The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-19 00:00:00

[THE TIMES.]

The failure of a fourth attempt within these
seven years, at the discovery of a North West
Passage, raises the very interesting question, how
long such a course of unpropitious adventure is
to be persisted in, and how often the appalling
risk of brave men's lives is to be repeated ?
Whether from mischance of seasons, or other
causes, no progress, it plainly appears, has been
made by„Capt. Parry during his two last expedi-
tions, though with all the increased advantages of
more perfect equipment, more mature observation,
and more copious materials for the guidance of
his daring, watchful, and discriminating mind. The
accidents which threaten our intelligent country-
men 6i every league of their dismal and experi-
mental navigation, are such, it is obvious, as no
sagacity can anticipate, and no human force con.
tend with. It therefore, we say, becomes a se.
rious duty for• the King's Government to weigh
well the reasonings for and against another of
these perilous and expensive trials. It would be
no light thing for the British nation to waste upon
an irresistible iceberg so large an amount of life,
intelligence, and merit, as even within these few
weeks were all but sacrificed to the speculative
dictum of a gentleman, who having once written
wide polar seas into existence, and rendered
therm accessible by the fusion of whole conti-
nents, of ice into the Atlantic, appears resolved to
force a passage through them, whether nature has
made one or not. We do not say that there exists
no polar ocean; we do not affirm that the nearer
a vessel approaches the North Pole, from her
entrance into the Arctic Circle, she may not have
the better chance of finding sea as open as at the
Equator. All we contend for is, a calm consult.
ation upon two questions, before a fifth adven-
ture shall be resolved upon—lst, Whether the
prospect of success, after so many failures from
such various causes, be enough to justify the risk
of such valuable lives ? 2d. Whether, on grounds
which have occasionally been made public? a
voyage of discovery commencing at Behring's
Strait., might not furnish some more plausible ex-
pectations of accomplishing the object, which,
at the same time, we beg to have it understood,
that for the sake of science we regard as a worthy
and a noble object ? 3d. Whether the most pro-
mising scheme of all would not be a series of land
expeditions, starting on the east from Candia, as.
at present, and on the west from the Russian
settlement nearest to Behring's Straits ? We are
aware that it is written down otherwise in
the Quarterly, and that a review, to say nothing
of an official reviewer, must, in the nature of
things, be infallible.

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]

The Greek; will probably gain another incal-
culable advantage from the presence of so active,
enterprizing, and vigilant an enemy as Ibrahim
Paella has proved himself to be. Besides pre-
venting their ardour from cooling, and keeping
them constantly under arms, the sight of his dis-
ciplined troops will have the inevitable effect
upon themselves of convincing them of the ad-
vantages of discipline ; and the conviction is
only necessary to induce the practice. The
Greeks are hardy, temperate, and as capable as
any people of enduring fatigue and priva-
tion ; but these qualities, so eminently useful
to the formation of good soldiers, have been
in a great measure hitherto lost for want of
'discipline : and the want of the latter is the cause
that their battles are mere bush fighting. This
defect will probably disappear in the event of
Ibrahim Pacha venturing in the Morea, of which
very little doubt in our opinion can be enter-
tained. Be this as it may, the Greek cause, con-
trary to general expectation, is again erect; and
this year, the most critical and trying of any in
the whole struggle, will evidently pass, without
verifying any of those gloomy anticipations, from
which even its friends were not wholly free, until
very recently. Having now, it may be truly said,
triumphed over the extraordinary perils of this
year, the Greeks may, without exposing them-
selves to a charge of presumption, see in the fu-
ture incomparably greater ground for confidence
than anxiety. They have acquired more experience
too in the course of this half year, than they had
in all the preceding years of the struggle ; and
circumstances abundantly justify us in coming to
the conclusion, that the next campaign will begin
for them, under much happier auspices than they
could boast of in any former instance. In the
first place, they will have, beyond all compari-
son, a more efficient naval force—and such will
be their superiority at sea, that the Turks will
probably not venture to shew themselves in the
Archipelago again, and that all communication
will be cut off between Egypt and the Morea.
In this remark there is a key to the fate, that
awaits Ibrahim Pacha ; and it is more than pro-
bable, that the Greek cause, as it has got clear
of the breakers, by which it was beset some time
since, %ill at last reach the harbour in safety•

