The Sun. — London, England, 1820-11-13 00:00:00

TIIF. LONDON JOURNALS. [DAILY - EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS.] [Morning .Chronicle.] The adjournment of the House of Lords to the (2311 instant, throws no light on the intentions of Ministers as to their conduct under the dis graceful defeat they have experienced: There is no precedent in recent times of a prorogation ilucirw an adjournment of e ith e r House. On the 2,3 d, therefor e , ' it is expected that a Message will go down from the Lords to the Commons requir ing their attendance at the. Bar, when the Ses sion will .be closed by a Speech from Commis sitmers (as it is 'not likely that the King will go doss ii a State to deliver it from the Throne), and the Parliament will be prorogued to the lat ter end of January or beginning of February.-- A 'Cabinet Council was, we understand, held on Saturday, at which Ministers would no doubt condole with each other on their defeat, and take measures against the approaching storm.— Brit we leave them to their fears, and theirmu- Vaat reproaches and recriminations. How diffe rent must be the feelings of Lords Grey and Er *Liiie, and the rest of that noble band who have acted such a distinguished part on this occasion. They have fought the good tight—they have fou g ht nobly for the Laws and Constitution of th. it Country, and they enjoy the reward of an ti[:.proying Conscience, and the g:atitude of that Ju try . The demonstrations of respect which Lord Grey received at Drury-lane Theatre, on Saturday, were the sincere tribute of a people, vi ho yyill never forget how much they owe, on this occasion, to his talents and virtues.—We observe a Requisition has been signed by 110 House holders of the Ward of Cripplegate Without, for a . Meeting to congratulate her Majesty on her miraculous escape from " the Milan Suborna tion, Conspiracy, and Perjury, and deliverance from corrupt Ministers, who have long en deavoured to deprive her of her Rights and Privileges," and that a Meeting is accordingly appointed . for to-morrow. A Requisition is also, we understand, in the course of signature, for a Meeting of the Common Council of London, to address his Majesty on the acquittal of the Queen. Meetings congratulating their Majes ties on the issue of the proceedings, and calling for the dismissal of Ministers, will, of course, be general throughout the country. The good effects of the present 'triumph of law and justice Kill not be confined to this country. It will let the people of other countries see what can be done by perseverance in a good cause. The im mediate effect of it will be to cover with ignominy all the known members of the Hanoverian agency, the Redings, the l3erstetts, &c. if Count Mull .ster should leave this capital for Germany, he way, not improbably, have another Pereat of as expressive a nature as that which he once receiv -ect at Jena. [Morning Post.] The unfortunate effect produced by the opera tion of the unworthy prinCiple 'of expediency, must now he deeply deplored by every well formed mind, and every loyal and well inten tioned subject in the land. Of the mass of me lancholy considerations that accompany this un expected result of base intimidation, the most painful perhaps is the prospect of what may ensue from so great an example of imperatiVe justice subdued by vile and factious clamour. Hence forth who can know what shall be the authority , and Tower of truth in the Tribunals of his coun try ?, If clamour may thus personate opinion, and so confront t ru th w ith th e quest i on o f expediency, who can say that he lives under known law's ? We trust that we do not exceed the lan guage of respectful remonstrance, when we say, , that the event of which we complain has arisen upon grounds incompatible with the - security of society.. What are the sources of the popularity which now, it seems, is to be thrown into the balance between truth and untruth ?—nineteen times out of twenty, deeds and qualities which are loved because.they encourage the most guilty hopes. Buonvarte, the sanguinary champion of felony, has an immense numerical majority of admirers over the good and illustrious Wellington and it was numerical majority merely, which upon the late occasion claimed for itself the authority of public opinion. What can be expected from concesAons to this tyranny but a gradual in crease of its power, tiil at length it supersedes that of every other tribunal, and constitutes itself the arbiter of life and property ? We know not how this progress of mischief is to be checked, except by conduct in the better classes exactly opposite, to their late supineness. They see now what has ensued from their morbid apathy, while others arrogated to speak in their name. If they .had signed their names to resolutions, de claratory- of the real character of the fabricated addresses, the question of expediency would never have been heard of in the „House of Lords. Let them continue this subserviency to mere numbers, deluded by a mischievous few, and they will soon find, and will deserve to find, what numbers can do against Peace and Property, Truth and Justice. The Bill being read a third time, and, as far as the highest legal tribunal in the kingdom was concerned, the Queen's guilt pronounced, the Minister himself proposed to withdraw-the further prosecution of the measure. The grounds and motives of this determination may be, matter of argument., and many there are, we know, who lament its adoption. Others, who feel.that it was no longer necessary to pass the Bill, for the purpose of degrading the Queen, think that the public good was wisely consulted In thus abandoning it. But who is there, with a sound lead, from one end of the country to the other, who will call such a termination of the inquiry, a triumph for the accused ? What Peer in England, what Commoner, what individual moving in the middle ranks of life, would con gratulate his wife, his daughter, or his sister,. upon the triumph of having one hundred and twenty-eight British Noblemen convinced of her guilt? What female to whom honour and cha racter are dear, could lay her head in peace upon her pillow,-and reflect that such a verdict- had been pronounced, with the further and bitter consciousness, that many others who disapproved of the measure on political grounds, yet qua• lified their dissent with the strongest condem nation of her conduct, and the most solemn asseverations of her guilt ? Thus tainted, thus stigmatised, thus, in reality, degraded, her Alajesty stands before the country : and thus will her name go down to posterity. It is no longer surmise, no longer rumour. The proofs of her misdeeds have been adduced ; those proofs have satisfied her Judges, and the verdict of her Judges, though null and void in a technical sense, will stand recorded in the annals of England, a moral sentence, whose stain no art can wash away, whose effect no sophistry, no equivocation, can diminish. Her good and vir tuous predecessor, the pious, the chaste, the ex emplary Queen Charlotte, lived and reigned among us above half a century, without reproach. The predecessors of that venerable and venerated Queen also descended to their tombs with the same unblemished purity. What a falling off when we come to her who is now our Queen'. What epitaph will future ages inscribe upon her monument ? ‘V ill it be the preamble of the Bill of Pains and Penalties, which a large majority of the House of Lords voted to have been proved by legal evidence at their Bar ? [New :times.] In our Paper of Saturday we noticed the Illu minations which took place the preceding even ing in various parts of the Metropolis, in conse quence of the Bill of Pains and Penalties having been withdrawn. The same were repeated on Saturday evening, and they were attended, as might have been too reasonably expected, with some excesses ou the part of the populace, by which we, among others, suffered no small inconvenience. Nevertheless, we are willing to allow that there may have been in the po pular feeling on the subject of the Bill much that was pardonable, and even something praise worthy. The interest naturally felt for a Woman, and a QUEEN, may excuse some over flow of enthusiasm ; and, indeed if we could consci entiously persuade ourselves that her Majesty was really "as pure as unsunned snows," we should be among the foremost to offer her the tribute of our humble veneration. But we can not forget, and the country will not soon forget, that this question has undergone the investigation of the highest and Most Honourable Tribunal in the world, which Tribunalltas twice distinctly i n.onounced doom on the Queen's conduct, namely, at the Second and Third Readings of the Bill. - We have ourselves most carefully stu died the evidence, and when we see our impres sions respecting it confirmed and sanctioned by such men as Lord Grenville and Lord Lauder dale, ptatesmen of undisputed talent, and Of un impeachable integrity---Peers who have long been, and on_ general politics still are, In op position to the Ministry of the day, we must say, that the painful conviction of our minds is too deeply rooted to be shaken by po pular rejcVngs and illuminations. We have mentioned only two of her Majesty's Judges; but be it remembered that there were one hundred and twenty/-one others, who fully concurred with those two, and that of the ninety jive who on various grounds opposed them, many condemned- the Queen's conduct in the most un qualified, some in the most indignant terms ; and no one ventured to say that it had been such as • became a virtuous female, and a Queen of Eng land.—Yet this is the state of things, which a Journalist, utterly destitute of all English feeling, has declared to be " to us Eng lishmen beyond all calculation more pre-• cious "—than what ?