The Sun.
London, England, 1832-11-10 00:00:00

ENTERTAINMENT AT GUILDHALL.

try, and seeing it rank again amongst the most powerfu
States of Europe, for history is full of retribution.'"

" TERRITORIAL ACQUISITIONS OF RUSSIA.
" Russia, which was first confined to narrow limits,
that is, to the country which surrounds Novogorod, Mos •
cow, and Kief, has attained its present magnitude by a
variety of ageressions and conquests. The principal of
these are the following :

The annual city festival was held at Guildhall
yesterday in the usual manner. Among the guests
were Earl Grey, Lord Melbourne, Lord AlThorp,
Lord Hill, Lord Palmerston, the Earl of Errol,
Lord Henley, Lord J. Russell, Lord A. Fitzclarence,
the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Gover-
nor of the Bank of England, the Chairman of the
East India Company, Mr. S. Rice, Mr. Hume, Mr.
Sergeant Wilde, &c.
After the not unusual bad dinner, and the usual
loyal and patriotic toasts having been given and re-
ceived in the customary manner,
Earl GREY proposed the health of the Lord
Mayor.
The LORD MAYOR returned his most sincere and
grateful thanks for the kind reception of the toast,
and said that when he considered the important
(lice to which he had been elected with the full
a.al unanimous assent of his fellow-citizens, he was
thoroughly convinced of his own incompetence to
discharge its duties aright : nevertheless, he was
determined to exert himself to the utmost and in
the most fearless manner, and trusted to the kind
indulgence of his fellow-citizens. He had been
elected without any condition or pledge as to the
manner in which he should act; he was therefore a
free agent, and now declared his determination to
discharge the duties of his office in the most inde-
pendent manner. At the outset he declared his
fixed determination, which was, that during his year
of office he should not be a party man in any sense
of the word. He was resolved that the Mansion-
house, during his tenure of it, should be neutral
ground.---(Hear.) He would never use their com-
mon funds for party purposes, or consent that the
influence of his office should be exercised for the
benefit of individuals. As Lord Mayor of Lonilon
he was determined to know no party—(Hear, hear)
—and in declaring this determination he considaell
that he was merely acting in the discharge oMis
duty. He would endeavour to the utmost of his
ability to preserve the peace, and promote the prost
perity, of the city. He held out the olive-branch,
and wished to cultivate peace and love with all.—
(Hear.) He called on his fellow-citizens to give
him their support in the furtherance of those prin-
c pies, and hoped to see a year of peace and prospe-
r ty, his chief desire being to avoid offence to any,
and satisty all.—(Hear, hear.)
The health of the late Lord Mayor having been
proposed, and drunk with enthusiasm,
Sir JOHN KEY returned his grateful thanks for
the honour, which was rendered doubly valuable by
the manner in which it had been conferred. It was
gratifying to him, now that he had retired from the
situation of Chief Magistrate of the city of London,
to find that the course %% bleb he had conscientiously
pursued had afforded satisfaction to his fellow-citi-
zens. Their approbation would afford him ample
encouragement, either in the retirement of private
life, or in any other situation which they might
confer upon him—(Hear)—to pursue the same prin-
ciples as had already received so much encourage-
ment at their hands, to adopt the same line of con-
duct which he had hitherto followed, and to the
prosecution of which he exclusively attributed the
kindness and consideration which he had invariably
experienced from his fellow-citizens.—(Hear.)
The LORD MAYOR proposed the health of Earl
Grey and his Majesty's Ministers, in a speech of
which little or nothing reached us, owing to the din
in the hall, and the inconvenient position which
we occupied. We understood the worthy Magis-
trate to pronounce an eulogium on the past conduct
of Ministers, and express his hope and conviction
that they would continue so to act as to keep up
the importance and maintain the prosperity of old
England.—(Hear.)
The toast having been received and drunk with
the warmest expressions of applause,
Earl GREY rose to return thanks, but, owing to
I he causes above stated, very little. of what the Noble
Lord said reached our ears. He expressed hitrgrear
gratification at the feeling with which the toast had,
been received. Neither he nor his colleagues could
be insensible to the importance of the opinion of a
community such as that of the city of London. He
fully coincided in what had fallen from the Lord
Mayor as to the desirableness of cultivating senti-
ments of peace and harmony, and was as averse as
any man to seeing the public tranquillity disturbed
by party feeling. He repeated, that for the manner
in which the toast had been received, he could not
avoid, over and over again, expressing his obligation
arid gratitude on his own behalf and on that of his
colleagues. Ministers were not ignorant of the deep
responsibility imposed on them by the high and im-
portant offices which they held; and he undertook
to say that while endeavouring to improve the
institutions of the country, and render them
more worthy of the love and respect of the
people, no men held the foundation of those insti-
tutions in greater respect, or were more sincerely ,
desirous of upholding them in all their main and im-
portant principles.—(Hear, hear.) His object and
that of his colleagues was to place the Constitution
on the best and broadest foundation; to the Consti.
tution they were firmly and sincerely attached, and
;heir anxious desire was to discharge their duty
faithfully and honestly, with a view to the honour
of the Crown and the real interests of society at
large.—(Hear, hear.) They had hitherto acted on
this principle, and would continue to do so, their
aim and object being to render our institutions per-
fect by making them popular,—to remove any de-
fects that might exist in their construction or ope-
ration, and to unite all classes in their defence.--
(Hear, hear.)
The healths of the Earl of Errol, Lord Hill, and
Viscount Melbourne, were then drunk.
Lord MELBOURNE proposed the health of the
Lady Mayoress, and
The LORD MAYOR returned thanks.

