The Sun. — London, England, 1817-12-15 00:00:00

~ R.:.itles, &itch fain ications give The Chronicle an (Tportunity of venting its spleen against King FERDINAND, and indeed all legitimate ?Hike's, though it must be cOnfessed (hit The ChrOfiicie needs no adscititions incentives for such a libiral wartare against al! hereditary Governments. LOSS OF THE INDIAN TRANSPORT. 'for Trieste, Captain of the jia/vina, from Norway Tlieste, which vessel has arrived at Plymouth, reports, that the Indian Transport, of London. with troops on board, was lost, about 30 mile, this side of Ushant, and all on board perished. — The Indian, DAvlnsoN, sailed from Portsmouth th e 29th ult. for St. Thomas's, with VolUnteers for the Spanish Insergenis. The slaip Grace has been detained at Cowes, for not having on board the regular papers. About forty pas3engers embarked on board in the River, :and twenty at the Isle of Wight, to join the Spa nish Patriot;. She cleareti out for Sr. Thomas's ; but, though prevented only from sailing by con trary winds, she appears by no means equipped fur such a voyage. DUBLIN, D,,C. 11.—At the :meeting of the Ca tholic Boar , yesterday, the Committee respecting the Rhe:mish Notes not hcinz, prepared, obtained time 011 Salurdrry next to make their Report.— The following Motion, made by Mt. O'CONNELL, \vas, Jitter some opposition, agreed to :-- " That the Ker. Richard Hayes he requested to attend the next Meeting of the Board on Saturday next, and make a Re . port of his :,fission to Rome." Corts-EZCIIANOE, DEC. 15.--We had a tolerable good supply of Whe:at this morning from F.,,sex and Kent, fine samples of which, in the early part of the morning, were taken (di' readily at last Mondit'is prices, but towards the close the sales were not so brisl: ; Fine Barley is 2s. per quarter dearer than this day week; Malt is rather dull; having a good sup _ ply, Peace and Beans have each declined 2s. per quarter; the Qat Trade is dull at Monday's prices ; in other articles there is no alteration. 'flee PRINCE REGENT is expertei4 to pay a visit to the QU EN at B,ith, this day, or to-morrow. The value of the Coal Trade toAsTwisa to the Port of London cannot be more forcibly shewu thao hy stating that the wages paid to t h e C oa t. heavers only, ewnloyed in the delivery of the Col liers in the rive, • amonnted, On the last year's im portation, to upwards of 100.0001. ! ! It is generally ooderstood an Opposition Can dida, e eVill str. rt for Liverpool at the next General Election but whether singly, or otherwise, is hot yet knot In the course of this summer several new Run gesseß have been made at Portsmouth, evidently with a view to the next General ElectiOn, and to render more secure the interest oldie predominant party in that town, which cannot fail to be very llrejoglicial to the general intereslF of that Port, We give no credit to the report, that it is Mr. iittouonAm's intention to offer himself as a Can didate for 111 - 9 NATIVE County.—The MO Spirit, Loyalty, and Indtpentlence of the Freeholders, 'negative every chance of success to that patriotic Gent !ern 311,! Isis incessant lahotirs at poli tical, not moral, reformation are wt , ll known and justly appreciated hrougliont the Northern Bor ders. A letter, dated Nassau, New Providence, Sept. 27 , says , o n Snotty last the schooner Venus arrived in the Offing, front Amelia Island, and 'General AI'GREGON and his Lady were landed from her. We have not been able to obtain any infor mation ti 3 10 the affairs of 'hat island." Sir Home Poroasit arrived on Thursday at Portsmouth, and re•hoisted his flag on board the Sybille, Captain CHARLES Had the wind proved fair, Sir Untie would have ?sailed on Saturday morning. Lady PonnANl AMI family in tend going our, to reside at the Commander in Chiet's residence at Port Royal, during the period of S:r .3crvice. The latest accounts from St. John's, Newfound iand, mention that the losses by the recent fire in that place are almost incalculable : 132 houses have been destroyed, and,looo persons exposwd to `the approaching inclement season; one firm alone host propi-rtydo the amount of 30,0001. On Wednesday the Proclamations for the Meet tg Parliament on the 271 h of January, and that for preventing British Officers from entering .ato the service of either of the contending par ties in South America, were read at the Cross of tdinburgh, by the heralds, &c. with the usual formalities. For the first time their escort was a i..:etachment of the 88th regiment from the Castle. YOUNG WaTsosr.