The Sun. — London, England, 1817-11-26 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS. We have resumed our Extracts from The Leicester JGarnal and Midland Counties General 4dcertiser of the 21st instant, conceiving that the following Letter, though addressed to a particular body of men, is equally applicable to others of a similar description, wino may he misled by their own Passions, or the artful incitements of seditious mal contents. We hope, however, that the conduct of lite EMPLOYERSIiaS been misrepresented, or, exAggerated, though it may indeed be inferred, from the advantage of local knowledge which the Editor of the respectable Journal, Nylitinee the Letter is taken, must possess, that he would-.l4ardly have inserted it unless it bad some froutrlaliwn. TO THE FRAME-WORK KNITTERS OF. THE TOWN AND COUNTY OF LEICESTER. • Fer.cow WORKNIEN,-The sufferings you have undergone in consequence of the spirit manifested by some of your Employers, must have made such a powerful impression upon your, minds as will not be easily eradicated ;•they are too fresh upon yotir recollection to snake it necessary for us to recite them :—we need not tell you, that previous to the late exertions, though you laboured 16 or 18 hours per day, your only inheritance was the istueliings of hunger, and to hear the cries of your Children for Bread. It is to your honour, that you bore your suffetings, during this painful r etiod, without violating the Laws of your coun try ; and thank Eleavvn• for those generous friends, who viewed with pity your wretched si tuation, and who have, by their noble exertions, -alleviated your miseries. To prevent a recurrence of •your calainities.ought to be thc.object of your .greatest solicitude ; to prevent an evil front over taking you, will he far better than the most sue .Ctiful exertions to get s - eit of it :—some of your Employers, forgetting the shame attached to their former conduct, ate again eudeavouring to bind . u pon you the most cruel yoke of bondage ; al ready have they thrown a considerable number of 'hands out of employment, because they will not submit to a reduction of wages :—and we are •sorry to say, that some houses have succeeded in :educing the wages of their Workmen to an • . alarining extent, while they openly declare, that 'they shall not keep them at work a moment after atteir Olders are completed. This novel system in the Hosiery Trade will be continually throw ing hands out of employment, and consequently .plunging them into distress. As you thus see that these houses conduct their business upon .the must selfish and unfeeling principles,, it be hoves Ott to use every Legal and Constitutional Means to counteract their mischievous tendency : • your Opponents amongst the Hosiers are _daily iiirreaing, one of your otos' powerful Advocates has placed himself foremost in the ranks of your • enemies ; not only has he reduced the wages of his workmen—hut he has also raised the rest of his Frames !--another, who made himself con , spicoous by a pompous advertisement, respecting tThrking a handsome advance on Stocking Makers' Wages, was the very first Hosier who set aside .• the statement. To support the hands out of etn - ployment, in such circumstances, would be such • an heavy expellee upon the Public, that could not -be borne ; and-if it could would be of no avail— you have, therefore, np alternative, hut to sutler - every privation, or become your own manutac turers ; to the latter roposition you will readily accede, and it remains with you to determine, • whether you will manufacture in separate socie ties, or make it one public concern, as your welfare and prosperity is ietimately coenected with your decision upon this point. By manufacturing se parately you will encounter a number of difficul ties which you may otherwise avoid; you must be aware that you cannot purchase your unwrottght materials at so cheap a rate with a small quantity of money as von can with a larger, besides, hay • lug a considerable number of persons to conduct your business, when one or two would be suffi cient, would be a double expense i it is very pro • bible also, that one society would be underselling Another, which would lower ,the price of the ar ticle. By making it one general concern your capital might be employed to the best advantage, your business conducted with less expense and tar better ; and iesteml of undeiselling each