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Belgrade: ' ne. After t : Earl 01 T.,Afteft. the Fi/5/. 2s. dis. pat Gb. 75. di s. ibc. 651.4.111 RROW. .s after 319. ch were to the y news. be 204 arrivals ! of this ies Bill, lay, aid' Libels missio o e belief Mini.. alleged sere 11011e 51 ye, will .re (mil S , ••••••• lire e Press Ut thag reetiorn id turn People• en' to mui ill (I train timing vinleii, todable er west welta~~ 'al re Rivals , 4t.—l e mm ity !asUre g indoce be eiv lb, 0 TTOS ' riatJ he re' v e are ncert • hellers did sl .111 e lf irativ g 4 11 wg 1.0 Mk; EDI FOR OF THE SUN. GRAM POUND. Sut-1 must not occupy your columns with a distinct answer to each of my antagonists. While ltplying to them collectively, I wish to confine myself to the single question of Grainpound, and pass over the personafties with which they have invested it. But it not easy to succumb beneath the imputations so liberally dealt out upon me. — One Opponent charges me with calling every per son who differs from my opinions, " knave or fool, Republican or Jacobin ;" another in plain terms calls me " vindictive," and applies my vindictiveness " to the single provocation of holding contrary sentiments to my own.—At the same time I am accused of dealing, myself, in revolutionary phrases. Sir, I little regard the date of my language, whether it be ancient or modern. My object is the repression of that revolutionary danger, which every artifice is now at work to pour in upon our Constitution; and I am perhaps too earliest about the weight of my weapon, to waste time upon its polish. Words may be picked out of my writings which are of revolutionary origin ; but who shall find therein a revolutionary sentiment ? Again and ag a i n , I will call such expressions as " change in " society, advancement in knowledge, increase of property," when coupled with "feelings ex cited by exclusion," a revolutionary jargon ; not because they express a diversity ft om my own opi nion, but because they are precisely that phraseo logy which the French Revolutionists began, and which our Corresponding Societies echoed. But I con►menced not any personal warfare.-- I have not even replied to it. ViNou.x cal! •t 1 me a p►erogati-ve man and a high Tory. Di(' 1 retr , c up.in him the nprllaliolis of Liberty .'.lan an i 10 Whig ?—Heneetorth, 1 ' , ill no longer no• ice th(st imptitations :--but, once for all, reiler tire !it c laration of my principles. lam a Consti twit:rimiest. I recognise no temporal suptent.,:y in any one of the three Estates, but in the con joined power of them all. Perhaps Vlsbex vrill insist, that this is " Hi h 'Fury'' doctrine.-- Whether or not I palliate corruption, let my plainly expressed desire of seein4 every corrupt Voter disftatlchised, be the answer to my ,tc (fusers. And now for GRAMPOUND. It is not fair that sny 'tie of the term " liiirga4e" siiorild still be taken in its limited senF..e, iwit,d of thrt general acceptation, which, for brevity's salit:, I hail ventured to it in. Thus ex tendedly used, all kinds of electoral right in a _Borough are Burgage ; and thus I use it in the 1 . /nine:tier case before us. GRAM-FOUND; I Wag Well aware, possesses two classes of voters; toe Corpuratori„ and °he Inhabitants paying scot and lot. And, thoo4h the latt:tr class is referable to that species of f lectoral right, called " pop,ll:ir," I most consider property anti not rpulation to be the main object .tt the electoral right, its tcst, and its qualification. Stoat! as the rest of property now is as to free holders, continued upon the eyelet) , awl dispro portionate scale.of the Sixth 1111NRY'S Stdttlte. it forms the qualification at County Electors. The reduced value of money has almost, I confess, rendered it a test of population ; utiles* we refer it to the intention of our Ancestors,- whose wisdom €n „ tr d t h e qualification of tarty shillings, dS we should at this day enact a qualification of twenty pounds. The present discussion, however, is with Boroughs • With ali imaginable respect for my antagonist, PemnesToN, I must take leave to say, that the estabistied definition of "scot and lot" is, pay. urto the parochial taxes. And in the liberal sense which I had stipulated for my use of the word " burgage-hOlding," 1 Cannot find the in. consistency of statitig 4 ‘ scot and lot," t o b e one of its tests in Grampound; as the corporate capa city is another. PEMBERTON is needlessly tri ;MOW. in his exposure of a contradiction which be has invented for me. But the heaviest charge is—that I have wholly passed over (in perfect ignorance of course)'the rights popular of commonalty, of populaey, and of that exquisite, term, pottvaliers.