The Sun. — London, England, 1820-10-31 00:00:00

WEEKLY RETROSPECT. As the columns of THE Sus have hitherto been unstained by prejudications of the unhappy Na tional Cause under process, we shall still abstain, even in its advanced state, from hazarding ; yet we cannot be silentas to passing facts, or to the loudly promulged assertions of sinister partii,ans. If we, therefore, look at the events of the past week, perhaps one of the most extra ordinary is that unbounded and transcendant praise, we had almost said fiatterN, offered up by her MAJs'r v's Solicitor-General to the ta lents and exertions of his Learned Friend. We cannot suspect his sincerity ; yet in that point we do suspect that the intelligent part of the Public duubt his judgment. It is true alsO that the Ocuzisr has had every advantage, both as to Counsel and Witnesses, that she could wish for— Law, Equity, Court Practice, Parliamentary Pri vilege, and almost uncontrolled license, have been permitted to act in her favour, and, to wind up, not only have the practice of the pro secuting Law Officers been lenient and tender in the extreme, the judgments of the first Law 0111- cer of the State most impartial, and the conduct of the Prime Minister most liberal, but she has had the further advantages of a closing ,speech from her Solicitor-General (his Majesty's Attor- DeV-General's excepted) the most argumentative, and another from her Learned Civilian the most persuasive that have, perhaps, ever graced British Forensic Oratory ! But with all their legal knowledge, with all their skill, and with all the freedom from those trammels which have unavoidably checked and impeded the flow of oratory on the opposite side, even her Counsel, to_ say nothin4 of her witnesses, have injured her cause. To those Counsel we give every credit for talents, for honour, and for• sin cerity, yet there are one or two points that de serve notice. The first closing speech starts with a sophism; - for it takes up that part of the pre amble respecting the chivalric order., as a charge per se, and 'defends -it upon that principle, when in fact it is really adduced as a collateral illus tration of the general charge, and as so Jar cri minal. Of what consequence is it to the present ;case, that xEN who were warriors and subjects, have instituted orders for their brethren in arms? The present case is of a female of the highest rank, all but .a Queen, making her Lacquey, in z.ecula seculorum, the Grand Master of an Order vf Knighthood or. which she constituted herself the Patron Saint! A DEFENCE which starts with a point so nnteni.ble must indubitably manifest a consciousness of weakness in all its parts. Nor is the concluding address in that speech less ex traordinary, when the Peers are called on to say Neither do I condemn thee—Go, and sin no more! !" The Civil ground too., as taken, contains some _cxtraordinary admissions of the same kind ;,but the .general arguments in regard to the Tent scenes are the most curious. The fact of BEtt -G-Imr having been a sleeping partner in that Tent, if not in the ifouse, is said to be 'admitted ; then it 'is spoken of as only founded in possibi lity ear belief; then it is stated to have beeß no m y stery—but, why then was it denied at all, and why were tWo Naval witnesseg brought to ; disprove it -? We may here ask, were Her MA.• J EST Y'S Counsel fully in the secret? 13/11 to leave matters in doors, for those with out, we see that even the venal and turbulent 'part of tile Press has -ceased to load Her MA JESTY with assertions of Innocence—one Even ing Paper, indeed, admits the moral, but denies the legal guilt—hut that Press has fully made itself amends by vituperation against every thing great or good in the Country. Fearing to attack the KING or BRITAIN, they have carried on a petty warfare against the King Hanover ; and they have assailed the Peers and Bishops, &c. in gener.?l, and in detail, as if no act of Scandalum .11.1agnatum were in existence. Nor have Foreign Courts, nor our own Fo reign Diplomatists, escaped_ The. Court of VI ENNA, in particular, has been loaded with oppro brium for its sense of decorum ; and it is not the least remarkable part of the charge that the por tion of the Press which formerly asserted that Britain had lost all her influence in the Conti mntal Courts, for which, too, Lord CASTLE REAGH was loudly blamed, is now as loud hi at tributing the neglect which her MAJESTY met with to British influence. At Vienna, in parti cular, they tell us that " the brother of Lord CASTLEREAGH. one of the prosecutors," resides ; calling that gallant and intelligent Nobleman " the Foster-father of Mujocci, the principal dealer in perjury," and boldly asserting that " this was the reason which prevented her MA ..i.r.sry's reception" at that Court ! But the virulence of such attacks must act as their antidote; and Lord STEWART may well cowider such censure, and from such a quarter, as commensurate with the highest praise.