The Sun.
London, England, 1824-07-10 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, July 10.
[BRITISH PRBSS:j
It was stated yesterday, with great confidence,
that a diplomatic note on the affairs of Portugal,
from the Allied Sovereigns to their respective
Ambassadors at foreign Courts, would almost im-
mediately make its appearance. The purpose of
this Note would be, it was said, to express their
determination to put an end to the disturbed
state of Portugal, in order that no conseqnences
might grow out of it injurious to the repose of
Europe, and the harmony subsisting between the
Cabinets. For this purpose England, as the an-
cient Ally of Portugal, was, in the first place, to
send troops to that country for the preservation of
its tranquillity, and the support of the Kiog's au-
thority ; but it was added, the Note would fur-
ther intimate, that if this supply was insufficient,
the Allied Sovereigns would, on the request of
his Most Faithful Majesty, furnish an additional
force themselves. We do not profess to be
acquainted with the authenticity of this intelli.
genre, but supposing it to be true, it is the best
confirmation of the opinion we have given on this
question. France, who Is the executor of the
projects of the Holy Allies in Western Europe,"
is evidently desirous to take military possession
of Portugal. tier command of the Peninsula
will then be complete, and she will finally have
succeeded in accomplishing that which has long
been an object of French ambition : she ‘‘ ill ef-
fectually, and for ever, have broken the closely-
cemented alliance which has for nearly two cep:.
turies continued without intermission between
England and Portugal. We perfectly agree with
The Courier, that " it would be a more desirable
course, if practicable, to organize, by means of
that influence which peculiarly belongs to our re-
lations with Portugal, a power sufficient to con.
trout the apprehended danger, without recurring
to the aid of foreign troops." But as we absolutely
doubt the practicability of this course, the only
alternative left is to give military assistance to
such extent as the exigency of the crisis may re-
quire. The French troops are on the frontiers of
Portugal, ready to march over them on the first
moment when the fears of the King May induce
him to call for them. If we wait to try the ex-
periment how much longer our aid can be dis-
pensed with, we shall probably find its necessity
(superseded, and the fruits of our tardy friend-
ship ultimately rejected. The nature of our con-
nection with Portugal is dissimilar from any sub-
sisting bet ween any other two independent
powers. Portugal has been accustomed, in all
her difficulties, to look to us for relief, and she
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rely
upon England for her national and political ex-
istence. Our interference, therefore, in her af-
fairs, at her own request, and manifestly for no
selfish purpose, could not be any more open to
misconstruction Ow any other bold and vigo-
rous act of policy. What would have been the
condition of England now, if these timid appre-
hensious had always prevailed in our intercourse
with foreign nations ? We advise no rash or
blind precipitation, by which hostile feelings
might be unnecessarily provoked ; but let us not,
by an excess of false prudence, tamely give up
the advantages which the united voice of Europe
calls upon us to retain.

[Naw Times]
We have received the Etoile of Thursday,
which contains an article, far too long for us to
extract, in reply to the article attributed to M.
de Chateaubriand in the Journal des Debats. As
to the Journal des D4bals, we have already stated
our opinion of its utter want of principle, and we
are not surprised at its opening its columns to
any doctrines: but we cannot believe that M. de
Chateaubriand would de3cend to the projects im-
puted to him by the Etoile of a coalition with
the Liberaux. M. tie Villele's danger is nut
from that quarter; and such a coalition would
be inevitably fatal to any Royalist who should
make the attempt. The French Rentes do not
improve. They left off on Wednesday at 08.50.
for Money, and 00. for Account.

[MORNING POST.]

There was a time when the Pope's Enclytic
Letter, on assuming the triple crown, would
have really fulminated over Europe, and shaken
not only subjects on their beds but Sovereigns on
their thrones. That period has happily passed
away, and the Head of the Romish Church is at
piesent possessed of very little spiritual as well
as temporal power, even in countries and under
Governments essentially Catholic. It is but a
few months since in France that an open schism
took place between a Bishop and his Majesty
Louis XVIII. on a matter affecting to be exclu-
sively . religious, and the former was punished
like any lay subject equally offending against the
interests of the State. The value of the late
Enclytic Epistle is therefore very trifling, but
still one may be allowed to notice the hostile
terms in which his Iloline,s speaks throughout
it against all freedom of opinion and liberty or
judgment touching religious questions. 'Phut
lliil no means
surprising, dst:ould be anathematized
byis
fo
deemed the worst enemy of the it hasmChu alircl"Oyfßs beenome.
The Sovereign Pontiff, at the same time, seems
less incensed against the hydra than the
Bajle Society, to which, nevertheless, we
think he has done a most acceptable service.—
This Society, he assures us," audaciously spreads

itself over the whole earth, and in contempt of
the traditions of the Holy Fathers, and contrary
to the Decree of the Council of Trent, exerts all
its efforts and every means to translate, or rather
to corrupt the Holy Scriptures into the vulgar
tougue of nil nations—which gives just cause to
fear that it may happen in all other translations
as in those already published, viz. that we may
find in them a bad interpretation; instead of the
Gospel of Jesus, the Gospel of Man, or rather
the Gospel of the Devil." After exhorting his
brethren to avoid this scourge by all proper
means, his Holiness ritprobates the distribution
of the foregoing translation,, which, " to seduce
the simple, are sometimes sold and sometimes
given away." Now, in truth, these charges against
Bible Societies are, in themselves, by no means
formidable.

