The Sun.
London, England, 1820-04-29 00:00:00

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

Sir R. HERON moved, that a return be laid be-
fore the House of the Civil Officers at the Cape
of Good Hope whose salaries and emoluments ex-
ceed,t he sum of 150/. per annum ; specifying the
dates of their respective appointments.
GOULRVEN said, he would offer nu objec-
tion to the Hon. Baronet's motion, if, for the sake
of avoiding much unnecessary trouble, be would
add the words, " excepting such, of which re-
turns have been already made."
This being agreed to by the Honourable Baronet,
the return was ordered.—Adjouriied at Six o'Clock.

THE LATE DUKE OF Kesm—Yesterday a Meet-
ing of Noblemen and Gentlemen took place at
Freemasons' Hall, tar the purpose of considering
the propriety of erecting a statue to commemo-
rate the many virtues of his late Royal Highness
the Duke of KENT. His Grace the Duke at BED-
FORD took the. Chair, supported by the Earls of
Donoughmore, Darnley, and Breathlbane Lord
Clifton, Alt-. Wilberforce, M. P. Mr. Hume,
M. P. Air. Alderman Wood, M. P. and several
other distinguished public characters. Several
Resolutions were adopted for the purpose at
carrying into eUect the great object of the Meet-
ing, aurl a niu of speeches were made, de-
scriptive of the many virtues of the late Duke of
Kent, and enfolting the necessity of paying this
tribatte to his memory.

On the application Est the Earl of CORK
and Colonel liottNP.R, at the lwe Somerset Ses-
sions, the Court granted 50W. towards rebuilding
the county bridge at Frome. When this altera-
tion shall be completed Frome may vie with any
manufacturing town in the United Kingdom.

THEATRICAL REGIS l'Ett.
Pelormed Laca Night.
THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.—King Lear : King Lear,
Mr. Kean ; Edgar, Mr. Rae; GoniTil, Mrs. Glover; Regan,
Mrs, Egertun ; Cordelia, Mrs. W. West. After which,
The Jirw and the Doctor.
THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT7GARDEN.—Hinri Quatre : Henri,
Mr. Maeready ; Eugene, Mr. C. Kemple; O'llonnel, Mr.
John Johnstone; Florence Saint Leon, Miss Stephens ;
Clotilde de Biron, Miss Brunton; Louisa', Miss M. True.
After which, The Review.

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THE N.

SOLEMII QUI.% DICERE FALSUNI AIIDEAT ?

LONO,ON,
SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1820.

We teeeived last night and this morning the
Mari► Papers of Tuesday and We•inesday last. Itt
the Chamber of Deputies, on Monday, the Minis-
ter of Finance ptesented a prijet respecting the
payment of the allowances of the Members of the
Legion of Honour, which was ordered to be re-
fetred to the Bureaux. The discossion was then
resumed and closed, on the ptojet relative to the
Customs; the debate on the amendments was post-
poned till Tuesday, when it was again defe►red
till Wednesday. The reason for not entering
on it on Tuesday was the great length of a

discussion which arose upon a petition reported
upon horn the Sietir MADIER, Counsellor of the
Cour Royale of Nismes, respecting the excesses
and barbarities committed in that quarter, and
stating his opinion., that to prevent the rene►cal
of those atrocities (in consequence of recent
events) it would he absolutely necessary to dis-
arm the National Guards, to occupy the city by a'
strong garrison, and to institute forty leagues from
Nismes new prosecutions. against TIittSTAILLONS'
and TREPHEMY, charged with numerous crimes,
which had been hitherto unpunished. The Com-
mittee proposed to refer the Yeti; ion to the Pre-
sident of the Council of Ministers. This propo-
sition, atter a discussion of considerable lengtk.
was unanimously agreed to:. The Chamber of
Peers met on Tuesday and referred the Projets
respecting the Financi.l Accounts to a Special
Committee.—The following are extracts :

" PARIS, APRIL 43.-I'be King yesterday Bare a private
audience to Rear-Adniiral the Cuuut Liuuis. tTis Majv*ty
also transacted onsiness with the Baran Portal, Minister of
Marine; M. Pasquier, Minister fur Fureign Affairs; and thv
Duke de Richelieu.

`• Letters from the Isle of France, dated in January, state,
that the disorder there continued its ravages. It was sup-
posed to he a species uf yellow fever. All business was sus-
pended.

" Some very false and abstsid reports have been circulated
in the department of Hawes Pyrenees, but the public tran-
quillity has not been at all disturbed.

" APRIL 26.—The King yesterday transacted
business with the Count Sini4on, Miniver of the
Interior, and the Duke de Richelieu.

