The Sun. — London, England, 1817-11-15 00:00:00

re 10111‘ ~r~ r ~ ate ;ht De' st voick ibsolut ot wer 1 1 ••• ... 1t • • • the re' ;a63 It t h 111 le De ttr De. rid Fi' of t h: )f the he as. en con on d" Tara, d'Er RSIIre of Af n the coin' by. • frog' g y es' U t fo' iUill'! l 'genf , Char' m .1 be I' :,hai . 314,1 0 eiltd VI were sion A 13, 'rinct t. a! law tter er 0 wio r haS Lhet . t ; " Y es ' 0' nci, eiii- pro - 179 5 ig bit - or• and it• which we. 'have 'jimmied by the insertion Of the letter in ntrestion; because we are - snre that they 'proceeded from motives of delicacy towards the 11Iustriotis Parties principally affected. But when the interests of an Empire, the succession Of the Crown, and the onieerSat feeling's of a people ate concerned, we incline to consider delicacy, as Mr. BURKE said 'of it on a great Oationai question., as a Cobweb virtue." We sett that We Were doing our duty in drawing attention to -those who were expected to satisfy the nattral antivy of the Ptiblit to 'know all the 'cireuMStalices Which may properly be commilnivatett ) on a subject of. the deepest national interests and concerning which innumerable alarMing rumours were skit. A great demand was made for our Paper which contained the Letter in question, and we were strongly exhorted to reprint it ; but as we under stand the Author means to publish it in a pamphlet, that it may escape from the ephemeral fate of newspaper productions in general,wc shall tot bear. A paragraph in the Papers of this day, apparently from authority, states that Sir Ricnatto Cit"Fr means to answer Mr. FostlT, as soon as the me lancholy duty of the interment is over. We ate_ as much gratified as we can be, undei so recent and so heavy a loss, in , hearing that this Gentle man has such au intention. We have little doubt 'that he n4ll come with honour through the ordeal, and all we wish. is, that the public anxiety may be appeased and the question finally, settled. — The Times has not thought proper to answer - us this day, amd as that Paper is not uanting in in genuity Mild talents, we may presume that it was silent from conviction, and we therefore give it credit for its forbearance. The Morning Chronicle, this day, has the following passage :—" The cry for an investigation Of the eiretrinstances attending the mortal acconchtinetit or the late Princess CHARLOTTE, becomes day by day more audible. It is the «Tic of every assembly—and we lament to see it intlAnied by the writings of medical men." The Chronicle thus admits, that the subject is one of universal ini crest and anxiety, yet con demns the introduction of it. Surely the univer sal feeling .ugh! to be regarded, and the anxiety appeased, and , nliat can produce so desirable•an effect as a'fq.ll explanation Of all that may be pro perly diselos, dto the sorltl at large l The sub ject has ; not been " inflamed by the writings. of medical sw•ii," Ito, mediealmen have partaken of n, common Icvlings, and have been roused into a 1 ~,,f,i i i i c wicroft to. hate those feelings properly allay-ed. NV e. J liouid. ill p►•rform our duty to e Public it Yve sneakingly sly uk f 8 ram a ul subject ,ot such importance to the present ra c e of Eng:islimen and to their Posterity. To Quote from Mr. BURlti.e again, it is our_ aim to acquire that " long-sighted and strong-nerved humanity" which will st'and aloof trout little de- Iteacies, and !plum' co»siderkitions, when nny (pies icin wises that may involve the interest, the ho flour, and the happines's of an Empire. The folin , %:ing t an Extract of a Letter from Bost4 ) ; dated.Ociol}er 16, received in town this morning :-- " Since . the Ist . . of last month no Foreign vessels hare been permitted to bring any produce or goods into the , United States, only from the plact.s to which they respectively belong, viz., a vessel from Demerara to be admitted to entry, must belong and bring only the produce or goods of that 15land. The same app!ies to Bermuda, Tobago, and thr ot her Islands to which we. are not rcrtnitted to carry otir'produce, &c. We understand the de cision of the question that has arisen is considered of such importance, that the Comptroller of the Treasury will refer it to the. Cabinet Council, will probably meet about the middle of this wonili." Anotl,er letter states ) that •a Gentleman had alrivedtberefrotn Peracock, who stated that the sea-bound towns of North Carolina v‘ crc very bit kly. PRINCESS MARIA Li , IIISA.