The Sun. — London, England, 1820-04-24 00:00:00

SLIGO COUNTY MEETING. On lqmoley the Nth inst. there was a large and respectable meeting its the Court-House, of The Gentlemen. Clergy, Freeholders, and other lelt-th 'ants of the County of Sligo, for the put , nowt- .of raking into consideration an Address of Von' Wence to the KING on the death of his Royal Fart er, and ot Congratulation to his MAJeiTY on Arcessiou to the Throne. Wteetam PARKE, Est i , He s t) Sheriff in the Chair. Owen Wynne, El. mowed an Address. 111sjor Olietee seconded the moti on . CilotLES l'ineetes, BO'. then rose and spoke to the fullowieg effect : I am happy, Sir, in having an opportunity of giving my concurrence both in the sentiment and principle of the proposed Atliress. I think it s foetid inert the most pet feet unanimity, The deper•ed Monarch deserves, and justly, every tri hute which po•terity row pay hi e) . Fl e was o ne of the most popelsr Otto ever swayed the sceptre of these countries—he never forgot his early de deletion, that ha gloried ie the name of Briton, and nto.v reciprocates the sentiment, and Omits in the pride of his netivity. Ile was, in deed, a trite-bons Englisionau---;brave, generous, hen e eels n t, and manly--in the exercise of his sway and the exercise of his virtues so perfectly eteoistant that it is difjicult to say whether as a nit' or Soveteige he is Hoot to be regretted.— Ifs commeored tar the Cethelic a conciliatory sys tem---he preserved for the Protestant the itiviolshi hty of the Cunoitetiou—he gave to both a wear example in the toleration of his principles and the inteeri.y ot his practice. The hisonian dwrll with delight unit!) those topics. Ile will have little to erasure and much to commend. tie will speak ot arts, e.anufertures, lit crature enctootteed—he will linger loeg smoeg those private virtues which %spr e e herd riterwelyes noted his public station— weich identified his domestic with his magisterial character, and made the father of his family, the father of his people. He will net fail to rtonetk • how ample, and at the same thee how discrimi nating tViIS his patronage and he will truly say that • it the pencil of West, directed to the sacred so twee by his bounty—if the old age of Johnson,' cheered and consoled by his royal liberality, wire to stand al Ate they wo u ld undeniably chest the purity of his taste ;out the piety of his morals,— Attritettes such es these, Sir, come home to the bosom of every man amongst us—they descend front the Do one, they tohigle with the fireside, they command more than Majesty of teat call, nor only the aemiration but the sympathy of mankind. Nor may we forget, independent of his most vir - hums example in private life, the vast public be nefits, which, as a King, his roige contet red upon the country—the liberty of the press, guaranteed, as far as reasou can reipire it, and where restrain ed, only so restrained as to prevent its runnine into liceutiousttess—the Trial by Jury rully defined and firmly estehltshed—the ihelepehdeuce of the Beech voiuntarilir coecedetl, which deprived the executive of a po%veitul and possible instrineet, and vested the rights and privileges and property of the people in t integrity of a now tutessail able Tribunal. These are acts which we should - register in our he it ts, they should canonize the memory of the Moriarch; they made his realueth lint mark of Eeropean hberty—they made i s Co, stitutiou the model for European inntation•— Let us trot either in nor estime , e of his character forger the complexion of the times in which he lived; times of portent and of prodigy, enough to ruplt!sc the council of the wise, anti daunt the valour ot the warrior—in such extremities, ex perience becomes an itithnealid calculation a cou tietosucy. Front the terrific chaos of the French Revoletion, a Comer rose and blazed athwart out hemisphere, too splendid not to allure, too omi nous not to intimidate, too rapid and too eccen tric for human speculation. The whole Conti nent bycsme abser bed in wonder—Kings and Statesmen and Sages fell down anti worshipped, and the volitical albs which had hitherto circled in harmony and peace, hooded from our system into the train of its conflaeistion. There was no order. in politics —no consistency in morals—no stedfastness in