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Ri:_ifirs AND PitiviLEGEs. JOUN IJE 7 //„ 1:1Q. LETITE.vii iii , NcsTJons—Y,tir E!cctioni are now nearly You have already - given the go-by to some of the self-esteemed !rites or wise wen of the last frbet. Wittrirrigemo , v; and trtr±4t that by the time you read this epistle, you +Ail Iltive a few others to the right about, iosteaci diem to disgrace the !most august Legislative A setilbly that the world has ever yet produced. Neither Greree nor Itonie, in their best days of liberty, were able to show any iiiiug ctintil to tt British Parliament. In Greece and whett.er Aris- tocracy or Dcmocricy, wheTlier Oligarchy or Au3rcliy (And there never was a me dium), still were thq Pcopie the dAyes of a par y. But in a British so nicely hdlAnccd are all the Ipn , •ers, and all ine interests, that no ooe can pteilutnittate over !he others n•ithott' being instantly checked ; thus btingin : 4 all exuberant povLer within bounds, ye . still adding strength to the Constitution of the NAioo. In short, the whole di•play of ltlective Fran cottpled as it i. with het editary claims to I.,,gislative jurisdiction, mark+ most strongly the supeniority of the present times, as to personal liberty and constitutional influence, over those to which we have art ived in our investiotion of your Right's and Privileges, Jon NNY, at.the period of the much-vaunted assemblage of the People, when BazTAIN was divided jut° seven Saxon Kingdoms, but none of them equal, in population and in opulence, to a middle-sized County of the pre sent day. Yet I wish not to despise the institu tions of your Saxon Ancestors, many of whose allodial tenures and customs - are interwoven in our present social system, but tinged with feudal pe culiarities, not only from the Norman Invasion, but also from the voluntary introduction of the Friuli! System, which took place trs early as the year -600 ; and with w hich came in the establish- went of the Court of Lliaoce►y, by ETHELBERT, King of Kent, ►Le first Christian King or Chick- tai u, ii 60:). Iliac Court, JOHNNY, is a safe Guardian of your nights, your Privileges, and your Property; and, !hal Property was then beginning to accu mulate in Britain, is evident from the fact, that in 694 the City of Lou►ion paid a sum in silver to King of Wessex, equal to 90,000/. of our present money. There was one very wholesome right, my wor thy old Eriend, which your ancestors exercised at that period, and which I shduld be happy to see nor. , in more general practise —every man then brewed his own beer ; for there were no ale-houses until 736, and no Brewers' 'Druggists for many years afterwards ! At least I find no mention of them in the early lists of the Lords Mayors of Lon dolt ; and the consequence was, that nobody was forced-to take physic, except when their state of health qatittired it. IVllether ale-houses were then, as at present, the seats of political discussion, it is now difficult to ascertain. The Old Times are not so old as that day ; and as for the Chronicle—why the ale then was -strong, and the Pint, you know, talks only , about " chronicling small beer," as vapid as its politics. But if the ale-houses were filled with Patriots, great must have been the speeehifica tions at the Crown and Anchor, and the London Tavern, when F.:GBERT, seventy years after they were established, also established the Union of the Heptarchy into one Empire: The melancholy truth must, however, be ac ;know!edged, at least in regard to City politics, when that important event took placf., that as there were no Brewers' Druggists, so were there no Ginspinners, Nay, as neither shirts, nor even dandy-collars were then in fashion, I ant also afraid that there were no litten irapers to regulate the public opinion, to take the precise limhs of a political arrangement by their own short measures, or to snip off half a quarter and nail from whatever exceeded the limits of their'own understanding. In short, JOHNNY, I am afraid that your ancestors were de prived of one of your greatest pleasures, the plea sure of being told that you are ruined at the very moment when you are growing richer, and living better than ever you did in your life before, al though circumstances, for the moment, call upon you to assist a tew of your very numerous family with the necessaries of life, until your old cus tomers shall have recovered from the robberies committed upon them by the Corsican Macheath. In spite, however, of ale-house-politicians, the Union under h;c e. 11 Is did take plare ; and from that tooment did OLD ENuLAND begin to hold on her head, and to maintain her Rights and Privi leges as a Kingdom amongst the Nations of Europe ! - From that erg you &hall, next weak, hones( JoHN, start on a treih excursion with Yours, IGNOTUS. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed Last Nigh(. TtirAITE norm., Dan 117-IINE.