The Sun.
London, England, 1810-12-13 00:00:00

The Jury, found for the plaintiff—garnages is..

A young Lady, about 22 years of age, in pos-
session of considerable property, residing with her
parents in the neighbourhood of Clapham, eloped
on Monday last with a young Gentleman, who for
three weeks, previous to/the elopement, had been on
a Visit to the family. On'the day they went ofT, the
young couple went Our, as was their usual custom,
to take their morning' walk, end it was not till the
dinner hour that their flight was discovered. Ser-
vents 'were diipatched in every direaion:to discover,
if possible,, the route they had taken, but without
effea, t►ll yesterday morning,. when the coachman,.
through the information of a post-boy,: traced them
to a house in the neighbourhood of Covent-Garden,
where it appeared they slept• the night before, and
'from 'which they departed at an early hour in .the
morning in a post-chase and four; no further trace
of them has vet been discovered.
COLOSSAL VEGETATION..---A pear was lately taken:
from a tree in the garden' of Mr. Melliogliurst, at
Warmfield. Lodge, near Wakefield, which weighs
fourteen pounds six ounces, measures 12 inches in
the girth, and is $ inches long.

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TIIE CORTES.

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ItURSDAY, 'OCTOBER [B.

Senor GARCIA'DE HEIZItEROS-00 this day explain-.
ed the-yowl-le iihonld give On the first Article of
the Report, and which would appear contrary to the
opinion he had expressedon a former day. He was
tor a free circulation,ot opinion, " tor" said he, " a
free Press does not depend' on anterior or posterior
Censorship, but or, the free eirculaiion of. men's
writings." He agreed .perfetily to the first Article,
with the. admission of the word " politica," by
which modification religious subjeets,would be ex-
cepled from discussion, or remain on the same foot-
tng as .before. •

Senor MEX IA observed, that by the French code,
a .Perfect was appointed in .rvery department of
France, . whose business it was to censure the
Press.' Was this example to be followed by thu
Cortes ?

El Senor LLANERAS read a discourse against
the abolition of the preViuus Censorship,. endeay.-.
ouring to prove that the Liberty of the Press. I.va.i
not only consistent with it, but better. secured
by it.
Senor ARQUELLES then rose,,and said lie wished
to bring ,the matter to a point, for otherwise there
would be no_ end to, the discussion. He apprmed
Much of Senor Mexia's speech, who ItAd argued
from .faCts. The 'Deputy from Majorca .(the. same
Senor .Llantras) had said, that with hnnegt tribunals
Alipre would be no necessity for a-free Press. He
--perfeetly agreed with that _Deputy, that if
.all'men
were infallible and incapable of ),vrong, there would
be -nu occasion fur any laws whatsoever but, for
his.par:t he bad never known but
-one class of.men,
natnely, such as tliey all were, fallible beings, sub-
jeet to all the imperfeetions of their common nature.
The DepUty for Majorca," continued Senor Ar-.
has de'clared that the Inquisition was a
proper tribunal for judging what books ought to be
perMitted., ,Dues he forget that the library of the
Marquis of Vdlena, with all his valuable mint-
. scripts; r Wras...bur.ut by, a Friarmf. the Court. of John
the Second, wlro.,was himself a literary charaCter
and a poer;::notwithstanding which, the kingoom
was ruled .byittie. favourite Dr. Alvano de Leona
Tne,religibuSand 4olitical zeal. against the -Liberty'
of the Press did, not abate to the subsequent reigns
net7ertheless; upstart ,mistioni governed the nation in
the time: oflorique qUartc, Felipe tercero y quarto ;
and. never. were so .nurnerous the regulations against
the free communication of, our political opinions as
in the reign of Charles
.the Fourth. Even a pru-
dent tolerance in
_nolitical matters would have pre,
served . the
,present cAlamity. we
been possessed. of .the, Liberty of the Press, should
we have had. its censorsi_ and ()or very judges
themselves, 'composing the Court of -Godoy, that
Court where every thing was sold,_and which.might
justly be called the market place of all justice and
liberty? . .

. . .
"'There is nof..a nation :in the world which has
not suffered an age of disorders for want pf the li-
berty of the Press, for one evil which has been pro-
duced by its excesses. There I rest its claims, and ,I
challenge the world ' to deny it."
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. Senor Colonel. GPLFIN said that the Freedom of
the Press was just, tr,efrrl.; and necessary, and that
they could not go, on one- step without it.
.There
was no other mode of coining of the public opinion.'
A former speaker had asked whit 1,113 s to b.:. done if
the Press should bedireded against the Cartes? H
would answer, that !the Cortes would derive from
- the same advantage which the Pai liatnent .of Eng-
-12nd derived from the public newspapers, through
which. they learned, the . opinion of the people on
- theirr. conduo. He said, that-those. who feared'that
the_Liberty, of the Pres: would be employed against
the charaders of individuals would .do well to -re-
, collect that .they might equally be injured by the
circulation of Itbel& in manuscripts, with this most
fatal difference, namely, that in the one case the
evil would be manifest, and the powers of defence
would. always remain, whereas, in the other the
blow is secret, the danger is, unknown, and.,the
means of defence are absulutely.t aken away. It wa's
. clear therefore, that the absence of a tree press
,atfortled ,no security to individUals for the prptec,-
tiqn characters,of their but on the contrary, by en-
couraging defamatory manuscripts, subjects them to
infinitely greater inconveniences.
Oni the conclusion of this speech, Senor Gal-
legos 'Moved, That -the question should be put to
the vote. s•

