The Sun. — London, England, 1820-04-03 00:00:00

iU 1I E GENTRY OF II'Eta:II()RLAND. The circumstances of your County in the two last Elections have shewn to you how its character has been altered. Westrnorlan'd has undergone—l regret to use the epithet—a radical -change. Until Mr. BROUGHAM was put forward to dis pute her representation, the lower orders were religione, and Jpeaceable, .and industrious. I do not any principles which were directly unchristian, or turbulent, or dis solute ; arid yet, his colltest....has . renderetlithem all these. It has excited in them a spirit of discon tent, and violence, and insubordina , ion; which every friend to Westmorland's welfare must deeply lament. In the first place, it has nnhinged the ancient end confident coonrxinn between the hiahcr -Anil the lower dosses. It has divided—not their in- teresfs ce►tii ohlects. There longt•r exists Among them that unanimity, Which it the morn»l product of protection and attachment. The danger of this cannot be confined to the higher orders. If they no longer receive their accustomed deference, it is not in nature that they tiotild extend their acenstomed kindness. The lows r orders must consequently experience the rt.-action of the mischief. All reciprocality of gonad will he destroyed ; all reciprocality of evil will be enctetiste.. I n ISIS, th e gertn of this misfortune was planted. In 1820 it has grown up into a wide spreaditts.7, tree. Mr. littouGnsst. like a practised Reformer, set about extending the Electoral Fran. chile, atul I:is supporters crewed by wholesale new Freeho'ds. The numerical preponder nee of these would have taken your representation out of the hands of the Property, and transferred it to the Population of Westmorland. It became thert'fore, a less mischievous alternative, to mul tiply the evil than to permit its success. On your parts. you were obliged to imitate the measure which . you disapproved, and to incur the injury whereof you ecknoltledged the danger. What Mr. BRoUGUAM'S patrons did to subvert the re presentation, yon also did to secure it. You like• wise created new Freeholds ; and thus, by ba lancing the numbers of the Electors you have contributed to eller the- test of the Election. Had the consequences of this measure been de cided by its motives, you would have no share of its evil to encounter. But, unfortunately, the same act must have the same results ; no matter by whom done, or for what. Your small Coun ty, which in 1818 polled 2160 Freeholders, in 1320, has polled 700 more. Of these, Mr. DRouGHam, by the we:Her alertness of his pa trons, obtained nearly 450 ; the remainder were created by his opponents, and voted against him. Thus, y u see, the opinion of the County re mained precisely as at the former contest. The action and counteraction of the new votes ba lanced each other ; without any immediate effect upon the Representation ; but with a permanen t injury to its future character. The E"ectora Franchise of IVestmorland is now brought very near to Universal Suffrage ; and so long as this crea tion of new Freeholds shall be resorted to by one party, it must be followed by the other. Hence, each concurs and co-operates in the evil. I can not calculate on a worse or more discreditable mis chief befalling our County, than being represent ed by Mr. BROUGHAM, but it is hard, that the mischief cannot be prevented at some less sacri fice than the subversion of her Electoral capacity. To you, Gentlemen, it may be some alleviation, that you did not commence the evil ; butt West morland finds in your excuse no diminution of her own injury. It may be palliated as to you ; but as to her, it cannot be lessened. As the boun daries of a County cannot be enlarged, a multi plication of its Freeholds can give to it neither new territory nor new wealth. The soil, whether previously non-electoral, or divided into new Franchises, had already its virtual or its actual weight in the Representation. To cut up one • large Freehold into an hundred small ones, changes the Electoral state, and renders it numerical in stead of territorial. It does-not increase the pro. . perty of the County, however it way multiply its population. This is an enormous evil—it places the Elec toral power in the bands of the lowest Electors. These, of course, must be the most ignorant, the most prejudiced, and the most accessible to corruption. Such men, for instance, as Mr. BROUGHAM persuaded, that—would they but elect him for their Representative, three millions of taxes would be taken off by his single voice, tea sold for sixpence a pound, and tobacco given sway gratis.