The Sun. — London, England, 1820-03-10 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN. MR. EDITOR—The Conductors of the Opposi tion Press, ashamed of the fallacy of their pro phecies, endeavour now; to obtain credit for them selves, and their opinions, by misrepresenting the state of the Country, creating false statements of distress, and - so magnifying really existing grievances, that what in its fair view would seem jest tolerable, becomes by aggravation, gloomy, terrible, and monstrous. An Evening News paper, once respectable as the advocate of peace and goo:I order, but now the very echo of the Radicals, in an article said to have been received from► Yorkshire, lately gave n most alarming acconnr of the lower orders in Leeds and its neighbourhood, insioultiGg slso, that the middle ciasse3, tired of coittribotio immense slims for the relief of their poor orighboors, wrie diNpot.cd r 4. lter to co-operate n'tth the Retainers, than JO siipport a syvcin that robb-d them iaf their romtors *. Astbis account %vas lith,e(pirn•ly copied iivo one or two Morolog , which night to have seen the folly and xv kik cdoess of giving cutr - nry to A lie iaveuted for the most base pro poses, I beg trace, 1111'011 ;4 h your exc.:ellen Jour tiAl, to offer some obser7rcions upon it. Befote do this, ho'verer, I would premise, that I do not intend to deny The exit , tence of di , tress to a certain exte;li, among the manufacturing classes generAPy, but inerriy to deinolistra:e the tviclictl- Hess of exaegeratioo. There is hardly any town in Fotel-001, perhaps, et hie!) could be more fitly chosen by the Radical s - f ir,ic for their pretended commiseration, and for the purpose of misleading the Public than Leeds ; because there alaasys is, and always has been, even in the most flourishing periods, more disteess it, that town than in any other of similar Population and resources. Even when the maws facturer wets able to earn by his tabour ttvo and tkree pomilts weekly, there were numerous cases of distress, which did not arise of course Irons 41 e badness of the times, or the dearness of pro visions; the taxes did not run away with a eatniogs, and the rent of the media vie. was, at the uomost, not an eighth of' his wet his slirtlot• Ills distress, Sir, had then a it ore destructive cause than the calls of the lendlord, the prices of provisions, or the waits o: the Exchequer, to which he hardly contrihuad at ail, (unless we argue with Mr. Coe &TT that every man who eats pays taxes. ,Dis atpa!ion wasted the gains of the day, and idleness ple:•eoled labour until the gaming table or the dab room required fresh resources. Such was the fully of the manu'actoring e la.aes, that only ten out of every hundred would labour during the whole week, Out wasted at the ale-house the greatest part of what they earned by partiel Two•thirds of the hands in the maon facuoriel never worked more than three days in the %se. k, And about a Sian') whit) could earn fif teen or sixteen shillings in two days, would re fuse further labour, notwithstanding the urgent dawanels for expeoition by the master. In con s( (pence of this wicked, anti almost Imitatorsl con duct of the labourets, malty masters were com pelled to send to a distance of more than twenty suilea for men to complete their orders, Whilst the streets of Leeds were filled with drunkards, whose fam'lies were applying for parochial assistance. A gentleman of that place has been kind enough to favour me with i t statement of the wages paid by him during the last fifteen years, by which I find, that one of his men who has been cons alit in his dory, and who only receives 1-11. per week at this time, has averaged twenty fire shillings per week, daring the whole ;sellout. He informs me, that some men who would not welt k, could have ave. tasted more than thirty-fire shillings during the fifteen) years. These persons are represented as excellent workmen, butt ardent followers of COB. BETT and firm believers of his equalizing doctrine, which prompta men to neglect their homes, their comforts, and their morals, in the wild chase after a participation of property for which they never laboured. Of the numerous instances of distress which are now to he found in Leeds, scarcely any svould have been known, if the manufacturing classes had been