The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-26 00:00:00

THE JESUITS.

PARIS, JAN. 22.—The result of the two days dis-
cussion in the Chamber of Peers, respecting the policy of
encouraging the establishments of the Jesuits, or of ex-
pelling the Society from France, was given in the journals
of Saturday, and is commented upon in those of this
morning. Probably, however, the importance of the de-
cision adopted by the Noble Peers may not be fully known
or appreciated in foreign► countries, without some expla-
nation. Count Montlosier, who last year denounced the
Society to the Cour Royale, and called, without success,
upon that body to execute the laws of the kingdom against
it, did not present his petition to the Chamber of Depu-
ties, for two reasons ; first, because he knew that a majo-
rity of that Assembly was in favour of the parties against
whom his petition was directed ; and, secondly, because
being himself a strong Ultra, and a worshipper of feudal
institutions, he has no great respect for suoh constitutional
novelties as the pretended representatives of the people.
On the other hand, he chose the Chamber of Peers, be-
cause he was sure he would be more attended to in that
Assembly, and because, being judges in the last resort,
their aid was naturally to be expected in support of
the Magistracy, which, through the Cour Royale, had
declared its opinion against the Society in the same
decision which pronounced its incompetence to the
work of its suppression. As the Peers have no execu-
tive power, there were only two ways in which the
Chamber could dispose of Count de Montlosier's repre-
sentation, and by either of them they would express an
important decision. They could either reject its prayer,
or recommend it to the attention of the Executive with all
the weight of their high authority. The latter course has
been adopted—not to the surprise of the public, who knew
the spirit and disposition of the majority of the Upper
Chamber, but to the dismay of the fanatic party, and even
to the sovereign displeasure of the Court. Cardinal de la
Fore opened the debate, and proposed the order of the day
on the petition, in a speech which was calculated by the
boldness of its language, in support of the Jesuits, to en-
courage their friends, and to avow to their enemies the
extent of their claims. The supporters of the petitioner
proposed the recommendation of the petition to the atten-
tion of the King's Government—s motion which was in
substance carried by a majority of 40 in a very full
Chamber, 113 having voted against the Ministers.

The calculation of the strength of the parties before the
decision of the vote only made out a majority of 35 against
the Jesuits. It was supposed, therefore, that some conver-
sions had taken place in the course of the debate. The
clerical party appeared in full force_ The bench of bishops
was, of course, as well garnished as it could be, and not
one of the prelates deserted the standard of Loyola. The
Court and the Cabinet sent their full complement. Prince
Polignac had returned from the country to attend the de-
bate; and the Marquis de Riviere, against all etiquette,
came to give his vote. When the Marquis was intrusted
with the custody of the young Duke of Bordeaux as his
governor, it was understood that he was never to leave his
pupil for any other political duty. Yet, with all these ex-
ertions, only 73 peers were found to support the claims of
the Jesuits, or even to vote against a proposition intended
to bring about their expulsion.

PRESENTATION OF THE FREEDOM OF BATH

TO MR. CANNING.

Monday the Body Corporate unanimously resolved to
present the freedom of the City in a gold box of 50 guineas
value, to the Right Honourable George Canning, his Ma-
jesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, as
a mark of the high sense entertained by the Corporation
of his transcendent talents and eminent public services.
The bailiffs, Robert Clarke, Esq. and Sir George Gibbes,
immediately waited on the Right Honourable Gentleman
and communicated the resolution.

Shortly after, by his own appointment, Mr. Canning at-
tended at the Hall, to receive the freedom. He was ac-
companied by the Earl of Liverpool and the Right Honour-
able Sturges Bourne. A great number of ladies and gen-
tlemen had been previously admitted into the banquetting
`.lem, to witness the ceremony. P. George, Esq. the
EleazerTlLl‘ ..:hising read the resolution, the Mayor,
" In the name of the Mayor, Nidsessed Mr. Canning :
the honour to present you with the rieet,„,,- knd Citizens, 1 have
which has been unanimously voted M yoi, `f the City of Beth.
the high sense entertained by this Corporation of your transcen-
dent talents and eminent public services. I feel, Sir, peculiar
gratification at being the organ of communication with you on
the present occasion, and wish that you may long continue -to
exert those talents in our country's eause.

