The Sun.
London, England, 1830-10-02 00:00:00

'SPIRIT OP .TIIE PUBLIC JOURNALS,

If there be any truth', in the report which the
Loudon Journals, copied from a.Windaor Paper,
elating.. that. his Majesty has - prevailed on Prince
Leopold to relinquish 10,0001. per annum of his
income—if there he any truth in this repnrr,
WO very inueh doubt—we presume his majes'y in-
tends to follow up so auspicious and unexpected
beginning of the great work of retrenchment by
trying what effect the Royal persuasion can have
upon the great sinecttrista of the reslm—the drones
in the public hive—that,: while the laborious bees
work hard and fare seamily, flutter their glittering
wings in the sunshine, fatten in luxurious l'iziness
upon the national industry, and contribute nothing
to the public wealth. We have observed of late the
Ministerial sycophants, Who are ever ready to offer
some servile excuse for the grossest acts of prodi-
gality on the part of the Government, take oectiliar
pleasure in alluding invidiously to the large income
of Prince Leopold, and suggesting its curtailment.
This sort of attack is evidently more personal than
patrioties—more the emanation of political pique than
public spirit. We recollect that, at the time when
it was supposed the Prince would have allowed him-
self to be made the tool of Lord Aberdeen's silly
arrangements relative to Greece, the praise of virtue
and wisdom was abundantly lavished on hiM by
the Government Journala and Court parasites; but
no sooner had he declined to be made a mock King
with a bauble sceptre and a crown of straw, than
the estimable qoalhies of mind anti heart ascribed
to him were instantly withdrawn, and it was
said that Greece had a very lucky escape from being
governed by one who was never qualified to he u
Sovereign. This was certainly not saying much for
the political sagacity of the Cabinet that selected
him for that office, and that never:discovered his in-
competency until he had declined the proffered ho-
nour I His character having beets thus assailed, it
was thought he might be, in point of income, still
more vulnerable. The writers, who are ever ready
to use their pens, as the Swiss use their swords--
for any GoVernmeet.that will employ them'—received
their cue, as the players call it ; and a pretty con-
stant firing has been kept up on his salary ever since.
Now this is paltry revenge, anti not public principle.
We can see rte good arising from the curtailment of
the salary of a single individual, though we can an-
ticipate great public bensfit from a general measure
of retrenchment, without reference to person or
party. If it be Only fair that, tinder the existing
circumstances of the country, Prince Leopold
should give up 10,0001.11-year of the income se-
cured to him by his marriage settlement with the
lamented Princess whose untimely death plunged
the nation in affliction, surely there is no sound
reason why every sinecorist in the empire
should not give up a proportionate amount
of the salary which is taken from the taxes
of the people to support him in indolent splendoer,
while thousands of the industrious population want
the necessaries of life. We would be glad to see
Prince Leopold make this aucrifice of his own ac-
cord, and we are sure that the popularity that
would attend the act would be cheaply purchased;
but then, as an isolated act, it would be as a drop
of water in the ocean, and could not sensibly affect
the conditicet of the suffering population. it ia' the
general application of the principle of retrenchment
that would be a national reliet—that is what we
want to see. Why should Prince Leopold give up
one-fifih of his ineonie, if such a sinecurist as Lord
Arden, for instance, who is said to derive about
30,0041, per annum from the public taxes, continues
to revel in the full measure of this unearned opts.
lance, which, by the change in the currency, was
enhanced in value, at least, one-third what it had
been berore ? Why should Lord Ellettborough
continue to receive upwards of 90001. a year for a
sinecure office in the ICing's Bench, along with the
5,0004 which he enjoys its n Minister of the Crown ?
Could not tattoos Such as his be purchased by die
nation on somewhat more economical terms ? Is
there any other country on the face of the earth
that would purchase them on any terms at all
neve Ministers, too, any intention of making their
own salaries the subject of an equitable adjustment,
by paying back to the country the amount in which
they have been enhanced since the passing of Sir
Robert Peel's Cnrrency Bill ? Cannot his Majesty
prevail on them to do this ? or are they more in-
exorable to Royal persuasion than Prince Leopold ?
—Morning Herald.
The following very singular document has ap-
peared in the two Paris journals which are the pecu•
liar organs of Royalist opinions. It bad, as repre-
sented, been sent to the President of the Chamber,
of Peers, who refuted to rend it, and took no notice
of its receipt at any public sitting. The nonjuring
Peer then, anxious " that murder should be out,
sent it to the Quoiidienne and to the Gazette de
France, both of which inserted it in their columns
RS a rich treat to their ultra readers. 't hough it was.
not heard of in the Chamber of Peers in the first
instance, it bas since been denounced in that as-
sembly. Proceedings, however, were not taken by
the Chamber itself to counteract its effects, as the
Ministers . informed it that the journals above-men-
tioned were to be prosecuted before the ordinary
tribunals. The opinions of the noble Peer oboist
his allegiance, though not singular, have never since
the deetion of his present Majesty been so boldly
espreased; and if the Royalist press may thus with
impunity dispute the title of the head of the Go-
vernment, his only protection is in the weakness of
the party which embraces its doctrine*.

