The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-21 00:00:00

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RANTEED several DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY
PREMIUMS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES)
offer many possibilities of obtaining
LARGE FORTUNES,
HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH,
are NOW SELLING SHARES for the said DISTRIBU-
TIONS. Persons desirous to purchase may receive, PRE-
VIOUS to giving any order, the PROSPECTUS and PAR-
TICULARS, upon addressing, WITHOUT DELAY, a line
to HEINE, BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH.
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of TWELVE THOUSAND, SIX THOUSAND, THREE
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THE DISTRIBUTING DAY BEING NEAR, and
Maras clearing off most rapidly, A RISE IN PRICE will
sooa:occur.

THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARDEN.
UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OE MADAME
VESTRIS.
THIS EVENING; THURSDAY, Nov. 21, 1839,
Will be performed Sheridan's Comedy of
THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL.
Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. W. Farren ; S.r Oliver Surface, Mr.
Bartley ; Sir Benjamin Backbite, Mr. Harley; Joseph Sur-
face, Mr. Cooper ; Charles Surface, Mr. Charles Mathews ;
Crabtree, Mr. Meadows ; Moses, Mr. Keeley ; Lady Teazle,
Madame Vestris ; Mrs. Candour, Mrs. Orger ; Maria, MI"
Lee.

After which the popular Farce •f
HE WOULD BE AN ACTOR.
Motley, Mr. Charles Matthews ; Dicky Darling, Mr. Mea-
dows ; Becky Morgan, Mrs. Orger.
To-morrow, Love, with The Beggar's Opera.
Dress Boxes, 7s; Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; First and Second
Circles. ss. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price,
2s. ; Gallery, Is.
Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to
commence at Seven o'Clock.

Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Notter,
at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets
may be had upon application.
Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller,
167,. New Bond-street.

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
The production of Ainsworth's " Jack Sheppard," has attracted
complete overflows, and been pronounced to be the greatest
achievement ever yet attempted, it will consequently be
acted every Evening.
THIS EVENING, Nov. 21,
Will be acted, Ainsworth's celebrated Drama of
JACK SHEPPARD.

Illustrating all Cruikshanks' inimitable Tableaux Vivant•
Characters by Messrs. Saville, Dale, Heslop, Laws, Smith,
Ross, Neville ; Mrs. Vining, Mrs. Daly, Miss Martin, Mi's
Grant Mts. Laws, &c.
To conclude with an Extraordinary Drama, in Two Acts, entitled
THE DEVIL'S DAUGHTERS; OR, HELL'S BELLES.
Astaroth, Mr. Neville ; Cerberus, Mr. Cullen ; Diavoline,
Miss Martin! Robert, Mrs. H. Vining; Polycarpe, Mr. W.
Smith; Tambour, Mr. Ross.

HIGH-WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE T0.0,10R110 IV.
Horning 55 minutes after 2 Evening 19 minutes after 5

LONDON :
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 188 P.

It is singular how much party feeling blunts or
perverts the sense of justice. For some days, in
order to blacken the Ministers, the Times has not
hesitated to speak of the men, only committed for
trial at Newport, as traitors and rebels. Not con-
tent with assuming their guilt, it goes back for
years to aggravate it. To spite the Ministers it
seeks in the bye-gone and forgotten writings of
JOHN FROST the means to blacken him. With at
least an appearance of malignity to the indi-
vidual, rarely or never surpassed in the public
press, while it meant, we suppose, only
to damage the Ministers, it yesterday quoted
a passage from a pamphlet of FROST'S, written
as long ago as 1822, which is calculated to kindle
alarm at his opinions, and make him an object of
hatred to all men of property. That gentleman is
accused, by some enemy with a most malicious me-
mory, of having written a pamphlet seventeen
years ago, in which he recommended that the
farmers who had suffered great losses by the con-
duct of the landlords in Parliament should, by way
of repayment, seek to possess themselves of the
land. There is a particular abhorrence amongst
our opulent classes of all levellers, and all
equalizers of property, and no more effectual
means could be found of exciting hatred against
Mr. FROST in the minds of that class of men
who will constitute his jurors, than quoting passa-
ges from his writings to prove him an enemy of the
property of the rich. At any time it would be most
improper to stir up the public animosity against a
man because he had written some unpopular opinions
seventeen years before, but when that man has
been committed to gaol for high treason, the con-
duct of the Times in doing so is most unwarrant -
able, unjust, and cruel.
Heavy enough does the charge against Mr.
FROST weigh on him, and why should the Times
aggravate it, by laying before the public a partial
and exaggerated description of his past errors ? He
will find it difficult to defend himself against the
charge of treason, alarmed as many persons are at
the progress of Chartism, and it is not the usup:i
course for Journalists to enhance such difficul'.ies,
by nourishing prejudices against an accuseld man,
in the minds of his jurors. It may d'Aeat the
object of the law. He may plead the impossibility
of having an impartial trial after such state-
ments have been circulated, and w1:10 will deny that
such pleading will be proper ? If the progress of
the law should be stopped, an d any crimes which
have been committed rermrin unpunished, the
Times may have to answer for it.

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veryseem s to have
been
malignant
old enemy of Mr. FROST. Lord JOHN Rus-
SELL, says the Times, was formally invited to read
tliGse sentiments of Mr. FROST, before the
Noble Lord appointed him a Magistrate.
That inviter had most probably had a pers°l4l
quarrel with Mr. FROST, and treasured up this
pamphlet and his knowledge of Mr. FRosT's
opi-
nions, with a view to injure him. Whoever that
person was, who has nourished a hatred for many
years, such as seems unknown, except in border
counties, and amongst the Arabs, who transmit
their enmities from one generation to another, he
has made the Times bow do his dirty work, a-nd the
dirty work is appropriately re-done by the Standard
and the Courier, which gave circulation to this at-
tempt of an old enemy to prejudice, in the public
mind, on account of former cor,duct, a man who
stands charged with a definite wet of treason.
All these Journals act horn the same motive.
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They aim at the Ministers through Mr. FROST.
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theyese expectiig him
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which his enemies have now brought against him
' to 3..ie true, without one redeeming circumstance,
Oile conduct of
which
he is now accused happened
thirteen or fourteen
years before he was appointed a
Magistrate. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, admitting
that it was brought under his notice by some enemy
of Mr. FROST, wisely refused to pry into what
were Mr. FROST'S opinions and conduct thirteen
years before. What justifiable reasons Mr.
FROST might have had for his opinions and
his conduct under the Tory regime, when he
and all his class were excluded from all parti-
cipation in public affairs, when a share in mu-
nicipal government, and in the representation, was
denied them, and when the only justice they re-
ceived was a Tory insult, it was then impossible
to ascertain ; and Lord JOHN RUSSELL would
have entered on an endless inquiry had he gone
into an investigation of the opinions and conduct
of every man recommended to him for a Municipal
Magistrate for a period of fifteen, or ten, or even five
years, before he appointed one. Party spirit raged
wrathful in every municipal town in the kingdom ;
and had he lent an ear to such representations as
those made by Mr. FROST'S enemies, we doubt if
to this time he would have appointed a single Ma-
gistrate.
What he did in the case of Mr. FROST, as in all
similar cases, was to attend to the recommendation

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