The Sun.
London, England, 1829-07-04 00:00:00

.SPIRIT OF THE. Punrac JOURNALS.

Nothing within our recollection has ever been
more pcoroking or disgraced than the conduct
of tie officer commanding his Majesty's ship
Xdrth Star, who, being charged with tit ;ii--ten-
sive correspondence from Rio Janeiro to Eng-
land., detained the letters at Portsmouth for 48
boars after his vessel arrived, quite heedless, ap-
parently, of the serious lots, nay ruin, which sue!'
a violation of his trust might entail upon a num-
ber of anxious merchants in this tobntry. How
far the officer thus offendieg would be punish-
able in his pocket by ah action at the suit of the
suffering or disappointed parties, we shall not
express an opinion, although, possibly, we may
have farmed a strong one. It is ceitam that the
master of a merchant-vessel would not be per-
mitted to escape untouched. The letter-bag
d not, indeed, contain " treasure," in that
sense which renders the conveyance of the pre--
cious metals so abundantly profitable to captain
of the royal navy who transport them; but to
the merchants it may have been treasure of the
most valuable and indispensable description:
the letters, so blamably withheld from the right-
ful owners, may, and doubtless did, enclose re--
mittances in the shape of bills, or other vouchers
and representatives of actual property, the de-
tention of which is at all times most grievous to
those who look for them as the means of
discharging their own engagements, and most
embarrassing to the free and natural course
of commerce. If the law does net teach this
gentleman a lesson, we trust that the Admiralty
Times.

Among all the accounts received, or said to
be received, from Poland, Germany, or the seat
of war itself, we have not seen anything to in-
validate, or in the slightest degree to alter, the
view.which we have from the beginning taken of
the occurrences at and near Kovlertscha, so 0)-
viously garbled and discoloured by the pen of
the Russian General. It is plain, from every
thing which has yet appeared, that, except the
relief of Pravadi, no -other object of the invading
force has been fulfilled by the march from Silis-
tria south.:rards. It was strange, and indeed
unpardcnable, that the Grand Vizier should
have suffered himself to be turned ; it was even
marvellous, that he should have allowed his
enemy to occupy the direct road to Slimla be-
Lind him ; but having been taken in the rear,
surprised, and almost surrounded, it t-howed
nearly incredible courage, and no common mea-
sure of skill in the Turkish army, to have escaped
utter annihilation. The boast of Count Die-
bitsch, that he would on the 12th of June march
with his entire army for Marasch, distant only
rett or a dozen miles—the direct acknowledg-
ment that his -troops did not actually attempt
that operation ; and the tacit confession two
days afterwards, that not one Russian or Cossack
soldier had then succeeded in reaching Marasch,
gives ample contradiction to the averments of both
the first and second bulletin, that the Turks were
reduced to a disorderly and unresisting rabble.
Had such been the state of the Turkish army, nay
had it not been in an efficient and formidable capa-
city of self defence—what prevented Count Die-
bitsch from getting before the Vizier to Shumla,
since he says that he had what we know to be the
direct road in his undisturbed possession ? What,
again, prevented him from traversing a distance
of less than twelve miles in eight-and-forty hours
if there was no enemy,—and a stout and un-
broken enemy,—to obstruct him ? Count Die-
bitsch doubtless wishes that the Turks, as Na-
poleon and his officers wished formerly that the
stupid English, knew enough of war to be sen-
sible when they were beaten, instead of going on
to split so many warlike Russian and Gallic
skulls, when they ought, by every rule of military
etiquette, to have laid domi their arms and •sur-
rendered. For our parts, we desire only that
the Turkish chiefs should attend a little better
to their flanks and rear, and now and then take
the trouble to write us a good long matter-of-.
fact bulletin.—lbid.