"-TO TUX rXISIDSPIT OF MI CUAMSTA OF rim.

" f. Le Prefident,...Bighty«sieven Peers coward on
the. 30th or Anguat hilt, to declare personally deprived of
the right of sitting in the Chamber of Peers. of which
they are members, all thow who should not have, after the
lapse of a month, taken all oath to the king newly elected,
and to a new Charter.

" I tan ignorant in virtue of what right this election
and this Charter are made.

" As to' myself I have taken with sincerity a solemn
oath to my Kings and to the Constitutional Charter whieh
one of them gave to France. In taking this oath I al.
ways underetood that it engaged my fidelity, nut only to
them, but to their legitimate Nuccessors, and to the na-
ties), even to the fundamental law which has regulated for
so many ages the supressien to the Crown amongst us.
In taking this oath to my Kings, I believed that I
took it to men liable to error like myself, and I' did not
think that the errors which they might commit could
release me from my oathi, either towards them or to.
wards their legitimate suecessore. Neither did T think',
that they warranted me in agreeing to an act of violence
which %staid deprive my fellow-eititemi of the salutary in-
stitution of a hereditary throne. I have always consi..
&red this institution as the most solid guarantee of all our
liberties, and I refuse to concur in its destruction, be.
smog I am OW equally convinced that its destruction
would have no other effect than to open amongst us all
sorts of tyranny.
" The Charter to which all the Peers have sworn de-
rime; in its Iflth article, that the person of the King is
• sacred and inviolable, and that Its Ministers are re,
sponsible.' This fundamental principle of the Charter
does not permit the Kiog to be; responsible fiir grievances
which have been caused by his Government. The
sponsibility of his Ministers is the constitutional way
opened to obtain the redress of those grievances. A. con-
stitutional fiction does not permit the faults of his Go-
vernment to be imputed to the King. The reality, even,
of things permit them still less to he imputed to the Royal
"noir she is a stranger to the acts of the grandfather,
"Pi 140 by the, simple fact of the double Abdication of
hit Majesty King Charles X., 'wane at that instant even
—the of Angnst lafst—the King to whom my fidelity
is engaged.
„" The Chamber's, without being able to allege any
thing against the right of the Duke de Bourdertwx, trans.
fermi, on the 7th of the sante month. his crown to the
first of his subjects, 1 shalt never ally myself by an oath
t" 1"1 set WWI which I thoulti ihink myself etilpible in
e4trieurring

"in ileiatilt ref right, it has iota alleged in ftvnur of
tit* King whom the Chernher4 have elected, ti. it. he alone
emagi Feeitee. I
think, tin the central y, tliet be of
all Praochnteo *cau tho' nova incapable el saving it ; be-
„Atm of all PyttlichatOti i* Ont try Whlliti the inturit-
tion to which he weiititfitti stir, liaye appeereil the toilet
criminttL
44 (Inc of his alsrotom KtPitrt ranee toolly, was
at 'tut a faitlittil lenitive itrul t tlittiog the minority

