The Sun.
London, England, 1821-09-24 00:00:00

THE LON DON :J.QURNALS.

DAILY EXTRACTS *FROM THE• MORNING PAPERS

September 24.

_ [THE TIMES.]
Accounts from Java inform us, that a dreadful
mortality, as well among Europeans as natives,
had been caused at Batavia and Samarang by the
:cholera morfius, in the course of April and May
of the present year. On the 19th of May the
:disorder had abated in the capital, but still con-
.tinued to afflict the population of the remoter_
place's. On the 9th of the same month a new,
.expedition sailed against Palembang, under
General de Kok. There.is no statement of the:
military force to which the execution of this
-often-defeated object has on the present occa-
.sion been intrusted-; but the shipping consists of the
Wertf frigate, some colonial vessels,and 13 hired-
transports, two of which had already been carried
off by the currents among the Thodsand Islands,
and would, it was feared, be lost. The deposed
.Sultan of Palembang accompanies the expedition,
with others of the Palembang Princes and great
nwn, under a promise that, in case of the enter-
prise sucCeeding, he shall be placed upon the
throne. The hazards, however, attendant on the
conquest of that petty sovereignty are not sup-
posed to have become less formidable since the
last attack upon it, when the Dutch were so
completely beaten.

[MORNING HERALD :I
"r he Emperor of Russia's demands upon Tur-
key, if correctly stated, are not a little at va-
riance with his professions of moderation. The
Porte, at its last gasp, would hardly concede
such terms. But so-much has been said, and un-
said, on this subject, by the Continental Jour-
nals, that their statements no longer deserve con-
fidence or credit. The accounts from Spain, in
the Journals des Debats, a paper violently op-
posed to the constitutional government of that
country, are also far from entitled to implicit,
faith—particularly as they are indirectly nega-
tived by the Sipavish papers of the same date,
which have reached us directly.

[MORNING CiIIIONIGLE:j
In the absence of Sir Robert Wilson, we could
have wished not to enter on the subject of his
removal from the service ; a measure which has
justly produced such a sensation throughout the
country. We. gave on Friday, from The Times,
a narrative of the circumstances which led to the
cliamisSal of. this gallant
,Officer, communicated
by one of their correspondents, " as the accre-
dited explanation in the Military :and Ministerial
circles," stating at the time that we could not
take it upon us to say how far it might, or might
not be correct. We. have since learnt (and the
quarter from which we derive our information
induces us to place much reliance on it) that that
narrative is materially incorrect. We understand
that Sir Robert Wilson rode up to Capt. Oakes,
at Cumberland-gate, and entreated him to prevent
the Guards from firing on the people •- that Capt.
Oakes did not know Sir Robert Wilson, but
desired him to go about his business—he knew his
duty, and ,would perform it ; and the men also
knew theirs ;—and that this was literally all that
passed. There was nothing personal, and no
reference was made by Captain Oakes to the
other officers of his regiment, as to a challenge.
Captain Oakes was sent for by Sir Herbert Tay-
lor, who told him that it was Sir Robert Wilson
who had spoken to him while on duty, and de-
sired him, by command of the Duke of York, to
*rite down an accurate account of the words
Spoken, which he did. Sir Herbert then wrote
to the commanding officer of the regiment, desir-
ing him to make inquiries among the privates
whether Sir Robert Wilson had spoken to any
!!If them. -This was done,- and a Report made
-which was submitted to the King, and without
any inquiry in the presence of Sir Robert Wil-
son, be was dismissed the service ! •

[llO RNI Nq POST.]
The Times is very angry with us for having
treated a statement which, it appears, it origi-
nally published respecting the causes of Sir Ro-
bert Wilson'S dismissal, as something worthy of
consideration and remark. We own that had
we been aware of the origin-of the article, our
folly in noticing it at all would have been unpar- '
donable. But we copied it froth an Evening
Journal,. which gave it as an extract from an
" Opposition Morning Paper," and this led us
into the.error of believing that it might have pro-
ceeded from a respectable source. We, there-
fore, argued upon it as a document enti-
tled to some. consideration, and as the de-
fence put forth by the Opposition in
behalf of. the ' absent Knight. We are now
Chargcil with " quoting from the Times"
as Sir Robert's defence, .what- was " the minis-
terial version of the,
,charge against him," and
with " suppressing the counter statement with
which The Times pointedly confronted, in the
some article, • the accusation of his adversaries."
To this we shall briefly reply, for truth requires
no comment, that we did not quote from The
Times ; that on referring to its veracious columns,
we find that the statement which we copied frem
an Evening Paper, is given apart as' a " narra-
tive from a respectable Correspondent," and that
the " counter-statement" which we are accused
of suppressing, and which in order to render the
charge plausible the Public are told formed part
of the same article, has in fact no connexion
whatever with it, but stands at a distance of
three columns from it, hid and lost amidst the
ponderous lucubrations of the Editor! Such are
the grounds .on which The Times dares to talk
of " perversion and want of faith." The fact is
that it now repents having published a statement
which was meant to defend, and which has been
found only calculated to injure. Before it ap-
peared in the columns of The Times, it had never
reached the
.public in any shape, neither would
it have been heard of but for the folly which
brought it forward. If it was not' intended as a
defence of Sir R.-Wilson, it must have been given
n hostility to him, for we never knew that it was
be act of a friend to publish charges against a

person, ivhich but for that publication would not
have been even suspected-by the country. Let the;
Times and Sir IL W. however settle that amongst;
themselves. The charge against .us is anotrier
specimen of the fairness and justice which are to
be expected from -the Leading Print of the Ra-
dicals. We shall not degrade the high charac-
ter of. the Morning Post by dagninc, to make
any comparison between it andie fallen repu-
tation of an unprincipled cotemiiiirary ; and shall,
therefore content ourselves with merely observ-
ing, that the temper of The Times; thus rani-`
fested, is sufficiently accounted for in the con-
sciousness which it must feel of its merited de-
gradation in the estimation of every honourable
mind, and of the frustration of its .infamous de-
signs by the proud and glorious triumph of pa-
triotism, of :loyalty, and of truth.

