The Sun. — London, England, 1802-08-05 00:00:00

AKRIvEn ~.'; .flZr.i MAI I.S. r o- - PRICE GI STOCKS, DAY A: tw:,LvE O'CLOCK. - - - - 71 T H E S 1 3 N. SGLEM QUIS DICERS FA.LgUM'XUDZAr ? DUE I, D 0 - L: GU S T 5, 13 oz. 'WE this morning received the Pari: Papers of t!le isr inst. Tile 41;w:iteur contains a Messa . ze from the Consuls to the Conserv;ltive Senate, referring to their colsideration tl:e Rec.:stets of the Votes of the. Peu . ile of France, upon :Ict question %vile:her BONA? ARre b ellosto . Consul for life. The. Senate is requested to make known to the Public the result of the Votes, and to take suds measures upon the occaion, as they may think necessary. The Coincii of State have given an opinion upon flur questions referred to then respecting he effe.Ct 'of the Seumetis C;nsultum, which granted an Am uesty to Timigrants under certain conditions. The opinion',ll the Council is favourable to the Erai a vants upon a!i the questions. Letters from Hamburg; state, that by the last 'Treaty between Frame and the Parte, the former is to have the Morel: and the bland of - C) . prus; but as ‘%e have had / more proofs of the invention of the German Journalists than we have of their veracity, we may be allowed to doubt the truth of the re port. The EL ECTO R of ME NTZ klied at Aschaffen3laurs on the zgth July, in the 84th year of his age. The French Funds are at 5 . 3.. zo. This morning ►_he Dutch arrived which was due on Sunday evening last, 'the contents of which will be found at length in a subsequent Column. Fr was our intention yesterday to have resumed the tenor of our Observations on the Events of the late Ekelions, when a long Article in The Morn- Post, diver/ed us from our course, and induced us to suspend, for another day, our general Remarks. The Article to which we allude, is written in a a tone of afFeele2 Moderation, calculated to insinuate itself into the minds of the unwary, and to weaken the jealous vigilance of the friends, of the consti tution. There is no style of writing more difficult Co unravel, than this gentle sort of language. It compromises no Party, makes no direB accusation, wounds no personal feelings, provokes no antipa. thies ; but it is the best adapted to throw a cloud over sophistry, and to raise cloab:s in the under standings even of the most rational. Without. pretending to dispute the sincerity of the Writer, we shall proceed to animadvert upon his opinions, beginning' first with a concession to which he can not except, because it is his own sentiment and language, namely, that his “. is not written to serve either Party, and will probablj the displeasure 'of both." " That Sir FRANCIS BURDFTT and his Party have obtained, a triumph, is a fw± l :, which cannot .0* be disputed." We admit the fait, but we deny the conclusion which this Writer has drawn frcim it% Vie see with the deepest :ever, in this mo. rnentary ebullition of the Spirit of Fa&ion, a dis position to Mischief, which, if not restrained by prudential Measures, will very soon lay waste this Country. The Public must have seen in the Coup tcoances, ,u-a hoard amidst the shouts of the sense less crowd, Sentiments and Expressions, which in dicated no respect whatever for those io,Ototiops in our Country, by which Vice and Crime have been successfully repressed. With all these glaring fads staring us in the face, we are justified in as. sertirg, th.r it was not the cause of Sir aANCIS Butto£TT, and the Cold-bath-Aelcis Pi-ison, which rroduced his Majority on the Poll, but the cause of Disorganization and Mischief ; the love of no velty, the hatred of an upright and vigint Magi strate, who had made the Laws respeEted hy those who It idled to subvert them, and the opt or y n i t y which was aff;rded to licentiousness long suppress_ ed, of giving vent to its wonted turbulence of ;haraatr. The W Titer of this moderate article, who is at the Lame time quite imparti a l,. urges aq anothet ground of the triumph p! . Sir FR t' t ,.•!Cii, the! vi;:, toiy bas been obtained io despigl,t of the ' exer, titvis ot . Government, sitting in tie heart of the ;t is ;tppo:isible, after re:: s ding tbi t s pas -01,7,e artl those folly.y it, ec.luady rqlete with Wars' and f.dv. deciu6iion, nct to deny the ciutraftef of IVlocieration, Ivhicll he e:]tahtisb it t it.ng his Readers, ti•ove:PiPent Wir t . tfipr ezetted io pf MAINwARIRG—.-his. friends even complain th4.lle, has ncen deserted on this occasion ; and :he infeence resreting the acquisition of a triumph in a diniia which is the seat of Government, is inconclusive and contradietory in itself. For every School-boy the least experienced in the history of the world is ;Imre, that in a Capital principally, and Under the very eye of the Governarnt, have the licentious an unbridled Populace always attempted and 3iten succeeded in their most criminal enterprizes.