The Sun.
London, England, 1809-09-16 00:00:00

Mr. Alderman ,GoninEttEßE snpr,rted t} mo-
tion, but-thought .it more probable tieir tl.e
Baronet had declared his indifference. fc., Mir

been said, was removed, alluding no doubt to Lord
Camden, who Was then Lord Chancellor, but there
was no reason- for ascribing this circumstance to the
motive resorted to by the Hon. Gentleman, as it was
well known that it was by no means unusual for the
Lord Chancellor to go out on the appointment 'Of a
new Administration, of which they had had, both
before and since, no want of instances. The manner
of celebrating the day in question, and the expences
attending that celebration, were all matters of subse-
quent arrangement, and tOrrned at present no part of
thequestion. The question now to be determined is,
whether you will celebrate or not the 25th of 06to-
ber, as a period that must ever be conneded with the
grandeur of this country, and which may not occur
again in the lapse of many centuries ? This was the
question now under consideration, and he hoped, for
the credit and honour of the City, the Hon. Gentle-
man would withdraw his 'opposition, and permit it
to be carried unanimously.
Mr. JAcis was of opinion, that the occasion was
'Of a nature that required some demonstration of their
Sentiments and feelings, in whatever way they might
think .Most proper to express them. He regretted
that's.° much had been 'said on the political events of
the present reign, arid the sUbjeal orVarious
Strat!ons, as he conceived that to ,be an improper
mode of viewing the present question. If they di-
retied their attention, however, for a moment to the
history of the Tudors and the Stuarts, and recolleCted
the Ways of raising money that were frequently re-
sorted to in Utak times; they would leel every reason
to be gratefUl for °or present improved circum-
stances. At the present moment, the Constitution
subsisted in. as great purity, he conceived; as at the
time of the Revolution, and in no instance has his
present Majesty irttroached on the rights of his tub-
jeas; or exercised the influence of the Crown, with••
out a view to the prOsperity and happiness of the
people. During a long reign, too, he had uniformly
shewn himself the patron and encOurager of the fine
arts and sciences: At an early period 'of his reign;
the Society for Sculpture and Painting was institut-
ed ;Agriculture had alSo been much improved; and;
by his Rovalexampie, had become as fashionable as
it was laudable. Discoveries of almost every .de-
scription., and of the most useful tendeney; particu-
larly in the ariou's branches of chemistry, and the.
wonderful application of 'Machinery to Manufac;
tures, on which our. 'national prosperity so much de-
pended, had distinguished this reign from every
other that had preceded it; Princes, from their ex-
alted Stations, were exposed Id more powerful ternr-
tations than men in the other walks of life but ne-
ver had even the bleat!) of calumny reached the
pure and upright character of the present Sovereign.
Under these circumstances, he thought no man could
oppose the motimi, unless aetuated by party motives.,
which, he ttustedi would not be-permitted to operate
on this occasion.

Mr. Alderman C. Sethi could not look 'around
him, and see the many unhappy revolutions that
had lately taken place in Europe, without feeling
it a duty to present their sincele sentiments of gra-
titude and respect to the Throne on so particular an
occasion. They had only to icaik at the situation
of other countries to be sensible of the 'value of
their own. As a prout of their superiority in a
commercial and money point Of view; a bill on
London wat negmiable in &cry quarter of thy
world.

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Under the iMpression of a speedy change.
Mr. Deputy KEMBLE -also spoke in favoUr of the
motion.—The Resolutions were theh Severally read;
and carried unanimously.
The Court was crowded dhrit the whole discus-
sloe, which continued till near four o'clock.

The Corporation of Dublin have determined on
a plan of celebrating the Jubilee of the .25zh of
October next, according to which they are' to at tend
Christ Church in state, and to have a grand dinner
afterwards in the Rotunda. A grand fire- wo. kto
be displayed in Stephen's-green, and the Citizens
tote Called upon to manifest their loyalty by illu
minations, bonfires, and transparencies.. A sub-
-scription is also to be opened for the purpose of
ereaing an equestrian Statue of his Majesty.
An order reached Portsmouth yesterday,. for the
whole of the topper bottomed transports, assembled
at Shithead, to proceed with the Ajax man of war,
(which takes convoy to the Mediterranean) to Lisbon.
44 Some passengers arrived yesterday from Bilboa,
who state, that when they were of the port of San-
tona, they heard a loud discharge of artillery in that
diredion. -It is highly probable that General BAL•
LAsT4RoS, who has so lately re-occupied Santander,
was
.endeavouring to, acquire possession of the com-
modious harbour of Santona, when the report of
cannon was heard in that neighbourhood.

