The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-11 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

ITAIINSTER REVIEW, No. 22.—LoNoow, 1829.
With much manly and vigorous thinking,
finch rough eloquence, caustic humour, and
-freedom of opinion, there is no inconsiderable
quantity of assumption, and even impudence, in
the present number of this Review. We regret
this the more, as it is a work that cannot fail to
do,good. Whenever, however, it happens to treat
on the subjects of the Fine Arts, of theßellcs Let-
ter generally, or of Mr. Bentham and his new
tangled system, entitled " The Greatest Happi-
ness Principle," it is sure to involve itself in
untenable theories, and, what is worse, to lash
Without mercy all those who may be opposed to
its fantastic crudities. Its pets just at present
are Messrs. Bentham and Mill, but as variety
is the breath of its nostrils," it is not unlikely
that in the next publication, some new idol may
start up and supply the place of these much-be-
lauded politicians. Our business however is with
the present .number. The first article, " Slavery
in the West.lndies," is penned in an eminently
bold and liberal spirit, enlivened by an ingeni-
our, and in parts faithful portrait, of that non-
deScript John Bull. The likeness is far from
flattering, still it is a likeness, and though for
the sake of effect not a little caricatured, be-
trays the hand of a master. We need not add,
that the article advocates the abolition of Slavery
omits prompt annihilation rather ; an expe-
dient, which to be just to all parties, cannot, we
iconceive, be had recourse to so instanta-
ileOtlsly as the Reviewer would wish. " Gas
Light," is an animated history of the rise
and progress of this inestimable discovery—a
discovery which has converted night into day
and, as the writer, not less justly than forcibly
observes, " has suppressed more vice than the
Suppression Society, and been a greater police-
officer into the bargain than old Colquhoun and
1. Sir ,Richard Birnie united." A Mr. Murdoch,
it Seems, is the author of this invention, to whom
accordingly the article tenders its grateful meed
of praise. We do not altogether approve the
in which it is written, there is a caustic
acerbity:about it that might as well have been
avoided. We subjoin a specimen of its more'
amusing manner :-
1 14: We
have now been se long accustomed to this new
t m the streets, that, like all other terrene goods, we
Cre almost become insensible to its blessings. Yet let
sn who desires to know what he owes to chemistry and
Old Murdoch,' turn into any of the streets still lighted
with oil, and then come back to the nocturnal day of the
hrand or Pall-mall• The parish oil-lamps were like light-
on ses on the ocean ; guides, not 14hts ; the gas has be-
cull* a Perpetual full moon ; and it may assuredly be pro-
nounced one of the most splendid and valuable applications
of chemistry. Why has not old Murdoch his statue also?
He deserves it even better than his master; for the master
Vial paid P
in solid pudding. In other days, that
statue wo have equalled the Colossus of Rhodes,
itrel the
demi-Philosopher would have breathed flame like
have a , in the fabulous ages before that, he would
pro Lonie down to us a god. or a demigod, the rival of
A' Tethel", Hercules, and Atlas. Why not cast him in
chillean brass the rival of the great hero of gunpowder
ofd Waterloo, and d make him breathe gas like the dragon
Wantlley to illuminate the triumphal arch. Ingrate
Petrie
The new light ! yes, much has been heard of its
wer and influence ; but what has the new light of all
tne Preachers done fur the morality and order of London,
e4MPleed to what has been effected by this new light.
(ed Murdoch alone has eupptess.ed more vice than the
