The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-26 00:00:00

HE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING; MARCH 26, 1845.

LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES
Dividead Amount
Name of Company. por of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
---- -
X 8. d. £ s. Q.
Bank of Scotland ... • • GI. per cent. 100 0 0 172
/Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 168%
British Linen Company 81' per cont. - 100 0 0 226%
Commercial Bank ... . 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 167%
National Bank ...... .. 61. per cent. - 10 0 0 15%
Union Bank of Scotland 7%1. pr cont. - 50 0 0 95
Western Bank .... .. .. 61. per eont. - 50 0 0 76%
North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. - 5 0 0 7
Clydesdale Bank .... • • 61. per cent. - 10 0 0 14%
Eastern Bank .. ...... 31. per cent. - 15 0 0 11%
Caledonian Bank ..... 61. per cent. - 2 10 0 3%
Eilinb.& Glasgow Bank 51. per cent. - 3 0 0 7
City of Glasgow Bank . 51. per cent. - 815 0 13%
Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1%
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14%
[near. Co. of Scotlnd. • 51. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 10
1 North British Insur... 91. per cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 27
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24
Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cont. 100 0 0 10 0 0 1814
Edin. & Glasg. Railway 4%1. per emit. 50 0 0 50 0 0 65 %
Ditto, % Shares.... 4%1. per cent. 12 10 0 All paid. 16%
Edin., Leith, & Grantn - 20 0 0 20 0 0 15
Glasgw & Ayrshir Rail. 4%1. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 83%
Glasgw &Greenek Rail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 13
illsgw & Garnkirk Rail. bl. per cent, 25 0 0 All paid. 28
Dundee & Arbreth Rail. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 32%
CANALS.
. 1
Names of 3 I Dividend Names
et. i Dividend
Companies. A T„.,
1 per ` -ce' Companies. A 1 per Price.
co Annum. m
Annum.
'-- -- - -
£ I £
Ashtn& Oldh 97 51.58. p 0 72 onmouthsh 100 81. 160
Ashby-d-la-Z 113' 41. 70 Mntgomrysh 100 51. 98
Barnsley..- ,160, 121. 180 Macclesfield . 100 - 15
Basingstoke. I
11001 - 5 Death ......100 201. 365
R rknk&Abrgllsol 51. 85 -ottingham . 150 121. 260
Cromford ...• 1001 181. 164 P eak Forest .78 31. 40
Dudley lOOl 41. 80 Regent's .... 33 1/. 24
Derby ••• • • • 100' 81. 103 Rochdale .... 85 4/. 55
Ellimre&Chs 1331 4/. 58 Shropshire .. 125 81. 120
Forth & Clyd 100; 41. 105 Do.Lk Fd St 12 61. p. 0. 11
440 Somrset Coal 150 71. 10s. 123
Grand Union 100! 1/. 108. 23 hrewsbury.. 125 131. 230
(El:17n:: c.ti-i 11000111 372:
Glamorgnsh .1172
, , 13%1. 210 :tourbridge.. 145 201. 360
120 . tffrd &Wore 140 281. 480
Grantham • • ,150, 121. 100 .evorn and]
Glstr& Brklyl, 00, -
i , 8 Strtfrd on AY 79 11. 103. 30
Huddersfield.' 57' - 20 Wye Rail.
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Kennt & Avn 39; Is. 6d. 10 rnt &11,1 r-/ '5O 30/. ‘ 450
Lancaster .. • 471 11. 10. 40 sey, % eh.) 26 1/. 88. 30
Leeds& Linp 10Cf 341. 570 Thams &Med tl9 - 10
Leicester ..• • 140 i 101. 110 Worcstr &/ 75 a 50
Leiestr & Nib 83, 4/. 70 Birming.J
Loughborogh 1421 701. 1030 tits & Ras 67 11. 48.

THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.
The following letter appears in the Standard:—
" Clamber, March 12, 1815.
" Sin,--When so few are to be found who will ven-
ture to speak favourably of me, I ought to be, and am,
particularly obliged to you for the chivalrous audacity
with which you dared to print the favourable view which
you are good enough to entertain of me and my doings.
I very sincerely thank you for your prompt interposition
and ready self-sacrifice.
" It has always been my strange fatality to have my
motives and actions misunderstood, and probably few
men licitly-, not being public men, have been more vilified
and injured than I have been. I have endured this per-
versity with patience and resolution, but at last I became
disheartened and disgusted ; I found myself standing
alone in the maintenance of opinions which I believed to
be right ; everything fell away from me ; one event after
another tended to depress my spirits and my energy,
and to remove those inducements which stimulated
me to exertion. My health, my peace of mind, my
circumstances (as I am not ashamed to avow,
arising from no discreditable cause), required my
retirement for a season. Unseen and forgotten,
you may well imagine that I was astounded at seeing
The Hafod Estate' heading a division in the columns
of the Standard appropriated to the report of the de-
bates in Parliament. I, of course, read on with deep
interest, and soon perceived the old leaven and the un-
generous motive for introducing my name upon the
scene, finally observing that the malignants professed to
be perfectly satisfied with Lord Lincoln's statement, as
well they might, for its plain truth deprived malignity
of its power to cavil on.
"Pray observe that I by no means object to the
watchfulness and untiring scrutiny of Messrs. Hume,
Williams, and Co. I applaud their searching inquiries,
but I disapprove of a malign and prejudiced influence
which urges to suppose that every transaction connected
with me and my family must of necessity be suspicious,
corrupt, and improper.
" When fairly exercised, I should be exceedingly
sorry to see that the vigilance of the gentlemen was in
the slightest degree relaxed; it gives health and life to
them, and is constitutionally wholesome for us. Such
refining and scouring is a national benefit, and although
I do not desire to follow the newest fashion and to over-
whelm these gentlemen with fulsome compliments and
eloquent laudations, yet I must confess that it would be
really a public misfortue if the nation were deprived of
the now very necessary services of such lynx-eyed and
indefatigable detectors of abuses—such unwearied
cleansers of Augean stables ; only may I caution them
not to fall foul of me too hastily or so readily, for I can
assure them that their efforts to prove me a scoundrel
will only serve to make them appear spiteful and
ridiculous.
" But, more than enough of this. Sir, my principal
cause for addressing you is not to censure or applaud
Mr. Hume, but to supply a deficiency ; because Lord
Lincoln, in his natural earnestness to acquit himself
of all blame or dishonesty in the transaction, appears
to me to have omitted to state that I also am justly
clear of all blame. I may be too sensitive, but I
fancy that I perceive what may be construed by the
public into a supposition that I had been requiring
something which it would be improper to grant. Such
was not the fact. I resisted the claims of the Crown
over my property, which I conscientiously believed not
to exist, and still think were unfounded—but that was
all. I neither expected nor sought that favour should be
shown to me. I would not, for any consideration of
paltry advantage to myself, tamper with any official
man, and least of all when that man was my son, whose
honour, virtue, and reputation would be dearer to me
than my own. Still, however, my own honour, and re-
putation and unquestionable integrity, are most dear to
me ; and I cannot endure that, even by implication, I
should be suspected by my countrymen ; and as my vin-
dication, save by yourself, has not been attempted in
terms, I must undertake to be my own herald, and once
more proclaim my innocence, my negation of dishonesty
in any shape, and call upon those who would rob me of
my best possession, to remember that I am the same man
yesterday and to-day, and that whilst reason maintains
her sway, lam not likely to change my nature. Who
steals my purse steals trash; but he who filches my good
name, steals from me that which not enriches him, yet
leaves me poor indeed.'
" I distinctly &dare, then, that Lord Lincoln has
spoken the truth, the whole truth; and that, pure and
clear as he is of a shadow of imputation in this transac-
tion, I am equally 'so;* and in fact I only most unwill-
ingly submitted to what, by the conditions of the origi-
nal purchase-contract, I was compelled to do--to effect
a good and perfectly valid title to the estate, although I
believed that the vendors to me had, for expediency, en-
gaged to yield to the Crown a right to which it was not
entitled. This is my case; and if I were to write vo-
lumes, I could add nothing to its simple strength.
"My statement, I perceive, has already run to a
greater length than I intended; but whilst I am on the
subject, having undertaken to be my own herald, and
most anxious as I am—more anxious, possibly, than I
may be given credit for—to stand well with my coun-
trymen, whose good opinion I value beyond all price, I
must beg to detain your attention for a few moments
whilst I allude to the past, and bring you to the pre-
sent, that you and they may be perfectly aware of what
have hitherto been my dishonest gains.
" When I began life I had the fairest prospects before
me. In a political point of view I possessed great
power. Though in the eyes of Reformers I was re-
garded as an obnoxious boroughmonger, still my power
and influence were indubitable. I ask, did I avail my-
self of my position to do wrong? Did I sell the seats
for gain, or dishonestly traffic with them, either
privately or politically ? Did I ever act un •
constitutionally as regarded them, or as con-
cerned the State? I aver that, to my knowledge, I
never did, nor do I conceive it to be possible that I
could, as stack proceedings would have been utterly re-
pugnant to my feelings and principles. My boroughs,
then, on the one hand, were not productive of profit,
whilst on the other they entailed prodigious losses and
sacrifices, by feeding the interest, by contests, petitions,
and, finally, by their Parliamentary confiscation, when I
was robbed, without compensation, of a valuable consi-
deration, probably not short of 200,0001.
" It is true, honorary and honourable distinctions had
been conferred upon me when a very young man. From
the excellent and revered George 111. I received the
Lieutenancy of the county and the Rangership of Sher-
wood Forest, neither of these offices yielding one six-
pence of emolument. These appointments I solicited of
the King himself, and they were bestowed without hesi-
tation, and with that paternal benignity which, from my
earliest youth, I invariably experienced from his Majesty.
I entered upon the lieutenancy in times of considerable
difficulty and much anxiety. I exerted myself to the ut-
most, and I hope not unsuccessfully, through many anxious
years, when at length tranquillity was restored. I
spared neither my person nor my purse: it was my duty
so to do, and I rendered it with alacrity and diligence;
perhaps I may have fairly earned an expression of
thanks from the proper quarter; it would have amply
rewarded me, but it was forgotten. Having had the
honour of serving four sovereigns, I may be permitted to
remark that the per contra in pounds, shillings, and
pence, was the payment for the patents on every occa-
sion. No great profit here.
" The garter I never would ask for, though frequently
invited to solicit the honour; when offered to me I de-
clined, it and suggested that it should be given to the
Duke of 'Wellington, as I had no claim to distinction. I
was commanded to accept it, and was invested. The
honour is great, and I hope that I am not insensible of
its value'; but as my present object is to show that I
cannot be charged with dishonest gain, I may be per
mitted to mention that the fees are on a scale commen
curate with the honour.

