The Sun. — London, England, 1815-02-14 00:00:00

jellua sics, encroachments, .ane d:fftl•et - rct;s would • Pr evail amon gs t t h ose diff erent P owers , as if no e °,agres s for the general pacification of Europe ° a a stable and solid basis had ever been as sembled. 'oeCtiANCELLoR Of the EXCEIEdIJER observed, ° l f at he could neither see the justice nor .propriety bringing charges, and particularly. of sosserious nature, against an individual in his ahsenee. It a tuactice, he believed, utterly unknov.-tt to arliamentary usage. • The charges were made Personally against his. Noble Friend,, who was at the same time stated to be on his way home, as ue hoped he was.— (A laugh from •the Opposi t'".)—The Hon. Gentleman was certainly not Mistaken in snpposing that he should give no an- !wee to his questions. On the observations. that had fallen from the lion. Gentleman, he should slot saY 4 single word. , PosisorlsY had attributed the silence Of. i t klinisters on f ormer . occasions.to their i gnorance I P on the points alluded to in the*speech of his "Oa. Friend, it was impossible they could be ig laur4nr. What, then, must be: tile conclusion , )f : v ery man, if no exp l a U at i nn was o ff ere d , h ut t h at ' v ilinisters could neither contradict nor justify t hem ? Was.the paper signed Bcntinck genuine; II : i d if genuine, had it been published by autho- I ltY from the Prince Regent ? This was the plain question, and those the only facts at issue. He Mr. Speaker to cast his eyes on the Opp° , Si te Bench, and say whether be was most dis.- t a ,sed to pit y ' or condemn -them.—(A laugh.)— v as it true that one British Officer had broken the Rita r antee granted by another/ If not contradict it mutt he believed '; this was all he wished to 4•11 ,..ur, and all he bad to say Tr• WiturBREAD .wished to remark, that 'he had charged Lord Castlereagh as.one of a GOvern :ieut which was responsible for his proceedings ti tifar as their were in c on f orm ity to his instrue -1,34a. H e bad m ean t to say , _th a t t h e Govern -4;14 Which gave su c h i nstru c t i ons oug h t t o b e l x 4 igned before th e t r ib una l o f t h e wor ld . • . kiir,•..WARD rose to order, the Hon. Gentleman a d already spoken. WHITBREAD was glad he had so- soon ex t'iaJPated hi mse lf i n the Opinion of the Hon. Gen ea'an. Perhaps those under him might not he ;laite so well satisfied, and be should, therefore, ? .. l ) eaS, that h e meant to arra i gn them, an d not - "C a ' 1 !Castlereagh Hers.. Mr. Whitbread t a P r ?"edillg, when the House, by a general y ororder, interrupted ititn. • s BRITISH OFFICERS IN SPAIN: 4 4 4 0 lA' Prtoirt thou g ht it m i g ht nut pe r h a p s b e ativisahli, to abstain from answering a which he wished to put, relative to the ,i te ' t bions,hor ne by British Officers in the ser a Govrrnment which was Bow generally tseribed • • • ri t i sh as detestable. There were at present • Pri t)ee C/ ffieels • serving under the. banners of a 1 400) • who had no other employment' for his hi s I s t han that of trampling on the liberties of h o „ le wit f ,, e ' ' • a people with whom we were recently opp,,,,itealliance for the accomplishment of very inforti"PurPoses.—(lfear.) He now applied for could re :? to the on ly quar t er f roth which he 'Ere eive it , n 1 d e sired to know whether , Ike a . l d . n -Y Britistl Officers in the Spanish scr , _ tat "ether they received staff or regimen ; Pay as -,g s also whether they received any spe ...Ti:`. lertnnieration ont.of thesecret service fluid? isoF Ct rAticELLati of the ExcHEsauEß said, if f;. ' o -ble Lord would put his question in the form t " motio n for an account, he should not object 0 its production. He believed Generals Roche Whitt to gharn were in the Sp a nish serv/ ce . PRoBY complied with the suggestion, and tL e motion was carr i e d , b e i ng " for a Return of s ' )a e •NarneS of all British Officers say:rig under the 11 Government, with an Account of their C ;O 7 and Apn.anitments received from the British e rnment ' as far, as the same can be aseer the4°, a navr'er, io a q ues ti on from Mr. Tierney, when 4: reaty of Chatunout, of which th e . substance 7 p 1.,, 1 " Ya d been vet laid b e f ore the floOse, will he ' ueed, the Chancellor. of the Exchequer re tdled on an early d ay . r re st l ;C\nouittee s o f S upp l y, and of Ways and Means, were Ir,_ td ti ll Wednesday next. th e . ~„I‘:h a tmittee on th e B an k L oan A ct, the Chancel l or of ar,,iA,c,thequer obtained, leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Lor p A r Si r s Eltz.TON presented some Militia Accounts. ag it i tr ,jtJß.hly and fir. Miring p resen t e d. f ur th er Petitions the Property . after which the House. adjotnned. ---- ' . MAILS, '14!l).