The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-27 00:00:00

swcred, " I think there is scarcely one of those
outrages I could not tell you the immediate
cause of. The general cause Was the changing
the possession of !antis, one tenant being put in
and aw_.ther tenant being put out." The puttin!,
c. t't.s,nant out in Ireland, it is to be remembered,'
is putting him out of exi3tence. A number of
men, having a common interest in such an im
portant matter as maintaining themselves in their
possessions by terrorism, must support each other
through thick autl thin in all other matters.—
Hence the necessity, if we would put an end to
titt'se lawless habits, of destroying the cause of

them. We.advocate severity, unflinching seve-
rity, when the law has been outraged ; but, at
the same time, that the severity may not be thrown
away, we would recommend measures which
would render unnecessary the mutual assurances
of the peasant] y to preserve themselves from de-
struction. What is it that enables a country
gentleman in England, or a firmer, to walk about
by night or day with perfect security, but the
Pout- Laws ? Every man in England has his
parish, and he knows he cannot die of hunger,
and that he cannot be thrown on the world as a
vagabond. The lower Irish must be placed on
the :slime footing, or we shall be constantly on the
verge of a servile war.—Morning Chronicle.
• It cannot have escaped the commonest obser-
vation that our present Police, instead of being,
as it ought to be, a terror to evil-doers, is, in fact,
in some measure, if not an object of attraction to
them, at least that which they take little or no

wins to avoid. If this be not so, how happens

it that the neighbourhoods of the police offices
are those where thieves congregate in the greatest
numbers, and where flash houses exist, at which
their orgies are carried on with impunity—and

that, in some instances, under the very nose of
the Magistrates and police officers ? Nay, this
is• not all ; for though it may he said, and justly
enough, perhaps, that it cannot be considered
the province of the Magistrates themselves to
hunt out personally the haunts of thieves, yet
what do they say to, year after year, licensing, or
conniving at the licensing, of these very houses
we allude to ? A striking illustration of this is
but too forcibly exhibited in the fate of the un-
happy man Brown, who terminated a long career
of crime at the Old Bailey on Monday last.
This man was not detected in the actual com-
mission of the robbery for which he was executed
but was apprehended a few days afterwards by
the officers, ‘l, bile playing at cards in a noted
public-house, called " The George," in George-
yard, Whitechapcl. We call this a noted house,
because we are credibly informed that this man is
neither the first, nor even the twentieth, person who
has been actually executed out of it; and yet, year
after year, it continues, in common with many
others, a kind of breeding-cage for depredators,
who, but for such seminaries and facilities to
crime, might perhaps have been saved to society,
and society itself saved from their plundering
propensities. This evil mainly arises from a
want of zeal and energy among the Magistrates,
and from their being hoodwinked, to a great de-
gree, by the police officers. The Magistrate,
when a robbery occurs which the parties make a
stir about, thinks his officer a wonderful clever
fellow, if he can walk into one of these flash
houses and pick out the thief. But we see very
little more cleverness in it than in the gamekeeper
who can walk into his master's preserves and
supply his table with the game which may be la -
(itiired. We say that none of these thieves-pre-
serves ought to he allowed to exist ; and we
trust that one of the first objects of Colonel

Rowan's Police will be to rout out the occupants
and destroy the nests ; unless the old Police,
ashamed of the disgrace which such a measure
brought about by other hands must draw upon
them, set about the thing themselves, and do
that now which the public have had a tight to
expect that they would have done long ago.—
Morning Herald.

A paragraph has been going the round of the
newspapers, stating that Dr. Ireland, the Dean
of Westminster, had refused to allow a tablet to
be set up in Westminster Abbey, to the memory
of the late eminent musical composer, Shield,
in consequence of that distinguished individual
being designated as a " gentleman" in the in-
scription. If this he true, it is very foolish on
the part of the venerable Dean, and something
worse than foolish, if he be himself a person-
age who is more indebted to his merits and his
good fortune for his elevation than to his pedi-
gree. But while we think it foolish on the part
of the guardian of the ashes of the illustrious
dead to refuse a place to a monumental tablet
which describes Shield as a gentleman, we con-
sider it no less ridiculous on the part of his
friends to insist on the introduction of that term
into his epitaph. The word gentleman, indeed,
in its highest sense, is the highest title of man.

It implies the possession of the virtues and ac.
complishments which dignify and ornament civi
liscd existence—but, in its general acceptation, i

is vague, indefinite, and equivocal. As-a
gentle-
man, in the ordinary sense of the word, Mr.
Shield had no claim to interment or commemo-
ration within the walls of Westminster Abbey ; but
as a man of genius he had that right, and, as a
man of genius, his friends ought to have de-
manded that honour for him. Westminster
Abbey is the sanctuary of the remains of men
whose lives have reflected splendour, on their
age and country, whether in science, literature,
arts, or arms. Why insist upon the word " gen-
tleman" being inserted in a tablet which bore a
name identified with the history of an elegant
art, and consecrated to fame ? When Voltaire
called upon Congreve the latter laid aside the
character of the author, and affected to be a mere
gentleman. The sarcastic Frenchman, piqued
by his affectation, observed, " if I had supposed
you were only a gentleman, I would not have
come out of my way to visit you." So, if Shield
had been only a gentleman, his ashes ought to
have been deposited, or his monument raised, in
a place more fashionable and less glorious than
Westminster Abbey ; but having done that which
mere gentlemen cannot do, he was entitled to
sepulchral honours by a higher title than that
which would confound him with those who move
upon the stage of life only to be forgotten

On Friday last the following communication
was received by Mr. AGAR, Governor of the county pri-
son :—" To the High Sheriff of the county of Kent, his
Under-Sheriff, and also to the Keeper of his M,Ljesty's
Gaol for the said county, and to whom else it may concern.
Let the execution of HENRY FIFE, JAMES SKINNER, and
JOHN ADAMS, who were attainted at the last general Ses-
sions of the delivery of the gaol of our Lord the King of
:he county of Kent, holden at Maidstone, in and for the
said county, on the Sth day of August instant, for a rob-
bery on WILLIAM CALLON", be respited until his MA-
JESTY'S pleasure shall be further known. Dated this 19th
day of August, 1829. S. GASELEE, Lewes, 19th
August, 1820." The malefactors being apprised of the
mercy which was extended to them, were deeply affected,
ifalling on their knees, and uttering many expressions of
joy and gratitude.-.-Maidstone shurnult