The Sun.
London, England, 1826-11-29 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PITBLIC JOURNALA.

We were greatly surprised on seeing in the Alornmg
Chronicle of yesteeday, three letters published, which had
passed between Mr. Hume imams in the month of Decein-
ber last. When we say "we were surprised,'"_ we mean,
of course, that the subject of those letters had passed from
our minds wholly and totally, like any thing forgotten,- and
coald only have been been recalled by this publication.
By the publication Mr. Hume, of course, wishes it to be
inferred that we were stimulated by private resentment to
the steps which we have taken with respect to the dis-
honourable proceedings hi the affair of the Greek Lean.
Foolish man ! Why will you endeavour to blind yourself
svith respect to tbe chanieter of your late conduct ? Why
will you not feel as you ought to feel, on an occasion
which must give a character to whatever remains to you
of life ? Look at the eountenances of your late friends,
men who probably did not love you, fur you were not formed
to be loved ; but who still valued your services. 1)o you
think that such men were capable of imbibing any personal
animosity of ours, or of being incited to die degree of
disgust which they, now evince and express towards you,
by our writings, although it is not our interest to deny
their cogency, if you hail done nothing to degrade your-
self ? Think of these things, and be ashamed! Shame,
in your situation,.is thq feeling which will tie you most
credit : the act of reparation to the wronged may Speedily
follow. Besides, Sir, observe how inclined ever; obs is
to impute übSurd motives to his accusers, 'father raftac-
knowledge, confess, and repair his. own misconduct._
In laying the recent dim 1191!"!. proceedings of various
kinds.before the public, we, have mentioned many names
as well as yours. How could we have separate causes of
animosity against all ~..loost persons ? ma we any reason of
resentment againsiMr. Brorn, for example, whose accept-
ance of the I,OOW, in the rigna Mine affair we exposed?
—againat istr. Bowring, Mr. Ellice, Mr. Burton, the Ri-
eardos ? We declare we scarcely knew that some of these
men existed : and yet all and each of them will find out,
that we have had some motive beyond that Of the
country's honour, and our detestation if Wrong-doing,
for speaking of their conduct as it has but too justly me-
rited.. This is extremely absurd; dnd to you, Mr. Home,
and all those who adopt this Coarse, we should say " Gee-
tlemen, purify yotirselves, and get out of each other% com-
pany. Our motives, were they oven such as you describe
them, cannot, make your case better or worse: we shall
only carry conviction to the bosoms of ethers, as we are
sustained by reason and impart truth." Our treatment of
Mr. Hume, indeed, singly—our anxiety to preserve, as far
as possible, his usefulness—exposed us to censure, and our
leniency to the suspicion of base motives, as he is well
aware, if he has,read the recent poblicationi. Again mid
again did we express the hope that be would retrieve his
character _that he would fulfil his promise; and we had,,
in consequence imputed to its a dishonourable desertion of
the charges which we had brought for Ward, as the follow-
ing passages from a Sunday paper will prove :
" The Times begins, as it seems to us, to relax, to repent, to
conciliate, and to qualify."
" The Timex newspaper, a day or two before, appeared inclined
to trim."

