The Sun. — London, England, 1817-12-08 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN, EDINBURGH. MR. EDETOII,-1 was much amused this evaning with your Correspondent Ron Rov's communica tion, which I read at the Chapter Coff e-house ; but not haring seen the Aneknt Chia!dee MAlM script, to which I found, from a Gentleman sitting in. the saute box, Rog ItoY referred, I scot for IlLicKwooo's Ediuburgh Magazine for October, but in vain I looked for this precious treasure. My curiosity being considerably excited, one of the old customers at the Chapter said be would lesol tne the first impression of that Number, in which it was contained, and why it had been omitted in the second edition of it he could not tell ! tie attributed it to fear! In a few tninutes I was furnished with this precious morreau; and I think Ron llov's opinion ot it is correct, as it is certainly " oue of the happiest efforts of modern wit I ,* which has appeared for a !Ong, time. My civil friend not only lent me the at tide,allnded to, but undertook to point -out to me to WHOM all the significant passagel referred. Ile repeated a great many names ; some of them I .had never heard of, and some ot them Ido not recollect. I think, aniongst them, were the following ; but with what justice, or on what foundation he grounded his no►rtittation of them, he did not I will not, however, at present, do more than give you the initials of their names, lest toy it,f=►rmant !nay not be correct, 10 ascertain which I have written to a literary friend in North Bri tain. The names tr.entioned were -- Ott second thoughts-, I will not send yrut now even the initials of these statues. It I find they are right, I will do so in a suo,equent com:nuni cation, with further remarks on the controversy between these parties. Having recapitulated all the names, my new acquaintance said, he ought, in justice to the parties whose conduct, it was supposed, had given rise to still pmt►ted satire, to present ❑te with the follolVioc PRI NTED 4tatemeot, which had been circulated on the subject, so admirably alluded to by l our new Correspondent, Ron Roy ; but not until ratter its appearance' in the Magazine : and as I knowyouir impartiality and love of justice to be sincere, I lla7ter my,,elf you will readily inset t this communication and the printed statement in your excellent Paper. Sa:urd:iy,Evening, state. TIPPF.RIG BROWNIE, formerly an Edinburgh Graduate. Dcc. G. N6TICE OF THE TRANS;CTIONS BETWEEN THE PUBLISH ER AND FDIToIiS OF THE EDINBU EC; II 17ONTHLY rkIAGAZINE Inir.ors,ot t in e Eli,burgh Magazine, a Nev Stries of live Scots Mag.azine, lately P;:n;ors at the .:11ontiily Magazine, having observed in a Periodical IVork just tinder the title gat " Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine," certain le3peeling their 144te transactions with Nrr. William Blackwood, and their subsequent engagements with Messr,. CONSTABLE slid Company,—and hearing also that misrepresentations of these transactions have been . privately plop gated,—beg leave to offvr the following statement : About the beginning of last December, the Editors hating come to the resolution of attempt ing a new Magazine in Edinburgh, and having sec , :red the support of a very considerable num ber of literary contributors, applied to Mr. Black wood to act as l' , )blisher. After much discussion, which they need - not at present enter ur), aml the; refusal on Mr. BlackwOod's part to abide by a contract completed verbally, after the must ma ture deliberation, au agreement was at length signed, by which the nett profits of the work were to be equally divided. between Mr. B. and theinselves. The Editors here beg to state, that the Edinburgh Monthly Magazine was a project of their own, loog previous to their having had com munication of any kind with Mr. Blackwood. The best efforts c( both P.iLlisher and Editors were accordingly exerted to establish a respect aide work ; trod the first number of the Edinburgh - Monthly Mug,uzine was brought out in April. Mr. 15,, ic kw no d's professional ini:rcourse with literary men was at first of some advantage, but in the squat his forwardness, illiberality, and offensive ne,s of manner, disgusted at least aa many con ibntors as his importunity had gained. His pre sumption, however, increased in proportion to the increasing succeis