The Sun.
London, England, 1831-10-07 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 7, 1831.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Portsmouth Herald.)

PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 2.—The Asia, male convict
ship, is expected to sail this week for New South
Wales, with 200 convicts, under the superinten-
dency of Dr. Wilson.

The Wanderer, transport, Lieutenant Young,
anent, may be hourly expected to arrive at this port,
from Quebec, with a company of S►ppers and
Nliners.

The Forth, (a Leith smack) freight-ship, arrived
on Thursday from Leith, with the officers and men
who were hired to navigate the Nymph frigate to
that port, as a temporary lazarette.
The Cygnet, transport, Lieutenant Lester, agent,
arrived yesterday at Cowes, with the head-quarters
of the 14th Regiment, who disembarked on the
same day, to join the Regiment at Albany Barracks.
A report was generally current yesterday, that a
small squadron are about to assemble in the Downs
for the conveyance of troops. The following ships
are said to be ordered to proceed thither:—Re-
venge, Barham, Stag, Curacoa, Brisk, and Recruit.
The Stag sailed &oar Spithead for the Downs yes-
terday, and it is expected she viii be followed by the
Curacoa on Tuesday next. We have not heard
their probable destination.

His Majesty's steam-vessel Echo, Lieutenant R.
Otway, arrived yesterday from the eastward, and
swill tow out of harbour this.morning his Majesty's
ship Curacoa, 24, Captain D. Dunn. His Ma-
jesty'sship Imogene, 28, Captain P. Blackwood,
was towed out of harbour yesterday afternoon by
the Echo immediately she arrived.
_ .

His Majesty's ship Alligator, 28, having been
recommissioned last week for foreign service, was
taken command of on the 24th ult. by Captain G.
R. Lambert. Her late crew, on being paid off,
subscribed the sum of 4/. Gs. 6d. in aid of the funds
of the Seaman's Hospital ship Dreadnought, (ia!e
Grampus) in the River:

His Majesty's ship Shannon, 46, Captain Cle-
ment, Icarus, 10, Commander R. Stuart, and Falcon,
10, Commander T. M. Currie (acting), are daily
expected from the West India station.

His Majesty's ship Melville, 76, Capt. C. J. W.
Nesham, was paid off on Thursday last, and re-com-
missioned on the following day by Capt. H. Hart,
for the fla-1. of Vice-Admiral Sir John Gore, K.C.B.
appointed to succeed Sir E. Owen as Commander-
in-Chief in the Elst Indies. Her late crew, on
being paid off, very liberally contributed the sum of
1 IC7s. 7d. to the funds of the Seaman's Hospital
ship. Her detachment of Royal Marines, under
the command of Captain Walter Powell, of the
Woolwich division, disembarked yesterday, having
been received by a fresh detachment from head-
quarters, under the command of Capt. J. I. Willes.
At Spithead—lmogene.

In Harbour—Spariiare, Melville, Royal George,
Alligator, Curacoa, Etna, Columbia and Echo,
steam-vessels.

