The Sun.
London, England, 1833-08-14 00:00:00

( SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

We shall do little mere than point atten-ion to
the two resolutions proposed at a meeting of Pro-
prietors of Bank Stock yesterday, the insolence of
which says more for itself than could be effected
by any observations of ours. Here are a set of
people, whose lease of a public grievance of no
small magnitude is just about to expire,—who have
no shadow of title or pretence for demanding a re•
newel of it, bur what the timid and rather gullible
nature of the Finance Minister has afforded them,
—men whose exclusive privileges have been abused,
to the immense loss, detriment, and danger of the
country—who could be thrown upon their hacks
to-morrow, and compelled to forego all advantages
beyond those which other banking companies enjoy
in the free and open money-market, had the Mini-
ster known his strength, or Parliament been alive
to its duty,—these men come riding rough-shod
over the Government and bullying it with petulant
epithets, as if they, forsooth, were dictators over
King and people, and had in their hands some
heavy instrument of torture, wherewith to screw or
scourge the nation into abject subtression to the
autocracy of Thieedneedle-street. They scold
Lord Althorp fir having broken faith with the Bard,
parlour, because the Legislature has let the Noble
Lord see clearly that the first proposals which he
made to the Bank were so absurdly prodigal that
they never would have passed into a statute.
There are some of the Built stock gentry, we perceive,
who talk largely about rejecting the terms of the
proposed charter; would to Heaven that they
might make their words good, and reject it. If the
question were once more an open one, and Parlia•
went not pledged by some of the votes of Monday
last, we can guess what sort of hearing would he
obtained for Lord Althorp himself, in moving de
novo for a renewal of the charter on the terms
which he has now recommended with mischievous
and deplorable success. The other great monopo-
lists, too—those of Leadenhall-street—had a field-
day yesterday, like their brethren of Threadneedle-
(street. The Court of Directcrs of the East India
Company, however, were more moderate in their
language than the ill-used gentlemen of the Batik,
and they tweed to accept the B II modifying their
charter; but the opinion of the proprietors is to he
taken on the subject by ballot on I', iday. We ob-
serve that its Parliament the third reading of the
Bank and East India Chatter Bills has been post-
poned, to await the derision oft lie two hostile cor-
porations. Surely at this late period of the session,
and after the repeated discussions which have taken
place, Ministers cannot mean to let the fate of their
two measures depend on the ballot boxes in Thread-
needle and Leadenhall-streets. The country, we
suspect, is not prepared to forego its rights at the
bidding of a majority of the lovers of Batik bonuses
or dear tea. Better would it he to let the charters
expire at once, than accept disadvantageous terms
for the nation, in order to perpetuate the exorbitant
gains of grasping and insatiable monopolists.—
Times.

