The Sun. — London, England, 1816-12-21 00:00:00

washy Alderman (Curtis) because be did not co n sider the Answer to be a gracious one. When the. Prince and his Ministers acknowledge that very great distress exists, the people have a right to look for such sentiments of sympathy in that distress as the parent of a people ought to feel for them ; hut when it was considered how much u ntenable, false, and unfounded matter was in troduced in the „Address, it was impossible for Iklinisters to reeollllDelid a gracious reply, Ile then took a view of the Address, and commented particularly on its concluding passages, which he admitted were s opoorted by a Very large majority of flint Court ; but he would say, that the Com mon Co u ncil had in s,ine iustances given thn public very decided grounds to question their jodgmeut and capacity. They had declared that the war tool been wisely commenced, ably managed, and well ended ; while. they now term it rash, unnecessary, and ruinous. The fulsome lamgoage the Address to the Allied Sovereigns, in applobation of the war, and their connection with it, fOrmed a remarkable contrast to their langttage and opinions ite the late Address. The assertions the latter, that all our grievances were attributable to .the defective state of the Re preseutation, arid they could only be removed by Reform, were false and untenable. In 1793 there %VHS a univerial opinion throughout this country favourable to war. (Here Mr. Slade, to whose Opittions at that - period the speaker had al lauded, said, " I deny it.") It was so strong opinion that the worthy Gentleman who ventured to oppose it in that body (Mr. Slade), was considered) as an object almost of cxc eratian. Now, in his opinion, that Gentle man was never so highly entitled to the thanks of public men as when he dared to start(' forward alone in itprobatiou of the war ; and. if his opi nions had been adopted, the country would not •have keen in its present situation. It might be d e lusion ; but the public opinion was so excited in 1793 ; and thereime, if the doctrine of univer sal satfrage had prevailed at that time, we shoot(' have had the war, because the general opinion was in favour of it. It was false to say, that it we had had reform in 1793, all the evils - of war would have yielded instantly. There was/ a Vitra deal more of corruption amongst the people at large than they were inclioed to ad mit of, and he thought the best way of producing Reform in Parliament, wool(' be For the people to , begin liv reforming - thetwelves. - In the Meeting at Spa-fields, for instance, .where esery man was an a dvocate for Reform, a great many Electors were prese,J ; and if such a person as the worthy Alderman had appeared, with all his supposed corruption about biro, lie would have stood a better chalice of carrying his motion, thou those who have nothing to g ive. The worthy Gentleman continued .to argue on the. carrial)tiout among,t electors, till *called to order by Mr. FAVELL, who observed, that such digressions, however diverting, ought slot to be tolerated, as they would render the de bate endless. Mr. I-IAktVEY replied, that this was the first :time he hadever beet) called to mkt.", in that Court, and lie wr , ald not be put down. The very priociple Of. Reform was fallacious, unless the ptople themselves came to the onanienous deter .nlioal ion to render it effectual. lithe Worthy Al derman (Curtis) were a candidate for a scat in Parliament, and were to be opposed by the frost popular man in that Court, aye, evert by the pre sent wor thy Lord 11layor, with all . his aerved honours about hint, -when the electors Callie up to poll, such was the effect of expecta tions, promises, and favours couferred unexpect ed, that the worthy Alderman, who was repro bated as the champion of corruption, and every thing belonging to it, would be elected.—(Mtieb laughing, and cries of hear !)--.13e Wished to re move the artful insiottation that that body could riot agree about Reform. They might easily agree, if they adopted il3.a principle, the petitioning foe triennial Parliaments,- which were acknowledged to he legal, because they had existed .before. Hr concluded with saying, that he objected to the amendmeut. He did not think the answer re proachful, but was sorry that such a one had heen given ; but the Address.. was so inconsistent that it was nothing more than was to be expect - ed. Ile was convinced that the Address had pre judiced bite cause of Reform, for it had afforded Ministers the opportunity of making such a reply a s was now under consideratiott, and such a one as they should not otherwise have had, There seas no now who did not agree in the necessity of a Reform, but the.thinking part of the communi ty, would not name themselves as 'advocates for universal suffrage and annual Parliaments, which they knew must sweep away the pintas of the Constitution, the Monarchy, and all those esta blishments by which we had benefited for ages. There were no sorts tit men