The Sun.
London, England, 1822-05-29 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

Mn. EDITOR—Being an advocate for the Pro-
testant Ascendancy, and respecting the glorious
memory of King WILLIAM, I perceive with re-
gret that Mr. CANNING'S eloquence has induced
the House of Commons to pass his Bill, to en-
able Roman Catholic Peers to take their seats
in the House of Lords ; which Bill is to be-taken,
into consideration in that House on Friday next,
the result of which I anticipate with pleasure,
and agree with Mr. MA rtTiN, (Member for Gal-
way), in thanking God that we have KING,
LORDS, and Col ittoNs.---In consequence of tak-
ing down a very old house this week in the Ab-'
bey-square, late the property of the Bishop, the
cell (length 9 feet, height 8 feet 6 inches, breadth
3 feet 8 inches), is brought into full view, front
whence George Marsh was led to execution in
April 1555, and burnt alive near this city ; the
particulars of which I send you for publication,
and which is highly interesting at this period.
Val. lEARIVOOD FOLLIOTT:
Chester, May 25, 1612.

GEORGIE MARSE, BUR:/7 it.l7 Cazrrzn..--The next that
we shall mention is the Martyrdom of George Marsh, who was
burnt at Chester, by the Bishop there, Dr. C•-.ates. Ile was
a.
Lancashire-man, bred a farmer, married and had children ;
yet afterwards he went to Cambridge, fell to his stud.ica, and at: .
Lest took Orders, and was a Curate in the time cf fling El- •
ward the Vlth ; but in Queen Nary's days, being deteee.ed, lie
was sent for by the Bishop, and being in some perplexity in his
mird whether he should ?.y or no, some of his friehis sant him
word that be ehould stay, and boldly confess Jesus Christ; up-
on which, having hid himself, he went and delivered himself
up to those who sought him, who carried him to the Bishop,
when he so wisely answered to all their objections, that they
could not find matter to take away his life: yet the Bishop sent
bins to prison in his own house, where he kept him four mon.thg,
not suffering any of his friends to conic near him, or to give
him. any relief, and where he suffered great hardships ; the
porter was commanded to take notice of any that came but
to inquire after hint, and to give their names to the Bishcp, so
that many were afraid of being brought into trouble fcr askinFt,
after him. From the Bishop he was had before the Earl cc
-Derby, who examined bin], after which, perceivinhe was not
able to bring him to his bent, he committed him to another
prison, being a cold windy stone house, without bed to lie on,
only a few canvas lent deaths, where he Continued in thil
manner for some time, seeing no ;man but the keeeper, who
brought bins meat and drink. Mter this he was again exa-
mined before the said Earl, yet Mr. Marsh very prudently and
warily answered their entrapping questions about the Sacra-
ment, saying, he believed Christ was not in the Sacrament,
which so enraged them,_ seeing he would give no other answer,
that they sent him to Lancaster gaol, where he was put among
the felons, and three times caused to hold up his hand at the
bar, with bolts upon his lees, though they had nothing to ob-
ject against him. He used to preach and exhort the prison-
ers, for which he was threatened and reproved, and the Bishop,
• coming to Lancaster, caused him to be more strictly kept and
cruelly handled ; several times was he before the Bishop and
examined, and articles were put ih against him, one of which
was, that among other most damnable and schismatic here-
sies, he had said that the Church and Doctrine taught and set
forth in King Edward's time was the true Church, and that
the Church or Rome was not the true Catholic Church. At
last the Bishop read the sentence of condemnation against
him, and after he had done, now, said he, I will pray for thee
no more than for a dog. But I will pray for you, said the Holy
Martyr. He' was then delivered to the Sherifg, who put bin,
into an hole or dark dungeon, where none were suffered to come
at him or speak to him. 'When the time came of his execution,
he was led forth to the place, being without' the City of West
Chester, and being come to the stake, a black box was shewed
him, in which they said there was the Queen's pardon if he
would recant : he told them lie had no desire to die, and would
accept of her Grace's mercy, being her true liege man ; but if
he could not have it without such conditions which tended to
pluck him from God, he would not receive it. After that he
began to speak to the people, but the Sheriffs told him, theremust be no summoning these; so afraid were they of hearing
the truth, upon which Mr. Marsh, kneeling down,. fell to
prayer, which done, he stripped himself to his shirt, and so was
chained to the post, and the faggots put about him. Over his
head they had placed a firkin, with pitch and ;,.ar, and by
reason the wind blew hard, and the fire did not dispatch him,
but melting the pitch, it fell upon him, and put bins to into-
lerable torment; notwithstanding he bore it patiently stand-
ing a long time without moving, having all his flesh so
broiled and puffed up that they thought he had been dead.
when, on a sudden, spreading his hands abroad, lie cried
out aloud, " Father of Heaven have mercy upon me."
and so yielded up his spirit into the hands of the Lord. All
the people saying he died with admirable patience, and was
a martyr.—He was burnt in April 1.5.55.

