The Sun.
London, England, 1828-11-07 00:00:00

SPITIiT or cri-iP, I,;:;f‘IVON'-SOUT-iN4L&

It Meeting of the weave:s air spitalfieltl-a
to hark tacit pl?Sce on Moridny las;;Ifel
or obtaining aortic tiafte• protectien;
importation of foreign wroneft silks." V.
above matting a ?Mr. Wallis annormr.ed the' K'!‘-
Ves,ey Vitagereld hid represented Niniaters so 'bac
doeidedt~gidustthe ingtitr*on Of any
1-10 general condi6on of tThe silk tre,de.
doubtedlr the right of manutac:ffr,-;---and Weh,y,r,-
hy experience that it is somericre.s tick iticlioatioci-
to besiege the Government :VI well as the vormrr:'
Nit]] complaints tine ntost unreasonable. Nor
the SpitalfieltlA weavers, it trust he rteknowledr4.
behind the t'itt of their indtisttions countrymet,,
greater of the Enesii "ilk-tru-de
'Bheefoe;lec thee '''tic
change tol(tfluttph:lotilefi;aPtt2rBoilntrit:nat '?7*(l.3i rooefrptt
er szieit.,
,Ipitaltelde manor:tett-treys. A!
ctriailotentiegtdoretaton
by
the
that period, and while the nere protecting sy,st,_v.e.
was contemplated, but not yet adopted, the most
extravagant prediction!, founded in many inetanteg,
we lament to say, on an unblushing falsificatiiirc
facts, *Ore uttered by the SpitaMehis gentlernbx,,
of the absolute ruin which must befell shy tp74o-te,
;ilk manufacture of Great Britain,
iiugliisson's measure be carried, and foreign silks
adruitted tan paying the above enormous
Happily, the new levy passed ; and how trltt'.,',
truth does there appear to hatt been in the assi-R-
-ances and anticipation§ of the persons cotrerned
the Bilk-trade ? Why, instead of being palsierl, thre
manufacture, almost from the outset, became ?Wirt
anirottied and extended. The quantity of raw
63 been progressively greater, its leas ht!en the quasi-.
tity of wrought goods exporter!, no less then of tl;o‘i.!
! consumed at home.. The silk eqablishunciats thanigh,
out the country g:ew beyond all precedent in sc&e
and number. Instead of the French manufacture
being served by the hew system, it is the Froneii
which brut arowedly suffered, and the British they.
has thriven at its expense. If, therefore, the t' pitai
fields weavers alone are sensible of 'mischief iftm•ii is
change which has proved so beneficial to the teat
the silk-weavers throughout England, there tw%y, ter
course, be something in the internal management o'
the Spitslfields insnufac,ure which prociaccs an effect,
so peculiar avid perverse ; but it it tnie which, no.-.
arising troth th'elthetal policy or law, otizht trot t,?
he impUted to the Ciovetorti'pnt of the eturz,
try, or a remedy for it expectad from atn:
official interference. -The Spitalfislds Committees
*No .soraltkd,, 0A Finerald, were not. itrr
politic in ay °Whig " reference to the spread-
ing branches of the trade throughout the enuntry'7
—63 St't tad Was the C.W: from Mr. Wallies blot"
of what passed', because there is no doubt that th
manifest prosperity of that trade, since the enlopa.
tion of the protecting duty, Would tape furnishe<l
sufficient answer to the demand cf an inquiry iato'
its general rendition. Even if ar.;iel distrek.4 .has
been felt in Spitalselde or ilspadrere niece
change of systeriYought-' that alleged as If
ground for reverting to the old state of the kw ?
Wc.. do not remember any series of I,lf a dce:ct
years before Mr. Huskisson's measure, during which
the silk-weavers, like all other weavers, did not
occasionally suffer from come Vitissittule of the !Stat.-
, lets. If the Ministers ere persuade:l—and we an,
sure that the public generally are so---„f 0111 tit&rlgriE
good resulting from what has been absurdly called
free trade in en article, which, if imported from foz.,;
reign rountties, is subject to a duty of neirly orte4,.
third of its whole price, they base been wive Its
considerate in rthitling to entertain the preporliog
of the Spitelfields deputies, en- "
which in fact means nothing hat some etepe toss-neck -
an overthrow of the existing law. The
the meeting, if well understood, in so tar as it ots
sought fresh securities against the it.troddrtiort c;i"
' foreign silks, would be best secured, in our opinin,
hy a further reduction of the duties, which offtf,
it is, a lir+ temptation to the smuggler to eheat the
law, and to rob the Deitish manufacturer. "lira
latter ought to have candour enough to acknowiedgo
that if high duties, and Still more if prohibitions,.
have the effect of encouraging foreign fraud,
:mot at the girlie time kayo the contragry opessv:i4itt
of protecting British industry.--Tit;zes.
The Brighton atzelle notices the statement, cirri
by so doing adds to its probability, that the Dri4de.'
Wellington intends to handle the Catholl! riaeetion
as a Minister in the ensuing session of Parliament.
Now, though it is not likely that his Groee thoMa
be influenced by these reports to undertike the,:
which he had not previously contemplated,
sav nothing of our own caution in promulgatin-c
what we may have heard,—we think that the ire;
quency of the rumour is some proof of the exieits.,4
determination. The next question is, what mat 111,--!,
gloated ? or what it may be the Duke's intentiowto.il:
grant ? It has been said, "Every thing brat. Best
in Parliament." It would be more ratienaije-it
would more suit the present feelings of the people.
of Ireland, and assuage their dissatisfactioo,—ttr
grant nothing but seats in Parliament. Not that are
sey other rights cannot with safety be eoncedrd
iisittes.reolalpisenurgabttjoienoc:t s
i,igna
inheriai
ssmteaxf
okpree:lai
expected
wide
the Catholics, but that this, of all rights, should not
be withheld : first, because public regard lkeg
strongly upon it (and surely if a Goverommt or P.
Ministry be in a conceding humour, they should cce.e.
cede that which will impart, the greetest tatiAtotion
beloved); and next, because if the Pope's in-aneetcr
be terrible (though we think the fears on this hsatl
tithjoearttrehteehti
elryDa Royalbwskue
rdNo)fa,
ho are likely to be returned tu
that class of men w
Parliament. We should therefore conceive isouthi-,
dement of Ireland, trill
tan not overlook the elaim
his I' ,Catho ic countrymen who may be eligible to
seats in Parliament. We will add further, that the
C!t:nolies have at this very time put in a new claim
to consideration and respect, from the aversion
which they have shown to mingle •thernaelves up
with the noisy ignorant clamourers for radical re.
form. At all events, any plan of settling the
Ca-
tholic question which should omit the eligibility
Parliament, would not merely be futile, but wool,:
exasperate those whom it is intended to conciliate--

