The Sun.
London, England, 1817-07-03 00:00:00

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James Lindpay, who was last Sessions acquitted
of forgery,.was again
,put to. the Bar, on an in-
dictment which charged him with forging and ut-
tering a Check for the payment 14 101. with in-
tent to defraud
_Edward from!, or Messrs Snow
and

Jkithouh this,,trirtl occupied - the Court for a
cOnsiderable time, yet the facts of the case lie in
very small' coutpms. .The prosecutor is at, St.
.
torney living in Searle-stieet, Lincoln's Inn-fields,
and the prison-1- had been for seven years confi-
dentially entrusted as 'his Clerk. On the 17th of
October, 1815, Mr. Frow'd crew a check for tiff.:
paythent of 101. which, waSpaid to a boy -by the
Banker's Clerk, who, -it appeared, neglected
(as is trinal.Opon such occasions). to cross 'tint the
name of the drawer, to mark its being paid, and
in' this state •it was given to the prisoner, vho
erased the figures 1 and the ,5 to the " 17th Oct.
ISls,'' and supplied in their place a 2, the woi&t
.e pt. and a -figure fi. and thereby made the check
payable on " the 27th Sept. 1803," ill whi-ch
state it was again presented at the, banking-house
of Messrs. Snow and Patti, and paid again, and
the.prisoner afterwards absconded. Many checks
which had been paid were not' brOught back to
Fr.owd by,te prisoner, and on being
tioned as to that point, he said that the bankers
could not find them, or had 'mislaid them.
Mr. Frowd swore most decided that the alters.
tion in the check was in the prisoner's hand-

writing.
.11r. Justice ,A.attorr stunnted up the evidence,
and the Jor'y, atrer retiring tor an hone, foond the
pyisoner IV9I GtiiNi. He was, however, ordered
to be det4iiied,' to he tried thii d (rhurulay)
upon. anot her indictment for forgery.
'Tie following were capitally convicted ;-- •
Thos. I-Terring, for- a •htli•glary,-. in the dwelling-house of
Thomas Caine, and stealing I i pigs, his prolicrt.
.Saniuel Chlinati,- fur a burglary, in the divelting-house
,gf,lottaEl.2.yi.ssi and stealing two qullp,.a
sheet, &c. his proms
' • "
ert
far assatOng..Nlatthew Witty on thr
skai• and taking frbia Ins person two Bauk Tolieus, value Bs.

A Letter from Falmouth, 'hated on Monday,
received this morning, says—" The (Morn packet,
which arrivell here to-day front Rid Janeiro,
states, that an Expedition sailed from Rio Janeiro,
to act against the Insurgents at Pernambuco,
&mutt the time the Packet sailed, consisting of an
Armed Squadron of 5,800 man ; but ge.-
rtei ally thought they would be strongly opposed,
as the Insurgents were daily increasing, and were
ready to receive them.:'

Tug Fowns.—Stocks continue to advance in a
niosr rapid manner ; from the opening yesterday
t 9 the commencement of business this morning,
tunsol, have risen 14 per Cent., and the demand
for Stock cont;nues unprecedented. The Divi-
dends commence paying to the Bankers on Satur-
day and Minnlay next, and to the Public on Tuts-
thy. compd.:, at 12 o'clock this day, were 77i.
The Monied Interest are still confident that Con.
sols will be 80 before the rising of Parliament.

It is stated in a Morning Paper, tbat•on Tnes-'
Ay the 15th Parliament witl be prorogued by a
Speech from the Throne. We have, however,
relson to bt•lieve that the business of Parliainent
will not be finished before the day following..

The Paris Papers of Monday last, which were
doe this morning, have not come to band.

EKTRACT OF A LATTER FROM ST. THOAIAS'..;, DATED

THE 25TH MAY.

" Several Danish vessels have been captured by
the Independents, for a breach of the blockade on
the coast'; the cause of this, however, may be
acconnted for as follows :—A Danish man of war
brig lately captured and sent into this port, a
CarthageniAn privateer, with a regular commission
from Baum and BoLt VAR, and she was condemned
by the Go‘ernment ; the Patriots are therefore re-
taliating;. We had acconn•s yesterday of the cap•
titre of the Danish sloop Lady Bontien, from this
port hound to Cuba, with a valuable cargo of dry
goods ; she wag taken by the brig Patriota, Com.
modure TAYLOR."

