The Sun. — London, England, 1817-03-17 00:00:00

• Noble Lord is prepared, we expect, to define the Precise pa i nt of. secuth without restraint , and th e privilege of freedom without the power of eseqtr• Heil; prepared also, to settl e t h e d ut i es of r• tltr extraWinatypersonage's" keepers ; to determine how fin* they are accountable for what they may 1101 comma! ; to Ascertain the exact boundaries between the attendance upon a sovereign and res trict* upon a prisoner. For all this illamination we look with some cu riosity; It may he told us, that any confinement whatever is very " extraordinary treatment" for 10"extraortlinarya personage." The Memorials— Wt , think the Chronicle stiles them—which his ImPeria( tent Majes ty graciously condescended to pre to the Governor, but w hi c h h ave b een so andstilidly overlooked, require, we suppose, full !lenity fur the s chemes of Los Cosas and the other nefanners who would land his Majesty in Franee• riep ;eke i cates too, w hi c h w e re most rebelliously kipled, -,dye shall like to know who are his "trit loyal c orrespondents in England—arc th e to be laid before Parliament ?—Arc they Po 1 1 , WI, return from that transortation to which " p tenet s ) safety bath' sentenced him 11, sick of the cant of the Chronicle. "1 a - 6 14kn itY toward a f a ll en man !" Womferous in ton.llnitY intly--to disable him from misrhief ! ti, withd raw the pabulum of his nature I .—to en -I:6rC tiniamander within a circle!--to be! appre t Obis stinging himself to death ! For our tir il l:„: e are un sentitnental enough to preserve tir4 -"Jallity toward the world, even at the ha t °f.being inhuma n to it's single enemy. Anti lonsieur-linonaparte's being We be .6/ a fallen man," g ° isk Lora 11OL N LAD and the Chronicle— HAT I 141 IT HAD HE EVER TO RISE , 1 „, of iitrbeealhouttitlty) and the Pub ! we.coald impress our Readers a interest In)kt4taly with one tythe part krill the -subjest on which w e W i 4 t e l B them, sve should think ourselves 11'1 fellow i t t t c lti i rlit ' ll : tor the wish to benefit our partial It'stes esti only be gratified by at leas t eon . - mere u...etttli ones when sues say that the - Rstsr i ... good i s ' l4 of having attempted ' to do - ted Is ultri it f or gran a eat eward, we may ta k e • with the „it th ey t,,,, were never *smel t in earnest here Nitit r i i til ' On th e emit rary, we % s deeper mortifications, e v en of s more sincere intagioe e ti i ) ti a , t hn,ss, ir)4411184 of ph ila nthrOpy, .ti tg lintl°4 B we are in our benerolent ende avours and the at their 4 114 - t P e e . ll4l. w ill our disappointment be , litt ti v for wasting words Ain„ :41"P" is n° place . to which we ul it '' ,i" . • • . , The subject . . felon of h e en 4 , t e to call attention is the 0-le, liiii-14"ision of the lowest clas s of the people, ;tondo), tlttrt:ittaa by meatts which would immediately., and stp e-l i e . ' 411 finally extingukb Poor'b Ratessitua. 110-I:4‘.llle.tiniporal, moral, and spiritue l tont. ttai°:'lllarelBss and all other c lasses 111,11)1" llie improventen C to. society mu d of site trust, . it te rl eo top an 4444,, Itunottly Said, begin at t he _ )te the h( 10 " (through the middle ranks) to .. Ill: we Of icliet are net sure that in the present fra m e of tilif Y tile axiom ought not to be reversed ; but s _ . tte ling t i 44e certain, that improvement beginl le4 et t (ntartl w °old be most speedily felt i n i t s a, or e _ „vest It'ttit t, and product at once the gr , of beneqt 111 short, it i ti ., ~ . to the human species. to L 4 "IN part that the disease most afflict ing. nl asi t v spertty, 'lm tilqst adverse to national pro . I natt s ti b is tc oto , a versive of political economy,at -14414 a nd in this part only can it he directly bate 4,4,1211 cainhated with medicaments to a bate o ' `nee and remove its obstructions. 0 1 41 w on this ititliy.o In4nY ingenious hypotheses t. Itstit:i'llattat poiut we have given our best a pht, would be itlle to say, were it not for the t'ote of 4110. statnig• that they have been numerous, 4 vati INatletat "8 nierit. Their consideration has 44 44140 as to come to the subject with fttota.,l4lll4tlon, and with a strong impression in :13 t 4 tor u e t . what is practical, in preferencetO what tialltl„tiell. And this is the foundation of our 11,, ei ,` a alie to see the plan, which has recently 'Pied our ftril inds, adopted,. This plan is brought toli bY Ito spectilator, however pure and in" I gtnt, hut r ' 1. 