-The Archtinebess of PARMA is Much beloved by her Ithjects•, On her retort from Viritna to P.,rma she Addressed th e 1.4,11,)wing Letter t,s her Fi rst " COUNT MAGAwt,r,—l' learn with the most livrly grief the distresses ty hich still oppreSs my subject 4. My most ardent ritiAre is to' contribute by all the means in my power to alleviate them. In consequelice I particularly recommend to you to hinder all bind of it . tes on my arrival. The hest proof of attachment which no co hject s can give me, anti the most agreeable to toy heart, will be their distributing among the indigent the sums which thy destine for those Ittes. " MARIA LOU-IA--." An El xprets reached town yesterday from Paris, with the inteltiget►ce that the Government of France had acceded to au application on behalf of the Alli.d troops, to pgru►it the importation of tom from Englaod for their at commodatiau and use. As soon as the information generally tran spired, rum advanced bon' Is. 4d. to 2s. per gal lon. ,This measure of tt,e French Got eminent may perhaps be accotmted for, from its opera•ing as a reduction of the price of brandy ; which, be ing, an article of general consumption, has, through the succession of bad seasons, and the occonation of the con inry by foreigners in 1815, arrived t an inconvenient price, and added to the hardshipp of the people. • CRE,NCI i PA ifV.:,lts PARIS; Noir. 11. --Yesterday' the King g . it've st private 'abdienee to let. Count de Cdtz, e Prns slall E,1%.0y Extra . ordi . nai:y Alinister Pienipo tentiary, who presented tO itis Majesty tv,' o Litter , from his Sovereign, one nritity;og the itsarroa',:e of the PriircesS Chal lour with the Graii'd Dakt Niehoins o -,ann the other notityiog the h rth ot it Prince, son ..of Prini:e 'William 'of Prussia, 'bro. dirt of the The Duke'd'Arnioidein'e retorM to Paii3 on ThittS(lNy RCM. "FIVE PER CE;TS.-MOliday, 64 t. 99 C. CHAMBER OF DEPUTH.:S% SITTING nF Nt)V. 10. 'The Reporters of the Buieaux for the vcrifica"- tion of. powers, successively reported to the Chambers. The efeetiOns after some discussion, declared valid (With one ece„ption) including those of M. Cassimir Perrier , and the Cotint;dc Virques, erica ',trained the age of 40 sitbsequent to their election;.but previous to the meeting of the Chambers. The Chamber proceeded to a' scrutiny for the nomination of five candidates for the Presidency. M. de Serre was the only Member who obtain ed an absolute majority of votes, and he was de clared a Candidate. The Chamber adjo►►rHed till to-morrow. FRANKF , RT, Nov. 3.—The Count de Buol Schottenstein, the Austrian Minister, President of the Diet, is understood to be the bearer of.'very important instructions, which he will communi cate to the other Ministers before the opening of any deliberations. He has also to make to the Diet an important overture respecting the official communication addressed to 'r "several Foreign Powers. SHIP NEWS. PorersMotrrit, Nov. 14.—A1•riveci the Ocean transport from the. Isle of France, the Cape, am S'. Heleni. DEAL, Nov: 14 --Th►e wind this , morning was about South, and several of the outward-bound turned away, but the wind soon , bBcking to the S. W. and blowing fresh, they have all put back again. Came doWn from the River the Colum bia, for Columbia River; Salisbury, for Sierra Leone ; and the Margaret, for Buenos Ayres. • TORBAY, Nov. 13.—Sailed his Majesty's ship Tiber on a cruise. BANFF, Nov. S.—Put hi here the shop Duchess Of Gordon, from Firmachry to LondOn, with her rings, leaky, and,rnust unload. WHITEY, Nov. 13.----Arrived last night the Lively, SCOTLAND, of London, from Newcastle for St.. Michael's, with damige, havin: been run foul of bra brig on the night of the 11th inst. and carried away her bulwarks, part 7t the gun wale, and tore 'the main-sail. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 13,—Came in the Sylvia, JEWELL, from Palermo to Aut‘verp, in distre'SS. On the 11th inst., to the Westward - of the Lizard, she spoke the schooner Venus, of Sweden, %vitt) the loss of fore-mdst, two boats, bulwarks, and three of her crew was,cd overboard, in a gale of wind. She also spoke, off the Land's End, yes terday, the French ship Constantia, front Rio Ja neiro for Havre, out 90'days. HARWICH, Nov. 14.—Arrived the Jane packet with a mail from Gottenhurgh, and Earl Leicester packet with ditto from Cuxhaven. The schooner Delaval, ELSTAL, was carried into Woodbridge Haven on the 13th by two salvage boats, in a very leaky state. The folkiwing is from The Dublin Evenbig Post of Tuesday last " O'Cnis:Noit AND Stu FRANCIS BURDETT.