The Sun. — London, England, 1830-11-08 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The visit of their Majesties to the City is postponed ! We refer our readers to the officiel Letter, signed " Robert Peel," to the Lord Mayor, in another column, which announces this astounding fact. " His Majesty's cone. dential servante," says Sir Hobert, " have felt it to be their duty to advise the King to postpone the visit which their Majestie* Intended to pay to the City of London or, Tueerley next." And why ? From information which has been recently received, there is reason to apprebend, that notwithstanding the devoted loyalty and affeetin borne to his Majesty by the citizens of London, advantage would be taken of an occasion which must necessarile alienable a vest number of persons by night to create tumult and confusion, and thereby to endenget the pros fortieth and the lives of his Majesty's subjects." Their Nestles have therefore resolved, " though not without the greatest reluctance and regret," to faro) th - satisfaction which that visit would have afforded to them. We will venture to say ,that William the Fourth may proceed, by day nr by eight, witheut a single at. tendant, in perfect safety through every street, lane, or alley of the Metropolis. How, then, is tumult mipte hended? The Kin&s advisers say they apprehend tumult ; but the King, we are sure, feels the firmest con viction that he has no cause to apprehend any. He knows that there is not an Englishman who would touch a hair of his head; and that were the attempt made, ten then send hands would be railed in a moment against the per. inn who amid think of insulting him by deed or word. So then his Majesty's advisers have not be:dieted to pro claim to the kingdom anti to all Europe, that the King and Queen are not safe in the metropolis of the 'triad' Empire I After their Majesties, on due deliberation of calmer hail been advised to accept the invitation to a splen did entertainment to he given by his Majesty's loyal rub. jests of the City of London—have not hesitated to advise! their Mejeaties, on the ground of apprehension of tumult, to refuse the proffered honour. What has happened since the invitation was accepted, that should make it dangerous for his Majesty to proceed through the Metropolis? The King's Speech has been delivered to Perliament; but the King's Speech it.the speech of his Ministers; and though the Speech has given very general ditoatisfitetion, 'the people only say that they wish his Majesty had been bette r advise/1 7 -6u they are sorry to find him in such bad com patty. Still, if any manifestation of displeasure were to have taken place, we are sure that a distinction sufficiently broad would have been made between the King and his Minietere. We regret this ill-advised measure. We regret it because we are sure it will lead, in foreign coun tries, as well as at a distance in our own, to inference*, which are by no means warranted. is his Majesty, who bikes such pleasure in free communication with his nth jeeti, to he made a prisoner of state, because, his Ministers make foolish speeches, and are in fear of the consequent/es. Netter far had they frankly told his Majesty, you may go to the feast, because the loyalty of an Englishman will always ensure respect from him to his Sovereign t but we have strange misgivings with regard to oureelves, What are we to understand from this strange mmesure? Is the interdict of his Majesty from appearing in public on great occasions to be temporary or permanent? Must his Ma jesty tilways proceed by stealth through the City ? Or must he 'wait till the Ministers make better Speeches for him?.:-.llforuirty Chronick The visit of their Majesties to the city has been post. potted, as will he seen by the notice from the Home-office to the Committee appointed to conduct the entertainment proposed to be given to them to-morrow. The grounds on which their Majesties have altered their gracious reso lution to honour the city festival with their presence must endear them still more to their faithful subjects. Though we may hope that the anticipation of any disturbance was unfounded, yet even the slightest contingency of such an event was sufficient to justify the advice which the Minis. too have given to their Royal Master...orbiter. The intended visit of their Majesties to the City is post. pored !1!---At a late hour last sight (nearly twelve o'clock) we received the following docutnente from the City Committee of Management " Guildhall, botteloo, Nov. 7, Iftin. The Committee appointed to cohduut the entertainment 'proposed to be given on Lord Mayne. Day, next, en the occasion of their libijeatim honouring the city of London with their pre. sence, deem it their duty to give:publicity to a letter received. at nine o'clock this evening by the Lord Mayor, from the Right Mom Sir Hebert Peel, Bart., his Majesty's beeretary of state for the Home Department, of Which the tbilowing is a copy . 1 Whitehall, Nov, 7, ifrid, My Lord,-.1 ism commainital by tin King to inform your Lordship that his Majesty'a confidential servants have f. it it to be their duty to advise tho King to postpone the visit whifli their Majesties intended to 14y to the city of Lannon on lucidity neat. " Froln Information which has been recently received, there is reason to apprehend that, uutwithitmaling the devoted loyalty and affliction borne to his Majesty by the titisens of London, ail. ventage would tie taken or an occasion which must necessarily assemble a vast number ntpersons by night to create tumult and confusion 'rind thereby to endanger tee properties and the lives of his Majesty's subjects. ` 1 It would be a mum , of deep and lasting concern to their Majesties were any calamity to occur on the occasion of their visit to the city of London, and their Majesties hay° therefore resolved, though not without the greatest reluctance and regret , to fore n , for the pres en t, the satisfaction which that vi s it wou ld have atihrded to their Majesties, a I have the honour to be, my Lord, Your obedient servant s " The Right Hon. th e tord Mayor," ROBERT PLEr., The rumour* then, which prevailed for some days past -.rumours teo vague and improbable not to be scooted by all rational men—have bed but too good a foundttion, The Ministers have advisee) the King not to visit the city!. They have advised him to mortify the first com mercial body of his empire, by the retraction of a fortnel pledge which he had given to hormone them, on the occa sion of the choice of their Chi e f M ag i strate , w i th his presence.