The Sun. — London, England, 1819-09-29 00:00:00

ilb ling principle was that whieb operated on the mind of Mr. PARKINS.- The REcOantrt acted with that good sense, discretion , , and manly firm ness which have- always marked his public con duct. The Learned Gentleman properly objected to Mr. JACKSON, on the ground of his not being • a'prOfessional character, as it lies been hitherto the custom to employ a regular Solicitor as most eligible for tbe office of Under Sheriff. the Loan MAYOR, no doubt for sufficient reasons approved, if not suggested by the RECORDER, refused tb s veeßr Mr. TURNER, the other Candidate, who last year 'held tire Office. What will be the result it is dif• -I Eclat to conjecture, but it will no doubt furnish t►ew matter for the Radicals to disturb the peace of the City. The treatment which the Loan MAYOR received yesterday was moat highly dis 'graceful to the Livery, if it were not reasonable to impute the offensive clamour which assailed Lim to the lowest of the seditious Reformers. We have no doubt that what hi, Lordship said of their -design to set fire to the city was fully warranted by facts, and we cannot but view his character with increased respect, when we find that no goading, menace, or insult will provoke him into any un guarded disclosure, A Meeting took place at Nottingham, on Mon day last, in consequence of a Requisition ad -dressed to the Mayor by several of the Inhabi tants. The Mayor himself presided. The stale farce of banners, flags, inscriptions, ►&c. the same as was acted at Manchester.' was per formed on this occasion. Mr. BIRCH, ill. P• and Mr•. DENMAN also M. P. did not attend the Meeting, but sent letters, avo's•ing their concurrence in its objects. A Mr. WAKEFIELD 'mat the chief Speaker, and having been ahun 'dandy supplied by the Party Prints with topics for abuse of the Manchester Magistrates and Yeomanry Cavalry, he displayed a very relen live memo►y on the occasion. He proposed twelve Resolutions, formed upon the exact model of those which had been passed at Meet ings of a similar kind. A Mr. PERRY then pro posed an Address to the PRINCE REGENT, Which had' some character of novelty in it, in bring by much 'the longest that had ever been pro posed at any other Meeting. But it was Merely novel in length, for it was charac terized by all that prejodication which has been so shamefully directed against the Man- hestee Authorities, Civil and Military. At hugth Lord RANCLIFFE came forward in the smile strain, and, by his repetitions of the con items of the Party Journals on this subject, proved that he possessed as good a memory as Mr, WAKEFIELD, though his Lordship did not exercise It to the tame extent. Though matters had pro- Ceeded exactly according to the wish of Mr. WAKEFIELD, and Lord RANCLIFFP. had agreed in all his opinions, yet Mr. WAKEFIELD must needs tePly. We hardly need add, that the Itesolutioni and the Address were adopted by the Meeting. Ilut We hope to see a Counter-Meeting take place ou the same town, particularly as the numerous Gentlemen who have formed the Reading Room 4, have discarded a Jacobin Print to mike Way for an additional SUN, and as no doubt there ars a vast number of other respectable inhabitants of Nottingham who are anxious to r epel the ef lortsof Radical Reformers, to manifest their loyalty, and to support, with patriotic energy, our Old and truly inestimable Constitution. 44 CORN EXUrtANOZ, 29.—Our Wheat. Trade was brisker this tuorning than ou Monday, and a few picked samples sold Ia• per quarter higher, the 14te rains having enabled some of the Water mills to resinne working, and thereby increased t he number of buyers; but there is nu improvement ill pi ice tf a nY other than the fittest qualities. Fine Barley sold on 111111 a% good terms as on Monday. In Beans and Oats there la no Iltetatiull. Lit t CaosYrNots —The Noble Earl, we find, NI subscribed 501 to the Manchester Fund. He declares himself " no friend to Universal Suf• Ipage and A nnua l Patl iatnews." We have n o t i "! 