The Sun.
London, England, 1825-06-18 00:00:00

[BRITISH PRESS.]

We have not been:unaware of the great anxiety
expressed during the last two or three days- with
regard to the contract for the. new Spanish Loan.
In the few observations we made on Wednesday,
we stated. that. until t' wry had something to • add
to the information we had already communicat--
ed,MWo.shonid—refrain! from again- adverting to
die stinie&t. We now have, spme...new farc.t.s._ to
publish;
.00Menday last Mr. Gregory arrived
iu. Paris tram Madrid, with the Spanish Commis::.
sioner, who is furnished with full powers, to sign
tlie'bonds to he issued on account of the new.
loan.. b tn is gentlean,,who is a relative of one of
the Spanish. Ministers,. • was so much exhausted
by the fatigue ,of his joUrriey, that.it was deemed
a dylaabl e. for, the. stile of his health to defer his de-
pa rtu re from Paris day or two. There was alsO,
we under:Stand, some diffitulty as to his.pa4ports,
w.hrch would have prevented "Mtn from. proceed-
ing aionce„it his! indisposition had not: Making
every reasonable#flOWance for their delay, itinaY,:
we thin p e ex ected, that Mr Gregory and•his
companion •will rea oh ',London in- the course of
this:day or tomorrow at the latest.. "In our next
puhlii.qa,tion.. we 0144 in all „pxobability.:anodunce
they ItrOva 1.---,Frotn,Paris we lea rn„ that on, Tees-,
diy two expresses had. arrived there frOmMadrid
ITO 4l pa,tchesfor the frrqc h GO. ger:Aleut. Tlise'
rucmogers,..had beem..oll4-siz.,:days on the. roach
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tion between the Courts concerning the recognition
of South American independence. The French
Government having pledged itself not to precede
the King of Spain in treating his late colonies as
independent States, is, now desirous to prevail,
upon him to acknowledge the fact which he has
not been able to_ prevent, and whiCh be can only,
injure himself and his allies by persisting to denY;
The Representations of M. de Villele have been
of the most urgent character, and it was be-
lieved by some who had the best means of in-
formation, that the Spanish Cabinet, in the ac-
tual situation of the Peninsula, would not re-
fuse to comply with the wishes of the French
Minister.

[TIIE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
New York Papers have reached us to the 25th
nit. 'They announce the arrival at that port of
Colombian frigate, Venezuela, with an Envoy on
board, the bearer of a Commerckl Treaty betwen
the two States. He was also intrusted with an
arrangement for the suppression of the Slave
Trade; and Colombia has shewn an alacrity in
trying to put down this nefarious traffic, which
it would be well for the " Most Christian"
Government of France to imitate. The frigate
was received with the customary honours ;
anti it is not .one of the least interesting
phenomena of our time, to see a flag of yes-
terday's date, and belonging to a country,
which, thirty years since, was as little known as
the interior of Africa, treated with as
-much re-
spect as that of the most powerful nations. This
respect too is a tribute to her courage, firmness,
and prudence ; and the time is net distant, when
-those Powers that now pretend to have the
'greatest scruples about recognizing her independ—
ence, will Court her friendship with an eager-
ness commensurate with their present coyness.
We hope, however, that the Colombian Go-
vernment will levy a fine upon them for their
present squeamishness, in the form of heavierl
duties on their trade. We should like to see
a beginning made with the commerce of France ;1
and, though her Government might bluster
at first, the result would be highly honourable
to Colombia. If the new Prussian Trading Com-
pany, of whose prosperity so flaming a description
is given in the German Papers which arrived
yesterday, were also made to pay forfeit, it
would be only a just retaliation on the Court of
Berlin, for its offensive or rather stupid policy.
The latter would wince under the inflictien, but
not venture to complain ; and, sooner than forego
a lucrative trade, it would probably condescend
to negociate a treaty of commerce and friendship
with the Cabinet of Bogota. It is an inexpres-
sible satisfaction to us to know that Colombia
might, with,perfect safety, place herself in this po.
sition towards such Powers as refuse to re-1
cognize her independence. This is the finest
illustration of the influence of tutelary insti-
tutions upon the condition of nations! Ilad the
New States yielded to the menaces of France!
and Spain, and accepted rulers of their appoint.
ment, as was at first suggested, how different I
would their situation he to what it is. The pre.
tended Constitutional Sovereigns would be des-1
pots at heart, and the mere Satraps of the
Powers to whom they owed their appointment.'
How much better are things as they are ! and I
we trust that the New States will never forget 1
the principles to which they owe their sudden
rise and brilliant prospects ; for if they do, their
descent will be as rapid, and their future as i
overclouded.