religion— Vie, prevailed and impious men bore sway. Upon the tottering throne the hydra of demo cracy sat grinning —upon the ruined altar a wretche ed prostitute received devotion, and waved in mockery the burning cross over the prostrate niumtners of the new philosophy ! all Europe ap peared spell, bound—nor like a vulgar spell did it perish in the waters. It crossed the channel. There were not wanting in Eueland abundance of enatchista to denounce the King, and of infi dels to abjure the Deity—turbuleut demagogues who matte the abused name of freedom the pre tence for their own factions selfishness—Atheists locking to be worshipped—Republicans looking to be crowned—the nobles of the land were pro scribed by anticipation, and their property parti tioned by the disinterested patriotism of these Agrarian Speculators. What do yott think it was •during that awful crisis which saved England from the hellish Saturnalia which inverted France Was it the prophetic inspiration ot Mr. Burke? The uncertain adhesion of a standi ng A rm y ? Th e pre carious principles of our Navy at the lore ? the transient tesources of a paper currency ? Sir, I believe it; my soul this empire oseed its salvation during that storm to the personal character of the departed Sovereign. When universal warfare was fulminated against klooareity, lringland naturally turned to its Represent:vire at home, and what di l sloe find him ? Frugal, moral, humane, re ligious, berieeoleta, dOrf!VgllC---1 good father— a good Ittigband—n good mat:—rendered the crown she gave hint still more loyal, and not only pre serving but purifying the trusts she had confided. She lmiked to his Court and did her morality blush at the splendid debauchery of a Versailles ? Did her fahh revolt at the gloomy fanaticism of ae Escu rial ? Far from it. She saw di;,-,'Hity which testified her sway tempered by the purity which char - act erized her worship—she saw her- diadem glowine with the gents of empire, but those gems were intoned by a ray from the alter—she saw reef alcot on his a ritimplial chariot her Monarch neetied.vot the memento of. the Republican—he octal-Set- a moment forgot that " be. virJ:s a inan." , it V, 011 id have been a lot above the comiii ion of holuatiity, it his meastues bad not sometimes been impeached by party. But in the tinnicts of public opinion as to their policy, , ho ever heard an aspersion cast upon his motive It is vets true, bail he followed other councils events might have been different, hut it is also wd worth while to notice, would our situation have ben imprOved ? Would Great Britain revolutionized have given her people purer morals, inure uprglit tribunals more impartial justice, or InOre" perect freedom" than they now participate ? Did thenurder of her Prelates, her Nobility and bt'r King followed by twenty years of military sway, procue for France more popular privileges than those it ei bleb we have been in 011 , •iiiterbed possessiee? Was the chance of some problematical Mon ovnueet wen th the cootin r eeneies ? Shoulti we surrester a presewt practical reality, for the fantastic scheme of some Utopian theorist ? o,!ght we tocontotind a ereattou so regular anti so lovely fir the vi sionary paradise that Chaos might reseal to us ? The experiment has been tried and %via( has been :he consequence ? Look to the Ceintieut at ibis moment, Iry unsettled Government, ; its per turbed spiri t ! is perilential doctrines! Go to the , omit of Kotzebue; knock at the cenetery of the Boot-boos providentially I have net to refer (0 your own moldered Cabinet ; will find there how much easier it is to desolae than to crel'e ; how possihle it is to ruin; bow Annst implacileable to restore. Even in a neighbour ing comity in your own island look at die eimr mous tempiwiim which has keen WI red ia vain to its inTuveristied pensaotry to induce them—to what ?* Why merely to surrender a murderous assassin %sell known to have beet, one of a nu merous association. D you thihk such princi ples are utittral to our people ? Do you nut think they ale the resid& of system ? Which do yon be lieve that such a sickening coincidence bosh at Lome and altioad is miraculans or premeili timed ? Sir, there is bur one -solotinn. You may depend upon it the gelph is not ye; closed whence the dreaJitil doctrines of 'reasoo, and assassination, and infidelity have issued.