The Sun.
London, England, 1828-12-10 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS.

• We regret to find, by the following Order of
the Day, issued to the Portuguese emigrants at
Plymouth, that an unfavourable decision has
been adopted respecting that depot. After a
good deal of warm discussion between the Eng-
lish Ministers and the representatives of the Em-
peror of Brazil, a peremptory resolution is.stated
to have been announced by the former to tho
latter, of dissolving the Plymouth depot, sepa-
rating the soldiers from the ofiicfes, and dis-
persing them in small parties over the towns in
the interior. Such a measure appeared to the
agents of the legitimate Government of Portugal
more obnoxious than an order of baniahmenr
from the kingdom ; and, placed between the al-
ternative of submitting to the total disorganiza-
tion of their troops, or of transporting them
in a state of discipline from our inhospitable
shores across the Atlantic, they chose the latter.
How far they were right in adopting this course,
it is not for us to say. The faithful adherents of
Don Pedro may personally be better treated in
Brazil than scattered among villages hi the inte-
rior of England ; but for all the purposes of
serving the cause of their young Quem,
they might nearly as well be in the moon
as in the New 'World. The grounds on
which the English Government proceeded in
thus ejecting the persecuted subjects of our
ally, are understood to be a regard to the duties
of neutrality, and a fear of embroiling ourselves
with the de facto ruler of Portugal. But can
these reasons be well foundscl:' We declare no
hostility to Don Miguel by allowing an asylum
to a body of unarmed men in one of our towns,
we break none of the laws of neutrality by re-
ceiving and protecting the wrecks of a political
storm cast on' our shores. The usurper of the
crown of Portugal deserves no courtesy from us
on account of his treatment of our fellow-sub-
jects, and justice does not require us to consider
enemies as ours. Had the emigrants in
the Plymouth depot been providing arms, hiring
transports, and preparing for a descent on the
coast of Portugal, our Government might have
been called upon to interfere ; but no allegations
of this kind are made as the ground of the harsh
measures lately adopted. 'Without entering fur-
ther into the question, we -may observe, that
there is a current
true. report I
T, this
reportnot subjteo which is
likely to be
ich we
allude is, that the English Government insists
upon escorting the transports with the ernigranV)
on board to Brazil, in order to prevent them from
effecting a landing at the Portuguese island of
Terceira. This certainly would be a departure
from our neutral character, and we need not
mention on which side. When the transports
leave the shores of England, our controul over
the conduct of the emigrants ceases as com-
Plate!), as if it had never existed ; and whether
they proceed to the Azores or to Japan is no
concern of ours,

" PLYMOUTH, DEC. 7.
" 1. It being impassible that the Portuguese enii.
grants should remain longer in the depot, as the Go-
vernment of his Britannic rflajoaty will not consent
to their stay, it becomes necessary for them to depart
from this country, and adopt a resolution in con-
formity with the inierts of their country, and
with that noble elevation of sentiment which led to
such generous sacrifice and such au honourable
emigration.

" 2. It belongs to the character• of his Majesty the
august father of the Lady Donna :Maria 11., to rut
the knot which violently arrests thu natural course
of events in the states of his august daughter; and
it is particularly the duty of the brave defenders of
the Portuguese liberties, and of the rights of their
young Queen, to concur in so generous a resolution.
Only in the capital of the august Emperor, so lately
King of Portugal—only in the bosom of a nation,
the sister of that of Portugal, will the faithful sub-
jects of Donna Maria 11. find not barely hospitality,
but a friendly welcome, brotherly kindness, protec-
tion, and, above all, abundance of resources, and
a large and solid basis fur operations, which must
secure the acknowledgment in our countrry of the
rights trampled upon by the spirit of faction and Iv
tu•urpation.

" 3. Between degradation and glory, the choke
is not doubtful. Men of honour in all countries
will applaud this last sacrifice, and will see in it the ,
most noble resource in difficult circumstances—the
most certain and the safe termination of a struggle so
arduous and so glorious.
