The Sun.
London, England, 1828-02-14 00:00:00

THE KING'S COURT.

His MAJESTY held a Court at three o'clock yestcr•
day afternoon, at the Royal Lodge in Wirideor-parlc;
which was attended by his Royal Highness the Loan
HIGH ADMIRAL, the-LORD CHANCELLOR, the First Lord
of the Treasury, the Lord President of the Council, the
Lord Privy Seal, the Secretary of State for Foreigu
Af-
fairs, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Judge
Advocate-General, the Lord Steward of the Household,
the Treasurer of the Household, Lord MARYBOROUGH,
Viscount Gonzarcir, and Mr. WYNN.

Captain EDWARD FELLOWES, R.N. was presented to
His MAJESTY, 'On his return from Navarin, by the Duke (O.
CLARENCE, on which occasion he received the honour of
Knighthood.

Sir Jofirs Brom was introduced to the KING, sir!
kissed hands upon his being appointed Judge-Advocate-
General.

His MAJESTY held a Privy Council, at which the no-
minated list of Sheriffs for the different counties of Eng-
land and Wales for the present year was pricked for by 1
MAJESTY. Mr. Bum.ra attended as Clerk of the Council,

Earl DUDLEY officiated at the Council for Mr. Secretar.
PEEL, who was prevented from attending by his
engagements in London.
His MAJESTY gave audiences to the Duke of CLARENCE,
the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Duke of WELLINGTON, Earl
'BATHURST, Viscount GODERICH, and Mr. WYNN:
The Marquis CONYNGHAM officiated as the Lord in
Waiting, and Sir WILLIAM limn, was the Groom hi
Waiting.
The Court broke up a little before five o'clock.
Earl DUDLEY, Lord MAayaortoucx, Sir JOHN BECKET_
and a select party, afterwards dined with his MAJESTY a,f
dip Royal Lodge:

The Duke of CLARENCE gave a grand dintitt
yesterday at his residence in the Admiralty to a numerou'
party of naval officers. Among the company were the fol..
lowing:—Lord NA PIER, Lord WILLIAM FITZROY, Sit.
W. JOHNSTONE HOPE, Sir CHARLES MALCOLM, Sir
CHARLES ROWLEY, Sir T. PEcnEtt., Sir N. T. WIL-
LOUGHI3Y, Sir MURRAY MAXWELL, Sir JOHN GORE, Sir
R. KING, Admirals SOTHERON,. DIORY, DONNELLY, S.
C. PAGET, MARTIN, and JONES; Captains BOWLES,
DEANS, DUNDAS, COUCH, MONTAGUE, MAXWELL, &E.

The Earl of ABERDEEN gave his Cabinet
dinner to his colleagues in office, at his residence in Argyll-
street, yesterday, for the first time since his appointment to
office.

Mr. Secretary PEEL, Mr. Secretary Bus-
KtssoN, Mr. CHARLES GRANT, and Mr. HERMES, had a
long conference yesterday afternoon with the CHANCELLOR
of the EXCHEQUER, at the Right lien. Gentleman's resi-
dence hi Downing-street.

Mr. DRAFFEN, the King's Messenger, was
sent off on Tuesday night, by Mr. HUMCISSON, with de-
spatches for Corfu.

The Marquis of LONDONDERRY entertained
a large party to dinner yesterday, at Ms house in Park-lane.

The Dowager Marchioness of BALl§Btray
entertained a distinguished party todinnet• yesterday, at
her house in Arlington-street.

. Lady GWYDYR entertained a 'Select party yes-
terday evening, at her house in Piccadilly:

The Marquis of ANGLESEY is 110 W on his
way to Ireland. His Lordship's horses reached Dublin on
Saturday last.