—than the vast inheri tance of Glory purchased by our heroic Sailors and Soldiers, our Nelson and our Wellington, in their arduous struggle against the Oppressor of Europe ! IS not this monstrous ? Could it have been believed, that any man living in the, same century with those who achieved Such immortal honour, for themselves and their country, would dare to speak of it in terms of disparagement and contempt ? Vile and worthless must that man be who can lay hold of any subject of temporary intereSt to obscure the splendour of that great moral triumph, which, after long.years of patient heroism, was consummated on the plain of Wa terloo! Q England! dearer far than life is dear, If 1 forget thy inowess, never wore Be thy ungrateml son aliou'd to hear Thy green It aces rustle, nr thy turrets roar. This was indeed a theme for exultation to all who spoke the English tongue, or in whose' veins the blood of Britons flowed. Let those rejoice, who can find satisfactory cause of joy in the sort of escape that the Queen has had from a legal sen tence of Divorce and Degradation ; but do not let them trample on common sense and decency, by placing this more than questionable event above the proudest claim that England has to in scribe her name on the column of History ! [The Times.] Among the sayings of certain of her Majesty's Judges on the late horrible trial, Lord Redes dale's declaration, that he believed the public to be " wholly imiVerent to the issue" of that in quiry (!) was of a nature to be long remembered, from a regard to the wisdom by which it was dictated, had it fallen from almost any person but Lord Redesdale. It was indeed a little awk ward that the patron of the prosecution himself, Lord Liverpool, should have given a direct contradiction to the Learned Lord, and assign, as the chief reason for giving up the Bill, his own deference for " public feeling." If, how ever-, the Learned Lord should, like his Ma jesty's Master of the Horse, pluck up courage enough for once to differ from Lord Liver pool, and adhere to his own estimate of the force and bearing of the public opinion on this momentous cause, we would refer him to the ge neral aspect of the metropolis ever since the Biil was abandoned. We would entreat Lord Re desdale and other Court Lords to ask themselves what could have raised the funds when it was I known that Prince Leopold had, after a long (perhaps a conscientious) delay, gone to offer his duty to the mother of his lamented Princess? Why was it that the funds instantaneously rose, and have since continued rising, on the receipt of intelligence in the City, that this Bill, this night mare on the national credit and tranquillity, had vanished into the regions of utter darkness, ►were it originated ? If the Courtiers want a further lesson as to the actual feelings of the people of England towards them, and the vile measure which they have been forced to relinquish, let them not confine their observation to the ca pital, but ask how the news has been hailed in all quarters, from which there has yet been time to ascertain the mode of its reception ? We say nothing of the chosen seats of popularity and independence ; but what has been the sensation manifested in places where the influence of power is most formidable, where the motives to subser viency are most urgent, and the habits of Toryism most ancient and inveterate ? We pass by Southampton, where, at day-break on Saturday, the bells were set ringing, the colours hoisted on the churches, the ships dressed out with innumerable flags, and the female inhabitants arrayed in white ribands—the em blem of innocence and triumph ; but at Ports mouth— a strong hold of Government—a vortex of public expenditure, where hardly a loaf of bread is eaten but by a dependent on the Administration of the day—tl►e same proofs of unaffected rejoicing were exhibited as we have just put on record in relation to their neighbours at Southampton. A letter from Bristol has attested to us the feelings of that old and eminently loyal city ; while at Oxford—the head quarters of Charles the First—the birth place and presidium of courtly divinity, the chosen citadel of that right reverend doctriat, that Kings are incapable whether of follies or of crimes—Oxford herself, on hearing from the Duke of Beaufort that the Bill of Pains and, Pe nalties had been devoured by its own parent, tuned her solemn bells to the music of hilarity and gratulation. This, then, is the sort of in', difference which we were impudently assured would display itself throughout the Empire, on an event which it is our conscientious belief has saved the King, nay, the Monarchy itself, from a fate as terrible---if so terrible there can be---as that with which the Bill of Divorce and Degra dation threatened to overwhelm our injured and persecuted Queen. It is then on the loyal spirit of our countrymen we reckon for a sympathy no less universal, on our deliverance from this dreadful evil, than