The Sun.
London, England, 1819-10-09 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

lgR. EDlTOR—Without wishing to cast the
least shadow of blame on the conduct or princi-
ples of those on whose decision, in various trials,
have depended the characters, the property, and
even lives of individuals arraigned and tried un-
der various charges, I beg leave to submit, w
those to whom it may belong, officially to scut-
tinize into the fitness of individuals to be either
Witnesses or Jurymen, the absolute necessity
(which the present laxity of morals has suggest-
ed) of asking this important question of such
persons as are about to take an Oath .—Do you
from your heart believe that the Bible is the Word
of GOD, by which you yourself expect to be tried
at the Judgment Day ? If the -answer be -in the
affirmative, the Oath must be administered, and
Got) is a witness whether the answer be true or
false. If in the negative, which as the lunumer-
able publicaaions of CARLTLB and others seem
fully to give reason to expect, the Oath should be
refused, and the person rejected ; for it is not
right that persons whom no sanction can bind to
speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth, should he allowed to hear witness
or decide upon cases--perhaps of life or death.
Believing, as we do, in a future, state, whatever may
be our creed, we would not wish to hurry an
immortal soul hastily and unjustly before the
High Tribunal of an unerring Judge, which might
be.spared, if truth were elicited, and a true Ver-
dict given, until space
,for repentance afforded
had been embraced, and mercy shewn by Him
who pardoneth iniquity, transgression, and sin,
and will by no means clear. the guilty and impe-
nitent from eternal punishment. I profess not to
be Lawyer enough to decide whether suclt.a ques-
tine can be put as the Law now stank, but I ant
Christian enough to wish that it may; and I think
that there is sufficient impudence in the defamers
of the Bible to declare in answer to it, for the
sake of consistency, that they do not believe it ;
and of course the Public will then Eliot how to
appreciate their evidence, if it were taken or
their decision, if they were allowed to decide on
any legal or criminal case. It is not sufficient for
tilt safety of society, that the Laws be good and
effective, if they who are necessary appendages
to the execution of the Laws he not conscientious
persons, who would not think k a mere trifle to.
swear falsely on a Book which they consider to
he sacred. That there are Atheists, Deists, and
Soeiniaus among the British population, no man
eyed attempt to deny, for they openly profess
their blasphemous end heretical tenets ; such
:lieu's names may creep into the Lists of Wit-
nesses or Jurors ; but I hope and trust that not
(-veil Atheists, Deists, and Socinians will ever be
permitted to be arraigned, tried, and condemned
Iv, their Evidence or on their Verdict. I feel on
this occasion more than I can express, for I would
not look, or he thought to look back, but prepare
to, ,that is to come, and I trust that the voice Of
Cie feeblest watchman UNDER TUB SUN will nut
ty lifted up in vain.. •

VIGIL.

IVe received last night and this morning, the
Paris Papers of Tuesday and Wednesday last.—
The following are Extracts :
" PARIS, OCT. s.—The King yesterday visited
the Duchess de Berry, whose health, at well as
that of Ithdemoiselle, continues in the most satis-

factory state.
"The Countess or Gotldand (Queen of Sweden)
has quitted Frankfurt to proceed to the waters of
Pyrmont.

" The vintages have commenc,:d in several of
the Departments, and there is every prospect of
an abundant produce and of excellent quality.
" OCT, 6.—Yesterday the King gave a private
audience to the Duke de Fenian Nunez, the Spa-
nish Ambassador, who notified to his Majesty the
marriage of his Sovereign the King of Spain with
the Princess Maria Josephine Amelia, niece of
the King of Saxony. The English, Russian,
and Neapolitan Ambassadors afterwards paid their
respects to his Majesty.
" An article, dated from Genoa, lately publish-
ed, annwinciog the iutentiou of the Ottoman

nate to carry on a war of extermination against
Ali Paclia, is entirely without fu'undation.

FIVE PER CENTS.

Monday
Tuesday

DEFERRED STOCK.
Monday. . Tuesday.
Of 22d March, 1817...91 f. 40 c... 92 f. —c.
22d Sept. 1817.... 89 f. 40 c... 90 f. c.
22d March,lBlB... 87 f. 40 c... 88 f. c.
22d Sept. 1818....85 f. 40 c... 861. c.
22d March, 1819...83 f. 40 c... 84 f. c.
42d Sept. 1819.:.81 1. 45 c... 81 f. 90 c.

" LEIPSIC, SEPT. 25.—Some persons of the
lowest class, recently began to call out Hepp
(the signal for outrages against the Jews), but
several of them Were arrested by the 'police, and
the cry has not since been repeated.

