The Sun.
London, England, 1821-11-13 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

MR. EDlTOR,—Having seen a report in your
Paper of the 10th, of an affair which underwent
a private investigation the day before at Bow-
street, and which therefore ought not to have
appeared before the public, I feel it due to my-
self to request you will correct the following
mistatement in the report. It was not the rela-
tives of either party who gave the information at
Bow-street, but Sir WILLIAm An tms himself
who lodged it on Thursday evening, having
made a similar application on the preceding
Monday, which the worthy Magistrate did not
consider of sufficient importance to act on. With
respect to the concluding observation of the pa-
ragraph, the expressions I used when Sir WIL-
LIAM ADAMS swore he was apprehensive that I
intended to do him bodily injury were—" I beg
" leave to assure you, Sir R. BtaNIE, on my
" honour as a gentleman, that it was not my ID-
-4c'tClltioll to inflict personal chastisement on Sir
" WILLIAM ADAMS, as I have too much respect
" for the laws of my country, and too much re-
" Bard for my personal liberty to do so—that as
" Sir WILLIAM ADAMS had refused the fair and
GC equitable application which I made to him, my
" determination was to give every possible nub-
" licity to the transaction, and leave my case to
" the decision of public opinion,"—which so
satisfied the worthy Magistrate, that he only
bound my friend and myself in the penalty of
501. each, and one security in the like sum, to
keep the peace until next session.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
G1:0. R. AIELIN,
13, Duke-street, St. James's, Nov. 12.

*4,* It is proper to observe that the Police
Report referred to in the preceding letter was
not original in THE Sus, but was taken from a
Morning Paper.

The remains of the late Lady ELIZABETH STAN-
HOPE, sister to the Earl of CHEM:LIFT rim, are to
be deposited in the family vault of Brad by Hall,
near Burton-upon-Trent.
It is reported to be in contemplation to make
Brighton a distinct port from Shoreham.
The English inhabitants at Havre are at pre-
sent numerous beyond all precedent, and trade
there is very brisk.

FOR TIIE SUN.

THE STATUE OF KING WILLIAM.

