The Sun.
London, England, 1821-02-16 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

*DAILY EXTRACTS PROM THE MORNING PAPERS.]

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In our Paper of yesterday we stated 44 how
many brave and gallant soldiers are now idle,
who would glory in volunteering their service in
the Two Sicilies, if means were given to equip
and convey them to the field." We are now
informed, that a Lieutenant-Colonel, formerly
much distinguished in the Staff of the Army, and
now on half-pay, offered to raise a British _Legion
to consist of 5,000 men, and made his arrange-
ments accordingly with the War Minister at
Naples, lie applied to this Government,through
the Secretary for the Home Department, for
license to raise these men, accompanying his ap-
plicatiort with a letter in explanation of his
plan, and had the mortification to receive an
answer, dated the %)th of January, " that his
Majesty was pleased to reject the Petition." By
the Foreign Enlistment Bill of last Session, Bri-
tish Officers -and nrren are prohibited from serving
any Foreign State, or raising any men, to serve
in any way, without the license of the Crown.
Perhaps it may be said, that that Foreign Enlist-
ment Bill was forced through the House of
Commons in unison with the wishes of the People

—we answer, with the concurrence of the na-
tion, in the same manner as the omission of the
Queen's name in the Liturgy has the sanction of
the People. Pensioners and dependents on the
Ministers were then found, as they have been
lately found, to declare to thy contrary ; but
we are confident every generous heart rebuts
such proceedings with that disgust which they
deserve. It is, indeed, lamentable that the noble
exertions of the Neapolitans, and the cause of
liberty, should, on the very first application, be
refused assistance by the Government of Eng-
land, a free and representative Government, an

from which men contending,for their rights and
liberties against the odious conspiracy of Conti-
nental Despots, under the unhallowed name of
Holy Alliance, had a right• to expect assistance.

[British Press.]
The question respecting the exclusion of the
Queen's name from the Liturgy, according to the
service of the Church of England, having been
determined by the House of Commons in favour
of Ministers, it only remained to ascertain the
right of the Crown to visit her Majesty with a
similar indignity in Scotland. For this purpose
Lord Archibald Hamilton moved last night
for the production of the Order in Council
,directed to the General Assembly of Scotland,
commanding the erasure of the Queen's name
from the public prayers of the National Church.
He also moved for the production of all cor-
respondence with the Office of the Secretary of
State for the home Department, respecting the
military arrest of a,Clergyman in. Scotland, who
had presumed to invoke a blessing upen her Ma-
jesty. The Noble Lord rested the strength of
his case chiefly upon the illegality of such an in-
terference by the Crown in the internal concerns
of the Church of Scotland, but he also comment-
ed very felicitously upon the absurdity of an order
for erasing a name from prayers which were not
in existence. The Presbyterian Church of Scot-
land uses no written form of prayer, the clergy-
men exercise their talents as occasion requires in
an extempore effusion, conceiving that such a mode
is better calculated to excite a religious feeling
in the minds of a congregation than any well-
known form of words. It is likewise a principle of
that Church to disclaim the interference of tem-
poral powers in spiritual affairs ; the Order in
Council, therefore, was at once an attack upon
one of the most cherished principles of the Church
of Scotland, and a proof of the neglect of the
Ministers previously to ascertain .the nature of
the power they were about to exercise. The mo-
tion, however, was rejected, for on a division
there appeared, for the Motion only 33 ; and
against it 110. This decision of the House, con-
curring with those previously formed on the sub-
ject of the exclusion of the Queen's name from
the Liturgy of the Church of England, will pro-
bably terminate the discussions in the House of
Commons respecting the treatment of her Majesty.

[Morning Herald.]
There are some accounts from Spain, whidi
prove that the restless malignity ,of the servile
faction in the capital is not wholly intimidated
or subdued: A very strong remonstrance has
been addressed to the King, by the Municipality,
upon the discovery of incendiary papers in the
possession of a high Spiritual Officer near his Ma-
jesty's person. The perfect security and per-
sonal respect enjoyed by King Ferdinand, after
frequent discoiteries of treason hatching and lurk-
ing in his very household, and by his private con-
fidants, prove 'the moderation, steadiness, and
truly constitutional spirit of the Government and
Cortes of Spain.

[?Horning Post.]
That distinguished Band of enlightened, dis-
interested Patriots, Messrs. Creevey, Hume, Cam
Hobhouse, Lambton, and Co. again mustered all
their forces on Wednesday night, in order to
stop the Supplies; in other words, the' House
having previously voted a certain number of sea-
men for the service. of the year, these wise Le-
gislators ' would withhold the money neces-
sary for paying them ! So much for Radical Pa-
triotism !—lt is worth while to look at the names
of those" Members who participated in Mr. Cree-
vey:s feelings upon thiS subject. It gives us
pleasure to add, that Messrs. Tierney, Sir James
Mackintosh,. Mr. Calcraft', Lord Althorp, Mr.
Abercrombie, Mr. Macdonnell, Mr. Grenfell,
Mr. PhilipS, And- other Opposition Members, left
the House, refusing to give their countenance to
the efforts of Mr. Creevey and his fellow Pigmy
Statesmen..

[The Times.]
Every day produces some discovery which
must give fresh pain, or excite a new anxiety,
with respect to the exclusion of the Queen's
name from the Liturgy. We are obliged to point
public attention to Lord Archibald Hamilton's
motion last night, for certain Papers, directing,
or affecting to direct, the proceedings of the Kirk