The Sun.
London, England, 1822-09-05 00:00:00

TO TIIE PUBLIC.

" The Tailors' Fraternity of .Journeymen respectfully pre-
sent the following Notice to the Public :—That, -in conse-
quence of the situation which they are to be placed in at the en-
suing Guild, a situation which they consider derogatory from
the dignity of their sacredly instituted profession, they do not
intend to favour the procession with their attendance, except
they are permitted to take that situation which the high an-
tiquity of their trade demands—s trade first taught by
instinct, and matured in the earliest age. They are pre-
pared to prove their inalienable right to the first situation,
from unquestionable authority ; nor did they entertain
the most distant idea the high antiquity of their honourable
profession would have bee.! disputed. The only privilege
they wish, the only right they require, is to be allowed to move
in that situation which has always been assigned to them from
the creation of the world to the present time (the last Guild ex-
cepted) ; and they are resolved never to be disgraced by tamely
accepting of any other! !"
A Professional Gentleman of some eminence, at Preston, in-
tending to leave home during the Guild, determined to let his
house, asking for the use of it during the festival the sum of
300 guineas. A Lady applied to take it, but was told, as she was
a stranger, the proprietor would require the sum of 150 guineas
to be paid in advance. This was complied with, and she has
been admitted to possession, since which, to his infinite morti-
fication, the owner of the house has discovered that she is a lady
of easy virtue.

LEGERDEMAIN, CHEMISTRY, &C.-We have
seldom been so much gratified by any public
entertainment as we were last night by Mr. A.
M. CORNILLOT'S Exhibition at the King's Arms
llall, 'Change Alley, Cornhill. This ingenious
Artist announces himself as a pupil of the cele-
brated PINETTI, who many years ago was the

wonder of this country and all Europe for his
various feats of slight of hand and other decep-
tions. 111 r. CORNILLOT obviously possesses here-
ditary skill. Iris illustrations in Experimental
Philosophy and Chemistry, and his admirable
dexterity in tricks on cards,with his curious display
of the power of GAS, formed altogether a very
amusing and interesting spectacle. Ile addressed
the company through the means of an interpreter.
It is but justice to this Professor, if we may so
style him, to say that on the whole he far ex-
ceeds the celebrated skill of COMUS, JONAS, and
BR ESLAW.

SHIRLEY, AND MATTHEW LOCH.—A Gentle-
man is in possession of an Opera or Masque writ-
ten by JAiIES SHIRLEY, and the manuscript
music of which was composed by, and is in the
hand-writing of, the celebrated MATTHEW LOCK.
This Opera, or Masque, was represented at
Leicester House in the year 1653, then the re-
sidence of the Prince of WALES, the son of JAMES
the FIRST, at an entertainment given by his
Royal Highness to his Excellency the Ambassa-
dor to Portugal. We know not whether the
Masque is in the printed works of SHIRLEY, as
they are very scarce. However, as a new Edi-
tion of SHIRLEY may soon be expected from Mr.
GIFFORD, that point will be ascertained. But
the genuine manuscript of MATTHEW LOCK,
above-mentioned, the first Composer of the
Chorusses in Macbeth,may indeed be considered
as a valuable rarity.
LAwEs.—HENRY who composed the
music of MILTON'S Mask of Comes, is said to have been the
first who introduced the Italian style of music into England ;
but he strongly censured the prevailing fondness for Italian
words. "To make the public sensible of this ridiculous hu-
mour," says he, " 1 took a table or index of old Italian songs,
and this index (which read together made a strange medley of
nonsonse) I set to a varied air, and gave out that it came from
Italy, whereby it hath passed for a rare Italian song."
A gentleman passing through Fleet Market,

was surprised at being hailed from the well-
known College by a friend, who, it appeared,
was 44 in durance vile." 64 Ah ! Tom, why how
came you there ?" asked the gentleman. "0, a
very rascally piece of business ; I am imprisoned
for telling a lie." " For telling a lie ; impos-
sible! there must be some mistake." " No, it's
true enough. I promised to pay my tailor's bill ;
and I did'nt:"

