The Sun.
London, England, 1817-06-27 00:00:00

THE SUN.

SOLENt QtUl DSCUSK TAUUM AUDEAT

LONDON,
,FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1817.

It is positively stated, that her MAJESTY, ou
,ireconnt of her advanced time of life, and the fa.
(tigues attending the ceremonial of Court days,
though not so announced, held 'a Drawitsproom
yesteyday for the lust time;

In consequence-Of the late glut of Money In the
City, . we understand that several eminent Mere
chants have been making pnrchases to a large
amount iii the article of Corns this speculation,
from the present favourable appearance of the
harvest, is likely to prove a very bad one. The
fall at per quarter in Wheat, on Monday;
was follo,ved by a further decline on Wednesday,
and we are happy to say this morning it again de-.
clined, °Mug to an abundance at market, note
withstanding the notice given every market day
for some weeks past, while .Wheat was on the
tise, that there was scarcely sufficient to meet the
demands.

We rkeeived this Morning the Paris rapers of
Tuesday last. The Moniteureontains some Royal
Ordunnances, amongst which is the appointment
of Marshal Count de Govviosi Cy* to be
Minister Secretary of State for the Marine and
colonies s the advancement of Count Dyson.
C} AGc to the Peerage, and his arpointrotta it* a
Ai:later of State, Member of the rrivi
The fogowing ere Extracts
Juan 24.--Waliguant reports were
icireulated the day, before yeaterthry in Paris, of
freilt disturbances having broken out at Lyons,
which had the effect of lowering the Funds. By
Aibparches, however, dated the 21st, and by tele-
graph this day, it is continued, that the most pro.
found tranquillity prevails in that part of Fiance,
as lu all the vest of the Kingdom. •
" The price of Grain continues to fall.
" in the South the harvest either Liar cons.
menced, or is about to commence.

" Tie Pope returned to Castel Condolto, on
the 7ttt inst. On the 5:11 his Holiness teceived
the visit of the Princess of Wales.

VIVB PER CcuTs.—Monday, 64f. 25c.
" VIENNA, JUNE 11.—We received the day be-
fore yesterday the first. intelligence of the insur-
rection in the Brazils. The reports in circulation,
Were, bOkvever, exaggerated, .and there is.reasdu
to hope that this event is not of any great import-
allCC.

•` Roma, JUNR 3.—Amongst the personages of
distinction who assisted at the procession of the
Mo►ly Sacrament were King Charles IV. and the
Queen his consort, the Queen of Etruria (Maria
Louisa) and her children► the Princess of Wales,
*nil the Prince of Saxe Gotha."

Charleston Papers to the 27th May arrived this

morning
" CuARLESTON, MAY 26.--From the Havannah
we learn, by the arrival of the brig Martha, that
that destructive. disease, the yellow fever, has
lately raged with great violence at Ilavannah,
carrying off a number of Americans and Europeans.
" LATit rttorl THE BeAms.--The brig Eugene,
of Baltimore, arrived at Elavannalt an the 15th
instant, in a short passage from Pernambuco,
-brought information that the whole coast of
Mail was in a state of revolution, and there was
siot the !cast doubt that an Judependeut Govern-
ricot would be established,' to the total exclusion
44. the Portuguese authority.
" The French frigate Eurydice, and a gun.'
brig, arrived at Savannah the 6th iust. from

Jklatinique,
" Accounts by this vessel state, that there are
nu ru of American and British seamen now in
pisou nt Ilavannalt, taken on board Cart hagenian
rivatells ; and about the first of this month one
of the Consulado fleet, ftittieily the Chasseur
gig, suuk a small vessel of the Patriots the

these were brought tc\fiavannab, end thrown into
prison, were it was stifposed they would perish
from went, Captain Gdwo of the Baths") Govern.
cent brig :Sweeren, badipplied to the Spanish
Authorities for the releasinf certain British Sub.
jects confined in prison, but could not obtain
their liberation."

EXTRACT OP A LETT.RILPROtt OUR CORRESPONDENT
AT LIVERPOOL, DATED JUNE 25.
" We have had further arrivals since my last,
which bare imparted 9562 barrels of flour, 3000
bales of cotton, &c. I have to acquaint you 'of
the wonderful voyage made by the Thonia: Gibbons,
Captain .132wes, which arrived at Savannah in
26 days from hence, performing her voyage out
and home in 69 days. %Vhen be arrived, the
owner stood back with affright, under the appre.
hension that Captain IL bad put back with the
loss of his mast, so astonished was he at his ap.
pearauce, not having previously heard the vessel
had arrived. Our markets continue the same as
pet hot."

