The Sun. — London, England, 1817-12-30 00:00:00

MR. HONE'S SUBSCRIPTION MEET! CusTom-HOUSE, Dec. 29.—Ships entered in- 1 LADY HESTER STANHoPa, AND LORD AND LADY neemotta, &C. czar d : The Prince of Waterloo , —, front Ostrod ; Heart of OA, The t mail from Malta brought accounts from Nicholson, from Dantzic; Pilot,Ovenstan; front Memel ; Tra- several t yellers, persons of the first distinct tart, Ivellet,liowes, front Eiubden; Britannia, Browo, and Caro .Tune Jan, Grand, from Rot- Inrotigh Syria, Egypt, and the Grecian Islands, Vine, Stare, from Gottenhort; l l) tertian); Liddle, En g lisli,frous Norway; and the Kate, South, scatty of which have reached out hands. ',Ay grow Peters burgh. Hester Stanhope has taken up her residenc e at O ut ward—the Creole , Martin , fo r St. Michael's; Planter, , 13rnd, for Demarara ) Elliott, jun. for water_ t he convent of Mir Elias, near Bayreuth, on the Stei; industry, Arni,,•ton, for Antwerp; and Loyal Briton, coast of Syria. Her Ladyship's influence is con- Insingteuu, for .I.onaica. siderable throughout the country, and her pa tronage a certain security.—She does honour to English hospitality by her manlier of living, awl many of our Scavans tierce, within the last year, left her abode with sentiments of gratitude and admiration. Monsieur Baudin, her Ladyship's Dragoman, or Interpreter, is mentioned in terms of approbation, for his politeness and attention to the visitors at Mar Elias. The Earl and Countess of Beltnore, and the whole of their ac complished and interesting party, wLre at Cyprns during the latter end of the summer. They then proceeded in his Lordship's yacht to Baltic, the ancient Sidon, ou the coast of Syria. '!'here, tin their arriv.it, they found the Dragennlll of Lady H. Stanhope, waiting to conduct theta to her Ladyship's place of residence, whither Lot d and Lady 13elmore, and the youths, their sons (who accompanied them throtigiwut their extensive awl vaiied journey), the pri , atte tutor, paysician, and, others 01 their party, proceeded. To visit Jertts 3- tem, we understand, was the peat object with which our travellers reached the port of Sidon ; hut it %,;45 discovered 'that there was no harbour in t.e entire coast of Syria, sufficiently secure to otect a vessel from casualties which might occur during the time necessarily spent in a journey from tle coast to the Holy City, and the design was given up in consequence. Daring their s tay in Syria, the noble travellers employed ,heinselves in geographical inquiries ; and, we understand, they sat;sfied themselves that the Bible contains a better history of the country, with 'nova geogra• phical distinctness and precision, than is to be touted io any other book, descriptive of the Pagan countries of antiquity. From Sidon, Lord Bel more and his suite proceeding to Acre, not re nowned for tiny thing so much as for the noble de fence of it by Sir Sidney Smith. From the Sytiac coast his Lordship set sail for Alexandria, where the travellers remained for a fortnight ; and front thence they all proceeded to Grand Cairo, in I ,. .ypt, where they were on the Bth of October last. In this place they were waited for by a few persons well known for scientific researches, who were ready to proceed on a mission set on foot by his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, to compare the accounts given by the French Scavans of the course of the Nile, with the real state of things. Het e the two parties having united, prepalations were mode to ascend the Nile, for the purpose of scientific exploration, which was expected to be greatly facilitated by the mathematical apparatus which Lord Behnore had with hint, more particu larly for ascertaining the exact latitude of places. The ascent of the Nile, as far as time first cataract, may be made with facility, as every body knows ; and we are glad to be informed by correspondents, professionally employed lit the undertaking, that the ascent of the second cataract is perfectly easy. For' the sake of persons long valued by their native country, and every where honotned, we are glad to be assured, from the very best authority, that the country through which our Missionaties in science were about to travel, is in the utmost re po neither tumult nor disease bring at present known—the Pashaw's power dreaded and obeyed, while the British name is held in reverence. The expedition, it was calculated, would conclude shout Mardi ; after whicla Lord Belmore-and his party were understood by our literary Correspon dents, who had met his Lordship in Egypt, to intend travelling by laud across the Isthmus of Suez to Gaza ; from thence to Jerusalem ; and passing by the Lake of Gennesareth, to Nazareth, to proceed through Tyre to Sidon, to rejoin Lady Hestor Stanhope; and afterwards to visit Balbec and Palmyra. It was calculated, that about April his Lordship would be met by his yacht (which, during his land excursion, remains at Malta) at Sidon—whence the design was to proceed directly for England.