" 1. The kingdom of Kazan, conquered by the Tzar
Yvan Vasilievitch 11., in 1552.
"2. The kingdom of Astrachan, taken from the Tar-
tars by the same Monarch, in 1554.
" 3. Siberia, a territory more extensive than Mexico or
Peru, which Yermak, a rebellious Hetman of the Don
Cossacks, subdued in 1573, and presented to the Tzar in
atonement for his revolt.

"4. White Russia, including Smolensk, ceded by
Poland to the arms of Alexis, in 1667. In 1659, Russia
extended from Archangel to Azof, but had not reached the
Baltic.

"5. Livonia, Esthonia, Carelia, Ingermania, Vyburc,
and several islands in the Gulph of Finland, ceded by
Sweden to Peter the Great, in 1721.
"6. Polotsk, Witepsk, Micislaf, and Polish Livonia,
wrested from Poland by Catherine 11., in 1772. (Ist
Partition.)
" 7. The Crimea, the island Taman, and a great part
of the Kuban, annexed by a treaty which Catherine 11.
compelled the Porte to sign, in 1784.
" 8. Orzakof, and the lands between the Bug and the
Dneister, in 1790.

" 9. A great part of Lithuania and Volhynia, in 1793
(second partition); and in 1795 the rest of Lithuania
and Volliynia, Samogitia, &c. (third p3rtition of Poland).
" 10. The town of Baku and the fortress of Derbent
from the Persians, in 1797.

" 11. Georgia, annexed 1801, and Bialystock in 1807,
under A It xander.

" 12. The province of Finland, in 1809.
.. _ _ ....

" 13. The province of Bessarabia and the eastern part
of Moldavia, obtained by the same Prince from Turkey,
in 1811.

" 14. Various districts in Persia, in 1813.

" To which is to he added large acquisitions in Persia
and Turkey, in 1827 and 1829, and the kingdom of Po
land, lately incorporated with Russia by the autocrat Ni-
cholas, in violation of oaths and treaties. Thus Russia,
which a few centuries ago was scarcely known as an in-
dependent state, is now the largest empire of the world.
It is more than twice as extensive as all the other kingdoms
of Europe put together, and far excreds the greatest em-
pire of antiquity. The area of Europe is computed at
3,724,000 square miles ; that of the Russian empire at
7,880,000 square miles ! Will the encroachments of
Russia never have an end ?"—Morning Advertiser.

