The Sun.
London, England, 1827-11-07 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The accounts from the seat of war in Georgia,
even though transmitted through Russia, indi-
cate any thing but rapid success on the part of
the Northern Power. Probably, if we could
read the Persian story, -it would describe the si-
tuation Of the invaders as yet more perplexing,
and unpropitious,—their disasters more Nume-
rous,—their petty successes more doubtful. It
appears that Eriyan will not be besieged, and is
certainly not likely to fall before winter : the
siege of Sardar-Abad, which iaust first be sub-
dued, was not begun till the 7th of last month.
Still, we can hardly persuade ourselves that
Russia will be foiled in the enterprise. But if
she succeed, what does she gain ? A less
dearly-defined frontier, and.a greater surface of
country over which her troops must be,scattered
far and wide for the purpose of. security or de-
fence. Would she be one step nearer us in
India, should political circumstances change the
present happy relations of the two powers ? Lo-
cally and geographically nearer she would be, but
morally more remote : for she would have an
ill-subdued and imbittered population in the
rear and flanks of her advancing army ; and she
has already shown by her present attack upon
Persia, the difficulties incident to an expedition
into Southern Asia.—Times.

It is proverbial that it is much more easy to
give good advice than to induce people to fol-
low it,—to preach, than to enforce practice. The
discourses from the pulpit, however, may in part
lose their effect through their frequency and their
stated return ; but when a Judge has preached
from the bench, and above all, when he has so
preached as to command approbation and elicit
applause, it could hardly have been expected
that practice would not follow precept. And
yet we are informed that, notwithstanding the
vote of thanks presented to Lord Chief Justice
Best by the Grand Jury of Wiltshire, and not-
withstanding his Lordship's publication of his
charge at their request, no measures have been
taken by those gentlemen for abolishing the ille-
gal and iniquitous practice of making up the la-
bourers wages from the poor-rates ; but that, on the
contrary, the custom remains unabated through
the county. The learned Judge's address, there-
fore, remains a dead letter as to any practical
good. We hope his Lordship will twit his ap-
plauding audience with this when he next meets
them. But not only in Wiltshire, but through-
out all England, ought so unjust a practice to
be abolished ; and the abolition of it depends
upon the Magistracy. If they are honest men,
they will not suffer the industrious and healthy
labourer to receive as an alms.. that which he has
earned by the sweat of his brow,—they will not
suffer him to accept from another, or from others
in part, that which is wholly due from his em-
ployer ;—they will not suffer a fund, which
by the laws of England is the property of the
aged, the infantine and the infirm, to be plun-
dered by. its guardians to support their own ro-
bust servants. But it may be apprehended, and
has been said, that the magistrates look too
acutely to their rents, to interfere resolutely in
the suppression of any abuse by which they are
the ultimate gainers ; for if the farmer pay his
full wages to the labourer, there will be the less
for his landlord. Let frugality then, we say, in
the latter, make up the deficiency. He ". had
his good things" when he was talking of shed-
ding the last drop of his blood, And spending
