The Sun.
London, England, 1822-06-06 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

The following letter appeared yesterday in The
Bury Gazette, a loyal and spirited Journal :

Ti Sir HENRY BUNBURY, Bart. K.C.B.

Sin—The tone of personal respect which the forms of society
require us to affect towards a man of your rank in life, even
when his conduct calls for our severest censure, is so irksome,
that rather than subject our indignation or contempt to the
shackles which decorum would impose on the public expression
of either, we are silent, and the delinquent thus escapes the
reproof and correction his offences merit. It is to this feeling
alone, that I can attribute your hitherto undisturbed career ;
and this feeling would, probably, have still suffered you to pro-
ceed without interruption, had you been prudent enough to keep
within its pale; but you disown it, and we no longer feel re-
strained ; the bonds of courtesy are broken, and broken by
you. Let me, however, do you the justice to confess that you
seek no unfair advantage: you are as ready to endure as to in-
flict the keenest arrows of reproach, and the coarsest terms of
invective. You profess yourself prepared to be stigmatized as
a " rebel" and an " atheist," or any thing that could be found
worse. Still I cannot conceal from myself the mortifying fact,
that our skill in the use of the weapons you have chosen is in-
ferior to your's, and that we shall not meet on equal terms.
You have the whole nomenclature of abuse at command.
Soundrel and Hireling flow from your tongue with a
grace and facility which surprise those who are aware of the de.
tects of a Court education in this particular, and it is only on
referring. to the list of your new friends and associates that
they cease to be astonished at your acquirements. But, Sir,
though scoundrel and hireling be " prave 'ords" as a man shall
see in a summer's day, they are, perhaps, as well omitted; for,
as philosophers have been eternally quarrelling about defini-
tions, so, amongst .politicians, the said terms must ever give
rise to much discussion, and will always admit of various in.
terpretations. You, for instance, apply those epithets to every
man who ventures to doubt thatißeformers are patriots, and his
Majesty's present Ministers knaves. I deny the accuracy of
your definition ; and, if I might be allowed to substitute one
which I think more general and more correct, I should say
that, politically speaking, that man is a venal scoundrel who,
holding opinions decidedly hostile to an administration—ac-
cepts office under, and devotes his services for many years to,
that administration—who, viewing its measures as a series of
guilt and folly, scruples not to be an instrument, however hum-
ble, to promote the success of those measures—who pockets his
feelings with his salary, and sacrifices what he deems the best
interests of his country at the shrine of gain or convenience—
and who, if dismissed with place, pension, and marks of
distinction, produces his hoarded patriotism, when his hy-
pocrisy is no longer marketable. Such, Sir, is my no-
tion of a " meaner scoundrel." It- is perhaps the beau ideal
of political venality ; but there have been public men who
approached so near to this standard of excellence, that it is suf-
ficiently in nature for all practical purposes. Let me not, how-
ever, so far follow-your example as to Judge too harshly of my
fellow "men. We arc, no doubt, exposed in every situation of
life, even the most bscure, to temptations dangerous to our
virtue and our peace ; and 1 am willing to suppose that, in
public life, there.are temptations to which even the sternest
patriot must succumb ; happy then is he " neither whose

habits, health, nor inclination, fit him for it," who, in the
bosom of his loved retirement, can exclaim with the Poet :

Suave, marl magno iurbantibus xquora vends, I
E terra magnum alterius spectare laborerii.*
But I will no longer occupy your time, nor my own, with stale
morality and dry discussion ; we have more serious business in
hand.. To a " family" party of Reformers, lately assembled
for the purpose of " enlightening the public mind, and aiding
the growing knowledge of the country," you are reported to
have said, in speaking of " the military execution of the people
at Manchester, and the late judicial proceedings arising from
it," that, "upon the latter subject, you felt unmixed pain, for
there was nothing in the whole proceedings that tended more to
unsettle the public confidence in the purity of British justice
than the transaction to which you had just alluded." Good
God ! is it an " English Gentleman" that speaks ? Is it an
" English Gentleman" who thus arraigns the justice of his
country, and charges a jury of his countrymen with perjury ?
And will it be believed that upwards of 100 English gentlemen
could patiently hear, nay applaud, the atrocious insinuation ?
Is it to be credited, that Sir H. Bunbury should offer an insult
to his countrymen, and an outrage to decency,- of which even
Henry Hunt, that prototype of demagogues, that mighty mas-
ter of effrontery, was incapable ? But, " I cannot," to use
your own words, " trust myself with a subject which is likely
to make me forget my temper and prudence." I leave it to
the consideration of cooler heads. I leave it to all who are
friends of good order and good morals. I leave it to all
who reverence that bulwark of our Constitution—Trial by
Jury. I leave it to all who really uphold the character of Eng-
lish Gentlemen to avenge this foul slander on their country-
men. I am, Sir,

