The Sun.
London, England, 1821-07-31 00:00:00

YSOCIET Y, Red Lion-square,
11L
July 30,1521.—At the MONTHLY MEETINGof the
BOARD of MANAGEMENT, held this day at the Society's
-House, the following Resolutions were passed unanimously
That this Board have seen with regret a long statement in
" The Times" Newspaper of Saturday, the Oath inst., relat-
ing to an investigation of a charge brought by the Editor of
that Journal against the Honorary Secretary of this Insti-
tutiod.

That such investigation was very reluctantly entered into
by the Board is certainly correct; they 'considered it. an en=
croachment on the time devoted by thew to the public, and
occasioning a very irksome discussion to them in their indivi-
dual capacities.
The result of the inquiry was to absolve Mr. Bodkin from
any participation in the alleged transaction. This deter►ni-
nation was come to at a very full meeting of the Board, by a
resolution to that effect, which has since been confirmed.
The Board consider their claims on public support to be too.
well established to suffer by the injurious imputation on their
conduct in the statement al-laded to.

They will not incur any/further expense of time by enlarg-
ing on their own merits; they dart cheerfully appeal to their
past labours; and on a steady adherence to the same princi-
ples which have hitherto actuated them, they confidently rest
their claim to the continued good opinion of the subscribers
and of the public at large.
That the above resolutions be signed by the Chairman, and
published in all the Morning and Evening Papers.

(Signed)

JAMES JACKS, Chairman.

FOR THE SUN.

A SIMPLE QUESTION.

MR. EDITOR—My sensibility, my liberality,
my curiosity, and even doubts, as to my own ex-
istence ; or, which is the -same thing, as to whe-
ther I am awake or in a dream, have been much
excited by recent daily perusals of_ some obscure
Papers—some of them obscure from being know-
ing, others from being unknown—in which I have
observed copious lamentations over the imprison-
ment and death of some person at St. Helena; by
some called NAPOLEON, by some BONEYPARTY,
and by some the Axe EMPEROR, no doubt as
having sprung from the guillotine, or having
-perhaps been a great Butcher.
Now Sir, what I want to know is, whether
this is the same person who, though a Corsican
stranger, was brought up at a Public School in
France, and afterwards, to show what he had
learnt there of Gunnery, turned the artillery of
a Usurping Faction upon the inhabitants of the
capital en masse ?—who, through the influence of
his wife, got the command of the Army of the South
—who, after the conquest of Piedmont and
Lombardy, sold the Austrian prisoners to the
Spaniards for slaves in the Catalonian Quicksil-
ver Mines—who ravaged and ravished Italy,
after protestations of " friendship to the Poor"
—who did some naughty things in Syria and
Egypt, if we are to believe the stories which
Colonel WILsoN told, but which Sir Robert WIL-
SON has declared to be falsehoods !—who, on
the erection of his own Dynasty, boasted that
i❑ five years it would be the oldest in Europe?--
who, in contempt of all the laws of nations, de-
tained Englishmen, women, and children, from
their families and relations for years?—who pro-
moted all his own officers that broke their parole
of honour, yet imprisoned in dungeons those of
his foes who dared to escape from bondage when
not on parole I—who declared that he would in-
vade England, and make it a country unfit to
live in ?—who promised to his army the gold and
the women of Britain ?—who sacrificed millions
to gratify his own ambition ?—who invaded Bel-
gium, and caused the battle of Waterloo, by
which almost every family in Britain was clad in
mourning ?—and who, in his own public mani-
festoes, declared himself a Mahometan, AND DE-
NIED HIS REDEEMER?—IS THAT the man, Sir ?
Your's, doubtfully, I. G. N.

P.S. Pray is Hi'the man whose splendid esta-
blishment was the only item of British expendi-
ture which Sur Geon Joseph did not propose to
reduce?