The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-09 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR. .

Admiral Sir PULTENEY LCOL3I ai rived in town
from Portsmouth, and had an interview with Sir JA3IES
GRAHAM yesterday at the Admiralty. Sir JamEs after-
war is visited Viscount PA LAIERSTON at the Foreign-office,
and also visited Viscount ALTHORP.

Earl GREY arrived at his residence at Eist Sheen, about
5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, from Howick-ball.
The Belgian Minister, M. VAN DE WEYER, had an
interview with Viscount PALMERSTON yesterday after-
noon, at the Foreign-office. Lord AUCKLAND and the
First Secretary to the French Embassy transacted business
yesterday at the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs.

Viscount Howicx is expected to arrive this day at the
seat of his father-in-law, Sir JOSEPH CO?LEY, at Sprot-
borough, Yorkshire, from the north.

Princess LIEVEN, we understand, is at pre,
sent indisposed.

The Duke of WELLINGTON is expected in
town to-morrow. His Grace has been for some days en-
tertaining a distinguished party at Walmer C istle, consist-
ing of Earl ROSSLYN, the Earl of WINCHILSEA, Lord and
Lady BURGHERSH, Mr. and Mrs. ARBUTHNOT, &C.

Mr. STANLEY may be expected in town in
►he course of a day or two from Ireland, to attend the C.-
binet Council summoned to meet on Thursday.

The Right Hon. T. SPRING RICE, the
present Secretary of the Treasury, it is understood, will be
the Government candidate for the Speakerahip of the re-
formed Parliament.—Linierich Herald.

We understand that Mr. and Mrs. LOCK-
HART, accompanied by Miss Scow, have left Abbotsford
for itokeby, the seat of Mr. MARIOTT, an old and valued
friend of Sir WALTER Scorr.—Edin. Evening Courant.
MEETING OF THE CITIZENS OF CORK
ON THE WALLSTOWN MASSACRE.—A meeting of the
citizens of Cork is advertised to be holden in that city, on
Monday, the Bth inst., "to address his MAJESTY on the
subject of the recent carnage at Wallstown."—Dublin
Freeman's Journal.

THE PARLIAMENT.—Both Houses of Par-
liament, and the Committee and other rooms connected
with them, are filled with workmen promoting the altera-
tions, the renovations, &c. ; and these labours are pro-
ceeding upon a much more extensive scale than usual. All
the matting, &c., even in the passages, has been removed.
The KING'S entrance, the new gallery, the Painted
Chamber, along which the Sovereign passes to enter the
House of Lords, are now closed, being occupied with
workmen painting, washing, and repairing. Workmen
are also engaged in arranging the forms for spectators
in the new gallery, the Painted Chamber, &c. so that all
may be ready, should further prorogation or dissolution
take place within any limited period. The Parliament at
present stands prorogued till the 16th instant; the period
of further prorogation or speedy dissolution is expected to
be settled by the Cabinet Council to. morrow.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE and Mr. TUNNO, the
joint proprietors of the ex-borough of BoFainey, have
caused notice to quit to be served on all their tenants of
that place, to the no small annoyance of those who had
houses and lands at a nominal rent, on the easy condition
of returning whoever was nominated by the joint patrons,
who, having no further use for them in that line, are de-
sirous of ridding themselves of such incumbrances. We
learn that the great tithes of the parish of Tintagel were
held in the same way.— West Briton.
By letters received on Saturday, from New
Yotk, it appears that Mr. CHARLES KEMBLE and his
daughter, Miss FANNY, arrived on the sth of September,
and were preparing to make their appearance on the boards
of the Park Theatre. WALLACK had arrived, and had
acted Rolla, and other of his favourite characters, with
great success, and to very crowded houses. HARRY
WALLacx (in opposition to his brother) had announced
himself to ploy Rolla, at the Bowery Theatre, as " Mr.
WALLACK," sinking the H. ; the ruse de guerre did not,
however,succeed,for the house was but indifferently attended.
MiSS SMITHSON was sufficiently recovered
from her indisposition last night to appear at the Hay-
market in the character of Desdemona. We understand
that this exemplary and meritorious young lady will shortly
proceed to the Continent, having received several offers of
engagement in France.
The return of Mr. RICHARD JONES to
Covent-garden (the theatre in which he first acted in
talent, will, vn: Zialb :par!: ;et the present
aear, London),u
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advantageous to the establishment of LAPORTE. There is
not any performer on the English stage superior, hardly
any equal, to Mr. JONES, in the peculiar and most useful
department of the drama which that gentleman his hitherto
sustained.

