The Sun. — London, England, 1820-08-17 00:00:00

LONDON JOURNALS, [DAILY EX7RACT4I.] FROM THE MORNING PAPERS. [Morning Post.] This day the investigation of the Charges against the QUEEN coMmences in the House of.' Lords. Her Majesty will certainly attend in person,_and will go to the House about ten o'clock for that purpose. A Chair pf State of a peat form, covered with crimson velvet, and all the mouldings gilt, together with a footstool, was yesterday evening placed about three feet from the bar, and the same distance on the right of the centre of the house, for her accommodation. Her Majesty's back will • therefore be towards the Counsel and Ordinary, and she will front the Throne, Woolsack, and Table. She goes -exactly in the order, and with the same equi 7 page, described in our Paper of Monday last. With a view; to afford every practicable, .accom modation to strangers or auditors, which the ne cessarily straitened limits of the House can afford, it was ordered by their Lordships yes terday, as will be seen by our Parliamen tary Report, that no Lord shall give more than one order of admission on any one day, and that such order Shall be regularly dated and signed and sealed by , such Lord ; that as the space below the ba'r wilt now hold but a very limited number, none but the Archbishops, Dukes, Marquesses, and Earls, shall give orders for the first (this)' day; that the residue of the Lords, as Viscounts, Bishops, and Barons, shall give orders on the next or second day, and so on alternately while the proceedings continue.—We have authority to say, that in order to give faci lity of access to the Peers attending their duty in Parliament on the present occasion, directions have been given for all Members of the House of Lords to pass in their carriages, during that period, through the gates of the Greets and, St. James's Parks, including that of the Horse Guards. Every possible precaution continues to be taken to preserve the public peace. A numerous de= tachment of the Guards is lodged in the apart camas in the rear of the Court of Common Pleas, which look into the line of communication be tween Old and New 'Palace Yard; 'formerly known as St. Margaret's-street; across the en trance of which a harricadO is erecting, with space, of course, for the passage of carriages. Numerous parties of those fine corps, the Horse Guards, will patrol Whitehall, and New and Old Palace Yards, in like ma►finer as in cases of impeachment. Cavalry and Infantry will be on duty: in various parts of the metropolis; the Light Horse Volunteers, the East India House Regiment, the River Fencibles, the Police Horse Patrole (a fine and formidOle body of men), and an immense number of constables, will also be on duty ; and, as a further measure of necessary precaution, all the men belonging to the several Fire Offices of the metropolis are under orders to afford their assistance, if called upon for that purpose. With these judicious and laudable precautions,. hopes may reasonably be entertained that the public tranquillity will not be disturbed. [Morning Chronicle.] In the House of Lords last night Lord Hol land intimated 'his intention of putting, on an early day, some questions to his Majesty's Mi nisters, with regard to the Russian Notes on the affairs of Spain, some passages of which, he con ceived, threaten&l the tranquillity . . of Europe. The Earl of Liverpool said, that he should be prepared to give the Noble Lord satis factory explanation on the subject alluded to by him; and in the mean time he would observe, that there was nothing in our relations with Spain which at all threatened the continuance of a good understanding between the two Countries. We are glad to learn that • Ministers have determined' to treat her Majesty with the respect to which she is entitled in her passage to and from the house, by ordering a guard of honour to attend her. We do not. entertain the least fear of any tumultuary proceedinas on the part of the people. There is a mighty difference betwden"reprobating the adoption of any particular proceedings, and attempting to . resist the Constitutional Legislature of the Country % Within the limits of the law, the people will be disposed - to exert themselves in favour of. her Majesty, but beyond this we are convinced they will not 'go. Resistance is a right of Which rneri never avail themselves under any Governniefit which is at all 'adequate to its purpose. [Britisl4..fios.] The attendance of the Peers yesterday even ing in their Lordships' House was as -numerous: as it was on the preceding, evkiiing, although