The Sun.
London, England, 1822-07-26 00:00:00

TILE 140.NDON ..Iqll-RNALS.

PNTIIACTS FROM TUE D-AILY
.full 26, 18622•

'MORNING PAPERS,

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
ROYAL TOUR.
His MAJESTY'S present plan is to-take water
at-Gyeenwich, on the 7th or Bth of August. In
addition to the Yoyal Yacht, a steam-boat has
been provided, which the King will enter should
the weather be perfectly calm. There has been
much discussion in ,his Majesty's domestic circle
on the subject of the Suite, which, in the highest
quarter, is wished to be most numerous, and se-
lected without any regard to party. Previously •
to the Duke of Devonshire's journey to the Con-
tinent, his Majesty 'expressed a desire that he
would join the Royal Tourists, and his Grace
returns from Aix-la-Chapelle for the express
purpose of doing so. One of the finest hotels
Edinburgh has boon engaged for the Noble
Duke and his immediate friends. His Majesty
and Suite will laud at Leith Harbour, and pro-
ceed from thence in the Royal Carriages, which
have been sent to Scotland by sea, to Holyrood
House, where such preparations are making for
his reception as the shortness of the notice would
permit. It is not exactly determined whether
the King will sleep at Holyrood House, or im-
mediately proceed to the Duke of Buccleugh's
Palace at l)alkeith, which his Majesty's known
love for retirement has induced him to select for
'his residence during his stay in' the neighbour-
hood of Edinburgh. His Majesty intends to visit
the fine ruin of ftUslyn Castle and the Chapel ;
likewise Hawthornden, the hallowed seat of
Drummond the poet, and proceed from thence by
Laswade to Datkeith.- All state matters are to
be observed and kept up at Holyrood House, to
which the King will regUlarly return from
balkeith, in case his Majesty should not
Choose. to sleep in Edinburgh. The Duke of
Hamilton, the Duke of Argyle, Lord Roslyn,
Lord Lauderdale, Hid lion. W. Manby, and all
the distinguished friends, of liberty in Scotland,
'will he included in the Select circle during the
King's stay in that hospitable country. His Ma-
3est3's first intention was to take the tour of the
'Western Islands, by G lasgow, Dumbarton, Inve-
rary, and from thence to ()ban, Mull, Staffa,and
lona, " that illustrious island, which was once
the luMinary of the Caledonian regions, whence
savage clans and roving barbarians derived the
,benefits or knowledge and the blessings of reli-
gion," but the peril of the voyage, after quitting
- the main laud, and the want of adequate accom•
modation on these interesting islands, occasioned
t,hq Royal Tourist to change his plans. The
K-Oble palace and domain of his Majesty's. old
friend, the Duke of Argyle, would, in the event
&f the 'Highland tour, have been, chosen as, the
• Loyal Rendezvous. Hamilton Palace, Tay-
mouth, Brechin Castle; and Abbotsford, the
residence of the poet and novelist of Scotland,
are to. receive visits from the King.