---0.' 'Dublin, ‘2, Waterford. Dry c.l France, 1 Malta, ' Guernse,,, and Jersey, 1 Dublin, 1 Waterford. ‘STC CrilS Bank L. Ann. IC 3-16ths India Borils, 14s. 15s• pro Exclieq. Bilis, 3s. ss. pr. ()nininin, 3 tlis. Cons. fur Accotint, PRICE 0 taattk Stock sini A 4:1 r ,'" 11 1.• Red. 6 , 1T4 p,,,`Fnl.Cons, (731 ' 64 4 Cons. 811 t g ''elit•NaryAl3ll.93l, 1 (1 A r ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW 4., Ig, 59 minutes-after 5, I Evening, 24 minutes after 6. THE 'tsl\i- ali "Ni Ottlf; DICERS FA LSIYM AUDEAT LONDON, 7171;simy, FEBR nr 14, 1815. "cit. Papers to the 1 1 tit furnish extracts for ;1. " I- Page- The following ar e o f the 11th, ".ve, just arrived.. Neither are important QA. s Majesty the Empe r or of Austria h as .ptv,', fh " rs. :,?osed f or some days ; this, added to the thaw, has thet e postponement of the - grand party in sledges. Saxonir says, that as no Power has made war 1; 1 '44, 4 ,' his dotuirlions cannot be considered as'congnered, Vii, l, biy did, in the difficult and critical circumstances all ;t e , ;l'ne ted to• hi was placed, that whinli his duty and his con ;.fl!.cam; 1 4,,'1ib, r Qf honour took plade the other day between a hgt i i: ) , s the Diplomatic Bod Vanda young Merchant a her",:d Commercial ; it has excited a great seri 44itIt1 • • • • • '' , 11,: 41 41 g , n4 t 1 , FEU. I.—The Danish Government are trying ':.!), J qt s. ,`''tate. as lunch as possible, its German and Danish b plan is the more Iv . lse, ac Denmark has lost of inhabit a nt s by th e elifferent cessions which (1 •i 41414 c ompelled to make: '• • eE A, A 10----Letters from :tonic, dated the 25th ult. ert V .tkuo the occupation of that city by the Neapolitan AI,, • ~.N.!cA -" , . (2 9.-;-.lt is said that the Emperor- of Austria 4, l ;:mperor Alexander next summer at Peters be" true, and there is no reason. to doubt it, tT:e .... ^i. ~..:+~ .. . . " • •,1 course of cxchang , the alteration which has lately taiien 'place in the value of public paper is not wry favourable , The exchange upon Augsburgh suddenly fell 10 per cent. the day before yesterday. It fell on that day i.0,304.' FUNDS. 5 per Cents • -Bank Actions - • ... 78 f. 20 c. _1173f. —c. The report of the defeat of the Expedition to New Orleans; has been revived, jut without bet— ter grounds than when we a fortnight ago expos - - ed its fallacy. His Majesty's ship Acbar, with the Fleet for India; is under orders to sail as early as possible. .It has been erroneously stated in a Morning Print that the second meeting between Lord Li vEßroot, and the 3,Nlembers 'of both Houses of Parliament, respecting the Corn Laws, took place yesterday._ It was not to take place till this day, as WC yesterday stated. We have no more to say at present on - the ex.: pity of the Property Tax, so sanguinely antici pated, only observing that we cannot be expected to be favoured with any information on the subject, since Ministers will not be worried out of it where. Our report of the proceedings of Parliament last night; involves many interesting consideration's. The Corn Laws were incidentally touched upon in the House of Lords, and it seemed to be an-. ticipated that the opinion of the Legislature would be in favour of restrictions - upon The importation of foreign grain. For our parts, we have no ob jection to consider agritailture as A manufacture, of which land may be deemed the- raw ma- - terial, and that like other manufactures it should be protected, together with • the • great Capital embarked in it. But we do' trust, that under the name of protection to-One hody• of men, care 'will be taken not to. impose a measure which will be oppressive to the great• body of the, People. Had It not been for Cie importation of Foreign Corn within the last 'six months, the. guartern loaf. would have- been half-a-tiro - um or. three shillings, instead of eleven-pence, and-this very day the price is 'ordered to advance; which is, we think, but a . dad-'omen of what mercy we have to expect from relying entirely up on the ':hOme market - for the staff of life. 