The Sun.
London, England, 1821-06-12 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

• • CONSTITUTIONAL ASSOCIATION,
(From " The Colchester Gazette," of the 9th inst.)
- The phalanx of anti-ministerial, anti-monarchical, anti-
constitutional writers, who labour to degrade those in power,
in order to keep alive the embers of discontent and disorder,
have with renewed activity thundered their anathemas against
that.anti-radical compact which good sense, honour, and pa-
triotism have entered into, under the denomination of.a Con-
stitutional Association, for the purpose of putting down the al-
most expired efforts of faction, treason, blasphemy, and infide-
lity. They cry aloud against-a lawful and praiseworthy union
of honourable and honest men,because they already feel the
impotency of their strength ; when the law is called forth in its
own defence, they writhe beneath the expectant lash ; and at
length ate convinced they must either bow to its provisions, or,
by-continuing in crime, receive the just penalty of their • trans..
gressions. The stupid course which these worthies pursue, is
that of intimidation and deception. Without the vestige of
either argument or authority, they denounce the most exalted
personages in our country ; and carry their impudenceor dul-
ness to such extremes, as to amuse their radical Mends with
the incarceration of Dukes, Lords, Bishops, and Commoners—
and their probable transportation. They ride on the wild
and ungovernable steed of infuriated and disappointed am-
bition ; and hope, by their boldness, to secure a substitute for
the total absence of both justice and reason.—The Consti-
tutional Association is illegal because they receive anonymous
subscriptions, and therefore have secret members. What mi-
serable subterfuge ! If a man sends his money anonymously,
it aids the funds ; but the money itself can be no member of the
society to which it is offered ; it is a donation ; mighthave been
collected at a church or public meeting, in fractional sums • and
being collected, is the legitimate property to further the Object
for which it was given: An anonymous subscriber to a charity,
can claim none of those rights which-subscription would have
secured, if the name, as well as money, had been tendered. It
represents nothing but its value, and in its very gift bespeaks
that it is to be expended by the body, who are responsible.—
But this is one of the blots. A. and B. and a few other un-
meaning letters, are called irresponsible Members of the Asso-
ciation. But this was not enough ; they therefore conjure up
an Act, which in its very preamble proves, that the Constitu-
tional Association is, so far from its violator, its defender. This
Act is named " for the more effectual Suppression of treason-
able and seditious Societies." Is it treasonable to uphold the
dignity of the Crown ; to punish the daring offenders who en-
deavour to bring into contempt both the King and the Laws,
and to.exhibit, by disgusting caricatures and pasquinades, the
person and character of the Sovereign ? Is it illegal to protect
the sacredness of religion, and to shield society in gene-
ral from the profanation of irreligion -- and blasphemy ?
The sober and thinking part of the community applaud
the generous "design ; and it is the last effort of desp.2-
rate faction to . throw around them doubts, that the power-
ful weapon of constitutional defence, by such doubts, may be
rendered ineffective. The question will be set at rest ; the legel
judgment of Messrs. Brougham and Scarlett will have to com-
pete With, the sound doctrines of lawyers at' least equally cor-
stitutional as those querulous defenders of liberty ; and we en-
tertain no doubt, that in the Courts where the discussion takes
place, we' shall see the manifest difference between a lawyer's
parliamentary and strictly professional'opinion. To goad men
into the commission of crime, that they may be punished, is at
direct variance with the benign spirit of British justice: We
believe no part of Mr. King's statement relative to the sale of
the Political Dictionary. We do not believe it, because it is
contradicted on oath, and because we are infinitely more dis-
posed to give credence to one man; who dares to be honest to
his King, and obedient to his God, (if only assertion met .as-
sertion), than to another, who lives by traducing the Monarch,
and deals in the instruments of infidelity towards his Creator ;
and when to this greater cause of credence is added oath against
assertion, we repeat, the explanation is entitled to unequivocal
recognition. The needy tribe may well pant; they have lost
the dazzling prize which anarchy promised ; and the only goal
they can now reach, except that of obscurity, is the proud
resting-place of a Hunt, a Carlile, and a'Wooler.

