The Sun.
London, England, 1825-02-07 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS,

Feb. 26. W. Jackson, High Holborn, victualler—Feb. 26,
G. 11-unt, Leicester-square, linen-draper—Feb. 26. J. Wreak,
Sheffield, saw-manufacturer—March 2, W. Alonnington,
Chepstow, Monmouthshire, grocer—Feb. 28, T. Cranage,
Wading-street, Shropshire, grocer—Feb. 26, S. Chapman,
Greenwich, linen-draper—Feb. 26, C. Pearson, Grosvenor-
place, Southwark, grocer—Feb. 26, J. Knight; mer-
chant-• Feb. 11, G. Bramtnall, Sheffield, file-maker--Feb. 2H,
11. Parkinson, Liverpool, cabinet-maker—Feb. 26, W. Devey,
Holland-street, Christelfurch, Coal-merchant—March I, T.
Brumfit, Leeds, worsted-spinner—Feb. 26, W. Paternoster.
Rochester, innholder—Feb. 26, G. Pugh, Sheerness, linen-
draper—Feb. 26, W. Wood, T. and R. Smith, and J. Stein,
NVorkington, Cumberland, bankers—Feb. 26, W.Hilder, New
Windsor, Berkshire, saddler—Feb. 26, U. Dumpier, Prim-
rose-street, Bishopsgatezwithout, seed-crusher—Feb. 26; NV.
iNtiGeorge, Lower Fore-street, Lambeth, brewer—Feb. 26, T,
Berry, Bond-court, Walworth, wine-Merchant—Feb. 26, 3.
Thoman,,Leicester, linen-draper—Feb. 26, J. Stevens, Star-
ford, . wine-merchant—Feb. 26, R. Norton, juu., Charlotte-
street, Fitzroy-square, paper-hanger—Feb. 26, E. Williams.,
Fenchurch-street, wine-merchant—Feb. 28, C. Ilooper, Mar-
ston Biggott, Somersetshire, edge tool-maker—March 1 J.
Green, Rednall, Worcestershire, imdtstcr. ,
CERTIFICATES, FEB. 26.
J. King, Great Geldham, Essex, linen-draper—H. Pulley,
Bedford, draper—Y. Oldfield, Westholm, Somersetshire, tan-
ner—E. Jackson, Uley, Gloucestershire, clothier—R. Dyson,
Liverpool, merchant—T. Dring, Bristol, brewer.-:...l.'Craig,
Austinfriars-passage, merchant—C. Jackson, Barbican, and
Long-lane, hatter.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
T. Birks & R. Gill, Alineing-lane, sugar-brokers_B. Fisher
and 11. 14. Hancock, Sheffield, fender and shoe-knife-manufac-
turers—T. Helps, R. Ray, and J. Helps, jun., Cheapside—.l.
Gamble and R. Moss, Sheffield, common carriers—J. and W.
Martin, Sevenoaks, grocers—S. Aluckleston and L. Browne,
Shrewsbury, milliners—H. Pickering and .1. Lockett, jun., Co..
ventry, embossers—A. Clathier 4x. C. Clark, Street; Somerset-
g,,corth and T. Holderness, King,
shire, fellmongers—l. Holbn
ston-upon-Hull—C. and G. D. Waite, Old Burlington-street,

Westminster, surgeon-dentisti--A. Cole and M. K. and E.
B. Pugh, Emsworth, HamPihire, proprietors of a Seminary
—W. Henson and W. Jackson, Worcester, lace-manufac.
turers—P. Protat, B. W. Shepherd, and. P. S. Ricards, Croy
don, schoolmasters; so far as regards P. S. Rickards-4. Efar-'
rop, J. Lees, E. Brown, and J.. Harrop, junior, saddle-
worth, Yorkshire, bankers; so far as regards J. Lees-41
Carson, J. Dennison, and D. Parry, Liverpool.R. Sutton;
Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, and G. Moore,.Shardlow Der-
byshire. matkters—R. Paterson, J. M`Pher,son, and J. Wise-
man, Glasgow—l. N. Fowler, Brinston, and T. Griffin, jun.;
Newcastle,under-Lyme, Staffordshire, flint-grinders—G. Ash-
worth and T. Smith, Flaxmoss, Lancashire, woollen-manufac..
turers —M. Linton and IG. Lloyd, Kingston-upon-Htill,
woollen-draperi—J. Utley, G. Miller, J. Jubb, and G. Utley,
stone-masons—E. Bushell and G. Groom, Liverpool, stationers
—J. and J. Read, and S. S. Lucas, Sheffield, gold and silver-
refiners—S. Hall, H. Wcare, J. J. IL, arid J. H. BettingtOn,
Bristol, Spanish and German wool-merchants.

