The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-20 00:00:00

FONTIFILL ABBEY, SEPT. 18.

Now that the misconception which prevailed
for a time on the subject of the view has been
done away, the visitors increase daily. We have
bad occasion to notice their augmented numbers
for some days past, but yesterday a still further
augmentation took place. Among those who
arrived to-day were General Halden and Colonel
Elston. The Countess of Guildford remains in
the Abbey.—Shortly after one o'clock the sale
commenced: it comprehended many curiosities,
and it wilt be seen from the subjoined list that
some very small volumes fetched high prices :

Royal Tracts of his Sacred Majesty .Tames IT.- both before
and after his quitting England. 12mo. 1692, 11. h.
Yonge's (William) England's shame, or the unmasking of a
Political A theist,.l692 11. I Is. 6d.
Le terrible et mervielleux Signe qui a Este vets sur la Ville
de Paris, 1521, 11. 6d.
Ovidii Metamorphoses cum Tabulis Melchioris, 16(11, 1/., I Is.
Bruscambille (Les Oeuvres), 2/.
The Llncolne Nosegay; or a Brefe Table of ccrtaine Ilokes
in the possession of Minster Thomas Frognal Dibdin, Clerk,
which Boakes Be to Sold to him who shall gyve the moste for
the same, Bvo. private printed book, 1/. 16s.
Pourtraits Divers, 12mo. 21.85.
Sanctorum et Martyntnt Christi, Jeones qtmdam, Artificio.
sissinne, 1551, 2/. Subsequently this work was found to be
imperfect, put up again, anti sold for 10s. 6(1.
Ritson's Collection of English Songs,.2l. 13s.
Leti (Gregori) Historia e memorie Recondite supra la Vitm
di Olivero Cromwell, 2 vols. illustrated with plates, 21. 3s.
The admirable History of the Possession and Conversion of
a Penitent Woman, seduced by a Magician, 1/. 2s.
Tillotson's Sermons, 111. 3s.
Congreve's Works, printed by Baskerville (free from spots),
3 vols. Bvo., 3/. 17s.

THE JEW AND THE BARRISTER.

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At the late Lancaster Assizes a cause was tried
before Mr. Justice IIAYLEY, between two Jews.
In the course of the evidence it appeared that
the defendant had offered a quantity of bacon to
the plaintiff to silence him and prevent the trial.
To this the plaintiff refused to accede. A third
Jew (Mr. MOSES SAMUEL) was called as a wit-
ness respecting the bacon transaction, and Mr.
Serjeant Cttoss, tickled with the drollery of the
circumstances of seeing three Jews by the ears
about a flitch of bacon, amused the Court with
some sarcastic remarks, •at the expellee of the
witness, and the tribe of Israel in general.—
After the trial was over, the offended witness
wrote to Mr. Serjeant Caoss the following manly
and indignant letter

" TO sin. SELMAN? CROSS.
" Eirn—l was surprised at the manner in which_ you defended
the cause wherein I was subpoenaed as witness. From the want
of proof and honesty on the part of your client, you had re-
course to ridicule the name ofJew; and because the case was
accidentally connected with Buena, so much despised by Jews,
anti so much admired by the children of the Cross. you thought
it a fit opportunity of exposing this ludicrous medley, by un-
tying the Scripturet concerning our people—
" Thou shalt he a proverb and a bye-word amongst all the
nations whether the Lord thy God shall lead thee.'—Oeut.
" You endeavoured to do away with my testimony, on
grounds which were sufficiently refuted by Mr. Williams, ss
there was not a contradictory word.in my evidence.
" Permit ve now, Mr. Cross, to give you some advice( re;ihotO
.17,e For the future, do not play with the feelings of individuals
disinterested in a cause, and reluctantly attending your courts
of Justice ! and above all, do not let difference of opinion on
religious topics serve yotras a triumphant pretext for displaying
your sarcastic powers, but rather imitate the manner of
your more generous brethren of the Cross, piously employed
in disseminating Christian knowledge among us; and in other
Jewish trials, instead of dwelling repeatedly on the name of
Moses, and such like Scriptural tithes, merely to cause ridi-
culous bursts of laughter in Court, and thereby attempting to
defeat the cause of truth and justice, be rather liberally inclined,
consider us as the children of one God, the offspring of one
beneficent Father, supported and. protected by one Almighty
• Providence—as men gifted with the same intellectual powers
ns others, and morally entitled to the same rights-.-semen seek-
ing justice by these laws to which they are amenable, and enti-
tled .tusoMe respect from those expounders of the law whom
they contribute to support.
" When a few centuries back our forefathers, exiled by bar-
barian fury, were led to seek a precarious abode in England ; when thesword, unsheathed and still reeking with blood, was
suspended over our captive tribes, in the midst of those unme-
rited persecutions, to have been assailed with a torrent of mere
ridicule would have elicited no complaint or murmur; but now
that we live in a more refined age, and thanks to Heaven I enjoy
the blessing of toleration in a free country, where, the virtuous
and enliginened Jew begins to be considered as a man and a
fellow-citizen; the conduct of a Barrister in unnecessarily inter-
weaving in his case ludicrous remarks upon those of a different
denomination of religion, and treating with derision the name
of a once mighty though now 'mattered people, must be highly
reprehensible.
- " Neither the Bar, nor the Gown, nor the IVig, nay, not even
the mighty powers of eloquence which you presume to possess,
can for a moment shield you, Mr: Cross, in the eyes of an en-
lightened world, from the censure which you deserve.
" Is it to be believed, that in these enlightened devil in an
enlightened Court, where the enlightened Bayley presided, a
Barrister, from the want of a better defence, should be suffered
to pour forth such obloquy, and wound the feelings of a respect-
able witness, why, forsooth ? because—he was a Jew
" Yours, MOSES SAMUEL"

King CHARLES I
I. asked STILLINGFLEET how it
came about that he always read his sermons be-
fore. him, when he preached extempore else-
where ? lie told the King that the awe he felt
of so noble an audience made him afraid to
trust himself, unless he put his discourse into
writing. " But pray," says Stillingfleet, " may--
I be permitted to ask a .similar question ?
Why does your Majesty read your speeches, who
cnn feel no awe from the presence of superiors ?"
Why, truly," replied fire King, 4‘ the ques-
(ion is a fair one, and so shall be my answer.
By reading my speecsb I keep My eye upon the
paper; for I have asked supplies from the Corn-
mons so heavily, and they have granted them so
often, that ice are ashamed to look 'each other ia
the Ace."