The Sun.
London, England, 1828-08-07 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS,

It has been rumoured for some time past in
the political circles, that Lord Strangford was ap-
pointed Ambassador to Brazil for the special
purpose of persuading the Emperor to submit:
quietly to the loss of his European dominions,
and to be reconciled to his usurping brother's
tyranny in Portugal, without attempting resist-
ance : but we could not at first believe either in
the selection of the agent or the nature of his
mission. Of the former part of the rumour, how-
ever,
we are assured that there is now no doubt ;
though,
without further evidence or..direct com-
mumcations from Rio, we must still indulge in
a distrust of the latter. We had thought that
his Lordship
was too well known to his late and
present patrons to be again trusted with, or in,
any negotiation of importance. The extent to
which he misled his own Government, and
through his own Government that of Russia,
with respect to the success of his negociation
at Constantinople, and the unceremonious man-
ner in which which the Emperor turned
him adrift when sent by Mr. Canning
to St. Petersburgh to justify his conduct or
support his statements, are now, unhap-
pily_s for his Lordship, as wel.l known as his
pretended triumph at Lisbon about; twenty year
ago. The more than diplomatic freedcm which
his Lordship takes with matters of fact, makeshim the jest of all diplomatists ; while other-
wise his manners and conduct beget towards hill/
in Courts a distaste even greater than the disre-
spect of statesmen. These qualities ought to
save the Emperor of Brazil from the infliction •
of his Lordship's mission, even though he had
done nothing of late to excite public attention
to his character. But, unhappily, his Lordship
cannot remain quiet,—he cannot enjoy his Bri-
tish Peerage and his red riband in tranquillity,—
he must not only be a negotiator, but a Parlia-
mentary orator and a pamphlet writer, in abuse
of his deceased patron and in praise of himself
he must not only enact Pyramus, but play like-
wise the parts of Moonshine and the Hole-in-
the-Wall. Of his late oration against Mr. Can-
ning, to whom he owed his undeserved advance-
ment, we shall say nothing. It has already been
done justice to by the taste and good feeling of
every man whose hatred of the deceased states-
man his Lordship's gratitude was not intended
to serve ; but on the occasion of his second mis-
si®n to Brazil, we cannot altogether omit a no-
tice of his late pamphlet respecting the Brazilian
emigration. It will be remembered, that to-
wards the end of 1807, the late King of Portu-
gal (then Prince Regent), on the entrance of
the French into his dominions, and the publi-
cation of a notice in the Moniteur that « the
family of Braganza. bad ceased to reign,- had
been induced to embark suddenly in a mo-
ment of alarm and panic for Rio de Janeiro,--
a measure which the British Government
had been urging upon him in vain for
some months before. Lord Strangford, who
was then our Envoy at the Court of Lisbon,
and who had been employed to press upon the
weak and vacillating Regent the necessity of
emigrating to America, to preserve the independ-
ence of his crown and a portion of his territory,
had been expelled from Lisbon, without having
been able to overcome the resistance of the
Court to so perilous and repulsive a step. The
approach of the invader, however, and the de-
nunciation of the Moniteur, were stronger than
the representations of diplomacy ; and, accord-
ingly, on the 27th of November the Royal
Family embarked for the new world, to avoid the
fate of their Spanish relatives in the old. Lord
Strangford could not let such an opportunity
pass without taking credit to himself for the suc-
cess of his fruitless efforts, and accordingly,
though he had avowedly failed in persuading
the Regent to take refuge in his fleet, and had
himself been obliged to move on board the
British squadron off the bar of Lisbon, he
claimed the Whole merit of the emigration, in
a despatch of which the following is an ex-
tract :