'lightest doubt of his Lordship's sincerity on &tumblerhtinl. H e could nit bold his estate, nor any maim the giiins of his own or his tutees tole industry for one month, after Universal Suf frageshotild have been permitted. We believe a Zery large part of the Noble Earl's property lies a nei ghbourhood "there Radical doctrines are Very prevalent—tho•e doctrines, we mean, which inculc a t e rather starting notions about the ri g ht which a min witho ut acres h as to appropr i ate the acres of his neighbour. A wandering thought, Worryin g at this uncomtortable fact, might, to an ordinary mind, have su ggeste d th e o ld prover b , thatit is sometlines " wise to bold a candle to Wr do not imagine, as we said be bra. that th e N o b le Earl was influenced by any toch reflection. We merely throw o u t th e hint s matter of C ll OOllll speculation.—M a j or Cart triSht, acknowl e d g i ng the b enevolence of his ti r)rd 'hif), give s him a gentle rebuk e f or d ec l ar i ng " no friend to Univeral Suffrage and An 12ual Parliaments ;'• observing' that " in these ;cords, though candid, there is no algtiment."— )whei e 7 is t' his Lordship joy of the company i nto (4 hi ss thus incautiously thrust himself.— orning Putt ) Yesterd d it itaa • y Duke of YORK visited the PF.INCR at Caritotl•house: PUHTIt Y. IMPROMPTU. The Tintrs, this day, avows its "hogat And hence Old SATAI'i soon may do the tame; The Logs are all his Imik, and therefore welt Might stile tlieir Paper The Gazette of Hell! 4'7 - nO2 Corner, Sept. 29. THE NEW SHERIFFS,. Yesterday being the day on which the Sheriffs Elect usually proceed in State to Guildhall, to be sworn into office ; the LORD MAYOR and diffeient 'City Officers attended as usual in their chat io:s ott "the occasion, Mr. Alderman RUTH w ELL, as 'Senior Sheriff, appeared in a most elegant carritge with splendid decorations, and was attenired es his Under Sheriff, by Mr. Tur ner, a Gentleman of the legal Profession who had dis• Charged the same duty for the late Mr. Sheriff fiOnEaTS. Many of Mr. ROTIIt%'ELL'S friends joi , ed in the Procession, and among the rest the Common Councilmen of the IVorthy Alderman's Ward in four carriages and four ; the drivers handsomely accoutred in uniform. Alto gether this part of the spectacle was more than usually grand and imposing, and it was rendered th e more striking by the appearance of the other new Sheriff, in a miserable Hackney-coach, at tended as his Under Sheriff by a person named Jackson, when report states to be a discarded Publisher of Cobbett's Two-pinny Register ! The LORD N 1 AYuR, on eructing the Hall, was greeted With those disgraceful outcri..3, which a set of Ruffians, to the utter disgrace of the City of London, are in the constant habit of venting On its Chief M 414 nitrate. These persons depot con sider, that by law they are individually liable to he whipped and set in the storks for such an of fence ; and ii is perhaps, ti, be regretted that for the sake of esample the law is not enforced on one or too of them, especially on those whose station in life renders their cowardly insults on rank and office the tnore disgraceful His Lord ship, howeser, scented to disdain their impotent malice and proceeded with the utmost coolness to di3cLarge the duties of the day. Procl.onstion being made, calling on Richard Rothwell. Esq. Alderman, and Joseph Wilfred Parkins. Esq. to take upon themselves the office of Sheriffs, these Gentlemen advaoced towards the front of the Hustings, when :11r, Parkins turned round and addressed the Lord Mayor as to his claim of seniority. The Recorder—lt is contrary to the law of the land, and the municipal law of the City, to allow the seniority [tow contended tor. Alderman Roth well must he sworn th e fi rst. Mr. Parkins—Then I protest against it. consider it Wilval rantable, and I know of no law which can deprive me of what I consider to be my right. The Recorder—Swear Alderman Rothwell, The Lord Mayor—The Recorder is my legal adviser. I am not of myself competent to decide the question, but I have no doubt there is some tribunal where it can be decided. Mr. Parkins—l have a duty to perform for the Livery of London, and I am determined to do it. Here is my protest. The Lord Mayor.--I have nothing to do with it, and cannot receive it. The Recorder.--Such proceedings are very un usual. Let them be sworn ; Alderman Rothwell first. Mr. Patkins.