qi)Preltikin 815dety ; and has been a greater police officer
the bargain than old Colquhoun and Sir Richard
wai,.dunited• It is not only that in, n are afraid to he
ashara„Phien light is looking at them, but they
.are
place. --Ma'riere formation is applied to the right
dark doeesrveice resort? Where it can hide ; in
A ne's says the preacher, because its deeds are deeds of uarhe„„
the aCpss-
es Seek it in Pudding-lane, and Dyott-street, and
of Westiniuster Why was not this new light
reltelied to them long aeo.? twenty bushels of it would
ei,4016 been of more value than as many chald
rons of ser-
theutba' an inspector d taking even the explosions of the into
Clem r,gamn. I3ut it is well that this is
.at length to he
r, since it is never 100 late. Thieves and roguts
then,'" moths in blankets : • bring the sun to shine on
••., and they can
neither livaor breed. Let the Duke
elli
fen, ngtou place a gas lamp"at every door of these
in-
their 114° lea ; and since they cannot be sinoieilout, snake
old It, llk's as much like glass, on the principle of the
least !1114n, as we can compass. This is the remedy ; at
till common sense will condescend to the better ex-
of of pulling down and laying open all these retreats
dan-iterY and vice ; the disgrace and the nuisance of
iLon-
-01.4 and not less a standing inhumanity to the poor t
em-
y nge„iv". Yes Ree-ent.street is fine and showy, and, if
44'
-"t Pleases, i;sefuT, and so are the new churches, or
f!'ttiftlit be : but the whole would have been well exchanged
or a hundred eleau, open, spacious, and well-
lgated streets, of houses fitted for the habitations of the
ilaWest Orders of London, and while the charity would
4ve been great as penitentiaries, soups, and subscript,
could the moral result have been more valuable than
of the whole of the churches united."
Iv. To the diatribe against Gaining Houses "
e Can give unqualified praise. It is severe and
decided
as it should be ; and full of an indig-
liant) generous eloquence, that cannot fail to
:,...e a deep impn on the head and heart
I' the reader. " NiNiebulir's History of Rome"
1,8 a well-digested, well-argued article, without,
wever, putting forth anything in the shape of
pqorrnation with which the reader of this event-
ltd history has not previously been well ac-
Zehillted• " The Book of the Boudoir"
11i1es Lady Morgan without mercy. It charges
4stnwth self-conceit, assurance, flippancy, ego-
, i
t 'gnorance, and a variety of other blemishes
eh -•°,Bonle of which, notwithstanding her talent,
Zlldiness and intelligence, her Ladyship must,
We fear, lead guilty. " Bentham, Brougham,
tife l'alv Reform," is a comparison be-
thiite!l,
the two systems of legal reformation
• nave latelybeen projected by these eminent
dual
411• The comparison, however, is an
.lust 8.
and an untenable one, being neither more
nor leas than an elaborate panegyric, pronounced
This.. Bentham at the expense of Mr.Brougliam.
t() say the least of it, is uujudicious. As
80,,_
4n,
.." he
reformer, who has himself seen
Ahieh tilt the necesity of those legal iinprovements
he has sole loquently, and in so earnest
Rod
prehensive a spirit recommended, Mr.
tha Pam is incomparably superior to Mr. Ben-
/NZ'
oflhe latter, with much of shrewdness,
snorekeen sagacious perspicacity, has still
sort or fanciful and inefficient theory in his
iambi e
siti°n• He is full of plans and dogmas,
es °vet the wide field of speculation when
°aeilliould be stationary at onei particular spot,
ates when he should decide, and philosophizes
h ' er,ll he should_ be practical and free from abstrac-
, sod iv ere Mr. Bentham less of the metaphysician
al,' It °re of the man of the world, were he to
tio.. Where he now mystifies, his specula-
w°4l be infinitely more serviceable to the
Coln" ,
!tunny than they are at present ; but till thi

