The Sun.
London, England, 1823-03-01 00:00:00

THE VERDICT.

The Jury retired,, and deliberated upwards of an hour.
Upon their return, which was at a quarter psi seven, their
names were called over, and Lord JOHN FITZROV% the Fore-

sddressing his brethren, said—

" Gentle Men, as many of you as aro of opinion that Joii24
CIIARI.ES EARL, of PORTSMOUTH is of unsound mind and
condition, and incapable of managing himself and Is affairs,
signify the same by holding
,up your hands."
The 'tutors then all held up their hands.
The FOREMAN then said to them—
"lientlemen, as many of you as are of opinion that JOHN
CuattLES liarl of Po weastouTll has been of unsound mind
and condition since the Ist of Janutiry, 1809, signify the same
A. by holding up your hands."
The Juror* then all held up their hands.
Mr. Commissioner Tnowtat then mentioned to the Jury,
that as they had heard no evidence as to the question who was
next heir to the title and estates, it became necessary to add to
their verdict words to that effect.
The Jury agreed, and the verdict was drawn up in a legal
form, signed by each of the Jurors, and handed to the Com-
missioners, to be delivered to the Lord Chancellor. ,
Lord JOHN Preznoy said he had to repeat the observe:
tions made at the commencement of this inquiry by such Gentle-
men of the Jury as were Members of Parliament, upon the
subject of their being called upon to fill the situation of Jurors
during the sitting of the Legislative Body. They hid thought
proper to, do so, in order to prevent. such a measure from being
made a precedent upon any future occasion.
The Commissioners Said that dice notice should be taken of
the communication.
Mr. TnowEtt, the Chief Commissioner.—lndeed, Gentle-
men, if we had not called upon you, I do not know what we
should have done. If. you had insisted upon your privilege,
don't know Where we should have been these three weeks.
The Commission was then dissolved.

A meeting of several Members of Parlia-
ment, and other mostassembled respectable individuals,
assthe yesterday, at the Crown and Anchor?
or purpose of taking such measures as are
L most likely to promote the cause of the Greeks.
k, It appears front the Paris Papers, that on the
t l_
i _l6th there was a disturbance at Lyons, occasioned
1 bye the opposition offered by the authorities and
1 the
military to the progress of a procession of
masks, which,
under the privilege of Carnival,
I:!Presented the Funeral of Trade. The next
''-', "ftY) ht the aftlrnoon, an individual uttered aloud
**Wel times on the Place Bellecour, the forbidden
1.7 of rive l'Emperear. Attempts were made by
lttithirthes and' officers to arrest himt but lie was
, i.,,d4en.li #urroul) d ed by a number of personsd,
• ,40 struck them- and rescued him. he crow
"MtelaWd n, • • ic • - lthone,
Itito .E.- atm(' menacing cries of into the Itht
' : fol.c."'Le ithoitel" were heard. A strong military
f restst"etiling,at. last been assembled, order was
• 0140 the offending-individual arrested.

THE SUN.

ToLkM QUIS DICEREFASUM AUDEAT ?

LONDON,
SATURDAY, 111.1RCEI 1, 189,3.

Notwithstanding the palpable inconsistencies,
and the numerous and 'glaring instances of dupli-
city, which we have detected in the declarations
and professions of the French Government re-
specting the real nature and objects of their de-
signs against Spain, and notwithstanding the im-
plied breach of diplomatic confidence committed
by M. de CIIATEAUBRIANIY, i►► endeavouring to
strengthen his attempt at &justification, by making
a partial disclosure of the sentiments or the Duke
of WELLINGTON and of Mr. CANNING, we con-
fess that we were not prepared to expect that
he had ventured so to garble the language of 'an
English Ministerial communication, as to pick
out a passage, which, when taken , separately,
seemed to sanction the measures of precau-
tion adopted by France on het• Spanish fron-
tier, but which, when viewed in connection
with its context, was entitled to an entirely
different interpretation, and :was intended not
to encourage, but to check France, U the pro-
secution of her prOjects. From the clear• and
unreserved, explanation, however,' which was
last night given on this important subject in
the House of Commons, by Mr. CANNING, it
appears that a French Minister has added, to the
other proofs of the bad faith which seems to have
distinguished the conduct of his Cabinet with
regard to Spain, the unjustifiable outrage upon
England of perverting and misrepresenting, the
sentiments of her Minister ! The disavowal by Mr.
CANNING was conveyed in the following terms:—
" the context would present an entirely different
.sense. The text quoted was only a part of a
long 'argument ; and every one knew that it was
the practice to make admissions in argument for
the purpose .of introducing a contrast. That war
the case in thirinstance. The admission had been
quoted ; but the contrast was
s.muted !" The
Right Hon. Gentleman subsequently stated, that
"After whatbad.pussediit would be disingenuOus