Of all the strange proceedings which these times
have %%itrie,sed, the roost extraordinary waa, per-
haps, the scene at the Bank yesterday. The mal-
treated, and cruelly injured Proprietors ! They ap-
pear to be still haunted with the recollections of
their ancient bonuses, and in despair, that the public
have not been still more taxed for their benefit than
by the boutiteou, bargain they have wrung from the
Chancellor of the Lxchequer. Arid what is the
cause of their complaint ? That a condition having
been made for re-giant trig their old privileges, with
certain limitations and alterations, Lord Althorp
would not torture a legal construction of these pri-
vileges with respect to the limitation of the numlier
of partners in banks within sixty-five miles of the
metropolis, to their advantage, against the public !
The Solicitor-General had no hesitation in giving
his opinion, that a bank with any number of part-
ners above sex, could be 1.-gally established under
the provisions of the old Act. The point was
mooted, and insis'ed upon by the public, in peti-
tions to the Legislature. Could Lord Althorp give
it the go by, when once 'brought into discussion ; or
what would the country have said of the Govern-
ment leaving the case subject to the sat-redoubt, on a
new ar.atigement with the Batik ? An application
was made to the D,rectots for their consent to a
clause declaratory of the right of the publ c to esta•
blish bark; with any number of partners. They
were at first inclined to object, but al'ered their
minds on being told, that as it would be impossibky
to propose to Parliament to grant new privileges,
which had never entered into the contemplation
of either party during the negotiation, and which
could not be carried into the House of Commons,
the bargain must be cancelled, and the renewal of
the charter left to a fresh arrangement in another
session. The innocent gentlemen knew better than
to risk the enormous advantages they had otherwise
secured, and gave what may have been a reluctant,
but was a positive consent to the declaratory clause
then introduced into the MI. Neither of their
worthy representatives, Alderman Thompson or Sir
.f. Reid, opened their mouths on any matter of corr.-
plaint while the Bill was in Commit ee ; but now,
when the valiant Proprietors consider the transac-
tion safe, we have this out-pouring of their spleen
and di-appointment, in terms equally disre-
spectful to those to whom they were so much
indebted for the Jews' bargain they have obtained,
and to the House of Commons, who had gone through
all the stages except the last, of a Bill to sanction
anti carry it into effect. But softly, Gentlemen,
dont hams till you are out of the wood. The Bill
was not read a third time, as you expected it would
be, last night—and as this proceeding clearly justi-
fies a reconsideration of the whole case, we do hope
that the indeoendetit Nlerobers of the House will
rescue both arvernment and P.rliament from sub-
mission to this insolent and overhearing conduct of
the Threadneedle-street Proprietors. We have
thought from the first that it would have been
each better to defer a settlement till the next Ses-
aim!. The public cannot sustain either loss or in-
cooventenee from it. Many e tars that have been
committed on the part of our financiers may be re-
paii ed—the legal tender, from which the Bunk can
alone derive benefit, be reconsidered—and all the
knowledge and experien:e which the discus-ions of
this Session and the intermediate time will have
allot ded, brought to bear in a more judicious arrange-
ment of this important subject. We think, there-
fore, the safe and the wise cour-e is to throw out
the Bill; and we shall be delighted to congratula, e
our city friends to-morrow on this fitting result of
their good feeling, wisdom, and moderation.—Morn-
ing Chronie.'e.
We yesterday expressed the opinion that there
would be more fi,hting in Portugal before the con-
test was over, and that opinions was formed after an
attentive perusal of various reports and letters writ-
ten since the late disiss.ers, and supported by some
knowledge of the circumstances and character of
the Portuguese. One of the letters, which we then
mentioned as coming from a competent judge on
mil tary matter-, is the following from General
Bourmont, which %Aill be read with interest even
by the most prejudiced. It contains a sinking ad-
monition to those who have asserted that the Ge-
neral hind fl •d to Spain, and that Don Miguel is in
London. Really this system of delusion is most
disgraceful. If we wish for a faithful picture of the
teal feelings of the Portuguese army and people,
that is the great hotly of both, we have it in the
subj oned letter, of which we publish a translation,
as well us the original. It is written with the frank-
ness of a soldier, after trying the mettle of the
melt wliont lie had been recently called upon
to comtnand. The General speaks of what
he has see', and felt, and, although he is fully
aware of the emergency in which the cause
to which he has attached himself is placed,
he evidently relies on the fidelity of the army
and the devotion of the people. It therefore
remains to be seen whether, ws h these elements,
now that they are administered by other hands,
Portugal will bend to the will of a lawless and a--
piring man, who seems to have been born to bring

down calamities upon two hemispheres. His par-
tisans may give us all the glowing descriptions they
choose of his reception at Lisbon; hut we are well
assured that the feelings evinced by the rabble of
that capital are not shared by the higher orders, or
by the sound and laborious part of the population.
Besides the regular force on foot, hosts of gueril-
Ise will now take the field and move upon Lisbon.
This is General Bourmont's opinion, and he speaks
of facts already before his eyes. The ruin and con-
fusion which may ensue are to be lamented, but the
Portuguese will not he answerable for the conse-
quences. These will fall upon the heads of the ag-
gressors. Lisbon and Oporto, particularly when thin-
ned of their best inmates, bear a very small proportion
to the total population of Portugal. If, then, the
great mass he sound, what has the King's cause
yet to fear ? Upon this question no opinion can be
more respectable than that of General Bourmont.
He writes his sentiments undtsguisedly to a friend,
never dreaming that they will meet the public eye,
and from this circumstance they are the more va-
luable. It would be well for those who uphold the
designs of Don Pedro and his followers to pause
before they drive the population of Portugal to that
state of frenzy which is natural to man when it is
attempted to strip him of all that is dear to him on
earth. Don Pedro is a foreigner to the Portuguese;
and shall he and his followers pretend to impose
conditions upon a nation that has manfully spurned
their overtures, and pledged itself to support with
life and fortune the Government which they seek to
subvert? Have a care, my Lord Palmerston, that
you proceed not too far. Beware lest you rouse
the Portuguese to the, exertion of their utmost
strength. Beware lest you create endless enmity
against the British name in Portugal, and at the
same time incur the indignation of all Europe,
France your confederate alone excepted.

