The Sun. — London, England, 1819-05-26 00:00:00

LONDON JOtIUNALS. FROM THE NIORNINc; PA.P.ERS OF TH :S DA' [Morning Chronicle.] The Earl GKtty brought in a Bill last night in the House of Lords, for the repeal of the oath and declarations against transubstantiation and the invocation of saints. The Bill, however, provides that nothing therein contained shall ex tend to dispense with the oehs of allegiance and supremacy. The practical effect of i:, therefore, is pot to relieve Roman Catholics from any dis ability, but to relieve Protestants from the ne cessity of declaring the Roman Catholic Religion 'superstitious and idolatrous. • • [The Times.] In our Paper of the 20th we tnentionetl, curso rily, among the proceedings of the House of Lords, that the Judges had delivered their opi nions in the case of the Prince Regent as Duke of Cornwall v. Sir John Saint Anbyn.— The matter is of more importance than may at first appear, Nine tplestions were put by the House to the Judges on the subject of the Prince's rights and powers ; but the following an swers are the most material :—Unanimous, " We " think the Prince can, as Duke of Cornwall, by " force of the right vested in him, sue and be sued " in tie Court of Exchequer, by his Attorney-Ge " nerd, on matters touching the title and inherit " ance of the Duchy ; and that a judgment is to be '' executed in the same manner as a judgment in " matters touching the Crown orthe inheritance of " the Crown. Wc conceive the Court of Enche " quer molt proper for this sti!:ject, but that the " right may extend to other Courts." And in answer to the question, whether the lands of the Duchy are subject to the statute of limitations , — " We think an information of intrusion at corn " mon law will lie for the Prince, for lands parcel " of the Duchy, but not for any other lands." NOTICE. THE PROPRIETORS of INDIA STOCK, at whose instance the General Court was convened on the 19th instant, for the purpose of receiving a Motion rela tive to the remuneration to be granted to Mr. JAMES WIL KINSON, solicit the ATTENDANCE, on SATURDAY. NEXT, the 29th inst., at ONE o'clock, at the CITY of LON DON TAVERN, in Bishopsgate-street, of those PROPRIE TORS who CARRIED the QUESTION for granting to Mr. WILMNSON the sum of Sicca Rupees 180,000, and of such other Proprietors as are favourable to the same, to take into consideration a PAPER circulated under the authority of ahe Honourable the Court of Directors, and to coins to such Re solutions as may be deemed expedient thereon, previous to the Ballot fixed for Wednesday, the 2d day of June next. 25th May, 1819. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed Last Nizht. THEATRE ROYA L,Dnu RY.LANE.—The Stranger: the Stranger, Mr. Rae; Mrs. Haller, Mrs. W. West. After which, A Day after the Wedding. To which was added, High Notions. THEATRE ROYAL, CovENT-GAnn6 . —The Marriage of Fi garo : Fizaro, Mr. Liston ; the Countess, Mrs. Dickons. Atter which, Cozening. To which was added, A Roland fur an Oliver. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS nAY AT TW FAN ...... ..... .__ Hank St oclt .. 210 212+ 1 Bank L.Ann.l6 15-16 17 1-1 G 3 pet Cent. Red. 644 . 661 Imperial 3 per Ct. Ann..... 65 :, per Cent.Cons.6sii 677 66i 1 India Stock .....205 Si per Cent 731 74 1 1 India 80nd5.....95. I4s. dis. 4 per Cents 791 82 I Exc:i. Bills 6s Is dis. 5 per Ct.N.Ann. 99if 102 10t I Cons. for July, 65/ 661167 MAILS. ARRIVZDI Dublin, 2 Waterford, 1 Sweden, 1 Hamburg!) DtrE-1 Waterford, 1 Lisbon. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGP, fO.MORROW. Morning, 51 minutes after 4. I Evening, 19 nunutes after 5, THE SUN. SOLEM QUI% DICERE FA LSVM A (MEAT ? LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1 Sl9. We received this morning the Paris Papefs of Sunday last. The Chamber of Peers assembled on Saturday, when reports were made from the Committees on the projets respecting the aboli tion of the Droit d'Aubaine, and the Transit through Alsace ; the reports were ordered to he printed, and the discussion to be opened afttr that on the second projet relative to the Press.