The Civic Body, as it would seem from the
late partial exposure of their accounts, out of
their enormous revenue are not at all niggardly
in the part which '.'ney bestow upon themselves.
The Lord M.„yor, the Chamberlain, the Re-
corder, CP.,-mmon Sergeant, Remembrancer, and
the crzvvd of other official persons, too numerous
to :nention, all experience the truth of that ex-
eellent maxim, that « the labourer is worthy of
his hire." We would nct be supposed to urge
a word against so excellent a precept ; and even
though the reward may, in some instances, over-
pay the labour, yet that we should deem to be
an error on the right side, and far preferable,
especially in the case of a public body, to that
narrow parsimony which often unnerves and neu-
tralizes even an anxious willingness to serve.—
But then, on the other hand, where services are
amply rewarded, and the retaining fee sufficient
to bespeak the whole of a man's time, those in
whose behalf the labour is expected, should at
least see their expectations fulfilled, and, above all,
no delay of essential service take place. Amongthe
rest, we think it must be admitted that the City
Law Officers are pretty well paid—not over-
paid probably, if the duties are done for which
they are appointed ; yet such, it would appear,
is the want of method and arrangement among
those whose business it is to regulate those mat-
ters, that the most grievous delays of justice
continually take place, from the Recorder, or
some one else, being expected to be in two
places at once ; or, as the instance we allude to,
being expected to hold the Sessions at Guild-
hall and in the Borough on one and the same
day. We wonder whether the civic body ever
appoint two dinners to be eaten on the same
day—a swan-hopping set-to, for instance, at
Maidenhead, and a white-bait affair at Green-
wich. We augur better of their economy of
dinner-time ; only we do not see why law-time
might not be under as judicious regulation and
division. Perhaps it may be inconvenient to
some of the worthy Aldermen to be called upon
to bestow their time in making Courts. But
those who can so well employ their afternoons
should not grudge their mornings ; remember-
ing, as they are bound to do, another axiom
from the same book which we have already
quoted, viz. that " those who will not work,
neither shall they eat."—Morning Herald.
We have copied into another column an article
from the Dublin Evening Post, in which an
invitation is thrown out to independent Vicars
or Curates, to devote themselves to the cause of
the sufferers from the abuses of the Establish-
ment, with the certainty that the Protestant
public would, to a man, be with any Curate with
a small independence and of an irreproachable
life. 'l'he same Paper charges us with not being
sufficiently alive to the abuses of the Protestant
Church, or at least not sufficiently sanguine as
to the possibility of a reform. We are, perhaps,
in the wrong. We ought never to despair of the
good cause. The country papers, we observe,

'oftett parts of our Establishment. There is
very able article in the last numb'e'r of the Kent
Herald, which_ w' fthart postpone to a future
day. o.g.tr Dublin Contemporary attributes the
(c:Ortimencement of the Second Reformation in
England to the Bishop of Lincoln. We sub-
scribe to this opinion. His Lortlbit,), ‘‘, heii he
entered on his tasks O`t'c'imrse that it was a
Herculean t%IZ. However, the greater the task,
the greater the fame he will derive. To give our
readers a small sample of what remains for his
Lordship's achievement, we subjoin a list Merely
of the Prebendaries and their Prefernienttt, and
of the Preferments of Arditteacon Goddard.

re details on Monday.
DARIES.

We shaY •i:`e a few tnol
PREBEN,
No. of Cleri.
Names. cal Officers.
G. Jepson 6
P. • • 3
W. 9
46. Moore 6
.T. Humphrey 3
E. Maltby 3
R. Turner 6
L. C. Humphrey :e
F. Arthorrt • • 5
ti. b. Kent ....6
R. Pointer 1
Dr. Bonney 5
J. Cullum 4
W. W. Drake 3
R. Prettyman -,..5
G. T. Prettyman .....6
T. Pretty tnan 3
C. Whetbright 3
C. Le Bas .3
T. Mountain
Sir C. Anderson•
Ord
Dr. Goddard (only) .6
T. Batten 4
C. Turner 3
DR. GODDARD'S
Archdeacon of Lincoln....
Prebendary, ditto
Rectory of St. James, Gat
Vicar of Bexley
Vicar of Lvdth.
Chaplain to his Majesty
Dr. Goddard has also a p
annum from Government, an
in a snug cuttage on Kew Gr

