The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-21 00:00:00

THE CHARTISTS' LEADERS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sia,—lt is with feelings of sincere regret that I adopt
the present mode of giving warning to me fellow.coun`ry_
men who bear the name of Chartists. In the first place,
it will be looked upon by many of them as the voice of a
Whig; and, in the second, as that of some disappointed
person, whose ambition has received a check. To all such
I say, read me well before you judge me, and I promise
you that your eyes will be open to the truth ; and, instead
of condemning me for either of the above suspicions, you
will respect me as a good citizen, and an unflinching
Chartist. Now, fellow-Chartists, that we aro about to
enter a fresh campaign--ay, a fresh struggle for those
principles so dear to every lover of freedom, and so just in
themselves, that our very enemies dare not deny their
purity, let us not be led away by that frothy intemperance
which has hitherto disgraced our Leaders; an intemper-
ance which, while it destroyed every chance of our suc-
cess, fed our thoughtless vanity, and lulled us into a belief
of their sincerity. But, oh, how sadly were we deceived,
and how disappointed did we not look upon each other !
Shame followed reason, and disgust quenched the fire of
enthusiasm. But it was not disgust at the principles for
which we were disposed to risk all. Oh, no, my fellow-
countrymen ! tey aor
re too gliously surrounded by the
shades of departed patriots, whose meumories arc. our
support, when powerful knaves attempt to despise—
but it is disgust at our own weakness, in being led
by men whose interests lay in keeping your minds unset-
tled—men whose very fortunes depended upon the amount
of excitement they produced—men whose venality is be-
yond dispute—men whose very trade lay in politics, whose
' career is to be traced from beggars to that of independent
money-loving and grovelling shopkeepers, more covetous
than the very shopecracy they took so much pains to de-
nounce. It is against such men as those I would warn
you in future, and against such exhibitions as they are
capable of producing. Oh, it grieves me to the heart to
see the vampires feeding fat upon our weakness, and that,
too, before the face of the world ; and yet no one will he
bold enough to expose their villainy, and show then: that
their occupation's gone.
I assure you, Mr. Editor, that I am in no way at dag-
ger's point with those men calling themselves the Leaders
of the working classes—on the contrary, I have received
from them great kindness—at least as the world has it—
and have no other motive but that of preventing such ex-
hibitions as Smithfield was a short time ago the field of
action, such as, " Are ye ready to die to a man?" "We
arc, we are !" " Aro ye ready to storm Newgate if the
Lord Mayor should think it necessary to invite me to a
visit ?'' " We are, we are !" These Punch and Judy ex-
hibitions I wish not to have repeated ; and, indeed, my
countrymen must be fully aware of the great injury such
are likely to do our cause, which with prudence must cer-
tainly prosper.
I will ask the London Chartists a few questions.
Is Frost or the man who spread the fl AMC of violence in
Wales most to blame?

Can the man who spread that violence be trusted as a
leader of the people, when I tell you that when Frost was
upon his trial for life cr death, that man kept snugly at
home under pretence of family affliction ! Ay, under
pretence. Coward like, he skulked as a mouse into a
hole, instead of, by his presence in Wales, sympathising
with the unfortunate, whose sufferings were owing to the
temerity of an adventurer.
Sir, I could fill your paper with characters—names—
ay, and residences of parties calling themselves the friends of
the people, the leaders of the people, when in reality their
substance is nothing but what has been created by the
weakness arid gullibility of the masses.
To check these evils, Sir, is my only object. And to
prove to you I am no enemy to Chartism, I forward you
my real name and place of residence; and remain, Sir,
with great respect, your obedient humble servant,
London, Jan. 20, 1840.

A LONDON CHARTIST.