9 ta i l i ' 'ertunately, we trust for this c0un .1144,4, Ilankintl. by a Gentleman who has already I,ltbeii r" large Seale, cco M - what may be a si,tilito "r the welfare of 111 e lower orders, the .Weneettlf their superiors, and the benefit of all, i.ll,4l4l:e4teely add that we speak of Mr. OWEN . 1 14 tt , I ParStthlg With i I f • ' ble diligence 144 iri wibi. . in c I f atiga _ V2lllgtlith.. "co tie has been so pre-eminently ie N 1 't , as a b .411c1,4'4 luat4,.. 1 ben been to his kind, Mr. t4ll:Yed, 444 "1 a plan of the natur e we have til lt :"'t 1 1 anti it ~.?.! c ount it no mean gratification Iliiii4ntsiiketitiw4n even its details presented for tveatlir Pleasin e a. We will not trouble our readers 1,f),... ttesite ~,g mite of its result, but, it i"tr, "e totZ Piontote it to the utmost of out. ,(,4111rsetie4iji"Prels our lirm conviotiott that 144.1 e tlitteteo: 8 it 6 L1(111111'4)1E% gib ot buttb.e_S .0f Opinioll may exist On the 'tl ittposell upon the Country by the Pools' Rates, it may be called fou r , five,Tor eight millions a year ; but all agree in the conclu sion that this impost is felt more heavily than any other by the community at large, and by fundamental branch of our National wealth whirl, combines the Agricultural and Lauded Interests. To ease the k ngdom of this Oppression, to con vert the drain of pauperism into a source of pro ductive labour, to bring, comfort where only wretchedness exists, and by a wise and salutary arrangement to render misery contented and happy, while it exchanged dvileodene for independence, and iustead of subsisting on alms, subsisted upon its own exertions—such is the grand outline of I AIT. OWEN'S Plan. When so many blessings are contemplated, the incredulous will very naturally exclaim, that the plan must be visionary. IVe pledge ourselves that it is not so, but rests on principles and details of moral and mathematical demonstration. It is not even difficult : and though our limits compel us to delay the details till Wednesday or Thursday next, we are convinced that when we lay them before the world we sl►all carry the ge neral consent with our proposition—that no sys tem of internal political economy was ever devised so perfectly adequate to produce the inestimable effects we have stated than tl►is to which we al lude. At present we confine ourselves to the fact that the plan has met the warmest admiration of many of our greatest Statists—has been examined by the benevolent Committee, of which the Arch bishop ot CANTERBURY is the head, and referred with strong appn.hation by this body to the Com niitree o f tine [louse ot Commons , on the Poor Lawg, with whom it now is, and front whom we trust it will come to the Legislature with an una nimous testimony in its favour. There hat recently appeared an Address to the British Nation, representing the gtievanres to which the Island of Sicily is exposed by the state of subjection in wh.ca it is held by the Eltsg Of NAI'LES. The Authors of this Paper have not dared to put their names, for if they had it woul'l have been found to be the contrivance of two or time Foreign Factious Demagogues, who have already beets dabbling in Neapolitan Politics—Fo reigners who arc residing io and assisting the flame of nor own Patriotic Writers against every thing but social order. We should suppose that the Alien set, against which there hai been sn much opposition, bad not been in existence, by permit ting foreigners to step in at pleasure. and join in the party politics of this country, with all the violence of the Westminster Meetings ; men who have no visible means of support orobje,cr in this Country, hut through the disaffected aid of de generate Englishmen. EXTRACT OF A LFTTER FROM CALMS, DATED FRBRUARY 8, 1817. • " A new law has just been promulgated here, which alerts British capi , al and British industry in this country. No man hereafter being allowed to exercise any trade or profession without paying annual' tribute to s he (iover.