The Sun.
London, England, 1804-05-17 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 16.
A Message was brought from the L"rds, re-
quirirz the attendance of this House at their Lord-
ships' Ear, to hear His MAJESTY'S Assent given
by Commission to certain Bills.
The SP E AKER, accompanied by several Members,
attended forthwith, and being returned, reported
to the House, that the Royal Assent had been de-
clared, by Commission,. to the two Loan Bills-, the
Excise Duty Bill, the Militia Officers' Bill, the
-Militia AujutantS' Allowance Bill, and the Statute
Duty Bill, sent up by this House.
Mr. FOSTER brought up the Report of the Corn.
mittee on the Irish Currency, which was ordered to
lie on the Table.
Mr. MITFORD, from the Commissioners of CLlS-
toms for Scotland, presented certain Accounts at the
Ear, whictl were brought up, and ordered to lie on
the Table,
Mr. FOSTER. moved, that the Accounts lately
presented by Mr. JOHNSTON E, respthing the Re-
venue of Ireland, be printed, which was ordered
accordingly.'
Mr. MITFoRD, from the Excise Office for Scot-
land, presented an Ace ,unt of Arrears of Excise
due to that Office, which was ordered to be printed.
Mr. R. DUN DAS brought up the Report of the
Bill, for the more effeCtually preventing the illegal
Sale of Excisable Liquors in Scotland, which was
/cad a fist time, and ordered to be read a second
time to-morrow.
On the Motion of Mr. FOSTER, the Committee
of the House on the Irish Accounts Regulation Bill,
was deferred till Wednesday next.
Mr. YORKE reported from the, Committee un
Mr. SHERIDAN'S Petition, respeeting the Liskeard
EleEtion, their resolutions, that Ilusicissox
was duly ele'trd, and that Mr. SHERIDAN'S Peti-
tion was not trivblous or vexatious.
Mr. RosE reported from the Committee on Mr.
FluAcissoN's Petition, touching the said EleCtion,
that Mr. HUSK IS,UN was duly eleCted, and oueht only
to have been re:urned ; and that Mr. DAmoN, the
Under Sheriff, in annexing to the Return die name
of Mr. THOMAS SHERD AN, had acted contrary to
his duty, an:: in violation of the privileges of the
House.

SHERIDAN said, he was extremely glad to
find that vie charge of Corruption, about which so
much had uteri said on this suojeCt, made no part of
the Report iroin the Committee. In the Resolution
just orted, he sincerely believed the Cantnittee
had decided according to the evidence before them ;
but he was also sure, that if Mr. Damon should be
brought to the Bar of that House, he would be fully
able satisfaCtorily to exculpate himself, and to prove,
that he had acted from no corrupt intention.
Mr. Rose rept:. d, that Mr. Damon had the ad-
vantage ut very able Counsel before the Committee,
and had been ably defended. He did not mean to
ilevth,- to him any corrupt motive, nor did such a
charg,,! constitute any part of the Report. But it
appeared that he had acted wilfully ; and althoegh
the.same degree of moral turpitude did nor attach as
if he had acted corruptly,- yet the result to the Pub-
lic was equally mischievous. In the Motion he
was about to make, it was not his intention to
precipitate any measure relation to Mr. Damon,
bu.; give fui, time for preparation ; and he should
thetetore move, that the Report be taken into con.
ideration this day fortnight. Ordered.
The Deputy Clerk of the Crown was then order.
ed to attend, and to amend the Return, by erasing
Mr.'SH t IDAN's name.
A Petition from the Linen IVlanufaelurers of the
•
County it Kent, in position to the Petitions of the
Irish Linen Manutaiturers, respecling the Export
Duty on Linens, was presented, and Rimed to the
C ,mmitzee upon the other Petitions on that sub.
jet.
Tue ATTORNEY GEVERAL. presente4 a Bill to
. regulate the Licence on the.sale of Exciseaf)le Li-
quors in Scotland. Read hr first titrie,antiordered.
for the second reading tomorrow.
Read a second time the 818 for more efFeelually
appidwoling Criminal Wenders in the United
Kingdom, Who are fugitives from one part to the
_other. Cornatitted for /4-riday.
Sii jowly 1)I5 WiORT 'gave notice that he should,
on to.r;iOribw•se'r,niE,lit, submit to the House a Mo-
i.on. op the subj..tk‘a the Property Tax, so far as

Mr. WILBUIFORCB /Vetted, tiff to.triott64,
ein n igh , his Motion tespehing the total Aboii.
Lion of the Slave Trade. _

Ordered, that a Writ be issued for the Erraion
of a Member fur the County vf Sutherland, its the
room of the Right Hort, Wu. DUNDAS, who has ac.
cepted the office of Secretary at- War..-Adjourned.

