The Sun. — London, England, 1833-12-12 00:00:00

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I I.—Wintl N.\%'., strong brerzes.—Ar t,4 the Di ana , White, from the Cape of Good Ho p e ; t brothers, Davis, from Madeira. Arrived from the l t and remains, the Lord of the Isles, for Bengal. t:itTsmouTir, DEC. U.-Wind W. to N.W., bard 4 • with heavy squalls. LY)AtOUTH, DEC. W.-Wind \V.—Arrived the Cog - Olitehell, from Youghal, leaky, and bound to Ports- ,41.14 OuT ir , DEC. 10.—Wind W. , fresh breezes. t 'Uteaoer, Dec. 10.—Arrived the Res olution, Rut 'l4 • enl Quebec. .AaGATE, DEC. 11.—Arrived the Jean, Goldie, from "4•lpore ; Usk, Hill, from Buenos Ayres; and Vlades 'Reggio, from Trieste. c''' , St SGIA T E , Dec. 11.—Arrived the Peter and Re 'k, tread, from Cork. l, u ovett, DEC. 11.—Arrived off port the Ellen, Dixon, l' Batavia. I . °wes, DEC. 11.—Arrived the Baltieum, Ingenson, 4 1 1 4 11 R a T t A n i b o u u r T ot H , , lea. p k i y c. 1 0 ...... , °)fro m B a tavia. Arlived off port the Jeffer - I lkszy,Dec. 10.—Arrived the Phoenix, Picot, and Me- Russell, from Rio Janeiro ; P. R. C., Le Bas, from ''hangel; Swift Duke, Lane, from Labradore ; Ea *le, Dupre, from Newfoundland ; and Adventure, ue, from Lisbon. ~ l'oote, Dec. 10.—Arrived the Elizabeth, Hutchins, ' 4l Lisbon. 11 RISTOL, DEC. 11.—Arrived the Golden , G rove, from 7ner ara ; Three Sisters, Dyer, from Seville ; Water ,r 'teh, from Smyrna ; and Elizabeth, Brown, from Pqt o . tlmEoEta, DEc. 10.—Arrived the Resolution, Rutter, Queb.e. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 10.—Arrived the Ewen, Hunter, Pernambuco; Grace Brown, Higgins, from Sa- I llhah ; Thomas, Jones, from Charle ston ; and Poca 4lttes, West, from Philadelphia. Off port the Morgiana, , 141 Bengal ; Janet, Irat Pol, from Batavia ; Hutchin -11 Inch, from Pernambuco ; Cicely, Sewell, and Esther, Pule, from Montreal ; Artemis, Sparks, from Quebec ; ma Minerva, Metcalf, from Bombay. GREENocK, DEC. 9.—Arrived the Wilhelmina, Dunear, ' °4l Demerara ; Earl Dalhousie, Boyd, 1 and Albion, Id, from Quebec ; Quebec, Bixter, from Dalhousie ; Arrow, Mowbray, from Lisbon. The Earl of Aberdeen, Lawson, from Quebec to Bel -14. is on shore in Dundrum Bav, and full of water. The Friendship, M‘Donaltl, bound to Newcastle, is on "te near Peterhead, and it is feared will be wrecked. ;the Thomas Wallace, Finley , bound to Quebec, was Peked in the River Sr. La wrence on the 15th ult.—five the crew drowned. The Miser, Sprurgem, from Bor deaux to Quebec, is "'eked on Flat Island, Newfoundland —crew saved. I The Michael, Wickham, from Wexford, upset in Wex -4 Bar on the Bth inst., and it w as feared the vessel and 'lto would be lost. The Selestria, from Archangel to Rotterdam, put into 'lktello Bay, with lose of boats, bulwarks, &c. Lount of pl iintiff tit'ed to nsidered nt, that. , time of .1 letter he rent, d to the i ter 1.14 TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. SIR,—As personal character is dear to every man, may I solicit, as a matter of public justice, a small space in your columns, in vindication of myself from the asser tions made by Mr. Patrick Grant with reference to me yesterday in the Court of King's Bench ? I would not have asked this favour, but that I could not reply to them in Court, being no party to the information against the defendants, not one of whom, either by themselves or their Counsel, ventured to cross-examine me. It is unfortunately too notorious that differences have long existed between Mr. P. Grant and myself. As these related chiefly to what may be considered private matters, I had no wish to obtrude myself nn the public merely to deny false statements which Mr. Grant found it convenient to publish against me in reference to The Sun newspaper. lint as, after a lapse of two years, during which these falsehoods have been sedulously circulated in every variety of form and malignity, without eliciting any reply from me, Mr. Grant, presuming on my forbearance, has deemed it safe to re-assert them in a Court of Justice, I cannot but think that my continuing any longer silent may he construed into an admission of their correctness, and I therefore request, in fairness, the publication of the following answer : Mr. Grant has stated in his pamphlet, and re-asserted in his speech, that " he found me and my family in rags— that he rescued me from penury—and raised me from a state of abject destitution, to a situation of considerable eminence and emolument, namely, the Editorship and Ma nagement of The Sun newspaper;—that he gave me the whole administration and outlay of sums amounting to be tween 10,0001. and 15,000/., and that for such kindness I had requited him by turning him out of his property— in short, that I had swindled and robbed him." In ano ther plaee he estimates the property embarked at 20,0001. Now these are very grave charges, if true ; but they are false. I was neither in poverty nor rags when Mr. Grant sought me—l did not seek him. My talents, such as they were, recommended me to his attention in prefe rence to several others with whom he was then in treaty. I was - in the receipt of upwards of 3001. a year at the time of being first introduced to Mr. Grant, and had previous'y conducted a Sunday paper (the Representative), of which I was half proprietor. Before I entered on the duties of the situation I was invited to his table repeatedly ; and was such behaviour, on Mr. Grant's part, consonant with his notions of propriety, if I were in rags ? Then, as to the large expenditure, though I conducted the paper, I had not the charge of the money until I became a partner ; nor did Mr. Grant expend 20,0001., nor even 15,0001. on the paper, as these items will show. In March 1826 Mr. Grant purchased The Sun for 500 guineas. From that period till the 12th Janual y, 1828, there were expen ded (including the purchase money) 9,252/. Os. 11d., which amount is copied from the regular account hook kept by Mr. Waller Clifton, late Secretary to the Victualling-office, who assisted in the Paper, acted as Mr. Grant's co -proprietor, and paid the moneys weekly up to that time, when be and Mr. Grant separated. From the 12th January till 24th June, 1828, there were expended, under Mr. Grant's and my direction the further sum of 1,635/. 9s. 4d., making in all 10,8901. 10.. 