The Sun.
London, England, 1812-01-23 00:00:00

POLICE.

Row•STREET.--Yesterday Daniel Johnson was
brought to the above Office, charged w;th stealing
a silver watch, dollars, and tokens, to the amount of
4L the property of Mr. Hinton, the grocer, in Ger-
rard-street, SohO.

It appeared that the prosecutor missed his watch,
and found his desk broken open, and the above
cash stolen; in consequence of which he applied
to Donaldson, the active Constable, who, after
making due inquiriei, sucpected the prisoner, who
is servant to a Gentleman in Hinton's house. Do•
naldson,.on feeling the coat pockets of the prisoner,
was convinced that he felt an instrument that had
broke op 11 the desk. The ptisoner resisted b ing
-
searched most violently, saying he was no thief ;
however, he was at length handcuffed, and Do-
naldson searched him, and found a crooked fork; on
comparing it with the marks on' the desk, it was
ascertained that it had broke it open; part of the
cash stolen was found on him, and the watch was
found under his pillow at his lodging.

The prisone'r was committed for furt-herexamination.

UNION-HALL.—Thomas Jones, John T fard, and
Diana Edwards, were brought up by Goff, charged
With robbing Ann Davies of 51.
Mrs. Davies stated, that the prisoners, who were_
strangers to her, came to her house on the 29th of
September last ; and Jones, representing himself as a
Bow-street officer, said, he was come to apprehend
her husband for a murder committed by him in
Wales upwards of twenty years ago, and forwhic?i.
a reward of tool. had been offered ; the circum-
stance, however, was only known to,himself and
another person, and if she would give him 201. he
Would preserve the secret, and save her husband.—
The prosecutrix was very much alarmed at this
charge, but said she had not 201. and asked leave
to go and consult a neighbour. This, however,
Ward prevented by guarding the door, and refusing
either, to allow .her to go out, or any one to Come
into the house, and Jones was proceeding to take an
inventory of the furniture, all of which, he said,
was forfeited. Diana Edwards, who passed as
Jones's wife; said it would be better she should give
the'2ol. as they could get LOOl. and h mg her hus-
band too if she did mirk; these, and other threats, so
much alarmed her, that she gave them 51. with
which they went away, after she had promised to
grvethem more another time, bat soon afterwards
Ward returned, insisted on seeing her husband, and
drawing a sword, flourished it at her, which alarm-
ed her so much she went into fits, in which situa-
tion she was found by_ one of the neighbours, after
Ward had again left the house. Jones came several
times afterwards for money, but she had none to
give him. She was loth to make any .complaints,
as she was fearful the story, if known, might hurt
her husband's character, who is a gardener, working
for a Gentleman in the country,' but on the first of
this month, two other persons came to her house on
a similar errand, at two o'clock in the morning, and
were taken into custody by a watchman ; this in-
duced her to make her complaint to the Magistrate,
and in consequence of the information she gave,
Gaff apprehended the prisoners in a hoiuse in George-.
Cdnit, Shoreditch.

They were all fully committed for trial, for a ca-
pital offence.

MR. FOX'S BIRTH DAY.

• [Concluded from our Paver of January 13.]

" The great genius of Mr. Fox, to have been.
efficient (says Mr. Trotter) should have reigned-
supreme in the management of public affairs. • Mr.
Pitt, under the wholesome restraints, and instruaed
by the enlightened mind of that great man, might
have conducted a subordinate: department with be-
nt fit lo his ccuntry.." We have no wish to alter
Mr. Trotter's opinion : in God's name, let him en-
j,.y his prejudices and partialities; but before the
public w e will venture to lay our estimate of the
probable consequences'which might 'have resulted
from such an atrangement at one particular pericd
of our mod-in history. We neither seek to distort
Ja&ti, nor to dedUce false.conclusions ; the circum•
stances which- predominated. at the •period to which
we allude need only to be fairly recited, and the-in-
ferences we seek to impress upon the mindi of dis-
passionate readers, will be self-evident and 6311-
clusive. .

