The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-17 00:00:00

IV ANDSWORTHFOLICE.

Henry Keen, a journeyman carpenter, living at the water-
side, was charged with attempting self-destmetion, and also
with threatening the life of his wife.
Anne Keen, the daughter
.of the defendant, stated that on
Friday (yesterday) morning, about half past seven o'clock,
her father called her into his room. He wag lying in bed,
and his left arm pouring with blood. The witness wished to
bind it up, but defendant would not let her. So she ran out
and brought in the police.
Police constable Castle, 123 V, stated that he found the de-
fendant bleeding profusely from a wound in the left arm. A
razor was lying by the defendant's side, with which he admit-
ted having severed one of the arteries ; he also admitted that
he had meant to destroy himself, and he intended to do so yet.
Sarah Ann Keen, the defendant's wife, said her husband had
of late become very loose in his habit=, and though he had six
children, he seldom came home sober one night out of the week,
—he had beat her repeatedly, had threatened her life, and on
Tuesday last he said he would wash his hands in her blood.
Mr. PAYNTER—Then I suppose you go in fear of your life ?
—Complainant said she did.
The defendant said that he had no wish to harm his wife.
Shc was a " cross-grained" one, and made his home so uncom.
fortable, that he could seldom bear to go into it. It was her
temper that caused him to attempt suicide.
Mr. PAYNTER ordered defendant to find sureties, himself in
01., and two in 20/., to keep the peace towards his wife.
Committed.

INSURRECTION IN CANDIA.
THE CHRISTIANS OF CRETE TO THE GOVERN-
MENTS AND NATIONS OF CHRISTIAN AND
CIVILIZED EUROPE.
MONARCHS! BRETHREN !
We have received the missives by which the European Con-
suls at Canea replied to our grievances.
The Consul of England hastened to inform us that the Eng-
lish Government, being in a close protecing alliance with the
Sublime Porte, is entirely foreign to the plans, aims, and pro-
jects of those who are opposed to the power and Government
of the Sultan.
The Rus,ian Vice-Consul tells us, " that if the Christian
population have motives to complain of the abuses they have,
perhaps, hitherto suffered, they must first and foremost la-
down their arms, and return to the submission they owe Co
their legitimate Sovereign, in order that they may reckon on
the kind solicitude of the Sultan fur the welfare of all his sub-
jects. The exigencies of an armed people constitute a crime,
the consequences of which will assuredly be fatal to all those
who participate in them." He terms us rebellious Christians.
The French Consul earnestly engages us to submit to the
will of the Sultan, and " to trust in the humanity of his High-
ness the Capitan Pacha," whose cruelty is known throughout
the east. He, moreover, adds, " that we shed our blood with-
out glory, by illegally resisting the authority of the Sultan."
The Austrian Consul in Crete goes still further. He says
that his Court, " sincerely attached to the Sublime Porte,
condt inns our attempts to obtain liberties which are irrecon-
cileable with the quality of subjects to the Sultan." And he
adds, " that, in lending the Mussulmans all the support in his
power, he, the Consul of his Imperial and Apostolic Majesty,
will be fulfilling an imperious dot)."
The Consul of Greece, in fine, rejects and condemns, in
the name of his august Sovereign, "our mad undertaking,"
and engages, for the last time, the Cretan Greeks to give up
their present sad position, " and to return to their homes,
by falling at the feet of their magnanimous King to implore
his mercy."
These letters, a faithful summary of which we lay before
you, at first filled us with the most painful sentiments. We
had claimed the support of our Christian brethren, who are
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the barbarians, recognise as solely lawful in this country the
domination of the savage sons of Othman, which has already
devoured half a million of Cretans, and which will soon have
se
depopulated our formerly flourshing soil. T
from the representatives of the Christian nationshe cruel words
have deeply
expressedt
afflicted us.
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and
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lettersaiid anact of complaisance towards
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sec Governments
in
these
Tahir Pacha,—an act that motives of humanity can alone
excusee' l h reasons which prevent their admitting the possibility of
the assertions contained in the Consuls'
are the following:—
It is impossible letters being exact,
that the English Government should con-
demn the legality of our resistance. Has the present Govern-
ment of England otherhase
is of legality than the Christian
Government of Crete,
whichth
will of the whole populationremained
faithful to the laws of our Saviou
siTnhceerpereesexrparcEssniognlishofGo-
vernment is sprung from the revolution of 1688, which deprived
the Stuarts of the British Throne; and if there be any diffe-
rence of situation, that difference is entirely to our advantage,
for assuredly the barbarous Government of the Ottomans is tar
more oppressive than was that of the Stuarts, who were more
unfot t unate than guilty.
No, England, faithful to the principles of her political exist-
ence—no, England, that ever solemnly proclaimed the sublime
idea.i.f civil and religious liberty for the whole world—no, d
n liberty the
England, the classic soil of legal liberty, does nohtr
Cretans fighting for the. Christian religion, for c
andlegality ! sot 1n er
It is impthat the Russian Government and nation,
impossible
connected with us by the community
of orthodox faith, should
consider our resistance against the
infidels as a crime. Is not
d it against its enemies,
he not sworn before the altar to defend
dmuch
the Czar the protector of the Christian. faith in the east? Has
which has one so in-
faithful Did not
shinse
jury to the church and to the
and especially against Islamism.
Didthe Czar Nicholas,
the ?not
the common enemy of our re
Catherine, I.f glorious memory, call our fathers to against
And the conqueror, take up arms to avenge the faith outraged by the
barbarous Ottomans? would his empire exist it the
Russians had believed in the legitimacy of the Khan of the
b • the same right as Crete
Tartars, to whom Russia belonged
may now belong
Czar wil
No; Russia and her piousl never term rebellious
to the Sultan, e., by brutal force ?
Christianreligion is the basis of
The orthodox
those who arc fighting in the same of Jesus Christ against the
111ussulmans.
the Russian empire ; the Czar will not fail to preserve it from
profanation !
It is impossible that the French Government, which sprung
from the Revolution of 1830, can invoke against the Cretans
the legality of the TurkA domintition. Charles X. was a
humane and religious Prince, 41)d yet arms were taken up