— The Chamber then adjourned till Monday. In the Chamber of Deputies the discussion on the articles of the projet respecting the financial accounts was again continued, and again adjourned. The Marshal Gotivtot4 Sr. CYR, the Minister at War, was about to set out to take the waters at Carlsbad, in 13ohetnia. The Countess of BELLEGARDE, wife of the Aus- trian Field Marshal of that name, had a private audience of the King on Saturday. Prince LEOPOLD of Sacs COgUIIG, it is said, intends to remain some weeks at Park. The Emperor and Empress of AUSTRIA were expected to return to Vienna the end of this month. The Military Committee of the Germanic Con federation are said to have decided for the erec tion of a large fortress on the tipper Rhine. It is said the Governments adjacent to P►•nssia intend to appeal to the Germanic Diet against the Prussian system of"customs. FIVB PER CENTS. . 67 f. -o. Saturday DEFERRED srocK. Of the 22d March, 1817, . f. 65c. :12d Sept. 1817, ...83f. 65 c. 22d March, 1818, 22d Sept. 1818,. 22d March,lBl9, .....78f. —c. THE FuNDS.—This being iettlinkday the House was crowded at an early hour, and from the great fluctuAtitTh (10 per Cent.) that has taken place during the Account, much anxiety was expreised to know the opening price ; Consols for Money began at 651, fell to 651, rallied to 66, but again declined to 64, for the Account, 66 64, 661 66 ; before 11 o'clock upwards of two millions of Stock had been purchased, and the business done was almost unprecedented. As the Account day is.generally devoted to settling the differences on this occasion, they are very heavy, but no de faulter bad been declared at 12 o'clock. At near one o'clock Consols had recovered again, having risen to 67-1, though they „shortly afterwards de clined to 66k, for the Account 67x. As all the wisdom and knowledge of the. Le , gislature, with all the suggestions of the first com mercial characters in the Country, are at present employed on the important subject of the exile (Jitney of resuming CASH PAYMENTS, it would ill become us, and would, indeed, manifest the utmost presumption, were we to attempt to lead the' People through the labyrinth. We must therefOre refer them to the Parliamentary Re ports, which we have endeavoured to render im partial as well as ample, in order to enable our Readers to judge for themselves on a subject which we feel ourselves unable to place in a new light, or to provide a clue more likely to guide them through the maze than what may be sup plied by the collective wisdom of our Legislative Bodies, and the solid experience of Commercial Authorities. The Bill brought into the House of Lords, last night, by Earl GREY, for the repeal of the Oaths . and Declarations enacted by the 25th and 30th of CHARLES 11. agair.^t Transubstantiation and the Innovation of SAINTSi though apparently of a ma.: derate and harmless n4tnre, giving all possible credit to the Noble Lord for the purity of his motives, we cannot but consider as calculated to remove one of tire securities of our present Esta blishment in Church and State. Those enact ments were founded in true wisdom and sound policy, and we trust that the eyes of the Legis lature will not be blinded by an appearance of specious magnanimity, or the sagacity of Par- - liament slumber over a measure which, in our . opinion, is pregnant with latent mischief and danger. We insert this day a Letter from our Corre spondent in Paris, because we rely upon the goodness of his intentions, and the general accu racy of his views. We must also admit that lie is likely to possess better information than ourselves, as we know that his sources are peculiar. But we confess that we totally disagree with bins re specting the present King. of SWEDEN and the Emperor of RUSSIA. He says, that " CHARLES JOHN Was adopted by the late legitimate King, CHARLES XIII.; he succeeded him as Heir to the Throne, confirmed by the voice of the Na tion." We deny the legitimacy of CHARLES He drove his lawful Sovereign from the Throne, and be was an Usurper. We deny also that the voice of the Nation has been beard in Sweden. As to the services rendered to the great cause of Europe by CHARLES JOHN, it is well known that he acted in a very dubious manner, and it is confi dently said that he at last came forward under threats of exposure it he remained longer unde cided. Neither can we agree with our Corre spondent in his estimate of the character and de signs of the Emperor of RUSSIA. We consider him as a Monarch disposed to raise himself by virtues rather than by. ambition, and that, with a mind enlightened by more experience titan -Potentates in general are able to acquire, be is chiefly solicitous to promote the honour of his Country and the general happiness of mankind. ,CORN-EXCHANGR, MAY 2G.