The Sun.
London, England, 1831-12-03 00:00:00

TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-TWO
NEW FREEMEN AT HASTINGS:

DURHAM, Nov. 30.

o THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
....-1 stn encouraged, by your insertion of my last
4 Po, to obtrude upon your attention with another
Inication—one which may, perhaps, be somewhat
IrY in its centents, but, nevertheless, I am vain
11:' hope, of sufficient public interest to induce you
ilt a Place in your columns. I observe that some
gentlemen of the Corps Editorial in town are
at'Y misled by the inventions of unprincipled and
ecl Persons. My object,, in opening a corre6pots-
:ith yoin.is to
,put the public, the 6eigh your medium,
:eseieh of truth only. It does not accord with my
tre w With my convenience to attach my real signa-
n the epistolary articles with with which I intend,
lY°4l. Permission, in future to trouble you ; but I for,
to ,
)nu, for your private satisfaction, my address—
h'44 a fitting occasion, I shall have no hesitation to
at',Whether the declaration may be required by friend
• Enough, however, of matters personal ; let us
tookit„e to topics national.
it:tat. leading article of your last Friday's publication,
II k: that you advert to the sessional notices connected
l ,
etitet'nus intended railways ; and that, amongst others,
kt to certain " projected ones in the North." But
ail
nn to these is too vague and too general to
the
Public to form a correct notion of the vast local
lion °eel the immense general consequence, of the
leet4w in contemplation in this district for that im-
lst,, Ilt ih our condition, moral and political, which
it, 'titration of our commerce cannot fail to produce.
iPriN,,has are indeed splendid. In our county papers
Pirie laid month I have seen notices of applications
ttihvianlent fur no less than ten Acts for the formation
the ass and docks, and the alteration of roads. Of
heti 1.4,tr there are four, for docks two, and of the third
Pt'nn four also. By the railways will be afforded the
114 transit for a plentiful field of excellent coal ;
411,48, increased facilities for the exportation of that
t t
~:e mineral in particular, and for the increase of
liii'Ce ill general ; while, by the amendment of our
der,re roads—an amendment, by the way, that will be
%I." Imperatively necessary by our augmented traffic
4k0,, t_nd by land—we shall reap advantages that, in
tihl Phrase may be much more easily conceived than
• By-and-bye I atiticipate,—and I know that I
-nt alone in the expectation—that we shall have a
tY, direct from one or other of our ports to the lead
ilt:e the western part of the county--a measure that
se,it attended u ith incalculable benefit to the mining
'•kt: hY affording it more favourable opportunities for
i 46 with foreign opposition. When all the in-
I,
and
shall be established—and of their
1):114 I will say speedy, accomplishment there
1 h no reasonable, nay, no earthly, doubt—we
;55, in this our county of Durham, no fewer
artlre Public undertakings of this kind, commu-
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tit t with three navigable rivers (the Tyne, the
t 4; ofd the Tees) and five harbours I Besides this, the
%hi iDurham is pre eminent. as a coal-district . it
its 4.11 as an agricultural province ; and is celebrated
as cninfacture of glass, iron •ware, &r. &r. It con-
, rit,,
itio,"reover, a population of more than 250,000 in.
i",' including those of Sunderland, the fourth sea-
, s iota' empire in point of tonnage, and inferior to
tPs, lienterprise and industry. Yet has it been objected,
An irrr7nent, that the Reform Bill is too favourable to
Llaltbrificant speck on the map ! That Bill has been
''h i' Y termed " the Durham Bill ;" and it has been
4itltt fo" insinuates that we are indebted to undue influ-
111 asap he conspicuous—l admit it, the conspicuous,
, it, Bay the deserved—position we occupy in the list
ittly Pfrosisione. The truth is, we have not been impro-
(kii taf''oured by Ministers, in being promised six addi-
,t teet, embers to our previous four,—as will be apparent
nt, )' candid mind, after the above irrefragable state-
tat), ,tsTbuthave had, or are likely to have, made to us
stnolai„rncession to our undeniable, just,' and ara-
r etio tun• But, Sir, I can tell you a secret. PThe
i,l), did not
the late Bill, as far as it related to this
rlqi)s."' "t OWe its origin to any one of the causes on
e,,t4
.ir Henry Hardinge, and the gang of public slan-
Itnal t'llth Whom he is in the habit of acting, took their
7 li„.flon °PPosition to that part of the proposed measure
Jaartelln• Oh ! no. They knew the temper of the
hSI :I:in--they knew the people of Durham were op-
Ina, t 0 expensive Governments, and to pampered, ineffi-
h4 'I ungodly nd hierarchies ; in a word, to corruption
loge 4huse •In every shape. Above all, Sir Henry Har-
Nil 'and the lausible, hypocritical, sycophantic, thorough-
A B P,
,41‘,,., "R.—persecuting Mr. Trevor, knew that, if the
i 1 Pi,7l sill were once carried, there would be written
144;4' to the borough craft of the Marquis of London
ese,i't;.teir zany patron, in this once " tight, snug, little
Nh,
0f • " All is not gold that glitters ;" and the
k 'th
4ly 1, the soldier, and the zeal of the place-hunter,
,f ~i: traced to many things else than an ingenuous sense
asi,:int, and a disinterested love of country—even an
444 f desire to preserve " vested privileges ;" that cant
all/342r all that is bad and odious in misgovernment and
441'474'N and ridiculous and abominable in humbug and
4ye 4,' this time, I apprehend, you and your readers will
114Peath enabled to decide as to the value to be pl iced
it qure,argurnents......., arguments" par excellence /—of the
4th en, State, and Corporation" politicians who have
titsa4:andacity to attack the Reform Bill, on account of
ah (-)Ztti Partiality to the county of Durham. If not, I
o
1 Airli, her facts in store, by which I can maintain my
INN 4' that Ministers have acted rightly and well to-
hti "'hie
tlg to,district ; which, by your leave, I may hereafter
Oa a, der Public notice.
