The Sun.
London, England, 1826-03-25 00:00:00

SFR WA LTUM SCOTT.

We have never had a desire to obtain for nur
JoUriral any 'portion of that snuriout notoriety
which can be commarnitid by 'interference with
the private life and attairs of itidivirtosfs.who hop.
pen to be objects of public interi4, and we haver
silence with
regard to circtimsta 'w n m
nces hir+ have beeade the
accordingly hitherto irresetv.mu.: d a
subject of fret•, anti We
t.tidsdt:iocr iwpertinent
' But at this moment' we
feel that we should tie deficient in common
jus
ike, were we nut to rake our voice, am) fifisbit
in.'repelling unfounded accusations against one
of the most illo.Strious' and highly gifted in-
dividuals of the present age. Sir Walter Scott
has been directly alluded to in the noose' of
CoMmons,as one of those Who had''' sotc ri'Ll I y
Ned by the taxation of the country." in addi-
tion to this, .4e !relieve that not Only do many of
the party opponents of that great man assert, bur
we have no doubt a coosiderahle portion of the
public think that he it weltering amid places-at-4
pensions gained by his attachment to Ministry.
Now,what is the fael?' Sir Walter Seott'hus been
on terms of personal intimacy with the leading
men of the Cabinet for the last Cry-...and.twetity
years ; ,and during that period he has never
once asked for himself, or for Iris family, one
single favour, or obtained the grant of one single
sixpence; The only use Ire has ever been 'ktrwu
to -make of his Influeoce, has ',pee 'to aid the
views hr 1 fe of the of his early Wends, in
obtaining for them radetthips or siinihr appoint-
ments. The Editor of the 'Weekly Journal, in
his paper of yesterday, vindicates Sir Walter Scott
from these char;es arid remarks, that if clean
hands give n min right to speok bold truths
boldly, no norn living, has a :pore irdisputable
title thus to speak than Sir Walter Scott. That
illustrious person is, as every knew', otte
of the Principal Clerks of yr siott, arid the sheriir
of a county—offices neither of thew !din Cures.—
He does not hold, and never held, any other pub-
lic office whatever; nor is there n place, is post, or
a pension, in hip fly his unentraUed genius,
and the unwearied exercise of it, there is hi ta.ily
a branch of his country's resenite which Sir
%Vatter Scott has not dime more than itiorbst troy
other private individual to enrich ; but farther
titan that liberal rentnneratiort for Iris labours
which high talent can in' this country alrvnys
command, he has at.no time received one farthing
from ANY QUAIITtIt 11'11,11'1:V I:11.1' --(Edinburgh
Courant March '23.)

LIEUT. CLOSE AND MESS GRUBB.

[Further Particulars.]