IMORNING T.D.:f
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in .his ob-
servations on the 'contemplated repairs of Buck-
ingham (louse, observed, with much naivete, that
he had long abandoned the idea of,pleasing every
body :—thus, like the man in the play, giving
his opinion that there is " much philosophy
in Esop's fables." The wonder is that he
should ever have entertained such an idea. If
he means that the objections to the new
Courts at Westminster were merely captious,
and only an illustration of the impossibility of
" pleasing every body," he gave no proof of
his usual candour and discernment—the wonder
is, that he could have hoped, by these con-
ceited vulgarisms in architecture, to please any
body. It is probable that in the new structure
he will be more circumspect, so far as guarding
against the caprices ‘vhich English architects are
too apt—as appears in the recent designs and'
works of more than one of them—to mistake for
invention, or as they, no doubt, call it, genius.l
in one respect, and that very important one,l
the Right Honourable Gentleman deserves cre-
dit for the consideration he has shown • for the
public of the metropolis—viz, his unwillingness
to encroach by a new structure upon the
Hparks.. The value—the necessity of preserving
,theSe parks entire and unimpeded to the dense
~population of this vast city is fully express-
'ed in one of the striking phrases of the
late Mr. Windham. He Called the parks " the
lungs of the Metropolis," and succeeded in Carl
vincing Parliament that they should be preserved
entire even M their ornaments. .There can be no
question that a new palace would cover a great
4eal of ground, even for the personal residence of
the. King.. The. habits. of .the .country require
something of domestic seclusion—a certain sphere
of privacy and freedom—in the residence of the
Sovereign, as well as'-of others. No one who
thinks reasonably of the matter can desire or ex-
pect to see in Loudon any thing-like the spaniel
familiarity, and hollow,syoophanoy of --a ragged
populace of boys and girls dancing before the
Windows of the Tuileries, Under the eye of the
Sovereign and the police.

[MORNING- POST.]
In the House of Lords last night the 'Marquis
of Hastings introduced the Bill of which he had
given notice. Its object is to declare that the
limitation of interest enacted by the, 63d clause
"of the 13th 'of. George 111., on money let- in
India, does.not exteud. to British subjects-domi-
ciliated in the territories of. Foreign Princes.
The necessity of this explanation arose, accord-
ing- to the Noble Marquis, from the new inter-
pretation given. tothe cldt4e by the Law Officers
.of 'direct contradiction to the
.tonstractiam .and- pratice of all the - Indian

