The Sun.
London, England, 1833-07-22 00:00:00

east• amain a lotiai wad Ulla to Lloyds fiord the fleaittaty
for Foreign Affairs—but still he did not press it, because
it would then also haye been inconvenient, but now when
he came down prepared to state the grounds upon which
he brought forward the subject, be was told that there
was to be no opposition to his motion, which, of course,
would prevent him from stating mueh that he had
intended. Of course, till he saw the promised papers,
he could not say whether he would do any thing
farther in the matter or not, but so far as he was
informed, the whole thing was a fabrication got up in this
country—he did not believe that up to this moment there
was any officical communication of the blockade from
the Regency, as it was called, at Oporto.—(Hear, hear.)
The question which be wished to put to the Noble Earl
and it was one which he knew he could not answer—
(A laugh)—was, whether there had been any official in-
formation relative to the blockade from the British
Consul at Oporto, or any other competent authority.
He bad himself sent a letter to Lloyd's, to inquire whether
the notice which had been posted up there was derived
from any public source. The answer he bad got
from a most respectable merchant was, that Lloyd's
had received no notice from their agent at Oporto
of the blockade, and he saw that the Oporto Chronicle
made no mention of anything of the kind. The Noble
Earl, however, had now promised, sine die, to grant
the papers he asked for, but as he (Lord L.) had made him-
self master of the subject as far as his poor abilities would
allow him, he begged to say that he should reserve him-
self to a future occasion to show the absolute absurdity of
the nortification of a blockade to be instituted by Dora Pedro.
And who was Don Pedro? An usurper, in possession
of one of the twelve ports of Portugal only, who pre-
tended to blockade a coast 400 or 500 miles in
length.—(Hear, hear.) This question of Portugal,
and if our concern i❑ it continued of importance when
they recollected that, althsugh his Majesty, in answer to
their Lordships' address, had stated, in his most gracious
reply, that he had preserved the neutrality they wished,
an address had been presented to the other House
of Parliament, which seemed to go rather the
other way, and give a sort of negative
to their Lordships wishes. When the Noble Earl talked
of avoiding a collision with the House of Commons he
had so much panegyrised, he should recollect its conduct
in that matter, as also that which which was almost threat-
ened if their Lordships should throw out the Bill they were
that night to discuss in Committee.—(Hear, hear.)
The Noble Earl had talked of that House of Com-
mons, that Radical Assembly, having actually passed the
Coercive Bill, but the Noble Earl had not been mentioned
how subservient that House of Commons bad shown itself
to the Government on the m ,lt tax, and other questions.
But let the Noble Earl disguise his sentiments with all
his eloquence, it would only be what he had designated
the speech of the Noble Earl behind him (Wiochilsea)
" sound and fury," or as a Noble Secretary had
said of a worthy Noble Lord, it was perfectly puerile.
The Noble Marquis concluded by moving for copies of all
the correspondence previous or up to the 15th inst., which
came from competent authority, either in Oporto or else-
where, which induced his Majesty's Secretary of State for
the Foreign Department formally to acknowledge the
blockade.

Earl GREY said that he had no intention, as he had
before stated, to make any opposition to the !no-
tion of the Noble Marquis. That being the case,
he should certainly not think it necessary to enter
into any of the various topics which the Noble Mar-
quis had thought proper to introduce, especially
as he had stated his intention of reserving to bimeelf an-
other opportunity of stating his opinion more fully on
the subject. After the papers which he intended to
place before their Lordships were upon the table it would be
for their Lordships to judge whether it was right or ne-
cessary for the Noble Marquis to make any further ob-
servations on the subject. If, however, either the House
or the Noble Marquis should think it right that
any further observations should be introduced, ha
should be prepared to answer any observations that the
Noble Marquis might think proper to make as to the
conduct of his Majesty's Ministers.
The motion was then agreed to.
a The Earl of ROSSLYN gave notice that, on Thurs-
day next, he would move the second reading of the Scotch
Burgh Police Bill.
CHURCH TEMPORALITIES BILL.

Lord KENYON wished to know if the Committe on
the Bill would get through in a few days, when the Noble
Earl would move the third reading.
Earl GREY said that he should certainly move the
third reading as soon as possible aftewards. If the Com-
mittee was got through on Wednesday he should pro-
pose that the third reading should be moved on
Friday, if later he should propose it on Monday.