—Arnang the several definitions which have been established of these titles in sever4l places, it is not easy, per haps, to / .separate them one from the other ; but, unluckily., they are all invested, or onerated, with a species of properly test, rather inconve nient with the mete test of population. Surely it will nil tie asserted, that the payment of pa rochial taxes, which originate from-land or some erection upon land, is a right of population, though it may be a right popular. I t may be per• sonar, quoad the payer ; but it it substantial, 9noad the cause of its payment. And the Legis lature (26 G. 3. c. 100.) has provided against the mere popular rights of personal voters, by- re from them a six months' residence in the place for which the Election is held, before they can vote. _ If then, a vote, qualified by residence in the Borough, as well as by an electing right therein, be not something more than a personal light ; ilk does .not depend on the place where such residence is held, and therefore upon an -edifice on land ;• I am at some loss to know,the object of the Legislature . or .the effect of the Statute. .01 the two classes of electors in GRAM.. POUND, one is corporate.— 1 will suppose ;hat every member of the corporation. has voted cot.- tilittly.- Let Leery member be disfranchised : let Lim be incapable of ever voting in any right and in any place. Bat the right of the corpora tion is inextinguishable—always - excepting the power of l'arliament.—Let new members he ap pointed ; and let the electing right he in them. The other class of electors in Grampound is scot and lot. I will suppose that they too have 0.7 voted corruptly. Let them be also disfranchised and incapacited :—bur let their rights discend on the next successors to that land or edit i7e ou land whereom their liability to parochial taxes issues. Should the extreme case happen, that all their possessions are chattels only, extinguish them altogether, and leave the light ot election in the honest remnant of the old or the hottest successors into the nett/ corporation. But do not extinguish the Borough. I trust, Sir, that I have in some degree cleared myself from the charges of ignorance and perver sion so courteously brought against me ; and that I have shewn, while the great preponder ance of our representat:on is on the side ot Pro perty, the remnant which leans toward Popula tion to be conditioned either by a possession of land or residence, or at least by a residence upon the land, Anti property having the greatest stake in the Empire, may, most safely, be entrusted with its protection.—Against external enemies, we must arm its.population : should that become its inter nal foe, tr the property we must look for wise and vigorous laws.—Had the mere population a right of electing Representatives—had Universal Suffrage gear fled ti.e influence ut the extensive landholder %Orb that of the hedger and ditcher, we should snot) nave seen his :_roperty lercl.ed also.—A mere popular Parliapiunt wmild ne , er have nasstd those Laws, which have now Larpily mitzzled sedition and tinf,inged Tl , ..ret'ore 1 ana glad that England still preserves so MOM) nt i!er ‘• feudal" res ! to property, as bath hitherto maintained het a - ,trl and chivalrous entincuce.—But I not, therefore, to be ac cused rev,' e, ing . r,dal " tyranny ;" as of your Correspoudet, in his modtrii politeness, climes to ;arraign me. Indulge tat', Sir, in a moment's adyerence to the suggestion of yobt Correspande•it, " I N - Q.UIRkR." 