The Sun. — London, England, 1811-02-08 00:00:00

COMMON CGUNCIIL. A Court of Common Council was yesterday held, to take into consideration the propriety ot- present ing an Addres4 to his Reyal Higness the Ptince'of Wales, on his being appointed Regent. Mr. Alderman WOOD stated it to be his intention to occupy the Court but a few moments. The pro priety. of their presenting an Address, he thought, could not be doubted, though the matter of that' Address might become a subject of discussion. The rest ridiOns imposed upon the Prince were such, that he thought they must of necessity prevent'him from ameliorating the condition of the public as his inclinations would prompt, were he differently situ ated. That he wuuid be unable to afford that relief, which was so much wanted, was the more to be ap prehended from the circumstance of his being sur rounded by Ministers, who would exert' all their influence to prevent his doing that which was most CALI.IIOI 10 She 64hrtiti011 of the - nation. He con chided by moving— " That a dutiful 'and loyal Addietts bepresented to his Royal•Hightiess, condoling with him on the indisposition of our most gracious Sovereign, which has rendered him incapable of the exercise of the itoyal Functi ins; lamenting the unnecessary Re strictions impo , ed upon his Royal Highness in the ardeous duly of supphing the incapacity of our be-, loved Sov e reign ; expressingonr firm confidence in the Prince's knowledge and personal endowments; and 'relying that, undercircumstances so awful and embarrassing, every measure that depends perSoually upon him and his inclination, will be adopted for the deference tit the personal iibenies of the King's sub jedit, under their present difficulties, and for pr1), 7 4 noting the eeace, happiness, and secutity of the country." IVIr.WAIT/IMAN seconded the motion. He would not at present take up much of their time, having already expressed his sentiments on the subjed. He deplored the restrictions imposed on the Prince, trout a coiftidioti that they would proerit his cluing that which might otherwise be expected from him. Those who knew the present cons ruction of the House of Commints, must be aware that with such restraints upon his centlnd it was impossible for the Prince to be a free agent. lie did not th e n intend giving his opinion of public men, but he certainly thought the Prnice`oughi to be wholly treed froui the infitience of the two great parties which at present divide'Par • liament. _ Mr. Aldertnan:.Btticti opposed . the motion, and thought, it at•y Address were presented, it ought I to be'att Andress of congratulotion rather than the Address proposed. Mr. li'Ave.t.t. spoke at considerable length, 111 rtt• ply to sow( thing that had fallen . lrom a Member of that Cour:, on the preceding .day; which, he conceiv ed, went to n.euleate a most unconstitutional doc• trine, as it Juld a tendency. to, plate the.milittny oboe° the codil power. He way in favour of the, Addre.s. Mr. S. DOWN observed, •the last Speaker hid sp Item of ev, r, thing but that which was belote for discii,sinti, or itt, any way uninfected whh the qu,stioit. No man could bu 1% Willi/ to go a gibarci kligth IWO himself to strew reseect litc but he roust still be allowed - to reserve , to hitesell those poetical opinions width he had ever prutessed, He then proceeded to speak of what lie coneet•ed to be tee origin of the prevent- motion, and stood to the Court the circumstance of. Lord Erskine's hue lilt; paid a visit to Falcon square, and to several persons to the City who were Members of that Court—when Mr. WAITHAIAN interrupted , him by observing to the Com t, that that Gentlemart (Mr. S. Dixon) had TWO net fewer than se% enteen times on the, preeti• Ley dity. He wished to know if he were to be id s lowed to rise as Wien that day, to express his 'week and ridiculous conjectures on the neurone And motives of ally person whateser. He then stated the, visit of Lord Erskine to the City, to have been caused:by the circumstance of the Petition from the • City of Lorelei) having been rejected by the House of Lords on account of twine informality. Lord lisrskith. , was rue Noble Loud reqUested to present it, and to that his visit . tats to be ascribed, and not to any such motive as that by which the Gentleman opposite w-uld insinuate tae was roux ed. The pre sent morion he asserted, was not causedeby any such polir cal interference, Mr. Qom would' not enter into the motives which had influenced the conduct of the two