it was undersibod that no business of importance would be tranS s acted: - Lord Chancellor gave notice, that he would this morning, at, ten o'clock, require the 'names of the Peers: to be called' over, for the purpose of enforcing their attendance. The peremptory commands of the House addressed to the several Members, will, no doubt, have• prodUced their desired effect, and allowing for' those Lords who are absent from the kingdom, and for those •who are -ex empted on account of illness or - advanced age, it is calculated that •not less that t , 330 Members will appear in their places eaclt day during the continuance of this calamitouE . proceeding.t___ There is an old Standing Order of the House of Lords, that upon every questiOr the Peers shall individually and separately declare their opi-, nions, each Member rising in ith place and pro flouncing the word 'c Content,' or 44 Not-Con tent." There is a solemnity in :his mode of col lecting the sense of the House wfich appears well calculated' for Bromotirg the ends of justice ; and we are happy fo find that,. won the sugges tion of Lord Gage, this ancient Standing ()filet , will be enforail' e'VerY:questim that may arise dating the progress orihe procetdings relating to the queen. The 'paramount interest which tilt-ally attaches itself to the/measure now Tend , ing in Parliament has not, however, wholly di verted the attention* of Lord Ifolland from the great concerns of nations, ,, •or 'caused him to neg• lect the political occurrences wWOI happiness or independence of inankine. Odt Readers, we are convinced, will be glad to learn that the Noble Lord has given notice of his in tention,. within a few days, to bring the subject. of the Russian Manifesto relative to the ReVolu tion in Spain before Parliament, for the Purpose of ascertaining how far the Cabinet of Great Bri tain may have involVed itself in asserting the principles avowed by the . Emperor of Russia. The same subject will, no doubt, also be noticed in the 'Buse of Commons, where there will be a better opportunity for discussing the merits of the Emperor's Manifesto, and of disclaiming its principles on behalf of the people of England,- than can be afforded just now by the other House. The fall in• the funds, by some ascribed to the Queen's Letter to the King, is attributed by others to an apprehension that Ministers are about to embark \Vitt' the great Continental Governments in an endeavour to restore the old regime of Naples, and to keep down the rest of Italy. It is rumoured that, Russia means to con vey an army by sea to Naples, and that this ex pedition, on its way, is to put into this country. Terminate these endeavours how they may, they cannot fail to be attended with a great expendi ture ot money, and to add greatly to the embar rassment of our finances.—(/bid.) [New Times.] This day, the House of Lords will proceed to the discharge of one of the most painful du6es, which can possibly fall to the lot of so august an Assembly. The conduct of the Queen Consort n ill come to be examined, with relation to a Charge of Adultery ! When we call to mind the bright example of Female Virtue which was exhibited by the Revered Princess who last held that high dignity ; when we reflect on the count less blessings which for nearly sixty years this Nation derived from the scrupulous vigilance of Queen Charlotte, in watching over female morals, we cannot but feel deeply afflicted that her im mediate Successor should be placed in a situation so widely different ; that she should labour under the weight of suspicions so degrading,and that her guilt or innocence should become a problem only to be solved by legislative investigation. This is indeed lamentable, but infinitely more la mentable would it be if the assembled Peerage of the United Kingdom could for a single moment, falter in their career, if they could be scared from the strait-forward path of their duty by the loud voice of popular clamour, excited, for pur poses the most mischieVous, by Traitors the most base. No. Happy would it have been for the na tion at large, if the necessity of this distressing investigation could have been averted ; but since it has been driven to the issue, neither the Peers in the first instance, nor the Commons in _the 'second, can decline to conduct it on the strict principles of justice, and according to the forms sanctioned by the Constitution. SHIP NEWS. PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 16.—Arrived the Rkval Sovereign, Royal George, and Regent yacht's, and his Majesty's ships Liffey, Hind, and Came lion, from off Brighton. WHITBY, AUG. I s.