CLONMEL, AI.IItCH S.—Between one and two
o'clock 011 Wednesday last, the body of LieUt.
CLOSE was discovered in the river, about a mite
from town by two mqn (one of them a boatman),
who walked down the quay in search of
it. The shadow of the body first attracted
their notice, and on a closer inspection, when the
sun shone more brightly, they fully saw the body,
which, on being touched, easily rose'to the :,ut-
fare. In a few minutes it was removed from its
watery bed, and placed on the quay, whence, as
soon as a door was procuted, it was removed to
the Court.house. Shortly after it was found
want of the *lee arrived ; and very soon after,
Ilrad,hatv, Eqq, (a Magistrate) came to
the pot, and took from the pocket of the
dertei,,ed's pantaloons, a watch and seal, a purse
cotitaioing t n one pound notes, and five shil-
lings amid sixpence British, in silver, a bunch of
keys, and two lancets. The body was discovered
in a place where the weter had been deep, and
about four or five yards in front the bank,---
The body having been removed to the Court.
house, was inspected by a number of medical
Gentlemen, but no marks of violence appeared.
An inquest sat upon the body, and after a very
long and minute examination Of witnesses, aver'-
diet, was returned of " Fouud Drowned." The
Court oas dissolved about twenty minutes after
three o'oluck, and shortly after the deceased
conveyed to the church-yard by the 85th regi.
rnent, where he was interred with military ho.
Hours. About two o'clock yesterday the young
Lady's body was found near Kilsheelan.bridge,
two miles from the place where the body of Mr.
Close was discovered. Her body was fOUtid on
its back, close to lbs. wilts, with which, it ap-
pears, the cloak got entangled. The young
lady's body having been examined by the same
respectable medical gentlemen as inspected
Lieutenant Close, there were no marks of vio-
lence whatever discnvered. Her body was
found wrapped up as when sho left her unele's
house. The hood of her cloak was draysp
over her bonnet and tied about her nec'k..
The body was found much spa t ii. d, and exhibited
marks of pressure wherever there was any thin*
tied about it'; als above her knees where the gar-
ters were tied—about the neck where the ribbon
of her cloak was fastened. Miss Grubb was in
her eighteenth year, above the middle size, and
elegautly formed—her mouth and nose (which
was of the Grecian form) letnarkably pretty ;
her forehead possessed the perpendicular direc-
tion that excited admiration.; her eyes of a dark
hazel colour ; her teeth remarkably white and
regular; her countenance displayed intelligence,
innocence, and great good humour'; her manners
were agreeable, gentle, and unassuming.
We have no doubt the catastrophe was purely
accidental, the young pair, who were siucerely
attached, while walking arm in erm, having fallen
into the river from the quay.
While the coffin, containine the remains of Miss
Grubb, was passing through the s'treets yester-.
day, a feeling of deep sorrow was pictured in
the countenance of many hundreds present, on
the occasion; most of the shop whitlows were
closed throughout the day, and
there was
one sentiment—that of universal legrvt for her
•
fate, for she was from her chitdhood beloved for
her amiable temper nod 'two and her
manners were singularly mild ant prepossessing. 'but

The m w
pt who coti)iititteti the mbezzlement
in the privy Council Ottiec, and was fiur some months susperal.
td, has, we are told, been finally dismissed.

'l'll ri;MSrbOr 01J it N A I,S.
` • DALIN
Exiradeftem the Morning Papers,March 25,182(3.

ilitOttNi NG row.]
We yesterday "gave a. faithful report of the pro-
m. ngs or a meeting of Bank Stock' Proprietors,
which took place on the preceding day. We now
refer to the subject principally for the purpose
of noticing the animadversions to which it has
given rise in the columns of a Morning Paper.
The' article to which we allude begins and ends

with the old complaint respecting what It pleases
to call " the ill-omened and unworthy secrecy
lu which they (the Directors) have hitherto
th9uiht ht to envelope the general accounts of
the corporation ;" a complaint rendered cer.
104) more grievous because they (the writers of
the article), " find that the Proprietors and the
PIA 1) may remonstrate until doomsday, without
tic
,iris ucing the Directors to relax one particle" of
th'asaid ill.otnened and unworthy secrecy. We
acitinwiedge ourselves to be a little surprised by
tl4'fnfortriution we derive from this observation,
that' either the Bank Proprietors or the Public
had made any remonstrance whatever upon
the ,subject. Our idea was that the former
body, by repeated and almost unanimous votes,
and the latter, by a silence equally express)ve—!
Silence interrupted only at intervals by the
'voice of some oracular Daniel, to which truly
nobody listened--had announced their entire
concurrence in a system by which alone the dia•
ritctiec, of the Bank, as the .fit depository of poll•
ticarand cemmercial confidence, could in their
opinion be upheld. We subjoin another exqui-
site specimen of reasoning, in relation to the
amount of money which the Bonk, up to the day
•4 meeting had lent upon the deposit of goods:—
" xi Was stated on this point by the Gmiernor,
that the adVances made by Ow Bank upon goods
had fallen much within a quarter of it miliion

