The Sun. — London, England, 1812-10-24 00:00:00

POETRY. EPIC[ AM Our grumbling-Politicians cry, •. Old England's basis stands awry, - Mend tbis, they say, mend that, mend . Votlier; Spare, spare, good people, your 6oriCern, Let this Old England se-rve-yoUr turn, von can chew us such another. ' 'THE SCOLDING WIFE; OR, •" vErtY BAD AND VERY - • WELL 1"' AN OLD STORY IN A NEW 'DRESS. • A friend once met me, and his-case thus told--- Says he r I'm married to a downright scold,; `, Indeed; Stie'S like a woman 'raving, mad, Alasl my friend, said I, that"; very 5z2; t '• No, not so - bad, said be, for, with her hand, „ I got some money, and a houscund land; Indeed, said I, then - that Was very well; You'd no& say so when I my story tell; For you must know, that I. and her own brother Quarrelled, and went to law with one another, And . l was cast. eery bad indeed; - Why, not so orrii, because it was decreed I3efore he got the.house, he should malte'o'er A certain _flock of sheep—abottt fourscore ,« Why that. you'd .-•;ty was very well, I wot; -No, norso wen, for 'ere the sheep I got They ev'ry one fell sick, and died o' th' rot; Ah that was very bad, my friend, indeed; No, not so, had, because a man agreed To give me twenty pounds for skin and fat, When melted. Ah ! then, ecru well was that; _ No, not so well, for l'nra clumsy , . And, as Ltried to render it to tallow, . • Into Inv e:lnldron fel! a red-hot cinder, And in'an hour my house was burnt to tinder; Ah that re:y/1 4 14, Ido protest; ) Nol not so bed--alt happens tor the best; • My scolding, Wife was burnt among the -rest! j • FOR ,THE SUN. MR. EDITOR, PAVEMEtir. • • The Opposition Papers abound' with clamours for a 'Refo?.m, , not merely in Parliament, but in the whole frame Of our Establishment in Church old Stare, but we'ne-er find; the writers descend to any ,objects of practical 'henefit, bewildering themseh'es - and their readers- in, loose-and fanci ful theories, utterly repugnant to experience and. the nature of society.•lf these : writers were really solicitous for the public welfare,- they - would step down from the lofty. heights of speculative per feaion, and endeavour to serve their fellow-eiti /ens in the himbler walks of, convenience and utility. For insNnce, is there any thing that niore strikingly demands attention and reform than the condition of the PAVEMSST throughout the metropolis ? Yet theOppositionlWriters quiet ly 'walk through the streets, and' see - . carriages every moment in danger of being overturned, and fOotpassengers covered with dirt, and in peril of their limbs; from' -the ruts and broken stones in every part of the town, but are' too intent upon the great business of improving the State to at tend to such a vulgar subject' as that which is a daily' annoyance to the Capital of the limpire.— L see by the public prints that one of the District Surveyors \ has thought proper to present Mr. SoANE's new house in Lincoln's-Inn-fields as an infringement, which every man of taste, who has seen it, considers as an additional ornament to. the town, and what is likely to lead to, great im provetnent•in the general style of building - . How eVer I may pity the taste of that Reforming Sur veyor, I cannot but admire his zeal, and have only to regret that, on this occasion, it should have been so ill-directed, particularly as it may subject kiln to the suspicion of professional jealousy or pique. I sincerely hope that tkis active Hunter for a grievance will turn his attention to the paths be fore houses rather than to houses themselves, and then he will ilcserve the gratitude of the public, Without exciting any -9pinions distrustful of his classical attainirientS 'or of the liberality of his sentiments. " - •VIATOR. TO THE EDITOR OF mr, SOT. Slit, In consequence of a paragraph in your paper of Wednesday, I beg you will do me the justice to state, that what is there called the " pugilistic contest" between Mr. OCTAVIUS GILCHRIST and me, did not arise in -anyway that, Ithink, strictly warrants the use of those terms. Jr was, on