The Sun.
London, England, 1822-10-10 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

MR. EDITOR.—In your Paper of yesterday you gave an ac-
count of the Verdict on the body of a female servant, whose
death was caused by falling from the windows of Mr. PRESTON,
in Camberwell-Grove ; • and, after the detail, you seem to in..
sinuate that she had been desired to clean the windows,—in
which, however, you are much mistaken, as it was contrary to
Mr. P's orders that she began them. You will perhaps have
the kindness to give this room in your wide-spreading Paper, a$
the evil-misrepresentation you have already given is very hurtful.

THRASHING MACHINES.—(From the Alfred,
Exeter paper.)—We understand that the farmers
in the parish of Hartland have hound themselves
not to use their thras..ing machines for three years,
in order to give more labour to the poor. Many
farmers in the neighbourhood of Bideford have
also laid up their machines. On the night of
Thursday sehillight, some incendiaries set fire to
'he premises of Mr. Graddon, of Winston estate,
and Mr. Nicholls, of Brightly Barton, two highly
respectable farmers, in the parish of Chittleham-
ton, near Barnstaple, whereby a barn, with fifty
bushels of wheat, two linhays, containing thrash-
ing machines, outhouses, &c. were destroyed. It
appears that the farms are about a mile apart;
and as there was an interval of half an hour be-
tweet' the fires, it is suspected the same party
were concerned. It is supposed that the diabo-
lical act was committed on account of thrashing
machines being used on the farms. We under-
stand that anonymous letters had-been found on
the premises, threatening the lives and property
of the occupiers.

.An extraordinary picture, painted by 11 EM
BRANT, has been rececently discovered, and the
progress of the discovery is curious. The Pre-
sident of the Royal Academy saw this picture by
chance, with a great mass of other rubbish and
inferior productions, which were preparing for sale
by auction. Sir T. LAWRENCc'S taste was imme-
diately struck with the merits of this picture, even
in its dirty and mutilated condition ; he attended
the sale, and a hammer was on the point of ratify-
ing Sir Thomas as the purchaser for four guineas,
when a lynx-eyed dealer suddenly contended for
the prize, and was the eventual purchaser for two
hundred guineas. He took home the picture, had
it cleaned and newly mounted, and in the first
instance offered it for sale to his tasteful compe-
titor, whose property it now is, for seven hundred
guineas. The picture is said to be the finest ever
painted by Rembrant, and worth seven thousand
pounds. The subject relates to Joseph and Pa..
trphar's Wye.

WIIE LONDON JOURNALS.