" At that momentous era, when revolutionary
tenets, and the principles of republicanism made_ra-
pid strides in. the world, and memiccd with destruc-
tion the monarchical systems of Europe—amidst
the encouragement of innovation and the annihila-
tion of order—When good men were proscribed and
bad men triumphed—and when, in the plenitude of
.arrogance, the republic of France denationalized all
the empires arontid them—at-this awful and ct;tical
moment, the liminess and ability display d by Mr.
Pitt on every occasion, effectually stemin .d the tor-
rent which would otherwise have overw ehn3d us,

and preserved tie honour and safety of -Lis country
unimpaired by the greatest political convulsion which
• the page of his,ory has recorded. He was collected
-MO& midst of external danger, indefatigable in the
pursuit of one object, although his mind was, at the
same moment; assailed by domestic commotions,
and she virulent animosity of an unrelenting party.
The resources of his oenius; however, were ade-
quate to the crisis, and as We 'darkness thickened
around him, he appeared as the angel which rides
upon the storm, and duets its fury.' The eyes of
Europe were fixed- upon him in admiration of his-
greatness, and trembling nations confidently its-
posed iheir hopes in his bosom.
" The line of condo& which Mr. Fox pursued
vas directly opposite in its nature. The friend of
republicanism—the admirer -of the revolution—and ..,
the steady advocate of licentious liberty, he stood
forward, on' every occasion, the ready
.eulogist of
men. who acknowledged no laws, and who were
bound by no tie but that of self-aggrandisement.—
.1n the House of Commons, at the commencement
, •
tte year 1790, advertinr, to the state of France,
e observed, that the coiduot 'of the French sol-
diets, during the late commotions, tended greatly
to remove one of the objections' which he. had al-
ways entertained against standing armies. That
army; by rtfusieg toakey the dictates of the court,
had set a glorious example to all the military. of
Tcrope, and bad shown that men, by becoming
soldiers, did. not cease to -be. citizens.' The mind
revolts from the anticipation of the results, which
would have arisen from the general adoption of
a principle so well calculated to excite a spirit of
insubordina;ion among the military, and which
might have led to consequences truly alarming and
uubounded in their nature and limitation. 'The
'passions of the public were in a most combustible
.state, and a little effort would have sufficed to-set
them in action ; a similat scene might, then have
been witnessed in this country, to that which has
tiled. an indelible infamy on France; our streets
might have been inundated by the blood of their
citizens : and those ho had retired to the suburbs
avoiJ the hot rors ithin the walls of London,
night (to use an elegant expression from the book
of Mr. Trotter) in a calm day or evening hear
distinctly the chop of the guillotine.'
g- In a subsequent diScussion Mr. Fox more ex-
plicitly asserted his opinion as to the French Revo-
luiun. He did not scruple to acknowledge, that
Las whole system of external politics had been
changed by. the change of the French constitution.
He bad formerly been anxious for maintaining the
• balance of -power, but now he owned himself to be
very indifferent about it ; not because our ancient
rival and enemy might seem ton weak or too poor
to give us any immediate disturbance, but because
she had erected a government, from which neicher
insult nor injury could be dreaded by her neigh-
bours. He expressed' his approbation of that go-
vernment for its tendency to promote the happiness
of its subjeCts ; and, adverting to the dtiferent opi-
nions entertained on the subject, he avowed his ad-
miration of the. new constitution of France, as the
• most' stupendous and glorious monument which
human integrity-had erected to hotoan happiness in
-any time or country.'
• " Mr. Fox's condtra at the period to which we
are alluding was certainly direttly the reverse of what
might have been expected from an enlightened
stattsman. The deVelopement of hl3 republican.
sentiments gave, consider.ible strength to the fattions
which increased astonishingly throughout the king-
dom, and alarmed and separated from him some of
Isis most strenut.us adharents. It was at this criti-
cal juncture that Mr. Burke, struck with the asto-„.
nshing contrast afforded by the uptight and inflex-
ible patriotism of Mr. Pitt, and the wild enthusiasm
and indigested assertions of Mr. Fox, felt him-
'self imperiously called upon to desert the stand-
ard of faction, and to enlist himself into the sacred
-catise of justice and truth. Mr. FOx was sensible
of the great injury which must result to his party.
from the secession of Mr. Burke, but his obstinate
adherence to the pernicious sentiments which he
bad imbibed vs as too strong to be shaken. Notwith-
standing this tenacity was so strongly displayed at
the moment, Mr. Fox was subsequently induced to
qbalify the intemperate speeches he had so frequently
made on the subjed. We are far from accounting
'this recatratiotr asa blemish-in the charaater of Mr.
• Fox ; -we consider it rather as a distinguishing tea-
ture ; 'and our object in -introducing it is principally,
to suggest to Mr. Trotter,, as well' as, the public,•
that, as be has- written, so Mr. Fox has spoken, things
sollish he has agerwards had sufficient:. reason to
be ashamed.
" the assertion of Mr. Trotter, that Mr.. Pitt
!. failed through ignorance,' has some truth in