" I accordingly requested an audience of the
Prince Regent, together with due assurances of pro-
tection and security ; and upon receiving his Royal -
Highness's answer, I proceeded to Lisbon on gie
27th, in his Majesty's, ship Covfance, bearing a. flag
of truce. I had immediately most interesting com-
munications With the Court of Lisbon,the particu-
lars which shall be fully detailed in a future despatch.
It suffices to mention in this place, that the Prince
Regent wisely directed all his apprehensions to a
French army, and all his hopes to an English fleet ;
that he received the most .explicit assurances hero .
me, that his Majesty would generously overlook
those acts of unwilling and momentary hostility,
&c.,&e.; and that the British squadron before the
Tagus should be employed to protect his ,retreat
from Lisbon and his voyage to the Brazils."
This memorable despatch is dated " Novem-
ber 29, his Majesty's ship Hibernia, off the
Tagus." Now, who would believe, unless al-
most on the evidence of his own senses, or the
confession of the party implicated, that this
Hibernian despatch, dated off the Tagus, No-
vember 29, was actually written in- Bruton-
street, London, on the 19th of December, and
that the diplomatist, who, on the '27th of No-
vember, so dexterously landed in Lisbon to
direct all the Regent's " apprehensions to a
French army, and all his hopes to an English
ewjaiiteiheirOv,e Kslita)gil•
fleet," never saw the Regent at Lisbon at all on
audience after his Royal Hsedigliiim.
that occasion, and was only admitted to an
embarked ? This freedom with facts,—this un-
deniable departure from truth, which
an agency by
not venture more particularly to characterize,!_
was known and established by irresistible evi-
dence soon after the Brazilian emigration ; and
being safely estabtishedaltu
John was exceedingly srsealdulidngacitnualy
Account of the
"-el Napier's‘'
which he was persuaded
diplomatic despatch.
Europe ; but it
was only last two months, I •
seen the Regent till 011 board. Let the
ant inhis
pamphlet °-
History the Peninsular iv
_ ar, that his Lord-
ship hims confegsed to the
despatch in charge of having
written iris
winithaninswtheer toaitiootleeavfeCEoluo'n.
England, and of never
reader confront the following statement made
by his Lordship in 1828, with
don-written extract of the despatch, dated " His
Majesty's ship Hibernia, off the Tagus, in
having

" I arrived at Lisbon on the night
of the 28th
inst., and almost ininicdiatcly saw Mr. A'Aranjo,
who
was already on board ship. I then proceeded
to the vessel in which the Prince Regent was em-
barked, and, notwithstanding the assertion to the
contrary in Colonel Napier's note, I had a long and
most confidential interview with his Royal High-
ness. I had then, as Colonel Napier truly states,
no power either to advance or retard the emigra-
tion ; but when did I ever assume that I had, or
take any credit to myself for any thing that passed
at that interview with his Royal Highness ?"
But though his Lordship did not land:at Lisbon
on the 27th, and had not the good fortune to
meet with the Royal Family till the 28th, when
they were on board—though the menaces of the
illoniteur and the prvtecting squadron of Sir S.

