The Sun.
London, England, 1826-10-20 00:00:00

FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 20, 1826.

EDINBURGH AND LONDON STEAM PACKETS.

rrHE JAMES WATT, starts from BLACK-
. WALL for NEWHAVEN, EDINBURGH, on. SA-
TURDAY evening the 21st October, and on SATURDAY
evening the 4th November. The above Packets will start regu-
larly every other Saturday evening until further notice.
Goods for all parts of Scotland received here on the evening of
starting, until: 4 o'clock, and forwarded with the greatest regu-
liirity and dispatch ; every Snformation may be obtained at the
General Packet, 358, Strand, but places can only be secured at
this office. A. MITCHELL.

London and Edinburgh Steam Packet Company's
Office, St), Leadenhall-street.

ASYLUM COMPANY, 70, CORNHILL, as-
sures the lives of• Officers and others travelling, residing,
or liable to be called beyond the limits of Europe,—Females in a
state of Pregnancy,—Persons affected by Mania, Rupture, Gout,
or Chronic Disease,—and those, who, from inadequate testimo-
nials, uncertainty of Date of Birth, Unhealthy Occupations, or
other causes, would he rejected by the generality of Office*.

The Directors meet at the Office of the Company, every Wed-
nesday at Three o'Clock precisely, and one of the Medical Officers
attends at the same hour daily, to facilitate the departure of those
who may wish to visit Foreign Climates with speed.
A Physician or Consulting Surgeon of eminence has been ap-
pointed in every principal Town, before whom pi.rsons wishing to
effect Insurances in the Country may appear, on sending their pro-
posals, by letter, to the Resideat Director.

money was paid except what I paid, for Mr. Banked.
know that little book, and saw-Mr.Sankes writing in

after I got back to Nazareth.% I saw ' Mr. Buckingham
taking something from that book on paper. I saw him
copying the plan at the wiridow.
Cross-examed by Mr. BROUGHAM—I attended the
mosque .in Turkey and the chapel here. Mr. Bucking-
ham at D'Jerash, was wilting, and Mr. Baukee 'speaking
and drawing. I gave the Arabs a little money on the
journey ; very little on the journey ; very little spent.
Mr. Charles Barry has travelled in Palestine, and visited
the ruins of the city of D'Jerash with Messrs. Godfrey,
Wise, and Paine; they were there nearly two days ; they
had an opportunity of taking a eoniplete plan of the place.
He had every reason to believe that plan is correct. He
had compared the plan in Mr. Buckingham's books with
the defendant's original
plan, and they do not correspond;
the deviations in Mr. Buckingham's plan are inaccurate;
,in his plan the walls are waxy in some
part; that, is not
correct; in that respect Wily resemble Mr. Bankea's; as
far as my observation went, tile walls were straight and
angular.
The witness proceeded to point out the different varia-
tions in the plans of Mr. Bankes, and Mr. Buckingham,
and his own.

The Hon. Capt. Irby, an officer in the Royal Navy, in
the year 1818 accompanied Mr. Mangles to b'sleraSh, and
during two visits to that place, made a complete plan,
which agrees with Mr. Barry's in some instances, and with
the plaintiff's and defendant's in others; in 1817 he was
travelling in Egypt, and heard that the plaintiff, instead of
going on his mission, had bean travelling about in search
of antiquities.

Mr. Mangles's evidence was nearly to the same purpose.
Colonel Leak, who had travelled in Egypt some years
ago, has seen some of the inscriptions in Mr. Bucking-
ham's book, which contain errors he should not have ex-
pected frum any one acquainted with Greek.
Mr. Arrowsmith, a geographer, who had examined Mr.
Bankes's and Mr. Buckingham's
plans, pointed out nume-
rous variations between them.

Mr. BROUGHAM having addressed the Jery in reply,
commented on the impossibility of believing the evidence
of the two foreigners, who could scarcely understand the:
plain question put to them now, and nine years ago Pre-
tended to have understood the whole of the conversation
between Mr. Bankes and Mr. Buckingham ; and on the
total failure of the justification pleaded by the defendant,
concluded a most eloquent appeal by declaring that he left
the case in their hands, confident that from the defendant
he would receive such damages as would convince the
world that the charges of the defendant were wholly un-
founded.