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When this great minister's meastires Were ndt
crowned with all the success which might Iv4ve been
justly anticipated from th.e excellence and-maturity
of his plans, the defect was indeed to be attributed
to his ignorance ; but icwas an ignorance such as is,
fortunately or unfortunately, just as Mr. Trotter
pleases, insevarable from human nature—it was an
ignorance of the designs of an over-ruling provi-
dence. Had,Mr. Pitt been allowed to turn over the

pages of futurity, and to make himself acquainted

with the secrets contained in the womb of time, he
might, in many instances, hmie altered the com-
pleicinn of his measures, and have turned to good
etie&, the ekclu4ve privilege he would have thus

enjoyed. It is, however, a very certain fda-t, that
men are disposed to judge of each other according to
the good or. ill fortune which attends them : the ta-
lents of the wisest man being apportioned only ac-
cording to the good results which may smile on his
exertions, and the folly of the weakest never ap-
'peating to the world, except when relentless fate haS
set her hand upon him. With respect to Mr. Pitt,
however, we can boldly assert, and appeal to the
history of the times for a corroboration of the sen-
timent, that such were the unexampled reiils and
difficulties of the period in which he presided, that
nothing short of his genius—a genius soaring almost
beyond the reach Of human cone4ption, in some of
its boldest flights—that nothing ahi,rt of his vigi-
lance—a vigilance, ever wakeful and ever active--
that nothing short of his firmness—a firmness never

appalled by the magnitude, nor discomposed by. the
suddenness of danger, or the shock of disaster—in
short, that Pitt, and no other than Put,.could,
at this critical moment, have effected the salvation

of the srate.
" But let us look a little into the character of
Mr. Fox—bf that consninmatesta.esman, in whom,
according to Mr. Trotter, his Majesty saw the

great shield of his country'—who gave the Foreign
Office a soul ;' and, indeed, if the inflated wilier
before us is worthy of belief, whose excellence sin--
,

passes all we can dream of perfection. Let us see
what shadows, or spots remain upon his b, which
the honest touch of truth, 'viz. the touch of Mr.
Trotter, has not removed. Let us hold the mirror
of troth up to the part zans of error, that they mty
behold their idol naked, and stripped of all the gaudy
tinsel they have so kindly folded aboUt his ch irac-
' ter. In Mr. Trotter's book, it is very true, we find
every difference of-opinion .between its author and
Mr. Fox minutely marked where the one thought
the Catholic-ought to be immediately and fully" re-
dressed, while the other entertained a different opi-
nion ; the one loved retirement, but the other place;
the one thought this a pretty passage in ./F4'neid, the
other thought the .next was preferable; all these
matters, which the reader would not give a dolt to
learn, obtain particular mention in these Memoirs'
because Mr. Trotter's consequence is thereby aug-
mented : but those public di► isions of opinion which
the principal traits in a statesman's character, a►e
all pa,“ed over in silence. It is therefore our duty,
since Mr. Trotter's delicacy (of which he has a ce►y
great share in his composition) would not allow him
to find out any blemishes in the charatier of hiS pa,
Iron, except where his patron presumed to ditfer in
opinion from the Secretary; it is our duty, me re-
peat, to unveil the deformities which appear to us on
the fame of Mr. Fox.

