The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-21 00:00:00

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LONDON:
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1841.

As Sir 'Boum PEEL, in our opinton, has not
too many good deeds to boast of, we are willing
to give the utmost publicity in our power to
those he performs, by copying the following
letter from the .31orning Post:— _

-Tamworth, 'Tuesday, P.M.
,Perceiving from the Morning
a tissue
Vulg.
that the notorious Acland has been promulg
1 l's chit-
Past of this morning
of tril4-statements with regard to ,ir Robert .Yee
t. e rity in the hnronnit of 'n.::r.•.‘,.:111:, I hasten to lay
,hz.. following. fa,.t, bet.,,,., v„,?,, !paring it fur you to mai..
ai,ah, I'4' '''e them as -oil may thick advisabie. I would
only inform yol at ih3,-. ~ufsci, that the relocctable inha-
14!I`antl (-)f both panics aro in a state of the highest -in-
angnation at the inf:cmitt 3 pervEriion of truth %Virl:01 h3S
been manifested by the lianchr.-Ater V `i-,(7 thr(nwhout
Ire, ~ . . P
the whole proccvdiugA. '
no school in questiutt was formic(' an •I en lowed by
the late Sir itc,bort Peel about the car 1330, and from
that period until the pre.vent time" a number (,:f licit-s,
varying from sixty to eighty, have been clothed and fitd
upon the foundation. How tin- the charity has been need
for the promotion of party political purposes will appear
from the fact, that at the preetut tinte, out of the seventy
bop in the school, at least two-thirds of them arc the
chiitiren of Sir Robert's „
Political nt
on o e
es—that is where the parents possess the frariehis(.. pp
Th only qua,
-
lification which has ever been demanded or required by
Sir Robert Pcel is this, that 'the children be of indult- 1
srinus habits and good moral characters.
- la perfect keeping wit tithe inaccuracy of the state-
ment put forward by theppositi6ri
prints
it should be
observed that though the Rev, \f„..
gage.... possesses and
tgrereise.s the right of soPerintendint the atrairs of the

m•liGol, yet f,,r twenty years the
vested- in-:Sits-T. TuKehl, who has the . control of
the boys;. and I have been assured by this respectable in-
dividual that the only allusion which was ever made to
the subject of the petition within the walls of the school,
was a passing question proposed by him to one of his
pupils, whether it was true that he had signed the docu-
ment alluded to. The boy, who does not appear more
than ten years old, replied that he had done so, and fur-
ther stated that a brother, fourteen years of age, was the
party that induced him. This I have had verified by the
child hitcself, and therefore, hbwever far it may go to ex-
pose the absurdity of that proceeding, it goes equally far
to show the absurdity and acrimony of the Radical fac-
tion, who resort to such expedients fur the promotion of
their degraded purposes.
I am credibly inform©d that Sir Robert Peel, with his
usual promptitude in the despatch of business, has writ-
ten to the Rev. Mr. Savage, vrith a view to a full investi-
gation and exposure of the facts. In the meantime lam
in a position to assert that, until within the last few days,
. there has not been one boy expelled the school ; and the
cases which have more recently occurred arose entirely
from the negligence and bad conduct of the pupils. There
is, however, one fact 'Which -cannot be deplored too
deeply. The harangues of Aeland have produced in
• the minds of many of the lower classes a feeling of dis-
affection which, until- now,. Wets- never experienced in the
borough. This isAnore remarkable among the recipients
of Sir Robert's bennty than any. other class of people.
So much is this.the,caseer that rettmbers of the boys hare
within the last fly g.ppe;argd. to forget tne rela
tionship in which op), stand to l their master,: and all
these ca-esiiare 6204 followed` up by insolence on the
part el the 'parents.' Ifi47'.lllffeld assures me that never
during the whole period' of his mastership has the spirit
of fasubordinition- showit itself to such a pitch, and the
parents.3eint to justiey the assumption, by saying that,
•‘ if Sir Robert turned them- out, Aciand would take
dear. in."

.. •It quite true, therefore, as Mr. ACLAND
has informed the public, that 'the PF.F.LS have
established a school at Tam Worth, in which
Children are not only educated, but clothed and
fed; and equally true 'that the electors are li-
able to have their votes influenced by the -educa-
' tion they can obtain .for their children. It is
not contradicted that the. preservation- of the
school depends upon a PEEL. beiriereturned for
the borotigh ; and as that- is.sertiop has been
made by- Mr. ACLAND, whose "..MU-statements"
were before the writer, and as two writers have
undertaken to correct them, it must he assumed
that the fact is as he has stated. Neither is it
contradicted in the letter that Sir ROBERT
PEEL wrote to Mr. SAVAGE. It further appears,
that though the Rev. Mr. SAVAGE never spbke
to the boys on the subject of the Tamworth me-
morial, that Mr. Tt'FFIELD, the actual
master of the school, did, and no doubt,
in speaking of that, made it apparent that,
it was offensive to Sir R. PEEL for any person to
sign the memorial. We hold that letter, there-
fore, to confirm Mr. ACLAND'S statements in
every point except one. It was not Mr. SAVAGE
who spoke to the boys, but Mr. TUFFIELD. Mr.
ACLAND was misinformed as to the individual,
but not as to the deed.

