The Sun. — London, England, 1819-04-08 00:00:00

FOR 'I HE SUN. PETERBOIIOI - GTI JusTicc. MR. EDlTOR—Aboetice from town has given to my answer a Semblance of delay, whereon • Atreus may plume himself as an homage to his in , :enuity ; though against such an adversary I La.., little other eff , rr to 'make than the manual t ron hie of ‘criting. Amtcus should 'lmre put liimstif to the supererogAtion of refuting an opponent, already—according to him—" refuted" by \lr. ATKINSON, I really cannot assume to vonjectore especially, when I stand convicted of tart knowing all the worth and merits of all the Clergymen and Lawyers who reside in all the tonutry towns throughout England. Unless Arum's shall adduce something ne*er than repetition, I leave the field to himself. My battle is with Eagles, not with Cuckoos. But i► is rather too much, I think, to be questioned for the assertion—that " the Judges hear anr. deter tnine"—and to be told that the Jury ave ab sorbed the function with which they are invested by their commission of Oyer and Terminer. No thing, however, is so difficult to answer as igno rance ; and Amtcvs has a marvellous talent at putting difficulties in his antagonist's way. Must I once more inquire—of what use is the Sovereign's discretional power of mercy—of what use comparatively—as to Country Criminals ; when it has not such opportunities of exercise as in London ?-4 take the point, however, on Amtcos's own showing ;—though the personal prerogatives of the Sovereign ought, I will con tend, to be personally exercised--that the Judge. " unfit to be entrusted with the administration " of mercy, ought not to be placed in so sublime a seat of justice." For this sweeping exclu sion of the Peterborough Magistrates, who may execute but cannot pardon, I refer their worships to the advocate, who knows as little of their cause as he describes himself to know of their county. For ate, while contending that no subject ought to lose iris life by a, judicial act, without the con sideration and sanction of the Sovereign, if I thiiik the discretionary power of life or death too much for the Judges of Assize, I may well he permitted to think the non-discretionary power of death alone too much for the Justices of Session. , Yet this rail) adversary insists that I make no ` distinction between them !—This rash adversary, who counts me not only "malignant" and " mis chievous," but a " modern reformer." Alas— bow little loth A mtetis know of me ! I am weary—very weary—of thus arguing in a circle.—l wish that AMICUS would move a little forward. Certainly, Bishops sit in Parliament because they are Bishops ; yet, without the temporal baronies attached to their sees, the episcopal function alone would not entitle them even to the infra-judicial seat which they oc cupy in the House of Lords. As cerainly, the Chairman of Peterborough does not send cow stealers to the gallows because he is a Clergyman ; neither does he Nas their sentence in his band and surplice. Bat, I repeat, upon the same prin ciple, he ought not to pass such a sentence at all. The words of temporal death and of eternal life ought not to issue from the same lips. The Am bassador of GOD'S mercy ought not to be the executioner of man's justice. There is in his piofession—l talk not about his vestments—an c‘ exclusive sanctity," which should keep him holy front blood. .• Yet AMICUS still insists that a Bi shop ought not to sit on capital trials in the House of Peers, because he wears there his lawn sleeves ; and that a Vicar ought to sit on capital trials in the •Spke of Peterborough, because he does not wear there his cassock. If this be not a " superstitious" veneration of forms and disre gard of essentials, I must indeed be chidden back to "Johnson's Dictionary." And now, as Amicus was never at Peterbo rough, nor .even in Northamptonshire, I will en lighten him with a piece of local 'history. Abont 16 years ago, a. man of .weak intellect— and, by the bye, en old servant of his friend Mr. ATElNsoN—waa tried before the Justices of Pe terborough for stealing a cow. The proverbial imbecility of this wretch, whose name was THOMAS PEIDGEN, had gained him the soubrignet Of WOODEN