The Sun. — London, England, 1821-05-28 00:00:00

- CLOSE BOROUGHS. In 1819 Mr. WlLLt.tim WlLLlAMSbiotight in a 13111 to preventoccasionality in ClOse norouglis - ; 'in other words, to render it a STATU,TABLR offence to manufacture votes in these places an the - eve of an election. The . public will probably, re collect that this 13111 was lost.on the second read ; _ utider circumstances upon which it is not, at present, necessary to comment ; but since then the necessit y of preventing in future occasionality, not only at Elections, but even at County Meet ings, has been acknowledged by the Legislature. and Pis MAJ'EsTY's first Minister is reported to haze declared in Parliament on the discussion of • the Seditious Meeting's Bill in 1819, that he would support any measure which might be brought in to destroy occasionality at _Elections. In this last-mentioned Bill it is enacted / that a Freeholder residing in one'county, but having 'an estate in another, shall not be allowed to at, tend any . meeting of Freeholders within it, until he has been-in possession of such estate 'twelve InOnths, and which must be of the 'annual value "of 501. We are therefore glad to find that Mr. WILLIAms has brought in a similar Bill this SeS shin, but confining it to freehold boroughs, con seqnence we suppose, of the suggestion thrown - out in 1819 by Mr. 4 l). GILBERT, who said that -if the Bill did not extend to burgage tenure . boroughs, he should support it. For 'ourselves, we see no reason whatever for any exception of this nature , but think that the rule'of election should be general and uniform in all places.— To bring the subject back to' the recollection of °Ur readers, we again insert the observations that -we submitted to them in 1819 on this measure, and - which Mr. Jonlx NtenoLL, the late Member of Parliament, has so admirably treated upon in his recent interesting and popular work, which made its appearance in the autumn of last year : " The professed intention and °Mims design of this Bill is to prevent the abuses which at present prevail in those boroughs and towns where the right of voting is in freeholders either re slant or not, and where for the purposes of election new free holders are created up to, and sometimes after, the issuing of the writs for such election. It would be a waste of time and of labour to shew that such practices do exist and have long, existed. Their prevalenceis proved by numerous instances, ancient and modern, recorded in. the Journals of the House ; and the personal knowledge and information of.. every Member must furnish satisfactory testi mony to their minds without the statement of particular facts, or recurrence to recent instances. It is not the object of this Bill to introduce any innovation in principle, to invalidate any charter or prescription, or to destroy - .any established right. It makes no attempt at general reform, yr the subversion of any known or established franchise, but -has for its aim and end the simple and satisfactory design of _malting the rule of election more perfect, and more consonant to general principle, by remosing one dangerous and invidious anomaly, which enables the proprietors of freeholds in certain parts of England to create voters for OCCASIONAL purposes, by means which have at all times been declared to be contrary to law ; and have been by repeated Acts of Parliament, particu larly by some of those which are referred to in the preamble to the present Bill, guarded against with all the vigil;nce of the Legislature, and all the power of the law. It proposes to ef l'ect this beneficial object by requiring the voters in towns and boroughs to take an oath, previous to their voting, similar in every respect to that . imposed by the 18 G ee . 11. e. s. 1., Auld 19 Gee. 11. c. 28. s. 1. on electors of Members of Parlia ment for counties, and for cities and towns which are counties of themselves, except that the oath prescribed by the present Bill does not specify the value of the freehold, and consequently Jthe right of voting in the Boroughs and Towns to which this - Bill applies will remain - unchanged and unaltered. Upon principle, nothing could be more absurd than to state 'that in a place, where by charter or by custom certain persons 'qualified in a prescribed manner are entitled to select an indi vidual to represent the community in the House of Commons, some person or persons, possessing a l a rg e s h are o f th a t w hi c h constitutes the qualification, may by a mere colourable or pre tended distribution of it among friends or dependants, taken for the purpose without any beneficial interest or title whatever, over-rule and cleStroy the will and franchise of others wlao have a real, permanent, and incontestable interest and possession ; and who, by every rule of law, of justice, and of common sense, ought to return the representative. It is not more unjust, nor more destructive of the principles of the Constitution to,pro pose that numbers, without regard to property, shall return the Members to Parliament; than that property shall be so used as, by. creating fictitious: or occasional numbers, to- annul the rights of these who, although duly qualified to vote, have, not such a -redundant property as will enable them at a given moment to qualify great numbers, -or such an-influence as, if they s ho u ld qualify them,would make them certain that such persons would conform to their wishes. - - If the only advantage to be'gained by the present Bill were • the' establishment of an uniform system, and the placing of all rights on an equal footing, such an advantage is of very high ',importance, especially in a community where all, men reason on their rights, and where,every departure from the general sys , tein, or the declared law, is viewed as an attempt to commit some wrong, or to invade the liberties and rights of the subject. But in the present case the evils are not imaginary, nor the wrongs speeulative. It is known that the making of occasional and fraudulent votes to support a particular person, or to answer a present purpose, has been the source of much real injustice; and, if it has not been, in all particulars, repressed by Parlia ment, it has not been because the law was unknown or not suf ficiently declared, but because in all attempts . at correcting abuses or establishingsystems, it has been found that the ear 'iest attempts were defective, and -that the first enactments re. quired frequent alterations and additions before the views of the Legislature could he. fully accomplished. Aefore. tbe Grenville Act had fixed the practice of Parliament an contestCd elections on the basis of purity and. correctness, and even - before the Ravolinion had established the general principles of representation„ : the law Was strongly and clearly expressed against the making of occasional rotes in any place s and under any' form, ;',for the purpose of giving ascendancy to any individual or part} in elections, whether it were of Member of Parliament or to - any situation Of credit and trust. Conse quently, the various enactments relating to the splitting of free ll'Oldsi.andlcir the prevention of fraud - and peeasionality,"Whicfi wssed 'trona : the Revolution to our own times, were : never con sidered as privations or undue restrictions, but Merely as the efforts of wisdom -and integrity, matured by expenence, to bring back the system' to the state of purity in which the law had placed it, and in which alone it could be contemplated with pi?as.sure'aiul respect. . ' In many cages connected Withthe right of voting, on' all nib jests, thwPpiniOn of the Legislature has been most decisively /expressed. Ithaa been so in all the statutes already alluded to ; - inthat Which'regulated the votes in the General CoUrts of the East India Company, where not only an additional qualification in value of stock, but A CERTAIN TERM OF POSSESSION, was required and even in many matters of less apparent import.. ince; With respect to. the making of occasional votes for towns and borolaihs,Sor the purposes of Parliamentary Elections, the law was' most clearly and ably expressed beforeihe Revolution by the theriChief Justice, Sir Francis Pemberton, - iii a case, the repart of Which was drawn up by the great Lord. Somers, and was published in the collection of Tracts whichhearatis name That was an action brought by Denzil OnSlaw, Esii. against Rapley, thereturning officer of the labrotigh of Hasle.: mere; foes false return. It-was tried at the Kingston AssizeS; in. July, 1681. Among the facts proved on :the part of the plaintiff, it 'appeared some of the voters - were nth. real burgage tenants, and that if any Conveyances had been made `to ..them of liurgagelands, they were-lately made, and fraudulendir con - - bind to make' votesagainst an election. Two had-been - ma d e after the tegte of dip Parliament -writ, and three others twan swer an election purpose five years before. In the of these qualifications, several instances of gross contrivance were shewn, and the effect-was aided, byproving that ten or twelve such conveyances had been made for the purposes of a former election; 'by the patron of the borough, and had been given up .to bin Latter the election' was: over. This evidence making the impression on the Court which it was so wail calculated to produce, the Recorder of the borough, Who swag of eotinSerfor. . the defendant, had the imprudence to * In the first edition in Vol. I. p. 374 ; in the late edition by Walter Scott, in Vol. VIII. p. 270. • - • justify