The Sun.
London, England, 1833-03-25 00:00:00

THE RUSSIAN DIPLOMATISTS.

(From the Spectator.)
The mysterious movements of Matucewic in
the pursuit of sport, and the gormandizing cam-
paign of Pozzo di Borgo, are gradually unfolding
them-elves, arid important changes are likely to rake
place in the corp: di,plontatique of St. Petersburgh.
Nuzzo di Borgo teas Itft us more puzzled as to
our internal politics than he was b, fore he paid his
visit; and though his intercourse, his conversations,
and his dinners were with all sorts of people, the
opini-ns and statements he has heard have been so
contradictory, that he has confessed he cannot see
his way far. Nor is this to be wondered at, when
we consider how difficult, or rather impossible, it rs
for pe sons within their own country even to unra-
vel all the links and ,he net works of artifici
society: rto doubt Pozzo has been hoaxed arid my -
tified as well as others of t. e sane profession. He
has left behind hen a Russian Count, who, by keep-
inz himself as much as possible out of the public
eye,will endeavour to illuminate the w ly Rizzo.
t is well known that the Emperor Nieholas o ill
not receive Mr. Stratford Canning us our Atribassa-
dor at St. Perersburgh ; and unless anoth.r is sent,
the Lievens will he withdrawn, and the business of
the embassy placed in the hands of a Charge d'Af-
faires. By this manoeuvre we shall get rid of one
of the most daring and artful intrigantes of the pre-
sent day ; and whatever the feelings of the Cabinet
of Sr. Petersburgh may be, it is pretty certain tha'
the present British Ministers will not weep very
bitterly at the departure of a woman who has been
a most inveterate and occasionally a very dangerous
enemy to them.
Many circumstances make it probable that Ma.
tucewic (the Anti-Patriot Pole), will he appointed
Charge d'Affaires for the Emperor. Possessing a
degree of quickness, though no great depth of in-
tellect, and a remarkable share of that cunning use-
ful in the lower grades of diplomacy, he was sent to
this country as a kind of private agent of the Auto-
crat; and the farce of protocol-making, in which he
assisted, was all to advance other purposes un-
avowed. The time is at hand when Ashburnham
House will he a deserted mansion; but the glories
of Melton Mowbray are still rising.

THE DRUMSTICK.

(From the Examiner.)

A little boy Chopped his drumstick into a well.
From the servants up to papa and mama, each in
' turn, was implored to go down into the well for the
drumstick : nobody would go into a well for a drum-
stick. In this strait Master Stanley (for that was
his name) bethought him of an expedient. Some
articles of pla e suddenly disappeared ; great were
the alarm and conretnation, p tinfu 1 the suspicions.
In the midst of the searches and inquiries Master
Ned rushed in with good news—the plate was in
he well. The well was instantly inspecte 1, and sure
enough the plate was seen shining at the bottom.
A man was let down, and piece after piece of the
plate recovered. Just as the last ladle was fished
op, Mister Ned pushed his way through the crowd,
ind softly addressed the man at the bottom—
" John, as you are down there, you may as well
bring up my di umstick."
This story explains the whole history and mystery
of the pending legislation. The Irish Church is the
drumstick. Every thing valuable is to be thrown
down the well that that worthless stick may be
saved. No one would budg- a step to recover such
a thing; but when for another object John is down,
he may as well bring up the drumstick. It will not
be lao ful for the Lord Lieutenant to proclaim a
district merely for the non-payment of tithes, as it
was not permitted to Master Stattley to rummage
the well merely for the recovery of the drumstick ;
but when the other business is doing, it will be as
well for the servant in scarlet livery to turn a hand
to the Church. Happen what may, we are sure that
it will tend to the redemption of the drumstick All
precious things will be thrown down by Master
S anley t hat the drumstick may be helped up, 'th-
rusters, of course, deny any such intention stoutly;
they are ready to adopt any declaration that the lost
plate is the obj-ct of the proposed descent, but when
John is in the well a soft voice will bid him, as he
is there, lend a hand to the drumstick. " Here is a
loaded pistol, Captain Macheath, but it is unlawful
for you to turn the lead to gold by making it an in-
strument of robbery." These prohibitions are very
st!gestive if suggestion were wanting. The thing
must he apt for the use, or the use could not be for-
bidden.

