The Sun.
London, England, 1833-08-22 00:00:00

land repaid for the moral cowardice and violation
of the faith of treaties which her Government stands
charged with in the case of Poland. Thus is she
repaid for the splendid bribe which she gave to
Russia, under the pretence of a treaty, which, by
the severance of Belgium from Holland, had ceased
and determined, and which bribe is known by the
name of the " Russo-Dutch loan job," the golden
fruits of which job enabled the Russian tyrant to
raise new levies to retrieve his disasters in the first
six months of the campaign in Poland. It enabled
him to pour fresh hordes upon the devoted country,
until the inundation of barbarians swept from the
face of the earth the rampart of Western Europe.
For our truckling and our tribute to Russia what
have we received in return ? In the Netherlands
her influence has baffled our policy through three
years of protocols, and rendered our diplomacy
ridiculous. In Spain it inflicted on us new
humiliation, by the complete discomfiture of the
mission of Sir Stratford Canning;--in the Ger-
man States it sets up a vast fabric of despo-
tism, in conjunction with the two absolute powers
of Austria and Prussia, the latter of which is, by the
introduction of its own commercial regulations, ex-
pelling our manufactures from all the markets;—
in France it induces our almost only ally, the citizen
King, to make himself odious to his people, and of
course render his throne insecure by arbitrary mea-
sures, police plots, the erection of Bastiles, and an
incessant persecution of the liberty of the Press ;
in Greece it foments disorders, that it may, at no
distant period, take advantage of them for its own
aggrandisement; and in Turkey we have described
what it has done, while the overtaxed people of this
country pay the incapable Lord Ponsonby a splendid
salary, to prove to the wily barbarian at what ex-
pense to herself England can afford to be bullied,
duped, and betrayed.—Morning Herald.
The proceedings of the Duke of Braganza, now
that he is in possession of the capital of Portugal, ex-
cite considerable attention, and nothing can be more
evident than that he, Don Pedro, is in extreme
danger of becoming as much the object of hostility
to the intriguers without principle, who pervert the
course of English policy, as Don Miguel has ever
been. Don Pedro has discharged Palmella to begin
with, and this is a great grievance in the estimation
of those who make it a point to think as Lord Pal-
merston thinks he thinks. Now we are decidedly of
opinion, whatever may be the defects in any other
of Dm Pedro's titles, that he has a right, above all
question, to do precisely what lie pleases with
Palmella, and a fortiori with Lord Palmerston,
a man in all respects immeasurably the inferior
of Palmella. The intrigue to force upon the Portu-
guese people a Government which, whether they
judge well or ill, is in point of fact hateful to them,
gives to Don Pedro, the only man who is abso-
lutely necessary to the existence of the plot, rights
the most absolute and unlimited, as against all the
other conspirators, of whom Palmella is one and
Lord Palmerston another. Shall not Don Pedro
pursue his own interest in the developement of a
drama in which all the other actors are pursuing
simply the interests of their own ambition or vanity.
And is there anybody so insane as to to doubt that
Don Pedro will promote his own interest among
the people of Portugal, upon whom, after all, the
issue of the struggle will depend, and ought to de-
pend, the more effectually, in exact proportion, as
he heaps indignity upon such creatures as Palmella
and Palmerston ? The esele of Braz I may yet, for
what we know, become popular in Portugal; but,
if this be his destiny, it will certainly be accom-
plished, not by his subserviency to the policy of
Palmerston and Palmella, but by treating that policy
with the contempt which it unquestionably deserves.
We observe that the conductors of the Ministerial
Press of England have, within these few days,
become excessively nervous as to the conduct of
Don Pedro. The Ministerial tools cannot conceal
their apprehension that Don Pedro may think it
quite fit that he should be King of Portugal before
his daughter, who can have no title but what she
deriver through him, shall he Queen. Of Don
Pedro's vigour and capacity we leave our Ministe-
rial contemporaries, who for the last three years
have been the unceasing eulogists of that Prince, to
be the judges; but if Don Pedro have resolved, as
our Ministerial contemporaries apprehend, to be
King of Portugal, rather than allow his daughter to
become Queen, we can only say that in the same cir-
cumstances we should certainly have arrived at the
same conclusion. If the ancient law of Portugal is
to go for nothing—if the treaty by which the inde-
pendence of Brazil was estalkshed is to go for
nothing—if the total alienation of Don Pedro and
his family from Portugal and Portugue,e dignities
and rights is to go for nothing, there seems to be
no very good reason why Don Pedro's abdication
in favour of his daughter of what he did not possess,
of what he had doubly given away already, should go
for anything. When he transferred his no-.
right to his daughter he did it to preserve the
mutual independence of Portugal and Brazil, for
then he was Emperor of Brasil. When he trans-
ferred this nc-right to his daughtetehe did it for the
generai interest of his family, for then, being Em-
peror of Brazil, he could not be the King of Por-
tugal. And why, now that circumstances have
changed, should he not, if it so please him, revoke
the transfer ? The act was strictly a nuduinpactura.
It has acquired no validity from subsequent events.
Nothing has been done in consequence of it. No
Portuguese habits, or attachments, or institutions,
have been formed with which Donna Maria or her
rights are essentially connected. There is, strictly
speaking, no such thing as a Donna Maria party in
Portugal. If there be any party in Portugal op-
posed to Don Miguel it is a Pedroite, and not a
Donna Maria, party. Don Pedro then, as it appears
to us, if the brigands who fight for him should be
eventually successful, has an unquestionable right to
make what use of the victory he pleases; and he
must be the greatest noodle the world has ever
seen if he pays the least regard to the pretensions
of a Palmella or the wishes of a Palmerston.--
Afore/tag .Pet.

