The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-16 00:00:00

(FROM THE MORNING HERALD.)

Most must remember the Times' tide, of brown
granite stone being ground into white flour ; of such
flour being sold to the bakers, and by them mixed
with wheat flour, and made up into bread. There
was no truth in that Times tale, and there is, in all
probability, as little truth in the present one,respect-
ing the Duke of Cumberland, &c. Some time since
we inserted in the Morning Herald an account of a
shocking business that had taken place at Hampstead,
and the name of an inn at Hampstead was men-
tioned. The next day we received a letter from
Hampstead, in which it was stated that the account
was a fabrication, and that there was no inn in
Hampstead of the name mentioned. We after-
wards ascertained that a penny-a-line man had
taken us in. Happily for us we had not paid the
man hi• charge—consequently, like Sir Herbert
Taylor, we backed out—put the penny-a-iine man's
name down in our memorandum-book—and, of
course, have never inserted a line of his articles since.
We were much pleased with Sir Francis Bur-
dett's speech on Friday night, and his praising in
the manner he did the admirable speech made on
the Catholic Question by Sir George Murray.
Certainly, as Sir Francis justly said, that speech was
the best speech made this Session on that subject.
If every Member were to compress his saying in the
manner Sir George Murray compressed his, the
public would read the Parliamentary debates with
much more pleasure than they at present can do.
Really some of the speeches are so tremendously
long, and so full of useless words, and so void of
thoughts, that we have often in our mind compared
them with the plum pluddings that we recollect eat-
ing when at school ;—dough (words) plenty—
plums (thoughts) so scarce—that, as our school-
fellows had used to say, they were hallooing after
each ether.

It appears to us very probable that the present
tale respecting the Duke of Cumberland, &c., has
been got up to suit party purposes. There can be
little doubt but that it is intended, if possible, to
drive the Duke of Cumberland from this country,
in order to prevent him from appearing in the House
of Lords and voting against the Catholics. Our
hope is that no such got-up tale will induce the
Dt*e to retire from this country; but that he will
appear in his place, boldly declare his sentiments
with respect to the Duke of Wellington and Mr.
Peel's Bill; and if, in his conscience, he believes the
measure to be a wrong one, to vote against it, as the
Attorney-General and others had the honesty and
the courage to do. We admire men who will vote as
they think proper, whether those above them are
pleased Gr the contrary; and we should think that
the King would be p;.eased with such men, and will up-
hold them in spite of any thing that can be invented
to get rid of them. George HI. stuck fast to Pitt,
though the latter differed from the King on the Ca-
tisc4c Question. In matters connected with re-
ligion, it is abominable to see men change in the
manner that Sir T, Lethbridge and others have done ;
and those who will not who have not changed
in that barefaced way we admire, and we hope the
King will uphold them. We are glad that Mr.
Wetherell remains in office. He was wrong to send
in his We siguation ; we commend the Duke for not
having accepted it, and we hope the Duke will
make no change. 1t wcol not look well in the
eyes of the people if he were. I; we might presume
to advise the Duke we should say—" On the Ca-
tholic question let every man vote as his con-
science dictates," and admire and trust the man
whom the prospect of a lozi; of place cannot deter
from voting agreeably with his conscience. A wise
or a just man will never turn off another who differs
with him in opinion on a religious question.
(FROM THE EXAMINER.)
That factious aid gfsitleman, Lord Eldon, distin-
guished himself op Friday night- by some of his pes-
tilent craft. He affects to be in his itviii:s4t:i's con-
fidence, and intimates that a loop-hole is proyideri
for the elusion of his kingly word. This, we be 7
lieve, to be trick, sheer pettyfogger's chicanery. If
the Lord Eldon were in the King's Councils, the
Duita of Wellington would not be in the King's
Cabinet. His Crane wouid never allow the arms
to be procured from Winds.os Pelace which were to
combat him in the House of Peers, 4 is remark-
able, that with reference, to the part of the
Speech relatissg to the Catholic Claims, Lord Eldon
said—" This reconnnenthttion, the Noble and Learn-
ed Lord was of opinion, plengad his Majesty to
rghing. It coiled for the advice of Parns.n?ent,
and stated a tleterinir.gion to preserve the Church
and Constitution inviolate, mid he regarded it with
a feeling of gratitude.”—Why then has his honest
I and superlatively conscientious Lordship uplifted his
voice against the Ministers who recommended those

