The Sun.
London, England, 1826-11-09 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOUIMALB.

The Irish Catholics are increasing every day in the I'
tact and ingenuity of their party expedients. 'A Ito,
vincial paper, the Miter/on/ Chronicle) has been
lately signalising itself by a piece of ttnalieions drollery,
Well imagined and neatly exectit4, for the more com-
plete exposure of what timers on the face of it to be
A very dirty as well as spiteful job, accomplished by the
ascendancy gentlemen of the county of Waterford. It
would seem that, in the village of Kilmaethomas, a
thoroughfare, apparently between the east and west of '
the county, the Beresford interest was held in no ex-
traordinary veneration. When any members of that
sioble family happened to pass through the village,
they were assailed pretty often by yells and hootings—
Cries of " Down with the Beresfords," " Mad Dog,"
tee.—to the no small discomfitub and indignation of
this Hooka, who nevertheless succeeded in wreaking
a heavy vimgeancc on their adversaries. Veiling in
other and more finmal proofs of disaDction to the
laws, tliis habit of disaffection to the reigning family
was laid hold of as a sufficient ground for punishing
the refractory vicinage of Kihnacthomas. Some petty
turbulence on a particular occasion, gave a .pretence
for meetings of the county magistrates : there is every
where, throughout civilized Europe, a liberal, party and
an anti-liberal---in other words, principle and power,
were ranged on opposite sides. The angry Orangemen
petitioned the Lord Lieutenant for a police magistrate
to be constantly stationed with his men at Kilmac-
thomas, to ,keep the peace, or more properly
speaking, to protect the ears of Lord George Beres-
ford and his friends from being offended by find
names or unpolished exclamations. The emancipating
justices, a respectable minority, protested, we believe,
against a measure so costly, and, to their taste, so need-
tess ; but Government, in a laudable spirit of
economy, unwilling to let the smallest portion of offi-
cial patronage lie idle, and moved, moreover, by gra-
titude to the Beresford party, which has with so much
zeal supported the conciliatory policy professed by
Lord Wellesley and his friends—Government, we say,
desirous to civilize the uncouth manners of the barba-
rians of Kilmacthomas, appointed a Major Somebody
to the police command, as requested by the
Orange phalanx of justices at their rnectil.4,-, 'Mlle
magistrates in the minority, who fe2;.: that the legal
term of « outrage" required sginething more to con-
stitute it than calling an ohnoxious individual a " mad
dog," protested again upon this burdensome appoint.
inent, arid petitioned the Lord Lieutenant to name corn-1
inissioners, for the purpose of investigating the facts
of the case. His Excellency, it is said, refined the
prayer of the petition, conceiving, we stippost, that as
an inquiry had not been instituted tt the proper time,
that is to say, before the nomination of the Police Ma-
jot., ()fortiori, it would be ridiculous to permit an in-
quiry afterwards. However, the .public spirit of the
county being kept Ave upon this obnoximes Measure,
the Waterford Chronicle gets some humorous varlet
to fabricate a commission front the Lord Lieutenant,
detailing the grounds on `which he had appointed the
Cottatabulary Major then adverting to the petition of
the liberal Iltagstnitem, and explaining his Excellency's
reasons for doubting the wisdom of the said appoint-
ment, together with those which led"to the establish-
ment of it regular commission of inquiry, the duties
and objects of Which ore given With much official ver-
bosity. The faroe as harried on in two or three num-
bers of the Watt:o'6rd Chronicle, and in the second
of them, .whicis &scribes. the examinatioli and cross-
examinatiou or the several magistrates on both sides,
there is each mischievous drollery and such dramatic.
effect, that we regret our inability to transcribe
Times.

