The Sun.
London, England, 1832-12-04 00:00:00

permitted to convey correspondence from the
British Ituthorities to British subjects I And
we are to submit to this insolent dicta-
tion! England, with all her thousand ships and
all her proud hearing is to yield obedience to this ca-
pricious decision, and to allow her flag to be insulted
whenever it suits Don Miguel's ragamuffins to en-
force it I The Aliguelite General asserts that the
batteries of the Furrada did nor direct their fire upon
the Raven cutter, and that they only answered the
fire of the Castle of the Foz. Nothing, we are as-
sured, can be a more barefaced falsehood than this
assertion, for the Castle of the Foz only fired on that
morning a blank shot, according to custom, when
the weather is bad, and a vess,l is going to cross
the bar of the Douro. The Raven was about to
enter, the bar was very rough, the moment had ar-
rived to grant the pas-age, and the castle made the
signal for that purpose. This, we aye informed, is
the simple truth. The cutter directed her course
tow ards the bar, and when she was in the midst of
it, she received a shot from Don Miguel's battery c'
the Furrada, and in consequence immedia'ely tur
ab re, notwithstanding the imminent risk tied
she thus incurred at such a time, and which
gerous a place, the sea heaving fearfully. .1 so dart-
mission of the cutter did not Say, This sub-
battery of Don Miguel, which her from the
seventeen shots at her afteraly ared no less than
falling close to her, sow Aar, ds, and all the balls
then, can the Miguelist G Jss her prow. How,
answer to the British p• eneral dare to state, in
directed against the Car eotest, that his fire was
above 1,200 yards disc ,t le of the Foz, which was
dente and falsehood .ant from the spot ? Impu-
offer a greater could scarcely by their union
is the assertion . Equally false, we are assured,
Sion crowds ot p; Santa Martha, that on that occa-
the interposition d•sons had assembled, waiting for
leries. Beside, of the Raven between their bat-
lourior) by the' this testimony of persons now it,
tion which thy last steamer, the official communica.
the English I :British Commander in the Douro anti
vernment r consul must have addressed to their Go.
flag, will in this flagrant outrage on the British
But the attest the facts which we have stated.
jlins' fi:11
•xtraordinary mode in which the outrage is
d mot
is more alarm;ng to the rights of neutrals,
a
,age
itsr e insulting to British honour, than the out
.If. A General, having a battery at the
( 4* a port, declares that port to be blockaded,
without having a ship off the coast to warn vessels
not t°'' ,rater, or without having sufficient force to
maktet heir entrance dangerous ! We never before
heard], of such a blockade, and we are quite con-
vinced that it can neither be recognised by us nor
by a"! othermaritime nation which has any respect for
its ov :n dignity, or the honour of its flag. The official
emote of the Foreign Minister at Lishon,Viscouut San-
• arej rf addressed to Admiral Parker upon this same
chair, is conceived in a tone of such insolence, that
if En gland submits to it, we must conclude, either
that s he is afrad of Don Miguel, or that this usurper
10 eou nted more deserving of consideration than the
Grand Seignor or the Emperor of Russia.—Tinges