his last guinea, in the late contest. The times
are changed now, and our habits should vary
with them. Economy is, a virtue which will
not only save the individual, but will alio pre-
serve the state.—lbid.
We seldom receive a Newspaper from any
part of the Empire' 'which is not filled with ac-
counts of Religious and Controversial. Meetings.
Were a stranger to form an opinion of us from
our periodical literature, he would suppose that
we were so completely engrossed by religion as
to dear everything else beneath our considera-
tion. Were he to be told that the people so ap-
parently absorbed by care for religion were the
great pot and pan makers of the world, the first
in nearly all tiranches of manufacturing indus-
try, the keenest speculators, the Most thorough-
going worshippers of Mammon on this globe,
and, devoted beyond measure to luxury and sen-
sual gratification, he would laugh at what he
would naturally conceive a barefaced attempt to
impose on him. No, he would say, it is impos-
sible that the same people. Can be at once the
most avaricious and devoted to the good things
of this life, and the most intent on the life to
come. This character, to which you draw my
attention, in the Scotsman of Saturday last, is
palpably untrue ; namely, that " it is the peculiar
curse of England— more, we believe, than of any
other country—to be eaten to the core with
avarice. Money—wealth—is considered indis-
pensible, let honour or character have what fate
they may ;for without money there is no considera-
ftion—and, with it, who is not possessed of
con"seque,sce ?" The English may be, what
Lady IVlorgai, terms them, the most besotted of
nations, but they cannot be the most worldly-
minded. .The Lord Mayor threw out an ob-
servation at the Keeting, when Mr, Clay ton was
taking leave of his congregation, which was
pregnant with meaning—that young men about
to enter on the world would find it a good spe-
culation to connect themselves with a Dissent-
ing Body. His Lordship's recommendation,
justified no' doubt by an extensive experience,
will serve to account for much of the extraordi-
sisq interest often taken in the furtherance of
sectarian objects by men 'whose real worship is
mammon, His Lordship thought, at all eves,nt.i
that it was.by no means likely to injure Any r
pion to hold out the adoption of it as a good
worldly speculation. Other prudent people have
not thought it beneath them, in choosing a reli-
gion, to consider the returns here below. Cour.
Tulle tells us' that he asked, one day, the Duchess
of Hanover (the friend of Leibnitz), who was a
Calvinist herself, while her husband was a Luthe-
ran, of what religion the Prinsgss, her daughter,
was. She answered, " that she had none
yet, as they wished to know what religion
the husband she -should marry would be
of, in order that they might instruct her
in that religion, whether Protestant or Catho-
lic." It is no uncommon thing for a tradesman
settling in a town in England to consider, like
his Lordship, or the celebrated Duchess of Ha-
nover, how his faith can be most advantageously
disposed of, as, for instance, in which body there
is the best. opening for a beginner, and to de-
dare. himself accordingly. We are far from wish-
ing to say that there are not many sincerely re-
ligious persons .'
bore any proportioluEtongland ; but f the reality
difficult to account for' the pretence, it would be
of crimes of all kinds; a_ri-extraordina ry increase
but
Those in which fraud And more especially of
attafise,areresorted
during the very period Whei -
- have been lay-

