The Sun.
London, England, 1841-07-02 00:00:00

and even worse to tell, if I would, of the people em-
ployed by the Sublime Porte.—Allgemeine Zeitung.

MALTA.
ADAIIRAL STOPFORD AND COMMODORE NAPIER.
The following importantetter, in
Robert answer
Stopford to Commodore
Napier, had been p by Sir in
Malta Times :

"Princess Charlotte, Malta, June 14.
" Dear Sir,—Although the speeches ascribed to you at Li-
verpool and Manchester have also gone the rounds of the newex-
s-
papers, I did not consider it necessary to call upon you for
planation upon points therein mentioned, which might bear the
inference of excluding me from any share in the operations on
the coast of Syria. I could not but doubt whether it was pos-
sible that an officer of long standing. with whom I had the
pleasure of serving for a considerable time upon the most
amicable footing, could have made so extraordinary a state-
ment. But, even if it had been made, no newspaper contro-
versy could ever have settled it. Time and circumstances
could alone elicit the facts. I have seen different versions of
the few words I said at the entertainment given me at Malta,
to which you refer in your letter of the 31st of May, received
on the 12th instant. As your name was mentioned you have
a right to know exactly what I did say, which was this, That,
however gladly I availed myself of your skill and intrepidity,
I trusted that the service would not have suffered if you had
not been there, having full reliance on several officers in the
squadron to execute any orders that might have been confided
to them ;' but I utterly deny having accused you of arrogating
to yourself the whole merit of the Syrian campaign.
" Your obedient servant,
" R. STOPFORD.
"P. S. Since writing the above, I have seen your letter to
me of the 31st of May in one of the public papers. I take it
for granted that you will make this equally public.
" To Commodore Sir Charles Napier."

NAVAL INTELLIGWCE.
MALTA, Juice 23.—Admiral Sir RObert Stopford trans-
ferred the command of the Mediterranean fleet on Saturday,
the 19th instant, to Rear-Admiral Sir John Ackworth Om-
manney, and left on the same afternoon for England, in her
Majesty's ship Princess Charlotte (towed as far as Gozo by the
Cyclops), in company with the Castor.
The Powerful sailed at the same time for Beyrout, and the
Talbot and Locust steamer for Palermo, where the two last-
mentioned vessels will shortly be joined by the Hecate steamer.
The City of Dublin contract steam-packet (relieved by the
Iberia) took her departure for Gibraltar and England on the
19th inst. without having been admitted to pratique, the qua-
rantine from the lonian Islands having been increased from
seven to seventeen days, in consequence of the admission of
the new Lord High Commissioner, the Hon. Stewart M'Kenzie,
into the town of Corfu to perform his quarantine in the Go-
vernment Palace, within a week of his leaving Alexandria,
where the plague was raging.
The Calcutta sailed yesterday from Syracuse to water, and
will be followed in a few days by the Cambridge, which atter
will, perhaps, before returning, visit some of the Italian ports
of the continent.
The Britannia will leave next week, also for Syracuse, to
water, and during her absence Sir John A. Ommanney's flag
will be hoisted on board the Howe, which, with all the vessels
of the fleet, will visit Naples about the sth proximo, to accele-
rate, by their imposing presence, the definitive settlement of
the long pending sulphur claims.
The Vanguard will shortly proceed to Tunis, and the Rod-
ney to Corfu.
The Prometheus may be looked for from Gibraltar, with the
mail from England of the 12th, about the 29th inst., and the
Iberia, from the lonian Islands, about the same time.

THE LATE LORD DURHAM.
" Don't you know who I am ?" was a phrase made use
of by the late lamented Earl of Durham ; but it was in
the heyday of his youth, and before his heart had been
sickened with the cares of public life, or his brow had
been pressed by a glittering coronet ; probably ambi-
tion had already taken up its position in his ardent
breast ; but, if I remember aright, it was previous to his
having acquired for himself the notorious distinction of
being " the proudest man in England."
It was during the month of September, nearly thirty
years ago, that a sportsman, with his gun and a due ac-
companiment of dogs. was descried by an old-fashioned
farmer in the midst of a field of unreaped wheat. This
was in the county of Durham, where
,most of the wheats
are raised upon cold and stiff clayey soils, so that as the
soil is naturally backward, when the seasons too prove
uncongenial, the farmers ought not to be blamed for not
getting their corn cut and out of the way before Sep-
tember comes in, in order that the sportsman should not
find himself inconvenienced when in the pursuit of
game. It so happened in the year that I refer to, that
when partridge-shooting came in, the corn crops were
out—nay, scarcely any of it had been cut ; hence there
was abundance of covert for the birds in the fields of
grain ; and notwithstanding-most of the gentlemen who
shot over the district of country more particularly al-
luded to had the good sense and the generous feeling
that prompt us to do as we would wish to be done unto,
there were exceptions, as there are to all general rules,
and a striking instance of which I will proceed to relate.

