The Sun. — London, England, 1812-10-13 00:00:00

SURREY ELECTION-, Yesterday being the day fixed for the election of two Members,' to represent the County of Sur rey in Parliament, the , COunty Ball of i Guildford was crowded by ten o'clock. . The writ haying been. read, Mr. H. Sumner was proposed by Mr. Trotter, and the proposition was seconded by Mr. Moline):; Sir S' Sutton. was proposed and se conded by Lord Cranley and Sir'John Frederick; and Sir T.Turton was nominated and seconded by Sir John Mawbcy and Sir Mark Wood. . . The several Candidates then address ed the Eke: tors assembled ; and after, some observatiOns.from Mr,.UareTownsend, who, thongh he profeised to be " a strong Burdettite" expressed his determi nation to support Mr. Sumner against Sir Thomas Turton, for he hated the Talents in whatever shape • , tn i ty appear ; and after some patriotic re, marks from an individual of the name of Cox, known at the Forums about London by the em,. phatic description of " Mr.Orathr Cox," the She• riff proceeded to take the sense of the assemblage of Electors present respecting the Candidates-- The show of hands was announced to be greatly in favour of Mi. Sumner and Sir 8. Sutton, when Sir. Thomas Turton demanded a poll. o MIDDLESEX ELECTION. "feturns, order . - Yesterday, at ten o'clock, the Sheriff's of Lon don arrived at Brentford; and forth with,,j)roceeded to open the business of the day. The necessary forms having been {One through on the hustings, which Were. .as usual erect 4 , 1 near the market place, a Utile way out of the town, the Candidates were immediately put in nomination. Mr. BACON first stepped forward to address the assembled multitude ; he sated that, it :was with pleasure he appeared before them for the sixth • time to proe,ose a Candidate for their votes, who deserved' their confidence, and he was happy in the anticipation of unanimity on the. , present occasion. The Gentleman he was about to propose, was known to them all by his. steady, manly, and independent conduct in Parliament. — Ile had never been guilty of any dereliction froM the duty which he ov:ed to his constituents, and his public. principles were Marked by a due respect to their rightse,,,QN It...sincere attachment to that glorious constlintion under wllich they had the happiness toPelive. He concluded by proposing 14,r. By rig:— (....4.pp/auie). ItheTßAscis PLAISTOW TRAPAUD was happy ir ,the opportuhity he had of seconding the motiond : Applause) .Sir W. Gthrmees advanced to e propose the name Of a tried and faithful servant, Mr. W. :L . C . ELLISII. They had, dune that Gentleman the •high honour of electing him their-Representative in the two lest Parliaments, and he confidently trusted that they had not found him deficient in any of the deities - attached to thOmportant trust which they had reposed in him: He had supported thoSe inea.sures wilieh had r,ised this country, to the highest pitch of glory, and enabled the Marquis ref Wellington successfully to resist and over-, come the armies of the Corsican Despot, who-had vainly bOasted that he would drive the English into the sea, but who e instead of doing that, had had the mortification to see his myrmidons drivtm front Seviiie, Shtlanoo,litei Madrid. had been particularly a.ttentke ,gill times to the buL sinless' the ea v, and on these. - gonads he would propOse Mr. MELLISU for one of their presentatives.• . Mr. IRWIN seceeided the proposition with which the last Speaker concluded, eulogised the general 'conduct of Mr. Mellish,' and ova's confident that there was not on either side of, the HOuSe a more honest and independent MeMber, one who more conscientiously discharged his duty, or who was more free from bribery and corruption. No other Candidate being named; the Sheriffs now proceeded to take the sense of 'the Electors by a show of hands ; On the names of Mr.Bvng and Mr. Mellish. The numbers were considerable for each, 'and both were delared duly elected. Mr. BING returned thanks for the very kind and frittering reception with' which he had that day been honoured, and_ for the confidence they re posed in hirn,-in electing him their Representative for the sixth time. If he had notscrved them with all the ability he could wish, he had served them• with zeal and. fidelity, and in the course of 22 years,.during which period he had represented them in five Parliaments, he had never in .one sin gle.irstance deviated from those pridcipleS"Whi ‘ ch he had first avowed, and which lead .first -rechm mended him to the EleCtors of Middlesex. .Such as lie had been he continued to be. 'The duties with which he had been charged he ,had regarded as ve , delegated trust to be held "fir the Wile& of the people, and not given foe 'his' own personal advantage: 'Those Who accepted such a trust ;to betray it;wqc e in his opinion, more crimionl, than many of the malefactors xvlto s'uticied daily in the metropolis: He had never 'given a' vote against Ministers from any pers•onai feeling, but because he had conscientiously felt it to be his duty to op pose that - wasteful and !disgraceful System which They bad established: He was friendly to reform, an.eriethyte) abuse, and an advocate for the abo lition-of useless sinecure places ; and would , al ways vote in favour of that necessary measine; a Parliamentary Reform.... = - Mr e igewsncame, forward,: but could plot ad- AresS the Meeting to be heard for - Some time, through the tumult which prevailed, if 'they would hear him (ho said), he would speak. The poise having partly subsided, he declared that every vote he had given,. whether for Or against Ministers, he had given from , a conscientious feeling of duty. To the beSt of his ability he' Bad faithfully represented them in 'Parliament, and he appealed to - them all if lie had not paid the greatest_attention to the immediate business of the county. He then retired, amidst shouts "of approbation, mingled with a few groans, ,and hisses, from a few low persons who had fre queintly interrupted him while speaking. The new Members were immediately chaired through the town. A part of the rabble - threw mud several times at Mr. Mellish, and afterwards took the horses froth Mr, Byng's carriage, and • very properly put themselves in their places... ~ BREAD was no Court 4Aldermetiteld this day : the Lord-Mayor, after inspecting the . ed the priceto be reduced 3d, iu the OINBURGI4, OCT. 10. CITY ELECTION. Vesterday the Election of a. Representative in Parliament for this City took place in the new Council Chamber, . when the Right Honourable William Militias was 'unanimously re-chosen.-- After the necessary forms had been gone through, Mr. Dundas was addressed by the Lord PrOvost in nearly the following words : " - 41 r. DUNDAS, " It is not many months ,since r lzad the ho nour of addressing you upon an occasion similar • td the present. , ‘f It is now with peculiar pleasure and , satis faction that 1 have to announce to you, tha7t the City of Edinburgh has unanimously re-efected you to be their Representative in the ensuing Par liament. " As a Senator .of the .ation; they have no doubt of your' zealous attention to•tlie national welfare ; and as'a Citizen of Edinburgh, they have as little doubt of your attention to the in- terests of the metropolis of `our native country. The Electors have now. only to wish you health and prosperity in the exercise of your va- rious arduous fuuctiOns." Mr. DUNDAS, after expressing his grateful,sense of the distinguished honour of another unanimous election, said, it was customary for the Repre sentative to be explicit with his Constituents in stating his political attachments, and the bias of opinion on any public question of vital im portance to the State. As to the first point, he need not say much—he held office. Under his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, and was closely con nected with sonic who thrilled his Governriient.— As to the second point, in the front rank of'de hate, ready for engagement, stood the Catholic Question—on tent! side, it is said, cohcession will shake and sap the foundation of the Protestant Church ; on the other, without ebncession, ire- 4 land cannot be conciliated,. and four millions of ihen •will be lost to the country in her most trying hour. He was free to say; he believed in neither extreme—it had beet the happiness, and must ever be the pride of his life, to have lived in habits of the closest intimacy with the late Mr. Pitt., Kind nesseand friendship "as unbounded on the part of 'Mr. Pitt as miderserved on his otvn, and revering the memory of that eminent Statesman, he could not for a:: moment so wrong that memory as to think that hiS enlightened and comprehensive mind would have entertained . with favour conees ur sion, involving necessarily the safety of o re- . ligion; and who, oil the other 11nd:would ve , :ture so to stigulatise a gallant People, a, to say;toat ihi our fleets and armies the 11 ...i . were even backward w and Inkearmin their countr - j - ',4 ,causc ; but, pre ferring the Protestant faith ; we had a rigiit to see it guarded and s - ecut . ext. No set of men could claim office as a rigid, as 'office 'was not-created for the individual, but was a trust for the people's be nefit. By the law, the Sovereign was the source of office and of honour ; but the la , v has restrain ed the exercise of this power,.by refusing admis;- sion to .office, unless such tests are taken as we deem indispensable to oar established ; and the law had • said to the Sovereign hiMself, that, in ascending the throne, of his ancetors,- such assurance should be given in the presence of people: - Was'it then too amen to ask for as aranee3 from. the 'Judge on the 'Bench, the- . Statesman in the Cabinet, 'or the General in the Field ? Another fruitful source of debate was the Charter of the 'lndia Company; he said he never understood the poliey.of fettering our private mer chants in carrying on that tradeovhieh the capi tal of the Company could not embrace. ' The re sult had been to