The Sun.
London, England, 1829-06-25 00:00:00

are Vicar of Bardney—you owe an account to
me, but I owe none to you."—Morniug Chron.
It was not to be expected that the Speech cn
closing the last Session of Parliament would
open fresh twitter for speculation or discussion.
The object of most discourses of this nature is
to allay curiosity rather than excite it, and to
send people home to their country houses with
act impression that there is no cause for uneasi-
ness to the people or Government, but that all is
right, and likely, for sonic months at least, to
remain so. The King's Speech of yesterdny
was of this cloudless and tranquilizing charac-
ter, His Majesty continued to he assured of
the friendly sentiments of all foreign Powers ;
o..ittl though he lamented the continuance of hos-
tilities in the East, his Majesty regarded them
with no nearer interest than that of an coniczts
curice, seeking to employ his best endeavours to
prevent the war from extending, and to bring
about the restoration of peace. His Majesty
has (for these purposes amongst others, no doubt)
renewed his diplomatic relations with Turkey,
and through his Majesty's Ambassadors and
those of the King of France, the pacification of
6reece is to be again negotiated in the name of
tic Emperor Nicholas, as well as of the two
former Sovereigns. The King adverts with
" increased regret" to the condition of the
Portuguese monarchy ; but will use his
most diligent efforts ,to reconcile conflict-
ing interests, and to remove the evils which
press so heavily upon Portugal. The Speech
concludes with an expression of thanks to
the House of Commons for the supplies, which
his Majesty is determined to apply with eco-
nomy, and with a hope addressed to both
branches of the Legislature, that Catholic eman-
cipation may tend to the repose and improve-
ment of Ireland, as well as to the strengthening
of the bonds of union between the sister islands.
This Speech admits of but little comment.—
The surest mode of .preventing the extension of
hostilities in Europe is to dissuade or deter the
Power which bas excited them from aiming at
such a military preponderancy, or at such terri-
torial encroachment, as must render an "ex-
tension of hostilities". a matter of self-defence
for states at present neutral, and this very neces-
sary and-urgent object will, we trust, be stu-
diously -embiaced in the negotiations now, as
we are told by his Majesty, on the point of re-
newal in the Turkish capital. For Portugal—
wretched Portugal—there can be but two sources
of hope—namely, Ist, the fall of her tyrant by
the native hands of those to whom his continued
atrocities and his contempt for laws have left no
other means of retribution.; 2d, that his abuse
for time forbearance which he has long expe-
rienced from this country may be carried to such
a pitch of outrage, as to force the King's Go-
vernment, in its office of protector of the lives
and properties of British subjects, to seize the
miscreant, and shake him from the throne which
he has usurped and sullied.— Times.
The search of the Ocean, Captain Locke,
hound from Terceira to Portsmouth, by a
boat from one of the Portuguese blockading
ships, and the seizure of all Portuguese letters
on board of her, occasioning much talk and irri-
tation in the city, we shall give our opinion on
the subject as frankly and impartially as we arc
able. As our Government has adopted (no
matter now whether properly or improperly) the
course of considering the partisans of Miguel
—the King de facto—and those of the • little
person now in England—the Queen de jure—
of Portugal, as two belligerents, and ascribes to
them all the rights of nations so circumstanced,
we fear that the right of -search must be con-
sidered as one ; and then the rule of Vattel
would apply, book 111., chap. 7, sec. 115--c, If
we find an enemy's effects," (Qu. Arc not the
letters addressed by the party of Donna Maria
to their friends of the same party now in Eng-
land, the effects -of the acknowledged enemy of
Miguel ?)—"•if we find an enemy's effects on
board a neutral ship, we seize them by the right
of war ; but we are naturally bound to pay the
fieight to the master of the vessel, who is not to
suffer by such a seizure." The Captain of the
Ocean, therefore, would have a right to demand
of the officer who seized the letters, or of his
Government, the payment he would have re-
ceived on their delivery according to their several
addresses. This, we fear, is all the redress that
can'be claimed under existing circumstances ;
for who are the persons injured? Not liritish
subjects, the letters are neither from them nor to
them.—/bid.

Our Criminal Laws are admirably contrived
to realize the Greek sarcasm of " catching the
small flies and' letting the large ones break
through ;" else how does it happen that so many
petty knaves are, from time to time, made to feel
the vengeance of offended justice, while the land
swarms with plunderers on an extensive scale,
who carry on their plans of robbery in open day,
and in the most flourishing security ? Of such
unpunished plunderers London has many classes,
but none more indefatigably active and successful
than the keepers of mock auction-rooms. Never
were such " dens of thieves" so numerous in this
metropolis as at the present time. Many of the
joint-stock swindlers, who, by their nefarious
contrivances a year or two back, richly merited
the " honours of the hulks," and ought now to
be " earning their bread with the sweat of their
brow," with a log at their heels, have set up in
this line. Not a few of them are actual pick-
pockets, and confederates with pickpockets, who
find it safer, as well as more profitable, to
" clean out" the purSes of simple people by the
process of the tray and hammer than by the ap-
plication of Barrington's ingenious instrument
to their pockets. Neither is there a want of
real pickpocketing in those " auction rooms ;"
while the inventive genius of the auctioneer gives
new brilliancy to the articles which dazzle the
eyes of the customers, the " conveyancers" of