TILE Moons.—Long before the approach
of day-light on Monday morning the 12th of August, the
Rothes road was quite enlivened by the number of gen-
tlemen proceeding along it in gigs and on horseback, to
enjoy a day's sport in the moors. The day turned out
very fiat fur sport, being neither too hot nor too co;d. A
good many brace were killed, although the birds are not
so plentiful as they have been on former occasions. Many
gentlemen have this season been under the necessity of
proceeding further north, the whole of the shooting
grounds in this quarter having been already let, in many
cases whole parishes exclusively to one person.—Elgin
Courier.

THE MOOES.—Monday morning the voice
of the heath-cock was hushed on mountain and on muir,
by the din if not by the clash of arms, and as early as
three o'clock in the afternoon, some parcels of grouse had
arrived in town. From certain districts in this county,
we learned that the birds proved numerous, strong on the
wing, and consequently afford good sport—a party of our
friends killed, respectively, 7i, 12 and 16 brace before
six o'clock Monday evening.—Ayr Observer.
TITHES OF COPPICE WOOD.—A great
sensation has b?.en excited within the last lortnight, in the
western parts of the bills of 111entnouthshire, by a novel
demand of tithes on coppice wood, and by Exchequer
notices having been served on Capel Hanhury Le,gb, E-q,,
of Pontypool Park ; J. Jones, Esq., of Lanarth ;
Hall, Esq., M.P. for Monmouth ; and J. H. Moggridge,
Esq., of Woodfidd, the principal proprietors. Ve under-
stand tithes of these woods have never been paid, and
without entering into the circumstances of the case, t do
confess that it appears 3 strange way for any person to
show his attachment to the E•tablished Church, by
choosing the wry time when the increasing share of public
odium is manifest against the tithe tax and church rates,
to endeavour to bring new subjects within its claws.--
Cumbrian.

AWFUL NEWS.—We find the following very
awful intelligence in the Evening Mail of last night. We
hope it is not true:—There is an end of the compact be•
tween the KING and the p,uple—the Coronation Oath is
rescinded. This Act (" the Church Temporalities Act ")
received the Royal Assent on Wednesday evening, and
now forms part of the law of the land.....Duldin Morning
Regi.ster of Saturday,