The Sun.
London, England, 1824-05-15 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.

The larl of Kingston, at Miller's Hotel, Jermyn-street,from
; Rear-Admirsd and Mrs. Harvey, at ditto ; W. Bur-
rell, Esq. M.P. at ditto; J. Entwisle, Esq. at ditto, from Rich-
mond ; R. Hoe, Esq. • and Mrs. Roe, at ditto, from Dublin ;
Mrs. Robinson, at ditto, from Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs.
Hinde, and Miss Hinde, at ditto; Capt. Fergusson, at ditto;
Mrs. Parnther, at her house in Saville-rew, from Brighton ; Dr.
Chermaide, at his house, Somerset-street, Portman-square,
from Paris ; Captain Stewart, 15th Husars, at Fenton's Hotel,
Si. James's-street, from a tour; Captain Hyde Parker, R.N.
at ditto; Capt. Boat, at the British Hotel, Jermyn-street,
from a tour; Colin Campbell, Esq. at ditto, from his seat, in
, Essex.

DkPAILTD RES:—The Countess of Sandwich, from her seat,
Hinchinbrooke, Huntingdon ; Lord George :Lennox, for his
seat, ll•lalcolm, Sussex; Lady and Miss Vavasour,and Mr. W-
and Miss De Capell Brooke, from South-street, for the Con;
tinent; Moffatt Mills, Escp, and Mrs. Mills, from Miller'is
Hotel, Jermyn,atreet ; J. Shelley, .Esq., from ditto, to Hor-
sham ; Sir Edw. Blount, Bart. from ditto, to his seat in Shrop-
shire; Lord St. Vincent, from ditto. •
BATu.—Arrived since our last, Lady Cassandra de Wil-
loughby, Lady Catherine Howard, Lady Robinson and family,
Sir C. and Lady Penrose and family, Sir George Benny, Sir A.
Chichester, Sir Hugh Palliser,—Dr. and Mrs. Dunlop,—
General Hart, M.P. General Mowbray, General Shaw, Lieut.-
Gen. Hodgson, Col.'de,Jersey, Col. Gibbons, Major Badcock,
Major Hardiner, Capt. and Mrs. Sullivan, Capt. East, Captain
Huntley, Capt. Martin, Morgan--Rev. Dr. Holland, Rev.
Arch. Kinghbury, Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Watkins, Reverend
Mr. Munden.

FASIIIONABLE PARTIES.
11
• The Duchess of Northumberland's Second Assembly last
night, was no less splendid than the first.
Lord Belgrave had a grand dinner party yesterday, at his
house in Grosvenor-square.
The Hon. Mrs. Gosling entertained a large party of fashion-
ablest, yeeterday.eveniug, at her house in Portland-place.
Ml. and Mrs. Camac entertained the Dowager Duchess of
Richmond and .a distinguished party at dinner on Thursday, at
their house in Mansfield-street.

POETRY.

THE STREET-SWEEPERS.

BY J. M
AUTHOR or TUE POEM OF TILE " SILLEB. GUY,"
In Summer's heat, in Winter's squalls,
And rain that freezes as it falls,
Among the hapless sons of csre,
Who claim our pity here and there,
Behold that man, with shoeless feet,
Who sweeps the crossings of the streets—
That man has once seen better days,
But fell by Trade's precarious.ways!
Behold his fellow-lab'rer, too,
Who lost an arm at Waterloo !
And, all! no longer stout and trim,
Yon sailor with the wooden limb,
Who, at the fight of Trafalgar,
Fought in great NE Ls'ox's ship of war !

O ! never, with indifF'rence, then,
Refuse a trifle to such men ;
Nor her, yon matron, sorely prest,
Who sweeps; and weeps, and does her best
Unfit, in any other way

To earn a morsel for the day !
Reverse of fortune, old and poor,
Has brought her to the Work-house door;
Bat rather, far, than enter there,
She sweeps the streets in mute despair !

flow happy those t. whom is given
A competence from gracious Heav'n
But happier, still, if they dispense
The gifts, aright, of Providence;
For mortals, as the text declares;
May banquet angels unawares t

if UNTINGDON ELECTION.—The Final State of
le Poll, Friday, May 14, 18!4:—.
64.
Mr. ST ITART ..
Mr. WILLS - - - 22
Majority for Mr. STUART

SARCOPHAGUS.—This celebrated relique of an-
tiquity, which is supposed to be the oldest specimen of aft
extant, was on Wednesday last conveyed from the British
Museum to the house of Mr. SOANE, the purchaser, anti safely
deposited in a place which he had prepared for its reception.—
On account of its magnitude it was necessary to make a wide
opening in the back of his house. It is the largest piece of
alabaster in the world, and in that respect has been valued at
3,0001. It was bought, among other rarities, of Messrs. SALT
and BELZONI, by the Trustees of the British Museum, for
5,0001. The other remains of antiquity were retained by the
Trustees, who of course will have to pay to Mr. SALT and the
heirs of BELzoNi 3,0001. It is indeed surprising that the
Trustees did not retain the Sarcophagus among our national
treasures, particularly as it is well known that Foreign Courts
wished to possesi it ; and therefore it rAust be highly gratify-
ing to find that it is secured to us by the liberality of our
patriotic countryman.