The LORD CHM JUSTICK, in summing up the evi-
dence to the Jury, expressed his opinion that on the first
issue there must be a verdict for the plaintiff. His Lord-
ship then proceeded to read the libel, and having remarked
on the evidence produced in justification, stated, that in
his opinion that also had failed in establishing the defence
set up. The only question, therefore, remaining for their
consideration, was the amount of damages to which the
plaintiff was entitled. If they took into consideration the
feelings of the defendant at the moment the libel was
written, there might be some excuse for him : for it cer-

believed, the plaintiff had engaged not to write any notes
of his journey. But, however they might consider the
feelings of the defendant at the time of writing the letter,
there. was riot the same excuse for him when he gave the
copy to Mr. Hoblionse ; lint he trusted they would give
such temperate damages as would prove that their verdict
was the resuk of.sober reflection and discretion.

The Jury having retired for nearly three-quarters of an
hour, returned with a verdict for the plaintilt—Da-
images, 4001.
This cause commenced at half-past nine o'clock in the
morning, and the verdict was not returned till a quarter to
seven o'clock in the evening.

LITTER TO MR. BUCKINGHAM', DATED Tftoll TIM!, JUNE
12, 1819.

Mr. tuckingham—After some anecdotes respecting your con-
duct, which you c►unot but suspect must have come, however
late, to my knowledge before this time, you cannot expect that I
should address you otherwise than I should the lowest of man-
kind. It is, indeed, with reluctance that I stoop to address you
at all. It will require, however, uo long preface to acquaint you
with the object of this letter, since your own conscience will point
it out to you from the moment that you shall recognize a hand-
writing which must be familiar to you, since yon have copied it,
and are about to turn the transcript to account. You have
hoped that the distance of place would befriend you—you have
hoped that I should shrink from proclaiming that I have been
imposeil upon. It would have been far more politic in you to have
shrunk from being proclaimed the man who has imposed. .

In that adverti;einent, by which you announe4 as your own
the works of another, you have at least spared me the humiliation
of being named in the list of your, friends. Though the motive
of this is sufficiently obviousf and it furnishes in itself both a proof
and an aggravation of your culpability, yet some of those who are
made to appear in that list, would rather, I am persuaded, that
you had invaded their property as you have dune mine, than have
subjected them to so unmerited a stigma; one amongst the num-
ber (whom you would not have dared even to allude to had be
been alive) is unhappily unable to repel the imputation in his own
person,—l mean the late Mr. Burckhardt, whom you so ho-
pudently cite as your bosons friend. The boast is rash and
ill-timed.

Are you not aware that copies of a letter are extant, in which
he styles you a villain, in whieh be says that the rogue can he
brought to a sense of duty only by a kirk ? Do you wish then to
publish your own disgrace, by letting the world know how well
you were known to that excellent person, who, during the two
last yea-re of his life, lost no opportunity of testifying his contempt
and eversion for your character.

Do not imagine that these sentiments were confined to the page
of a single letter. Sheik Ibrahim was too open and too honour..
able to wish others to be deceived, as he had been fora time him-
self. Had his letters to me reached me sooner than they did,
.I
should have had timely warning to beware how I trusted you,
and you would never have had that opportunity which you have
seized of abusing my kindness and confidence.
It is beneath me to expostulate with you, hut I will state some
facts to yourself, which I have already stated to others—.-that
the journey beyond Jordan to Dgerask and Oomkais was arrang-
ed, and the Arabs under engagement to conduct me thither, be-
fore I ever saw. you ; that you introduced yourself to me by a
letter stating that you were intimate with time of my best
friends, and studiously concealing from rue (both then and after-
wards) that you were in any person's employ
; that it MIS at
my invitation (I being always under the supposition that
you
were a free agent) that you went with roe, having previously
agreed to take down my notes and the journal when I should wish
it; that the whole expences of that journey were upon me; that
the notes and journal were in great part taken down from my
mouth (especially what rebate to Dgerask), with the exception
of that of the two or three last days, which were written with
my own hand, and afterwards copied fair by you ; but, ahoy* all,
that the plan of the ruins at Dgerask was constructed and noted
with my own hand, and that all the assistance diet I derive(' from
you, even in collecting the materials for it, was in
ingitfoirs
in:aierdithyonerecesslathar; batoarerinnglisndof:lne,
that
build'y.oingursawseitrliAi
mY
compass ; tha,aa to the plan of the theatre, you did not even know
that I had made it till you law it at Nazareth.
you neither copied a
single inscription, nor made a single sketch on the spot( since
you are, I know, incapable of the One, and your iguoranre of
Latin and Greek must, 1 should suppose, unfit you for the other ;
add to which, you had not a single sheet of paper on which you
could have done either, if I except a pocket-book about four inches
square. •
The great ground-plan was traced at a Wi114101,1 of the ;wept at

Nazareth (as both my servants can testify), and yoU have copies
from my drawings at the tombs at Oomkais, taken at the same time.
These last are probably to furnish the vignettes and appropriate
engravings which are announced.