Hoeses, in taking the tnenintes which had been taken for supplying the Royal Authority ; but when .he reflected on the load of oxation under which the nation gro.intd, - the loss ofcommerce, and the stag batioo of trade, he could not btu view a perSeves ranee in these nreastinee which had so greatly in creesed out miseries as the greatest of calamities. H e then t o ok a vie.v of the state of •the war in the Penitisula, which he spoke of as chording less (;round forexultstion. than for apprehension. There was no complete mid effectual , cure for the evils complained of by a hollering people, but a thorough Reform in Parliament. The necessity of this would be well urged in the Addre.s. He censured the eoeded at M:sisters, and the restrictions imposed on the Prince. It was impossible for the Regent, w i t h till his good :qualities,: to administer to the wants of the public as might be expected from him, shackled as lie was by Ministers. From the known tientiturtit4 of the Prince touch was to be hoped. He was the only British Prince who hid ever con sidered the Kingly office to be held as a sacred trust fur the benefit of the people. Ile differed very Mitch from h s Worthy Frteud opposite, as to the maitre of .the Address proper to be presented. He h o ped no 'Address of congratulation would be thought of. An Address of sorrow to condole with his Royal Highness on the present state of alfa4s, would, he thought, be more becoming, and be there fore hoped his Worthy Friend wow(' not press his opposition to the motion. Mr. Alderman 14211Cii in explanation said, that :allowing the Prince all the pod qualities fur which they gave him credit, he thought it would appear very behandsorne for them to preteml to teach him 1.01'11)UN t Printed by RICHAI at the SUN.OVV his duty, immftdialely on his coming into office He thought it strange they coti:d not trust him to d one thing without giving him advice; and most d e cidedly ohjefted to any reference to the state of Ike two Houses of Parliament. Mr. GRIFFITHS, Mr. HEARN, and a Member whose name we could not spoke in favour of the motion. Mr. WAITIIKAN *gait noticed the insinuation that had been thrown out, on account of the visit paid to several Members of that Court by a Noble Lord. He repeated, the "notion had been brought lot watd with out the countenance of any Member of Parliament. He spoke with some asperity of .the conduOt of those persons who had deliberately signed a *Oyer, ex pressing abhorrence and detestation of the designs of those who were anxious for a Reform. He did not believe those who had done all in their power to tie the hands of the i ftegebt behind blot, could be sin cere in wishing'nowr to go up with an address of congratulation. On what could they congratulate . him, when he was so xhackled that he could do no thingfor the benefit of the country ? He should bluSh to ,offer congratulation under circumstances like the piesent: 'lt was their ditty to call for a IL.- form in Parliament. They had seen the etfet:ts,ut the miscondutt of those now at the head of Kitts, and knowing what they did, it was the mote their '• duty to stick up for the principles they maintained, and which the Prince had avowed.' They ought manfully to stick up for these, and tell hint that, who would oppoSe him, they would gi‘e hi it their support. No address of congratulation could with propriety •be presented. However 'highly they thought of the Prince, there was still abundant rea- , sons for an - Addres's of condolence. He titeretore trusted that the Addiess drawn - up' . 4'ould be carried by a very considerable Majority, and that ,it-would have the oiled of relievmg,the Prince from his prq sent embaria,sment. Mr. Alderman - Btacn and Mr. GRIFFITHS sore . rally explained. Tht question was then put and carried without a 4• A Committee was, appointed to consider the Ad dress, and the,Me,mbers named on the Committee immediately withdrew for that purpose. On the return of the Committee strangers were ordered to withdraw. The doors ,ware net apin Open to the An Amendment proposed by Alderman Birch, rx t.tsui4er,st : dod was nkghtiveci ; and finally, , an Address `voted, condoling - with:his Boyd Highbeis . on the laffliding indispo,ition of-his Majesty ; 'expressing ih hie iritems , and virtues ; and strongly recoil - tine:tiding a .Betornd in !lament. Host ern Muunek.