13v idedly as 1 would re3ist hery. I would wt , ! , no: l ess puniAr the !Ift:l, - .c of occ(isionatity. Knowing no,t.i.ig show I.)•ie'lani, o= its great Lindltolders, I can only ipivise him ft) romm , ,u!ea !hi% very s , ortioialons transgres sion to Mr. LADIBTON. f) will, tn . COUrSe, as a zcalotis hitn , , , if to detect and punish !;c• ATentiet.,. Thf= I) .rhat' Representa tive is the fittest guardimi of the Durham TENAX. eserv e %OJO S° is li t4P iiitic t/ 1 long 000 us i i ' at ilici 0 ,01 Royl'i Horse t 0 at' It 11101 :at If' if)l ier , ,''' n C e9° l jUt Ct. P re' ICS` i° , SO'. nc~ 31dI l ;c till CAUSEti OF DI!;'I'RESS, Superabundance of p:lpulittion is the cauce of nor distress— If r ,, t1;, -, •ha711, Thcai7_oatimi of e the ems of ourfFst re ss-I?ietwirlo. Tilxation :A the e.,use of our dkti - e,s •-rVailz uran . 13oruugh-000ge, - ing i< the cane of Want of tti.- cluse ourdistre,i—Tierney, be currency Is the I.t 0,11 . 111,11,,5—...11,..,,A1- . Tea is thc of our dig'' sc_c o m e , i . i•.l,ine coffee is the callso , if our dist4 - ess—Hunt. Poverty 's the cause of our di-Ire- i—.'Matson. Roy At. duNT.— On Fri:lay the 'loyal bounds turned Our t ye! y fiut• deer. tot a d.ty's diversion, at Lo7)glitv!, tvhieh showed great spurt. At starting. li,-. procee,:ed tbroogh the enclosures by Horton, t4kiug to t; , e tigh! by slouch, where he ray with great stri! . :t!ess by Salt-bill, taking to mr,•,ls the Thames ; i,e wac at length ta ken near E,ot; ,stet a sharp and exeelienT run. One of snorlsmen 11411 his horse drop trom un der hint m.-uininv„ hitt , Eton CURIOUS FOOT RACE.--A singular match WAS made at a ci4,.e.lionse in Piccadilly on Monday, at au hour when the'spa , liiing glasses were circu lating, between four Getirle:nen of the names of Wright, Todd, Wilmot, and Hutchinson, to run five miles, a kind of ‘weepstakes race, each de posting ten guineas, play or p y ; to meet on the Edgware-road at a decal) hoot-. iVright Cll. k aged to give ikITO hundred yards to Todd, a quarter of a mile to Wilmot, and half a mile to Hurebinson. They all me: 411 . 0 hink their sta tions, and a gun was the signal for starti ng , There was nearly an equally in heir romping tor the first tut(' miles, with the exception that Wil mot was up with the ball mile man ; and on Todd catching him at the two miles .nil a half, he re• signed. The other - three were together at the four miles, and it was a fine rare ; I-odd was heat half a mile from home, and Wright and Wilmot contested it very spiritedly hi. Wilmot won it cleverly in the last epiArter of 'a mile, by about 90 yards., Wright was hacked at eve', to win, and although it was meant to he a secret, the ground was crowded • The . winner, who is an Officer in the army, did his ground in 29 minutes. CHILD DROPPING.---Last Sunday, in French. alley, ctoswell-street, as'the watchman was go, ing his rounds, .calling the hour of one o'clock, he discovered p male infant, apparently.ne;vly born, lying in a corner, entirely naked, with the excep'. Ilya of a few old rags.which were round jts head. He took np the little innocent, which was nearly frozen, wrapped it in his Brea; coat, and carried it to the workti,use, where it is likely to do well.' Suspicion fell on a woman of the name of son, who was supposcd to be pregnant, and who was seen lurking near the place where the child was found. She was taken into custody by the parish officers of St. Lae's,' at her lodgings in Hatfield -street, confined to her bed' after 'her ly ing-in, 'which, from her own and the 'midwife's az . k nowledgment, was only an hour before she ex posed the child. She was removed to the -work house, .where she is to remain until she is able to be brought before a Magistrate for examination. Mr. KisAN performed Richard the Third, at the Bath Theatre on Monday evening, to a crowded house, • Mrs. M‘GteitoN, whose amiable conduct in private life is only -equalled by her professional abilities, is engaged, for the next season, at Drury Lane Theatre,—(Morning Herald') Last week , as a child about four years old, be longing to Mr. Buckland, of the Sutton