'ls it not au atrocious extortion, -that at this time the - O'itartesti Loaf is about. One - Shilling, the price which it appears from the Report of the Corn Committee it ought to -he ‘Vhen Wheat is 80s. ; (according to the s ame RepOrt, - a sufficient protection to the Agricultural Inte rests ;) and yet the average Returns of the price . of Wheat make it below 635, at which rate the Quartern Loaf should be only Nine pence ! What justice can the general con sumer look for when Such scandalous doings as these stare him in the face,-'and' give'him a bad presentiment of what impositions will-be practised when the competition of Foreign Corn it excluded by Act of Parliament from our Markets. . In the House of Commons a subject less wor-• thy -of attentipo was introduced, but, thanks to the prurience of Ministers, not discussed. It may accord with the patriotism of Mr.WHITBREAD and Mr. PONSONBY to censure in gross the proceed.. ings'of Cpngress, and -justify their abuse by re ference to partial and. disjointed acts ; hut the common sense of the Country mist despiie the in consistency. and -.folly of such a, course. • The simple. truth seems- to he, that Opposition had, prepared their stores of condemnation, and fear ul that the statements which our Ambassador may have to lay before Parliament, should undermine tli- it fabric and mar their orations, are determined to blurt them all out upon supposition, and thus deliver themselves of their precious speeches, how ever prematurely, unjustly, and - injarithiSiy. to their own Country and to Europe.. Asti() answer Was thought necessary for the rbodenuontade of last nigut, we shall not go into argument _to shew the futility of the allegations respecting Genoa; especially as affecting British .Govern ment. • We cannot, howeer, refrain from ex pressing our astonishment that Mr. WHITBREAD and the Party who thought the 'annexation of whole Countries to Hie sceptre of BtioNAPAnte no obstacle-to Peace with him, should run so aptly into the other extreme, and think no cession, how ever small, to trifling a cause for plunging into war against any othei- Power in Europe !' These are the men too, who. so loudly insisted on the melancholy fact that another year of war most ruin our finances----:that we -could not sup port. it,-&c. &c. Now truly, the Slave Trade, or Genoa, or any thing, wrruld, according to - .their altered opinions, form a good and sufficient ground for embarking in a new contest !!! From the Frankfort and Brussels Papers to the7th kllth inst. " ITALY, JAN. 49.—Lord William Benthick, whom some public papers stated to be at Rome three weeks ago; did nut arrive there till the 21st inst. His Excellency has paid a sisit to Cardinal Paux: and it is believed that he will very shortly set ant for Naples. For some time past King Joachim has been-taking many steps to secure himself, the definitive pos session of the !March of Ancona, which he appeared to have retained hitherto, merely as the price of his recognition by the Pope, which is still withheld. Not only do his Ministers abroad insist On the addition of a population of 400,000 souls promised to Naples at the expence of the Roman territory, hut special agents traverse the Marches to increase the Nea politan .party, and to invite the people to send addresses. re questing the incorporation of the country with Naples.. The Prefects assist them in this." SOUTHWARK ELECTION.—The following is the State of the Third Day's - Poll up to 12 o'clock this day : At 10 o'clock—BAßinAr lO3l BURDETT # 257 11 o'clock..-13ARcLAY BuRDETT 12 o'clock—rimtcLAY BUKDETT 1109 260 ...........• 849 1189 481 Majority in fq.vour of Mi.. BA EtCLAY.. 