The Sun.
London, England, 1824-05-26 00:00:00

No other business of any importance was trans-
acted. The Journal des Debuts mentions that
Prince Polignac, the French Ambassador at Lon-
don, is shortly expected at Paris. It is men-
tioned in the same Paper, that when the Duke of
Levis presented his report on the Ministerial pro-
ject for the conversion of the Rentes, Count
Mollien and Count Auguste de Talleyrand, two
members of the commission, inscribed their
names to speak on (sur) the proposed law ; the
Duke de Doudeauville for it ; and M. de Saint-
Roman, M. Roy, and M. Pasquier, against it. As
the Minister has the two Dukec, and may make
himself sure of the others, there is no doubt he
will carry his measure.

[MORNING POST.]
It appears by the answer of the Earl of Liver-
pool to a motion made last night by the Marquis
of Lansdown, for an account of the oaths taken
by persons serving in the Excise, under the 12th
and 15th of Charles the Second, and for any in-
structions issued upon the subject since the year
1822, that since the consolidation of the Irish
and English Excise, the oaths of allegiance and
supremacy have not been enforced in all cases,on
the ground that it would be a grievance to compel
individuals long invested with situations to take
oaths when transplanted to this country, to which
they had not been submitted before. The Noble
Earl stated that they were covered by the An.
nual Indemnity Act, the 12th of Charles H.,
which had hitherto been most unaccountably
omitted in that Act, having been inserted in the
one passed for the present year. He also an—
nounced that he had given directions for a Bill
to be drawn up to make the law regular and uni-
form on that subject.

The business which occupied most of the time
of the Commons yesterday was a Petition from
Mr. Buckingham, late Editor of the Calcutta
Journal, whose removal from India, and all the
details attending his case, are already fully
known. It was presented by Mr. Larnbton, who
abstained from discussing the great question of
the Liberty of the Press in India, because, he
said, it was his intention to bring the subject be-
fore Parliament early next Session. Yet, though
limited in its extent, the discussion took an inte-
resting turn. The Speech of Mr. Secretary Can-
ning will be found particularly so. Considering
that legal proceedings were pending between Mr.
Buckingham and l‘fr. Adams, he wished the case
to be decided, and after that " he should not only
not object,but should desire that theadvantages or
a free press in India should be fairly considered,
together with those restrictions which might be
necessary to regulate our intercourse with the
Indian Empire, with a view to apply those prin-
ciples which were acted upon here so far as that
should be suitable to the progress of wealth and
civilization in those regions." The Petition was
received without opposition, and ordered to be
printed. Sir John Newport then moved for the
appointment of a Select Committee to inquire
into the subject of First Fruits in Ireland. But
the motion was rejected on a division by a ma-
jority of 85 -to 71.—(Ibid.)

[MORNING HERALD.]
Mr. Lambton presented a long Petition last
night from Mr. Buckingham ; and that gentle-
man's treatment from the Marquis of Hastings
and his interregnal successor, Mr. Adam, was
discussed by the House of Commons, as it had
often been before by the Press of England. The
Marquis of Hastings had found a censorship esta-
blished in. India, and abolished it. He, however,
was frequently offended by Mr. Buckingham's
political criticism in the Calcutta Journal, and as
frequently admonished him to be.more careful,
under pain of being sent out of India.—,
Mr. Adam, soon after the Noble Marquis had
left India, threateued not, but executed the
deportation of Mr. Buckingham. This was
the main point of complaint. Mr. Wynn
the President of the Board of Controul, con-
tented himself with saying that Mr. Buckingham
had, in January last, commenced proceedings, in
order to bring the subject to a judicial issue, and
that Parliament ought not therefore to interfere.
Mr. Hume gave a lively account of a propo-
sition made by twenty-three out of twenty-
four Directors to Mr. Canning, when Presi-
dent of the Board of Controul, to rescind
the Marquis of Hastings's Act, and restore
the Censorship, which Mr. Canning kept
locked up until he left the office. He thought it
a misfortUne for India that Mr. Canning did not
go to that country as Governor-General. Mr.
Canning admitted the locking-up of the proposal
of the Directors, and withholding the assent of
the Crown ; contrasted the regulations of the
Marquises of Wellesley and Hastings, and highly
eulogized Lord Amherst. He excited much
mirth by reading regulations of the Marquis of
Hastings, prohibiting any remarks in newspapers
upon the East India Company, upon any person
in office in India, or upon the Bishop of Cal-
cutta. He said he should as soon believe that
Lord Amherst had become a tiger, as that he
had turned a tyrant. It would be the greatest
physical phenomenon he had ever heard of. Mr.
Denman happily quoted the Bible to shew that
an amiable private man had become an incom-
parable oppressor when he got into power. Mr.
Adam had been his school-fellow, and a most
gentle and amiable youth he had been, yet the
act here charged against him, and made out by
his own defence, was utterly unjustifiable. Mr.
Buckingham had taken his advice professionally.
His advice had peen not to attempt judicial pro-
ceedings, and Mr. Buckingham had now aban-
doned ail idea of bringing the case into a Court
1::4 Justice. Mr. Astell, Sir C. Forbes, and Sir
Francis Burdett, had spoken at length before
Mr. Canning had risen. Sir Francis recom-
mended a distinct inuir into this subject, be-
sides the more
g q
eneral inquiryy into'- the state of
the Press in India, which Mr. Lambton had given
his inVention to move early in the next
Sn:stiesciono: Mr. Lamhton made a powerful reply,
and declined moving for an inquiry, knowing
that it would be fruitless. His object was pub-
licity.' On the House of Commons he devolved
the disgrace of suffering Mr. Buckingham to be
oppressed without redress.