The Sun.
London, England, 1823-06-27 00:00:00

" lice the dignity o( their elevated situations
" for the sake of some ribald joke." No Judge
on this bench, like the veteran Nimrod of another
country, could coolly pass sentence of execution
on a wretched forger, and then in the same
breath call to the Sheriff of the County to know
on what day his hounds would go out. In Eng-
land, if a bill of indictment were presented
against the most wealthy and ponerful indivi-
dual, and supported by evidence, it would be
found in Ireland, the merits would never be
considered it would be sure at once to be
ignored. In England, no Magistrate viOuld issue
his supersedeas, or bail a capital felony, from
mere partiality to the culprit, or hostility to
the individual who had received the informa-

Lion ; nor would he reject the deposition of
any individual to a serious charge, until he had
investigated it thoroughly. In Ireland few ma-
g►istrates would receive an information against an
individual of any consequence; and nothing is
more common than admitting parties charged with
capital felonies to bail, merely on the score of
partiality or prejudice. The consequence of the
present system of administering justice in Ireland
has been, the demoralization of the lower orders,
an extinction of all respect for the laws, a ruinous
waste of property, and a fearful increase of crime.
Ireland never can be tranquil, or its populatienf
contented or at peace, until the whole sys,tem is
changed. Mr. Brougham introduced his motion
in a very able speech, which produced a power-
ful effect on the House.

[NEW 'RIMES.]
The accounts through France of a counter-
revolution in Portugal received full confirmation
yesterday, by the arrival of a Mail from Lisbon,
with Papers to the 31st ult. They furnish ma-
terials rather for a general outline than for a de,
tailed narrative of facts. On the whole, it is clear
that, as in Spain, the people shewed no° syrna
pathy with the Cortes. The revolutionary fac-
tion had been raised to power by an armed force
—and by an armed force its short,lived aua
thority was annihilated. It is matter of much
satisfaction, that the change was effected with,
out bloodshed, and it must be the wish of
every real friend to Portugal, and to the cause
of true liberty, that it may lead to the establish-
ment of a system- of Government congenial with
the habits and character of the people, and cal-
culated to promote their gradual advancement in
knowledge and freedom. The consummation so
devoutly to be wished, of combining stability
and power in. the Government with rational
liberty in the people, is not to be brought about
by any sudden effort. It can only be pro-
dueed by the slow hand' of dine, and by va-
rious co-operating causes and principles, the
thorough comprehension of which is beyond the
reach of the ablest politician. History shews
them to us in action ; but the man has not yet
lived who could so reduce them to consistent
theory, and, so understand their effects in prat=
tire, as to be able to frame Constitutions fitted
for all the necessities, peculiarities, and in-
terests of different nations. It is scarcely to
be conceived that any combination of human
intellect could be adequate to such a task.—
Can we wonder then at the failure of
a few turbulent individuals, setting out upon
the very principles of disorganisation., sweep-
ing away all that they should have preserved
of the old foundations, and raising, a crazy
fabric of- their ovrn, which must crumble into
ruins on the slightest shock of political agitation?'
—The intelligence by the Lisbon Mail, al,
though mare authentic, is not of so recent a
date as some of the advices through France,
in which it was stated that the King was
completely restored to his authority on' the
3d instant. The' counter,revolutinn commenced
on the 27th ult. by the departure of the Infant
Don Miguel, with the 23d regiment, from
Lisbon. On the same day the event was an-.
flounced to the Cortes by direction of the King,
The Message was referred' to a Committee of
Public Safety, who proposed to declare the coun-
try in a state of danger, that the King should' be
requested to dismiss his Minis4rs, and that
General Sepulveda should be charged with
maintaining the peace of the capital. Sepul-
veda was called in, he declared his resolu-
tion to uphold the Constitution; and stated
that the King was profoundly grieved' at
the events which had occurred. The pro-
posal for the dismissal of the Ministers. was
then modified, and the King was left to consult
the Council of, State on the subject. In the sit-
ting of the 28th, a Deputation which had waited
on the King reported, that their reception had
been favourable, and that. his Majesty had re-
peated his assurances of regret at the conduct of
his son, and of confidence in the Cortes. The
paper of the 30th contains a Royal Proclamation
to the' lime effect, and The Supplement to the
same paper announces the desertion (If Gen. Su-
pelveda, with 9.700 men. A new Ministry had
in the mean time been appointed ; and on a
Deputation waiting on the King, he is said
to have made farther protestations of his 'attach-
ment to the Constitution. We have next his Pro-
clamation, dated Villa Franca, May 31, in which
he states that he had taken the present step in
conformity with the wishes of his people, who
had declared themselves decidedly against the
existing institutions, and in order to avert im-
pending ruin ; and that his only desire was that
a constitution might be established by which the
dignity of the Crown and the rights of the Citizen
might be placed on a secure basis. The private
letters state that it was not at all probable
that there would be any resistance or reaction, as
the troops had all joined the King ; and the
people, as far as they cared at all about the
matter, are favourable to the change. We under-
stand that some Members of the Lisbon Cortes
have arrived in London.

On Saturday, the 21st ofJune, the Rev. G. P.
BOILEAU POLLP.N, A. B. Domestic Chaplain to
tho Right Hon. Lord NORTFIWICK, was instituted
to the Rectory of Little Bookham, in Surrey, on
his own petition, as true Patron, void by the re-
signatiou of the Rev. 11. MEARS.,