Valence school, was sitting by the fire, its clo►hes caught, mid burnt the child so much as to cause its death. In the night of Monday sennight, the shop of Mr. Brissenden, shoemaker, at I.Jpstreet, was robbed of three pair of boot-shoes, by forcing up a part of the thatch of the REGISTER OF FASHION. THE DUKE AND DucnEss‘ OF KENT, - Tie Duke and Duchess of KENT, with the Duchess's Daughter, paid a visit on Monday !Ist to the Bishop of SA LISBU ,at his Lordship's Palace, in that City. The Corporation waitrd on them on the following clay, presenting a Loyal Address to his Royal Highness, and the freedom of the City. The Duke returned a vet s• handsome complimentary a S Wel% The Royal Pair remained with the Bishop till Thor-sday,aftcr having experienced a most gratifying, reception, and proceeded to Sid mout h . The Infant did not depart till the following clay. Sinmaunr, DEC. 26. Friday morning the atmosphere was clear, and we were in hopes of receiving oar Royal Visitors in the face of the glorious sun, but the wind go mg back suddenly to the S. W., eleven o'clock bron,dit its rain and sleet again. About one, Captain CONROY arrived io a carriage and lour, and announced the approach of their Royal High nesses, The Duke and Duchesi Of KENT soon. appeared, when, in defiance of foul weather, the streets were thronged, and loud and reiterated huzzas rent the air. Their Royal Highnesses ap peered' much gratified with their reception, and in the most condescending manner bowed to all as they passed. Part of the'Salcombe and Sidmouth troop of Devonshire Yeomanry, commanded by C4pt..Cornish, met their Rov,-,1 Highnesses at Cot ford House, the resideue7 of Joseph Jenkins, Esq. and had the distinguished honour - of escorting the Royal Party into Sidmouth. CHttlio! if) the beach, the whole cortege made a beantill r.ppear , ance ; and, passing the Royal Marine Libr,ry, the Union flag was hoisted, and the bells struck out a merry peal. A band of music, stationed at the wv,t-end of the walk, played God Save the King, he Royal Pair passed. The weather continued , ravourable the whole day At night, however, irrthing could prevent an attempt at illumination. Some very neat em blematical devices were pre pared, but the rain, and wind from the sea, put out thr lights as last as they were kindled. Mks Wrighte' s well-sheltered cottage blazed wi,h light; the whole front dazzling with coloured lamps : _whilst fire-works shot their radiance tar into the surrounding clouds. Belmont House, the residence of sir Joseph Scott, Bart. and some others, were al s o well lighted ; and the inhabitants of all ranks telt proud and happy at seeing among them a son of their venerable King and his Royal and amiable -;,onse. The Duke and Duchess are walking about to-day, unattended, and as notch at their ease as any private Lady and Cointleman.— (Western Luminary ) FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS. The Duke of Wellington, at Apsley Hons'e. from Strati fieildsay ; the Earl of Westmeath-, in Boiton-strcet, from his seat in Ireland ; Lord and Lady Castlereagh, from the Duke of Wellington's seat, StratlificiLtsay, Hants; the Dowa,zer Duchess of Rutland, at Belvoir Castle, from Leicestershire; Maior Strafford, who commanded the Troops at Manchi.stt r on the lath August, at the Pulteney Hotel, Piccadilly ; Mr. Bramsen, in Dover-street, Piccadilly, from Italy. DEPARTURES. The Earl and Crumtcss of Pembroke and family, to their seat, Wilton House . , Wilts; Lords Robert and Charles Man ners, to the Duke of itutland's seat, Belcoir Castle; Jerrard Callaizhati, Esq. Ni.P. from Warren's Hotel, to Ireland ; Ge neral Sir Wm. Houston, Bart. to his seat. in Sussex; Lord and Lady Grenville, to their seat, Dropinore ; Lord Bray brook, to his seat, Andley End, Essex; Sir George Nugent, Bart, to his seat in Beats. CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES. The Duke of Gloucester proceeds this day to join a convivial party assembled at Ashridge Castle, the magnifi cent seat of the Earl of Bridgewater, at Hemel Hempstead, in Hertfordshire, where are already assembled a