The Sun. — London, England, 1820-04-10 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN. THE. REFORMER.--N. Ma. lintron—l resume my Incubrations, so nng excluded by the Recounts of tri,ak ; and of the ptactic it formation of a Parliament, accord ing to our ancient Consti•ution: • li rt first,• le. me pay my debt of gratitude to VERAX, for his Civility, and his information ; aßsuring him, that I should have done so sootier, had not my second Essay been sent to the Printer hi fore his Letter appeared. His intimations shall be duly regard ed. At the same time, I must decisively state, t!►at it is not my intention to &fe►►dl or palliate any kind of abuse. Ti►e bosiness of thr , e Essays will be to empire bow toteh objeeiions can be remov ed witbont injury or flAng,er to the Collsritotion. Since the pumication of my first Essay, a remarkable ex lialPle has occurred, to derno . nstrate the tendency of popular suffrage ; an accidental conahination of circumstances haring produced, in one pLree, the very •aine trivet as would Keite rAlly result from a too extended right of voting. The second City in the Enquire has returned torarliament altiAost the la'st 'man whom it ought to have chosen; a num whom eVely re spectable Freeholder must Wash to call his Representative. Disraced and punished by the former Parliament, for the most insolent violation of their privileges ; steeped to the lips i❑ the dccpest mud of democracy; I:nown only to the public by his avowed attachment to the most profligate of men ; by his zeal for the tyrant, whose downfall was the rescue of all Europe from oppression ; by his hatted of the hiIWS, the in-' stitutions, and even the glories of his Country. This man is the choice 05 the people; this the favourite of the bawlers who surround the hustings. Y<•t nu►cb svoise than this it might, and certainly would l►e, under any great approach to universal suffrage. The man thus chosen is at least, by b:rtl►, a Gentleman; by education a Scholar ; by talent, capable of being distin;:uished for honour able exertions, diametrically opposite to his actual pursuits. But the same would douhtless have been the result, in a papuiar election, had he been destitute of all those esiima hie dualities; and only remarkable for contempt of every legiti►uate authority, defiance of all decency, and pandering to the worst passions of the most ignorant of the people. Urged by a few base instigators, which tl:►ey are certain never to want, the populace, in every country, as well as in Judea, will reject the purest and most benevolent person a:4-e, to choose a man notorious fur sedition, a robber, and a nituieter. This, therefore, may serve to convince any reasonable per son, that to democratize our Constitution would be the. very contrary to reforming it : and that, if any amendment of our Burotigh Representation be ever attempted, for the sake of satisfying weak, and depriving wicked minds of their most sneeimis argornents, the utmost cane most be taken to pre vent the right of votiog front descending a single step below the proportionable point of the scale, at which it was origi nally fixed. It has been stated often, and with truth, that suffrage is not a common right, but a civil office; not a na tural inheritance, but a political institution ; the beneficial we of which Hill totally lie lost, if it be suffered to descend to ignorance and unresponsible poverty. After all, we must deeply weigh the hazard attending every change. Of a ptilitical experiment, the whole result can ne ver be foreseen. By whatever rules we may at any time choose our Representatives, if we hare not suck men as we have been used to have, we mast have worse ; for, collec tively speaking, men more qualified for such a trust cannot possibly be found. Any thing like concession to temporary irritations must also be carefully avoided; for concession usually increases presumption and invites encroachment. Yet if there are evils, which morally as well as politically (and perhaps rather than politically) require correction, the sub ject must well deserve consideration. The following rules, however, we may safely lay down ; and they will be my guides in every thing that I shall attempt to offer on the subject:- 1. That if ever any change in the Representation lie made, it must be made with a view to our Constitution, as a limited Monarchy; and with the most studious care to keep it so. 2. That no change must ever be made, but according to the inviolable principles of equity, and our common law; that is, without injury to property, or even to prescriptive claims, in the persons of the actual possessors. If, proceeding by sugh rules, and observing every analo gous precaution, all real objections can be removed, de spising such as are merely fanciful, good men and good sub jects may fairly wish, that, at some seasonable time, it may be undertaken. But for precipitance there is no pretence. If we go on no worse, with our present modes of election, than we have done fur a hundred and thirty years past, though we may not be quite contented among ourselves, we shall at least be envied and respected by all the world besides. APPROACHING TRIALS FOR HIGH TRRASON.