hi The Time, of the 4th instant, is the following pas.
sage

" However, after this exposure of what we nnist consider es a
most erroneous mode of acting on the part of Mr. Hume, we will
with equal frankness bestow our approbation on the honourable
feeling which dictated the following declaration The worst, 1
thick, that any nutsin candour tan say in this affair is, that I,
rosy have evinced an over-atitiety to avoid a pecuniary loco, forced
Upon we by the conduct of others: but I am, still willing to sub-
snit to the arbitration of two respectable and impartial men ; and
if, after a ieview of the whole correspondence and circumatances,
they shall determine that the Greek Government ought to profit
St my expenco, through the misconduct of their Deputies, I will
return the 1,5001., with interest up to the present time.' Let
thNique act up to this declaration :6f rather—he knows what
e sentiments are on the Subject.-...1et him do that which
his own heart now tells him to be just and proper : he has no
to 4uhrtiit himself to the arbitration of others.
Let not Mr. Mune, then, complain of ; For it was
only when he stood forward with an effrontery, that we
'believe W4B never before attained to by mortal man, affect-
ing to conduct himself as if nothing had happened, and
even to take a lead, that we lost all hope of his reconeilia-
tion with 'the.. moral habits or 'civilized. life Since that
time we have shown lesN roerve ; but should be even still
ready to hail his relituptiehmeet of the ill-gotten gain as an
indication of repentance. To Aow Mr. flume that we
do not think there is any thing iii those letters which he
Ims nine published between hittielf and us, that gives him
a victory which we should resent, we shall reTublish them
from the Morning Chronicte.--Tinats.
hMr. WIWI): lntt night gave mike of it motion in which
e would examine into „tie conduct put' red by the Go-
vernment retpretieic
..rCinttuoll of the Countr. Wit
hoe always 14tought that Ministers (actuated by the best
motives -0/4 liavenP doubt) proceeded with extreme rash-
-1!e" last' Session, when they made theie muck on the
Lonna). Bankers. The evils of the existing system of
beeking were no doubt considerable ; but they were at
the sHine time greatly exaggepted. We by no means
wish to deity that top greet, hicility, was allowed to the
circulation of notes by improper persona, and that in times
,of pressure, the distress was greatly increased by the alarm
stmt want of confidence occasioned 'by the stoppage of
romitry Banks. But Ministers IN their eagerness
to preserve the country from this evil, involved it in
much mom -teripus one ; and no small part of the
distress- of the country at' this time is attributable to
their disturbance of a system, with the working of
whkh it Was tvidinit they Were very imparfeetly
ac-
painplilet, of great Merit on , internal Bills of
Exchange, (4)untry illank.notes,
.by a Mr. Henry
Burgess, has just been put into our hands. This gentle-
-111811 is evidentlyfith inn
ailiar with the manner hich the
stupendous machine or British industry is wrought ; and
his publication, which appears in the shape of a Letter to
Mr. Catmin contains very valuable information on many
subjects with which we suspect' few Members of Parlia.
.ment are well acquaint:cc!. We have no leisure or space
at present to enter on nut
account of Mr. Burgess's pam-
phlet. His views are diametrically opposite to those out
which Ministers have acted, and in man)
• of them we think
he is right. What he says in particular respecting credit,
"a then ahstud doctrine which has been advocated by a
part of tlie London press' .that tirade should only be carried
on by thee possessed of wealth, is exceilent.—Morning
Poet.

We argue the case of Mr. Brogden upon principle—we
leave this individual altogether out of the question—and
the principle which we go, upon is this, that,itny RUM who
accepted the °Mee% which that gentleman did in several of
the " bubble" Companies, thereby incapacitated himself
to hold the high and honourable appointment of Chairman of
the Committee* of W And Means in the House of Com-
mons. Let us suppose this principle subverted in any one
instance—let us imagine the precedent once established of
ail active Director or bubble schemes, being elected to fill
this important Parliamentary Office, how could the House
of 'commons ever set its face, with any show of con-
Sistency, spinet the gambling transactions that im-
poverish the 'resources and degrade the morals or a
country? Nay, Would it not operate us if the House of Commons tilt:PW (Tett its doors to afford is ready asylum
to persona who, by raising their character up with gambling
speculations;' drew upon themselves the indignant notice or
public opinion 1' As to the particular charge brought
against Mr. .Brogdeni of receiving a sum of money which
was part of the proceeds of a (16.11011Cht transaction in the
Aries. Mine Company, We put that aside for the present.
We are willing to believe him ignorant of the way in which
that money Wl4B InUtlfild; although he was very culpable in
not making more inquiry about it. But our objection to his
filling the chair of the Committee of Ways and Miisna
is
on the broad ground that any individual, whoever he nifty
be* that could associate and take office with' the infer
mans ontrivers, of Joint Stock Bubbles, i i disqualified
froMllasiding over the Committees whose duty It is to
Prcnil4C:tta supplies for the honourable service of the
Crown a tau not whether it be corruption or, vregip!