—We had but little English Wheat at Market this morning, for which rather more money was asked, but could not be obtained ; as such, our prices remain as on Mon day. In Barley there is little or nothing doing, the malting season being nearly over, and there is no demand for Foreign, although offered at low prices. The Oat trade continues very heavy, anti to effect sales a reduction of Is, per quarter was submitted to, the quantity at market being very large. Yesterday the Duke of YORK transacted mili tary business with the PRINCE REGENT, at Carl ton-house. Earl I3ATHURST and Count MUNSTER had au diences of the PRINCE REGENT yesterday. On Monday evening the , Duke of YORK te nured to town from Windsor. Yesterday his Royal Highness held a Levee at his Office in- the Horse Guards. The Duke and Duchess of Gt.oucEsTEn left town yesterday morning for Bagshot, to view the alterations and improvements which have been. making there for some time past. Yesterday the dispatches for Bengal, by the ships Ahberton and Hooghly, were closed at the East India House, and delivered to the Masters of these ships. PRIVATE AND AUTHENTIC CORRESPONDENCE PARIS, MAY 20.—The English and French Papers are full of the reported intentions of the great Northern Powers to dethrone the King of SWEDEN. These reports, traced to their source, will to found to originate with the agents of those very Powers who arc thus trying to feel the public pulse.— The King of SWEDEN is peculiarly placed : hated by one side, because he was a principal means of Brushing the power of BUoNAPARTE; for it is well known, that had his military skill, and the forces he brought into the field, been thrown into the other scale, Berlin would have been plundered and the battle of Ltipsic lost ; hence he is -detested by the Saco birres and the admirers of BUoNAPARTE, while, on the other hand, the parties whose success he assured, and to whose victories he so eminently contributed, ere. would dethrone bias, because he ii " not legitimate." If by legitimacy we are to understand the resolution of the families who have governed Europe for a long time to admit no new dynasties, he is certainly not legitimate ; but let us beware of carrying this principle too far, for we aright, in adopting it, prove that there is scarcely a Sovereign in Europe whose throne is not founded in usurpation. The survivors of the STUARTS would not fail to prove by this argument that the House of BRUNSWICK are usurpers. Now CHARLESJOHN was adopted by the late legitimate King 'CHARLES XIII.; he secceeded him as heir to the Throne, confirmed by the v3ice of the na tion, mad has a far more legitimate title than had WlLLtast III.; but leaving this out of the question, he was recognised by all the Powers in Europe when they wanted his services ; and is it a principle of the Sainte .dlliance to break its engagements when the service is performed ? But waiving all these points, to come to what mere immediately interests England,—is it her interest that this renowned General, commanding an he roic and loyal nation, should he crushed ? It would be killing the Dog on the accusation of the Wolf. ALEXANDER is the same man now that he was at the Treaty of Tilsit, with this difference, that his unlooked-for success and importance has awakened his ambition, and be hopes, as BUoNAPARTE did, to be master of all Western Europe. CHARLES Joint stands in his way ; remove him, and,the thing would be easy. It is, ,therefore, the duty of Engllid to throw all - her interest in favour of the King of SWEDEN, to assist him against the am bitious designs of Russia, which detests her. With the com merce of Sweden we can give the law to Russia, and make the Autocrat bend the knee to us. We must master Russia, or she will master us. Her agents endeavour at every Court, and especially that of France, to supplant English interests. Let us not be blind either to her intrigues or tier views, if we would nut be her tool or her victim. SHIP NEWS. FALMOUTH, MAY 93.—Arrived off this port the Batavia, Lamb, from Bombay; sailed 3d January, in company with the General Graham, of and for London; from the Calls, 15th February, and from off St. Helena, the 4th March. Spoke, 13th instant, the Jane of London, from Belfast to Jamaica; and on the 17th, the Alicia, from Tcneriffe for Bristol.— The Batavia experienced very bad weather on her passage home; she has lost her head, and ,the head of her rudder, and is obliged to steer with the assistance of a spar across her stern. DEAL, MAY 25.—Sailed Lis Majesty's sloop Wye, on a cruize to the Westward. PORTSSIOI;74II, MAY 25.