The Sun.
London, England, 1824-01-20 00:00:00

The object was no longer to conquer, but to pro-
fit by the triumphs obtained. The Ministers,
therefore, felt the want of a new Chamber,
which should begin by consolidating itself for
seven years, and should thus unite with the ener-
gy of an elective power, the perseverance of a
permanent Body. It is an army of occu.palion,
which is now to take the place of one of inva-
sion. Instead of a changeable and frequently
renewed majority, it is one compact and invaria-
ble, which, assured of its own duration, will im-
part foresight to its conceptions and consistency,
to its acts, and will systematically consecrate it-
self to the triumph of that astucious policy
which employs the forms of the Charter to re-
establish absolute power in the Government,
and ancient privileges in society." It cannot
be denied that there is much sense and ap-
parent truth in these remarks ; and, indeed,
it is not astonishing that the French Mi-
nisters should wish to establish and perpetu-
ate their power. They can only be blamed
if the means which they employ to attain an ob-
ject common to all administrations should be
illegal, unjust, and disgraceful. As far as we
are yet able to judge from all that has appeared,
they are not of the fairest kind. They are there-
fore calculated to excite a salutary distrust among
the electors, who must recollect that to sacrifice
the interests of their country on such an occasion
as the present, would be to incur a seven-fold
degree of guilt.

[BRITISH PnEss.]
Saturday's French Papers are very barren of
intelligence. The Journal des De'bats has an
article contradicting the intention to attack
Brazil, and treating the Courier's tale of the
Brest preparations as mere romance. In this
statement the French Paper is, we believe, sin-
cere : the Brest fleet was a mere " vision of the
brain," and Brazil will not be attacked by any
French force. France cannot and will not war
with this country and America ; it would be the
ruin of her commerce, and paralyze all her re-
sources : it is as much her interest as that of
Great Britain to remain at peace, and she could
not make hostile demonstrations against South
America without a rupture with this country. Count
Pahnella's mission to England was a fiction of the
same description, one of the 100-tongued rumours
of the day. WhatDonPedro's decided objects have
been in the dissolution of the Brazilian Congress,
and the arbitrary deportation of its Members, is
yet to be known. But enfeebled Portugal can do
nothing against these distant shores ; since the
departure of Madeira, her cause in America is
utterly hopeless. The marine of Portugal is some-
thing better than that of Spain, but not strong
enough to meet the energy and effects of Lord
Cochrane, who fights for Brazil. The sceptre
of both Spain and Portugal in the New World
is broken for ever ; their departed supremacy
can never be recalled. The Ottoman, it ap-
pears, has determined to make another desperate
effort for dominion in Greece. After three weeks
deliberations in the Divan, it has been resolved
that the Grand Vizier should lead the forces
of that empire against the Morea,
and try to
crush Greek liberty by a last onset of its bar-
I barous hordes. Tice Capitan Paella,
whose late
campaign has been so disastrous, will fill, it is
said, the Turkish Vizier's place while absent.—
If the Greeks are united, and act with their past
courage and resolution, this attempt will have the
same result as those they have already defeated.
The Vizier can do nothing ; his sanguinary
rabble will be dangerous only to the unarmed
around them. Greece already is beyond the
power of her barbarous oppressor ; she has struck
with too determined an arm for her freedom, and
made her league too strong, to be now crushed
by any new efforts of her implacable enemy•

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
We cannot say that we are astonished at the
conviction in the case of John Hunt, because,
with our present Libel Law, and our packing
system, prosecution and conviction are neariy the
same thing. An acquittal does no doubt take
place now and then, just as it were to skew that
an acquittal is still possible, and a defendant
may cling to the hope that fortune may favour
him, just as the most of those who buy Lottery
Tickets flatter themselves with hopes of a prise.
There is not a paper published in London that
does not contain every day matter which might

be prosecuted to conviction under the presen
Libel Law and Jury System. No Paper cai
avoid publishing every day matter, which, i
made the subject of a prosecution, might be fol
lowed by conviction. The security of a Jour
nalist, with the Libel Law hanging over him, is
like that of a man in a crowd, into which loaded
musquets may be discharged. He flatters him-
self that as a certain number can only be hit
each time, he may have the fortune to escape.
No man can tell what a libel is, no definition
has ever been given of one, except that it is
something which somebody does not like, and to
the will adds the power of punishing it. In the
case of public Libels, we have at this time as a
rule for our guidance, Ist, what the Adminis-
tration may like or dislike ; 2dly, what the
Committee of the Bridge-street Gang may like
or dislike ; and, 3d, the state of the funds of the
latter. In the case of the Administration, we
have some security in the desire we may suppse
them to entertain of standing well with the
public, and the consideration that they may lose
more in reputation by prosecution than is equiva-
lent to any pleasure they can derive from it. But
in the case of the Bridge-street Gang, what
moral consideration is sufficient to restrain them
from availing themselves of the law to de-
stroy or injure whatever they dislike ? Who
are the Committee ?—Who knows any thing
of them ? What reputation have any of them to
lose ? Who does not remember the disgraceful
proceedings at Lancaster? And who, that re-
collects these proceedings, who, that recollects
the disingenuous artifices that were resorted to
in the case of Ridgway, would dream of placing
the least reliance on any wish entertained by
this gang, to stand well with the respectable
part of the public ? So long as these zealots can
obtain money, and. Mr. Murray has the propect