would have been the national misery with which, if carried into execution, it would have unavoidably afflicted us. [British Press.] The rejection of the Bill of Pains and Penal ties has occasioned an universal feeling of satis faction throughout every class of society, and even the few who were influenced by the arguments, and still more by the personal authority of the Ministers, to consider the Qu een gu ilt y , d o not conceal le pleasure they experience at the de struction of so alarming a measure ; for they are aware that the sense of the country was strongly opposed to it, and that perseverance in endea vouring to carry it into effect must have been at tended with dangerous consequences. Well had it been for the honour of the Crown and the cha racter of the Government bad such a proceeding never been instituted. The disclaimers of the Ministers of the Crown, asserting that the Bill was not contemplated as a measure of personal relief to the King, were not fortunate enough to receive general credence, and throughout the whole trial the public found it impossible to ab stract the notion of the King in his individual character, appearing and acting as a prosecutor fur personal considerations, from his regal and constitutional capacity, proceeding against the Queen solely for the purposes of public justice. The trial bore the semblance of a personal dis pute between their Majesties—nobody could be lieve that any purpose of public policy or expe diency was contemplated, and the opinion ne cessarily arose that the Queen was to be de graded and divorced to gratify private enmity, or some other feeling not less discreditable.— The manner in which the Ministers of the Crown conducted the prosecution undoubtedly seemed to favour this supposition, and the public were alarmed at seeing the whole power of the Government, the influence of the Crown, and the authority of Par liament,employed under the name of public justice, and the pretended sanction of the country, to effect so monstrous a purpose. The brutal invectives continually poured out by the Treasury writers upon the Queen personally—conduct at once so disgraceful to the individuals using it, so in sulting- to the Illustrious Princess and to her whole family,. and so disreputable to the cha racter of the country—alarmed while they dis gusted time nation, for it could not be believed that those persons, professedly the minions of authority, would dare to utter such libels against the Queen of the Realm, had they not re ceived instructions, or at least permission for this purpose, and it followed as a necessary con sequence that where such course ribaldry and in decent outrages were directed personally against her Majesty, some further object than one of a public nature was contemplated. It is always to be lamented that a Sovereign should in his per sonal' character appear before his subjects actu ated by any weak or ignoble passion, and those Ministers are unworthy of his confidence, as they also forfeit that of the country, who would stoop to preserve their places in the Cabinet, by con senting to pursue an object which, even if attain ed, must in some degree compromise his regal and personal dignity. A serious affray took place at Folkstone on' Wednesday night, between a party of smugglers and the men on the preventive service, during which several of the latter were shot,and severely wounded. Mrs. ALSOP is arrived at New York ? where she is expected to perform. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF RING'S BENCH, Nov. 11. GODWIN V. ROGERS, LATHAM, AND CO. , r This was an action tried before Mr. Justt e ,o BAILEY, at Guildhall, during the last sittint e before Term, when a verdict was taken for t " Plaintiff.--Damages 2,0001. Mr. GURNEY this day applied to have the coral set aside and a new trial granted, on the grou n d of a misdirection on the part of the Lear° Judge. The plaintiff, it appeared, was a sea: faring man in the county of Kent, and the de fendants were bankers at Dover. The plaill tig a being desirous to transfer property which he B a in the English Four per Cents., amounting to 1 : 11 ,1 wards of 1,1001., to the French Funds, apPb e to the defendants on the subject, who nucl ei ; took to make the transfer, and were to receiv e commission of a quarter per cent. for their trl ble. They accordingly received authority tO seal out the plaintiff's English stock, and did sa ‘.. They then employed au agent named Faber 10 make the purchase in the French Renter, 10 1 employed a Government broker named Pi 11 3.1 to purchase the stock. Pillau accordingly all so on' the 6th May, the stock to be d e livered 0 : 0 the sth of June ; and Faber gave information the defendants of the circumstance, who irron,, e .: t diately remitted the money to Faber,and he to Pillau. Previous, however, to the time arrifiP/ for making the transfer of the stock Pillatt 13e .; came a bankrupt, and the money paid to him 0 0 lost to the plaintiff, who then brought his acti ° t , against the defendants, on the ground o f the l , having acted with neglig en c e in payi ng the mo oe J e to Pillau before they had regular notice of ti; transfer of the stock being completed. 