The Sun.
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Queens had been crowned; and he argued, that
as the origin of either ceremony for the King
and Queen SVFIS lost in remote antiquity, so it
ought to be held in the one as in the other, that
the uniform usage now constituted the right.
This, he argued, from the analogy of proof in
the Courts of Law, would he held as sufficient
to maintain any
his private right. He contended that
cases shewed the ceremony for the Qurcs
to be integral and distinct, and not an auxiliary
to that of the KING'S Coronation. He was
retracing his historical narrative of yesterday, and
shev6ng this from the cases of the QUEENS he had
mentioned,--when our Reporter came away, and
nothing decisive had occurred, when we were
obliged to put our Paper to press.

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST Two.
Mr. BROUGHAM proceeded in the same line of
argument, with abundant references, in an admi-
rable speech. He was followed at some length by
Air. DENMAN, in a speech which lasted about an
hour, when the Court broke up and adjourned
till to-morrow. It is expected that his MAJESTY'S
ATTORNEY and SOLICITOR-GENERAL will then
be heard in reply.

From the Paris Journals of Tuesday, which
arrived this morning, we learn that the affairs of
Greece now occupy the chief attention of the
Austrian Government. Some of the regiments
forming the army of occupation in Naples have
received orders to march to the confines of Tran-
sylvania, and into the Bannat of Temeswar.
Intelligence has been received at Vienna of the
capture of a Turkish frigate of 30 guns, by a
Greek ship in the sea of Marmora ; and letters
from Sophia of the 2d of last month contain de-
tails of several engagements between the Greeks

and Turks which have terminated in favour of
the former. The insurgents of the Peleponnesus
have got possession of the passage of Thermopylm.
•the Ottoman tooops in Livadia have been com-
pelled to evacuate Athens, Thebes, and Salona;
the insurrection has spread in all parts of Thes-
-341Y) and every thing tends to the belief that
`l-acedon will soon be the seat of the war.

The naval contest between the Turks and
Greeks continues to be carried on in the most
sanguinary and merciless manner. An Ypsariot
eruizer is reported to have captured a Turkish
brig of war after an obstinate conflict ; and the
"hquerors having ascertained that twenty-two
Greeks, who formed part of the brig's crew, had
been killed by the Turks and thrown overboard,
immediately before, or during the action, imme-
tliately massacred all the Turks on board, with
the exception of one who gave information of the
"uve fact.
'Hy Madrid Papers of the 24th of June, it ap-
i)ears that the mob of Valencia have publicly
threatened the Audiencea or superior Court, to
Whom the affair of General ELIO has been
referred. Ten members of this tribunal have
signed a declaiation, giving it as their opinion,
that the Audiencia was incompetent to decide this
14IPertant question; but if the Government per-
t 3 in referring the matter to it, they will dis-
regard all threats and menaces, and pronounce
`Qntence to the best of their, judgment and with
be utmost impartiality. The Cortes are still
I)cl'Aied with the Budget. It is said the KING
11741 go to the baths of Sacedon on the 2d or 3d
of this month.

It was reported at. Berlin, on the 9th of June,
that there would be an immediate change of
1.1 12Y a Royal Decree the Neapolitan Army is to
e. COMpleted by volunteers. The Minister of
itlance has officially announced his MAJESTY'S
.lapprobation of the loan contracted for by the
3/.
-evisionalGovern men t with Messrs.ROTHSCHILD.
l'he following is the substance of a Message
r 941 the King of SWEDEN to the Diet of Norway
rei
'etitlg the Freedom of
,the Press:— c.c.b r
-'eneral liberty demands, circumstances re-
quire, social order prescribes, and sound policy
bcommands, that the FreedOm of the Press should
e limited. The Liberty of the Press does not
cease to e;ist when it is restrained by wise laws.
The most. enlightened GovernMents, the most
P°W. erAil States, furnish proofs of it.
" England, who was the first to benefit by the
l'reedorn of the Press, who in her legislation has
confirmed the right of every. man to publish
his thoughts, and even of condemning the
acts of the Government; this Country, .so
Powerful from the character of its people, has
recognised the necessity, if not of restricting the
Press, at least of punishing abuses of it. It has
passed laws, established a jury, and makes known
to every person his rights and duties. This na-
tion, which has experienced such long revolu-
tions and numerous calamities, this nation whose
constitution may, with propriety, be called the
elder sister of all existing constitutions, and who t.
is so jealous of civil liberty, has been frecluently!