whom we should he more anxious to avoid any coincidence with than suspected regicides and convicted apostates. Ile •. would concur in the original motion, provided the word '' gracious" tvere left out. • Niter -a tem.?' words iu reply from Messrs. SLADe. and DIXoN, the question for the Amendment was put and carried without a division, ratt. Men. Arr EXPFAIRNCED evening, the sth lost, Joseph Ctark, an experienced thief, front London, exhibited the followlug proofs of dexterity in Kendal called at the shop of Messrs. lirey and Bellingham, stationers, and no der the pretext of asking for_ work, stole a ream of paper he soon after made a second visit, pre tending to purchase a small quantity of the same article, and carried off alecond ream, He then p Ivied to the shop of Mr. [)meson, stationer, where be :purloined u tnetnorandurn book, value about 64. ; 'on quitting this place, he called upon Mr. S. Bell, bratier, and begged.» piece of wire ; -while the shopmao WaS Iprocaring it, he kole copper kettle. His next and last explOit was on the property of Mr. Thornborrow, draper, at whose shop he passed the wire through a bolt hole of the window, and extracted six silk hand keroniels, and 'concealed them in the crown of hia hat. The trans3ction was obsrrred by some young men in the 'Street, who seiletf the culprit • and carried hint before the Mayor, by whom he w .s committed to the }louse of Correction, to take his trial at the ensuing Sessiuns.—(Whitehu -yen Paper.) THEArIt I-CAL ItY,GISTER. Performed hail Night. DatritY-LANE.—ltantah Droug: CaptainSidoey, Mr.T.coalie; Eliza, Miss Mangrun. After which, The Mayor of Gar- Ze- COVF:NT-GA ROM—The Slave : Gambia, Mr. Macreatly ; Miss Stephens. After which, The Miller and his ARM vED—t France, 1 Gotteoborgh, 1 Lisbon, I Holland, 2 tianilturgh, Dublin. E-1 Guttenburgh, Guei sty and Jersey, 2 Waterford. - ST. THOMAl.—llolitlav at the Batik, Exchequer, East India, am! Suutt► Sea tiousu4. COURSE OF EXCI - lANGE, Fitt OAY, DecotnEtt 20. Amsterdam Ditto, at Sight 39 6 Amsterdam Ditto, itt sight • 19 2 Rotterdam Antwerp l2 8 Ex. Money 36' 10 2 Us. Hamburgh Altona ..... Paris, 3 Day's sight..... 25 60 • Ditto Bourdeaux, ditto Frankfort on the Maio Madrid Cadiz Sevilla .. • 34 Bill.wa ' ri... 35 Gibraltar Leghorn __ . 444 ,_ 2gl, .he 11... 41-Venicc . Malta., Ptilermo Lisbon Oporto, i .... 6si . —.... Kin •latieiru / . bg, Dahill). • ...... 11 ..... Cork., . . 104 per Cent. Agiu of the Bank on I 1011a0.1.... ',l l'orttli4al Gold, in Coin / .3 18 G per Oz Foreign Ciotti, in Bars New Dollars , 0 4 11i Silver, In Bars, Standard HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. %taming, 44 iniuutet after 4. 1 Kresling, 9 tniriutes alter 5, THE SUN.. SALEM Quin FALSUM AVOICATt LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1816. Two days' French Papers, due this morning► have arrived in course. The following are the only extracts worth making " PARIS, DEC. 18.—We arc assured, that Prince Talley rand has returned to Valencey. " The two regiments of Swiss Guards, whose service commences on the Ist of January, will ar rive next Saturday. They will be quartered at Ruel and Courberoie. The King has presented to M. de Seze a rich snuff-box, ornamented with . the portrait of Louis XVI. " The King has just given new existence to the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, by granting it ari annual pension of 5000 francs. This school, formed under Louis XVI., was intended piinci- pally to raise 'missionaries. " Count Ferranti received, the day before yes terday, from his Majesty's hands the like Cor don, and took the oath as Great Officer, Secretary of the Orders of St. Michael, and the Holy Ghost " Since the establishment of the Decimal Sys. tem up to the mouth of June last, there have been struck 1,629,666,538 f. 50c. of which sum near 650 millions were in gold. The money struck with the type of Louis XVIII. already amounts to 213,815,4751. of which there are 116 millions in gold. During the last 12 years there have been vacci nated in France 3,784,844 persons. " On the Ilth of thin month at the moment the thunder was heard at Paris, it was also beard at Cousniercy (Meuse), and at Chaumont (Hautt.- Marine). " PARIS, Dtc.l6,----Yesterday, at four o'c►ock in the morning, the mail from Naris•to Brest was attacked and plundered, at la Queue, near :Hondan. " It is said that the commission ot individual liberty has already terminated its proceedings , and that the report will be giver► on Wednesday or Thursday to the Chamber of Depwies. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. BULLETIN OF TELE 17Til. " M. Boordeau this day made his Report oppil the Law of Elections to the Commission. A new discussion is commenced, and it is thought that the Chamber will not take it into consideration beforeTliiirsday. ORDER OF MR D 1,4 rott THE, !STU. " At twelve o'clock the disctil , sion of the Re port of the ConimisSion charged with the exami nation of the Project of Law relating to the Mode of Collecting the 4 first twelfths of the Contributions for the year 1817. " Report of the <.;ormuission charged with the examination of the Project of Law relating to absent Soldiers. " It is thought that the Chamber will also hear the Report upon the Entiowments of Ecclesiastical Establishments. "FRANKFORT) U.C. l 1.