the proceedings, and' to 'say, it was part of the Consti tution of our Government to, do so. "At this," says the Learned Reporter,." t;te Court,seemed,yery angry, anti won dered that any one, eispeB4y of the gown, should say 'so; - and said, Do your think our GoVerinifeirt no better COnstitu tiOu ?" . .With which-the gentleman not being satisfied, he was told by the • Court, he,deserved to be taken netice of for say ing so, and that :helteerfied to-have advised the thing done." Respecting the inakintof fictitious votes at-former elections, the patron of the borough attempted,to say something the way of excuse, but -the Court-toil him " It was too bad to be excused:" Under the direction of tilt Learned Judge, a verdict was given for the plaintiff: and in - the course of the evidence, the C;ourt having observed one individual to be so active and busy 'in the cause as to kayo no doubt' of his being an instrument in the illegal transactions which were disclosed, compelled him to give sureties to appear in the following term, to answer to an information-for a misdemeanour, and bound over .111 r: Onslow to preseeute This case the Learned Reporter justly ehtitles " a memor able ease." During the whole trial, he says, the cause was managed with great care and circumspection, the Court declar ing it was of great weight ; as great as any that ever - came there to be tried. " The Court," he adds, " had great reason to shew an ex traordinary abhorrency of such practices, for that the mischief is grown almost general, and to - rectify and punish which abuses the. Housz_of Commons in, every Parliament are com pelled to pass more than half their time."—" But because," he continues, " here is by statute law no particular provision made against such practices, many by sordid means have endeavoured to perplex elections and debauch parliaments, and_ think them selves not punishable for it. This case and the reason of it will better inform them, that by the rule of the common law an offepce .of this nature is punishable ; for will any man think that small frauds, cheats, and practices should undergo a cen sure in the 'ordinary:Courts :of' Justice, and not such great violations of - truth and honestpiti 'matters of the greatest mo-. ment ?". . • ,• Such were, the declarations of the law, and ,the reflections arising froth theni, at a p er i o d w hen th e r u le of the Constitution was. not perfectly fixed; and whenathe independence of the Judges was not secured by making them irremoveable while they should conduct themselves properly. Since that period, .none of. the doctrines thus laid down and promulgated have been oyer-rided, or even contro v e r t e d i n de , , ate ; but in practice they . are set at bought at every election.— The difficulties •and disadvantages, under which a plaintiff or prosecutor must lie who should institute a suit for any of these mal-piactices, deter them from going into 'Courts ; while the patrons of boroughs, unawed by declarations which impunity teaches them to disregard, and encouraged perhaps by the acci-, dental omission of the particular right of voting pointed at .in the present Bill, have gone on violating the law, and deriding its prohibitions. - The present Bill, therefore, is framed for the purpose of giv ing effect to the law as declared, not by Sir Francis Pemberton alone, but by many other great men on the Bench, and in and out of Parliament, since his time;—for the purpose of bringing the practice of the law of elections to that state of uniformity in' which all reasoning men delight, and in which alone true jus tice can be found ;—and for the purpose of 'repressing abuses too notorious to be denied, a nd too gross t o b e 'defended." BRITISH LITERATURE. The CORONATION.—OBSERVATIONS on the PUB LIC LIFE of the KING. By GEORGE CROLY, .This.pamphlet is not the production of an or dinary mind. It is Characterised by intellectual energy, political acumen, extensive 'knowledge, and fervent piety. ,The author takes a brief but emphatic view of the history of this country, from the commencement of the late KING'S reign to the, present period.. Ile examines the conduct of OPPOSITION from the origin, and during the whole • - • t:4; the manner of the REotscy, and noton.y manner in which the PRINCE REGENT treated his, old-political connexions,but proves that he acted to wards them with such liberality that if they had. really been animated by the genuine spirit. .of patriotism, they might have .formed part of his ad ministration. In this examination he strilingjy, evinces the political imbecility and prophetic ,rashness of Earl G[tY and Lord EttsKINE. lle 'places the characterofour late venerable Monarch in the fairest light,And justly bestows the warmest eulogiums on his conduct