The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-18 00:00:00

VINCENT, THE CHARTIST.

Among those who hay,• within the last fl,,w da vs
appeared in our political horizon, and whoL'it may he
hoped "Come like shadows—so depart," tl..ere is none
who has so ostentatiouslv elevated Ms heed among the
"heads of the people"' as Henry Vincent, the re-
doubted delegate for the Complete Suffrage, and
other things not yet complete.
Henry Vincent, is in the twentv-seventh year of
his age, and for his time of life has experienced
much of the vicissitude incident to strong politic
feeling, or an affectation of it, which answers
as well—frequently aimless and purposeless, and therefore generally unsuccessful if not mischie-
vous. His frame is petit, but compact, well set, and
not a little indicative of the intellectual vigour pre-
suirved. to be synonymous with good lungs • a copious
Und declamatory style, and that Universal Suffrage
redundancy of epithet and power of amplification for
which he is distinguished. He would be what the
ladies call "good looking,' if he would let his loiiks
alone, and not spoil them by the fretful and petulant
expression which the occasionally equivocal reception
he meets with produces.
He is a singular but not solitary instance of what a
little enthusiasm, albeit interested, inveteracy of pur-
pose, and much practice in addressing popular assem-
blies will effect. He has to perfection what Cohbett
used rather disparagingly to call the " gift of the
gab." He is a " cunning master of the fence, and
the homeliness and hrusquerie of his manner is for-
gotten in the great purpose which appears to animate
him, as period after period flows in a felicitous re-
dundancy, but with the weight and directness of a
sledge hammer.
A very good speaker, and for a great political pur-
pose, is no novelty in Ipswich, We have had many
for the last few years, but these were speakers of the
silver fork school. They addressed themselves gene-
rally to the denizens of the drawing-room ; they
buzzed, bowed, and are forgotten. Mr. Vincent
addresses himself to the denizens of a locality awe
the drawing-room, but not superior to it—tLe pa-
tient and long suffering dwellers in the attics.
The residents in " the parlour next to the sky,"
are those whom he principally seeks tf:k interc:st
and inoculate with • his principles. How far he
has succeeded there is no sure test for ascer-
taining, but he has touched a string 'which vibrates
in a thousand bosoms. His splrAalid declanni-
tion has caught the popular ears his scathing de-
nunciations. of the aristocracy has tickled the
popular, vanity, and his facts and passionate
appeals to excited feelings, has rendered him
in a few days almost omnipotent for the purposes of
I the election.

The impristbnment of Mr. Vincent for twelve
months in the gaol of Dorset for spoken sedition, has
made him more cautious in the scope and tendency
of his present appeals. Mr. O'Connell himself, with
a host of practical grievances, does not more earnestly
denounce " physical force" than Mr. Vincent. A
rather close and reluctant musing for twelve months
on the subject, in a gaol, has made him more chary or
such recommendation, and more convinced of its:.
danger and impracticability. He has come out al.
changed man, and is now, with a hankering after Ow-•
sieal violence, the simple assertor of moral force. His
daily outpourings, therefore, may justly be called h s
" prison. thoughts." He rails at the lories in gJoa
set terms—he smites them with the power of ''though t
—but will not suffer a hair of their heads to ha
touched. He may point out a pair of ).ong ears on
some of the noodles of the party, but lve will counte
no man "to nail them to the pump." " The present
()Her of things," is what he cannot -relish, but he wit
not, counsel the pulling down of ark old wall by
of improvement or renovation. Mr. Vin Cent, they e-
fore, takes his place in the van of the march of isr-
L.lket. He is so far safe, perhaps practiCable, and as
one of the heads on our hustings, deserving of such
celebrity as this brief notice of his peculiarities can
confer upon him.—Abridged from the .Ipswieh

mews.

ALLEGED FORGERIES AND FLIGHT OF THE V ESTWY
CLERK or ST. LIIRE'S-Mr, Joseph Burton, the Vestry
Clerk of this parish, having abseuted himself for some
time, and suspicion arising therefrom, examination has
been made of his books, when defalcations.to the amount
of 3,000/. were discovered, said to have been obtained by
forged cheques on Messrs. Masterman, the bankers, and
treasurers of the parish. A meeting of the Guardians.;
took place on the subject ; two officers are already ix
pursuit. He is supposed to have quitted England tar -
America.
Eight parishioners are in bond for him to the
amount of 2,000 Z
Or, Locol, -Lord Cranley, Captain Maitland,
Colonel Campbell, and Captain Archibald Hamilton, left
the Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall, yesterday afternoon,
for Antwerp, on board the General Steam Navigation
Company's steam ship, Soho.