The Sun.
London, England, 1823-06-28 00:00:00

TUE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Extracts froni the Morning Pqpers, June 28.

ENEw TIMES.]
The liberation of the King of Spain, appears to
be so close at hand, that it is scarcely worth. while
to snake any observation on the situation of Sir
W. A!Court at Seville. Sir William has found
himself precisely i the position we anticipated,
and has acted precisely as we said he proba-
bly would do in our Paper of the 20th
instant, Accredited only to the King, he de;
dined following the Regency of Seville as the Re-
presentative of his Government. If, contrary to
all reasonable calculation, Cadiz should support
the remains of the Cortes, he wilt doubtless pur-
sue the same course with regard to the Regency
of Madrid, until he receives further instructions,
from home. As to the notions which some per-
sons entertain, that the Regency will endeavour
to raise a new loan, they appear to be perfectly
Unfounded. Its acts can only be provisional ;
and however enormous the extent of credulity in
this country, it surely will not trust to such a
security as would thus be offered.

[MORNING CIIRONI'CLFA
Advices were yesterdiy received from Per--
rtarnbuco, dated May'l3s in reference to letters
just received from Bahia,' which mention, that
the Portuguese squa dronl. consisting of thirteen
armed vessels, with MO regulars' on board, were
under weigh, and ready to leave Bahia on the
30th April, in order to meet the Brazilian squa-
dron, under Lord Cochrane.- The Brazil packet
sailed from Rio de Janeiro on 97th April, to
touch at Bahia and Pernambuco; stie may con-
sequently be expected daily, and,' in all proba,
bility, will bring accounts of the result of the
expected reneontre.

'However much'we may disapprove of the ',d-
itties' principles of Mr. Peel, and more particu-;
larly of the policy he fins always advocated with
respect to the Catholics, we feel ourselves bound
to acknowledge „that, he seems to us really' ac-
tuated by an anxious desire-to improve the adini-
nistration of justice.- His reproof to'the political
Judges of Scotland on Thursday evening willi
we have no doubt, he prOdnctive of infinite good;
but we wish we could make him 'feel that fines.
have lately been imposed by English Judges to
an amount (considering the means of the paities)
utterly irreconcileable with every received notion
of law in this country. The administration of
justice presents a noble field for a Statesman am-
bilious of signalizing himself as a benefactor to
his country. The first duty of a Government is
to see that justice be done between man and man.
in this duty the V.,nglish Governmenthas hitherto
been singularly deficient.—(Tbiffi)

(*.MORNING sons.]
During the course of political agitation it is
always impossible to form ney precise or conft.
dent anticipation of the institutions or forms of
Government which may finally emanate from
them. Those who ace the nearest to the scenes
of commotion, those even who impart to it its
original impulse, often discover in the issue, that
their most plausible conjectures have been erro-
neous, and that their firm and determined pur-
pose is become abortive. if this consideration,
however, forbids us to hazard any bold and
decided prediction as to the ultimate conse-
quences of those convulsions into which the king-
dom of Portugal has been thrown, we are equally
forbidden by their deep importance, by the
universal interest which they must excite, by
their possible operation upon the war of national
independence now raging in Spain, and by their
unavoidable effect to diminish or increase the in-
fluence of England upon the Councils of Por-
tugal—towitiihold, such ohservatiens as the im-
mediate posture of affairs appears naturally to sug-
gest, and such diffident anticipations as the uncer-
tain and evanescent nature of our materials will
allow. We cling fondly then to the hope that
such Institutions may spring out of these
convulsions as will afford and secure to
the Portuguese people the invaluable Wes,
sings of civil liberty, together with such
a degree of political influence as is necessary to
maintain and guarantee their civil freedom. The'
Proclamation of the King to the Inhabitants of
Lisbon breathes sentiments well adapted to, in-
spire this hope. If despotic principles of Go-
vernment held sway over the Royal mind, or if
such principles had the ascendency amongst those
in whose hands the King had placed himself be-
fore he issued this proclamation, its language is
altogether unaccountable. The stronger party
would scarcely,, for the mere treacherous pur-
pose of neutralizing opposition, go Aso far as
to make a formal and voluntary surrender of
every principle which the most zealous and
ardent champion of freedom could feel an in-
clination to oppose ; nor will the institutions
now about to be adopted by Portugal have con-
tracted in their origin the stain of foreign die.
tation. French gold may have accelerated the
convulsion, but the proclamation ot the King
sufficiently attests that French principles had
not acquired the pretiontintinee,. On those de-
testable principles this address conveys the se-
yerest and most effective censure—that of striking
contrast and express renunciation.