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

CORONER'S INQUEST.

Yesterday an inquisition was taken at the King's
Head, Moscow-road, Bayswater, on the body of
Mr. Thomas Haggard, aged 47. Mr. Henry Bragg,
af No. 8, Salem-place, Moscow-road, had knowa
the deceased for the last six years. He had lately
retired from business, on account of his being greatly
afflicted with the gout. On Friday week last, the
deceased, whose family resided in town, came on a
visit to witness's house, for the benefit of the air.
Since his continuance with witness and his family
the unfortunate gentleman had suffered intensely
from his complaint, which had the effect of depress-
ing his spirits to a great degree. On Friday and
Saturday thc, deceased was confined to his bed from
severe indisposition. On Sunday morning last, about
nine o'clock, witness was alarmed by his wife coming
to him, and, in the utmost state of agitation, inform-
ing him that the deceased had destroyed him-
self in bed. Witness immediately went up to the
unhappy man's bed-room, and was shocked at dis-
covering hint in bed quite dead. His death was
produced by strangulation, which the unfortunate
gentleman had effected in a singular and determined
manner; having tied the ends of his silk pocket-
handkerchief together, he placed it round his neck;
then, introducing a cane walking-stick through the
loop, he twisted it round until he compressed the
handkerchief to such a degree as to stop respiration,
and consequently cause dissolution by strangulation.
Witness instantly severed the handkerchief with a
penknife he had in his pocket, and then despatch-
ed his servant for Mr. Phillips, a medical gentleman,
residing in the neighbourhood, who arrived in
a few minutes, and pronounced life quite extinct.—
Mr. Thomas Phillips, surgeon, deposed that lie was
requested to attend the deceased on Sunday morn-
ing last, about nine o'clock ; he went immediately,
and found him lying on his bed at Mr. Bragg's house.
this death was undoubtedly produced by strangula-
tion.—The Jury returned a verdict " That the de-
ceased destroyed himself whilst labouring under
temporary derangement." The deceased has left a
widow and family.

STATE OF TRADE.—We are sorry to learn
that, in consequence of the unsatisfactory state of commer-
cial affairs in the United States and the immense exports
,f English goods to that quarter recently, several of the
nankeen-manufacturers in this town, who manufacture
chiefly for that markst, made, ou Saturday last, a consi-
derable diminution in the quantity of work they gave nut,
and several hundred weavers have consequently been,
wholly or partially, thrown out of employment; but we
believe no reduction has been made in the wages of thee'
who continue at work.—Manchester Mercury.

...Is toa,linid,.l had.::li
st
A gentleman being asked what business he in-
tended to bring up his sou to ? answered, " If I thought
the rage for gigs, whiskies, tandms, &c. would continue, 1
should bring him up to the profession of a surgeon."
MYSTERIOUS ADVENTURE AT THE WHITE
Haar INN, 'TAUNTON.—" A very strange unaccountable
circumstance happened in this inn about the same time ;
one of those occurrences that puzzle the philosopher, and
strengthen superstition in weak minds. Three or four
4entlemen of the neighbourhood were drinking wine iti
one of the rooms, when the landlord of the inn (as it ap-
peared to them) walked into the room, and coming up to
the table around which they were
lediatnr:em:sstileritad::
him with " Mr. 13mavm, how do you do? Sit down
and take a glass of wine with us." But instead of (Joint,
as requested, the supposed innkeeper walked out of the
room, without making any reply; which not only sur-
prised but offended the company, who rang the hell vio-
lently, and on the waiter's appearance, they ordered him to
send in his master. The waiter informed them that his
master was not at home. The gentlemen replied that he
was at home a few minutes since, and therefore they in-
sisted on seeing him ; but the man assured them they
grew before vee,or very
e angry;hin
.to thel
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were mistaken, as his master was in I3,ruisj,to3:
been there several days. They then ordered the
iwaiter
to send in Mrs. BALnWIN, who irnmediateLalui,
Mt.br.e waiter
out of
pearing, the gentlemen
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and
the room ; but Air. BA LDWIN returning two days
come into it necessary for them to vary th •- 1 -
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that
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and had no doubt but it would very soon
It wat, generally thought that Mr. llALnwf fs' was weak
,nough to pay such attention to the story and the inference
as to hurt his health, as he really died within a year after,
and the old women Were not a little pleased at the event, as
it tended to justify the truth of their prediction."—Lark-
ington's Memoirs.
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with
Monday three men were committed to the
Old
ith l3rtelialeli‘sn' eglha atshDeee;izferso,mfoar ffluerltdbeLreeLagminitglattoion;irc.hacrogße(..l
xruns CnawnrElt, of Poulshot Lodge. The animal was
slaughtered in the field, and the skin and bead left on the
spot. Suspicion having fallen on a person named 13Rnsts,-
tax, alias Bic WILL (so called from his immense stature),
a search warrant was obtained ; but nothing that could
lead to a detection was found in the house. In an adjoin-
ing orchard, however, the attention of Mr. CHANDLER
Was attracted by a dog belonging to BRINSLEY smelling lit
and tearing the earth. Here were fund buried a shoulder,
neck, and breast of mutton, which precisely corresponded
with the skin left in the field. The foot-mark of Ballis-
LEY, known from a particular description of nail in the
heel, was also discovered, within a yard of the place where
the sheep was slaughsered. Two uses, who were drinking
vith Llanssi.} v at Seend, on the night (Saturday) of th,
;,.Id,ry, havi: beets apprdseuded, —Bath Chronicle.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

