The Sun. — London, England, 1820-05-17 00:00:00

it n t iOtt easy enon2:ll that pail 'a the busioest, 1)111 Gentlemen on the side of the Home knew that nothing was so difficult as "Co obtain a Com mittee. lie did not wish to detract from the an imal labour of that Noble Lord, but he thought lie was the best paid orator 'of tire day. He gave them one speech a-year, which, to be sure, was always a very good one, and not the less brilliant on account of the due consideration he gave it. The House, he hoped, would pause before they refused inquiry on any subject connected with economy in the expenditure of the public money, whether it was for the reduction of a judge or of a tiding school. Sir H. PARNELL thought there was sufficient ground for grantiug a Committee. This fact ap peared, and hitherto there had been no satisfac tory explanation of it—that the Civil Department in this year of peace exceeded what it was tinting the war. The office of the Commander-in-Chief in the year 1796, being the fourth year of war, cost for the total amount of salaries 8131. In the year 18!9, the (barge for salaries was 74241. — The office of Paymaster of the Forces iu the year 1796 was 19.0001 ; and in the present year it was ito r aced to 24,0001. These facts slteuing that such an augmentation had peen made, she wed that if an inquiry were gone into, a considerable re• du( tint) might have beet) made. Colonel DAVIEs said a few words in reply. Colonel GRANT vindicated the maintitiDing a tegolar number of ditOutronted men in cavalry re giments ; which &1 re always ready to augment the strength of the regiment when it might be necessary on any 'ridden emergency. The Hon. Gentleman (Colonel D‘viis) ackno , yledg. d great obligation to the.Sratf hot ar the sante (rote was anxious to reiptire those obligations by dis charging the corps. He alto greatly lamented the distre:ses of halfrpay officers, yet was pre pared to increase these distreases. He also begged to remark, vtith respect to•the proposition for commuting the different allowances ro the soldier, that it was the principal object of all Commanding Officers to prevent tre soldiers, from having a larger sum of tnoney than was absolutely neces sary ; aid he was sure the arrangement proposed by the Hon. Gentleman would. have a most. detri mental Go; Mr. ELLICE professed himself incompetent to enter into the'details of the subject ; •but in look ing at the great principle of re employment of a large unheard-of military force, lie thought the subject well deserviog the attention of the House. Tie lelt it his duty, as t-presentin a latge body Of the people"pt_England, to vote for an inquiry which might lead to the discovery of practical re. trenchments in the burdens_ of I he . people. Colonel DAVIEG explained, that he bad distinct ly stated that lie did not wish to reduce all the dismotinto men in the cavalry. . A division then took place, when the numbers appeared— For the motion 45 • Against it Majprity -80 Lord CHARLES MANNERS presented an Agricultural Petition from the Inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Wisbeacl►.—Read and (Ode' ed to be printed. Lord MILTON observed. that this Petition afforded a proof that the distress was non confined to one class, hut to every class in the king,dont. This Petition came from a conside rable market town. The 13111 for Regulating the Hours of Industry in Ireland, was real' a second time. . The Irish Coasting Trade Bill was also read a second time. On the motion of Lord ALTHORPE, an account ; of the amount of Auction Duty, paid on Agricultural produce dur ing the years I 819 and 1810, yasordered. Adjou► ned. • LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. MAT 16. THE KING V. WILLIAM BURN. This was an indictment against the defendant,. stated to be an army agent, founded on the 49:h Gco. 3. c. 126. s. 4 , and the - 15th Gen. 3. c. 108. s. 133., passed for the further prevention of the sale hod broliage of offices, places, and appoint ments, nriderGovernment, imputing, that he, wit h oot lawful atithorlty, had negotiated on behalf of s G , ntleman named Lorraine, with a Gentleman named Hobson, for the purchase of a commission for the former, in the 16th Regiment of Light Di a r gooll,. Mr. Gnat:F.y and Mr, HUTCHINSON conducted the prosecution, and the defendant neither ap pe:kred peisonally nor by Counsel. The case proved in evidence was in substance this defendant resided in Fludyer-strt et, Westminster, and the prosecutor, Mr. Lorraine, a young Gentleuran of fortune, applied to him to procure a commission in the army. The deft ',dant stated INA lie had too Cornetcies un site, the one in a regiment of heavy and the other of light Dragoons. The prosecutor preferred the latter, and the price stipu lated by the defendant was 1,200 guineas. By the regu lations of the War-office, the price of such u commission was limited to seven hundred guineas. 