The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-08 00:00:00

tNEW TIMES.]

We are surprised that none of our contempo-
raries Lave been struck with one circurnstftnee
in the late Pre.clamation, which operates most
powerfully in favour of the Greeks, and more
than indemnifies them for the inconvenience
(which they have brought on themselves) of the
prohibitory part. We allude to the last pal'a-
graph. His Majesty there " enjoins his subjects
strictly to observe, us well towards the Otto-
man Porte and the Greeks, as towards all
other belligerents, with whom his 'Majesty
is at peace, tiro duties of neutrality, and
to respect, in all and each of them, the ex-
ercise of those belligerent rights, which his
Majesty has always claimed to exercise when
his Majesty has himself been unhappily en-
gaged in war." Here we find a distinct acknow.
ledgment by Great Britain that the Greeks are
entitled to 'exercise the very same belligerent
rights which we ourselves exercise when we are
engaged in war. And when is this acknowledg-
ment made ? It is at a time When Austria denies
those rights to the Greeks altogether, and France

limits the exercise of them by the maxim of " free
ships free goods." Such a recognition from such
a power as Great Britain is worth an army to the
Greeks. At least, it is even-handed tleutrality.

[THE Times.]
We shall be sorry if the Duke of Wellington
condescends to join in filching away any of the
pleasure-grounds of Hyde-park, and diverting it
from the recreation of the people generally to his
own—(it cannot be called recreation, but)—do-
minion. The bit of ground referred to, we ad-
mit, is small ; but so is the surface of the Park
itself as compared with the wants of the metro-
polis. It is, however, the principle that we ob-
ject to, as unworthy of the Noble Duke's high sanc-
tion, and is encouraging similar petty larcenies by
persons who have a less indisputable claim to the
national favour than his Grace. The mode resorted
to by the Court Papers of measuring a wrong
committed by the intrinsic value of the thing in
question, is like the apology of a poor girl who
was charged with having a bastard child, and
excused herself by telling the Worshipful Ma-
gistrate " that it was a very little one." The
Duke of Wellington may have his thoughs en-
gaged by matters of more extensive importance
than the cuttings and clippings about Hyde-park
Corner. It would, therefore, be becoming in
those among, his friends, who are more zealous for
his popularity than his Grace hheself seems to
be, to settle this business in a handsome spirit,
and leave him, what we really wish that the coun-
try should consider him, free frontall just reproach.
While we are on this subject,we would suggest that
the gardens of Carlton-house be thrown open, on
the demolition of that now useless edifice, and
the interior of St. James's-park, at present railed
off from the public and accessible to beasts only,
be, on a contrary system, turned into pleasure-
ground, the people admitted, and quadrupeds
excluded—a change, by the way, which would
sensibly improve the prospect from the King's
new Palace. We would recommend, secondly,
that some definite and tasteful plan should be
adopted with regard to Hyde-park itself, where
the cheerful opening produced by throwing down
the wall along the Kensington road from Pic-
cadilly, is stopped by a row of wretched
hovels ; and where, further on, the nuisance
of the horse-barracks at once offends the eye,
and obstructs the public accommodation. These
buildings were obtruded on the Park at a period
of supposed necessity for some new cavalry bar-
racks. They were planned without skill, and
built without solidity, are now in a state ap-
proaching to dilapidation, and if not pulled
down in time, will save the Board of Works
that trouble ; so that the improvement is likely
to take place of its own accord. We conclude
by hoping that no liberties are to be taken with
the Green Park, in favour of the new enlarge-
ment working upon the site of Buckingham
House. If a " necessity" be alleged for re-
moving the ride up Constitution-hitt farther
from his Majesty's future residence, we are pre-
pared to assist on the more urgent necessity
of so arranging the position or dimensions of that
residence as not to incur the former " necessity"
of stealing front the health and comforts of time
people. It is to be recollected that by some per-
sons the cruel project has heretofore been enter-
tained of extinguishing the Parks altogether : time
proposers were barbarians and fools, whoever
they were!