In the Gazette of this evening the followin4
will be published as the average prices of grain
and pulse, for the regulation of the importation
of foreign corn in the week ending on the Bth of
May, 1814 :—Wheat, 635. 3d.; Rye, 395. 7d. ;
Barley, 345. Bd. ; Oats, 2,45. 2d. ; Beans, 385.1 d.,
and Pease, 375. 4d. per quarter.

The following Letter, announcing the death of
Lord BYRON, has been addressed, by Prince
MAVROCOILDATO, to the Secretary to the Greek
Committee

" Missolonghi, Bth (20111) April, 1824.
" Sir, and my very dear Friend,—lt is with the greatest
affliction •that I fulfil the- duty of giving you the sad ners
of the death of Lord Byron, after an- illness of ten days.
Our loss is irreparable, and it is with justice that we
abandon ourselves to inconsolable sorrow. Notwithstand-
ing the difficult circumstances in which I am placed, I
shall attempt to perform my duty towards this great man ;
the eternal gratitude of my country will perhaps be the
only true tribute to his nieniory. The Deputies will com-
municate to you the details of this melancholy event, on
which the grief which I feel will not allow me to dwell
longer. You will excuse—you will justify, my being over-
whelmed with sorrow, and accept the assurance of my devotion
and the high consideration with which I have the honour to be,
Sir, your very humble and very obedient servant,
" To J. Bowing, Esq., "A. MAVROCORDATO.
Secretary to the Greek Committee."

PORTSMOUTH, MAY 14.—Wind N.E.—Arrived his Mi.:
jesty's ship Thetis, from Plymouth. The American ship
Pearl, Marble, that arrived at Covres.the 27th ult. from Bokon,
for orders, has been surveyed, found rotten, and not worth
repairing.
_ _ _

CoRK, MAY 11.—Wind E.—Arrived his Majesty's ship
Tweed, from Portsmouth, No. 18, Cato, and i'rince of Orange
transports, to take troops to Halifax.

DEAL, MAY 14 —Wind N.E. blowint7' strong.—Came down
from the River and remain the Telegraph, Orandin, for Havre ;
Ceres, —, for, LiVerpool ; and Blucher, Postle, for Port.au.
Prince. The Fairlie, for Madras, was stated to .be at anchor
in the Queen's Channel. Several vessels passed through last
evening, names unknown.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 13.—Arrived the Union, Hubbock, from
Trinidad ; Sarah Ralston, from Philadelphia, and Dart-
marnick, —, from New York.

Off Dover the Meteor, -, from Rio Janeiro.
Off Portland the Zephyr, Candlish, from Demerara.

PUBLIC BREAKFAST, AND MEETING OF Tun
RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY.

Breatkersats rwdaas myp a r
toarktei
ogf,
oat ve
theity
Bishopsgate.street ; after which, the persons interested in the
aboVe Society repaired to the spacious room fitted up for the
Co'oefloLcolni:, donapublic
Tavern.
purpose of holding a public Meeting; and notwithstanding the
early hour and the unfavourable state of the morning, there
were at least from 1,200 to 1,400 persons present, the majority
of which consisted of elegantly dresSed females ' • and among
the 'company we noticed B. Noel, Esq. and several persons of
distinction..
. . .

At a little .a?;-.ei six o'clock, J. RETNER, Esq. was voted to
he Chair.

