The Sun.
London, England, 1826-02-27 00:00:00

[MORNING cuttorticLE.l

A Contemporary (The Examiner), in his ob-
servations on what fell from Mr. Hudson Gurney
on a late occasion, does not seem to have exactly
seized the spirit of this Gentleman's remark :
" Why (it is said), as Mr. Hudson Gurney
asked last week—why should they be troubled
with a story about a Surrey Magistrate and the
fleece of a ram Y The humane Banker might have
addect—in which the alleged sufferer is nothing
more than a day labourer. How can Honourable
Gentlemen—'Squires, Tankers, and so forth—be

expected, under virtual repreiente►tion at lenst,
to interest thernielves in the dull story of a peasant
opposed by his rich neighbour ?" We are satis-
fied that the remark rather originated in a feeling
somewhat akin to that which led to the well-known
answer made to Dr. Goldsmith Who would

mind squibs, after having bitten fur hours on a l
barrel of gunpowder!" The truth is, that the
Honourable Member seeing himself surrounded
every day, by men whom he is obliged to treat
with courtesy, but who in other times would have
been excluded from all respectable society, nu-
aurally felt indignant at. the expression in such a
quarter of sensibility to insulated cases of wrong
and oppreSsion. The non. Member had seen the
pear of whole districts robbed of their little all,
by swindlers under the title of Country Bankers;
he•had seen t e foul and fraudulent proceedings
to which, according to the testimony borne by the
Members of a certain Assembly, they lent them.
sitivei every day in Committees ; he had known
Hon. Gentlemen offer their services, in a certain
House, for shares in Bubble Companies, when at a
premium i he was aware of the late improvement
in the management of Joint Stock concerns, by
Which no a have only IQ sifetCh out their hands;
;Olen they' find there tilled, as if by magic, with
a thousand pounds, which they convey to their
pocket with a 'safe conscience, not knowing
whence it comes ;--;.-and .he 'naturally thought, no
doot, if ell these things ‘rere tolerated as =t-
oes of course, that Canfor and' his ham, and
Frank.!, and his Cottage, had better be got rid of

without loss of time. - When the lion:hiember,
therefere, remarked, that these were not times
far inquiries into rains' fleeces, it was as much as
saying," Thou hypocrite, first cast nut the Ovum
out. of thine owo eye, and then, shalt thou see
dearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's
eye." , During the sack of a town, who would
think of finding .fault with their taking u loaf
from a bakers's shop ?

[MORNING- 'JERALD.]
The Civic Body, not contented with calling
fm a reduction of the taxes, declare war against
the Corn Laws, which they consider nn intolera.
ble evil. We do not find fault with their pre•
Rases as abstract principles. Certainly t, no
taxes- and " cheap bread" would be delightful,

and so would a hundred other blessings be,
which, either from natural or artificial causes,
are unattainable. if the Civic Body could con-
trive to annihilate' the debt, and enable the
country to go on without soldiers or sailors, then
we might be exempt from taxes, and corn might
be grown as cheap, or cheaper perhaps here than
anywhere else. But the country at large is
unfortunately in the same situation as an indivi-
dual of 10,0001. a year, whose estate is mortgaged
to half its value, and who is compelled to keep
large establishment besides ; and who must there-
fore submit to many privations and disadvantages
which he can never be, released from, till by de-
graes he gets rid of his debts, and then has the
estate and the Income of it, for his own USP.
There never was a more marked and palpahle
inconsistency exhibited than that which we now
WitneSS in the Civic body on the tine,tioos of the
Silk Trade and' the Corn LaViN ; iu the one case
they are Contending that a duty of 30/. per cent. is
ot.suffleient to protect the British. panufacturer,
Ono in the 3 other, the MIA cpro, grower is
b

Tiyo7 asked to- conippte wit

'n!tfaxe

Amar of Poland, Germany, and the Nether.
fi
449, without, any protecting duty o'lol. The
real evil, and the real dead weight it'the debt;
end if the Civic body, who from their habits and

occupations ought-to be well acquainted with 1
accounts, will tell the Government and the
country at large how to get rid of or Alminish
this incumbrance, consistently with good faith,
they will perform an, acceptable service, and one
much more praiseworthy, than passing resole.
tions and remonstrances which they know mug
be unavailing ; and which are for the most part
only the medium of dull harangues from many
who would be better employed in minding their
own trading concerns.