No. of Cleri-
Names. cal Offirevs.
W.
tion. E. Fane 3
J. Bouverie 3
G. Beckett 4
H. Rycroft 3
T. BOWCD. 3
E. Edwards,...,.%,
Pr. 1.37,:,1-ey, since t 6
preferred
T. R. Bonney 3
N. Dodson 6
T. M. Turner 2
F. Swan A
F, Borodaile 1
G. Warneford 2
Seymour 5
Dr. Turton
F. Lockwood 2
Maul 4
J. Prahattt • 1
Bishop
Dean
Dr. Hollingsworth 6
Rev.
4
Tetal 191 to 49 persons.

PREFERMENTS.
No Bad End.
Ditto,
Flick Bither Ditto.
Ditto.
Ditto.
Ditto.
)ension of 4001. or 500/. per
id enjoys his dignita.ry
-een Chronicle.

The following article appeared in a late im-
pression of the Courier of last night, and we
have heard it whispered that it emanates from a
high quarter :-
4( An attempt is now making, by those who have
hitherto dealt to falsehoods of the most daring) and
calumnies of the darkest character, to represent them-
selves as victims to principle, because they are called
upon to justify the truth of their assertions in the
open Courts of their country, or to bear the penalty
due to convicted guilt. But as they failed to per,
vert the judgment, so they will not succeed in
posing on the compassion of the public: They cry
out at the approach of danger like bullies Who think
themselves undetected still, and seek, by a mixture
of complaint and menace, to conceal or protect their
cowardice. But their cry is without power, for it
is without justice. They say that they are visited
for their political offences; but the call made upon
them is no visitation, either political, or even legal.
It is not a thunderbolt hurled on defenceless heads,
striking at once to the ground, and leaving no time
or strength for the victim to ward offs allti'i~iate,
or return the blow. It is a fair demand that they
shall stand forth to their own word as men ; and
that they shall prove to a British Jury, with every
assistance which the law and the best abilities
at the Bar can give them, that the charges
which have been made of corrupt dispensations of
patronage are true, or that, as they assert, they do
not apply to the Lord Chancellor of England. Is
there any thing vindictive, any thing political, in
this ? Nay, is it net a step which they themselves
have forced upon that high individual ? Was he
alone of all men to have no protection, because he was
invested with functions of such importance that
they require a character not only free from accusti
tion, but above suspicion itself? Was he to be de-
barred the remedy open to all his fellow-men, un-
shackled by similar duties ? Had he, indeed, adopt-
ed a different course, a course ordinary and perfectly
legitimate, but which prevents the proof of a charge
from acting as a justification of it, there would be
some plausibility for these daily misrepresentations
and complainings. But now there is none, and this
very circumstance adds to their rage. Had they no
opportunity to prove their charges, they would
have had the consolation, after conviction, of assert-
ing that, f allowed, they could have proved them.
This consolation, slender as it is, they see, is now
denied them. They feel that they have no proofs
whatever to adduce in answer to the manly call
made upon them. They know that no Jury, com-
posed of men in their senses, will doubt for one mo-
ment the application of the calumny; and their re-
sentment against their intended victim derives double
bitterness from the despairing conviction, that by
the charitableness and liberality of his course he has
brought them to, in their case, the most fatal of all
tests—the test of truth."

