The Sun.
London, England, 1819-09-28 00:00:00

PRINCE LEOPOLD.

EDINBURGH, SRl'''. 2.s.—About nine o'clort'::-
on 'Thursday morning his Royal Highness, accom-
panied by the Earl ot Lauderdale, yalhe,i out
with the intention of viewine the sown privart ly.
hut on teaching the Register Office he was
re-
cognized, and a great crowd speedily collect-
ing, lie was compelled to retort, to the hotel.
In the forenoon his Royal highness visitcd
the Register Office, the Jail, the Onserva‘ory,
anti Nelson's Monument, accompanied by the
Lord Provost, the Lord A! oche, the Earl
of Lauderdale, Sir Patrick Walker, &c. After in-
specting the Jail his Royal highness walked along.
the north-west side of the Calton Hill to the Ob-
servitory, and from thence to the Monument,
where the party partook of an elegant collation.
JJis Royal Highness ascended to the top of ri„!,
'Monument, and appealed to survey the beautiful
scenery with much interest.
Mr. Henry Mackenzie, the venerable author of
the Man of Fehr;, was introduced at the particu-
lar desire of his Royal Highness, wino continued
in conversation with him tor upwards of an hoar.
The day being remarkably fine, a great number of
spectators were on the hill, who so crowded
around his Royal highness, that it was some
difficulty he could obtain a passage through them.
In the afternoon he dined with the Earl of Ilope-
tom), rat ilopetotin-house, and returned to the
London Hoe! at ten o'clock in the evening.—
Yesterday morning, at six o'clock, his Royal
Highness took kis departure, and, notwithstand-
ing the earliness of the, hour, a considerable crowd
had assentbled. We understand that he intended to
reach Carlisle last night, and on his route was to
stop at Melrose Abbey to view the beautiful ruin ;
he was also to pay a visit to Mr..W4ker
Abbotsford. From Carlisle he proceeds to Low-
ther Castle, the seat. of the Earl of Lansdale, in
Westmorland, and thereafter t.o ':Trentham Hall,
the seat of. the Marapiess of Stafford.
From,the flattering reception she Prince has
experienced during his tour in SeotTstul, and so
much is lie pleased with the country_in general,
that it is said he has signified his intention ot
chasing a shooting cottage to reside in during the
sporting season, at:d that he ilitcons to return
hither in two years.
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loyal Pritwe Lenpol‘l Stilt tweli'y
guineas to the minister of Alvie, to ois!rilnited
among the poor in the iinntetliwse vicinity of
K iurdra.

On Friday night, some malicious person or per-
sons cut the Eilgineer Matgaret Steam yachc
from her moorings oft the Tower, vvlierrhy she
ht catne exposed to the most se; ious damage. The
Owners have otired a reward for the discovery of
the pet pet raft), s.
.lath's Tucker, who was committed to the
Prison on Wedncsdav, the 25th August last, for
seditious and blasphemous publications,
was yesteld.ly (Friday) liber .qed (limo the bail of
Mr. John Perkins, of St. Mary ha:Her,
»nd Mr. Thomas Merchant, of St. Kericon, w9r-
sied.maker, each in 1001., and himself in 2001,
(Exeter Paper.) • .

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ON A LATE ATTEMPT

To
TIE-WA SEI "1? BROUGHAM.