Whatever may be the theories which the present
Irish Government has adopted, its practice does not
appear to have produced any improvement in the con-
dition or tamper of the people. There can be little
energy and less wisdom in any Administration under
which such scenes of popular barbarism and official'
oppression ieexair as we have too frequently occasion
te• record., The peasantry were never more devoted to
deadly feuds, or the inferior agents of the Executive
Inore ready to overstep the limits of the law, than at
the present day. The accounts which we gave yes-
terday of the fatal rem:mitre between the populace and
a detachment of armed police at the fair of Arvagh,
in the county Cavan, afford melancholy evidence of
the lawless and distracted state of the country. It
also shows with what indifference those persons in
whose hands Governnient places arms for the pre-
servation of the peace can set about shedding the
blood of their countrymen. The accounts which we
gave of this affair, though from different sources, all
agreed in representing the conduct of the police, in
tiring on the populace, as unnecessary and wanton.
T
here had been a previous affray, it is admitted, be-
tween the parties, concerning a man who was taken
into custody for some crime, and rescued ; but this
affray appears to have been completely over when the
police furnished themselves with fire-arms and ammu-
nition to take a deliberate and dreadful revenge for
the insult. They drew up in battle array on the fair
green (so all the accounts state)—the business and
amusements of the fair were then going on quietly,
the place was crowded with the young and old, of
both sexes and various conditions. The " guardians
of the peace," not finding any tumult to suppress,
were resolved to make one—they galhuhly took aim
the assembled people, and by the execution which
they performed redeemed themselves from the impu-
tation of having*loaded their muskets in vain ! What
a manly and intrepid band of heroes this must have
been I What gloriotut trophies such protectors of the
peace erect to the honour of the " conciliatory" Go-
vernment of !rebut& Some however, think that it
I'm" merebe advisable to employ soldiers than exe-
entionere on such (xeaaiana, particularly as the people
of England are taxed pretty highly
to support a large
military force in that country. Again, we say, that
if the Government of Ireland was a wis'
c and ener-
getic one, we should nut so often have imposed upon
us the painful duty of detaili»g such nudeness or a
lawless and demoralised state of society. The Mar-
quis of 'Wellesley is no doubt a profound Statesman,
but we believe he will be content with his exploits in
Government, if he leave Ireland as happy itld civilised
as he found h.—Morning Herald.
An Evening. Paper has with a candour which we
very much adrnire, and a warmth which we would by
no means condemn, found fault with the observations
we lately °fired to the public relative to the scenes of
gambling and other vices in which young men are suf
fered to bo initiated at the Universities. Our con-
temporary does not pretend to deny that the facts are
as we have stated them, but would fain have the
world believe that no blame is imputable to the heads
and tutors of Collegeii. Ile says the parents are to
blame who allow their sons the means of indulging in
such excesses. The blame imputable to parents we
are by no means inclined to deny or to extenuate,—
'Woad of 6ficoming wise by experience, too many

