The Sun.
London, England, 1822-09-14 00:00:00

[MORNIXQ POST.]

The Radical Gazette of yesterday devoted the
]ongest leading article in its columns to a corn-
toOnt on the visit which Sir Watkin W. Wynn
and his Lady, are about to make to his brother,
our AnThassador to the Swiss Cantons, The
Journal in question could not surely be aware of
the compliment it was thus paying to the Govern-

meat, by tacitly admitting the absence of all
cause of public compliment, except that arising
out of the visit of a private Gentleman to his
brother. ,g-ut.then that brother is guilty of the

unpardonable offence of holding a public situa-
tion, and of being also one of the Grenvilles !
We hope Ministers, from a regard for their
own safety, will prepare themselves for an
awful debate on this subject in the course
a next Session.--IVlr. Hume will probably

be able to calculate to a single bawbee
the items of expence attending this visit;
and when he shall have informed the House of
the tottle, as he calls it, we fear the dreaded
arid redoubtable Mr, Henry Grey Bennet will
dart up in a passion, declare that he never, in
the whole course of his Parliametary experience,
read of, or heard, or conceived such an instance
of barefaced profligacy ; and then, to use one of
114 Cobbett's phrases, he will " in a low, slow,
solermi and prophetic tone," remind Ministers
that the day Of impeachment is not far distant,
nrid that this transaction %%ill, not be the least in
the dark catalogue of their enormities.

• [MORNING CHRONICLE.]
We refer our readers to a Petition presented
to the Commissioners of the Admiralty by Mr.
Lawe• (sec another column of the SCN), a South
American merchant, and the Answer. We are
glail
,to see that the Government is beginning,
'Oough slowly, to come to a sense of what it
owes to the Traders of the Country; for this
4zplication has been favourably received,
though a 'former one • to the same purport was
rejected.—Alitherto the British traders have been
Oiore indebted to' the natives of America and
France for protection,, than to the navy of their
own country. English traders looking up to a
French.navy ! Sorely a portion of the revenues of
the country ought at least to be expended on
its navy, the: source of its chief glory. Instead
of wasting the money of the country on foolish
missions to. Congresses, and planning how they
bi,al.l .most effectually aid . the Holy Alliance in
pretentinz-•the spread of knowledge; Ministers
might be better' employed-in concerting with the

L nited States' Government how, by their joint
efforts, they might sweep the American seas of
the Pirates who have so long infested them.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
We list night received German and Dutch
Papers•of recent dates. The latter give a new
editioni of the military operations of Chourschid
Pacha, in• which it is stated that he had passed
the Straits of Thermopylae without opposition.—
The foreign accounts upon this subject resemble
the works of Calypso—they contradict at night
what they assert in the morning. The Emperor
of Russia arrived at Warsaw on the
,96th last, on
his way to Vienna.

Paris Papers to the 11th inst. contain further
evidence in confirmation of the defeat of Chours-
chid Paella. The doubts so long entertained on
the subject appear to have arisen in part from the
confusion of dates, in not discriminating between
the old and new style. The difference is exactly
twelve days. The battle, therefore, fought on
the Bth July in one account, is the same stated
in another account to have taken place o❑ the
20th. The present Papers add, that another
battle was fought on the Ist of August, in which
the Greeks were equally successful as in the
former.—(lbid.)

MORNING HERALD.I
The enumeratio❑ of the manifold mischiefs
that arise from the verboseness, intricacies, and
obscurity of our modern statutes, might fatigue
one's patience, but the subject is otherwise in-
exhaustible. The doubts and difficulties of our
law proceedings are not imputable to the Com-
mon Law, but to the innovations and altera-
lions made in it from time to time by the
Legislature. The greater part of our ancient
statutes are, like the Common Law, entirely free
from objection. In number few, in language
precise, in meaning clear, with well-defined ob-
jects and lucid method, those venerable monuments
of the wisdom of our ancestors may be said to
constitute the very perfection of reason--the rule
of right and the fountain ofjuscice.—The study of
them as of the common law is as pleasant as
it is instructive. They amuse the mind by the
remembrance of old words, and the portrait of
ancient manners. They inculculate the soundest
principles of Government and morals. It is not
difficult to account for the acknowledged excel-
lence of the old statutes. When a new law, or
an alteration of an old one, was deemed neces-
sary by either, or both Houses of Parliament,
a petition to that effect, in general terms, was
presented to the King. If he assented to the
prayer of the petition, -his assent was recorded ;
and at the close of the Session of Parliament, the
Act was drawn up by the Judges and others,
masters of the law, and were, therefore, ex-
ceedingly well penned, short, pithy, nervous,
and perspicuous, striking at the root of the
evil, and introducing no new ones. But
the verbose, intricate, and formal, ill-penned
statutes of later days, drawn up in the Houses,
have given occasion to multitudes of doubts and
suits, and often, as a great oracle of the law
quaintly observes, in stopping one hole, opened
two.

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