►meu 800 f. at par, about 30./. sterling ; and goods shipped from Eng land, and now lying in the harbour, have been absolutely detained for the payment of this impost, or not allowed to be landed. _ _ " I am too little 'conversant with the law of nations to say where the difficulty may hinge, but it appears to me, that it is a direct violation of the late Treat v, which guarantees reciprocal ad vantages to the subjects of either Power, and security to all foreign property. Is this a bonus to the Contractors of a French Loan ? Or have they reaped enough of our Arcs and Manutac, tures, that they would resort to the exclusive provisions of the Milan Decree ? I leave these questions to be answered br such casuists as my Lord Castlereagh. " I beg leave to add that our manufactories are daily extending themselves all over the Country ; that our artisans flock here in great numbers, and many for the service of the Government, particu larly in steel engineeriug after Bolton and Watts, Manchester, Birmingleim, Bte. and others sup ported by the capital of twiny heretofore wealthy manufacturers in England, who are now esta blished in France."--( Morning Paper.) Yesterday the Duchess of YORK attended Divine service at Whitehall Chapel ; and the Duke and Duchess of GLOUCESTER, at St. George's Church, Hanover-square. The Duchess of YORK and Duchess of ORLEANS honoured the Opera with their presence on Satur day evening. They sat in the Princess CHAR LOTTE'S box. Yesterday divine service was performed at Carl on•bouse by the Rev. F. W. BLOMBERG and the itev. Dr. STANIER CLARKE. Saturday Lord CASTLEREAGH and Count MUN STER had audiences of the PRINCE REGENT, at Carlton-house. Yesterday Count Mutisrea had another audience of his Royal Highness. The LORD CHANCELLOR had also a long ►►udience. The proceedings relative to the petition of Mr. DAVISON, agent to the Haytian Government, are suspended until all the documents relative to them can be laid before the House of Commons. An order has been received at the Custom house front Government to admit every description of rice, duty free, which has had a great effect on The market. Friday 200 barrels of Carolina Rice, brought forward by public sale, went off at •18s. and 465, 6d, THE TIT EATRES, KINO'S THEATKE.—After the comic Opera of La Molinaro, t‘hich 11A already been so favour ihly noticed, for the success it has received, GAuDEL's celebrated mythological Ballet of Psyche was revived on Saturday night with success. CovENT - GARDEN.—On Saterdav night Mr. flooTtr appeared for the &it time as PaNthumns, in the play of Cymbeline This is a part in witch he cannot be accused of imitating Ma. RP .AN, as the latter has not performed it to furnish him with the model. Nevertheless, some of our daily cri tics still make the same charge, and BooTo with them must ever remain one of the bate:Wes, servant peens— . because he is within an inch or t wo of Mr. KEAN'S stature, has a voice in many of its tones tesembling his, and like him a good tragic eye and expressive countenance. We.shall consider the perform:ince as an original, .and in this view we think Mr. Boo Tit's Posthumus rather calculated to augment than to diminish his reputation. It exhibited the same jumble of vigour and debility, of talent and dullness. as most of his other performances. Its merits belong to his genius for the Stage, its demerits to his want of experience, and diminutive ness of figure, which often renders him more insig nificant than AU Actor ought to be who is placed in a prominent character. The principal scene with lac•hi►no was, however, very vigorous, and indeed rather coarse ; and, upon the whole, we must speak . of the part as one which excites high expectation of the future success of the youth lid performer —Mr. Youxto, iu lachimo was highly respectable, and Mr. C. KEMBLE and Mr. Asti OTT made the most of two indifferent charac ters. Of Miss Costello, the Debutante in Trilogy', we cannot write any thing in the tone of severe cri ticism. She is sixteen years of age. handsome, unfriendcd, untaught, and unpractised. Diffi dence, and even terror pt evented the full deveiopement of what powers she may pos sess, hot still she displayed a degree of intel ligence which proved her not tin worthy of the kind and fostering patronage of the PAlic. Perhaps the immense size of our Winter Houses o'- lets the greatest difficulty she has to surmount, and we cannot bring ourselves to reckon this ob stacle,a bar to future success : for our sympathies are all enlisted on, the side of linogen. Her Father, we are informed, fell at IVaterloo, and the Young La d y herself gained consider able celebrity by a volume of lnfantine Poe try. These circumstances, her age, and sex, disarm ns of all power to censure, and we trust yet to see Miss COSTELLO stand high in the pro fession to which she has been obliged to resort. Mr. KEMBLE has announced his determination to take his final leave of the public soon after Easter. He plays twelve nights for the Mdna gers, and the thirteenth for his own