TRANSLATION.

G..neral Head Quarter. at L• ca do Bali°, Aug. 1.
You know my extreme anxiety to repair to the impor-
tant post to which the confidence of the King had called
me; never, heless I grieve to say that I was too late to
have it in my power to prevent the dis,sters which have
jo.t liefillen us. In any other country the loss of an only
fleet and the two capitals of the kingdom would have
sufficed to bring with it the submission of all its inha-
bitants; but in Portugal the courageous firmness of the
Kine, th. fidelity of the army, and the devotion of the
peodle to the national cause, will still allow us to prolong
the struggle.

I am really in admiration at the courage and constancy
of the troops, as well as of the population, amidst so
many cruel misfortunes. In proportion as bad news is
received, fresh demonstrations burst forth in favour of
Don Miguel. It would really seem that his people
are desirous of offering to him some requital for the
enemy's success. Numerous corps of guerillas are
organizing in all the provinces. Already some have
arrived before Oporto, and others are expected. The
recall of 8,000 old soldiers, decreed some days ago,
will also swell the ranks of the army, which in a••al
and enthusiasm rivals the people. Informed of all the late
events by means of a proclamation of the King, that army
received his Majesty with the most lively acclamations,
and, by the most energetic demonstrations, pledged to him
its unalterable fidelity. The reports which have rei.ch d
me have not hitherto recorded any de'ection in favour of the
etiemy. Nevertheless much remains to be done for us to
rega n the beautiful pireition in which we were a month ago
The army is full of bravery, but it wants discipline; and
this defect of instruction deprives it of successes obtained
through its valour. I am incessantly occupied in introducing
order and discipline in the several corps, and shortly exp• ct
to succeed in placing the army in a much more effective
state, so that it may contend against the enemy with a
decided superiority. Accept the assurances. &e.
(Signed) The Marshal General Count de BOURMONT.
—Morning Post.

Our readers are not, we believe, generally aware
of the intensity of the excitement now prevailing
in Edinburgh, on account of a tax for the payment
of the stipends of the clergy. Some idea may,
however, be formed of it, when we call their atten-
tion to the following brief notice which appeared in
the Scotsman, received yeste►day :

" ANNUITY TA:C.—We have stopped the Press to announce
the fact, that our public-spirited townsman, Wm. Tait, Esq.,
bookseller, was this (Saturday) morning incarcerated in the
Calton gaol for non-payment of this obnoxious tax."

