The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-07 00:00:00

CROM WELL'S DESCENT.

The following extract from Sir Samuel Meyrick's twenty-
first lecture on the History of England, delivered lately at
the Hereford Mechanics' Institutio2, traces the genealogy of
that remarkable man (Cromwellrin a light which we are
sure is perfectly new to many of our readers :
Oliver Cromwell was descended from a very ancient and
' highly allied family, of Welsh origin, sprung from Cadwgan,
second son of Bleddyn ab Cynvyn, Prince of Powis, the founder
of one of the Royal tribes of Waler, Ilis great great grand-
fatherwas 'William ab levan, who held an honourable office in
the household of Jasper Tudyr, Earl of Bedford ; one of whose
sons, Morgan ab William, was also called Morgan Williams,
and he lived at a house named Cwm Castell, in the parish of
.Newchurch, Carmarthenshire. This Williams married a
sister of Thomas Lord Cromwell, created Earl of Essex in
1510 ; and his eldest son, out of respect to his uncle's me-
mory, obtained the royal licence to assume the name of Crom-
well. Sir Henry Cromwell, the son and heir, resided in Cam-
bridgeshire, and was the father of Sir Oliver Cromwell,
created Knight of the Bath in 1603, who died without issue;
and of Robert Cromwell, Esq., who settled in the town
of Huntingdon, and relievd the scantiness of his
patrimony by engaging in the business of a brewer.
Robert Cromwell married the widow of William Lynne, of
Bassingbourne, Cambridgeshire, daughter of Sir Robert
Stewart. g Knight of the city of Ely; and they became, on
the 25t1i,0f April, 1599, the parents of Oliver, so named after
his uncle. Through his maternal ancestry, he sprang from
the same stock as King Charles I. ; but as this fact is very
curious, I shall give it in detail :

Alexander Stuart died in 1286.

1. John Stuart, died in 1298. I. Andrew Stuart.
2. Walter Stuart died in 1320. 2. Alexander Stuart.
3. Robert 11., King of Scotland, died 1390. 3. John Stuart.
4. Robert 111., died in 1406. 4. John Stuart.
5. James I. died in 1437. 5. Thomas Stuart.
6. James 11. died in 1460. 6. Richard Stuart.
7. James 111. died in 1488. 7. Nicholas Stuart.
8. James IV. died in 1513. 8. Nicholas Steward.
9. James V. died In 1542. 9. William Steward, Ely.
10. Mary Queen of Scots died in 1567. 10. Elizabeth, married to

Robert Cromwell.
I. James VI. of Scotland died in 1626. 11. Oliver Cromwell, Lord
Protector.

12. Charles 1., King of England, died 1646.
Oliver received his education in the Free School of Hunting-
don, whence he was removed to Sidney College, Cambridge ;
and is said to have studied law at Lincoln's Inn ; tradition
adding, that his chambers were immediately over the
gateway.lle is reported to have led a dissolute life in Lon-
don, but to have beenreclaimed by marriage, which took
place before he was full age, when he returned to his
native town, from which he was removed to Ely, to take
possession of an estate bequeathed to him by his ma-
ternal uncle. He was drawn from retirement by his first
cousin, the well-known John Hampden, who well knew his
talents, and which he had exhibited in the Short Parliament
of 1628; he was therefore returned a Member to the Long
Parliament at the general election. It is a curious fact, that
this principal regicide had at owe time intended to go with
his cousin and some of the more zealous puritanical party, to
New England, and had actually embarked in the river
Thames for the purpose, when they were all stopped and
compelled to return ashore by an order in Council.--The
Cambrian.

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civility, and anxiety to promote the welfare of others will
not., we are sure, be overlooked on the present occasion, and
we feel certain that his friends will rally round him.
FINDHORN.—The take of salmon on the Findhorr.,
which has bean rather scanty of late, is now fast improving; the
lishermen below the suspension-bridge, having a few nights since
taken 150 Atte salmen.—Ross-sliire Advertiser.
• THE CHOLERA.—In a late number we stated that the
Asiatic cholera had spread through several of the provinces of Persia,
and had given rise to great mortality in some of the principal towns.
It is reported to have extended from Bokhara across the Persian
frontier to Herat and Meshid, thence south of the Caspian to Tehe-
ran, and still further south to Ispahan. Recent accounts from Odessa
state that it has crossed the Russian boundary, and has appeared at
Ms, taking a course northward between the Caspian and Black
leas; while, according to the latest intelligence from Riga, it has
broken out at Orenburg in the Uralian mining district, crossed the
Volga, and appeared on the European side at Kasen, about 12,000
miles front St. Petersburgh. 'lf these accounts are to be trusted, the
disease has taken a somewhat Irregular course, in a direction west by
north; and it does not appear to have followed the banks of great
rivers as in the former Irruption of 1828-30. l'he disease which
reached 1
836. England in 1831, prevailed in Pers:a for seven years, from
Ito It appeareduarte at Orenburg for the in 1823; and was eonlined to this quart for a period of five first
years.time It reappeared
at Orenburg in 1829, and its prevalence and fatality in this province
were So great, that upwards of one-tenth part of the inhabitants
were seized with it, and one-fourth of those who were attacked died.
It reached St. Petersburgh in July, 1831 ; and England on the 26th
Of October of that year., At Tiflis, where it is again reported to have
broken out, the mortality from the former ePidemia wasftntrt so_ great,i
that three-hs of these who were attacked perished, We hall
01t6 care to report any further Information which may OE4 11.5
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SUGAR DUTIES.
TO THE ED1T01? OF THE SUN.

