The Sun.
London, England, 1816-08-17 00:00:00

PICTURE OF THE FACTIOUS.

[Frorn the Liverpool Courier.]

AVe.O are indeed inclined to suspect, that these
gloomy vieii,s are so carefully kept before the
public eye, awl obtruded upon its attention, with
11(1 good design. hopes of revolutionists
ruti high, turd if they eon persuade ignorant wen
that cry which they have raised with ne.
fariolv; designs,' they gain no ineonsiderahlead.
vantage., lite), now endeavour to excite .the
people to -clamour against petniotts, as though
these were the cause or aggravation of their suf-
ferings. Their object is to make the people and
the government• two parties, and rainier the one
tutted by the other. They know in their con-
ticiences, that tt government less expensive to
the people could not be erected, even ou their
own theories ). but that is nothing. Their poli.
• tical enmities cannot ba, appeased, and it is
them of no. consequence what confusion is pro-
duced, provided
.it be confusion. Wegrant
dint
government is imperiously calkd to retrench'evet y
thing, possibli! from- the public expenditures and
it'appears that nrittisters have paid, of
l~ite~ ten
ii);j dtrentibii tO this part of their ditty, Litit
it does not follow, that government is bound to
live up every
.expence which any factious hitliVi.
dual,- or heated mob asstatibly,,may think proper
to isdemanded, that farther refitted
tions be Made in the army and navy. Let theta
show that this is safe with respect to our foreign
retations, and that our domestic tranquillity will
Wt. will ruin them in calling

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for intet furtlier retiuctious. 'rite fewer men we 'wive
employed in the tnilitary profession, if opr safety
can -be assured, the better The better foe,'lnorals
and example; and the better for our pocltets. But
these retrenching gentlemen never condestend to
show how far their plans are practicable. Down
with he army—down with the navy--dorm with
placewen is their cry ; hut we ace never
told bow tine country is to be defended ; how it is •
,to maintain Its rittikitinong the nations, without
an army or navy, or, what is the same thing, xvith
only a skeleton of either ; nor do they feffns how
the affairs of Government can he concluded, and
public service's rewarded, without places and ;pen-
sions. These topics are too vulgar Wt• the refine-
ment of wholesale reformers ; and too low for.
those Who are always %minuted to tmtln and
lcnbble
at.the top by the ebullitions of patty violence.--
In some cases, there are men to be fotnid who" de-
sire the, destruction of the army and the embar-
rassment of Go‘ertunent, tot other reasons beside
the savings which might be 'expected. It is no
reason with such men that it is orged, that we
cannot greatly reduce our home military force,
without placing,his Maiesty's subjects at the mercy
of riotothi hMhs. For this very cause they hate
the army they 'Wish toisee mobs and instirrec-
firm. If GovernMent can be intimidated or over-
thrown, they hare their object. • On these Sllbjefis
we are accustomed to spchk out, for we ftlartl) the
andiu the pt•esent state of affairs, it is more
pa titularly necessary to watch file Of
faction, ata to prevent the people from being
.misled by pretended.patriot ism, to yield themselves
as agents to men who would Mvulve io ruin the
throne and the cottage, the pow and their em-
ployers.
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THL COUNTRY PUOlt.

