The Sun.
London, England, 1825-07-06 00:00:00

TH C. LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Extractvironethe Morning. Papers, July 6, 1825.

[Tilt TIMES.]
We insert the petitious which were last night
presented to the House of Commons from parties
who, seem to have conceived themselves either di-
rectly aggrieved or threatened with injury, by
the course which the trustees of the Deccan
prize money have adopted. One of these petitions
was from Sir Murray M'Gregor, Adjutant-Ge-
neral tinder Sir Thomas Hislop, who has confined
himself to vindicating the law agents and counsel
of the captors from a charge thrown out against
them of too great readiness for litigation. The
other petitioner is Mr. Atcheson, appointed by
the captors one of their prize agents, who goes
through the case already before the public, and
who dwells most emphatically on two charges-
-Ist, that the trustees would not hold intercourse
with any of the lawyers engaged for the claim-
ants, nor suffer the evidence and other documents
to be laid in any shape before them, although it
must be admitted that full permission was offered
to Sir Tliomas liislop himself, and to any num-
ber of his brother Officers, to inspect the papers
and remark upon them. 2d. The second com-
plaint is, that the tt.nstees refused to communi-
cate to any person the opinions of the. Attorney •
and•Solititor.General, upon the case laid before
them by Mr. Maule, the Treasury Solicitor. The
question, we imagine, is not sufficiently clothed
with facts to admit as yet of a fair decision upon
its merits.
Some blind rumours have reached Paris from
Italy, and 'London from Paris, of certain plots detected in Rome
against the Papal Government ; and the plotters, it is said,
are to undergo the preliminary examination on the 7th
instant. We observe that their accusers are accomplices,
living at Pesaro and Ancona, on the Adriatic : it is most
probable, therefore, that they will not be brought to face
the accused on their trial ; neither does such a safeguard to
innocence make a part of the law of the Papal dominions.—
The Pope's Government, it is certain, is not an active or
an acute--(as people say of diseases)---or an acute tyranny.—
It is a heavy, dull, oppressive, weight, like Dante's cap or hood
of lead in purgatory, that weighs down the mind by continual
pressure: it smothers. thought in the birth, not only by prohi-
biting, but by.rendering inquiry of every kind impossible, to
the great body of the people. These therefore are superstitious
to a degree of which the ontravellett 'English Papist has no idea.
The upperranks, among whom are thefiardinals and the higher
clergy, having surreptitiously procured theworksof.such writers
as Voltaire, II elvetius, and Rousseau, are generally infidels of
some sort or other ; but they look to the security of their posses-
sions. Yet, if something is not done to regenerate Italy, it
will actually sink into a savage state, and become more dan-
gerous to travellers than Egypt or Arabia. There are, even
now, miracles performed in every town and village, chiefly by
the Blessed Virgin ; and the infallible Head of he Church
does nothing to check these absurdities; because they are bene-
ficial to the priest. What must the people be among whom
such knaveries pass as undoubted 'verities ? We should be
glad to have the charm broken, but not by the hands of the
assasair It would be a good thing for Europe, if the Pope
and Cardinals, together with King Ferdinand of Spain, were
obliged-to make a pilgrimage to the tomb of St. Buonaparte, in
the i*ndiaf St: Helena.—(ibid.)

[MORNI VG POST.]
tift RE*EN t is gratifying to be able to
state; .:that the Revenue for the Quarter which
ende4 yesterday, presents the same character of
incooset. and prosperity as the last ; and that ex-
tensive as -have been the reductions made in
Taxes and Duties, they are. more than covered
by the augmentation in the produce of those
which have been left. The Customs are the
branch where this augmentation is most per-
ceptible, but this arises in part from a cause which
it is 'fair' to explain.
.By a regulation adopted ,
doting, tbe. present Session, a large portion of the
E;Ctte Duties has been transferred to the
Customs;
.:This„ has swelled the produce of the
(19a'rtet-to:ahout 3,918,0001. whilst that of the
coirspendit, period last year did not exceed
/,967,07.(4.7The enc.rease therefore appears to
bt?,1M0;9301. ;•• but allowing for the transferred
djigKA,olCh amount to about ,800,000/., it does
not .exceed -Itlo,oooi. Added, however, to an
augmentation of
.80,8591. on the last Quarter, it
makes an excess of more than 200,000/. over the
first: half year of 1821. Considerable as this is,
it would' have•been still larger, had not the
striking' of the operative workmen in several
trades,. acted unfavourably both on the Customs
and on the Excise--mithe Customs, by preventing
our manufacturers from•executing all the orders
for ekportation K hick they had received.; and on
the Excise,bycornpelling the refractory workmen to
deprive themselves of many articles which would
have augmented the produce of that particular
branch. Far from having positively suffered,
however,, it will he found to have also under-
gone a gratifying increase. In fact the whole
state of the puhtic Revenue announces-an unin-
terrupted progress in prosperity, which bears a
character of constancy and solidity most cheer-
ing. to The, cot:tat:Yr'. and most honourable to those
'by -whose wise policy it has been attained.

In the House of. Lords lest night the Marquis of Lansdowp
presented a petition from the Unitarian Dissenters, praying for
an iiiquiryinto the state of the law on their subject, in conse-
quence of the doubt thrown .out some time since, by the Lord
Ottuicellor, Whither they were not still amenable to the Com.
mon Law for denying the Trinity, though the Statute Law
against them had been repealed. 'The Lord Chancellor ex-
pressed his coincidence with the wish of the petitioners that the
state of the law should be _ascertained, and his disposition, in
ease it should be found such as he conceived it to be, to pass an
Act for their benefit—=( Ibid.) • • . .

[BRITISH PRESS.]
A petition wis presented last night by
the
IMArquis of Lansdown, from the Unitarians, pray-
ing that an inquiry might-be instituted into their
condition under the taw of the laud. The Lord
Chancellor stated his entire, concurrence in the
object of the petition. His feelings, he observed,
had been:very much mistaken if it had been sup-
pneld-
that he had intended any interference with
these., persons except for- their benefit. There
can -be no doubt, we think„.- that it is desirable
to remote the uncertainty that prevails with re-
gard to the.protection to which they are entitled.
3,11 e do- not admire the doctrine-of connivance.
Thelaw.a!toold clearly approve or clearly con-
denni,, and in either case it should be fully en-
- forcer.-=-In the House of Commons the Deccan
prize4ntiritex.;_iwas again a subject of discussion,
.on the presentation- of a petition from: Sir Evan
NacgregOr,,in.:defence of the Counsel and Agents
of the claimants. The same ground was passed
over precisely. The Gentlemen of the long robe
raised a fresh outcry against the Duke of Wel-
lington for having suspected them of a desire to