The Sun.
London, England, 1827-12-03 00:00:00

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been done, as the channel through which it is
said to, have been accomplished. If those whose
duty it is to prevent crimes, and to apprehend
and punish offenders, are to constitute them-
selves into a corrupt channel for the restitution
of stolen property, what is it but, in other words,
to make themselves the encouragers of crime,
and to hold out, at once, temptation and impu-
nity for the commission of effenees ? We are
curious to learn what the Home Secretary thinks
of, and will do, about this matter, which, unfor-
tunately, is not a solitary one of its kind. This
we know, that as far as the report has yet
reached, people of all ranks are loud in condem-
tion of the affair, as one reflecting the highest
disgrace upon the Criminal Justice of the coun-
try, and who begin to think that, they may as well
be saved the heavy expellee of the present police
establishment, if it is allowed to be kept on foot
for the purpose, as in this case, of rewarding of-
fenders, and thereby encouraging them to the
commission of future crimes. In short, the
matter cannot rest here, but must be probed and
sifted to the bottom, and its results be satisfic-
torily cleared up, unless those who superintend
these matters wish to be themselves identified
with this wholesale system of plunder.—Morn-
ing Herald.
A paragraph, written in the worst possible
spirit, was inserted in a Morning Journal on Sa-
turday, professsing to give an account of a trans-
action in which the names of the Bishop of
Chester and Norwich are implicated. To all
who are acquainted with the' character of the for-
mer eminejit Prelate, it is scarcely necessary to
observe, that all the circumstances of that trans-
action are, in the paragaaph alluded to, entirely
and most grossly misrepresented ; but as there
are some (we trust but few) who take their no-
tions of eminent men from statements of this
description, and as it is by these artifices that
mischievous men endeavour to bring into disre-
pute institutions and persons otherwise invul-
nerable to the shafts of their puny malice, it may
be as ivell to state what we have good reason to
believe is the real complexion of the affair thus
carefully and ingeniously disfigured. " Ces co-
quins," said Conde to the Cardinal de Retz,
" nous font parler et agir cowrie ils auraient
fait euxtnernes a noire place." The facts, we are
assured, are these. A certain Candidate for
Holy Orders presented himself, a short time
since, before the BishOp of Chester, for ordina-
tion ; when that conscientious and learned person,
rightly conjecturing that the calling of a Minister
of God's word required something more than
the mere wearing of a black coat, and hurrying
through the Liturgy on Sundays, proceeded to
examine him in those branches of knowledge,
and of the duties of the 'important profession
to which he aspired, which were in his
opinion, and probably in that of most of
our • readers, essentially necessary to the due
discharge of his holy office ; in all which
knowledge he found him so deficient, that he
could not conscientiously look upon him as a fit
,guide and teacher of others, who. was so un-
taught and ignorant himself. The disappointed
Candidate repaired to the Bishop of Norwich,
whose facility in regard to the great responsibility
of ordination has almost become proverbial, and
whose habitually careless good nature, and easy
indolence, are now probably much increased by
the increasing weakness of age and infirmity.
The good old Octogenarian Prelate had none of
the difficulties which occurred to his more

thoughtful and vigilant brother ; and he or-
dained the young man without scruple.—
The successful Acolyte, blessing himself that
there was at least one spot left in England
where learning and wisdom were not deemed es
sential to Met-nbers of the iretnMerr

to the Diocese of Chester, where he is
said to have expressed and exhibited an indecent
triumph, within the jurisdiction itself of his pi-
ous and amiable Suffragan.. The Bishop of Ches-
ter,• upon this; wrote, as it was unquestionably
his duty to do, to his Metropolitan, complaining
of so ill-judged and pernicious a' remissness in
ecclesiastical discipline ; when the Archbishop of
Canterbury addressed a mild remonstrance to
the Bishop of Norwich ; suggesting, perhaps,
that a greater care in ordaining. Candidates was
expedient, at a time when our incomparable
Church is attacked by so many open enemies, and
so much insidious ingenuity, which happened to'
reach Dr. Bathurst when he was engaged (harm-
lessly enough, no dOubt) in a rubber at whist.
These, we believe, are the simple facts which
Our contemporary has distorted into a case upon
which to found an unjustifiable attack upon one
of the most able and inflexibly upright of the
Bench of Bishops. It is, indeed, quite conso-
nant with the principles of certain writers of the
present day, to endeavour to' degrade and
blacken all that gives dignity 'and weight to the
religion of our country ; but we should think
that the Government, of which the writer in
question professes to be the organ, would be but
little beholden to him for endeavouring to em-
bark them upon the same piratical venture with
himself. If the Bishop of Chester has really
(as this Journal asserts) " lost his hold over the
King's Government," ' we are very sorry for it ;
for we are certain that such a neglect of eminent
talents and worth could only arise from an indif-
ference to the sacred calling which the Bishop of l,
Chester so peculiarly adorns, and to the sacred
cause which he so powerfully advocates, of which
even we should be sorry to suspect them.—
Morning Post.
It ig curious to observe bow completely those
of our contemporaries whose practice for years
had been that of fulsome, eulogy of the King's'
Government, have now adopted the often repro-
bated tone .of exultation in
.the anticipated occur-
rence of public calamity. To such the delay in
immediate accession to the propositions of the
Ambassadors at Constantinople, furnished the
most gratifying prognostics, while the unfavour-
able rumours, conveyed by the German Papers,
have thrown them into extaeies of ilelight. By
such persons the imprisonment or the decapi-
tation of the Ambassadors,
,and the massacre of
all the Christian :inhabitants of Constantinople,
would be well received as indisputable proofs
of their sagacity. We must, however, venture
to anticipate the disappointment of these pa-
triotic expectations. That the Sultan, superior
as he undoubtedly is in energy and talent to his
immediate Predecessors on the Ottoman throne,
but still , partaking largely of all the pre-
judices and ignorance of the nation and religion
to which he belongs, should not have readily
admitted the force of those circumstances which
rendered his acceptance of the offered Mediation
by the three Great Powers inevitable, was a con-
tingency obviously contemplated by the parties
to the Treaty of London. Such acceptance was
not, however, either impossible or improbable,
still less were the accession and adherence of
Ibrahim Pacha ,to the proposal of a suspension
of hostilities unlikely, especially when the over-
whelming strength of the Allied Fleets, by which
• that suspension was enforced, was taken into con-