--they have induced him to disappoint, weeeetty to disappoint, hundreds and thousands of his subjects, whose beagle are beating with unmeasured loyalty to his Crown, unbounded devotion to his person, and whore money has been for days lavished, and their ingenuity ce tangled, in devising the means of receiving him in his progress with all that attention which Wreak-in, strength ened by respect, could bestow. We are told that this sad resolve on the part of time King is the result of time coun cils of his advisers. There needed no assurance of this sort; such a suggestion could never have fount) its birth place in the pure, stout, and E ng li s h b reast o f our Ki ng. The Monarch, then, who a week ago could walk, un attrntied, from one part of his dominions to another, ned at any hour of the day or night, is now toll that, though the utmost pains have been taken to marshal around him time whole strength of his police and military power, lie cai.uot safely trust himself amongst his people. Can those squabble* between the new police and time moh— those disturbances which we were told but a few days ago were the work of pickpockets and thieves, be a room to all this ? or is it the working of a plot, dark and unknown in import? There is, however, no Oldie but that their is feltaaerious alarm by Ministers. At four o'clock yesterday a Council of all the Ministers was held, which sat in deli beration upwards of two hours ; And egain at midnight rougher Council, of equal duration, was held. To this we may add that, however strange it May appear, °Mere have been given to put the military twins throughout the metropolis in a state of efficient defence. At tlie Tower, the gates are ordered to be kept closed for the thy, anti all the troops to be under arms. Send-bags anti other muniments of war proper - for sustaining a siege have been sent into that fortress. The pine ie also provisioned for *considerable time, and, every arrangement made as welt to pet it into a condition to resist a sudden attack, as a lengthened and more serious blockade, We meltable(' also that reinforcements of troops have be ordered from all quarters toward* town. No #lollht the public will wait with much anxiety for au explanetion of all this in the House of Lords to-night, and perhaps the Duke of Wellington may now admit thetienne little inquiry into the state of the country is neceseary. It will Ire wen bye Court paragraph, in another pin of our P.mper, that the Lord Steward has issued cords 'of invitation for the evening. We hope the pupil irity of our behreed Monett', i s not likely to be compromised upon slight grounds,-eitforniny Rerald, The King and Queen do nut visit the city to-morrow i ! ! We received this news at a late hour hot night, and mint it in the largest letter, that every one sissy be aware of the cireumetance. , What is, or is not, the private Wm , ' motion on which . the King's Minister* are acting, we do not pr e t en d t o know. The warning letter which we pule fished the other day indicated danger, and we were also aware of a report that it was iutended by (*nein ruffians roassuseioate ourselves, as welt as a canteMparary and his caileague ; but we did not pay much - attention to these Mutters, and thought that the King and his Alinietets would as little swerve front their way, as we do from ours, either in .going to, or returning from our homes. Dot it seems we were mistaken, anti what is more, thee Government it in possession of suffi cient information, to warrant it in advising his Majesty to pteopone hie visit, fa fear that they haisejodged end that they are shout to lair% upon the country the verb evils which are dreaded. 'There might have been a tuuntit on the occasion; but there Could have been mithing to e4dangor time life of the King, and still less to form the grotomdwork of s vevoluden ; tor there is no revo lutionary visit in time country, and aline, we ere confident, oat of every ten, arms, would have been raised, in case of danger, to defend their Metehtlee. in a word, vie de re. cute the unnecessary alarm which will be excited by the postpeneeuent of the King's visit, and meet beg our tepee- , eutatives to inquire, whether there is not more of stale -rick, than of real danger, in the matter?--Atorning vertigo. It has long been our painful duty to apprite the public the dark and seditious, not to say deeply rebellious pro• ieets of the Waimea fraction by whom the peace of the , ountry and the very existence of social order and do meanie security have been so seriously menaced. We have frequently called their attention to the inflammatory harangues of low demagogues, delivered at public meet tinge, in the open face of day, exciting the populace to lets of outrage and rebellion, on the first favourable op portunity that should occur fur the accomplishment of their diabolical purposes; nor Were .We without the most serious apprehemions that their Majesties' intended visit to the city would be ermeidered by them u an occasion aus picious to their infamous designs. That our fearful prog nostics in this respect were neither visionary or unfounded will be sufficiently seen by the, official communicition, which so far bear us out ita all our anticipations as to prove the necesnity felt by his Majesty's Ministers to ad vise hies m postpone his intended visit to the city r -2/foratiny Post,. The general belief is that the tenure of Ministers is inse cure. His Majesty, it is supposed, did not wish to with draw his confidence from Ministers whom he believed to he popular with the nation. But the late coquetting of the Duke of Wellington, first with the Reformers and then with the Ultra-Tories—and the disgust with which the declaration of hia Grace respecting Reform has been every where received—have materially changed the aspect 01 things. It has been observed too, that a certain Journal has been lately a very lukewarm advocate of his Grace.— As to coquetting with the Reformers, it is believed that the report of his intention to give a partial Reform, was thrown out to frighten the Times. He may not have committed himself, but it must have been first thrown out with his cognizance. --'Maiming hronicle. An article in the Court Journal, and which bus been copied Into the Courier, states that the conferences rela tive to the Netherlands have commenced at the Foreign office ; and that the Innis upon 'which these conferences are to be conducted is, first, that the Government of Bel gium shall not be Republican; secondly, that there shall be no incorporation with France, It is further stated that H. Van de Weyer, a Member of the Provisional Govern ment, remains in London, with authority to treat with the Ambassadors nu certain points, but has not yet been op plied to by them to become a party to the conferences, nr us communicate any information. The weak point in the whiCh has been thus settlsd without the Representa tive of the Belgian people being any party to the confe . - rences, is, that the basis is a double one, and the Belgians tuay determine, in a conference of their own, to set one half against the other. Suppose the Belgians, or their Representative, to say to the English Alinistry, " We come