WES'

desirable epoch arrives, he must be content to
take a grade in the ranks of legal reformers be-
low that of his illustrious rival. Of the few re-
maining articles in the number—with the excep-
tion of the " Loves of the Poets," which is a
dull pedantic affair, totally devoid of that light
quicksilver spirit which such an analysis should
possess—we must content ourselves with saying,
that each in its particular line supports the charac-
ter of the Review.

WATERFORD ELECTION.

(From the Waterford Chronicle.)

A perusal of the two following addresses, the one
from Lord George Beresford, and the other in reply,
from Mr. H. 'Winston Barron, will show the cause
of the hostile meeting between these gentlemen, on
en Saturday morning, Nov. 7, the particulars of
which appeared in Th Sun of yesterday :

" TO THE GENTLEMEN, CLERGY, AND FREEHOLDERS

OF THE COUNTY OF WATERF6RD.

" Gentlemen,—When the retirement of Mr•
Henry Villiers Stuart from the representation of the
county Waterford enabled me to renew my claims
to the flattering distinction which it is my pride to
have enjoyed for so many years, I solicited, in per-
son, at your hands the highest honour an indepen-
dent county can bestow. My reception on that oc-
casion led me to hope that you would be spared the
agitation of another contest. I find, however, that
during my absence from Ireland an active canvass
has been commenced against me, and that calum-
nies the most illiberal and malicious have been cir-
culated to the prejudice of my interest and the dis-
honour of my name. Gentlemen, my opponent,
Mr. H. Winston Barron, has announced himself as
the champion of your independence, and has stig-
matised my family and myself as an ambitious and
corrupt oligarchy, anxious to convert the county of
Waterford into a• close borough. Had this gentle-
man confined himself to those general assertions it
might possibly be thought that he only used the per-
mitted license of electioneering declamation. But
when, instead of relying on his own merits, and con-
fining himself within the limits of fair and manly
competition, he permits a specific charge of the most
dishonourable traffic, and the foulest corruption to be
circulated against me, arsd scruples not to derive
advantage in his canvass from the stain which
has thus been cast upon my name, though he is
conscious that it'should have been attached to his own,
I feel that such a return for any long forbearance has
absolved me from all scruples of delicacy towards
Mr. Winston Barron; and I will now follow the
only course which is left, to clear my character from
an imputation which, if well founded, would for ever
disqualify me for representing the county of Water-
ford in Parliament. Before Mr. Henry Villiers
Stuart retired from the representation of your county
Mr. Henry Winston Barren proposed to some of my
family and friends to give me the support of his own
influence, and that of his connexions in the county,
on condition of our assisting him in the claims he
then set up to the representation of the city of Wa-
terford. His overtures were respectfully but firmly
declined. When Mr. Stuart's retirement had ren-
dered such support an object of vast importance to
any candidate for the representation of the county
of Waterford, Mr. Henry Winston Barron renewed
his proposal, representing himself as holding the
keys of the county, and able to ensure my return
without a contest. This proposal was again firmly
declined in a written communication to Mr. Henry
Winston Barron, which he, no doubt, retains. And
now, gentlemen, permit me to ask whether Mr.
Henry Winston Barron or myself is best entitled to
assume the proud title of the supporter of the inde-
pendence of the county of Waterford? and which of
us has formed the most correct estimate of your cha-
racter, and of the means best calculated to gain your
suffrages ? He, who thus audaciously attempted to
convert your county into a close borough—or I,
who declined all participation in this project of cor-
ruption, preferring to rest my claims upon a fair and
open appeal to the electors, although they had so
lately rejected me. If, gentlemen, 1 now advert to
the question which separated us at the last election,
it is only to express my anxious hope that, as than
question no longer exists, the divisions it created,
and the feelings it excited, nay be buried in obli-
vion—and to assure you that it will be my constant
endeavour, as I am confident it will be that of every
member of my family, to restore among us the har-
mony and kindly feeling which its discussion inter-
rupted. Amongst other imputations calculated to
excite prejudice against me it has been industriously
circulated that 1 come before you with changed
principles. This I deny. My principles are what
they have ever been, those of firm attachment to
the British constitution and to the Protestant reli-
gion. I always considered the lute question as purely
political; as such, while that question was under dis-
cussion, I openly and conscientiously opposed it. The
legislature has judged differently, and has paused the
relief bill; the law of the land is thus essentially altered
—to it I bow—and I hold it the bounden duty
of every good subject to co-operate in bringing
about Oust happy result which the legislature con-
templated, and to obliterate every trace of the di-
visions which have too long kept Irishmen asunder.
1 I trust, gentlemen, that much prosperity is yet in
store for Ireland; nor is any thing more likely to
promote it than the continued residence of our landed
proprietors ; and it is with more than ordinary gra-
tification that I am enabled to assure you that the
present head of my family is at heart an Irishman—
that he has already expressed his determination to
reside at the seat cf his ancestors—and, by cherish-
ing his tenantry and studying the interests of your
county, to deserve the good 'opinion of all those
whom I have now the honour to address. My
family is identified with this great county by that
community of interest and feeling which property
and residence must always produce, and I trust there
is sufficient energy and independence in the county
of Waterford to repel the noisy interference of those
meddling strangers who trade in agitation. I have
already trespassed too long on your patience, and will
only add, that if I should be the fortunate object of
your choice you may always command my services
to promote the interests of Ireland in general, and
of the county of Waterford in particular. And I feel
confident that I shall he able to satisfy you all that
my great object is to be the independent represen-
tative of an independent county, with a firm deter-
mination to avail myself of every opportunity to for-
ward the interests of all ranks and classes in the
county of Waterford without distinction. I have
the honour to remain, Gentlemen, with every sen-
timent of respect and esteem, your faithful and de-
voted servant,

" GEORGE THOMAS BERESFORD.
" Curraghmore, Nor. 3, 1829."

