The Sun.
London, England, 1820-09-22 00:00:00

[Morning .Yost.]

The MARRIED FEMALE ADDRESSERS are, at
least, a little staggered by the ingenuous admis-
Sign of Mr. Ilume, who, we understand, is a pey-
SOTI of great weight with the Radicals. " How
did the Attorney-General dare to charge the
-Queen with an-adulterous intercourse during six
years, and only to prove it during three ?" Mr.
Hume ought to know the anecdote of a frail fair
of the last age, who complained to Lord Ches-
terfield of the scandalous world,, for imputing to
her the birth of twins. " Be comforted, my
good Lady," said the Noble wit, " I never be-
lieve more than licgof what I hear." Now three
years made half of six, and Mr. Hume has com-
forted the Queen exactlyas Lord Chesterfield
did my Lady --. Indeed throe is a very vi-
sible increase of 126 g-believers, or believers of
HALF lately. In another fortnight or so, it is not
improbable she shall have a still greater increase
of whole-believers.—lt is the report at the west
end of the town, that a certain conspiCuous
Queen's-man has ingeniously contrived to re-
pair his shattered fortunes at a single stroke.
We hardly know how to recall the memory of
our readers to a. very singular bet said to have
been laid by Charles Fox during his early vaga-
ries, and which was won by the testimony of a
waiter at Brooks's. Sir Gerard's stratagem was
more cleanly and not less clever. Ile offered to
bet 10,0001. with one of his club friends, that
" he would do a sillier thing than he ever had
done during his life." As every one present
thought it impossible for the worthy Baronet to,
outdo his former outdoings, the bet was greedily
caught at, and nine times repeated before supper.
It is needless to say, he sat down and wrote the
silly letter to Lord Liverpool, in which he
calls 64 his ratting a last act, of friendship ;"
and another to Alderman Wood, in which he
entreats his patronage and recommendation for
a post in Brandenburgh-House. We understand
the umpires have decided in his favour ; but by
his speeches in the House of Commons on Mon-
day, he seems determined to make assurance
doubly sure, and win hollow.
It is well known, that several Opposition
Members of both Houses disapprove the part
taken by others in prejudging the case of the
Queen, and in encouraging the crowd to prejudge
it. The Debate, on Monday, in which some
language was held scarcely less dangerous to the
interests of civil society-, than that of any periods
of the French Revolntion, can not fail of giving
new pain to those, who have already recognised
the mischievous tendency of premature decision,
even when given, without appeals to passions and
to persons the most hazardous that cau be con-
sult ed.—(lbi d.)

[Morning chronicle.]

The Dr.cianAltow and RESOLUTIONS of the
TOWN of BIRMINGHAM deserve the most serious
attention of Ministers and of. Parliament. The
situation of Birmingham, ascertained as it is by
actual inquiry, is such as to strike conviction to
the mind of every consideiate man, that we are
in a, rapid course of national decline, and that no-
thing but a change of. system can save-us from
bankruptcy. The case of Birmingham is that
of every manufacturing district in the United
'Kingdom, and not only of the manufactur-
ing districts, but of the great Agricultural-
/13dy of -the Realm. We trust the useful

example of the Gentlemen of Birmingham will
be followed, and that there will be laid before
the public a statement of the local situation of
every other great town ; for it is only by such
expositions, that Parliament can be truly inform-
ed of the actual condition of the Country. It is
in vain to trust to Custom-house books against
such evidence as the Committee of Birmingham
have produced, since, howeverApecious the entries
on the books may be made for the purposes of
fallacy, there can be no dispdte as to the de-
crease of consumption, when all the persons en-
gaged in vending articles of the first necessity
concur in their testimony as to the diminution of

The unsatisfactory ANSWER of Lord CASTLE-
REAGH to the question respecting our RELATIONS
with PORTUGAL, has 'naturally alarmed the mo-
nied part of the population. They dread the
consequences of 'bur interference in the internal
concerns of our ally, as the slightest symptom of
warlike preparation would lower the Consols to
GO, and would involve the country in inevitable
ruin. One can scarcely conceive that Ministers
would be so desperate as to commit us, under our
present circumstances, in any foreign contest. •It
is manifestly our interest that even Portugal
should be relieved from the trammels under which
her commerce has solong been bound. We should
gain more from her prosperity than we could
acquire from the monopoly of an impoverished
people and a desolated country. M. Say, in his
admirable refutation of the doctrine of Mr. Mal-
thus, has clearly shewn that it is only in the
ratio of the productiveness of one country that
its market becomes valuable to the produc-
tions of another. If a people do not grow or ma-
nufacture wherewithal to buy what they cannot
themselves produce, they must be content with
the loss of the articles the most desirable to them.
How fruitful might not Portugal become, if the
spirit of industry were revived, by the security
which freedom would give to exertion ! The
same thing may be said of Spain and Italy.—
Blest with itCthe finest portions of the earth, des-
potism has found its task easy to subdue the
energies of man, in proportion as the bounty of
the soil and climate made labour almost unne-
cessary to mere subsistence. But unshackled,
and made sensible of the luxuries which the
improvemet:t of their soil would enable them to
purchase, what demands might pot be made
for the various products of Great Britain ?—lt
is not then merely front the liberal feeling of
seeing liberty spread for the happiness of the
human race, that we ought to rejoice in the Re-
volutions now taking plike ; but even the inte-
rests of Great Britain are parties to the cause of
freedom all over the world.—(Mid.)

