The Sun.
London, England, 1835-08-31 00:00:00

Into the Kingdom this year.

American .
South American
West Indies, Demerara, &c.
East Indies ....
Egypt, &e.

Bags.
618,883
95,890
4,615
60,289
11,632

Total of all descriptions
Same period last year.
Bags.
American 647,223
South American
West Indies, Demerara, &c,
East Indies
Egypt, &c.

Decrease of Imports as compared with same
period last year
Exports, in 1835.
American, 27,071 ; Brazil, 6,264 ; East India, 33,616 ;
West India, 65; other kinds, 30.
Total in 1835
Same period last year
Estimated Stocks.
On the 29th of Aug., 1834 • • 255,320
Same time, 1835 231,070

1,609

67,050
63,946

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURT,
BAsINGHALL-STREET, TO-MORROW.

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(From the London Gazette.) M. n.
J. Gray, linen-draper, Wentworth-place, Mile-end-road
W. Dickinson, silk-manutactur, Caicatnn-street 2 12
lt. Bowe, victualler, Fullwood's-rents
J• Ilubb,. livery-stable-keeper, Carrington-mews
G. W. Roberts !. erchant, Adam's-court, Broad.street 1 1.2
C. Powell, wine-merchant St. Mary-at-Hill 1 12
G. Phibbs, wine-met chant,, Blenheim-street, Bond-street 1 1

In an Irish paper is a notice, that the bogs at Long
Orchard and Derrivella, near Templemore, are poisoned.
FIFTH FETE AT HERTFORD VILLA.---On
Wednesday last another splendid chef d'oeuvre was got up
at the Noble Marquis's magnificent pavilion in the Regent's-
park, in compliment to his Serene Highness the Duke de
Nemours. To meet that' Prince all the fashion and beauty
in high life remaining in London were specially invited. At
half-past I I the ball was opened in the long gallery, by the
son of the King of the French and the Marchioness of Lon-
donderry, to the music of Weippert's band.

We give the following abridgment of a letter by an " Old
Bencher," from the Lincoln Gazette.
Stu—John Singleton Copley has been indebted for his ad.
vancement and present political attitude to talent, luck, and
ratting—in about equal proportions. His father, " American
Copley," bestowed upon young Copley an university educa •
tion, which the old gentleman could not well afford, but
which was the foundation of his son's future advancement.
I remember a pleasant story current twenty years since, and
which I believe to be true. Old Copley. died " worse than
nothing." Among his creditors was the eccentric engraver
Sharp. When Lord Lyndhurst assumed the coif, his here-
ditary creditor, Sharp, paid him a morning visit at his cham-
bers in the Temple. " Good morning, Mr. Sharp," said the
gay sergeant, "I am happy to see you." " How do you
do, Mr. Sergeant Copley," replied the engraver; " I con-
gratulate you on your honours ; I suppose you are now
driving a roaring trade—l am come to see you about your
father's debt to me of 5001. for the plate." The Sergeant
in vain represented that he had inherited nothing from his
deceased parent, and that it was as much as he could do to
stave off his own creditors; the dun would not be denied, but
retorted, " John, your father always told me the reason he
was poor and could not pay my debt 'was, that he bad given
you such a costly education ; now, as my money has been so
laid out on you, I think you bound to repay me I The ca.
suistry of the Sergeant, however, was proof against the ap-
peal—his necessity also—for I do not mention this anecdote
as dishonourable to Copley.. Sharp got up, as report says,
and meekly wished him good morning. " I shall give you a
call John, occasionally, in the Common Pleas, to see how you
get on." In a few days, and from thenceforth constantly,
the persevering engraver, with his long beard, looking like an
Armenian Jew, was seen sitting on the attorney's bench in
the Pleas, facing the learned Sergeant, and exhibiting groat
anxiety when he appeared in any cause, and scanning with
his keen eye the number and amount of fees endorsed on the
Sergeant's briefs. The joke soon got wind, and the bushy
stranger became currently known in our robing-rooms and in
court as " Copley's Jew !" The Sergeant, it is said, was
not proof against all this ; he borrowed the money, and paid
Sharp in full. Now to the lawyer's politics.
From 1804, to the middle of 1818, Copley, on the circuit,
and in all private society, was a noir rions Jacobin. To de-
signate him as " Whig, and snore than Whig," would be a
pettifogging choice of a degree of comparison. There was
no disguise in the matter. Rough, Denman, and Copley
were the three Radicals of the Midland Circuit, who, our
leader old Nathaniel Clarke said at Derby once, at our mess-
table, ought to be gibbeted as Ultra-Radicals on the sign-
post of our inn for their Liberal discussions that evening, and
Copley placed in the middle as the greatest Jacobin of the
three !

