The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-03 00:00:00

[BRITISH PRESS.]

The Courier, whose rank in politics is gone,
and whose trade for some time has been slander

and defamation, standing second ,only to its re-
cent associate, the infamous John Bull, in that
pursuit, has two paragraphs, completely sui gene-
ris, in its paper of last night; one taken and gar-
bled' from a respectable Morning Paper, and the
other extracted from the Bucks Gazette: one is in-.
tended as a foul and dastardly slander, and the
other as a servile tribute of base and interested
adulation ; and both, as affect the respective par-
ties, are equally undeserved. The first is headed
A Snug Radical Party," and, from the politics
of the Courier, we expected to read something
of Mr. Hunt, or Wooler, or Carlile ; but, in
place of it we find, that the respectable veteran,
Major Cartwright, rntertained on Monday
Mesdames Quiroga and Riego, M. Rieogo
Canon, the General's father), and a great number
of Spaniards well known for their liberal opinions;
and that the day before, the same respectable
gentleman gave a dinner also to General Romay
and his wife and nephew. These acts of gene-
rous and enlightened hospitality, creditable
to. an English Gentleman, and worthy of the
character-of this Country, are sneered at by
the Courier, while it deals its venal adula-
tion to the Duke of Buckingham, ht a suc-
ceeding paragraph, for an act only border-
ing on liberality, and with little pretensions
to any thing `generous. We are not friends
to the politics of Major Cartwright ; but we must
respect his consistency and his character. He
never can be mixed, up with others of the sect in
politics to which he belongs : he stands in repu-
tation and in conduct far above them. In private
life ha is truly estimable and respected ; iu ptiblic,
however erroneous his politics may be, he has
been, at any rate, unvarying and disinterested.- lie
is attached, we believe, sincerely to the liberties
of his own country, and is equally interested in the.
freedom of other nations. lie feels, as every honeit
and enlightened man does, indignant at the atro-
cious attack on Spain, and testified his feelings
by taking an early-opportunity of welcoming to
the hospitality of his table Mesdames Quiroga
and Itiego, the wives of those illustrious patriots,
the founders of Spanish liberty, who fled from
the dangers of successful tyranny to .the shelter
Of our shores. These ladies are entertained at

the table of an English gentleman, and the act of
unpretending liberwlity is made the subject of a
coarse and unmanly slander by the Courier.
Well may we say,
" Oh, shame ! where is thy blush ?"
'The Sunday coadjutor of the Courier is known
to make the assassination of woman's character
its. constant pursuit; but the poison is spit by a,
wretch whom no woman would approach. Is
the Courier ibout to take up the same trade, and
to join capitals in infamy ? And what, may we ask,
has his Grace of Buckingham done to deserve the'
praises of the courier ;—the disinterested Duke,
careless alike of titles and of wealth ; he Who.
never oppressed an honest man in private, or
bartered a just and honest cause in public; whose
career as a Legislator and a Magistrate has been
equally patriotic a11(1 creditable ! Let his bargain
for the ducat coronet he now wears, and his con-
duct to Farmer Doller, speak to both, but the
Courier praises him, " laudari u lauduto viro,"
therefore the Duke must. be every thing that is
generous and just. His Grace of Buckingham,
says the Bucks Gazelle, and it is echoed by the
Courier,. directed his steward to take up a bill,
foikwhich the unfortunate Faulkner (whose wife
applied to him) was detained in jail : Generous
Bevil !”

" Let those now praise who never praised before,
And those who always praised, now praise the more."

But 44 praise undeserved is satire in disguise."
We never remember a single step of the Duke or
his' party, that was not marked by the most sordid
and interested motives. The Gebnville faction
are a bye-word for venality. At their head
stands his Grace, who purchased his coronet by a
compact with Ministers, and ,the transfer of his
party to their side of both houses.—" So much
for Buckingham !"

The pavement in the streets .of London is,
geoetally speaking, in a sad state. This is, in
great measure, to be attributed to the ground
being undermined by so many sewers, water, and
gas -pipes, Szc.atitind to the almostincessant passing
winch it will be every day
of heavily laden carriages, the consequences of
more difficult toioh.
viate. At the end or the eleventh century, the
streets of London were not paved at all, and

then only becarn, partially so, as trade and opu-
lence increased. Holborn was not paved till the
year 1417, whiob was by the KING'S order, it
being" so deep and miry that perils were thereby
occasioned to
the King's carriages, as well as to
those of his own subjects, passing that way."
BUONAPARTI: had little love for physic. He
used to say, " Man iy a machine constructed to
live, and the functions of nature are more power-
ful than the science of men."
A. short time ago the parish church of North
Leith was broke into for the second time, and a
considerable number of bibles and psalm books
ghctionr
carried off. The depredators havo-as yet eluded
oete
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"Conran*