The Sun.
London, England, 1814-01-11 00:00:00

MEDITERRANEAN FLEET.

EXTRACT: OF • A LETTER FRO:A 'ON BOARD tits MA-
JEsTY.'S sat RESISTANCE ON QUAIL‘NTINE).
DATED PLYNOTII, JAN 6, 1814.
Before We left our station, in the Adriatic,'
the Fialianniti And Wcazle had been sent to Zara,
to assist the Austrians in expelling the Fiend)
froni that strum; hold. The Bacchante and Sa-
racen,. at the Bocca tl; Cattaro, had taken 20(1
French troops, and above 400 Croats had desert.-
ed from the French cause ; six tLitn-boats have also
been .taken;there. •The Cattaro was 'closely be-
wieged,,,otid many thousand Montenegrians were
itssiSting against the French. An expedition had
been fitted out by Admiral Freemantle and Gen.
Nugent, -at Tri es te, against Ragusa. The troops
would he aided.hy Col. Robertson and 500 troors
from Lissa. Capt. C. Rowley, of the Eagle,: was
to command the naval part of the force. By the
latest accounts from Venice, a general insurrec•
lion was expected there against the French party,
whose force tncre u.is about 4,004 troops, and
the Viceroy's army in the neighbourhood; but
the latter was composed chiefly of Italians, who
desert in hundreds. The three line-of-battle ships
at Venice had taken out their gnus, for the pur-
pose of moving up towards the town. to keep the
disposition of the city in check. The exertions
of the seamen and marines of our squadron, to
assist our Ally (the Austrians), had been uapre-
cedenteilly great. They had constantly to con-
tend with heavy rains, bad weather, and heavy
surf, in landing all descriptions of stores. The
%%Janie of the Illyrian Provinces, with the ener-
getic assistance of our ships of war, will soon be
under the Austrian flag : the cordiality of the two
nations is beyond all fortuer instanees.—Count
Nugent (who is an Irishman by birth), was or-
dered to co-operate with Admiral Freemantle in
all that he did. Ali the male inhabitants in Istria,
Croatia, and Dalmatia, were joining the Austrian
standard in thousands,
and demanding arms ;
vast ntunber of w.iich had been sent front Zinte,
in the Eagle and Mermaid, by General Campbell,
tun: at the request of Count Nugent. Upon the
• fall of Ragusa and the Bocca di Cattaro, which
was momentarily expected, Admiral Freemantle
wauld _return to England in the Eagle. Trade
• may he satta expected to take its wonted course
a Trieste, the presence of the French had
greatly impoverished. The carriages of the mer-
alone,• ,count Med to amount to ninety,
tv, re reduced to five.
" 7i'he island of Lisa, from the Continent
opoied, will become comparatively depo-
0-lated, Coffee at Trieste is half a dollar per lb.
produce and English goods are in great-
de.nand there, being wanted for Germany, Hun-
gary, And Bohemia.
" Several merchants had already 'arrived at
Trieste, from Vienna, to purchase English goods,
&c. The Archduke Nlaximilian, with his brother
Francis (brothers of the Empress of Austria), had
Arrived at Fiume, front Lissa,' in the Eagle, with
the Archduchess, daughter of the King of Salali-
nia, on their way to Vienna. TheArchilnke Max-
imilian was several days on board the Milford, at

Fium
" The gallant retreat made by Count Nugent,
on a recent attack made upon him by the whole
Trench force, had saved the town from being
plundered ; they staid only two hours.; the inha-
bitants became greatly alarmed at the thought of
being again under French domination.- The Aus-
trians and our shioping took up the strong posi-
tion of Poi', in Istria. whence the French had
been expelled by a force, •principally Croats,
headed by a Priest. All the necessaries of life
are remarkably cheap at Trieste—beef only three-
pence halfpenny per pound; turkies three and
four for a dollar."

"There are fire thousand Poles at Sedan, animated with
the best spirit."..-(Fiench Puprrslt

INIPROMPTITS.
Ah, liosv! you'll never, do all that you can,
Us• five thousand Pules in a single Sedan.

