The Sun. — London, England, 1812-05-20 00:00:00

'THE MAQUIS TVELLESLEY. The following has been handed about in the poll *4l circles as the statement given by the Marquis WRLLEsLzy of the causes of his resignation :—r " Lord .WELLESLEY expressed his intention to resign., because his general opinions, for a long time pant, on varivs important eriestiolns, had nor sufl6- cient weight to justify him towards the public, or towards his own character, in continuing in office; and because he had no hope of obtaining from the Cabinet (as then constituted), a greater portion of attention than he had already experienced. " Lo i rd WELLESLEY'S objections to remaining in the Cabinet arose, in a great degree, from the nor tow and imperfeet scale . on which the efforts in the Peninsula were conduCted. It was always stated to him by Mr. PERCEVAL, that it was impracticable to valazge itiat system. The Cabinet followed Mr. PERCEVAL implicitly. Lord WELLESLEY thought that it was perfealy pra&icable to ; EXTEND the Valk in the Peninsula ; and' . that it was neither 'safe nor honest towards this country or the- allies,' to continue the present contracted scheme. No hope existed of converting Mr. PERCEVAL, or any : • tlf his ,colleagues: no •alternative, therefore, re- Asined.foi Lord WELLESLEY but to resign, or to submit to, be the instrument of a system which neveradvised, and which he never could approve. " Lord WELLESLEY had repeatedly, witb great teludance, yielded his opinions to the Cabinet .on Many other important points. He Was sincerely , Convinced by experience, that in every such in stance he had submitted to opinions more incor ,- red th an hi s ow n ; an d h a d sacrificed to the ob ieet of accommodation and temporary harmony, 'tore than he could justify in point of strict public d uty. Ia zap, he was convinced by experience, that the Cabinet neither possessed ability nor know ledge to devise a good plan, nor temper and dis c t;rnment to, adopt what he now thought necessary, truleu Mr. PERCE . VAL should concur with Lord WELLESLEY. • To Mr. PERCEVAL'S judgment or at tamments t Lord WELLESLEY (under the same expe rience) could not pay any deference, without injury to the public service. • • "With these views and sentiments, on the [l6th] " January, Lord'WELLESLEY merely destteci per mission to withdraw twin the Cabinet; not requir ing any change in his own situation, and imploring, Po other favour than the facility .of resignation. this plain request was.norified to the PRINCE RE CENT and to Mr. PERCEVAL as nearly as possible it the saine tnoment of time; with the expression' L_Ortt WELLESLEY'S wish, tlta't the precise time of hisiesiguation might be accommodated to the Pleasure of his Royal H,ighness, and to the con lenience of Mr. PERCEVAL, as soon as the restric i°os should expie. " The PRINCE REGENT received this notification w ith many gracioui expressions of regret ; and Mr. 411 cEvkL, in writing, used expressions of regret, 4 , 114 also of , thanks, for the manner in which Lord LLESLEY had signified his wish to resign. " Mr. PEJICEVAL, without .any communication to 14 rd WELLESLEY, insta n tly attempted to induce the .11 It iNcE REGENT to remove him before the expira liou of the restrictions ; and tepeatedly urged ,the attempt with great earnestness ; -severally proposing erd muotaA, Lord CASTLEREAGH, acid. Lord SID -110 urn, or some of his party, to supersede Lord WtLLESLEY witlout an hour of delay. Mr. I'Ert- R vAl. never gave any intimation to Lord WELLES of these proceedings, nor even of his wish for 4rcls WELLESLEY's immediate retirement. The PEINCE REGENT stilrpressing Lord WEL.- I ; S LEY to retai n th e sea l s , h e , su b m i tte d to - hi s ° Yal Highne ss ' s comman d s ; d ec l ar i ng , at the S ame time;, his anxious desire to be liberated, as s°°ll as his Royal Highness should establish his go- l'ertiment. When it appeared, at the expiration of the re -Btriltl:ms, that the PRINCE REGENT intended to Co Mr. PERCEVAL'S government, Lord WEL tts • L EY again tendered the seals to his Royal High- N" w ith increased earnestness. On that occasion, be& informed that his Royal Highness w as s till a t t Y, and was resolved to form his Cabinet accord (o his Royal Highness's own views, and being 1 7. \ 1 7 1 nrorded t o state hi s o pi n i ons on th e subject, ' Lord BL LEsLEy declared,thiat in his judgment the Cabinet uu a''t to be formed, first, on an intermediary principle tesPeating the Roman Catholic claims, equally ex from, the extremes of instant, unqualified con . 