—Such men as were taught to be lieve, that if he were Member for Westmorland ha could Make a more sweeping Reform than as Member for Wincheisea. Mr. BROUGHAM trust iwar to be told, that there are more ways of cu r. than through the pocket. Ignorance my be practised upon Ass aft-dually as avarice. The educated ignorance, especially ; which our Li berals are so much fonder of teaching HOW TO cler-sire,t, Finslaity market, F. Simmons, (lueeuhithe, warehouseman—April :2.3, T. Duon, I~urharu, !nerd.)Ar—Avall 29, S. l o nsrud, Goorr,ii-sqn , ;re, Fleet-street, jeweller—April 29, B. Simmons, FLgii-,)rent, Southwark, stationer .29, A. linchly, Gower-street, Ltedford-sylare, huildee--May 2. IJ. ()glop], Crown.street, Finsbury -square. fringe maker—May 9, liem-st rent, Southwark, provision -broker—April 29, A. Anderson, pot-lanti, merchant—April 92, W. Kirl: and mereliarils—April 25, E. Thornley, Hinckley, Leices torshire, money-scrivener—April 25, W. Met lam. I linci:ley, Leicestershire, pig-jobber—April 25, .1 Goldin,f, Colchester, tanner—April 27, J. Gorden and W. Gray, Goldsmith-street, Wood .strect, ho s iers—April 21, G. Pulleyn, York. huen-ara per—April 21, .1. Warile, Liverpool, groeer—A I 22, J. and .1, Comhes, Shadwell-dock, cooper:—April 22, W. l'rest and T. Woollier. Lawrence-Moult ney -la rie, cot ii-tao or , — A pH! 27, T. Kay, Bath, auctioneer—April 22, 'l'. Vaux, Cridling- park, Yorkshire, farmer. CERTIFICATES—APrur, 22. Richardson, Lire► pool, ►nerchant—W. Swart,New-slreet, New-road, Cunt mercial-road, master-mariner—J. Mantic!, New-street, Cnrent-garden, mercer—W. P. Whitfield, Com itiereiat-road, wine-merchroat —.l. Gunton, Belgrave-cottaze, Piinlico, picture• dealer—T. Buchan, Charlotte-street, Saint Pancras, pianoforte-maker—J. P. Pritchard. Bristol, grocer —W. Grier, Frodshani, Cheshire, itriner—J. acre, linen-draper—J. I Judson, Bit chin-lane, merchant—W. Farrands, King-street, Bermondsey New-road, lacentatt. READ. THAN WHAT TO BEAD. Of all this, the ultimate remedy lies 'vitt' the, Legislature. When the ancient test of stiffrage shall he restored ; wben its amount shall be cal culated according to its relative value ; when the lowest freehold shall be brought back, as it was in the time of ilartav the SIXTH, to a yearly rate, now amounting to twenty pounds ;—then, and not till then, the Elective Franchise will be rescued from ignorance, and corruption, and violence, and replaced with its legitimate possessors. Then, and not till .then, such men as Mr. BaouGnard and his Electors, will sink to their proper level. Then, and not till then, the only Reform which is needful or salutaty, and God knows how much it is wanted, and what good it would effect ! win be okained:' then, and not till then, the preponderant power of an Election will be in those Electors only, who have au interest and a stake in their County's welfare ; whose station and whose intellect place them alike beyond cor ruption and delusion. How near may be tilia blessed Reform, 1 know not. Intermediately, however, you have in your own hands, not an entire redress of the evil, but its partial counteraction. Exert yourselves, Gen tlemen, by your precept and your exaurple. Ido not call on you to continue your former kindness to the lower orders ; for 1 know that it will not relax. But 1 adjure you, as you value the happiness, the honour, and the security of the soil wherein your nheritance is cast, that every Cleigyman, every Magistrate, every Landed Proprietor, will resist the baleful power and temper which have sprung tip from that detnoralizing measure—the extension of the Electoral Franchise. Your perwool exer tions, Aided by the institution of National Schools, Savings Banks, and Friendly Societies, under the direction of sensible Managers and the test of sound and loyal principles, will do much toward 'restoring your County's morality, and peace, and concord. 1 have little hope of abolishing the ex r istent evil, which bad men hive created for their own purpO , ies, without the remedial hand cf the. Legislature. But your active patriotism, if faith.. fully and energetically applied, will mitigate the disorder. For your own individual sakes, for the general sake of our County, I call you to the in stant and incessant exertion. A WESTMORLAND FREEHOLDER. From the LONDON GAZETTE of April I. 