—(Morning Post.) REGISTER OF FASHION. . _ FASHION AULE ,111.1tIVALS. . 4 6ncliess of Wellington and family, Earl of. Chesterfield, *e Ladies tittiiihfipe, Lady Calendon, Countess Painsella, Itatty Gifford, Admiral and Lady L. Harvey. SPORTING. INTELLIGENCE. SrATENIENT O TI-1E ODDS ON THE DERBY AND OAKS sTAKF.S, t3l3.—Dr.c. 49. DERBY. Paten' a. to. I agst c. by Waxy, obt of Matonia. Taken 11 to 1 apt c. by Sorcerer, mit of Ilornhy Lass. 13 to t agst c. by 11'axy, out of ltingtail. taken 14 and 15 to I asst c. by Orville, out of Allegretto. to I agst llrothtt to Crecy. Taken 21) to 1. agst ch. c. Nlartnion, ottt of Lancashire Witch. Taken 20. to 1 agst c. by Selint,'out of Parasol. OAKS. to 1 agst Loa, by Waxy: 12 to 1 against any tither. Kit The odds at one time of the day were as high as 15 to t aT.,• - ainst the Allegretto colt, hot at the latter part 14 was ctuly offered. DISTRESSING EVENT --Sunday afternoon Mat thew Hirst, the son of Mr. Hirst, of the . Three Bats, Islington Green, a very promising boy, about 14 years of ay . ,. came to his death in the following aingidAr and unfortunate anner had returned from a boarding-sch m ool home to spend the Christmas holidays ; on Sunday after moon he was playing with his brothrr and sisters, all younger than himself, and said Id them," I will spew you how they hang tnen at the gal lows;" he procured a rope for the purpose, one end of which lie tie(l to a hook, and having got upon.- a stool, he fastened the other end round his neck ; he then either kicked the stool, or it tdl accidentally front under him. The children seeing his'tace going black, and his features distorted, they called to him, and asked him if lie was only " making believe ?" He not making any reply, they went to the bat to their mother, and said, 01 ) ! Mother, Mat is banging himself to frigh ten us." The mother not suspecting an event of so serious a nature had ()centred, and thinking the children were merely at play . , took no notice, until the porter went. into. the kitchen where the accident- happened, and found hill suspended ;' he was terrified and gave an alarm, and the boy was cut down immediately. Surgical assistance was sent for, and several .surgeons attended, but all their efforts to restore him proved unavailing, the spark of life basing fled. A poor but sturdy anthoi - once presented a book to JArvins the Second, in the Great Chamber at Whitehall, as he passed from the chapel, but omitted the tts,,Rl ceremony of kneeling to the King. The Duke of Itictimosn, who was in at tendance, said, " Sir, where did YOU learn the ;manners not to kneel ?" The author replied, " If it please our Grace, I do give now; but when I come to beg any thing. then will I kneel." The follnwing Letter has appeared in seve ra :Not hit) g • Pallet S ttir,—Olisereing u paragraph in your Paper respecting the cure or an Hernia, performed (of a large size) by the Medical Board, at Charlette-House, Great Charlotte-street, Bloa friars-road, in justice, Sir,to Messrs. COOPER and ro. I beg to add my personal testimony. Having been afflicted near twenty year, and deemed incurable by eminent Surgeons, I patiently bore any aillietion, expecting every hour to be my last ; I at length applied to the Medical Board, and have tea-. son to pray for that excellent Establishment, for although I am near 50, I was perfectly cured in a few weeks, and now, thank God, enjoy good health. 