The Sun.
London, England, 1832-01-07 00:00:00

THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.

The following is a copy of a petition which has
been addressed to his Majesty, of the inhabitants of
this town, and got up by the Political Union:—
`` THE DUTIFUL AND LOYAL PETITION OF THE
INHABITANTS OF THE TOWN AND COUNTY OF
THE TOWN OF NOTTINGHAM, TO THE KING'S
MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

" May it please your Mijesty,—We, your Majesty's
most dutiful and loyal subjects of the town and and county
of the town of Nottingham, beg most dutifully to ap-
proach your Majesty's most sacred person, end to liy at
the foot of the throne this our sincere and most humble
petition, trusting that as Englishmen, claiming the full
and fair participation of the rights and privileges guaran-
teed to us by the spirit and letter of the Constitution that
your Majesty will not turn a deaf ear to our petition or
our complaints. That having viewed with sentiments of
the deepest gratitude the patriotic intentions and wishes of
your Majesty in sanctioning those principles and salutary
changes in the representation of the country—changes
which the long lapse of time have rendered necessary to
the safety and well-being of the State ; th it our common
country—nay the throne itself--may be rescued from the
power of an oligarchy alike dingermis to the hereditary
and kingly privileges of your Majesty, as they may be
to the rights and privileges of your Majesty's subjects.
We, your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, in
common with the whole country, deeply and poignantly
regret the awkward situation in which it has been placed
by the throwing out the Reform Bill by the Lords spiri-
tual and temporal, almost without a hearing or permitting
the case a fair and impartial investigation, either of it,
merits or demerits, which we, your Majesty's dutiful and
loyal subjects, cannot but regard as an insult offered to the
throne and the constitutional privileges of the people of
England, by an oligarchy, who would alike even trample
on the sacred and guaranteed right of you r Majesty, as they
would on the liberties of your Majesty's subjects. Em-
boldened by long domination over the people,—enriched
and made powerful by pietist and unjust legislation,—par-
ticipating largely of the taxes and imposts which they
have so cruelly levied on the people, whom they contemn
and consider as the mere shreds of nature, only to toil and
starve for the convenience of the oligarchy, whose oppo-
sition to your Majesty's benign and patriotic wishes has
clearly evinced a reckless endeavour to perpetuate evil and
oppression of that people, whose energies and industry have
long been the pillar and prop of the State. Actuated by
no principles hut those of the general welfare and tran-
quillity of our devoted country, we your Majesty's most
dutiful and loyal subjeets, conceive that, from the oppo-
sition so strongly manifested to your Majesty's benign
views to strengthen and invigorate our drooping institu-
tions, by men holaing distinguished and high offices of
trust in the several departments of the State, we de-
voutly pray that your Majesty would be pleased to
take into your Royal consideration the necessity of
forthwith displacing all those men from office, emolu-
ment, and trust of your Royal confidence, who have
so unjustly opposed themselves to any improvement in the
political economy of the country. That from the well-
known patriotism and energy lately displayed by the nobi-
lity and gentry of various counties in favour of the Reform
Bill, we dutifully pray that your Majesty will be pleased
to make selection from among those who have claims to
bonourable distinctions, and to office ; and as relates to
the county of Nottingham, we trust that there are noble-
men of distinguished virtue, and well attached to the sup-
port of a cause of Reform, to fill the office of Lord Lieute-
nant of the county of Noqingham. We dutifully, yet
respectfully, pray, that your Majesty will be pleased to
repose your trust in some other nobleman than the present
Lord Lieutenant of the county, who has ventured an
apposition to measures calculated to do honour to the sym-
pathies and feelings of your Majesty, and to save the
country from anarchy and confusion, be throwing obstael,s
in the way of a Ministry actuated by principles the most
just and honourable to themselves and the country. We
therefore devoutly pray the dismissal from office of the
present Lord Lieutenant of the county of Nottingham,
his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, as a means calculated
to allay party feelings wholly arising from his Grace's un-
hallowed opposition to the Reform of the representation,
and as in duty bound, we, &c., shall ever pray,"
This address was signed in one day by 506 of the
inhabitants of this town, and forwarded to Mr.
Hume for presentation on the 26th of December.
On the 29th that Hon. Member acknowledged the
receipt of it in the following letter :
" Bryanstone-square, Dec. 29, 1831.
" have received your letter of the 26th, and the
Petition to the King praying him to dismiss from office all
public officers who have opposed the Reform Bill. I shall

