The Sun.
London, England, 1821-09-12 00:00:00

ARMY CONTRACTS-.

Commissariat Department, Treasury
Chambers, August 22, 1821.
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HOWARD AND GIBBS'S BANKRUPTCY.—Yester-
day a meeting of the Commissioners in HOWARD
and GIBBS'S Bankruptcy took place at Guildhall,
for the purpose of receiving further proof' of
debts upon the estate, when some small debts
were admitted. The principal business expected
was the proof of Mr. CARROLL'S alleged debt of
18,0001., to which opposition was intended ; but
that Gentleman not appearing at half-past two
o'clock (two o'clock being the-time of his own
appointment) the Commissioners adjourned.
THE MURDER AT HIGHGATE.—Barrett, the
person charged with the murder of Sell, the
watchman at Highgate, underwent a further
examination yesterday, before the Rev. Dr.
OWEN, and a variety of evidence was adduced;
but though some circumstances of a suspicious
nature were given in evidence, there were none
tending absolutely to implicate him in that crime.
It will he recollected, that when the house of
Barrett was first searched, a cpantity of linen
and other effects, the property of Mr. Roths-
child, were found in it ; and a suspicion was
thence created, that his wife, who had lived as
servant with that gentleman, had stolen them
from him. After the evidence relative to the
murder of Sell had been received, Barrett and
his wife underwent a separate examination on
the charge of robbery ; and the whole of Mr.
Rothschild's household attended. Several wit-
nesses were examined, and the prisoners were
then taken back to the House of Correction.

[BRITISH PRESS.] -
The .friends of Russia, or rather the enemies of
Turkey, in the present question between these
Powers, have already thrown. out a defiance to
England by observing, that in the event of a
contest the opposition of England to Russia would
be powerless. We shall not be so injudicious as
to reply to this sally, but we cannot avoid again
observing, what we noticed- yesterday, that it is
assumed very flippantly by the continental writers
that England, has avowed herself the champion
of Turkey ; while in point of fact the British
Cabinet has as yet observed- the most cautious
silence upon the subject. Perhaps it would have
tended much to the advantage of those commer-
cial interests which are supposed to control all
our feelings and actions, if the British Cabinet
had long 'since explicitly avowed, its intentions
respecting thiS matter. There can be no doubt that
the uncertainty which has so long,prevailed upon
this point has • very seriously deranged the trade
between thig, country. and the Levant,-,for no
British merchant can calculate upon the interests
which he ought to pursue=not. knowing what
part his_ own Government may adopt in the event
of.a war between Russia and the Porte. This
mysterious reserve 'of our Government .upon mat-
-ters of sued-..magnitude at the present moment,
forms a luditrOUS contrast with the readiness oc-
casionally expressed_by the Ministers during
the sittings of Parliament -to afford the fullest in-
formation, for the benefit of the trading interests
of the country. It is 'quite-amusing sometimes
to watch the plans -that are formed for bringing
out the information, in x parliamentary manner.
Some member is instructed to ask certain ques-
tions of the Minister, who rises Land with great
gravity expresses his regret that an opportunity
had not been previously afforded to him of in-
forming Parliament and the 'country upon the
subject of the inquiry. Now, if it were advisable
that the information should have been given,
one cannot easily imagine why the Minister did
not take adiantage Ottler of: his power of speak-
ing -Di Parliament, or of the public press of the
country, to communicate his important intel-
ligence. We should consider it,an essential ad-
vantage to the .trading part of •our community, if
the Ministers Of the Crown would now, through
the- medium of the i;'attette, or other means,
apprize the country of the feelings now enter-
tained by the British Government upon the pro-
priety of foreign interference in the domestic
affairs of the Turkish Empire ; and whether
Russia, in urging their present demands upon
the Porte, acts in accordance with the views of
all the Allied Powers of Europe.