constant in their labour and frugal in their expenditure. They would have acquired more than sotlicieot to supply the eit ficiency between comfort and their present wages, and their refusal to tollow the impulse of nature, which prest.rihes the itecesFir y of providing for the future, takes from pity its sweetest attii bete—eonsciousness of worth in the object that is pitied. The present stagnation of trade cannot last long, anti a very moderate economy would have provided for temporary difficulty; but this has been entirely neglected. The Mainifeettirets ate, however, offered to our notice by the Op position Prints as miserable sot:feral% by the im providence of Ministers, and the corruption of Parliaineut. There is something hollow in all this, or ;here is much ignorance. , We hear of no pity for the London tradesman, who, during two or three years of prosperous trade, dissipate; in luxury and extravagance more than would have served him and his family for thrice that period ; his failure even horn want of business is no cause for pity, because he ought to have calculated or, the chances of trade, and have reserved front his profits at one time the means of meeting the losses of another. Nothing can be said of these false compassiuns, but that they are is base trick of party. Let us despise them as we ought to do, and having fairly strewn the want of prudence and virtue in the sufferers, endeavour by proper meatus to restore them to comfort, and a sense of the value of honest industry. Of the present distresses in Leeds Mid its vicinit y I am pretty well qealified "'Nothing can he more false than this insinuation; the middle classes of Leeds are above such calumny. 'fbere is MA a public dinner, an ordinary, or a private couvivial party of the eat respectability in Leec!, at which "His Majesly's 'Alinisters" is not a standing toast, and drank with cor- Aliaiity. to judge from recent ioquiri , s whirl' I have matte there, and I have no hesitation in asserting, that they are out a tenth part so bad as they have been represented. Much distres certainty , 'oes exist, bolt it is more attributable to the profligate lives of the tower orders, than to any ether circumstance. The vice and idleness or that town are indeed terrible ; the public streets are filled with proititutes, snit the public houses with profligates. There is no moral or religiotts . creed amongst them. They know no book of prayer but [loxes Parodies; Hod tin scrip tures bat COBBIVIT'S Register. You rosy rea dily conceive the state of such a porn lation. The righteous man, says the Poet SAD!, `4 toils, and his toils are cheerful ; but .t be wicked bit under the shade of the cedar, and thiuk not of the calls of the ruor row." 'l'h e wagts amongst the manufacturing classes are at a low rate ; hot let it he retorts:. tiered, that provisions in their districts are inure then 2 0 per cent. cheaper than in the metropolis, or the opposite parrs of England. Many labour ing men here csninst earn half so much as the manufacturers io Yorkshire, where coals, that star} of lite next to food, are at One S.:Kris of the London price. But it is the fashion to talk of distre” in the manufacturing dis: ricts, and to t w ig. nify it tenfold for the ends of party. \le may form a pretty con ect estimate of these over charged accounts by one. tact :—lii the week lit u hick the en;lirrs at Wakefield, tear Leeds, struck for an increase of wages, they shared twenty three shillings and ten-pence each, iiirl that was Something less than their last week's earnin g s. In di-tressed times, this was surely not a despi cable stipend for a !about ing man. At Mon, in Handers, the same description of labourers do not earn more than two sliillino per day, end the ex p.-n(4-s of silts.istence are nut a tlitrd less than its Yorkshire.