" TO THE GENTLEMEN, CLERGY, AND FREEHOLDERS

OF TILE COUNTY OF WATERFORD.

" Gentlemen,—l have this moment read the ad-
dress of Lord George Beresford to you. His Lord-
ship's address, as you have perceived, is not so
much an avowal of any political principles on his
own part as a violent personal tirade against me.
Ilis Lordship accuses me of having tendered to him
my support in the county. Now, 1 do candidly
avow that, acted upon by the feeling of conciliation
which so generally prevailed in the first nments of
exultation, I deceived myself into the opinion that
an honest man might, without compromising his
public virtue, entertain the idea of supporting a
Beresford ; and I will not be so uncandid as to deny
that I might not have been also impelled by an oL-
ject of legitimate ambition. Actuated by these
feelings I did canvass his friend,i. On these points,
I have only to say that I confess my error. I ac-
knowledge my guilt. I was wrong in ever, for a
moment, entertaining the thought of supporting any
of the Berefford family'. This was a political crime
of the deepest hue, and one, to the expiation of
which ray whole life, whether in a public or private
capacity, skull be devoted. I feel that the coml..

deration of his Lordship's address d'• Ides itself into
two distinct parts. The fi st, as 'bet, een Myself
and the county ; the second, as between myself and
Lord G. Beresford. As fir as regards the County
my feeling is, that i can sot sidliriently excuse my.
self for the fault I have committed. It is the only
act of my life I have to regret, and I shall certainly
never cease to regret io The same fault, it is tine,
may, in past times, have been committed by others;
but I shall not seek to shelter myself under this con-
sideration—l shall not endeavour to acquit myself
by any retrospective allusion to others. lam not
inclined to justify my guilt, nor even to extenuate
it—l confess it in the most aggravated degree, and
I sincerely regret. it. In the step which I took I
acted in my own private capacity as an individual,
without the knowledge of many of my nearest con-
nexions and friends, and contrary to strongly ex•
pressed opinions of those of them with whom I did
consult. To these friends I feel I can scarcely atone.
:lly conduct was rash, imprudent, and I fully admit
unpardonable. And now, as regards the second
consideration of the address, namely, the conduct
of Lord George Beresford towards myself. The
simple fact of my having held any conferences
with the Beresford family is not to be justified
—and 1 do not seek to justify it; but this forms
no excuse for his Lordship's dishonourable violation
of a private and confidential communication ; and I
therefore most uneqUivocally stigmatise his conduct
as a base and prof 'gate. abandonment of every prin-
ciple which has heretofore been held sacred amongst
gentlemen. He has, for his own purposes, endea-
voured to pull me down; but in the attempt to do
so, he has sunk himself even lower than he before
stood. His late despicable dissimulation of his po-
litical principles has earned for him, as a public
man, the contempt of all parties. His present vio-
lation of honour has reduced his private character
to the same level as his public. With respect to
his public character, he opposes the great measure of
concession to Ireland with the most desperate and
persevering virulence up to the very last moment;
but that measure being carried, he instantly deserts
his party, anti flies over to the liberal interest, lie.
lieving that interest to be the stronger in the county.
He crouches to the Catholic Bishop of Water-
ford—he crouches to- Mr. O'Connell—he crouches
even to Mr. Shiel. By these acts of dissimulation,
and by professions of a corresponding character, he
hoped (but vainly hoped) to impose upon the party
at whose feet he prostrated himself. Finding him-
self, however, rejected with contempt by that party,
he again flies back to his old friends, and he now
sounds the tocsin of Protestant principles,' by
which he means nothing else than Protestant as-
cendancy. On commencing his canvass he profess-
ed a total alteration of principles. Acting under
these false pretences, he applied to the late Catholic
Bishop of Waterford—employed Mr. Sheil--rind
sought to seduce Mr. O'Connell. Deceived by -
these acts, he procured the conditional promises of
a few liberal gentlemen, who, no doubt, will now
feel t liemselves abc,olved when they find his Lordship.
in his present address, declaring that his principles
are what they have ever been.' The trtoh is now
out. He has never changed ; but his love of places
and pensions induced him, in the hope of retain-
ing them, to feign a change. 1 ask you, gentlemen,
if this is a man to be trusted ? He tells you that much
prosperity is in store for Ireland. I ash you, is it
by sending men of his stamp to Parliament that this
prosperity is to be attained ? He says we should