—Then as it will not be accepted, I shall leave it on the table. The protest having been laid on the table, the oaths of office were administered, the chains and other decorations were affixed to the new Sheriffs, and they severally presented themselves to the as sembly. The reception of both was with some mixture of hisses and applause, but in the in stance of Mr. Alderman Rothwell the applause greatly preponderated. The new Sheriffs were next called upon to no minate their Under Sheriffs, when Mr. Turner, the present Under Sheriff, was called upon by Mr. Alderman Rothwell; and Mr. Jackson was called by Mr. Parkins. Objections were mu tually taken by the Sheriffs to the gentlemen nominated as their Deputies, which led to a long couvarsation between them. Mr. Turner had, however, entered his name in the book kept for that purpose, and Mr. Jackson, upon proceeding to do the same, was asked his profes sion ? to which he replied that he was of no pro fession ; and the Recorder stared his opinion, that Mr. Jackson was therefore ineligible. 111 r. Par kins objected to Mr. Turner, as a Gentleman in whom he could place no confidence ; and Mr. Jackson was objected to on the other side, be cause he was not an Attorney within the imme diate control of the Courts, or qualified to execute a legal judgment. The Lord Mayor—l Wish to know, Messrs. Sheriffs, if you he reconciled as to the appoint ment of your Under Sheriffs ? for if you be no► agreed between yourselves, no Under Sheriff at all can be now sworn. 'he new Sheriffs, upon this, left the hustings, we suppose, if possible, to agree as to their de puties, hut they only remained out a few minutes; and on their tenni), Mr. Alderman ItOTHWELL said, My Lord, we cannot agree. The LORD MAYOR.-Then, if it is not in your power to agree, each must make another election. Mr. TuRNER here endeavoured to address the Lord Mayor ; but his Lordship said he I►ad no thing to do with the matter, and could nut, there fore, accede to hearing Mr. Turner. The new Sheriffs immediately retired to the Court of Common I'ieas ► , when the return of the prisoners was handed over to them ; after some time, the Lord Mayor departed in tl►e same manner as he had arrived —The proceedings were over about three o'clock —(New Times.) The (4)1h: wing is a copy of the l'rotest submit ted by Mr. PARK! NS : I, Joseph Wilfred Parkins, do hereby solemnly and pub licly pi West against Mr. Alderman Richard Rothwell being sworn in as senior Sheriff of the City of London and County of Middlesez, fbr the reasons following:-- Ist, Because my priority of election gives me priority of rotation, having been elected by the unanimous choice of the Livery, on the 24411 day of June, 1819, and having entered into bond to discharge the duties of that office on the 40th day of July fullowiug whcfea3 the said Alderman Rothweli • ! seas elected onlv by a rev small stew of hanh,on ttst 26th of July, that is six days after I had giten a bond, and he gave bond so lataty at the 14th of the torrent month of Sep tember. 2dly. Becante the Act of the CUtilmon Council, pasted in the year 1 74S,'cannot affect nay teniority, as that Act only directs that every Alderman who shall not have served the office of Sheriff, shall, according to his Seniority in the Court of Lord Mayor and Aldermen, and before any Commoner, he put in nomination for the office of Sheriff; and every Alder man who shall lie elected shall tape place according to his seniority in the Court, and have precedence of every Com moner; That accordingly, Mr. Aldermen Both well was put in nomination before Joseph Wilfred Parkins, and rejected by the Livery, therefore the Act was fulfilled, and if Alderman Bothwell bad been elected on his first nomination, his seni ority might then have been indisputable. 3dly. Because the Act never was intended, nor could it be legally construed to interfere with a prior election, and de prive a Commoner of that seniority which the choice of the Livery had bestowed, and which, 'by entering into bond to• discharge the office of Sheriff, had been confirmed before Al derman Bothwell bad been, fur the second time, proposed to the Livery for their approbation. 