The Sun.
London, England, 1818-12-16 00:00:00

THE LATE CHIEF BARON 'THOMSON.

A chaste and elegantlMonument', designed and
executed with his accustomed taste, by Mr. T.
KING, sculptor, of Bath, was on Wednesday
placed in the Choir of the Abbey Church, to the
memory of the late Sir A. Tnomsori, Pint. Lord
Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer. On the
top lie the emblems of Jcstice, with volumes of
celebrated law authors, and a bold drapery bears
the following inscription :

" Sacred to the memory of the Right Hon. Sir ALEXANDER
_THOMPSON, Knight, one of his Majesty's Must Honourable
Privy Council. He was horn at CamherWt,ll, 6tll Jan. 1745;
called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, Michaelmas Term, 1709 ;
appointed a Master in Chancery, May 1782, Accountant-
General, Jan. 1788, a Baron in the Exchequer, Feb. 1787, and
Lord Chief Baron of the same Court, to the universal satis-
faction of the Bar, the Bench, and the Nation, 23d Feb.
1814. He died in this city, sincerely regretted, 15th April,.
1817. His Understanding was sound and strong; his Know-
ledge in every branch of the Law accurate, extensive, and
profound; his Impartiality invariable; his Attention to Cri-
minals unremitting ; his Humanity judicious. He was pa-
tient in hearing, laborious in investigating, cautious in de-
ciding; and his Judgment (on which every man had more
reliance than himself) seldom erred. Simple ,and unosten-
tatious in'the application of his talents, and courting neither
favour nor popularity, he deservedly obtained the confidence
of the Country. To these Public Virtues, were added, in the
habits of his prirate•life, a general Acquaintance /with Lite-
rature and the Arts, unaffected Piety, unassuming Manners'
and stedfastness in Friendship, with the kindest Heart. To
perpetuate the remembrance of so useful an example, and to
record their own gratitude and affection, his two surviving
NIECES have caused this memorial to be erected."

THE JEWS.—The following letter has been re-
cently addressed to the Editor of a Brussels Pa-
per Sir, having seen in your Journal a most
erroneous statement upon the nature and objects
of a memorial which I presented to the Congress
of Aix•la-Chajtelle, you will do me the justice to
obviate the 'false impression which that article might
operate upon the public mind, and to announce,
upon my responsibility, that upon the occasion
alluded to, my object was neither the conversion
tit the Jews, nor their restoration to Palestine,
but a reasonable appeal to the justice and to the
liberality of an enlightened age, relative to
the amelioration of their moral and political
condition under the several Governments of
Europe. I have the happiness to add, that this
proposition, far trout being unsupported, as you
have said, has been r.-cognized, as one might
well imagine, by the highest authorities, as
question worthy of the consideration and of the
encout agemeut of every friend of hun►anity
" LEWIS WAY "

A specimen of a new form intended to he given
to li-nik-nntes has been shown at SOUlt• (It ti,t-
public offices. The paper is a- the saute vine.
at present, ho; the written and engr,ivett parts
are all contained in a small oval in the rent rc.—
At each corner is a sort of stamp, of curious and
appL-aranc,:. whirl) it is !loped, cauuut
be imitated.—(tilorning Paper.)

At three o'clock oo Nlondav; the Mcinbcrs of
the Smithfield Chtb assemttied at (he F! •Inasons'
Tavern, and held a Aleetto;f. S. SE.
BRIGHT, Bart., in the ( +lair. The Slate of the
fotoisof the Club et—s ,e:torre,l to -haie imp, 'veil
wo much, that the debt of hich remained
to their silectsmith, could no be dild....are out
of the surphis of the subs, i,tts,n, ior th cut-
rent year; and which surplus n:as ordered to be
so applied.

The following new Memberi were elected, viz

Sir Henry Carr 11;betson, Bari., John Hamlin Borer, EA.,
*illiam Phillips Lamb, Esq., Tycho Wing, Esq., J.
Eiq., Me..sis. Henry Boys, John Chatfield, Stephen
Grantham, Daniel Larratt, and George Ridge.
Some progress was made in adjusting the pre-
miums and conditions of the next show ; and the
fUrther consideration of them was refer►ed to a
Meeting yesterday Morning, at ten o'clock.