numerous circle to meet his Royal Highness. At no place in the kingdom does real Old English hospi tality prevail more than at Belvoir Castle, the noble seat of the Rutland family. Lord Grosvenor keeps open house at his superb seat is Cheshire Mrs, Fitzherhert and Miss Seymour were to entertain 'a grand circle on Christmas Day, at their Hotel in Paris. Open house is kept at Bagley Hall, the fine seat of the Mar loess and Marchioness of Hertford. Doddington Castle, the noble seat of the Codrington Fa is, as usual, very gay at this season of the year. The most princely munificence prevails in every department. Old ';cottish hospitality prevails in a more than ordinary degree among the tenantry oF the Noble Earl of Breadalhane. William W. lecher, Esq M.P. and his accomplished Bride (late Miss O'Neill), 'are, we understand, to spend the Holi days at Co.tvamore, the seat of Ihe Hon. Richard Hare, M.P. —(Cork Paper.) Turt THeivres—The new • Tragedy of Mary Queen of Scotland, Which it was thought had been consigned to the Ellett', was brought forward again last night, at Covent-Garden Theatre, with such curtailments as much contracted the, period of representation; and so far tended to increase Clue interest of the piece. The part of Mary was last night assigned to Miss FOOTE, instead of Miss MACAULE Y. There was • a call- for the latter at the commencement of the Play, but it died off, and the performance proceeded.— The part of Mary, as , we before . said, was injudiciously allotted to Miss. ,MACAULEY, in the first instance, as it does not afford scope for the energy of her powers. Equally injudici ous was the subsequent assignment of the part of Jane Shore to the same actress, who is so melcli better fitted for that of Alicia. Whether Miss M ACAUL EY is still connected with this Theatre we know not; but we are sure that when her talents arc propeily exercised she might be found a valuable addition to the Lonthin Stage. Miss FOOTB is an interesting young Actress, and plaintive characters in Co medy will find in her a very pleasing representative; but the Tragic Drama is not exactly suited to her powers or her habits. She, however, acquitted herself in such a manner to excite much applause, and her person is certainly well fitted to represent the celebrated Queen of the North; whose beauty, as well as misfortunes, will render her always in teresting to posterity. The rest of the play was much indebted to the exertions of C. KIMBLE, M'CREADY, and Mitt. BUNN, but the piece notwithstanding '' dragg'd its slow length along," and will perhaps soon drop into the dark ness of oblivion. SHIP NEWS. DnVER, DEC. 2 . —Captain GEORGE trims, of the brig Breadalbane, of Lancaster, and JOHN SAUL, her carpenter, landed ibis evening from the b i rig Garland, of Sunderland, Captain PuBERT 081 NSON, by whom they were picked up in the Western Ocean on the ith inseam.. The Brea ddlbane was from North Arncrica to Lancas ter, laden with timber ; and on the 30'5 No being in tat, 48. 8 lotig. 2S. 4. tl:cy encountered a dismal gale at W.S.W. ateoded with heavy sea, which threw the vessel on her beam-ends, but on cutting away her mainmast, she righted, when a tremendous sea taking her abaft, completely sxept the deck of every tLic,y; but the bits, windlass, and cat stand, and s,>olt•af terxards several planks of the deck anti the India hatchway blew up, end her stern-post became loosened. The sca then making a complete - breach over her, they were obliged to take to the tore-top, where they vernal cd until the 7th inst. without food, not having been ahie to save a single ounce of provisions —for. innately they secured two casks of w.t er, which no doubt preserved the lives of the Survivors. On the 7th they descried a sail, to which they made a signal by hoisting a blanket, and had the satisfaction of seeing that it was per ceived, but soon afterwards a thick fog came on, and they lost sight of her for three hours ; on its clearing away they sga;n got sight of her, but lost her again in a fog for an hour and an half ; and this second disappointment be. reaved them of all hope—fortunately