--- very circumstance of the residence of the Government, conveys an opinion of its clikient power, Which ofren lenders authority less vigilant ; but when this opinion is either weakened or destroy ed, the disaffected are ever prepared to seize the favourable moment for the execution of their mea sures. If any proofs Of thiS were necessary, the late EleClion for Westminster would demonstrate our position, where, in the heart of the Capital, an il_ literate Broker polled nearly zoo votes, in defi ance, not only of the Ministerial Candidate, but even of the Man of the People. Will any man in his senses assert, that this doughty orator had any claims to the confidence or estimation of his fellow citizens ? No! what then procured him such num. bens ? The answer is obvious ; •a spirit of licen tiousness, a disposition to insubordination, which so strongly predominated in the minds of his voters, as would have led them to the Hustings to vote for an Ass,, had a greater one started than the one who offered himself to their notice as a Candidate. So conscious was Mr. HORNE TooKE of. this truth, and so contemptible did the igajesty of the People appear in his eyes, that he 'travelled above eighty miles distance from the Metropolis, in order to be eleeted by the more grave and sober inhabitants of Old Sarum. Let us, therefore, hear no more of Viaories ;a chieved in a great Capital. If Population be con sidered as the test of sound judgment; if the power of numbers be sufficient to constitute the highest energies of human,wisdom, then has Sir FRANCIS BURDETT triumphed indeed. But if Folly, Levity, Inconstancy, and Ir-refleetion have ever been the charaacristics of the Populace ; if, as the Comic Poet of Greece has justly stigmatised them, they are col leelively but a tremendous Tyrant, then has the re turned Candidate derived no honour whatever from the event of such a choice. Far be it from us to imply any thing contemptuous against the great mass of the i s rople ; we revere the Constitution of this Country too much, to suffer ottrindignation at recent Events, to induce us to depart from that stria line of Demarcation which exists between the sense of People and Populace. Let us now examine the characters of Mr. MA z wAxiNp's Voters, and that we may not be accused of misrepresentation, we shall present them to our Readers in the very words of the Writer in The Morning They are, in the first place, Legal Voters, because, according to the Pest, the "local knowledge" of this Gentleman enabled him to dis cover them ; and because he had " the best informa tion with regard to the Freeholders ; Whereas, his opponent had only " zeal, and popular opinion ;" secondly, " the whole body of Magistrates of the County," who by taking this public mode of ex pressing their favourable opinion, evidently belie the statements respeCting the Cold-bath-fields Pri son, in which they must have been particips which cannot well be asserted of a whole body of men more " numerous and powerful in this County than in any other :"—thirdly, " the whole body of the Clergy,;"—lastly, " the worthiest part of the Community," (these are his own words), " whose Votes he had obtained by the excellence of his pri vate charaaer." Such were the men who voted for Mr. MAINWARtNO, and these men, " the worthiest part of the Community," we call the People, and consider as the true organs of popular opinion. Hence, according to the comparison' of this pro fessor of Moderatiot, Mr. MAINWARING has ob tained the greatest triumph which can possibly be desired by every honourable mind, the triumph of an upright man in the confidence of the worthiest part of the Community. What then becomes of the triumph cf his Opponent ? It is a triumph over the worthiest part of the Community in the person of Mr. MAutwAßtrto ; it is the triumph of the Populace in the person of Sir FRANo Is BURDETT. We who " have been eye witnesses of the scene," blush for the issue of the contest. We view with odic gust every advancement of the power and licentiousness of the Populace. It is not against the personal charaaer of the returned Candidate that we objea, it is against his Principles a it is again;t that pernicious association of ideas by which his triumph is connate(' with the triumph of the ;Able over their Magistrates ; and if he ascribe his viaory (as the the Writer in the Mar.7_ Post avowedly does) to the zeal and attachmen t of a class of men, to whoa alcim an House of Cor. redion is an o:ojea of terror, jie must have derived his suppori from the moit vicious and worthless part pf the Community; from a part of the Com inunity, whose smiles no independent mind will ever court, and whose frowns every honest man will despise. If, therefore, the Prisowhas been the ground of contest (and no other has been adverted to), the question is already decided. ',That this is the faa cannot be disputed, for