The Sun.
London, England, 1822-11-15 00:00:00

BOXERS.

NEATE AND SPRING.—This was the principal topic of
conversation yesterday at TATTERSALL'S,- and other sport-
ing circles, and this forfeit has left much doubt whether
the great battle between Martin and Randall will take
place on the 3rd of December, although the whole of
the immense stake of Five Hundred Pounds aside is de-
posited in the hands of Mr. John Jackson. The stake was
nearly forfeited by Martin's backer, who sent a cheque in
.-
stead of money, and a sporting character got it changed, and
made good the whole money just in time. This cheque re-
mains as it did, leaving Martin to stand 2001. of the battle
money himself, and he has declared he wont fight. At a meet-
ing at Mr. Thirtle's in the Haymarket yesterday, where Spring
was in attendance, lie there offered to fight Ncate on the
day (next Tuesday se'nnight) from a glass lot gin to 200/. for his
own money; the forfeit to Neate being 156/., which he has re-
ceived. It seems that amateurs who had backed Spring freely
would have saved the forfeit without a scruple, had his backer
signified that lie would not be present to take stakes good.—
The forfeit has caused the greatest confusion, and those who
had taken odds that Spring and Martin would win at 4 to 1,
and that Spring and Randall would win at 2 to 1, have lost the.
first event by Spring's forfeit, and that is a good reason to sup-
pose that Randall and Martin will not fight. It is likely that
Neate will :accept. Spring's challenge, and in that case it would
be a new match altogether, with which former betting has
nothing to do.

Lady NUGENT, we are happy to learn, is nearly
recovered from her late severe indisposition.

We learn by letters from Naples, that the
Princess PARTANO, wife to the King of NAPLES,
had nearly lost her life from an accident,
which' occurred soon after his Majesty's de-
parture, on the 22d ultimo for Verona. The
Princess had ascended to her beautiful villa, the
Floridiana (once the country house of the san-
guinary and treacherous Salicetti), which is situ-
ated on the hill, of the Vomero near Naples ;
and she was returning by the steep paved road to
the City, in a carriage and four, when the horses'
took fright, and set cffat full gallop, down the hill:
The coachman was thrown from his seat and was
much hurt; but after running some distance one of
the horses fell and the carriage was stopped. The
danger indeed was great; for besides the road's
being extremely steep, it is in several places over
considerable hollows. The Princess had suf-
ficiently recovered from her alarm to set off on
the 24th for Verona.—M. DE SERRE, the French
Ambassador at Naples, left that capital for Ve-
rona on the 22d of October.

----
A. letter has just been received by Mr. Wil- •
liam Bankes from Mr. Salt, dated at Cairo in August last,
with the following curious information :—A roll of Papyrus,
measuring about eleven inches in length, and five in cir-
cumference, has been discovered in the Island of ElFphar:-
tina, and purchased for Mr. Bankes. It is found to con-
tain a portion of the latter part of the Iliad, very fairly
written in , large capitals, such as were in use during the
time of the Ptolemys, and under the earlier Roman
Emperors. The lines are numbered, and there are Scholia in
the margin. A copy is to be made from this valuable MS. at
Cairo, that it may serve as a duplicate, in case of an;
accident in its voyage to England. The person Who procured
this treasure for Mr. B. is a young man, who has been in his
employ for some years to explore such pert of the Antiquities
and. Geography of the East, as were left unascertained by Mr.
B. himself.—(Cambridge Chronicle.)
CORONER'S INQUEST.—Wednesday afternoon
an inquisition was taken before THOMAS STIRLING,
Esq. at the City of Hereford, .George-street,
Portman-square, on the body of John Meads,
aged 75, who died in consequence of cutting his
throat. It appeared from the evidence that the
deceased was employed as a bellows-blotwer to
the organ, of Mary-le-bone New Church ; he
had lately been labouring under a depression of
spirits. On the day he committed the act, the
landlady in whose honk he resided, found him
in the privy, with his throat cut, from ear to ear.
g Verdict—" Meatal Derangement."

THE LONDON JOURNALS,

IXTRACTS FROM THE DULY MORNINg PAPERS;
November 15, 1822.