There could be no manner of use in presentint,
readers of Maga with the bona fide cognomen of the
rustic farmer who was so prominent a character in the
scene, since he is still in the land of the living, and as
hale and hearty as but few men of fourscore find them-
selves ; and therefore, without a shadow of disrespect, I
will designate him as Scrubbins. Well, then, one day—
in September, as I said before—honest Scrubbins, hear-
ing several reports of a gun, with one hand grasping the
other, andboth placed behind him, and just upon the
hole or opening that country tailors sometimes leave in
the hinder part of the breeches waistband, he slowly
took his way across two or three fields, with no very de-
fined object in view, but just to see what was going for-
ward ; for, simple soul ! he had not anticipated anything
wrong, though he had heard the report of fire arms ; as
he knew it must be some gentleman sportsman embrac-
-1
ing the rights and privileges that his birthright and a
game-certificate gave him, and gentlemen, he had
always understood, were the very last to depart from
what he, Scrubbins, call " the rule of right."
But only conceive his surprise, when, having as-
cended a low ridge that had hid from his view the ad-
joining wheat-field, his eyes informed him, in spite of his
desire that it should have been otherwise, that there was
a sportsman and two or three dogs in the very midst of
his field of wheat, not simply passing through it by way
of a short cut, which would have been grievous enough,
but actually ranging it to and fro as if it had- been a field
of turnips or potatoes ; for the gunner, it appeared, had
broken the covey, so that the birds had dropped in va-
rious parts of it, and lay so close that the dogs had to
push them up with their noses. There was no mistaking
it. Scrubbins would greatly have had any other indi-
vidual to blame rather than he who stood revealed be-
fore him, for if the truth must be told, it was none other
than his own landlord, he of whom he rented a very
profitable farm for that part of the country. Rustic and
illiterate as many farmers are (or rather used to be) most
of them have sense enough to keep an eye towards their
own interest; and we shall see how Scrubbins acquitted
himself in the peculiar difficulty he found himself in.
Affecting not to recognise the person of the intruder
(for his was a landlord that did not care to keep up any
intimate correspondence between himself and his
tenantry), he called out to him as loud as his Stentorian
lungs would allow him—" What the d-1 are you after ?
Don't you see that you and your infernal dogs are tramp-
ling down my wheat ? If you don't take yourself off,
I'll see if I can make you." The Sportsman stood
aghast : he was perfectly aware that he was upon his
own territories, and never before, I presume, had he re-
ceived such a point-blank broadside from any one whom
he considered in the light of a dependant. Conscious
probably that there might be something a little irregular
in ranging the growing corn-fields, he seemed willing to
enter into an explanation respecting the why and the
wherefore he had departed from the usual custom ; but
Scrubbins well knew that such a proceeding would not
serve his purpose ; so, rather uncourteously, he in-
formed the man "as carried the fowling-piece,"
(making use of his own words), that he would hear no-
thing he had got to say ; and if he (Scrubbins) got over
the hedge, and brought away a hedge stake with him,
why he wouldn't be answerable for consequences. This
rather provoked the ire of the doughty Squire, and
thinking it would be as well to crush his opponent's au-
dacity.before it proceeded to greater lengths, he put the
following question to the redoubtable Scrubbins—see-
ing that he had reached the hedge and had commenced
the extraction of a stout stake—" Don't you know who I
am ?" Nothing -could have been more unsatisfactory
than Scrubbins' reply, for instead of desisting from his
belligerent preparations, he answered, " I neither know
nor care, but I know one thing, whosumever you be,
you be no gentleman !"—" I am John George Lambton,
of Lambton Hall," retorted the haughty owner of this
lordly mansion, imagining that now he had " capped the
Climax," and put a stopper on Scrubbins' mouth for
ever. But not so ; he mistook hiS man,_ who indignantly
retorted—. Nay, nay, now, I know better than that,
and I like ye the war for trying to forge my landlord's
name ; for Mr. Lambton's every inch on him a gentle-
man, and
Ye, I dare say, are nought but some bit of a
proud conceited 'torney clerk, or summut quite as bad."
Any further altercation seemed clearly out of the
question; it was evident to the sportsman that this boor
did not recognise in him the person of his aristocratic
landlord; and, moreover, it was certain that of that
eumNve naturefind it; is
and laut
who
is there landlord, said Scrubbins entertained a. high opinion.
ilv an
humannearteuraem,
among the
magnatestor, where-
erof
the land that do not find it agreeable, or at least are not
willing to apply the flattering unction to their souls,
whether they may deserve it or not? But J. G. Lamb-
ton, Esq„ was neither " dolt" nor " idiot," notwith-
withstanding the "strong insinuation" in a speech of the
late Mr. Canning in the House of Commons, for which
the embryo Earl called him to eccount; he therefore
shouldered his Manton, called off his dogs, and took the
nearest cut which would enable him to quit, not only the
standing corn, but the farm of honest Scrubbins; won-
dering, I presume (but, observe, this is apocryphal),
how in the world it was _ possible for any one, residing
within the distance of our miles of Lambton Castle,
not at once intuitively or otherwise to recognise its
lordly
_.......
ownee.—Old Sporting i
Magazinefo July.

FoRUER OPI NJONSlveOFuy
his monopoly
`SIR
JAMES
GrRA-
HAM.-" Nor will it be wise to stop even at this point .
if the landowner is to g
fur the
public good, shall the East India Company and West In-
dia proprietors be suffered, for day, to retain the full
enjoyment of their exclusive privifqgFs ? Shall the con-
sumer be forced to pay an exoru!lant price for his
articular interests
tea and for his sugar, that p may
and of
be benefited, and shall the nobility gentry
these realms, the owners of the native soil, bd
e
sacrificed ? On the contrary, let us adop? alonethu
principles fro° trae ; but let us not limit their ap-
plication toof the stapled produce of our land. Let us de-
stroy the heavy duties on timber, which, at the expense
of every man building
a ship or a house in the mother
country, are, at best, a paltry premium to our colonies.;
.
an
and since we are bent on establishing, open competi-
tion with the foreign manufacturer, let us at once reduce
largely those taxes which affect both the commerce and
manufactures of our country. The course, therefore, 1*
be adopted is to consent to a revision of the Corn-laws,
to consent to a free importation with a moderate protect-
ing duty, but to force at the same time a revision of all
other monopolies, and to carry a reduction of taxes to a
a very large amount."—Corn and Currency.