'l'hc commission alluded to was in the 16th Light Dragoons, of which the defend ant was nut the Agent. The defeadant, in pursuance of the contract, stipulated that the prosecutor should immediately pay down 9001.. which the former did accordingly, the de fendant giving him two receipts, one for 700 guineas, which he stated was to be transmitted to the Duke of York, and the other for the balance, to he accounted for on demand, as ex pressed in the written aeknoAledgment. It oarised out, its tha result, that the prosecutor was completely defrauded of Lis money, and was never appointed to the commission which he had expected to procure. There being no defence, the Jury, under the Learned Judge's directions, found the defendant guilty.—(.horning Chronicle.) TEA SIM LE VTTS?/.f C tEm nNTs. This was an action against the Proprietor of The Mserrer Newspaper, for haring inserted a libel in that Paper, reflect ing on the character of the Plaintiff. Fruit the evidence it appeared that the Plaintiff is Constable of St. Pancras pa rish. It was alleged against hint in the Paper alluded to, that instead of burying a dead body, which lie and another had found upon two men in the New-road (as desired by the .nagistrate), he had sold it at St. Thomas's Hospital, and had been held to bail to answer his conduct at the Sessions. Nnt a word of this latter part was true, and this was the libel Complained of, and for which the present action was brought. The case haring been proved, The CntEr Jusncr. summed tip, and the Jury found a verdict for the Plaintiff—Damages, 801. TuomrsoN V. DEvEREvx, ES Q. This was an action brought by a Ship-broker of Liverpool against the defendant, General Devereux, a gentleman of Borne celebrity, to recover commission and brokage for pro curing freight, in order to carry out to Venezuela troops under the defendant's command, in aid of the Spanish Lihe rates of South America, at the rate of :it. a head per roan. Mr. Unrrry conducted the plaintiff's case, and Mr. Scan- LErr the defendant's. On the part of the plaintiff general evidence was given, that he was employed by the defendant as his agent, for the pinpoie of bir,o; ships to carry out troops to assist Bolivar. Captain General stud Supreme Chief of the Venezuelan Forces in South America, in the month of June it!ft. The case principally rested on the evidence of a Charter party of the ship Hannah, and it appeared that a Mr. Mactunuar a seas also one of the defendant's azents at Liverpool. On the part of the defendant, it. was submitted by Mr. SClll(l.ttil that the plaintiff could not maintain his action at fa,r li,, !I Cleo. !, a-1 , 1 flp:• Gc• t 2, e q 7, was ell to he tellois , for voty subject of this Co.ii•try to enlist ziov of liis Nlajest subjects in aid Of ao% f,u elan Potentate, and therefore it was unlawful to hir e auy vessel for the purpose of carrying into effect such unlawful pur pose. He admitted that the late Foreign Enlistment Act did not comprehend the present case, inastutich as it was an terior to the passing of that law. The CUTE? JUSTICE ruled that the objection was well taken, and therefore directed the plaintiff to he nonsuited. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed Lost Night. THEATRE ROYAL, DttURY-LANE.—The De►il's Bridge: Contl Belino, Mr. Brabant ; Countess Rosalrina, Mu Carew. After which (third time), The Lady and the Devil. TwF.ATRE Roym., CovENr-Gmtem—Heriri Quatre : Henri, Mr. Nlacreadv ; O'Donnel, Mr. John Johnstone; Florence Saint Leon, Miss Stephens ; Clotilde de Biron, Miss Brun ton; Louison, Miss M. Tree. After which, Midas. THE QUI - BIRTH-DAY.—Huliday at the Bank, Exche quer, East India, and South Sea Houses. MAILS. Aarttvei.-1 Dublin, 1 Waterford, 1 Guernsey and Jersey. Due—l Waterford, 1 Gottenburgb, 1 Hairiburgh. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE To.morutow. llurning•,.. 9 minutes after 6. I Evening, 33 minutes after 1. THE SUN. 601.Eikl QUIs tiMEHE rAt.stiM. AUDEAT ? LONDON, TrEDNESIMV. 111.9 Y 17. 1820. No French Papers had when our raper 7; was put to Press. 1/4 Charlestown Papers arrived this morning to the 16th of April. • DIABOLICAL PLOT.