persons only beeOse in6r4 practically ignorant from
what they 'NM 'themselves gone through. But we
deny that the folly of parents is any excuse for those
who allow the means to exist of perpetrating so much-
mischief. Our contemporary asks, with great appa-
refit simplicity, how, for instance, young men can be
prevented from attending the races and the hell s at
NeWmarket and adds, that he has wo 'doat Mit that
the heads and tutors of colleges wilt be extremely
obliged to us to suggest auy means of preventing it.s—
Now, we can assltre this writer, that nothing upon
earth would be more easy ; and this, We are torty.tt,
say, the persons lie alludes tb know fall well. It
would simply be to require that each person in slatu
pupilari should appear in chapel and ni hall every day
during the Newmarket meetings. But would this
writer really have the world believe that the heads of
the Universities are so destitute or the means of en-
forcing discipline as not to be able to suppress those
and the many other bad habits of the pupils, were
they seriously so inclined ? Suppose, for ihstahcti .
that they were to say that no youteg Dnhll 'should be
seen at Newmarket at all ; *hat, for the first breach of
such an otdoi h 6hoOld lose his thud"; for the se-
cond, be rusticated ; and, for the third, incur abso-
lute expulsion. Is it to be supposed that this could
not be ascertained and put in force, if they were so in-
clined ? There is no doubt but the scenes of gam-
bling and debauchery which take place within the pre-
cincts of both the Universities might be suppressed
too ; that the system of unbounded credit and extrava-
gance might be easily enough put an end to, if those
whose duty it is to do so were not deterred by sloth,
by habit, and by interestt from correcting a system
in which they themselves have been brought Up, and
under which they prosper. That parents are to blame
we know very well; but we know, too, that a parent
who attempts to remonstrate against the system is ge-
nerally treated wall contempt insWatl of attention ; his
virtuous scruples are construed into meanness, and his
son probably (labored from 'any future advantage in
his College. In fact, the evils of the system are as
notorious as they are profligate ; and we are sorry that
they shout, meet with anything in the shape of an
from any part of the press,—lbid.
The Times of yesterday Observed--
" The only person that has met Luriottis's charges liken
man, is Mr. Hume. We do not, certainly, approve of Mr.
llume'a conduct; but that has nothing to do with the pre-
sent question. Does he deny anyone of the charges brought
by Luriottis against him .? Does he impute falsehood to
his accuser? Most unequivocally no. On the contrary,
he openly and almost miraculously confirms every fact that
Luriottis had previously alleged.
`This is a very ingenious shifting of the question,
which was not one between Luriottis and Mr. Hume,
but between The Times 'aild Mr. Hume. In the
leading article or that paper of 28th October, it is
stated, that 66 Mr. Hume had assigned to him 10,0001.
Stock, at the rate of 59/. per hundred, the original
price at 'which the contract was made. Some time
afterwards the Bonds fell to 16 per cent. discount.
Mr. Hume alarmed at the depreciation of his pro-
perty, applied to the Deputies and Contractors to
relieve him from this loss."—The cause here assigned
for Mr. Hume's parting with his Scrip—namely, alarm
on account of the fall of the Stocks—has been
proved to have no foundation in truth, and the subse-
quent discussion, in which it is said that it was
intimated to him, that if the 'stock had risen, there
would have been no analogous sacrifice on his part,
is equally a creation of the imagination. If Mr.
Hume had been merely a speculator in stock, and
had, in the unsuccessful issue of the simulation,
been mean enough to seek to be relieved from his
loss, nothing could have been said for him. But he
was accused by the Greek Deputies, of being actuated
by 'interested motives, in his opposition in the charac-
ter of Commissioner, to the further transmission of
money to Greece ; and though the Deputies, after
having put hint on his trial before Sir Francis Burdett,
endeavoured to eat their words, and wished to preve»t
the sale, he very, properly determined to place himself
in a situation, which should afford no pretext for chal-
lenging his impartiality. There is not a shadow of
evidence for the assertion • in The Times, that Mr.
Hume took, fright at the depreciation of his property ;
but, an the contrary, there is the strongest docttmen.;
tart' evidence to prove that he was actuated by quite a
different motive. A gentleman, who fills the office of
Post Captain in the Navy, has favoured us with a sight
of the original of the following letter, addressed by
Mr. Flume to him, in answer to an application on the
subject of the Greek Loan, which will serve to show the
sentiments of Mr. Hume, on the subject of Foreign
Loans in general, and that for Greece in particular,
" February 24, 1824.
NY DEAR Sta-,--The Greek Loan is full, and at a
premium of 5 per Cent. I cannot advise you on the sub-
ject. I think all Foreign Loans bad, except for those who
can afford to lose what they invest in them. I. was the
fief! mail in England who put down my name to time Loan
for 5,0001., with the determination, good or bad, to take
the risk ; but I never advised one man to take any of it.
It will either be good, or a total-loss."
The above letter will serve to show, that Mr.
Hume was any thing but a dabbler in Stock, and that
he consented to take so much Scrip of the Greek
Loan, without the least reference to the fluctuations of
the Market, contented to wait the issue of the con-
test, whether favourable or unfavourable. He looked
upon his Scrip, as he would have looked on a Lot-
tery ticket. Mr. Hume was the first person in the
country—certainly the first in the Greek Committee_
who put down his name for Scrip. When he first
put down his name for 5,0004, he had not the slightest
idea of his being named a Commissioner for the applica-
tion of die Loan. W e have already alluded told:Ai/tying
doubled his risk. Mr. Loughnan, senior, had doubts
as to the truth of the accounts of the state of Greece at
the time, and again and again applied to Mr. Hume, as
possessing better information than he did of what was
going on there, from the %duel) statements of agents and
others, on this subject. Mr. Flume, to spew at least
What his own belief was, answered, that the subscrip-
tion of 5,000/. was the first he had ever made to any
Loan, and that he only did so out of his seal for the
Greek cause, and. to give confidence to others, and
that if it would be any satisfaction to him, he would
double his risk. A better proof of Mr. Hume's sin-
cerity cannot be.given than this, that, to prove his
zeal for the cause of, Greece, he did not, like others,
throw his Stock into the Market. He neither wished
to
roi lie
gaint money by his share of the Loan, nor to run
loss, but held it back to keep up the credit
of the country. Knowing as he did that nearly all of
the sUbscribers, as friends of the cause, had sold their
scrip, while he had sacredly kept his, it was natural
otirtsellifeisaittiomuphltitesl die more indignant at the attribution
to him b
himself Oil y at
the
commeynetehmeeDntertiltesw
Deputies, liable to be charged with
disputes with the
selfish motives, when the security.ereFoefelitnhge
of the whole of
the Bondholders, for whom he was trustee,
and that
of Greece herself, _required him to remain firm in his
determination, to. PAW against the chance pf the

