The Sun.
London, England, 1822-04-15 00:00:00

AVERAGE PRICE OF CORN IN ENGLAND AND WALES.

Wheat, 455. Bd. ; Barley, 18s. 10d. ; Oats, 16s. Id. ; Rye,
21s. 4d. ; Beans, 21s. 6d. • Peas, 225. 2d.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the ReturnS made in the Week ending the 10th day of
April, 1822, is 345. lid. per cwt.

SMITHFIELD MARKET, APRIL 15. •
Although there was a great supply of Oxen at market this
morning, the price is somewhat higher than last market day,
and that of good quality is sought after, but the inferior sorts
are heavy in sale. In Mutton and Lamb there was also a good
supply, which was rather lower in price than last Friday. Veal
and Pork remain as per our last quotation.
Beef 2s 6d to 3s lid I Veal
Mutton 2s 6d to 3s 4d Pork 2s 8d to 4s Od

Lamb .... ss. lid. to 6s. Od.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

EXTRACTS FROM. THE 0%11,11 MORNING PAPERS,

4ril 15, 1822.

[TILE TIMES.]
:None of the foreign journals arrived since our
last can be considered as settling the mighty
question of peace or war at the other extremity
of Europe. So far as they do go, they undoubtedly
controvert the vague assurances of the past fort-
night by failing to confirm them in any one par-
ticular ; and from the time which has elapsed
since the warlike intelligence was first put in cir-
culation, there must have been abundant oppor-
tunity to establish the rupture of the negociation,
and the State paper ascribed to the Porte, had
the former been true, or the latter authentic. An
article in the official Gazette of Berlin, dated
the sth inst., declares, in a positive manner, that
not a word had been then pronounced by any
Court which could be considered as a declaration,
or as necessarily leading to it. It then enume-
rates the arguments for entertaining a well-
founded hope that all existing difficulties
Mill be removed. A rumour is quoted by
the French Journals, that the Austrian troops in
Italy are about to change their positions ; those
occupying Lombardy to form a corps of obser-
Nation on the frontiers of Turkish Dalmatia, and
to be replaced by the army of General Frimont
from Naples. A remonstrance is said to have
been presented by the General to King Ferdinand
against the system pursued by his -Ministers in
the government of the Kingdom. What that
system has been, we may collect from a decree
which was passed at Naples on the lath ultimo,
inflicting death.on all those of Ferdinand's sub-
jocts who might hold any correspondence with
the Neapolitan refugees in foreign countries. It
is hinted, that if General Frimont's advice be not
taken,. a good pretext vi ill be afforded for the
evacuation of the South of Italy by Austria—a
measure, nevertheless, which it would require some
stronger evidence to persuade us that the Ca-
binet of Vienna has yet resolved on adopting.

[NEW TIMES.]

Saturday last was marked by a memorable tri-
umph of legal and constitutional principle.—
The despicable attempt to overturn the Consti-
tutional Association, by means of an indictment
against its distinguished President and three of
its Members, was frustrated by an upright Judge
and Jury. The prosecution, though instituted
by certain lurking patriots, whose modesty con-
demns their names to concealment—though con-
ducted by the great legal abilities of Messrs.
Scarlett, Denman, and Joshua Evans—and
though supported by the creditable evidence
of Messrs. Dolby, Thelwall, and Co.—was
defeated, without the necessity of calling a
single witness for the Defendants !—lt is im-
possible for us, in the honest discharge of our
public duty, to avoid making some remarks on
a proceeding so disgraceful to those who pro-
moted it, so honourable to the parties assailed,
and in every point of view so important to the
country at large. When the licentiousness of
the Press was at its height, when " Marts of
Sedition and Blasphemy" were opened in the
principal thoroughfares of the Metropolis, and
every lane exhibited a profusion of infamous ca-
ricatures, and detestable libels on the King's
Person and Government, a Society stood forth to
arrest this moral plague. They adopted the
simple, legal, and laudable rule of enforcing the
laws of the land against the most hardened and
daring otlentlers. The consequence has been, that
in less than 16 months from their first establish-
ment, the Augean stable has been almost wholly
cleansed. The sale of the factious and seditious
publications has been diminished above one half,
aud the tone•of those which remain is reduced to
something like decency : the odious, filthy, and
disgusting caricatures have vanished from the shop
windows, and the shops most infamous for those
exhibitions hove been shut up. To the authors of
this great national benefit, every man that has a
just sense of the value of their labours feels un-
bounded obligation : and next to the satisfactory
testimony of their own consciences, they must be
gratified with the approbation which they receive
from the best, the wisest, the most honourable,
and the most venerated members of the commu-
nity. In proportion to this they must expect
censure from the weak, and malignity from,the
wicked. Party prejudices are levelled against
them, and Disloyalty is their natural enemy.—
From these sources proceeded the indictment
which was disposed of last Saturday—an indict-
meat, we will venture to say, never paralleled in
the annals of inconsistency or impudence. We
have elsewhere stated its substance, in order that
our Readers may see what a farrago of nonsense
and falsehood it contains, and how utterly un-
suited it is to promote any legitimate object of
Law or Justice.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The Paris Papers of Wednesday and Thurs-
day last are as inconclusive upon the question
of the long-threatened war between Russia and
Turkey as any of those previously received, but
it must not be thence understood that they are
wanting in positive assertions that hostilities are
inevitable. Indeed if we were to give implicit
credit to their statements, we should find in the
improving state of the weather the certain har-
binger of \vat-, for they assure us that nothing
LIO tir. prevents the approach of the hostile armies
hilt the physical difficulties that are offered to
their movements by the indifference of the cli-
mate, and the impassable condition of the roads.
It would seem, however, that there are still
many persons in the political societies of Germany
bvho continue to hope that the tranquillity of
Europe will not be interrupted. The private
sentiments of the Emperor Alexander are pre-
slimed to be eminently pacific, and it is repre-
sented that the mission of the Senator Tatischeff
from Petersburgh to Vienna had for its object to
engage the active energy of the Austrian Cabinet
in a cause of peace. A treaty has, it is said,
been proposed by the Emperor Alexander, which
IS to bind the Court of Vienna to act in concert
with Russia; and it is supposed that a threat of

