The Sun.
London, England, 1840-01-10 00:00:00

THOMAS'S LIFE OF NAPOLEON.

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Holland.
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ISTORY OF NAPOLEON.
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SHOOTING ON THE MOUNTAINS.—EarIy
nextan
ex ce morningexcellent
tbreakfast,
we were on thelveb
bade-our alert,
de -aonudr havingki n
d partakenhost f
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of.
well, and started to shoot across the mountains, for Al-
trive lake. Shortly af.er leaving this hospitable roof,
and plodding our weary up one of the old Forest roads,
Hoes dog Grouse, a stout liver-coloured pointer, made
a deadr stand. He stared in astonishment, and exclaimed,
" Lord, laddie, what can that be ? It canna be a black
cock on the very road side ! but if so, we'll, get a fine
venture at him." But as the Shepherd had not much
dependence in his own straight aim, he desired me to
let loose first ; so up we walked ready for slaughter, and
had had not advanced many yards from the old road,
when up got two fine black cocks, which were soon laid
low from my gun. The report of my last barrel rose
another fine bird, and as the Poet was ready to receive
him, down he went from his right barrel. Hogg, in per-
fect extasy, roared to his dog to "clap," meaning "down,"
and turning to- me, said, " Load, man ! load, man ! in
case some mair o' thae black deevils be here ; and I will
stand ready with my other barrel till such time as you
are charged." Just as I was putting on the caps, up got
another fine bird, and down he came from the Poet's
gun, making two brace. As soon as he was again ready
for business, we moved gently forward to pick up our
birds ; but ere we advanced many paces among the
ferns, we flushed three other birds, and both of us sent
forth the contents of our four barrels ; whether they
were proof against shot or not, I cannot say, but we
killed nothing at this let-loose. We again loaded, and
were lucky in bagging all the birds, with the assistance
of honest Grouse, who was one of the best roaders of
black game I ever saw. One of the cooks was only
wing'd, and ran nearly half a mile down hill before we
found him ; but Mr. Grouse was not to be done, and
nosed him out like a good 'un.--Old Sporting Maga-
zine for December.
The interment of the late Sir Watkin Williams
will take place at the family mausoleum,
Wynn, Bart.,
at Rhuabon, near Wrexham, on Wednesday next.. It
will be attended by all the relatives of the late Baronet,
except the Right Hon. Charles Wynn, who is still
abroad. A new writ for the County of Denbigh will be
moved for on the first day of the Session.

. •
(From the Anti-Corn-law Circular.)
We publish helm one of the Most curious documents
that has appePred in the. pas es -of the Circular. The
writer sines himself Honorary Secretary to the Central
Agricultural Society ; and it will be seen that at the
conclusion of his letter he makes a proposal to the Anti-
Corn-law party for a joint crusade againit the fund-
liolder, by the Attwood plan of a depreciation of the.
Atandarde The letter has bNin read at a meeting of the
Council of the League, by whom this invitation to l'orm
co-partnership for thepluitler of the national creditor
was received. with the iodigaation, which it is cal-
culated to excite in all honourable minds. The
project aimed at is siinoly this,- to issue an unli-
mited amount. of bank notes, or in the words of the
party, to make " money cheap ;" which means that the
Government and all ether debtors shall be allowed to
pay their creditors in bits of paper, of a certain nomi-
aal value to be fired by themselves I The same thing
.vas done in France at the beginning of the -revolution.
The Governnient paid its creditors in assignats reckoned
It the full nominal value, when 500 livres of that paper
money would only buy a pound of butter ! The same
thing happened in the American revolutionary war,
when the continental money was so depreciated that a
major's year's pay would only buy a pair of boots !
'These things happened- in -tirnes of revolution, and if
over' the deterioration of the standard should occur
Here, it will be the beginning of a. worse revolution in
England..
We invoke the attention, of every capitalist and cre-
ditor in the kingdom to this daring manifesto on the.
part of the bankrupt portion of the landowners against
he rights of property. We call upon the unmori,gaged
proprietors of Eaten, Althorp„ to look to
the doctrines put s;:mth in the name of their order. We
invite Sir Robert Peel's earnest attention to the cur-
rency principles of those whom he affects to lead in
apposition to the Anti-Corn-law party. We request the
Standard„whicil designates the Anti-Corn-law agitators
" Commercial Swindlers," to find an appropriate name,

