The Sun.
London, England, 1824-02-19 00:00:00

l'IlE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, Feb. 19.

•[TILE TIMES.]
In the Lisbon Gazette of the 29th ult., we
find a long article, professing to be the comanuni-
• cation of a correspondent on the history of revo-
lutions, and the conduct of factions. From the
style in which it is written, and the Scripture
quotations in which it abounds, it seems to be
the production of a priest;aed was probably even
delivered from the pulpit, on occasion of the late
restoration of his Faithful Majesty to absolute
power. The author begins by comparing the
season of Portuguese constitutional liberty to-a
.-wintry storm, and the events which it produced
to the .agitations of a troubled ocean. The coun-
ter-revolution is of course the return of spring
,and repose, and is celebrated in the gldwing lan-
guage of the Trappist's proclamations :—" After
" the frightful events of our revolution, we saw
• 66 our beneficent star (the King) rise more brilliant
.44 and glorious, restoring us to peace and life, and
. " announcing to us, by the influence of his paternal
• " and benignant government, the end of our misfor-
." tunes and the re-establishment of our ancient
" political consideration." It would be a tire-
„some and fruitless task to enter into the merits of
..a dissertation like this, ambitious without power,
pedantic without learning, and abounding in the
forms of logic without a single instance of con-
, clusive reasoning. Ws allude to it merelyffoe,re,
. the- purpose of stating, that, - unlike the produc-
tions of the fanatical party in Spain, it strongly,
recommends clemency and oblivion as the duties
incumbent upon rulers after revolutions like those
in the Peninsula. Nay, the Catholic author pro-
ceeds so far in the liberality of his ideas, as to
censure the bigotry of Philip 11. of Spain, to
praise henry IV. of France for granting conces-
910I1S to his Protestant subjects,and to deplore the,
fatal policy of Louis XI V. in recalling the edict
of Nantes. One would suppose that in the fol-
lowing passage the author had in view Ferdinand
of Spain. (whom he studiously forbears from
praising), and his fanatics. " Unhappily on such
" occasions there generally come forth, like ravens
to a field of carnage, bands of cruel and needy.
c: adventurers, who nurse discord among the citi-
t= Zeus, and who, instead of endeavouring to
" sooth the animosity of parties, inflame it by a
" hypocri.tical zeal, and a furious intolerance,
" making vengeance and fanaticism the only
" guides of their conduct ; and, like the troops
" of malefactors during the dreadful earthquake
" that shook our. capital, converting- the alarms
add confusion of the public to the advantage of
," their rapacity." Though the claims of tolera-
tion and forgiveness are strongly, -urged in this
article, we see no hietof the necessity of secur-
ing good government in future by the establish-
meet of institutions - -which would at once
strengthen the monarchy and protect the people
from the abuses, of power.

[bIORNING rola.]
The business in the House of Commons last
night was of little importance. Mr. Courtenay
obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend the
Bankrupt Laws, and briefly stated its chief pro-
visions ; by which his object seems to be to esta-
blish certain restrictions under which a man may
render himself subject to the operation of the law,
without incurring its criminal character, and to
alter both the mode in which certificates are ob-
tained and their operation. Mr. Curwen com-
plained that his Majesty's Ministers had violated
the Constitution of the Isle of Man by sending
instructions to the Governor to allow the verdict
Of Juries to stand good without being legalised,
as it had been the practice, by the House of
Keys (the House of Commons of that island),
and moved for a copy of the instructions sent
to that effect. Mr. Secretary Peel stated that
the Attorney-General of the Island and the It,
lo.i-ney and Solicitor-General of England having
declared that in their judgment the !rouse of
Keys did not possess the right of legalizing the
,verdicts of Juries, nothing had heen sent to the
Governor but the opinions of those distinguished
Lawyers, on which he had thought it fit to act.—
If the. House of Keys wished their claim to be
discussed in a more solemn manner, they might
appeal to the Kino-. in Council. The motion
Laving been pressed, however, was carried on a
division by a majority of 28 to 26.

[NEW TIMES]
The Decree of King Ferdinand for a Free
Trade ,with the Spanish Colonies, though at first
treated by one of our Cotemporaries as mere
matter of moonshine, is now discovered by the
same. Journalist to be of extreme importance;
an'd in this latter opinion we fully.coincide. The
Aurna/ tic; Debuts of the 17th inst. contains
some judicious remarks on this Decree.—lt can-
not but be extremely satisfactory to our mer-
chants to know that they may now dispatch ship-
ments .to South America, without fear of their
betng.detained or captured by. Spanish cruisers
on. the ground of prohibited trade. It is justly
oaerred, that the Decree in question re-unites a
laige.party
rio the Colonies to the Parent State.
With, the
.political
,consequences . which may
tii"kce result, as between Spain and the C010n4,0,-we
n4,0,-we have-nothing to. do ; but yet we may
re4sOnably rejoice at the prospect thus afforded
of ; an amicable adjustment-- of the existing
differeoces.,—.qne thing is, certain,, that the
olit4re'Asions, and vexatious of the old Colonial
syStem of Spain are clearly at an end. 4C A great
and'themarible revolution in the commercial and
pa:4ookt world," says .the Journal des DObals,
" has been accomplished.!! - Much praise is cer-
tainly 'due -to M. de Marcellus, for the:able man-.
ner'in-Which he has conducted the discussions
on„this important subject. We have
.heretofore
noticed the entire accordance which. existed be
tween.our own Government and that of France,
in a common desire to --moderate the . views
.of 'Spain, relative to the vast ultramarine
territories: formerly :-subjected to her sway.—
Bat the wishes of England and France
had to
,epcot!ntgr prejudices- not peculiar to
Felcjinand, or. .hia Goverptnent. The Cortes,