The Sun.
London, England, 1824-07-22 00:00:00

lone it to an extent which may be detrimental
to his family. We remember .when the last Loan
for Colombia was contracted, it was said that
there were names down on the Contractors'
list to nearly ten times the amount of the Loan
to be contracted for. Now this Loan is also
at a large discount ; but supposing the full list
of subscribers had been taken, what would
the discount have been ? It is not impossible
but that it would have been 50 per cent. This
thews bow different people are in their ideas
when a thing advances in price or falls ; and it
should teach those who have but moderate for-
tunes, and wives and children, to be cautious
how they meddle with things which a breath can
render valueless. Before ,we conclude, we should
be glad to be informed, whether from any of the
South American States, a single ounce of gold, or
silver, oreven copper, has been received for the
purpose of paying any part of the interest of the
Loans negociated for that part of the world ; or
whether one farthing is expected to be received
by the Loan Contracting House.

[THE TIMES.,
A short article dated Mentz—whether genuine
or not is another question—appears in the Mode,
having for its subjects Prince Metternich, Count
Munster, the Hanoverian army, Portugal, the
British Government, and the Holy Alliance. The
intent of the paragraph is sufficiently obvious,
since the author concludes with a sneering con-
gratulation to the Holy Alliance on, the accession
of the Cabinet of this country to their principles,
and our consequent acknowledgment of the right
of interference in the concerns of foreign coun-
tries, which we had condemned so loudly in the
case of Spain. The arrival of Count Munster at
Johannisberg, and the presumed expedition
of a force from Hanover to support the
King of Portugal against his disloyal subjects,
are the grounds of this pretended homage
to the candour, but covert attack upon the
steadiness and consistency of our Ministers. Now,
one single circumstance (a circumstance, how-
ever, scarcely to be anticipated) would have the
effect of changing the whole character of the pro.
ceeding. For if the question be merely between
two parties of native Portuguese, whether the
ancient Cortes, or the modern Cortes, or no
Cortes, but an arbitrary Monarch shall rule
over then►---whether the priesthood, or the
populace, or the soldiers, or the worn-out
nobility, shall dictate the proclamations of
John VI., we have no shadow nor pretence of
right to adjust the political thermometer to our
own fancy : let it stand at " temperate," or rise to
" boiling water," it is no affair of ours. But, on
the oth' hand. ^f the hot klliance should

ae o er hand, i .de ioly A 2e shot)_ pro-
ceed by open interference to torment the Portu-
guese at its pleasure—should France be' mad
enough to march her troops to Lisbon ; in that
cases rather than tolerate a French occupation of
that only remaining spot of the 'Peninsula, Eng-
land would be justified in sending an Hanoverian,
or, •if that were not enough, a British army, to
punish the unwarrantable aggression : for in doing
so, she would best redeem herself from the foul
panegyric of the Etoik, and confirm the contrast
of her principles with those of thelloly.Alliance.

,
[KEY/
• We have received the Etude of Ttiesday morn-
ing. The most remarkable paragraph it contains
is one relating to the Hayden Envoys who are at
this moment in Paris. It seems pretty broadly
intimated that the French Government is sego.
dating to recognise the independence of Hayti,
provided that it can obtain fur itself some corre-
spondent advantages. The wisdom of such an
arrangement could scarcely be doubted ; it would
'get rid of many troublesome qnestions on both
sides, and would open,a path to future beneficial
intercourse. The late President Petion, the
predecessor of Boyer, was willing, as the price
of a recognition so desirable in a political point of
view, to have provided a' fund for indemnifying
toxertain extent the colonists who had been
driVen from their estates during the Revolution.'
it' this respect, as in many others, he evinced an
'equal regard for justice and humanity. We doubt
whether the President Boyer will be disposed to
go'su far in the path of conciliation. It is. rather
remarkable that- the Fre:it:h.:Eu/11e and English
Courier, which agree on scarcely any other point,
join in cbtaradicting most positively,the intention
of sending Any Hanoverian troops to Portugal.—
On this subject, however,
y the German they are both opposed
b Papers, which assert that Count
Munster, after having visited Johannisberg to
confer with Prince; Metternich, had proceeded
to Hanover to superintend the arrangements .ne•
'(!eisitrY fur Collecting the force in question.

. . [MORNING cuitoNict.E.]
The Catholics and • Protestants of this Em.
pima are Continually reproaching each other
With fanaticiim, and it ,is melancholy to think
that the reproach in both cases is well-founded.
,The scenes that sometimes occur at the love-
feasts and other devotional meetingS in Eng-
land,, are calculated' to give pain to every re-
flecting mind. One instance must be fresh in
the recollection of all our Readers—Hamely,
that of the girl who was discovered by her
mother in a state of nudity at a love4east, at
which she had been present for some days, and on
whom the agitation produced an insanity which led.
her to deprive her infant brother of life. We have
'seen in Wales congregations under a state of ex-
,citement, which no rational person could content-
plate without'alarm, and, we fear scenes of the
same kind are but too common even among the
more phlegmatic English. We Mention this in jus-
tice to the Irish Catholics, who participated in the
late horrid proceedings at Wexford: Once let the
reifis•of the itnaginatiou loose—free it from the
coutrool of reason---and there is no answering
for the consequences. Even Sir Isaac Newton
was al tunes fanatical, and was so worked
on by the Prophecies of the French Co-
rf
liiSildS, that he rap about denouncing judg-
ments, till he was forcibly detained by his
friend- Gregory. If the late Joanna Southcot,
iwho possessed such itiffnence over her followers,
libud commanded the effusion of blood, we have
iot the slightest doubt that she would have been
obeyed 45 readily as the female Swiss Protestant