XIII. ACTS FROM VIE D 411. Y MORNING EA,PtRS,
October 1-0, 18M

[BRITISH. PRESSI
• With the exception of the Mission of Sir Wm.
A.Tourt to the Court of Madrid, we know no
solid foundation for the confidence of the consti-
tutional Spaniards in British co-operation. The
foreign politics of the late-Marquis of London-
derry, it is generally understood, will be most
servilely folloWed by his successor. With this
feeling, a Ministerial Print .of last evening has
quoted the following.extract from kcirculer dis-
patch of his Lordship to our Ministers at Foreign
Courts, dated July 19, 1821; wherein he. laid
down the following principles as regulating the
' conduct of the British Government upon the
question, of interference :
« No GovernMent can.be more prepared than the British
Government is to uphold the, right of any State or States to
in-
terfeie, where their own imirtediate Security or essential interests
are seriously endangered by the internal, transactions of another
State.. But,as they regard the assumption of such right as only
to be justified by the strongest necessity, and to be limited • and
regulatekthereby„ theycsnnot. admit that this right can receive
a general and indiscriminate application to all revolutionary
movements; without reference to their, immediate bearing upon
some;particular State or States, or be made, proxpectively, the
basis of an alliance.".
The principle, however, laid, down in this dis-
patch does not go far enough to justify the ex-
pectation of the Spanish Constitutionalists. No
one suspects England of any intention to inter-
fere in the internal affairs of Spain. The question
she remain a passive spectator of such
interference on the part .of the continental
So'vereigui ? If we look only to her past conduct
with respect 'to nations siinilarly ciicurnstanced,
the answer is a negative. Greece •and South
America have derived from her no -valuable or
attire hid. n their struggles. Spain, with England
for her might .bid defiance to all the rest of
Europe in arms. But' England will not place
.kerself In that romantic and chivalrous position ;
her Quixotic spirit has evaporated inher internal
distress. The Spanish Constitutionalists , ap-
pear 'to found- their hopes' upon the great
commercial advantages :which England might
derive from a close connexion with their
country. In this spirit the above article suggests
The purchase of English co-operation by the sur-
render of Cuba ; and a Morning Paper of yester-
day, anticipating this exchange, mentions as a
report that Spain has empowered our Govern-
ment. to take posse'ssion of the places on the
coast of that island, which have become the
haunts of the pirates who have proved so de-
structive to our Commerce in the West Indies.--
It unfortunately happens, however, that in the
system of policy, pursued by the late Marquis'of
Londonderry, and from which Ministers are not
expected to deviate, the interests of commute
bay.e b-e-rn thrown into the back ground.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The removal. of Lord Melville from the head
of the Navy to the Government of India has
naturally' occasioned many inquiries as..to his
Lordship's probable" successor at the Admiralty.
If we are not misinformed, the removals in that
department already contemplated,. and we might
perhaps add determined on, will not be confined
to Lord Melville, but wilt at least also include
Croker; and, as might be expected, they
will be •so replaced as both to strengthen Mr.
tannings• in,terest in the Cabinet and in Parlia-
ment, a.nd to extend (we would fain hope to
liberalize) the basis of Administration generally.
It would indeed be difficult for Mr. Canning,
who has been forced into . power through such
close filei of oppoSing interests, and wile still
finds himself in the midst of difficulties, to retain
-.his office long without the support of more friends
both among the People, and the aristocracy than
he now possesses. 1t would accordingly appear,
from the choice of persons for the vacated situa-
tions, that an eye has been had to the acquisition
of popularity.
Ministers, we understand, have at length de-
termined to make , the Blue. Ribbon, vacant by
the death of the late Lord Londonderry, a peace
offering to the Marquis of Itertford, who is sup-
posed not to have much reason to be particularly
pleased with the treatment he has for a length of
time experienced from Lord Liverpool. Indeed,
a greater- personal affront was, perhaps, never
offered to an individual of his Lordship's elevated
rank, than by the determination of Ministers
not to permit him to•succeed the late Marquis in
the Lieutenancy of Warwickshire, which, our
readers wilt recollect, was, immediately on his
death, transferred to the Earl of Warwick. This
indignity to the present Marquis of Hertford,
.and indeed to the memory of the late, was ten-
dered the more marked by the fact:that the very
same Ministers,, on the deaths of the late Duke
of Devonshire and the Marquis of Buckingham,
gave the Lietenancies held by them to the pre-
sent Dukes of- 1 vonshire and Buckingham, al-
thongh their Graces were_ at the time in opposi-
tion to them, However, Ministers, it is said,
entertain a strong persuasion that the present
Marquis of Hertford is not blessed with a very
retentive memory, • but that nature has amply
compensated his Lordship for that imperfection
by a most liberal endowment of the Christian
virtue of forgiveness, and they loudly express
their conviction that he will feel himself greatly
obliged to them for furnishing him with an occa,
sion to exhibit that most meritorious quaility in
the most amiable light.-,—(ibid.)

[MORNING POST.]
The enemies of the Greeks at Vienna and in
this country have been in the habit of demand,'
;fig a correct statement of dates, places, and
names to prove the correctness of the Grecian re.
ports, although those which they published in op-
position pOssessed no such qualifications. Now
we should think they must at last have the mor-
tification of being satisfied, for if ever military
operations were detailed in a manner calculated
to obtain credit, it is in the preceding account.
The whole is'so clear, so consistent, so naturally
told ; the names of Commanders are so unhesi-
tatingly given, the march and positions of armies
so minutely' described, the days of action and
their results so distinctly marked, that incredu-
lity: if it still be ur&ed after the perusal, must be