The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-03 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS,

THE DECEMBER NUMBER OF THE
NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE
contains
The Story of Hester Malpas, by Miss Landon--A Poem,
by the same Writer—The " Periodic 11 " Influenza, and
the Useful Knowledge Society Humbug—Simon Techv,
a character— French Libels on the English—The G.o-
vernment and the Trades' Unions—On the Progress
of Music, from the commencement of the present Cen-
tury : No. 4, Catalani, Pasta, Campotese,
H,mans Caradori,
Cothran, &c.—Words for Melodies, by Mrs. ,
containing Dirge at Sea ; Sister, since I met thee last ;
Far away ; Echo Song ; and the Pilgrim's Evening Song
to the Evening Star—Mrs. John Jones's Pic Nic—Stanzas
on Bailey's Eve—Lines, by the Author of Corn Law
Rhymes—Mr. Martin on the present state of Taxation in
En4lind No 2, The Malt Duty—Seasonable Ditties. by
Thomas Haynes Bayly—Monthly Commentary on Men
and Things, &c.
Published for H. Colburn by R. Bentley, New Bur-
lington-street ; Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh ; and John
Cumming, Dublin.

A preacher from America, calling himself
St. /Enochia E. Aamaellionel Fox, dressed in grey clo
the,
and and a broad-brimmed hat, and wearing long red hair,
professing to be a Christian, but of Jewish descent, ❑must
have attracted the notice of a number of our readers in the
towns of the West Riding, where he has been travelling
for some time past, visiting different places of worship,
and occasionally preaching in the streets. Last Sunday
afternoon some persons in Bradfield cruelly ill-treated this
inoffensive man, and one of them literally thrust a
!.hkedarp
instrument through his cheek, while be was knoc
down by others, and very much bruised. In consequence
f this treatment he is now laid up in Leeds, and several
gentlemen, much to th,ir honour, :have taken him
outlet
tbeir protection, and offered a reward of 51. to any person
who will give such information to the constables as will
lead to the conviction of the parties who committed the
assault and outrage..—Leeds Mercury.

The Leeds Intelligencer, while it vindicates
the proceedings of Lord Lonsdale against the
Carlisle newspaper, attempts to stigmatize
those adopted by Lord Durham, as resting
upon no similar justification. Lord Lons-
dale, it seems, could act no otherwise
than he has done against the culprit paper
which abused him, because that particular jour-
nal obstinately stood out, and would not apolo-
gize for a charge the falsehood of which, as it
applied to Lord Lonsdale, had been acknow-
ledged by other newspapers, the prosecutions
against which had been consequently dropped
by his Lordship. It is said that the editor of
the Carlisle Journal, counting on the misnomer
through which the indictment against him per-
sonally was afterwards quashed, felt bold in his
impunity, and continued his attacks upon Lord
Lonsdale. Now, we by no means leaned hard
upon that Noble Earl in our former allusion to
his measures against the Carlisle print. It is
certainly provoking for a man conscious of his
integrity, to be held up as a "peculator" and
"public robber" in the exercise of an important
trust, and we admit that, having dropped every
hostile proceeding against the journals which
had confessed their error, Lord Lonsdale
afforded sufficient proof that his object was
merely defensive, on behalf of his own character,
and not vindictive towards the newspapers which
had misrepresented him. Our notice, however,
of the conduct pursued by the Noble Lord's
agents leaned chiefly upon the arrest and im-
prisonment of an unfortunate widow, who could
not have been a wilful party to the offence, and
whose punishment, whether in purse or person,
after a verdict of guilty obtained against her
journal, could in nowise have tended to any
further vindication of Lord Lonsdale's charac-
ter, already purged beyond all question by the
verdict in his Lordship's favour, coupled
with his affidavit of innocence, on which the
information must have been granted by the
Court. This treatment of the widow Jollie
we take to have been a piece of gra-
tuitous harshness, to which there is seldom a
parallel found, and the least of all in any proceed-
ttidh b contend,e lashed
s of the obstinate
of Lord Durham towards his malig,ners.
If the Peer of Cumberland be, as the Tory
wholl
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from
arlbilsalme eJokurrnia) his
prosecution
papersl ,
how comes it, we again ask as we did before,
that
Whig
hednolaitlemati from otnbethe
eastern coast
sioi
beginning by the
Tory partisans, for having committed the most
cruel of all barbarities in the prosecution of his
Newcastle tormentor ? Was he of Newcastle
so very ready to confess himself wrong, anti to
apologize to the noble victim of his calumnies,
so as to cone within the same category as those
journalists who were pardoned by Lord Lons-
dale ? We do not insist upon Lord Lonsdale
being all in the wrong, and Lord Durham all
InWsniUs.4.l.Q, , with reeard to their respective
noble Lords were actuated by the same
motive—namely, the protection of their cha-
racters from foul and false reproach ; but
we take the liberty of repeating that both
alike misjudged the most honourable means of
effecting their object. Any distinct and open
denial, by either peer, of the discreditable acts
imputed to him, would have been abundant re-
futation of them in the eyes of the public ; and
in the case of prosecutions for libel, where no
justification can be offered, and none of the
circumstances gone into beyond the mere publica-
tion oldie libel—since as much is gained for the
prosecutor by his affidavit as could be secured to
to him by the most decided verdict—it appears
to us the plainest thing in the world that every
high and generous feeling, which must always at
the same time command the public sympathy,
would best be consulted by dropping the prose-
cution altogether the moment after the affidavit
has been sworn and the information granted by
the Judges. We are not defending Lord Dur-
ham at Lord Lonsdale's expense; but neither
can we permit the Tory press to play that illi-
beral game on behalf of their own ally without
protesting against it.— Times.
That injudicious friends are often more inju-
rious than open enemies to the came which
they espouse is a truism to which most teen's
experience must bear testimony. It would be
deemed uncharitable, perhaps, to hesitate as to
which class the persons who have been openly
combining to resist the payment of the assessed
taxes belong--whether they are really friends, or
only concealed enemies to their repeal. If
friends, as it is but fair to presume them to be,
we fear there is no doubt but that they must be
classed among the injudicious ones, and that
they are, in fact, doing more injury to the cause
which they espouse than its worst enemies could
do. We predicted that such would be the case,
when these ill-judged proceedings were first re-
sorted to, viz.—that they would furnish Govern-
ment with the best excuse which they could have
for resisting the repeal of these obnoxious im-
posts—that of not yielding to clamour and vio-
lence. Already is part of the Ministerial Press
giving hints to this effect, and a person high
in office, whose opinions are calculated to
have great weight with his colleagues, has, we
are credibly informed, declared that, whatever
were his opinions upon the subject before the
late violent measures of resistance were resorted
to, they, at least, have determined him, and leave
him without any alternative. We would fain
hope, that no such avowal as this has been
made ; for, however plausible it may sound, it
is, at least, neither discreet nor Statesmanlike.
Men who have the direction of public affairs
should not suffer their minds to be biassed, or
diverted from enlarged views by minor causes,
still less should they permit the intemperance of
others to give rise to imtemperate avowals from
themselves. But the very fact that such an
excuse is furnished to those who only want an
excuse for continuing these imposts is condem-
nation enough of the misjudgment, of those who
thus furnish a handle to their own defeat. An-
other effect of the violent and intemperate acts
of those to whom we are alluding is, that it
enhances the difficulties of those who are pro-
ceeding wisely and constitutionally in pursuit of
the same object. Indeed it leaves them with
all their work to begin over again. That work
consists in instructing their representatives,
and loading the table of the House of Com-
mons with petitions. It is hard upon the great