-A Letter from Savannah, dated 9th in'st., says—" Yesterday a discovery was made that a gang of Spaniard• in this City had formed a conspiracy to set it on fire, and to breok open the stores of several Mirchanis. They were overheat d in the dkenssion of their plot, and, measures were taken for their apprehension. Three out of six were taken, and one of the gang made a confession of - what they intended doing had this discovery not been made, it is probable that our City would have been laid in ashes." (From the National Intelligences of the 17th April.) Extract of a Letter from a Royalist in Laguira, dated March 16, to a respectable Merchant in New York. " Boovan, having abandoned all the points, leaving a sms:4 garrison in Guiana, came to San Fernando de Apure, where he assembled all his forces, amounting to 5000 men, with an intent to march upon Carracas. MottlLLo was prepared to meet him, with the royal toice, consisting! , of 2500 horsemen and 3500 infantry, all well equipped. Bouvatt, however, thought to inti- Initiate him by his former successes ; but, at the Moment he intended to attack Carracas, he re• ceived intelligence that CALSADA had united all the royal troops in Popayan, and retaken Santa F 4, in the mouth of January ; that the aspect of af fairs 'vat entirely changed in that country. 130- LIVAR, on receiving this news, immediately re tired with his troops. The campaign, which was expected to have been bloody, will pass off with out firing a gun. They threatened us from Mar garetta with a squadron of nine vessels, h av i ng on hoard nine hundred Englishmen., but the royal , sqUadr . on, of two corvettes, two brigs, two sloops of war, and two schooners, which sailed from VOlto Cabello, has blockaded them - at Paropata." Two subjects of great-importance to the cons. mutiny were introduced in the House of Lords last night, and underwent a considerable discus• sion. The one related to the Commercial Dis tress of the Country, and the other to the Em. ployment of the Poor.—These subjects are indeed - intimately connected with each other. The Earl of LIVERPOOL took a distinguished and very gra tifying part on both these interesting topics, and stated that Government fiad bestowed much atten tion on them, and were disposed to ,arlOpt any measures that were most likely to relieve the dis trepres of the Cottony in the course of the de bate. the Noble Lord very satisfactorily answered the objection, of Eirl STANHOPE'as to the use of Machinery, to which the Earl of Livaltroot, tie- Glared that the wealth and importance of the Em pire were principally owing. Machinery was not only eminently beneficial to the State in a cont mercial point of view, but highly honourable to the intellectual character of the Empire, as our Manuf:ictures had been admired and adopted by all other Countries.—His Lordship also judi ciously, and with apparent profound knowledge of the subject, argued against Lord STANHOPE'S re commendation of the expediency of extending the Cultivation of Waste Lands in the present state of the Country, and through the whole of his reasonings on the complicated subjects in debate, proved how able he is to understand the true inte rests of the Country, to illustrate his sentiments by a clear and manly eloquence, as tvt.ll as his de sire to give his zealous support and encouragement to whatever may tend to mitigate and remove the burthens that press upon any classes of the com munity, to promote the happiness of the People and the prospet ity of thq Empire. The chief topic in the House of Commons, last night, related to a Motion, by Colonel DAvas, for A SeletlContini , tee to inquire into the who) of our Military Expenditure. Tice Honourable Mcllitler was ably allfWeled by Lord PALMERSTON, and On • division the question was lost by a ma jority of 125 to 45 in favour of Government. Snip OWNIIIIS.—A Meeting of this respectable Body took place yesterday at the City of London Tavern in Bishopsgate-street. The object of this Meeting is important to the Country, as it was held for the purpose of considering of a Petition to Par tiainent against any change in the existing Laws that may be injurious to British Shipping.— We lament that we have not room for the Peti tion this day, but it shall assuredly appear in our Paper to-morrow. This Meeting took place in consequence of the recent Petition to Parliament from some Merchants of London, which propos, ed the removal of restrictions' that ate essential to a due support of the Commerce of the Country• The Petition alluded to was' not defined in its im mediate objects, but . as it suggested alterations which might affect our Navigation Lars, upon which the prosperity of the Country depends, it reasonably excited alum among the mercantile body in iceneral. We expressed ourselves very freely on this subject yesterday, and have often entered our protest against any diminution of the duties, my Foreign Timber, as such diminution would be in the 'highest degree. injurious to our North American Colonies, es well as to the - Sflip. ping Interests of the Mother Country. We shall resume this subject, as interwoven with the essen tial interests of the Empire, and 'se agair. invite ouR Commercial Readers, on both sides, to enter into the full discussion of a question so l'uporiaor, for which purpose the columns of HB SUN shall be fairly open, as becomes the character of eve!) , Public Journal that is really animated by the true spirit of Patriotism.