Governments for. half a century. For they
contended that the clause embraced British
subjects residing in foreign States, which in itself
was an absurdity, as there were no means of punish-
ing them, even if tried for the alleged offence.—ln
the Commons the Judges Salaries' Bill was read a
third time and passed, after an unsuccessful effort
to reduce the Salary of the Puisne Judges from
the sum proposed (5,5000 to 5,0001. The
numbers oil the division were 74 to 45.—0 n
the question that the House resolve itself into
a .Committee of Supply, Mr. Abercromby
brought the services of a. Gallant Officer,
'Sir Robert Wilson, before them, not, he said,
to reflect in any degree upon the conduct
of the Commander in Chief, nor to raise any
question as to the prerogative of the Crown,
nor to call_ in question the vote which any
Honourable Member of that House had felt
it his duty to give upon the subject, and
still less to point out a becoming course to any
individual, but to give the House an opportunity
for expressing its feelings in the wish to see an
oblivion of the past, and act of gracious bene-
volence in the restoration of his Gallant Friend
to his former rank. The subject having been
once introduced, many Members who had vot-
ed against the Gallant Officer's motion for in-
quiry at the time, expressed themselves anxious
for his restoration, and the general feeling seemed
to be, that his errors should be forgiven and his
services remembered. Nothing certainly could
be more reprehensible, or of more mischiev-
ous tendency, than the conduct of the gallant
Knight which so properly led to his dismissal
from the army ; but his subsequent good and
becoming behaviour has in some degree atoned
for his offence ; and he has altogether so much
benefited by the salutary lesson thus so for-
cibly read to him, that Royal clemency may
now with safety and propriety be extended
to him. His errors have been great, but his
atonement has been perhaps commensurate.—
The Douse having then , gone into a Com-
mittee of Supply, Mr. Huskisson explained
the alterations which he had made since the
Recess in the resolutions which he had pro-
posed to Parliament before Easter, for the re-
duction and abolition of prohibitory or import
duties on articles of foreign gro th or mann-
factures. These alterations cons st chiefly in
making most of the reductions prog essive instead
of immediate. He also announced some new
ones. The duty bit books (riot for sale) printed
twenty years ago is to be reduced from 61. 10s.
to 11.; that on books printed since that period
from 71. to 51. The duty on 50/. per cent. on all
foreign vessels broken up in this country is to be
given up altogether,and that upon pepper is to be
reduced from 2s. 6d. per pound to one shilling.
The Resolutions thus altered were agreed to, and
the Report will be received this day.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The Lord Chancellor is not, we should sup-
pose, the only incorrupt Judge in England ; yet
we know not how it happens that he is the only
Judge to whose integrity testimony is ever borne.
‘Vo never even heard it surmised that any of the
3'udges were chargeable with bribery; b t no
one thinks of enhancing the merits to whir. se-
veral•of them May lay claim, of great learn lig,
indefatigable industry, &c. by the observa ion
that their purity is not to be questioned. Yet
nothing is so common as the complimenting
the Lord Chancellor on his purity, as if there
were something about his Lordship . which
made it particularly meritorious in him to remain
honest. Is it because his Lordship is generally.
understood to have a very just sense of the va-
lue of money, that it is supposed it is mere diffi-
cult for him to entertain just notions with respect
to the mode of acquiring it, than for other persons
less alive to its excellencies ?—lt has always
struck us that it is peculiarly ill-judged of the
friends of his Lord Ship to throw his incorrupti-
bility perpetually in our teeth. Whenever he is
charged with throwing obstructions in the, way
of a reform of the Court of .Chancery, with
dilatoriness hi judging, with jumping from
one cause to another, so as to hear a hundred
for one that he dicides, with his endless
doubts, the parents in turn of endless doubts,—we
never fail to hear the answer,—it is very true he
does not dispatch causes after the manner of the
Vice-Chancellor .or Sir Williath Grant ; his
anxiety not to trench on the rights of any living
creature may be said to be carried sometimes to
an extreme; but then in all the higher qualities,
purity, incorruptibility, and so forth, calumny
never even dared to breathe on him.—lt, seems
to. be thought wonderful by those panegyrists,
that a man, whose, whole time would be
occupied in counting his receipts, if he were
paid in the current coin of the realm, should
be able to restrain himself from adding thirty
thousand a-year by fraud to the thirty thou-
sand he comes honestly by. Being by far
the best paid of all the Judges, the'natutal pre-,
sumption is that it would be easier for him to
remain honest than for any of his brethren,—
We do not generally timid Dukes or Marquisses
brought before a Police Court for swindling, or
picking- pockets. Even a cat loses her felonious
properties schen' alloWed the uncontrouled range
of a well,furnished ladder. The way, however,
in which this incorruptibility
has been so inces.
sandy trumpeted forth,. hailid`
pi?ople to look a
little into the doingsof the Lord Chancellor, just
to see whether even with all his immense receipts,
he is so very disinterested as he is reported
to be. Mr. Miller helped a good deal to
turn attention into this quarter, by his significant
detail of the sinecures he had contrived to heap
on a very near, 'and, we presume, dear relation.
Still, though he might have bestowed the sine-
cures on others, it does not follow that, in not
bestowing them on others, but on his own rela-
tion,
he was taking that to which he was not en-
titled. But if Mr. Miller found so much, others
might find more, and so people have begun to'set
themselves seriously to work, to examine the
Lord ChanCellor's titles to immaculate purity.

C. E. DOOO, Esq. and F. M. DANSOM, Esq.
were yesterday called to the Degree of Barrister
at Law, by the liondurable Society of the inner
Temple.