Ibrahim Pacha is said to be amongst the
prisoners of war. In another place we have given
an extract from The Greek Chronicle, in which
the most favourable view is presented of the
Greek cause up to the middle of April•

[MORNING POST.]

French Papers to the '29th inst. reached us last
night by Express. They continue to give de..
tails of the progress of the King towards Rheims.
On Friday last the Duke of Northumberland
left Paris for that city with his suite occupying
fifteen carriages. It appears that the British
Embassy eclipses in splendour those of all the
other Sovereigns of the earth. Intelligence from
Constantinople, dated May 3, States, that the Cap-
tain Pacha had sailed with the Turkish fleet, and
that his powers were unlimited. It also says that
Ibrahim Podia finding it equally impossible to
gain ground as to maintain himself in the Morea,
had proposed an armistice -and even a capitula-
tion, in virtue of which he would evacuate that
Peninsula and carry back his troops to Candle.
This is rendered. highly probable by the arrival of
the Grecian fleet from Hydra, which cuttuff his
retreat by sea ; whilst lie began to experience
a severe want of provisions by land. Con-
duriottis, the President of the Government of
Greece, to whom the proposal had been made
15 said to have required that Ibrahim's whole
army should first lay down its arms, and sur-
render with all its artillery and warlike stores ;
that Coron, Modon, and the neighbouring islands,
occupied by Egyptian troops, be delivered to the
Greeks, and that after this should be done, the
Government would decide whether Ibrahim
and his army should be sent back to Alex.
andria on their entering into a solemn engage..
meat not to serve in future against the Greeks.
This reply had given birth to fresh negocia-
flow, the result of which was not known but
which led to the belief that a capitulati, a of

tome kind or other would be concluded. We
sincerely hope that this intelligence will be con-
firmed, as the surrender of Ibrahim's army at the
opening of this campaign would disable the
Turks from undertaking any thing during the
rest of the year, and might possibly put an end
to the war, by convincing the Porte of the total
impossibility of ever regaining the countries
which it has lost.

[MORNING PIERALD.]
The few obser►ations attributed to Lord Li-
verpool relative to the Quarantine Laws, are,
we think, any thing but satisfactory. The Noble
Lord is reported to have said, that " the object
of the measure now before Parliament was not to
do away the Quarantine System altogether,but to
abolish so much of it as gave the Dutch a de-
cided ad►antage over us." We give Ministers
great credit for their endeavours to free the com-
merce of the country from all unnecessary
shackles, and should be ourselves the first to
condemn their continuance ; but if a question,
for instance, were raised, whether we should do
away with the buoys, the lighthouses, the pilots,
and the other expensive, and, sometimes incon-
venient, but salutary and necessary restrictions,
or rather safe-guards, provided by the Trinity
!louse, the very idea would be justly treated as
absurd and chimerical. And we confess that
we look upon the present intention of interfering
and tampering with the Quarantine Laws to
be equally so, and at the same time more
important. Aud we confess we are some
what surprised to see a statesman of Lord
Liverpool's judgment holding forth such a rea-
son. for relaxation as that of counteracting the
effects of the less cautionary policy of our Dutch
neighbours. There is such adage as fas est ab
hoste doceri ; but we never heard of such a thing
either in public or private life as a mutal rivalry
in discretion. Besides, what actual loss, or in-
convenience, in a general point of view, has
ever been sustained through our present sys-
tem ? Its details and consequences are well
known to those who embark in the particu-
lar species of commerce to which the re-
gulations apply : and as to the public, whe-
ther the articles in question reach the ware-
houses of the merchant, the shops of the retailer,
or th• hands of the consumer, 40 days sooner
or later, must be, to the latter at least, a
matter of perfect unconcern. To us it seems as
if some persons engaged in a particular branch
of commerce, who had suffered, or supposed
they suffered, from the rivalry of the Dutch,
had got the ear of Ministers, and were endeavour-
ing, to make them, and Parliament, the instru-
ments of improving their individual speculation
at the expense of the general health and safety.
If this be so, we trust the project will fail, and
that nothing will be conceded. No principle in
political economy can be at once more ob-
vious and important, than the duty imposed
upon every Government to protect the health
and welfare of its own subjects. Individual
cupidity or foreign rivalry can never for
a moment stand in competition with such a
principle : and it would be far better (but of
which there is no danger) that the whole trade
from the Levant, and other parts of the world
subject to the plague, should be lost to this
country, than that we should be exposed to the
risk of being overrun by the awful disease,
against which, under the blessing of Providence,
the Quarantine Laws have hitherto protected us.