—We are paiticulatly induced to refrain from presuming ourselves to dilate upon this subject, as the Petition - which we shall insert 'to-morrow takes a comprehensive view of it in all its relations, holds forth a strong case, and affords solid and satisfactory reasons for the preservation of that system, and of those Laws, which have raised the Country to an un rivalled height of Commercial Prosperity. WEYMOUTH, MAY I G.—The Almorah, WEIGH r, from Madras, passed this port last night ; she sailed the 20!h January. Lett at the-Cape; the Hoogly transport, and two or three other vessels homeward bound. The Phoenix and Gametic left Bengal the 20th January. The 4tlvanced age and critical state of health of Sir JoiErn BANK as has at length induced him to resign the Ptesidvntship of the !loyal Society, No man ever filled the situation with more ii hrrality, ith a wore ardent zeal for t s he promo tion of Science, or a more impartial regard to tin• pretensions of those who might do honour to the Establishment. Earl SPENCER, according to re port, is to be the Successor, and one more fit to support the honours of the Chair could hardly be found. Yesterday the Duke of Yottie transacted mili tary business with the KING, at his Palace in Pall- Prince LEOPOLD dined with the Ducnoss of KENT, at the King's Palace, Kensington, yester day. The Princess Soenta., we are sorry to say, is not so well as she has been lately. For the last three days her Royal Highness has not taken her customary carsiage airings in the Palk. Preparations are making at Cambridge'-honse for the immediate reception of the Duke of CAm aittnce his Royal Highness is expected in town about the first of the ensuing month. The workmen ate proceeding rapidly with thcir preparations for the military at the Royal Mews, Charing Cross. The arrangements appear to con template the reception of about one thousand In fantry. No pieparation whatever has been made for Cavalry. The usual Grand Ball given to the Ladies by the Most Noble Knights of the Bath, on their Installation, and which was postponed till the couclution of thy war, is, we onderstand, to take 'place on a more extensive and magnificent scale t h an was eve r witnessed in this country, as there are fifty K n i g hts to be installed. Vauxhall Gar dens, and those of Cht lsea College, are inentioned es the plices this splendid entertainment is to take place. Yesterday afternoon, the Duke and Duchess of SAN CARLOS and Nmily, with part 01 their suite, set out in a travelling landau with four hot yes, from their mansion in Portland•nlace, for their seat, May-place, in Betts. lii the cootie of the forenoon of yesterday, his Excel. lency and the Duchess received the vi s its of a number of the Nobility and Gentry, who took a most cordial and farewell leave. A great number of spectators assembled oil the occasion, who witnessed their departure. His Excellency will remain but a few days at May-place, when Le will set out for Paris, on his way to Madrid. The new Tragedy of Virginius was, it seems, pleseuted to the Managers by Mr. M'Caeanv. who is a friend of the Author, for whom the latter has provided a character purposely adapted to give full scope to his talents. Mr. flusT and Sir CHAS. 11 7 0E,ELFY were con ducted on Alonday night to the Bench Prison, and were allotted an apartment over the Wine-room, where they passed tire night together : !'hey were removed yesterday to their respective places of confinement. 1 - lAttittsoN quitted Lon don on Monday night, accompanied by the gaoler of Chester. POtTRY. *) IM PROM PVT On Me recent Appointment of oEn:um CotatAM, Etqa The Bard a Beefeater at last! Well, Bards, alas ! too often fast, And , He choitld hare gOod fare, at least, Who oft has giv i a the world a feast. FUNERAL of G. WEDGEBERROW, Esa: Monday afternoon the Funeral of the laid Gs()Kos WurossessoVt. Big , one of the Pages to hi. MAJBSTY, took place from his late ream dence in Pimlico. The solemn procession moved. in the following order, . Tyler of the Bedford Lodge of Vreentascens, No. 257. carrying a white wand. Thirty of the Brethren of the Lodge, two and two, Past Masters, Senior and Junior Wardens, WorThipful Master, The Whore in long cloaks, crape irat-bands, and white stores. • Motes. HEARSE; • ornamented with black feathers, euntainiow the Born.. Two Mourning Coaches, - • containing tire Relatives and wend of the Gentlemen frnsn Carlton house. `The cavalcade 'proceeded Aosta) , p Grosvenor place. into. Pieeisdilly, through Park-lane, doers (7xford-street, to the burial ground belonging to St. Georges, Hanover-square. On its arrival the brethren forming a line on racii side of the entrance into