The Rev. --:—. M./Lamle commenced the proceedings of the
Meeting by offering an extempore prayer..
Mr. W. JONES read the 25th Report of the proceedings of
he Society, which exhibited a flattering account of its opera.,
ions in. China, Malacca, &c ; by which it appeared that during
he three years preceeding May, 1823, 102,150 tracts had been
circulated in the Chinese languagt-, and 3,500-in the Malay,
which had been printed at the experce of the society. The
Report went on to detail the communications received from
divers missionaries and correspondents, by which it appeared
that the ramifications of the Society extended to the Isles of the
Eastern Archipelago, Hindostan, Ceylon, Calcutta, Madras,
Serampore, Bencoolen, and other important stations in the
East Indies : anit it was stated that during the past year the
Society had granted to Eastern nations seven hundred pounds
from their funds. In New South ''%Vales his Excellency. the
Governor, Sir Thos. Brisbane, and the Government of Van
Die-
man's Land, had countenanced the Society, and signified their
intention to give every facility to the circulation of-their publi-
cations throughout the respective colonies. The Report con-
tained also the most favourable accounts W. the prngress made
in the Western Hemisphere; and, indeed, throughput the whole
Continent of Europe. The Report of the domestic proceedings
was also of the most pleasing description.
Rev. Dr. AI onisox, of Canton, rose to propose that the Report
read be received,' adopted, and printed. 'the Rev. Divinestated
that he had been nearly twenty years in the East, during the
grester part of which time he had immured in his room, trans-
t ne the Bible, the tracts of this Society, and other works into
the Chinese language. He Was glad of the opportunity of stating
Ihe impressions onhis Mind, and the resu 1 t of mature d el if: eration
rlative to this Sciciety. His firm conviction was, that the dis..
r hation of religioxs tracts was in, many respect's preferable to
t he preaching of a Missionary.—(Hear, hear !)
t The Rev. MARK WIEKS, from Paris, seconded the motion.
IL: gave an animated account of the progress made by the exer-
tions of the Society in France.
The Rev. S. Curwen, the Minister of Barbican Chapel; A.
Ring, Esq. M.D.. of Reading ; the Rev. Leigh Richmond, and
several other gentlemen', addressed the meeting at considerable
length en- the beneficial exertions of the Society.
The meeting then dissolVed, and every one appeared gratified
at the statements which had been made. A considerable sub.
sceintion was entered into in aid cf the funds of this excellent
inatitution.

CHARGE OF PARRJCIDE.

ist-‘l,veaaits:hsni:n.eucliodsonns:t:iitie.l(,)o,;deu:;.f.o'l
Last night an Inquisition
jllooisipyitaol,7tEbeafoorneTT, iswohomcaasmSetibzyniTlios
woand from a knife, in the hands of his son, at his house, No. 5,
Dover Road, Borough, on Sunday the 2d instant. From the,
circumstances attending the melancholy fate of the deceased, as
well as the imprisonment of the son under so heinous a charge,
seldom has the decision of a Coroner's Inquest been locked to
with more anxious solicitude.
A little after six o'ClOck the Jury being sworn, the first wit
ness was John Gregory,, a son of the deceased, an interesting
looking lad about 15 years of age, who deposed, that on Sun-
day week his father and therestUf the family had breakilwed
when his brother George came lionie. The family consisted
Of four bOys and four girls. His younger brother William
wanted a little more bread and butter, which his father re:-
fused ; his brother George asked William did he want more, and
being answered in the affirmative' his father then said that he
had got enough, and accompanied it by an oath that he should
have no more. .His brother George then rose from the table
with a knife in his hand anti went in the direction Of the cep:
hoard, when his father, who was at the window, interrupted
him and struck him two or three blows by which his brother
George 'fell. When he rose he went to another part of the
room ; and in a•rninute after his father said, " The rascal has
stabbed me.'' His brother still held the knife in his hand. His
father then lifted a brodm and made a blow at his brother
George,- a clothes line in the room Stopped the blow, but
the table and all that was' on it was thrown down. His
father then fell on the floor, and in a few moments rose and
went out to the shop, and desired a surgeon should be sent for.
His mother was iii bed at the time, and on her coming down she
sent my brother George for Surgeon Davis, but he went to
St. Thomas's Hospital, where he was desired to go. His mo-
ther then Sent him for a coacli, and hiS father wasyemoved to
the Hospital.
By a Juror—Did your brother George say anything wheis
yoar father struck him ?—Not that I heard.
Did your brother say anything when your father said he was
woinded ?—„Nothing that I heard. . .
William Gregory,- about 12 years of age, fully corroborated
the testimony of his brother.
Jane Gregory, about 18 yearS of age, was daughter of the
deceased, and went into the parlour. at the time her father had
the broom in his hand, but saw nothing of the transaction.
' Henry Walker Morfin—ls assistant to Mr. Morgan, a sur-
geon belonging to the Hospital. On last Sunday week he exa.:
mined and found the. deceased had been stabbed on the left side,
a little behind the groin; the external appearance of the wound
was about one inch and a half in length; he dressed it and.. put
, him to bed, and for some days he appeared to be in a State of
recovery ; but on 'Wednesday evening an erysipelas shewed
I iaself, Width increased until Friday morning; when he expired ;
since his decease the wound had been more minutely examined;
• and it appeared to bd from eight to ten inches in depth and
four in width internally, and was a very irregular one; be-
lieved it was the cause of his death.