- -1 Cure for the Heart-Ache: , 1" , ,uu: 4 ltdpid, Mr. Elliston ; Ellen Vortex, Mrs. Robinson. Aire.- which, Jack and the Bean Stalk. rucA ran ROYAL, CovENT-GARDsN.—lvanhoe: Isaac, Mr. \V. I:m4-en ; Rebecca, Miss Foote. After which, The Ma n t.t•er in Distress ; to which was added, Too Late for Dinner. PRICE O TRIA riAT AT STOCKA V.1.V1.1 0 CI.IICK. 3pr r Cent. Cons GRfi 4 Exch. Bills, 2d... Is. dis. par i per ( It. Navy Ann 10,342 2s. dis. loy. 3 per Cent. Ann..... 671 Ditto Small ls. pr. India Bowls New Annuities MAILS. A RR g VED-1 Dublin , 2 IVaterford, 1 Guernsey and Jersey, 1 Holland, 1 Flanders, 1 Jamaica. DIJE-1 Guertitvy and Jet-9ley, 1 Gottenburgh, 1 Lisbon, 1 .Malta. ft MU WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO.MORItOW. Nlnroirig, 3(S minutes atter 4. I Evening, 56 minutes after 4. THE SUN. S(LEM QUIs 14ICEIIE FALSIIM AUDEAT ? LONDON, Fturmr, ALIRCH 17, 1820. We received this morning the Paris Papers of Tuesday last. In the Chamber of Deputies, on Monday. a report was made from the Com mittee of Petitions, respecting a number of farther Petitions against any alterations in the Election Law. After some discussion, and a debate upon an incidental point, the Peti tions were got rid of by passing to the Order of the Dist. The discussion was then resumed on the proiet respecting individual liberty. M. Rivtaaa, the Reporter of the Committee, pre sented a new version of Article 2, drawn up with the consent of the Government, the chief purport of which was to direct the communication of all papers and proCeedings re lative to any arrest, to the Minister of Justice, to be by him laid before the Council. The Arti cle thus arranged, was agreed to. The 3d Article, as amended by the Comrni:tee, so as to render it 'imperative upon the Government to give a party arrested information in writing of the causes of his arrest, or to set him at liberty within three months was then taken into consideration, and after some debate agreed to as amended by the Committee. Sonie new amendments, proposed by MM. BENJAMIN CONSTANT and DaVAUX, were after a stormy discussion rejected. The discus sion of the last Article was postponed till Wed nesday. The following are extracts : PARIS, MARCH 14.—The King yesterday transacted business in the morning with the Count Simeon, Minister of the Interior, and in the after noon with the Duke de Richelieu. His Majesty paid a visit to the Duchess de Berri. " Vespers anti Vigils were channted yesterday . at Sr. Denis, on the removal of the remains of the . Duke de Berri from the Chapel of St. Louis to the Choir of the Church, preparatory to the funeral ceremony of tl►ia day. The Bourse and all the Theatres arc closed. INTELLIGENCE FROM SPAIN. (Front the Gazette de France.) • We have received out of the usual course in telligence from Madrid to the sth March. • The Gazette of the 4th contains an expos 6 of the situation of the Kingdom. liis Majesty ma nifests in this Paper his earnest &sire to tran quillize the diNtiietudes which agitate some parts of the Kingdom, anti he directs his Royal Council to propose to him such measures as they may judge it suitable to adopt with a view to that object. His Majesty at the same time re quires the Corporations and Universities of the Kingdom to furnish to the Council all the in formation which they may deem it useful to ad dress to it for that purpose. • The !clog has decreed a new organization of the Council of State, which will be divided into seven sections. Great hopes were entertained at Madrid of being enabled to succeed in inducing the return of the City of Corunna to its obedience to the King. It appears that the lurtirrection had been quelled at Santander. Some smugglers attempted, on the 2Stl, February, to raise a commotion in a small town in Murcia, but this project completely faded. (Front The .Journal des Dehats.) The intelligence from Madrid of sth March, is more satisfactory thin that brought by the last two Couriers. The capture of the Cortadura is not confirmed. All that has been said respecting the' movements in the Kingdom of Valencia and in Catalonia, appears to be destitute of founds- Lion. A movement of some smugglers in the town Aigrzanes (in the Kingdom ot Altircia), tshich Ix as attempted, failed in consequence of the people raking no purl in it. ' There was nothing new respecting the march of Meg() and his tioo l ,s, The spirit of the people in Gailicia, gives reason to hope that the liroorection at Corunna .vill make no progress. Mina had not vet hren able to *Assemble a body of men ; he was c.:cpelli'd to wander in the neighbourhood of the Pyrenees with a dozen individuals.' " The Queen of England arrived on the 22d February at Rome, where she alighted at the Palace of Lucien Bonaparte, which her Majesty had hired for a month. The Government did not send her a Guard of Honour, nor were the Hano verian Minister, or the English Consul General presented to her. It is true, that her Majesty travelled, with a passport, containing only the name of the Countess Oldi, but she every where on her journey caused herself to be announced as Queen of England. FIVE PRA CENTS. Shut price Monday, Ex. Div 72 f. 60 c. DEFERRED STOCK. Of the 224 March, 1817, 9B f. 50c. 22d Marsh, 1819, 9O 1. 