'Whitebait. Jlarch 30, MO. The King has been pleased to direct letters patent to he past,tl under the Great Seal of the United kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; for granting the dignity of a Baronet of the said United Kingdom to WaILI- Scott, of Abbotsford, in the County of Roxburgh, Esq, and to the heirs rn , tle of his body lawfully begotten. Commissions' in the North Derbyshire Yeomanry Cavalry, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Derby. Captain Philip (;&1 to he Major; Lieut. Sir Henry Fitz herhert, Bart. to be Captain, vice GeII, promoted ; John An drew, Gent. to be Cornet, vice Goodwin, promoted. Commis,,itiiii in the King's Cheshire Volunteer Legion, signet/ by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Chester. A elli noon Troop tsf Lancers—Richard Townley Crosse, Esq. sLitc.) to be Captain; Thomas Grim I I Genf., t _ ! 0... e Lieutenant. [The Gazette also contains an Address of Condolence and Congratulation to his .litjesty from the Counca and Me►ubers of the British Factory at Leghorn.] BANKRUPTCY ENLARGE!). J. Brooks, Gi;.ltl'ifirtd , ;Jl-stteet, Haymarket, butcher, from April 4 to April 8, at ten, at Guildhall. BANKIIUPTS. G. C. Wright and J. Graham, Crooked-lahe, upholsterers, to surrender, April 4, 15, and May 13, at ten, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Pope, Old Bethlent. J. S,putit, Kingston-upon-Hull, n t, April 7,8, and May 1 t, at eleven, at the George Inn, Kingston-upon-Hull. Attornies, Messrs. Broadley and Swan, Hull; and Messrs. Longdill and Butterfield, Gray's Inn-square, London. J. Farther, Walsall, Staffordshire, plater, April 20, at four, 21, and May 13, at ele►•en, at the Woolpacis Inn , 114- 'lllo,o.mi. Attornies, Messrs. "Turner and I lohnes, Blooms bury-square, London ; and Mr. Heeley, Walsall, Stafford e. W. Walker, Ramsgate, butcher, April 4, at five, 5, at ten, and May 13, at four, at the Spread Eagle Inn, namsgate.— Attornies, Mr. Bigg, Southampton-buildings, Chancery lane, London ; and Mr. V% i;htwick, Ttamsgate. J. Platts, Chellastan, Derby, wheelwright, April 14, 15, and May tB, at eleven, at the King's Arms Tavel n, Derby. Attornies, Mr. Greaves, Derby; and Messrs. Long and Austin, Gray's Inn, London. 'l'. Harris, St. Peter, Hereford, grocer, April 12, 13, and May 18, at eleven, at the Coach and Horses, Hereford. At tornies, Mr. Owen, Hereford; and Messrs. Saxon and Hooper, Pump-court, Temple, London. T. Diston, 'Tewkesbury, Gloucester, corn-dealer, April 26, at seven, 27, and May 13, at eleven, at the Swan Inn, Tewkesbury. Attornies, Mi. Jones, Tewkesbuly; and Mr. Windus, Bartlett's-buildings, London. 3. Donaldson, W. Slee, and S. •Mayston, Friday.street, Cheapside, wholesale linen drapers, April 4, 22, and May 13, at, ten, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Drake, Old Fish street, Doctors' Commons. J. A. Wilkes and T. E. Hammond, Birmingham. glass-toy makers, April 17, 18, and May' 13, at the Roval Hotel, Bir mingham. Atturnies, Messrs. Tooke and Can, Holborn court, Grav,'s Inn, London; and Messrs. Spurrier, Ingleby, and Barrisit, Bit mingliam. J. Woolfe, Birmingham, marcer, April 17, 18, and May 13, at eleven, at the Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Atturnies, Mr. Edmunds, Lincoln's Inn, London; and Messrs. Hub bard and Keys, Cheadle, Staffordshire. a England, Exeter, butcher, April 20, 21, and May 13, at eleven, at the Hotel, Exeter. Attornies, Messrs. Darke, Church, and Darke, Red Lion-square, London; and Mr. Ter rell, Exeter.. K. Parker, Halifax, linen-draper, April 19, at six, 20, and May 13, at eleven, at the White Lion Inn, Halifax. Attor nies, Messrs. Wigieswoith and Crosley, Gray's Inn, London ; and Mess's. Wiglefworth, Thompson, and Stansfeld, Halifax. W. H. Hoard, Limehouse-hole, rope-maker, April' 8, 22, and May 13; at twelve, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Younger, John-street, nitimies. J. VVittsuii, Huddersfield, York, merchant, April 8, 22, and May 13, at twelve, at Guildhall, London. Attorney, Mr. Farrell, Threadneedle-street, London. DIVIDENDS. April 8, W. Lewis and J. A. Henderson, Little Tower street, wine-tnerchalits—April 29, J. Gihson and S. Forster, Wardtebe• place, Doctors'-Commons, dealers in lace—April 22, S. Younge, Shetheld, mercer—May 6, S. Johnson, Skin- We received yesterday the Paris Papers of Thursday last. Those of Friday, which were due this morning, have not arrived. In the Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday, the discussion was again continued on the projct respecting the Journals and Periodical