There are several novelties in preparation at
Covent-Garden Theatre. Besides the revival of SHAK-
SPEARE'S Comedy of All's Well that Ends Well, to
which LACY has put some very delightful music, "com-
posed, selected, and arranged," there is a new Fares by
PEAKE, and a new Play by the author of The Hunchback.
At the close of the Adelphi Theatre, in Ediri-
burgh, yesterday week, after a successful season, Mr.
MURRAY, the manager, in alluding, in his farewell ad•
dress, to the lamentable demise of Sir WALTER SCOTT,
Bart., thus expressed himself:—" I would now, Ladies
and Gentlemen, conclude, did I not feel that I have a de-
licate, a painful duty to discharge, and in the performance
of which I must throw myself upon your kindness and con-
sideration. It is well known that at one period the Edin-
burg!' Theatre owed its existence to the success of what
were called The Waverley Dramas,' and my silence upon
the recent loss our country has sustained might be. misin-
terpreted. That great man, whose name now fills ev, ry
mouth, from the peer to the peasant, was peculi irly the
object of reverential regard to the members of the Scottish
stage; for, to the success which attended the dramatic
adaptations from his splendid works, aided by his powerful
influence and personal assistance, we owe the establish-
ment of that fund, the first anniversary of which he im
mortalised by declaring himself the author of W iverley,
and to which the poor, sick, and disabled actor, when in-
capacitated from fretting his brief hour upon the stage,
can alone look for subsistence. To eulogise such a name
as Sir WALTER SCOTT'S is unnecessary—were it, this is
not the place, nor am I the person competent to do so;
but the moment rapidly approaches when the Edinburgh
Theatre will size the opportunity of testifying by mote
than words its affectionate respect for the memory of its
illustrious benefactor."

The Board of Customs at Copenhagen has
directed th it a white flag, with blue perpendicular stripes,
shall be hoisted on the top of the light-house at Skagen,
when there is danger for vessels arising from large masses
of floating ice in the Cattegat during the winter.
The Journal de Francfort has the following,
dated Coburg, Sept. 26 :—" Lately, a journeyman black-
smith clandestinely broke into and entered the vault in
which are deposited the mortal remains of the Dukes of
S,xe•Coburg. His object, as he confesses, was to take

from one of the Princesses buried there a necklace, to make
a present of it to his mistress ; but on reaching the bottom
of the vault, he was seized by fear, and could not accom-
plish his design. His only thought was to get out ,f this
repository for the dead as speedily as possible. Ur fortu-
nately for him, he could not, it, spite of all his efforts,
reach the aperture by which he had entered, as he proba-
bly was not aware of the depth previously to his letting
himself down. His cries and groans were only herd on
the evening of the next day, when he was delivered from
his horrible situation. His bands were bloody, bis
torn off, and his whole person like a corpse on his being
taken to prison. His crime was considered sacrilege, and
condemned as such. The Duke of SAxx-Conuttc, how-
ever, has constituted the punishment, i❑ consideration of
the agony of death which he must have felt. He was set
at liberty, but being a stranger to the duchy, he was obliged
to quit C.,burg.

THE HARVEST.—The harvest may now be
considered as brought to a conclusion generally, the
little yet in the field in the uplands in Wales and the north
of England being comparatively of minor importance.
Upon the whole the weather was favourable. A cemsi-
derabie quantity of sprouted corn appears in those districts
where the crops were out during the fortnight of wet wea-
ther which we experienced. The barley crop has suffered
considerably. It is believed that no more than a fifth of
the whole was secured, and that two fifths of the remainder
was cut, and under the weather ; the remaining part
wtich stood until after the rain, will not be materially
injured, although its colour will be changed, and a pretext
afforded for depressing the prices. The bulk will be large,
although some must have been lost by the process of repeated
turning in the field to prevent sprouting. Oats being a more
hardy grain have suffered little. The accounts from Ire-
land now pronounce the crops of all kinds to be a full
average one. The repotts from the Continent are, upon
the whole, to the same effect, and all concur most re-
mit; katily in describing the samples as being exceedingly
variable in quality. The markets every where are declin-
ing. In Ireland prices will be lower than have been
known for many years. Large quantities of oats have
been already sold for delivery at 14s, per quarter,—Nkc-
(*afield Courier,

LETTER from SIR JOHN SCOTT LILLIE
to his GRACE the DUKE of WELLINGTON.

