The Sun.
London, England, 1822-07-11 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET JULY MEETING, 1822.
WEDNESDAY, JULY JO.
(First year).—Renewal of the Sweepstakes of IOgS. each ; for
2yr olds, 6st. 111 b.; and 3yr olds, 9st. The New T. Y. C.
The winner to be sold for 200 gs. if demanded, &c.
D. of Grafton's ch. f. by Partisan, out of Coquette - 1
IA Eieter names b. f. by Woful, out of Bella Donna - 2
Mr. Wortley names Emma - - 3
Thirteen started.—Two pd.—The Judge plaCed but three.
5 to 1 agst Partisan f.
The Town Plate of 501. for 3 yr old colts, Bst. 4Th. ; and fillies,
Bst. Last mile and a distance of B. C.
Mr. Wyndham's gr. c. by Y. Gohanna, out of Cypruss 1
Gen. Grosvenor's ch. f. Betty -
-
- -
Mr. Neale's b. f. by Rubens, out of Spitfire - - 3
Mr. Thornhill'ib. c. Swivel, brother to Spring-gun , - 4
2 to 1 agst Y. Gohanna c.-4 to 1 agstßetty-7 to 1 agst Rubens f

CRICKET.—The Grand Cricket Match, at Lord's Ground,
between the Marylebone Club and the Players of England,
was decided yesterday :
England.
First Innings
Second Ditto

I , Marykbone.
83. First Innings
124 Second Ditto

2.07 1 203
. The Marylebone Club won by six wickets. This match, in
consequence of the various turns, was considered the most in-
teresting played for some years-6 to 4at starting on the
Players of England, and afterwards 4tol, on the Club. Then
betting, even even afterwards any; odds on the Club.

,Blakesley's match to Staten and back to London, 140 mile
in 48 hours, proved A failure. He had 29 miles to perform in
nine hours, at two o'clock on Tuesday, and at that time he
was far from fresh.- At. Wade's Mill he had much difficulty
fn ascending the; hill,.after which he became lame, and was
obliged to resign); at seven o'clock in the .evening, having 14
miles to.perforra,in four hours, but to win was impossible.
Much money was pending upon the match, and it was an un.
heard of undertaking.

THE LONDON JOPIkNALS.

VIXTRACTS FROM THE DAILY MORNING PAPERS,

July 11, 1822.

[NEW TIMES.]
The delay of the French Ministry in bringing
to trial the traitor Berton, has encouraged some
other conspirators of a like stamp. One Caron
raised the standard of insurrection in the de-
partment of the Upper Rhine. He was seconded
by a veteran of the name of Roger; and these
two individuals succeeded for some time in lead-
ing two squadrons of cavalry through different
small towns, to the cry of rive l'Empereur
Their first object appears to have been the re-
lease of the traitors confined at Belfort ; but the
plan was soon rendered abortive, and the ring•
leaders, Caron and Roger, were themselves made
prisoners.—One cannot help asking why all this
apparent timidity and hesitation, on the part of
the French Ministers, in bringing traitors to
justice? The revolutionary journal, the Con-
stitutionnel, impudently boasts that Berton
has refused to answer interrogatories ad-
ministered to him in the usual course of the
French legal proceedings, and insists on being
tried before the Chamber of Peers: This
scoundrel ought not to have been allowed the
opportunity of sheaving any such insolence. He
should have been tried by a Court Martial, and
shot without delay. The villains of the Revolu-
tion afforded no respite to the illustrious Duke
D'Enghien. Every delay of 'the French Go.
vernment in executing justice is construed by
its enemies into a proof of weakness, and serves
as an encouragerhent for new treasons. It is said
that M. de Peyronnet, the Keeper of the Seals,
feels with proper energy on this subject ; but M.
de Corbiere, the Minister of the Interior, prefers
a degree of caution and deliberation, v hick we
own appears to us to be rather misplaced.