Letters have' been received from Embden to the
7th inst. A rumour prevailed that BUONAI'ARTE
was seriously indisposed at Vienna.

= At a late hour on Thursday tight, Lord KITZRO'i
SOMERSET left town tbr Plymouth, to embark in a
fast sailing vessel for Lisbon, with dispatches for
Lord WELLINGTON.

Lord DALHOUSIE, and several Officers of rank, ar-
rived in town yesterday morning from Flushing.—•
Their report of the number of sick, and of the na.
ture of the disease which affiitis our troops in the
Island of Walcheren, is far less dispiriting than fray
that has lately been received. The violence of the
fever had much abated ; and as its chatatier began
to be better understood, a more appropriate and eth
cacious mode of treatment has been adopted.
Our Engineers were employed in planning fortifi-.
'cations, and in putting the Island in the best posture
of defence. No apprehensions were entertained from
it coup de main on the part of the enethy. '
Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, the Duke of
KENT, Ptiucesses AUGUSTA and SoiquA, accompa-
nied by the Earl of PlncounT, Lady 'ELY, the
Hon. Mr. G. VILLERS, General FITt ROY, and Co-
lonel TAYLOR, took their usual ride in Windsor
Park, and returned to the Palace at 12 o'clock.

The QUEEN and Princess Euzaßeim took an
airing to Frogmore yesterday.
Yesterday Mr. JOSEPH POETT obtained his Di-
ploma, and
.was admitted a Member of the Royal
College of Surgeons, after und3rgoing the usual, but
necessary examination.
Yesterday many private frietids of the proprietors
were admitted to a view of the stew Theatre in Co-

Vent-Garden, but the workmen were so much in-
terrupted, that no more are to be introduced till the
whole is finished. It has .a very beautital interior,
and is altogether,.perhapt, the most convenient struc-
ture of the'kind that has ever been seen. To the

