The Sun.
London, England, 1826-09-01 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

A Proprietor of the Anglo-Mexican Mining Associa-
. tiOn, appearing rather sore at the state of his corn:ern, and
it, the comments which our sense of duty led us to make
upon the conduct of it, as reported in the newspapers, has
written ut; a long letter, Of which we cannot at once per-
ceive the object, unless it.be to promote the loan of money
to the Company, failing the " call" upon its members.
Now, hush% no en of ill-will to the Association, no to
the individuals forming it, we shall content ourselves with
hoping, that those of onr. countrymen
~who may be in-
, dined to assist its tottering AOMICeS, Will inquire a little
from well-informed persons, before they embark the whole
of their property in any such distant undertaking. Out
Cotre.spondent is angry that we have applied the term
" loss" to what was in reality but an outlay of half a mil-
lion or more. it, is never worth while to quarrel about
tvords, hut we are not the less convinced that an outlay
whit•li presents no definite prospect of renimieration,
fact, to a "to s," and nothing better. As
for the dispute Whether or not au enterprise like this be
or bc not of " a commercial" maitre, we shall not waste
our time or space by discussing it, " Mineralogical spe-
culation" we shall call ,it, if our correspondent wills;
but the truth is, that the .shareholders thought they were
embarking in a commercial adventure, and in nothing else,
The declared purpose of the. Company was, not to open
. new Toltet, but simply to work the ohl ones, which, had
long been known .to yield silver, but, might have beet]
abandoned thr6ugh the troubles of the revolution. The
author of the letter admits broadly the substance of our
at cuSation against the Manag,ers of the Company, which
was, that they had proceeded on a scale fur inure than com-
mensurate with their resources, when he states that they
had spread their operations too largely, and that the Di.
rectors were of the same opinion, for they " bad. SUS-
" pandod the working of:several of their mines," . A mer-
chant, or a body of merchants, rtvly be as fairly ruined by
a rash extension of Own: eittcrprkoi, ces ,by the injuditions
choice of them ; and this pal tieular defect. of sobriety and ilk-
cretion we contend then, !lie )irceters Of 'Anghi-Mexican
Minio;Compeny have . A eeording to the report of last
January, the association had ;(sluiced possession 4A no les*
than thirty-one mines,• or of the principal shores in them ;
und,the public may judge of the degree in which the am-
bition or tippet eney of the Directors bad out-stripped their
tnenne, from the fact of orders having recently been issued
to abandon till but eight or nine of those which promised
to he most. productive. Are we not then justified in pro.,
bouncing the capital which was employed upon a large
number of mines now abandoned, as so dead loss to
the Company ? But we are told of a lien, or mortgage
upon an abandoned mine, being vested in him who hest
laud alit, his capital upon it, A mortgage upon it. mine jn
Mexico I "'Odd's frenzies," a mortgage on the enemnber.
works 'of Lapvita! A pretty hold over tine's motel., thiS
to •
have the pinalege of commenting some twenty or
'01i:!:ty Chancery suits, to be carried On against Mexican
tittjeets, and heard before Mexican judges, amongst the
,
Not/hero •Andes. It is tgogress a humbug--better jump
headlong down the mine et once. But.---to measure the
• wisdom of these gentlemen by their undertakings—it i.
• known that to work a single mine only, with kildliCiela
vigour—we mean the great Valenciun mine—would have
required the whole sum which has yet been raised by the
Company. ' A fact of each inqaortanee ought surely to
hai,e been ascertained at the outset, after not left for u tartly
and quo:010113 confeasion, when the directors find that the
patience of their constituents •is worn out, and, that no
more cash will be forthcoming. conclude the subject
with an apology for having given it so much space in our
columns; but it isa viduableobjeet to pot the mania down,
end to save, for national and attainable end.;, what remains
of our pettonitay resources.—Timer,
We publish a:timer! of " the creature" Verdinronl, in
which he' modestly wAines his " that lie will
protect thole Of them who obey 'the laws, and be in-
flexible with those who do. not; that he repeats his pi o,
retiree of April, 1824 i, never to permit the legal folio of hi:.