to offer, that if we are promptly acknowledged, we will give you every security that neither the fortresses nor the country shall ever be made over to France. The securi ties we propose are, first, treaty; secondly, our interests. But if there is any interference with our form of Govern went, then we will do the utmost in our power (end the power of the country is united in our hands) to effect the yansfer of both fortresses and country to France whenever there shall be au opportunity." The an ewer to this is manifestly intended to be, " But France will nut take you. We have an old gentle- Man at our elbow, who has been the servant of twenty different forms of Government in France ; and lie tell* us so." To which the Belgians have only to reply, that if they cannot accompish their purpose now, they will " bide their time." The old gentleman has only to live to see form the twenty-first, and he will himself he the agent for affecting there-union. The attempt to involve France in the Holy Alliance of Downing-street, will at once ex plode the fraud which has been practised on those who have been told they were la meilleure dee republiques. In England too, there rai ny be valid reasons why no person cries out for the establishment of a Republic- But if the principle be stretched to interference against its existence elsewhere, it will be plain that the objection is to the example of happiness that may be held forth by a Res public; for against an example of unhappiness, there would be no necessity to guard. The consequence of which will be, that large masses of men, who now only contemplate certain circumstantial reforms, will be turned, by the act of their own Government, into the channel of republicanism. The moment there is a crusade against popular forme of government abroae, republihanism will take a substantial shape at home. Is the state of Ireland at this mamma so inviting ? If a limited Monarchy is a compromise, why cannot its fiiimds keep well, when they are sod That N. .Van de ' , Weyer, a member of the Pro visionel Government, ie in London, is the only part of the information of the Court 'hums' which is substantially correct. M. Vun do Weyer did not arrive in England for the purpose of treating with any. Ambassadors on any points, but with a view to 'communicating that knowledge of the state of affairs in Belgium, which in no other way was likely to be received.---Morning Chronicle. The king's Speech forma a prominent subject of die. cession with the French Papers. The ConetituVonnel laughs at the idea of Don Miguel's amnesty, and content* itself with observing, in the case of another nntion—" As to the intervention in the affairs of Belgiom, the nature of it is not -explained, and we can only form conjectures in this respect. If the intervention take* place in concert with Name, we hope that it will he p'erely moral; that no 'attempt wilt be made against Belgian independence ; that this generous people will be allowed to regulate their own etrairs. This is the only means ofseruring the peace of Europe." Thu Journal des Debate remarks, that the mention of the heart-stirriug events of July is very laconic in the King's Speech, and that the tone of what is said respecting Belgium has caused disappointment. With that deli Cate irony which belongs to our neighbours, it is soh served—" Verluipm the conflagration of Antwerp, p,.r. ceieed lorty miles of at sea, might have exacted a little less complaisance in the language for one of the two belli gerent parties (for what other names can we now give to the Belgians and Dutch)? But in troth there is little sentimentality in the official politics of Great Britain ; and so many material interests seemed to be connected with the peaceable fusion of two incompatible nations, that the Government scarcely bestows a glance on the two real causes of the divorce; and we perceive that ill-will is entertained towards the victor." It is added—" How ever, after reading the Speech of the Sovereign of Great Britain, we arc just where we were in point of knowledge of the question." Mr. Canning used to say, that the great merit of a King's Speech was, that it told nothing. We are sorry to sly the present King'. Speech tells ton much. It has toll enough to excite a spirit of discontent from one end of the kingdom to the other. The sane. intent explanations are net, in general, construed so fa» vourahly as we have cmnstrued thorn. The recantations are generally , believed to have originated in fear; the in tention to deceive having been penetrated, while it is not tmnverrient at present to avow - all that is intended. The following remarks, transmitted to us by a correspondent of high character, in one of our principal seats of indus try, Speak the feelings °fa large hotly of the community 44 The bungling attempts made by Ministers and their ad herents to explain away the meaning of the words they Inserted in what is called the King's Speech, with regard to the inter ference of this nation with the affairs of Belgium, should be met by the people of England, quoting the Duke of Wellington's own words on a late memorable occasion-4 There is no mistake —there can be ire mistake.' Their ;own conduct, whenever pos pular rights have been opposed to arbitrary power, is centime.: Lion good as boly writ,' that the Ministers of William the Fourth meant to convey to the world their strong approval of the Conduct of the King of the Netherlands, as also these decided condemnation of the acts of the Belgians. Call you this non interferceve 1 1 Is this impartiality Y The English people know that if our National Debt did not render war a matter of int. pottihilily, the Duke of Wellington would not be tardy in ofihr mg assistance to any despot who might ask it of him. Thank God l however, the schoolmaster Is abroad, and nations are not so blind as they used to be to their own interests!"