works. Ai. Dmiux proposed an amendment to he added to the 4th article, to the rift-et that the Censors should allow the free circulation of opinions unless they were evidently contrary to the principles of m , ►rality, of religion, of the Charter, and of the Mo narchy. In the course of the discussion upon this AMendment, M. Marquez. detailed a num ber of instances, in which, he stated, that under the previous ,censorships, the most tyran nical controul had been exercised over the Press. The Amendment was rejected, and this result gave rise to violent murmurs. After rejecting another amendment, the Chamber proceeded to th consideration of the sth Article, which, after the rejection of an antend ment for diminishing the punishment for pub lishing works or articles not previously com municated to the Censor,s, or not approved by them, was agreed to. The 6th Article was also agreed to, after rejecting an amendment proposed by M. BENJAMIN CONSTANT, for exempting from prosecution the authors of articles approved of by the Censors. The Chamber then proceeded to the 7th Article, in wl►ich an amendment was moved to strike out the words giving a po.ver to the. Government, upon a second offence, defini tively to suspend the publication of any journal or periodical work. Upon this question, after some debate, the discussion was adjourned till Thurs day. The KING, it is / stated, continues to recover. The following Bulletin was published on Wed tiesday 29th March, Eight A. M. g. The whole of yesterday was good ; the KINCI .;lept very well in the night; the pulse continues to iire:.erve its re gularity. (Sigyed) " PORTAL, " LI BEItT, " DISTEL." Ilis MAJESTY, on Wednesday, transacted busi. nest with the CHANCELLOR Of FRANCa, I3,trnqz PAscIEE, an,l the DAce de RlCtitLiktl• KING also received some of the Antb4isadors, anloogst wheat were the Prince de CASTELCICALho the Neapolitan Ambassador, who took leave of his ii.LUESTY, and who a 3 to set out n Thurs day or Friday for London, with compliments to our Sovereign of Condolence and Congrattest• Lion. It appears by rheConstifutionnel of .Thursday'r that a national subscription has been opened at Paris, for the reiief, as stated, of ►hose Citizens who may become victims to the law now in ope ration for plating the liberty of individuals at the mercy of the Ministers of tl►e Crown. The same Journal mentions 4 report, that an explosion, similar to that of Spain, seems to me nace the Kingdom of Italy the movement, it is said, will continence at Bologna, and be Commu 7 , nicated to Milan and that an unanimous wish will be manifested for the independence of the country. It is aiMed, that it will be proposed to make the Archduke liavmsa King, with a Con• stitutional Government. FIVE PER CENTS. Wedneday 73 f. 50 u. DEFERRED SFOCK Of the 22d March, 1817, B7 f. 50 c. The Persian Ambassador left town yesterday , morning on his return home, having accomplished the Ratification of a Treaty between this Coon try and Persia. This event is highly honour able to Ministers, as well as of great ins... pmtance to the Country, as it shows that they have been able, to obtain an ascendancy in the Court of Persia, and thereby to have added to . the security of our possessions in the East. The verdict on Ilosur's trial is considered by that most despicable of all public Journals, the Old Times, as a sobieet of triumph over Ministers, whom they accuse of hating too credulously listen- ed to reports of the alarming state of the gangs of. Reformers from various places who appealed at Manchester on the Ifith of August, And whom do they chiefly accuse of having givert this false information to Government—why respectable Magistrates, as different from the writers in the Old Times as light from dariness. That rancos. rout Paper has the impudence this day to say, ie We learn that some (4 the iklinisterial adherents . talk of striking those Alagist rakes out of the Come mission, whose inventions had intposed so strange iy upon Government." This is a mere wicked in-; !motion of The Times, which itseit knows, that the information giVen by the Mag:sATates to coverne went, was in every respect well founded:. For our oa-n parr we believe, as sre ' , age before a s" sewed, upon the most onimpea , thable infaro"ti° ll t that the mob of Radicals went Strrned Ili.) clubs, &c. end provided with stones, lust as they had been described as having paraded to Matt chester. We inserted two I:tag articles Eoon after, fully detailing the formidable state in whißh