forward the petition to Lord Melbourne, the Secretary of
State, the proper channel, and state that I concur in its
prayer. The Ministers, I believe, mean melt; but they
have not acted with that vigour and energy which Reformers
expected, or the Bill would ere this have been law.
" Itis monstrous to see the Lords Lieutenants, collectors
of taxes, distributors of stamps, and hundreds of civil
officers, taking an active part against the measures of the
King and his Ministers, and using the power they derive
from the King against the measures of the King's Minis-
!err., though supported by the nation. But that cannot
long go on. " I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

- " JOSEPH HUNIE.
" Mr. John Clayton, Nottingham."

FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT.

FOREIGN OFFICE, JAN. 2.
,
I he King has been graciously pleased to nominate and appoint
Wm. Smith, Esq., in the room of George Jackson, Esq., to be
his Majesty's Commissary Judge. and Henry W. Macauley, Esq.,
in the room of W. Smith, Esq., to be his Majesty's Commissioner
of Arbitration, to the mixed British and Foreign Commissions
established at Sierra Leone, under the treaties and conventions
between his Majesty and Foreign Powers, for the suppression of
illegal Slave Trade ; and in pursuance of the several Acts of the
Legislature for carrying the said treaties and conventions into
effect.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 6, 18a2.
The King has been graciously pleased to
.icrpoint the Hon.
Henry Richard F. Wellesley, sometime attach to his Majesty's
Embas-ies at Vienna and the Hague, to be Secretary to his Ma-
jesty's Legation at Stutgard.

HANOVER, DEC. T 3.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has been pleased
to appoint Captain Stevens to be one of his Royal Highness's
Equerries.

WAR-OFFICE, JAN. 6, Mel
:.2(1 Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieut. H. Curtis to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Smith, who retires; Cornet R. J. 0. Van-
deleur to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Curtis; W. Camp.
bell, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Vandeleur, Jan. 6.
9th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Captain J. Carnegie, from
the half-pay, to be Captain, vice R. F. Shawe, who exchanges,
receiving the difference, Jan. 6.
17th Light Dragoons—Cornet L. Ames to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Barron, promoted ; W. H. Fielden, Gent. to be
Cornet, by purchase, vice Ames, Jan. 6.
3d Regiment of Foot Guards—Ensign and Lieutenant C. J. J.
Hamilton to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice San-
dilands, who retires ; J. J. Waldegrave, Gent. to be Ensign and
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hamilton, Jan. 6.
994 Regiment of Foot—Serjeant-Major R Harker to be
Quartermaster, vice Merchant, deceased, Jan. 6.
33c1 Foot—Capt. C. Adair, from the 84th Regiment, to be
Captain, vice Gray, who exchanges; H. K. Erskine, Gent, to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hadley, promoted, Jan. 6.
55th Foot—Lieut. F. R. Cary to be Captain, by purchase, vice
Sir J. J. S. Douglas, who retires; Ensign C. B. Daubeny to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Cary, Jan. 6.
64th Foot—Captain J. Gray, from the 33d Regiment, to be
Captain, vice Adair, who exchanges, Jan. 6.
89th Foot—Ensign C. Lee to be Adjutant, vice Naylor, who
resigns the Adjutantcy only, Jan. 6.
91st Foot—Lieut. H. Curling, from the half-pay of the 30th
Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice G. W. M. Levett, who ex-
changes, receiving the difference, Jan. 6.
93d Foot—Sergeant-Major Crozier to be Quartermaster,
vice Gordon, deceased, Oct. 21.
UNATTACHED.—Lieut. J. Barron, from the 17th Light
Dragoons, to be Captain of Infantry, by purchase, Jan. 6.