The Sun.
London, England, 1822-04-01 00:00:00

TIIE LONDON JOURNALS.

Itx-rnAcia FROM THE DAILY MORNING PAPERS,

April 1, 1822.

[THE TIMES.]

From the discOveries which have taken place
with respect to the state of our foreign missions,
the nation has had a pretty sample of the virtue
of public men, as well as of the controul which
Ministers exercise over the public purse, and of
the feeling w hich they entertain for the distresses
of the people, when put in competition with the
obligation they are under to feed their rapacious
adherents Whether we look at the new jobs or
the old jobs in the diplomatic line, we are alike
shocked and disgusted. Lord I3urghersh—he at
least will recollect—had a promotion downwards
in the army some years ago ; but he has been
amply remunerated for the disappointment of the
disinterested views which were then unhappily
frustrated. We have heard—but the iniquity of
the thing deters even us from believing it, fami-
liarized as we are to the contemplation of dis-
graceful actions of public men,—but we have heard
that, besides the salary of near four thousand a
year as resident at Florence, his Lordship
receives an additional sum of five hundred
a 'year under the pretence of being Ambas-
sador at Lucca, and five hundred a year
more as the Representative of his Majesty at
Modena. But to quit these doubtful points, and
to advert only to substantial but painful truths.
We boldly aver, and shall most indisputably
prove, that even the Florence legation is a job
altogether, meant only to pay a party adherent
out of the public property. For why should we
have a resident at Florence, when the Grand
Duke of Tuscany has none here ? Is not this
contrary to the law of nations ? Is it not a vio-
lation of the practice of civilized states ? Most
indisputably. But it may be said, "we have
always had an Envoy at the Court of Florence."
Yes, we reply, and that for a reason which has
now ceased to operate. While the Pretender
- resided at Rome, and was there acknowledged
as King of England, we, of course, could have
no ambassador at the Vatican : Florence, there-
fore, was the place fixed on as the most conve-
nient for watching the motions of the Jacobites;
but with the death of the last Prince of the
House of Stuart, our mission to Florence should
have expired of course, there being no reciprocal
appointment at the Court of St. James's on the
part of the Grand Duke, and the Austrian mis-
sion comprehending the affairs of the states go-
verned by branches of the Austrian family.—
And, under any circumstances, if we pay for
Envoys, they ought, for form and decency's sake,
to be at least present at the Courts where it is
pretended their services are required ; whereas
we pay to our Ambassadors at Vienna, Frank-
fort, and Florence, an annual sum of more than
twenty thousand a-year, and they are all here
resident iu England !

[NEW TimEs.]
Our Brazil Correspondence comes down to so
late a period as the 28th of January, at which
time the first division. of the Paulistas, or troops
from the province of St. Paul's:, MO strong in
infantry and cavalry, were in full march for Rio
Janeiro. The European. troops, 'which, after
some shew of resistance, had peaceably submitted
to be removed to Praia Grande, on the opposite
side of the bay; appear to have also acquiesced
in the proposed measures for their removal to
Europe. Vessels had been taken up to convey
them thither, and every dispatch was making for
their embarkation. The forts were manned, and
preparations made to prevent the landing of any
other troops from Portugal, should the Cortes
dispatch their threatened expedition. Thus, as
is justly observed in one of the letters, " the
fate of Brazil, so far as regards the Mother
Country, May be considered as decided." The
weak and ignorant Revolutionists of Lisbon, the
admirers of old Jeremy Bentham, have already
lost to their country its transmarine Empire ; and
that under circumstances which prove that the
liberals of the present day are at heart the
greatest tyrants. The King had in substance, as
well as form, raised Brazil to the rank of a king-
dom ; the Cortes endeavoured to sink it again
into that of a Colony. Far he it from us to wish
that the progress of any Community toward ra-
tional liberty should meet with obstacle or im-
pediment ! Our regret is to perceive nations
plunged in misery, in confusion, in civil war,in
immorality, and in irreligion, by listening to ig-
norant or unprincipled imposters, merely because
they have the impudence to call themselves
" Reformers."