The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-29 00:00:00

THE COURIER AND CONSISTENCY !

The Courier and Consistency are, like Lord
GREY and the Ultra Tories, wide as the Poles
asunder. Within the last twelve months Eng-
land has had Four Prime Ministers, and the.
Courier Four sets of Principles A Fifth
Prime Minister may arise, an the serpent will
change its skin. The public are too well aware
that the oracle of a office" has deceived—that
the jobber has been caught in his own stocks,
and stands self-exposed to the cutting derision of
its friends,—that the mighty of other days has
fallen upon evil times, and been forced to drink
the cup of humiliation in all the bitterness of
wounded pride, and all the remorse of affected
self-complacency. Thrice it turned with the
uncertain breath of public opinion, and a fourth
time it confessed that all was vanity and vexation
of spirit. We would fain be charitable,
but our contemporary hides its face, choos-
ing rather the pity, which galls, than

the sympathy that conciliates, for, being lost to
principle—it lays no claim to character. It has
deceived its friends—flattered its enemies—abused

its readers—and ended, like the scorpion, by
committing suicide. A public inquest is now
sitting on its remains ; and the following are its

last dying words :

~ THE COURIER.

" The EDITORSHIP of the COURIER has passed into
" other hands ; not, however, into strange ones, but
" into those that conducted it for the long period of
" nearly twenty years (from 1799 to 1817)—from the
" close of the war that was terminated by the hollow
" peace of Amiens, to the end of that more stupendous
" contest which placed this country at the head of the
" world. Fresh wars we may yet be involved in—but
" our greatness was consummated in 1815."

The Editorship of the Courier h►►s passed
into other hands, and its readers to other Jour-

nals. After lauding the Earl of LIVERPOOL it
thus abuses its late friends:—
" From the termination of the War, the Whig Party had,
" with a few exceptions, conducted themselves with suf-
" ficient moderation. So punished bad they been by
" their own prophecies, that the country almost began
" to construe their prostration into penitence, and their
" silence into shame. But, humbled though they were,
" they were not tamed--dormant though they lay, they
" were not dead. The political demise of the Earl of
" LIVER,MQL restored their hopes, and refreshed their
" machinations."

Out of its own mouth will it stand con-

demned—

" Nought like itself can chronicle its shame :"
With the circumstances that led to their introduction
" into the Cabinet of Dlr. CANNING every one is suffi-
" ciently acquainted. Whether Mr. CANNING would
" have kept them long under discipline, is now not
" worth enquiring; but it is not at all impossible that
" they would again have given themselves the coup de
" grace, by repeating the notable expedient of beating
" their brains out against a wall of their own building.
" The elements of discord which bad shown themselves
" before the death of Mr. CANNING, gained strength
" during the short Administration of a Nobleman,
" whose name is synonimous with all amiable and ex-
" cellent qualities. In the elevation of Lord CODE-
" mut there was no insolence—in his ambition there
" was not the least taint of selfishness. ' Nothing in
" life became him like the leaving it.' "

The Vicar of BRAY has thus given the coup
de grace to its inconsistency by doing that which
it imputes to its late idols, beating its own
brains out.

-There was a time
That when the brains were out the man would die,
And there an end.
But not so the Courier, for

" it can turn, and turn, and still go on."
Short as the period had been from Lord LiltEarooes
" illness, it had produced a great effect upon the public
" mind. Men became involved in doubt and perplexity
" —they wandered in the dark, without star or com:
" pass—they could not take a safe departure—they could
" not keep a steady reckoning—old companions were
" lost by the way, and new ones were picked up—
" friends were maltreated as foes, and foes were mis-
" taken for friends. In so new a state of affairs, it
" can hardly be a matter of surprise that the Jour-
" nalist should not have been free from error, or
" that, with one end in view—the welfare of his coun •
" try—he should have sometimes been mistaken in
" the choice of his means. Inconsistency, naturally
" growing out of the strange coalition of Whig and
" Tory, became the order of the day. But its reign has
" passed away—the experiment of making a Cabinet
" half Whigs and half Tories has been tried, and failed.
" If they begin by mutual concession, they soon 'suspect
" that they have " professed too much." Each en-
" croaches upon the other—reproaches become recipro-
" cal—discord grows and gathers strength—there is no
" making up -no renewal of affection—the ire alum-
" tium redintegratio amoris is never applicable to the
" quarrels of Statesmen."