other, you would be able to render each other an essential service, as it might happen that a considerable nrenher of hands would he out of employ ment in one society, while there would not be any -out of employment in the other sociuites, in .which case, if the funds were united together, that society which was in distress would be easily supported. To have a warehous4 established by your own subscriptions, to go to for employment when you are in distress fa; want of-it, must he a source of the greatest consola tion, it will relieve you from those corroding and anxious tears which have tormented your laeoon; you will be able to look upon your off spring tvith satisfaction and joy, knowing that • you will be able by your own industry to provide fur their necessities ; you will follow your occu pation with cheerfulness, as you Will be certain of receiving the reward of your labour ; nor would the present generation only rejoice io'an institution like this, but it would confer blessings upon thousands yet unborn. You cannot stiffer as a body without causing others to suffer also, so your prosperity will diffuse general happiness and • prosperity arbund you.. There are some of the hosiers, and we would hope a considerable num ber, who possess the feelings of humanity, and would willingly give a fair price for their work, ' and who would be happy to see that comfort and contentment were the constant inmates of the poor man's dwelling ; 7 1et such hosiers have the first privilege of purchasing your goods, that they may have-no cause of complaint against you. We would enjoin import you a continuance of that peaceable conduct and submission to.the laws, which has hitherto marked your conduct, and hope you will look on unto that kind Providence who always hears the cries of the oppressed, and who will in the hour of distress taise you up merans and Powerful friends to succour and sup- Port you. N. R.—lt is intended sliortly to publish a list of the prices given, with the names of both mas ter artd workman. THOMAS ROWLETT, ChaCrnaan. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed Last Night. THEATRE RoTAL, DRCTRY-LANE.—The Deprave Opera: Cap tain Macheath, Mr. T. Cooke ; Polly, Miss Byrne. After which, The Falls of Clyde. . THEATRE ROYAL, CovENT-GAnnEN.---The Cabinet.: Prince Orlando, Mr. Brabant ; Floretta, Miss -Stephens. After whielt, The Father and his Children. MAILS. ARRIVED-1. Malta, 1 Guerniey and Jersey, 1 Waterford. DuE—l France, 1 Lisbon, I Gottcuburgh, 1 Holland, 1 Haw burgh, 1 Dublin, I Wat,Tford. STOCKS Bank L. Ann. 20 13-Ifalis 21 Indis Stock, 24f India Bonds... ‘...985. 995. pr. Ezell: 13i115.. . 10s. 365. pr. Gins . . fur 0pening........641 EYTON, Stock-Broker, rnhill, and Lonibard-street. PRICE Q THIS DAY AT T Bank Stock,.. 2 per Cent. Kell. l42i per Cent. Cons R3i 4 per Cents. - 994 5 per Ct. NavyAnn.loBli 109 E. 2, Co HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning, 8 minutes after 4. 'Evening, 33 minutes after 4 THE SUN. soLum QUIS DICERE FALSUM AUDI:AT ? LONDON, TVEDNESD4Y, NOVEMBER 26, 1817. We have again to announce the non-arrival of Paris Papers. Two days' Journals are now due. The following is an extract of a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's at Gibraltar, dated 816 inst. : ", Passed the Straits to the Eastward, the Alge rine Squadron, and was joined by the Algerine brig lying near the river Palmonis." EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM QUEBEC, DATED ISTH oCTtil3Pft. " We are happy to state that the partial alarm which existed in this city, during the last week, respecting a contagious fever which was said to have made its appearance in this city, is dissipated. Some cases of typhus fever certainly occurred some time taco, but we have not lately heard of any new cases.—On Monday morning last, about 3 P. M. this city was visited with a thunder storm of unusual severity and duration, but we have not heard of its having done any maerial injury.