Government to be changed..—" never to permit the esta-
blishment-of Chambers, or any other institutiome what-
ever might be their denomination," Be alludes to the
.promulgation of a representative system of Government.
in Portugel, but asserts that public
.opinion among the
Spaniards, has declared decidedly against it. Now, in the
first place.,' when this poor animal is made. to talk about
offering. hisionteetion to his vassals, or to ney bodtelse,
'would' it not . be worth the while of his Ministers, or of
the monk. who confesses him, to remember how very ridi-
cidonattre-such phrases its the month of one who, instead of.
extendinie proteutimi to his -vaitsals,. is compelled to seek,
it against those very vassals, by rettking a band of foreign
mercenaries, poi& by a foreign Ake; in the heart of .What
,:.he terms his ,dotninions—without which degrading and
disgusting check upon his own people, lie would either be
forced to run away within an hour, or be hanged Over the
palace ale? The next piece of nonsense in this,deelara-
tion, is xer promise" from Verifier-Old (an assurance from
such a Matt !) that be will suffer no changes in the Cro-
vernment. Why, how many times did he swear on former
occasion*, that he would make elinges, or would adhere
to those which took place in spite of his oppoaition.
When he i-etinned to Spirit). 0314, he assured the na-
tion that the ancient Cortes should be revised ; that the
liberties of the..kingAlorn which his ancestors had over-.
tented, ohonhl be restored ;aod that he wottld not be any
longer 'sirh'at he new pledgeit himself to continue---alt ob.
solute Molten+ over Spain. That first promise being
broke-4am" the breach of it succeeded by. its course of me.
principle& oppressions, leading to the revolution of the Isla
in 1820, ..Perdimual " promised," nay, swore upon the;
Evangelists, that he would' maintain the overthrow of the
legal form of his Government," and the integrity of
the new institutions, New he proclaims again, with equal
quack gravity, that .he will • never. suffer arty of . those;
changes to which he so often antecedently declared Wet ad...
hereof:el What humiliating childishness such a state
paper 'from such to source, when all mankind know that if a'
boy of ten years Old were to. iift to Cudgel and threaten to
beat thi, dought v autocrat over so many" vassals," the cal.'
tiff woeld fill Min hymen sweat With fear; would promise
whatever emeti..leattec was rceeired of him ay, and take
166 oult to it. "Filial, for the teitutwr in whii:h the H.,„„ of
tfle I'mt"g"",“-, o)ft-dilution den laser( received in
Wt, have ghiutal for givino.• :t tint twtradiction to Ferdi-
nand, Millen. lie says that opiniOn lois pronounced against it.
The, truth i, that opinion Nv4s s i manifest in its favour, that
'"o hopc, and moticti coseputulation.
among in, wi-v exhibited at the coriar of every
sitcct, Luel nu this bitietmy (4 every 'as to fill the
inlet, a thi, with perplexity, aid to caiie
stn ini-rference by the pttficte ilta~teal
they itiouid
seize inly Spaniards tube; two.a.y „ft
In
th
momt„,".., who it: that encircle the King of Spain
andhis capital, and direct hl3 coutwils and dictate his melt-
sores ?—wlet Intl thew OJAI:ITT down.lltai bubjvels by force
ofarms? Follies:n(1 is ill the clutins of the Fivneh. If the,
rne tench Niitrister ;Led Contrimittling Otheac eiu ,wa
~„r .
away goes the proclamation 00 matt" what tatro;: it,,
Lido the fire. It is not intmateriel thtm to remark, that this
inanifesto agai I,i'el;w'st'.ilttitu'.ebloVernMentri, 'MO ttgtituit
carry
and all chatiof in the existiug Spanip se
ph de.spotiem hand, walksl
ut 11i the s of'
forth from a (,:.(bind.binet which is but a 1
PM /We, and decrees tint ate 'of a once independent country,:
which lois now no lawgiverif but they bayonets
tlovernmebayonetsCharlesWe tin not funitn'stond how the
wesentitive
out receive without %riming this otturit on "1 ,
c 011,; otions, nor how, when such principles are pvi
rt,,ne
under French .4(01144, treat: authority can much
permitted to possess in full Sovereignty the Spti!