" 4. In the mean time the officers, subalterns, and
private soldiers now in the depot, are apprised that
they must hold themselves in readiness to embark iu
a few days for that destination (Brazil), according
to the orders which:have just been transtnitted.to me.
" 6. It is to be hoped that the corps of volun-
teers who so nobly accompanied the troops, faithful
to the true interests of their country, iu their labours
and dangers, will be ambitious to follow once more
their companions in arms, for the purpose ofpsrecorteirsi
ing the triumph of the cause of their country and le-
gitimate Queen.
sioncc
6. `Those
Terhmosse, kwnheow, whoit‘hvotout eremsbplelectintghe sathatictlty of
at el
ei r t
oo agtihvse,
na tenlw Ilporboloyfsd
oe vf ottheedi r themselves
,
to every
i
kind of sacrifices, will likewise be conveyed to the
above-mentioned destination, where they will be
bfidelity.
7. Orders of the day will
succiiyey dssig-
nate the time and the mode of embarkation in tran -
ports already here, and in others vihich,' ~vittt rat
loss of time, will be ordered hither. In den trans..
ports individuals will find all tile conveniences com-
patible with a long voyage.
cc 8. If, however, some individuals, not military,
should refuse to follow this generous resolution, they
will come to give their names in the Secretary's
ogee of this depot, it being understood, that as
soon .as the embarkation is finished, this depot is
dissolved.
(Times.) cc THOS. G. STUBBS, Lieut.-General."
03itismand

,asesxetmeibrdiehdig :::
- According to a report of the proceedings of
the Meeting of the County of Tyrone (the first
County Meeting in Lreland), on Tuesday week,
p9leirsßoirlis4nwslverieck
of which there is a report in a new Dublin Pa-
per,three closely printed pages, not fewer than from
that occasion. The orators were
25,0 calledo
to thseo,oSot a:
chiefly Reve-
rends, of whom there was a t s rong force pre.
sent. The Meeting was held at Dungannon ;
and of course the Rev. Mr. I iorner, of Dun-
gannon, was in the field. lie was in fine fee-
then, but it was
impossible
to improve upon his
recommendation to t '
ex criminate the whole of the
Catholics. According
to the Reverend Orator,
we are to have a new edition of the fires of
Smithfield, and Mr. Sheil is to have a good
situation in the Inquisition,_ which is to be este-
blishe€l in England. Ho does not forget, too,
" the duodecimo rhymester, who conunenced
his eareer iulstrains worthy of a brothel—then in
Verse half doggrel and half slang, vilified his
King, though that King was his benefactor—.
then eulogised insurrection in its various modi-
fications ; and that there might be no difficulty
in graduating his loyalty or his religion, desig-
nated as fun the atrocities of the southern insur-
gents, their conflagrations and their murders."
Another Rev. Gentleman, the Rev. Mr. F. Ger-
vais, who was rapturously cheered, gave expression
to sentiments which, as far as we can judg.
bear a strong reaenablince to high treason, MA

content with telling the meeting, " In my mind, f were of opinion that the intention to defraud
we have trusted all to the Government too long, was negatived, and therefore brought in a ver-
and they are a: a loss to know what our opinions diet, saying " that the prisoner was guilty of
are, and seem careless about them," the reverend uttering a forged bill, but not with the intention
orator so iiid to the following heights, " I truss to defraud ;" which was a special verdict that,
what I have offered for your consideration will if expressed according to its legal import, would
induce you to strive, by every constitutional i resolve itself into a general verdict of not guilty.
means in your power, that the ark of the Co:- 1 A Judge cannot receive a special verdict in a
stitution shall not be defiled by the touch of any 1 criminal case ; but his usual practice is, when
hand bearing the mark of the Beast lest the the Jury bring in a special verdict, the legal ef-
Crown also should surmount a forehead branded 1 feet of which is to acquit the prisoner, to in-
with that same mark, which is doomed in the t form them that such is the effect of their vex.-
Councils of GOD to utter demolition.—(Loud diet as it stands, and to ask them if they really
applause.)—But if, through diabolical agency, mean to acquit the prisoner, for, if so, they
this contamination should take place, be not se- must express their verdict in the words " Not
duced into acquiescence; though Commons, Guilty," or he asks them if they wish a verdict
Lords, and King should all turn apostate, be of " Not Guilty" to be recorded ; and, -on ex-
you zealous for your GoD.—(Greatapplause, pressing their assent, it is recorded accordingly.
