The Sun.
London, England, 1824-07-15 00:00:00

PIANO-FORTES AND PEDAL HARPS.

AN uncommonly beautiful Double-actioned
HARP, has nut been used ten times, gust 101. fur
85 Guineas. A Single-action, tor 45 Guineas, late the pro
pert,' of a Lady.—A Cabinet Piano•furte, nut to be equalled
in Touch and Tune, usual price 60 Guiueas for 39 Guineas.
A capital Square Piano for 25 Guineas.
T, be seen at Mr. WATLEN'S, 13, Leicester•place, Lei.
cester-square.
N. B.—A very brilliant toned Rosewood Cabinet, band.
comely inlaid with brass, 60 Guineas, shop price 80 Guineas.

WILKINSON'S ANTI-CORROSION
PAINT.—J. It. WILKINSON, Sole Manufacturer
to the Hon. Board of Ordnance, and the Hon. Corporation
of London, No. 63, Upper Thanes-street, near the South-
wark Bridge, and at the Works, Surrey Canal Bridge, Kent-
road, begs particularly, at this season, to recommend this
valuable and economical Article, which is patronized by the
principal Nobility, Gentry, and Public Bodies, as the most
effectual Covering for all exterior purposes of Pointing on
Wood, Iron, Copper, Lead, Stucco, Korman Cement, and
Tiling, to represent Slates, or any other substance, being
equal to Stone when dry.. It; resists every species of damp,
water, or marine acid, preventing iron from rusting, not blis
tering with the sun, nor can it be rubbed off. This Paint
will curer equally well on rt,ut h hoards as smooth, thereby
preventing the expence of planing.; and will- last consider-
ably longer than any other paint. It may he had, in Casks
of !loth:. or 10011) with the p,,,paecd Oil, •proper Brushes,
and directions for use on each Cask (which ale so simple that
any person can use it.)• Fine and Olive areensouid all other
Colours. The Public are particutsrlY cautioned against any
Colours that may be imposed upon them for the genuine
Anti-Corrosion. Exterior mist interior Painting and Deco.
rations executed by the best artificers, and upon terms parti-
cularly advantageous.

Nir 1 1, T S.

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To T. H. PHIPPS, Esq. Westbury Leigh.
Lake Muse, Jay ti, 1824.
Sln—As the Chairman of the ensuing Sessions,
I beg leave thus publicly to address you. A most important
question stands for discussion at that time, the issue of which
will, in my opinion, either preserve the respectability of this
county, in. the eyc:s, of the nation, or sink tier in irrecoverable
degradations; it is nothing . more nor _ leased= whether she
wiU Maintoin her idedgett faith. signed anelsealest.hy her tins,
glstracy, or whether she will' break on her mortgage. bonds
through the medium of an ex post facto law, sought and obtain-
ed for that purpose without the sanction of the county, without
the privity of her creditors ; whether she will listen to and oboy
the dictates of honour, or whether she will faithlessly cause
her bonds.to become OD bonds, her securities to be ren-
dered no securities, whether she will destroy her own fair
fame by a felo de cc. On the event of this question hinges the
moral character of this county ; on its issue depend the just
right of many individuals ; the precedent thus established will
either materially subserve the general interests of the country,
oF tend greatly to destroy all public and private credit between
than and man, all commercial relations between men and
public bodies of men. This is my sincere opinion, and lam
most anxious to hold back the county from the precipice, to
the brink of which she has been unwarily led by a too ardent
and indiscreet zeal for her supposed interests. The proposal,
which has been made on her part, ought Never to have been
made. In ethics it is an axiom, that that, which is not quit-
ably right must be morally wrong. I will prove, that the pro-
posed measure is not equitably right, ergo, I shall prove, that
it irporally wrong, and 1 am sure the enlightened .Magistrates
of this county will not openly commit moral wrong, because
they possess the mere legal power attended with an apparent
slight pecuniary advantage. 1 ant convinced they will then be
guided by the feelings of honour and of justice, and will not
be turned aside by the meretricious glare of Imagined, but un-
real, interest.
I must now, however painfully, however unwillingly, refer
to myself. I stand, Sir, in a most peculiar
.and delicate situ.
ation. I am at one arid the same time a creditor, anti as
a Magistrate, lam a signer also of numerous bonds of the
county. I have thus received, I have thus given the guaran-
teeship of her good faith. lam in honour bound to use my
best endeavours to establish and .confirm the bonds of others,
and I must therefore call on the Chairman of the several Sea-
sions, and on my brother Magistrates, to join with me in (te-
aming, that those securities, which we have signed and sealed,
shall in deed and in truth " be sure and stedfast."
With regard to myself, circumstanced as I thus am,, there
is but one course, which I can pursue either honourably or
consistently with my own feelings, which is positively to de.
dare, that, be the result what it may, it shall be no benefi-
cial result to me ; if it be decided against my wishes, I will
then receive me. principal according to the notice, and moat
anxiously so, us I know not what may sprain happen ; on the
other hand, if the question be decided as I truly wish, I will
then annually present to some public charitable institution, that
portion of my interest, which is morally my due, but which
is now not equitably sought to he transferred to the county. It
will be a slender sactifice in so important a cause. I shall thus
stand in your Court equally independent in my mind and in
my conduct. 1 shall thus neither plead nor vote, for any in-
terests of my own. I shall thus relieve all the members of that
Court from any instinctive shackle imposed on them by the
feeling, that they are voting in the presence of a brother Ma-
gistrate, who bears an interest in the result. I shall thus dis-
engage my own vote, and be freely enabled to give it in aid
of the entitle of real honour and justice. I shall , thuslatisfac-
torily to my conscience act as I_ think I ought to ace. and
thus give to myself the power of again declaring, that I
confirm and establish all those numerous pledges, which,
under my hand. and seal, I- have already declared to be
confirmed and established. Other Gentlemen may act as-
they please. 1 am, Sir, the representative of one of your oldest
county fatuiliee ; for nearly three centuries my name in this
place has subsisted amongst you irreproachable anti unreprouch-
ed, and in this late day it shall never in my person descend to
my posterity dishonoured and degraded-by a self-repudiation of
the signature of that name.
It now only remaixe for me to inform you, that I claim my
right of arguing this important cause of the county in her own
proper arena, the County Court. I can never consent, that so
great a question (embracing at once the rights of individuals,
the honour of the county, and, I may not improperly add, ge,
neral and national good faith) shall be discussed in close cone
clave, shall be decided within this walls of an inn. I will in
that Court oppose temperately, but most firmly, this proposal ;
I will there hear, and reply to, any defence its supporters may
have to make to this measure, and there will I vindicate, and
I trust fully and etrectually vindicate, the honour, dignity, and
character of this great and respectable county.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your feithful and obedient Servant,
(Salisbury Journal,) El) WARD DUKE.