[Tile TrmEs.:l
The Corn Bill was read a third time yester-
day in the House of Lord. We mention this
merely for the curiosity of the thing—that an
expedient which a few months back was regarded
with so much silly confidence in one class of men,
and which gave rise to suclNsupertluous appre-
hensions in every other, should now be almost
universally forgotten, while ye't on its road
through Parliament. For our parts, we rejoice
that the Bill is what it is—that its principles and
intentions are so completely frustrated by its
practical insignificance. For a law, the declared
purpose of which has been to raise the price of
bread still higher upon a people who at this mo-
ment pay more for it than any other nation in
Europe, the best apology we can tender is,
that it must utterly fail of its object. It is
no reflection upon the authors and advocates
of this Corn Bill to say, that they were a set of
persons altogether incapable of executing their
own projects ; for, except by proclaiming a mi-
vimunt for corn, or by seizing and destroying all
that could be laid hold of, it was physically im-
possible for any talent to push the price of the
article above that point to which the existing
prohibition had already raised it. The obvious
failure of this ne plus ui/re of the agriculturists is
owing, therefore, to the chimerical nature of the
enterprise itself. Now, indeed, that the people have
turned their minds to the subject, we see that their
alarms have wholly ceased. There has not formally
weeks been (to our knowledge) a single petition
signed against the Corn Bill. The only mischief
with which it seems fairly chargeable, is its having
served Ministers for a decoy to some of the wise-
acres among their " Country Gentlemen" de-
pendents, who, long after the rest of the nation
had opened their eyes to the inefficacy of such a
measure, hoped through it to indemnify them-
selves for their own share of those enormous bur-
dens which they persisted in imposing on their
countrymen. --mi;.;

[MORNING POST.]
Mr. Western, after the other business of the
evening had been disposed of, submitted his
series of eighteen Resolutions, the substance of
which we have already given ; and as the Hon.
Member himself admitted that the subject, in
point of fact, was the same as that upon which
he had previously taken the sense of the House,
after the amplest discussion, we deem it unneces-
sary to enter again into the question. The cal-
culations and reasonings in Mr. Western's speech
on this occasion were nearly a repetition of those
which he used exactly a month ago on discussing the
Cash Payment Resumption Bill. For our part, we
cannot conceive how the Hon. Gentleman would
have had Parliament to act. He surely did not ex-
pect that the decision which had been come to so
short a time before would be now reserved,
and upon so momentous a point too as that of
altering the currency. The only new argument
which he introduced to effect so signal a revolu-
tion of opinion was that the famine, in Ireland
had been caused by Mr. Peel's Bill of 1819.—
It seems to us, however, that speculations of this
sort are little calculated to relieve the Agricul-
tural interest in this country ; nor is it in the
power of any Legislature, in our opinion, to do
more than Parliament has already done with that
view in the course of this Session. Whatever may
have been the effects of resuming cash payments,
any attempt now to retrace our steps could not
fail to be attended with tenfold greater evils.
Alter an interesting debate, which continued till
half-past four o'clock this morning, the pro-
posed Resolutions were negatived without a di-
vision.—fn the Lords, the Corn Bill was, after
some discussion, read a third time and passed,
after a division of 32 to 16.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]

Many rumours were afloat yesterday with re-
spect to the rout of Mr. A bercromby ; but nothing
certain, we believe, is yet known.—lt has been
erroneously supposed by some of our contempo-
raries, that we are advocates of the claims of
privilege set up by the House, because we repro-
bated the system of challenging Members for
what they may utter in the discharge of their
public duty, or using► language which is under-
stood to amount to a challenge. These two things
af4 not surely the same. God forbid that we should

subscribe to the doctrines laid down by the House
on the subject of privilege. Indeed, some Members
have even gone so far as to claim as privilege an ex-
emption from all comment or animadversion on
what they utter in Parliament, which would
amount to a most intolerable tyranny over the
Press. It was not necessary for us to mix up
the question of Privilege with our disapprobation
of the system of demanding personal satisfaction
for what is uttered in the discharge of a public
duty, nor did we do so. Our observations were
directed to the excitement- of an indignant feeling
in society against those who endeavour to cir-
cumscribe the utility of public speakers or pub-
lic writers, by marking them out for vengeance;
and to shew that both Society and Members
themselves were bound to treat all such endea-
vours with contempt. Of all protections in such
a case, that derived from Parliamentary Privi-
lege must, we should think, be the very worst,
because, as the feelings of society will seldom go
along with the Member who avails himself of it,
it will seldom be claimed.