4 , e 881° U, and of p eremp t ory, e t erna l exc l us i on; an d , b ec"dl .9, on an understanding that the war should te %dueled with adequate vigour. Lord WELLes that he personally was ready to serve with, r. p LRCEV AL on such a basis.; that he never • ail ' would t:it e serve under Mr. PERCEV AL in any u"itarices. He said, that. he would serve under ; 41 M otaa. or Lord HOLLAND, on the propoSed ; but that he desired no office, and enter .... ileul.lo other wish than to be instrumental in form & , uct, , • • a t • an i- VlMinistrition kr the PRINCE REGENT, Ukt, I 'bk' corthißfent with his Royal Highness's honour; conciliatory towards Ireland, and equal act the conduct of the war on a stale of suecient extent He made no exception to any Prime Minister buy Mr. PEacSvAt,,' whom he considered to be ifn:o.n petent to fill that office ; although sufficiently quAL ified for inferior stations. He offered to act under any other person approved by his Royal Highness ; but he stated, that his own views rendered him much more anxious resign instantly. "The PRINCE REGENT commanded Lord WEL LESLEY to continue, until his Royal Highness should have communicated with Mr. PERCEVAL through the LORD CHANCELLOR. Lord WELLESLEY staled; that such a communication' must prove use less; but submitted" to his Royal Highness's earnest desire. In two days afterwards, Lord WELLESLEY received, through the LORD CHANCELLOR, the PRINCE REGENT'S acceptance of his resignation, and accordingly delivered the sealS to his Royal High ness on the 19th of February, 18 1 2." LOSS DP THE IRLAM: - On Sunday morning last, abbut roar o'clock, the weather being thick and hazy, the ship irlam (let ter of marque), bound from Barbadoes to Liverpool, laden with sugar and cotton, and having on board part of the skeleton of the 16th regiment of foot, commanded by Captain Hall, consisting of ten officers, and 62 rank. and file, and 32 women and children, struck on Tuscar-rock so quick was her destruCtion, that the.unhai:py sufferers had but just time to get into the boats, sorne2 . half dressed, others almost naked, when she filled with water, and in a short time went .to pieces. A sailor,- a drummer, and four childten unfortunately perished, Three men putting off from the ship in the jolly-boat, unable to reach'. the .rock, were blown to sea, .but some hopes are entertained that they were picked up. The only means by which the passengers and crew of this ill-fated vessel could save, their lives was to seek refuge on the rock, which was quite in accessible at that side, the'summit being , not less than thirty feet from the surface of the water, other wise inevitable death must have been the -conse quence. This they were enabled to accomplish with the assistance of a number of men (providen tially placed there for the purpose of laying the foundation of a light-house), who, with a degree of humanity reflective of the highest-credit,- immedi ately, commenced this arduous task, which was effected by drawing the men up from the hbats, one by one, with a rope fastened round the ‘i , aist, and placing the children in a bag made fast to the end of the rope. At this time a brig hove in sight, which, on dis covering the ship a total wreck, and the rock cover ed with people, instantly lay-to, when seven of the officers, the ladies, the master, and a nuMber of the sailors and soldiers, .were conveyed on board, by the frequent returning of, the boat. In the course of this effort it came to blow %c ith increased violence, and the vessel was compelled to get undeK weigh, leaving on the rock three officers, sixteen privateg, one woman, the mate, and twelve seamen, who, after remaining there for two days and nights; were on Monday evening brought to town in a boat be longing to . Mr. John Roach. The officers lost property to a considerable amount. One Gentleman had plate on board worth 3001: The mate lost abox s . containing 200 guineas, the fruit of many, years toil. We cannot cl.,se this narrative without mentioning the savage-like con du& of a monster in human form, who passed in a brig (we are sorry to - say unknOwn, otherwise we would state her name, and exhibit her ruffian Inas ter to public detestation), deaf to the entreaties of the suffereTs.