[British Press.]
In the MADRID PAPERS which have arrived we
find a notice of the occurrences which took
place•in tile Theatre at Madrid on the 3d of this
month, communicated to the Editor of the Mis-
cellanea by the Aides-de-Camp of General
Diego, for the purpose of exculpating the Gene-
ral from the charge made against him of having
endeavoured to excite the angry passions of the
pit by singing the song attributed to him. The
Aides-de-Camp take all the fault of that* occur-
rence upon themselves, and compliment the Ge-
neral ror his ardent bravery and sincere attach-
ment to his country. The publication of such a
notice is a good symptom of the state of the pub-
lic press in Madrid. Such an avowal would, in
former times, have expose.* the writers to the
certainty of a severe imprisonment, and the
printers of it to certain ruin.

[The ,Climes.] •
THE QUEEN.--We have met with a statement
two or three times—cie know not how well
founded—that some .of the Lords mean,' on the
re:ussenibling of that Hottsep to make a proposi-
tion to the effect that " there is no just cause for
continuink this inquiry" respecting the Queen.
There is no question, we apprehend, but that if
the Matter were to ,come to the Commons fully
assembled, even before a word of the defence
is heard, they would adopt that course. The
circulation,. hOwever, of such a rumour, has put
us upon considering—and that without any re-
ference to the-Queen's guilt or innocence—what
Parliament is really now doing. We believe the
naked statement cannot but excite laughter. Parlia-
ment; then, is now inquiring, with all its might,
whether the' childleSs wife of a childless King,
sixty years old—and which King has not lived
with his wife these 25 yearswis false or not,
some six or three years ago : and this is described
as " an important subject," " a Momentous 'in-
quiry," &c. &c. Important' to whim ? we ask,
and momentous in what ? Why, it is at first
sight obvious that the question has at this tithe no
more reference to national weal or bane than an in-
qUiry whether Ann Boleyn was a criminal oi hum:-
cent victim to the suspicions of Henry VIII. One
inquiry would just be as rational as the other. We
defy the utmost wit of man to spew how our Rela-
tions, foreign or domestic, can be in any way al-
tered by the success of this-inquiry. The very
people about wi:nu we are debating are gone by:
They may linger a few years upon earth (we
wish their lives co-extensive with their comfort),
but they are now people of other days ; and,
whichis yet
,more remarkable, no one called for
this inquiry. The King, it is said, was too wise
to call for it—Ministers were averse to li—
the nation abhorred it. Then how, in the
name of wonder, has it sprung up ? Why, it
is of great consequence, we are told, to pre-
serve the purity -of the Royal Family. What
lloyal Family, we ask ?' That which is forth-
ellming, in and from the person of the late
born infant ; or that which we see moving away
in the sons of the late valued King ? for we are
now in the middle knotting of the two links, be-
t Ween the past and the future. The past have
ceased to affect us by their purities or impurities ;
and if there is. any prospective dread of the
future, why then let a law be passed to make adul-
tery with a foreigner high treason ; for' this seems
It h only
ecase unprovided for by the existing law.
is obvious, then, that it is now the inquiry

only which can be injurious, and not the acts, al-
lowing them to have taken place. We have the
ear of the nation in our possession, to an extent
that really now almost makes us tremble at the re-
sponsibility. We do therefore solicit attention to
these remarks, the end and object of which is peace.
The subject of the inquiry foreign to this tune;
it is useless to this people ; it is worse than
useless, because it excites angry passions, and
inflames hot blood amongst us. And for what ?
For nothing—for less than nothing ; whether an
old hind's old and neglected wife some years
ago indulged a passion for another man. It
would be as wise, if it were possible, to stir up a
commotion in the kingdom upon a question, of
what plumes Sardanapalus's bed was composed,
or on which leg Agesilaus, the Spartan, was lame.