The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-22 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Their Royal Highness Pmee Albert and Prince Wal-
demar Prussia wee Copvi,s: ou Tui-sday.
The r y al jorty at o,borr.i., thf- Qocvn,
Prince Aloe t. P;iliet, V:alfieinur of Pru,da. tF, to,

Later,
Counts Oriola ~Ind Ur(Aen,
ar a.-,cs
sian Minister, Prine,l L >wcns.tti:,
t‘i:c LB,(l.lr4l:end.c.;
tn,,n ,if the rcv al soire. :eel: drat in two
on T,,c,day a;teri,,cn.
Li,utetia,,t the C. B. rt-tl.r'Led to
Osborne on Monde
The royal canner party at Osborne, on Tuesday even-
ing, consisted of his Royal Highness Prince Waldemar
of Prusda, his Excellency the Chr,valiPr Bunsen, his
eSie,rreent,ec,l!,ce do!phtis Ft ti-
Ofh,la, and Count (;roeben.
under the direction of Mr. Charlesde Lsne:, fir
fiud p-N:pfuiitar,c:otuhnet
The band of the Roy::[ Marines attended during dinner
following pieces:
Grand March and Chorus= "
Selection "Alatilda of tlaugary"—Waliace.
German March—liuhner.
Cavatitta, " Nino"—Verdi.
Hyacinth Waltz—licenig.
Camels Polka—Julhen.
Spaid,h Waltz and Galup.

Yesterday morning, at te., o'clock, his Royal Highness
Prince Waldemar of Prussia, took leave of the Queen
end Prince Albert, and ernbPrked in the Fliry for Gos-
port. His Royal Highness was acc.iinpsnied by his Ex-
ci-llency the Chevalier Bunsen, and his Serene Highness
Prince Lyivetistein, and was at tei.deci by Baron de Laner,
Count Oriole, and Count Groetwr.
Her Majesty and her Royal Coneort walked yesterday
in the gardens of Osborne.

Theßoyal Children rode out on ponies yesterday.
The Court will, it is i xpeeted, lcave Osborne this
(Thursday) morning-for town.

Their koyal Highacssfs tho Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge arrived at Bushy flou,e, Bushy Park, yes-
terday morning, from Kew, to pay a visit to her Majesty
the Queea -Dowag,r. Their flightwases left
Bushy Hons... in the afternoon for t)wti.

A deputation on the Valencia Harbour, had an inter-
view with Lord John Russcil yesterday. The deputation
consisted of the Earl of Powis, Lord Ingestre, M.P.,
Mr. John Attwood, M.P., Mr. Richard Spooner, M.P.,
Mr. M. J. O'Connell, M.P., Mr. Cecil Lawless, Mr. J.
Attwood, Mr. Miller, Captain Driver. RN., Mr. IL
A Herbert (D. L. Co. Kerry), Mr. Nerkmein, Mr. J.
Symons, Mr. W. B. West, and Mr. A Lighton.
The Bishop of Newcastle Ivld an interview with Earl
Grey yesterday at the Culonial-office.

DANISH CLAIMS.

TO THE HON. THE COMMONS OF THE UNITED KING-
DOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN PARLIA-
NEST ASSEMBLED.
The petition of the undersigned, being sufferers from
the long-protracted delay in the payment of the com-
pensation often adjudged by your -Honourable House
to be due to them fOr the seizure of their ships and
cargoes in reprisal by the Danes in the year 1807,
Humbly showed),
That the claims of your petitioners arise out of the
seizure and confiscation of British property by the Danish
Government in 1807. The claims thus arising were
originally divided into three classes, the first being for
loss of debts owing by Danish to British subjects, se-
questered and confiscated; the second, for the loss of
goods seized on shore; and the third for that of ships
and cargoes taken within the Baltic.
That full compensation has been allowed and paid by
die Government to the two first of these classes, but has
hitherto been withheld from the third.
That your Honourable House in several successive
sessions of Parlitment adjudged by large majorities that
the atimants of the third class were equally entitled to
compensation with the other two classes.
That it was consequently referred by the Treasury
to certain Commissioners to adjudicate and report upon
the individual cases ; and, after a strict investigation of
documentary and other evidence, procured from Den-
mark, Norway, and various parts of England and Scot-
land; at great expense and trouble, your petitioners'
claims, 116 in number, to an amount in the whole of
225,0001., were in 1840 reported as established.
That, no steps being taken by the Government of that
day towards Vie payment of the sums thus awarded, it
was moved on behalf of the claimants on the 9th June,
1841, that the House should resolve itsell: into a Com-
naktee of the whole House to consider of an addres to
her Majesty ; which motion, though opposed by the
Government, was eventually earri(d without a division.
That on the following day (the 10h June), after a
debate and upon a division, the whele House in Com-
mittee agreed to an address, praying " that her Majesty
would be graciou,ly pleased to advance to the claimants
the amount as ascertained by the Commissioners to be
due, end assuring her Majesty that the House would
make good the same."
That this address was duly presented, and on the 21st
June her Majesty was pleased to return the following
answer:—
" It must at all times be my most cattiest desire to
attend to the wishes of the House of Commons, and I
shall be ready to give effect to them in this instance
whenever the means shall have been provided by Par-
liament."
That, notwithstanding this gracious intimation of her
Majesty's pleasure, nothing was then nor has yet been
done to give effect to the assent of her Majesty thus ex-
plicitly declared, nor to the repeated affitmation of the
justice of your petitioners' claims by your Honourable
House.
That the extreme hardship of this is felt the more by
your petitioners, inasmuch as compensation has already
been made to the other classes of sufferers from the same
cause whose claims were liable to precisely the same ob-
jections, legal and technical, as these of your petitioners,
and were like them in the first instance, and on pre-
cisely the same grounds, sought to be evaded and avoided
by the Government.