THE APOCALYPSE AND THE

CHURCH.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Having in the course of my ecclesiastical studies
found frequent mention of " Sanderson's Essays on the
Apocalypse" (a duodecimo volume which came out four or
five years ago), I shall feel obliged to any of your nume-
rous readers who can inform me where it was published
and by whom sold.
It may seem ertraordinary that a book of so very recent
a date should not be found any where in the trade, yet
such is the fact; and the reason given to me by the book-
sellers is, that it was bought up by the Conservatives and
the High Church party, with a view to its suppression.
They are reported to have felt extremely indignant at the
application to themselves of certain portions of the Apoca-
lypse, which had been supposed until then to apply to the
Church of Rome. Should the above curious anecdote be
true (and the scarcity of the book appears to confirm the
statement), it may furnish a solution of the enigma of reli-
gious dissent which has sprung up throughout the Esta-
blished Church. Evangelicals pull one way, and Pusellites
another way, whilst Methodists, and some others also,
prefer sailing under their own flags to taking convoy from
any adverse sect.
117 ho this Mr. Sanderson may prove to be, whether an
Ecclesiastic or a Layman, anybody, or nobody, I cannot
learn, for there may be no such person in existence.
One thing, however, must be admitted by every unpre-
judiced person, viz., that, if the Conservatives supposed
his attacks upon them to be unfounded, it would have
been far more manly to have answered his charges and
accusations than to have endeavoured to elude them by
suppressing the volume in which they arc contained. There
is an old adage that, "Magna est veritas, et prevalebit,"
for truth will alawill always make its way. Great wealth may,
indeed, impede its course for a season, but ultimately it
will, emerge in redoubled splendour, and such will unques-
tionably be the case with these suppressed essays when-
ever they shall be republished by their author.
I remain, Sir, your most obedient servant,
Canterbury, Jan. 20. ANDRONIC US.

GREECE.

ATHENS, Dec 30, 7840.

A considerable number of visitors arc sojourning here at
present, and among them there are no less than nine clergy-
men of the Church of England. The Crown Prince of Ba-
varia, Maximilian, arrived here yesterday in an Austrian
steamer from Corfu. The Marquis and Marchioness of
Londonderry are expected here this afternoon from Patras,
Delphi, Corinth, &c.
In consequence of much publicity having been given by
the English and Continental Newspapers to the recent
horrible acts of torture and cruelty practised by the police
of Athens, sanctioned, as it wculd appear, by the King,
some attempt at explanation has been put forth by an
Athenian Journal in the interest of the Court, but not one
of the charges has been refuted. It is to be hoped that
these disgraceful outrages will be discontinued, or, if not,
that the European Powers, who placed a Bavarian dynasty
on the Throne of Greece, will insist on such truly mon-
strous ontrages being abolished.
The City of Dublin steamboat has been placed upon
the station between Malta, the lonian Islands, and Greece,
and has proved totally unfit, in every respect, for the work,
so much so that she will now have to lay up at Malta a
second time, to make good defects, and it i 3 notorious that
not only is there a want of power in the engines, but that
the accommodation for passengers is excessively bad; in
short, just what might be expected from a coasting steamer
destined to carry pigs and their attendants. It is incom-
prehensible how those who act on behalf of the London
Post-office authorities can permit the contractors to em-
ploy such incompetent vessel. The sum paid by the
Post-effice to the steam company is eery Ilrge, and should
at least entitle the public, whose money it is, to have the
service properly and punctually performed.