MERCANTILE; SHIPPING, &c.

DEAL, MAY 23.—Wind S.W.—Arrived last night•lncl
sailed for the River the Thomas, Bell, from St. Vincents ;
Betsey and Sophia, Galloway, St. Domingo ; Olatton,
Honduras. Also this morning the Farquharson, Cruckshanks, ,
from China ; Charles, Milne, 44 days from Tobago ; Cumber-
land, Brine, South Seas ; Ocean, Younger, ditto ; Bristow.'
Lush, New South Wales ' • Stately, Edgar, Jamaica ; Princess
of Wales, Johnson, i3ahia • Marquis Hastings, Bengal ;••
George, Deeper, Cape Coast dastle; Henry, Lang, Honduras ;
Supply, Robson, ditto; Seneca, Bell, Tobago; New Phoenix,linthwaite, Trinidad. Came down from the River and rema'n
the Christopher, Knight, Quebec ; • Susan, —, ditto :
Essex, Banlay, South Seas; Ceres, Mathews, Rio Janeiro.
PLYMOUTH, MAY 27.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Loyal
Briton transport with part of the 61st Regiment an board.—
Sailed for London the Neva, Farquharson, from Jamaica ;
Stately, Edgar, ditto; Vine, Webb, Trinidad ; Usk, Smith,
ditto; Marquis Hastings,. Edwards, Bengal:
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 28.—Wind W.S.W,--Arrived the
Riga. Forster, from Havannah. Sailed the ProYidence, Oliver.
for Madras and Bengal.
FaLmou TT', MAY 27,----Wind S.S.W.—Arrived cif the
port the American schooner Boston packet, from St. Domingo.
Arrived the 26th, the Prince Regent packet, from the Leward
Islands ; and his Majesty's ship Racehorse, from a cruize. Off
the Isle of Wight the Marquis of Wellington, Bengal and
St.-Helena : sailed the 24th of January, St. Helena the 7th of
April :l. and passed by the Thcmaa Grenville, Manning, from
-Benga •

MURDER OF MRS. DONAt,TY,---4At igagn a
d V. •
clue has been obtained relativ,e to tliig mysterious affair, whi, h
is expected to dead lo..thedetection of the sanguinary ruffians •
who cornolittal the barbarous deed. Ey the activity of toe
gentlenieri who have taken so conspicuous and praiseworthy a
part in the transaction, it has been discovered that there are
two men in custody in Barking gaol, one of whom answers the
description of the person seen near firs. DOnatty's house on the
night of the Murder; his name is William Faulkner; and in
addition to the other suspicious circumstances against him, .tt
has been discovered that since the commission of the murder, he
s shaved off his whiskers which were dark and bushy, and much
resembling-those worn by the supposed assassin. The off'enc'e- •
with which he stands Coharged (in conjunction with one Williams;
who is not yet accused of any participation in the murder) is
breaking into Farrendon-house, the scat of Wm. Kerrell, AM.-
burst, Esq., near Harlow, Essex, and stealing therefrom a very
larEe quantity of plate,_&.c. He was committed by the Bench
at Epping, CHARLES BOYD APDY, Esq., Chairman, anti u
cbmmunication was forwarded to official persons in town, the
nature of which it would be imprudent to aisclose, but it dis-
tinctly mentioned that Faulkner had been in the, vicinity of
Mrs. Dcinatty's house on the night of the murder, and that he
had pistols, which was confirmed by their discovery a day of
two ago. All the witnesses ants accordingly ordered to attend
at Barking, as soon as the present Old Bailey sessions are over,
that they may view Faulkner, and give their of i :ion at to his
identity.

