The Sun.
London, England, 1824-10-04 00:00:00

instead of Louis. The first part of the sentence
is true. The King no longer judges it necessary
to maintain a measure of which he was the secret
author, in order to be its public abolisher. This
juggling is too barefaced. It infuses suspicion
instead of inspiring confidence.

[NEW TIMES.]
We have received Sierra Leone Papers to the
14th of August inclusive. The Peninsula was
in a very flourishing state. The liberated
Africans and disbanded soldiers at the settle-
ment of Kent had began to cut rice for the season.
The Colony having been for some time short
of a supply, the price of that grain had
risen, and the rise was augmented by the de-
mand for supplying the Gold Coast, some of the
Sierra Leone dealers have tendered no less than
800 tons for that purpose—and yet we are week
after week told- by a Sunday Paper that free la-
bour in those countries cannot be productive ! The
trade with the interior is daily extending itself,
and opening new channels of demand for English
goods. Several Soolimas and Korankoos had
come down from a great distance, with a consider-
able quantity of gold and other produce, many of
them for the first time. Every necessary attention
was paid to them by the Colonial Government ;
and they returned loaded with the British goods
they had purchased—highly delighted with the
wonders they had seen—and fully determined to
extend their intercourse with the Colony. The
Colonial Government was exercising a most salu-
tary influence over the Chiefs in its more imme-
diate vicinity, by interposing to prevent theirquar-
rels with each other ; and to induce them to afford
a secure passage to the Soolimas and others, whet
wished to traffic between the coast and the in-
terior. The gum trade was thriving. A Company
of 100/.shareholders was formed a few years since
to carry on that commerce at St. Mary's in the
river Gambia, and from collecting a few tons in
1821, they had progressively advanced to 200
tons of that valuable article which' they had
ready for shipment, collected this season. Nu-
merous vessels were expected at Sierra Leone
from England to load timber ; and great exer-
tions were making to have their cargoes ready.
We rejoice to observe that the liberal feeling
with which the British residents at Sierra
Ln:;iie, and' the British Officers on that
Station, exerted themselves to assist the Ame-
rican Colonists at Cape Mesurado, has called
forth warm testimonials of gratitude from
our brethren on the other side of the At-
lantic. The accounts from Cape Coast by those
Papers do not come down so Into as the
battle of the 11th of July, in which the Ashan-
tees were defeated. On the 25th of that month
the brig Maria, which had been sent thither from
Sierra Leone with supplies, returned to tbe latter
place with information of her having landed
the supplies most opportunely. The Colo-
nial Government deserves much praise for its
exertions in this respect. On the 23d of July it
dispatched another vessel to Cape Coast. The
intercourse between Cape Coast and Sierra Leone
is at present, from the nature of the prevailing
winds, extremely tedious. A great and most
beneficial change is about to be effected by his
Majesty's Government in putting a steam vessel
at the disposal of his Excellency Governor Tur-
ner, the effect of which must be incalculably
useful, not only in a military or commercial point
of view, but in every mode that can be interest-
ing to humanity.

CMORNINa POST.I

The Whigs and ex-Radicals not having any
coloUrable pretext for attacking the Government,
or finding the latter so popular as to render the
expedient dangerotis tii themselves, are daily
falling foul. of each other. On Friday , last a
contemporary, of very Quixotic notions, bela-
boured its old friend and patisUii,. Mr. Alderman
WoOd, most mercilessly, because he had not, as
Sitting Justice at Guildhall en the preceding
day, endeavoured to extort a confession of guilt
from a young man who was brought before him
on a charge of felony. Although the Alderman,
like all great perionages, " never reads the news-
papers," he by some chance saw this dagger-like,
if not pointed paragraph,'audt we will in fairness
avow, very fully exposed from the Bench
its -stupidity—and the writer's ignorance. Of
three things at least he was quite
,sure :-Ist,
That the attack did not come from the, Editor of
the Paper in question ; 2dly, that the author of
it was not a lariper ; 'and
.idly, that the said
author was not. an Englishman ! After a few
more steps, the Alderman 'arrived at the conclu-
sion that he was right, and his protege and ally
wrong, in which we entirely agree. The law is
not more 'humane than wise in preventing a man
from involuntarily criminating himself. In the
effects produced on witnesses by examination
and cross-examination, it may be easily foreseen
how often a person, labouring under an accusa--
tion, whether guilty or innocent, (you'd be agi-
tated or pUzzled into the acknowledgment, of,
something self condemnatory. How 'difficult,
too', would it be to remove the impression thus
made from the minds of a Jury, and what a field.
would it open to' the Counsel for the prosecu-
tion, if they were allowed 'to argue from the
.ex,
torted admissions of a Prisoner ? In a word,
crimes of all sorts are of such a nature, that
where circumstantial or positive evidence cannot
be obtained against those charged with their
perpetration, independent of their' own confes-
sions', the prisoner is reasonably acquitted.—
Let it be shown that the present mode
Of treating accused persons is generally in-
adequate -to the attainment of justice, and
the consequent protection of the public., and
then additional means may be , considered for
securing those objects. At present, however, no
'case has 'been made out to. Warrant any experi-
ment of the sort, anti we trust this is not the
Country where a sanguinary ,civil inquisition will
ever be established kir the rnere'gratification of
procuring a greater number of convictions, and
inflicting a proportionate addition of punishment
upon individuals, and of disgrace upon the nation.

[MORNING. GRRONICL,E.I
On concluding our rerndrkg on Saturday, on
what fell from Mr. Alderman Wood at Guildhall,