on the part of tire Government not to say
that the hopes they had hitherto entertained
of composing the :differences between France
and Spain had considerably diminished. Still
they !were not entirely destroyed; and as long
as any could be_ entertained, he felt that it
would be inexpedient to produce the docu-
ments which bad given rise to• the discussion,
When the time for discussion should arrive,
he should be -most • willing to give Ate
House and the country every information
and satisfaction on the subject." That time
cannot be far distant. Neither France nor Spain
has manifested the slightest disposition to recede
from the attitude which they have respectively
assumed. The war, therefore, may be expected to
commence almost immediately, and not only,
to call from the English Government those ex-
planations respe,cting the policy which it has
already pursued, and redounds so highly to its
honour, but to require from Great Britain that
she should, stretch forth her arm for the pre-
tection of the Spanish people against an ad. of
aggression which' the leading Members of the
British Cabinet have designated as unprovoked,
and unjustifiable, and in the presmation of
whose independence are involved the honour, the
interest, and the security of the British Empire !
The great body of the English nation, includ-
ing all elasses,`. -will zealously, we may say en•
thusiastically, support Ministers In every mea-
-1 sure which they may adopt for the maintenance
of the honour and dignity of the country, and
for asserting the rights and liberties of indepen-
dent States. It is impossible not to see that a
fractional Party, whom we may denominate the
English Ultras, have been assiduously labouring to
misrepresent the just and enlightened views,: and
to thwart the manly and liberal policy, of Lord
LrvinveooL and Mr. CANNING. When the mo-1
ment for action arrives, however, the anti-British
sappOrters of French injustice will be overborne
by the irresistible force of public opinion,
and will bee lost amidst the tide of events
.. .
which they -are utterly unable to oppose.—
I t is only during the period of suspense that. they
have hod the power to ‘vork evil, by centri-
buting to impress the French Government with
doubts as to the real dispositions of the Go•
.
cerement and People of England. '

By the Parii Papers of Thursday, it appears.
that the resumed debate, in the. Chamber of Deputies, on the
subject of .the war with Spain, was exceedinglritonny. The
discussion was opened by General PASTOXNEAUX, who spoke
in support of the project. He maintained that a war, which
had for its object to confirm on his throne a Prince of the
'faMily of the liings.of FAANCE, if necessary for stifling the
cOntigion of revolution, was equally just and national.:—M.
111.artutr., to -*horn' M. ETIENNE had given up his turn,
next addressed the Chamber, and contended that; in matters of
governnient, there is an indisputable principle, which requires
that public opinion should govern in all legislative measures ;
consequently, in declarations of war, as well as in treaties of
peace. Public opinion is opposed to every sort of pretext of
war against Spain, and one of the, Ministers has frankly and
completely neknowledged, that such is public opinion, by de-
claring that his resignation, if lie 'bad 'been disposed to object
to the war, would have been accompOtiled with great Popu,.
larity. It may then be asked, he said, how the Minister can
.call upqn the Chamber to support a war which public opinion
disapproves, since it. was precisely its duty to make manifest
the state of public opinion.? .At least,. the Minister should
have felt that it was more than ever important at present,
to bring forward, in support of his proposition, more striking
or more specious reasons which might be capable of struggling
with some advantage against public opinion, pad inducing the
Chamber to adopt the sentiments of the Ministry against those.
of the-nation.. This task, he observed, has been intrusted by
the Ministers to one of their number, by whom every thing
that can be said in favour of the war, has been brought for.
ward with as much. success as could be expected.—M. MA-
XIIEL then proceeded to examine the grotinds on which it is
alleged that war ought. to be resorted tot and after speaking-
for Willa, time on this part of the subject, he made us of
some expressions that excited a violent tumult, which could
not be 'appeased by -all the efforts of the President, who;
was length compelled to dismiss the Members to their sepa.
rate bureaux. They assembled again in the course of an hour,
when a motion was made for the -expulsien of M. faitxtrEt,
from the Haute ; but the motion behigirregular, its discussion
was put ofj icr the folloVing day, when the prOposition for M.
A/Axel:Os exclusion will be Ituinally :brought forward.—
The- Chamber adjourned without entering further into public
business.