908 BREAD, for the ensuing week, to be athltriced o : T c d, in the quarters loaf. NAVAL: NEWS. THE STARLING AND MARY ANN EAST INDIAMEN. • The two ships above mentioned sailed from India under convoy of his Majesty's ship Desiree,' and it, will be remembered 'they parted company on the passage, and 'as the Desiree. fell in with an American privateer 'the; next day, great fears were entertained for their safety; they Were for tunate enough to escape the enemy, bat the. Sta rling, in coming up Channel, went on shore yes terday morning, at four o'elock, near Beachv Head, Where she now lies, with lier masts cut away. Crew and passengers saved. The Many Ann has but the following • arrived, extract - front Scilly will relate in -.chat state:— " SCILLY, FEB. 9.----Catne in' the • Ir.:'ry Ann East Indiinuan, from Madras, last from the Cape, in great distress : she is one of the shins that parted from the convoy. When off the Western Islands, she shipped a sea, that carried away her wheel, binnacle,. bulk-lieads, and cabin work, indeed nearly cleared her decks : her fore-mast is sprung, and pant of her cargo has been thrown overboard." . . „ PORTSMOUTH, r nn. ii,--Arriveti a large fleet fi•om‘,lhe Downs, and remain, with the outward-. bound convoys, . at Spithead.—Wind Wesierly: TORBAY. FEE. I 2 . —Arrived' his AlaiestY's ship Acteon from a cruize. Tke'Comparw's ships Bombay, Elphinstone, Cabalva, Lady Melville, and Neptune, under•con voy,of H. M. S. Owen Glendower, arrived in Ma lacca Roads the 21st Aug. last, and were to leave the 23d for Whampoa. • The : Good Intent, from St. John's to Bermuda, was taken the 2d ult. in lat. 33. Icing - . 51. by 'die 11.1"Donnugh privateer, of IS guns and 173 mtn. The following is an extract of a lettter received from an , Officer in Sir GEORGE COLLIER'S squa dron,, dated. the 2d ult. 4, We are now in full chase of the Constitution 'and Con gress American frigates ; they sailed from Boston on the 17th llecember, and we had information of their Sailing six days afterwards. If this is the route they have taken, I am in hopes they will soon he Onr little squadron are, the Leander Si), Neweaste 50, and Acasta 40. You wi!l say we are. StVOBIZ enough, but it. is reported that. the President is at sea likewise; and if they:unite, there will be smile broken heads. We are steering for the Azdres, supposing they would "cruise off them to intercept 'our East and West ludia kamir . oys that sail from Britain about Christmas." [ln our Ship News of yesterday, relative to the capture of the Adeona and Richmond, the word " no;". in the answer from . the . Adniiralty, - was inadvertently inserted:] • THE PRINCE REGENT'S COlTET:—Yeiterday,- at three o'clOck, a Court was held. at CarltOn-house. The Privy Council was attrquled by , the Lord Pre sident, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of -the. Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exclietiner, the First Lord of the Admiralty,' the Master (eneral of the Ordnance, the Secretaries of 'State for the • Home - and Colonial Departments, the President of the Bqa - rd of Control, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; the Master of-the Mint, the Lord Chamberlain, the Lord Ste vard, .the Master of the Horse, the Vice Chamberlain, and the Judge Advocate. The PRINCE proceeded to prick for Sheriffs for the year ensuing, according to annual custom. His Royal Highness gave au diences to the of HanaoWßY, Viscount SID MOUTH, and- the JUDGE ADVOCATE. The hitter laid before his Royal •llighness the Proceedings of some Courts. Martial-, and took his Royal Highness's cdmmands on them. ' Till, PRINCE REGENT will hold a .Privy Coun cil on Thursday, to receive the Recorder of Lon don's Report of the Convicts under sentence of death in Ntwgate. A very melancholy occurrence took place on board the East India Company's, ship Asia, on her voyage from Madras . : Major R.