as a Sovereign and a Man. The patriotic efforts of the present KING, when Prince of WALEs,' to obtain an effective military command while we 'were threatened with a French invasion, is shewn to be in the highest degree honourable to the Royal Character. The unfortunate subject of the QUEEN is touched with great delicaty. In short, the Pamphlet forms 'a condensation of the histOry'of this Country from the beginning of the ,reign or our late revered Monarch. The only omission which we regret is that, though- the author justly commendS the system adopted by the present AdminiStrationin order to accomplish the deli'verance of. Europe, he takes no notice of our late illustrious States man. Mr. Prit, to whom Europe is indebted for that system, and the blessings which have at tended it. It would have been peculiarly grati fying to us to have found in the work a due tri bute to that pure and enlightened Minister, that we might have inserted it this day, the anniver sary of his birth, which ought to be celebrated by - every friend to our country and mankind. — We subjoin the peroration to this masterly work, as it relates to the au gus t c eremony which ap proaches, the most awful that a' nation can wit ness—theratification of a solemn compact be tween the Sovereign and the People :-- " The world may no more see a day of vicissitude like ours ; the Imperial Usurper, seated in full. dominion, calling up -and embodying from the bright and the obscure, with,* power of a necromancer, every Malignant essence of cur nature, casting the earth into darkness, and binding in inexorable chains :the noble and - the wise, the loyal and the brave ; and in a mome n t undone r =the whole fabric of his, tyranny shattered -and :diS solved, as if shot thrbugh by the 'Jays of the sun ; the prisoners loosed,—the master bound,- andlhiS unhallowed pomp, the bar- ' bafic pearl and gold of, his evil,thronci stricken into the worth lessness of which it was inade " History will turn-froin die minute impressions of- the na tional mind 'to the impulse which the -king's government 'hai3 administered to England and - to Europe.' When we shall have been gathered to the grave, and the petty shades and stains of party shall have disappeared, like - the' outlines of the horizon from. the 'face .of -an ascending 30n; ,flistory will contemplate with wonder and thanksgiving the order that has been created in the general system—the stately power by ,which it has been sustained—the glory• Which our-glory has kindled: " This is the attestation of posterity. It will see England standing on the summit of human sovereignty ;—the represen tative of a beneficent Providence, holding the most powerful in fluence .ever given to a nation, by that holiest and gentlest te nure of the-affections and interests of- the world;—the king doms of the earth, strong, not in her weakness, but in her strength ; the law of her dominion, like the announcement that proclaimed the great advent of religion, "-Glory to God in the. highest, and peace and good-will -to men." They will remember at what moment this illustrious elevation was reached ; and without asking through what delays and strug gles—through what unkindliness of the elements, or what un grateful caprices of man, her-steps at length surmounted the height ; they will think of the hand by whose guidance, under Heaven, she was led resolutely up to universal empire. " It is with feelings established on those solid grounds, that the nation will worthily adv a nce . to th e a lt ar , whre their Sovereign is - now to receive his ,Crown. There' even may be, to our generation, something in - the rite higher than the venerable custom of the State. The crowning of the King bis the - pledge of the King to the people, and of both to the Laws ;—it' is the crowning - of the Constitution ! The nature of that , Englishman :be hard and unthankful, who can look upon the ceremony, in all its splendid com binations to the eye arid mind,—its multitude of the illus trious- by. birth, and wisdom, anti Valour, assembled in the midst of all that the world .can display of magnificence ; its Ri tual, bequeathed through, a thousand years,--,its gorgeous em blemS and memorials of. regal prowess and grandeur,—the whole august consecration of the laWs and rights of' England, without rejoicing in what has been preserved, and lifting his thoughts to that sleephss, supreme'Providence,. which, from the Clouds and darkness of the world's trial, has held the.shield over our Cause and our-Constitution." roftEr9N INTELLIGENCE. tRENtif VAT'ERS.. PARIS, MAY 24.