ing.the highest claims to sanctity. On the other
hand, the increase of the appearance of religious
zeal can be very - easily accounted for, on the
principle of its being a good worldly speculation.
Our devotion to the things of this world is placed
beyond doubt ; and any exuberance of zeal in
devotion to the things of another must, we fear,
be attributed to the conviction of its being sub-
sidiary to the former. Believing as we do the
Lord Mayor to be a clever man in his way, we
cannot help thinking that he has not attained the
highest perfection in his line. Ars e.ct celare
tem. But a clever writer in the London Maga-
zine charges him with not concealing sufficientiv
his worship of Mammon.

" Lord Ma:, ors (he says) make one ashamed of one's na-
tion, almost of one's species. 0 The nasty, grovelling r•rea-
tures !as Cobbett would, say. The incarnation of Fol!y
and Mainc-.oa is a City of London Lord Mayor. He is the
worshipful golden calf. This identical Lord Mayor, who
considers the dispute between the Recorder and the Sheriff
merely according to the ineor-es and disbursements of the
partis, and who is not one whit worse than the rest of his
t tribe, is the very man who talked of respectable rogues
and td.qc T.,onds, meaning thereby rogues and vagabonds
with money in their pockets. The discourse of these men

is one perpetual money-chink. Every word they speak
has the jingle of gold iii it, and their morality rustles in
bank notes. Trade has made our ethics more curiously
despicable than those of any people on God's earth. We
are every where cankered with the abject money-worship-
ping principle—prodigies of the foulest idolatry, that is
most inconsistent with the honourable pride of man."
Now, if it be impossible to serve both God
and Mammon, and if Mammon was never better
and more zealously served in any country, from
the beginning of time than he is in this present
day, what are we to think of the offer made to
the Rev. Mr. Maguire, of which he gave an ac-
count in a speech at the Roscommon Catholic
Meeting, which speech our readers will find in
another column ? He says, that " within the
last fortnight, a Protestant Rector waited on
him, bearing to him (Mr. Maguire) a letter from
an Archbishop, making an offer of one thousand
pounds in hand, and a living of eight hundred
pounds a-year, if he would consent to abjure
the Catholic religion, and becOme a. Protestant
Parson." It would be almost insanity in Mr. Ma-
guire to make such a declaration were the facts
different from what he has stated; because, as
there are only four Archbishops in Ireland, a
solemn disclaimer from each of these Prelates
would force him to name the Rector, and pro-
duce his letter, on pain of Being branded for a
calumniator. But when we think of the Thou-

sand Pounds, and the Living of Eight Hundred
Pounds a-year, such Living of Eight Hundred
a-year being worth in the market an annuity for
that amount to Mr. Maguire, deducting the
Curate's wages, we cannot get rid of our doubts.
He' must be a bold Archbishop who, after giving
away such a living, would dare to face a Jury
under a Commission of Lunacy. We should
like to see the countenances of a dozen of Mad
Doctors on receiving an answer from the sub-

ject of their examination, that he had given a
Thousand Pounds and a Living of Eight
Hundred a-year away from his family, with a
view to draw even an Arch-papist to the Pro-
testant Faith. It is no uncommon artifice of

the Devil, in holy legends, to assail holy men
with tempting offers, and, instead of performing
his promise, to taunt them with their weakness
when they have yielded to his lures. .We are
almost inclined to believe that a flaming Pro-
testant zeal may have led some Archbishop to
follow the policy recorded in some of these
legends, and to hold out a living of eight hun-
dred a-year as a lure to lead one of the Cham-
pions of the Catholic Church into the mire.
Having overcome the blushes of the Reverend
Papist, what a gleam of satisfaction would play
on his countenance when he announced-to his
astonished auditors that he whose creed would
be influenced by money was not worthy of ad-
mission into the Protestant Church, and that the

trial he had made of his principles satisfied higi
they were best suited to the Church of which he
was a member ! Any solution of the difficulty
is more probable, than that an Archbishop made
a bona fide offer to a Papist of a living of eight
hundred pounds a year. The Archbishop of
Dublin has told us, that he has frequently ad-
vised Catholic Clergymen desirous of renouncing
Popery to remain Catholics, as by changing
they would lose their livings, and he could give
them nothing in return. This conduct on the
part of his Grace showed that he knew the value
of livings in the Protestant Church, and also the
value of conversions.—Morning Chronicle.

While our artisans are becohling practical phi-
losophers, and the cultivators of the soil are em-
ployed in the culture of the mind, it is not a
little remarkable that no improvement whatever
seems to have taken place in the moral character
of the people at large. On the contrary, strange
as it may appear, the habits of a great mass of
the population have become depraved in the
same rat..., as the " march of intellect" has ad-
vanced. Fifty years ago an educated burglar or
pickpocket could rarely be met with, but now
almest every member of the thieving fraternity
can read and write, and many of them can boast
much higher attainments. But have their num-
bers diminished under the influence of educa-