--, a• pas senger, in a fit. of despondency, tbreur himself out of the quarter-gallery window, and was drown ed. His native servant gave tht first intimation of the sad event, but too late for any attempt be ing made to save him. No motive could be as signed for this rash act. The warfare carrying on in the province of the Caraccas.by the Royalist- and Independent parties is of a - description so sanguinary, as to he dis-' graceful to human nature.. It seems to be a sys tematic rule, that which - ever party gets the upper hand, butchers the other in have cool blood. We accounts from:Laguira as late as the 10th of De cember, and from St. Thomas of the Bth of the same month, which - communicate various parti culars on this distressing subject. .The inde - - pendent ; party was - not entirely extinct; as had been supposed ; but they were so far subdued as to leave the Royalists masters of all the strong places. The towns of Caraccas, Laguira, Ptterte Cavello, and various other principal points, are in the possession of the latter. The Independents are only - in force at Maturin, under the command of Ribas. This General has quarrelled. with his colleague Boliv . ar, and it is to the disunion be tween them that the overthrow's and misfortunes of their party arc ascribed. Such is the .inve terate hatred between the two parties, that they murder each other without remorse: As the Blacks revolt daily, the Royalists must have're inforcements from the mother country, or in time they will be outnumbered. The Commander at Laguira is a Mulatto, and the people of that co lour pOsSess all the places of profit and power.— The Whites act - tdwards each other with the same barbarity as the. people of colour. Two attempts have, it is ,said, been made by the Austrians to get possession of .the citadel of Turin ; one on the 26th January, when they at tempted to get into the citadel under the pretext of executing a soldier. The Commandant of the citadel refused, adding that they might execute him without the city. On the.27th,.Priday, they made a second attempt, alleging that they wished to place their artillery for safety within the citadel, as they were going to march off, and could not care it with them. The reply returned was, that the citadel was wanted by the garrison for their own artillery ; hu,t the Commandant would fur nish them withlorses to remove it with the Aus trian troops. The latter answered that .the snow was too deep, and that therefore they must re main themselves at Turin. On Saturday, the 2Sth, Austrian Officers were seen reconnoitring the citadel. • The naval subscription for a monument to the late Lord MELVILLE- is proceeding with great suc4e4s,----Edinbursh Courant, Feb. 9. P Tll V. I IIkIPROMTTU On the Scotch Corporation of Barbers petitioning . against the Property Tax. The Barbers of Scotland aie,firmly combin'd To cut off the Property toll; How strap a, since throughout their employment We End They levy a Tax by the Poll; ANoTIIER. " Crop off this odious Tax," the Barbers bawl, " A Tax that is' with'many a grievance big; " The war,is ended, so there's now no cowl— " Cut, or each Thry here will prove a Wig. THE THEATRE. DRUIIY T LANE.—Last night an excessively fOolish play, Town and Country, was revived at this Theatre, for the purpose of exhibiting Mr. KEANr to a London audience in an excessively foolish character, Reuben Glenroy. As it is most pro bable, that the memory of this play has sunk into oblivion, it may be roger to refresh 'the public mind with a brief sketch of the characters, before we offer any remarks upon the way in whicu they were sustained, and we anticipate a rather unani mous verdict that, as the piece, was unworthy of reproduction, there was nothing in the pertorL mances to render it at ail palateable either to taste or judgment. The characters are alt of romance, and with no qualities of common nature to recom mend diem to . the stage. Reuben Glenroy, the hero,' a young ; grave, wild, NVelsh philosop'4er, • with aprodigious appetite for adventures, and as keen a , scent for tempests as vultures have for dead carcasses, is throughout• the early scenes an eccentric Coentry Gentleman ; but in the end, upon coining to town, bores us with preachments of sentiment, which in a few minutes reclaim a modern fashionable wife, a confirmed ganiester, and, almost, the waiters at a gambling-house in St. James's-street.