The Sun.
London, England, 1819-11-11 00:00:00

persons :

Right Hon. Sir Samuel Shepherd, Lord Chief Baron of Scot-
land.
Honourable Baron Clerk Rattray.
Henry lardine, Esq. W.S. and King's Remembrancer.
Ranaid George Macdonald, of Clanronald, Esq. M.P.
William Clerk, Esq. Advocate.
James Skene, Esq. of Rubislaw.

The Hon. Captain William Henry Percy.
Captain Charles Main, R.N.
Capt. Adam Ferguson, Keeper of the Registers of Scotland.
William Forbes, Esq. late Keeper of the Records of the Town
Council of Edinburgh.
Robert Clerk Rattray, Esq. younger of Craighall.
Dr. Robertson Barclay, of Cavil.
Dr. James Gregory.
Dr. Alexander Munro.
William Burn, Esq. Architect, Edinburgh.
Andrew Clephane, Esq. Sheriff-Depute of Fife.
Alexander Colville, Esq. Sheriff-Substitute of thd Western
District of Fife.
John Macdonald, Esq. Writer, and Joint Procurator-Fiscal
oft he Western District of Fife.
The Rev. Peter Chalmers, one of the Ministers of the Parish
of Dunfermline.
The Rev. George Bell Brand, Minister of the Chapel of Ease,
Dunfermline.
The Rev. William Dalyell, Minister of the Original Burgher,
' Congregation, Dunfermline.
Tire Rev. William Forfar, Minister of Saline.
The PROVOST, in presenting these gentlemen
with their burgess tickets, spoke to neatly the
following effect :
" My Lord Chief Baron, my Lord Baron
Clerk, anti other Gentlemen present-1 feel much
happiness in having the honour to confer upon you
the freedom of the ancient and Royal Burgh of
Dunfermline, long the re,idence and place of. se-
pulture of the Kings nf Scotland. My happiness,
tor), is increased, by having this pleasing office
to discharge on so memorable a day as the
present, when we have been testifying our ve-
neration and respect for the remains of one

it They have him had to Dumferline,
And him solemnly ended syne,
In a fair tomb into the vire,
Bishops and Prelats that there were,
Assolzied him, when the service
Was done, as they hest could devise;
And syne upon the other day,
Sorry rind Wu they Weill their way;
And he drhoweited was cleanly,
And also balnied sync full richly.
Arid the worthy Lord of Douglas,
Hi,. heart, as it forespoken was,
Received has in great daintie,
With great and fair solemnitie?!
Li/c an Acts of Robert Bruce, King of Scotland,
kf,t Jahn Barbour, Archdeacon of Ala-rdren.
S:milar ton, in snore respects. is the following testimony
of a prosaic and mure.creditable.historian
Sepultus est rrx apud monasterium de Dumfermelyn,
in tuedio churl, debit() cum botiore."
Forduni Secoti Chron.

of the tnott illostridos of Kings—the glory
bmtst of every Scotsman, Roil, I believe,

May sal` of every 13titun, the assertor of the her-
ties and independence of his tOuntry. Perhaps it
may be improper in toe here to omit, !hat it is to
the Heri,ors and Magistrates of Dunfermline that
the discovery of these valued remains is, in a great
measure, owing For bad It nut been for their
resolution to build the new church on its present
scite, they Migist never have been known ; anti r
may still farther mention, that, in consttinence of.
this discovery, the Heritots and Magistrates of
buniermlint have submitted to touch additional
expence, in adapting the magnificent structure
they are erecting to the purpose of smiting the
dust, and perpetuating the mernory, of the dis-
tinguished personages interred within i!s precincts.
Permit me to assure your Lot dships, and the other
gentlemen present, that 1 ant petsnatled I shall
receive the thanks of my fellow-cit ivr) for add-
ing to the nilftibeu of their freemen so honourable

