The Sun.
London, England, 1821-09-27 00:00:00

" consent of Spain," that is of _course disclaimed
by the official paper of the United States; for
not to disclaim,-such a project, after openly re-
commending the other project above-Mentioned,
would be a specks of negative declaration 1)f war
against the Spaniards. «. That," says the National
Intelligencer, " will never do ;" and, indeed,
such a plan will be unnecessary. A more con-
venient and plausible method of doing the same
.thing, will be by the aforesaid detachment of
troops against the Texas : they need Only march
thither, and then find it inexpedient to come
home again, so long. as any one of the tribes or
gangs, &c. &c:, shall remain to he pursued and
punished. Wp regret •to hear " such language,
because' it is the phraseology of common-place
ambition. The. United States are in no want of
Texas—they have coast enough--they have terri-
tory ten times more than .they will be able to
occupy within 300 years. "Their citizens surely
have no wish to exchange the settled enjoyments
of an industrious community for the wander-
ing habits- Of the wretched savages whom
they contemn.' Yet, even were they to embrace
the life of hunters, they .could not fairly spread
themselves over the surface of their vast poses-
lions. There is in the abstract theory of The
National Intelligencer, a principle acknowledged
which it would be wisdom to apply as a correc-
tive to all plots of immediate and definite rapa-
city, viz.—" Seize what we might,' we should
yet leave something ungrasped. Extend our
limits to get rid of a foreign territory contiguous
to ours, we shout& but exchange one line for
another—we should have contiguous territory
still." Had this plain reasoning been present to
the minds of rulers, as well as nations, nearer
home, how would it have thinned the race of con-
querors !—how promoted the best interests of
I humanity !

[NEw TIMES.]
It is curious to observe how faithful a picture
The Times has drawn of itself while pretending
to delineate another Journal. " Shameless slan-

der of the. living and the dead, unblushing fabri-
cation and falsehood, and outrageous ,attacks- on
private character and domestic peace, constitute
the ways and-means of the wretches who con-
duct, and the malignant gratification of. the
knaves who. read it."—Such are the terms in
which The Times speaks of an Edinburgh Jour-
nal called The Beacon, and-of which its own co-
lumns have furnished daily illustration for the
last four years and three quarters. Of :-The
Beacon it is not our intention to say. much.

Whenever it has fallen in our way (which has
been but seldom), we have observed that it
has lashed the -Whig Radicals with no very
lenient hand ; but its satire has been rather
keen than coarse ; and to compare ity for gen-
tlemanlike feeling, or decorous expression, with
the Leading Journal of Printing-house-square,
would indeed be to load it with gross and un-
merited reproach. The unfortunate objects of
its sarcasm have, it is true, iu some instances, ex-
hibited an acute sensibility to castigation, and
evinced their disinterested regard for the Liberty-
of the Press by loudly invoking the protection- of
those laws which, when enforc6l. .on behalf of
the Sovereign, his Ministers, or their adherents,
are described as rank tyranny, incompatible wish
the free spirit of the age ! These specimens of
individual irritability and inconsistency are very
amusing ; but what shall we say to the genuine,
unadulterated impudence of a Journal like The
Times, affecting to turn pp its nose at The
Beacon or John Bull, as scandalous Newspapers ?
The Times! which is actually under indictment
for one of the most unmanly, wanton, and cruel
attacks on private character, that ever disgraced
the Press Of its fabrications and falsehoods,
a more glaring instance cannot be given
than was afforded on Monday, when it as-
serted that an offence committed on the COI

of April was instigated by the Constitutional
Association out of revenge for a failure sustained
by them on the ‘24th of the subsequent July.-
13bt beside direct fabrication there is another
and perhaps a more pernicious violation of its
duties to the public which The Times has- of

ate been in the habit of committing, we mea

the garbling of its reports!--We have heretofore
notived the impudent attacks of its Northern
Circuit Reporter on the Clergy, at York and
Durham. The same person appears to have been

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employed at Lancaster to give an account of the
trials. In that of Mr. Blacow he states that the
defendant entered into a panegyric on " the

ridge-street gang." Now certainly such a

expression could never have fallen from the
lips of the defendant ; and how does a News-
paper Reporter dare to introduce them into
an account which ought. to contain the sitn-1
ple truth, and nothing more.—As to the trial
of Ridgway, we shall take the earliest opportu-
nity of laying before the public a correct report
of that most important proceeding. In the mean
while, let any person look at the summing up of
Mr. Justice llolroyd, as given in The Times,
and ask himself if it is possible that a Judge of
such eminence, experience, and integrity, could
I have uttered the " bald, ntijointed Chat," which
the Reporter has put into his mouth. The
speech of Mr. Brougham, for the defence, occu-
pies a column and a quarter ; that of the Judge,
exclusive of several interruptions by Counsel,
not quite twenty lines l—and this is called a
Law Report!

A canal is about to be cut from the river Gan-
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nel to very near the Silver Mine, at Newlyn,
in Cornwall, with a collateral branch to the Blue
Anchor, which will prove highly advantageouS to
the mining interest of ,that port.
A very serious accident occurred on Saturday
in Norwich ; a Gentleman driving a phaeton,
in which were Mr.. Cit,tcoun, a Lady, and
another Gentleman, over the Castle Meadows,
the horses took fright and ran away, when Mr.
C. and the other gentleman jumped out, and both
of theni had the misfortune to break their legs
'Mr. CitACOUlt so shocking a manner, that he,
was obliged to undergo immediate amputationi,
'The driver and the Lady kept their 'seats, and
received no injury ; the horses-were stopped near
St. Augustine's-gate.
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