The Sun.
London, England, 1825-06-09 00:00:00

[NEW TIMES.]

A very extraordinary new light has lately
broken in upon the world, by which it has been
discovered that the persons who practise a par-
ticular art or profession, are the only -individuals
whose advice ought not be taken in regard to any
matter connected with such professon or art.—
Physicians are, on no account whatever, to be
consulted on medical questions ; nor Lawyers on
the practice of • the law. The old rule, ne sutor
Ultra crepidant,is to be completely reversed ; and
the cobler, instead of" sticking to his last" is to be
presumed to understand every thing ,but shoes.
If your horse wants to be bled, beware of the far-
rier; and take it for granted, that no sailor knows
ant-thing about a ship. We were first led to admire
this new philosophy by a letter in the Morning I
Chronicle, in which the writer gravely proposes
that an "efficient inquiry" be instituted into the
important question, whether the Plague is or is
rot contagious—" omitting professional men !"
The reason assigned for this curious exclusion is,
that " they would he both parties and judges"—
that is to say, having some knowledge of the sub-
ject, they would feel interested as parties to sup-
port that knowledge against sheer ignorance ; and,
with such a bias on their minds, they could not
maintain a judicial impartiality between sense and
nonsense. scarcely had we recovered *from our
surmise at the naivete with which the Gentleman
in the Morning Chronicle disposed of the medical
question, when we were called upon to admire
the application of the.same principle ton question
of law. An inquiry was to be made into the pro-
cedure of a particular Court of Law, that Court
being one of most ancient establishments, of most
extensive jurisdiction, and involving the consider-
ation of most abstruse and.intricate questions of
law and equity. To whom should the con-
duct of such. an inquiry be committed ? To
a number of experienced persons, conversant with
the subject, ILibituated to the practice and forms
of the Court, and well aware of their principle,
tendency, .and, effect ? Or to Gentlenien who
could not even 'understand the phraseology of the
Triblacal, and were utterly at a loss to:corripre,
head the nature and bearing of its regulations ?
'File Old maxim, experto erode, is in favour of the
former mode of inqUiry ; hut'the New Light de-.
nides_for the latter,.;.Some of
.the °Pinions thrown
out in' the course of the Chancery discussion;
illustrate the effect that Mighfhe expected from
a:Committee excloding,all ".'profesSional meth".
(due
_Gentleman. of great talent* and, much ge-
neral information (but no Lawyer), conceived,
that in order to prevent' delays in 4ankrtiPtoy,
business, there should. be only seven Gommission-,
ers pf, Ran krupts instead .of 70! He thought,rtao,-
that., the Court of- Chancery should proceed 'on'
aft vcit4 and. solely „accardlitg -to
coarse of the
,Qomirion.Law ;
siii4lte_Very,doirable, only it would.refotm.the
C'auft.. annihilating its very nature 'and ,efficacy:
If'. IPtlg:trui;„ akserted
piAtiiie,. of .oe4t,Coact of Chancery -is,
rn its.
est:Ott-4i principles, 4 4 well fitted:. to
.'settle
t controversies to-Which.,
ft
.sl,llt/i otsociety necessaray gives birth,"
itAlterWs,•thtiLtb Compel the. Cour*Cof,Chancery
*coUrse.of* the Couritnoo
Iv* a extremely injurious to 'society. Yet
sucici• reformation to he_ expected.
fr'-'4:44;oits:whO inquire into abuses., without
solue:-.,previotts' knowledge of .the system which
tbef*ltt)laitake ..•
4
e " [VOICNING POST.]
19n. hise received,"-Our New York, some late-
-4,444irmat.,: accounts' Irani the Sandwich
Isliketd*,coittrnitig thelate disturbances and at..
tdstitAtioutspAin:Aohland :of. _Apoi. fhe
for acs the Leader- of the re.
behili-vrinee:;Geotteritnoree, ht-, the heart of

considerable body of followers, was lurking in
the mountains. Krimakoo, the acting Regent,
happened• to be- at Attooi when the rebellion
commenced, he immediately placed the Mission-
aries on board certain vessels, and sent them to
-Oahu for safety, at the same time dispatching
orders for reinforcements to all the circutnja-
cent tslands. Such was the zeal and enthu-
siasm of the natives, on receiving this intel-
ligence, that, the vessels appointed to convey them
to the scene of action could not contain half
the volunteers. In a very short time the mal-
contents laid down their arms, and Prince George
was made prisoner. lie had not arrived at Oahu
when the accounts left, but was daily expected.
The young Prince, son of Rhio Rhio, had been
established King of A tooi ; he is about twelve
years of age. .The Rebel Chief, it was expected,
would, be marooned, a sort of banishment to a
distant island. It appears that throughout the
Sandwich Islands great improvements are making
in civilization. At Otaheite, a sugar manufactory
had been established, where excellent sugar is
made from the native cane. An Eimeo, a build-ing designd for a cotton manufactory, had also
been erected, the machinery having been sent
from England. The whole was in a state of for-
. worthless, and there would be no scarcity of
stock, for cotton, said to be of the first quality,
grows spontaneously iu abundance.