—(ffexfortiJournal.) Further particulars of the conspiricy at St. Peters burgh have transpired, Land it appears that the plot was wholly French, and that the design was to re peat what was pra6lised in Spain, to convey into France the Emperor, and all the Members of the Imperial Family. The Political Constitution of the Spanish Monar chy has been published at Cadil. This Constitution is construaed on the plinciple of popular represen tation. Amongst the nt'ost curious articles of this national Ad - is the provision, that " alter the year 1830, those who enter anew on the Rights of Citizenship, must know how to read and write." Such ena&ment 'affords a rational prospect that the night of ignorance and superstition may. be .even tually dispelled in Spain, and at tio remote period, by.the light of knowledge. The policy of admit ting the Spanish Colonies to share in the represen tations is another striking feature of the new Con• stitution.. Advice is received at the Admiralty of the loss of the Hon. J. GORR,' son of the. Countess Dowager ARRAN, and Captain of hi; Majesty's ship Scorpion, on service upon the Leeward Island station. This gallant and much-beloved young Officer, seeing one of the foremast men fall werboard, immediately endeavoured to throw hinisfil into the sea to save him ; but, unfortunately, he got entangled in some boats' ropes astern, and, though an excellent swim-' mer, perished in this humane attempt. Gs.ipt. GORE had saved two *seamen on former occasions, by jumping into the sea to their deliverance. • - MARLBOROUGH-STREET.--Jane Jones and Anne Rogers, girls of fifteen artd • seventeen years of age, were charged with breaking and entering the Jacob's Well public-house, Charles-street, and stealing the till, with its contents, ,from the bar, together with other articles. Rogers, the:youngest of the two prisoners, had latt 4 , lived servant in the house, and she got in by a back window on the first floor, and afterwards let in her accomplice. They proceeded to the bar, which they got into by breaking a pane of glass, and after regaling themselves with cordials as well as eatables, they pitsse , .sed themselves of the till, which contained 51'. They next proceeded down stairs, where they stole some eggs, and having espied a hen at roost, they dispatehed her, and after filling their aprons, they were stopped by a watch man in $l. Giles's, on suspicion of having commit ted a robbery, and they made a full confession... They wcte.fully committed for tiLl. 1011 7'Jll SUN, tltt; tpITOR, The reproof given to Sir FRANCIS Bukinvr, in Vnur paper of the i 3;h instant, is as handsome as it is jnst. What effect it may:have upon that Gentle man's mind, I know not ; but without going.the whole length of the conclusion it leads to, surely we may say, that it is for him to consider, whether his habits of thinking and acting are not such as will tend io indispose his mind more and more to a sym pathy with all the rational and weal-intentioned part of mankind., The ultimate consequences of this, his mind may not be prepared for :—I hope it is not become callous to them. But it will be well .for him to revise his opinions if the judgment that should correa them is not already too far per verted to,perform that office. The "alrox animus" that Horace ascribes to Cato, may with far greater justice be applied to the modern demagogue, who has no emsar to oppose, nor any dangers to combat but what his condii& is much More likely to increase or to create than prevent. The examples of past times, and the general' opinions (the respectable ones at least) of the present, are sufficient to ad monish him of this, if his, passions and self-conceit have not raised him above all regard for truth. '• _ I am„ Sir, Your Itumble , Servant, May 15, 1812: 'RURICOLA. THE THEATRE.--.The Beggar's Opera last niht introduced Mr. KENT, from the Dublin Theatre, in the part of Macheath. He is of the middle size, is a good-looking man, , and has a sufficient portion of vocal power and musical knowledge to render bint a suitable representative of the charatler. Her sup ported it altogether with manly case and spirit, and seems by no means destitute of humour. He was particularly , welt received arid encored in " How happy could I be with either."- It is proper to ob lerve,,however, that in singing he seems to be tOo much inclined to the fashionable style of flourishing his airs—a style which is only suitable to , the best voices. Miss BELLCHAMBERS was a very interesting representative of Polly; both in the simplicity of her. aging and the manner in- - Which she gave the,airs. She should not, however, so often throw out the full power of her voice, as it appears , harsh, inicom parison with \the general delicacy of her tones.— Mrs. WILLIAMS, an .acAress of provincial repute, was the Lucy. She is a spirited actress, and wor thy of a station on the - London Poards, but she seems too much disposed to curich the dialogue with the efforts of her own fancy. ThiS' yraaice was observable in . many repetitions, , interje6tions, and interpolation's,, which rendered, the chara6er more violent than the author el , ,:signed the'charatier of Lucy to'be,. as a contrast to the gentle tenderricss of Polly. Such liberties in the theatriCal commu nity ought not to be, tolerated'even in the ephemet al productions 'of most living writers, hut are particu,- larly reprehensible in the text of, GAY, who may be considered es one of our Classical Authors. The Theatre is much improved in Its appearance, and we_ were glad to see a tolerably numerous au dience: CoLEainGe.