The Sun. — London, England, 1814-03-14 00:00:00

une net, ►i a b a via ,cl-42.41 eiv i . 13 10 2 1(11 oi lizl 11lei n og• iti goo ° ,31 )ie -' clore I.l oe 1 1 .00 oot li eti l# : re Qt' "les, but Ire are assured that no such intent . elleellas reached • • . . r aaltiplicit y o f private letters from Earls g've atin'ineholy account of the *a n t , o f p rov i s ions, all netarticles in tha(capital, and of the rent . essary ra t gloom which prevails among the people. On, • —ll ium lIP S be as lop: , as -251; it' is. no*ltt)out ia • 'i Per cent. better. 11;, I n t r - rejoice to see the suggestion we threw out SU :q of Saturday for the consideration• of 1 3y ri4:l°°lt EXCHANGE so promptl- y acted upon Itrolitoo, whOse moti o n for the appro c, l t ` ° ' of the profits, accruing to the frauclulent,- , as 14ritable purpoSes, does him infinite honout,f k adoption twill b e extreme l y cre di ta hlF,tothe, L °t '' Ex change. W e trust t hi s b o d y o f me n w ill nand w h at we stated, that . the Brokers )ete ti as the Agents of the Swindlers are not 1;4,1/ . n uswera4l e to their Employers for the . t(l )4 ' e ut of the sums thus - nefariously obtain tb" t e who were - duped by the ini in"' As honest men, t h ere f ore, a ll t h ey t ) , " s ie is a n authority under which they resist the application for such payment tp/ s the imp u t at i on o f p rocee ding upon ti 11 In9 tit'es., and refusing the demand that le! Migh Pt tit the money' in their own • NA 'B ' This authority, the Stock •Exchange, is , eer the power o f e xpulsion over its .imately eommembers, tort . -1 )141 1 ., petent to furnish. Their . litt ee has p u bli s h e d the names of the sus t.cted Parties ; i n a ddition t o this let them no tolVeSstS. FEARN, tiiTCHIN, SMAJ.k.BoNE, and c K over the differences that if they pay Pp k a " e d from the Sales of the 21st to their that they shall 'be expelled from • .e spo ei -xm , :ange, and directing them ( on th e . 4 , 11 118lbility -of the Exchange) to pay the b°l'nt into the Bank of England, to be applied ereafter may seem adviseible. When this is We differ, and we do so "with reluctance, thin t he hi; proposed by Mr. RIC AR D O . We lt is too muc h to call OW the persons sus tteted, to prove their innocence before wn . they can tei ei ve th e i r O funds. This would be pro ijol'ng too strongly and de c id e dly on a presunz to of guilt. Th e StOck Exchange ought rather tri.pqrsue its course, 'and, a s t h e A ccuser , substan 4iite its charge against whom it can, and those ' s h . e, who. ev er OR -7 flr , ty be, - might to be deprived tt'l't henefits of their own frauds. This is more intlylet to the spi r i t o f justice than the t/e np , 41 ' 14 1 mode of potting it to the accused to w i ate his innocen ce . • t o ' if I ' Le t he are 'Ton this- suhje c t, we take leave l it) at e with reference to Lord CoCITRANE, that `vever to unwis e , (f o oli s h and misguided we will. Y), .. t - - ''e.have ev er con4idered him in having any t o rirle • eti ° l l with t h e rotten Party,in politics, and t i t weve r we must di sa pp rove o f p erson s in his lia ock, ti° n of life, m i x i ng w i t h G am bl ers i n the , the y ' Yet his deposition has sati.fied our minds .is kudticss of th e s t a i n o f t hi s infamons ,: s . -Lord CoCHRANE is a brave and dis t; Britkh'Officer. Il e canno t b ut h o ld ,x'‘ls honour in higher estimation that life itself. lat h uliour has never b een impeached in public or pi m in P r ivate, ar d when sub a M:in gives such a see for his veracity, we are not, Cannot be, ePtical EliC.:ll;h to doubt his faith. Of the conduct of Mr. Coca RANE JOHNSTONE t " BUTT who; it is reported, is Secre ; n rY t to Si r FRANCIS - RunJOETT, and professed 'to 1 e some ' Of his p u r c ha ses f or t h e llonnurable iq 44The t), they too ha ve d en i e d a ll part i c i pat i on tlie fr aild, and certainly taken the most ob.