The Margravine of ANsPAcir died on Sun-
day morning last, and *as buried on Thursday ttiorning,
her own carriage drawn by her four favourite greyi bears,
ing her to her last hem ; a long string of carriages fol-
lowed.—Bath Chronicle.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFE.—Yesterday
were married,. at St. George'st- -HtmoveNsquare, JOHN
HALES CALCR.AFT, Esq. eldest son Of JOHN CALCRAFT,'
Esq. M.P., to the Lady CAROLINE MoNTActl, youngest
daughter of his Grace the Duke of 111 a NCIIESTER.
FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.—The Earl of
Macclesfield, in Conduit-street ; General Gascoigne, in
South Audley-street; Dowager Marchioness of Exeter, in
Privy-gardens, from Roehampton ; Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Dawkins and family, at their residence in Queen Anne-
street, from their seat, near Sandgate ; Mrs. Lane Fox,
in Stratton-street ; Sir Claude Scott, Bart. in Bruton-
street ; 1111.. and Mrs. Spencer, in Grosvenor-street ; Mr.
Samuel Bosanquet, in Upper Harley-street; Admiral Har-
vey, in Clifford-street ; Mr. William Howard, in Park-
lane; Mr. Andrew Lawley, in Grosvenor-square; Sir
Gore Ouseley, in Bruton-street; Major Mercer, in Albe-
marle-street, from Paris ; Mr. and Mrs. Scott, in Hano-
ver-square; Colonel Broderick, in Pall-mall, from Italy;
Rev. William Gamier, in Grafton-street ; Sir William and
Lady Jane Houston, at their house in York-street, St.
James's, from their sea in Sussex ; Sir Robert and Lady
Buxton, at their house in Harley-street, from tlmir seat in
Norfolk ; Mr. aid Mrs. Egerton and family, at their house
is St. James's-square, from their seat in Cheshire; the
Hen. Colonel Anson, at his house in Curzon-street, May-
fair, from Melton Mowbray ; Lord Charles and Lady C.
Cavendish, at Burlington. House, Piccadilly, from a tour;
W. Whitmore, Esq. M.P. from Hastings, Sussex; Ed-
ward Orme, Esq. and family, at the Berners Hotel, 13er-
ners-street, from their seat, Stanmore Hall, Stanmore;
Osgood Hanbury, Esq. and the Misses Hanbury, at ditto,
from their seat, Oldfield Grange Park, Essex.;
at ditto, from Southall Park, Middlesex ; General Sir
Edward Stopford, Bart. at the Royal Hotel, St. James's-
street, from Berks ; W. F. Campbell, Esq. M.P. at ditto,
from his seat in Scotland ; J. C. Tupper, Esq. at ditto,
from Oxford; William Boyd, Esq. at ditto, from Kent;
Miss Trelawney, at the London Hotel, Albemarle. street,
from Cornwall ; E. B. Clive, Esq. M.P. at the Burling-
ton Hotel, Old Burlington and Cork-streets, from Here-
ford ; Colonel Clive, at ditto, from Hereford ; Montagu
Cholmeley, Esq. M.P. at ditto, from Lincolnshire; the
Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton, at ditto, from their seat in
Somersetshire ; the Earl and Countess. of Somers, at
Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from their seat in
Surrey.
DEPARTURES.—Lord Deceis, from the Bur-
lington Hotel, Old Burlington and Cork-streets, for Chel-
tenham ; Lord Robert Spencer, from his house in Arling-
ton-street, for his seat Woolbeding, Sussex; Alexander
Davidson, Esq. and the Misses Davidson, from the London
Hotel, Albemarle-street, for their seat in Northumberland;
the Rev. Mr. Forrester and son, from the Royal Hotel,
St. James's-street, for their seat in Shropshire, Lady Gore
Booth and family, from Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square,
for Paris ; Captain and Mrs. Knight, from Cavendish-
square, for Brighton.
•

ARRIVALS AT THE NEW STEINE HOTEL,
Batc:iTow.--,Marchioness of Cleveland, Mrs. Burgess and
family, Mr. Lampton, Mr. Delane, Mi.. Doughty.
'ARRIVALS AT THE ROYAL SUSSEX HOTEL
AT TUNBRIDGE WELLS—..Mr. Wing and lady, Mr. and
Mrs. Berkeley, Capt. Lane, Mr. Kitchener and friend,
Dlr. Lotherington, Mr. Cox, Mr. Robins.,

ARRIVALS AT CIIELTENHAM.--:-001011C1
Duffey, Colonel Peach, Rev. Wm. Nicholson, Rev. J.
Robley, Rev. Mr. Hopton, Captain Stewart, Captain
Yeoman, Mr. and Mrs. Ogden, Messrs. A. Hillhouse,
jggulden, Lewis, A. Campbell, St. Vincent Ricketts, Bute,
Harrison, Murphy, Lloyd, Jones, Fisher, Powell, APKensie,
Latimer, Maxwell, Rugg, Hartley, Parry, Ogden, Sawle,
Manley, Binfield, Cox; Mistresses Green, Davies, Webb;
hisses Martin, Tyler, Hatch, Fielding, Welchman, &c.
ARRI VA LS AT BATH.--Marquis and
Marchioness Palmella and suite, Earl of Lisburne, Lord
and Lady Selsey, Honourable Mrs. Ryder, Count Lutiolf,
Sir William Burdett, Sir William Call, General Orr,
Colonel Lechmere ; Majors Knox, Butler, Jackson ; Dean
of Kildare and Mrs. French ; Captain and Mrs. Festing,
Stephenson ; Captains Shute, Fuller, Rice, Wright, Blades,
Claridge, White ; Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Wickham, Templar ;
Rev. Messrs. Bingham, Smith and family, Vaughan,
Thomas, Hart ; Mr. and Airs. Custin, Wickham, Hugh,
Smyth, Pigott, Brown, Harris, Garlick, Foote, Bateman,
Stapleton, Strong, Norton, Phillipson, Morgan, Purnell ;
Messrs. Hartley, Clutterbuck, Call, Wright, Knox, Lech-
mere, Alexander, Tucker, Luce, Franklin, Daubeny, Ha-
ien, Vaughan, Lewis, Lambert, Butcher, Eyre, Bishop,'
Bullock, Fellows, Gordon, Hamilton, Lester, Griffiths,
Nash, Brown, Bell, Conolly, Bunn,' Shew, Whitaker,
Hartley, Graham, Hayne; Mistresses Dick, Blackwell,
Kenedy ; Captains Alexander, Ancrum, Morison ; Misses
A. Stoddart, Leslie, Hall, Boardman, Foot, Stock, Barra,
Day, King, &c. &c.

SUFFERINGS AND PRESERVATION OF
THE CREW OF THE BRIG TRY ,AGAR.

(From. the . Greenock Advertiser.)