BONY sends his degenerate Poles to Sedan,
Like their Master, to do all the mischief they cab;
Such objects at once of our horror and scuff;
'Tis hop :d when they't e there will be soon carried of

STAmPoitti, JAN. Royal Highness the
Duke of YoaK passed through here from the Earl
of WINCHELSLA'S, at one o'clock this maiming,
for Londo'n. 'His Royal highness the PRINUE
REGENT will leave Burleigh-on-t&-Hill to-mor-
row morning, for the seat of Lord MELBOURNE,
Brocket Hall. Horses have been ordered for his
ROYAL. HIGHNESS, to be. at Casterton, two miles
trom hence, at eleven o'clock. His ROYALHIGH•
NESS received the congratulations of the Nobi-
lity, Clergy, and' Gentry, &c. on Saturday, at
Lord WINCHELSEA'S, and the Royal Presence was
hailed inthe same loyal manner as had been de-
monstrated during the tour of tke illustrious
PRINCE, by all ranks.

At this auspicious conjuncture of public events,
the mind natn recurs to the situation of this
country at the commencement of the present con:.
test with the Ruler of France. In July 1803,
BnottikeAu're, with his choicest legions, forming
an army of upwards of one hundred and fifty thou-
sand men, was encamped on the heights of Bou-
logne, menacing this kingdom with an immediate
invasion. At that critical moment, the Patriotic
Fund was established, and by the Contributions
of the public, it has been enabled for ten years
lo animate our Forces by sea anti land, and to ad-
minister Comfort and consolation to upwards of
16,000 individuals, sufferers in the gloriou& con-
flict. We cannot therefore, but .encourage the
pleasing. hope, that by the Collections made in the
differ nt Churches on the day of Thanksgiving,
the Committee for managing that,lnceitution, will
be enabled to continue their benevolent exertion
towArds every object requiring it, both in the
Army and Navy. -
In consequence of the frequent disturbances
bt‘lween the French independent companies lately
arrived from America, and the other foreign
troops stationed at ,Lymington depot, it has been
thought expedient to remove the former—they
have mottlingly been -embarked for Portsmouth.

THE CATHOLICK BOARD.

4, When rog es fall out," &c.
" lue proverb is somewhat mus.ty."—StIAKESPEA

We copy the following portri;ture of the
,C,a.
tholick B•)ard from its panegyrist nil ol.gan The
Dublin Emning Post. This '' Angost Body "
could not have its character drawn by any better
acquainted with it thin this superlative N.!Wfv.
p iper, who •e anger •is excited by the rescission
of Dr. DitoraGooLe's Luton's vote;and reprehen-
sion of his no less famous speech-.

It required no extraordinary powers of 'divina-
tion to oresee, that thelate very childish and very
cowardly Vote of the Catholic Board, as it has
excited ihe disgust of rational men, -who nave
been the 34vocHtes of the cause, and Nvho have
even defended the conduct of the Board, would call
forth the sarcasm and ridicule, such as they are, of
the enemies of Emancipation, as .veil as the hired
maligners-of the MemberS who distinguish them-
selves in what are called the Debates of the Body.
It was easy to foresee, that a few miseraok and
rotten common-places about liberali .ty—coannon-
places as flat and as flimsy as those which the
Incipient sponters use in the Historical. Sockty of
the College—common-places which no man of an
original mind—no man who bad the faculty of -
thinking, would condescend to employ—it was
easy, we say, to foresee, that all this fustian and
folly, instead of setting op the character of ;the
.Bositcl" with our Protestant'Fellotthjects,"
would have the effect of rendering the Board, as
far as the Board is concerned, an object of unnii-s
tigated contempt. We say as far as the Board..
is concerned, for, to the honour of-that kody,
which The Evening Post, at least, never will de-
sert, we can state, that the Vote was carried by
.an obstreperous hurley-burley of voices, like some
of the questions in the Jacob.n Club, when de-
cency, and propriety, and reason were lost in the
war of vulgar acclamation.
lint the Public out of doors, those not acquaint-
en with the machine of the Body, those who re-
gard it as containing five hundred Catholic Gen-
tlemen, including the Catholic Hierarchy, can-
not he blamed; nay, it was natural that they
should visit upon the whole Body the scorn which
we must reluctantly admit, the supporters of the
Vote in question (unanimous) have so •amply
merited. Yet nothing can be more unjust. In
that Board there are many pure spirited and man- .
ly minds, with Irish hearts, and views only to
Irish good, who hold hypocrisy in sovereign dis-
dain. These . men arc not the clamoreis of the
Body, the exclusive and noisy Patrons of that
bastard banding, which every eourtezan and
libertine in the Land Call Liberality ; the
• daily. Orators, who fatigue the public ear, even
ad nauseant, with • their owl: mighty deeds .in the
service of their Country.—quite otherwise ! They
are most of them silent Members—but they are
firm and principled. - They are not political gladi-
ators who fence for theamhlic sport—w ho-roaionly
governed in their movements by the plaudits of
the million, who give up a principle or a position,
and assume it,;as it may suit the convenience of
the hour ; who, provided they the in the front of
the arena, care very little which side of,the ques-
tion they support—in short, the majority, the
great, the rsspectable majority.—the men who
really govern those who
_appear to,Jead the Body,
are not formed of - such Cameleon sta., of such
unsubstantial wordiness, as•the Public too often,
the Lord knows have reason to suspect.
For our own parts, we have supported the
Board, and shall continue our support, because
we know that there is a spirit in it, which atones
'for the absurdity of its Members, and which, on
all great occasions, will he found superior to the
paltry politics and private views, to the factious
follies or miserable vanity of any of its compo-
nent parts. But thong , The Evening Post has
been employed in repelling the slanders of the
Castle Press against the Board, as well as- in
exposing the hollowness of its pretended friends
—though it has fought all its battles, when
the Board itself was not able to fight them—
though it has stood in
.the breach between
the Board and' the Govermilent, it. suffered
for• its romantic chivalry—while the Patriots
laughed at its sutlerings—though it lia.,•hitherto
taken the Board under its protection—for, after
all their talking, and voting, and resolving, what