- te n " Meth o d of bringing their guiltlessness to the v st ) bY' dir ect i ng the i r Solicitors to carry the : f l i e b efore th e tr ib unal of justice. There is no 'ace ; beyond - what is attached to gambling of 'erY de scription, in the mere sale or purchase of tt ' i t to any amount, and if these Gentlemen _ subt t autiate their assertions of being utterly uncon :naected Wi t h the propagators of the fabricated "vs ' they will have a right to complain of hay- . !beeirlielil up to unmerited odium. •cf„ t he,St oc k E xchange, however, appears to have „ .str strong grounds for their proceedin g : an d t o s''"ve done what became them to remove the re v ° aelt from their own door. Si ne . . e writin tt g the a b ove , we have received a in er, dated thi s d ay, ' from Mr. C. JoutisToNz, 4 Preceding coluthn. • le Staffordshire Mercury of the sth instant has accidentally fallen into our hand, con tai ati account of it Meeting held on the pre- Z di ng 'Mond a y at the Shi re H a ll , to celebrate the "'nory of Mr. Fox, upon Avhich we feel our 3elves irresistibly impelled to make a few observa ti°n3. We think obrselves, however, bound id e arl(!4ur to premise, that we are not quite certain that the Recount .to which we allude is a serious "t i it certainly has very much the appearance. of . , a hOax upon the persons, whose orations it pro ,Vitfapecord, and as 'we 'know that hodern paitiots• tire very much inclined to indulge in wag xeries of that kind, sometimes for amusement, sometimes for mischi e f, and soinetimes.for . protit, We really should have-passed it over without no tice, if we had not been assured that the •narra tive is giVen ; in sober seriousness. * LOrd,AN'SO/4; the only nobleman of th t-eounty who gave an eaui- . - vocal sanction to the Meeting, 'was:, it appears, cotivenientlyprevetfted/bY a fit of the gout from taking the Chair, and as a Peer was wanted to give eclat . to the Meeting, Lord CREWE was borroWed froth Cheshire to act as President. IPS"LorciShip; it appearS, is not, like some of his t • Parkainentary friends, a long-winded orator, for his' opt3tiig speech upon this solemn occasion con-• sists . of just thirteen lines, and the only notice, able point in it is the congratulation which be offered to the County upon "this new feature. in 'ts character." The tardiness which the Gentle men of Staffordshire have evinred in discovering the merits of Mr. Eox as a Statesman call-, not be denied ; but we think Lord CREWE might have spared the select band of converts who were assembled so galling a sarcasm. The Gentle ,man who followed his Lordship, and who seems to have been selected (for what possible reason we cannot imagine) as the chief spokesman upon the occasion, was a Mr. TOLLET ; of him we know no thing, he may be a very worthy Staffordshire Geti= tlenianAut his Speech displays a most marvellous Ignorance upon the subject of Politics, and particu holy those of the late . Mr. FOx, a panegyric upon whOittlie tried to pronounce. We are strongly inclined to suspect that this plan of ;giving a new feature to the County-of Stafford has been a long time in agitation, and Coat this meeting was expected to 'take place about this time two-years. The sneeehes, parti cularly Mr. TOLLET'S, scent to have been manu factured from the besr patriotic samples of that day. We know that one of .he topics niion which the Patriots at tl.ac tistv %lost ueligaed to descant, was the distresses of ot manufacturers, and these Staffordshire Whigs last Monday week repeated all the old declamation upon this subject, utterly regardless of the great .and gratifying change , which- the liberation f , t; the Contiount has occa sioned in our commercial affairs. Mr. ToLLET, however, was further resolved to favour the company with a few of his own lucubrations, in addition to the