(iiiL TIM Si .3
The silk question, as a direct subject for legis-
lotion, may now be considered as fairly disposed
of. The majority of Friday night will satisfy
certain individuals among the master-manufac-
turers, that they had best give up manoeuvring
for a repeal of the law, and bond their efforts to
the most likely means of securing the advantages
which it offers them. We are not desirous to en-
ter again upon the multiplied bearings of a ques-
tion, which has been completely exhuused both
as to principle and fact, and which he have al-
ready more than once endeavoured to place in
its proper light before the public, but. there
are one or two considerations connected with
the interests of this manufacture, in com-
mon with those of every branch which open
to foreigners a reasonable chance of st rug-
gling against English industry ; and we may
as welt advert to them now, before they
are superseded by •some other topic of dis-
cussion. It ought to be the purpose of every
humane person to reconcile the minds of the
Mousing Manufacturers to that condition of the
laws affecting their trade which Parliament has
now declared to be irrevocable. We would ask
them, therefore, what is it that they have been
demanding from the Ministers ? 44 A prohibition
of foreign silks." But how was such a prohibition
to be enorced ? Preventive-service-men, Custom-
house-office, Excisemen, informers by thousands,'
were all in full work for a Aeries of .years, and
what was the result of their activity ? Why, a
freedom of smuggling which it was pronounced
on all hands 'to be wholly impossible to restrain.
For a premium of 15 per cent. ad valorem, any
quantity of any description of foreign silks could
be smuggled into the southern ports of England,
and conveyed to any house in the metropolis or
elsewhere, while the whole apparatus of prohibi-
tory engines was evaded and laughed at by the
smuggling community. The prohibition, there-
fore, was a parchment prohibition : it was prac-
tically cis 'if no law upon the subject exist-
ed ; it amounted to a free trade in
French silks, subject to a duty of 15 ,per
cent. upon the consumer. Yet, in spite of this
low duty, the silk trade of England, we are
told by the manufacturers, flourished under the
prohibitory law, the fact of the illicit importae
tion being all the while acknowledged by the
same manufacturers, and complained of as an
unconquerable evil. Instead, therefore, of the
above low duty, Parliament has imposed one of
double the amount, and taken the collection
into its own hands. Yet it is of this in-
creased protecting duty that the body of silk-
manufacturers have so loudly murmured I The
truth is, that if justice be done the commerce of
the country in another department, a less duty than
either 30 or 15 per cent. will suffice to give a
comfortable sule,i.,tence to the silk-weavers. If
the bounty on French silks in the shape of a tax
on foreign corn were repealed, the free trade
principle of 111 r. Iluskisson would work smoothly
and wear well. Until that period, the state of
the country must be this—that we have taken off
the restraints which the law of England had
posed upon foreign commerce, and given a further
preference to that commerce by continuing the
restraints upon our own.

[MORNING POST.)
We have hitherto abstained from taking any
part in the discussions which have been main-
tained not only by the French but the English
Journals, on the subject of the proposed changes
in the law of succession in France. Our silence
has been in part occasioned by the pressure of
other topics of deeper and more urgent interest,
and in part by the feeling that upon the merits
of a measure which had produced a violent
concussion of adverse opinions in the theatre
of its intended operation, and among the
interests to be affected by it, any expres-
bion of our opinion, remote as we are
from the scene, and untouched as we must be by
the effects of the metlitated change, might have
been thought to savour rather of presumption
than wisdom. If we enter upon the subject now,
it is not so much in the hope of shedding any
new light upon the intrinsic merits of the pro-
posed alteration, as with a view to point out the
artful and extravagant exaggerations of its
probable effect in which its opponents both
here and upon the Continent have in-
dulged, and the gross partiality to the existing
system, which upon no better grounds than
its having been one of the earliest emanations
of the revolutionary spirit, they have one and all
exhibited. In France, previous to the Revolu-
tion, the law of succession in cases of intestacy,
was various in the different provinces, but the'
powers of bequest and of creating entails of land
generally existed throughout the whole kingdom.
The prevalence of the aristocratic spirit had
occasioned such a general exercise of those
powers as perhaps threatened an undue and
unwholesome accumulation of property, an I
particularly of landed property, in the hand,
of individuals. It is so obvious that any execs.
'sive or dangerous exercise of the power of
making nn eldest son, as it has been somewleit
quaintly called, was rendered improbable by the
new ideas, feelings, and principles, which the
Revolution had introduced into French society,
that we must give the leaders of that Revolution
credit for very little sagacity, if we soppose that
they framed the new system from any fear of the
excesses of the old. What' Was the new *system,
then, anti what were the motives that produced it ?
Without entering into details, it is- sufficient to
sarthat the principle of the revolutionary system
was that of trangertiOg the distributiou of the
effects of deceased individuals from the will of
those individuals to that of the State. This prin-

ciple was modified by no consideration of the
manner in which the property might have been
acquired, and was restricted only so far as to
leave in the hands of proprietors a very limited
power of testamentary disposition, limited in the
case of by far the most numerous class of pro-
prietors, those having above two children, to one-
fourth of their possessions the law decreeing
that the remaining three-fourths should be equally
divided amongst the children, without respect to
their age, sex, circumstances, or conduct. This
is the nature and operation of the revolutionary
law now existing in France.