In the article on Hallam's Constitutional Hietot7,
in the last Number of the Edinburg!? Itcrieln, ae
are told that " in Germany, in France, 117 Seeitet,
land, and in Scotland, the contest against the Pepe;
power we
toenr;liele withfs; and many
polernic diyiees, of the vices et* the rerelu
i s essentially a religious contest," and that
M
men who redeemed great irtnities and orrote be
sincerity, disintereetednese, energy, and e,,,,raze`;
seen
a
united sem-e of
she highest qualities of apostles, were the reel di-
rectors." The reverst of all this, however, was
rase in /4"gland• " Elsewhere, worldliness was the
tool of zeal. Here zeal Wee the tool of worldlineve
A King, whose character may be best degeriheel try
enyinF that he was; despotism itself personified, un-
principled Ministers, n rapacious Aristocracy, a gel"'
vile Parliament—such were the instruments by whicii
ngland was delivered from the yoke sfliome- The
Work which had been begun by Henry, the ratite
dei-er of his vrires, teas rositinbed by Somerset the
murderer of his brother, and cetepleted by
the murderer of her guest. Sprung from Itit4.l
pnision—nurtured by selfish policy, the Refortnet;o,7,
in England displayed_ little of what had is 05h.,.:
countries distinguished it,—untlinching and unsparieg
devotion, boldness of speech, at;slsingleneeta of sae,
These were indeed to be found; but it eras in t..l*
lower ranks of theparty which opposed t heautheris-e
of
Rome, in such men as Hooper, Roger.
mod Taylor. Of thole who had turf important shrsels
in brining the alteration about, the excellent Ridsley was, perhaps, the only person who did no;
slier it as a mere political: job. Even -Ridley-
not play a very prum;
- --nent nart. Awmig the S:tatet--
men sled Pecletee priid:pally gave ;lie tone,
:be religtoue changes, there is ode, and one,etsly,
s hose conduct, pa:tistlity itself can attribute to a 5.5.-
teher than interested motives. It is not etteJige,
;he/dor°, thet his character elsoeld have lira 10.
,-nest of fierce cont:overs:.. We need rid;