—A ,paragraidi has appeared in some of the Dublin Pa pers, stiting that 0 Connor had received a letter reran Sir Fraud, Burdett, desiring all intercourse should cease between . forgery to that effect may hare been put in circulation, but we are authorized most confidently to .assert, no, such lerter from Sir Francis Burdett has been re ceiv,d by O'Connor. A very err-•oeous ksti must the public have formed of the mind and character of Sir Francis Burdett, coldd• t•ltch an assertion be credited by any but those who (Hight in the_abuse of public men, and in.sowing dissiuinn. among friends." The above, article is a proof that, notwith standiog all that has happened, Sir FRANCIS BUR DETT will not lose the credit of the connexion. Admiral Sir HOME POPHAM is returped to town from Chatham,. where he had been several days On a isit of inspection tea the Syhille frigate, Capt. MAccotst, appointed to convey her to the chief command Nu the Jamaica station. Sir JOHN Cox lIIPPESL'EY is arrived In Rome upon someiniporiant business. Thanhs- of the Court of Directors of the . East India Company have been given to JOSEPH TINIEWELL, Esq. of Charles-street,Soho, for a Va luable . communication for preventing Dry • not in timber, and the fiubSect has been referred to a Committee. -~ ~~ ~..~ ' We I..ef te,!:ret Vt) th't thoile:Wl4 t'his had 1,,m5; fl red imdei• t;f . ht-Aitli, and had . . Icinoved,to, - aritrits places', in,' hopes thar . 61411;2r •it air would contrbitte to his:, ie'roverv, arid at lent:th• obtained an appointment at the Cape (')I 1 - 10p.e, i.elieve by the kindness ut 'he t it es, t u Nlinistry, who, tO theirltonotir, are re - - ot political aifterelice`i Wh'en lanilable ~Meet is in stew, atr.l who, inde'ed, are suopOsed to be SO liberal as seldom to decline the (ipporiii : - nity oroviding for their Ooponeatt, veer) when her f'ri'ends have reasonable expectations. ti(iw eve. this m y he, the appointrneu l t Of Mr. THoirals, .SHERID‘N Must have excited commendation. as -it may be considered as a due tribute TO the pOliti cKl consistency of his celebrated Father, who re mained firm to the general interests of his party, :tut who ivas a iimated by a spirit of trite Patriot iisrn, and came forward in supporting the honour Of his Country, when that Party meanly seceded froM their public duty, or eudeavourel to thwart those measures of • Government which were esSential to the national Welfare and Security. It was therefore a Sort of dignified equity in Ministers to reward the father in a provision for tlie son, as the former, aroid'st all the pressure of-domestic ernbarrassinents, could never be weaned from a staunch attachment to his ifarty. We hope that ministerial patronage , will always be founded On• the same just and liberal priuciples. But to return to Mr. Pao- MAS, SHERIDAN. This Gentleman poSsessed talents that, if his health bad perMitted, might have raised him at least to hereditary 'distinction, if he had not been more fortunate •in his choice of connexions. fie was a .good scholar. , lie possessed talent, of the most promising de scription.. •As a -companion he was animated, good-hunmured, and full of anecdote. Though without fortune', or the hopes of fortune, he was governed by•no sordid - impulse in chasing a wife, shut selected a Lady whose only treasures Were her virtues and good sense. The following is given -as an outline of his history : Mr. SHERIDAN has left a widow and several . childten, two of are now at the cape, and, we think, were born there. He was one of the -rill of the venerable Dr. PARR, from whose tuition he proceeded to• Cambridge. For a short time he served in the army, and W 4.3 with the Earl of MotRA, as his Aid-dc-Camp in Scotland, when be formed an attachment to, the Larry he has now left, the datighrer 'of a Scotch Gentle.- man of the name of CALLENDER. Either iniMe tliately before or soon after his death, Mrs. Stte lIIDAti broke a blood vessel, but was recovering when our account came away. The situation held by .Mr. SHERIDAN is that of Colonial Pay master, the. duties of which are very slight, and the emoluments one thousand pounds a year. ; Al . though the state . of his health prevented his sharing, in the usual way, the Itootries of the table, his convivial faculties were as popular at the Cape as those of his father wer e in Ent;- land ; and his house was free" ,ented with parries from the Garrison and the Civil Department . . lie was the son of RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN by his first wife, the daughter of Mr. -, LINLEY, and was the only child of that marriage. Thus in little more than a year have fallen three members of the same family, all well known to the world— the Orator, the widow, and his son.