" FRANKFORT, SEPT. 29.—From the effect of
the Resolutions come to at Carlsbad, and adopted
by the Diet, it is expected thai the Press in
Germany will be more enslaved than in 1813,
though it may be doubted whether this coup
d'etat will fulfil the intentions of those who con-
ceived it.

" VIENNA, SEPT. 24.—The new military levies
which continue to be made in Austria, begin to
excite some sensation. They are, however, only
measures of precaution.

" SEPT. 25.—Since his return from Carslbad
the Prince de Metternich has been continually trans-
acting business with the Emperor, and sending
off Couriers to all the German Courts. Se-
veral have been dispatched to Petersburgh,
and there is a report of organizing Estafettes to
accelerate the correspondence with Warsaw, during
the stay there of the Emperor of Russia.
" To-morrow is fixed for the marriage of the
ArCluluchess Caroline with the Prince of Saxony,
for whom the Archduke Charles will officiate as
proxy. The Archduchess is to set out on the
Ist or 2d October for Dresden.

" There is a report of some slight differences
with Russia, but it is a rumour destitute of au-
thority.

" MADRID, SEPT. 24.—The epidemy having
reached Port Saint Mary, the communication
with that town has been cut off. The Count de
Calderon has set out with his Staff to establish
his head•quarters at Orcos de 1a Fuentra. The
vessels of the squadron have gone into the Bay
of Puntales, to obtain shelter against the winds
which usually prevail at this season.
" The mortality at San Fernando (Isla de
Leon) has been as follows :

Deaths. Sick.
The 12th, - 46 - 1,013
13th, - 30 - 1,108
14th, - 65 - 1,257

AT CADIZ.

Deaths.
14th, - - - 34
15th, - • 31
16th,

" RASTADT, SEPT. 30.--Sands is now said to
be ant of danger, his fate is expected to be soon
decided."

A Requisition has been addressed to the High
Sheriff of Yorkshire, requesting him to call, a►
Meeting of the NOBILITY, GENTRY, CLERGY, and
FREEHOLDERS of the County of York, for the
purpose of inquiring into the transactions at Man-
chester. The British Press of this day, which
does not appear to be infected with the Radical pes-
tilence that operates so forcibly upon The Morning
Chronicle, and still more violently upon The
Times, rendered more susceptible of the contagion
by inherent and inveterate corruption,—The British
Press observing that the Yorkshire Requisition is
signed by" NINE NOBLEMEN, and a hundred Com-
mutters, eminent in rank and wealth," asks "who
WILL DARE to say that• a Meeting sanctioned by
such names could harbour a thought that savoured
of disloyalty ?" We answer, that we hope few
Would be base enough to impute disloyalty to
men so respectable, but, surely, however
upright they may be, they are liable to err in
judgment, and to be guilty of indiscretion, and
as legal inquiries are now proceeding, and will
lead to the most ample investigations of a higher
k iud, the Noble and respectable Subscribers of
the Yorkshire Requisition must be acknowledged
to have acted precipitately in bringing such a Re-
quisition forward in the present state of the ques-
tion, The Leeds Intelligencer of Monday last, in
noticing that such a Requisition was to be made,
expresses itself in the following judicious man-
ner

" That the demand will go as far as a request, and not a
whit farther, we are fully convinced. The PRINCE REGENT is
possessed of too much firmness to grant the Leaders of the
WHIG ARISTOCRACY what be refused to the Corporation of
London; his Royal Highness has already expressed his opi-
nion, that " to institute an extra-judicial, inquiry under such
circumstances, would be manifestly inconsistent with the
clearest principles of public justice ;" and it is nut likely
that an opinion expressed in terms at once so temperate arid
decided, will be altered by the demand of the Yorkshire
Whigs."

And as we entirely concur in the sentiments of
that loyal and respectable Journal upon the sub-

ice, we shall adopt its flintier observations upon
she present occasion, in answer to all the Radical
Rebels, Oratorical, and Literary, throughout the
Country
" The -conduct of• the Mancliesteipagliates will coins
before the Constitutional Tribunal of their Mitiltry, when
the men, whom they have•charged with a Conspiracy to sub•
rert the Laws of the Land, are tried by a Jury of their Cosa'
trymen. It is not the fault of the Magistrates that this ie-
quiry has nut already taken place. The postponement
is out of their seeking; but is the work of the men, who ass
now striving to raise heaven and earth to prejadge the ques•
lion ;—and, although we wish as ardently as any one to have a
full and fair investigation made into the proceedings of that dab
and to have due punishment awarded to which ever patty ii
, found guilty-of having ,violated the laws—we must assert, that
these public meetings, for the purpose of exciting popular cla-
mour against Gentlemen placed in a situation most arduous
and important: the ex-parse statements, and inflatuniatori
speeches, which are made at those Meetings, and which have
the effect of perverting the public judgment, and corruptinf
the public opiion—are must unwise, must injudicious, and
most inconsistent with the high and honourable character
of Englishmen."

