The Sun.
London, England, 1833-02-16 00:00:00

FROM. LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, FEB. 11.
Royal Regiment of Artillery.
First Lieutenant H. G. Ord to be Second Captain, vice Haw-
kins, retired on half-pay, Feb S.
s
Corp of Royal Eineers.
Second Lieutenant St. George L. Lysng tet to be First Lieutenant,
vice Blakiston, retired, Feb. 4.

WAR-OFFICE, FEB. 15, 18-13.
Royal Regiment of Horse Guards—G. T. Quin Gent., to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Tyrell, promoted, Feb. 15.
6th Regunent of I)ragoon Guards—Lieut. J. W. D. Hebson to
be Adjutant, vice Gerard, who resigns the Adjutancy only,
Feb. 15.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Ensign W. Landreth to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Macleod, promoted; A. C. Sanderson, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Landreth, Feb. 15.
4th Foot—Ensign M. Fortescue to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Drake, deceased, Jan. 2../ ; Ensign J Greetham,
from the half-pay of the 30th Regiment, to be Ensign, vice
Fortescue, Feb. 15.
7th Foot—Lieut. C. T. Freer, from the half-pay, to be Lieu-
tenant, paying the difference, vice Byng, appointed to the 29th
Regiment, Fib. 15.
I 1 th Foot—Capt. B V. Derinzy, to be Major, without pur-
chase, vice O'Kelly, deceased ; Lieut. F. Marsh, to be Captain,
yice I )erinzy ; Ensiga E. L. Wolley, to be Lieutenant, vice
Marsh' Jan. 4 ; Gentleman Cadet E. A. W. Keane, from the
Royal College, to be Ensign, vice Wolley, Feb. 15.
Foot—Surgeonl4th lila
D. Henderson M.D., from the '7Bth Regi-
ment,Nit
to be Surgeon, vice M.Andrchir, who exchanges, Feb. IS.
'26th Foot—Capt. W. Senhouse, from the half.pay, to be Cap-
tain, vice A. Calder, who exchanges, receiving the difference,
Feb. 15. _ .

f2(Jth Foot—Lieu . W. F. Byng, from the 7th Regiment, to be
Liputenanr, vice J. O'Neill, who retires upon half-pay, receiving
the difference, Feb. 15.
38th Foot—Ensign H. Close, to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase, vice Whittell, deceased, Jan. 24 ; H. W. Race, Gent., to
be Ensign, vice Close, Feb. 15.
42J Foot—Assistant-Surgeon 4. T. Jackson, from the Staff; to
be Ass stant-Surgeon, vice Maguin, who exchanges, Feb. 15.
45th Foot—Major E. F. Boys, to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
purchase,with-
out
vice Shaw, deceased ; Brevet Major R. Moore, to
be Major, vice Boys ; Lieut. J. M'lntyre, to be Captain, vice
Moore, June 21, 1832.
55th Foot—Ensign-J. Coats, to be Lieutenant, without pur-
chase, vice Macdonald, deceased, June 3, 1832 ; Ensign H.
M'Caskill, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Morrison,
deceased, June 4 ; Ensign I'. de Havilland, to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice whose promotion; by purchase, is

NORTHERN DIVISION OF NORTHAMPTON-
SHIRE.

COPY OF A REQUISITION PRESENTED TO THE HO.
NOURABLE W. C. WENTWORTH FITZWILLIAM,
TOGETHER WITH HIS ANSWER.

To the Hon. W. C. WENTWORTH FITZ WILLIAM.

stn.,
BY the lamented death of your venerable
and most highly respected relative, Earl Fitzwilliam,
and the consequent elevation of your Father to the Peer-
age. a vacancy is ccca-ioned in the representation of the
Northern Division of this County. We, the undersigned
ElecAirs, believing that you are sincerely attached to the
great causeVeCivil and Religious Liberty, that you will
advocate pie tikbolition of Slavery, and support those prin..
ciples byllittlherence to which your family has so long
been distspfuished, do request that you will permit your-
self to be put in nomination on the present occasion, as a
CandPate for this Division, and we promise you our
individual support, and our best exertions to secure your
return. Signed by 1,11i5 ELECTORS.

Kettering, Feb. 9, 1833.

Milton, Feb. 13, 1833.
GENTLEMEN-4 have this morning received your re-
quisition, subscribed by 1,185 names, and calling upon
me to become a Candidate for the honour of representing
this Division of the County of Northampton.
It would be highly culpable in me if I were to conceal
front you the fact, that had it been left open to me to
pursue the course pointed out to me by my own views of
duty, so far should I have been from seeking this high
honour, and heavy responsibility, that no persuasion
could have induced me, without so general a call, to offer
imyself to your choice, I should have had insuperable ob-
jections to taking such a step. In the first place, the
consideration of my youth and inexperience, would have
led me to suppose that you would look to some one not
liable to these objections. And this was the hope in which
I earnestly indulged. In the second, my connexion with
this County (as numbers of you are aware) does not result
from my being the immediate Heir to any of the Landed
Property of my Family in it, and it, therefore, might he
o' jetted to use by some, that I was not so naturally and
permanently connected with your local interests, as to
make me the Fitt. et object of your selection.

You, however, though fully aware of all these facts,
have thought otherwise, and the requisition you have
Rent me has shown me that that kindness of which I have
had proof, whenever inclination or duty has brought me
among you, has led you to confer a greater and more va-
blade mark of your favour, by urging me to undertake the
responsible office of your Servant.
This, Gentlemen, without both injustice to you in the
present emergency, and ingratitude to you for past favours
to my Father, I cannot reuse to do.
If, therefore, your exertions should place me in that
highly honourable station, I will exert myself to act in
accordance with those principles hereditary io my family,
which I conceive to be founded upon truth and justice,
believing, as I do, that mode of Government to be the
best by which liberty and happiness are extended, and se-
cured, in the greatest degree, to the greatest number of
individuals.

