The Sun.
London, England, 1819-04-17 00:00:00

CUSTOMS HST.

Entered lawards, April :6.—Union, Cox, Cadiz; Hope,
Peisfitiry; Virginia; Sylph, Milne, Trieste; Hero, Barker,
Lisbon ; slary, Dobion, Leghorn ; Charles, Apsse, Rotten ;
Albion, Whiteman, Leghorn 7 Hannah, Heathorn, Bombay.

Mitered 0/awards, April le.—Perseverance, Matighant,
Hamburg!' ; George. au(' Ann, Postgate, do.; Byron, Au•

Berson, Trinidad

(Wore Ontwarils, Apr:l It;.—Betsy, Conyeri, Berbice ;
Probity, Cooper, Lisbon : Ludwig Wilhelm, liettek, Stettin;
Peggy, • Hutton, Suriliont ; Nlaugaret, Smith, Bermuda;
Grunieline,.Plasket, Boston; ()Peale, Jefirvy, Quebec; Chris-
'cipher, Snell, Jamaica ; Thomas Granville, Nlattnitig, India;
Catuntic, Blanskird. do.: Expedition, Hettilwerk, Datitzic ;
Nelly, Peter,borgh ; Boduey, Bell, Menul;
burg, Cleghorn, Prtersburgli ; Hope,. Patterson, Pictuu;
Nicholls, Pit hey, Itiga.

Last night ‘ve received the Frankfort and Other
Gerniat! Papers to the 9th instarit. Air affray,
attended with some bloodshed, is said to have
taken place in the latter part of the month of Fe-
bruary,_ between the French and Bavarian sol-
diery io the nvighhoirrhood- of Wissenhurg, not
many miles from which place the first 113variait
outpost was stationed. Vl'issenburg is situated
in the department of. the Lower !thine. The ac-
counts add, that the frontier -between the Bava-
varian terriirories.and Fiance had not yet been
marked out according to the Taeaty of "Paris,'
18.15, nod that fr“pient disputes between the
.Donaniers arose Iroin the neglect of this arrange-
awnt.

flanihnrgh and Dutch Papers have also ar-
rived. -I'hey bring intelligenCe of some serious
quArrels having taken place at. Brussels between
the different regiments eomposing"that garrison.
The
.city was not tranquillized before seme
wounds, bad been exchanged, and a party 'of
tulhulemt hussars unceremoniously committed ti)
i 1 a watch-house. An important commit:66l6on
from the PRINCE HEGFNT was read on the 3J in-
stant to the States of ll.anover ; the leading par-
tieuhrs of which will be lound under the head of
"..Uoreign Intelligence."

• VOCAL CONCERT.—YIie sixth performance of
this excellent Concert to,ok place last night at
the liiiiiriver• Square Rooms. BARTLEMAN is Via
prevented by illness from appearing, but his place
eras VVCII supplied by BELLAMY. W. KNYVETT,
,Mrs..SALM,)N, Miss TiIAVEIIS, Miss WILLIAMS.
And Maclaine •BELLOCHI, were the chief '.oval
Performers. An apology was made for alias
:STEPHENS Who was suddenly taken ill. 'flue whole
was much. applauded by a crowded :audience,
among Whom were the Archbishop of Yottx and
the Earl aid Countess of DEBBY

i‘lu. Ow v, it. A.—”e lately expressed onr
regret oa hearing that this excellent Artist, and.
respectable Member of Society, ban been seine
time in an ahrming :state of intli9o-Ilion,, hut
stated that his, love ut his Art had t!iin-pheel over
illness,' and we learn Willy pleasure that he
hAs sent ins allotted mitrib,r of Pictures for the
castling antotal display. Among the Portrait*
now finished are Chief Toitice ABBOTT, 11,1 -
; the of Sr. DAVInS, and the
adie of Buccucni, of the s,nne ,tze; Lord
ExmouTti, the Iluto of Algicts, Kit Kitt; Sir T.
ACKLAND, whole length, and other Pot-if-Airs; all
strong iu similitude,, aid excellent itt Air.---Mr.
Owetst, we filtd, is gone to renew health ,at
ighton, and we hope with success, tar the hu.
.11Utif of British Geuius.

FOR THE SUN.

IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT
Is Private Injustice and Public 'Fran.