LMORMING HERALD.]
We. have received the following article from
Paris, dated Oct 14 :—" An attempt has been
made at Gueret, in the department of La Creuse,
to bring' the new law upon sacrilege into play,
but the accusation was of so absurd a nature that
the essay
proved abortive. The following are
the circumstances:
—M• Perrot, the principal
proprietor in the commune of Bazelet, under-
standing that it was the intention of the Cure
to conduct the procession of the Fele Dieu
through
his pasture grounds, called at the Cure's
house, and not finding him at hornet told his
servant that he was averse to the procession pass-
ing.through
his
commu-
nicated to the ,m. Perrot, and
lcpurroep,etrietyc.ooedn
othnis being
asked him if it was his intention to hinder the

procession from passing through his land. M.l
Perrot answered in the affirmative ; to which the
Care replied—" 'Tis very well, we shall see
when the time comes." M. Perrot, however, did
not keep to his resolution, and the procession
passed over his land without any let or hindrance.
Yet strange to say, the Cure drew up a complaint
against him, for having verbally expressed his in-
tention. This was signed by the Mayor, and
transmitted to the King's Attorney—and what is
still more extraordinary, this grave functionary
thought proper to prosecute, before the Tribunal
of Correctional Police of Gueret, M. Perrot, and
called for the application to him of the 13th ar-
ticle of the Law of Sacrilege, which punishes with
fine and imprisonment any attempt to trouble
or obstruct religious ceremonies or processions.
In the course of the trial, the King's Attorney
broached the very extraordinary doctrine, that
whenever a priest, in the exercise of his func-
tions, shall command any thing to be done, no
matter of what nature, the first duty of the sub-
ject is to obey. Let him afterwards if there be
cause, make his complaint to the proper autho-
rities. The Members of the Tribunal, however,
were not inclined to sanction such extraordinary
passive obedience, for they acquitted M. Per-
rot. This affair may serve to convey some idea
of the inordinate pretensions and domineer-
ing spirit of the present race of Cures, such
as they have been formed in the new semi-
naries. A new Cure has recently refused to
allow a person to stand sponsor to a child,
because he gained his livelihood by playing
the violin, and what is still more extraordinary,
he hesitated not to give him a certificate, stating
the cause of which the following is a copy :
._

" I, the undersigned Cure of Pont St. 11iaxence, certify to all
those whom it may concern, that I had no other reason for re-
fusing to admit DI. Dulnin as sponsor, than his profession of a
fiddle player. (Signed) " 1111JIRKT."
One of the Priests of the .church of St. Sulpice
has refused to perform the usual rites over the
body of M. Zoppi, proprietor of a celebrated
Cafe in the Fauxbourg St. Germaine. No other
cause for this refusal is known, except that M.
Zoppi's Cafe was renowned for being the one
where Voltaire frequently sipped his demitasse.
—On Sunday last the buyers and sellers in a
market in the Fauxbourg of St. Antoine, were
thrown into great consternation by the appear-
ance of a mad cat. The furious animal bit three
persons, and then fastened on a dog, which ran
round the market, the cat still hanging to him by
the teeth, and not letting go its hold till it was
killed. The wounds of the three persons bitten
(one of whom is a woman with child) have been
cauterized."