3d., which is the whole amount of money advanced by Mr. Grant, or expended on The Sun newspaper till I became a partner. If interest be charged on the above capital, it will not amount altogether to more than about 12,0001., and here is the utmost limit of the fortune em barked. Mr. Grant has stated that only 6,0001. had been proved under the Commission ; but the schedule of his debts, in his own handwriting, makes the amount about 15,000/. Now, according to his own showing, his speculation in The Sun could not have been the sole cause of his mis fortune. But I abstain from stating more than is neces sary for my own justification. The daily circulation of the paper was raised by my management from 450 to about 1,800, and, subsequently to his retirement, to upwards of 3,000. Mr. Grant sold to me a quarter of the paper, for which I paid him 2,000/. He even offered me a fifth part of it gratuitously, "in consideration of my services"—but that I declined, choosing rather to pay a fair proportion of the loss incurred. From the period of nay becoming partner the whole charge and management of the paper devolved upon me, Mr. Grant never having advanced one shilling afterwards. Mr.. Grant's private embarrassments compelled him, in 1829, to leave England, by the advice of his friends and relatives, in order to afford time to arrange with his cre ditors. Some were refractory, owing to his high con • nections, and arrangement was found impracticable. During his aftercare. strongly urged his relatives to purchase his shares for .benefit of his family : the idea was entertained for a time, but it was at length abandoned—partly from Mr. Grant's own obstinacy—partly from motives of delicacy on the part of his relatives—and partly from the amount of his debts. For upwards of a year I succeeded in prevail ing on Mr. Alderman Winchester and Mr. Hill (the latter of whom actually sent an execution into the house on ac count of Mr. Grant's private debts), to refrain from car rying their threats of bankruptcy into effect ; but vexed at repeated delays, and the subsequent determination of Mr. Grant's relatives to " let things take their course," Mr. Winchester struck a docquet against Mr. Grant. When the day for choosing assignees was fixed, such was my solicitude in the matter that I wrote to Mr. Thornton, then residing at BriAton, to come to town, in order that, being a private friend of the family, he might be chosen assignee and protect their interests. When the shares of the paper were for sale Mr. Grant wished me to allow him to p urchase them for 6,000/. To this I objected, for two reason., that he had not the means ; and if be had the means, that he ought to have paid Mr. Winchester's debt, and so have avoided a bank ruptcy. Moreover, I found, from several circumst to be a n ai es, n that his habits rendered it unsafe for me, then, g connected with him. Hence the whole cause of his hos tility towards me. In March, 1832, Mr. Grant started the True Sun, having previously published a variety of libels, which he has often repeated in that paper. It is not my purpose to recriminate on Mr. Grant by following his example; but he has stated that the paper was started " as the most direct means of doing justice to himself and to others." Now, his shares and interest in The Sun then belonged to his creditors, and in endeavouring to withdraw the sub scribers of The Sun to the True Sun, he was injuring the property of his creditors—an odd way of doing them justice. Mr. Grant resorted to every species of charge against me. My accounts were false, &c., and yet, after strict investigation, they stood the ordeal of the Court of Chan cery. He tried to dispossess me of the management of my own property, but failed. Finally, after having denounced me by the most oppro brious terms, mark what follows : The shares of The Sun were advertised for sale in the Gazette for the 2d of April, 1833. On the 20th March, 1833, I received the following letter front a Mr. Thomas Wilkinson .-- Sir,—Though a perfect stranger to you, I take the liberty of addressing you upon a subject materially affecting your interests. Circumstances have given me an intimate knowledge of the firm and promising position that Mr. Grant has attained in his present undertaking, however visionary it might at one moment have appeared; I am warranted, therefore, in saying that a proposition from him ought not to be disregarded. I am pre pared to make one on his behalf, and on behalf of those gen tlemen who are associated with him in his present undertaking, re lative to the approaching sale of The Sun new spaper, if you will allow me an interview. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, THOMAS WILKINSON. 336, Strand, Wednesday, March 20, 18.33. To Murdo Young, Esq. To which I returned no answer. Ou the 22d March, Mr. Wilkinson, and Mr. Westley, newsvender, Strand, called on me, and made proposi tions for joining the True Sun to The Sun, which I, of course, declined. On the 24th I received the fo 'lowing letter from Mr. Grant : Sir, —Mr. Westley has informed me of what took place at your interview on Friday. I can easily understand why you should decline coming to any decision without consulting your friends, but there is surely no possible objection to our meeting at once, if you feel inclined ; you can be noways fettered by merely discussing what I feel convinced you would regret having rejected un heard. politic to exhibit anxiety for this in - It may not appear v e r y terview, but having to make up my mind in the course of to morrow or next day, upon an advantageous proposition in all. other quarter, I shall do so with less hesitation after having seen you. No one is aware of my writing this letter, and, as far as I am concerned, the very fact of our meeting may be kept an absolute secret. I can meet you at the Rainbow Coffee-house, King-ferstreet, C ov ent-garden, or any other place which you may pre, at three o'clock precisely ; in fa ct, any hour will suit me from two to five this afternoon. I remain, your obedient servant, March 2.4, 1833. PATRICK GRANT. To M. Young, E sq . E nv elope, marked " Private." To which 1 instantly returned the following answer : Sir, —Under present circumstances, and the recollection of the past, I feel it impossible to meet you with any hope of mu tual advantage. I must, therefore, decline putting you or myself to the un pleasant trial of an interview which can only be productive of painful regrets, I remain, your, obediently, DI. YOUNG. P. Grant, Esq., March 24, 1833. On the 2d of April the three-fourth shares of The Sun were sold by public auction in the Public Office Court of Chancery, the 11 ster, Sir Giffin Wilson, him self presiding, pursuant to the express decree of the Lord Chancellor. At that Bile I became the purc haser, no ne of the other parties who had made the previous offers having appeared. This is a simple narrative of facts for the correctness of which I hold myself responsible. I remain your obedient lit slervant, . YOUNG. Sun-office, 112, Strand, Dec. 8, 1833. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. [The writer of the following letter has certainly no claim upon our courtesy. We for a long time treated his journal civilly, and were rewarded in the way which our simple good-nature deserved—we were assailed with constant and rancorous abuse. But though we have thought it necessary to throw aside this meek civility, which only tempted certain weak and ill judging persons to insult us, we still maintain our love of justice, and from that consi deration alone insert the following letter. All future communications, on a matter so entirely personal, must Leo advertisements.] Sir,—As you leave not scrupled to give insertion in your columns to a letter by Mr. Murdo Young on the subject of his " differences" with me, you cannot, I presume, he sitate to insert the brief commentary which I shall now make on that production. Mr. Murdo Young alludes to the first period of our acquaintance thus :—" I was neither in poverty nor rags when Mr. Grant sought me ; I did not seek him. My t dents, such as they were, recommended me to his atten tion in preference to several others with whom he was then in treaty. I was in the receipt of upwardi of 3001. a year at the time of being first introduced to Mr. Grant, and had previously conducted a Sunday paper (the Repre sentative), of which I was half proprietor. Before I en tered on the duties of the situation, I was invited to his table repeatedly; and was such behaviour, on Mr. Grant's I part, consonant with his notions of propriety, if I were in rags ? Then, as to the large expenditure, though I conducted the paper, I had not the charge of the money until I became a partner ; nor did Mr. Grant expend 20,000/., nor even 15,0001. on the paper, as these items will show." Mr. Young bad, it is true, been connected with the Representative (not Mr. Murray's Representative) before I knew him, but he was never the richer from that source. The Representative, an obscure weekly paper, in fact failed ; and, had Mr. Young been a man of pro perty, he must have lost all in that enterprise. Be that as it may, however, his assertion of having had 300/. ' a year is pure " fudge." Many persons of unquestionable veracity can testify to his miserable condition at that time. But Mr. Young observes, with admirable simplicity, that he could not have been in rags, otherwise I would never have invited him to my table ! I certainly did not invite him to bring his rags with him, but I paid a con siderable sum of money for him before lie was able to undertake the duties to which he alludes. As to the sums which I expended on The Sun news paper, I hold, in Mr. Young's own handwriting, a state tnent that the disbursements of which be had cognizance exceeded 12,0001. There were besides, however, as lie well knows, incidental expenses to the amount of several thousands more. After giving his version of the history of my bank ruptcy, Mr. Young observes—" When the shares of the paper were for sale Mr. Grant wished me to allow him to purchase them for 6,000/. To this I objected for two reasons—that he had not the means, and, if he had the means, that he ought to have paid Mr. Winchester's debt, and so have avoided a bankruptcy. Moreover, I found, from several circumstances, that his habits rendered it un safe for me then to,be . gain connected with him. Hence the sole cause of his hostility towards me. " In March, 1832, Mr. Grant started the True Sun, having previously published a variety of libels, which he has often repeated in that paper. It is net my purpose to recriminate on Mr. Grant by following his example ; but he has stated that the paper was started as the most direct means of doing justice to himself and to others.' Now, his shares and interest in The Sun then belonged to his creditors, and, in endeavouring to withdraw the subscribers of The Sun to the True Sun, he was injuring the pro perty of his creditors; an odd way of doing them justice." Here, then, we have an admission by Mr. Murdo Young both of his zeal for Winchester, and of his having deliberately resisted my attempts to recover that property to a participation in which I had admitted him, and on which I had expended such large sums. He gives several reasons besides why be opposed himself to my first offer ; but he assigns no reason why he opposed himself to the subsequent offers of my friends,—to two offers more parti cularly of 13,000/. each, made by men of undoubted wealth. In fact, Mr. Young, it will be perceived, passes over without daring to allude to them the whole of the tran sactions which form the substance of the " statement" which I have given lo the public. Ile leaps at once from November, 1830, to March, 1832, a distance of a year and a half, and then, in allusion to the starting of the True Sun, be remarks that I had recourse to an odd mode of doing justice to my creditors. Now, as Mr. Young has mentioned my creditors, per haps he will explain to the satisfaction of the world some of th, it movements in relation to himself and his friends Messrs. Winchester and Briggs. My creditors, after I had struggled with Messrs. Win chester, Briggs, and Young, for upwards of twelve months, unanimously voted me thanks for my conduct ; unani mously refused to recognize Mr. Winchester as assignee, or Mr. Briggs as solicitor under the commission ; as they bad previously rejected all Mr. Murdo Young's offers, and authorized a prosecution against him. Nay more, my creditors came forward to aid me after I had started the True Sun. When Messrs. Briggs and Winchester filed a criminal information against me, my creditors, with scarcely an exception, made affidavits in support of all my charges against these individuals. Will Mr. Murdo Young be good enough to reconcile these facts with his insinuation that I have injured my creditors by starting the True Sun? They know that I have only injured Mr. Murdo Young, and Mr. Murdo Young knows, that though I may have ruined him by that movement, I have not put my creditors in a worse position than that in which he and his friends had contrived to place them previously. Mr. Young has sought