and cries of " Hear, hear, hear.")— Be mindful Let us, for instance, take a charge of murder,
of the doom he has denounced against this pro- where the defence is a plea of insanity. If the
phecy ; and as you would be saved from the Jury believe the fact of the person named in the
judgments it will bring upon this nation, vindi- indictment having been killed by the prisoner,
cate the name of Protestant, and even unto and also believe his defence, they very often in
death maintain your protest against the unholy their verdict affirm the fact and negative the in-
desecration." The Apocalypse is the great store- tention (as a madman can have no criminal in-
house whence the Brusswickers now derive their tention), and, from ignorance of legal language,
armour to combat the friends .of coricessioe, they return a special verdict, " Guilty of killing
We had imagined that this metropolis possessed A, 8., he (the prisoner) being then of unsound
something like a monopoly of the skill in read- mind." The proper verdict would be, " Not
inn- the Revelations ; but the reverend orator last Guilty, on the ground of insanity," the reason of
0
nemed grounds his objection, to the admission the acquittal being necessary to be stated in the
of the Catholics into the pale of the Constitution case alone, under a particular Act of Parliament,
chiefly on prophecy : which enables the Crown to confine the insane
"If I could bring myself," he says, "to consider person for life, unless he should be restored to
this projected opening of the Constitution to those reason. When the Jury bring in such a special
who profess the religion of Rome as a mere political verdict in this case as that which we have stated,
experiment, I might be the less unwilling to see it the Judge usually says, " Gentlemen, then you
made, however dangerous the consequences I tip- mean
to say the prisoner is not guilty,
prebend. A mere political mistake might, perhaps,
on the score of insanity ; and you wish a
be rectified, and they for whose satisfaction the
verdict of not guilty to be recorded ?"
hazard was incurred be cured of their desire for in-
novation. (Hear.) But when I look upon this mea-
The Jury express their assent, and the ver-
sure as connected with prophecy, I fear it, as an ab- diet is so put upon record. In Ilunton's case,
solute political suicide, and as irreparable as suicide the Jury, having negatived the intention to de-
itself; I am not singular in these views as to pro- fraud, discharged, in fact, the prisoner of the
phecy, though the study of it has not yet, in this crime, as there can be no crime without criminal,
country, attracted the attention it deserves. This or what the law calls malicious intention.
t ,e Park, who tried the case,
m
study teaches me to look upon the essential Pro- Judge
refused to re-
testantis of our Constitution as a sacred deposit 0
ceive any verdict but one of guilty or not guilty:
which we should no more tamper with than with
our Liturgy—nay, I would go further, than with This was very proper—but, at the same time,
the Gospel itself. Sir, I believe the kingdom of .he told the Jury (as the case has been reported)
England to be that nation wherein the servants of to throw out of their consideration the security
God are stated in the 7th chapter of Revelations to altogether, as there was no evidence to show it
be sealed, before the four angels are permitted to was worth a firthing. With all deference to
hurt the earth ; and I believe it sealed only on ac- the Learned Judge, we take it that the winds-
count of its Protestant Constitution and Church •m by
Wthe prosecutor, of holding the instrument
(Cheers), and that it was thereby secured during •
m question as a security, was evidence that it
the late war from the desolation which wasted every
was of some value—at least, that was the rea-
other part of the old Roman EMpire, while no.hos-
sonable presumption, and not the contrary ; for,
tile foot was permitted to tread its shores. (Ap-
',lase ) Again, Sir, I consider the religion of if it were of value,
.the prosecutor would not
p . .
Rome as under the curse of the Almighty, distinctly describe it as a security—and it would not in
denounced against it, and that the time is at hand, fact, be a security at all. It is also stated that the
when the divine judgments will fall on it, and every Learned Judge said there must have been an in-
thing connected with it--political institutions as well tention to defraud somebody; but the law of Eng-
as others. (Applause). Ido also believe, as firmly, land knows nothing of so vague a charge. The
as if with St. Joke, in the 14th chapter of Revela-
fraudmust be against the persons named in the in-
rions, I had heard the loud voice of the angel say-
~.