—Passed by, the lion. Company's ships Marquess of Wellington, and Princess Charlotte of Wales, for Bengal. The Ann, Chappell, from Swansea to %Vaterford, struck on a sunken rock Near the Smalls, on Saturday, and foundered—crew saved, and arrived at Milford. CUSTOMS' LIST. Entered Inwards, May 25.—Sisters, Bishop, Teneriffe and Lanzarotie ; Zibou Aul, Brenisma, Worcurn ; Peace, Mey than, Archangel; Twee Gerusters, Meyer, Embden ; Levant, ht'Kilbin, Belfast; Puke of Kent, Pound, Rotterdam; Odes sa, Pattison, Rio Janeiro; Queen Charlotte, Blake, Rotter dam ; Erwasting, Hohorst, Memel ; George Kilbert, Scott, Antigua ; Aimwell, Tate, - Hamburgb ; Juliana, Webber, Campeachy; Ebenezer, Edmund, Hamburgh ; Union, Gal laway, Harlingen; Telemachus, Rogers, Bourdeaux. Entered Outwards, May 25.—Sprightly, Carren, Elsineur and Petersburgh ; Charles, Dupenrat, Havre; Royal Sove reign, Atherden, Rotterdam s Concord, Wales, Naples; Au rora, Nichols, Cork ; Aurora, Brower, Amsterdam ; Clio, Jackson, Seville; Anne, Spence, Antwerp; Ceres, Renny, St. Mary; Margaret, Smith, Rotterdam ; Redman, Knight, Barbadoes ; Hope, Pilshury, Philadelphia; Alexandriene, Baugue, Calais; Hooghly, Lamb, India; Flora, Becher, Pillau ; Isabella, Hunter, St. Petersburg!) ; Aura, Wallis, Elsineur. HOP INTELLIGENCE. SOUTHWARK, MAY 24.—We had a very good trade for Hops the latter part of last week, but not at any advance in the prices. Our letters to day speak of the Fly being not only general but numerous, arid in consequence we are asking more money for our Hops than we did last week, but not many sales are effected—the ditty is at 100,0001. Bags are scarce, and Pockets are plentiful. Hambnrgh and Dutch Mails bring papers re spectively, to the 18th and 23d instant. The loss occasioned by the fire which broke out in the timber yards of Christiania is estimated at above 250,0001. sterling. Several insurrectionary movements are said to have taken place in Sicily, the inhabitants of which are described as discontented with their new system of Government. Several iegiments have, in consequence, been dispatched thither from Naples. P4TT CLUB.—On" Thursday a very respectable Meeting of the Pitt Club of Scotland (Sir J. FER GUSON, Bort. in the Chair), was held here, for the purpose of electing a President in the room of their excellent President, his Grace the :late Duke of BuccLaucts. The Right Hon. the Earl of HoPRTOUN was unanimously elected. Several Gentlemen were admitted Members of this most constitutional and patriotic Club by ballot. — (Edinburgh Courant, May 22.) OLD BAILEY.—This morning these Sessions commenced before Mr. Justice BAYLEY, Mr. Ba ron GARROW, the LORD MAYOR, &c. Patrick M'Court, Robert Rhodes, Michael Regan, and John Brose, all soldiers in the 19th Lancers, were ttieil for robbing Thomas Enfield, at Hounslow Barracks. Mr. Justice BAY LEY summed up, and !be Jury found M.Court and Rhodes Guilty, and Acquitted the other two. REGISTER OF FASHION. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, The Duchess of KENT, we are happy to 151 1 continues as well as can be expected in every re spect. The following is a copy of the Bulletin issued yesterday : " Her Royal Highness the Duchess of KENT has bad A excellent night, and the Royal Infant continues to do well. (Signed) " J. WILSON, " D. D. DAVIS." Tier Royal Highness intends suckling the id' Pant Princess. The PRINCE REGENT is fry tien l in his inquiries by Sir BENJAMIN BLOOMFIELD' The Doke and Duchess of GLOUCESTER we t ° some time at Kensington P‘ilace on Monday.! Yesterday the Duke of YORK was wi t h hi s Ho y e' Lirother upwards of an hour. FASHIONABLE PARTIES THIS EVENING. Lord Bulkeley's eattrtainturiit to the Duke of York, soli- hope-street. - 5 Dowager LaJy Burgoyne's rout, Oxf,rd-street. Sir Watkia and Lady Harriet Wynn's party, Saint Jaeaes'r sqxare. Loid Carrington's party, SVhteliall. GRAND ENTERTAINMENTS. The Earl of Carnarvon gave one of the grandest balls 60 season, on Monday evening, at his el e gant mansion in Grog' venor-square. The two principal drawing rooms were fitted op with taste; the floors of each apartment were beautiful', chalked. The adjoining apartment was appropriated fur re . freshments, consisting of ices, fruits, coffee, tea, &c. The or per, consisting of all the delicacies of the season, was prepare i in the grand dining parlour. The whole was most beautiful ! ! illuminated. The Company began to arrive about half-pat ten o'clock. The ball commenced soon after eleven ; it 41" half past five o'clock yesterday morning before the distin guished party retired. Lady