'"ti ' 1 last letter, I alluded to the conduct of a neigh-
atlyZ JriNobleman, whom I charged with having pursued
of. bid d f " intimidation and vengeance" towards some
f"eati ePrndents, who happened to be tinctured with in-
ll,'Otith!cini favourable to Reform ! Sir, the charge was well
4;kts6e.? Ask you the name of this ornament of the
ON , I answer, the Duke of Northumberland—his
' lit d: a Lard Lieutenant of that county !! ! It is true,
ass in been stated in the Durham Chronicle, (the only jour-
'ace.,' h the disgraceful fact has been noticed), that hie
tilt9ii,d "us dismissed four of his bailiffs, because they
',l:4_'''). °the Northumberland Reform petition, without
4-I,i4taltified themselves, after the example of his
4-stle, if' effigy, the noodle-headed Mayor of New-
'telioNerY attaching their names to the hole-and-corner ,
. Y inwatve" petition got up by his Grace s agen.ts,
kts, Wn,Teti Hal !" in March last, into the bargain.
„"'"ott -;aniP assigned, as his reason for this flagrant vio•
itiattkit', all principle and decency, that he wished to he
,-'t 6;i; He is continued as an object of Ducal favour.
po,,:":fis had not the " same grace" in their 1
;'ir ~"ua ; and, lo ! they have been drummed out of
bt,,!.4arters / The Percies of old, malgre all their
445 r' 50
were little better than titled freebooters,
Lair 1:11 °Y force and pillage the worldly possessions of
'at dl4 Powerful enemies. The Smithson of the pre-
:td ii„Oes a step further : he preys upon the minds
Otttre"n9s of those whom he has the opportunity to
tilie;-Zs Peradventure because, being without mind and
4leiVt,'4lself, be knows not how to respect these attri-
,
4'ttsd "Pa they dwell in " other and better men." Con-
-11, onWith this circumstance I may be allowed to men-
-I.l:4alis uthee fact, which has often filled me with astonish-
s 4 blears; have heard much of the expedients that have
it,t4 4, , to warp the King's affections from his Ministers
t p,„tne Bill." Which has been the channel whereby
•,, eithlann has been attempted to be administered? I wish
later t'hute nothing to certain exalted personages which fair
lil-,i7e,_a May not seem to warrant. But the Duchess
`ntatt;•uurnberland, the wife of the boroughmongering
tStas'tet of Alnwick Castle, is the preceptrese of the Prin-
Pr ict4ria! Is this, in the present state of the country,
t),,11e r?tr,„, aPpointmen't? Those who know anything of
,',sclii,;"'fieations of courtly intrigue, of Tory duplicity,
Ilia. "'aliens ,i • • d df th corrupt " ap-
e tee a anu mgratitu
the r.„ ,t 0 Which the adversaries of the people are at all
e.le 4,-"tuy to resort, will hardly answer " Aye." Let
jateatit; whom it most' behoves to guard against " malice
L'tY litre and foreign levy," on the subject of Parliamen-
'd eft ?lin, think of this matter, and provide an early
I h etent remedy.
llte, 7,iannthing more of our Anti-Reform, secret con-
, ; nor, -•e*arldsseek, dare-not-face-the-day, petition. It
I sther !at inventus—like the money of that Right Rev.
illtint 11:' Gal, our righteous and holy Lord Bishop, who
,Ll'ltleri e". urged to subscribe to the famishing poor of
:,,Clooj4d, generously, out of a revenue of at least
:net 'Per annum, without ineumbrance of family, or
g'stel drawback of any kind, gave first 201., and ulti-
telitf Y) after much solicitation, 301. more towards their
the
en
'Subscriptions have been opened in this city for
tent or*" of a " Board of Health" and the establish-
abit,o- "Jo u p kitchen, for supplying the indigent in-
:II Yet ',lvith cheap and wholesome food. But both are,
-4 ti "'us his Lordship's mite to the poor, the sick,
r 4,46:: fatherless ! Oh ! Shame, where is thy blush ?