tion ? Quite the reverse. They have increased
to a most alarming extent, as evidently appears
from the present state of the Metropolis. No
sooner are crowds of criminals shipped off for
New South Wales than the several prisons are
filled with others ready to follow them, and the
system. of delinquency exhibits a progressive in-
crease from: one ,end of the year tc the other.
There are some
.parts of London so much in-
fested with audacious robbers that it is altogether
unsafe to walk there, even in the open day.
Various instances of this fact were shown during
the last Surrey Sessions, and the Grand Jury
found it necessary to present a great part of the
Southwark-bridge-road as a common nuisance,
being the resort of gangs of thieves of the worst
description, and of the lowest and most de-
praved class of abandoned women. The whole
neighbourhood of the Mint, and the in-
tervening region between it and the Kei+
road, are represented to be in a state which
calls for the most prompt and •decisive mea-
sures on the part of the police, yet no-
torious offenders are not only allowed to remain
undisturbed in their haunts, but to prowl about
unmolested. This forbearance is highly repre-
hensible, and the Marquis of Lansdowne ought
not to lose a moment in putting an end to it.
Why should wretches, whose known career is
crime, be suffered to congregate with impunity,
in order that they may devise schemes for com-
mitting depredations. It surely cannot be ne-
cessary that they should be caught flagrante
delicto, to justify their being taken into custody.
Their habitual pursuits disqualify them from
claiming the rights of peaceable citizens, and it
cannot be said that the liberty of the subject is
violated in seizing them wherever they are met.
The culpable practice, however, which has hi-
therto prevailed, allows thieves and police ofliceis
to mingle together as social companions under
the same roof, the most desperate offenders be-
ing thus perfectly secure, so long as they are not

detected in the perpetration of crime. But then
it is urged, on the other hand, that this sort of
intercommunion is necessary to the ends of jus-
tice, and that flash-houses must therefore be to-
lerated. We cannot admit such an argument,
believing as we do, that those houses are Asy-
lums for old, and nurseries for young delinquents.
The duty of police officers is not only to appre-
hend criminals, but to prevent crimes from being
committed. In furtherance of the former object
they are active enough whenever they find it their
inteiest, but with regard to the latter, they are
too oft;:n disgracefully negligent.—Morning
Herald.

The apologists of the Tripartite Treaty of the
6th of July are driven to pretend, that the Law
of Nations, as it has hitherto been understood
and acknowledged, being inapplicable to the cir-
cumstances in which the contest between the
Grand Seignor and his rebellious subjects had
placed, not the, parties to it only, but the rest of
the world also, a new law of necessity emerged
out of circumstances, new and unprecedented,
and that the Allies are accordingly to be judge 4
by this new law of nations which they only have
enacted, and which we suppose they only are to

administer. To this argument we have already
objected, that it is no other than a clumsy and
circumlocutory mode of denying the existence
of any such thing as a fixed and permanent in-
ternational law. If a new law is to be made for

every new occasion, and to be made by those,
who either have, or pretend to have, an interest
in the immediate affair, we are at a loss to know
what principles can restrain their authority, or
what arbiter is henceforth to be acknow-
ledged in the disputes of nations, other
than the vltima ratio reguni. The inter-
ference of one nation in the 'affairs of another
is prohibited by the Law of Nations, which
in this instance only re-echoes the voice of com-
mon sense. But although this is the general
law, it is not universal in its operation. It may
be superseded by other fixed and permanent laws
of still higher authority. Every nation has a
paramount and indefeasible right to watch over
its own safety, and to guard its own important
and essential interest ; and whenever the latter
of these laws is placed by circumstances in oppo-
sition to the former, the latter must be allowed

to be the more cogent in its obligation. We
admit then, that if the safety, or the essential
interest of England, Russia, or France, had
been plainly implicated in the contest between
the Grand Seignor and his rebel subjects, those
Powers would, according to the law of nations,
have been entitled to interfere. But it can-
not be denied, that those Powers might each
and all of them have stood aloof without
any rational apprehension of direct injury. It
follows of necessity, therefore, that their in-
terference is wholly unjustifiable upon the
present occasion. A direct and legitimate
interest is essential to their justification, and
that interest they have not. The names of
religion and humanity have been prostituted in
this case—irreligiously, inhumanely, shamelessly
prostituted—prostituted evidently for the purpose
of confusing the subject, and of shielding injus-
tice from the merited indignation of mankind.—
It is pretended that the Allies, having no inte-
rest to promote by their interference, is a circum-
stance in their favour; but injustice is injustice
still, although it may be wanton and gratuitous ;
nor is it by any means clear that all the Allied
Nations are exempt from motives of self-interest ;
or, where the nations are exempt from such mo-
tives, that the governments of the moment have
not interests distinct from those of the nation.—

