The Sun.
London, England, 1828-12-26 00:00:00

KENT ANTI-BRUNSWICK DINNER.

After our reporter quitted Maidstone on Mon-
day evening, a speech was delivered by General
Miller, too valuable, both in its facts and its com-
ments to be passed over. On the health of the
gallant officer being proposed,
General Miller rose and said, " I thank yon for
the honour you have done me in drinking my health,
and for the hearty and handsome manner in which
the compliment has been peid. After the eloquent
ability with which the question of civil and
religious liberty has been discussed, it would be
presumption for me to take up your time at any
length. But having spent some years in countries
little known, and amongst a people whose habits are
not yet familiar to the European, perhaps I shall be
allowed to say a few words on the state of religious
feeling such as I found it in South America. (Hear.)
From the commencement of my career, to the last
hour of my residence there, 1 was never once seri-
ously asked what religion I professed. (Hear.)
nor did I ever observe even a defensive sort of
bigotry, excepting when it wits awakened by the fa-
natic zeal of some warm-headed foreigner, ambitious
of making converts to his own creed. It is true
that the natives follow the cross in processions,
as the Londoners -do the guildcd mace at the
Lord Mayor's show. (A laugh.) The natives
also kneel to Saints, and bow as gracefully to an
image of the Virgin as English Peers do to an empty
chair on the throne. The difference of custom is,
perhaps, of accidental origin. I have read in news-
papers averse to emancipation, that South America
us still the seat of bigotry and intolerance. Ido not
mean to deny that both exist there, as they naturally
flourish wherever they arc upheld, and fatten upon
tithes and thumping surplice fees. In Ireland Pro-
testant bigotry has made few converts;. in Peru,
Catholic bigotry has made greater nominal progre's;
but if I may rely on the testimony of some of the
priesthood of Cuzco and Potosi, many aboriginal
Peruvians secretly practise the rites of idolatry, and
still worship the Nun ; and I know myself that they
secretly convey to the mountain-sepulchres of their
ancestors the provisions, &c. which they still believe
necessary for the support of their departed friends.
It often happens that the violence of bigotry defeats
its own intentions. But 1 can assert that, taking
the Spanish South Americans en masse, they possess
less bigotry, and that bigotry is of a milder character
than that which is to be found in most European
countries. I feel authorized to broach this opinion,
because my own experience goes beyond mere per-
sonal observation.—(Hear.) 'When I was made
Prefect of Potosi, I was specially appointed to
fill up every ecclesiastical office in that depart-
ment, which, although it does not contain much
above 300,000 ‘souls, is of greater geographical
extent than Ireland. The Archbishop of Charms
acted upon my conge dire, or rather the
dignitary who officiated in the absence of the Arch-
bishop, who, although a worthy Prelate, was
frightened at shadows, and decamped upon the ap-
proach of the patriots as naturally as the owl retires
when morning dawns. On the complete revolution
of Government, it may be easily imagined that it was
necessary to remove many incumbents, as well as to
fill up vacancies; and it is remarkable, that as Vice-
Patron of the Church in the department of Potosi, I

never made one appointment, nor one remoral,ftbat
was not aftewards approved of and confirmed by
Bolivar and Sucre, both Roman Catholics. (Hear.)
Can a more convincing proof be given of Catholic
liberality in the New World ?—(Applause.)--To
this one practical illustration I confine myself, and I
give it as a general answer to that part of the press
which does not give to my adopted countrymen that
credit for religious liberality which I consider pre-
eminently due to them. (Hear.) With regard to
the political state of these countries, they are under-
going purification. Though the Governments are
feeble, and likely to remain so for some time, the
people are becoming more wealthy, more enlightened,
and more happy. The country is prosperous, in
spite of individual ambition and faction.