in
mid to menace by ;Li arall.o the Independent existence in.,
Portugal.— .Ritf,

The'expthtures which have recently taken phiee through
medeli of the' Connui,,:sinnvoi a Inquiry, as to the conduct
"ft Praetire »t :mow of th, Revenue Munk, must be a
mutt r f.of extreme n 0,,, to the Goyermuent, and of
nn' little sutrixe to thi, ionthe. At, fur 88 we elm Judge
from 'the" doottitentS e, oviduct Or di2se
Commibuinnerx y • d seems to
ova

have been accompanied by a degree of knowledge,-promp.
titude, and fearlessness—which latter quality, especially,
hoWever unacceptable it may be to those on whom their
censure lightS, will be received, as it ought to be, by the
public, with gratitude and approbation. It strikes one,
however, as rather extraordinary that heads of the
departments which these Commissioners 'have been inves-
tigating, should require the kind of timidity and routing
out whigh they are now receiving. There is searilily en
abuse mentioned by these gentlemen, which it was not in
the power, and which it wits not the bounden duty of the
heads of these different Boards themselves :to have cor-
rected. When persons laying claim' to the chmacter of
gentlemen, some of them too persons of rank and family,
tire Owed in situations of public trust, it is to be pre-
annu that they will be alive to the nature and importance
of the duties which they undertake, and that, above all,
they will stimulate those who are placed, under them, by
their own example, to act faithfully anti honestly by the
public. We are to tell. these gentlemen that We see no
moral difference between the man who ribs the public of
his time, and he who robs another of his purse, we dare
say they would think us perfect Galls and Hottentots
but we suspect that there are those among the public who
will not think our 'notions, however antiquated, at. all ab-
surd. But where, after all, is the root of the evil ? It is
to be found, for the most part, in the sort of persons Who
receive the majority of these appointments, and the sort
of patronage which leads to them. Let any man who has
leisure take up the Red Book, and he will readily perceive
the overbearing Parliamentary infltienee which rules the
aseendant in these matters. To say nothing of the incom-
petence of some of the persons who obtain situations of
high public trust, many of them feel, when they are ap-
, pointed, no tie of gratitude or duty towards the Govern-
went or the, public, on' whom they consider thertiselveti
quartered, for the services, past, present, and to come, of
others. We rejoice, however, to see that a spirit of re-
form is afloat, which must. teach l'hese people and, their
successors (maid very speedy sneeessors we should think
some of them, at least, must have) better things. The Go,
vernment will learn how its patronage is thrown away
and its diameter compromised by those who ought, to lie
among the first to do honour to the one and uphold the
other. The labours of these Cominissioners are valuable,
not only for What they do and what they correct, but for
the evils they will prevent. Many who have been' lolling
in security behind the curtain of official abuse will be put
upon their guard when they find that curtain so liable 'to
be thrown open by the unceremonious hands of Mr. Wal-
lace and his coadjutors.--4,foriiiiig Herald.

Too great an indifference has at all times been shown in
the appointment of the inferior parts of the Magistracy,
In the country it is usual to put every man of rank and
fortune into the Commission of the Peace, leaving it. tohis
own discretion, by taking out his dedimns, to act or not as
each individual may' see proper. aver these nominations,
it, is true, the Great Seal has a controul; but as the Chan.
cellor'ean of course he but partially acquainted with the
gentlemen in all the counties, the appointments rest, for
the most part, with the different Lords Lieutenant. Then
come the Corporation Juatidea, who arc distributed, more
or lesa, all over the kingdom, from the Lord Mayor of
London, down to the different Mayors, Bailiffs, and Bur-
gesses, and " approved men," and those precious anoma-
lies in our Constitution„the various rotten boroughs.