That each of the classes in question was entitled to
compensation only on the same grounds of national
honour, good faith, and commercial protection, as are
your petitioners, and their claims were only admitted
and paid after long resistance, and in obedience to pre-
cisely the same adjudicAion, and under the same sanc-
tion, which have been repeatedly and solemnly pro-
nounced upon the justice of the claims of your peti-
tioners.

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have
thsi reusf
f:l—e'
That in a petition presented by certain of your peti-
tioners,:
eez td That,gurrye•
a in the
loss,
sliisle:
3t,}carthey are
1 aBproeeBt
i,
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petitioners
eyrfollowing
to
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learnd i vi.
together with others, to the Lords Commis-
sioners (
dpthuaistlalyNg.eehra)7extensive funds have from the same cause be-
come a! the disposal of his Maj,-sty's Government, and
that it is thus in their power hilly to compensate. the
losses of your petitioners withuut imposing any burden
on the State; for they fed humbly confident that it is
not the wish of his Majesty's Government toa obtainti _ien
this manner a pecuniary gain to the
vidual expense of any of its subjects." The Crown t
fundst e i t
heretdi-
alluded to amounted to 1.200,0001, which were ac-
totally paid over to the public service, instead of re-
maining droits of the because, as was stated by
Mr. Perceval in a speech delivered before your Hon.
House on the 30th May, 1810, " there were certain mer-
chants," meaning your petitioners, "who claimed
compensation out of it for the losses they had sustained
arising from the manner in which the war broke out."
That what was guardedly expressed as a hardship
many years ago has necessarily become it.finitely more
so at the present time, inasmuch as not only have funds
Government has
been from the first in the hands of the Government far
the futuhdes aGnodv
more than sufficient to meet the present and all
other claims for compensation ; but
far mese than doubled to its
compensation,pinagymepnoreossfionof
of these funds according to own advantage
the ordinary by retain-
ingthe amount
rate of interest,
while at the same time it has deprived, and is still de-
priving, your petitioners of their p
enjoy-
ment of which they were then and are
to the
aare still entitled is
fairness and equity, and protection'
in the enjoyment of
which constitutes the chief claim.
allegiance of its subjects. of Government to the
That to several of those '
claimants whom sour peti-
tioners represent, ard to some of your petitioners per-
s)naily,
the property
of
only which they have thus been
deprived formed
the or principal means of sub-
sistence which they possessed, and on which they and
their families depended for support.
have That not only therefore nll your petitioners un-
dergone privations, loss, and continual anxiety and suf-
fering from the course pursued by Government, in with-
holding fulfilment of the repeated solemn adjudications
of the tribunal to which Government had itself ap-
pealed; but many of those original claimants and some
of your petitioners have been thereby reduced front
affluence and comfort to poverty and ruin.
That your Honourable House is nevertheless the only
tribunal to which your petitioners can appeal for a re-
quital of their just claims, which become more urgent
every year they are postponed.
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that your
Honourable House will take the doove facts into your
earnest consideration, and be pleased to adopt such mea-
sures as will, without further delay, procure at the same
time the vindication of the authority of your Honourable
House and the settlement and liquidation of your peti-
tioners' claims by the payment of that compensation
which your Honourable House has on repeated occasions
by solemn vote declared to be justly due
And your petitioners will it-.
ever pray, ......c.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—GENUINE EAT DE COLOiNE,
imported direct, and kept two years in_the docks before
sold. Ross and Sons beg to say, that in consequence of
the spurious trash offered, they aro induced to make
known the system adopted by them for the last tkirty
years of selling only the genuine, and that two years
old. In consequence of their enormous consumption,
they are enabled to sell the best at little more than is
charged for the spurious, the latter being as inferior sil
British brandy is to foreign. Prices—a sinife bottle,
3s. ; a case of six. 163. ; six cases at once, 358. per
nd
for cash only.. Address Boss and Sons, 119
120.
Bishopsgate-street, London.—Nn Theyve.sße.nyears in bond.
yeabare still
bot
a few
dozen left of some that has been