The Sun.
London, England, 1828-08-06 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

It will be remembered, that after the Spanish
war, in the beginning of 1825, M. de Villele's
Ministry proposed to the Chambers a Bill for
indemnifying the emigrants for the loss of their
estates during the Revolution, and obtained the
consent of the Legislature and the King to the
measure. It was then predicted that the 'Mini-
stry would work the indemnity as the means of
influence, and would postpone indefinitely the
settlement of the claims preferred under the new
law. Such a sinister anticipation has not, how-
ever, been realized. The claims have been sent
in with rapidity, and decided upon with promp-
titude, as the following result will show. For
the purpose of this emigrant indemnity, it will be
remembered that the amazing sum of a milliard
of francs, or about 40,000,15001. sterling, was
granted by the liberality of the nation :
Claims addressed to the Prefects,---deduction
being made of 5212 applications, in which
there was no occasion m draw up accounts,
either because they formed duplicates, or be-
cause no property had been sold
transmitted by the Prefects to the Com-
missioners of domains in the departments ....
Accounts drawn up by the Directors of the do-

30,180

24,550

21,317

mains
Claims transmitted to the financial department
with the approbation of the Prefect'
Claims transmitted to the Commission of Liqui-
dation, after examination in the offices of the
Department of Finance and of the Direction-
General of the Domains
Claims referred to the Prefects for further infor-

23,10

19,98 E;

'nation ....... ........ ...................
CLims respecting which the decision of the Com-
mission has intervened (including 994 appli-
cations rejected, and 637 on which decision
was adjourned)
Total of the sums liquidated by the commission,
738,524,087 f. 93c. (Deduction of 111 ,908,
.529 f. 55c. having been made pour passif.)
Decisions of the Commission notified to the par-
ties by the Minister of Finance
The nurni;er of the parties who have claimed in-
scription on the Great Book of Public Debt
Total of the liquidations of which the inscription
has been authorized :
In capital '706,905,350f.
In Rentes 21,207,380f.
In looking ai this situation of the labours of the
indemnification, as compared with that which
was published in the Moniteur of the 2d of
July, we see that during that period-
-181 applications have reached the Ministry.
cues have been transmitted to the commis-

1,3,8

19,740

18,62 S

16,901

mon.
`237 have been decided.
having claims have received the notification
of the decisions which have been come to re-
specting them.
!!9t; have claimed their inscriptions, which have
been allowed. Timm
The Members of the Devon Whig Club,
while they rejoice at the repeal of the Test and
Corporation Acts, desired that the principle
which procured this amelioration should be car-
ried further. 'The Chairman said, "he was
sorry to acknowledge the fact, but fact it was,
that England was the only civilized country that
did not recognise the establishment of religious
liberty on the broadest basis. Even the Mem-
bers of the Holy Alliance, so long and so de-
e,ervedly held up to the antipathy and the ridicule
of Englishmen, had exceeded us in that respect."
The reason of this difference between the mem-
bers of the Holy Alliance and Englishmen, is
not of difficult discovery. That excess of re-
ligious zeal which leads to persecution, can only
be permanently maintained by the possession of
wealth. In the States of the Holy Alliance the
Church is uniformly poor ; and two or three
generations of zealous Theologians, not fed by
wealth, are not to be found zn rerun! natura.
The Catholic and Protestant in Germany, for
instance, are on the best team, because, though
men make their titles to the next world the pre-
text for their battles in this, such battles are,
nevertheless, in reality fought for the best
places in this. The Churches of England and
Ireland have somehow or other chosen to
think that their flesh pots would be be endanger-
ed by Emancipation—a very foolish idea, to
doubt. This, and this alone, is the cause of all
the difficulty we have in settling religion in Ire-
land. The abstract love of justice never leads
lawyers to conduct lawsuits to a close, to have
the point settled, when the property is not worth
the labour. Neither does the love of religion
lead to intolerance. There must always he a
love of contention. This matter is now.toler-
ably well understood in England. Out of evil,
however, frequently cometh good. We, no
doubt, partly owe the philosophical indifference
sliown by Ministers to the surprize manifested
en the Continent at the unusual humility of our
t4overmnent, to the ticklish situation in which
orthodoxy has contrived to place Ireland. Mi-
nisters have made their election between folly at
home and folly abroad, being utiable to exhibit
both with safety ; and thus, in order to show the
Catholics that we are not to be bullied, ,e 4 Are
satisfied to be held up to Europe, in the light oC
bragadocios, who make a great noise at first, but
who are quiet whenever they see a foot raked in
m
a suspicious manner.—Moning Chronicle.
Though we claim for the Press all the merit
of the growing influence to which it is so-justly
entitled, yet that influence cannot be otherwise
than diminished by the inconsistency which,
from views of party, or still less worthy ifiGti„s,
some part of it is seen to all into. What, foe
instance, can be more absurd and unjustifiable
than the kind of double dealing whieh is held
forth at this moment on the subject of contipen-
tal interference on the part of oar Government ?
On one day we are told—and wisely told— that
it is the true policy of this country to abstain
from being involved ill questions not purely 13ri-
tish, and to husband our resources? until such
occasions arise ; while, on the the Govern-
ment is taunted with pd,silbnanity, and is told
h an
that it would and ought to dos 5.4..;d such things
if it dared. This is blowing hot Cold with
a vengeance, and is caleulated, as far goes,
to lower the Press in the eyes of all considerate
persons. Either interference or non-interfe-
renceis right : they cannot both be so and
who le there who can calmly look Welt at
the history and the results of nearly 41
l
the continental
iwars in which this country
has been engagze., from the period of the Revo-
lution, in 1688, to the present hour, a4;lPot feel,
that, barring one small modicum of glory, ell
that we have reaped from them have been debt
and taxes. We are happy, therefore, to see that
the Duke of Wellington (who might himself
, be
14aturally suspected of no great indisposition, for
war) has, since his accession to kris present
office, shown no disposition to encourage a cru-
sading spirit in the country. If those who
would urge the country into fresh wars for fo-
re3grt interests would try their probableld results
Vi e by
the test of past experience, they woul,
should imagine, of much of the mania which
besets them, and beguiles their better judgment,
The true interest of every coieutry is to cultivate
the arts of peace. We care not; therefore,whe-
ther it he wisdom
loserndence—whether history
or the debt, whicters the present Govern-
ment from embarking the country, as its prede-
eeeeors would have done; in. quarrels and dis-