[MORNING POST.]
The French Papers to the 9th inst. which have
arrived since our last, have brought no official
account of the commencement of hostilities ; but
contain several articles which confirm our inter-
pretation of those facts, from which some of our
contemporaries had drawn the conclUsion that
peace between Russia and Turkey would not be
broken. 'We considered them, on the contrary,
as strong indications of approaching war. We
could see nothing pacific in the dispatching of
_couriers to the Commanders of the Russian fleet
and armies, immediately after the arrival of Ba-
ron Strogouoff at Odessa, W e thought it. most
likely that they carried instructions for opening
the campaign, and we find that the opinion en-
tertained on the spot coincides with our own.
At Odessa, though hitherto the nominal seat
(for we much doubt whether it ever was the
birth-place) of all those rumours of peace which
consoled commercial speculators for the daily
assassination of the Greeks, no doubt was enter-
tained that hostilities would speedily commence ;
and it was even thought " that the Couriers
which had been dispatched to the fleet and head-
quarters, were bearers of the necessary instruc-
tions.'! Au article from Lemberg is still more
explicit on the subject, and states that as a fact,
which we only presented as a natural infe-
rence. We trust, therefore, that when the advo-
cates for the continuance of Turkish oppression
in Europe shall next wish to discourage the idea
of a war salutary (strange to say !) to humanity
and to religion, they will at least, select some
ground which does not form of itself the strongest
refutation to their arguments.

•
[THE TIMES.]
The inquest sat again yesterday. Some wit-
nesses were examined, but afforded nothing new.
The coroner summed up, the Jury again sepa-
rated, but will return their verdict, it is supposed,
this morning.- We respect the office of Coroner,
as we do every other whiell our ancient Consti-
tion has provided for the redress of wrong, the
protection of life, and the defence of the subject
against lawless force and outrage. The Coroner
ought to have some general knowledge_of the
criminal law. It is his-privilege and his duty to
explain that law to the Jurors whom he has sum-
moned, either at their first assembling, or after
they have heard the whole evidence to which they
can have access. The part of the law which the
Coroner ought to expound is that which, concerns
the subject matter of the inquest; but there his
duty, and there his power, ends. Of the application
of that law to the question which they have to de-
cide, the Jury, and they alone, are to judge. We
state this proposition distinctly, because some
attempts have been made to deter the present
Jurymen from thinking for themselves, and to
lay them prostrate at the 'feet of the'Corouer. If

the Jury listen to such treacherous insinuations,
they betray the most solemn of all trusts : the
Coroner dictates the application of the law ; he,
in fact, dictates the verdict ; and becomes at once
both Judge and Jury.. If this be law, Mr.
Adolphus and the Coroner might as well settle
the business comfortably between them; and if
they cannot quite agree, call in the Corporal of
the Life Guards as an arbitrator. The Coroner
has %taken, we perceive, a somewhat different
view of the subject from ours. He seems, to-
wards the close of his charge, to think that
the firing was the beginning of the vio-
lence used by the soldiers. But the sol-
diers, according to the evidence of their own
comrades, did " cut and slash and drive among
the people," and that before the people
had raised a single stone against them : whether
they cut or bruised is less than nothing. They
struck at the people—and is a brickbat more a
weapon of offence than a heavy and naked sword ?
" They cut and slashed"—these ara the very
words of one of the soldiers, on his oath; and
yet it is pretended that the Life Guards cannot
be considered as using force until they began to
fire ! Good God ! in what century are we living?
Have we dropped back to the reign of Charles
11., when Sir Roger L'Estrange, a favourite
court writer, put it on record, that "a citizen's
skull is but a thing to try the temper of a
soldier's sword upon ?"

