The Sun.
London, England, 1802-10-15 00:00:00

SPEECH

DELIVERED ON THE 'OPENING OF THE PARLIA.,.
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MENT OF BOURDEAIf.X, 1795.

(From some PosthumOus kVotics of the PItESIDEA'T, lately
published in Paris, and not before translated into English:(

MA': the man amongst us, who would make the
-Laws slaves to the iniquity of his- judgments, pe.
rish on the spot ! May he every where find the
presence of an avenging Gon, and the Celestial
Powers enraged against him ! May fire burst from
under the ground and consume his house! May his-
Posterity he for ever degraded ! May he seek his
bread and find it not ! May he be a frightful ex-
ample of the justice' of Heaven, as he was an ex.
ample of injustice upon earth!
It was neatly thus, Gentlemen, that a great
Emperor spoke ; and these words, in themselves,
in sad, so terrible, are to you full of consolation.—
You may at this moment say to the people here
assembled, with the same confidence as one of the
Judges of Israel—". If I have committed injustice;
if I have
,oppressed any of ;if I have received
pr-sents from one against another; let him raise his
*voice, let him speak against me before the Lord."
Loquimini de me coram Domino, et contemnam illud hodie.

I shall not then speak to you this day of these
great corruptions which, in all times, were a pre.
sage of the change, or of the fall of States, of these
alas of injustice committed with a formal design,
of that systematic wickedness, of those lilies all
stigmatized with crimes, where one day of iniquity
is regularly followed by another ; of Magistracies
exercised in the midst of the reproaches, tears,
murmurings, and fears of all the Citizens. For
such Judges, for men so flagitious--murder is the
Chastisement--shame and reproaches go for nothing.
Thus, supposing in a Magistrate that essential
virtue which is Justice—a quality without which
he is hut a monster in Society, and possessing which
he may be a very bad Citizen, I shall only speak
of those accessaries which may make that Justice
more or less consummate. It ought to be enlight-
ened, it ought to he prompt, it ought not to be
austere, and finally, it ought to be universal.
In the origin of our Monarchy, our forefathers,
poor, rather shepherds than labourers, rather sol-
diers than Citizens, had few interests to regulate ;
some laws respeding the division of spoil, respea-
ing the pasture or robbery of cattle, regulated every
thing in their Republic : any one was qualified to
be a Magistrate amongst a people who in their
manners, followed the simplicity of Nature, and to
whom their ignorance and rudeness, furnished means
as easy as unjust, to terminate all differences—such
as casting lots, the ordeal by fire, or by water, sin-
gle combats, &c.
But since we ha ve lett off our savage Manners, since
conquerors of the Gauls and the Romans, we have
adopted their Police, since the Military has yielded
to the Civil Code, since, above all, the Feudal
system ceas'd to be 'the only law of the Noblesse,
the sole code of the State, and that by this last
change commerce and labour have been encouraged,
that the riches and avarice of individuals have in.
creased ; since we have had to unravel great inter-
ests, and interests almost always concealed, that
good faith has confined itself to some affairs of
little importance, while artifice and fraud are cm.
ployed in contracts, our Codes hairibeen augment.
ed ; we were obliged to call in the 'aid of foreign
laws to those that were national ; resped for Reli.
gion blended the Canon Law with them, and Ma.
gistracy is no longer the portion but of the most en.
lightened Citizens.
Judges are always liable to be deceived and sur-
prised, so that truth leaves in their mind the same
distrust as error.
The obscurity in which the truth may be in-
volved has given birth to forms. The crafty, in
the hope of concealing their malice, have devised
a kind of art : entire professions have been esta.
blished, some to render the cases obscure, others
to prolong the decisions ; and the Judge has less
reason to be upon his guard against the falsehood of
the litigant, than against the artifice of him to whom
he has entrusted his interests.
It will not then be sufficient that the Magistrate
has examined the purity of his intentions ; it will
not be enough that he could say to his aker—
Praha Me, Deus, et scito cor meum : it is necessary
that he should examine his mind, his knowledge
and his talents : he must account to himself for his
studies, maintain through life an unremitting appli-
cation, and see if that application was capable of
affording his mind that extent of information, that
degree of knowledge which his situation requires.
We read, in the accounts of some travellers that
there are certain mines in which the workmen never
see the day. They are a very natural image of
those whose minds, from the defeCt of their organs,
are incapable of attaining any degree of penetra-
tion. Such an incapacity requires of a man that
he should retire from the Magistracy ; inferior
degree of incapacity requires of a just man that he
should surmount it by toil and lucubrations.
It is further necessary that Justice should be
prompt. The injustice frequently is not in the
judgment, but- in the delay ; the suit often does
more injury than would a contrary decision. In the
present constitution of things, to be at law is a
wretched condition of life : that title accompanies
a man to his last moment ; it descends to his pos-
terity, and passes from one descendant to another,
until the final extiaCtion of the unfortunate family.
Poverty seems always attached to that melan-
choly title. The stridest justice can prevent only
a part of its misfortunes : and such is the" state of
things, that the formalities introduced for the pre-
servation of public order, are now, become the
scourge of individuals. Legal industry is become
the source of fortune as well as commerce and agri-
culture : oppression there looks for food, and chi.
cane brings in the ruin of the unfortunate litigant.
Honest men heretofore brought rogues before the
Tribunals ; ,but now the rogues there sue the honest
men. The trustee denies his trust, in the hope.
that timid right will soon cease to demand justice ;
and the ravisher acquaints the objea of his violence,
that it would be imprudent to call him to an account
for his transgression.

