The Sun.
London, England, 1819-12-31 00:00:00

side in Persia.

" AUGSBURG, DEC. 18.—The pldgne i 9 making
considerable ravages in several of the Turkish
Provinces ; it has prevailed for some time in Mol-
davia, and now we learn by Commercial Letters,
that it has manifested itself in Bosnia."

Virginia Papers arrived this morning to the 20th
November; they do not contain any news of int-

port lthce.

(From the /Mali of the 18th Nov.)

It i 4 said that Mi. Forsyth has r►tade a per-
emptory demand on behalf of his Government, for
a considerable number of American prisoners, in
Spanish prisons, who did not enter into the. P-
atriot service, but were trepanned by designing
officers, under false pretences; and that he has
required a statement of charges against others.

We may now congratulate ..the Country on the
Royal Sanction which has been given to those
measures ‘thiCh its security so iolperioosly de-
manded. Lord ERSKIN“ has issued a Protest
against the Newspaper Stamp Bill, but it contains
such objections only as have been repeatedly urged
by other Dleu►bers of -Opposition with much

greater force, and which have been refuted over
and over again by more enlightened frienis of the
Country. It is evident, as we-Lave often said,
that no honest, wise, and loyal subjeetvan be
affected by such rcstrictious on the P4ssNsillifir
state of the Countrywiirvqed ky..l4abil Refordserg;-..i..
and Traitors of every description, positively de-
manded. We refer to a Letter from our active
Correspondent TRNAX, in our Paper this day, who
has discussed the subject with great ability, and
whose opinions on this occasion, must be sup-
potted by Readers in general, who seriously re•
fleet on the dangers that assailed us:

Notice was given by the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER last night in the House of Commons,
of an intention on the part of Government to em•
piny a certain number of the Poor of the Metro.
polis on Dattmoor, a pant for that purpose hay-
ing been gracion3ly made by the PRINCE REGENT.'
This benevolent measure, we trust, will be extend-
ed to other %VaSte lands throughout the country
that may require and admit of cultivation. By this
means, the distress of the People in various parts
of the United Kingdom may be relieved, and not
only the face of the Country be improved, but
rendered profitable. But the wealthy part of the
community of every description, should zealously
come forward with contributions for the purchase
of necessary implements, &c., as Government has
pressipg occasions for all its disposeable funds,
and it is indeed a pariotic duty of the opu-
lent of every class to assist in the promotion of

so benevolent and so beneficial a design.

The grounds of the Bill, called the Newspaper
Stamp Bill, have been much misrepresenterh It
is notorious that p,:blications of the most fla.
grant nature, not only exci.ing hatred and con-
tempt of the constituted Government of the King-
dour,' and encouraging an alteration in the lives
of the Country by wher means than by the esta.
Wished authority of Parliamet:t, but calculated Rs
destroy the comforts of religious hope, by blas-
pheming the Sacrt d Scriptures, have been vireo-
hued with malignant zeal. By means of the
Daily and Weekly Publications of small Tracts
of sedition and Blasphemy, the agitation of the
minds of the lower orders has been kept alive,
and, notwithstanding the prosecutions which have
been carried on, and some with a successful
issue, the diffusion of Sedition has spread, tur-
bulence has been exriied, and discontent encou-
raged. Without hinting a thought of blame
against any Jury, .it has been ably argued, that
the present Law is inefficient to check the evil,
that the conviction of a Libel, especially if of a se-
ditious and not blespmernous nature, is most
doubtful, and that the delay the offender has had
the power to interpose has given time for the
further publication of esbonny. It has been ob-
jected that the Ministers have been supine in di-
recting Prosecutions for Libels, and that the Law,
Officers of the Crown have not actively exerted
their powers to suppress the abuses of tie Press (ell
hereby confessing the existence of seditious writ.
ings to a great degree). Ts such objections the
facts of ministerial efforts and legal diligence have
been produced. In the time of one Arroarsav-
GENER'AL, the House was assured that pro-ecutions
wet e carried on to an arbitrary excess ; a sue-

ceeding ATTORNEY-GaNERAL was complimented .
in his day,' for his. abstinence and mild exercise
of his official powers; and now, in a third in-
stance, we have been told that Periodical Pam-
/Meta and Tracts have teemed forth, to the dis-
grace of the Country, and
,to the destruction of
Social Society, by the encouragement of assassi-
nation, and that these have passed with impunity.
The year 1818 has been referred to as -the period
in which the most abominable Tracts were circu-
lated, and no pro3-ecution had been commenced;
hut in that very year, the very Pamphlet alluded
to, together with several others, had been traTIS.•
milted to the Law (Mire's of the Crown for their
opinion, and five Informations, as the ATTORNEY.
GENERAL stated in his speech on Wednesday, the
22d December, were filed against tire same indi-
vidual, who had primed, published, and sold this
Tract. Notwithstanding such proceedings CAR-
eters persevered, in defiance of the Law, and in
contempt of the Constituted Authorities, to ex-
pose to sale the 111.ispherny and Sedition, the re-
bellions and murder-exciting Doctrines, and was

not withlipld by his convietion, and even to the
very day of his rrceiving sentence, did be, for
the giatifiratiOn of his malicious passions, and of

his avaricious desires, throng() his wife, continue
the dissemination of the pamphlets on which ha
had been convicted. It will be alsojecollected,
that the Jury were three quarters of-an hour our,
deliberating on their verdict. if suelt a publica-',''
timi as the denial of the truth of all ieligion
could create a doubt in any one man's mind of
the violation of the law of the land and of blas
phemy to Gun, is it unreasonable to presume

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