The Sun. — London, England, 1812-04-18 00:00:00

POETRY. IMPEWMPTU °N MR. WHITBREAD ' S HAVING STYLED MR. PERCE VAL " AN ADVENTURER FROM THE BAR." Brety'r WHL TB READ, from decency far, Himself has ex pos'lto a rap, For surely one brought from the Bar May rank with one bred fur rh, Tap. SPORTIAG INTELLIGENCE. ikIEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING, 1812. FRIDAY, APRIL' 17 Sal@dishackville's f. by DicK Andrews", '73t. tzlb. beat Mr. n Beverley, Bst. iolb. Across the Flat. wogs.— t o 4 on Ld Sackville's t. by Dick Andrews. Mr. Craven's Tooley, by Walton, beat D. of Grafton's brother to Coke, Bst. 71b. each. Across.the Flat. zoog.— % to I on Tooley. Ld Sackville's Pan, Bst. zlb. beat Mr. Andrew's MoCet, B st. 81b. Ab. M. zocgs.--7 to zon Pan. Ld Darlington's f. by Ditt6, Bst. 31b. beat Gen. Gower's a by S o rcerer, 7 5 t. tzlb: . Two-yr. old C, _tdogs.-3 to 4 °n 14 Darlington's f. by Ditto. ' 6 Subscription Handicap Plate of 501. for 3-yr olds and upwards. Across the Flat. I r. Howarth's b. Invalid, 6 yrs. Est. 61b. Ld C. H. Cavendish's br. h. Iqurival, 5 yrs. Bst. iaib. Mr. Lake's ch. in. Uritidllllla, 5 yrs 7s t. J lb. '° 3 2to r agst Invalid -5 to 2 agst Florival. ¶en. Gower's Crcssidi, 4 yrs old, Bst. zlb, was entered 40 * this plate, but the other horses starting without her, she literwards walked Gyer . _ Mr. Thornhill's b. f. Historia, by Haphazard, darn by WotEo's rec. 6ogs. from Ld Kinnaird's b. t. by Popinjay. Ab. M. bogs. BARON GERAMB. We stated to our Readers that this impudent Ad venturer had left an Address to" the People of Eng land on his departure float this countrti•. He sent several of these Addresses to town, and. we now subjoin a copy. It is, as our Readers will see, a despicable compound of vannv, falsehood, and ma l'gnity throughout, and would, indeed, be wholly unworthy of public attention, it the S winding fin- . 1 3 nstor had not excited so much notice, and tl a pe lusai of it were not likely to guard our countrymen against other foreign Adventurers, who obtrude la ruung us with similar designs, and.too often prey t iPon the unwary. 41 4 ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF . ENGLAND, BY rERDINAND BARON GER ANS, kt. &C. I think it but my duty openly to declare' in the face of England, that, from the unworthy treatment have experienced frorn the British Ministry, who, i n my case, have ttampied upon the 'most scred Iglus of justice and honour, I must abandon a cause 'bid) they have taught me to detest : yet' for this use did I forsake the habitation of my children, heritage of my fathers ! 'for this cause did I ly lavish my wealth. "It is for England," I 1, and my heart 'exulted in the sacrifices that h but the veil of error falls, tot n by the iron of a Governmelit destitute of generosity and Sinking beneath the misfo , tunes• with \ their conduct has over whelme&me, I must , with the energy of an -injured man, Un the s tran ger, who, confiding in the equity ME)/ sp apparent in t e British Government, ake his country to embrat e their cause : alas I will he discover his en Or—will daily ith indignation at the procetdings he shall' 'ill fall a lingerin4 sacrifice to dizappoint despair ; and his lifeless body, thrown de,, will excite no conipassion, because • of 'a foreigner ! (toile but one hundred h part for Government, of that which I ha , e and, I should have been rewa.ded, 'lied with: honours; whilst here d but ingratitude and injustice the the must atrocious. No ! never e the time of Rubespierre, txpe , such treatment,ao have•endur treatment that is- unparalleled most barbarous nation. lavished on vale writers, whose merit, consists in dairy insult \ostile land; whilst justice is vered with wounds, who has England, and even compro mall part of what was justly of God and man. t will 'perish-sooner or later which it is engaged ; be grateful, and an avenging e and injustice. • n what I have done for ices which I have made, tion, and tears of blood t.ent of what I have 'e honorable- in the quit this country isfied„ my creditors, ish than leave be ght brand my time nstrast :—I arrived ady money, jewels Ind a just demand go,oool. but I with me only my d bitter remem- Tiencecl. I will gage some fish. France; upor listanding the Tate to it, I v hich is the march, and will ex the Bri who are iery ice !" from the is Me ' e will brave 'm, I as an ing, 't is to IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF PEERS. rRIDAY, APRIL 17. The London and Middlesex Penitentiary Houses Bill, and the Coffee Duty Regulation Bill, were read a second time, and committed for Monday. - The further consideration of Blachford's Divorce Bill being resumed, Counsel and Witnesses were called to the Bar, and farther evidence was adduced as to the fact of the adultery; a part of thii was a letter from