The Sun.
London, England, 1821-08-06 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY EXTRACTS PROM THE MORNING PAPERS.

August 6.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
No information has yet reached this country
which would warrant us in pronouncing any opi-
/11011 respecting the. question of peace or wtr.
The most contradictory reports are in circula-
tion. While we are assured from Constantinople,
that the Emperor of Russia disapproves of the
conduct of Strogonoff, We are assured, on the
other hand, from Vienna, on the authority of
accounts from St. Petersburgh, that he demands

satisfaction for the in'Sulti offered to that Ambas-
sador. It is not for us to attempt to decide which
of these statements is the most likely to be true.

We have to call tbe attention of our readers to
A Report (see another column of THE SUN) of a
:cause which was tried at the Hertford Assizes,
on Friday last, before Mr.. Baron Wood and a
Special Jury. That an act like that, which was
the subject of this trial, should take place in
ET.gland, and that a Jury of English Esquires
should think fifteen pounds, as stated in our Re
'port, or even thirty pounds, a sufficient compen-
sation for it, does, we own, even at ter all that has
taken place of late years, surprise us not a little.
We could hardly persuade ourselves for some
time, that we were reading an account of an oc-
currence in England, Old England, the land
where freedom and independence used to be
prized so high,

' Where even the peasant boasts his rights to scan,
And learns to venerate himself as man.
'% are sure that in Algiers, or in Constantinople,
a master would hardly dare to treat a slave in
the manner in which a wealthy and respectable
occupier of two hundred acres of land (part of it
his-own property),. appears to have been treated
y ,a•Clerical Magistrate of the County of Hert-
forcl.—Mr. John Halden, Lord of the Manor of
;Brent Pelham ; Mr. Morriss the plaintiff, and
six or seven other individuals, all, with the. ex-
ception of one person, respectable faerners, on
the forenoon after a rook shooting, met in a public-
4ouse to. divide their rooks, where they appear
/9 haye passed some hours over a little ale, with-
opt carrying the indulgence to any improper length,
and without making the least noise .or disturb-
ance.—Mr. Mason, the Curate of Anstey, con-
ceived this to be a case which called for his in-
terference, and having made his appf,aranCe at
the public-house, and summoned, without effect,
the , party to break up, sent for Mr. Gaussen2
a. young Clergyman but recently put into
the Commission of .the Peace, who not only
presumed to order the landlord of the house
to, draw 'no more beer, and to cause the cellar
door to be locked, but proceeded to the daring
length of ordering the plaintiff to be handcuffed
and dragged to his Rectory, about two miles
distant, where he himself made his appearance
about two hours afterwards, with the keys of the"
handcuffs which he had taken with him; the
poor man in the mean time having his wrist
swollen, and suffering the most excruciating paiu
from the handcuffs being too small for him, and
having been unable to procure,a little oil from
the servants of the defendant, who said it was
as much as their places were worth to give
any. That. a, Magistrate, under the pretence
of preventing. tippling, should think of dis-
turbing a quiet company of respectable men,
is of itself a most unwarrantable interference
With the liberty of the subject ; but we want
words to express our keen detestation of the acts
of arbitrary violence with which this interference
was followed. He had no authority whatever,
as was observed by Mr. Baron Wood, for punish-
ing the plaintiff as a tippler, and-there could be
no possible pretence for causing him to be hand-
cuffed. Allowing that the cohduct of this Magis-
trate proceeded from gross ignorance, and not
from malice, still the question forces itself on us,
how came a man so ignorant of every thing like
either law or common sense; to be elevated to the
Magistracy ? Who could recommend him ?--(Thid.)

THE TIMES.]
A private letter from Nuremberg of the 25th
ult. -states in express terms, that a courier arrived
the same day fromNienna had brought news-to
the following effect :—That extraordinary move-
ments had suddenly taken place among the Rus-
sian troops on the Pruth, and that it was 'believed
that the Russian Government, indignant at 'the
outrages offered to Baron Strogonoff, had dis-
patched a messenger with its ultimatum to the
Sublime Porte, demanding a- signal satisfaction.
The letter further asserts the probability that the
Divan would not do justice to the claims of the
Russian Cabinet,- and: that war was, therefore,
considered inevitable between the two Empires:
In 'case of satisfaction being refused, -M. de
Strogonoff had received orders to quit forth-
with the territories -of 'the Grand Seignor.--
-Not the least important passage remains
behind A courier sent, from -St. Petersburgh
to the Russian head-quarters on the Pruth, had
" brought intelligence that the Emperor Alex-
" ander was on the point- of quitting his capital
" for the purpose of reviewing his army." But
his -Imperial Majesty seldom remains long in the
same' place. The vast extent of his dominions
has made loco-motion a sort of duty ; and a duty
so :often exercised has at length become a habit
and indulgence to his active mind. A journey of
some hundreds of miles, therefore, to review his
army, though still undoubtedly a circumstance
worth attention, affords a less certain proof of
the approa.ch tf actual service in the case of Alex-
ander than of any cotemporary Monarch.

[MORNING- POST.]
We received Madrid Papers last night to the
4th ult. They are entirely silent respecting
the internal state of Spain, and are filled with
accounts of the military movements in various
parts of the SOuth American Continent. An
article of the 9th of February from Lima, seems,
from its nature, to have been inserted as a sort of
preparation for the unwelcome intelligence of the
suroender of that important place to the united
forces of Lord =Cochrane and San Martin. It
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