of an infant King,' *nos,: life only lay lietweeb him and
the throne. 'This example deserved to be preferred as a tole
of conduct to recellettinns less distant.
" As to the Charter, I have on this point two constant
convictions. The first, that a King who has sworn a
Charter has not the right of violating it; the second, that
even when modifications would be useful to a Charter, the
Chamber who have sworn this Charter have not the right
of giving the expu!sion of their King as a basis for those
notlifications.
" I shall wait, the a, before taking the oath to a mo.
dified Charter, till the modifications which Frenchman
may desire are presented to them under the authority or
the legitimate King. Educated by his noble mother in
the deep feeling of his ditties towards his people, the Royal
infant will live for the happiness of France, and will one
day be restored to us.
" There is, however, one of the articles of the Charter,
on which even now I feel myself bound not to keep silence.
" Two hundred and nineteen Deputies declared on the
Ith of August last the throne vacant—created .t new
Charter—one article of which excluded from the Cham-
ber of Peers all those whom Charles X. had nominated,
and offered Royalty to the Lieutenant- General of the king-
dom. Eighty-nine Peers expressed their adherence the
snare thy to the new Charter, and to the election of the
new King, declaring that they referred to his prudence, as
respected the exclusion of their colleagues.
" The excluded Peers have the same right to the Peer-
age as all the rest. 1 was 3ftied to the Peerage by Lewis
XVIII., and I recognised in those who hail received it
from Charles X. the same right as my own.
" But their exclusion bears in particular, relatively to
the accusation of the Ministers of Chat les X., which is in
progress, a character the most sinister. The natural judges
of the Ministers are not some Peers, but all the Peers.—
At tide 62 of the Charter, which all the Peers have sworn,
hear., that none can be hied but by his natural judges.—
Article 63 adds that consequently there cannot be created
commissions or extraordinary tribunals.
" I am ignorant how it can be maintained that the
arbitrary exclusion of nearly a fourth of the members of
a tribunal would not transform it into a commission or
extraordinary tribunal, and I know with what a name ore
inevitably handed to posterity, capital condemnation* when
they are decreed by tribunals of this kind. I shall not
associate myself therefore, by an, oath, with an act of ex-
clusion which transforms the Court of Pears into a corn-
mission or extraordinary tribunal, and which stigmatizes
beforehand the sentences of death which it may pronounce
with the name of a judicial assassination.
" Posterity is the more severe in awarding this title,
when the Judges have an apparent intemt in the sentence
of condemnation. Thus the Peers who adhered in the
sitting of the 7th of August last to a declaration of the
vacancy of the throne, can only pretend that they are re-
leased from the oath whirls they had taken to Charles X.
and the constitutional charter, because they impute to that
unfortunate Prince the violation of the same charter by the
advice of his Ministers, These same Peers, therefore, have
an apparent interest in finding guilty the Ministers whose
impeachment is in progreis; and I shall never associate
myself by an oath to a system which gives these Ministers
for judges men who have created to themselves an apparent
interest in condemning them.
"I have explained the motives of my refusal to take
the 'oath required of me. 1 have thought it my duty to
declare them to my colleagues. I pray you, then, M. le
'President, to read in the sitting of this day my present
letter, and I request the Chamber to order its insertion on
:the Minutes.
" A member of the Chamber of Peers, deprived of his
right to sit because he remains faithful to his oath, cannot
validly believe himself discharged of his obligation to deli-
berate and to vote in the Chamber of which he is a mem-
ber. His will does not render him an accomplice its the
obstacle which prevents him from fulfilling his duty
yields to the abuse of material force.
"The Count FLORIAN DE KERGORLAY,
" Peer of Prance.
" Paris, rue St. Dominique, No. 102, Sept. 23." Times,
The following letter is from a Belgian gentleman
of station, judgment, and constitutional feeling,
whose disposition i 3 pacific. He feels very indig-
nant at the manner in which his countrymen are
Calumniated day after day in the papers of this me-
tropolis, subject to the influence of Government.
The people of Brussels have, we think, proved
that they are not a rubble, but a set of us brave men
as ever existed; and the manner in which the
people throughout Belgium have sympathised with
them, sufficiently refutes the statement of which
this gentleman complains. No man who has under-
standing to connect two propositions can now be
the dupe of the iniirepresentations in which too