—The Bermuda Paper of the 6th September says—" It has been confidently 'Stated to us, that the young man who arrived here in ' the American ship Severn, ort the 27th iclarch last, and who appeared with the name and k , baracter. of Lieut. Wilson, of the American Nary, We in tact no other than young Watson, then on his . *ay to the United States. Hie ap pekrance, it is said, answered the description of young Watson very accurately." Ti n i yortunate Youth possesses, at present, a pretty large share of the public attention. His prodigious wealth appears to be dissolved, and, " like the baseless fabric of a vision, left not a trace behind."—Not so the golden benefits which Bow from Fortune's Treasury—they arc substan tial realities ; and G. CARROLL has the pleasure of stating, that any " Fortunate Youth " who may, possess a Share of 4.340, sold by him, and drawn a prize, on Friday last, of 20,0001., may ti'im it into harsl cash, at No. 7, Corolla!, or 26, 'OxforAl-stregt. THE CHASE, Lord Scarbrough% "(ix iwuilds will meet on Wednesday at Swinnuw Wood ; and on Friday at Gateford Toll-bar ;—at „ten o'clock each day. The Badsworth fox hounds meet on Tuesday at Bretton ' •I'ark ; tin Thursday at Woodlands . ; and on Saturday at Fel kirk ;—at ten o'clock each day. Sir Henry ('revue's fox lounds,will meet on Thursday at kg4inton, at ten o',clock. Mr. Meynell's fox hound; will meet on Thursday at Hoar toss and ou Saturday at Wichnor, at half-past tcu o'clock Ta ch day. 'SHIP NEWS'. EXTRACT OF A LETTntt, NTED FA6lotlttl, 17TH INSTANT. " Several varlets were lost in Flietland Cinring the late gales' bnt cannot e.srettain . their naint:s." PLY:4IOtYTH, DEC. I.—Arrived the Ceres, front London for Africa, with loss of howspcit, anti otherwise thinaged, and must UtilOail . ; Flower, PAL:Y,front St. Michael's . ; and Milvind, BRooK , frOm Ik:Orwdy for :Trieste . ; she sailed from Fol- • moil* the 7th inst. and the following day was driven on the Corigeon ROck, about 26 miles N. 'of Ushant she is kaki, and will probably have to discharge her Cargri of fish.---A Hanthurgh ship, laden With linen, near Ushant, and all hands perished.—Th t e 'fishermen state, that two bligs we're seen to - go down on Sunday night, and all hands perished. A schooner was likewise seen dismasted, steering f6r Portsmouth. GuERNIEY, DEC. 11.-I'ut in here to-day th'e Ant, LLOYD, of Liverpobl, in 'distress, having lost her boats and sails ; also the Hope, M‘Lu'cLiN, of Berwick, from Newcastle for Demerara, with loss of part of her sails. The Elizabeth Johann , En RUST WRAAMANN, from Narva for Bourdeaux ; and the brig Roxana, WILLIAMS, from New Or leans, have put in, with loss of sails, and other datnage.—Yesterday came in the Patience, BEST, with loss of sails, boats, and other damage. Pot in to-day the Phoenix, REssTaam, Hain burgh with wheat, which is mach damaged, and inns: unload : she has also lost her boats and DEAL, DEc. 14.—Arrived yesterday, and sailed for the River, the Tontine, CURLY, from New York, in 52 (lays. Sailed, and pdt h ,ek again to-day, the Loid Lvnedoeli, for Fort William Arrived de Vrow Cornelia, STEEN vELD, front Am sterdam for Surinam. PuRTSMOUTII, DEC. ILL—Arrived the Ceres and Regard from the Downs. Sailed the Britan nia for Grenada; Crescent, for Leghorn ; Ocean, for Jamaica ; and the John, for Malta. Arrived to-day the Benevolent, ()nest, and Venus trans ports', from Dover. Drc. 12.