We used to meet at many private tables on the circuit, in
Lincotn, Nottingham, Leicester, Warwick. We met at the
houses of Parr, the Parkeses, and John Tomes. Tomes be-
ing an attorney, it was not precise etiquette for the bar to
dine at his house ; but his liberal opinions and good wine (the
best of their sort) overcame the professional delicacy ; and
for the purposes of the assize Sunday, Mr. Tomes was voted
" a coal merchant .1" Here Copley used to " let out " in po-
litics pretty considerably strong. Once, I recollect, the bot-
tles were adjourned to his pleasant . green overlooking the
proud castle of the Warwick Baron, because " Copley talked'
so republican." Copley's conversation, at this critical period,
would have been considered dangerous and indiscreet by any
secretary, councilman, or member of the Birmingham Politi,
cal •Union of the present day. Old Parr used .to say, that
before Copley died he would be tried as a traitor ; but Cop-
ley prosecuted the Derby traitors, at his own seeking, and
outlived the chaplain of Queen Caroline !
Copley's conversion from Liberalism was sudden, accom-
panied by a " valuable consideration." I know the first move.
The Sergeant had then recently exhibited his powers in de-
fence of Dr. Watson, Thistlewood, and other dupes of the
Castlereagh system. It so happened that the late Lewis All-
sopp Lowdham, formerly a Nottingham attorney, knew the
man, and knew also Sidmouth intimately, and some little of
Castlereagh. An invitation was conveyed from the latter to
the Sergeant, " nothing loth." The couple dined alone. In
December, 1818, Copley became a King's Sergeant, and Chief
Justice of Chester !

The new rocket quickly ascended. The metamorphosed
Sergeant, the King's Sergeant, was knighted in 1819, and
became Solicitor-General. In the same year he was nomi-
nated " Representative " of Ashburton, a Devon rotten bo-
rough.
In Parliament his most memorable exhibition was his double
apostacy on the Catholic Question. The quondam advocate,
in his social cups, of " Civil and religious. liberty all over
the world," thence became a bitter opponent of the Catholic
claims. Canning knew the man, notwithstanding this into-
lerant twist, and gave him the Great Seal in 1827 ; he was
created Baron Lyndhurst, and thus became a Peer, and be-
getter of hereditary legislators ! The Duke of Wellington
continued him Chancellor, and in 1829 he wheeled round
again on the Catholic question at the command of his Pre-
mier ' • I believe this was his solitary sincere public act, inas-
much as he returned to his old opinions.
In 1830 he resigned the Great Seal when the Ministry
broke up. He was appointed Lord Chief Baron in January
1830. The secret of this—female influence— Ido not reveal
from respect to an eminent and retired public character; but
" a tale I might unfold."
I now Approach him as a Tory Leader of the Oppposition.
In the House of Lords circumstances give him a lead, He
is the only practical lawyer in that place. Bold, astute, cun-
ning, ready in expedients, with the spur of poverty behind
him—lately enjoying full leisure, he tad time and talent for
the task of political intrigue and party warfare. Having no-
thing to lose, he can afford to play any chance of gain.
" Brother Abiuger" being on the circuit, no other Tory lord
knows the details of the Corporation Bill, or how to " tattoo"
it; this is their Lordships' slang phrase.
In the whole house there is no man he so cordially hates as

Lord Brougham. The rival ex-Chancellor claws him cruelly,
and he shivers in the conflict. Lyndhurst can have no moral
courage ; that only belongs to conscience. You may see him
physically smarting under the cat-o-ninetails of Brougham and
Lansdowne, when they flog him for his political apostacies.
He cannot stand a " facer ;" he knows his weak place. At the
ago of sixty-three he may live out his pension, but curious
times are at hand.
If you ask me what is his political instruction? I answer
Nothing. He is a tyro in political science. Of jurisprudence,
as a science, he Is equally ignorant. He is only a Swiss party
man. As a Parliamentary speaker, he is calm, sonorous, im-
posing; his success is more in manner than in matter. With
a different physiognomy he would persuade ; but who can
credit such a sinister-looking ittePhistophiles countenance with
sincerity.