the shorter the better, for those who advocate the rob-
bery of creditors by their debtors. Lastly, we solcmnly
warn the Bishops and Clergy of the Establishment to
consider seriously the deep interest they have in the
iehemes of these clippers and coiners or the Central
Agricultural Society. Let them • recollect that the
same men who in France deluged the country with
assignats appropriated the property of the Church to the
purposes of the State.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE ANTI-CORN-LAW CIRCULAR.

SIR—In-the last number of your journal, in an articlo
headed," The Capital of the Farmers," you quote, I
presume from the Illorrri77g chronicle, the brief abitract
of my speeCh at the late dinner of the Central Agricul-
Atral Society, and in some accompanying observations
you state, " In the meantime we may remind the country
that the landowners formed themselves into an A,sso-
eiation for sending prating fellows about the country
under the name of lecturers,' but that none would go,
for two reasons ;" the first being that they could not

race a British audience to speak in defence of dear
bread ; the other, for the wan: of hinds and co-opera-
tion, as adverted to in my speech.
As it .will be very conducive to the right settlement of
the great question at issue between the Pro-Corn-law
party and the .Anti-Corn-law party, respectively repse-
sented by this Society and the League, that neither

should Mislead the public in reference to the other, I
must request the favour of you to allow me to diselaiin,
on behalf of this Society, the statements above put
forth, that it was formed " for sending prating fellows
ibout the country, and that none would‘go,"&;., there
'wing no foundation for the same either in fact or truth.
The Society was instituted, in 1835, for the protec-
tion and encouragemen't of British agriculture, at a mo-
ment when the price of wheat averaged 395. 4d. per
quarter, and the Corn-laws, without incommoding the
nanufaeturing or operative classes, were felt by the
British farmers, then bordering upon a state of uni-
versal insolvency, to be a very inadequate security
for their skill and capital. The objects of the Society,
in. general terms, may be defined •to be the removal
,f every obstruction, legislative or physical, affecting
the culture of the soil. And if you will consider at-
tentively the ultimate results contemplated by the So-
ciety, you wi►l find that, by a different, and, in my view
of the matter, a wiser course of action, they are the same
►s those proposed by the Anti•Corn•law League, namely,
cheap bread.
IFor myself, whilst I will ever resist to the uttermost,

the attempts of the free-tradi. party to sell, for a Mess
of pottage, the nablest heritage which any free people
can possess, that of groWing its own food upon its own
soil, I can safely say that miexertions for years have
been directed to the benevolent end, that -" the mouthi
of all the families of the land may be filled with food,
and their hearts with gladness." At the same time, I
have never been one of those who delude the labouring
classes, by leading them to suppose that what is popu-
larly, bu:. falsely, called cheap bread is for their ad-
vantage. During the height of the war, when the prices
of wheat averaged 112 s. per quarter and upwards, the
labouring classes were better clothed and better fed than
when prices averaged 50s. F.ncj upwards. If this, then,
be the fact, to :what are the energies of the free-trade
party and the manufacturing capitalists directed, but
just to augment the evils which they propose to remedy ?
Permit me to take this opportunity to •bring under
the consideration of the League, and the Corn-law
repealing party in general, the better policy of aiding
this Society in 'its endeavours to obtain a repeal of
those laws' which make money dear, and the Corn-
laws.neceisary. Give to the 'British farmer the free
untaxed use of our. sun and soil ; provide, by just and
sound currency Jaws, that, every man shall have good
wages, good interest, and good profits, and the cotton-
spinners will.soon find an abundant market in the Bri-
tish Islands for their surplus productions, without de
stroying, as they now seek to do, both British agricul-
ture and Continental manufacture.

I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
R. BROUN, llen. Sec.
21, Wig:more-street, Cavendish-.3quare,
Londpn, 27th Dee., 1839."