The Sun.
London, England, 1827-06-30 00:00:00

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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 30, 1827.

Our readers will perceive that the debate of last
night,'in the House of Commons, has cleared the
character of Lord CHARLES. SOMERSET from those
charges which have been cruelly suspended over his
head forso long a time. Mr.BROUGHAM stated that
in his professional capacity, he had ascertained the
falsity of the principal charge against the Noble
Lord; and it is strange to observe how 2,500 d.
dwindled into 700 h, and how' a sentence pro=
nounced on the 30th of 'May was said to
have been affected by a transaction which
took place in the following September.—
Mr. BARING, " for his own part gave the Noble
Lord an entire and unqualified acquittal, so far as re-
lated to those charges which affected his private cha-
racter as a gentleinan and -a man of honour," but the
indefatigable Mr. HtimE wished to keep the matter
open,—that the Honourable Members should
amuse themselves with the perusal of the charges,
during the vacation, and take up the question the
first thing next SesSion. _ _ _

We do not, pretend to say that Lord CHARLES
SOMERSET conducted the Government of the Cape
with unerring wisdom, or that the Colony was an
actual Utopia during his Administration; but, as to
the system of terrorism which is talked of, we really
do not, after the debate of last night, believe one
single word of it. And we may add, that we have lately
seen a gentleman who resided at the Cape for some
time after Lord CHARLES left it, and that he never
heard, either the Dutch or English, talk of his Lord-
ship in the way. that one would expect they would,
after deliverance from, such a monstrous oppressor as
ins Lordship was represented to have been, and
when he was no longer present to suppress the nar-
ration of their grievances.

His Majesty's packet, Cygnet, has arrived with a
mail from Rio Janeiro, from which she sailed on the
25th April. She left Bahia, on the 7th May, and
Pernambuco, on the 15th. By her, we have re-
ceived the Diario Fluminense to the 25th April.
The Paper of the 24th, announces that the Chambers
were shortly to assemble; and it appears that several
members had been pillaged on their passage from
the remote provinces. These Papers contain no
news which we have not already received through
other channels. They, indeed, give an official ac-
count of the battle which took place on the 20th
February, the loss of which they attribute to the
misconduct of a select division, but they make no
mention of the great battle, fought on the 25th, in
which the Brazilians suffered so immensely. The
Government may endeavour to suppress the unwel-
come news from the people of Brazil, but it cannot
howill ultimately prevent its circulation abroad, from which it
return with aggravated circumstances.
We must defer the extracts till Monday, for want
of room.
The private letters received by this packet, also bring
dates of the 24th of April, from Rio Janeiro. On perusal
of several which we have been favoured with, we learn
that trade remained in the same deplorable and ruinous
state, and, as they observe, must remain so, until a more
Peaceable disposition is evinced by the EMPEROR. The
Exchange continued at 35. In some of the letters very
Banguine expectations are entertained that an immediate
amicable adjustment of the ruinous war, to both countries,
would and must take place, whilst others express a contrary
opinion, and urge 'in proof, an order for 2,500 troops hav-
ing been sent as a reinforcement from the northern pro-
vinces, particularly Bahia, to the scene of notion in Rio
Graude. It is also reported that the EMPEROR. has ap-
pointed Mr. Gonnon to
act as a mediator between the two
countries, bat even to this is attached doubtful credit. The
difficulties of the Brazil Government continue increasing,
and some consider peace will take place from necessity on

the part of the EMPEROR, rather than from choice. The
reports are numerous at Rio Janeiro on this subject, but
every thing was kept as quiet as possible from the public
ear, on the subject of peace or the continuance of war.

The Paris Papers of Wednesday, and the Elate
dated Thursday morning, reached us last night.
The Moniteur publishes, in its non-official part,

intelligence from Algiers to the 16th inst., which
leaves no doubt of hostilities between that State and i
France having commenced. It appears that satis-
faetion-for some insults which the French Consul
had received (which we understand include.d a per-
sonal chastisement which he had suffered from the
hands of his Highness the DEY) having been
peremptoi ily refused to the Consul, a French schooner
arrived before Algiers on the 11th June, with dis-
patches ordering his recall, and he and all other
French subjects at Algiers instantly embarked.
After the Consul had conferred with the Officer
commanding the squadron before Algiers, as to the
measures to be taken to obtain reparation, a note was
drawn up demanding that a deputation, with the
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Marine at its head,
should come on board and make an apology to the
Consul General for the conduct of the DEY towards
him. The satisfaction demanded not having been
given in 24 hours, the negotiations were broken off,
and the port is blockaded—not bombarded as it was
by our Fleet, and would be again, if such an insult
as was inflicted on the French Consul had been
offered to a British Functionary.

We suspect it will be some time before the French
squadron will be able to bring his Highness to make
an apology, or to promise more courteous behaviour
in future.

A private letter from Corfu of the 26th May,
leads us to hope that the accounts of the recent
disasters of the Greeks in Attica have been greatly
exaggerated, and that the difficulties under which
REDSCHID PACHA is avowedly placed, ars likely to
be greatly increased.
There is no news in these Papers from the
Peninsula.

Extracts will be found in another column, and we
subjoin the price of the Funds :
FAWNCH Furms.—Five per Cents. 102 f. 30c. ; Three
per Cents. 71f. 30c.
Foßmarr Firxns.--Rentos Nap. Cert. Fal. 76f. 'Thc.
80c. ; Spanish Rentes, 9/ ; Royal Spanish Loan, 591
59 ; Interminable Span. Annuities, 431.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT-(THIS DAY).
HOUSE OF LORDS.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY took his seat this day on
the Woolsack, 80011 after three o'clock, in the absence of
the Lord Chancellor.
Sir A. Grant, and others from the Commons, brought
up the Corn Averages Bill, the. Arrest on Mesne Process
Bill, the Sites for Public Buildings' Bill, the Petty Ses-
sions (Ireland) Bill, and the Land Revenhe Bill (Ireland),
the amendments to which had been agreed to by the

Commons.
The Land Tax bill was also brought up, read a first
time and ordered to be printed.
Their Lordships then adjourned to Monday.
It is now understood that Parliament will not be pro-
rogued until Tuesday.
The Lord Chancellor comes to the House of Lords at
two o'clock on Monday, to give judgment in some appeal
cases.