—Put hack the Fort William East Indianian, and a .hip, name un known, supposed to be a West Indianian, from Plymouth. Andromache frigate, Captain SnEr.R:rv, sailed on Friday lor Rio Janeiro and the River Plate where minadron, iii ter Comano , lit t! nowt_Es, will consist of the following ships : Amphion (Commodore), Andromache, Captain Sttr.Rni:F ; hyacinth, Captain StiAltrE ; 8105- sum, Captain litcKEY ; and tilt! Tyne, Captain r,LCON. Ti)e. Glasgnw, Hon. Capin for the Mediterranean, has been detained at St. He lens several days, fur the mirpose of taking ant tinvernment dispatches. She was to sail yester tlay morning 'I LIE THEATRE. The Opera which ha►i been announae►l, with promising expectations, tinder the title of Outwit ted at Last, was at length brought forward on Satur►lay at Drut y- Lane Theatre. The following is a brief abstract of the FABLE. Sir R. Wmldly having, to forward his own views, decided on marrying his ward, Rosantlie, the daughter of Commo dore Danvers, to Sir Staunch Stakescre, Harcourt, the• lover of the La.h', obtains her consent to an elopement. The plan formed to carry this design into effect is made 'mown to Sir Robert, who resolves to do nothing that may interfere with it, but favours the young Lady's escape, having previously tahe3 care that Sir Staunch ;Mould carry her .te instead of Harcourt. The lovers are apprised of this s ch e m e , an d E n .. genia, Rosanthe's attendant, is substituted for her Lady, and borne off in triumph by Sta4eacre. Rosanthe following, finds the expected Harcourt, and flies with him (rout the house of Sir Robert, who is thus outwitted at last. This piece is attribtoed to a Mr. EARLE. As hi proof that the Managers thought well of it, they had I:ssigned to it the chiet comic and musical strew; h of theTheatre, but we du not consider this assignment as a_proof of their want of judgment and taste, but rather as an indic.:tion of buth, as they probably conceived that the intrinsic quali ties of the piece did not promise dramatic longevity. As it is, however, the comic efforts of DowToN, HARLEY, OXBEaRY, Mrs. ALsOP, Mrs. BLAND, the musical exertions of the List ; of 'V. CooKE, Miss ByRNE, !And Miss CUBIT'', and the gr.iver labours of Pore and H. Jolla- STosis, could not secure it from a critical storm iv bleb assailed it in its progress, and teas so viu- Iva an the conclusion as to prevent it from being audibly announced for repetition. OLD BAILEY, Dec. 13. The Sessions terminated this day, and the fol lowing prisoners received sentence of death : Edward Hoo!ter, William Harding, George West, William West, Henry Ellis, Sarah Franks, James Somers, John Knight, John Wells, William Seymour, Thomas Chandler, John Attell, and trotorge Bolton, for hurglaries: William Hatchman, Charlotte Newman, and Mary Anne Janice, fur for ; John Wyatt,.for horse-stealing; John Router, John Dainty, Thomas Pearson, John Holmes, Frederick Carrick, Casbmore Israel, John Wills, and Joseph Hempstead, for stealing to the amount of Os. and upwards, in dwelling - - houses; William Gogerly, and SOH) Whitford, for stealing privahly in shops to the value of ss. and upwards; James Crookshanks, Edward Harmer, Thomas Reed, John Jones, and Thomas Leonard, for highway robberies. The following were sentenced to transportation for life : John Brown, J. Thomas, T. Hurley, L. Lazarus, G. Henry, J. Walters, J. Hornton, E. Lee,. C. Stanley, Harriott Phil lips, P. Flanagas;,- and J. Billington. Fur 14 Years Storey, It. Davis, S. Clifton, .1. Wil son, J. Williams, J. Kempt, J. Woodrutfe, J. Blake, and William Sherwin. For 7 )ears: -50 convicts,—One was sentenced to two years' imprisonment in /ha House of Correctioa ten to one par : and a number of others to less perinds. Two to be p l ibliclv, and four privately whipped. The judgments of Buttery and WlCanizira, convicted of forging the will of a seaman, were respitod son- a point o law, to be referred to the decision of the Twelve Judges.— Srxeral were distharged by p od a mation. The .Sessions adjourned to Wednesday, the 14th of January. THE Lai?: - PRINCESS tl-1- 4 41L011 a It is not without great reluctance that vet pro ton:: the aiscriss'ion of a most a l fticting subject..