The Sun.
London, England, 1838-06-25 00:00:00

LONDON :
MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 25, 1838.

The Tory Papers for the last few days have been heaping
all sorts of abuse on Marshal Sourr, who has been se-
lected to represent his Sovereign at the ensuing Coronation.
The Quarterly .Review led the way in this disgraceful con-
duct, and the Tory Journals, imitating the example, instead
of welcoming this illustrious individual to our shores in a
Manner befitting the occasion, and in accordance with the
generous and hospitable character of the British people,
have raked up old stories that had long been forgotten,
Published a list of the Marshal's defeats, and altogether
shown a bitterness of feeling, and a spirit of hostility to
the French, which the Duke of WELLINGTON, whose
cause they pretend to espouse, would be the very
last person to participate in. They justify such ungene-
rous conduct, because some French Journal has lately
renewed pretensions to a victory at the battle of Toulouse,
and the Minister of Finance has placed 401. at the disposal
of the Mayor of that town, in aid of a monument to be
erected in honour of the battle of the 10th of April, 1814.
le honour never due to a vanquished army ? The Duke
of WELLINGTON knows that the French troops fought
With : honour, (speaking in the military sense of the word,l
4t Toulouse. VOLTAIRE awards more honour to the Eng-
lish divis;en in the battle of Fontenoy, than to the French
who gained ae victory. SOULT, himself, erected a monument
at Corunna, to honour, not to insult, the memory of Moone,
and, though we gained the battle of Toulouse, the victory
was not of so decided a character as to prevent the French
from indulging their patriotism in erecting a monu-
ment to honour that army which gave 'WELLINGTON
more hard fighting than any he ever encountered
in Spain. But even admitting that some of the
trench claim the victory, can that claim not
be refuted without insulting SouLT and the French nation?
Offensive language was not necessary to settle the ques-
tion, but that would not suit the purposes of the writers
who gladly seized this opportunity to indulge their spleen
against the dynasty of Lours PHILIPPE. The French
know, however, from what quarter the offence comes, and
steed not be surprised. It is quite in keeping with the cha-
racter of the more violent of that party who hate the
very name of Reform, and who naturally hate that people,
who, in July 1830, rose as one man against their op-
Pressors, and gave an impulse to the spirit of Reform in
Great Britain, which, we are not ashamed to say, enabled
us to carry the great Act of l 83?. Marshal Sourer will
duly estimate the value of such attacks, and we are quite
sure that the people of this country, from the highest to
the lowest, will soon convince him, that those who would
Perpetuate a spirit of hostility between England and France,
are indeed the " miserable remnants of a broken faction."
If any great ceremony were to take place in France, at
which our QUEEN was desirous of being represented by
tile most distinguished warrior in her empire, she would
undoubtedly select the Duke of WELLINGTON. On the
same principle Lours PHILIPPE has selected Marshal
Sourr, the most illustrious French warrior living, and a
man, like the Duke of WELLINGTON, also eminent for
great civil services, to do honour to our QUEEN'S Corona-
tion. If the French daily press, or the Duke's enemies
at Paris, were to assail him with scurrility, and were to
rake up all kinds of circumstances which would tell
against him, unpleasant in France, though passed
away for a quarter of a century, and he bad since,
by his prompt acknowledgment of Lours PHILIPPE,
done much to atone for his former enmity, the Tory jour-
nals would condemn the humble daily press of Paris as act-
ing most unworthily. It would be said to cast a slight on
him who was, on account of his worth, selected by his own
Sovereign to do honour to Lours PHILLIPE, and in slight-
ing the Duke was dishonouring our ou n Sovereign. The
Tory journals would condemn such conduct though it were
Practised only by the lowest portion of the Paris press ;
out in this case the boasting Quarterly Review, the
great journal of the Church and of the preux Tories, the
Much read and much lauded Times, and the lady Post,
the very perfume of the press, the pinks of all Tory jour-
nals, are those who perpetrate an enormity which they would
condemn if perpetrated against our own illustrious warrior
hY the meanest scribblers of Paris. They insult our own
QUEEN by slighting the warrior selected to honour her.
Their only excuse is, that some of the poor scribblers of
Paris have taken this opportunity to vaunt a little of
Prance and French deeds, and our own great Tory writers
are so little assured of our nationel merits that they cannot
tolerate this little vanity in the French, but must hasten to
commit ten times as great an outrage against decency
and good taste as ever was committed by La Presse.
Sir GEORGE MURRAY is known to write in the
Quarterly Review. This is a subject similar to those on which
he has in that journal exercised his pen ; there appears
also in the article a general order, signed by him, as if
he had supplied it ; and unless Sir GEORGE MURRAY
therefore frees himself from the suspicion, the world
will suppose that the ex-Tory Cabinet Minister and ex-
Quarter-Master-General is the perpetrator of the most
disgraceful article to the Press of Great Britain, on account
of its appearing at this moment, which has for a long time
"Ppeared in any periodical.