—Arrived the Aimwell, Baxter, from Greenland, with one . fish, 10 tuns of oil. .FALMOUTII, AUG. 14.—Arrived the Countess of Chichester packet with mails from the Brazils, 42 days from Pernambuco. PLYMOUTH,, AUG. 15.—Passed up Channel the Anna Robertson, Brown, from Rio Janeiro, in 65 days. STATISTICAL ACCOUNT of SCOTLAND The credit which the Clergy of Scotland have derived, from the assistance given by them in car rying on, and completing the Statistical Account of . , Scotland; is increasing rather than diminishing. A plan in imitation of the one adopted in Scotland is now carryin g on by Mr. Shaw Mason,in regard to the. Statistics of Ireland, the third volume of which has lately been published. It was reviewed by Mr.,Chlrles Dupin, a celebrated member of ,the National Institute of France, and in the Report, or " Comme reodu," given by him to the. Aca demy.,of Sciences in Paris, there is the following pa ra Lqaph : " This mode resembles that adopted by Sir John Sinclair, in compiling his Statistical Account of Scotland. He had re. '`course to the 'Ministersof the Scotch Churelt, a class of men as remarliab:e for the extent and accuracy of their literary acquirements, as.for the strictness of their religious principles and morals." . It must be highly gratifying to the Clergy of Scotland-to all connected with them—and,in deed, to those who are partial to the form of ecclesiastical government established in Scotland to have such an eulogium from the pen of so dis tinguished a literary character as M. Dupin, who could have no inducement, but the conviction of his own mind, to make such declaration. The notorious Hunt 7 a few weeks since, pub lished a recommendation to observe as a day of mourning the 16th of August, the anniversary of the memorable dispersion of the Manchester mob, and the arrest of their audacious leader and his immediate associates. Yesterday was the day, and his Radical friends, in compliance with this recommendation,- placarded the Metropolis; but it appeared frOm their notices, that the object was not so much to mourn as to levy contribu tions; for they'called, upon their brethren, ex pressly " to testify their sense of gall that- has taken place, by aiding with their mite the Sub erVton for the indoppfty .tlf the brave Hunt and his suffering frknds,"— T Such is tile -sincerity and clisinterestedness of the mourning ,of Mr. HUNT, 4 - a nd his associates in mischief.—(Morning Post.) THEATRICAL REGISTER. Peg ifirmed Last THEATRE ItoyAt., DRURY LANE.—VediCe Preserved ; 4flier, - Mr. Rear; ; Pierre, Mr..lumius Brutus Rooth ; BeiVidera*,j . M R . W. \Vest. After which, Love Laughs at Locksmiths. THEAtI4E: RoYAL, HAvmAttlitit:,—The Prize. After ich, (311)e):: Exchange':no Robbery. 'Do whichVVas ad si e elole . Saririse\ THEATRE ItOTAL, - TgGEISII . OPERA FIOUSE. , = 2 IIIe. After which, The Promissory Note. To which was folded, The Raidezvous, • - conßEspoNtANTs. The Letter of J, I). though candid and judicious, recom mends measure's too fate for adoption. losoros is received, and we hope to insert it To-morrow. For Otto, and the Continuation .of the Evidence on the TIMBER DUTIES, see the Fourth Page. PII.IC E OF STOCKS TDB DAY AT ONE O'CLO C K• 3 per Cent. Red. 6 Biii 3 per Cent. C0n5..... 67f ii 4 3f per Cent. ...... .. 76i 77 4 per Cents ),per Ct. Navy Ann... 102- liii I 5 per Cent. 179 - 1044 Bank Long Ann. 17'15-1(411s India Bowls 20s. I Bs. 20s. pr. Lax. Bills, 2d. 3s. ss. pr. Onthium l4 04 dis. Culls. for Account. 68 , . MAILS. AstnivEn—l Dublin, I Waterford,. I Guernsey and Jersey, I France, I Brazils. DUE-2 Gottenburgli, 2 Flarnburgli.' HIGH WATER AT LONDON gRIDGE TO-111ORROW. Morning, 5 minutes after B.—Ereiling, 91 alllitllts alter 8 THE SUN. SOLED! QUIS DICERE FALSUM JUDEAT? LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1820. THE QUEEN, this morning, took her seat on a Chair placed for her near the Throne, and not on that which had been also provided for HER MAJESTY near her Counsel. 