The Sun.
London, England, 1820-07-03 00:00:00

WEEKLY RETROSPECT.

THE events of the past week defy all atiimad-
Version.—We wish they could be lost co retro-
ripec,ion g but it is impossible. More has been
crowded into one little week, and notoriety more

sought after by the chief actors in the Drama,
then centuries of British History can shcw.

Thc QuEEN'd Poition, or\rather that of her le-

-pi Advisers, or perhaps her illegal Adviser, has
been one of those anomalous proceedings, of

which we have had too many specimens of late,

that by &fiance to fact and common sense, in-
-suit the understandings of the judicious, whilst:
they insure, by !heir intpudept barefacedness, the
assent of the unthinking !

IVho, indeed, th6t can compare rwo ideas to-
gether, and the-nce elicit a third, can for a inn-

merit believe that a Secret Committee to inquile
vvhether. a Ti ial shall or shall not take place,
must be a Secret Tribunal of Condemnation
-for that is the idea now so loudly expressed.—
Of. a similar nature has been the wilful misunder-
standing of the Chancell-A's cause of refusal to
present that Petition ; to which we may join the
p7eposterous 'attempt of Learned Advocates to
torte themselves into the Secret Committee, it
not personally, at least upon parchment. But
when we see 'men attempt to execute a measure
by means which they well -know cannot succeed,
and neglect the only possible means of gaining
Their point, though even these would probably
.be inefficacious., what can we suppose but that
they wish to fail) for the purpose of gaining some
'flimsy appearance of support to a supetstructure
whose "foundation is on the sand

To this we rims.. add the RoyAl visit to Gob and

Magog, in the Civic Fortin), supported by Cue arras
of the t ‘vo Representatives ot those gorgeous ICocic-
lit ads, Mr. Alderman HoP awl Mr. Common-
.Conociiinan SLOP, snit attended, not hp 'be Black
iiiissars.ot 'departed won't) and gallantry, but by
.Guards—Bluck-gliards indeed—selected froto the
People,_the trained bands of titose two peat City

But is there no one sincere, even thottgli

-bumble near' stifft.ring Royalty, to whis-

.per in her ear that, itinoct-nt or guilty, such pro 7
ceeding's are tintvorthy.lf vicious 'bow sunk !—if
tiriuous how degraded ! !.!
A Friend I—talAsl where are her Friends )
Even legal Advisers are unlistened to, and the
'Royal ear p---ed-1 We will not say so, but
perrerted to the councils of one who, even whilst

boasting of his knowledge and silence, can yet un-
fold the Royal secrets to the " unwashed arti-
sans" of a Conimmi Hall

But thence came out the secret. If he is lost
to her, to whom can she turn ?---and he too, one
yo whom she can only depend whilst she consents
to divide her popularity with him in a coach, and
give him that share of vtatory clamour, and of pe-
destrian vehiculation which he has been losing
aince his personal vanity at the poll has offended
the Waithmanites and Radicals of his Civic Re-
public.

But bow are the mighty fallen ! >lf she refuses
this, if she leaves this Country, he " will go down
to the House and make a motion that she should
not receive one shilling !" Indeed and will be
carry that motion ? Are we to believe that the
House, at the motion of a Brewer's Druggist, or
that the People of Britain, even on the clearest
proofs of misconduct, will refuse to succour the
unhappy, or totally cast off the Niece of their de-
parted, venerated Sovereign !

But another Alderman now puts himself for-
ward for his share of popularity, or of something
else ! We should like to know how much she
laid nett at his shop on Saturday. A Queen may
purchase shawls, though she does not deal ip
quassia.

CuSToM 110 USE FEES.—Our commercial readers
et•e aware that Qfficets, Clerks, and others in the
service of the Customs, have been long prohibited.
by Lim front taking fees; it is right that the pub-
lic should know also that an Act of Parliament
(Ist Gen. IV. cep. 7,) has just been past,ed, im-
posing a penalty of 5001. for offering such fee,
whether it be accepted or nor.

By fetters from Stockholm of the 16th June,
we are informed that a Royal Decree dated the
pertniting the tragic
17th May, had been issued,
in oak bark, which had previously been confined
to the tanners and the workers in leather, to all
inhabitants of the kingdom, without exception.
Another Royal Decree has been issued for esta-
blishing a Custom-house on the island of Gronio,
tiodertelje, where, from the Ist of September
next, all vessels coming (tom foreign countries
must unde7go exandnalion before they are per-
united to proceed for Stockholm. The King o-
Sweden-was about to visit the City of Bergen for
the first time since the union of the two kingf
dotes.

(',port :Martial assembled in Galway, for the
trial of Capt. GEtottGE of the 77th regiment, ((or
some time gnartered in Tnatn) has Closed its pro-
ceedings, and its sentence has been, of course,
for wartiud Tor final approbatfon..