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.I
Last night we received the Austrian Observer
to the 15th instant, with other German Papers of
various dates. The Austrian Observer of the
12th has intelligence from Corfu to the 24th ult.
at which time a strong report prevailed there,
that Colocotroni, who was supposed to be at the
head of about 4000 men, had recently made two
attacks upon Tripolizza, but had failed in both,
and was wonded in the last. However, neither
his wound, nor the double failure, could daunt
his courage, if it be true that he was making
preparations for a third assault ; and this ac-
tivity certainly shows that the hopes of the
Greeks are not wholly subdued. In the
mean time, Ibrahim Pacha seems to have
been guilty of a great oversight, or to enter-
tain profound contempt for his adversaries,
in leaving only a garrison of 300 men in the place ;
whilst it does not say much for the military skill
or enterprizing spirit of his adversaries, to have
been twice baffled by such a hand full of men, pro.
tected only by a mud wall in a most ruinous state.
But if the people of the Morea made no exertions
worthy of thecause, their countrymen in Western
Greece still continue to support it with un-
abated courage. The latest intelligence from that
quarter through this channel, is to the beginning
of January, at which time the enemy had made no
sensible progress in his operations against Mis-
solonglii. It would appear as if it was his fate to
remain much longer before that place, having
been abandoned by a powerful corps of Alb"'
who constituted the most effective part of
his force. They quitted him too in a manner
worthy of these mercenaries, for having extracted
their arrears of pay by menaces, they imme-
diately marched out of their camp to return to
their homes. It appears from some numbers of
The Missolonghi Chronicle, which, after a
long interruption, hod reached Corfu, that the
account given in the French Papers with so much
confidence, of the total defeat of a combined
attack on that place by the Egyptian and
Turkish forces on the 27th of last December,
was merely a fiction, as The Chronicle of the 28th
has not a word on the subject. The Greeks had
at that date 13 brigs in the neighbourhood of
the Gulpl► ; and it may be seen from the sub-
atanco of the intelligence that we have given,
that the war languished on both sides, both by
land and sea. The inclemency of the season was
probably the chief cause of this languor ; and it
is not likely that greater animation will be in-
fused into the operations before the middle of
Spring, about which time the Turks heretofore
have made their greatest efforts.

tuess. J
We have received Germab papers to the 12th
instant, which contain various accounts from
Greece. The troops before Missolonghi are said
to remain the same situation as at the date of
the previous advice& The► delay which Red-
schid Pacha has experienced in taking the place
is attributed to the secession of the Albanians
under Ismael Paella to the number of 3 or
4,000. These papers add, that the accounts given
in the Missolonghi Greck Chronicle prove that
the details in the Journal dee Debuts and the Con.
elautionnel of the 29th January are barefaced
falsehoods, and that neither the unsuccessful at.
tack on Missolonghi by the Turks and Egyptians,
nor the subsequent naval victory of the Greeks,
has the least foundation in fact. Colocotroni is
said to have made two fruitless attempts on Tri-
polizza, in the last of which his life was in
danger. He was then waiting for reinforcements
from Argos to make another attack.

The Provincial Deputation that has been some
days in town, and has hod several interviews with
Lord Liverpool, and other Members of the Ca.
hinet more► immediately connected with the finan-
cial and commercial relations of the country, has
yet received no indefinite answer as to the inten-
tion of the Bank Directors ; but Ministers are
understood to be desirous of removing the objec-
tions entertained by the Bank, on the subject of
no advance of money on the security of articles
of merchandise ; but it is believed that the Bank
Directors, even if they should eventually con.
cede the point, will not do so until after the
debate expected to take place tomorrow, on the
motion of Mr. Thomas Wilson.--(ibid.)