Our readers are already acquainted with the lo•-
of the Try Again, M'Lintock, a fine new brig of
290 tons burthen, belonging tti this port, in tic
month of October last; but of the privettions of ON.:
.shipwrecked crew nothing has yet been state,4;
though these were of the severest description. The
following narrative we have collected from one of
the sufferers:—

On the 1101 the Try Again left Quebec, timber
loaded, for Liverpool. Ncrthing particular occurred
till the 22d, when a heavy gale came on from the
north-Weit, and continued, without- interrtiptkil4
till the.24th, when, in lat. 44. 30. N. long: 37. W.,
just before -it abated, the vessel then laying to, a
tremendous sea struck her, and washed' four of the
bands overboard, ,carried aMill,' the main-mast un-
der the rigging, and the foretop-mthl about two
feet above the cape ; swept the decks of everythbto,
boats, cambouse, &c., sprung the rudder-head, and
it was snpposed started some of the planks, in the
bt
hoet t
tojtmi
her Two
r two , James thee s
Robertson,
Dun-
can Weir, steward, the latter m
belonging to Helens-
‘o of men
seamen,
e boardae again, but
n ,and
burgh, perished. The vessel was then found to be
water-logged, and every exertion was made 'to
secure the hatches, &c. to keep her afloat ; but she
continued sinking. . The necessary precaution of•
bringing upon deck a quantity of provisions had abo
been resorted to; an accident, however, not long
after, rendered this. unavailingl as,
,about dusk, a sea
got in on the quarter, and swept all off, leaving the
entire crew, thirteen in number, totally destitute of
subsistence.

They were now -Obliged to betake themselves for
safety to the fore-top, or rather to the bare cross-
trees, and to Which they lashed themselves, the
boards of the top being knocked away ; and to add,to
their affliction, when day.dawned on the morning of
the 25th, the hatches were ascertained to have
burst up. It was two days after before the Weather
moderated, so that the crew could"leave their perilons
and desolate position, to seek for sustenance. On
Saturday, the 27th, however, they succeeded
in . getting a piece of beef, which had washed
up the hatch, and the following day two or three
other pieces of beef, and the still more valuable
acquisition of a cask of water, which was extri-
sated from the steerage, where it lay underneath
a log of timber, with the assistance of the carpen-
ter's axe, and some other tools, which bad most pro-
videntially been saved. With the aid of these tools,
also, the top was then again boarded, and some can-
vas fixed for shelter. The small stock of provisions
was treasured up , with the most anxious rare, and
served out at the rate of one ounce per man in the
morning, and another in the evening; but even with
this miserable allowance, it was totally exhausted on
the folloviritig Sunday, the 4th November, leaving
the famished crew nothing bet: the remains of the
cask of water to supply the cravings of nature.
All that time no change had taken place in their
forlorn situation. l'he appearance of vessels in the
distance, had, indeed, repeatedly raised in their
breasts hopes of deliverance; but these were short
lived, as it Was hot till the preceding Friday, that ,
any one came so close as to diseern them. About
sunset on that day,'however, they discovered a brig
bearing right doWn upon them. The weather was
fine, and the moon was at full, when about nine
o'clock the brig came so close that they had no
doubt their deliverance Was at hand. They had
now been eight clays on the wreck but a few ounces
of beef remained to divide amongst them, and with,
the exception, of the cask of water, nothing stood be-
tween them and a lingering death. Eight or nine ves-
sels had passed them, butt at such a distance, that it
was impossible the small portion of the brig visible,
a mere speck upon the ocean's sttrfates could be re-
cognised, or their dreadful situation discovered.
Now, however,'the hand of Providence seemed. to.
„be guiding the wished-for succour directly. in their
path. They could not doubt that the wreck war
seen, that the vessel, would lay-to, and that boats
would immediately be. despatched to their assistance.
All heiirts beat high with expectation, or rather
thankfulnessi for they now counted' their sufferings
as at an :end; how then must they have been ap-
palled, and-sunk into the lowest depths of despair,
when, at this moment of high-wrought excitement,
and when they had just sent up a simultaneous cheer
of joy for their imagined succour, the ship. altered her
course, and, bore away from them . That the wreck
had been seen there could scarcely be a doubt ; and
the moon shone so- brightly over the deep, and
the weather was so moderate, that no difficulty
could have existed on the part of those on board the
unknown ship in putting out boats for the purpose of
examining it : but the wind was fair, and the vessel
in full sail—the emotions of curiosity were therefore
counteracted, while those of humanity were dead.
[lnstinct alone with feelings of self-preservation, they
probably dreaded coming in contact with floating
timber, and if they suspected or knew that there
were living beings on the wreck before them, they
perhaps calculated on being obliged to stint them-
selves In., their daily food, if they unwittingly per-
mittedtheir.numbers to be increased by following the
dictates of humanity. Be this as it may, or from
whatever cause it arose, the vessel altered her course,
and was soon ought of sight.
From that time no other ship Was seen ; and day
followed day, in monotonous succession, 'without the
slightest change in their situation; Or the faintest
gleam of hope dawning to relieve the despair which-
now told them to anticipate the most horrid death
which man can die. Sunday, the llth, came and
went; still no relief appeared; • Sunday, the- 18th,
arrived; and, saving an occasional descent to the
quarter4eek, when the weather permitted it to re-
main uncOvered,nei solace whatever interposed to ren-
der 'their 'predicament -more bearable. They had
now-subeisted- the incredible space of two weeks on
water :Ilene! Gloomy and 'desperate thoughts had
become familiar to thein ; and, to aggravate
the . condition' of the famished men, the pre-
carious sleep they were suffered to take was
disturbed.by.strange dreams of their being seated
at tables abundantly covered with viands .of every
description, but which dropt from them, as tbey at-
tempted to raise the food to their- mouths. This
vision was not peculiar to one or two; but common
nearly to all. At length even the deadful idea of
casting lots, by which one might be sacrificed for
the support of life in the others, -came to be enter-
tained, but. was discarded as more horrible than death
itself to the survivors. In this deplorable plight,-
twO other tedious days were destined 'to pass on;
but at the end of that tiine,when despair was on the
'eve of prompting to suicide,'a kind Providenee sent
to their aid the long-looked for, but now scarcely ex-
pected,
•
relief.
Om the morning of Tuesday, the 20th November,
,atolayright, once more a sail hove in sight; two
handkerchiefs, stitched together, 'and elevated on a
pole, was the only signal which the forlorn crew
could make to attract attention ; fortunately in this
instance it did so, -the vessel altered her course, and,
at mid-day came close to, and sent two boats aboard.
lirottVitlistantling the unparalleled extent of privir:
dons the crew had endured, and the king time the,:
di tilt
had been without any, other sustenance than
,wafer,
their deliverance re-animated them so Tar, that Oetr,_l...
all of them were able to leave their hickleh, sis
out assistance. Theship which had come to igri rPr hsi
cue was the Alexander, Capt.Bolville,of
certain death ;
audl,w.r.sere safel
treated the men he had saved kohl
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wNitoht.sh%Tigc
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and they all rapidly recovered,
landed' at Philadelphia; on the 18th
ecember.
just four weeks after being
Philadelphia the•crew of the Try gam receive(
farther assistance from the British Consul, who sew
them round to New York, from whence the Cap.
taro, mate, and a boy, sailed for Liverpool in thi
James ctropises, where they taken tt
At e
.uvreek. A,
landed about a fort-
night since, and three of , the hands, includist Ou,
inforniant, arrived here in the Cantilliii,.int Tiiesdas
last.