'The following interesting story is' extracted
,from the last number of the Quarterly-Reciea
" Twenty years ago there' stood teSin,ill cot-
tage by the road side, near. Tadcaster, which. for
its singular beauty, and the ne.aness of its little
garden, attracted the notice of every traveller.
The remarkable propriety which appeared in
every part of this tenement made Sir Thos. Bet.-
MArd curious to learn the history of the other,
and he obtained it from,,his own mouth. lit it-
ton Abbott (such was the ,Owour's 11;lito.) was a
'tlay.labourer : beginning to work trith a farmer
at nine years old, tied being careful and
iutltti-
trit►its,, he had saved nearly 401. 'by. the time
that he was 22. With this money lie married and
tack a farm at 301. a-year ; but the farm was too
much for his means, and betore the end.of the 2il
vear he found -it necessary to give it up, having
exhausted almost all his little property. He
then re _tuovcd to. .CM sage, %vliert!, with two
Belli, -of' land and his right of eimimon, he kept
two cows, and lived io comfoit for Dille e.ttrS ;
at the expiration of that time the common was
enclosed,,aud, he had 'to seek a new habitation,
with Fix children, and his wife ready to lie-in
agaiil. In this state he applied to 1I r. Fairfax.
and told that if he would kt him ha.ye.a little
hit of ground by the roan side he, would show
him t jos/rim/a, on it,' The slip of hied for
which he inked teas exactly a rood Mr. Fairfax,
atter inquiring into his character, sultored 11;ni to
have it the neighbours lesst hills souse little
assi:stenee in the. carriage' of his materials; lie
built his house, enclosed the errouml with a
single row of quieltser, which he.,cut down six
times when it wits young, and planted the garden.
The- manner in which he set to- it end the
way in which, the work was perf s ;sell, pleased,
Mr. Fairfax so much, that he lola \ono he slonild
be rent-free. ills answer, as S'atTlionsas'lir,r-
nard justly tays, deserves -to lie remembered :
Now, Sir, you have a pleasure in seeing my
cottage. and garden ticat.;, and why titiortld
other squires have the saute pleasure ill.sceing the
cottages and gardens as nice about theml? The
poor would then be happy, and wonld love-them,
and the place where 'lcy lived ,_but ever`'
nook of lend is, to be let to tie great farmers,
and twilling left ftir the poor but to go to the
parish:'
Though my tisit,' .says Sir Tlomal. ' was unexpected,
and he at the latter end of Ids tiattird4ys work, his elothel
were neat an:] ,nihelently clean. His cottfitenallee was healthy
sad ~pen t lit a-,s; a littlatne in tale leg, the COASeplellee of
,exposaie to wit weather. Lie satil he loul always woraed
hard And well Lit he would not den) hut that'he had !urea
a 'mug of good Ai : when he court gi t it. When I told him
aiy object in imrdring after hint, that it Wit% iu order that
other poor perhous might. have cottages Mol gardens as neat
us his, and that he must tell me all ivecrel how it was to he
done,'he seemed extremely pleased; and very much affected
tie sAid, nothing would make poor hunts more happy thin
flqtling that preat faas Voiught of them: that he wished
every, poor-titan had NS comfortalde whome as.h.ii own —not
hit that he believed there rut ht be a few thOughtless fellons
.*hu would not dii goad us it."
" Britton Abbot was at this time sixty-seven,
and had lived happily with his- wife)or' five anti
forty years. lie earned trout twelve to eighteen
shillings as-week" by task work, but to be sere,'
lie said, I lure-a-grand drararterin all this country.'
Five of his children were living, and having been
will brought tip were thriving in the world. Upon
his rdod of ground lit had fifteen apple frees, ,one
green-gage,three witiesour plum trees, two apricot
trees, eurratitt.tooicherries,'ltad three bee-hives ;
he reared also trout this gardait abundance of coin,
;55011 vegetables, ada about forty bushels of pota-
toes annually. 'When this MNII- was turned adrift
upon the world by the enclosure of the common„•
it he heel) without hope, or it the rood of
bind for which he- asked had been denied, be atilt
his six children, and his pregnant. wife, might
have- gone to the workhouse, and beeothe
burden to the public, instead of setting en ex-
ample, and teaching
.a most iMportant lesson to
their superitus. We Will tronscribe Sir Thomas
Bernard's wortrs, and,print theta as he has done,
in a manner Which may. tend to excite the atten-
tion they deserve. tOsightly unprofitable
(tem (of waste ground would afford habitatioa and
comfort to twenty such Fainities as. Britton
The 'grimace Of an acre Whieb was 'granted him
was'not worth a shilling a-year before it-came ht.*
to his hands.''

ROBS:Ell Y .—Late on Wednesday evening.. or
early on iftintsday morning; the academy of tl' r.
SKETCHIAY, of Pe/Attain:rye, was open,
iiud varions twit:lt:Ea wearing aptiaret and stinui
of money beionging In the scholars were taken
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away. lite villain:, got A' With' tto Voi)ti, tilt-
discovered..

!OLICE INTELLIGE'NCE.

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Co aGa or,Nlp anv a -1-6tyrdii-y,..iah;es MA,
landlord of Inc. Oald-faCed -Stag.publie-lintise 00
Enfield .Cl,tase side., •between Eirfi,eld and 'Ufirnet,
vyas brought 'Up in the cirsiody of Cjtarles Brown,
anti At..;*,,lt:eatt,'juitior,•otiteeo;, eharged.with the
:wilful intirtter tit Mr. Draper, an officer beltingitt
ito the, County Court of.fteqUe'sts in 'Enlield,Whoee
body was ?otitu) in amplil unfreqvented draW-well
in the-rear ofthrprisritter's.houte.. The CorOner's
Jury Which sat on tlie,bodyjetuyned a verdict- of
accidental death ; ' but after the,inquesithe brokher
of the deceased,eatfsed the body to he
.exaluitte.t! by
two respectable surgeons, iiho tlisCovered,snute
marks Of violence on the body, and,,t hey gavelt as
their opinion that thedeceused xatne.to his Jjeatlt
by the blows he received; it being also aseertilined
that the deceased was robbed' of a pocket-book,
containing a large quantity of Batik..notes ; and it
being also proved, itron t tie oath of Charles John- .
son, that the prisoner 'Fitch followed
,the deceased
into the field, and that he II ad heard hint say to
two othel..inen, ti---n his. eyes we will m;11 hinv,,
we will kick his --•,'--; and:that he was not seen
afterwards, witil he was found drownea in the
well. The prisoner. was committed for re-exa.`
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mutation.
130 W-STREET.
DADltii; Roa4Eay.---Vesterday, at one o'clock,
the situp of Mr. John Harris, lineu-draper, in-
Piekett-street. wits attempted to be robbed pub-
licly at the door, by James Bates, a well known
character. lie teas perceived by Thomas Phillips,
the $11()111;141, who .ti‘‘P burn taking something from
the dour, which proved to he seine printed cotton ;
'he tan to the shop door, and caught the prisoner
in the act of removing it ; part _ot it, omount lug
to several yards, was in his hand,• and torn from
time piece or roll, but not quite severed front il.
lie was brooght to the ()dice..
Mr. NAttEs, the Sitting Magistrate, regretted
eZtreinely that the conduct charged against the
- prisoner did not amount to a felony, and the case
turned upon a nice,• legal distinction. The pri•••
1 soner was held to bail for his iftitttre good belia-