• [l:w. TIMES.]
The Spanish Royalists appear to be predomi-
nant in the Provinces, and 'the Revolutionists in
the Capital.- Such is the result of the latest news
from Spain: The Volunteers and Militia " con-
tinue under arms "In 'Madrid, and "
,occupy the
positions . which they did on the 7til." From
this it would seem that they are not wholly
without: apprehensions of a fresh attack. The
`Municipality of .Madrid have addressed the
King in a tone and spirit so exactly resembling
'those of the Municipality of Paris in 1792, that
the one appears to be little else than a verbal
translation of the other.. These very royal
gentry take upon them to direct his Majesty
low he ought to govern them, and what
proofs they expect of his sincerity. lie
rittst become, they say, the first Liberal in the
kingdom. lie must discharge all his present
Ministers, and choose men of energy ;. he must
turn off all his ilorneStic establishment ; the re-
tention of any one of them would deprive his
Majesty of the confidence of his faithful Muni-
cipality ; and, lastly, he must " economise
Spanish blood " by a " ,prompt and severe pu-
nishment" of the men who lately hazarded their
lives for him. Anaxagoras Chaumette or Marat
himself could not have more convincingly set
forth his loyalty and fidelity to the Monarch whom
they shortly afterwards murdered. A French J our-
nalist very appositely remarks, that we cannot
draw a very satisfactory omen from the alleged
tranquillity of Madrid from the 7th to the 12th
instant; for it must be remembered that be
tween the 10th of August 1792, and the massa-
cres in the prisons of Paris, there was a lapse of
22 days. Among the 'Volunteers, who so pa-
triotically joined in the contest with the King's
Guards on the 7th, was a corps entirely corn-
posed of fugitive rebels and traitors from Naples,
Piedmont, and France. These vagabonds are
destined to perform the same bloody part in the
Spanish drama as the Federes from Marseilles
did.in the
,Parisian horrors. The French Liberals
now. talk.OPenly ,ef the approaching deposition of
the -King -Spuin. They do not seem agreed
'whip is to be his, successor ; but they have no_ob-
jection to his having a sincesser,: with only two
provisoes—that he be a mere tool in the hands of
their party, and that he be not of the legitimate
dynasty. In like manner
_they :negociated with
the Allies in
.1815, and would have taken at
theii hands any King Wit a Isourbon.

[THE TIMES.]
A letter from Rio de Janeiro Of the 18th May
announces a fact, which, if the- accompanying
observations of the writer he well founded, is of
an interesting and important character. The
Prince Royal, it appears, on his father's birth-
day (May 13), when the troops were drawn up
in the Palace-square, declared his resolution to
assume the title of Prince Regent and Constitu-
tional Protector of Brazil. It is added, that the
Deputies from the Minas_Geraes and other pro-
vinces are not to proceed to Lisbon, there to
take their seats in the Cortes, according to the
arrangements under which they had been chosen.
7.14 e account states, likewise, that the Govern-
ut4t Is preparing a martifesto to be- sent to -every

Court in Europe, justifying the assumption of the
above new titles by his Royal Highness. The
inference drawn from these preparatives is,
therefore, probably a correct one—that they
lead at once to a declaration of independence,
and to a final separation from the Mother
Country. With what sentiments this prospect is
beheld in
,Portugal, it would not be difficult
to conjecture. The Portuguese would be unlike
all other nations,. if they could see with indiffer-
ence a dismemberment take place, which strips
the old Monarchy of more than hull its greatness.
But if the Brazilians desire the change, we do
trust, for the sake of the people of Portugal, that
they have already learned so much from neigh-
bouring nations, as not to imitate them by dis-
puting rights which are no longer questionable,
or a physical power to which all resistance must
be vain. If North America tore herself from the
arms of Great Britain, what can Portugal do to-
wards retaining by force the Brazilian provinces ?
Spain is yet, perhaps, 'a more striking lesson.—
She has had no power to contend with but that of
her own insurgent colonies. She even confined her
efforts almost to a single province, namely, that
of Venezuela, and see how the conflict has ended,
and how soon ! Brazil has in all respects outgrown
the tutelage of her parent. She has capacities
►hich can be developed by no other but a Go-
vernment on the spot, and a population which
will no longer bear that subjection of the Colo-
nial interests to those of the mother country,
which has hitherto constituted the sole relation
between-a Sovereign State and her dependencies,
Thus circumstanced, they can do no better than
shake hands and part. A contest, or' rather the
beginning of a contest.—for continue it she could
not, at such a distance from horne,—would plunge
Portugal deep into ruin. At present there per-
vades Bazil such a feeling of kindness and old
fellowship towards the mother country, as might,
under prudent guidance, become the means of
establishing, to the good of both, an intimate,
but equal and purely commercial, intercourse.
This is the true cement of harmony between in-
dependent states. Portugal, free by her insti-
tutions, maritime by position, and industrious
from necessity, cannot fail to prosper, without
looking to resources beyond those which Provi-
dence and the solid interests of surrounding na-
tions have assigned to her. She has had time to
study her own case, and in the spirit of true
affection for an ancient, tried, and gallant friend,
e trust that she may not finally misunderstand