For the safety of the sinecure Church it is
thought necessary to crush Mr. O'Connell. The
Bill is a mrans to that end ; this ponderous ma-
chinery is devised for the grand object of putting
down one man. The sword is to be suspended by
a thread over a whole people, that its terrors may
banish an obnoxious individual.

Why will not Mr. O'Connell sacrifice himself for
the good of his country ? He knows that he alone,
under the sinecure Church, is the object of this tre-
mendous measure, and why will he not enac► a
Roman part, and deliver a peipte from a tyranny ?
Why will he not go with a knife to the Secretary
for Leland, and kneel down and offer his throat to
him ? It may not be in the nature of Mr Stan-
ley to consent to such a straightforward proceeding,
hnt the same purpose will be answered if Mr.
O'Connell hangs himself to the lamppost at It
door. It is quite an immodesty in a gentleman, who
is the object of a measure involving the liberties of
a people, to walk about and continue the necessity
for so cruel a law by his anti-tithe existence. Bur
if he will not consent to die for the liberties of his
country, let the Speaker ask him to dinner and
poison him ; or let Ministers give some one half-a-
crown to assassinate him. We believe there are
many of their creatures who would do it for love.
All things should have appropriate means. Nothing
is so cruel as the roundabout contrivances for mi.-
chief, which, as Jonathan Wild finely says, is too
precious a thing to be wasted. If we are to have
a tyranny, let us have it with all convenient appli-
ances. Let there be an executioner in the lobby of
the House to strangle disagreeable Members. Let
the Lords employ the woolsack to suflocate any
offensive persons. Or if the prevention of agitation
be all that is desired, and the mildness of Govern-
ment be averse to the extremity of blood, let there
be a Bastile with lettres de cachet for obnoxious in-

dividuals, instead of tyrannical laws for a whole
people. Mr. O'Connell, whose banishment from
Ireland is aim,d at by these circuitous means en-
thralling a whole nation, might be permitted to live
in an iron mask, or a cage perched at the top of St.
Paul's. For all objects take the straight course,
especially for tyrannical ones, as the circuits of op-
pression are superfluous cruelties. When Herod
slaughtered the innocents he had the apology of not
being able to oli,tinguish the particular one s hose
destruction would have dispensed with the butchery
J the rest. Our rulers have no such excuse in
spreading their snares over a whole country for one
Loan. Let them pass a Bill of Pains arid Penalties
ngainst him, if they will'insist ou the forms of law
(a monstrous piece of affectation, a vile prudish

particularity, we must observe), let them do what
they will but out-Herod Herod, and injure millions
to destroy one.
The plain truth is, that Al;nisters have frightened
themselves and others into the cruell of coward:ce,
but if they had the power of stopping up O'Con-
nell either by stricture of rope or duress, ,hey
would return to their serves and their moderation.
At present fear has incapacited them and their
House for legislation ; they cannot see things in
their true forms and proportions; all is exaggerated
in danger and remedy. Mr. O'Gnmell knows that
he has fee-fa-fiimmed the poor things nut of their
little wits, and he knows that he could put a stop
to the Bill at any moment by hanging himself from
the gallery of the House, and that nothing else can
stop it. If, however, he doubt what we say, let
him ask the question of Ministers, and then decide
on his own suspension, or that of the liberties of his
beloved Emerald Isle.