THE SPIRIT Or 7 HE PUBIAC. JOURNAL 5.

Its e very
,strongly. recommend to the atten-
tion of the public.a letter in this day's journal,
signed " Motion.", The subject is, tl
troubles which destroyed the late Ministry
the writer, by reasoning, arrives at more: certain
conclusions than he could have attained by who's
ig ordinarily called goad information. I‘;Ye have
unconSticktsly coincided with -him in;:iipinion,
that Lord Goderich-when he found-. that Mr,
Huskissou and Mr. Herries no longer
o oagree,gh t tando eredtihietirsigresigliation—
shabvoe.l acceptedtcrid nation ,of him
whose principles seemed most in --opposition to
.those of the:Administration of whit4binsself was
chief; hathen 'Loft' Goderich is.no a prompt
and decisive, but W very amiable- NaY's
further, it appears that Mr. 'Terries was Apt
only at variance 'with Mt. fluskision .on the
Choice of a proper Chairman tbr the Finance
Committee, but that he differed also from the
Premier himself on this important -point ; for
Lord Goderich says, again and again, in his
expository speech on Monday eveninp-, that he
himself approved of Lord Altholp as chairman ;
and notwithstanding that, lie • places.-the opinion
ojhahils
ioelolow sub
rn
ofthaleteurn in office
xehegoer to( ftohre ski, is
.Lord
ricl
Treasury)dtliat iii
of Cetuloil3n6iaisl6Sewe'irtehterhyiusniZ
opinion
°ofai i
and then goes and troubles the Kinc an
uia But still his Lordship. is, no
hn! !
aoru
very amiable 'nail. • The King would
more amiable, if he had taken
that trouble upon himself which he imposed
upon his Majesty ; and the nation woula
have owed -his Lordship a reasonable "degree
idtoFebiti thought him
of respect for a proper proportion of energy,
instead 'of its unbounded love for his vast amiabi-
lity.
It is thus•that Lord Goderich Speaks of
Lord Althorp and of his qualities as chairman
—"1 adinit that at this time it was mentioned
to me-in the Cabinet, that there was a desire,
in which I and two sight lion. Friends
of mine participated," to place a -certain indivi-
dual in the chair of the Finance CoMmittee—a
Noble Lord,indeed, (Lord Altho-rp,),- st.flo /tad
every eminent qualification which that.". Office
required. I have known him long:: anirhave
alvvays had for him the 'Most sincere n;-
bard. I believe and . know him to -be a
man of the most incorruptible integrity,—
a man fit for arduous 'business, and -emi-
nently conversant with all the. financial points
which must necessarily conic under the review
of such a' Conimittet. • This Nobleman, then,
has been lost to the nation as chairman, through
the opposition of Mr. Herries, to whom Lord
Goclerich gave him up by an appeal to the King.
It is a great pity that his Lordship was so ami-
able. But this is not all. Had it been a just
matter of dispute, Mr. Flnskisson and Mr. Her-
ries both tendering their resignations to the
Premier, which should be • accepted hy'him,—
had the pretensions of the two parties to office
been exactly balanced, and the appointment of
e chair
teLmoi
rioettrtuideine:Asbitilaeitieahi
nncoeni:sel
otnofaitltctilegi jofruality, ,fc,e...trchaul
dc Finance
otac:ofi:mr:sa-:
dent head of an Administration, under such
r
which
became a member ofthe Admioistration ;and then
'he Would hare discovered that Hsiskisson
formed a natural and unalienable pint ol'the Can-.
mug Ministry, whereas Mr. Herries beeame
Chancellor of the Exchequer long subsequently
and, in truth, no one, if he -were to die for
hii`ignorance could -tell how—by a -series Ofinis-
understaudings—by a train of untoward mishaps
—by cross-iini-p_oses, and .crossings on the road
to %S laws. Ilse ywi asinine(' as a colleague
without Clioiapssfs,ence•-•s--Clisas-owed.,. re-
placed, kissed 'l`ii hands by acclent, and did -the
official work of necessity. But to:4 Goderich
is too amiable a man to remember the -Priginal
sin or primitive taint of any one' Our 'ewe'
.spondent speaks of Mis*Herries as prompted by'
others in the work of bearding Mr. Huskisson,
and dissolving the late_Ministry. And, in truth,
we. observe from Lord Goderich's speech (the
circumstance is most remarkable), that the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer did not take fire when it
was first mentioned to him that I.orcUAlthorp
had been selected, he (Mr. Herries) knowing
nothing of the fact. Algernon says. "He
waited till the wires were pulled," isLord
Godcrich's siatenielo. ;—" I ‘lish to guard my-
self- (says his Lordship) against the slightest
idea that I was hostile to the appointment of the
individual (Lord Althorp) who vas in this man-
ner nominated to the chair of the Finance Com-
mittee, and was only anxious that the mode and
circumstances of the communication with
him should be 'clearly explained, and reiriisved
faun any misunderstanding; and with thiS view
I contrnunicated with my Right Hon. Friend
(Mr. Herries), in the most conciliatory m-anner
upon the subject. It did, however, so happen,
that onstlie next, day my Right Hon. Friend in-
formed me that he had very strong objections to
the course which bad been taken !" " The
next day," Mr. -Herries, " the next day ?" So,
when a man breaks your head, you wait till next
day before- your indignation breaks-forth ! Lord
Althorp is talked of, and talked to, as the per-
son whom it is desirable to constitute Chairman
of the Finance Committee, and being informed
in a conciliatory manner of this -behind-flack
work,. you take a day to consider of it before
you express your dissatisfaction. The scripture
- •
says, "Be ye angry, and-sin not. Let npt-the
sun go- down upon your wrat • But yot: let
wrath,
the sun go down- before your wrB-begins
rWorkg and being put' in motion, i t ebb. and
flows like the tide,—may we not_ say, at the
command of others ? H For a
correspondence
took place between Mr-- erneS and Mr..}lll. 5-
the latter
kisson, which both gentleman and
Lord Goderich had th o good ,easy
men" L--was satisfactory to all the parties con-
cerned. „ Apd this business," says his. Lord-
ship,place at thof
. • - e end orembes
beginning . -
and the of Deceniber. I lA'as snot
led to think at the • time, that if this ,ppOint
ment were Z!'.sisted in, either of 11* Right
Honourablel.-riends would have thought it im-
possible to remain in the Administration :and
it Wei not until the 22d of December 'that
I received a letter from in Right Hon. Friend
(Mr. Berries), announcing, that if the appoint-
ment of Chairman of the Finance Committee
were persisted in, it would be impossible for him
to remain any longer, a member of the Admini-
stration !" Has not our correspondent,- then,
obvious and undeniable truth on his side;'-when
he says that Mr. Herries. waited- till the `wires
were pulled before 'he moved or was 'moved ?
Or is it not'at least clear, that he went somewhere
at intervals, to assure himself; ever and alson, of
countenance and stippprt, betiveen every thrust
that he made at Mr. H uskisson's ,life as a'pOliti-
cal Man ? and, at length beine, assured-and con-
irmed up to the sticking point, be stands firm,
secure of the issue, and the Ministry is dis-
solved. And let not any one suppose that we