[TUC REPRESENTATIVE.)
While there is reason for hoping that hostili-
ties on the Eastern frontier of our Indian empire
have been brought to a termination, our Western
frontier is probably the scene of military opera.
Lions. We allude to the force assembled by the
Government of Bombay for the chastisement
of the Scindians. The country of Scind may
he considered in its local situation to the [ti-
dies) what Egypt is to the Nile. It extends
from the 9.8 d deg. to the Wth deg. of north lati-
tude ; and from the G7th deg. to the 70th deg. of
east longitude ; the lower part of the country
forming the Delta of the Indus. The govern-
ment is in the hands of three brothers, who are
styled Umeers, and exercise the functions of
sovereignty jointly, under the presidency of
the eldest. When the threat of an invasion of
our Indian empire by Buonaparte led to our
forming a defensive alliance with the states
through which the invading army might pass,
the country of Scind, from its position, de-
served and obtained the attention of the In-
dian Government. The Umeers, however, shew-
ed little disposition to cultivate relations of per-
manent diplomatic intercourse with the British
Government, whose interference in the affairs of
Cutch (the province bordering upon Scind) then

commenced' and• naturally excited their jealousy :
that interference has since extended to our dis.
placing the Mahomedan ruler of part of Cutch,
to our substitution of the legitimate Hindoo
Rajah, who had long ceased to possess any
real authority, and to our assumption of all
the substantial: powers of sovereignty over the
province. Under such circumstances, a hostile
feeling on the part of the Scindian Government
cannot be matter of surprise ; and in the pro.
grecs of events we may look for the annexation
of Scind to our empire, either in the shape of di-
rect occupation or of indirect subjugation, by a
change in the reigning dynasy, to be effected, and
maintained by British interference. In Scind,
too, as
,in Cutch, and on a larger scale, as in
the Peishwash's territories, we can bring a
charge of 'usurpation against the present
rulers ; and we can colour the extension of
une Empire by the pretext of placing the
supreme authority in the hands of the legitimate
possessor. This extension of our Indian empire
is, perhaps, inevitable ; and if we fairly embark
in military operations against Scind, the progress
must gradually be the occupation of all the pro-
vinces situated on our side of the Indus, so as to
make that river the boundary of our empire, as
it was of that of A kbar and Aurungzebe.

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

A Rantzli's PARCEL STOLEN.—Saturday IVillion Good-
man, a person of Accent appearance, but known by the officets
to have been engaged in former delinquencies, was brought be-
fore the LORD MAYOR, charged with having stolen a banker's
parcel, containing 1,6001. in bank notes, on Friday last.
Mr. Knight, a clerk in the banking house of Messrs. Cooper
and Co., of the Bridgenorth anclNorth and South Welling
B ank, stated that he l►ad packed up a parcel, containing the
n otes in question, and delivered it to Mr. John Harty ; but
upon what day he did not recollect.

Mr. Harty deposed that soon after he received the parcel he
delivered it to Mr. Cooper, at his house, No. 47, Fleet-street,
where he keeps a linen-draper's shop.
Mr. Cooper deposed that he received the parcel from the last
witness, but did not unseal it. He directed it to Messrs. Cooper
and Co. of the Bridgman!) and Welling bank,, per favour of
Mr. Thomas Gitten, of Wills's Coffee-house, Lincoln's-inn-
fields. Ile gave the parcel to Mr. Gitten on Thursday the 23d
instant, having had possession of it nearly a week.
Mr. Gitten, a soheitor, at I3ridgenorth, deposed, that upon
receiving the parcel, he placed it in his portmanteau, which he
locked up in his trunk, in his bed-mom. As he had determined
to go out of town on Friday, he had his trunk carried to the
Angel Inn, St. Clement's. At half-past five on Friday morn-
ing he set ofF, on the top of the coach, where he had placed his
trunk; the last time he saw it was when the coach was passing
through the Haymarket ; until he reached Oxford he did not
miss it. At that place it had become necessary to change the
coach ; and the witness then not perceiving his trunk in its
place, expressed his surprise ; but was informed by a gentle-
man's servant that the porter had taken it off the coach and
placed it in the boot ; and the porter on being questioned replied
In the affirmative. At Cheltenham, however, he found that It
had been stolen. Ile then immediately took a seat in the
mail and came off to town.

Air. Aldrich, a clerk in the.banking-house of Williams and
Co. Of Birchin-lane, deposed, that between four and five o'clock
on Friday, a person mute into the banking-house, and pre-
sented 2201. in the stolen notes, and got cash for them. About
ten minutes afterwards, the prisoner came and presented 1351.
in notes of the same bank. The witness suspected, from the
lateness of the hour of application ut the bank, that there was
something wrong, anti detained the prisoner, anti sent for an

John Forrester said, that the moment he saw the prisoner he
knew him. He searched, but found nothing about him. The.
prisoner, upon being asked where he lived, refused to tell, but
said he would answer any thing in the morning.
The Loin) ,MAvon—Well, prisoner, perhaps you will tell
us every thing now ?
Prisoner—l'll leave it all to my Solicitor, Mr. Humphreys.
The LORD MAYOR—Perhaps, Mr. Humphreys, you 'will
give us all the information about those notes.
Mr. Humphreys—Yes, my Lord, when I have heard all ; as
yet I have heard nothing likely to make the case complete.
At the request of Mr. ilobler, jun. the Solicitor for the pro-
secution, the prisoner was remanded until this day week.