the pith instant, whilst alighting. from on horseback in the street of Stamford, most unexpectedly beset by Jr. OCTAVIUS Gmolintsr, accompanied by his biother, and a party of people, (some of whom stole my hat!) and I susta:►:ed an assault of the most ungentlentanly and outrageous % kind. If you call this a " prlgilistic contest," I beg to ,he considered as not only not assenting to such an encounter, but as being painfully sensible of the degradation of it, and as having, strongly depre cated it at the time. I dare say the writer of the paragraph (whoever be may '.)e) is right in supposing that " this is the first instance of a contest of this kind, after one of so awful and dangerous a nature as the for mer," (referring to a meeting on Sydenham Coin mon).; and I believe that you will think 'with in,!, Sir, that it is also the first instance of a per- Son, situated as'l was, after this attack upon me in the street on a market-day,. being, on the in formation of a particular friend and confidant of the challenger, in the former case, bound over J3y the Magistrates, at two o'clock in the morning after the assault had been committed in the afternoon, to' keep the peace towards Mr. GILCHRIST, and l all his Majesty's liege subjects ! ! _ '1 assure you, Sir, that I am sick at heart of this obligation to make myself the subject of notice, which some, persons impose, upon me, by,state ments in your Paper and others, that cannot pass without observation. The: greatest.affliction of the controversy, 1•1)r adversary toWivell knows, is, to me, its obtrusiveness on the public;. and I call upon you, Sir, as a Gentleman; and•the friend of those who have 'a claim to that diStinction, that you will let me return to that unnoticed state Which you, through: your Paper, have' been the ino:rument of disturbing. I am,' Sir, Your obedient humble servant, RICHARD NEW*COMR,. Stamford, f..)ct. 22, lifit. LONDON: Printed by TI ACthe Strx had been nearly stationary, has in the course of this day been raised to au amount- whiCh aluicAt exempts me from any personal anxiety as to the result. From 46, at which it stood vestcrday, my maj . ority is thus day raised to '256 above Mr. Brougham. You will hear, Gentlemen, with sa tisfaction, that Gen. Gasc47ne,. who had yesterday redeemed the trifling minority into which he had been thrown the day before, has this day improved his advantage, and now stands aboveMi.B.rongham with a. majority of 171. Gentlemen, this advantage is great and promis ing,:but it must not yet be'considered as decisive. The Activity and, exertions which have produced it iuttst4ot Vet be discontinued ; for though our an tagonists arc disheartened, they do not yet con fess themselves.defeated. Gentlemen, I owe it in justice to Mr. (and it is in a moment t`,lr success that one (ight to be more particularly anxious to render justice to an opponent); to explain the grounds on which he has declared his intention of still persevering in the contest. I owe it in justice to him, because without such an expla►►ation, you might, upon comparison of the amount of the numbers which have been polled in this election with those of any preceediug election (equalling or exceeding, as they reallydo, any former p►.ecedent), be led to impute a spirit of vexation► to my antagonißts, and to suppose that that' protracted the contest only to harass . the 'winner. The numbers which have voted to the end of this day are 2,438. The greatest number that eVer, plied before, was, I am told, 2,42i5. But .with the utmost frankness and candour (for Mr. Brougham-has himself- declared that be entertains no sanguine hopes of materially' bet- . tering his coit(litionlon the poll). [Loud cheers beginning.] Cheer not this statement, Gentlemen, for y 6.1, would not exult over a fallen, eneqm— . --, lirouuliqui has stated, that he came here in- Vited by a numerous and. respectable class of your comMunity, who still continue to entertdin hopes which he has himself- abandoned.. That, consider ing hiniSelf only as an instrument in their hands, and