The Sun.
London, England, 1828-03-25 00:00:00

hick; it has already ptovoked, and the fear of
Mill greater calamities to come. The Intiuisition
(thanks to the last Cortes) has been abolished,
:and its prisons are noionger objects of terror ;
but the most horrible dungeons c€ Fiurope arc
-still at the disposal of fanatic,: as cruel as in-
etuisitors, and the pestit;;rous colony of Angola
is still a Portuguese possession. Thither will
be sent, without trial, or after a xnoelary of jus-
tice, those Patriotic men NviY.:.-Jse services are
thought unworthy of Aitins and exile. If the
assassin's knife had failed on some of the ra-
apectable charae.ars who have now happily found
an asylum among us, a transport ship was ready
in the Tagus to convey them to the burning shores
of Afrita. The contempt of law and justice which
disgraced the Government last antmn, eren while
tire name of the charter existed; and while the weak
ministries of th e Regent were changed as often as the
moon, must now be aggravated and emboldened by
feelings of vengoance,bv unrestrained frecdomaand
!the hope of long impunity. There is only one
,:heck which can now, for some time, be opposed
to the criminal excesses of the Prince ; or which
.after their commis:skit, can bring his G
talent to its senses ; that is, the want of money.
The Chamber has been dissolved without pass-
ing any budget ; but we know from the bt:dget
which has been presented, that the treasury is
mpty, and that the tlr/I<:4:t in the revenue
is enormous. The Bank having lately failed,
and being besides hi the hands of the
Liberals, cannot, or will not, lend assist-
ance ; while the consternation inspired by
the violence of the new Government has so
destroyed the confidence of capitalists, that no
;new loan can be negociated. In this state of
pecuniary embarrassment, no resource remains
but a forced loan, or a crushing amount of t.,Aa-
tion, to realise which those plundoeiag expe-
dients must, be employed which teal render the
present abettors of absolute power most bitter
enemies, and compel the Prince to take refuge in
a Liberal revolution from the mole ionnidable
evils of anarchy. If any thing :,an render the
recent retrograde movement h, Portugal more
Lamentable than another, it is the almost absolute
"ant of reasonable motive for incurring the dan-
gers of the change. The silly despot who has cast
all his promises to the wind, and forfeited the es•
teemci all his allies, has gained no additional power
or authority as a compensation for the contempt
and danEers which he has incurred. By
adhering to his engagements, he was as certain
of the crown of his ancestors as if it were
already on his head. As soon as the intelli-
gence of his arrival at Lisbon, and of his com-
pliance with his brother's instructions, had
reached Rio, he was made aware that Don
Pedro had engaged to complete his conditional
abdication in his favour, and to send his (laughter
to Europe. What may be the immediate coil-
sequences of his present conduct, and what
precise steps the Emperor may take when l;e
hears of his treacherous proceedings, it may be
difficu!t to predict ; but they cannot be otherwise
than distracting to the Royal Family, and disaa,
trolls to a kingdom long labouring under priva-
tions, and now stripped of hope,

" NUda pototas
fratres, pugua tst de paupere regno." Timt;.y,

It would appear from a statement we gave the
.oilier day, that the Poor Tax had become a very
serious charge ; it almost aiii-ounts to one-half
the taxes to which we are subject for the Govern-
event of the country. The Poor Tax is nearly
'6,000,0001. The taxes, altogether, for the Go-
vernment, arc 20,000,0001. The Poor Tax, if
it be not stopped, will, by-and-bye, amountto as
entech as the Government taxes. The increase
it, per centam, for the last year, as compared
with the year 1826, has been 9 per cent. This
is not saying much for the Select Vestry
teen. It appears that the number of Select Yes-
:tries of the kingdom is nearly 3,000. It is crt.
ezous to observe that the taxation of Ireland, fur
-seven millions of people, is only 5,000,0001. ;
while the taxation of the people of this country,
for the pour only, is about 8,000,0001. The
questiou is--what is to be done ? Our belief is
that nothing can be done. The professions haie
vet hold of the pour, and they will go on with
thec taxation in respect of the poor till, at last,
John Bull will rouse up and shake off the poor
laws altogether. The only thing the Parliament ,
can do, Acne\ er any Vestry Bills conic leefoee
it is, to set its face against the pass;itg of any
Bill that shall enable the Vestiges to borrow me-
ley- upon the security of parish taxes. We
have, of late, tried all we could to stop the bor-
rowing system, and, in a few instances, w have
succeeded. We should think that, when the
people of Ireland look at statement to which
we have referred, they will not be very desirous for
the intrieduction of the Poor-Tax system into
Ireland.—mori,ing Herald.
We extracted yesterday a speculation from
the French Papers, which is not without some
air of plausabilitv, viz, that the Prince of Orange,
ehe brother-in-law of the Emperor Nicholee, who
es said to be on the point of setting out for St.
Petersburgh, has undertaken to add the weight
of his personal influence to the representations
which the British Ambassador is instructed to
make to the Russian Government upon the pre-
sent posture of affairs iu the East. Without
wishing to lend too much credit to a statement
-which assumes indeed only the form of surmise,
or being very sanguine even as to the success of
ithe Prince of Orange, if it should appear that he
has really been intrusted with, and undertaken
this pacific and highly honourable embassy, we
may be permitted to remark, that the personal
history of this Prince, the annals of the illus-
)rious House to which he belongs, and the into
of the newly created kingdom over which it is
his probable destiny one day to rule, all cohere
admirably with the supposition of its truth. The
}louse of Orange has been for a very long period
the peculiar proteee of the English Throne,
And now that it has attained to :degree of in-
dependent power, which absolves it from the
necessity of courting the protection of any Fo-
reign State, the consciousness must remain that
its security is inseparably bound up with the
greatness of England ; nor can the grateful re-
collection of this illustrious House, and of all
who are loyally attached to it, cease to dwell upon
the fact, that 4
its present
- ;
.4.ant palmy state is
almost exclusively the creation of England. The
Prince of Orange has already, as an individual,
reaped a rich harvest of honour, fighting under
the banners of England, and under the imtne-
diate command of the Illustrious Warrior who
flowsways the politics of England, and who is
destined, we confidently hope, to blend the
wreath of civil glory with the proud emblems of
military fame. It would be a delightful coinci-
dence if the youthful warrior of this Royal line,
who fleshed his maiden sword under the auspices
of our illustrious Commander, should achieve
his earliest triumph in the cause of univer-
sal peace under the auspices of our illus-
trious Statesman. The names of Nassau and
of Wellington would then stand together