The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-04 00:00:00

[MORNING POST.]

Frankfort Papers to' the 29th ult. have ar-
rived. Their contents are of some interest ; tispe-
at far -as they relate to the distresses of
the Tiirkish teet, and the fate of the Sultan's'
late favourite, llaleb-Elfentli, whose head is
said to have been planted on the walls of the
Seraglio. This intelligence was brought to
Odessa by the Captains of several merchant
ships,that kft Constantinople on the 2841 of
November. They stated that the Turkish capital
was comparatively tranquil at that period, al.'
though the destruction of part of the fleet,
and the escape of only sixteen large, vessels
into the sea of Monitore were known. The
Sultan had given immediate orders to decapitate.
all the superior °Hirers on board those vessels',
and on the esth their heads hod arrived, to-
gether with those of lialeb-Etiestdi, the late
Grind Vizier, the Director of Customs, the
Capitun.fley, anti others.Aaleb-Etfendi's two
bankers, the one a Jew akt the other a Greek,
had bean sent• to the prison of the Dostangi
I.lasciti,' to be put to the torture, in order to
obtain from them an account of their mas-
ter's treasures. The triumph of the Janissaries
wits therefore complete, and the only thing which
was supposed to have the life of the Grand
Seignior (for the son itice of his friends would not
have been sufficieni) %t a, the tkiicate health' of
his son :.for a superstitious belief prevailed that
the Ottoman Empire would perish when a suc-
cessor to the `prone should fail in the Impede)
line.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
ft is so well known to all persons capable of
the least reflection in this country, that the
Spanish'. Revolution has hitherto 'been distin-
guished ht.y9ed every other for mildness and for-
bearande, and that the charges of cruelty and
ferocity which have been so liberally brought
against those who have taken a part in it, origi-
nate in fraud and falseltoOd, and are repeated
only by persons w
hotie not believe in their
truth that it may almost be deemed a work of
supererogation, to offer any argument on such a
subject. Besides, were Spain and Portugal the
theatre '6l every possible enormity, the prin-
eiple for ,which we contend would not the
less hold' good, that so long as no injury is
offered 'to any foreign power, there exists no
ground for interference, A cause, for war can
never he wanting, as is well observed by the
eloquent author of the article on.Pattitionq iii the
Edinbutlgh Review, if the badness of a Con-
stitution or internal dissections be deemed a jus-
tification of interference with, the domestic Con-
cerns of a country. The Governments of Aus-
tria, Prussia, and Russia, cart receivethe appro-
bation of no ratioual being, Umpire a disgrace
to this part of the world ; but we are not enti-
tled to go'te the Emperor,. Alexander, for in-
stance, and tell him that Ills military autocracy
ought to give way tp,ahetter species of govern-
ment,—that it enppses a State to frequent con-
vulsions,---that, It makes the soldiery the judges
of the Rule? and the scourges of the people,—
and that, by the examples of dethronement and
assassination of Sovereigns which it perpetually.

holds out, it loosens the security of the Mo-
narchs of better constituted States.

[HORN! NG HERALD.]

The most interesting purl of the American
Message is the President's view of the State of
Europe. Intelligence from such a quarter would
come rather too late ' • but the coup &ail of a
peculiarly situated, though distant, Government,
communicated on so solemn an occasion, is not
without its value, for those who are near or even
within the scene. The President- regrets, in a
tone of respectful moderation towards Spain,
her persisting in a dispute with her late
Colonies, cc so unavailing, and at the same
time so destructive." He next passes to
the Greeks, whose struggle for liberty wakes
all his historic recollections, classic sympathies,
and enthusiasm for the antique. We remember a
report generally prevalent some months since
throughout Europe—that is, through the Journals
of Europe—.that the American Government was
'negociating with the Provisional Government of
Greece for the possession of a maritime station in
the Nlediterranean;—for a consideration the most
likely to be accepted in that as in most other
cases—the advance of a round sum.—The obser-
vations upon the transactions which have taken
place in the Peninsula of Spain, and Portugal,
and their extrinsic bearings, are marked by just-
ness, ITlOdeXatioll, and a tone of truth, which
blind bigotry—or, what is still worse, the bare-
faced hypc-risy of the day alone will deny.

[BRITISH' PRESS.] •
The Report of the Norfolk County Meeting,
which we have employed our best efforts to pro-
cure in time for this day's publication, will be
read with considerable interest. Cobbett's Petition
for reducing the national debt,and for suspending
for the space of one year all distress for rent or
tithes, was carried by a considerable majority.—
We regret to say) that Mr. Wodehouse, by his
exaggerated statement of the injurious, effects of
Mr. Peal's Bill, contributed to mislead the peo.
ple, and to produce this discreditable result.—
The change in the value of the currency has not
produced the agricultural distress which we all
deplore, and which such proceedings as those
which occurred at the Norfolk Meeting cannot
tend to remove. When Mr. Wodehouse, the
Member for the County, came forward as
the advocate of the absurdities which Cobbett
has beeti so long industriously labouring to dif-
fufe, it is less to be wondered at, but not less
to be .regretted, that his Petition for n hole-
sale robbery and confiscation should have been
carried.

