The Sun.
London, England, 1821-05-01 00:00:00

PARLIANIENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

1101ISE OF COMMONS. .
Lidice, 30° die Aprila, 1821.
808 OUOTIERIDGE.—Right ofElection—Petition of Appeal
fixed for the 15th May.
STAMP DUTY BlLL.—Deferred until to-morrow.
CHURCH BRIEFS BlLL.—Deferred till the Bth of May.
Cuunen BUILDING Am—Bill to amend- this Act ordered
to he brought in.

ERRATA in THE SUN of Yesterday.
/l/'ter Corn Exchange, insert 30!h
in p. 3, Col. 2.—" I did inquire," read " I did NOT inquire."
Ibid. Col. s.—For " Ethen" read "Ether"—After existence
there should be a prrioit, and then read "! on .the 4th calendar
of May, the Romans, &c."--for " promisciu" read " pro-
miscui —far "esus" read " scaus"—for 44 cautitans" read
" cantitans"--for " foves" read " fores"—for " colebrabaa-
tur" rend colebrabantur"—for " au'em" read 44 autem"—
for " pudiadis" read " pudendis' '—for " dignimissimar read
" digniinissima"—for " prosesus" read " prorsus"—for
" laba" read " Tuba"—for " Turry" read " Furry."

ST. PHILIP PHILIP AND JAMES.—Holiday at the Bank, Exchequer,
East India and South Sea Houses.

FITGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW
Morning, 17 minutes after 2. j Evening, 43 minutes after 2,

THE SUN.

SOLEM QUIS DICERE FALSUM AUDEAT

LOND@N ,
TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1821.

We this morning received a Lisbon Mail,
which contains the following articles :
" LtsuoN, APRIL 11.—The most illustrious and
excellent Francisco de Mello da Cunha Men-
donga e Menezes, Marquess of Olhao, &c. &c.
Lieutenant-General, Governor of the Tower of
Belem, Governor and Captain-General of Al-
garve, &c. died of an apoplectic fit, at his palace
in this city, on the 7th inst., and was buried on
the Bth, in the night, with the htmours due to
his rank. lie was born on the 26th April, 1761.

CORTES. •
SITTING OF TILE lOTII.

Senor ALvEsno Rio, in consequence of many
complaints which he said he had received from
many provinces, moved—" That the 'Regency
should be authorised to remove and displace the
Magistrates, Who were doing immense injury to the
people of the provinces, without attention to the
determination of the Sovereign Congress, it being
indispensable that these precautions should be
taken to consolidate the Constitutional System,
which the people so highly approved, and that it
should name to fill those offices persons in whom
it placed entire confidence."
Senor Ozoiuo said, that the Desembargo do
Pago (Privy Council)- should exactly observe
the laws respecting the complaints against Ma-
gistrates, and that such vexations would be
avoided.—Senor B. CARNEIRO contended that
this was useless, and thought that full power
should be given to the Regency to displace and
punish all those Magistrates who did not zea-
lously support the determinations of the Con-
gress,, and .who harassed the people. Other
Members supported this opinion, stating they
had received similar accounts ; and Senor CAS-
TELL° BRANCO observed, that the evils which
people suffered were great ; that they did not
proceed from the laws, but from the bad disposi-
tions of the Magistrates; that complaints were
daily made against them=and that for this rea-
son, and because the evils were extraordinary,
extraordinary remedies were required ; that the
circumstances authorised the adoption of such
precautions ; that Rome, in times of great dan-
ger, created a Dictator; and that we, though not
in great danger, were, however, in a• situation
that absolutely required the powers of the Exe-
cutive to be extended, though it were but for a
time, to provide against the evils which they were
considering ; and, lastly, that though the general
will of the nation was the same, and most sin-
cere, yet they ought to counteract the intrigues
of the ill-intentioned. After some further dis-
cussion, the Committee of Legislation was or.
dered to draw up a proposition for this purpose
by the following day.
Senor XAVIER MONTEIRO observed, that simi-
lar regulations, involving every class of public
affairs, should be continued in the proposition.-
Approved.

Senor FERNANDES THOMAS desired that it
should be extended to the Ecclesiastical Autho-
rities, which, he observed, committed the same
abuses, and that all the Ecclesiastical Authori-
ties should be made responsible for the ill done
by their class—seconded.

The Committee of Legislation presented the
proposition in the following Sitting, and again in
that of the 13th, but it was referred back to the
Committee to be amended."—(Lisbon Papers,
April 14.)

We are glad to find that The Morning Chro-
nicle seems to be a little ashamed of its recent
attacks upon our Ecclesiastical Establishment,
which, according to its former insinuations, is in an
" overgrown" state. The disgust which those insi-
nuations excited has led to some censures among mo-
ral and religious Readers. This day, however, The
Chronicle offers a sort of palinode, in saying,
" we said nothing of the Church of 'England—
we spoke merely of the overgrown Establish-
Ments of Spain and Portugal." This declaration
we consider as a pitiful evasion—it spoke on
Wednesday last, generally, of Church Esta-
blishments, declaring, that 44 the appropriation
of the Estates of the Church to the payment
of the Public Debt," as proposed by the Portu-
guese Cortes, was 44 going to work in the right
carry;" adding that, '‘ No funds can with more
propriety •be made available to the relief of a
people from taxation than those of an ,overgrown
Church Establishment." This, we venture to
affirm, is a general position, and not referaA
ble to the peculiar case of 'Spain or Portu-
gal. 'But it is the aim of modern Refor-
mers, not to correct abuses that call for correc-
tion, hut to demolish all old systems, en masse,
and as nothing can tend more towards such a
sweeping destruction than the extinctio❑ of those
institutions which impress morality at;d religion
on a ,people, they are naturally considered as
essential obstacles in the way of iieraittionists.