Those who run may read,—yet pause to read
again :—Short_ as the period had been from
Lord LIVERPOOL'S illness, it produced a sad
effect upon the Courier. Its readers became in-
volved in doubt and perplexity—they wandered
o'er its columns without principle or character
to guide them—they could not take a safe de-
parture, because they could not reckon on its
steadiness ; ultra Tories were lost, out of
office, and moderate ones filled their places ;
liberal men were abused as Whigs, and Whigs
were mistaken for Radicals. With such a
kettle of fish it can hardly be wondered at
that the Cout ier should have burnt its fingers.
Inconsistency became the order of the day,
—but the experiment has failed. When the
Courier, turned against the Ultra Tories, one
third of its readers flocked to a new Stand-
ard. The Courier then made a long confes-
sion—in favour of liberal principles, but soon
had good reason to suspect that it " professed
too much,"—for the lost sheep returned no more.
Sir Oracle proceeds
proved that the Cabinet
ebxeeelnusively a Whig Cabinet or
" B,,emyounadt aeiltlhedroubbeta,imitohstas
" a Tory Cabinet."
Where is the proof? In the columns of the
Courier, for the last six months in praise of
coalitions ? We have not space, or we could
heap accumulated proofs from the Courier
against the Courier in defence of coalitions as
being the one thing needful for insuring the dig-
nity of the Throne and the happiness of the
people. But we leave this task to its superau.
nuated Editor, who will find enough to reconcile
in his new vocation.

We now come to the last passage in this
" eventful history," and our readers will. not be

sorry.

" Of the New Administration which has just entered upon
" its functions, a contemporary remarks, with some
" levity, that had he been the manager, he would have
" cast the parts differently. Without advancing such
a high pretensions ourselves, we can only say, that we
" trust we havdagain a Tory Administration, deter-
mined upon maintaining the Constitution, as it is
" established in Church and State--an Administra-
tion by whisk the principle of Parliamentary Re-
‘: form. will not be supported—nor the Catholic Ques-
" tion be conceded, nor the Test and Corporation Acts
be repealed."

The wolf has thus thrown off the mask, let
us hope, for the last time. Illiberal to the very
core, it has exposed the rotten nakedness of its
heart. Comment were superfluous upon such
unblushing tergiversation. But what will its few

remaining readers of the last six months sal
such manifest hypocrisy--turning to the card
points of the compass with the shifting bread
Ministerial favour ? What will the friends of I.
LIVERPOOL—the admirers of Mr. CANE

—and the supporters of Lord GoD
:0 this political changeling ?—and now whal
,he vilified Tories to this canting turncoat
las attacked their principles—ridiculed

persons—and abused their confidence,—and
after all this—their " forlorn hope" returns oil
more with proffered obedience, till another
gains the ascendant in the political horizon,
then, as before, it will "whistle the Tory Admiei',
tration down the wind, to prey at fortune." 19,
shall this juggling succeed ?—lf " the Tories
have any respect for character, they will at les'
choose honest advocates—they will tell t'
Courier to look to its past conduct—

" And cast it like a loathsome weed away."

General GUILLEMINOT, who arrived
Toulon on the 18th, on board the Junon, foul
there orders for his immediate return to Corfu
join the English and Russian Atnbassado:
and act in conjunction with them.

Letters from Cadiz of the 4th Jan. state

the Soberano, 74 guns, has at length sailed
the Havannah, with a tolerably good crew, coo
sisting of Galicians and Catalans : it is accool
plied by a brig and five large transports, vcitj
materiel and provisions. -

It appears that the Algerines and the Cola
bians have an understanding, as the latter wesi
the African costume ; it is assured they dis°
barked at Marbella, and committed great der
dations, and captured two French merchantnir
near Majorca.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(T1415 DAI

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, JAN. 28.--Wind W.--Arrived fr°9
London, the Margaret, Pattison, for Carthage°
Affleck, Fall, for Tobago; George and Williao
Nicholson, for Rio Janeiro; Courier, Gwatken, fal
Hayti ; New York Packet, Crosbie, for St. Thonlael,
and Fox, White, for Malta. The outward-botO
remain.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 28.—Wind W.—Sailed

Majesty's ship Terror, for the Mediterranean.
FALMOUTH, JAN. 27.--Wind W.N.W._Arri
the IVlutine Packet, from Rio Janeiro, sailed the
of December, spoke the Spbynx, for Buenos Ay
going in.