[MORNING lIERALD.I
Last night, in the House of Commons, Mr.
Western brought forward his Resolutions on the
State of the. Country, or rather " descriptive of
the distressed state of the Agricultural part of
the country ; the effects of the altered state of
the currency on the general amount of taxation ;
and the relative situation of the public creditor
and the public, under such altered state of- the
currency." After various postponements, his
Resolutions were eventually proposed with con-
siderable reluctance, for Mr. Western wished
to have seventeen out of his eighteen Reso-
lutions agreed to, on the representation that they
declared what he considered to be admitted
facts. If the House would thus adopt the seven-
teen Resolutions, he was ready on some future
day to have a sort of " Harvest-home " debate
on the closing Resolution ! But the House,
perhaps, recollected some feats performed by
former Parliaments in the art and mystery of
passing Resolutions. They might bear in mind,
that if the Resolutions were once adopted—
even though they might be matter-of-fact Re-
solutions, they would be held by the country
as embodying the sentiments of the House.—
The Resolution, that a-pound note and a shil-
ling were equal to a guinea, when the guinea
was worth, and would and did fetch twenty-
seven shillings—that Resolution, too, was a matter-
of-fact Resolution, and now it looks very ridiculous
on the Journals! No! the House has had enough
of matter-of-fact Resolutions : indeed, the idea
of their being such was scouted by Lord Lon-
donderry and Mr. Ricardo. The latter declared
that they were " defective and erroneous ;"
" unfounded in many respects ;" -and that
they were tainted throughout with " fallacy !"
Mr. Ricardo, therefore, would not suffer them
to gain any footing in that House, without
first stoutly opposing their entrance—expos-
ing their fallacies. Such being the case, there
was no escaping from the debate; where-
upon Mr. Western brought forward his 18
Resolutions, in the presence of somewhere about
twice as many Members. The Report will state
what became of the Resolutions. We have not
given them in the Report, not only on account
of their great length, but, with all due respect
to Mr. Western's Resolutions, be it stated—be-
cause we like to print what we think people
would be disposed to read with pleasure.

[BRITISH PRESS.]

Mr. Nolan obtained leave to bring in a Bill
last night to alter and 9rpend the Poor Laws.—
The plan, as far as it is developed, would be an
evident improvement on the present state of the
law, and is far superior to any modification re-
cently proposed. Mr. Scarlett's late measure, taken
in total (for he 'divided it latterly, and brought
forward only one third of it by way of preface)—
had too much of the slashing and precipitate phi-
losophy of the Malthus school, for the caution of
English legislation. The notion of cutting away
the Poor Laws like a rotten mast from the vessel
of state has become very prevalent of late, and
has been much propagated by the lectures and
example of our northern neighbours. If, how-
ever, we take into consideration the council of
experience, perhaps there is not so much excel-
lence in this sample of their politics as they assert.
Mr. Nolan well observes, that since the enact-
ment of Queen Elizabeth the English poor have
gone far beyond the same classes in surrounding,
nations, not excepting Scotland, in all the circum-
stances of civilization. That there is great evil
in the enormous amount of pauperism, and its
attendant expence, cannot be questioned ; the
doubt would be, whether it may not keep out a
greater evil. Governments may err in their
policy, and the rapid fluctuations of power
and commercial prosperity in the nations of
Europe prove that there is yet much to be
explored in the principles of lasting and pros-
perous politics. The poor, as Mr. Nolan re-
marks, concerning the rise and fall of trading pro-
fits, arrive more slowly at their share in the ad-
vantages than in the disadvantages. Did we need
a proof of the condition to which the lower classes
may sink in a declining state of things,being unpro-
tected by poor laws, we have it in the anomalous
famine of Ireland, while her grain is bearing down
prices in the English market. From which example
we also learn, that while confusion and horror
overshadow the whole frame of the community,
there is ❑othing saved in the way of ex pence ;
the money which, paid in poor rates, might pre-
vent the death of the Irish by famine, must still
be furnished by taxes out of the common stock,
to provide troops and police to dragoons the po-
pulation into that obedience which is cheerfully
conceded on this side of the channel.