cherish the trade of the Ameri cans, who had grown into prosperity by the con veyance of even the private fortunes which our own conntryinen had acquired abroad. And with the , sound of rejoicing still Yibratin; , , in' our ears, :it would have been, welhfor Anieriea to have pur sued the profits of Indian trade' rather than the precarious prospects of 'European - war ; but he thought our merchants too sanguine in their ex pectation from the extension of the trade. Setting aside any question. as to the teXthre and mate rials, how could the mudins of Paisley vie with looms of India, wish' the freight of halt the, cire cumfe:enee of the.globe in 'the, scale against theth ; nor had he ever heard an answer to what. Were the articles which the siinple and unchanging habits .of the•nations of indol : itau would lead theta to care about; or induCe theta to receive. In his last address he had said, that the precedin ,, cane- pain had covered with glory the British :arras ; and had the fortune of war been adverse, he should' shave gloried in the generous Motive which dic tated our interference for Portugal and Spain ; gloried that the Heir of the House of BrunsMelt• had, in the last act of power, with true British eharficter; embraced: the opportunity of trying to save from the grasp of tyranny, two gallant na tions 'fighting to be free. Had the last campaign obscured, that glory, and had it not raised stt high our military character, as to give little encourage . went to-the invasion of our tranquility Our su periority at sea all,Earone confessed ; and :could he tell them now that the contending fleets' were in sight, and an engagement unavoidable, he shsuld . see on every face the , cheering hope of - triumph, and hear from every tongue the antici patois of successt Doubts might be entertained, of our military ascendancy ; in Britain no hostile , ?.rinie.s had traversed our 'fields, and we hid long reaped insecurity the harvest of peace. In France a, new race of men had.sprung up, born almost, certainly bred, in file clash of arms, and trained ar,d nurtured in the smoke of kvar. He congra tulated his audience, that such doubts were clear , cd away .for ever, and ,a grateful nation hailed the name, and.posterity would echo the praise of that cpnsurnmate General, under Whose able guidnice the energy of a British army had burst forth. With such transcendant Instre. Let the Em peror of Franee adorn his baTtall;ns' with the symbols of victory ; for flight, not for conquest , did his vaunted eagles, spread their wing: on Sa lamanca's glorious day. • His heart heat the' hope that the rumours of yesterday a few ,days would confirm:, and the dawn of light hi the eastern:horition might dispel the gloom which had • .s 9 Jong loured over Edrope." This speech, which. Was hear 4 with the grehtest attention, was interrup,ted by repeated buts of .rti-51.11420 hi the :eveni - umieff.Dundas gate a kran&enter hirnrient in the Assembly -Boor irA to the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and,conncil, and to a num- Ler . oi . .Noblenren and Gentlemen. . • INTELLiiiENCE lacg ow, • October 6. The Cil•cuit Court ofJus't:ciary was opened here this,day, by Lords Armadale.and Gillies, John Pettigrew and John Gilchrist were in ditted for ; an issanitllleS Wilson, surgeon, in Carluke. The former . not uppearing-waS out and the 'Court proceeded with the trial of John Gilchrist, Air. James Wilson, while returning from a' professional visit on the night of'the - 21st July, between eleven and twelve o'clock, saw a man lying on the street, and-John Pettigrew standing near him. Witness asked Pettigrew what was the - matter ,with the man on the ground, and' was told. he had taken too much drink. Witness remarked, it.was a pity,to see him in such a state, whereupon Pettigrew', atter,4bserVing that, although witness was an elder, he had no right to insult . his coni— seiled witness by..the collar ; and struck hini on th'e head. In the struggle both came to the ground. Witnes i s in his turn seized his anta gonist by the throat. Gilchrist now got upon his legs and struck witness 'on the head,. while he was holding Pettigrew, and he was again knocked down. Both Gilchrist and Pettigrew; continued kicking and striking witness till they were tired. While witness was rising, Peuigrew forced one of eyitness's fingers into his mouth, and bit him until witness - , by pinching his cheek-, forced him . to open his mouth. Witness, in attempting to get back to the house he had left, was knocked down - by Pettigrew; who struck him till he was insensiblr. While in this state he was carried into the house of -Mrs. Elder, and front thence in a cart-to his mother's. He was three dayt, before he could stir a. limb, was confined eight or ten days, and unable to do any thing for a fortnight. He gave Pettigrew or the pannel no provocatica except expressing his regret at seeing Gilchrist drinik. It was clear moon-light. Witness cried out murder as loud and as long as possible, after he was attacked by the pannel. Several other witnesses were examined, which Mr. Boswell addressed the Jury for the Crown,' and Mr. Walker for the prisoner. In his able charge Lord. Anu adale recommended the Jury to return a verdict finding the pannel Guilty. The Jury, by a plurality of voices, returned a verdict against the cannel, and he was sentenced to be imprisoned three months in Lanark Alexander Falconer," .mastermason in - Paisley, was accused -of- vitiating and altering, a-property tax, receipt, for the year ending sth April, 1807, so as to make-it serve for I'BoB, and for producing the said vitiated receipt, to elude, payment of 61. 