hacknied tirades of his Opposition frietitis ; he therefore ventured to give his audi tors a sketch of Mr. Fo4's political principles, together with divers new historical anecdotes, and in both he was pre-eminently wilucky. He dwelt with a sort of mischievous fatality upon the Con . sistency of Mr. Fox's political life ! We have not room to follow Mr. TOLLET through this part of his haiatigUe; one sentenee, "however,- - we - cannot avoid quoting " Anti be it remembered, Gentlemen, that he was also through life the firm, the consistent, and the never-failing friend of the people. His were, principles not shifting with time, and place, and circumstances ; not mere expedients to attain po pularity ;—his were not opinions flowing at o.ne period, and ebbing at another, just as the King or the Court, or the prosperity or adversity of parties might prevail, No, Gentlemen, he'was ever, as I have said before, the steady friend of op , the pele." • Now, as this Gentleman seems to have a pretty smattering of oratory, we feel ourselves' bound in charity to advise him' to cogitate a little 'before he speaks again upon this topic, upon the following extract of a Speech of Mr. Fox's, spoken in De cember 1776, and reported by Mr. . Were the people," says Mr. Fox, " really dis contented, I should be glad :to know how I am to ascertain the reality of that dissatisfaction. I 'must freely confess that I know no other way of ascertaining i• but by consulting this House.—" Here the people are represented, and- here their voice is expressed. There is no other criterion but the majority of this Assembly, by which we can judge of their sentiments." Mr. Fox was then in a majority ; let Mr. Tot.- LET cotnpare this extract with the language of Mr. Fox, when in a minority, and it will assist him wonderfully in his next panegyric upon that Gentleman's consistency. We shall probably take an early opportunity of animadverting a little more severely upon the un manly ribaldry with which the memory of Mr. PITT was assailed, and some of the other proceed ings of this Meeting. * Mr. Tott,ET, in one of his many speeches, said- 7 " 'Whoa -• it was suggested to Lord ANSON, that the meeting should be held in the Shire Hall, he replied, that he was afraid ' a much smaller room would hold all the Whigs in the County.' " The Committee bf the Stock Exchange have, it is said, discovered the pretended Coloncl Du- Boy RG. He is not the Officer mentioned by Lord Cocn RARE. • Thcre have been several slight engagements between the Neapolitan. and French troops in 'lle rumour of an armistice between this c'onn try ,and Naples is confirmed ; It is to lasetill the conClusit..n of a General Peace,. Accounts confirming the arrival of the CROWN PRINCE'S army have reached town. It. is also said that he has himself visited the head-quarters of Marshal BLUC H ER. Yesterd-ay the Loan CIIANcELLori was sent for to attend the PRINCE REGENT, atCarltoti-bouse. VisCouct MELVILLE had - an audience of the PRINCE URGENT . yesterday. Major STAN KOPF. arrived yesterday At Earl BA - TITURST•s Office With dispatches, and afterwards was introduced to the PRINCE REGENT at Carlton- fir. Mirt.s. the messenger, arriv , zd at the Fo r• OTte, op Saturday night, with dispAtehes Lard USTLE . REA.GH; He came through ajOy- T Cif egti, uca itock hacl and Thais F 1 ~F; te; ~~ d ya- 26i (111 . • ,r S. lii. , hero tI:C par' u b iti it ik rl~ ybicl a 3b ,0 ` 4 131,LP. 10 4 ige• • 70 1 3 r is : 0 00.21 c. otie s rn~~~ blo; ° j) ti ty. ' i t t (ai~ y gy." 5 ll*4 ;, 04 %CO ' 2,1)11 ii 4'll' ;s5 P"I; orie i ' ,51.' 9 tVg ez 44 f 3;e3' NAVAL WEWS. . . 'WEYMOUTH, MARCH 12.—Arrived the Sir S;d nc. Smith hired armed vessel.from'Jersey j landed a rcench Genttenrian, and suited again imme diately. • , . PORTSMOUTit, MA.IIC.,I3.