The Sun.
London, England, 1824-08-20 00:00:00

[NEW TIMES.]

Lord Waithman (as the City Magistrate is
designated by John Bull) has received a just re-
proof from the Royal National Institution for
the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck. It so
happens that among the promoters of this merito-
rious Charity, one of the Representatives for the
j City of London has taken a very active part;
and it else happens that Lord Waithman is net
at present a Representative for the City. We
will not surmise that this trifling circumstance
can have had any effect in pointing the sarcasms
of his Civic Lordship against the Charity ; but
we must say that those sarcasms were, even
for a Waithman, peculiarly absurd. Here
is an Institution formed for the truly na-
tional purpose of preserving life in cases of
Shipwreck on the coasts of the United Kingdom ;
and because a man who was shipwrecked on the
coast of France is not relieved out of the funds
of the Charity, the Lord Mayor, with a confu-
sion of intellect which is really surprising in so
great a Statesman, declares it to be " ex-
tremely severe upon an English-born subject!!"
—But what process of reasoning the Ex-Dealer
in Bandanas discovers that one unfortunate
individual is injured because another is re-
lieved, we do not profess to comprehend. But
we must take the liberty of hinting to his saga-
cious Lordship that he will do himself little credit
by endeavouring to depreciate a charity, which
enlists in its defence some of the best feelings of
the human heart. He observes, with a sneer, that
this Institution " has his Majesty at its head"—
and a very little research would furnish him
with ground for many more such sneers. Be-
nevolence and the name of George IV. are
coupled together too often to render the union
in a particular case at all surprising. But
under whatever patronage a Public Charity
is established, it is clearly the duty of those
who manage its funds
" to apply them strictly
to the defined objects of the original institution."
Some good, however, will probably arise out of
the Lord Mayor's blunders. They will serve to
call public attention to the fact that the subscrip-
tions to the Charity in question are not ample
enough to meet all the cases of shipwreck even
on our own coasts; and in the meanwhile his
Lordship, in the plenitude of his private bounty
and private fortune, is at full liberty to extend
relief to those who suffer a similar misfortune on
all other coasts around the globe.

It is not perhaps generally known that the
house which now constitutes the entrance to Inner Teinple-lane
from Fleet-street, and which is at present converted into bil-
liard rooms, was originally the re,idenco of Prince CHARLEII
STUART, son of King JA )IES I. of England. The front eleva-
tion is nearly in the same state as it was in when it was first
built.

SINGULAR AND SERIOUS ACCIDENT:4)n Wed-
nesday afternoon Mr. CHARLES WYBER, of the
Borough-road, went into the fleet prison to visit
a friend, end joined a party in the Coffee-roorn,
who entered into the foolish amusement of tossing
up a penny-piece to the top of the roomi!tnd
catching the same in the month upon its descent
to the floor. Mr. Wy her s was considered a per-
fect adept at this game ; but the penny-piece at
last found its way into the throat, where it re-
mained for upwards of half an hour. A surgeon
tried to force it upwards, but being unable to do
so, he contrived to move it downwards into'the
stomach. Mr. Wyber was comparatively much
relieved by the penny-piece being retnaved out
of the throat, and was enabled, in the evening, to
be carried to his house in a hackney-coach.
Caconcrry;---Carmarthen fair, on Thursday
last, was but thinly attended, owing, we under-
stand, to a most absurd alarm, founded upon an
ancient prophecy of MERLIN, that on that day.
the town was to be utterly destroyed by intinda-'
tion. Hundreds of persons absolutely retired
front the town to the neighbouring villages, to
avoid the threatened danger, and, indeed, so
great was the terror of some of those poor deittH
ded creatures, that they even set off on the pre.
cedi4r day for Swanaea, and other towns. In all
times false prophecies have abounded, but that in.:
ho Rresent age of almost universal itiformation,
and intelligence, we •
should find 'persons so cre,
dulous, excites astonishment.—(Carribrian.)

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

( From the Slsejleld Mercury, Aug. 14.)