that etc speak of Cranmer." The Reviewer, then,'
pmcec,:la to discuss the merits of this one Saint of
the Iteformet:en, and sums up his character by ob-
sesreing, that if "a inert yr be a man who chooses to
die rather 'ran to renounce his opinions, Cranmer
was no more a martyr than Dr. Dodd. lie died
sole:), because he could mot help it. lie never re-
erected his recantation till he found he had made it
in e. lin. The Queen was fully resolved that, Ca.
thol.; or Protestant, he should burn. Then he
eke out, as people generally speak out when)
ep
they are at the point of death, and have nothing to
hope or to fear on earth. If Mary had suffered him
to lire, we suspect that he would have heard mass,
and received absolution like a good Catholic till
the accession of Elizabeth; and that he tae old
then have purchased, by another apostacy, the
power of burning man better and braver than
himself. We do not mean, however, to repre-
aent him as a monster of wickedness. Ile was not
wantonly cruel or treacherous. He was merely a
eepple, timid, interested courtier, in times of frequent
and violent changes." To the corrupt source in
which the Refornied Church of England had its
origin, the Reviewer deems it indebted for some of
eta best qualities. "Iu many respects, indeed (he
says) it has been well for her that in an age of exu-
berant seal her principal founders were mere politi-
cians. To this circumstance she owes her moderate
Articles, her decent ceremonies, her noble and pa-
thetic Liturgy. Her worship is not disfigured by
mummery. Yet she has preserved, in a far greater
degree than any of her Protestant sisters, that art of
striking the senses, and filling the imagination; in
which the Catholic Church so eminently eXcels.—
But, en the other hand, she continued to be for
more than a hundred and nfty years, the servile
handmaid of Monarchy, the steady enemy of public
liberty. The Divine Right of Kings, and the duty
fsf passively obeying all their commands, were her
farottrite tenets. She held them firmly through
rinses of oppression, persecution, ,and licentiousness;
while law was trampled down ; while judgment was
perverted; while the people were eaten as though
-.hey were bread: Once, and but. once—for a mo-
ment, and but for a moment—whets her own dignity
arid property were touched, she forgot to practise
the submission which "she had taught." A German
writer, in a recent masterly volume on Pre•
testantisrn, has views respecting the two Re-
formed Churches in this Island, which have
oeme points of coincidences with those of
thts Reviewer. Speaking of the Presbyterian
Chutes, he essys, " With its unchristian dis-
tinction between clergy and laity, and its equally un-
christian assertion of a divine origin of all the pri-
cileges of the former, more nearly related to Popery
than to Protestantism, it was the Republic, as the '
ether was the Monarchy of the Priesthood. And,
as in Republics, those to whom the powers of go-
vernment belong are animated by a very different
;real than that which mere service can inspire, and
ere usually much more vigilant in maintaining their
cioneequenee then the office-bearers of a Prince, so
is Presbyterianism, the arrogance of the priesthood
formed a richer varnishmtnt than in the Clerical
Monarchs. Apparently more moderate than ha the ,
latter, it was in reality the more dangerous, Es, by
its condese-..o.icn in admitting the laity to a share of
the advantages of the clergy, it laid for itself a
broader futter;aticiti, and had contrived to blind and
corrupt the oppressed to their own destruction ;
more dartgartius, as a popular representation de-
graded to an instrument of the wiles of despotism, is
more dangerous than arbitrary power in all its naked
brutality. If Presbyterianism did not effect all the
mischief which was tube apprehended from it, and
even teas productive of benefits which were by no
roans necessarily connected with its character, this
was because the most of those who professed it were
more estimable in their intention, than in their prin-
ciples ; it was chiefly because it was driven to take
refuge among the people from hatred to a Court
f vourahle to Lpisropaey, which threatened to sepa-
re.: it from the divine right which it asserted; and
the love of ftevdom, which its popular rela-
t,-na forcibly communicated to it, di-armed the spi-
rituel eespotism which was inherent in its Conatitu-
den. The Republic of Priests was furred to enter
*n a conflict, such as Gregory the Vlltit, the Priest
Monarch, had fought; and it fought it in pulpit. and
not in Courts, and its triumphs created laws and npt
Inquisitions, for it it was forced to be more disinte-
rested than he was. Soong enough to conquer, it
was never .fficiently strong to reap alone the fruits
of this victory. But woe to humanity, were it to
exert powers in the service of politics, instead of
the enure, in the maintaining of which consists its
'„,eculiar merit. The monarchy of the Pope would
be preferable to it ; as Despotism is always more
supportatrie than the thousand-headed monster of
Feudalism ; as it is better to suffer death at once
from the sword than to die by a repetition of petty
inflictions. • • • • • • •

