The Sun.
London, England, 1833-06-06 00:00:00

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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 6, 1833.

The result of the interview between the KING
and Earl GREY yesterday, has been the chief
topic of conversation in the political circles at
the \Vest-end of the town this morning. There
is a pretty general rumour current that the an-
swer to the address of the Peers will be exceed-
ingly severe; but we understand, from a respect-
able source, that the rebuke will be less in words
than in principle, particular care having been
taken to afford no just ground to the addressers to
attribute improper influence by Ministers over the
mind of his MAJESTY. It isnot true, as stated by
the Tories, that Earl GREY has again proposed
to the KING a creation of Peers. That point
has not yet been started ; but as the Duke of
WELLINGTON and his party are said to have
declared that they will not pass the Irish Church
Reform Bill in its present shape, we do not see
how a . creation of Peers is to be avoided if
Lord GREY should press the passing of that
Bill this session in the House of Peers,
unless the threat of a new creation should produce
an effect similar to that which followed the

nderstanding between the KING and his Mi-

rasters on the Reform Bill. The KING, in ap-
proving of the answer of Ministers to the address
Df the House of Peers, commits himself to any
measure which Ministers may recommend here-
after for the prevention of a collision between
the two Houses of Parliament which would be
injurious to the welfare and tranquillity of the
country.
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We hear that two of the Bishops have found
out their " mistake" in voting against Ministers
the other night, and have declared that they
never intended their vote to be one of censure.
We said their triumph would be of short duration.

We are sorry to hear that the health of the
SPEAKER of the House of Commons has been
materially impaired by the fatigues of the Ses-
sion. Whatever opinion may be entertained of
that Right Honourable Gentleman as a poli-
tician, there is but one opinion in the House of
Commons as to the zeal and uprightness with
which he performs the duties of his official situ-
ation. Few men with the party prejudices and

predilections of the SPEAKER, would have the
good sense to forget the partisan, and to com-
mand so much respect from political opponents
by the display of public integrity. At the same
time, we cannot but deplore the existence of
those prejudices and predilections, as they are
inconsistent with the character of the President
of a reformed House of Commons.

The Paris Papers of Tuesday mention that
on Monday last Ministers were left in a mino-
rity on a vote of 18 millions of francs, proposed
by them for the purpose of defraying the ex-
pense of completing the junction of•the Tuile-
ries and the Louvre on the north side. This

defeat was looked on as important in Paris.
The Duchess of BERRY would, it was ex-
pected, take her departure for Palermo on
the sth (yesterday) instant. The well-known
SAVARY, Duke of Rovigo, died at Paris on
Monday last, of cancer on the tongue. His
name is rendered remarkable for the murder of
the Duke D'ENGHEIN, with which, it was
supposed, he was somehow or other mixed up.
The Gazette de France quotes an extract from
the Augsburg Gazette to the effect, that
the concessions made by the Porte to ME-
HEMET ALI had been disapproved by Count
ORLOFF, and that a similar declaration on the
part of Russia would be made by Count Pozzo
DI BORGO at Paris.--On the occasion of the
anniversary of the fete at Hambach (May 27th)
a collision took place between the people and
the Bavarian troops, in which many of the
former are said to have been killed.

The death of Lord KING, at the compara-
tively early age of 57, is a national loss which
will not be very soon replaced. His Lordship
was a descendant of the great philosopher
LOCKE, and was not unworthy of such an illus-
trious ancestor. He was a shrewd, well-informed,
accomplished Senator, of enlarged views in
politics, which he was in the constant habit of
enforcing in a terse and energetic spirit. Re-
form owes much to his unremitting advocacy;
he was in the field early and late, and from his
stern, consistent integrity, extorted the respect
even of his bitterest enemies. The people have
lost an influential champion in Lord KING, than
whom no one ever exerted himself more warmly
in the herculean attempt to purify the Church
from the gangrene which is now slowly, but
surely, sapping its strength, and eating into its
very vitals. Hence his Lordship was no fa-
vourite with the Bishops, who could never by
any chance refute his arguments, or neutralize
the blighting effects of his sarcasm.

