The Sun.
London, England, 1812-07-18 00:00:00

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TO THL EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,

Having read in the Morning Chronicle an ani-
madversion on what it terms " the singular pro.
ceding in Ireland, of calling on - a defendant to
show cause; lathe Chambers of the Attorney-Ge-
neral,
why apex qificio information should not be
filed against him ;" your answer thereto, and the
reply of the Morning Chronicle of Wednesday, per
mit me to offer a few short observationkupon this
subject to rescue his Majesty's Attorney-General
of Ireland from the heavy charge the Mornin;,
Chronicle has made upon him, in which if
only impugns his conduct, but assigns a motive as.
base and unworthy as it is unlike the character of
that excellent man. •
_ _ _

Informations may be filed by the Attorney-Ge-
neral of Ireland, as well as of. England, by virtue
'of his office,lwithout application to the court of
King's Bench, against a certain class of offenders,
among whom libellers of his Majesty's Govern-
ment and Ministers are justly included : and he
may do this, at his option, against the writer, the
printer, the publisher, or the author, or against
all and-every of them, without any previous notice
whatever.

Mr. SAURIN has most certainly deviated from
this mode of proceeding, and ,with that kind and
benevolent feeling;, for which he has been ever re-
markable, before he would file the information irk-
volving the accused in a certain heavy expence,
caused a notice to be served on him to attcpd and
chew cause why such information should not be
tiled against him, thus affording an opportunity of
offering an excuse; or any thing the person ac-
cused may have to say in extenuation of the a;-
leged offence, without driving him to the neces-
sit.y of defending himself in a Court of Law.
the only motive the Morning Chronicle can di,-
cover which an Attorney-General, acting as Mr.
SAURIN has done, can have, is " to draw from a
defendant his deft:nee, for the purpose of defating
his pica." • I will not say that this observation of
the Morning Chronicle arises from ignorance, for
that might offend but if it does -not arise from
ignorance, which is sometimes -excusable', it arises
from what is infinitely- worse, the desire of misre-
presenting to the public the best actions of the
best,men, for party purposes : and it appears to
me to be something like 'a departure from every
sound system of morality, to ascribe bad motives
for the actions of man, when a good motive fur
them is to be found.

The Morning Chronicle asks, with an' apparent
triumph, " can this unprecedented mode of yrv-
ceeding be justified on the principle by which the
power Of informations ex officio .is defended
Ndw, in .answer, I say it does not require that
principle to justify, as it can be justified on its
own merits, as being a mode of proceeding lig';l,.•
praiseworthy ; and if Mr. SAciaiN be the first
resorted to it, he is highly deserving of the publiz.
thanks, for having, by. his own act, softeud the
severity of informations ex officio. For consider
what advantages it affords to the person accusel
First, it affords him an opportunityof.extenuwan

-One part of the intelligence brought by the
Adolt Mail is both iinportant and gratifying.
The deSertion of the Gerrnan troops in the service
of BTIONAPARTE? not individually, but in corps,
will place him in a situation of extreme danger.
A very, large proportion of tb.e
.arrny which
lie has taken into Russsiai are' either foreigners
. - •
who have been forded by conscription. into the
French silrvice, or: troops ipf the Confederation
'of the Rhine ; and if' the spirit which has been
manifested by the Regiment of' Black 'Hussars,
should become general, he will not only not he
sable to rnivauce, but tven to retreat with safety.
The celebrated Black Ilussars Is7tre under the
elmmand of the gallant General BLUCilkIt .; their
abhorrence of the French may therefore easily be,
exiceived; but the same feeling pervades the whole
PruSsian army. Innumerable skirthiShes have
taken place bet‘i-een them and the -French troops,
within the. last three months. They fought in
parties of 30 or 40 of a side, and it •was at length
found necessary to keep the French and Prussian
t i•oops separate. ,

Lt i.. r,_•norted, on the authority bf private ad-
counts, that the have entered Wilta ; this
we thinlf highly probable., The, ,Russians would
not of .course risque a battle to protect it; and as
incapable of resistance, -it *must of course'fail
tiie hands of the Frera, •

. .
rfallin rapers received this rnrKling state,
that Air. FITZPATRICK, upon WII6III the notice
was served to shkim, cause w'hy a criminal informa-
tion should not be filed againitiiint, !has brought.
an action for' defaraation against the Attorney-
General, because in the notice the work published
by Alr. FITZPATRICK is designated a seditious•li-
bei. -'The damages are laid at 10001. If the prin-
..,
oiples, upon which this action is founded Were
once citablishcd,, no criminal .proceedings could
ever be instituted against any individual, because'
they generally contain *charges rather of a did-ulna-
.
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tory natttre.. •