—ln short, it is on a par with an attack in the House, upon one of the Bm.oon ROYAL, of which the Vironick said that, " in justice to the Counsel, they must suppose the act to be most atrocious!" to which we shall only reply that, in justice to the Btoon RovAr., we must suppose the Coun sel to have been in this case, as in many others, both deceived and misinformed ? Yesterday, according to annual custom, the Right lion. the LORD MAYOR, the LORD MAYOR elect, the Sheriffs, the Chamberlain, Recorder, and several Aldermen, with their usual caval cade, proceeded from Guildhall to the house of the LORD CHANCELLOR, to receive his MAJES- T r'4 approbation of the choice made by the Ci tizens of London of LORD MAYOR for the ensuing ivear. The Sheriffs, with the City Remernbran . cer, afterwards proceeded in their state carriages • round the west end of the town, to invite the Ambassadors, Cabinet Ministers, Officers of State, the Ju dges, and other persons of diAtinc (ion, to the grand entertainment on Lord Mayor's Day. We received this morning the Paris Papers of Friday and Saturday last.--The following are extracts : PARIS, Om 28. PROCLAMATION OF WI& KING. " Louis, by the Grace oif God, King of France 'and Navarre. 1' To all to whom these presents marcoms greeting: " Frenchmen,—At the moment when the law which gua- rantees to your suffrages an entire independence, and which secures to your interests a justsr representltion, is about to be carried into effect, for the fist thus, lam desirOus that you should hear my 'voice. • • " The circumstances are serious. " Look at home, lOok around yog., every thing speaks to you of your dangers, your wants, and your duties. " You have acquired a firm and legitimate liberty—it is foe:aided upon laws emanating from : my love for my People, and frog► my experience of the times in which vre live.—With these laws it depends upon yourselves to ensure the tranquillity. the glory, arid the happiness of 'our common Country; you have the will, know how to manifest it by your choice. Liberty is only preserved by wis don► and fidelity, Erase from the noble functions of De puties the authors of disturbances, the artisans of discord, the propagators of unjust distrust against my Government, my family, and myself ; and if ttsey ask you, why you repulse them, strew them France, so overwhelmed five years ago, so miraculously restored since, approaching at length the mo ment of receiving the price of so many sacrifices, of ►seeing her imposts diminished, and all the public charges alleviated : tell them, that it is not when every thing flourishes, when every thing prospers; when every thing increases in your country, that you will put to the hazard of their ridiculous reveries, or deliver up to their perverse designs, your arts, your indus try, the harvest of your fields, the lives of your children, the peace of your families, that felicity, in fine, which is en vied by all the people of the earth. " From all quarters a crowd of citizens offer themselves to your suffrages, sincere and zealous friends of the Charter, equally devoted to the Throne and to the Country, squall y entmies of' despotism and of anarchy. ' Chose front amongst them your Deputies, to consolidate with Ws that order with out which no country can exist, and I will consolidate with then► those liberties which have always bad for their asylum the Throne of my Ancestors, and which I hah twice restore ed to you. " The world expects from you superior lessons, and you owe them to it so much the more, as you have rendered them necessary. In, offering to "nations the spectacle of that li berty in which they take so high an interest, you have given to them the right of demanding from you an account of those snares into which they may be drawn; teach them, there fore, to avoid the thorns with which your path has been strew ed,and shrew them that it is not upon ruins and wrecks,but upon justice and respect for the laws, that free institutions are founded and consolidated. It is thus, that marching at the head of civilizations France., in the midst of the agitations which surround her, may remain calmand confident; united with her King, her pros perity is beyond attack; the spirit of faction can alone compro mise it ; but if it ventures to manifest itself, it will be repressed within the walls of the Chambers by the patriotism of Peers and Deputies, and out of