the ri,ov! where is thy sting? The former is hidden in
descend of what Mr. Hedworth Lambton, that worthy
J sklong,r)'t of a line of patriots, would call the Borough-
-10 he lastetn-l'relatical Palace at Bishop Auckland ; but
;',1051,:. 13 felt, aye, and cursed, by a starving popula-
t;stahlit'h° are sensible of the existence of our Churc i
0 UN,.
wariment only by its griping exactions, and by the
r. LO ,1 14illi ttrs t . of sympathy whirls its moat richly-endowed
ansWe' serp \lslet' display for those whom the great founder of the
Lord C:0•1 and telabillesrsel.igion Was the readiest to befriend, to pratect,
a Ci'l
,or I am, Sir,
AN OLD WHIG.

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That portion of the public who are unacquainted with
the devious ways of a close corporation cannot form an
adequate idea either of the obtuseness of feeling, or the
silly conduct which these self-formed hut, in their own
estimation, immaculate juntas, too frequently exhibit,
even to the dismay of their friends and followers, and as
matter of ridicule to their opponents. Ridicule is said to
be the test of truth ; but, without meaning to maintain
the cCrientnsia of this rule on all occasions, it is sometimes
borne out by facts. The corporation of Hastings has re-
cently announced to two hundred and eighty-two inhabi-
tants of the town, some of whom are not householders,
that they are ready and willing to admit them to their
freedom on Tuesday next. Now, in the first place, from
the delay which has occurred in adopting the measure, it
bears on the face of it the broad mark of tardy justice,
whilst the manner in which it is intended to be carried into
execution affords no favourable opinion of the tender :tier-
des of the corporation, even when these gentlemen are in
one of their happiest moods, and throws an halo of absur-
dity around the whole proceeding. That political cotrup-
tionists, who have over and over again sold themselves to
the highest bidder, should have a nice sense of consistency,
cannot be expected by any one conversant with the ways
of the world and the constitution of human nature, any
more than we should find that men whose only recommen-
dation to a sinecurist patron was their political subservi-
ency, could look favourably on those persons who had
manliness and independence enough to expose their unholy
practices, and to resist them in their long-established usur-
pation and misrule. The truth is that the pigmy minds
of the beings who compose the majority of all close corpo-
rations, cannot free themselves from the trammels imposed
on their senses by the odious system in which they have
year after year lived, and moved, and had their being ;
consequently, when the period comes that their monopoly
can no longer subsist, but must be sacrificed to their sense
of fear, and they, with a reluctance and bad grace, must
admit nearly three hundred of their fellow-townsmen
within the pale of their communion, even then they can-
not avoid displaying the cloven foot, and marring their
very concessions to public opinion. One other remark-
able circumstance attends the selection made for the free-
men; that out of 48 persons who signed a requisition to the
late Mayor, now one of the representatives of the town, to
come forward as a candidate, only one person is left out in
having the freedom offered, but, possibly, this individual
was, in some way or other, a thorn in the side of the
Corporation. As the expense of the freedom is nearly six
pounds, it obviously must have been the best plan to admit
all who would have taken up their franchise, or otherwise
restricting it to a certain class of rate-payers ; by this
means all jealousy and heart-burnings, if not entirely pre-
vented, would hare been very much subdued ; but instead
of this, the Corporation have exemplified the language of
Scripture, which tells us—" that two men shall be toge-
ther in the field, the one shall be taken and the other
left :" and again—" The sheep shall be placed on the right
hand, and the goats on the ieft." The selection is not
made to follow erespectability or property, payers of rates
or non-payers of rates ; they have taken into their frater-
nity one brother of a family, or one partner of a
firm, and left out the other, although all of them
were equally respectable, and were householders ; they
passed by one man's house, and neglected him, to
pick out his next-door neighbour, and dub him a
freeman, with nothing to guide their decisions but
private pique, or the measure of hostility which has
been displayed against their high mightinesses, or that the
discarded individual possessed more intellect than could
be found on the bench, and had evinced that independence
of sentiment, speech, and action, which suited not the
tainted atmosphere of their Town-hail, and would not
comport with the submissive conduct and quiet bearing of
the sleek -faced freemen, who had for a long period been
regularly drilled into their present state of political humi •
lity and subserviency.
And here it may be asked, what is the advantage after
all, which these new-born sons of a corrupt and pro-
scribed body will obtain in return for their six pounds?