The CORONER, at some letigth, summed up the evidence,
when the Jury, in about twelve minutes, returned a verdict of
—" That the deceased had assaulted his son, and in a scuffle
accidentally received a Wound which caused his death."

Extract of a letter from the agent to Lloyd's, dated Mayan-
nab, April 1 :—".The Telegraph, Itaux, from Bordeaux, was
which in point of fact, is at
detained off the Cape de Verds, manned, and sent into this pert.
on the 25th ulthno, by the Spanish
fund in her warlike stores bound for the coast of Lima. '.
even in the
A Letter dated Messina,,a)-rkemrres lirilli brig 2
here,, Il'san:s —8"
il `:: Nva \I vino
have such continued bad weather, that the iil;,
is not remembered by any
and snows incessantly.
covered -with snow,
hydrogen
ne that there ordinary
mouth of December or January. The mulberry
00ccourrrrneiolucentains are
all
trees stand as naked as they do in the depth
of
last, year at this titne we were
winter—
already feeding the young silk worms ; the
most necessarily be a
sequence retardation of th;
gas in a coal-mine at
silk-harvest for five or six weeks."
vas a te‘r-
Bonchamp, near Befort, on the 12th ult.` The de-
tonation was dreadfully loud
and appalling. We
are sorry to learn that 20 of the workmen lost
their lives by the
melancholy accident, and 14
escaped more or less . wounded.
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THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Ayers, May 15

[NEW TlMcs.]
We have received the Mode, dated on Thurs-
day morning. It communicates an article from
-Madrid, dated the sth instant, stating that the
long expected amnesty has at length been pub-
lished. All amnesties contain exceptions : and
the chief difficulty is to determine who shall be
excepted. In the present instance the excep-
tions are not very numerous : and the individuals
whom they include have probably for the most
part found a shelter in England or elsewhere.—
There is one class of offenders whom all must
allow to deserve the stigma of the law ; we
mean the assassins who murdered the cap-
tive Priest Vinuesa at Madrid, and those who
committed similar murders in the prisons of
Grenada. Atrocities of this kind. were com-
paratively rare in the Spanish Revolution : and
it is but doing justice to the national feelings
to brand them with peculiar infamy. We sin-
cerely hope that the amnesty may produce all
the beneficial effects expected from it. The tran-
quillity of Spain is necessary to that of Europe
in general. We are pleased to observe that the
't_i.;toite positively contradicts the rumour that
20,000 more French troops were about to pro-
ceed to Spain. The number does not exceed
4000 ; and these are merely to fill up the va-
cancies in the different regiments already in the
Peninsula. The French Rentes maintain their
prices, and even advance since the adoption of
the law for the reduction of their interest. On
Tuesday they were for money 104. 25.; for ac-
connt 104. 80. On Wednesday for money 104.
45., and for the account 104.85. The proceedings
of the two Chambers present nothing of parti-
cular interest to the English reader.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
We confess we are astonished that Lord Archi-
bald Hamilton and Mr. Hume should defend
Mr. Kennedy's Scotch Poor Law Bill, which has
kindled such a flame in Scotland. Mr. Hume
said, the object of the Bill was to put an end to
a system of a most injurious nature. We deny
that the Scotch Poor Law System is productive
of any injury whatever, but we are sure that the,
throwing the poor of Scotland entirely on the col-,
lections at church doors, for their support, would
be productive of the greatest injury. The diffe-
rent speakers at the Presbytery of Glasgow all
expressed themselves with the utmost acharement)
if we may so speak, against the Bill. Professor
M'Gill said, " he was indignant, not only at the
Bill itself, but at the mode of procedure which
bad been pursued with respect to it." Dr.lFLean
said " the Bill invests the Ministers and Elders
,with absolute and sovereign authority, and pro-
vided they seek no money from the heritors,
allows them to despise and starve the poor, or,
indeed do any thing they please with the funds.
Can Eastern countries furnish an example of
greater despotism ? The Government of Algiers
was liberality to it." Hitherto we have not
heard a single voice raised in favour of this Bill,
and we can assure Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Hume,
from what we know of Scotland, that it wilt ,
meet with universal reprobation. It is impossible
to do without assessments for the poor in a ci-
1
vilized and prosperous country. The Bill would
give rise to universal rnendicity.