Surely you must laugh at the simplicity of your subscribers
When you are alone, with whom you are to pass for a draughts-
man, being ignorant of the'very first principles of design ; for an
accurate copier of inscriptions, being ignorant of all the ancient
languages ; and for an explainer of antiquities, being incapable of
even distinguishing between the architecture of the Turks and
the Romans. I have said enough. It is in vain to attempt
to make a man sensible of ingratitude who ha* been guilty of
fraud.

What I demand is the immediate restitution or those copies from
my papers, without exception, and without your retaining any
duplicates of them. Let them be put into the hands of Sir Evan
Nepean, wheat I have begged that he will do me the favour to
take charge of them ; and let all that portion of the work adver-
tised that treats of a journey made at soy expense, and compiled
from my notes, be suppressed. I leave you otherwise to take the
consequence, should you persist. The matter shall be notified in
a manner that shall make your character as notorious in England
and India as it is already in Egypt and Syria. You will find that
you have not duped an obscure individual, who is obliged to bear
it and hold his tongue. WM. J. BANKES.
When this letter waa written, I did not know that the person to
whom it is addressed was editor of the paper in which his long
winded advertisement appeared, but supposed him to be still at
Bombay.
Carefully examined this copy with the original copy of let-
ter this 9th day of December, 1825.

WAI. LEMAN, L. EDMUNDS,
61, Lincoln'*-inn-fields.

COMMON HALL, OCT. 19.

CORN LAWS.
(CONCLUDED FROM OUR FIRST EDITION Or YESTERDAY.)

Mr. Hoer now presented himself to the meeting, and was
warmly received. " What," he exclaimed, "is there no one here
in this Hall to hiss me? It is really unaccountable that I should
appear here without being Mewed ; and if I do not do something to
retrieve my character before I leave, I shall begin to suspect my own
principles.—(Laughter.)—He then proceeded to say, that he
would not detain them after the long speeches which they had
heard. But those who had preceded him had spoken theoreti-
cally, he would now speak to them practically. It was quite true
what had been advanced by the last Speaker, that the repeal of
the Corn Laws, if obtained, would be by no means a pa-
nacea for their grievances. Any man who advanced such a
proposition was either an impostor, coming forward to mislead the
public, or he was imposed upon himself. The calamities which they
all felt could not be ascribed to the Corn Laws alone, but were the
effects of s system of abuse and misgovernment, and ias a variety
of quarters. Mr. Stevens, when he spoke of the farmers
supporting the system of Corn Laws, and anticipating the perma-
nency of their prosperity under it, slid not anticipate that a farmer
was to follow him in addressing the Hall. He denied that
the farmer had been changed during the war—he was still
the same—(No ! no! from several voices.)—he continued the
same that he was a century ago, exercising the 'Anse degree
of hospitality and good feeling to those around him. It
was true there had been efforts made to refine some
portion of that clue during the war, but he denied that they
were general, or characteristic of the fanner alone. He was in a
green-grocer's shop with a friend the other day when a man came in to
buy a farthing's worth of onions. On looking through into the
hack roam, there was Miss, the green-grocer's daughter, moving
her fingers over the piano, with as much taste as had, perhaps,

