The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-19 00:00:00

queriee.of.Magistrates is susceptible of much improvement.
We never heard, at all. events, of any valuable discoveries
having been withheld from the public, from the dread of
their being blazOned hefore.the public; and we would fain
believe, that the Mass of absurdity (not to say wickedness)
has been very much diminished, by what Mr. Peel very
emphatically called letting in light on such bodies as meet-
ings of Magistrates.—Morning Chronicle.
In politics, as well as in private life, hasty suspicion is
very remote from wisdom. Those who, at present, per-
sist in distrusting the sincerity of France, with respect to
the affairs of Spain, speak from apprehensions and doubts,
which are not justified by any thing that has occurred
hitherto. The conduct of the French Government has,
as vet, been in accordance with their words; and the
inadness of King Ferdinand has led him into actions
which are an insult to them, no less than an injury
to us. Can France, with honour to herself, assist or
promote the wild freaks of x Sovereign, who rejects
her counsels and disregards her remonstrances
Of will she degrade herself so far as to confess to the
world, that her King, up to the present moment, has been
deceiving, not England alone—not merely all the Powers
of Europe—hut his own subjects, and his own Legisla-
ture—his city of Paris,. his Chamber of Deputies, his
Peers ? It is one of the blessings conferred by a Repre-
sentative Constitution on the world, that it gives other
nations the strongest possible. pledge for the observance
of good faith-towards them. Ministers and Kings, when
they have to deal only with each other, often have prac-
tised, and nsay again practise, a deceitful cunning; but pub-
lic functionaries, who are obliged to expound their intend-
ed policy to the Legislature of their own country, must
pay homage to candour and sincerity ; they 'Must
keep faith towards those bodies by and through whine
they gevern, and to whom they are accountable. - Even if
the French Cabinet had been inclined to deceive its neigh-
bours, it could scarcely he inclined to insult the Chamber
of Deputies and the Chamber of Peers, by statements al-
together false. If France had, in truth, given secret en-
couragement to Ferdinand, or intended to support him in
his extravagant course, how could Charles X. ever present
himself to those Chambers, to whom he addressed thee
speech with which he opened the current Session ?
How could M. de Damns dare to open his lips, on any
other occasion, --before a Legislature whom he had so
grossly deceived? Why should he have spoken in so plain,
so unequivocal, so undiplomatic, so unhesitating, a tone, if
the real intentions of the Cabinet did not accord with his -
words ? We may suppose, no doubt, that he was himself
the dupe of some craftier politician ; but where are eon-

:lectures and suspicions to end, if so extravagant a notion
were to be entertained ? Had France been, in reality, de-
sirousof supporting Ferdinand in his mad career, we can
conceive no reason for her adopting a system of dissimula-
tion. A bold and direct avowal of her intentions would
have given her a much greater chance of success than she
can expect from intrigue or french A •deelaration of her
hostility to the Portuguese Constitution, and of her reso-
lution to take part with those who assailed it, would not
have placed here in more difficult circumstances, so far as
the power of England would be brought into action, and
would have infused new courage and obstinacy into the
Spanish Apostolicals, as well as elevated the spirits and
swelled the numbers of the Portuguese rebels. If France
were now to take part with Ferdinand, her interference
would be too tardy to produce its full effect. Six weeks
earlier, it might have subverted the Portuguese Constitu-
tion, before the troops of England had touched once more
those shores, which call back to them such proud recollec-
tions of the victories achieved by them, for the liberties of
mankind, on the very soil which they are again to defend.
Now, all that France could do, would be to endeavour to
save him from making atonement for his past offences.
The Portuguese Constitution would still, exist ; and,
while British banners wave, and British bayonets gleam
before it, France knows well, that it is not the feeble arm
of Ferdinand, even though upheld by her, which can do it
any injury. If France were, by her future conduct, to
belie her past declarations, she would cover herself,. her
Sovereign, her functionaries, and her Legislature, with dis-
grace, aever.to he wiped-off. Her name would become a
bye-word among nations for falsehood and faithlessness.
And she would have been guilty of all this deceit, and in-
curred all this odium, for a purpose,. which would have
been much better accomplished by an open and candid,
though anjustifiable policy.—New

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, THURSDAY, Jam. 18.

