The Sun. — London, England, 1807-05-23 00:00:00

NAVAL NEWS. PLYMOUTH ; MAN' havd been this day received here from the Argo, one Of the'outvfard bound 'West India Fleet, dated the . iad March, in lat. 17 : 50. long. 30. 51. stating her being 'well, in company with the. Mariner, Duke, Thairiei,Sinion, Cock, and Marina, all boand to the West Indies ; the whole having missed the outward Convoy, and 'ere proceeding for their destination. Admiral BERTIE has hoisted his Flag on board the Foudroyant, of 80 guns, at this Port, preparatory to her joining tl'e Channel Fleet. Arrived L'Espiegle Sloop of War from the East ivard, and the Insolent Gun-brig from Guernsey. Porrsmourn, MAY,22.Went out of tite 1:-Tar= hour L'lnzpetueux, of 8o guns, ,Capt. LAWFOR' having undergone considerable refitment. To-morrow morning the piamond Frigate, Capt. ARGLES, and the Favourite Sloop, Capt. Nimbus, with a convoy for Africa, are expected to sail. POOLE, MAY 22.—The Hope, of this Port, laden with stone, foundered at her anchors, in Studland 13ay, in four fathom water. SHEERNESS, I%IAY illacrity Sloop t)f Wai, with a large Convoy for the Baltic, and the Zebra Bomb, with a Convoy for Tonningen, still : - ernain wind bound: The ilitilatar, 50 guns, Capt. TENatz, for Rio Ce la Plata, has sailed to the Westwird. Five o' Clock;—=Sailed the Baltic and Alsineur Con- Voy, Ships at the :More—Eicelienti /4, Hindostan, so, Zealand, Winchelsea, and Ceres, Receiving Ships, and Zebra Bomb, DEAL, MAt 22.--4reiteiday evening, after Post, Admiral Lord lizrtst shifted his Flag from His Ma jesty's Ship Edgar to the Trusty.. Arrived His Majesty's Ships 'Clyde and Musquito from a cruize, and remain in the Dawns with the rest of the Ships as per last. This morning the Transport Favourite, Capt. 13EaN, bound to Spithead, was ran athwart by a de tained Danish Vessel in the Downs, and bad her gib-boom carried away, sprung her bowsprit, and received other damage. GREENOCK, MAY 20.--=A letter from Capt. GALT, Of the' Elizabeth, of this Port, dated 7th April, at Sea, in lat. 34. 38. N. long. 17. 45. W. mentions, that the Fleet which sailed from Cork for the West Indies, on 28th MarCh, under convoy of the Dce tialus Frigate, was then all well; and that the Union, Commerce, and Penelope, from Clyde, which joined Off Cork, were then with the meet, 78 in number, including the Commodore, to whose attention he Pays high compliment.—A.letter from another Clyde Captain, of the same date, states, that they were then in lat. 34. 36. N. long. 16. 45. W. and men tions that they expe&cd to see Madeira next day; having a strong breeze of fair wind. Yesterday the Princess ELIZABETH completed her 3 7th year, upon which occasion the principal part of the Royal Family assembled at Windsor. Soon after breakfast His MAJESTY, the Dukes of CAMBRIDGE and SUSSEX, Princesses AUGVSTA, SO and.AMELIA, attended by Lord WALsINGHAM, Lady BULAtLEY, Generals DE BLYDE, HARcoURT, GwyNnE, and FITZROY, tire Hon. Mrs. BLYLICELEY and PAGET, and Colonel TAYLOR, took an airing on horseback, -and returned to the Palace at half Past twelve o'clock. They afterwards went to Her Majesty's House at Frogmere, where the QUEEN, Princesses :ELIZABETH and MARY, the Prince of WALES, the Duke and Duchess of Yoltx, the Duke tdCLARENCR, Sir Joan ST. ADRYN and Lady,, were in readiness to receive them, and a sumptuous , cold collation provided, of which. His MAJESTY dined, and the rest of the party partook. At half past three o'clock the Royal Party returned to the Palace, after walking in Frogmore Gardens:. _ At four o'clock the whole pa r ty,di ne d - w i t h th e QUEEN, except the KING, who joined them. when th e dessert was put upon the table. In the evening THEIR MAJESTIES had a Concert, Performed by the Queen's Band; after which they had a Ball. Yesterday a very fine Merchant Ship, of Rio tons burthen; belonging to J. LocxE, s(3.