ROWING MATCH BETWEEN THE BRITISH AND.
AMERICANS.

(From the Liverpbol'Mtriviry.)

The following letter from a friend is; New.
York will be perused with some interest, on account of the
novelty of the match described, and as giving us the'pleitsing
assurance that the best feeling subsists between the British and
American Navy. Long may it continue ; and if the Holy
Alliance should give themselves insuperable airs' let us recol.
led the•burden of our old song :-
" Give peace, America, with you,
And war with all the world."

New York, Dee. 16, 1824.

DEAR Snt —You will have seen by the American papers
that we have had a rowin,s, snatch here-between the Dart, a
" fast boat," belonging to Captain Harris, of the British fri-
gate Hussar, and the Star, belonging tp the Whitehall boat-
men. The race was for a thousand dollars aside, and was
won with great ease by the Americans. It was seemingly a
hollow thing; but it is said that the -English-boat shipped a
sea at the outset, and that she was better calculated for the still
Water of the Thames titan for- that in New York Bay. The
American, boat was the longer of the two, and appeared to move
through the wares as steadily as if there had been. none, whilst
the Dart labox red sadly. All this you will probably have seen
in the newspapers, but I wish to th.aw your attention.tcb ant),
ther part of the business. The John. Bullish part of the Eng--
lish residents here are 'very wroth with Captain Harris, for
having, as they say, forgotten his " rank and character as a
British Officer," when he condescended to pit himielf against
the \Whitehall boatinen !