the Chaps): The Minister met tiro coffin attire gate, which was followed try' he mourneii, whits' the Worshipful Master and the Brethren tnitowed iu res ,veri.ed order to that in;wkich they had come. The service was performed lit a most soltinn and impressive manner., and the body then borne to the grave, in the tame order,in whicti it had entered the Chapel, at which place, ot} its arriva the whole of the Mourners and Brethren formed a circle dur ing the' performance of the last sail otlice. Few individuals were more respected than the late ,Mr. Wedgeherrow, ;tad (hiring his long illness it was the daily custom of his Ma jetty graciously to condescend to inquire after his state of health; and by the King's special command, bosh Sir licnrr Halford and Sir M. Tierney constantly attended him. Mr. , Wedgeberrow was in the 41st year of his age, and has left widow and three young children. CORN EXCHANGE, MAY 17.—We have had very little Wheat fresh in since Mo - nday, net any ito-. provetnent in the demand this morning hitt what . sales were made were at Mond a y' s p r i ces . B ai l e r was very heavy sale, and rati d er cheaper, having' scarce a buyer at market. .The arrivals of Oats have increased, and the trade was heavy, but theca is no alteration in prices. LONDON WELCH AUX . /LIART BißLe SOCLETYJ —The Annual Meeting of the above Society was held yesterday at the Paul's Elead, Cateatoil-. street, Sir W. W. WYNN, Bart. M.P. the Pre•• ,Went, in the Chair, supported by several eminent Clergymen. The Report of the last year was read by the Secretary, by which ir.apnears thaz a considerable number of Bibles trod Testament* have been distributed among the poor im lifulese and that further pecuniary aid was only wqiiting tii further the greater eireulatioa at the-Serfptoree in that part of the k,ingdont. At the conclusion of the readitlg of the Report, the Chairman wher gentlemen expatiated at considerable leugils and ability on the utility of supporting the So ciety, after wbich . t be meeting adjOuttred., The Earl of CLAN.O.',EITT arrired in lawn yester., thy from the Court of the Netherlamii. The Noble Earl alighted at Thomas's Hotel, Berke.' ley-squ.re, alit: will nor remain in towq, it iti believed, more than a few days. None of his Lot dships family came with him. This day the Earl of HARROWIrf will entertain the Cabinet Alinisters with a grand dinner, at his honse in Grosvenur.squate. Yesterday, the all and Countess of HARROWSt gave a gratsd dinner, at their house in Grosvenori , square. 'lite Man in St. James's Parl4 has recently re covered Borne at its former fashion. Alooday it presented a tine display of equestrians, niaNt and f. male, who sought the protection of i!* shade front the stm and dust of the tide in Il yo c Path. Feathers and ermine have then enotnaously it) consequence of the npp ()aching Cot ottat too. A 9 thete is not enough trmine in the country t , * answer One-tenth of the demand, the white an , l black cats of tlte United Kingdom will be in great request, and the Tabbies ought to be of :Natal to s the their favourites. It would seem that the Dandies of Calcutta, mounted on their Velocipedes, have become rather' troublesome to the worthy citizens of that metro' polls; the following General Order, in eon ' (pence, has been issued : General Orders —By his Exceilet3cy the Most Noble the Go' veraor Gcorsal. " His Excellency the Most Noble the Governor General 10 pleased to direct, that in, lot ore Velocipede.' shall not ise permit tcd to eerier the ResvondentiA walk. B Order,' " C.'l'. HiGoass, Officiating Town Major.".. The 10th Hussars, his Ni As sTx 's tavourite re' giment, passed through Cat lisle this week, frcal the Notth, for London, to assist in the ceremonial of the Corottation. The eldest son of Sir Fttiorc 9 BURDETT is an officer in this corps. He is a find' person,ble lookiug young man. FEMALE Hestotsm.—A woman travelling from Beverley to Leclionlild ott Monday se'nnit.,7l o, was attacked by a person in the garb of sailor, who demanded her money, which sh e declined complying with ; she was sitting du W' l at the time for the put pose of resting herself."'" The villain then put a iiintoi to her head, to enforc e his dent and which the worn.m courageously seized , end utter a hard contest, succeeded in wrenching the deadly weapon troth his grasp. A gentlema tt routing up at the time endeavoured to secure tlt e sailor, but after a short pursuit, be effected bi S escape through a hedge. DIED. 011 Nlonday, th-e i tli inst. :11r. Thomas HaykY, la tt Lutig Acre. LONDON: Printed hz J. B. CAR::TA IRS, of Nn. 4y, ? re : Oinoool-street, Of:col-31'litre; and pubh•siseti I c t ; SiItIPPS, of No. 7, Smith Nioltoo-rect, at TN Oftice, No. 1 i 2, Slrand ; vibtru'AilveDi3ernentS, Cl dt ` Leuers, 31;. ;pc,t-pail;