- - -
It is now some years since the Edinburgh Re-
view contained an article on the establishment of the Church of
Ireland, in which the most exaggerated statement was given of
its influence and revenue, drawn principally from Mr. Wake-
field's work on the subject. We believe this article excited a
good deal of surprise amongst the readers of that Journal on
this side of the Channel, not unmixed with a large share of
scepticism : for few could easily swallow the details it af-
fected to give with such minuteness. From this represen-
tation, indeed, it would appear that the Irish Church is a
perfect ecclesiastical elysium—that the poorest country in
Europe had the richest clergy—that their revenues were
great and splendid, in a degree surpassing those of any
other country—and that for their immense revenue they li-
terally performed little or no clerical duty I Such are the im-
portant facts asserted with so much confidence by Mr. Wake-
field and the Reviewers, and which have continued to be as-
serted by others, on their authority, up to the present day. We
need scarcely say, that there is nut a word of truth in the whole
statement. It has been denied and refuted, in a manner the
most satisfactory, a hundred times, and all impartial inquirers
are now perfectly satisfied, that the whole of Mr. Wakefield's
work is made up of gross exaggerations and erroneous calcu-
lations. Still, however, it continues to afford a handle to others
to renew their attacks on the Irish Church ; which they do
not scruple to designate as one of the principal causes of the
misery and wretchedness in which Ireland is steeped. The
immense revenues of the Church, they say, drawn from
the labour and industry of the country, tend to drain it
of its wealth, and afflict with poverty the great mass of the
population. How the circumstances of Churchmen possess-
ing property to a great amount, in Ireland, should be so de-
structive to the welfare of the country, we cannot comprehend—
or that such an assignment of it, should be worse than if it had
been in the hands of a number of Whig proprietors. We
should certainly, a priori, have supposed that the former ar-
rangement would have been found the most useful ; and, upon
examination, it will be confessed to be so in filet. Suppose that
the whole of the property of the Irish Church was transferred
to lay proprietors, what good would the great mass of the la-
bouring population gain by the transfer ? Would the poor
tenants have to pay less rent, or possess kinder and more in.
dulgent landlords? Would a proprietor, in the shape of a resi.
dent clergyman, be worse than an absentee layman ? Would
the knowledge, the morals, the decencies of Irish society be im-
proved by impoverishing or driving from the country a set of
men who, from education and profession, are gentlemen, for die
purpose of putting more money into the pockets of rich landlords,
who never come near the spot, but who would expend this addi-
tion to their rent-roll in the way they do all the rest of their pro.
perty ? The revenues of the Irish Church are spent in Ireland ;
but let the property change hands, and this would be no longer
the case. To those, therefore, who inveigh with such bitter.
ness against the property of the Protestant Church of Ireland, we
would suggest the propriety of their informing us in what
better way they would wish it disposed of; for, till they con-
descend to do so, we must still be allowed to think that no
alteration ought to take place. In the mean time, we would
recommend them to peruse carefully the following remarks of
one of the most eminent Irishmen that ever lived—Mr. Ed.
mund Burke :—" Can any philosophic spoiler undertake to de.
" monstrate the positive or the comparative evil of having a cer-
" taro, and that, too, a large portion of landed property, passing
" in succession through persons whose title to it is, always in
" theory, and often in fact, an eminent degree of piety, morals,
" and learning—a property which, by its destination, in their
" turn, and on the score of merit, gives to the noblest families,
"renovation and support—to the lowest, the means of dignity
and elevation ; a property, the tenure of which is the perform-
" once of some duty (whatever value you may choose to set
" on that duty,) and the character of whose proprietors de-
" mends, at least, an exterior decorum and gravity of manners ;
" who are to exercise a generous but temperate hospitality; part
"of whose income they are to consider as a trust for charity ;
" and who, even when they fail in their trust, when they slide
" from their character, and degenerate into a mere, common se-
" cular nobleman or gentleman,. are in no respect worse than
" those who may succeed them in their forfeited possessions ?
" Is it better that estates stiould be held by those who have no
" duty, than by those whose character and destination point to
" virtue—than by those who have no rule and direction in, the
" expenditure of their estates but their own will and appetite?
" Nor are these estates held together in the character, or with the
"evils supposed inherent in mOrtinain; They pass froni hand to
hand with a more rapid circulation than any other. Such are•
the published sentimentsof Edmund Burke, aman whose autho-
rity ought to stand high in every thing connected with the phi-
losophy of politics, and whose views were not contracted by any
selfish or factious considerations. Ile clearly saw the advantage
that Ireland derived from her clergy holding so large a share of
her landed property ; and had he lived to this day,,lic would
have had reason to be still more deeply impressed with the
great advantage of such an .arrangement. The Irish clergy,
indeed, form almost the only resident gentry the country, pos-
sesses ; almost all others desert ft., and leave the poorer classes
who ought to find in them examples and protectors, to shift as.
well as they can for themselves. Banish the clergy, (which
would certainly be done it' you deprive them of their property.)
and you reduce Ireland to a state of irretrievable and hopeless
barbarisms. Would. Out liberal Whigs strip the Protestant
Clergy of their property, to bestow it, on their Catholic
brethren ? Would such a transfer be forwarding the
great interests of Ireland ? %%rduld it be at all reconcile.'
able to the maxims of prudence, or an enlightened under.
standing, to build the interests of the one establishment
on the ruins of the other ? Ii there something so.attractivein
the demeanour of die Catholic Priests, or in the pretentious of
the Catholic Bishops, that we should wish to ruin the Protest-
ant Establishment In Ireland, to make room for the silly and
serviled
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of a Mr. Shiell, at the Catitolic Association: This Mr. Shiell
Is, we believe, a Catholic barrister; but he expresses himself
very strongly for a gentleman. The folloWing is an abstract
from this philippic ; and as the thing speaks for itself, we shall
take no further notice of it than'merely to point out to our.
readers the manner in 'which some Catholic* discourse of our
Protestant Church. Their own ought to be strictly pure before
they venture to attack ours in such unqualified terms :
Phe enormous and pagan opulence of the Chuich—the co:-
" ruption of the magistracy—the ptilutioa of justice—the mix-
" management of national education—the unjust distribution
" of the patronage of the Crown, and all the long train of evils
everys
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" speedily. reduced to a more meagre and apostolic shape:"