[Continued and concluded.)
Ma. EDITOR—As illustration of the injus-
tice of Imprisonment for Debt, 1 shall suppose
a mar, who has been in Gaol upwards Gt three
years, and for a debt of five hundred pounds,
deprived of his liberty, anti the exertion of his
abilities or labour for that period. His impri-
sonment has reeuced him to a state of decrepi-
tude and inability. Yet this man, who has been
so confined and is so reduced, must give up five
hundred pounds, which I shall yet suppose a
friend to humanity has lately bequeathed to him,
in commiseration of his sideriegs. The liberty
which he is now capable of enjoying can have
bet, few charms for him ; for, alas ! of every
Using, save his family, that could render liberty
most desirable, he has now to mourn the loss,
and never can he hope, that to him past bles-
sings will return: The companions of his early
years are gone ; the friends ot his cheerful hours
ot life are no more. Nothing remains to him to
render Tile endurable, but his family ; and they,
instead of casting a beam of consolation through
an evening of gloom, will, if he be obliged' to
give away from them this five
.hundred pounds,
hich might place them in a situation enabling
them to carry on the struggle of life, to assist
him, will be unable to mitigate the affliction he
endures, and he must sink under the oppieSsion.
The love of liberty is the passion ot nature :
the has planted it with the very first seeds of ani-
mieion—retideriog, in her wisdom and boontv.
es hat is most valuable most deur. It is equally
instinctive, as growing from the best anti noblest
deductions of reason ; nor is there the most un-
seemly lump of earth, or unnatural is the clod on
which shincs'the least ray of either rationality or
sensation, that does not warm with it. It is so
deep-rooted in existence, that even nut the brink of
the grave it is not dead in the bosom ready to tall
into eternal decay. Neither the chill regions of
obscurity, bondage, and wretchedness, extin-
guish its fine flame.; nor in the dazzling guests of
splendour, luxuty, and profusion, is its sciiiid light
entirely lost. It rallies in every awakening pulse
of mettly sensibility ; and even rousing torpor feels
its reviviag ardour. In the frozen gloom of cap-
riaity anti decrepitude, the pi ironer feels it trem-
ble in his lentos( pulsation ; and in the valley of
delights, while it trembled in vain, the-philosophi-
cal Johnson's hero could taste but bitterness.—
Fr.om the dawn of life, to the last beam that
glimmers on the horizon of mortalhy, ite in-
fluence moves in each motion, has its agency in
every action, nor ceases to lighten on the path
of humanity, till it sinks into the interminable
night of dissolution Yet all hopes of it must
the prisoner tear from his
.now reviving expecta-
tion 5 or, by paying this five hundred pounds,for
which he has before beets deprived of what no
hundrejs, or thousands, a; 'ten of thousands can
repay, throw himself and family, naked and aban-
doned, on a cold inhospitable world, where every
avenue to comfort, or even subsistence, is strong-
ly hatred egainst them, by that direful prejudice
attends debt and misfortune. Just God !
is tii:s ihe Law or the Equity which thy dispen-
eations. thy bounties and mercies, teach thy crea-
tnres to exercise towards each other ?- That
after depriving my fellow-creature for what is in-
finiiely of less value, of what thou only canst
bestow, and what thou renctrsest indispensable
to any enjoyment of thy numerous blessings, of
whet thou bast stamped with inestimable value ;
that 1 should afterwards rob him, under the name
of Law and Equity, of the full amount which I
bad ro" demand before I deprived him of any
thing
0, come, thou pure, essential Purity—thou
life of liberty, humaiiity, and happiness ! 0, come
unspotted JUSTICE ! Come from the savage, and
the solitude, and deign to visit the abodes of po-
lished Society, and civilized, falsely called
man. Restore those Heavenly days of the
soul's sun-shine, which Poets denotnimited golden,
when equelie of value for value s:rewed the paths
of labour and industry with abundance, health,
and comfort, open as the day, were diffused with
trauquillity and innocence, and heart's content-
ment. Then, indeed, will be the season of true
national prosperity, and individual happiness.—
Then no more will the many labour for the few,
while the few give the many nothing in return,
bust misery and lessons of error. No, thou man
of those few ! thou wilt no longer grasp the
fruits of the many's labour, because thou wilt see,
that thou canst give the many no equality of value
in re!urn. Thou wilt no longer riot in idleness
and elissipation on what another has produced in
toil and suffering, and give him in return nothing
but idle stories of pulley and commercial conve-
nience. Thou wilt no longer snatch the morsel,
necessary to recruit the exhausted powers of na-
ture, from the trembling lip of hunger, and of
him who has already given thee more than thou
deservest, because more than thou bast given him
erly thing for, but leave to " work and weep I"
Thou wilt be ashamed to see thy natural equal
sinking; in want, and toil, and wretchedness—in
nakedness, fatigue, and famine—while thou art
wasting in delicacy and debasing luxury, in foolish
pomp, vain ceremony, and childish skew and splen-
dour, the produce of his heart breaking exertions.
Thous art wasting the-produce of seeds sown by
straiiiings even to the very utmost tension, and.
watered by she sweat of the very life drops of ani•
nottion. Blush, thou tnan of those few What
is the robber, what the thief, who is hanged by
Law ? The robber and the thief only take the mo-
ment's, perhaps accidental, properly of an indivi-
dual without giving any thing in return ; but you
take the whole life's, indeed essential property,
the labour ut the many, and give them in return
worse than nothing, your Law, which tells them
to be satisfied " to work and weep," arid let yin
wallow and wave in superfluity and extrevagaece.
The many can work without you ; you could not
waste without thy messy. It is the !slimy labour ;
it. is you. do not ',items. Would you, after de-
priving a IIIASI of hisliberty,claim also the earn-
int:s of his laboor and all his future aegnilitions
Are vou suns Bslllllll,l Llsve you any of the
si•iritof manliness, of the pick of independence,