— Yesterday the ship Zephyr arrived here with IS9 German settlers, men,, women and children : they will immediately proceed up the country to their place of destination." This being the Settling Day of a long Consol Account, in which there has beerk fluctuations of 3 to 4 per Cent., We hare pleasure in informing the Public that no Defaulter appeared in the Market ; the Commissioners, who• purchase for the Reduction of the National Debt, bought about 150,000 Consols at 83i, which is about the settling price o f the day. Consols for the January Ac count (in which there has already been large bargains clone) are 84U, and money may be had to any amount at 4 per Cent. There was a well-written article in The Morning Post of yesterday, adverting to the licentiousness of the Press, and intimating that the LAw OFFI CERS OF THE CROWN had been desired to direct their attention particularly to those seditious pub lications which, in one shape or other, seem in tended to bring Government into contempt, and excite the people to acts of rebellion. In justice to ourselves, therefore, we reprint a short article on this subject, which appeared in TUE SUN, in order to shew that our communication did not proceed from a light authority : " We have reason to believe that it has been determined that the LAW OFFICERS OF THE. CROWN shall in future peruse all the Publications that issue ft om the Seditious Presses of this Country, not for the purpose of restraining that free discussion which our Constitution admits, and demands, but to guard that Constitution front the open and insidious attacks of its enernies,"—(See Tn SUN of the 13th instant.) A new bugbear was recently started in The Morning Chronicle, on the subject of the Succes sion to the Throne of these Beak's, and it -con tends, that becatise the DUKE or YORK is now the nearest in succession to tke PRINCE REGENT, he should no longer occupy the situation of Com mander-in-Chief. To justify this silly alarm on the consequences of suffering the best Commander in-Chief we ever had to retain .the station which he has held so much to his own honour, the improve ment of the British Army, and the satisfaction of the Empire, The Chrtnicle refers to the case of 1808, when his MAJESTY refused to assent to the ap plication of the PRINCE - of WALES for military command any fat ther than implied in the intima tion that in case " the implacable enemy should succeed so far as to land, his Royal flightless would have the opportunity of spewing his zeal at the head of his regiment," and stating the cause of his refusal in the following words : " You must be . satisfied that your - not being advanced in military rank proceeds entirely from his MAJESTY'S sentiments respecting the high rank you hold in the State, and not from any impression unfavourable to you." Surely this was a most satisfactory reason, but is not applicable to the DUKE of YORK, who does not stand in the same Relation to his MAJESTY as the Heir Apparent. The reasoning, therefore, of The • Chronicle is as shallow as its alarm on this subject is ridiculous, and seems to shew, that like a Person whom "we shall not name to ears polite," The Chronicle " will play at a small game rather than stand out." As to the terrors of a Standing Army, the nation has undergone too many changes, and the collective body of the people are too much im proved in political knowledge, and too well aware of the necessity of maintaining a strong national defence by land as well as by sea, in order to guard against domestic as well as foreign enemies, to be alarmed at the mischievous but senseless specula tions and apprehensions of The Morning Chronicle. THE QUEEN'S ARRIVAL AT BATH. BATH, Monday Night.—This afternoon, a little befdre six o'clock, the . QuEEN - arrived at her late residence in Sidney-place. There was a train of seven carriages. No escort of soldiers attended her Majesty, but 20 or 30 of the inhabitants mounted their horses, met the Royal carriages a few miles off, and conducted them, without noise or bustle, through the city. How different the spectacle from the splendid appearance which our streets exhibited but three short.weeks ago ! The gloomy idea must make us pause—but it is now our duty as men to endeavour to shake off, if possible, the burtlien of grief.. Our gracious Queen and her affectionate Elizabeth appeAred fatigeted and drooping; but a journey of nearly 90 miles in one day, at this late season of the year, and at her Ma jesty's advanced time of life, is no trifling toil. It is one which the pursuit of health alone could justify. May the wish of the_ people be realised, and her Majesty long remain an example to her sex . The Committee for managing and. regulating the parochial ways-and spacious streets, where the, Queen's Palace (and such it may be justly termed) is situated, .have not been idle during her Majesty's