The Sun. — London, England, 1817-09-06 00:00:00

roll. IHE SUN. LETTEg. IV. ItEFOIII OF PARLEA:tIENT. .111 R. Ent - rott,—As we are now tranquil, arid cotnparatively free from factious discussions, let, US endeavour to settle, if reason Can settle it, the great question of a ° RP:Foam oe. PAttLiAmENT. To cut the dispute ai short as possible, let uS consider only taco pat; ; 1.4, those who are sa "tislied with Parliament as it is ; and 2d, those ossilao would have it altered, in some way or other, according to their particular notions of R•seoatq. "che former party have in their favour the strong bold of experience. A century has note past, and a year beyond it, since Parliaments were made septennial. In which period, whether we have advanced or whether gone backward, in any of the 'particulates which constitute the happiness or the glory of a nation, is a question which will admit, I apprehend, of only one answer ; and that the most satisfactory. The couclosino is—being will, let us remain so. Noluigus lieges Tie other party, who wish for a change, op pose theory to experience.. They who Whnt Change in the duration of Parliaments ought to know that Triennial Parliaments have been twice tried (in 1640 and 1694), and twice rejected. - But the greater part think the Representation it self more or less imperfect. It scents, however, not h;• nt: ver y paradoxical to assert that, as far as , representation implies resemblance, •an opulent, enlight emit d, maim', must be best repre sented by au opulent, enlightened, liberal set of Legisators ; and that whatever tends to introduce needy, ignorant, and desphate men into its Sc. nate, must tend, in the same proportion, to destroy the reAeniblance ; .and to corrupt instead of int . proving its Council. But if the Parliament con sist already; for the most purr, of opulent, en liehtened, and liberal men, what new quality . seould the Reformers wish to introduce into it, by their alterations. Here they will answer, at once, INDEPENDENCE. They would have a set of men • riot to be moved or biassed by the power or in ileence of the Crown. But they must be moved by sonte influence, or they would not be men.— By elrose influence then should it be ? By that of the People. The people then are wiser, and more •to he trusted, than the Crown. But why have you a King ? To govern the People. That is, to, govern, tficre who are, by your provisions, to, go vern him. For if they gov er n hi s c hi e f Council, .they must eventually govern him. What then is this, bur, like Shakspeare's drunken sailors, to mike one a. King, and another Viceroy over hint? Dies th e I , ertection of a Government consist in being ineffectual ? Or would that be a perfect • machine, teltich having • one weight or spring to ne>ve it, should have another of equal or sopetior power to prevent its moving ? • 13 , ': perhaps some great evils arise front what is. called the imperfect stal'e of our represent a. :Linn ! Soule persons, perhaps. or number of . persons, are unhappy or oppressed, because they aia nor represented ; or some Members of Par t_ fiatneur art ialproprly, because they do not act for any particular body of people. It raay•safely and positively be Lsserted, that none are unhappy un this -account ; unless they have been taught to be so by Arbitrary theories, or visions of improve ment. That none can be oppressed on this se ct-pint is most certain, since all, whether repre sented or unrepresented, are equally under the . Idles, which are most mild, beneficent, and mer ciful. But, in fact, none are unrepresented; since every Alember, when once be enters the House, represents his proportional share of the whole empire. Observe too, that in all time fer mentations which have been raised on pretence of a Reform in Parliament, no strong or earnest ef forts have ever been made by those large towns which at present send no Members : nor by those parts of the Empire, which, according to theory, have not their proportionable share of representa tives, No 1 The stir has always been made by ?shells to these places; whose endeavour is to force representation upon them, even against their will. But perhaps the Members who are not elected according. to theory act improperly in consequence; and such a man is a bad ►Member of Parliament, because he sits for a rotten borough, How rotten those places may be in themselves, I know not ; but cettainly . they communicate no part of their rottenness to time Members who represent them. Nor can this be honestly denied by any one who reflects, that through this very channel our most illusirioos patriots and statesmen have usually found their way into Parliament. Let then Ap pleby, Oakliampton, Mahnsbury, Wendover;hold up their heads, since they first introduced to pub - lie notice the two PITTS, father and son, Fox, . and ButtKE ; and let the other close boroughs take courage with them for similar services ; since , if they had not been what is called rotten', young men of genius, but unknown to fame, could never ~.I)ave forced their way into them. What place did Mr. HORNER represent, lately so much and so justly lamented ? First St. Mawes, and then st. Ices. What borough introduced the late Speaker into rarlidment ? Helston.