, raptCll FUNtia.--Fix. 26.
Five per Cents.
Closed at Bl f.. 6 c.
Neapolitan Five pet Cents.
Exchange on.Lontion—One Month 25 f. 60 c•
Throe Months 25 f. 40 c.

From the Ilamburgh Papers, received this
Morning, we extract the following :
STocguoLu,-Fau. 7.—The King has acquaint-
ed the Diet that official news has been received
of the exchange of the ratification of the marriage
contract of the Crown Prince with the Princess of
Leucktenherg.

PETERSDUIiGif, Fuu. 4.—The Spanish Charge,
d'Affaires at this Court has received his passports.
On the night of the 25th January, the Palace of
Prince Gohttia, Governor-General of Moscow,eras destroyed by lire.. So severe, was the cold;
that the fire-engines could% not be used, the
water freezing instantly. A numerous assem-
blage of the highest rank was at a ball at the

time, given in honour of the birth-day of the
Empress Elizabeth. Happily none of the com-
pany,rerished.
BEituN, Fge.-18.—Yesterday,morning, at six
, .
o'clock, after two days illne.ss, 'General Field-
Marshal Count KatsT VoN liom,EN'nonvv, in
his fiQth year. His complaint was & malignant
fever, and inflammation of the liver."

[FROM A CORRESPONOENT4

STOCK ExcRANGE, Half-past Pweive °Thick.—
Owing to the answer of Mr. CONNING to Mr.
BROUGHAM'S question, last night in the House sof
Commons, a great confusion and buitle took
place this morning at the Stock Exchange.—
Consols opened at '72+ #i 3, at which price they
remain steady ; and it is now thought in the City
that a war is certain with Spain and France.—
The only fearls, that Spain will give way.—
The •Expresses from Paris, this morning, have
brought Thursday's Funds at 81 f.60c.; the only
reason given for their being, so high, is that the
French make sure of an .easy.,6onqtiest of Spain,
thinking that tie Englisly,novetnment will be
intimidated by other Continentai Powers from
giving the Spaniards assistance., Another rumour
states that the Duke of -ORLEANS is exerting all
his power with his party to,avert the war.
FOREIGN MARKET.--.The same depression has
taken place in this Market this morning as in the
English Funds. Spanish Bonds opened at 32+

We hare been assured by a respectable •Cor-
respondent, who professes to speak from " high
authority," that.the Emperor of RUSSIA has ac-
tually.addressed a letter to M.Pozzt DI BORG°,
signifying that in the late negociatiotts he had
gone beyond the commission .entrusted to him.

Mr. MAMMY'S resolutions for suspending the
operations of the Sinking Fund during seven years)
and for effecting a reduction of the National
Debt during that period, by a newiilan for the
redemption of the Land Tax, were last night
negatived by a large majority.

•
. .
• QUEBEC) JAN. 13.—,The proceedings .of, the
Legislative Council and AsseMbly,baye gone no further than
the appointment of Committees' to • prepare • addresses, in
answer to his'Excellency the GoVeinor 'in Chief's Speech
of Saturday last. The attention of both Houses will
be early directed to the consideration of the measure
foi an Union, 'which has already been made the sub.
ject of, representation by the people. We look for Ward to a
dispassianate discussion of its merits. The more closely we
inquire into the state of affairs in 'this Province, the more we
are convinced of the abtiolute necessity of some measures to
relieve the Executive, which, is and has been for a consi.
derable period of time, placed in a situation of extraonli.
nary and unmerited hardship, and in which the public into.
tests deMand that some one course be followed. We anxiously
hops that the Mother Country will consider our circum.
4tances and provide a remedy to evils which tend to excite
I and confirm political animosities, retard the progress of itn.
provenient, and distress the public functionaries.—( Quebec
1 Gazette.)

KlXG.—(BraghtoP) Feb. 27.)—His MA-
JESTY, we are rejoiced to state, continues to en.
joy good health. The Duke of YORK. arrived at
the Palace to.day, and had the honour and
happiness of dining with his MAJESTY. Sir
Wsr. KEPPLE and Lord ST. HELENS joined the
Royal Suite, 4t the 'Pavilion, this- afternoon.

Ymterday morning Prince EST,ERIIAZY, the
Austrian Ambassador, had a long interview with
Mr. Secretory CANNINO, at the Foreign Office,
Downing-street, for ,ahaut an hour'; after which
his Serene Highness left Downing-street in his
travelling carriage and four, on a visit to the
KING.

