The Sun.
London, England, 1824-11-12 00:00:00

[HORNING IIERALDI

f a the Report of Crown Lands and Quit Rents
in Ireland, just printed, pursuant to the order of
Parliament, there is quoted the following entry
of a Crown Lease, granted in the 25th of the late
King, to George Capel Coningsby, commonly
culled Lord Viscount Malden ; the Honourable
Charlotte Boyle Walsinghtim ; and Richard
O'Bryan Boyle, Esq. respecting of property in
Meath :—" All that and those houses and mes.
wages irtthe town of Navan ((herein mentioned),
held by 14 tenants ; and all the days' works and
labours in autumn of said 14 tenants; and also an-
other house in Navan,, formerly intenure of John
Philpot ; and all' 'customary duties of mowing of
corn in harvest for one day, and for any other
day's work in making of hay,reserved on any de-
mise of the premises; and one hen from every
one of the said fourteen tenants yearly at Christ-
mas, and also two other tenants 'there ; and all
those cottages lately built without- the walls of
said town, in 'a certain street called the Canon-
row ; and alsO a fishing weir ; also a house in the
town of Slane ; also a messuage, and five acres
w
formerly of waste land, with the appurtenances,
in the town of Finaockstown, and a house in the
town of 'DoWnainore, and another house in the
said town ; also a house in the town of Ardmule
charm; and also one customary galon, commonly
called a Mary galon, of the best beer of every

brewing, made to be sold in the town of Nava n
aforesaid, all parcel of the revenues of the late
dissolved monastery of Novan." And a rent of 6/.

[THE PuntAc LEDGER.]
Every arrival from the new States of America
brings intelligence more or less gratifying—some
new pledge (we shall not say of their indepen-
dence, for this is already placed beyond the
reach of accident) but of the happy destiny that
seems to await them. They have shewn so much
fortitude in difficult circumstances, and such mo-
deration in prosperity, that we are not surprised
at the solidity which they have acquired in so
short a time. Their very existence too has
been identified with improvement ; and they
had no sooner thrown off the fetters of the slave,
than they began to entertain projects of high,
comprehensive, and durable utility.—Amidst
the loudest din of arms, they found leisure to
attend to the pacific arts; and notwithstanding
the expenditure of a desolating struggle, they
could find funds for works which usually require
a period of prosperity and settled quiet. ‘Ve
have here, perhaps, the grand distinction be-
tween free and enslaved nations ; for improve-
ment and freedom are synonimous, as an enslaved
state is equivalent to misery and degradation.—
These remarks have been elicited by the intel-
ligence brought by the Mail from Rio Janeiro,
where, though all alarm of a hostile visit
had not subsided, yet we see the Go-
vernment occupied in undertakings, which,
if a Statesman of the old school, and in any
of the Monarchical States, were to propose
under similar circumstances, he would be treated
as a wild visionary. The advices by this convey-
ance are to the 19th of September, and they re-
present the Emperor in the act of laying the
foundation-stone of a dock for the building and
repairing of ships of the line. The ceremony
took place on the 27th of August, when his
Majesty was accompanied by the Minister of
the Marine, and several Naval and Military
Officers. The Dock is to be cut in a rock of
solid granite, and it is expected that it will
be finished in a few months. Moreover, a
University is to be immediately founded,
which will secure to the Brazilian youth the
means of acquiring a liberal education, without
the expence, trouble, and contamination, of seek-
ing it in foreign countries. Thus this new State,
like all the others ou the same Continent, is lay-
ing the firm basis of its future prosperity, and
advancing with rapid strides in the career of civi-
lization ; whilst Spain and Portugal, under their
crazy despotisms, are as rapidly declining in
wealth, power, and consideration. Yet the latter
have the unparalleled modesty to pretend to hold
the former in subjection !