" The works ou the fortifications of Verdun
were resumed on the 10th instant, and are ac-
tively continued.
" As soon as the King's health is perfectly re-
stored the Court will proceed to St. Cloud.
" Mounsieur and the Duke d'Augouleme intend
to take a journey this Spring, in the Eastern and
Southern Departments.

" The insiruction in the affair of Lonvel is not
yet terminated. Fresh
,witnesses were examined
yesterday before the Commission of the Court of
Peers.

FIVE PER CENTS.

Monday 74 1. e.
Tue.day

DE.FERRIID STOCK.
Aionday.

Ttresday.
Of the 22d March, 1517 100 f. 45c.
22d March, 1820 ....S@ f. 60 c..... SS f. 50 c.

" CADIZ, Aim G.—The proceedings against the authors
of the massacre are actively carried on ; some persons have
been arrested; Generals }'reyre, Campana, and Rodrigues;
are compromised, as well as some of the Clergy.
" APRIL 7.—Last titunlay a vessel entered this
port with the proscribed Patriots from the coast of Africa,
Garcia Heneros, Zorragoin, Martinez de la Rosa, nod Cala-
trava; they wean received with the greatest joy, and placed
in a triumphant car. all the bells ruing, and there were re-
peated salvos of artillery?'

There never, we conceive, was a more satisfac-
tory proof of the danger from which the Country
has escaped than has been manifested by the re-
cent Trials of the Sate Prisoners,—They declare
that they had designed to hotelier the whole of

the Administration, or as many 'as their weapons
would reach. The contusion that would have
ensiled would have lcd to incalculable evils, and
perhaps the total subversion of the, present form
of Government. Far from being contrite, we find
that the culprits glory in their crimes, and profess
to consider themselves as Martyrs to Liberty and,
the Rights of Alan. This was the language of the

ea riy French Revolt:do:lists, . and 173 a tlfs
natural consequence of the lessons inculcated by
the COBBETTS and other political miscreants
who diffused the same doctrines. If the unfore
tunate wretches, who will soon suffer for their
crimes under the Law, bad succeeded in their at'
rempt, and insurrections bud followed in va'
rious parts of the Country, the Empire would
have been rendered the horrid scene of carnage
and desolation. - It is strange to find the Mors'.
ing Chronicle, if not palliating the guilt Of
these culprits, yet in some degree accusing
Ministers of acting upon a system which has
tended to excite their crimes, and intimating, that
unless a new system is adopted, the evil may be
only suspended, and not subdued. The Chronicle
says, that "there is no salvation for this country,
but to return as fast as we can to the ancient
courses which we have abandoned." It does not
tell us what those courses were, nor make any
allowance fur the ddetences of the times. la
former periods, when tranquillity anti contentment
prevailed among the People, there had not been
so dreadful an event as the French Revolite
lion, which spread throughout Europe those prin-
ciples that were caletalated. to
.overthrow every
State, and either to occasion a general anarchy,
or to reduce all countries under a mill ary des-
potism. No COBISETTS BIM flagitious Miters Of
the same description %vete their permitted to issue
their '' twopenny trash," as it has been pro.
perly styled, the tendency of which is to erase
Irotn the minds of the lower classes of the people
every trace of loyalty, morality, religion, and
a sense of common justice. Europe has not yet
recovered from the subverting influence of the
principles inculcated by these malignant dis-
turbers of the world ; and we fear that the core
is very distant, if it should ever be finaily
accomplished. To be sure a great task devolvcs,
upon Ministers, and wuatever abuses shall be
found to exist ought to be removed, Co by the
regular deliberations of the Legislature, and nut
by the Radical Reformers, who are really nothing
but Rebels anti Traitors. The burthens on the
People are heavy, and their sufferings no dotal.);
will be attended to. The Speech front the Throne
promises a system of tenenchment and et:ol3nm)",
that, under the gracious example and sanction
of the Monarch himself, will doubtless be adopt-

ed and carried on with vigour.--We hope to see
a firm and vigorous Opposition in Pariiametc
to all measures which may be prop-osed that
are really not obviously calculated to lessen the
hurt hens of the People and to promote the pro-
sperity of the Empire. I.Ve ourselves.,
though zealously attached to Government. vigi-
lantly watch over i; s proceedings, siucerely hoping
that we shall have to appl:tud *aid to support rat her
than to oppose any of the measures which Ministers
may bring forward. As they were edocated in the
school of the illustrious PITT, by following whose
course they have preserved the Country ►attd rest:net,.
Europe, we trust they be equally attentive to
the domestic policy of that wise and virtuous
Statesman, and as they have averted the evils of
%Vat-, finally secure to us atl the blesslugs of
Peace,