- was launched from Messrs. BRENT'S yard, Rothernithe,.and named ,the Tyne ; and this day a beautiful 74-gun Ship was uunched from Messrs. PERRY'S yard, Madman. The Royal Sovereign Yacht is refitting and taking in her stores at Depttbrd, to be ready to. attend,His MAJESTY, if he should be disposed for another ex cursion this Shinmer to Weymouth. Her. Grace the Duchess of Rion:worm, family, 2 nd suite, embarked on board one of the )toy al '! Y achts at Holyhead on Wednesday last, and imine rliately Proceeded with a fair wind at E. N. E. for We . were led to suppose that Count, now Prince rr ARREMBERG, on his arriving to his high rank and Large fortune by the death of his father, must ne e'2ssarily leave England, and settle in Germany. We a re , however, informed from good authority, that 11 4 zeal for the true interests of his Court, and the . p erso nal:attachment, after a residence of 14 years, that he entertains for this country, (in which his father was born) have prevailed upon .him to remain. rn England. His Highness, we are informed, has a ccording? ) , made such arrangements in his affairs a . .s will render his i mme di ate presence on t h e C on-. t.nent lesi necessary. Sir Amix CAa effeEted his late Tour in Holland, °d along the Rhine, in the'chara6ter of an Aineri.- 1 withll, and has thus been able to gratify the Public an account of countries which bay se . w%4n inaccessible to Englisliteea. W PAR,LFAMEh'7 MEMBERS ELECTED. B NVP COUNTY—Right Hon. Sir Win. Grant. SOM'E'RSET COUNTY—Thornas Buckler Vetlibridge, Esq. ; Wm. Dickinson, Esq. PARTH COUNTY—Lord James Murray. BEDFORDSTIIRE.—State of the Poll. Pym, Esq. - - - 1 143 -;e.k _yen. Fitzpatric. - - - 1084 Col. Osborn - - - 1060 The two former returned. SUSSEX—State of the Poll. -- Wyndham, Esq. - 3894 Fuller, Esq. - - 2139 Sergison, Esq. - - 2110 YORK COUNTY—State.of the Poll. Loici Milton - - - 1951 Hon. Henry Lascelles - 1688 Wilberforce, Esq. 1674 `WESTMINSTER ELECTION.--SIRIe of this day's Poll at one o'clock,- 111;. Sheridan 7 - - - 505 Sir F. Burdett - - - - 208 Lord Cochrane 171 Mr. Elliot - - - - 29 Ia,sTOIIIVSTER ELECTION. FOURTEENTH DAY. The nutrib4rs at the close of the Poll yesterday were— Tor Sir F. Putt DETT LOrti COCHKANE Mr. SHERIDAN In the absence of his father, who, from fatigue and indisposition, was disabled from attending, Mr. T. SHERIDAN came forward. He hoped the -Elec tors, Whose partiality his father had so peculiarly ex perienced, would kindly indulge him one day's rest, and assured them that to-morrow his father would return to the charge with renovated vigour. In ad dressing them, it was the custom of his father to animadvert on the positions that had been set forth the day before :, he would endeavour to'follow that example, however inadequate he felt to the task ; for for he relied on'their iniinlgent patience,satisfied that they forgave t he defeets of the Orator, and would think only of the anxieties of the Son. The daily theme of the Noble Lord seemed to be declamation , against' Coalitions. In the same strain did be every day rail against Coalitions; yet with the words " No Coali tion" in his mouth, he went about declaring he should not be found in Opposition, but he would be independent; and with 'an air of that professed indepeidence, he begged for the second votes of the other Candidates. • For a time, he frequented the tap-Toom of the Brewer, and continued to frequent it until it ran dry, and then he was done with ,Mr. Elliot's Intire. It happened indeed since (no doubt by accident), that_ he wandered into 'Sir F.,Burdett's Committee Room : but mark—still No Coalition is his word ; yes, No CoalitiOn, Gentlemen ; but at the same time the Noble Lord begs admission among Sir F. Burdett's friends, and declares he should not at all be offended by an interchange of votes—still No Coalition. It is true, indeed, the Noble Lord has expressed no anxiety to coalesce with my father's friends. And why ? Because the Noble Lord has no' wish to join. the weaker side. The same charac-. ter marked all his professions. They were so gene ral, so