BOW-STREET.
Mr. Samuel Baker, a poulterer, in Leadenhal
market, was summoned before Mr. HALLS, io ac.
count for the possession on his part of a very beau,
61'01 swan, which had been stolen, with a great num
ber of others, from the river Thames, all the pro-
perty of his Majesty.
The swan was placed upon the bench, and
seemed perf,ctly at home in its novel situation, eye-
ing the magistrate and the audience, and indulging
in all the graceful varieties of motion of the head
and neck for which its species is so remarkable.
Mr. HALLS said the defendant was legally re-
sponsible, the swan having been proved to have'
been stolen and afterwards found in his possession,
and he had not produced the person from whom he
had purchased it.
Mr. Biker said he could do so if the case were
postponed, and he would undertake to appear at any
time that may be appointed.
Mr. Roberts said the chief object was to trace
the thieves, and put an effectual stop to the exten-
sive and mischievous depredations which had been
committed on the river for some time past.
The undertaking of Mr. Baker to attend to-
morrow was then accepted, and the further investi-
gation postponed until that day.
MAR YLEB ONE.
BEGGING LETTERS.—Yesterday a mall of shabby.
genteel appearance, who gave his name John Wat-
son, was placed at the bar before Mr. RAWLINSON,
charged as follows :
Mr. John Gray, surgeon, of No. 2, Upper
George-street, Bryanston-square, stated that about
half-past four o'clock on the afternoon of Sunday,
the prisoner walked into his shop, and, thrusting a
let►er into the hands of the assistant behind the
counter, said, " Read that." Witness, who was
standing at a desk at the other end of the shop,
then came forward, and immediately recognised the
prisoner as the same person who about seven months
back was in the frequent habit of annoying him in
a similar manner. lie reminded him of the circum-

pi inv., . • , "t the
arm for the purpose of turning him out, when clip
prisoner resisted, and in the scuffle that ensued they
both tumbled out of the shop into the street. A
policeman then coming up the prisoner was con•
veyed to the station-house.
Mr. RAWLINSoN here read the letter produced by
Mr. Gray, which ran as follows :
" Sir,—The bearer is a seaman, and has been recently
very ill. He yesterday walked from Chatham, where he
had been down to get a ship ; but not being able to obtain
one be is in very great diatres,. A penny would help,
sixpence relieve him. Applicant was midshipman in the
Royal Navy, and his brother a Captain in the navy. This
was written yesterday, but to day he has no resource :--
Donnez car jet suis trey pauvre qui "
J dat citoWATSON bis dat.'
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Mr. RAWLINSON (to prisoner)—What have you