many of our contemporaries indulged; for if the
population of Brussels had not been united, they
could never have resisted 15,000 well-appointed re-
Oars. We were told day after day by some of
our contemporaries, that the middle classes were all
eager for the appearance of time King's troops, that
they might protect themselves against the rabble.
Now it appears, that in the part of Brussels occupied
by the more wealthy inhabitants, the soldiers were
assailed from every house. When a disturbance
takes place in any of our mnnufaCturing towns, the
pcipitlice are easily dispersed, beeanse the houses in
the principal streets are shut against themomd they
have no shelter from the soldiery or civil forec, But
we proceed to the letter, the occasional foreign
idioms of which weleave unaltered
" Antwerp, 28th Sept., 1830.
this moment I know your attention will he
more than ever directed to my unfortunate country, anti
as your piddle Press often represents matters in a light as
it is most convenient to its views, I, think myself called
upon to give you a few statements of the unfortunate
overthrow of our Government in the southerly provinces.
" The conduct of the inhabitants of Brussels Will now
convince the world that they are not that drunken rabble
which the bigotted part of the English Press endeavoured
to represent them ; but that, if courag,e is a virtue, as it
undoubtedly is, they are the noblest and the most virtuous
people of the world, history not furnishing us with an
example of a braver act. It must he said that the heroes
of Brussels must have considered themselves strong by a
sense of justice of their cause, more than ever a people
considered itself are such. It proves that it is not the act
of a bigotted priesthood, as the Courier represents it,
but of au enlightened, liberal class of people joining in one
cause, no matter what religious feelings, in the cause of
freet;om, and to have redress of the grievances of which
the Government itself has acknowledged the existence.
The newspapers will haveinformed you, that after a con-
test with an army of from 15 to 20,000 well disciplined
and devoted troops, in the very interior of the town of
Brussels, the inhabitant* have forced the soldiers to leave
them unmolested ; the loss of the latter being twenty to
one of the Burghers. This without any assistance of the
interior or southerly part of the country, with which the
town had no communication.
" The King might have spared himself the best of his
troops, and a part of the finest town of his dominions,
which have fallen in the contest, if he had uttered openly
and readily one .word towards to iking theee concessions
which it wits in his power to grant. In redressing what
the Ministers had done ageing: the fundamental law, he
might have made himself the moat popular King of Europe:
lie sstight have premised to distribute offices equally—not
to have interfered with religious matters, nor with the
Prase, all of which the Constitution grants, without calling
the Assembly of the States-General, and the people of the
whole of the southerly provinces would have cried out
Viva le •Rol' But Counsels have been listened to, the
English Press in particular. The above-mentioned Paper
and the Times have represented the people of Brussels in
a most illiberal and foul manner; the King to have acted
as he ought to have 'done, and of course been the cause
of all that has happened ; they hive by their impolitic,
Short-sighted viewars'dentroyeal the harrier for which their
countrymen have spent their money, and shed their blood ;
and what remains to be alone now ? In My opinion, to
show the Government of this country that under the
present state of the spirit of Europe, and' principally the
most neighbouring country, that under the present
Goa,ternment of France there is only tine way of
preserving Belgitnn as a barrier against Prance and which
we are sure may still be accomplished ; antl'iitat the only
way to obtain this is that the claims of the Belgians
(which the last accounts from Brussels seem, even after
their complete victory, to confine the:natives to the' fair
exeention of I the fundamental laWs) should be graciously
granted; that England therefore should use all its info-
enee'itt the Hague,. and Once the voice of these blood
thirity '
representatives of the norther* provinces—
these Donkey Curtiuses and COnsorts.' The party
that ever desired to belong to France is very small,
but it would be to a man, if concessions are not
male itontediatety, and troops should lie called in :
fiareign interkence wmild, maw the Belgians have
ehown their decision and their power; induce Prance
to wine or enter one part of the country as Soon as the
Pressians wield enter the other. Fflitet7 would now, leafs
than ever, suffer the prietiple of non-interference' to be
arodangeted, nor Suffer her own existence to be menaced,
by seeing assembled upon her frontiers an army of Prussians,

