The Sun.
London, England, 1827-12-06 00:00:00

throw the blame, if any, upon the' CommandCr,
who has acted, in a trying situation, with equaljudgment, bravery, and skill, is what, we trust,
no British Ministers will attempt to do. The
whole question will turn upon the Admiral's in-
structions, who, it it be remembered, was
not left to judge for himself alone : but had both
the French and Russian Cornmaikkis to consult
and act with, and who, as far as the public,
either here or in France, •know, appear to have
fully coincided with him. No ; the error or the
merit, be it which it may, has, as far as Great
Britain is concerned, been at home; and we would
seriously caution both Ministers and their adhe- .
rents how they attempt to transfer from their
own shoulders to those of the Admiral the re-
sponsibility and policy of a measure entirely their
own. In all expeditions, but more especially in
distant ones, there must of necessity be a wide
discretion confided to the Commander, who,
without it, if he be diffident and afraid to act, is
represented as tarnishing the honour of his flag,
or who, if he act promptly and boldly upon cir-
cumstances which could not be exactly foreseen,
is to be abandoned as having exceeded his in-,
structions. This latter alternative is what the
country will not sanction. It will be in vain,
therefore, to attempt to abandon or throw the
blame upon Admiral 'Codrington, or to quibble
in any way upon the honours assigned to him
and his brave companions'—honours which (lay-
' ing the policy of the measure
.quite out of the
question) they have so nobly earned, and so
richly deserve.—lbid.
The manner in which the affairs of the British
Empire, have been conducted, in their connexion
with those of Russia and Turkey, has brought
on a crisis which is so perfectly conclusive as to
the incapacity of the Administration, that we
might almost' hold ourselves dispensed from the
duty of pointing out to the.bontempt and repro-
bation of the community any of its minor exhi-
bitionsoffolly. We cannot, however, refrain from
noticing the ridiculous and contemptible light in
which the British. Government is placed by its
professional partizans and advocates upon the
occasion of the return of the Prince Don Mi-
guel to Portugal, in the character of Regent
of that Kingdom, when they describe the
measures it has taken, •or is about to take, in
order to secure the existing Constitution, and
thus to strengthen and perpetuate the influence
of Great Britain in the Portuguese Councils.
One of these measures, and one which the Mi-
nisterial Journals extol as the very perfection of
political wisdom and foresight, has been it seems
to prevail upon the Government of France to
banish from Paris, during the abode of the Por-
tuguese Prince in that capital, all such subjects
of the Crown of Portugal as have distinguished
themselves by their -hostility to the Charter ; with
a view, as it would seem, to guard the too sus-
ceptible mind of the Prince from the contagion
of despotic principles. It is thus that Liberalism
and those who profess it—the former in all its
fine consistency and harmonious proportions-J—'
the latter in all their - distinctive 'candour and
generosity of nature, are to be displayed to
the mind of the young Prince—interdicting
all communication between him and certain
individuals who are to be his subjects, and by a
new cordon sanitaire, as ive suppose it is to be
called, hemining in his august person. It is wise;
no doubt, to do all this—it is wise, .no doubt,. to
afford the' Regent of Portugal the opportunity. of
reading in the favoured Journals of the English
Ministry the warmest commendations of its
wisdom. If after these generous and delicate
attentions, the cause and the Profs,ssors of
Liberalism do not attain to a high place in the
estimation of the Royal Infant, he must 'of all
Infants be the most unreasonable and incorripiblt?.
The IVla rplots of the Ministerial Press give all
the world to understand however—Don Miguel
himself of course included—that their Patrons
do not expect much positive good to arise
from the sojourn of the illustrious Per-
sonage in France. If he can be kept out of
harm's way while he remains there, it is as
much it seems as they dare expect.
.)it is
in sailing up. the Tli:unes from the Nore .to
Greenwich—it is in beholding tLe oroud towers
and majestic terraces of Windsor---it is in en-
joying the Princely hospitality of British tables:--,
the combined comfort and grandeur of British.
mansions—in seeing the rich magnificence of our
-shops, and the exhaustless stores in *our ware-
house—that the full light of Liberalism is to.
burst upon his mind. Our_ gracious Monarch
is also, we are told, to contribute largely to this.
sudden illumination : he is to be the successful
Mentor to this new 'Telemachus; whom in ten
days he is to ship off for his destined dominions,
imbued with all the sentiments proper to a Con-
stitutional Monarch, -and rich in all the qualities
and endowments that render a' Sovereign the
source of a nation's happiness, and the object
of. its , grateful and univeral love. This is
• merely ridiculous, and we have done with it.—
But there is one project attribUted to the British
Ministry by their organs of , the Press, for the
preservation of the Portuguese Charter, which
mean as is our opinion of their understandings
we can hardly bring ourselves to believe they se-
riously contemplate. The project is sail, to be,
to bring about a Treaty to which all the great
European Powers are to be parties, guaranteeing
the permanency of that Charter. This is a
scheme which, when-divested of its shallow pre-
tensions, seems to be devised for no other pur-
pose than to draw Portugal into the vortex of
French and Spanish policy ; and the acquies-
cence of England in it would be tantamount to
an express abandonment of her claims to any pe-
' etiliar influence in the Councils of that co
--Morning Post.

The inhabitants of Lincoln are framing a pe-
tition to Parliament 'against the compulsory measures by
which it is attempted to enforce the indiscriminate use of
stamp receipts. It is alleged that the impost is incompa-
tible with common transactions of liminess, and that
nateivteis
impossible to avoid the daily, and on market days
hourly, liabilities to the penalties ; and it is asserted that
the experience of the loss of the colonies of America, which
ensued from an attempt to fetter the trade of that count: y
by the celebrated Stamp Act, proves how decidedly gall-
ing these petty and 'vexatious restrictions must be to the
minds and interests of a well disposed and industrious peo-
ple.—Boston Gazette.
FAT AL EFFECTS OF EXTRAORDINARY
Joy—ln the year 1'797, when a stagnation took place,
owing to the war with France, a young man in Dunferm-
line, a flax-dresser, entered his Majesty's navy at Bo'ness.
Upon his arrival at Spithead, he happened to be put on
board the ship of Admiral CocimAtiv., a brave and generous
commaaer. The Admiral, from some cause or other, took a
liking to the young man, and exalted him step by step, till
at last be was promoted to be prize-master of the fleet.
In this situation he accumulated 60,0001. This sum was
transmitted to Edinburgh, and deposited in the Royal
Bank of Scotland. At the same time the flax-dresser wrote
to his i s
fr, formerand employer, in Dunfermline, to desire his father
to
near purchase
estate' to the amount of the above sum, and
as
place as possible. The old man was
sent
native
hastily acquainted with the affluent o
toi i
ans
t o)
cir-
cumstances of his son. The effect was fatal. The sudden
tide of joy rushed with such impetuosity upon him, that
he stood motionless : his eyes expanded, his nostrils dilated,
his mouth Wide open like the picture of horror. At last
he fell, insensible, on the floor; -never spoke more, and ex-
pired in the course of a few dAya.....Ziverpoo/ Albion.