4thly. Because no Law of tlig Common Council can violate or compromise the Charter of the City : but, more particularly 110 I Wof the Common Council, ur Representatives of the Wards, can curtail the chartered privileges of the Livery of Loudon, who are nut represented in the Court of Consortia ;Ably. Because the Charter of the City of London has direct ed the Sheriffs to he freely and indifferentlychosen by tiro Citi zens without any restriction, so Joseph Wilfred Parkins was uoaniumusly chosen and Richard Bothwell rejected, by which the free and prior choice of the Livery was declared, and the seniority and precedence of Joseph Wilfred Parkins was esta blished; and that any Act of the Cooonou Council which might be construed to controul the free choice of the Livery, and give an arbitrary right of precedency to Richard Both well, whosu the Livery rejected when they elected Joseph Wilfred Parkins, must be considered as a curtailment of the Citizens' 'privilege and choice, in the election of Sheriff, and as an encroachment on their chartered rights, therefore void, to all intents and purposes, and enacted without the power of operation or street. 6thly. Because in entering into an office to which I hare been elected under charter, by the Livery of London it) Com mon Hall assembled, I deny the competency of any other power or authority than that of the Livery who choose me, to abrogate their priority of choice and I claim that pri ority as my undoubted right, conceiving that if I waved it, I shout(' not fulfill. the palpable intention of the Li very, and should compromise their rights ; therefore I, Joseph Wilfred Parkins, do hereby demand to be first sworn into office, and that William Jackson, my Under She riff, he also sworn according to usual custom; by which that priority of precedency ma , , , be confirmed, which the priority of election had bestowed; and this I now publicly demand in my own name, and on behalf of the Livery of London, whoce representative I am, and for the support and lino ern iou oft he chartered rights and privilege s of the said Livery, in their free election of Sheriffs, tmencroached on by any self-assumed authority, and 'unshackled by any laws or regu lin ions to whi c h they were no t p art i es. J. W. PARIUNS. Guildhall, Sept. 28, 1819. 51111' NEWS. MILFORD HAVEN, SEPT. 26.—Arrived this morning the Auckland packet, with a mail and passenger's from Waterford ; also, lust night, the Antelope Revenue cutter from a cruise, with the Argo, CLEAVER, for St. John's ; Reward, M'CARTHY, from Belfast for the Mediterranean ; and Juno, STEPHENS, from Havre for Liverpool. SEPT. 27.—The Camden packet is expected to arrive hourly with the mail from Waterford, and the Freeling packet sails this even'ng with the mail thereto, immediately upon the arrival here of the coach from London. Sailed upon a cruise the Antelope Admiralty cutter. FALMOUTH, SEPT. 26.—Arrived the Swiftsure packet with mails from the Mediterranean. LIVERPOOI., SEPT. 27.—Arrived the Mentor, OODPN, from New York—sailed the 2d Sept. PoRTSMOUTH, SEPT. 28.—Arrived the Mentor, BULLOCK, from Oporto, and sailed for London. PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 27.—Arrived Ihe Lord Ex mouth, BaaaRTT, from Quebec, in 35 days ; Cornwall, RoatNsosr, fr,tn ditto; and L'Aimable, GROIZARD. from Mimes. HARWICH, SEPT. 28.—A large ship, with loss of anchors and cables, has just run upon the 'mud, supposed to be from the Straits—particulars unknown. 11.YMOUTFI, Monday.—Whether We contem plate the equipment of the Expedition that lately sailed from the Sound in a precautionary or in an operative sense, it equally bespeaks a foresight and firmness in our Naval Administration, the ab‘ sence of which has heretofore beets the cause of disasters that will lung be deeply deplored by the Empire tat large. Hence some conjectures as well on the destination as on the object of this squa dron, which, in the face of those very bold tine , dilations that have been advanced by the London Prints, we are induced to submit with no small share of diffidence. For reasons which have al ready been assigned, there can be little doubt but that it is intended to double Cape Horn, for the purpose of opening the blockade, which has so daringly and so preposterously been enforced by Lord CocnuANe, to the injury of our Merchants and the detriment