TOM. Well, WooDEN TOM WKS tried at the Sake Sessions, anti convicted : the sen te7ice of death was passed upon him—by a Cler gyman; and he was HANGED. According to the custom of Peterborough, the execution of his sentence was discussed at—Amtcys has not topo graphy enough to tell me the sign —and, as no aptdication was there resolved on to the Sove reign, poor WOOOBN Tom was in due time exe cured—Rege Inconsulte—the Sovereign knowing nothing of his fate. If lam wrong, his master, Mr. ATKlNsoN—who, I believe, was Clerk of the Peace at the time—will set me right ; and I shall be very grateful for his relieving, not merely the Reverend Justices of Peterborough from so pain - ful a statemen - , but my readers and myself from the distress of thinking that such things can be. I could increase the strength of this practical il. lustration of my argument, by adding, that WOODEN Tom was Si) peculiarly ligneous, as to require some instiilat ion into his head by a friend ly byestander, cancer lug what they were about with him. 'you are too be hanged, Tout.— Eh replies the poor convict. You are to be banged by the neck, Tot, till you are dead.— And so he was—to the titter horror of the whole t►twn. Whether I►is widow and his many orphans kewild not have preferred his being tried in Lon don, where his cave 7/11/3t have been laid before the Smereigli—let AMicus answer. ant not sure that the Peterborough Justices desire to retain this sad privilege, They have been known to send capital cases to the Northamp tonshire Assizes, which the Judges have refused to try, and remitted to the jurisdiction of the yoke. Their Clergymen, however, can always abstain from the magistraticat office—Amicus must still allow me the word—and possibly, they will now remember themselves of their sacred function, and henceforward pronounte no other tidings than GOD'S mercy. April 3, 5819. JUSTUS. riticE OF STOCKS TEIII3 DAY AT VALLVE o CLOCK. Bank Stock 253 k 234 3 per Cent. Red. 74 3 per Cent. Cons .743; 4 per Cents 9243 8 per Cent. Navy Ann. 105 i i Bank Long Ann. 19 7-16ths I India Bonds, 38s. 395. pr. Exch. Bills, 2d. .... 3s. 4s. pr. Cons. for Account... .... MAILS. Meatvzu-4 Otternsey find Jersey, 2 Hamburg+, i France. Due—l Dublin, 2 Waterford, 1 Sweden. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning, 14 minutes alter I. I Eveuirg, 39 miwutes after I. TILE SUN. SOLEM QUIs DICERS FALSUM AUDEAT LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1819. We received this morning the Paris Papers'of Monday last. The following are extracts : " PARIS, APRIL s.—Yesterday after mass the King received the Princes, the Duchess d'An gouleme, the Ministers, Peers, Marshals, Civil and Military Functionaries, &c. His Majesty afterwards transacted business with the Minister of Justice. " Lord Whitworth and the Duchess of Dorset are expected at Paris this day. " The Queen of Sweden, under the designation of Countess de Villeneuve, arrived at Toulon the 25th ult. After staying a few days, her Majesty was to proceed incognito to Nice. " The Duke de Richelieu arriv ed a t Toulon the 26th ult. The Duke, it is said, intends to pro ceed to Switzerland by the way of Piedmont. "In a field near the little town of Sottevart, Arrondissement of Valognes, Department of la Manche, a tanner recently discovered in digging, a copper vase containing a great number of Ro man gold and silver coins with the effigies of the Emperors. The vase had a great quantity of dust in it, but the coins are in good preser- vatinn. " CARLSRUHR, MARCH 30.--The two Houses of Hesse are said to have at !coot) acc?cled to the military arrangenietit agreed upon at Frankfort. " ANTWERP, MARCH 3l.—We learn that a great commercial house at Amsterdam has failed, and that the Chief of another house, much en gaged in speculations in the funds, has been com mitted to prison for incorrectness in his commer cial accounts. Commerce in general at Amster dam is in a state of stagnation, and the Funds falling. " NURSMSERG, Ithaca 29.