The Sun. — London, England, 1819-04-17 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN. IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT Is Private Injustice and Public 'Fran. [Continued and c oncluded.) Ma. EDITOR—As illustration of the injus tice of Imprisonment for Debt, 1 shall suppose a mar, who has been in Gaol upwards Gt three years, and for a debt of five hundred pounds, deprived of his liberty, anti the exertion of his abilities or labour for that period. His impri sonment has reeuced him to a state of decrepi tude and inability. Yet this man, who has been so confined and is so reduced, must give up five hundred pounds, which I shall yet suppose a friend to humanity has lately bequeathed to him, in commiseration of his sideriegs. The liberty which he is now capable of enjoying can have bet, few charms for him ; for, alas ! of every Using, save his family, that could render liberty most desirable, he has now to mourn the loss, and never can he hope, that to him past bles sings will return: The companions of his early years are gone ; the friends ot his cheerful hours ot life are no more. Nothing remains to him to render Tile endurable, but his family ; and they, instead of casting a beam of consolation through an evening of gloom, will, if he be obliged' to give away from them this five .hundred pounds, hich might place them in a situation enabling them to carry on the struggle of life, to assist him, will be unable to mitigate the affliction he endures, and he must sink under the oppieSsion. The love of liberty is the passion ot nature : the has planted it with the very first seeds of ani mieion—retideriog, in her wisdom and boontv. es hat is most valuable most deur. It is equally instinctive, as growing from the best anti noblest deductions of reason ; nor is there the most un seemly lump of earth, or unnatural is the clod on which shincs'the least ray of either rationality or sensation, that does not warm with it. It is so deep-rooted in existence, that even nut the brink of the grave it is not dead in the bosom ready to tall into eternal decay. Neither the chill regions of obscurity, bondage, and wretchedness, extin guish its fine flame . ; nor in the dazzling guests of splendour, luxuty, and profusion, is its s ciiiid light entirely lost. It rallies in every awakening pulse of mettly sensibility ; and even rousing torpor feels its reviviag ardour. In the frozen gloom of cap riaity anti decrepitude, the pi ironer feels it trem ble in his lentos( pulsation ; and in the valley of delights, while it trembled in vain, the-philosophi cal Johnson's hero could taste but bitterness.— Fr . om the dawn of life, to the last beam that glimmers on the horizon of mortalhy, ite in fluence moves in each motion, has its agency in every action, nor ceases to lighten on the path of humanity, till it sinks into the interminable night of dissolution Yet all hopes of it must the prisoner tear from his .now reviving expecta tion 5 or, by paying this five hundred pounds,for which he has before beets deprived of what no hundrejs, or thousands, a; 'ten of thousands can repay, throw himself and family, naked and aban doned, on a cold inhospitable world, where every avenue to comfort, or even subsistence, is strong ly hatred egainst them, by that direful prejudice a ttends debt and misfortune. Just God ! is tii:s ihe Law or the Equity which thy dispen eations. thy bounties and mercies, teach thy crea tnres to exercise towards each other ?- That after depriving my fellow-creature for what is in finiiely of less value, of what thou only canst bestow, and what thou renctrsest indispensable to any enjoyment of thy numerous blessings, of whet thou bast stamped with inestimable value ; that 1 should afterwards rob him, under the name o f L aw an d Equity, of the full amount which I bad ro" demand before I deprived him of any thing 0, come, thou pure, essential Purity—thou life of liberty, humaiiity, and happiness ! 0, come unspotted JUSTICE ! Come from the savage, and the solitude, and deign to visit the abodes of po lished Society, and civilized, falsely called man. Restore those Heavenly days of the soul's sun-shine, which Poets denotnimited golden, when equelie of value for value s:rewed the paths of labour and industry with abundance, health, and comfort, open as the day, were diffused with trauquillity and innocence, and heart's content ment. Then, indeed, will be the season of true national prosperity, and individual happiness.