they approaches! the town, and the horrors, that tn;ght have been expected if the vi).lilance of the Magistrates and the activity of the Military had not promptly interposed. AVe do not racers' to impeach the testimony of lioNT's witnessea. They most probably said all they knew and saw ; but they were doubtless selected for their very limited knowledge on the soh- ject, while it is well knows!, that persons who, from actual knowledge could have givers a contrary testimony, were afraid to coma forward lest they might become the future victim s of Radical vengeance. It is highly honourable therefore to Ministers, that they were more willing\ that the leading Culprits should ese cape than that ' the lives of honest men should fall a sacrifice to Rebels whom re venue would have induced to resort to any ,horrible extremity to gratify disc rage of dis appointment on an occasion which they hoped • might have led to - the total destructiAn of the Government. The malignant 'finzes proceeds to say, " them were no stones, no blick-bait4A o bludgeons used ; oo hootings or hissings na Riot Act was read ; no obstrattion was givers to the execution of the warrtant before the military were called ; no Constables were atoned to death, no guns or pistols fired, or even pow sessed by the mob." The Times, in this broad , •, and impudent denial, has introduced witiatnever was reported—no Constables were s, ill t& . have been atoned to death ; but the Times knows that all the other circumstances which it so aualsciouslypretee" to deny, did actually take place. We are-really 89 " tonished,with all we know ofth.a Times, at thistle' ing outrage of truth and insult ti; authority. l'irs tepeat our full dependence on t , ae existence of the whole of what the Times so b(. 1;;;; denies, as well as our firm belief, that Li U N . r - positively uttered • , ithe words charged upon him b E tst Tvvi3L6, one the witnesses, and can only stip : tose that those whi fr gave the negative testimony were not near en• to hear t hem. Whyshould Ern's% 7.sts,who positi' vel swore that he heard thrm, he s•sitposee wort. to b e k IMIli w ords told 01 4 e o asii 4 alon iep a pr t tondo 'raper lised tittioi n)p ireve Ir, 10 ( . s gst 4 OPI trio tea N m e eel ib a ant fie fOl 7fra St! SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. March 64. Anthony Wilson, nicrehant and ship-owner, Aherdeen—Creditors cocain the New Inn there, 7th and iatli April, at 12. .27. Daniel Lancaster, merchant, Denny, presently residing in Duke-street, Glasgow—Creditors meet in the Lyceum 'Rooms there, 4th and '2oth April, at 3. With AlAt and John Hood, tanners at Ladylmrn, Fast. Parish of Greenock—Creditors meet in Fleck's Inn, Port Glasgow, 3d and 18th April, at. 13. Thomas Bowman, grocer and ironmonger. Dun dee—Creditors meet in Merchant's Inn there, 14th and 26th April, at t. 28. Alexander Ness, merchant, Edinhurgh—Cret!i fors meet in the Royal Exchange Coffee-house there, 7th and 21st April, at 2. QUEBEC EMIGRAN r SOCIETY. It afforded us, a short time since, great pleasure to gire circulation to the powerful Address of the Directors of this humane and excellent lustitotion, and we are happy to find that it is likely to receive t4tat patronage and encouragement to which its impoitance entitles it. The Editors of the Town and Provincial Prints have very liberally inserted this Address gratuitously in their Papers; and we trust the appeal tilos made to the generosity and kindness of the Country will not he made in vain, NATHANIEL ATCUESON, of Great Winches ter-street, in this City, has been requested to re ceive Subscriptions in aid of the Fonds of this Society, and the following have been transmitted to him : s. D. M. by the Editor of the Morning Chronicle 20 0 0 S. B 1 1 0 E. CL, post-niark "Stone," 2O 0 0 Inglis, Ellice, and Company M'Tavish, Fraser, and Company John L. Venner 5 5 0 Thomas Yeoward by the post : 1 / 4 1‘Gbie and Paze Gillespie., Gerrard, and Company 5 5 0 Nathaniel Atcheson Robert S. Ateheson• EASTER MONDAY ' —Holiday at the BAH Ic, Exchequer, East India, and mouth St-a "Houses. SI:1iL~. AkNIVEI-2 Dublin, 2 Waterford. 1 Gotrenburgb, 1 Malta, I France, 1 liarnburgh• DUE-1 Holland, I Gottenl : mizli, 1 Ilaruburgh, I Flanders. HIGH WATER AT I.(INIIIititIRIDGE To.moititow. 111o:11'414g, 28 miputts after 5. I Eve n ing, 54 minutes atter 5. THE SUN. *OLEN! QULS nicErtE FALW3I ALTDEAT ? LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1820. W e he p, l ifeSt i 1 0 e()I ionni rich toy ti e t