The Sun.
London, England, 1821-11-01 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

WONDERS UPON WONDERS.

MR. EDITOR—I 'WONDER how those who are
so clamorous for disbanding the army, can be
angry at Sir RODERT being disbanded !
I wonder why these- folks never praised Sir
Robert whilst he fought against. Napoleon ; and
only found him out to be a great and good man
when he liberated Lavalette

I wonder if the Chronicle has forgot all it said
about Sir Robert, when he published his quarto
on the Egyptian campaign!
I wond /7 if Sir Robert has forgot that he stands
pledged to give some reason for his own change
of opinion, or else to buy up all the copies of his
book, lest itshould be compared with his speeches
and addresses at the Borough Election.
I wonder whether those who brought him in
for the Borough, expected that they should so
soon be brought in to subscribe!
I wonder that the Chairman and his followers
should express such doubts as to the success of
their cause in Parliament, if that cause is so good
as they describe it !

I wonder that they would do such a foo!ish
thing as to give their money to one, whom they
say, " Providence, in its wisdom, did not make
rich !"

I. wonder when they say, that the military lost
all control, that they forgot to add that the mob
had lost all
,control also !

I wonder when they say that the Magistrate re-
fused to carry the Queen over the dead bodies of
his countrymen—that they should forget how
pointedly such an admission proves the riot and
resistance to authority !
I wonder when they describe that riotous as-
sembly as having only met to witness the funeral
of the Queen—that they should forget the pre-
ceding admission.

Finally, I wonder how the partnership concern
of WILSON, HONEY, FRANCIS, and Co. perhaps,
is to be settled and divided.

Your's,
B. A. N. D. Katterfelto.

P. S. Oh ! apropos ! Mr. Editor, I wonder how
it happens that so many brewers and brewer's
druggists become patriots!
wonder also what the honest brewers say to
the two recent trials about nuxvonziea and
Guinea Pepper ; on both which occasions it was
sworn plainly and clearly, that these articles are
dealt largely in by the Brewers' Druggists and
by the London Brewers !

I wonder why we may not attribute the great
increase of lunacy and of sudden deaths, to the
effects of these stupifying and debilitating sub-
stances in our common potations ! K.

MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.-Lately, as Mr.
LAWRY, a Farmer of the Barton of Place, in the
pariOt of St. Anthony, near St. Mawes, was
digging for manure ou the beach near low-water
mark, he found a- human skeleton, which lay
under some sand and rubbish, with the fade down-
wards,'and the arm turned under the body; a
large stone was placed on the shoulders. From
the situation in which it was found, it is supposed
to be the remains of a person who was murdered.
From the appearance of the remains, they are
supposed to have been those of a tall man. On
the above circumstance being known, a woman
resident at St. Maws stated, that about 20 years
since, when she was in the service of Admiral
SPRY, she had at one time occasion to, pass', the
above spot about midnight, when she saw four
sailors digging : on seeing her they all ran off.
Being much alarmed at their appearance, she
hastened back to the house; but the occurrence
was passed over. The flowing of the tide soon
obliterated all vestiges of the spot that had been
disturbed. The woman has often mentioned the
circumstance, and expressed a wish that She could
learn why the sailors were digging at' that time
and place. The remains have 'been carefully
collected and placed in a coffin, which has been
deposited in the church-yard of St. Anthony, and
the large stone found on the shoulders placed at
the head.- ( West ih'iion.)

DREAM S.

Much, has been written to the subject
of dreaming, and el.en have, been pub-
liShed to account for all tile e6::catmations v;hich
pass before the mind when• th senses are locked

up in sleep. The general .conclusion among me-
taphysicians, whether materialists or spiritualists,
is that these phenomena Rroceed from the animal
spirits, and are the images of the former impres-
sions Ripon the sensorium. All this is very inge-
nious, and may pass well enough with philoso-
phers; but, after all, men of plain sense will
.find
a difficulty in solving by the doctrine of mental

combination many. Strange colngdences. which
•
they have expe.rienced betwethir their sleeping
thoughts and .waking: moments., 741/:.hu.t, for in.;
stance, are we to think of the curious dream an d the
fulfihnent of it,that happened to the learned
resk, as related by himself to Gassendus, who
gives it in the life of his friend, with some, re-
.marks, as follows :

