The Sun.
London, England, 1821-01-09 00:00:00

" CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.

" M. Bartho Lahastide presented a Report of the Com-
mission to whioni the projet, authorizing the provisional col-
lection of six-twelfths of the taxes for 1821, and also opening a
credit fur 200,000 francs, fur the different Ministries, was re-
(erred. It was ordered to be printed and taken into consi-
deration on Monday.

" FLORENCE, DEC. 25.—The King of Naples arrived in this
city last Saturday, accompanied by his Imperial Highness the
Grand Duke. A royal salute announced his arrival to the

inhabitants.

" Yesterday the Duke de Gallo, Minister for Foreign Af-
fairs, ad interim, to the King of Naples, arrived here."

We have not room for any remarks on the im-
proved state of the Revenue, of which we have
given an abstract this day, and shall insert it in
detail to-morrow. We may, however, remind
our Readers that we stated this growing prospe-
rity immediately after the quarter preceding the
last, upon authority.

'We refer our readers to the Loyal Address, in
our second page, from the Burgesses and Free-
holders of Petersfield to his Ma.rasT y. It seems
to be a principle in human nature, to incline one
way more than another, even in matters where
we are wholly unconcerned, as we may observe
from the irresistible bias which our hopes and
wishes frequently receive in standing by at play
amongst those who are perfect strangers to us, or
in reading the history of events long past. It is
no wonder, then, that every man is so ready to
exert himself in public affairs where the most in-
considerable have some real share, and to enlist
himself under the banners of a particular party.
Those who are labouring under any political dis-
ability; or who conceive themselves deprived
of some just right and privilege, naturally
look with a jealous eye on those to whom
the reins of government are entrusted. Hence
it is, hi all probability, that th© framers
of the Address before us have been induced to'
join in the cry insidiously raised by the agents of
the old families, composing the faction of the
MODERN WINGS, the great Borough-holders,
against the present Administration. There is no
doubt that very many of the evils of the present
day arise out of the defective state of Parliamen-
tary Representation, and that they can alone be
alleviated by restoring•it to, its original purity
and uniformity. But this will never be achieved
by removing the party now in office, and substi-
tuting their opponents, notwithstanding their
clamorous professions of independence and pa-
triotism, and their affected desire to reform
abuses which they are so much interested in per-
petuating, and which they well know form the
foundation of all their political power and impor-
tance. We wish the Address had been silent upon
this point, that we might have mentioned it in
terms of unqualified approbation, for its language
is respectful, though energetic and manly, and its
sentiments are loyal, patriotic, and independent.
Whilst upon this subject we cannot help advert-
ing to the silly exultation displayed by a Morn-
ing Paper, the organ of disaffection and sedition,
on finding the Address from Lynn in Norfolk
among the Addresses inserted in the Gazette. It
asserts, in the language of vulgarity and false-
hood, " that those who select these precious effu-
" sions for publication in the Gazette must have
" put this in without reading it." " Its erect
C 4 tone," it adds, " and independent spirit, cannot
" be palatable to those whose taste has been

" formed on the newly revived principle of paS'
" sive obedience." What, we would ask, hag
called forth this erect tone.and independent spi"
*rit but " those factious and seditious spirio
" whose sole desire ip seirzo opi;ortunitiest fat
" turbulence and disorder."lbe can itbe.shr
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posed that the N onaren tithetlendS of social
order and equal liN-ty, will shrink from the
sound of the erect tone of indopemlent spirit ex'
erted in their defence ? Or is it not much moo'
probable that the effusion of " hearts warmlf
" glowing for the honour and prosperity of the
" Country, and with every sentiment of faithful
" devotion " to their Sovereign, must have bee
highly agreeable to Ins MAJESTY, and ensuretiti
reception from Him little palatable to those will
are panting for anarchy and revolution, and whe
so eagerly endeavour to pervert sentiments of
unaffected patriotism and loyalty to their own
vile purposes ?