50 c. 221 Sept. t 819, BB f. 70 c." We have just received a private Letter from Paris of a very recent date, upon the information of which we believe that there is too much rea son to depend. It appears that the French Go vernment has received the most alarming accounts of extensive secret associations at Lyons, Gre noble, Dijon, Rouen, and several other places. The author of the Letter is a person in authority, and confidentially trusted with matters of import ance. We should not have had this information from him if he had not reason to believe that the conspiracies were now known to exist, and if mea sures had not been adopted in order to endeavour to counteract them. We say endeavour, for we fear that the Radical spirit which has so long dis turbed this Country is likely to be still more vio lent abroad, because no People. have so good a po litical frame of Government'as is in this Country, and because no other People on earth are equally free. The toleration of the Revolutionists in France, ar.d even the sanctioned return of some of the Regicides, has given new hopes to the rising race of Jacobins, and absolutely threatens the total extinction of Royalty. The Gentleman who fa voured us with the Letter positively contradicts the account wirich has been given of the situation of Louver., the murderer of the Duke de 13eaar. The author has actually seen the Culprit in prison, -and he says that Louver. is not cased in irons, las reported, though strongly ironed. Nor is ,it true,.as reported likewise, that he has been re peatedly bled, in order to enfeeble him, and, by reducing him in mind and body, to tempt him to confess whether he had any confederates or prompters. It is said that . having bad an in flammatory attack in the chest, he was slightly blooded, but he has not bad any occa sion for any other surgical assistance. The report of his baying been thus reduced by art, to extort confession, is nothing but an infa mous fabrication, in order to, excite a belief that resort bad been had to a revival of torture, mere ly to bring an odium upon the Government, and excite compassion for a man who has achieved what too many of his way of thinking are ready to carry into the utmost excesses of revolu tionary carnage. We expect to hear more of the Conspiracy which we have above noticed ; and ' shall immediately communicate it to our Readers. For our part, considering that Paris is now the vortex of Jacobinical turpitude, we expect to hear of some tremendous explosion, except the KING depends more on his own judgment than be seems hitherto to have done, and displays less fa cility in listening to those hollow advisers, who have no view but to their own interest, and who care not whether a BOURBON or a BUONAPARTB be at the head' of affairs, if they can be secure of place, power, and affluence. New York Papers arrived this• morning to the ISth of Febroary. (Fr(dne toe New nrk Commercial Advertiser, Feb. 10.) SOL"I'll AMEItICA Sr. THOMAS, JAN. H.—We have had an ar rival to-day from Margaritta, which brings us positive accounts that Lima is taken by the Inde pendents, under General ST. MARTIN and that Qaito has declared itself independent, and has sent D , puties to BOLIVAR, at St. Ft, desiring to be admitted into the Union. The Spanish Ge neral CALSADO, with 400 men, had retreated into Popayan, and passing with his troops, bad arriv ed with the main army, which was considerably reinforced. BOLIVAR himself made a hasty visit to Angostura, whe).e he remained only twenty four hours. During his stay, he made General ARISMENDI Governor-General of Cumana, and Don ZeA was re-appointed Vice-President, and is shortly to go to Rome by way of England, for the purpose of obtaining from the Holy See Bishops, &c. &c. BERMUDA has been appointed General of the Province of Socaro. General AU GUADERI is dead of the yellow fever. MONTILLA has arrived here from Margaritta, but is returned again to take charge of the expedition, which is kept a secret. MARINO was at Matutin with labout 5000 men, and these all sick, which has v caused a delay of his march. P. S. 1 have just learnt that Don ZEA is not to proceed to Europe, but to the United States, as Ambassador Extraordinary. Jamaica Papers arrived this morning to the 6tll February. (From the Royal Gazette of the sth Febraarly) Advices from St. Jsgo de Cuba, by the Swift, state, that three :Spanish Guineamen had beef' detained on the coast of Africa, by Blitibb cruisers, in consequence of their trading in slaver. Arrived at St. Jago, the Terrible frigate, of 4 guns, Captain POPHAM, from Port Royal, last from Port-au-Prince. By advices from Vera Crnz, of a late dare, wer learn, that a violent storm from the North had been experienced there, during which three Spa nish vessels of war were lost, and 106 men pe rished on board, bound to the Havannah. KINGSTON, JAN. 20.