The Sun.
London, England, 1823-06-04 00:00:00

in one.way or other in contact with Parliamen-
tary Jobbing.—The corruption in Scotland is
confined to the 3000 independent Electors, with
whose traffic the rest of the two millions of in-
habitants have no concern. In England the cor-
ruption extends to a very large fraction of the
populationiaud comes in contact with the whole.
The Empire .% therefore interested in improving
the representation of Scotland, which has given
so much kdditionel power to the Crown, and
Scotland -Ts of course interested in the gene-
ral improvement of the Empire ; but an approxi-
mation of the defective representation of Scot-
land to the less defective system of England,
would relatively be rather a disadvantage than
an advantage to Scotland.

[NEW TIMES.
It is amusing to observe how The Chronicle
begins to repent of having suffered the truth to
transpire relative to the state of things at Seville.
After having told us the other day that these
accounts from Seville were from such au-
thority that they could not in duty and
conscience withhold them, it now quotes
the opinion of an " esteemed Correspondent,"
who roundly asserts that there is in them
46 neither truth nor probability."!! Alas, for
the unfortunate readers of The Chronicle ! What
are they to think, or what can they believe ? If
they look to the Leading Article in the 2d page,
they will find that " the great cause of liberty
in Spain, as far ns regards the two armies, is
much more promising now than it was six weeks
ago." If they consult the Parisian Correspon-
dent, they will find he fairly admits that the
majority of the Spaniards are hostile to the
aforesaid " great cause of liberty." But then he
would have liberty thrust down their throats.

He says, and he says very truly, that in ques-
tions of Constitutional theory, as in all affairs
of morals, it is an absurdity to talk of nume-
rical majority.—" So far so good." The will of
the People is nothing, or rather it must be con-
trolled—the People have nothing to do with the
laws but to obey them—" the ignorant many are
presumed to dispute their rights to the enlighten-
ed few.''--Gentle reader, these are not our doc-
trines, but The Chronicle's-- _

tneus hic sermo est, sed quem priecipit Ofellus.
It is curious, however, to note the manner in which
the doctrines hang together, and how they bear
on the Spanish question. First, we are told that
there never was a People so unanimous as the Spa-

lards are in favour of the Constitution mannfac-

turgid at Cadiz;, anti because they were unani-
mous, therefore the Constitution became the true
and lawful form of Government; and because it
was the true and lawful Government, and the
choice of the majority of Spaniards, therefore the
attempts of the French to cause it to be altered
were most injurious.
iNow, it is confessed that
the said unanimity was all a fiction, or, in more
trivial phraseology, a humbug. The great majo-
rity, 44 the ignorant many," as our aristocratic
friend calls the people, (we wonder he did not
call them the Swinish Multitude,) are desirous
of overturning the said Constitution, and are
very glad to obtain the assistance of the French
in so doing—but the individuals who are ag.
grieved are " the enlightened few"—the " ma-
jority of talents," as he elsewhere calls them.—

This unhappy word " Talents" lets out the whole
secret. There are a set of modest Gentlemen
in England who fancy that they possess" all the
talents" of the country ; and in virtue of this in-
tellectual pre-eminence, they conceive they have
a jure divino right to govern us, the ignorant
many. There are a few Spaniards who entertain
the same modest opinion of themselves ; and be-
cause they think themselves wondrous clever, ergo
they are so, and ergo they have a right to cut out
Constitutions for their countrymen—so much for
" the great cause of Liberty" in Spain

[MORNING Il ERA LD.]

A. Morning Paper yesterday, in mentioning the
expence of the late Coronation, does it in stiff*.
ciently doleful terms to delight even an ultra Ra.
dica I. It is no doubt done with the intent to ad.
minister to the taste of the latter class of his Ma.
jesty's subjects; It notices, with marks of admir-
ation, that the Coronation cost nearly a quarter
of a million ! It is apparently singular, that
the same paper hardly ever alludes to the an-
nual expence of the National Debt. Trifling
items of a quarter of a million, or even less, it
is continually entertaining its readers with ;
but the great sum of 30,000,0001., a-year, for
the interest of a debt, with which it may be truly
said the present King has nothing whatever
to do, it scarcely ever noticed at all. To us k
appears to be bad taste to find fault with the
expence of that which the country has been
accustomed to for the last thousand years, and
especially, in so gross a manner, to throw it
into.the teeth of certainly,one of the best Kings
England ever had. We call king George the
Fourth one of our best Kings, principally be-
cause he has hitherto shown a strong inclina-
tion for. peace. Warlike Kings, take them in
general, are great pests to society, and especially
to the country they may happen to rule over. They .
may for a time carry every thing before them,
and introduce destruction and slaughter into their
neighbour's country, but how is this accomplish-
ed except at an enormous expence ?---and too
generally such expences are not paid at the time
they are incurring. If it is the custom of a King
to be crowned, no fair expence should be spared ;
besides, this description of national expendie
ture has its benefit, and especially as it very
rarely occurs. It causes the nobility and the
gentry to spend their money, and, that which
the poor want comes out of the pockets of the
rich. Money is scattered by this means, and the
poor gather it. If, however, on such occasions,
the money parted with was the income of the
Crown, it might probably be so much the better
it would not afterwards come on the nation gene-
rally, But it should be remembered that John
Bull is extremely jealous of the Crown having
an income independent of him. As a further in-
stance of tite misery of party, the very same
paper, had the question been, started during the
late Queen's life, shall her Majesty have a Coro-
nation ? would have said, " Ah, as splendid as
possible ;" and every variety of argument would