When a respectable bookseller allows himself to
be thrown into gaol for a lax of this nature, it may
b taken for granted, that there are thousands
ready to suEr with him. So complete was the
intimidatio❑ in Edinburgh, that no one durst buy
at a sale the goods of any citizen distrained for this
tax. We should imagine, that the imprisonment of
a re,pec•able citizen would give the tax its death-
blow. Mr. Tait will be viewed as a sort of
Hampden by his fellow-citizens. No law can he
carried into effect under such circumstances. In
order to prevent collisions between law and public
feeling, the law should always be made to harmo-
nize, as much as possible, with public feeling. It
does not say much for a law, when rich men allow
themselves to be imprisoned for refusing obedience
to ir. Rich men have too strong an interest in
upholding the law to venture lightly to place them-
sekes in direct hostility to it. Another great book-
seller of Edinburgh held out till a favourite piano
of his wife was taken in distress, when he paid the
money. He would have suffered imprisonment
without yielding.—Morning Chronicle.
A meeting was held at the Freemasons' Tavern,
yesterday, for the relief of the Polish exiles, now in
Switzerland, wanting the necessaries of life. The
meeting was well attended by Noblemen and Gen-
tlemen of the House of Commons, but there was a
small muster of !hat more numerous class without
whose support no cause can prosper extensively, or
last long. Is it possible, as the appearance of this
meeting would suggest—can it be possible that the
aristocracy of this country sympathise more cor-
dially than the mass of the people with the heroes
of Warsaw ? Most decided,y we answer no. The
cause of Poland was a popular cause; the virtue and
bravery of a whole nation was a popular exhibition
speaking to the hearts of nations, appealing directly
to that mighty personification signified by ►he name
of the people, and to none more directly than to
the English, who, though not without their preju-
d;ces, are without any prejudice that could make
them insensible to the claims of great sufferings and
noble actions. The comparatively thin attendance
of the middle classes at the meeting yesterday must
therefore be ascribed to some accident or rnisma-
' nacement, most probably to the want of sufficient
notice—an omission which in an extensive and busy
metropolis, such as London, could scarcely fail
to be attended with that effect. It is evident
that this was the impression on the minds of
those who originated the meeting, as they have
announced another meeting for Monday next, when
we doubt not they will reap the advantage of greater
publicity. Even now, the subscription cannot be
said to have commenced b dly, about 3001. having
been collected on the first day. Upon the claims of
he Polish exiles we need not add a word ; they are
recognised in every country where there is such a
,hing as public expression, or a public mind. But
the condition of that portion of them in whose be-
toilf the present appeal is made—that portion which
has sought a refuge in Switzerland, ought not to be
passed over. There are 460 Poles, most of them
officers, in the canton of Berne. Their only sub-
sistence is on the bounty of the poor peasantry of
that place, who are hardly able to subsist them-
selves. The Swiss Government, influenced by
Austrian Councils, refused to make any provisi,oi
for the exiles; so that there are two pantie- appeal-
ing at the same moment to the humanity of English-
men—the Poles aid the peasantry of Berrie ; the
one in a state of utter destitution, the other unable
to support them; but, unwilling to let them die,
prefer a lingering fate along with them to the agony
and the gu It of allowing them to perish. We are
confident that the meeting of Tuesday next will he
creditable to the feelings of the metropolis, and that
the people (the mass) will not be backward ,o re-
cognise those principles, and manifest that sympathy
ro which none e,n be insensible but from the want
of virtue.—Morning Herald.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION HOUSE.

Mr. Marshall, the agent of the Australian Company,
appeared before the Loan MAYOR under the following
rather singular circumstances :
Mr. Routledge, of No. 33; Ludgate-hill, stated that a
young woman, named Isabella Everingham, who lived in
his service, had been induced by some person who met her
in the street, and whom she believed to he Mr. Marshall,
to leave her service and to consent to go to New South
Wales. As he (Mr. Routledge) felt an interest in the
welfare of the girl, and looked upon the matter as one of
suspicion, he had thought it necessary to make a commu-
nication on the subject to tie Lord Mayor.
Isabella Everingham, who said that she was 19 years
of age, stared that on Thursday last, as she was walking
along the street, a gentleman, to the btst of her belief
Mr. Marshall, touched her on the shoulder, and asked
her whether she wished to go abroad. She replied she did,
upon which he asked her wliseher she had 51. to pie for
her passage, and if she had not, velietle r she knew
any one who would give it her. She answered in the
negative, and he then asked her whether she could
bring a character with her, and said if she could she
would probably be sent abroad. She said she could
produce an unexceptionable character, and she then
accompanied the gentleman to No. 26, Birchin-lane,
where there were several gentlemen, and she received a
bill, stating the particulars of the plan of emigration upon
which the Company acted. She was then. told to appear
before the Committee on Friday, in ore+er to ase, rtain
whether she was eligible. Upon going home she told her
mistress of her determination to leave the country, but Mr.
Routledge did not think that any thing good would result
from her intention to emigrate, and dissuaded her. She
declined going, then fore, and would continue in her pre-
sent situation.
Mr. Marshall (to the girl)—Look at me well and say
whether I am or am not the person who accosted you in
so singular a manner.
The girl believed he was, but could not take her oath
of it.
Mr. Marshall thought it necessary, under so singular a
charge, to declare, with all tee solemnity which language
could convey, that never in his life, upon any occasion, did
he accost a female in the streets, as had been described. His
habits of life and the station he held in society combined to
render such conduct upon his part impossir.le. He never
uttered a word that could be construed into a hint toany female
to induce her to emigrate; hut great numbers of girls were
eonstantly applying at his office, in order to be accepted as
emigrant-, and the committee, consis.ing of some of the
most humane, influential, and virtuous men in the kingdom,
took especial care to i quire rigidly into the charac er and
capabilities of those females who made application. Two
hundred and seventeen females, of ages from 15 to 30.
had already been sent out, and in a few days another vessel
would sail for Australa with its full number. Moat pro-
bably the girl who m ale this statement, at the very idea of
which his feelings so strongly revolted, bid been at his
office, and, like others, had appl ed to be permitted to go
out, but he could not, amongst such multitudes of appli-
c,inte, recollect her face.
The LORD Alastort asked whether Government paid the
passage of ,hose woo were considered eligible?
Mr. Marshall replied that the charge for ping out was
171., of which Government paid 121.—one moiety pre-
viously to embarkation, and the other upon the arrival
of the vessel in port. The Si. were expected from the
emigrants, but the absence of it was not considered a
bar upon all occasions, for the active humanity of the
Committee supplied the want in many instances. In
every particular relating to so important a duty as that
with which they were charged, they courted the must
scrupulous inquiry. Mr. Lushington, Mr. Taylor, and
Mr. Foster, the banker, of Mansion-house.strtet, gene-
rally sat in committee on Fridays, and investigated each
case. In no instance had they passed any whose cha-
racters sere net unexcep,ionalde. In tact, they did every-
thing to maintain the respectability of the colony.
Mr. Row! dee did not niean to dispute the accuracy of
Mr. Marshall's state eent, hut he had been informed by a
g•niletnan that a person, whose description was identified
with that of Mr. Marehail, stood at the corner of Bircoin.
lane, and tried to induce young women, as they passed by,
to go out to Australia.
Mr. Marshall requested that the gentleman might be
sent fir, in order to give testimony as to the persoa who
ventured to represent the Company.
The Loan MAYOR inlm sliately despatched an officer
to request the attendance of Mr. Reutledge's informant.
The gentl man soon after arrived, but stand that he had
never laid his eyes upon Mr. Marshall in his life 'before.
A person, however, had assumed the name of.that gentle-
man, and addi eased girls in the street on the subject of
Sal Yawn.