John Clark -«•as charged %rid) attempting to rob
the company .coming ut►t of the fiyeenw '!'heat r'
its the Strand, Ott 'l'l►t,reday night. Lie was coin-.
Milted.
Catherine:Cocks, late n servant in-the house of
Potlucks the saddler ..tt Chating :Croii, was
chatgCd with lobbing her mistreis of a variety 9f
articles of property. She was,eomutitted for tur-
thct

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Pooa Witt row, R oroner-tri
Westmillstrv, chitrg Trittittm :leer, the owner
of two sma:l houses in Cottage-place; in •tllti pa-
rish. or St. John, and inhabiting orke of them, \vitt)
en assault. Proscentiir stated, that being employ-
ed by Air. Jidin Stent , collector of the poor-rates
in the said parA, to make distre;oxs antler the
Justicci' warrant, he went for blot pOrpOSe to
tenslint'a house. On knocking, at the doOr,- which
was ,dlnt and iriekeo,. two tvii.men lot,hetl out of
the cli4mbei' %rim!, Iy,'and told hint Wsliiatu darker
ti
was not at 110111 C ;It:>lll'Cll(Lem to open the dour,
saying it wit.; not he wanted, but to come,
into the hou.e to levy it (11.411!” for lIIC relit. They
informed hini tic shonla not come in, and -set hint
xtt defiance. lie cootrived, boirever, to get in at
the whitlow, when they' :both: assailed him like
t w'u bonesseS, but he .war4ad otitheir attack 'more
by StfitttgCtli thin strettlitil, which 11e found far less
}towel fill than their united fury ; so, like a;i able ge-
petal , he satreated towards the street-dour; While
with .tnc hand 11C,CrOleilV011t 01 to %Valli Off the piti-
Jess btorm of blows they levelled at him, he wade
shift with the tither to open the shoot, and let in
to Isis stsiistance the Isesidle Of 'the parish, and Mr.
Stein the collector, who being both stout able-
' bodied The the two Aotilzoils thought it prudent
to retreat in their turn, and locked themselves in-
to the chamber. now in peaceable `posses-
sin„ of the ground-work of the citadel, As itneis
sat down iu thelparlour to fill tip some necessary
papers ; and:whde lre wt as in this act defendant re-
turned home, appeared ex seeding wrathful at seeing
witness whet e he was, and deuianding to know Isis
business, flew at him like a tiger, seized him by
the, collar, and tore his shirt very much. Defend-
ant then Strnek thins sever','[ Hums, afterwards re.;
treatedStatrS anti locked himself into thy
cliontber.
Mr.Steot confirmed the evitlenc4 of the last witness
as to the assault ; and Silted further, thiit defend-
ant:was not content witp hat lug refused to pay
the poor-rates himself, but he had also persuaded
all-his neighbours to do the saute; and there were
now .a great many deluded persons .who, following
his example, resisted .the execution of distress
warrants by barring their floors.
Prisoner said, in his defence, he was a tun 75
years oltl, and though he had boilt the two houses
many years-ago; lie could not afford to pay the
pemr-rntes Willsont bringing,htusselt to the parish.
The Magistrate (*Mr„rirtAitsi3) most kindly
pointed out to hint the great inipuldenee as wen
as the illegality of hi 7 conduct, and ordeted him
to find bait, or .he would ceiraiuly send hint to
prison for the assault.
:MARLI3OItOUGrki.sTREF:T.

11Tomt .--John Simmons was charged with.
bigamy. The prisoner was first charged with an
assault, and in the progress of that iturviry, his
wife, who charged him, found that he was claimed
by others of the softer stv. It turned ont that
he married the complainant at Bath in December
lait, and he confessed baring bven wedded twice
before. Ile Was renianded for re-examination.