to make a great deal of certain very simple communications, which were made to hint last spring by me, or on my behalf. The explanation is easy. The Sun was advertised for sale. It was the wish of the friends who were aiding me in carrying on du: True Sun to buy The Sun ; but it could not be bought with out Mr. Young's consent. His share was not to be sold, and my friends would not endure Mr. Young as a partner. My object was to induce Mr. Young to sell his one-fourth. With that view, Mr. Wilkinson wrote to him, and called o❑ him. With that view I offered to meet him. Mr. Young has professed a new-born desire to vindicate his character in your columns. Let him then answer my " statement" there or in The Sun. Let him disprove the 17 affidavits by which every tittle of that " state ment" is more than borne out. Unless he be prepared to do that, Mr. Young will, in all probability, find silence for the rest of his life as prudent a course as he has found it for two years past. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient humble servant, PATRICK GRANT. True Sun Office, Dec. 10. p, s. My absence from town yesterday prevented the possibility of an earlier reply to Mr. Young's letter. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Six,—ln reply to Mr. Grant's letter in the Times of yesterday, I make the following short statement : I never touched his money till I bad been nearly six weeks at the office, when I was paid a month's salary. In fact he never paid me one shilling in advance. I had cognizance of no other expenditure beyond 12,0001. The reason why 1 passed over "from November 1830 to March 1832," is, that the events of that period have been repeatedly discussed in the Courts of Chancery and King's Bench ; and I did not see the necessity of again adverting to them. Mr. Grant well knows the result of these proceedings. With respect to Mr. Grant's creditors, or their move ments, I have nothing to do. That than ks were voted to him by those who bad previously agreed to the " printed " vote of thanks may be true; but it is L qually true that the amount of their debts united is barely one-fifth of the 15,0001. given in Mr. Grant's own schedule. Besides, two-thirds of that number and amount actually signed the requisition to the Assignees' to accept my offer of 5,0001. down, clear of all liabilities, • which Mr. Thornton alone refused to accede to. F Yet Mr. Grant say. these creditors authorised a 4: t. M. D. HILL AND MR. H. GRATTAN Boulogne-sur-Mer, Nov. 24, 1833. have just learned by the British newspapers, ab echarge brought by you against one of the Irish Mem c_t% of the House of Commons, Ia reference to the "ercion Act. fray be so good as to exonerate me, as one of the h PPon e nts of that measure, from th e foul re p roach of :ling acted with such odious tergive rsatibn, as y ou have rown out against us. Pray do me the further favour of t ` ;Ming your answer to a London ne ws p a p er, as I am d elay to visit Italy, and should not wish to endure the 'lay and risk of having your answer following me. am sending some lette rs on business to Ireland, and ; i 'tlud e thi s , to Live you the p osta g e. —l have the honour ° he, Sir, your very obedient servant, HENRY GRATTAN, M.P. Co. Meath. U. D. Hill, Esq., &c. &c. 44, Chancery-lane, London, Dec. 11, 1833. sir,—ln answer to your letter of the 24th November, Ich arrived tbis morning, I have to state that you are dot the Member alluded to by me, in my speech to my ( :irlstituents at Hull.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, M. D. HILL. To Henry Grattan, Esq., M.P. THE FUNDS.-CTHIS DAY.) CITY, T WEL V E O'CLOCK Up to the present hour we have no arrivals of foreign aletils, prevented no doubt by the boisterous weather. Ey the Philadelphia p a p ers, received this morning at t ae North and South American Coffee-house, to the 20th November, and• Washington to the 14th November, we h ave a letter from the Hav annah of the 16th October, as follows, as " We are now in the midst of such demonstrations of t a Y, as, in regard to labou r and ex p enses, the western world as probably never witnessed, the swearing as successor tv th e crown of Spain a little g irl, three yearsThesere j oicings t h es e Psreu e ies, fireworks, palaces hung with beautiful tapestry, l ad, the barracks decorated wi th the p ortraits of the King 4n d Queen." The following communication has been received from vntral America :—Tbe City of Cartargo, October 3.- 4 The civil war and intestine troubles which have so long tent our unhappy country , are, thanks to Heaven, sues eeed t cl by a calm. Every state in the Union evinces a desire to adhere to the federal compact, and one and all are using their utmost endeavours to procure a revision and amendment of our Constitution, and purge it from all abuses. Two steam-boats have been burnt, the St. Martin and the Brunswick. The Funds still continue without animation. Consols °Petard at the price they left off yesterday, tiSi for the 4 ccount. The Foreign Market is also inactive. Prices much the came as yesterday. HALF PAST ONE. Eight foreign mails still remain due, and 120 ships re tnain wind bound at Liverpool. We have a general report in the city, that Don Pedro has refused the mediation of the three Powers. We are exceedingly dull in the City for want of intelli gence, which causes the Consols to continue stationary at th e morning prices of SBl, buyers, for the Account. The Foreign Market is likewise without any interest. Spanish, 23i ; Por tu g uese, 56i 57 to ; Dutch, 6 0 to ; Five per Cents., 94 to j ; Brazil, 56i 57. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for the Account, 881. Sir James Kempt, Master-Genera of the Ordnance, visited Captain Pechell, at Castle Goring, on Sunday, and the next day continued his journey to town. We understand that Sir slimes has been sitting on a com mission, composed of the Duke of Richmond, Lord John Russell, and Lord Althorp, at Goodwood, for three days, on financial affairs. --Bright on Gazette. We regret to say that the Earl of Egremont has had another attack of inflammation. Sir M. Tierney Was sent for express on Sunday to attend his Lordship, and having remained at Petworth on Monday, left the Noble Earl on Tuesday, much recovered. Yesterday Sir Matthew again visited his Lordship, and, we are happy to Illy, on his return last night confirmed the favourable report of the Noble Earl's state.--Brighton Gazete. MARCHIONESS WELLESLEY.