The General tat down amidst reiterated cheers
and applause. :

On Tuesday, the oth inst., George Brewer, a
young
of Woolley, near this city, whilst assisting his father in
an ash 11 19 years of
:s
trecwa age, servant to farmer Gunning,
fortunately knocked down by
the fall, and before be could rise the tree actually rolled
over hint, and broke nearly every none in his body, and
yet, strange to say, he lingered in most excruciating pain
for 49 hours before death put an end to his sufferings.—
Bath Journal.

An outrage of a gross nature was committed
on a fen-isle, in passing through the Phoenix-park some
few days ago. The perpetrators of this shameful crime,
two men and two wretched women, were shortly after
taken into suatedy, at a cellar in Barrack-street, and are
folly committed to Newgate for trial.—Saunders' News
Letter.

Sir James Graham has been most actively en-
gaged during the whole week in canvassing the freeholders.
is success was flattering in the extreme. There is no
talk of any opposition. The principles which hare been
so successfully advocated by Sir James, are those whieh
actuate the great body of freeholders in this county.—
Carlisle Journal.

clerk.

LORD MAYOR'S COURT, Drx. 24.

IMPORTANT TO MASTERS AND APPRENTICES,

CRAFTER. V. CAMPION.
This was an action brought by the apprentice of
Mr. Campion, the upholder.
Mr. MIREHOUSII stated the case. The plaintiff
complained that his master had not performed his
engagement to teach him sufficiently the business
which the defendant professed to follow. The de-
fendant pleaded that he had properly instructed the
plaintiff. The plaintiff was the son of Mrs. Crafter,
the widow of the person who had for a long period
kept the well-known Bricklayer's Arms, in the Kent-
road. By the advice of her friends she bound her
son to Mr. Campion, to whom she paid a premium
of .2001. That gentleman promised to teach the
young man the whole arcana of the various branches
of business which were specified in his card, which
designated him as an auctioneer, appraiser,. salesman
of goods of all descriptions and denominations, sur-
veyor, general architect, &c. &c. In fact it held
out the most tempting promises to those who wished
for a speedy and splendid independence. Those
promises were, however, made to be broken--the
only business the plaintiff was taught was that of
collecting weekly rents from about sixty poor tenants
of his master. Of all the rest he was kept in the
most deplorable ignorance. The defendant had
added to the hopes of his apprentice by stating that
as he (defendant) had no children, in all probability
the business would in time fall into his (plaintiff's)
hands. What now was the condition of the busi-
ness which had been represented as so flourishing?
The sale business had been given up—there was no
possibility; under existing circumstances, that the
plaintiff could, from his master, receive the reqeired
and promised instruction, and, therefore, the object
of this action was to procure a dissolution of the
apprenticeship.
Mr. W. Perry deposed as to having heard the
'defendant represent himself as an adept in all the
matters of business detailed in the Learned Counsel's
speech, and bore testimony to the assurance that the
plaintiff should be instructed in the several branches,
and that he would, probably, succeed to the business'
of the defendant.
Mr. John Elsden, formerly a clerk to the defendant,
stated that Mr. Campion left off the sale room besi-
ness on the 24th of June in this year. During the
time he was with the defendant he did not see that
the plaintiff had been otherwise engaged than in
looking up the accounts and collecting rents. Wit-
ness could not say that he saw architect business
done. at the house, or land surveying, and that there
were no more than two or three funerals performed
there since witness went there. Did not know
what plaintiff got for his 200/.
Cross-examined by Mr. BOLLAND.—The action
was not brought by his advice. The plaintiff com-
menced, under Mr. Campion, on the 25th of April
last year, and witness saw him from October to
June. Witness admitted that there was a defalca-
don in his own accounts.
Mr. BOLLAND—Pray did you write that letter to
Mr. Campion (producing a letter) ? Witness—l did.
Mr. BOLLAND then read the letter, which sur-
prised and disgusted every person in Court. It
stated that the witness had considered that his de-
falcation was placed as a set off against his claims;
that Mr. Campion had committed frauds upon tile
Excise under circumstances amounting to suborna-
tion and perjury, he (witness) having made out, by
Mr. Campion's desire, false returns, to the truth of
which the plaintiff had been induced to swear at the
Excise Office. The hopeful epistle ended with the
assurance, that the writer had kept regular accounts
of all returns, and could produce them to some ad-
vantage or ether.
Mr. BOLLAND.--SO you wrote that letter ? Wit-
nese—Yes, I certainly did.
Mr. MutanousE—That letter has nothing to do
with this case. .
Mr. BOLLAND—Indeed, I consider it most im-
portant, in showing the jury what sort of person
they have before them.
A clerk from the Excise produced a book, which
was examined, for the purpose of showing that the
defendant had bad a very limited number of sales.
The dates, however, were very limited, and no in-
ference could he drawn that the business, although
diminished, was net such as would have enabled
the plaintiff to attain within a reasonable period an
adequate knowledge of the business. The witness
declared that he had never heard a Word against the
integrity of Mr. Campion, as to the returns made
by him at the Excise Office.
William Chamberlain deposed that he had seen
the plaintiff generally engaged in collecting rents,
and had never seen him idle.

