The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-27 00:00:00

bearing deportment, and rude refusal of a well-fed
Overseer, may increase even the horrors of starvation.
It has been clearly established, that the perverted priii-
eiPle of the Poor Laws of England goes to the subver-
sion of all property. Acquaint the great body of the
People, that however improvident, however idle they may
be, still the industrious part of the community must sup-
port them, and you at once offer a bounty to impru-
dence and idleness. Let the proportion of this base
class increase sufficiently, and the industrious few will
cease to cultivate land or to labour at all, when drones
are to divide with them the fruit of their exertions.
What natural right has he to expect assistance, who
marries when unable to support hinesey; without the
incumbrance of a wife and family ? But hold out the
Poor Rates, and there is no farther necessity for
Prudence. The manly spirit of English indepen-
dence is in danger of being extinguished for ever !
We repeat it, that old age, sickness, and unforeseen
calamity, are the legitimate objects of charity, and for
these all our bounty should be reserved—undiminished
by contributions to those who are idle and profligate,
upon system, for by these the deserving and helpless
are virtually robbed. No one can grow sick or old for
the Purpose of enjoying the poor rates, and we would
have for them double their present comforts and a per-
manent provision—but nothing of the sort for the
Young and healthy. Their number is indefinite, and
they will always consume any fated amount of provision,
even after which cases of unforeseen calamity like the
Present will occur, when the means of relief, and the
inclination also, have been completely exhausted by
regular stated contributions to those who sulkily view
them as their legal right.
We trust that this subject will soon come again
tinder the consideration of Parliament. Existing con-
tracts must continue, but a period may be fixed after
which marriages palpably imprudent and protested against
should preclude the,parties from all claim to parochial
aid. This, of itself, would go some length towards
diminishing the existing evil of enormous poor rates,
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without effectual
relief. A check, fortunately, has
een already given to the system which some years ago
encreasing at _a rate rapid enough to alarm the
most supine. Much, however, still remains to be done.
Th

,e Duke of WELLINGTON has taken upon him-
self the duties of Commander-in-Chief, and has pro-
mulgated the same to the Army by a General Order,
characteristic of his Grace's brevity and unostentatious
mode 01 transacting business. lie contents himself
with simply announcing the fact of having assumed
the command of the Army, and requesting the assist-
ance of the General and other Officers to maintain its
discipline, good order, and high character.
The Duke of WELLINGTON'S habits of business
are Peculiarly calculated to render his great military
Periellce of practical utility in the high office to
which he has been called by his MAJESTY. Acute
and discriminating his Grace sees at once the promi-
nent feature of every case, and, putting aside all mi-
j"t6) directs his whole attention to its principal ob-
eet• Equally acute and discriminating in personal
character, the Duke of WELLINGTON forms an ac-
emirate opinion of individuals, and this quality com-
bined with his experience, will enable him to select
°kers best qualified fox' the most important posts
which fall to his nomination. Not easily warped
in hill judgment by favour or prejudice, his Grace will
Probably not be influenced by those feelings which
dt:° commonly operate on many ; and possessing as he
oes the highest military renown in the world, we
trust that his administration of the affairs of the Army
Pr°fes
111% be less popular amongst the members of that
aion, than just and useful to his country.
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It is matter of congratulation to those who know
importance of the DUKE'S temper and judgment
ell the Cabinet, that his GRACE'S appointment as
°lntriander-in-Chief is not to remove him from his
e'ttin
his MAJESTY'S Councils.
Priv- •

coe....iate letter from Lisbon mentions, tha.t.the Baron de Porto
theiru oe Randeira invited the staff of the British Army to take up
is residence in his Palace.
orntY a Decree issued by the Emperor of Brazil, Captain P.Pascoe
4,41411, who distinguished himself in so gallant a manner iAn the
el %actin, on the 30th of last Jnly, with the Buenos
peli.llo, °°, in which he lost an arm, has been decreed an annual_
periari
.and, in addition to this testimony of his esteem, his m
abo /4kle'tY, by two other Decrees, directed that a gun -
shoutlUZ_b_e laotTchsd, should also bear
.his name ;
Imperial Order
of the Crulliar,:nted an Honorary Dignitary of the
and also, that he
eintelligence of a late date has been received by the James
Agiir from New York, respecting the Mining operations in
Cr ' and °f 800,000 dollars being about to be shipped at Vera
Grua for England.
Pito
tturbert2tyletGinasEtaSnSt,Otrhi.ritßy.EsixitElfoitMATlON.—On Sunday,
person namely, fifteen men and
the errOnn ofntn"'
b late professing Roman Catholicism, renounced
one tnenria_,' 9ery in the Church of Cavan. On the same day
chtunii
01,13Zight women abandoned their former faith in the
day not forrilerlr aiBt-Which, with three on the preceding Sun-
the persons who announced oh,
make the number twelve; so that
the Bth October, 18;'`Ilforrned in the County of Cavan, since
and Seventy-two.-.....E„ 49'c'unts to the number of Four Hundred
.r, "0,9 Mai/.
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