-1 am, Sir, Your very obedient Servant, G. M. LONDON JOURNALS. FROM TuE MORNING P?i'ERS OF THIS DAY. . [Morning Chronicle.] In Tie Times of yesterday it is positively stated that it is the intention of ►isr ers to propose an addition to the Civil List of no leis than half a million 'l his is as positively denied, and we trust there is no foundatiou for tl►e rumour of a grant.so lavish. [Morning Post We c.i.py the following from The Times of yes terday:— We are assured nn authority deserving implicit re liance, that the arrangements for the new Civil List are far advanced ; that they will form one of the first measures to be submitted to the congideration of the new Parliament; and that they involve, if completed in the form now designed, an additional binder) on the subject to the extent of half a million annually." We are enabled, from much higher authority, to assert, that there is no truth in this statement ; and we add, from ourselves, that we are swistied the triter 'it this article knew at the rime he wrote it there was no foundation fur it. What the art ful and malicious motives are for inventing and circulating such a report at o, e present ti me must be obvious to every body ; but until we saw this paragraph we did not believe that even the malig nant inveteracy of that paper to the Government would have induced its conductors to endeavour to impose upon the public so infamous a calumny. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed Last Nigia. THEArRE ROYAL.. DR(' RY-LINE.—The Hebrew; Principal Characters by Ur. Kean and Mrs. W. West. After which, Who's Wh,. TH EAT RE ROYAL, COVENT-GARMiN Isaac, M r. Vl'. Farrell; Rebecca, Miss Foote. After which, 'ri le wirer• in Distress ;. to nbich was added, Too Late for Dinner. ERRATUM —Tn W. M.'s Letter, in YectrrdlY's SUN, the w.rds " either ca,ve," snoield have been " neither case." PRICE OF STOCKS THIE HAT AT rwEI,VE n'eLoCII• 3 per Cent. Cents. 6 ,411 I India 13,inds .... 14s. ri s . p r . A per ('t. Navy Ann. .. i 0.3 y I Each. Bills, kid .. is. dis. Inip. a pet Cent. Ann..... t 3 ,4 I Coos. for Account ...... Gtql E. EYTON, Stocli-Brel..er, Old State Lot Ivry- Office, 2, Curtain!, aria Lonsbarcl-Arect. MAILS. AWRIVEIP--I Dublin, 4 Waterford, 1 Flanders. Duc-2 Guernsey and Jerry, 4 Hlland, 1 Gutienburgh, 1 Li,bon, I Hamburgll. HIGH w.A•I'EIt AT LONDON BRIDGE TO.NIORRow. Morning, 3.i minutes after 11. Evening, 0 /11111111eA attar 12. THE SUN. sor.soi QUIS DICERE F.ILSUM A 11.70 EAT ? LONDON, FRIDAY, 10, )820. We received this morning the Paris Papers of Tuesday last. The following are extracts : g' CilAMllElt OF PEENS, NIoNDAY, NlARcii G. " During the leading of the proces rc►bal, the Count d'Angout protested against an assertion made in the last Sitting by the Duke de Fitz- James, as it might it not explained be con sidered an inculpation of the late Alinister of the Interior, The Noble Peer, however, stated that the Count Angles had anti►oriztd him to declare in the name of the Duke de Fitz James, that nothing offensive was i►►tended. This ex• planation nas °Meted to be inserted in the proces verbal. " The Report respecting one of the Projets re lative to the possessors of National Domains was ordered to he referred to the future Commit►ee o n th e Bmiget ; and the discussion on that re specting the other Projet on the same subject, was ordered to be opened on Thursday. CHAMBER. OF DEPUTIES. " After some prelirtiinasy btlitiess, the dinue- lV AS opened oil the Pt ojet relpecting dual Liberty, " Le- Graverend contended, that no facts bad been stated by the Ministers, to render.neces sary this departure from the Constitution, and though the amendments palliated the unconstitu tionality of the projet, «nd rendered it less arbitrary, yet they at the same time pioved that it was nit necessary, by negativing all idea of Conspiracy. Ile therefore opposed the projet, and all its amendments. " M. de Cardonnel supported the pi ojet gene rally, on the ground of the danger of the State bring greater than that arising "torn 6 temporary infraction► of the Constitution but lie proposed several additional amendments. " General, Foy opposed the proper. After a speech of some length, be said, The Prince whose loss we %seq.), pardoned', when dying, his infamous assissin. How indignant would" Date been his generous so►►l, could be have foreseen the anguish of the innocent. Lrt not the lesson of a sublime death be lost to the Royal' 1-lonse or the public morals. Let not posierity reproach us %villa immolating the liberties o 4 the Country us a hecatomb at the funeral of a Bour bon, Public opinion forbids it. French honour rejects it With anger. Jimice groans at fte pro po,i;ion. I vote for the rejection of the projet.' " A lively sensation %vas manifested. Aoltiaoses broke tor h from the upper Ttibutie to the right of Ihe iLirean. " Al. Castel 134jae.