SAGACITY OF A DOG.—A Gentleman who has
been in Ireland for a number of years past re-
turned to Scotland about three months ago, and
is now residing at Gateside, in the vicinity of
Neilston. Two months after his arrival, a fa-
vourite dog, which he had left at Belfast with
his son, made his appearance, so/us, at Gateside.
This appeared the more surprising, as the aniL.
mal had never before been in Scotland. In a
few days, however, information was received that
the dog had been put on board the Rapid steam
boat, under the charge of some person. But it is
supposed, that after coming ashore at the
Broomielaw, he had got the scent of his master's
foot, who had been there the day before, and
succeeded in tracing him to his residence, a d's-
tance of eight miles.
In taking up the population lists this week,
one of the high constables found in Bell's Wynd,
an old Irishwoman, aged 104, who still con-
tinues to earn her subsistence by spinning.—
(Edinburgh paper.)
In the list of the population now taking in this
city, one house, in Mary-street, was found to
contain no less than ninety inhabitants.—(Limerick
paper.)

Bow-sTarrT.—Yesferday an unfortunate girl,
apparently about 18 years of age, and of the
most interesting and handsome person, but whose
attire indicated extreme poverty .and distress,
applied to the Sitting Magistrate,' RICHARD Bra
-
Nu., Esq., under the following circumstances :
It appeared from her statement, that she had for
the last three weeks been living at a house of ill
fame in Exeter-street, Strand, kept by a man
named James Lock; this wretch had exacted
the enormous sum of three guineas per week for
her board and lodging, and in consequence of her
not being able to pay the sum due for the last
week he threatened to strip her of her clothes
and turn her naked into the street. This threat
he deferred executing until yesterday morning,
(having in the mean time kept her locked up in
a dark room without any covering ,whatever),
when in lieu of her clothes he gave her the tat-
tered and loathsome garments she then appeared
in, which were barely sufficient to preserve com-
mon decency, and then brutally turned her into
the street. Being thus plunged- into the most
abject wretchedness, without money of friends
to whom she could• apply in her present situa-
tion ; her bodily strength exhausted by the dis-
sipated life she 'had led, and rendered more so
by a long abstinence from food ; her spirits bro-
ken and overcome by the bitter and humiliating
reflection that her own guilty conduct debarred
her from flying to the fostering _arms of affec-
tionate parents whom she had loaded with
disgrace and misery, and the now inevitable
exposure of her infamy, it was some time
ere her wandering senses were sufficiently com-
posed to determine what course she should pursue
in the present emergency, when she thought she
could not do better than to have recourse to the
justice of her 'country against the villain Lock,
who had so basely treated her, and after extreme
pain and difficulty, she succeeded in dragging
her enfeebled limbs' "to the office. During the
detail of the foregoing particulars, she seemed
overwhelmed with shame and remorse, and 'at
times sobbed so violently as to render her vuice
inarticulate. Her piteous case excited the atten-
tion and sympathy of all present, and it was
much to the general satisfaction that Mr. Birnie
ordered Humphreys, one of the conductors of
patrol, to fetch. Lock to the office. On his be-
ing brought there the necessary proceedings were
gone into for the purpose of indicting the house
as a common brothel. We afterwards learned
that this unhappy girl is of the most respectable
parents, and for the last six years had been resid-
;ng with her aunt. About three months ago some
difference having arisen between them, she ab-
sconded, taking with her only a few shillings,
and the clothes which she then wore. The first
night of her remaining from home she went
to Drury-lane Theatre, and was there picked
up by a genteel woman dressed in black,
who, having learned her situation, enticed
her to a house in Hart-street, Covent-garden,
where the ruin of the poor girl was finally effect-
ed. It was not until she had immersed herself
in vice and folly that she reflected on her situa-
tion, and it was then too late to retract ; and,
after suffering unheard-of miseries, was in the
short space of three months reduced to her pre-
sent state of wretchedness. The worthy Magis-
trate ordered that proper care should be taken
of the girl, which was readily undertaken on the
part of the parish. Prisoner set up a defence, in
which he said that a friend of the girl's owed
him 141., and that he detained her clothes for it,
but was stopped by Mr. BIRNIE. He at first
treated the matter very lightly ; but, on perceiv-
ing the determination on the part of the parish
to pr3ceed in the business, he offered to give up
the things : this, however, he was not allowed
to do.---( Times.)