ENEW TIMES.]
The Irish Papers have of late reported the
proceedings at three or four local meetings of
Roman Catholics, of no interest whatever beyond
their own immediate neighbourhood, and proba-
bly not of much there. We therefore have pass-
ed them over generally without notice ; but we
own, a short passage in a speech made at Cavan
does rather disturb the tranquillity of our feel-
ings. This orator was a Doctor M‘Dounell, and
he thought fit to load the Duke of York with
abuse for speaking his honest sentiments as a
Peerof Parliament. This was perhaps to be ex-
pected : but he goes on, in coarse allusion to the
lamentable illness of our late revered Monarch,
I will beg permission of the Duke of York to
ask him one question,--who had deprived his
father of his intellect, at the time he lost to Eng-
land one of the brightest gems in her diadem, the
North American Colonies ?" There is a degree
of brutality in this question, which must shock
the feelings of every well-regulated mind. It is
founded too in historical falsehood. The Ame-
rican war was not the war of George 111. It
was the war of his Ministers, of his Parliament,
and of a majority of his people. He himself went
along with them conscientiously. Ile thought
himself constitutionally bound to uphold the legis-
lative supremacy of the mother country, but he
never attempted to step beyond those limits which
the Constitution had set to his authority. How-
ever the fact seems to be that Dr. M‘Donnell
only made use of this calumny on George 111.
in order to introduce an inflated panegyric on
America. The United States he says will soon
be the first nation in the world : " time celestial
air of freedom pervades the happy and United
Provinces of North America"—" her happy
shores are the refuge of all who are driven
from home by tyranny and oppression." Yes;
and of some few who are driven from home for
other reasons. But if American freedom is so
much more to the taste of the worthy Doctor
than British freedom, why does he stay on this
side of the Atlantic ? Why does he not hasten
to breathe the celestial air of freedom ? Alas, the
Doctor is a democrat, and like most other demo-
crats he is inconsistent. He would rather praise
America than live in it ; rather slander his coun-
try than abandon her comforts and her blessings.

[BRITISH PKRss.J
It appears that the Committee of the Bradford
Union do not afford any encouraging expectation
that harmony is likely soon to prevail. Their re.
sources are becoming daily more insufficient, and
their solicitation of aid from all quarters more
pressing, but their temper abates nothing of its
persistency. The more sensible and reflective
among them, it appears, are getting dissatisfied
with the
general system of measures pursued
by the more active party, and are well inclined
in the heart to furl the standard of revolt, and
to return to work with their old em-
ployers. Messrs. Holmes and 'fester complain as
if the Members of the Union were most bitterly
persecuted by the master manufacturers; but we
really cannot see with what justice this charge is
made. " Thousands of men, women, and chil-
dren,"
says their placard, " are without employ-
ment, because they persisted in paying 6d. a
week to a Union Society, which bad nothing
whatever for its object but the protection of the
Price of labour." This is a very plausible mode
of putting the case, but it is by no means cor-
rect. The object of these associators was to create
,a fund which should enable them to maintain
themselves while they stopped the machinery of
the masters, and reduced them, if
possible, by the
Prospect of utter ruin, to yield to their demands.

It is pure deception to call this protecting the
price of labour, it is extorting it ; and the mas-
ters have manifestly, no other means of breaking
up this combination than by peremptorily refus-
ing to receive into their employment any one
known to be a party to it. if the workmen will
give bowls, they must take rubbers. If they will
enter into confederacies,and organise a plan which
has for its object to force their employers into sub-
jection, they cannot, in common fairness, cry out
against the mrans made use of by them to avoid it.
They are not warranted to complain of this retalia-
tion, and to declare against it as" tyranny and op-
pression." Their own concerted resistance is, at
least, as tyrannical in its principle, and as op-
pressive in its result, as the measure they exclaim
against ; added to which, they should remember
that it is the scheme first resorted to by them-
selves, that makes the counteraction of which
they complain indispensable on the part of the
masters. They would fain make themselves too
strong to be governed, hut they must not expect
to delude us into compassion for their sufferings
because they meet with a resistance that mars
their hope of success.

DISCIPLINE OF MERCHANT VESSELS.

The following summary of a trial appears in
the Washington Gazette of the 9th ult.:—

A highly important cause was tried on Tuesday last in our
District Court, now sitting at the City Hall, before the Hon.
Judges Thompson and Van Ness ; and the decision must, in
its results, prove highly beneficial to the commerce of the
United States.

It was the case of the United States against the crew of the
ship Criterion. It appeared upon_ trial, that nine of the Cri-
tenon's crew, after signing the shipping article; and going on
board, refused to do duty, on the plea that there was one man
short.

It is not our intention to give a detailed account of this trial,
but to confine ourselves to the principal facts, in order to ex-
hibit the case in such a point of view as to prevent a repetition
of a similar offence.