—The negociations which had for some time been proceeding at Con stantinople between the Porte and the Legations of Naples, Sp3in, and Denmark, respecting the arrangement of a tariff of Customs, have been terminated. The Court of Naples obtains a tariff, established on the basis of that subsisting with France. The tariff for Spain' and Denmark is arranged on the principles of that adopted between the Porte and Austria." DOTER, APRIL 7, Fire, p. tn.—His Excellency General LATOUR MALIBOURG, the French Am bassador, and suite, has just landed from the French packet ; he was saluted from the guns on the Heights, and received by a guard of ho nour. His Excellency appears to be in very good health. M. FRANCIS DE THIERRY, who sailed from Dover on Monday, arrived at Calais the same evening, with dispatches from Count PAL PAELLA. to the Marquess of MARIALVA, and set off for Paris. Arrived the Lark, from Boulogne, and the Chichester Packet, C. RUTTCR, with dis patches., and several passengers, The proposed adiournment of both Houses of Parliament for the Holidays did not take place yesterday, in consequence of the Lords not having given the necessary notice for the suspension of their Standing Orders, with a view to the passing of the Bi l for restraining the Bank of Ireland trom paying its Notes is cash under 201., which went through all its stages-in the House of Com- Mons on the preceding evening. These Standing Orders cannot upon the principle of forrn be sus-, fended until this afternoon ; in consequence of which the Bill could only pass its first stage yes terhlay. This evening its remaining stages will be gone through ; after which the Bill will recci've the Royal Assent, and both Houses will adjourn for the Holidays. The people at large cannot but be struck with the extraordinary modesty of Mr. BROUGHAM, who, though he was not a Member of the Committee on the Bank Restriction; and though the Bill framed in consequence of their enquiry was ap proved by ocher Members of his own Political Band (we dare not say Party, or use a still harsher term), continued till the last a resolute opponent of a measure deemed absolutely,essen- tial for the retention of Gold Currency in the Empire. The Marquess of LANSDOWNS gave his decided approbation of the measure, and the Earl of LAUDERDALII approved of it, under certain qualifications; but though neither of those Noblensen could communicate the proceedings of the Committee to him, yet he ought, we con ceive, to have shewn more confidence in their judg ment and their regard for the welfare of the Coun try, than to suppose that they would have given their sanction to any measure, not deemed abso- rely necessary. But Mr. BROUGHAM appears to have more reliance upon the judgment and the knowledge of one favourite individual, than upon the whole of his Party, or, perhaps, the collective wisdom► of mankind and we believe that few who have observed the public conduct, and attended to the political character of this Gentleman, will be under the least difficulty in discovering the person in whom he so confidently reposes and so implicitly depends upon all occasions. POPERY..--The Sligo Protestant Meeting, on the 26• h ult., consisting of the most respectable cha racters in the County,among other salutary Resolu tions,has the following :--" We feel it our bounden duty again to come forward and emphatically to declare it to be our firm belief and deep convic tion—that if the Constitution, as settled at the Revolution of 1688 (freed as it now is from all penal enactments) shall be unsettled; and that the political power in this Protestant State shall, in opposition to the most fundamental principles of that great constitutional settlement, be extended to persons adhering to the Church of Rome—the im mediate consequence in Ireland must be to esta blish a Roman Catholic Ascendancy, which, gra dually proceeding to a Domination, through mul tiplied confusions and miseries, will filially subvert the Establishment of the Church of England in this cart of the United Kingdom, and shake to the foundation its Ituperial connection."—The Dublin Evening Post says of these Resolutions, that " they call for no particular observations." Not indeed in that Paper, which seems to have devoted itself to the cause of POPERY ; but they are heartily approved of by all loyal and wise peo ple throughout the United Empire. Yesterday The Earl of Llvßtiroot and Count MUNSTER had audiences of the PRINCE REGENT. The Duchess of GLOUCESTER visited the PRINCE REGENT yesterday at Carlton-house.' Tu , sday afternoon the Duke of YORK left town for Windsor. ..