Of the setae date with the Presbyterian, and similar
to it in some unessential respects, the Hierarchy
diepleyed only eubstantive power in its combat with
the older Church. In every other respect the
strength of her protectors was the measure of her
trength, and when left to herself she always sue-
eembed to the Presbyterians, who, though neither
itch nor dignified like her, and with a theocratical
system unqueetiontably less firm and compact, had
nothing to oppore to her but better intentions. She
could let loose the passions; she never gained conviction
—ehe could let loose at times the wild beast, the multi-
tude; she never understood how to controul and
govern it. " A torrent of popular fury (says Neale)
oppressed the Presbyterians in the beginning of the
reign of Charles the Second. The same torrent
ererpowered at another time the Hierarchy in
France. The same torrent overpowers now in
Spain all that is better than the populace or
their masters. Thus selfishness and brutality
remain, ass object and means, is an eternal
union ; and whoever wishes to consecrate pillage
ootiverts all those who are as little able to respect
property as to acquire it. But such a torrent, like
the wild wave of a waterspout, soon finds its own
bed, and as soon terminates its course. The triumph
of the Episcopal Church was as passing as the po_
pular rising to which it was indebted for it.
. • Eulogists of political principle, which is
h
only dangerous when unexamieed, and light,
ee certain a
physifal poisons, are unoperative in the the
Prelatee thought they could stupify the people, e,but
their noise only served to waken them and kehep
them awake ; and in the very place where t_s
divine right of arbitrary power %vas most t li -
tinetly eleeated into articles of belief, tutee they
mast decidedly &inbred and limited. For sno,t
pert, :n. dangerous and always a feeble ally of
temporal power, her clergy can only in favour-
Able contingencies be available instruments,
end power has evidently been confounded with
115 instrument', when she has been taken for more
than that. Do you ask whether the Episcopal Hie-
tetchy can and still support the Throne ? Were
histoey to be silent, the very stones would answer—
tee wills of the palace, from the windows of which
Charles I. strode to the scaffold; the walls of St. Ge-
rmain's, in which James 11. supported his disgrace-
ful existence on the alms of Louis XIV." A great
Leal might be said on the subjects so forcibly alluded
to by the Reviewer and the foreign writer. The
orruption in which the Church had its origin, still,
we far, leads her to avail herself of
every moment
far ourable for turning the ignorance and prejudices
of thcepeople to a had account. Witness the scenes
now acting in Ireland--witness Penenden Heath...—
Morning Clacmicie.
It is tally gratifying to observe when persons in
high station keep pace Al ith the advanced spirit of
the age. This is the more laudable in that profes-
sion which, begirt as it is by precedent, is hut too
apt to deprive its members of that turn for improve-
ment which c,cropations not PO shackled open a more
ready door foe. It is difficult, too, to persuade any
men that there can be anything materially wrong in
that which has, in his own case, led to fame and
fortune. These observations have been excited by
the pleasure with which we have perused the ob-
servations which the Chief-Justice of the Common