lamented absence. The' shrubbery in front of the house, lately a disgusting gravel pit, has assumed a pleasing picturesque appearance, and a mast, nearly 100 feet in height, has been fixed in the' centre of it, from which a well-exe cuted flag, with the Royal Arms, is waving. ' The Mayor summoned the Members of the Body Corporate, this day, to Guildhall, to consi• der of addressing the Prince Regent, her Majesty, and Prince Leopold, upon the late event which has deprived the kingdom of a Gem so valuable in the Diadem of England. We understand that three affecting and loyal Addresses were produced and adopted by this grateful and so highly ho noured Corporation. Tuesclay Morning.—The Qum) did not per form her journey so easily as before. Although she 'left Windsor nearly an beim. sooner, it was al most, six o'clock, yesterday evening, before she arrived at her house in Sydney-place. The Queen and Princess Elizabeth are attended by Lady ll chester, Lady Melville, General Campbell, and Colonel Desbrow. Her Majesty Is,as received by his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, who bad arrived nearly an hour before, and she ap peared evidently fatigued by the journey, for, "as she was stepping from her carriage into the hOuse, her foot caught the threshold, and she would cer tainly have fallen, had riot his Royal Highness been at hand to support her.—General Taylor arrived about an hour after. Her Majesty's return' to Bath was marked by none of those joyful acclamations which greeted her last entrance. She had, indeed, signified her express desire, that no military escort should at tend her, and that her entrance might be quiet as possible. Independently of this, much as her Majesty's presence %%as desired by the inhabitants of Bath, yet the grief which the N►►tion shares has thrown a gloom over every face, and the ar rival of these illustrious personages appear to be scarcely noticed. Soon after the arrival of her Majesty, the Royal party sat down to dinner, and afterwards retired early to rest. No company had been admitted, and the residence of .hcr Majesty remained in the most perfect silence, distinguished only by two grenadier centinels of the - 38th regiment. During the journey from Windsor•, her Majesty alighted twice ; first at the King's Head Inn, Thatcham, where, whilst the horses were being changed, she partook of sandwiches, which had been brought from Windsor, and again at the Castle Inn at Marlborough, where the Staff of the Wiltshire Militia formed a Guard of Honour, and the fine band of that regiment played several na tional airs, as her Majesty partook of a very ele gant dejeun6, prepared by Mr. Cooper, the land lord, who was honoured by her Majesty's perso nal commendations of his arrangements. The Landlord of the Pelican . hotel, at Speenhamland, hail also made great preparation ; and, as the Royal carriages approached the house% a carpet was laid on the pavement. They, however, all passed on , without stopping ; but her Majesty di rected some of her suite to express her regret at the circumstance, and to say, that she would ; visit that house on her return. Yesterday another Cabinet Council was held at 2 o'clock at the Foreign Office, which was at tended by the same Members as that holden on Monday, and we understood with. the addition of Mr. BRAGGR BATHURST. The Council sat in de liberation till past 5 o'clock. Another Cabinet Council is expected shortly to be held. SHIP NEWS. DEAL, Nov. 25.--Carne down from the Rivet the Percival, for Grenada; William, for Tobago; Ocean, for Jan - mica ; Economy, for Trieste 5 and Triune, for St. Domingo. Arrived, and passed the back of the Goodwin Sands, the Perseverance , GIBSON, front St. Thomas's for Rotterdam. At. rived the Jack Tar, from Newcastle for Jamaica; Margaret, SIMPSON, from Batavia for Antwerp; New Biggin, Wit.us, from Quebec ; Joseph', STEWART, from Lynn for Jamaica; Monarchs DOUGLAS, and Montreal, HILLER, trout Qitebee for London. Sailed the Fort William, Lord Wel lington, and several others, outward-bound-'' particulars unknown. The Margaret spoke, ots , the 17th Oct. in lat. 9. 10. N. long. 21. AV. tlie Blucher Packet, with a mail from the Brazils; and on the 19{1) Oct. she spoke the Charles South Seaman, of London. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 24.—Arrived the Eliza, LEICK, from Quebec, and the N. S. de la Coosa-. lacion, GOYCONHEAD, from London for Comma, FALMOUTH, Nov. 23.