of our Maritime Trade ; thus offer:l)g too at once, under a Flag unaccredited, of a State unrecognized, an indignity to England, and a gross insult to all Europe. Viewing it prospectively, may it not be meant as a counter poise 16 any force which the Americans (who seldom have the courtesy to give notice of the hostilities they meditate) might be able to dis patch, on the spur of the occasion, to the same quartet ? This idea seems the more reasonable, from the refusal of the Court of Madrid to ratify the Treaty for the Cession of Florida. In the event of a rupture of any sort, we shall have a disposable fleet across the Atlantic, to act in whatever way emergencies may require. Should the United States attempt by conquest what they may have failed in by negociation and intrigue, might it not be advisable, on the part of Great E3titain, to take possession, or at least to occupy the Island of Cuba, if even in trust for Spain, as a measure of policy and self-defence ? But whe ther all, or any of these motives, shall have con duced to the fitting out and departure of the arma ment in question, we feel disposed to attach to it no less interest than importance. Looking at this small Expedition still more remotely, what if it should appear to be . our quota of a combined force that may have beets agreed on in Congress ? Were it even found to be connected with the en actments and provisions of the late Enlistment Bill, a necessity for which was admitted by Par liament, . it would display a degree of vigour and promptitude much wanted at a crisis like the pre sent. By this period the Squadron is probably at Madeira. Our motives, therefore, for forbearing to speak of it no longer exist. FOR THE SUN. MR. EDITOR—The mattly, ingenuous, and pith. lie-spirited Advertisement, in which you have announced your desire of disposing of y‘ ur lent Journal, does honour to your character ; but the continued insertion of that Advettisement is a lamentable proof that you give the Country more credit for DISINTRRESTE.D PATRIOTISM tbAll it appe a rs to deserve.* It might have been ex pec;ed that there would have been an em dation among the several BODIRs whom you enunt,t ate, to secure possession of a Journal leetiodad by the Immortal PITT, a perseverance in whose princi ples has enabled tie present Administration tore. complish the deliverance of Europe, as you have often and justly ass er ted .— l am amazed, Sir, that Al) Administration which has elfeced so glorious a Work should not anxiously endeavour to render its blessings pernianent by coustantly inculcating, in the daily Press, Mersa principles on which they have so nobly and successfully acted. For this purpose, I conceive that no better medium could be chosen than y ()lir consistent, loyal, and patriotic Journal. I restrain my feelings, which other wise would incline me to bestow greater c.,m mendation on the Merits of your Poblic Conduct than, perhaps, your delicacy'would Mellor pm 10 admit ; but I must be permitted to say, that, in my opinion., Ministers will be wanting in a due sense of the general danger, and of a proper re. gard to the interest of the Couutry, if they neglect any Loyal Press at this critical period. It may be doofped whether the present Ministers, among whom it must be acknowledged that their are several men of great talents, and same of consi. derahle experience, could, from their own Powers, have been able to frame that system winch was bequeathed to them, as you say, as a LEGACY to his Country by the great departed Statesman. But it is surely the next degree of political dom to have adopted that system, and, fortified by truth and experience, to have •arri..l it eff-c -wally into practice. They have done so, and the result has been the safety of the Conotry, and a restoration of the Independence of li , oope. The danger, however, has returned upon us with dou ble force from within. ‘Ve ere now men iced with more formidable evils than any that could have attended the hostility of Fiance. Ministers have now to war wills( doctrioti which threaten the subversion of all Let:l6lllitre A (trlliiti:y, and, while innumerable Trai«ns are sending torch every day and every hour, Placards of Treason, Hr fi. , (l that the Opposition