—We are au thorized to say that the statement of her Excellency the Marchioness Wellesley's having, on any occasion, attended mass in state, or with a guard of honour, is erroneous. Freeman's Journal. ORIENTAL ANNUAL.—Beautiful as are the illustrations of this volume, the literary part is scarcely less attractive. It consists of a year's journey through differ ent parts of India, and describes with eloquence and facility, the numerous adventures which befell the travellers, the sights they saw, the legends they gathered, and the appear ance and habits of the dwellers in the primeval retreats of nature. The whole of this narrative is invaluable and exciting ; the style of the composition is chaste and pictur esque; the author exhibits an intuna.e acquaintance with his subject, and demonstrates in every page the great superiority of personal observation over the mere poetry of inspired gum-work and romance. The work has a double claim to favour, from the beauty of its illustrations and the truth of its description., and it may be accepted as one of the most animated pictures that has ever issued from the press.--Atlas. VORACITY OF A RAT.—In the course of Wednesday night, a fat pig, weighing about 20 stones, the property of a person in Sheffield, was selected by a hungry rat for his prey. After several attempts in part. where the skin was too hard for him to penetrate, the vo racious animal fixed on the pig's neck, where he left a hole about three inches deep, and four or five in eh cum- Sheffiel Independent. " prosecution" against me. What prosecution ? Does he mean the cross suit in Chancery ? Even that was decided in my favour as well as my own suit. That Mr. Grant has injured his creditors may he inferred from this, that instead of getting 5,0001. clear down, they now get nothing. As to the overtures from the True Sun office, I did not state all. Mr. Grant says that " his friends would not endure Mr. Young as a partner." Why, when I bad scouted their overtures twice, Mr. Westley came to me a third time, and said that as I had expressed a deter mination never to be again associated with a person who had so calumniated me, the obstacle could easily be got over--for that " such was the crisis which matters had come to at the True Sun office, that Mr. Grant, and the other obnoxious party, would both retire—indeed they must. The object was to effect a reconciliation before the sale took place." I was, bow , ever, inexorable. When the day of sale arrived, not one of the 6 6 Friends" appeared ; nor was it likely they would, seeing that it was but the other day the proprietors of the True Sun had appealed to public charity for penny subscriptions, and failed. With regard to the concluding paragraph in Mr. Grant's letter, I answer that "his statement " and the 17 affidavits are worthy of each other. As a sample of the candour with which the "statement" is got up, one half of my letter to the Assignees is purposely omitted. As to the affidavits, they mainly refer to the mock auction, the bidding' at which the Lord Chancellor declared to be fictitious." I remain, your obedient Servant, M. YOUNG. Sun Office, December 11, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR, —May not the word " fudge" have reference to the word "fudge'," a local word, and described in Ash's Dic tionary, published in 1735, as meaning " to make a great bustle to very little purpose ?" I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Westminster, Dec. 10. W. F. N. 13. Mr. D'lsraeli's definition is the more probable. COURT CIRCULAR. - The Prussian, Spanish, and Brazilian Ministers visited Viscount PalmerstouVesterday at the Foreign-offica. Earl Grey, accompanied by Mr. Ellice, the Secretary at War, returned to town last evening. Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Palmerston, and Mr. Charles Grant, returned to town from Brighton on Monday evening. The Belgic Charge d'Affaires transacted business yester day at the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign ' Affairs. Viscount Althorp and others of the Cabinet Ministers went from Brighton on Monday night to the seat of the Duke of Richmond, at Goodwood. BRIGHTON, DEC. 11. The King did not leave the palace yesterday. His Majesty gave audience to Lieutenant General Sir Henry Fane. The Queen, accompanied by Lady Louisa Cornwallis, Lord Falkland, lion. Miss Eden, Sir Andrew Barnard, and Colonel Sir Charles Thornton, rode out on horseback over the downs from twelve until two o'clock. Earl Grey, Mr. Ellice, and Sir Herbert Taylor, prome naded for some time, yesterday afternoon, on the Western Esplanade. The Noble Premier appeared in excellent health and spirits. The invited guests to the Royal table last evening were Earl Grey, the Marquis and Marchioness of Conyngham, the Earl of Belfast, Mr. Ellice, Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Fane, Sir William and Lady Fremantle, Miss Bathurst, and Miss Hervey. Captain Woolmore took leave of their Majesties yester day, and left for London. Lord George Seymour, Sir William Alexander, and Mr. George Byng, M.P., visited their Majesties yesterday. The East Sussex Fox-hounds threw off yesterday, on the hill above the cavalry barracks, on the Lewes road ; there was a numerous field of sportsmen, including Lord Lake, Sir R. Faulkner, Earl of Errol, Sir Andrew Barnard, Captain Knox, and Colonel Eustace. A fox was shortly found, and after a sharp run, was killed near Stanmer. The forthcoming " Hurdle Race," which will take place on the 20th instant, is the general topic of con versation here amongst the " sporting world." Several bets are already mate. Sailor and Swerve seem to be the favourites; the Earl of Errol, the winner of the former priz?, is one of the subscribers to the present race. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE CHELTENHAM. ARRIVALS. —Lady Annabella Macleod, Lady Pynn, Sir John and Lady Burgoyne, Sir Windsor Sandys, Major War rand, Rev. W. E. Evans, aly, R. Mr. Cmmeline, Rev. W. Cooke, Captain D Eales, Captain ev Barrow, o Captain Garrow, Captain Barton, Mr. and Mrs. Honey, Mr. and Mrs. Hopkinson, Mr. and Mrs. Clutterbuck, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace, Mr. and Mrs. Meadows, Mr. and Mrs. Fox, Mr. and Mrs. Cooke, Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, Messrs. Anthony, C. King, Meredith, Stuart, Newman, J. S. Caldwell, W. M. Gabbett, Jerkin, S h e ppard, Domville, Healy, Royston , Waller, Mills, W. O'Grady, K in g am, Bennett, H. Garratt, Holmes, Davy, Dowell, Aplin , Greenaway, Burrows, Worke, E. Browne, Carter, Saltma rsh, Morgan and son, Ramsdell, Colchester, Mars, J. Hislop, Mackintosh, Mrs. General Macgregor and family, Mrs. Rawlinson, Mrs. Santon, Mrs. Dolphin, Mrs. Margaretts, Mrs. Newnham, Mrs. Webster, Miss Newnham, Miss Frankland, Miss Hunter, Miss Ogilvie, Miss Smelt, Miss Bosworth, &C. fa. FASHIONABLE CHANGES.