FOR THE SUN.

I‘llt. EDITOR,

Winos the People at large are highly gratified
wiih the restoration to office of that great Statesman
whose wisdom and integrity preserved the EmPigs
in the hour of the most imminent danger, they must
feel equal astonishment and indignation at -finding
that he is deserted, at this important crisis, by A
Party who have been united to him in principle and
in friendship for a lirtg period. It is, indeed, hardly
possible to divine the cause of this desertion, with
all the knowledge of mankind which experience
must suggest, unless by resolving it into such a
selfish sao'tem of cunning as blinds the persons who
are guided by it, and makeS them the dupes of
own art. The motives assigned for this violation
of political consistency, and this open breach of the
sacred ties of frieedship, are as ridiculous as they
are extraordinary. It is urged by the. advocates of
the Party alluded to, that they had entered into a
solemn engagement with Mr. Fox, not to return to
office unless that Gentleman should be restored to a
seat in the Cabinet. This sudden partiality in fa.
your of Mr. Fox, comes with a very ill grace from
men who, since the ill.fated period of the French
Revolution, have been uniformly in opposition to
the principles upon which that Revolution was
founded, and, consequently, to Mr. Fox, who has
been an enthusiastic admirer of those principles, and
has exposed himself to the censure of all the wiser
part of mankind, by the unqualified praise he has
bestowed on them; It may be said, that the
=citable course of events, brought about by the
successful operation of those principles in France;
may have had a great effeet upon the mind of Mr.
Fox. It may be said that, as he is a WHIG, and
desirous Of promoting the cause of Freedom all over
the world, he must now revolt against doCtrines
which, instead of increasing popular Freedom, has
a tendency to produce nothing but a Military Des.
purism,
,and tie elevation of some daring Chief to
unlimited controul. But it does not appear that
Mr. Fox has ever made any public recantation of
his declarations in favour of French principles. He
has even visited France, and condescended to re.
ceive marks of favour from an Adventurer, who,
under pretence of giving Liberty to thirty millions
of People, has contrived to hold them in the most
severe and abject bondage. Mr. Fox has never
uttered one sentiment that shelved a change of opi-
nions respetfoing principles which have been the
cause of so much devastation and misery, and which
have ended in die establishment of A Government
totally opposite to that which Mr. Fox has solongs
professed to consider as the desideratum on which
the political wisdom and happiness ut mankind es-
sentially depend. But, Mr. Editor, so far from
having shewn the least sign of repentance for any
of those political errors in which Mr. Fox has
fallen, since the horrid volcano of the Freoch.Revo-
Itition poured so many calamities upon Europe,' he
has recently, if we may believe the Public Paints,
given a manifest proof that his sentiments are just
the same.—lt is stated in the Newspapers, that
Mr. Fox, at the last meeting of the \Vitro CLUB,
gave, as his Toast, ‘g Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, arid
SUCCESS to his SCRUTINY." Nod', Sir, I call
upon Lord GRENVILLE to declare, whether he
thinks Sir FRANCIS BURDETT's political principles
and charaCter such as he car aeprove, or whether he
can wish success to a Scrutiny which might give
such a man it Scat atnoeg tie august Body of the
Represenratives of the People in Parliament ? If he
d,es
.11-0 t approve of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, it is
impossible for him to ,approve of Mr. lox, because
toe tatter, in a Political Club, the proceedings of
which are the following day reported in the Public
Prints, holds himself torch to all mankind as the
advocate for the principles which actuate the coin-
duet of Sir FRANCIS Buttoseet. May we net obeli
expect that Lord GRENVILLE, if he perseveres ice
his present connexion with Mr. Fox, will become
a Member of the Whig Club, and that, if the Sm.
tiny should nut terminate be!ore, will, at some
future meeting, join openly with Mr. Fox in drink.
ing a bumper to Sir FRANC“ BURDETT and his
SCRUTINY ? But, Mr. Editor, this is not all—
Lord GRENVILLE, who has been so firm an advo-
cate fur Monarchical Principles, and who haseac-
quitted himself so ably and so honourably in sup.
port of those principles, has separated from the
Statesman who is best calculated to give durability
to those principles in the British Empire, because
that Statesman has thought it his duty to accept of
a situation entrusted to him in virtue of a PRERO.
GATIVE which none can presume to call in question,
who are in the least acquainted with the true prin.
ciples of the British. Constitution. Would Lord
GRENVILLE have had Mr. I'm, in the most awful
crisis of national affairs, refuse to receive this mark
of confidence from his SOVEREIGN) Such a refusal
would have manifested a want of Patriotism, and
might almost be considered as a breach of Allegi.
ante. The GR ENV! LLEs have never been a popu-
lar Party,, and their condor}in the present instance
is by no means calculated to raise them into favour
with the People. Mr. Fox has, no doubt, many
friends, but they are not of such a kind as to be
likely to become friends of Lord GRENVILLE. A
junction between Mr. PITT and Mr. Fox, had
it been pratticable, would have been much less sur-
prising than a union between the latter and the
r3ltlesvio o ES, and would probably have been view-
ed by the People as an event likely to put an end
to Party feuds, at a time when the sense of common
danger should unite us all. But a union between
Mr. Fox and the GRENVILLIS must have appeared
to be a jumble of jarring elements, that never could
settle into harmony and peace; or rather, it would
appear like a shameless sacrifice of consistency, for
the sake of privaie interest, and all the odium of
the former Coalition would revive, and bring inde-
lible disgrace uptati those who could be concerned in
Such a departure from patriotic duty and cOmir.On
decency.
ANTI.GALLICAN.