indefinite, so indeterminate, that it was hard to say what part he would take, or how he would vote. He recolleaed the story of the barber who wrote up the, following words on his board:— ' What !do you think— I'll shave you for nothing if you'll give me to drink ! Some one passing by, struck with the seeming offer, went in, gave the barber a glass of ptinch and got shaved. As be was going away, the barber asked, what will you not pay me fur shaving you ? Why, replied the other, No: Have I not given you to drink Yes, good Sir, but you misread what was on my board, You have not attended to the mark of admiration that closes the sentence! It will be the same with the Noble Lord, when he-gets into the House. There you will set a mark of admi ration upon him ; and indeed you will have room to admire how different his practice is from his theory. There Wag an expression which fell yesterday from the Hon. Gentleman near him (Mr. Jennings,) to which fie could not forbear shortly adverting. That Gentleman, alluding to my father, said. Mr. T. Sheridan, says he run hiS skiff alongside my three. decker.—Allow the to ask this question, Gentlemen, —When it was battled in the House of Commons against tyrannical imprisonment, who alone protea ed the three-decker ? was it a skiff ? when the Ha beas Corpus Act was to bi• suspended, who bore up to- defend that bulwark of British liberties, was it a skiff.? When your Navy, y our ma i n stay, was filled with misled mutinous seamen, and the country trembled for her safety, was it a skiff that brought back into your ports that Navy sound and unimpaired ? Mr. Thomas Sheridan next 'adverted. to objections started to him by some of the Eleaors, because his' father had not gone round and made a personal canvass.—ls it not his past conduit in Parliament that ought to / canvass for - him : do you not know - what profes sions are ? 'What, but empty words and useless breath ! Neither can I think that it would much benefit the country ) , to bring in any Candidate by majorities of thousands. No, there is more mischief _ . doi'e to the country by one silent ministerial vote, •_ than can,be done by the pleadings of an Angel for her salvation. But to the main point—to=morrow, they knew was the last day : the friends of ; his father had beat Captain Elliot. The Captain had fled from his post—but they would recolle& the same could not be expeaed from the Noble Lord. A British sailor never flies from his colours. But still if his father was placed, even above Captain Elliot, he would promise to bring the Noble Lord to a Court-Martial, and that his sentence would, be, to be dismissed from His Majesty's service in the House of Commons, and sent back to do his duty where he was sure the Noble Lord would do honour to himself, and real service to his country. He had only one word and one allusion more to offer : that was, to the sword presented to a Prince as a fit. re- I ward for a brave man. It was obje6ted, that though 1 the workmanship was exqnisite, yet the sword was .too short. No, observed the . Prine, no sword is too short for a brave man—he makes a step forward, and the sword is long enough. So do I now say to you, Gentlemen, Make hut one .. tep note forwards and the time, you'll find, is not too short. Lord COCHRANE continued to assert, that fie.hvid entered into no coalition, with any plirty, that con scious of independence in his own mind, he should never refuse the vote of an Eloaor who professed the same spirit of independence, to whatever party or. Candidate he might We disposed to give his other vote. That he was not connected either with 'the last, or the present Administration ; but that he was resolved to take the earliest opportunity of urging the best Measures for the redress of the abuses Hof which he had complained, and he should be happy to have the concurrence and support of whatever col league the Ele&ors of Westminster should choose to give him. After a few words of explanation from Mr. T. SHERIDAN, in which he again took occasion to en courage his father's friends to come up early this morning, Mr. JENNINGS stood forward to congratulate the Elthors on their. glorious success : for the cause of Sir F. `Burdett was their own cause : it was forward=' ed by theth and for theM.