The Sun.
London, England, 1822-04-17 00:00:00

POETRY.

131 PROIUPTU.
'Tis said that the Wilms; to their principles just,
Resolv'd to erect to JAMES PERRY a Bust,
But searching around, not a WHIG could they find,
For 'twas plain ligaft RADICALS only behind.
Then let them not hope they the world can beguile,
But the Best raise to COBBETT, to HUNT, Or CARLILE,
For REFORi..tEus like those, as the world must well know,
Would reform us at once by complete overthrow.

THE WAY OF THE WORLD.
Dctermin'd beforehand, we gravely pretend
To ask the opinion and thought of a friend ;
Should his differ from ours upon any pretence,
We pity his want both of judgment and sense;
But if he fall in with and flatter our plan,

Why really we think him a sensible man.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

CROMWELL HUNT RACES, OVER MEn WITH DOWNS.
TUESDAY, AFRIL 16.
The Hunters' Plate of Fifty Pounds, for all ages, weight list.
Two-mile heats.
Mr. P. Villiers's b. h. Chance - - - 1 1
Mr. Teasdale's gr. g. Solomon - -
- 4 2
Captain Jones's Peggy - - - 2 3
M. Howorth's Miracle - - - - 3 4
Mr. Smith's Prodigal - - - - sdr
2to I agst the winner. Three others started. A tine race.
The Cromwell Stakes of lags 'each. Two miles.
Mr. Parker's c. by oohanna - - - - 1
Mr. Jones's Raffle - - - - - 2
Capt. Heard's Pilot - - - - - 3
Mr. R. B. Forth's Jane - • - - - 4
6 to 4 on the winner.
A Sweepstakes of sgs each did not fill.

DARTMOUTH ELECTrON.-011 Monday the Sth
inst. Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. J. If. STANHOPE
was elected without opposition M.P. for Dart-
mouth. The gallant officer was proposed by Mr.
N. BROOKING, and seconded by Mr. H OLDS-
wortnr. On being declared duly elected by the
Mayor, Governor Hor.nswon.Tir, lie returned
thanks in a neat speech, in the course of which
he said he had been brought UD in the principles
of Air. PITT, and should ground his Parlia-
mentary conduct upon them. After the election
about seventy gentlemen sat down to an excellent
dinner at the Castle Inn. On Tuesday the newly-
elected Member gave a ball and supper.—
( Exeter Gazette.)

Butrr, APRIL 17.—We find that his Grace
the Duke of GRAFTON, Lord Lieutenant of the
County, has requested a meeting of the Magistracy,
to be held at Stowmarket, on Saturday next, for
the professed purpose of taking into consideration
and of adopting such measures as may then
be thought necessary, to discover and bring to
punishment the authors and abettors of the dis-
graceful outrages, so frequently, of late, com-
mitted in many districts around us ; the specific
plan to be proposed, we are not sufficiently in-
formed of, to state ; but, from the known ta-
lents of many of the Magistrates, and the uni-
form zeal manifested by all the Gentlemen in
the Commission of the Peace, there ca❑ be little
doubt but that a prompt and efficacious system
of action be the result of their delibera-
tions it is not, however, improbable, if we
may hazard a conjecture, that a general Com-
mittee of Magistrates will be formed from every
division of the county ; and a select correspond-
ing committee, from them, to receive all informa-
tion of suspicious and suspected persons, to be,
by the members of such corresponding committee,
communicated to the Magistrates around them,
in order that a vigilant look-out should be had at
the same time in every part of the county, after
persons of a suspicious character, and whose ap-
prehension may, by such means, be speedily and
easily effected.—(Bury Gazette.)

IPSWICH, APRIL 15.—( Fires. )—On Monday a haum
stack, near the farm house and premises of Mr. Mayhew,
i%liddlewood Green, Stonham, was maliciously set on fire.—
By the great exertions of the neighbours it was extinguish-
ed without doing further a,iscl►ief. And on Thursday
night, another haum stack, standing by itself, on the pre-
mises of Mr. Rand, of Flowton, was destroyed in a simi-
lar manner.— On Saturday, at noon, a fire was discovered
in a shed belonging to Mr. S'yer, of New Hall, Copdock,
which consumed the same, together with a quantity of
straw. On the alarm being given, a great number of the
surrounding villagers assembled, and a plentiful supply of
water being at hand, it was fortunately extinguished with-
out communicating to the other buildings. It was very sa-
tisfactory to observe the prompt assistance given by every
class on. this occasion, particularly the women, whO extrt-
ed themselves, with 'great effect, in handing pails of water,
&c. Half an hour previous to its breaking out, a shabbily
dressed man approached the houses, offering ballads for sale,
and a suspicion was naturally entertained against him.—Seve-
ral parties rode out for the purpose of apprehending him, with-
out success.

J A PAN.—By the Emperor of Japan almost every
crime is punished with death, because disobedience to so great a
potentate is reckoned an enormous crime. The question is not
so much to correct the delinquent, as to vindicate the authority
of the Prince. Lies spoken before the magistrates ; even things
which have not the appearance of a crime, for instance a man's
venturing his money at play, are punished with death. The se
verity of the laws does not, however, repress crime ; the number
of those who are suffocated or murdered in the streets, is, by those
who have visited Japan, said to be incredible ' • young maids and
boys are carried away by force, and afterwards found exposed in
public places at unseasonable hours, quite naked, and sewed in
linen bags, to prevent their knowing which way they had pass-
ed ; robberies are committed in all parts ; horses are stabbed,
in order to bring their riders to the ground; and coaches over-
turned, that the ladies may be plundered.
DENMARK.—Executions are rare in Denmark.
A great number of those convicted of child-murder, are con-
demned to work in spin-houses for life, and to be whipped an-
nually, on the day when, and the spot where, the crime was corn-
mined. This mode of punishment is dreaded more than death ;
and since it has been adopted, has greatly prevented the frequency
of the crime. At the entrance of many towns in Denmark, a
whipping-post stands conspicuous • on the top the figure of a
man is placed, with a sword by his side, and a whip in his
right hand. Gibbets and wheels are also placed on emi-
nences, on which the bodies of. malefactors are sometimes
left after execution, to deter others from crime. The place
of execution is out of the city. Decollation by the sword
is accounted more honourable than by the axe. This is the
common mode of execution ; but for some more heinous
crimes, the punishment is breaking upon the wheel: and in
executing this on state prisoners, it has been the practice some-
times to begin with cutting off their right hands. After the
sentence of a criminal is confirmed, he is allowed time to pre-
pare for death, from eight to fourteen days, as the chaplain at-
tending him thinks necessary. He is confined in a cell or dun-
geon at night, but is allowed to be in an upper room in the day.
ICELAND.—The punishments for capital crimes
in Iceland are the same as those in Denmark; and the criminal is
not hanged, but beheaded. It is a fact, however, that for many
years, no Icelander has been found who would undertake the
office of executioner, so that it was necessary for the very few
who have been sentenced to suffer death, to be conveyed to.
Norway, to receive the punishment for their crimes. The com-
mon mode of punishing ofFencetof a less heinous kind, is either
whipping, or close confinement and hard, labour in the Tring-
huns, or House of Correction for certain years, or for life.
A. live t,nake, nearly a yard long, ‘i as seen
yesterday in the middle of the day in the railings of Leicester-
square, on the green. It lay quite dormant, till a person with
a stick turned it over, when it made off among the shr4bs.