The Sun.
London, England, 1823-02-21 00:00:00

a. tittle time will put Ministers in possession
of the result of their negociations, au4 that
of the contending parties. The interest which
the British nation takes in the affair is evi-
dent, from the inquiry which we hear conti-
nually Made—" Well, are we to have peace or
war ?" .as if the Spanish cause were our own,—
That it is our own, essentially, and that it is the
cause not only of every, people that has, but of
every people that wishes for, a free Constitu-
tion, is too evident to need demonstration.—
But yet the present state of our preparations
indicates that our Government does not think it
ours at the beginning. Indeed, there is a hope—
to which the appearance of a British auxiliary
force in the Peninsula might be fatal—a hope
that the French army, when assembled on the Py-
renees, tnight hesitate between undertaking their
infamous errand, and returning to overthrow those
who bad sent them on it. We should be sorry,
therefore, in such a case, to see their pride
piqued by the appearance of a hostile force which
they may be supposed to fear, but which they
would yet greatly out-number. In the House of
Commons, 11 r. Brougham asked whether Ministers
had received any informatten that the Brest fleet
was out : and the answer was in the negative.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
A number of petitions were on Wednesday
night presented by Mr.- Brownlow', the Member
for Armagh, on the part of the Orangemen of ;
that county, complaining of the establishment of
Jesuits in the South of Ireland, and mercifully
deploring the bigotry and darkness of the people
which in their wisdom they attributed to the ma-
chinations of that appalling body. These worthy
petitioners appear themselves to have been pretty
much in the same situation as Lazorillo in the
farce, who declares he was born such a natural
genius, that reading and writing were. wholly
omitted by his parents in his education. Their
ignorant and ill-spelt petitions were laughed to
Scorn-by the lionse; they were met by the shout of
derision from both benches ;, they were ridiculed
by Mr.Brougham,whaexcited general laughter at
their folly, and contempt it their unparalleled
ignorance. Infatuate'' blockheads! Well, in-
deed, would it be for them if those who were
their advisers,'and instigated them lu this folly,
possessed but halt„the sense and discrimina-
tion of the Jesuits.' Objectionable as many
of the tenets of
.that body may have been,
and little as we,are inclined to countenance the
Slavish' snpremacy they
..sought to acquire over
the Inman ,mind, it would be weakeness to deny
that Many of them were men of consummate
talent, and that the cause of general learning was
deeply indebted to them. Throughout the vast
missions of Southern America, in Canada 'and in
China, their labours were great and unremitting.
The dominion they acquired in Paraguay was
unparalleled, and was the result alone of great
intellect and perseverance. To thi-Jesuit du
lialde, and others of that body, we are indebted
for almost the only genuine accounts we possess
of the real.tate of China,

OLD .BAILEY, Ff.U. 9.0.

BILL SO.A.NIM.

ni Sbann's, batter known by the name of. Bill • Simmcs,
the pickpocket, was put, to the Bar, under an indictment charg-
ing him with picking the pocket of a Gcntlemai.of the name
of I:!;dwara Sick.• , •

'The prisoner, wlio now appeared at the Bar dressed in a neat
suit of black; was brought up yesterday for trial. He therf put
In en affidavit, stating that two material witnesses were absent,
end desiring the postponement of the trial. In consequence,
the trial was postponed Until this day at 5 o'clock. •
'The evidence now produced against the prisoner was deter
. .
and decisive. It appeared that the prosecutor was passing
along the Street on the Ist day of February, between six and
seven o'clock in the evening, anti was informed by a person
that his pocket-had been picked of a handkerchief. The prin.
Opal Witness to prove the case wee J. Woodward,- a servant of
Sir John Lubbock. Ile saw the prisoner following the prosecu-
tor very closely, and' therefore watched him narrowly. He saw
the prisoner pull, the handkerchief from the prosecutor's pocket.
Witness immediately went up to the prisoner, and endeavoured
to take the handkerchief from hlin. The prisoner, howevez,
equared at him, and a woman who was in company with the
prisoner collared him. 18`itness succeeded in informing the
proseiutor that his pocket had been picked, and the prisoner
was secured. The prisoner made no defence, and called no
witnesses to charaCter.--Giiitfy..
The ItECOODt44I, sale) that he should consider, that he was
only wasting words, if he attempted to make any impression
upon a burdened wretch, who, for so long a course of years, had
acted in defiance of the laws of his country : he should there-
fore content himself with passing the sentence of the Court,
that he be transported for lus natural life.
The prisoner never alteted it single feature in his face when
sentence wasintased, and left the bar apparently unconcerned.
DArtING OANO or liunnLAß4—/toin Walker, aged 18;
James Aldridge, aged 22; and Thomas Gibson., alias illacketi,
aced 16, were put to the bar, on an indictment charging them
with burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling.house of
Andrew Kimpson, and stealing property to a considerable
amount.—Gibson was acquitted, and %S 4 allier and Aldridge
found crniity,--peafii.
Thrisoners wire alto found guilty on a second indictment,
charge' with burglariously entering the dwelling.houie of
James Armstrong, of No. 4, Prince s-place, in the parish of
St. Otorge in the Kest.
The Court declined going into the three other indictments, as
the bridi 'Of juititelinntldhe attained by- the two COOVittionii.
that had taken place. Mr. Justice PARK, however, exhorted
the Pelsonert to,make the best possible use of their time, ;t
being clear that they were a most desperate gang of house.
breakers, to•whoni hb could not hold out any hopes of mercy,
which must, if at all exercised., come from a higher quarter.

TT-
Oa Tttea4a, last a very unfortunate eircuni,
stance took place at the Bank, in this town, originating in s
quarrel between an Irishman of the name of Connel,ande fel.
low-workmen of the name of Baldwin. It appears that the boys
in the factory, where Conned worked, among othets-
son, were in the habit of applying opprobrious epithets to
As he posed beneath the windows of the shop where they
wore working. Being naturally irritated by the iiontinued repots
don of this conduct, he remonstrated with Baldwin and begged
that he would reprove or punish his lien, who was a ring-leader.
Baldwin, who was a ruin of sullen temper, treated the Teuton.
atranees with contempt Cannel At length declared that he would
punish eke boy Jhimself. This he soon afterwards did, when
,'the elder Bald Win broke his stick and abused him very groSsly;
:this happened on the Saturday ;on Tuesday-the Irishman went
to a,jorner's, akop connected with the inill, to liavehis stick re-
pa.e4, and, while he WAS there complaining of the treatment he
tied 'received, Baldwin rinfortunately carnet in, and heating
',What Connel said, called him a ci—d inlhman, and sine.
ing big atiek,„ broke it again and .threw is iu his face. The
impetuous temper of Cannel could riot brook these 'repented
wrongs; he ithrnediately seined a hammer and struck Baldwin
With such viidetee as to fracture his skuU, We regret to learn
. that poor, Baldwin eagired on Sunday a.ftrreoan, leaving a wife
and seven children, totally bereft of support. An Inquest .was
last night held on the holy, at the bongo at Mr. Duffield. the
Leeds .11rroS, Batik ; wlitn the Jury, after a patient initeiitigia,.
been retorted a verdict of
,Afenslaulrider. The Coroner un-
mediately made out his warrant for the commitment of Connel
to York Castle, to take his 'Wales the approaching Assliet,—
Leeds Irrielfirencer, Feb. 10.),