The Sun.
London, England, 1828-02-23 00:00:00

.:"-PIPIT OF Tur, PUBLIC JOURtiAtl

The two •lines quoted' by Mr. Duricoinbe in hie
tate speech were erroneously given. The lines ap,
ply originally to the favourite of Henry VIII., and
run thus—

.Turned by his nod, the stream of honour flows,

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`'His smile alone security bestows."
The adjournment of the House of Lords was sud-
den and unexpected last night, and prevented Lord
Clanricarde from reading certain letters; which inOst
have brought up, and will eventually bring tip, Lord
Goderich again fur the-purpose of 'explanation ! The
Ministerial Papers may well -desire theSe personal.
discussions should cease, and decry them as irre!t:•
vont : they affect the existence of, the Adininistra:-
tion, and would ere now have led to the retirement
of the person most .assailec4 but that the Inyisiblc
roust have his agent in the Cabinet. As to the
question of feeling between Mr. Huskisson and the
late Mr. Canning being improperly introduced, the
public have a tight to look with minute vigilante
into the conduct of those to whoni the management
of .the State is intrusted. If private incidents and
conversations are not to be dragged to light with .a.
view of pandering to • idle curiosity, neither are they
to be withheld when they serve to illustrate the tha-
-
Litters of public men, which, in this country, must
be without blemish iithey would carry weight. Nor
are the sacred duties of friendship to be -excluded
from the estimate. A great political authority
Lupports this opinion That wise people (the*
Romans) were far from imagining the ten-
nexions of friendship had no tie, and obliged no
duty; but that men might quit them without shame
upon every cull of -.interest, They believed' private
honour to be the great foundation of public trust;
that friendship was no mean step towardS pa-
triotism : that he who, iii the common intercourse
of life, showed he regarded somebody besides him-
Lelf, when be came to act in a public situation,
might probably consult some other interest than his
.

The original Army Estimates presented to Pate
liament on the 9th instant have been withdrawn, for
no purpose but that of correcting in a " perfect"
estimate an. error contained in the calculation of pay
and ailowariees. to the new Commander of the
Forces. According to the first estim Ites, the pay
of the Noble Lord in his new capacity was stated
at 51. 13s. 9d, per diem, or 1,729 for the current
year, commencing at the 25th of February. The
corrected estimate .gives the pay at Eit. 9s. 6d. per
diem, or 2,880/. Bs. for the remainder of the present
year, making a.difference against the public of above
1,1501. It appears that Lord Hill, as if to mark
more forcibly the true colour of the livery which he
Ivears, bas, by a general order, continued Lord Fitz.
xey Somerset in the statical of "Military Secretary."
,Thus are the public fears, as to the nature of the
juggle which has been practised at the Horse-
Guards, verified in their fullest extent ; and the
army is now as completely in the hands of the
Administration as the most venal borough.--;/bid.

