The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-12 00:00:00

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TO SIR JAMES GRAHAM, BAR',

LETTER 11.
SlR,—Revenons a nos nzontons. I return to the su.
ject of your Dorchester speech once more. Not satisfii,
with laying before your hearers your own opinions cocita
the subject of the people-killing Corn. laws, I find tha:3)9
you are guilty in it of one of the most extraordinaiV
perversions of Scripture on record. It is true. that y0u.,30
only circulate it, as you say, second-hand, but that is no
excuse for you. It is at least to be expected that you, lf
who set up for a " master in Israel," should have a full t
acquaintance with Scripture, and " not blindly follow a
blind guide" into the slough of deception, if not of •
falsehood. But who is this Gamalie], at whose feet yout
sit in such humble teachableness of disposition to im-
bibe Scriptural lessons in favour of monopoly for thee
landowners and starvation for the people ? Verily I
could but smile when I discovered it to be that "emi-
nent and dignified divine," as you most facetiously call
him, the arch-apostate of discord from Ireland, the
eulogist of Jezebel, the Rev. Hugh M'Neile.
will be kind, to you, Sir James, and give you a hint
not in future to pin your faith on the sleeve of such a
spiritual Will-o'-th'-Wisp as this. I do not deny that.
the gentleman in question has words at will. No no ! fro
has plenty of talk at his command; but then too often it
is all talk and only talk with him. He is at best b' s
kind of slap-dash dealer in theology, noisy as a bab".ling
brook in summer, and quite as shallow. And yet you,
forsooth, speak of him as "an eminent and dignifies-1 di-
vine." If notoriety constitutes eminence, then, i iideed,
it must be conceded that Mr. M'Neile is not only eminent,
but pre-eminent, and not only that, but pre-eminently
pre-eminent also amongst the advocates of intolerance
and the champions of bigotry. But as to the F econd
thet, "dignified," which you bestow upon him, those who'
know him, will not only smile, but laugh or-fright, at such'
an astounding misapplication of language, while those to
whom he is a stranger will be exceedingly; amused wheza
tell them that this dignified divine, as you are please:tato'
style him, is as wild, dashing, and, to use his own coun-'
try's phrase, " rollicking" looking an Irishman as has
ever been imported into this country either by sailii
vend or steam-boat. Auspice Teucro, from such amaster
you borrow the errors which you wilfully or ignorantly,
I suspect the former, attempt to palm upon the public.
But I now proceed to consider this perversion of Scrip-
ture. In laying it before your hearers you had the
unblushing audacity to assure them that it was taken'
" from that sacred fountain which contained ies;
sons of pure knowledge." Yes, sir, the divine .won
does contain lessons of pure knowledge, but what nr-ot
we say of the spirit of him who, to subserve base &lei'
secular and worldly objects, presumes to pollute anni de'
file that purity, by mixing up with ithis own,implim
readings and misinterpretations. But you shall Le con"
victed out of your own mouth. 'Here are your
as taken from the reports of the Tory papers : •
" They would remember that the most ancient com-
mercial city was the city of Tyre, described in H my Writ
as sitting like a queen upon the waters, as the crown-
ing city, whose merchants are princes' ,whose traffickers
are the honourable of the earth,' who was Ile mistress
of the world, enriched by the ships of Ophir, and dealing
in the dyed garments of Bozrah. Yet a little but striking
incident is related with respect to this city. She Was in.
the neighbourhood of a poor and app4rently powerless'
kingdom, that of Jude,a. A quarrel arose between them,
and the inhabitants of Tyre were obliged to send 'AP
Ambassador v_ad sue for peace at the hands of the lii
of Judea. and the reason assigned is, that their coin-
try wP:s nourished by the King's country.'—(Hear, hear.)'
Tile), did not grow their own corn.—(Hear, hear.)"
Now, Sir, " he who runs may read," and at onco see
through the gross delusion which you have here at-
tempted. How stands the case ? You, first of all, give
a description of what, according to the Prophets, TYre
'was in her days of magnificence and palmy glory, but,,
even in that description, showing your ignorance 01,.
Scripture, by dragging into your picture of " the city 01,..
waters" part of one of the must splendid predictions of
the coming of the Messiah. But never mind that now.-
I am not going to lose sight of your grand fallacy, b
trifling with nice criticism. You give us, I say, an
count of what Tyre was in the days of the Proph ,tt-40
who wrote six, seven, and eight hundred
.years be ibrt
Christ, and then jump to conclusions in favor ,a• 0.1
the Corn-laws from a casual mention of a fend
between her inhabitants and Herod, in the forty-
fourth year of the Christian era. Nev er 11'0
there a grosser imposition essayed upon the hr_man tin'
derstanding than this. The Tyre of the first period
spoken of was the mistress of the seas. Her navies,
which at once extended her power and ministered to
the wealth and luxury of her inhabitants, penetrated to'
every accessible region of the then known world. She,
had, too, her land traffic with the country behind her
whence she could draw supplies of corn; while Afric
Sicily, and Sardinia, then known as " the granaries 61
the world," were open to her ships, as her sails white aeo:
every sea, and her keels pressed every shore. But. she
was not such in the second epoch, in which you drill,
her forward as if still the same Tyre in the egays_:,:
Herod. A long and melancholy interval had (.4apseu,
Ages,
.pregnant with great and sad events, hr.d rolleo-
between. Her glory had departed from her ; her corn:
merce had been turned into other channels. Time and-
the sword had been at work with her. The. Babylonlar.!
and the Macedonian had pressed heavily upon her.
Tyre had been overwhelmed by the conquering erin
Nebuchadnezzar. New Tyre had only sprung °P. .
of
undergo the same fate before the matchless 19°vv.1
Alexander the Great... So that only the name of
remained, although still clung to, it may be, I%l°l
fend affection, by those who, in the time of Herod,inhabited the ruins of what now was but the
. shadow and ghost of what once was Tyre, but which
for ages had been decaying, and was still tic cay-
ing, into the fulfilment of the prediction whichspoke of a time to come, when she should be
its the
top of a rock, a place to spread nets upon"—and nothing
more—an almost deserted spot in a remote corner' of the
mighty and universal empire of Rome, while Herod him-
self, whose feud with her you weave into your sophistry,
was but a mock Prince, a phantom king, tolerated, from
motives olpolicy, by the mistress of the world. And
now, Sir, let me ask you, whether you are not utterly
ashamed of the manner in which you stated your argu-
ment to the Dorchester electors ? In your premises re-
set before them Tyre when Queen of the Seas, Whey'
every land was bridged, if I may so say, to her by Wit'
navy, and the productions of every country were .
her reach and her command. In your conclusion, 70
speak of Tyre, ruined, desolate, shorn of her comm erce
and her greatness, with a few inhabitants on a bran
rock, who, without any corn-growing land of their 070_1
were compelled to buy food from their neighbours, ~and
then you triumphantly exclaim, " They were at the ma arc)
of those neighbours, because they did not grow their own
corn." No, Sir, that was not the reason ; at all 'l,l entsf
not the only reason. They did not grow their ow n corn
in the days of the Prophets, but their commerce opened
the world to them. If the crops failed in one region °,
the earth, they could supply themselves from another. .11
one country were hostile to them ; they could approach
the markets of another. But this.state of things had
not eadured, and they were now dependent upon Herod
and his people for corn, because they had lost their trade
and commerce. The inhabitants of Tyre, &Om lording
it over the world and dictating from their ships to all
nations, had shrunk into the dwellers upon a barren
rock, with no means of sustenance, but what their fisher"
men's-nets supplied them with, with no fertile land to'
cultivate for their own support. And yet on this founda-
tion you dare to build an argument in favour of yoo.
food-monopoly, and rake up an anology between tbit
England, mistress of the ocean, and with capabilities, ih
free and fair scope were given to them, for trading with;
all the world and for importing food from every cornet. of-
the
globe. For shame, for shame, and you a would-b°
statesman ! And was it in wilfulness or ignorance, via!,.
it in your own blindness or in a contempt for the intellecy
of your hearers, that you thus exposed yourself at 1) or;
chester ? In either case you are alike inexcusable r htl"
alike deserve to be held up to public scorn and ridicul R.l
For to-day, farewell. To-morrow or next dab.-
shall have another word or two to say you.
A CLERGYMAN OF THE CHURCH or
ENGLAND.