he LORD MAYOR—Perhaps one of Mr. Marshall's
clerks, in the over-zealous performance of his duty, at-
tempted to persuade the girl,
Mr. Marshall declared that such a thing was quite
impossib;e. Any clerk who was capable of such conduct
would not b- p riniti.ed to remain an instant in tire office.
The Loan MAYOR kit it to be his duty to ask on so
important an occasion, and one from which, if attune
existed, the most terrible ca'atnities were to be appre-
hended, whether the fern des who were thus sent out to
a remote colony received adt quate protection, and how they
were disposed of before situations were provided for then,?
Mr. Marshall produced a letter from Mr. Ilay, the
Under-Secretary ut State, describ,ng the course which the
Colonial Government had been directed to pursue. It
stated that the most active exertions shun d be made
to procure situations for the emigrants be-t adapted to
their vat ions capabilities, and that until such siitta
were procured fur them, they were to remain under the
protection of the colonial au, parities. Notre• s were sent
round when a cargo was expected, and families are solici-
ted to engage servants from the nurnber.
The Loan MAYOR wished to be info. med whether the
emigrants were considered to be under an obligation to
return the money advanced by the Government frr their
passage? and als y whether they were bound for any spe-
c fig time to servitude?
Mr. Marshall said most decidedly not. The money thus
humanely appropriated was the produce of the sale of the
Crown lands, and was advanced in consideration of the
great scarcity of females. The wages were not in all in
stances higher than they were in this country, but where
the servants turned out very valuable, they were rained
infinitely above any rate of wages in this country. The
greatest possible care was taken of the females during the
voyage. Not a single young man was sent out in the
vessel in which they tweet out, so that no Imputation
could attach io the slightest degree to those who had the
management of the emigration system.
Tire Loan Ala-roa expressed himself perfectly satisfied
at the starement made by Mr. Marshall, whom he be.
hewed to be admirably adapted for the performance of such
duties. He at the same time looked upon the conduct of
Mr. Rourlettge in requiring an explanation at extremely
praiseworthy, and declared it to be his opinion that the
girl laboured under an error, in supposing that Mr.
Marsha I had resorted to such means of procurin4 emi-
emits—means which very miturally excited apprehensions
of a system of kidnapping.