It is plain that whatever may be the issue of this
day's debate,. the Catholic, body look op
with an
indifference not manifested by them on former oc-
casions. They havesuntlotibtedly petitioned Par-
liament for a redress of grievances; as before. They
have committedlheir ease, as in previous years, to
members diatinguished by talents and character, who
may be expected to discharge, with credit to them-
selves, the conjoint duty of advocates and patrons,
if not with success for their clients. The Catho-
lics, therefore, have complied, in this instanceswith
every decent form prescribed by usage and acknow-
ledged etiquette ; but there is only the form of re-
spectfulnesein these proceedings. In their own eye,
while they contemplate their own formal acts, there
sits an undisguised persuasion that such overtures
are nothing but barren punctilio—a ceremonious
homage to the manners of political society—and
that they will at present yield no fruit. If 'those
who resist the claims of these petitioners imagine
that the Catholic cause itself is endangered,
the hearts of the Catholics appalled, or their pur-
pose of achieving their rightful share of con-
stitutional freedom and. power in the least de-
gree shaken, merely from the languid atten-
tion shown by them in . reference to the results
of this approaChing discussion of the old ques-
tion in the House of Commons, such speculators are
cruelly deceived. The relaxed expectation of .she
Catholic body from any benefit to be speedily confer-
red on them by Parliament, afford to us a conclu-
sion very opposite indeed to that of their sanguine
enemies: It is to our Minds a subject of regret and
apprehension, though not by any means of surprise.
The Catholics have bad •reasons furnished to them
for believing .that high and mighty prejudices were
arrayed against them, more industriously, if not more
ostentatiously, than ever; and that many base and
menial passions had, as became the creatures who
cherished them, enlisted in that " illustrious" cause.
If, therefore, to the recognized authorities here, the
Catholics begin to turn with careless and hopeless
languor, it is not in such a spirit that they have cul-
tivated resources less likely to disappoint them.
The Catholics have been driven to an expe-
dient which their adversaries did not anticipate.
They have withdrawn their implicit confidence from
others, and transferred it to their own community.
In it, so organized that each of its parts has been
skilfully adapted to its proper uses, the Catholic
hope, spirit, and power, are now concentred. A
Catholic Parliament, it is vain to deny, assembles
and debates in the metropolis, and to every Practi-
cal purpose makes laws which the Catholics obey,
while a priesthood, wielding the elements of a spiri-
tual authority, supreme as that of the Jesuits in
_Paraguay, can move, and bend, and bind, in union
with that lay legislature a multitude of five millions
of vigorous and susceptible barbarians, to the duo-
Hen project of the hour. Is this frightful ? Is it
not accurately true ? There is not a parish, or vil-
lage, or hamlet in the island, which has not been
disciplined to its peculiar task,—not one which has
rest its delegate or representative in direct com-
munication with the heads of the Catholic Go-
vernment,—not a leader in Dublin, whether priest
or gentleman, who does not exercise his po-
litical jerisliction within certain local bounda-
ries, or on prescribed principles, and to definite
ends. What, then, is the plain description of such
a system ? Why, it is a mingled aristocracy and
ll'erarelly, forming a staff of an innumerable force,
with two thousand parishes drilled into as many re-
giments,—a kingdom for a camp and a nation for
its army ! Again we say, who is there that can
deny the truth of this picture ? Whom does it not
terrify ? To whom does it not address these words
—" You must emancipate the Catholic nation, or
exterininate seven millions of your fellow-christians
,and fellow-subjects ?" And let an honest English-
That: reconcile himself to the destruction, riot, merely
of the brave who fight, but of the weak and innocent
.who perish. Men wko are more familiar with con-
vention and compromise than with stern principle
and the calla of great emergency, seem to be over-
wisely delicate in the choice of arguments upon