Sir FR.I.NCIs BUR DETT himself, in that most extraordinary Political E3s:ty which he continues daily to insert in the Public/ journal, under the ludicrous title of an Address " To the Independent and Public.spi tired Freeholders of Middlesex," does not scruple to- consider the Cold-bath-fields Prison as '' a roc,k from rwhich he came: be removed by any hired Magistrates, Parliaments, or Kings." We will not assert it . as our wish, that the Baronet should nevet be removed from this Rock ; but we sincerely counsel him and his advisers in future, when Composing an Address, which must be read, by the Virtuous as well as the Wicked, to pay wore attention and respeet to the Established Laws and Constitution of his Country, of which he be trays, in the Passage we have jtiSt cited, a degree of ignorance, which merits whipping in a School boy, but the highest censure in a Senator. The Con stitution, and the People of this Country, neither recognize, nor ever heard of such Institutions, as hired Magistrates, Parliaments, and Kings. An hired King (unless he means the KING of ETRURIA), is a Solecism in Politics, hired Magistrates are on. • known to the Law and Prat - lice of England ; and if Parliaments be hired, what is he ? This marked inattention to the rules of propriety and fait, evi dently betrays a degree of thoughtless fanaticism, to use no harsher language, which is more conge nial to the character of his Constituents than - to the dignity of the Representative. If, indeed, any additional'argument were necessary to substantiate the validity of our allegations, this incautious ad dress"would suffice to uphold them, and to stamp his viaory as the triumph of Jacobinism. Whether the Event of the Middlesex Eleetion will prompt the adventurous Spirit of Sedition to re new its former machinations, or whether the rest less genius of aspiring Demagogues, shall be pushed into-action, is a question that Time alone can un. ravel. Certain it is, that the Writer in The Morn big Post, who perhaps is in the secret, threatens us with its probability ; and while he announces the' " encouragement," which " the splendid success at Brentford" will probably give to mischievous persons, thus unguardedly conne6ting viftory with mischievous consequences, he deplores the fatal con. tingency which may befal the cause of Public Free dom from this source. In this single passage, the whole scaffolding of panegyric which he had raised to Sir FRMZOIS BURDETT, has fallen to the ground; the veil of Moderation which he assumed is stript off by his own hands, and Jacobinism stands confessed in all its native Deformity. Thus self-convi6ted, we leave him to his OWI3 refleaions. The payment of the Civil List, so long kept back by unavoidable circumstances, is now in course.— Four Quarters will he paid next week, which will bring the Arrears down to the first day of the pre sent year. Although Mr. I,ls-row's appointment is in the G.zette of Tuesday, the -arrival of the Baravian Minister is no; expefted till the end of September, when HIS MAJESTY will return from Weymouth, as it- is not usual to deliver Credentials but at the Court of St. James's. The same reason retards General ANDREOSSI'S arrival, and Lord WH IT- W ORTH'S departure. Mr. FR ER E will be the new Ambassador at Ma drid ; and be succeeded at Lisbon by Lord R. Furz- G E RAL D. Mr. JA C KSON is going Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Berlin, with Mr. ROLLESTON, jun. as his Secretary. Sir JOHN BoaLAsu WAtt,REN leaves London to wards the beginning of September, on his Embassy to Petersburgh. lie waits to see the nuptials of his daughter, who is going to be married to Capt. SEDLEY Of the Guards. Mr. GARLICK is to be Secretary to his Embassy. We were under a mistake, instating in our Paper yesterday that Lord HENRY STUART was going Secretary of Legation to the Hague. His Lord_ ship having lately married Lady VtLLIERS, with a fortune of to,oool. a year, has declined pursuing the diplomatic career. His Lordship was formerly Private SeCretary to Mr. LISTON. There has lately been a change in the Govern_ tnent Stationary • CAce, in Palace-Yard. Mr. thcicrxs, of the Four and a Half par Cent. Office, in the Customs, has succeeded Mr. WOLFE, as Comptroller. Yesterday a Court of Direetors was held at the East India House, which adjourned at six o'clock till Wednesday next. A Letter lately received from Bengal, informs us, that Licutenant-Colonel OLIVER has been ap pointed to the charge of the whole Administration of the Civil and Military Power at the Molucca Islands. Colonel OLI VEA proceeded in the Com pany's Ship True Britoil, which, with the Princess Chaagtte, Capt, HURRAY, and the Asia and 'Mary Tr:trisports, put into Penang, but sailed the 16th of December for Amboyna, I.le old Members for the County of Carlow in Ireland have been thrown out by Sir CHARLES B1.1?.Icozi and