— .AS, however, the interest attached to that sub j,:ct Las by no means lessened in the Minds of our countrymen ; but still excites a aegree of solici tude far above the impulse mere cariosity, tre feel it to be our duty to insert anothe ' r tette'r from a amtleninn Who, intrePia sincerity atilt manly ftankneS;, has given his name to the world. hare received many articles on •lifs . , ci►oly topic, but, as they were Anonymous, we did not think it proper to insert them, and we shall now conclude the subject, unless something very striking and important should occur. We ►egret the necessity of entering into technical points and anatomical desctiptions ; but they are intended for Prot i eSsiOnal Readers, and if such are satisfied With the reasoning and illustrations of the Writer, thelr Opinions will, of course; be sa tisfactory to Iteifers in general. . , LETTER THE ,SECOND. . O? TI- lf NECESSITY OF A. PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO THE CAUSE OF THE DEATH ; .OF HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE Atill HER INFANT. . . 4 It was expected that on the first day of the month of Deceinher,the Monthly Journal or .'Re pository would be prosyided with something as an explanation of thr conofict of the Medical Gen . denten, namely, lirs.Balitte, Sims, and Sir RICHARD CROFT, during their attendance on her late Royal Highness the PRINCESS CHARLOTTE, and that expectation has been realized. The same Monthly Journal has announced, that these three Gentlemen do not mean to give any ex planation themselves, (f they can felp it) there fore my observations must he addressed not to them, but to the Editor of this Monthly Journal. This Monthly Journal, as most of the Medical Journals are, has been long known to be attach led to the interests of Sir EVERARD LioNIE, Dr. BAILLIE, and the ',venire Rooms in Windmill street. %Viten I perused the Report which this Journal has given, I must confess that I was as tonished to find, notwithstanding all the pains' that were taken to make out a plausible case, that even a plausible case was not better made out. And further, to spew that the active in dustry of the le),:rty, who are now shunning the event of a Public Enquiry, was ingeniously em ployed to spread their plea and extend it ai touch as they could for the in,pection of the public eye, they have for that purpose engaged The Times Newspaper to assist them in this 'most critical dilemma ;•—that very Times Newspaper which, by a dottb/e. meanine, seemed to insinuate on the 14th of Novemher, the day after toy lett,:r ttp- Ite.sretl in " " ' lie SUN" on the 13.11 in the even ing, Ora 1, or some one else for me, had applied to t h e said Times Newspaper to re-publish any Letter. This I deny, both for myself antrothers ; it never was applied to. But to come to the po'nt, the statement, as it,is given in the Monthly Journal, t»ight have been thought ample for the intOrmatioti a the medical world at least, but the Party was fearful that the popular torrent of my tinnier Letter had carried it beyond the reach of influence or information of that statement which was Confined tO Medical Literature ;—the Patty feared that by compari son, the wings which bore (lie productions of Medical Journal would flap, and become too much jailed to undertake a competition with my hum ble, but, I trust, honest Letter. The Party has been thus tempted, as consulting best •heir satety and their interest, to call in and to invoke to their aid the popularity of The Times Newspaper, in order to expedite their missive after mine. First of all, I will dispatch the Report of The Times Newspaper. The Editor says, that what he has given is from the London Medical . Reposi tory ; he does not say that he has given extracts from it ; but the fact is, that lie has left out - all the essence of the case, Is hid) would tend _to prove the true cause of the death of her Royal Highness the PRINCESS CHARLOTTE ; if he had put nothing:into his Paper, hut that which he has lett out, the true Cause of her Death would have been clearly pointed out by it. The labour that has been employed by this dili gent active party, a party of the first influence in this City, has been so employed, as by every means to make out the most plausible plea to meet the public eye ; but not content with that, the party has endeavoured by all means