would the Board be without the Post? It aoes not
follow, as some of our Correspondents seem to in-
timate, that we should defend the Board, even
in its aberrations front dignity and reason.—
Do the Gentlemen, who make this modest prof
posal, really,imagine that we are the hired ad-
vocates of the. Board ? Do they really imagine,
as the CaStle Papers swear, that we are in the
pay of the Body ? that their 'will is our will;
and their opinion ours ) DO they imagine that
the Gentlemen pt this establishment feel thetu-
selves inferior in consideration to any Member
of the Board, except the titled Members=—Or
that, in point of talent and public spirjt, they
do not feel
.themselves at least equal to the
veriest egotist of the Catholic Body), Where is
the man amongst them that would have exposed
his purse and person for the cause ?, if this be
.their opinion, it is high time the public should be
disabused., We,have supported the Catholic Board.
hitherto;because the Catholic Board, in our opi-
nion, hoe' hitherto acted with spirit and good
sense. . Having acted with neither good sense nor
spirit on the late occasion, they miscalculate very
miserably upon our want of both, if they suppose
that we should run with the torrent, and echo the
driftless trash of the declaimers. For the sake of
the holy (cause of freedom in' which 'we are en,
, 0 ou,ed we wish to take both out of the hands of
thOse who set up an exclusive claim to honesty
and patriotism.

BREAD.—This day the LORD MAYOR, after in-
specting the Mealweighers returns, ordered that
an advance of three farthings in' the price of a
quarters loaf should take place on Thursday not.
Yesterday being Plough Monday, the Court of
Aldermen was occupied in swearing in the Con-
stables of the City of London.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OP CHANCERY, MoNDAY, JAN. 10,

BL ACKEURN V. THE I'S/I-TAB:TANTS OF MANCHESTER

This was a case which regarded the right of the
plaintik, the Rector of the parish of Manchester,
to the tithes of the parish. A number of different
mOduses had been set up by the inhabitants, and
the Master of the Rolls had pronounced a Decree,
which be affirmed upon a re-hearing. An appeal
had been taken to
_the. Lunn CHANCELLOR against
this• Decree of his Honour, and the same had been
set down -for hearing.