We have great pleasure in being able to set at
rest the apprehensions which have been lately enter-
tained with respect to the health of his Majesty's
ship Sparrowlawk. By a letter, dated Port Royal,
Jamaica, August 14, 1831, we learn that although
she has been visited by a most grievous and general
sickness, while on her voyage to Chagres and back
to Port Royal, between the sth of July and the
llth of August, the following are the only deaths
which have occurred out of ninety serious cases of
fever on board, from a crew of 113, viz. :—Mr. T.
K. Huddleston, on the 20th of July; Mr. G. M.
Buchan, on the 31st of July ; Serjeant William
Clarke, on the Ist of August; John Barrett, sea-
man, on the 4th of August ; John Whitby, seaman,
on the 711) of August; Peter John Monkland, sea-
man, on the 13th of August :—Eleven have been
sent to Port Royal Hospital, and, as the place is, at
present, remarkably healthy, it is expected and
hoped all will recover, many being in a convalescent
state. " This ship is now going to Santa Martha
on a short service, and after this, it is expected she
will take a trip to the Northward, to recruit. The
Columbine was all well at Chagres, on the Ist of
August, and was expected at Pert Royal about the
25th of the same month. The Falcon is at Port
Royal, all well. The Hyacinth had sailed for Port-
au-Prince, all well. The small-pox is committing
dreadful ravages in Kingston and its vicinity. A
great deal of slaving is going on, and notwithstanding
the vigilance of their cruisers, they make successful
voyages. Several pirates are spoken of, as plunder-
ing ships off various parts of Cuba and solitary
haunts on this station. The Pickle, Lieut. Taplin,
took a Pertuguese slaver with 150 slaves on board,
off the Berry Islands; going over the Grand Bahama
Bank. The Monkey, as you will most likely have
heard, was lost on the bar of Tampico. Crew all
saved, and have been conveyed to the Admiral at
Bermuda, by the Pincher, Lieut. Tulloh. There
does not appear to he the least reason to suppose any
violence was used to Capt. Foster, late of theChan-
tieleer, but his death is to be attributed fairly to
accident. I have formed this conclusion after mak-
ing the most minute inquiry at Chagres. The Spar-
rowhawk has had counter orders to sail for Barba-
does, with 50,0001. Government money, to pay
troops, &c. there. She will leave here on the 17th
or 18th of August."
By accounts from Rio de .Janeiro to the 25th of
July, we learn that his Majesty's ship Druid, 46,
Captain G. W. Hamilton, C.B. had arrived there
from England on the 12th of that month ; and his
Majesty's ship Tribune, 42, Captain J. A. Dune,
on the 22d, tifty-two days from Valparaiso, having
on board a freight of 900,000 dollars. She was to
sail for England by the Northern Ports, as soon as
affairs should become a little settled at Rio, and
would, it was supposed, bring home about 60,000
dollars, which had been recovered by the exertions of
Corn. T. Dickinson, of his Majesty's ship Lightning,
from the wreck of his Majesty's late ship Thetis, stink
on the coast of Cape Frio. The Lightning was
hourly expected at Rio, in consequence of its being
considered necessary, from the unsettled state of
affairs, to have as large a British force there as
possible. His Majesty's ship Tyne, 28, Captain
C. Hope, was to sail on the 27th of July, for
Bahia, to protect the British trade. We regret to
find that Mr. Moore, engineer, a mate, and two
seamen, who had been employed at Cape Frio in
the recovery of the treasure from the Thetis, had
been unfortunately swamped, on the 18th of July,
off the coast of Cape Frio, in a boat in which they
were going ashore, and drowned.

ItEroßm.—lt may be safely affirmed that
the noble cause of Parliamentary Reform, towards the
support of which the best energies of England are at length
aroused, has never had a more zealous, indefatigable, and
consistent advocate than the late Major CARTWRIGHT.
To those unacquainted with the two published volumes of
his 4' Life and Correspondence," it will be especially in-
tereseng at this important political crisis, to know that
they contain the most copious fund of historical matter
relative to the grand subject of Reform which is probably
to be met with in any existing publication.

Mr. GIIEATOREX was always one of the
Party at the dinner given by the Royal and Noble Direc-
tors of the Ancient Concerts. At one of these, his late
;MAJESTY (then Prince of Wales) endeavoured to persuade
him to remain longer at table than his duties would allow
as conductor of the performance to take place that evening.
Air. G. pleaded the necessity of being punctual at all times,
especially when the KING and QUEEN were to be present.
" Oh, never mind them," said the Prince, jocularly, "my
father is Rex, I confess, but you are a Greater Rex.—
Hainzonicon.

ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR.

