The Sun.
London, England, 1819-11-08 00:00:00

Lan beneficial. The Bank will bare no reitic-
-1 tence to pay in gold when it cart do so con-
sistently with the public welfare. and Govern"
went/mould be absurd, indeed, to Corce into exe-
cation an enactment that might be dangerous JI)
ita consequences. Tile 4.b.01e of t : rumour
A would e too contemptible forfiNtic •he Pa"
ke
1r in 'eh it appeaod (lid ‘4,oKll4lbotrent'iy)ire"
sutne to stile itself i'ihe Leading Journal of El"
rope," and afterwards, as iMplldellay in she face
of positive evidence, denied that it ever asso4ll-0
that title. Now, we are on the subject of TM'
(Old) Times, we cannot deny ourselves the piea"
sure that we shall always feel in exposing 1"
malignity and falsehood of that Paper, by insert-
ing the following paragraphs., which spews thus its
politeness and urbanity are upttn a level with its
political rectitude and disinterested morality :---
~ The Courier of last night says—The Leading J014111(11 Of
Europe is offended with us fur remembering' that unluclil

phrase—Oh, no, we arc not: only The Courier lies, in at-

tibuting the phrase to us : and he knows he lies, in so (Wig'
But then The Courier is hired to lie. However, as to /OP
ing we shall continue to lead, as we have done, while tha
poor Courier, instead of leading, is obliged to be led ; and
when he does not lead well, then he is driven; and when
he'll neither lead nor drive, as sometimes happens, not froo
want of obedience, but from dulness, then Mr. Vansittart, or
whoever else his driver may be, turns about upon him, and
seats him upon the head, calling him fool, and dolt, 3'36
knave, and telling all the world that the beast he is beating
is not his ass; that he scorns to hare such a brute for his
use: but still the ass, though despised a►ed beaten, sticks t°
the man; and the man, who contemns the ass, keeps tl►e
burden on his back. DA let not Mr. Vansittart despio
asses ; it they cannot discourse, they can bray, and so silence'
more rational animals. Hence are there asses out of &lice'
We have been almost stunned by them."—(Tisnes, 411 x
Not'eenber, 1 8 ta.)

Will The Courier condescend to take any for,
ther notice of so low and despicable an assault?
except to express its abhorrence or contempt ?

THE KING'S 1-IsAcrtf.—Yesterday the follow"
log Bulletin was exhibited at St. James's Palacc
to the Public at large :

WIND-5011 CASTLE", Nor. 6; 1819.

" His MaiesTY has passed the last month in great Val!"
quillity, hut withotA any thruimition of his disorder. f!'s
hll.s.wsrv's bodily health continues to be good, under the cl"
cut.ustances of his advanced age.
(Signed) "H. HALFORD, W. lIEBERREr'r,
" M. BAIELIE. R. WILLIS.'"

DREADFUL ACCIDENT IN PLYMOUTH DOCK-TAII

There is no duty more unpleasant to a public
Journalist, than that of recording the contintssi'
ly occurring instances of human calamity, parw
cularly when they involve not simply a fatal es'
tastrophe to one individual, but the untimely de'
ceases of more than one, with disa.trous arci•
dents to many others. A temporary (Inn had beep
• constructed at the stern of the Smith d•,ck, in our
dock -yard, for the purpose of protector;; Ind
workmen, who were preparing for putting its
new gates ; about halt-past two o'clock on Wed'
nesday aftetnoon, it then being pearl.), half-lid"
the enormous pressure of the water, estimated
least 5(10 tons, suddenly broke through the de",
and, coming in contact with the shores supporting
a bridge or brow across, on which wve forty or
fifty persons passing and repassing to their dal,
it instantly engulphed the whole in the rushinC
flood, which continued in a state of the most 'jog'
lent fermentation for several minutes. Marl
boats being near the boson, by dint of onsoo2‘
mon exertions the spectators succeeded in rese'
ing and bringing ashore all who were visible.
some with broken limbs, and others with severe
contusions, arising from the furious precipitatinh
of the water, and the timbers with which the de°
was constructed. As some were missing, Mrs
Smith, Surveyor of the Works immediately re-
moved the diving vessel from flamoaze (be
baton, where, notwithstanding the turbid condi"'
tion of the water, and the contusion of the scene,
he promptly descended. After searching at (be
bottom some littte time, he brought op the bndi
of Joseph Crocker, a caulker, one of the missing?
but too late, we regret to say, to save his life'
Shortly afterwards it was ascertained that a se‘'
min belonging to the ordinary, called Libby, "%le
missing. Mr. Smith descended again in the be"'
but without success—on the tide receding► be
was found in a spot beyond the reach of
diving bell. Thus by a circumstance, in which
blame seems imputable to no one, two lives Wei
been lost—two had their limbs fractured, ant
five have received contusions. A Coroner's live
quest has been held on the bodies of the unfore
tonate deceased, which returned a verdict of"'"
" Accidental Death." Crocker, we hear, has }eft
a wife and four children to lament his loss.--Vir
mouth and Dock Telegraph, Nov, G )

CRITICAL CANDOUR.—A morning Paper of tbig
Clay, in its report of the play of Love makes al
Man, represented on Saturday, takes notice of as
the performers but Mr. C. KEMBLS, who octe
the chief character ! ! Can this omission be thc
effect of accident, or of some unworthy 115°Eir2
which ought never to pollute the public pre"
" 'Tis true 'tis Titifid, and pity 't is too true:.
I\la. BIRD, THE A RTIST.—We are sorry to 'll.°
flounce the loss of Mr. BIRD, the Royal Acadenl::
cian, an excellent Artist, who died on Tues°64
last at Bristol.
Swiss COLONISTS AT RAMSGATE,--A late 171 rill
Paper contains a paragraph eulogizing the mgt`;
bitants of Ramsgate, for their noble anti gener°lie
reception of these poor people landed from
Netherlands ship Camillus, after she had i),feeris
driven bn shore, near Deal, in a thick fog•
hut justice the Public should know, that tr})-0,
Colonists have riot as yet received any thing lirrilh
the Inhabitants of that place to justily the bUt
flown complimews in the Paper anode() 10
to the l'aittioee Government are they i"(l°:),he
for their subsistence, and to the liberality' "1.
Trustees of R;tinsgaie Hathonr, ito the "C‘;ll.ele
fliodation of their convenient Storz-houses)
of any charge whatever.