BRIGIITON.-The Theatre at this place has

jrist produced its Tom and Jerry, with great suc-
cess, and wo may say, deservedly, every objec-
tionable point that might be thought to infringe
on decorum having been most ingeniously sup•
pressed, without any diminution of the whim and
fire of its varied and entertaining scenes. This
regard to propriety argues much discretion, and
seems to meet the approbation of the beatemonde
resorting hither, for the Theatre is graced with
an abundance of fashion and beauty.
The brig Mary, of this port, arrived here in 24
days from Quebec. It brings an account of the ap-
prehension at that place ofOLIFEIt FITZGERALD,
of this county, who was charged with the murder
of Major GOING. lie was identified by a person
who was on board. At the time the vessel was
about to leave this port, she was searched, but
he could not be found. He was, however, dis-
covered when the vessel had cleared the port, and
is to be sent to Europe in one of his Majesty's
vessels.—The Captain of the ship which took out
the prisoner was fined 701. by the Governor of
Quebec.—(Cork Paper.)
MELANCHOLY DEATH.—On Friday, the 23d
August. as Miss Margaret Eastwood; a young
lady, 19 years of age, only surviving daughter of
Samuel Eastwood, Esq., of this city, and grand-
daughter of the late John Eastwood, of Castle-
town, in the county of Louth, Esq., in the ab-
sence of the servant, was taking the tea-kettle
off the kitchen fire, her apron ignited, and all
her clothes were instantly in a blaze. Unfortu-
nately other person was then in the house
but Mr. Eastwood, who, upon hearing her scream,
ran down stairs with all the speed which
his- feeble state permitted, when he beheld

(shocking spectacle) his affectionate child enve-
loped in flame ! By an extraordinary effort he
opened the hall-door admitted a woman, who
had knocked at it, and who to extinguish the
flames instantly wrapped her cloak and arms
about Miss Eastwood, who in pain and terror
rushed into the street, where the fire was extin-
guished—but alas ! not until the destructive ele-
ment had taken the fatal effect. She languished
in great agony until Monday last, when death
terminated her sufferings.—(Dublin Paper.)

SIERRA LEONE.

[run( TIIE ROYAL GAZETTE or JUNE 15.]