honotir of Mr. Smut ILE, jun. it must be said, that he
has fully equalled the warmest expeCiations of his
friends, and will doubtless far exceed those of the
public in general.
THE THEATRE.—The season concluded at the
Hay-market Theatre last night with The Foundling
of the Forest, and _Killing. no Murder; and notwith-
standing the unlucky disputes between the Proprie-
tors, which we hope will at length be amicably ad-
justed, the Public has been gratified by dramatic no-
velties, and the Performances have been characterized
by correctness and ability. At the conclusion of the
Play, Mr. YOUNG addressed the audience in the fol-
lowing terms
L ADI ES AND GENTLEMKN—The limits of the theatri-
cal season, on this spot, do not extend beyond to-night ; and
I beg leave, at the desire of the Proprietors, to offer you
their most grateful thanks for that patronage with which you
have honoured them during the summer. It has ever been
the anxious study of the present Managers to obtain your fa-
vour ; and they trust that their future exertions will prove
them not unworthy of its continuance.
" The Performers, Ladies and Gentlemen, join their sin-
cerest acknowledgments, to those of the Proprietors ; and we
tespeafullybid you farewell."
Accounts have been received of the death of the
Hon. HENRY NEVILLE, Captain in the 14th Light
Dragoons, and second son of Lord BRA' BROOKE ;
he died at Santa Cruz, near Truxillo, in Spain, on
the 2.lst of August, in the 22d year of his age. He
had escaped unhurt at the battle of Talavera, but fell
a victim to a fever brought on by extreme fatigue.
Yesterday the Spanish Shepherds, who arrived
with the sheep lately brought from Spain, set out
on their return to that country, in order, it is sup-
posed, to convey some more of that valuable breed
to England.
A Latter from Constantinople, dated the 9th of
l June, states, that the Ports of the Seven Islands have
become the rendezvous of a great number of the
enemy's privateers, which have thus been offered an
orinort unity of committing great depredations on our
Mediterranean tsade.
Yesterday a iksere, battle was fought in Five-fields,
Chelsea, betose„,A ft. boatman, known on the River
by the name of smart Jemmy, and a stout coal-heaver
named Willis, for ten guineas a side. Willis was
Mr. GRIFFITHS observed, that no man was more I the favourite at starting, and continued so for up-
accustomed to speak his mind freely on political sub-
wards of half an hour; at the end of that time,
jetts than he was, but on this occasion he did not
however, be received a blow under the throat tip,
think the question of a political nature, and would
wrsich laid him senseless ; he continued in that
most cordially support it. He had heard no satis-
state some tune, and on his recovery declined the
faCtory argument against the motion. All it pro.
posed was, to declare to his Majesty how happy we l contest.
Thursday last an extraordinary feat was per-
were to have him so long among us, and to render
formed on the road hetWeen Sleaford and Lincoln.
the evening of his days As pleasant to him as pos- A yours& man name&Dawson, a waiter at the White
sible. I Lion, in Stieaford, fora wager, trundled a hoop from
Mr. Alderman WOOD opposed the motion on tilt)
that place to Lincoln; without once letting 4-ft4rto
same ground he had refused to sign the requisition. the ground or tench his body. The distance i 3 17
It was too much the habit to send up whining and
miles, over hilly and otherwise :unfavourable road ;
contemptible Addresses, and they had lately seen yet he performed the task in three hours and a half.
how they had been treated by some of his Majesty's Considerable bets 'were depending.
Ministers. He gave the worthy Baronet credit for WEXFORD, SEPT. 10.—We have had a very Svet
saying that lie drd not- care a farthing for any Ad-
harvest in this neighourhood, and the rainy wandsss
ministration, for be had since taken the liberty of still continues. We understand that Sir Josats3
whispering to bis ear, that he had learned, from, BANKS has, by order of his MAJESTY, presented alse
good authority, that Mr. Perceval had last Sunday
Rey. Mr. B. DeoLey with some of the Me!tio
tendered his resignation to his Majesty, of which I sheep lately arrived from Spain, for the improve..
circumstance the worthy Baronet appeared to have ment of the breed in the West of Ireland.—(tVez-
, been quite ignorant. ford Pope? .)

Mr. D.4Awiti:Atr Stated; that if he. concelVed the
admission of the present question implied either the
support or approbation of. Ministers, he would cer-
tainly withhold his concurrence; but viewing it as
he did, unconnected with any political or party
•question, he was ready to give it his support, and
the more so, when he recolieded that such an oc-
currence might not again talte plaCe: for a thousand
years. The practice, ,besides, was not without pre-
cedent, and it 'would be extremely invidious, he
thought, to omit it on thiS occasion. .The manner
of celebrating the day was the only thing, he thought,
that remained to be arranged. With respect to the
long period of war during the present reign, the peo-
pleot England, he thought; were more to be blamed
than Ministers.: nor did he think it fair to .throW
an odium.on the whole reign- from any particular
occurrences.
Mr. WArrnm4* stated; that it was his intention
to have certain documentS be had before alluded to, ii
read to the Court, as they were calculated to prove
the justice of all he had advanced. He denied, at
the same time, that he was actuated by any party
motives; or any Want of respeat to his Majesty,
whose private virtues he could appreciate as much
as any mans for these virtues, he was ready to
snake every allowance;• but must declare, that dur-
ing no reign had greater calamities ever befallen the
nation; and tli?.t no King had ever been more im-
posed on by evil Counsellors. He then moved, that
the several documents alluded to be read by the
Clerk of the Court ; which, alter some oppogition
from Mr. Dixon and Sir William Curtis', was ac-
ceded to. The first was the Address to his Majesty
from the City of London, congratulating him on
his accession io the Throne , the second was an
Address from the City to his Majesty in 1770, on
the question respecting Mr. Wilkes.; and another
Address sent up in• 1776.
Mr. CROOK saw no occasion for lugging in politics
on this occasion. His Majesty was a good man,
and a good King—(Hear ! hear !)—and he hoped
the question would be earlied without farther dis-
cussion.