We perceive by a notice in a morning paper,
that a preliminary public meeting is to be held
on Saturday, at the City of London Tavern, for
the specific object of taking some prompt and
effectual means of affording relief to the wants
and severe sufferings of the unfortunate inhabi-
tants of Oporto. It is annonnced, " that the
object of the meeting being exclusively charitable,
no political discussion shall be suffered to inter-
fere with this object."
This benevolent object, for the suggestion of
which the public are, we believe, indebted to
Mr. DAVENPORT, a gentleman who is ever
forward in the cause of humanity will, we trust,
meet with the support to which it is entitled ;
and it is to be hoped that the old maxim of
" Charity begins at home" will not be put forth
on this occasion. Although the Committee
under whose auspices the public meeting is got
up have resolved that there shall be no political
discussion, no man who shall attend that meeting
will be insensible to the political causes which have
led to the distress of the inhabitants of Oporto.
No man, whilst he reflects on the dreadful
privations of a city in a state of siege for twelve
months, will forget that those privations have
been borne in the righteous cause of liberty. If
there is a man in London who does not feel
that the inhabitants of Oporto have other claims
on the sympathies of Englishmen than their mere
suffering, without regard to the motives which have
induced them to bear privations in preference to
dishonour, let him stay away from the meeting ;
at the same time, however, it must be borne in
mind that there will be no excuse for withhold-
ing an act of charity because the dis-
tress which it is intended to relieve was
produced by political circumstances. We
would have the people of Oporto relieved,
because they have undergone extraordinary
privations for the sake of justice, and in defence
of the principles of rational liberty, not only in
Portugal but in the whole of Europe, which
must feel interested in the efforts which are
making to overthrow a sanguinary tyrant, and to
put an end to the ignorance and bigotry which
have so long held sway in Portugal; but although
such are our feelings, there ma) be hundreds who
feel an inclination to relieve the inhabitants of
Oporto without reference to the merits of the
contest between the legitimate Sovereign of Por-
tugal and the Usurper : we should, there•
fore, be sorry to see any attempt made to give
the meeting a political character, and afford an
excuse for denying what is due to suffering
humanity.

Much and often as we have had occasion to
regret the slow compliance of the Whig Mi-
nistry with the wishes of the people, their over
caution in the removal of abuses, their measures
of temporizing expediency, yet they have gone
forward ; their general course has been to dimi-
nish abuses, and perhaps it is not inclination,
but circumstances, which have prevented them
meeting more directly than they have done, the
evils of the cf,rn monopoly, of the Bank monopoly,
of church corruption, tithe oppressions, poor
law mismanagement, and pension list profligacy.
Although, therefore, we have urged upon them,
and shall again, the expediency and necessity of
a more decidedly liberal course, it would be an
absurdity of the first water in us to wish success
to a faction which we know to be violently against
those ameliorations of our institutions, which we
complain of the Reforming Ministry for not
advocating with sufficient zeal. Every day we
have fresh proofs of how little the country would
gain by the return of the Tories to power, and
this very morning we find among the Parlia-
mentary papers a return, which will afford our
readers some idea of the power of the reasons
which induce us heartily to wish for the defeat of
the Conservatives this evening. The document
before us is a double one, embodying returns
moved for by Mr. HUME and Mr. STEWART
MACICENZIE, relative to the pensions now
received for diplomatic services. There are
a few, and very few, which appear to
have been earned by long service ; but
those who have had their pensions because no
longer able to work, we have not been able to
discover. But let us look at a few of the cases
of downright jobbing. First, we find the Right
Hon. Sir ROBERT ADAIR, G.C.8., in the
receipt of 2,0561. for six and three quarters years'
service. What does this service consist of? It
appears that from the sth of April, 1806,
to the 14th of March, 1811, he was employed
successively as Minister Plenipotentiary at
Vienna, on a special mission to Constantinople,
and Ambassador at Constantinople. This tour
of five years, at the expense of the country, and
in the receipt of enormous salaries, earned him,
in 1811, the pension of 2,0561., which he con-
tinued to enjoy undisturbed by the vulgar idea of
labour for twenty years. At last the reforming
Ministry coming into power, thought it but
decent he should do something, sent him, in