EMOILNING HERALD.]
Mr. Herries last night, in the House of Com-
mons, gave notice that on Tuesday next, in a
Committee on the Exchequer Bills Bill (for
10,500,0001.) the Chancellor of the Exchequer
would move the " appropriation" clause. Such
clause will introduce all the grants of the Session,
and the appropriation of the same, and it is ge-
nerally considered the last Government measure
of the Session. After such period, the several
Government measures then before the House
are forwarded as rapidly as possible through
their several stages preparatory to the pro-
rogation (or dissolution) of Parliament. It
is calculated about the House, by the Mi-
nisters, and at the Government offices, that
the prorogation cannot take place before the
beginning of July, though last week it was said
Mr. Canning considered that the prorogation
might be fixed for the 28th inst. Mr. Huskisson
mentioned that a Committee of the }louse of
Commons had inspected the Lord's Journals to
ascertain the fate of the 13111 for releasing the
Warehoused or Bonded Corn ; that such Bill, it
was found, had been thrown out by their Lord-
ships, and he therefore gave notice that to-day
he should move for leave to bring in a similar
Bill. He said it was very important that such a
Bill should pass, even advanced as was the Ses-
sion—without it the ports would be opened be-
fore next Session.

. .
[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The Lord chancellor is a fountain of patron-
age ; he dispenses his favours most copiously, but
it must be confessed that the good things fall, by
a natural law of gravitation, into his own basin.
In the distribution of his bounties he is domestic
to an examplary degree ; and in the instance of
his own son,-he has shewn a liberality that cannot
he too much admired. He has given him as much
as he 'Well could give him in place, with as little to
do for the money as possibly could be conceived.,
This is a great virtue in a parent ; some fathers have
a strange notion, that it is good to give their chil-
dren occupation; the Chancellor has more liberal
ideas, and has heaped sinecures on his son, which
kind of office he doubtless considered as more
pleasant to the Gentleman in question, and as
best suited to his peculiar turn of mind. " It
appears," says Mr. Miller, in his work on the
State of the Civil Law, " from a return made to
the House of Commons in 1822, that a near re-
lation of the Chancellor has recived from him a
grant of the six following offices :-1. Register of
Affidavits in the Court'of Charxery; 2. Clerk of the
Letters Patent to the Court of Chancery ; 4. One
of the Cursitors for London and Middlesex ; 5.
The Clerkship of the Crown in Chancery in re-
version ; and, 6, The grant of the Office for
the execution of the Laws and Statutes cOn-
cerning Bankrupts, in reversion likewise.—All
of these offices are for life, and all of them
are executed by deputy. The annual amount of
each is set down in the Report at the several.
sums of 1,260/. 14s. 10d.-4511. ss. 5d.-5811.
25.-500/.-1,0811.--:-and 4,5541., and some of
them are believed to be rated much below their
present real value. Of the four first he is now
in actual possession, receiving from them pro-
liahly not much less than 3,5001.. a year, and
should he survive the occupant of the" other two,
the 'reversion of them may swell his income to
about r 9,000/. a year. It certainly is true that the
Lord Chancellor has; in strictness, a right tObe-
stow these places upon whom he pleases—but the
gentleman alluded to has never done, or been
required to do; any service to the law, and whe•
ther Lord Eldon holds beneficial appointments
himself, or confers them on his immediate con-
.
liexionS, a certain 'degree of Moderation ought
never, to .be disregarded.''. •But,glory.to the office
Lchich gives its- holder, together 'with • a,princely.
forthne; the Bower of -providing thus handsomely
for-lii' near relation, without putting his 'hand'
ititjo his pocket, and that, too without' troubling
ti)e- ..favoured party with irksome employment.
Immediate ernolument, patronage, and power,
Oniideredi there is 'no plaOp,,io this kingdom of
places, lo .he compared with that :o€ the Chan.
tellorhis Lordship's adhesion to it; is, indeed;
means wonderful, he sticks in the sweets.

. .
[TIIV. PUBLIC LEDGER.]
) The
~.,
. uontittenta c
l Papers have contained of late
{to political intelligence of the slightest import.
0&,. lint such as relates to the affairs of Greece,
ilx
.:11)Ch is a preity.:fair,proof of the good under.
Landing now subsisting between the Great
VOkVers. We are much mistaken if a much greater
dilgree of 'tip' rmoni, does not , subsist . between
them .than is generally- imagined ; and .as the
COnt,inetital States.are pretty well aware that ,n 6
clOn.is'ever advanced by our Government in op.
Position to the .European system, as it is termed',
till: the- public voice, in this country has . une.
qulvoCalll,4nd even strongly, expressed itself

in its favour, their resistance to it is more spe-
cious than real. It is, therefore, a great error
to imagine that it is a part of their policy, col-
lectively or individually, to embarass the English
Cabinet, as such embarassment would eventually
recoil upon themselves; and, besides, they must
be aware that our ruling Statesmen are as little
addicted to political novelties as themselves.—
These considerations, whatever merit they may
have on the score of principle, or lofty feeling,
possess, at least, a value, as far as the conti-
nuance of peace is concerned ; and, in fact, the
political sky never wore a more settled aspect than
it has done for some time. If any clouds arose in
consequence of our Government having recog-
nized the independence of the New States of
America, there is not a vestige of them at pre-
sent ; and as this was the most ticklish step
we could have taken, the manner in which it has
been met by the other Great Powers fully con-
firms our view of the sentiments they entertain
towards our Cabinet. The innoxious character
into which the Meeting at Milan has dwindled,
is another corroboration of our opinion, for,
had it constituted itself into a Congress, as
was reported at' first, 'it would have exposed our
Cabinet to a considerable degree of inconveni-
ence. To this general rule of a disposition on
all sides to accommodate one another, the pe-
remptory tone, which Ministers are said to have
recently used towards Spain, seems to be an ex-
ception ; but the issue will shew that it is more
apparent than real.; and our Cabinet, could they
follow their own wishes, would cheerfully make
any moderate concession to relieve that Power
from its difficulties, instead of adding to their
weight;