and

L'llh

are by these reasonin ..Itietnpting to justify Mr.
Huskisson. We candidly anti sorrowfully
confess, that we think him also a tainted man :
it is impossible to view him now in office with
this same Mr. Herries, both Cabinet Ministers,
Ivitliout disgust. Let Mr. Huskisson also look,
—no, let him do more than look—let him feel
bow he has used his friends and colleagues in
the late Administration. They promise to stand
by and support him even to the loss of their
places in his opposition to Mr. Hernes: he suf-
fers them to fulfil that promise ; they are driven
from office, and he calmly unites with the offen-
sive person (offensive to him more than to them,
and denounced by bite to them) in forming a
new Administration. There, we think he will
not, he cannot long remain : he is in the midst
of enemies, and he has no sympathizing heart or
heering countenance to partake in his griefs, to
sooth him. hinder insults and sneers, and to rally
his drooping spirits after the hours of official la-
bour. Attention also should be paid to what
our correspondent says on the subject of no offer
being made to Lord Lansdowne, according to
the wish of the King, to take a part in the pre-
sent Administration, or that his Lordship's re-
fusal was presumed from a communication with
Mr. Huskisson.— Times.

It seems to be hinted in some quarters, that
the Duke of Wellington is on the point of pub-
lishing own version of the speech he made
at the meeting of Parliament, so far as concerns
his retirement from the command of the army ;
and a free translation it promises to be. His
Grace it appears, is not to act in person at the
Horse Guards, but only by his ancient deputies—
(es we long since feared and openly deprecated)
—Lords Hill and Fitzroy Somerset ! Now we
are not justified in calling this afree translation
of the words, " I have resigned the office of
Commander-in-Chief of the Army"—"l have •
relieved myself 'from the responsibility, but re-
tained the power ?" It is like a gentleman
alighting from a curricle in Downing-street, and
resigning the reins, for ten miireaea or so, to his
oroom, A fig for such resignations What,
and who is this forthcoming " Commander of
Forces," who succeeds the Duke of Wellington?
—A brave, 'unflinching, and literal executive
officer, who obeys his orders, and never went an
inch beyond them since he was born ; a veteran
subordinate, who would as soon think of mutiny
an the field of battle as of questioning the slight-
est intimation of his old leader's wishes, whe-
ther conveyed to him through an aide-de-cawp
or a Treasury runner. This is au appointment -
of the very worst description that we had antici-
pated. It is worse than a direct and open mono-
poly of both sword arid state by the Duke of
Wellington, because it is a hypocritical subter-
fuge
to cover the conjunction of them, under the
mask of an ostensible separation. It is, more-
over, weak and useless, for there exists
not a soul by whom the delusion will not at once
be detected. With Lord Hill for Commander
of the Forces, and Lord Fitzroy Somerset for his
Secretary, is it not obvious to the whole nation
that the patronage of the army is as much the
Duke of Wellington's, as that of the Treasury
would be under the make-believe intervention of
a brace of his junior clerks ? This was not the
sort of resignation which the country demanded,
from north to south, when the astounding news
of a military Prime Minister was first circulated
-nor was it that which the House of Lords ex-
pected, when the Duke said distinctly, " 1 hare
re,sigm'd the office." It is a bad omen. It is a
prorogue, we fear, to a revolting drama. '['he
people of England will not sanction so formidabli.:
a stride over their usages, their maxims, their ill-
iint.;tS, their constitutional defences, and their
horror of a military monarchy. .The nobles and
landed proprietor of the realm will never endure
the sweep ef a sword like this over all the rich
harvest of tight, privilege, arid independence,
that was wrested from the gripe of armed
violence by their ancestors. It is childish to
talk of a theoretic responsibility, which power,
so concentrated, can defeat and laugh at. Still
more contemptible is the notion, that with
the army thus delegated to his creatures, the
Duke of Wellington will abstain iron) managing
it, for the furtherance of hic political objects.
and for nothing else. Motions, we trust, in both
Houses of Parliament, will put on record the
sense entertained by the wise and generous among