rmortsusak 'JERALD.]
The Meeting which was held a day or two
since, by some of the Manufacturers of Silk, in
Spitalfields, to take into consideration the present
state of the trade in that article, demands some
observation. At that meeting, a gentleman of
the name of Hale seemed to act a principal part.
He expressed a wish that Government might he
induced, by some means or other, to suspend the
law of the last Session, authorising foreign silk
goods to come into this country at July next, on
the payment of (we believe) 30 per cent. duty.
Now we think a tax of 30 per cent. is quite suf-
ficient for the fair and reasonable protection
of this trade, and that it ought not to be
protected by any higher tax. Besides, silk in its
raw state, pays a duty, on importation, of only
Id. in the pound. This may be called a tax
merely nominal. Our manufacturers cannot
IComplain of any neglect of their interests on the
part of Government, with respect to the admis-
oion of the raw material. No severe impost pre-
vents it from coming cheaply to their hands. We
have heard much talk of British skill—of British
capital—British enterprize—British machinery,
and every thing that constitutes what is called
British superiority in trade and manufactures.—
Yet here is Mr. Hale perfectly in terror at the
idea of French competition, although the duty on
raw silk is only Id. in the pound, and the dutyon manufactured goods of the silk fabric as high
is 30 per cent. Why,under these circumstances, is
he afraid of French interference ? What excites his
alarm? To possess these advantages and British
skill,British capital,and British superiority besides,
ought, we should imagine, to make him perfectly
confident of the flourishing security of the British
silk trade in despite of all foreign competition.—
But the new Act is not yet an operative law, and
why is the silk trade at present depressd ? The
reason is, that it was forced into an excessive
briskness some time ago, and a natural re-action
has taken place. In trade of all kinds it is noto-
rious that languor follows violent excitement,
as certainly as a storm is succeeded by a calin.—
T he fact is, that no sooner was the duty on raw
silk reduced from a very high rate to so low a
one as ld. in the pound, than Mr. Hale and
all the Spitalfields men set to work, makiug
goods as fast as they could make them, thinking
that in proportion to the lowness of British silks,
would the quantity worn by the British fair be
increased. Mr. Hale and the Spitalfields men
(most of them " professedly pious") did not care
if luxury and extravagance carried ruin into
domestic life so long as the British fair purchas-
ed plenty of the silk goods manufactured by
Mr. 'Hale and the rest of the Spitalfields gentry.
What was the consequence ? Although ten times
the quantity of silk goods were manufactured
than had been previously made, the British
-fair only received the same money from the f3sl-

tish men, and• Mr. hale and others had nearly'.
nine out of the ten pieces which they made left
on their hands. The supply having thus ex-
ceeded the demand, and Mr. hale and the rest
of the speculators in human extravagance having
been caught with a stock on hand, they now want
the Ministers to help them out of the pit which
they have dug for themselves. We are inclined
to think the Ministers have too much good sense
to sacrifice their character for sound policy to
those persons' projects of self-interest. We
would not suspect them of realizing the part of
the goat in the fable by descending into the
draw-well and yielding their shoulders in simple
compliance to the stratagem of the fox, though
Reynard should be ever so importunate to escape
from his awkward situation. But again, the silk
trade is leaving Spitalfields ; and wherefore ?—the
ridiculous laws regulating the price of weaving,
&c., made some time since, caused the
silk manufacturers to prefer Macclesfield,
Coentry, Stockport, and other places where
weaving could be had for half-price, and so they
set up their silk establishments in those places,
as every man of common sense must have fore-
seen. Can it be doubted that this will go on
until the silk trade will abandon Spitalfields
altogether, as it left Canterbury WO years ago,
from nearly the same " protecting" causes ; or as
the manufacture of silk, velvets, and brocades
fled from Lucca to Venice, in the commence-
ment of the fourteenth century, on account of
absurd and tyrannical interference ? We shall
again revert to this subject.

MR. GREEN'S BALLOON in SCOTLAND.

(From the Dumfries Courier.)
The good people of Wamphray were much
puzzled as to the real nature and character of the visitant who
had thus come, as it were, to take their sequestered parish by
storm. Though they were all aware of the existence of balloons, '
few of them knew what a balloon was like, and we need
not wonder if they felt as much surprise as the South
Sea Indians did on seeing a stately bark bearing down,
with every sail set, on their own remote isles of the ocean.
The Esquimaux mistook a whaler for a great sea serpent ;
the Otaheitans, when they saw a sailor mounted on
horseback, devoutly believed that he was part and parcel of
the same animal ; and the children in particular, residing
in Wamphray, were equally at a loss to know what to
make of Mr. Green's balloon. A knot of urchins, who first
beheld it, ran, calling out, " blither, Mither, oh, :hither !
there's a great muckle thing fa'in frae the sky ; it's no
an angel, but it's a' glitterin' " (the sun was then shining
on the air-ship). A boy, who had been herding the swine
belonging to Mr. Carruthers, of Hillhouse, came running
home, might and main, and seemed so terribly agitated
that his friends actually thought that he bad gone mad.—
Some minutes elapsed before he was able to speak, and then
he gravely informed the by-standers that " a great muckle dra-
gon had come over the hill, and lighted near the back of the
stackyard ; that it wad tak' a hunder soldiers and mair to kill
it, and that its sides were a' red like bluid." fly this time the
" gale country side was asteer," and strangers flocked so fast from
all quarters, that the farm of Kilbrook had all the appearance of
a great hiring fair. Even after the aeronaut must have been a good
way on his road to Carlisle, and quiet persons had retired to rest,a
post-ehaise,filled with servant lasses,and drawn by 2 clumsy work
horses, came routing and roaring, and the company was so
anxious to see the show, that they could scarcely be persuaded
to retrace their steps, although they were told that they were
at least four hours too late. Altogether, the people of Moffat-
dale seem to have been as much dumfoundered at Mr. Green's
unexpected appearance amongst them as the old wives of Fife
were when the great Lunardi crossed the Frith, and fell from
the lift, and when some wag mado a humorous stave, of which
we only recollect the fag-end—
" They thought it was the last day,
And went to their houses to pray ;
But, lo when the angel came, (town,
'Twas only LUNAItneS balloon."