[MORNING CHRONIeLE.]
A Morning Paper, observing on the conclu-
sions that have been drawn from the evidence on
Haywood and Henchman, desires any Juryman,
or other person, to ask himself what would have
been the consequence had any individual soldier
refused to force open the gates ? 64 lie would, "
(it is added), " have been liable to be brought
to a Court Martial and shot, and yet for obeying
the same order he is to be hanged." Undoubt-
edly this presents, in a very striking point of
view, the wickedness of placing the soldier under
the necessity of committing either murder or
disobedience of orders. The penalty being
the same in either instance, it is not sur-
prising that he should prefer the commission
of that offence which is the least inconsistent
with his professional habiti. But we really can-
not perceive that the people have the more reason
to be satisfied with the aifairof the 14th, because
the soldiers were, by the wisdom of those that
employed them, necessitated to commit a crime
against their own laws or those of the nation.—
Our commiseration is indeed excited for men
placed in so cruel a dilemma, and our indignation
the more strongly roused against those who so
wickedly and wantonly placed them in it.

[NEW TIMES.]
More witnesses were examined yesterday
at the instance of the Coroner's Jury on Richard
Honey. After the evidence was closed and
the Coroner had delivered his charge to the
Jury, they adjourned to this day, in order to
make up their minds " comfortably" on their
verdict. This is a very cool and easy mode
of doing business, and such, pleasant and recrea-
tive delays are amongst the advantages resulting
from the neglect of ancient practices. We make
no comment on the evidence nor on the manner in
which the Inquest has been conducted ; but a
few general observations may not be altogether
useless. There are two great safeguards of Bri-
tish freedom, the Liberty of the Press, and
Trial by Jury. To the latter belongs, as an
important branch of the system, the Coroner's
Inquest ; for though the verdict of the In-
quest is not conclusive, it is impossible to say
that it must not greatly tend either to promote
or to frustrate the ends of justice. When
an innocent man is declared, on the oath of
twelve Jurors, to be guilty of "Wilful Murder,"
he is deeply, perhaps irremediably injured ; but if
—(and here we imagine a case the occurrence of
which in this country appears scarcely possible)
—if such a solemn declaration be given from mo-
tives of personal or party animosity—if the Juror
has shown a thirst for the blood of -a victim,
without regard to the most obvious rules of Jus-
tice—what words can sufficiently stigmatise the
perjured villain, the perverter of the laws, the
assassin of character and of life ?—Corruptio op-
timi pessima. Nations, like individuals, are
brought most certainly to destruction by
the perversion of that which is . best in
their composition. It is because the Li-
berty of the Press and the Trial by
Jury are so precious, that an unprincipled
Journalist, or a perjured Juror, deserves from
his countrymen so deep and general an execra-
tion. During the progress of the late inquest,
there have been two classes of Journalists inde-
fatigably employed in perverting alike the fasts,
and the law of the case ; one class, from a settled
hatred to the existing laws and Government,
which they hope to subvert by means of a de-
luded populace ; the other from a base and blind
thirst of lucre, which they think they can best
gratify by pandering to the passions of the
same populace. With respect to the perjury
of a Juror, we can of course only speak gene-
nerally and hypothetically ; but here it is very
material to observe that there are two modes"
in which a Juror may be perjured ; one is,
when through malignity, or wilful neglect,
he declares a false fact, as if he, from such
causes, declares an individual to be identified,
who is not identified on any reasonable con-
struction of the whole evidence ;—the other
mode is, when having reasonable means of
knowing, by • the instruction of the Coroner, or
otherwise, that the case does amount in law only
to J ustifiabic Homicide, or at the most to Mau-