GOVERNORSHIP ,or THE HOUSE OF COR,REC-
T lON.—At the Meeting of Magistrates on Thurs-
day, the claims of the several Candidates for
the situation of the late Mr. ATKINs, in the
House of Correction, were inquired into. The
applications were numerous beyond all precedent,
in consequence of a letter which appear(' in the
Papers some days ago, de,icribing the appoint-
mut as peculiarly eligible for Officers on .Half-
pay ; there was a strong muoter of this class of
Candidates 1---2 Post Captains, 3 Commanders,
1 Lieut.-Colonel of the Army, and Subalterns out
of number. An old Post Capt. who commanded
a 74 for several years, having stated that he was
married, was asked, if ho thought his wife qua-
lified to attend to the female department of the
Prison. lle immediately drew.himseif up %Oak a
:otitemptuous air, and marched out of the room.
A 'Lieutenant of the Navy said, that he had been
for some months paying his addresses to the
daughter of the gaoler at Bury ; and (rein his
constant visits to the prison during his courtship,
and the facility he had of getting infdrmation on
prison, discipline, he thought he had a well-
grounded 'claim.----(3forning Post.)

Tiu ADVENTURES OP A CAT.--A TRUE STOLL y.
—Two elderly ladies, who for many years re-
sided in Leeds, had a favourite cat which was
brou&ht up by them from a kitten. One of the
ladies dying in September last, the other shortly
after shut up her house at Leeds, and came to re-
side at Cowley, in the parish of Ccclestield,
about six miles from this town. She brought the
cat with her in a small hamper, which was placed
under the seat of the carriage. The cat remained
at her new residence very quietly for nearly two
months, when a servant one day beat her for some
fault.- On, this affront she ran away, and in a few
days afterwards was seen at Leeds, by a neigh-
bour, sitting and watching at the kitchen door of
the house ;ately occupied lv her mistress. There
she remained three days without intermission.—
On the evening of the third day she came into
the neighboui',. house, who fed her ,and left her
in the kitchen all night. There the servant
found her the following morning, but on opening
the kitchen door the cat ran out, and in a few
days afterwards returned to her mistress's habi-
tation in a most deplorable state, being almost
reduced to a skeleton, and so feeble for several
days that she could scarcely take any food. One
eye appeared much inflamed, as if from cold,
and since then she has utterly lost the sight of
it. She is now living, and evinces her attach-
ment to her mistress by sitting daily at her side.
The cat wait absent about ten days. The' dis-
tance from Cowley to Leeds, through Barnsley
and Wakefield, is twenty-eight miles.—(Sheifield
Iris.)

House ROBBERY.—During the absence of Capt.
SMI Tit from home in Artillery-place, Sloane-
street, on Thursday night, a villain obtained ad-
mittance in consequence of the maid servant sup-
posing that it was her master who had knocked
at the door, and succeeded in robbing the parlour
of various articles to a very considerable amount.

SUICIDE.—A Coroner's Inquest was yesterday
held in kVhitechapel-road, on the body of Capt.
Roacwr LAwsoN, who, in a state of mental dis-
order, eut his throat, first with a pen-knife and
afterwards with a razor.—Verdict," Insanity."
A sea-gull was on Thursday seen about mid-
day skimming for some time the surface of the
Thames at Waterloo Bridge. This, according
to seamen, may be considered as a token of very
stormy weather.

FOR THE SUN.

GRAMMATICAL ERROR.

Mtl EDITOII,—JOHN hi his last Num.
bet, has the following paragraph; and as he
prides himself on his critical correctness andiaste,
I subjoin 'a grammatical illustration for the im-
provement of himself and of readers in general.
PRI6C IA N, Jun.

" WE had intended to have resumed, in this number, our
notice of the outrage committed in the Dublin Theatre last
week, and -it would have been our effort to have explained, to
the best a our ability, the precise meaning of the word CON-
CILIATION,' in its general acceptation, touching the Irish
Roman Catholics, and, if possible, to have kined the extent
and liming of- the gracious command left by HIS MAJESTY,
on his departure from the sister kingdom." (Joint BULL.)

There is nothing more common in discourse,
and even in studied written diction, than an im-
proper use of the past tense of the Infinitive
Mood after the imperfect past tense of the In-
dicative.—" I thought to have called on you—
I intended to have dined with you, &c."
thought or. 1 intended, referring here simply,
to something prospective or future, will not admit
of a previous designation. Purpose and retro-
spection are contrary ideas, and to say 1 was
purposing, or intending to have, already done,
something, is nonsense ; but when a subsequent
state or condition is expressed or implied, this
mode of expression becomes proper, as A. " You
promised to meet me last Wethiesday." 13. " Yes,
but I then expected to have finished my business,
and so to be at leisure to meet you." The simple
infinitive coMprehends absolutely, or without
circumstance, the sense of the speaker ; as, " I
intended to see the Doctor"—" to wait on the
General ;" but, " I intended to have seen the
Doctor, to have waited on the General," implies
a consequent sense ; asp 46 I intended to have
seen the Doctor (and to be, then, following his
advice), " I intended to have waited on the Ge-
neral (and to he, then, apprised of his purposes)."
Nay, the past perfect infinitive will, sometimes,
with a conjunction, admit of the reduplication,
as, 44 I intended to have looked into Blackstone,
to have consulted a Lawyer, and to have advised
Thomas on the subject," (previously to his de-
termination.) Ilere the condition of the infini-
tive verb., though future in respect to the leading
part of the sentence, I intended, is pryvious or
past with regard to the determination or advising
Thomas ; but wherever a consequent sense like
this is not implied, the prwter tense of the infini-
tive mood is impertinent and false. 1 t is the
same with the passive voice, " The Doctor was
to be consulted ;"•---" Thti General ,wes to be
waited upon by
me ;" not " The Doctor was to
have been consulted ;"_" The General was to
have been waited epon by me."