The Sun. — London, England, 1816-01-10 00:00:00

THE SUN RE VIE W. t . . ' (o. cswil.) : • ... . The Edinburgh Review for October, :\'o. SD. priciree'to v. -ifint..E ' and,' Co. Edinburgh ; - and . I..OrkinisiN ' and Co. London. , , - We lately extracted many admirable Oagcs from the last - No. of the Quarterly Revieth, a work • which; every point of 'view, is honourable to tlie_Country. To-day we select a specimen from a publication of opposite political principles, from which, however much we differ, we are not so uncanclid as not to acknowledge, that it is a • "performance hi g hly creditable to our national li terature. its polities indeed were wont to irri tate; now the struggle is over, they serye to amuse us. We love to look back a few years, . and read in this damming substantial Record of Party opinions . ,. hundreds of predictions, in which Scottish tecondsightedness had no share ; essays %limn passing politics, which events invariably, as if in spite and malice, devoted to ridicule ; learned )uctibrationt unfortunate in every result ; and the rettiest. theories in the world, only that facts „always arrivedi to expose their folly. • So much have we been gratified with this sort of reading,- that were we to be asked, what pe xiodical work we would recomnienil_ to draw • a convert, to PrrTPrinciples from the Opposition, ' , ire should reply—read by all means the Edin burgh Review. 'The_ satire it contains against the 'Party it has pretended .to stypurt, is so biting, and ridicule is in such cases so much more convincing than argument, that we are sure no man can pe-. ruse - these .pages without abj ur i ng th e opmiont they were written (ironically, we suppose)_to in. culcare. • •' The lair.' Number of this Miseellaoy, in the midst of Several indifferent, contains one or two vent. clever Essays. Lord E LGIN ' S Iteply to , o ne • of these has already appeared in THE SUN.— With the political articles we shall have 'nothing terdo ; leaving it to time to render them as absurd as all their predecessors of the same geniis. . But • 'we -think a 'short extract from the.notice of Sir N •Witaxst.i.'s izossiping and miseideious psthli-. cation may be agreeable to our keaders,• Irmo the strength of its ' general comments 'on - the crime of Slioler;--that crime which dues not more ,to dissociate Alan . than the heaviest ottLuce la the iletalogae, . . . ..,., , .Ttie Northern Critics set nut by replying to Sir NATHANIEL:AI " Auswer ". to 'their ,former Cri-' tique. They then take up the topic in a nroso 1141141•;;;Ci;SvIISe, apd thus Colll4ltllt. 11p01) it 1'...... 1.7i,011 a resie.w,of the charges which we made against .hint, we find that to a considerable moo- Isee to :them, d ,these not. the least-important, ' lie - makes no' answer. Ile stands mute on his arraignment, antlinindi therefoi e receive judgment tii a - calitorrtkror.' His imputation of --cowardice • against 'Lewin XVI. he ernes oat attempt to iiis.. Pity.. liistbarges• agsiitsc Mr. Pitt, Mr. Fox, Hod Air. Biir`se, of being ready to bring !Lord Mirth 4 to the block,'- 7 againsr Lord -, North' .of having eollesced \kith Mr. Fox, tram desire of income, ft, ;1 of..peisooal &stoker (whiCh the virtneend sold: ot this writer. cal!s ' prudence,' Aniwei• p. .45),—:32Ainsi ',Lord Thurlow for having_ answer. ' , ed.; he King in a.manner insolent if his Majesty's, proposal was reasonable, ,und barbarous' if it Was irrationaf,:i4a ii ainst the King !himself tor duplicity to his ministers, and our- charge against Cit. writer for excusing, if'uot npproving•thnt-do plicity,, which ;is Coo gross to be more titan jams, ginit:y---are all passed over in profound and pros titre silence by this pretended Answer. He oh serves.the ,like silenc.. where he was most of all •ealled upo n to deOait from it, respecting his accu sation . against the Vrincess Dowager of Wales, the Duke of Bedford, and the Earl of 'Bute, of having received money from, the Court of Frame . for the conclusion of the treaty of Fontainebleau. .. . sr his tale re s t e d or i g i na lly u p on the testimony of o r lotilsgrave, a physician at Paris ; and we too , „ some pains to deaionstrate iti alistirdity, ny. i tk exatnioation of the nature and reception:of Mos,. 