—They had entered into a subscription. of from 2s. 6d. to a, guinea,' and that subscription did them more honour than any that Dukes and Earls could raise. He admired as much. as they could do, the brilliant display of talent. Which Mr. Sheridan had made to amuse them : but he would rather have seen these splendid talents em ployed in endeavours to instruict the ,people in their rights. If, however; Mr. Sheridan brought forward the measures he had alluded to, more particularly that fOr restraining the Undue power of the Magis trates- in withdrawing the licences frbm publican§ without assigning any adequate reason; he w ou ld perform a signal aft of justice, one that would intitle him to the .Iternal gratitude of the City of West minster, and which, if an Qpportunity offered, ought certainly to place him as their Representa tive in Parliament, as with such abilities, and such sentiments, no man could do them more justice and honour. MIDDLESEX ELECTION. FIFTH DAY, MAY 21 . Ttne polling during the whole of the day pro ceeded but slowly, at the close the numbers were, For WIL \ LIAM MELLISH, Esq. . 247' GEORGE BYNG, Esti. . - iS4o Sir CHRISTOPHER BAYNIS, Bt. 1007 Mr. BYNG then came forward, and addressed the Freeholders as follows :—Gentlemen Freeholders, beg leave to return you my best and most ardent thanks for the spirit and vigour with which you have supported me, and, with which I trust you will con tinue to support me. I thank you sincerely for having this day increased so considerably my ma jority over the Hon. Baronet, who comes forward in .a partictilar .manner as my opponent. The Hon. Baronet, as I stated to you before, has been brought forward in opposition to me by the Wisters. They are naturally anxious to lave in Parliament men who will be devoted to will; 'they are anxious to stifle inquiries int.) the expenditure of your money 5 they are anxious to prevent the deteQion of public peculators, and to screen delinquents from punish ment; they are anxious, Gentlemen, to serve the eleaioa of those why, they know will always feel as. the servants of , the Ministers, and not as the ser vants of the People. Such men, Gentlemen, they are anxious to see in - Parliament, and they fire rßtu rally opposed to me, because they know that .I am, no such man. You, on the contrary, know that your cause is served, your interests attended to and pro moted, and your just rights and privileges prote&ed, by sending Members to Parliament who are attached to the popular part of the Constitution, which every one ,of your Representatives ought to be, and not men who will sacrifice their public duties to their own private purposes.— [Applauses, marked with cries of "Lord Howick has been turned out."]--Gentlemen, continued Mr. Byng, it is true that Lord Howick is not now Member for Northumberland ; but you will recollea that Lord Percy is, and that the politics of Lord Howick and Lord Percy are the same. Lord Howick was never better received than during his last canvass by a most numerous and respe&able body of Freeholders. If he declined, Gentlemen, be as sured it was not from despair of ultimate success ; for he never had less grounds for despair ; but he saw a contest inevitable, and this contest would have involved him in a much greater expeuce than was convenient for him. In my addresseS to you, Gen tlemen Freeholders, I have not, as the Hon. Baronet has done, introduced the name of my Sovereign— not that I do not feel the highest veneration both for the office and the private virtues of his Majesty, but because I think it is a violation of the freedom of eleaion to introduce on these occasions a name so sacred. These,' Gentlemen, are my feelings, and will be to the latest hour of my life. Let me again beg of you, Gentlemen Freeholders, to continue your exertions in my favour; and this I may do the more confidently, since the slightest refleaion must convince you that my cause is your's, and that of your country and your posterity. Mr. M LusH.