The Sun.
London, England, 1824-01-22 00:00:00

THE LATE AFFAIR OF HONOUR.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
The Editor of a Newspaper may be diverting
by telling tales, but he should recollect he can
only be useful by telling the Tavm. This re-
mark suggests itself to us on perusing an elabo-
rate Apology or Palinode, in the Tyne Mercury
of Tuesday last (the 20th), respecting the
Tirade which appeared in that Paper the week
before, touching the affair between Mr. Lama-
TON arid Mr. PEMBERTON. It was, indeed, a
fiery effusion ; and we were certainly indebted
to a worthy Correspondent of Newcastle-upon-
Tyne for mollifying in a vefy essential degree
the impression that it otherwise must have made
respect to the insinua-
upon our Readers. With
tions in the Palinode alluded to (which we give
at length below), we can only say, they strike
us as Constituti„g very extraordinary data, under
the actual circumstances. Most probably their
correctness, or the contrary, will be made mani-
fest in the sequel :
" MR. LAMBTON AND MR. pEmBERTON.

" In a paragraph in our last paper allusion was made to a
dispute which took place at a Meeting
of the Commissioners
of the Wear. We are extremely sorry that the paragraph in
question was inserted in the Tyns Mercury, for we have
since received such information as
Proves to us and must
prove to every person, that Mr. Lambton's conduct in the
,
ail& adverted to was in every respect perfectly manly and
honourable. The rumours on which the above-mentioned
paragraph was founded, appear to have been industriously
circulated before it was possible that a knowledge of the sub-
sequent transactions could transpire. When, however, the
whole correspondence* to which the affair has given rise
shall have been perused by the public, they will feel con-
vinced, as we do at this moment, that, by the propagation
of the rumours which on Monday week were universally dis-
seminated, Mr. Lambton's character was aspersed in a man-
ner the most foul and unjustifiable—that he acted as became
a man of his rank and reputation in refraining from de-
grading h- h in a contest with a person whom he had rea-
son to b hies unworthy of the name, and therefore unde-
serving of we satisfaction of a gentleman; and that Mr.
Pemberton took an unwarrantable advantage of Mr. Lamb-
ton's proper regard for his own character, in order to avoid
the meeting which Mr. L.'s friends, as soon as Mr. L. him-
self was aware that he could meet Mr. P. without personal
dishonour, had the most ample powers to arrange with him.—
From Mr. L.'s general character, after the perusal of the do-
cuments which we subjoin, we could have had no hesitation
in declaring our opinion to be precisely what we have ex-
pressed ; but even a perfect stranger to Mr. Lambton, know-
ing the honourable character of the two gentlemen who acted
in his behalf on the occasion, could not, under such circum-
stances, believe for a moment that they would have connected
themselves with an affair dishonourable to themselves or their
principal. Even Captain Burn himself, the second of Mr.
Pemberton, has left that gentleman without the shadow of an
apology; and by declaring that lie advised Mr. Pemberton to
accept the offer conveyed to him by Mr. Lambton's second,
has completely convinced the public that the excuse of Mr. P.
was not a sound reason fur declining to appoint a meeting,
bat a quibble, under the cloak of which he might avoid it.—
Indeed, it is our sincere opinion, from the conduct of Mr.
Pemberton after lie received the provocation in the commis-
sioners' room—from the length of time which was suffer-
ed to elapse betbre the slightest intimation of a challenge
to Mr. Lambton—and from the idle publicity given to the
preparations of Mr. Pemberton's party—from the actual pro-
cession that took place to Lambton-Hall—and, more than
all the rest, from the pompous burlesque, the farcical bra_
vado, with which the challenge was announced by some of
that party or their servants to the very domestics of Mr. Lamb-
ton, that Mr. Pemberton never intended to fight at all. It gives
us the greatest possible gratification, to find that a gentleman
whose character has hitherto stood so high as that of it.
Lambton, with all who regard the independence of their coun-
try, should thus appear with unsullied honour. We repeat it
is with extreme regret that the paragraph respecting this affair
appeared in our last, and we rejoice that we have the opportu-
nity of thus doing away with the spirit and tendency of the in-
sinuations which we shall ever be the last to propagate, and,
we trust, the first to contradict, when we find that they origi-
nate in calumny and malice.—( Tyne Mercury. )
• See THE SUN of 17th instant.

It is rather singular that whenever Mr. SIVE-
WRIGHT contracts for a Lottery, a Rise in the
Funds uniformly takes place ; this has occurred
so progressively of late, that already more than
the Amount of Two whole Year's Dividends will
be cleared over and above the value at which the
Principal was fixed at the taking the Contract:
this is a most decided advantage for those who
adventure, but the Two First of the SEVEN
e 20,000 Prizes are in Sterling Money, and
these are to be attached to the First-drawn
Prizes ; these, -therefore, are entitled to Priority
in point of Interest, although it is probable, ere
the Lottery is finished, there will be very little
difference between the Value of Stock and the
Value of Money.