1 think, Mr. Editor, all who know me will allow that I can have ❑o other motive for this communication than a public benefit. ' 1 inn, Sir, your obedient Seryant, C. CLEVELAND. peg and Stile, near London-road, St. George's Fields ; Oct. 1817. Yesterday being the day appointed for holding a Meeting to consider ot the best means of rais ing a subscription to remunerate Mr. Hone for the tosses to which he has been subjected by the late Trials, at 12 o'clock several hundreds Of.persons assembled in the Great Room at the City ot Lori ,&)n 'laver). The busities.s of the d a y did not commence till ahont one o'clock. Before 'the Chairman entered the room, a paper was hand - - 1 ed round, on which the following Subscriptions were entered : A Member of - the House of Lords, and an enemy to per secution, especially religious persecution, employed for political purposes A Lady • 50 At ten minutes before one, Mr. ‘Vaitliman en • tered the room, accompanied by Sir F. Rol-lieu, Mr. Jones Bartlett, Mr. Pearson, Aldermen Good believe and. Thorpe, Mr. Wooler, Mr. Walker, Mr. Hitchins, &c. Mr. Warrn Ma:* took. the chair, . apd addressed the Meeting.—He regretted that a Inure able ;Ar son had not been appointed to preside, but he had never undertaken the performance of a (boy with more satisfaction than tiro the present occasion, becauSe no object cool(' be More important to the liberties of Englishmen than the object they now had in view.—With 114. Hone he had bad no previous acquaintance, and as to the parodies for which that Getoleman was prosecuted, he. didaiot sea one, of them•uotil after - the trial, He certainly batlanat muell-taste- for things of that deicription, but it , was 'known to the public, that this was the first nrosecution upon such grounds, and it could not .be doubted, that it those parodies bad been published in favour of Government, and in ridi cule of reform, the slightest notice would not have been taken of them. 'Had Ministers really fakes); them op. from regard to religion, the laW was trpen for them, and tiaey might have pro , eeded against Mr. Hone in the usual way ; hut the course which had been pursued, he maintain ed, was connected with the Suspension of the Habeas , Corpus. Here he took a view of the Reports of time Conimittees of both Houses of Parliament, on which the Habeas Corpus Sus pension Act had been :omitted. These Reports he strongly censured, and described Mr. Hone to have been dragged from his home, under the Act passed in consequence of their being made, and 'subjected to various oppressions before' he was brought to his trial. He (Mr. Waithman) bad attended the last clay's trial, and witnessed Mr. Hone's efforts in defence of the liberties of the people; he said the liberties of the people, for withbut the Freedom of the Press, and Trial by Jury, -there was no liberty for them.—The cause was so ably supported, that he (Mr. Waithman) resolved to do all he could to assist an indivi dual persecuted as Mr. Hone had been ; and this Meeting be stated to have been called in conse quence of certain resolutions come to by a few individuals who had been present at the last day's trial, and who in the evening of it had retired to a coffee-house in the vicinity of Guildhall, to take some refreshment together, They felt that Mr. Hone ought to be supported by his countrymen, and a Committee which had been formed had prepared certain Resolutions, which would Dow be submitted to the Meeting. Sir F: Be RDETf 'said, it would - take up too: . much time to express what he felt on tire import ance of the Liberty of the Press. It was their duty to stand up tor this, and for the right of Trial by Jury :.and next in importanee to these, was the duty of supporting a struggling honest fellow citizen, who appeared in danger of sinking under the most scandalcuS and hypocritical persecution. The proceedings against Mr. Hone, had in reality been', directed against the Freedom of the Press. Agreeing as he did with the worthy Chairman, in. What he had said of time importance of a Free Press and Trial by Jury, lie would go one step further, Hui sny there could be no solid support for either teithout a fair representation of the people in Par liament. He spoke at some length on time im portance of a Parliamentary Reform, and then returning to Mr. Hone, declared. the cooduct of that person np to the close of the trials to be such as merited the thanks of his country men.s He deserved those for the manner in which he had defeated the Judges and all the Crown. lawyers. Of the conduct of the Judges lie spoke in very severe terms, and declared nothing could be more flagrant aud disgusting than the oppression which bad been attempted. There was another person, he took occasion to say, who th served their best thanks for - time efforts he had made to get the old worn out Jury-list set aside, au+ the names of good 'men pot in their place. This, under a systeth of corruption like that which now existed, was as great' a service as any man could render to his countrymen ; to this they might ascribe the triumph of Mr. Hone, and thus the nation had had a foretaste of the advantages of reformation, and of the good effects of an appeal to the country. 