The Sun.
London, England, 1819-12-20 00:00:00

COROLLARY.

Therefore, whatever tends to prevent a due ob-
setvatice ot these, most be inimical to the traoquil-
lity of the Country and endanger the Crown.

SCHOLIUM.

The preceding Axiom and Corollary must con-
vince any uttl►rejudiced min(!, that the late prose-
cutions, instituted by the Crown against Libel,
Misphr my, &c. were not cart led to that rigotous
extent which., in strict law and justice they might
have been. since the aggressors have only been in-
flicted for inisdeineanours, when they rnight have
been arrainged for high crimes and idistlemerinonrs,-
sedi:ious in their nature and tieasonithle in their
tendency.

THIRDLY, AS 'ID TIM PROPER TRIBUNAL.
DEFINITION, 2.

Criminal Courts, those insti!utell for (lie ex-
press purpose of trying criminal oiforces.

COROLLARY.

Blasphemy is a crimival offence, tl►etefore
cri►ninal Uotirt is the hues! Tribunal at tshicli to
arraign and adjudge Blasphemy.

SCU(►LIUM.

The preceding will refute the groundless asser-
tions.of a late notorious Blasphemer, as to the
competency of a Criminal Court to take cogoi-
zanCe of his case ; since his rbla,phamy has been
proved, such blasphemy has been paved to be a
criminal offence ; Criminal Courts :Jaye been
proved to be the moat proper for trying snelt
tence : hence, then, by a logical climax, we infer
that they were the most proper for ttyin~ his.
Duly aware, Mr. Editor, of the press of matrer
which 'crowds upon you at this period, I find it
.necessary to divide into two, what I had Ostend-.
ed for one Let'er when, front the mutual bear-
ing which they must neceyiarily have on each
other, I must crave yuknr earliest insettionof thvni
both, and am, with bleat respect,

Sir,
Your most obedient humble Servant,
Dec. 6, 1819. A DIU lON.

NEW LAW OF LIBEL

01,1 TIIS•I4ANISIIMENT CLAUSE IN THE LIBEL BILL,

AS IT AFFECT.S THE BOOKS ..I.EILS AND PRINTERS.
The clause, tio far as it relates to transporta-
tion, has been withdrawn, but as it relates to ba-
nishment, has been retained. To the latter pun-
ishelent, however, tl►e booksellers and printers
still It'll iustiperable objections. There is, cer-'
saltily, a di-dvrence in the two jmnishments ; but
although the one be more ignominious and de-
grading than the other, yet that of binishment
may have a severity of 'operation equal to that of
transportation In most cases, andmarin some.
cases be -tame severe. 'And while inevitable ruin
aitends,either punishment, the sufferer is thereby
placed beyond the benign influence of the B►ri-
tish Constitution, and left in a situation front
whence tl►e Ctown, the fountain of mercy, can.•
not be supplica; Hi! 5 or, at best; supplicated under
disadvantages from which the greatest criminal is
I free; while pet mitred to remain in this country.
These considerations, it is presumed, are of the
highest importance with regard to crimes-
Libel, which are not specific acid certain, and
which after conviction may, from that eirem»-
. stance, admit of many extentrations wit in►me-
diately apparent. And as a principle of just and
'' ise legislation has been applied in rejecting the.
punishment of transportation for the etitnes men-
tioned in the Bill, so the Book,elleis and Printers
venture to hope, that the puni.hment of banish-
ment, hitherto unknown (as a perninnent mea-
sure) in the jurisprudence of this country, gill
not be retained. They scarcely,feel less appre-
hensir•e of the consequences itt being stark, t
one punishment, than they were of being subject
to both; and they cannot but feel great .appree
'tension and alarm; in t_he contemplation of a
n►easure which involves every personal and do-
mestic comfort.—(Dec. IS )

C0:11:

[EXTRACT OF A rtirrATE LETTER.]

'roll, of course, havr heard and read-much on
the subject of Parga ; as far as i am able to judge,
it appears to me that the Pdrgans are as well off
as the nature anti citcutustances of their situation
will permit us to make them ; they have received
an indemnity for their immoveable property,
which, though not equal perhaps to the real va-
lue, was far superior to the estimate made on the
part of the Ottoman Porte ; and being in ready
money, and unshackled by any conditions or in-
cumbrances, they have an opportunity of dis-
posing of it to the best advantage in these islands,
where the price of land is very low ; the Govern-
men,,- likewise, has it in contemplation to make
them a grant of land, and to build them a church,
&c. if they like to settle here. I have not seen
she pamphlet published on the subject, but believe
an answer is to be prepared.
Colonel W---•-• has been here since the begin-
ning of last year; he is smperinteibiing the build-
ing of a palace for the residence of the Lord
High Commissioner, which will occupy him, I
suppose, about two years longer : it is out a small
scale, bat planned with great taste and elegance ;
the fronts are to be built of Nl,slta s une, brootAt
hither for the pnrpo-e ; it will be a great oi n(t.
uncut to the place then flutist cd.