Hess that led the individual into such disreputable associa-
tion. Neither a corrupt nor 'a weak man would enjoy the
moral or personal respect that was necessary to support
the dignity of the office. Were such an appointment al-
lowable, it would be but one step more to select the
!Speaker of the House of Commons from among those
Members of Parliamont who had upon them the stain of
'disgraceful contact with the originators of the Joint Stock
frauds. The character of the present Speaker has never
been sullied by the imputation of any Bath low and un-
gentlemanly association. His acquirementS, his good taste,
and dignified deportment, TMlify him for the exalted of-
.fice of ,presiding .over the deliberations; of the Commons of
England; but had it happened that the Right lion. Gen-
tleman had retired from public life, or been raised to the
Peerage before the assembling of the New Parliament,
and had a candidate offered himself for the Speakership
from among the Parliamentary bubble-mongers, 'what ob-
jection could there be made to him on principle, if Mr.
Brogden had beenpermitted to assume the office next to the
Speakership—nomely, that of Chairman of the Lo aiittees
of 'Ways and Means ? Great credit it; ;1-siaouttecliy due to
Mr. W'aithman for the niti and, judicious, Manner in
which he has commer.iced the Herculean task of cbtalucting
a i Pedimental—
We told ' • °IN nto the Joint-Stock sehemes.—
film in. the beginning that he would have great
It' to cu les contend with, but that the service he would
.de hi* Country, and the honour he would obtain for him-
self, could not fail to remunerate his truly patriotic exer-
tions—for wo call that man. the best patriot, who, indif-
ferent to party, attacks the vices and the corruption that
demoralise society, With the intrepidity and perseverance
which enable him to crush, in public life, their pernicious
example.—Morning iferahl,
Mr. Alderman Waithman has Made n 'sorry commence-
ment in his half Oii;itnis'ed, half abandoned, proceedings
against the Hodoniatile Member who lately indulged in
personalities. He last night brought under the notice of
the House a petition of " Mr. Rogerylattery, Civil Engi-
neer, who had been the proprietor of the Arigna Iron
Mines," against the Directors of the " Arigna Iron and
Coal Company," of whom Mr. Brogden was one. There
is nothing like respectable evidence to support a charge,
and Mr. Waithman has been peculiarly happy—so happy,
indeed, that he found it prudent to diielami ell communi-
cation with, as well as knotetedge of, the said Mr. Roger
Flattery. The petition got up for this exhibition was pro-
perly disposed of, by being rejected; whether, because the
House duly appreeiated the value of the affidavit which it
contained, or the character, of the petitienerove presume not
to surmise. For ourselves, we confess we feel a sort of vague
curiosity, to learn something about this Mr. Roger Flat-
tery. Is he, for example, the saute " Civil Engineer," who
tried, by an exaggerated report of the value of certain Mills,
to induce the Flour Company to expend a few thousands ?
Is lie the " Civil Engineer" who has caused several re-
spectable persons to be unjustly arrested ? Is he the same
Civil Engineer" who built certain flour mills for two
thousand pounds, or a little more, and afterwards consci-
'entiously valued them at nine thousand ? With regard to
the Arigna mines, we have an equal 'curiosity to learn
something respecting the manner in which the said mines
were originally transferred. We would ask, merely for in-
formation, whether he did not sign a receipt for 25,0001.,
the price to be charged to the. Company by his friends ?
Whether he was not to receive 10,000/. himself, and be
the manager of the mines, and the remaining fifteen to be
shared ? Whether he did not himself have 1,000 shares ?
And whether, en its being found that he was perfectly in-
competent to the management, he was not superseded ?
i Whether he did riot, in consequence, threaten " to blow
the whole thing," sinless he were reinstated ? Whether
the agent of the former proprietor, when in town, did not
attend a meeting of the Shareholders, and, like an Honour-
able Member of the House of Commons, indulge hi strange
" personalities" at Mr. Flattery's expense ? Of course,
if we could answer these questions ourselves, we would not
trouble Mr. Flattery upon the subject : but, as we are
merely humble seekers of truth, it is from him we must
receive what we require.-7.4Veu; Tinto.

