The Sun.
London, England, 1832-01-30 00:00:00

THE GENERAL HYPOCRISY.

(From the Examiner.)
" 'Tie too much proved, that with devotion's visage,
And pious action, we do sugar o'er
The Devil himseIf'—SHAKSPBARE.

That precious pot of ointment,that godly gentleman,
Mr. Perceval, has at last had his pious will of us, and
obtained from Ministers a promise of a General Fast,
or rather of an order for one,—for as it is true that
any Mall may take a horse to the water, but no one
ran make him drink,—so also it is certain that any
rulers may direct a general fast, but no power can
prevent rnen who have the means from ministering
to the carnal cravings of their stomachs. The only
effect will be to put the nation for one day through
a grand ceremony of hypocrisy. In addition to the
customary dinner, people will eat salt fish with egg
sauce, which is a very good thing now and then for
the palate, but decidedly dyspeptic, and apt for cho-
lera, and should by no means be eaten where the
disease exists.

How is the world changed ! Time was, when con-
trition showed itself in beating the breast, tearing
the hair, rending the garments, screaming with
energy. Now, the most pious man of the age pro-
poses to settle the nation's long score of sins with
one day of salt fish and egg sauce ! What penitence !
See twenty millions of sinners expiating their sins
with the fine large flakes of Newfoundland cod, smo-
thered in an egg sauce, rich with cream, sad stimu-
lant with mustard, every glutton, as he gobbles it
down, only remarking what a fine vehicle egg sauce
is for mustard,—and certainly it is so. If we ever
write a tragedy it shall be called Contrition ; and
the hero, after a tissue of enormities, shall, by way
of catastrophe, in the fifth act, order salt flit' and
egg sauce, in addition to the usual two courses and
one remove.

The Chronicle truly remarks, that good Mr. Per-
ceval has superseded the Bishops, nay, the Archbi-
shops, who have not said a word about the necessity
for this general fast, perhaps because those worldly
divines well know that it will only prove a General
Breakfast, a dejeuner d la fourchette du diable. Mr.
Perceval indeed explains, that he is the Member for
Heaven ; but we think we see signs of his differing
with his constituency. For instance, he rather un-
graciously flings in the teeth of the country the
shameful prodigality of bounty shown to him and his.
_ _

" I was taken up," said the Hon. Member, " on the
death of my father, by the nation, which abundantly pro-
vided for me and mine; and it is in gratitude for that
kindness that I call on the House to address the Crown to
issue a proclamation for a fast."
Were he ' taken up' by a mad doctor, it would
he more becoming his peculiar claims to care. It is
the taking up' of him, and such as he, which con-
stitutes the crying sin of the nation,—its endurance
of abuse to absolute baseness. And this pot of god-
liness coolly talks of the abundant provision made for
him. Why does he not look to be fed according to
Scripture, with the young ravens ? What does he
do with that kitchen ? What mean those fat par-
tridges at the fire? What is the intendment of that
vast cook ? is that simmering and bubbling from
stew-pans, flesh-pots of abominations, devices of
carnal cookery ? And lo there we spy a haunch of
mutton hanging up to be dressed ten days hence,
when tender,—perhaps on the general fast day, after
the fish and the eggs, and the mustard ! What provi.
dence is this, what thought of the morrow, and not
the morrow of all souls,—aye, and of ten days after
the morrow ! Is this in any degree like the manners
and customs of young ravens ? Who ever saw a
raven, young or old, with a cook and a kitchen range,
and a larder, and a carnal joint hanging upon a devil's
hook ? Does Mr. Perceval (we will not call him
good after such doings) suppose that the devil has
never been in his kitchen ?—aye, has he, and per.
haps kissed his cook too, arid looked with a leer into
his stew-pans, and thought what a sop in the pan
he would make of his miserable little soul, tricked
out with all its earthly lauds and hypocrisies. Whure
is his treasure laid up 7—At Ransom's ;—aye, that
will be no ransom for him from the pickle of Dives.
Again :—What sort of tabernacle is that he tarries
in ? Is it in the least like a raven's nest ? No, no ;
his nest has been very differently feathered, and it is
lined most abundantly, as he truly says, with the
golden fleece, from this most patient and most pil-
laged people of all on the face of the earth. He is
like to the raven in nothing but blackness, and the •
dismalness of his croak.

