The Sun.
London, England, 1817-12-26 00:00:00

tion.

It might have been supposed that Lord Cot...
cnEsTEtt, who has now been many months out of
office, hut who has left the most honourable im-
pression on the minds of his countrymen, for Iris
conduct as Speaker of the House of Commons,
would have been suffered to 'enjoy that dignified
retirement which he so well merited, and which
his countrymen were proud to bestow, without
incurring the hostility of Party Writers. A
Morning Paper, however, whose political rancour
nothing can appease, has this day invidiously re-
vived an account of the expenses attending the
Speaker's HonSe, while his Lordship so ho-
nourably discharged the duties of his office.--..
Admitting that these expenses were great,
will the Opposition Paper venture to affirm that

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SHIP NEWS.

no repairs were necessary 1 Besides, the Speaker
did not put the Nation to expence for himself
Merely, but to support the dignity of his high
office, and for the sake of the importance of that
Office in the eyes of the Empire and all Europe, as
Well as for the benefit of his successors. Did not
the money circulate among ourselves, and give
employment to our own Countrymen, who had a
full opportunity of exercising their taste as well
as profiting by their industry ? The Oppo-
sition Paper could hardly have been more
sore upon the subject if all the money
had been employed in subsidies abroad. It
therefore the expence was great, its operations
Were wholly at home, and were so complete that it
is very likely to be a long period before any charges
of a similar nature are ►again incurred. We ate

sure that our countrymen in general will revolt
against s,,ch an ex post facto attack upon a distin-
guished and meritorious character, who was ob-
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liged to relinquish his post on account of the in-
juries which his health had suffered by an incessant
attention to trtost labotiow duties, and who is now
endeavouring to regain it in an honourable retire-
ment provided for him by the admiration and gra-
titude of his Country.

CORN-ExcHANGE, DUD. 26.—We had no fresh
Arrivals this morning, and but very little business
done. The few sales made in fine articles were at

Monday's prices, hut there is nothing doing in
ordinary, and but gel v few buyers at market.

PonTsMoUTH, DEC 25.—The Russian Squa-
dron at Spiihead are taking in water, &c. and it
s expected will be ready for sea in ten or twelve
days, when they wily proceed for Cadiz. Sailed
the Fame, PoGATE, for London, and the Jane,
GR4NGER, for Cowes.

HARVICH, DEC. 25.—Arrived the Auckland
packet with a mail and passengers from Holland,
and the Henry Freeling -packet has sailed with a
mail for ditto. The Alliance p9,ket, Captain
MARSH, with tie mails On hoard for Gottenbuvvh,

has this day put back, baying encountered tre-
mendous ales of wind and much ice.

Haewica, Dec. 24.—Arrived the Louisa,
SCHEEL, from Kiel, with her pwnps choaked-and
cargo shifted ; Frae!.!ller, Howes, from Emden
for London—she left the Ems on Friday week on
account of the ice Beanfoy packet, with a mail
and passengers from Heligoland ; she sailed on
Sund y•.---there was much snow and ice.
PLYPSOUTET. DEC. 24.—Arrived the Hero of
the Nile from Berhice, hound to London. All
the outward-hound have sailed, with "the wind at
Fist.

DRAL, DEC! 25.—Came down from the River,
and sailed, the Resignation, BRowN, from the
Mediierrienean ; the Anne, Punsaoas, from Bar-
badoes ; the Prince of Waterloo, JAMESON, for
Demerara. The Alert sloop of war has arrived
from Sheerness, and remains.
Five o'Clock.—Just arrived from the River, and
remains, the Thomas Courts East Indianian.
FALMOUTH, DEc. 23,7-Arrived the Petrona-
land, UGLAND, from Norway ; Arabella packet,
from Dartmouth ; and Pyramus, WILL/AM, from
London. Sailed the Ocean, Wu-Km, and Jobn,
Elswork, from Smyrna. The Pyramus, on the
evening of the 21st inst. fell in, off the \Viht,
with the masts of a, ship, and from the size of the
tops, which were above water, she supposed them
to belong to a large vessel.
'LIVERPOOL, DEC. 24.—Arrived the Loan, Fos-
DICK, from New York ; sailed the 23d Nov,Ju-
ber : on the 18th December, off Cape Clear, she
experienced a dreadful gale, and threw upwards
of 300 barrels of apples overboard.