Smith did the whole work of diplomacy,—his
Lordship was the chief gainer by the transac-
tion. His despatch was believed, and his zeal
was.rewarded, while the less obtrusive merits-of
the Admiral remained tinemblazoned, and were
left without recompense. The red riband, which
was due to • Sir S. Smith, or which, as Colonel
Napier suggests, ought to have been tut in
three, parts, and shared between his 'Lordship,
the Admiral, and the writer of the Moniteur,--
was conferred upon the unsuccessful Envoy; and
the alter tulit konores was verified in diplomacy
as well as in authorship., After Amissions like
those which we have ibovn recorded, and the
more recent display of dupery or deceit it Con.
atantinople, what, in the • name of wonder, can
recommend his Lordship to his present Mission,
but his merits towards Mr; Canning ; and is that
a-sufficient stock of service for such an appoint-
ment? An Ambassador has been described by
one of the trade assa person " sent abroad to lie
for the. good- of his country." Has the time
now arrived in which he may do the same for.
red riband or a peerage ? But ooith his
Lordship be really appointed, we see no reason
why he should again cross the 'Atlantic. As he
could write • despatcheS from -the Tagus in
Bruton-street, why not.wilte them from lio de
Janeiro without learinE,, his 'present residence ?.
The expences of outfit, and the employthent of
a ship of war, may thus be dispensed With,' arid
the country as If served as it has ever been be-
fore, by the same agent.— Times.
.The portionS of evidence before the Police
Committee, which we have from tine to time
communicated to our readers,, must have satis-
fied them that the conclusions of the Committee,
as to the complete inefficiency
.of the Police for
protection of property, are but too well-founded.
This day we lay, before our readers a. more. thktn
usually interesting piece of evidence--that of an
attorney, who gave to the Cotnrnittee hints of
what lie considered necessary for the improvement
of the Police. He illustrates, in a very frank
manner, the position that the Police have at
present an interest, in the encouragement of crime,
and. quotes the observation of a very able officer,
when he called his attention to the alarming pre-
valence of burglaries some time ago, to the effect
that it did not 'become either attornies or
.of-
ficers to lament what was so much .for their ad-
vantage. It ,was observed 'long ago by Hobbes,
that " Men have been, and always will be igno-
rant of their duty to the public, 'as never medi-
tating any thing but their particular interest."
We have some curious, confirmations of this.
position, in the evidence of this acute witness.
Attorneys, he observes, are in the habit of
drinking, in their convivial moments, « The
glorious uncertainty of
.the law," and " More
plaintiffs and more defendants." The Police
Officers have equally powerful motives for drink-
ing the glorious uncertainty of, convictions. He
observes that the young officers exert themselves
with great zeal for some time, in order to have
their names before the public; but the old officers
avail themselves of their :distinction to, derive pro-
fit, from negociations. What he suggests as
to the increasing the salaries of -officers 'in pro-
portion to their length of service, as no matt
Should ever be left without the hope of bettering
his situation, is characterized by good sense.. Hume,
who disliked religion, concaving that wealth was its
greatest enemy,_recommeuded the giving good
livin to. the clergy, as " a bribe to indolence."
This witness in like manner recommends a bribe
to the indolence of officers. Were they to re-
ceive nothing from individuals, and to derive their
income exclusively from the public, they would
not only have no. motive- for. encouraging thiev.,,
ing, as at. present, but they would. exert ..them,'
selves to keep it under, in .order. to :save them-,
selves unnecessary: exertion. The- ;wonder
not that any map should make the discoveries of
this attorney ; but how these.men, whose busi-
ness it is to approximate to themselves: 10°1e-
Table. share _of the taxes, ,as a-remuneration 'for
their labours.in, protecting us,,should never by
any accident have stumbled on them.' We
have-heaxd .Ministers again arid. again affirm in,
Parliament, that our -Police was as good. as,
making allowance for the imperfections-of our
nature, it could well . -be, and. ,charge those
who complained, of it with captiousness.-' -What
conciusion.are we:to-draw from ttii? Not that
that portion of 'the higher ranks of thiS"c'ountry
who concern them Selves with 'onr 'Welfare really
stated what" they did, not believe, ,but that they
were deficient both . in information and sagacity.
This is the sort of; defence.set .up for our higher
ranks in the last Quarterly Revietvnainelv,
that they are not inhuman, but stupid and-ill-
infonned. Some observations have- been -made
as to, the contradiction offered-by the present
Assizes o -several of the conclusions of the
Police egtinnittee. ylie.CaleoaFs are no doubt
light. We have Seenthat in Essex the convic-
tions,almost equalled the. committals. Has the
lightness of the Calendars be.en. the result of a
similar improvement of the mode of administer-
ing justice by the Magistrates in-other counties
It' so—what a satire on the practice before pur-
sued !—Norning.Chronide. • .
We believe there is no. Licensed Victualler in
the metropolis Or its neighbourhood,. who will
not peruse with the most carefiil and critical eye
'the proceedings that
,took place at Bow-street.
yesterday ; and we should be- only weakening.
the force of the observations which- were then
made, were we to. attempt any thing in the shape
of comment. The Magistrates, as will be per-
ceived by the report, are thoroughly conversant
both with the intentions of- the Legislature, and
with the true interests Of the Licensed Victuallers.
They-are determined not to increase the
num-
ber of public-houses, under the specious name
of hotels, merely because applications have been
made to them, and they have it in their power, «if
they see fit," togrant licences to them ; but in the
exercise of the authority with which they have
been invested, to have. regard also -to the rights
of those whose interests may be affected ,bythein..
Sir Richard Birnie, in particular, has shewn
hirnS(ilf averse- to the wholesome' mode of dealing
with licenses which some parties (we shall not
say from what motives) would wish to establish ;
and whatever may be the result' of the present
contest, the Licensed Victuallers are deeply in-
debted to hiM for the stand which he has made
in their behalf. rhea Licensing Clerk appears
also to have paid no inconsiderable attention to
their interests, and we trust hiS 'observations on
the intent of the Hotel-keepers' Act will not be.
lost on those who are this day m
.to cee to a de-
p
referred to
cision respectingw 'it 11
thel
owl the
yesterday.)—
report
re
as given in