to suppress what might be said on the other side of the ques tion. lam glad that they acknowledge and feel so sore at the questions that l put in toy former Let ter, about, ‘vhetter Dr. Sims had ever been in the Chamber of the much lamented Princess, not withstanding he signed his name to three well au thenticated Dispatches, vulgarly called Bulletins. I, say that I am glad, because the truth seems to have hurt them. they having received it as a re proof. What I then argued on'the impropiiety of such an unprecedented practice, I had argued, as they thought, by guesses; and I hope that it will be always found in every question during ibis Inquiry, that I shall offer to the Public, my guesses will be so realized. It now stands con fessed, that Dr. Sims never was in the Chtonber of the Princess, till he entered it a - quarter be fore 12, at ni;ht, together %vitt) Dr.. BAILIAE, when her Royal Highness was in a elyh state I shall now take leave of Dr.•SrMS; and put into his hands, as a keep-sake, the following quotation front Lucretens " Quandoquidern cErpiut.l•Wieno ex ore ; petuntque Kr, .‹x ;tuditis " Not kona se l-knowedp they their.facts onfold; But build opinion upon what 1.1,:y a, e This experiment' will stand for ever as an .ex. ample that it shall not be tried again. .It is it settled point, only with the difference of tbfet hoaxi, I saying, that ber Royal Higlow.s was delicrted at the end of 47 hoots A , lth Sit RICEIARD (: _stotrp, at 50 hours ; that the / Princess was deliverd by her natutal efforts of o'still-burn • • • t )14 , 11,e MO that t Velti • Weefuesnia at .nine.;ss'elasels. It ,svas concei:sed.'( ,, l are odd) l . hat the rnigbt be de a d on, IVOnesttay a ,t nocol, rth,t it Might be born in a state. of suspended anima; fun so that hom o'clock /0. o'clock, t berc the liberty„ at least . , for the verification.of the ,prognost:!c s atstl , supposition ; an. amule,titD jodging,sin such a state, of what was best to he dour. , . At half-past nine,that i 5, half an bons- after the IsirOt of the still,-boric Infant,, a discharvsof morrhage is said to have appeared ;--Sir Sir R/IAA : 11 rAtoFT.theo poisoned )r. Sims, who %vas. another chamber, together with Dr, Ilsieers, piously employed to resuscitate the Infant, who lust before had been suspected to be dead, for nor Jess han itine hours. (this is their psytt Report, how long before it, might be uncertain), whether or not, he should go about delivering the after birth; ,this from their, own Report also was at lialf s past nine, that is half,an hour after the spon taneous delivery of the . dead Infant. It was agreed between them, that the after-birth should he re mov,ed immediately; and accordingly Sii Rion ARD CROFT went aboat the result of which, by the words from the Morahly Journal, which I have before, me, .was " that this delivery of 'be after birthwas effected with ,little difficulty, and waa followed,hy a very trifling discharge, either of fluid or coagulated blood." But notwithstanding .these favourable appear ances yishich the Monthly Journal has reported, such as that " great discharge followed the birth, or after-birth (mark this), ,it was soon dis covered, ,that the Uterus was acting irregularly, and taking on the hour-glass contraction, an unfa vourable separation of the Placenta wets antici pated."—According to this Report, this same anti cipation was a thing rather dreaded than actually happened ; for the Reporter says, " that the Princess was now as well, and composed, as La dies (women) usually are immediately after deli very." So far the . Editor; for I beg to be under stood, that it is front the authenticated documents of this Gentleman, that I take up my argument upon the question; 'and which, he says, lie has ft ow authority. If the Reader will but parse at this moment, and which is about ten o'clock at night on the Wednesday, for it was at half-past nine Dr Caore bewail to take away the after-birth, or in other words, about five hours before our beloved Prin cess expired, lie will see nothieg but fair weather, the fairest hopes, the fairest proshects, the bright est halcyon moments ; the room was left, and, every body went to sleep. Now I question this, exactly in the same man ner that I questioned Dr. Stms's ever having been. in the distill - it?t of the Princess. The esedical Gentlemen, ins it remembered, have not yet sign ed any authentic dispatch, since that which an nonncvil the birth of the still-born Infant ; there fore we know nothing from them directly, of what passed ou the manual delivery of the after-firth'; (the ()sly manual operqt ion performed by the Doctor) ; awl it is corioos to remark, that as the manual delivery of the at'er-bistii commenced only half all hour after the•clelivery of the lof.tot, that the well-anthetoicated Do , p,itcl) with their. mimes annexed to it, and which alas their 111S1, was not kept back until such toms as the import ant event of the deliver , of the after-birth had taken place ; and more especially, sis every 01 . 1'14 had gone oil so w,ll. The questions I have to ask are,. First, NVl.erh i er, during the manoal ex traction of tire after-Becht, the Princess ;lid nut express more pain tha:l she had ever expressed, upon any &miner occasion, d. , ring the tort y-sevea or t . ty boors of her delivery ?—Second, ‘Vhet her, .as the event has proved since by dissection, that the uterus had assumed the hour-glass Contras:- lion, it was not provoked to it by the ni:lntell de livery of the after-birth at that time ? These are my two questions.—l should not put these tr..s tions it I had not it (Otinilaliith for it, no !note than I should in my former Letter have pit that to Dr. SIMS. In the fewest words t tir<ill just exploit) a little.—The long protracted labour had exhausted the muscular action of the uterus, so that it had not a command over its oath muscular contraction, and of course only allowing half an hour after the delivery, the museular contraction could not but be feebly proceeding, if it did proceed at ail, and of course, it the after-birth he then taken away, the surface from which the hetnorrhagejlowed must have been larger, and the orifices of the hhisd vessels must also have been moie open, than it the uterus had had time to become more contracted. It is a question there ore, if the ir•egolar action of the uterus 'night not have been brought ou by the process of nature being interrupted by the process of art. That oscine which had effecter'- the partto:tion of a dead child being thus hrokcie iii upon, SO soon after delivery, but not at the dc livery, so that it was nset one pain, but two pains, one after the other. I will explAitt mysdl : by exemplification—it I carry a weight in one Iciest for a Seri.?.s of time, that hand `will become so ex cessively tired, as not to be able to heir the weight any longer ; if I give the sante hand tinge for re , covering its strength, it iv It bear the weig:Lt +,ain . 'Let it be admitted that the delivery of the after birth t*: Hs effected by ten o'clock at TliOrt, auk that the room was cleared or wedicill Gendeme:k from that time to a (ptarter before tw elve, i is only aft hour and three quarters. The Reporter of the Medical Journal says that she was " frequently small supplies of nourisl:ment ; but at this time sire became ret•tless, end rather talkative , (what is meant by rather), and com pl a i ne d ~t 1 being, sick ; there is not a word s:1;d about dm gruel, and chicken broth, she really-was sick, for she vorni(ed, but nothing ‘va.s ejected except a little camphor julep, which the Editor wisely says she had taken, and she again u.-15coniposed. At halt past twelve, however - ,• the E:lit or says" the breath ilL4 became iMpeded, the respie,kiory nr;.faiis . evidenllN under the in hence of spa Syn, t7rrrl eonti ulled itr that stu'e till she breatheti her test at half . - past two o'clock excittly jive hours ,and a half aft& her delicery,--0 tar the Editor. The ittuch-t 0-be-lamented Yt incess, I am sorry to say, htwars tc, twy mulerstanding to have brert in a sitnisiou past all human art at a quarter o'clock—that is only one hour a ad three q , :ax. ters alter the manual extract ion of tile alter-birth and during this hour and 'tlires (platters • that