[THE TIMES.]
There are.few situations more painful than that
of a, man, conscious of integrity, being called
-open to answer a charge of baseness, of which he
feels himself to be incapable, and of which he
hid therefore thought it impossible to be accused.
But there are occasions when accident may
give such a specious colouring to calumny, than
even honourable men may be temporarily seduced
into a belief of it. Then it is, though with the
titruost- reluctance, that the person traduced feels
it a duty to come forward, and for the sake of
his friends, no less than for his own reputation,
to clear himself from the possibility of suspi-
cion. Such is the reasoning which has induced
ns ta_ set forth an answer to a calumnious
charge which has been brought against us.—
We shall confine ourselves to a mere statement
of " the accusation, and of the facts which
will most satisfactorily refute it. A morning

paper of yesterday contains the following
eentence :—" Great astonishment and consider-
" able irritation was felt on the Exchange
44 yesterday, (Wednesday,) at The Times having
" quoted the French rentes 2 per cent. lower
" than they were when their own express came
seaway."---Now, though we should hardly have
noticed such an imputation proceeding from such
a quarter, yet hearing that at least one honour-
able gentleman has either been deceived by this
misrepresentation, or himself fallen unconsciously
into the error, we proceed by stating the facts to
correct his misconception. Our express left
Paris at four o'clock on Monday afternoon, and
contained, among other matter, the Cours Authciz-
tique, or authorized statement of the fluctuations
of the French money-market, which is printed
and published every day soon after three o'clock,
the hour at which the regular public business of
the French Exchange closes. It is true that after
that hour, transactions in the nature of time-
bargains are still carried on, and that fluctuations
take place as if the regular market was still open :
but the only official authorized account of the
day's business is the printed one to which we
have already referred. It is true that on Mon-
day, the day in question, business was transacted
as usual in the French money-market ; and that
when the transactions were completed,, which on
this occasion was at a late hour in the evening,
four hours after our express left Paris, the renter
had risen 2 per cent. above the price last quoted
in the Cours Authentique ; but at four o'clock,
the hour at which our express came away, the
rentes had only risen a little more than one half
per cent. above the printed price—that is, they
were at S6f. 90c., instead of 861. 30c., the last
price in the regular list.

[MORNING. CHRONICLE.]
Mr. Cobbett has attempted to skew, from the
superiority of a French to a Spanish army, the
worthlessness of soldiers, and their indifference
to all but plunder and prostitutes ; their equal
readiness to run their bayonets through a Philo-
sopher as throttg,ll a ,Priest ; that the Bourbons
might easily march a very small army to Madrid.
But if soldiers are indifferent to all but plunder
and, prostitutes, Spain is not a country which,
with respect to plunder at least, holds out a very
eering prospect. Aud if 20,000 men could.
March to Madrid with perfect ease, as he says,
can Spain be held by such an army ? What
would follow such an occupation ? A little time
will clear up all doubts on the subject of war.
We can only sa,i, that nothing which has taken
place. at Verona justifies the apprehension ; and
the 'pads reports are now pretty well appre-
eiated.

[BRITISII PRESS.]
Neither the Paris Papers nor private accounts
having confirmed the warlike rumours of the
week, the Funds revived yesterday to an extent
exceeding the most sanguine expectation. Con-
sols opened at 821, and after considerable fluc-
tuation, looking to a rise, left off at nearly the
same. This improvement was generally ascribed
to, the arrival of an express from Paris, announc-
ing a corresponding rise in the French Funds, in
consequence of a dispatch received by the
French Government from Verona, the substance
of which was considered conclusive of the conti-
nued tranquillity of Europe. That the contents
were favourable may be inferred from the state
of the French Funds on Tuesday. At four
o'clock on that day the Rentcs were 88f. 90c.,
and at six o'clock in the evening they had risen
to -fir'gr, 50c.

[MORNING HERALD.]

VERONA,. Tuesday, Nov.,s.—This.day, at one
o!clock, a grand conference was held at the house
of Prince Metternich, where all the high func-
tionaries attended in full assembly. The King
of Prussia has set out on his excursion to the
South of Italy, and i,s not expeCted to return be-
fore the beginning of next mouth. Various
periods are assigned for the duration of the Con-
gress, but the-- prevailing opinion is, that it will
oot last beyond the middle of December, and
that within 15 days from the present time, the se-
veral Ministers will decide upon the final result.
It is certain that the manly firmness of the Duke
of Wellington, in opposing propositions 'which he
Considers to be at variance with the interests of
his country, is thought one of the greatest Obsta-'
cles to an early conclusion. The Noble Duke,
hOwever, is resolved to maintain his ground to'
the last, and will not, in any instance, suffer him-
self to be lJetrayed into a temporising policy.—
East night there was a general illumination
throughout the town, in horiotir of. the Empress's
Giorno OnOmastico, and all classes forsook • the
theatres for the streets. There were neither
devices nor transparencies ; yet, when the full
splendour of the architecture was disclosed in a
blaze of light, many of the buildings displayed
an effect which nothing could enhance.