•. •• ..... The infant son of the Duke of CAMBRIDGB ranks high in the Irish Peerage. He is Earl of TIPPERARY, that being the second title of his Royal Father. The !lord Sovereign Yacht ordered to sail immediately for Calais, in order to receive his Royal Highness Prince LEOPOLD, DOW on his return to England. Sir WALTER FARQUHAR, whose remains were interred a few days since, had completed the same age as his present MAJESTY, being born on the same day. KEAN was to appear in Richard on Monday last, at the Edinburgh Theatre. Considering his late unfortunate Letter, we hope that " RICHARD'S himself again." Sir EVERARD HOME, we understand, possesses the Ournng Outong which so long rendered Exe ter 'Change the high 'Change of public curiosity. Its cranium and formation - are reserved for future inspection, and the body is to be deposited in Surpeuns' College. THE LATE G. ilitmow.—The following cir• cnmstance is related of the late Mr. HARLOW:— . Walling with his mother once in Piccadilly, she pointed out to him, knocking at the Duke of Devonshire's gale, Mr. Hare, the well-known associate of his Grace, of Mr. Fox, and other celebrated persons, and a Gentleman of whom she had often spoken as having been an intimate friend of his father and family. No further attention was paid to the matter at the time, but Mr. Hare dying shortly after, it became a sub ject of deep regret to the Duchess of Devonshire and others, that no likeness had been taken, to preserve the memory of on , so much valued. This, by accident, reached the ear of IlraloW, who told his mother, that be thought he could exe cute a pm-trait of Mr. Hare from recollection. He accordingly set about it, and, with very slight assistance, produced a pic ture which was universally acknowledged to he an admirable likeness. This extraordinary faculty never left the Arti , t, and he could almost invariably retrace front ructuory such portraits as lie had bratcrly ouyied." SHIP NEWS. DEAL, APRIL 7.—Came clown fro.n the River' anti remains, the Briton, BRODIE, for BotnbaY• LIVERPOOL, APRIL 6 t.e Bombs) ? Castle for Bombay ; and Asia, Srooa, fo r , . Batt:3U. PENZANCE, APRIL s.—Arrived the Colling wood, SAUNDERS, from London, and some other' , and remain wind7bonnd. CUSTOMS, LIST. Entered Inwards, April 7.—Johanna-Lauisc, Guntersokop Stettin ; Ambler, Cullen, Harlingen ; Brilliant, Robson, do.; Rebecca, Pritchard, Jamaica; Drie Gebroeders, Sneyder, Antwerp ; Zaanstroom, Muntendain, do.; Harmony. lie si° P l Terra Nova; Hunter, Salmon, Newfoundland; De Jersey? Duval, Messina ; Shannon, Jolly, Genoa. Entered Outwards, April 7.—Tboraley, Cadenhead , H am lifax ; William Miles, Beadle, Madeira; _ Matilda, Catn in g 9 Lisbon ; Cordelia, Urquhart, Messina; Angerstein, Thotor son, Venice; Agno, Park, Bremen; RaMbler, Parker, 1 43 ' 1 ' burgh ; Britannia, Jackson, do.; Hero, Davies, Gibraltar' Isabella, M'Neal, Charleston ; Agenoria, Postgate, T°' l°ll3 William Manning, Smith, St. Christopher's; Wilhellulaas Loets, Antwerp ; Jeane, Dail, Teneriffe ; Scipio, Heriders°4 Prince Edward's Island ; Thetis, Reed, Hamburgli. Cleared Outwards, April 7Limlsays, Turner, K erb . Neils's, Hutchinson, Hamburgh ; Atlantic, Pain, do. i D ist* March, do.; Segar, Bergin, Jamaica; Clyde, Trundler Mi. tigua; Richard, Noble, Dominica; Consul,S:cott, Bou rde l i r, Dwina, Harrison, Riga; Union, Trott, Cadiz ; Su rreY ' barn, Fort George ; Margaret, Wildgoose, Prince V`va Island; Lima, Knox, Quebec; Sally, Johnson, do.; Pritl Braithwaite, Miramichi; Pomona, Richinond,Sediac; Ip s Gordon, Greenland Fishery; Experiment, Prover, do.; lant, Hays, do.; Minerva, Frankland, St. John's Christiana, Fotheringham, Riga. COMMERCE WITH AMERICA. Letters have been received from Lima, of ; z n " . middle of November, which mention, that 1,4-44( the Port of Callao had been, by cotillions... the Viceroy, opened to British vessels ar°l their cargoes,. be had issued express dire cti r that the remaining . Spanish force in the ►ll cific should be employed to pursue sod csP".l", alt vessels of any nation whatever, which, arms or ammunition, should attempt to enter!' of the ports on that Continent, which were o state of insurrection. The immediat e objec t . 