The Sun.
London, England, 1819-05-17 00:00:00

MR. WEST'S EXHIBITION.

PETE GREAT PICTURE DEATH on the
I. PALE HORSE, CHRIST REJECTED, ST. PETER'S
FIRST SERMON, PAUL and BARNABAS RECEIVING
the GENTILES, the BRAZEN SERPENT, the CRUCI-
FIXION of our SAVIOUR, with other PICTURES and
SKETCHES, are now EXHIBITING, under the immediate
Patronage of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, at
N 0.19.5, PALL-MALL, near Carlton-House, every day from
Ten till Five.

By Order,

CHATALF.S SMART.

[PRICE SEVEgPENCF.

FOR THE SUN.

Ma. EDITOR—Spare your surprize at foiling, in
the zealous opponent of Irish Popery, a sup-
porter of that
_thorough-paced Papist, FERDI.•
NAND of Spain. They who shall call use incon-
sistent have not half my consistency. I oppose,
not merely the Establishment of Popery, but
very toleration in a Protestant Country; I am
not, however, Ouixote enough to desire its over-
throw where it is established, any more than to
desire its legalization where it is not established.
1 think that the Religion of the State, and none
other, should have the power of the State.

Upon this principle, I am glad to see that Eng-
land's malcontents or schemers hare not much
longer chance-of lending or tilling themselves
to the South American Rebels. The affected li-
berality of thete people makes no more impres-
sion on me than did the palaver of our Irish-Pa•
triots ; and I do not hesitate to ascribe to diem
an appellation which our own Colonists received
before their recognition. North and Sortth,. were

they as wide asunder as the Poles, cannot alter
fart; my delicacy is not goite so maudlin a►s to
mince and flitter, and shadow away the plain

reality.
Better late than never. I rejoice at even the
tardy prohibition which is to be laid upon the
DISGRACE of Englishmen hiring themselves out to
foreign insurrection. No matter whether a pre-
ference of whole pay to half-pay, or of rebellion
to legitimacy, excites them ; whether they are
stimulated by the love of sixpences or of sedi-
tious ; I 00 in my heart:rejoice in the approach•
ing check upon their calculation.
What, Sir ! Should England, after warring
against and triumphing over Rebellion through
neatly thirty years, should she now turn aside to
its support ? Shall any dirty speculation of selling
cottons or cannons, shall Birmingham► bravery, or
Manchester morality, give, sell, or "let out -her
a..sistance against her' Ally, to that Ally's rebel.
lions subjects ? Let England only look back to
her own insurgent Colonists, and remember how
she then liked the support which Spain gave to
them. Let her take warning by the just punish•
meot which visited Spain in that accursed fruit of
the American Re--I beg pardon, the Ame-
rican Revolution, the Revolation of France.
Spain perhaps deserves the puuislanent ;—but we
see, in her example, how its consequence would
fall on ourselves.
I dare say the Attorney-General is right in
hii construction of the old Statute,- as. applying to
legitimate States only. lam -sore that he is.right
in extending its provisions to illegitimacies and
insurrections. In one point only I thick he fails; ,
in not making his enactment retrospective, and
calling back, within sufficient time of notice, our
Auglo-Americo-Spanish Adventurers. The re•
trospection, however, may perhaps be yet effected;
as the weird " Power" in the old Statute dues oat

of course imply legitimacy.
Of King FBRDINAND, personally, I say nothing.
My principle is, as 1 have before said, the Mo-
narchy, rather than. the Monarch. When' our
Black Prince supported Norio the Cruel—l con.
cede, willingly, all the force and argument of the
cognomen to our Liberals—the character or con-
duct of the Spanish King, or of his competitor,
were not looked to : this only was regarded—
that PEDRO was the lawful Sovereign, and that
his opponent was a Rebel.
Sir, neither the principle nor the profit of in-
dividuals is to be considered in the question. I
care not whether the Ex-Knight of the Bath, or
the Scotsman, with the unpronounceable names,
fight against their Sovereign's Ally for pay, plun-
der, promotion, or principle;-but this Ido in-
sist, that their enlistment is an offence against
that Sovereign's laws, and a 'scandal against his
honour. England must not set herself up to the best
bidder.
Really, Sir, if your intelligence of. this night
be true, concerning the ticklish standing of Gus.
TAVUS'S Substitute in Sweden, I should not be
surprised though we were to help our manufac-
tures by a BernadOttical insurrection. Rehcls, you
know, must have guns, and powder. and,swords,
and saddles : they must have coats also, and hats,
and shoes ;—whe, therefore, should any idle
scruples of law or' honour stand in our way of
turning the penny I.—Profit, to be sure, is now
to be England's motto.—Principle is at an end
for ever—unless, indeed, the law conies forward
with her vigorous interpositiun.
May lb.

VIGIL.