[MORNING riosT.l
The Paris Journals to the 13th inst. do not
communicate any official intelligence respecting

the course which it is now the intention of the
French Government to pursue towards Spain,
but the Quotidienne, probably encouraged by a
slight improvement in the funds, has resumed all
its military ardour, and boldly says, " it is evi-
dent that France means to have war, if the Cor-
tes persist in their fatal march, and there cannot
be two opinions on that subject in the King's
Council."—.That two opinions did exist on that
important point, in the King's Council, was
proved a short time since by the arguments used
by the Ministerial Journals, to show the impro-
priety and danger of an armed interference in
the affairs of Spain, and to vindicate the conduct
of the Government in refusing to venture on
such an interference. That those two opinions,
however marked and clashing at the time,
have since melted into one, appears undoubt-
edly to be the case, though the manner in
which the amalgamation has been produced
remains a secret for the public. But we should
not he surprised to see them resume their indivi-
duality after the reception of a few diSpatches
from Verona ; for it is impossible that Sove-
reigns and negociators, who, in contempt of hu-
manity, justice, and religion, exerted every nerve
for a whole twelvemonth to prevent assistance
being given to fellow Christians struggling with
infidels and assassins, on the ground that war in
its most distant extremity would endanger the
saft,,-y of all Europe, should now allow a fierce
and deadly contest to be carried on in its very
bosom, by two of its most powerful empires.—
If insurrection could not be countenanced in
Greece, where its objects consisted of all that is
dear to man, and sacred in the eyes of God, can
it be consistently cherished and assisted in Spain,
where its avowed end is to re-enthrone Despot-
ism and Superstition ?

TRI BUNAL ofeORRECTIONAL POLICE

AFFAIR RELATIVE TO THE LETTER WRITTEN BY M.
BENJAMIN CONSTANT TO THE PROCUREUR-GENERAL
MANGIN.

PARIS, OCT. 6.

M. Chretien de Poly, President.—What are your surname
and Christian names ?

M. Benjamin Constant.—Before I answer your question, I
must renew the protest which I have already made in this
place, and declare that I consider this tribunal incompetent to
judge me, on account of the nature of the letter on which the
charge is grounded, and which was merely a consequence of
the speeches which I delivered in the Legislative Tribunal,
and also on account of my rank of Deputy, and the preroga-
tives thereto belonging.
President.—You may.bring forward your objections at a fu-
ture time. What are your surname and Christian names ?
M. B. Constant now answered this question.
President.—What is your rank ?
M. B. Constant.—Member of the Chamber of Deputies.
President.—Ex-Member of the Chamber—
M. Constant.—No, M. President: lam now Deputy of La
Sarthe.

President.—The electoral colleges are not yet assembled,
therefor—

Constant.—l wish to avoid discussing this question before
the tribunal : however, since—
President. —Besides, the tribunal has not to judge of your
rank. Let the case proceed.
Billpt, the substitute for the Procureur du R.oi, stated
that M. B. Constant was accused of having insulted various
Magistrates by the publication of the document entitled Lettre
a M. Mangin, of which he acknowledged himself to be the
author.