The Harmony, MunnAy, and Ruby, BODIE,
of Aberdeen, sailed from Cromarty on Tuesday
last, for Pictou, with about 250 expatriated High-
landers. A vast assemblage of the relatives of
these poor emigrants, supposed some thousands,
attended to take leave of their friends ; and the
parting scene was of the most affecting nature,
such as to draw tears from the eyes of some of
the spectators unconnected with the parties.—
( Edinburgh Courant, July 8.)

FOR THE SUS.

REPLY TO JUSTUS.

MR. EDITOR—I am sorry yon did not think
proper to admit the communication of JUSTUS,
more for his sake than your ovn, as no doubt
you have exercised a sound discretion, though
it must have been, for the time, a mortifying
check upon the ebullition of feelings described to
be so " quick and sensible." Perhaps he may
console himself with the reflection which has
often consoled men of no ordinary genius, that
second thoughts are sometimes best. In the pre-
sent instance, not knowing what the first may
have been, I cannot enter into the comparison,
but must be content with a short answer to the
second, in which he endeavours to extricate him-
self from a charge of personality, as if there were no-
thing personal in supposing a man to be " wound-
ed in his conscience, or to neglect his own du-
ties', or to suppose him biassed from his worldly
prospects being blighted by some persons who
hold opposite opinions to his own." If this is to
be impersonal, I do not know what personality
means. Leaving, however, this complimentary
fact as a waste of time and space when parties
are once at issue, I shall only answer that I do
not feel myself called upon to surrender any
names to support a quoted fact, which may easily
be proved to the satisfaction of any one that will
take the pains to inquire among either the friends
or enemies of the Church. In following up this
fact I cannot remember, among the few observa-
tions which I made, to have been carried away by
a " torrent of defamation upon the Evangelical
Clergy," or even so much as to have mentioned
the sect at all, for such I cannot help thinking
them, as far as I believe them to be compre-
hended in the term of " Gospellers, who search-
ing far deeper than others into the councils of
GOD, follow any other Gospel than that of the
Evangelists." These are the men to whom I

allude, and though I think but meanly of them,
I trust I have not suffered expressions to escape
me that can be construed by a fair disputant into
real " defamation." It appears however that
the main point in dispute is the " propriety of
dissenting institutions," and the great exploits of
Sectarians are magnified to throw, by the contrast,
the Church into the shade.