4 ' grave's accusation. We were induced to tin .ti,.. partly by our knowledge that (principally, Fli Wc' comeive, from rumours originating In that.absurd narrative) reports most thiliononrable to the Bri tish -name had been circulated on. this siibiect in foreign countries '!'hat the King's-mother,' the Prime Minister, and the most opulent Nobleman in the kingdom had sold their tountry,--tliat they bad been guilty of the meatiest and most sordid treachery,—is a fact which,if true, ought iliitibt 7 less to he made known, that their newels might be ;'»r'etier branded according to the enormity ot their guift,—bat of which the truth must be most deeply fi r' zlored by every lover of . his coontry as a national Alt g isace, and which the man who paisliShes without 'rro.of thirsskimsell be stigmatized as a falee I:Censer, the guilt of' ttliose vonntileis charge. is exactly- . kropnrtioned to the atrocit y . of the - clime which' lie littputes i t"Otithers. ' .We have animadverted iu terms .of Jun severity on this writer's impudence :: , iu reviving this long exploded scandal ; and tae'; did io with' the more sternness, because this hdoi,„ . ivliich no man can vtote in London wlthoirt'btlitig 41104 at, may hereafter be dragged out,ofitbe Totgetten corner of an old library at • Paris : or, 'Washington, to furttish a:pretended proof of Eng lish baseness and venality.. Sir Nathaniel,-how ever, neither lei raets the ehorgt-nor supports it. He is therefor ! .• not only a s land e r er , b ut ~,, „b., stniate litter *corrigible . blauderer;.• s' I leave,' ' s a y s lie, , , 'D r , Musgrave's information td its ill.. ti'li.tie • tl'e4;ilt.' , Ifl, - other words, he 'neither as- Wourits ,tit or argumeots our refutes them ; but having dont all the mischief in . his ,p ower to hp, itheie4,ri'ii? individin.ls, alit! .to the elturnetit tie: she .lo,tioo, .by 1 he tcvivill of the story, lieu,kss,` i from iesponsdiii;ty for its triith,--- i neitheotro:wis, ' 'tor . abitiolims • it, but, very cavalierly tellsyss A tfiat 4!:, icaycs it to its owo ititiiisic wei4lit ;:r.,-Lle has , .._ ttneonscionedy copird zile picture a scandal g:ren by the hatirist— Now comes the generd scandal charge, What some invent the rest enlarge; And, Madam ; if it he a lie, You have the tile as cheap as I P But such subterfuges must not avail the man , Timis gossip either in print or at the.teit , table. The reviver and circulator of slander are them selves slanderers--- , and, much more, if they insi, nuate their belief of it, and directly lend their authority to the tale---sif they labour with (how ever stopid)• industry to collect - all the circum stances which cats render it plausible, and exhaust the beggarly resources of their ingenuity, to - give it a colour of probability. That they dare not openly profess their faith in the. story which they help to circulate, is a proof that they are guilty of cowardice, not that they ate innocent of calumny. Nearly five wretched pages of the first edition of these ,Memoirs are employed in these cowardly and fraudulent artifices, for persuadieg the readers to believe what the writer dares not say that he himself believes. His enemies asserted,' are saving words of no real importance, when - all that ftil lotvs is manifestly contrived to . gain credit for the representation. It is c a lled the only satisfactory solution of the tlifliculty' -- of Lord Bale's 14v ing built an expensive house. it is urged that the Duke of Bedford never answered Joßius ; anditie. egregious folly of this pretended argument ought not - to screen its malice. De. Musgrave's ridicu lous accusation is propped by a mysterious allu sion to commanicatioes made before by him to• per Sons of rank at Paris. Junius and Wilkes are produced as witnes,ei against Lord Bute and at last it is asserted that Lord itutemt the distance of half a century, is believed to ltia. e rendered the treat! of Fontainebleau subservient to his private emolu ment.' .Believed-Lby Wham ? if he means that it ia,belie.vetl