Mrs. B. to her husband, which included a confession of the fa&. Upon the whole, , the evidence W 33 such, as, in the opinion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, should in duce their Lor 141 , ips to give a second reading to the Bill, though the simple confession of the woman, uncorroborated by other evidence, would be far from .sutfrent. Tne 8.11 was then read a second time, and com mitted for Monday. The Duke of BBALTFORT presented•a Petition from the Merchants, Tiaders, and Ship-owners, of the City of Bristol, against the renewal of the. East In dia Cotnpdny',s Charter. His .Grace also presented' a Petition from the Bristol Wet Docks Company, to the same rffeet. These Documents were ordered to lie on' the Table. - - • Lord Viscount SIDMOUTH (Lord President) pre sented a Petition from the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Corporation, of the City . of Dublin, against the Claims of the Irish Catholics, which being read, his Lordship moved, that the Petition do lie on the Table. Earl STANHOPE said, he would ntit oppose the motion, because ho thought such a 1 3 ethion should be on the. Table. The proceeding was ordered accordingly. Lord REDESHALE MOVeLI; toat the Order for their Lordships to go into A Committee on she Insolvent Debtor's Reli4 Bill on Monday next, be discharged, atid a birnilai Order made for MOnday se'nnight, which proceedin.4,4 accordingly took pl:ice. The remaining Bills upon the Table being for warded in their 1 - 6spe6live stages,. their 'Lordships adjourned till Monday. ROUSE OF COMMONS, FRIDAY, APRIL 17. On the motion of Mr. Hyatt, a return of the number of Cadets sent out to the Establishments of the East India Company .of 132ngal, Madras, and Bombay, was ordered to be bid before the HouSe. CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION. Mr. WHITBREAD presentera Petition, signed by between eight and nine thou Sand persons, Chris• flans of various denominations,, praying that the molt perfect liberty of conscience might be granted to all cases of subjects. . He had had the honourpt 'haying th's Petition put into his hands by i Gentleman most distinguished—most distin• guished fcr his 'virtue, and ‘N ho; after many years spent - in the same way, now at the dos,: of m e (tliough uevertheleSs healthy), Was st , ll the cause of his - telloW-critures, anti mil! anxious to -employ the remainder of his Jays spreading '' p-ace : ,t) eat and good will towards men.'— After saying t,,us much, h ne,ql hardly dyiigu.oe the person of whom he had spoken ;, it was almost unneces , 4ry to say it was the Rev. Mr. Wyvill. The P-.t.tion was then brought up, read, and or dered 'o be I.iid on the Table. Mr. WHITBREAD then presented similar Petitions from many pl;wes in England, from Sheffield, Leeds, Manchester, Exeter, Halifax, Nottingham, Bri s t o l, Hull, and Ber-..,ick, which were read, and ordered to lie on the Table, Mr. WHITBREAD said,'he should have thought it necessary to submit some proposition to the House on the subjed matter of these Petitions, but fort he peculiar circumstances of the present time, which inclined him to wait the issue of the , rnolion o f hi s Honourable Friend. At present, be was content to refer these to tile Committee on the Catholic Pell:. Lions. He, however, gave notice, that it was his intention, unless, the Court of King's Bench, on a Case pending respecting the new construction which had lately been put on the Toleratidn AEI, deter mined that to be the legal construction which had been the liberal one,' he would on Wednesday, the egtnof April, submit a motion to the House, the obje6l of which would be to make the liberal, the legal construction: Mr. t LITTLETON presented a Petition from Dud ley against the East India Monopoly. Ordered to lie on,the Table. EAST INDIA CHARTER. Mr. CREEVEY, as he was not present on a for mer evening, when the Right Hon. Gentleman had been said - to state it to be his intention to bring for= ward his proposition on the subject of the renewal of the East India Charter, in the week after next, wished to ask if such was his intention. He then observed that there_were a variety of documents on this snbjea, which it was desirable the House should peruse before they - went into the.discussion, which had not yet been put into their hands.— The proceedings of t 793 on the subject; and a' very voluminous Report, which had been printed, were necessary to be considered, before they decided upon the new agreement. He vVished to know what was the intention of the Right Hon. Gentle man, as a knowledge of it was of no smallimport ance at the present =Went, when all the out ports had sent Delegates to London, who, were anxious to ascertain- whether it was his intention then to subthit it to Patliament or not. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER having already stated his intention of bringing the subject before Parliament in the week after next, if he had, had any reason to alter his intention, should have thought it his duty to state that fact to the House. At present he had no such statement to make, and it was his intention and his hope, not only to bring it forward, but to pass the-measure it might be thought proper to propose in the course of the pre, sent Session through both Houses of Parliatneni He knew that there were delegates from the Out ports in London (some of whoa) he had seen), and he knew that it would be a disappointment to them, if he should be disappointed in his present inten tion. It was, however, impossible to pledge him self, to bring forward a measure ,Of this' deseript;on precisely at ;he time which he had mentioned. He could only say that he , still hoped chat it would be in his power to bring it forward early in the Week after next. ORDERS IN COUNCIL. Mr. WILBERFORCB presented two Petitions front Hallamsbire and Sheffield, in Yorkshire, against the OcderS in CounQil.L—Ordered to he on the Table. • • Sir C. IVIoanAuNT presented a Petition from Bir mingham against Ole Orders in Council. Mr. BARING felt it to be-impossible, when such Petitions ; . ere preSented from our most populous manutaEtwing towns, to refrain from calling the at tention of the House to the subject. These, it was to be observed, did not come from per'Sons who were influenced, by a desire to obstruel the measures of Government, but from persons who had not come forward till their own ruin and the starving state of those under them forced them to come to that House, and state the fatal results of the sys tem which had of late unhappily been pursued.— T!.e Hon. Gentleman proceeded to comment-on the evils which — hod been brought on this country by the stoppage of the trade with America, and on the failure of our Orders in Council, which had ended in our granting licences to permit the impr tation of nearly ail the manufaClures of tie enemy, which it was our interest to prohibit. Hardly any thing was excluded but wine and brandy, and the only restrittion en the importation of their commo dities was, that 51. per ton in British manulatirtres was to be exported in return for the imports. In many instances, howev , A . , for 51. exported, 50001. might be imported. To palliate that conduct which had led to these evils, it was now proposed to throw open a part of the trade to India. This, however, gave him but little consolation, as—he. feared its effeat would be to endanger our Empire there, and to ruin those %Clio endeavoured to avail themselves of the Mr. itiSE; thought this subject would be better discussee when the papers which were ordered to be produced were before them. The Hon. Gentle man had said, that, by our licenses we let in _those commodities of France which it was most our inte rest to prohibit. Now he would observe, that on lawns which were permitted to be imported, there was, a duty of Go per cent. ; and this, he thought, was some protection. With respetit to laces, &c. he would observe, that on their, importation no duties we imposed by the last Administration, as it was felt that they would have little or no effect, and in this feeling their successors had participated. That some of our manufaduring towns had suffered to a cOnside.able event,. he had no doubt; hut whether they had so suffered in consequence of the Orders in Council, was a very diff.rent question. . Sir C. MORDAUNT offered a leW 'observations on the present state of Bhoeingliam, as when such-Bard words as ruin end starvation were used, he thought they ought not to go 'theies x ereti. The town was not in that deplorable . state n which , it had been snppbsed to be. As_a' proof of this, he "could .sta!e that the tecrheing service it that neigiihohrhood had been 'very slack. .He did not say it had not stiff d ; he admitted Via: the.,people of Birmieg haor had endured :a. e,4ett deal,, and with great pa tience, but hitherto a weThi of employment had not been very severely felt by the industrious, though it was fee - ed it soon would be, as the stock in hand was so great, that work would n .t long be found Unless that stock was got _off. 11, however, much, was felt here, much also was felt on the other side of the Atlantic. An - American could not Shave himself, nor catch his mice for want of out coal medities.. He concluded ohselviog, that if it were shewn to the people of Birmaigham that the present system ought to be preserved in, they would quietly go to their gardens and dig potatoes. Mr. BARING explained. Mr. WHITBREAD, after some allusion to the late disturbances, contrasted the concurrence of -the Chancellor of the Exchequer last year, in the mo tion for a Commi , tee to inquire into the, cause of