those great assemblies, of this new military visi-
tation ; and the people throughout England, we
have little doubt, will, by petitions and remon-
strances, support the cause of public decency, as
well as liberty, now rudely threatened.—lbid.
Nothing was talked of yesterday, but the
awkward position in which Huskisson and
the Duke of Wellington stand in towards each
other. , The great blunder Committed by Mr.
Huskisson was, the going at all to Liverpool.
It was obvious that he could not make his ap..
pearance on the hustings, without finding him-
eelf under the necessity of stating more with
respect to his recent movements than it might
be prudent to disclose. The English are a peo.-
7ele of slow perception, and can with difficulty
-.ollove those rapid movements, by which States-
men of versatile characters can change parts in
an instant. It was obvious, then, that his Liver-
pool Constituents would be sure to demand from
him some explanation as to the nature of the
very wonderful transformation which had been
wrought either in him or his new colleagues.
But very little,study--4ar less than he must have
bestowed on getting up the rhetorical artifices to
persuade the friends of Mr. Canning that it was
an intense regard for his memory, that drove
him into the arms of his most bitter enemies
might have sufficed to satisfy him that it
would have been much safer to • say nothing.
than to tell only half the truth ; and that though
it was exceedingly flattering to him, that his
Grace of Wellington should have made him-
self and the . rest of the Cabinet new men
for his sake, yet, like many other pieces of' good
fortune, it was one which could not be told.
Could he not find in the whole medical vocabu-
lary, one_ disease capable of supplying hint with
a pretext for staying at home, aad leaving his
election to his 1:
werpool friends ? His
reputa.
tion wasunquestionably very high with the ?la-
d
on, and it is possible he supposed his services
Could not be dispensed with, that his Grace had
m ecourse to him
as a Man, without whom there
could be no
Administration. In this confidence
of his strength, he may have supposed the Duke
bound to submit to the humiliation which the
. communication of the guarantee of stipulation
necessarily involved. ‘V ith these elevated ideas.
and conceiving his own reputation to be of ,Wore
importance to. himself than the reputation am,
Grace and his other colleagues, he determined
to leave them only a choice between the mortifi-
cation of losing their own characters or losing his
aid. A man is never so liable to commit indis-
cretion as when he builds on the estimate he !las
formed of his own importance. Had Mr. His-
kisson not entertained a very high estitnatet of.
is own importance, he would hardly have

hazarded the visit to Liverpool, and the dis-
closures so humiliating to his colleagues,
which could not fail to be the consequence of
his appearance on the hustings. The Casuists
used to determine such knotty points as the one
which the Duke of Wellington has been lately
called on to decide, namely, whether, when that
is told in public which w'as confidentially com-
municated, the party affected by the violation of
confidence is bound, in foro conscientice, toin-
jure himself by adhering to the truth ? Perhaps
his Grace could solve a knotty point like this
without the aid of a Casuist. A circumstance is
related of Sir Walter Scott somewhat analogous.
When asked by a personage, whom he could not
safely put off with an evasion, whether he were
the author of the TVaverleB novels, he answered
he was not. The question was not a fair one ;
and it justified, he supposed, the answer it re-
ceived. Mr. Huskisson's communication was,
we presume, deemed an unfair one, and to justify
contradiction. Mr. Huskisson would have stood
deservedly high with the country (which would
not have concerned itself with any trickery to his
late colleagues), had he succeeded in bindinghis
colleagues to the system with which his fame is
associated, But the open contradiction he has
received from the Duke of Wellington, demon-
strates in a manner but too unequivocal, that he
has obtained no available security for the country ;
and it demonstrates moreover, that he has made
as bad a choice for himself as for the country ;
for he has joined those with whom he cannot be
useful, at the expellee of all probability of a junc-
tion with the men with whom he might otherwise
be able to do good.—Morning Chronicle.

