The Sun.
London, England, 1818-09-16 00:00:00

EAST INDIA INTELLIGENCE.

(From The Bombay Courier of April 18.)
PROCLAMATION,
By his Excellency Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Brownrigg,
Baronet and Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable
Military Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-
t 'hief in and over the British Settlements and Territories
in the Island of Ceylon, with the Dependencies thereof.

No!mil* littowNRIGG,
Whereas cebellion hai broken out in several of the Candian

Provinces and Districts helonging and owing- allegiance to our
Lord the King, and martial law has been proclaimed and
4,rdered to be executed therein ; and whereas the plots and
endeavours of evil disposed and disaffected persons are daily
exerted to seduce from their allegiance the inhabitants of the
P ovinces hitherto in tranquillity, and hostile incursions have
been made into the same from the Provinces already declared
in rebellion, and it is therefore necessary to provide more
elrccivally fur the maintenance of his Majesty's Government,
and the protection of his loyal subjects against suck evil dis-

THE SUN.

lOLENI QUIS lIIV ItE F.II,SUM ALIDEAT ?

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY, SEPTE4IIBEII 16, 1818.

THU QUEEN.---.Tile following is the Bulletin of

ibis day :

" KEW PALACE, SEPT. 16.

" HER MAJESTY has passed a good night, anti
appears much recruited this morning.

(Signed)

" 11. HALFORD.
" F. MILNIAN."

The Paris Papers of Sunday last, which were
due this morning„have not arrived.

The Gazette of last night contains an Order of
the PRINCE REGENT, in Council, for the further
prorogation of Parliament till the 12dt of No-
ve.mber.

We have inserted a long article in our raper of
this day under the department of Nov I NCI AL
JOURNALS, taken front The Correspondent, a
paper published in Dublin, and which has raised
itself into well-merited reputation by the sound-
ness of its political principles and the spirit with
which it supports them. The subject of this ar-
ticle chiefly relates to the disputes between Spain
and her Colonies ; but though we have inserted
the article at length, from regard to impartiality,
and respect to the Editor, we confess we cannot
agree with him in his opinions on the subject.—
In the first place, he takes for granted, what is
yet only dependent on report, viz. that Spain has
appealed to the Allied Sovereigns, and that the
disputes in question are to constitute a prominent
part in the ensuing discussions at Aix-la-Chapelle.
The Sovereigns and their Ministers must be very
shallow politicians if they could suff,r the ob-
jects of their intended deliberations thus to tran-
spire. That the subject may be brought into dis-
cussion may be admitted ; but we cannot ima-
gine that they have any right to interpose in the
disputes except by mediation ; and we conceive
that matters are too far advanced in the revolted
Colonies for mediation tot be productive of any
beneficial effect. That Spain has made libetal
offers may also be admitted, but they come too
late. \Ve apprehend that it will be impossible for
her to regain her authority over the Insurgent Co-
lonies, and her, only wise measure is to as-
sent to their independence, and secure herself

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a pre-eminence in commercial intercourse. She'
perhaps, gain more in the end than if she
were to recover a precarious Sovereignty, which,
sooner or later, she must inevitably resign. That
there are obtrusive adventurers and bad men
among the promoters of the revolt it is natural
to suppose, but when a regular power of Govern-
ment is established their authority will soon cease,
or be gradually converted into a beneficial controul.
All that the Allied Powers have a right to do, beyond
a liberal mediation, is to destroy that Buccaneering
system which prevails under the Insurgent Flag,
and which must of course be highly injurious to
the general interests of Commerce. The French Re-
volution was a dreadful event. For a time it not
only spread desolation and horror, but it unhinged
the minds of the multitude. It, however, like all
the other dispensations of Providence in human
transactions, was not unattended with advantages :
it tended to warn Sovereigns against tyranny, and

the people against a rash subversion of Govern-
ment, but it afforded important instructions as to
the political rights of all mankind. These instruc-
tions have spread to South America, and the In-
surrection is therefore partly to be ascribed to the
effect of old abuses, but chiefly to the consequent
progress of political knowledge.

