The Sun. — London, England, 1820-09-22 00:00:00

LON DON JOURNALS. (DAILY EXTE4CTSI FROM THE MORNING PAPERS. [New rimes.] • The cry 'against hired ITALIAN WITNESSES ' Se* . ms to subside, now that Italians are coming over to give testimony_ in favour of her MAJESTY. For our part, we wish to see'all unfair practices . (if there have been any on either side) clearly exposed. We wonder very much that Mr. Cain obhouse, or Mr. Joseph Hume, - or some such urofound and patriotic Gentleman, has not long ere now brought forward soye proof of what has been so often asserted relative to the hiring o f witnesses for the prosecution. Surely persons so' scrupulously cautions, not to " o'erstep the mo desty of nature" in their speeches, would ne ver assert any evil that they were not pre pared to prove, even of an lialiah. Here have been above twenty of these witnesses examined, and we are told 'that all Italy •has been ransacked for others. Mr. Cooke went out -to- buy them up by wholesale, and Colonel Browne has ever since continued his . purchases in retail. Strange, .that no one in all this Vast conspiracy has yet ventured to peach! Perhaps they have that . sirikular fondness for bearing false witness against their neighbour, that though they can be bought for a few pauls to swear - falsely, they cannot be bought to speak the . truth. If it were not so, out of the scores, nay hundreds that must (on the abovementioned supposition) have been 'hirell against the Queen, some two or three might have been hired to con fess their former hiring. By these means we should have found out who are the real conspira tors, which at present seems utterly inexplicable. We need hardly ask whether Lord Liverpool was in the plot ; for we really do not believe that even Cobbett would -have the face to say that. Now his Lordship and his colleagues must have known every step that was taken by the• King in the bu siness. His Majesty sanctioned the Milan Com mission, but his Ministers furnished the. means of carrying it on, and approved of the Gentlemen appointed to that office. Well then ; did Mr. Cooke get up a conspiracy . in Italy for his own amusement? Was Mademoiselle Dumbnt the organizer of the scheme ?- Did Colonel Browne and Majocci devise the means of deceiving alike the King, his Ministers, and their Commissioner ? Whichever way we turn our thoughts, it is to tally impossible to discover what is - meant by the word which we hear -so often repeated.— Conspiracy ! [Morning .Yost.] The MARRIED FEMALE ADDRESSERS are, at least, a little staggered by the ingenuous admis- Sign of Mr. Ilume, who, we understand, is a pey- SOTI of great weight with the Radicals. " How did the Attorney-General dare to charge the -Queen with an-adulterous intercourse during six years, and only to prove it during three ?" Mr. Hume ought to know the anecdote of a frail fair of the last age, who complained to Lord Ches terfield of the scandalous world,, for imputing to her the birth of twins. " Be comforted, my good Lady," said the Noble wit, " I never be lieve more than licgof what I hear." Now three years made half of six, and Mr. Hume has com forted the Queen exactlyas Lord Chesterfield did my Lady --. Indeed throe is a very vi sible increase of 126 g-believers, or believers of HALF lately. In another fortnight or so, it is not improbable she shall have a still greater increase of whole-believers.—lt is the report at the west end of the town, that a certain conspiCuous Queen's-man has ingeniously contrived to re pair his shattered fortunes at a single stroke. We hardly know how to recall the memory of our readers to a. very singular bet said to have been laid by Charles Fox during his early vaga ries, and which was won by the testimony of a waiter at Brooks's. Sir Gerard's stratagem was more cleanly and not less clever. Ile offered to bet 10,0001. with one of his club friends, that " he would do a sillier thing than he ever had done during his life." As every one present thought it impossible for the worthy Baronet to, outdo his former outdoings, the bet was greedily caught at, and nine times repeated before supper. It is needless to say, he sat down and wrote the silly letter to Lord Liverpool, in which he calls 64 his ratting a last act, of friendship ;" and another to Alderman Wood, in which he entreats his patronage and recommendation for a post in Brandenburgh-House. We understand the umpires have decided in his favour ; but by his speeches in the House of Commons on Mon day, he seems determined to make assurance doubly sure, and win hollow. It is well known, that several Opposition Members of both Houses disapprove the part taken by others in prejudging the case of the Queen, and in encouraging the crowd to prejudge it. The Debate, on Monday, in which some language was held scarcely less dangerous to the interests of civil society-, than that of any periods of the French Revolntion, can not fail of giving new pain to those, who have already recognised the mischievous tendency of premature decision, even when given, without appeals to passions and to persons the most hazardous that cau be con sult ed.