the Chambers by the vigilance of Magistrates, the firmness of all those who are armed to pro ttecert mined andn it i: ,ii i i rs . tain the public peace, and, above all, by my de- " Freochmen ! you have recently given me testimonies of your liabl e and generous sentiments—von have participated in the consolations which Providence has Wit to me and to my family ; let this pledge of perpetuity, which Heaven gives t" France, be also the happy pledge of the union of all men Who arc sincerely attached to the institutions which I hare given You, and with thefts to the order, the peace, and the happiness of the Country. " Given at the Chateau of the Thuilleries, the 45th of Oc tober, in the Year of .Grace, 1820, and of our reign the vim, (Signed) " LOUIS. By the King it The President of the Council of NfitsiAters. (Signed) " RICHgLIEU." "The King yesterday transacted business with the Count Simeon, Minister of the Interior, and with the Duke de Richelieu. " Private Letters from Madrid state, that the King of Spain, by the advice of his Privy Council, has 'closed his sanction to the Decree of the. Cortes for the Suppression of Monastic Order,. FIVE Pali CENTS. Thursday 75 1. 10 c. Friday "S 1. v. _ DEFERRED STOCK Thursday. Friday. Of the itta Sept. 1640....93 E. c„„,92 f. 75 c. " MAtinio, OCT. IG.—The sill for abolishing Political So cieties was agreed to yesterday by the Curtes, JOfl to 43. " NAPLes, Ocr. 10.—General Pep 4, it is said, was again forced to evacuate Palermo on the evening of the ith, after a sanguinary contest in the interior of the City, but this state merit wants confirmation. Another account is, that General Pipe entered Palermo by virtue of a capitulation on the 6th. " LISBON. OCT. I English ship of war entered this port yesterday with Marshal Beresford on board, butiwbo was not allowed to land." The following is an extract of a letter, receiv ed this morning at Lloyd's, dated Falmouth, October 28 : " Arrived the Lady Arabella packet fp Lisbon, in 10 days :—Field Marshal Lord FORD came passenger in her, not having beck allowed to land by the Provisional Government) on his arrival in the Tagus, on board the Vengettt man of war, from Rio Janeiro. They, however, got possession of the money which Lord BERES FORD brought with him in the Vengeur, and ano ther vessel which arrived after her, for the pay ment of the troops. When the Vengeur made her appearance, the feelings of the Military and Civilians became a little roused, and it is supposed that had his Lordship persisted in landing, very serious consequences would have followed, as he has a strong party in his favour, especially among the former. The Vengeur sailed the same day the packet did, conjectured for the Mediterranean." It is most anxiously to be wished that the farce of ADDRESSING HER MAJESTY were at an end, not that we regret the relaxation which the industrious classes of the community have enjoy ed on the several occasions, though it would have been much better for them to have pursued their respective vocations, or that we condemn the Ladies, who naturally wished for finery and a frolic, as there is happily no likelihood of any future opportunity of a similar nature. The great evil relates to the ANSWERS of which TIIE QUEEN is rendered the vehicle, and which abound with republican principles, and are obviously intended to bring MONARCHY Itself into hatred and con tempt. TIER MAJESTY is unfortunately in very bad hands, and cannot herself be awa a s of the mischievous doctrines which she is thus e the instrument of circulating through the Com i ntry, doctrines which, if they were at length to be come prevalent, would involve her own ruin. In fact, as well as being in general Anti-lVlonar. chical, these Answers are all covert attacks upon His MAJESTY, and in some instances have hardly any covering at all. The People at large must be disgusted with these senseless processions, which involve such pernicious consequences, and even TIIE QUEEN herself must be tired and sick of what cannot be considered as any honour to her, inasmuch as these professed tributes of con fidence in her innocence are offered while her character is loaded with charges most dishonour.. able to her sex as well as to her rank, and ought only to be presented when she has passed through the ordeal which she so resolutely demanded, and is acquitted to the full satisfaction of man kind. BAnoN OMPTEDA.