It is now owlet stood the County of Lincoln
will be most severely contested at • the next Elec-
tion, and also the County of Surrey.
It is understood that Government will no longer
give encouragement to persons who wish to pro-
ceed as settlers to his Majesty's possessions in
North 1-Imnica, except such as half-pay officers,
or .persons
.under peculiar circumstances. This
regulation is stated to have been adopted in con-
sequence of a number of persons who went out
the last two years without being; prosided with
sufficient money, or means to enable them to cul-
tivate the land which had been allotted to them,
and who are now in very great distress.
The Flanders Mail mentions, that the Doke
of \VgLLINGTON has appealed tit the Court of Cas- .
sat ion against the decision of the High Court of
Justice, which rejected his former appeal.
The QUERN will go to Brighton about the
sth of January, to pass a fortnight at the Pa-
vilion. Early in February her MAJESTY will re-
turn to Bath, for three weeks or a month•—
• (Morning Paper )
. We hear that his Royal Highness the Duke of
KENT, who is still under great affliction from the
hiss of his ever-to-he-lamented niece, may be ex-
pected in England, for a short time, in the spring.
The Gentlemen of the Chancery Bar- propose
to request Sir WILLIAM GRANT to sit for his pic-
ture, with a view to have it placed in the Rolls-
Court, and have opened a subscription to defray
the expense.

POPERY,

FOR THE SUN.

Mr. Enrrau,—Wong , have h rejoiced at the
patriotic part which you have taken; in. defendint4
the Protestanrioterest, against its most insidious
as well as inveterate, enemies; and though I de-
test every thing like popularclamour and popular
excitement, I cannot but wish, that seriously and
soberly, it might he made a test:for all Candidates
at the next GeneraMlection, whether they have
voted, or intend to vote; tnr Catholic ambition i
1-Inw any consistent sober-minded Protestant can
vote for any man who cannot answer in the ne-
' otive to this question, it is. hard to understand ;
but as the Papists have no spirit of toleration, so
Protesrants, on the other hand, under the name
of liberality,' carry it even to madness ; to the
destruction of their own securities, and their own
peace.

Think, Sir, how small were the concessions,
which, aided by a protestant association, enabled
a fanaiic noblenian to drive the common people
w fury, in the year 1780. Nothing more than
the repeal of those penal statutes against the
I),,pists, which many have thought a disgrace to
our laws; but which, in truih, n,re only a disgrace
to the bigots whose treason Able and horrid machina-
tions under Elizabeth and James 1., bad made
such enactments absolutely necessary. Tiiey
were, in their origin, Liws of self-defence, not of

aunoyauce. Unless therefore we would wish to

see such laws made neressmry a4aiu, let us resist
the encroach;nents ot Lome ! UAless we would

wish to see la«> much more cruel made agaiEs

ourselves, let us prev ut dl further approaches
towards rt Popish ascendancy ! • spirit of Popery
changes not ; (or if it changed, it would be re-
formed, which it abhors 7*. .
When the Roman Catholics thems, Ives were
alarmed ai the outrages comMitced at London
in June 17S0, an exhortation was read in all their
Chapels in Ireland, of whicn the following passage
is •he begit.ning:—" The Roman Catholics
of
this liigdom are bound, by the strongest ties of
icter,•st a:,d gratitude, to give, on all occasions,
tie most undoubted proofs of their steady attach-
ment to the gcrvernors that preside over,them, and
although we have frequently announced this obli-
gation to you, we diitik it incumbent upon us,
at this junctu IT, to repeat it, lest the smallest de-