--Advices have, reached this' city, that M'Gregor was at Cape Henry on the 4th instant, and gave out that he expected to be joined by five hundred Highlanders, with whom he proposed landing on the Isthmus of Darien. Five of the wives of the unfortunate people who were made prisoners at Rio de la Haebe, aria' were afterwards shot, arrived yesterday (roar Santa Martha. We understand that a letter has been received by the Jamaica vessels, arrived this morning, from Captain MARSHALL, of the Hero, stating that BOLIVAR has captured the whole of the Carracas. SHIP NEWS. DEAL, JAN. 16.—Came down from the River:. and sailed, the Dorsetsbire, Lyde, and Winchelo . sea, Adams, for St. Helena and China ; Venus), Gray, for the South Seas ; Redman, Mainwaring:- for Antigua ; Telus, Chilton, for Pernambuco;. and Sir George Osborne transport, for the Cape of Good Hope. Arrived, and sailed for the Wa— ver, the Thalia, Webster, from Jamaica; Dryden, from Berbice ; end Victory, Cunning.- ham, from Seville.—A coat has been taken frogs a wreck on the Goodwin Sand, in the pocket of which was found a Light bill of the Nancy, Coati): of Plymouth, of 126 tons, which vessel, it is feared, was lost in the gale of the 2d inst. The Redman, Mainwaring, has since got on shore near Dungeness, during a fog, but, if the weather eon.' tinues favourable, it is expected she may be" got off. HARWICH, MARCH 16.—Arrived the Lady Ne peon packet with a mail from Holland. WHITBY, MARCH 15.—The following vesso have sailed to the Greenland Seas :--Phcenit.- Dawson ; Valiant, Agar; Volunteer, Craig ; Mars, Johnson ; Esk, Dunbar; James, Quick.. fall ; and Resolution, Kearsley. FALMOUTH, MARCH 14.—Arrived the Stantner packet, with a mail from Jamaica, its 35 days. NEWCASTLE -UPON -TYNE, MARCH 15, —Oo Monday last an elegant Dinner was given at the Turk's Head Inn, Newcastle, by his Grace the Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND, to the Dismounted Cavalry of that town, under the command or Captain Reed, (the Mayor of Newcastle). After the toasts of the King, the Duke of York and the rest of the Royal Family, the Navy, &c., Caps- Reed (the Chairman) rose to propose the health of a Nobleman, who, he observed, was not less distinguished by dignity of rank, than he was cc-. lebrated for every virtue that ornamented the man and the patriot ; his benevolence and public spi rit, in fact, proceeded with equal step, which gave to his high character a brilliancy of lustre that far exceeded any thing his best eulogy cold(' offer. It was scarcely necessary to say he alluded to his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, whose health he proposed should be drank in a bumperr with three times three.—The toast was draill‘ accordingly with the greatest enthusiasm, and amid thunders of applause. Several appropriate toasts followed, among which were Col, Brand' ling and his Corps, her Grace tie Duchess of Northumberland, the Coal Trade, &c. The Vice"' President (Lieut. Btilman), in neat and appro priate terms, proposed the health of the Chair' man, which was drank with three times thre" and great applause. Capt. Reed then rose and re" turned thanks, observing, that he felt very deeply the honour that had been conferred upon iOn" and that be should ever most warmly appreciat e the good wishes of that patriotic band now befor e him, who had so spiritedly come forward for to' tiorial defence. His best thanks, in every sense. were their due, and he cot:M not sit down witlino.t offering them, from the bottom of his heart, 1 . 315 sincere wishes for their happiness and prosperi t Y v individually and collectively.—(Very great to“: continued applause.)—Nothing could exceed LII` endeavours of the worthy Chairman to keep ur (hP qui tire; the consequence was, that the utmos t hilarity and good humour prevailed till a 15(e hour, and much entertainment was afforded by several songs, that were sung with great taste and talent. A Ilanthurgh Mail has arrived, with Paper 9!, / the 10th inst. An article dated Geneva, the 2°' of February, states, that according to accouloit front the South ot France, it was expected trici t ' l. Pro:estant families ot that country will seek tWt. asylum in Switzer and, from an apprehensiot i .% the renewal of the popular eXCL'3SOI from Wb !c .' they had so greatly suffered. app, TO): 41,51 tiv Le m th t .„ !ail is e „ tilt, CoN, C ann ti„e, T anis PYni I , „ vie tti rr, ‘42,tt Lo rd Jir J. A 4. witrltil - tirth ~..Q„ tt Orr liur,Z Ci karie P, ice R o b. L)guint: tthi s I) li p ark t :, dp ‘‘!her,: t u , el; / '' k 11,, Prk,