The Sun. — 1827-12-20 (London, England)

JOHN WILKS.  AN INTERCEPTED DESPATCH. FROIL THE MARQUIS OF TO SIR  Dear Sir Thomas, 1 hastily drop you a line, Just to state that I think our affairs are thriving ; There's Goderieh already intends to resign, And the rest to the Devil are rapidly driving. 'Ea true, that as yet we have little to boast, But be on the alert and preparing for action; For myself, I'm quite busy in doing the Post, And contriving to get up a nice little faction. But, between you and me, 'tie a difficult thing To get a few brains on our side of the question, Tim' G.—y, it is hoped, will be fast in a string, If he isn't reliev'd front his late indigestion. Then'there's P-1, but so cold and so stately and dull, And I have my suspicions he is but a trimmer; When he tries to warm up the contents of his skull, The poor effervescence but reaches a simmer. As for W—g—n, tho' I have taken some pains In the North, to brush up his decay'd popularity, I fear he'll be useless; for what are his brains ! One would think they were given him only in charity. Then E—n, and B—th—t, and such May do well enough to increase a division; But the weight of their talents is somewhat too much To he borne by the strength of the New Opposition. But-as you are so brilliant, no doubt, we shall do, in the Commons you'll take your old place in the steerage Witile I shall be just as illustrious as you, The first of the mal-content Stars of the Peerage.  Out of doors our auxiliaries are not amiss— Onr fame, though some villainous Papers bedaub it, Shall be saved from oblivion's woeful abyss, In the Pc.-t and the Standard, the Herald and Cobbett. So Lansdown, and Tierney, and Burdett, and Brougham ! From your triumph, depend on't, we'll speedily firk ye ; Your policy stout, whether foreign or home, And rail about Papists, the corn-bill, and Turkey'. And now, my dear L—th—e, I'll only just add, That I hope we shall soon meet again and be merry ; Our condition at present I own is " too bad," And trusting 'twill mend, I am yours, L—n—y. Dec. 19, 1827. Morning Chronicle.  Lieutenant MACALASTER, 98th Regiment, has Succeeded the late Lieut. WHYTE in the mTaly ewn t • man— dof Listowell.—Dublin Morning Register. il HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY YeSterday, IInGII Atrl!,Las, and Enettestra. .LAwsow or dictment for naurde 111.1111aLaw, his Wife,t were brought up for trial, on an int., and a statutary offence laid under Gth Gen. IV. chap. 126,Lntaittutelemdptahnig Atoemt atiomiowrevderdt guthree malicious shooting at, a any of his Maars.rr's subjects, ~ orl each In a° house, in faror one or other of them,October as on the 17th of theuploanst,dbeletshtairleading to the au in the High Street, in which they lived, and when ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, painter and teacher of deceased dna g also resided, did throw upon the head and face, andocin other parts of the body of the said AB.CHIBALD CAMPBELL, a quantity of sulphuric acid, or other corrosive or burning substance, which inflamed or burned him in so violent a degree, that he died in the Royal Infirmary on the 30th of October; or otherwise, that the pannels, or one or other of them, at the time and place aforesaid, did throw a quantity of sulphuric acid, or corrosive substance calculated to injure 1 the human frame, with the intent to murder, maim, or disfigure the said ARCHIBALD CA3lrant.—The Jury ac. quitted the husband, but found Euritustra. III'3IILLAN guilty ; who was accordingly sentenced to be hanged on the '23d of January. This is the first conviction under the Act—Edinburgh Observer.