Englimb, or Commelks ; nor would these be rettain of suc-
cess in depressing the most just of causes, in irritating any
longer a nation where a woman has become a man and a
soldier. Hos very irritating it was for the Belgians to,
see one day the King accept the dismission of the odious
Minister of Jnstive, M. Van Maanen, and to see the

sane man risen a few days after to be tae supreme judge
of the two flagons. This, again, may be attrilu►ted to the
Englimbed bigoted Times and Courier, Morning Post
and Co., and Docker Curtin,: and Consorts in Holland.
Could you make use of this in f 'your of our country, and
to re-establish peace between all parties, you would ren-
der a great service not only to your own, but our King
and Country. 4, Yours, truly, a Friend.
" We hope you will not fail in publishing either this
Or your own sentiments on this► subject, and caution
the English public against many accounts which are
created by the enemies of re-establishing peace, and which
go even to sty that the hotel of the British Amba,astior
is set on fire by the mob; while, it is circulating, the troops
have done so; but we believe both equally false. What
is notorious is, that the mob at Brussels, almost without a

head, have not plundered a single hone."
'rho Courier of Thursday had some observations
with reference to our strictures on the imprudence
of the King of the Netherlands—

" It will be recollected (says our contemporary) that,
among the Belgian Deputies who visited the Hague fcr the
purpose of attending the States-General, there were seve-
ral who had unequivocally declared in favour of the pro-
posed separation of Belgium from Holland, and otherwise
taken an active part in the proceedings against the King's
authority. Many of these Deputies, however, became so
alarmed at the accounts which they received from day to
day, of the turbulent spirit of the populace at Brussels,
that, for the preservation of their property and the pro-
tection of the respectable inhabitants of the city, who were
no longer able to protect themselves, they entreated the
King to send troops against the populace, leaving the
great points of difference between the nation and the King
to be discussed by the States-General. If we are not
misinformed, even the Count de Wes, who wus regarded
as one of the Chiefs of the Revolution, concurred with the
other Belgian Deputies in giving this coumel, and at about
the same time the King received front the head-quarters
of Prince Frederick despatches announcing that several of
the most respectable inhabitants of Brussels had come to
his bead-quarters to implore him to occupy the city. We
do not think that, under these circumstances, there was

anything unconstitutional or impetuous in the conduct of
the King; although we cannot help expressing our regret
that he should have been left in ignorance of the real state
of feeling of the lower orders, and of their means of re.

sistance.- The mob were getting the upper hand in
Brussels—the respectable inhabitants apprehended
pil-
lage and massacre—and, under this apprehension, they
applied to the King for aid, preferring to leave
the great question at issue to the patriotism of their

representatives and the generosity and justice. of the
King, rather than to the dictation of an armed multi-
tude, from whose excited .passions they -had more to

dread than from the most oletertnined apposition to th.'ir

views by the King and a majority of the gates-General.—
If the Sovereign had refused the required aid, and the pil,
Inge of Brussels by the populace had ensued, there would
indeed have been ground for censure. At present, how.
ever, all that can be said is, that the King was ill-advised
to adopt extreme measures ; the result of which must have
appeared doubtful to persons well acquainted with the state
of Brussels, and uninfluenced by alarm or interest; but the
bitterest and most prejudiced enemy of the King will hardly
deny that, situated us he was, in the absence of Counsel.

lore who would have advised some temporising couese,
compliance with the counsel of some of the Belgian Depu-
ties at the Hague, and wilt the request of the Deputation
from Brussels to Prince Frederick at Antwerp, and being
also urged. on by the Dutch Deputies, was despotic and
unconstitutional. We sincerely regret the absence from
the Hague at this juncture of llama Falrk, the Atnbm-
sailor of the Netherlands at this Court, who, if he had
been summoned in time to the councils of the K'ng, might
have devised some plan of reconciliation, as he possesses
alike the good opinion of the Dutch and the Belgium, and
enjoys, as we are assured by respectable and well-informed
persons in the Netherlands, a high reputation for that
essential quality so rare in a Statesman-.-that happy me-.
ilium in which political caution is at work without subju-
gating the feelings, and the feelings have proper force
without preventing the exercise of-political caution. 'Warm
hearts and cool heads are hut too seldom found in the lame
persons. Happy is the Prince who possesses Counsellors
to whom there is this rare union of heart and intellect."