,

if not of the sense of etrity, the high mindedness
of justice, about you ? Do you not blush to live
on the fruits of other's indu.try, to feed by their
hands, to move by their feet ? Do not your cheeks,
your hearts, burn with the glow of humllietion,
of debasement, to devour the bowels of weariness
and struggliug, to quoit'. the heart's tears of want
and wretchedness ; and to give them nothing in
return but commands, to be satisfied and work on
in misery, at your word, and let you wallow and
waste iii superfluity and extravagance, from the
hard earniogs of him whom by imprisonment you
have reduced to decrepitude ? But, do not con-
, st,ter whether such a Law is what the many de-
serve, nor whether in this Law there is an equa-
llit y of value for labour 1 nor even for a moment
consider, whether your mixed mendicity and
robbery, your begging from the indigent, and
swot hies Isom the tarnishing, be high-mieded or
honourable, or even not &wattling to the commoe
chararaer ,of man 1. consider not only whether it
prolllotei yoer own' happiness—look to the
reality, not the semblanees—to the material, not
the gilding—to the substance, not the shew Do
not your idleness and luxurious living bring enei-
ratio') and Listless lassitude ; do not your riot and
dissipation bring you surfeit and pain ;
,does not
your luxury bring you premature feeblearps ; and
hasten the step of death ; and do not yotir pomp,
andceremony, and slim, and splendour; fill yeu
%dill care, anxiety, avarice, and estibitie-41.; with
wide, mortification, and jealousy, hateed,'envy
and bitterness ; with such eating. vnlytine-de-
touring passions, as render life almost One inces-
sant struegle of agony, and even make the fleetest
step of death a blessing ? Say, does the flavour
of the luxurious dish, of the delicious cup, riuuy
you fee the pain and death that are ambushed in
the contents; does the childish vanity 'it title or
wealth repay you for the corroding passions, and
the cruel anguish that await your luxury and
dissipation ? Say, do you feel any thiath like real
haepiuess in your situation ? Which situation con-
fers more real !tepidness, this, or that in which
you would 'eejoy the simple sweets of nature,
plenty, but not prolusion, comfort. without in-
toxication, tranquillity without dominion, and see
eery one armled you enjoy the same ?
0 come, thou pure, transparent loveliness, thou
true needle brightness, thou real light of mae-
kind, JUSTICE, come 4 It is thou only caust bless
the human race, for thy train is every blessing,
and in thy Law, squality of value for value, every
bleFsing equally to all. Establisha U ! establish
here, and wherever men is found, this Law. Let
every one exercise and labour enough for his
health and subsistence. Let not fictitious and
intruding credit impose eel:mural conclitions ;
and every one will think and study enough for
the solidity of his jedgment, and the refinement
of his genius ; each will have time and emulation
enough for tue one, and necessity and independent
manhood enough for the other. No one,will waste,
and no one will want, for no one take from
another without giving an equality of issiee;
noue,will he torn by envy, avarice, or andattion,
or any of the it malignant train f: tor no eisie will
fear for his own comfort, and no one will repine
at that of his neighboer. Then the pen, the
pencil, and the chisel, call " forth the finished
forms of perfection ;" for there will be no sordid
care to tern the mind from contemplation, [to
" Chill penury to ft eeze the genial current of the
soul, or repress its noble rage," no lowering
passion to dial the smiling radiance of the heart's
full elow of best and loveliest affections. And
then will Humanity and Liberty, in the exquisite
simplicity of nature, walk hand in baud ,with all
the circles of society, nor will the one be sacri-
ficed at the shrine of Avarice, nor the other at
that of Ambition ; for the law, the clear trans-
, lucent law, equ,rey of value for value, will teach
• that both are above all price of human .acquisi-
.4lol4 ; and thou, celestial Justice, wilt draw down
heavenly dispensations again on earth, and dis-
tribute to all the sons of men unstinted happi-