unexceptionable terms ? Why was the table of the
House covered with petitions called forth only by
the expressions of the Royal Address ? But what
a man is this ; what a mind of trick, and what no-
tions of mortals ! In the conclusion of his last
speech—" He thought opportunities for proceeding
against individuals for their conduct had been per-
mitted to e6cape; and so strongly was he impressed
with this opinion, that when the propriety of a pro-
secution was intended, in consequence of an attack
upon a late lamented Royal Personage, he (Lord
Eldon) was adverse to such a prosecution, from an
unwillingness, after the many other opportunities
for prosecutions that had been neglected, to risk
the possible failure of a prosecution in that particular
case, and thereby disturb the last moments of that Royal
Personage."—(The Noble Lord adverted to a speech
of Mr. Sheil, animadverting upon his late Royal
Highness the Duke of York.) Mark this, men of
the Church, and good Christians! The benevolent
old Nobleman was unwilling to prosecute, lest a
' failure should disturb the last moments of the dying
Prince ! What ideas he must have had of the
heart of that Prince, whose parting hour would he
thought, be troubled by the disappointment of ven-
geance ! Is this Christianity ?—yea, even such is
the Christianity of those who prosecute in the name
j. of all meekness !

(FROM THE NEWS.)
THE TORY CALL ON THE PEOPLE.
.4 Well, then ; it now appears you need our help;

You that did void your rheum upon our beard,
And foot us as you spurn a stranger cur
Over your threshold!
Shall we bend low, and in a bondman's key,
With bating breath, and whispering humbleness,
Say this ; Fair Sir, you spit on us last &•scion ;
You spurned us such a day : another time
You call'd us nwb : and, for these courtesies,
We will petition you shall do'l "

The events of the time; the wheeling; and the
" changing of fronts" in men and parties; together
with the topsy-turvy view which we at present have
of the English world—disclose to us as strange a
scene of fanciful disto: tion as ever yet flickered be-
fore the slides of a magic-lantern*. Every thing is
to rest now with the people; the loyal arid consti-
tutional people; all the Clerical Ultras of the coun-
try now fly to them, as the dernier resort; the
Tories too !

The Tories call, who never call'd before ;
And those who always call'd, now call the more.' "
Poor John Bull is quite beset with friends; and
never before seemed to have a proper idea of his own
importance. In fact, John is always made use of
as an utensil, when his aid is wanted in the interests
of others, but the moment he asks for any thing for
himself, he is instantly transformed into an insolent
and seditious varlet, that is not satisfied with what
his betters are doing for him. His shoulders are at
every body's use, for others to mount by in the way
of promotion ; but when he attempts to ascend a
single step himself, he is thrust back with a pair of
broken shins, and a lecture on his impaired loyalty.
When the Reformers "petitioned," the people were
an unreasoning many-headed monster, betraying an
" ignorant impatience of taxation," and of all just
restraint. The parchment prayers were " gotten
up" as a job ; and we heard of nothing but the
" abused privilege of addressing Parliament ;" of
" pauper petitions ;" and of " spurious signatures ;"
now, when the Parsons are the "getters up" of the
petitions, and the Charity Schools are called on to
turn out their Tyro Protestants to sign the interested
prayers of a priestly monopoly in their pot-hook
scrawls, under a compounded fear of the Pope, the
Devil, and the Birch—we are dinned with tleclama-
lions about the sacred privilege; though its prosti-
tution was never carried to so base and unlimited an
extent; nor was the right of petition ever abused
at once by such a clamour of ignorant pretence, and
uncharitable intention. The most unlettered classes
will "soon see through the ruse of the black coats (as
Jonathan Martin calls them), nor will the fleecing
the flocks in later history be totally overlooked be-
fore the inflammatory appeals to Smithfield in pre-
cedent annals. The rival Churches may shake hands
over the faggots of the olden time; persecution and
plunder have done their worst; and it will rest with
the more enlightened senators of our days, to arbi-
trate with a strong hand over the power to do mis-
chief, on the side of either creed. When we read
some of the country papers—which contain as much
debating from a sort of semi-village Anti-Catholic
Assemblage, as is reported of the proceedings of
both Houses of Parliament, on the discussion of
some leading measure—we are constrained to admit
the undeniable " March of Speechifying" in the
kingdom. Reporting is now so common, that it is
taught in the lowest forms of the village school.
The proceedings at the anniversary of every two-
penny club now make an intellectual display in the
newspapers. The very Ultras, who are eternally
ridiculing the " March of Intellect," are now forcing
the talent of public speaking, from the " lowest note
to the top of its compass ;" and, instead of being a
nation of shopkeepers, we are in danger of becoming
an empire of orators. There is, however, this
lengthy advantage in the reporting of country meet-
;pigs in weekly newspapers, viz. that there is lime
for every speaker to write, revise, and correct his
own speech ; a practice by no means uncommon
with the more self-szcient spouters ; and hence the
curious distinctions, which we may sometimes ob-
serve in the provincial schools of elocution, viz.
that the speeches of your grocers, hucksters, and
tallow-chandlers, which the orators have acuteness
enough to leave to the turning lathe of the Reporter
and Editor, beat hollow the windy dissertations of
the parsons and schoolmasters, in good sense, as
well as good grammar.