4 this new order is, it is said, to pro mote th e ~„ vancement of the commerce of Peru, solidate more and more the intimate relationse isting with the Brigish nation. i f be The following duties had been imposed 0 exportation of territorial produce from lihrl a db x On silver coin, 114 per cent. royal d u ty' ° Ole:* per cent. municipal duty; on gold coin , ; • Jpai cent, royal duty, and 21 per cent. ionic and on produce in general, 3 per cet 3t ' • t h t tbe . The Governor bad given notice , --a jog resolutions should not be approved of by 'he t , of Spain, as soon as be should receive the I ‘l lo and to ca r prohibitory order, it would be published for information of those concerned, to whom w °l3 he granted a term of four months to Convey selves out of Peru to any place they might tbi convenient. A great number of the inhabita nts, it is ssors had left Lima, and having pr oceeded.to the ?to of Callao, bad embarked on board several Oil, of ships trading with that place, in consequence the agreement signed for that purpose. IRELAND. LORD DONOU e Earl of F e l° G ------..a............- H m 0 a E.___Th w in OUGIIMORE has addressed the following Ans;c-lr; rep'ly to a Letter from the Chairman °` ' l to late Meeting of the Roman Catholic i nhab lv i r of the United Parishes of St. Ant'rew, S'• , , 8 1 14 ; and St. Anne, containing the Resolution 0 1 '' 8 1 Meeting, to request his Lordship to resent their petition to the House of Lords : " Knocklofty, egth Marc b P l3l9. yi " Sta—The Petition which has been entrusted to fu ra e the Roman Catholic Inhabitants of the Parish of St.i:,.l S . t. Mark, and St. Anne, I shall be much gratified in 1 3 " 9 : 11 r iftg• to that House of Parliament of which I am a g en'- c f e ; co with undiminished zeal for their complete restoration t ° ,03 . „ t i co , Clutional privilege awl capacity, in this our 6 li i ,,ig , country. And I receive, with feelings of just adlilioo7o,' nient, the very kind manner in which you are ple 3sel t( :i0 ti -e my own endeavours, and those of my family, ill tb a. '; to causesbacy Si r, ir o , f yye •w ot l u l t i ri c l elluwncs faithfullccelisusmf unsuccessful d s sv : orc l: a in ttei g ts:. t ..... b i 0 u h g a h v , e 1: b . o s a (' o r r ;,. to " Patrick Curtis, EN. Chairman, &c." CO' "osoUGI-01- , I I": We are authorised to state, that Colo. elia4- w v, •ell, understanding that Lord Lismore'6,leii Orli 'cre injured, in consequence of , what ' e ' ail a it him h,,v. on the I I s t a i i s n t fc i r i ci ig e isc,l)ar,it,ifitnLl:le::iil.c(alast.tLei(Esi le c 1 t"' i I3or well i : )g th b rL en gh had not pledged himself to su ) 1 .) o a r 'i t t°°l.l l e ' es;:t It lea C tC o ll / 6: lone) Bagwell at the period of ithelloio(l,ii, 114 Bagwell is tree to acknowledge, that 16°` ... n e n 011 stated h. must have wiser) from, misconcePti— ts part —(Front the Clonme l Advertiser.) , 4 of '[be High ShLriff, Foreman, and Grand J' lr i o f the County of Tyrone, and the Protes"ilsept the County of Sligo, have petitioned rarliara against the Roman Catholic Claims.--ribici) .....------------------ i y 10, DISCOVERY OF FORGED NOTES.--Ities". k , John Foy, an Officer, employed by tile 0' ' jo g England, received a communication, linf°llllad him where a certain stage coach would a rrive , 0 that amongst the parcels would be a buret (which was minutely described) full of " b r o . n otes. Accordingly Foy , baying proc ure d an 0 sistant, proceeded to the p lace, and soon after.,_ elderly female came t o take a ay the parcel; -12`, ;10 ahoy k l ie f immediately appreh ended her, and too e 0 the house at which she said she lived, here respectable looking man was awaiting her retil u e ro The O ffi cer secured thein both, and took t r l 'h er , to Marlborough-street Office, where theY u n un der ;lent a long private examination. We T' l l i l e stand the amount of forged notes wh i " *b et basket contained exceeds 7001. and do t were well executed.