Pleas took oecasion to make a short time ■iace,
in refeiersce to abuse; and defects in the law.-e-
The Learned Judge, with A candour end discern-
ment (to be expected, certainly, from the vigour of
mind which he is so well known to possess) highly
to lea honour, declared that "it could not be dis-
gu'.es, that, however excellent the law of this
entry was in it: constitution, there were evils at-
tached to its operation, which not only the Bench,
but also the Bar, were most desirous to Qite reme-
died; and he hoped that some judicious arrange-
ment would he effected by the (7omrnisSion ap-
pointed to inquire into the state of the law." There
may be those who may consider this avowal as
coming too late from the Learned Judge to be of
much value; and that there is no extraordinary
merit in recognising the necessity of a reform which
has become unavoidable. 'We arc by no means of
that opinion. It is not for the gravity of the judi-
cial character to be hunting out abuses, and start-
ing reforms; it is sufficient if thrice who suffer
by them do the one, and Parliament the other.
But it is a great point gained, to see the existence
of the one, and the necessity of the other, thus re-
cognised from that quarter where a contrary feeling
would, in all probability, be fatal to any attempts,
even of Parliament itself. Whether lawyers are the
persons most likely to reform the law, any more
than the Clergy the Church, is quite another ques-
tion, and one which we should not be inclined to
answer very sanguinely in the affirmative. This we
know, that no reform which does not strike at it as
a tae gainful trade will be of any avail ; and we
know, too, that profit is what people in all classes of
life are most unwilling to cut down. Every thing
in the law, as it is now administered, is looked
to as a matter of charge ; and how much can
be made of this or that cause or business is more
frequently asked by those engaged in it, than how
the matter can be best or most speedily ter-
minated on behalf of those most interested in it.—
Nor is this confined, as some persons would have us
believe, to disreputable practitioners. No ouch
thing. Instances of this unprincipled selfishness are
quite as rife in the higher as in the lower walks of
the law ; and there are many, we have no doubt,
who will read this, who could tell tales of " the
most honourable and respectable" men, both at the
Bsr and in the grade below it, which would leave
what are called " pettifoggers" in better comi, my
than those who do not know the facts imagine. In
short, the error is in the system which permits such
things : and though we hope, with Chief Justice
Best, that the Commission he alludes to will effect
much good, we repeat that, unless it saves the
pocketa,of the clients,it will accomplish little or none.
—Melting Herald.

