The Sun.
London, England, 1826-08-12 00:00:00

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ceived witli's6 much civility that It was robbed of
part of .ths goods yrench propeitY) which completed.ite cargo
for Smyrna, and ilia captain and crew wars ill-treat;d; an
stripped even of their clothe*.

tiVe also'received :the Allgemeine Zeitung of thet
sth instant, but its contents chiefly relate to the slow-
ness .with. which the election ,proceeds in the Duchy.
of Hesse for,the Chamber of Deputies ; and this pi-;
willingness on, the part of the people attributed to
the circumstance of the last Chamber imposing new
taxes instead of taking off the old ones.

The SaloplanJournallasibeen adjudged to pay
100/. damages for printing the alleged-libe !respecting
the Idiot SMITH, and the Birmingham Journal has
to pay 400 k 'for copying the Article from the other
Paper! Could any thing be a better comment on the
absurdity of our Law of Libet?

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From the press of other matter yesterday we were
unable to findroom.for a few: remarks which a pro
ceeding at Bow-street the day before gives rise to. --_
A. respectable Bookseller in Tavistock-street WaS
summoned before Sir R. BIRNIE, on a charge 'made.
by the mother of a boy employed by him, that her son
had been struck on the cheek by his master. Mr.
BLACKi the tradesman accused of this dreadful out-
rage, admitted that he had chastised the boy, " because
he was repeating the words of an. indecent song,
which. he was in the act of writing out."
Sir R. BIRNIE, instead of applauding Mr. BLACK
for correcting the doting rascal who hairstich Obscell
prOpensities, exclaimed, with all the pomp of nigh'
terial dignity—and with all that 'Species of inverted
reasoning which is ,natural to, him,—
~ This, Sir, is no.. justification of your conduct—,
you have no right to lay violent hands on boys in your
employment ; .EnArland is a land crliberty, Sin •
where the meanest shall find protection, and where
the infliction of the whip is not to be tolerated., You
must either find bail for the present assault, or satisfy
this poor,.woman for the blow you struck her son-
NOW Ave would ask, whether it is .not preposterous
that .a ,man, filling the situation which this IN orshipfta
Knight holds, should use language such as has. been
ascribed to him, in a case which, to say the most of
it, was a very innocent infraction of the strictest con-
struction of the law, for, the praiseworthy motive of
stopping the repetition of an obscene song, by a boy,
Whose general conduct appears to have been bed, if
we may judge by. the fact of Mr. BLACK'S partner,
having also found it necessary to punish him on a
preceding occasion?
Is it not, we would, ask, most contemptible. fur ,1‘
man sitting in the- Magisterial chair, to construe such.
an act as a violation of the liberty of England,—lml
to use expressions which could only tend to inflsme
the minds of the lower orders against their superiors,
and to make them refuse to submit, even in the person
of their children, when acting improperly, to any re-
straint or correction? It appears to us that such!,
language is as dangerous in its tendency as it is ;toll
contemptibly ridiculous in its application in this case-
But it is of a piece with every thing which pass"
at Bow-itreet. We haiie Jong observed, that if an.Y
person of respectability applies at tliat Office for the
redress of a wrong, or is summoned upon any charge
whatever, lie is treated with vulgarity, and Ire-
with insult. A miserable attempt at wit, s
ribald joke, or an unmannerly observation, calls forth
the laugh of the thief-taking audience of the Bench,
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