by men of sense aid honour, let him produce his ptoofs. If he means by foolish and vulgattnintled men, his own. book is a iiifficient proof of his assertion, and will be quoted (if it ever is quoted) its a proof of the event of that crrdnlity Which springs tram imbeeility,—and which is' blended with the tincture of malice that never fails to colour the curiosity and vanityof the gossip. We are disposed' tiv charity to leave him undisputed possession -of Wilkes's address to the. electors of Aylesbury. It is absolutely his best historical authority. • " To all these, serious charges he' makes node, fence, On another matter, rather personally in-. teresting to his own character, he is equally si , lent. :On the Ist tat Dccenteier, 1783, he tells us that be voted against Mr. Fox's India Bill, ' con ceiving it improper longer to adhere to Lord North, who seemed to have forsaken himself,'— NOW some of our readers may know, that a se.. tOtld bill foe time internal regulation of India was then introduced by Mr. Fox, of which many of the provisions were afterwards adopted by Mr. Pitt ; and that in this. second Bill there was a clause, directing a rigtirons.iitquiry into those real or pretended debts of Indian Princes to British subjects, wbich have since been immortalized by the eloquence of Mr. Burke. The world believed that the fair or fraudulent creditOtS of the Nabob of the Carnatic, had employed the' money of that degraded .Chief its sending six Memb et s t o th e .11ottse of Commons ; and we had.heartl, that Sir Nathaniel Wraxall, , in a judicial examination, had pretty intelligibly assigned the interest of these creditors as the motive of his vote against-the India Bill. We ititimated , our curiosity on this point to Sir Nathaniel An the last Review. But. he is silent as the grave. Indeed, he is very deli cate about his own private concerns, thOugh no .apnringly coarse about those of others ; and must honourably keeps his own secrets'—being the only 'Ones which be can certainly know, and has an Undoubted right to tell We lament his silence time more on this subject,'. because he might have given us not only a sheet' out of Benfielti's Ledger, hot a chapter from the Memaiirs orOsSiito: If he Inid given us this information, we might have . perused with less, wonder, though not with less indignation,. the audacions passage in which he ventures to say, that Mr. FOX'S Commis s i oners for Indian Affai rs , among whom were [surd. Fitz william, the late Lord Dartmouth, the late Lord Guildford, anti the late Lord Minto, is ere to throw India into the r rapacious hands! of pet-- sons whose character exci:ed general alarm., " 1 We burry' over small matters, He said that bud ebYereil himself. with glorY,' , we thought the height of ridicide, till Sir's employed , two pages of what . he calls' his Answer to prove n. ,. .-which , we think more ridieidous still. "tile repeats that he only said that the King'of Por tu,gal had a skin, as clock as a Moor,, and a face carbuncled by haul drinking ; it seems, we had no right to call H description of a drunken 01st Moor,' Ile modestly - admits, that Thichault knew the Court of Berlin hettet thinks it of no consequence which of the t tivra ac,-„ counts of the dismissal of - Prince It WH3 correct ; though the troth be, that, according to' the authentic information of Thiebault, there was no dismissal. Let it not be said that the numer butt, or rather numberless examples ,of small hind yertehcies anti inaecitracies,separately 'comiidered • . perhaps minute, are not very fir . subjects of: criti. eiturin &itch a performance ,as. the present., There' is' no without minuteness.',. Such multi- Plied . instances amount to a proof of that habituaal laxity anti disregard tO exactness which is scarcely compatible - with scrupulous veracity, and.which is' qutterly fatal to the credit of (L'collecttir of anec-' ,dotes from tradition and recollection," Are shall not add to this quotation further than to recommend it to the m o st serious perusal of of alt Calumniators, original. and tectind-haud, and to all Believers in Scandal. The celebrated . Ca"'juror, David Phillips, of Plymouth Dock, tins been'edminitted to the equnty iititiewal for a mouth, for 4uetentlitig to tell for tunes. The distress which ibis man's villainous aos has diffused among the credulous, we are told, is very great-. In one instance alone, a respectable, jOtlng female was persuaded hy him to break oil: %At, honourable attachment, ty s ith a gentl e m a i l who courted her. Lie went abroad, in cruise: ridence .; was ship-wrecked ; the young wouiao'it. intellects yielded to the utock • and stiff is now in 4144:11943% 01,i1(ANAL POETRY. FANCY. Companion! Playmate,! Nurse of Bliss Come Fancy, young and fair And brat' thine airy world to this, • And snatch the Soul front Care ! Came on thy wings of sparkling' light, And cheer, and charm, and cheat the tight, And feed the mind en air I Clad ever soothing, ever free, Let all thy peinp be revelry! neholii: thin' yonder crimson cloud, Ethereal vestments tbm, Mid Fancy shakes her fiery shroud, And darts her rays below ! And laughing is her eager eye, And soft from tattle upper sky, She strala its wreaths of snow; And splendid in her purest dress,. She scatters peace and happiness Oh t rest thee yet waterth, fair MMd, And strike thy silver shell?, And let thy highest strain be play'd, And carelessly excel ! • '• The dew that from thy fingcr falls, lustre dart on thivery walls; front each pearly bell, The smallest, sweetest note shall creep, And charm the drowsy ear of Sleep ! Oh l tome and lead the infant Thought To scenes far eve! new, And tet the talcs which Hope has tatilibt Seem beautifully true! Oh ! fairer is thY world of tears, . • • And dearer are thy trembling fears, Where shadows, shades pursue, Than all this, bitter world can give, When must it bids us try to live Oh ! see to yonder moss-topp'd tow'r, Young Fancy speeds her way, And calls her Suns from ev'ry hover ) , To hear the luring lay Attention creeping, clasps her knee ) And Laughter chides his former.glee, AO hour runs alter hour! While still the rapt and eager throng, Hang ev'ry sense on ev'ry song! - Ol► ! most complete, when carelistmosti And soother of our sigtil And wand'rinr, still, but never lost, Except within the sky ! Oh ! crer.bressitig, ever blest, And m n ost at peace, when least at rest; ! robe thine head on high ! ' And mantled ip thy dress of dew, Pry sh Aours, hopes, and pleasures strew ! Jan, 8, ial a, North E.,d, nartmenpliii.l4. An advertisement has been put into tbe Papers to announce,..that the Itev. Mr. UAYCS, who. was ordered by three or four Gentlemen, calling them selvei the'Catholics of Ireland,' to. leave the De putation,- .to which .he was appointed Secretary, behind him, and' proceed himself. to Rome to teach polities and divinity to the Pontiff and the Sacred College, has got himself into serious pe conicity •embarrassment, and is, in short, unable to return to his native country without the aid of " - the public. It would seem that certain pro mises were . made to him on hil depot cure, and that he calculated on ample means of meeting all. - expenses ; it is Matt Said, that be. was told • h e they '' draw for any sum" on an individ ua l who took much interest in the objects of his journey; itt the • end, however, it turned out, that it has been his lot, as well as that Of many others, to be duped and deserted—the bills were drawn according to direction and invitation, but 'when they 'came to be presented for acceptance, no one conic% be found who knew any think about theta I Of all the transactions that have. vet oc •eurroti this is the most curious. It developes more of,the real character of our modern patriots than the most ponderous quarto could possibly gm . Freeinczo'a JUurnal.) s'OO Sunday evening, between seven and eight • - o'clock as Mr. SMITH, ,jeweller, of Grafton. street,. Solio,.was on his way home, he slipped off the kirb;stone in. Little Newport -street, near Newport-alley, (to make way for some Ladies' pissing), and tell with such violence that he - cut' his bead in a dangerous manner, anti lay for some tim e stu n ned by the fall; tome persons collecting around him assisted to