----, .
If the public were not fully convinced bf
daily proof that the Party writers are capable of
advancing the boldest falsehoods in support of
their cause, we might wonder at the following ,
passage in The Morning Chronicle of this day
" Can there be a better evidence that the Coun-
try has pronounced - an althost unanimous con.-
demnation against Ministers than the circum-.
stance of the. Press being every where against
them?" That there are- factious Prints in mauf
parts of the kingdom unhappily needs no proof;
but, on the other hand, there is hardly a place
throughout the kingdom in which Loyal Jour-
nals are not to be found, zealous to refute the
sophistry, to expose the falsehoods, and to stig-
matize the malignity of the factious Press. We
see too Addresses in print issuing from most .
quarters expressive of Loyalty, the nataral result .
of the alarm excited by the daring licentiousness •
of the seditious Press, yet The Morning Chro•
nicle, once a respectable opponent of Govern--
meat, can degrade itself by such an audacious
defiance of truth, and such an opeia contempt of
those manifestations of Loyalty, which prove
that a large, a very large, majority of the People'
revere the SOVEREIGN, and rely on his anxietf:-
for the interest and honour of the Empire.

The KING happily enjoys uninterrupted healsis
at Brighton, and his Royal Sister the Princess
AUGUSTA is the " Belle and spirit" of the Pa-
Ninon.

On Sunday night the Duke of Yoftg. arrived ;0
town at his residence in the KING'S Palace, St,
James's, from a tour.

Yesterday morning- Prince LEOPOLD left 1115
seat at Claremont, to proceed on a visit to Earl
CRAVEN, at his seat in Berkshire.
Prince LropoLn paid a visit to the QUEEN, at
Brandenhurgh House, on Saturday, and rernainea
two hours with her MA.I EST Y.

The Duke of CLAIIENCE visited the Princes
SOPHIA on Sunday, and yesterday, at her resi-
dence in George-street, Hanover-square, her
Royal Highness being indisposed with a slight
cold.

Mr. FYSON, the Attorney, accompanied bf
the Chevalier VAss.tm, left Brvndenburgh House
on Friday, for Milan, to settle the accounts of
her MAJESTY'S Witnesses, in pursuance of a sti'
pulation with that G overnment, that their farm'
lies should be supported during their absence un
the part of her Majesty. Madame Vassali and
her niece set off on Saturday night.
Mr. G. L. Fox left town yesterday, to joio
shooting-party at Burihlev, the seat of the
Marquis of Exeter, where his Royal Highness
the Duke of YORK, Lord and Lady LossuALsi
the Duke of RUTLAND, Earl of WrsTmeawm,
Lord CHATHAM, and many other fashionables3o
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assembled.

Mr. WILSON, of the Castle Eden Inn, DO'
ham, and several other innkeepers in the Norther°
Districti, have reduced their charge of posting ta
one shilling per mile, in conseqUence of laic%
there is a more general inclination to travel pa'
than has been observed for Some years past.'
WILLIAM PARNELL, ESQ., M. P. FOR TO
COUNTY OF WICKLOW.--TiliS Gentlemaof
whose • death has just been announced,
played his literary powers in a work entitlea
Maurice and Berghetla, supposed to have been
written a hundred years ago. It was improbable
in parts, but by no means uninteresting oh 1,13.°
whole, and obviously written with a due regard
to the interest of the sister Island.
Mr. FUSEL], yesterday evening, delivered 11:6
introductory Lecture on Painting, at the Royal
Academy, which was numerously attended by the
Academicians, Students, and 'Visitants. At the
conclusion the Professor was loudly applauded hi
his auditors.
LONDON-BRIDGE. - Yesterday, about .one
o'clock, the river was so choal,:.ed up with ices
from the confined and narrow arches of Loudon'
uridge, that one-and-twenty lighters and craft
were blocked up in the ice above the bridge ; thei
accumulating ice, with a tremendous crash,
length forced eight of the barges throUgh the
arches, they being nearest the bridge, but the
other thirteen remained immoveable till the retell
of flood-tide amidst the ice. C[,nnected with the,.
barges were many loads of floating timber, grel
part of which, of course, ;vseld be lost to its,
owners, as well as a barge sunk on Saturday h,/
the ice through the bridge. The situation 0'
Many of the lightermen who Wbre in the bargo
was quite distressing, as no boats could get
them, and the ice was too rotten for them to `"eV
ture on it to the shore.

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