The Sun.
London, England, 1831-11-02 00:00:00

LORDS LIEUTENANTS.

To the EDITOR of the MORNING CHRONICLE.
SIR,—I beg to call the attention of Government and
of the public to the case of Lords Lieutenants being non-
residents in the counties over which they are appointed to
preside. They receive their appointments from the King,
for the purpose of managing and ordering the militia, and
they ought to march at the head of that force in cases of
difficulty and danger. I send you the names of those
Lords Lieutenants who do not reside in their counties, and
have more than one appointment :—Lord Locsdale has
Cumberland and Westmorland ; Sir W. W. Wynne,
Denbeigh and Merioneth ; Lord Rodney, Radnor, in
which county he has no property of any description, I
believe. But the most glaring case of all is that of th,
Duke of Beaufort, who is Lord Lieutenant of the
three counties of Gloucester, Monmouth, and Brecon.
His Grace resides in the former county, visits Mon-
mouth sometimes at the Autumn Assizes for three or
four days, but seldom or ever enters the confines ot
Breconshire. The county of Monmouth is a great manu-
facturing district, and has been more tha❑ once the seen,
of riot and disorder, in times of distress, amongst the col-
liers and miners ; and the late affray at Merthyr Tydvil,
which is situated on its borders, is of too recent a date to ht
effaced from the memory of your readers. Brecknockshire
forms also part of the mineral basin of South Wales, and
is subject to the same casualties as the neighbouring cow,
ties of Monmouth and Glamorgan. It is quite impossibl,
that any Lord Lieutenant, even were he the most active,
could attend in three counties—and last May and June,
those of which the Duke of Beaufort holds the Lieutenan-
cies were almost at the same moment the scenes of tumult,

—in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, and the imme-
diate neighbourhood of Merthyr, in Monmouthshire aziO
Breconshire. It is to be hoped that the evil may speedily
be rectified, and that each county in England and Wale,
may have a Lord Lieutenant residing within it.
I am, Sir, your obedient humble servant,
Oct. 29, 1831. JUSTITIA.

The alteration in the House of Lords, for the
strangers' gallery, is rapidly advancing. An extra number
of workmen are employed.
Mr. LITTLETON has announced to his
tenants that, in consequence of game becoming ssleable
after the Ist of next month, it is his intention to place at
their disposal two-thirds of the game of every sort killed
on their respective farms ; and to observe the same rule
with respect to the game killed in his preserves, by appor-
tioning the quantity between the tenants of the lands on
which he conceives it to have been bred. Mr. LirnrroN's '
tenants, we believe, are highly gratified with this liberal
arrangement.—Staffordshire Advertiser.
Should the Tories have the folly again to
assert, when speaking of Reform, that there is a re-action
in the public mind, on the subject, we shall say to them,
look at the result of the election for Cambridgeshire,
where the Whig candidate was returned, by a large ma-
jority, for that once Tory county.

The Game Act promises to operate very
profitably to the owners of extensive manors well stocked.
At Saffron -Walden, a respectable butcher has obtained a
licence, and an assurance from a Noble Lord that he shall
be supplied in a manner to enable him to execute order•
with despatch. Many pheasants, hares, and partridges
have alrtady passed through the hands of this dealer, who
has fixed the following moderate charges :—a brace of
pheasants, 66. ; a brace of partridges, Ss.; and a hare,
2s. 6d. We expect shortly to see game as common in our
market as poultry, and that redundancy which has hereto-
fore been the support of foxes or other vermin, and the
source of much crime, brought to a good account, Ma-
norial estates, and property in the vicinity of preserves,
will, no doubt, be in great request, as affording hereafter
not only pleasure but profit.--Essex Herald.
The English pride themselves in their nicety
of wines, yet there is no nation in the world more per-
petually duped in this very point. Three-fourths of the
Bordeaux clarets are made up of the rough bet wines of
Italy, mixed with the meagre French vintages. Half the
white wines on the English tables are made up of Cape,
which the London palate pretends to abhor.—" Give me,"
said a French merchant, "six hours' notice of what wine
you like, and you shall have it out of those two barrels."
—There are 40,000 pipes of Madeira sold annually in
Europe, while the island produces about 10,000 ! There
are 30,000 casks of Frontignao sent every year from the
French cellars, while the vineyards of Frontignan produce
in the best seasons 2,ooo.—Constantia is to be found in
the hands of every dealer in Europe, yet it is produced in
but one vineyard, and that vineyard produces but a few
pipes.—Tyne Mercury.