andresiiectab!e a connp•+iv as is now assembled.'•

To this the LORI) CutisV BARON made the fol-
lowing suitable and impressive reply :
" Provost, I return you my most sincere thanks
for the honour now conferred on me, which I shall
ever esteem one of the proudest circumstances in
my life. My pleasure, in receiving this token of
the respectful attentthos of the citizens of Dun-
fermline, is greatly enhanced by the occasion ors
which it has taken place. You, Sir, have well
styled this a memorable day—for that must be a
memorable day which has exposed to sight all
that remains of the mortal part of him, whose
fame and heroism will he recollected with adwi-
ration and gratitude,- so long' as time and human
memory last. You have said, Sir, that the vir-
tues of Robert Bruce are particularly endeared to
Scotsmen ; but let me assure you, that, so far as
1 am concerned, I could not hive felt more en-
thusiasm, on the occurrences of this day, for en-
thusiastn I do feel, even if I had been born a
native of Caledonia. I am much obliged by the
honour vow bestowed on me, nod shall ever es-
teem it my happiness to contribute, as far as in
me lies, to the prosperity and welfare of the com-
munity, of which I am now a freeman."
Baron CLERK the❑ addressed the Provost neatly
as follows :

" SIR-I fully concur in every 'sentiment ex-
pressed by my brother Lord. He hiss very po-
litely said, that the circumstance of being a
native of the other side of the Tweed has not im-
paired the delight which the scene of this day was
Fitted to impart, considering the object of all the
victories which signalize the name of Robert
Bruce. Had he and I lived, Sir, during the life-
time of this distinguished hero, we should have
been enemies. Now, we are friends. And it is
not, perhaps, saying too much, that it is to Ro-
bert Bruce that our present. Monarch owes his
seat on the Throne of these Realms ; the line. 9e
connection between the former and the latter
Prince, through the family of the-Stuarts, being
easily traced, so that well may every English-
man, no less than every Scotsman, glory in the
scene which has this day been presented to us."
The healths of the Burgesses and the Prosperi-
ty of Dunfermline were then drank, and the
company parted much gratified with all that had
happened.
The Barons, it is understood, mean to erect an
elegant sarcophagus, with a suitable inscription
over the scite of the grave, which, together with
the sormonnting of the tower, erected over it,
consisting of a railing, exhibiting, in co:ispienoAs
letters, " Icing Robert the Bruce," with other
corresponding ensigns of Royalty, will tend to
perpetuate the remembraneeot this illustrious hero,
statesman, and patriot, and render this sacred
edifice doubtless the most interesting, as it is one
of the handsomest in Scotland.—(Edinburgh Coat-
i rant, Not'. 8.)

A WHALE IN THE RIVER SEVERN.—On Mon-.
day morning last a whalc was left in our river by
the ebb-tide, on the sands between A wre and
Frampton. it was first disco veted by some men
at a considerable distance, whose notice Was at-
tracted by the force and velocity with which it
was lashing and throwing up the water with its
tail, on finding, itself hampered by the receding
of the tide. So singular an object attracted a
great concourse of people ; and as soon as it
could be approached with safety, instead of
Securing and preserving it as a spectacle for the
gratification of the carious (by which a very liberal
sum might hare been levied), a general scramble
took place, and -this immense carcass was severed
into such portions as could be effected by the use of
those implements most readily obtained. It cowl-
toted to bleed 3 hours after being first wounded.
The head anti tail were Speedily cut off, and car•
ried away; and by next morning parts of the flesh
of this hapless animal were Wstributed all over
the country. Not sat;sfied with hese means of spo-
j hation, some fellows, at the return of the tide, pro-
cured a boat, towed. off the bulk of what was left,
for the purpose of conveying it to a more retired
situation, where they might divide the spoil at
leisure. Under these circumstances, the distinct
species to which it belonged was not ascertained.
It is impossible to state, whether this fish was in
search of prey, or compelled by stress of wea-
ther ; but it had proceeded about 25 miles front
the mouth of the river in one tide, arid we believe
is the first that has been found so tar from its
native element. its dimensions were in length
60 feet, bleadth 10,feet, width of the tail 12 feet,
the upper jaw 9 feet, and the lower 10 feet long,
and the carcase supposed to be nearly fifty tons
weight. This stupendous animal was found on
the manor of H. C. Clifford, Esq., of Fratnpton,
who has secured the jaw -hottes for the purpose of
forming a gave-way on his estate.—(Gloucester
Paper.)
Mr. PAY tstes tragedy of Brutus, that hail so
N !wig a run last season at Drury-lane Theatre,
has been brought nut at the New York Theatre—
the charac,er of Brutus by Mr. 'Vat. LACK.
More Success at Hazard's! !—No. 7370, drawn
on Tuesday a Prize of Twenty 'rhonsand Pounds,
(Money and Consols), was sold in Shares by
Hansen and Co. at their Offices, 93, Royal
change Gate, 26, Cornhill, and 324. Oxhird-street,
corner of Swallow-street, where Tickets and
Shares are on Sale for the 2tl Day of Drawing,
when Two more Prizes of Twenty Thousand
Pounds must be drawn.