. . .
TO THE EDITOR OF THE S,UN,

SIR,

7, -,s;

Though I am no friend to the enlarged "powers
uhich are in 'miry instao, es given to tlie'Satilc-',
licularly in those cases which affea the life'and liberiy
of the gubjett ; for example, in the; point Ct pitnish-
talent for uttering notes, exceeding the milder warn-,
ill of a twelve .month's _imprisonment, where it
regards coin ; and I wish- titat means could be safely
applied to secure tte Public against loss by the for 7
geries,. of Which the amount can be of liitle conse-
coetice to those.who have the .great benefit. of the
Fetteral circulation; it Would, in my mind, be whole-,
some to add these to their other restriCtioris, the con-
sideration of which tam led to by a letter signed
NIEIiCATOR, in the Wyoming Chronicle, of the 7117 i

instant.
I de not agr,e- with that Writer in oinion, that
the' Dircaors of the Bank have extended the issue
of their Notes either unwarrantably ek injuriously,
and it appears to me, that an institution so material
to all monied transactions cannot be on a better sys-
tem than-the one which has stood the test of up-
wards of a century, and, by a necessary gradation
in adapting their credit to the increasing demands
'of the PUblic, been the means of essentially serving
the State.
. Mercator is
_probably as much misinformed re-
garding the limits, which, he conceives, are pot cn
Dikounts, at the periods he mentions as deceptions,
in quoting the gold coined at sixty millions in the
present reigns without re'enerice !o the Proclama-
tion which took place -thirty years back, and then
occasioned nearly a total re-coinage, besides requiring
the constant renewal of the coin, as it became to a
certain-degree deficient indeed. At any tate, gold,
as an article of traffic, would be of very little value
toil's, if the only Concern were. to itnpound it.
Ttie price of gold, no :doubt, is enhanced when the
balance of trade is against this country, or political
causes make it wise to aid foreign connexions, but
conceiving that this advance of -price did not origi-
nate in the.issuing of Bank Notes, I cannot see how
the withdrawing any part of them could reduce it
on the other hand, surely it is material to encourage
exertions which are most likely to reclaim tfle.com-,
modify, by assisting those with Capital Who will use
it to give activity to the labours of the Community,
so wisely considered as the true v'ealth of natiors.--i-
Woold Mercator advise the colliers, the agricultur-
ists, the manufaaories, &c. to be stopped, for the
pleasing vision he wishes to produce.
The statement in the MorniV Chionicle, of the
-29111 of August, to which he refers, implies that dis-
advantages attend the want of a stationery price of
gold; ‘t hat is theetied of variation high ,rice
discourages the purchase of foreign na-
nnies, for of ram material, the proportion is so tri-
fling, atfd with a profitable view tifat the cost is'fi-
nally returned fo- the produa on the salt*, the-best
ehange in competition with other countries is founded
in the superior honour of the British Merchant the
extent of capital and credit he can command ; and
the industry excited under. a free government. What,
therifore, could avail a in, the sank to pay
off twOOr three millions of lesTotes, but td assign to
foreigners that portion of our capital so advantage-
ously enyloyed at home, for in no Ott:it-I-way could
it accomplish the purpose Mercator exlielAs ; and
how much of which might go to our natural enemy
we cannot calculate.
Thcre are other matters . wherein I conceive the
remarks in t he 'Essays of the 2gth 'of August and the
7th of September, might-be combated, and, if the
foregoing observations meet insertion in yeur valua-
ble and-patriotic Paper, I shall renew the discussion
at a future time. •

Homo.