PRICE OF A CLERGYMAN,---In 885,
CHA ALES the Bald purchased the retreat of the Norman
invader, engaged in the siege of Paris, by a present of
7,0001b5. weight of silver. In the same year the Monas-
tery of St. Denis redeemed its Abbot from captivity of
the expense of 685 pounds of gold, which may affor,,t some
data for the arithmetician to calculate the re!,;tive value of
a monk and a metropolis in the ninth; cntury.
The threats which tie faction throw out
through their organ, the Mail, should Mr. O'CoriNELL be
appointed to office, are not surely worthy the slightist
consideration. Only think of such balderdash as the fol-
' lowing :—" With respect to Protestant feeling, we can
only say, that if Mr. O'CoriNEt.l,, were appointed to any
situation directly ccimecte.ll with the administration of jus-
tice, we should call upon our brethren to arouse them.
aelves as one man, and protest aeainst so monstrous a pro.
cedure. We should recommend them not to confine their
operations to simple protestations against such an appo:J:t..
merit, but to display their power and exhibit ;quid
in a way that would show the Government that there ore
l
times when forbearance criminal, and, thivi 11,e
feelings and pre;4ces of men are not to bg ire4traged
or
insulted with impunity."- The 4-'r..iestarit feeling !"
This man imistakes for the 7'rckte3tstit fueling, the feeling
of Lord, V.A RNHAAi, aqa Ow twenty sorry Justices of
Cavan. The Protestant feeling, indeed ! But we had
thv same furious nonsense in the same pages—thp. lotting
denunciations against the Duke of WELLINC'WN for pass-
ing the Catholic Relief Bill. How :Sten did, we l'aug'h at •
the watch-word, " 'c'eme on but the
Protestants did ni4 comaen then; and the may take
our wor4 for it t,hiy will not cuz.la on now, even though
should oountersign a proclamation of the
poke Of Ci3AiruERLAND'S to that effect. But, after all,
what is this faction about which the is, constantly
making such a fuss? What would they lie without Eng-
land ? What would they he withoht a sustaining force at
thr czotle? They go to war, should Mr. O'CoNNTEt.t.
accept office!, Bah !--Dublin ceniny Posql