EXTRACT OP A LFTTRR PROM OUR CORRESPONDENT
AT LIVERPOOL, DATED JULY 1, 1817.
'The following are the arrivals and imports from
the 2.6 th to the 30th June, inclusive :
Tile Nancy, from Philadelphia-400 barrels Flour, 604 bales

halcyon, ditto-116S barrels Flour, 62 bales Cotton, 336
hogsheads Bark.

ditto-1006 barrels Flour, 2.50 casks and 110
ban elc lc.

Llttle Cherub, ditto-1273 barrels Flour, 71 bales Cotton,
115 liogAltead Bark.
Pacific, from New York-1148 barrels Flour, 428 baits
Cotton, 22 hogsheads Bark.
Importer, ditto—'2B99 barrels Flour, 855 bales Cotton.
Deborah,• ditto-2056 barrels Flour.
Euphrates, ditto-1130 barrels Flour, 515 bales Cotton,
1.10 tierces Rice.
Mohawk, from Baltimore-1300 barrels Flour, 554 bales
cotton. _ .

Two Brothers, ditto—looo barrels. Flour, 921 bags Wheat.
El,zabeth, ditto-3G5 sacks 'Wheat, 814 bales Cotton, 87

ho:.:01,•at1g Tobacco.
ITN tor, ditto-1809 bags Wheat, 18 bates Cotton, 2 hogs-

headsTohacco.
Nara, from Virginia-3357 barrels Floor, 52 bales Cotton,

350 tierccs nice.

M+ la, from Charleston--1 000 bales Cotton, 150 tiereesnice.
Ceres, ditto-1089 bates Cotton, 92 casks Rice.
Margaret, ditto-110 barrels Flour, 362 bales Cotton, 20

trirrels Rice.

Cororira, from Savannah-99S hales Cotton.

EXTRICT OF A LETTER FROM SAVANNAH, DATED
MAY 29, 1317.

" The schooner Mary Ann, Captain HILL, has
strived here from Havannah. By this vessel we
have received our regular • file of Spanish News-
papers to the 7th inst.—Our Correspondent writes,
brat the I lavannnh mArket is over-stocked with

European and'lndiq goods. Eighty-six merchant
ves%7;f.i. erriveil at li‘avannah in the month of April,

ot Ole folio ‘viog na:ions, via. : —l9
English, 5 French, 2 Dutch, 1 Swede, and 52
Americans. Seventy7eight merchant vessels sailed
from Havannah iii the same month, of the fol-
io t ing nations, vit. :-17 Spanish, 12 Euglis!i,
6 French, 2 Dutch, 1 Swede., and 3S American."

After the complete refutation by Nlr. ADDING-
TON, on Tuesday night, in the House of Com-
mons, of all the charges brought by the Oppusi-

tion Members on the subject of the EVANSES, we
could tardly have supposed that the subject would
be renewed, though a menace of renewal was
indeed held forth on that occasion. Mr. BARHAM,
'
however, repeated the topic last night, and
again received from Mr. ADDINGTON a complete
refutation of all his allegations. Mr. STUART
WORTLEY also took apthematter in favour of Go-
vernment, and made some pointed, remarks on the
folly of supposing that Persons taken op on charges
essentially relating to the security of the State,
should be considered as entitled to all possible

indulgences. It appears, that a matter of extra-
ordinary grievance ‘vas, the taking away of EVANS'S
flute. Sa that a Prison is not to be a place of
punishment, irdeserved, but. of amusement and
luxury. Whoever has lived in an Innof Court,
near any StUdent who indulges himself in per-
fOrming on the fiddle, or the flute, hai not
found his own studies advanced by the melo-
dious aid of such a neighbour, and we cannot
see why a Puison, which ought to be a place
of serious reflection, should be disturbed by un-

necessary noise, even if it comes through the
channel ,of a musical instrument. A respectable
OpPrisitiOtiPrint of this day states, by mistake
no doubt; that Mr. HII.BY ADDINGTON defended
the removal of EVANS'S flute " on the grOund
that music isforbidden hi the gaol by the rules
and regitlations."—On the contrary, Mr. ADDING,
TON declared, that he thought those rules ought
to be relaxed, *hen they, deprived a person 4ond of
a pleasing art-of the barMlessiratificationarising
from it, and that an Order had been given for

the flute to be restored. But it QppOsition.have
no better arguments to adyißce againit GO'-
verinnent, for adopting measures'for the safety of
the Btate;it may fairly. be said' ttiat their reason-
ing is ".-full of sound anti fury, signifying nothing."

Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY, not satisfied, 'perhaps,:
with the Newspaper Reports of the Resolutions
whiekbe
_submitted_ to
.the liouse :of Commons,
on the subject of Lord Siniintmes Circular
Letter, has found some friend who contrived to
get 'them inserted last Week in the Mottihg Chro-
nicle. if we did nut know that the paper in ques-
tion is filendly to Sir SAMUEL and his principles,
we should conceive that some Ministerial Wag had
practised a hoar upon the worthy Knight, as, in
our opinion,'the*Newspaper Reports seem to be
more accurate• than the form which may be con-
sidered as having his sanction. IVe shah present
our Readers with these Resolutions as Oven in
the Morning Chronicle, and then take the liberty
of making a few observations on the subject :

" That it is highly prejudicial to the due administration of
justice, for a Minister of the Crown to interfere with the Ma-
gistrates of the country, in cases in which a discretion is sup-
posed to be by law vested in them, by recommending or sug.
gusting to them bow that discretion should be exercised.

" That it tends to the subversion of justice, and is o dan-
gerous extension of the prerogative, for .a 2%l.inister of the
Crown to take upon himself to declare, in hiiolficial.charac-,
ter, to the Magistracy what he conceives to be the law of the
:and, and that such an exercise of authority is the more
alarming when the law so declared deepiraffects the security
of the subject, and the liberty of the press, and is promul-
gated upon no better authority than the opinions of the Law
Otheers of the Crown." •

Now we should be glad to know how the due
administration of justice can possibly be, in any
degree, prejudiced when a Minister of the Crown,
after having consulted the Law Officers of the
Crown, as to the legality of his interfering, pro-
ceeds only so far as to recommend to the Magis-
trates of the County a proper exercise of the dis-
cretion vested in them by Law, upon' a case too
in which the safety of the country is at stake,
and after having received from those. Law Officer:,
a full sanction for such recommendation, sup-
ported by the highest authorities of former times
We should rather conceive that, insteadlof being
" highly prejudicial to the doe adininistration of
justice," which-SieSmay EL contends is the tendenq
of such recommendation, it is, on the contrary,
calculated to promote the due administration of
justice, by inducing the Magistrates to devote
their utmost attention to the case before them,
and thereby to preserve the peace:of the country,
and maintain the proper authority of Government.
But the worthy Knight speaks of " a discretion
supposed to be by law vested" in the Magistrates.
Is it possible that an experienced Lawyer, " sup-
posed" to possess deep professional knowledge,
and high talents, could have used language of so
loose and vague a description r Surely the Magis-

Crates must have such discretion vested in them,

or not—it can never be a matter of mere suppos

61'7, Mid if it wet:, it wot,;(1. t)e more necessary tliu
uni:cr the sanction of the Law Authorities, they
should be filly apprized of the extent of discre-
tionary power vested in thew, and exhorted to a

proper use of it, in cases of national alarm ,when the
safety of the Empire is concerned. Such inaccu-
rale wording. attributed to a great practical
Lawyer, savours, indeed, strongly of a hoax.—

But the second Resolution of the Knight declares,
as he indeed said before, that such interference

tends to the subversion of justice," and that it
is " a dangerous extension of the prerogative for
a Minister of the Crown to take upon him to de-
clare, in his offieial character, to the Magistracy
what he conceives to he the Law of the Land."—
Now mark, gentle Reader—the Minister of the
Crown did not state what he individually conceived
to be the Law of the Land, but what, after he
had consulted the proper Authorities, he found to
be the Lai; of the Land. he Resolution proceeds
to say that :" such an exercise of authority is the
more alarming when the law so deeply affects the.
security of the Subject, and: the I;herty of the
Press, and is promulgated upon no better authority
than the opinions- of the Llw Officers of the
Crown." Now, we say that because it so
deeply affects all these important and essential
interests, it is the more necessary that the Ma-
gistracy should be reminded of their duty, and'ex-
horted to exercise their discretion with all due
care and solemnity, when such important and es-
sential interests are at stake. We, therefore, con-