—(lbi d.) [Morning chronicle.] The Dr.cianAltow and RESOLUTIONS of the TOWN of BIRMINGHAM deserve the most serious attention of Ministers and of. Parliament. The situation of Birmingham, ascertained as it is by actual inquiry, is such as to strike conviction to the mind of every consideiate man, that we are in a, rapid course of national decline, and that no thing but a change of. system can save-us from bankruptcy. The case of Birmingham is that of every manufacturing district in the United 'Kingdom, and not only of the manufactur ing districts, but of the great Agricultural /13dy of -the Realm. We trust the useful example of the Gentlemen of Birmingham will be followed, and that there will be laid before the public a statement of the local situation of every other great town ; for it is only by such expositions, that Parliament can be truly inform ed of the actual condition of the Country. It is in vain to trust to Custom-house books against such evidence as the Committee of Birmingham have produced, since, howeverApecious the entries on the books may be made for the purposes of fallacy, there can be no dispdte as to the de crease of consumption, when all the persons en gaged in vending articles of the first necessity concur in their testimony as to the diminution of The unsatisfactory ANSWER of Lord CASTLE REAGH to the question respecting our RELATIONS with PORTUGAL, has 'naturally alarmed the mo nied part of the population. They dread the consequences of 'bur interference in the internal concerns of our ally, as the slightest symptom of warlike preparation would lower the Consols to GO, and would involve the country in inevitable ruin. One can scarcely conceive that Ministers would be so desperate as to commit us, under our present circumstances, in any foreign contest. •It is manifestly our interest that even Portugal should be relieved from the trammels under which her commerce has solong been bound. We should gain more from her prosperity than we could acquire from the monopoly of an impoverished people and a desolated country. M. Say, in his admirable refutation of the doctrine of Mr. Mal thus, has clearly shewn that it is only in the ratio of the productiveness of one country that its market becomes valuable to the produc tions of another. If a people do not grow or ma nufacture wherewithal to buy what they cannot themselves produce, they must be content with the loss of the articles the most desirable to them. How fruitful might not Portugal become, if the spirit of industry were revived, by the security which freedom would give to exertion ! The same thing may be said of Spain and Italy.— Blest with itCthe finest portions of the earth, des potism has found its task easy to subdue the energies of man, in proportion as the bounty of the soil and climate made labour almost unne cessary to mere subsistence. But unshackled, and made sensible of the luxuries which the improvemet:t of their soil would enable them to purchase, what demands might pot be made for the various products of Great Britain ?—lt is not then merely front the liberal feeling of seeing liberty spread for the happiness of the human race, that we ought to rejoice in the Re volutions now taking plike ; but even the inte rests of Great Britain are parties to the cause of freedom all over the world.—(Mid.) [British Press.] In the MADRID PAPERS which have arrived we find a notice of the occurrences which took place•in tile Theatre at Madrid on the 3d of this month, communicated to the Editor of the Mis cellanea by the Aides-de-Camp of General Diego, for the purpose of exculpating the Gene ral from the charge made against him of having endeavoured to excite the angry passions of the pit by singing the song attributed to him. The Aides-de-Camp take all the fault of that* occur rence upon themselves, and compliment the Ge neral ror his ardent bravery and sincere attach ment to his country. The publication of such a notice is a good symptom of the state of the pub lic press in Madrid. Such an avowal would, in former times, have expose.* the writers to the certainty of a severe imprisonment, and the printers of it to certain ruin. [The , Climes.] • THE QUEEN.--W e have met with a statement two or three times—cie know not how well founded—that some .of the Lords mean,' on the re:ussenibling of that Hottsep to make a proposi tion to the effect that " there is no just cause for continuink this inquiry" respecting the Queen. There is no question, we apprehend, but that if the Matter were to ,come to the Commons fully assembled, even before a word of the defence is heard, they would adopt that course. The circulation,. hOwever, of such a rumour, has put us upon considering—and that without any re ference to the - Queen's guilt or innocence—what Parliament is really now doing. We believe the naked statement cannot but excite laughter. Parlia ment; then, is now inquiring, with all its might, whether the' childleSs wife of a childless King, sixty years old—and which Ki ng h as no t lived with his wife these 25 yearswis false or not, some six or three years ago : and this is described