GENERAL. ASSEMBLY OF SCOTLAND.

From Saturday': Gazette.)
NVH IT NUL Li MAY 26. The following Address of die
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland having been
transmitted by James Oclioncar Lord Forbes, his Majesty's
Commissioner' to the Right Honourable Robert Peel, one of
his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, has been by him
presented to the King; which Address his Majesty was pleased
to receive very graciously :
" May it please your Majesty,
" The letter with which your Majesty has been pleased to
honour as, we have received as a mark of Royal condescension
and good will, which demands the strongest expressions of re
speetful and grateful attachment from this General Assembly
of the Church of Scotland.

" We are deeply sensible of the invaluable advantages which
we enjoy under your 3lajesty's Government, and we earnestly
pray that our future conduct may be so directed by the wisdom
which is from above, as to justify the entire confidence which
your Majesty has hitherto reposed in our affectionate loyalty to
your Person and Government, and our unremitting zeal in the
great cause of religion, as the tie which connects the interests of
time with the hopes of eternity, and as yielding at once the best
security for the honour and stability of the Throne, and the
good order and happiness of the people.
" We return our warmest thanks for the renewed assurances
of your Majesty's unalterabledetermination to uphold the Church
of Scotland, in the full enjoyment of all its rights and privileges,
and we venture to hope that we shall never forfeit the claims
which our predecessors hare established to the favour and autho-
rity with which the General Assemblies of this Church have
been countenanced by your Majesty and your Royal An-
cestors.

" In humble dependence on the aid of Divine Grace to guide
us in judgment, and to bestow on us the spirit of meekness
and brotherly love, we are fully resolved to avail ourselves of
your Majesty's paternal admonition, conveyed in terms so en-
couraging, by bringing with us to this present Assembly an
ardent and sincere desire for the advancement of true religion
and pure morality, and by tempering our zeal with candour
and moderation ; thus feeling ourselves warranted to rely on
your Majesty's firm and hearty co-operation in promoting the
success of the counsels and endeavours which it shall be our
invariable object to direct to the general good of that portion of
the Empire which it committed to our pastoral Cant.
" We rejoice in the intelligence of your Majesty's pious reso-
lution to recommend to the early attention of Parliament the
.great deficiency of accommodation felt by your Majesty'. reli-
giously disposed subjects in sonic parts of Scotland ; and it is
our fervent prayer that the deliberative wisdom of the Legisla-
ture may speedily provide an effectual remedy for so serious An
evil, Which, in common with your Majesty, we have long
deplored.
" The appointment of the Right honourable Lord Forbes,
to represJlt your Royal Person in this General Assembly, is
received by us as a distinguished proof of your Majesty's re-
gard for the honour and interest of this National Church. The
fidelity, firmness, and prudence which he has displayed in other
parts of your Majesty's service. as well as the private worth and
amiable qualities which endear him to his country Men, well en-
title him to a most cordial and respectful welcome from us.
" We receive with much gratitude the Royal donation of
two twousand pounds, for propagating the Christian Religion
in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland ; and we shall study
to apply with strict fidelity the sum which has been thus con-
fided to our management.
" That A LMIGIIT Y Got), the Father of our Loan .If.sus
CHRIST, may protect your Majesty's person, and guide your
Counsels, and that, after a long and happy reign on earth, you
may inherit a kingdom which cannot be mov.al, is the earnest
prayer of, may it please your Majesty, your Majesty's most
faithful, most obedient,
and most loyal.subjects, the Ministers
and Elders of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
" Signed in our name, in our presence, and at our appoint-
ment by " GEORGE COOK, Moderator.
" Edinburgh 21st May, 1825."

The Bishop of DURHAM having attained his
911:4 year on Thursday, the bells of some of the churches io
tlai city rang several merry peals.—( Durham CAranicle.)