The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-22 00:00:00

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

AL W. Ridley' W. Trotter, T. Shatiford, W. Orde, W.
Burrell, R. Todd, and G. Shadforth,.l3ridge North-shore,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, bottle-manufacturersf-R. Frodshara
and M. Taylor Liverpool, attornies-11. and H. James,
Union-street, liorough—J. Kirkus and R. Backhouse,
Kingston-upon-Hull, appraisers—E. Jones and W. Weller,
Charles-street, Middlesex-hospital, cabinet-makers—J. Long.
ley and H. Burtenshaw, lleniield, Sussex, carriers—R. and R.F.
M High.street, Wapping, trocers—.l. Hicks and E. Boz-
lay, lAverpool, surgeons—W. Goole and T. Wragg, Ave Maria.
lane, St. Paul's, attornies—T. Pawson and W. Ledger, Cran-
brook, Kent, corn-faCtors--J. G. and J. Powell, Monmouth,
wine-merchants—R. Ellis and W. Watt, Grenada-terrace,
Commercial-road; wine merchants—J. Ward, G. Brettle, and
W. Ward, 13elper, Derbyshire, and Wood-street, London, so
far as regards J. Ward.

Port Print sUN.

To dic DIRECTORS of the WEST INDIA DOCKS.
I beg leave to address a few lines to you hi
consequence of having perused in THE SUN News-
paper various articles, purporting to be 4c a reply
to Mr. MA R RYAT'S observations, &c. &c." Really,
Gentlemen, I think you have not acted with your
usual good sense in thus contributing this picnic
entertainment for the public. It is true that a
bow may have little vigour, though the shafts
have much venom. But what is the object you
have in view ? To prove that his observations
are quite out of time ? Why, the expiration of
the exclusive privilege before their publication,
proves this better than you can do. To shew
that he proposes nothing ? Why, the work itself
shews this. To demonstrate that the observa-
tions are at variance with -the general tenor of
the report ? Why, the report itself proves,this,
To warn the, reader that the work is without
scope or aim, but as a vehicle for disappointed
feeling ? Why, every page evinces this. Your
present proceedings, Gentlemen, are, to use a
homely expression, nuts to Mr. Marryat. He
seems to like to fish in troubled waters. His
work would have fallen nearly still-born from
the Press, if you had not so kindly and so cha-
ritably vivified it by the notice that you have taken
of it. You have performed to this bantling of Mr
Marryat's the office of a careful midwife. .It
was dying, and you have smacked and thrashed
it into life. You wished, perhaps, to expose the
Want of candour) of fair dealing, and impartiality
in Mr. Marryat. Yen seem_pot to understand the
character of Pamphleteers.. Tifey are like the
professed boxer, who, by his peculiar habits
of exercise and training, has his flesh rendered
so firm and his sinews so hardened, as to be
nearly insensible to blows, which would stun
a come ion man. Thus it is with pamphleteers.
Their feelings are so blunted, their minds are
made so obtuse by the very nature of their pro-
fession, as to be insensible to argumenit, reprouh,
or confutation. you may accuse such a one of
misrepresentation, suppression of evidence, or
any of the usual artifices of a party writer ; he
will give you the same excuse that Falstaff did
for robbing—cg 'Tie my vocation, Hal;" Be
assured Mr. M. will again attack you, and will
again exhibit himself in print. For (if I may be
allowed to quote from his favourite author)—
Pragmatic, busy, bustling, bold;
His arrogance is uncontroull'd;
And thus he makes his party good,
And grows Dictator of the wood.
People with admiration stare,
And think him a prodigious bear.
In his notable analysis of the evidence, Mr
Marryat is worse than PRUCKUSTES himself. The
latter Worthy made the body suit his iron bed,
by simply stretching the limbs if too short, or
amputating them if too long. But to make the
evidence fit his bed of justice, Mr. M. not only
stretches and dislocates the body of evidence
laid before the Committee, but with his toma-
hawk he chops off whole limbs, making them
change places with each other, putting the leg
where the arm should be, the head where the
tail should be ; and thus having completely new
modelled the structure and organization of the
whole body, he pretends to exhibit the carcase
thus mangled as the true and genuine representa-
tive of the original.
In this work, consisting of many pages and
costing ten shillings, Mr. Marryat might have
imitated the conduct of the Roman Sybil in
burning half his sheets. So far from diminish-
ing the value of those remaining, he would have
increased It, though still they would not have
been worth the cost now put upon them. At all
events the reader would have thanked him.
All this, however, is foreign to your purpose ;
let me as a friend advise you, Gentlemen, to be
content with the splendid and imperishable com-
mendations bestowed upon you in the report of
the Committee. You have higher duties to per-
form to the public than mispending your time
and attention in answering " the observations."
Continue to improve your works, to afford pro-
tection to property, to give facility and dispatch
to business, to keep your charges precise, and
clear and moderate, to secure the safe, speedy,
and ceconotnical collection of the revenue, and
you will then not only do
,justice to your pro-
prietary, but render the most important service
to the port of London, and indeed to the whole
British Empire. ,

A WEST INDIA PLANTER

PILEFERMENT.-011 Friday week, the Rev. G. IL CUT-
tois' A.M., was instituted by the Lord Bishop of Lincoln to
the Rectory-of South Willingham, in the county of Lincoln ;
patron, U. R. Heneage, Esq., of Hainton Hall.

The wife of a water-carrier of Aylesbury,
,named John Porter, was safely delivered of three
children on Tuesday evening last, who all do
soon after their birth.

On Monday last, Westbromwich and its neigh-
bourhood were visited by a snow storm, which
fell heavily for a considerable time.

HAMILTONIAN ,SYSTEM.—PUBLIC LECTURE.
grIN WEDNESDAY EVENING NEXT,
IL/ 24th instant, Mr. HAMILTON will deliver a THIRD
LECTURE in Explanation of this System, at the Crown and
Anchor, Strand, when an experimental Application of its
Powers will be made on the whole audience' in the French and
German Languages.- A Second Class of Gentlemen (adults
only) will meet on Friday evening next, 26th instant, at Half.
past Seven precisely. Terms 21. 10s. per Section of Ten Lessons,
payable in advance. Proficiency guaranteed.—Application to
Mr. Hamilton, No. 5, Adam-street, Adelphi.—Tickets, att.
mitting a Lady and Gentleman, to be had at the Bar of the
Crown and Anchor; or of Mr. Hamilton, 2s.—Private Chases
met in any part of the town on the sane terms as at his spirt-
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