The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-27 00:00:00

NE WPORT-MONDA Y.

The following letter has been forwarded to the Mar-
qu:s of Normanby by Mr. Frost's solicitor :--
" Newport, Monmouthshire, Nov. 22,1839.
" MY LORD,—As the solicitor of Mr. John Frost,
who has been committed to her Majesty's gaol of this
county upon a charge of high treason, I have during the
last ten days been engaged in this neighbourhood in
collecting matter upon which Mr. Frost's defence to
that charge is grounded.

" It will be within your Lordship's knowledge that
on the day on which Mr. Frost was apprehended his
papers were seized. These papers are very numerous,
and as I am instructed, contain amongst them mate-
rials essential to be given in evidence in the course of
his defence. To render those materials effectual as
evidence, it will become necessary to ensure the attend-
ance of witnesses, some of whom reside in remote
parti of England and Scotland. I have made two ap-
plications to the committing Magistrates for permis-
sion to examine, to take copies, and to make an index
of the papers so seized ; but the Magistrates,' without,
1 believe, wishing to throw any impediment in the way
of Mr. Frost's full defence, have expressed an opinion
(clearly an erroneous one) that they have not the power
to comply with my request, and they have referred me to
your Lordship. To your Lordship I now therefore
appeal, trusting that your Lordship will, with ail conve-
nient dispatch, issue those instructions that may lead to
my being afforded free access to the papers in question,
for the purposes which I have before expressed.
" It has, my Lord, within the last few days been
currently reported here that the special commission
under which Mr. Frost and others are to be tried will
be opened within the next month. Professional men,
however, and 1 amongst them, cannot and do not give
credence to that report. If this were to be so, my
Lord, the trial of the accused parties would be neither
more nor less than a mockery of justice. The time
afforded for getting up the defence would be far too
limited to enable me, by the best exertions of my
humble abilities, to do my duty by my unfortunate
client ; and I should shrink from the responsibility of
attempting a hurried and unmatured defence in a case
involving the deepest interests of man.
" In addition to this, my Lord, the present
excited state of the public mind, operated upon by all
the influence of anger and of revenge, generated by the
I unfounded and heartless calumnies that have day by
day been heaped upon my unfortunate client, have
destroyed, for a time, every chance and hope of a fair
and impartial trial. And though deep and widely dif-
fused as are the sympathies of the thousands who are
watching with intense anxiety the result of those prose-
Icutions, those sympathies are but partially felt amongst
the class of persons from which a Jury is, AS of course,
to be impanelled.
" I shall perhaps be excused for e,alling your Lord-
ship's attention to the various instances in which crirni-
i nal prosecutions have been suspended, and postponed,
when public feeling has been strongly excited. With
those cases your Lordship must necessarily be far better
acquainted than I am, and of the justice of the course
pursued with reference to those cases your Lordship is
far more capable of forming a just estimate than 1 may
presume to be.
~ I abstain from further observation, feeling assured
by the eNretiCUCO the past thatyppy t,OrdshiP
upon all occasions eN(3l'6's the powers with which
you aro lovet4, conformably with, the claims and Ilia
dic-
tates of justice and of humanity iqpid that, tegaTtiless of
the designing clamour of hired and *ders pros, your
Lordship will in
tile Present case pursue that course wbich
you may consider best calculated for promoting the ends

of public justice, and, as a consequence, of securing to
the accused—on the behalf of whose rights I now address
your Lordship—a full, a fair, and an impartial trial.
" I have the honour to be, my Lord,
" Your very obedient humble servant,
" W. F. GEACH.
" To the Most Noble the Marquis of Normanby,
Secretary of State, London."
Last night Mr. Geach applied to the Mayor for per-
mission to have an interview with Zephaniah Williams
and William Davis (the latter being the person who
was arrested at Canterbury). Both those prisoners are
confined in the barracks at Stowe-hill, and are not al-
lowed to have intercourse with any other persons. They
are placed in different rooms. The Mayor, in reply to the
application of Mr. Geach, gave a written order to Mr.
Harris to permit him, as solicitor for the prisoners, to
be admitted to them in the presence of a trusty person.
William Davis's family are in very comfortable cir-
cumstances, and live at Blackwood ; he is quite a lad.
Williams continues in the same desponding state. He
will be brought up this day for final examination.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

PROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
It is fabled of the scorpion, that if surrounded by
a fire, finding its efforts to escape from the flames in-
effectual, it destroys its life with its own still.. The
Tories are now in the situation of the scorpion environed
by flame; and, like it, are engaged in suicidal acts. The
revengeful attacks on the Court by the Tory Press, and by
the foul-mouthed vilifiers at Tory feasts, have wrought, ht, to
an extent which is daily increasing, considerable apprehen-
sions among the aristocracy of the country as to the con-
sequences of such reiterated calumnies on some of the
most noble fatnilies of the land, the female members of
those families not excepted. To degrade is not merely
a step but a stride towards destroying the order of no-
bility. The apostles of Republicanism, who preach
the doctrines of equality both of birth and property
to the ready ears of ignorant and excited multi-
tudes, make large and frequent quotations from the
columns of the Tory press and from the speeches of
Tory orators. They truly represent that these pic-
tures of the Court, and of those who constitute
the Sovereign's " private and social circle," are drawn
by the journals and speechifiers of the very
party which was formerly the most strenuous in its pro-
fessions of attachment to the Throne, and in praise of
those who immediately surrounded it. No longer per-
mitted to occupy the Court, to haunt its purlieus and
crowd its avenues, they would destroy what they are not
permitted to possess for their own exclusive advantage !
No wonder if the Tory aristocracy, with all their hereditary
prejudices against Liberal opinions, begin to discover
that the safety of their order demands a stand
against the Ultras of the faction, which has shown so
strong a disposition on several occasions to fra-
ternize with the advocates and disciples of demo-
cracy and anarchy, even though the pillar of society
should thus be shaken to its base, and the ornament which
adorns its summit be cast down and trampled to the
dust in the general confusion! It is now the obvious
determination of the more rabid of the Tory party to
precipitate a crisis. The "No Popery" yell, which
was only raised for mere election purposes, without
any intention that this savage " battle cry" should
be followed by acts correspondent with its import,
is not to be suffered to remain an empty sound.
The Greggs, INPGhees, Sullivans, 111‘Neils, Camp-
bells, and Stowells, and a host more of clerical incendia-
ries, who from pulpits and platforms preach up an Ant!-
Catt-die crusade, are sanctioning—perhaps they call it
sanctifying—the sedition of their lay allies, the Rodens,
Robys, Bradshaws, &c., at Tory orgies. These mutually
act and ro-act upon each other, until their ardent spirits
are " roused to deeds of arms," and chide the tardiness
of their leaders for not leading them at once to the attack.

(From the Courier.)
The Welch are a peculiarly susceptible race, and of
passions easily excitable. Sir John Josiah Guest could
tell us, if he would, of terrible scenes at Mcrthyr-
fvdvil within his experience. Some twenty thousand
men descended from the mountains of Hirwain in
1835, and dictated to the affrighted burgesses of Mer-
thyr the man they were to send to Parliament. The
man of the choice of these hillmen was the candidate
who bid highest, and talked loudest about Reform, and
Reform so closely verging upon revolution, as, in their
untutored minds, to be undistinguishable the one from the
other. The leader of that day has been distanced by the
Chartist Chief of this ; and the men of Dowlais, then
ranged under the banner of Guest and Reform, are now
seen as enthusiastically marshalled under the orina.:.ime
of Chartism and Frost. The Silurian, witl; inten-
tional deception, may prate that the " aristocracy in
Wales view with suspicion every attempt made by per-
sons of the middle class to enlighten their working
neighbours on political or other subjects, so that
the two classes have become completely isolated."
But the fact is, that in the hills there is no " aristo-
cracy" except the great irontnasters may be so classed,
and in their behalf we may testify that generally they
have not been wanting in endeavours to promote reli-
gion and good morals among their workmen, however
in other respects the indiscreet pursuit of gain may have
led them to abandon the prudent precautions, once una-
nimously agreed upon, for the discouragement of those
trade unions which have been the germ of all mischief. In
the agricultural districts of the plains and valleys, where,
amongst an untainted peasantry, the " aristocracy" of
South Wales must almost alone be sought, no Chartism
and no followers of Frost are to be found. There the
people are more enlightened because religious education
has been more diligently diffused, under the especial
superintendence of that resident aristocracy so naturally
associated from early habits and traditions among the
Welch with feelings of attachment and deference.

