The Sun.
London, England, 1822-03-25 00:00:00

'added to the charges of the Planters, and ena-
bled the Colonies of other States to furnish their
commodities at a cheaper rate. We wished to
prevent the United States from having a market
for their commodities in the West India Islands,
forgetting all the while the importance of the
United States market for West India commodi-
ties. So long as the English Merchants, who, in
the character of mortgagees, are the real pro-
prietors of the best part of the estates, could
obtain payment of their interest, the restric-
tive system was declared essential to the com-
merce of this country; but a great change of
sentiment has lately been effected by the con-
vincing proofs which have been received, that
without a free trade no profits can be made, and
consequently no interest can be paid. This mea-
sure will be opposed, no doubt, by the ship-
owners, on the principle on which they opposed
our obtaining good and cheap timber from the
Baltic, in preference to bad and dear timber
from Canada. There is no measure, however
advantageous to the community in general, but
affects the interests of one or more classes of the
community, who naturally contend for these se-
parate interests in preference to those of the com-
munity.

[NEW TIMES.]
It is far from our wish to aggravate the
' painful feelings with which Mr. Hume must re-
' flect on his blunder respecting the number of
Promotions and Appointments in the Army.
Sufficiently mortifying to him no doubt it is, to
know that in consequence of his having mistaken
regimental successions for actual vacancies, he
has not only been exposing his own ignorance for
months together, but misleading the public, and
most unjustly prejudicing, in the estimation
of the country, the Illustrious individual who
stands nearest to the Throne. Mr. Hume's
original statement was " that 2,553 Com-
missions in the Army had been given, since
January 1816, to the prejudice of the public, and
in order to gratify the patronage of Ministers,
and of the Commander-in-Chief, which, if they
had been filled from the Half-pay List, would
have saved the sum of 214,0001. of yearly annui-
ties, or at twelve years' purchase, 2,568,0001."---
This was a blunder of the first magnitude. In-
stead of 2,553 Commissions there were but 663
which could by possibility have been filled up
from the half-pay ; and to have so filled up those
663 would have been an act of great hardship to
officers abroad, and others who had a just and
reasonable claim to regimental advancement.—
Sir Henry Hardinge detected Mr. Hume's blun-
der, and sheaved in the clearest manner how so
astonishing an error arose in the mind of the
Honourable calculator. If 663 commissions be
filled up from the half-pay, they of course lead
to no further promotion ; on the other hand,
if they be filled up in regimental succession
each vacancy may occasion several promotions
(the Major succeeding vice the Lieut.-Colonel,
the Captain vice the Major, &c.), and thus we
may come at 2,553 promotions, from 663 vacan-
cies. But it seems strange that any intellect
should confound these two modes together, and
should fancy that because there had been 2,553
regimental promotions, there might have been
2,553 appointments made from half-pay. How-
ever such was the hallucination of• poor Mr.
Flume's ideas, a circumstance at which we are
not at all surprised ; for we have often observed
the Hon. Member, (with possibly the most ho-
nest intentions in the world), so puzzled and
bewildered, between his logic and his arithmetic,
that the most obvious fact seemed beyond his
comprehension. And this we attribute not so
much to native dullness, as to his unfortunate
ambition to merit the rime which has been given
him of " The Encyclopedia."

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

KENT ASSIZES.-MAIDSTONE, FRIDAY.
WILFUL MURDER.

John Haywood was indicted for the wilful murder of Eliza-
beth, the wife of 'William Impett, by shooting her with a gun
in the side,
_ with a gun loaded with powder and shot, at Sel-
linge, in this county, on the Bth of September last.
The prisoner had made criminal overtures to the deceased,
and on her refusing he shot her.
Dr. Robert Chisliall examined: I am,a physician residing at
Ashford. On the Bth of Sept. last I was called in to attend
the deceased. I found her exceedingly distressed, in excessive
pain, vomiting blood. She was wounded with shot: There
was not the least chance of saving her life. I saw clearly
that the wound was mortal. I told her it was of consequence
that she should make up her mind as to her idea of the danger
she was in, and requested her to speak the truth on so solemn
an occasion. She said repeatedly that she was sure she never
would recover : I then said I should take her words down. I
immediately got a small slip of paper, and wrote down exactly
what she told me. After that I read the paper over to her
twice or thrice. , She said the contents of the paper were very
true. I took down the words on the paper exactly from her
own words as nearly ss possible. I staid a considerable time
with her. She lived about four or five hours afterwards. I
have no doubt she died of that wound.

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The dying declaration of the deceased was then read as
follows :,-

" I Elizabeth Impett, with the prospect of death before me,
do most solemnly declare that John Haywood inflicted the
wound in my side, of which I expect to die, and that he did it
with a loaded gun, in consequence of my refusal to yield to his
embraces this morning." To this declaration the deceased
made her cross, and the Doctor signed it as attesting witness.
The act of shooting at the deceased was proved by three
witnesses.

This was the case for the prosecution.
The prisoner was without Counsel. Being called upon to
make his defence, he said he had nothing to say in his defence.
Mr. Baron GRAHAM summed up the evidence with great
minuteness and impartiality.—The Jury, after a few minutes'
deliberation, found the prisoner Guilty.
The Learned Judge proceeded, in an impressive manner, to
pronounce the awful sentence of the law, and ordered' the
prisoner for execution on Monday, (this day.)
The Assizes for this county ended late on Saturday after-
noon, both Judges sitting the principal part of the day.—
No less than fifty-one unhappy convicts received sentence
of death. Of these, nineteen were the men implicated in
the smuggling outrages which were committed at Marshbay,
near Margate, on Sunday, the 2d of September last, in which
certain officers employed in the preventive service were wounded.
It was expected that five or six of these would be left for exe-
cution. The other convictions were for housebreaking in the
day-time, burglary,. sheep-stealing, horse-stealing, stealing in
a dwelling-house, highway robbery, and uttering a'forged note.
James Goodwin, the only person convicted of the latter offence,
on the prosecution of the Bank of England, was left for execu-
tion ; as was also a man, named John Bell, for a burglary, at
Mereworth.

An Extensive Fraud on the Customs.—On
Thursday a vessel called the Nezo Union, F. 8.,
from Calais, was seized by Mr. J. RICE, one of
his Majesty's searchers in the Customs, for hav-
ing on board' near one hundred bottles of quick-
silver, concealed under her ballast: the vessel
and silver are considered to be worth upwards
of ;0001.