as " an important subject," " a Momentous 'in quiry," &c. &c. Important' to whim ? we ask, and momentous in what ? Why, it is at first sight obvious that the question has at this tithe no more reference to national weal or bane than an in qUiry whether Ann Boleyn was a criminal oi hum:- cent victim to the suspicions of Henry VIII. One inquiry would just be as rational as the other. We defy the utmost wit of man to spew how our Rela tions, foreign or domestic, can be in any way al tered by the success of this-inquiry. The very people about wi:nu we are debating are gone by: They may linger a few years upon earth (we wish their lives co-extensive with their comfort), but they are now people of other days ; and, whichis yet ,more remarkable, no one called for this inquiry. The King, it is said, was too wise to call for it—Ministers were averse to li— the nation abhorred it. Then how, in the name of wonder, has it sprung up ? Why, it is of great consequence, we are told, to pre serve the purity - of the Royal Family. What lloyal Family, we ask ?' That which is forth ellming, in and from the person of the late born infant ; or that which we see moving away in the sons of the late valued King ? for we are now in the middle knotting of the two links, be t Ween the past and the future. The past have ceased to affect us by their purities or impurities ; and if there is . any prospective dread of the future, why then let a law be passed to make adul tery with a foreigner high treason ; for' this seems It h only ecase unprovided for by the existing law. is obvious, then, that it is now the inquiry only which can be injurious, and not the acts, al lowing them to have taken place. We have the ear of the nation in our possession, to an extent that really now almost makes us tremble at the re sponsibility. We do therefore solicit attention to these remarks, the end and object of which is peace. The subject of the inquiry forei g n to this tune; it is useless to this people ; it is worse than useless, because it excites angry passions, and inflames hot blood amongst us. And for what ? For nothing—for less than nothing ; whether an old hind's old and neglected wife some years ago indulged a passion for another man. It would be as wise, if it were possible, to stir up a commotion in the kingdom upon a question, of what plumes Sardanapalus's bed was composed, or on which leg Agesilaus, the Spartan, was lame. PARISH OF ST. PANCRAS. Yesterday afternoon a Meeting of the Inha bitants of this Parish was held in the Southamp ton Arms Tea Gardens, Camden Town, to con sider the propriety of presenting an Address to her Majesty the QUEEN. At two o'clock, Sir GERARD NOEL, PETER MOORE, Esq., Major CARTWRIGHT, and other distinguished characters, appeared on the hustings. Major CARTWRIGHT was called to the Chair, and shortly stated the object of the Meeting. PETER MOORE, Esq. M.P., came forward to move the first resolution. lie regretted that the task had devolved on him, in consequence of the indisposition of an Hon. Friend, but he would not detain them longer than possible. He con gratulated the Meeting on the high privilege this country enjoyed in the liberty of the press. Pro-. perty was 'every thing, but this would soon be sacritied, were the press to be fettered. The trial of the Queen was now over, and the mass of dirt and filth had been exhausted—a mass, from its abominable nature, calculated to excite a blush even in the most hardened countenance. As to the evidence of Signor Non mi Rieordo, it would be fully remembered that that individual had said on the ,beginning of his examination, that he could neither read nor write ; yet afterwards he bad excused his want of recollection by saying, that he bad not the journal in which he had written down the transaction. The Hon. Mem ber, after some further observations on the cha racter and conduct of the witnesses, concluded a very long speech by moving the first resolution, which was then put and carvied unanimously. Sir GERARD NOEL, in moving the second Re solution, observed, that while there was much reason for condolence in this business of the Queen, there was much to applaud. The peo ple had thereby been led to the study of the laws and the principles of the Revolution, as laid down in 1688, by which William obtained the Crown, and the Brunswick family after him. There we saw that nothing had been left undone by our ancestors, while, on the contrary, posterity had been gradually deviating from the excellent rules then laid down. lie did not see how the Bill, if it ever came down, could have any suc cess in the House of Commons. For himself, as he had often said, Ike would manfully stand the brush, and if it was necessary he would lay down his life for the Queen and the Country. He re gretted the indifference evinced by some of the higher classes, and congratulated the middle orders of society on their kind and constant efforts in kvour of the Queen. He trusted not one shilling of the Milan expellee would be paid by the country, and, indeed thought any Mem ber must be criminally guilty if he voted for it. Let the Bill, however, pass, he for one declared himself ready to help her to resist all oppression. The motion was then agreed to, as were several others, and also an Address to her Majesty. At half-past five the Meeting was dissolved. BRITISH AND FOREIGN SCHOOL SOCIETY.