To which Mr. Canning replied—
" Mr. Mayor—l receive with much satisfaction an introduc-
tion into a society so respectable as that of the gentlemen whom
I have the honour to address, and the freedom of a city with
which the name of Pitt had for two generations been connected.
I receive with cordial tkankfulnes this proof of your estimation
of my public services. This adstriction is peculiarly gratifying
to me, presented as it is by those who have, from their character
and situation, its well as their means of information and channels
of ebinunication, an opportunity of forming an unbiac•ed opi-
nion of the conduct of men in public life. This testimony of
your regard is therefore most grateful to my feelings, as it evinces
your approbation of my humble services; but whatever value
thy, possess, they are derived from those of my noble friend'
(loud cheerz;; and I have to thank you, Sir, for the kind and
flottering terms with which you have accompanied it."
A t the samo Hall, an Address of Condolence to His Ma-
jesty, ott the death of his Royal Highness the Duke of
York, was unanimously adopted.—Rath Cheonicle, Jan. 94.
-- The Earl of Liverpool, who was on the left of the Mayor.

That delicious shell fish, the escalop,- is now in full
season. The fish are very abundant, and are retailed in the street
at Is. per dozen. To gourmands we would suggest (as many-
persons know not how they should be be dressed) that when the fish
are well washed, the skirts taken off, and bread nicely crumbled
over them, with a morsel of butter, and placed on the lire in their
shell, they make a dish fit for llehogabalus. Or a dozen may be
stewed together with crumbed bread, and quantum suff. of but-
ter ; or better still, stew them by themselves, set them to cool,
and dish them up, as you would a lobster or crab. In a rump-
steak pudding they are better than an oyster. But the supreme
mode is that of Phillips, the confectioner, to whose recipe we,
not being in possession of it ourselves, refer the curious in these
matters.—Brighton Paper.

The population of the British isles is worthy of a
great dominion. It probably amounts to twenty millions ; and
that vast number is generally placed under such fortunate cir-
cumstances of rapid communication and easy concentration, as to be
equal to perhaps half as many more in any other kingdom. This
facility of intercourse is one of the great elements of civilized
strength. The rapid returns of merchandize are not more indi-
cative of prosnerous trade than the intercourse of human kind is
essential to nationak vigour. For whatever purpose united strength
can he demanded, it is forwar444 to the spot at once. If Eng-
land were threatened with invasion, a iiit;.ared thousand men
could be conveyed to the defence of any of her coasts within four-
and-twenty hours. Some =non yet curious calculations evince
the singular facility and frequency of this intercourse. The mail
coaches of Engle.-;d run over 12,000 miles in a single night, half
the circumference of the globe ! A newspaper published in the
morning in London is, by the same night, read a hundred and
twenty miles off ! The twopenny post revenue of London is said
to equal the whole post-office revenue of France ! The traveller
going at night from Londor, sleeps, on the second night, 400 mile:
off ! The length of canal navigatkr. in the vicinage of London,
is computed to equal the whole canal navigation of France !
But if the moment of =lying at pre-eminent prosperity should
always be the destined moment of a nation's descent, England
would he, beyond all existing nations, in peril. Her King at
this hour commands a population more numerous than that of
any other sceptre or. the globe (excepting the probably exagger-
ated, and the certainly Ineffective multitudes of China). He is
Monarch over nearly one hundred 4r_.4 twenty millions of men.
With him the old Spanish boast is true—" On his dominions the
sun nevi sets." But the most illustrious attribute of this un-
exampled sway ;
4, that its principle is benevolence ! that know-
ledge goes forth with it, iluit tyranny sinks before it, that in its
Magnificent progress it abates the calamities of nature, that it
plants the desert, that it civilizes the savage, that it strikes off the
I.fetters of the slave.—Nontil/Y Review,