" His inconsistency was clearly marked by his co-
alition in the Portland administration of 1782, Ail!)
Lord,North, a man whom he had vilified with all
the epithets which personal rancour could invent or
apply; whom, to use the language of Mr. Pitt on
the occasion, because he was prevented from pro-
secuting to the satisfaction of public justice, he had
come forward to embrace as a friend. With this
very man, who, in Mr. Fox's prior opinion, ought
to have been brought to the scaffold—with ibis man
was Mr. Fox contented to share the honours and
emoluments of the state. Yet Mr. Trotter tel us,
the sapient, the consistent author of these Me-
moirs,' informs us, that any coalition between his
heaven-descended patron and Mr.' Pitt would have
been detrimental to the public service, and degrad-
in6 to Mr. Fox.'
" The violence of Mr. Fox's parliamentary con-
dal; his interference out of Parliament, to frustrate
the views of Mr. Pitt, and his revolutionary speeches
have already been alluded to : it only remains now
to advert to the indecent exultat'on be displayed on
the conclusion of the. peace of Amiens, not because
he considered it advantageous to the interests of his
own country, but as it would tend to promote the
cause of republicanism. This was the sentiment
which he openly professed to entertain, and this re-
volutionary orator was to be heard at public dinners,
loudly expressing his joy that the glory of France
was daily become-more consolidated. Yet this is
the politician whom Mr. Troller holds up as a mo-
del to all future statesmen. We begin indeed to
swiped that the approximation of the comet to our
earth, intense refleaion on his own importance, or
some other cause, hitherto unexplained, has tended
to disorganise Mr. Trotter's tnental system,' and'that
we really have been all this time poling over the
ptolualon of an unhappy-lunatic. If this be the
case, we would strongly recommend it to his at-
tendants to prevent, him from writing any more
books; for, of all madness, the biblionzania is the
most ditliult of cure'.

" The last moments of Mr. Pitt present to the

reader a snbliine and, moving pitiore—the most il-
lustrious of men, ackno,4 ledging hi..; weakness and
unworthiness before his Maker, and imi.loring
mercy at the hands of a benignant Creator. When
informed of his danger by t►is worthy friend and
preceptor, the Bishop of Lincoln,. Mr. Pitt said,--
I fear I e.ave, like too many other men, neglected
prayer too much to have any ground for hope•that
it can be efficacious on i deal li-bed'—but rising as he
spoke, and clasping his hands with the utmost fer-
vour and- devotion—' I throw myself entirely (the
last word being pronounced with a strong emphasis)
upon the mercy of God, through the merits of

* The following.tart but appropriate epigram appeared in
one of the daily prints about the time alluded to :7-
" The peace I approve of,- because 'twill advance
" The Republican cause, and the glory of•France—
"And that England has warr'd without gaining her ends,
" Is a s'ubjedt of triumph to me and my friends
What's he from whose lips such strange sentiments flow ?
A Briton or Frenchman—a friend:or a toe
Ask the waiter at Campbell's, where lately he din'd--
"Jte's a patriot, a whig, and a friend of ..
Cry your mercy I without your intelligence, waiter,
inistaken your patriot and whig for—a TItAITo it I

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JAM. nishf, or early on
the morning of :Sunday ins!, a trinner of villains
burglarioopl; entered the dwelling7honse of theilev.
Mr. Corbel; P. P. of Glannmera• and Broadfbrd.—
He was awoke, when in bed, by a number of heavy
blows, 'Aided in rapid succession, which severely
wormS.d him, as well as a Gentleman «ho had
called late and partaken of his bed. When the
Consequent terror of the moment permitted inquiry;
he was commanded to deliiereup. his money, to
which ;le feigned a seeming acquiescence, and beg-
ged to be vermitted to zrepe his way to his desk, ars
there was no light. His first search at the desk
was for a Pair of pistols, -which he usually kept
loaded, and on Ir ng ith them, he called,on
the rabbets to depart, threatening to lye among,
them ; upon which he Was immediately grappled;
when he fired, and one of the gang exclaimed that,
he -was " -Murdered." Mr. C. direaly snapped
the other pistol in the same diredion, but it mise4ed
fire, upon- which he-fereed into the parlour, got
out at one of the windows, and called fur assist-1
ance. The rubbers at the same moment _retreated
through aback window, at which it appe3rs they
entered, and unfortunately Mr. Corbet's friend, iii
his confusion, got out among them, when, we are
concerned to observe, he paid dearly for mil;-
ing in b:d company, as the villains gave him a
dreadful beating with their sticks aed b!udgeons.
A large quantity of blood remained- in the wino,
and msrked the track of their retreat, nor. could
any appearanCe of the bullet, with which the 'lista
was charged, be traced, so that the presumption re-
mains of its having been borne away in the body- of
one of the villaies. '