The Sun.
London, England, 1835-10-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1835.

sider to be of more importance. It is a fallacy which
the Tories make one of their great cards in the game
they are now playing, and which is reproduced under
every suit and colour, in all the Tory organs besides
the Quarterly—namely, Fraser's, Blackwood's, &c.
This fallacious allegation is, that the Girondists were
French Whigs ; and this supposition being taken for
granted, the Conservative scribes in the various perio-
dicals referred to, climb at once to the top of the base-
less structure they have erected, and sound the tocsin
of warning, as they call it, or of alarm as we call it,
against the alliance of the Radicals and the Whigs.
Our course is the more obvious, since the enemy's de-
feated attempt to disunite us should naturally prompt us
to greater union. The Tories seek to inflame the
fears and jealousies of both by their historical ana-
logy, and point to the destruction of the Girondists,
who were united with the Jacobins on the 10th
of August when the republic was pi. 3claimed on
the wreck of the Monarchy, as an earnest of the fate
which awaits the Whigs, in consequence of their pre-
sent Radical alliance. Now we shall make short work
with this proposition, by denying its truth in toto. The
allegation is entirely false. The Girondists, in fact,
bore no resemblance to the English Whigs. We have
before said that nothing can be more false, nothing
more imposing, and more productive of error, than the
gew-gaw glitter of historical analogies ; but these
things, of course, entrap such jejune and immature
minds as those of the Quarterly Reviewer. They serve
by their coloured daubing to hide the naked ignorance of
the writer. We had before occasion to expose a childish
analogy of the same writer, in attempting to compare the
" great Rebellion" of England and the Revolution of
France, which, false as that analogy was, we did
not know at the time was stolen, Tory-like, from a pam-
phlet entitled " Revolutionary Coincidences," which
appeared in the New Times. This analogy between
the French Girondists and English Whig is of the
same false character. This being the case, the wri-
ter's inference of alarm drawn from it falls with it to
the ground. The Girondists, so far from being,
Whigs, were staunch Republicans. They were
staunch Republicans in the convention and at the scaf-
fold. They were staunch Republicans when hunted
from society into the caverns of Libourne. They were
staunch Republicans, when the 9th of Thermidor re-
stored the remnant of them to power on the wreck and
fall of their great persecutor Robespierre. They were
staunch Republicans when Napoleon, as Consul and
Emperor, vainly tempted them to desert their princi-
ples, and to share the profit and the splendour of
subsidiary power beneath his consular or imperial
sway. We believe that not one of the illustrious
Girondists—not one of the glorious Thermidorians
—whose only error was in not profiting by the glo-
rious occasion of sinking the permanent foundations
of an Americo-French Republic, when the power
was in their hands—exhibited an apostacy to the
political principles with which they commenced
the Revolution. Greater, better, wiser, more honour-
able, more consistent men than the great leaders of the
Girondists, viz., Brissot,Vergniud, Gensonne, Gaudet,
Barbaroux, Bailly, Condorceta—never trod the great
stage of the world. To compare them to any body of
men is a compliment—whatever body they may be
compared with. The 'Whigs may with justice be
grateful to the excessive ignorance of their ultra-Tory
calumniators, for being placed on the same line of emi-
nent distinction with those illustrious, but martyred
friends of civil liberty, of hurnnity, of freedom, and
human improvement. They may say to their calum-
niator, in the worth of Cicero to Antony, when the
latter, in order to depreciate and destroy him, compre-
hended him, to use the orator's phrase, in the same
Trojan horse with Brutus and Cassius, and the great
men who with them designed the restoration of the
Roman Republic by means of the destruction of its
unconstitutional dictator—" Tu me ad ill= societatem
atjungis? Tu me illo in equo Trojana includis?
Magnam laudem prabus. Non recuso. Vereor so-
lummodo ut id non probes."—Morning Advertiser.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.

