The Sun.
London, England, 1822-06-17 00:00:00

MERCANTIIE SHIPPING, &c.

PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 16. m R.S.E.--Arrived the
Cambridge, Hall; from the Downs. Off the Wight the Mersey,
Bcarley, liarbadocs. Sailed the Loyal Briton, Pewtiss, from
St. John's, N. 8., and sailed the Cambridge.
JUNE 15.—Arrived his Majest's ship Revolutionaire, from
the Mediterranean.

PLYMOUTH, JUNE 14.-,Wind s.E.—Arrived the Creole,
Coatsworth, from Pernambuco. ' •
-FALMOUTH JUNEW.S.W.--ArrivedWinW.S.W.--Arrived the
Lady Wellington? packet,- from the Leward Islands : s: led
from St. Thomas the Bth of May. Sailed the Alliance, Amey,
for Demerara, and Fanny, Crocombe, for London:
JUNE 14. Sailed the I'darquiss of Salisbury packet, Bal-
dock, for Jamaica. Arrived off the port the Agnes, alndes,
from Lisbon.

DEAL, JUNE I6.—Wind E.—Arrived last night and sailed
for the River the Fame, Hervison, • from Jamaica ; the Mary
Anna, Rowe, from ditto. Also to-day the Durham, Dryden, I
from the Charante, and the George, from Bordeaux.

JUNE 15.---Came down from the River and sailed the Lady
Berringdon, Hudson, for New Orleans; the Symetry, David..
son, for Demerara ; Tobago, Baigrie, Grenada ; Madeira
packet, Allen, Madeira; Salacia, Wilson, Jamaica. Arrived
and4aileti:fbr the River the Foxhound, from the South Seas,
&C., and Jane, Wiley, from South Amities.

On Saturday the Despatches for Bengal, by the ship Mar-
&lioness. of Ely, Capt. Brook Kay, were closed at the Ear.
India House, and delivered to the Burszr of that ship.

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CORN EXCHANGE,-Ju).-2
The 'Wheat trade is rather brisk this morning far the bes:
runs but the inferior still without buyers;; for the very best last
Monday's prices were obtained. The Barley trade very limited,
but readily obtained Monday's prices. Pease and Beans, from
the late- advance, caused the supply to be rather large, and
Per guava lower than .this. day week. ' The supply of Oats
large, and at a reduction of Is. pet quarter since this day week;
no atieraiion in the price of Flour thisweek.

AVERAGE PRICE OF CORN IN E NGLAND AND IVALI:E.
Wheat, 445. 7d. • Barley, 15s. ; Oats, 17s. ; Rye,
6s. Od • &ails 2:28. 8d • Peas, 244: 3d.
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The Average Price of 'rown os Yin seovado Sugar, computzmi
from the Returns made in the Week ending the 12ai day of
June, 1822, is 325. 54d. per cwt. • . .

SMITHFIELD iIIXRKET.JUNE 17.

The supply of Sheep and Lamb ot market this morning was
good, but owing to the change of the'-weather Mutton has ark.
vanced a little, but Lamb of good quality maintains last market
day's prices. There was rather a short supply of Oxen, in Cor...
sequence of which there was a brisk market.

Beef ....... 2s 6d to 33 6d Veal
Mutton 2s (lift() 2s 8d I Pork 3s Oa to 33 113 c.
Lamb .... 3s. 63. to 4s.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

EXTRACTS. FROM TIIE D 11I.Y MORNING PAPERS,
June 17, /822.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
We have received Paris Papers up to Friday
last. They contradict the report that the ami-
cable adjustment of the differences between the
Turks and Russians was not well received by the
Turkish army. At a Divan held at Constanti-
nople on the 6th inst. the evacuation of Moldavia
and Wallachia by the Turkish troops was decla-
red ; and it was also intimated, that none but na-
tives would be in future elected Governors of
these provinces, which arrangement was unani-
mously approved by the Chiefs of the Janissaries
ho were present at the Divan. We rejoice that
the peace of Europe is not to be disturbed by a
new war ; but our joy is damped by the fate to
which it consigns the interesting but unhappy
Greeks. No man of mind, heart, or feeling, can
be indifferent to their fate.