We have ourselves abstained hitherto from
any remarks on the prosecution, from a persua-
sion that while a cause is pending before a tri-
bunal which involves no general principle, it is
hardly consistent with propriety to interfere with
it. As, however, the appeal on one side to a
different tribunal from the legal one has pro-
duced a corresponding appeal on the other, we
have thus departed from our resolution, by no-
ticing the circumstance. Having, however,
given the case on one side, we shall give that
of the other in the Morning Journal of this
day :

" In the case of the Atlas, Messrs. Whiting and
Swift, the printers and proprietors of the Atlas, are
not prosecuted, on the ground that they were not
parties to the insertion of the libel. In our case
Mr. Gutch is made criminally responsible, although
he was more than a hundred miles from London,
and confined to a sick bed, at the time the obnoxious
paragraph appeared. The Noble and Learned Lord,
and his candid and liberal advisers, pounce upon
him, although they know that be had no more to
do with the authorship or publication of the article,
than the Emperor of China. They let Messrs.
Whiting and Swift escape, who either knew what
was published, or who, residing on the spot, ought
to have known what was published; and they fas-
ten on Mr. Gutch, who it was impossible could
have been a party to its insertion!
" This proceeding requires no comment. This is
a specimen of the justice dealt out to us by the
Lord High Chancellor of England ! This is the
way in which a Supreme Judge of the land pursues
his imaginary calumniators ! This is modern libe-
' rality ! This a sample of the Chancery clemency
of Lord Lyndhurst ! That Mr. Whiting may be a
personal friend of Lord Lvndhurst's may be true;
hut why Mr. Whiting should escape, and .Mr.
Gutch should be brought to trial, is an anomaly
which we should like to hear explained by a special
,pleader.
" But it is a mere farce to attribute the proceed-
ing to personal feelings. The prosecution is insti-
tuted by the Government—perhaps by Mr. Peel—
but it is in substance a Government prosecution. It
is an official visitation upon us for the part we
took on the Catholic question. We are marked out
as the first victims of the late opposition to the
apostate Bill. We are selected as a sin-offering to
offended dignity—as the organ of Protestant opi-
nions—as the defenders of that Constitution which
corrupt and dishonest men sacrificed on the altar of
expediency.
" And why is Mr. Gutch thus marked ? Because
he took a prominent part in the proceedings at
Bristol.` Because he was true to his principles, and

large 'portion of our public men to be mercenary and
characterless, aimed a fatal blow at our liberties, and
signed the death-warrant of the Constitution of
1688. For this reason Mr. Whiting escapes under
a contemptible apology, end Mr. Guth is prose,
cuted destlite an honourable, and a satis-
i'aciOrY explanation.
" Gentlemen of England, who are not yet slaves !
is this insidious justice to be countenanced or pa-
tronised by you ? Is there to be poison given to
one man and ass's milk to anotheri, under the pre-
text of administering even-lihnded Jtistit'e tO all
is it. not plain thAt,this iS a kruel, a personal, and a
prosecution ? Is it not clear that we are
chosen to bear the punishment of your acts—of
your opinions—of your spirited and honest struggles
in defence of the Constitution ? It is not a ques';
tion between A and B; ht'w the latter
may havF spoken unfavourably of the former. It
is a prosecution set on foot to crush your favoured
organ—punish the men who fought faithfully, man-
fully, and consistently on your side; and not only
to intimidate, but, if possible, send to a gird those
who asserted their rights agabist mercenaries at
period of great exciteitiiiti Wittin all t've deeiiied
host valuable was voted away contrary to his Ma-
jesty's instructions.
" We make this appeal to our Protestant friends.
On so trying an occasion we solicit their support.
We ask no favour that is not dne to our services
and our principles 1 but, as this is an insidious and
vindictive attack upon us, we think we have some
claim upon their friendship and their collective sup,
port. Of the issue we are not aftaid, because there
are still a few honest Protestant Jtirymen in Lon-
don; but the. tithes look murltythere are traitors
in every street—spies in every house, and corrupt
jobbers around every table; therefore we say to our
friends "watch and wake I"