M. Mollot, the Counsel for M. B. Constant, hoped that, con-
sidering the objection made by the accused to the ordinance of
the Chamber of Council, the Court would be pleased to post-
pone its judgment on this queStion until after the decision that
might be pronounced on thatolujection. • •
The King's Advocatd observed, that should the. Court enter
upon the examination of the merits of the objection either in its
substance or its form, it would-be said that it was encroaching
upon the privileges of another Court. Jiut would- the same re-
proach be well founded if, setting aside the substance and form,
it should be proved that in no case the right of objection can
belong to the accused ? The King's Advocate maintained that
in common law the right of objection could only be exercised
'by a party in a civil suit, and by the public .prosecutor. He
proposed that the Court should set aside the objections of M. B.
Constant, and proceed with the pleadings.
Mons. Mollot, in reply, defended the right of objection on
the part of the accused ; and in support of his arguments re-
ferred to several articles of the law of the. 26th of May, 1819.
(During Mons. 31ollot's reply, Mons. Vincent, one of the de-
puties of the Procureur de Rai, was observed to enter and hand
a long roll of papers to the King's Advocate.)
The King's Advocate.—ln spite of the efforts of counsel for
the accused, -who has just been heard, we are of opinion that
our powers remain undiminished. We will at present merely
invoke the support of a respectable authority, which has just
established by its decision the principles which we have pro-
fessed. Here, Gentlemen, are the grounds of the decision pro-
nounced this morning by the Chamber of Accusation on the
objection of 31. B. Constant in the affair relative to his corres,
pondence with M. Carrere.
The King's Advocate then unrolled the paper which Mons.
Vincent had presented to him,: and read the decision of the
Chamber which overruled the objection of M. B. Constant.
31ollot made some observations on this decision, after
which the Judges withdrew.
having deliberated for half an hour, the Judges returned
into Court, and the President delivered the judgment in nearly
the following terms : •
" Whereas the objection made by M. Benjamin Constant is
rot opposed on the ground of form alone, as it is only neces-
sary to know whether the objection has been validly made by
the accused—as the decision of this question rests with the
Judges—as otherwise it would be in the power of every accused
person to elude the decisions of justice by having recourse to
grounds of objection not contemplated by the laws or expressly
rejected by them ; whereas in an ordinary affair the right of
objection to the ordinances -of the Chamber of Counsel be-
longs only to the public officers and the civil party ; whereas the
laws of the 26th of May anti of the 25th of March, 'relative to
the course of proceeding to be adopted in causes of offences of
the press, have not, with respect to the right of objection, re-
pealed the common law ; whereas the 11th article of the law of
Slay 26, 1822, decrees that the party -accused has the right of
putting in a petition in support of his appeal, this article ought
to be understood in a sense conformable to that of the 217th
article of the code of criminal instruction, which gives to
the accused the right of addressing memorials to the Chamber
of Accusation, without, however, afilirdino• him the privilege
of appealing against the ordinance which'' directed his being
placed under accusation ;"_____‘‘ Whereas it also appears from
the text and the terms of the. law of 25th March, 1822,
that this laW has changed the jurisdiction established by the
law of the 26th of Slay, 1319, and that it consequently intended
to establish other rules of proceeding, and to reform those which
had been introduced on account of the jurisdiction alone :—The
Court, without regard to the exceptions and objections made by
Si. Benjamin Constant, justify the prosecution, and order the
pleadings to be proceeded with."
The King's Advocate then spoke in support of the accusa-
tion ; after which, at the request of M. 11 ollot, the further con-
sideration of the case was postponed for a week.

SUPERSTITION.--Capt. STEWART, when cru►z-
ing of the Italian coast, had passed several days
without seeing a ship. The men ascribed this unaus-
picious circumstance to the Captain's having taken
a black cat on board from the last port they touched
at. He immediately called the men aft, and
asked them if it reatly was so? They, .without he-
sitation, confirmed the report.. " Overboard with
the black cat !"-46 That," excla;med. an old sea-
man, " is worse still ; she must be landed ."
" Then lower away the jolly boat," said the
Captain. The cat was safely landed with much
formality on an island in sight, and that same
night they took the best prize which they had
captured in the Mediterranean."

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, &c.

BURIAL OF CARDINAL WOLSEY.
" This Cardinal,
Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly,
Was fashion'd to much honour from his cradle."
SHAXSPEARE'S Henry VIII.

The celebrated antiquary, BROWNE WILLIS,
who received his education at Christ Church
College, Oxford (founded by the Cardinal), took
great pains a century ago to discover the place
of his interment, with a view of removing
his remains, and burying them at Oxford ; but
the result was unsuccessful, nor is it now
likely ever to be known what became of the
body of this once great man ; the informa-
tion elicited from his inquiries is nevertheless
cutious.