sterling. Let us, then, just put it to any rca
sortable mind, whether if those who suffered
wrongfully-Iml formed any large proportion of
the commercial world, or, indeed, even a
fraction of it worth beltn4 classed and dis-
tinguished, it is possible to imagine that
the aid administered to them would not
have exceeded 260,0001. ? Another proof,
if such had been wanting, that the corn.
rnerciat distress was almost confined to those
ho never had real means, and whose insolvency
was rather detected by the late crisis than pro.
,iced by it, and whose false pretensions to pro.
perty and credit were then exposed to an ordeal
with which they could no longer struggle."—
T his reasoning is as cold and hard as a flint, yet
like a flint too some sparks of light may be struck
out of it. We learn from it, in the first place,
that the completion of arrangements, preparatory
to, the absorption of ooe.twelfth of the whole
sum proposed to bo letn, in about a fortnight
after the loan was decided ,on, is to be taken as
a proof, by every reasoning mind, that the men.
stirs was originally unneressary,.and that the class
of persons who were suffering wrongfully under
the pressure, was SO small as not to be discovera-
ble without difficulty. Then we learn further,thet
when a merchant or menufacturer finds his book.
debts reduced in value, no matter how much,
by the unexpected insolvency of others, the dif•
ficulties in which he becomes involved are to con.
vince every 'reasoning mind that he never had
any real means, and that his own insolvency, it
It should follow, is rather detected by the crisis
thlin produced by it. Again, we are instructed
thai if any commodity fulls, from whatever cause,
or in whatever flegre,, below its useal or average
price, the large holders of such commodity are'
not one jot the poorer, not one jot the less able
to fulfil all their existing engagements, or if
they should prove to be so, that every rea-
soning mind must conclude their former pre.
tensions to property and credit to have
been false, nod rtioic.e accordingly in the
ordeal with which they could no longer struggle.
These fur. sortie of the sparks of commercial light
elicited et the first stroke from the valuable pro.
diction of our extemporary. To suppose that
we have thus extracted all the treasures of know.
ledge contained in this luminous production,
•
would be to letldfir It a very imperfect justice.
and expert investigation might deduce
from It the corrollaries, that a part is as great
as the whole, and that misfortune is identical
with crime and thus obtain for it; in addition
to'the praise of improving our commercial no•
tiontt, that of shedding a new light upon physical
am' moral science.

r 11111; TIMESj.
If the intelligence communicated to us respect.
ilk' the offairs'of Portugal be co'rreet, it was no
rf,
common feeling of embarrassment in her states.
niertl and in those of England, that gave rise to
4
tbe existing Regency, indeed, bad not this
coritrliance been resorted to, the life of the
k;ingdotrt must first have been suspended, and
11PIEL its.rrUllllo and Organization in 'all probability,
convoisett, The attempt to hold possession of
Brazil and' Portugal conjointly, we have already '
saitiosottiti hi. irtteitiled with imminent danger
ko, Don o
P,d,twomocii as neither Of those'
COMlttiPti Vtiiil coilikwt`elift to ho governed is an
adiunct or appproLiite to the other. So drentn., ,
stanced, the 1 efor4.,, thitre art• g t oti lid s' for betiev.
14)4' tint Don P,IIII) Will he dititlo',V(l to re.
+ , +
cognize the lIA. 1‘ nil (hiring a pi•riod of at'
}east, five years, The interval ma) 114. PiTlfilliyPd.
bVit,it,tw'o.foldativantige,--lit, in devising means'
Pit t;odistinct and Nottled a separation between'
the Empire of Brazil and the Portuguese no.
nart-Ityi as may rewovo from tint mind of each
Thitiple every latent suspicion tts to the possibility'
or di;sigiis being meditated injurious to their ir.
&pewit., nt sovereignty-42d, in putting- ont'of ow
q
t,sti,tt rail chance -of Don. Migtret corning in to
take la
~ry a it t age of the ,
preoartotts.siturttitin of ids
ealee ,bhittier, and to disturb' thtt Kltet"69olow, or
vs, coosotr, Against whatever portiOn of decency,
retisonahlenetis, and litioraiity OlCititS ne present
attilittg the iwititutiong of Portugtii, as buses and
PlinciPles or_ political reformation hereafter.—
y,!! pity eotixo is looked upon by the Portu..‘
• i "4:ll:lol44;o'4egrp'flor fliVour. and confidence,:
i
wt 1 I 1411/61 1:4 .444p.•ised or (retested-. So fdr.
.