ceive that negligence on the part of a Minister of

the Crown, et such a period, would be alarming
indeed ; that he would grossly neglect his duty to
the State if- he did not adopt every proper mea-
sure for irs protection ; and that the recommen-
dation in question was a proper measure is fully
proved, not by the mere opinions of the Law Odi-.
cers of the Crown,but by their opinions ground-
ed on the doctrines laid down and maintained by
the best LAW AUTHORITIF.B of former times. As
to the -little
,sneer that the interference hail no.
no.
Letter authority than the opinions -of the Law
Officers of the Crown," it is so unworthy of the
character, .pibfessional eminence, and 'personal
manners of .the Worthy Knight, that we are the
more-convincsti the whole is a mere hoax upon
hint, as we at first supposed, and we shall, there-
tore, most readily give insertion to whatever
the Learned Gentleman may think necessary for
positively disavowing having formed, or given his
sanction to Resolutions- so incorrect, so crude, so

inconsistent. with reason, Common sense-, and so
hostile to the security of the State.

Our Readers, we are sure, will read with great
pleasure the eulogituni which were bestowed up-
on-Mr. W. PoLE last night in the House of Com-
mons. When it is recollected, that within a little
more than seven months, a New Silver Coinage;
to the amount of between GO and 70 millions of
pieces, was commenced, completed, and put into
circulation ; that the exchange of- the New for
the Old Silver Coin of the Realm, was simulta-
neously effected in every part of Great Britain ;
and that the whole of this immense operation
was planned with so mach judgment,and executed
with so much skill, that the exchange was effected
without loss or inconvenience to individuals, and
at an expellee to Government inconceivably small,
we shall not be suspected of a disposition to flat-
ter the Right Hon. Gentleman, when we say,
that his exertions have excited the admiration,
and are deservedly rewarded with the gratitude
of the Public.

RUDUCTION IN THE STAFF OF LIFE.—We have
heartfelt pleasure in acquainting the Public, that,
through the blessings of Providence,. the exorbi-
tant price of BREAD is at length reduced three
halfpence in the quarter') loaf. The promptitude
and avidity dil)layed in raising the price of this
valuable article, compared with the tardiness in
reducing it, is so extremely opposite as not to
admit of comparison. The quarter') !Oaf is now
only EIGHTEEN-FENCit !!! It must, however, be.
farther reduced. •

Mr. PONSONEY, whose private virtues 'warmly
interest his friends, we are sorry to find, mends
very slowly, and is by no means Out of 4anger.—
His medical attendants are, Doctors BAILLIE and
WARRENpMCSSIS. LYNN and TEGART. To the
credit of both political parties, they manifest their
respect for this Gentleman by frequent inquiries
as to the state of his health.
Mr. SERGEANT, who was in London for some
time on business of the Bank of the United States
of America, left town a few days ago for Liver-
pool, there to embark in the, Factor for Philadel-
phia, having satisfactorily completed all the ar-
-rangements he came over to make for the Bank..
We suppose be has by this time sailed. We un-
derstand that Mr. SERGEANT has, among other
things, made an arrangement with Messrs. BAR-
ING, BROTHERS, and Co. for the payment in
London, at the par of exchange,' of the divi-
dends upon such portion of the capital stock of
the Bank, as may be held by persons residing in
Europe.—(3lorning Chronicle.)
Yesterday Earl BATHuRvr had an audience of
the PRINCE REGENT at Carlton-I-Muse. In the
evening the Duke of IIuTLAND, and a party of
Noblemen and Gentlemen, dined with his °Royal
Highness.

ROMAN CATHOLICS.

'the Diblin Evening Post, of the 28th ult. cone
sins an article from which we extract the fol.

owing passage :

" CATHOLIC AFFAIRS.—The long-pending affair of the
(milli Dioceses of Waterford and Lismore, is brought to its
teengetion. Accounts have arrived lately front Rome, whick
mcntion,•in positive terms, that the wishes of the Secular and
Regular Clergy of said Dioceses who appealed to the Holy See
for its countenance to their postulation,' hare been amply
gratified by the appointment of their highly cherished object,
the Rev. Doctor Rots Ear W.u.sn, P. P. of Dungarvan, as
their future Bishop, in a general Congregation of Cardinals,
held on the 11th day of May last, to decide that important
question. Their decision, as Roman Letters assure us, was
prompt, so much so, that without the least hesitation or de-
bate, be was honourably elected."

