The Sun.
London, England, 1820-02-03 00:00:00

THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 3. 1120.

LONDON JOURNALS.

FROM TIDE MORNING P.-.WERS OF THIS DAY.

[Morning Chronicle.]

It is understood that Lord Betesford is to be
the Governor of Guernsey, in place of Lord
Chatham, who succeeds the lamented Duke of
Kent in the Government of Gibraltar.

Lientettlut-General flirt, Member for the
County Donegal, is tO 4et Cork, which was held
by Lord BeresfOrd and
Sir W. Krppel is to succeed the late Earl of
'Suffolk, as Uovernor of Londonderry.
Lord Vane Stewart to be Colonel of the 10th
Hussars, of which his Msjesty, when Prince Re.
gent, was G.biamci. - .

v 'llseMnrquess of Hu ntly is to succeed the Duke
of Kent, 89Colonci of the Royal Scots.
Lord Elopetouu succeeds the Marquess, ns Co-
lonyl of the 42d Foot.

Lietitenant-Gener4 Gore Brown is to hr Clone
of the 441 h Foot, in place of the late Lou] Suf.
folk ; and,

Lciitenant-General lam Hope is to have the
92d Itegiment, of which Lord ilopetoon is now
;be Commandant.

[Morning Post.]

The Duchess of Sent is pregnant, which was
the cause of her performing the journey from Sid-
mouth so slow;y.

The Times.]
Extract of a letter trun a Field-Officer or the
British Legion, dated Matutin, Oct. 3, 1819 :
" We have been in winter quarters here for the
last two months, but intend shortly to open the
campaign. The result is certain, since
has lost in New Granada his right arm, and, in
the failure of succours Irons Spain, his last and
only hope. Under these circumstances, what is
to feed the war ) The possession o! New Granada
alone would decide ir, as its specie is all that has
enabled Molina to protract it so long-. One of
our divisions is commanded by General Masiva,
who is much beloved by us all ; he is of Irish
descent on his mother's side, trout the Earls of
Inchiquio ; he possesses therefore a natural claim
to our affection, which is rivetted by his possess-
ing all the look and warmth of manner of an Hi-
bernian."

We find by the subjoined statements from the
City, that new political combinations have begun
to sliew themselves on the banks of the Rio tie la
Plata. Instead of any apprehension of hostilities
existing between the Government of Buenos
Ayres rintflt he Portuguese at Monte Video, it seems
that.these two Powers carry on the most friendly
intercourse, a Pot tuguese officer having been per-
mi'ted to make large pur;hases of horses and
mules for the use of the garrison at Monte Video.
Artigas, on the other hand, is the object of their
common resentment, and if the accounts we have
received be trite, he is on the point of being at-
tacked by his Republican neighbours.
A vessel front Buenos Ayres arrived yesterday,
bringing letters rn- the 2d November. Intelli-
genet, from Gibraltar, of the insurrection at Port
• St. Mary's, had then dissipated the aprrehensions
coneetning the expedition from Cadiz : it was
known too that the_Alexander had put back to
Cadiz, btu no information had been received of
the arrival of her consorts, the San Thelmo and
Ptheya, at Callao. So friendly a footing was
maintained at Buenos Apes with the Portuguese,
that Colonel Pintos had been there some time,
and had shipped off upwards of a thousand horses
and mules for Monte Video. The report lately
in circulation, that the Portuguese were about to
abandon Monte Video, appears to be without
foundation ; that Government has been shipping
off artillery from thence,- and fortifying with it
every vulnerable point on the coast of Brazil, but
it was sopplieti from the surplus of the magazines
in that place. The Government of Buenos Ayres
was taking measures to chastise Artigas, who had
latterly enlarged the sphere of his depredations,
and, not content with •subsisting his own troops
on the plunder of his more in,instrious
hours, had associated himself, for similar pur-
poses, with a large band of the Montonera of
Santa NS. The insecurity to the roads, caused
by this state of the interior, had caused com-
'rnerce to languish, which otherwise would have
revived. Generals San Martin and Belgrano
were to co-operate in the reduction of these hos-
tile hands, and the most rigorous measures were
threatened. A Fiend) frigate, the Duchess of
Berry, had arrived at Buenos Ayres.—(lbid.)

After the Coronation of their late MAJESTIEi.

he order of the procession and the ceremony was

ptoduced at Covent-Garden Theatre, in great
style, by the then Manager, Mr. litcn, and the
spectacle had a prodigious run ; a serious dispute
arose On the occasion between the two celebrated
actre%ses of the day, Mts. BELLAMY and Nits,
IlatuicroN, tel►ich of them should represent the
Queen ; neither of the Unties Would resign her
pretensions to the honour, and Mr. Him' settled
themattrr by introducing the afterwards admira-
Irk actress Mrs. MATTOCKS, then Miss EIALLAM,
for the first time on the stage, echo was exactly
the age of the QUEEN, and was extremt ly like
her Al AJBSTY in fie.ure.
Grooms of the Bedchamber are in attendance at

the Castle At Windsor, one of them being oil- 1
stantly
.ity the room in whic:i are the remains of
his late iIIiJEsTY ; and 14st night tlvelve of the
Yeomen of tile King's Unroll left town for Wiod•
.or Castle, four of whom will he in continued at- I
tentlniire'on the.l)o)7 the I„nt,rai.