— Men's minds are still teeerish aunt delirious, ana whether they nickname , he fever illumination in Germany. liberality in France, radiralis tli iu El:g land, or by souse :note vulgar ant. epithet at borne, they arc all children of the same parent—all so many continun and coAvnl•iveindi. cations of the internal vitality of ti d e revolution ary volcano- Sir, lam no, now to learn that those opinions are unpalatable to certain ultra patriots of the hour. I declared them hetore, and I now reiterate them still more ernplat wally, be cause they have exoressed a very impudent cur prise that suet, opinions pr.,ceed from me, Sir, if they mean to insinuate that I ever approved the practice or professed the principles of their infamous fraternity, they insinuated a base. shin. herons, and malignant fal,ehood. I hold it to he the bounden dirty of every hottest man who ever pronounced a liberal opinion, to come for ward and declare his abhorrence of such doctrines. What ! because I am liberal, must I become re bvilions hecausr lam tolerant, must I renounce my creed ? have mistaken me very much.-- Though I would approve of any rational, practi eable reform—though I would go very tar upo n the. road of liberality, I would not move for either, no, not one single inch, unless loyally and religion were to bear we compltitY• I know . - not tvh.tt they thLi.n 6y their 11.4(lical Reform.'' except they mean to oproof the Throne, the Al tar , arid the State. I entertain too ' l ""ir chimera of Annual Parliaments and UnivXlsal Snffrage. I prefer a Legislature comprising the wealth, tlre talent, and the education of the realm to a Radical Directory of shoeless coblers, and s h op _ less apothecaries. I fly for protection to my Ki og , and for consolation to my God, from the lawless, creedless, murderous, blasphemous bandit t i, w h o postpone them both to the putrid carcas e o f an outlawed infidel. Denounce me if you choose. I would sooner die to•rnorrow beneath the dagger of your hate, than live in the infectious lepr osy o f your friendship. My f e ll ow c ountryme n , i t i s higit time to pause. Our vet y virtue by e xcess, may become vices. L et us a id t he aggrieved, b ut let its not abet the assassin—let us tolerate the sectarian, nor countenance the infidel—let us pro mulgate, if we can, an universal good, without shakitig . the basis of our social system, or the blessed foundation of our eternal hope. My own sentiments, as to the most limited tolera:ion of all sects of Christians, you are not now, for the first time, to be'made acquainted with. I know that many good men, and many much abler men, dissent Irons me; and while I give them full cre dit on the score of sincerity, I only seek the same concession for myself. 1 would open the gates of coostitntional preferment to all. my fellow subjects of every religious creed, wide as I expand to them the affections of my own.heart. It is in my mind but fair, that be who protects a State should re. ceive a reciprocity of privileges—that no man should be made familiar with its,burthens, and at the same time he told be wrist remain a stranger to its benefits. This is an humbte but conscien tious opinion, given freely, but not servilely— • seeking to make others free, I will not submit to become a slave myself, or compromise one par ticle of sdf-respect. Nay, more, Sir, though would give, and give voluntarily, every liberal en franchisement, I would not withdraw one prop— I wool(' lint deface even one useless ornament on the porch of the Constitution ; it has beers founded by wisdom, defended by valour, conse crated by years, and cemented by the purest blood of patriotism ; at every step beneath its sacred dome, we meet some bo!y relic, some sublime memorial; the tombs of the heroes, and sages, anti martyrs of our history ! time grave of the Rus sells and the Sydneys; the statues of t-he Hard wickes and the 1 - lales—the sainted relics of de- • • parted piety—the table of the laws to which King and People are alike responsible—the eternal altar on whose divine COmmandments all those laws are founded ; sublime, hallowed, inva- Inable treasures ! unimpaired, and imperish. able he the temple that protects theni! In the tnliness of my heart I say of it " Esto perpetuo," political Marius 'ever rest upon its ruins. teterenee to the congratulatory part of your ddrvs3, I cannot wish _the august Personage to whom it refers a more auspicious wish than that he tuAy follow implicitly the footsteps of his ta llier. These " ways are ways of pleiianiness," these paths are " paths of peace." 