The Sun.
London, England, 1804-02-03 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, DRpRY-LANE.
MO -.MORROW EVENING, Feb. 4, 1804,
will be' performed,
TWELFTH NIGHT.

W/TR

CINDERELLA ;
Or, THE LITTLE GLASS-SLIPPER.
Produced under the Diredion of Mr. BYRNE:
Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper, will be repeated
every Evening till farther notice.
On Monday, the Comedy of The Country Girl.
And on Tuesday will be produced a new Comedy, in Five
Ads, called The Soldier's Daughter.

THEATRE-ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
TO-MORROW EVENING, Feb. 4, I so+,
will be performed
THE CABINET.

WIT
THE FOLLIESH OF A D.W.
On Monday, King Henry the Fourth, Second Part, with
Oscar and Malviva.
On, Tuesday, The English Tleet, with The Village
Lawyer.
On Wednesday, the Historical Play of Kins; John TohO,
-1.
;,with-St. Patriek's'Daj Lath, Coubtaiu..e,
Anti pit Thursday, The of *Fortune.

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To WINE and BRANDY MERCHANTS.
AN Old Establishment in the Wine-Trade to be
disposed of, situated in one of the most pleasant and
TespeCtable Cities, at a conveniant distance from London,
the Proprietor tieing about to retire from business.
For Partiaularsapply to Messrs. Robert Freebairn and Co.
Abchulch-lane, Lombard-street.

INVASION and the VO LUNTEER S.
This Day is published, in one Vol. Bvo. price 45..6d.
110 EFLECTIQNS- on the menaced INVASION,
AA- and the means of proteding the Capital, by pt%:vent-
tag tin; Eiu:iny troni landing in any part contiguous to it
A- .-tier to the Earl of Harrington on the proposed
rications round London :
A Defence- of the Voltinteer System, and the means of
eta Ploying it to the greatest advantage; and,
A correct Military Description at Essex and tile Military Roads and Strong Positions in those CoKent ; with
unties. By Colonel GEORGE HANGER.
.Printed.for loten Stockdale,

This Day was published,
- In One Vol. Bvo. price 7s. in hoards, •
the SECOND EDITION, of
URAL PHILOSOPHY; or: REFLECTIONS
R. on KNOWLEDGE, VI RTDE, andl-lAPPINESS;
chiefly in Reference to a Life of Retirem?nt in the Country.
Written on occasion,of the late Dr. Zirurneriziaii's Discourse
an SolitUde.

