The Sun.
London, England, 1824-11-04 00:00:00

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We perceive that Messrs. Marsh,Stracey, ano
Graham, by a notice, request the public to
suspend their judgment with respect to them till
the 18th December, when they are to be ex-
amined on oath before the Commissioners. The
public will, we suspect, be inclined to think
that there are certain points in Mr. Fauntleroy's
defence which ought to be answered sooner.
These points are few in number, and admit
of an easy answer one way or the other. Is it
or is it not true that the concern was in the

ecessitous state in which he describes it to have

been, when the management of it was thrown
on him, a youth of 22? Is it true that this
originally necessitous Bank suffered afterwards
the heavy losses which he has specified ? An an-
swer to these two points, though not on oath,
while Mr. Fauntleroy is still in life to meet it,
would he extremely acceptable. If the law is
suffered to take its course, the only individual
capable of elucidating this mysterious affair will
cease to be one of the living before the 18th De.
cember. When we consider, that the other par-
ties have declared themselves entirely unacquaint-
ed with the affairs of the concern, we trust,
that for the sake of the multitude of sufferers
by this Bankruptcy, to whom the elucidation
which this man is capable of affording, may be of
essential importance, his life will be spared for a
time at least. It is proper that the business
should be sifted to the bottom, and if, without
the aid of this individual, it cannot be sifted, then
we say it is of far more importance, that the elu-
cidation which he can give should he obtained,
thau that he should pay immediately with his
penalty of the law. All we wish is,
ilfe that ti:le o step which cannot be recalled shall he
taken hastily.—The failure of another Bank
affords another melancholy proof of the injurious
effects of the Bank of England monopoly. now
long are the people to be sacrificed to a system
at variance with justice and every sound prin-
ciple of political economy !

[MORNING HERALD.)
Mr. Fuuntleroy, we observe, was advised to
complain, in his address to the Jury, of what he
culls the calumnies and misrepresentations of the
Newspapers; and the Learned Judge who tried
him is represented as having joined in the lamen-
tation. We would anxiously avoid urging a syl-
labia which should appear to affect Mr. Faunt.
leroy in the awful situation in which he now
stands; but it is due to the Press to say, that we
never remember a case of such overwhelming
interest and magnitude, in which so much for-
bearance has been ahewn. 'rids is proved by
two simple facts—one, that the most aggravating
circumstance produced upon his trial, though
well known to us, and, we dare say, to most of
our contemporaries, was never stated ;—and
the other, because it is well known, that so
far from aggravating matters against him, the
Press has been already accused of exciting a
groundless commiseration towards him. The
facts and their results are now before the world ;
and what man is there who will conscientiously
say that a syllable which has been published
upon the subject has bud the smallest influence
upon that result ? Really we do not know to
what state things are coming, or by what rules
the Press is to be guided. We suppose it will
soon be wrong to say that the SUB ShilIPS, lest
some speculator
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have
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lounce that a fleet of colliers are at sea, lest the

olders of coals should not obtain the prices they
iay be demanding ! We are inclined, and ought

to be ready to make every allowance for a man in
Mr. Fauntleroy's situation. We wish that I►e had
never had worse enemies or advisers than the
persons who conduct. the Press. But we do
protest against the Press being made the scape.
goat upon all occasions; and, above all, at its
being condemned unnecessarily by those who,
perhaps, awe to it no small sham of their
own success in fife, as well as their pre. I
sent reputation in the world, to the publicity
it has afforded them. We cannot quit this sub.

'Ore effect of throwing a gloom on the market,
from whichtit did not wholly recover, after the
absurdity of the rumour had been ascertained.—
This distrust was the natural consequence of the
too implicit manner in which the account of Bo-
livar's success was at first received ; and the
re-action of opinion that has taken place, so far
from subsiding, will probably continue, as long
as the news retains its present imperfect form.—
The report, that was circulated yesterday, to the
disadvantage of the Independent cense, stated,
that a vessel had arrived from Buenos Ayres at
Liverpool, and that letters, brought by this
conveyance, announced the defeat of General
Bolivar. One would suppose that this circuitous
route would expose the fraud, but, though the
deception was palpable, still it served the pur-
pose of enabling such persons as had speculated
with too much confidence on the previous intelli-
gence, to make a decent retreat. In the mean
time the posture of affairs in Peru was, at the
date of the latest authentic accounts, as favour-
able as the most sanguine friends of her inde-
pendence could reasonably expect. The date of
these accounts is the 30th of June, from
Truxillo, and of the 14th of July, from Guaya_
quil ; and both concur in stating, that Bolivar,
having left Cojatambo on the 17th of June,
was ip full march to attack Canterac at
Jauga. Bolivar was to reach Jauga between
the Bth and 10th of July, a circumstance
which clearly gives much weight to his re-
ported success. A strong detachment of troops,
consisting of the new reinforcements, which had
arrived from Colombia, had orders to march
against Lima. The blockading force of Guise
consisted of the Prueba, the Vijia, the Mace-
donia, and the Congress. This account, which
is taken from The Bogota Gazette, of the 29th of
August, prepares us for the event, announced in
the last new York Papers, and is a strong pre-
sumption of the truth of the statement. The
greatest uncertainty still hangs over the fate of
the Spanish line-of-battle ship the Asia; and
should she arrive on the coast of Peru it would
be probably too late to render any effectual ser
vice to the Royalists.