—Letters from Laybach an nounce that the E m p eror o f ItassiaNt that city on the 14th, to return to Petersbuoh, passing through Bada, in rfungary',*.vd Watsaw,. lis Majesty the Emperor of A.ust rt i al s o intended to leave Laybach immediately, to return to Vienna. Private letters from Spain state, that Merino has been taken; his own - accomplices delivered him to General Empecinado. The accounts from. Constantinople and Bucha rest for some days past are involved in obscurity. The reports which a Journal spreads concerning the Morea may be true, but at least the accounts given are full of exaggerations and evident ab surdities. We doubt the truth of the reported condemnation and execution of General Elio. Yesterday the President and a Deputation of the Chamber of Deputies presented to the KiHg the projet relative to the Clergy, adopted in the sitting of Monday. His Majesty afterwards held a Council of Ministers. Letters from Stockholm state, that the King o Sweden is seriously indisposed. The twelve places which are to have Archbi. shops, or Bishops, are—Rheims, Sens, A lby, Beau vais,, Chartres, Rodez, Verdun, Tarbes, Lucon, Le Puy, Belley, and Perpignan. MADRID, MAY 18.—His Majesty has signified to the Cortes, by the Minister of War,' that on account of the important affairs now before them, the decision of which is essential to the interest of, the nation, his Majesty, using the powers . vested in him by the Constitution, declares the Session prolonged for one month. A letter from Cattora, of Ist May, states, that the whole Peleponnesus has thrown off the Turkish - yoke, and that there has been a bloody battle near Ampli, between the Greeks and the Turks, in which both parties fought with despe rate valour ; the Greeks were, completelrvicto-, rious ; their loss amou n t e d to 800 men , an d th a t of the Turks to 6000. A Greek woman, widow of a person of distinc tion who was beheaded at Constantinople, ac companied by her only son, and by her relations and friends, armed at her expence, attacked the citadel of Ampli, or Napoli de Romania, by sea, and made herself mistress of it, while three le gions of cavalry advanced by land and occupied the town, after having defeated the Turks with great slaughter. Another battle, equally despe rate, and with the suite success to the Greeks, is stated to have taken place in the beautiful valley of Tempe. A letter from Constantinople, of 25th April, gives a dreadful picture of the state of that ca pital.. The insurrection of the Archipelago is. confirmed. The Porte is particularly alarmed at that in Candia. The news of the deposition of the Grand Vi zier is confirmed. Benderli. Ali Paella is ap pointed his successor, his duties being performed ,until'his arrival in the capital from some of,the Eastern provinces by his Kaimakan, Elhabsch- Salih-Pacha, to whom the Sultan has written a comp limen to ry,letter. VIENNA, MAY 12:-.-The isle of Candia has fallen into the poiver' of the Greeks, who haie driven away the Turks, and made themselves masters of all the forts that defended it. TURIN,' MAY 15.—The Royal Delegation charged with investigating the conduct of .the persons implicated in the insurrection, has order ed the competent authorities to place under' se questration the property . of certain individuals, against whom it has been thought proper to Com 'mence criminal proceedings. The list contains the names of 41 individuals, including the. Che valier Ansaldi, the Vyince of Cistena, Dalpozza, and others who took an active part in the Revo-1 lution. It is remarked that the list-does not con tain the names of the greater part of the Mem- • hers of the Junta. [PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.] MADRID, MAY 14.—A conspiracy, lately dis covered at Barcelona, has furnished the Govern ment with important and extensive information on all those Which have hitherto been discovered. A foreign General in the service of Spain was at the 'head of it : he went to Barcelona disguised as a monk,. but ,was discovered; yet the Magis trates would not arrest him, and he succeeded in escaping to France. It seems that a large ma gazine of arms was discovered (15,000 muskets, says one account), which were to be distributed on the day appointed for the execution of the plot. The regiment 'Royal Alexander, one of the most devoted to the , new system, is to be in gar rison 'at Vittoria, where the Military Tribunal sits which tries the prisoners taken at Salvatierra. In s, • MAY 18.—PriVate letters ; state that General Elio, formerly Military Governor at Va lencia, who has been long confined in the prison of that city at Vittoria, four of the Chiefs of Sal vatierra, the Major of that town, and two I,'Ac clesiastics., have also been condemned to death. SPANISH' PAPERS. MADRID, MAY 12.