--This Gentlemen yesterday connuenc.d a aeries of Lectures at W tems's Rooms, on the subject of Poetry, and particularly of the dramatic kind. The discourse of yesterday may be chiefly considered as introluaory, though it con tained many ingenious and profound remarks, which rendered it, in a great measure, a detached compo sition. Many of his poOion% though striking, and probably just, were of so novel a cast t hat fhey were rather more fit for contemplation in the closet, than to afford matter for a report on.a cursory hearing in a public assembly. Mr. C. very successfully illus trated the distinaion between a Poem, and Poetry in its abstraa Meaning. The first lie described as a composition merely calculated to excite pleasure and represent nature', and the other as an appeal to the internal 'powers of man, drawing forth a fill exer tion. of thbse, powers, and adding the workings of the mind to the conceptions suggested by external I nature. •He illustrated this distinaion by a reftr cence to DANTE, who seemed totconsider himself as a follower of VIRGIL, as well as to TASSO, CA MORNS, and other modern Poets, all whom .appear ed to lia've some ancient model , in view, but who had shewn excellencies of their.own creatio ),which they had grafted on their imitations of some favou rite author of antiquity. On this point the Leanrer displayed great ingenuity as well as profound re-, flection, and an original cast of thought. He ad verted also to Sopnocita *and SHAKESPEARE,* . and seemed to think that if the periods of their reTec tiv,e births had been changed, they would probably have shewn a genius of the same nature, and with the same direction. We shall nor, however, pre tend to follow Mr. COLERIDGR through a Lecture which contained such novel, original, and recondite - matter. It afforded evident 'pleasure, and of no ordinary kind, to a numerous company; most of whom were suitable auditors on such ran pc ca,ion. Among other characters of well-known taste and talents present, we observed Sir JAMES NPINTOSH, Sir GEORGE and Lady BEAU MONT, the Hon. AUGUSTUS PHIPPS and his Lady, Mr. BARROW, of the Admiralty, Mr. SOTHEBY; whose merit as a poet and a scholar are well known, Mr. WORDS WORTH, an author of great and original merit, and many other charaaers of acknowledged judgment and talents. The new Drury-Lane Theatre has a good oppor tunity of preparing a good wardrobe as well as'a convenient edifice, by, observing that. of Covent- Garden Theatre, which is by far the most splendid, as, well as the most exa& in costume, that has ever been seen in this country, and for which the public are wholly indebted to the judgment and taste of KFMBLE. Such a wardrobe corresponds, in charae ter with our great national amusement, and is no more than what ought to be employedbringing forward with suitable dignity the . works of. Die greptest Dr:imitia Poets which ever adorned Lite rature, and tended to improire the morals of a peOple. Yesterday, an account was received in town of the death orthe mother of Lady CASSILLtS ; in consequence of which, a numerous pal 6/, invited by her Ladyship for this day, •is put off, arid the family are preprint; to leave town for Scotland, POETRY. THE QUIP MODEST. When VE with little decorum of tongue,' In a speech which denoted an orator young, Said in all the King's aaions, at least for ten years, His mental idirtni!y plainly. appears. loaN FULLER, a resolute friend to the Throne, Thus whisprt'd the House, in an audible tone,— " Sure the Member tiargets, while his passions so work, " Whoappoillted his Father ARCH): s Ot.OF YORK!' OLD /MILE}, MAY 19. I Judge OROSE arrived in Court at twelve o'clocl, when Thos. Collicot, late a vender of• medicines in Oxford -street, wholtad been found guilty of forging stamps, on two several indiaments at a former Ses.; sinus, was put to the bar, his Counsel having takcni objeaions in points of law, which afterwatds oc- cnpied the attention of the twelve Sudgts. The objeetions taken.at the trial - Were two in number, viz. that the instruments did not bear the re sernbl'ance of legal . stamps, inasmuch as they did , rot. specify the amount of duty,. that part of the stamps which generally covered the tops of the medicine bottles, on which the duty is expressed, having been left blank, and covered with wax, and consequently could not constitute forgery.