What fresh pretext for inflaming the popular mind the busy
craftiness of the Radical faction may invent or find, we know
not ; but those who do not properly calculate upon their talents
for mischief, or sufficiently consider the opportunities for mis-
representation and excitement, which will always be furnished
to the agents of confusion by passing events, in the present
state of society, seem to have considered the affray at Knights-
bridge as the forlorn hope of the party. And as the leaders
were not fortunate enough to produce any serious accident on
that day ; as no opportunities were then afforded for fresh in-
quests, or the exhibition of another public funeral, their occu-
pation appears to be suspended, at least for the present, and
the metropolis may possibly enjoy a few months of respite from
the evils of mobocracy. The inquest on the body of Honey
still continues to sit. But except that the columns of the daily
Papers are sometimes, perhaps of necessity, devoted to the
disgusting details of its proceedings, we do not perceive
that it produces any other sensible effect, either bad or good.
Whatever were the objects and hopes of those who got up this
drama for public representation, the principal performers in it
have so egregiously overacted their parts, they haVe so torn the
passion to the rags, in their anliety to awaken the feelings of
the audience, that the failure has been complete. John Bull,
though he is egregiously humbugged every day, and is prone
to fall under the influence of every new delusion, is not yet
quite so dull and insensible as his Radical tormentors imagine.
Hoodwinked he may be for a time, but he has not lost his eyes;
and when he recovers the use of them, as appears to be the case
on the present occasion, those who have baited' nd worried him
into an unnecessary and dangerous state of excitement, will do
well to take care of his horns. This inquest may be kept up
as long as the Jurymen like their occupation ; and the rublic
prints may be condemned to retail their miserable squabbles,
their ignorance of every principle by which their examination
should be directed, and their skill in browbeating and
insulting every witness who is unfortunately compelled
to undergo their inquisitorial ordeal. But the public
have long ago made up their minds upon the subject
The verdict, be it what it may, will not weigh a feather
in the scale of public opinion. And, as if to convince
them of the humiliating fact, the newspapers have announ-
ced the formation of a very respectable Committee in the Me-
tropolis, for the purpose of rewarding the good conduct and for-
bearance of those very troops, on whom such indecent effo:ts
have been made, in certain quarters, to affix the stain of
cruelty and murder. We hope that this effort to rescue the
public from the disgrace of appearing even to connive at the in-
juries and insults which have been heaped on these brave men,
will be successful : • that the subscription will prove worthy.
of the occasion, and shew that THE PEOPLE are still superior
to those delusions, which the radical agitators have so sur-
cessfully practised upon the Mon. We are not without hopes,
that some positive good may yet arise out of the grievous evils
which these mob commotions have lately produced. It will
be well, if it induces those in authority seriously and care- ,
fully to review the present system acted upon by the police
on such occasions. The result of so frequently calling forth
the military in aid of the civil power, without employing them
effectually to disperse those assemblages of riotous and disor-
derly persons, with which the civil authorities conceived them.
selves to be incapable of coping without such aid, might have
been foreseen, before it was thus lamentably manifested. The
military have been called out for the purpose of intimidating the
mob, but they have been compelled to sit comparatively inactive
on their horses, and to indure revilings and ill treatment, until
they have entirely ceased to be an object of fear. It is noto-
rious, that their appearance is generally the signal for more ac-
tive disturbance ; that the mob begin to think they have a right
to abuse and pelt them, and that they have so often experienced
their forbearance, as to have left off calculating even on the possi-
bility of suffering any serious injury from their weapons. At
last however, that effect has been produced, which might al-
ways have been expected. The soldiers have been compelled
to fight for their lives. They patiently endured the most pro-
voking insults, and the most grievous personal injuries; and
this for a time which no individual among them, had he not
been under military discipline, could have endured them. But
at length they were driven to the necessity of defending. them..
selves ; and because, as a body, they have done that in self-de-
fence, which any individual among them would have been fully,
justified, by the law, and by the plainest dictates of reason, in .
doing long before, they have been branded as murderers, and
industriously held up to.a furious mob as the Objects of their un- ,
relenting hate and vengeance. Surely the worst enemy of his
country could not wish for, a fairer opportunity to inflict
a deadly injury upon her, than has thus been afforded by the
means which the Radicals have obtained, of awakening a deadly
feud between the military and the lower orders. We trust,
however, that the good sense and discipline of the British Army
will preserve them from the snare thus -artfully laid for them
and we hope that those Authorities to whom the preservation
of 'the public peace is committed, will now see that Military aid
is, and ought to be, their last resource ; that it should never be
called in unless in cases of plain and absolute necessity ; and
that, when summoned, it should always be promptly and vigo-
rously employed. A few instances of such decisive conduct
would soon produce a salutary effect : we should not so , fre-
quently have to lament the evil of popular, commotion ; the mob
would once more feel a salutary dread of legal authority ; and
the Police would be once more the efficient guardian of public
tranquillity.