_ . .
Morning Advertzser.
The proceedings during the excursion' to the
Nore yesterday, by a great body of the Licensed
Victuallers, for the purpose of contributing to the
funds of the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum, need

no comment. They 'commend themselves to every
man's heart and good feelings. They cannot be
perused without exciting the liveliest emotions
of gratitude to the projectors of the Institution,

and the in, oesvterayr ardent wishes
than"
will
,its w permanent
arm a
prosperity.—lt rbiteyn.:fi
tI: tl, is,
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ofaucbtt, . one
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Institu-
tionsds'olhialeiileityrewrdtali°sPewwx;lh:iairtit'b(l:tet 9'e iilitv'si'ielrtitls'otay,cimtyie'olicitilt(lei:ary:rnb;oo:trtrtheh;r:obbp‘'lfa:nh:fsdorilsvld)milautoibli:ddeft
prosper
lengtilne friends ever anticipated !--:-/bid.
We trust it cannot be, true that any demnrhas
,
.arisen, as we see shted to be the case in some
of the paper's> as.to placing the intended monu-
ment 'to Lord Byron in the Poet's Corner in
Westminster Abbey. If there be realty any
foundation for such a report; we -should be glad
to know on NAliat reasons it can be founded. For
ei,irselves we suspect, if it is raised at all, it must
be .by.those'who “strain at gnats and swallow
caniels;" . That all Lord Byron's ideas ana ptin-
riples may not have been es pure and-orthodox
as: .zealous- members o'f, the Church may wish,
cannot be denied ; but we never yet heatd that
thorough orthodoxy, much A's it may add to a
man's fame, was an indispensable passport to a
niche in that temple, or any other. To war
with the dead is a serry kind of contest In any
case ; but to war with departed genius, and that
of the highest, caste, is t., gothic enterprise, which
bespeaks neither taste, charity, nor judgment.—
We do not say'that a Christian temple ought to
be defiled with the effigies of an infidel writer,
however high or re-eminent his talents;
but that was net the case with Byron. His
most questionable opinions deserve little more
than the stiama of eccentricity ; nor can the
1?
' sublime effusions of his. genius have, as a whole,
' any other effect upon the heart than that of ame-
liorating its affections, elevating its ideas, and
'in the end promoting the cause of virtue. But
whatever contests there may be about a man's
opinions when_ -living, when . dead the Only
question, in such a case as this, is whether they
have done honour to his country. In Lord
Byron's case who is there'that can doubt that ?
And if the country has received honour by his
life and writings, and will do' so to the end of
time, what doubt can there be that his memory.
should be handed down to posterity in the midst
of that galaxy of genius of which .he forms so
bright a constellation ?-14orning Herald.