DIED at Belfast, on Wednesday, the 28th
after a few days' illness, Mr. MATTHEW MARSHALL, aged
50. He served 25 years in the British army, during part of
which he was troop-serjeant-major in the 6th or Enniskillen
Dragoons, and was present, with that distinguished corps, on
the memorable field of Waterloo. In the action of the I llth,
the Enniskillens made several brilliant charges, particularly
against the French cuirassiers, which repeatedly brought se-
veral of the Irish heroes into single combat with the mailed
warriors of France. On one occasion, the Enniskillens charged
in line, when Marshall's squadron exceeding even their native
impetuosity and valour, dashed into the thickest of the ene-
my's phalanx, and being completely hemmed in on all sides,
we're cut off from the other troops of the regiment—every
man had fearful odds to encounter in endeavouring to return
to the British lines ; Marshall, while sabring one of a party of
cuirassiers on his right, had his bridle arm broken by a stroke
front an enemy on his left, and had not proceeded much farther
when he was beset by another crowd of French cavalry, and
hurled from his horse by a lance which penetrated his side ;
while he was failing, he received a heavy blow across the body, •
and another which broke his right thigh. He lay for some
time on the ground, unconscious of every object around, except
when goaded to sensibility by the hoofs of the enemy's horses
I careering over his mangled body ; the ground afterwards became
somewhat clear; having partially recovered, he looked around,
and espied a horse, without any rider, towards which he crawled
and was about to mount the animal, when he was seen by a
French trooper, who gallopping up, cut down poor Marshall, in
the midst of his slender hopes, inflicting several severe wounds on
his body. This part of the field was again occupied by the French
forces, particularly artillery, of whose presence around hint,
Marshall was first made aware, by one of the gunners making
his mangled body a resting-place for his foot, while ramming
his gun. —This is hnt a faint outline of the many painfully in-
teresting events which befel the subject of this hasty memoir
on that day. The battle having concluded, circumstances pre-
vented immediate attention from being paid to the wounded,
and Marshall remained on the field with nineteen lance and
sabre wounds on his body, for two days and three nights.—On the
regiment returning home, he was discharged with a pension of
2s. a-day. He has since resided at Belfast, amidst his relations
and friends, where he maintained the character of an intelligent,
unassuming, and strictly honest and industrious man. llis re-
mains were attended to the burying-ground by a numerous and
respeztable assemblage.

An alarming CASE of APOPLEXY occurred on
Sunday morning, at French-street Chapel. Just before the
communion, at eight o'clock mass, the entire congregation ap-
peared in a considerable degree of confusion. It was at once
perceived that a poor man had been seized with a fit, the peo-
ple in the right-hand gallery distinctly heard a kind of suffo-
cating voice, and a gentleman who happened to be there in-
stantly rushed down stairs, and approaching the spot where
the poor man was, humanely assist in the removal of hiai out-
sign of animation remaining. The gentle.
side the chapel. At this time he represented a horrible spec-
tacle, scarcely
attempted anyto
open the cravat, as if wishing to approach
some vcssel in the neck ; but finding it impossible to uncover
the neck, he instantly pat his hand on the forehead, and open-
ed the temporal artery—he let a considerable quantity of blood,
and in a few minutes the poor man began to exhibit some
signs of life, but not for en hour was he able to be taken to his
lodgings in Cuffe-street. lie was a servant, but is now out of
place, whose name is Lovett. We understand that the gen-
tleman who so promptly and humanely exerted himself on the
occasion, visited the pour man several times since, and has the
satisfaction to see that his patient is now doing quite well.—
( Freeman's Journal.)

LONGEVITY.—Lately died in Sampit, in the
vicinity of Georgetown, United States, Air. Thomas Britt,
aged 113 years. He was a soldier in the Cherokee war more
than years ago; since which time he was engaged in the
French
?war, when the now United States were British Colonies,
was a bold assertor of freedom during the tedious struggle
o
American Revolution. His extreme age had not wholly
mfntpi
led his constitution, for within three weeks be performed
aid
a journey on horseback of about 311 miles in a day ; but a se.
vtre attack of the bilious fever finally brought bins to the grave.

COAL MARKET, OCT.
Lidd ell's Main, 37s—Percy East, 37s—Townley, 38°-11VY-
37s—AVa1ls End Newniarch, 41s—Stewarts small screen.
ed, l 9 —Hartley, 40s—Walls End larnbton, 4,ls—Shipsat
market, 6i—Sh.ips sold, 4i.