—The Provisional Ilaftalion of Volunteer illilitia, commladcdhy Sir W. W. Wfisi•lNE, were this morning enbarls.o• to join t 1 Afiuy on der Lord WELLINGTON,, and are, expected to. sail to 7 morrow.,. Arrived his Majesty's ships Iteg , dns and tator from tkePon'os.. Sailed . , his Maj.ebty:s.ships Harnadryad and Espoir, with a fleet for ,- nebec Nova Scotia, New. Ilynnsorick, and Newfound land ;- his Mjebty's ships Freya and Thames, with. the .Isabella transport, for Guernsey ; and the Urgent gun-brig. on, a cruize. -Came into the Harbour his Majesty's ship. Leopold.— Wind t. DEAL, Mattcti 13.—Aryired the Badger hired cutter with dispatches from Admiral YOUNG' in the Roompot. Sailed the Alert hired cutter for the Scheldt. • PLYMOUTH., MARCH 12.—Cattle ill the Fly sloop of war and Bittern ditto from a cruize.— Sailed the Ville - de Paris, 110 guns,- for off Brest ; leynard sloop of war to the Westward and the losario sloop of war for Passages. • MAncu the Emulous, (fl. P.) Woodman (K. 'D.) and Sneedwelt (N . A.) from the Thames, bound to Hoiland, with ord 7 mince stores and clothing. Sailed the• Diana packet, with a mail and passengers, for Helvoet sin ys. 7 -Wind E. S. E. FALMOUTH, MARCH .-Arrived his Majes ty's ship pr o tectress froui Ireland, with a convoy. Sailedihe Chesterfield packet for Halifax, with a in a i iad N. E. YARMOUTH, MARCH 13.—A. lugger privateer captured five vcsseli between :Orfordness and Lowestoft ; two of them are re-taken, one car ried into Southwold, and the other (laden with timber) brought into this port. The Portia sloop of war, Captain THOMPbON, and the Princess of Wales cutter, went out last night in search of the privateer. The Tonuant, 80, Lord COCHEANE, and Spencer, 74, Captain RAGGETT, are, we understand, under orders for Purts'month, whence they will take their departure for the North American station.. - Commodore itoncErts was cruising, on the 4th of January, in lat. 13. long. 51, which is pre cisely in the tra(sk of all the :merchant ships bound to the Leeward Islands. Ile had taken and de stroyed the -Monticuillo, from the Cape of Good Hope.—The Nymph and Mddeste,French frigates have also . captured sever - al West ludiamen. There is, it.is said, no pitched battles to be per mitted on the. American coast between, the Bri, tish and United States frigates. The challenges were given by the Fulymion; Captain 11.,H0P2.; Statira, Captain STACKPOLE; and Loupcervier, Captain MErsps, to the United States, Macedo nian, and Hornet. Admiral COCIiitANE forbade the banns. A letter from Trieste, dated January 25, men ons that the Eagle, 74, Captain C. ROWLEY, had left that port tur England ; and that Si: ROBERT WiLsox had been appointed Military' Resident at Vicenza. Rugusa and Corfu were expected soon :o fall; The West India fleet from Portsmouth, tinder convoy of the Gloucester man of war, were all well on the 20th of February, in hit. 47. long. 9. 30. The • GiOncester had previously captured a .vessel wOrth 18,000/.4 The fleets which sailed • from Portsmouth on the 22d ult. for India, the Cape,&c. %vele all well on the 27th succeeding, in lat. 48. N. and long. 9.40. W. Twenty-five Prussian subjects (being all of that nation in the prison depots at Portstnouth) sailed on Saturday in the Thais, 20, Capt. WEIR, for Harwich, on their way to their own homes. The Hyperion, Captain CUMBY,' is to take the troops which embarked last week at Portsmouth Li for Passages ndar convoy: she is expected to sail with-them on this day. EXTRACT Op A - LETTER FROM A BRITISH OFFICER IN THE SCHELDT, DATED THE 10TH INST. " Four days since, 1000 Russians landed at Tholen, to join Sir THOMAS GRAHAM. The Antelope, 50 gnus, and the Russian fri gate, in going through the West Scheldt, was not so successful in passing. Flushing as the first squa dron, who went the same course. Unfortunate ly they both got on shore abreast of that town, and met with a warm reception from the ene my's