The Sun. — London, England, 1820-05-24 00:00:00

FOR rl3 1 4 . SUN. Mn. £DItoR--Thoogli 1 *Tin owe of your plan of trmsferring every day the chief articles in the 111orniisg Papers into your own, under the head of the Lostoorr JOURNALS, yet I cannot help thinking that you are too partial in your sele'c fi a ppe a rs to me to be the duly i•f a Public JOurnalkt to give liheral extracts from both sides, where they remelt ttlion points of Constitutional IMportance. Buch is the question resp , eting itaaryourib. Upon that principle I spud 10 you tome opinions in the netts of this day, and which ate not chatacterised by the rancorous asperity which tonally appears in that Paper. I send the extract to you chiefly - on account of the political i'mportan'ce of the subject s but as a test of , your impartiality also, as well as to encourage the Times to persevere in the same temperate spirit which appears on this occasion, as its general tone Las rendered it a hateful Paper even to the Op ponents of Government, because its hostility to Ministers is indiscriminate, and directed against all their measures, good or bad. Your!s, A STEADY FRIEND and CONSTANT READER. a7erusioCm Coffer Elouse, May 13. GRAM POUND. We return to 111 - 7stsh Grampound, and the new niiinhertri . The brief statement of the case is - this vi- , -The right of returning members to Parlianient has been taken away from a borough in Cornwall, on accoutit of its venality. The frawchise I. now therefore vacant, and all Eng land are candidates for the obtainment of it. The natural and obvious course, we should pre , utne, is to bestow it On some town, city, or district of great wealth, population, and consequence. which (Theo nor now send members to Parliament. When there are such towns and districts in abun dance, we really dre a‘lidmed to mention, that for ( 1 ins e---for yie cannot but hope that the project is relingoished—tikere was an idea of overlooking all the rich and populous regions of fingland, lee la-,d and Scotland, and of conferring the va- Jiishle boon of sending members to Parliament upon tin obscure patch of the County of Cornwall, called P intrey Handred, the inhabitanti• of which 'met did send members to Parliament, avung had no more concern in the election of those who were returned by Grampound (the de linquent lot ougi.) than persons living wholly one of the United-Kingdom. This notion therefore, of selectiog the men of Poudrey, and endowing them with so new a faculty, which, if they were disposed, they bad not even the power of deserv ing by any conduct of theirs, was indeed a very singular one. We would not wish to treat a grave subject ludicrously, but we should really as soon have expected that the right of sending Members to Parliament should have been conferred on the ancient and worshipful corporation of IG.rrst, We trugt, howeeer, that the ilotise of Corn- Mons would have better consulted its own ko• nour at his season of rebuke and reviling, than to have sub►nitted to so evident a degradation The House, untimilitedly, wishes its proceedings to be reverenced and esteemed by the people at large; and we •would calmly ask, whether it will be a greater accession to the dignity of the House to receive ',ow within its walls [NO Members re. turned by the opulent, Populous, ant► loyal fown ship of Leeds. or two Representatives ofiPourhey Hundred ? 13ut, even with respect to internal gravity and utility of counsel, it is neither in the power of the places which elect Members to serve in Parliament, nor of those who are sup posed to exercise an undue influence in the elec tions, to confer talents at will on the objects of their choice These, therefore, may be set aside in any comparison of the probable aerial of Re pretteni attires, as they cannot be calculated upon seith Arly reunify'', Not but that we tbink the township of Leeds, or the West Riding of York shire, more likely to choose men properly quali fied tor the di,chatge of public business titan the Honthed of Poudrey. But, upon any Oration of natiottal or commercial policy—the 1Vool•ques• tion fur example---we ask, whether, ceteris paribus, would the' Representative of Leeds, or the Representative of Pondrey Hundred, be heard with mote attention, and he more likely, from counekiou, habit, and previous preparation of mind, to deal out useful information and suggest useful counsels ? The House would, therefore, spurn its own advantages, as well as degrade its dignity, by accepting men from an obscure Cornish Hundred, tallier than the Representatives of an important part of the British Empire.