The Sun. — 1828-03-06 (London, England)

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENLNO, MARCH 6, 1529.  No French Papers have been received in town last night, or up to the hour at which we went to press, owing to the unfavourable state of the wind.  We direct the attention of our readers to the important trial in the King's Bench, to-day, at the instance of the East India Directors, against one of their number, awl seven other persons, for corruption in the disposal of patronage.  The House of Commons cannot be said t• confine their utility to the mere business of Legislation, but seem desirous of establishing a high standard of good breeding and elegant phraseology, by acting up to which we shall inevitably acquire the character of being the most polished and refined nation in the world.  Of all the rechercUs phrases of modern introduction, " vomiting," as applied to language, is decidedly the favourite. In two successive debates, it has been employed in the happiest and most striking manner—on Tuesday, by his MAJESTY'S AttorneyGeneral ; and last night it was ascertained that, with the rapidity of infection, it has been already added to the vocabulary of the Honourable Member for Rochester.  It was courteously applied by that Gentleman to " the Press, under the auspices of the Anti-Slavery Society." Without pretending to know what influence that Society has over any portion of the public Press (farther than that which originates in the sympathy of all disinterested persons in the great cause of humanity), we would beg the Honourable Gentleman to consider, that the attacks of the Press are never formidable, except when they are directed against determined and inveterate abuses. Its shafts glance harmless from the panoply of virtue, or recoil on her base calumniator.  It seldom happens that men are placed in situations from which they cannot be extricated by straight forward dealing. To this rule even the very hard cas of the West India Proprietors does not appear to form any exception. Their property was acquired, or descended to them from ancestors who acquired it, under the sanction of innumerable Acts of Par iament, which fostered and encouraged " that Sys.  tern," as Mr. BROUGHAM justly termed it, " of robbery and murder, mildly called the Slave Trade." If the nation is now to change its policy, and to redeem itself from the foul stain attaching to such conduct, it is very clear that it should be at the expence of the whole, and not of a very limited portion of the community. The course for the West India Proprietors to pursue is clear and palpable. Their answer to all attacks should be—we hate slavery as much as the rest of the world—give us an equivalent for our property, or share with us in bearing the depreciation of it, which may be the consequence of your legislative enactments, and on those terms we will give them a fair experiment. That a guarantee to this effect should be given by the nation, and that it might be given, without any hazard, we are perfectly satisfied. But should it put a hundred million pounds to peril--it should cause no hesitation in acting on the plain dictates of eternal justice.  But we repeat it, that there would be no danger in foil•wing up the recorded views of Parliament for a gradual but " reasonably quick" Emancipation of our West India slaves—were the hearty co-operation of their owners secured by giving them guarantees that they shall not be, in any case, the only sufferers.  As long, however, as the West India Proprietors purchase newspapers to advocate the horrors of slavery and of the Slave Trade—as long as they insult the sense and feelings of the people of England, by declaring that slavery is a blessing, and slaves the happiest of mortals—so long will they set in array against them the virtue, the intelligence, and the humanity of a nation, which feels Freedom to be the first—the most invaluable blessing of a bounteous Providence.  A letter has been received in New York, from Boston, of the 28th of Jan., stating as follows We bear that a battle took place this forenoon at South Boston, between large bodies of Irish labourers (Orangemen and White Boys), in which several are reported to be killed and wounded. The City bells were rung to alarm the Authorities."  By the death of Vice Admiral Sir ThouAs ThompsoN, the Treasurership of Greenwich Hospital becomes vacant, which is to be filled by Vice Admiral Sir WILLIAM JOHNSTONE HOPE, now one of his Royal Highness's Council. It is expected that Sir WILLIAM will be succeeded at the Council Board by Rear Admiral Sir EDWARD OwEN, now at the Ordnance Office.