The Sun.
London, England, 1824-10-09 00:00:00

[MORNING POST.]

Several of the speculations which have been ge-
nerated in Dublin by Mr. Secretary Canning's visit
to that. City are highly amusing. One of these
contemplates nothing less than the introduction
of a Bill by the Right lion. Gentleman in the
ensuing Session for the repeal of the Union—
while another, somewhat more modest, only as-
serts that he will pass a measure for holding the
Imperial Parliament every third year in the Irish
Capital ! When such momentous 'changes are
solemnly discussed among the Sage Politicians of
the Sister Country, we only wonder, they de-
scend to trouble thenvelves with subjects so tri-
vial.as the abolition of 40s. Freeholders, or the
incapacitating of persons belonging to certain As-
sociations from holding offices under. the Crown.
—We may venture, however, to assure those
wise men of the West, that Mr. Secretary
Canning is rather too profound a Statesman to
meddle with the Act of Union, which, to borrow
his hold and beautiful figura, has " bridgrld the
Cletnnel," or to advise the sittings of the Impe-
rial Legislature to be removed from Westminster
to College Green. What idea of the duties of a
British Minister must people have who can
imagine he would ever dream of dismembering
the United Kingdom, when the interest of the
whole, and every part of the whole, requires its
perfect consolidation. We are aware of no ar-
gument which could be Orged in favour of a re-
eal-cif the Uniou,•or even in favour of triennially
sumMoning the• Parliament to meet in Dublin,
which would not be equally applicable and cogent
with respect not only to Scotland, but to every se-
parate county in Great :Britain and Ireland, The
city of .York, and all 46 the parts that there aaL
jaunt lie," would doubtless be greatly bene-
fitied by sharing occasionally the Teildence and
tither:of the Court, Legialattire', IslObility, and
genkCyl, of, the -Empire but would the
United Kingdom generally be served by such sir
event ? It is indeed downright folly, and what

is still worse, a puerile dissipation of thought,
time, and probably useful exertion on the part
of the Irish, to tease themselves with hopes and
fantasies never to be realized. They are, we
trust, for their own sake, and as well for the
strength and stability of the Empire at large,
indissolubly married to this country. Let
them, therefore, avail themselves of the bless-
ings thus placed within their reach, and be
content. As soon as the internal state of Ire-
land encourages it, the visitors who will natu-
rally throng there from England, either to gratify
curiosity or obtain instruction, will amply com-
pensate for the absence of an independent Par-
liament, or any fraction of oup—and London
then fully perform the functions of a vast heart,
circulating life and activity to the remotest fibres
of the United Kingdom. As well might a sur-
geon undertake to give vitality and vigour to the
deceased limb of a patient by severing it from
the body, as a Statesman dream of benefiting
Ireland by the repeal of the Union, or the adop-
tion of any other measure which like it tended to
divorce the Sister Country from Great Britain.—
We sincerely lament that the Irish should trifle
with their own welfare so much as to spend a
moment on the idle speculations we have now,
not without reluctance, held up to contempt ;
but they ought to be warned, that nations, as well
as individuals, in seeking impossibilities, lose the
time and opportunities which, if judiciously em-
ployed, would make them prosperous and happy.

[MORNING HERALD.]
There has appeared at Paris an historical no-
tice of the city of Antwerp, which contains some
few curious particulars relative to Buonaparte.—
The author writes from personal observation. It
would seem that hostility and hatred to England
was the weak side of Buonaparte, to which his
Ministers and Courtiers applied when they
wanted any thing. They, however, did not ai-
wHys succeed, lie had extraordinary projects
respecting Antwerp, which his Ministers did not
approve. lie caused to be prepared a plan of
the Scheldt upon so large a scale, that no table
was large enough for it. Accordingly it was
placed on the floor, and the Monarch and
Minister went over it upon all-fours, venire
a Terre. The Minister wished that. Flushing,
not Antwerp, should be made the com-
mercial centre, and quoted the opinion of
Lord Chatham—not the present bearer of
that name—as to its danger to England in the
hands of the enemy—A' No," said Buonaparte,
" I will not inoculate my army with the fever.".
Thk, too, appears to have occurred before the
Walchern fever. The Minister next proposed
building a new city at Terneuse: No—Buona-
parte would have Antwerp re-animated—and the
Scheldt made navigable to seventy-fours. But,
said the Minister, consider the loss—if Belgium
were separated from France, and—What, said
Buonaparte, possessed by or in the interest of the
English ! No, no, that will never be, said the fa-
cetious Emperor, who gathered up the map at the
same time, and wrapped it like a coif over the
head of his Minister. The design was forgotten
or abandoned, and seems not to be adopted by
the present (Netherland Government) which
has neglected Antwerp for the fielder, ifelvoet-
sluys, and Flushing.