not countenanee agitators. Why did he hire one
agitator, and offer a bribe to another? Many of the
particulars connected with my offer of support, as
stated by his Lordship, are perverted and exagge-
rated. The paragraph relative to my holding the
keys of the county,' &e. so far from being truly
attributed to me, was, on the contrary, the identical
language held to me by one of his Lordship's friends,
when soliciting my neutrality. I might expose many
other points in his Lordship's address, but I shall
not, for the present, descend to any more minute
analysis. And, now, gentlemen, I have expressed
my opinion of his Lordship, I address myself again
to the question as resting more immediately between
you and myself. it is true that you have culled upon
roe to stand for the county, and that my coming for-
ward has been in obedience to that call. Since the
sense of the county was dtclatred,l never for a mo-
ment hesitated, but I freely avow that, under exist-
ing circumstances, it is just and fair that the county
should have an opportunity of re-considering its
decision. Whatever the result of that reconsidera-
tion may be, I shall most willingly submit to. My
first and main anxiety is, that the independence of
the county should not not suffer in my person, or
from any imprudent error of mine. Should your
decision be that I am to continue your candidate, I
am ready and prepared to go on with the contest.
Should you decide on putting forward any other
gentleman, I can only say that the independent in-
terest shall have my most strenuous support in every
possible way. This is but a small portion of the atone-
ment which I feel that I owe the electors. After
having canvassed the comity, I have the satis-
faction to announce, which I do most unequi-
vocally, that the independence of the county
beyond all question, secure, and that a member
of• the Beresford family cannot by possibility be re•
turned. The feeling against that funnily in every
part of the county, and amongst every class of the
elector's, is so overwhelming that any independent
candidate, from the simple fact of being opposed to
them, would be certain of success—to this success 1
shall, in whatever capacity I um placed, most strenu-
ously contribute. But during any interval that may
occur before the sense of the county be taken, I
would respectfully, but most earnestly, warn the
electors to be on their guard against attempts to de-
lude or ensnare them—l can tell them they have the
county in their hands ; let them hold it. To those
friends from whom I have met with the kindest and
most warm-hearted support, I beg thus publicly and
sincerely to offer my most lasting gratitude. The
recollection of their kindness shall never be ob ite-
rated from my heart. Should I not be the retuned
representative for the county of Waterford, I shall
bear in mind that the fault is not theirs but my own.
I have committed an error, and I tun willing to sub-
mit to any sentence with which the electors may
please to visit it. My first hasty and inconsiderate
step in public life was rather an unhappy one. I have
one act to regret, but I urn far from thinking my-
self, by that Gee act, lowered to the level of the
Noble Lord, my opponent, every act of whose public
life has been a continued series of bartering in one
way or another, and for the most mercenary of mo-
tives. But, laying aside for a moment every other
act of his, I would ask, Call public honesty be ex-
pected from a man who is now found, in the most
abandoned manner, violating the most sacred prin-
ciples of honour in private life ?
'' I have the honour to be, gentlemen,
" With the most sincere respect,
" Your faithful amd devoted servant,
" Belmont-house, Nov. 4. " H. WINSTON BARRON.'

Mr. Pierse George Barron hasaddressed a letter
to the editor of the Watetford Chronicle, in which
he says—" As oae of the connections and near
relatives of Mr. Henry Winston Barron, I most
positively and distinctly deny that I ever authorised
him to tender my support to Lord George Beres-
rot d, or to any body else. This he will readily ad•
mit, and I am sure that in any co:nmunicatiolis he
may have had, he never meant to convey that im-
pression, so far as regards me." And Mr. Pierre
Barron, in another letter to the editor of the Water-
ford Mail, says—" I have read the address of Lord
George Beicaford to the electors of the county of
Waterford. In this address the Noble Lord states
or insinuates (for I have not now time to quote his
Lordship's words) that he had been offered the
support of the Barron family in the county of,
Waterford, through Mr. Winston Barron. The
late hour at which I arrived in town this evening,
and some matters with which I have since been
engaged, and which admitted not of delay, pre-
vented my endeavouring to remove from his Lord 7
ship's mind this impression. I trust I shall-be able
to do so in your next publication."