RIO JANEI4/, Nov. 30.—The transport, Ch
lotte and Mary, from Cork to this place, was lost
Macabe, and the North of Cape Frio ; crew,
emigrants saved, except ten, but this is only reel
SCARBOROUGH, JAN. 27.—The Jona, Cratho
from London to Shields, came in contac‘on Rids
evening, 'with a large ship (supposed from tb
Baltic) between Scarborough And Robin Hood 1301
and has received considerable damage in her jib.booo
bowsprit, and stern.

The tlizabeth, Lethley, from Letterkenny
Liverpool, was lost the 19th inst. on the coast
Donegal.
The Daphne, Pratt, from London to Rio Janeil
was taken and sent to Rio Negro, but was card'
into Rio Janeiro by the prize-master.

THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY).

CITY, Twairz o'CLOCIr.

This being another holiday at the Bank the WO
ness doing has not been very important, sever
parcels of money stock have, however, come t,l
market for Thursday, the first transfer day, and COo,
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laments the necessity of the action at Navarin, an
the loss of life with which it was attended, express
his firm intention of carrying into full effect 01
Treaty of the 6th of July for the pacification f)
Greece; it is also further rumoured that this doce
. ment recommends, in strong terms, the appeiattnefil
of a Finance Committee, which his Majesty has lie
doubt will place the Revenue of the Country bn
solid and secure footing. Consols opened this mar
ing at 8.5 i I for the account, and are now 85{1
India Bonds and Exchequer Bills have not had
slightest alteration, the former being 91 3, and 0
latter 60 1 pm.

The Foreign Funds have little stirring this traorf
ing ; the arrival of a mail from Brazil, and the 0
information that peace has not been concluded bt
tween that Government and the Buenos Ayres st
thorities, has had rather a bad effect on the Boni'
which are at 60; this, however, will soon blow oVeP
from the probability which now exists of peace beiPi,
shortly concluded ; for the same reason Buell.
Ayres have been equally dull, being 41 2, but otl
now 42 3; Mexican Bonds are 44-3. 5i ; and Russia'
have touched H.
In Shares the chief interest has been extend°
to the Brazilian Mining, which have suddendropped from 73, the premium early in the morni
to GO, upon a report of the water having forced ilk
way into the mine, and the reduced workings i
the men in consequence ; Colombian Mines cono
to improve, and the expectations from this cones°
are of a very sanguine description, the shares 0
now 25 6 ; and Real del Monte, 10 20 pm.
Three per Cent. Consols, AAA a
--a ; Ditto for the 24c
count,
Colombian, 23 4; Danish, 611 if ; Ore':
;91Bu3tape, Ayre4, 42 11
Real del Monte, par, 20 poi
m. ; ExcheVie
Bill., 60 1 pm.
Peruvian, 25 v
Russian, 94 ; Spanish, 10 i.
misEs.—Anglo Mexican, 57i 5 die. ,• Brazilian, 60 P
United Mexican, 21 20 di,.
TW 0 0' CL 0 Ch.
Consols continue very steady, 85i. buyers, P
Chilian, 23 4 ;
Account, and Sellers for Thursday—but til,
transactions are quite unimportant : the Citize'",
are all expectation for his Majesty's Message, and °I.
giving every one his own version.
FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICE"
1370:4;11e31‘e I,
eixli 7 rn21::Ilen;
ri6dl iisaapnhe'arßr6:Co nO;Rtle,'
a, 45 ;
Danish 611 •
Do. for Ac. 8.5 i -.7- Greek, 182.5
Brazilian Bonds 60-i Mexican, 1825 141
Bueno' Ayres Peruvian 251
Ca Fl
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bE' 5iaG5:18,.52115i 13;6.71
Chilian Do. . Russian 94
Columbian, 1824 23 Spanish, 1821 --

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named RUDICIN, of this town, noticed by ui at the tilitibd
their birth, are still living, enjoying good health, and w 410
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