—These men brought 110 poison of rottenness with them into the Par liament ; but became the glory of it. Shall we then he proud of the men, and ashamed of the -Mode by which their services were obtained 1— Theory says, Yes. But Common-sense says, No : convinced that no Reform is wanted in a Parlia ment into which the worst reputed boroughs have • introduced the best and ablest servants of the But will Common-sense be heard ?—Never, while Faction has so loud a voice. But be as sured of this, that till Reason shall silence Fac• tion, there can be no prospect of tranquillity for the Country; nor any unalloyed enjoyment of the practical benefits which our inhnitable Constitu tion.secures to us. Experience is certain : The ory hazardous. Hold then to the first, and dis card the second ; however specious her pretences may be. Whither she may lead you is uncertain. But to stand firmly, where you hare long stood gloriously, is Safety, Wisdom, Virtue. SOIF.RS, NEXT laNrSbA V '7ll-k tOTTEIty • Ifilaff , t ANDFINISH—ONLYI,9OIt4MII3ERS—VoIeIi" SAND POUNDS MAY BE GAINED BY ONE I'lUhl- Bial—rnizEs ALL StERT,ING MONEY. - . THEATRICAL RZGISTER. 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LONDON, B,ITURD.IY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1817. We received last night anti this morning the Paris Papers of 'Tuesday and Wednesday last.— The Moaiteur of the former day contains three Royal Ordonnances respecting the Peerage : the first relating to the annexation of estates to titles, for the better support of them by those who suc ceed to them ; the second, respecting the forms of fetters patent of Peerage, the registry of them, &c. ; and the third; arranging the respeetive rank and titles of Peers and their sons, anti containing a list of the whole French Peerage. The Monitcur of Wednesday contains a Royal Ordonnance, ap pointing the Skor BeHart, Councillor of State, Procureur General to the Court of C4ssat ion, Presi dent of the Electoral College of the Department of the Seine for the session of the 20th inst., for the election of Deputies, and 20 Vice Presidents, for the different sections. Anothtr Otdonuance arranges the division of the Electoral . College of the Seine into 20 sectioni. We give in our last page some extracts from the Papers of Tuesday ; the following are extracts from Wetineseby's Journals. It will he seen it is now stated that the King of Yrussia Was expected at Cambray PAR.IS, SEPT. 3 —Monsieur (Count d'Artois) dined yesterday at Neuilly with the Duke and puchess d'Orieatis. " The Duke Sind Duchess de Berry (Hued yes terday with tilt King. " Extract of a letter from Carat-ay, August 28th--The Doke of Wellington will arrive shortly at his house at Mout St. Martin, where al/ his family are assembled. The King of Prussia is also expected here from Paris, and the troops composing our garrison have received orders to render military honours to the Monarch. A great commercial house at Riga is con tracting a Loan for the Russian Court in Ger many. The banking-house of Rothschild has subscribed, in the name of the Grand Duke of Hesse, 1,500,000 rix dollars. " A Cabinet Council, consisting of the Ministers Secretaries of State, the Cardinal de la Luzerne, the Chancellor, the Count Beugnot, the Count Ferrand, all four Ministers of State ; the Count Portacis, and Colville Jourdan, Councillors of State, assembled on Monday, for the second time, rit the hotel of the Duke de Richelieu. It is sup posed they .were occupied with the laws to he presented to the Chambers, in consequence of the new Concordat. " An old maid, named Dticlanx, (lied at Tou !Ouse the 25th ult. aged 101. " FIVE PER CENTS. " Alauday, 68 f. 70 c.—_.—T..siesda.y,. f. 70 c, " MAnain, Ave. 21.—The Queen is as well es can be expected, after her acconchement. " The Infant Princess was baptized this day at noon, by the name of Maria Isabella. " IHSPRUCK, Auo. 20.—Yesterday, a t 5 i n th e afternoon, irre bad here a shock of an earthquake, so violent that it caused the ringing of a bell in one of our churches. The motion was felt in a much greater degree in the houses on the banks of the Inn than iu those within the town. "DRESDEN, AUG. 22.—Some days since a report was generally circulated that the Landwehr of Silesia had refused to take the oath required of them, de claring, that during war they were desirous of be ing volunteers in defence of their country, but that, during peace, the organization and exercise of the Landwehr would be superfluous and injurious to business, and • the arts and sciences,, These reports are partly true and partly erroneous.