—Arrived the Princess Charlotte packet with a mail from Malta and Gibraltar, in 12 days from the latter. Sailed the Osborne packet with a mail for the Leeward Islands, and the Dorah, EDWARDS, for Bengal. DOVER, Nov. 25.—Arrived the Lord Nelson, BLACK, .from Newcastle for Guernsey, with the loss of sails, and leaky. MARGATE, Nov. 25.—The cutter Samuel, So- PER, from London for Penzance, was on shore on the Main, near the Reculver, but with assist. once was got off again and into harbour, with loss of anchors and cables. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 25.—Arrived his Majesty's ships Tiber and Hope from a cruise ; Tullocb Castle and Resolution, from the Downs ; anti the Martha, from Christiana for Southampton. HULL, Nov. 24.—The Richard and Ann, I‘IsE TIN, of this port, from Philadelphia, arrived at Alicant on the 25th Oct. The Eibergill,-LuKE, of this port, arrived at Batavia from London on the 25th June, all well ; left the Downs the Nth March, and the Cape of Good Hope 21st May; The followiUg letter was received here on Fri-. day morning from Captain MITCHELL, of the Beulah, from Griffin's Wharf, London, for this port. We understated that several 'vessels have been lost from the same cause here pointed out :---' " I ant sorry to inform you of the loss'ot the Beulah and cargo, on Thursday morning, at five o'clock. It. rained fast, and - was so thick coming in the Hasbro' Gat, we could not make the'Ne warp light, from there being so many fishermen's lights, but. struck upon a sand, supposed to be Hasbro' Sand—the wind West. We could not get hold of the land on either tack ; site began to make water very fast, and we were obliged to leave her, with upwards of five feet water is the hold, and take to the boat to save our lives ; Cromer bearing W.N.W. distance 20 miles. I extended my protes( at Holt, wishing you to in-. form the shippers. We could not save 0 0 clothes." Friday se'nnight, at night, the Newton, SMITIIs *from Lynn to this port, in extremely f oggy wea ther, was driven on shore nelr the entrance of the }Lumber. By the exertions of several petsonf sent to her, and taking out part of her cargn, she was got off on Sunday night, and arrived here ors Monday—the cargo very little damaged. The Traveller: of Newcastle, from Hull to Gottenbnrgh, ‘ was lost about the 3d inst. near Frederickstadt ; the Master and six of the trey drowned. The North Briton, ALLEN, from Stockholm to Hull, put 'into Gottenburgh the lOth inst. with damage, and would be obliged to discharge. CORN-EXCHANGE, Nov. 26.—We have had nO fresh Arrivals since Monday, but there was plenty left over for the demand to-day: Fine Wheat, Oats and Barley sold at Monday's prices, bac ordinary was doll ;, in Pease and Beans there was no alteration., &But ASSOCIATION.—FeeIing it to be a public dutyas well as a merited tribute to our fair Conn.. trywomen, to notice the LADIES BIBLE ASSOCIA' TION of ST. CLaMaNT DANES, ST. MARY-LE' STRAND, and the SAVOY, ive deem it proper to state that the laudable Patronesses and 'Supported of this excellent institution are to hold their fourth Annual Meeting on the 27ths instant, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern. iVe hope to have an opportunity of giving our earnest support to many other similar Institutions throughout the kingdom, that the rising generation may be in , structed in the truth of Uoly W; it, and duly inv pressed with its exhortations. 13.A1Gwrom, Nov. 24.—This afternoon the PRINCE REGENT made a second excursion on horseback along the \Vest Cliffs, in company with Sir W. Keppel, Colonel Thornton, and the Rev. Mr. Blomberg. Lord William Gordon was the only arrival this day at the Pavilion. The society of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent is or tremely confined ; and wiihin the Pavilion there is nothing which indicates a deviation from the mournful recollection of an irreparable kss. The band of the Prince Regent are suspended for the present. It is expected that the Prince Regent will reside at the Pavilion for three months; the course of which period it is probable that the Royal Family will occasionally visit the Pavilion' The delay in finishing. the late improvements 3 1 this Royal Residence is altogether inconvenient' but every exertion is making to form a temporary completion. Saturday afternoon Earl BATIIURST went t d Claremont on a visit to Prince LEOPOLD.