The Sun.
London, England, 1823-05-13 00:00:00

ceeded to make some powerful allusions to
his own sentiments on a former occasion, in
1810, contrasted with those lately delivered
by him in that House, which he reconciled
most fully. Utter want of space prevents us,
this day, enlarging further on this important de-
bate, or on that in the tower House on the
motion of. Mr. Goulburn, for the renewal of the
odious and unconstitutional Insurrection Act in
Ireland a measure which may inflame every
cause of dissension, but never will tranquillize
that country.
We are authorised, on the highest and most unquestionable
authority, to contradict the paragraph in the Courier Paper of
last night, stating the Spanish vessel the " Veloz," captured
by the Jean Bart, was a letter of marque, or that, directly, or
indirectly, she had from the Spanish Government any autho-
rity whatsoever to make captures. No letters of marque were
issued by that Government until after the Ist of March ; and
the assertion of the discarded Courier, that the " Veloz was
was a Spanish privateer, with a Spanish letter of marque grant.
ed by the Spanish Government during the negociations, or be-
fore, as we believe, at Verona," is like all the late asertions
and information of the Courier, unfounded and destitute of an
atom of truth. The Spanish vessel was an armed merchant-
man, carrying guns in her own defence, but bearing no go-
vernment commission, nor is there the slightest foundation,
we are assured, for the assertion of the Courier, that any
French vessels were plundered by the " Veloz."—As to the ot-
ficial.advices of the Courier, these are at an end—even the
Secretary (its ancient correspondent) dare not now make that
Paper the most trivial communication ; its official authority is
all Vudgc,"—its day is gone by—all parties now despise the
C'ourier.—( nu)

[MORNING cnitoxict.E.l
Our limits will only-allow us to allude to the
triumphant answer given last night by Earl
Grey in the House of Lords to the attempt of
Mr. Canning to establish an inconsistency be
tweet' his sentiments In 1810 and at the present
conjuncture. Whatever may be the immediate
result of the attempt of France, whether despo-
tism shall be immediately re-established, or
Europe be involved in a general war, in either
case the blame certainly belongs to Ministers.—
A firmness at the proper season would, without
fail, have prevented the invasion. Nothing
can be more conclusive than the reasoning
of Lord Grey on this point.—" The Noble Lord
(Liverpool) had, he said, stated on a former
occasion that he (Earl. G.) under-rated the diffi-
culties of the enterprise in which France had
embarked ; he had dwelt on the advantages pos-
sessed by Spain for protracting a defensive war,
on the amount of her population, on the difficul-
ties which the French army would have to en-
counter in obtaining supplies, and on. the enor-
mous expences which must be incurred by France.
No man certainly was a better judge of those
expences than the Noble Earl, but these diffi-
culties were not likely to be less known in
France than in this country, and could it be
doubted for a moment, that, if in addition to
all these difficulties which they must have
estimated before embarking in this enterprise,
a firm remonstrance had been made on the part
of this country, it would not have had the effect
of preventing the aggression? The Noble Earl
ad► Witted that there was great vacillation In the
French Government, and there could be no
doubt that a remonstrance made in a proper tone
lby this country would have been followed by' a
strong manifestation of the public feeling, not
only in France, but throughout Europe, for the
Despots of the Continent were not so entirely
absolved from all dependence on public opinion,
but that they would have paused long before
they would have ventured, after such a remon-
strance, to embark in a war which might have
shaken their own Thrones to their very founda-
tion."

[MORNING POST.]
The crimes and the punishment of Carlile
have, we believe, excited no difference of opinion amongst the
respectable classes of the community. he profligacy and
audacity which marked his avowed and boasted defiance of the
law, are no believed by any rational man in England to have
been punished with an excessive rigour. The public justice
of the country has been in charge, and he should therefore, as
far as we are concerned, have been permitted to escape any fur-
ther ordeal of private animadversion, were it not that the
Whigs, with the fatality which impels them to blend themselves
with whatever inspires general disgust and contempt, seem
determined to adopt him as the protege of their party, and
to elevate the legal chastisement of the Blasphemer into the dig-
nity of a national grievance. In these times, truly, it is no
easy matter to get up a decent grievance, but the desperate
attempt to fabricate one out of the punishment of Carlile, con-
vinces us that the dearth of material for this species of manufac-
ture is more successive even than we had supposed. In order to
engage the sympathy of the English people for this vanquished
defter of the law, Mr. flume gets up in Parliament, and de-
clares him to he he most moral man in the country, and the
Whig Press is in an extasy of wonder and delight at what
it very significantly terms the moral courage displayed by the
declaration. Mr. flume and his party have afforded us abund-
dant opportunities of forming an accurate estimate of their po.
litical principle and their patriotic feelings, but till now we
were not aware that they had instituted for themselves a pe-
culler code of social and domestic morals. The unqualified
praise bestowed upon Carlii,, however, not only intimates to
us the existence of this Whig code of morals, but unfolds
to us also some of its very striking peculiarities. By this
new system of ethics, the most moral man in the world, in
his domestic relations, is one who being at the head of
family, engages in an unequal contest, the termination of
which can be no other than to deprive that family of his pro-
tection and superintendence ;- one who, being a husband, forces
or entices his wife into a situation the most revolting to
the natural and amiable feelings of her sex, who hardens her
to have the exposure of a public trial, and the sufferings of a
long imprisonment ; one who, being a brother, tempts his
sister into the sante gulf of abasement and of pain into which
he had precipitated his wife, and divests her so far of all the
gender feelings of womanhood as to fit her for wrangling with
flippancy and ignorance amongst Judges and Lawyers. This
is the pre-eminently moral man, according to the Whig system
of morality.--We' have forborne to touch upon the nature of
the offences by which Carlile exposed himself and his family
to the wholesome severity of the last By the Whig code of
morals, they probably constitute his highest Merits.

ANTIQUITIES.—The Diario di Roma gives an
account of an interesting discovery of objects of ancient art,
made on the Ilth ultimo, in making some repairs near the
Monastery of St. Lucia. At a very mall depth in the ground,
the workmen found a finger and a fragment of the arm of a statue.
This gave occasion to further searches; and on digging to the
depth of only a few palms,five statues, of the size of life, were dis-•
covered among some rubbish. Three of these statutes are Fauns
in different attitudes : one, a Silenus ; and the fifth represents.
one of the Appiades. The most pet fefect of the fauns has the
head : the others, and the Silenus, want the head, or some other
parts, which, it is hoped', will yet be found. The Workman;.
ship is extremely beautiful, and the original lustre of the
surfaces still preserved. There have also been discovered, a
column of dark broWn colour, about two palms in diameter !
another smaller ; and part of an ancient wall. On exploring
the interior of this wall, to the heighth of about ten palms,
and in breadth'to about two anti a half, it was found to be
faced with marble. The pavement before it is entire, and is et:in-
structed of marble of various colours and forms. At the distance
or about eight palms from this wall, the plinths of the first
mentioned column, and of two others, were found. It appears
that, at this spot, there had been a portico with statues, which
had been thrown down towards the road, which is the direction.
'of the fragments, and the bricks of the ruin. By prosecuting
the digging, the other sides of the building and its ornaments
will, perhaps, be found ; and we shall then learn the dimen-
sions of the edifiee, which doubtless was rich in specimens of
the fine arts. About this monastery, and that of San 31artino,
there exist considerable remains of ancient public works, which,
according to the opinion of antiquaries, belonged to the baths of
Trojan.