111 ,!' Justice Bailey being of opinion there was neg4 v gence, directed the Jury to find for the plaint i , e .41r: G URNEY now moved for a new trial, on the (ground that the defend an ts h a d t a k e n every P re : cititjon in their power, and that it was necessnri to pay the money to the broker some days 1 fore tir purchase was completed, to enable n' to ascertain the rate of exchange, and do oth et acts required in purchasing in the French funds' e The CHIEF JUSTICE said, in the present on% it was not necessary for the Court to go so far the Il to say an agent, standing in the situation of defendants in this case, would be liable to I 1 .. demnify his-principals generally, though he IP; inclined to think it was so ; but in the prese% case there certainly was such negligence as Nvou l render him liable. The agent was bound t ° s take the best means in his power to secure principal ; and to have done this, he ought!!, / no means to have paid money on a time bargai" i : The transfer ought to have been made as spee ° ,, ily as the forms of business would refused. MEL.kNCIfOtry ACClDENT.—Thursday night $ most melancholy accident happened off Ports' mouth. Dr. Walker, of the Dock-yard, Iravill occasion to send his family and furniture t Ryde, employed one of the Dock-yard boats Cu r that purp ose ; on th e return o f th e b oat (after landing the family), when of the Rick er , abou t seven o'clock, the wind blowing very stroll; from the eastward, she upset ; the crew imine; diately got on he r b o tt om , an d s h e b e i ng a stout barge, they were enabled to k e ep a b o ve wate r for some time ; but the continual dashing o f the waves over them, and the weather being Ted cold, caused six of them to drop off successivelP The cries of the remaining five were heard Vl' solitary vessel coming up from Cowes at half' past eight, and who very fortunately passing th e , boat to leeward, they instantly hoisted out their boat,, and with great difficulty, from the he' numbed state of the poor creatures, succeeded 11 1 getting them on board the vessel. It is adds' tionally melancholy to reflect, that five of thee t poor fellows were married, and the sixth ker, his widowed mother ; th u s, i n th e s h or t sp a ce 0 ' one hour and a half, an aged mother, five widevr s ; and twenty childr e n, are b ere ft o f th e means of existence. Their names are Adams, Lucas' Moore, Barrett, and Payne. They were solve, of the prim e st r i ggers i n th e D oc k- yar d, and selected for the barge's crew of the King's yacht , and had been much noticed by his Majesty fo r their steady behaviou r , w h en w ith hi m during, the Royal excursion to that port.—( Portsmouth') Nov. 10.) EXECUTlON.—Yesterday the unfortunate Pri" soners M'Colgan, Grant, Connor and Crosbie, were executed at Glasgow, for housebreaking and.robbery. At five minutes past three o'cloeic they walked up to the scaffold with a solemn step, attended by the Rev. Mr. Marshall, of the High Church, and the Rev. Mr: Scott. Thei r behaviour there was extremely decent and he' corning. After remaining a short time in carries t conversation and prayer with the above Reverent) Gentlemen, they kissed each other, and taking farewell of their religious assistants, dropt the fatal signal, and were launched into eternitl' An immense crowd of men, women, and childrea were present, but no accident happened.—(Ed" burgh Courant, Nov. 9.) Friday morning four small Scots oxen, quite fat, were sold in Smithfield at 8/. each. TheY weighed about 50 stone each bullock, which ig about 41d. per lb. for the carcase, besides ha" ing the skin, tallow, and all the inside clear. --e Thirty fat Southdown lambs were also soldr which weighed 401 b. each, at ISs. This is abont s_ld. per lb. 13111111. t At his house, in Genrge• s t rec t, Edi n b urg h. on the 31st Ili" he Lady of Lieutenant General Elope, of a dam:liter. MI~JtIUEn. On Wednesday, the Bth inst.. at Littleitampton, in Susses' the Rev. Arthur Atherley, eldest son of Arthur Athrrlet Esq., of Tower-House, Arundel, to Amelia Elizabeth, Odes t daughter of Richard Dawkins, Esq. DIED. At her house, in Montrose, on the 4th inst, Lady Car' negie, relict of Sir James Carnegie, of Snuthesk, Bart. At Glennrchy, Argyllshire, on the 19th October, captai n Archibald Campbell, half p:,y 9l st Regiment. LONDON: Printed by J. B. CARSTAIRS, of No. 4R, Gres' Ormond -street, Queen-square; and published by W. 14 ' SCRIPPS, of No. 7, South Mutton-street, at Tag_,S lit4 Office, No. 112, Strand ; w h ere Adrettiserisents ()Pacts Letters, Ste. (post-p 3:::) must be addressed. c' /~ Sea Pr 510111 rreslll3 Ra m. 2'o h, tl af'. ;2, T , Z Pel tg, Nb it Yittd! ti g U bt)i