these distresses, with the opposition which every such motion meet with in the present Session. He wished to know if it was his intention, now he saw the disturbances which had broken out 'in the heart of the country, to refer the subjed to a Committee; to inquire if the 'statements made by the Com plainants were true, and if true, to inform them that, for them there was nu relief. The Honourable Bat onet would, notwithstanding all he had advanced, give him leave to tell him, that to support our com mercial credit the House had in the last year con sented to the funding of (5,000,0001, of EXchequer Bills, thegreater part of which he understood had been appropriated to the assistance of our manufac turers. These bills. were to be repaid by instal ments. The first instalment had been paid.- The second would come due to-morrow, and he ealled . upon the Right Hon. Genktuan to say if he had b:en told that it could not be paid ? thick' such. circumstances,. did it not become him to ask if. the Right Hon. Gentleman would refer the subject to. a Committee to inquire if these evils result:el from the Orders in Council ? The e Honourable Baronet was wrong in what he hail said respeCling America. If America were shut, Birminghern . must be idle; and 'it idle, its population most starve. 'America then must be kept open, by her net essity, or byiour policy, and latterly it has appeared to be our policy to shut it. They had, however, been told, that_ America'could nut " catch her mice," and "could not shave herself." The Hon. Baronet might have told us, that till lately. America could not "'ride her horse," " could not shoe her horse," " had not a nail to drive ;" but he would find that the last orders from America called for no nails, (though nails were for merly articles of prime necessity), having been driven to cnanufaaure thetn for herself. Thus would it be found in other things " if the present system were persevered in ; thus would her menu fahlures increase and improve, to the annihilation of our trade. The accounts which we daily read ef the rising of the people at Sheffield, at Manchester, at Leeds, and at Huddersfield, were such, that if they came If om Ireland, it would be said tht:y were in a state of rebellion, while from' their novelty in this country, they seemed to be considered but of little ; importance. He hoped, however, that because they were famished, they would not be treated with se verity, and he hoped, it a man wrote a temperate let ter calling on his fellows to apply to Parliament and to the Prince Regent for relief, if 'to afford it were possible,- that a treasonable intention to excite others to violence would not be imputed to him. He was surprised at the de;cription which had been given of the liceitse4 granted. No two things could he more • different than that which they !mu hi) de. , cribed to be to-ptit, :'n„ - that which he hat previous 4 derstoodAtiern to be. He concluded by expies.4ing .• a holed that sumo inquiry info tiie subject would be Sil ; C. MORDAUNT aid Mr. Rose explained. The CHANCELLOR. of the &CHEQUER 4J , d, he did not rise to enter into any general discussion on the Orders in Council ; but after what had passed, , he felt himself called on. to make a fewaobservations. The Honourable Gentleman hid siated, that, the petitions carne from persons who had an oppertu nit). of formieg their opinions by exp .ritnant, upon the evils retsultitig from the Orders in Council ; now this he apprehended they could not, for the point upon which he and the Honourable Gentleman were at iesue at the present tuomeet, was, whether those evils proceeded from the Orders - in Council, or from other causes'? It was true that three persons were competent to state the pressure which was felt in trade, but be knew not how they could de cide whether that pressure would have been greater or less if the Orders in Council .had never existed. Whether in tea the Berlin and Milan D..crees would . have produced the mischief without them. He would say, that not only our difficulties had not in creased since the adoption of these Oiders, bait that the whole trade 'of the country was in a better state. He was surprised to find the Hotionrable Gentle man's knowledge of trade so far overborne by his zeal against the measures of: Government, as to say, the Orders in Council were to prevent neutrals from trading with the enemy. He would maintain that the end was to Open all trade, even to France itself, if France would trade with Great Britain. , France •' had prohibited trade with Great Britain,. and Great Britain had prohibited all trade to France, but what should go through Great Britain. The result was a pressure upon France, such as compelled her to open `her ports„trithe trade of this country. He would state that. that very system of licenses