MY Loan DUKE,—I did myself the honour to address
a letter to your Grace on the 24th ult. requesting to be
informed if a certain letter of which I enclosed a copy, •
and which had been published a few days before in
all the London papers, h-id been writen by your
Grace, or whether it was a fabrication, as I then
supposed it to have been. Not having been favoured with
any reply (although a fortnight has elapsed), I must now
conclude that your Grace was the author of that letter;
and as it contained an allusion to my name of a libellous
tendency, I conceive it to be incumbent upon me to do that
justice to myself, which I had hoped to have received at your
Grace's hands ; the more especially as certain newspapers
have since then assumed those libelous insinuations to
have been well founded, and have co►nment:d upon them
in A manner tending not only to aggravate this injury,
but likewise to reflect upon my military services, while I
had the honour to serve under your Grace's command.
Your Grace's apparent object in writing this letter
must have been either to serve the individual to whom it
was addressed, or to injure me. I shall accordingly en-
deavour to prove how ill calculated that letter was to ac-
complish the first of these two objects ; and as to the
latter, it is not for me to say how far it has been accom-
plished, although I can scarcely believe it possible you
could have any such intention.
The individual to whom your Grace addressed this letter
appears, according to his own statement, to have been
promised a Commission, about twelve months ago,
in the service of the elder branch of the House of
Braganza, by a gentleman whom be specifies by name ;
and to have complained that this gentleman was con-
siderably in his debt for the services he had then ren-
dered, and the expenses he had incurred. The gentleman
iu question admits the fact of his having employed this
man, but denies that he is in this man's debt, and offers to
produce his receipt for all demands up to the period of his
services being discontinued. Now, my Lord Duke, it
has not appeared by the evidence of either party that I had
employed this man, or that he had ever alleged that he had
any claim upon me ; nevertheless, a letter is produced,
purporting to be from your Grace, wherein this man is re-
commended to " complain to a Magistrate against me, or
whoever had taken him in." This gratuitous introduction of
my name,associated as it has been with the latter observation,
is what I humbly conceive I have just cause to complain
of—the more especially as your Grace has not been pleased
to state upon what authority this allusion was made.
I am ready to admit, my Lord Duke, that the Repre-
sentatives of the Queen of Portugal had it last year
in contemplation to form a Brigade for the sup-
port of the cause of legitimacy and constitutional free-
dom -in Portugal, against that of usurpation and absolute
power ; and that they bad offered me the command of
that Brigade, with which, had it been formed, it is pos-
sible I might have now been in Lisbon.
But, my Lord Duke, the partizat,s of Don Miguel is
this country (as you may be, perhaps, already aware)
threw so many obstacles in the way of this expedition, by
the seizure of fillips, &c. &c., as to occasion a want of suffi-
cient funds for the formation of this Brigade; and I con-
sequently perceived, with considerable regret, the impas-
sibility of my taking that part in this enterprise, which
had been offered me; for without an efficient force of this
description I did not contemplate that succe,s I should
otherwise have anticipated. I have the less hesitation in
tnakiog.this admission to your Grace, being aware that
by the Foreign Enlistment Act I should have been as
much at liberty to exercise my discretion in aid of one
cause, as your Grace, or any other British Officer who
held a commission from the late King of Portugal, would
have been, if disposed to aid the opposite cause.
Your Grace having been a Member of the Go-
vernment by which the Foreign Enlistment Act was in-
troduced, cannot but be aware of its details; and you must
have consequently known, that bad this man acted on the
advice given him by your Grace, be would have been ex-
posing himself to the penalties of a law, from which others
are protected ;—or it his claim was only an alleged debt,
it was equally evident that a Police Office was hot the pro-
per tribunal for adjudicating in cases of this description. Had
I advised this man to have committed himselfin this mane
tier before a Magistrate, I should consider that I had, in
reality, exposed myself to the inference implied by your
Latter ; for what was evidently unintentional on the part
of your Grace, might have been attributed to another in
a different manner.
I have thus endeavoured, my Lord Duke, to show
how little calculated your Letter was to benefit the indi-
vidual to whom it was addressed, and how ►manifestly it
tended to reflect upon me; and I shall now endeavour to
prove what little foundation there was for those Newspaper
comments which emanated from that Letter, as
regards my military services under your Grace's
command ; in so doing, I must again advert to
the cause of legitimacy against usurpation in Portugal;
for the object of the first expedition with which I had the
honour to serve under your Grace, was that of restoring
the Head of the Braganza Fa►nily to the Throne of Portu-
gal in the year 1808. On that occasion the British army
succeeded in overcoming the power that had usurped the
government of Portugal, and in restoring the legitimate
Sovereign to his Throne. After the victory of Vitnieires
I continued to serve in the army under your command un.
til the conclusion of the war in 1814, and was pre-
sent at the subsequent battles of Bussacco, Sala-
manca, Vittoria, the Pyrenees, the Nivele, the
N►ve, Orthes, and Toulouse ; during which pe•
riod I had the misfortune to have been several times
wounded, but so severely on the latter occasion, as to
have prevented my removal from the field of battle for
forty-eight hours. On some of the above occasions I
had the honour to act under your Grace's immediate die
rections. At Salatnanca you sent me orders by the Duke
of Richmond to take possession of one of the Aripiles, and
the services of the detachment I commanded were noticed
in your Grace's despatches. In your subsequent dspatches,
giving an account of the attack on the enemy's main position
in the Pyrenees, on the 30th of July, 1813, you were
pleased to particularize the 7th Cassadores as having led
that attack, and you described the position " as one of the
strongest and most difficult of access that you had sees
occupied by troops." This battalion, your Grace nail
recollect, was commanded by me, and I likewise, en that
occasion, received my orders from your Grace through
the Duke of Richmond, who returned to ma during the
engagement to express your appobation at the manner in
which this Portuguese battalion (without any support
whatsoever) dislodged a French force, superior in num°
hers, from an intermediate hill between the two posi-
tions (while both armies were passive spectators of
the conflict). This battalion again succeeded, s°
your Grace may recollect, in retaining possession of
that bill, when it was afterwards attacked by
a French brigade, until the 11th Portuguese, and 40th
regiments, which you subsequently ordered to its supports
had arrived. The Duke of Richmond has been since
pleased to bear his testimony in writing of the honour con-
ferred upon me by your• Grace on that occasion ; in ad-
dition to which the badges of distinction, and the Order
of the Bath with which his Majesty has been pleased to
honour me, in commetnoration of that, and the subsequote
qotfou
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contrary effect.