—Morning Chronicle, correspiandent informs us, upon what he cucsidere to he " undoubted authority," than when the Speech with which his Majesty opened the businras of Parliament we'. tent down to Brighton for his approval, he blatantly re turned it to the Duke of Wellington, declaring that he had not nerve to deliver such a Speech. Our correspon dent wide H that this ought to be generally known, as there is no doubt that his litujesty'ir, popularity cannot exist to the extent it has done, or would havo done, if he had not been ebtioluttly compelled to deliver the sentiments of his Ministers in opposition to his own." That the King could be by his . Ministers to deliver to the as etinhled Parliament a ,Speeeli which be had, in the first bat:lnce, contemptuously rejected, is highly improbable, and nothing abort of the most direct and positive evidence of the fact could make us believe it. That the . Duke of Wellington imperiously rules the Cabinet nobody doubts; but that he has been aide to reduce his Royal Master to the state of political thraldom which the Waive report im plies, appears to us unworthy of credit. Wo cannot won der, indeed, if his Majesty, who, ever since his accession to ;he throne to the day in which he met the new Parlia ment. seemed sincerely desirous of reigning in the hearts of his eubjt:cts, anti, while the spirit of revolution filled the minds of other Monarchs with alarm, bad already gt thered a rich harveit of popularity—we cannot wonder, we say, if his Majesty, who never went abroad without receiving abundant proofs of the grateful attachment of a people whom the gracious familiarity of his manners had charmed, felt some reluctance at adopting, as his own, die sentiments of a Speech which eXcites the moat painful Merest among all classes at the present elitist, and crate* the moat gloomy apprehensions as to the future. We con sider such a Speech at such a time to be the emanation of a bad judgment and a worse taste, and if his Majesty had indeed rejected it, it would have been well for his own fame, and would have saved from great errors the Ministry whose unlucky composition it was. It is true that a King of Great Britain is constitutionally hound to act by the advice of his Ministers, as upon them the responsibility of his measures is thrown; but this is no reason why he should either now or at any time, act in opposition to his own conscientious conviction of his duty as a Sovereign; because, if the opinions of his Ministers are directly at variance with his own, he is not obliged to keep them in office, and thus become the slave of his own servants. Moreover, his Majesty is not a luxurious and effeminate Prince, ,who has been nursed in the lap of wantonness and ease. He has from early youth been familiar with danger—be has shared in the toils and glorious perils of brave men—and has always been distingiashed for a large portion of that manly frankness of Character which belongs to the heroic and chivalrous profes,ion that achieved for Great Britain the sutupremacy of the ocean. We, therefore, cannot believe that he was compelled to adopt sentiments which he pre viously deduct be wanted nerve to deliver. If be had, AS our cotrespondent states, instantly sent back the Speech,- with such a declaration, to the Duke of Wel dugton, it would be equivalent to a direct avowal of hav ing withdrawn all confidence in that Minister, and no alternative would be left the Premier, in duty to himself, but to reeige. To think of forcing the Speech on the King after,euch an intimation would be a monstrous act of dittation on the part of a Alin;ster, and an insult which, we think, the King would not, for an instant, brook. We cannot believe his Majesty submitted to any such indignity, and consequently presume that our correspondent was misinformed. It is very likely, we grant, that the King did not approve, very warmly, of the Speech, but it is not so likely that be at any time ref sed to deliver it. He, perhaps, without much reflec tion, gave his consent to the expression of sentiments in which his heart did not participate—but, upon ma ture consideration, we are sure he must be convinced that, us Ministers had resolv,al to make him us unpo, pular as themselves, they could scarcely have dictated n Speech better calculated to bring about that effect. We believe that the loyalty of the English people is unim paired, except where the pressure of distress has led to some infractions of the laws; and it was the result of extremely bad advice that his Majesty, when he threat ened condign punishment on the disturbers of the peace, that he did not acknowledge the existence of great dis tress, and graciously promise that every effort should be made for its alleviation. This is an error which, on the King's part, was more of the head than the heart, and which we have great confidence he will take the earliest opportunity to repoir.—,Morning Herald. The answer given the other evening by Sir Robert Peel to the plain and direct question put by Lord Palmer ton relative to the intended recognition of Don Miguel displays the very perfection of absurd refinement in the art of polities! equivocation. The Speech from the Throne, it will he recollected, introduced the mention of the recog nition in such a way as to make it consequent neon the grant of a general amnesty by the usurper, and the ques• Lion put by Lord Palmerston was to ascertain distinctly whether it was the intention of our Government to compel OH...fulfilment of the terms of that amnesty, in case Don Miguel Omuta betray a disposition to evade them ; because, if they were not prepared to enforce the execution of that measure, it would be right to avow it beforehand, that honourable persons might not.by placing tuo much reli ance on the language of the British Government, find them selves fatally deceived. How did Sir Robert Peel answer this plain question ? He said that " the British Govern ment did not require the amnesty so a condition of their recognition, but that, if it were not published to the world, they would not recogniaeklon Miguel ; they did not promise that they would recognize Don Miguel if the amnesty were published, but distinctly intimated that they would not do so if it were not. They were not, therelore, formally guarantees for. the amnesty, but he could not be expected to answer for the steps which 'night hereafter be taken by his. Majesty's Government, in case the amnesty should be violated ; he must first know the circumstances of the case, and must refuse to answer RR to future and hypothetical events." It would, we think, be impossible to annex to a historical document, like the King's Speech, a more shuffling and equivocating com mentary than this. Whitt does the King's Speech say? It runs as follows I have not yet accredited my Am liaasador to the Court of Lisbon, hut, the Portuguese Government having determined to perform a great act of justice and humanity by the grant of a gene ral amnesty, I think that the time may shortly arrive when the interests of my subjects will demand a ritil newel of those relations which have so long existed lie,; tweet, the two countries." Here, if we are to under stand the language put into the King's mouth seem ding to the ordinary and obvious sense of the words, the recog nition of Don Miguel is made to depend upon the event of the publication of a general amnesty by the latter. No other reason, in fact, is given fur contemplating a renewal of our relations with the Court of Lisbon, but the " de termination of the Portuguese Government to perform that great act of justice and humanity." The recognition is math, to follow the amnesty, and to flow ftom it as the effect from the cause. The King says, in effect—" I have not yet recognized Don Miguel as King of Portugal—to lie having determined to publish a general amnesty, the time may shortly arrive when I shall recognize him." We are led to believe that the " time may shortly arrive" when he will issue the promised amnesty, and therefore we are given to underatand the " time may shot tly arrive' when his recognition, founded upon that act, will take place. Then naturally arise the considerations involved in Lord Palmeraton'e question—ls Great Britain to po mades the observance of this amnesty? If she does, may it nut hereafter involve her in a war ?