It has bean observed that Lord Eldon, during
his long judicial career, remained patient under
repeated attacks. Whether these attacks would
have been construed into libels by Juries, is
more than we can well say q hecanse, as has been
observed, every thing is a libel which a Jury tail
be persuaded to declare one. We have no doubt
that many of the articles written against Lord
Eldon gave him considerable pain. But they
were either strictures on his mode of discharging
his public duty) dr alltisidiis to real dr supposed
weaknesses. In all times a good deal of lati-
tude has, by courtesy rather than by law, been
allowed to writers and caricaturists respecting
public characters. Mr. Pitt's indifference to
the fair seX and attachment to the bottle were

the subject of many an epigram, The parsi,
mony and love of tattle of the late I(ing form
the burde►► of many a page in Peter Pindar. In
like manner, many a colu►nn has been devoted

to the hospitality of Lord Eldon. But there is
an evident distinction between alluding to the
Weakness or foibles which cling to public as well
as private individuals, and charging them
with substantive crimes or offences. We
leave untouched the. question whether the
Lord Chancellor was or was not the petson-
affe alluded to. But if he were the personage,
he is, in that case, charged with what amounts
td a posiiive crime of a high order. The selling
Church livings is also an offence, which, if
proved, would at once lay the foundation for
depriving him of the Seals, These are not
Weaknesses, or infirmities, or errors in judgment,
but delinquencies. It may be very true that ru-
mours of all sorts were in circulation with respect
to his Lordship, We can form a conjecture
too whence these rumours emanated. But
spoken slander is privileged, while written is not.
When we say spoken slander is privileged, we
mean merely to say, that except some person is
present who takes such an interest in the charac-

ter slandered as to be willing to become evidence
at the hazard of being deemed a tale-bearer, it
can never be proved. We have heard it said
that a certain personage, the precise degree of
whose elevation we shall not venture to specify,
has boasted that he can run down, if he chooses,
any character in a month. But verba seripta
mancnt. There is no escape for the writer.—
Morally speaking, he is not more guilty than the
speaker, but lie has not the same facilities for
escape. The school-boy who is caught robbing
an orchard is often the least guilty, because the
youngest ; but he suffers, because he is least
able to effect his escape. The Standard of last
night observes—
" Mr. Moore, in one of the Intercepted Letters,
charges Lord Ellenborough, in direct terms, with
horsewhipping His Lady within an inch of her life,'
—we mean the late Lord. This was an intrusion
into private life—certainly not warranted by good
taste—hut did it in the slightest degree impair the
reputation of the late Lord Chief Justice, though
imputing a brutality so base and unmanly ? No;
not one living being believes it. But who will say,
that the same story whispered with a sufficient in.
dustry would not have obtained credit ? But the
libels of which Lord Eldon was the object—the
libels charging him with avarice, with hard-hearted-
ness to suitors, with mean pursuit of unlawful fees,
with partiality in bringing causes to a termination,
nay, with even dipping his hand into the money de-
posited in his Court; these libels would freight a
navy, as we have said. Lord Eldon never prosecuted
them. During his long public life, tide after tide of
libels has rolled and roared against him, but rolling
and roaring only to dissipate themselves,—and there
he still stands—erect, spotless, unmoved, like the
eternal cliffs of his own loved England."
As to the case of the late Lord Ellenborough,
we do not recollect it at present ; but with re-
spect to Lord Eldon, we do not remember his
ever having been charged with dipping his hand
into the money deposited in his Court, or taking
unlawful fees. We have heard him again and
again charged with loading his own family with
sinecures ; and his resistance of all reform in his
Court, while there was, during his whole career,
a heavy arrear of business, was construed into
an indifference for the sufferings of suitors. But,
if these are to be libels, all strictures on the con-
duct of public men are at an end. The enemies
of Lord Eldon charge him with pertinacity in
error ; the enemies of Lord Lyndhurst charge
him with too great facility of conviction. Ob-
stinacy and apostacy are the dyslogistic, while
consistency and openness to conviction are the
eulogistic expressions which are used by turns,
as the speakers are enemies or friends. —lbid.