[MORNING POST.]
After the Alien 13111 had been read -a third
time last night in the House of Peers, Viscount
Gage moved a clause by way of rider, providing
that no Alien should be transported without his
own consent to any part of the dominions of his
natural Sovereign. The Earl of Liverpool op-
posed the clause as unnecessary, and declared
that if the delivering up of an Alien were de-
manded and made an alternative of war at any
time by a foreign Power, the alternative of war
would immediately be taken. The Noble Vis-
count, however, persisted in his amendment,
which was rejected on a division, by a majority
of twenty-five to thirteen, and the Bill was
passed. The Earl of Lauderdale then moved the
second reading of the 11111 for removing the
existing restrictions on the manufacture of Silks
in this country, and explained the advantages of
the measure both to the journeymen weavers and
their masters. The Earl of Westmoreland urged
the propriety of postponing any legislative enact-
ment on the subject, till the effect of the free
importation of Foreign Silks in 1826 should have
been ascertained, and moved that the Bill be
read a second time that day six months. The
second reading, however, was carried by a ma-
jority of 23 to 8, and the Bill, which is the same
as that of last year, was ordered to be commit.
ted on Tuesday next: The proceedings in the
Commons possessed neither interest nor import-
ance.

[BRITISH PRESS.)
The Licensed Victuallers of the Metropolis
have circulated, very extensively, a printed ap-
peal against the provisions of the new Beer 13111,
which they consider will affect their interests
most seriously. They state that there are now
eight thousand licensed victuallers in the metro-
olis and that the capital connected with their
establishments exceeds ten millions sterling ; they
add that there are more than 49 thousand
censed victuallers i . n England and Wales, and
that a capital
of at least 25 millions sterling
is involved in their establishments. They state,
that in the City the licensed. victuallers occupy
houses of considerable value, and have expended
large sums of money in their erection and pur-
chase; that those houses, adapted to public ac-
commodation, and to the meetings of benefit and
charitable societies, cannot be appropriated to
other purpose's without great loss ; that the fix-
tures and furniture have cost large sums; and
that their stocks of wines and liquors cannot
be disposed of, except to guests and domes-
tic consumers, without great loss. They
further
state, that they contribute largely, and directly,
to the public revenue, by the sunis they an-
nually pay for the licence on the sale of spirits,
on that of -wine and Meer, and the licence
for the sale of tobacco; and, that they' can-
/lot endure so heavy a pressure if their trade be

diminished and their burdens remain. Now, we
should be sorry that any legislative measure
pressed so heavily on their body as the licensed
victuallers anticipate ; they are a very numerous
class, and many of them highly respectable ; they
are heavily assessed, and restricted by successive
Acts of the Legislature, and no sudden measures
should be introduced, breaking in on their trade,
which has been hitherto encouraged and protect-
ed ; but we have read over the new Beer Bill,
and can see nothing in it to warrant the serious
and general alarm which the licensed victuallers
now entertain.

[THE TIMES.]
Among the matters of domestic and daily in-
terest which affect the comfort of private families,
and therefore deserve a share of public attention,
the present operation of the Beer and Malt Duties
is entitled to no inconsiderable place. There is
no inducement which ought to be so powerful in
leading to a reform of any branch of revenue, as
the hope of relieving the poorer classes from
a disproportioned pressure of taxation. Of this
it has long been manifest that the poor of Lng_
land might justly complain, from the manner
in which the beer duties were distributed.—
The malt and hop duty may be taken at
twenty shillings per quarter of malt, and ls.4d.
for eight pound of hops, the quantityequired
for the manufacture of a quarter of malt into beer.
These duties fall equally on the person who
brews for home consumption, and on the brewer
for sale. But the business does not end there.
The beer brewed for sale (which, under the
name of strong beer, includes all the gradations
from porter to the strongest ale) pays, in addi-
tion to the malt and hop-duties, a farther tax of
9s. 2d. per barrel, which upon porter and beer
of equal strength, being that in the most general
use, is equivalent to a tax of from 30s. to 355.
per quarter. So that the gentleman who brews
for himself pays on the material a duty of
4215. 4d. per quarter, while the poor man,
who has neither conveniencies nor capital for
brewing, pays at the rate of fifty-one shillings to
fifty-six shillings per quarter. This is a cruel
disproportion, and has operated to the gra-
dual reduction in amount (as well as deterio-
ration in quality) of the beer manufactured
for public consumption, regard being had to the
increase of our population : while the more serious
injury is, that it has restricted the comforts of the
poor. It seems then to be a very fair demand
upon the Minister, that he should, if unable, from
considerations of revenue, to repeal the whole of
the beer duties, at least so reduce them as will,
through the superior skill and extensive business
of the brewer, enable him to supply beer to the
consumer at a price equal or nearly equal to
that at which a private individual can manufac-
ture his own beer. To this end it is conceived
by some respectable members of the beer trade,
that a tax of ss. per barrel on strong beer (in.
stead of 9s. 2d.) might with advantage be retain-
ed—leaving the duty of 2s, as at present, upon
small beer, with an extension of price from 16s.
to 205., for the sake of furnishing a superior
article.