[MORNING CHRONICLE:]
We 'are thoroughly convinced that no measures
of a searching nature will be adopted with re-
spect.to Ireland ; and it is only by measures of
such a. description that any good can be done to
that unfortunate country. In the discussion of
Thursday night in the House of Commons, Lord
Londonderry seemed to think the existence of
tithes in all their oppressiveness. necessary to se-
cure Ireland " against those dangerous and revo-
lutionary doctrines, the yielding to which had
produced such desolation and devastation in the
world." One would think the very naming of Ire-
land ought to be sufficient to silence the declaim-
ers against revolutions and revolutionary doctrines.
Where, in God's name, can a country be found in
Europe, revolutionised or not revolutionised
(Turkey hardly excepted), exhibiting the same
extent of human wretchedness, and abounding so
much with abuses of every description ? Even
the serf of Poland blesses his stars that he is not
an Irishman ; that his condition, bad as it is, is
still so much superior to that of the peasantry
whom a foreign writer calls the Lazzaroni of the
North, by a comparison which,. however, is
founded rather':ou a supposition of what is, than
what really is the condition of the lower orders
of Naples, who have many sources of enjoyment
unknown to the poor native race of the Sister
Island.,

[MORNING POST.]
The factious Press has already begun to dis-
claim its supporters among the Opposition, who
so audaciously recommended an invasion of the
property of the Public Creditor on Friday night.
We shall find this conduct generally followed
up on the same side, and for the most obvious
reason. The Radical Reformers in the House
of Commons have rashly betrayed the principles
of the whole tribe—they have shown in one in-
stance what they would enforce in all, if the de-
lusion called " Reform" were ever to gain the
ascendancy—and the more cunning enemies of the
Constitution now wish to exonerate their cause
from the odium which this exposure of its
inherent depravity must excite in every vir-
tuous mind. But it is easy to convict these pro-
fessions of insincerity out of the mouths of
those who make them ; nay, the professions
themselves are made on the very same principle
as that on which the Reformers would violate
public faith, and commit every other act of injus-
tice—supposed political expediency ! This is
the main spring of the whole system of pseudo-
philosophy which arose before the French Re-
volution, which dictated the robberies and mas-
sacres of that horrible event, and which is at the'
bottom of the theory and practice of our Re-
formers. Unchangeable right and justice have
no existence in this new moral creed ; but in
contradiction to their inflexible rules, property
and privileges of all sorts are to be cut up by the
roots, because, forsooth, an individual or a set of
individuals may stifle their consciences, and pre-
stune to think such iniquity useful to the public.
Even those who affect to defend the security of
the national debt do it on the avowed ground of
utility. The propriety of violating, nay, of con-
fiscating it, is implied in all their reasonings, and
the only hope they would give the public cre-
ditor is, that at present there is no occasion to
plunder him. The ultimate probability of doing
so is not denied, and the justice of the act is
taken for granted, w hen the proper time shall
arrive. —maw—

EMORNING HERALD.]
The Report of Mr.. Wallace's .Warehousing.
Bill is.te be further considered this evening. It
would, probably, be better if the Right
,lion.
GentleMan,weuld. postpone this Bill to.the next
••Session;: so that he. mightyin the mean ,time,.
prePaie a ,new Bill, which should he entirely in-
dependent of the Navigation and which
new, Bill should, not be of-so sweeping a nature
as the „present. 'Though we .are friendly to a
free.trade on the general principle, and though
'we think that there are many anomalies in the
present Navigation Laws, which it might be
prudent to ,iget rid of, and that a repeal of all
the present Navigation Laws might be desirable,.
and anew Act of ParliaMiKmade,upon a principle
that should give more satisfaction ; yet, 'before.
any thing of that sort was done, we think that a
further investigation
,of the subject should be
bad, and ..a. greater numher of witnesses. examin-
ed, and of a more general description than was
examined, upon the . framing of the Bill. The
present Navigation Laws are too severe, and
With• regard to foreign nations. We
should. therefore like to See them ameliorated;
but great caution. should be exercised in, making
new laws ;%and, even as to the Committee, that
shotilct be appointed. to sit upon a new Bill, it
would be.wellto appoint to it as many practical
meni'as possible who might have leisure to attend to
it. How
.11,it possible for Gentlemen, loaded with
a Multiplicity of State business,,to attend properly
to Committees of this, sort ; for. instance, Lord
Londonderry, Mr.. Vansittart, Mr, Huskisson,
and other Noble Lopds,and Gentlemen I Further
we recommend the insertion of the Bill in the
Gazette; so that the: United Kingdom might
know what its representatives were going to do.

Bills are printed, and Members have each a copy
—the Newspapers have a copy, and every one
who chuses may, on payment of a certain sum.
Frequently Bills are copied into Newspapers ful-
ly, or in abstract, provided Editors think them
interesting to their readers ; but in general The
cumbrous tautology of Bills, they being for the
most part .drawn up by lawyers, is such, that the
reader is tired to death in getting at the meaning.
In consequence of these impedinients, few Bills
are known to the public until some time,after
they have passed, and too frequently after par-
ties affected by them have been ruined.