viatiou tiom the Flue of the in.).,t regular all

peacetul conduct 0)0(0 render you unworthy ()I
Just andl. future favo►►rs. By the late remora

of Cinfitnerrial re9traiuts, the most spacious fields
are openvd, to encourage your industry, and Int-
pro; e your conditions."—( Gentleman's Magazine,
June 1780. p. 341 )
1 uo uot accuse them of having since deviated
on regularl id peaceful conduct ; but I do accuse

them of Tepreseniing what they then spoke of as
past favours, as little better than insults ; and
boldly pressing for, and almost demanding, the re-
moval of ail restraints, under the false ,mad hypo-
critical term Einaucipation ! It would be a good
service to -:race aft the steps of their progress in
demands from that period; acid it I can get at ti►e
documents I will do it for you. In the mean time,
I had rather see it done by LANERANc, or son►e
other person equally able.
You have nor given us the Appeal of the Roman
Catholics of Ireland to their Protestrort Brethren,
and for good reasons; but I will scud you soon
the Appeal of the Protestants of England and
Ireland to their Roman Catholic Brethren, u hick
has more force and propriety in it than the
other. Yours,

WICKLIFF.

" Whereas thou hatest to be reformed, and halt cast my
words behind thee," Psalm 50. V. 17. Is there nothing pro-
phetic of Popery' in those Words ? Consult the preceding

verse.

BRIGHTON, DEC. 24 —Lord and Lady CASTLE..
REAGH, rind Lord STEWART, arrived at the Pavi-
lion in time for dinner this evening. As yet the
Palace apartments are only partially illuminated,
and the attendance of the band is. still prohibited.
—The weather to-day has once more been bright,
but intensely cold. The PRINCE REGENT has
again confined his exercises to the Lawn and the
Riding-School.—The senior brother,named Rhen,
of -the PRINCE REGENT'S private band, after an
illness of several yea's, during which'his salary
was continued to him, expired here yesterday.
deccased had been in the service of the
PRINCE 22 years, and from his talent as a musi-
cian, and excellent moral behaviour, bad even
been a favourite with his Royal Master.

The Eliza, Captain HEBDISH, is arrived at
Waterford from St. John's, Newfoundland, with
Papers to the 26th ult. Various conjectures
having been entertained relative to the cause of
the late destructive fires, the Grand Jury, after a
minute examination into the subject, have de-
clared their unanimous opinion, that the suspicions
of these fires having been wilful and m►►licious,
are groundless, and that they originated solely in

accident.
The canal in St. James's Park was yesterday
frozen over, and the ice so strong, a great nun►-
ber of youths ventured to amuse themselves upon
it.

POETRY.

WINTER.

The beauties of Suniiiiei have vanished away,

Like volatile phantoms display'd in a dream,
And Nimbus diffuses an impotent ray,
Scarce yielding a smile to enliven the day, .
Or brighten the breast of the stream.

And soon shall the forest its verdure bewail,
And vallies and hills wear an aspect forlorn ;
No tremulous music shall sigh Willi the gale,
No flower its lustre disclose in the dale,
Nor blossom, embellish the thorn.

But say, does this season no beauty possess,
\lnca Nature's enchantments apparently die ?
The white robe of winter gives pleastire no less
Than the Summer- or Spring in their elegant dress,
To the reasoning- Moralist's eye.

The moon-beams which sleep on the snow-cover'd hill,
In turn are as pleasing as those which illume
The blossoms of Summer, or spangle the rill
That whispers at eve when the hamlet is still,
Or gleam on the villager's tomb.

The man, who is prudent, will study the scene,
And morally reason on things that are past—
Anticipate age—and the moment between,
Consign to reflection, to render serene
The Winter. which shroud: ':im at last.

ANECDOTE OF MRS. YOUNG.

(FROM AN AMERICAN PAPER.)

In the representation of the Comedy of the
Heir at Law, at Norfolk, on the 31st of. October
last, each of the performers had • occasion to de-
liver some part at the epilogue, and Mrs. YOUNG
commenced her's in the • foll-Jwing words :

" Is there any here in love?"