'The doctrines which were pro. ruttle,ated by the Judge on the late trials, were in sulting to thecommon sense of time people, and were calculated to turn a most wholesome Act of Par liament into an engine of oppression. Never had any attempt of this sort been mote glaring than the construction put upon that Act, the pro feised object of which was to support the Liberty of the Press. The Learned Judges attempted a construction which was in direct opposition to the object for which it was framed ; for, according to them, the Judge on the Bench had right to act as Foreman of the Jury, and deliver his own verdict. And this with_ all due theatrical solemni ty—the hand upon the heart—at least the hand where the heart should be, -at - the same time re !Dimling them that they were acting tinder the solemn obligation of an oath of office, while they, in the conicientions discharge of their duty, felt themselves called' upon to direct the Jury to find time defendant guilty. Acting thus, it was his opi nion they were not borne out by the Act to which lie had referred ; if they were, the effect of it.was to place those for whose protection it was framed, in a worse situation than they stood before. 13ot Mr. Hone and an honest Jury had' pot the right construction upon' the Act, and they happened to put a very different construction -upon it from that of the Learned Judge. They could not be reit- Soned out of their own plain unsophisticated common sense ; they could see no guilt where the intention did not accompany the act, and colt. SHIP NEWS: PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 29,—Arrived the Franklin American 7 . 4 from Cowes ; she has anchored at Spithead, to wait a fair wind for the Me - diterra- Dean ; also the Isabella, MANN, from Havannah for Hambtirgh, and the Aaron, PHILIPS, from Dublin, with loss of boom. Sailed the Cam bridge, EvANs, for Jamaica. . ~LivenrooL, DEC. 28 —Arrived the Bridget, MAY, from Bombay; she sailed the 17th August, and from the Cape the 28th Oct. The Lonach, Princess Charlotte, and William Pitt;had arrived Bumbay.—The Alpha, Faosr, from this port for Poole, with coals, was stranded last night at South Port ; the Master, Mate, and two men saved—two men drowned. DOPER, DEC. 29. The John, Sftcocx, froM Boston for Portsmouth, with wheat i was towed in here to-day by a fishing smack,fhaving.lost her' sails and rigging, its consequence ,of her main plates breaking. HARWICH, Mac. 29.—Put in here the Louisa Frederica, PYBErtq, from Stockholm for Bristol, leaky, tosr her a nchors and cables, and otherwise Laving been run. foul cif at- c onsiderably aninag elt, sea—she must discharge to repair. YARMOUTH', DI3C• 29.—The Forsigtigheden, NVE,DEN; of and from Stockholm for London, is put in here with damage, and must discharge. FALMOUTH, DEC. 27.—Arrived the Eliza and Fox transports from Deptford for . Cork, and Good Intent, HAS', from Plymouth for St. Mi- sheet's. Cowrs, Dr,a• 29.--Arrived the Olive Branch, Ilays, from Demerara for London, with gre'at PRINCE LEOPOLD. We are concerned to state, that 'hiS Serene Highnesi has experienced a renewal of those rheumatic attacks which originated in his last visit to this -country, aggravated by the misery that he cherishes for the afflicting death. of his !Consort, which circumstances have induced the Prince LEOPOLD to retire to the village of Caine, about five miles distant from Weymouth, for the benefit of the air. Altfiongh much speculation leas been in:lulged in, respecting the - Prince's visit to his native land, we are authorised to assert, that nothing has hitherto been determined on this. subject. He himself has determined to retain all those domestics who attended the Princess • and, accordingly, Mrs. Lewis, who waited on her late Royal Highness front her infant years, and in whose arms the Princess died, is to be continued in