--In th 7 eighth Sitting of the Diet, which was held on the 2d °I this month, M. de lhodrielt, Plenipotentiary Mini ster of Saxe-Weintar, presente4 the Constittitinn of the State of that Duchy, unti prayed the As- tenthly in the name of his Sovereign to place it a►nong the archives of the Diet, and take it under their protection. " The Baron de Gagern, Plenipotentiary Minis ter of the Netherlands, said, that the Diet by granting this guarantee would take the first step towards its future importance. His Excellency proposed a vote of thanks to his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Weimar, and all the persons who assisted in the compiling of this Constitution. " Baron Gruben, Minister of Bavaria, oppos ed the Diet's giving its guarantee, seeing that the peace of the Interior of Germany was not me- naced, The greater part of the Ministers declared their intentions of waiting instructions from their Courts upon this stabject." FRENCH FUNDS. S per Cents 55 f. 80 c. Bank Actions • • ••• 1155f. Dutch and liamburgh Mails arrived this morn ing. The following are their principal con tents : " Baussots, Dac. ls.—The Duke of Welling ton, upon his return to his head-quarters, has done an act of justice which still farther entitlts him to the general gratitude. In a village near Cambray four houses were burnt, through carelessness in a forge belonging to the English Army ; the Duke has caused the full amount of the damage done to be paid. " Some British soldiers have been punished by a Court-Martial, for having favoured the smug gling of prohiited DEC. goods. " AMSTERD b AM, 14.—Acconnts from Su rinam of a very late date, the authenticity of which may be depended on, state, that the reports which have been for some time in circulation re specting disputes in that colony with the Bush- Negroes are entirely without foundation. " They write from Lille, that the French Go vernment continues with great activity the .re cruiting for the West India Colonies, and that the conquest of St. Domingo is still stated to be the object in view. " Notice is hereby given to all Captains of ships, &c. that instead of the coal tire which has hitherto been kept on the Island of Boreum, a light, with English lamps, is erecting 150 feet above the surface of the sea ; the lighting of these lamps will begin at the end of December instant, or in 'January next. 4, J. U. FRANZIER, Superiutendaut. " Auricle, Dec. 8, 1816." it CO NSTANTINOPLE OCT. 25.—Count Ludolf, who has resided here many years as Neapolitan Ambassador, is to be succeeded by his son, who is expected Isere next spring. Meantime his Sici lian Majesty has written a letter to the Sultan, to announce to him his return to Naples, and to thank his sublimity for the attention shewn to the late Queen'Caroline during her residence in Con- stantinople. Contrary winds have hitherto prevented Conn Italinsky from setting sail. " FRANKFORT, Dec. B.—ln the Eighth Sitting of the Diet, the claims of the Patrician HOuies of , Alt-Limpurg, in respect to their rights to a cer tain number of seat in the Senate of Frankfort, was reported upon at length, and brought before the Assembly, which resolved to eommunicate this' remonstrance to the Senate of Frankfort by an extract from the Protocol, and to receive in two mouths the observations the Sennte may have to' after which the Diet would come make upon to a definitive r esolution upnn' this difference re specting the•Consti tu tiorrof Frankfort,, according to the 46th Article of the Act of Congress, in cas e the 'partie s should not prefer to come to an amicable compromise befOre F that time. ha T ve made bc Pa. tr icians of th e House of rauenstien a similar application -to the Diet, but later, which is the reas on that the y are not mentioned in the above resolution. " STUTTGART), OCT. 4.w-The present King of Wurtemburg has ituNV entirely broken up the Menagerie near Stuttgard. " STUTTOMID, OCT. B,_ Nothing decisive has yet been done towards an agreement between the King and the States; and particularly on the'part of the latter no considerable step forward has been made. " Elis Majesty has, however, appointed a Committee, consisting of Messrs. Von Waugeh helm, Von Neuratb, and Von Waechter, in order to examine all the negotiations, relative to a Con stitution, which have hitherto taken place, and to report upon them. A new plan is then to be drawn op, and laid before the States as an ulti- atom." The Times, following up the subject sVe yester day brought wider public notice, says very ju' elollSk.. 