The Sun.
London, England, 1812-07-14 00:00:00

rrnE SUN.

'SObEk QtrlS FALSVAI ItUrttAT

LONDON,
TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1812.

BUOI•TAPARTE'S Address to his Army has reached
tovn. It is violent and bitter, and denounces the
fall of Russia.

The ,Opposition writers are so. anxious to find
fault with the measures 'of Government that they
seldom stop to investigate facts, or even to under-
stand the subject about which they take upon
themselves to declaim. One of them has ton-
trived, in a paper of this day, to. display, in a
paragraph of about twenty lines, more misrepre-
sentation and more ignorance of the subject, than
we believe were ever before condensed in so small a
space. The paragraph in question relates to a no-
tice served by the Crown Solicitors in Dublin, upon
a Mr. FITZPATRICK, calling upon him to skew
cause before the ATTORNEY GENERAL, why " a
Criminal information should not be filed against
him, for printing and publishing a false and se-,
&lions libel, entitled it a Statement of_the Penal
Laws which aggrieve the Catholics of Ireland, with
commentaries."—Upon this subject ,the. Paper in
question say s—" This is a mode of proceeding
hitherto_•unknoWn in England, and indeed almost •
withodt precedent in Ireland."--Now the (We
~
rence that prevails in the practice, respecting In-
formations in England and Ireland, is simply this,
that in England the Attorney General files his in-
formation at once, whereas in Ireland the defen-
dant
,is called upon to slim cause why it should
not be filed, and is, therefo,.e, so far in 'a
better situation than the defendant in England.
Bat the passage
,which contains the most deter-
mined misrepresentation, or the most extraordi-
nary ignorance, is the following

" There seems, indeed, to be a determineol intention to
suppress all disCussion, if a new Conit is to be instituted in
the Attorney-General's Chambers for the trial' of informa-
tions, of which he is to be both the Author and the Judge."

Is the writer of the above paragraph really
so grosSly uninformed, as to suppose that the
filing of the information is the trial of the case,
and that all further discussion is suppressed ? Does
he not know that the filing the information is only
one mode of commencing the prosecution,--that the
Defendant against whom an information has been
filed, is substantially in the same situation with
the Defendant against whom a Bill' has been
found by the Grand Jury, and that the trial takes
place afterwards in 'both cases exactly in file saw*
manner ? But then, it is said that the Irish ,l'
TORNEY -GENERAL has filed this Informfition
against the Defendant for "reprinting the Penal Sta-
tutes,"' and that " this charge is contrary to hnrhan
reason." We do nuts -.ppOse, that any of the readers
of the Pciper in question are stupid enough to
believe that the ATTORNEY GENERAL Would pro-
secute a than for. 'reprinting the Penal
.Statutes ;
but, indeed, the writer to whom we are alluding
haS given an answer to his own assertion by un-
warily printing the notice, from which it appears
that the information is not filed against the De-
fendant for reprinting the Penal Statutes, but for
printing a'statement of the Penal Laws ;which
aggrieved the. Catholics, with conmentarics.. If
the ease were not likely to undergo legal inves-
tigation, we would lay before our Readers a spe-
cimen of du: accuracy of this statement, and of the
spirit in which there Commentaries are made.

THE THEATRE.—Miss JOHNSON, from York,
last night made her first appearance in London, at
Covent Garden Theatre, in the part of Isabella, in
The Fatal Marriage: Considering the great and
peculiar excellence of Mrs. Sinnoxs in this cha-
racter,
,it seemed a bold attempt in the new candi-
date for public favour, but,--far from imputing it
to confident vanity, we are disposed to think that
Miss .10qN5ON conceived -it to be a character
which she could best perform, and thereforeyery
naturally adopted it. She is rather below the
middle stature, and ha:: What. is, •tcrined a good
stageface, without being handsome. •Her eves are
dark and '-e.qressive. Her voice is clear and
strong. Her performance was not marked by the
higher order of merit. but it was respectable, and
demonbatrated judgment a's well as feeli4ig. if ap-
plause is to. be deemed the test of merit, she had
fa!k reason to be satisfied with her 'reception, which
was. very Elo•_Tal and encouraging.• BARRYMORE
.perfo.rmeLl the part of /3,roir ricv,, YOUNG, who was
prevented from appearing by a domestic loss, and
'supported very ably; CITARLES KEATBLE'S Car-
los was an"excellent specimen of.acting. •

JAMES TATItiGAY, Esq.--This Gentleman,' who
was long conspicuous as qßarrister; and who ac
quired a considerable fortune by his talents as an
Advocate, died on. Thursday last at his
,seat at
Ashfield, Suffolk. He was a short time in V::r-
liarilent as representative 'of his native place,
Thetford; Norfolk. , Tie was rather distinguish-
ed for a bold :kind .of popular. eloquence and
acuteness, tban profound legal knowledge. Be
iv:-n very adroit in the examination of ‘Vitnesses,
and forcible in his appeals to the Jury. He had
quitted the profession -about nine years. He was
'a. very handsome. man in he zenith of Ills fame,
but had the inkfOrtune,: in early life, of losingjas
right-arm, v:hich was :torn from-him by a•raiii.—
in private lice be wfts social, lively, and good-hu-
moured. . •

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