having the - guardianship of their hopes en trusted to him, be does not think himgelf 'at li berty to erect his own 'opinion in opposition- to their's, or to desist from the contest until he has 'their authority for his dereliction of it. On this ground I'must fairly say, that tic appears to me to be not only justifiable, but that he would be un justifiable if he were to act otherwise. I shall, I am sure, not oft - end but gratify your -feelings, if I take the opportunity-in this moment of expected; and,l may ahnost say, assured vic tory, to say, that i on- - the hustings, during the whole course. of this,Contest, the conduct of my antagonists has been perfectly uneXcentionanle and gentleman-like ; that' our contest has been carried on without 'any thing like ill-humour or captiousness, without demonstration of any of those feelings which add bitterness to conflict, and humiliation to discomfiture. Gentlemen, Mr. Brougham is a man - of great talentS, and invited as he was by. the entreaties and assurance of -his friends, he could not well forbear presenting himself to you. Between him a.l - .4 me, Gentlemen, the Freemen of Liverpool haVe exercised ~heir free choice. I need not .say how flattered, how delighted I am by the pre ference.; but the victory is yours, not mine. I Presume not to claim it as a personal triumph.. .Gentlemen; between us; the Candidates, Ihere -has been, as I Said, no unkind or hostile feeling. When we quit you, the one triumphant throiigh your favour,. the other with his hopes.disappoint ed,'let us have the satisfaction of hearing that the heats of the -contest do not survive the oc casion, and that'we do not leave behind us in the town any . bitterness to distract and- disquiet your society. . Gentlemen, the lateness of the hour, and the prospect of another opportunity of addressing you when the contest shall be finally settled, prevent me. from trespassing upon youat present. I wish you all good night ; I repeat my cordial thanks to you all for your exertions ; and I look to the happiness of seeing you again, when our mutual congratulations shalt be founded not on the hope, but on the certainty of success." Liverpool,. Oct. 15, 1812: •, The following article appears in a Paper of yesterday : " MR. COLMAN. " TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST. .• " Stll,--4 - perceite it is stated in aletter in your Paper of this day, that I have been seized with a oonia of writing an Address for the opening of the New - Drury-Lane Theatre. I beg the favour of you,, Sir, to contradict this insinuation. " I never was mad, nor ever foolish enough to attend (further than to laugh at) to' tie advertise-, ment for Addressing Competitors, to be judged by- Mr. WHITBREAD'S Entire CRpnnittee. " I am, - Sir, your - obedient servant, " Oct, 22.“ " - G. CbLINIAN.;' , Some observations, rather of an ill-htimouyed nature, have been made on the _appointment of Mr. .1.3 R o GDE N as one of the Lords of the Treasury. Those who know this Gentleman will most readily admit th'it his good sense fully qualifies him for the situation ; and his...private conduct is so de , - servedly esteemed by all' parties, that we should rather have ex'pected that they would have,felt sa tisfaction "on seeing such men introduced to , office, titan that hi appointment should have, occasioned harsh animadversion in any quarter. . - - • MURDETZ.---A letter trom Deal says—". A mur der of an atrocious nature hai just beers commit ted on board of a ship lying in the Downs. From the best information I can collect, it appears that the deceased was a Serjeaut of Marines,:and, for , some cause was ordered by the Lieutenant, cow- . manding in the absence of the Captain td walk the quarter-deck with a musket on his' shoulde?, like a private : this, it appears, he refused to.do, remarking to the officer, that he might put him in irons, or bring him to a Court-martial if he chose; and' if he should happen to be 'broke, it would then be time enough for him to carry a musket. TlkiS reply seems to have irritated the Lieuten-, ant