LONDON : Printed by BUCHANAN WIVII ULAN, (of Bow-Street,-Covent-Garnn);
AL the Suri-Quici) No. Z Iz, Strand; where ildwatitemtnis, Orders

him, I have etTe6lually curets --on't; for now
he writes but three words, prescribes but ewe,
sCruples, leaves people to a wholettothe kitchen diet
.and nature, has ruined the Sexton,. funeral Under-
taker, and the Parish is so much increased in po-
pulation, that many persons are daily emigrating
to the Western Country.
Scabies Causidita Rabnlar;s—l cured a country
Attorney of the Scabies Causidica Rabularis, (an-
other wonderful- cure never performed, before), so
that now he is as quiet as a cramm'd capon among
barn-door hens ; he won't so much as scratch for
his food his uncle has disinherited him, and I am
told he' is above to list himself for a foot soldi( r.

For the satisfaCtion of the Public, I must inform,
that a certain Cintleman has obtained Letters
Patent, for using, a new invented *Machine for
curing the Yellow Fever ; and has been good
enough to compliment me with the free use there A..
I shall therefore put the said Machine in operation
as soon as suitable encouragement is given. I con-
clude • with a caution to the Public to Beware of
Counteile;ts, as certain malicious folks have affe6ted
to ridicule my advertisement ; and I am just in-
formed by a Gentleman lately from Norfolk, that
a certain Do for has endeavoured to injure mO,
assuming the credit of having himself fabricated my
advertisement of the zoth July, for which I 'shall
sue him in the Distrid Court, he may rely on itr
All my Medicines will be accompanied with a
label containing my Coat of Arms, which I dcser:be
as follows :

Three Glyster Pipes erea, Guys, in a close-
stool-pan, argtnt ; my crest, a Dick swimming in a
pool, tmergent ; my sApporsers a Chymist and
Apothecary—and my Motto, Quack, Quack, Quack.
You will hear from me again shortly', until when,
I remain the Public's most devoted humble serovant,
and so forth.

* Any person who doubts this can know the truth, by
applying at the Office of the Secretary of State.

When Mr. BOYD, the Banker in Paris, found it
necessary to withdraw from that Country during
the time ROBgSPIERRE'S Committees and Guillo-
tines were in full aaivity, he knew no Passport
would b".: obtained in' his own name, and therefore
obtained one under a feigned French name. Orders
had been given at .all the barriers of Paris, to let no
British Subjeta pass :--When Mr. BOYD came to
the barrier, his Pas Sport was minutely examined.
The Revolutionary Citizen, to whoM the care of the
gate was intrusted, expressed his suspicions that the
Passport was counterfeited, and had great scruples
about suffering Mr. BOYD to pass : but at length
hid him throw out his handkerchief. Mr. BOYD
gave himself up for lust, knowing the initials in
the corner of the handkerchief would not corres.
pond with those in the Passport. While the Officer
examined the handkerchief, Mr; BOYD had the feeL
ings of a man condemned to.die :---Judge his asto-
nishment, when the Officer threw the handkerchief
back again into the chaise, and.,bid- the postilion
drive on, for all was right. !,Mr. BoyD waited im.
patiently the return of day-light, !Alen, on exmin-
ing his handkerchief, he found, to his great asto_
nishment, the letters on it were the same with the
name in the Passport. His n?id.servant, unknown
to him, had had the precaution to have his own
initials picked out of all the linen he carried with
him, and those in the. Passport.sewed in their room,