We call the particular attention of all who are
(rico& to THE PROTESTANT ASCENDANCY, who, in
more appropriate words, are friends to our happy
Establishment in Church and State, to reflect on
the foregoing fact. What right have a congrega•

on of Cardinals, with the Roman POtttiff at
teir head, to make any Episcopal Appointments

in this Country The act is an officious, daring,
and insolent intrusion upon the Royal Prerogative,
and ought to receive the most decided reprobation
of our two Legislative Bodies. It is a sort of
.
Treason to announce such :an appointment- by a
Foreign Power, and an outrage on the Constitu•
tion to give any'sanction to it. Instead of dis•
cussing the subject of the VETO on the part of the
Monarch of these Realms, respecting the appoint-
ment of Woman Catholic Titular Bishops, the
Roman Catholics ought to be retrired absolutely,
and for ever, to renounce all claims to have arty
Episcopal Appointments over Dioceses' within the
British Empire. Before they presume' again 'lts
apply to the Legislature for any liirther indulgence
(they have full enough
.already), this positive re*
nunciation ought to be a preliminary and indis.

pensable measure. Can it be doubted, that if we
were absurd enough to bring into the slightest
danger THE PROTESTANT ASCENDANCY, as nOW
by Law established, aud the, Roman Catholics,

that is POPERY, should obtain co-ordinate autho-
rity, that they would not endeavour to render
their TITULAR ARCHRISHoPS and BISIWPS the
only legal and established Archiepiscopal and
Episcopal Bodies. It would be worse than folly

to doubt that such %Yould be the issue. We,-there-
fore„call upon our own legally established Bede•
siastical Bodies, all Friends to THE CONSTITUTION
and THE PROTESTANT ASCENDANCY, to reflect OR

the above alarming fact, and to oppose with all
their might every attempt to shake that ASCEN.,
DANCY, lest they negligently suffer another Ascen4
dancer to arise in due time, to the subversion of our
Government, the destruction of our Religion, rind

the restoration of BIGOTRY, SUPERSTITION, and
all their horrid and horrible consequences in this

any Empire.

ROYAL ENTERTAI LAMENT,--On Tuesday even.
ing, between six and seven o'clock, the QUERN.
accompanied by the Princess ELIZABETH, went iti
her carriage to Carlton-house, where they were
received by the PRINCE REGENT, who had a party
to meet his Royal Mother to dinner, consisting of
the Duke and Duchess of YORK, the Duke of
GLOUCESTER, the Princess Sol•HIA MATILDA, 314
others, to the number of twenty-two. At half-
past nine, o'clock, there was a party of distill_
guished personages to meet her Majesty theQuer N,
amounting to between 250 and 300. It was not
a dress party ; a note at the bottom of the invites.
lion card mentioned only frocks. The State apart..
mentawere not open upon. this occasion, but the
company were shown into the lower apartments,
the whole range of which were thrown open.
The REGENT was in constant attendance upon his
Royal Mother during the whole of the evening.
There were a few card-tables. The Duke of
YORK'S band- attended in the conservatory, and
played various pieces during the evening. A little
before 12 o'clock her MAJESTY and the Princess
ELIZABETH left in their sedan chairs, escorted by
a party of the yeomen of the Guard, and several.
police-officers. They proceeded through the gar.
dens into St. James's-park to the cideen,s-palace.:
The whole of the company left soon after, as fast
as their carriages could be got up.

Yesterday the QUEEN, and Princesses Eciza.
BETH went to visit the Bishop of LONDOll'and his
Lady, at their house in Fulham, walked in the
gardens, and afterwards partook of a sumptuous
repast. They returned to the Queen's palace in
the evening, where her MAJESTY had a select
party.
The Duke of CLARENCE was not
quite so well
on Tuesday as he had been, but we are happy to
to say his Royal Highness was better yesterday.
The Princess CHARLOTTE has lately made a
present to Lady SUSAN RYDER, the eldest (laugh.
-ter of the Earl of HAtteoweY, of a most elegant
Brussels lace dress of the value of 3001. which is
to be her Ladyship's wedding dress on Friday,
when she is to be married to Viscount EBRING,
ToN, at St. George's Church, Hanover-square,
by the Archbishop of YORK.
Sir B. HoBH6UsE transacted business yester.
day, for the first time, since his appointment to
be Under Secretary of State, in the room of Mr.
BECKETT.
Mr. BECKETT, the newly appointed Judge Ad.
vocate-General, in the room of the SPEAKER,
transacted business at his office for the first time
on Tuesday since his appointment. The SeeAttait
does not remove out of it till after the close of
the Session of Parliament.