Yesterday, Mr. Alderman ATKINS was engaged till five
o'clock in investigating a charge of assault, preferred by
some Lascars against Henry Hutchinson, the chief mate of
the Argyle East Indiaman, who was brought up in the
custody of Herdsfield, the City officer.
A gang of Lascars were hired at Calcutta, through
their leader, called the Serang, and his sub-officer, the
Tindle, and on reaching China, the Captain unexpectedly
was ordered to take a freight to England instead of return-
ing to Calcutta, and on their arrival here, a charge was pre-
ferred at the Thames Police against the Captain for cruelty
in not suffering the Lascars to throw out ropes to save one
of their fellows who had fallen overboard. The Captain,
however, showed that the wind was blowing hard at the
time, and it was impossible to pick the man up. The
charge of assault, now the subject of inquiry, was also made,
but was not investigated, as the complainants alleged.
Ramat, the Serang, was first sworn ; but he could only
speak to the man Mossum having been flogged by the se-
cond mate, who quitted the Argyle before she returned to
England. This flogging occurred near Macao, in the
Chinese seas, about eight o'clock in the morning, when the
second mate took the .watch. Mossum was a forecastle
man. He was one of three Lascars who were affected by
the chilliness of the weather, and the mate tried to rouse
him by giving him from three to six stripes with a rope's
end, but he did not succeed ; and the assault now com-
plained of was committed at noon by the chief mate when
he took the watch.

John Topas stated that, after the second mate's starting,
Mossum remained lying on the deck with his eyes shut, and
without speaking.
Negan, the tindle, being asked by the Alderman if he saw
Mossum ill-used, and by whom, said he saw the chief mate
(the defendant) take hold of the man while he was lying,
unable to walk, lift him by one hand and one leg, and heave
him upon the chain cable. Mossum " sang out" a little
afterwards.

Budderadee spoke to the flogging by the second mate,
but said he did not strike severely.
Hyder Ali said when the chief mate took the watch, he
told Mossum to go to work, and threatened to strike him
with a rope's end, but did not do so. He told Mossum to
go to work, and, taking him by the hand and leg, hove him
upon the chain cable.
Chute Hassan also said the defendant threw the man on
the chain cable. The man died during the night.
The defendant declined putting any question to the wit-
nesses, or offering any defence.
After some discussion between the solicitors,
Mr. Alderman ATKINS said this was not such a clear
charge that he would voluntarily demand bail for the de-
fendant, for he thought the charge would not be sustained
at the Sessions ; but if the complainants insisted upon it,
he would require bail. But there was the difficulty, who
should he bind over to prosecute ? If he were required to
decide he should do so promptly, but he recommended the
solicitor for the complainants to consider of the matter till
the following day.
The decision was therefore adjourned.

gaged in:business, they plundered the house of silver plate,
upwards of 100 sovereigns, two 101. and two 51. Bank of
England notes, thirty-seven shillings, a silver watch and ap-
pendages, with letters, receipts, and various other articles.
The thieves were supposed to have dropped the property
in their hurry to escape.
Mr. BENNETT inquired whether there was any clue to
the thieves ?

:Inspector Jenkins said that a description of• their persons
was received, and every inquiry was making after them.
Mr. BENNETT complimented the applicant on the part
which he had taken in the transaction.

The applicant said that he had acted disinterestedly,
bowed, and quitted the office.
Yesterday William Davey, a lad fifteen years of age, was
charged by Richard Elsam, Esq., solicitor, of No. 6, Con-
stitution-row, Gray's Inn-road, with having pelted him with
stones.

The prisoner was ordered to find bail, for which he was
locked up.
Edward Davies, the master of the above prisoner, was
then charged by Mr. Elsam with having attempted to stab
him with a knife.

The complainant stated that yesterday morning, when
Nesbit, the officer, went to apprehend the boy he refused
to deliver him up, and rushed upon witness with a large
knife and made several stabs at him, and would have done
him serious injury, had he not warded off the blows with
his stick.

He produced a witness to corroborate this evidence.
Mr. BENNETT—Pray what is the cause of all this ?
Mr. Elsam—Why the fact is, your Worship, I have pur-
chased some houses of the Bedford Charity, since which I
have turned out some of the tenants, and corrected many
nuisances, which have subjected me to continual insults
and animosities, and I cannot pass through the neighbour-
hood in safety or quiet.
The defendant denied the charge, and said that he merely
refused to let the boy be taken until twelve o'clock.
The Magistrates concurred that it was an aggravated
case, and ordered the defendant to find good bail, for which
he was locked up.