A school of industry for destitute Greek female
children has been established by pihscrip•ion
amoog the English inhabitants, which promises
fair to turn out w ell ; it is on a swab scale as well
as the palace ; an attempt has likewise been made
to establish a day-school on a large scale, and on
the Lancasterian system, by subscription aT11011,;:
the Greeks themselves; 1 don't know exactly
what sate it is in, but the gewlemau who pro-
moted it being about to leave the place, wilt, I
fear, check its progress : that arntionan is a
Qaaker, of the name of Allen, ii Member of the
Philanthropic Society, who has been travelling
about Europe, with the benevolent object or es-
tablishing such schools.
You have heard, probably, or will hear, of a
disturbance which has taken place at othe of our
islands, Santa Maura, on account of a new tax
laid on by the Senate for the buildang •) a Mole
in that island ; it appeared rafter scrim's itt first,
but the rowpt and.viorous measures 'adopted by
the Go‘erninent soon succeeded in duelling tie
insurrection, and the ringleaders have been taken
and executed.

Di c. 16

ARREST OF A REVOLUTIONARY CONIMITCEE.

The !Magistrates, tai ing received information
of a Mettiog for" revolutionary purposes, to he
held at Bury, about iliac miles frotn• ninchester,
last eight sent Nadir, With a detachment of L4ll.
ref 9, to arrest the parties. • fie arrived there about
eLrht o'clock, and proceeded to the Uoion Rooms.
The Committee were then sitting, and-he arrested
all of them : one or two Were subsequently 14en
at their (two horses. There were ten taken in
the whole. Their names are James Brooks,
Ifult, Wrts. Greeohalh, 1-taibert Howard,
Benjamin Fell, G wrence. Brooks, ,Tohn
Greeolialah, Richard Booth, and James GrifThlis
Nadir) arrived in :Manchester with his priiontrs
in the middle of the night, Hod they were lodged.
in the New Bailey Prison. They were privately
examined this morning, and committed to Lan-
casrer atl,e, for a conspiracy to overturn the
Government.
-I have been informed that some most important
disclosures will take place in consequence of this
arrest. The prisoners were the leaders of the
Union Society at Bury, This Society, like all
the other -Union .Societies, meets professedly cn
read newspapers and political pamphlets, and for
the purpose of political discussion, but in reality
tp conspire against the Goveromen% e\ school
the room, by which it is freed I roar
the payment of poor rates, as being a chari-
table institution. By this cloak they have the
opportunity of disgtrisin4 their real purpose in
meeting there, and at the same time that they are
bringiug up the poor children in their infamous
principles.
The institntion is governed by a '-Pr:lidenr,
Vice-President, Secretary, and a Committee.—
These Officers meet in a private room to which
The' other Members of the Union are not ad-
mitted.- Each Member, on .admittance, re-
ceives a evil, on which his name is written,
and a number, corresponding with the ntst»her
-put to his name in a book where they are all
entered. There are Union Societies in every towu
rite manufacturing districts, and each Union
contains thousands of members. The .card which
is delivered is the passport to
,admit each mem-
ber. One shilling on admission, and One penny
per creek afterwards, is paid by each person. Out
of the funds are port based The Medusa, "Pack
Dwarf, Cobbett, &c. The retnaiiider of the
funds are applied to ply tire expences of delegttes
to all patts of the country, and such other parr-
poses as the Committee directa
1 understand it will be proved that the iuteud-
ed Meetings at Manchester, &c. on Alonday
were converted by this, Committee. Their object
was to collect tire soldiers to one point, in ordcr
that an attack might be made where it was un-
prepared for. This plait was frustrated by the
placard it high Wroe posted (inserted in our pa-
per of Tuesday last). They ink t again on Muntl,l
night last, when further rebellious scherues-w ere
proposed, which last night might •have matnted..
Thanks to the vigilance of our Magistracy anti
Police they are now frustrated, not by Alivkiona

amongst (bemsolves, but by tticriNtires which will.
briti them to an3wer before a. Cowl 01 Justice.
1 he boil r,tpiireci flora Howard, himself
in-3001. inrl two sitretirs in 1501. each ; from t e

others, the piiilcipAl in .2001. and the survr ies in
1001. cHeli. appearance of the prisoners %vas

very

‘Ve htive hitherto beet, very quiet this week t

the town.

BOILEY, bto. 17.