SOUND MADE VISIBLE.--A most ingenious
snd valuable discovery has just been made by Mr. Soutii-
worth, of Chectham, Manchester, by means of which an
individual, although unacquainted with the art of writing,
is enabled to take down the speech even of the most rapid
speaker, and, what is yet more surprising, in such a way
as to indicate the peculiar emphasis with which it may be
delivered. As the inventor has not yet secured a patent
right, all that we are at present enabled to state is, that it
bears some analogy to photogenic drawing. It is well
known in the latter case, that when a substance properly
prepared is presented to objects illuminated by the rays of
the sun, it receives a distinct and faithful impression of
them, which is afterwards rendered permanent by suitable
chemical agents. So also the present discovery consists of
a piece of mechanism which is as susceptible of the impres-
sion of sounds as the tympanum of the ear, which impres-
sion remains permanent, and is as perfectly legible as the
clearest typography. Inventors' Magazine.
EXTRAORDINARY COURAOE.—'Tie Helvetic
contains the following narrative:—" At nightfall, on the
2d instant, two men knocked at the door of the cure of
Carignan, near Friburg, and being let in, begged for
charity. One of them, pretending to be ill, requested the
cure to give him a recommendation in writing to some
medical man who would give him advice gratis. M.
Money, the cure, consented, and went to his secretaire;
but he had scarcely written three words before he was
felled to the ground by one of the men, and lay senseless
and bleeding. At the same moment the other Made an
attack upon the female servant, the only other persOti in
the house, expecting to make an easy conquest. She,
however, made a resolute and powerful resistance, and
struggled with such success that she drove her assailant
out of the room into the passage, and continued her exer-
tions till she got him to the head of a staircase, leading
down to a cellar. Making a last desperate cffort, she
threw bins headlong to the bottom. The fellow', however,
still held his grasp, and drew her down with him, The
contest lasted sonic time longer, but the brigand at length,
severely injured by the fall, became exhausted, and rebit-
quished his hold. Etimulatcd by this success, the un-
daunted woman carefully stole up the staircase, made
her
way cautiously through an adjoining barn—avoiding two
women connected with the rubbers, one keeping watch at
the back, and the other at the front of the house—and,
without her cap and shoes, which had come off in the con-
flict, and divested of other
parts
sof
toh ecral call the garments,
neighbours,
had been torn from her person, ran
She found none but women at home. These,
however,
inspired by her courage, armed themselves with pitchforks
and other rude weapons, and hastened to the ;cure's house.
Meantime the robbers and their female associates, dis-
couraged by their defeat, had m.sde offwithout venturing
to take
of \t
aigthe, was f) them
',u nasinglealive,
The cure, who is 74
years dreadfull y wounded.
None of the assailants have been taken, but their detec-
tion. is hoped for."
MYSTERIOUS PROFESSION. "
Now, Tom "
direct
the printer of a country news.,a,,cr . . '
tions to his apprentice, " put the 'ifokreig' nilrleagderlsn'l4-itito the
galleys and lock 'ens up—let Napoleon'sie remainsas have a
larger head—distribute the army •
line and finish the British Ministers'—make n-acket'—: tht‘eke•oup a
Princess' to volt on with the Duchess of Kent' —move
the Kerry hunt' out of the chase—get your stick and
conclude ' the horrid murdet' that Joe began last' night—
wash your hands and come into dinner,
and then see that
sit the pie i. elea:ed up,

EVENING EDITION

THE MURDER OF MR. WEST:
WOOD.

Under the above head some particulars have recently
been given of the trial, conviction, and subsequent sen-
tence of transportation of a person at the Hull sessions.
who was supposed to have been concerned in the above
murder. A sort of contradiction was afterwards given,
but the matter was not at all placed in its true light.
The following particulars in connection with the subjec:
have been obtained by a correspondent from a source
that may be relied upon. It has been ascertained that
the individual in question, a few years ago, carried on
the business of a watchmaker at Kingston, and having
got into his possession a number of watches to repair, he
decamped with them, and went to London, and when
the hue and cry after him bad in some degree subsided,
he allied himself with some of the gambling fraternity,
and was part proprietor of a gaming-house in Leices-
ter-square. Soon afterwards he became acquainted
with the female who was with him at Hull, and who
passed for his wife, deserted his own wife, took up
with her, and they proceeded together to Hull,
where the fraud and felony were committed which
led to the prisoner's conviction and sentence. There
appears to be no doubt that finding himself in this
predicament, and desiring to be revenged on the woman,
who was to some extent instrumental in his conviction,
he concocted the story he did, with a view to deceive
the Magistrates, and being aware that the works of
many of the watches he had taken from Kingston were
still in the possession of the female in question, at their
joint lodging, he made use of the circumstance in sup-
port of his deception. The story of the prisoner, which
was taken down in writing at the gaol, in presence of
one of the Magistrates, was to the following effect :
He states that Mr. Westwood was in the habit of going
to bed at an early hour after the shop was shut up, and
that the woman with whom he (prisoner) lived used to
go and lisit the old gentlemen afterwards, and it was
she who first proposed the robbery, but nothing was said
about murder. It was ultimately arranged that alter
the women had gone into the house to the old man,
that he and two other men should be let into the
premises, and that they should strip them of al,
the valuable property which they contained. Ile
then went on to state that everything was ar-
ranged, and on the night on whiCh the robbery
and murder took place, that he was to have
been at the house at a certain hour to assist in
the robbery, but when he got there he fOund the
woman and a man, who is as one of the party, in the
act of putting the watches into a hag, and when they
had placed a great number in the bag it was handed to
him, and he was told to snake the hest of his way front
the place, and this, according to his statement, was all
the share he had in the transaction, and he declared
that he knew nothing of Mr. Westwood having been
murdered and robbed until after the account of the
murder was made public. lie went on to state that the
cases were immediately removed from the works of the
watches, and melted down and sold, and the proceeds
divided between the parties, and a portion of the
works of some of the watches were left in his posses-
sion, and he brought them with him to Hull, and, as
he alleged, were still in the possession of the woman at
his lodging. This was the substance of the story told
by the prisoner, and in consequence of what he said a
search was made, and the works of a number of watches
were found ; but it has been satisfactorily ascertained
that these watches never belonged to Mr. \Vestwcod,
and then: is every reason to believe that they are the
same originally stolen by the prisoner from Kingston,
and that the whole of the story told by him referring
to the murder of Mr. Westwood was trumped up by
him in the hope that he should thereby escape trans-
portation. The prisoner has since been sent to the husks
in pursuance of his sentence.