The Courier ought to have said that the King
was not only ill-advised in " adop.ing extreme mea-
sures, the result of which must have appeared
doubtful to persons well acquainted with the state
of Brussels," but ill-advised in creating the irrita-
tion in Belgium, which could not fail to lend to
desperate courses. The writer of the Ant,ifelp let-
ter supposes him to 'nice been led away by the advice
of certain English newspapers; and it certainly
does not say much for his judgment, that he acted
'on such an advice. We, too, advised him ; and
perhaps it would have been better for him had he
taken our advice. The moment . the French Revo-
lotion %%as consummated, and before there was any
rumour of a rising in Belgium, we told him, that if
he were at all, prudent, be would retrace his steps
will respect to Do Potter and the other distin-
Oohed exiles, and endeavour to conciliate the, Bel-
gians. It was yet time ; and if the man had had a
grain of discernment, he must have seen, that from
the moment the French Revolution was consul-

mated, he was left to his own resources, which could
never avail him against the great majority of his
own subjects. Was it not the height of infatuation,
to refuse any longer the claims of the Be)00, who
only demanded that his Ministers should be re.
spowsible—that he should admit them to a know-
ledge of the application of the putilic money—
give them a Jury trial ; to say nothing of his
despotism over the press, exercised through venal
Judges, his dabbling in Bubble Companies, to the
great injury of trade; his Cabinet orders, issued in
the spirit of a petty Ger Man Prince ? if the
Dutch are indifferent to these matters, it was clear
that the Belgians were not indifferent; and, how-
ever bitter the pill, to enter on constitutional mea-
sures, and throw Van Manner' overboard, he had

really no choice. By this time we have no doUht
the Provisional thivernment have organized a force
tar beyond the means at the► disposal of the King.
In the present agitated state of the Belgian mind;
and with so warlike a population, 'as many men may
be obtained sac arms can be provided for. The King
is therefOre without hope. The Belgians will not
submit, and they will not treat, because Confidence
In, such cases once destroyed, never can be re-
stored. He must satisfy himself with becoming.
once more Stadtholtler of the Seven United Pro-
vinees. Foreign assistance would only snake mat-
ters Worse; fur the King who regains his kingdom
by foreign aid, may make up his mind to being ab
horred in all time coming. Rumoura are efloit,.
however, and we regret to say that many respect-
able, people give credit to them, that the Duke of
Well►ngton hos determined to interfere in this minor-
rel. It is Well observed by a contemporary (the
Globe) that
If, for the purpose of preserving intact the (autistic
arrangements of the Conga ess of Vienna, the peopled Bel-
gium are to be crushed by some of the great Powers of
Europe, who can see the end of the evil ? Reports are
already spread that the Government of the Netherlands has
applied to this country for assistance. These may be pre-
mature ; but it cannot be premature to warn the people of
Europe against the consequences of foreign interference
with Belgium.

" There can, we are satisfied, be no cogagements by
which England can
.he Loma. to interfere between the
people of Belgium and the Government; hut it must be
foolish in the present posture ofaffaire for any Power to do
so. The only pretext for such an interference would
be
the value, by way of protection for Enrope against France,
of the fortresses of the frontier line; but the recent events
exemplify; in the 'lleum manner, the coneennences' which
would ensue in respect to these fortresses front forcing upon
the Belgians an unpopular :form of government. If the
Belgians are not appeased, but tubdued or overawed, they
would merely wait their time ; the declaration of a war
would be a signal for the people to,take the fortresses, as
they have shown themselves able to• do note, and the
fortresses, 'instead of being defences against the French,
would be points of support for them. They can only be
of use as defences for Europe if in the hands of a popular
government ; not in the temporary potsession of a Stove.
reign who would find them expnsal, on the first danger,' 10
mote formidable assaults from within thairfrem without."
That the Delre of Wellington could' enmity obtain
Parliamentary renjorities--aye, large majorities—to
support him in any . crusade, against Belgium,' we
firmly believe. The Ariattithliey and Clergy of this
tiountry are filled with the most deadly hatred against