—(The Times.) LONDON JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PRYERS OF THIS DAY. [Morning Herald.] The following Account of certain Proceedings, Connected with the unfortunate differences which subsist between his MAJESTY and the QUEEN, 11113 been made public " It is known that shortly alter the death of his late Ma jesty, it was designed to put the matter at rest for ever by an open judicial proceeding, which should release tire parties from those bonds which had so long connected thew togr ther, but never could unite them. Th s ts intention was changed, however, in conseynence of an interview which took place between an eminent Barrister and a distinguished Nobleman ; on which occasion, the copy of a letter to an Illustrious Personage, was laid before his Lordship, in which the Itoyal writer declares his inflexible resolution never again to hold communion or intercourse with her. " The letter is supposed to have been written some years ago, in the warmth of injured feelings, as the language and sentiments betray considerable agitation. Shortly afterwards an extraordinary Cabinet Council was convened, to take into consideration the important point, so long a subject of anx iety in the mind of the King. Only one of the Law Officers •rf the Crown concurred io the wishes of bit Majesty; the %-11o1e Cabinet besides were so oppriseti with the technical thiliculties of the case, that they decked encountering them, and a round rohia was addressed to is Majesty on Monday, the 14th of February last, which leffor a time, all the gteat Offices of State vacant, and the Cuutry without responsible Guserttnient." [New Ti mes 1 Yesterday was a close baday on the Stock Exchange; hut on account o the near approach of settling day (to-morrow),the greater part of the Brokers and Jobbers assmbled on 'Change, and many bargains were transcted. Until twelve o'clock the Funds maintainedcheir elevation, but about that time some idle runouts obtained cir culation, rtlitive to the state it the Revenue, and the probability of a large Lam. At this period of the year speculations of his sort are by no means nocommon, and hided, considering the little fluctuation the funds hale undergone for the list two accounts, it is not unlikely that these reports may have been circtdried for private pur poses. Tbey vt ere not coufinel to the mere asser tion of an intended loan, hit went so far as to state, that Mr. Hase had reteived notice of it. The amount mentioned was from ten to thirty millions I I,ts consequence of hese ridiculous and exaggerated statements, the funds, in the coarse of the afternoon, fell one-half per cent. ; but we are satisfied that this depresion will he transi tory, as it is the decided opinon of every intelli gent person in the City, that there will be no occasion to deviate from the measures adopted last Session. and that the stun requited will not he more than the Cuencellor of the Exchequer then g notice of. The closing priceot Consols was [Morning Post ] We yesterday stated, that a Bill of Indictment for High 'nelson had been f,ind by the Grand Jury of Middlesex against George Edwards.— WhKif..ver may be the guilt of t': is •ii.r•oli, it must be manifest to the meanest comprehension, that even ;lie most direct proof ot u cat, in no degree diminish the actual criminality ot the men ertiO have already paid the torfeli of their lives and liberties, in cousecpienc, a' the recent trials at the Old I 3 ilry. The guilt ot the five men who were executed a 9 nor oil!y proved on their trials by the most coodo•iv, e.iiitnee, but it was made a theme of esoil „boss by the sufferers themselves, even to the verge of errinity. The prficeed.ngs, therefore, against Edwards can evidently have no retrospective eff, ct upon the crimes or characters of those who have suffered. Tots distinction can not he too much enforced, because some vile at. tempts have been made to imply the innocence of Thistlewood front the supposed guilt of Edward's, whose criminality or innocence, We repeat, can neither extenuate nor exaggerate the guilt of those who have suffered. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed Last Night. TIJZATRE ROYAL. I)ii.• RY-LANE.--King Lear: King Lear, Mr. Kean; Mr. Rae; Goneril, Mrs. Glover; Regan, s. Egerton; Cordelia, Mrs. W. West. after which, The Lady and the Devil. ThtEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARSES.—.-Hellit Quatre : Henri, Mr. Macready; ©'Donne?, Mr. John Johnstone; Florence Saint Leon, bliss Stephens ; Clotilde de Bir o n, Miss Brun ton; Lonison, Miss M. Tree. After which (Second Time), The Battle of Bothwell Brigg. TO (70FIRESPONDENT3. A SHlr•Owsetr, Tr►-morrow. ERRATUM in UALEIOI;'s Letter, No If: R "till" that will only cent. tic. read a "tree." PRICE I) et#l3 I)A' tT F S'l (WKS ONE _ .... ..... .. Bank Stick 3 per t eta lied 6Bilq 3 ve. t .et:t. cons- 6()V, 34 per Cent. ...... .. 77' 77 4 per Cents ..... .. 81:i A 86 5 per Ct. NavyAnct. )041 !03 5 per Cent. 1;7)7 'lao Arm. 171 15-16ths fridia Bends 21, 20s. pr. F,Ch hills, c2cl ..... 3s. ss. or. Ditto Commercial 3s (lig. Cons. for Account .... 694 ii ALAI t.n. Aualveu-1 Dublin, I Guernsey and Jersey, 1 H o n am j, liamburgh. Dut Waterford, I G.,tivniJurgli, 1 Lisbon. HIGH WATZIt Xl' L0Nt),,,,, I o•MtnutoW. A , iorniny, 0 minutes atict 0. I Evet)ing, 10 minutes atttet 12 THE SUN. lOLEM quic inicticz rALSVM AUDEAT ? LONDON, WEDNESDAY, amy 24, 1820. We received this morning the Paris Papers ut Sunday last. In the Chamber .of Deputies on Saturday, after some debate upon Petitions, the discussion was resumed on the Election Projet, and again adjourned till Monday. The speakers, or rather readers of speeches, were the Baron CAPELLE, M. M. DAUNOU, de COTTON, and BAS. TliflitECHS. The OiliCe3 of the Journals were shut on Sunday, it being the Feast of Pentecost, and none were to be published on Monday.—The following are extracts:— . " PAHIS, MAY 21.—The King received yester- day the Duchess de Bourbon. " The Court of Peers have adjourned till Mon day the further deliberation respecting the affair of Louvel. The Duke d'Angouleme is expected to arrive at Phalsboutg on the 30th instant, on his way to Metz. The 4th June his Royal Highness will sleep at Tout, and remain there the sth. " The Journal des Debats persists in erroneously stating, that Bourgeois has been conveyed to the Conciergerie, and that he has been subjected to several interrogatories. We repeat, therefore, and we can guarantee the fact, that Bourgeois is not at the Conciergerie, and that he has not even been conveyed to Paris. " The Deputies who signed the prospectus of the National Subscription having written to the Under Secretary of the Ministry of Justiee to put them upon ttial, the Count Portolie has replied, that the Public Ministry have the right of making selection from amongst the co-operators in the same Act, or amongst the accomplices in the same offence, and of directing prosecutions against those whom they might consider to have taken the most active or the most criminal Hart. " The King gave a private audience yestsrds y morning to Madame de-Serre, the wife c the Keeper of the Seats. " Bourgeois, one of the accused in the of tiir of Franche Cornt6, has not been conveyed to Paris ; he remains in prison at Besancon.—(Jour nal des Debats.) " The Marquess de Santa Crux, the new Spanish Ambassador to the Court of Fiance, is expected at Paris early in next month. FIVE PER CENTS. .... 74 f, 50 c. Saturday DEFERRED STOCK. Of the 22d March, 1817 lO2 f. 15 c. 22d March, 1820 9O f go c." [There is no intelligence in these Papers from Spain.] THE FUNDS.--The present state of the Money Market has hronght to town several persons con nected with the funds, who bad intended to have spent the holiday week in various parts of the Country ; and this morning, when business com menced, the house was crowded to excess.