1 hope his reign may be as happy as his Itc;o.ney has been victorious, and that in the plenitude of his power he will' remember the country which forgot not him when that power -was vet y dis tant. These are not times, however, to be either too exigent or too unreasonable—the atheist meets us in out noon day walk ; the assassin waits not'for the night's concealment ; all ranks, and sects, and parties should unite ; all that is sacred in the eye of every Christi,in, dear to every patent, and valuable to every man, is menaced Kith annihilation ; every cause of; difference,'whe ther real or imaginary, should he now suspended, until the national shout of "tear God, honour the King,'' drowns the warwhoop Of impiety and treason 3 if we are to live, my conn.rymen, let us li%t in the security of laws ; if we are to die, let us die in the consolations of religion. Mr. P. sat down amid continued peals of ap plause, The High Sheriff then put the Resolution, which passed unanimously, The High Sheriff having left the Chair, and Mr. Wynne having been called to ij, thanks were voted to William Parke, Esq. for his excellent conduct in the Chair. * aiindes to the assassination of Nit. Browne, of the county of G: Away, for the thsrovery of whose murderer, the ribbonmen have for two months refused a reward of t.,,0 thousand three hundred pounds! yet. many of these wretched creatures have sea, cely a coat to cover them. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, April cw,scENE ruotAcivrioNs. lispph Sharpe, Toomas Br,nehdln. and an. oth-r, Acre brought np to plead !o indicrments pre erred against ihern for prinlii,g, pnWishing, and t ‘vicked and obscene pirWications, irl the rims!) of S Luke, Alulrile,,x Jisedlt Sitirpe plediled but he woold rev on tier clemency of their L irdship , a, he waS ;Ole to produce mtoter oil Affidavit wit ch would tend to rxciise him The other two persons pirdd et! nor gnii,y. KING V. DAVIDSON. Thomas Davidson was brought up to p1e4,1 to a Bill of I..rnett:tent found against him by the Grand .I,,ty at the list Session, ot the Old Bailey, and which charged him with p•iblishing a blas phemous libel, tendingto bring the Holy Scrip tures into disrespect. I-le pleaded Nut Guilty, and requested that he might be furnished with a copy of the indictment, Mr. Justice liRsT said, that the Cori: t had not the power of grinning it, as it was not an indict ment preterrcd by Goverunant, but by the Society or the Suppression of Vice. THE KING V. SIR CHARLES WOLSELEY AND ANOTHER. Mr. PEARSON rose to move fora role to spew cause why the verdict found against the defend ants at the last Assizes for the County of Chester, before Chief Justice Warren, should . not be set aside, and. a new trial granted, The defendant, Sir Charles WOlseley, was now present in Court, but the other detendant. Harrison, beiog a pri soner in custody, the rules of the COOrt did not require his pet tonal attendance. The groutrds on which be made this motion originated in the summing up of the Learned Judge. He was v it t aware of the delicate topic on which he was touching. The indictment against the (le ends nts contained two counts ; the first was for an unlawful assembly, and msking Seth ions speeches, which had a teroleihey to s-ir up the people to contempt of 'anti disaffeet ion towards the Government ; and the second was for a conspiracy to effect the same pur poses. In the course of the tti4l a misconcep tion (no doubt) of parts of the evidence took place in the whid of the Learned Judge. The effects of that misconception wet e, an erroneous statement of facts, and comments equally erro neous upon them. It was sworn by a vet y young man earned Johnson. who attended the no-eting in the crowd, that. Sir Charles Wolesley used the following words in a speech he made there : " Be firer, unite your strength, for in threewteks the great struggle will he made snd ended." Ile never mentioned these expressions to any hotly until lie told the m a fottnight before