" In his return, anti° 1610, in the beginning of
:May, from Montpelier to Nismes, he had in his
company: one James Rainier, a citizen •of
who, was wont to lodge in the same chamber
with him, and now did so in an inn on the road.
As Peiresk slept, Rainir observed he muttered
somewhat to himself in an unusual manner,
whereupon Itainier,awoke. him, and asked, him
what was the matter. " Oh," said he, ," from
what a pleasant' and' grateful dream have you
, roused me! " Rainier asked him what it was
I. was dreaming," said he, " that I was at
Nismes, and that a .goldsmith offered. ine a gol-
den medal of Julius Czesar for 4 crowns ; and I
was paying him the money for it, when upon your
unseasonably waking
,me, both goldsmith and
medal vanished." After this they went .on to
Nismes, and being there, Peiresk took a turn in
the city till-dinner was ready, and .by a wonder-
ful chance he happened to observe a goldsmith's
shop, and entered it, asking the goldsmith whether
he had `any rarity to shew him ; :he told him he
had a Julius Ca!sar of gold. Peiresk asked the
price, and was answered 4 crowns, which he pre-
sently paid him, and taking the medal, by an
admirable hit of fortune, fulfilled his dream.
It may be said, admirable, for he might easily
have thought of Nismes, where he was to be the
next morning ; he might have thought of that
coin of Julius Caesar, which he had often wished
for ; he might have thought of finding it in that
city, where there were so many remains of Roman
antiquities; he might have thought of a gold-
smith's, to which sort of persons such things when
found are commonly carried; he might have
thought of ,a 'small price at which goldsmiths
rather value these things, than antiquaries : he
might have thought of four crowns, with which
moderate price a goldsmith might be Content. In
short a goldsmith, and that at Nismes, aught
have a medal at that price, blit it is altogether
wonderful that all these things should have con-
curred, and the event answer the dream. Never-
theless (says Gassendus) Peiresk was not the'
man; who;for all this, thought the cause of the
dream preternatural, as haply lie might have
done if the like dream had often happened : but
as he knew the sports of chance, he only ac-
counted this among those. which t)), their rareness
are wont to create a stupor in the vulgar."
It•mnst be confessed that the French philoso-
phers had .a short way of determining this knotty
,question. though few reflecting minds, we appre-
hend, will be disposed to abide by such an arbi-
trary decision, where the concurrence of circum-
stances in the dream and event corresponded so
exactly in every article, as to confound all that
can be alleged in favour of blind chance.

Du ELM NG.—The Manner of duelling in Japan
is singular, but quite as rational as an appeal to
the sword or pistol. When two men of honour
quarrel in that country, •the party who conceives
himself to be injured rips up his own entrails
with a large knife,-and presenting the instrument
to his adversary, invites' him to follow his exam.:
ple. No Japanese gentleman can decline such
an invitation ; for if he does not instantly plunge
the instrument into his own boWels,- he is dis-
honoured for life.----,(imericaa Paper.)
BREAKING OUT OF PH ISON.— Robert Hale,
who broke out of Brixton Gaol with several other
delinquents, about six Months ago, when under
sentence for felony, was taken on Tuesday at the
fight, at Moulsey Hurst, -by King and Hurdes,
patrols of Bow-street. Hale was in the act of
stripping to fight with Ned Gibblet, a boxer, for
a purse which had been made- up round the ring
by amateurs. Hale made some slight resistance,
and expected to have been assisted by hiS friends
present, but was disappointed. The constables
bore -him off ina chaise. He offered them twenty
sovereigns to let him escape, but they refused,
and he was yesterday committed from this Office
(Union-Hall) to Horsemonger-lane, from whenCe
he will be sent to his old apartments.
EXTRA ORDI NAVY 1 NTUELAT ON.—A bout a week since, in
the neighbourhood of Margate, a hen unexpectedly made her
appearance with a brood of thirty-two chickens, which' are all
still alive.

On Wednesday, a woman, in Bridgetown, gave
a small quantity of laudanum to a young child
that had been crying. The poor little innocent
died the same evening, notwithstancllng the exer-
tions of some medical men, who were called in,
but too late to be of any essential service. 7---
(Glasgow -Chronicle.)

TILE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY EXTRACTS PROM TUC I`.IOIINING PAPER'S,
• :November 1.

