The Sun.
London, England, 1821-06-08 00:00:00

11IORNING CHRONICLE.]

One unsurmountable objection to an Association
like that in question (CONSTITUTIONAL Asso-
CIATION), is, that it is incompatible with a fair
and impartial administration of justice. If im-
proper writings are published and vended—to
proceed against the publishers and venders by
objectionable means is not a course, surely,
which any wise or good man would recommend
with a view to put a stop to the evil. We shall
even for a moment suppose this Association to be
as free from party motives as it is notoriously the
reverse. What security has a man put upon his
trial by it, that some of its long list of
anonymous subscribers are not on his Jury ?
But the_ union of Prosecutor and Judge in
the same person is repugnant to every notion
of English justice. And 'why, we would ,ask,
are these un-English practices now resorted
to ? have we not public prosecutors, responsible
officers, who are, specially charged with the su-
perintendeffee of the Press ? Have these men
failed to dist:barge their duty in a proper manner,
or are they too few in number? Th,is has never
been stated. But allowing the conduct of the
public prosecutors to have been negligent, or that
thry are too few in_ number, it does not surely
follow that the evil ought •to be remedied by
means direoly at va-riance with every principle
of justice. Let an accusation be brought forward
agaimt Line Attorney and Solielior-Genend, or let
es.siitants-in,suflit:lent number be given to them.

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We need hardly notice the brutal article in
The -yestoday, relating to the Hono-
rary. Assistant Secretary of the Constitutional
Association. 'Every pferson with the feelings of
a :Tian anil'aGentlernan, Must have turned froth
it inAliggnst,- 1,.)..t.•e, Unmanly, and Cruel
hut what had it to do with the merits or de-
.Melits of tho,..A.:ssocltion?--•True it is, that
Mr.:Sharp,.ia ,Gentlethau of most respeetable
cOnnexibn,iii'brother-to-the late BOroughreeve of I
Mauchester„was foirmprly in trade ; that he
had -realized' a considerable, fortune bat that
he lost the greater part of it, 'in those vicis-
situdes of conimerce, whiCh have occasioned
the: ruin of so many eminent Houses. True it is,
that this Gentleman has given his very valuable
services to the Constitutional Association.; 'but
the Worthless Editor of The T/mes know's hiin
litill.iadced, if he .thinks that any cowardly, as•'.
sassin-like'attacks', those of yesterday, Will
intjthidate, 'or deter him trom his duty, as an
honest: man, and .0: loyal subject. • It would be
easy !for the friends-of M. Sharp to retort on
the
_writer. of: the article in. question. They
Might allude to circumstances, not yet out of
recollection in 'the family- history "of .that per-
son, which ought
,to Impose on him the " Mo-
dest stillness'? that he recommends to others;
lint pity, for 'the, .unoffenliing Themhe.rs of his
family, -and unwillingness to violate the sanctity
of the tomb,•forbid .vengeance so easy and so
effectual, One thing; must not be passed over.
Sir. Sharp did undoubtedly starch forward to Vitt;

dicate the Magistrates of Cheshire and Lan-
cashire from the infamous calumnies heaped upon
them in The Times. He stated, on undeniable
authority, plain, distinct, and unanswerable
truths ; he convicted The Times of gr.Dss, wilful,
and wicked falsehood, in relation to the lamen-
table occurrences of the 16th of August, 1819.
Hence the enmity of that most unprincipled jour=
nal against i\lr. Sharp !