[MORNING HERALD.]
At a time when so much money is expended
upon public buildings, we are surprised that
some part of it is not bestowed upon those to
which the people in general have the most fre-
quent occasion to resort. We do not complain
of the sums laid out upon churches, palaces,
libraries, and picture-galleries; or in the im-
provement or decorations of the metropolis, by
he opening of new streets; yet we think that it

would be right not altogether to overlook places
of absolute utility and necessity. We "should
think but little of the taste or judgment of
the man who adorned his grounds with bridges,
temples, and grottos, while his parlour and
kitchen were scarcely habitable or useful.—
We Would select, as an illustration of this re-
mark, the different police offices of the metro•
polls, which (with the exception of the new one
at Mary-le-bonne) are altogether useless, and
inadequate to their purpose, and an actual dis-
grace to the country. Wbat must a foreigner
think, who, after he has been shewn the various
public buildings of London and Westminster,
should have occasion to apply for redress at
the Public-office in Bow-street, to find him-
self conducted through a labyrinth of dark
dirty passages, leading to places of business,
inferior to those of a pawnbroker's shop ?
The offices in Marlborough-street and Hatton
Garden are, if possible, still worse, and the
rest not much better. When the police of the
metropolis was first established, as an experi-
ment, it might be very right to incur as little
expence as possible, and to put the succes-
sors of the trading Justices into such private.
houses as would be got the cheapest in the situ-
ations required ; but now that this police has
become part of our permanent system, and
that branch of the public service to which the
generality of people of all ranks have the most
frequent access, surely it is due to those who
administer the law there, and to those who
pay for its administration, and are to be af-
fected by it, that the scene of its operations
should be such as decent people can resort
to with convenience and safety, and not as these
places now are, unfit for every purpose of utility
and respect. We wonder there is not a little
esprit de corps upon the subject, and that the Se-
cretary of State for the Home Department does
not require as liberal funds for the accom-
modation of his department, as the President
of the Board of Controul and others obtain for

eir's.

If the thing were done gradually,
e expence would hardly be felt or perceived.
The principal office in Bow-street should be
first remodelled, and new built. The lease of
the office in Marlborough-street is, we believe,
soon expiring,
and that office, to which all the
better classes of society, from its locality, are
constantly resorting, should be made fit for their
reception. A small annual expenditure of three
or four thousand pounds, for a few years, would
remedy the, inconvenience. At all events, while
the means of the system are thus crippled and
neglected, we cannot expect it to produce that
convenience and satisfaction which it might other-
wise effect.

LORD LONDONDERRY AND MR. BATTIER,

TO THE EDITOR.

32, Grosvenor.place, May 14, 1824.
SIR—It was not my intention to publish in the
Newspapers any account of the event which occurred between
the Marquis of Londonderry and Mr. Battier; but having seen
in your Paper of this morning a statement purporting to be
drawn out by Lieut.-Colonel Western, but published by Mr.
Battier, by no means so full as it ought to be to give the public
a true idea of the transaction, and not the copy of the statement
shewn to me by Lieut.-Col. 'Western, on the 10th instant, and
which I signed, I think it proper to send you for publication a
statement of these transactions, which I drew out on the 6th
inst., which I communicated to Lieut.-Colonel Western on the
following day, and of which I sent him a copy, after making
additions according to his observations. Lieut.-Col. Western
has admitted the correctness of this statement, upon two dif-
ferent occasions, as appears by the memorandum written by
myself in his presence on the 7th inst., and by that written by
Lieut.-Colonel Western on the 10th May.— I am, Sir, your
obedient servant, H. HARDINGE.
sth May, 12 o'Clock.
Lieutenant-Colonel *Western delivered a note to Sir H. liar-
dinpv, from the Lord Londonderry, referring Colonel W. as
the bearer of a challenge to Lord L. from Mr. Battier, to Sir
Henry.—The message was stated by Colonel W. to be founded'
on the circumstance of Lord L. having desired Mr. B. not to
dine at the regimental mess, on the 24th November last—Sir
Henry, without entering into the merits of the circumstance
above-mentioned, expressed his opinion that Mr. B. was not en-
titled to require private explanation, or personal satisfaction
from Lord L. after he had chosen to adopt the unusual course
of satisfying his feelings by appealing to the public ; and if
that mode of redress were now felt by Mr. B. to be insuffi-
cient, it was no affair of Lord L.'s, and that, after a lapse of
five months, any claim which he might have had, in the first
instance, appeared to be lost by the delay, as well as by the
appeal to public opinion.
Lieutenant-Colonel W. admitted that, in his opinion, there
was no absolute necessity, on the part of Mr. B. to send Lord
L. a challenge after what had passed, but that Mr. B.'s sense
of the injury he had received, by being desired to quit the mess-
room in the presence of ladies, induced him to seek the present
mode of satisfying his feelings, which had been severely
wounded by the silent contempt with 'which Lord L. had
treated him, by not noticing his letters.
This may be considered as the substance of the conversation
which passed, Sir Henry proposing to confer with Colonel W.
at three o'clock, when the following letter was presented by
Sir Henry : No. 1.
" " 32, Grosvenor-place, May 5, 1824,
SIR—I think it necessary to repeat most distinctly to you
that I cannot admit Sir. Battier's right to call upon Lord Lon-
donderry for private satisfaction after Mr. Battier's appeals to
the public for the last four months.—As you have also stated
to me your opinion most unequivocally that there is no neces-
sity on the part of Mr. Battier to have recourse to the pro-
ceeding he meditates, I cannot reconcile it to my sense of
honour and propriety to sanction any such measure, where
both the Seconds are of opinion that the Principals need not
meet.—Disapproving, therefore, in common with you, of the
proposed Meeting, I shall avoid seeing Lord L. till I have con-
ferred with you at three o'clock.-1 am, &c.
(Signed) " H. HARDINGE.
" Lieut.-Col. 'Western." 3 o'Clock, p.m.
At this interview, Colonel W. stated, that an explanation
from Lord L. or from Sir Henry, informing him that there had
been no intention on the part of Lord L. to question Sir. B.'s
character as a gentleman would satisfy him.
Sir Henry, not admitting, on the part of Lord L. Mr. B.'s
claim to a private explanation after the preference shewn by
that Gentleman for a public vindication of his character, de-
clared any such explanation to be inadmissible. And although
lie had avoided seeing Lord L. be stated his Lordship's readi-
ness to meet Mr. Battier, as expressed in the note brought from
Lord L. by Col. *W., the objection to the meeting being on the
part of Sir Henry, and for the reasons already given.
At this interview every means of arrangement having been dis
cussed, Col. W. delivered die following note :