—and if she does not, who can place any reliance upon it? The perfidy of a Prince who has already made a mockery of solemn oaths, makes it absolutely necessary that his amnesty should be guaranteed by some authority competent to enforce it, otherwise it will he but a piece of waste paper. But, if our Government appeared jo guarantee it, and in reality did not, it might operate as a snare to entice many to their destruction. Even • Lord 'Aberdeen has admitted that Don Miguel is " cowardly, perfidious, and cruel," or the Parliamentery Repot ta of last Sessio n greatly lathed him; and surely, after the manner in which hie character has been developed to an admiring world, the persons who would trust their lives in his bands upon his naked assurance of preferring an inviolate honour to the treacherous gratification of his revenge, would deserve the consequences, not by their crimes, but their folly. Bat Sir Robert Peel says, the British Government ate not, formally, guarantees for ,the amnesty. Why does he qualify the expression by the word " formally ?".. , .merely to throw duat , in the eyes of those whom he is addressing ; for, if they are not guarantees in form—that is, if they do not pledge themselves to enforce the observance of the amnesty by the very letter of the contract, they cannot be considered as guarantees at all. We do not wonder that our Government decline to become riureties for the good faith or the good behaviour of Don Miguel ; but why in troduce his amnesty into the King's Speech in such a way as might lead people to believe that they intended to pare the claws of the tiger, and to limit him In the more inuo cent pastime' of his den ? Our Government are aware that they would have no sinecure in answering for the breaches of faith of Don Miguel.. But, in the name pro portion that they know and distrust him, should they be cautious of putting forth any statement which might in. duce the unfortunate individuals who have fled from his tyranny to place themselves within his grasp, under a de hosiers notion of British protection, It is a Mean and un. worthy policy thus to equivocate between a tyrant and his vietinatu—Morning Herald. Whatever may be the fate of the Wellington Admini.._ titration, or whatever the measures which it may have re solved to adopt, in order to prevent its being driven from the helm of the state, we think it will be readily allowed . by all thinking persons, that the , occurrences during the past week ought to be sufficient to convince it, that it must begin a new career, before it can obtain either the corifi• . donee of Parliament, or the confidence of the country. Never has there been a week of so much agitation and so much alarm, since the panic of 'BU. The foods have tumbled, not merely fafien....4everal failure* have ensued, and more are threatened—.commercial anxieties, which were previously en the increase, h ave b een trebled ; while, to add to all these, the warlike nat ure o f the King's Speech-- the impolitic ileclarerations respecting reform —a nt i t h e ap parent determination to maintain a b o d y of men for the watching of the metropolis and hs suburb*, contrary to the wish of, and at a heavy charge to, th e respect i ve pa rifitiese—hrtve spread a degree of agitation and alarm, both as to the external and internal affairs of the country, which is calculated to do any thing but promote the national interests, And yet all this has been done by a Ministry which professes p u bli c opinion to lc-the bssio of its measures ! Now we put it to the most Strenuous supporters of the Ministry, whether public opinion is in favour of a threatened iuterference, by any other triode than peaceable negociation, in the affairs of Belgium ?..---whe, then it agrees with the declaration of the Duke of Wel lington, that the representation of the could peopl e in Parlia ment is the most perfect that exist, and that there is no occasion fur reform ?...—whether it agrees also with that pare of the King's Speech which seems to intimate that a recourse to law and force are the only means to be adopted for tranquillizing the country ?---anfl, though this is rather a home question, whether it coincides in the idea, with which Ministers nn doubt are im pressed, that we could not have a better Ministry titan that ti which the affairs of the State are now confided?— When Mr. Pitt was at the head of affairs during a crisis similar to the present, but a thousand times more momen tous to the peace of Europe and the security and indepen dence of its different States, the Tories, anti more espe cially the landed int treat, raised a hue and cry throughout the country, anti succeeded in persuading the King anti his Minister that it was necessary to go to war, in order to divert the attention of the public, and prevent a revo lution here; and it would not, apparently, be disagreeable to seine high personages to repeat the experiment ; but we beg to assure them that any such intention is vain and l'opeless—that the circumstances of the two cases are greatly different in their most• essential features—that Europe is now not the Europa of 1793, but of 1830— and 'that any attempt to put in practice now the political system of the former period, would inevitably be followed by results the very reverse of those which they anti cipate and wish, and fatal, in the long run, we have no doubt, to every Monarchy in Europe. The war sgainst France was, in some measure, justified by the call of the Government of that country upon the people of other king doms to rebel against their rulers—at present there is no such excuse ; for, notwithstanding the King's Speech, there is neither " rebellion," nor call for "rebellion," but. on the contrary, a devise for constitutional Monarchies. At the period in question the people of almost all coun tries were ignorant, anti easily mistral by those who raised false cries of liberty—now they are better informed, and desire only, and at the least possible expense of commotion, that national freedom which is attainable, and that share in the Government to which they are justly entitled. Nor Ought it to be passed over in silence, that, in 1793, the debt of the country, though large, was compare tively trifling—that its resources were unimpaited, anti that we could afford to go to war without in. curring any serious risk of national bankruptcy ; and that now, so far is this from bein; the 'Ave, that the debt has increased fourfold—that it is only of late that we have been able to return to cash payments, anti that there is no man iu his senses who could think of our em barking in a general war, without its terminating in a ge neral bankruptcy, if not also in the overthrow of the Con stitution. The landed interest are egregiously mistaken if they think that the people of this country will again go to war for their sake. 