The Sun.
London, England, 1833-09-11 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

It is with great pleasure that we direct the
attention of our readers to the cordial and en-
thusiastic reception which the Queen of Portugal
has experienced by our fellow-countrymen, from
the moment at which she landed in England,
until she was received as the guest of their
Majesties in Windsor Castle yesterday. We
cannot for a moment doubt that these expressions
of generous and gallant feelings, and
of honest
and upright sentiment, toward this injured
Princess, will be re-echoed in every quarter of
the kingdom--excepting only the professed Mi-
guelites and their Swiss allies—that disgraceful
portion of the press, which, calling itself " Con-
servative," and eternally prating about religion
and morality, laud and uphold the perfidy of
the Usurper Miguel, while they pursue the
victim of his iniquity with sneers and sarcasms
to the very threshold of the palace .of their
Sovereign. In the scorn and contempt of all
men who are not depraved even to the level of
these " Conservative" scribes, or of those who
pay or patronize them, such baseness and bru-
tality will meet its reward—as assuredly will
their master and model Miguel, either at the
hands of her Most Faithful Majesty's troops,
or in perpetual confinement to the pestilent
purlieus of some half civilized and despotic
Court.—Times.

Most measures of reform and retrenchment
necessarily carry with them more or less of in-
dividual loss and disappointment ; and of course
convert the losers by them into so many enemies
of the authors. This has been strikingly the
case with Lord Brougham's Bankruptcy Act,
which every mercantile man knows has already
brought about great improvements in the here-
tofore dilatory and expensive practice of that
branch of the law, and will doubtless accomplish
much more as its machinery comes better into
play, and its defects, as they present themselves,
are obviated. Yet this wholesome measure was
and is assailed, as was to be expected, by the
many persons whose useless offices it converted
into others of utility. The sleepers are quite
horrified at seeing their duties devolve upon
persons awake. The late Commissioners of
Bankrupts, who, from their number, have been
somewhat irreverently styled" The Septuagint,"
take the lead in this warfare. The opposition
of forty lawyers, and those, many of them con-
sisting of persons who had no other claim to
their late appointments than that which family
connections or political influence gave them, is
of itself no trifling gauntlet for any measure to
run, especially pursued as this has been with a
degree of virulence and misrepresentation, which
the most practised advocate would be ashamed
to employ in the case of a client ; so true is it that
the brief is not always the apology for the licence of
the Bar. But the most striking proof of the male-
volence with which this subject is pursued con-
sists in this—that even the very attempt to re-
medy some of the defects which those very
opponents have pointed out is made an additional
ground of charge against the Lord Chancellor.
The number of the Judges of the Court of Re-
view have, for instance, been found too numerous.
And why so, but principally because the new
Commissioners do their duty with so much more
talent and industry than the old ones, that not
one-tenth of the questions for revision arise un-
der the new system as occurred under the old ?
Well, what does Lord Brougham do, on the
discovery of this, but when one of the Judges
(the late Sir Albert Pell) dies, he declines filling
up the vacancy, and then brings in a Bill, which
he succeeds in getting passed into an Act, as-
signing to the two remaining Puisne Judges of
the new Court new and efficient duties ? Of
these the principal are giving them powers co-
ordinate with those of the present Commissioners
of the Insolvent Court, so as to enable that Court
to dispose of the cases of persons imprisoned for
debt with more certainty and rapidity than they have
hitherto done. Now who this can injure we were at a
loss to conceive, till the notable discovery is an-
nounced that it will prevent the counsel and the
officers of the Insolvent Court from having any
vacation. The sheriff's officer has no holyday—
the writ of latitat has no holyday--the whole
machinery of incarceration, like the sun in its
course, never stops; but those whose duty it is
to mitigate the evil by setting the prisoner free,
are so worn down by their gainful operations,
and so incapable of assisting each other, that it
is necessary, in their view of the matter (or
rather, perhaps, in the view of those who put
them forward as stalking horses upon the occa-
sion), that hundreds of unfortunate beings,
guilty of nc crime but that of poverty, should
linger in prison, that those persons may be
enabled to spend the time and money of the
public at some watering place, or other scene of
idleness and dissipation. And is this all that
can be alleged against Lord Brougham's Bill?
If so, though perfection is net the lot of mortal
achievement, his Lordship must be admitted to
have arrived as near it upon this occasion, as the
emptiness and acrimony of opposition ever exem-
plified.—Morning Herald.