FOR THE SUN.

1101.1 ALLIANCE.-LETTER

Mit. EDITOR—In a former letter, inserted in
your paper of the 30th of .Augl:st, I called the attention of your
readers to the association of 6overeigns, which has assumed the
denomination of Holy Alliance, and offered some observations
upon the prqbable intentions of this novel institution. The
subject, both from its nature and from the probable influence it
may exert over the fate of Europe, is one which is deserving the
notice not only of every politician, but also of every free and re-
flect:llg man.

No human institution can present itself, at first sight, under a
more captivatir;: aspect. Every friend of humanity, every
loyal citizen, must approve an alliance having for its object the
preservation of the peace of Europe, and the security of that in-
dependence which every state should enjoy. But although the
principles upon which this alliance is founded may be good in
themselves,. the consequences to which they may eventually
-lead are not, perhaps, equally unobjectionable. ry thus
uniting in one body for the mutual preservation of their au-
thority, the Sovereigns of Europe seem to admit as a principle
of scuna policy, first, that no nation has the right of new mo-
delling its constitution, and secondly, that every foreign power
is authorized to interfere With the internal governmen
of its neighbours. This doctrine may be politically correct,
but is it conforinable to the laws of equity, and does it not sap
the very foundations of national independence?

The right of a Nation to new model the form of its Govern-
ment, is a subject of controversy, which cannot perhaps be de.
ceded, so as to give universal satisfaction. Vet, while in our
riper years we are expected to consider the people who effect
any changes in their Constitution under the odious light of
rebels to lawful authority, we are, on the other hand, and by
a singular contradiction, taught in our boyhood to admire those
same acts among the nations of antiquity. The names of Har-
rrodius and Aristogiton, of Timoleon, of the first Brutus, &c.
are inscribed, not amongst those of rebellious subjects, but
amongst those of the greatest of men, and of the best of pa-
triots. We are therefore taught early, that a nation may not
oely change the existing form of its Government; but that such
a change may be secured by the assassination of its Monarch,
and that such a deed deserves the admiration of every future
generation. If we are thus taught ,to approve, I can scarcely
say the act itself, but certainly the consequences to which
it led,., if we believe that the expulsion of the Tarquins
from Rome, the abolition of Royalty, and the creation of
the Consular Government were justifiable in themselves,
and proved beneficial to the State, bow much must we rejoice
that no Holy Alliance then existed to force upon them the
tyrannical reign of the Tarquins. Nor are such examples of
our approbation, given to similar occurrences, confined to the
nations of antiquity. Do we not hail the noble efforts of the
Swiss and of the Dutch, in their attempts to throw off the op-
pressive yoke.of Austria and of Spain ? Do we not rejoice to
find, that their struggles proved eventually successful ? How
much, therefore, should we lament their fate, had their
chains been rivetted by an Holy Alliance ? Nay, to bring the
question more home to ourselves, had this Alliance existed at
the close of the seventeenth century, how could the glorious
,Revolution of 1633 have been accomplished, and the present
Constitution established. It is evident, in short, that this de-
termination of forcibly compelling nations to submit is their
exist'a,.g government is not only a novelty in the annals of poli-
tics, but is moreover a manifest infringement of the rights and
liberties of every free and independent people.
Having thus far shewn the novel nature of the Holy Alli-
ance, let us now cast a glance upon the manner in which its
members intend carrying its avowed object into execution,
and into the public consequences by which it may be followed.
There certainly does exist among the principal nations a
spirit of disaffection towards their Sovereigns, which threatens
the existence of the throne, or which seems at least to portend
some change in their present form of Government. Among
the existing dynasties, those of France, of Spain, of Sweden,
and of Naples, seem tottering on the throne, whilst the Turkish.
Empire is threatened with a speedy dissolution. On the other
hand, it is pretty confidently asserted upon the Continent, that
secrot machinations are carrying on against the Governments of