The REMONSTRANCE which Mr, Orator HUNT
addressed to the PRINCE RBGENT, in the name of
THE INHABITANTS OP WESTMINSTER in general,
though it, in fact, issued merely from himself, the
man ludicrously stiled Doctor WATsoN, and an
()Nem e individual, who attended the Rabble Meet
lug in Palace Yard and seconded the motion, has

been returned to him trout the Home Department,
and in consequence be sent a Letter to Viscount
SIDMOUTH, of which the following is a copy :

" 8, Norfolk-street, Sept. 14,
" MY Lotto,—:fit the same time that L acknowledge the
return of the Remonstrance, which was unanimously agreed
to at the Public Meeting held In Palace-yard on Monday, and
which was delivered to your Lordship by me, to be presented
to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, I cannot avoid
adding, that your Lordship appears to be the first Minister of
State that has ever dared openly to interpose his otticial au-
thority to prevent that frank communication between the
King and the People which is so essentially necessary to the
happiness and safety of both.
" I remain, my Lord, your Lordship's most obedient and
most humble Servant, " H. HUNT.

" To Lord Viscomnt Sidmouth, Home Department."

Now, as we attended the Meeting in Palace
Yard, we, can confidently speak of its real cha-
racter. There were fewer persons present than
we ever saw at any Meeting of the kind. In
fact the people might be called a mere handful.
There was hardly an individual that seemed dis-
posed to give the Orator any applause; most of

them heard him with frigid indifference, or grin-
ning contempt. To represent, therefore, such
a scanty audience as the Inhabitants of Westmin-
ster at large ; to pretend that the hackneyed de-
clamation offered by H. HUNT was the general
expresssion of their sentiments, in a Remon-
strance which came merely from him and his two
satellites, who resemble the three Imps, Eo, Meo,
and Areo, that follow Trappolin, in the farce of
Duke and No Duke; and to accuse Lord SID-
MOUTH of interposing " official authority be-
tween the King and the People" by reject-

ing that Remonstrance, is an excess of auda-
city which could only he expected from a Spa-field
Reformer. If Lord SlDmotrrn had really pre-
sented a Remonstrance from such a triumvirate, he
would have departed from that dignified sense of
official duty which has always marked his public
conduct, and which he has maintained with laudable
consistency on the present occasion. His Lord-
ship, in fact, would have offered an insult to the
PRINCE REGENT, exercising the regal power in
the name and in behalf of his MAJESTY, it he
had obtruded upon his Royal Highness such offen-
sive trash, and from so contemptible a quarter.

The Bishop and Clergy of the Diocese of Kil-
kenny, at their last Visitation, voted au Address
to Mr. PEEL, in which they have paid a very com-
plit►tentary tribute to his political talents, and the
pure and constitu►tional spirit in which they were
exercised, daring the period of his Chief Secre-
taryship in Ireland.

General Sir GREGOR M‘GREcox, of the Pa-
triotic South American Army, arrived in Dublin
on Saturday ; he intends proceeding to Belfast
on Monday evening.—(Dublin Erening Post )
In a few days the Duke of IN/ELLINGTON will
give a splendid dinner and entertainment at Va-
lenciennes. Considerable orders for poultry,
choice wines, and eatables of all kinds, have been
given in Paris by order of his Grace.

The Earl of LAUDERDALE 211(1 Lord MAITLAND
are now at Milan. After making a tour in Italy,
in which they are to be accompanied by Sir Tao.
MAITLAND, the party proceed to Corfu, the seat
of his Government, as Lord high Commissioner
of the lonian Islands.

The Grand Duke MICHAEL, after leaving Bath,
on Thursday morning, visited Bristol, where, hav-
ing seen every thing new or rare, he drove to Man-
geon's Hotel, Clifton, where he remained until
Friday, and then proceeded to Plymouth, for the
purpose of inspecting the Breakwater and the
Diving-bell.