August 10, 1841.

CHESTER REGATTA.
(From the Liverpool Times.)
On Thursday last the regatta came off at Chester, :01,
the fineness of the morning gave earnest of a delight Pl'
pastime to the lovers of aquatic sports. By previ.
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arrangements, the principal places of business were 'all
closed by noon ; and soon after the steam of our pops }la"
tion were seen wending their way to the banks of .the
Dee, on the tiptoe of expectation. Long before .the
commencement of the races, the shores of the river •iv.ete
pretty well lined with spectators, who had come for th td
enjoy the beautiful spectacle, and with it the pleas'ares of
a sunshine holiday. The fine band of the 68th v.lgiment
were on the green sward, nearly opposite Sc. John's
Church ; and on the same spot were tents and booths, of
.
various descriptions, some grotesque and whilst
others were of a higher order of rural architecture.
The Members' Plate was the most exciting of the
races, and a very splendid race it was.
.The crews in
the respective boats seemed eager for the signal to start,
and when the competitors had arranged their boats in
the manner prescribed by Mr. Green, every man gave
ear attentive for the sound of the pistol ; when the crews
all bent to their oars, and away they scudded to the-
goal. No Bagging here—all applied to the oar wit/.0
unabated zeal ; the watchword :was courage, and high
metal was never shown ; the Liverpool and Dublin rr,em
pulled manfully, and after a noble struggle, perhaps un-
exampled as to the tri▪ m of the boats and crewsits the,
Dee ; the pistol was fired over the head of the Piincess:
Royal, and awarded vi▪
ctory to the Cestrians. It was
gained by three lengths. Shouts then rent the air—
commendations were passed on the skill and prowess of
the crews—and congratulations to the victors, who now
bore away the palm.
The Dublin men conducted themselves in a manner
befitting the occasion
; they acknowledged their defeat,
and admitted the distance was enough • they endured
all cheerfully, and dined with the Cest'rian Club, at CO
Spread of the Hop Pole displa in.-the wonted the er-
fulness of the sons of' Erin. )We must not oini to
state, that the Liverpool and Chester men were train
the former by J. Kippen, of London ; the latter 1?-
Cormihes, of London ; both well-known trairrers
their beautiful art.

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THE LATE LADY MARY BRUDE NELL'
BaucE.—The mortal remains of the above lady, wh`).
died on the 26th ult. at Paris, were interred last .week
the English burial-ground in that capital, the decease d
lady's brothers, Earl Bruce and Lord Ernest :Bruce, at-
tending as chief mourners. The deceased vas second
daughter of the Marquis of Ailesbury, by his first mar
riage with the sister of Lord Berwick, and was sister (It
Earl Bruce, Lady Augusta Wentworth, Countess 1 an-
neskiold Samsoe, and Lord Ernest Bruce. In conse
quence of her Ladyship's demise the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Ailesbury intend passing some weeks at
Tottenham-park, the melancholy event precluding the
Marquis and Marchioness from receiving visitors.

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