The Sun. — 1821-09-13 (London, England)

MORNING ,POST.] The protracted labours, of the Coroner's Jury are at last terminated. After having retired and deliberated' amongst themselves 'for about six hours, they brought last night a verdict of " Manslaughter against the Officers and Men of the First. Regiment of Life Guards, who were on duty between Tyburn-gate and Park-lane, on Tuesday, the 14th of August, at the time when Richard Honey was shot.' On this verdict we congratulate them, the'. Life Guards, and the community. We congratulate the Jury, be-. cause with the ,propensities which they had displayed in the course of the investigation, and the strong excitements constantly administered to them by'a seditious and blood-thirsty portion of the Press, they have, to a very considerable ex. tent, redeemed their character for good, sense and impartiality. We congratulate the Life Guards, because they now stand completely acquitted from the charge of haVing wantonly shed the blood of their assailants. And we congratulate the community, .because all the arts, and efforts of the enemies of order have failed in perverting and disgracing-the noble and valuable institution of the Jury. :The present verdict being general in its , nature, !eaves no room for individual prosecution, or indeed for prosecution of any kind.— The character of the offence, cleared of all the dark colouring thrown upon it by calumniators, is *reduced, if not to its natural hue, at least to one less removed from that of truth. To declare that manslaughter has been committed, is to proclaim that provocation had been given for the act; for had there been no provocation it would have been wilful murder. The great question of aggression is thus settled and the charge fixed upon the mob. And hoW is it settled ? Not by the arbitration of parties who might be suspected (however unjustly) of a secret leaning to the military—not by the decision of Judges against whose honour and integrity no other charge can ,be brought by Radicals themselves except that of being paid by their country—not by placemen or sinecurists—but by a Jury, who till they brought in their verdict we-re extolled by every writer and preacher of sedition as the quintessence of independence and patriotism—by . a Jury trained up by Mr. sheriff Waithrnan himself in the way they were intended to go, but which they had, after all, too much honesty not to abandon—by a Jury who did not conceal their strong bias against the military, hut acted in many, instances as prosecutors, not as Judges, and were applauded for it by*the Times' and the Chronicle—by a Jury who admitted all kind of evidence, provided it had a tendency to criminate the milisary ! By such a Jury, after a most laborious, open, and inquisitorial investigation, with advantages allowed them which no other Jury ever possessed—by such a Jury has the mob been virtually declared to have been-Abe aggressor,_ and the Life Guards to have. shed blood only in self-defence! And .Ahis-too at a time when every radical had regis, tered beforehand a verdict of wilful murder, and •the Times had presumed to tell the Jury against which individual it was• to be directed. We have neither room nor time at this moment to  , pursue the subject any farther, although the field- is wide, and the harvest is abundant : but we cannot help thinking that we shall speedily. perceive a great falling off in the respect professed by Radicals of all classes for that " bulwark of the Constitution," the institution of Jdries.  [