4‘ We lately undertook an Expedition agains Pirates whose depredations were exercised of other 11460E15i but never Oil our own trades 0141 we not be equally alert and vigilant to repress disw orders by which our own flag, in common with that of every Nation, is insulted ? It is a'known fact, that desperadoes of all nations and all colours are collected together by any person that chooses; and that the Commander has nothing to do but to hoist what is called the Mexican flag, or the Carthaginian flag, and he presently assumes a right to plunder any body and every body that be meets. The first question to be determined is, whether these new flags are to be recognized ? the second, who shall be entitled to bear them ? and the next, what belligerent rights they can be allowed to convey ? At all events, some restric. d tion must be laid on the present indiscriminate system of plunder; more especially with a view to prevent the crewe of our own merchantmen' tram murdering their masters, and running away with the ships to join the pirates, which appears to have been in the contemplation of more than one offender lately brought to justice at the Ad miralty Sessions." By a letter from Glasgow, received this day, we find that a Subscription which had been in stituted for the Relief of the Lower Orders in that City, had been supported with a spirit and libe rality infinitely creditable to the leading Gentle. men there. The sum subscribed by the first ten on the list amounted to not less than 16001., and was rapidly increasing. This is the effectnal mode of preserving the tranqui llit y of The Country, by proving to the lower orders bow lively an interest the more opulent take in their welfare. AN re-► mains perfectly quiet. Our Readers vvill recollect our having stated , that much exaggeration bad appeared in some of the Public Prints respecting what really happened at Glasgow. St. Thomas's Day seems to have bad its tuts effect on the Common Council Debate Yelt erdl Y* Parties kept their shies, but theta was little of Ultra-ism or exaggeration with either. i r It is much to be regretted that in these unruly. alarming, and perilous times, some Institution hal not taken place like that which was held , at the Crown and Anchor 90011 after that dreadful e 1 plosion of democratic al fur y , the French Revolt" tion, which excited apprehension and dismay all over Europe, and threatened to spread its horrors in this happy Island. At that period a considera• ble number of public - spi rited Gentlemen fissefil' bled, and chose for their motto, " When burl * 0 conspire', good men s h ou ld associate' IV these writtell G ent l e men ninny admirable T racts were and circulated in cheap editions, among the gr et , t body of the Pebple , and more particularly seog the lower classes. These publications were at ', tended with . the most beneficial effects. Thq pointed out, anti forcibly depicted, the drea dful character and tendency of the French Reit)lotions and predicted all the horrors which it was OW" fated to produce, .the confiscations,' massacreild carnage, and despotism wh ich were likely, °ni, proved to be the inevitabl e result of an of power in the hands of flagi t i ous Ambition. attempts that are daily making, at the Pre set/ moment, to sow sedition , to rouse the VI: to rebellion, to overthrow the Government, to destroy the Constitution, under the pret ePts of a Reform in Pa rliament, imperiously rail° the renewal of a similar Association of patriotO men, of enlightened m inds ; and who have a ha ll . stake in the country. Supineness is criminal s tt this awful crisis, when so much pains are taken ° spread an inflammatory contagion among the iva ferior orders of Society. Several of the Gentle m en who belonged t o the former admirable Instk cation are yet among us, with principles unshaken and with unabated zeal. Let them come forward, and no doubt they will be joined by enlightene d characters %vitt) have since that period reacheil ths ranks of manhood, and who may possess talents fitted to illustrate and support true political doe" trines that might counteract the poison of wicket Demagogues, render the People patient under pressure of temp orar y suffering, preserve pO ce and good ,order, and snpport the Constittlii° agaliv4 all the open and insidious attacks d i t ; enemies. There are no doubt many public-spirite Booksellers who wool(' resolutely and actively sor port a Cause, not only of importance to this Cc" 111 ' to h i/ try, but to the civil ized world at large. Is it 0 borne, th At low wretches and artful,miscr°4nto should be permitted to carry on their attenWts.o debase and corrupt th e p ublic mind, and to hi of' the country to ruin ; an d that our over sale t P „, d e r, justice, good g nment, and the be st . e e - j, litical fabric that h u man wisdom ever' Set vet tin t mr, shonid be thus exp osed to der , atm ip true Patriots shot id remain in torpid tratql at such a trying crisis No, let torpi d r o :: c cr itf defence of their country, an d s ecure for e t o i l . ' that Constitution which has tender"' G r ij atli il " coin the tbvy and admiration ot ail sorra NAtioits.