He says the Bible makes no mention of the
power of the people. Does it make any mention of
rotten boroughs ? Does it make any mention of
Phatisees, who pray arid boast their piety aloud, and
tate the publicans ? Does it make any mention of
pensions, of abundant of provisions, of Dives and
Lazarus, of the soul. destroying effect of riches ?
Does it make any mention of bribery and corruption,
self-seeking, lying, slandering, evil-speaking, and
taking the Lord's name in vain ? Does it ever say
out upon ye, )e hypocrites? But for this worm's
scripture lore—we have a right to call him worm,
for it is scriptural, man is worm, and Perceval is the
worm that eats the substance of the people—the
worm that never dies in the pension list, but which
should feed the young raven; for this lob worm's
scripture lore (lob, not for incivility, but by reason
of his greatness)—what says the book of Samuel ?
When the people asked for a King, unreasonable,
infatuated, wilful, and wild as the wish was in the
sight of God, he answered " Hearken unto the
voice of the people in all that they say unto thee, for
they have not rejected thee, but they have re-
:ected me."
Now, therefore, hearken unto their voice : howbeit,
yet protest solemnly unto them, and ■how them the man-
ner of the King that shall t eign over them.
And Samuel told all the words of the Lord unto the
people that asked of him a King.
And he siid, this will he the manner of the King that
shall reign over you : he will take your sons, and appoint
them for himself, fur his chariots, and to he his hors:men ;
and some shall run before his chariots.

And he will appoint him Captains over thousand., and
Captains over fifties ; and will set them to ear hi. ground,
and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of
war, and instruments of his chariots.
And he will take your daughters to be cmfectionaries,
and to be cooks, and to be bakers.
And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and
your o'ive-yards, even the best of them, and give them to
his servants.

And he will take the tenth of your teed, and of your
vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servanta.

And he will take your men-servants and your inaid-ser•
vants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and
put them to his work.

He will take the tenth of your sheep; and ye shall be
his servants.

And ye shall cry out in that day because of your King
which he shall have chosen you ; and the Lord will not
hear you in that day.

Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of
Samuel; and they said nay; but we will bare a King
over us.

The people had their wish, because it was their
wish, though a bad one; but the King here decribed
is a dove, compared with the cormorants that have
glutted on this enduring nation, and tilled it with
corruption. Our boroughmongers are the true har-
pies, the obscene creatures, that not only seize upon
the food, but befoul all that they cannot snatch with
scourings of their loathsome natures, rapacity and
corruption conjoined, robbing, ravening, rioting, and
tainting.
Diripiuntque dapes, contactuque omnia fsedunt.

DEATH OF DANIEL SYKES, ESQ.--We
lament to announce the decease of this most estimable and
consistent patriot, which took place at his house at Ray-
well, near Hull, on Tuesday morning, in the 67th year of
his age. —Leeds Mercury.
The Thontas Laurie, Capt. LANGDON, has
just arrived in the river, and has brought home a rare
assemblage of animals, such as kangaroos, opossums, black
swans, &c. ; the whole of which he has most liberally
presented to the Surrey Zoological Gardens. Among the
birds are some geese from the Falkland Islands, the first
ever imported into this country, and by far the most
beautiful of their class. The plumage much resembles that
They have not the
disagreeable lst
reeaublearcda'civliethofptahleeiyreflahmlyle.P.Should success attend
the breeding from these birds, they will form a beautiful
addition to our farm-yard.

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LONDON,
MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 30, 1832.

We are requested to contradict the infamous
report that appeared yesterday in some of the
Sunday Papers respecting the Duchess of Ricti-
MoND. There is not the slightest truth in the
report in question, which no doubt originated in
political motives. The Ultra faction, provided
it can gain an end, is not scrupulous about the
means. We (Sun) took no notice of the foul
slander, knowing that it was a rank falsehood.

The public will do well to mark the game
now playing by the Boroughmongers, the perse-
vering industry and artifice with which they labour
to pervert every passing event, however appa-
rently remote or trivial, to the furtherance of their
only object, the delay and defeat of the great
measure of REFORM. A dinner to the memory
of the poet BURNS ; the terms of the pending
treaty for the severance of Belgium from Holland;
the construction of the Belgic treaty contracted
by the Tories in 1814, are seized upon with
equal avidity, for the same purpose, the latter
being a profligate treaty, by which millions wrung
from the British people were wantonly lavished
in supporting the cause of continental despotism.
And yet the Tories now cry out at the expendi-
ture of some tens of thousands though it pro-
motes British objects ! Verily their stomachs
have become exceedingly delicate and squeamish
of late, having swallowed the camel when in
office, they strain at the gnat now they are out,
They, in reality, care nothing for the pending
Belgic treaty, or the construction of the past,
or any other question they moot, save as affording
pretexts to attack the Government, consume the
time of the Legislature, and if possible divert the
attention of the public, from the one great
object of their unceasing dread and animosi'y,
Reform. Having to no purpose debated and di-
vided on the Reform Bill, ad nauseam, in the
last session, they now proceed upon a fresh tack,
and have resolved, in solemn conclave, systema-
tically to occupy the time of the House in
debating and dividing on any and every ques-
tion they can raise, in order to throw aside the
question of Reform, and in the hope they may
on some division gain oversome ofits supporters.
Ministers may not be infallible, but there is
scarcely a man in the kingdom who believes they
took office merely for the sake of office, or who
believes the Tories seek to regain office for any
object beneficial to the public. Who, and what
are, and from whence spring the host of noisy
clamourers against the Government—the Gout.-
Ulm, the CROKERS, the DAWSONS, the
1-lEnniEs's, et id genus omne ? The public are
not likely to mistake the nature of the services
they have rendered the State, when they look at
the debt and pay the taxes—nor the nature of
the services they have rendered themselves at
the public cost, when they look at what they
were, and what they are.