so much, that he went down below for his dirk,.and, coming again on" deck, ran the unfor tunate Serjeant through the body, and he expired ,almost immediately." :OMAS WOOD, of N 0.35, 'Abiden-lane, Co . vent-garden And Published by WILLIAM ARMIGER :SCRIPPS, South 141c,ltf: :E, No. 112, Strand, where Advertißeinehis, Orders: for the :Paper, Lrttors for the Editor, &c. (post pai, r ( - 3!cs - anor-squge, he a,ltiressed. MR. CANNING. The following are the Speeches of: this Gentle man on the coneinsion,of 'the Sixth and Seventh PaST3 Poll, at Liverpool. SIXTH DAY. GENTLEMEtZ, "The lateness of the hour to which the,poll has been protracted, and the necessity under Nyhich you must well know I am of attending in the course of this evening upon several meetings Of ex cellent and worthy freemen, will induce me not to .. detain you long. 'This day has been a day of, great exertion on the,part of my opponents,rtia; of exertion which has shewa the dihiculties finder which they la t bour, and has satisfied me that they are nearly exhausted of their strength. I men tion it as matter of blame to no man, and should be sorry if it should be so construed, that the poll, which had hitherto gone on with • little interrup tion, has in the course of this day been much in terrupted and delayed - ; so much so that we have polled about 120 less than any of the preceding:. days. The result, however, is to me more favour able than on any day that has yet.passed.' You will be glad to '_fear that it is also more favourable to General Gascoyne, and that he has been en abled to repair the accidental and trifling mino rity in Which he was placed on Saturday. On the three - preceding days the number polled in the cOurse.of each day was about-400 ; butto day we • have-only polled 270, or thereabouts.. I will now present you with the numbers of\each Mr. Cceevey 994, General Gascovue 1003, Brougham 1030; and myself 1076, being 46 above Mr. Broughdm. Gentlemen, • I am deeply concerned to have to 'state to you, that the affray to which I alluded list night, has ended fatally to one mdi vidnal. From all the accounts that I have been able to collect of : the transaction, I earnestlyhOpe that it is more to be attributed to accident than to any irritation prodUced by party' feeling. But I trust, Gentlemen, that you will consider this un, happy and distressing event - as au additional mo tive for using every exertion and--interest-with .• your friends to preserve tranquility and•good'hu mour. • Gentlemen, I will detain you no longer than while - I advert to one topic which my opponthits have studiously'endeavoured to impress upon your Minds by the circulation of hand-b:lls, and by em blematical devices ; a topic as unfounded in fact as it is mischievous in tendency. They have exhi bited a large loaf as the.loaf of Pea - ce-, atni one as the loaf of war; intending by these eni blems to shew a necessaryconnexibn between war and scarcity ; and they have held out to y6u the return of :Messrs. Brougham and Creerey_to Par liament as the certain safeguard for the plentiful subsistence of the people. If, Gentlemen, the imaginers of these devices can prove to you that their favourite Candidates have power to direct the course of the seasons; and thereby to render more abundant fife means of subsistence for the great body of the people, I should exhort you to pass me by, and return_men who arc possessed of so. wonderful and so super natural a secret. • But; Gentlemen, my habits of discussion: have taught me to look for some connexion between ef fect and cause, and never to acquiesce in the con elusion until I have attempted to trace it to its' premises. After the most serious investigation, I confess I am a loss to discover the natural and ne cessary connexion between the bountiful blessings of Providence and the return of Messrs.BroughaM and Cree-vey.. Many of you hare, read a talc Whrch is in the hands of most of your children, 'I mean Dr. Johnson's Rasselas, in, which there is an ac count of a philosopher who fancied himself to have a control