The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-07 00:00:00

THE NEW PRESIDENT.

John Tyler, now President of the United States, was
born in the county of Charles City, Va. He is the second
son of Govt:rnor John Tyler, who died in 1815. His father
was among the roost steadfast and firm Whigs of the Revo-
lution. Ile was a fast friend of Patrick Henry, Thomas
Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, and other di-
tinguislied patriots of the day. During the greater part
of the revolutionary war he was a representative in the
General Assembly from the county of Charles City, bay-
ing for his colleague Benjamin Harrison, the father of
William Henry Harrison, who bore a conspicuous part ia
the revolution. Governor Tyler was often elected to re-
present his county without the loss of a single vote, and was
for several years Spt aksr of the House of Delegates, Judge
of the Court of Admiralty, and one of the Delegates to the
Convention for the Adoption of the Consiituti: n of the
United Starer, and was Vice-President. In 1808 he was
elected Governor of the State of Virginia. In 1810, Mr.
Madison appointed him Judge of the United States Dis-
trict of Virginia.
Few have lived or died more extensively respected or
regretted. He sacrificed an independent fortune in the
came of our liberty and independence, and was never heard
to express any other sentiment than that the sacrifice was
nothing when compared with the cad achieved. When
the Legislature of Virgiuir, then in session, were informed
of his death, they adopted unanimous resolutions of condo-
lence and regret, and adjourned to the next day, an honour
rarely paid but as a mark of the highest respect. Such
was Governor John Tyler, thu father of John Tyler, now
President of the United States. The latter was elected,
immediately after he attained the age of twenty-one, to the
House of Delegates, from his native county of Charles City,
and serves in that capacity from 1811 to 1815, when he
was elected a member of the Executive Council. In 1816
he was elected a representative in Congress, being but a
few months in advance of the age required by the Constr.
tution. In that capacity he served five years. In 1825
he was elected Governor of the State for one year. In
1826 he was re-elected by a unanimous vote. In 1827 tto
was elected to the United States Senate, and after serving
six years was re-elected.
He was one of those patriotic senators who, on the 28th
of March, 1834, voted fur and passed the memorable reso-
lution relative to the remov el of the deposits by General
Jackson, " that the President, in the late executive proceed-
ings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon
himself authority and power not conferred by the Consti-
tution and laws, but in derogation of both." _ _

Subsequently, after the infamous project of Col. Banton
to mar the journal of the Senate by the expunge, had be-
come a party measure, a jacobinical legisisture of Virginia
passed resolutions directing Mr. Tyler, in conjunction with
his col'eague, Benjamin Watkins Leigh, nit only to vote
for sach a measure, but to introduce the motion for that
pur pose. He at once resolved rather to resign his seat than
perform such an act, and immediately addressed a letter to
the Legislature in which he assigned with frankness his
reasons for declining to obey the instruction. He con-
cluded his letter with the following noble declaration,
which, as far as we know, may be considered as marking
the c'aaracter of the man:—

" I dare not touch the journal of the Senate. The Con-
stitution forbids it. In the midst of all the agitatiin cf
party, I have heretofore stood by that sacred instrument.
It is the only post of honour and a safety. Parties are
continually changing. The men of to-day give place to
the men of to-morrow ; and the idols which one set wor-
ship, the next destroy. The only object of my political
worship than be the Constitution of my country. I will
not be the instrument to overthrow it. A seat in the Senate
is sufficiently elevated to fill the measure of any man's am-
bition; and as an evidence of the sincerity of my convic-
tions that your resolutions cannot be executed without vio-
lating my oath, I resign into your hands three unexpired
years of my term. I shall carry with me into retirement
the principles which I brought with me into public life;
and by the surrender of the high station to which I was
called by the ♦oice of the people of Virginia, I shall act an
example to my children, which shall teach them to regard
as nothing place and office, when either is to be obtained,
or held, at the sacrifice of honour.

" I am, Gentlemen, your fellow-citlzen,

“JOE-1N TYLER.”

Mr. Tyler has since livel in comparative n tirement, un-
til chosen a delegate to the liarrisburgh Convention the
year before last, of which body he was an able and active
member.