N•: - .vspapers also ate actively employed in &frusing the principles of Radical Reform ! ! ! Ministers then will he mad if they toe not as resolute in support or a Loyal Press, as their encodes are to lyropagate their doctrines through the venal columns of The Times, or the not less mlschievoi,s pages of 7he Morning Chronicle. Sir, your Paper ought to he considered as the MORAL, and POLITICAL GAZFTTEt of the Empire. The People, as well as the Government at large, ought to cherish ir, and to render it the favourite medium W' pol Heal instruction and con. stitutional rectitude. Ido not, however, mean to ascribe all the credit to you. Yogi have many very able CorreFpondents, but they would hardly have selected your Paper if they were not convinc• ed of the soundness or its principles. I have watched that Paper front its origin, and ans fully satisfied with is uni:orm consistency. The f a b r i c o f our Gover milent is really in danger. Plots are formed of a deeper and more dangerous kind than Ministers seem to be aware ot„ niece is a confederacy of various factions of a more de. sperate and determined chat acter than erer before aimed at the subversion of the flaws and Consti. tution of the Empire, factions discordant in thel;). selves, and only brought together by a common aim to effect the downfal of our Political Egli blishment in Church and State. Is it possible that Ministers can read the many publication• which daily spring from the polluted sources of Rebellion and Atheism, and not think it necessary to take all possible means for the security of the Realm ? And what means can he more effectual than giving encouragement to all loyal Papers.— There is one thing, Sir, in which 1 totally differ with you. You decline that you thiuk Tint CLERGY might properly become Proprietors of a Public Print. No, Sir, their duties are of a more tweful kind, and it would be improper for them to engage in a Newspaper, because the light, ca. pricious, and corrupt taste of the Public would require such miscellaneous contents es Churchmen ought not to write or to sanction, and a Public Journal don'd not, in these frivolous though pe. rilous times, be founded merely on Morality and. Religion with any prospect of success. But the Clergy might contribute a valuable portion of the daily contents of a Public Journal, as several of your Correspondents ► whom I conceive to be CHURCHMAN, Appear to clo and, indeed, in these times they are called upon to inculcate sound principles in Politics, as well as io Religion, in order to check that torrent of licentiousness which now is so wide in extent, and so strong in its cur• rent. As to the PITT CLUI33, since they seem to confine themselves to periodical banquets, little can be expected from them, and they will find that all the higher Visitors will gradually tall off, unless they distinguish themselves by n►t , asures more effective.f I cannot conclude, Sir, without _ - expressing my opi►►ion, that the continuance or your Advertisement is negatively one of the Signs of the Times, as it scenic to slew that the PUBLIC SPIRIT mu; PATRIOTIC VIRTUE, 10 which you till. p ea l, are on ly t o be tonnd in the professions of ostentatious vanity, selfish artifice, and hackneyed declamation. September i 4. POPLICULA. ' The Proprietor will shortly' withdraw his Advertisement, and, if no public-spirited Body should conic fo, ward, in the mean time, he will dispose of it to one of the Individual• who have offered to purchase the whole Concern. t The Founder of the Ori?tinal PITT CLUB ought to b• exempted from this censure, as his zeal and activity are. con spicuous on all occasions which may involve the interest and Lonour of the Empire. We regret to hear that Mr. CONWAY, the Actor, is in tt state of dangerous illness. He has been compelled to relinquish his engagement at Birmingham, after a long confinement there, ant is now in London under the care of Mr. AIITLItt COnTett.—(Morniag Paper.) OLD BAlLEY.—Yelittrday J :in Cater framer, aged 42, was indicted fur having on the 17th of July. 1815, married Elizabeth Long: his %vile, Elizabeth %Varner, bring at that time alive.—The hecorder summed up the evidence, and the Jury, after a siwit dclitwat;oo, returned a verdict cf—Gialig