— Then no more will the many labour for the few, while the few give the many nothing in return, bust misery and lessons of error. No, thou man of those few ! thou wilt no longer grasp the fruits of the many's labour, because thou wilt see, that thou canst give the many no equality of value in re!urn. Thou wilt no longer riot in idleness and elissipation on what another has produced in toil and suffering, and give him in return nothing but idle stories of pulley and commercial conve nience. Thou wilt no longer snatch the morsel, necessary to recruit the exhausted powers of na ture, from the trembling lip of hunger, and of him who has already given thee more than thou deservest, because more than thou bast given him erly thing for, but leave to " work and weep I" Thou wilt be ashamed to see thy natural equal sinking; in want, and toil, and wretchedness—in nakedness, fatigue, and famine—while thou art wasting in delicacy and debasing luxury, in foolish pomp, vain ceremony, and childish skew and splen dour, the produce of his heart breaking exertions. Thous art wasting the - produce of seeds sown by straiiiings even to the very utmost tension, and . watered by she sweat of the very life drops of ani• nottion. Blush, thou tnan of those few What is the robber, what the thief, who is hanged by Law ? The robber and the thief only take the mo ment's, perhaps accidental, properly of an indivi dual without giving any thing in return ; but you take the whole life's, indeed essential property, the labour ut the many, and give them in return worse than nothing, your Law, which tells them to be satisfied " to work and weep," arid let yin wallow and wave in superfluity and extrevagaece. The many can work without you ; you could not waste without thy messy. It is the !slimy labour ; it. is you. do not ',items. Would you, after de priving a IIIASI of hisliberty,claim also the earn int:s of his laboor and all his future aegnilitions Are vou suns Bslllllll,l Llsve you any of the si•iritof manliness, of the pick of independence, , if not of the sense of etrity, the high mindedness of justice, about you ? Do you not blush to live on the fruits of other's indu.try, to feed by their hands, to move by their feet ? Do not your cheeks, your hearts, burn with the glow of humllietion, of debasement, to devour the bowels of weariness and struggliug, to quoit' . the heart's tears of want and wretchedness ; and to give them nothing in return but commands, to be satisfied and work on in misery, at your word, and let you wallow and waste iii superfluity and extravagance, from the hard earniogs of him whom by imprisonment you have reduced to decrepitude ? But, do not con , st , ter whether such a Law is what the many de serve, nor whether in this Law there is an equa llit y of value for labour 1 nor even for a moment consider, whether your mixed mendicity and robbery, your begging from the indigent, and swot hies Isom the tarnishing, be high-mieded or honourable, or even not &wattling to the commoe chararaer ,of man 1 . consider not only whether it prolllotei yoer own' happiness—look to the reality, not the semblanees—to the material, not the gilding—to the substance, not the shew Do not your idleness and luxurious living bring enei ratio') and Listless lassitude ; do not your riot and dissipation bring you surfeit and pain ; ,does not your luxury bring you premature feeblearps ; and hasten the step of death ; and do not yotir pomp, andceremony, and slim, and splendour; fill yeu %dill care, anxiety, a varice, and estibitie - 41 . ; with wide, mortification, and jealousy, hateed,'envy and bitterness ; with such eating. vnlytine-de touring passions, as render life almost One inces sant struegle of agony, and even make the fleetest step of death a blessing ? Say, does the flavour of the luxurious dish, of the delicious cup, riuuy you fee the pain and death that are ambushed in the contents; does the childish vanity 'it title or wealth repay you for the corroding passions, and the cruel anguish that await your luxury and dissipation ? Say, do you feel any thiath like real haepiuess in your situation ? Which situation con fers more real !tepidness, this, or that in which you would 'eejoy the simple sweets of nature, plenty, but not prolusion, comfort. without in toxication, tranquillity without dominion, and see eery one armled you enjoy the same ? 