A paragraph is is circulation respecting the problble do-
mestic arrangements of the President, which we have rea-
son to believe incorrect. In this it is stated that Mr. Tyler
is a widower, and that the lady of the President's house
will be his daughter-in-law, formerly Miss Cooper. The
President, as we arc informed, is not a widower, although
Mrs Tyler has been for some time in such feeble health
as to incipacitate her from doing the honours of her bus-
bmid's mansion. This duty will therefore devolve upon his
daughter, Miss Tyler, as it has done heretofore at his resi-
dence in Virginia.
General klitri,on and Mr. Tyler, were b)rn within five
miles of eac3 other, in the same county, both served in both
branches of Congress, and have always cherished a mutual
esteem and friendship for each other.—New York Paper.

CANDIA.
(From the Augsburg h Gazette.)
ATHENS, APRIL, 12.—Affairs in Crete are going on
extremely well for the Greeks ; the whole island has
risen to a man ; and the Turks confined to the town',
have not yet dared to take any measures against the in-
surgents. The insurrection—and . this is a point that it
is of importance to insist upon, as those which cannot fail
to break out before long in Thessaly and Epirus will re-
semble it in this particular—the insurrection, I repeat,
has a perfectly different character to that of the year
1821. At that period it was a war of extermination and re-
tribution, it was a struggle between religions and
people Islam against the Cross the Greek
against the Osman race. It is now no longer so—it
is now no longer the conflicting sentiments of church
and nation, but political interests that are the element and
soul of the approaching struggle. It is a wrestling be-
tween the principle of civilization, legal right, and pro-
gress implanted in the heart of the Christian populations
of the East that now commences to spring up and flourish,
arid the principle of arbitrary might and rude force that
has so long been the basis of the whole edifies. of the
Turkish State, and that still, in spite of the Illoniteur
Ottoman, in spite of the hatt'-scherifl of Gulhase,
in spite of the European frock-coats of the Turkish
diplomatists, and the bottles of champasne that
sparkle on the tables of the great of the land, forms
the last rotten fouirdscien-pile of the tottering edifice.
sVe speak with the fullest and most intonate conviction,
when we say that the second great struggle between
Gre, k and Turk that commence; in the filet year of the
fifth cecade of this our cestury, will be a struggle of prin-
ciples ; and history affords us the great and sublime les-
son, that in a conflict of moral interests it is the inwardly
stronger principle thet necessarily and infallibly prevails,
even when in the outset it may appear the weaker, and
be embodied under the weaker farm. And it is this con-
viction—a conviction of which they are more or less con-
scious—that now animates the Greeks, and that gleams
through the somewhat bombastic and high-sounding
phrases of the proclamation lately issued by the Cretans,
It is with this conviction that that they are full of confi-
dence, difficult as the circumstances around them may ap-
pear at first, in spite of the proximity of the great fleets__
in spite of the deficiency of any prominent chief—in
spite of the material want of arms and ammunition. The
first engagements will prove who is the best leader and chief,
and victory will win them muskets and sabres. In the mean-
while, the foreign diplomatists at our Court, as it would ap-
pear, ate pressing hard upon our Government with their
notes, and want to make it responsible for every succour in
men or war stores that may contrive to leave our port for
Crete. The number of the Athena of yesterday, in a very well
written article, throws more light upon this diplo-
matic pressure from tei hour, Our Ministry," it
says, " does what it can ; but even if it were to
employ the whole army in guarding the many thou-
sand miles of extended coast, it would be impossible
lor it to prevent small harks from stealing away unseen;
and by what right, we night ask, is the Ministry, or the
foreig❑ diplomacy assembled here, to prevent any Cretan,
or, generally specking, any Greek from going to help his
brother in his need, whe❑ at the time of the first Greek
insurrection so many English, French, arid Germans has-
tened openly and unrestrainedly to aid the litliene cause?
Did not a certain German Sovereign then stand first and
feremost with the noblest example ? And are the Ambas-
sadors of the Quadruple Alliance now to degrade the au-
thorities of Greece into their police inspectors in the
cause of Islam?" Such is pretty nearly the reply of the Athena
to what has transpired respecting the contents of the diplo-
matic notes above alluded to ; and although the views there
expressed may not completely stand the test before the tri-
-1 unit of diplomatic theory, they will most assuredly ro
ceive the full force of valid right before the tribunal of
public opinion, not only in Greece itsed, but everywhere
else in Christian Europe.
The strangest reports are aft ,at as to the first incite-
ment given to the Cretan insurrection. The Governor,
Mustapha Pasha, and the English Consul on the islandf,.
arc said to have attacked each other in recrimination:
jot.
the most astonishing nature in the presencet of other wet
nesses, and with the attestation on beta rides
both
documentary papers ; and it would appear that ba.li,,
otnueg''e,
good gentlemen had at first a finger in the pie,. "
naturallytur in
atteeraselhiav"ei
'thakaeTti..ery different ends to the present