Every day adds to the indignation that the
commercial body particularly feel towards the
Ministers for their conduct with respect to Hol-
land, and the last official documents which were
pulished this morning have tended more than ever
to strengthen, if that were possible, public opi-
nion against the foreign policy of the duped and
degraded Ministers of England, and place in a
higher point of view the manly and dignified
conduct of our ancient and respected, but now
oppressed, ally. Englishmen feel as degraded
at the present position of their country with
regard to Holland as if they were coming in
warlike collision with their brothers. From their
childhood they have been taught to regard the
Dutch as their best friends. One of the brightest
periods of English history is so closely connected
with that excellent nation, a period that the pre-
sent Whigs in office, if they were not strangely
degenerated from their ancestors, would not
Forget, that it appears like a dream when we
are reflecting upon the probability of hostilities
with the Dutch. The interests of the two na-
tions have been so closely interwoven, they have
so constantly and readily held out the right hand
of friendship and good fellowship to each other,
that the British nation recoils at the idea of
raising that hand against the country that in
peace or war, when she had the power, has been
sincere in her friendship towards this empire.
What a unanimous expression of delight went
forth when the Dutch, by a noble effort, relieved
themselves from the tramtnels of revolutionary
France. Englishmen contemplated with satis-
faction the delivery of every country from the
tyrannical grasp of a military usurper, the child
and champion of Jacobinism ; but as Holland
was the first to throw off the yoke, so was
the joy of the English the most unequivocal
on that ocaasion. Their attached friends
were again free from the tyranny that over-
powering force had brought upon them.
We of this country felt that on this aus-
picious occasion we could again act in concert
with our ancient ally, for whom we had for ages
entertained the highest consideration ; and we
are confident that the feeling of all Englishmen
at that period was a delight at the success of the
Dutch, only to have been surpassed by this na-
tion having been placed in similar circumstances,
and having made an equally noble and success!,
ful struggle. But it was reserved for the Govern-
ment of Lord Grey, the abettor, by his public acts
and public principles, of the French revolution,
the individual who insulted murdered Royalty,
by refusing to it, when most other hearts were
heavy at the bloody-deed, the outward token of
mourning, to break down the sincere and almost '
sacred friendship that has for centuries existed
between Holland and England.--Morn. Post.