The,Marquis of Vito then rose, and read a long
and laboured alga:neut. against "the Liberty-Of the
Press. On which Senor lorrero spoke again nearly
as follows :

"The last speaker ascribes ,to me that .I had said
that England stood alone by- the Freedom of the
Press. This is• -not .correti: I said that England
stands by public opinion, which the Liberty of-the
PresS prote6ts and fosters, but which is itself routed
in the liberty of the subject. On every debate in
Parliament the substance •of -the speeches of its
Members is immediately' printed and circulated all
over the country; and from thence it arises that the
poorest peasant in the most wretched village, in En-
oand has the power, it he has the capacity, of in-
speding and judging of the conduct of every public
man in the realm. .

That Member has acknowledge] the beneficial
efficacy of- the in England, but denies it .to
Spain. affirm , that the efforts of a frte.PresS
would be equally beneficial to. Spain, as the baSis of
our Government is the same. England has her Par-
liament—Spain has her Cortes. 'England has het
limited Monarchy—Spain is in the act of limiting
hers. England has a just division of the three pow•
ets, Legislative, Executive, and Judicial—we hafe,
just declared the same division. What, then, is
there in these two nations, so, allied in charatei-,
and so similar in the baSes'.Of their-respeoive Con-
stitutions, that should confine to England the
fits which ate admitted to belong to the Press
that country, and prevent our reaping some of the
same fruits ?

Had we been possessed of the Press in Spain,
would so►ne,..Priests have ventured to assett that
Charles the Fourth was inspired by God to Fut the,

/shed by WILLIAM AR 14.4,1 GER SC R.l 1' SoLtli Aloltor,
the Papers Lt:iers for the Ictitr Occ. (prist-paid), mus

Gocerument into the ..1)0( G ,Any ? 11:
liad the Press, God('ly must have Idler! : as we Icere
Without ;V:4:liiislived• •to perpmate 0U ruin. :I
repeat, that had it not been for the decided peac
opiniOnOf England,. established •by • the efforts "of •
the Press., and .n6ling on a wide and fertile soil of Da'
tiOnal e,lucation, England must have perished freed
the convulsions ofsher parties.
" Should- the King ever entertain the wish, and
possess, through the agency of a stronger Executive
than we now grant him, the. •means of destroying
the Cartes, what • refuge have we ? Whither ace
we to fly ? Whither, but to the good opinion of the
people of Spain, gained by our own salons, and.dio-
seipinated bye, the Press ? •
• " Had Godoy known the feelings of the Spanish
:People, he would hare been deterred .frorp
putting many.:crimes; but, amidst fools :and•bad •
MeV, while statues were ereting to his fame..
was deceived, and. the nai;or. was nudont. I.ad we..
possessed the Press,. Charles the Fourth woold,not
,have dared to carry on that wretched systm of
government which has reduced us so our pres;-_ut
,sitcsation.

The power w-hich the Parliaments of England
.hold over .their Kings, arises from the knowledge
,which ih people possess of the principles of.those •
who compose Parliament, and from the support chef
give them:'
With this speech the debate on the first article
concluded,' after which a warm discussion took
place with regard to the mode of voting, and
whether it should be public or secret. Some Alegi-
bers having observed, that in England the gallery.
was alwas cleared when the question was pot- by
the Speaker,

Senor ARGUELLES stated, that by the standing-
orders of, the House, even the discussion was secret,
but that the praetice ,was uniforrnly the reverse, fa:
England, bad virtue enough to respect the opinion ot
the people. -

The President having declared that the Session Ifijas
closed., tor that day, the votes were not taken unta,
the next day, Friday, paober 19th, when the ques-
'ion beir)g pat on the.tiyst article.(atuendrd by the,
ini!ailmi of the word " politica" as above mention
ed),' and the Secretary, writing down the name of
eac.ll Member, • there appeared in favour of it 74;
against it 32.

GUOG.—An old Britiah Publication contains the
following aneedote of Admiral Vernon which, of
true, was the origin of: the word grog. The, anec-
'dote.is this :—The'British sailors had always heel)
accustomed to drink their allowance of brandy or
rum, clear—till Admkal Vernon ordered tt,oso
under
,his command 0; mix it .with water. Tit°
innovation gove great offence to the sailors; ana•
for a time, rendered tlte CoMmaniler very, unpo-
pular among, them. The Admiral at that ti-nrc.
wore a grogram coat ; for which reason thry nICI
named him " old_grog.7, And, hence, by degrees;
the.' mixed ;liquor he,,,constrained /hem to drini;
univepakly obtained among them the name of

.Whatever may be- the general policy of feign'
ers,..they feel it their particular interest tO.loolz of
to.the long tried faith of this country as the br6l
security for their. investments; 'and by the last Gr)C;
teriburgh . rrlcels,. large orders have been recelvci,
floor) all parts of the Continent, fox the purchase
State Lottery:Tickets and Shares, all of Ivhich.
be, drawn it) one day, on an entirely :bow plan, %6
15th of February next.