--A few years since, a stranger received in the boipm of a hospitable vicinage, oin about two miles of Limerick; He was ate. and therefore the ',ere welcomed was it:e.refore the mole cherished. All xvece kind, gokid-thented, and unsuspecting to him ; ; but if an n ic k% idnal was found u ho beheld him With peculiar iendernes4, it veLr.une named Gi 'try, who lo procossliff' time was, taugl.t to feel fore him as anuther member of his little family. No secret was con.. cea led from him ; he learned, of course, that ,his be- ne !art or had mooey—that a long course of frugality Ann industly bad made bun master, of twelve guineas. looeen tor an , opportunity of rossessing himself of this pitiful sum, amid that arrived, on Saturday,. when poor infatuat , Al Gritiy, in company with his wife, walked to the market of Limerick, with a bosom swelling with gratitude that a bountiful Pro vidence had biassed his humble destiny with one op portunity of serving a fellow-creture. He ' left be hind him, with bisfriend, aline healthy ruddy boy, " his father's hope," and departed, indulging a fond wish that the evening would see them a happy groupe, beguiling the hours with the news and in cidents of the day ; but bow visionary Ale; felicity of man I—The monstet seized his opportueity he laid his rapacious hands on the' well-known twelve guineas, wantonly. murdered the innocent youth— set fire to the house of his bendador, and absconded, furuishing the world with au utiparalleled instance of perfidy ! EDINBURGH, FEB. 4.--. About eight in the evenv ing of Tuesday se'eneight, as Mr. JunN HOD,ON, of Illennerhasseit, was returning from Cocker mouth, riding near Ann's Hill, he observed three men before him, ones on the left, and the other two on the right hand-side 'of the road. When passing the two Well on the right, one of them made a - spring, at the horse, and seized hold of his 011(4, whilst the other laid hold of Mr. H. by the knee; and endeivetured to unhorse hits. l‘l the r thickH.spiirerieldd his hor.e;and, at the same time, with of his stick, at one blow brought the: fellow at his knee to the ground ; and, _after suffering several violent strokes on the head, the villain who had seized the brittle also MI. The ruffian on the other side having, in the meantime, struck Mr. H. a blow on the hack, which greatly stunned him, afterwards caught, hold of his great coat by the skirts, mid doggedhim-Backwards. In the struggle, Mi% H. was drawn doWn flat on the hoise's back ; but he still kept ,hold or the horse's reins and the,pommel of the saddle. In this desperate situation, still de tertnined to resist, he again spurred the - horse, which, from the particular diredion of the spurs, unavoiably.galled him, and caused him to kick most furiously, this fertunaie circumstance served the double purpoie of knocking down the villfin, and and reinstating M. FL upon his saddle. He then escaped. STEAM 130AT8...--Extra6l of a letter from New Vork„dated .Dec. iO. After lamenting the uuset 'fled situation of their foreign relations, the writer says-,e.0 -We .have happier prospeds near home-1 have great pleasure in informing you, that the Cor poration of this city have just completed a contras whh Mr. raoLoeN, for running a Steam Fioat Fetry from this across the Hudson to St. Paul's Hook. A boat. is to leave each side every half hour, and to be of such capacity and convenience as to accorumo-' date.a dozen coaches or waggons, with their'horses, at a trip. The river is two mites wide here, and very dangerous to sailing boats. This is considered as the greatest and must . novel estahlishmeot in the known world." 1) HARRIS, of No. 4, Mutiett•court, Low-street and kebl cg, No, 112, Strand, wbere Advertisemenis, SPANISTI . PAPERS. THE CORTES. SITTING OF TH2 SEVENTH. 'Tie attention of the Congreis was occupieti this day in discussing a Memo'jai of Geri. Valdene bras, praying his dismission, on the ground that having been appointed to the'chief command in the Highlands of Ronda by the lat 67 Regency, lie was now attached to the Commander of San Roque, without having any cause alleged. After three hours of animated discussion, it was resolved that the said Memorial should be referred to the Re gency, in . order that they might, after having con sidered it, determine on it according *to • precedent, whatsoever seemed most expedient to_them. SITTING. OF THE EIGHTH. A very extraordinary demand; supported .by the Commissioner of Remunerations, was .this day brought forward ;, it expressed that DM) N. .Deva dad° prayed for an honorary title of nobility, on the ground of the services which he had rendered the country during the present