[THE TIMES.] '
We understand that some representations hive
been made to the Magistrate who committed Mr.
Fauntleroy, from a quarter deeply interested in
seeing the ends of public justice duly fulfilled by
his trial, on the culpable remissness with which
he is guarded. His present place of confinement,
unless some new order has recently been issued
on the subject, is the upper part of the house, of
the Governor of Coldbath-fields prison, where
his accommodatimis are as complete and full of
comfort as the dwelling-house of any private
gentleman. It would be invidious to d
well
on the distinction made In this respect between
Mr. Fauntleroy's case, and that of any other
prisoner charged with crimes of such deep
enormity ; the safe custody of the person
being the chief point as regards public justice,
to which importance should be attached. Mr.,
Fauntleroy, we understand, was visited a few
days ago by a gentleman who wished to confer
with him on some particulars connected with the
failure of the banking-house, of which he was a
creditor ; and who, contrary to what has been
stated, found no difficulty in gaining admittance,
to the prisoner. He was much surprised, that on
being introduced to the prisoner, so little caution
was used, that be was suffered, without requesting
it, to remain alone with him for several minutes.'
The disclostire of these facts in the manner first
stated has led to an investigation into the affair,
and stricter precautions, there is no doubt, are
now adopted. Mr. Fauntleroy is said to have
large sums of money in his possession.

[PUULIC LEDGER.]

The Paris Papers may possibly fail in their ef-
forts to turn out the present Ministry ; but they
are determined at least that their places shall not
he bedS of roses. 'They have
11 particular,already
tinflictedhat
such a castigation on Ville
lie would probably make any sacrifice, save that
of his place, to be able to recal the Ordinance for
re-establishing the Censorship. They have suc-
ceeded to the entire satisfaction of the French
Public, in fixing upon him the chief odium of
that measure ; and he, in utter despair of re-
covering his ground in that quarter, is trying,
with the aid of the English Press, to take
up a popu far position in this country. He is
therefore represented in the ".Private Correspond-
ence" as a paragon of Ministers ; whilst his mo-
tives for subtracting his Administration from the
controul of public opinion were of the most mag-
nanimous kind. lie is even described as having
acted on the occasion the part of a Curtius, and
having jumped, without the least hesitation, into
the gulph of public contempt, when he saw that,
by Immolating himself, he should advance the
iluStre of the new reign. We are told that one
of his motives for reviving this odious instrit-
,Meq, or. Misrule was, that the new Monarch
!'might. ,havo the merit of removing it. All
this is very tine, and, HO doubt, well. adapt-
ed for the meridian of London ; but it would

'not suit that of Paris, where Villele is well
known in his true character—that of a crafty
complying,. and selfish Minister.—However
we could almost pardon him for the aver-
sion he bears to a free Press, in _consequence of
the important truth it has been the means of
eliciting. It is now become an axiom, that the
French people are too far advanced in a know-
ledge of their rights, to submit patiently to any
attempt to govern them according to arbitrary
principles. The late short experiment has
only contributed to convince men of all
parties that the time is gone by when it could he
safely made. It is now admitted that a Con-
stitutional Government is an indispensible want
in France, and that to resist it would be-
tray more folly than wickedness on the part of
its Rulers. We need not point out the im-
portance of this admission ; or the influence which
the Constitutional bias of that powerful and en-
lightened nation will have in deciding the
struggle, which now rages between liberty and
despotism. This accession to the cause of good
government more than counterbalances the hos-
tility which it has to encounter from the Holy
Alliance ; and we may safely venture to predict,
that this odious confederacy will not long sur-
vive the clear manifestation of their feelings
in favour of Constitutional rule, which the
French nation has. just given. In fact, one
Member of the League (Russia) has already
evinced a disposition to back out, as her exten-
sive system of retrenchment clearly indicates ;
and her well-disposed Monarch would probably
rejoice at any opportunity which the example of
a Government, like that of France, should furnish
him with, in order to gratify the just desires of
his faithful subjects. Be this as it may, the mighty
change, which operating in the sentiments of
the French nation, is certain to have sooner or
later such an influence on those of other nations,
as In secure the ultimate triumph of good prin-
ciples. —.....1111011Mem

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
In running a careless eye over our Police Re-
ports for the last eight months only, we are
forcibly struck by the frequent instances of mis-
conduct on the part of the servants of the Police;
indeed no one class of men in the metropolis
appears more distinguished for outrages than that
especially appointed for the preservation of order.
But while we find many cases of brutality, of
scandalous abuse of authority, of detected ex-
tortion on the part of these persons, we cannot
discover that in any one instance the offender has
been removed from his post ; on the contrary,
we find Magistrates remarking on the frequent
misconduct of an officer, and suffering him to con-
tinue to exercise the power which he has per-
verted from the protection to the annoyance of
the public. To the mercy of what a number
of detected rogues and savages are the people
of this town nightly committed ! It will be
observed, that whenever a woman is treated w ith
barbarity, the excuse of the guardian of the