" As to the great Cardinal Wolsey's sepulchre," says lie,
in a letter to Dr. Charlett, " the best account I have met with
is from one Mr. John Hasloe, whose grandfather, Arthur
Barefoot, was gardener to the Countess of Devonshire, who
lived at Leicester Abbey before the civil wars. He tells me
that the church stood, part of it, in what is now a little garden,
and the east end of it in the orchard (which was formerly
called the New Garden), where his grandfather, with others
digging, found several stone coffins, the cavities of which did
not lie uppermost, but were inverted over the bodies. That
among these he discovered Cardinal Wolsey's (Mr. Hasloe for-
gets by what means he knew it,) which the Countess would not
suffer to be stirred, bat ordered it to be covered again, and his
grandfather laid a great heap of gravel over it, that he might
know the place, which gravel still remains there.
" In short, as I have been ever zealous concerning this our
founder, so 71 cannot but be pleased with whatever I dis-
cover about him, 'and it would be a great satisfaction to ma,
and I should be willing to contribute thereto, if his body could
be translated to Christ Church. This our College ought in
gratitude to do. Methinks though lam but a mean person I
would gladly undergo the charge of removing the Cardinal's
body, if it was only into the next parish church, rather than it
should rest so obscurely." He afterwards, in another letter
to the same person, dated 1716, informs his friend of his going
to Leicester to search for the Cardinal's coffin, which he had
thoughts of having taken up and brought to Bletchley, to hold
his own ashes. From this it appears that he found some coffin
on the spot, which he conceived to be Wolsey's, but no body,
in which case its identity must he very doubtful. Bishop Fanner
in a letter to Dr.Charlett, written afterwards, says—"As for the
place where the Cardinal himself was buried, our friend Tony
from Cavendish tells, 'twas in St. Marie's chapel, in the Ab-
bey of Leyeester, but I don't find that one of those many de-
pendents and servants thaf, he had raised were so grateful as to
erect the least monument for their master. I believe the place
where his bones lay can't now be traced."

The anecdote of his being placed in the stocks by Sir Amias
Pawlet for speaking derogatively of that Magistrate, and the
humble method the latter took to appease him when he rose to
power, by placing the Cardinal's arms and conuzance over the
Temple gateway, are well known. These a writer (1680)
says, were then decayed, having been carved in a very
mouldering stone, but the arms of Pawlet, with the quarter-
ings, remained there in glass until that day. The same
writer continues—" Remains of 'him show that he was a great
master of the Latin tongue. Dr. Pell tells me, that he finds
in a preface to a grammar of one Haynes, schoolmaster of
Christ Church, London, that 'twas 'he that made the Ac-
cidence' before, Lilly's Grammar,"—" He was a great buil-
der, as appears by Whitehall, Hampton Court, Esher, in
Surrey, a noble house, built of the best burnt brick that
ever I sawe ; stately gatehouse and hall. This noble
house (a fit pallace for a Prince) was bought about 1666, by a
vintner of London, who is since broke, and the house is sold and
pulled downe to the ground, about 1678. I have the draught
of the house among my Surrey papers. He had a very stately
cellar for his wines, about Fish-street, called Cardinal Wol-
sey's Cellar. He built the stately tower at Magdalen Col-
lege in Oxford, and that noble Palace at Winchester (where
he was Bishop) called Wolsey House. I remember it pretty
well standing 1647 ; now I thinke it is most pulled downe.—.
His noble foundation of his College of Christ Church, the pre-
sent Grand Duke of Tuscany was more taken with, when at
Oxford, than all the rest of thebuildings he sawe there ; besides
which he built several other places. Concerning this great
Cardinale's fall, see the histories of the times. Returning to
London from Yorke, he died at Leicester, where he lies buryed
(to the shame of Christ Church men) yet without any monu-
ment.

". A palace or a colledge, for his grave,
Yet here he lies interr'd, as if that all
Of him to be rcmember'd were is fall.
And though from his own store Wolsey might have
Nothing but earth to earth,—nor pompous weight
Upon him but a pebble or a quayte.
If thou art thus neglected, what shall wee
Hope after death, that are but shreds of thee ?"
CHAUCER's OAK.

" Dunnington Castle, near Newbury was his; a noble seate
and strong Castle, which was held by Charles I. ; but since
dismantled.—lllem. Neer this castle was an oak, under which
Sir Geoffery was wont to sitt, called Chaucer's Oake, which was
cut downe in the time of Charles I.; and so it was that the
person who did it, was called into the Starre Chamber, and
was fined for it. Judge Richardson harrangued against him
long, and, like an orator, • had topiques from the Druids, &c.—
His picture is at his old house at Woodstock, neer the parke
gate, a foot high, halfe way. It has passed from proprietor to
proprietor."