THAMES FISHERY.—A fisherman was brought
before the LORD Mayan, at the Mansion House,
yesterday,on a charge of working with an unlawful
net, by Mr. Nelson, the Water Bailiff.—The fact
Has proved by Rough, Duputy Water Bailiff,
who seized the net from the prisoner. The
fisherman, in his defence, complained, that the
water in the Thames bad been rendered so un-
wholesome by the continual discharge of the
poisonous gross matter into it, that but few fish
could live in it, and the fishing had been so un-
profitable for some time past as to compel the
fishermen to have recourse to unlawful nets, to
avoid utter starvation : the fish in the river had
been gradually decreasing for some time, but now
the increased discharge of gas water in the river
promised to drive the fish out of it entirely.—
The Loan MAYon expressed his astonishment
at this statement, as the Gas Company had been
indicted at the Sessions, and the nuisance had
been promised to be abated ; but he doubted
whether the poisonous water discharged from the
gassometer could contaminate the whole river.
Mr. Nelson assured his Lordship that the
nuisance was as intolerdble and more extensive
than ever, and that the water was in an increased
degree unwholesome ; and the fisherman stated,
amongst other things, that where he earned forty
pounds formerly, he could now earn only four,
and that, if the Gas Companies were suffered to
go on as they had done for some time back, the
fishing would be almost entirely destroyed. The
LORD MAYoR expressed his regret at the dis-
tress to which fishermen were reduced, and that
there was no available remedy. He thought,
however, that the use of such nets as.that found
upon the prisoner would only tend to increase
the evil. The Act was imperative upon him, and
ire had no alternative. His Lordship condemned
the net, but ordered its appendages to be re-
stored, and mitigated the penalty.

Messrs. WOOLErt, EDMONDS, and MAnDocxs
arrived by the stage-coach on Tuesday, at War-
wick. They left the coach at the entrance of the
town, and walked to the prison, with the tipstaff,
without being known.
Wednesday last, James Gordon was executed
at Dumfries, for the murder of John Elliot, a
poor pedlar boy, in a lonely place in Eskdale-
muir. He was an Irishman, of the Roman Ca-
tholic profession, and would admit of none but
the Priest to visit him.

BANK r'nosEcuTioNs.Yesterday Charlotte Thorn, aged
19, was put to the Bar, on an indictment, charging her with
feloniously uttering two forged notes for £1 each. This pri-
soner gave her address in the one instance to 17, -Great,Wild-
street, there being two numbers the same, but the artful trick
completely failed, . as. the respective housekeepers and others
clearly proved that she had never lived at either house. Guilty
—Death.
John LAW *as indicted for having in his possession no less
than 61 forged notes.
The prisoner, in -his defence (a written one), said; that the
parcel of notes had been left at his lodgings by a person who he
was in the habit of meeting at.a. public house,'and at the time
he was taken into custody, he was going to inquire whether the,
notes were goOd ones.—Guilty.
- Elizabeth Webster was also put to the bar charged. with ut-
tering a forged note for -1:1 on the 24th February last, at Brom-
ley. There were several other instances of uttering sworn to
by the witnesses ao-ainst the, prisoner, who' had not only made
her escape from Lie watch house, but had been got-awav by
some confederates from- a Gentleman named Bonita, t 3 whom
she had also tendered a forget note. The 'prisoner Was subse-
quently taken -into custody in the City-road, and her person
being recognized committed to prison. Guilty—Death.
The husband of the last prisoner was convicted in the morn-
ing of a similar Offence. • _ _

Robert Hitchmough, aged 17, was also indicted for uttering
a forged 11. note to Thomas Warren, of No. 47, Grub-street.
The prisoner had, on passing the note in question, given a false
address, but with the same as had been given by another per-
son the day before. Guilty—Death.
Robert Holding, aged 21, and.Charle.s Wade, aged 18, stood
indicted for breaking and entering the dWelling-house of Ben-
jamin Croydon; of Blackrnoor-street, Drury-lane, on the 26th
of May last, and stealing upwards of ninety pairs of shoes and
boots.. .There was another indictment against them for a -bur-
glary in the house of Thomas Gregory, of SOlio, and stealing
51-. and other property ; and on searching the lodgings of the
prisonerS, in consequence of the latter robbery, two pair of
shoes were found ,in a chair, and a quantity of picklock keys
and a crow bar up the chimney.
SeVeral persons were called-in behalf of the prisoners, one of
whom, a publican, swore positively to seeing them buy hoes of
a person at his house. 'The -others gave Holding a good-cha-
racter for honesty—Not Guilty.
The prisoners were remanded till to-morrow to be tried on
the other indictment.

