The Sun.
London, England, 1821-08-29 00:00:00

port, which protect our persons and property;
The scarcity of money is very general and
alarming.

" HAIIIIIURG, AUG. A3.--Alderman Wodd is ar;
rived by the packet boat from Harwich, and 14
gone from Hamburg to Brunswick, where the
solemn entry of the body of the Queen of Ecg-'
land will take place on Saturday.

CC CHRISTIANIA, AUG. 14.—His Majesty has
-addressed a M?ssage to the Storthing, with a p 7-0-
posal that he shall be authorised to confer the
titles of Nobles, Barons; or Counts on Meritorl'
olls citizens. The titles to be hereditary.
"--
(Hamburg Papers; Aug. 244

This being settling day at the Stock Exchange,
all were busily employed in settling their ac-
counts; and up to this hour, 12 o'clock, we db
not hear of any defaulters ; the Funds remaill,
steady—Consols are 75,-1 and money is rathet
scarce.

Whatever may have been the motives or inters'
Lions of Mr. Sheriff WA ITH'MAN, in addressing $
letter to Lord BATltunsT, respecting the affray
at Knightsbridge Barracks, there can be but el'e
opinion as to the gross impropriety and injustice
of publishing such a letter, by sending it round
to all the Morning Papers, pending the legal ie`
vestigation of those circumbtances, which the
Sheriff thus takes upon himself to prejudge'
Such a step would have been very improper i°
any private individual. On the part of a l'ul'l``
Functionary, whose office gives him opport°-
nities, in the selection of Juries, which might b°
exercised in a manner prejudicial to the intere3t°
of justice, we scruple not to say that it is lag!"
disgraceful. had the letter to Lord BATltunst
proceeded from a Sheriff known to have no Pe
culiar bias in favour of or against the militarY;>
had it been written with all the caution and
temper which the serious importance of its 59k.
ject demanded,---had it detailed nothing but
what the Sheriff actually saw, and was prepared
with other unquestionable evidence to supportc.
had it been dispassionately and coolly writte--1
without favour or affection, or malice, or coloor"Z
of any kind,—had it contained no assertions ad'
vanced on hearsay,or on mere opinion, such as".ltl,
informed" so and so,—or so and so " miejht ha%B
been foreseen,"—" 1-.Teelassured" of one things
another thing 44 seemed inevitabk"—and
subordination to Civil Authority the soldiers or
peared to be wholly uncons:Aous," &c. 'of
the Sheriff's letter had proceeded from a mar-
known impartiality--if it had been drawn uPan h rat
at
unobjectionalle manner.—stated only
he at and
.fi-nctv,----and been free from all rks
of eager anxiety to prejudice one side of tb
question,—still its publication would - have Nij`,
highly reprehensib/e.—But, what is to be thous. a
then, of the publication of such a letter b 5:„.
Sheriff known to he openly and avowedly acti ao
as an 44 advocate," before a judicial tribunal, on e
criminal charge, affecting the lives of some ; the
the
very soldiers implicated in his letter,--al .nst
letter of a Sheriff acting as an advocate,
rtga
the military, and exerting all his powers to ccurr,
vict them of a murder, perpetrated under
44,3
7cluezncisctrianalcoln;eheattedis IV:oth
bethethovuer;"
ttroarti,ssauc;;l:
in which he accuses them of having committed 3
letter, when it commences with the dire" übiik.-
gation that " a violent outrage of the I'
peace had been committed Ity the I.fe"`tee
ctil'
and yet afterwards admits that " the people
gathered round the spot, and expressed th eill
hole
displeasure" against the military ; that t
ex,
" a tumult seemed inevitable.," the were
postulations" of the Sheriff " with the
to soi
re-
diers succeeded in prevailing upon them his
tire and close the gates ;"—and that, ul,onot
44 some time after returning to the same
and seeing a number of soldiers running from 016
wicket gate, and pursuing the pen ale on
causeway, " he found that an affs-rty hat adultova.
commenced,,,_thus at one and the soar the
directly charging the soldiers with being
that
authors of the affray, and allowing,—first,-'o;ralt
though from the insults of the pear& a rro
seemed inevitable, 'yet the soldiers peace" 'that
tired and closed their gates; and. secondlPcoru-
he himself (the Sheriff) did not witness theore
mencement of that subs.equent [grafi!, thechat.cc
of which,, he presumes, neverthele,;s, stieri;
up 0 7 the soldier?! ! How dyes Or: a `‘ 3
sscvsaitnnbtel
ita)
rbol
04.1:v1,saciotfrrirtilyisit'stot.(ta,1:110;eces7ii.c.;f0:131.,
the Barracks ? Whereylo‘urit!tysg
str 113.,
3,
to
oL
cgL
01 Ita
known, wht'
is it credible
nor
ever
y fact which
u ht
gaeh—taW lis she not 1
11 laia?ot
by
gt
vodesaey theirht s pare ne"
nd there
zeal, by
tar
.)r) but to pervert facts w-hich are in t
in ao9 .4 it
your, so as to bolster up a case -dice
and by any means, to their prPiu-,-; ", tat
credible, we ask, that those PerisDia-ve se
0.,
girl had been really so wounded, won Pr
, be
a stone unturned till they had four)" may
duced her ? Perhaps, however, sollle,
found now. The Sheriff's letter is ad is. Le"
calculated to give the cue to the radtc.a
an that
tiol
that he
itileteinliass%hveeaarrdtoanadllhtahsatnhoet hashea stated
has seen and has not seen—t°
he 15"
lieves and disbelieves—to all that e te,
and contends for ;—and in a little time
the a" from to
may with impunity march up
carbines
wrest their swords and their car., first
OnS
their hands, and employ their weaP
• t thelf
fee
against them, and afterwards against , vag
low-citizens.—Why, even if a bric.irh-Azot,
thrown from the Barracks, does Mr. "
ooprot
MAN take no notice of the hisses; the °p
pro
he
be: