The Sun.
London, England, 1827-07-27 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THI PUBLIC JOURNALS.

As it is still attempted to draw some conse-
quences fromthe Duke of Wellington's visit to
the King, we must deal more positively with the
mixture of falsehood and absurdity, which, from
obvious reasons, it is wished to palm upon the
unwary. It is totally untrue that the Duke was
sent for, or expected, by the _King. It is untrue
that he was more than, or even so much 'as, a
quarter of an hour in the Royal presence, when
it is clear that no political matter, of any import-
ance could even be broached, much less brought
to a happy conclusion. This, we suppose, will
(satisfy doubters on the subject. Besides, if any
consequences were derived or derivable from the
call, would not they have begun to show them-
selves ere now ? What desertion has taken
place among the adherents of a Ministry, so pe-
culiarly of the King's own forming, and calling
into existence ? On the contrary, .we have to
notice the accession of two eminent persons--
the Duke of Buckingham and the Lord Hope-
town. How stupid in the authors of the false-
hoods which we are exposing, not to see the re-
futation of their error in the open and visible
signs which spring from the real state of affairs
with the respect to the Ministri! How vain to
attempt at farther imposition !—Times.
It appears from the various Parliamentary do-
cuments lately published, that we are making but
a very poor progress in the accomplishment of
the abolition of the Slave Trade. From the
official correspondence and affidavits we gave a
fesc days ago, respecting recent importations of
Slaves into the Havannah, it appears that al-
though there was au express order sent by the
Spanish Government at Madrid to the Colonial
Authorities at the Havannali, for the purpose, as
Mr. Canning mentioned, of carrying into effect
the total abolition of the traffic in slaves in that
quarter, the local authorities in the Havansali
have not paid the least attention to such order.
It is manifest that the Governor of the Island of
Cuba utterly disregards whatever instructions he
may have received from Madrid, supposing that
he ever received any instructions of the nature
and tendency mentioned in Mr. Canning's note ;
but the question is, whether the Cour t of Ma-
. drid ever transmitted such instructions at all,and
whether it . really wishes the abolition of the
traffic in slaves in that quarter. The Spanish
Court might have _ostensibly sent out orders to
the effect mentioned by Mr. Canning; but it
might, at the same time, have accompanied them
with injunctions of an apposite nature, to coun-
teract and defeat the orders which it considered
extorted from the weakness of the mother coun-
try, and as incongenial to the colonial interests
of Spain and her -plantations. The Spanish
Government may on this occasion have
played the 'same game with Mr. Canning in
the Slave Trade Question at the Havannati,
as the French Government played him with
regard to the Sanitary Cordon, and the
French Army of Obsetvatibn, which after-
wards marched into Spain, and took possession
of the country. We have for some time past
thought that there has been a good deal of
shuffling on the.part of seteral European Go-
vernments on this question. The different
Governments of Europe.probably think that the
Ministry of Great Britain, goaded on •by the'
Sectarians of various denominations, which form
so large a proportion of her population, are very
sincere in thif; matter of slave emancipation, and
the Governments of Europe generally .may be
apprehensive that the British. Ministry, thus
goaded on, might be induced to make war, if
not in a military, at least in a naval respect, on
all points wherever European nations are as,-
sailable ; and therefore, 'though in their hearts
they are adverse to the abolition of the Slave
Trade, they probably deem it expedient to keep
up appearances at least; to prevent our striking
the apprehended blow, in; a naval respect, as it
regards their commerce. Our opinion is, ,that
the Court of Madrid is laughing in its sleeve, not
only at Mr. Canning, but at the people of this
country, who, in their simplicity, believed that
Spain would ever Willingly relinquish a trade so es-
sentially necessary to the productivenesss of her
plantations, none of which are as yet half stocked
with the requisite number of African slaves. They
apparently set us at defiance on this question, and
seem to be determined to have their own way;
but perhaps Spain cannot afford to disoblige the
.settlers and inhabitants of her few remaining, co-
lonies by denying them slaves. The Slave Trade
system should be considered in the same light
with respect to nations, as other matters with re-
spect to individuals ; whatever course of measures
it is desirable for nations or individuals to pur-
sue, such measures will naturally be pursued by
such nationvor individuals on the ptinciple of
self-interest. Whether the people of England,
or the British Government, will think it worth
their while to exercise their right of interference
by going to war with. Spain to enforce the aboli,
tion of the Slave Trade, is a question we leave
to Ministers to determine, but we 'should think
that the consequent increase of the national debt
ought to operate as a preventative.—Morning
Herald.

Our Paper of Tuesday, in the police accounts
from the Marlborough-street and Bow-street
offices,, contained striking proofs of the inef.
ficient state of our parochial and general police ;
if any thing in the shape clone, or the other can
really be said to exist at all in the face of such
daring outrages and licensed receptacles of crime,
as both, but one of these cases in particular, mzy.
be said to exhibit. We allude to the double
robbery of the same person in two hotnn
joining each other in that notorious den of
profligacy hear Temple-bar, called Shire-lane—
a place which has been for yeari treated ap-
parently as a sort of neutral ground between the
cities of London and Westminster, which the au-
thorities of both seem anxious, like the proprietors
of adjoining manors, to preserve inviolate as a kind
of breeding ground for their gami. Though we
use this term of sarcasm, we are far from mean..
ing to treat with any degree of levity a subject of
so serious a nature as one in which the lives and
property of the peaceable part of the community
are so much interested, and in which Eo` much
crime is nurtured, till it becomes, as it were, ripe
for the sickle. \\redo not speak without authority
for what we say, when we affirm that this one
place has furnished more subjects for the gallows
and the liblks than all the lowest parts of the
metropolis united. Here exist, on each side of
the way, open and undisguised houses for the
sole reception of thieves, prostitutes, and re-
ceivers of every description of stolen property.
In these houses robberies are planned, and
the plunder disposed of. Into them unwary
persons are inveigled and robbed, as on the occa-
sion we allude to. Here the notorious Dud field
held his court; and here, in short, in defiance
of law, and justice, and common decency, a series
of unblushing profligacy continues to be carried
on, which cannot but, we should imagine, he
well known to those whose duty it is to see-that
it did not exist a day after such knowledge had

been attained. But let :it be admitted. that ate

are wrong in this, and that the Police knows no-
think bf. it. If so, we can only say, what a
precious police we niust have, which can be ig-
norant, of that which every body else knows.—
We have said too,that these dens ofthieves are bees -
sed ; and moieciver, to obtain such licences, clergy-

men, ehiirchWardens, and constables, must, one or
r
all, certify • their knowledge of the morality
of the keepers, and the good conduct of the
places ; and that to some worshipful Alder-
men or gentlemen, who, of course, can never
have heard or•known any thing to the contrary.
And this, forsooth, is police ! This is what the
country at large and the parishes are taxed so
highly to maintain ! but a system which, we must
be bold to say, is but too justly chargeable with
winking at and encouraging that which it thus
unaccountably suffers to exist. Our duty to the
public has drawn from us these observations ;
and if they should sound unpalatable in the ears
of grave Aldermen, or Lord Sidmouth's Bar-
risters, both the one and the other have it i►►
their power to take out the sting fro►u our re-
marks, by speedily doing away with the evils
which have given rise to them.—lbid.
e
We rejoice to find that Addresses to Mr.
Peel, expressive of the sense entertained of his

• eminent public services, and of the regret which
their temporary suspension has excited, are be-
coming more and more numerous, in proportion
as, the people of England become more and more
awakenedto a knowledge of the difference between
. the late Administration and the present. We
frankly confess that we do not look upon these
Addresses merely as the expression of barren gra-
titude, or the enunciation of theoretical opinion :
Although we should even in this point of view
deem them of great importance, and pregnant
with ulterior practical consequences of the high-
est value. The effects which we venture to anti-
cipate from these Addreses, assuming as we do
that they;will.become general, are more imme-
diate and direct. Our auguries are expressly
founded upon the knowledge of individual "cha-
racter, and the aspect of existing circumstances.
Mr. Peel, it is universally known might have
been very • differently situated to . what he
is at present, - were it not that on a late
occasion he estimated too humbly his own value
and rank as a Statesman, and appreciated with
excessive modesty the estimation in which he is
held by the British nation. The Right Hon.
Gentleman was inadvertently guilty of a negative
injustice to his country, in consequence of hav-
ing previously committed a positive injustice
in his estimate of himself. The nation now
perceives the consequence of this error on his
part, and ,is accordingly eager to correct it. The
welfare of England requires that Mr. Peel should
understand something better than he has done, the
value of his character, and theloftiness of his posi-
tion. He is the hope and the model of English To-
ries, and it is not too much to say, that a prouder
station, or a more splendid name, was never yet
assigned to mortal man. The country is at this mo-
ment, in consequence of the kind of Adminis-
tration upon which its Affairs have devolved,
labouring under the intolerable consciousness of
danger and of degradation. The vague term of
liberality, the cloudy notion of indefinite change,
have been incessantly paraded and produced
by the Members of the present Administra-
tion and their partizans, till the nation, no
longer willing to be amused by sounds, be.-
- gins to ask what meaning is couched under
them, and can find no other answer than NV hat
either exposes hypocrisy, or portends ruin.
The nation, unable to see .M ate prospect any
thing but confusion and uncertainty, is of course
uneasy, and languishes for a Government com-
posed of 'men whose principles are unequivocal,
and whose intentions are declared. A Govern-
ment founded notoriously and avowedly upon
the principle of trying an experiment upon
the national mind, or of watching opportunities
to defeat the vigilance of the nation in reference
to the most important. of its concerns-is a Go-
vernment too repugnant to the manly and generous
hearts of Englishmen to retain any portion of their
confidence or affection. Such is the predicament
in which the Administration is placed, and we
greatly err in our estimate of the British
people if the permanency of this Administra-
tion does not involve a moral impossibility.-
-We believe that all things will yet work
together for good ; and we are very far from
• regretting that the present Administration
has been called into existence. Not only
will an honest Administration be held in the
higher value hereafter as the natural effect
pf contrast,, but .(and of this there can be no
doubt) the facilities for the formation of
'such- an Administration are positively. increased
by it. The consistent and honourable Tory Party
have, it is clear, acquired by the Inanceuvres of the
Whigs and Radicals an important aciiition to their
numerical strength, available to the official. rvice
of the state. His Royal Highness the Lord High
Admiral is an excellent Tory, and so is the pre-
vent Lord Chancellor ; nor is there much reason
to doubt, that those distinguished and valuable
persons would feel themselves more ;at home in
their respective stations, if united with a body of
colleagues] of political sentiments more congenial
to their o'wn. The effect then of the recent
changes is to Qdd two very efficient men to the
official forces ot. The Tories ; for. the Earl of
• - Eldon, Lord 'Melville, And the other able and
upright Members of the late Administration, are
liot likely to refuse their services to the country
in whatever department they can be most bene-
. ficially employed; nor is there.any department of
the public service over which they . ere not both
eminently qualified to preside:—Morning Post.
A person was some time ago brought before
the Lord Mayor, Tor smuggling cigars, who was
represented as a man of middle age, a mate of a
Hainburgh vessel, and a native of Guernsey.—....
On being placed at the bar, lie declared in the
most unassuming manner, his ignorance that the
act he bad committed was an infraction of the
revenue laws. We were naturally led to express
our surprise at this ignorance, considering what
he was and whence he came ; and, reverting to
our own personal acquaintance with Guernsey,
wh:;cli, perhaps, we should have stated, had
ceased for some years, we said, in language not
stronger_ than was fairly applicable to the town of
St. Pierre, when we visited it, that the whole of
the people is it were directly or indirectly Con-
nected with smuggling. At that time there was,
so far as a straoser could judge, no other traffic
carried on ; every second house in the main
street was a cooperage, and every cellar was filled
with Hollow's, nor are we at all exaggerating
when we say, that the kennels smelt of it--4he
whole town smelt of it. In 1804, we recollect
having seen nineteen smuggling vessels quit the
roads in one morning, which could not have
carried, one with another, less than five or six
hundred tubs a-piece. Of our description of
St. Pierre, the Guernsey Star complains in very
bitter terms, and gives us as many hard names
tan account pf it, as if we had had any interest

in rep.resenting it as..*e did. It states, that all
these improper doings are now no more, and.
that, in consequence, the town. of St. Pierre
exhales the same effluvia that • other seaport
towns do. We are happy to be corrected in
an error into which we had been led by judging
of the present by the past. We cannot help
noticing, however, that the fact 'of there being
but one revenue boat at St. Pierre is by no
means conclusive. At the period to which we
meant our remark to apply, there were, unless
we very, much mistake, no revenue boat at all,
for, the very obvious reason, that the island had
no revenue lawn.—Nero Times.
It is not a little curious to see men who have
voluntarily, and for a given end, departed from
the truth, at length get so habituated to falsehood
as to becomq incapable of resisting its influence.
This is singularly observable in those of our con-
temporaries who have set themselves to oppose,
per fas ant iqfas, whatever is said or done by
his Majesty's Ministers. Were we to arrange
the open, barefaced, falsehoods which these
pints have uttered since they entered on their
uew occupation, we should have a string of
" Lies of the Day," that would. fill our paper.
They are; indeed; so deterthined upon misrepren-
tation, that they will not speak truth even
when it would do their cause no harm. An historian
says of a leader of the Roman opposition, that,
rather than allow the daggers of his satellites to
grow rusty, he would set them to cutting throats
merely by way of practice. ,It is the same with
these leaders of the present opposition ; rather,

than allow their po-wers of falsifying to be
weakened by disuse, they will lie gratuitously
all round the compass. We made a few obser-
vations yesterday on the ambiguity of our Acts
of Parliament, a somewhat hackneyed subject it
must be allowed, and we•happened to say, that
the last Edinburgh Review contained some
just remarks on it. We might also have ad-
verted to a very good article which appeared
in a number of the Quarterly, two or three
years ago, had We been as fond of exhibiting our
learning as an Evening Paper, which gives its
-readers news from Aulus Gellius, and quotes
-Bacon's aphorisMs against Mr. Canning. What
will our readers imagine is, not the consequence
drawn from our adverting to the Edinburgh Re-
niezv, but the positive assertion, that it calls forth
from an opposition worthy ? That we wrote
the article for the sole purpose of puffing the
said Review ! Nay, (prodigious bribe !) that
our reason for thus " puffing it," was our having
,received an early- copy !—We will not imitate
the Billingsgate of the paper which puts forth
this arrant nonsense, or we could give its cha-
racter very laconically. Did this depository
of State secrets, past, present, and future, bribe

the Duke of Wellington's footman with foul
roofs ? In noticing- the ambiguity of Acts of
arliament, we naturally observed, that no form
of expression would effectually cure it, because it
had its origin in the number and the diversity of
their objects. We, at the same time, stated
that the hurried way in which Bills were passed
added unnecessarily to that ambiguity ; and we
suggested the possibility of removing this latter
evil, by making Acts, in the first instance, an-
nual. How, does our honest expositor read
these plain words ? Why, that we seriously pro-
posed that all the laws of the realm should be re-
newed once a year. We have said enough.—lbid.

ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF THE COAD-

JUTOR BISHOP OF CLOYNE.