[NEW TIMES

In the course of the last week two species of
property have been attacked—that of the Church,
and that of the Fundholder. The Morning
Chronicle sounded the trumpet against the one,
and Cobbett against the other. There is nothing
at all extraordinary in this ; and the only thing
that amuses us is the kind of horror into which
certain Members of the Opposition were thrown
on finding that such a person as Cobbett could
play their own game better than themselves.
Many of these Gentlemen have been flattering
the basest prejudices of the mob; they have been
holding language which the law calls seditious,
and would most deservedly punish as such if the
proof were brought home to them; and after
,
this they are surprised that a man who reasons
fairly from their own premises should beat them
out of the field. Cobbett's proposal was most

iniquitous, but in principle it stood upon the very
same ground as the attacks on the Church pro-
perty ; and yet the same persons who cried out
most loudly against the one applauded the
other. We do not pretend to say that all
the same considerations apply to landed and
funded, property, to the Lay Proprietor and
to the Clerical Incumbent ; but we say that
property is property, and that one proprietor
is not to he robbed rather than another. We
wish always to keep in mind the plain, clear, and
unanswerable positions of Burke; who says that
the laws " have incorporated and identified the
Estate of the Church with the mass of private
property, of which the state is not the Proprie-
tor, either for use, or dominion, but the guar-
dian only and the regulator ;" and that " when
once the Commonwealth has established the
estates of the Church as property, it can consist-
ently hear nothing of the more or the less. Too
much and too little are treason against property."
These are the points from which we ought to
start in all reasoning of this kind. It is quite a
different question how far the State may justly
interfere as a " guardian" or " regulator." To
this question tve shall perhaps address ourselves
hereafter; but in the meanwhile we wish it to
be fully understood that there can be no honest
measure of relief to the Farmer or the Peasant,
which is bottomed in an act of robbery on the
Clergyman or the Fundholder.

[Tilt TIMES.]

One step is at length in contemplation, it ap-
pears, by Ministers, which tends to manifest, if
not a capacity, something like a disposition at
least, to tranquillize Ireland by some better
means than force. A Bill has been brought in
by Mr. Goulburn, which professes to ameliorate
the tithe system,—(an evil, but not the only evil
by an hundred,) to which the extreme indigence
and frequent turbulence of the lower class of the
present population may, we think, be fairly im-
puted. Alr.Goulburn'sßill,asexplained by him and
by Mr. Plunkett, is not in the shape of a commuta-
tion act : it goes no farther than to give the parish
clergyman a power of leasing his tithes to the
parishioner of 21 years, and of binding his suc-
cessor by the same contract. Mr. Plunkett adds,
that from the details of the Bill, the clergyman
will appear to be subjected to a species of moral
compulsion, urging him to the exercise of this
leasing power—such are the advantages-which it
will afford him. The lease, if we understand
Mr. Goulburn accurately, is to be executed to
the proprietor of the soil, who will thus be inter-
posed between the incumbent and the occupying
Roman Catholic tenant—parties whom it is un-
questionable wisdom to prevent as much as may
be from coming into contact in the relation of
creditor and debtor. The lease is further to be
submitted to the Bishop of the Diocess, as a
security to the interests of the Church. It is
apparent that a fixed lease for a determinate
period, by ascertaining the sum to be paid, and
still more, by transferrina the obligation from
the wretched occupant of or three acres of
ground to his landlord, must abolish one train
of evils of a pestilential nature—namely, the
everlasting intrusion, exaction, and tyranny, of
the tithe proctor, under the present state of the
law. Nor do we see how this source of discord
and misery can be dried up by any less decisive
expedient. In a country where the soil is so
subdivided, that 5001. per annum of tithe is col-
lected from nearly 2000 poor individuals,' it is
not possible for the clergyman to be his own
agent; the interference of a proctor is inevitable;
and so are the mischiefs which follow in his train.
To this portion of the measure, therefore, which
makes the tithes ,now payable by the peasant
to the Church henceforth payable in the
form of a fixed rent to the landlord, and by
him again in that of a definite revenue to
the clergyman, we think that there can be no
fair objection ; on the contrary, that it lays the
groundwork of great and general good. Those
Gentlemen who plead for a commutation as the
essential and paramount remedy, and accuse
the present Bill of being a short and inadequate
measure, may still consistently give it their sup-
port ; since, as was observed in the course of the
discussion, to ascertain and fix the revenues of
the Church must tend rather to facilitate than
to impede any future plan for commuting them.
In the upshot, we are inclined to wish well to a
proposition, which, if it does not go to the imme-
diate removal of ancient and deeply seated griev-
ances, ought still to be treated with some sort of
indulgence, as a testimony (the first, perhaps, on
record) of some providential care on the part of
the king's Government for the welfare of a per-
, secuted and distracted people.