— The Prisoners who stand charged with High Trea son and Murder have sent a petition to the Jud g es, pr'aying that Mr. HARMER may be assigned them as the Solicitor for conducting their defence. `1 heir request has been complied with. HARWICH. APRIL 6.—The improvements of this town commenced on Monday by the be };inning to take down the church : the subscrip tions for the iniended new one have been ex tremely liberal. Sanguine hopes are entertained that water will he obtained in abundance, as the boring goes on very well. The paving is very soon to commence. From the great alterations in contemplation it is presumed that this will be the first bathing place on the coast. To-Moßnow.—Two Thousand Tickets of the present Lottery, will be enhanced in value 301. each by the preliminary drawing. For every Ticket thus entitled to 301. will still have the same chance of the Capitals in the Scheme as if it had not been drawn. Thus a person who obtains a 301. Prize To •Inoti ow, may, with the same Ticket, obtain the 20.0001. Prze that is attached to the First-drawn Ptize .on the next day of Drae , ing, or any other of the 102 Capitals in the Set,emr. ‘lll3, 9, Corithili, who Sold Two 20,0001 Prizes in Shares it) the Lottery Contract itto cw , cimird, has now on Sale Tickets and Shares in weat variety, and Porchasers at his Utiv.e will participate in every advantage of the scheme, 811.600614 he is not the Loat[actur. FOR THE-SUN; CHAIROMANIA. "- In my triumphant Cimriot hurl'd— Bow down ye shires and adore me, Your So'i:'rcig,n Lord, Mad Tom !"—Old Sox'. Ma. Enrroa—lt is a happy thing 'for this Country, (perhaps the Duly Country in the world, France and Art4rica not excepted) that t vety howLvtr humble or lowly, has daily op portunities where, when, end almost how he ideases, to declare end to manifest his opinion upon ten and measures, upon the politics of Bri• rain, nay of the World, whether he understands them or not. ' lu this point of view, whoever witnessea t h e procession and the crowd of the Westminster Chairing, must have felt gratified to tee so many, and such individuAls taking an active and an open part in the Freedom of Election ; and yet I must confess Ha must be a goto ma»d of popnlarity, Who could he prtiuti of the " sweet voices" of such a melange. I thought once that HUNT'S procession had ex hibited every thing radically low in this great Metropolis ; but Thuraday's Exhibition heat it " by chalks," or " all Lombard-street to a china orange," as more elegantly expressed by the Fancy. A first sight of the motley groupe, I could not help asking myself, " what hare these good folks to 'do with Freedom of Election, %viten so many of them, to say noilting of the Gods of their idolatry, appear a s if they ba 1 just obtained free dom from Aris's SAloon, I beg pardon, Brown's Buildinv,s in the Old Bailey ?"—but the question was answered by the Evening Papers where I fitut it recorded in letters from Rome, that the galley slaves a:ul prisoners had formed a plan to break their chains, and that they had prepared a Constitution, which was to be offered to public acceptance. But Italy, Sir, as you may perceive, is not the only Coun►ry «•here the occupants of gaols . prepare Constitutions. Witness the Tried Patriots of Britain. I. G. N. TI - lEATRICAL REGISTER. Per . l;,rmed 'ln Saturday Aitrht. THEATRE ROYAL, Daliay•LANE.—Artaxerxes : Artaxerxes, Madame Vestris; ArtabaNtes', Mr, hick:don ; Arbaces, Mr. Braham; Maiidane, Miss Carew. After which (first time), Stialispeare Versus Harlequin. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT - GARDEN.—kaIiIIOC: Isaac. Mr. W. Farren ; Rebecca, Miss Foote. After winch, Harlequin and Cinderella. TO CORRESPONDENTS. An ELECTOR of WESTMINSTER, on the AliontAstx ELECTION, losorul, and other Fsvuurs, To-morrow. PRICE OF STOCKS 11418 DAY AT TWELVE a CLUCK. 3 per Cent. Cons 6sl I Cons. for Accotna 6Bl Five per Gait ' 103 MAILS. AItiIIVED-2 Dublin, t Waterford, I France, 1 New York and Halifax.' I Hamburg!), DUE...-1 Holland, I Gottennurgb, 1 Hamburgh. 111Cti ‘VATEIt AT LONDON BRIDGE TO.MoRRow . Al9rning, 41 minutes after 0. 