( Concluded front our Paper of yesterday, )
Mr. STEVENS came forward, and was received with
great cheering. He congratulated the Livery of London
upon the result of their exertions in selecting a man to fill
the office of Lord Mayor for the ensuing year, whose conduct
during the year proved that he had advocated the glorious
principles of William the Fourth and his Ministers, who
had strenuously supported the Bill now before the House
of Lords, and who had been placed in a situation so
critical as required a man of much courage and
fortitude to fulfil the duties of his office.—(Loud
cheers.) It bad been asked, '' Will the Livery he
dictated to ?" He replied by asking whether it was dic-
tation in electing the man who was best calculated to sup-
port those principles which the Livery had been many years
fighting for? The Livery had done their duty by electing
Sir John Key and Alderman Thorpe, who would now go
More the Court of Aldermen, the House of Lords of the city
—(Laughter and cheers)—.and it might now fairly be asked
" what will the Lords do ?"--(Loud laughter.) Would
they return Sir John Key according to the wishes of the
Livery? He replied they would—(A cry, " They must")
—for in that Court there were the four representatives
of the city, who were elected, nay pledged, to support
the cause of Reform, as detailed in the Bill now in
the House of Lords—(Cheers)—and they having elected
Sir John Key to serve another year, because he was the
fittest man to join in that glorious cause—(Cheers)—
they might, therefore, put those four down as certain to
vote for the people's choice, or they need never show
their faces on those hustings again.—(Cheers.) There
might be in that Court some half dozen zealous Tories, but
he trusted that the majority were advocates of Reform,
and all who were advocates of that great cause, if they
hoped ever to stand before the Livery again, must vote for
Sir John Key. On the vat of Sir John Key and Al-
derman Thorpe lie returned thanks to the Livery, because
they had shewn those genthonen a mark of esteem and respect
for their public services—(Cueers)—but as regarded the
principle of the Reform Bill, the Livery should be thank-
ful to the Lord Mayor for having consented to serve
them a second time.—(Cheers.)
Mr. C. PEARSON stepped forward and was most
enthusiastically, applauded. He had some resolutions to
propose for the consideration of the Livery, but before
he detailed them he begged to be allowed to clear
away a little of the brushwood with which they were
encumbered. In the first place he wished to do an act of
justice to a gentleman who deserved it of him, and who
had only been heretofore neglected by him because lie had an
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At this moment the Loan 'Mayon, made his appearance
on the hustings, and was greatly cheered ; he was loudly
called for, and upon silence being obtained lie addressed the
Livery. He observed, that although the poll was closed,
the ultimate decision of the Court of Aldermen would not
be made known until Monday next. He could not,
however, deny himself the pleasure of congratulating
the Livery on their triumph—a triumph far greater than
his most sanguine friends could have expected—(Cheers)
.—for when they had to contend against the oppo-
nents of the King and his Ministers—when they
had to meet the opposition of all who prided them-
saves on being Anti-Reformers, those who were ac-
tuated by interested motives, and those who contended
for the rule of rotation, it was indeed a glorious triumph
in favour of freedom and the liberal institutions of the
country—(Cheers)—rindeed it strongly manifested the
unshaken zeal and earnestness of the Livery in support
of the great measure of Reform.—(Loud cheers.) It
proved also they were determined to support the
man who was the ardent defender of the rights and
liberties of the people.—(Cheers.) He should now sit
down, did he not find that the calumniating creatures had
been at their dirty work again ; they had calumniated
him by publishing an advertisement without a sig-
nature. The Lord Mayor here adverted again to the
charge against him respecting the presentation to
Christ's Hospital, and stated that it was now put
forward by a Mr. Anderton, that the 2001. had been given
to charities in his name ; that individual was now present,
and he (the Lord Mayor) declared that that statement
was a gross falsehood.—(Cheers.) He would now
traduce another agent of Sir Peter Laurie's—a Mr.
Turner—(Great uproar)—a man whose praise and whose
friendship he should consider the foulest disgrace.—
That person had sent a letter to the morning papers ca-
lumniating him, and knowing that he could not reply to it
until the close of the poll.—(Groans.) He stated that his
(the Lord Mayor's) presentation of Charles Reekes to
Christ's Hospital was rejected ; " but," said his Lordship,
" if the boy be now living, I will tell the Governors of
Christ's Hospital that be shall be admitted."—(Loud
cheering.) After again thanking the Livery, his Lordship
withdrew.

Mr. C. PEARsoN again came forward to conclude the
speech he had begun. He stated that he had alluded to
an individual whom he was about to mention, but the
Lord Mayor had condescended to deal with him. He
would now come to the resolutions he held in his hand,
and he would premise that although the Livery had ex-
pressed their opinion, there was another body to whom
its consideration would be entrusted. The first resolution
he intended to propose was expressive of confidence in the
conduct and principles of Sir John Key ; secondly, that
in returning Alderman Thorpe with him, the Livery had
only the object of securing the re-election of Sir John
Key; thirdly, that the Livery felt confident that the Court
of Aldermen, particularly the four city representatives, will
elect the individual who was the object of the choice
of the Livery ; and lastly, that a deputation
of thirty gentlemen ba appointed to attend a Court of
and to represent the substance of
resolutions,ticina's well as to press on that body
returning Sir J. Key. For this hitter
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proceeding he had a precedent, in the year 1799,
when their present representative, Alderman Waithman,
stood in that hall until twelve o'clock at night, battling
with the Court of Alderman to bring them to their senses.
He was however of opinion they would not have such la-
bour on this occasion, for six or seven Aldermen
had voted, and that was certainly the best assurance that
they could not vote in the Court of Aldermen with any
decency.—(Cheers.) He alluded to Aldermen Brown,
Copeland, Ansley, Atkins, Scholey, Lucas, and
Christopher Smith. Therefore, arguing first affirmatively,
that these tour representatives were trusty men, and nega-
tively, that the other gentlemen would not vote at all, the
election of the Lord Mayor would be certain. Mr. P. then
alluded to the conduct of Mr. Turner, which he dwelt on at
some length, and stated that the contest, so far as the Livery
were concerned, was at a close. But he begged them not
to unbuckle their armour until they knew what the
Lords would do. He then alluded to Sir Peter Laurie,
who had fitllen between two stools, but who, if he made
up his mind, might make on ordinary occasions a re-
spectable chief magistrate.—(Cheers.)
Mr. D. BARRETT seconded the resolutions, which were
put and agreed to unanimously, and the hall was adjourned
till Monday.