—Captain and Mrs. Steven son, from this town for Bath.—Captain Bridgman, from this town for them etropolis.—Mrs. and Miss Sinclair, from this own for Fladong's Hotel, &c. The King has been most graciously pleased, in addition to the important and distinguished command his Majesty has already conferred on Major-General Sir Ansos Norcott, to appoint that officer to be Lieutenant- Governor of the bland of Jamaica. Prince Esterhazy has retired to the hotel at Salthill for a fortnight. We are told that his highness will not participate in the festivities of Strathf,ldsaye. Joseph Denison, Esq., M.P. for the county of Surrey, is the purchaser of the fine estate of the Mar quis of Anglesea, near Milford Haven, for which he gave nearly 300,0001. Mr. Denison has also purchased an estate at Bletchingly, is Surrey. The Hon. Henry Edward Fox, son of Lord Holland, who formed a matrimonial engagement abroad with Lady Augusta Coventry, only daughter of the Earl of Coventry, has returned to England from Turin, where he is Secretary of Legation to Sir Augustus Foster. Mr. and Lady Augusta Fox have since left town, on a visit to Lord and Lady Holland, at Brighton. Lord Hun,tingtower (luring the last few weeks has sold from Bucktninster, to a person in London, 360 deer. The prices were for bucks, 3/. 35., does 21. 2s. The Benchers of the Inner Temple sat again on Tuesday on Mr. D. W. Harvey's case, and without coming to a decision again adjourned. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East_lndia-hou.e, when William Byam Martin, Esq., was appointed Third Member of the Supreme Council of India, and Lieutenant_Colonel William Morison, C. 8., of the Madras Artillery, was appointed Provisional Member of the same Council, to succeed thereto upon the first vacancy. SHAKSPEARE'S " MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DAZAISf. " -When Garrick's alteration of this drama was produced, in two acts, in 1764, the benches were so un commonly empty, that when Lysander, Helena, Deme trius, and Ilermia, fell asleep on the stage, the whole of the pit—another quartetto, nodded and dosed in sympa thetic accordance. The next alteration was in 1816, by Fred. Reynold s , when it was more successfu l, havin g been performed twenty n i g ht s . (From the Correspondent of an Evening Conservative Print.)—lt is confidently asserted in the Mi nisterial circles, that at the commencement of the ap proaching Session, Ministers are prepared to submit to Parliament certain measures that will more astonish the country than any of their former exploits. The English Church Reform Bill will be, it is said by those who pro. fess to be in possession of .‘ the secrets of the prison house," if possible, a thousand-fold more radical than the measure awarded to Ireland. Lord J. Russell is said to be the paring the Bill. I t i s a lso rutnoured , o f course we cannot princip a l ass i stan t to the Lord C hancellor in pre take upon ourselves the responsibility of vouching for the accuracy of the report, that anaocg multifarious other projects now entertained by the Cabinet, is a plan for im posing a tax upon funded property, in order to enable them to remove the house and window duties, the pressure of which has been so much felt and so mildly protested against by their friends and supporters. [We hope so. There is no reason why funded property should not b, taxed, or rather there is every reason why it should be taxed, as well as every other class of property.-310m i%, Advertiser. LITERATURE. LOVE AND PRIDE. 3 Vets. 11'11 I ITArRIi aND Co., Loa-noPr, 1833. Mr. I-look has the pen of a ready writer—no man more so—and as long as he continues to supply us with such admirable sketches as those of Lord Snowdon or Mr. Wiseman, we care not how often he steps forth in print ; but the fewer he gives us of such tales as the " Widow" the better. Homer sometimes nods, but he never nods through a whole volume, as Mr. Hook has done in this tale. From the first page to the last, the " Widow" contains not one gleam of genius. All is dull, trite, common-place, such as would have supplied materials for a third-rate farce some ten or twenty years ago. But if it be destitute of talent, the story is by no means sparingly besprinkled with con ceits. It is as full of small, pert af fectations as a frosty sky of stars. Mr. Hook is impressive on " sticking-plaster shorts," and irresistible on " pickled onions -- a clever species of wit, but which we do not remember to have met with in Congreve or Sheridan. The hero of the widow is, as usual, a heavy mixture of sentiment and dandyism. He has a laudable west-end abhorrence of all " inferior inns," and is panic-struck at the idea of being found in ccanpany with people who are addicted to " hot punch," a party of whom, it seems, were enjoying themselves in a coffee-room, which dire necessity compelled him to " resort to, " in a way perfectly dreadful to him. They actually to his horror and amazement" called for " a roasted duck stuffed with sage and onions !" The vulgar beasts ! How human nature can reconcile it to her conscience, the having turned out such abortions is inconceiv able. Yet to our thinking, his late Majesty's cellar of snuff; fifteen hundred pair of silk stockings, and God knows now many unparallelled coats, waistcoats, and breeches, to say nothing of juvenile wigs and false teeth, were quite as vulgar. In the tale entitled " Snowdon," Mr. Hook has had the good sense to discard many, if not all, of his sickly affectations, and throw himself on nature for support. He deals with the ridiculous in the true spirit of comedy, perhaps we should rather say farce—strips pride of its gew-gaws—knocks its ricketty props from under it—turns it inside out. The character of the Marquis of Snowdon, a pompous, addle headed coxcomb, though full of mannerism—for a greater mannerist does not exist than the author of " Sayings and Doings,"—has a breadth and raciness about it, that reminds us of Foote. Mr. Hook " uses" the Marquis, "as if he loved him," (as Isaac Walton persuades us to do with worms on the hook) lingering fondly on each rich absurdity, like a " sweet-heart" on the magic