-HIGHWAY ROBBERY, WITH VlO-

LENCE, NEAR WIGAN.

A highway robbery, accompanied with considerable
violence, was committed in the neighbourhood of Wigan,
during the night of Thursday last. Mr. Coupe,
bleacher, of Haigh, after spending the evening with a
few friends, at the house of Mr. Isaac Ogden, pub.
lican, in Scholes, quitted that house between twelve
and one o'clock, to proceed to his own residence at
Haigh, distant about two miles. Mr. Coupe, though
somewhat under the :influence of liquor, was by no
means deprived of his faculties of observation or recol-
lection. While pursuing his way up Roger-lane, which
is situated between a public-house called the " Von
Blucher" and his own residence, a man suddenly
rushed upon him, and instantly knocked him down,
but by what means he could not tell. The man
then fell upon him with great force, and proceeded to
rifle his pockets, which, however, contained only a few
pence. Mr. Coupe, on recovering from the stunning
effect of the blow which had felled him, resisted the
robber, and a desperate struggle,ensued, which lasted
for sonic tote ; but at length Mr. Coupe was over-
powered, and completely deprived of sensibility by his
murderous antagonist kicking him in the most savage
manner repeatedly on the head and face. On recovering
from the state of insensibility induced by these brutal
injuries, Mr. Coupe was discovered by a man well known
in the neighbourhood tinder the cogoteen of " Sam,
who, knowing Mr. Coupe, conducted him to the " Von
Blucher," that being the nearest house. Here Mr.
Coupe discovered that his neck and face were covered,
and his shirt and clothes saturated with blood ; of
which he must have lost a considerable quantity. As
his hat had been knocked off, and lost in the struggle
with the highwayman, Mr. Coupe requested Sam to
go back to the spot and search for it. Shortly after-
wards, while Sam was absent, a knock was heard at
the door ; and this, not being at first attended to, was
repeated ; on which Mr. Coupe desired a lad, the only
individual left up in charge of the house to open the
door, supposing that Sam had returned. On the door
being opened, a man entered, taking off his hat, and
depositing it somewhere in the lobby, while he went for-
ward to the fire where Mr. Coupe was seated. One
glance at the intruder sufficed to assure Mr. Cdupe that
he again raw before him the villain with whom he had
so shortly before been engaged in deadly conflict. With
the natural feelings which such a recognition might be
expected to awaken, Mr. Coupe sprung upon the f!1-
low ; and, notwithstanding he was again assailed with
severe blows and kicks, inflictiug additional wounds, he
succeeded in keeping his hold of the ruffian, until some
of the inmates of the house, roused from their slumbers
by the noise of the conflict, came to his aid, and the
man was secured. The hat was then brought from the
lobby, and proved to be that of Mr. Coupe, the lining
having been torn out of it subsequent to the highway
robbery. The prisoner threw a handkerchief into the
re which he had had wrapped round his body ; but
this was snatched from the fire before it .vas materially
l and was identified by Mr. Coupe as his own.
A p
an was then sent for, into whose charge the
dart;
o eesedm,
ri e delivered, and by whom he was recognised
as a fneelrlo
bad character, a native of Wigan, named
sov; of
James Dolton.
The Magistrates, aver hearing the whole of the evi-
dence, committed the priscicr for trial on the charge of
highway robbery.
We are glad to hear that M. Coupe is in a satisfac-
tory state of progress towards recovery from the effects
of the injuries he received in his double conflict with
the prisoner.