The Sun.
London, England, 1824-10-26 00:00:00

PIIILLIPPE, THE COMEDIAN.

The affair of Pit t t.t.t PPL the actor has, we learn,
produced a strong and very general Impression on the Parisian
populace. " 4-has ks Prefres"—" A-bas ks C'alotins," are
tncriptions which have since then frequently appeared upon
the walls of the churches during the day, and have at night
been effaced by the police. We feat the clerical authorities
in France will go on until they will provoke more hostility than
they will be well able to combat. Their party Is distinguished
at once by its violence and its weakness ; if diey mean to fight
the battles of the Revolution over again,the policy is intelligible ;
if they do not, they sadly want both prudence and foresight, and
sound, as they do, the note of preparation. What spell of folly
could have induced the clergy to force themselves, as it were,
upon the public displeasure, b refusing to open the ckurch-
doors to the mortal remains of PitiLLITPX ? Does the profes-
sion of an actor necessarily so corrupt his life, and taint his
moral character. as to render him unfit to enter into the kind-
dem of !leaven ? If this be so, then is the Sovereign and the
Government of France guilty, beyond all nations, in holding
forth to this profession every possible encouragement--in
taking its members under their especial patronage—in main-
taining more theatres at the public expence, in Paris alone,
than is to be found in the capitals of any five kingdoms in
Europe—and these too at such easy prices of admission as to
give an entrance to the very lowest class, and courting the
crowd by every diversity, whether of dramas, melo-dramas,
opera, vaudeville, pantomime,imd petitss pieces, in which acting
can he made to furnish diversion and delight! ! How can all
this be, if the profession of an actor contains within itself the prin-
ciples of its own corruption, and ministers to its own depravity ?
If to escape from thecharge of being an accessary, you admit,—
as in truth and common justice you must,—that a man of
talents on the stage may be as kind a friend—as indulgent a fa.
ther—as faithful a subject—and as honest a man as if he followed
any other profession, or filled any other station of life, then
what insensate zeal is that which refugee to consign to the earth,
with the accustomed solemities of Christian burial, the remains
of one who, confessedly, may be as fit to enter Heaven, and as
likely—ah, more likely—to be received into it, than any one
of those who, in the venom of their priestly bigotry, would spit
upon his shroud ?--The Almighty, in his benevolence, has
endowed his creatures with various gifts, which tit them f.or
the endless diversities of their condition here below ; and
are those who devote their talents to the moral amusement o. f
mankind, and to the instructive cheerfulness of the age in
which they live—are they
to be treated, when dead, its re-
probates and outcasts? When we think on the names of
Pat
with indignation, is it because a man, when living, has
of La FoNo, of iiItIINET, can we help asking,
been an actor, that the Iligh Priest' of that religion, whose
spirit is forbearance, and whose essence is charity, are to
rush between the altar and his grave, and scuttle with
the interment of his corpse ? If the Clergy of France will,
by such an exhibition of their spirit and their character, expose
themselves to be deservedly stigmatised, the fault is their own.
They will do wisely, however, to plume before they again ven-
ture on acts via similar complexion ; or they may chance, in
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the nett exercise of their authority, to excite an outcry of
a. 4-bas pretres," which may leave them no time to count
itwrhiiteitilisrltdbae4llitaedvrme.t—illice‘irrVeceloewur grsi syle.ll,
flatter themselves--and we fear they do—that their church
stands upon a rock ; but let them remember, that they have
ortse already split the key stone of the fabric, and that it has
been by no means so cemented, within the last thirty years,
as to harden it to the endurance of a second shock.—( British
Press.)

Waws•rEah HotrsE.—The proceeds of the sale of this
princely mansion and its furniture, &c. have been greater than
was expected by the creditors, who are now receiving les.
iu
the pound, and are in expectation of a further dividend of bs.
in the course of a month or two.
WP are informed that Mr. THOMAS KNIGHT, of
Alton, Hants, has in his possession an original document under
the sign manual of King Charles the I,'irst, the purport of
which is, to ask the loan of 201. towards raising, by voluntary
means, 100,0001. for the defence of the realm, then threatened
to be invaded by the Scottish nation. The document has been
retained by Mr. Knight and his Ancestors ever since, and is in
a most perfect state of preservation.
Gravesend fair commenced yesterday. The
Magistrates have limited the time from one week to two days;
but from the arrangements made by the owner of the field
where the fair is kept, is not likely to be much attended. He
had the whole of the ground ploughed up last week. and, from
• the rain that fell on Sunday night, the mud is nearly knee
deep--a charming place for the neighbouring ladies to pro-
menade in white kid shoes I
An inhabitant of Corfu, who recently returned
to that island after an absence of thirty-eight years, found his
wife in good health, but the widow of three husbands, whom
she had successively married. This man was a mariner, who
had long resided at Spitsbergen, where he employed himself in
the whale fishery. Ilis whole fortune consists in eight thou-
sand whales' teeth, which he hopes to