FREE-TOWN, JUNE 15.—0 n Tuesday His Ex-
I cellency the Governor in Chief and suite arrived
in H.M.S. Iphigenia, from Cape Coast. At the
period of His Excellency's departure from Cape
Coast Castle, the 26th ult. the arrangements for
the future government of the late possessions of the
African Company had been finally settled, Major
CHISHOLM remaining there as Commandant. The
extracts we have already given from the Gold
Coast Gazettes, and which we continue this day,
will, in some degree, have made our readers ac-
quainted with the changes which have taken place.
Now at length the protection and blessings of
English law are extended to his Majesty's subjects
on the Leeward Coast—the appointment of
Justices of the Peace being almost the first act
of his Excellency, for that highly respectable
and pre-eminently useful office was hitherto un-
known on the Gold Coast, British merchants
residing there do now in reality enjoy the bene-
fits of free trade ; they have no longer to com-
pete with persons holding official situations, but
all classes of his Majesty's subjects, whether
European or African, equally enjoy the protec-
tion due to legitimate commerce.—On the 15th
of April last, Lieut. Mildmay was ordered by
Commodore Sir Robert Mends to command the
boats of his Majesty's ships Iphigenia and Myr-
midon, then proceeding into the river Bonny.
—The boats having crossed the bar, soon
after daylight, about seven o'clock seven sail (two
schooners, four brigs, one of theirs English, and
housed with her topmasts struck), were observed
lying at anchor off the town of Bonny. When
the boats were about four miles off, they dis•
played their colours, and as they advanced with.-
in long range, the two schooners, their broadsides
having been previously brought to bear on the
boats by springs on their cables, opened a fire,
without sheaving any colours. The boat which
Lieut.Mildmay was in pulled faster than the others,
and having got considerably ahead of them, Lieut.
M. waited for their coming up : the slavers con-
ceiving this step to proceed from fear of advancing
further, immediately the two brigs and brigantine,
under French colours, commenced a heavy fire.
When the boats were near enough for their shot
to take effect, the fire was returned, at the same
time they cheeringly advanced, under a heavy
fire of grape and musketry from all the vessels,
and in about 20 minutes from the beginning of
the action, they succeeded in boarding and tak-,
ing pessession of the whole of them. The brig
housed at some 'distance from the slave vessels
was found to be the William Rathbone, from Li•
verpool, for palm oil. At a greater distance was
a French brig, Le Theodore: she had no slaves
on board, but they were on shore in readiness for
embarkation. This vessel had lent her crew to
the slave vessels engaged in action ; for when
examined by Lieutenant Mildmay there was not
a seaman on board Df her. The papers of
Le Theodore were endorsed by Lieutenant
Mildmay, expressing the object of her voyage
to the Bonny. In this action there were two
men killed, one of the Iphigenia, and the other
of the Myrmidon, and five se7erely wounded.
The numbers killed and wounded on board the
slave vessels were not accurately ascertained,
but on board of the Spanish schooner Yeanam,
which made a most desperate resistance, there
were nineteen killed, and several badly wounded.
We regret to say that the slaves of this vessel
suffered much ; there were four killed, and ten
wounded, and one or two of king Peppel's
pull-away boys were killed. Of the ten slaves
wounded, three were females ; one lost both
legs, another her right arm, and the third was
shot in the ancle. Under the skill and humane
attention of Mr. Whitelaw, the Surgeon of the
Iphigenia, we are extremely happy to say the
wounded females have recovered, and almost
every other wounded person has dose well. The
shot which wounded the female slaves struck
between wind and water, and passed through the
slave room. Even after the dastardly Spanish
slavers had resigned their Vessel to our brave sea-
men, a number of them had skulked below, and
arming the slaves with muskets, made them fire
up tire hatchways upon our people, by which
one was killed, and several wounded. The gal-
-1 ant and spirited Commander of the boats,
perceiving his people thus falling about him,
instantly directed every Spaniard on board to
be roused from below and thrown overboard.—
Our tars were not long in executing the
order; and although at the time they were thrown
overboard the vessel's stern was not more than
20 feet from the beach,yet three of the Spaniards
were carried off by the sharks.—The Spanish
schooner Vecua, when taken possession off by
Lieut. Mildmay, had a lighted match hanging
over the open magazine hatch ; the match was
lighted and placed there by the crew, before
they leapt overboard and swam for the shore ;
it was seen by one of our seamen, who coolly
and prudently put his hat under the burning
wick and removed it. The magazine contained
a large quantity of powder ; one spark from
the flaming match would have blown up three hun-
dred and twenty-five unfortunate victims ironed
in the hold, besides the officers and men of our
squadron then on board of her. These monsters
of iniquity deeply regretted after the action, to
Lieut. Mildmay the failure of their diabolical plot.
The Yeanam was the first vessel that was captur-
ed, next the Vecua and Vigilante, and then the
other two. On board of the Yeanam, Lieut.
Mildmay, observed a pretty little slave girl about
12 or 13 years of age, in irons, to which there was
fastened a thick iron chain, 10 feet long, which was
dragged along as she moved. With the true hu-
mane feelings of a British seaman, Lieut.Mildmay
ordered the girl to be instantly released from
this cruel iron yoke; and that the Captain, who
had so cruelly treated her for reasons best known
to himself, should not pass in ignorance of the
pain and degradation inflicted on an unprotected
and innocent female, the irons were ordered to
be put on him. The Spanish schooners and the
French brigs were despatched for Sierra Leone,
the former for adjudication in the Mixed Com-
mission Court, and the latter for trial before the
proper tribunal.

THE LONDON- JOURNALS.

.EXTRACTS FROM TUE DAILY MORNING PAPERS,
September 5, 1822.