it further appears that Sir R. PEEL has writ-
ten to Mr. SAVAGE with a view to the investiga-
tion of the facts, and Mr. SAVAGE'S letter, pro-
' bably in answer to Sir R. PEEL, was published
on Tuesday. When the Premier has got the
case dressed up entirely to his satisfaction, we
shall probably have an official report on it. We
learn with great satisfaction, from the conclud-
ing paragraph of the latter, that Mr. ACLAND has,
by his exposures, made the Tamworth electors
ashamed of their degradation. They and their
children are becoming disobedient, and are no
longer to be bribed into slavery even by the ad-
vantages of a charity school. Political cunning
will, in the long-run, be as effectually exposed
as the more open and hardened knavery. Mr.
ACLAND, in our judgment, triumphs completely
over the mighty chief of the Starvation Ministry.
Since the above observations were made we
have seen the Standard, which contains a long
article on this subject. It reiterates Mr. SAVAGE'S
statements, but we have already shown that the
chief of them applies to a supposed assertion,
that boys were turned out of the school by• Mr.
SAVAGE, which Mr. ACLAND never made.

Besides Mr. SAVAGE'S letter, the Standard
asserts, on an unnamed authority, that the
school was originally, and now is, endowed with...*
out- any condition•whatever in reference to the
return of Members to Parliament; that Sir R.
I PEEL made no communication whatever, either
direct or indirect, to Mr. SAVAGE, or
to any other person, in reference to
the Tamworth school and the Tamworth
memorial ; and that-Mr. SAVAGE never informed
the boys of the school, or any other person,
that he had receiied any communication to the
above effect from Sir R. PEEL, or by his autho-
rity. Till the Standard can back its own asser-
tions by some named and respectable authority,
we must take leave to say, that they are utterly
valueless. Remembering the tricks which that
Journal has heretofore played with truth, till
it obtained a- disgraceful sobriquet, we decline
placing the least confidence in any assertions '
which are unvouched for, except by the Stand-
ard. The letter in the Post does not deny the
existence of conditions, and it is perfectly clear
from that letter that the master has interfered
with at least one boy in relation to the memorial.
The-letter is intended, like Mr. SAVAGE'S letter,
to overthrow Mr. ACLAND'S assertions, and by
its silence, as well as by its admissions, it con.
firms them, and refutes the Standard.

Our Contemporary refers to our paragraph,
and says it is a striking example of a man find-
ing his falsehood detected. With all deference
ty the Standard, we have been guilty- of no
falsehood. We copied Mr. ACLAND'S para-
graph, and asked the Tories to contradict it.
They were -silent : it made a noise in the world ;
several Journals commented on it.; disgrace ac-
cumulated ; and •then came Mr. SAVAGE with a
contradiction of some statements which he had
heard, leaving Mr. ACLA ND'S assertions wholly
untouched. We rejoice now to perceive that
they had at least truth enough to stir the gall
of the Premier, who has written to Mr. SA-
VAGE, and to make his foolish flatterers bounce
about after the graceful fashion of a cow stung
by a hornet.
The Standard calls on the humbler classes to
consider seriously what must be the effect to
them it' every act of munificence and kindness
of whiCh they are the objects shall come to be
treated as an artifice of corruption, or a step to
tyranny We echo that call. The so-styled
acts of munificence and kindness of such as the
PEELS, who at the same time tie the hands
of the labourers, and daily flog them in their
bellies, are, in general, artifices of corruption and
steps to tyranny ; when the humbler classes refuse
to be parties to this cheat put_ upon them, they
will force the tyrants to be just. The hum
bier classes•
have now had considerable ex-
perienc-_- of the munificence and kindnes4 of
athnodsethyweho provide them 'with charity. schools,
have a deep 'distrust, which has now
reached moral Tainworth, that they are in-
tended to continue them in a degrading bondage,
under the pretence of serving them.
W h

, e have seldom seen a more glaring instance
of injustice practised with a parade of good and
ntained yesterday in
humane feeling than one co
an article co
into the
the Marhing Herald.
subject of
al conclusion of vi. hich,
isn7plie.esasffineecnttast,ioinn
thoef inquiry
gener written with
directed against that scandalous system, we
heartily concur, there is this passage:—
Heretofore the terms on which we have paid
!ant seamen—the best and bravest of their slabs
"s
in
gal_
woi::(1-- have been miserably' inadequate, the
rninonsly parsimonious. And what has been the
resod,?
l'oforce an annual drain of ourseamen best
vice of the rnited States, where they are sure o:' better
pay, more ind !Ig,ence, and treatment more generally eon.
siderate than they find at home. The suicidal mischief
of such a coarse was long since made apparent to us, in
some of the calaraitons discoraiitures which our ever
OTnc' of the c:ilamlt
matched ships and crews sustained in the last war vith,
America. The heavier buns of the United States ship*
were worked in 1812, with memorable effect by crews
the great majority of whose able hands were British
sailors who had been dithharged from, or had volun-
tarily deserted, the service of their native country.
With that fact impressed upon our minds, we cannot
be diverted from the original evil, itself, to turn round
upon the wicked or the foolish parties (as they acted
with i dese,
11,
or unwittingly in the matter,) who have
from time
to tinge done their little utmost to aggravate
it- We heartily despised, and
have always 'strongly, de-,
precated, the ni' ' iscl nevons tamperings With the na.tion's
strength—the depleting experiments on its streug4h—
which Mr. dame and other small screws have too s;.ac-
ee3efillly practised in ' ill-considered, sweeping retrertai-