—I demand that the 'Fri— bulc, where applause is not allowed, be cleAretl. " The President ordered the iluissiere to turn out every person who expressed either applause or disapprtybat ion. 51 Delong dwelt upon the evidence that ex isted of conspiracies, having for their object to overturn the Government ; and for the purpose of suppressing them, he voted for the I'rojet, as amended by the Committee. " M. Coorvoimier wished to limit the opera tion of the py °jet to conspiracies aglinst the King and the Royal Family. " D cussion adjourned i ilI to-morrow. " PARIS, MARCH 7.—The King gave R Fi r/Me audience yesterday to the D,,ke de Laval, French Ambassador to Spain. His Al,jesty afterwards traisacted business with the Duke de Richelieu. " The latest letters from Cadiz are of the 1811 February ; the army of General Freyre was still near that city, in the same po,ition. " The Mike de Lavd-Alontmorency, sets out to.morrow for Spain. nye PER CENT". Monday, Shut price Ex. Div f. 35 c. DEFERRED STOCX. Of the 44d March, 1817, 93 f. 60c. 22,i Sept. 1819, Ss f. 50 e." IConceiving that our Readers must be fully se ti,fied with tl►e daily reports of the Proceedings at the Elections in the City of Lnn►lon, the Bo rough of Southwark, and tl►e City of Westminster, we shall spare them from our commerits. on the subject. We cannot, however, but regret, that the Candidates in general, with very few exceptions, should debase themselves so much by the grossest personalities. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT stands conspicuous in this kind of personal hostility. Mr. Hoanousa seems to have been taught in tl►e same school. We hope that the common sense of voters throughout the country, as wtll as their regard for decency, will induce them to reflect on the little probability there is that persons w►ho can thus degrade themselves, and give way to i stich low passions as render them totally unworthy of tl►e character of Gentlemen, are likely to act like virtuous Patriots, and wise Legislators. M. BROVGIIAM.—This Gentleman recommends himself to the religions and loyal Elec , ors of ‘Vestworland d►y two striking facts, viz, having dated his Address to them on a Sunday, and havin< congratulated them on the death of the late King. Surtly they cannot but spew that they are above the vulgar feeling common in the country, of deg) veneration for the departed Sovereign, one of the best of Kings and of men, and of ru-►king any distinction between ordinary days and th at consecrated to the homage of the King of Kings J. C. floallotrsE, is sail that 'Mr. lioatiousg is the Author of the ilifartoois Letter addressed to Mr. CANNING a year or two r.go, vintlicatin:z assassination, and threatening to n►n►der that Gentleman. We hope that Mr. Eloultouss will clear himself from so horrible a charge to the satisfaction of the Ore tors cf IVestminster, as he is a Candidate for their favour. Mr. CALV'ERT, the Candidate for Southwark, declared on the hwoitigs that the high /olive of Beer was owing to Ministers nod Taxation. If so, how efunes it 'hit Brewers acreire such large for tunes .? But the reduced Tidily of the Beer gives the bnlattee still in favour of the Brewers, while it is generally thought that certain chemical .irn, proventents are very iNjoriutis to the public health. GENERAL ELEC I lON. sourinvAllK, ELECTION -FINAL CLOSE. This morning at 12 o'clock, the Election forl this Borough finally closed. At a late hour last night, SirTHotlAs TURTON signified his infonaut in consequence of the advice of his friends, 11 ° t to trouble the Electors further, The total ni n4 berg were as follow : Mr. Calvert Sir It. Wilsou 1153 Sir T. Turtuu PM 458 Tire High BAHL JouN Particap, Esq. t ile" declared the Eketion to have fallen on C. C aL 5 vkar, Esti. and Sir ROBERT IVILSON, a t " ' Made his ret urn accordingly. The succes sru Candidates then a dd resse d t h e El ectors , an d the proceedings having ended, the Persons it a. sentbled dispersed iu a peaceable manner. 