BOW-STREET.
POISONING IN JEST.--Saturday Elizabeth BerAvley a
frail fair one, and John Pardon, were charged by George
Gorse, a private in the Guards, with having infused in his
beer two grains of tartar emetic, thereby endangering his life.
Complainant (who appeared in a very feeble state) deposed,
that being, on Friday, billeted at the Grapes, in Bow-street,
he was sitting in the tap-room, in the afternoon, drinking a pint
of porter, given him by the landlady. Trisoners were there,
as were three men not now present, but whom he should know
again. Raving occasion to retire, on his return to the room one
of the three men gave him a glass of ale ; he went afterwards to
the bar fora pipe of tobacco, and, on re-entering the tap:room,
fount.' a tumbler of ale on the table where he had been sitting
previously ; another of the men said, they had each drank then
glasses, and told hint (complainant) to think up the ale in the
glass ; witness took about a third portion of the beverage, and
being afterwards more warmly pressed, he emptied the tumbler.
In about a quarter of an hour he felt unwell, and retiring into
the yard, was seized with violent pain in the lower part of his
abdomen, and after vomiting with considerable agony, became
senseless, remaining in that state for upwards of an hour and a
half. J:Cole, oft, Great Russell-street, surgeon, deposed that
ut about five o'clock yesterday afternoon, he was fetched to the
Grapes public house, where he found complainant in a state of
insensibility and extreme danger, his extremities being cold
und.pulsation scarcely perceptible.—The facts of the prisoner's
having purchased the poison at a shop in the neighbourhood,
and put it into the beer given to the complainant, were proved
by competent witnesses.—The Adjutant of the Regiment ob-
served, that it was the intention of the Colonel to prosecute the
prisoners, and they were committed for trial.

WORSHIP-STREET
CUARGE OF ATTEMPTING TO POISON.--Mr. Upton, an
eating-house keeper, in Clerkeuwell, attended to answer a
charge preferred against him, by one Charles Dyson, for hav-
ing mixed a deadly poison with intent to administer the lame
to him. It appeared, that Dyson was in the habit of dining fre-
quently at Mr. Upton's, and that on Monday evening last, he
stopped at his house until nine o'clock, and then solicited Up-
ton to see him home; in their way they called at several public
houses, and had liquor; at last they went to the Oeorge public
house, in Holywell-lane, Shoreditch, and ordered a pint of ale,
which was taken to the parlour; Dyson was solicited by Uptonb
go in and partake of it, but he declined, and being close at home
he went away. Almost immediately after Dyson left, the land-
lord went Into the parlour, and saw that the ale in one of the
glasses appeared thick, and on examining it, there was a sedi-
ment resembling salts ; whereupon he taxed Upton with
having put something into the glass in order to have
a lark with Dyson, which, however, Upton strongly denied.
After Upton left, the landlord showed the sediment to some
people in the tap-room, and it was-suspected to be poison, and
some powder was perceived on the table. A report was imme-
diately propagated that Upton had put poison into some ale in
order to destroy Dyson. Upton heard the report, and went
immediately to ascertain with whom it originated, and saw
Perry, whom he threatened with an action. After this,
Dyson went to NVorahip-street, end at first it was intended
to apprehend Upton; but when it was ascertained that he
had courted inquiry, and mentioned his intention to re-
sort to legal: proceedings, a summons was sent to require his
attendance. After a long inquiry, it remains doubtful how the
sediment came into the glass. The Magistrate postponed the
case until Tuesday next, at the same time stating that, from the
candittand plain statement which Mr. Upton gave, and in the
absence of all malicious or interested motives for his injuring
Mr. Dyson, he believed him to be Innocent, and did not there-
fore call on Mr. Upton even to find hail.

On Thursday night last forty lambs, the pro.
perty of Mr. Thomas Richards, near Winton, were killed by
dog belonging to the Rev. Paul Leir. The Rev. Gentleman
could not at first believe that his dog was guilty; but on hav-
ing him killed and opened, apart of a lamb was found in his
stomach. Mr. Leir has agreed to pay W. damages, that being
the sum itt which the lambs were valued by Mr. ()MOW, of
Blackford, and Mr. B. Mitchell, of Wincanton.