—We have taken into THE SUN the Letters of this Nobleman, which have appeared this day in the suspicious channels of The Morning chronicle and The Times. G rant ing that they are genuine, which indeed there is no other reason to doubt, except that they come through those channels, there is nothing in them that is discreditable to the writer ; but, on the contrary, they are proofs that he discharged‘hip duty to his Sovereign. The Consort of that So;,' vereign is charged with the most atrocious and. shameless guilt, and those charges were so widefi spread, and so confidently urged, that it was the duty of all who possessed high situations to endeavour to ascertain the truth, and if they had omitted to do so, they would have been totally unworthy- of the employments which they might hold. Truth is rarely to be discovered without a secret and sedulous scrutiny ; and all that Ba ron OMPTEDA'S letters shew is, that he did not neglect an inquiry that so importantly concerned the honour of his Sovereign, and that he sought intelligence of those best qualified to afford in. formation. It accords, however, with the just and liberal character of the two Public Prints in question to revile the memory of the deceased Nobleman, and not only to cast opprobrium upon him, but upon Count MUNSTER, who is here in the character of Hanoverian Minister, and who was still more interested in maintaining the honour of his Sovereign. Prince GUSTAVUS, son of the Ex-king of SWE DEN, embarked at Dover on Friday i❑ one of the packet-boats for Calais. The price of Porter was yesterday reduced one halfpenny per quart. Posting in some northern counties is reduced to is. per mile, FOR THE SUN. CURSOItI"I NOUGHTS. The " wet weather" at Hammersmith seems ominous of what Jack calls a " Southerly wind in the bread bag !" It was certainly a display of Absolute Wisdom to leave off Processions when no more could be got up, and When no more money could be drawn from the Treasury for un-. known purposes. Somebody asking why there are two Vice- Chamberlains at Brandenburgh House ? PAT ob served, that it must take Two Vices to make up for the loss of one Grand Chamberlain ! If a certain event should take place, house rent must fall rapidly.—Several Ladies at the West End and in the City are preparing to live in Tents ! The Alderman coquetting for the Mastership has been compared to ST. GILLS courting ST. CATHARINE! A learned Brother being asked if the Alder man were to have the Mastership Y replied, "he has got it already !" The Processions to Hammersmith having been dignified as voyages. to Carolina--.-" True," said PAT," before Botany Bay zzas discovered!" The City wits now talk of ALDERMAN Would if he could. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Rvmmtscs on Hen Nlit‘tiasTY's Dg:FENCts, continued frotisTsill titpe of the 191 b inst. came too late fur this day, but shall certainly appear to-morrow. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT OHS O'CLOCK, Bank Stock ' . 2lil s per Cent, Bed .. tin S per Crut.Cons. 6i F 8 67 31 per Cent. , .76+ 4 per Cents 5 per Ct. tiavy Ann. —10440 Bank Long.tlnn. 17 7-16tlis 6 India Stuck .... tili 221 221 i India Bands .... 245. 26s pt. New Ainitiities 661 Ex. Bills, 2d. 4s. 54. pr. Oinuium Cons. fur Account 67i 68 67i HIGH WATER AT LONDC Morning, 45 minutes after 9. IN BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Evening, 11 minutes after 10. THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS FALSUM 4uvE4r4 LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1810. THE THEATRES. DRURY-LANE.---The Winter Season counne„ ed last night at this Theatre, with the Cornew: of The Road to Ruin, and the Farce of Giovas: in London.—The illness of MUNDEN, who I/ to appear in Old Dornton, excited some clanlo u as it was supposed that he was not engage" the Theatre. Mr. ELLI3TON, however, came ward, and pledged himself that MUNDEN wa s eil gaged, and that illness only prevented his P er , forming on the present occasion.—Mr. W. 1 6 ° 1 $ HEN then assumed the part, and, the play well received by a very numerous audience. '-'); the end of the play Mr. ELLISTON again o' l forward to announce that the dramatic Perfc ri r i f ances of this evening, viz. The Rivals, and v f i Age To-morrow, would take place for til t ; benefit of the Widow and Orphans of the Pill Mr. RAE, and that the Performers of b° Theatres, and other persons of well-known ts ; lents, were emulous to lend their assistance a ° laudable an occasion. COVENT..GARDEN.—The Tragedy of The venge was represented last night at this Thea tre i and Mr. 111‘CREAn - v - for the first time appea re i t in. the character of Zanga. This Actor is so lve fitted for parts of deep-subtlety, furious pasn and remorseless rage, that his success last log i3 , was no more than was naturally to be expec i te h o t . i 5 11e was fully possessed of the character,,anu .performance certainly confirmed, if it ,did add to, his reputation. The Alonzo of 3 1 r' KEMBLE was such an admirable personation; would have done honour to the Stage at any f l e a riod. Miss FooTE was certainly not desig 9 for the tragic province, but she is unaffected, 41/ 00 supports her characters with feeling ; her peO ni too is well calculated to excite those emnt i° ', 4 which give force and animation to the of a heroine and the action of a play. , LOSS OF•THE FLORA PASSAGE VESSEL• DOVER, OCT. 29.