The Sun.
London, England, 1824-05-05 00:00:00

funds from the capitalists of this. co-antry, and defeat his most,
ardent exertions ! ! !

I leave it, Mr. Editor, to your discretion to decide whether
the subject of this communication be, or not, a fit topic to
which public journalists should direct the public attention.

***elk

Letters from Lisbon of the 23d ult. men-
tion that a French sloop of war had arrived
there with troops from Cadiz. This 'circum-
stance had Caused some sensation in Lisbon ; but
the officers, on being questioned as to their
motive in coming to Lisbon, stated that they
were on their way to France—the period of
their service in Spain being expired.
The Lisbon mail which arrived yesterday,
brought Royal Gazettes to the 24th of April in-
clusive. They are chiefly engrossed with de-
tails relative to the counter-revolution at Macao,
of the fact of which we have been already in-
formed.

We ,believe that people are now beginning to
cry out against the Assessed Taxes, and their
continuance, at a period of the Session when the
plan of Finance is in a great degree settled.
They should have expressed their feelings sooner;
and we have no doubt that a Financial Scheme,
more in accordance wi►h those feelings, and also
with the Most obvious principles of political eco-
nomy, would then have been conceded. The
apparent apathy of the public to their own inte-
rests led Ministers to suppose that sufficient
alleviation had been granted under the most
oppressive heads of taxation.

The Bill for the relief of Unitarian Dissenters
was thrown out last night in the Upper House
by a majority of thirty-nine ; the numbers being
66 for, and 105 against it. It was warmly op-
posed by the LORD CHANCELLOR, who said he
thought the measure proposed most pernicious to
the Church Establishment. Unitarians, Lord
ELDON asserted, were not Dissenters, and could
not claim the benefit of the Toleration Act, from
which they were particularly excluded. Lord
LIVERPOOL supported the measure, in which his
Lordship stated, he could see nothing injuri-
ous to the interests of the Established Church.
The Bill received the support also of the Arch-
bishop of CANTERBURY and the Bishop of
EXETER ; the former said that the law, as it
now stood, caused persons to simulate assent,
which was most mischievous. The Bishops of
CHESTER. and St. DAVID'S strongly opposed the
Bill. Lord LAmsDowN contended that the argu-
ments of the former Prelate were calculated
rather to stifle the consciences of the Unitarians
than to p-romote the interests of the Established
Church.

In the House of Commons, Captain MASERLY
moved an Address, praying his MAJESTY to ad-
vance, through Commissioners, a sum not ex.
ceeding 1,000,0001., to be distributed in Loans to
individuals in the Provinces of INlunstlr and Con-
naught, in Ireland. After a debate, the motion
was negatived by a majority of 85 to 33.

Frankfort Papers to the close of the last month
reached us last night. They inform us that
the Emperor of AUSTRIA had sent to Lieutenant..
Colonel FARQUIIA R, Governor of the British Set-
tlement of Sincapore, the Cross of the Order of
Leopold ; and to Mr. MONTGOMERY, Physician to
the Garrison of that place, a Diamond Ring, as an
acknowledgment of the services which they ren-
dered to the crew of the Austrian frigate Caro-
line, when she put into Sincapore with the Cholera
111 orbus on board. The Government of Greece
has sent a letter of thanks to the Committee
established at Berne for the relief of the Greek
exiles.

On Monday, when it was announced at the
Paris Stock Exchange that no dividend was to be
paid on the Spanish Constitutional loans, a tumult
was excited by the holders of the bonds, who
cried " Down with the loan of GUEIMARD !" A
Commissary of Police and a posse of gens-d'armes
soon restored tranquillity.
The illoniteur contains a notice from the Por-
tuguese Consul-General at Paris, couched in the
same terms as that which we lately copied from
the Lisbon Papers, declaring that the King of
PORTUGAL will recognize no advance made to
the present Government of Rio Janeiro.
Yesterday morning the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER had a long interview with the Earl
of LIVERPOOL.

Yesterday, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council
was held at the Foreign Office, in Downing-
street, which was attended by all the Cabinet
Ministers, except the LORD C/IA.NCELLOR. The
Cabinet at till a quarter before four o'clock.
The Duke of CLARENCE dined at the Mess of
the Officers of the King's and other Guards on
Monday.—Yesterday morning, about twelve
o'clock, Prince Leopold, attended by Baron
Stockmar, left town for Claremont.—The Duchess
of Clarence dined with the Duchess of Kent on
Monday, at her apartments, at the King's Palace,
Kensington.—The Duke of Clarence, the Duchess
of Gloucester, and the Princess Sophia, visited
the Princess Augusta yesterday.—Yesterday the
Duchess of Gloucester, the Princess Augusta, and
the Princess Sophia, visited the Duke of Sussex
at his residence, at the King's Palace, Kensington,
who still continues indisposed.
Letters received in town from Lima, of a late
date, state that BOLIVAR was expected there
every day ;' they contain no political news of
consequence. All was tranquil.