The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-09-03 00:00:00

CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

Lord Palmerston has done wonders; he has acknow-
ledged the Brazilian Princess, and sent her an ambassa-
dor—a Russell too. But the order of things seems to be
rathe'r inverted, for, instead of sending an ambassador to
the Queen, we are waiting for a favourable opportunity
to send the Queen to the ambassador.
What incalculable weakness has Lord Palmerston ex-
hibited in the whole of this affitir—we say Lord Palmer-
ston, because the present Government is a Government
of departments; every man is independent at the head of
his own office; every man for himself, and Old Nick for
them all ; and, accordingly, the flippant viscount has been
suffered to carry a dandy project of his own into effect, not
at the risk—but with the certainty—of a Peninsular war,
in which, by the precipitancy of his movements in recog-
nising the Brazilian pretender, England must, if she have
any regard for her national character, necessarily en-

gage.
How a man with Lord Palmerston's opportunities could'
have been so ignorant of Don Pedro's character as to sup-
pose that he—kicked off of his constitutional throne—
would, with that of Portugal in his posgession, give it up
in favour of his daughter, we do not comprehend; but
even if his ex-Majesty should be frightened into this
course, and by the aid of English neutrality the poor girl
should be foisted upon the Portuguese nation for a mo-
ment, how long will that order of things last? We will
tell Lord Palmerston—exactly as long as the constitution
in Mr. Canning's time lasted—that is to say, so long as
English troops, and English ships, and English marines
remain to enforce her sway and support her dominion.
Don Pedro is hated by the Portuguese-Lnaturally
enough, for he went out of his way to. denounce his coun-
try and denationalize himself—he spurned his country-
men, and gloried in becoming a Brazilian, which he is,
by every law that nations recognise ;—so is his daughter.
The Portuguese people will neither forgive nor forget
the insult offered to them by this charter-making charla-
tan ; and the fact of a Brazilian princess being his child,
is of itself enough to support and strengthen the party of
the lawful King.
That Don Miguel is the lawful King we know ; but we
did not know, until the Times one day last week favoured
us with the informatiOn, that ministers (whose organ it is)
were equally satisfied with the right, of Don Miguel to
the throne, and made that the ground for liberally oppos-
ing hiM. The Times of Tuesday says(in its private cor-
respondence), " The partizans of legitimacy pretend that
Don Miguel is supported by a 'formidable force.'! This
is curious; the only ground upon which our Government
could hope to stand in the discussion of this question is
its belief in the right of Donna Maria. Now if we, who
maintain that she has no right at all, and, therefore, above
all other reasons maintain the right of Don Miguel, are
denounced as the partizans of legitimacy, it is clear that
our opponents in the cause admit that Don Miguel is,.the
legitimate monarch.
What we have always said we still maintain—that
Don Miguel is the king de jure. That he has been King
de facto through several years of trying circumstances,
is most true ; and most true is it, that without the infam-
ous interference of the Foreign ()knee in a case *here
the King of England himself stood pledged to perfect
neutrality, Don Miguel would have remained King of
Portugal. For who are the people who have driven him
from his throne and capital ? The Portuguese, his own
subjects ?—No. The Brazilian people exiled his worthy
brother, Don Pedro, and have thus entailed him upon
Portugal ; but Don Miguel has been defeated by French
robbery and English meanness ; an army of hired mer-
cenaries have deprived him for a moment of his throne ;
and while our Prime Minister has had the hardihood to
deny in the House 'of Lords any knowledge of wbat,was
going on (justified only by the ignorance in which Lord
Palmerston must have kept him), every preparation has
been made to secure the expulsion of our ally from his
kingdom—our Navy have been instructed to salute the
Brazilian girl's flag the moment it was hoisted—to land
our marines, it the revolution were doubtful—and a Lord.
something Russell has been established in Lisbon, with
credentials to the Pretender, cut and dry, in his pocket.
However, the affair is but begun—the tocsin is only
sounded, and we congratulate the departmental ministry
on what has already occurred. Mr. Stanley wants
twenty millions of money for his West India experi-
ment; Lord Althorp wants three or four millions for the
Bank--a million or so for the Clergy ; Mr. Grant
wants nine or ten millions for the East India Company ;
and Lord Palmerston will very soon want twice as much
as all that put together to carry on a war, in which
he has so madly—not madly, but stupidly—involved' the
country.
To Spain we ought to look with great interest. The
King, if not dead, cannot long survive. The power and
influence of M. Zea de Bermudez (generally character-
ised by the Times as a liar, a cheat, and several other
equally bad things), is a man of honour, firmness, and
sound principles ; he loves his country to his heart ; he
knows her character well, and in him all good Spaniards
should have faith and confidence. We believe they have,
and we trust that his influence may continue and
strengthen, even though it should go the length of
ing our Foreign Minister even more ridiculous than he
is at present, supposing such a consummation possible.
We again repeat our belief that if. the Portuguese na-
tion are as firm in tireir support of Miguel as they are de-
cided in their hatred for Don Pedro and his Brazilian
child, the cause must triumph, and so far are we wedded
to entire neutrality upon such questions. that if we
thought the Portuguese nation did not feel as we believe
itdoes upon this point, we should not advocate the cause
of the King so warmly and earnestly as we feel it just
and right to do.
We wonder when Lord Palmerston heard last from
Lord Ponsonby—and what his Lordship says ?—J ohn
Bull,