0 come, thou pure, transparent loveliness, thou true needle brightness, thou real light of mae kind, JUSTICE, come 4 It is thou only caust bless the human race, for thy train is every blessing, and in thy Law, squality of value for value, every bleFsing equally to all. Establisha U ! establish here, and wherever men is found, this Law. Let every one exercise and labour enough for his health and subsistence. Let not fictitious and intruding credit impose eel:mural conclitions ; and every one will think and study enough for the solidity of his jedgment, and the refinement of his genius ; each will have time and emulation enough for tue one, and necessity and independent manhood enough for the other. No one,will waste, and no one will want, for no one take from another without giving an equality of issiee; noue,will he torn by envy, avarice, or andattion, or any of the it malignant train f: tor no eisie will fear for his own comfort, and no one will repine at that of his neighboer. Then the pen, the pencil, and the chisel, call " forth the finished forms of perfection ;" for there will be no sordid care to tern the mind from contemplation, [to " Chill penury to ft eeze the genial current of the soul, or repress its noble rage," no lowering passion to dial the smiling radiance of the heart's full elow of best and loveliest affections. And then will Humanity and Liberty, in the exquisite simplicity of nature, walk hand in baud ,with all the circles of society, nor will the one be sacri ficed at the shrine of Avarice, nor the other at that of Ambition ; for the law, the clear trans , lucent law, equ,rey of value for value, will teach • that both are above all price of human .acquisi .4lol4 ; and thou, celestial Justice, wilt draw down heavenly dispensations again on earth, and dis tribute to all the sons of men unstinted happi- lieSS T . I. Teal . April 16, 1819. CANDIDUS. UNIViItSI 1Y INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, APRIL 16.—Congregations will be holden, for the. purpose of granting Graces, and conferring degrees, on the following days in ensuing Easter Term, viz.—Wednesday April 21; Thursday the 6th, Thursday the 13th, Saturday the 22d, and Friday the 28th of May. Yesterday Mr. Rickards, of Oriel College, Mr. Dornford, of Queen's, Mr. Awdry, of Christ Chinch, and Mr. Coleridge, of Moreton, were elected Fellows of Oriel College, in this Uni versity. ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS. A dispensation has passed the Great Seal, en abling the Rev. It. Clifton, M. A. to hold the Rectory of St. Nicholas, in the city of Worcester (to vailich he Itits.been collated by Ate Lord Bishop of that Dioesie), together with the Rec- , tory of Matson, Gloucestershire. • .The Rev. Joseph Tweed, jun, to the Rectory of Hiutlesham, Suffolk; patron, NV:Deane, Esq. The Rev. Thomas Spencer, A. Al. to the Rec tory of Winkfield, Wilts, void by the death of the Rev. Edvi. Spencer ; patron, John' Morris, Esq. of the same place. PRVACHERS AT ST. MARY'S—Mr. Heyes, of Exeter College, on Sunday morning.— Mr. Glitch, of All Souls' College, in the afternoon.—Mr. Johnson, of Madalen College, the Latin Sermon. Yesterday the dispatches were closed at the East India-House, and delivered to the Pursers of the following ships, viz. : KeMc Castle, Captain A. Lindsay, and Lord Castlereagh, Captain \V. Youngliu,hand, for Ch Ina direct ; Catherine, Captain W. Knox, for Madras direct. We arc sorry to state, that very unpleasant in telligence respecting the plague in Barbary has been received. The letters were dated so recent ly as the 17th of March, at which time the plague, which bad been decreasing for some months, had returned with redoubled fury : The deaths were greater than had been experienced dtirin4 the last fatal year. CHILD DROPPING.