—1 t is confidently asserted this evening, that Senor Don Pedro Sainz de Baranda has been nominated Political Chief of Madrid; and the Marquess de Casa Thug° to the post of Ambassador from Spain to the court of Paris. Accounts from Vittoria of the Bth May say, that;the troops of the local militia of that city continue: to scour the province since the affair of Salvatierra, in pursuit of the rebels there dis persed, met with some of them near. Valpucsta, of whoin they killed two and took seven,' whom they have brought here badly wounded, especially; their Chief, the Clergyman of Pipaon. They next went to disperse and clear the country of this rabble who became robbers; the Catalonians, as well .as the Cavalry del Infante, and the national militia, have taken the field again. The preparatory steps to try the rebels of Salvatierra and others before the military tribunal are proceeding with great activity, • In the sitting of the Cortes on the 11th, the Secretary of the' Home Department gave an account of the arrests, which at the petition of various individuals bad been *made in several - great cities, of persons considered as disaffected to - the new system:— The Government, he said, was sensibly afflicted at the repeti tionof disorder, which injured the _present system in the'esteem of. Foreign nations,' and, tended to increase the internal. enemies of the Constitution, and that it had taken all means to prevent the:future violation of the law. HAMBURGII PAPERS. HANOVER, MAY 18.—Aceording to the,.accounts received here from London .by the la6tlnail, his Majesty our King will arrive here, if the plan of his journey is not changed, on .- the 22d August, by ; the .way,of , Spa and Homburg. :Very great improVements are makingin the Court Theatre against his. Ma jesty's arrival, so that the-house will be closed fora consider-. able time. •Th,e great box, apposite the stage is fitting up for ,bis Majesty;, with splendid decorations,ordered fibm Paris:''The _Managers are in treaty with some of the most distinguished performers of the German The;atres.for the time of his- Majesty's PETERSBunGIN MAY 9,,---Various changes of position are ta:dng plaee - arnong,:iitiflroowi in - the southern piervmees ofthe empire. The Imperial" Guards march from-this city- in a foy: days, unless counter orders should arrive. The head-quarters will be at Witepsk. NVARSAW, MAY 11.—We 'can now state for certain, Ikiks. our Gazette, that his 14.ajcsty the Ijin )eror will arrive here about lee 20th.. . . LITH tra:.t 'STAY 4.—The M Hof Crearal geken; which has . been hitherto . on the Dnieper, near Mohilew, has gone to the South, and will probably march to Bessarabia, on the fron tiers of Moldavia.... CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 19.—The rage of the Turks against the. Greeks here is beyond all conception. The Govern ment findS . it impossible to restrain ihe people. The most blood-thirsty are the Asiatic troops, who come .by forced marches, and are guilty of unbounded cruelties to the Greek inhabitants. They plunder, murder, and drag away the women and girls, and nobody is able to check their daily increasing disorder. HAmnuncii, MAY 22.—Letters from Jassy, from an au thentic source, up td the 23d of April, confirm the intelligence that the Greeks were advanced beyond the Danube. News had also been received, that Greek Pirates had, taken in the Archipeloga, an English ship bound from Odessa to Liver pool, with .a cargo of tallow, and demanded 100,000 piastres for the ransom ; a proceeding which sufficiently shews the ra pacious character of their enterprise. A report was in circula tion at Cracow, on the 16th May, that there had been a great massacre at Constantinople ' • . and at 'Warsaw it was reportedpn the Bth, that Ypsilanti had fled to Malta with the treasure col lected by the Greeks. ' PARLIAMENTARY- PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS. • - NOTICES of MOTIONS, atutOIIDERS of the DAY which now stand in the Order Book of the House of Commons, for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday next. ORDERS OF THE DAY, TUESDAY,. MAY 29. 1. Corn Average Bill ;•+--Committee.: 2. Spoiled Stamps, &c. Bill ;—Further Consideratipn of Report. ~Restoration of King. Charles the Second. NOTICES OF MOTIONS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30. . ~ 1. Mr. Michael - Angelo Tayfor,--Bill for making such an alteration in the mode of aihninistering Justice in the Court or Chancery, and in the. Appellant Jurisdiction, as shall give more effectual relief to the Suibit: ' 2. Mr. Stuart Wortley,—Committee to'' consider of an Ad dress for the payment of certain . Creditors of Mr. Christie Bur- • ton. for loss occasioned to them by the Orders of the House of Commons, in support of its Privileges. 3. Mr. illaberly,—To reduce Interest paid on Exchequer Bills to Bank of Ireland. 4. Mr. Hume,--Returns relating; to the• lonian Islands. 