11, therefore, appears iat HER MAJESTY'S attendance in the House has not proceeded from a desire to instruct her iaw Advisers as to her Defence. What other motive may have led Mat AtutsTY to this measure can only be conjectured. The mob which accompanied the QUEEN'S Carriage was not so great as might have been an- cipated. On the Box of Alderman Woon's Chariot, which preceded the QUEEN'S, stood a man who appeared to have great influence over he mob, and to direct their applause and their hootings. The Duke of YORK rode to thee . House on horseback, and was much applauded. The proceedings of the House began by calling over the Roll of Peers. It was expected, tha when this ceremony was gone through, the Duke of LEINSTER would make a Motion, which would occupy some time, before the ATTORNEY-GENE AL could begin to open the case. On this, day commences one' of the most awfu events in which the tranquillity, we will not say the safety, of. the Country has ever been involved: A Princess by affinity, as well as marriage, closely connected with the House of BRUNSWICK, is to be 'tried on Charges which would,- if well founded, be disgraceful to the lowest of her sex in any age or country. Most earnestly do we wish that she may be able to pass through the Ordeal, like gold through a. furnace, and return to the world with the utmost purity of character. Such a wish we have all • along expressed; and never have we presumed to suppose h q. guilty, however we may have condemned he: deFort ment since her last arrival in this country. 'We have looked with surprise and pity on those who appeared to think, that after so solemn and so determined a demand of an open and public trial, 'in the eyes of the Nation, it was•possible to stifle a question of so much interest and importance by a private compromise, that would haie been disgraceful to .all parties. After her MAJES- T y's appeal Parliament for the most .Com prehensive and, minute investigation - of her con duct, " the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth," could alone clear or con demn her, .effvet the ends of justice and 547 . tisfy mankind. As to the presumption of her innocence by • the multitudes who •assembled to do homage to her by Acclamations and Ad dresses, they could not weigh a feather in the scales of Justice: Whatever Faction, Sedition, and Rebellion may urge, and whatever Sophistry may pretend, the Tribunal before which her MAJESTY/ will be tried may fairly be said to be as pure, as intelligent, and as honourable as any that ever existed since ,the formation of civilized Seciety.—All the precautiOns that the importance of the cause and•the state of the Metropolis can require have, been adopted, is our Readers must perceive, by a reference to our Daily Extracts from -the Morning. Papers. These measures of external security are typical of the 'care, afie caution ; and the anxiety, which will mark all the I internal proceedings, in order to give die utmost dignity to the investigation, and to. found the de cision, Whatever it may be, o the firmest basis I n( Truth ) „Reason, and Justi • •••,. be c n retentlywhisftlitd, tie un , estan in the political circles, that, to avoid the disturb ances and commotions that might arise in the Country; whatever might be the decision on the Trial of THE QUEEN, Government means to give way to the Opposition on the Second Reading Of the Bill of .Pains and Penalties, and thereby to get rid of the Trial altogether. Anxious as we are for truth and justice, our anxiety for the peace of the Country would induce us to rejoice if any honourable means could be devised to'avert the impending evil. We received last night and this morning the Paris Papers of Sunday and Monday last. They contain no further intelligence fro►u Sicily or Naples. The following are extracts , " PARIS, AUG. 13.—The King gave a private audierice yes erday to the Baron de Nlirandet, French Mini,ter to Sant )urgh, and afterwards transacted bu,iness with the Duke:de - - Richelieu. his Nlajesty atso gave a pi ivate audience to - the I?,uk. de Fernan Nunez, late Spanish Amliatsa'dor. " 111. Clausel de: Coussergues,' Member of the Chambii of Deputies, and Councilhii of the Cou'rt of Cassation, deposit - ea yesterday at the Questure of the Chamber of Deputies, 250 Copies of a Pamphlet, entitled " Projet of the Prupwition of Accusation against the Duke Decazes, late Minister, to be'snh- witted to the Chamber of 821).!! M. Clauset de Coussergues also sent yesterday the same Pamphlet to all the Magistrites of the Court of Cassation, and of the Cone Royale of Paris; and to the President and Vice• President of the Tribunal de • Pre►aiere Instance; he has also addressed it by the,posttO the First Presidents of all the Cours Royale in the kingdom, i .,: f " AUG. W.—Yesterday the King received' the Princes, ; Nlinisters,. and several persons of distinction. " It is thought his Majesty will go ont twice betiveen this and the :50, and that he will visit the twelve Mayo' alties of the Capital. It is asserted that there will be a meeting of Sovereigns at Pest. FIVE PER CENTS. Saturday DEFERRED STOCK Of the 22d 'March, 1840 93 f. 23 c. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One Month ROME, JULY 29.—Magazines are forming at Ancona, and the fortifications of that place are repairing. These measure* scent to-announce the arrival of a corps of auxiliary troops, which is much wished by the people, , since we have not • litary means sufficient to defend ourselves against any ar gressions on the part of our revolutionary neighbours. Al- ready in the COmmunes of Fiosinone, and others adjacent to the Neapolitan territory, there are complaints of the ar pearance of suspicious characters, who appear to belong to numerous band of brigands. The Republican or Municipal Authorities whom the Card 'bonari have established at Benevento and Ponti Curvo, a re fighting amongst themselves, and it is hoped that necessill . will induce the inhabitants to re-deniand the protection Of Government. " A Letter front Naples, of the 25th, stateso hat the peola! of Cagliari, in Sardinia, 'had demanded the Convocation of the Stamini in the Orders, of the Kingdom. ic VIENNA, Auo; 2.—Our Government has entirely decided, on the coercive measures to be taken against the Revolutio4 of Naples; • A confidential and detailed Note bas been trans" witted by the Prince de Metternich to all the Cabinets of the Germanic Confederation. It is said that this Note, w ritten in the spirit of peace and preservation, exposes, with th e nuhlest frankness, the necessity under which our Guyer,'" ment is placed of stopping the' ravages of the French e ra in Italy. • The Ministers have held frequent conferences. Sunday they held a Supreme Council of War, under the Presidency of Field Marshal the Count de Bellegarde. It is certain that immediate orders bare been issued to the Commanders of regiments, who are to proceed without delay to Italy. "6 A force of 45,000 men is to march to Italy. " MAURID, AUG. 3.—The accounts from Galicia to t l ' e. 99th ult. state, that the insurgents had dispersed and l ica ' with their chiefs into Portugal; the Portuguese authorities u'l being applied to to arrest the chiefs, answered, that they ha j taken measures for that purpose, but not knowing their Pe r " suns, they had been unable to seize any one; descriptions hays therefore been sent , to assist in' recognizing them. " The malcontents of the Provinces of 'Burgos and S Orl have, it is said, assumed the designation of Bourbon Royal' They have circulated Proclamations against the Cartes. " Similar movements have taken place in Arragoa• of " VIENNA, Auu. 3.—The affairs of Sitily, the narr ative which has been brought .to uur Court by an Extraord inary Courierfirorwour Minister at Naples,. occupy much attenti° here. It is regarded as certain that there is a nuruer°l3,6 party in Sicily, who wish to separate from i\aples, al tbotte piobably-thii party would not agree among themselves as t° . . .. _ what should be done, if such a srparajon takes place. . 4 ' . " Tbereare frequent Councils held here under th e Presidco`i: of theF,tuperor. The division of the Chancellery,. to wh ic o the affairs of Italy are specially entrusted, is in a state 01. t . peatest activity. ;Oa " The accounts froniTart;ey state, that the plague isag waking progress at Constantinople." [Extract qf a Letterfrom Gibraltar, dated fol "By the Tangier packet, Pacifico, arrived to-day, ! nc .dy'' lowing state of the health of the towns has Inren recel'o.oo In Tangier, Larache, and Relat, good hea lth ; Tetuan Flo' Ito 2 deaths a-day ;at Fez about 12 .4 the plag ue; ;VW rocco (town) not linown, but I eport cd to be improving:o IV quioei and the Province of Rit, no as counts, esvi a g ne cor state of rebellion in which the country is. The Dart:ore° in Morocco, at the head of 47 , 000 wen , and ready 0 iigainst the Rebels." [Extract of a Letter from Genoa, dated Aligiiro; ..By a Letter from Palermo, of the 9 4 d ult., tbrceby ishop hd succeded in ptting a stp to the ai' a be et) i i r b s confusion a which e prevailed O u we, and oa junta had. ref e stalled, composed of seven respectable cliaraeters• h e 7l n al„ of the number of 'the on the 16th a nd tilt: 3'folli,"; :really exaggerated. It is rntnonTrd that thc 'Mod t ,0., Fleet, consisting of a line-of-Laitle ship, frigate!co,/e 01 brigs, hat ret urned to Naple 3 w ithout being able to a . c lid ,oc II the mission, as a •pariy prevails there for Ibe ind e r , pini ! . 1 Sicily: 'We further learn,• that the BegencY • i,jan 'seized ou.the Tuscan c o ral boats, and that a was preparing to sail." I I men and of I. iri Pra: s u d leer ()pi Rg ; 11;i1 P, 1„ Av e 1, 4 14