'there is a debt of 800,000,0004, besides the distress to which the country has been reduced, to remind them daily of the mischief of such conduct;--- and they and the Duke of Wellington are also equally de• ceived, if they think that they can much longer delay the carrying of time great question of Parliamentary Reform. That question is now no longer a question of the mob and its loaders, but a question which musters in its favour three fourths of the thinking and moat respectable part of the po pulation. The miseries resulting from the late war have given strength to the cause which could not possibly have been etherwive obtained ; while the events in France and Bel gium have shewn, that whatever may be the wishes, the inclinations, or supposed interests, of Courts and aristo cracie., the people can, when they universally will it, effect any rational and constitutional reform. It would b wise, therefore, both an the part of the Government, and on the part of the aristocracy, of this country, to go at once, and with a good grace, into a measure so necessary, and ao universally desired, as a reform of the abuses in our system of representation ; fur nothing more, we are convinced, is desired by the people of this countoy ; and while, if granted, the measure would greatly tend to re atore tranquillity and commercial confidence, it must also he plain to every one, that this is the most favourable moment for accomplishing it, and that, if refused, it may one day be extorted alter a lees pleasant fashion than that of mere constitutional petitions.--. Morning Advertiser. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 6. FULLOCK V. ALLANSON. This was a suit for trying the validity of the al leged will and codicil of the Rev. John Monkhouse,. of Brumshot, Harits, which were contested by the sister, and only next of kilo, on the ground of in sanity. The case was argued and very fully re ported last term. .. Dr. LUSIIINGTON, who Was absent when the case was argued before, was now heard on behalf of Mrs. l o ßarbara Allanson, the sister of the deceased. He proceeded at considerable length to analyze the Con tents of the will and codicil, which appropriated the hulk of his property, real and personal, to the object of education, bet in a very peculiar manner. The language of the bequest was extraordinary, particu• lerly the exceptions to the admission of children of persons guilty of certain mood misdeeds. His be quest to the Provost and Fellows of Queen's Col lege, Oxfurd, as trusters for a Society of Unitarian Christians, was a strange bequest for a Clergymen of the Church of England to make, as it 11/:18 next to l an insult to the College. Then the peculiar bequest of Is. to those whom be supposed had poisoned his dog Carlo was remarkable, as it proved the incipient notion of poisoning in 1824, which haunted his mind till 1827, the date of the will. The bequest in the codicil of 11. for good and wholesome milk for the poor of the parish was another proof on the face of the Instruments of what sounded to folly, which the extrinsic evidence completely confirmed. The learned advocate then went into the details of the evidence, commenting upon the acts attributed to the deceased--;-munely, his belief that attempts had been made to poison him and his family; that e well 90 feet deep,„ and 12 broad at the bottom, had been poisoned by corrosive sublimate; that his eggs were steeped in poison : that his butter was poisoned; his going about armed; his extraordinary entries in the parish registers, containing reflec tions upon the character of the persons mentioned there; his strange inscriptions upon his carts and waggons, in Greek and Hebrew, expressive of Uni tarian sentiments, and his irrational mode of acting upon the suspicions he entertained, supposing them to be just. The deceased was precisely of that cha meter in which insanity might he expected to ma nifest itself. He was gloomy, desponding, shun ning society, and making dogs his companions, and he supposed them to have souls. His talents and capacity, which were admitted, tended to support the presumption of insanity; for a sane mind, such as Mr. m un hh ou ses, would not have evinced such weakness and credulity upon particular topics. Sir JOHN NICHOLL said, the question was, whe ther the testator was of sound mind when he pre pared and executed the will. The instruments were in his own bend•writing, and there was no want of formality about them. The history of the deceased was this :—He died in October, 1828, aged 70, a bachelor. lie was the son of a farmer in Cumberland, and a fellow of Quee»'s College. He had oucupted the rectory of liramahot, which was college preferment, for twenty years. He was eccentric in his ,conduct and . habits from an early neriod. His sister had two daughters ; one of them was married to a farmer termed Harrison, who, on the invitation of the deceased, came from Cumber land to manage his glebe and tithes. Up to the !tit}, o f April, 1827, there was no severeece of affection from Hartison's family, nor imputed deluSion of rotor'. The poisoning of the well, which Was the groend-work of the alleged insanity, was fixed to t h a t day. The will wits executed on the 19th of April, and the codicil on the 24th. A great many circumstances had been brought forward to prove that in May and June the deceased laboured under an. invincible delusion that Harrison bad attempted to poison him. But the question was, whether, at t he time the will was prepared and executed, be was really insane ? The deceased was doubtless a very eccentric man ; but act nil insanity was not at tempted to be proved till April, 1827. In respect to the dog, which died in 1824, his notion, of poison was no delusion, for others were of the same opi nion, particularly the farrier who attended the do g . The remarks in the register were occasioned by the immorality of the parish, and though,eecetriie, were na evidence of iitsartity. These entries had corns, men:ed as early as 1813. The will had been at tested by two clergymen, both intim a t e l y acqua i nte d with t:ie deceased, and both had deposed that he was of perfectly sound mind. He thought , it L prop .r therefore, in this view of t h e case, to konounee - for the will; the two codicillary pap erel an d t h e - Costs to be 'paid Out of th e estate . codi cil s MANSLAUGHTER. On Friday afterpoon, at three o'clock, an inquest was held before Mr. STIRLING, Coroner, at the Horse and