By 'ELY BATES, Printed for Longman
.Esq:
and Rees, No. , paternoster-row.
The argument entorced throughout 39 is this, That there
is no solid happiness without religion ; and that the charms
of retirement, unless they tend to improve the mind in
piety
_
and virtue, are unsubstantial and fallacious; but that, if
entered upon with a proper disposition of mind, it will b
viously improve us in true wisdom, and quailty
_us torot_hiaist
more durable condition in another, world to whieh all t
are hastening. This important doctrine taughtis..,
1- t the least
the smallest tinEtUre ot fanaticism, and
wit ip..l
without
language.
441 Se city ; but in g.•ave, yet simple and impress' v..vo.
rie,style is, at, the same time, tbrcible and elegant; the. .
lute, it is true, is no where enlivened by ancc.lote, but it
in
14,0 here defaced' by-puerility ; and iri this, as ‘vell as in
-44etts is.deediy to 'be prefer Fed te' Zimmerman's
r‘,ll.4lar *
Work.• We recommend without fiesration,
Pe thehis book to y•ri '
will
,ecseriptionot readers,. xy.,.
receive best and fliensvters
most Pleasing
manner.,, aba ious advice, delivered in the
British Critic
s
, Sept. Si
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JAMES and GEORGE BENNET,
Nfanufadurers to His Majesty, by Ap - tment
pow ,
~.
T_T AVE great pleasure in announcing to the Pub-
.a..l. lic,a most important Discovery which they have made
of a New Method of Felting the Pile of their
WOOLLEN VELVET CORDS,.• for, Avlnch they have
obtained an additional Patent from His I‘,la. • '
Process which -•• '
, 14 applicable only to Animal Wool or Fur,
Jesty . This new
e ornpletelyttnites the tires of the Wool, and forms the• Cord
intO a compad body, incapable of being injured by the severest
friaion, and possessing a neatness and durability in wear be-'
Yiond that of an other fabric. The beauty and excellenLe of •
this their new}MCture, previous to its improvement,
induced. many persons sylio were ionnant of the. principles
131 the Invention, to imitate. it, aihid bring into the -market
irnperfeel; unsaleable Goods, made from coarse materials,
A...,._ to:unskilfully tniinuf.atired - t la-c me unfit for fur-
"ter Use after a fe..,,y weeks, as to
‘dzc.l)).,s' wear, These
spurious Artiele.s h
'bythe creak
„vs-. aye trequently been forced on the Public
ontaine.4.,,
.nteh Messrs. Bennet's Marmfatiiire had justly .
:Messrs, 13411(14t4e even been solo -: C; 1 unit faCtured by •
ted these:lll44ulitti order.that the"Pubc°licsmna'y in future de-
&lined to mark their
the words tom
(•I;liP,llti°ns, Messrs. Bennet have deter.
B ENN ET;9`4l,s ,at each end of every PieLe, ". il h :
track selvage, at the (ii:t;eYAf,r- PATEN'F," and on the
'' BENNET's PATENT'cPI.9i about every yard and iLilf,
For the better accommern6srodaltol.niti;ort,llNl;)Terech()2*
en, and Drapers,
,-e-
the superimendance of their Aen, ':,e°Pened Sales'
uln 11-
'l:Vareh ;ter
etreet, London, on the same terms NO'S---," 4, Basing 11.,
as at their M:mu lac.
for in. Manchester.
.• 2rfanehester, Jan. 28, ISA.
............
. .
VVINES (Dade from P)r,ur" i Ls. el and other
°reigil Crap (I. a ' .--I','', , ma-
to be had , nly 0( I- A.,E, tile i
r aEttiret, at Ins Vauesits, No. 27 Haymarket The above
ktlgtof Zeel attlei a.r-tietilarly Cl,ry and coiirel); divested. of that kind
a, e-.s.co,!tinnon to English Wines, and are acknow-
-1,,,/ittio,yt,t.ne Connoisseurs in those Articles, to be greatly
Vill2S I)‘icemtioartlYpc't,the Sherry and Madeira \Vines in Family
Male
ante"lir--‘t"l"Y•rtioncy, only 2.6'5. per Dozen. . Log_.
perioe to 'iorn zts. to '2„ls. One Dozn sent
Ceßtutty Y Part of the Town. Fac.s resident in I e
~:naY he accommodated with a Hamper 1 free of
to the amount
rnitt4,ic;•o you
Note, or upwards, on enclosing
,_ A eAPer-Post. • the Re-
,tlrottgh --u.r1911. —Many Families having been deceived
Dal thinTitellasing a Raisin Wine for the Foreign Grape,,
tnunit, it an incuinbent,luty on him to caution the Corn_
' 4Kain 'this - - fdeception. Its
..runei Gst unwarrantable species 0 _
,ii
liedare raPe Wine CantioVbe sold under zss. bd. per uozi. .
of IMpostors. •• •
•
. . .
11,-
• GUERNSEY. l' - •
' Virtue of a commission of. A ppraisement and Sale issued
bY ih High Court of Admiral!), of Engl3nd, addressed to
Chrisopher•Robinson D. L. and Harry Dobris.e„,•Esq.
a
,
—4
WedziesdiY the Bth of and
inst, will be exposed to
• Public Sale; at the Island of Guernse!",
HE following Articles, beini,. Part of 111
T 'CARCO of the Dutch Ship the H El HELENA CATHA-
11111A, lob Ysbrandt the
condemned as goOdand law—
Jul Prize to liis Majest, taken by His Alajesty's Ship Alg-
'llene, loon Stiles, Esq• Commander, prior to the Decl',..
ration of Hostilities against the Batav tan Republic :-
to Pipes, SPAN ISH 13 RANDY,
- . 60 Pipes
2 filogsheads i SPAN I SII RED WINE.
And on Thurstia., pie 9th of Februirry,
ILIULI f ` -
- o toe said Ship HELENA CATHARLN ~
will
_be A . Sold
togetherthe the-
at
her Sails, Anchors, Cables, and Materials. She is a
ttrong Vessel, Dutch-
built, about ‘loo
eacedingly well-found. • Tons burthen, and
•

tiIMPER ILL PARLIAMENT.

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HOUSE OF, COMMONS,
-THURSDAY, FED. Z.

SIT& JOHN NEW P-ORT "moved for an account Of
the monies levied in the different counriesin
land, by virtue Of theorderS•of Grand Juries, and
issued by the Ificasurers ois-uch Counties to Houses
of Industrir for the relief Of:the Poor, tturilig the
years 'Sol, z, and 3.=Ordered.