SAVAGE CURIOSITY.—A soldier of the First
Regiment of Guards presented himself before
NV. MAINWARING7 Esq. the Magistrate of Marl-
borough-street, and made.the following singular
statement :—Having found it necessary lately to
change his lodgings, he and his family, consisting
of a wife and three children, took up their quar-
ters in Hopkin's-street, Golden-square, in an
apartment adjoining the Chapel, in which Wed-
derburn, the Black Preacher, used to hold forth.
In the course of the last week they have been
frequently alarmed by the hideous yells of some
ferocious animal, and the shouts of an assemblage
of persons, to all appearance little less savage.
On inquiring into the cause of this annoyance,
he ascertained that an amusement, called a
" bear-bait," was held in the Chapel twice
a week, which being separated from his apart-
ment by a very thin. partition, he, and his family
were in a constant state of alarm, fearing that
the bear might, in an unlucky moment, take it
into his head to pay them a visit. It appeared
that his appehensions were not altogether grouna-
less ; for, on Sunday night last, when his family
were retiring to rest, his wife had occasion to go
to the cupboard, where, to her great alarm and
astonishment, she beheld Bruin, all fours through
the partition, regaling_ himself with the contents
of her buffet. She and her children were so
terrified, that they all ran into the street, and
did not return till their uncourteous visitor
was escorted to his own apartment. The poor
soldier wished to be informed how he should
proceed, in order to prevent a repetition of the
visit. The Magistrate ordered the apprehen-
sion of Bruin and his master, as well as all per-
sons found attending the sport of bear-baiting.
DARING HIGHWAY ROBBER Y.—Sunday night,
about twelve o'clock, as Mr. HARRIS, a solicitor,
in company with his wife, was proceeding along
Oxford-street, a daring ruffian came behind Mrs.
11. and gyve her a desperate blow on the side of
her face, which cut her severely. The villain en-
deavoured to drag her shawl from her shoulders,
but in this attempt he was frustrated, in conse-
quence of its being carefully pinned. Mr. HAR-
RIS pursued the fellow till he saw him enter a
house, when Mr. H. informed some watchmen of
the occurrence, and they accompanied him to the
house, where they found the fellow undressed, in
the act of getting into bed. Mr. H. instantly
identified him, and hewas taken into custody.
He was yesterday committed to Newgate for trial.

FlRE.—About five o'clock on Sunday evening,
a fire broke out at the Prussia blue manufactory,
belonging to Mr. Bullevincle, Maiden-lane,
Battle-bridge, which burned with great fury ; the
flames communicated to the feattTr-bed manu-
factory belonging to Mr. Ward, which adjoins.
Several engines having arrived, and there being a
plentiful supply df water, the fire was prevented
from spreading further, and it was got under.
Mr. Bullevincle's warehouses were destroyed,
and the feather-bed manufactory was much
damaged.

The afflictions of the amiable Countess of WArt-
WICK have lately been singularly severe ; scarcely
recovered from the effects of the accident she met
with in Hyde Park, her mother, the COuntess of
MEMBOROUGH, died, in her absence, almost sud-
denly ; and nearly at the same time, her son,
Lord MONSON, was thrown from his horse, and
still remains in a precarious state.
A Rat was killed at Annan on Sunday last,
which exhibits to the eye of the naturalist one of
the most striking circumstances we recollect ever
to have heard of. This rat seems formerly to
have had one of its bind feet snapped off by, a
trap, just below the knee-joint, and the wound
has, through time, healed up : at this part, there
is actually formed a new foot, with the claws,
&c. precisely the same as any of the others ; and
the bone, which had been cut through farther
down than the flesh, still remains.
On the 19th inst. the two beautiful planets,
Jupiter and Saturn, will be in apparent conjunc-
tion,their distance being only two minutes, and
will present to the contemplative mind a majestic
appearance; their apparent place being in 21. of
Aries, they will rise about one o'clock, p. m. and
in the evening, in the west, they may be observed
approaching toward the horizon. About the be-
ginning of August they will appear stationary,
and, from that time until the middle of Decem-
ber, present an interesting appearance, moving in
a retrograde direction. About the middle of No-
vember they will again appear to be in conjunc-
tion, after which this beautiful phenomenon will
not again occur for twelve years.

CORN-EXCHANGE, MONDAY, JUNE 11.--There has heen a
good supply of Wheat since this day se'nnight, and the ar-
rivals this morning from Essex, Kent, and SafroHi, being
tolerably large, the trade, on the. whole, was dnil ; and
though the best runs were taken off on full as good term:, the
ordinary sorts mega-very sale, at a reduction of about
IS. per quarter.r,Barley remains much as last staled, mist fine
Malt Commands quite as good prices.-11eans, of which the
arrival i'vas moderate;, are a trifle dearer; and While Pease
sell .on somewhat better tel Grey, also fully support our
last qUotation.—We had a good arrival of Oats this Morning,-
hut haring a tolerable demand for flirc fresh coin, •such was
readily taken off on quite as good terms; the low ordinary
sorts, however, are cheapurFlour remains at our last'
quotation. • - •