These ultras are loud in their censures of Captain Harris.
They say his conduct will be disapproved of bv his Govern-
ment ; that he will get a '" rap on the knuckles ;"" that he will
be "'superseded in his command ;"• " will no longer. be per-
mitted to come-rend a British frigate ;" and a deal more of
what appears to me to be nonsensical stuff:: Nay. I heard one
swelling woultlehe, true Briton talk of "-calling the Captain
vat," fOr his thus degrading the English character!
You will perhaps think that thesejartfaroneadee about rank
and character are the result of peevishness at having lust the
race, and some of • them are so, deiubiless ; but letriusedo• the
ultras the justice to say—not the whole of them ; for I cer-
tainly heard several of these anti-American 'ebullitions betbre ,
the race began..." •
Captain Hartle seems to me to have conduced himself
throughoutahe whole affair like a man of sense and a gentle-
man. After 'seeing " the make" of the American heat, and
the probable state of the wind and weather, he seems to have,
in some degree. anticipated the result ; but he this as it may,
he took the heating he got in good part, like one who keeps in
mind, that " the man who plays at bowls must expect some-
times to meet with rubbers." He. paid his dollars cheerfully,
having said, before the race, as I have been told, that " the
Dart ilea already woe him a good deal of money, and that those
who could produce whetter boat .hall a fair right to have part •
of Hie etinduct was altogether genteel anigoed terp,pered.„
Ile gave the rowers of the winning boat a guinea each. Hie
officers' cheered it when it came in. The American flag was
instantly run up above the English flag ; and the victorious
boatmen, . as was previously agreed, gave the vanquished boat- •
thee a good dinner. The whole thing, as it appeared to me,
went oil' well, 'and in a manner not likel vat) excite any envious
or tesent.fidfeellneas. There Lae even been a talk amongst the
At erieana 'of making .Captain Harris a present 'of the conquer-
ing boat? the Star.
Now, What will you Englishrrien at home say of the affair ?
Will you think that a Captain of a man-of-war has not, when
he tomes intosport, a right to amuse himself as well as any
other man ? or will you join in the aristocratic opinion, that
he forgets his rank when he bets on a race with republican
' boatmen. I think that a man who, on such an occasion, and
in such a place, should give himself Aire about his rank, would
act as foolishly as if he went to a Quakers' • Meeting, and
kicked up a row•to the Old theatrical tune of " Hats oft:" I •
have heard talk of my Lord Derby betting small sums in the
Cock-pit with men far beneath these boatmen in point of man-
ners and information, arid I fancy. I have heard even of Princes
of tile; Blood, who have occasionally done homage to the level-
ling effects of horse-racing ! " Money," it has been said, "is
oi' no religion—neither is it of any party in politics ;"—and we
may add, " neither does it trouble its head about rank or -high
blood."- If, then, on the sod and oh the turf all men are equal,
even in your old monarchical country, why should not a cap-
tain of a frigate be allowed to_ bear his honours meekly, when
betting on a boat-race, in te republican country, where peers
and princes, . and such " high-bred cattle," are out of date and
unknown ! " When at Rome, why not do as they do at
Home ?" But, notwithstanding these authorities, it is said
that the authorities here are against Captain Harris !
Rumour, with its hundred tongues, tells us that no less a
man than the British Consul (or, as some would call him,
Load Castlereagh's Consul!) shakes his wise head in disap-
probation of this race! .It tells us, too, but this I cannot be.
lieve, that he has taken upon himself to reprimand Captain
Harris—that lie has refused to recognize him as a British
Officer—and has even refused to do what is said to be cus-
tomary for a Consul to do, in facilitating the payment for ship:
stores ! These latter rumours, as I have already said, I can-
not give credit to, but I mention them to you that- you may
perceive, as you will from the very'existence of such reports,
what a sensation, and what a bruit, this trivial affair hae•given•
rise to. The gentlemen who formerly officiated as Consul
- here, so far from participating in feeling with the present Cone
sul, was, I am told, assisting Captain H. in fixing station
boats, and making other arrangements for the good conduct of
the race.—lf all that rumour says were true, and if the fri-
gate was really detained here some clays, for want of certain
signatures, owingto the Consul's displeasure with regard to
the race ; I say, this were true, I should expect that the
Consul, rather than the Captain, would be in daner of being
superseded ; for I cannot bring myself to believe that Captain
H. 's conduct will be at all censured by his Government. •
It seems to me to be the interest and policy of that Government
at the present time to do every thing which is likely to conciliate •
the Ameritan people, and to make them forget the former ar-
rogance end offensive 'deportment of Britis officers. Your
leading Statesmeu have altered their tone in speaking of America;
then why should military men be blamed 'for ceasing " to make
themselves disagreeable 4"—The present generation of Ameri-
cans have been brought up with feelings -of almost hatred to
the name. of Englishmen, owing to the dreadful excesses
of -the yevelutionary
.war; anti if it be deeirable that these
feelings and recollections should be softened down, that the
name of Englishman should no longer excite the .horrors,—
what more likely to, further ,this change, than that your
captains of. frigates, and other fighting characters; should now
and then mix arid? these ex-rebels in their pastinies and
games'? Really, if Captain 'Harris has not acted on this occa-
sion under instructions from his Government, he has corn-
pletely caught its spirit,—and `he will be well.ree. eived here in
future. I do not wish •to be understood as thinking. that bro-
ther Jonathan is to be tickled out of his senses, either 'by the
• winning or a boat-race, or by the tinsel speeches of statesmen.
nis a
vknows better than most men
that asoft'len•ds calculatingbutte man, and
rno
parsnips." They do no harsh,
• however, if they do no good, and they cost nothing; —anti if it
suit the views of your, present Ministry to make use of them.
instead of the contemptuous sarcasms they fort-1101y indulged
in, they would do well to admonish the John Bullite residents
here not to " put their fooain #s"—n pt to disgust the women
and children lay their splenetic,tornd,onti- American vapour-
jugs. It' they "do not like the land they live in,"—why, as
Jack Fuller says, P---n'ern,ltl'em leave it !"—But I have
covered tea much dm), paper on this Subject..
To ;qr. EGERTON his Tti, Mercury-office, Liverpool.

PRICE SEVF,P4NCE,

OXFORD, FEB." 5.