4s. being the duty on his, lands,, tenements, &c. in Story-street,of Paisley. , After the evidence had been' gone through, Mr. , Bnswell addressed the Jury on the part 'of the Crown, and Mr. Jardihe made an ingenious, de feme for the pannel. Lord Armadale having summed up the evidence, the' Jury 'Were directed to return their verdict next. morning. . Their ver dict found the prisoner, Guilty, by a plurality of voices, but unanimously , recommended hiss to mercy The,Court, in consideration of the Jury's recommendation, sentenced the prisoner to the mitigated punishment of One Tear's inip4soluncnt in Paisley jail. WEDI"t'ESDA - 17., oqt• 7. • Elizabeth Collins was indicted for the murder of her own child, in the room No. 19, in the Ton tine Inn, Greenock. Thellepute MVO,Cate passed from the charge of child inurder, and proceeded with that of caneealifig pregnancy; to which the pannel pleaded *guilty, - The Jury 'accordingly found a verdict to that,..effect, and she was sen tenced to three months confinement in Greenock prison. James Stewart and William Al`Arthur were ac cused of breaking into the Vestry of the English Chapel, on the night of Monday, the 'filth, and of Wednesday, the tith of INlay, and of feloniously carrying oil one minister's gown, silk, one minis ter'.s cassock, ditto, two minister's gowns, - born bazeeri, three linen surplices, one black silk scarf, one tableclOth, five towels, one great-coat. - _Elizabeth Menzies, otherwise Stewart,. was ac cused of re-setting these articles, known them to be stolen. . The pannels pleaded Not Guilty. After a number of witnes,ses had been'examined for the prosecution .(the great length of whose evidence prevents us from detailing it), and after Mr. Boswell had spoken for the Crown, the diet was deserted simpliciter against Elie: Menzies. • Mr. WALKER spoke for the other pannels. Lord GILLIEs delivered an admirable charge to the Jury, who returned a verdict, unanimously, finding James Stewart and Win. M'Arthur gvUty of the crimes libellecL and they were *both sen teuced to be hanged in C4asgow, on Wednesday, the 11th of November. M‘. Arthur asserted hiS innocence, :ifter the-sen tence, and called God to witness that he spoke the truth. . - Pcter Drummon.d, some time tailor in Carriage hill, Renfrewshire, was charged with house-break ingr, and theft. Ile pleaded not guilty. An objection to the releVancy was svted by the 'Counsel, and repelled by the Court ; after which a very long proof was led on the part of the Crown, The jury were then very ably'addressed 'by Mr. Boswell 'on 'the part of the Crown, and by . Mr. Campbell for the paniiel, in d most do-7 quent and ingenious speech ; after which the' evidence was summed up by Lord AUMADAi,E. The jury were 'enclosed, and, in about an hour and a half, returned their verdict, finding, by a plurality Of voices, the panne' Guilty,.but unani , thously recommending him to mercy. FRIDAY, OCT. 9.---Pcier Drwtozond was brought `to the bur to receive judgment. Both Judges de= livered their, opinions upon the case ; and before pronouncing sentence, Lord AIIMAD/ LE. addressed the pannel in a very impressive manner. ,His Lord ' ship then read the sentence of the ,‘Court, ordain lug the pound to be executed here on Wednesday, the 18th of isTovember. This finished the business of the Western Cir.-- 611 k, there bring appeals to bring before their Enmsiling POLICE. MARLBORaUGH-STREET—The late tax-gath of St. George's parish, who wo Cog mitt 1 to Newgate some time since in default of u::l4:ig, tip his payments, was yesterthw,brought to this elf , flee, for another examination, his household goods and effects haring been disposed of. Mr. ALimi - attended for the defaulter, but it turned out that he WaS yet several hundred pounds minus, and he was reinanded back to pri son. S. Ellis, J. - Thomson; and G Gard.:Er. were charged with picking pockets in Oxford street, on `i.,an evening during the fire. T.ro of.licers had welched the prisoners committins de depre4Cions for same time, and on a iavon,bie opportunity presenting i'self, they secured them. The prisoners. Were remanded till Thursday, to give tho. , ,e who have been robbed an 'oppor:uni - y to identify their property. WORS EET .