—Gentlemen Freeholders, my situation is certainly very extraordinary, but it is a situation which all must envy me, and' I am • proud of it. Mr. Byng's friends have industriouslycircu lated a report that I have coalesced with Sir C. Baynes. On the other hand, Sjr C. Baynes has told you that there is an understanding between me and Mr. Byng. But, Gentlemen', I have coalesced with nobody, and I am sure you will believe me and not them, and therefore I leave you to judge of the re ports on the one side and on the other. This, I hope, is the cause of your partiality to me. At the outset, Gentlemen, I made a profession of my prin ciples, these I have constantly followed up, and you now reward me by putting me at the head of the Poll. If I had pursued any other course I would this day have been the lowest on' the Poll instead of the highest. The attacks of Mr. Byug have been rather diredted against the Honourable Baronet than against me. Ido not, therefore, feel it necessary to say any thing upon them. You' 'have strenuously. supported me, Gentlemen,' and I thank you for it, and have only to request of you to.continue your ex ertions. Sir C. I3AYNEs—Gentlemen Freeholders, and my friends in general, my first thanks are due to you for the support you have given me, and my next to the other Candidates, whose observations on me have given me Up opportunity for further ex • .planatfott• Gentlemen, he who is chieliy oppo'secl to me. says that I have the support of the executive Government. 'But I never asked any :such Support ; and if I have,• it is on account Of my pfillciple, and ,not on account of any request .of Mine. men, Mr.. Bpi); says, that I have irregularly in ro duced the name of : the King. If I have, they,s± t me the exarnple in Nrliarrient, *here they not only introduced bis name, but brought him like a felon to their. bar.—MV political principles, Gentlemen, are tbese--,a steadyattaehment• to my King—l am a true Whig in principle's, not a Whig of the present day, hut a firm friend to the glorious Revolution, and no innovation in it; I am a friend to enlighten ed 'toleration, because' I think that every one ought . to be allowed, to warship his God in his own wa . . You mai rely on it ? that while I am supported by you on account of my own character and principles. I will : be firm and take. the sense of the coluitr. When my opponents have polled eOOO, then I Shad think of giving up the contest; but till that, time comes be you firm to me; andl-shall be true to you; I look fur viCfory °tribe last day ofthe poll, O'ent4l - which is his Majesty's Birth-day. men, continued the Hon. Baronet, it givesme g! - ;:at satisfattiou to see yo'i all happy, and to that,liappi . t . ness I shall be always glad to contribute as muck A as, I can . • The Court then adjourned till nine o'clock toz morrow (this:day). POE7IIV. C' WHO ~t 1 SIR CIIIIIS7OPHER BiYNES The EvrratrEs exclalm," " Whq's Sir CRitsstoritsft BAY NES— That to get in fof Middlesex takes so much pains t The answer is easy—J. A plain honest man, To support Cktua ea and S ritra is his resolute plan.-- la the Volunteer Service he toil'd very bard, Disdaining so paltry a thought as reward. As a Magistrate alive for seventeen years, Whom, V tleTut respells, ind whom VICE alon6 fears ; The Friend of our Contmlazi, our CO UN TR Y, anti ht Vie, Pray who'll say as much in behalf of Gtoitos 13 v N.O BEDFORD, 'MAY 22.