- Rosalie Somers, his beloved, is a 'romantic young Lady, Who is desperately smitten With the charms- of Reuben, the only sturdy Knight with whom - she has the .good fortune to be acquainted—what she wants in sense is made up in sensibility; for though she permits herself - to be run away with at daybreak the next moms ing by a Inti found over-night half dead in a not able storm, and who calls himself her Cousin, she takes care to jump out of window and escape from iihn by the first convenient opportunity.. Old Co',S the guardian of this," fairest piece *of well formed earth," is a marvelously liberal StOckbroker, who goes about with . pockets, great coat and all, stuff ed with pocket-books full of Bank -notes, which books he adminiStees to every body who Ap- , proaches hint, as profusely as if he had really found the Philosopher's Stone in paper currency, Plastic is a most absurd villain, who ruins his friend without motive, and himself at the same time ; and at last, after he is detected and expos ed, attends the principal- persons merely, as :it should seem, to enjoy the benefit of being disgraced and buffeted. The rest of the Dramatis Pero' we are literally characters to be let, and would do as well for any other comedy or tragedy as for Town and Country. From this outline of the chief parts, it will be acknowledged that the Actors must be possessed of extraordinary powers indeed, who could justify the resuscitation. of such mortal lumber ; a but there was no such salvatory di - splay last night, and those who saw Town and Country fOr the first time would very naturally make it thelast. Mr. Kzax, it may be said, could not readily embody. so ., incongruous a conception as is drawn by the ' Writer, hut surely he might have had intellect or advice enough to induce him to refuse the part. — His appearance was too mean to, afford any idea of time phenomenon of the village, and it was impos sible for the most exorbitant credulity to fancy a little stout fellow (as hardy and as rough as a Welsh coney) the idol of female adoration and the Silvanns of rustic idolatry. But, in truth, Mr. KEAN did not scent to think nniCh of / this portion of his business ; he was .preparing. himself fur the more important adventures of the storm, which , had no sooner begun to .Mutter ,than lie placed himself at the side scene, and watched most law riously for thescreams of distress which were to serve as the signal for his exploit. Then was Richard himself; and in the subsequent scene, in which the apparently voluntary elopement of Rosalie is announced to lie re-enacted the friar scene of: Romeo and Juliet, and it may by some critics be called the excess of feeling, bui tO us abso lutely put on the semblance of a person who. had swallowed a nauseous emetic ; DOWTON playing the Doctor, and holding his head. After this the parties are all hurried up to London, where they arrive. - in , the course - of the day • from, Wales, leaving, of course, he Bristol Mail at an. immeasurable distance behind. In London, as we have reinarked, Reuben is very sententious and sentimental ; • and in one. other scene, with Plastic ,at the gaming -house, Mr. KEAN exerted himself much. In some of these parts his conceptions appeared to be jitst and, vigorous ; and he abso lutely gasped with his efforts to realize them, but his unfortunate voice marred the, effect. Yet the value of the attempts were duly appreciated, and he received the full tribute of applause' for his endeaVours. •In action, Mr. KEAN'S comedy re:. sembles his .tragedy, disclosing breast, tapping and searching, head rubbing and hair erecting,' and all the variety of indifferent pantomime.— Comparisons -have 'been deprecated in favGur of this actor;---we will not insult his predecessor in.- this character by instituting any. The other parts -We're very respectably played. DowlroN was rather saturnine in '• Cosy, _which wants more lightness than feeling. A ridiculous stock-broker is no relation to the Bramble family-. MtJMDEN was bier-conlique, Mrs. GLOVER an ex cellent Mrs. Glenroy, and RAE, WALLACK, Mrs, SPARKS, and Mrs. HORN, all that their characters would permit them to be.- Yesterday the person - well known in the Court Of Chancery as setting up certain imaginary claims, to the estates or dukedom of Norfolk, entered the House of Lords, and was proceeding withid the Bar, in order, as he said, to speak to the " Duke,!' when he was observed by the door keepers, who compelled, hil4 to withdraw.