We ,may judge froirothe conduct of /Mr. HUNT
and his myrmidons, at Bristol, what would be the
situation of the country if such men were to oh-
,
tain a political ascendancy. Many of the late
proceedings- in that city strongly resembled thC
Curious excesses of democratic violence at the-be-
ginning. of the- ILevolution in F,ance, which led
to such atrocities and such dreadful scenes of car-
nage, .
and from the temper of the mob who sup-
ported the cause of .Mr. HUNT, there.can belittle
reason. to doubt that if the Magistrates had not
called in the military to put a stop to these ills--;
. -
graceful scenes,. they would Inive produced' similar
consequences. It is a common_ observation,. and
fully justified by experience; that cowards are
cruel, and from the pusillanimity which the rioters
displayed, when at length the military were
brought forward to stop their mischievous de-
signs, •it is probable that they would have been
proportiorially barbarous if no such interposition
bad been employed to check their outrageous epn-
duct. -It is probable that we•shall never he.al of
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Mr. HIINT as a 'candidate for Parliamentary
distinction after such proceedings, and the opi-
nions and feelings which they universally excited ;
but his-conduct ought never to be forgotten, and
the people at large shonld be led by it to refltct
on what might be the, result of the triumph of
such' men as supported his pretensions, and vindi-
cated his measures.

Yesterday afternoon dispatches were received
from Sir JAMES SAUMAREZ, in Wingo Sound.
Yesterday Lord COCHRANE had an interview
with Lord MELVILLE, at the Admiralty, for up-
wards of two hours.

The Earl of LONSDALE gave a grand 'dinner, on
Thursday, to the Dukes of YORK, CUMBERLAND,
and CAMBRIDGE, the Dukeof MONTROSE „the Earls
Of LIVERPOOL, LIMERICK, Lord MELVILLE, &C.

The. Scipion, 74, is to proceed from Plymouth
to the Mediterranean without delay.
Letters from the North of Spain, to the 17th of,
June, have been received. They give tbelnost.
flattering description of the Seventh Army, under.
the command of General MENDIZABAL. In one
week upwards of 200 young men repaired to its
standard from Tolosa, notwithstanding the obsta-
cles presented to them by the orders of the French.
Commander.. There were already seven battalions
formed, and efuipped in the province of Gui-
puscoa and Alaba. MINA had been appointed
second in command in the Seventh Army. • Ge—
peral MENDIZABAL was in Burgos, and MINA had
bad an action with the French, in which he made
400 prisoners, all of whom he shot, ,xeserving
their commander for the last, to whom he shelved
the decrees passed on both sides,. and observed,
that as all good Spaniards were suffering through
French cruelty, lie must. expect the same fate.—
The Governor-General of Gerona having ordered
the hangmen of Catalonia to wear the' same ear
as that used by the soldiers ofthe first Army, Ge-
neral 'LACY, in return, has decreed, that the
hangmen in ,the different towns under his corn-
Mand shall place the T..gion'of Honour • and the
Iron Crown in their bats.

Mr. BusßY, to whom Government has awarded
a premium for the lest plan of a Penitentiary
House, is a son of Dr. BUSBY, the ingenious
translator of LuCRETIUS . The -same young artist
obtained, in 1807, the triennial gold medal front
the Royal Academy, for his design for an edifice
to accommodate that Institution, and the Royal
amt Antiquarian Societies.
Mr. KEMBLE, according to the American Papers,
declined the engagement. which was offered to
him by the New-York Manager, on account of
having purchased a share in a London brewery.
How such a conjecture should arise on the other
side of the Atlantic it is difficult to conceive, un-
less indeed it is the consequence of a ruinous that
he-.and his friend Mr. WHITBREAD have been
brfluing together for his reinstatement among the
Drury-lane CoMpany, not as Manager, but chief
actor, the office of the former having been vested
in Mr. ARNOLD. .

The Theatre at Cheltenham is strengthened by
the talents of Mrs. EDWIN, wheire she has ap-
pettred in most of
,her leading comic characters.
She is, however, to appear in Juliet. to the Romeo
of Mr. BETTY, who is very attractive, and will
make a little fortune for the Manager.
LfSTON bends his course Northward, during the
summer, and is on Monday. to perform at North
Shields, as Clod in The Young.Qualcer,•and Darby
in The -.PoOr Soldier. This Actor' possesses ~So
much original. merit that he will probably
be retarded in his course at- the several plaees
where he may perform, in order to gratify the
auditors with the repeated 'performances of so
whimsical a votary'of THAMA.
- Miss GREVILLE, from the Norwich Stage,' ap-
peared on Tuesday last at the Haymarket Theatre,
in the part of Roialana, in the farce of The Sul-
tan. Her face is prominent and expressive, with
something
.of a foreign cast: Her figure is light
and well formed. She treads the stage Ni,rith
,
ease, and performed the character with appro-
priate spirit. She also ,displayed musical, taste
and knowledge-in a song" which she introduced.
She was very well received.