[MORNING POST :3
A Cabinet Council was yesterday held at the
Foreign Office, when the necessary instructions
for the British DepUtation to the Congress of
Vienna were finally determined upon. The new
Ministerial Arrangements will probably take
place this day. Earl Bathurst continues for the
present to hold the. Seals of the Foreign Depart-
ment. Mr. Robinson will have a Principal
Secretaryship (that of the War and Colonial
Department)• and will be succeeded. as Trea-
surer of the Navy and President of the Board of
Trade by Mr. iluskisson.

[TIIE TIMES.
The Belfast News Letter of Friday last con-
tains what seems intended for a counter-statement
of. the occurrences at the Donegal dinner, on,
Wednesday the `.Bth. of August. If so, the
writer is a very honeSt one ; for he admits- in.
terms the chief gravamina of the occasion—viz:'
the proposal of the - obnoxious Londonderry
" memory "—the, riot—and the surrender of the
toast. An attempt is made in other quarters to
deny that the toast was disliked by the company.
If it were welcome, why was it given up ? why
was it not drunk " in solemn silence'." There
is another shuffle attempted—the guests are said
to have been drunk when the provocation ,to the
row was given. Now the whole number of toasts
was thirty-nine,. of which the unlucky " me-
mory " was the eighth ! If- the parties were so
far gone thus early in the list, who, we wonder,
was alive to announce. or to drink the last of the
nine-and-thirty?

LMORNIND HERALD.]
'The absence of any contradiction, for so many
days, and the professed confirmation from so many,
though rather suspicious quarters, afford strong,
ground to believe that the Greeks in reality de.:
feated the Turks at, the pass of 'Thermopylae.,
Were it. otherwise, it is probable we should long
before this have had a Turkish account through
the Austrian Observer. Much of the confusion
as to dates may be referred to the indiscriminate
use of the New and Old Style. Should the.
Greeks continue their successful career, it would'
somewhat affect the proceedings of the Congress
—and. perhaps embarrass the design which,
we understand, is, entertained, to arrange the
settlement of peace through Out Europe. if their
2Q.)ition appear so favourable, and their spirit
so determined, as to afford a reasonable chance
of their conquering their emancipati6n from the
txranny of the. Turks, the proposal of any ar-
raOgement, however favourable, which would
leave them still subjects of the Porte, must be
ungracious and unpopular—however desirable it
would be to restore general tranquillity, and de-
prive Russia of an opening for her ambition;and
a pretext for intriguing. The business of the
Congress will, it appears,
,soon commencei if it
has not done so already. The preliminary visits
had taken place. .

:04TTISII PRESS.
We have-received the Paris Papers of Sunday-
hist,* but tl-ly are too much occupied with the
uninteresting details of the pretended Rochelle
conspiracy to leave room for matters- of higher
importance'. The Government
.of France, we
donbt not, has, to use a theatrical phrase,'got up
this.cOnspiracy by waY"of prelude to the approach-
in of Vienna. A blow is meditated
against popular rights, but public opinion must
still be soothed,' and' a* display of the horrors of
Garbonarism might be found useful as a justifica-
tion of har.sh measures. It is said that France will
be represented in the Congreis by MM. De Cha-
teaubriand, De Ferronnays, and De Caraman.
--A French Ministerial Paper states, that some
tumultuous scenes.had'occurred at. Nantes on the
28th of last month, and that the cry: of " Vive
Napolean 11. !" was heard. Some persons were
arrested, and an inquiry was ordered to he insti-
tuted. This affair, if judiciously treated, might
be made a powerful auxiliary to the Rochelle
conspiracy. That this alarming cry was uttered,
none can doubt but an eme.my to the Bourbons ;
and Who but a Carbonaro could have committed •
such an offence ? Thy* existence of one Carbo-
naro in Nantes, so desperate as to utter this ex-
clamation, very naturally implies that there are
many more, and where there are many Carbonari
there must be a _conspiracy. The ingenuity
Of plot-makers, - French- or English,._ might
pursue this train, of argument ad infinitum,
and clearly prove to the perfect satisfaction of
all who wished to be deceived,-:that Nantes,.like
Rochelle, possesses- it corresponding Committee,
acting in' concert with the great central Lodge of,
Carbonari", which the king's Advocate in Paris
assure 4 the world has been for sometime esta-
blished in that city. 'The allegation of an un-
known evil' can never be positively disproved,
end they 'who assert it will have attained. their
object before the alarm excited by the apprehen-
sion of some sudden danger can have wholly sub-
shied.

