The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-20 00:00:00

ANSWER TO THE INHABITANTS.

" Gentlemen,—l cannot sufficiently express to you how
much the Princess and myself feel the sentiments con-
veyed to us from the inhabitants of the city of Chester;
we are deeply alive to them.

" The inhabitants of Chester, disfinjuished always for
their loyalty to the King, seize this oceason to evince it
by this attention to us, as members of his famiii•
" To-morrow, I trust, we shall be able to vim: your
city, the inhabitants of which have already a claim on our
warm feelings, which will tend to confirm my most anxi-
ous desire that the Princess should be so brought up as to
identity herself with all classes in this great and free
country; for the usefulness and happiness of her future
life,T ihf
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ante-room.
Here
" Lady Elizabeth" (the name of the amiable Counteq,
Grosvenor, still most familiar to our ears) entered, leading
young Hugh Lupus—the representative of a long line of
Norman ancestors.—and two or three of her interesting
little girls, and conversed familiarly with the Mayor, the
venerable Alderman Larden, and several other members of
the body, whom she graciously recognized.
The Corporation, after partaking of a splendid dejeuner
a la fourchelle, returned to Chester ; and the Royal vi-
siters took a drive through the beautiful grounds and plan-
tations at Eaton before dinner.

The Royal visiters intend to honour this city with their
presence tomorrow, and will ope❑ the new bridge over
the Dee (one arch 200 feet span). Extensive preparations
ire making by the authorities and the Bishop and clergy
for their reception.

THE SUIT RELATIVE TO THE BRITISH

IRON COMPANY.-Lord LYNDHURST has appointed to.
give judgment on the 30th inst. i❑ the long•contested and
very important case of " Small v. Attwood." The judg-
ment will be pronounced in Gray's-inn hall, on which oc-
casion it is expected the court will be crowded with persons
deeply interested in the result of the cause. The argu-

inentti in the case, it will be recollected, occupied 26 days„
and the question at issue is, whether a sale of shares in
the British Iron Company, made by Mr. Arzwoon, was
a legal transfer ? The Company was started, among many
other projects, in 1825, for obtaining iron from the mines
in \Vales, and it is scarcely necessary to state that many
of those persons who speculated in the undertaking have
derived no benefit from the scheme. Mr. Arrwoon is
related to Mr. ATTWOOD of Birmingham, and also to the
banker of that name residing in London. The produce
of the iron-works have, since the commencement of the
suit, been paid into the Court of Exchequer, to abide the
result of the case, which it is said will involve property to
the amount of 600,0001. The counsel who argued the
case before the Barons in the Court of Exchequer were
Sir E. B. SUGDEN, Mr. JERVIS, K. C., Mr. LOVET, and
mother gentleman, whose name we do not remember.
The former gentleman received a fee of 3,000 guineas ;
JERVIS 2,000; Mr. LOVET 1,500 ; and the junior
counsel 1,000. Sir E. SUGDEN'S speech occupied three
lays, and at its conclusion, so pleased was Mr. ATTwoots
t the zeal which the learned gentleman exhibited on his
behalf, he presented him with 1,0001. in addition to the
fee which he had previously received. Mr. KNIGHT, the
senior counsel who appeared for the parties on the other
.ide, received a fee of 2,000 guineas, and his juniors were
compensated with proportionate sums. The case is con—
sidered to be more important to the parties than any suit
which has been before the Court a long time. The papers
would fill a good sized cart, and consequently the expenses
will be proportionately heavy.
Antwerp, under the Spanish domination, was
of all the cities of the world, that of which the commerce
was most extensive ; no where was its wealth, its power,
or its resources, then equalled. Antwerp was, indeed,
the entrepot for all the merchandise of the universe ; and
the ships of all regions and of all countries cast anchor
there. When ALEXANDER FA RNESE, Duke of Parma,
his Catholic Majesty's General, reduced the city after the
most obstinate resistance, the Scheldt was shut, and that

.ingle circumstance compelled all the industrious inhabi-
t %rite to emigrate. They established themselves at Amster-
dam and other places in Holland, and soon Antwerp lost
its astonishing prosperity, and the natural advantages of
its position, which were neutralized by the closing of
the Scheldt. Its decadence was rapid and inevitable.
rile towns of Holland, and especially Amsterdam, at-
,ained, however, an extraordinary importance—an import-
ince which was merely the consequence of the disasters of
Antwerp, and of the emigration of its inhabitants, who
transplanted their labour and their industry to cities pos-
sessing advantages which had been lost by Antwerp.
Holland owed the greatest part of its prosperity during
two centuries to this circumstance, and has now ac-
quired such a mass of convincing proofs of this truth, that
the freedom of the Scheldt will ruin her, that she prefers
making any sacrifice rather than subscribing to a condition
involving inevitable ruin. When the Emperor of Aus-
rat), wished to restore to his Brabant subjects the freedom

of the Scheldt, the Dutch felt that it was a question in-
volving the preservation or the loss of their prosperity,
ind that even their existence was compromised. They
then firmly determined to repel the pretensions of the
wishte end of
Eurecoc, and to resist the force which the latter pre-
pared for the execution of his project. The affair was ar-
ranged, the Dutch paid about 20,000,000, and theScheldt
trheemßaienpt clilco.sedltunistiolbtvhieouls6why thofthllea Dutch 1795, the
the Scheldt closed, and if WILLIAM now displays so much
obstinacy, it is on account of the safety of his people ; add
to this that the natural advantages enjoyed by Antwerp
are such that the produce of the Dutch Indies would
sooner arrive at Antwerp than at Amsterdam, and soon
the latter city, now so flourishing, would experience ths
fate to which Antwerp was subjected at the end of ,he
16th century ; and the prosperity of Holland would lie
reduced with a dismal rapidity. So much for Holla,,d,
were the aavigatioa of the Sobel& to amain free.