One of the artificet of those who contend for the
subversion of the British Constitution by the admis-
sion of Papists to unlimited political power,is to re-
present this revolutionary and destructive measure
as the natural and indispensible forerunner of any
attempt to improve by other less objectionable meant
the state of society in Ireland, Of the utter false-
hood of this representation we have a complete and
unanawerablerproof in the signal success which has
attended the fithe Commutation Act, the most va-
lual-le boon which has ever been bestowed upon
Ireland by the British Legislature. In alluding
to this measure we should be guilty of injus-
tice towards all the parties concerned, if we
failed to commemorate the facts, that it sprung
from the seal, patriotism, benevolence, and
ta-
lent of Mr. Peel, then, as now, Secretary for
the Home Department, and of Mr. Goulburn, then
Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant; that this
excellent and salutary act was withstood at the time
of its enactment, and has ever since been obstructed
its its operation to the utmost by the Popish Dema-
gogues and Priests, and all their advocates and abet-
tors, and that, notwithstandieg the lofty and virtuous
source from which it proceeded, and the grovelling
and fac:ious opposition it has had to encounter, partly
on account of its source, and partly because of its
tendency to tranquillize the country and to strengthen
the Protestant Church, it i-, now in actual operatin,i
in a very large majorit; si the parishes of Ireland.
The benevolence which suggested this measure,
Ind the enlightened wisdom to which its extra-
ordinary ald unexpected success bears the most
emple and conclusive testimony, are not the themes
merely of idle and barren panegyric. They furnish
infereneek of the highest value and importance,
which no candid mind, whether Protestant or Papist,
can eject. They show us that the best friends of
Ireland—those who have in practice wrought most
wisely, ze dousle, and successfully for her welfare,
are among the firm, uncompromising, and consistent
opponents of the Popi-h Claims ; and that • a most
rancorous and determined foes to her peace and pro-
sperity are precisely the men who make the ad-
var.:•.,qtlent of the Papists to great political
fees er the exclusive object of their lives. But
they point to a conclusion still more im-
portant and satisfactory than this. Pey show
to the real friends of Ireland that they need
not despair of the success of any other measure of
practical amelioration which may suggest itself to
their wisdom and benevolence, notwithstanding the
inveterate opposition any such measure is tier:ain to
encounter on the part of her real enemies. The
great practical preblem now remaining to be solved
with respect to Ireland, is how her growing mass of
pauperism may be placed under the protection and
controul of her proprietors, %without too violent a
dislocation of existing interests. Ihe poor laws, as
they now exist in England, are obviously inapplicable
to the condition of Ireland; but the original principle
of those laws, with such guards and qualifications as
the peculiar circumstances of the case require, might
probably be applied with advantage. The problem is
one which, we may be sure, will never even be consi-
dered by the demagogues of the Association, by
their masters the Popish priests, or by those Mem-
bers of the Legislature who labour in their cause.
The object of ull these persons is to spread terror and
confusion throughout the !awl, and to prevent the
adoption of any measure likely to conduce to har-
mony, good order, or prosperity. It is one which
we earnestly recommend to the wise and benevolent
authors of the Tithe Commutation Act. If it be
said that all measures for the improvement of Ire-
land must be vain so long as the present agitation
exists, we are but little disposed to question the
truth of the assertion. Our reply is, let the agita-
tion be effectually, as we are persuaded it may easily,
be put down, not by granting further political power
to the Roman Catholics, a cause which always has
encreased, and always will encrease the agitation of
but by suppressing all meetings, of
the country,
every kind, haring a tendency to promote agitation,
and by conferring upon the Executive Government
suels powers as Cannot fail to inspire the trading
I,lagitatorsth w
the
eixt hal e
tisn,.ttlitoanry toefrrtohri e
41h
o's.esferaanccths
e togetherw.owould
sstua
st ee
eopft
bei angteyr
on
fe stsh feoirat hue_
quickly placiien(liroeflaipideci:li,air
erenceeep,tioofne,
very
rational measure of improvement.--
Morning Posq •

When NERO exhibited himself as a singer
and flute-player on the stage at Naples, the nir,,icia;,
of
the province assembled to hear him ; and such was their
prodigious number, that the Emperor,tvkos viers and
follies were all nn a
gigantic scale, selected no less than
3,000 among the best to be his household musician., and
cloth“ 1 them in a rich and uniform habit.
FRANKED LETTESS.---The privilege of let-
ters passing tree of postage to and front Members of Par-
liament W 3 claimed by the House of. Commons in 1660,
when the first legal settletnent of the present Post-office
was made; but afterwards dropped, upon a private assur-
ance from the Crown that this privilege should ba allowed
the Members. Accordingly a warrant was constantly
issued to the Postmaster-General, directing the allowance
thereof to the extent of two ounces in weight ; till at length
it was expressly continued by 4 Geo. 111. e. which
added many regulstions, rendered necessary by the great
abuses in franking, whereby the annual amount of franked
letters had increased from 23,6001. in the year 1715, to
170,7001. in the year 1763. Other regulations after-
wards took place ; in particular, franks were required to
be dated (the month written at length), and put into the
office the same day ; notwithstanding which, the revenue
still lost by its privilege is above 80,0001. ter annum.

SECOND EDITION.
SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

HE LONDON GAZETTE

OF THIS EVENING.

Commission in the 2d Regiment of Royal Surrey Militia,
signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Surrey.
Jearge Oakley Sanders, Gent.; to be Einsigai Oct. 25,
Ma.

:Whitehall, Oct. 11, 1828•
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Thomas 13Jrton the
younger, of Battle, in the county of Sussex, Gent., to be a
Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.