A curious instance was afforded in the House
of Commons, on Tuesday night, of the difficulty
in which a man who pursues difFerent avocations
is placed, by inadvertently adopting means in
one, which can only be attended with success in
anothei. We allude to the odd manner in
which Mr. Croker confounded the Member of
Parliament with the Quarterly Reviewer. The
Reviewer can make what statements he pleases
with perfect safety, because he is not responsible
for them, - and becaltse, when circumstances are
confidently styled as facts, the reader (who sel-
dom can be undeceived by seeing a contradic-
ion) naturally presumes there must be some
foundation for them, The following is the part
of the debate to which w e allude :
" Th. Honourable Member for Aberdeen (said Mr.
Croker) had stated with approbation, that in 1817 the
Establishment of the Navy had amounted to only 19,000
men ; hut he had then made more violent speeches against
that Establishment than what he had this Session made
upon the subject.
" Mr. Hume rose and said, I beg the Honourable Gen-
tleman's pardon, I was not in the House then. —(Loud
laugh.)
" Mr. Croker—This mattered not—(laughter)—for the
Hon. Gentleman had entertained the House with such
speeches before that period.

" Mr. Hume said be never did before 1817—
(Laughter. )
" Mr. Croker—He begged pardon ; but the Hon.
Gentleman had made so many finance speeches, that it was
impossible to remember when they were delivered."
Now the assertion which involved Mr. Croker
in such an awkward predicament would have told
admirably in a Review ; but tbe blunder con-
sisted in forgetting that boldness of assertion,
when not supported by fact, is imprudent when
a contradiction can be instantly given. As a
writer, the Honourable Secretary may be al-
lowed to despise the weakness of those who,
when invention tells equally well with reality,
pusillanimously deprive themselves of a source of
strength by confining themselves to sober matter
of fact. But every thing has its proper place ;
and the Honourable Member must, we- think,
have forgotten the place he was in. The bit
would have told admirably in a Review ; and
the Honourable Member apparently was absent,
imagining himself addressing his readers instead
of the Chair. It was the wonder of every one
how the late George Rose always contrived to
have a letter in his pocket .from somebody or
other, in confirmation of any assertion he felt
himself called on to make ; but the authority
was sever questioned. Now Mr. Croker, some-
how or other, does not manage matters so well,
for he seldom opens his mouth without laying
himself open to instant contradiction. These
absences are very injurious to the reputation of
Statesmen.—Mid.

A great variety of reports were in circulation
yesterday, The Privy Council, which the King
held at his Royal Lodge, Windsor, yesterday,
was to have been held on the previous day, but
was postponed without any cause being assigned,
which occasioned considerable inconvenience, for
if the Council had been held on Tuesday, the
pricked list of Sheriff's would have appeared in
the regular Gazette, whereas arrangements were
made for the pricked list of Sheriff's to appear in
a Supplementary Gazette, last night. It was
generally circulated yesterday that Mr. Huskis-
son had resigned, which report we are not able
to confirm or contradict ; the Right Honourable
Gentleman was busily engaged during the day,
and was in consultation with all the Cabinet
Ministers who did not go to Windsor. Consi-
derable mystery was attached to Lord Goderich
and Mr. Wynn, two of the ex-Ministers, going
to the Royal Lodge and having audiences of the
King, and attending in Council with the present
Ministers. We happen to know that Lord
Goderich was sent for by the King, and we,.be-
lieve_ Mr. Wynn also. They were both invited
to dine with the King. Lord Goderich excused
himself, having previously invited a party. Mr.
Wynn, after. having his audience of the King,
proceeded to visit Lord Grenville, at his seat at
Dropmore.—Morning Herald.

The account which Lord Goderich has given
of the immediate cause which led to his acces-
sion from the head of the Government is in
complete accordance with a statement which we
-gave at the time, and may serve to show the
public that papers not under the eye or control
of Ministers have often as accurate sources of
information as the journals to which official
people give or withhold whatever suits their pur-
pose. But, after all, Lord Goderich's explana-
tion will prove, we should imagine, any thing but
satisfactory to the country, excluding, as it does,
all mention of the Noble Lord's tender of his
resignation a month before it actually took place,
and involving, as it does, at least, the most ex-
traordinary no, sequitur which the political
world has ever been presented with. For
what is the real state of the case, according to
Lord Goderich's statement; but that Mr..fier--
ries and Mr. Huskisson, not agreeing in the
Cabinet, they nevertheless contrive to reconcile
their differences, and remain members of the new
Government, while the Noble Lord himself, who
is the friend of both parties, retires ? This is
something like the umpire being driven out
of the ring, while the combatants shake bands,
leaving nothing for the former to decide.
The truth, however, we suspect, is, that the world
is allowed to know little more than it knew be-
fore, and that there is a great deal behind, which,
probably, will never see the light till some post-
humous ana break upon posterity with sundry

State secrets, of which, as regards the last age,
we of the present have reaped so large astore from
the Memoirs of Horace Walpole, Lord Walde-
grave, &c. We cannot be .suspected, we trust,
of meaning to disparage the character of the late
Prime Minister, towards whom, especially as
Mr. Robinson, we have ever felt and expressed
the sincerest respect, when we say that we think
that it was in an evil hour for his political repu-
tation that he consented to take the office he
lately held. It may be true that, on Mr. Can-
ning's decease, nobody else could be found to
take the head of affairs who was so likely to keep
the remains of that Ministry together. The re-
sult, however, has proved how fallacious even
that expectation was ; and there are few, we sus-
pect, except the underlings, who enjoyed by this
arrangement, for a few months longer the sweets
of office, who do not now consider that it would
have been much better that Mr. Canning's Mi-
nistry should have expired with him, than have
survived long enough to do no service to the
country, and to go to pieces just at a mo-
ment so critical and important as to the
state of public business. Were we to guess at
any one of the avowed causes which led to Lord
Goderich's retirement from the Government, we
should attribute it to the teazing effects of his
Lordship's incessant state of unsettledness in a
high quarter. What man in private life feels
comfortable with a servant who is for ever giving
him warning ? And still less does a man like to
be eternally harrassed with a house-steward, or
major-domo, who cannot keep peace between
those under him without incessant reference to
the master. To be told by this kind of viceroy
over the domestic establishment, on one day,
that the coachman and groom are quarrelling, on
the next that the butler and lady's maid are at
war, and on the third that the scullion and the
still-room maid have sent each other to Coventry,
are plagues and vexations that a nobleman or
gentleman possessing a large establishment ex-
pects to be relieved from by possessing a super-
intendent capable of healing and controlling such
petty differences, and of keeping them, at all
events, from reaching unnecessarily, the master's
ears. As the truth of this parallel must be felt,
we trust that its homeliness will not give offence;
for, however the affairs of nations and of public
life may appear to soar above domestic causes
and examples, they approach to, and are influencd
by the latter much more than the world in gene-
ral is at first inclined to admit.—lbid.