AN ANTI-REFORMER.
It is delightful, when the ocean rages,
To view from shore another's misery.

CORN IMPORTATION BILL.

CLAUSE ADDED TO THE BILL IN A COMMITTEE OF

THE WHOLE HOUSE.

And be it further enacted, that any foreign wheat which may
have been in warehouse on the thirteenth day of May, 1822,
and which shall continue in warehouse at the passing of this
act, may be delivered or. taken out of warehouse previously
to the period which foreign wheat and flour would be admis-
sible for home consumption under the provisions of the said
recited Act of the 55th year of the reign of his late Majesty,
for the purpose of being ground into flour, subject to the
conditions hereinafter mentioned ; that is to say, First, That
the owner or owners, or consignee or consig-nees of such foreign
wheat, shall, before the delivery thereof from the warehouse,
give sufficient security, in the sum of one hundred shillings for
every quarter of wheat so to be delivered from the warehouse
(which security the collector or other principal officer of the
customs at the port where such wheat shall be warehoused
is hereby required and authorized to take in his Ma-
jesty's name and for his Majesty's use), with condition that
for every quarter of wheat so delivered from the warehouse,
four hundred and forty-eight pounds of fine flour shall, within
six weeks from the delivery- thereof, either be exported, or fail-
ing such exportation, shall be deposited in warehouse according
to the laws now in force relating to the warehousing of foreign flour;
such flour to be inspected and approved, and marked or branded ac-
cordingly,by such officer or officers of his Maj esty's customs as shall
be duly authorized and appointed for that purpose ; secondly,
that the owner or owners, or consignee or consignees of such
wheat or flour, shall comply with such further regulations as
to the Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury shall ap-
pear necessary and sufficient for guarding against the intro-
duction, into home consumption, previously to the period at
which it would by the said Act of the fifty-fifth year of the
reign of his late Majesty be admissible, of any additional
quantity of wheat or flour the produce thereof, under
the plea or in consequence of the process of such taking
out of warehouse and grinding : provided always that so
much of the said flour as shall not have been export-
ed previously to the opening of the ports under the provi-
sions of the said Act of the fifty-fifth year of the reign of his
late Majesty, shall, upon such opening of the ports, be admis-
sible for home consumption, on the same • terms and conditions
as any foreign flour which may have been in warehouse on the
13th day of May, 1822, and which may continue in warehouse
at the passing of this Act.—Provided also, and be it further
enacted, that it shall not be lawful to deposit in warehouse as
aforesaid, in return for the wheat hereby allowed to be taken
out of warehOuse, any foreign flour imported into the United
Kingdom subsequent to the 13th day of May, 1822.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JUNE 5.

TELBTiRY V. MORRISON.

The plaintiff, who keeps livery stables, brought his action to
recover 451. the alleged value of a horse which the defendant
had seized in payment of rent incurred by a person named
Clare. It appeared that Clare, si ho lodged in the house of the
defendant, in the neighbourhood of .Manchester-square, had
hired a horse of the plaintiff for a week; and whilst it was stand-
ing at the defendant's door, Mr. Morrison distrained it as the
property of Clare, for arrears of rent. The horse was sold by
auction for 241. and the plaintiff was present at the sale. The
conversion of the property could not be supported in a legal
point of view ; and the Jury, under all the circumstances, found
a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 241.
The Loin CHIEF JUST ICE finished the Sittings after Term
in Middlesex.

PREROGATIVE COURT, JUNE 5.