The Sun.
London, England, 1810-12-22 00:00:00

" Windsor Castle, Dec. 22, tato.

HIS MAJESTY has passed a pretty quiet night,
and is not materially different front his state yester-
day."

4C H. R.. REYNOLDS.
" W. iiEBERDEN.
" M. BAILLLE.
" 8.. WILLii."

The Morning Chronicle, which perpetually boasts
of maintaining the genuine constitutional principles
of Liberty, contains this day one of the most extra-
ordinary paragraphs that, we believe, ever appeared
in an English Newspaper. It states, " that not-
withstanding the unanimous declaration and protest
of all the branches of the Royal Family, Ministers
persevere in the course of proceeding they have an-
nounced." With the utmost pos,ible deference
and respect to every part of the Royal Family, we
contend, that the two Houses of Parliament have a
right to proceed in the discharge of their duty, not-
withstanding the protest of any, or of all‘the Royal
Dukes, and that right was never called in question
before. We bog to ask, whether any single instance
can be produced, where any.proceedings of Parlia-
ment were stayed by such a protest ; or whether
any authority can be produced where such a doc-
trine is laid down ? We desire not to be misunder-
stood; we are tar from insinuating that the Royal
Dukes signed the protest with any such view ; we
are only commenting upon the manner in which the
Chronicle has thought proper to make use of that
lA.,test. It is also worthy of notice that the protest
does not relate to the proceedings, as far as they
have hitherto gone, but to dm restrictions which
have been announced ; so that even upon that ground,
the observation of the Chronicle is inapplicable, but it
is upon the great and con,tituiional ground that we
enter our protest against it. -

The same Paper has quoted an Act of Queen
MARY, for reversing the attainder of the Duke of,
NORFOLK, to spew that, in order to give validity, to
an Act of Parliament, the King must give his assent
in the House of Lords, or that his Sign Manual must
be atfixt.d to the Commission for passing the Bill
no human being, we believe, ever entertained a
doubt upon the subject, and therefore it required no
authorities to prove it. It has never been con-
tended that the present mode of proceeding is
free from objection ; it is only justified by the
necessity .of the case ; but, we should be glad to
know, whether if the mode of proceeding by Ad-
dress were adopted, the King's presence in the
House of Peers, or his Sign Manual to the Commis-
sion could be obtained any more than they can by
the present plan.

Last night Dutch Papers to the 18th reached
town. We have only room to extract the extraor-
dinary declaration of the Swedish - Government
against Great Britain.

Yesterday being St. Thomas's Day, Wardmotes
were held in the several City P►ec►ntts of the elec-
tion of Common Councilmen.

BROAD-STREET.--Mr. Patience was eleacd, vice Chap-
man, resigned
CANDLEWICK.—Mr. Poynder, vice Whitby resigned.
Bit EA D-STR EET.-Mr. Johnson, vice hates, resigned.
Cairo EG E.W N.—Messrs. Waterhouse and Ha.
berton, vice Deputy White and Matthew, resigned.
We have received through Portugal some intelli-
gence from Madrid. The desertion of the native
troops from the capital continued, and forty of the
wanderers had been brought back and lodged in the
Castle. The Patriots at Ballicas' bad made the
French guard and the officer in command prisoners.
It seems that some conflict had taken place at Gua-
dalaxara, as thirty wounded officers, and a great
numbers of waggons with soldiers in the same con-
dition, Itsd arrived from thence. A party of moo
men had been sent in that direction to reinforce the
station, and with them some of the Royal Guard.—
quantity of pictures and other effects had been
sent from Madrid, under a strong escort to Old
Castile.

The expedition which had been so long preparing
in the rivers Ems and Jade, the object of which was
supposed to be a coup-de-main against Heligoland,
put to sea about the 20th of NoVember. It con-
sisted of 12 gun-brigs, and 24 gun-boats. Two
days after, Lord GEORGE STUART, the Commodore
on that station, received intelligence that the enemy
were out, and immediately proceeded in quest of
them, with the Horatio frigate, Paz schooner, six
gun-brigs, arid two gun-boats. On the 24th bia
Lordihip got sight of the enemy,-but unfortunately
was not able to close with them. Three of their
gun-brigs, however, were driven on shore, near
the Jade ; the rest escaped into the \rare,. Lord
GEORGE STUART, according to the latest 'advices,
wa left•off the mouth of the Jade, watching the
eocniy.