It is evident enough that the English nation can
have nointerest-m common •with: the pirates of
the Levant ;•bitt it is riot so-evident that the ex-
isting Administration of England may not have
an interest in common with the Radical Phil-
hellenists who support that Administration in
Parliament, and who, after having robbed the
Greeks for their own personal advantage and
that of their friends, may naturally enough desire,
to make them amends at the expellee of the na-
tion.—Morning Post.
We give to-day the eloquent and elaborate

judgment of the Venerable Head of the Admi-
ralty Coutt, in the case of the slave Grace.—
This valuable document, for so we may well de-
nominate it, will be read with interest by many
who are but remotely or not at all interested in
its contents. It is not, indeed, we hope, the
last, but we cannot, from the increasing years and
decaying strength of the upright Judge who pro-
nounced it, anticinate that it shall have many fol-
lowers. The judgment of his Lordship goes to
dismiss the appeal, or in other words, he finde,
that though a slave brought to England becomes
free, pro tempore, yet his original disabilities re-
turn when he goes back,
,whether,voluntarily or
casually, to the place where they were first in-
curred ; in short, that by no act of his own, or
of others, save legal emancipation, can a slave
cease to be so in the colony where he has by
birth, or other accident, been subjected to servi-
tude. There are many consequences which seem
to flow from this doctrine, which require a de-
gree of deliberate attention which our time for

the present prevents us from giving. At the
first view, we confess, highly as we venerate Lord
Stowell as a lawyer we feel very much inclined
to question the soundness of the decision he has
come to ; but we say this as we feel we ought,
with much diffidence.—Netu Times.

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS.

COUNTRY DIARY.—FRIDAY, Nov. 9.

Dring, T., Bristol—Messrs. 11!
Holliday,
J.C,lißesoteehrd—aNNlelißteo'esb,
Manchester
Johnson, A., York—White Swan, York ...........
Harris, N., Shaftesbury—Grosvenor Arms,
Knott and Co., Salford—White's, Manchester
Prosser, 1., Abergavenny—Angel, AbergavennylB
Rees, J., Neath—Public rooms, Swansea .................
.............. 11
Richardson, J., Liverpool—Clarendon.buildings
1
Thompson, S., Bolton—Star, Manchester 9

INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHARGED,
Petitions to be heard at Portugal-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields,
Nov. 12, Al' NINE.
Beckwith, S., Waltham-cross Foulkes, R., Holborn
Beswick, C., Walworth Gartside, J., Oldham
Blakeby, J., Marylebone Goodchild, M., Pentonville
Castell, W., Alderagate-street Nicholas, R., Hull
Close, T., Stepney Ramsden, J., Strand
Creed, W., Crown-court, Bow- Thorne, J., Pimlico
street West, J., I3agnigge-wells
•
Crisp, W., Chancery lane Wiggins, W., Mile-end
Edwards, H., Strand

COUNTRY.—At the Court-house, at Yarmouth, November 9,
at Ten o'clock.
Callow, T., Great Yarmouth
At York, Nov. 10, at Ten.
Barton, C. Selby Darbyshire, W., York
Botterill, .1., Pickering Coghill, 11., York
Dalton, G., York Hall, T., Hi ,swell
At Winchester, Nov. 10, at 'Pen.
Avery, A., Portsea 'Lowe, J., Salisbury
Chambers, W., Portsea Mortemor, J., Gosport
Clarke, J., Andover

PUBLIC-HOUSES IN DUBLIN.-At a meet-
ing at Henry-street police-office, for the purpose of licen-
sing the public-houses'of Mary's parish, Mr. Come, the
Magistrate, said .it was his opinion that there were at pre-
sent a greater number of houses licensed than were at all
necessary. In that district, which probably did not con-
tain a greater population than from 40 to 50,000 people,
there were no less'than 231 public-houses.--Dublin Even-
ing Post.