AN ADDRESS TO ALL PARTIES.

_Y--

FELLOW COUNTRYMEN T.- Are you aware of
what is going on in your beloved Country ? I be-
ye not, or we should see the virtuous, the loyal,
and the brave assembling in greater numbers to
protect their lives, their families, .and their pro-
perty ; to defend their beloved King, and to pre-
serve their venerable Estahli,hineuta in Church
Who could have believed, that, in

nuti State.

this enlightened age, with the experience ►,f the

history of our otvn country, and that more recent
in of.the French Revolution, there should have
been subjects of a British Monarch who could

dare to avow such sentiments religions and poli-
tical, as we have seen openly vended in our Me-

tropolis ?

You are told, that the object of the discon-
tented and disaffected is not Revulutiori but Re-
form. Ler us examine this quegtion. Let us see
AVliat parr of our Constitution their sweeping no-
tions of Reform would spare from utter de-
struction.

Our actual-Sovereign the Prince Regent has been
personally insulted by the most gross and auda-
cious language, and told, in so many words, that
"he has forfeited-his title to the Crown !! !"
• Is this RefOrm or Revolution ?
The Hoiise of Lords has been told that '' their
hereditary privileges are replete with injustice to
the remainder of the Nation ;" and that 4. thry
themselves collectively present nothoig to our
view, hut elevation without digni.y, power with.-
Out talent, grandeur without Munificence, 'and
opulence without charity."
Is this Reform or Revolution ?
The house n' Commons !—Scarcelyneed "'name
tlt s grand palladitinia liberties: In the dialect of
Reform it is the recepf.tcle of all evil, the source
and origin of all. corroption. The banner of re.
17th century was raised in the name
of Parliament ; it is waved in proud defiance
Of Parlia C , but especiallyrii the House of Com-
Mons, the Nlembers of which never receive any
better epithet th.,u Borou2limongers, anti the Bo-
ronelrllollgers are described as sworn enemies and
opput•ssors of the peop!c. In fine, a formal Re-
solwi,in lig% been adopted not' to 'acknowledge
th''t' Anthortry " from and after the
Ist Jatinaly, 1820 '•
Is this. Reform or Revolution ?
Tbe Established Religion has been held lip to
comernp•,,aiot or;ly by stating, that " the Church
Gi:vi,rnment or National Religion, is equally er-
roneous with those principles of Popery which it
supplanted," but 'bat " all Religion is a system
of :in post tire 'and it and."
Is ibis Reform or Revolution ?
It would be surerfloons to rim over all other
establ;sh,nents o, int( rests which rest on the-ex-
isting Laws and Cinisiitution, The Magistracy,
the Commercial Interst, the Lauded Interest,
the Fueds--all -.are cOndemned by the sweeping
Senreuee of modern Reform, which is certainly
Synonimous with old fashioned-RevOlution. '
Loot< at this picture, ye Whigs of 1688 It 'is no
caricature. It- is not drawn by the hand of an
enemy. T 1 ,e Retortners themselves hold the pen-
cil. What think ye of if, ye stedfast supporters
of the llonse 0, Brunswick, ye descendants of the
great Whig Nobility, ye maintainers of ancient
privileges and fraerhises, ye opulent, charitable,
arid tel profetsors of the faith of your pious
ancestors, ye wealthy and lordly contributors to
the Manchester Fund ?
And is this ? Are the Reformers a mere spe-
culative sect ! Oh no. They have their train-
it!es and drillings, they have their Delegates •and
Missionaries. thi-y have their pikes, and they
plainly. tell yon they will ere long liave their in-
surreoions. " Jr is not to be denied," says one
of them, " that .we are on the ere of an eventful
criss. We moat resolve to act instantaneously
and imaitimously. Let nut a moment-be lost, but
let every man make that preparation his means
will admit of. We have the experience of his-
tory before us, which invariably points out to us
cvhenever a banditti have the reins •f Go-
vernment, similar to those in the administration
of Affairs in this Country, they must be violently
driren front it."

