The Sun. — London, England, 1820-05-12 00:00:00

to in. i+estiOa by the e ,I cv l deem is cone Tile osition •ospeC! do nol to 0° a tionp, g ene' in a' 'road/ a pidll beeo of the s r were inner, wally imble Jil e 0. , H perg ce er of melt beer% rI tho e (be liA,, , ii-i g ere upolt e d bj ,i tlid oofer" e are is Lao stht run TuE st,N. 13L'ESS1NGS OF A FREE COUNTRY. Kent,' ►cr O f to be bit* vera. are,' r pry' /sari arc 601 said, y the es of 9.50 1 Con' thef mire hav 6 tiiny :ai4' MP ° . the bic IC" hi. aw" 384 of MR. Eprrott--- , When we look back to the pa ttiotic labours of the Opposition Press, we shall Lordly be surprised at the numerous emigrations to France, promoted as they have been by the I►rilliant pictures of French prosperity and French hospitali y, which the Editor of the Chronicle has Aligiogly laid before the public. It was not many months ago that this worthy gentleman, in long panegyric upon France, attributed its tisiog greatness, (it would puzzle the Chronicle to say in what it is rising) to the mildness of its Government ; to its indulgent laws, in short to its being as compared with England—a free court try, — As no contradiction of this rapturous effusion hats graced the columns of the accomplished Citro tick, I conclude that it is still the advocate of the great Nation, and as charity to our enemies teaches us to correct their blindness, I would offer th e following fact to the consideration of that patriotic Journal, which some of the Church and &ate men maliciously call the - Anti-Briton; and then ask the Conductor what he thinks of his free country. For the authenticity of this fact I dis tinctly pledge myself, and I sincerely hope it may have the effect of making our fellow-countrymen in France acknowledge that, notwithstanding all the abuse poured upon England, there are mo ments in which they look back 'with regret to the Island, which want of patriotism in the many and untoward circumstances in a few have forced them to abandon. I am, Sir, our very obedient Servant, G. M. In the early part of last month, en English man named Curd, who commands a small trading vessel between Dieppe and Brighton, left the firs, mentioned town for Calais, accompanied by an English friend, named Addis, who had some time Previously settled at Dieppe, where he gave les sons in his own language. It was intended that Addis should only - proceed as far as a small town called Dienville, not many miles from Dieppe, and that having seen his companion safely in the Diligence, which leaves that place for Calais, he should return home. On arriving at Dieuville, they found that the coach bad starred ; and as Curd knew no thing of the French tongue, Addis very kindly *Efered to proceed with him as far as Abbeville ogt foot, where he was likely to meet with a con- Itcyance for the remainder of his journey. Addis, 'Who bad not contemplated taking so long a jour tley as 45-miles, bad left his passport at Dieppe, hilt concluding (from the Chronicle of course) that he W as in a free -country, the want of a passport gave him no sort of uneasiness. At Abbeville, the Gens d'Armes, a n officious sort of Gentry, not known In this count r y, took the liberty of remind ing the Englishman of the dignity of the Great Nation, and very unceremoniously conducted him before the Commissary of Police, who; alter find. tag that he had no fee to be s tow, or that he was Ito intentionally sinning against the laws, permit t"l him to return home, with a very serious in /unction never to leave it again without his pass- P o rt. Addis took leave of his friend, and turned / ''s face towards Dieppe ; but he bad only pro '.eic(l 14 miles, when another set of Gens d 'Armes arrested him and threw him into prison, where he remained two days, %vial only straw for hts bed, and that not of the cleanest description. t t he end of this time, the Gens d'Armes having hot • htop.' else to do, re-conducted him to Abbe - where, although he had before received per kis • s t°ll from the Commissary of Police to return tb Di eppe, he was imprisoned for two days more, It ith the same description of accommodation. The uth ( 'rules of Abbeville having consulted on the , oar s , tos to be purs ue d, sent hi m b ac k to D ieppe, in tna fte Yof souse Gens d'Armes, to one of whom Wa s chained like a felon ; and on his arrival at heiroePrPe, as it was too late in the day to appear ' e the 'hit Mayor, he w as l o d ge d i n t h e common Linn I the f o ll ow i ng morn i ng, when he was e leas ed, aft er a proper admonition, which doubt h:lt si Y . bad the d es i re d e ff ect of convincing him that " in a free country. tk ()1111 EXCHANGE, M AY l2.