1. " 1 early day has been fi xed f o r th e Ch a i r ing 1 " , " Members. The Hustings were removed in tlr course of two or three hours after the high 153ih j depatted, and Ihe Borough seems to have fesuo'' the usual appearance of business. WESTMINSTER ELECTION-SECOND DAY. This morning the Poll was resumed at nine o'clock, and until eleven continued rather ()OA' There was an unusual flatness about the proceed' logs; the fun and jollity usual on such oceasie b were seemingly forgotten. The Baronet apPe 3ts to have taken the resnit of this Election much consideration. At a late hour yesterday ev eni o l be was aettvely employed i n th e ne i g hb our h o od 0 Clare-mat ket, impressing on the Electors tLe necessity of being early to the • Poll ; be 01 ' 7 appeals to have en ti re ly f orgotten t h e l esso n (' cheap Ejections, so foteibly inculcated by at the Middlesex Elecginn in 1-80 G, 1-13ckneY' coaches, with his colours being seen about Westminster in all directkus„ during I t ' e r s%hole of the morni ng . O w i ng to a very g re' implovernent in the construction of the flasting" the facility Of deciding upon any objected votes is much greater than on former occasions. (113 `'. gross poll this d a y- a t H a lf-p ast O ne o 'Cl oc k, as under : Sir Francis 473 Mr, Ilobhouse Mr. Lamb CITY OF LONDON ELECTION. • The following was the Gross roll at lialf • past One o'Clnck this day Mr. Wilson I9G3 Sir William Curtis lB5O Alderman Wood lBl5 The Lord Mayor l6lB Alderman Thorp Alderman Wait!man ... 1353 SHIP NEWS. FALMOUTH, MARCH 7.—Arrice4 tile Tbaiior Webster, from Jamaica, in .53 days, for London' she experienced very bad wvathe r on tier passage' by which her stern is ttove in— s i ie i s in want of provkions, RAMSGATEC, MARCH -All anchor, weigbiog about 24 cvvt. and 200 laihoms 14-inch c able , supposed to belong to the Favourite sloop of Iv 6r ` have been brought on shore by a lugger ; also 01 anchor and cable belonging to the Friendship, of several yards, mass, &c, The names of upwards of 100 vessel , ' wr ecked or driven on shore during the late gales, ha ve been entered or► Lloyd's books. The insurance * done there upon them are to a very trifling amouti' The clubs in the north, and other instil - 0 10 clubs, must have suffered severely by thet , a di sc /astcrs, EXETER. MARCH S. DESTRUCTION OF THE THEATRE BY FIRE. , LFurther P ar ti cu l ars .] Yesterday snot ning, between the hours of r w(l and three o'clock, our Theatre was discovered la be on fire : alarm was soon spread 01 . 01 1 0 / the city, and several fire culgines were, as speedilY as possible, drawn to the spot ; but before thv i : art ival the flames had burst through the root► which shortly after fell in with a tremendous crash'' The interior of t h e b u ildi ng , at t hi s t i me, presen ts''' , one entire blaze from end to end, preventing possibili,y of saving a single article ; and i n !Ade more than an hour, front the first discovell cal the fire, the whole of the building was C"; eloped in one m a s s o f ru i ns .—Th e fl ames ra ge° with amazing fury, and the sight was awitilif grand Rua appalling.—Lart;e f ekrs of fiv e we ° constantly ascending, which drifted by the win,4 l ' excited the utmost terror and rilatni Ibroogh 411° neighbourbood.—Fou r or five houses in S mlt hercl 4 lily Place. situated near the Theatre, were in th e e most imminent danger ; t o. t h e Prc'erviith°- „ :hose the engines were principally directed; a r ) by the indefatig a bl e exertions'of (b e firemen, B ' l , others who ass i s t e d, t h e y were f ortunate l y sa ve' 1 " well as the h a nds ome building, in front ° L the Theatre, lat e ly ex eeted,—Th e Theatre 116( been elegantly fitted up at a considerable expence' previous to the opening (,•-i seasou. The 1' 195 to the Proprietors must be very considerable we understand, the property is not insured to on° half 01 its amount.—The state of the Performe r : is deeply to b e l a m en t e d, t h ey h ave recent ly s " l° :et (NI a loss of severe.l weeks saairy, i n cops e : (pence of the deaths of the Duke of Item and Or King., and now, by this dreadf u l v i s i tat i on , whie has deptived them of tip ir• dresses an d oth er' . r properties, many of them may be said to have hos,c t it all however, rejoice t o fi n d t hat Ol e ', distressed ease h as b een w ar ti dy t a k en up by Ina% ft-spec,abi e and humane individ ua l s ; an d, from 111 3 known liberality of the inhabitants of this city a % S vicinity, we are encouraged in the hope that hheral subscription will be raised to alleviate I l4c • t mistortunes.---(Exeter Puss'.)