of the work, and his teaz in, and insokitt interference with the duties of the Editors, became at length so intolerable, that they were obliged seriously to state to him, in . a note dated 1914 of May, that such conduct would be no lon : :er endured. Enraged at this necessary re e•sion of his encroachments, which their former eouce=sions had not twepared him to expect, Mr. B ilunediatelyendearfoured to sow dissensions he t..yerit the Editors themselves, and to wrest the copy-right from them both, by a course of ma tingtmlent which there is 00 room to describe in this place ; and in the confidence that he would succeed in these objects, he himself intimated the discontinuloce of the Magazine, at the expiration of three mouths, according to the articles of agreeMent, in the following letter, witnessed to Mr. Pringle : " Edinburgh, June 23, 1817. " DEAR SIR,-1 have already eAplaiaed to you verbally the reasons which oblig . e use to put an end to our - agreement with regard to the Ediu!aglz .311mtlily 31agacine. I se gd you this written notice in order that you may comumuicate it to Mr. Cleghorn. " Mr. Pringle. " I am, Dear Sir, " Yours tnily, W. BLACKWOOD.' The Editors have only to add at present, in re gHrd to +heir transactions with Mr Blackwood, that they have received no rentnneration whatever As joint Proprietors of the MagwzAte, or for their labu t irs as li,!itors ; and they have hitherto been unable to bring Mr. B. to any ,e tletnent; thougn a reference having beeu at oae t u ne proposed by We received this morning the Paris Papers of Thursday and Friday last. The following are Extracts : " CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES " SITTING of DEC. 3. " The Central Committee for the examination of the Projet of Law respecting the abuses of the Press, and the Committee of Petitions, again' assembled to-day. It i, not known with certitinty whether the Report to the Chathber will be made :0-morrow. " DEC. 4 —Conformably with the determina tion adopted at the last public Sitting, the Depu ties assembled to-day in their respective Bureaux to examine the l'rojct of Law respecting the re cruitment of the Alloy. " The discfp,siou of the Report concerning the abuses of the Liberty of Press in the Central Com mittee is not yet finished, and it is thought Isere will not be a public Sitting till Saturday. " PARIS, Dec. 5.--The Court of Assizes of Rouen decided, the day before yesterday, that, the pretended Dauphin, and four of his accomplices, shall be tried by the Correctional Police, on charges of vagrancy and swindling. * " Yesterday, before Mass, the Count hotschou bey, Privy Councillor of the Emperor of Russia, had the honour of being presented to the " Within these few days M. Wasittenkoff, Chamberlain of the Emperor of Russia, passed through Mctz on his way to Paris. There has also passed through the same place, on his ret ran from Paris to Russia, the Princ'e Barotinski, Privy Councillor of the same Sovereign. " The new trial respecting the assassination of M. Fualtles will not commence before the Court of Assizes of Albi, till he .sth February next. It is .said that Madame Manson will be transferred from Rhodez to Montpellier, to be tried in the course of the present month. The day before yesterday the Ministers Se cretaries of State asserribied at two o'clock at (he Thuilleiies, under the Presidency of h►s Ma jesty. The Council sat till five. " FIVE PER dENTS. " Wednesday 63f. 75c. " Thursday 63 f. 30 c. " VIE.zNNA, 2-I.—The unexpected death of the Princess Charlotte of England excited here the greatest sensation. The Princess rat Coburg- Cohary, sister-in-law to the deceased, recetved the intelligence b 3 express from Hamburg!). "'fire latest intelligence limo C•nrStantinople was of the 24th October. The gland "ee of Batrarn had conshierably delayed the negocid t with the Russian 'Ministers. They were, how ever, to recommence on the 2d ins ant. "'!'lie house of Rothschild, which is negociat ing a Loan for a Foreign Sovereign, has seu here two clerks upon bu3iness cuutiecteti wit that object. " INSPRUCK, Nov. 24.—The Princess of Wales continues to reside at Pesaro, where she has a nu- litmus suite. " ZURICH, Nov. 26.