Sectarians are said to have erected public
places of worship where they never were before,
in large towns too, and in such places as would
best allure their objectsfrom vicious habits ; and
to have led the way to the building of addi-
tional churches for Members of the Established
Church. In all this for the most part they have
been undoubtedly most zealous, even in the last,
when they have in their eye preachers of their
own stamp likely to be appointed. These Evan-
gelicals are often.known to leave their own parish
church for the sake of such preachers, and so
peculiar is' their regard for the establishment,
to frequent conventicles, rather than go to the
church where they cannot meet with hearers.
As to their "alluring men from vicious habits, or
disseminating the doctrines of morality," who
that has ever heard their pulpits resound with
the empty cry of faith without works, in one
tiresome tautology of an hour's length; repeated
in every discourse from Sabbath to Sabbath, and
even on what are called their expounding nights
in the interval, but must refuse to join in this
panegyric upon them as preachers of morality?
Whatever they may think in private or say, when
they come to reason with their equals in conver-
sation or in writing, they insist not, to say the
least, upon the moral doctrines, but seem to con-
clude, that, if once they can preach faith into a
man, all the other virtues must follow in its
train, and, whatever may be their speculation in
the closet, speak aloud to the people us if that
were the only virtue necessary for salvation.
Properly considered, no doubt, Faith deserves
to be so insisted upon as the great foundation of
all our hope, and some of the more intelligent
and sincere, the ingenuous as well as the inge-
nious of them, mean no more than that it should
be so considered ; but the people who reason not,
and only listen to the sound, to the letter and
not to the spirit, and even some of them who
enter into the sense, chuse to take it in the way
the most favourable to their passions, and are
beguiled into the infatuation, (more fatal to mo-
rality than all the dogmas of the heathen philo-
sophers, or the wild theories of those who affect
to be so called in modern times,) that faith alone,
without works, is all that is required, and Ire so
apt to abound in that which cost them nothing,
in order to preserve these lusts, which Would
cost so much pains and self-denial to encounter.
To bear and to forbear, are much more ardu-
ous duties to perform than Faith, however im-
plicit, especially to those who think to compen-
sate for their defect of understanding b; credu-
lity in superabundance.
When JUSTUS asks as to the spirit of, these
Sectarians in converting, whether they attempt
to procure their followers by wealth, or to enrol
the great or opulent among them, I can only an-
swer, as far as I have read and heard, that their
zeal for proselytism is most unbounded ; and that
to make one proselyte only, they will go through
fire and water, or endure fatigues which would
harass the strongest constitution, and which some
of the greatest misers have been known to do,
when they have a certain object in view, who at
the same time would not spend a shilling for its
sake ; but selfish of fear of this world and its
interests, as many of them are, notwithstanding
all their high pretensions to have their affections
set only on things above, they have readily sacri-
ficed part of the pennies collected to train up the
young for the University, and for Orders in their
own way of thinking ; and even some among the
poor of their parish have contributed out of their
own pockets little sums; more especially in sick-
ness and misfortune, or any of the trying circum-
stances of life, just at the critical moment when
the heart is most easily affected and the mind
but half awake, and gratitude alone, without
any regard to interest to come, might excite them
' to unite with men who appear to betray so much
zeal for their conversion. But if these very con.:
yerts, when their mind may have recovered its
tone, and their necessities are not so urgent,
rdare in an unlucky hour to retract their opinion,

if opinion it can be called, or by any chance'
should revert to the principles of the Established
Church, or to any other Church, where the
'Evangelical doctrine is not inculcated, they then
also retract their pence, and resign such apos.
tates, not only to imaginary reprobation in ano-
ther world, but what is more real terror than all
their high-sounding anathema, in men that are
come to their right minds, and can distinguish
sound from sense, to all the horrors of starvation,
or at least to the most sudden distress in this :
such is too often the manner in which the Mini-
sters have " gone in and out," as Justus so elo-
quently describes them, " and attended to the
worthliest, most uneducated, poorest beings this
country exhibits."
JUSTUS, with equal partiality, though not per-
haps with the same strain of eloquence, holds
forth these Ministers as" distinguished by a more
assiduousfdischarge of their official duties, and a
more earnest endeavour to pass through the
world unspotted by it," than others of their
Brethren. Such we know is the temper of the
Pharisee in every age, who in proportion as he
trusts in himself that he is righteous, is sure to
despise others ; and because he goes about from
house to house in his ardent zeal for proselytism,
—and is ever talking, in reason and out of reason,
night and day, in the lanes and in the streets, in
the highways and in stage-coaches,—and seems to
breakfast, dine, and sup o❑ religion,—boasts of a
more assiduous discharge of his duties than his
more rational and sober brethren, who are not
so eager to make a parade of their profession ;
and think that the bow, however strong, is not to
be ever on the stretch, but that it will shoot fur-
ther, longer, and with a surer aim, by being used
only at proper intervals ; that there is a time for
all things, for man may be even " righteous over-
much ;" nor does he expect in this state of im-
purity to be quite unspotted from the world, un-
less he entirely secludes himself, and prevents
the little good he is yet able to do in his gene-
ration ; and however the Pharisee may presume
that he is not as other men are, he knows that
the Sun istelf has his spots, and why can
he expect to escape from them ? None but
Puritans can ever hope to breathe nether in our
common atmosphere, and whenever they affect
it, are apt to soar so high as to be lost in the
clouds of mysticism with the late suicide, who
shot himself just as he was about to begin his
sermon, only to descend far lower than his bre-
thren in proportion to the height from whence he
aspired to look down upon them.
" Sunt certi denique fines."
" Quos infra citraque nequit committere rectum."
IE QUUS.