[From the singular circumstance of the Court of
Aldermen having adjourned their decision until Monday,
we presume that sapient body are waiting to ascertain
What the Lords will do."—EniToß.]

The Bishop of ST. ASAPH, on Tuesday
night, was afflicted with a second attack of paralysis, and
lies in a dangerous state. We learn that it is the Bishop
of BRISTOL who holds the Bisimp of ST. ASANI'd proxy,
which, under such awful circumstances, he of course can-
not feel himself justified in using.
The Marquis of EXETER has resumed his
notices to quit, and last week selected Mr. PILKINGTON,
builder, and Mr. LAwsoN, coach-contractor, of Stamford,
on whom to vent his lordly indignation.—Stamford
Champion.

The appeal case relative to Covent Garden
Theatre, which was appointed for a final hearing by the
LORD CHANCELLOR fur yesterday, stands adjourned, with-
out any day at present being fixed by his Lordship.
13y the late census the population of Scotland
is 2,365,700, being a►, increase since 1821 of 272,244.—
Glasgow Chronicle.

The commerce of Swansea is rapidly increas•
ing. In the quarter ending yesterday (the 29th Sept.)
the number of vessels cleared out with cargoes amounted
to 1,:369, being an increase over the corresponding
of last year of 121 vessels.... Cambrian. quarter

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, OCTOBER 6.

The assetuldage of Peeresses and ladies of distinction
below the' bar was much greater than on any preceding
evening.
Lord TENTEROEN, in the absence of the Lord Chan-
cellor, took his seat on the Woolsack, at a Quarter-past
Four oViocl:.

Sir J. 'C. Hoi;notst, Mr. LITTLETON, and others from
the Commons, brought tip the Vestry Bill, the White
Boy Act, Public Hospitals (!reland) Amendment
bill, flit Customs Fees Regulation Dill, the Pay-
ment of Wages in Goods Repeal Bill, and the Pay-
ment of Wages in Money. Bill, which, on the motion of
the Earl of SHAFTESBURS, %were real a first time.
The Earl of CAMPERDOWN pre,:tnted a petition
from Capar it fi?our of the Reform Bill.
Earl RADNOR prcactited a similar petition from
Berkshire. _ _ _

Lord riOWER presented a petition from the Stafford-
shire Portet;cls praying many additional boroughs might
be added to schedule 1., and that the case of Stoke-upon •
Trent might be considered.
The NOBLE LORD also presented pttitions in favour of
Reform from a parish in the West Riding of York, and
from Ross.

The Earl of ringdf, the Marquis of Headfort, the
Marquis of Cleveland, and the Marquis of Westmeath pre-
sented petitions frdm'differint part* of Galway, for the ex-
tension of the elective franchise.

On the motion of Lotd TENTERDEN, the order of the
day for the third reading of the Prescription Bill
was discharged, and the Bill ordered to be read a third
time on Tueldiy.
On the motion of Lord SUFFIELD, a Select Cfrrmittee
was appointed on the Labour in Cotton Factories Bat.

Alter some observations from Lcrd CAWDOR, the Loßri
CHANCELLOR, and Lord TENTERDEN, th Fees in Com-
mon Law Courts Regulation Bill was read a third time
and passed..._

Lord KING presented petitions from Essex and liglifax,
in favour of the Reform Bill. He aln presented a petition
from the out dwellers of Dover in favour of Baferm, and also
praying the abolition of the office of Lord Warder; as the
person holding that high station might very consideraNy
influence the electors of that town.
The Duke of WELLINGTON did not see why the
office of Lord Warden should be put down. as it had
nothing to do with the right of election.
The Earl of FIFE presented a petition from Keith, in
favour of Reform.

The Marquis of SALISBURY presented a petition
from Falmouth, praying she House not to pass the Bill
Without due securities.

Lord GLENGALL presented a petition from Tipperary
against the Reform Bill. Though it was hi: intention to
vote against the second reading of this Bill, he Wa3 a de-
cided triend to the proper representation of the people. lie
conceived there was a difference between voting against Re-
fwm altogether, and against this particular Bill. And he
was convinced that if a measure, not going to the
great length which the present Bill did, was introduced,
it would give general satisfaction. . _

Lord BILiiAVEN presented a petition from Hadding-
ton, in favour of Reform.