We never remember having heard of a more
awful visitation of Providence than the following narrative
records to have befallen a family of the name of EWEN,
at Heydon, in this county. Mrs. EWEN, a short time
since, left home for the purpose of paying a visit to her
daughter, who was very unwell in Wales, but on her arri-
val, to her great affliction, she found her daughter dead
and buried. This distressing calamity had so serious an
effect on her health, that she never afterwards recovered
her spirits, and on Friday, the 26th ult., she died, aged
57 years; and on the same day, RICHARD EWEN, her
son, who had been married only six weeks, died at Caws-
ton, in the 22d year of his age. They were both buried
on the Sunday following, on which very night CATHE-
RINE CABLE (the last of Mrs. EwEN's children, and a
twin sister to RICHARD) also died ; and on the Monday
morning Mr. EWEN, her father. The father and daughter
were buried on Friday last, a week only having elapsed
since the deaths of the mother and son.—Norwich East
Anglian.
A LOVE AFFAIR—SINGULAR PROSECU-
TION.—MICHAEL CROKER, a decent looking young man,
was put to the bar, at Clonmel Assizes, charged with
the abduction of MARY CREaIINS, on the Ist of Sep-
tember last. The prosecutrix, an extremely handsome
and interesting looking young woman, about 20 years of
age, dressed in the first style of fashion, ascended the
table and handed up a paper to the Judge, which appeared
to be a memorial in favour of the prisoner. The Judge
told her he could not then attend to her application.
On the book being handed to her by the Clerk of the
Crown, she, with downcast eyes, said that she did not
wish to prosecute the prisoner. After an exhibition of
great reluctance, she was at length sworn, and examined
by the Solicitor General. She stated that the prisoner
and another person came to her mother's house at night
and took her away against her consent in a chaise, to
some distant part of the country—there was no violence
used towards her, nor any impropriety used by the
prisoner, who, she said, took her away for the purpose of
marrying her. She returned next day to her friends. On
On the Bth inst
her cross-examination by Mr. HATCHET, she admitted she
had a tender penchant for the prisoner, who paid his ad-
dresses to her'for smile time, and was favourably received.
Esq., eldest son of.Joonfalarnapliucdkecert,ins'qj,_oonrtilanplicnuc Rise.
DIED.
Mr. HATCHEL then produced some love-letters which the
On the 6th inst. Mary, the wife of the Hon. and Rev. Char'-
ker, kin" prosecutrix acknowledged were written by her, and. an-
PTifigle• Rphiacinesti,oCrlh:nrinsgeziawrei.fe of Tames Coggan,
terOnfthe 3d inst. at Edinburgh,
dressed to the prisoner. One of them began thus, My
Oon the
dearest love, I can't live without the pleasure of your
latT.John Ouch of
sweet society ; I'm . c tptivated by thy charms." The Gloucester-
-11
Miss Ouchterlony, eldest date-
reading of the letters caused a good deal of laughter. She
said she would have married the prisoner at the time heterlony, Esq., of Guynd, Angusshire.a,
1 inst. at Brighton, Sarah, wife of William Wils°
Hunter Esq. of Pentonville
took her away, if her brother, who is a Priest, consented , Esq., of the Mmories, aged 61.
to the match, but he was totally averse to it. She would
On the 7th inst. Esther, eldest daughter of the late n°3°Hunter,
not now, however, she said, marry him on any account. On the 7th, of
suddenly, in the Edgewa re-road, Margaret'
—The Judge turned to the Jury and said, i 4 Amantium wife of
.1. R. Bernard, Esq., in the 38th year of her age. of
Ira amoris redintegratio est. The Solicitor General 0n the Bth inst. in her 15th year; Ellen, youngest daughter
" Adam Oldham, Esq., of Upper Tooting.
declined going further with the prosecution ; the issue
was handed to the Jury, a verdict of acquittal returned, PRINTED AND PUBLISHED TuTIRDO vri
BY - u ix, ..-
and the prisoner discharsed,
SUN oFrivg, 112, STEM), LONDON.

Several other toasts were given, and the festivities
of the evening were protracted till a late hour, and
concluded in the usual way.

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS,
AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET.

(From the London Gazette.)
ON MONDAY, Nov. 12. M. H. •
P. Rutter, Duke-street, St. James's, livery-stable-keeper l at 12
R. Sands, sen., Brewer-street, St. Pancras, engraver......
T. Gibbs, Bisliopsgate-street, ship-owner ..................... 1 1
J. Clarke, Greenwich, tavern-keeper ........................ 1 11 •
W. H. Main, \Vaterlane, Blackfriars, painter ......... i .... ...
..
DIVIDENDS.
IL Smith, Salisbury, haberdasher ...... ....... at 1
J. H. Davy, Parker-street, Drury-lane, coach-wheelwright.. .ll

BIRTHS.
On the 9th inst. the lady of Richard Twining, jun., Esq., of
a daughter.
On the 9th inst. in Tichborne-street, Haymarket, Mrs. George
Robins, of a daughter.
On the Ist inst. at Letcomhe, Beiks, the lady of Ithe Rev.
W. H. Wilkinson, of a daughter.
of a
On the
the 8t
hteh inst. at Brighton, the lady of C. Derby, jun, FA'r.

MARRIED.
On the 7th inst. at Leicester, Thomas Clay, Esq., 13°Ibti-,
street, London, to Marianne, eldest daughter of Thomas oA'lier,
" Esq., of the former place.
On the 6th inst. at St. Pancras New Church the Rev. Thomas
Curtis, of Grove.house, Islington, to Miss H. Andrews, of Wa
field.street, Brunswick square.
f Hit'
On the Bth inst. at Reading, William Langford, Esq., °- ga-
chen, Huts, to Susannah, daughter of the late Stephen -
body, Esq , of the former place.
more
On the Bth inst. at West Wickham, Robert He Va
nnessy Avnitori, Ogle, of said place, Esq., son of the late Colonel Ogle of ‘__.-
to Laura Kinghorn, third daughter of George Griffiths, rol'' Of
Kidbrooke, Kent.