WONDERFUL ESCAPE.—Sunday sennight, in the
forenoon, when some children were amusing them-
selves
at the Water of Leith, by throwing stones
into the lead under the arch above the mill wheel,
one of them, little more than two years old, fell
ir, and. was instantly carried by tite force of the wa-
ter down a narrow covered passage through which it.
is direded when the mills are not employed. This
passage is about 30 yards long, with a rapid declivi-
ty, and at the end there is a bason where sluices are
constructed. The sluice.through which the water
is conveyed to the pool below the darn dike happen-
ed to be up, and the child after tumbling in the ba-
son for a minute or two, was drawn into' the cur-
rent, and precipitated, with hcirrid violence, down.
to the bot turn of the fall upwards of twelve feet !sigh,
By this time an alarm had been given, and two per-
sens perceiving the child, ran to the pool below the
sluice, and, to their astonishment, beheld the child
gras;,ing by a piece of the rock. It appeared .to have
receved no other injury than a slight contuion
on
the forehead, 'which did not prevent it, an hour af-
terwards, from resuming its play. While the child
floated in the bason, its mother, in dreadful dis-
traetion (uncertain, whether it was dead or Ate),
was fen the point of leaping over to its assistance,
was happily prevent.ed. The place into which
the child fell has been uncovered f& some time, and
is still suffered to remain in the same dangerous
.sate. It is scarcely. necessary to reiilailt, that, had
t're mills been going, the chil.d.w,iuld have been in-
stantly crushed to pieces.

On Friday s&nnight was committed to• the county
Clare gaol, by .George Stut!dert, of Atlantic-lodge,
E. T. Killeen, of corbally, charged with the mur-
der and robbery of Lahr. Trainer, on the night of
_the 3ctsh nit. Fs om a -number of, corroborating cir-
cumstances, there is the stron -est suspicions of the
;Hilt of Killeen. 'The circumstances of the murder
are shocking. It appears on the oath of T. Gallaher,
that Killeen and the deceased, were together on the
30th ult. in the evening, after which the utter was
missing; and upon the former being asked what
had happened to him, he answered) 'f he was
' drowned." On search being made, the secret was
ii-ooudisclosed by the terrific appearance of a (pan-
it_ty of human blood and hair, and some tattered
pieces of cloth ; and from this fatal spot to a precipice
over the sea, into which the deceased Was flung,
wrre discovered numerous. traces of violence.

• TE it 7131 I_, Er,

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•

EDITOR OF THE

. •
SIR,
74114 has been said in the Papers ,on the ceby
ct
of the Jullilee inttnded to he eeiebraled an 11,e
of 00,obe; .next, in honour of. our gra'cioui I:;ove-
;•eign entering into the 50th year of -his reip.
The ?"tit of October is a proud 'day to tliis
try.. On ilkat day, in the-year 14 1.9, was fought the
glorious and splendid battle of A.6incoutt.
The both year of the King's reign. ought to be
dear to every, Briton, for in the fiftieth year of
Henry the Third, t2GS, the people were called to
a share of the Legislature .in that, yeer was seen
.the first dawn of an English House of_Coinrnons.7--
.It has been a6.serted it is premature, to celebiate the
Jubilee on the completion of Potty-nine years, and
_:that it ought not to be celebrated till the end of the
fiftieth. year, but those whO maintain this, either
do it from perverseness or ignorance.
It is knoWn than the celebration of Jubilees was
originally of Divine Institution. , .In the 25th chapter
of Leviticus, God commanded-7-
' !‘ Thou shalt number •seven sabbath of years on-
to thee, seven times .seven years, and
_the space Of
seven sabbath of years shall be unto thee 1-orty,and
nine years, and ye shall hallow the fiftieth year,
and proclaim liberty throughout all the land Ontoall
the inhabitants thereof: •it shall he ,a • Jubilee unto
you, and ye shah return every mart
_unto his,
possession, •and ye shall return every man unto his
- lan4y.'
The Dikine Mercy, in ordaining the celebration
,of this' Festival, was eminently exemplified.; tio
captive, the slave, the poor, the.friendleSs; the op-
pressed, .had real cause to rejoice, for to them the
King of Kings commanded, relief.
That mercy which :the Divine Being ordained,
ought certainly to be observed by the Sovereigns he
. has permitted to reign on earth, and no.Sovcreign
- can certainly be bettet entitled to the congratulation
of his subjects than our most gracibus Monarch,
• . and the people must be happy in rejoicing-in such a
King.. I am, Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
JAS.,FLETCHER.
A 14, Pall Mall, Sept. 14, t sog.