— A great part of the Tianthvehr of Breslau were assembled at the cemetery of Saint Pho4. near that city, GI proceed tce take the oath, when a superior Offic:'er gave orders to another OarCer not to allow the banditti to disperse. All the men of the Landwehr,justlY irritated at the term banditti being opplied to thertl, prneethd to the Town-house, signifying that they would not serve any longer, unless satisfaction was given to them, - and that it was besides declared by !he Authorities, that the Landwehr were not a ban ditti. The Civil,and Military Authorities promised to exaMine the affair with the greatest rigour. The snperior Officer was called and interrogated, who excused himself on the gronnd of his not in tending any offence. At length, after some diffi culties, the affair was arranged, and the Land-. nehr of Breslau took the oath of fidelity which had been regnired of them. " SAINT GALL, AUG. 23.—Madame de Kru dener has been refused admission into the Aus trian territories, and having been refused per- mission to remain in Switzerland, she was es corted to Constance, where the Badese Autho rities received her pro tempore, but from whence she has received orders to depart without delay. " Aladame de Krudener has considerable sums at her disposal, receiving from various quarters Bills of Exchange. The agents and officers of Pulice have been threatened by her with eternal punishment. " VIENNA, AUG. 23.—The Prince de linfro, the Neapolitan Minister Plenipotentiary to our Court, returned here the. day before yesterd.,y from Carlsbad. " FRANKFORT, AUG. 30.—The Uoion of the Lutheran and reformed Churches is expected here, and may take place lir other German States, but it is not probable that a general union of these two Churches will take place throughout Germany, as some statesmen and literary men seem to think. MADRiD, Aue. 2l.—There is again a talk of an atnne,ty, and Ferdinand VII. has himself solemnly declared that be wishes to see all his subjeets united around! his Throne." We are desired to contradict a paragraph which Appeared in The Times, stating that " it is cur rent throughout the better informed circles, that our Government, although it cannot regularly permit, has not directly prohibited British Officers on half-pay from repairing to join the Patriotic Standard in South America."—We arc desired po sitively to state, that no such report is current in lie better informed clicks. Indeed we nre stir- prized that we did not notice this paragraph in The - Times before our attention was drawn to wards it, as it is totally at variance with what we positively contradicted in the Mornins - Chronicle, when it presumed to assert, that under the power ful mediation of Russia, Great Britain, and other Maritime Powers, had bound themselves to assist Spain in subduing her Insurgent Colonies. Our Readers will remember we hinted, that rather than take part in any warlike efforts with Spain for that purpose, it was more likely that Great Britain would offer her mediation to effect, by pacific means, a reconciliation between those Colonies and the Mother Country. We desire our Readers to bear in mind this intimation. But, to return to The Times. It proceeds to say, that the best way to pre.:sut English subjects, not immediately em ployed in the public service, from engaging in fa vour of revolted Colonies, is ta.:withdraw from them their Sovereign's protection ; and to " this • extent the plan of embarking in the':canse of the Spanish Patriots has, we presume, been diFcoun tenanced by Administration." IV e would ask The Times, how Government were to understand that such enterprizes were undertaken by English Officers, unless regularly informed that such was the case. We can assure The - Times, that if appli cation had been made to Government for permis sion, it would have beers decidedly refused, and the parties would bare engaged in. them at their own peril, here as well as abroad, for, in fact, as we are in amicable alliance with Spain, we ought, whatever our private sentiments and feelings may he, to consider the revolted as rebellious Colonies, and therefore Spain . might justly be incensed if we took part, openly or by connivance, in their cause. We shall now drop the subject. But we must be permitted to t mind Our Readers, that when The Morning Chronicle first published the alleged Manifesto of MAntA Lot ISA as an anthentic.Dovstment, we treated it as an impudent fabrication of the friends of Buo- NAPAa-re, who are incessantly attempting to dis turb the peace of the Continent, and our R ea ders will find in our Paper of yesterday, the, in an article, under the head of VIENNA, 'dated Aug. 21, there is an extl'act from the Austrian Observer, which, no doubt, by the ex press curnmand of the Austrian Go'vernment, says, " We hereby declare that this piece, framed by the enemies of peace and order in Europe, is a forgery from the beginning to the end."