benefit. Mrs. SIDDONS performs with him the last night. Mr. KEMBLE commence►l his farewell engage gagemeut on Thursday evening last at Edin burgh, in the character of Cato. BULLY CoBBETE Having received the f - dlowing from a most re spertable source, we give publicity to it, %vithout any other comment than merely to express our be liet of its authenticit) " On reading Mr. LocxAsT's challenge, Mr. Coslierr promised that Gentieman's friend, the hearer of it, to return an ans►ver, which he would send to the Grutlemttn's house where Mr. L. was dining. About an hour after a reply arrived, brought by the Boots of the Inn, stating, that business requiring 11 r. C.'s immediate presence in London, he must decline the present meeting, aml would take an early opportunity of renewing the pleasant correspondence 'here ! !" MARKETS. CORN-EXCHANCR, MARCH 17.—We bad a good supply of ‘Vheat this morning from Essex and Kent, which in the early part of the morning had a brisk sale at Monduy'y prices, but towards the close the sales were heavy and from Is. to 2s. lower : Fine Barley supports its price, but ordi. nary was dull ; Malt has a very dull sale ; Pease and Beans arc also dull, and front Is. to 2s. lower; Oats have but a heavy sale at a decline of Is. per quarter : in other kinds of grain there is no al teration. Foreign Wheat -60 s. 775. Fine ditto - -103 s. 1.27 x. English Wheat -60 s. 633. Fine-ditto - -100 s. lISs. Old ditto - -82 s. 1235. Rye Fine ditto - 645. —s. Barley - - -30 s. 44i. Fine ditto - - 565. 6es. Malt Fine ditto - - - Sns. 86s. tVhitePease (boilers) 675. 70s. Fine ditto - -70 s. 7‘..'s. Grey Pease - -40 s. 485.- Fine Orey Pease - 621. —s. Tick Beans - - - 275. 333. Old ditto - - 66•. Small Tick Beans 345. 403. Old ditto - - -60 s. 01. Feed Oats - - - 16$. Fine ditto - - - 265. 81s. Poland ditto - -20 s. 21s. Fine ditto - - 375. 425. Pot atoe ditto - - 425. 51s. Rape Seed 501. 511. per la%t Fine Flour -100 x. 105 i. Seconds - 955. 1003. Sstrrttrietn, IslAttett 17.—'l supply of prime Beasts, and t, Ms day's Market had a good he show of Cattle in general was considerable. Beef is cheaper, Pork is dearer, Mutton and Veal sold at last prices, and the trade for the most part was tolerably brisk. The sales in the Hayquarlret were rather lively: Hay, Straw, and Clover fetched last prices. Subjoined is an accurate statement of the Prices and Num bers:— To sink the Offal, per stone of Sib. Beef, 3s. 2d. to 4y. Stl. Mnit;,o, 3s. Btl. to ss, Oa, 'y ea ), 4s. Od. to Od. Ark, Ss. gd. to ss. Od. Boasts, eO2O. Sheep, 1t4400. Calves, 240. rigs, 320, HAY-MAR/MT.—Hay, 31. Os. to 51. 13s. Sttisw, 11. ros, to C. ss. Clover, 11. Os. to 81. Os. It it stated in the Montreal Herald; that so in tense was the cold at that place on Friday, the 14th of February, at seven o'clock, that the quicksilver in the themumeters sunk thirty de grees below zero. Saturday a detachment of the 30th and 34th Regiments marched to Gravesend, to embark for CILIRGES OF SEDITION, Br. 'l'he otPn tell - was apprebt.l,4leti nl, Ft . iti3y, 1)7 Nicho Ow sw:,•picioo of be - mg coiwer , wfl seditiod* pr xti : , 1.- 41ervcent 1111 evtotitottion the I:tole %%.I)en it turners out that he wits not the itian he was sad - posed to be : he wits, tl.creforv, Taunton, the Row •street olicer, has return , :d to town within these tem days from Dankirit, where he had been in pursuit of two men unswer ing the description of young Watson and Thist:l - who wete going to America. The smile men had been to Jersey and Guernsey tinder sus pieious circumstances. The information, however, respecting them, turned out to he incorrect. On Saturday Elisha Dixon, who was brought to London on Friday moriiing by Mr. Silveger, the King's Messenger, from Manchester, %vas con veyed to the Secretary of Stare's Office by Hooper, the Bow-street Police eoustabie, from Tothill fields Bridewell. Soon after halt -past three o'clock he underwent an examination before Lord Sid mouth, the Attorney-General, the Solicitor-Gene ral, Sir Nathaniel Conant, Drummond, Baguley, Ogden, and Johnvm, the four men brought front Manchester by Mr. Proudman and 1111.. Vick, the King's Messengers, on Wednesday night, were also brought to the office from the House of Correction at the same time, and underwent examinations. On Monday another schoolmaster, chargt ci with treasonable practices, was lodged in ("Ls gow gaol. He was brought from the village of Carmonnock, a few n►iles distant. Rewards of 501. are offered in the Glasgow papers for the