—The Directorial Go vernment have commitnica; ed the Note of the Austrian and French Plenipotentiaries, respecting the abuses of the liberty of the Press in Switzer lain!, to the Cantons, in , a Circular, in which they state, that all the Cantons ought to take particu lar care to order the Editors of pul,lic Journals to maintain an extreme reserve in all that concerns, the relations of States in amity with Switzerland. The Government likewise recommends the Sur veillance of political writings, which may draw down upon the States of the Confederation the reproach of revolutionary principles, and state that the Plenipotentiaries are deceived in supposing that there are associations in Swit zerland for :he disturbance of public tranquillity, the Government having no knowledge of any such associations. " It appears that all the Swiss Governments arc disposed to conform exactly to the principles developed in the note. " BFRLIN, Nov. 25.—The marriage of the Prince Frederic of Prussia with the Pi incess helmina Louisa of Anhalt Bernbourg, was cele brated the 21st inst. at Ballenstadt. The Court went into mourning the clay be fore yesterday for fourteen days, for the late Prin cess Charlotte of England. " FRANKFORT, Nov. 30. The Sovereign Princes of Hohenzollern, Lichtenstein, Reuss, Schawburg-Lippe, Lippe and Waldeck, have on file invitation of the Emperor of Austria, acceded to the Holy Alliance. " HAGUE, Nov. 29.—The retirement of tha Count de Goetz appears to be confirtned. His successor, according to accounts, is to be Gen. Tindal, others say Gen. Dumonceau." New York Pape's reached us this morning, to the 14th Nov. : (From the Commercial Advertiser of Nov. 12.) " COLUMBIA (S. C.), OCT. 14.—1 t is said that the Spanish Governor of the Floridas has put into the hands of file Caddo Chief a commission au thorising him to sweep .offevery person found between the Rio. Honda and the Sabine, but that Ice dare not attempt it, and denies possessing such a document. Upwards of 200 families, emigrants from the United States, are now settled on this land, in virtue of arrangements made between General ‘VILKINSON and HERRERA. (From the New YOrk Evening post of Nov. 12.) " GENERAL MINA. NEW ORLEANS, OCT 10.—A letter from a respectable commercial house in Havanna!), to another in this city, dated Sept. 23, states, that the news from Mexico was, that MlsiA had arrived within a shot t distance of the capital. In order to obviate the effect which this news might have on the public mind at Havanna!), the Government had circulatad a report that he was surrounded, and must inevitably fall. Tl►e letter adds, t i in consequence of these reports, all speculat i ' in the trade to Vera Cruz and Mexico had CC at thvannall. The article which we inserted on Friday ej in order to deter our unreflecting young trymen from being betrayed by their own f e eP" , and ensnared by art ifi ce , to v i o l ate t h e ProclPllt lion, and expose themselves to thisappoirttAf and ruin, has, we find, made a strong impres ( 4 'on the public. It was copied into several of t , Morning Papers of Saturday, except The lifor o Chronicle, which is too favourable to the catrit' i the Insurgents to be impartial, and to admit r facts injurious to that cause. It is strange_ 11 / 1 . the Papers alluded to omitted our question, 11 ' 1 : if the manufactured goods which were stitferd , : ', be exported to South America, " should coos'' of instruments of war, what will SPAIN hi reason to say on the subject ?" The Morninc indeed copied the article, but, wi b a want al l usual candour, did not acknowledge the sod final which it was derived, though all otlie d : stated that it was taken from THE SIN. But Nsri l omit the question, as o,position Papers &red in gent'ral so delicate On pOints relating to CO' vernment ? The London Gazette of Saturday contains' Prod , intnion hy the PRINCF, REGRNT, rated tr 6+h instant, calling in that part of the current coin ommonly called the old Tower Halfpence 0 1 n ning, This Proclamation being of impor t ' once to the Public, we have given it at 0 1 length in our I,st Page. • GfizetlP likewise cooains Addresses Wee d.sietier •.1 PKINC;E EGE NT, from the c0,,,0f L-„ caster, Laucaste ( ' prrt of Glasgow 'and Ncwark ; Bolton-le-Moor g ' Lalc rster ; NV,dlingtord. Berks ; Boston; We crstcr ; 13,,r0t of Ayr ; Greenock ; Aberdeen; Gloucester ; R. adiug ; Presh)lery of Hatnilton; Universi . iy of St. Andrew's ; Chester ; Hoek ; Cnilers of Sheffield ; Ruthin ; Hireforal Lanark ; Borough of DenhiJi ; City of r i , t tbl Kincardine ; Anglesea ; Sinrey.