- July, 1831, on a special mission to Brussels,
where he still is. The total amount received b y
Sir ROBERT ADAIR for these laborious services
of six years and three quarters duration is no
less than 44,843/. ! The next pensioner to
whose case we beg to call attention is Earl CATH-
CART. He appears to have been Ambassador to
Russia for eight and a half years—a cold service,
but warmly acknowledged. After receiving some
90,000/. of the public money for his services at
St. Petershurgh, he receives a pension of 1,7861.
As he has been twelve and a half years on the
pension list, he has, independently of his large
salary whilst in actual service, received 22,5351.
Next on the list is Mr. ALEXANDER COCKBURN
(a lucky name), who we find successively rising
from post to post, and from pension to pension,
till, having achieved the Envoy Extraordinary-
ship to Stutgard for three years, he settles himself
into a pension of 1,516/. per annum. He be-
gan as a young clerk in the Foreign Office, in
which he continued for five years. What his
salary was in that situation we know not,
but he was afterwards in good situations for
nineteen years, and had he not had the cer-
tainty of a pension before his eyes, would,
no doubt, have saved a handsome sum to
retire upon. He may, notwithstanding this,
certainty have been prudent enough to make
up a purse; but however that may be, we
find that he has received for eight years a
pension of 1,5161. making, with the accumti-
lated receipts from other pensions, no less than
17,1721. The next gentleman is Sir JAMES
CRAWFORD. He was Minister at Copenhagen
and in Germany for nine years and a half, and
in 1804 received a pension of 8861. Having
enjoyed this for nearly 29 years, Sir JAMES,
independently of salary whilst in actual service,
has received 25,2511. The Earl of CLAN-
CARTY for eleven years' service has for nine
years enjoyed a pension of 1,7861., making
16,0741. The Earl of ELGIN also, for
eleven years' service, has had a similar pension
for nearly thirty years, making 53,133/. Mr.
JOHN FALCON, for six years' service as Consul
at Algiers, has received in the shape of pension
12,3171. The Right Hon. JOHN H. FRERE,
for having, in the course of eight years, made a
tour to Lisbon, Madrid, and Berlin, has received
40,553/. ! ! Mr. CHARLES KEENE, for three
years' services as Charg(t d'Affaires at Stock-
holm, has for forty years received a small
pension of 2131. This is a small sum,
and if this gentleman became incapacitated
in the service, no one can complain of his re-
ceiving it ; but if he entered the service incapable,
or his retirement has been a mere job, we have
a right to complain of this payment, small as it
is. In the aggregate it amounts to 8,520/. The
next on the list is the Right Hon. Sir ROBERT
LISTON. This gentleman, after a long course
of diplomatic service, had conferred upon him
in 1805 a pension of 1,786/. which he enjoyed
for nearly seven years, receiving 11,8641. on
account of it. In 1821 the pension was in-
creased to 2,0561., on account of which he has
received, in addition to the former sum, and in
addition, be it always remembered, to ample
allowances and large salaries, the sum of
25,1861.! ! ! Sir GORE OtJSLEY, after five
and a half years' service as Ambassador in Persia,
has, for seventeen and a half years, been in
the receipt of 1,786/., making, independent of a
salary sufficient to repay the service performed,
31,255/. !!! The next is to all appearance a
case nearly as gross : Mr. HENRY PIERPONT,
for five and a quarter years' service, as Private
Secretary in the Foreign-office, and Envoy at
Stockholm, has received 26,801/. !!!

There are many other cases equally demon-
strative of the horrible malvetsation of the
Tories, and their profligate expenditure of
the public money; but we must stop for fear
we should exhaust our printers of notes of ad-
miration. Besides, to say the truth, the task of
going through the return is somewhat sickening.
As we turn over its pages, surprise, contempt,
indignation, and disgust, succeed each other in
rapid succession. We imagine that the enume-
ration we have made must have had the same
effect upon our readers, and therefore bring it to
a close. It needs no comment.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

A mail has arrived from Jamaica this morning, sailed
the 30th of April, and from Carthagena the 18th of
April, by which papers to the 30th of April have been
received at the North and South Aintrican Coffee-house.

(From the JamaicaPaprrs. )

We are sorry to state that Major G neral Sir Wil-
loughby Cotton is about leaving the colony for a short
time for the benefit of his health; he will emlrark on
board the Tulloch Castle on Tuesday evening.
Sir James Carmichael Smyth, the prevent Governor of
the Bahamas, is to he removed to Demerara, and is to be
succeeded by Mr Balfour. Any change must be for the
better for the ill-treated and oppressed inhabitants of the
Bahamas.