—Colonel OSBORN, find;ng the strength of the. County was completely exhaust= , ed, and (from the very few remaining Freeholders who had not voted) no possibility,appeared of his ob taining a majority, wrote to Mr. PYNI and General FITZPATRICK, of his intention not to give them er the County any further trouble. And he this tnorn ing, in the most manly and handsome manner, on the Hustings, declined any further contest; and those Gentlemen have in consequence been declared duly eic&ed. This Contest haS been carried on with the greatest energy and spirit on both sides ; and though COl. OSBOR N has lost :his eledion, he has by his conduet during the struggle endeared himself greatly in tho minds and hearts of his brother Freeholder 4 : and even his strangest political antagonist, Mr. WHIT BREAD, has paid him the highest compliMents ; and on Mr. PYM and Gen. FITZPATRICK'S being chairtAl through the town, and making their bow on their return from the Balcony of the Swan Inn; Mr; WHITBREAD came fhrward,- and requested they might .have a triumphant huzza ; and when that was over, he again requested they might have (me more " to the health and happiness of their late Po- , liticalOpponent." -cololiel OSBORN has polled 1069 out of 2169 voters, and near nine hundred of those 1069, have been single votes, or plumpers ; a circumstance un paralleled in the annals of Election, and a convincink proof of the high estimation in which be is held by the County of Bedford. Yortx, MAY 21.--Yesterday came on the Elee , tion of two Knights of the Shire for the County of York. The Candidates, WILLIAM WILBERFORCE, Esq. Hon. HENRY LASCELLES, and Lord MILTOig, proceeded from their respe&ive Inns on horsebatk, separately, 'each Candidate 'accompanied by a nu merous party of friends; and atter riding round the Castle-yard, as usual, ascended the temporary Booth. ere6ted for the. High Sheriff and his Officers. After the usual forms had been gone through, Mr. WILBERFORCE was proposed by Sir R. D. Hit,n - shrlD, Bart. and seconded by BACON FRANK, Esq. The-Hon. H. LASCELLES wag proposed by J. B. S.'MORRITT L , Esq. apd 'seconded by W. FEN* TON SCOTT, Esq.—and Lord MILTON was proposed by Sir F, L. WOOD, and seconded by Mr. WnIGHT 7 sm4.—On a slew'. of ha'nds, the High Sheriff de clared the majority to be in favour of the Hon. HENRY LASCELLES and Lord MILTON. A poll was demanded by Mr. WlLBE'gFca4cE, and immediately 'proceeded on. - The Ele&ion of Sixteen Peers for Scotland is ex- peaed to go very much in favour of the Noble Can didates attached to the p-esent Administration. Lord .KINNAIRD, it is supposed, will decline 'offering him self at the ensuing Eieaion. RIOT IN THE CITY.-A considerable disturbance occurred yesterday in the neighbourhood of- Moor. fields, which was 'occasioned by the following cir cumstance : a young country girl passing through the fields, between twelve and one in the day,' was accosted by two men, who entered into con versation with her. She innocently told them that she had come to town in order to get into serv:ce, and that she wished very much to be engaged.— They assured her that they knew a Lady who want ed a servant from the country, that they had Iv doubt but that she ,would suit her, and that s!te would find it au excellent, place. By representations - of, this kind the girl was persuaded to accompany them to Ropemaker-street, near Finsbury square, where they took her to a house of bad fame. She had scarcely entered when she began t o suspe ct t h eir intentions, 'but they forced' her up stairs. Her cries ; however, alarmed the neighbourhood a ; crowd soon collesfted, and those within barricadoed the door, but it was quickly forced open, and. the girl was set at liberty. The inhabitants and visitants retreated by a back (Mar, and escaped from the indignation' of the populace, .but the . house was almost entirely de molished. The furniture was torn to pieces, and not a door or window was left standing. A number of Constables and City Officers were celleaed to .preserve the peace, but the snob was not dispers o d • until a late hour. Married ; on Wednesday the 20th inst. at Ack-- worth Church„ by the Rev. W. R.- Hay, J oHN HARWARD :TEMP', Esq. of Doory, ill the County of Longford, to Mrs: SOLLY, of Ackworth Park, Yorksllire.