They cannot for one year exercise any political right, and
long before the expiration of that period, the Reform Bill
will bury their political franchises beyond redemption;
and after the Reform Bill shall be carried, there is no
doubt that all these petty jurisdictions, specks in the civil
polity of the country, and which even Sir Robert Peel
pronounced to be nuisances, will be abrogated, and the
man who pays his fair proportion of the burthens of the
country will have a voice in the choice of the persons who
are to carry on the municipal concerns of the town and
neighbourhood in which he lives, and who will be the
conservators of the public peace, instead of Englishmen
dragging out their existence under the present in-
efficient and degrading plan of favouritsm and self-election.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.
DEAL, DEC. 1.---Wired W.N.W.--The Madeline
Dawson, from Singapore, has been supplied with an
anchor, and remains.
DEC. N.W.—Arrived the Elizabeth, Currie,
from Bengal.
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. I.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrived the
Dart, Teasdale, from Lisbon.
DEC. 2.—Wind N.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Brisk,
from the Downs.
PLYMOUTH, DEC. I.—Arrived the Elizabeth, Hall,
from Messina.
CowEs, 2.—Arrived the James, Mahy, from
Rio Janeiro.
STANDGATE CREEK, DEC. I.—Arrived the Pursuit,
Alexander ; and Perseverance, Shields, from St. Peters-
burgh.
PENZANCE, Nov. 30.—Arrived the Addingham, Gib-
son, from the Mauritius, sailed the 2d of August, Cape the
15th of September, and St. Helena the sth of October.
DEC. I.—Arrived the Laura, Crockley, from Rio
Janeiro.
LevEaroot, Nov. 30. Arrived the Denison, Poole,
from Demerara ; Delaware, I3artleson, from Virginia ;
Mary Ann, Crowder, from Halifax ; Adelaide, Tozer, from
St. John's, N. B. ; Active, Mickson, from Lisbon ; and
Eliz I Scott, Perremin, from Marseilles.
DEC. I.—Arrived the Mount Stewart, Elphinstone,
front Bengal.
TORBAY, Nov. 30.—Arrived the Queen, Cox, from
Lisbon.
BRISTOL, DEC. 2.—Arrived the Augusta, Balstin, from
Demerara; and Arab, Smith, from Palermo.
Coax, Nov. 30. —Wind S.—Arrived the Lord Wel-
lington transport, from Portsmouth, for Barbadoes ; and
Maitland transport, from Portsmouth, for Jamaica.
GREENOCK, Nov. 29.—Arrived the Fortune, Craw-
ford, from Bombay.
DARTMOUTH, Nov. 30..—Arrived the John and William,
Stanley, from Seville.
DEC. I.—Arrived the Commerce, Steer, from Messina.

The Venus, Swotten, from Cornwall to Neatb, is
wrecked at the entrance of Neath River ; most of the cargo
thrown overboard.
The Horatio, Gotham, from Liverpool to Newfound-
land, was driven on shore water-logged, near Wexford,
the 27th inst. ; crew saved.
The Aid, Stubb, from Liverpool, is totally lost on Black-
water Banks, coast of Wexford ; crew saved.
The Vigilant, Ellis, from Newport, is on shore on the
North Bank, Liverpool ; crew saved.
The William, Miles, from Sierra Leone, has arrived in
the soundings.
The French corvette Hebe, Captain Mariner, arrived at
Cork the 30th ult., with the Monks of La Trappe on
board, from Nantes.
The Shaw Stewart, Sinclair, from Greenock to Lime--
rick, was totally wrecked, the 26th ult., near Oysterhaven.
The Anders, from Gottenburgh to Bailie, was spoken
with the 23d of October, in lat. 4. N. long. 21. W.

We deeply regret having to record another
dreadful instance of incendiarism in our neighbourhood,
viz. at Shernborm:,, where a field-barn and stable adjoining
were burnt, in the latter were six cart horses, all of which
perished ;an eye-witness states that theger,ocanasorfidtghee,
poor animals under their existing tortures were most ap-
palling. The farm belongs to Queens
Culle
whe, as well as Mr. Maarrxas, will he g
fullymb protected
from loss, by insurance, in the Norwich Union Office.—
Aorfolk Chronicle.
LYNN, DEC. I.—An entirely new branch of
trade has been established here within the last week, that
of curing herrings ; the shoal has for some years past
come within the usual fishing ground of our boats, yet
hitherto no attempt has been made to profit by it. A
fishmonger of the name of Bohn has however now in con-
junction with another, been erecting a salting-house; and
during the last week as many as four lasts have been
brought up in one boat, which are selling cured at the
rate of 3s per hundred, this will be a great advantage to
the poor in this place during the winter season ; they are
brought from the ground to the salting-rouse within three
or four hours of the time of their being caught. Were the
business conducted on a more extended scale and proper
boats constructed, and nets proviJed, it might be a means
of finding employment for many at a season mben it is
scarce here.—Norfolk Chronicle.