[MORNING HERALD.]
The Paris Journals of Tuesday arrived _ las

night by _
express. One of those angry and in-
decent scenes which are so frequent in the French
Chamber of Deputies, was exhibited there on
Monday. It appears that in Saturday's debate,
the Keeper of the Seals, in explaining the cause
of the dismissal of an Advocate named Lecomte
from an official situation which he held, charged
that individual with a participation in an act of
forgery, committed by a Notary. At the last
election Lecomte voted for a " Liberal," mid
the left side, of course, inferred that his
dismissal was to be attributed to his po-
litical conduct. Before the interminable debate
on the Budget commenced on Monday, M,
Casimir Perier accordingly rose and opposed
the adoption of the proces verbal (which is gene-
rally a matter of routine), with the view of in-
ducing the Keeper of the Seals to suppress the
charge. " The Minister," said he," in speaking
of M. Lecomte, used these words :---"Vhe acts
in which he fraudulently participated.' "

[BRITISH PRESS.I
ISIr. Hume last night, in the House of Com-
mons, produeed his Resolutions, which we pub-
lished on Monday last. The results being
deduced from arithmetical facts, cannot be ques-
tioned. Lord Palmerston once observed to Mr.
Hume, that the ancient philosopher held no
mortal could controul past events and arithmetic.
The successors of Mr. Vitt have now got the be-
nefit of an illustration in full. Mr. Pitt was only
ambitions of having his name inscribed on-that co-
lumn of the nation's faith,- the Sinking Fund. As
an article of faith, indeed, perhaps as there never
was a belief more unquestioning devout, so there
was never one which proved so costly to the
faithful, or more directly opposite to the truth.
It was a splendid proof and trophy of faith—let
us now see what credit it will do to the com-
mon sense of the nation. It appears that the
Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, in twenty-
nine years, have reduced a charge of twelve
millions annually, at an expeuce of an annual
charge of thirteen millions. To say nothing
of the vast addition made to the bulk of the
debt, by always heightening the value of the
funded capital, by purchases and various inci-
dental losses and expenses, which are too nume-
rous to insert, the bare fact of the Commissioners
having fixed on the public an additional charge
of one million a year, and the efficacy of the
Sinking. Fund being still a matter of devout poli-
tical belief, is indeed a glorious instance of na-
-1 tional faith, as Mr. Pitt called it.

[MORNING POST.]
In the House of Commonq, last night, Mr.
Hume moved a string of resolutions, the object
of which was to prove that a Sinking Fund was
wholly useless. His resolutions were more re-
markable for their length than for their novelty
or ingenuity, and the attendance of Members
proved that the importance both of them, and
of the speech which was to introduce them, was
duly appreciated. So appropriate a display of
emptiness loas, perhaps, never been witnessed.
Scarely '2O Members were in the House during
the greater part of his harangue. Mr. Tierney
sat for some time on the Opposition Bench by
himself; but he at length retired, probably
because he thought it indelicate to sleep while his
Honourable Friend was holding forth, and felt
that it was impossible to remain in his place, and
keep, awake. Some parts of the oration it. is
quite impossible to quarrel with. For instance,
when Mr. Hume states. to the Senate of Great
Britain that the difference between 4/. 10s. and
5/. is ten shillings, we hesitate not to say be is
quite right. We Os° agree with him, that if more
money had been raised by taxes during the war,