WINDSOR, MAY 4.—A few (lays since it was
stated in a mornino•' paper that the Princess Royal vi-outl re-
main at the Castle for some weeks after the departure of the
Queen for the benefit of the country air; but if her Majesty
ever inttnded to leave the infant Princess at Wind-or, the in-
tention has been now abandoned, and her Ro3 al Highness will
accompany her iilustrious parents to London on 'I hursda)
Sines the arrival of the Court at the Castle on Saturdys
nutlas
the Prince has daily taken eque,trian exercise, but ha
hunted in any of the Parks, as that amusement has been con.
sidered by the medical advi,ers of his Royal Highness to be too
fatiguing for his present delicate state of health. A is ex-
pected that the Court will return to 'Windsor a few days pre_
vioo to the grand triennial celelhation of the Eton 10,riontenl.

OUTRAGE AT A CONVENT.
(Abridged from the Dublin Evening Post! of Tuesday.)
HENRY-STREET POLICE-OFFICE.—COMMITTAI, TO PRI-
SON OF THE REV. TRESIIAM DAMES GREGG FOR CONTEMPT
OF COURT, AND REFUSING YU favE BAIL. —1 estercias St an
early hour, the neighbourhood of x...l.'"rY'
street office was
crowded:, by persons of all ages and Saxe,,
the Rev. T.
D. Gregg, and two other persons, having been st7umned
for an outrage committed at the convent on Georgefall•
So early as eleven o'clock the office was thronged to the
greatest excess. The crowd in the street bad by this
time increased to an enormous extort; at least from four
to five thousand persons had assembled, and it was found
necessary to call out the assistance of the cavalry and in-
fantry police to preserve order and keep a passage in the
street. At twelve o'clock, Mr. Gregg and his tag friends
entered the office with Mr. Bowen Thompson. Dr.
Kelly shortly after entered, and took his seat on the benei:,
Mr. Curran then said, he appeared there as Cowie
On the part of the ladies and Prioress of George's.leili
Convent, against the three persons now at the bar, a ha,
were summoned for having assaulted Miss Ruth Hannah
Wiley, and for having used threatening !engorge to Mrs.
DelphiniPi:epoe, the Prioress of said Convent. It want a
well-known fact thata Convent of the Presentation Order of
Nuns had existed to George's-hill, in this coy, for the last
seventy-five years. The ladica of this house had esta-
blished arid maintained a school for tile education of
orphans and other destitute children. One of the present
complainants, Miss Wiley, was the daughter of respectable
parents, and having lost her father, who was a Prote,tant,,
she was thrown on the world, and when she came to the
age of discretion she chose to follow anotheith, as she
had a perfect right to do, bring of an age capable of
judging for herself. She having taken this c-mrse,applierl
to the ladies of the convent to he admitted into the houst,
but they told her she must have the consent of her friends
before they took het into the house. She then went away
and came again on last Ash Wednesday, when she
was admitted. The nuns did nothing in this busieess hut
accept of the young lady, as she was totally unprovidcd
for, nor did they act in any nay to provoke the ire of any
of the friends of this young girl, much less that of a perfect
stranger to the whole family of the Wily'e. On Friday even •
ing lait, Mr. Gregg, in company with Mr. Wiley. the eler
and his nephew, came to the convent between the hours
of five and six o'clock, and on that occasion Mr. Gregg
made use of the most foul and disgusting epithets against
what he was pleased to term the Popish contamination of
convents. He called the prioress a liar, at:01 made use of
other language calculated to hurt the fLelii.o ( f arty re-
spectable lady. The young, lady was forciVy dragged
from the convent, and Mr. Gregg stood looking cn aid-
ing and aLettiag the act; the people in the neighbour-
hood were Lttracted by the cries of the young woman,
and when they succeeded in getting her trom the hands
of Wily, the y,:tmger, Mr. Gregg called the house
an idolatrous mass-house, and said it was a den of prosti-
tution, and that the inmates were all a sit of , and