Venice was anciently famed f9r its admirable
police. It happened one day that a 'French Nobleman, in
taking a few turns in the square of St. Mark, had his pocket
picked of a valuable watch. Instantly on ascertaining his
loss; he repaired to the Police Department, and expressed
with little discretion, and in unmeasured terms, his
prise that, 'under its so much vaunted regulations, such
a circumstance could have occurred in the middle of the day,
and in 50 public a place. " lie careful how you speak of
the Pollee of Venice," said the Commissary to whom he
had addreased himself. " Your character of, foreigner will
not , shelter
.you, if, you indulge in such invectives- De-
posit here four zechins, and repair tomorrow morning, at
the same hour, to the spot where youlost your watch, with
an assurance that it will.be restored to you. • The Frenchman
was punctual, and waited three hours without any tidings of his
watch. Still more enraged than before, he again presented him-
self to -the CommisSary, venting the bitterest iniptecationt' and
swearing that he had been most shamefully plundered and dup.
ed, having not only lost lira watch, but his zechins, together with
his time, which he held to be equally valuable. " Look to
your fob," said the Cothinissary, and there, to his utter astonish.
went, he found his watch 1 " You. have still to learn some,
thing further of the Venetian Police," added the Commissary,
ccfor which pus lose kse here an Officer who will accompany
.you." Having descended to w subterraneous apartment, his
,guide led him, by several gloomy, vaulted pastes, in cros4_
mg which be became more, and more anxious, as to what was
to berfeacteisatim. T
theto
caurtain chamber,ot which iltmlysl,iughdteraawbn aside for his in-
y a lamp ; where,
in a
spection, suspended by a cord, he saw TUE

LAW INTELLIGENCE'.

COURT OF CHANCERY, AUG. I&
BRADBURY V. PERKINS AND REATH-
_

The plaintiff had obtained an injunction to restrain the de.r
fendants from infringing his right of patent to a process which
he had invented for etching engravings with metallic rollers,
which invention the defendants had successfully adopted and
applied in cotton-printing and other affairs, to the lasi and
detriment of the plaintiff:
Mr. HORNE, Mr. SUDDEN, and Mr. RoupaLL, now
argued against the injunction, and the Court was entreated to
dissolve it, on the grounds that the invention was well knotinf
and commonly used, at the time when the plaintiffobtaladbis
patent, not only in this country, by a Mr. Blackatock ofMan-
cheater, but also in Ireland ; and moreover, that the specifies,
tion of the patent was defective, insomuch that it stated the in-
vention to be a new method of engraving with metallic talk
whereas, according to the plaintiff's own case, the iRVCIAIOR)
any, was not in the mode of engraving, but in the preparation
of the rollers.