—This morning the passage vessel, Captain WAT6oN, sailed out 0 the harbour to the roads, for the purpose of al ceiving passengers for Calais ; she had alrea received 6 or 7, and was standing in for in° re ; when she missed stays, and, from the violen ce of the sea, went ashore in the bay : the passe l ': gers were all got out from the bow of the vesse'; and were, with the crew, landed in safethas the greatest part of the baggage ; but, a tremendr: sea striking her on the starboard quarter, she !I I stautly went to pieces, and strewed the shore o tI) wreck. Neither the captain nor mate were °a board at the time the vessel struck, being on sP r ch e for the purpose of procuring and taking otf , other passengers as remained ; but it is und o stood that no blame attaches to the crew, but Or the loss of the vessel was solely attributab le to accident, and the violence cf the wind and s es : The vessel was formerly the yacht of Calve" , 7 Esq. and the property of John Minet Fedi Esq. The wind has blown a gale the whole ° the afternoon, and w e are sa dly a f ra id that 0/ shall hear of a grea t d ea l o f d amage among st t h e : shipping. Several fo re i gners Nvlio had bees I ' London, to giv e ev id ence f or h er M a j es t yf lav e ; arrived here on their return hom e . Four passg vessels from Calais, with passengers, bore 11t, , 1 1 " for the Downs this afternoon, not Liking to attelor coming into the harbour, there being such a v'' lent swell at the entrance. WINDSOR, OCT. 29.—His MAJESTY and Su ite arrived at his Cottage last night, from Brighte n ; This morning the KING attended Divine Servi c i at St. George's Chapel.—Tuesdav, the RO ti a Hunt will commence, when a deer will be toe% out for the day's diversion at Knott-hill '; and ° t Friday another deer will be turned out 0 11° near Salt-hill. A duel took .place early on Saturday moral on Hounslow inclosure, on the heath, betife e e Capt. T--11.—T and a Mr. S ,in consepleP b c t , of a dispute at a Coffee-house in Oxford-stye: The Captain was severely wounded in the sit' o e? and was taken off the ground in a danger ° state. Mr. COOPER, who is to make his debg. Drury-laneTheatre in Romeo, comes with a v erat ,; good report from Edinburgh, both as to his r ° ""; ral and theatrical character. He is, it seems , ,, particular friend of Mr. YOUNG, SO long t" - t ornament of the London stage, but who, ° t o much to the honour of the London manageme ° , 9 does not now gratify the Public in the metropo ts We are extremely happy in being able to a°s; pounce, nounce, on good authority, that the Marqu es CIIOLMONDELEY, and the Hon. Mrs. Dits_c ll ; have abandoned all idea of fuither proceedil, in the action which has been so long pending k tween them and Lord CLlNTON.—(Phimouth Dock Telegraph.) On Friday se'nnight a juvenile sweep fell fr °' il a chimney of a four-story house in Editiburgh7 ° o4 some rubbish, and being severely bruised, immediately carried to the Royal Infirmary. , sooner were his wounds dressed, than he W itll - drew unobserved from the - Infirmarv, and 'i not been heard of since, nor are any other pa rt: culars of his accident known. BIRTI-1. o f Yesterday, in Montague-place, Russell-square, the La dy Captain William Forrest, of a daughter. MARRIED. g r. Yesterday, at St. George the Nlartvr, Queen-siinac e ' o saf C. W. Jarrett, of Rosoniass-strt et, (Attire-m.. 01, to leaer eldest daughter of Mr. John Low, of Gray's Inu-pa ° Dedfurd-row. DIED. Chri stian On Friday morning last, suddenly,. aged 35, Ch r-1 Splidt, Esq., Stratford Green, Essex. -, rrh 02 11* On Sunday morning, at his house, at Charlton, -° Longlamis, Esq., in his 78th year. n gt# l On Sunday, the 49th i n st., William Frederick, 1 0 Z son of Mr. Thomas Harper, of Fleet-street, in his 4:3d le": $ 6 • - or g LONDON: Printed hyJ. B. CARSTAIRS. of N 0 .99 14 h. Ormond-street, Queen-square; and published hi/ 4, 0 4 SCRIPPS, of No. 7, South hlolton-street, at Tit! ie. °dice, No. 112. Strand ; where Advertisement*, v r tatters, Ja. (punt-paid) must be addressed. NI ~..., 1 11{ ' tg . G4t, of thr I and 4.4 /yeti ar !°IVF.; - gray t►Rce, ki VUi GI z tin or ('LIII.OI P art 4:ld Por ht of A tiirding Great tUr, or 1 14,4 1. , . 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