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THE SUN.

SOL/M QUI* DiClitt PALSVM AunA4r

LONDON, MAY 17, 1804.

Tilit arrangements for the new Administration
are nearly completed ; and we will venture to affirm,
that Government will be in such hands as may bid
defiance to Party at home, as well as to the threats
of our inveterate Enemy. If we do not see men vested
with power, who want to rush into place in contempt
of all decency, and ail resped for His MAIESTT'S
RIGHTS and FEELINGS, WC see men in office,
of known rank and property, and of tried abili.
ty and experience. Lord HARROWBY, whom .the
Party Prints affeft to hold forth as a new man,. of
whom the People never before heard, has long been
respetted by the Public, and has often shewn his
good sense and knowledge when he was Mr. DUD-
LEY RYDER. This Nobleman has succeeded to
hereditary honour and property in the prime of
life, but he does not think that in these times
" The POST OF HONOUR iS a private station."
We particularly notice this Nobleman, because he
seems to be the chief mark of the affected wonder
and petulance of Opposition, and we are fully per.
suaded that he will prove the folly and malice of
such affeeted wonder, by a steady and able discharge
of that part of the national duty which is entrusted
to his care.
A new Writ was last night moved for in the
House of Commons, fur the EleEtion of a Member
to serve in Parliament for the County of Suther-
land, in the room of the Right Hon. WILLIAM
DUNPAS, who has been appointed, as we have
already stated, Secretary at War.

TFt a Gottenburg Mail, which arrived this morn.
ing, confirms the account which we SQIIIe time ago
laid before our Readers, of the deep impression
which the Murder of the Duke d'ENcx EN has
made upon the Court of Sr. Petenburgh. As
soon as the intelligence of that atrocious event
reached that Capital, the EMrEROR issued or.
dens for a Court Mourning, and such was the
indignation of the People upon the occasion, that
the French Residents have been constantly in.
stilted whenever they appeared in public. Very
considerable h, dies of Russian Troops have receiv.
ed orders to hold themselves in readiness to march.

Yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, Mr. PITT
had an audience of His MA J ESTY for a considerable
tqme.

Yesterday, about twelve o'clock, its MAJESTY,
accompanied by the DUKE of CAMBRIDGE, took an
airing in his post.chariot to Krw. The QUEEN,
PRINCESSES, and DuisEs of CUNIBERLAND and
KENT, followed. The Royal Party returned about
three o'clock.

Kiri CAMDEN and Mr. W. DUNDAS yesterday
transacted buiness in their respeatve Offices.

The Etedion for Cambridge did not take ptaoe
tilt this day. IVIr. PITT, of course, cannot take his
seat before to.morrow.