ttp pre•:ension of J ill'Ewen, who is described as a carding master in Gorhals, and M'Dowal Pale, a weaver in Anderston, %%lip %vas also accused of treasonable practices, and administerini , unlaw ful oaths. A reward of 201. is also .oeered for the seizure of one Moses Dotes" accused of se dition only. Dawson is said to b‘ the author of the seditious pamphlets, for the publication of hiCh several printers and booksillers lac tinder bail. He is described as a hawking bookseller. A Chester paper states, that numbers of pike heads have been found in Stockport, together with large heavy sticks, containing dagger-shap ed pieces of hon, eight inches long. THE ARRESTS AT GLASGOW. Of the persons lately apprehended in Glasgow and neighbourhood, under a charge of treasonable practices, 14 have been fully committed. It is supposed they will be tried under t he 52d of Geo.III. cap. 104, wherein it is enacted, " That every per son who shall, in any manner or form whatsoever, administer, or cause to be admin:stered, or be aid ing or assisting at the administering any oath or engagement ; purporting or intending to bind the person taking the same, to commit any treason of murder, or any felony, punishable by law with death, shall, un conviction thereof, by doe course of iasv, be adjoged guilty. of felony, and suffer death as a felon withont - benefit of Clergy; and every person who shall take any such oath or engagement, not being compelled thereto shall, on conviction thereof, by due course of law, be adjudged guilty of felony, and shall be transported as a felou for the terns of his natural life, or for such terrn of years as the Court before which the said offender or offen ders shall be tried, shall judge."—lt is provided by the Act, that if the offence be committed in Scotland, it may be tried either before the Justi ciary Court at Edinburgh, or in any of the Circuit Courts. The following arc the names and desig nations of the persons committed Andre w M'Kinlay. wearer in Calton. J ames Fud a y so u, younger, of Jeandeld, writer's Jerk. John Buchanan, weaver, Bridgeton. James Robertson, ditto, ditto. Andrew Somerville, dAto, ditto. James Flood, wearcr's mutineer, Govan. %Meilen Simpson, steirit-dealer, Antletston. ` Hugh C:uck►ane, weaver, ditto. Juan NPL4chlan, weaver, Calton. Jvt►t► Campbell, ditto, ditto. liu ; ;t► Dickson, ditto, ditto. Peter Gipson, engine-keeper of a cotton-n►ill, ditto. xvllliato Edgar, teacher, ditto. John Keith, manager ti a cotton-►will, ditto. Besides the above there are eleven others in custody, as to whom a precognition k still going on ; but it is supposed they will be ull ditch argtt upon bail. THE LATE It I OTS The disturbances at Alionhy, noticed in our last Paper, have entirely subsided. The cavalry have returned to Carlisle. The damage done, it is now ascertained, %yin not exceed 3001. The roads were strewed with meal and flour. The full sacks of flour were cut in two, in order that they might the snore easily be carried off ; and to enable them to tie the ends which they had made by cutting, the flour was thrown away AIARYPORT, Maticn great number of the rioters have been examined, but no sufficient evidence could be produced to warrant their com mittal. It appeats that these disttnbances were not solely the effect of want. They were foment ed anti enco►►raged by many who had no ca•►se to rob for hunger, but who were actuates! merely by a desire to share in the plunder and (I'es:ruction of pruperty.---(Carlisle Patriot.) On I aesday last, Neil MlGueighin, weaver, (one of our most active and zealous refurmer4) was COMMiltea to r 400 1) by GEORGE BLAMIRS: Esq. Mayor, for puryning and embezzling a quantity of cotton 'yarn, the property of Robert tlewson at this cityortanufacturer. The punish ment is three months' imprisonment, amid to be publicly whipped.—(7b.) • • Loyd Fot,EY, who iS,at his - seat at Witley, eras on Friday . 'morning, attacked with violent and alarming spasms. A messenger was .ithmediately dispatched to Worcester for medical aid, and we learn that his life was, for some time, in im minent peril.' We are happy to affirm, however, by later accounts that his Lordship is now out of all danger, and in a favourable 'state of amendment. Between seven and eight o'clOtit. PriltAY evening the upper part of the Duke of Ciaittecit public-house,-Church-row, St. Pancras, iivg te)b► bed of property to u great amount, wh3lit '4' 6 l family were busy serving their customers bel0(. r ide' nit/ 11)' o tti, b c 11/14i