The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-23 00:00:00

study the advertisement, to which accordingly \vt
beg leave to direct their attention.

We are extremely glad to see that the appeal we
made to the Treasury on behalf of JENNERY, the
man who was unwillingly committed to prison by
Mr. BURRELL, the Queen-square Magistrate, has
not been without its effect. On Thursday, Mr.
R. STEUART, one of the Lords of the Treasury
waited on the Magistrate, and having ascertained
that the man was the victim of an unjust law, gave
directions to remit the penalty. JENNEItY was
accordingly released on Thursday by an order from
the Solicitor of Stamps, indemnifying the Justice
for any moiety of the penalty which may be claimed
of him by the informer. Great praise is due to
the Lords of the Treasury for their prompt inter-
ference in behalf of Mr. JENNERY, and their con-
duct in this instance should serve to prove that they
will not be slow to redress other grievances when
pointed out to them.

We have the pleasure to add that several bene-
volent individuals have interested themselves in be-
half of JENNERY, who has been handsomely com-
pensated by their bounty for the injustice inflicted
on him by the law. It deserves to be noticed
that there was no malignity in any party.
Mr. JENNERY was not the victim of persecution.
The informer thought he was doing his duty, the
Magistrate most reluctantly did his, and had not
the humanity and kindness of individuals been supe-
rior to the justice of the Iaw,JENNERY might, with_
out any wickedness in any individual, have been
keptin prison for a month, and his family compelled
to take refuge in a workhouse, or be exposed to
starvation. When we recollect how long and how
strenuously our humane people were compelled to
exert themselves before they could obtain any ame-
lioration in our sanguinary code, we are inclined to
think that in all cases the humanity and virtue of
the people, as in this particular case, outstrip the
humanity and virtue of the law. If that be true,
it becomes a curious subject of reflection, what
good can be accomplished by giving the worst of
two guides for conduct the ascendancy, and com-
pelling men to follow it.
While this rebuke to a law of forty years' stand-
ing was administered at Queen-square, a law of
last Session, which to us appears quite as mischie-
vous as the law which punished Mr. JENNERY for
selling the produce of his own industry, was most
rigorously carried into effect by the Commissioners
of Excise, causing, we are sure, a much greater
mass of evil than the law prevents or corrects. A
barber, of the name of ROBERT ATKINS, was
convicted before the Commissioners of Excise of
selling gin, and fined in two penalties of 201. and
101. Under the New Police Act publicans cannot
open their houses on a Sunday morning, and the
consequence is, that barbers have turned gin sellers
or gin givers-away. The temptation for them so to
act is wholly created by the law ; and on the head
of the Police Act maker should be all the guilt.
Thirty pounds may be a larger sum than this barber
can pay ; in which case he will have to expiate his
conduct by imprisonment. What business is it of
the law-maker whether men drink gin or not ?
Why does he not interfere to prohibit the use of
wine ? If, as some people say, tea and coffee cause
nervous disorders, why not put a stop to drinking
them ? For the Legislature to expect that it can
supply the place of discretion in individuals is a
lamentable error. The attempt to make human
nature better by sumptuary and police enactments
has been condemned by its results in all ages and
countries. Why, the law-makers have not more
discretion than can guide themselves ; how, then,
can they guide other people ? The ambition of
poor, fallen, unpopular Mr. HAWES was con-
temptible.

The best-informed French Journals regard with
sad presages of more revolutionary horrors the at-
tempts now making in Spain, under the cover of
courtly moderation, to prepare the way for the abo•

lition of the Constitution of 1837. That such is
the actual design of the REGENT, and that her
MAJESTY is supported therein by the countenance
of LOUIS PHILIPPE, are facts too notorious to
require the support of other evidence than what is
supplied by the common sense of every man in
France and Spain. Now as the Government of
this country has done so much for Spain—so
much for the REGENT and her " August
Daughter the innocent ISABELLA ll."—we
think that it is called upon promptly to in-
terfere to prevent the QUEEN from sharing the for-
tunes of CARLOS and his family. Her MAJESTY'S
power and popularity, when opposed to the influ-
ence of the incensed and betrayed Cortes, will not
maintain her upon a Throne, which an attempt to
abrogate the Constitution would render her totally
unworthy to occupy. We know that Louts
PHILIPPE does not want to see a Constitutional
Monarchy more liberal than the mock Monarchico-
Republic of France established on the other side of
the Pyrennees ; but he had better beware lest his
intrigues should replace it by a Republic in real
earnest. For ourselves we care not a rush about
the Queen of SPAIN except as the representative
of the principles of civil and religious liberty ;
and if she abandon these principles by a per-
jured endeavour to rob her people of a Con-
stitution which they purchased with their blood,
we trust they will have virtue, and patriotism,
and courage enough left to send her, with her
daughters, in spite of all the crowned despots in
Europe, to share the destinies of the exiled Mem-
bers of the Royal Houses of BOURBON and
BRAGANZA. But as prevention is always better
than the most effectual cure, we trust that Lord
PALMERSTON will take immediate measures for

the dispersion of the storm now gathering over
unhappy Spain. The REGENT should be ap-
prised, and that speedily, of the danger of hearken-
ing to the Councils of such traitors to the liberty
of their country as ISTURIZ, TORENO, and the
gang of political quacks and pecuniary plunderers
who now infest the Spanish capital, and who
blind her to the hazard she is incurring in admitting
them to her presence. Her MAJESTY should like-
wise be given clearly to understand the part which
Great Britain would take in any struggle between
her and the Cortes. She is probably not aware
that the Government of this country does not care

a straw about the mere abstract question of the
right of ISABELLA or CARLOS to the Spanish
wisoulndotgiavepaersbounttionnEtonoplaron‘die,
there Crown—that
Wthehwigilol of FE
rTory' who
RDINAND, or the law of PHILIP V.,
valid or invalid ; and that the contest has here been
in reality regarded as one involving the triumph of
the principle of liberty or of despotism. Now it is
really of the utmost importance that her MAJESTY
Should know this, and that the instant she aims at
the overthrow of the Constitution she forfeits for
herself
and her daughter, the friendship of her most
generous and disinterested ally, Great Britain.

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the Ist inst., from Constantinople, which state that
has cost him, and that
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to tile satisfaction of the Viceroy,
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the new French Ambassador, hoady
of the Minister for Foreign A •
He assured REDSCHID PACHA. M. Po N TOI s,
hisof first audience
aaundxieilolcues
fFairs on the 78th.
desire of his Government to see the differences be-
tween Turkey and Egypt speedily and amicably
adjusted, and added that England and France had
come to a perfect understanding upon the most im-
portant points of the question at issue.
The correspol,dent of the Carlsruhe Gazette,
further states that the Porte has declared to the