lieSS T. I.

Teal.

April 16, 1819.

CANDIDUS.

UNIViItSI 1Y INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, APRIL 16.—Congregations will be
holden, for the. purpose of granting Graces,
and conferring degrees, on the following days in
ensuing Easter Term, viz.—Wednesday April 21;
Thursday the 6th, Thursday the 13th, Saturday
the 22d, and Friday the 28th of May.
Yesterday Mr. Rickards, of Oriel College, Mr.
Dornford, of Queen's, Mr. Awdry, of Christ
Chinch, and Mr. Coleridge, of Moreton, were
elected Fellows of Oriel College, in this Uni-
versity.
ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS.
A dispensation has passed the Great Seal, en-
abling the Rev. It. Clifton, M. A. to hold the
Rectory of St. Nicholas, in the city of Worcester
(to vailich he Itits.been collated by Ate Lord
Bishop of that Dioesie), together with the Rec-,
tory of Matson, Gloucestershire. •
.The Rev. Joseph Tweed, jun, to the Rectory
of Hiutlesham, Suffolk; patron, NV:Deane, Esq.
The Rev. Thomas Spencer, A. Al. to the Rec-
tory of Winkfield, Wilts, void by the death of
the Rev. Edvi. Spencer ; patron, John' Morris,
Esq. of the same place.
PRVACHERS AT ST. MARY'S—Mr. Heyes, of
Exeter College, on Sunday morning.— Mr. Glitch,
of All Souls' College, in the afternoon.—Mr.
Johnson, of Madalen College, the Latin Sermon.

Yesterday the dispatches were closed at the
East India-House, and delivered to the Pursers
of the following ships, viz. :
KeMc Castle, Captain A. Lindsay, and Lord Castlereagh,
Captain \V. Youngliu,hand, for Ch Ina direct ; Catherine,
Captain W. Knox, for Madras direct.
We arc sorry to state, that very unpleasant in-
telligence respecting the plague in Barbary has
been received. The letters were dated so recent-
ly as the 17th of March, at which time the
plague, which bad been decreasing for some
months, had returned with redoubled fury: The
deaths were greater than had been experienced
dtirin4 the last fatal year.
CHILD DROPPING.---TbOr9day night about ten
►'clock, a fine female infant, about a year and a
half old, was found lying on the step of a door in
Newman's-place,' Bishopsgate-street, wrapped
up in an old bed-gown, and a white handkerchief
tip d tight over its face; it was immediately taken
to the 'Vol khonse.

LPN INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCII, Apren. IC.
Landow Sittimp before the Chief Justice and a Special Jury.

HILBELts U. THORNTON AND ANOTHER.
BREACH OF CONTRACT.