CORN EXCHANGE, MAY 29.
aur market was rather thinly supplied ; notwithstanding ,
there appears a great depression on the part of the buyers to
make purchases, and what few at Monday's reduction of 2.7.
per quarter. The best Wheats and the Inferiors without price.
little or nothing being dose in that article; Barley as on Mor -
dry, ls. lower, per the maltir.g qualities, but no alteration in
the grinding sorts ; Peas and 11eans little doing, and no alter,-
doh in price; the Oat trade ls. lower, and the trade rather '
brisk.
Wheat, Old, 465 60s Pease, 'White .... ....... 24s 381
N I
-
;New 34s 56s Grey `los 22s
Rye 248 26s ins 19s 25s '
Barley 151 18s I Oats - 17s 24s .
Malt • 40s 4.51 t Flour . ,...458 0u

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

tX7RACTS FROM THE. Dk 1 I.Y" MORNING PAPtILS,
MOS/ 29, IS(2`2.

[THE TIMES.I
The surmise of truth, which we reluctantly at-
tached on Friday to a paragraph copied from an
American Paper, purporting to give an account
at au affray between the crew of one of our men
of war in China and a party of the natives, has
been unhappily confirmed in all its distressing
circumstances, and with- all its alleged conse-
quences, by the arrivals of yesterday. The de-
tails which we have collected, and on the au-
thenticity of which, unfortunately, no doubt can
be thrown, will put our readers in full possession
of the state of matters when the last accounts
came away. We hope, from a view of the mag-
nitude of the interests involved in the dispute,
that our intercourse with China is merely sus-
pended, and that means wilt- speedily be found
of adjusting our differences, without sacrificing
national honour, en. 'leaving any remains of
lurking distrust. We cannot at the same time
forget the repulsive prejudices, the unsocial
habits, and the absurd pride which characterize
the rulers and the subjects of the " Universal
Empire"—that they allow us to trade with them
by sufferance—that they look upon themselves
as independent of our commerce—and that if
they give us tea for our manufactures of our
metals, yet that we are to have the humility to
consider them our masters, and the gratitude to
regard them as our benefactors. On such a
people, who cannot he compelled to respect us by
the display of our force, or induced to trade
with us by sense of reciprocal benefit, we have
no hold but by prudent regard to our Nvants and
their prejudices. The Dutch enjoyed their fa-
vours, and forfeited them. We hold our trade
by a precarious tenure.

[NEw TimEs.]
It is admitted on 'all hands that the French
Elections have turned out favourably to the
Royalists. The Liberal Papers console them-
selves with the assertion that the minority of re-
presentatives was chosen by the majority of Con-
stituents. How true this may be we know not ;
hut it appears by our private letters that the
Ministers, at the opening of the Session, will have
less to fear from their old antagonists the Liberals,
than from the divisions among their own sup-
porters. The want of energy is the fault most
complained of in the present Administration.—
For our own part, we should have been sorry to
see them adopt violent measures on their en-
trance into office ; • but the weakness of
rewarding and encouraging their opponents
is still more to be blamed. There is much
lalk. at Paris of a letter written by an in-

