The Sun.
London, England, 1821-10-25 00:00:00

No. IV.

MINUTE OF A CONVERSATION BETWEEN SIR
R• WILSON AND SIR IL BIRNIE.
On the receipt of Lord Sidmouth's letter Sir R. Wilson ad-
dressed a letter to Sir R. Birnie, for a copy of the deposition
on oath, assigning also the motive of the request.
The let,ter was sent on the 20th. On the 22d Sir R. Birnie
sent a note to Sir R. Wilson, stating he had been absent at-
tending the funerid of a friend in the country, and requesting
Sir IL "Wilson to call upon him, when he would give him the
information he required.

Sir R. Wilson having waited on Sir R. Birnie the same
day, with Mr. Wm. Lambton, and renewed his demand for a
copy of the information on oath, Sir Richard informed Sir R.
'Wilson " that no information in writing had been taken ; that
the information was a verbal one, founded upon a report at the
Freemasons' Tavern of a Meeting having been held at Hani-
mersmith, at which an officer had been present : but that, on
the examination of the Tavern-keeper at Hammersmith, Mr.
Youde, all the Magistrates were' satisfied Sir R. Wilson had
never been in the house."* R. WILSON. •
41 The above minute was shewn to Sir R. Birnie, and re-
ceived his sanction.

No. V.--(Second §eries—No. I.)
SIR ROBERT WILSON TO LORD VISCOUNT
SIDMOUTII.

18, Regent-street, Oct. 22, 1821.
Mr LORD—Having received information that a deposition
upon oath exists in the Home Department of my having been
seen, on Tuesday the 14th August, on horseback, with a
porter pot in my hand, encouraging the populace to pull up
the pavement and oppose impediments to the funeral procession
of her late Majesty, I have the honour to request your Lord-
ship will be pleased to direct a copy of such deposition to be
delivered to me, that I inay institute a prosecution for perjury
against the person so swearing. I have the honour to be,
Your Lordship's most obedient humble Servant,
To the Lord ViscOunt SIDMOITTR. R. WILSON.

No.• VL.—( Second Series—No. Il.)
THE LORD VISCOUNT SIDMOUTH TO SIR ROBT
WILSON.

Whitehall, Oct. 23, 1821.
Stn—l have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yes-
terday's date, in which you slate that you have received infor-
mation that a deposition upon oath exists in the Home Office,
of your having been seen on horseback, on Tuesday the 14th
of August, with a porter pot in your hand, encouraging the po-
pulace to pull up the pavement, and oppose impediments to the
funeral procesSion of her late Majesty ; and you therefore re-
quest that I will direct a copy of such deposition to be deliver-
ed to you, that you may institute a prosecution against the per-
son so swearing, for perjury ; and I have the honour to ac-
quaint you, in reply, that I should not think myself justified
in giving the directions for which you have applied.

I have the honour to be, Sir, .
-Your most obedient humble Servant,
To Sir Rolm WILSON. SIDIIIOUTH.

THE PRESS.—RepIy of Sir W. BERKLEY, Go-
vernor of Virginia, to certain questions relating
to that colony, propounded from abroad in
1670:—" I thank Gon there is no free-schooli
nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these
hundred yeors; for-learning has brought disohe-
dience and heresy and sects into the world, and
printing has divulged them. all(' libels against the
best Government. God keep us from bath!"

FOR THE SUN.

HANOVER.

It is as clear that those improvements will go
on, as it is that we should, and must, endeavour
to keep our commercial superiority : and it is
with that view that I beg to suggest to the Go-
vernment and to commercial men whether our
commercial relations with Hanover might not be
strengthened ; and whether llanover, under new
regulations, might not be a footing on the conti-
nent by which we might convey British goods in
great quantities to all parts of Germany and
France. How far a public meeting would for-
ward these objects I leave to your Readers.
London, Oct. 23. A LOYAL SUBJECT.

THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM AND
THE BUCKS CHRONICLE.

MR. EDITOR—I have this day read, in the
Morning Chronicle,-I paragraph, entitled, " The
Marquis'of 13,UCKINGHAM and the Bucks Chro-
nicle," giving a garbled statement of what has

lately taken place in the courity of Buckingham.
The facts of the case are simply these :—Her late
MAJESTY, who was at the time in question un-
happily a public shew, was passing just as the
Bucks Yeomanry were released from duty, and
all-powerful curiosity induced some of the men

to gallop by the sides of the carriage and get a
peep at the Queen. This was mischievously re-
presented in the Backs Chronicle, which stated
that the men, actuated by feelings of respect, es-
corted her MAJESTY to Brandenburgh House, or
to that effect—and, consequently a resolution
was entered into at the adjourned Quarter Ses-
sions for the County, that unless a proper apo-
logy was made, the patronage of the county
should for the future be withheld from the paper
in question.

A proof of the independence of the most nu-
merous Bench of Magistrates ever known, I be-
lieve, to have assembled in the town of Ayles-
bury, and that they were not the influenced
" friends and retainers of the Marquis of BUCK-
INGHAM," was shewn on the first motion, that the
resolution to withhold the county advertisements
from the Bucks Chronicle, should be rescinded.
It being asserted on the one hand that an apology
had been made; and on the other, that it had
not, two Magistrates refused to vote, and the
majority was not so large on the first, as on the
second question, which went on far different
grounds : namely, on the violent departure from
the principles on which the paper at its outset
professed that it should be guided (and ou which
account it was supported by the Magistrates of
the county), the principles of impartiality and
moditration. So impetuous has its line of conduct
since been in the cause of Radicalism, that if it
has kept itself out of the cognizance of the
law, the limits of safety have been very nearly
approached.

ht; infamous assertion that the vote enterec

into at Aylesbury, at the late general quarter
sessions, was carried by the " friends and re-
tainers" of the Marquess of BLICKINGIIAM, insi-
nuating that the vote of the Magistrates of the
county was improperly biassed and obtained, I
will not only declare to be false,. but I will con-
fute the falsehood by simply asking one question,
with which,Mr. EDITOR, [
,shall take my leave.
Were the Earl of BRIDGEWATER and Viscount
HAMPDEN, who voted against
,the county adver-
tisements being given for insertion to The Bucks
Chronicle, which would, if inserted, send the
Paper forth to the world as patronised by the
guardians of the morals of the people of Backs,
and convey the sentiments of the Paper as the
sentiments of the county--were my Lords
BRIDGEWATER and lIAmenEN, I ask, the in..
flitenced " friends," or" slavish retainers," of the
Marquess of BUCKINGHAM? I. am,
Mr. Enuoit, your faithful servant,
AN INDEPENDENT MAGISTRATE OF THE
Oct. 24. • ' COUNTY OP BUCKINGHAM.

As the affair to hic h the foregoing- let-
ter relates has been grossly misrepresented in the
factious Journals, we deem it proper to insert it,
in justice to the-Nobleman' whose character has
been so illiberally assailed on the occasion.

MR. EDITOR—His MAJESTY'S visit to Hanover
has given a considerable degree of interest to that
ancient State but new Kingdom ; and though
there was a time when such a visit would have
created jealousies in the English, yet that time is
now past, and the only fair object at present is
to see in what manner the union of the Kingdoms
may be best cemented.

Every British traveller whd has lated visited
the Continenfoust have seen, if not with alarm,
yet with considerable interest, the great improve-
ment in the North or 'France, particularly of ma-
nufactures, for which the English are celebrated ;
as a proof.of the increase of commerce, I need
only mention that the -little manufacturing town
of Roubair, near Lille, has, in the last 12 months,
had an increase of 600 houses.