[MORNING CIIRONICLE.I'
Negociations are on foot for obtaining the ac-
cessiou of Mr. Canning to the Ministry. The
public must have been in some degree prepared
for this, by the late declarations of that Right
Hon. Gentleman. What the success of these
nego'ciatiOns may he, is not for us' to conjecture.
There. is, Ito'weirer, more in t-he affair than the
mere disinclination in a certain high quarter.
The Lord Chancellor is understood to have an

equally strong aversion to the introduction of
Mr. Canning into the Cabinet, and though leis Lordship may not be 'able to compose such bril-
Ban t.speeches as jlis opponent, or be so great a mas-
ter in the use of similes and antitheses, he may not
be inferior to him in the arts of finesse. • Opinion
is mach di% ided with respect 'to- the policy of
Mr. Canning's Overtures for place at the Liverpool
dinner. Some say the object he -had at heart
might have Veen as effectually promOted by the
means of friendry negociatiOn, the failureof which
could have been in a great measure concealed.
But others think that he calculated on an itn-

pressron being produced on the Aristocracy ott
the country, and who might in consequence exert
themselves to secure his talents in the present
trying times. We should, indeed, suppose that
the presence of Mr. Canning in the House of
Commons could hardly fail to be highly gratifying'
to the Country Gentlemen. The business might
perhaps gif on as well without him ; indeed
the system is so perfect, that the leading of
Mr. Bragge Bathurst would ensure as many
votes on a division as the leading of Mr.
Canning. But is the gratification of the mem-
bers nothing ? Is it nothing to them to be able
to carry off a smart antithesis or pointed simile
which they may afterwards triumphantly retail ?
Is there no difference, in the case of those who
have constituents, between meeting them under
a consciousness that they have been beaten on all
occasions, in every thing except the vote, and
meeting them under the influence of the trium-
phant feeling excited by the power of referring
to speeches which elicited shouts of applause and
frequent bursts of laughter from well filled
Ministerial Benches ? ,

[NEW TIMES.]
We have spoken of genuine Philanthropy as
having effected the abolition of the Slave Trade
we have shewu that that principle does not call
on us for active interference on behalf of the
Greeks : we have describedfalse Philanthropy in
its exercise on .our general judgments on crime
and punishment, and also on the political laws
and constitutions of Empires : let us now
see this false Philanthropy displayed in the
case of a private individual; and we will se-
lect one .to which we have before alluded—That
of Mr. Bridle, the Into keeper of Ilchester Gaol.
The trifling degree in which Mr. Bridle over-
stepped the bounds prescribed by the law will
be best seen by referring to his trial ; and the
al duous situation that he filled, the characters of
those on whom he
.exercised his severity, the
offences which provoked it, and his very high
character, will be remembered in his justification
by all impartial men. Perhaps under all the cir-
cumstances even-handed! Justice would have
thought serious admonition all that was called
for. No such good fortune, however, awaited
Mr. Bridle. He was dismissed from his
situation ; .a measure equivalent to., that legal
punishment', which, in the shape of fine, plunges
a man into ruin and takes away the very bread
from his lips. It might have been expected that
not only philanthropists, but every person living,
would have thought this a sufficient punishment
for clapping a blister on the head of such a per-
son as.Gariner. There are few indeed who do
not think death less terrible than ruin. Our

false Philanthropists, however, were not satis-
fied. After this punishment was inflicted on Mr.
Bridle, they stood up in their places in, Parlia-
ment, and effected the complete destruction of
his character, and consequently of his last hope of
procuring the means of life. They called him
cc monster," and every name denoting the extreme
of depravity, in the face of the whole nation ;
and the whole nation necessarily believed them.

It was a body of Members of Parliament against
a friendless and ruined individual—a host of
Philanthropists against a gaoler ; and who could
doubt their assertions ? Who could believe that
Members of Parliament and Philanthropists would
say a syllable against an absent, defenceless,
ruined man, that was not literally true ; or that
they would not say every thing that could be said
in extenuation a§ well as in aggravation ? The
very name of Bridle was regarded with horror.