—Such we at first described it, wilco. tnoit ()Laic News- 7 . . . . .ccilsider it is 1:1:th;;;.zit7; tdd . ciliatkiki 41 them cipreastd doubti ou subject: (Froiit, eke M , rt; Cnnemerciat .Idrertiscr of ,4trg. 6l Should the Floridas be ceded by Spain, :O . ', generally eftpected; the United States will in Pensacola the fineit Port, next to Havani ol '; in the whole gulf of haVing 24 feet ° , water on its bar, it trill fohn du excellent 1 0 0 station, and is likely to beethiie a place of derable eointnetee, as it will eimitnai - ni the trO of all the Rivers into the gulf, from Mobile cast, ward to the Appalachicolo. It may be even e‘ pected that it will draw to its market a coiiiie able proportion of the products of the Upper Settic: ments, on the Al a b a m a , as t h e nav i gat i on o f River, above Fort Claiborne, is not a little di ls ' cult, and excellent roads may be made to Pens° cola with little cost or trouble. The Alligator, Athrou, from London to V ; Vincent's, was boarded on sth July, in hit. 0 1 20. long. 22. 10. by a schooner privateer of 7 gol l and 86 men, said to be the POpoik, of Buell° Ayres, and was plundered of some wine, potato and oats. The privateer captured, 10 days before! a Spanish ship, and sent her for atenos A y res/ Some of the crew rep or t e d, t h at two d a y s befor ° they had fallen in with the Spaniard, they tiered an English brig, and afterwards fired into her till she sunk, with all the crew. ANOTHER STATEMENT.—By accounts from Bar' badoes, of July 27, r ece iv e d in town this mot , ' inn, we learn, that the privateers do not confive themselves to the capture et any particular Flog , vessel put on LLoYn's books: The rilligator, Cupti ASHTON, from Loudon to Harhadoes, Was plo' as we this day have an instance, in the case oil tiered tith July, lat. 28. 20. long. 22.10. by schooner privateer of 7 guns and 86 men, Englishmen; one of whclut was recognised by the Cook of the Alligator to have been with his Majesty's ship illusquito. The privweerstmy demanded the whole of the Alligator's crew will' threats and abusive language. EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM TUE AGENTS LLOYDS, AT BUENz•S AYRES, DATED suvE 17. " The brig, called the General "'ragas, 14 fitting. out for a crnize she will womlt 10 ggillb and hav , ! SO men on board, i! is expected %vial caul a commission from Artigas against the Portuguese." WINDSOR , SEPT. s.—This wornin:i Ler MAJESTY and the Princess ELI BET tI t WI airing to Frog:note. Princesses AunusTA and Sopol4 tonk .their usual airing on houselmck.—The of CLARLNCF; arrivutl at the Castle, from Mistiel • FUNDS.—We issue been favoured with t he following explanation of the transaction to whirll we recently alluded :—A Jew had on the day, namely, that after the settling day, to receivo a large balance for differences of a Christian, and also a smaller amount for cash transactions t , ot connected wi:h the settling : titans were given but at the revest of the Christi-in the Jew be inanely promised to hold them tiii the next dr.v• by which he made them his own, and it became A transaction of money lent. iesrerday Count NiuNSTER $lllll COMPt LIEv24 audiences of the PRINCE REGENT at CaritQa House. Accounts from the Pi - ontiers of France noti c e the admirable state of discipline. observed by the, Army of Occupation. The most Perfect harmony exists between them and the inhabitants, who, by the permission of the Duke of WELANG - ron, are assisted by the troops of the riht. tying in get ting in the harvest, which is very, Wound'ant. We are sorry to state the death of Capt. CAMP' Batt., the able and zealous Coitn,inder of the unfortunate, hnt ll-tneaur en , lenvour to ex' pore the interior of Africa. A letter from Sierra Leone of June 30, ivhielt reached us yesterday, states, that intelligence of the loss had arrived at that place a few days before. Capt. CAxii'BELL waS reported to have died of a broken }wart, and the Expedition was expected to !Thin). Th,.! 5-ecowl Naval. Officer in co n irnat u l, who halt beet> left at Sierra Leone on account of ill-health, hit eras recoveted, and on his way to join the &sprite- , :ion, returned to •Sierra hearing o f Captain CAMI , EZZ.L'S death, to consult the Go vernor Opon the future conduct of the Expedi tion. A dispatch . was immediatery sent home its Lord BATH 1.7 plornipg ifer c ,llJ ) Tait 130WAGFIR N‘itCHIONESS of StlGo.—We were sorry to receive an account, last tight, of the death of the l> . o.vager Marchioness of !St.sco, rat.Amstettlatn, where she was expecting Sir LIAM SCOTT front Switzet /and, in order to return with him to F.olo,4ivi. Perhaps, as her decease is dated so far back th e 20:h of last month, and has not been ravotio ne d before, some hopes may he entertained that the statement will prove un trne. Her Ladyship wns burn on the 9th of De cember, 767, Alia W;l3 the vonngest 04ughter arid co-heiress of the late gallant E4:l Hoit E. in 1787 she was married to the late Marquis of Sucto, by witmn she had :s son, the present Marquis. To her second husband. Sir WILLJANS SCorr, 'she was married about five years since. Tier Lady ship waS in the remainiler to the English Barony of Howg, now possessed by her elder sister, who inlrried t he Hoooorable PRN AStietoN CURZON. Miss CURZoN, the niece of the MArehioness, was her coostArlt companion. Her La:iyship was a woman of much literary accomplishment.— (Morn- Thr a Id.) . zxxr . Al Nekv 13ER: .150( littnt the tun ; has her 80b< Ge 9 bat tli 44 b% Voi Floc off Cza Call Lite Vitt pirt 103 the 2:1t! Cat Litt fax .illl gch, Loi sliii