'I he cottrtsmattial dense of the Bill for the banish-
ment of Mr. O'Grrinell, and the collection of tithes,
has been carried against a motly minority, some of
the Tories having opposed it in consequence of al-
tet ations, which, in their fastidious judgments, have
abated its vice. The military judges are not to be
of the employed force, but picked ow by Govern-
ment, from the London clubs in all probability, and
marched to Leland. Major Wyndham t,sr Du
ill doubt.
less be of the number, mid perhaps Maj)t
might find a convenieitce in the jurisdiction.
It seems to us that Mr. O'Connell tested his oh.
section far too much on the suspension of trial by
jury. We must admit that in a country like Ireland
—st• eped rn fortiori, cliCtirnstances might exist ren-
dering juries unfit for the administrbtion of justice;
but in no conceivable c rcumstances can men unp,ac-
tired in itivesitgatiou—in the eliciting, testing, and
valuing of evidence—uriskiled in law—and
its applicrtion to tact, be competent judges.
What a volume of satire does the bare fact speak,
that for the better adminis ration of justice in Ire-
land, judges from England must be had; and they
are taken, not from the forum, but the barrack-yard.
The Great Unpaid not bei .g trust-worthy, the next
resource is the supple Half-paal. Apropos of the
superseded unpaid vice the dogs of war, why does
not some Member ask Ministets when they intend
to remove them; for it is inconceivable that they
can intend to continue a magistracy whose partiality
and iticapac4y have been confessed. The Bill is to
expire at a certain date; but as it is asked expressly
on the score of confidence in-he present Ministers,
(Mr. stanley having pu' the qu- s•lott rhos broadly
out his Majesty', G •vertonent came to Parliament,
saying," Have you sufficient conlitlence in us to
place this formidable measure in our hands ?")
and many Members having voted fir the law on that
avowed personal reliance; considering these cir-
cumstances, we trust that at the p•oper oppor-
tunity some Mt-mber will move that the Act cease
to be of force at the appointed date, or on the dis-
missal, resignation, or change of his Maje-ty's
Ministers. This is not usual, we are aware, in
legislation, neither is the enactment of laws invasive
of public liberty on the score of confidence in arty
particular set of mortal men; and the provision we
suggest will embody the design of the Ministers
and their supporters, and mot eover denote in the
plainest way the despotic character of the measure
On the same ground William the Fourth might be
invested with absolute power. Despotisms would
have their conveniences but for two draw-backs ;
the fist is the difficulty of distinguishing the mart
worthy of the trust; and the second, that when
round and exalted he is depraved by the unbounded
power. All inert in authority, said the wise and
good Jefferson, have a tendency to become wolves
if they be not jealously watch,. d by the people—
trust them not. This is an argument against yield-
ing the confidence our Ministers demand; but if
they wish to prey on the fl tek, the motive explains
their asking the opportunity for the metamotpho-is
of shepherd into wolf. In public afftirs, at least,
the proverb of La Fontaine holds good—that sus-
picion is the mother of safety ; and the very sobei-
ation of extraordinary confidence is a reason for
distrust. Wise and honest men would shrink from
art encroachment which, if not abused by them,
wo.ild be more likely to be drawn info a precedent
and to be abused by others. But a price is pro-
mised for this accommodation; if the arbitrary
pow -r be granted the remedial measures are to
fol ow—aye, to follow; how far behind may be
udged by the Church B 11. Witen the wolf hail a
bone iii his throat he bid fair for the goose to extract
it with her foolish till, bur when the goose claimed
the reward, the wolf told her that she aas rewarded
• nough in carrying her neck our of his jaws When
Governments come to the people with stories of
banes in their wolfish throats, the answ, r should be,
Cl Let them stick ; if you had b err feeding like a
creature of a regulated tooth, such a misfortune
could not have happened to you. We will not
open so dangerous a thr•roug•.tare."
B fore our next publication it is possible that this
villainous Bill will have passed. In that case we hope
our Irish brethren will aptly interpret the example
of Curtius. It is not necessary for them to believe
that a hide was supernaturally opened in the Forum,
and that he, completely armed, leaped into it, a here-
upon it closed. The meaning of the story is, that
when dangerous chasms are made in the liberties of
a people, the generous, the bold, the free, will fl rig
themselves into the gulf, and gorge it with their
sacrifices. Ir a few break the law they suffer its
penalties, bur if the many break it, they break it
to atoms—pulverize—utterly destroy it.