Sir,—The Gazette of last Friday quotes the average price
of West India sugar at 365. 7d. per cwt. Sugars, quality
for quality equal to this West India sugar, the produce of
Cuba, Porto Rico, and other foreign possessions, may be
roadily bought at 20s. per cwt., showing a difference of six-
teen shillings and sevenpence per cwt. (or 21/sd. per lb.)
by the time it reaches the actual consumer.
This immense gain, this fraudulent fruit of monopoly,
goes directly from our pockets to these of the British sager
producers. One shilling per cwt. paid in excess of what
Havannah, Brazil, and other sugars will command, is equi-
valent to 250,0001. ; or four millions sterling and upwards on
the annual quantity, at 16s. 7d. per cwt., of sugar con-
sumed in the country.
West India sugar is here particularised, because the
planters in those colonies are the only parties who can or do
set up even a shadow of pretence to a just claim to be pro-
tected by a differential duty, and they only can do so on
the plea that they are obliged by the conditions of the law
to yield to certain differential duties in favour of other
British colonies in the purchase of their food and lumber.
The West Indians send home about a moiety of the sugar
consumed in the United Kingdom, and in order that they
may receive two millions sterling we, the consumers, are
compelled to pay four. Monopoly invariably operates in this
clumsy and partial manner. What does the Government
propose to do to abate the expensive nuisance? Why next
tQ nothing! Sir Robert Peel has given notice that he means
to reduce the differential duty on free labour sugar (about
10,000 tons) 3s. 6d. per cwt., maintaining the absurd fiscal
distinction between free and slave labour sugars. The West
Indians, who have been told to rest perfectly quiet under this
attempt to impose upon us, actually chuckle in the hope that
Sir Robert will be enabled to carry his project. No one
knows better than Sir Robert Peel that the way to deal with
the sugar question would be to abolish the ridiculous laws
which oblige the planters in the West Indies, by differential
duties, to purchase their food and lumber of other British
colonies. Let him allow these planters to buy their supplies
in the cheapest markets, and thereby sweep away all grounds
to their claim to protection, especially seeing, as he must do,
that in the end the home consumers of West India sugar
have to pay the piper.
How much wiser would it have been in the 240 Protec-
tionists in the house of Commons, both as relates to their
own breeches' pockets and to those of their tenants and de-
pendents, to have insisted upon the abolition of all protecting
duties, including those levied for the supposed benefit of the
colonies, prior to the annihilation of the corn-laws, so that
they themselves, their tenants, and others had had time to
lay in their stock of necessary articles at the unprotected
price, before they were either of them compelled to sell their
produce on the like terms, rather than stand out, interrupting
the commerce of the country, by striving after the retention
of almonopoly which they must have felt months since was
doomed to the tomb of the Capulets. Had they manfully
stood upon that point, they would have had some degree
of justice on their side, and enjoyed besides just as many
opportunities of abusing Sir Robert Peel as they
have had ; but it was not their good fortune to be
so prudent—in lieu cf pursuing a course similar to that
described, however, it is reported in Mincing-lane these
gentlemen are prepared to vote for as much protection
as their united energies can obtain for all colonial produce.
Protection, they say, is their principle, and therefore they
will exert themselves to maintain the slightest vestige of it ;
to be sure, the valiant promise was made to the West Indians
before the first division on the corn-laws ; that may have
taught them to moderate their tone, and look more closly to
their own interests and to those of ieir dependents.
As the planters of the British sugar- producing settlements
ship various qualities of sugar, and are likely to be placed
in active competition with foreign producers, it would be
but justice, as I pointed out in a previous letter, to impose
an ad valorem duty on all classes of sugar; so that the West
Indians, who send to market very inferior qualities to the
Width Havannah, Sec., should only pay a duty according to
the worth of their sugar.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
B. S. R.