These latter persons have been, for the most part, wholly
unfit to perform. the important duties of the Magistracy,
and a necessity therefore has arisen for giving the County
Magistrates a co-ordinate jurisdiction with them, so that
there is a prospect of, in time, seeing this corrupt and vii-
lainous system of the old borough Justices. rendered inert,
if not entirely done away. But ignorant, and therefore
mischievous, as these hitter have always in a great measure
been, they were far exceeded in had dualities by the trading
justice's of the metropolis; and those who ran remember
the days of Mr. justice Hyde and others of the `.:e Inc•
idiot, must, readily admit that few greater improvements
have taken place in the administodion of justice than the
eatablitthment of the present system of police, defective/ as
it is,' over 'one in which justice was openly bought and
sold; and in which the administrators of it were as corrup
and in many respects mat dishonest, ati those over' whoni
their authority was executed. Strange, however, to say,
this change, than which none could be more evidently IIP.
cesSary, was warmly opposed in Parliament; and it l'e-
quireil all the weight' of Administration and the parlia
mentary tact of Mr. DundaS, afterwards Lord Melville, to
carry his Bill through the House of Commons, opposed as
it was by the witand'aarcasm of Sheridan, and the Con,
stitutional fears or :Mr. FOx and his party, backed by many
of the country gentlemen. Thus warmly opposed, i 4 be-
came cramped and fettered lit its outset; and it. has only
been by degrees that its utility has become apparent,: and
Parliament.
induced to give it a more enlarged and liberal
sanction. In most of the appointments to the Magistracy
too, a gradual and Marked improvement. has taken place,
Whether very young Men of ardent temperaments and not
very well-regulated morals are likely to make very good
Magistrates, may, we suppose be a question—but Mrn.
Peel, who, it is evident, has the purifying and correcting
of the whole judicial . system very much at heart, will
readily see, and set right any thing that, may be amiss, in
these respects. We do not expect more from human 1111.-
ture than it is capable of; but surely it is desirable. that
those on whom the correction of the faults and vices of the
community devolves, should be theMselves possessed of
sober, well-regulated minds, and not openly addicted to
illy of the vices they are every day called upon to punislL
To form a thoreughly good Magistrate requires a union of
qualities rarely to be met with in the common run of mans:
kind. We speak riot of that degree of legal knowledge
which 1103 OM wiseby become indispensable in these per..
anus, but of those qualities of the heart and' understanding
which ',combine feeling wits firmness, end a tenderness
towards misfortune witli the calni.mid temperate correetioti
of vice. These, and the qualities Connected with u hems
are those which have not been hitherto (pike so much advert-
ed to as could' be wished. The Press, however, is in the
course of supplying and correcting what is' deficient ; and
though in its efforts' it may meet with some' occasional in-
terruption '(for to bear correction calmly requires more good
sense than most men possess), there is no doubt, but that
it will, in the end, achieve the object of putting all public
functionaries, its well as those who appoint them, more
uport their guard than they have always hitherto been.—

Extract of a letter, dated Bogota, June 19:—. We
had on the 17th instant, between 40 minutes after 10
and 11 o'clock in the evening, two great shocks of an
eartinivake. he second, in particular, was severe and
torrib e, and wu are all here Mill in great consternation.
Most of the principal buildings in this city Live, suf
fered very severely. If the houses in this eltY "'erel"
in general imilt Much stronger than those in Caraccas,
Only would no doubt have all been destroyed. it is
feared that Other parts of Colombia will ha,ve
',mitered severely. Although affairs in Caraccas tom
tt,„' believe that w wort
t 111)aandwe y
oTi(d; It; firstral aPri:veitilldlel‘ol;
succeed, and that tranquillity will be re-
established. News frorn Bolivar is very anxiiotody
looked for, in consequence of these very iiiipieaslint
events; and it im generally believed that whenever be
iil
itnritc!
fete,'
1 deserve. -r)VeerreS he-restored
e° publicn e theiran
time, Government is tatting finch Measures as the
emergency iiihtir

All accounts fron► the hop distrietB concur in repre-
senting the present crop :Li one of the very finelit that
ever grew. The elect or the great productiveness of
thk y,,,ar't; growth has completely destroyed for tl►c pre-
santAl ides Of speculation in the dealer. Old hops
are down at least 70 per cent