Mr. SHADWELL and Mr. COE supported the injunction.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, after hearing all the arguments
and after giving a dose inspection to the terms of the patent
and the specification, was of opinion that the injunction must
be dissolved. If the plaintiff had any ground of right which
was not discoverable by applying the principles of this jurisalci
tion to the matter in dispute, he was at liberty to try the vallaht
of his patent in a Court of Law.
Mr. SHADWELL said that the defendants ought to be di'
rected to keep an account in the mean time, until the action
should be tried.
The LORD CHANCELLOR would not give any direction fQI
that purpose. _

BARIPIELD v. NICHOLSON AND KELLY. ci
The defendants had been enjoined by the Court from publish
ing a work called the Practical Builder, in the name or,
Peter Nicholson, because of a covenant by which the latter
„
gentleman had been previously bound with the plaintiff in pu4
lishing a work called the Architectural Dictionary. On
last mention of this cause we were led to make a correction,'"
our report of the case, so far as concerned the order for MT 1E
ing the defendant Kelly from publishing the book callow
Practical Builder.
The following is a literal copy of the order as it at pref.°
stands; the words in Italics being words added in sonsecluen`.
of the present application
:
"Let the injunction be awarded to restrain the defendaThos. Kelly from publishin or selling, in the name of Petty
Nicholson, the book or work in the pleadings mentionekcall
ed the Practical Builder, or any parts or part or number toot
of; and also from employing the defendant Peter Nicholson l"
writing. any part of the letter-press, or designing an/ °f th4i
plates, of the said book or work called the Practical Ando::
And let the said defendant Thomas Kelly be also restrained
in the name of Peter Nicholson from publishing or selling AO
part of the said book or work called she Practical Builder,
printed or engraved since the riling of the plaintiff's bill in mil
cause, which has been written or designed by the defendant
Peter Nicholson, until the hearing of this cause, or until the
further order of the Court."
Notice of a motion had been given for varying the directions
as to the Lord Chancellor's order.
Mr. HEALD now complained to the Court, in consequence of
that notice, and commented with some severity on the liberties
which were taken in modern practice in regard to modelling the
orders of the Court. He would not, on this last day of the Po'
traded Sittings, detain the Court with arguments upon a mush
more serious motion which he had instructions to twake-;
namely, a motion to commit the defendants, for a wanton and
flagitious breach of the order of the Court; but he did hope OD'
see some correction applied to this evil, which produced Inc" 11
culable inconvenience and vexation. When he first apps se
in this Court, the practice was, that the order being once Pro'
nounced and set down in writing, neither party could :stool'
to vary that order; but since the election of the other Coactl
the practice of varying the directions had grown up with it, tin°
so successfully had it thriven, that in nine cases out GO ttgli shit
order had actually been varied, and very frequently without
any reason being shewn to the Court for thus tampering with
its power and jurisdiction. .
The Loun CHANCELLOR agreed with Mr. Heakl, is wl'lst i
he had stated, as to the former practice, and reprehended n
terms of some warmth, the custom of varying the cedes of the
Court after being solemnly pronounced. So perfectly was "e
convinced of the mischievous consequences of this practice, that
from henceforth he was determined, that if a Solicitor 'should
be brought before him who Lad been found so dealing With
his order, though he were the most respectable man in the pro"
fession. he would make him pay all the costs of the applicatiow
out of his own pocket.
Mr. HEALD approved of his Lordship's resolution, end
hoped that he would make a memorable example of this case.
fhe SOLICITOR-GENERAL and Mr. WAKEFIKLD jUll*
fled the motion for the defendants, because, in fact,- the eitst
in the Registrar's book was an actual deviation from the CIS
pronounced by the Court. Not only had the Court nett°'
strained Mr. Kelly from publishing the Practical Builder,'*'
cording to the terms of the order as there entered ; but tiPaw
being asked what was to be done with quantities of letter-tre4
and copper-plates which were then prepared, the Court bactega.
pressly stated, that the defendant had only to blot out the
of Nicholson ; meaning, of course, that that being done, pit
Kelly could publish and sell his book without further
ranee ; whereas the order restrained him altogether from
ing or publishing any of the letter-press or engravings Sn'sw
had been prepared since the filing of the bill.
The Loftin CHANCELLOR said, that the object of Ile
junction was to retrain the use of Mr. Nicholson's name in the
publication, because that went in breach of his
previous 'coyll,
, a
ant with the plaintiff: It was with that view that the Cogs
pronounced its order; and in doing so, had refused to role
an account of the profits before the filing of the bill, bestirs
Mr; Kelly could not have known of the former covenant ,"'"4
he entered into an agreement with Mr. Nicholson. tif
His Lordship said, that he thought that he had suillo
qualified the last part of the order by the words "Lll' so
manner," which stood before in the place of the word auvoow
the other words expressed in Italics, which words der
.
added with the consent of all parties to make the order