The Earl of LIVERPOOL transacted business at
the Foreign Office yesterday.
Mr. Baron Ilum.ocit was to be sworn, in this
day before the Lotto CHANCELLOR, in his pri.
vate Room, at Lincoln's Inn Hall, as Baron of
the Exchequer.
Fire in Groat Carter-lano, Doctors' Commons.—
Aboht two o'cloCk this morning, an alarming fire
broke out in the house of Mr. WILLS, a proctor,
in Bell-court, Carter lane, Doctors' Commons ;
and before any assistance could be afforded, Ids
house and property were reduced to ashes. The
fire then communicated to the house of Messrs.
ADDERLEY and 13ox, proctors ; and as no water
for some time could be obtained, these premises
shared the fate of the former house. Some part
'of the furniture and papers'from Messrs. Anima.
trY and Bok's were preserved, and carried to
the house of Mr. CLARKSON of Great Carter.
lane. The fire, at half-past three, was got under,
and all the adjoining houses are safe.

- -
FlRE.—Exiract of a Letter from Systori-park,
near Grantham, Lincolnshire, the seat of SirJoux Myron!)
TiIOIIOLD Bart. :-.-" lire have just had a most miraculous
escape frau:being all reduced to ashes. On Monday last, fire
had communicated from a hearth in 'our new win g to the
timbers, which had been burning secretly from Saturday until
Monday morning at 8 o'Clock, when it appeared in most ter-
rific form; but luckily active help was at hand—good engines
and plenty of water ; so that, in about two hours of hard work,
it was subdued, and we only lost the floor and timbers of that
room and the new ceiling of the anti-room to the library. Had
the fire broken out at night, or indeed two hours sooner, under
such a tempest of wind, no human aid could have saved the
whole premises from destruction."
WAIT (who was executed at the Old Bailey
on .Wednesday morning) is well known to many
old inhabitants of this town, having carried on
the business of a grocer, for some time, at the
corner of Moor-street. lie was of highly t‘!-
-iipectable -connections in the neighbourhood of
Bristol., Ha is alsa' said to have been' in posses
don' at one time of more than twenty thousand
•
,pounds. He commenced various speculations. in
the town of Bristol,", flonilmil arid Birminham,
but was uniformly unfortunate in 411.-1' Diming-
ham Chronictej

FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS:
Lady Trollope, at 'her house in Great Cumberland-place ;
Lady Lake, in Dorset-street, Portrnatt.stquarev Colonel Sand-
worth, in Princes-street, Cavendish-square;` Dowager Countess
of Harcourt, in Portinan-square ; Lord Henley and M his
Eden, in Hertford-street, May-fair; Major Fraser, of thelth
Hussars; in Bonti-street ; Major and Mrs. Boroughs, in Man-
chester4quare.—At the Blenheim Hotel; Bond-street, the lion. •
James Stamp Suttnn Cooke, from Stafford Castle, the lately ac-
Saired seat belonging to (his brother, Stafford Cooke) Lord .
tafford, pursuant to the Act of the Ist of King Edward the
Sixth, that Nobleman being the lawful heir of the re-
stored Baron, son of Edward Duke of Buckingham.
DEPAUTUREB.--The Earl of Plymouth, to join the Hunt,-
at Melton Mowbray, in Leicestershire ; Captain Methuen, of
the- Dragoon Guards, for Canterbury; Captain Daring, for
Bath ; Sir William Jolliffe, of the 15th Hussars,. for the Bar.'
racks, at Hounslow ; Major Deville, fOr Canterbury; Capt.
Gilbert Jolliffe, for Hounslow ; Capt. Knox, for Bath ; Major
Bolton, for Dover ; Captain Jervis Clerke, for Queen-square,
Bath.

BATH AnRIVALS.—Sir J. and Lady Williams, Admiral
Sir T. Bertie, Sir W. Hart, Sir S. Avrorthing—Dr. and Mrs.
Gordon—Col. and Mrs. NeWto, Col. M‘Bean, Col. Morgan,
Capt. !Laces, Capt. Huntley—Rev. Mr. and Mrs. all, Rev.
Mr, Bell, Rev. Dlr. Douglas, Rev. Mr. Harrison, Rev. Mr.
N'enn, Rev. Mr. West.

FASHIONABLE PARTIES.
Lord Morpeth had a dinner party yesterday at his hOuie in
Park-street. *
Henry Peters, Esq. had a grand dinner party yesterday at',
his house in. Park-street.
Dowager Lady Neave entertained a large party of fashion-
ables yesterday evening at her house in Albenutrle-street. „

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