STATE LOTTERY OFFICE. •
HORNSBY AND CO. NO. 26, CORNHILL.

Next Month the English Lottery begins Draw.
ing. The Scheme con►ai►as more Capital Prizes •
than any former Lottery. •The first.drawn,Ticket
presents the Purchaser with an unparalleled Benefit
of zs,oool. The second day offers a to,000l..;.
the third Day a .to,oool. ; andithe fourth .day is
equal to the first, a" i 5,0001.. Every day's draw. ,
ing contains Capital Prizes of immense value.---,
Hornsby ;4. Co. take the liberty of pointing out
the above prtieuliir advantages, as well as an extra.
ordinary demand in't,he present Lottery for Ticketi
and Shares,, in. ordey, that the. Adventurers may not
delay buying. Last Lottery, Tickets rose as high
on the first day of drawing as twenty guineas, and
on the sixth day of drawing a Ticket could not be
obtained at any price.

SHIP NEWS.

GRAVESFIII/, OCT, 13.

Passed by—the Mary, Worth, from Dominica ; Mary
Ann, Knowles, and Perseveraixe, Skey, from Jamaica ;
Alfred, Robinson, from Oporto; Lord Duncan, Jordan, from
Archangel ; Fame, Hammond, from Stockholm ; Jason,
Walker, from Pillau ; Rose, ‘N. ilkinson, and Isabella,
Thompson, from Antigua.
Sailed—the Nancy, Potts, for Barcelona ; Industry, Wood,
for Dublin ; Minerva, —, for Limerick;
,Albion, Hut.
chinson, for Petersburgh ; and HottUttrig, Peterson, for Ant-
werp.

N~t~' ~A[?~' OF vt'

it I:

RIW Specks -of Wheat, obtained from Sicily;
is otiered to the CuriAts,.which has the tOliowingTllo4
valuable Properti..2 t viz. 1. it ripens near zt month sooncf
thari' English Wheats '. It gives a much larger increase,
(full one-fourth more on an Acre than English Nrihea),
and if managed according to the inclosed printed I;irettions,
it is woncLcfully prolific,. Its Skin is ten,i2r and thin, its
Flour very white and tine, and its Taste peculiarly sweet.
Bags of this Seed, from which twenty Bushels may he elc;
•)ected in return, are sold for tos. 6d. at Crocker 6- St. A -
ban's-street, Pall Mall, Printed Directions ate inclosed,
which furnish a method of cultivating all sorts of Corn, by
-.which an immense Expense is saved, much liner Coin pro-
duced than by any other was, and the incre-s> is from Three
Hundred to Pive Hundred Fold. No Credit—Pay Postage;.

SPILBURV's ANTISCORi3UTIC DROPS.
THIS well-known excellent Medicine, itAving
been approved by the Public near thirty
years, hardly
needs any recommendation; but as a Gt.a,tlernan of
respedability, residing in the neighbourhood of Spilsby, iri
the County of Lincoln, and,whose Case wus novel, list the"
g.,o,itiess to call ou the Proprietors, the Di3pensafv., N.
15, Soho-square, to a, them Of the Cure he had re-
cently experienced from the use or rtneir :Medicine: ArLssrs.
.SPILSBUR Y, and Co. beg Lase to acquaint the Publics
that oyr applying to Mr. Ho F r, or Spllsb:-,, they wjll receive.
every satisfadory accothit rel,tive to tile Case and Cure al-
id to, wh,en, for n.ii wlid be unpleasaut to
the Gentleman to have p:ib!icly Advertised.