Yesterday Lord MELVILLE, Admiral GAMBIER,
arid Mr, DIcKENsoN, jun. rook their seats at the
Board of Admiralty. Admiral PATTON is expected
on Friday, and Sir JOHN COLPOYS on Monday.
Yesterday the Earl of DARTMOUTH, as Lord
Chamberlain to His MAJESTY, administered the
proper oaths to the Rev. Dr. SIMMMONOs♦
Lord CHARLES SOMERSET IS said to have been
appointed Governor of Jamaica ; but it said that he
is to ad by Deputy.
It is said that a Peerage will be conferred on Gen.
LAKE ; and that Marquis WELLESLEY will have
the vacant Blue Ribbon.

Mr. T. WILSON, of the Navy Pay-Office, is ap.
pointed Private Secretary to Lord MELVILL R.

It is with much satisfaflion we learn, that the re.
tirement of Mr. ADDINGTON has by no means
widened the breach between him and Mr. PITT,
but, on the contrary, has tended •o, revive senti-
ments of amity between those long connected friends.
The Letter written by a GREAT PERSONAGE to
Mr. ADDINGTON, was strongly expressive of ap-
probation as to the condua of the latter while in
office, and in the subsequent interview to which
Mr. ADDINTON had the honour of being admitted,
it is said that the GREAT PERSONAGE repeated
many kind sentiments
.which Mr. PITT had uttered
respetiing the charader, principles, and motives of
the late Minister.

The new Opposition Prints have begun rather
too soon to represent the Dinners given by His
Royal Highness the PRINCE of WAL2s, as the
FEsTIVALS OF PARTY. The consequence will pro.
bably be, that His Royal Highness will suspend
the exercise of his ho:pitahle spirit, rather than
expose himself to the suspicion of indulging a
spirit of Party. But the idea of Party Dinners
in that quarter at the present moment, is deep:
ly insidious, and a gross' attack upon the Illus-
trious Person to whom it relaters. It can only
arise. in Jacobin artifice, which wishes to degrade
the Nigh charafier it pretends to support and
honour.' 1-1
"Is MAJEsTY, thank God, has recovered
the fUll possession 6t all' his powers, and has de.
tnonstrated jhe recovery, in a wise election of
gfCRI
talents and exemplary virtue, for the Admi,

is
nistration of affairs at a very awful I moment'
Hts MAJESTY has stilt further demons his
recovery, by a firm maintenance of his ROYAL
PitEROCA.TIVE, which an overbearing Parr,' 1)8v
attempted to rear*. Let us then hear no more In,'
decent reports of Party Dinners, that would be par"; n
cularly ialproper at the present moment. We Iwna
the PRINCE of WALES for endeavouring to keep v.;
the dignity of the HEIR APP Alt ENT of this mlghti
Em pite , which would soon fall into RepublieaP
Anarchy,and end in Military Despotism, like the di.g.
graded land of France, if the Constitutional Right'
of the Monarch were to be sacrificed on the Altar °