---Mr. SHE RIDAN is said to have departed this life on the 12th of lait September. The only offspring now of this celebrated family is• CHARLES SHERLDAN, BSI". the SOll of the Right Honourable RrcnARD BRINSLRY SHERIDAN by his second wife and from all we haveheard of this Gentleman, he i 3 likely to uphold its intellectual character. lie is esteemed as a schOlar, and admired as a friend. It is un derstood that be haS devoted, himself to the and, if so, we little doubt, arid we earnestly hope,- that he will rise to high honours in the ',rotes , Sion, 01 whieti it is very...probable that he will at 'least become a distinguished ornament. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 14.—T . Ite. following Gentle men were admitted to degrees on Wednesday last NIV.TF.FS OF ARTS. Charles Semple, of Clare-4 fall. Thomas Henry Backhouse, of Pernbrolse-Hall. Rev. Alfred Lawrence, of Christ College. Rev. James [lost e,. of Christ College. BACIIELf , R IN CIVIL LAW. Edward Kinnersly, Esq. of The s►►bject of the Nortisian prize essay for the present year is,—". What confirmation does the . credibility of ti,e Gospel History derive from the number and Concurrence of the Evangelists ?" A young woman who was sentenced to rleath in 1812 petitioned the ntroswr, through the medium of the Princess CHA!tLQTTE ; her prayer. ,was successful, and she Ir4s now turned ont to be'a worthy member of r,ociety.. She had .been se duced, and committed the theft in consequence of the desertion of her betrayer. Two men, who were apprehended at Gainsbro' on the sth inst. for selling crackers, being put•into prison until the next morning, exhibited an in stance of 'mendicant ingenuity on the prison -wall as follows : " Farewell ny friends, for I must go, " Crackers have proved thy overthrow ; • " my advice, and sell no more, " .But beg yOur bread fetinn dotar to door." Et MASsE.—The Liverpool Mercury Contains an advertisement for two or three hundred tailors. ---I . lles`s us ! what a fume there twist be where such a number of cross•legged gentry pradii their profession ! A case of bastardy, of a most atrocious de, scription, has been heard at. the Sussex Eastern County Sessions. The parents of the child ware a labotuee at Rottingden, between 50 and 60 years of age, named Moefui•d, and his only daughter ! LITERA 11,11 r. „0: Trig Gr.::::1;At, MOGRA - Pl-3 - ICAL DICTIONA Y K k tailii;;, ?, ;Lituricai and lied! ACCMI:II- t AV() !,,,.;; Writii)g, 1;f tht. rikoit eminent vret at , eil: cs 4.- t'iculas th'e,bciti,l) and Irish, from the rarht t ere., the present time. c New Edition, _.reeiied and .11 I d by LEX. CIIALNIEX3, F. S. A.; Thi ty•twO 0. itiviravniNs, &C. &C. The name of Mr. 'CHALMERS is Stlffirient in I, coninl'end any work that collies from Ilia bend .His 'leare'li i judgment, and -industry, beet ! br e e • long •knOwn ,And. often di,pl a yed ' with eiadit to himself and adVautage to the Public. Our Ijist- V EtsITI 61 are itidehted to hie) for an Must:alum of their history and, their merits.. The puddle arc indebted to lion fora very interesting Memoir of the Author of T/te 'Minstrel, a Poem. which, poi withstanding. the caarices of fashion, and etre fluctuatiouS of public tasteawill always stand its ground., and be the subject of admiratian and • •synipathy with every Reader who has a jest value tOr 'sentiment, feeling, and descriptive beauty. Mr. Cataet4e,es haS also obliged the Public with the• most 'complete Collection of British Poetry, : and of British Essays, that have ever been present ed to it. But the merits of Mr. CHALMERS are -not confined to !natters of learning, research, diligence, 'and taste. . He hasprodeced in his -Work entitled The Pr(rjector, three volumes which abound_ in richness, of humour, phltel irainy,:and Profound knowledge o f -mankind. 