---TbOr9day night about ten ►'clock, a fine female infant, about a year and a half old, was found lying on the step of a door in Newman's-place,' Bishopsgate-street, wrapped up in an old bed-gown, and a white handkerchief tip d tight over its face; it was immediately taken to the 'Vol khonse. LPN INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCII, Apren. IC. Landow Sittimp before the Chief Justice and a Special Jury. HILBELts U. THORNTON AND ANOTHER. BREACH OF CONTRACT. This was an action for a breach of contract.— The defendants, Messrs. Thornton and West, had covenanted to sell and deliver to the plaintiff a quantity of St. l'etersburgh yellow candle tallow, in - 300 casks. This took place in Nov. 1817. Be fore the contract was fulfilled, there was a con siderable rise in the market, and the defendants found that they could dispose of the article other wise better than I , y adhering to the terms of the bargain. On the lith of Nov. the tallow was laded at different wharfs on the river, and the plaintiff was immediately apprized of it. It was late on Saturday evening when he received the notice, and having only moil early on Monday follow ing to prepare to receive the tallow, he was lin able to meet their demand for the amount on that day, as be had had no previous notice when the ships were expected, which was usual in the trade. The defendants, alwayS willing to rid themselves of the pledge which they had given, took advan tage of his inability to pay their first application on Mondiv, and declared that he hart forfeited his part of the contract, which was thenceforth null and void. The very next . day the filaintiff re ceived a remit•ance of 4,7001. the pi ice of the tal low, from Scotland, kW' rendered it to them.elaim ing the Will - inlet - 4 of the contract . It was urged on the part of the defendants, that they were Hot, obliged to overholt so large a stock of tallow, un till it should be tor the convenience of the con tractor to pay for it, particularly as it was then an article much in demand. There was also a dis tiuction attenipied to be made out. bet ween the case of asolveot buyer and a speculator. On the other land, the plaintiff argued that it was against justice and law to press upon him so large a pay went, and having given bins only from late on Saturday night to early on Monday morning to examine a carg o of 300 casks dispersed in five different wharfs. lie also complained of another infraction of those understood accommodations which men in trade owed each other, by not giving hint some notice of when the vessels were ex pected. As this turned in a great measure upon the usages of men in the tr:de, a good many witnesses were examined, from whose testimony it appeared, that though the contractor may, the day of landing any goods, insist upon the pay tnent, yet it was a strictness sellout resorted to.— :lite plaintiff sought the differety e between the price of the article when he bad bought it, which was then 31. Is. pet cwt. to 31. 9s. to which it was subsequently raised ; the whole amounting to 6311. 13s. 7d. These damages the Jut y gave hits with Out hesitation, upon a conviction that the conduct of the defendants was illiberal, and that the plaintiff had not had sufficient time to prepare himself. When the verdict bad been given, the LORD ItISTICC expressed himself well oleasett with it, and added, that his idea of the transaction perfectly coincided with the view which file Jury ►►ad taken of it. HOAX EXTRAORDINARY.—A.short time since, a young. unfortunate, passing himself as the son of a wealthy Baronet, arrived at Brundley's Hotel, Nenagh, in rather a sad plight ; his wardrobe was literally on his back ; it had evidently endured many a campaign, time having worked its way through every seam—his ingenious address, and open avowal of his errors, won the warm heart of Brundley, who received him with kindness ; his good nature also was warmed by assurances tof the truant having been just discharged from the arm y, which he entered in his frolics, on his coming to a large property. Assurances were doubly sure, by his producing a dratt---his own of course—on his banker in London for three thousand pounds, two thousand of which were'to be lodged with the worthy innkeeper, as his fu ture agent, for immediate expenses. The tailor's goose was set to work by the Nenagh gander ; in one short day Bond-street could produce no such Exquisites as