1 Ertiiiog, I minutes after 1. THE SUN. SOLE AI QUIS pILLIIE F It.SUM A (MEAT ? LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1820. Yesterday and this morniog we received the Paris Papers of Thursday and Friday last. The Monileur contains three Royal Oldonnauces, the first filling up the number (I'2) of the Commis sion of Censorship, by the appointment, as Mem bers, of the Sietir Raoul Itochette, 'Member of the Academy of Inscriptions, Pariset, L.indrieux, and Vie Hard. The second appointing Marsha l MONCPY, Duke of Conegliauo, Governor of the Ninth Military Division; and the third appoint ing the Duke de GAETE (Minister of Finance in the time of BUONAPARTO, to be Governor of the Bank of France. In the Chamber of Deputies, the discussion on the projet respecting the Financial Accounts was closed on Thursday, and the deliberation on the articles was adjourned tilt Friday. There is but little fresl► news from Spain in these Journals, ❑one indeed fr.tn Madrid of later date than what was ift the Papers received on, Saturday. The Constitution was proclaimed at Bilboa on the 29th ult. Tranquillity had, been restored at Cadiz, and fetes and rejoicings bad succeeded the deplorable events of the 10th. Amongst the'victims on that clay, were forty-three women, and ten children. The KING was still confined to his aparttnents. His MAJESTY on Thursday transacted business with the Duke de RICHELIEU and the Alinister of Finance. FIVR PER CENTS. Wednesday 73 f. 75 c. Thursday 73 f. 80 c. DEFEREED STUCK Wednesday. Thursday. Of the 2 , 2c1 March, 1317 ... .99 f. 63 t. 85c. 2‘.td Supt. 1817 ....97 f. h 5 c. 2id March, 1818 c. 2-20 Sept. 1615 1. 85 c. 22d March, 1819 1. 85 c. .22,1 Sept. 1519 .... `i9 f. 85 c. 1 - 72 d larch, 1820 .... 83 c..... 87 1. V)* c. Poston am! Ilslifax Pt to the 12th March Arrived this morning; they contain nothing o IMportance We recommend the article entitled Tits RE FORMER (No. 3), in our Paper of this &y, to the particular attention of our Readers, anll we can assure them, that it was written by ione of the most enlightened, learned, and respectable characters in this country, who gives a preference to THE SUN, as the most steady and consistent of MI Public Journals. It was our intention to terminate our revival of the accounts of the memorable Radical Meeting at Manchester iu August last, which we gave in the following month, upon the most unquestionable authority, but the false representations, despica ble ribaldry, malignant comments, and audacious calumnies of The Morning Chronicle and The Old Times, were so frequently repeated and so widely dispersed, that it is the duty of every loyal Editor throughout the Kingdom to give as extensive a circulation to unimpeachable statements of the For that purpose we reprint these au. hentic statements this day, that no assiduity on so important a subject shall be wanting on our part. We ventured to say, that it was the duty of Ministers to spread them widely, and we have rea son to believe that our suggestion was adopted. We repeat, that our accounts were marked by a degree of accuracy rather below the truth than by any exaggeration of the formidable procession of the Radicals, armed with offensive weapons, and truth. committing outrages on the march, which took place on the occasion. It may be said, that in thus insisting on the existence of facts contrar y to the evidence given on HUNT'S Trial, we accuse his witnesses of perjury. We do not mean to bring against them such a charge, but we re peat, that the witnesses in question were selected for thCir ignorance rather than their knowledge, and therefore that their negative testimony of what they did not hear and see can weigh but little against the positive testimony of those who have sworn to what they actually saw and beard. The recent outrages at Glasgow is a proof, that in the trials which b ive hitherto taken place we have " scotchid the Snake, not killed it," and that the Radicals of that place and its vicinity are ramifi cations of the Tree of Sedition, that would have taken root in Manchester, if it had not been polled down by the firm, loyal, and truly merit°. t it/115 exertions of the Magistrates and Yeomanry Cavalry, who have been so basely reviled in the polluted columns of The Morning Chronicle and the Old Times. We repeat, that it is highly cre ditable to Government and his MAJESTY, not only for the promptness with which the . Royal thanks were given to those abused Magistrates and Mili- tart', but also for not bringing forward witnesses, whose testimony would have satisfied all mankind of the outrages that were committed, and the evils that were intended, and rather let the mil. !nits have a chance for escaping than expose loya men to the danger of eventual destruction. We ought not to conclude this subject without directing the attention of the ATTORNEY.GENBRAL to the window of CArittot, in Fleet -street, where a large Print is every day exposed, representing the Yet,- manry Cavaity of Manchester in the act of indiscri. minate slaughter, sparing neither age nor sex. Such a graphic libel, which is doubtless seen every day by hundred . , if not thousands, is calculated to pervert the mind of the lower orders of the People much more than any libels of the Press, which are accessible to but few of an ignorant multitude, deniands the notice of the law, and if continued to be exhibited in order to provoke it, an exemplary punishment. NIENIBER RETURNED. Stewartry of Kircukibright.