“xtment, and, if this is negatived, there is an
ing it, that ' if any man worship the beast and his
image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in end of the case. The Jury did negative the
his hand, the sante shall drink of the wine of the fraud twice, and at last returned a reluctant ver-
weath of God, which is poured out without mixture diet of " guilty,"_ which they qualified by a re-
into the cup of his indignation.' Now, Sir, I say, commendation to mercy. Here the Jury acted very
if the Protestant advocates of the measure, we op- inconsistently, not to say very Weakly.. If the
pose, do not worship the beast actually, they do it two previous verdicb; which they returned had
I:irtually, .aiding and abetting those who fall down bee» the deliberate result of their conscientious
viand adore his image. (Applause). If they have not .
consideration of the case, no power on earth--no
received his mark on the forehead, or on their hand,
argument of any person who was not one of
they are ready to receive it, or at least they act as if
they were ;in the sight of God they have it in their own body—no displeasure or dissatisfac-
their hearts ; and what can we expect, if this foul tion of Any power whatever, if any such had
enark was to be branded on her Constitution, been exercised (which we do not say there was),
and this cup of Popish fornication forced upon the ought to have induced them to have altered that
King, bet that England thus unsealing herself, will opinion. We have adverted to those ciretms-
share the fate of the other nine horns of the beast, steoees before, while there appeared to be a
that she will fall under the same destruction with
chance of the unfortunate man's life being
the other nine kingdoms in which the Pope has been
s
bre worse, if worse can be endured ?" pared ; and we now recall public attention to
paramount—nay, under the Gospel rule, she will
them again, merely for the purpose of impress-
There is no answering this ; and we are not in upon Juries (warned by this fatal example)
astonished that the Catholics should be so anxi- the necessity of acting with more firmness, deci-
ous to keep the Scriptures from other flecks. sion, self-dependence, and consistency, than the
Hobbes Sit: ?f , when reason is against a man, he Jury in this case displayed ; for the inde-
will be aoainst reason ; •and the Catholics, no pendence of Juries is the great security of the
doubt, det'ertnine, as the Revelations are against lives and properties cf Englishmen.—Morning
them, they must be against the Revelations. ifertzid.
One thing is pretty clear, that by the ae,istance One of the leading advocates of the preten-,
of the Revelations, and warm lareth of Ireland sions of the Romanists to a participation of no •
heads, two sects nay never be at a loc.s fur rea- I litical power, in his eagerness to amalgamate
soes for doing injustice to each other. An-, in one simultaneous effort against the Constitu-
o her Reverend Orator, a great performer oil / :ion the cunning of the British and the violence
these occasions, who was received with loud I ot'The Irish Papists,' has' been led into the im-
am' repeated cheers, gave the following very I prudence of exposing the true mooing of those.
modest .enumeratiou of the parties friendly to ' securities to which the former have professed
concession to the Catholics : their willingness to submit. We here refer to
" The Liberals and Liberators, the Conciliators an article which appeared in a Paper of yester-
and Agitators, the Ribbonmen and Defenders, the ! day, calling upon the Irish Papists to assume as
Atheist, Deist, and Latitudinarian, the friends of
much flexibility as their English brethren dis-
infidelity, and pretenders to patriotism, the new-
light ay ; notbecause .
light politicians, the modern economists, the Whigs, l the securities in which the let-
ter profess a readiness to acquiesce area just,
net of IEBB, but of 1828, the advocates for free
trade and free thinking, the surviving rebels of reasonable, or necessary protection to the Este-
-1798, the acquitted felons the Republicans of Amee blished Church—not because they are what
rice and the JeSuits of France, have made an holy Protestants have a right to plaim, and what can-
alliance,
a partition, a coalition, and the end and dour, moderation, and fairness forbid the
great object of it is, to involve us all in one common Papists of either country to resist, but simply
bankruptcy, and expressly because they are, and of
and, by one sweeping innovation; to do -
away the work of ages." (Applause.)