money falling into the hands of the revolted chiefs then
in arms, he saw the imperious necessity of parting with
the bonds which his zeal for Greece alone had induced
him to take before he was named as a Commissioner.
That the Greek Goireininent, throiigh its deputies,
had no right by the imputation of improper motives to
Mr: Hume, whose possession of Scrip was known be-
fore he was named as a Commissioner, to render it im-
periously necessary for him to part with his Scrip and
then to profit by that. measure, is a point respecting
which there can be rio doubt. That Mt. Hume might
have made the .Greek Government a present of the
amount of his loss, is as true as that he might have
made it a present of 5,000/. or 10,0001. It is very
easy to point out how generosity may be displayed. Mr:
}futile tbrtainly manifested ho unwillingness, as long
'as the question was one of mere generosity, to aid the
Greeks both with his services and his purse. But this is
not a question of generosity, but of justice: Mr. Hume
elaitned frbitt the Greek G6veriiment, as a matter of
justice, to be relieved from a loss which its Deputies
forced him to incur, by attaching improper motives to
his holding scrip. There is not a man of business
throughout the country who will pretend to say that
Mr. Hume's claim was not strictly just, and we have
ourselves heard the opinions of several of time most
respectable Members of Parliament, and heads of
houses in the City, on the subject. With respect to
the New ,Tintes, it would have acted more creditably
if it had given iflr. Home's statements as well as the
charges against him. It informs, indeed, its readers,
on the 6th, that" his (Mr. Hume's) statement is be-
fore the world ;" and on the 7th, it makes-quotations
from the statement, in a long article, but tales care,
while it conveys the attack, to avoid conveying the de-
fence. The courier, in like manner, has acted with
characteristic candour. But all this was to be expected.
Morning Chronicle.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S. BENCH, Nov. 8.
TILE KING V. LIEUT.-COL. RCIIDALL.

Mr. 13nopEatcx moved his Lordship for a Certiorari, to
move an indictment against the above defendant, charging
him with an indecent assault, into this Court for trial.—
The Learned Counsel stated, as we understood him, that
an indictment had been preferred against this defendant at
the Westminster Sessions, charging him with this offence,
and while he was in custody on the charge, he was libe-
rated on his own recognizance by the order of the Lord
Chief Justice. Another indictment had been preferred
against him, for the same offence, at the Middlesex Ses-
sions, and the present motion was to move that indict-
ment into this Court for trial, substantially on the ground
that the defendant could not have a fair trial at the Ses-
sions.

Mr. Justice BAvt.Ev—What are the facts stated on
which the Certiorari is moved for ?

Mr. BRODTIZUCK now stated, that Lieut.-Colonel Arch-
dall swore a conspiracy was formed against him, and he
alleged among other circumstances to show that was the
' case that very soon after the charge was made against
him he received numerous anonymous letters, intimating
to him, that if an advertisement were inserted in the Morn-
ing Herald, stating that "3001. should be ready for
A. B." at a certain place, which the, anonymous letter
pointed out, the charge -Should be stopped. The defendant
very properly refused to comply with those solicitation ;
and as he swore he was by birth, habits, and connexions a
gentleman, he wished his trial should take place in this
Court, because aggravated and distorted statements had
gone forth to the newspapers, and had been circulated in
handbills, calculated to excite a prejudice in that class of
society likely to act as petty jurors at the Sessions.
Mr. Justtee 13sruity, upon these grounds, granted the
Ccriiorari.