A Sunday Paper announces that Mr. HANBURY TRACY
1: to be elevated to the Peerage on tin? Coronation. We
Wave Anne reason to beiiovp that this is correct, as a Cor-

respondent from Monmouthshire has expressed his regret
that the like honour is not bestowed on Mr. HANDURY
LEIGH, the Lord Lieutenant of Monmouth, and the head of
Mr. HANBURY TRACY'S family. He complains, in fact,
of the Ministers for not attending to their own interests in
Monmouthshire, and asserts that the non-promotion of the
leading Whig there begets indifference to Whig. principles.
Monmouth is the only county of England of which the
Lord Lieutenant is a Commoner ; and to raise Mr. H.
LEIGH to the Peerage would strengthen the Whig in-
terest in the county. Men are fascinated by high rank
and many lukewarm and doubtful supporters, who would
be regardless of the Commoner, would be secured by c
smile from the Peer. The Monmouthshire Liberals,
who have under many disadvantages ousted one Tory
from the county, and have again and again since the
Whigs came into office successfully contested the bo-
rough, deserve from the Ministers that their Lord-
Lieutenant should be ennobled, if he would accept
the honour. It is not so much for his sake, whom
all the Liberals of Monmouthshire respect, that the
honour ought to be bestowed, as for their sake who
would be convinced, by the promotion of their Lord-
Lieutenant, that the Ministers appreciated their services in
the cause of Reform.

Sir Sons WaoTTEsLEv, Mr. PAUL METHUEN, and
Mr. HANBURY TRACY, will, we believe, be the three
English Peers.

The following notice was yesterday posted in the Ca•
tholic Chapels of the London district :

" To all the faithful Clergy and Laity of the London District.

" Dearly beloved Brethren and Children in Jesus Christ—Whereas it
has pleased our beloved and most gracious Sovereign to appoint Thurs.
day, the 28th instant, for the solemnity of her Coronation, the said day
being the Vigilpf SS. Peter and Paul, and observed in the Catholic
Church as a solemn fast ; and whereas the penitential exercises
of such fast are inconsistent with the public rejoicings suited
to this happy, auspicious, and national solemnity ; being anxious
that the Catholic body, which yields to none of her Majesty's
subjects in loyalty and attachment to her sacred person, should
not, on this joyful occasion, be less forward than others in their
external manifestations of the same, we, the undersigned, exercising
the power vested in our hands for edification, do hereby declare anti
publish, that the obligation of abstinence and fasting on Thursday, the
28th of the present month, is dispensed with in favour of all the faithful
in the London district; and that the said obligation is transferred to
Wednesday, the 27th instant, which we do hereby order to be observed
as a solemn fast, in lieu of, and for the same intentions as, the general
fast appointed by the Church for the following day.
" We exhort you, dearly beloved brethren and children in Jesus
Christ, to offer up your fervent prayers and penitential works on the
27th instant, to obtain for our youthful and beloved Queen a long,
prosperous, and happy reign, with every spiritual gift, which may en-
able her to extend its glories beyond the limits of this short life.
" ' The charity of God, and the communication of the Holy Ghost, be
with you all, brethren.—Amen.'
" THOMAS, Bishop of Olena,
" Vicar Apostolic of the London District.
"London, June 21, 1838."

Her MAJESTY'S Catholic subjects are prompt in de-
monstrating their loyalty and affection. They owe her
and owe the State no particular gratitude, for the State af-
fords them only a stepmothers protection. There are
other sects, however, in the empire established as
the religion of the State which owe it much grati-
tude for the favour and affection with which they
are regarded, and some of the members of which have
nevertheless gone out of their way to fix that day for
celebrating their religious festivals. They wish apparently
to abstract the public attention from her MAJESTY, and
divide the public homage with her. A few days ago there
appeared an Advertisement in the Papers of the proceed
ings at Cromarty, and within the County Hall there, on the
14th day of June, 1838, in a meeting of the Inhabitants
of the town and county of Cromarty, Major GEORGE GUNN
MuNao, of Poyntzfield, Convener of the County of Cro-
marty, in the Chair—
It was then resolved that the inhabitants orthe town and county of Cro-
many deprecate the conduct of the Minister and Kirk Session of Cro-
marty, in fixing the day appointed for the Coronation of her Majesty
Queen Victoria as a Fast Day preparatory to dispensing the Sacrament
of the Lord's Supper.

It was also resolved that it is highly unbecoming for any Clergyman of
the Church of Scotland to appoint a day for a Fast whici, had previously
been set apart for all loyal and patriotic subjects celebrating the Corona_
tion of our beloved Queen.

What a contrast does this offer between the vo-
luntary loyalty of the unpaid non-established Catholic
Clergy of the metropolis, and the stubborn, officious, med-
dling, disloyal zeal of the Presbyterian priest, who thrusts
forward unnecessarily and uncalled-for his own religious
ceremonies on a day set apart for her MAJESTY'S Coro-
nation ! The gentlemen of Cromarty bad a proper sense
of his impertinence, and justly chastised his officiousness.
If laymen of all sects 'throughout the country were to imi-
tate the Cromarty gentlemen, and show themselves less
priest-ridden than they are, society would gain immensely
by the change.