—General Dunlop. THE KING'S CoußT.—On Saturday morning, at I o'clock, his MAJESTY held a Court at his Pa lace in Pall-mall, which was attended by the Lord chancellor, and several other distinguished per sons. Addresses of condolence on the death of the late King, and of congratulation on the ac cession of his present Majesty, were presented by the Ambassadors and Missionaries of Russia, Spain, the two Sicilies, Denmark, and Sweden. Th e following presentations were made to His Majesty : Baron Just, the Saxon Minister, on presenting new cre dentials ; Count Ludolf, the Neapolitan Minister, on his ap pointment • Major-General Sir Benjamin D'Urb an , on b e i ng appointed 6overnor of Antigua; Sir Walter Scott, on being created a Baronet ; the Right Hon. David Boyle, the Lord Chief Justice Clerk of Session in Scotland. His Majesty held a Privy Council, after which I►e gave audience to the Duke of York, the Lord Chancellor, tie Earl of flarrowby, Viscount Sid month, the Duke of Wellington, and Sir William Scott, The Court closed at 3 o'clock, when the King left his palace, in his travelling-carriage, for Brighton,'"escorted by a party of Lancers, The East India Company's ships Lowther and Lord Castlereagh arrived off Portland the Bth inst.; hey lent Macao the Ist December, a► rived at St. Helena the 13th, and sailed again the 17th of February. On Si4tarday night, Prince LeornLD arrived in town frOm Claremont. Fiiiiiy nigl►t, his Royal Highness the Duke of Your: attivtthin town (rein Newmarket. INSURRECTION IN SCOTLAND. - - FURTHER AND IMPOnTANT PARTICULARS, g ' CEIVEI) THIS MORNING. ii GLASGOW, APRIL 6.—Evening.—Hoarly ou ti l momentarily, night and day alarms are given. Yesterday afternoon the Radicals in Bridgto el and Calton attempted to effect a general rising' with drums, flags, and arms; but soon dispersed."' In the evening several shots were fired as sigtol / ' but no meei ing took place. In the morninil; about day-light,bet weeii 30 and 40 Radicals,artu o with guns, pistols, pikes, Bic. marched 011.000 the( Village of Condorrat ; in military order IV smiths' shops in that village had previously bee" taken possession of, and used for making pi4eg* A considerable body of Radicals were seen on CV Banks of the Clyde, opposite Glasgow, t hi s m orn' ing ; many houses in the neighbour hood Wei l searched by them for arms. A number of pike° were found along the banks of the great Carrot' and brought into Glasgow by the Sheriff. 801 l this morning a party of Hussars and Riflemen ar' rived at Duntocbar, and surprised a number of Re' dicals, most of whom fled, but nine were takell and carried prisoners to Dumbarton Castle, thfeg were left wounded at Duntocbar. Had the Husssi arrived one bout: sooner they would have surprised about 300 Radicals at , drill. An extra patrole of 70 men parades the street. ' of Glasgow they, as well as the Yeomanry atril Hussars have been several times itisoited by the Radicals, some of whom have been taken uP for that offence. A party of eleven Radicals , supposed to be a Committee were sent tinder as` ese.)tt to the Police Office. ; one o' the 10th Hue ears Was fired at from behind a hedge, near Air' Brie. The perpe'rator escaped. Yesterday Calton and 13, idgerown were kept in constant ferment bY accoonis of pretendt•d Radical victories obtained 8 1 Kilsyth, Paisley, and Other strong holds of the dis' affected. Abou• 200 mei, as emuletl in Calton and 13ridgetown, of whom about one-half were armed with pikes, blunderbusses, arid pistols. In Tr-Ades' town 60 assembled at the sound of a bugle armed with pikes. This city being observ e d as a fast" day has gone off quietly, and it is hoped that *tie cotton-mills will all recommence working to-foor' row or Monday. n • STltturvo, APRIL 6.