Having thus terminated my military services in the canoe
of Portuguese legitimacy, I now see no reason to alter 14
opinions in this respect, as some may have done; neither
4111 I aware of ever having, since then, manifested the
slightest disrespect for your Grace's high military chars&
ter. It is true, however, that in my more humble ova;
city as a freeholder of the county of Middlesex, I WO
ventnred to express my political sentiments in behalf of the

constitutional rights of the people of this country, when
proposing, on more than one occasion, a Member for the
county; and likewise in proposing resolutions at other
county meetings connected with the same subject. On oneof
those occasions, I certainly felt peculiar satisfaction at ha-
ving been called upon by my brother freeholders to pro-
pose a res‘ilution expressive of the thanks and gratitude Of
the metropolitan county ta his Majesty for having accepted
of the resignation of his late Ministers, as I felt satisfied
that the measures adopted on that occasion by his MajeetY
saved the nation from the impending horrors of revolution
and civil war.

Conceiving, my Lord Duke, that the condnct of those
who thus supported his ithjesty's Government at the gm'
portant crisis in question, is less deserving of animadver-
sion than that of those who were opposed to the
Government, I cannot suppose it possible that gnY
humble exertions on those occasions could have been Ut

your recollection when you wrote this letter, or that you
could have been induced thereby not to reply to the letter
which I did myself the honour to address to you on the
24th ultimo. However, as you have not thought proper
either to deny your having been the author of the letter
in question, or even to admit the possibility of your having
been mistaken in the construction you put upon the sub'
feet to which it referred—l have had no alternative but

that of assuming it to have been written by your Grace,
and consequenty of entering into the foregoing detail!, to
order to refute the multiplicity of libellous insinu-
ations and newspaper comments, which have emanated
therefrom—dictated as they evidently have been by the
hostility of party spirit and of political feelings. Having

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Cne •o, I shall now leave it to those who Lave read the
Publications in question, and who may be pleased to per-
Ilse this letter, to form such conclusions as they may think
Proper on the subject.
I have the honour to remain, my Lord Duke,
Your Grace's most obedient, bumble Servant,
JOHN SCOTT LILLIE.
St, John's, Fulham, Oct, 8, 1832.