an invasion by Austria, in concurrence with the
passage of the Pruth by the Russians, will have the
effect of compelling the Porte to accede to the con-
ditions prescribed in the Ultimatum. A treaty to
this effect has, we are-assured, been actually con-
cluded between Austria and Russia, and the re-
turn of the note addressed to the Court of Vienna
by the Reis Effendi, announcing the refusal of
the Divan to accept the Ultimatum, is supposed
to evince the sincerity with which Austria has
resolved to pursue the spirieof this engagement.
The preparations for war on the part of Russia
and Turkey have been urged on both sides with
extraordinary activity and effect. Letters re-
ceived in Frankfort from Russia, intimate that
the first Russian army now assembled on the
Pruth and in Bessarabia is 280,000 strong, and
that of this force 26,000 are cavalry. The park
of artillery consists of 500 pieces of cannon. Im-
mense magazines have been collected at Kaluga,
the principal place d'armes in the Empire, and a
second army has been formed, equalling the first
iu magnitude and effect.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
_ .

The trial of the Bridge-street Gentry for a
Conspiracy, on Saturday, furnishes altogether
much matter for observation. Lord Chief Justice
Abbot is reported to have observed, in his Charge
to the Jury, " Ile had no hesitation in saying,
that he saw no dictum in any of the Books which
afforded the least ground for pronouncing such an
Association an unlawful one. It was, therefore,
his duty to tell the Jury, that he considered it
not to be illegal. If, however, instead of carry-
ing on prosecutions for the suppression of crime,
of blasphemous and seditious publications, they
instituted them for the purpose of lucre and gain
to themselves, or for the oppression of indivi-
duals, they who so acted were criminal." That
under this dictum, if it be received as law, the
grossest abuse and oppression might easily be
practised, must be obvious to every man of
the least reflection ; and high as the authority
is from which it emanates, we should like
to know in what manner it is received by
intelligent Lawyers before we acquiesce in it.
If private persons have not only the power to
prosecute, in the name of the Kiog, but to quash
indictments on receiving their law expences, it is
impossible to prevent that power from being
grossly abused. Let us attend a little to his
Lordship's limitations. He imposes two condi-
tions : Ist, that the writings are seditious or
blasphemous ; and next, that the prosecution
shall not be instituted for lucre. But how are
we to know that the writings are seditious and
blasphemous ? Because the prosecutor chooses
to call them so ? Is the compromise held to es-
tablish this I—How are we to know that the pro-
secution has not been instituted for lucre ?—Be-
cause the Attorney in this case took only the re-
gular law charges—he would have been entitled to
place their charges against the Society,we are given
to understand, he could not have been actuated by
a desire of lucre. Then an unprincipled Attorney
must after this be a fool if he ever wants employ-
ment.—He has only to set on foot a Manufactory
of indictments for Blasphemy and Sedition, and
present them by wholesale to the Grand Juries.
If one-third, one-sixth, or one-tenth of them are
found, such is the terror of the law, from the
monstrous charges which every individual must
pay whether he gain or lose his suit, that six out
of seven of the persons against whom the Bills
are found, however good their cause, will esteem
themselves fortunate in getting off with the
J)ayment of the expeuces incurred. It is ob-
vious that a gainful trade may thus be driven
in this way, though the Attorney take no more than
his regular charges. If, however, the prosecutor
shall not have it in his power to quash indict-
ments, but must proceed in all cases to a trial,
then he will be unable to derive the same advan-*
Cage from intimidation, and he will be obliged to
select only bona fide cases, in order to avoid in-
curring the loss which would attend a number of
verdicts against him. Here we have some check,
and the only check, on the desire of lucre, which
might otherwise make needy Attornies the pest
of the community.—So much for the abuses to
which the dictum of the Lord Chief Justice seems
to open a wide door.