The Whigs committed a great error when
they re-appointed the Marquis of Anglesey to
the Lord Lieutenancy of Ireland, in which
office he had been tried by the Duke of Wel-
lington, his old companion in arms and politics,
and found incapable. If this was done by the
Whigs merely to spite the Duke, they have
certainly spited themselves most egregiously, for
never has Ireland had any peace since he went
back to govern it. Under his inauspicious
sway the Whigs have had recourse to a measure
which is in itself a sentence of incompetency
upon their own chosen Viceroy of that part of
the United Kingdom. Indeed their plea for
violating all constitutional principles, and esta-
blishing military tribunals as the machinery of
Ireland's pacification, was that violence, intimi-
dation, and outrage prevailed to an unexampled
extent—that there was no longer any security
for-life or property—that society was becoming
disorganized, and civil power was nerveless to
uphold the authority of the ordinary laws. It is
true no legal evidence was laid before Parliament
of this state of things, but taking it for granted
that the frightful description was a true
one, could there, we ask, be a greater
proof of the incapacity of the Governor than
such a portraiture of the state of the governed ?
Let it be recollected that when the Marquis of
Anglesey was an opponent of Catholic emanci-
pation he threw down the gauntlet to the
•
" seven millions, in the House of Peers, in a
manner which was very suitable with the cha-
racter of a bold dragoon, but which very ill be-
came a Statesman ;—when, subsequently to the
death of the Duke of York, be took the other
side of the question, he showed just as much
military ardour and as little political good sense
—of this his memorable advice to " agitate—
agitate--agitate " was a sufficient proof. He
ought thenceforward to have been allowed to re-
pose upon his laurels, never again to be dis-
turbed by the cares of civil Government, for

