The Sun.
London, England, 1808-10-28 00:00:00

COMMON COUNCIL.

• he Court assembled yesterday, for the purpose 91-1
eeeiving his Majesty's Answer to the Address re-
i.""tlY presented to him. When the. Recorder had9'
'earl the Royal Answer, Mr. WAITHMAN arose,
and, alter a long speech, in which' he severely con-
tietllned that Answer, treating it, however, as the
nswer of Ministers, proposed some Resolutions. He
Was seconded by Mr. Q.UIIST, who delivered his..
3cnt)mentS upon the subject.
Mr. S.DIXON maintainedthat it would be disrespeUJul -
tO his MAJESTY not to insert his MAJESTY'S An-
swer upon the Journals of the Court, previous tgkj,
anY Resolution that [night be grounded upon Illat
Answer, and appealed to ,he Recorder, whether it
~,as not the -pradice. The Recorder cunfirmed Mr.
J:-)lxcm's opinion. Mr. DIXCN then proposed as an
Veendtnent, that his MAJESTY'S Answer should first
entered on the Journals; but this amendment was
negatived, and, after a long debate, the Resolutions
inserted in a previous column were carried without
9iddivisinn, and ordered to be inserted in the Public
4- tints

• Ifesterday a Cabinet Council was held 'at the Fo-
l'e)go Office, which did not break up till- after six' I
%,:ere present his Grace the Dni'.e
sj7- r°1""-AtIT1 • Eatls CHATHAM, CAMDEN, Ba-
ssi, andlAr
3 ESTMORLAND ; Lord HAwx.Esßutor
CASTLEREAGH ; Mr. Secretary CANNING and
Ir. • PERCVAL.
The Madrid Gazette of the tith instant contains
translatibn of CHAMPAGNY'S report of the 24th of
Nrii, on the affairs of Spain,
with notes and stric-
tures
, the perfidious line of conduct pursued by
ONAPARTE With regard to that country. The
'll°l'v'e'lg. are the most striking passages ::When
„ flAmp
AGNY says, that it is indispensably necessary
for France that she should have nothing to fear from
eiearn, but
i on .11e/contrary; have a right to expect
Alaithqt n case of need the Spanish armies shit 4/
rch for her " the commentator ek-,
m (l.4enCe,
41• ss Here Spaniards, you see the plan of feii-
rYciiscldi ed, 'which was prepared for you by the
ilatiavnr NTAPOLEON. To drag you from your belted
e country, from the arms of . those most
spmeear, to
Yon,_ in order, to conduct you to the. irk-
regions of the North, to support-his barbarous
oc'•
1 °but,.
Such was his infaMous project, and in
er to carry it into effect, he made use of, what
• On c AGNY calls, his -peculiar and n
4 ew'policy."—
vth, assertion—" Justice author'
rilen'ti?°lic"Y suggests," he makes the folloWingenM-
llich An excellent maxim this—a maxim
Lions of allAttPrces usurpations,_ tyrannies, and viola-
/34ns"I' i'ights niakhn which MACHIAVEL
whiche t would w
ld have shrunk from ritiug down, and
.is worthy only of NAPOLEON. Sovereigns of
Furepe, f
11 is for you to scrutinise this maxim, that
jr:" trlay learn the ptinciples on which NAPOLEON'S
Policy is founded. Woeto you If you do not
c`irrea your erroneous notion of what that miscreant
Is and be
We have sincere pleasure in stating, that by the
Intaceounis from the Bahie, that g:ill.int Officer, Sir
JAMES SALTMAREZ, was recovered from hia late in-
di- •
sposit ion. '
The veteran CUMBERLA";:i has proposed to bring
t`t.,)rward a Review of literary Produdions, in which
rr'e name of every Critic is to be annexed to li!s
\:,4•lttersions. The licentious. aiid, daring asperity
bas which a certain vehicle, of per bell criticism
att-
ceric, 4eked literary works, and, the sharne:ess inde-
co,„/ with which they, lia%e held hp the aHcrers to
properbpt and ridicule, render such a measure highlys
er• It is shocking to see.lcerning and
te
dews at the mercy of anonymous malignity, Which
tfrom its pen what it dares not utter frAy
I°.ngllO. The .ftiends of literature will be under adz,'
(m-ional obli6tions to Me:: CUMBERLAND for a new
Ora of Criticism, which is likely hereafter to be cha-
3:Eterized by good manners, if not by judgment and
"wledge ; and ntetit will not be afraid, to come
forward when it knOws that it will be sate -from
private malevolence and wanton levity.
~tat'rhe Common Council yesterday; a circum-
appened of rather a ludicrous nature. The
I.4ticcordehr, wben putting the question, " that. bl
aiestY'b gracious Answer to the City Addrege," be.
r:serted on the Joutnals,called it, by a iitt/e'lh-i4take,
C-Malesty's most grievous 'Answer:" This of
course
•wils seized as a very happy appelkition by
in those who felt sore on the subject of the Answer
qusti•ou, and occasioned a prodigious burst of
9ughter.

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42DDRESSES.

As the' Promotersof Addresies to his Majesty, on
-the subjea of the Convention of Cintra, have -dd..-
fered much in opinion iespeaing. the topics Willa'
D. 7)
Stoul be introduced in those Compositiong,
t
stintnt the following model to them, as it will in-
clude all that has already been said, and all that
they can wish to say on the occasion :