. Mr. AGAR, • supported.-by Mr. BELL, -now mov-
ed to' have the case expunged, on the ground that
there .could be- o»ly .t-wo hearings of a cause in a
Court of Equity '; that there had already been a
re-hearing before his Honour, who had affirmed
his former Decree, which Decree,-so affirmed, was
the Decree, not of the Master of the Rolls mere-
ly, but of his Lordship, being the Decree of the
Court of Chancery. This doctrine, the Learned
Counsel contended, was fully recognized in the
case of " Brown and Higgs," in Bth Vesey, jun.
where the Loan CHANCELLOR haying been 'pre-
vailed on to re-hear the case, after it -had already
been re-heard by the Master of the Rolls, in de-
livering his judgment, -was decidedly of opinion
that it was an improper practice for his Lordship°
to have re-hearings before him, after the cause
bad Bern twice heard by the Master of the Rolls.
They shinild not trouble his Lordship with an
ostentatious parade- of research, by neferring to
all the cases which had been adducted in support
-of this doctrine, but should merely refer his Lord-
.ship to the, case of " Brown and Riggs," Where
,his Lordship would -find them all noticed or re-
ferred to. That this was a Wholesome, proper,
and necessary rule, they conceived must be appa-:
-rent, the contrary practice being solely calculated
-for delay ; for upon, the same principle might it
be contended, that there should be-four hearings
_, of every case—a re-hearing by the Master of the
-Rolls of his own judgment, and a re-hearing; by
his Lordship of his own judgment, after his first
" re-hearing of the case from the judgment "of the
Master of the Rolls. The same principle, too,
which applied to cases before the Master of the
Rolls, must also apply to cases before the Vice-
Chancellor ; and so the Court would have- four
hearings, in every case in Equity, where-one of the
.parties was sa disposed. The,hardship in the,pre-_,
sent case was very great. the Clergyman in the
mean time being kept out of his tithes.
Mr. RICHARDS and Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY con-
tended-, that there was neither principle nor pre-
cedent for what the Learned Gentlemen on the
other side were now contending for. The case of
" Brown and Higgs" could not be a precedent in
suppce t of their Learned Friends argument, for
there his Lordship re-heard the case.; - and as to
the numerous oases which had been talked of, as
there cited, going to. sanction :he doctrine now
insisted/on, there was not one of them in whick it
wasitven alleor'ed.that there was such a rule as that
now contended for, namely, that there should be.
no re-hearing by his Lordship, after a case had
been twice heard by the Master of the Rolls. In-
deed there seemed to be an absurdity in supposing
that there. could be such a rule. What would it
be but to say that his Lordship was-a mere Mi-
-nisterial•Officer appointed for the purpose of in-
rolling the Decrees °fa Judge inferior to htinself.
Upon the principle now contended for, wherever
the Master of • the Rolls, or the Vice-Chancellor,
chOse to permit are-hearing-of any case of difficul-
which might come before them, and the party
-being-dissatisfied chose to. carry the matter fur-
ther, they could not have his Lordship's judgment,
but must go at once to the House of. Peers. In this
-*ay his Lordship might have to answer in the •
.House of Lords for infirmities in judgments of his
own, for which he was not at all responsible, and in
cases which he had never even heard argued, but •
of the merits of which he was entirely ignorant.
So far from the argument on the other side being
strengthened from the circumstances of the ap-
pointment of another Judge of inferior jurisdic-
tion to his Lordship, the evils which. would re- 1,

snit from the rule now contended for being en-
forced, would. only thereby be doubled, and the
parties, litigants in this Court, who now come
before his Lordship by appeal, as Lord Chancel-
lor, must, at an enoi m ins expense, be driven to
seek redress by appeals to the House of ,Lords;
the consequence of which would-be that (whereas
at present there were hardly•any appeals to the
House of Peers from judgments of that Court,)
his, Lordship would in future there have to decide
on 1111111.1'0US decisions purporting to have been
made by himself, in cases which bad never been
once before him.

The LORD CHANCELLOR said, lie should look
into the case " Brown and Higgs," in order to
refresh his memory on the subject, and should
dispose of this motion to-morrow.

Ho-attic MURDER —A shocking instance of
Murder occurred in the parish of Camborne, Corn-
: wall, on the night of the Ist of January, %vhich
was not dis Covered until late the following day.
James Rule, 'a lunatic, who bad been confined iv.
. the poor-house of that parish for several years,
found means to. destroy a female pauper (sup-
posed by strangulation) who
.attended. him, and
lived in the same apartment where helvas chained.
The constables broke into the robin and found
the lunatic at large and alone"; 'On being ques-
tioned about the woman, he said she was gone
into Devonshire, hut on examining the fire-place
(which is a large open chimney) no doubt re-
mained of his having burnt .the body, from the
smell, and the half consumed particles of ,human
bones t hat. remained. Then pressed more closely
-on the subject, be confessed that " she was gone
to ashes." All her clothes and bed were burnt,
and so. .;little remained even other bones, that the
•Coroner did not feel himself justified in taking an
inquisition ; but the Magistrate,: of the Idistrict,
aft er due inquiry, committed thelnan to the county
gaol to take his trial for the murder.

That rare" pbmnomenon,- a tortoise-sbell tom-
cat, ha. 3 bee{inie visible at Brighton, where it-re-
ceives the worship of the devotees.