— Consols opened at 69i for the Account, and 691 for the July Account. An immense quantity of business was done, and various reports were cir culated, in order to depress or raise the Market, according to the interest of the different parties. Bets were offered that notice would be sent to the Stock Exchange this day or to-morrow of the amount of the Loan required. The report still continues, that a Loan must be had, and that Ex chequer Bills must be funded to a large amount ; there is now 22 months interest due upon Ex chequer Bills. .5 per Cents fell one half per cent. expecting the Minister would fund in them. We only give the above as the occurrences of the day on the Stock Exchange. The debate on the Marquis of LANSDOWNE'S Motion next Friday has excited consider Able anxiety at all the Outports. It is expected that the Government will disclose their views on the subject which is then to be submitted to the Upper House. It is much to be regretted, that the Official Re. turns of the Trade end Navigation of British North America for the last year have not been presented to Parliament. The permission to allow Corn warehoused here, to be sold immediately on the ports being declared open, is very injurious to the Agricultural In. terests. Jt was evidently not the intention of the Legislature that it should be so, though it is con sidered as admissible under the letter of the Act. It is an extensive practice of Foreigners to consign Corn here to be warehoused, when it is sold at a low price en the Continent, and although various expences attach upon it in this country, they can, not withstanding, sell it for a considerable profit, on the opening of the ports : the injurious con sequence is, that the British Farmer is deprived of the opportunity of availing himself of the tempo. rary advance of price, which he would otherwise gain, for five or six werks, if warehoused Corn was not allowed to come into the market until the first Corn arrivals from the Continent, after the ports are opened, are entered at the Custom House. The present practice is contrary to the policy of the law, and certainly was never, we presume, intended. These are our impressions on the s►►bject ; if we have adopted an erroneous view of it, we shall most readily acknowledge our error, when convinced of it. The Agents of the Consigners of Timber from Norway, Sweden, and Prussia, have acted with great indiscretion and indelicacy. They have, we are informed, stated unequivocally that his MA.. JESTY . 3 Government have given them assurances of their intention to lower the Duties on Foreign Timber. We are satisfied that this is not the case, for the Chairmen of the British North American Committee, and of the Ship Owners' Society, were, we believe, long ago told that they would be heard on this interesting and national question before Ministers came to any final determination upon it. We also understand that representa►ions on the subject have been transmitted to the Colo nial Department from the Knica's Provinces in America, end that the Merchants engaged in the Trade to those Colonies are feelingly alive to it, and only wait for an opportunity to be heard upon it by the Government, before they present any Petition to the Legislature on the subject. We feel great pleasttre in the insertion of an account of • Meeting which took place yesterday in Freemason's Hall, for considering of the best means for carrying into effect the landabie objects of " The Sociefy for the Improvement of iO O Prison Discipline, end for the Reformat Juvenile Offenders." Never was there a great necessity than at pr esen t, h ar dly ic k the rn"° barons times, for some means of imPt a ve. meat respecting the depravity of the present jrPi, nile race among the lower classes of SocietY• ,ve WiLI3gRFoRCE stated a melancholy fact, %di° if believe is not an exaggeration. viz that not Petit than 8000 Boys d er iv e t h e i r d a ily ass i st ance fr° 1111 : : crimes which they c o mm i t . This youthful &Pr ot : vity is not Wonderflit, but it is easily acconn ted l The Parents of these B o y s b are most p" )141) 01 been divested o f a ll l oya l, mora l , an d telig i '; ie principles by the writings of .he aPc yel WooLp., the CARLtLes, Et- Sc.' 111(1 r!ie of such Orators as delivered heir infi , tro ml°r y harangues yesterday at_ the Cr., ev an,! A ochor impossible that the lower and jE,norant part Of Coma unity can read meat rotto e , j,n u s be ! .soclr speeches, thr oug