—Also to Prince LisopoLo, flow the County of Surrey, Borougk 64 of Wdlingford, Co u nty of Ab er d een, town Burton-upon-Trent, and City of Chester. Tit KING's H ALT H. —aft Saturday, t he QUEEN'S Council assembled at Windsor, to re' ceive the Monthly Report of the five Doctors' ,which was presented soon after twelve o'cloct' After the breaking up of the Council, Lord Ai' DEN dispatched a Messenger to the Qo DI Bath. Yesterday the following Bulletin was she° at St..Lones's Pollace. ‘VINDSK CASTLE, DEC. 7.—His Majesty has been to ? fortnly composed throughout the last month, and hag e njofe i good general health, though his Majesty's disorder.ceutitO ° unchanged. H. HALFORD, "JOHN WILLIS, " M. BAILLIE, " ROBERT WILLI& " W. HEBERDEN, Lord ARDEN aua the Hon. Sir ARTHUR LE were the Lord and Gt , ,not in Waiting. Sh11: 1 NEWS. DEAL, Dec. 7.—,Arrived, and sailed for A l River, the Malabar, ASCO'Ugfr, from Bombay; s he sailed the 2611 July, and from the Cape tit€ Ist October. On the 30th Oct. she spoke the Eliza, from Liverpool to Bengal, 'all well. IA at Bombay the Vansittart and General Harris.--"' Came down from the Hirer the Sorar Castle, I' Bombay; Atalanta, Victoria, and Catharine Green, for Jamaica ; Golden Fleece, -for the Cape ; Britannia, for the West Indies ; Loyalist , for St. Vincent's ; and Perseverance, for Rl° Janeiro. PLYMOTITH, DEC. 6.—Arrived the following outward-bound vessels from London :-;—Alcyone/ Beaufort, Reward,• Jahn Barry, and Syren, for Jamaica ; George, for Gibraltar ; Agnes anti Curlew, for Charleston ; Susannah, for Leghorn .Nautilus, for Grenada ; Favourite, for Cayenne . / Economy and Cossack, for Trieste ; Betsey, for Madeira; Hercules, for Barcelona ; Helena, for Montserrat; Clifton, Lord Wellington, Nesbitt/ Mary, and Europa, for the West Indies ; George Hibbert, for Antigua ; Albion, for Bourdeattic Bragauza, for , Oporto ; and Charles, for St. Ml' chael's. The Syren got oft shore in Catwater last night, and is very leaky—her back is 'supposed to be broken. POICTSMOUTH, DEC. 7.—Arrived his Majestyl ship I'ike from Newfoundlaml. FALMOUTH, DEC. s.—Arrived the Swiftsnre packet with a mail from Nvw York, in 24 days; Tortoise store-ship, from London ; Hof - Thong , AIAINE, from Copenhagen for 13arcelona ; and ate following outward-hound vessel) from London .:•"'" Fort William, for Madras and Bengal ; Pam, Volusia, London, St. Aims, Prince Gi•orgel Fortitude, Lady Holland, Mary, and Hanover" for Jamaica ; West Indian, for Antigua ; Cale: donia, for Grenada ; Clarkson, Sperillator, 110 1 Genet al Harcourt, for Demerara ; William Male ping and Wiiiiam Lushington, for St. Kitt" William, for Tobago ; Harvey, for Trinidad D,)wson, for St. Thomas's ; Cornwall, for ill Cape ; Ceres, for Africa ; Luita, 801 Alert , - ;;for St. Michael's ; Fame, for Lisbon ; 0* about 20 others, names unknown. THE PRINCE REGENT.—On Samday, after one o'clock, the PRINCE REGENT ; attentle by Sir EDMUND NAGLE, the Naval Equerry ri ° leftleftCallum House for Bright...ft. .07 , Royal aishoess proceeded over Vauxhall Bride' himself, they not only instantly acceded to that proposal, but handed to him a list of nine Book sellers in Edinburgh, to any three of whom, to be selected by .himself, they offered to refer all ques tions arising out of their connection with him. In regard to the_ transactions between the Pub lishers of the Scots Magazine and the Editors, they hai-e . to state, that the application to Messrs. Constable and Company - was first made by the Editors, ten days after the intimation from Mr. Blackwood, > s to the discontinuance of the Edin hargh Atouthly ;Magazine, had been received and acknowledged,—and by letter, of which the fol lowing is a copy:— _ "Cameron Bank, 2d July, 1817. Messi s . Archibald Constable and Co. " GENTLv34 EN,-IVe are the Editors of the Ediainirgh 3fout/dy Jiagri;inc, a work which Will he discontinued the month of September next, it not sooner, and Mr. Black wood the puli!isher, has inter Changed with us a regular in timation of tin; in terms of onr attTeeinent. " It is nut necessary, we conceive, to assign to you any par- Ocular reas,ms for this residut ion. We have•fonad it impos sible to carry on a work, which we wish to be impartial and independent, in our present