forced, during the last thirty years, to restrict
personal liberty by a temporary suspension of
the Habeas Corpus. By gelding to the necessities
of the moment, and the critical circumstances
of the times, by admitting the importance and
urgency of prompt and useful decisions, the
English people knew how to appreciate the acts
of its Parliament ; and the Sovereign who re-
commended these measures received the -bles-
sings of a great nation, who are fully aware of
the propriety of a salutary exertion of power in
crises which menace the existence Of, a State.
" From the moment that the Constittition of
the 4th November 1814 gave political rights to
Norway, and raised her to the rank of natiQns,
she. has enjoyed an unlimited liberty of the
press. It was easy to foresee that this right
would be abused by transgressing the bounds of
moderation. The transition from an absolute to
a Constitutional Government was too sudden to
create any surprise that these excesses should
have been committed. • Individuals, who pro-
nounced themselves the organs of the nation,
abused. the liberty of writing."
His MAJESTY then proceeds to state in gene-
ral terms the various abuses of the press that
have lately occurred in Norway, and thus con-
cludes 7.

" A licentious press has been generally re-
garded as dangerous. Foreign wars, civil war,
the ruin of public credit, the depreciation of the
Government paper, division in families, and the
decline of manufactures, commerce, arts, and
sciences ; such are the dreadful consequences it
brings on nations.
" His Majesty, in cortsecil2nce, recommends
the establishment of a Jury to try offences of
the press."

Given at oim Castle of Stockholm, the 2d of June, 1821.

CHARLES JMAN.

The details of the measure proposed by the
King of Sweden are not given ; but from the
tenor of his speech it is evidently his Majesty's
wish tomstablish legal liberty instead of unlimit-
ed liberty, a repressive law, and not a preventive
law, against offences of the press; an object to be
desired by all enlightened men in Constitutional
States.

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•
Dutch Papers to the 3d of July arrived this
day. The following are extracts :
" BRUSSELS. JuLac I.—The important Law,
introducing a new system of indirect taxes, has
passed the Second Chamber of the States Gene-
ral. There have been few questions in which
opinions have been so directly opposed to each
other in the Chamber, and at the same time so
nearly balanced by the number of their advo-
cates. It is a contest between the advocates of
a free trade, and those of the prohibitive sys-
tem. The Members representing the old
Dutch Provinces were in favour of the Free
Trade, and those of the Southern (formerly Ails;
trian) provinces in favour of the prohibitive sys-
tem, fearing that a Free Trade will injure their
manufactures. Both sides of the question were
supported with great ability.—Count llogen-
dorp, in favour of the law, developed at great
length the advantages of a Free Trade, and
the disadvantages of the prohibitive system.—
e quoted Great Britain as an example,
and showed that the prohibitive system was
the cause of the great number .of poor with
which the kingdom was burdened ; on the other
hand, he ascribed the ancient prosperity of *Hol-
land to a free trade: he was confident that the
proposed law would animate foreign commerce,
which supports the internal trade ; he did not
fear. that the duties on consumption would
have the ill-consequences apprehende.d, and
was persuaded that the law would prove
equally advantageous to both the great divisions
of the kingdom. P.I. Von Alpheri thoUght the
prohibitive system could. not be anyi longer
maintained ; that situated as the.kingdorn was,
the whole land and sea forces, of the State,
if employed to prevent smuggling, would
not do so without destroying Commerce itself.
lie considered the abandonment of the old 'Sy
s-
tern as a return to sound sense. Among the
Members who spoke on the
,other side, M.
Lecoq thought the new System could be of ad-
vantage only to Amsterdam,. and that the whole
]kingdom ought not to be sacrificed to one
City.. -M.. de Seurs said that he preferred the
most rigorous system of prohibition to a free.
.trade.; and M. Gendebien said, that foreigners;
when they saw Coffee free and Beer. taxed;
.would imagine that common. sense. had fled from
the Netherlands. The debate, which was begun
on the 28th, in the morning, and renewed- in the
evening, was again continued on the nth, in the
morning, and finally concluded in the evening
sitting of the same, day,. which lasted till raid=
.night. The Ministers having been heard in de-
fence of the Laws the, question. was p.ut and car-
ried by a majority only of four votes, there being
55 for, and 51. against it.—Only four Member
were absent."

• The long and interesting argument of Mr.
BROUGHAM before the Privy Council, in support
of her MAsEsty's claim .to participate in the
honours of the Coronation, occupies so much of

our space, that our remarks upon-it must neces-
sarily be very brief and imperfect. It will be
seen by our Report, that the Council adjourned
ti!l ten o'clock this morning, in consequence of a

. _
delay requested by fir.BaouarfAu. The fol-
loWitig is g. correct copy of the principal Memo--
rial addressed by her MAJESTY to the KING in
Council, praying that the honour of a Coro,na-
don should be conferred upon her at ‘Vestrnin-
stet on the 19th day of July instant
" To Tx= lit Na's MOST EXCELLENT ;F:::..ESTY, IN