Ma. Enrroa,—l am a constant reader of your I
Paper, and watched it very anxiously throughout .
the last Session of Parliament ; more particularly
during the debates on the Catholic Question ; and
I rejoiced to see the firmness and temperance
with which you maintained the cause of the Pro-
testants ; 1 rejoice the more, too, at your una-
bated ardour,when in the lower House, the ques-
tion proved in the end to be the ignobly won vic-
tory of the Minister : because, it was an assur-
ance that, staunch as you are to the present Go-
vernment, you will never lend a mercenary
sanction to an inroad upon our Constitution, be
it attempted by whordsoever it may. May you
never deviate or retractfrom the principles which
did then, and have at all times encouraged you
" bravely to fight our just cause," and depend
upon it, the good wishes and gratitude of all ho.
nest men will attend your exertions. With
these feelings, I take the liberty of making a
few observations on a paragraph which I read
with regret, in THE Sex of the Bth ult. relative
to the decoration of the Statue of KING Wrenram
W. in Ireland. I regretted it, because, al-
though perhaps well intended, it displayed luke-
warm feelings in a cause, which the circumstance
I have stated at the beginning, spews how much
more the spirit of Protestantism, in which
is most assuredly involved the liberties of the
people of the United Kingdom,ought rather to
be encouraged than depressed ; and, indeed, I do
hope, notwithstanding the attempts that are made
by individuals high in office to check this spirit, it
will ever prevail, until Popery renounces its cruel,
iniquitous, and dangerous doctrines. History has
told us what Popery was ; we know what it still
is in Ireland ; and, from the past, we may justly
view with fear the future, if Popery is again to
be allowed to sneak into an ascendancy over us.
I do not deny that the custom of decorating the
statue of King William in Dublin, annually, may
be, and is, obnoxious to the Papists : but is it
not so because there has descended into them
from their ancestors the same spirit for ,holy re-
venge, with aim incessant remorse and spleen, at
the etnancipatiou of the Protestants by King
William ? Is it on their account that the Protes-
tants are to waive the custom of celebrating so
glorious an wra ? Are we to believe that the Papist
will imbibe a brotherly love for a Protestant,if the
custom was laid aside ? And what injury is
done, what insult offered to the Papist by this
ceremony, who wishes well to the Protes-
tant ? On the other hand I consider that
good is done, and liberty, both temporal and
spiritual, is supported by this very custom ;
it is an observance of a custom to remind both
that and this country that the Popish religion is
not altered ; that its fangs, although not so sharp
perhaps, still remain : it reminds them of the
tyranny that once existed in extreme terror and
oppression over the Protestants ; it is a mark of
gratitude to their Deliverer; it reminds them that
excommunications do still take place there, espe-
cially previous to a general election, and that
various other persecutions of their disciples are
still exercised. Is it not rational to suppose that
tyranny of some kind exists there still ? That
our fellow-subjects witness the most arbitrary
exactions and petty persecutions in private,
which do not meet the public ear ; and are we to
believe this custom prevails now, merely to
insult the Papists ? Surely not. If our Pro-
testant brethren did not thus occasionally raise
their voices,their silence would be misinterpreted,
even as our silence here was thought an ac-
quiescence in the Minister's Catholic measure !
This custom, I repeat, cannot injure the Catho-
lics ; nor would it insult them, if feelings of
brotherly love and charity existed among them
towards the Protestants ; on the contrary, they
would participate in common with them in feel-
ings of gratitude, and of humanity on their part ;
they would rejoice that the infernal dominion of
aggravated tyranny was annihilated by King
IVilliarn; and they would enter into the grateful re-
collection of days that were forerunners of every
man's liberty, both civil and religious, of what-
ever denomination, in common with themselves;
but this is not the spirit of the Papist ; his reli-
gious principles are not yet altered ; hence it is,
that he cannot entertain such charitable and social
feelings. Until the Catholic has disavowed the
doctrine of heresy, I sincerely hope that the feeling
which has been displayed, and the custom which
is practised, will ever be preserved : for I can-
not admit that the decoration of time statue is per-
formed in insolent triumph or idle exultation
over the Catholics of Ireland of the present day,
more than decorating the Statue in St. James's-
square was intended as an insult to Lord Sidmouth
or Lord Londonderry. As to the custom be-
ing an immaterial matter of mere shew, what:
[ have already said will, I think, disprove the
assertion ; it appears too, that Lord Sidmouth did
not consider it as such, even here, for I understand
that he ordered the blue and orange ribbons to be
torn from the Statue. I have only to add, that
f consider the Papist to whom the decorations of
this Statue are offensive, to be unworthy of favour-
able consideration ; because, evidently, it assures us
that he rancorously grudges us the liberty we en-
joy, and that he forgets that the custom is intended
to perpetuate alone the downfall of that despotism
which is the worst—religious despotism, and that
it is in commemoration of the establishment of re-
ligious and civil freedom for every man. In this
view I consider the custom is as important as it is
harmless, and as useful, as it tends to keep alive
feelings of gratitude for past invaluable services
and present blessings. As to the peace of the
country being endangered by the special obser-
canee of one day annually, I think that such a
circumstance is as rationally to be supposed and
expected, as the idea I:.at the desires of the
King, and frequent exhortations, would meta-
morphose the low Irish into peaceable and
civilized beings. I agree with you, Mr. Editor,
on one point, that is, I do bellove the observance
of this custom in the old fashioned way might
have been, or was,in opposition to the wishes of the
King ; but in my humble opinion, and a more
le) al subject his Majesty cannot have than my-

self, on this subject even such wishes ought not to
be fultilled,and ought not to be expressed by any
branch of the Brunswick " The prin.
ci pies which seated the present Family On the
Throne of these Realms," are they to be forgotten,
their fruits destroyed, their spirit depressed
Is a nation's happiness and freedom to be es"
tinguished, to gratify any weak and inconsiderate
views of any set of men ? It never can be, awl
if it is attempted, I sincerely trust that I shall wit-
ness on every, as on a late occasion, the health
otitis Royal Highness the Duke of York drank-
with four times four, and may the plaudits echo
from One end of the country to the other. I
trust, Mr. Editor, that you will excuse my having
thus freely delivered the sentiments of a little
band to which I belong, and which I meet re-
gularly to criticise your Paper, Jou'N.lur.f„ and
Tit E CHRONICLE, and that you will believe I au',
your hearty friend,
Wcsthaven. F. D.