We, submit to the consideration of those
Members of the Legislature who honestly sup-
port Reform, whether voting against. the Go-
vernment on any question factiously brought for-
ward by the Boroughmongers (even assuming a
ease arose in which it had erred), is not to vote
against Reform with more effect than by voting
against the Reform Bill itself ? Whether Re-
form, once carried, will not shortly remedy any
errors of the present, and many of the crimes of
past Governments ? and whether, under existing
Circumstances, every honest friend of Reform will
not more effectually promote that great cause,
by temporarily limiting their disapproval of any
particular measure they deem wrong in principle,
to a protest against it, than by giving their votes
to the deadly opponents of every liberal measure
they are anxious to advance ?
It is worthy of remark that on the late di-
vision in the Lords only three Bishops
voted (the Bishops of Noitwicti, CHICHES-
TER, and KILLALOE, who voted for the •
Government), the rest of the Right Re-
verend Bench did not vote, which, we trust,
is indicative of their entertaining a more just
sense of the duty they owe to the nation that
supports them, and that if they again appear in the
political arena, it will not be to pander their
votes to the Boroughmongers, who arc more bit-
ter and far more dangerous enemies to the free-
dom, prosperity, and happiness of England,
than all the despots of Europe, if all their hordes
were arrayed in arms against them.
We have hardly space to notice an honourable
trait in an opponent of Reform. LordWnARN-
CLIFF): did not lend himself to the late factious
proceedings in the Lords,—his Lordship is said
to have left town on the day of the debate, and
to have refused to leave his proxy to be used
against the Government.

The following are extracts from German
Papers, and have reference to the war going on
at present between the PORTE and the Paella of
EGYPT. The paragraph from the frontiers of
Russia is worthy of observation :

AUGSBRG, JAN. 21.—Several Paris Journals hitch
'Rence received by sea at Marseilles, that the Porte hadmention declared
War against the Paella of Egypt. Neither the Moniteur Ottoman,
Which we have to the 24th December, nor private letters from
onstantinople to the 27th, speak of a formal declaration of war,
w
12ick would indeed be very extraordinary from the Porte against
liebellious Paella. War, however, has in fact begun. The
We
news probably relates to the Imperial finnan,. which
e Rave in the No. of the Allgemeine Zeitung of the 7th of Jan.
, (From the Moniteur Ottoman of the 2-Ith December.)
dilt,apressed with the necessity of putting an end to the various
"erences between the Governors of Egypt and Saint Jean
Acre, the Government has sent Commissioners to them to.
;Nand explanation on the subject. As the Governor of
c'tYpt has not yet answered these dispatches, in which the wisest
.:Pllsels were joined with the commands of the Sovereign, this
4-„ence indicates an intention which seems not to be that of a true
to loyal subject. The Government has thought it necessary to
1.4,! measures in consequence. Mehemet Paella, Governor of
1)„ka, and Vice-Governor of Aleppo, commanded in the last ex-
t„-jlion against Bagdad, under the command of Ali Pacha, ac
e- Governor of the latter cit our, the report made by the
arciander-in-Chief of the va and skill shown by Mehemet
tail he was promoted to the dignit of Pacha of three
s. but still remained Vice-Governory of Aleppo. The
" services that he has hitherto performed, give reason to

hope that he will fulfil with the same zeal and devotedness the
functions to be confided to him in future.

The present Government of Bagdad is at this moment en-
gaged in regulating the important affairs of Irak. It was, there-
fore, necessary to give Mehemet I'acha sufficient authority to
assemble an army on the frontiers of Arabia, which is destined
to act in case the actions of the Governor of Egypt and St. Jean
d'Acre should render a display of force necessary. The pest of a
Commander-in-Chief could alone enable him to fulfil those
duties in their full extent.