Sir VAAIiCIS Thinners., who ell never lose an
opportunity of putting Ministers nponthe a!rrt,
lest the usual
.business of the State should not
furnish them with
sufficient
employment, wiwn in
addition to their other labours they are to guard
the country from the designs of Traitors, this
same active Patriot, Sir FRANCIS BLIRDSTTO con.
sidered the case of Mr, 'WOOL R too good to be lost,
though it is soon to be the subject of a soklun
legal investigation, in a new trial, and there-
fore introduced it last night,in the House of Com-
mons. Suppose the Baronet and his party Were in
power, and any U; POSITION were to act in the
same manner, what clamours 'might we not hive
heard op the indecency and injustice of prejudg-
ing a care that would soon be determined before
a proper legal tribunal. But the Reforming Ba-
ronet received a complete set down from the Attor-
ney-General, and therefore we shall not imitate
the farmer in saying any thing about Mr. Wooz.ka,
his Black Dwarf, or his Patriotic Protector. •

The last Middlesex Meeting, like the bandied
other ,Mettingv which have been excited and pro-
f cured against the safety of the State, will of course
be described as unanimous. 'And so it assuredly was,
since no tnau except Mr. MELLISH, whose duty it
was to attend any rtiolazr asseruhlage of any of,
his COultitucnts, wrist thither without a foregone
conclusion helping mit thtl9posi4Lritri-,
example if tliis Gentuernan -44561w4.
if incited example were all wantint,
chance there was• of respect or decency in the re-
ception of one adverse Opinion. •

An the doctrines, or rather the clap-traps—de-
vered at the meeting, we shall spend only a few

words.

Sir PHILTII FRANCIS, who is growing almost as
a venerable' RS Major CARTWRIGHT, tumbled
into the old error of describing the Suspension of
the Habeas Corps Act to be general, and within
the power of every subordinate Magistrate, for
every subordinate offence, instead of what it ac-
tually is, particular, anti within the power of
the highest, Magistrates only, and for none but
the highest offence known to the Law. in con.
sideration of the Knight's age, we are willing to.
take this as an oversight, rather than a deliberate
mistake.

(fur ancient men, however, should remember

that the oge of NESTOR was recommended by his
wisdom ; and that all our " veneration" for an.

tiquity cannot quite, ensure our acquiescence in
the dreams of dmage. The " venerable" ()tinter
of Saint Paul and Isaiah will do well to turn over
a certain other page of the holy writ, which in.
structs him that neither white heads nor tie.wigs
give aut►aority, but that " wisdom is grey hairs
unto wan."

For, indeed, we can scarcely argue with any
seriousness, that the Suspension of the Habeas
Corpus Act will not suspend the Trial by Jury;
or that temporary Suspension is not the same as
perpetual abolition. The most "'venerable" of
Patriots, be he Knight or Major, shall have
all such arguments to himself, and run a tilt against
the Quilitain of his own erection. We leave him

therefore in quiet, possession of his " high com-
missions" and his '' Star-chambers ;" observing
only, that '' standing armies" may come to be
not wholly indispensible, when Juries declare trea-
sonable intents not to be treason. If that wise
and ancient bulwark, which our earliest sta-
tutes raised around the Throne, is.to be thus sup_h
marily demolished, some other guard must be
provided•for the first and best part of the English.
Constitution. Sir PH/LIP must pardon us, if we

think it rather less probable that a temporary
Suspension of one law should annihilate all our
other laws, than that " riots against ta) es 40d to
procure bread," may not...swell into high treason,

uut Me
gond olti Gent-ieroan will Lave it ell his
.•
OW tyWay--and so be shall, for us.
Otlidiwise we could have told him that the
'Housp tf Commode is not-an Executive Bodvi and
Abe' Dilnisters being strictly Executive, can
heive no delegated Legislation.. Another lesson
We could have communicated—that the preroga-
tive of dissolving r•alic Parliament belongs to the
Crown, and cannot be controuled by the other
branches of the Constitution. But thus it is—our
Pairiots are all either too young to have learned,
or too old to remember, the radical principles of
that Constitution which they are affecting to sup-

port.

The other " venerable " Gentleman said little
beyond one of his own particular novelties: that
the_ Parliament had committed treason.—Even
Lord HOLLAND could not stand this, so we shall
say no more about it.
The great man, "whose talk is of Oxen," came
to the Meeting to talk about men, and to tell
them that he was descended from Lord Wmaass
Russeu.. We shall not dispute with his Grace
upon " legality," or we could say somewhat upon
that theme ; but the " venerability" of fifty-one,
though it keeps the Noble Patriot out of the mis-
chid of County Meetings, cannot always excuse
him like thelinight and the Major, •
We have examined through this Middlesex
Meeting pretty closely, but we can find little
more to be made of it—not even in the Speech of
Sir FRANCIS Buttner'', who seems to haVe caught
tram his Seniors the habit of quoting scripture. As
the subject is happily drawing to that decision which
will put us beyond the danger of county Meet-
ings or any other Meetings, we cannot refuse
a parting observation on what passed in the
Elonse of Commons.
r NIT.I3R(PtiGHArd---the eternal Mr. BROUGHAM—
said that if the ConstitutiOn could not defend it-
self, it was not worth defending.---So slip say
we :—but we beg to add, that every mode of de-
fending the Constitution is constitutional ; and
that whatever by done to the Legislature is done
by the Constitution.
Lord Murorr, who by the bye was a Member
of the Committee. and joined in the Report,
avowed his fetti'' that the powers to be entrusted
to the Government by the Suspension Act would
be exercised mildly, and his wish that they might
be ebused ! !
Of coarse, • that the people might be taught by
suffering to value liberty. This is so o.tremely
like the morbid and sentimental cant with which
we 11“0 hteri ent Cr( skyed,. 1,611-*0 *.miOr
with the preteoAes of humanity, that we shalt soy
no more about it, but-leave the maxim and the
motive to their own interpretation.