" After Lord Winchilsea's declaration in the House of
Lords on Tuesday, that he (Lord W.) bad become a con-
vert to Parliamentary Reform, and that if Lord Grey
would bring in a motion for that measure, be would sup-
port it, we should feel surprise at nothing, on the score of
political change in public men. We fully expect, in a
short time, to see the venerable Lord Eldon haranguinga
mob in Palace-yard, on the necessity of resorting to Uni-
versal Suffrage.

The will of Sir Mark Wood has been proved
in the Prerogative Court, Doctors' Commons, and pro-
bate granted for 60,0001. personal property, in addition to
the snug borough of Gatton (where the election takes
places in the Baronet's kitchen), and other freehold estates,
producing a large rental Sir Mark has left the bulk of his
fine for tune to his son, the present Baronet.

About two years ago a young man, of North-
aPerton, named Reed, was connected with another person
in a speculative concern. The elopement of his partner,
who absconded, and other misfortunes, involved him in dif-
ficulties; but, with an heroic resolution he determined to
pay every shilling, and actually sold his watch and every
thing else. From that time be may said to have lived almost
on bread and water, until he paid every shilling ; and, still
more to his honour, he has paid several debts contracted
without his knowledge.—Doncaster Gazette.

WELL-TIMED PUN.—A gentleman, not very
scrupulous as to taking long credit, was telling a marvel-
lous story of having lost his watch in the course of a pedes-
trian excursion near the Cape. " It was quite dark," said
he, " when I missed it ; the artic was valuable, and
knew that an hour previous it was safe in my possession.
at once re;:raced my steps, and after walking nearly three
miles on those hiliy road.), I actually pat my foot on the
watch, which was not at all injured:" " There is nothing
surprising in that," said a wag present, " you were always
noted for ' going upon tick.

ANE,CDOTE OF TIIE LATE Ma THOMAS
tra(lesina4 o:fl‘Tewcastle, whom Mr. Bewick
. .
had for'many years employed to serve him witla coals, had
.rrt, last, it was discovered, began to defraud hiM in the inett:-
sure of the awt;:i*he had long furnished for his domestic
comfort ; on which occasion oar artist ~;!_!!!t a strong letter
of rebuke to this rogue in grain, for his ingratitude and
want of common honesty. At the bottom of his epistle
he sketched with his pen a small drawing, in which was
represesie4 fLTre of a man in a coal-cart, accompanied
by the Devil, '‘Vile is vehicle under a gal-
lows, beneath which was written'the'se emphatic wo;ti,,,—
" The end and punishment of all dishonest men !" This
I..7ell7timed satire so affected the nervous system of the
poor delincoeut„ ;1;a4,.: lie immediately confessed his guilt to
his benefactor, and on his am-tea iaar.lor,.d his pardon.
This small sketch was afterwards engraved as a tail-piece,
which may be found in the first volume of his History of
British Birds, at page 100.--Stock4ort Advertiser.

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