On the 11th of this month Redscheb (December 16), the
Government of Aleppo was united with thatof Rakka, and Me-
hemet Pacha appointed General-in-Chief. Osman Pacha,
mirimirian and director of the Imperial mines, the Musselims
of Marasch, Sivas, Adana, and Pagos, have received special
orders to collect hosen troops, both infantry and cavalry, in
numbers corresponding, with the-population of countries under
their administration. These officers must place themselves in
person at the head of their troops, and under the command of
the Sereskier, Mehemet Pacha. Orders were sent at the same
time to Alisch Pacha, Governor of Caramania, and to Osman
Khaire Paella, Governor of Cxsarea, to be ready to march at the
shortest notice. The Directors of the Ordnance have orders to
prepare for active service the artillery, bombs, ammunition,
&c. necessary for a large army. All proper measures have
likewise been taken for the subsistence of the troops, and the
on Government is in readiness for the extraordinary measures
which the state of things may require.
We (the Moniteur Ottoman) have published the resolution of
the Government respecting the city of Damascus, where seri-
ous disturbances have broken out. The generous wish to avoid
bloodshed, and to spare the inhabitants, whom the Sultan knew
to be for the most part innocent, delayed the employment of
energetic measures to which the Sultan resolved not to have re-
course except in case of extremity. Before the departure of the
Capidgi Baschi, Himmet Aga, who was sent as Mutselim to
Damascus, till the Governor Hadschi Ali Pacha could
set out, Tartars had carried orders to the Cadis and
principal inhabitants. The latter have lately sent ad-
dresses to Constantinople, in which they express their thanks
fisr the mildness shown towards them, and their readiness to
fulfil the intentions of the Government, by providing for the
safety and the wants of the pilgrims. They also represent how
much they desire the arrival of the Governor and the Mussul-
men, whose presenco will completely restore order and tranquil-
lity. According to a commercial letter from Alexandria, dated
Dec. 9, the Viceroy had on that day received the news that St.
Jean d'Acre had been taken by his son, Ibrahim Pacha.
FROM THE RUSSIAN FRONTIERS, JAN. B.—We have
here various reports, none of which, however, I would warrant
as authentic. It is said that discontent has manifested itself in
Finland, and that the Government has discovered intrigues, ori—
ginating in foreign influence, to weaken the loyalty of the popu-
lation to the Russian throne. No arrests had yet taken place,
but several individuals had been marked out by the authorities to
be arrested. In other parts of Russia it seems that these measures
are the effects of foreign suggestions, and all travellers from France
and Italy, especially ecclesiastics, are placed under the superin-
tendance of the police. In general there is in Russia, especially
in the higher classes, a dissatisfaction hitherto unknown; the
great burdens resulting from the late wars, and the speedy alle-
viation of which is not to be expected, may constitute much to
this dissatisfaction, and still more the lessons of freedom of the
States of Western Europe, with which the doctors have become
more acquainted by their frequent intercourse in this country.
Forthis reason it seems doubtful that war with France is desired
in Petersburgh, as some journals would insinuate ; such are the
reports alluded to.

Lisbon Gazettes to the 22d instant contain
the following :

LISBON, Ja r. 15.—We learn fiom the Captain of the 6th
Company of the Battalion of Royal Volunteers of the town of
Francaso, that when orders were received for that battalion to
march to the city of Vizeu, the members of that corps were
animated with such enthusiasm that though there was numerous
sick or convalescent, all of them except about 12 refused to ac-
cept the 70 days allowed them to complete their recovery, but
Game with their baggage to Vizeu.
JAN. 16.—0 n the 12th inst. there were delivered to the com-
mission created by the General Order of the army, No. 79, an
additional sum of 2,693,115 real, received at the General Police_
office from the Corregidor of various districts
OPORTO, JAN. 13.—The regiment of militia of the Villa de
Conde arrived here yesterday, and was followed to-day by the
fine regiment of cavalry of Chavrss.
LISBON, JAN. 20.—Yesterday in the presence of the Conde
da Louza, Don Diago, the President and Deputies of the Junta
of the Royal Loans, and the Delegates of the Bank, proceeded to
cancel and annul 22 contos 400,000 reis in 63 bonds of the loan of
2,400 contos of reis made by the bank of Lisbon in the year 1827,
being part of the 4,000 comes of reis decreed by the loan of
31st March, same year, while 63 bonds are preserved in the cof-
fers of the Junta, according to Article 111. of the said law.

THE SPEAKING FRENCH GRAMMAR,
IN SIXTY LESSONS,
Particularly calculated to render the speaking of French
easy to English persons. The Fourth Edition.
By J. V. DOUVILLE, M.A.
Professor of the French Language, 110, Strand, London. 18.11?.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Stu,—This Grammar, of which the fourth edition has
just appeared, will be found eminently useful for self-in-
struction. The Essays on the rules of the language are
all colloquial, and may be considered as a repertory for
conversation. With the help of the key to these familiar
exercises, a person may learn the French language with as
much facility as if he studied it in Paris.
I am. Sir, your's respectfully,
London, Jan. 28, 1832. B '"
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