raise hilt), ttud while con 'veyjogitim to a doctor's contrived to 1'01) 1111111 nt a gold watch,. chain., and gold seals, value 401. also of his diamond shirt-pin, neck handkerchief; land his hat, which one of the_ villains snatched oat' of a Gentleman's hand, was assisting S.. I t i s strongly snspeeted this robbiry. ;. dntte by . sortie butcher's men, who seemed very officious about the person of Mr. Smith. It i s `hoped'ihe' Police Officers will loOk after - these' gentry in this , quarter','as it is well known many periotis have had their pockets picked in New- Jthrt-alley on Saturdays in the evening, while looking oat their Sunday's dinner.: au.-4bout six o'clock on Saturday evening, -. Miss C. Mmt.s, of No, 4, c ,s,'loane-street, Chelsea, went up tti her rooto, to dress, in order to go out to an evening party, when she inadverteutly set the candle out the bed ; in a few minutes she teas alarmeil at seeing the curtains on fire,, the flames communicated to the wainscot, and almost befoie she could give theularm, the whole room watt. in a blare her screams, however, brought several of the domestics to her itasistanee, who providen tially got her safe away ; but, in the mean time, the,fire monied such an alarming aspect, that , Serious fears were entertained for the safety of the filtrrountling houses, which probably Svotiliiihnve_i bean.destroyed, bitt for the activity displaYed by MT. Mavßatm, tin engineer, who. at the fir.,t got out the parish engine . , an‘i ioituriliatery put it into play ; ha also, at very great risk, suc ceeded in getting out all the hooks, and some pees of great importance te2 the family, i ris well as 01 the plate. Owing to his exertions, with. the proMpt assistance rendered by the neighbOurs, the lire Was got tinder in about half no hour after, but uot ,llefore the upper part of the house, with about 3 001 - Worth tit property, WAS destroyed, We are b , ppy to state no lives were lust.. NA VAL N bIVS. DEAL, JAN. back by contrary wind the Cabalva, Mkt), for India ; Castle Finney . , PAT. imam; Marquis flitily, ill'CLsoo; and Mar iris of Ely, DaLev MPLE; for ditto ; Joi n t HEVILANN for Rio Jantbiro ; CAMPBELL, for Jamaica ; -Shannon, Gonnox, for Bermuda E ar l Fitztviniam, 'GArtaisoa, for New y6l k Neva, ADAM, for Jamaica ; and srvcrai others— particulars not known. Came down /JIM) the. River, and remain, the Jane, BANINIST2II, for J and Baltic Merdllallt, GORDON, for • Wind S. W. F4LIWOUT44, JAN. lea the Marlhorongit packet, C4ptaiit BULL, with mails for L6bon.-..... Witi4 N. N, W. _. . . POIi::II24OUTH, JAN. 9.---..ktriVC(l the Merlin, GALleißti; from the Downs ; EtatTnx, from West. IltEt 1N1). AD,TOMINZD SESSIONS UN uEß, rnv INSURRECT:OX /1121'. . CACI! et., Dac. Kiertecta was chared. us an idle person, out of his dwelling on tlett 1811 s, December. Richard F'ennefather, jitn. Esq. swore, that he was out patroling on that night, under a written authority froin• his father ( l'..Pennefaiher. ; that he went to search for Kierwan, againvt whom, tue. bad a .warrant ; that by f. , und ilfter +tic,* o'clock at night, at one half .4 tuile.from his own residence; that the account the prisoner are of himself was, t it he had cupped at home, and came to sleep at Carrot's about au hour be fore, and that he bad not slept at home for three months. Mr. Pennefather had a warrant against Kiertvan, and time prosecutor toad him that Kier. wan slimt 'at Carrot's, Timt. Peunefathem, ltsq. the Magistrate above alluded to, swore, that charges had been mud* before him again,t , Kierwan one for an assault by one Kierwiek, and another for felony. It appeared- on the defence, that Kier Wan, - who was Kiertvick's landlord, had assigned tint over to pay a debt to Mr. Anthony Dwyer; that the debt , ought to h ave been paid by th e p e rcepti on of Kiel wick's rent ; and Kier wan accordingly distrained, when he thought. Kicrwick was again liable to him for the rent ; and he endeavoured • to make it appear that Kierwick's proserution . w wafi a malicious one, origin:tig only. in tat pur pose to get riel of his landlord by transportation. To awitain this, he produced