no-meanings" of a billet-doux. He opens on the character at once ; pounces on it with a tiger-spring. How happily are we prepared for what follows, by the Marquis's preliminary con fession of horror at his being considered " uncommonly like Mr. Buggins, the actor 1" The Mayor of Shuttleworth bight Wiseman—an unaccountable patronymic for a Mayor—is an other felicitous sketch, bordering perhaps a little on the extravagant, but not so as to de stroy its effect. In characters like these, Mr. Hook leaves all the writers of the day at an im measurable distance. Hood comes nearest seri him in broad humour, but he cannot draw from life. His creations are the mere " quips and cranks" of the fancy. As " Love and Pride" is already in every one's hands, it is superfluous to detail the plot, so we shall content ourselve s with the following extract (admirable in its way, but by no means the best in the book) descrip tive of a dinner given by the Marquis of Snow don to the Mayor of Shuttleworth. We should premise that the day having been wet, his Wor ship has, by a strange blunder, on the part of his Lordship's groom of the Chambers, been led into a belief that he might pull off his wet clothes and put on the Marquis's—infinitely to the disgust and affright of that emit:toady distinguished personage ; and that the King having consented to visit the Marquis, the Mayor is sounded respecting the propriety of inducing the Corporation of Shuttleworth to get up an Address suitable to the great occasion. The scene throughout is of the richest farce, and we can fancy Liston playing the part of the Mayor to admiration : " The party at dinner consisted of Lady Hester, Mrs. Everingliam (an humble companion), the Marquis, and the Mayor. A vacant chair at the table was to be occu pied by Sir Henry Winscott ; hut as one of the rules— fixed as those of the Medes and Persians—or, as the Mayor would wave read it, maids and parsons—was, that dinner was served punctually at the hour named, and never was detained or delayed on account of the non arrival of any of the invited guests, be their rank what it might. To this established custom of the house, founded rather upon common sense than pride, was attributable the agreeable circumstance, that nobody ever failed in punctuality, who knew the rigid adherence to a law once laid down in his family, which the Noble Marquis was in the habit of maintaining. " The dinner proceeded without one observation upon the absence of Sir Henry, and, indeed, without any obser vations of any kind. " ' Lady Hester,' said Mr. Wiseman, may I have the pleasure of drinking wine with you ?' " Lady Hester does not drink wine, Mr. Mayor,' said his Lordship. "• I thought,' said the Mayor, I saw her Ladyship drinking some just now.' With me, Sir,' said the Marquis, her Ladyship sometimes does.' " Lady Hester cast a commiserating look at her father in behalf thtir guest. " Well then, my Lord, what say you to a glass?' said Wiseman. " ' Give Mr. Wiseman so me wine,' maid Lord Snowdon to the butler. " In vain did the Mayor hold his glass in his hand, in vain endeavour to catch the e y e of his noble host; he waited for a minute or two, but finding no preparation making upon the reciprocity system,' he swallowed his own champagne, and continued eating. " I was thinking, Mr. Mayor,' said his Lordship, who felt it necessary to keep his visiter in mind of the busi ness to which he had been indebted for the honour of an invitation to Lionsden, that the arldreases should be presented by you at the head of the Corporation.' " No, my Lord, I believe not,' said Wisetnan ; ' Your Lordship will have to read them as our Recorder. You know the Recorder is the servant of the Corporation ; and as the proverb says, we are not the sort of people to keep a dog and bark ourselves.' " The servant of the Corporation !' faltered the Mar- quis. Exactly,' said Wiseman, ' our Recorder is very much assimiloted to the Recorder of London ; only, my Lord, the London Recorder is always a lawyer and understands his business. Now, in your cade, we are too proud to have you with us, without troubling you to do any work, except by deputy ; but when an occasion of the present kind offers, it would he an indignity to the King and Queen to suffer the a ddresses to be real by a deputy while the principal was pre.ent ; and as for the iNlayor's reading them, that's total'y out of the question, because, although as far as my own private feelings yocs, I should not hesitate to do it, yet, you see, I must consider my office and its privileges, with a view to the rights of my soccecrw.' " ' I see,' said the Marquis, ' it is inconsistent with your dignity to condescend so far.' ‘" Exactly so, my Lord,' said Wiseman. Lady Hester, shall I give you some of this dish before me ?' ‘" Hand those entrees round,' said the Marquis to the servants, in an agony at the officious civility of his civic superior. " Still,' said Lord Snowdon, I think in my own house I ought not to read them—l think it would be in convenient.' " !' said Wiseman, 'on account of your eye sight, my Lord? Aye,—now if you would but wear spectacles—the glass you use is of no service whatever, compared with a pair of good spectacles.' • • S • " By this time dinner was ended, and having been served a let Russ', the dessert remained, the only additions to which were two ices. At t his moment Sir Harry Winscott was announced. Lord Snowdon waited till he had re iched his eye, before he expressed the slightest con viction of his arrival: when he approached his chair, the Marquis bowed ; Sir Harry bowed to Lady Hester and sat down. " Which ice do you choose, Sir Harry,' said the Mar quis, without moving a muscle of hie countenance ; cream or water ?—What are they, Hall ?' " Brown bread and grape, my Lord,' said the butler. " I hug your pardon, my Lord,' said Sir Harry,(quite aware that as he had missed his time he had no chance for a dinner) ' I will wait a moment, if you please—ice when one is hot, is net quite safe.' "' I never am hot, Sir Harry,' said Lord Snowdon. "' No, I dare say,' said Sir Harry, ' but when one is late.' " never am late, Sir,' tail the Marquis. ' Wilt you take some wine ? ' " Presently,' said Sir Harry ; not having eaten any- thing, I '— " ' I did not inquire, Sir Harry, what you bad eaten,' said the boiling magnifico.