Whet must foreign nations who read such must be, a juggle and delusion
necessity
, upon the Protestants, to time success of
nonsense think of the intellect of the country r • ' -
which it behoves
all Papists, whether Eng-
What ideas these men entertain of Protestantism
lish or Irish, to contribute as much as they
we •reat a loss to conceive. They reproach, the
Catholicsa with believing in the infallibility of can. This writer has unquestionably taken an
Councils and Popes ; but they are one and all accurate m easeire of the 'dispositions and inten-
. allow tt
11 ons of those whose cause he espouses so
isfallible, and so intolerant that they will ,
libels on al- y'arrilly, and has seized with infinite skill and
of no difference in opinion. What .
addre • '
'th which ss the line of argument most likely to pre-
'nest every government and nation wi wail with
hundred , the parties to whom his admonition is
this country has been allied for the last addressed. If p • onion
• hron. the apists, or any pof
years. Protestants' forsooth !—Morning C them, are ready
to concur in any measure having
. The fate of Hunton ought to operate as a the security of the
Church and Constitution of
.warning to Jurymen not to surrender the free ,
oi n
emporary expresses it "to conci-
w
to the dictation of any authority whatever. It England for its object, it is, we are aware, only,
-
.exercise of their on reason and common sense
as our k
Bate those Protestant prejudices in defiance of
. which it would be impossible to carry a Bill of
ought to be remembered as a perpetual admome
Catholic relief ;" it is only because they believe
tion not to allow themselves to be induced to • 1 Ilan that '' the modification ( ' 1 will
wit ion security,
alter a verdict substantially acquitting a prisoner and
call be bilt nominal, while time concession
of the charge laid in the indictment into stet- will
and must he real." The object of the
diet of guilty, with a recommendation •to mercy ' pau.,j, is, and must naturally be, to get
tacked to it. A jury sitting on the life and death 4. i
power es they can, and
now as much , to employ
of a fellow-creature, haie an awful responsibility henceforth, as they have hitherto employA
upon their consciences, and that responsibility,
e whatever power they actually possess, for the ac.
arises out of the law having made
,them the sot "' •• • e gullet:en of more. This being their object, We „,,an,,
judges of the facts, as well as the application qf not refuse our assent to the opinion of our content-
the late to the facts of the case, on which they Prin.)" that cunning is more likely to promote it
*lisle are better p 1.
are sworn to decide truly between the King and than violence, and that the ETigi
~
P trust - °I.
the prisoner at the bar.. Now on the second ticiane than the Irish Papists. 'l3,!ltt_l'e-
h Ern:p'irue°Yweirli
trial of Hunton, the prisoner elicited eeidente timeless that the Protestants
.of
111 ill's instance
show themselves better politicians la
from one of his prosecutors of tine actual exist- . .
of - ther. To do so, it is only necessary that
ence of an assignment of propertyp the handsthan: e'
' .
they should attentively' mark and prudentlY aPPIY to
the house of Curtis, Roberts, and Co., by Way of
themselves the lesson which this sagacious instructor
collateral security for any sums of money which of the Catholics intended for the exclusive benefit of
the said house might advance to Hunton or his that body. Whenever securities are spoken of by
partner on bill transactions. The iof . the the the fro. gi•:,
..
crime laid in the indictment was that Hunton testants of the Empire recollect that such
securittes
had forged or uttered a forged bill, with intent et:indaidid will be but nominal; that they eau be in 7:
Ada to serve a. temporary purpose ; that it
to difrand Messrs. Curtis, Robarts, and Co. , -
assented to by the Papists, it must be solely with a
The uttering of a forged bill by the prisoner was view to amuse ' them, to conciliate what are falsely
proved ; but,_ as it was also proved, upon the and imelently called their prejudices, to lull their
same evidence,- that the prosecutor held a collo- aigslanee to sleep, to suspend the proper action of
teral security, without which, of course, they their Constitutional and truly` English feelings, in
would not have advanced the. money, the Jury defiance of which it is known to be impossible to