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THE SUN.

SOLEM QUIS DICERE FALSUM A UDE..I7'

LONDON,
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 182 L

We have received the French Papers of Satur-
day, Rrussels, Frankfort, and other German
Journal;, from which we give extracts under the
Lead of FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. A report was
circulated at Vienna on the 28th ult., that the
Porte. had declared war against Russia, which
o:;tained for some time credence, but it was sub-
sPquently contradicted. It is evident, from all
tile Turkish accounts, that the Ottoman Govern-
ment is making the most extraordinary prepara-
tions for war, and though that report be prema-
ture, We are of opinion that such will be the issue
of the present negociations. In consequence of some
paragraphs which appeared in the London Jour-
/la's, complaining of the French laws which pro-
hibited the re-embarkation of stallions and mares
brought by English travellers into France, the
1110.,:iteur has been directed to state, that orders
have been given to permit travellers to take
back their horses on their being identified, by
means of a registry, in which a minute descrip-
tion of each horse is to be entered on its ar-
rival in France.

Accounts have been received at Havanna!),
stating, that on the 20th August the Viceroy
received an official letter from General Hon-
BEJEN, requesting permission, with another Offi-
cer, accompanied by a small escort, to enter
Vera Cruz, for the purpose of delivering im-
portant despatches touching the interests of both
S •
pants. The above request was immediately
granted by the Viceroy.
Extract of a Letter from St. John's, N. 8.,
12rz Ga.—cc We have received accounts from
Frederickston, stating, that the harvest has been
exceedingly good; and there is every reason to
-believe that much more grain will be housed
"than will be necessary for the consumption of
these settlements."

Extract of a Letter from Halifax, 10th Oct.—
Provisions for the ensuing winter have been
1311(led by the Government brig Cliebucto at
'able Isiand.—Accounts from St. Andrew's, of
the 2d Oct., state, that William Thompson was
sentenced, by the Court of General Sessions, for
danilling the Laws, Judges, and Constitution, to
Pay a fine of 25/. and costs of the prosecution."
A

z't Evening Paper appears to be alarmed and
confounded by the distressing fact, that the out-
rages in the County of Limerick have not yet
been put down, but on the contrary seem to
extend, notwithstanding the presence of the nu-
merous armed force which has been collected in
the disturbed district.—We do not yet, however,
see any reason to despair. The excesses of the
Luddites, in Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, Lei-
cestershire, Szc., continued for a long time after
the military and civil power were placed in a
'Host imposing attitude in those counties ; and
Yet by persevering in a system of vigilance,
and inflicting the sentence of the law on a few
r:onvicted offenders, the spirit of Luddism,
less atrocious and dangerous than that of the
niarauding Irish, was eventually put down. We
have na fear that the measures adopted for re-
storing
the tranquillity of Ireland will fail to
accomplish their object in due time. There is
1"c-11 snore reason to apprehend that the catises•
45f the Present disorganized state of society in that
.6untry Krill not be so easily removed.

esterdav, nt three o'clock, his MAJESTY rode
out in his private carriage, and proceeded to his
S T4lace at Pimlico, where his MAJESTY honoured
HOMAS LAWRENCE with a sitting for his pic-
ture.
The KING returned to his Palace in Pall.
Mall about five o'clock.
lIRIGIITON, Nov. 11.—It is said that our ra-
CrOUS and Sovereign will be here in
the course of next week ; it is almost superfluous
to add, that we are all in high spirits in come-
'lll ce.
.r.The accounts received from the county of
dates oericlt come down to the Bth inst. at which
We regret to state, the disturbances con-
tinued without any abatement.
st,We understand that the Navy Pay Office ca-
au'er, announced by us a few days ago as having
decamped with 40,0001., has been traced to a ship
ed°4nd for America, three days after she L,:111-
.4,_, and that a fast-sailing cutter was irnrneniately
u,;sPatched in efface of- the vessel.—(Morning
Chronicle.
inert he Spanish merchants in London have cora-
trynced a subscription for their unfortunate coun-
-nlon now suffering under the calamity of a
most destructive epidemic.