our Baronet-to-he—to finish the turn-out, he was decorated with the innkeeper's gold watch, chain, and' seals. Dinners in the first style, a profusion of Priests, port and prime claret, enlivened the festive board, and the worthy innkeeper was, in courtesy, often invited to sip the claret. Some wise old men of the neighbourhood paid their respects to the youthful Creestis—hunters of, high - blood were neighing at hii nod ; one Nestor was to get 10001. to relieve a mortgage ; another, a smaller sum ; in short, it' was Providence sent this benevolent young Gentleman among them. .Thiags %vete going on this way several days, the cork-screw constantly work,Pt when a letter.trotil the county of Cork undeceived poor Brundley—he then - lear r ned enough to convince him that the young traveller seas playing the old . soldier ! The golden dreauis were gone—the agency lost—mortgages unre deemed —all was surprise and dismay !! To be angry was useless--‘a thing well dune disarms vexation. The poor unfortunate man was sent away, Brundley himself paying the bill !!! (Limerick Peeper.) Snot KING OUTRAGE.--Wed nesday evening Charles Cryer, of. Wick, Gloucestershire, was at the public-house of that town, in a state of in toxication, when, after abusing almost every per son he saw there, hearing that a man was in the ' house with whom he had previously had some words, he declared be would go out and cut his throat from ear to ear ; be then immediately went to the room where Ashley, the man alluded to, was sitting, deliberately put out the lights, and drawing a knife from Lis pocket, began to execute his intention, and which he would have actually effected but for the providential in terposing of a person who had followed him to watch his designs ; be succeeded, however, in inflicting a very serious wound across the left side of the head of Ashley, which bled profusely ; he talso bit one of Ashley's fingers in a dreadful man ner. The surgeon who attendt Ashley is very doutltful of his recovery, from the extreme loss of blood. Cryer was immediately put into a con stable's hands, but by some mesas he has escaped. SOUTHWARK SESSIONS. The General Quarter Sessions of the Peace the Borough of Southwark were held yesterdel at the Town Hall, before the REC ORDER, Sir It' EAMER, J. J. SMITH, Esq. &c. Charles Hancock, aged only 18, Was indicte d for feloniously taking from the person of James 04 " vey a watch-riband, a gold seal, anti two wa tch " keys, on the 10th of March last. The prosecutor was in the Borough on the evening meutionedo, when the robbery was effected by the prisoner, 0" two others, who however stood aloof. Whe n th " 6 prisoner was conveyed to the watch-houe, ir appeared that one of his friends ‘vas extrem'll anxious not only to know his fate, but to lure!: rain what he had done with the pr o p ert y he Od" inr primed (stolen) ; but not wishing to expose tGe self to the officers, he got into a room tvhere third person (who knew all about the ma'tf.,/ was concealed, and with whom he e ntered in t , au earnest conversation. " Will be catch rt said one, " think you ?" " will, I'm afraid replied replied the pater ; " but where the 11--idt, fling the swag" (property) ? His compaoioo tb C scribed the spot ; but an officer overbearhig ro conversation, instantly took the hint, a nti w ell ' t . the place pointed out, and there found tbe,p"ol cutor's seal, keys, &c. The prisoner was f",` E , Guilty, and sentenced to Transportation for.LV's ,r • StnclEnt.—A shocking occurrence haplfi ned all • Saturday last, at Heston Barracks. pt . "' U9i r e l , low : one of the 1 9th lancers, a fine V""14-feee low, came into the barrick-room about t • o'clock in the afternoon from duty, and sat n'be the tire with a number of his eompanvs) io,. • seemed low and dejected ; his comrades Y I , upon him for being so low spirited ; tvade,lfic reply to their observations, hu: removtd fro"' or fire to the bed, and sat upon the side of it 04 some time. The others brew round t h e •fir•ey ° ere were conversing, when oti a s udden 14 4 1 % j e alarmed at the report of a pistol; On 1.-411:1,4: round they saw him tall back 011 be.: - . 