—There have b een : it few arrivals of any grain biuce Wednesday ; till the Wheat trade continues exceedingly heavy, knit what sales were made were at Monday's t i ". Some quantity of that day's supply from f ti,;: e x 'lnd Suffolk was left on hand at the close o c h . " (Ny'B marker.-134; ley is Is. per quarter C a Per, the malting season being nearly over , so a l ,: t t he demand is now very trifling.—Oats tufty te,i,Port Wednesday's prices, and fine Corn met aii((!tYl.sate.--in Beans and Pease there is no aIter '4,B,\IITHFIBLD ATARKET..--.TIIIS morning's market , 8 , 1 8 . 1 : 1 "1 thinly supplied with all kind of Cattle, 11,401 e prices were somewhat higher than l ast Ctvli .tiet day.--mutf,,,, Veal, Pork, and Lamb, e afar) advanced in prim —flay and Straw are l ithe r t i .• j b ot' tuSt iNlatkvt•day, and in Clover t!lcre 4:4 alteration. SUN-OFFICE, I-lALF•PAST Two o'CLocx. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. At the Sitting of the Crum this morning, Mr PcAnsot4 resorted his argument in support of his application on a former day for a New Trial in the Cage of Sir CHARLPS WOLSBLBY, Bart. and JOSILPH HARRISON, convicted at the last As sizes for the County of Chester, of unlawfully assembling, and being so assembled, uttering cer tain eedirious expressions, of and concerning the Government of this Realm.--nr. PRARSON hay- ing concluded, The JUDGES delivered their opinions seriatim, all concurring that no reason had been shewn for making the Rnle absolute. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL then moved the Juda ment of the Court on the Defendants, after which an affidavit was read on the part of Sir CHARLES WoLsELEY, and Mr. PFAasoN addressed the Court in the best speech the case would admit of, in mitigation of punishment, on behalf of the De fendants. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL replied at great length, contending, that there was great misconduct at tributable to the Defendant, being a man of rank and I education, encouraging the people to assemble in an unlawful manner.— With respect• to frhuarsoN, he ought to have act ed differently ; being a Minister of the Gospel, be bad shewn himself a hypocrite. The COURT having consulted a few minutes, said they would consider of the Sentence by Mon day ; in the mean time, HARtirsoN was remanded to New gate, and Sir CHARLES WoLsELEY to the custody of the Marshal of the King's Bench Prison. SHIP NEWS. FALMOUTH, MAY 9.—Arrived the Lady Ara bella packet with a mail from Lisbon, in nine days, and the llarchioness of Salisbury packer, with a mail from the Islands, last from St. Tho mas's, in 31 days. She spoke this morning the Lady Carrington East Indianian. Also arrived the Perseverance, from London for Virginia. DEAL, MAY 11.—Arrived, and sailed for the River, the Lord Cochrane, Williams, and Nestor, Theaker, from Calcutta, Isle of France, Cape, &c. MARGATE, MAY 11.—A ship, reported to be the Abberton, from Bengal, went ashore yester day afternoon on the Long Sand, but was got off again by assistance from hence, and proceeded to the River this morning. LIVERPOOL, MAY• 9.—Arrived the Rambler, Ruth, from Lisbon, and Lord Collingwood, M'Lachlan, from Bahia. WATWORD, MAY B.—The Eliza, Ford, of Teignraouth, upset this morning in the River ; she had nothing on board, and is expected to be righted without damage. The Leicester Journ a l of Saturday says, that some very le.;gc orders have been received by the manufacturers of that town, which will employ most of the frame-work -knitters for the next five or six weeks in in;t:;:og half hose. JEROMR BUONAPARTR, the Princess his consort, his sister ELISE, and the notorious FouctiE, Duke of OTRANTO, are at present settled at Trieste, with the permission of the Austrian Go vernment. Yesterday Viscount and Viscountess GRANVILLE gave a grand dinner at their elegant mansion, in I3ruton-street,Berkeley-square. The Earl and Countess of JBIISEY gave a superb dinner, yesterday, to a large party of their distin guished mends. The Earl BATHUfIST entertained