The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-10 00:00:00

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TlieM:ieoikti.g. front Paris are un:tre than usually
•
barran.,':;Tlie taurnturs atiieinst the uncertain con-
duct.'of-. th. l'Oinistrx, by bOth parties---the
menaces of the, iiii.O•k,Journals; and the rather
languid coati oversy
.w,hich they, and those called
'Liberal, up, is uffiles,rving of notice. The
hopes and feztrs,iefthe opoonent parties seem: to
hang, a good detiix,npon tin new Mutt tel, and
there is on 'both sulas It tone of cajolery which is
any thing but complimentary. to kilo; It. W•ould
appear that the (3 overtnnent of this COLM tr y has
fallen into ba 1 odour +.+ ith the at party. The
latter bus its eyes and hopes upon Russia. One
of its Journali q [Mies
,the foliowing erkt of
Voltait e-r-ohserving that, from.a compliment, it
hits, in process of tittle, become a trutli
" Cum!, doNuttl aejt;ea.rd:hei quo nous vientla ltimietc."
It was addressed; to Catharine, and was sea ely
exag4eraCed-'---for tier views WON: as enlightened
as ber passions We're deprtOied and eine!. At the
sarm time, s+ are quite sure that Voltaire would
have been the last I)tt'Sorl' to giving_the
Tartars stich tell ini,itntio the' n as • following, .to
come upon a mission Of civilization and discipline
into Spain, Italy, and France. " Europe," says
the OW/divine, " lies nathing to fear from an in-
va.sion of the 'T.. artars. She has need of those
Tartars." against herself. It is' to the Cos‘rAcks
that it belongs to 'dissipate. the darkness W 11k 1
surrounds us, tmiLlo convert us to reason." Front
such Propag;indis.fs of" light and- "reason, most
people would pray that &rive be. delivered,

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The singular scrape into which the Grand Jury
of Drthlin hlve plunged themselves, by appearing
to the indges and to the whole oommunity
have thrown aside that regard to facts which
would have induced them to send, the parties in+
dieted by the- Attorney-General for trial in
the ordinary course of justice, has led to their

`,adoption of a second proceeding, more novel,
though not more unaccountable, than the first.
—Through their foreman, Sir George White-
ford, they .have felt it
_incumbent on them
to deliver what is neither more nor less
than a declaration of innocence—a disavowal of
any corrupt motives in their rejection of the evi-
dence, and in their finding upon the bills ! This
is very discreditable. It Is most injurious to the
general utility of that noble institution, a Grand
Jury, that their treatment of any case submitted
to them should be such as to offend the common
sense and honest feelings of their countrymen;
and it is, we repeat, most disgraceful to men upon
their oaths that they should condescend thus to
crave mercy, in a manner, for a decision to which
they allegethat they had been determined by rea-
son and conscience only. Now, had the Dublin
Grand Jury been entirely satisfied with themselves,
we really cannot help believing that they would
have braved the disapprobation of others, and not
fallen upon the humiliating expedient of formally
assuring the Court and the public that indeed
they had not been forsworn ! We doubt whether
any jury of Englishmen would be so lost to the
sentiment of manly self-respect. The Grand
Juries of Lancashire, on a certain occasion, did
not suffer this degradation. The Jacobin French
soldiers, at the outset, of the Revolution, gave
" their honours that they would adhere to their
46 oaths." The Irish champions changed the
tense.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
It would be the pleasantest thing to the in-
quirer for truth, and the most beneficial think to
society, if a mode could be discovered by which
victory and defeat in political argument could
be decisively ascertained. At a horse race it
would be a monstrous sort of contest, which could
be terminated only by the combined power of
obstinacy in the rider, and physical energy in
the horse. The observation is of general and per.
manent application, but at present we mean to
apply it specifically. Homer celebrates the un-
daunted valour of Hector,' by comparing, him
to flies that returned to the milk-pail the
next moment after they had narrowly escaped
destruction. Shakspeare says of certain per-
sons, very troublesome beyond question, " The
time has been that when the brains were out the
man would die, and there an end ; but now they
come again with 20 mortal murders." Dr. Johnson,
to come down with our historical definition, says,
that " particular reasoners are like wool-sacks :
you kick them, but the impression is lost, and the
surface is closed as somas the foot is withdrawn."
Now for the application of this disagreeable truth.
The Editor of the English Administration pub.
fished last year a " State of the Nation." A sad
thing it was, and it had not one word of truth in
it. Yet after the fullest exposure of its folly and
falsehood, here he is again in this blessed year of
1823 as full and smooth as if he had never been
kicked. Such, however, is the pleasure of per-
forming this.unavailing operation upon the elastic
animal, that we shall repeat the amusement, and
with great vigour, if not with better,efrect, than
before.