The Sun.
London, England, 1818-02-04 00:00:00

same.

It has been stated in some of the Morning
Papers, that a Treaty of Marriage is on foot be-
tween the Princess ELIZABETH and a Prince of an
ancient House in Gern►auy. As this report is rife
in the fashionable circles, and seems, indeed, to
gather strength, it becomes us to take some notice
of what so essentially relates to the interests of the
Country, and which, it► its consequences, may be-
come still more an object of importance to the Bri-
tish Empire. The Princess is, by all accounts, one
of the most amiable, accomplished, anti intelli-
gent of her sex. Not a day has ever passed in
which some benevolent and laudable action has
not marked her career, and in losing her, though
for her own happiness, we should lose one of the
brightest ornaments•of the Country. Nor should
we feel less regret on account of our amiable
QUEEN, notwithstanding the mysterious reluc-
tance of Mr. CAr.caAFT to offer Parliamentary
consolation to ilea MAJESTY orl the late tuitional
loss, as the Princess ELIZABETH has been the
chief companion or her Royal Mother for many
years, and is the more necessary.to her MAJESTY'S

comfort on account of the situation of our vener-
able Sovereign. We are induced to bring forward
this subjecs, though it has been treated with dis-
trust in whet Journals, because we are inclined
to believe that it has a stronger founiation than
generally marks Court Rumours, Newspaper Re-
ports, or the gossiping of fashionable dicks.

A Dutch Mail arrived last night, with Papers to
the Ist instant. They contain sonic details of the
proceedings of the Second Chamber of the States
General respecting Finance, in which several
Members objected to the Ministerial Estimates,
t►articnlarly of Military Expenditure ; but the Go-
vernment carried their measures by a considerable

majority. One of them contains the following
article :

" Fitom THE FRENCH FRONTIERS, JAN. 27.

" The Duke of WELLINGTON is Said to be charged with
most important negotiations at Paris, and it is asserted that
some of the Allied Powers are inclined to pay some regard,
in their demands, to the state of the finances of France.

" The opinion at head-quarters is, that the late discussions
in Paris have too fully proved the existence of dangerous
parties in France for the Allied Sovereigns to think of with-
drawing or diminishing the Army of Occepation."

LLOYD'S, TWELVE O'CLOCK.—The Spanish
sHp Perla, from Cadiz to Lima, has been taken
by an Insurgent privateer, and carried itito
Valparaiso.

Porn-Ea.—We heartily rejoice in the opportu-
nity afforded us of congrculating the Public on a
Reduction in the price of this article. THE
GOLDEN LANE BREWERY, we find, bas noti-
fied its deference to public opinion, on the de-
monstrated injustice of the late rise, and has re-
duced its charge to SL-d per pot. There can be
little doubt that the other great Brewers will fol-
low this example, and then, if the reduction be-
comes general, upwards of A THOUSAND POUNDS
DAILY will be preserved to the labouring classes,
throng') the exertions of a single individual, aided
by a free and patriotic Press, in which we pride
ourselves in having taken a conspicuous part. If
the other Brewers, however, hold out, they will
furnish an additional proof, it. any were wanting,
of the mischief- attending the arbitrary Licensing
System by corrupt Magistrates, which, by inter-
dicting the opening of new houses, prevents. the
public in general from enjoying the advantage of
the reduced price. But at all events the general
importance of Competition will be manifest. On
a former occasion, in IBt , this same Golden Lane
Brewery saved the labouring classes of the Me-
tropolis, in one year's consumption, by causing a
reduction equal to a penny per quart nearly A

MILLION STERLING ! !

The indignation and disgust which we felt on
reading the account of the Proceedings at the
Crown and Anchor on Monday last,- prevented
our making any remarks yesterday upon the nature
of that Meeting, and we, indeed, hesitated upon
the question whether we should follow the ex-
ample of a respectable Morning Print of yester-
day, in not suffering the columns of our loyal
Journal to be disgraced by the insertion of such
seditious trash as was uttered by the respec-
tive Speakers. But as the impudence, the
absurdity, the folly, and the wickedness of
those Speakers, evidently carried their own
antidote with them, and as our numerous
Country Readers have a right to know what.
Misses in the Metropolis, we sacrificed our own
feelings, and our own opinions on the occasion,
in order to gratify their curiosity. As to the
Speakers in general., they are hackneyed in 'in-
famy, and it is evident from what they did say,
that if it were not for the fear of Law, they
would have uttered nothing but doctrines of
TREAsoN and incentives to REBELLION. Indeed,
in our opinion, the Meeting consisted of nothing
but a band of Fools, Knaves, and Rebels, and the very
thring outrages upon decency, order, and law
which occurred, afford the fullest proof of the
falsehood of their complaints of a want of popu-
lar freedom, since in no other country in the world
would they have escaped a well-merited punish-
ment for their licentious attacks upon every thing
essential to good government, the welfare, and
even the existence of society. Having taken so
active a part as we have long done, in support-
ing our Ecclesiastical Establishment against the
pretensions of POPERY, as to have our Paper desig-
nated by the title of "Tit E PAtisoN's Pat NT," a title
of which we are proud, as it decidedly marks the
conduct which we have pursued, we could not
but feel shocked that a Clergyman should have
appeared among this band of rebellions Reformers,
who disgraced himself so much (such men can be
no disgrace to their sacred order, of which they
are to be considered as black sheep), as to jain in
the sentiments uttered by the most furious of the
despicable Demagogues present. We will not
advise this Clergyman to resort to his Pulpit
instead of a Tavern, for he seems much better qoa-
lified for the latter place, and unless he repents
of his political errors, we hope he will never again
be seen in the former. Upon the whole, disgrace-
ful, infamous, and wicked as the Meeting was,
it demonstrates the freedom which we enjoy, and
recurring to its purpose. of rewarding Sedition,
as its promoters had recently done by Se.
dilion awl Blasphemy united, we shook' not
be surprized if these liberal Patrons of Rebellion
were to endeavour to discover the Relations of
ABERsHAW, and WILLIAMS, the MURDERER of the
MARE family, in order to bestow bounty on them
as the 'survivors of those who fell victims to such
a prejudiced Wile of society as has hitherto been
pliversolly deemed essential to the existence of
whatever relates to the SECnRITY OF PIWPRRTY,
and the WELFARE OF MANKIND.