Groom public-house, in John -street, Edgware road, upon the body of Mary Sweeney, aged .28. —The inquiry lasted until half-past eleven o'clock at night. It appeared, in the course of a great mass of evi dence, that the deceased was the wife of Patrick Sweeney, a bricklayer, and they lived at 38 , Homer street. The deceased was eight months advanced in pregnancy. They had lived happily together until within the last three or four months, when the hus band had shown symptoms; ofjealousy. This gave rise to constant qu arrels, and he drank very freely. On Saturday se 'might he was seen going home at a late hour at night by an acquaintance named Wilmot, who heard him as be passed along muttering oaths of vengeance against his wife. This induced Wilmot to follow him home, and he bad scarcely entered the house when loud cries of " murder" were heard in a female voice. Wilmot forced open the door or Sweeney's apartment, and there he found the deceased lying on the bed, and her husband holding her by the hair with one band, and beating her with his clinched fist on the head, and stomach, and neck. Wilmot called upon him to desist, and said he would knock him down if he repeated the blows, upon which Sweeney took up a broomstick, and swore he would knock Wilmot's brains out if he did not leave the house. Minot, however, with praiseworthy courage, made a rush at him, grappled with him, and after a desperate struggle succeeded in getting him on the ground. In the mean time, with the assistance of a woman living there, the deceased was got out of the bed, but was soon after seized with violent convulsive fits. Mr. Tierney, a surgeon, was celled in, and the symptoms were then such as invariably appear in cases of hydrophobia ; she had violent spasms, complained of a feeling of suffocation, saliv a iss ue d from her mouth in great abundance, and she had a perfect horror of any fluid that was offered to her; although complaining of excessive thirst. Mr. Tierney asked if she had been bitten by a dog orcat, and being answered in the negative by those in the room, and by her in her lucid moments, he pronounced her malady to be hysteria. At her desire a priest (she was a Roman Catholic) was sent for, and he administered some holy water; and by an effort which convulsed her whole frame, in a manner which Mr. Tierney said was so terrific, that it would never be erased from his memory while he lived, she contrived to swallow a small portion. Mr. Gray, another surgeon, was called in, and be at once pronounced her to be afflicted with hydrophobia, and his opinion remained unshaken until her death, which took place on Wedneaday. The medical gentlemen, on their examination, said that excessive fright or irritaiion, or personal violence, would be likely to produce the symptoms described in a woman in the peculiar situation of the deceased. The Jury, upon the evidence, returned a verdict of " Mutts!slighter" against Patrick Sweeney, the husband of the deceased. and the Coroner issued his warrant fur his committal to Newgate for trial. IRELAND. 'RIT DE LUNATIC° INQUIRENDO. IN THE MATTER OP MARY LEACOCK, AN ALLEGED LUNATIC. _ _ The inquisition in thie matter was held in the Court of Appeals, and Ibtomenced on Thursday, the 14th ult., when it was adjourned to the follow ing'Mon lay, and continued daily up to Thursday, Oct. 21, when a verdict was returned. The case for the petitioners was stated by Mr. LITTON, King's Counsel, The following are the most prominent features of the evidence in support of, and iii resistance to, the commission. The lute Rev. Dr. Nesbitt, who resided for some yeara ip a part of a large mansion formerly occupied by Lord Roden, corner of York-street, Stephen's green, died in 1821, and bequeathed to Mrs. Lea cock, his housekeeper, who had lived with him and his family for upwards of forty years, an annuity of 4001. per annum, together with a sum of 5001.; and to Mrs. Leacock's daughter, the subject of the pre sent inquiry, who lived - in the house in York-streef, and was an object of the Rev. Doctor's parental al. feet ion, lie also bequeathed a like sum of 3001., and an annuity of 6001. per annum, with the use of the house, plate, and furniture, in York-street, for their joint and separate lives,.--,botli annuities ,charged upon his real estates ip the county of Cavan. Mr. Leacock died in December last, aged upwards of 80 years, and by her will demised to her daughter, in her own right, 3,6131. 3 1 1 per cent. Government stock, to receive the interest during her life, with power to bequeaths the principal amongit her issue, if any, in such proportions as to her might seem proper, and in the event of her dying without issue, the said principal sum was bequeathed to Captain Nesbitt, sots of Major Nesbitt, one of the petitioners in this matter. She appointed Major Nesbitt, one of her executors, specially r e qu est i ug hi s protection for Miss Leacock, and that he would have her properly attended to, and taken care of by her com panion, Miss Matilda Walker, or by , any other re spectable female in that capacity, us her daughter possessed the means of amply compensating such persons for their atteations to her. Ile main facts relied upon in support of the petition were, that Miss Leacock, now aged about 37 years, had been, for many years previous to her mother's decease, of such weak intellect, as to have her meat cut for her on a plate, and eat it with u spoon; that she had indulged in, and given expression to, lascivious fancies, and on occasion imagined that the Duke of Leinster had passed the night with her, and when asked how he could have got into the roam, she re plied, that he must have come in through the key hole, or under the door; that she was addicted to the use of gross expressions, and other acts of an in delicate nature; was subject to violent paroxysms of insanity, and had often beaten her mother, and had on one occasion thrown a stone out of the carriage window at her coachman's head; that she was so utterly incapable, from unsoundness of mind, of managing her own affairs, as never to have been per mitted to leave the house unaccompanied by her companion; and that there was so complete a pro stration of intellect, as to render her the ready dupe of interested and dishonest people, insomuch, that in August last, she had nearly become the victim of tut atrocious conspiracy against her person and for tune, and was brought to P e t et ' s c h urc h , b y t h e family of her companion, for the purpose of being! married to Mr. 0. W. Walker, a working jeweller, and her companion's brother, a lad very little more than 20 yeas old, but at that part of the service whet the Minister asked, " Wilt thou have this man to be thy wedded husband?" Miss Leacock, to the great dismay, and disappointment of the youthful hridegroom, responded, " No I" and immediately quitted the church, and returned