THE YOUNG NAPOLEON.

(From Notes and Reflectione during a Ramble in Germany.)

An agreeable volume under the above title has recently
been published by Messrs. Longman and Co. It is full of
interesting matter; we select the, following account given
by the Rambler of his having seen the young Napoleon :
" Almost. all'the time I was at Vienna, young Napoleon
WAS staying in the neighbourhood Presburgh with the
Emperor, and I sadly feared that I should have no oppor-
tunity of him. lie came in, however, to the palace
in the city for two or three days ; and before his return,
an event occurred which, as it caused him to, appear on a
public occasion, enabled me to see him under circumstances,
to one of my cast, peculiierly interesting. News had ar
rived in the capita that the
died most suddenly.
usualworaloryd orders were Bavaria
aiatehalyd
young
given for performing funeral cerefmoolenipesalaiene.honTohuer of his
memory, in the private. chapel o
Napoleon and a brother of the Emperor, being
tity, theoiil
members of the Imperial Family present in the ,
assist-
ed at these honours. There was a vigil service the first
evening, and a grand mass and requiem on the morrow.
I was•present at both; the Court only on the'first.
" In the centre of the chapel a kingly crown and a ducal
cap lay glittering upon a black pall, which covered a raised.
(pageant) bier. Innumerable tall and massive church
candlesticks of silver, were ranged round the bier; and the
thick,pale torches shed on it their white and sickly rays.
A row of priests stood with their clasped hands pointed
in prayer on one side; a rank of the Life or Palace Guards,
in scarlet clothing, leaned upon their halberts, on that Op-
posite. At the head of the bier, some twenty officers of
the •- Hungarian Grenadiers and two or three Hussar
officers; who accompanied the commander of the garrison,
stood, closely grouped. A few persons of distinction sat
in private pews, in a gallery above, that have glass win-
dows looking into the chapel. Among these, in a pew by
himself, next that of the Itniperor's brother, was the young
Napoleon. He leaned Lem the open window duringg the
service : his complexion is very fair, his forehead geod, the
lowest part of his face short and rounded; his nose not
very prominent, but well shaped. The colour of his eyes,
I could not distinguish, and, except for a few moments,
saw him only in profile ; but he impresses you as a very
good-looking, gentleman-like boy, with an appearance
somwhat above his age. His hands were clasped together,
and he seemed to take that feeling interest in the scene,
which is alike natural and becoming in a youth of fifteen.
The solemnity of the service, and the sweetness of the
singing, were perhaps, the only things that moved or occu-
pied his young mind; and yet it is more than probable
that be would know, and might, at such a moment, have
reineMbered, that, but for his father, these obsequies might
have been electoral, and not regal; that the kingly crown
upon that bier was the gift Of tkat.father, when he decreed
that the Elector of Bavaria should wear one. The regal
honours and powers which he had bestowed had outliVed
• •

his own, even in life; and in death he himself had laid
down in the grave of an exile. The son might. remember,
that no such requiem was sung over the distant tomb of
that father; but that the enemies who had guarded him
living, and who could not deny him the funeral of a soldier,
guarded him dead. All this he might remember, and might
secretly vow to see his father's bones yet deposited in a
fitting Serilehie. I admit, however, that all this is not
vel'Y Probable ; for I learn that he is bred up in a paticti..
tally quiet, way, is little on horseback, and seldom or ever
seen amtuig the troops, or encouraged to any martial tastes.
Circumstance g, however, bring about strange and miractt.
bolls changes in, or rather developments of human charae.
ter ; and the stirring trumpet may yet sound, which shall
awaken in the bosom of this youth the stern and ambitious
spirit of his father."

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