-On Wednesday last his Excellency the Duke DE FRIAs, the Spanish Ambassador, accompanied by Mr. Colon and 'Mr. Caballero, visited the Central Schools in the Borough-road, and mi nutely inspected them. His Excellency ex pressed great satisfaction with the British sys tem, and stated that the Central School in Ma drid is conducted on the same plan. The Duke de Frias is one of the seven Grandees who form the Central Committee for diffusing the know ledge of the system in Spain ; and it is to the benevolence of his Excellency that the Central School is indebted for a large and excellent hall, wherein the School is conducted. There is also a Central School at Madrid, conducted by . a Committee of Ladies, for 300 girls. CnaisT's HospiTAL.—YesterdaY being St. Matthew's day, according to annual custom,- the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, and Governors of the 14- veral Royal Hospitals, attended Divine Service at Christ Church, Newgate-street, where they heard an appropriate Sermon from the Rev. ED WARD RICE, M. A. one of the Masters in—the Grammar School. They afterwards proceeded to the Great Hall, in Christ's Hospital, where, together with a crowded and fashionable au dience, they received much pleasure from the youthful exertions of the two senior scholars of the Grammar School of that Institution. The Latin Oration was delivered by Master Joseph Cookson, and the English Oration by Master Charles Stephens Matthews. After the orations, the young orators walked round the room, to receive the customary pecuniary, reward, which was liberally bestowed on them by the company. Au action of Crim. Con., wherein Mr. WIT,- LtAm HENav •11Ara, was plaintiff, and Major GEORGE BARROW defendant, was tried at the Supreme Court at Halifax, on the 20th of July. The plaintiff's case was established by a number of witnesses, and 'the Jury, after an address from the Hon. Judge STEWART, and half an hour's deliberation, found a verdict for the plaintiff -4001. Damages It has been stated that Bergami had served Mr. JAMES GRATTAN, as valet, when that Gen tleman was in Italy. This is a mistake, as Ber gami was in the service of her MAJ ESTY before Mr. GRATTAN went to the Continent, and waited at table when .Mr. G. dined with her MAJESTY. ---(Morning Herald.) OLD BAILEY. Yesterday Joseph Eltenger was indicted for assaultia,l4 with violence taking from the person of Thomas Airt and upwards in Bank-notes, on the Ist of August. T b's one of the robberies committed on the opening of the Reggiii4 Canal, which for atrocity has not been equalled by anY „ne of a similar nature for many years the p r i son er forme d u a of a gang of nearly one huntlred. The proper)! w 39 upon him, and the case in other particulars was clearly n' out. The prosecutor, at, elderly infirm Gentleman, vcas: l o l ,with great cruelty. , On the person of the prisoner wer e to ot two five and three ten-pound notes, making the alu e ;l e i charged in the indictment. He made no defence, but cm four witnesses, who gave him a good character. Mr. Justice BET: recapitulated the evidence, 4 nd the - found him Guilty—Deatk.. The prosecutor recommended hien to mercy, but Mr. 11 1 . 0 , 1 ' lice BEsr was tearful it could not be attended to, as th e PO tection of the public imperiously demanded that the should take its course. T hy ing, ROBBERY.—James Leith was indicted foe Thy ing, on the ist of April, a quantity of valuable jewellery' . . property of Mr. Haydon, of Rupert-street. bl9 The evidence in this case was Mr. Haydon, who Pro re ,.. o d going out on Easter Sunday, and that on his return be his chests, that contained property to the amount of °c o g. broken open, and the jewellery stolen. On the e4lts of d eo he called on a Mr. Hatton, to whom the prisoner had b of part of the stolen property that morning. sn , He was cross examined by Mr. ADOLPH US, by which geared that the property was the all of the prosecutor. William Hatton proved the prisoner coming to his bin and offering part of the stolen property for sale.--lticu"" Warren corroborated the testiuiny . of last witness. The case baring gone thns far, Mr. Justice Berr . l— ,,,ir sintered the charge could not be sustained, and. the pri'u- was acquitted. 7 ate George Edwards was capitally indicted for assaulting v Buridge, putting him in fear, and taking frtitn his r" ° , ,, 0 . watch, chain, and seals. The first witness was the P" s tor, who stated he was walking in the lidgeware-road i o _ 4 o evening stated in the indictment, when the prisoner, '",i ; others ) committed the robbery in question; prisou.er *tr y . „, him, assigning as a reason that be bad trod on his 414 Guilty. if John Kelly was indicted for stealing, on the 140 of last, a quantity of printed cotton, value 31. from the of house of Mr. Sharp, of Berners-stre e t, Oxf or d-r o ad- e g " —Death. COMMITTAL OF A WITNESS.