the Assizes to one 'Buller, who was at that time committed fee felony. On Johnson's cross-examination he admitted that he could not recollect . either the order of the speakers or nay other words used by Sir Charles VVolseley. He also said he 'Was at the meeting from the beginning, and that Sir Charles was the first speaker, .though all the other witnesses fur the prosecution concurred in stating that Mr. liarrisein spoke for a consi derable length of time before Sir Charles Ifolse ley came. The words attributed to Sir Charles Were directly contradicted by two reporters, one of whom was connected with a Niinistetial Paper, who swore they never beard him use them, and that if he had used them they mast have heard him. The mistake made in the Learned Judge's ,summing up occurred in t-bis manner. About an hour before Sir Charles Wolseley came to the meeting, a constable was very improperly assault ed, and when Sir Charles subsequently addressed the meeting, he cautioned the people to bewaie of spies and informers. Now the Learned Judge, in summing up, confused the order of the faces, and made the speech of Sir Charles to precede the assault on the constable, and observed, in allusion to the caution respecting spies and hifortners, " Yon see, Gentlemen, how well his (Sir Charles's) directions wet e obeyed, for a constable was nearly killed on the occasion." T::e Learned Counsel then observed, that this Transposition of the ender of occurrences in the charge.to the Jury, when their memory of the evidence must be supposed to he very imperfect, atter two days' trial, ',Mist have powerfally pre judiced them against ithe &Ancients. He had ten affidavits to support his application, though he thought it right to state that his Learned Cole league (Mr. Parke), from vatose notes Of the case he 10 , 11)&61 the.motion, had not taken a note of this last mentioned circumstance. Leaving the case therefore to their Lordships' consideration, he shmild not trouble Clem with any further coin went . The CHIEF Jumest—Thongh Mr. pc, ke has not got the portiettiar tApression on . his notes re sp►ecting spies and informers, as connected with the its.sauir, does lie recollect that IL Jt.i!ge Inado ally such oh - s'elvation ? . Mt. ProtxE—My infpression certainly is,,I I J II , the Learut , d Judge miStook - the' older in whica facts were represe'ntedin evidence to have occur' red .at the meeting, but it did not•ar the time pear to me that his mistelte was so dear and dis' tiiict as so warrant t u i e in ntvr,ttpting his charge., Iltheur I say this, I beg to add, that a number or persons present at the time did think the J,,dgd, made the mistake in fte manner stated by fl Learned Friend. CHIEF Just - rico, after consulting with the other 'hinges for smme time, said—This is a case in which the Judge's notes on the trial must come before us, • whether we grant this application oe not. The present application'is . a very novel one° I don't recollect a single instance in which art application was made tor a new trial, in consc.. ( pe nt e of the selection of a 'single passage from a Judge's Charge. As we must have the Judge's noie•, you may take a rule to chew cause, but iC ems( not g o in to t h e new tria l paper, and thereb y become a means of delay. You mils( he prepare(' to sti , t,in it as soon as the Learned Judg e se nds us the Report. PcmcsoN accordingly took his rule on teren, and promised to file his affidavits for the information of the . Coost, not with a view of being ansivercd, as the Chief Jusrit.e ohseived--• they could not try a Judge's charge upon Esthete' vit s THE KING V. HUNT. Tic Lftr,ll CHIFF JUsTICE-1 suppose, Hoot, yogi have come to nuyve fur a new trial. 11 . 