BONDED GRAIN.---A Meeting was had, on
Thursday last of the Merchants of this Port, inte-
rested in the Bonded Grain, for the purpose of
considering what steps shottld be taken to- secure
to themselves the Provisions of the existing Con
Law, in the event of the passing of any new Act,
which shall have for its basis a system of Pro-
tecting Duties; Mr. BUTT was Cilltql to the
Chair, and after some discussion as to the most
eligible mode of procedure, Mr. UODGESON and
Mr. SANDERS were deputed, to proceed to London
forthwilli to adopt such measures as may appear
expedient.—(Liverpool Paper, April 27.)
Yesterday morning at eleven o'clock his MA*
JESTY received visits front the atchess of GLoti-
CkaTaft and the Princess AUGUSTA, at his Palace
in Pall-mall. Their Royal Highnesses temaincr}
with the KING till near two o'clock.

On Thursday the Doke of G-LouoesTea gave a
grand .Dinner to the Xrics-CHANcEtt.oft of Cam,—
bridge and other disiingoishi-d AL:tubers of th4s.
University, at Ciloncester-hou,,e.
Yesterday the Prince PUMP of 112ssR Hor4,^
DOE and suite dined with the Duke and Duchess
of CLAIM:4C3. Afterwards, his Serene
High-
neSl, accompanied by Barno O'NAowresr, Coma
kVOItIiNA, and Count STADION, kit. London
their way to Paris.
ilAsovEtt-SQuARE.—The sixth performance of
the Vocal Concert took place in these rooms last;
The audience was numerous anti elegant,
BAIITLEMAN Mrs. SALt,tuN were finely 111
voice. , The latter was most desetvedly encored
in " lisrk ! 'tis the Linnet." which site warbles}
most beautifully. VauGnAt4's " Gentle Airs".
eras excellent. " Come it you dare " highly atil
mated the audience. The whole concluded with
" Rule Britannia," the audience rising at once
with a patrirnic iinpulse, and warmly applauding
this noble effusion of patriotic
dame MARA, it seems, has suffered so much by our
uncertain climate, that sic has been indirectl t()
decline performing at these Concerts, whete st)°
was ()hetet] :diet's' terms, and was, impatieutr7
expected,

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toWo, from which we extract the following

" The King has issued a decree, importing,
that as he has perceived the general joy and en-
thusiasm with which all the inhabitants of the
Iletoic Spanish Nation have received the Decrees
()F the Cortes of the 6th Aug. 1811, and of the
19th July, 1813, for the abolition of exclusive pt i-
ileges and prohibitory privations, and desiring
1.1t6 paternal love to promote by all possible means
ilte felict:v of his people, consent, on his pArt , to
the removal of all obstacles to the punctual ob-
lervanee and march of the new Constitutional
SYstem, and to the increase of the popular ion and
Prosperity of the Monarchy, rLis resolved to con-
Co with the Provisional Jun- a, that the Sent)! ial
julisilictionn referred to he said d-crees, as well
as those exel live privileges, &. shall henceforth
‘'est solely with, and he at the disposal of the
Nation.

" Given at the Palace, under the Royal signa-
ture, on the 13th of April, 1820."
" Majesty has also, with the concurrence
l'ld advice ot the Pi ovision4l Junta, and, with a
View or assembling an Oudin..iry Cortes for the
ye,irs 11420 and 1821, is,ned a lloyal Decree for
the election and installation ot the Pt eparatory
junti",'hi all the principal towns, cities, and pro-
4'istricts in Spain, specifying the dates
which suctl elections sha:l take place, pursuant to
the iewilattuns prescribed hy the CollSlittriOil ;
%lid with a diligence and punctuality cotninen-
turate to tne importance of the object."
The Bishop of Tortosa has issued a pastoral
letter to the Clergy and others ot„his Diocese,
wherein he informs them, that the King has been
ideated to accept and swear to the observance of
the Constitution, framed for the Spanish Monar-
chy by the General and Extraordinary Cortes, at
Cytliz, in 1512, which, among other excellent re-
ttlations, he states, establishes by a fundamental
livz the Holy and Catholic and Apostolic Religion
as the National Religion ot Spain ; and concludes
by admonishing them to live tranquilly, anti with
title sulimis%ion to their superiors, under the new
bystem,ot U.;verument and Lasts.

The growing confidence it, the new order of
is sutra .natiiiested by the fact, that
"le :weals rononunes, ne Sr finish Government pa-
tlier, which, 1):1nre the recent change, was at 86
'Der cent, dilcount, was, on the 18th, at 53 per
'ttat. discount.