—' Take the , wafers to Sir Harry Winscott.' Wiseman, the Mayor, saw that something was wrong. Lady Hester knew how to soften down the asperities, and in addressing the last arrival, expressed with her looks what even she, dear soul, would not have ventured to speak with her tongue. The Mayor thought it delicate to change the subject. " It's very wonderful, my Lorti,'Zsaid the intrepid Wiseman, how beautifully and correctly Art n ow-a-days imitates nature.' " ' Yes,' said, or rather bowed, the Marquis. " Wonderful improvements, Sir,' continued the right worshipful ; ' now, nothing upon this human eartla can look more like natural hair than your Lordship's. Nothing —only that I know what it is—would make any body be lieve that Vint wasn't your own hair.' " ' Put the wine round, Hall,' said the Marquis ; yes.' " And then, my Lord,' continued this dreadful persi n, your way of combing it up a little, now and then—hey —that carries on the deception—doesn't it, my Lady Hester ?' "The Mayor, on making this appeal, turned to the fair daughter of the house, whose eyes were fixed upon him with an expression of wonderment and fear ' • won derment as to how far he was inclined to proceed with his fneeticc,. and fear for the visitation which her father might inflict upon his sins against has personal sensi tiveness; ' the wig' being the very tenderest point upon which any living creature could impinge, not even Hester herself being permitted to know, or even believe, that it was not all his own.' " • I see, Miss,',said the Mayor, addressing her Ladyship, you have got your e y es u p on me.' " The Marquis shuddered. " You think these things of your pa's fit me uncom monly well.' " ' Mr. Wiseman,' said his Lordship, writhing with agony, Lady Hester has not had the advantage of an ini tiation into the arcana of my dressing-room. Help your self, Sir. Hester, dear, it is getting late.'" CONCHOL 0 GIST'S COMPANION. Lo.vno.v, 1833. This is an elegant, attractive little volume ; not a mere dry, technical essay on conchology, but full of anecdote and picturesque description, and giving also occasional snatches of very de lightful poetry. The account of the Alpine horn, and the associations connected with it, display considerable feeling and eloquence. When we first took up the book, we thought— such is the epicurean nature of our reflections when the word " shell" is alluded to—that the author was about to inflict on us a treatise on oyster shells, varied perhaps with details re specting muscles, turtles, tortoises, and the Ile ; but we have found ourselves agreeably disappointed. The book is full of interesting and novel matters of information. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 38 Trusses.) CUMBERLAND. Supply limited, trade dull, and prices as last quso ted. .E3 10 Coarse heavy Lowland Mead ow Ha y .C 3 to New Meadow Hay 3lO 4 0 4 Useful Old oitto 315 4 Fine Upland Meadow a nd stye - g rass Ha y 4 0 54 0 4 4 Clover Hay 0 Oat Straw......£l 6to£l 8 1 Wheat Straw 1 8 11U SMITHFIELD. Supply moderately good, trade dull, and prices barely stationa £3 ry. 5 Coarse neavy Lowland Mea dow Ha y 3 10 4 5 New Meadow Hay Useful Old Ditto 3 5 315 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay ..... Clover Hay (extra fine)..—£s O... Generally 9at Straw ... £1 4toX 1 6 I Wheat Straw 1 8 110 SOUTHALL MARKET.—Dcc. 11. In this day's market, which was moderately well supplied throughout, and rather numerously attended both by London and country buyer , , the trade with each kind of prime meat was tolerably brisk, with interior kinds dull, at the following prices per stone of SUL to s'aik the otlitls Beef 3s. 4d, to 4 s.l O 1 . 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d. Mutton 4(1 5 •.! 3 6 44 , The foregoing quotations are best Beef, Mutton, and Veal, from :Id. to 4d. per stone dearer than on this day sennight ; prices otherwise stationary. Beast s, 549 ; Sheep, 1,94'2; Calves, 53; Pigs, A small portion of each kind of stock left the market unsold. distinguished Dukeishedp HeinstGerrtaaciening a gave a arty o f a t St rat d t s o a n y e. is grand dinner on Tuesday evening to the Prince and Pt in cess Lieven, Lieut.-Col. and Mrs. Maberly, Mr. and Mrs. C. Arbuthnot, &c. Mr. Cooper's new work " The Headsman" is of a high order of genius. The incidents, descriptions, and dialogues, are very interesting ; and towards the con elusion a breathless suspense is created, which is kept up to the very last page. Several of the characters—par ticularly the Headsman and his wife, and a dissolute, smuggling seaman, whose noble nature breaks through the darkness of his acquired dispositions—are finely con ceived and sustained. Cooper's powers, as a painter of sea pieces, are displayed in a description of the voyage of a small bark, and a storm, on the Lake of Geneva. In sublimity and interest, this part of the work hardly yields to the " Pilot" and the " Red Rover." While Sir Waltei Scott lived, Cooper was not unworthy to be considered his rival; and now that that illustrious than is no 1110 1 ep the author of " The Headsman" may be accounted the most powerful of his successors. —Halifax Guardian. We have received this morning files of papers and letters to the 16th November, from Charleston, and the 15th, from Savannah. The Charleston Courier, of the 14th November, gives the following as the state of the Cotton Market, in its semi-weekly report:— " CorroN.—The business done in this article has been full as large as could have been expected, taking into consideration the very unsettled state of the market. The sales of Uplands have reached, probably, about 3,000 bags, principally at 131 to 141 cents. Purchasers have gradually pressed upon holders for a reduction, which has been very reluctantly accede d to , until it may now be quoted at from 131 to 141 cents., and choice planters' lots only will command the highest Price- Yes terday there was more disposition to sell than had been pre viously evinced, and selections o f common prime store lots can be obtained at 14 to 141 cents." From Augusta, under date nearly the same accounts. qualities are quoted a; Ili to 1.2 the 12th, fair to good cho ce, the 14th November, give The dates from Savannah, tio cent.) ; prime 13+; 14 cents. At Mobile, n consequence of the a dvice' from En to cents, in 'etched them to the beginning of Octo rope, which ha r At New ()deans, to the sth November, the prices her. noted 14i to 16 cents., according to quality ; but were quo by advice' to the.6th"N"ovember, the pries hid receded from the sa me cause—tle reductions in our markets—the t rade was genera ll y what would be termed in a depressed s tate.... Liverpool Standard.