The Earl of HADDINGTON would take this oppor-
tunity of addressing a few words to their Lordships. He
was well aware, and had long been aware, of the extent
to which the desire of Parliamentary Reform had gone
in Scotland, but the Bill now before their Lordships re-
lated to this part of the United Kingdom. It was the in-
tention of the Noble Earl in the course of what he
stated last night, to have adverted to the absolute
necessity of the application of the principle of Reform
for Scotland, but in the confusion of addressing their
Lordsbips he had forgot to state it, anti was now de-
sirous of rectifying that omission. He never had at
any time doubts that if the principle of Parliamentary
R. form was to be adopted, its application to Scotland
was essentially necessary.—(Hear, hear, hear.) He con-
sidered the representation of Scotland as partand parcel
of that of the whole United Empire, and he was anxious,
therefore, to make no encroachment on it. If Scotland
had continued an independent kingdom, and had not
flourished under the present system as it had done, it would
have been impossible that that system of representation could
have lived so long. He considered it, therefore, necessary
that the principle of Reform should be applied to Scotland,
so as to give the counties a sound and rational system
of popular representation, founded, not as this Bill pro-
posed, but really upon property; and as to the boroughs,
such an alteration should be made as to give the respectable
householders in towns the power of voting to send
Members to serve in Parliament.

Earl CAMPERDOWN rejoiced that this was not
the first time that the Noble Earl had declared
himself favourable to Scotch Parliamentary Reform.
That Noble Earl had stated in the beginning of his ad-
dress that this measure had no reference to the Scotch Bill.
He (the Earl of Camperdown) admitted that as to the
details of that measure the assertion was right, but the
people of Scotland, it should be understood by
their Lordships, knew no sort of distinction between
English and Scotch Reform Bills. They looked to the
one now on their Lordships' table as deciding the
question of Reform, and if unfortunately their Lord-
ships should refuse to give that Bill a second reading,
introduced as it had been into the House, that rejection
would in Scotland be received with universal alarm and
dismay. When the Scotch Reform Bill came before their
Lordships' attention, he should be happy to meet his
Noble Friend's argument. But he would take that op-
portunity of alluding to what had fallen on a previous even-
from a Noble Duke opposite. That Noble Duke bad
stated, and most truly, that no country had flourished
more than Scotland. But if its prosperity went to defend its
representation, it would go to the extreme point, and prove
that no representation at all was in point of fact the best
form of Government. The prosperity of Scotland, how-
ever, was owing to very different causes. She had flourished
in spite of representation.
The Duke of WELLINGTON said it was irregular to
advert to what he had stated on a previous occasion. He
would say, however, that he had not on that occasion alluded
to the representation of Scotland. What he said was, that
that country was prosperous, and had been well governed.
He considered it as under the Government of Great Britain,
and that, like every other part of his Majesty's dominions,
it had advanced in prosperity, and perhaps advanced
further than any part.—(Hear, hear.) He gave,
however, no opinion as to the representation, whe-
ther it should be reformed or not. What he did state
in a subsequent part of his speech alluded to, was that in
considering what should be the state of representation of
the people in the House of Commons, their Lordships
ought to consider what sort of Government the country
had possessed, and that the change proposed for Scotland,
should be discussed at the same time as the measure which
applied to England.
Lord BELHAVEN was astonished to hear the remark
of the Noble Earl on the cross bench, that while he
would give his support to a Bill of Reform based on
property for Scotland, he would not give his vote for the
second reading of the English Bill. He (Lord Belhaven)
in supporting the Bill, gave his vote in approbation
of the principle of Reform which it embraced, and if his
Noble Friend (Haddington) could show him, when the Bill
went into Committee, the Bill was not based on property,
he would vote against the third reading.
Earl HADDINGTON had not talked of the English,
but the Scotch Bill.

The Earl of ROSEBERY corroborated the statements
made by Earl Carnperdown relative to the cause of the pros_
perity of Scotland uuder its misgovernment. It had flourished
in consequence of its representation being blended with the
snore popular representation of England.
The Duke of ARGYLE presented a petition from
Campbell-town, in favour of the Reform Rill.
resident in Belfast, praying their Lordships
the Reform Bill into a law. The Noble Mar-
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speeches in presenting petitions, but when so much
had been said upon the presenting of petitions from
Scotland by other Noble Lords, he thought he might be
permitted to make a few observations in presenting this
petition with respect to the feelings of the people of
Ireland. There was so much of history attached to the
town of Belfast with respect to its political sentiments, that
when their Lordships heard this petition, and when they
heard what he (the Noble 111 irquis) had to state with
respect to the meeting at which this petition Was
propeed..—a meeting called, not for the purpose of