Mr. Huskisson's declarations about guaran-
tees at Liverpool, were met by a direct denial
on the part of the Duke of Wellington. Mr,
Huskisson's limitation of the objects and labours
of the Finance Committee were met by a direct
denial on the part of Mr. Peel. In the. one case
Mr. Huskisson acted the part of an Ultra Libe-
ral, and was pulled up, with the utmost prompti-
tude and coolness, by the pride of character of
the Premier ; in the other he acted the part of
an Ultra Tory, and was met by the constitu-
tional principles of the Home Secretary. In
neither capacity has Mr. Huskisson been suc-
cessful, even with the public, probably from a
suspicion that he was acting in both, although in
his exhibition at Liverpool, which was more in
his peculiar line, his failure was not so marked.
Nothing could have surprised the House more
than hiaeclaration touching the Finance Commit-
tee. Whatever might be the opinion of its sound-
ness or unsoundness, it was most unexpected from
Mr. Huskisson. The contradiction of it has
been more fatal to his credit than the speech of
the Noble Duke. The term guarantee might
have been explained away ; there might, in fact,
be misunderstanding on both sides. Mr. Hus-
kisson might have qualified his words at Liver-
pool by some epithet, which, although not heard
by those gentlemen who produce so much mis.
chief among high and low—the Reporters of the
Press—nor by any body else, might yet have been
published in the corrected edition of his speech.
He had high authority for softening down the
meaning of a passage by a little convenient altera-
tion. But how account for his ignorance of the
functions meant to be exercised by the proposed
Finance Committee, otherwise than by admitting
that the intentions of the Ministry were unknown
to him—that he came not into their secret on
a point of infinitely more importance than
the appointment of Lord Althorp ? If that
appointment without his knowledge, was suf-
ficient reason for Mr. Herries resigning, a forti-
ori the drawing up of its instructions without his
knowledge, must be a sufficient reason for Mr.
Huskisson to follow his Colleague's example.
We stated yesterday that there was a confident
report that he had ,done so, and, from circum-
stances that have transpired since, we consider
the report to bear on its face the appearance of
authenticity. Lord Dudley, it has been since
stated, has also resigned ; but after his Lordship's
speech, in which he followed nearly the same
line as the Duke—baud passibus aequis—we
hardly credit this. That Mr. Huskisson is now
absolutely useless in the Cabinet must be obvious
to every one, and, therefore, if he have not taken
the very intelligible hints that have been given
him, it is time that they should be conveyed in
terms that do not admit of two interpretations.
Among the reports prevailing in the political
circles yesterday, and founded on the belief that
Mr. Huskisson and the rest of his liberal friends
had resigned, or would soon resign their places,
it was stated that Mr. Herries would resume the
Chancellorship of the Exchequer ; that Mr.
,Goulbuni would return to the Colonies; and that
the Marquis Wellesley would relieve Earl Dudley
as Foreign Secretary. Should such an arrange-
ment be made, the Administraton would be-
come one of unbroken strength, possessing no
element of disunion within itself, and invested
with the unlimited confidence of the country.—
New Times.

DESCRIPTION OF AN INN PARLOUR.—The
floor was sanded, and the fire-place decorated with a huge
beaupot ; two triangular armed-chairs, with black leathern
seats, were placed for the repose of the travellers ; and
against the walls were pendant, framed and glazed, How-
ard's Visit to the Captives in Gaol, and, as a companion,
the Youth restored by the Humane Society : over the
chimney appeared the Rev. Mr. Peter's impious print of a
pious family ascending to heaven like a flight of sky-
rockets : and in either recess a pinky-brown oval engraving
of Love and Marriage ; the former judiciously typified by
a conversation, on a hard, damp, dirty bank, between a
youth in a large hat, wearing also a ruff, tight silk panta-
loons, with puffed hose and slashes, bearing in his hand a
shepherd's crook, closely resembling a billiard mace ; and
a young lady with her hair profusely thick and long, whose
hat had fallen behind her. head, and of whose bands one
was clasped by the swain, and the other enveloped in a very
small basket, containing eggs, by which, doubtlessly, was
intended some pretty allegorical allusion yet undiscovered.
Marriage, in the other recess, was personified by a couple
(perhaps the same as in the companion) seated on another
hard dirty bank, the flapping hats and slashed breeches
being most religiously preserved as the costume ; but on
the knee of the lady sat a " pledge," of about four years
old, its hands clasped in the act of supplication, the father
standing over the mother playing interestingly
with one of
her curls; on the foreground was another little basket, in
which were represented a couple of doves quarrelling for a
straw, illustrative, no doubt, of conjugal affection,—Say-
ings and Doings, Third Series.