war ; there was a De.. puty who pleaded in favour of the .pretender, grounding his arguments on the very so/id rea-ons, that to reward deserving patriots with the. title of Nobles, would aa as a stimulus to others. It ut is decreed that the said request should be again brought forward when the general regulations for bestowing rewards should be taken into consideration; this was followed an article in which The Executive Power is . adthorised to appoint and provide for all military appointments, conformably Ur the general ortkrs of t he. itity which are now :W force. This was also carried. . The sc:cond l <trt of this same article, grants the . ExecL;tive P.;wer autooriy to. nomniaie COMlTlatl de rs it, Chiet eyriea alio rand, in bulb heiriiipheres, as well as Vicer,l , , Captain-Generals and Giver hots of the Kingdom and Provii,ces of Spain, on condition tit rein liming the Cortes, at a ?motet set ting, with the said appointments,: be:ote they are made public. This was eniried with the following' ;intendment ; that in case any danger may be appre hended from making the above commtmications to lhp Cortes, the Executive may withhold. until tbe apprehensions are subsided, The la,t article establishes' that" the Executive shall no be able to haveany pe.sonal corn i,and'eViA any armed force, with the exception of its own guatd its'ordinaryi and that no individual whatever, being a lineal descendant ,or ascendant from any of the Members of the Council of: Regency, shall hold the command in Chief of any attnY. SITTING OF THE NINTH. 'The i - equiSilion respecaing the equal , reprefenta lion ut America with this Peninsula, was again agi tated and discussed; but the public sitting was conduded nernie any thing . was 'finally de cided on.. BADAJOZi JAN. c9.--The march of Soult with the whole Lica)) , Oder his command upon this pro vince, has given occasion to. ,a general movement of our .troops, General NWndiubel, ik.at this place, and Ballesteros has marched to Aroche. It apvears tint the French %Oil endeavour to pass the Gua diana, by. the bridge of Merida, at :which place 800 of their horse have entered. (Regency .Ga zerfe, Jan. 17.) SEVILLE, JAN. I.—A paper dated Zafra, the Gth of the present month, has been printed in •this city, in which it said, that the insurgent Balleste ros had the audacity to scatter papers among the Fee cli tr6ops, exeltiog them to desertion, in which case no o, , ,,arter could be given to any officer who should be taken prisoner. The rains and the bad, roads have spoiled the pro visions which the enemy had plundered, and they require more for the conveyance of which they have pnt.itt requisition a number of horses from all the Yesterday a quant'ty ofTtiglish cloth was burned in the square of •St. Fiends: The Spanish parties have intlicied just punishment on many.ot the•vil lages who have been too punctual, in raising the o,n -trinutions required !)y the French. JAN. I I.—Lasi night General Balleste ros arrived with his division, and to-dry at noon marched out for St. Alejos, leaving the hospital and magazine here, which are going to Ent:Malicia. To night they encamped two leagbtes fromlienee in the Torragow. In Zalamar there are 600 of our horse, svhich, with .other smaller, parties, observe a corps of 700 of the enemy, who yesterday advanc ed by Coimbra Baxar, .to Aradena, and it its sup postql were ptoceeding by the county of Niebla to , reinforce the Duke of Aremberg. A ; Spaniard who had taken the oath to the enemy and deserted last night from Zatra says, there are there and in the vicinity 12,000 men including four squadrons of cavalry.—(llegency Gazette, Jan, 4.) MONTI:NOLAN, JAN. 4. 7 —General Ballesteroshav- Mg received certain accounts of the poAtioit and number of ale enemy in Cazalla and Guadalcanal, left this town on the 30th December, before two in the afternoon, with the legunents of Leon, Ingest°, and' Lena, ctuiiiig the remainder of his division to march [upon the - Alcana Monasterio, He arrived at the village of Conde, and thence canned too gree nadiers:.,ol Leon and 60.0 men of Merida to march on the morning of the Ri in order to undertake on the next 'day, a stronglitvack upon Cazalla, while this was done the said General was at Guadalcanal, with the remainder of his troops at Guadalcanal, • to prevent Gera,'d from sending reinforcements to -the column at Cszalla, and to attack it if opportu nity offered. He succeeded in his design, and the enemy were dislodged frOm Cazalla, :ind completely defeated, y) that