The East India Company's ship Orwell ar-
rived off Brighton the 224 instant. She left Coins on
the 20th of November, arrived at St. Helena on the 26th
of Janu try, anti sailed from thence the 30th of the same
month. The Iliacqueen, Thomas Courts, and Asia, lest
St. Helena the same ttay. The Asia spoke the outward.
hound ships Duke of York, Duke of Sussex, and ht//is,
in lat. 2 deg. 41 two. N., all well.
THE AMBITIOUS MARRIAGE.--One of
our most accomplished fema'e writers has tt,us de-e.ib d
Mrs. SHERIDAN'S new novel of "Aims ,n l Ends." It
is a 'ale of to•da• in fashionable life, and will list longer
than the usual works of this nstur-, since it addresses
itself to tbefe lings and not the fancies of its readers. It
is most particularly addressed to the yot.ng. and is 4 beau-
tiful s'ory of an am itious marriage ma le by the heroine
for vanity's sake. If I were to g•ve a lecture to a young
lid) on ter entering into the world, I would give her
" Aims and Ends."

SINGULAR AND AFFECTING DISCOVERY
—A ifiscoveiy of a vry affective kind was made, a few
days ago, at Runcorn. A boatman picked up, at low
water, a shoe containing the remains of a human foot,
with the foot of the stocking. He •. as in the art of taking
it to show his acquaintance, w, en he met a fellow-boat-
man, an elderly man, to whom he sly,wed the shoe and
its contents. The poor m,n immediately recognised t. e
shoe, from a patch on the toe, as having i•elonged to his
own son, a young man of about eighteen, who had been
drowned, about two years ago, near to the spot where the
discovery was made. He carried the mid ,richoly relic
home, and showed it to his wife, stating his belief that it
nail belonged to their lamented The mothe, ex
amined the stoking foot, which she knew to have belonged
to her poor child, from a peculiar darning she hail given
the socking foot before his sudden and awful death. The
reader may im +gine what the feelings of the parents were
when examining these affecting mementoes of their unf r-
tunate boy.—Liverpool Albion.
RAMSGATE, MARCH 18.—One of those
unfortunre cases of shipwreck, which so frequently occur
on the Goodwin Sands, took place on Siturday last. At
day break on that morning, our boatmen discovered a fine
ship on shore, a little to the eastward of the gull stream
light vessel. Four loggers were immediately manned and
put to sea, the wind at the time blowing very hard from
the east; after great exertions they reached her, when she
proved to he the American ship Marion, Snow, from
Antwerp, homeward hound in ballast ; the boats kept
about her the whole of the day endeavouring to grit her
„if ; hut without success; and as the night approached,
at the name time it coming on to blow still harder, the
Captain and crew, together with the live stock and what
few things could be hastily got together, left her, and ar-
rived safe in our harbour about nix, p.m. Today the
boatmen tell us, who have been out, she still holds toge-
ther, though completely filled with water, and very deep
in the sand. Stie was a fine new ship, only IS months
old, and between 400 and 500 tons.—.Kentish Gaze*.

LENT ASSIZES.