-Charic.7 who :I'a remanded for further examination from the above .office on .Thursday, ebarge4 with stealing. a 5L Bank of England note from two Italian at a public-house, called the Duke of Nortiim herland, in Worship-street ; also for having in his pUssession a great number and• variety of Fleet notes, some 5001. was yesterday committed ,on the" latter charge, and the Bank Solicitortoulid over• to prosecute. UNioN-HALL.--A cawol...cQpsiderable irapor. tance to publicans and others, in the habit of sell ing,:?irituous liquors at fairs, carne tO be heard yesterday,' at this office, before Mr. Chain hers and Mr. Bernie. . •The Landlord of the. Adam and Eve public house, in.Paneras parish, wassuimuoned on two informations, chtirging him with stAling spirits at Peckham Fair, not having a-license for that*.pur pose. By the Act of Parliament, persons being_ regular licensed victuallers are allowed to retail beer in bottles, at chartered or customary fairs, without having . any particular license for that pur 7 pose ; and the defendant - now'contended that the same,indulgence also extended to the sale of spi rits under similar circumstances, and it at it had been customary to do so : the information on the other band alleged, that the spirit heense only authorized persons to sell spirits in the Lose for which was granted, and no where-else, under a penalty of 20/...f0r each offence. The Magistrates, on looking over the Excise Act, declared themsel4s of opinion - *es- were bound to convict, although they felt themselves reluctant to do so : the , Act, however, giving the Magi,strates a power of mitigating to 5/. they did so in the present case, -a d the defendant waa fined 51. and 11.-Ss. costs, fur each offence. Another publican was summoned on an infor mation, charging Rim with two similar - offences, and fined the same sum for each : he pleaded great distress, and the. Magistrates gave him two months to pay the money hi, and also advised both the defendants to appeal against the, conviction, that the question might be More fuily gone into. SnApwn..t., 7 --Sattirclay; about eleven o'clock in ihe'forctioon, the Officerl belonging to this Office Stopped a - cart as it was passing by the Office, Ny it h suspected goods. In the cart they disco vered a considerable quantity of tamarinds, sugar, a nd some valuable conch • shells, which theyL broaf , ht for examination before -the. Sitting Ma gistrate, when the driver stated, that he had been einployed by 'a Gentleman to carry them ,to Tooley-street., The Gentleman (who, it seems, is-(apt'ain of a West Indiaman), stated, that he had 'bought ,the sfigar in- Ratcliff-Highway, but did not' exactly Wow where . ; the tamarinds le had bought of. another Captain of a West India man ; and -the shells he had brought on shore himself at Fdrferent times. This_ account, how ever,- not being_ deemed sufficiently satisfactory, • the Magistrate convicted him under the limn boat Act, in the penalty of .40s. and directed the 'articles to- be 'sent to tbe CustoM-house. Yesterday the Duke of YonK arrived in town from Oatlands, and,this day his Royal Ilighne , .;s will hold a Levee at his Office, at the Horse Guards. Daring Street Robbery.-7.--Saturday night, about eleven o'clock, a Jew, of the name of Jacobs, who keeps a sale-Shop in Saville-passage, Bond-street, was attacked in the neighbourhood of Drury-lane, by a desperate gang of street-robbers, five or six in number, who robbed him of money and other valuables to the amount of near 1001. and beat mid bruised him to the imminent danger of liis life. He was going home from his shop to his house in E';horectitch, and passing through Wych street, when one of the ruffians first struck him a blow in the face with a stick, then seized and held fAst b the collar, while the others dragged. him into a narroW passage, behind Astlev's Pa- Yilion, and leading to Newcastle-street. Here fiey effected their purpose,' by plundering him of a bundle, containing sonic pieces of cloth and other articles, and his pocket-book, containing Bank notes. During the scuttle one of them kept pelting him in the *e With mud, by which means he could not distinguish any of their persons, from the moment of his being first attacked. Fire.--This morning, about half past three o'clock, a fire was discovered to have broken out in the lower premises of No. 36, Leadenhall-street, Occupied by Afr. Merle, a picture frame maker and till lei', and such was the rapidity of the flames, that it .was with difficulty the family made their escape over the adjoining houses. The wind being from the west, the fire burnt in an easterly direction, and consumed every thing be fore it to the corner of Billi er-lane. It then destroyed entirely the very extensive premises of Messrs. Holroyd and - Jackson, slopsellers, the corner of Billiter-lane and Leadenhall-street also the premises of Mr. Seagul, a tailor 37, Leadenhall-street. From the guard of soldier: planted this morning across Leadendall-street, also across Billiter-lane, we were not able to col• lect an 'account of the damage sustained by all thf adjoining houses, but we understand it to be con. siderable.