• It is with sincere regret we have to state, that an
attempt, which had nigh proved successful, was
made last evening, on the life of that learned and
pious Ecclesiastic, the Right Rev. Doctor Collins,
Roman Catholic Coadjutor Bishop of the Dioceses
of Cloyne and Ross. It appears, from letters we
have seen, that a person named O'Brien, (a suspend-
ed Priest, and generally reported a lunatic,) called
between the hours of eight and nine o'clock, at the
residence of the respectable Prelate in Skibbereen,
requesting to see his 'Lordship. Having got,an in-
terview with the Bishop, he spoke to him with ap-
parent calmness, and requested his influence with
Doctor Coppinger, to procure a mission for him.—
Doctor Collins told. him he could not interfere be-
tween him and Doctor Coppinger, but that he was
anxious to serve him, at far as was consistent with

religion.
The unfortunate man then put his hand into one
of his small clothes pockets, out of which he drew a
pistol, which he pointed at Doctor Collins; but
which forttinately missed fire. He then presented a
second pistol, the contents of which passed through
the fore and middle fingers of the Doctor's left hand%
and slightly grazed his breast. The wound on the
breast was a mere raising of the skin. The Doctor
had been making out of the room, when the weapon
was discharged, and did not present a full front to
the assassin. After the discharge of the second
pistol, O'Brien re-attempted to use the first, but the
intrusion of a servant prevented him from executing
his design.
There were some gentlemen after dinner in
poctor Collins's parlour when this occurred. They
heard the report of the pistol, but they dreamed not
of the quarter from which it proceeded. Accord-
ingly, some ran into the street, and others to the
rear of the house, but none to the scene of action.
Unfortunately, the worst remains yet to be told.
The Police having secured O'Brien and lodged him
in a place of custody, the inhabitants infur►ated by
what had occurred, assembled and demanded to get
at the prisoner. Doctor Collins, \from the window
of the house, in vain remonstrated with them. They
flung stones at the prison, and the Police, in return,
fired upon them. We trust that the latter acted
with discretion on the occasion ; however that may
be, one man was wounded in the breast, and one
woman in the leg; neither we hope mortally.—
Cork 1119:°cantile Chrmiicle.

Wheat cutting has commenced in this neigh-
bouchacd ; next week it will be very general, Seme beans
have also been cut. Should we be blessed by Providence
with favourable weather, the harvest.will be as productive
and the grain as fine in quality, as has been known for
many years.— Worcester Journal.
DIFFICULTY OF MANNING THE ANIERI-
CAN NavY.—The following observations upon the system
and means of manning the American navy are worthy of
attention :—" Here (at New York) I had an opportunity
of observing the extreme difficulty which the Americans
experience in manning their navy. A large bounty is
offered by the Government to seamen, but it is found in-
adequate to induce them to enter the service in sufficient
numbers. In England no bounty is given, and sailors are
at liberty to select the ship in which they choose to serve.
This was found to be impracticable in the United States,
in consequence of the excessive desertion ; and it becanee
necessary to fit up the Fulton as a general receiving ship,
where men are' entered for the service of the navy, and
kept under strict surveillance. This vessel is commanded
by a captain; and to such straits are they reduced for
seamen, that she is completely fitted out for sea, with masts,
yards, and sails for the purpose of drilling raw recruits from
the inland states and converting them into sailors. It
happened, that while I was in the yard, the officer of the.
rendezvous brought up his report. In the course of that
day, he had procured only two men, one of whom was a
landsman. I was assured that he was well satisfied with
this wretched acquisition, which surprised me the more, as
was aware that the Brandywine and Boston were fitting
out, and that they were greatly in want of hands. This
scarcity of men is by no means confined to their ships of
war ; American merchantmen are well known to he prin-
cipally manned by foreign seamen."--M. De Roos's Per-
sonal Narrative,

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Ctock.

THE LONDON GAZETTE

OF THIS EVENING.

Whitehall, July 24, 1827.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed Charles Bellingham,
of Brighton, in the county of Sussex, Gent. to be a Master
Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.

BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.

Joseph Corbyn, Token-house-yard, Lothbury, master,