FOR THE SUN.

MR. EDITOR,

In the first week of July, 1822, as a number of
boys ;were bathing in a pond in the Forest near
Leytonstone, one of them got beyond his depth
and sunk. A servant attending some children
called a carter, who was on the road with his cart,
to the assistance of the boy; without a moment's
hesitation the latter jumped into the water and
rescued him from his perilous situation, and ob-
serving that his horses had gone to some distance,
he ran after them, not even waiting to receive
the thanks for his good conduct; the name of this
noble fellow is consequently unknown—in a
little time the boy recovered ; his first words con-
sisted of thanks to his deliverer. 'We regret to
state that had the boy's recovery been doubtful,
the persons present were all ignorant of the
methods recommended by the Royal Humane
Society. The Gentlemen of the neighbourhood,
we trust, will remedy this omission. ** *

MiNts.—We are concerned to state,
that the workmen employed in the Halkin lead
mines, last week manifested a spirit of insubor-
dination. The cause certainly cannot be im-
puted either to a want of employ, which is con-
stant and abundant, or to lowness of wages,
which are very ample. But it appears that in con-
sequence of an improved system introduced into the
works by JOHN TAYLOR, Esq. Lord GROSVENOR'S
mining agent, and the employment of two or
three experienced overseers, who had heretofore
been strangers to the works, the Welsh miners
took it into their heads to think themselves ag-
grieved ; and on Thursday, in the most riotous
manner, proceeded to abuse the new corners, and
insisted on their dismissal, accompanying this vio-
lence with other unreasonable demands. We
trust that such proceedings, which are no less
disgraceful than disadvantageous to themselves
and the neighbourhood, will not again be re-
sorted to. the present state of depression
to which the wages of the labouring classes
are reduced, the Halkin miners have every cause
to be satisfied, their general average of wages
being very good. We are informed, that before
the improved system was introduced into the
above alines, the concern was a losing one to a
considerable amount ; but we are happy to say
that the mines are likely to be beneficially carried
on, which will perpetuate the advantages to that
populous district, by the employment of a
numerous class of individuals.—(Chester Courant.)

MuitDEß.—Last week Rachel Edwards was
committed to Monmouth gaOl, charged on the verdict of a Co-
roner's Inquest, on,suspicion of the wilful murder of her hus-
band, W. 'Edwards, by giving him a quantity of arsenic. The
unfortunate deceased kept the Cross-Keys public-house, in Pont-
y-Pool, and once possessed a veil, good property, but his wife was
addicted to diinkipg, and had formed an acquaintance with
another man, which 'it is supposed led her to form the horrid
resolution of destroying her husband. From the evidence
given on the inquest,; which sat, two days, it appears
that the servant, who is a relation, was employed to pro-
cure the arsenic • from. a shop, in the name of some other
person ; her mistress persuaded the husband to take a basin of
milk, into which she had previously put a portion of the poison,
and she is said to 'nave administered more of the arsenic to
him afterwards, froth the effects' of which he died in a few
hours. After the ,fullest investigation had taken place, the
stomach having been examined by medical Gentlemen, the Jury
gave a verdict of • WWill Murder against the wife, and she
was fully committed for trial at the next Assizes ; the servant
was also committed :cis an accomplice. The wretched woman
appeared totally insensible to her awful situation. The prison-
ers were sent from Pont-y-Pool in a chaise, in the custody of
two constables, and it is said, that, on the road,• having plied
• the constables: and the driver with liquor, they both effected
theii escape Word they reached Monmouth. Intelligence of
this having arriied at Pont-y-Pool, several Gentlemen imme-
diately went in pursuit, by whose vigilance, we understand,
both; the women were taken asleep in Trelleek-wood, about four
miles froffi Monmouth.