the Regency, if sanctioned by the young Empe-
ror, may go on smoothly fora time; but we con-
fess that it'seerws a very difficult prbblem to sug-
gest a s9heme of policy- which may eventually
reconcile'the claims of Dore*Pedro upon both
crovvns'erith those of both ►ations to absolute
independence of each other.—The Emperor
Francis, it is rumoured, has hit upon a plan,
equally comic to an Englishman and characteris-
tic of the starch etiquette of the Imperial Court,
for keeping Dan Miguel a sort of drawing-room
prisoner at Vienna. Ilis Imperial Majesty has
taken care to hamper the Portuguese Prince with
Court invitations and engagements for the mode-
rate period of five months to come ; and thus
neutralized, at the outset of the new Regency,
poor Miguel's personal machinations. The Por-
tuguese generally, it is presumed, will acquiesce
without repugnance in a provisional settlement,
which keeps alive the title of Dun Pedro, and
ousts the interference of his brother and of the
Queen. If Mr. Canning, therefore, feels uneasy
upon• the subject of Portugal, it is, probably,
for the final issue of things, not for their imme-
diate condition.

[NEW TIMES.]
The illness of the Emperor of Austria, among
other circumstances, has been regarded as mart-
vourable to the tranquillity of Europe. Un-
doubtedly the personal character of Francis 1. is
pacific ; it is marked with integrity, and affords
every pledge that can 1w desired of a moderate
and equitable policy. The loss of such a Prince
would. be, to all who know him, matter of per-
sonal regret ; but perhaps the death of no Sove-
reign in Europe would be less likely to disturb
the existing order of things. The Austrian Go-
vernment, with the exception of those measures '
which • were dictated by the ambition of the.
philosophical Joseph, has pursued one steady
course, from the period when Maria Theresa
overcame the early difficulties of her reign, to
the present time. it has bent,indeed, to circum-
stances, submitting to, rather than courting, the
alliance of Frapce ; but the chief characteristic
of its policy has.been conservative rather than
aggressive ; and its Statesmen have all acted
upon ,a system which it would now be difficult
for any Austrian Cabinet to abandon. The age
of the Emperor of Austria is -not so far advanced
•as to'make us fear any thing`from. the decay of
Iris constitution. t 11e was worn on the • 12th of
February, 1758, and has, consequently, just en-
tered his sfith year ; but even supposing that he
should fall a victim to a sudden and violent
attack of illness, the 'numerous branches of the
Imperial Family, and their perfect union
among themselves, leave no reason to expect any
flting like a change in the administration of the
Government. Francis is the grandson of Maria
Theresa, who had nine children ; and the son of
Leopold, who had fourteen ; and he has himself
seven ; there are living eight of Isis brothers and
sisters, who have among them eight.rhildrest, and
!our of his daughters have been intrried, and have
testte living. His eldest non, the Archduke Fer-
dinand, is nearly 33 years of age ; and, there is
no doubt but that, Ott Isis nut:cession to the throne,
the same, or nearly the same Ministers, us
at present, would he continued in power.—
Frotn.the accounts of last night, indeed, though
these rest only on the authority of private letters
there seems no occasion for fear. But even
granting the worst to happen, though we should:
,sincerely regret the loss of. so worthy. and well•
disposed a Monarch as the Emperor Francis, we
should not consider it as an event foreboding any
thing disastrous to Europe in general, or to the
interests of this country., in particular.