We beg to refer our readers to our Worship-
street Police Report, for another sample of the
shameful conduct which is daily pursued towards
the Licensed Victuallers of the metropolis, by
informers and their agents. They first tempt
the former, as they avow, to the commission of
a breach of the law, and then turn round upon
them, in order to riot on the spoils of their
conviction ! Information, in fact, has now
become a trade—by and by, if some people
had their, way, it might chance to be ex-
alted into a profession ; but surely nothing
can be more truly degrading, more utterly
base and unprincipled, than the system which is
now pursued, of first appealing to the sympathy
of the Victualler, and then converting that sym-
pathy into his ruin ! We say ruin, because a
third conviction is fatal to obtain a licence ! though,

by that glorious inconsistency which so pecu-
liarly distinguishes English from all other laws,
an informer may pursue his vocation during every
hour of the Sabbath, and every day of the
_. t_ V.-1A Manic-

tratcs, in the cot referred to, could have
acted with more propriety than those of Wor-
ship-street : but we regret to perceive that they
differed on one point which has already been
neqiiatty then the thne whidt is
to be held as the time of Divine Service. the
Worship-street Magistrates decided it to be the
usual time during which Divine Service is per-
formed in the metropolis ; but the time varying
greatly; as was proved in this particular instance,
Anti As is universally tinutti in different parishes,
it has been decided by good authority, and
on good grounds; that the time during which
Divine Service continues to be performed in
the partiettlat ptirM, is to be held as the tithe
during which the Legislature intended that the
houses of Licensed Victuallers should not be
open for public accommodation. We trust,
therefore, that the Worship-street Magistrates
will re-consider their decision, and that when a
similar case tomes before them, they will decide
aceortibig.tii tht, standard established by their
brethren, instead of fixing oil one too variable
to be useful, and too liable to be abused by

perjury, not to be most injurious to the Li-
censed Victualler.—Morning Adver:ivr..

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OP CHANCERY, .ILLY S.
JACKSON 23. HAN kAY.

This was an appeal from a decision of the Master
of the 'Wills when Vice-Chancellor, by which he had
dismissed the bill filed in this cause. It appeared
that a settlement had been made on the marriage of
Mr. Saville, by Mich a sum of Bank stock had been
settled on the husband and wife for their joint lives,
and on the death of the wife the divi(lends and prin-
cipal were to go to the children of the marriage.
Mr. Saville, who was a man of considerable wealth,
bad continued to receive the dividends after the death
of his wife and after hi 3 children came of age. In
the course of his He, certain family arrangements
had been made, in which his right to do so was not
disputed, and the general result of those arrange-
ments had been much more advantageous to the
children than the receipt of the dividends to which

they were entitled. After his death a bill had been
filed against the trustees of the settlement, for an
account of the dividends which they had permitted
the husband to receive. Their defence to this was,
that the persons entitled had sanctioned such receipt
by concurring in the arrangements made by the late
Mr. Saville, and that after such concurrence they
could not maintain their present demand. Besides
this, the trustees flied a cross bill.

Counsel were heard on both sides, and
The LORD CHANCELLOR postponed his judgment.

ROLLS' COURT, JULY 3.
IN RI 811F.PPARD's CHARITY.

This is a charity for the maintenance and clothing
of a certain number of aged men and women, and
the payment of the salary of a nonconformist Mini-
ster is also provided for under the same trust. The
funds a►ise from landed property, and the sum of
8001. having been obtained from the sale of timber
belonging to the estate, the trustees thought pro-
per to purchase a landed estate for upwards of NM
A petition was now presented, praying that an order
might be made for the payment of the purchase
money out of the funds arising from the sale of tim-
ber and other sources.

The NIAsTEIt of the nous said the Court had no
authority to do what was required. In the present
case the petition must stand over.