The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-28 00:00:00

THE CORN-LAW AGITATION.

(BY A TORY PEER.)
While Daniel in Dublin is threat'ning Repeal,
And Feargus doth Liverpool's Radicals prate to,
All flocking to see a docked joint of the Tail
, Per4lorming the part of " a Talking Potato 1" *
Our City-starved artizans, clam'rous for bread,
Me:et, menace, resolve that themselves are the nation ;
While we, who are Lords, 'gotten, born, and bred,
Are no better than highwaymen in a high station.
The ingrates ! because we look more to their health,
'than to plague them with surfeits—the cost nc'er
grudging.—
Presitme—the poor devils—to glance at our wealth,
While counting the hours of their penniless drudging.
They prate of their toiling from morning till night,
Their brats, for dry crusts often half the day weeping;
But vre, who take different note of Time's flight,
Arc: never so busy as while they are sleeping.
Whai; l have we not lowered the duty on salt,
114:duc'ed the dog-taxes, and charges on tiles 1-, .
And threatened three Sessions to cheapen the malt?
Al'], all to procure for us landlords their smiles I
Have, we not taken charge of our aunts and our mothers,
Whom Kings—Heaven bless them I—delighted to pension,
To pacify Harvey, Hume, Gillon, and others,
Whose names the pure lips of a Peer may not mention ?
And lave we not lowered the taxes on reading,
A boon so transcendent, that now it's much cheaper
For lab'rers who think, and are persons of breeding,
Than dining on roast beef, to dine upon paper.
Now to all men of rank I would boldly appeal—
I will e'n include Elliot the Corn-Rhymer—whether
Atly practice in England should dare to prevail
For improving the brains and the belly together?
No, no; if the Radicals must have cheap bread,
Not content with cheap browsing or newspaper foliage,
Our duty as Peers, both to belly and head,
Requires that we treble the taxes on knowledge.
* ride The Sun of yesterday.
,aced t His Lordship forgets that the dog and tile taxes were re-
to benefit that spoiled pet of the aristocracy—the landed
interest.