our troops. made themselves mas• ters of the provisions they bad prepared for them selves. At the same time another- adv - antage war gained near Guadalcanal. The fog was so thick, that it was scarcely possible to see each other. A column of the enemy advanced by 'the high' road, t and General Ballesteros ordering the must profound silence to be' observed,, form e d hi s troops , and waited till the enemy, in consequence of the dark ness, fell, without being aware, upon his bayonets.. This was the case, and the French advancing to Istiedly WILLIAM AItMIGEk SCRIPPS, South Mohan, for the Piper, Littsrs for the Editor kr. thoft.finiell 1 tvithin row purees, received a volley; wbicltilig4 them into disorder, and. put them to flight, leaving the field of battle coveied Irg bodies. General Ballesteros feared %id' liis to Trascena and Monasterio. ' EXTRACT OF A LETTER DATED LISBON, " I am' sorry to acquaint you that Genera' veira has met with a defeat on t h e 30th Trancosa, in which the militia has not itself as wae. to be expected. His corps perted, and four or five Otficers,ell or wounded. The affairs of this kingioat ing to a crisis, and you may soon expel: important events occurring upon both Tagus. A Gentleman has jest arrived from who tells rue that Mortier alter paSsiag diana at Merida, -instead of taking the " city, pursued i.is march straight porthtvt by La Nova, Coidovilla, La Roca, iitid guard had already Matte its appearance sl de Alcantara, from which it is ittiagiacdr . to cross the Tagus by the , bridge of probably neat Meadas. Hw carries with quantity ut protisions, stores, tic. &c, bar lery but his held pieces. Another el)t' Freneh troops made their appearance joz and Olivenza, the antiiwit of which tletuan:cannOt state, as upon their aperel e his depirture ; but lie says that .this with it a great quantity of.. heavy 2 1 t 41 ' cannot that the heavy artille ! ' fbr this country, for after possessing • Badajoz, they must lay a regular st ge which being a regular fortificaliou wit' much time to reduce it, thdt the low of be decided lung before it can be taken. less, orders have been issued to the in , Alentejo, to evacuate the country %wool of the, enemy, carrying with them all and destroying what cannot be brought' [ have no doubt will be done, as the consider Elias as impregnable, and " 13 ' from their homes will not be of a ler'g NRWCASTLE.—.A woman of the Ita'l : Chisholm was on Tuesday last i ipprelg pieion of being the mother Of the chil d imurdered in Jesutond Fields, from th` 'of her having parted with, her child i " ° us manner". She was examined better trates on Wednesday ; when, after 11 0 0 tory accounts, sh e sa id th a t her child via' ,that she had buried it in the Leates, br ing murdered it, She proposed 10.1 Place, and in conseTience two ofc with her, when she took them to n h i the Leazes, where after searching .they found the body of a child cove t which had the appearance of alive: it was taken to the poor-liott! drew's parish, where a coronet's A' ravening, and returned a verdict cf„, l against the moth e r; She was en - witted to Likelier trial at the next The Officers of 'the second • revi Guards are now providing a cu m P kil dress ttti,orvii,pi itoltlutiiiinnnbed i d t )te oe Ut saute manner, auJ p t hi r Lai s arit:, brtade t haecbrr iir Ao i Tali t i t i r sc e c gold leid a Tl. j c c u e r l d ,t i ‘ t i :g Si let cloth, edged all r ou nd, first with cloth betwe e n th em . Th e caps skin flounce. On e>ic' furniture, as well at: o n t he holste r , embroidered,' in silver, a' large star , which is an oral, containing the ewl tpsmUhtrateoiidr theresurroundedpiqueht t o whole is rldliailgeu, e a w, n hw e i crown wbeeuno‘hv i bbe T er braque, which g h h a t ve a ao dragoons, was very i g s r an,dv v considered On Friday 'next the State Lottery ' 1 Scheine is big*, pp i Tickets. a nd Sh ares are s elling to , tiumbers, :and considerable clime Lotteries past. HoRNSBY and Co. s° ',, of. the P u bli c on t h e presen t oCej aio , established State Lottery Offices) 91 / 1 ; St.. Margaret's-hill, Borough, wit cr paid on demand. The present Grand Stale Lut t6l 1 1 15th instant, h as become so wren , „f to cause a mach greater number tit usual, to pay their court to tl e vo i the application to her for her l a ' r her 'cutiostty, and has induced peep' moment her bandage, to, take a t• -- T, with the Four 20,0001. and th e Thais. dig I 421 OP` 0 , 1. 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