h this sedition ? Is this bringing the existing
Covernment into contempt. Is this to be tole-
rated in a free country, iu a country, as free, at
-least, to the good as to the had, to the Christian
-as to the Deist, to Constitutionalist and loyal Sub-
ject, as to the Radical and Rebel ? •
These, my fellow-countrymen, are some of the
doctrines of the present day, extracted verbatini,
-sold at 2d, a book, and disseminated as fast as the
press can supply them, Were you aware of this,
and are yon aware to what it leads ? Are High
Treason, Blasphemy,. and Sedition really stalking
iu open day throughout the Kingdom ? If they
he, I call upon all good and virtuous men, upon
the ince, his Ministers, and all that are in au-
thority; upon the high and the low, the rich and
the poor; upon men of all parties, sects, and per-
. snasions, to join hand and heart, not by their
wishes only, hut by active exertions at all times

and places wherever the mischief is seen, or sus-
- peered, in shaming, repressing, and putting down
these doctrines and these revolutionary attempts,
• while there is yet time. No one can tell bow far
ti,eir baneful influence has already gone, fr! 'we
ail know whither they most inevitably least ; and
I conjure the Whigs, the Burdettites, the Hunt-
" ites, and even the Watsonites, to pause and to
consider, that they know not what they are about;
that they cannot direct the storm ; that in its pas-
sag,. they, with all that is dear to tiler) in this
- world, all that is valuable and good in society may
be swept away ! - that England--tie arbitress of
tetiot,s—the admiration of the world—the glory
of her chiloren—trom its pinnacle of unexampled
izte4tnes-s, ryin fell into an abyss, from which she
• will neveJ- recover, and that, in her destiny, may
be,cousigned to ruin trod destruction, countless
• Jut Woos of human beings, whole countries now

happy and pros'perons, and ages whose tate de-
teons on the virtue and energy of the present

AMICUS PATRIAi.

LAW INfELIAGENCE:

COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 10.

The LORD CHANCELLOR did not give judgment
in the case of the Rochester Charity this morning,
the ptpe►s having inadvertently been Lett. at his
Lordship's house.

Mr. HART, in reference to the case of Sir Gre-
gory Page Turner, said he did not think his .botd-
ship would be again troubled .with any farther
arguments in it, as he had been infortned that an
arrangement would be come to out of Court be-
tween the parties, if it net his Lordship's appro-
bation, and therefore he had to ask leave that the
case might be allowed to stand over till Monday.
His Lordship expressed himself perfectly agree-
able, and an order to—tote effect prayed was order-
ed to he drawn up.:

in the case of the Petition of the Churchwar-
dens, Oversetrs, &c. of the Parish of Poplar, the
Lord Chancellor having looked into the report of
the Master, to whom it had been referred, con-
firmed the same, without entering into the facts.