the debt would have been less, and consequently
the burdens of the people not so heavy as they
are now that peace has arrived. But then, we
cannot forget that there were always Gentlemen
in the Opposition, like Mr. Hume (we do not
say his equals in talent and information), who
contended at every period of the war that the
people were so much oppressed by taxation, that
it was impossible for them to bear more. Hence
arose the necessity for borrowing so largely.—
Now we would agree with the lion. Gentleman
to seize on the Sinking Fund, if we had not
some idea that a future Mr. Hume, if
" the pomp and prodigality of Heaven " should
bestow on England such another Statesman,
would in that case complain as loudly of our
spending the 5,000,0001. at present set apart
for a Sinking Fund as he does now, that addi-
tional taxes to that amount were not imposed
during the war. As to the idea of doing away
with the Sinking Fund, it is too absurd to de-
serve serious attention. One of Mr. Ilume's
principal arguments is, that we cannot prevent it
from being seized by some future Chancellor of
the Exchequer. That it should be so seized we
admit would be much to be regretted, but we
cannot go further with the lion. Member, and
say, " because such an act is to be dreaded at a
future period, let us put it out of the power of
any wicked Chancellor of the Exchequer to
commit such an outrage;by hastening to perpe-
trate it ourselves."

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

( From the Bury Gazette, July 4.)

The very delicate affair of die Privilege of the House of Corn-,
mons has terminated satisfactorily. Messrs. Hope and Menzies
have been to London, and are, we suppose, gone back to Edin-
burgh. The House having voted them guilty of -a breach of
privilege, " muler all the circumstances of the cote," did not
feel itself called upon to proceed further, and thus ends the
business as far as Parliament is concerned. An Hon. Member
of the Opposition said, and truly, that " this would be a tri-
umph for Mr. Hope :" no doubt it is the triumph an honest
man must feel in the vindication of his character from unfound-
ed aspersion ; and we do not etvy the feelings of the man who
does not triumph with him. We rejoice that the matter has
concluded so harmlessly. Parliament has Wisely exerted its
privilege to prevent mischief, and still more Wisely- avoided
mischief in the exertion of its privilege. It should not how-
ever be forgotten that all the inconvenience attending this af-
fair, with other greater and most lamentable evils of recent
occurrence, have had their origin, not so much in the abuse of
the freedom of the press, as in the attempt to fetter it by those
who had set it an examplt of the most daring licentiousness.—
The party which had for years made the press a means of .pol,
luting the minds of the poor, took alarm- the moment the same
engine was employed to laugh at' the fooleries. of faCtion, and to
unmask the machinations of mock patriotism. From the mo-
ment that loyalty became active in the promulgation of truth,
Whiggeiy,. "Radicalism, and all the horde of unamalganiating
sects and opinions have been indefatigable in their efforts to
deter, and crush all who presume to oppose their undefinable
enets and impracticable propositions. We have seen the
deadly lengths to which their zeal will carry them, and 'thenc::
we may infer what they mean by liberty. But that is not li-
berty which defames Government in all its branches, and there
most defames it where most it deserveS applause—that is not
liberty which pours contempt upon 'every order of the State,
and puts the Church under perpetual ban and anathema—that
is not (liberty which fills the common ear with dark reports,
and the•common mind with foul disaffections, and the whole
kingdom with dangerous seditions and daring thoughts of
Revolutions. If freedom of speech and the liberty of the press
arc to go thus far, for, a most poor and wretched purpose have
our ancestors shed their blood and laid out their souls for. pos-
terity ; even for the purpose of encouraging every mutinous
spirit to pour forth his fulminations at his pleasure, and un-
der the mask of public good to destroy all good public and
private.

LAW INTELLIG ENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, JULY 25.

The Luau CHANCELLOR was occupied for some time this
morning in hearing cases in his private room. Mrs. Drusilla
Street was discharged, after receiving a smart admonition from
his Lordship. Upon coming into Court, his Lordship stated
that the judgments in the House of Lords were so important,
and would necessarily occupy so much time, as to render it im-
possible for him to afford the additional day this week which he
had expected. But Monday, he hoped, would be the last day
on which it would be necessary for him to sit in the House of
Lords in the morning, and thenceforth ie would continue to
sit in this Court every day uninterruptedly, until he should rise
for the vacation.