that proiniseti to raise and improve mankind in
every country, and the late .Revolution in France
has almost deprived them of their senses. If the
Duke, therefore, on whom at this moment so heavy
a - responsibility rests, 'Were to plunge the country
and Europe (for to that it would come), we cand'illy
own that we are without hope. The people of
England are so completely the slaves of the Aristo-
cracy, they are so eccustomed to be trodden on, that
they would be found, we fear, without the proper
spirit to act as they ought to act in so trying an or,
casi-n. The passion of the Aristocracy blinds them ;
and it would, therefore, be in vain,to urge to them
the consequences of plunging Europe in another
war—of loading this country with heavier burdens—
and the dreadful re-action which might one day fol-
low the breaking loose of a people no longer able to
bear their sufferings. Passion never listens to reason.
The English Aristocracy have not yet shown in any
one instance that they were governed by any regard
for the millions of their countrymen. Our able reli-
ance is on the Minister; and may he in this trying
conjuncture be guided by a spirit of wisdom and
moderation ! Is it not a melancholy consideration
that two or three thousand families at most, fattened
on the fruits of the productive industry of this most
enterprising nation, should have at their absolute dis-
posal the welfare of twenty millions of human be-
ings, who may be dragged into a desolating warfare
without being able to oppose any obstac4 to the at-
tempt ? How deeply England is interested in that
question of questions, the clipping the wings of the
Aristocracy ? Till this is done, England can never
know security, and Europe can never be secure from
England.—Morning chronicle.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Several watermen were brought before the LORD
MAYOR, charged by the Water Bailiff with having
assaulted some of his men in the execution of their
duty, and with having threatened to murder them.
Buff (one of Mr. Satinders'a men) stated that ha
and an assistant went up the river to Barnes, and
observed, between ten and eleven o'clock, the de-
fendants in a boat throwing out a net. As there
was reason to believe that some unfair work was in-
tended, witness rowed over to the boat, in the name
of the Water-Bailiff, and endeavoured to board it.
The most violent opposition, however, was given to
them by the watermen, who proposed to put it out
of their power, by one desperate act, to interfere
any more with fish or fisheries. A blow was aimed
at witness, who, with difficulty, evaded it, and was
con vineed that had it not been for one of the party
who interposed, murder would have been com-
mitted. The witness, after some remonstrance,
succeeded, however, in getting away ; and after a
considerable lapse of time the watermen were taken
into custody.

The Water Bailiff stated that if conduct of this
desperate kind was endured, the river would be left
without protection, and his men would be constantly
in danger of losing their lives.

The eldest of the watermen denied that he or his
brethren had either done, or threatened any violence
to the prosecuting. They were just rowing about
a bit when Ruff wanted to run them down, and
threatened to " bore a bole through them;" and
they got out of his way as they did not like to be
slaughtered.
The LPRD MAYOK—Whut could you have
wanted at eleven o'clock about the river? Water-
man--I wanted my living, and they came to pre-
vent me. If they had boarded us, they would hare
had a right to have taken us, but they could not.
Mr. Hobler told the defendants that they sub-
jected themselves to a penalty by making off.. The
Water Bailiff had at all times a right to board them,
and examine their ne!g.

The wuterman sai.l.that he had acted, and would
still act, as if he was a smuggler. When he could
escape tt King's boat he would ; and, except he was
caught, the officers had nothing to do with him. It
„ .
was just so with his present case. The Water
B aili had not been able to board him, and there
could, therefore, be no charge against him.
The LORD MAYOR said he quite plainly perceived
the spirit by which the defendants were actuated.
He had no doubt that, if one of them had not op-
posed the general tendency to an act of desperate
violence, murder would have been committed. He
should, therefore, make examples of all, except the
person to whose humanity the Water Bailiff's men
were indebted, most probably, for their lives.
Ruff declared that he' was Convinced that be
should never have lived to complain if there' had not
been one merciful person in the gtoupe.
The Lour) MAYOR then sentenced each of the
defendants, with the above-mentioned exception,
to pay the One of 101. The excepted watermait
was discharged.
Those who were fined swore that they were not
worth ten farthings; and they were sent to prion,
after having been informed that execution would be
immediately entered up against them.