It appears that on the 10th June, the Criterion being ready
for sea, the crew was ordered to weigh anchor, but nine of them
refused. The next day a similar order was also disobeyed.—
The Captain was consequently obliged to procure a gang of
riggers to take the vessel to Sandy Hook, hoping that, after
the ship had passed the light-house, his men would come to a
sense of their duty ; but when the pilot and riggers were about
to leave the ship off Sandy Hook. the men still persisted in
their obstinacy. The ship of course was necessarily obliged to
return, and anchored again in the north river on the following
Monday. On Wednesday the sailors were taken before Judge
Thompson, and not being able to justify their conduct, were
committed to bridewell, to take their trial for a revolt. The
Criterion was thus detained, at a heavy expence, until the 21st
of June, when she proceeded to sea with a new crew.
On the trial the proof of guilt was positive ; but it waif ar.
gued that the law was not clear as to making this offence a re-
volt; but the Learned Judge, in a clear and satisfactory man-
ner, made it evident that the offence, in its probable results,
might amount to the charge in the indictment of revolt—that
it was an offence against which the laws had provided—and one
which, if not punished, might occasion incalculable loss, vexa-
tion, and inconvenience to merchants and ship-owners.
The Jury brought in a verdict of Guilty.
In passing sentence on Saturday, the Judge, in a most fa-
therly style, pointed out the nature of the offence. and advised
the prisoners against a repetition of their folly. He took occa-
sion to remind them, that the .lury had recommended them to
the mercy of the Court, mid that the Court was very much in-
clined to make the punishment as light as possible, on account
of their otherwise peaceable conduct while on board the Crite-
rion, but that it was necessary, as an example to others, to pu-
nish them. His sentence was, that those who had not been
confined in Bridewell should pay each fifteen dollars, and stand
committed for 60 days, or until the line was paid ; and that the
two who had suffered confinement pay each ten dollars, and
stand cvnmitted for 30 days.

WAR AMONG TUE SNAK ES.—Travelling through
one of the Southern States, my attention was attracted by a sin-
gular rustling in the thickets which bordered the road. I stop.
ped my horse to learn its cause, and soon discovered, at a few
paces from the track, a rattlesnake of rather more than ordinary
size, in a coil such as these reptiles always throw themselves
into on the approach or attack of an enemy, exhibiting every
symptom of extreme rage, and displaying all those beauties for
which its species are so remarkable when under the influence of
passion. No cause for its disorder was at first visible, but in a
short time a black snake darted from the surrounding bushes ra-
pidly across the folds o fh is antagonist and disapp eared on the other
side. The rattlesnake did not fail to strike at hi 4 darting assailant,
but with what success the rapidity of their motion prevented me
from determining. The rattlesnake remained in his coil, pre-
pared for another assault, which was accordingly soon offered
by his black foe repairing, and again gliding across him with
almost inconceivable rapidity, while the same attempt was
made to punish the aggression. These movements were several
times repeated with no apparent advantage to either party.—
The black snake seemed once or twice struck with the fangs of
his enemy, and yet returned with undiminished celerity to
his subtle assault. The density of the underwood would not
permit me to follow with my eyes his retreat; and however
great my curiosity to ascertain how he employed the time of
his absence, I could not prevail upon myself to indulge it by
entering on so fatal a battle ground. At length the rattlesnake,
in one of his attempts to revenge the insolence of his assailant,
struck his fangs deep into his own body; he extricated them,
stretched himself with every appearance 'of agony on the
ground, and turning On his back, in a short time expired. The
crafty victor once more appeared, and seizing the lifeless body
in his mouth, dragged it from the scene of action.—(New
York Evening Post, Sept. 10.)

COURSE OF EXCHANGE, Oct. 18.
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Paris,3 Day's sight
Ditto
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Berlin 7 0
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Pete' sburgh • 91
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BULLION.
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Foreign Gold, in Bars 3 17 6
New Doubloons .........
New Dollars
Sitter Standard in Bars.

RTH.
shire, the lady
On Sunday, the 16th inst.B
,I at his seat, Stanley-hall, Shrop-
of Sir Tyrwhitt Jones, Bart., of a son.

On the 13th inst., at her DIED
brother's house, Bernard-street,
Russell-square, Miss Watson, in her 23d year.
On the 17th inst., at Lewes, Winifred, younger daughter of
John Hoper, Esq.
On Sunday, the 16th inst., the eldest twin son of Mr. Arm-
strong, auctioneer, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields,
aged 14 months.
On Monday, the 17th inst., at Norwood-hill, Surrey, in, her
45th year, Priscilla, wife of Mr. George Bacchus.