5. General Hart,—Bill to permit the Commissioners of Ex cise in Ireland to license small Distilleries, according to the Re port made to than by Officers appointed to superintend the ex periments car *ed - on at Carrickfergus. iyinT;lLEseeDllfd. Reading. . . • 1. 111-treat ent of Horses • 2. Metro pas Police Bill ;—Committee. z 3. Gamekeepers Appointment Bill ;:—Committee. 4. Coals Drawbacks Bill ;:—Thirit Reading. 5. Assessed Taxes Composition Bill ;—Committee. • 6. Audit of Aecounts Bill; Secoltd Redding. 7. Grampound Disfranchisement Bill ;—Lords' Amend . 'tents to be eonSidered. - • • 8. Seamens' Wages Bill ;.—Third Reading. 9. Woollen Trade Regulation Bill ;--Second Reading. • - NOTICE OP MOTION, THURSDAY, MAY 31. Mr. Grey Bennet,--13ill for better securing the Independence . of Parliament. ouriEns OF TIIE DAY. 1. Justices of the Peace Bill ;-Second Reading. —:P u 2. Porgery Punishm e nt Miti ga ti on Bill ;rther Consi deration of Report. 3. Dwelling House Robbery Bill;—Committee. 4. Navigable Rivers Robbery Billi—Committee. ORDERS OF THE DAY, FRIDAY, JUNE 1. 1. Land Tax Commissioners Names Bill ;—Committee. 2. Vagrant Laws Amendment Bill ;—Second Reading. • • • NOTICE"OI,3tOTION. Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer,—Budget. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE, KEPT AT STONEHOUSE, DEVONSHIRE. Month ,Barom. Ther. . Rain Wind, Weather, &c. and Du. 10 A. M. 10a. it. 1821. Inches. - inches. May 18 30.13 58 3 0.072 N. moderate and fine 19 30.31 62 0.134 E.&S. do. 20 30.22 52 SE.&E. gale, cloudy 21 30.12 55 - SE. strong gale, dear 22 30.00 52 NE. do. squally 23 29.73 50 0.240 Do. do. do. 24 30.12 58 0.056 Do. moderate and fine PRICE 01 THIS ,DAY AT STOCKS ELVE OCLOCK. 3 per Cent. Red ' 75i 5 per Cent. Navy Ann..:. 110 3 per Cent. Cons 76L 7ri 1104 110 3,i pei Cent. B s :} Bank Long Ann....19k 1-16th 4 per Cent 93 93t Excheq. Bills. India Bonds ' 40s. I Cons. for Opening 76aio HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. .Horning 0 minutes after 0. !Evening, .25 minutes after 12. THE SUN. SOREIU QUIS. DICERS FALSUM AUDE.47?: LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 28 5 1821. The report of the Greeks. having obtained some advantage over the Turks in the Morea is confirmed by- advices from Cattaro, which state the success of the Greeks to be more deci sive than we before had reason to believe. The whole Peleponuesus has thrown off the Turkish yoke ; and a •Greek woman, widow of a person of distinction who was beheaded at Constantinople, accompanied by her only son and by leer relations and friends, armed at her expence, said to have attacked the citadel ,of Ampii, or Napoli di Romana y sea, and made lieNelf mistress of it. Let' the Greeks be animated by the same spirit of cou rage and heroism; need not despair of their ultimate independetice. There is`no doubt of the army of YPSILANTI having advanced be yond the Danube ; and it. is added, that scarcely a day passes hut it is joined by some European officers, who are instantly engaged in giving it a mote regular and imposing organization. Candia has fallen into the power of the Greeks, the pos session of which will insure the independence of the Archipelago, which was stated in the last accounts to have risen against the Turks. Private letters from Madrid state that MERINO has been delivered up by his own accomplices, and that the interior of Spain is becoming more tranquil. FRENCH FUNDS. May 23, Five per Cents. Bank Stock ~, 1582 f. --c. May 24, Five per Cents. A Lisbon Mail to the 14th inst. arrived this day. The principal contents follow : ‘‘ Li , ,eqw ; MAY s.—The Regency of the Kingdom, • in the name of the King, Don John VI., gives notice, that the General; Extraor. ' Binary, and Constituent Cortes of the Portuguese Nation have decreed as follows.,:— ' 11 CG T he Cortes, consid er i ng ke ohlig 1 ri . H of cernetiting more and more. e unimi o£ oi• \ J-.. tligilese of Nth IlemiAke tile ,by meanto t it \ political interests, and considering further,• that no citizen can acquire the sublime character of Deputy to the Cortes, unless it be conferred' on: ,him by the votes of his constituents, hi whom the Sovereignty essentially resides declare and decree as follows : cc Ist—All those Governments shall be cOn sidered as legitimate which are . established, or shall be established in the Transmarine Poi4l-• guese provinces, and the adjacent islands, to em brace the sacred cause of the political regenera tion of the Portuguese nation, and all those-per sons shall be declared to have deserved welt of their country, who have meditated, planned, and executed this regeneration.