The Sun.
London, England, 1830-02-03 00:00:00

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RECORDER'S REPORT.

Yesterday the Recorder made his report to his
Majesty, at Windsor, of the prisoners capitally con-
victed at the last Old Bailey Sessions, viz.
yard Kenny, aged 12 ; Michael Sheen, a2eil 16 ;
Henry Turner Harrington, aged 21; Shadrack
klusto, aged 14; and John Jones, aged 21, to.
;reeling in a dwelling-house. 'I !mutts Taylor, aged
23, for highway robbery. George Jones, aged 23;
William Jobbins, aged 49 ; James Butler, aged 32;
James Silvester, aged 21 ; Robert Winter, aged 18;
Patrick M`Namara, aged 33; and Thomas Jones,
aged 34, for house-breaking; and James Wilson,
,iged 28, for horse-stealing ; all of whom his Ma-
jesty was graciously pleased to respite during his
Royal pleasure, except James Butler, n ho is left for
execution on Tuesday next. The case of William
Mending is postponed.

MR. OWEN.

TO THE WHIGS, TOMES, AND RADICALS.

FRIENDS AND COUNTRYMEN,—YOU have
been long engaged in promoting the views of
your respective parties. You have all desired
to improve your own condition, and the condi-
tion of your country, and of society ; but as a
means of doing so, you have each been induced
to adopt very different practical measures. Each
party has succeeded in removing some of the ob-
stacles, generated by the errors of former times,
which stood in the way of its progress ; but the
ultimate object which you have in view has never
hitherto been accomplished. A formidable ob-
stacle still remains, to render your exertions ir-
sufficient to lay a fixed and immovable founda-
tion, on which to erect a perfect superstructure
of society, that shall prove satisfactory to the in-
tellectual part of the population, and shall en-
sure the happiness of the whole community.
I propose to you now to unite your courts at
once to remove this great obstacle, which the
ignorance of past ages has so long cherished,
and which has hitherto been enveloped in a mys-
tery that has effectually concealed its red chas
meter from your mental vision, and blinded you
to the enormity and extent of the evil, which,
by a continuance of its existence, is indicted upon
the human race.
• Without union of -heart and mind—the only
foundation on which a permanently beneficial
constitution of society can be formed—men will
never obtain any great and important good that
shall equally affect the well-being of all, The
obstacle which yet stands in the way of all fur-
ther permanent improvement among men pre-
vents this union of heart and mind ; and as long
as it shall remain invested with a sacred and
mysterious character, disunion of every descrip-
tion will continue to distort society, and to con-
: found, perplex, and torment men, in every con-
dition and situation in which they may be placed.
Learn, then, to acquire a knowledge of this
origin of human evil, and by tracing it through,
its minutest and most secret ramifications, ascer-
tain the mighty effects of its influence upon
Irian. Until you shall have obtained this know-
ledge, and not until then, will it be practicable
for you to unite for your future permanent hap- •
piness.
Do you inquire in what this obstacle consists,
and how it possesses a character so formidable
and so satanic ? It is the supposition taught to
you and all mankind from infancy, through an
ignorance of the fundamental laws of human na-
ture, that you possess the power to feel and
to think as you please. By this supposition,
you are at once made irrational beings, fitted to
imbibe every error and to commit every crime ;
by this, you are offended and angry with
those who cannot, or, as you are taught
to suppose, will not, feel and think
as you have been taught to imagine they
ought to feel and think ; and by this, you
have been led -to overwhelm with punishments,
nay, even to massacre those who have not be-
come hypocrites sufficient to say that their
thoughts and feelings were in unison with those
of their persecutors, when it was utterly impos-
sible for them, by any power they possessed,
to compel themselves so to feel and think.
Hence the confusion of intellect of conduct
among the human race—hence their universal
opposition of.mind and their malignant feelings—
and hence the continual counteraction of each
other's happiness, which appears in every form
that satanic ingenuity can devise. You desire
to improve your own condition and the condi•
tion of others; unite, then, to remove this
origin of evil, and all individual evils will cease
from among you—and they will be suceeded by
a never-ending train of good effects, which will
follow each other in continual.succession. Thus,
you may speedily create a paradise, where now,
with a superfluity of means for the attainment of
perpetual excellence and enjoyment, you have by
comparison a hell upon earth. To improve sos
ciety there is a direct, and but one direct and
right course to pursue.
It is to create arrangements competent to form,
from infancy, for every individual, a superios
physical, mental, and moral character, and
through that character, and those arrangements,
to surround each individual, from birth, with.
those circumstances which shall secure to him,
through life, a full supply of those thing*
which, according to the laws of his nature, are
essential to his well-being and happiness. Re-
move from among you this accursed thing ;
this cause of all division and counteraction
among mankind ; this source of all hum in
evil ; and these grand and important improve-
ments in the constitution of society will be easy
of attainment ; no retrogression can ever afters
wards take place in the future condition of mete.
Let me then entreat you to be no.longerWhigr,
Tories, or Radicals ; but men seeking truth,,
through a knowledge of facts, fbr the purpose 01'
enabling all to secure the happiness of each, hy
creating new arrangements to give a superior cha-
racter and independence to 'every individual
throughout society. Herein alone consists your
real individual interests.

ROBERT OWEN,
49, Bedford-8(04i, ha. R 6, 18Z40.