a large party of distinunished persons y ester d ay , at his house in Great Stanhope -str e et, May Fair. The Countess BEAUCH AMP'S ball, yesterday evening, in St. ; James's-square, was attended by upwards of 200 distinguished fasbionables. Yesterday Lord BuowNLo►v gave a grand dinner at his house in Cavendish-square, to a large party of Noblemen and Gentlemen. Airs. WATSON TAYLOR entertained a large party of tashionables, yestetday evening, at her house n Cavendish-square. GEORGB WEBB HALL, Esq. of Sneed Park, near Bristol, was on Tuesday elected Secretary to the Board of Agriculture, in the room of the late AR THUR YOUNG, Esq. GRORGB WEDGEBERROW. Esq. one of the Pages to his MAJESTY, died on IVednesday night, after an illness of several weeks. It is a singular coinci dence, that one of the Yeomen of the Guard died also the sante evening. —This person had been upon duty, in good health throughout the day, at the levee : but, upon retiring to his house in the even ing, he sat down in his armed chair, and in a few moments was a corpse. Death of a I?enzarkobly Old Woman.—On Fri day last died, at Smart's-buildings, Ann Henley, in her 105th year. This extraordinary woman was born at West Chester, in the year 1716, and completed her 104th year the 4th of March last. She had enjoyed an uninterrupted state of health till within six days of her death, and retained her faculties in full vigour till within a few hours of Lt cr end. Her beverage to her 40th year was whey, which she discontinued upon coming to London. The latter part of her life she received something weekly from the parish; bat supported herself chiefly by making pincushions, which were neatly executed, and without the aid of glasses. She had borne thirteen children, four of whom are lett to survive her, the youngest being up wards of 60 years old. She used to sit at various doors in Holborn, to sell her coshions ; was short in stature, always Wearing a grey cloak, and was as mild aril modest in her deportment as site .was vkaoly 'in her peron•- Is 0E T Y. A .SONG For the Anniversary of the TarEitAnrNu, 3tly 4, 1820, Sung by JOHN BKAHAM, Er 7. 6,1 Freemasons' hall. Bless'd be the Task to yield Relief To Want, Disease, or pining Care ! But doitt4 bless'd ! to soothe, the Grief Of Minds that border on Despair ! No OTWAY, now, shall pine for Bread; No BUTLER find a thankless Court— Our KING bids Genius raise his head, And Learning's Claims shall meet Support. Of all the Charities that hind .. Affection's Curds about the Breast, Like Heaven's the work to heal the Mind, And renovate the Heart opprest! Then honour'd be the happy Day That gave your lili . ral System birth! The Clouds from Genius pass away, And hope shall dawn on modest Worth! WILLIAM THOMAS .FITZGERALD. DUBLIN, MAY 8. MR. GRATTAN-CATHOLIC AGGREGATE MEETING. A Meeting of Catholic Genilemen. was held at D'Arey's, in - Essex -street, on Saturday, pursuant ro adiournment.—Sir THOMAS ESMONDE, Bart., in the Chair. The following Address and Answer were read:— SIR,—We have learned, with deep affliction, that your health has been of late much impaired, and that your Physi cians deem your intended journey to England for the present unadvisible. The object of that journey is avowed, and is one which revives and increases those sentiments of lively gratitude and profound attAchinent, which we hare ever en tertained towards you; and we cannot more suitably express the sincerity of those sentiments than by most earnestly and anxiously entreating that you will postpone that journey, of which our liberties are the great object. We have, therefore, a right to conjure you to spare your self for your afflicted country, and to await a more favour able, and, we trust an early opportunity, of advocating our cause with renewed health. For and on the part of the Meeting, RANDALL M'DONNELL, Chairman. N. P. O'GORMAN . , Secretary. Right Hon. Henry Grattan. Stephen's Green, May 5, 1820. GENTLEMEN—I thank you touch for your solicitude on my account. I did intend to bring on your question speedily but I feel that this is at present impossible; I shall endea r your to bring it on in a reasonable time, such as may suit the convenience of the parties concerned. Nothing but physical impossibility shall prevent me, as I consider that my last breath belongs to my country. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your very obedient humble Servant, HENRY GRATTAN. I hope, in the course of next week, to be able to w►'ite to you more fully on the important subject u led to in your Address. Mr. GRATTAN'S Answer was inclosed in a note, of which the following is a Copy, to the Acting Secretary : Stephen's-Green, MHy 5, 1820. MY DEAR SlR—According to Mr. Grattan's request, I hare the honour to send you his answer to the Address agreed up on at a Meeting of Roman Catholic Gentlemen, held on Wed nesday, the 3d instant. I have the honour to be, dear Sir, Your very obedient humble Servant, HENRY GRATLAN, jun. To Nicholas Purcell O'Gortnan, Esq., Secretary &c. &c. Harcourt-place. The same sentiments of profound veneration for Mr. Gratian, which were so conspicUous at the Meeting on ‘Vednesday last, pervaded the present assembly.. The following Resolutions were moved by Mr. O'Connell, seconded by Mr. 1-1. O'Connor, and unanimously adowed : Resolred—That Mr. M'Donuell, Mr. Woulfe, Shiel, and Mr. O'Connell, do constitute a Committee for the pur pose of preparing Resolutions and a Petition for the ensuing Aggregate Meeting. Resolved—That Messrs. Coppinger, Browne, Mullen, Hickey, and Fitzpatrick, do constitute a Committee-fur the purpose of obtaining a proper place for holding the Aggre gate Meeting, on Tuesday the 15th inst. Mr, O'CONNOR was then called 'to the Chair, thanks were unanimously voted to Sir Thomas Esmonde, and the Meeting ,adjourned to half -past three o'clock on Tuesday next (to'morrow.) MAYNOOTH COLLEGE. The following . Letter ['as been received by Lord Fingall "Dublin Castle, May 2, 1820. " Ms' Loup—The Lord Lieutenant baring transmitted the very loyal and dutiful Address from the Trustees, Pri sident, Masters, and Scholars of the Roman Catholic College of May 'tooth, to the King, I airs commanded by his Excellency to acquaint your Lordship, that he has received a letter from the Viscount Sidwoutb, one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, signifying that his Majesty was pleased to receive the same in the most gracious manner. " I have the honour to hz, my Lord, " Your most obedient humble Servant, " W. GREGORY. " The Earl of Fingal), &c. &c." W ESLEYAN METHODISTS. On Tuesday last, the 2d inst., the first s•one of the Fermoy Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, was laid by THOMAS ‘VxLKER, Esq. in presence of a nu memos and respectable .assembly. Mr. NVood, of this City, accompanied by Messrs. Crook and Mathews, Preachers in the connexion of the late Reve'rend John Wesley —attended on the occasion—when Mr. Wood delivered a most impreSsive and able discourse, from—" Other foundation can no man lay, than that is laid, which is Jesus Chtist"—and concluded with a dedicatory prayer. The day was very fine, and favoured this religious solemnity, which was per formed in the Open air,—Mr. Walker has not only subscribed handsomely, but has given alease of the ground fur the Chapel fut ever, for a Mel e nominal comideration. FOR Tnn SUN. ail our declamation, the whole resolves itself into this simple proposition, and which from past ex. perience we may lay down as an axiom, namely, That Agriculture and Commerce are the sources whence national licippiness, opulence, and int+e- peDdence triwil netze.ssarily emanate. Since these,. by actively employing the mind, preserve it from indolence and despondency on the one hand, and from rapine and treason on the other, at the same • time they furnish the Nation at large with those comforts, without which life must be a barren wilderness. While, by the returns of such industry, the country becomes opulent ; from such opulence the State derives that revenue which gives efficiency to all its Legislative measures, whether such measures have a foreign or domestic tendency, and thus constitutes its independence. Wherefore, the only relative inference, deducible from these premises, is, that hatever stagnates our commercial current or narrows its seas, must he incon sistent with sonod policy, and inimical to the best interests of the Empire. Hence, then, I presume, that the only mode of restoring the languid energies of the country is the encourage ment of our Agriculture and Manufactures, and by the extension of our Commerce. From this view of the subject, who will with hold his heal ty coucturenee from the Petition