The Sun.
London, England, 1828-11-12 00:00:00

MEETING OF THE NOTTINGHAMSHIRE

• CLERGY. .
" We, the undersigned, request you to call an early
meeting of the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Notting-
ham, at sny place you may deem the most convenient, for

the purpose of taking into consideration the letter from
the Committee of King's College, in London, as to the

Lest means of procuring support to that institution. Aud
further, to take the same opportunity of making a de-
claration expressive of our feelings. towards the Constitu-
tion in Church and State; and our determination to use
our best endeavours to uphold the Protestant ascendancy.
44 George Wilkins "O. Davys •
" J. H. Browne " W. H. Wyatt
" R. W. Almond " H. M. Grover
" Charles Nixon " W. J. Butler
" Thomas Thorp " T. T. Penrose
" John Burnside " Brooke Boothbv
" Edward Anderson "J. J. Cleaver
" L. Chapman " Charles Smelt.

" In compliance with the above requisition, I do hereby
appoint a meeting of the Clergy of the Areluleaconry of
Nottingham, to be holden at Southwell, or Tuesday, the
18th of November, at twelve in the forenoon.
(Times.) " JOHN EYRE, Archdeacon."

IN

Credit, it would appear,—the paper credit
system,—is now and then ~ an ugly customer,"
even to those for whose security it professes to
make war upon the rest of mankind. The con-
duct of some of the paper-credit gentlemen is
reported at this moment to be rather curious.—
Our readers must recollect a remit case, in
which a respectable Quaker banking-house was
defrauded of a large sum of money—not less,
perhaps, than .5,0001.—by a series of forged,
bills or acceptances. That there was proof of
the fact sufficient to hang the culprit, admitted
at the time of no moral doubt, but was not esta-
blished by any legal evidence, nor did the case
ever come before a Magistrate. The bankers,
however injured and mortified by their lass,
were incomparably more shocked at the notion
of contributing to the ignominious death of a
fellow-creature, for a crime which involved no
shedding of blood, or outrage against human
life, and upon which, therefore, the Almighty
was not understood to have affixed the seal of
capital punishment. The humane Quakers were
satisfied to be sufferers in their fortunes, rather
than in theirfeelings ; they forbore to bring for-
ward any charge against the transgressor, and lei
him depart, that he might repent in peace. This
was unquestionably a course of proceeding which
would meet more sympathy from_ Christians,
from philosophers, and even from
ie:orrt
tiell:ielaiiillirialgktcheeotrilt.sioinpauearrdt:
statesmen, than from that class of practitioners
who see justice through .no better medium than
the technicalities of criminal law, or from that
moms
sacredi
n.
therefore but t
abouth e ct
ci
refuses
eyreerdltidi
loi
sitt.
ets credit." The 1
otle
oem:trrj
araol
esilaeteltasQei
a.ld Quaker aeblkl
n
order of commercial dealers who hold. nothing
iknsiecoTteedaill'alltisidie'dopersecuted out ortheir good
Theyeral a"rest
triok strike,"
beha-
viour for disobeying the laws of the banking
combination—they are to be worried, •ays the
report, for not rebelling against the common
Master, and for refraining from an act of violence
recordjeargMagistrate resorted to, or does it appear that
. as,
which they conceive that He has prohibited, but
which the fraternity have enjoined. In plain
English, the banking interest is said, on good
authority, to have decided upon a prosecution of
the house above alluded to ; and for what crime?
-
it may be asked. No less than for a compound-
ing of felony ! Now a composition of felony,
as we imagine, means the acceptance, by the
party injured, of compensation or indemnity for
a loss sustained through a felonious act, and the -
consequent abandonment of a criminal prosecu-
tion.j But was such the case here ? Did the
Quakers receive an indemnifieatisn for their
there
e ? Were examinations sworn ? Was a
losses? Was any evidence of the felony put on
throughout the whole affair, the in-
t:, rptio.xs-,rteifoonreofsseoemms7ltih
that
ts
the
e technical
col:vn-isetar el estmoiffis
sense
oe officer
or pa:ish constable ? In more points than one
" compounding" was not completed. The case
was never a subject ofeven police inquiry ; there
was, legally speaking, no proof of the crime ;
there was no tangible " consideration" for let-
ting go the unconvicted, unarraigned, and there-
fore merely hypothetical culprit. The only
thing which can be alleged, and that must be as-
sinned, is, that the Quakers forgave an injury
from motives of conscience and of compassion.
not sharing their mercy, are appre-
It is, then, for this-Christian act, that the indi-
viduals who performedit are to be chastise,d by
'the humane example might spread ;
others who did not share their loss, because
flying credit might be gradually thinned
of its idolators ; and the altars of the discount-
Moloch,
.no longer . smoke with blood. We
I once again would implore the King's Ministers
thatthlessetioet
et thatirs