I

Party.
We understand that Louts XVIII. intend, 44
Protest, in the most solemn manner, in his own
and in the flame of all the Princes of the House
BOURBON, against the elevation of BoNiseadure,t
the Throne of France. This Protest, it is sal"
contains a strong appeal to the Legitimate Sove-
reigns of Europe, calling upon them, as they' val%
thi
their own rights and independence, to resist
most unprincipled usurpation.
• The St. James's Volunteers are to parade at
o'clock to-morrow morning, with canteen, haver;
sacks, and provisions, to march to Blackheath, art
keep the ground for the City Volunteers, bviw ac
to receive their Colours from the hands of the 10ti
MAYOR.
Letters from the Military Head-quarters of heat
and Sussex mention, that almost every ,Regitner't 11,e •
those Distrias is on the eve of taking the field' t`°
Around for very large Encampments having l'"""f
RaloreyaadlYSumrraeyrkeMdiloituiar., tomTmheandFirsty ;Colonel first
°se
GRANTL ET, marched in two division:;. (the -c
under the comrurnsi of Lieutenant_Colonel
HOUSE, and the second under the command ,of
tenant-Colonel THoMPsoN) from Margate, en '.4\41.-1
day and Tuesday last ; and on Tuesday and yes„tet.
day encamped on the Western Heights above pie
ver. The Surrey is upwards of 800 strong. all !in,
healthy young men, in a very high stale °I 'I;
cipline. They are replaced at Margate hy
West Middlesex Militia, who marched 114)11105Fri°'
Barracks on Monday for that purpose..
7 nCs
commanded by General TAR L I TOat,
On Mo nday last, the 21st Light Dr 4 ae
Southampton, from Ireland, where theyairlfalvveebet_ellg
serving four years. It is
• they ate soon to be embarked for India.
Tuesday the Surrey Yeomen, who have beer
quartered at Croydon since Saturday evening lats 4
were brigaded with the Croydon Volunteer Cava4
and Infantry Corps. The Brigade was formed °D
Sanderstead Downs, where the Corps were inspeci.;
generally understood the
ed by General Fox, and had a sham fight under hilt
diration. The General paid many high and woe
deserved compliments to them for their sopa°
state of discipline.
Music.—The second night of Coital's Still:
scription Concert took place last night at the
phitheatre in the Haymarket. Mr. Motrri,rwls•tfs
late of Covent Gil-den Theatre, led the Bar' ins
precision and force. This Concert is chita Ego
tended to be of the Vocal kind. Mrs.-DI: Mo 6, 1,
Mrs. NUrINS, (late Mrs. ADDIsoN), Mr. 9
GUE, Mr. BOaltOWs, Mr. W o
last
toMr
g•
ithnetstp,unbalimc:satrheate,nBpaegrleidapsinwiitl.l be better kno'vn is
of
also employed. The novelty
Miss LARRMAIT, a very young Lady, who 6100,
her first appearance on this occasion. Shefb
" Angels," from HANDEL, and " Whilst °le of
Village ivL'ids I stray," from Slit ELI), in a 51' 00
sweet simplicity, that promises to render het pa
ornament of the musical world. Mr. WooPsto
acquitted himself ably in a concerto on the Pot
forte. The Concert, on the whole, excited S.
applause, and had a numerous auditory. beell
Mrs. SscoND, we are sorry to hear, 1°,401
seriously;indisposed ever since the conclusion "well
Oratorios. As no one excels her in pathos,
Id her
as chaste and finished singing, it has occaso,irobs'
friends much "egret, to find the unbiassedafT boa
tion she always receives from the Public, 11°
so long suspended.
,1e tiC4l
MASQUERADR.--There was a 1:11411 Or tt
tbe
this entertainment, which has lots been o p
g thean'
cline in this Country, on Tuesday night at not
theon. Though the proportion: of rionsim's ;as n°'
so ;((Fge as it has been for some time, there -f
thing whimsical or diverting in point aturilli
rafter. A man in female attire very needout
excited disgnst, and ought to have been turne and
of the place, for such a violation of decen bad
decorum. Such odious transformations decease
but
a%ir,
enough in Mother Cole, or Mrs. Fentivit tenvle
are absolutely intolerable when they, afft Cart',
graces of the juvenile kind. The o'P:reason'
of whom there was a large proportion,
ably enraged against such an offensive f*via,s.t night'
The Haymarket Theatre opened ag"'„,rn Love
with the Comedy of Ways and
Lmt,-
Laughs at Locksmiths, and Rosi tra• sbruti
,la p
ht
proceeded upon his plan of last year, and '
together some respedable ProvincialPerfroclos'ilsbc
• The Great Devil, a marauderimo
distinguished as BON Ar ART himself, haS ,fl,,
been
EN R ELECT.eentiarkEeßno,and We do o
isde,tvered tothneCt
e vsicl HsteErsCit il:
or
latter can do better than make the Great De
Confidential Agent, for
Great souls by instina to each other turn,
" Aicit alliance, and as irlclithco) burn. so%
of TthheeGnatictik-Lnsa,7se heing°'
indeed, which the Revolutionists " drew'
eenrotro hael.so, dAtisaontalE:N:::
of," and may perhaps give him a longer riat,,,cic, $
Yesterday morning, soon after five ca'nua gr,
young woman, of respettable appearance, _ herself
into
patentlyto
the about
Baso n twenty
in t
ile years
Green of
P Park. Site
tsh:vvi:dflirorlP:
served by a Carman passing Oruro
he and,
round
ac fovea
kweheop theexerted ga gate himselfof tf ie Park to
awakenear tthhec pot ache"
craonuldwintOht
ami:likiemstshiebmiehesparee:d
corner, but their endeavours to save
above a clu- she
fruitless, for she was under water
.te.e _
ss• Saint
sji
of an hour, and when taken out was
tat tbe nd
was discovered to have been a servan
Wos fou
James's Coffee-house lately. A direawn tot
s
in her bosom, to No. 5, Lambet s_
' booe.boJ
to
taken in a shell to Si. Martin s
owned,
Ist)leevrelriale" I.l7l:Priarel4l