connection ; but, at the same time, as the uncommon favour with which the numbers al ready published have been received, bolds out a very encou raging prospect of the success of such a work, and as our principal contributors have assured us of their aid, whoever may be the pohlisher, we have come to the decided resolution of recommencing a similar miscellany. " But befor making any definitive arrangement - fur this undertaking-, we big leave to propose our taking a concern in it, which we are satisfied must still further insure its suc cess When we commenced the Edinburgh illagrz :iur, we had it in view to make a similar application, which we can now only regret we were prevented from doing, partly in consequence of Mr. Constable's absence from town, and partly because it might he thought to interfere with your own Muguzine. " .Ater the experiment that has been made, successful be yond Our most sanguine expectations, wr would hope that any ditlietilties wircti might have °cm red on your part way now lie obviated,: especially when we state our• readiness to t:ike the seul .llng - azille as the. Basis of our utidertaing, beginning a new sei-tes of that long-established Journal, en larging its plan, ant! a:similating it in paper and printing, and in price, to the best London Monthly Magazines ;. would wish also to avail ourselves of the assistance of the present Editor of that work. "'That as little time a• possible may be occupied witl► pre vious discussion, we have tAien the• liberty to enclose the terms upon which we should he ready to entcr into an agree ment with you; should these be thought satisfactory,, the minor arrangements may he left, in a great wea,ure, to your selves, and cannot certainly occasion any alitf,renre. We shall he glad to hear front you at your earliest Con venience, and have ttt howour to he, Gentle:oen, " Yonr v,ry obedient ... , erv,-ns, (Signed) " .T.l A 1 1a C LE{ il - 11111N. "'l'llo. PIIINGLE." Messrs. CoxsTaBLE and Company, instead of seeking to detach the Linors trcnn their connec ,ion with B. received filch. eten atter it was pretty g,euerally linoWn that this con nection was positively to terminate, h conside rable hesitation; and it was not till a fortnight afterwards—Messrs. Cous:ahle and Comnany har ing been fully assured that the intimations !shove mentioned had been actually interchanged be tween Mr. B. and the Editors, and that any new arrangement with bhp was altogether out of the gnestion,—That an agieement with these gentle men for a new series of the Scots Magazine was at last completed. iutimation of the dis con innattee•of rhe E.iinburgh MontlAy.Magazine it; dated the '23d June; the E titors' application to Messrs. Constabtc and Company, the 2d July ; and the agreement between Me.,is. Constanle and Company and the Enitors, the 17 th July. A tun statement of the transactions between Mr B. and the E'fitors is in preparation, and, with aU the cart- , spondence that has been held between them,' shall be put to press speedily, should the Public seem to take any interest in such matters; or should Mr. B. venture to chal lenge any of the facts which are here rekietantly brought to light in their own defence, the cor rectness of which thLy pledge themselves to sup port - Edinburgh, Oct. 25, 1817. JANIES CLEGHORN. 'IIIOMA , , PitINGLE. TO CORRESPONDENTS. For SPAIN AND HER COLONIES, see Fourth Page. , VACCINATOR,--ViNnex,---and AMERICAN FISURRICS, To morrow. THEATRICAL REG ISTER. Performed on Soturdity Night. THEATRE RriTAL, Daunt-La:sr.—king Richard the Third : Doke of Gloucester, Mr. Fisher; Lady Anne, Miss Boyce. After which, The Romp. THEATRE ttoYAL, CovENT-GARDEN.—CinyMantiering: Henry Wilmot, Mr. Brabant; .Lucy Bertram, M Stephens. Af ter which, Husbands and ‘Vives. To which was added, Mora's Lute. L` , ARRIVEI)-1 France, I Ham 2 Gottenburqb, 1 Guern sey and Jersey, 2 Dublin, 3 %Vaterfurd. Dun—l Liibon, I Hamburg!), I Flanders, I Holland, 1 Gottenburgh, 1 Guernsey and Jersey. PIKE !li. ; STOCKS THIS PAY. 3 per Cent. Red. .. R2l I India 80nd5.... .96s.'9Rs. pr. 4 per Cents. 994 , 4; Exch. Ns. Bank L. Ann. Qi I-16th I cims. for Acc0unt......83M HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW. Morning . , 19 minutes after 3. I Evening, 34 minutes after 3. THE SUN. SOLEAI QUIS DICEIZE FALSUM AUDEAT ? LONDON, MOND.4Y, DECEMBER 8, 1817. (