That the apprenticeship system cannot be abolished too
soon is evident by the following extract of a letter from
SAMUEL OUGIITON, Baptist Missionary, dated Lucca,
Jamaica, May 15, 1838, directed to Mr. JOSEPH STURGE.
Such melancholy narratives justify to the full the agitation
got up by the humane people of England, and ought to
stimulate them to continue their exertions. They supply
additional reasons too why her MAJESTY'S Ministers
should not for one moment cease to impress on the
planters the propriety of acceding to the wishes of the
nation, and of abolishing the apprenticeship as the only
means of securing their own safety :

On my return home last evening from the Court House, Susan

Mackenzie, of Coventry and Great Valley Estate (the property of Robt.
Hibbert), came to me, hav:ng been thirteen hours crawling a similar
number of miles, that she might tell me her tale of woe. It appears that
ever since the apperanee of your book, in which her case is mentioned,
the rancour against this poor defenceless creature has burst forth with
increased fury. Just after its first appearance, she was taken up, and
confined in the hot-house for several days, although she had no sick-
ness, save the excessive weakness and almost blindness, brought on by
her inhuman tormentors during the martial law of 1632. Oh, Sir, had
you heard her relate her simple tale of misery, as I did last evening, it
would have made your heart bleed. And could the poor creature's back,
which was not healed up in less than five years after her flogging, and
which is even now a horrid spectacle, be seen by British Christians, I am
sure all England would arise, and with a voice too mighty to be resisted,
demand the immediate extinction of the last vestige of a system which
could ever tolerate such barbarities on a poor defenceless 11. male. But
to my 'tory :
It 1 'pears that last Thursday her busha passed by a stream where she
was fishing a few c!othes. He immediately ordered her to be taken
up, 1 ked her in the estate dungeon for several hours, and afterwards
removed her into the strong room, where she was detained a solitary
prisoner until Sunday afternoon, during which time the overs7er gave
her nothing but one pint of oatmeal, and on her liberation told her that
unless she went to the field to work he would keep on punishing her.
This I urn certain she cannot do; her health and strength are com-
pletely ruined by her sufferings; she complains of constant pain in the
stomach, and is nearly blind from the effects of the flogging. If some-
thing cannot be done to put a stop to these persecutions I fear she will
soon fall a victim to them. Poor creature, she is an interesting and
very delicate woman ; a person of unaffected piety, and has been for
nearly twelve years an honourable and conscientious member of soy
Church at Gurney's Mount.
The following is the statement in " The West India in 1837,"
Appendix, second edition, page 405 :
Coventry Estate, the property of Robert Hibbert—Susan Ma.
ckenzie, an apprentice, says, that during the rebellion she was sent for
because she was a great Baptist woman.' They tried to make some
men swear against her to hang her, but did not succeed ; and because
she would slot say anything against Mr. Burchell, three mess, with three
new cats, were ordered to flog her. They gave her about three hundred
lashes, and she remained in the workhouse for about three months. On
the Ist of August, 1834, the Attorney, Mr. Grant, said she must go into
the field. She said she was not able, and showed him her back ; but he
said that was nothing, and for her refusal she was sent three times to the
workhouse; they then allowed her to cook for the children, which is her
present employment.
This woman is an individual of superior intelligence for her station,
and bears a very high character as a person of amiable and mild disposi.
Lion, and consistent in her deportment as a professor of religion.
She is almost blind from the effects of flogging; the upper part of the
back is covered with white patches, where the rete mucosum has been en-
tirely obliterated by the horrid punishment described above.
Speaking of the condition of the apprentices in Coventry, she said,
that the people are compelled to do task work in the field, and so much
is givers them that they cannot finish it, though they work from sun-
rise to dusk without intermission. Their breakfasts are cooked for them,
and they eat them in the field without sitting down. If there is a patch
left they are compelled to finish it on the Saturday. The magistrates
won't hear what they have to say. They receive no salt fish.

By the arrival of Royal Tar steamer, at Falmouth,
from the Tagus, we have received advice; from Lisbon to
the 19th inst. inclusive. The intelligence they bring is
painfully important ; namely, the details of another attempt
to effect a revolution by the assassination of the KING, the
ViiCOUDt DE SA DA BANDEIRA, and his ministerial colleague
in the War Department. The substance of this disgrace-
ful transaction may he given in a few words.
The 13th and 14th inst., are observed asreligious festivals
in Portugal, the first being the anniversary of St. Antonio,
patron saint of Lisbon, and the second the Catholic festival of
Corpus Christi, which is celebrated with processions in most
Catholic countries. On the 14th the KING, in accordance
with immemorial usage, attended the procession, but no
violence was offered him till his return to the door of the
Cathedral, when he was assailed with the vilest epithets by
the mob, the Constitution of 1820 without alterations
called for, and violent atttnipts made to prevent him from
getting into his carriage. Previously to this a mob had
collected in the Cathedral-square, where a military band
was playing the anthem of Dolitia. MARIA, and furiouily
shouted for the 'evolutionary hymn of 1820. This
demand was complied with, whereupon the 7th bat-
talion of National Guards and several other sections
of" that body joifie.4 the rioters, shouting 6. Long live
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