dividual of great celebrity, to the French
Ministers, on the danger of leaving so many
of their decided enemies in possession of- the
highest places in the State; and it is expected
that, in the new organisation of the Treasury,
which will take place in the beginning of June,
M. be Villele will avail himself of the opportu-
nity to get rid of a number' of Liberaux, who
have long occupied situations in that department.
The success of the liberal faction in the elections
for Paris has given them so much confidence that
they talk of a grand solemnity early in June, to
commemorate the death of young Lallemand,
who happened, to be killed in the ! lots of June
1820. The Minister of the Interior, however, is
said to be resolved to prevent any public meet-
ing of the kind ; and as he has the.reputation of
firmness, the Liberals will no doubt be daunted
and give up their enterprise.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
A considerable sensation was excited yester-
day at the East India House and the Stock Ex-
change by the arrival of the Farquharson, from
China, with an account of the stoppage of the
British trade with China, in consequence of an
affray between part of the crew of the Topaze
frigate and some Chinese, in which two of the
latter were killed. This affair took place the 25th
of December, and was announced in the American
Papers received a few days since. It is now
eagerly seized upon at the Stock Exchange, and
has furnished &delightful speculation to the friends
of war. A brave man, they know, will find cause
of quarrel in a straw when honour is at stake,
and they would fain persuade the world that hos-
tilities with the mighty Emperor of China are in-
evitable.
This is dreadful news to the tabbies
of the tea-table, to whom it will prove a fruitful
source of gossip and alarm for the threatened loss
of their souchong and bohea. but we exhort them
to be comforted and to dismiss their fears. The
money and goods with which our trade furnishes
China are much more valuable and necessary to
it than its' tea is to England, which, if the trade
ere to coninue stopped, would be of no more
value than so much bad hay. The mighty Em,
peror may be in a passion, and the sacrifice of
one of their sailors which the Americans lately
made to his vengeance, may encourage him to
bluster and swagger with us on the present oc-
casion, but he will trot be likely to turn away so
good a customer, and proceed to extremities
upon such provocation.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
' Rumour, 'with its hundred tongues, is cur.:
rently propagating a story which, even with all
that we have lately witnessed in the way of pro-
fusion and extravagance, at a time when an over-
whelming taxation pres'es so hard upon the
country, we own ourselves unwilling to credit.
We insert the particulars, however, as the coun-
try is-deeply interested in the subject, that an
opportunity may he afforded of contradicting
them, if they should not be true.—Some time
back, in consequence of whispers about trans-
actions not beneficial to the interests of the
State, Lord L— humbly communicated to .a
, Great Personage, that a certain confidential si-
tuation ought no longer to be held by an irre-
sponsible individual, nay, that it was kid's-
pensible the office should be abolished altogether..
There was nothing, assuredly, very pleasing in
this lipid and daring language. That exalted

personage protested against an interference with
what he deemed especial prerogative, but quite
ineffectually, for the Noble Lord stated the dis-
missal in question to be a sine qua non with his
continuance in office. After much discussion,
the point was at length yielded, and the Right
Hon. Baronet prevailed upon to retire. Not,
however, before the Great Personage had be-
stowed upon him substantial marks of his grati-
tude for services done and performed. Fourteen
thousand pounds were presented to the, exile in
cash, in addition to a pension of 2,000 pounds
per annum granted for life, together with the
emoluments attached to the office of Privy Purse,
which he stipulated to hold, with a salary
of two thousand pounds a year annexed to it, and
a promise of the reversion of a choice of any
Foreign 'Mission that might happen to fall in.
Not, however, content with these multiplied ap-
propriations of splendour and gain, he vehe-
mently pressed his claim for an English Peerage,
which, report states, Ministers refused to sanc-
tion. The highest Personage in the State, con-
scious that n'o evil could arise from tranquillizing
the mind of the Ex-Secretary, condescendingly
endeavoured to soothe him by the offer of an
Irish Peerage, to which the Ministers gave their
concurrence ; but, strange as it may seem, the
Right Hon. Baronet is said to have refused this.
*„,* We insert the above article, but from what we have pre-
viously heard, we are not inclined to give the least credit to it,
and the manner in which the individual alluded to mentioned
is, we are assured, uncandid and unjust, as he is not of a cha-
racter likely to be unreasonable in his hopes or pertinaceous in
his requisitions.