which nature never intended him. It was a
malicious friendship which drew him forth again
and placed him in the position of a Statesman,
but without any of the resources of civil wisdom,
to seek popularity one day at Donnybrook fair,
and the next to talk of subduing all Ireland with
four gun brigs ! At the head of the British
cavalry, leading a charge, the Marquis of An-
glesey was in his proper place, and won honour
for his country and himself; but to make so
thorough a dragoon officer Civil Governor of
Ireland was not more preposterous than it
would be to mount his Majesty's Attorney
General on a war horse, and give him an
opportunity of displaying his military prowess
as Commander of the Forces. A punster
would say that the Learned Gentleman could at
least make a lawyer's charge ; but we question
if the state of the army under his command
would not soon resemble the state of Ireland,
and call for Parliamentary revision. But if it
be true that the Marquis of Anglesey is at
length recalled to make room for the Marquis
Wellesley, we can only say that he who antici-
pates any advantage to Ireland from the change,
must be a person of very easy faith in a politi-
cal point of view. The Marquis Wellesley dis-
played in his Indian Government no ordinary
talents and energy of character, though marred
by a lofty pretension of manner which is never
characteristic of true greatness of mind. After-
wards, as Chief Governor of Ireland, he showed
no ability whatever, except the ability to prac-
tice the virtue of a rigid economy in the Vice-
regal Palace. There seldom has been a less
popular Chief Governor in Ireland. If his
mind had become comparatively feeble, then it
must be much more feeble now. He is, in fact,
a superannuated Statesman, whom it is a pity to
drag upon the stormy scene of Irish politics
once more. He is not the Prospero whom the
unquiet spirits of that tempestuous region will
obey. His is not the potent spell that can charm
Ireland into tranquillity. If it be not necessary
to send a nobleman of superior mental vigour
and talents to Ireland, surely one, at least, of
superior fortune ought to be selected for that
office—one who would go to that impoverished
country to circulate money, not to save it ; and
whose Court might be splendid enough to in-
duce a renegade Aristocracy to spend a few
months in the year in their native land.—
Morning Herald.
The question is very generally asked whether
our recognition, and the Windsor state dinners
consequent upon it, can make Donna Maria,
eldest daughter of Don Pedro, with a son
living—Donna Maria, once the heiress ex-
pectant of the Brazilian Throne, and by her own
father still styled Duchess of Gran Para, bor-
dering on the River Amazon—legitimate and
acceptable Queen of Portugal ? This is a point
which the Portuguese ought to have been al-
lowed to decide themselves, and after their own
fashion ; but Lord Palmerston says he would
rather do it himself, it being an affair too
delicate, too important, to be trusted either
to the decision of the ancient laws of Por-
tugal or the erroneous ideas of the modern
Portuguese. Portugal has ever been consi-
dered as a colony of Great Britain, and by no
people so much so as our good and worthy
friends the French ; therefore the disputed
succession to the Crown of that country
ought to be, and, says our Foreign Secretary,
shall be, settled in Downing-street, and the cele-
bration of the fiat there given held at Windsor.
The warnings of history, it may be readily con-
ceived, can have little effect upon a man who
handled all the military reports of the Peninsular
war, and yet did not retain in his memory a
single illustrative feature, a solitary prominent
trait, of the genius and character of the people
dwelling on this side of the Pyrenees, which
reports, during a long and arduous contest, dis-
tinctly showed that they were decidedly opposed
to all foreign intervention in their own domestic
concerns. Napoleon entered Spain with pro-
mises of regeneration on his lips, and yet those
promises, fairly made, were indignantly rejected.
Junot, as his representative, at the head of
25,000 men, and after he had secured the co-
operation of many leading Portuguese, did the
same when he reached Lisbon ; but still the
sound part of the population distrusted his
pledges and flew to arms. These manifestations
of popular feeling against foreign interven-
tion, against foreign advice, and foreign op-
pression, induced us to send an auxiliary
army to the Peninsula, and victory was the
result. Continental Europe was perhaps then
saved from universal thraldom, and yet the
Peninsula spirit which roused opposition and
called forth the elements of reaction, was
no other than the dread of a foreign yoke and
insults to their religion. The spirit of patriotism
has been supposed to delight most in moun-
tainous regions, and the conduct of both the
Spaniards and Portuguese at the time alluded to
confirmed this idea. Totally divested of re-
sources, betrayed by many of those who ought to
have been their leaders, and even deprived of
their respective Sovereigns, both nations never-
theless spurned the apparently easy yoke which,
by means of a superior military force and all
kinds of stratagems, it was wished to impose
upon their necks. Similar is the aim of the
present invaders of the Peninsula, although dis-
guised under a different form. England was
then an auxiliary, now she is an abettor : but
her Sovereign and his Ministers ought not to
forget that the descendant of James 11., known
abroad as the Chevalier de St. George, and at
home as the Young Pretender, on the Continent
assumed the title of King of England, and as
such was recognized by many of the Courts of
Europe. As such he received kingly honours,
was feasted at royal palaces, had guards at his
gate' and even enjoyed the privilege of bestow-
ing a certain number of Cardinals' hats. k 1
son Prince Charles did not enjoy these honours;
and, dying after his mother's immense fortune
had been spent in vain attempts to excite re-
bellion and defeat the settlement made by the
British Parliament, he left his empty pretensions
to the Crown of these realms to his brother,
Cardinal York. After the battle of Culloden
had settled the arduous and unfortunate enter-
prise, the surviving Pretender, although then at
Dunkirk at the head of an army of 15,000,
which the obsequious French had prepared for
his aid, withdrew to Rome, and took to the
church, leaving behind him a few solitary medals,
one of which we know was in the possession of
our late Sovereign, with this inscription,
" Anglia Rex Dct gratia, sed non voluntate
heo tnai natu
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There is nothing like women for looking after
the main chance; if you observe, they never look upon
bank-notes as money. how happy would it have been
for England if it had been governed by the wives and
instead of the husbands and
daughters of Ministers,
MI.

OLD BAILEY, SEPT. 10.

OLD COURT.