NORTRERN CIRCUIT.—Yoga.
NORTH RIDING ELECTION.-ROBINSON V. STAVYLTOH,

The action was brought Co recover compensation for
services performed by the plaintiff. an attorney-at-law, re-
siding in York, as agent for the defendant, Martin Sta.
pylton, Esq., who, towards the close of last year, offered
himself as a candidate for the North Riding in Parliament.
He, of course, had a number of agents employed in can-
vassing, taking votes. acting as poll-clerks, &e. ; amongst
the rest, Mr. Robinson, the plaintiff, was employed as a
canvassing agent. Mr. Stapylon's principal agents on
that occasion were Mr. Conolly, of London, and Mr.
Garwood, of York, both in the profession of the law,
who man aced Mr. Stapyltonie business during his absence.
On the 16th of December Mr. Robinson applied at the
committee-room to Mr. Conolly and Mr. Garwood to be
employed as a canvassing agent He was told that the
canvassing agents all acted gratuitously; he replied that
he had no objec-ion to do the same, but added, that if
others were paid, be should exp-et to be paid also.
This was agreed to ; and Mr. Robinson, acting upon
that retainer. spent the next three d ye in canvassing
Mieklegate Wald ; and one of his clerks was employed
during two of the days. On the 21-t and 2211 the plein-
tiff act.-d as poll clerk at York, in the booth Nm. 2,
and one of his chief-clerks was employed as check-
clerk. On the 19th and three following days an-
other of his clerks was engaeed, with the defendant
personally at Northallerton, and during the two former
days the other clerk was also employed there in correct-
ing the lists of voters. So that the claim arose, first, in
the person of Mr. Robinson, for his services as canvassing
agent, and, seenndly, as poll clerk ; next, for the services
of his clerk in assisting him in the canvass. and
acting as check-clerk ; and, lastly, for the services
of both clerks at Nutlialltrton. Amon :oat the items
in the account delvered to Mr. Siapylton were two
charges, one for the hire of the gie and horse which con•
veeed the clerks to Northallerton, the other for mail-coach
fare from that place to York, both of which had been
p iid into court by the defend ant : therefore the ri st of
the demand wan entirely for personal services, and the
mmount claimed was 211. After evidence had been ad
sitic-d for the plaintiff,
Mr. Pommel( said it was extremely pleasant to breathe
tie air of purity which pervaded this cause, especially
after the dust of corruption which had arisen the other
mi iy in Court. To use a cockney expression, it wa- quite
r freshing. There was no piece in which Mr. M trtin
Stapyltinee name had appeared on the walls or elsewhere,
that his pretension-, to offer himself as a candidate ha
not been coupled with the foiletving sta'ement :—" I
have no paid attorneys, nor paid agents." And so struck
had been Mr. Robinson with the contrast that the county
was ahem to present to the city, that he had gone to the
Caminmittiv-room, and there he in substance had said—
" You, Gentlemen. friends of Mr. Martin Stapy ton, as-
aembled Ur the purpose of conducting his election on
principles, it not of time utmost purity, at least as nearly
so as is consistent with a necessary remuneration to those
poor persona who may be employed, if you are desirous
of having his election so condected, accept of my services
as a canvassing agent." But, hark-e, says Mr. Gar
wood, we pay no attorney—we pay no agents. Very well,
says Mr. Robinson, if others are not paid, I am con-
rent. It was a little too much for Mr. Robinson to
tender his services in that way, for a person who called
himself a gentleman by Act of Parliament, to enter on his
labours with a distinct disavowal of reward, and then,
forsooth, because a decayed confectioner (and he meant no
ilisiep,ct by the term), because a man who had failed in
usiness through having become security for another had
been paid, and because the poll-clerks and check-clerks
had been paid ; oh, then, said Mr. Robinson, I'll be paid
too ; and it they refuse, I'll have an action too! And so
a man who pretended to move in a respectable line of lile
was to be paid because the miserable poll-clerks and check-
clerks had not the means of affording their services
gratuitously, one of whom, ton, was paid by Act o' Parli
'tient. He could not but feel ashamed that Mr. Rubinson
should put himself upon a level with paupers and poll-
clerks, with cheek-clerks and decayed conf ctiosers.
Mr. Thomas Wilson. of Layerthorpe, assisted as a gra-
'uitous agent at Mr. Srapylton's election. Mr. Robinson
applied to him on the morning of the 19th of December,
to know if he could be of any service to Mr. Stapylton in
ihe election. Witness told him he could, but he was to
understand that all the work was done gratuitously by the
attorneys and agents. He was taken to the committee-
room, where he was told the same by Mr Conolly.
Cross-examined.—lt might have been said by Mr.
Rebinson that he should wish to be paid if others were.
Witness was on the committee.

Mr. Win. Garwodil, attorney, York, acted gratuitously
alone with Mr. Cot-lolly as stint ney for Mr. Stapylton
Remembers Mr. Robinson coming to the committee-ro in,
yhen he agreed to give his services the same as the
rest. No attorney or agent was paid any more than
their expenses.
Crass-examined—Mr. Robinson sent Mr. Stapylton an
account of hie demand very •hortly after the election.
Some of the poll-clerks at Yolk were paid.
R- examined—Mr. Robinson did not tender his ser-
vices either as poll or check-clerk, but as an attorney ;
not one of the attorneys have been paid.
The Jury immediately returned a verdict for the de-
fendant.