(From the Standard.)
Among the many happy results which we anticipate
from the proposed marriage of the Queen, it ;:ertainly is
not the least, that in her future husband our Sovereign
will have a protector from those insults to which every
woman, whatever her condition, is exposed ; and which
must be as painfully felt by a virtuous wo-
man upon the throne as by the most humble of
her female subjects. The Sovereign, no doubt, has
in the loyalty of her people, a sure guarantee against
violent injury to her person, 'or outrage upon her
Royal authority ; but this is not enough. Experi-
rience unhappily has shown that the utmost loyalty of
her people cannot secu re her against insults from which
any of us would guard a wife, sister, or daughter, at the
peril of his life. The Rev. Mr. Giles, a Dissenting
Minister of Leeds, has lately published a lecture up:in
Socialism 38 compared with Christia24dy. and in the
course of this very pious and able per-
formance, has given a summary of the leading
tenets of the Socialist doctrine, quoted in the very
words of Mr. Robert Owen, the thunder of the abo-
minable sect—such as it would seem impossible to col-
lect from all the ether impure and atheistical writers
in all the languages of modern Europe. Mr. Giles has
in this executed a most useful, though, as is plain from
the general tone of good feeling and sincere piety per-
vading his essay—what must have been to him a most
disgusting task.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Times.)
There has been a strange story current for the last
day or two, about a saying of the first Minister of the
British Crown. In any former Administration we
should have instantly rejected it as a forgery ; but the
conduct of the present Government has been such,
that nothing which can be reported of them seems too
gross to be credible. The rumour is, that a partisan
of 'theirs, one who takes an interest in their welfare,
under the mistaken notion that it is possible to wish
well at once to them and to the country, expressed
to their chief his astonishment and regret at their
omission from the Queen's declaration of marriage
that reference to and recognition of Protestantism
which not only propriety but even precedent has pre-
scribed ; to which Lord Melbourne is reported to
have answered---" Well, there is nothing to complain
of in that. If we have said nothing about the Pro-
testants, we have said nothing about the Roman Cattle,
lies." The utmost, then, which a British Minister con-
siders the people entitled to expect in the
struggle
between the Protestant and Rowan Catholic religions
seems to ho that the Government shall stand aeuter!
...—net that it shall aid in the discharge of that duty
which the Sovereign undertakes by the coronation oath
of maintaining " Proie,stant reformed religion as
estnblished by Ittw," and " preserving unto the Bishops
and Clergy of this realm and to the churches committed
to their charge all such rights and privileges as by law,
do or shall appertain unto them ;" but that all religion
shall be left for an open scramble—a free field, and 'no
favour ! But we fear the case does not stand even
thus. We are informed that the fitness or expediency
of introducing some respectful allusicn to the Pro-
testant faith was made a subject of express discussion
in the Cabinet. If so, the party of the Protestant
Church is the smaller aeotion of the Ministry—for
it was defeated, and the violent Anti-Protes-
tants, the puppets of the O'Connellite faction, have
wan the victory, and are in the ascendant.
vTabine natetenttusptoftoUgilniosssteorsr
pinallitahe te
tpheiod
ercoial press in
concession
nthus
tondo to the reviving spirit of Popery. The precedent
of her Majesty's grandfather, they tell us, is in point
since the death of the last of the Stuarts, awl
of Ueorge
bnlt hy:effacement of that sort of theological demarcation
elt hntgi
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fromaletse
less applicable,
the
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divided._bueset hlt4 oo
p that
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dent,
assailingdentti' nu's, as heretofore irana a Continental line or
battery, has now :esurned to make head against ou Church ay.'.4 oUr State in the very centre of our own
1,4043, Is a domestic so much more trivial than a foreign
eongict Or are busy Papists in the councils of Vic-
toria less dangerous than in the closet 440 whole defence is beside the charge, Wof Louis But
e have not
censured the omission in her Majesty's declaration
tTore, any. fear of our own that the Protestant suc-
ces'aion IS, in danger, On the contrary, we wholly
discountenance any sueh suggestion, and condemn
the rashness, which would jump to so unsound an in-