liament is dissolved. The Writs for the new
nent are to be returnable on Tuesday, the
ay of January next. The Proclamations will
id among our extracts from the Extraordinary
The appearance of the Proclamations will
here be the signal for exertion and agitation.
'formed Constitution is upon trial. A short
II serve to dispel many of the illusions to
to extension of the franchise has given rise.
er may be the defects of the Reformed Bill,
it ea/mot he denied that, under it, the franchise has
been col tmunicated to a body of sufficient magnitude
to allow its decisions to be deemed the decisions of
the peoi de. Here and there the people may be
overawe( l—perhaps even corrupted ; but, in the
great majority of cases, the representatives will be
fairly rett treed. The representatives will, for the
most part , belong to the class from which represen-
tatives ha ye always been taken. There is, in fact, a
very great dearth of men possessed of the necessaiy
.ndepende, nce in point of property, and the neces-
i' . talent s for a legislator. It would be next to
sar Nin 1 any
. man (who has not some purpose
ma e 54 ti
t. o enter Parliament without possessing
*rye)
to s independence. Mr. Thomas Moore, in
Mary .
pecu. iog f, ,e honour of being returned for Limerick,
declin e dby motives that most husbands and
t wit
was ac ina country like this—in which he who is
fathers, to a fortune must labour incessantly to
not born g'. of or a workhouse— will but too easily
escape ft IA. The old mode of paying the reps,-
comprehet 1.4.. ild not remove the difficulty; for the
sentatives '6l. 'ons his business for a time abandons
man who atlnn the termination of a Parliament
it wholly, a. Id . ometicement of indigence. We
the a),
would be . then, that in most of the corn-
,„<e it for gr.anted, `using towns the representative-
twereial and martufact nit in fortune. The standard
avill be two itplependk
ence is to a high in this country; and
pentl •able of rendering good ser-
,.
.4.,,ee N.* many men cal. presentative-, from knou-
t. eu jleir country as r. ss—who possess what, it,
vice • 4 t;ibirs of busing, 'd be d,en-.ed an inde-
ledge am- country, wout who, in defert•nce tt•
e' ery other
c, nt in this—. ,w themselves to b,
prudence, ex . i s will not all. -wintry can seldon.
pret ailing 110"° v this man in , standard of Mlle-
pot f „, or tt rel• A •
. - , . .gigs are greatly
realise what reaches the received
,vver, a mucl,
'epee till his strength and elle
'Pem , ,
impaired; out, if the standard wag it.
eon up;
;,greater number would reach it before the
, stribu-
of their bodily and mental activity. ts.
sin of government has led to a vicious n. pro
il".. rah
-, of ptoperty, and a vicious distribution of
to the
.prevaletice of extravagant notions w
pert y' the evils which ars
regard .'0
•I'viu•g• By degrees,
of our ertors,_will no doubt be remedied p
at the root
if a Reformed Parliament sane-
It will be s 7'll'o
of a system of govert-
lion the
ine„t, Whir 'pl:ol:l•liati,;_eicite... an admiral, for every ship
rail for our army, of
in the navy, and JPS gene
about one general fore very two hundred men ! B)
these and a hundred other means have the aristo-
cracy been enabled to cram theirlajsuaneiso;r branches at
and in thi-
the expense of the industrtosus
elfc
would have found
way property, which of it
:heathy channels of distribution,i has been forced
into and retained in messes ca culoate.admteopfcrter ha-
',bits of luxury .and extravagance. M d ArblaY:
in her Memoirs of her father, Dr. Burney, tells u_
;that ." when he took a house in Poland-street, in
11'780, he had for Isis neighbours the Duke obl C
John
-
dos, Lady Augusta Bridges, the Honourable
Smith, Sir 'Willoughby and the Miss Astons,
of
Putting situation out of the question, no
housespersons
s o
that rank of life would live unowpa
in
nland-s reel. A
modest a fies:4.,:tWion es those red
reformed Parlian'teot mill assora, I cut off the sup-
plies whence this I;(stiletiul aticorrupting extra-
ha enabled to
cvagance is fed ; and k:l7,o°lici 7air if,ridi and a
know the difference betwei:l ' ye` - will, for the
Happy land." The represent
,class
present, be chiefly chosen from thr also be
very rich men ; hut we trust they s.ll
for she most part honest and conscientio.." r"
in
n.
,loots(64e cannot take too much
pains
;something like a reasonable assurance
olna 'IIII
on the' matbiect of the opinions of candidates
..i
We do •,0,. •Atllude merely to declarations; because
st,,fois,e much more than he will observe.
a man ma.Y I, well to inquire into the previous
But it SOll be
lididate.—what his opinions have
character of the ea
seotive for disguise--and
been when then. e was ll°
circumstances
the n period
which t:ti
it
if there nave beeP
that conversion, conversion,
and the
whichits sincerity may be
had its oeigin, alai from
inferred or doubted. After all the explanations
which cant be given by candidatCs in the course of a
will a
Parliament, a number of question:
• cannot -bit anticipated. Hence the :lilportarise which
ofhich
attenditig to the character foc integrity prevously
on
borne la 7 the candidate! There is one pia
,i
which ive think all candidates ought to be interro-
4ated mcst strictly—the ballot. We bold it of the
t /utmost consequence, that the voter shoul,d be pro-
tattled from tyranny of all sorts. We have in
&soother.
,article alluded to some cases, proving the
Absolute- necessity of the ballot. We haVe sine,-
too, iu the Nancliester Guardian of Saturday last

Par
Par Jim
29th d
be tow
Gaza,.
every's,
Our Re
time wi
whieh
Whatev