[MORNING HERALD.]

The most horrible details of the progress of
starvation among the people in different parts of
Ireland are given in the Irish Journals. In-
stances are related of the instinct of life struggling
against hunger, by resorting to truly shocking
substitutes for food ; and in other instances the
bodies of the starved creatures are borne un-
coffined to the grave. The universal liberality,
and promptness with which their wretched state
is taken up in this country, is an event which
should be remembered here with pride, and will,
we are sure, be remembered in Ireland with the
liveliest gratitude ; and, no doubt, the succour
in money and provisions, which has been sent over,
has come between many a human creature and tt)e
horrors of death by starvation. But, as we have
said before, the state of suffering is still dreadful
from starvation and disease ; and there are yet
nearly three months between the wretched suf-
ferers and a supply. We perceive that the per-
sons having property in some parts of Ireland
have formed associations to improve, permanently,
the condition of the poor, by directing them in
the employment of their labour on the soil, and
by encouraging industry. If they are disposed,
as no doubt they are, not only to improve the
state of the Irish poor, but what is equally
important, to make Ireland a more efficient in-
tegral part of the United Kingdom, they
should adopt, almost implicitly, the system
which connects the labourer and his employer—
the land-tilrer and the landowner in England. It
would be very much to their own interest. One
of the causes of the wretchedness of the peasantry,
and one of the reasons why the landlord fre-
quently loses his rents is, that he lets the land at
a rack-rent to a tenant,who,from want of capital,
and from the perpetual pressure of a screwed-up
rent, cannot procure the necessary portion of
labour or the requisite supply of the implements
of husbandry to make the land as productive as
it might be.

[MORNING POST.]

Mr. Denman, as Common Serjeant, for the first
time, took his seat on the Judicial Bench, at the
Old Bailey, on Monday. The novelty of the
circumstance, together with the peculiar con-
siderations which have unexpectedly raised Mr.
Denman to the Judgment-seat, and the impor-
tance of the case which came before him, on
'onday, will excuse us for adverting par-
ticularly to what took place.—Whatever might
be our opinion of the propriety of electing
this Gentleman to his present situation—what-

ever might be the itnpolicy a priori of combining
in one person the office of making and adminis-
tering law, contrary to the fundamental rule of
the Constitution with respect to other Judges—

whatever might be the indiscreetness of electing a,
violent political partizan for an impartial dispenser
of justice—Mr. Denman will not find that,
since he has been elected Common Serjeant,
we shall be deficient in due respect to him \as
a Judge of the Land. Besides the sacred regard
which we have for the administration of the laws,
other considerations dictate this line of conduct
to us. The Comumn-Serjeant of the City of
London will always perceive that the correct
discharge of his judicial duties is utterly incom-
patible with a concurrent active, to say nothing
of an intemperate, political life. The Judges of
this country have to perform their exalted func-
tions itLthe face of a moral and enlightened people,
and under the controul of a public opinion, into
which the nicest sense of propriety and the
purest conception of abstract justice are incor-
porated with the liveliest attention to national
welfare and reputation. It is, we therefore
think, impossible that any man, though chosen
for mere party rashness, can continue the same
reckless career of politics after his elevation to
the Bench as before it. Nothing could be more
scandalous or indecent than for a man to prejudge
constitutional and legal questions, even by
silent votes in the douse of Commons, which
are afterwards to come before him in the
grave capacity of a dispenser of impartial
justice. Mr. Denman of course sees this glar-
ing inconsistency of his present concomitant si-
tuations and presuming on these grounds that

Air. Denman will in practice obviate many of
those powerful objections to his late election
which were a priori absolute disqualifications, we
shall consider him in the mere character of Com-
mon Serjeant, and respect him accordingly.

In the Court of Common Pleas7 New York, a
cause of assault and battery was tried, in which CHARLES
BUONAPARTE was the defendant. He is stated to be of the
same family, and no very distant relation, of the B u ONAPARTE
who was so famous for his assaults and batteries. He was
found guilty, and adjuged to pay six cents. damages,