The jury acquitted James Orlando Williams,
whose case was not concluded when our reporter
left yesterday. They also acquitted William Rogers,
indicted for having committed a rape upon Eliza
Pemberton, aged 15.
SHOOTING WITH INTENT TO KlLL—William
Thomas Stoner, aged 58, was indicted for maliciously
shooting at William Upjohn, with intent to do him
grievous bodily harm.
The prosecutor was a lad 14 or 15 years of age.
He and another lad, named Jones, were throwing
stones in the Vauxhall-road, when a gun was fired,
and the prosecutor was struck in the back of the
head by the shot, which made fifteen wounds there.
The boy Jones deposed to hearing a voice ex-
claim, " I have you now ;" he did not, however,
see any one. The prosecutor did not hear this ex-
pression ; but, upon turning round, he saw that the
prisoner was the person who fired at him, He was
certainly agitated, but still he could see who fired
the gun.
The policeman who took the prisoner into cus-
tody, deposed that the prisoner admitted having
fired the gun, but without intending to hurt the
boys. He fired it merely to frightem them from his
garden.
A surgeon stated, that prosecutor was in St.
George's Hospital from the Bth to the 25th of last
month, and that there were fifteen small wounds on
the back of his head.
The prisoner, in his defence, said, that seeing
some boys attempt to get into the garden, he went
towards them, but stumbled, when the gun which
was in his hand went off by accident.
Several witnesses gave the prisoner a good cha-
racter for humanity. Amongst these was the pri-
soner's master, with whom he had lived 12 years.
The Jury, after consulting a few miuutes, ac-
quitted the prisoner.
ANOTHER LUNATlC.—Frederick Scyffert, aged
36, was charged with stabbing John Benton, with
intent to do him grievous bodily harm.
Charles Scyffert, collector of the Post-horse Duty,
residing at Pimlico, deposed, that he was father of
the prisoner, who came to him at the toll-house; he
remained there from five in the morning till the
afternoon, and repeatedly threatened to destroy wit-
ness and prisoner's mother with a knife and fork,
and using most abusive language; witness called a
constable, who was afraid to act, and said he could
not interfere without seeing a blow struck; pri-
soner had then a fork in his hand, and threa-
tened to stick the policeman ; this went on
to a quarter before nine; when witness spoke
to Sergeant Benton, and said his son was
raging mad ; he had been in several lunatic asylums,
and had once cut his throat, at another time hanged
himself, and once attempted to drown himself; pri-
soner threatened to rip up witness's guts, and two
or three times sharpened a fork on the stones; when
Benton came up, on witness's request, to take him
to a place of safety, prisoner stabbed Benton with
the folk he had in his hand ; witness saw it stick-
ing in Benton's side; Benton drew it out and ap-
prehended prisoner ; at this time prisoner was most
decidedly mad ; had been so for five or six years ;
prisoner is now quiet, and believes him to be per-
fectly rational; but he will fly out into fits of vio-
lence all in a moment ; prisoner had strange fancies;
thought persons were after him, and that he saw
birds, horses' heads, &c.
The prisoner answered the RECORDER'S ques-
tions very wildly, and said he would rather have his
life taken away, than be put under restraint.
John Benton, the police sergeant, corroborated
the statement of the first witness; the fork was
thrust an inch and a half in his side, and the blood
flowed abundantly; witness then apprehended the
prisoner, and went to St. George's Hospital; pri-
soner plunged the fork into witness with all his
strength; witness's great coat protected him very
much.

Mr. Francis Hicks, surgeon, described the
pearance of the wounds, which were between the
fifth and sixth ribs; nothing but such an instru-
ment as a fork could have produced such a wound ;
it was not a dangerous one, though, from the state
of the body, such wounds are sometimes dangerous ;
had the wound been half an inch deeper, it would
have wounded the lungs ; the great coat, no doubt,
protested Benton ; for four or five days witness did
not think all danger removed; the wound was a
punctured one; it was a stab but not a cut; the
wound was not, technically speaking, an incised one.
Joseph Maycock swore to the deranged state of
prisoner's mind for some years past; at times he is
a raving madman. It was dangerous to let him he
at large, his fits were so violent and so sudden.
The Jury acquitted the prisoner, on the ground
of insanity at the time of the commission of the
offence.
The COURT ordered the prisoner to be kept in
strict custody till his Majesty's pleasure was known.
Thomas Cormack, labourer, aged sixty, was
indicted for cutting and wounding An❑ Dargon,
with intent to do her some grievous bodily harm.
The jury found a verdict of not guilty.
The prisoner was ordered to be detained, in case
any minor charge should be brought against him.