this momentous subject. They tell us that the
feelings of the prejudiced anti-Catholic must he
treated with forbearance, and with tenderness—that
is to' say, that for the sake of getting him ,to pass
the Catholic' Bill, we must bide from him the real
posture of the auestion which it is designed to settle.
We understand this weakness,--for such it isse-but
we reject it as no less mischievousalsen absurd. The
frrgumentum ad tinsorem, in its naked form, is not,
perhaps, the most agreeable in all modes of logic; yet
in fact, what i 3 every argument foundedon considera-
lions of prudence and justice, but an appeal to the
fears of a reasonable being? Why is a man advised
to be " prtident," hilt that lie may avoid some
danger ? Why is injustice deprecated as the most
foolish policy, but that retaliation is the inevitable
consequence of injury unredressed ? When, there.
fore, we tell the antieCatholics in Parliament, that
if they Isere, wise, they thirst not reject' emancipa-
tion,—that the Catholics are too strong to be
despised or trampled on,—that if we do not give
;hem the share of power to which, as fellosv-citizens
they are entitled, they will wrench from us, when
occstion offers, more than they have ever in' peaceful
tidies 'dematidedss--we use• no unbecoming plea.
When we urge upon the anti-Catholics the moral
impossibility of keeping Ireland always in misery and
degradation, because there is a physical impossibility
of retaining her always in military subjection, it is a
solid and sober way of putting a truth which no en-
lightened statesman will deny, but without' a know-
ledge of which the majority of Parliament May think
themselves justified in attempting to perpetuate the
present evil system. We believe that the manly
mind of him to whom is now committed the chief
guidance of the 'British Empire has not remained
o this late hour insensible to the real perils of the
existing state of Ireland. If we can reason from
analogy upon the probable conduct of the Duke or
Wk4iingtOn towards the Catholics, it will be governed
by the evidence afforded him of the bias of public
opinion is this .country. A bigot, or a fanatic, or 4
corrupt monopolist, ,we are quite sure the Duke of:
Wellington is not, 'To, gain his assistance, we hovel
but to show him a force sufficient to carry the
It is, therefore, that we would
enemP6p.siefoi; 'of England “ireflect in time upon
advise the
the danger; which beset them, stioSild they establish
an hostile nation at OW very th reshoict—Times.
Our attention dors" of the Ci vn-ars
now.carryin on by
the
been called to the proe • g
Corpina
wh- olorasaile dealetc,t.and
London, against• merchants,
ne within the
occupiers of counting-houses ge
It is
jurisdiction of that ancient and auto list ust bogy
scarcely necessary to inform the reader, that
on .breetafore..
a person can open a retail shop, or carry a ll
business in the City, he is obliged to.become free
of one of the City Companies. This i 3 technically
palled " taking up your freedom ;" for which taking
k°
riP you have to pay into the chests of the Corpora-
tion a Milk a money amounting, upon an aver'
MI pounds. ilitherto—or, at any rate, for.perhans
two hundred years: past—merchants wand wholesale
dealers have been exesept from this City tax. The
Corporation, however, like the Prodigal Son
in the Scriptures, having wasted their sub-
stance upon riotous living, but,unlike him, not
being fee
willing to tend swine and d upon husks,
have been • lately
looking about for meeos by which
they may replenish their funds from the substance
of others. The plan which they have hit upop is
the notable one of calling upon the aforesaid men-
chants to take. up their freedom; that is, for each of
fifty ounds, for the
them to pay the Corporation p
privilege of carrying on their. business ienerations n
and
the very
houses, which their forefathers, for g
generations gone by, occupied without being subject
to any tax of the kind. But the mode of doing this
is as objectionable in point of honesty and hon,
able dealing, as the thing itself; and it satisfies us
that the Corporation hive in reality no legal claim
upon the parties in question. Instead o
tr f bringing
in g
an action against an individual, and, by ntheir
clai in a Court of Law, set the ting t rest,
theym summon all before some pretended a
Court,