fur athestrmeeots.twawhen ellk.ueerl,
night
by watchmen as justifiable, and that their forlon
treatment to:v)?ttuhic(illseeattio:tio:?la jr:peyrt icfr:te at u res is regard e d
contlitiou gives a license for every specks o
brutality ; an opinion which the conduct of cer
Lain Magistrates has certainly served to strengthet
most materially. It is therefore with much satis,
faction that we observe that Mr. Markland,
Queen-square, has opposed himself to this un.
manly practice, by stating that he will do all it
his power to protect feniales from ruffianly as.
saults, without inquiring into their claims to re.
putation.
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NA MES.-" I f

you please to compare the
Roman names that seem so stately because you understand
them not, you will disdain them in respect of our meanest
names. For what is Fronk, but Beetle-browed Ccerhig but
Cuts'-eyes ; Arta:, but Pink-eyed; Codei, One-eye; "Wm,
Bottle-nose • ; Gallo, Maggot (as Suetonius interpreteth);
Silo, Ape's-nose; Anew, Crooked-artn ; Paw, Broad-foot ;
Strobe, Squint-eye ; Srrilliui, Swine-ear'd ; Capito, Jobber-
noll.; Calvus, Bald-pate; Cri.rpus, Curl-pate ; Placer's, Loll.
ears, or Flag-eared; Luba), Blabber-lip ; Seauruo, Knobbed
heel ; Vera:, Ilow-legged ; Pcde, Long-shanks ;
Hammer; Ci/o, petty Long-pate; Chile, Flap lips? Those
great names also, Fabius, Lentulu:, Cie'ero, Piro, Stole, are no
more in our tongue than Bean-man, Lentil, Chich-pease,
Peascod-man, Branch. For, as PLiziY ankh, these names
were first appropriated to them fur skill in sowing these
grains."—CA stmat.
• Or rather Nosey, a name given by the vulgar of lace to
an eminent leader of a band. .

MR. MARTIN OP • GALWAY, A BRAIimIN.—
It is a fact more curious than surprising, when it is
considered, in connexion with Mr. Martin's love of the brute
creation, that the Lion. Gentleman has latterly become a
steadfast believer in transformetion, transmigration, and me.
tetupsycliosi ! ! !—hence, we learn, has been produced his phi.
lanthropic suit of feelings with regard to the lower order of
animals. 111 r. Makin never, like vulgar people,. speaks of
death; he talks only of his metamorphosis. Nothing, we arc
persuaded, would shock the Member for Galway mote than his
merging into a water-rat, a church-mouse, or n watch-dog.
Only conceive for a moment how Mr. Martin would look were
be transformed into a huge surly mastiff, chained to a kennel.--
(bublin Star.) '
Mr. MARTIN, or Galway, upon the eve of a
former General Election, was asked, " Who were the candi.
dates likely to be .returned ?" " iVhy," said Mr. Martin,
" there are three of us. Daly, I think, is safe. The other
two are Kirwan and myself." " And which of you will be
the other successful candidate ?" said the querist. the-
survivor, to be sure," 'replied Mr. Martin.—(Dublin Free-
man's elournol.)
One night, during SlNCLAlit's* performance in
Edinburgh, a curious, incident occurred. After the crowd of
coaches at the box-doer had diminished, and left the portal
clear, an old woman from the Causeway-side,dressed in a clean
mutch, a red cloak,4na white apron, after the fashion of poor
SeOttish women on galabccasions, moved slowly and decently up,
to the box-keeper, whom it appears site took for an eider "herd
in the penny;' and thui 'addressed him—" Oh, Sir, is there ans
John Sinclair sings here ?"—" Ay, ay," Oath Cerbertis.—
" AWeel, awed, I'm glad I've fund him at last, after sic a long
tramp. But, Sir, whare's your brode? 1 dinna see% here, and
troth 1 mann put in a bawbee or a penny, foi auld acquaint-
ance-sake Wl' John ; fur ye see, Sir, I kend John langsyne,
when he was just a bit callant, rinnin' skirlin' about the doors
amanir our sin bairns Deed, Sir, I was, at John's kirsin-
Pning ." So saYing; she rummaged the " gulf profound" of a •
outhliung by her side; which resembled in shape and size Mr.
Hunter's violoncello, and was about to affivnt the box-keeper
with the offer, of a doncer, when' that worthy gruffly told her to
be gone abOut her business, and directed a police-offacer to turn
her put of 'doors. The poor woman of course exclaimed loudly
against this treatment, and said something about seeing " John
himself;" but the harsh order was rigorously enforced. How.
ever, a gentleman, who wee then entering the theatre, and
heard the whole proceeding, g interested. himself. In her Cause,
and though he could not in etiquette introduce her to the boxes,
generously made her happy by a ticket to the hiwer
(. diribsires Observer.)
By the death of the Rev. THOMAS IlonEaTa,
•
the Rectory, of St. Peter, Cornhill, in the gift of '
•
the Corporation. of the City of Loildon,ts.become
vacant. An active canvass has already corn-
menced- among the Common Councilmen by se-
veral reverend candidates. The LiviPg is 'fix.ed,
under the Fire Act, at 2001. a year.