The Sun.
London, England, 1822-05-24 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE, MAY 24.
Our Fact Ors ask the same prices as on Monday, but find co
disposition on the part of the Buyers to purchase ; the market
generally thinly supplied except for Oats, which were a general
good supply, and maintained the same prices as last week ; the
demand pretty steady.

SMITHFIELD MARKET, MAY d 2-1.
There was a short market of Oxen this morning, but in
Lamb and Mutton it was well supplied, and the prices of va-
rious kinds of Meat is somewhat lower, owing to there being
a heavy sale.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

IATIIACTS FROM THE DULY MORNING PAPVIS,
May 24, 18622.

[MORNING HERALDI
The worthy Editor of a Ministerial Morning
votttnporary inserted as a leading article in his
Paper of yesterday, a thing evidently manufac-
tured at the Treasury, to reconcile Parliament
and the country to Mr. Vansittart's new scheme
for spreading," as Lord Londonderry happily
expressed it, " over a surface of forty-five years"
that which belongs to a surface of twenty years.
-We mean, and so does the Treasury writer, the
Payment of the army, navy, &c. " Dead charge,"
as Mr. Vansittart generously terms it-. The Trea-
sury writer is wrong, when he asserts our having
drawfi the following conclusion.—namely, " by
adopting the measure, the Half-Pay List and,
Pensions become fted, and withdrawn' from the
controul of Parliament." We never asserted any
thitig of the. sort ; we merely said, that if such-a
cc.,t.ract had been entered into, and if hereafter
Parliament should think proper to object to any
particular pension, the Minister of the time Would-
probably use this argument—" What! would
you have us to break faith with the Contractors,
after the payment to them, and the payment to be
tnade by them, of so much per annum as has been
solemnly guaranteed by Parliament and the
country E" As to our asserting any thing con-
trary to what is called the omnipotence of Parlia-
ment, we could not, for the power of Parliament
m7lst constantly strike every one. :Witness the
regular enactment of laws, and the sudden re-
peal of laws enacted. As we have before said,
we hate contrivances for the paying of a just
debt ; and we hate the principle of " spreading
over a surface of 45 years" that which ought to
be got rid of in 20 years. It was this miserable
pian of procrastinating the payment of debts which
caused the dreadful Revolution in France ; as
long as the French Monarchy went on the
oid-fashioned just principle of paying for wars as
they were waged, by levying imposts on the
people, and taking out of their pockets at once
that which was necessary. to pay the war debt,
France flourished even in a financial respect ; but
during the reigns of Louis the 14th, 15th, and
16th, and especially during the Administration of
tbe." Financiers" Colbert, Necker, &c., she put
cll., by means, of one paper scheme or other, the
evil .day, till at last she could neither pay the
Army, the Navy, or those employed in the dif-
ferent Government Offices ; then what was the
consequence ? The French King, Louis the 16th,
iqsfead of having as friends the Army, Navy,
&c., which he was sure to have so long as they
got what they were entitled to, found them be-
come lris enemies.

[aii.e TIMES.]
COnsiderable anxiety was excited yesterday
among- those connected with the China trade, by
the following paragraph, which reached this
country through art American paper
"-Extract of a Letter from Canton, dated Dec. 28 We
hye-bad a sad fracas here between Captain Blackwood, of his
I:Vitannic Majesty's frigate Topaze, and the native Chinese.
It --appears that Captain 'Blackwood had sent the frigate's boats
on snore to water, when a dispute arose between the boats'
crews and the Chinese inhabitants of the village of Lintin, near
WA i'h they had landed. The natives attacked the sailors with
and the men, it is said, were in imminent dan-
ge:-from the immense superiority and the violence evinced by
tzar 'antagonists. Captain Blackwood observing the peril of
hit.:ca nonn in the unequal combat, opened a fire upon the vil-
lage to cover their retreat to the boats, and it is said nine Chi.
Reoe -were killed and four wounded, although no accurate or po-
sithe fa taunt has yet been obtained. Since this, the frigate
and a large Thiglish country ship were lying off Lintin with
tkelr boarding: netting up. Daily consultations have been held
with aacTt-other by the chief men of the place and the officers
a- Government, and every idea is entertained here that the
trede between Great Britain and China will be suspended by
ordcr of the Chinese Government."' •
This statement would have created no sensation,
had it stood alone and unconnected with other
circumstances, because we are aware of the
lettlousy with which the extent of our dealings in
China is regarded in America, and the conse-
quent disposition to receive without examination,
and to publish without scruple, any account that
embroils us with the natives. But it unfortu-
nately happens, that the report in this case derives
some countenance from the fact, that we have
no arrivals from China of so late a date as that
, of
.the above paragraph, though, had no misun-
derstanding occurred between us and the
Chinese, the ships of the season might have
lieen. expected. The last accounts that have
reached .this country from Canton come down
only to the 7th of December, about three weeks
anterior to this reported quarrel ; and had, no in-
trrruption of our usual amicable intercourse
taken place, it is probable that we should have
bad direct arrivals here earlier than by way of
the United States. If any reliance can be placed
on the truth of that part of the story which re-
lates to the rupture between the English sailors
and the Chinese villagers, the subsequent attack
on the natives, and the final determination of the
Government to suspend trade till a satisfactory
expiation be made to the offended dignity of the
4f niversal Empire," may gain an easy belief.
We must express our hopes, however, that there
is noloundation for the American statement.
. .
:* This Letter appeared in our Paper yesterday ; but we re-
inatrt it as introductory to the remarks of The Times.

ing a sum of money for the relief of the distressed
Irish out of the funds of the house." We are
rejoiced to add, that the King not only pa-
tronizes the Ball to be given at the Opera house,
but that his Majesty will still farther promote
the laudable and heavenly object by graciously
giving his personal attendance on the occasion.