1 r. HuNT-1 have, toy Lot d+; I bane come . to mote fur a new trial in the case of the King agmiusi Hunt. The Loon CUIEF•JUSTICII Saiti, it was now too late to take he mater in 'o consideration to-day. Mr. Hun might move on a future day ; it would be without ,Any preinir ce to hill!. Mr. HUNT requested tha their Lordships would bare :be goodness to n.tme a day, The Lola) CnrEF-JUSTICR said, it WAS nobab!C thA the Gentlemen at the Bar had many mo►ions ►o make; and WI tune of tl►em mentioning that there were about 20 on the li:t, his Lordship name►! Wednesday as the day on which the motion ‘‘oold be herd. REFRAC I . OIIY CONDUCT OF TIIE FEMALE CONVICTS IN NEWGATE. An alarming spirit ofinsarbordination has been evinced by the female Convicts under orders for transportation in Netvgare. About three weeks since, Mr. BflowN, the Governor, received in structions to prepare forty of those unfortunate women for ttansportatiou ; from 'tt feeling of humanity and kindness towards them, lie Mooday and Tuesday last for interviews with their friends, to take a parting farewell ; wits repeatedly solicited to say What particular day they writild be sent off, but this he very'itr" - thinly declined stating, as !rum the description .of visitors, some of them the most abandoned cha racters, a rescue might he atten , pted. On Wed.' nesday mornin g early Mr. Brown found ,the doOr of Nesvgate surrounded by ruffian's and infamous females of every description, expecting the wo men to be removed; but finding there was no-ap pearauce of that sort, they peaceably separated. Ott Friday night, about eight o'clock, Mr. Brows& received his final orders to remove the convicts early on Satorday morning ; lie instantly cornimi nic'ated his orders to them, and requested they svdold ba ready in time. The moment thgy heard the intelligeuce, they btor,t out into bitter invectives, used the most infamous and obscenc 'language, broke the windows, and swore tile) , would not be conveyed away. .111 r. Brow'rt was compelled to call in one of the City Marshals, amid procure assnimber of Coustablei to assist n ca•e a riot took place, which appeared likely ru lie. the case ; when Mr. B. obtained silence, he ad• dressed them on the impropriety of their condiff.t. instead of attending to his admonition, they set up a dreadtul yell, and amain made use of the most blasph e mous language. At length he threat vocal to handcuff them, and actually prucuted anuto her of handcuffs, which, when they saw, they hecarbe more calm. None of them would go to bed, HII , I Saturday morning, about five o'clock. Mr. Hardy cot!veyed them in coaches, four in each, to the Therm. s Police-office, ,where they were etnhar ked On board a Gravesend boat, and conveyed on board the ship Morley, lyi,g in Gal leon lieach. During their journey kora Net-stater to the water-side, they behaved to 'the saute de. , Braved manlier, screaming murder,, and oop. ; ry; that Newgate would, be bnrot. Mr. Hardy sue.. ceeded in lodging them all safe on board the shii* about two o'clock ; they then became ‘rnorn peaceable. Peas will this spring be earlier in the market than May cabbages; the young plants of the ter having been totally destroyed by the severity of the sate wiWer. BIRTHS. On.Thurstlay last, at Preshaw House, Hants, the Right r;itile . Lady Mary Long, the lady of Waiter Long, Esq. , of a daughter. On Thursday last, at Beauchamp Lochs, near Gloucester the Lady of Major-Geheral Guise, of a ut. ALARM:FA). At Elthatn, Kent, on the inih inst. Robert Belcher, Esq.' of Henley on Thames, Okfordshire, ti. t.ini y Slieldrake Kew— niece of the late Cohnsel Sheldrahe, of the Royal On the IFt'h instant., at Caitinc:lber Ifit'ause, Perthshire, .1014 n G►n n, 1.41, Advocate, Edinburgh, to Anne Maule, only (,f the late Nlurdoeh, of Gavtincaber, Esq. D I I, 1 ) . On the Bth instant, at Pan, in the South of France, the tion; Thomas, Earl of SeKith. (ni Friday morning, the 2ISt inst. Mr. Christopher Halt, of HaNia..street, Grnsvemq.pl aee . on Friday, the 2 ist instant, Solomon de Nleditts, jun. Esq. , f r gui l • On Taesday, in the Intst year of his a:ge, George , Kelson, the oldest parishioner of Lyneninb and Widconito—doring the last year he, workeu in a gentleman's gat den; and his facul ties were so perfect, that he pre ovideoee before the Co';;. nrksioners for ent i niring into the State of Public Charities, at their recent visit to t his city, and deposed to. facts which °a eurred 9;) years since. Kelson furnished the portrait of Bal" hut '5 Ceit.b: - atud picture of the If ovdniau.—(l3ath.Yaper.) B. CARsTAItts. of No. 29, Gie . 01'11..14 -Street,Quaen-square; r.EI:I published hs' A . scam's, of No. C, • Schithr.ll lidron-street, at T r. ` 1 ". thrice, No. 112, Atrand ; when. Metz lisrluenti, 'o:derts. Letters, &c. (post-wild) etitsr be eJdresseti. ‘.7 C P. 6./.4 ~, I P, -opo tt4 LLN; toed the „ °I tit It, W or tetA day ?nal,