it again cleared away, and the friendly sail. was still seen standing towards them, and shorly af terwards reached them, and took from the wreck all the survivors, consisting of the Captain, carpenter, and five seamen, all of whom were in a complete state of exhaustion. Seven of the crew, and the only passenger on hoard, had sunk under fatigue- and privation before the brig came to their assistance. They were completely worn out, and (lied without pain and without a struggle. The Captain had his brother- in-law between his knees, endeavouring to rouse him from Slumbering, as be thought, but r o und he had resigned his last breath. The survivors speak in the highest terms of the kindness of Captain flositcsoN, euhose vessel was the only one that came in sight during the whole seven days they were on the wreck. MARGATE, DEC. 29.—The Netherlands brig of %I' Fir (2,ssock, Cuplain HEYE, Iraqi Surinam, was seer at (isy-light this morning on shore on Mar. gate Sand ; the Officers and crew have With dif ficulty been taken off the wreck, and landeg! here, without being able to save any thing from lite vessel, which is now on her beam-ends, with her main-mast gone. HARWICH, PBC. 29 —Arrived the Lady Ne-i pean, Lord Duncan, and Henry Freeling wtckets, from Cuxhaven, and Thetis ditto from Gotten burgh, all with mails. Ilitien the last pack-ts left Cuxhaven the ice was clear, and a number of pilots went down from Hamburgh to take charge of vessels waiting for the ice to clear. PORTSMOUTH, DEC 29.—Sailed the Thomas Contts, Majoribanks, for China ; Bulmer, Bar. clay, for Calcutta ; John, Popplewell, and Fai►h, Church, for Madeira ; Abeuna, Catniek, lo► De merara IVoodla►k, Middleton, for the Mediter. ranean ; anti Isabella, Friend, for Demerara. DEAL, Dac.,29.—Carne down from the River, and stilled, the Ebrick, McLean, and Adriatic, Rutter, for Rio Janeiro ; Intrinsic, for Jamaica ; Maids, Tregear, for Sierra Leone ; and Blentien Hall, Greig, for Bombay. CUSTOM ,, ' LIST. Entered Inwards, December 29.—Trusty, Weller, Hon duras ; Earl of Clancarty, Gibbs, Rotterdam ; Sylph, Milne, Xavia ; Ann Maria, —, Messin.. ; Hope, Ferris, Cork; Henry, Fox, Marsala; Duke of Kent, Pound, Rotterdam; Eliza, Hoare, Waterford; Juno, Thurow, Pillaw; Neptune, Hogg, Belfast ; Camillus, Dye, Quebec ; Egtcn, 'vine ; Ann Packet, —, Antwerp; Nantilus, Andrews, St. ; Marshal Blocher, —, Rotterdam ; Nautilus, Pewtess, St. John's; Estafattee, Wilson, Dantzie; Henry, Le Beau, Dunkirk ; Elizabeth, Godfrey, Cadiz ; Elizabeth, Rogers, Xtitwerp . ; Heram, Watt ? Alicant. Entered Outwards, December 29.—Hero, Mullen, Cork Duke of Mlrlborough, —, Cape of Good Hope ; Two Sia tees, Dyer, Leghorn ; Alexander, Davis, Jamaica; Mary, Gray, Jamaica; Nieminie, —, Rouen ; Louisa, Fowler, Leghorn. ()feared Outwards, Decemser 29.—Dispatch, Buifield, Gijon. - • WINDSOR, DEC. 28.—0 n Friday the puke of YORK arrived at the Castle, from London : in the afternoon of that day his Royal Highness went to Oatlands to dinner. The Princesses Augusta. Sophia take daily 'airings, riding or walking. Oa Sunday Prince Leopold arrived.at the Castle, frol% Claremont, on a visit to the Princesses his Royal Highness remained till Monday. SINGULAR ROBBERY.-Yesterday morning a , Jew went down the arca of the hone of ici r . Garthshore, in Gloucester-place; on goi ng into the ball, and not perceiving any of the ser, vants about, he took the opportunity of putting several articles of livery doodling belonging tothe footman into hiS bag, and was making his way up the steps again, when he w as , met by the cold). man, who seeing the lireries through a hole in the bag, inquired what he was going to do with them. Moses replied, " I am going to have dent cleaned." " Hare you no orders to get mine cleaned too? " said the coachman. " No," re joined the Jew, " hut I 011 take dem If you likes." . He P ccordingl y accompanied Jehu to the stables, where he received a coat, waistoat, and siirtoto, 'at,d baying promised they should be " nivey done," went p way. The liveries thus stolen were worth between twenty and thirty pounds. ... l