[MORNING cnn.os:i c.r..7.,.;
The Ultra; stung•to the quick by the • rapid
increase of the subscription to indemnify, Sir
Robert Wilson, ventures to contrast the magni-
tude of-tire sums advanced-by public-spiritedin-
dividuals to obviate the effect of a forfeiture oc-
casioned by an act of grass injustice, with sea-
sonable and judiciously apportioned contributions
to support tire- unfortunate and 'afflicted. The
humanities, we rejoice to say, 'thrive more luxe=
riaiitly in -the pres.ent day- than the political vir--
tues ; -and many, that from the influence of Tory
example and the operation of party sentiments;
Ibehold with indifference or approval an act of,
-arhitrary opprdssion, would cheerfully come for-
, ward to aid the widow, the orphan, or the hou3e---
less mechanic. Where a whole community,
Whig, Tory,•and Radical, unite in promotion of
one praiseworthy design, the sum contributed by
'each individual is of course proportionally small.
.—Sir Robert Wilson's is no ordinary case ; and
we do not make the appeal in his favour to the
feelings, but to public duty and public justice.
We know the fortitude with which he had armed
himself to suffer any privations that the abstrac-
tion of means acquired at the ex pence of his pri-.
vate fortune might occasion ; but it is the impe-
rative duty of 'those of the . people of England
that are independent in mind and fortune, that
he should not do so. Sir Robert Wilson has
suf-
fered,for us, and shall weendure to see his family
made the victims of his generous self-devotion ?
It behoves us also to stand in a breach 'of the
Constitution, and to assert the independence of
Parliament. Let that be once successfully as
sailed, and our funds applicable to the boasted
purposes of general charity, alluded to by the Ul-
tra,. will be narrow indeed. We are now called
upon to indemnify Sir Robert for a loss sustained
by an interference that saved the lives of hus-
bands, of fathers, and of children. Had narrow
prudential considerations operated on his gallant
mind, we might now have been called on to sup-
port the widows and orphans of the slaughtered.
It is a debt, and we honour the promptitude
with which the first men in. this kingdom have
come forward 'to discharge it. The purpose of
the Ministerial prints is to taunt Sir Robert
Wilson into a refusal of the indemnification:
Should they effect this object, the appetite of
malice will be stimulated, not satisfied, by the
enjoyment of one gratification; but one victim
will not suffice to gorge the malignant monster.

[THE TIMES.]
At the commencement of the winter season
there appears more than .ordinary cause for di-
recting the public attention to a subject at all
times undoubtedly of importance—we mean the
, Police of,. this great capital, and the protection
which it holds .out to the inhabitants of London,
in their persons, habitations, and property. The
Police reports are frightful to read ; but nu-
merous outrages of which the perpetrators have
never been brought within the reach of judicial
proceeding, are yet more reproachful to the sys-
tem which suffers them, and which leaves to open
guilt and violence the triumph of almost com-
plete impunity. The most daring attacks have
of late been made, not at night only, or
in remote and thinly peopled quarters of
London, but in the most public streets, at
the busiest hours—even in -broad day—by
ruffians, who carry on war in whole gangs
upon the - community, and who, assisting
each other in every enterprise of stratagem or
force, derive even from their numbers those ad-
vantages which would at first sight seem pecu-
liar to secret and solitary depredation. The Go-
vernment owes to every one of us protection in
the hourly concerns of life, as the equivalent for
our liberal contributions to the State. On a com-
parison► with any EurOpean capital, how far be-
yond all others is London, in most things which
Constitute the• prideof civilized nations. How
far below them (Constantinople itself not ex-
cepted) in the worst characteris,ics of a• state of
barbarism, the number of its offenders against
the most sacred laws of society! If the crimes
which disgrace us by their magnitude, and
still more by their frequency, were insepa-
rable from a crowded and corrupt popula-
tion, other great cities would be affected by
them in a degree not less sensible than this.
Or, if the institutions of any free people were in
their nature adverse to those restraints on human
action which apply more immediately to the pre-
vention and punishment of offences, other cities
also.- in a proportionate degree with London
would furnish examples of their perpetration.
But this is manifestly not the case. Look at
Paris, the centre and capital of a nation which,
if not free, is as impatient of restraint as Eng-
land itself. -The French will not be ca:led a
people more under the influence of moral habits
than the people of England. As compared
'with the British metropolis, on the contrary,
Paris exhibits, we are justified in. saying, more
vice—but she witnesses far less frequent crimes.
----A street robbery—an act of violence, uncou-
nected with politics—is, in the streets of Paris,
a thing almost unheard of. The robber or the
ruffian would be instantly in the hands of the
gensdarmes. Here,• on the other hand, scarcely
a day passes without both, and the perpetrators
of both escape undetected and unsought for.—
One of the great causes of this disgraceful evil is
the imperfection of our police establishment--an
Imperfection which we consider •to be twofold ;
Ist, as to the objects at which it ai:ns ;