CO2l3Ett'S ARItIVAL—As it has become a soil
of fashion to report the movemnt#and proceed'
ins tilt he principal Radicals of the eluntry, part!'
enlist!), suet, as Waddington, CObbett,&e. we beg
to-athiontice the arrival of the lit ter at this place,
tVedoesday everting last,- at 0 o'clock. It bed
been buzzed about the village fur some time, bY
the partisans of the Cobbett family, that the
Bone-.porter (i. e. carrier of Tom Paine's bones)
would anive first on this day, then on that ;
at length, to produce the necessary popular degree
of excitement, it was hinted, that strong bed
• would be given away on his arrival. This was
temptation which no true beer-loving descendant
of those ancient worthies who held the far-famed
Botley Asitzes could .resist. Not, therefore, front
feelings of ref :arid for any, hut for the glory of 8
of their favourite beverage, they deter'
mined to honour the Patriot ! Early on ‘VednOS'
day it was announced that he Would arrive et
Cottage, about half a rude from Botley•
t, hence, on his arrival, they drew him into
the village, and having che-ered Ir rn seveist
tinter, he int:inter! the dicky and brie2y addrts:ed
that it gave him great satisfactio'l
to be thus hailed on his return to hi, Inv ive coon'
try, and that, small as their number was, 84
they ail knew hint, it gave Itinymore satisfactio"
to ire received by them, than by the hundreds awl
• hundreds of tholis,iods rt ho had drown his carriage
through the -2.:40r:h of England. That
their number was, if CV.I man pertormred hi§
part, it would contribute Featly to restore pro4'
(writ), to the country ; that tft,.! country; was in I'
worse state than when he left it ; that lie
thern'all happier than they se ere, and hoped:1110
should live to pass many happy days aniong [heti);
that he w-ns much fatigued, and begged they Is °obi
excuse him. He was then drawn home, and,
taking leave of the motley group, he t,}1,1 [boo
they might then make use of their voices, but id
the course of 10 days Aliwsttis would elide:lvo'''.
to muzzle them, but he would be d—d if Ord
should. Atter this the :nob, who, to tin ;hew
justice, 'notwithstanding this act of folly, ale
Anti-Radicals, hearing nothing about the strop,:
brer, and finding that they had been swindled into
a foolish belief, stole away. to the tune of "The
Dog hangs ,dowu I,is tail."—Country Paper.)

THE, RAD:CALS.

(From Er/i.Aurgiz Co.-tra ;it, Dec. IG.)'

GLASG:MV, [)ac. 14 tears aitd dire alarros
of the many have been ioust happily disappointea'
and the prittleot preryi :ionary measiires adopreA
by the local authotitirs,inaveonly been the moi.s
of proving the loyalty o; the lieges, cthich owe
I see is great." lo addition to ihe rifle corps 11'
our garrison there are tretachmems of the 6 b milt!
13th te;:irnents of loot ; and in quarters io to,vl,
and at Silting Gardens, 4 troops of rite 10:11 hirg-
sars, a detachment of the 13-h, upwards tit 300 of
the Mid-Lothian cavalry, dressed in blue, intently
moldy fine looking men—the sinews of anti
Caledonia--aid a terr of the West Lothians, %slit,
wear red jackets, afHl ate very stout, The fowl',
(hiring the day, ++ Lich was pleasant, thoo0) Cn
was all gaiety, ann had rather the appearance of
a holiday, than one whithwas to blast the nitwit'
lion, end loin farni!ii,s of thousrind.4; unc
mere the fiicntiiy salutaiions, and ttoly
shakes of the hand, exchanged by our wiariticA
citizens mud their armed friends from the en'''
die least pleasi!ig parr of ti;e scene. Ttv''
troops of linsSais went to Paisley, and ftior
eat ts, escorted by parties of the Rifle Cot ;vlll`
items and ammunition, and sornt of the D intfries"
shire 1,,,c0! militia Cavire, have been called
there. Every thing, however, has been nocoto'
mooly quiet. Ta,e Glasgow -Sharp-shooters 10'4
doing the dory at the Jail, liridea-chl, and other
parts of the town. Ott Sunday night, Capt. Si,f":
titers' company did duty in the Town' Hall; 'an'
pickets went ow Iciwards Calton and Bridgetowo'.
and other parts of the city, where, like a re,4,11,0
approach to the seat of war, they were stoppol
almost at the corner of every street appriviciii4
the town by pickets of cavalry, who, on gerrin4
the " word,'' allowed them to pass. The s,ree°
were, hotrevr,r, uncommonly quiet. Neatly 11)4
same caution was ob•er red last night, and tilt''
result was similar. Yesterday, however, was 05'
served as a day of fasting by ail the Radicals its
the vicinity. There are two pieces of ariiilery
the Old ftclicf Hospital, and tiro more at the !gar'
, - -
rack a.
On Tlinriiday last, Rodger the President,
llillat the Secretary to the Airdrie R tdic th' were
ailmi•ted to hail, and liberated front Hamilton
tolbooth. On Friday mornin a lIIvSSNIJer V;"4
diSparChed to Airdrie for -a post-chaise,
a.
drove up to the jattl door about 12 o':.lodt“
the Radicals being resolved tri ewer
.the
at that plrce. Shot fly after, itodgrr and „1.'5
wi.e. (who is a geared looking ..emnitn), ‘%llll
the secretary, walked From their lodging; to tile.
jail, wearing the iosignia of the order, jis'
plryed in the sattie mantic-A as the 11/atoll
ruedals. be insignia are tliri e pieces
ribbon, red, %shire, and bloc, p on the lett
breast. Of) Sf erfrif#4 ioto the eaeriAge, 11:1
prisoners 5% ithin the jail, the CI 11 tird
ed xvithout, gave tt.e Radicals
.three • lieall7,
cheers, r. beta they diove artiviok; a
Greenend, near Airdrie, they were met by an
nicnse of people, who took the boric
from die carriage, and Mew it into Airdrie, arri•'l9,
thunders of miplause.

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