—, With respea to this objeelion the Judges had nimously, decided, that it was not required by law that the forged stamp should be a fac simile of a real one. The4rnisSion in the forged stamp was intended to deceive, and the forgery was complete. The second objection was 'that the indictment did not 'set forth what was the' resemblance of the . forged instruments to the legal stamps: - The Je,dge, in the latter objetlion had decided also unanimously, that it was enough- to constitute the crime of for gery ; that the indiarnent charged the pri,oner with vending paper falsely, resembling the legal stamps. The second ohjedion, the Judge observed, was no• more valid than the Rest, and the prisoner had been well convicted. George Hammond who was convicted in February Sessions last, of stealing in the dweding-house of Messrs. Birch and Co. Bankers; in Bond -street, two 'Bank notes of .501. each, and whose case, on au ob jeaion in point *of law, had also undergone the con sideration of the twelve Judges, was next put to the bar; to hear the decision. It was contended in point of laW at the trial, that the prisoner's offence did not amount to felony, as the notes were not the property of his employers, Messrs. Birch and Cham bers, but of a person vt ho Itept cash in that house, and in whose natite the sum was entered. It was further contended, that the . Bankers could recover "nolo alleged to have been stolen from the till, from the. customer to whom they were entered, ty means of civil - process, and it any offence had ben committed, it was fraud upon an individual, and not felony. The Judge at.the trial, left the Jury to decide by their verdi&, whether the prisoner, is making a false entry in the cash book, did it with a view to get posSession of the two 501. notes. The Jury decided by their verdi6l, that the prisoner had so dune; , and it was by this decision that the Judges had unanimously decided the case to be felony, and that the fraud was praised as the means of accom plishing the felony more easily. This convietion was also confirmed. The Sessions ended, when sentence of Death %Iraq passed on die following capital conviels :—Thorna; Collicot, Mary Best, and Catherine Foster, for for gery; John Richardson, for highway robbery ; Jo sepli Metcalf, James Goult, George Hammond, and _Eleanor Chambers, .fdr , ,stealing in dwelling houses. Two were ordered to be transporied for life, seventeen for seven years; and forty-t wo were sentenced to ,different periods of imprisonment. The.Ghette'of hst night contains an AchlrePs to the PRINCE REGENT from the Master, Wardens, and Commonalty of Merchant Venturers of Bristol, knd another froni the InhAirants of the same City, expressive of their regret and horror at the AssaJsi nation of .Mr. PER CEVAL. When the body of Bellimtham was -conveyed into the AnatorniCal• Theatre at . St. Bartholome w ' s , th e room was already crowded with spedators, mostly we believe of the Medical Profession. The cic.lies having been removed by the executioner and . .is man, the body was laid on the disseding table in the centre of 'the theatre, and SirW. Buzum and the demonstrators of anatomy then came forward, and procteded to the work of dissection. The first incisions were made in the diredion of the abdo minal viscera, which were found to he sound aid healthy fo a degree seldArn witnessed, and this WAS the case with :ne lungs.alsg, which were afterwards inspeded. The contents of the skull exhibited the usual appearances of death by strangulation. ' The determination oflthe blood to the vessels of the brain, and the stoppage of its return to the lower extremi ties, by the sudden jerk of the rope, was so trent •r,s to prevent a , minute inspection of the stare of the brain, so early as yesrerday. The head has bren severed from. the body, in order to afford oppor tunity to an artist to tale a plaster cast of his covo tenance. Great crowds hourly flock to view the dis gusting spectacle . of his mutilated remains. CORN-EXCHANGE, MAY 20.--This day we have not many fresh arrivals of Wheat, but tolerable re= maining supplies mostly second and inferior, sales thereof again heavy, and rather give way in price ; Barley continues dull in sale at somewhat less 1 Malt ltkewise ; White Pease rather lowe r 3 Btlans of each description hardly at last 'price=s; there are 'some further arrivals of Oats, and di 's trade is quoted nearly at Monday's currency; Flour at late prices.. • Wheat ,85s a tics a tps Tick Beans -66 s a 72$ Pine ditto - t3ss a tos Ditto (fine old) ns a 74$ Rye -76 s a 82s Oats - 48 s a Sts a s7s Barley 57s a 67s Poland ditto -58 s a ) ps Malt - - - 86s' a 94$ Potatoeciitto - (3,3 a —s WhitePeaSe(boil.) 82i a ' 88s Rape Seed - 761 a $ Grey ditto - 74$ a 785 Fine Flour ' !css a Beans - - 7os a 76s seconds - - :.s a less Ea RAT UM. —lt should have been InentienLd in the Aci. vertisement inserrecton Monday, that Mr. lixtientan's Con cert will be on krida) Meat.