—(The other articles contain directions for the election of Deputies, and promises ,of assistance to consolidate the union the Transmarine - Provitices with the Mother Country.) " The Diaria of to-day contains an . -invitation to all good and loyal Portuguese to contribute, as far as lies in their power; by Voluntary dona tions',lo defray the expellees which Will he occa sioned by the rejoicings on ac.count Of the ac ceptance of the Constitution by- hit Majesty, and thereby the' arrival of his Majesty and the . Royal Family. {Here follow Resolutions addressed to:his jesty,: expressive of attachment; adverting to the events which, had taken place, and the confidence of the nation on the uprightness of • hi&tMajesty, and .the happiness which they' feel idhis assent to the new arrangements Th. " The Address concludes with assurances that the Cortes' proceed with assiduity in: their hours, and 'with wishes for his Majesty's health and happiness. ,-• " Dated Lisbon, from the Palace of the Cortes, • • 9th of :flay, 1821.",, As we have already expressed our opinions respecting. the CONSTITUTIONAL AS iOCIATION", we do not think it necessary to say any thing more on ,the subject,:hut, through the medium of, our Daily Extracts from the London Journals,. wo present the opinions of the respective Editorg, that our Readers may form Their own j6qgmen/- on the nature and tendency of the. Institution, • COURT OF KING'S BENCH-(THIS DAV). THE KING V. JOHN .lIUNT. . This defendant being called on, he appear ed before the Court, when the CHIEF JUSTIGg asked the SOLICITOR-GY.NKR AL • if he had, any thing to move?. SOLICITOII-GENERAL immediately moved the judgment of the. Court on the defendant for a libel, published in The Examiner newspaper' of the 24th of July last. The CHIEF JUiTICE then read the notes of the trial and the declaration, when Mr. Hunt. ad dressed the Court at great length. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL then replied, in ag grav‘ation of punishment. Mr. Justice BAILEY then delivered tbe judg ment of the Court on the defendant, adjudging him to twelvemonths' imprisonment in the House of'Corr ction, Coldbath-fields, and to find sure ties to keep the peace for three years, himself in 5001., and two sureties in 250/. , REPORTED ILLNESS OF BUONIPARTE.—(Frora the Hampshire Tclegraph.—Sunday The Maly Anne, YOUNG, from Batavia to Lan don, passed the Isle of Wight lost night ;' some of her passengers landed here this morning, and state they left St. Helena 56 days since, and on the day they sailed, BuoNApAnTE, who had heeri seriously ill for some days, had, most unexpected ly, sent for Sir HUDSON Lowt, the - Governoff and his dissolution was not expected to he far distant. _ The following information`, which, if correct, is important, reached t o w n on S a t ur d ay: - " -- ST. PF.TEI{STIURGH, MAY I.—By letters re ce ived tbic day from Constantmople, we are infortned, that in consequencc of the manifestos issued by both of the Emperors, disapproving, mutually of the actions of Ypsil an ti, comp l ete tranquillity )3,3('' been restored everywhere." Ills Majesty's yacht the Royal Gebrgo fitting in Portsmouth harbour for his. M.t.ksii''s . reception with all possible haste. The altera tions hi the apartments have been completed, and they are now Yesterday the LORD CitANcEr,r,ott. had a n an dience of the Kiso---Satiirday,'CoUnt MuNsTEt; 'had an - audience of the KING. His. MAJESTY, has been graciously pleased t° signify to Sir W. W. WYNN, Bart. his intention honouring him with a• visit at Wynn Stay."" (Shi-czos bury Paper.) 'Yesterday. Divine Service was performed the KING'S Palace, Pall Mall, by . the Rev. F. - NV . ' BLOMBERG and the Rev. Dr. STANIER i :Cr„tRfc g• —The Duke of York, the Duke and Duches s of Clarence, and the Princess Augusta, attende d Divine Service at the Chapel Royal.--LYesterdal PrinCq.Leopold, accompanied by, Colonel M; : denbrokei attend e d DivinceService at -St. Mail' Chapel, Waterloo-place.—The Duchess of GO_ ° : cester, the Princess Augusta. and the Print' s " Sophia, visited th e D u k e and 6uchess of Ciare!c ° yesterday.—Yesterday the Duke and Duclie ss t of Clarence visited the Duchess of "Kent, a her residence in the King's Palace ; Kensingtoo. - j The Duke and Duchess of Gl ouces t er . an d 1 -: ti Princess Sophia Matilda dined yesterday the Princess. Augusta.—Yesterday Prince pold visited the Princess Sophia at her hooseke Connaught-place,—Saturday morning- the D ud e -and Duchess of Clarence, accompan i e d' 1)7 -' Princes's Augusta, left tow n f or B u shy Park „ Windsor. In, the evening .their Royal 0 0 nesses returned. to • London.--Prince Le°l' t dined with Sir Abrahatallunie on SaturdaY) a - his house in Ilill.street... The Cumberland packet sail e d on Friday fro nt Dower :for Calais with. Lord and Lady M INI d , and-.their beautiful y.aung. family;:: b' ar. They had three carriages itl•their