Jame. who . proved that he hat' heard the prisoner hail been served with a notice by the iisturbers, notice was produced and ran verbatim as follows: Mr. Nerwan I am tould you hare census i sled many brezieheis against the law* first for petlary in favour of Mr. fiamiltot; against Thomas nannagan and third fur swingting Daniel Kiertrwick out of his property also John Ryan, ut Ti l iperary rimed not mention haw you serred hint, • Dy the 11MT and, Just Sariuur-if you do slot make a recompense in those times end return Kiecwiek his Vattle and let him pay you his rent honestly' you will be mad the gi eat vst example in the Countrt takes the Lirstend last vidr4ine,•• • CAPTAM PULL ALL.' And Captain Willcocki being examiaed, swore.: that . on.the Morning alter the Mall-001.4.Cil had been. attacked, a person, es he verily believes the saner at the bar, shewed him a notice to the pur port of that now produced, with► which the inao, alleged he had been serve&sburtly before. Mr. (Thomas) Pennelath2r being re•exrtcninecl,' said, he lives within two mile s . of the p r i bolier ; that he.never heard of shuts being tired at him, or of any threatenipg notice; until atter the mations sworn agai,,st him by Fverwick ; nor ever heard of any diSpnies , with the Kierwicks , until the informations were lodged. Mannin continued evidence. by stating, that in consequence of thisoinice the prisoner discon. , tinned, through terror, tosicep t in his own noose, and for some time slept at i.tannints--that atter the 7th ,or Btli night a party came to Maunin'a house, 'in arms-,4 hat on being asked their (isi-. ness, ti n y first sain.it Iva, about tythes, and to prevent t beta from settling. with .the Proetoss they then asked if natant had not an informer and on being asked, who I they answered, John Mermen. Mannin not liking this kind of domi ciliary visit, :4.0u1d no longer harbour poor Kier wan, who then. sought an asylum at Carrurs.— Mannin knew Kienvick • was Kierwan's tenant, and that the latter bad disiruined his cattle; he heard thai .Kierwiek had obtained a warrant• against, him,, and, that Kierwick knew of Kier., Wtll-1 1 .4 sleeping at Carrot's, us tie hail often coma to this witness to settle bet wean thent, 'The attack on Riernuni was • publicly known through the neighbourhood, • In all the essential part of Ibis 'testimony,' Michael Morrisny, another witness, currespoudett Avid] Alanniv ; and Kierwan was nuaninionsly quitted, and by the Bench admitt e d toibail on the charges against him. ..Serjeant Moore took the occasion, Which this trial afforded him, to observe shortly, but strongly, an the confidence which it already appeared that. the people were encouraged to place in the law, and in the protection of it,. when two decent far. niers- came forward t 4 give their testimony so strongly in favonr of an honest man, persecuted a 4 be was by that s y stem of insurrection, against which, - a very short time bad, no iniin 'of' that class dared to raise. his voice. A man, :called Wilson, hill been taken into cut. tody •twilay in Exeter, upon information and des. ,eriptionnfirimrcceired heKelfrons Lotidon;Witere he had tendered moil banking-house it 10/. note stolen from. the'couirting-house of Messrs. Granger aunt Co-of :dila Icity, - in Aug. lait; as stated in our Paper at the time. It appeared on his examination, that upon'his vresenting t he note in question ,the bankers 'detained itl,on the preteuct that it had been lost, and 'desired Win to en!! again in a few days, when they should turf,' eard from the banker in the coun try who had issued it : but, instead of doing so, he •teolte place in the et)uch for Exeter. Information, of him arrived here betnre hint. Several picklock keys were found upon hint, anti sonic of them or it 're y curious construction. The account he gives of himself is ; that :lie .was formerly a linen-draper in porsetsuitc, and lately a dealer in plate ; this liratl Air l 4 l ‘liigiitti6l.:strcet, Exeter, and :lays he iiienfte . either in Hytnonth or Exeter, but does not knot of whom.. Ile, was detained for further, examinatiort,Flindr/i's Western Louni, V k