1 . ig - fatal pistol lying by him, and th-g--01-0!'47;;; - from his side, w bete he had shot.liyi4olo.;' * ..t • almost immediately. Surgical ale:1 1 02 r immediately, but to no purpose. iir .4 7;0 rather unwell and low spirited for sork.tinleA' Inquest has been since held on the body, a u— Jury returned a verdict of " Lunacy." de e3s. Lieutenant CHARLES JAMES GRIFFIN, al" - ve ,' Commander of his Majesty's cutter S'" th 'drowned on the 7th instant, mf Bridlittgtrt Yorkshire. This melancholy accident ":clicut.' by his too great anxiety to get on board 1"1 das hed ter, in a heavy gale, when the bolt was ena against the pier, which caused th e ontintelYc 1 oto, of " the clerk and two seamen , with +he ir . mander ; tour other seamen ',app.'', esc a P e ‘froog din g ing to the piles of the pier until b°3" .:the shore came to their assistance. SMITHFIELD, APRIL, j 6, ~Our Market was this morning pretty we ll 611 " 1 . 1t . ' ,0: 4,- " til fl plaine Beasts, which met ready sale at our lil , t q u°l '„,cr I t :, The slow of. Sheep was not very 1,i,,,e, hut the 40 ,14 A Mutton'Svat higher gran Monday. Veal and Porll;cfrarto support Monday's prices. Lamb was brisk in sale an' bricks The business in the Hay Market was by no m eans of de notwithstanding which the p r ic e of that article di u 1 '4.-; t ral cline. Cover seas dull in sale, and prices nom inal.' de , m aintained our last prices, but very fe w sales K'err'y Amsti ( id :(LU I ILSE OF EXCHANGE, Fgr pax, ~ri6 l 15 c . , t. 11 3 e i f t Ditto, at Sight 1 1 7 NI oi" Rotterdam B F ,' O. f , Antwerp .. s4 Co 3 4 I Hamburg!' 9* a UP Altona .2 Paris, 3 Day's sight 34 i° O V 4 *, Ditto Bourdeaux, ditto Frank forton the Main ..... • . • . 141 3sl gret , " Madrid Cadiz 3 F3 , .' l3ilboa Gibraltar Barcelona Leghorn Genoa... 47i-Vrnice, Dal • ."'" • 41 i r ef 01. Malta. s . .. su .. ----Naples .......... i T O. Palermo .. . Lisbon t; Oporto Oi Rio Janeiro , Dublin • • • .... . 13.. •.. Cork .. ... 13 pi!) . Ce!!t• Agio of the Bank on Holland.... 2 per CCU BULLION. 0 o Pe r Qf Porttmal Gold, in Coin ii (/ • 5 5 wNe Dollar- 0 6 0 Silver, in Bars ......... • On the 15th inst. at the Governmen t house, v' f ' • BIRTH. 741f P Ebrington, of a sun. ... " , ) ,, n Tt;;dr.idldasstt,re,a,N:tliaDe----isttfu:iaDmEnr:c)lo.inl;!:at.grbrer—f' tt' . 'l ,. r fk , o 1 4 :i 4 0 , 1 131.etr s i . , sq. of the Island of Jamaica. sr e. a 1;1: On "a v n v t . e ii ri e rael o intit f itZ E C:l l l : l:,° ; ; :r ‘Tel t i l lal esl l , : l ' a d i l idl i i a e u -18 i ' inst,ol' t t r a rl :te u 'slisicel"' fi ll° °a : f t e : I' ( 6 ; t1 :0 4.11.1); ~ ortmd.lVlA ogiferise.thstreebia.y i1105i,)•0,.. to& At three o'cloa, in the morning o'f M°l.--,id6s-v'ife of - p 4, s m ta a tt i , ey a , t r t s he house of her father. V• r-I F,Y ,,,, ldi ll t; t°l" of LI an o v er g ,. t s t e e c a ( r mi A d b d e a ig g a i s i,t e e nci; f , I.Nlleouirralu b tb sI , i"" ----;'..:_. • ---- o f 14;7, PROVINCIAL BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AS P P 'ett )j BIRTIIS. 0 OOP On the 6th instant, at Lady Harriet Daly's, . street, Dublin, Mrs. Crofton, of a son. .I. l3 f rit°l3l On Wednesday morning last,the Lady of Llenry F.sq. of a daughter. --.......---- On the 12th inst. at St. George's Dnblirs'oit-illetotitici ;imitable and Reverend Edward' Wingfield, sco".iiiird (PIO ter late to Lo t r h d e I Viscount ate tio i4o P t o u vs a lr i sec Georgeo rt to it , :cor Earl of Roden. , ptain 11 _,, At Bideford, Devonshire, on the 6th inst. Cal . . t OW Vine, of the brig Sidus, to Miss 13. Bond, both of t ha t -.1"...--- --- O f DIED• g o ile Ope Saturday last, at Bueldlistleigli School, John ...,_0 Seale, third son of John Henry Seale, vonshire, Esq. Leonar d 1* At Topsham, Devonshire, on the fith inst. LOP rt l Esq. a Surveyor of the General Post-Office. of rf ic e On Thursday se'nnight, William Besley, sq. 0 Devonshire. sevito3rl; 0 Yesterday'se'nnight, Mr. Thonias Perrot, of vsg, Of Lately, Ann, third daughter of Joseph Phillip*, ••• Martin's, Stamford Baron, Cambridge. -.___ _--- - '----- - -- 0.1 g 9 6( LONDON: Printed by J. B. CARSTAIRSi 0 ' - - ci . y ' 'd r i,el l of Mount 1.). r, 0 Ormond -street, Queen-squre; and ppblishe ,rio ,411 SCRIPPS, of ,No. 7, South ikitliton-Street, at ' Or o;fice, No. 119. Strand ; where A ldrcss ed. , d ve rtisem ently Lettvrs, &c. (post-paid) Froist43C a., ? 2, /70/, p :i ;1 1.