—A regulaf 'battle took place at Bonnie Moor yesterday, about 9 o'cloclts lir:tweet) a party of Radicals from Glasgow tied litisyth, about 50 in number, who were on theiC way to Falkirk and Carron, to rouse the workmen there, and a party of Hussars. The Radicals formed behind a wall, and when the Officer et Hussars ordered them to lay 'down their arnilli they answered by two regular rounds of shot ; they were quite desperate ; one fellow ran his pike into the Hussar Officer's horse's breast and attempted to fire in his face, when a iwivate hop sar shot him dead on the spot. Four, were killed in all, three brought in severely wounded, and fifteen other prisoners. A boy of fifteen wag among the Radicals,and fired seven shots. Shortly after this affair, Captain Nicholson wiih his trooe advanced upon the adjoining village, where they were received by a large coucourse of people with screams, hisses, and yells. Captain N. imme diately formed a line and addressed the multitude in a most manly and energetic manner, expressing • at the same time the most compassionate feeling' toward the deluded people. His address was list.. ened to in solemn silence, and seemed to produce great effect. • HOME DEPARTM ENT, SUNDAY, APRIL 9. Intelligence, of which'the followings the sub stance, has this morning been rectiven from Scot' land : "About seven a.m. on Wednesday, April 5, ont Or Stirlingsbire Yeomanry, in proceeding to join his troops! Falkirk, was stopped on the high road, within a few miles .0 5 Kilsyth, by a party of armed Radicals, who refused to 16 him pass. He turned back, and, on his return, met an or derly of the Kilsyth Troop of Yeomanry, who was on lia* march in the same direction with dispatches. The two Yee men went to Kilsyth, and reported what h a d h a pp ene d. " Lieut. Hodgson, of the 10th Hussars, and Lieut. David' son, of the Stirlingshire Yeomanry, immediately marched with a small party of each of those corps in pursuit of the Radicals/ and overtook them near Bonny-bridge.‘ " The Radicals, on observing this, cheered, and advance to a wall, over which they commenced firing on the military- Several shots were fired by the soldiers in return, and, aftet some time,• the cavalry passed through an opening in the wall, and attacked the Radicals, who resisted until they were, overpowered by the troops. F o u r were wounded, and one o f them was left un the field.. Nineteen were taken prisonerJo and lodged in Stirling Castle. Five muskets, two pis's:ols, ti pikes, and about 100 rounds of ball-cartridges were taken. " In this encounter Lieut. Hodgson received a pike %outs(' through the right hand ; and a serjeant of the Hussars was severely wounded by a shot in the side, and by a pike; thrco horses were also wounded. Lieut. Hodgson has reported .to Major-General Sir Thomas Bradford, that no tro o p s co uld behave better than the whole party under hiS command; and a General Order has been issued, highly cowplimentarytothe Yeomanry engaged on this occasion. The London Gazette of Saturday last contains the following Proclamation : BY THE KING.—A PROCLAMATION. GEORGE R. Whereas it bath been represented unto us, that during Os night of the Ist day of April instant, many copies of a priutril treasonable paper, entitled ".An Address to the Inhabitaut. of Great Britain and Ireland," and purporting to be issu by order of a Committee of Organization for forming 44 Prov sional Government, were affixed on the walls and other coil' 'spicuous places in the city and environs ofG-lasgow, and in TV nous parts of the counties of Lanark, Rentrew, Ayr, Dumbar' tun, and Stirling: Now we, being desirous of nringing toju , tice the authors and printersof the said treasonable paper, do hew . by, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, promise Utre most gracious pardon to any person concerned in affixing aa 4 publishing . the same, except the authors and printers thereof , who shall give such information to oyte of our principal Secre Caries of State, or to our Advocate of Scotland, or to the Lora Provost of our City of Glasgow, as shall lead to the detectio o of the authors or printers thereof; and, for further encoit' ragement to make the said discovery, we do hereby offer reward of 5001. to any person ( - except .as before excepted) giving such information as aforesaid, so that the said author; ur printers may be convicted of writing;, composing, and printing the said treasonable paper ; such reward to be paid , un the conviction of the offenders,-by the Lords Commis' . sioners of our Treasury. Given at our Court at Carlton-house, this Bth slay of Aprils 1820, nod in the first year of our GOD S.I‘'ETHE. KING. INCREASE OF DUTY PAID BY THE DIFFERENT FIR% OFFICES IN LoNDoN IN THE YEAR 1819. County 42421 13 4 Globe ... l5Bl 4 0 Atlas l3BB 0 3 Union Royal Exchange 923 18 9 Hope . Hand in Hand Imperial Albion Governor FARQuirAa embarked on Wediresdai: at Portsmouth, in the Luckingharnshirei sailed (or the illauritiAs, 1 Au