PAM

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

We have collected with care, and inserted at
full length under the proper head, all the intel-
ligence respecting' the deplorable events in
Bristol,—the depredations and excesses of an
infuriated mob, and the destruction of property
and life which the rioters effected or suffered,—
that could be obtained from the correspondence
of our friends, the reports from travellers, or the
accounts of our contemporaries. That intelli-
gence
liable to be pressed into the service on which
will
ia is of the most melancholy kind, but,
l,epcerusatiti as
is not
the enemies of Reform would employ it. Our
great western capital had been in the partial pos-
session, or tinder the disputed dominion of'
rioters, for three days, as London had been in
the time of Lord G. Gordon,—rioters who have
been excited now, as they were then, by a politi-
cal cause which had no share in directing or in-
fluencing their subsequent plunder and devasta-
tion. The damage to property has been im
mense, and, we lament to add, that blood has
come down to ei by
g
ourpro lastfusely
accounts,(though v,.hcnecessarily)ihcom flowed ; but
o'clock yesterday morning, the mob has been put
down, and order was about to be established.
The insignificance of the military force with
which this object has been ultimately effected,
sufficiently demonstrates that the horrible ex-
cesses which have been committed were the work
of a small body of incendiaries and malefactors
—that the long continuance of the tumult was
owing to the want of energy or spirit in the au-
thorities—and that with a little better manage-
merit on the part of the Magistrates, the mob
might have been checked in its first movements,
and the " gaol delivery" been conducted in a
legal way by the Learned Knight himself whose
presence occasioned the disturbance, instead of
the fellow-ruffians of the prisoners who have been
liberated. The small detachments of dragoons
(part of the 3d and 14th Regiments) who were
present at the breaking out of the riot, were the
only force which could be employed to quell it.
Two charges were made by these regiments,
which at first produced intimidation, but did net
effect ultimate dispersion. The mob was checked
—felt itself nearly mastered, and abstained for a
while from outrage; but having renewed the tu-
mult, the rioters were again charged by the troops,
—their numbers were thinned,—their courage
overpowered, and their violence completely
quelled. The charges of the troops, we are
assured, were made in self defence, and did not
exceed the necessity of the occasion. We
grieve to state that in the performance of this
Indispensable and painful duty the arms of our
gallant soldiers occasioned a great loss of lives—
that between 400 and 500 of the rioters are
calculated (though on no certain data) to have
been cut down by the military, or to have other-
wise perished. Many of the misguided popu-
lace owe their melancholy fate to the state of
intoxication into which they had thrown them-
selves by robbing the cellars of the Mansion-
house, and plundering spirit-shops. A consi-
derable number of them suffered the just retri-
bution of their crimes, by being burnt in the
fires which they themselves had kindled,
buried in the ruins of the buildings which they
had pulled down. The amount of property
destroyed cannot as yet be estimated ; but
some conjecture may be formed of the extent,
of devastation committed, when we mention
that the several 4aols have been pulled down,—
that the Bishop s Palace has been burnt,--
that two or three sides of Queen's square
are in ruins,,s—that the Custom-house and
Excise-office have been razed to the ground,—
and that great damage has been done to
other public and private buildings. Though
detachments of only two regiments of dragoons
had succeeded in quelling the riot, the inhabi-
tants of Bristol were immediately to have a larger
force to restore or to preserve order. The 32d
and 95th regiments of infantry, with some artil-
lery, had been ordered to that city, and were
hourly expected to arrive. One important fact
relating to these riots is proved so iHcontestably
to the convictions of all reasonable men, that we
should have thought it not worth alluding to,
but for the impudence, as well as bad faith, with
which a direct contrary assumption has been
turned by the Tory Press to its accustomed ends
of malignity and faction. Sir Charles Wetherell
went to Bristol, like a madman, at a time when
t body
rh s
pa d e
chioati (as
constableshi
magistrates,he must have been conscious of the political dis-
like with which all ranks of Englishmen regarded
e
him, and, instead of acting by deputy, exposed
himself to the insults of the mob, forgetting that
the tioveily of his appearance in that city would
give a zest to the satisfaction of annoying him
which the mob of London had long ceased to
feel. He went, and was hissed and hooted,
and, we believe, pelted; but with these bru-
talities, hateful and disgusting, and even dan-
gerous as they often are, the ruffians of the high-
ways would in all human probability have been
contented,
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u lt most
ioi themultitude.
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at lgpeosl.l theT exasperation—fresh
to have been quite unequal to their duties,
would neither act themselves nor let the military
put down the earlier outbreaks of the tumult.
The consequence was, what might have been
looked for by every man of common sense.
Bands of miscreants, who had no political feel-
ing whatever, mingled with the Anti-Wetherell
mob, and took the advantage of the occasion to
commit all sorts of crimes with impunity. Now
the niodest assumption of the Tories is, that such
atrocious and frightful crimes were perpetrated
by friends of Itefc.rm ! The 11ansion-house,
Custom-house, Queen-square, Dock-gates, and
finally the, gaols of Bristol, destroyed in honour
of the Reform Bill ! What will faction say
next, we wonder ? But with such antagonists
it would be absurd to reason.--Tinsel.

Well, Cambridgeshire has likewise exhibited
its " re-action," and the result is, that Captain
Yorke has sustained a s;gnal and mortifying,
overthrow, )3,ut who is Captain Yorke ? He
is presumptive heir to-the earldom and estates of
1-14rdwicLe, He represented on the late occa.--
t sion the united interests of the Manners faxnilv
and the Yorke family, the first of which bad, fur
many years,—that is, from the reign of Mr,
Pitt, downwards,-,--dommeered over Cambridp-
shire as w 0.4 as. otter Leicestershire and other
places,_ and had formed a very prominent section
of that high Tory and high borough party, which
used to give laws to England, and which, in re-
r turn for the laws they gave, condescended to
take from the people of England as much money
as they could lay their claws upon. I. he mode
whereby the said Manners faction (and in this
it was a fac-simile of other oligarchic houses)
contrived to enjoy, to spread, and prolong its in-
fluence, that is, while the machinery of .foryt
remained in full eapicity for work, was—firt,
insist with the Minister of the day that he should