now before the House; or who will not most anxiously wish that its prayer may be ottani. mously and speedily granted by the immediate re moval of all those restrictions which affect our commercial interests ? But here I cannot forbear rem4rking, that in the disoissinti of all questions of national importance, the debate should be conducted tree from all party prejudices or pet sonal allusions ; otherwise the Speaker awakens those passions which ought to be hushed, and diverts the attention of his audi tory front the subject under irnmedi,ite considera tion. ‘Vben a wide and trackless field of argu ment being disclosed to view, each proceeds as is most congenial to his own Feelings, preimbees, and propensities, until he ultimately finds hirriself be wildered in the intricate labyrinth at false reason ing: while truth is sactithed, or rAther assassinat ed, at the shrine of caprice, and just reasonug at that of mere opinion. Muy 11th, A BRITON. *** The Petition from the Merchants of Lon don, recently presented to Parliament, and which appeared in THE Sus of the 2fith ult., relates to matte's so interesting to the Country, that it well deserves the attention of the Legislature.— %Ve have signified that our Paper shall be open to tree discussion respecting the objects of that Pe tition, and we invite the Communicatioos of our Commercial Readers on a subject of so much im portance. CAUTION TO SERVANT 9 . - Wednesday about sever o'clock in the morning, a man dressed in a fustian jacket and trowsers, and having the • appearance of a painter, called at the house of Mr. Parnel, - at Walworth, and told the servant maid that he came to examine the house by order of Mr. Paine', preparatory to its being painted. The girl, having no suspicion, admitted him with out hesitation. He first surveyed the kitchen, where (as if inadvertently) he left his rule, and then proceeded to -look at the front and back parlours ; here he suddenly missed his ride, and desired the servant to fetch it, which she did ; after pretending to take the measure of the wains cot, and taking a tew notes on a piece of paper with a Mark-lead pencil, he went away, promis ing to call again when the family were - risen. • As soon as Mr. Parnel got up, the girl . communicated to him what happened; but as he had ordered no nainter to come, he immediately suspected a rob bery, and .on examination, it was discovered that the sideboard drawer had been forced, and thir teen pieces of pl'ate stolen. Tuesday evening, as Mr. James Smith, 'Vestry Clerk of St. Mary, ‘Vhitechapel, was passing along Haydon•square, near the Minories, a fellow corn ing by, •shoved him aside, and drew out his watch. Mr. Smith, not perceiving that be was robbed, turned round, and reprimanded the fellow for his conduct, when the thief made a polite apology, and walked off. Mr. Smith, on discovering his loss, pursued him, but without effect. Between eleven and twelve o'ciock on Thur-s• day night, while a party of the Lanark County I'atrole ,were at the solidi end of the Thn ber-bridge, Glasgow, they heard the report of fire-arms. It appeared to proceed front Warm. Waier-street, and on going up the street they met three fellows. On one of the pal role cry ing—here they are, the - fellows ran off. One of them, however, was secured, and a ii:stol was found next day on 'the inside of a wall near %chic!' the capture was made. It is supposed to have been thrown over the wall. The pri soner is an Irishman, a cotton•spinner, arid lives at Greenhead. The shots were fired into the house of an operative cotton-spinner in Narrow -street, Hutchesontown. The ruffians were displeased at the man for working for wages which they re garded as too low. They appeared to be well acquainted with the premises, as two of the balls lodged near the head of the bed, from which it is inftrred they intended to murder the family while asleep. The Irishman has been lodged in jsil,-and a precogni.ion is going UM—(Edinburgh Courant, May S.) Ebrroß—ln 014 discussion of the Ques tion relative to our Commercial Interests, much useless declamation has been employed to con vince us of what must, be obvious to every re flecting mind ; at the same time much irrele vant matter has been introduced, and a variety of characters brought on the stage totally uncon nected with the point under debate. Since, after