-77 . ,
In full ConvOcatininn Tuestlay last, the- 04i -
versity Seal was affixed to aninstrument releasing the'Mhlot,
Bailiffs; and Citizens ofOxfiird frOm the" observance' of eettain
acts' heretofore required of them on Dies Scholastiba (Feb. HI),
in memory of the disastious event witiah occurred in' a aernfPet
between the Students of the University and the bitizeUs of 'Ox*:-
ford, in the year 1355-4, 30th of Edward lIL—We have.sintere
pleasure in giving publicity to'the subjoined communications
N.
, .
between the' University and City on the sufiject of D'ies'
lastica ; and we heartily congratulate our fellow Citiiens,-utethe
satisfacurry `result. The following is' a brieraceotinCof -the
affray, Which imposed the obligation on the Citizens :
Inconsequence of the disastrous conflict between the-Stu-
dents of the University and the Citizens of Okfordin Febrnary
1355-4, a sentence of excommunieation was passed- Win
•
the latter -by the then Diodesan, John •Gynewell, BislWai3Of
Lincoln. This sentence was Afterwards abrogated, upOn
condition that the Mayor and Bailiff's, arid-sixty other Citi-
zens, • with a Deacon and Sub-Deacon, should cielebtate
an anniversary Mass on St. -Scholastica's • Day (FebrUary
10,) in St. Mary's Church, and there make, an ofTering'o:
one penny each upon the great altar. To ensure 01e:446-p.4.-
formance of this duty, the Citizens of Oxford executed' an In-
strument under their Common Seal, dated May 1?5*.•1357,
binding themselyes. and
.tbeir successors, in case of non-fultil-
ment of the Said duty, to the payment of 100 Marks. I.)ehl
of Defeazance, dated the 16th of the same month, was 'als)
given by, the University, Under their Common Seal, wiferein
they agreed to forego the yearly payment of 100 inarkslor
every. year and no more, in which the City should procure a
Mass to he said yearly, on the 10th of february, for the souls
of the Scholars slain. These' Instruments were confirmed by
Edward lIL in a Charter of Inspexinius, dated June 1,135 i,
which, with the other Charters granted to.the University, yvss
confirmed by an Act of Parliament; 13th of ki;zabetli, ifap. g 9.
In the 17th year of the reign, of the sane Queen, the ceremony
having been now omitted for fifteen ears, the enivrrsity
asserted their claimupon the City of Oxford for the of
1,500 marks, being the amount of the arrears of the rinnviti-
pulated to be paid annually upon the intermission of the Mitss.
This claim was, with several other point's. of controversy be-
tween. the University and City, laid before the Quern in Coun-
cil on the 12th of May, 1575 ;. and after a. hearing of the Depu-
ties appointed by each lrdy, who by mutual eut,sent agreed to
submit to the decision of the Privy Council, it Ivai deterinined,
that the Masi being now contrary to law, the arrears-of the
1500 marks tbr the 15 years stiould not., bee paid by • the,..Clty,
but that they should yearly- procure a Giranunion or Strrinoti to
be made at St. Mary's Church onethe day mentioned-iii -the
Bond of Defraz:ince, and thin and there, 'with such nuMber
of their City us in the, said Bond of .Defeazanee e:re met-Vie/bed,
makatheiteoblation Yearly of a Penny a piece at Vie jeaSt, for
the use of the said University, for a perpetual memory of the
slaughter _ and misdemeanour by them committed as aforesaid,
and not for the souls of the parties then - slain, sir for any other
superstitious use. This decision of the Queen in Council has
ever !once been, with very few exceptions, 'ri!golarly observed.
The Litany indeed has been substituted fur tie Serthon or
Communion ; and.the 'attendance of the full ri.umber of OriZens
required by the Order of the Privy Council has, id consequence
of an application from the City in 1793,.n0t been enfOrced:
the course of- the last Michaelmas Term, the following &cu.
went was sent to the Vice.,Chaflcellor, to:LI by him submitted to
the Board ollleadsof Houses and Proctors at their Ifebdomadtt
ltleetirn -

..
City- t?!. o.tfikrd.,.. The second Councilor William Slatter,
in the '..P.sq. .Mayor. of the said City, holden in
CoLlaid of Q.0.)rd.1 the Council Charnbcr of the said City, on
. Thursday the I Ith of Novernber,in the
sth year of the :t-ign cf 1:.:::g GOV IV.
and in the year c: our 1.4:.rti11;24,
" The Mayor having intimated to this Iluuse that hi.eannot„
as Chief illagistrate• of this City, take a. part in tite-teierpony-
usually observed ou Dies S:Aolus:ica without a paintiasSiisritice
of personal feeling; and having called upon the flouse,to de.
liberate and advise upon the subject : . .. -- •
. .