Prussia, of Austria, and even of Russia. It is because the
Sovereigns of these States are aware of the rebellious, or dissaa
tis.6.2d spirit that prevailramong their subjects, that they have
entered into a close alliance for their mutual support. Their
intentions are obvious ; but do they poSsess the means of car-
rying theni into effect, and will they not suffer their own pri-
vate interest to lead them away from the avowed Spirit of their
alliance ? Will they not, indeed, in many instances, find it im-
possible to undertake the task ? Spain is a proof that the latter is
not an impossible case. Of what assistance is the Holy Alliance
to the beloved Ferdinand ? Of what utility will it be to the
King of Portugal? Should the Russian nation rise in a mass
against its Sovereign, would the allies of Alexander be able to
ehrd him any assistance? Would they venture their troops
on a soil still moist with the blood of the soldiers of Buonaparte?
This is indeed not a probable case, particularly under the ad-
ministration of its present- Monarch, but it is an event that
MAY happen. This alliance has indeed put down the spirit of
rebellion which broke out in Naples, but would it act with
equal zeal in favour of the present dynasty of Sweden ? These
are questions that may be fairly asked, and by the answers we
shall be able to judge more correctly of the. nature and inten-
tions of this alliance. But we have a pretty good proof of its
nature by the line of conduct Russia seems about to adopt in
regard to the Ottoman Porte. It may be inconsistent with the
religious principles of the members of the Holy Alliance to aid
the infidels against Christians; but it must be inconsistent
with its avowed purpose to assist rebellious subjects against
their lawful government. No one can more than myself
dislike the Turkish domination,' under whose baneful and de-
structive ilifluence some of the finest portions of Europe and
of Asia have been changed into barren wastes ; and no one
more than myself feels desirous to see these barbarians expelled
from the shores of Europe. I am not advocating their cause,
I am only inquiring how far the conduct of Russia, towards the
Porte is in conformity with the principle of the Holy Alliance.
if its object be really the maintenanee.of every existing Govern-
ment, its assistance must be given to every Sovereign acknow-
ledged by its Members. The inclinations of some powers, in
this instance are readily discovered. Austria and Russia have
long been desirous of dividing the spoils of Turkey, and will
therefore greedily seize any favourable opportunity of attaining
the object of their wishes. At no previous period did fortune '
appear so favourable to their ambitious designs. Policy, ambi-
tion—a certain conformity of creed—all will afford to Russia
excuses for the support it may give to the Greeks, for its hostile
conduct towards the Turks. This policy, while it is at variance
with the doctrine of the Holy Alliance, must lead to a sangui-
nary contest between the Russians and the Greeks against the
Turks. To the latter, who will have to contend against both
foreign and domestic foes, it must prove eventually fatal, but
it will be rendered, by their fanaticism, a war of externeina-

tion. The Ottornan'Throne will probably be for ever destroyed,
at least in Europe, nor is it likely that it will last long in
Asia and in Africa; but torrents of blood must flow ere
it be washed away from the shores of Europe. And when it
has fallen, how will the conquerors divide the spoils ? What
new division of provinces will be adopted to preserve the equi-
librium of power, eqablished by the Congress of Vienna and
the Treaties of Paris ? Can France, can Prussia see with plea-
sure the power of Austria and of Russia so considerably in-
creased ? Can England allow Russia to be in full possession of
the shores of the Archipelago, and of those of the Black Sea ?
If such a change necessitates a new partition of Europe, is it
not to be feared that, in the present irritated state of the public
mind, the people may object to be, transferred from one master
to another, like a flock of sheep ? May not, therefore, the
Holy Alliance, whose avowed object was the maintenance of
legitimate authority, and the preservation of the public tran-
quillity, again plunge Europe into a sanguinary war, kindled
by the partition of a country, wrested from its legitimate and
acknowledged sovereign, in consequence of the assistance af-
forded to a -portion of his subjects, by the professed champions
and protectors of legitimate authority !
E whurst. A. P.