'lbis Work, coining from a single writer, affords extra ordinary .proofs of fartility, acuteness, judgment, and iinagination ; all, however, subservient to the interests of morality, and powerfully cair's lated to, support. and promote them, under the guise of pleasantry end 'amusement. ' But to the Work before , its. ' The' General Biographical Dictionary , has long- been a work of standard Merit, • and, 'front the' nature of its subject, it must fur ever continue to he highly interesting. Indeed, considering the characters which it introduces, and the various subjects on which it occasionally treats, witlereference to the several spheres of action in which those charac ters have moved, such a work may be deemed a library in itself. If we are rightly informed, Mr. CHALMERS, besides the - high intellectual powers, tied the comprehensive literary experience, which he brings to the task, is qualified by ma terials of the amplest t-ind most valuable dtSCrip litio for the undertaking, since, if we are rightly . informed, he possesses the most extensive bio graphical library in this kiugdom It is need less for us to enlarge upon the merits of the Work in question, as it has heel) so long known to the public, and' has been indebted', from - time to time, to. many eminent literary Characters, who have ,all conttibuted towards its impiovement, and the variety of its general contents. But we may truly assert,. that as far as we have had opportunity to-compare and collate, ...the Work is uow,enriched with copious and most valuable ad ditio'ns. It has attained also a unity, of charac ter, and whattaer has been omitted has bad its - place abundantly supplied by _matter of ft 11111C.1.1 IllOrC importantartad. : iuterestiug nature., lo fact,! as far as Mr. CIIALMEH'S' lalmurs are 'concerned, it exhibits a rate example of patience and perse vete nce, j o :1g m cot in selection, candour' of in vestigation, accuracy and taste in s yle, an the whole animated by 'a moral and philosophical epi i it which cannot litat excite the fullest confi dence inthe'lleader, and which renders the Work altogether o ne of the most amusing and esimable BiOgraptiieal Colleetions that has ever appeared in the Republic of Letters.. We heartily thank Mr. CHALMERS for the amusement which we have de rived •from his Volumes, and venture to assure Our Readers that they may expect from Oleos the most solid aunt ;ratifying infoametion that a Work lit such a natere is so well calculated to afford.—As our Readers will naturally wish for a specimen, of the style and !Danner in Which the . Work is executed, we shall .extract a passage which must be. peculiarly interesting, as it relates to persons of high celebrity, and to a subject that had hitherto been wrapped in mystery, It is well known that Pon had !Hinted, without the authority or knowledge of Lord BOLINBROKB, Isis Lordship*s Political Tract, outited " - The Pa blot Is:ing." f'ai't: - has been unjustly censured on that head, though ably vindicated by Bishop Wee- t BU wrox and . Dr. Jo Eitii9N. It dues not app est., however, that either ot. those eminent VI titers were acquainted with the facts which have come to the keowledge of Mr, Cuaamuns, and whit,, canot be disputed. The folloveing is the account of this transaction, as given by Mr. CHALMERS, and with that extract, which must now set the subject at rest,. and with his just and liberal tri- folic to the character of the late Bishop PoRTEUs, we shall at present close' our notice of this Biographical treasury : -" Martha Blount, to whom he was tuos! - at (ached, deserted him ire his last illness ; and Bus linghroke, whotn we have seen weeping over the • dying bard, and pouring out the effusions of the , warmest affection for the friend he was about to lose, .soon employed the hireling Mall et to . blacken Pope's character in the very article for , which• lie thought him most estimable, the pu rityand honour of his friendships. •We Lave already ooticed this affair, its our account of i Mallet, and shall now only hi iefiy say that, on Pope's death, it was desclosed to Lord Boling broke by Mallet, who had his information from a winter, that Pope had printed an edition of the Essay on a- ' Patriot King.' But as there has been much misconception and misrepresentation •,, respecting this affair, we are happy to be able, in this place, to state the circionstances attend- ing it on unquestionable authority, that of a gen- ~ demists to whom the following particulars were more than once related by the late Eat I of March- t•I moot, and who, besides the obliging connuttni- 4 cation of them, has ,conferted the additional 'fa- f; your of permittiog us , ,to 4.c his name, the Right f`l Bon. George Rose, , . " The Es.ay(on the Patriot Kin) teas under taken at the pressimg instance of Lord Cornhory, very w3rndy supported by the earnest intreatis of Lord Alarchni . ont, tiith which Lord Boling broke at length complied. When it was written , it was she%vn to the two Lords, and one Othe r confidenthd friend, who were so much pleased