The Sun.
London, England, 1823-07-04 00:00:00

only, without either places ot worship or flocks,
it will be the most valuable of all Churches, The
existence of a place of worship, and of folloWers,
however few, demands from the revenue of the
incumbent a deduction for his Curate's wages,
which in the other case would of course no
longer be required. It is possible, therefore, to
reconcile the love of Catholicism, in the abstract,
with the hatred of Irish Catholics, and a zeal for
the Protestant tstablishmenti with a dislike to
the increase of its members: In a few days, we
suppose, we shalt be better acquainted with the
designs of Ministers, and the cause of the lan-
guage now held by their adherents.

IMOUNING POST.]
French Papers to the 2d itst:reached tts last
night by express. They display little novelty ;
but the Monitatte contains a long Bulletin from
the Major-General. Guilleniinot, 'dated Madrid,
June 2-5, which achlt some important particulars
to the accounts previously received of the late
:Military operations at Seville and its vicinity.—
. It is now admitted that the Constitutional force
under Lopes Banos,-which had been estimated at
only 1500 men, amounted in'reality to between
3000 and 4000, well provided with artillery,
and that its movement upon Seville was combined
with one on the part of Villa Campo, who had
advanced as far as Uteria to join it, when the
approach of Bordesoult's column- compelled him
to retire to Ronda Without effecting his purpose.
It also appears that the contribution raised by
Lopez Banos froM the Seville Counter-Revolu-
tionists had not been re-captured-, as had been'as-
serted. It is now said not to' have exceeded
200,000 francs, besides shoes and clothing wanted
for the use of his troops, and did not fall into the
hands of the enemy, who wits only able to over.
take his rear guard-,. from whom 350 prisoners
were made. At the time when this took place
he was marching towards Iluebla, where he ex-
pected to embark for Cadiz. Finding himself,
[ however, closely pressed', lie is represented to
have thrown himself among the mountains, in the
direction of I3adajos, which is' occupied by,a
powerful garrison. Bordesoult's vanguard, it, was
calculated, would boon the coast opposite Cadiz
on the 23d ult., but the' siege of that place' it
practicable.; unless the Isle of Leon, defended
according to the lowest computatiOn by. §,OOO
regular constitutional troops, should have
been previouily oteapied.- Ballasterosi after
sending threelattalions to garrison Alicant, had
moved with the remainder of his army into the
kingdom of Murcia; Such are the statements
contained' in this official Bulletin, but the little.
credit , to which the assertions of the Major-
General a're entitled, is clear from the fact that
in his 13th Bulletin he bad "officially announced
" that the Constitutional treops of 'VillaCtunpaand
Lopez Banos, drown back towards' 'tondo"; having
been informed of the odions manner in which the
King had been removed' from Seville, had dis-
persed themselves, and abandoned their Gene-
rals." Now „what does' he state in this new
bulletin, and. that in less than a week after the
other, so that he' can hardly plead want of me-
mory ? Ile states that Lopez Banos, whose
army, according to his previous assurances, had
disbanded itself on the 14th June, appeared on
the 16th with, about 4,000 troops before' Seville,
carried that place by' force, and maintained him-
self there two whole dayS, notwithstanding the
propinquity of two, reach divisions ! Ile states
that Villa Carnlm, whosarmy had also " dispersed
t itthead to
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stoppedc oin
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sa
march, and
compelling it to retreat.
Ile has thus completely
peeved to the' world that truth is an ingredient
of no importance in the formation of 'ail Ultra
Bulletin, and that whatever gratifies the feelings
of the moment may be crammed into it, without
even taking the trouble of preserving an appear-
mice and still less a character of veracity.

FOR THE. SUN.

SUICIDE.

Mtt. 1 inlva-44u a►► age like the present,.
when the mind is enlarged by wisdom, and
Strengthened by experience—when gothic bar-
barism and superstitious ignorance are little
known but by name, it is devoutly to be wished
that our law books should be defccated.of every
thing that disgraces them.
Happily, on a late 'occasibn, the appeal of
death by an individual for murder is expunged,
and the verdict of a Jury, in the name of the
DING, is made definitive. , 'rhe example is mer-
ciful, and ought to be followed in cases of obvious
insani(k.,
Who can read the circumstances of a son that
shot his father, and immediately after himself, and
say that it proceeded from malice aforethought,
'or that it amomited to the black dye of deliberate
,murder? The fad, is evidence of lunacy, which,
trr the honour of modern law, founded in pure
.reason, has long been so considered.
Ease happened:. a.' few years back equally-
:sh►ocking► A tailor in the Rolls-buildings, sit-
ting with his wife and two children, took up a
ittlife, walked to his lookingilass, pulled• off
ibis neckcloth, turned round, and seized his
wife-by the chin,. cut her throat, and Men his-
'own, for which an inquest jury found him a Lu-
natic, unlike the verdict in Maddox-street, which
obliged the Coroner to order a savage burial of
'the suicide's body, when out of the reach of hu-
man punishment; savage indeed in a public street.
So horrid a sentence and execution, known only
in the darkest times, reflects shame, disdain, and
censure on the practice, and demands its aboli-
tion in times enlightened, together with the trial
by, ordeal,, or fire and water, by battler or single
combat, which are now obsolete, as a pretended
but false appeal to. the Divine Spirit, W favour
the innocent, or condemn the guilty. Such an
appeal is an insult to God,. which ignorance, more
than, brutal, cannot excuse;. and blessed be the
amending hand that corrects and destroys it.

AN 01,1) BAR.R.ISTER.

COTEOIII3OB NuutsT.—Yesterday an Inquest
was held at the Penitentiary, Millbank, before U. GE LI, EN,
Coroner, on the body of Mary Knights a convict, aged id, who
was disordered. The Ju yr being satisfied with the evidence
returned a verdict of—" Med by the vieltation of God through
the rupture of a blood vesseL'l