his Serene Highness's house. Nothing is al lowed 10 be even touched that belonged to the wardrobe of the Princess. All is held sacred by her Prince. liven the large black . bonnet, and grey cloth coat, which she wore when taking an airing in the Park the morning of the Monday on the evening of which her Royal Highness was taken ill, are still objects of her widowed bus b nod's long and last regard. He sent •on Flitlay last for Mr. Dave, portrait painter to her late Royal Highness, to examine the likenesses ,which were taken of her. Claremont is also now under . going those improvements which were cunt' ut plated by the_Pritteass. HarAlanberg, the , seolptor, bf Mount-street, was also sent far on Friday, by Prince Leopold, to make a bus; of the Princess Charlotte, which he has been proceed ' lug with under the direction of the Prince, and Mr. Dawe, who was so well acquainteu with the formation.of her features, she havina sat to bins frequently for 'about . fifteen months. After the host was finished, yesterday morning, Prince Leopold, attended by Colonel Ad'lenhrok'e, left Claremont, in a coach and four, Cot Windsor, on a visit to the Queen and Princesses. The bust was )roved of. ENGLISH TRAVELLERS. :NG. es o 0 1 forming to the genuine princip England, they could not find a man ged!y 'who had no inteutiors of (miming ing an offence. •I he intention was tho gravamen ot 'the charge, and un less the intention was corrupt there could be no guilt. The fact, however, was, that be never knew a Lawyer able to form a common-sense idea you the subject of the law of libel Unfortn lately there was no settled anti defined law opork 'be subject ; and, indeed, so uncertain was the aw ot libel, that a man could hardly be able to in nine instances out of ten, when be had or had not written a libel. Nay, a man who set out with an avowed intention of writing a libel night fail of his object, though he meant to break the law. There were cases in which a man would be Ftstitiable in writing a libel ; for instance, where the object wits to eseeke his coutstrymen to a sense of some dangerous inroads upon their lie berty. Stich a person wishing to become an ho nest libeller might_ htil of eccninplishing his tie sign, so imperfectly . was the law deC - ined. Libel was, in truth, any thing which the Law Officers of the Crown could persuade twelve men, picked a nd c hosen be the ntstee of the Clown Office, to believe to be an tit:fence against his Majesty's Mi eistets. To Mr. Chitties Penrson's maely eXer+ I 101 l S however, was the -country •indebted for a change in this system of picking and cuffing Jory men. Formerly no right of selection was claimed by the Master of the Crown- Office. He was very 661 when waited upon, and trite indifferent ,abouewhowere chosen, and we:i he might be, for where all were under the influecee of the Crurn s - -,as his friend Mr. H. Tooke had once 5:11,1, it was like putting a dozen rotten oranges before a man, and bidding him choose which pleased him best. It seemed, however, that the Judges of the King's Bench had laid it dwelt as a bread position, that the Master of the Crown Office had a tight to no minate and choose the Jury from the Jury This was a position which was without any legal authority, and one which the common sense of the people would not endure. It was impossible to bear the people down with doctrines so diame trically opposite to the principles of common jus tice. Mr. hone, by his manly and courageous exertions, had achieved a public good; and in that sense must his recent painful trials be considered. lie remembered a story of a man going about with a lion, and putting his head in the lion's mouth. This he did many -titnes without sustain ing any injury ; 'but one day the lion wagged his tail while he was doing so, and the man lost his head. Mr. Hone bad his head in the lion's mouth, but, fortunately for hint, the lion had not wagged his tail, or probably his fate would have beets the same with that of the unfortunate showman, But, because he had not suffered, it ought not to he supposed that he had been in no -danger. The probability was, ring had a Jury been induced to give a verdict against him, he would have returned to his family no more. lie had•displayed, in a most perilous situation, talents which had done honour to himself, and in his (Sir F. Burdett's) mind, to his country, and his countrymen ought now to do that for him which should benefit bias for the rest of his life.