—On calling the witno -- character in the last case, several made their appearati ce ie . The first one that got up did not for so me time retuf . ter where he lived. He sw o r e th a t lie had known the for three years, and that he had always borne a good c 4 ' 11 . 1 1 , r ter. On being again questioned he prevaricated, and Air• re ,s tics BEST immediately committed him to prison. Twis st ty terror to the witness that followed, and he confessed tO 140 heard of the prisoner having been committed before- IA Lordship then observed, that after what he had just ilon e b hoped a stop had been put to that dreadful crime, W IPg tIO had been his painful duty to witness while sitting there. OA , declared he would have committed the whole, one ate ( other, if they had dared to bare gone on. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. SEDITIOUS AND TREASONABLE LIBELS. • 0 Yesterday Waddington, of Radical notoriety, Was P 1 the bar to take his trial, upon the charge of having pubJ e. di , a wicked and seditious libel, for the purpose of exciting ; Ile tion among the soldiers, and alienating th e m front their glance to his Majesty.—Air. REYNOLDS stated the case. Ys , The publication of the paper was proved by two om" t ie who apprehended IVaddington in Charing-cross, while W. act of pastiug the placard. They were -examined 14 Bolland. Waddington defended himself at considerable length- s it! The CHAIRMAN asked whether he had any witnesses td c w ir Waddington—" Sir, 'my cause has no ocettsion for nesse." IVO! The CHAIRMAN (Mr. Coxst) said, the "question 2 a , , ther this paper had been published bunu _fide with tUe merely to political observation, and fair party discussio% o 4 as a vehicle for the inttoductiwt of comment of a seditioo'•of oat; dangerous nature. If the Jury w e r e of th e f or mer O r agii Mr. Waddington was entitled to an acquittal; if of We 'l 4 t a s. he must be responsible for one of the must heinous -o against society. The Jury retired, and in an hour returned with a Ye- - Not Guilty. Tflis. Holmes was indicted fora lib-el, tending teditf and maliciously to excite the soldiers against the Gover"" - frs and to alienate th e m f rom th e i r fid e li ty an d a ll eg i a noe ". i d King. This defendant was tried by the Jury that ace Waddington.—Mr. REYNOLDS conducted the prosecolit The of fi cers who attend e d at P a l ace -y ar d d e p o sed nor conduct of Holmes in selling c o pi es o f th e l e tt er , )whic h signed " A Royal Pioneer?' too l The defendant said, he had six weeks ago come up t's - hr et from LintOln, to look for work, and that h e had been l' io • weeks here without getting any; at length he saa' selling papers, and, without knowing that he was .1 .3 mischief, he joined them, and was apprehended. ti e t o beets told there was a Printer's name at the end of the Pac: o w and of course thought himself - not r e sponsibl e f o r the c 0,1 4 00 The CHAIRMAN asked, whether there was a printer's.° to the bill ? _A hee d Mr. REYNOLDS said, there was, and that a true bill 1 1 4'.* , found against hint. There had been no remissness part of Government. Thu CHAlRMAN—Defendant, have you any o ne to v sstie Cher what you have said is true or out. Defendant—Nobody here. - tb4 est The CHAIRMAN then proceeded to eoinment upon -- OP dence. No man living could, he said, mistake the °I ) J t iaiS tendency of the paper. He thought it necessary to stal e, its( whoever published • was responsible., with respect " t ast libel's if there were no other sentence in theaper tigu i s ai• which spore of double pay to the s o ldiers, it p Nvas qu ite ' t iss eient. It was a most flagrant libel. As to the defeot l3 " i , had told what, unfortunately, often happened, that t l4 ' l 4o „ e e tributed poison without -knowing what it was. It Nr,a s ,. ever, through his means the paper got li g f o re the puu' i " ,; shouThe ld have known better, and seas responsible. Jury immediately returned a verdict of GicaUts bates commended the defendant to mercy. s a Jed The CHAlRMAN.—Certainly the recommendation shall be always attended to.' The CHAIRMAN, in passing sentence, said, the r---- c ooe dation of the July did not lessen the guilt of the dete who had published one of the most atrocious libels th i ..l , '40,1 disgraced the public press. He then ienteneed the dt . ' . c .tl , 4 . to Imprisonment in the liaise of Correlation for six o " IV' Wednesday evening, before dusk, as xT- r : land Bramston, of Bird-street, Oxford-street/dry returning home from Kilburn, h e w as overt' in the fields leading from thence to Lord's crL o t ground, by three footpath, one of idiom, wl the slightest intimation, knocked him dew% t ie he was afterwards kicked on the bead, iviii' fro os prived him of his senses. The ruffians poc° him his watch and the 'contents of Ins about 17 shillings in silver, and his 112 . - , 0 00 Bramston did not recover until roused b y ail people returning from work, and he was Cou cc ' home much hurt. ► On Wednesday last, at Counnereial-road, L2mb , Lett, of a son. MARRIED. 4 Rect.° r.'. 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