The Sun.
London, England, 1828-05-08 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MAT 7.

At one o'clock the LORD CtitEr JUSTICE sat at nisi
pries with common juries ; but no case of any interest
came on for trial.
Shortly after the commencement of the first case, how-
ever, the young Prince George came into Court, ,and took
a seat on the Bench near to his Lordship. His Royal
Highness appeared muck amused with the proceediags, and
laughed heartily at the repeated blunders made by an igna-
[ rant witness.

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GERMAN PAPERS.

AUGSBURGH, APRIL 29.

We have received from Constantinople the original of
the hatti-scheriff of 20th Dec. 1827, as it was addressed
from the office of the. Vizier en the let of•Djemmsial Akir,
in the year 1243 of the Hegira, to ail the paellas and Go-
vernors of the empire, and to the Ayans assembled at Con-
stantinople, and delivered tothern in the'Turkish language.
To complete the documents relative to the history of
our times, and likewise on account of its importance, we
shall give a faithful translation of it. For the present we
content ourselves with laying before our readers the intro-
duction and the passages relating to the. Treaty of Aker-
man, of this remarkable document, the authenticity ot•
which has been disputed in various quarters. The intro-
duction commences thus :
" To those who have understanding and judgment,
it is well known that as the professors of Islamism are
by nature enemies in their souls to the Infidels; so the
Giaours are enemies to the professors of. Islamism; and
the Russian Court, in particular, is' tte chief enemy of the
professors of Islamism, and of .the Sublime Porte."
The second passage, in which Russia is accused of having
seduced the English and the French, runs thus—
' "As the Russians besides are wholly and solely the cause
that the other Franks have fallen into the same preten-
sions, having afforded, in word and deed, manifold assistance
to the scoundrels (the Greeks), and have prolonged the mis-
chief; and ,by the base intrigues of the Russians, the
English and French have joined their voice with them," &c.
The third passage, relative to the Treaty of.,Akerman,
is as follows :
" Though it is well understood from the beginning what
was theobject of the Franks, and that in the end it could
not be answered otherwise than by the sabre, yet, not to
disturb the tranquillity of the Mahomedan people, and
merely to give time for warlike preparations, all possible
pains were taken to do away in several conferences with
the above demand, by answers which might serve to de-
ceive, and satisfy the adversaries in respect to the disgrace
and injury which threatened the Sublime Porte and the
Mahometan people ; and though the vain dementia of in-
demnity and the question of Servia, which were brought
forward at Akerman last year, were by no means things
which could be agreed to, yet compelled by the urgency of
the case, they avers accepted so far as an understanding
that an arrangement shoukt.be made respecting. them," &c.
These passages appear to us to be the most important
of the hatti•scheriff, of which we are as.,ured there are no
' other versions in the Turkish language, thOugh there are
various translations by the Dragomans of the several Le-

gations.
The Allgemeine Zeiiung gives also the Turkish text of
the above passages.

It is mentioned that there will be a Commis-
sion on Friday, to give his MAJESTY'S assent to the Cor-
poration and Test Acts Repeal Bill, and sundry other public
and private Bills.
The Committee for erecting the proposed
Lunatic Asylum in Middlesex, has, it is said, agreed to
give Lord JERSEY 11,000/. for forty-four acres of land at
Haworth, though fifty acres were offered to them at Finch-
ley for 8,0001.
SUICIDE BY A LORD CHANCELLOR.—The
frequent political inconsistency of lawyers is well known,
and under the generic name ratting ; but the remarkable
suicide of CHARLES Yoitxv, Lord MoRnEN, in 1770,
during the last reign, 'is scarcely known, and did.not for
many years transpire beyond the circle of a few private
friends. In all the journals and periodical works of the
day, his decease is recorded simply as " sudden death." The
marked coolness of his brother, at whose house he called
after accepting the Seals of GEORGE 111., is said to have
immediately occasioned his tragical self-destruction. He
cut his throat on the same evening, in a paroxysm of
mental suffering. The wound was not fatal,; it was closed
and sewed up with every probability of early and complete
recovery, when his Wife (a vain woman, to whose crav-
ing for a peerage her husban.l's political apostacy is at-
tributed) was foolish enough to exhibit to him, in bed,
the patent of his peerage ;• it renewed his anguish; he tore
aw/iy•the bandages, and died in a few hours afterwards.—
These singular facts are thus noticed in Mr. P AKE'S His-
tory of the Court of Chancery :—" Lord CAMDEN was
succeeded by CHARr.ES YORKE, second son of the late
Chancellore Lord Haanwtegx. The duration of his
judicial power was but three days, between the 17th and
20th January, 1770 ; nor did he ever preside in the court.
The fate of this accomplished advocate will always be cited
as a sad and fatal example of the evils of blending the politi-
Cal and judicial character. After a life of resistance to the
temptation of a Court, and an unvarying consistency in
the constitutional principles of his party, Mr. YoKl'E,
in an evil moment of temptation, deserted his friends
and violated his principles, in accepting the seals with
the title of Lord MoRnEN. The periodical works of
the day, and Watrorat in the Royal and Noble
iAn-
thers, record that the CITANcEr.toR died suddenly. It is a
fact well known to many of his contemporaries yet living,
that, in the bitter anguish of self-condemnation and
wounded consc once, he perished by his own hand ! It
similar event "' happily for the hionan
has been said of
race, all the eltennations whirl' accompany such cases are
reserved for the tribunal of that Being who knoweth of
what we are made, and remembereth that we are but dust.'
If the political apostasy which has been so often recently
and unblushingly displayed at the English bar coca ever be
atoned for, it is when the self degradation of the apostate
is thus dreadfuliy eonF.essed ; showing at least a repentance
coyoTenSlFltte with the offence. In this ohlervatioa the
crime of self-destruction is far from being palliated, much
If'ss defended : but it is impossible not to pity the pressnre
of self-degradation, however occasioned, or sot to estimate
a Man, who, in his acute sensibilities and fatal end, showed
that a momentary seduction only had overcome an honour-
able and noble mind."