[Nr.w TIDIES.]
In our Paper of Monday, we called public at-
tention to Mr. W. Smith's Bill for the relief of
Dissenters, in respect to the Solemnization of
Marriage ; a Bill involving considerations of high
importance to the interests both of Church and
State. It appeared to use that the mode of re-
lief proposed by the Hon. Gentleman was ex-
tremely objectionable, not only as wounding the
consciences of the Established Clergy, but as
forming a precedent for an unconstitutional inter-
ference of the House of Commons with the Rites
and Ceremonies of the Established Church.—
At the same time, we were far from contesting,
in the slightest degree, the right of Parliament
to grant ease to scrupulous consciences from a
burthen imposed by a preceding Statute : and as
little did we pretend to deny that the Dissenters
have just reason to complain of the provisions of
the existing Marriage Act.—lt seemed to follow,
therefore, that admitting the existence of the
evil, but denying the fitness of the remedy, we
were in some sort bound to suggest a mode of
relief, Which, in our view of the case, appeared
less.objeOtionable. But we must beg to guard
ourselves against misapprehension. We know
too well. the delicacy of touching established
laws, to venture rashly on any suggestion of
Reform. •

[MORNING CHRONICLE.I
We have received Frankfort Papers to the
11th instant. They contain the Speech of the
Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands,
recommending the continuance of martial law in
the islands, at full length. He deeply regrets
being under the necessity of taking this step.
What then was the necessity for taking a'step
which is so painful. to hiro?; A squadron of the
Insurgent Greeks at present in the lonian
seas made a landing in Santa Maura, and
pillaged the property of the inhabitants !
This must seem an unanswerable argument
to the Lord High Commissioner ; as we have

it now for the second time. For our part we must
again express our inability to comprehend why
a population should be placed under martial
law because strangers have invaded their terri-'
tory and pillaged them. What can be said to
an argument of this kind,which supposes those to
whom it is addressed to be either incapable of
reasoning or bound to forego it? In this-country
when we are in dread of robbers, we procure arms
instead of giving them up; and were a police-
officer, for instance, to tell a man whose house had
been broken into, that he must deliver up his
arms, it would very naturally be supposed either
that the said officer was deranged, or that he
wished to favour a second house-breaking.—lf

the Speech on opening the Legislature, contain-
ing an equal close of absurdity, had not come to
us in an unquestionable shape, we should have
supposed the second an impudent forgery. But
nothing now surprises us from that quarter.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, THURSDAY, MAY 23.

HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BEDFORD, V. THE TRUSTEES

OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
Mr. SHADWELL appeared in this case, and said that a con-
siderable time ago a motion was attempted to be made in this
Court by his Grace the present Duke cf Bedford, for an in-
junction to restrain the defendants trom proceeding with
certain buildings, but his Lordship being one of the
trustees for the British Museum, refused originally to hear
the motion, but ordered that it should go into the Court
belovi ; and it now came on by way of an appeal from
the decision of His Honour the Vice-Chancellor, and as it
most materially affected many individuals, it was extremely
necessary that the perfect right and law of the case should be
made known, and therefore he hoped his Lordship would ap-
point an early day to let it be discussed.
Mr. PULLER followed on the same side.
His LORDSHIP said, if they would only take into the
Museum a few of the very difficult cases that he had in hand at
present, he would then be the sooner able to listen to them. He,
however, requested to know the nature of the case.
Mr. SHADWELL then replied, that Lady Rachael Vaughan,
prior to her marriage with Lord W. Russell, was seized in fee of
the land on which the British Museum stands, and other lands
adjacent; before her marriage she made a conveyance, and
vested the legal estate, and also Southampton House, in trustees
upon trust for herself, and after her marriage, Lord Russell,
herself, and the trustees, by a deed of 1675, conveyed the ground
on which the Museum stands, &c. to Ralph Montague, he at
same time giving a general conveyance to Lady Vaughan, her
heirs and assigns, that he would not build on the ground to the
northward of Southampton House, so as to injure the view
from it. After that Lord Russell died, and the legal estate was
reeonveyed to Lady Vaughan, which had not been conveyed to
Ralph Montague; then that legal estate, with the adjacent lands
of gardens, &c. became vested in the present Duke of Bedford.
An annual rent of 51. has also been received by his Grace ; and
in the agreement there is also mentioned 31. per day which was
to be paid in case any buildings should be erected in contraven-
tion of the covenant, which is secured by a power of distress ;
and inasmuch as Southampton House had been pulled down,
and other houses built, his Grace was advised that he had a
power in equity of restraining any buildings being erected on
• the Museum grounds or gardens, contrary to the covenant; and,
• when it was heard before His Honour, he was of opinion thathis
Grace's title of preventing that should be tried in a Court of
Law ; but his Grace having been since advised that he could
only claim that right in a Court of Equity, was imhiced to ap-
peal against His Honour's decision. •
His LORDSHIP appointed the '24th day of June (being a
holiday) to hear it.