and insist upon them taking. -up -their free-
dom in one of. the Comparties, 'or threaten
them . with proCeedings. at law. has, we
understand, been . proposed. to them to defer
proceedings*, till the question can be tried in an
individual instance, but this just and reasonable-pro-
posal they have uniformly rejected. The conse-
quence is, that . many persons, sooner. than be sub-
ject to a law suit, :ire induced to pay the money,
and sit down: quietly under the imposition. ;for is
this all—the Corporation are actually raising a very
considerable fund by means of their summonses, for
which they make the parties pay two shillings each.
That all this is perfectly illegal, we are quite satis-
fied, and we understand that such is the opinion of
several very eminent lawyers. We are glad to hear
that a considerable number of merehants are deter-
mined to try the question, rather than submit to the
imposition; and as there is reason to believe that
the Corporation, notwithstanding all their bluster-
ing, will not venture to go into a Couit of Law, we
would strongly recommend the wholesale dealers
generally_ to set them at defiance.--Morning Herald.
Lord Palmerston goes. out as Governor of Ja-
maica, and will be succeeded by Mr. Spring Rice as
Secretary at War.—lbid.
- -

The statements of the trade of the country in the
Finance Accounts, for the year ended sth January,
1828, afford evidence of the commercial improve-
ment -which has taken place. The Imports, calcu-
lated at the official rates, amount to 44,887,7741.
For the year of distress, ended sth January, 1827,
they were only 37,686,117/. The previous year
they were 44,208,8071. The Exports. for the year
ended sth January, 1828, were 62,050,00 a; for
1827, 51,042,022/. ; and for 1826, 56,320,184/.—
While we rejoice at this proof of reviving industry,
we regret to see that the amount of Imports does
not keep pace with the Exports. It appears that
56 millions of Exports, in the year ended sth Ja-
nuary, 1826, produced 44 millions of Imports,
while 62 millions of Exports in the year ended sth
January, 1828, produced only 44 millions. The
foreign and colonial merchandize exported during
these years is nearly the same, being 9,169,494/.
in the former, and 9,830,728/. in the latter • so
that the difference is in the produce and manufac-
tures of the United Kingdom, 52 millions for
the year ended sth January, 1828, .producing only
the same Imports as 47 millions in the year ended
sth January, 1826. Of our manufactures, those
which exhibit the most decisive signs of improve-
ment are the Iron and Brass and Copper manufac-
tures. Though the Cotton exhibits a considerable
increase in 1828 over 1826, at the official rates, the
declared value for 1828 is considerably below 1826.
But the branches above alluded to exhibit an in-
crease both at the official rate and declared value.
Thus
BRASS AND COPPER 11ANUFACTURE, HARDWARE AND
CUTLERY, IRON AND STEEL, WROUGHT AND UN.
WROUGHT.
Years ended sth Jan. 1826 1827 1828
485,118 571,149 786,603
1,391,112 1,169,105 1,390,428
1,048,063 1,105,618 1,214,948
In the remotest districts of the. Continent, where
every article used is of domestic manufacture, the
Hardware and Cutlery of England will be found.
Every carpenter is indebted to England for his tools.
For the Iron manufacture we possess, indeed, parti-
cular advantages. • The Shipping exhibits an appa-
rent decrease on the 31st of December, 1827, as
compared with the two preceding years; but this
is attributed in a Note to " the operation of the
Registry Acts' 4 and 6 Geo. IV., which required
all vessels to be registered de novo within a limited
period, the consequence has been that many ves-
sels which were supposed to be in existence
were found to, be no longer so." The decrease,
however, is only in England. Scotland and
the Plantations exhibit a regular increase.
Thus, for instance, the tonnage of Scotland on
the 31st December, 1825, was 259,537 ; on
the 31st December, 1826, 290,006 ;- and on the
31st December, 1827, 300,836. The Plantations
for these years had, of tonnage, 214,875, 214,183,
land 279,362. The tonnage of England is 1,958,716
2,001,295, and 1,752,400. Scotland has now for
its population more shipping than England—and
from it having more coast in proportion to its extent,
it may he expected to grow upon England every
year. The number of seamen for England, on the
31st December, 1827, was 101,039 ; for Scotland,
21,846 ; and is more than one-fifth, while the pro-
portion, according to the population, is about one-
stxth.. I'he Report, by-The Commissioners for the
Herring Fishery, of the proceedings, for the year
ended sth 1827, shews the extent to
which the Herring and Cod Fishery of Scot-
land has been carried. The total number of
persons employed in the fishery amount to 79,794.
The number of fishermen and boys is • 47,371.
Of this number of fishermen no fewer than 37,607
belong to Scotland. When we include the wives
anti. children of the men, we shall find that a very
large proportion of the inhabitants of Scotland de-
rive their subsistence from the water. The naviga-
tion of Ireland exhibits a regular increase. On the
31st December, 1825, the tonnage was 80,583, the
men 7,090; on the 31st December, 1826, tonnage
40,768; men 7,327 ; on the 31st December, 1827,
the tonnage was 97,369, and the men 7,609. No
man has bon more calumniated than the Marquis of
Stafford for the gikonges introduced into the mode of
occupying. the extensive estates in the county of
Sutherland. We observe that the Port of Helmsdale,
which has been created by him in that remote part of
the island, had, for the year ended sth April, 1827,
no fewer than 161 decked and undecked boats, 805
fishermen, 87 coopers, 1,010 persons employed in
gutting and packing fish, and 94 labourers variously
employed : in all 1,996 persons employed in the
fisfigripg, What a reproach to the Irish landholders !
With a angst presenting such advantages for fish-
ing, in the neighbourhood- of populous districts,
Ireland has no fisheries—while in the poorest and
most uncultivated district of the three kingdoms, in-
habited by a people, a few years ago, less advanced
in .civilization than the wildest of the people of Con-
nang/st, ono beneficent individual has opened -What
may be orme4 a mine of wealth to these savages,
who are now reaping all the benefits of civilization.
All comment on • this _is unnecessary.— morning
Chronicle. • •