that all who entcied it would Le damned to ['ell. Ho
(Mr. Curran) had another charge against him for libel,
which he would bring forward in another place, but for the
present he would content himself by reading a document
published by 3,1 r., Gregg. . _

• Mr. Gre-Jg—l uckiM-vtledge this document.
lir. Kelly—Mr. Curran, do you intend to give this do-
cument in evidence? Mr. Curran—Yes. Mr. Gregg
admits it.

Mr. Gregg—l do admit it to be mine.
Mr. Curran then read the document, which was printed
in the shape of a letter, and referred to the case in questi ,n.
Mss Ruth Hannah Wily, examined by Mr. Curran—l
am fifteen years of age; my father is dead; I applied to
get into the convent last Ash Wednesday ; the reason I
made that application was my religion ; they rece.wd me
after a gi eat deal to do ; I c,llcd three times before I was
taken in ; they made inquiries about me; I remained there
since last Ash Wednesday ; all my ft lends hid access to
me, and I to them ; I went in and out as I pleased ; I
went to see my mother twice; no one was prevented to
see me ; my mother was not satisfied at first, but when she
saw I was inclined for it she agreed to it; she had acces
to me, and I to her; saw my brother in the convent last
Friday evening ; he asked me different questions ; he
asked did I know those around me, and was I not ashamed
of myself ? he then told me I must go home ; I said I
would not ; Le pulled me out, and I caught hold of the
rails in the Itreet, and refused to go ; he forced rue into the
street against my will ; I cried out, then ; I saw Mr.
Gregg and my uncle in the street; my uncle said, " Are
you nut a nice lady ?" My brother said, " Look to the
time they to,k to strip her of her damnable ;" when
I was going back, atter they let me go in, Gregg said,
" You are going back to hell, and you will be damned;" I
said I am at liberty to go where I please, and I do not
wish to go home.

Mr. Gregg—Did you imagine any bodily fear from Nne ?
Witness—l know nothing at all about you.
Mr. Richard M'Ardle examined--Was present on Fr:-
eay evening ; saw a tall young man dragging a girl out,
and another girl told me not to let the girl go ; Gregg
was in the crowd, and told the girl not to go back, as her
soul would be damned, and that the priests n ere mis-
sionaries from the devil: the young lady rJused to go with
the young man, and I asked her three times was she satis-
fied to go ? she said she was not, and I then interfered,
and said the girl should not go with her brother ; Gregg
then went off for a car; I took the girl IrQm the young
man, and she ran back into the convent ; the two Wilys
'then went off, and I saw no more about it.

