The Sun.
London, England, 1837-05-03 00:00:00

BURDETT VERSUS BURDETT.

" Out of thine own mouth will I condemn thee."
" In this very speech, Earl Grey says he has somewhat
changed the opinions which he held in his youth ; he confesses
that when he pressed Parliamentary reform, he pressed it with
all the ardour which belongs to a state of youth and inexperience,
but that, after some years of experience, his opinion underwent
some variations. He does not favour us with any account of
what those variations are, or were, but he only tells us that
his opinions were different from what they were before, and he
attributes the alteration in his sentiments to the effect of
experience. If this is the case; if the principles of men can
change as they advance in years; if no man can be pledged
for the consistency of his opinions ; if it is to be a sufficient
answer for every man who thinks proper to change his political
opinions to say, that to-day I am older than I was when I
pledged myself to a different opinion,' then I say that such
men do cut up and destroy all confidence, and show that
there ought not to be any confidence placed in them. We
ought to ask whether such men could ever have been
actuated by any principle at all ? A principle is not
a new thing, which may be thrown aside after it
has been once established : a principle, once formed, remains
for ever the same; it does not alter by time; the man profess-
ing it may grow older, perhaps he may not grow wiser or
honester, but the principle he has professed continues one and
the same—that cannot ch ; and when a man once binds and
pledges himself to certain principles, whether wisely or not
it is for himself to consider, he has stamped on himself the
character which he intends shall belong to him ; and if he
departs from those principles, it is impossible for any reasona-
ble man ever after to put trust and confidence in him ; indeed
such a man has no right to have any confidence in himself."_
Speech of Sir Francis Burdett on being released from the
Tower.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, MAT 2.—Wind S. \V., moderate.—Arrived the
Eleanor, Pritchard, from Canton ; Ulysses, Crawford, from
Sydney ; Mary Lyons, —, from Monte Video y John Cock,
Williams, St. John's, N. B. ; King of Tyre, Bond, Lisbon.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 2. —Wind W. to S. E., fine.
FALMOUTH, MAY I.—Wind W. S. W., fresh breezes.— Ar-
rived Arrow, —, from Malaga.
PLYMOUTH.—Wind S. S. W.—Arrived the Chieftain, Moore,
from St. Vincent's.

DOVER, MAY 2.—Off port Scsostris, Yates, from Calcutta.
JERSEY, APRIL :30.—Arrived the Gloria, Meyer, from Stet.
tin ; Amcrica, from New Orleans.
BRISTOL, MAY 2.—Arrived Ringdove, Willmot, Memel.
LIVERPOOL, MAY I.—Wind fresh.—Arrived the Brilliant,
Gibson, from Jamaica; Clifton, Walters, from Demerara;
Mobile, —, from New Orleans ; Senator, Stacy, from
ditto ; Belvidere, Bailey, from Charleston.
CORK, APRIL 30.—Arrived Olivera, Pemera, from St. Übe's.
HULL, May I.—Arrived the Argo, Armes, from Memel.
WHITBY, MAY I.—Arrived the Emma, from Memel.
SHIELDS, MAY I.—Arrived the Felix, Renning, from Ras-
tick ; Fanny, Voss, from ditto.
POOLE, MAY I.—The Mary, from Waterford to Fareham,
was assisted into this port yesterday in a sinking state, and has
been l tid on the ground noir the quay.
SWANSEA, MAY I. Yesterday it blew strong from W. S. NV.
ti S.W., and at midnight increased to a gale, with heavy
squalls. The Star, of St. Jago de Cuba, parted a chain last
night, which was recovered and put on board this morning—
she upset the palls of her windlass, and was obliged to slip
from her anchor and struck at low water, but has been got into
this harbour.

PLymourn—The smack Agnes, sunk yesterday in the en-
!ranee to the Sound—crew saved ; bound to Cornwall.

The Dispatch, from Sunderland to Poole, was on shore in
Alum Bay (Isle of Wight) yesterday, and full of water.

WESTMINSTER ELECTION.—The Tories appear
to be absolutely confounded at the activity displayed by the
Reformers, and their call on the electors to " Go where Glory
waits them" is almost made in vain. In the efforts of the im-
mediate friends of Mr. Leader and Sir Francis Burdett, there
is this bread distinction--the former have enough to do in
marshalling and employing their forces ; the latter in inviting
assistance. The case of Sir Francis is become so hopeless,
that rumours are afloat that he will not vacate his seat after
all ! To assume this would be to suppose that he would rather
be utterly degraded with every party, than remain iden-
tified with the Tories. About thirty Members of Parliament,
and an immense number of other eminent Reformers, have en-
tered their names on Mr. Leader's Committee-list, Whigs as
well as Radicals; among the former are the Hon. John Dun-
das, Sir Ronald Fergusson ; and George Pryme, Edward
Divett, and Charles Villiers, Esquires.
This day, at one o'clock, Sir Francis Burdett arrived
in town in a carriage and four, accompanied by John Wilson
Crofter, Esq., the gentleman wJo made himself so conspicu-
ous in opposition to every popular clause in the Reform Bill.

Shortly after three o'clock yesterday morning, a fire
broke out in the lower part of the premises belonging to
Messrs. Constable and Frinders, chemists and druggists, 254,
High-street, Southwark, which is supposed to have been oc-
casioned by the bursting of a large carboy, containing a com-
bustible fluid. The discovery was made by one of the police,
who perceived a volume of smoke ascending from the cellar-
door. The flames were not got under before considerable da-
mage was done.