COLONEL NAPIER and MR:VIN CENT

(FROM A CORRRSPONDENT.
The Morning Chronicle of Thursday the 20th, contains
a-ti article relative to the above named persons, at the late
!fleeting of " the working men" at Bath, which abounds
nlis-statements. First, it is asserted that Colonel Nap ier
had no objection to Mr. Vincent's calling Lord John Rus-
I."' Sir Robert Peel, and Lord Brougham knaves, but
w.uen the Duke of Wellington was so called, he expressed
his anger, because the Duke is his idol. Now as Colonel
jatatperier has often, and did at that time, avow his hostility
!co the ph.uke's politics, it is a. misrepresentation to call the
is idol. And why is Colonel Napier to volunteer
a defence of every public man who may be attacked?
13NV'hat are Sir Robert Peel, Lord John Russell,
. and Lord
lairrlehanct to him, that he should run a tilt at the wind-
Is for their sake ? They belong to political factions, let
their factions defend them !
ileßut the Duke of Wellington is another guise sort of
ts"-he belongs to England, to the world. Colonel
Napier has served under him, has had long and honourable
aelPerktnee of his great qualities, and thus was bound to
eciare that he was a brave and worthy man, and an illus-
trio
was doubt
warrior. To call the Duke of Wellington a knave,
fiCs 110 doubt a ridiculous piece of scurrility, but to have
i stened to it with patience would have been baseness. It
s indeed, indecent at all times to use foul language ; but to
oplace Lord John Russell on the same sacred pedestal of
uitness with the Duke of Wellington—to suppose that a
!,name applied to him, er to the other persons mentioned
ePll occasion, should or could excite disgust and anger
tbe degree that abusing the Duke of Wellington would
ll:ite those feelings, is a notion which could only enter the
ad of such a bewildered Ministerial partizan as the Editor
of the.,,,.. Morning Chronicle.
v. with respect to the facts of
the discussion between Mr.
~ Ineent and Colonel Napier, it is true that the latter did
•epe...
f, 4Eeilly exclaim agaihst the expressions used by the
leer ;it was a natural impulse not to be resisted ; but
r•Vincent did not, as described in the Morni.n,gChronic/e,
continue in a brutal manner to repeat the offensive pdasksnaa;ens,
continue
Colonel Napier's name also with the
coeperters have proverbially particular ears, word
neither'
ttrnulzie3l, Nt:aptier nor other persons close to him, and close
- air. Vincent, heard the latter use those terms. The
Colonel Napier not only cried aloud in con-
tradiction of Mr. Vincent's assertion, but said he would
le_titest the matter with him in face of the assembly ; and
,Ziwt ass actually mounting the table to do so, when Mr..V.in-
lug rat..,"P`'d down, and twice in a very gentle and conciliat-
sian -, "11" r said, " Be tranquil, 1 will explain the expres-
-11101 and he did so, not in the scurrilous, vaunting
but
s 0 unfairly ascribed to him by the Morning Chronicle,
E, c, aloily and temperately, stating that he meant no per-
t Napier, that he did not assail the
ins of Wellington's private character, but regarded all
n
e 1 who denied him his rights in the community as politi-
-4' knaves.
tlAgain, when Colonel Napier, after Mr. Vincent's speech
148 finished, addressed, and harshly addressed, the assem-
Y with respect to what had passed, Mr. Vincent merely
I)tatlPLl!ed, that he could not recede from his opinion as to the
ti.uhlte character of men who denied him his political
•ta ; but he was most anxious that the unanimity
Which as
0. r ought, and, with the exception of this point, had,
r..tacterized the day's proceedings, should not be inter-
cheers''i ed he would say no more. He then proposed three
laso, not as the Chronicle would have it thought, in an
nlndeelleti insulting manner, but expressly as a conciliatory
It is g g
ble discussion.
li.iv...__ not true, therefore, that Colonel Napier was
ragalen froni the field—it is not true that he left the bust-
*as n
,sgust, He retired because the business of the day
side, eLarlY over—because it was late, and he was at a con-
tile 'waule distance from his home ; and so untrue is it that
easio:rking People were wilful and ungenerous on this oc-
Piees la that notwithstanding the distance of Colonel
.Na-
-41 Ver, ,°nse, nearly three miles from the place of meeting,
larcr
term thanksbody, with music, came to him there, offered
nd a for his exertions, requested that he would at-
VireiPnther meeting, and, although he refused to do so,
prellll,!.hree hearty cheers.
pch"' tins statement of facts, it follows that the Morn-
P. IrZce:ahndas,CforloomnelpaNrtaypiespr.leen, been unjust both to
.
ger.oe, regret to hear that the Earl of Shannon is dan
thetapiYe4llat his town house. The female branches of. the
Tie 1, lsle of Wight for London on Tuesday morning.
al,„edirtt:Cutlke of Sutherland will return to town im-
t7,o,ci,!..ty:Yatar the meeting of the. Highland Agricultural
p 2Nobie 13 `,4sgow, when, after staying a few days in tow_nr,
418, tme, accompanied by his Duchess, will leave for
Ir;
L. .Scr,-n,
....._
Qlll4
18 unU t Uornhermere's marriage with Miss Gih-
1141Irti, i::,rcl'aii"iv,,e. understand, to take place the week after
Park rederick u Lady Hillsborough, who are on a visit to
ra riear Salisbury
,ed Lady Bathurst at their seat, Claren
ti:44.,..., the.,,,. will come to. town to attend the cere-
-4tl; nAfirst•ollaOcre and Gallant Viscount has been twice mar-
hera;. Y Was a sister of the present Duke of New-
, lin'apr• ° -eu in the flower of her days, a few years after
) biage•
Zths'Or' ili.iliroore has returned to Whitehall from the
°er 1 ""la-C
I 4 1,, , hapelle, where he has been residing for
t • eeks.
44: I _ls
with
the ett deep regret that we insert in our obituary
the' t° .eat
John Caird, Esq. This gentlemen, it is need. ..
414144,41 our local readers, was the managing partner 11,
aple t°,a, wk• our
manufactory of Caird and Co., o
tine4(hd steir:lch has fitted up with machinery several of those
Nhi,l'a to i,_rn-vessels that have raised the fame of Clyde en-
he le ;tad its sets
high eminence. Mr. Caird's character,.
las.Frike
crlate, Was
most exemplary, and his removal in
ik 4..ta et at:,...! 3 life and usefulness, is not only an irreparable
bei!er° de .4.ercnis and justly attached family, but is felt to be
,!lier Prlvation to het whole community.—Greenock Ad-
Lit
dreadful fire broke out on the pre-
Itkei:tel 1: 'II ri g. ll* .t a
o'tj Iltreet ~!.cirnonds, carpenter and builder, No. 20, Ben-
.l,t. fhn!unford-street, Blackfriars-road, about half-past
Nitle to,; light of the conflagration was seen in many parts
14 (Wed and an immense crowd had in consequence emi-
tf, On the
._O.
hoot:' the ,„,.,y tin a short time. The engines belong-
irve.,lta those
the were the first that arrived on the
thi ofdB se of the Southwark road, Waterloo-road, and
I:tit
co Illeand
came almost immediately afterwards. N.o-
tnkh Id exceed the fury with which the house and its
.11testiinbel.cuntents burned for upwards of two hours, when,
*giell "sant exertions
"Pct. rrived of the above engines, and those
ttpi:-.1:43 ezrnti.sor:uickly after them, at about I 1 o'clock the
711.! ogler:tele& There is nothing remaining of the pre-
re on save the brickwork.
6, esh.„„,,v trig, at a
quarter before one o'clock,
did aonirl a fire broke out in Wycbeitreet, Strand,
Nth'eltriletion:V to rage for a considerable period, threatening
I Prereisesw the whole neighbourhood. It commenced on
41414(44e r Mr. Collard, brazier, and thence extended to
the the difffuses• The several engines of the Fire Brigade,
1,10411p0k am Tit stations in the metropolis, were quickly on
kr% irnr... ,IthOugh a
good supply of water was obtained
tho' Colia,,a,chately, the fire was not subdued till the entire of
ele 44. 4.0 s promises were consumed. The Angel Inn, in
Therteions e; 5," Some time in danger, but by the judicious
tette° are
_`,°o firemen it was saved with trifling damage.
kie s,xcral housea in the immediate neighbourhood
111er. p• ged• The principal loss will fall on the Wes:-
ire-4m