[sto attiNo ctittosicLV.]
The conduct of Government with respect t 6
the Insurrection Act seems very indefensible.—
Last year Parliament was' required to adopt atm
the mere credit of the Marquess of Wellesley ;
in the present year it has been introduced in a
hurry at the close of the Session, recommended
by a Committee reluctantly appointed a few
weeks before. We should desire to know
whether it was at any time the intention of Minis-
ters to propose the renewal of this most uncoaSti-
tutional enactment, without any better realloti
being given than the vague and general allega-
tions of Mr. Goulburn, that the Act was needed ;
and if not, we should be glad to hear from any
Member of Government, or from any one who
professes to be satisfied with the manner in which
Irish affairs are administered, why the Insurrec-
tion Act Committee was not appointed at such a
period in the late Session as would have allowed
time fora satisfactory Inquiry and Report ; what
excuse is there for the precipitation with which
Ministers have acted ? Large anticipations of
the benefits to accrue to Ireland from the admi-
nistration of Lord Wellesley were indulged at
the period of his appointment. But certainly
the acts of his Government have been character=
ized by little of the discretion, judgment, con-
sistent and deliberate prudence, us well as
energy, which were expected to distinguish them.
So fur as he himself is personally concerned;
things do appear to be right ; in the exercise of
that prerogative %Melt forms especially the per-
sonal duty of the Chief Governor—the commuta-
tion or remission of punishment—his Excellency
has displayed those excellent qualities which he
was believed to possess. Yet his administratiorg
as a whole is iufirrn.

[Tice TIMES.]
We understand that the negotiations between`"
the Commissioners of Portugal and of Brazil
have, up to a certain point, advanced with con.
siderable hope of a successful iztlie: the mean..
iak
iol
which
leonrati wl►ich the tia)trbliiiseiocrlieuptileee
contendedislo gnleofuforto'voedbnycloußisi tar
tzt
mely, its
independence of Portugal—will be admitted by
the Government of the latter country. The'
point, however, 46 up to" which matters are said
to have proceeded smoothlyi is just that point
beyond which there appeared from the outset
hardly a likelihood that the Commissioners would
make any progress whatever. It is one, in fact,
which under a collateral and secondary formi em-
braces the whole substance of this national dispute.
Portugal may profess to recognize the indepen-
deuce of the Brazilian empire; but if, as a rider
upon that concession, she calls for such an act of
settlement as shall hereafter unite both crowns on
the head of a single Sovereign, it is plain that the
whole object contended for by Brazil would be
frustrated, and the acknowledgment of her dis-
tinct sovereignty a mere illusion. The freedom
desired by Brazil is not en empty honour. She
has been prompted to the exercise of it by her
experience of the practical evils arising' from
the dominion asserted, and the policy enforced,
by the parent country—by the chains im-
posed upon her commerce—the jealous and
oppressive maxims on which her internal govern.
went was conducted—and the uniform Subjec-
tion end sacrifice of her interests, whenever
they were presumed to come into competition with
those of Portugal. When the people of Brazil
contend for au entire overthrow of the Portuo
on au
the because, to
ge
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ve
cs et
uaaul t !sit; int
itohne yo if n
Cc:
wriii
sterna:2i,
imagine one King and one system of councils di.
recting the affairs of two distant countries, having
interests, or, to speak more justly, prejudices,
passions, and schemes of policy at open variance,
each with those of the other, would be to fancy a
political monster,
of this heterooneout
Aire,
which must perpetually coun-
teract and finally destroyitself, except by
making one division •
has been heretofore, a prey to its rival
—the very condition from which it has been the
rusrcpuo es e
:l South American Revolutionists tw
es and their Posterity.
et
themselves
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[MORNING HERALD.,
No leadiug article in this Paper to-day.

' Monday curve on hefore the Ugh Court of
Admiralty, Edinburgh, the trial of Wm. Blackwood, master,
and Alexander DI Alpine, pilot, of the Hercules steam-boat,
accused of culpable homicide, 11/ running down the 110bert
Barns steam-boat, near Greenock, in February last, whereby
the Burns was sunk, and Archdl Thompson, a passenger,
drowned. After a long investigation, the Jury returned a vgr.
diet, unanimously finding them Not guilty.
he Caraccus Papers contain the projet of a
National Bank, to be established in that city,
with a capital of two millions of dollars. The'
successful precedent of the Buenos. Ayres Bank
will doubtless lead to similar establishmehts
throughout all the other sections of SoUth Aute.-
rice.