It was observed by Mr. Alderman Waithman,
in the House of Cemmous, last night, that " Times
sef necessity were always times of reform, and Go-
rnment never gave any thing to the people until
distress had extorted the" concession from them."
There is truth in this remark. rinancial erribarraas-
ment produces a Fine:nee Committee ; the people
are pacified with the 'appointment of the Cominittee,
and anticipate great thiugS from their labours. Bythe time, however, that the Committee have con-
cluded their labours, a glean' of prosperity ;• that is,
an increase of a million or two in the Revenue—m-
ho/dens. the Government to disregard all the recom-
mendations of 'eduction, exeepe.perhaps, the dis-
missal of a few Clerks, who are without the protec-
tion of powerful connections. There is a constant
tendency to increased expenee in all establishments;
and so mach easier is it to increase than to reduce,
and so many people are gratified by the former and
so -mazy incensed by the latter, that we seldom hear
of reduction but in the way of recommendation, while
every addition may be considered in the.light of a
permanent burden. Mr. Alderman Weidman ob-
served farther, that " every thing was prosperous
in the eyes of Ministers whilst.they could raise mo-
ney to till their owu coffers and to sustain their scale
of patronage. It never occurred to Ministers that
even if there were a surplus revenue, the people' had
right as well as a desire to be governed cheaply, and
Ministers were not justified in extorting from
them their money when their affairs could be conduct-
ed more ecooomically, and without the scandalous
profligacy which usually characterised the affairs of
this country." The people have a right, as well as
a. desire to :be governed cheaply, just as a man who
Ms in with a horde of Arabs has a right to keep
his money from them. Horne Tooke, we believe,
in the Diversions of Purley, explains its right, from
its derivation, rectum, to be that which is commanded.
The question is, in this case, who commands. The
late Ministerial explanations served to explain very
little; but they screed to show one thing, that
3litaiSters were'afraid of faeing the House of Dards;
the Aristocratical element of the 'Government.
Were they afraid at all of the People ? 0 no
Why ? Because the people do tiot command—they
are allowed to exist under our happy Constitution,
tot the purpose of paying taxes, and enabling our
landholders ,to turn their monopoly of the sale of
food to account. They cannot be dispensed with.
But they have no light ; 'because, if we take Mr.
Tooke's - definition, it is they who only command
who. have rights. A dog has not been long in a
kitchen till he finds out, in a score, the functionary
in authority, and respects his or her rights. They
Who can reward and punish have rights,and Ministers
know as well as the dog in the kitchen in whom the
power to reward and punish
_lies. They know that
they are accountable only to the Aristocracy of, the
country, as the preponderating power of the State,
and their raeasures must be such as shall ensure
their approbation. Now, does Mr. Alder nail
Waithman really think that the Aristocracy of this
country, who, alone, have rights (the rights of the
others being unfortunately with Out that which alone
gives a value to rights, the power to give effect to
them), would wish, or rather would allow,
the people, to be governed Cheaply ? The people
wish, no doubt, to be governed cheaply, just as the
pople wish to have a free trade in food ; but Minis-
ters deem themselves exceedingly liberal if they give
fair words to the people. But the House of Lords
are in a situation to command, and they exact some-
thing more from Ministers than words. The Aris-
tocraCy and their connections must be provided for
at The public expcnce. We must have large eats.
blishments at home and abroad
.for them; and any
attempt to leave that important class of subjects un-
duly provided for, Would be immediately followed by
what Mr. Huilsisson calls ominous signs. We have
net a tight to be governed cheaply, because they
who Passes, power have a right to govern us dearly.
Mr. Alderman Waithmau will not surely question
the right of sending Representatives from Rotten
Boroughs into the House of Commons. • So long
as that right is respected, so long 'must the right to
govern expensively
respected. Let its be thank-
ful, that though we have not the tight to complain,
the right to
.punish us for comp:ailting is not always
enforced; so that as
a compensation for our being
governed nation of Europe, we
the most expensively
are allowed the most liberty its complaining. There
is the more merit in the moderation of our superiors,
as the ease with which the most severe punishments
can be inflicted—as in the sentence passed on Mr.
Eneas Macclonnell, for instance—proves
how much
we are at their mercy. Mr. Alderman Waithman
asked, " Did the House
forget that a standing as,„
was unknown to this country before theßevolt7tion;s4
And how did it happen that the Revolution was fol-
lowed by the introduction of a standing.ar my ? Be.
cause 'Parliatnent became omnipotent by the
It is officered Revo-
lution. The army is the Parliament. •
by the Aristocracy of the country Land there can-
not be a greater farce -than to affect a constitu-
tional jealousy of the Artily, the Army and Parlia-
ment being merely the same power under 'different
names. Mr. Alderman. Waithman observed, that
" the plan of reduction (of the Almy) was
,to get

rid of the men, but there was no design to get rid
of the officers. The people saw that men in office
were straggling. Pop what they could get, -and that
the Public Establishments were formed for other
objects than those of public defence." Study Mi-
nisters do not entertain the uneonStitutional design
leMplOying'the army against the Hottse of:Lords,
utcluding the Bench of Bishops! With such.a hero
as the Duke of Wellington at the head of the Tree-
,ury add the army, who knows but he may take it
into his head to abolish rotten boroughs by main
force, and to reduce the ArchbishOP,Of .Canterbury
to the unchristian etinditibn N1;11;Ch Bishops existed
in the; tlire urst centuries of Christianity. Mr.
4onck, whose observations we have often observed
to differ much front the -conventional cant which so
generally pervades the speeches of Members, ex-
posed very happily the hypocrisy of the influen-
tial people of this country. Speaking of the pen-
sions to widows and children of officers, he ob-
served, a he should be happy to see the Avitioiva of
deserving men, their children, and their children's
children, provided for if possible'; but, bounty must
have its bounds, and it Was the height of injustice
to cast such an increasing burden on the people.
Et was said, that in France the widows of officers
were left in a state of destitution : he denied it;
means for a decent provision had • been contrived,
because by law every officer, before he was
obliged to make a settlement on his wife to the
amount of his pay. Thus, a Lieutenant, whose pay
was 1,600 francs, before he could marry, was obliged
to .secure that amount yearly to his widow. He
should be glad to know why the same system could
not be adopted with equal advantage in the British
service ? Why were the poor to be -lectured on the
impolicy of matrimony ? Why were they to be re-
proached with making their families a burden to the
parish, while encouragement was given and bounty
was held Out to officers to marry, and leave their
wives a charge upon the country? Surely, if the
widows of officers were thus pensioned, the widows
of the private soldiers had au equal claim." In
fact, the.,-higher the individual, the more we are
entitled to expect that he should be actuated by the
dictates of wisdom and prudence; and, therefore,
the officer who marries without means, acts more
reprehensibly than the common • soldier, and the
widow of the latter is consequently better entitled
to relief. But the higher ranks of this country deem
all deviations - from justice and 'propriety on their
own part quite venial; and having the national trea•
sures at their command, they compel the eouritry to
make good their want of prudence. Hence the
difficulty in which Ministers are placed to provide
for the spawn of our Nobility and Gentry.---Morn-
jag Chronicle.