Tna TIMES.—It never was our intention to
'enter into a controversy with The Times. Ws
should as soon think of fighting in the street with
a Chimney-sweeper, a Scavenger, or one of a more
offensive occupation, as we should be sure of re-
ceiving nothing but dirt and filth in the contest.
Our purpose was to detect the artifice and false,
hood of The Times, and in that purpose we shall:
perievere, despising its scurrility, and abhorring
its principles. The truth is, that the Old Times
is stung to madness by the success of the Net a •
Times, and the best remedy far it would be a
strait-waistcoat. Yet we confess, that we arc
surprized to find that any of the Log Family had
brains to be turned. The ruling Log now affects
to despise the Gentleman who has transferred his
talents and his knowledge to the New Times, and
most absurdly says he was discharged because ItS
.‘ was perverse and impotent." Yet it is understood
that, for some years, Mr. Log paid that Gentleman
15001. a year, " perverse and impotent" as lie,.
was. What an incurable blockhead must Mr. Log
be for giving such a large annual sum to
ness and impotence. The perverseness, however/
was most probably a determined refusal to do 00,
dirty work prescribed by Mr. Log. The Times says'
this day, that it is " put upon its metal ;" it has al'
ways been upon its metal, which is the basest meilit
of falsehood, scurrility, and venality. We shall soot)
give damning proof of its brazen, callous (legs'
vity. In the mean time we earnestly hope that
the example of the Norwich Reading Room will
be followed by every other Reading Room, and
every loyal Subject, throughout the Empire, to
discarding a Paper, the success of which, under
the different names which it has assumed since its
origin, is an outrage upon Common Sense, and $
stigma upon the Country, and which, having oe
casionally joined and deserted all Parties, accord'
ingly as its interest was 'affected, has been gene'
rally detested and despised.

A LOYAL FACT.—At a General Meeting of lb.'
Proprietors of the READING ROOMS St DomFRIO'
held on the 6th inst. it was ordered that the ---"*"
Evening Paper should be put out of the flool
on account of the part which the Editor "A
taken in the proceedings at Manchester, _°°a
'fue Sut; be the substitute.—lt was also ()Mere,
that The New Times should he substituted for t.
Old Times. Mr. Log has, therefore, a new okLe",
for his venom on Monday next, in the loyal 0-
rough of Dumfries.
RicinamaD, SURREY.—There is a long acco4tiat
in The Morning Chronicle this day, taken troll ea
Evening Paper of last night, of a Meeting heldhsti
this place on Thursday. But considering 1
principles of 'the Paper in which it first appearelye
and of that which adopted it, we cannot have to
least reliance on its impartiality, and therefaiii
prefer one taken from a Morning Paper of
day.
111
The King of PRUSSIA has written the follow' „
Letter of Condolence to the Widow of the vet
ran BLUCHER
" I received, with great sorrow, the news of the death 411

" gren..
your husband, Prince Blucher, of Waldstatt. I nnwillinP,
renew your grief, by the mention of the.great loss whir.? .0
have sustained ; but I am unable to suppress the express 141:0
my most cordial participation in it. The country IDtit4iii
with us over the loss of its greatest Commander.
gratefully bold him in eternal remembrance. To offer,
the consolation, the want of which I myself feel, I can o'
wish that time may alleviate your sprruw, and add the
ance of my unalterable regard.
(Signed) " FREDERICK WILLIIO'
Berlin, Sept. 14, 1819." ytb
Accounts from St. Petersburgh, dated the •
ult. announce the arrival of the Emperor A 14%.
ANDER front Finland, on the preceding day•
'commerce of that capital had become store of
tive : Russian produce, particularly hemp, is/
in demand for exportation. The Course of
change had also improved.
Intelligence Irons Copenhagen states, thiltd,
consequence of the re-establishment of trangeo,
lity, the order, enforcing extraordinary Pregos
tive measures, was revoked by authority 0"

22d ult. tbe
An Address of Thanks was presented by
Assembly of the States to the King of Wi7o.-tire
BURG, on the 2211 ult, for the Itepreseto-00,
Constitution he has recently given to his subje )01
Prince LEOPOLD iS DOW at Der. flis
Highness was present at the Glandby Musical
tival there, of which the Duke of DEvoNswil/
the Patron.
bor`'
Lord and Lady CASTLEREAGH arrived 0-fiderw,'
day evening at their house in St. Jameli's-sq—
from the Marquess of ligrafrorw's• seitc'
Suffolk.