which,was re presented to be a departure from ther'Orders in Council e was a . proof of, their efficacy and effeela—e He agreedathat when the question of licenses was beforeehe•House, this matter would be better dis cussed. AS to Are importation of wine and brandy, they were obliged to - take .a considerable quantity of sugar and coffee in return, and. with regard to laces, 'muslins, and other articles of the kind, they would be brengLleite. - iliegally if there was , no allowance granted. He was surprised that so much misinfore mation. shoteld, exist with respect to the outeages eer petrated- tri alitThrent parts of the country, that they • .he ascribed to the= Orders in Council, to starvation, and, such causes. But was it owing to. starvation that the mills were broken dolvn ? Was Such. rnisconduet to be excused,.. defeoded, and . palliated ? As to the town •frorn which this petiti- . on was presented, they had heard the statement of the .Honeurable.Baronet, who hadeold them, that, at the present moment, the want of employment was net severely telt.. The Honourable Gentlemen hadrecoiemended that the subject should be refer red to a Committee, but the House should reed led.that this was a case imolving. a great political question, which it was ,not . the pract{ceof Parliament to delegate to arty circumscribed Committee, but to determine in a Committee of the whole -House. A detailed examination of evidence did not appear to hien to suit a subjeEt of that kind. He knew what an effect the shutting of the American market must have ; but would the Honourable Gentlemen state whether they would repeal the Orders •in Council, and what they expeeted from such a step ? There was one time when Gentlemen thought that the Berlin and Milan Decrees were done away, bat bat time was past, no man who knew any thing of the subjeCt would say so now. It was notified by France herself that they should continue to operate ; that they should be considered as the fundamental law of the Continent until we abandoned our system of blockade. There was no man in that House who lamented the 'distresses that were felt more than he did, but would any man say he was prepared to-give np our maritime rights, by which Great Britain tied 'sen 'to power and 'Consequence ? Where this de claration on the part of 'France; with respeei to the continuance.of his decrees, was kdo'ven in. America, he was not Without a hope that America.would not charge upon till's country an unnecessary strictness in the measures to which site had resorted. But whatever the ell'efd in Amerida might be, this coun try ought to knoW that..those decrees were in full force now, and were to continue so until Great Bri tain should yield upehose privileges upon which her prosperity was so prongly founded. The Honour able Gentleman had asked him, on the .-subjeCt of Commercial Bills, whether he knew that the next instalment would noebe paid ? It had been stated to him thai Many of.those who were bound to pay the instalment. would be distressed by being obliged to do so ; that many were not sufficiently relieved by conircercial, bills, but did not believe they would , not be answered by the generality of those who were bound to pay. If the Orders in Conned were repealed before the Berlin and Milan Decrees, the consequence. would be, that France would have her neutral trade open with America, while weevere de nied the trade ot•the Coetinent ot, Etat ope. Unless the 1-kuse was prepared to say that this would be judicious, the present did not seem to him to be a period in which it was possible to do away the Or ders in Council,. Mr. BROUGHAM expressed hie surprise at the spee.chel of the Vice President of the Board of Trade, and the Chancellor Of the Exchequer, given at a moment _When Petitions si g ned by so niany time s Inds and tens of thousands were presented to the House. They had treated it as a nave question. He remernbered,.when, two months ago, he had given the Right HonaGentleman en opportunity of de-- tailktg his sentiments upon, this 'subje6t, that he was referred to the returns of Mr. Irvine from the Cus tom-house Docks, and told, upon their authority, that there 'was little_ or no tuisetay.e. He hoped the House would not refuse to the people the poor sa t:staCtion of reasoning with them under their suffer ings, and inquiring into the causes by which those sutferingS wee produced. It was not enough to give them redebate for it.. The hardware tuannfaetoties were carried on by about 70,000 persons, not per sons, .brought from the field, but men of skill, who had undergone a regular apprenticeship. If these men were sent .to recruit our army, or to till that ground, that force would be irrecoverablidisbancled, which was necessary to the working of the manufac. tories. At, present the master InanufaCiurers kept