cc \o. 2. cc May 5.
Stet—Having seen your note, and admitting that there is
no absolute necessity for Mr. Battier to call on the Marquis of
Londonderry; sentiments in which I the more readily partici-
pate from former years of service with you, cad as Mr. Battier
has placed his honour in my hands, I shall have no hesitation,
after the conversation that has taken place between us, to as_
sire my friend that our mutual impression as the friends of
parties, is, that after the publicity which has already taken
place, no further steps are necessary.
" Allow me to express my satisfaction that this unpleasant
business should have fallen mto the hands of an Officer with
whom I have formerly served, and for whom I always enter_
seined the highest opinion. " I am, &c.
(Signed) " C. M. T. WESTERN.
" Sir 11. Hardinge, &c. &c. &c."

Five o'Clock.
Sir Henry Hardinge's note, in answer to this, is the following,
viz.:— :No. 3.
" 32. Grosvenor-place, May 5.
" have received your reply,' and request you will in.
'orm me of your ultimate intentions before the evening closes.
" I am, ecc.
(Signed) "H. HARDINGE."
Half-past six, P.m.
Colonel IV. having conferred with Mr. B. returned to Sir
Henry at half after six o'clock, requesting an explanation or a
Meeting. The latter was immediately acceded to. The parties,
it was considered, could not meet before half after eight or nine
o'clock, which was deemed very objectionable by both the
Seconds. A misapprehension, however, arose on this point ;
Colonel 'W. conceiving the appointment for the meeting to have
been at nine o'clock £lie same evening, and Sir Henry at nine
o'clock the next morning. Sir H. H. having communicated to
Lord L. the arrangement lie had made, wrote the following
letter :

"Lieut.-Col. Western.

No. 4.

" 32, Grosvenor-place May 5, 10 o'clock, p.m.
" Sin—l have seen Lord L. and informed him of the mes-
sage Mr. B..has sent through you, in reply to my second note,
requiring an explanation of Lord L.'s meaning in desiring Mr.
B. to quit the Mess-room of the 10th Hussars, the 24th of Nov.
" I request you to assure Mr. 8., that it is a matter of per-
fect indifference to Lord L. what Mr. B. feels or publishes,. he
can. have no communication with him. The opinion I have
expressed that Mr. B. has no right to expect the satisfaction he
solicits, after five months suspension of his feelings, I now
repeat. Your expressed opinion that there is no necessity for
the meeting which Mr, B. requires, .I need not enlarge upon.
Lord Londonderry has chosen to waive all the just objections
which I think exist to the meeting you have requested ; and 1
have now only to inform you, that his Lordship will be at nine
o'clock at Hyde Park-corner to-morrow morning, where I shall
expect to see you and Mr. Battier.
" I have the honour to be, &c. &c.
" Licut.-Col. Western. (Signed) "H. HARDINGE."
This letter was set to Colonel W. at eleven o'clock, fo the
address he had appointed, but it did not find him there, and
was on the following morning sent under cover to Mr. Battier,
who received it about eight o'clock.
6th May, 9 o'clock, P.m.
Lord Londonderry and Sir Henry remained at the place ap-
pointed until twenty minutes after nine o'clock, when Sir
Henry wrote a pencil note to this effect :
No. 5.