batteries. The, Pilot , under i.vhose4 di rection they were going through this difficult and intricate passage lost both his legs, and a few of our gallant tars were wounded. The Russian frigate received 110 damage. .By the great exertions of officers and men, both ships were safely got off, and are now at anchor be tween Flushing and Batz. " The Amphion frigate made an unsuccessful attempt recently to cut out a French brig, pro tected by the forntidable batteries of Bergen-op- Zoom. In this unlucky attempt we sustained some loss►" From the Spanish Papers we have some infor mation of the :state of anirs on the Eastern side of •the Pyrenees. The garrison of LeridA had made - -a sortie with all its disposable force, and four pieces of artillery, against a structure called Ardiaca, which the besieging, army was endea vouring to fortify. Two assaults were made at this place, but they were both happily unsuccess ful, and the French retired, not without losi, within their walls. The second division of the fourth army was on march to enter 'France. The French from Tortosa had made an attack on the division. of the Empecinado. The head-quarters : bad been removed to Benicarlo. • In order that Lord CASTLERVAGII. ynay he pro perly assisted as.to the articles of the treaty, that will affect the East India Trade, Mr. RICKARDS, Mr. FoaaEs, and another Gentleman, set off ex press yesrerday somiebt to confer %shit the Bri tish Minister at Chatillon. General TAYLOR is expected to leave town this day, to proceed oh his returH to Holland. THE TiIEATREa On .Sat t urday.Y ast . - 'KRAN appeared, in - the charaeter,of Handel, at Drury-lane Theatre, and the inipmsion, which_ he has .made the public in his Shy/ock and. Richard, was manifested in .as cupwded a Louse as ; we have ev.!r seen.. It 'was a perilous task .to undertake bkl' diificult a : character as hamlet_ after so admired a representative Of. it as „Mr. fElor.g; bet Mr. KRAI4 \V3S. doubtless an:.,iOusto comply with the Wishes the `,Lana-, gers ; or,Terhaps, he would have rutrsued t 's snc -cess in .the other, parts, before he engu, ed it so hazardous a competition. Mr. KEAN has shewii so Much ability in . hls - pre,•eding etroo.s, hat we arc n:t.inelined to enter intp•too niee an exami natioh of his Ilantlet,, satisfied at, we are - hat he imderOoli, the part from asenseof duty to who Erase conducted thr...n;selves liberally towards him, an(l equal t ly c rf fft l.that his good sense Ens IT flection: will enable.,him• to gir a more able- repre sentation of the,chay n acter wais nex: appearance in it,. We May„Uwe'Ver,be permitted to.notimtwo or three novelties, because friend are riotar to be sincere when. it is . their, duty. to he, de portment was by no means calculated to the idea of - . " Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state, 1 ‘ The glass of fashion, and the would of fora), " observer of all observers." In his first address to the. Ghost, he beaded himself forward instead of retiriNewith the awe which the appearance of a supernatural Being could not but excite; and in the words, '' or Goblin damn'd," he delivered ,the last word With a furious energy, inconsistent with the 'solemn feelings that must be 'supposd to have governed the mind of Hainlet at that moment.: In his scene with Ophelia, be-spoke with a sort of slow and reproachful severity, through Out, rather than in tho hurried Manner which might be expected, considering that he meani to give effect to the suspicion of - his IllitibleSS. Daring the scene of the 7nock-i4ay,„,ipmckid 'of instantly, - but cautious ly, observing the King, he -threw him on the. ground, crept into the middle of the stage, and by his manner of acting and speaking rather seem ed• to be bullying the King into confusion, than waiting the operation of the play, and of the lines which Hamlet had supplied," upon the conscience" of