Mr. nOLLAND, for the defence, asked the Juiy
whether the young man had not been extremely ill-
advised to bring sueli an action as this in the first
year of his apprenticeship. Mr. Campion had been
represented, for the purpose of exciting a feeling
against him, as a complete Jack of all trades,—s
man pretending, and without the smallest reason, to
as many trades as the celebrated Caleb Quoterb.—
(Laughter.) His Learned Friend had laid it on
very thickly indeed ; but was there the slightest
reason for Objecting to the conduct of Mr. Cam-
pion ? It was the fashion now-a-days to expect
that the art and mystery of trade and professions
were to be taught in a moment; that mere children
were to shine forth as so many Newtons. Now-a-

days boys tied their neckcloths until they cut their
ears; and if their masters did not please them, off
they went without hesitation to the nearest Magis-
trate, and talked about cancelling their indentures,
and turning away those from whom they were to re-
ceive instruction. (Laughter.) To encourage boys'
conduct of this description was extremely culpable.
It was evident that the plaintiff in this case had
acted with great propriety. It was in evidence from
the admission of the other side, that the apprentice
was never idle; that he was always engaged in get-

ting up the accounts, or collecting rents; but —be-
cause be was not yet employed in making sales, or
in doing the general business of as upholder, which
business his indentures stated he was to learn, it

was imputed to.his master that justice was riot done.
A card had also been produced, in which Mr. Cam-
pion enumerated a variety of matters which he was

qualified to transact; and it was presumed from that
enumeration, that he professed what he was enabled
to perform. Mr. Rolland reprobated this uncandid
mode of dealing; and said that the apprentice had
learned as much as young men generally do in the
4rst year of apprenticeship. He regretted to see such a
spirit existing as that which had broken out at the
present moment, and he particularly alluded to the
conduct of the defendant's clerk, who, if such frauds

had been committed as he spoke of, acted basely in
countenancing and giving them his support; and, if
they did not (and it did not, in the slightest degree,
appear to be the case), was guilty of the most un-
pardonable iniquity, in using so atrocious a threat as
his letter contained.

The RECORDER said, that this was certainly a
ase of the first importance to the community. The
lefendant was accused of having failed to commit•

nicate the knowledge he had attained, and which he
was bound to give to the plaintiff. Certainly the
evidence by no means manifested any deficiency
upon the part of the defendant.
The Jury were occupied in deliberating for some
time, and then they brought in a verdict in favour
of the master.

They at the same time said that the delay in
giving their verdict arose from a consideration about
the extraordinary conduct of Mr. Campion's former

The Jury thought it necessary to request that
Mr. Campion, :who was in Court, would not abate

of his kiaancss.to his apprentice, on account of what
had taken place that day.
Mr. Campion assured the Court that there should
he no alteration in his conduct towards the young
mAn. •

A great number of French vessels are going
to St. Sebastian and other ports in the Bay of Biscay, to
take on board corn for the French markets.