The Sun.
London, England, 1821-10-17 00:00:00

REPEALS such Acts.

if. they be repealed, then they are as if they had never been ;
and the introduction of them as being instruments in force,
especially coupled with the OMISSION of the REPEALING
Clause ih the Act of Union, could have no other object than to
mislead the great Public Officer whose opinion was sought for
as a guide to the Executive Authority.
But' s the above Acts, made prior to the Union, be not con-'
trary to the Articles of Union, then they must be conformable-
to the Articles of Union, or they do.not meddle with the Arti,
des of Union s+ all. If they be contOrmable to the Articles a-
nion, then the introduction of theni is at best impertinent,
inasmuch as the question must then turn upon terms of the
Articles of Union, and upon these terms only.

• Again, if these prior Statutes do notmeddle with the Articles
of Union at all, then the introduction of them cannot have had
any other object than by sonic' article in the mode of introduc-
jug them, to simulate. for thein, a relation to the Articles of
.Union which they had not, and so to take a chance for mislead-,
:ing the King's Attorney-General for.ling,lcuid.
But my Lord LiverpoOl in the TreaSUry minute. has stated
in express words, " that no Act passed subsequent to the Act
" of Union, should control the decision, but that it should rest
on the Act of Union alone ;"—and, thus the English Attor-
ney employed by my,Lord Liverpool has occupied six folio
pages with matter,which mg Lord Liverpool, his employer, has,
with art intention's° far consonant to international justice, to-
tally disclaimed and.declared it " should not control the de

cision.'

The inisrepresentatioas; however, covered With heaps of rank
verbiage from the Statute Book, were taken as proof of holy
writ by the attorney-General; and the first sentence in Ml'
opinion, runs thus:—" By the EXPRESS WORDS of the Act of
Union, &c.. Spirits made in Ireland and imported into Eng-
" livid are to he deemed British Spirits." Now by " express
" words" ought to be understood La EXACT copy of the identi-
cal words, and neither more mil- less than the identical
words, placed exactly in the same arrangeMent, and . in the
same grammatical relations. But in looking into the Act.of
Union no such sentence as that stated by, the: Attorney General
can be found. •

The true conclusion in law, therefore, mule by Mr:Attor-
ney.tleneral, .contains an obvious and "rankfalsehootliin fact.
" deem" (according to this profound opinion) "Spirits

‘; made in Ireland-to,be.British Spirits," is to deem that to be
true zic LAW -which IN FACT is a gross and impudent false-
hood.

Towards the more accurate state of the question, the- first.
step is to state the " express words" them Selves of the Acts of
Union—a step by which Mr. Attorney General, for reasons best
known to himself, avoids to advance. •
The " express words," then, of the Gth Article of the Acts of
union areas .follows,:—" All articles the growth, produce, or
malaufacttire.of either country (not herein. after enumerated
" as subject to specific duties) shall from.thencefortli be im-
" ported from each Country into Elie other • free from Duty,
"V

otboitlian such Countervailing'Duties on the.sevmd articles

"enumerated-in the Schedules No. 1, A and B, hereunto an-
" noxed, as are therein specified, or such other Conntervailing
" Duties as shall. hereafter be imposed by the authority of the
"Parliament of the United Kingdom, in the manner herein-
" after provided."
The abofe parenthesis it is necessary entirely to reject (" not
bereinaftermerttioned as subject to specific duties.") This pa-
renthesis relates to articles contained in Schedule 2, as being for
twenty years subject to specific duties. The subject of the pa.:
renthesis has nothing to do• with the present question. The
first legislative provision then (throwing out tie parenthesis)
will stand• thus All Articles the growth, produce, or ma-
nufacture of either country, shall from thenceforth be import-
ed from each country into other, duty free,--(Cork M. r-
-6utile, Chronicle.) -

Yesterday, little Waddington favoured the
Lonb MAycia with another, exhibition of his
oratory, in the , Justice-room, at the Mansion
House. .Ue complained of the. interruption of
the attempt made a short tune since to hold a
.Meeting at Jacob's Well, for the purpose of con-
sidering of an Address to the KXNG on the.death
of the Qui.:EN ; and delivered a placard to his
Lordship containing a notice of another Meeting
olthe same kind. He was proceeding to make
a spcecJi; but soon, losing _his auditnce, he retired.