" Hyde Park-corner, top of Grosvenor-place,
6th May, 20 minutes after 9.
" Sir Henry Hardinge presumes there is some mistake.
Lieut-Col. W. will find him here till ten o'clock. It will be
inconvenient to Lord L. to wait any longer.
" Lieut.-Col. Western."
The following answer was uctived from Lt.-Col. Western :
__

6.—Dated 7th (should be 6th) May.
" Lieut.-Colonel Western begs,leave to state, that Mr. Bat-
tier and himself were waiting at the top of Grosvenor-place,
from two minutes before Rine till forty-five minutes past.
" That seein no sigr.s of Sir Henry and his friend, they
' then got into the post-chaise again and returned to town.—
' Lieut.-Col. W. will wait on Sir Henry by twelve o'clock.
" Sir Henry Hardinge."
In consequence of this, Sir Henry rode to Colonel W.'s
hotel in the City, who had, on the receipt of Sir Henry's note
Of twenty minutes after nine hastened to Mr. Battier, and
shortly after twelve o'clock ',Colonel W. appeared at Hyde
Park-corner. The misunderstanding as to the time of meeting
was explained, and Col. W: immediately returned for Mr. 8.,
and the parties were finally assembled at half after one o'clock.
Having proceeded about four miles out of town, the pistols
ice of one of them was
werebrou
gloaded byby t
Sirh s oe seconds arnhtie acshtolie loaded pair had been
given to Colonel Western.
The ground was measured by both the seconds—ten paces ;
the principals took their posts, levelling their pistols at the
same time on the word being given to fire. Lord L.'s shot
appeared to pass to the right of .Mr. B.—Mr. B.'s pistol missed
fire.

Lord Londonderry requested that 111 r. Battier might have
another shot. • This was declined by Colonel Western on the
part of Mr. Battier.
.Colonel Western proposed that the principals shduld meet
and shake hands. Sir Henry declared it to be impossible.
Colonel 'Western having conferred with Mr. Battier informed
Sir. Henry that Mr. Battier was satisfied.
Sir Henry then begged the principals to advance, and in-
formed Colonel Western in their presence, that as Mr. Battier
had received the satisfaction he wished to have, and had ex-

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pressed himself satisfied, he (Sir H.) had to make two ob-
servations upon the last published letter of Mr. B.:—
In that letter there is an assertion personally reflecting upon
Lord Londonderry, that he had sheltered himself under his
rank from the consequences of an arbitrary act towards Mr.
Battier. That assertion the present meeting sufficiently dis-
proved. Colonel W. and Mr. B. assented.
The next observation which Sir Henry was obliged to make
to Colonel Western was, that, in the same letter, Mr. Battier
asserted that, although Lord Londonderry denied having seen
or perused a certain letter or letters conveying a censure upon
the Officers of the Tenth Hussars fbr their conduct towards
Mr. Battier, he (Mr. Battier) knew that Lord Londonderry
had seen the papers. On the part of Lord Londonderry, Sir
Henry declared, that the assertion contained in Mr. Battier's
letter was false.
Mr. Battier asked if it was meant to make him out a Liar ?
Sir Henry observed to Colonel Western that Mr. Battier must
' have been misinformed, but that he could not qualify the ex-
pression, and that Lord Londonderry was ready to maintain
his assertion by resuming his ground.
Mr. Battier inquired if it was intended to add fresh insult ?
If such were the case we had better go on.
Sir Henry could only repeat his former expression, that
the assertion was false, and that it was for Mr. Battier• to
take his course. Mr. Battier said he referred it to Colonel
Western. Sir Henry said they had better withdraw, and not
be long, for fear of being disturbed.
They withdrew (Colonel Western and Mr. Battier) a few
paces fbr two or three minutes, and Colonel Western declared
Mr. Battier satisfied, and that he did not intend to carry pro-
ceedings any further. The parties proceeded to their carriages
and returned to town.

Quarter after one o'clock, May 7.
Colonel Western has read this document, and admits that he
cannot state that there is any part which is not accurate.—
Written in his presence and read to him.
(Signed) 11. lIARDINGE.
" May 10, 1824.
" I admit the general substance and tenor of this statement
tube correct. (Signed) "C. .M. T. WESTERN."
(A true Copy.)H. HARDINGE.
May 14, 1824.