—The lion. Baronet then read the following Resolutions :- 1. That the Liberty of the Press is one of the dearest rights and proudest distinctions of Englishmen ; and is inseparably connected with, and wholly dependent on, the purity of the Trial . by Jury. 2. Tam the inestimable importance of the sacred and COD• StltUtional right of Trial by Jury has never been more de monstratively Proved than by that recent prosecutions arid ho noureble acquittals of Mr. William Hone. 3. That Parodies on Scripture having been written and published - by Marlin Luther, the Father of the Reformation, by Dignitaries of the Church; and by other eminent and learned personages, down to the present time, we are per suaded that the exception taken to th°,Parodies of Mr. Bonet by the present Ministers of the Crown was to answer political purposes :teainst the Liberty of the Press. 4. T hit hypocritical prostitution of religion, and a pre teeded zeal for its defence, when used by corrupt Statesmen as a mark for political persecution, must ever be held by all sincere Christians as the worst profanation of its sacred name. 6. That it is evident from the manner in which those pro . - seentions were commenced and conducted, that the real ob ject of Ministers was not to protect religion; but to omit an apparently defenceless individual who had exposed their pidi tieni ‘!elinquencies, to stifle public discussion, to destroy thu Liberty of the Press, and to uphold existing abuse. 6. That the extensive knowledge, the varied talents, the manly intrepidity, the 'energy of mind, and the unshaken per severence which enabled. Mr. William Hone so dauntlessly to resist the reiterated assaults ot Ministerial persecution, ett , title hint to the gratitude and support of ever friend to con stitutional freedom. 7. That a subscription be now opened, and that the money which may be stiliscrilred be placed in the hands of a Com mittee, to he used in such war as shall appear to them best calculated to remote the permanent welfare of Mr. lions and his family. S. That the following Gentlemen he of the Committee : Robt. Waithmae, Joseph unb, William Store!), Alder man 'Fborpe, Alderman Goodbchere, Samuel Brooks, William Williams, William Teasdalte 9. 'That Robert Wait hman, Esq. he the Treasurer. Mr. Alderman Tnonee congratulated the Meet ing on the result of the late trials, and on the triumph of common sense over hypocrisy and so phistry. Ile Seconded the first Resolution. The Resolutions were then put by the Chairman seriatim., and carried unanimously. Mr. W AIT H MAN now observed, that he should have stated that there had already been subscrip tions to a very good extent received. lie was called on to read the-naMes, and immediately pro ceeded to do so. The two subscriptions which we have already mentioned were loudly applauded oil their being announced from thechair. Among the subscriptions read over, we noticed 101. from himself, and smaller sums from others of his fa mily. The following signatures were also of the number that attracted most attention, and called for the most fervent acclamations. A Lady, 501.—N0 Yuliticiaty 51.—N0 Parodist, but an ene my to persecution, 2th--Mr. 101.—Mr. Sturch, 101.—Pro Bono Public°, el. 25.—Aldermen Goodb,bere and Thorpe, ltd. each.—An Englishman, 101.—datues Perry, Esq, (Morning Chronicle), 2U1.-3ir Richard Phillips, al.—Jones Burdett, Esq. 51. Mr. Penne said, a part of the prOceedings of the day devolved upon him, which he should with great pleasure • endeavour to perform, and that with a degree of sincerity and zeal, which he trusted Isis st'hole life would piove, no description could exaggerate. lie rose for the purpose of moving a vote of thanks to the Hon. Baronet, who for so many years [tad laboured to recover those tights to which they were all entitled, and for which their ancestors had fought, He felt that it was not in his power to do justice to the subject. He stood •in need of a portion of the talent displayed by Mr. Hone on his trial, to en title hint to the approbation of the Meeting, and still more did he feel a want of it to do justice to the merits of the Honourable Baronet, since he 0 4 0 10 6 ,, Ji° %.cf 11 ij ii 11 0'' 1115 e t• io A IS CS 5 5111 : 11 44 11 . 40, 0 " : 01? 4 1 's ,t „ C ) l ' Cr " '