h t h e medirrrn nt f, that is, the Republican Presses; , 11 , (1 , of fee' 'Je; sire to trample upon all legitimate•autholitY' to " kick out," as the M e eti ng express ed it' Il i tire persons now in the administration of Ore Gg i vernment ? We repeat our conv i ct i on , Hist °e it was there so much depravity, i n an y Peri 1 1 1 among the juvenile race, who, accor di ng lit I) doctrines yesterday inculcated at the said W ei ; ing, ought to be our future Legislators, tba° $ present, Government is imperiously called °P a° to consider this subject with the utmost a tteati alff and in conformity to the gracious recomnie llile f titan from the Throne, and the heavy presstire i4 c the times, to ad o pt a ll sa f e an d practicable meatt9fa the diminution of tho s e p ressures. W e con fia eri.t ' ly rely upon the good intentions of our lid ier ct , '' and join in gratitude for the benefits have been derived from their adherence V' ij c enlightened policy of th e ill ustr i ous Pyrit ; 11) now our domestic st ate d eman d s t h e i r peofet ti/ a (.l consideration, and m os t strenuous exert i on s, titi o seem indeed to be g enera lly expected. by t he People. We have given but a brief account of the Pe ; raocratical Dinner which took place yesterday the Crown and Auchor, in honour of the 014' teenth anniversary of the return of Sir Foa l ' s° BU RDETT to Parliament, because we are nor dined to render our Paper tDe vehicle of Sedit i°l7' The sentiments utter e d by Si r F RANCIS , Sees - ,1 # ing to the newspaper rep'orts, stroegly tyndeti 10' wards the introduction of UNIVERSAL SUFFSA 6O : 3 though it does not appear that he reetonno•a de it in express terms. Bat be did worse, f" r be j stated that the P eop l e in, geoeral had hippo''' the Officers of Government in andel)! Rome, ' ll ' 4 had always been judicious in their choice e ' 4 l hence the obvious infer enc e wa s, .hat they 000 11 1 to have the same p o w e r i n t hi s C ountry. an extension of the privilege of Universal' Sahli which has never, we believe, been so bold y CS tcd before in public, except by Thistlewood and wretches who suffered with hint, and tends to a ° I upon the Baronet a suspi c i on , w hi c h we hope tha he does not deserve, viz. that he is a thorough p at' Radical. As a proof of the total want of dis ere ; tion on the part of the C om p any , t h e Chair° (Sir FRANCIS) gave the health of the Queet4, ll % withstanding the critic a l si tua ti on i n w hi c h 613 1 stands, and the various extraordinary rutiO nt respecting her conduct abroad, which Mr. 1.114$ ; NE Y, in the House of Commons, declared ought to be fully investigated, th a t h er character might bi; cleared from all injurious imputations, and tha t might be seen whether she was worthy of be i° ‘ received by the Empire as a Partner of the Throi lli Heartily agreeing with Mr. TI ORNEY, 50d e 6r ; neatly hoping with him that she m a y leave b eef the object of calumny, we co nce i ve that 21 6 is not a proper subject for the orgies O f . Tavern. Another of the toasts, r ecom mendil " a Radical Reform in the Com mons ' I-JouFe ° 'KO Parliament" was followed by the t u ne of " ; the Rogues out." We may venture to affirm t h* : this harmonious recommendation of Kicking ° was not intended to be confined to the Memb er of the House of Commons, but to every bran ch of the Government, and perhaps to the total . 011 t; nihilation of the Monarchy.—We have s° t i enough of the incendiary Meeting of yesterday O menitest its true character and tendency, but °° inference may be drawn of a very gratifying t" l°l.ri to all loyal subjects, an inference of which the 13 ronet probably was not aware that his speech) " ° lll admit. As he has the terrors of a judicial q b l tence hanging over his head, it might be th"r o that he would be more guarded in deliveri n g sentiments in public till the matter was dee but from the freedom, boldness, and , $ , licence of his speech yesterday, it is evident tl re , he considers our Judicial Courts as t oo p o ti og just, and impartial, to be iefinenced by any wiji , but mbar appears before them in evidence. '.ov" i is, we doubt not, an involuetary and Ho cens" tribute to the rectitude o: our legal 1,0) ti li t llf