Without taking up the • matter at all, either as a
party or personal question, all impartial persons seem
to be agreed that nothing can be more unsatisfactory
(Ive had almost said *rile) than the explanations
offered by Mr. Herries of the causes which led to
the breaking
.up of the late Administration. Well
may Sir Joseph Yorke, in his blunt, eccentric way,
compare the Squabbles alluded to to those of "a set
of children ;" and with equal truth did Mr.
Brougham describe wlit had passed, as a corrobo-
ration of the well known. remark of "how little
talent the world is governed by." We always re-
gret when anything occurs to lower public men, as
a body, in public estimation. We need not be told
that the greatest men are sometimes subject to all
the weaknesses and frailties of our common nature,
which seein as if interposed, by the inscrutable de-
sign of Providence as a barrier to the otherwise too
presuniptuous,.. daring of human judgment. 'But
when we see men in high. stations involved in habi-
tual littleness; and their conduct on the commonest
occasions anything but what their stations require of
them, one of two alternatives present themselves to
our choiceviz., either that we have fallen into an
age of littleness and imbecility at variance with the
" march of intellect" which_ we are continually
boasting of—or else that-those .who.have the sing-
ling out of persons to serve the State are sometimes
most unfortunate in their choke. Be this as it may,
the sooner the curtain is drawn over those unseemly
eihibitions, the better; and the sooner the better
that the country is relieved from the probability of
their recurrence.—Morning Iferakl.

In another part of our paper we have given an ac-
count of the exportation of, Wool for the last year,
by which it wily be seen that the revenue derived
from the tax on its exportation amounted to about
2,000/. only. But we would ask why such a tax
should be kept up ?—who to please ?--7what inter
rest to satisfy ? We are advocates for taxes on itn-
ports of all descriptions, We 'do not mean so
heavy as that it should be worth the while of smug-
glers to run away with both the import trade and re-
venue ; Wit so heavy as that imports should yield as
much as possible towards the maintenance of the
4wernment—believing that a tax on importation,
being comparatively unseen by the tax-payers, is pre-
ferrable to Window or other 'Taxes seen by the tax-
payers. But as for taxing exports of any description,
the idea appears to us as absurd as to allow bounties
'on 'exportation. We hope Mr. Huskisson will turn his
attention to this foolish tax .on the, exportation of
Wool, and.procure;its,abroption, for we can see no
eason why it should be continued.—/bid.
The Central Agricultural Comtnittee, which still
continues to hold its sittings in Palaceyard, has is-
sued a circular address, dated from Brown's Hotel,
Palace-yard, entitled " A Memorial to.his Majesty's
Ministers." After stating that they bad learned the
intentions of Ministers to propose to Parliament an
alteration in the laws regulating the importation and
sale of Foreign Corn, they declare their conviction
that the measure would be ruinous to the cultivators
of land, and they trust, should they be called on, to
be able to maintain and prove this proposition.
They state that since the subject was discussed last
year, a great depreciation had taken place in the va-
lue of corn, and declare that they had hoped, in-
stead of any change in the Corn Laws, he Ministers
would hare devised something, rather, for the fur-
ther security or relief of the agriculturists, or would
have imposed a tax on foreign wool, or would have
distributed the onus of the poor-rates more gene-
rally on British property, or have considered some
mode of exempting them frorin the claim of tithes
in kind. They ultimately pray, that if it be unalter-
ably determined to o)range the present system, a
protection fully equivllent may be insured.—Nero
Times.