the guilty Monarch. We forgot to notice, that in parting with Ophelia, he returned, and solemnly kissed her hand : whether this action was consistent with the feelings which he had previously expressed, or pretended, we leave to the Critics to determine. in the closet-scene he in troduced a novelty respecting the pictures, which seem's to be an improvement ; for, as it has observed, bringirti the two pictures would have savoured of a kind 4 pantonzimic preparatiCn , but 'having his father's :in his 'bosom, and observing `his uncle's on.bis mother, he was incidentally Lai to make a comparison between the qintaies or the . • originals. We observed• that she was not correct in- the words. In the'scene following the . first pearance of the Ghost he said, " there are inure things, &c. in our philosophy," instead of " your philosophy," and-in the chief soliloquy he said,. "to groan and sweat under this weary life," in stead of "a weary lite," making that ge neral which Hamlet intended to be parti cular. In the closet scene, speaking of the person of hisfather he said, " where every God," after having mentioned several instead of " every God." In the fencing scene he displayed great skill.' We have noticed what we deemed errors,. just as they haye occurred to the memory, but, as we have no pleasure in dwelling on such points, we shall conchnle:with saying that though, in one opinion,.lik - pertormance was much inferior to his Richaid, yet it displayed the workings of a mind which thinks fo'r' l ieself, and that he altogether ma nifested a degree-'of merit far above the ordinary standard. Mtss SMITH was IlitlCh too theatrical for the simplicity and tenderness of Ophelia,.par tieularly in the mad scene, and certainly does not possess musical powers sufficient for the wild and interesting melody of the airs. . . . . The ship Henry Wellesley from Bengal to the Cape of Good Hope, is supposed to have arrived at Dartmouth, as a great many letters have been received from that place, marked by her. Friday night, Mr:Wiautms, the King's Ales- senger, was sent . off with dispatches for head- quarters. On Satmrda7 Morning the Duke of VbitE. left town for Windsor,. on a visit to the QUZEN, who is confined to the Castle witl► a violent cold. The PRIt,ICE REGENT will receive the OXCOrd Address on Thursday. Yesterday morning Mr. STROUD, one of the Duke of CAMBRIDGF,'S principal attendants, lt•i•t town with dispatches, &c. for his Royal Highness, at Hanover. • _ Yesterday the Princess CHARLOTTE attended Divine Service at the Royal Chapel, St. Japes:s, where a sermon was preached by the Bishop of CHESTER. The Editor of The Antigallican, says, ." that a Deputation from,Switzerland is arrived in this country, with an °tier to our Government to flarch an army, already raised, of 40,000 men, and on no other condition than to receive some pecuniary aid from this country, and to fight un der the banners. of a BOURBON." - Captain Kuco's company of artillery is ordered to embark at Portsmouth for Canad., On Thursday three troops of the 6th and 13th regiments of Light Dragoons, and a iletachme4 of the 2d and 23d Infantry, embarked. at. Ports mouth • for France : • the -former . %vere under the command of, , the Hon-Major LYGos, son of Lora BEAU CHAMP. THE PITT CLUB.—On Thursday next n General Meeting of the Members of this Club wdi be held, to determine on the plan for building a Hall iu the City in honour of the memory of Mr. PITT : it is intended to accnmmod:oe.at dinner one thou. sand persons, with other suitable apartments. 'la this Hall it is expected the'Statue , subscribed fot in his life-time will be erected ; and • - it is under stood that the Members of the Club mean to Otfer the use of the building gratuitously to the -Com , missioners for the Liquidation of the NatianAl Debt, as a further compliment to the memory of Mr. PITT,