over the sunshine and the shoWers, and who busied himself in distributing . the proper proportion of these favours, as he thought fit, to the different countries of the eartlr. Whether my competitors have a power like this I have not. been able to ascertain. I do not mean to impute to , my competitors that they arrogate it to themselves. "They are too manly and upright to. attempt the practice of •so gross- a delusion. But their pane gyrists, who couple plenty with their name, and scarcity with mine, are as absurd as the philoso pher in Rasselas ; and they have not the excuse which he had for his folly :—for, Gentlemen, the philosopher was mad, but these reasoner can only 'be mischievous. - Gentlemen, there is, in point of fact, no neces sary connexion between thc question of war and the question of scarcity. I suppose any man will allow that the present year is a year of as extend ed war as ever Europe witnessed. We have seen, in the southern pait of Europe, the city of Ma- drid entered by the victorious troops - of Great Bri tain, and we have heard with -horror, how the Imperial city of the North has escaped from the ravages of the rnqueror only by being consumed in flames of her own But, Gentlemen, the same stm which gilded the triumphal entry of Lord- Wellington into Madrid, and turned pale at the conflagration of .Moscow, has ripened, during the present.year, both in. the North and in the SOuth, the most luxuriant har vest that ever blesSed mankind. Before the war loat is paraded again, let the' philosophers who support my-untagonists bring me the solution of this phcenomenot. Gentlemen, I will detain you no longer. I trust you will have the goodness, for your oym sake, as well as mine, to use- every exetition to bring the contest to a happy and speedy conclusion. ADDREES OF NA. CANNING, ON TIDE CLOSE OF THE SEVENTH DAN'S 'POLL,... DELIVERED :FROM ONE OF TIIE BOOM WINDOW / S. OF THE HOUSE OF MR. GLADSTO:TE. Gentlemen,---I congratulate you on the success of this day ; the straggle • which has -been so long continued is happily drawing to a conclusion, and it will be decided, I have no doubt, in the course of twenty-four hours from this time, that the principles, of the loyal Freemen of Li verpool shall hca represented_ according to their choice. Gentlemen, the majority, trifling as it was, which I have enjoyed, and which, for some days SPAN IS PA PERS. .ENTn..ICTS.] FROM 'THE YALF.NCIA GAZETTE OF t'llr, 9TH SEPT Letters from the Duke of eindad Rodrigo to Brigadier Don Juan Martin (El E:npzein:atio) on nccontit of the capitulation which this Chief • .g.rt , ntpd to th , rn - v eene%s garrison. of Guadalaxa.rn.. ''.l 4 e,c'nlgrAtnhite yuuri;xcellency on the surren der of.Gu.,,lalaxara. " 1 cannot agree tp the Articles, 4,5, 6, and 8, on account of the reasons expressed in the inclo3- ed paper ; bet as it was known the Articles of Ca pitulation were concluded under a suppostion that they would he subject to-my opinion, I should thereforcnpt effect the capitulation. " God preserve-yoUr Excellency many years. " Madrid, August 16." "-The'Duke of Ciudad itodrigo.bas determined that .those in civil employments in GoadMax:Ara, at the time the garrison surrendered, shall remain at the disposition of the Spanish '4;overunient, .consequently at that of General ,De Espana,wl:9 at present represents it. •• •" advis.enfour Excellency of this by order of his Excellency, in the conception that you, will only consider this order as referring to Spaniards who exercise employments confided to them. by the intrusis?e Government, • " J. P. .INcLoit. " To Don J Martin (ElErnpecinado)." ORDER OF SdULT'S MARCII, GIVEN IN SEVILLE. ARMY OF ME SOUTH. , GENERAL DISPOSITION. The company of Spanish sappers will march with the head . -quarters, joined to miners and sap- Per 3 of tlie Imperial :army ; the whole at .the head of the reserve. Riajor Le2antel will command the engineers the other - oflicers of this corps will „4 with the head-quarters, under the orders of Genen,i Lize. 