Mr. Gregg then proceeded to address the Bench. He
said it was to be presumed that he was incapable of using
so foul language as that attributed to him, He did nut ke-
lieve the inmates of the house were what was sta•cd. He
spoke against theat as a strorg-hold of superstitie n• and
idolatry, and this be had a right to de, as he belit,ved con-
vents to be dens of superstition, and he, as a clergyman,
sworn to uphold the Books of Homilies, which he held in
his hand (here he exhibited a large volume).
Dr. Kelly—We must restrain you altogether, as you
have gone out of the question.
Mr. Gregg—l am a marked man, and this is an unfair
attempt to put me—a public character as I am—to nut me
down by a trumpery charge got up against rne. He then
went on with his statement for a short time, 4r hien being
quite irrelevant to the point,
Dr. Kelly told him he could not go on in this way, es
his statement was not to be confirmed by evidence.
Mr. Curran—Let him go on—l have no objection ; it
will prove our case the better.
Dr. Kelly, after consulting some time with his brother
Magistrates, proceeded to deliver judgment. He said_
Mr. Gregg, Thomas T. Wily, and William Wily, the Bunch
have considered this case fully and most anxiously, and
they have come to a unanimous conclusion on it. The
unanimous opinion of the Bench was, that each of the
three persons now at the bar should enter into his own re-
cognizance in the sum of 201., to keep the peace to all
her Majesty's subject!.
Mr. Gregg turned round to the Bench, and said in a
most furious voice, and throwing himself into a menacing
attitude—" I'll enter into no recognizance."
Dr. Kelly—Then, Mr. Gregg, you will be c3mmitte3
to prison,
Mr. Gregg—l don't care; lead me to prison—to death.
This decision has been come to by that t pointing to Mr.
Daffy) idolatrous Magistrate on the Bench I !
A scene of the greatest confusion here ensued. Se-
veral persons rushed forward, and it was feared for some
time that violent hands would be laid on his Reverence.
The uproar eas continued for several minutes, and was
quite of an indescribable character. Mr. Gregg's friends
endeavoured to take him out, but he refused to go, end
collared several of them. He wound his arms in a most
furious manner, shouting out " lam condemned by that
idolatrous Megistrate—that idolatrous Magistrate I !!"
After ..ome tine, order being partially restored, and the
office, by great exertions of the police being partly cleared,
Dr. Kelly and Mr. Studdart re-quested Mr. Duffy to
lodge info, mations against Mr. Gregg, which Mr. Duffy
accordingly did, and swore them before his brother Ma-
gistrates, d hen they required Mr. Gregg to enter into his
own recognizances in a sum of 100/. to keep the peace.
After an hour of the gretve:4 excitement, during which
period the friends of Mr. Gregg endeavoured to make
him sign a bail-bond, but he refused to doso, and at length,
Dr. Kelly told him he stood committed for contempt of
Court, till the next quarter sessions of the peace for the
City of Dublin ; and also for one week, for refusing to
enter into security on the first charge.
Mr. Gregg was sent out by the back entrance to the
office, under a strong escort of police. A carriage was
in waiting for him there, and he was at once sent off' to
Richmond Bridee ell.

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and will
in 1-hftheaesne Padequate life of
CAMPBELL'S LIFE OF PETRARCH.---rt is
so rare a thing to meet with a real poet who can t
.t,
descend to the dry duties of a biographer, without punt:
i.:
off his ckaracter of a bard, that Mr. Thomas Campi.;e„
so happily effecting this in his " Life o
put forth new claims upon that popular •:
fav'uris a strip'.
so eminently enjoyed before. This rew
""esearch w it's
la•ly happy union of the most elaborster:
f Petrarwehichhialas
arose eei of style
that warmth of poetic feeling, and
of a pot t.
which are only to be looked for,
ow bei regarded as
The want that has 50 long been felt
so
i.; to be perforir e 4
the most popular of Italian
A fortunate one, since it has, ltf: the jiving, the LCA (1111;j.
by the writer who was,
of
all
men
is one that will immedi-
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pass into universri
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visit t.,, t vetting, an were
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attended. The that piece, Lost and Won, from the pro-
lific pen of Mark Lemon, is one of the best-written and
aunt interesting pieces we have seen for some time, and
was excellently acted by Messrs. Baker, Parry, Brorikes,
Halford, and Mi,s Fortescue. In the burlesque, GiPso
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powers in this style i)f acting, and we advise our friends
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BUCKINGIIAM'S AMERICA.—This work will
appear, %re unden,tatal, in a few days, and at the present
moment it will be very well timed ; for besides the gene-
ral it formation likely to be found in it acceptable to read-
ers of all classes, the following topics will, we under-
ctand, receive some elucidation from its contents; namely,
For the Politician—the working of the system of Universal
SufftHge, Short Parliaments. and Vote by Ballot. For
tic Fiiianeier—the State of the Currency, Stocks, Banks,
&c , &c. For tie Merchant 'and Manufacterer—the
questions of the Tariff, Protecting Duties, and the Eff,et
of the Corn-laws. And fur the Chre'uman and Digient-
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ta7v System..
It appeals from the Bombay Times of . March
3lst th,t Colonel liaurogardt, of H. M. 2d Royals, lio3-been
appo4ited cor.ozandant of the garrisoult Bombicf, .
.