The Sun.
London, England, 1823-12-05 00:00:00

TIM LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Ritrnets from the Morning Papers, Dec. 5.

[TUE TIMER.'
Letters received by the packet, from Lisbon,
-which sailed on the morning of the 24th ult.,
state, that the Portuguese Government had re-
ceived intelligence of tin encourteous treatment
of the Brazilian Commissioners on their arrival at
Rio de Jatieko, :trill were placed by that event
in'a state of considemble perplexity, since on
this negoeintion the hopes of acquiring any au-
thority whitteiev ie Brazil were rounded. The
alternative of employing an armed force, is said
to lutve presented itself to the Portuguese Minis-
.lry on the first receipt of this intelligence, but
we do not learn nor believe that any intention of
that nature can at. the present moment be se-
-riously entertained. It was understood in Lis-
bon that great efforts were about to be made by
the Brazilian Government to increase its naval
stiengtli, 01' that orders had been transmitted
to the United States for the building and equip-
ment of five large frigates.

[MORN INO CHRONICLE.]
The conftisien of ideas observable in the at
tempts to reason in those Irish Papers which are
not. wholly tilled with abuse and wild declama-
tion, but are comparatively respectable, would
often arouse us, were we less alive to the mischief
it is calculated to do. It is no easy matter to
give a mere English reader an idea of the absur-
dity occasionally displayed by our brethren on the
other side of the water, especially when their
Choler ha's been 'roused by any observations on
I:relaittl in English newspapers, which they deem
iu any degree disparaging to that country. It.
h agreed no all hands that the population of Ire-
land is more wretched than that of any other
country of Europe ; that abuses of all kinds
prevail in it ; that the people are oppressed by
the Goverment, by the Magistracy, by the
Landlord's, by the Clergy, by the Tithe-Proctors,
—that rival sects display the most bitter ani-
mosity towards each other ; that the taw being
the enemy of the people is not respected by them,
and from being an engine of oppression ceases to
afford security' and protection. The Irish, being
tl►en poor, misgoverned, oppressed? the presump-
tion is, that they will have those vices and defects
which are always found its people similarly
circumstanced. To believe that the Irish do
not possess the vices and defects in question,
we must suppose them endowed by nature with
character pecaliar tt) themselves, and alto-
ether initerior to the influence of circumstances.
Thia however is more that► any of the believers
in the distinct natural properties of different
rt►ces of men will contend for. Tacitus, were he
to come to life, and to visit London, would
-hardly recogiti2e his ancient Germans in the
'models of wisdom of Major Cartwright, their
descenda►►ts in Pye-street: and Duck-lane.—
The moment, however, any one latnet►ts the
degraded state of the Irish People,—and
lwgins: to express a mist' (lists civilization and
the impreveMents which follow in its train
shonld be communicated to them,—that they may
no longer be treated as slaves, that they May
' cease to have the vices of slaves---a Drawcansir
nn Irish Journaliat turns short round on you,
eNc. maiming with Shakspeare's Captain Alacniun'ris,
*hose descendants are, it seems, not yet all
dead—" Of my nation ? What ish my nation ?
Ish a villein, aud a bastard, and a knave, and a
rascal ? What ish my nation ? Who talks of
*y nation r'

[attyrisu ear's.]
The Paris Papers of Monday and Tuesday
reached mir office yesterday ; they possess little
Ititerest. Voris is full of the preparations made
to receive the returned Conqueror of Spnin. The
tiOurbon Victor, at Bourdeaux, passed through
the city, amid triumphal arches, and was ad-
dressed in the most hyperbolical language on his
viglity exploits. The still disturbed state
of the Spanish provinces, however, had alarmed
the French Cabinet, and in consequence, two
divisions of observation, one at Perpignan
and its neighbourhood, and the other at
Bayonne and its, environs, were to be added
'to the army of occupation. Ferdinand's
Council, appointed by his decree of the 19th of
November, had .its first sitting on the '2%ti ; it sat
from J,nidnight for two hours. The Ofliciul G
zelk of Madrid has a dull article on the hide-
t'dndettee of, the South American Republics,
professed to be a reply to the Opposition Jour-
lies of this country and France, but really only
a repetition of what has so often appeared in
the Mode, Drapean Blanc, and other Ultra
Papers. The allus'ion to Ireland in this Case
is without any nt. That country and the
American provinces are far differently placed ; the
same arguments cannot apply to them. Let the
Gazette dc Madrid write as it may, ,the tyrannical
sceptre of Ohl Spain is for ever broken in the
New World, end there appears no chance what-
elver of its ever regaining the vast dependencies
it once possessed. They have outgrown their
condition as colonies, and svill soon he indivi-
dually much more powerful than enfeehled and
degraded Spain.

INEW T1M.F.161
Thegreatipleitteousness of nionercO-operating
with the-generalconfideuee of :the Public in :the
wise and prudent measures, of Government,'
sure to the'Fuuds a gradual improvement, which
theuglr slow is 'sure. Consols for the oriening
left (of yesterday at'B4l, 'a quotation 'which it
lati been remarked is higher- than his been at-
tained,for a-teries of years past. 'Nevertheless,
the speculators for a seen) =by 'no inett4
ii(clined to realise, but look forwardto high6i
pr6s the present. A large 'purchase,
on :,account of the.Sinkhig Fund
,was yesterday'
Made in these .descriptions .of Stock which 'are
open for public transfers In Foreign-Secnthies
,little4uriation ,has occurred in our Market, no
lenigencw-having been received frOm Paris of
3aterdate than Monday; Tuesday,lt is knoWn,
wart:!to bo,a holiday oil the'Parts'Exchange, on
account of the Fete in honour of the Ariuniphal