'Tice officers and men of the Spanish Marine v.hck follow the nimy, will be joined to the ISt and 2d of the marines belonging to the flotilla. CORPS Conthi'D'Erlan will command the right wing, General Barrow the 2d division of infantry, Caen. Dai•ricout the If oi, General Moult the Ist cavalry, till a new disposition is made. Centre, cqunuanded by Gene; al I'lllate.; 3d di :•ision by General Fate; the 6.th by Generol Se melet. . Left, con - panded by General Corroux : 4th di vision "of infantry by General Corrou, 3d rif ca-, _valry,provisionally, by Gen. Perremont. Reserve, cominamled by General Leval ; Ist vision of,infantry General Leval, Ist and 7.dma.-, lines of the flotilla, engineers, labourers, 81. e.. 'llk' head-quarters of the army will ,be com mtitided by Colonel Mates. 'Tlie..-renuiinder of the order relates to the ent pl2fonent of the ,Spanish troops, disposition of the artiltery,&c: (Signed) Marshal the Duke of 1 - ,LMATIA. Senile, Aug. P 3, 1318. WESTMJNSTEI:. lESSIONS, OCT. 23 Richard Usher Man; and Thomas Jones, who were charged ud der the Vagrant Act . , as reputed tfiieves, were to the bar,, anal each of them ordered to be im prisoned in the House Of CorAtction, Coldbath : , fields, for 3ix calendar months. - . George Radford, a man nearly 70 years old, and upwards of 40 years of that period living as a housekeeper in the parish of St. Margaret, West minster, was indicted for assaulting Frances-Silli toe,- a child of tcn years old, h with intent to vio late her. He was found Guilty, and the Court sentenced him to one year's confinement in. the House of Correction, Coldbdth-fields 'to which. place the Officers were obliged to convey him. as privately as they could, for the mob seemed well. inclined to visit him with summary chastise ment. It is a.fact, beyond the possibility of a doubt, that numbers are daily suffering, many through unbelief, others from prejudice, though absolutely for years past a, remedy has been offered, and ac cepted by thousands with success in London. To enumerate the various complaints incident to the human frame by Worms, , would 'he to particula rise almost every description of ailment incident to mankind.—The infant, the youth, the adult, are all subject to the ravages of various kinds of WortnF, as may be seen_ -and fully explained by ob3erving the WORM MUSEUM Of Dr. GAabNER, No. 74, Long-acre, and No. 3, Shoreditch. BIRTH. On Wednesday last, at Ashburton4lonse, Putney-be tee Lady of William Jones, Esq. Marshal of theKing's.9en , :li, of a Son. AIM;AIE1). On the 12th in t. in Dublin, Join chrnuty, F,sq. of the Civil Bengal Establishment, to Caroline,.. only claubtei' of Peter Warren; Esq. of Henrietta-street. . . On the 23d inst. at S , •.aines, Mr. Namuel Davenport, spn of Mr. Charles Davenport, of the same place, to.Ann,,yl(l,..it ;laughter•of the late Mr. George Winch, of Slepperton. DI ED On Sunclay4noimin , , , , - 7at,''at WinOiehl-place, Berks, Stan lake BaNun, E. , q. in the 85th year of his age. On Monday last, Mr. Nicholas of West Drayton. . . • On the “ith inst. at Ei:rnenth; Mrs. Baring. . On the loth inst. Clitaiti Robert Rhode, formerly Cow nni;vl(4 of the lion. East-inciia Coinpany's ship Sir Wilrotor iil't)~I( V. On Friv Lla sOknight, at his seat at TitnieckVean, Cousttn , -ton, B, , ,njaniin Penaer„ many years Agent for his Ma jesty's, packets at Fahnoat - COAL' MARKET,- OcT. 23. ships atMarKet. • ' Ships cold. Price. 3 , 11 Ne*c:A.stie . . . :101 . 435. 3d. to . 535. 34. 2 S7inderland . . . 2 . . 425. Gi. to 465. Od. ••••1 Cinders • 1 . . 355. Gd. to —s. Od. .PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. Bank Stock, 418 j ii,!fri Old Ann. Navy 5 per Cent. 891 90 Excheq. Plll3, per day, 4 per Cent. 74N - ,1 par, ij. pr. • 3 per Cent.ited. 57M v.• Ditto; 34d. per day, 3s. ss. pr. :s per Cent. Cs. 584a1 .59 ',583 ,Qtnninni, 4 5-pr. Bank L. Ann.-14 15-16ths InAperal. arr Cent. India Stoek, 16'3 • cens. for ibtil N.e . 52i. 5914 India Bond,:, 3s. 4s. WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Nl•irning., :35 minutes after 5. I EveniriF., 2 minutes ;ift& - .6.