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

( From " The Norfolk Chronicle.")

A Party that would fain pass (if they could ge
a single person of common shrewdness to credit their protesta.
tions) for the most unprejudiced, enlightened; generous, incor.
rupt set of individuals upon earth ; but who denies the merit, o
being either liberal, just, honest, or independent to every body—
except themselves ; the Foxites of 1822, as opposite in principle
and conduct to the 'Whigs of 1688 as darkness is to light : this
party have of late evinced an increasing fondness for taunting
those who are friendlY to the political system of the late Mr.
'Pitt, with their question as to what " storm " it was for " wea-
thering" which that state " Pilot" deserved to have his me-
mory held in grateful respect by the people of England ? The
answer to this interrogatory may be given with equal ease and
confidence ; for it is founded on the indubitable evidence of re-
corded facts. The page of History, inscribed by the pen of
Truth, will continue to celebrate, in the language of honour-
, able because well-earned praise, the talent and energy of Mr.
Pitt. At an epocha teeming with events important beyond
precedent, and fraught with the most appalling danger to the
whole social fabric, that illustrious Statesman placed his firm
hand on the helm of affairs; and, by breaking off all communica-
tion with the assassin rulers of France, preserved his country from
the sea of troubles" which menaced with destruction her do-
mestic peace and happiness. From the storm of Gallic Jaco-
binism, which with its frightful visitation of crime and misery,
threatened, at the memorable period of- 1794, to amalgamate
itself and co-operate with the rising tempest of traitorous faction
in this country, we were sated by the towering genius and un-
daunted intrepidity of Pitt. It was he, who, wisely and justly
abstaining from all interference with the internal concerns of
France until the convention, whilst it became an Assembly of
Regicides, practised aggressions,- professed doctrines, and pro-
mulgated decrees subversive of all Government—it was Pitt,
who saved England from the ruinous pollution of Atheism, and
from the sanguinary horrors of Anarchy.. Nor, in taking such
decisive steps, had that great man to act in oppOsition to public
Opinion. How forcibly soever it militates against an assertion
frequently made by the Whigs and the Radicals of the present
day, that a reformed Parliament, viz. one composed of popular
Representatives, would have prevented hostilities it is never.
theless indisputably true, that at the moment when our Go-
vernment dismissed the French Ambassador, the great body
of the British people was' yet
.more ardent and earnest in
their desire for war than the Ministry themselves. Mr: Pitt's
councils, under Providence, were the means of exempting us
from the fate to which the different States of Europe, whether
they resisted Or did not resist the march of French liberty and
equality, were successively doomed—the fate of being Weighed
to the ground by the iron yoke of foreign violence and, oppres-
sion. By persevering in his courageous policy of resisting the
atrocious outrages and in suppbrtable domination of Buonaparte,
this favoured Island served as a bright example to the world,;
and eventually, by
,her aid, was Europe enabled tor effectuate
her own deliverance. The sacrifices made to accomplish this
result have certainly been great. But what nation of the Con-
sinent, that has had the misfortune to feel the soul-debasing
influence and galling power of Republican or Imperial Frances
would not have been ready to incur sacrifices ten times greater,
could it, like England, have protected the independence of the
Soil from the proud foot and rapacious hand of military des-
potism ? For these, his pre-eminently. great services, we re-
vere the memory of William Pitt. Their beneficial effects
are • even now felt (deeply as the distressful circumstances of
Agricultural. Depression are to be deplored)—they are felt
in the stability of Peace,—in the revival and increase of
Our Commercial and 'Mannfacturini prosperity. They will
continue to be experienced long after the clamour of disaffec-
tion and the rancour of disappointed ambition, which the
Strength and efficiency of his measures excited, shall have sub-
sided and been forgotten. And, if we cease to value and vene-
rate the sacred cause of loyalty, patriotism, and integrity, to
which the labours of his public life were so nobly•consecrated,
" may our right hand forget her cunning."