lUIDDLESLX- ELECTION.
.•• - ,
Mr. FOX said, he roseein pursuance of his notice
of yesterday, to make some observations
.upon the
subjed to which he then- alluded. e The point, in
greateseimportance. That
question one of the
that House ought to obey a Statute of the Legisla,
tore there could be no doubt, and indeed it was
inure peculiarly incumbent upon them not to infringe
upon the provisions of an Adol Parliament, and to be
es::reately almost beyond any possible case
that could be cenceived, as to what constriidions
they put upon such Ads. The Act of the 28th of
His present -11/Leiestts, upon which he founded his ob.
jeCtion to the Petition before the House, was found_
ed on the priaciple that as little discretion as pos.-
sible ought to be left to the House io cases of Dee-
tion Petitions,, .and alter the passing of that An,
there was scarcely any species o( discretion deft, for
it stridly defined what Pekitions -of. that. nature
should be proceeded upon and. whatnot. That An
did- not -merely say that-such and such -Petitions should
be received, but it did more, it told them what Peti-
tions they were-prohibited from receiving and refer-
ring to a Committee. Having made these preliminary
observations upon the Ad itself, he should proceed
to the consideration of the, point immediately in.
question. And here he should put ertirely, out. sot
the case all precedent, for to
.say that. by pre_.
cedcnt an Ad of only sixteen. .years standing was
to be brought into desuetude, . would be mon_
strous, and still more if by repeated precedents the
eifed of the At was to be done away, as Any Ad
might be rendered completely • nugatory by
,con-
qinually putting upon it construdions, in opposition
to its original meaning and express words. There.
was, perhaps, no clause, in any. Aft of Parliament
more-clear and explicit than that upon -which he
founded his objedion ; .it expressly stated,. that:no
petition complaining of an undue Eledioo should be.
received or proceeded upon, where the persons sub-
scribing -such petition did not state that they were
Candidates, or had a tight to vote at such election.
The Petition, before the House stated no such thing;
if it had- been stated in an implied manner, it
would not have been .s,uficierit; because it would
not-have been conformable to the, provisions of the
Bill, butit was not stated to common sense. Free.
holders forsooth ! we:e there- not Freeholders of
Middlesex who had no right to vote ? Six months
ago he himself was in that predicament. Had they
said they had now a right to vote, it would not
have been sufficient, because the.Ad expressly said
that.they mtist,state that they had had a right to
vote at theten.lt ehad•been said, that, they
wire not. toccpresutne. a disqualification, but •he
. thought,. on..the contrary, •that. they were not to
• presume •a• qualification. Qualification, however,
or disqualification, had. nothing •to do -with the
question. 11;a..petitino had been signed at their
doors by a -number of- persons, :calling themselves
\ Freeholders., whom they knew .to be disqualified.,
yet if those persons stated -in that
.petition,..that
they had a right ..vote at the eleCtion to which
the petitiod related,. the House.could teOt rejecl it,
bu.t must send it to:. a Committee.. They had no-
thing, to .do • with the rights of. persons; because
they could not know them e they hadenothing•to do
with the fad, but merely with the, reeoeda The
question was, whether this petitiort.was!conforma-
ble to the Ad of .Parliament.:.- did: these. persons
claim a right to vote at. the. late election.?. if, not,
let those who. had signed it be the most. tespeCtable
persons in the-County, and he did ,not doubt their
respedability, still, from the want of such a Atilt]
being inserted, the House could not. entertain it.
It might be said that-the Petitioners had an equitable
right, but that amounted to nothing : lie presented a
petition in :784, complaining of a .non-return, and
there could not be a stronger case of equitable right ;
but it was 'nor. a case that--came .within. the meaning
of the Grenville Ad, in consequence of which an
. Aa was passed soon afterwards to attach upon such
kind -of cases. .There was another Petition pre.,
sewed to the House which was not generally thought
to be very decent, but as it contained. a complaint
against an undue return, the House
.could not do
otherwise. than .refer it to a Committee. . The re-
verse of this- •was equally true—that if a Peti-
tion did.itot state what was commanded by. a peremp,
tory law, it could not be received. In the present
case 4te- could not conceive the possibility of a dif-
ference of opinion. He .had.heard.that Several Peti.
tions- of a similar nature .had -been presented and
proceeded upon, but he did not-care.; he knew that
where neither. party took any notice,of the circum-
,stancee such- Petitions .might go -by accident. to a
Committee :;..but if an A-} of Parliament .enjoined
that -certain words should be particularly stared in a
Petition,.to say that .precedents. couid:cause.a
feazance of that Ad, would be monstr,ous.. If there
, was -any difference of opinion upon the Aubjea, he
would take it, that.if.Petitioners respecting a County
.EleEtion were to Tall themselves any other descrip_
tion of persons,, .suppose CopyholSers, they would
•say perhaps that such persons had no.right to vote,
.but.they could not decide that without hearing evi-
-dence at their Bar,- and then in some cases they
might have to decide in this-way the very litigat_
ed point in question. He, would. suppose a Petition
from certain House-holders of Westminster,. stating
themselves -to be liable to be rated, When it had