[NEW TimEs.l
The first indictment preferred by the Consti-
tutional' Association which has ever been fully
decided, was tried on Thursday last at Lancaster,
and after a most patient investigation, it termi-
nated in a verdict of Guilty. The party pro-
ceeded against was one Ridgway, a booksel-
ler, at Manchester, who was indicted for selling
the " New Year's Address to Reformers," the
same for whith Mary Anne Carlile is at present
under prosecution in London. Ridgway had all
the advantage .to be derived from the splendid
abilities "of Nlr. Brougham, who exerted himself
to the utmost in defence of his client, and made
a speech of above an hour in length. The trial
occupied nearly four hours. The Learned Judge,
Mr. Justice. Holroyd, summed up with great mo-
deration and impartiality. Only two special
Jurors attended.; but the whole panel, without
going out of Court, returned an unhesitating ver-
dict of Guilty upon all the counts of the indict-
ment. We do not scruple to say, that this trial
is one of the most important and most beneficial
in its consequences to the country 'at large,
that ever was decided by a British Judge
and Jury. The Opposition Papers, to their
deep and indelible disgrace, have joined with
the Radical Press in persuading Jurymen
to commit the horrible crime of wilful per-
jury, by rejecting indiscriminately all indict-
ments that may be preferred by the Constitu-
tional Association. Every Juryman is swor❑
" well and truly to try, according to the evi-
dence," without the least regard to the quality
or character of the prosecutor. If he act other- '
wise, he deliberately forswears himself in the face
of God and his country—thereby not only violating
the laws, divine and human, but contributing, as
much as in him lies, to degrade those barriers of
our freedom, the Trial by Jury, and the real
Liberty, of the Press ! And yet there are Jour-
nalists, who unblushingly assert, that by their ar-
guments both Grand and Petit Jurors have been
influenced to commit this pernicious crime. They
take credit to themselves for having persuaded
men to defy their Maker, and to subvert the in-
stitutions of their country! We pass over
.the impudence, the calumnies, the vulgar
ribaldry and abuse with which they have
loaded an Association including some of the first
personages in the country. We look down with
utter contempt on the terms " Bridge-street
Gang"—" Conspirators"—" Vile Crew,"&c. &c.
which The Times has borrowed from its worthy
Leaders and Prototypes, Hone and Carlile—But
if there be the slightest truth in the assertion that
any. one Juror, out of pique or prejudice against
a prosecutor, has declared an individual Not
Guilty, knowing him upon the evidence to be
Guilty, we put it to the country at large, whether
such a man is not perjured—we put it to the
country, what protection we can have for life,
liberty, property, or public peace from a perjured
Juror—we put it to the country, whether this be
not poisoning Justice in its very well-springs, and
leaving us, instead of the protection of the laws,
only a choice between the power of the sword,
and the brutal fury of a mob ?

• DREADFUL SUICIDE.--On Friday night a young
man, who was an entire stranger to the family,
obtained lodgings at the Bunch of Grapes, Rat-
cliffe Highway ; the next morning at nine o'clock
it was remarked that he did not make his ap-
pearance. A person was sent up stairs, when,
on entering his bed-room, a most frightful spec-
tacle presented itself; he was lying on the bed
weltering in his blood, and quite lifeless ; his
head, which was nearly severed, was hanging out
of the bed, and near him lay a bloody razor, the
fatal, instrument of destruction. A person who
had slept in the same room, had left him about
seven o'clock on the same morning, at which
time he was alive, and apparently uninjured. It
appeared that he got the razor set at a barber's
adjacent the preceding night. The unfortunate
man was abont twenty-two years of age, fair
hair and complexion, and was dressed in a blue
coat, trowsers of the same colour, black silk
waistcoat, white cravat, white cotton stockings,
and shoes nailed in the soles, and the heels
tipped ; ls. 3d. and a pocket handkerchief, was
all he had in his pockets. But nothing whatever
was found that might lead to a discovery of his
name or what he was. The handkerchief is mark-
ed CC R. C. C. No. 22," and on the razor is
scratched " Bottom, No. 2." He was a very re-
spectable looking young man.
The heavy rain on Friday night completely
deluged some of the obscure streets of the me-
tropolis, and rendered them impassable for several
hours• This was particularly the case in Old
Gravel-lane, Ratcliffe-highway, which is of great
length and a gradual descent the whole way :
the accumulated water, as it reached the bottom,
threatened the most serious consequences. It

happened at the time to be high water, and as
the river is there above the level of the lower
part of the street, the flood could not be carried
off in the usual manner. Between 12 and one
o'clock the inhabitants were thrown into the
greatest confusion by the flood bursting in at
their doors and windows ; the cellars were soon
overflowing, and several of the lower classes who
slept therein narrowly escaped being drowned.
A waterman at Gravesend, of the name of
PAGE, died on Saturday, mortification having en-
sued from a fall which he met with a few days
since, when his hand struck against a copper nail.