" And this liouSe consi,,lering% that tly:..soleniidtv
tion serves only to keep alive the remembrance of a casual af-
fray, which, linwr•-:.r much to have been.deplUred when it hap-
pened, may at the present.day be well deemed to have-been
amply atoned for by five centuries of-annual hutuiliatiOn:
" Considering too that the harmony and good understriiiding
so happily and so firmly established between. the Univeriify and
City, whilst they have long rendered the obseritinae of this ce-
remony wholly nugatory and unavailing for any useful end or
purpose, furnish also a powerful reason for con'signing to obli-
vion the memory of past jealousies and dissensions :
" Considering also that the ceremony may..he Mid aSideWith..
out derogating in the smallest degree from therights,PriVfleges,
or interests of the Universiiy, and therefore without affording to
that body any just ground of offence, which this tfouse..iiinost
.
anxious to avoid : •

" Considering moreover that the declared reluctance-of the
Chief Magistrate of the City, founded, as' to this House It ap-
.pears to be, upon right feeling, is entitled to-the support and
protection of the lionse _ _ •

" It is unanimously resolved, That in the judgroeni of this
House'it will be advisable for the Mayor and Baillffiio ab-
stain from attending at St. 3lary's Church on. Die: :Sett°.
lastica.

. .- " X.nd the Mayor and
.Bailiffs having thereupon signified
that they will follow the advice Of their House i . ..
" It is further resolved that the Town Clerk do wait upon
the Reverend the Vice-Chancellor with a Copy of these pro-
ceedings. (By order,)
..
. • ". TA u 2.1 TON, Town-Clerk."
To this the following answer was retornedi —. •:
" The Vice-Chancellor having received from the' Town-
Clerk the Minutes of a City Council dated the I Ith inst. has
not tailed to communicate that Document to the Board of
Heads' f Houses and Proctors; who, observing in it no request
for their cunitideration„ have not authorised the ViceXhancel-
lor to return any answer in their name. But if a proper request
on the subject•of Attendance of the Mayor and Bailiffs at St.
Mary's on . the Des Scholastiea be offered to the Vice.:Chan-
cellor, he will readily refer it to the Board ; being desirous on
all occasions to-preserve the harmony now happily subsisting
between-the Univergity and City," '
" Baliol College, Nov. 30, 1824." .. . .
The following is a copy of the second communication from
the Mayor to the Vice-Chancellor:— , -
Csktyq/Oxford, The third Council of Williarn ...Flatter,
in-the . • Esq,Mayor of
.the. said City,.oh,Friday
County of arford. the 'loth of December,_ ii;,, the fifth year
1
of the reign of• King .George IVi, and in
the year of our Lord 1824. '
" The 'Mayor keying laid before the House if.'NOte addressed
to him by the Rev. 011: Vice-Chancellor oh the 30th tilt..stating
• that the Vice-Chancellor had communicated to the Board of the
Heads of Houses and Proctors the Minutes of the last City-
Council ;•who, observing in it no request for their consideration,
had not authorised the Vice.Chancellor.to return any.answer in
their name; anti addingohat if a properreqoest mitthe subject
of the attendance of the Meyor and Bailiffs &c.- at St. Marx's
Church on the Dies 'Seliolastica should be Bailiffs,
to the Vice-
Chancellor, he would readily refer it to the Board, being sin-
cerely desirous to preserve - the harmony .happily Subsisting
between the University and City : . • ,
" It is resolved unanimously, That the'proper Authorities of
the University he respectfully requested .to, take into their con-
sideration the Resolutions Of the last Council; in tlit4nx"---,"
hope, that the result of their deliberations will be aforbeirance
from any farther claim, either to the performance of th.e•arco,•;
Imined ceremony on Dies &holastica, or to. an penalty for al
non-ohservanee. ,
" That the House, whilst it earnestly
i 1 lares with
view of the. subject on the part of the 1.-Inivers.tY.::i ondv, in
one voice, that it will consider the acquiescence or
1 ;mark of' at-
the discontinuance of the ceremony as an oneo" ,
1 of
of this Corpora-
tendon and regard.to the wishes ant
aul remembrance by the
ilt.'Precates a different
tion, and as an act to be held in eat,.
Citie ens of(olyfootdrd.et,) .
wait, uponi:Athue:tvioceo.,C,
2h:onn:elhicaoarlebwrkeiet2in:
obligation
a copy
ply' hoaft
the
ee
aboveT ownßCeAseoriki,
tion3,
i ler ,thd University Seal* teleasing, the
is
received by the Mal' ' •P rd Jourrail.)
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