In compliance with your wishes, I shall declare myself
a Candidate at the errliest moment permitted, by the
double calamity which has afflicted our family, and shall
present myself among you to solicit your suffrages.
I have the hmiour to be, Gentlemen,
Your most faithful and obtdient Servant,
(Signed) W. C. WENTWORTH FITZWILLIASI.

IMPORTANT TO CHANCERY OFFICES, THE
LEGAL PROFESSION, AND THE PUBLIC..—The Town of
To-morrow, will contain exclusive and full particulars of
the proposed Bill of the Loan CHANCELLOR fur abolishing
the Six Clerks' Office, Remodelling the Masters', Regis-
trars', and other Offices. The Law Department of this
Paper is edited by a high and distinguished Member of
the Bar, and all the other Departments by the first writers
of the day,

LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16, 1833.

The measures which Earl GREY brought forward last
night in the House of Lords, for " the more effectual
suppression of local disiurbances and dangerous associa-
tions in Ireland," will create an extraordinary sensation
throughout the kingdom. Nothing like them, nothing
even approaching to them, in despotic character, has been
known to Irishmen since the mernor dile year of 98. On
proposing them to the House, Far' GREY did not attempt
to mince matters, or understate their extreme severity;
he allowed (like CHARLES X. when he promulgated his
famous Ordinances) that they were measures at variance
with the spirit of the Constitution; hut then he insisted
that they were absolutely necessary, for that such was the
present condition of a large portion of Ireland, that the
ordinary law of the land was a dead letter, and life and
property in daily, nay hourly. jeopardy, His Lordship,
we giant, made out a strong case—a case calling for the
promptest ,ind most decisive attention of Government ; but
he did not prove, or attempt to prove, that Ireland was in a
state of broad, open, daring rebellion, and we know nothing
short of this can justify a Government in having recourse•
to measures whose first arid most prominent feature is,
that they are not only at variance with, but actually ah-
horrent—deeply, incurably abhorrent to, the Constitution,
and every known law of the realm.

We do not urge this point out of any splenetic opposi.
tion to Government. They are placed i❑ a peculiarly
embarrassing position, and deserve the most 1,-nient
consideration. They see plainly (what, indeed, no
one can deny) that Ireland is in a most distracted con-
dition ; that what with repeal agitators on the one hand,
and The miscreant factions of the Whiteboys, &c., on the
other, she is, from north to south, a threatening moral
Vestivitia. Gwtrnment see this, and in their wish to
meet the difficulty with becoming energy—to grapple
with it like men of mettle, it is scarcely to be wondered
at, though lamented, that their zeal gets the better of their
discretion, and that they over-act rather than under-act,
their part.

01 one thing, however, Government may be
certain, and of this one thing they cannot be
too soon assured, for, if we mistake not, it will
shortly be thundered in their ears from every quarter of the
kingdom. They must proceed, without a moment's de-
lay, to conciliate Ireland with as much zeal as they have
now coerced her. Their liberal measures must, at
least, go hand in hand with their despotic ones.
The olive-branch must be held out at the same mo.
ment of time with the sword, or even their Irish
Church Reform will not save them, for it bears no pro..
portion as an act of grace to their present proposition us
an act of severity. It is but as Fa/stairs halfpennyworth
of bread, to his monstrous tavern bill Mr sack !

We repeat, then, (and as men interested in the welfare
of Ireland, we have every right to insist on it), that since
Ministers have shown such an ardent desire to coerce
Ireland, they must now show equal desire to conciliate
her. They must teach her to respect, as well as to fear
thee. They must purify her grievances at the
fountain-head, and not content themselves with dam-
ming up the numerous disturbed waters that flow
from such a source. They must not be Radicals
in despotism, and bit-by-bit' Reformers in liberality.
Such conduct will never do, and the spirit is now at work
throughout Ireland, which will convince Ministers that we
speak hut the bare, literal truth:
For the details of these alarming measures of coercion,
we refer our readers to the Spirit of our Public Journals.
A word more, and we have done. Lord Emnorr, we
perceive, strenuously advocated the protracted continu-
ance of three measures, and Lord ELLENBOROUGH (even
while he voted for them) bewailed them in terms that
might have drawn tears from a rock of adamant. This
is in strict accordance with the fitness of things, for
what more natural than that bigotry and hypocrisy
should go hand in hand together, and both jump to the
same iniquitous conclusion ?

The debate in the House of Commons last night pre-
sents few features of novelty or interest. Seine set speeches
of Sir ROBERT PEEL, Sir RICHARLI VYVYAN, &C., on the
subject of the Dutch embargo, with those of Lord PAL-
MERSTON, Dr. LUSHINGTON, and the ATTORNEY-GENE
RAL in answer, occupied the greater part of the evening.
No motion was made, nor was any object proposed to be
gained by.ihe discussion, except the harassing of Ministers.
Had the Tories been in power, they must have pursued ex-
actly thesamecourse as that which has b .en taken b
by the pre
sent Government ; but knowing, as ti ey do, that it is utterly
impossible, with a due reg rd to the interests of the coun-
try, that the documents which would jusiify th it course,
can be made public, they take the opportunity of making
a set at Alinisters, which they avow is to end in nothing.
The only real ground of complaint
.that exists against Ali
fishers is, that they have been too indulgent to the per-
verse injustice of the King of HOLLAND, or of the Nether-
m.
lands, as Sir R. VYVYAN
foetafrer
er:it war, t
at
two
arrangement years ago, commerce
of
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would,long ere this, have resumed its accustomed chan-
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parties to have made, it is out of the question. The beauty
of the arguments advanced last night by Sir Rouivr