One of the foremost assailants of the Church, and de-
nouncers of Tithes, exhibited in the late discussions in
the Commons upon the Tithes Stay of Suits' Bill, was
Mr. William Brougham, of whom we must here take
leave to. say a word or two in relation to the subject—a
word or two which will bring the subject home much
nearer "to his business and bosom" than may be agree-
able; though with that we have nothing to do—it is his
affair, not ours.
Mr. Brougham, as we have said, assailed the Church,
and denounced the Tithes. jn the case of Kendal, to
which he particularly referred, he even disputed the
right of the vicar -to his dues, as the property of the
Church—pretending ignorance of the fact, that the right
is based upon even a better foundation than that which
gives his learned brother; the Chancellor, his £12,000
a-year—his unlearned brother, the M.P. for Kendal, the
£2,000 a-year sinecure he still holds in the Patent Office
—and himself his £3,000 a-year place as a Master in
Chancery. And yet, though the foundation of such
right be the law, confirmed through the lapse of ages,
Mr. William Brougham would refuse him to enforce it,
whilst he would sanction his brother's claim to put into
his pocket thousands of the public money, by 'virtue
of an appointment which he and his party long, long
ago condemned as a gross and abominable sinecure !
Such is Whig patriotism!
But more than all this, and what we had more espe-
cially in view when we set out with these remarks: this
said sinecurist brother of the said Tithe-hating Mr. Wil-
liam- Brougham—to wit, the Reforming Member for the
Boroug ,-4,061a1-.--is himself "a Tithe-holder ; and—
tell it hwark, proclaim it not in the streets of
Kendal";:' tiijactually one of the very vile crew who
have instituted those prosecutions to recover Tithes
against which the hon.- member fulminates such terrible
denunciations: Yes—incredible as it may seem, it is
nevertheless true, that Mr. James Brougham, M.P. for
Kendal, is lessee of the Tithes for the parish of Brougham,
in the county of Westmoreland; and it is no less true,
that this self-sanie Mr. James Brougham, not content
with the amount of Tithes that haS sufficed for all
time past, has actually commenced suits for enforcing:,
further exactions ! Even green Tithes have been paid
in that parish, without demur, hitherto; but this-is not
enough, and the hon. Reform. Member for Kendal has
instituted actions for the recovery of agistment-Tithe
alone! One of these actions is against a fanner of the
Earl of Lonsdal&s, a Mr. Nelson : we mention names,
in order to afford proof that what we state is true. And
here we cannot refrain from noticing the striking con-
trast which this case presents in the conduct of the two
parties to whom we have alluded. The Broughams have
ever been amongst the loudest declaimers against Tithes,
and denouncers of what,they have . nit scrupled to term
clerical rapacity; and yet here is one of them pocket-
ing his Tithes, and enforcing his claim thereto even to
this very rapacity itself—saying, with Shakspeare's Shy-
lock, that he'll " have his bond, and not be made a soft
and dull,ey'd fool, to shake the head, relent, and sigh,
and' yield to intercessors." The Earl of Lonsdale, on
the contrary, has shewn no such enmity to what the law
recognizes as the property of the Church—has put forth
no such winning wiles wherewith to gain popularity ; and
yet the noble Earl, although he is a considerable
Tithe-
proprietor, has not instituted one single, solitary suit to
enforce his claims ! We only ask the reader to look, im-
partially " on this picture, and on that."—Carlisle Pa-
triot.

RAMSGATE.—The servant of a Miss Champion (a lady of con-
siderable property, at present sojourning at Ramsgate for the
benefit of her health) happened to be walking under the cliffs
at the flowing of the. tide. He heard the voice of some one cry-
ing for assistance, which he discovered to have proceeded from
a woman with her two children in her arms embayed by the
sea, and up to her waist in the water. 'He immediately
rushed to her assistance, and rescued her and her two
children from their perilous situation. On hearing the
mother exclaim that there was another, he again dashed into
the water, when he found a male child struggling to clamber ul/4
a rock; in his company was an old woman (the latter having
been twice washed away by the waves), both of whom he also
fortunately succeeded in rescuing from a watery grave. On
reaching his mistress's house, the circumstance had such an
effect on his mind that it was with difficulty he was restored
from a long fainting-fit. It is worthy of remark that the
man who thus fortunately recovered so many of his fellow-
beings from a watery grave was unable to swim.