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

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

PALLY
Extrath from the Morning Papers, May 5.

[THIC TIMES.
The mail from Lisbon, in addition to tl►e
Gazette, which 'contain nothing of importance,
yesterday bought letters to the 25th ult. A
very groundless alarm was caused yesterday by
a fact mentioned in the latter—viz., the arrival
in the port of Lisbon, on the 21d, of the French
Sloop of war l'lndefatigable, M. H. de Ville-
Aeuve commander, with troops on board, from
• ead4-z. This simple incident was magnified into
a participatibn by France in the designs under-
stood to be formed by Portugal against Brazil.—
The truth appears to be, according to the best in-
formation, that this vessel -had sick troops on
I?,oard„ on their voyage home from Cadiz to
-France. The accounts of the activity used by
the Portuguese Government. in the equipment of
vessels for Sea is renewed In these letters. The

circumstance is variously explained ; ono party
centc2ding that an expedition to Brazil is forth-
' will' to take place, and that the force to be em-
ployed will consist of 9,000 men ; the other, that
the preparations have no other object than placing
the Portuguese navy, which had been wretchedly
neglected, in an efficient state. The expences of
a distant expedition, it is asserted, would by no

means accord with the present resources of the
Portuguese Treasury. By this arrival an expla-
nation is afforded of the route of those ships of
war alluded to in our paper of yesterday. The
Princrza Real frigate, and Providencia brig,
which sailed from Lisbon on the sth of March,
arrived at Madeira on the 12th, in company with
four other ships of vcar. They sailed from thence
on their return on the 23d, and arrived at Lisbon
on the 21st ult. It is supposed that the others
proceeded to tho Portuguese settlements at An-
gola, Aith some unfortunate persons on board,
condemned to deportation for their attachment to
the cause of the Constitution.

[HORN[NG HERALD.]
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The king of Spain may roast, at least, one
virtue in his treatment of those who have lent
him their money—it is that of impartiality. The
Constitutional creditors may now laugh in their
turn at the more favoured subscribers to, or holders
of, the Royal Loan—if indeed it be a real conso-
lation to have sharers in affliction, as most likely
it is, when those sharers are rivals or adversaries.
The parties engaged in the G uebhard, or Royalist
Loan, seem to bear their crosses more impatiently
than their predecessors. When the non-payment
of the interest was announced on the Paris Ex-
change, there was a general outcry; h►s Most
Catholic Majesty was called all manner of names,
and denounced to eternal infamy. It was with
difficulty that the police of the Stock Exchange
—the police in France is omnipresent—could
controul the ferment. But it is strange that these
Gentlemen were not warned by his previous
breach of faith. So far from it, they even pro-
nounced it a virtue, and a pledge of strict per-
formance to themselves ! " \V hat," said they,
" keep faith with revolutionists ! No, no—his
Majesty is now free to act after his own heart."
It is true he has done so, and left, as we have
observed, his Royalist Revolutionist friends to
condole with each other. But, destitute as his
Spanish Majesty is of money and credit, who is
he to resort to next? lie has failed, it is said,
even in obtaining from the South Americans a
small f►um as the price of their independence.
Judging by the ordinary progress of human af-
fairs, his Government, without credit or cash,
must stop or go in pieces—or it will establish a
golden age of Government. The former is rather
more likely—and even with the presence of the
French, a great crisis is hanging over the exist-
ing order of things which can hardly be avoided.
King Ferdinand is now become so odious to all
parties—Servile) as well as Constitutionalists—
that the report is again revived of a Servile de-
sig: to place I►is brother on the Throne, and
with his own consent. In that case, it is said he
svotild once again take up his abode in France.

[I4IORNING CHRONICLE.]

Mr. Canning's account of his interview with
the French Ambassador left room for supposing
that he himself had shared the general apprehen-
sion, The interview was by no means a short
one, though it does not follow that South Ame-
rica alone was the subject of consideration.—
Something, however, more than usually agitates
the European Cabinets at this time. The corre-
spondence between the French and Russian Ca-
binets is so very active, that a single day does not
pass in which a courier does not have Paris for
St. Petersburgh, or enters Paris from that ca-
pital ; nay, it not unfrequently happens, from the
number of couriers on route at the same time,
that there are actually none in Paris.

W. W. Maberly brought forward a motion for
the relief of Ireland, by placing- a certain sum at
the disposal of Commissioners, who should make
advances with a view to- enable the peasantry to
prosecute certain branches of industry in that
country. We agree with. tho Honourable Mover
as to the causes of the misery of the people of
Ireland. They arose chiefly, as he stated, from
an excessive and redundant population, as com-
pared with the amount of employment which ex-
isted for them. We agree with him also, that the
Legislature ought- to remove the stimulants to
this excessive population, created by the low qua_
lifications for freeholds. With respect to theCatho-
licClergy,who,asheobserved, naturally encourage
marriages, for the sake of the fees they derive from
them, the remedy is not so obvious.—ln Austria
we believe the priests dare not celebrate marriage
till the consent of the local authorities is ob-
tained ; but a regulation of this sort would not be
deemed, compatible with a free Government.—
The withdrawing of stimulants to excessive popu-
lation may prevent the distance between the num-
bers and the employment for them, from becom-
ing greater ; but how are we to deal with the ex-
jyting unemployed part of the people ? This is
the difficulty of difficulties. The very excess of
numbers without employment is the cause of dis-
order, and insecurity of property ; and, while