(From " Thocrwooo's Edinbuyvh lifttgatixe.")
(Concluded from yesterda?s SUN.)
When we review, then. the political life of
Mr. Brougham, we find that he was, iu the in-
fancy of his career, the idolator of that same Mr.
P' •t whose mem.,ry he now assails with deep hos-
tility—that he was like one bound tei the triumphal
car of that master spirit, till death arrested his
magnificent course, and impartially annihilated
his Power, either of serving his country, or re-
warding his followers—that a sudden light then
descended on this fiery patriot, and transformed
him at once, from the worshipper into the severe
censor of that great Statesman, who had just pain
the debt of nature; and we find, moreover, that
this generous prison, after haying crept into the
favour of the party then momentarily triumphant,
by an unseemly placard asainst the fame of the
departed, has shown himself throughout to be one
of the blindest votaries°, f ion—qoaffing to the
very drees the poisoned cop of party rancour and
bostility-m.and carrying his opposition to Govern-
ment to a pitch of extravagant excess, which has
made the tome moderate leaders of pary shrink
from his en .operation, and has at length reduced
him to 'hat .mphibious rank in politics which
renders it doubtful %%irtier he belongs, in the ge-
nerd classifiewino, to the vaerant insaurty of
Spafields, or the chastised Jaeohinism of Holland-
Lowe One or two tl,itigs he has done, which
have had a casual, and in a single instance at
least, a merited popularity ; and there is no end
to the grafts which his friends woold thrust into
this slender stork of political merit. Ile opposed
the Orders in C,runcil ; hut it was with the ad-
dress of an American trader, and in the spit it of
a French Dona/lief; and he followed in the rear
of Mr. Wilhrt force, and other great men united
for the abolition of the Slave Trade. In this last
instance, however, Mr. Broughton had the merit
,it least of: being well employed—and we fully
give him all the credit that can be doe to his sub-
oidivare services ; with this single excep-
tion, from which lie has already derived more
Heats his ‘wegurite portion of fame, we know not
upon is teat occasion he has, as a politician, exem-
pliEted the high (1'ti itiea for which his friends so
liberally give him credit, or laid the broad basis
of mbar moral evidence froorgeneee!
iitiral character, which is to shelter him from the
conseq ,ences of acin,il and proved misconduct.
The lets er complains, that personalities to-
wards NI r. Brougham, anti misrepresentations of
his views, have been allowed to mingle with this
great public controversy. Vie are tint aware that
there have beett misrepresentations, except on the
part of the b!iintrrog interpreter of College Sta.
totes, who insisted Oil rating Oxford and Con-
bri !go aino,,g the institutions formed for the trio.
ration of rite lower orders. As to personalities,
however, we have a few words to say. It was
impos•itile to touch the subject at all without
ptiismu.,! it :11 r. 131 ongh.rn —to the learn-
ed a,ithor of the %ehrile stupeodous project—the
Chairman—•he head—the guitling power—the
very soul in tact of the Committee—for no one
could consider his civic adjuncts—Sir
Cu' tis or Ahleroam,, Wood, for ex:.!atplc, slumber-
in the c rolui,t,e-routpt—in any other light
!Lau as the mere vb blet lire of the anomalous com.
position—the ballast liberally thrown into the
great discovery ship of Retortn. Of the conduct
of Mr. Brougham. therefote, it became necessary
to treat, or to tr main altogi thee silent. Is it the
alternative that !he Whigs would modestly
impose no their political adversaries ? And is it
indeed the Edinburgh Heviewris who complain
at itChrep,osei,a.ititi and p•rsonalities—of the oc-
casional use by the r opooDents of their own wea-
pons, with which rhey I,are for 20 years main-
- tained a scandalous warfare with the ;,rood
and the 111031 venerable institutions of their cowl-
try ? There has, in this instance, been neither
presentattrio nor calumny on the part of the
'furies ; but if there had, with what grace would
remonstrance have come through the pages of a
jrwriial et hid) has Hug set an example of every
thing :lint is sour, ante uncompromisiug
in poli'ical discussion I Are the Whigs a privi-
Ir order for circulating all sorts of misrepre-
sentations—a chatterers oligarchy of detraction
Do the (cruder elements of political controversy,
by some n;ce principles of moral tiffioity, form a
natural .and erareful combination with their cause,
and en; it ie them to a MenOpOly of such shameful
resources ? If not, their keen and vindictive sen-
sibility oil thi; point is unaccountable—tor we do
pot remember, in the whole rouge of our perio-
ideal liretature, a single work which has exhibit-
ed More copious examples than their owl) fa-
vouri e Joustial of all ihe most reprehensible stra-
tagems of poliHcal wat fare—which has dealt more
unceremoniously with the loftiest and most vene-
rable names of our country, both living mid dead
—which has approached with more scorliog oc-
cint and !Dore unhallowtd ?laud, the consecrated
faloic of our domestic policy, froth sacred and
civil—or which has so defied the dignity and ge-
nerosity of notional feeling, and madly breathed
its pestil. to rancour even against the genius of
our native land. And now that the title of for-
time has gtorioosly turned, and whelmed in its
progress every tiny embankment which the Re-
viewers had constructed agitinit its majestic re-
sul•ioti—now that their chilling sophistry has no
ally lo the tow,riog despotism which they %I:m.-
011;11(ot, or the alarmed bosoms which they wrung
with their eternal comminations—now .hat bat-
tled ptedictioo, rind exposed delusion, and irre-
ttievahle disappointment, and supet vetting dotage,
have left them milted and imbecile, to sustain the
pelting Storni of viiiicole which descends Upon them
fruit, every termer of the land—they complain of
the destiny which they have wrought for them-
selves; hut they complain in vain, for it is `` un-
shirromble as demi)," and enduring as the me-
Mory of their manifold and stupendous wrongs."

Frithly. :\ll.. Ttwmas Jow ey, of the l'iridge Inn,
b.,(,Liaauct, ,o a Inccti occupied by him at
:4(iin;;(nn, a iiiruip measuring 30 inches in dir-
t:unlit:Rime, aid wrigning 11 pounds.