" As none of these distinctions confer emolument or
patronage, it will be seen, that with the single exception
of pay when on duty with the Yeomanry corps which I
commanded, I have never drawn to the amount of one
penny from the public purse, nor have I as yet obtained
for my family any situation or emolument, though I ho-
nestly avow that I would not preclude myself from the
right of fair and legitimate solicitation, if in favour of a
proper and competent member of it.
" It will be seen, then, that the public has no great
cause to complain of my grasping, or dishonest gains.
It may not have approved of my acts, or of my opinions;
the Ministers of the day may have been of the same
mind ; but at least it will be admitted that I have acted
from a pure and conscientious conviction, and with an
utter disregard of selfish consequences.
"So in all measures of which I highly disapproved,
whether Roman Catholic emancipation, reform, eccle-
siastical commissions, old corporations, Irish policy,
corn-laws, free-trade, with many others, and more re-
cently the income-tax and tariff. Canada corn, and na-
tional education, &c., in which I may not have had the
good fortune to concur with the Minister of the day—on
all occasions I have not scrupled to disagree and oppose,
whether as a candid friend or a candid enemy—nor can
I do Lay duty and abstain from dissent, when I see such
Bills as the Jows' Disabilities Bill introduced into a
Christian Parliament, and look forward to the promised
measures which are to give a heavy blow and great dis-
couragement to the Protestant Church, whilst Popery
is to be elevated and encouraged, and enemies to our
faith, heretics, sceptics, or infidels, are to legislate for
that Church which they abhor: such measures demand
the stern opposition of every Christian, and every con-
scientious Protestant, who must too plainly and fear-
fully perceive how small is the consideration or care for
the Establishment, but how great for her deadliest foes.
Thus, when I have differed I have never done so from

waywardness or faction, but as a painful performance of
a duty—from an inward persuasion that though interest
and ease forbade it, principle and conviction dictated and
required it. These have been, and I trust will ever con-
tinue to be, my motives, my incehtives, and my guides ;
and although I will net pretend to assert that I have
been right, I can safely declare that I believed myself
not to have been wrong.

many, perhaps, may remark—More fool he for his
pains ; why does he not follow the ways of the world ?
I can only reply, that such ways are not my ways, and
that I could derive no satisfaction from exchanging
principle for expediency. So, like a wounded deer, I
am discountenanced by the whole herd.
My present position seems to be this. Though a
determined upholder of the Church of England and of
the State—of Protestantism and of Protestant ascendancy
—an undisguised Conservative of the ancient and once
admired British Constitution and the institutions of our
country—l am disclaimed by those who lam compelled
to think should be what I am. The post which I held
for many years as the Sovereign's lieutenant in this
county, my sovereign was advised to deprive me of, and
I was unceremoniously discarded, merely because I dis-
dainfully resented the molestations of one of her Ma-
jesty's high officers—and this after having served
four sovereigns loyally, faithfully, zealously, and, I hope,
efficiently.
" You and others may think that I have written bit-

* " It should be borne in mind that Lord Lincoln, though
the chief, is not the only commissioner. He and two other
gentlemen form the Board of Woods," &c.