The Sun. — 1821-06-25 (London, England)

BRITISH PRESS.] The next Session of Parliament promiSes already to become far more important, with reference to the financial condition of the country, -than "any we. have passed since the return of -peace. The' assent expressed by the Chancellor ~-of the Exchequer to Mr. Ellice's proposition, on Friday night, respecting the appointment of a ?Committee in the next Session, for investigating :".and simplifying the accounts of the Sinking Fund, must prove highly satisfactory to the country. yliVe- hope, however, that important as this particular object undoubtedly is, the duty Of the : Committee will not be restricted to it aloe, but will be made to embrace a general examination of ' the mode of framing the accounts of the whole revenue of the country, with a view .to. the simplification of every part of the system. 'There prevails at-present, in. the made of keeping the public accounts, an extraordinary degree of complexity and confusion, which can have uc other effect than to mislead and deceive the  public, and to incapacitate the great•majority of -the Members of Parliament who have' not specially devoted themselves to the study of the accounts as to an abstruse science, froth forming sal independent opinion upon the actual state of tbe finances of the empire, and consequently to --prevent them from suggesting the means of correcti-ng the_eyrors, or guarding effectually-against the commission of abuses.. But the worst. of the evil seems-. to be the extreme .difficulty, not to say the absolute impossibility, under the present aspect of our public accounts, of discovering --"-Pra'uds committed by officers upon the public Puke, should any of them betray the confidence that is reposed in their fidelity and honour. We have no cause to suspect that- such a crime is,. .--practised b-y any persons now in office, but all 'who have had occasion to see and examine the i-eCurns made froth-the Treasury to the orders of r Elie. /loose of Commons, must feel how easily the varieties an,t3 diversities- that appear' in the detaii.s,,o-ccasioned by the frequent:transfers of sums of niorey from one head of account to another, aed-the different aspects under which the same accounts - are usually presented, maybe made,a dual: for dishonesty, and no wise Government 'ought to confide too implicitly in the incorruptible integrity of its inferior agents.  • NiAv-Ttmr.S.] The mode -by which our -.Opponent (The .• id-corning Chronicle) makes. out. that we have called the S}Anis-it .Government a rebel -Qavern.- inept is-extremely curious. It is only to be arallelled by the ingenious mode in which , Peter, in-the tale of.a Tub, construed his father's • picking one letter out of one word and another out of another, -and so making itp any se-nterices :that:pleased his fancy. It is unhappily but too notorious, ..that Spain is in a state of anarchy: It is - notorious, Chat-in the face of all law and ofall.Government, a set of blood thirsty villains have_openly made out lists of proscription,. and forced, the constituted authorities to seize and banish-persons of the first rank and hi;ltest character in the State; that a General of distinguished loyalty has been brought to trial on an ex post facto larr,.for acts done in the strict discharge of his duty, and after having•been one.; sentenced to a lighter penalty, has been tried g!ter again for the same offence, and condemned to death, to gratify -a furious and frantic mob. We cannot doubt., that these and a  thousand other such enormities, daily perpetrated in Spain, it part of an organized plan to murder the Monarch and subvert the Monarchy ; we say, that the individuals, whoever they may be, that promote these enormities and direct this plan, are -rebels ; and that the sacrificing the lives of faithful subjects to the fury of-the rebels would be an act of baseness in any King. Whereupon The Morning Chronicle asks" What rebels i" And answering itself, replies, " Why the Cortes to be sure;"— and then boldly asserts that we have called Jbe Cortes rebels, and the Spanish Government a rebel Government I-.—Certainly we do not profess any great respect for Cortes ; we do .not applaud their Decrees for seizing Church property, nor the numberless other steps which they have taken in servile imitation of the National Assembly of France. We do not think their laws prove them to be very great friends of .the Liberty,of the Press; and we again beg it to be observed, that the very Ministers whom they themselves raised to office, declare that the public opinion .of Spain is decidedly hostile to the system which the Cortes wish to establish.  [