WELLESLEY r. THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT.
((oncluded from our paper of yesterday.)

Mr. IloaNE followed upon the same side. The situation in
which Mr. Wellesley stood was this—he was the survivor of the
parent of those children, on whose character not the slightest im-
putation had ever been cast. In order to make out the case
against Mr. Wellesley, the attention of the Court had been carried
hack to a long historical detail of the life of that gentleman, not
only subsequently to, but long antecedent to her death. By a
combination of both together, his Lordship had been called upon
to pronounce that Mr. Wellesley was utterly unworthy to protect
his children. The other side in their attacks upon Mr. Wellesley's
character, had not gone further hack than the time when Mr. and
Mrs. Wellesley first left England. His private circumstances
having rendered it necessary that he should go abroad, Mrs. Wel-
lesley gaye the best proof which a lady of her virtuous character
could give, of the affection which they mutually bore each other,
by agreeing to go abroad with him.

The LoTan CHANCELLOR observed, that when Mr. Wellesley
went abroad to escape from his creditors, Mrs. Wellesley did not
I go along with him, hnt joined him afterwards with her children.
Mr. I-lostszr thanked his Lordship for the observation, as it
strengthened the case on behalf of Mr. Wellesley. If be had been
hying with his wife, it might have been said that she had been
persuaded by him to let the children accompany them abroad ; but
as he was in a foreign country, and she in England, her volun-
tarily taking the children to him was a proof of the confidence
which she entertained in Isis honour and integrity. The family
went to Naples in 1822, and continued to live there in great har-
mony down to June, 1823, nothing extraordinary having occurred
to the family, except the introduction to it of Dr. Bulkeley, on
whose conduct he should have occasion to animadvert very se.
verely before be sat down. On the 29th of May another family
appeared at Naples, that of Captain Bligh and his wife, between
1 whom and Mrs. Wellesley a previous acquaintance had existed.
That being the case, we come, in June, to a transaction which
Hams. laid as . the foundation of the present application. As
1 Dr. Bulkeley was the witness on Which it principally rested,
he must rail his Lordship's attention to his affidavit, and con-
trast it with that of Mrs. Thigh, who, though site bad been guilty
of one unfortunate lapse from virtue, was not on that account to be
discredited on her oath in a Court of Justice. Dr. Bulkeley swore
that she confessed to him in the month of June, that she was with
child bv Mr. Wellesley, in consequence of an improper intercourse
which had taken place between them on Mount Vesuvius. Now,
Mrs. Bligh denied that she had made any such confession to Dr.
Bulkeley, and further swore that she had not been guilty of any
act of adultery during her residence at Naples with Mr. Wellesley.
Besides, was it probable that Mrs. high should have known early
in June that she was pregnant by Mr. Wellesley, when her first
acquaintance with bins did not continence till the 29th of May ?
The only ground which Dr. Bulkeley could have had at this
period, for believing that Mrs. Bligh was pregnant, was the
transaction on Mount Vesuvius, which occurred only some
days before : he (Mr. Horne) would not insult the Court
by asking it to believe a -thing so incredible. He then ad-
verted to the Doctor's statement, that Mrs. Bligh had sent
to consult bins respecting a disorder (which was in fact
nothing but the effect of exposure to malaria), and that he told
Mr. Wellesley she was a most dangerous woman for a physician
to have any thing to do with, and that be (the deponent)
in advising her, was treading on a volcano. What, said
Mr. Horne, was to be inferred from this? Any thing respecting
the nature of the disorder ? But Dr. Bulkeley had not manifested
such delicacy on other occasions, even towards Mrs. Bligh herself.
Mr. Horne then referred to the Doctor's statements respecting the
alleged confessions of Mrs. High, that she was with child, and her
request to be furnished with something to cause miscarriage, orate
should be ruined ; and to the declaration of Mr. Wellesley, that
she had been using (for a considerable time, it was to be presumed)
every expedient to cause a miscarriage, by taking pennyroyal tea,
&c. ; nay, Mr. Wellesley' was made to assert that Mrs. Bligh had
taken that day (on which she had been visited by the
it
edeypownhenicth)
" a bottle of laudanum as long as his finger,"-....a ut
would have destroyed life ; yet no allegation appeared as to the ef-
fect of such a dose upon Mrs. Bligh when visited by the Doctor