When she was immediately answered from the
lips of one of the Cyprian goddesses in the attic
rhAmbet,—" Yes !"—With a readiness of wit
peculiar to herself, Mrs. YOUNG archly replied
(casting her eyes at the object of her satire)—

" Yes, I know• you are in love ;
And beside you sits a man,
Whom you'll ruin, if you eerie."

This reply drew forth bursts of applause from
every quarter of the house, at the expeuce of the
yoittig man, who, unfortunately for himself, hap•
penedib be the only man in that part of the gal-
lery : He immediately withdrew.

New NOSES I—A must novel and curious exhi-
bition took place a few days ago at Greenwich.
An unfortunate Pensioner, whose nasal promontory
had been completely cut off by a sabre wound,
anxious to have his beauty restored, put himself
under the hands of an itinerant Doctor, who un-
dertook to make him a complete New Nose, atter
the Indian fashion, for a very moderate fee. The
precise pattern being determined on, the opet ation
was performed before a numerous concourse of
, spectators, chiefly of the lower orders ; a large
piece 01 skin being cut from the forehead, laid
over.a wax model of the nose, and then glued with
VANCO,UVRE'S Cement

A !UAL LILLIP9TIAII.—A new and most elttra-
ordinary performer bai been presented it► the
equestrian exercises of the Olympic Circus.
This Amazon is almost exactly on the Lilliputian
scale—her height is only l 8 inches. .The little
Mademoiselle Babet, however, has in her diminu-
tive person all the grace, euquettery,and pretension
of an elegante from the chanssce di A lain, or an act-
ress in high vogue. She excited universal astonish-
ment when she first appeared. M. L'Francou led
her into the circus by the hand. They looked ex-
tiv like Gulliver and the Queen cat Lilliput. A
very small pulley was produced ; she mounted by his
assistance, rode with Judi-nice grace, act,vity-,--and-
sk ill, performed 4 variety of exercises, and testi.-
fied to tilt.- audience her •sense• of the applauses
and bray is which resounded from all parts.
This little tvomau will, no doubt, make a fortune
in a country Where little men have already had
inch success.—(Paris Paper.)

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT —About 10 o'clock,
on Thursday iiigtit last, a young man, named J.
Bragg, employed as a brewer in the service of Mr.
Cockram, oftl4Country-Hosise, in this city,whilst
in the act.. of - pumping water from the furnace
into the mcshingsieve, fell with hjx, head foremost
into the boiling water. The pair fellow's cries
brought some persons from the house to his
assistance, Miley found bins standing in the
furnace, unable, from the injury he had sustain-
ed, to extricate him,elf from his dreadful situa-
tion.—On taking him out he presented a most
aistressiug spectacle ; the 'skin of his bands
hung in strips from his fingers, and his body ap-
peared literally parboiled. Medical assistance was
promptly procured, but all efforts to "save his
life ‘sere in vain ; he was perfectly sensible, said
he had been at least ten minutes in the water,
and continued to pray,fervently (or death to release
him from his sufferings, Which took place at
three o'clock the followingmorning.Nothiug
could exceed the humane conduct of Mr. Cockram
on this unhappy occasion.—(Exeter Flying Post,
Dec. 24.)

NOT FORTY THIEVES.—We ay concerned to
bear that a gang of young thieves their
umber amounting to fifteen at least (and the
eldest having little more than entered into
his teens) has been discovered in Whitellaven.—
lt is certain that the thefts committed here,within
a few weeks past, are beyond any former instances
of the kind. The Police are upon the alert, and
we hope shortly to give a further and a better
account.

The new and handsome bridge, lately built on
the river Otter, about a mile and a halt from Flo-
niton, on the Western road, is to be named
Trafalgar as a memorial to our great naval victory,
under the inituortaj Nelson.—The ceremony 01
opening the Bridge is appointed to take place on
Old Mw Year's Day, when the event will be ce-
lebrated by a public dinner at the Golden 'Lion
inn, Honiton.