Hyde Parker's Masquerade on Monday evening, Cumberland-place, was one of the most splendid and elegan t Entertainments given this season. Upwards of 300 guished families were present. Lady Smith gave her second grand rout this season a l Monday evening, at her residence,rferrace, Piccadilly. Tb o magnificent suite of 'apartments were most brilliantly Want!' nated. The company present exceeded 1000 persons of th . first 4stinction and fashion. FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS. General Sir H. Vivian, at the St. James's Royal Hotel. from Beachwood, Southampton; Mr. and Mrs. Hoare. a t Kirkham's Hotel, Lower Brook street, from Paris; W. CO' ningharn, Esq. of Enteikene, from Scotland, at ditto. KING'S THEATRE.—The delightful Opera Of I / Motto Magic() , which has been some time announces ed for representation at this place, is. ns brough t forward last night under every circumstance that was calculated to render it most impr, , ssive an a pleasing. We regret that we have not roots tv enter into the particulars of a musical treat whic h seemed to afford the highest gratification , o at , au' thence who nearly crowded the House before to g commencement of the Overture. The Manager has done his duty in the splendour of the deco' rations, &c., and are Performers acquitted them" selves most ably in their allotted parts. Mr' KELLY, it seems, had the merit of suggesting and preparing the representation of this tine bar" monic treat, the chief triumph of the taste, jag' ment, imagination, and genius of MOZART. BRISTOL THEATRE.—OR Monday evening Ur' BOOTH came forward in the arduous characte r of King Richard the Third, and acquitted billy self in a masterly style, to the gratification of highly respectable audience. We feared for htr voice at first, but as his exertions increased* his powers seemed to keep pace ; his imagin 4 : .lion was good and his execution great. E" subtlety with his mother and the young Prince* was admirable, and in the, last act lie rose abo vg himself. Nature has been unkind in forming 01 so like KEAN in figure, and Fortune doubly cral in letting KEAN appear before him _ Mirror,) Hay Harvest Commenced !—On Tuesday last, tb e 15th of May, Mr. J. Wells, of Hartlepool, cam menced cutting two fields of grass. The crop s which are exceedingly heavy, are now undergo' ing the process of hay-making. 11 Gentleman at - Cottingham has in his garde° an apricot tree, from which 320 apricots have beg ° plucked this spring, but which retains, in a mo ss promising state, three times that number. • A very remarkable meteor was seen at Aber(leeo on Wednesday, the sth inst., ut about ball-1) 04 12 in the forenoon. It appeared at an altitud e of nearly 36 degrees, having the form of a b 4ll of fire, with a short tail, darting to the earth; the atmosphere was uncommonly clear at the timo with bright sun-shine and not a cloud to be see's In about five minutes after it was observed, it eV; ploded with a considerable noise, and a volume smoke issued from it, which assumed the fOrro small.white cloud. The same meteor was seen to many parts of the country. In the parishes ° I . Kintore, Fintray, &c. the noise of the explosio o was so loud, that the cattle in the fields became ter: rifled and bellowed loudly. It . is very rare for stag' meteors to be visible in the day-time. BIRTH. On Sunday morning, the 23d inst. at his house in Yorr street, the Lady of Lieutenant-Colonel Dance, Life Guar oso of a son. ' MARRIED. On Tuesday, at St. George's, Hanover-square, Lieut ena nt William Bolton Bowyer, of the Royal Navy, to Frances. daughter of the late Captain Beek, of the East India Servic° —.• DIED. On Monday evening, at his house in Bedford-row, Willi Criswell, Esq. an eminent surveyor. 'at On the 22d inst. at the house of James Payne, Maidenhead, where he was seized with a fit of apoplexy, on a visit, James Brant, Esq., of Ditten House, Pintinel Gree . At Henley, in Arden, on the 2d inst. Major John Hilton, late of the 25th Light Drage,ins, in the 391 h year of his ageA, On the 28th of April, at Lisbon, of consumption, Capta l Nicholas Pocockf of his Majesty's packet service , third sun (i t • Nicholas Pocock, Esq. late of Great George-street, We s minster. iJ LONDON: Printed hy .1. B. CARSTAIRS, of No. 29, Or e A, Ormond-street, Queen-square; and published by SCRIPPS, of No. 7, South Molton-street, at Tile. " Office, No. 112, Strand ; where Advertisements, 000" Letters, &c. '(past-paid) mast bcaldresscd. t t ; , e t), fl,p ; to I So / Pit fie/ Cre, tee,