to contend that the landowners, and not the farmers, were be-
nefitted by a continuance of the Corn Laws. Hewould state a fact
which he has often stated to the individuals themselves, that if the
price of the corn was trebled, the price of hthourere' wages ought
also to he trebled ; lie would also state another fact, in the parish
of Hampshire where he was born, when a flintier paid 600/.
per year rent, and sold the wheat for ttos. per sack, the labourer
received 6s. per week, and now he only received 7a. per week,w hen
the rent of that same farm was at the enormous sum of 1800/. per
year. At the time he lived in that village there were only three re-
puted thieves there, now there are not three honest men to be
found in the village. He was told by a farmer in Hampshire
that his father paid snore for tithes than was formerly paid for
rent, taxes, and all. The landholders are assembling and calling
these meetings in private. He was one of those who
gave Mr. Canning and Mr. Huskisson thanks for their
exertions, but for the last three or four years of pros-
perity we have lately had misery and starvation. If a
t aiitlereagh had been at the head of the present Ministry instead
of a Canning,there would have been bloodshed all over the country;
it was the cursed Pitt system under which we were now suffering.
Castlereagh had only done one act of justice to his country, that
was his last act, the cutting of his own throat. He asked the
Livery if they remembered his suffering, and how they were jeered
at in the House of Commons. The Landowners say corn enough
cannot be raised in this country sufficient for the support of the
people ; if the tithes and game laws were abolished, more than
aufhcient corn would be raised, and they would be able to export
instead of import. There are 1,200 bushels of wheat grown lees
than there would be, if it was not for the hares, in ono parish iu
Hampshire. He had made a slight calculation, whWi might be
sent forth to the world. Ile then showed l 4 bill, headed " Eng-
land's Curee..--the Corn Laws." It did•great injury to the cause;
it would take Id millions of money to supply the people
of England with bread for one year at the price taf bread at
Calais, and in England bread was double the price in France; the
parish-rates have become a parish tax, and wben we have a bold
Ministry chosen by a reformed House of Commons, they would
restore the Crown lands which George the 1. and George
IL received their income from; they would also take the
tithes. I would, said Mr. Hunt, if I was a Minister—(laugh-
ter)—have all the Ministers supported in a manlier which they
ought to be, but the tithes should be sold for the benefit of the
country. He would also take the corporation lends, and all the
mis-applied charities. He then told a curious tale of a corporation,
who having a penny loaf to give.to all the poor people, on a
certain day, every year, delayed . giving the loaf until three
years, and afterwards forgot it altogether. Soinething
else must be done besides the repeal of the Corn Laws—the public
funds must come down ; because we have had 25 or 80 years of
extravagant expenditure, and now a day of economy is MM., it
will be felt much more. He would conclude by repeating what
he once before raid, no good would conic to the country until Mr.
every6ocneproiriguh,teetoki caoAnidie,litn
Pitt' had been removed into theismtrbeleitt,asrpiedaTikilnages:d)an,ettioznedso.
receive only '7s. ; and that all they received now went to par-.,
for-
wardnll.l;l aWitintßlal;i2bl:l, Itcahti lttil'was
a labourers pi ripresent,
et
received:ts

. .
chase flour.'
molusehiey.Clerk then read the resolutions,which were carried unani-
Mr, Favrt.t. moved that it petition, founded on the resolu-
bt ieoiinisg,
ibmet pfrr,memlnitiel
Ctobabiro, tli
waslloctaisrersiedolwiltlbaortltita ma ednist:en‘tvihnigehvoicoei.i
diet:tali
bo;ettbleainndemcaberLiedfo,r
ttbheatattlyi.e petitions be presented to
rilitritiiralvinmeAnitdrnorman Woon expressed his willingness to fulfil the
wishes of his coustitnents, and said that the majority of the Conn-
et
ffryte'ittvltr.e. passing similar resolutions to those liaised 64 day.
were
WA ITHMAN also expressed himself to a similar
hespiliiletreogorift; their commercial
Alderman Tuostrsom could not forego the satisfsauctlitioenielioft
big his intention to support the repeal of the Corn LAWS—they
asked uo more than a revisal of the old Corn Laws, Which ex..
wed previous to the year 1816, and, since that period, all
the Mainifactures and Commerce of the Nation have relaxed. It
trthuasttitle or.
itltirearcetetwiouill'de
New Parliament to abrogate such unjust and • • mischievous
measures. . ..
itvrzstachatitosnyss letube.

Mr. WARD entirely comforted with the object of the Meeting,
end would give it his unqualified support,
the Resolution that the Petition read by the Lord Mayon*
presented to both Houses of Parliament Was then read and edrried
unanimously.
On'the motion of Mr. Hum., a vote of thanks to Laid Kinip
for' his strenuous opposition to Alm Corta ot
aws,. WAS carried %l'
mously.—Thanks being voted tulthe Lord Mayor, hi 1"6191)'
roomed the 0111411mA, and the Meeting serrated.