This was an action for a breach of contract.—
The defendants, Messrs. Thornton and West, had
covenanted to sell and deliver to the plaintiff a
quantity of St. l'etersburgh yellow candle tallow,
in-300 casks. This took place in Nov. 1817. Be-
fore the contract was fulfilled, there was a con-
siderable rise in the market, and the defendants
found that they could dispose of the article other-
wise better than I,y adhering to the terms of the
bargain. On the lith of Nov. the tallow was laded
at different wharfs on the river, and the plaintiff
was immediately apprized of it. It was late on
Saturday evening when he received the notice,
and having only moil early on Monday follow-
ing to prepare to receive the tallow, he was lin-
able to meet their demand for the amount on that
day, as be had had no previous notice when the
ships were expected, which was usual in the trade.
The defendants, alwayS willing to rid themselves
of the pledge which they had given, took advan-
tage of his inability to pay their first applicationon
Mondiv, and declared that he hart forfeited
his part of the contract, which was thenceforth
null and void. The very next.day the filaintiff re-
ceived a remit•ance of 4,7001. the pi ice of the tal-
low, from Scotland, kW' rendered it to them.elaim-
ing the Will-inlet-4 of the contract . It was urged on
the part of the defendants, that they were Hot,
obliged to overholt so large a stock of tallow, un-
till it should be tor the convenience of the con-
tractor to pay for it, particularly as it was then an
article much in demand. There was also a dis-
tiuction attenipied to be made out. bet ween the
case of asolveot buyer and a speculator. On the
other land, the plaintiff argued that it was against
justice and law to press upon him so large a pay-
went, and having given bins only from late on
Saturday night to early on Monday morning to
examine a cargo of 300 casks dispersed in five
different wharfs. lie also complained of another
infraction of those understood accommodations
which men in trade owed each other, by not giving
hint some notice of when the vessels were ex-
pected. As this turned in a great measure upon
the usages of men in the tr:de, a good many
witnesses were examined, from whose testimony
it appeared, that though the contractor may, the
day of landing any goods, insist upon the pay-
tnent, yet it was a strictness sellout resorted to.—
:lite plaintiff sought the differety e between the
price of the article when he bad bought it, which
was then 31. Is. pet cwt. to 31. 9s. to which it
was subsequently raised ; the whole amounting
to 6311. 13s. 7d. These damages the Jut y gave hits
with Out hesitation, upon a conviction that the
conduct of the defendants was illiberal, and that
the plaintiff had not had sufficient time to prepare
himself.

When the verdict bad been given, the LORD
ItISTICC expressed himself well oleasett
with it, and added, that his idea of the transaction
perfectly coincided with the view which file Jury
►►ad taken of it.

HOAX EXTRAORDINARY.—A.short time since, a
young. unfortunate, passing himself as the son of
a wealthy Baronet, arrived at Brundley's Hotel,
Nenagh, in rather a sad plight ; his wardrobe was
literally on his back ; it had evidently endured many
a campaign, time having worked its way through
every seam—his ingenious address, and open
avowal of his errors, won the warm heart of
Brundley, who received him with kindness ; his
good nature also was warmed by assurances tof
the truant having been just discharged from the
army, which he entered in his frolics, on his
coming to a large property. Assurances were
doubly sure, by his producing a dratt---his own
of course—on his banker in London for three
thousand pounds, two thousand of which were'to
be lodged with the worthy innkeeper, as his fu-
ture agent, for immediate expenses. The tailor's
goose was set to work by the Nenagh gander ;
in
one short day Bond-street could produce no such
Exquisites as our Baronet-to-he—to finish the
turn-out, he was decorated with the innkeeper's
gold watch, chain, and' seals. Dinners in the
first style, a profusion of Priests, port and
prime claret, enlivened the festive board, and the
worthy innkeeper was, in courtesy, often invited
to sip the claret. Some wise old men of the
neighbourhood paid their respects to the youthful
Creestis—hunters of, high - blood were neighing at
hii nod ; one Nestor was to get 10001. to relieve
a mortgage ; another, a smaller sum ; in short,
it' was Providence sent this benevolent young
Gentleman among them. .Thiags %vete going on
this way several days, the cork-screw constantly
work,Pt when a letter.trotil the county of Cork
undeceived poor Brundley—he then -learrned
enough to convince him that the young traveller
seas playing the old. soldier ! The golden dreauis
were gone—the agency lost—mortgages unre-
deemed—all was surprise and dismay !! To be
angry was useless--‘a thing well dune disarms
vexation. The poor unfortunate man was sent
away, Brundley himself paying the bill !!!
(Limerick Peeper.)

Snot KING OUTRAGE.--Wed nesday evening
Charles Cryer, of. Wick, Gloucestershire, was at
the public-house of that town, in a state of in-
toxication, when, after abusing almost every per-
son he saw there, hearing that a man was in the '
house with whom he had previously had some
words, he declared be would go out and cut his
throat from ear to ear ; be then immediately
went to the room where Ashley, the man alluded
to, was sitting, deliberately put out the lights,
and drawing a knife from Lis pocket, began
to execute his intention, and which he would
have actually effected but for the providential in-
terposing of a person who had followed him to
watch his designs ; be succeeded, however, in
inflicting a very serious wound across the left side
of the head of Ashley, which bled profusely ; he
talso bit one of Ashley's fingers in a dreadful man-
ner. The surgeon who attendt Ashley is very
doutltful of his recovery, from the extreme loss of
blood. Cryer was immediately put into a con-
stable's hands, but by some mesas he has escaped.