[PRICE SEVENPENCE.

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS*.

TO THE EDITOR.

" The Laws of Reason should he 'held Obligatory andel
circumstances." •

Sla—At no period in our history, fit rh
subsequent to the reign of the First Charles,
there been a l'..ener incitement to pulitical inq
in the public mind, than what Obtained in a
of the concluding months of the past yeir.

ca uses that cmieurred to produce this are too

known to require any elaborate recital here. S
lice it :o say, the grand council of the nation
summoned m a moth earlier period than ose
:and, after devoting some weeks of arduous•-d
beration, our renresentatives completed the
portant labours for which they had been called
goiter. But let me• ask, was not the pro,,p
most louring anterior to their convocation,?
not commutinp spreading us ruthless visage .0
•lie face or rite nation Yes, such was our (5
dition ; and I say it, without the fear of con!
diction, sad and destructive would have been
consequences, but for the prognpr—the able,
the decisive measures submitted by his :\iaje
Government, and which were supported in i
Senate with a strength and honesty that is been
all praise. The insane doctrines of the day—i
bane of peace and content—have, by the wild
'of the legislature, had a dea h-blow dealt out
them that must necessarily be productive of
greatest national gowi, providcd pevilt:nt
woluf, he adrninis(ered to revive those astimosit
trail ill-blood which Radicalism had so potvem,
excised.

It is the part of wisdom to deduce lessons
prntlence horn the errors of others. And .t wi
head, unquestionably, tvill reto4in satisfied vv.
the nviny valuable political advantages we enj
as a nation, rather than h►►zard the loss of th
by himing at things perfectly unattainable.

novation cannot be made without the jittery«.
(ion of evils more destructive than those wh,
are intended to be reformed. Great political t
pelimeots ;mist, indeed, from their very nat'u
be attended wi:11 rui,bidence and commoiion.
What is (lie rei/ark ot that eminent Writ,
Professor pupil(' Steteart ?' Ills words e—"
danger of sudden and rash innovaiion cannot
too strongly inculcated, and the views of the
men, who are forward to promote them, cant
be reprobated with too great severity.'' .If
there was a time when this observation had toy
the present is pre-eininen,ly that time. Would
Heaven that our reformist; Gentry—those ot
perior pretensions, I mean—would but give Ji
heed to thiq incontrovertible axiom in pidi:ics.,
At hest, Reform is a question ot mere problem
(teal merit ; but to thmk.of agitating it just 11
when union and harmony are so essential to
teen-being ot the nation, is tan attempt equa
flagitious and wicked.
It is well known that the struggle for politic
ascendancy tends directly to dis urn the rate
society. Bot-that porty spirit—d,oing as it is
should have the effrontery to raise its head at t
present moment, is one of the extraordinary ph
nomcna of the extraordinary age in which v
live.

After such a deliverance from anarchy rout co
fusion as this nation has recently t xperieneed.
one sentiment, one mhod shouid animate all. Or
ye aspirants for political famc—will nothing saris
ye but an honour similar that which awai•,
the deitroyer of the Ephestan Dome ? Why w
ye still persevere in re-echoing doctrines th;,it et
roomier! on the crudest, the most absurd notions
If, despising the laws of reason tind comma
sense, ye will protriVie yourselves, depend np.rn
the sobek part of the community will not be lis
less—they will stand forward in support of rho
pillars which are the country's strength and
corky. '
" I remember well the remark made by ti
celebrated Condor cet—' Only" says he ''
Reform—Revolution will soon follow." Yes,
repeat it, w-e must neither feel disheartened ant
fatigued, but oppose with might a:td main that
retottniug schemes which so tearfully menace a
best institutions of our country. Do we not vi
Iterate, as it were, an ancient mansion, or an of
oak ? Then, by What strange and unnatural pe,
version of modern days is it that that ancient an
glorious fabric—the British Constitution—tli
aggregate ot the wisdom of ages—ceases by ;nail
to be contemplated with that tenderness and re
gard which ate so pre-eminently its due ? Doe.
the !tolution lie in that pruriency after chang
which tickles the fancies and vetniy of weak in
timed minds ? i\leking them imiteiue there
(contrary to the poet's plonition) more sate:y i
flying to '' ills they know not of " than to man
hilly Lear with the appointed destiny ot the urea
Author of Nature. But let them vapour an
flourish as they may—these political illuminati—
the day will not be their's. The sun of reason i
too powerful ; it must burst through and dispe
the foul mists of wile and prejudice. What—did!
the British lion be at last taken in a mouse-trap
Does nor the Constitution, both as it is Oil
massy arches of monareity, atistncracy, and d,
mocracy, in the most hr:fitting proportions, atfor,
reasonable hope that its foundations will resis
sal ping in any tot m ? It is, indeed, a tri4dl
which teems w i:h health and vitality—(witness tht
repeated recovery of the body politic trom th
most morbifie anti dangrroas 'symptomo—end
as i Briton, I fondly indulge the hop,. that' it
possess these grand characteristics till the Imes
period of rev rrleil time.
Jail. 19, 1320.

BASILEI3S.

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