The Sun.
London, England, 1821-10-15 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS,

October 15.

IMORNING POST.]

We stated exclusively last week that in con-
-sequence of certain restrictive duties almost
amounting to prohibition, which had been im-
posed on British goods in Portugal, our Charge
d'Affaires had felt himself called upon to present
a remonstrance, the spirit of which had offended
the dignity of the Cortes. The following letter
received on Saturday confirms our account, and
adds some interesting particulars :

" Lisbon, Sept. 23.---The revolution in Por-
tugal will not prove very advantageous to
the British. The Cortes, forgetful of all
treaties which have been entered into between
England and Portugal, and setting at nought
all good faith, is pursuing a system which
must at once convince every one that the
English influence no longer prevails over the
King .of this country. The dismissal of. Lord
Beresford was the first step, and the imposition
of duties on British Manufacture, amounting to
a total prohibition, is the second. The British
Ambassador here sent in a formal remonstrance
against the adoption of those new duties, on the
24th instant, and the day after had a meeting
with most of the new Ministry ; but his influence
has availed nothing, and the Portuguese seem de-
termined to follow the wise example set by Spain,
of prohibiting almost every article of commerce.
There have been arrivals from Rio de *Janeiro
and Bahia within the last week. Matters there
have a quiet aspect, but another political storm
is looked for sooner or later."

[NEW TIMES.]
" The greatest thief cries fastest fie," says
The4orning Chronicle; and therefore, no doubt,
it is that that Journal clamours so loudly against
slander and calumny. The subject begins to be
morn threadbare ; else might we find some amuse-
ment in the choice arguments by which The
Chronicle seeks .to elude our exposure of its spe-
cific delinquencies. One day it asserts that we

ate in partnership with John Bull, which is just

as true as that we carry the moon about in our
pockets ; and which, if true, could not by any
conceivable ingenuity convert the scandalous
verse and prose of The Chronicle into decency
and propriety. Another time, it discovers that
a most curious " copartnery" exists between the
&aid John and " the Bridge-street crew."
This, John has, in a very coarse and brief
manner, denied ; but it was hardly worth his
while to take that trouble ; because the al-
leged agreement was as follows :—that for-

asmuch as the Constitutionaly Association had
nearly exhausted its funds, and the Pro-
prietors of John Bull were apprehensive of in-
curring sundry Law charges too heaVy for them
to pay, therefore to meet this double evil, the
Proprietors should give up to the Association a
part of the profits of their Paper, out of which part
the Association should defray the whole of the
aforesaid Law charges. Now, this statement
belongs to a well-known class of declarations,
which carry along with them their own confuta-
tion. It resembles, in this respect, the defence

of a poor fellow, who, being indicted for stealing
a heavy iron bar, averred that hefound it floating
down the river. Or it may be ranked with the
amusing fable, that a certain Writer was some
time since dismissed from the Office of The Old

Times, for his uncontroulable propensity to abuse
his Majesty's Ministers.

MORNING HERALD.]

The Bank circulation now is twenty-one mil-
lions ; and the sovereign circulation, in all pro-
bability, is nine millions, which, together, make
thirty millions for the present circulating medium
of England. If we are correct in our statement,
and we rather think. that we are pretty nearly
so, the circulating medium now is much about the
same that it was ten years ago. We would not,
ho*ever, be too confident upon this point, in
consideration of the various dissertations which
have appeared from time to time in several of our
contemporaries for this last year or two, on the
subject, ycleped " Politico-Economical," endea-
vouring to prove that the reason why' the price of
agricultural produce and manufactured goods, and
ibaported articles, as cotton, rum, rice, sugar, cof-
fee, &c. had fallen in consequence of the reduction
in the amount of the circulating, medium. We
rather incline to think with Load Liverpool,
that—the .diminutiou of agricultural produce has
been brought about in consequence of the in-
creased production arising from remarkably pro-
pitious seasons for these last two or three years,
and the accession of waste lands•-brought into
Cultivation ; aid that the cause of the low price
of the imported articles we have enumerated is
the-greatly increased. importation, which, we ra-
ther think, has arisen, from au increased growth
in the various parts of the world where those ar-
ticles are produced. lf our reasoning, therefore,
be at all correct, Alien Providence for these last
two or three years has been bountiful, not only as
it regards the productions of England, but also
as it -regards the productions of almost all the
world.