one of the jocular plans which Swift was iu
the habit sof propounding. For our own part,
we think. that all history and all experience
teach but one truth of the Roman Catholic
religion ;—that it is the steady and unre-
lenting Toe of every liberal institution—of every
constitutional doctrine—of every comprehensive,
and enlightened measure. Wherever it has esta-
blished itself, we find, without a solitary eiception,
bigotry, tyranny, and ignorance in its train, and pre-
cisely in the degree of its domination is the degree
of their prevalence. Look to Spain, to Portugal, to
Italy l Look, as a Noble Lord the other night very
properly observed, to the Catholic and the Protestant
Cantons of Switzerland, and, he might have added,
to the Catholic and Protestant Principalities
of Germany. Lastly, to come nearer home, and
t' take a case which is equally in point, arid
which affects us more nearly—look to catholic
Ireland and to Protestant Ireland ! It is no
answer to tell us that the state of France is
not as we have described the state of Ca-
tholic countries to be. France is not Catholic, nor
has been, except in form, ever since the seeds of
Protestantism were planted in her by the thine-
nots. We will admit, that were the people of Eng-
land careless of the advantages they ,enjoy—were
they willing to hazard their enjoyment by conceding
to the Catholics what they claim, whatever were
the risk, it were just it should be incurred : but the
people of England are not so inclined; and the
Parliament that would press such a sacrifice on
them would seal its death doom. They would fly
from petty tyrants to the throne, and assist thei
King in putting down institutions created for their
mutual protection,- but converted, by the folly
of their Members, to their mutual .destruction,
It is, however, unnecessary to enter on the discus-
sions of a probability so remote. There is, no
doubt, a powerful party in the Howse of Cominons,
who- will vote‘with Sir Francis Burdett, but though
it were as strong in influence and in principle as in
numbers, its efforts would be vain. The hereditary
legislators of the country are not borne about " by
every wind of doctrine" like their elective brethren.
They have no seats dependent on the resolutions of
the Catholic Association. They have done their
duty before, and, if necessary, will do it again.—
New Times.

THE MARQUIS DE LOULE.