The Sun.
London, England, 1821-08-01 00:00:00

THE toNDON7JOUifiVALs

I)A11.13E. •EXTRACTS 'FROM- THE MORNING e4RERS.

Aufpist 1.

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[THE TIMFFI
.We•have not perceived, from the slight perusal
that we ordinarily give the Ministerial Journals,
that any of them have noticed the important .and
all but offt.cial. statement, that the King twiCe.,.
during -the Queen's process in the I-louse -a
,olicited the accession of the Whigs to.
°nice, and offered to barn out his present Mi-
nisters, both at the-beginning- and in . the mid-
dle of these proceedings, provided -their 'op-
ponents viould exert tirs.-!mselves 'to bring- the
alfair• to a favourable conclusion. This is plac-
ing Ministers in a very scurvy situation -indeed;
and that, not upon our judgment, or the judg.
ment of the nation, but in the opinion of him.
who• employs them—their Royal Master—the
King himself., What; we ask, can the
niFterial Journals say to this ? His MAJESTY,
they assert, and we cordially unite in the assert
tion, is a most wise and enlightened Prince; but
he despises their patrons, wishei to get rid of
them, and would" take their enemies into office,
if the latter wocad come in upon his terms:

THE MENDICITY SOCIETY.—The monthly
meeting of what is called the Board of Manage-
ment of the Mentlicity Society took place on
Monday last, and their resolutions were inserted
in our journal of yesterday We had not then
any space to allow to the notice of them; and
what we say now will be brief, the importance
of the persons constituting the Board on this oc-
casion. being but humble. This Board, then,
states in its resolutions, that " the investigation
was originally entered into very reluctantly ; that
" it was considered as an encroachment on
" time that ought to have been devoted to other
" purposes." This is rather an unexpected con-
cession. We should just wish to ask them what
can be a more interesting subject of inquiry
than a charge which imputes to one of the
°Pieces of the Society; the repeated forgery
of the name -of another officer of the same
Society ?' Is it of no consequence what may
he the character and conduct of the officers
of the Society ? Supposing the charge true, is it
lit that the Man guilty of such an offence should
be in any degree trusted with the management of
public fowls? And supposing it false, is it not
of vital importance to the character of.the Society
to show its falsehood ? Yet Allis, according to
the resolutions of the last Board, is an investiga-
tion 'entered on with reluctance and a waste of
time.—Such being
.the resolutions of this Board,
it may perhaps be superfluous to say any thing
further of the members composing it. Certainly,
had there been present any of the gentlemen With
-whom we conversed on the subject, (exclusive of
Mr. Tooke, the solicitor, but who, we suppose,
attended. ex - oSicio),—had there been present
any one of the former chairmen, we should
have felt hurt at such resolutions agreed to
by such men : we learn, however, that there
were not more than half a score members
left in the room when the resolutions were passed,
and those persons, in point of property or charac-
ter, the least important members of the Society :
it is therefore a triumph for the cause of truth
and justice, that the cause opposed to it should
appear in so deserted and forlorn a• situation.
We suppose, then, we may take our leave of the
Mendieity Society and its secretary till the next
general meeting. There is only one point upon
which there is assertion againstassertion between
the person accused and us ;—between us, who
could have no motive in the world but that of
truth for selecting one man rather than another
as the author of
.the forgery,
.and him who, we
suppose, will be allowed to have strong reasons
for denying the crime imputed to him: We
must remark; therefore, that it is totally untrue
that Bodkin volunteered the production of the
seal with which the forgery was impressed.
He, strenuOusly, and perseveringly- denied the
possession and knowledge of such a seal, till we
showed himthative had other letters of his writing
which bore the same impression, and then be
gave himself 'the needless trouble of producing
the seal. As to Mr. Irving Brock and Mr.
Clement Poole, of whom the latter is the person
who is brought forward to bear the blame of the
forgery, a circumstance which no doubt renders
him a very credible witness in favour of Mr. Bod-
kin,—as to these two gentlemen, we apprehend
they may be allowed to dispose of each other.—
Mr. Brock stated' Poole to be a person who
durst not appear for fearof an arrest ; and Poole,
in the hearing of Brock, bestowed the most odious
epithets on the man- who had said this of him.—
( Mid.) .

rAIOnNING cnnostcr,r,.]
We understand that the reduction in the Army
is now settled, and will amount to about, thir-,
teen tho'i'and men (notwithstanding 'Ministers
opposed every motion for reduction this Session),
and we believe it has .now received the King's
approbation: We have act yet heard what that
of the Navy is to be, buf we presume consider-
able, as well as reductions in the Ordnance ;
some of thelatter have already been proceeded on.

Two Pamphlets were yesterday published by
Mt'. Ridgway, on the,subject of the Greek. In-
surreriion, in which the.. question with regard to
Russia is left almost;entirely out- of, considera-
tion. One of Wiese pamphlets, entitled " Re-
marks on the pyoent State. of Furl ey, consider-
ed in its Commercial and-Political Ite,iiition with,
Engtand," dWells on the commercial advantages
which wouid:a.ccrue"toEngland from the esta- ,
blishrneno.4 the ,independence of the Greeks,'i
and on 0,6 power. which it has: to contribute to
their re,afeneration. The other pamphlet is en-
titled " The eau* of Gre.ee the Cause of Eu-
'rope," and bears to be translated from the Ger-
man. The. Author tells us, that the Turks.
" have remained, to the present day, what
they were when the first Turkish vessel reached
the European coast—Asiatic barbarians, having
nothing in common with the nations of Europe
except the soil Lonr manners and civilization,
our arts and sciences have still remained foreign.