home in her carriage still a spinster: the clergy man, who had that morning mulled seven couple, being fatigued, had not noticed any thing pecculiar in her manner till she had thus abruptly interrupted the service. It was also further alleged that Miss Leacock was wholly under the controls) and influ ence of her companion, who was lately married to a young man of her, own age, of about 23 years old, named Delleney, and who resided with his wife at Miss Leacock's, end that the. alleged' lunatic had been lately worked upon by Mrs. Delleney to in crease her salary from 40/. to 1001 per annum. In support of these allegations, there were examined three female visitets of Miss Leacock's, two of her female and one male servant, with two coachmen, together with Drs. Jackson and Duncan. The ex trinsic evidence given on holt sides on this occasion ' waft completely contradictory. Dr. DuOcan, the first medical witness, confidently pronounced Miss Leiscock incapable, from unsound ness of mind, to manage her own Mits. Dr. Jackson's opinion was to the same effect. -; Dr. Crampton had no hesitation in declaring, after oine visits, that Miss Leacock could not, with ; propriety, be pronounced incapable of managing I.er from I own affairs from unsoundness of mind, but S , timidity or want of energy, occasioned by her se eluded habits. Dr. Harty fully confirmed the preceding witnen't testimony. Mrs. Delleney was the next witness examined on behalf of Miss Leaeock ; she admitted that her husband's name was Delaney, but that at het re quest be had adopted the former, because *bethought it more pretty and genteel. She stated her n g e I° be 23 years, and that she had been residing far the last niae years with Miss Leacoek , as her compan ion; that she had been married about four month.. IT) her husband was about the same ag e. as how,. Mist Letter& had a more retentive memory (him witness herself, and was equally as sensible, b u t she had a d alike to enter into conversation with sow gen, in consequence of her habitually seellided !Vet to which the was accustomed by her mother; the had never seen or heard of Miss Leacock floor ing a stone at the coachman, or of her haying led indelicately, but she admitted that Mist Leseo uk had used gross and abusive language to her readier, to which she was irritated by the continualdrauken• netts of Mrs. Leacock, and her annoying treatment. T p r direct i r l i e e a t n: ‘ d .i t o e n f r e o c h s s e s - e ' r y axsam demeanour,f tri nearly tion and si x a h li o e u r l u II nhtinedr h er - ared from Court, her superior intelligenee, and ofto unanimous eulogium. Master ELLIS addressed tlie we j e :r charge, after which they' consulted for half an hour, and returned a verdict finding Mary Learock.ot unsound mind, so as to be incapable of 10144 her own affair. y the i n sbubhjlemeit s o n; OMINNIIIM......11.1.•••••••••-- ........***.....' ." ...."..- WESTMINSTER SESSIONS, Nov, 6, - Thee Sessions commenced they morning before The F. Cossr, Esq. and a full Bench of Magistratet. Court was crowded to aces, long before tha Chairtrua entered the Court, in consequence of two appeals can hn'ing on from th " iuhaltitants of S. Margaret and St. Water Jos parishes, Westminsto . , and the ass old Chelsea Works Co' Mpanies. Viz wss T miNsras GAs COMrANT V. Tilt ISIIAnITASIS OP ST. It A aGAsicT's A ND ST. JOHN 'S, WeinfitisTss oeri and CAairsi:LL and Mr. ALLar were for the e f u r the Cony Mr. Messrs. Gustier and iDOLetiCa wer appellants: at kir. GueNey commenced wfdressing the Court hi tra v , ed Gentleman bald be o l,ould q stating that this was an appeal against a deCision 0 0 t be liableln and pipes conveying the gas hoot the gasometer it;,l Learned be rated. In iiiiwiling against this derision,,t, s ' l 'er" Pines and the main were liable; &ad rhea °mu o w n here, in his opinion, this ease differed from them. the e was the case of the King V. Brighnist t. other ' l l King v. Bi r min g ham ; but he contended that thotig, !I'm companies w. re liable, as the C‘no t o f /C , i ,: g i i i eiders bast decided their pipes were iced , yet he 'AT-. Wert d that under the provisions of the illetropohtto Paving ed te Act, the main and !rinse could probe consider n tures, for they were only at the pleasure of that Company, and Hal a ls h. . to removed et their diocretion. Pay their fore, toe Learned Gentleman contended, could tie Om' di:red only as a casement. He hoti at t here" 6 dlfferenee of opinion existing,. the . urt would Allow a tune two out/tonne. oar to go to tbe . Kinife Beech. , r Mr. CAMTBILI. argued et poet length for the ...olio'. The CuAasuxAU said he had 111Wilys considered the lel . quite pl a i n an d settles. It was his opinien that te.co.t. parry were the occupier, of the land through trhir.lt 1 1 Pipes ran, and were therefore liable to ogee; ' l ' ll ' 1 , 1 the Learned Counsel wished, he lied no objection to ea a . , ease for the decision of the King's Bench, mr'dandiog that he (the Chairmao) hail doubt. ~ The Counsel and attorneys far the different ieteir,:: consulted for some time, and ultirostely agreed to red u question to Mr. Taunton, the ICini.! C° 11 "" •"•"""'""'.."00 POI.ICE INT6LLIGENCE. DOW.STREE'r. t hier i A man named Puddiford was on Satur..l r .h befor e Mr. HALLS with a highway robbery, atttivled in. ekienes..—The prisoner was rernernled • trains iltrillions Athol r, alias Smith, charged hy Llei a Bolton with baying frudulently disposed ref lit artert un ,,,,, for 20/, w.s brooglit up in order to he eexamines s :7: 4.5 neither the prosecutor nor any of the witneseee w!r . 1 : ran n .t anct ., t h e irtrJre directed dint the priseo!. wit)! this es• should be discharged. An arrangetnent, we unde: y ur i h as been effected, by which the prosecutor has reo vi Possession of his aeceptanceo. tak A e feet hEht was charged with assaulting another in" , Al* twice , his site. bile in The --.l that the defendant met complainant state, . b o ot an/ Lineol . • d wit ° 11-inn fields, o n Friday nightvitts s provocation, gave him a good &dating. ~,301.„The Defendant (in a great passion for a little 11 ' 11 :, 'lonia tact is. this fellow (complainant) ii whit heir".....044 got intoP°:l'em'ion ;" and I. happening to be undo ' 1 ; 1 ; o f illy ---o ' good' s ' and be was sent to Wks P 4)4 1 0 r i i ht i.' goads; hut I ax your Worship whether be lied Mr. Hau.s.—Crtainly not. -1 i with lir Defendaut--Well, then, he did, and he de " ee l' night, and I heard of it while I Ivo in ' 'i t , - „ t i viii I swore I would --- well whop him wheo I gi ) .. : l i t ojok meeting him last night, I gave him a bellyful' ; a" I carved hitn right. into year Mr. HALLS--But you must not take the la own hands. ~,,,jo and P t !' Defendant—The law took me into i ts ". — ,ete ' rSo' the me in '' quid;" se, at all events, 1 PIN compliment. 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