Sir R:iCHARD BVTLEU !2 Batts, NA' ..1 L NEIP S. PO ki.TS!IO.7I - .11, ,c. 4. Aail7 E the Apdid, DRAY-:ot., from Gibtal tat ; and yule, RIC:I3 y, from Sunderland. Sailed the Ni/:, DRA?TO r Havre-de-Grace, Arrived the CaZyt.w, BROWN, Sally, CooKE, and Prince George, WlLsox, florn the Straits, an,/ :are under quarantine. Sailed the Pr--;:7o . yant"Store-;11ip, fur Gibraltar, H. 4 R WIC , Ali G 4. Anour - two o'clock this afternoon arrived the Diana Pail•ket, Capt. STUART, from lielvoetsluys, with the Mail and upwards of forty Passengers. The Mail and four Passengers were landed at Aldborough about ten o'clock this morning; it being th en qui te ca l m . About live o'clock sailed the Ki ng G eorge P a cket, Capt. F L YN , and the King G:orge Packet, Captain P. DEANE, with Passengers, .and the respettivc Mails, for llelvoetsluys and Cuxhaven. DEAL, AUG. 4.. ED from Guernsey, and remains, the Wetmore, L'Oiseau, and Galatea Frigates; Liz Sophie and Racoon Sloops of War, with Date!' Troops in the service of the PRINCE of ORANGE, to be conveyed to Cuxhaven. The Caledonia, for Bengal, sailed this morning on heri voyage ; and the Coun:ess of Suti:7erland rernaini. Ar4ed and sailed for the River, the Conc;;r4 VSTELs, from Sierra Leone. ,LVErr PARLIAMENT. MEMBER RETURNED. oft.X.NEY .. SIIETLANZ.—C?pt Rob. Honyman. WEYMOUTH, ' AUGUST 3. THEIR MAJESTIES and the PRINCESSES Came ashore last night at six o'clock, and honoured the Theatre with their presence, to see the Comody of The Wheel of Fortune, in which Mr. ELLISTON p=l - the parrot . Penruddock, and the Farce of. The Farmer. Mr. ELLISTON also performed tho, part of jemmy •lumps, and Mrs. Mul,s, Brty Blackberry, in which they gained great appidue; after which they returned, highly pleased with th performance. .This morning the KING and Princesses AuGusTA 'and MARY bathed... Princess CHARLOTTE of WALES and the Coo. , tess'Of ELGIN took an airing in the adjacent fields• THEIR MAJESTIES and PRINCESSES are gone 0 board the Royal Yacht. Lord CATHCART arrived, here last night, and IS gone .on board with the ROYAL FAMILY. A grand Ball is to be given this evening for the benefit of the Master of the Ceremonies. The Countess of MANsFtELD, and Mt. GRE' VILLE leave as this day. Sunday morning, about three o'clock, the Post.. boy carrying the Mail from Falkirk to Edinburgh , was attacked by two men at a place called the Wes c of Sight Hill, about three miles west of Linlitil' gow, who carried off the bags of letters for Edin burgh. On Friday last, at Selkirk, WILLIANt DICK SON, Esq. of Kilbucho, Lieutenant-Colonel of the ' +2 , d Regiment, was elected Representative for 111 35 , District of Boroughs. , Selkirk, Peebles, a n d La' nark voted for Colonel DICKSON, and Linlithgo vi i for Mr. MAXWELL, of Carriden. No eleCtion %val . I ever more honourable, both. for the eledors an d eleded, .as. it was 'entirely a tribute of resped t 0 the public merit of Colonel Die IC's ON, and the gal lant Regiment of which he had the command it i Egypt. On the evening Messrs. WHITE and Goig . .FREY, the new iVletnbers for Iljthe, gave ;in Cle" , pant Ba at the Assembly-rooms at that place, to the Freelnen, their wives and families, and a latlargei. party of friends. Geneiial TARLETON and his Lady lately arrive , from Ireland. They are upon a visi t at Lor9 Gwyprit's, at Whitehall. - . Th; 40n. HENRY WELLESLEY having resigne ri e : 1 the °flied of Member of the Councii of the College 0' Port Wlliarn, and the Hon. GEORGE HI LARO 13AV, Low, Esq, having resigned the (..th::es of Nhrnber the Council of the College of Fort William, and (31 / Professor of the Laws and Regulations o f t he Britis h !. Government in India, His Excellency the Governo r ' General has been pleased to make the following :11 7 " pointmen:s in the College of Fort `Wiliam :-0, ,e .Honourable G. H. BAR Low, to be Ading \ l '' sitor of ithe College of Fort William, dur.og 1116 absence of the Governor-General from the Pres s ' dency ; H. T. COLE BROOKE, Esq. and J. H. ilitgi. RTN . GTON, Esq. to be Members of the Coetneil t' the College of Fort William; Mr. COLE lIRD OO, 1 to be Professor of the Hindoo Laws, and of 1116 Sanscrit Language ; Mr. HARarNo-roN to be W I ; lessor of, the Laws and Regulations of the Briti sh Government in India. t i C We hear that at the last General Court of 1 Royal Exchange Assurance Company, it was r` ,, e ; ; r solved that a Transfer of ro per Cent, in the 5 tio ' Cent. Bank Annuities, 1797, should lie made to " Proprietors on their respective Shares. of The Annual Show of Cagle for the East Ridolg i f, Yorkshire, was held on the 2.zd ult. at Gear D r ie field. The competition, from the unfivourable t': 1 of the weather, which had prevented the travel l ; l3 l c of cattle, was the smallest ever known, and on ', account to be regretted, as th-lasemblage of GO" le men breeders WAS very great l , , r