[MORNING POST.]
We perceive there has been a Meeting of the
Agriculturists of Gallon, in Norfolk, where Mr.
Coke took a foremost part, with his accustomed
unconsciousness of being totally incompetent to
till such a place. At first he must have been
very tantalizing to those present, for though he
frequently rose, his exertions seemed quite
.S'isyphean, and Ie was no sooner up than dol., n
again, without in any wise contributing to the
real object of the Meeting. At length,however,
the Hon. Gentleman succeeded in remaining upon
his legs for some time, but even then he ra-
ther appeared to dally with the important subject
which he undertook to discuss, than to propose
any tangible means of relief. Like Justice Wood-
cock, lie would willingly have sung " hoytey,
toytey—whisky frisky," and dwelt upon " The
joys of our dancing days," had he not affected to
feel the extent of the Agricultural Distress. Not-
withstanding Mr. Coke's sanguineous complexion,
we question if his sensibility was ever very strong;
but leaving that aside, as now irrelevant, it cer-
tainly seemed so exhausted on the present occa-
sion as to be altogether imperceptible. On the
contrary, with the view, it may be presumed, of
drowning the murmurs of his underlings in Norfolk,
he bellowed out the loudest complaints at the ex-
isting state of affairs. " Firmness" and "strength,"
he observed, were indispensable requisites for per-
sons in their situation ; and he then sympatheti-
cally urged the necessity of beingfortiter in re, if it
were desirable that things should be restored to
the standard of 1792. His auditory appeared to
concur heartily in the justice of these sentiments,
which ‘i ould have had still greater effect if Mr.
Coke did not so frequently look satirical. 'With-
out approaching nearer to the main point for
which they ostensibly came together, namely, to
relieve the existing distress, the Honourable
Member continued for some time longer in the
same strain, or, as old Polonius might say, "still
harping on my daughter." Before sitting down,
ltwi ever, he deplored the tardy gait at which

Reform adlanced, though it was, notwithstand-1
ing, better late than never, and insisted upon
the absolute need of
_strong resolutions on the
part of the suffering people, under their present
severe trials, and with a view to ultimate satisfac-
tion for their wrongs. In Mr. Coke's opinion,
things could never be right until the " voice of the
people was faithfully represented in the House
of Commons." When this consummation arrives,
we shall then, it may be hoped, among other
curiosities, have the echo Parliament ; and in the
mean time it must be consoling to the Free-
holders of Norfolk that their voice is so faith-
fully represented by Mr. Coke, as we under-
stand the best judges affirm that venerable bride-
groom to be now, vox—et prceterea nihil!

FROM THE LONDON. GAZETTE, APRIL 13.

WHITEHALL, APRIL I, 1823.
The King having been pleased to nominate and appoint Ma-
jor-General the Right Hon. Sir Benjamin Bloomfield' Knight
Grand Cross of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, and
Keeper of his Majesty's Privy Purse, to be a Knight Grand
Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Sir Ben-
jamin was this day invested with the Ensigns of the said Order.

WHITEHALL, APRIL 10, 1822.
The Ring has been pleased to constitute and appoint the
Right Honourable the Earl of Morton, K.T. to be his majesty's
High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church
of Scotland.

T
CROWN OFFICE, APRIL 13, 1822.

MEMBER returned to serve in this present Parliament.
Borough of Dartmouth—The Hon. James Hamilton Stan-
hope, in the room of Charles Milner Ricketts, Esq. who has
accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.

Commissioners. Attorney, Mr. W. J. Norton, Old Broad-
street,
London, and Hackney-road.
G. Betham, master mariner, April 23, 30, and May 25, at
one, at the Court .of Commissioners. Attorney, Mr. T. T.
Tatham, Castle-street, Holborn. ,
J. Pickett, Caroline-street, Commercial-road, Middlesex,
builder, April 16,27, and May 25, at ten, at the Court of Commis-
sioners. Attorney, Mr. Heard, Hooper's-square, Lemon-street,
Goodman's-fields, Middlesex.
P. P. Good, Clapton, Middlesex, insurance-broker, April
20, 30, and May 25, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners.
Attornies, Messrs. Stevens and Wood, Little Saint Thomas
Apostle.
R. Steele, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, ship-broker, April 10, 27,
and May 25, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Attor-
nies, Mr. Baker, Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street; and Mr.
Ingledow, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
[Dividends, &c. to-morrow.]