The Sun.
London, England, 1817-11-21 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN'.

Mk. Enrrou,—While the late visitation i, fresh
in the breast of every Briton, I wish to lay before
the Public, through the Medium of your Paper, a
few observations, the result of that melancholy
brooding over grief, which is a natural though
bitter indulgence to the sorrowing mind. Could
meditation, could art or eloquence, restore to the
wounded.minds of Englishmen the cheering pro-
spect which but a few days since shone upon them,
how many abler pen's than mine would be em-
ployed, how much of 'intellectual store would be
called forth with the joyous hope of diffusing hap-
piness once more around. Alas ! no such possi-
bility exists, and all that remains is the dismal sa.
tisfaction of endeavouring .to_ learn from what
cause such a calamity has overwhelmed us. Let
no affected delicacy presuMe to emect its standard
here ; the occasion is too solemn, too awful, for
its paltry interference. We have been bereft by
death of a Princess whose virtues and talents pro- '
mired every ble'ssing to the nation, and of a regular
succession, which is the best safeguard of the
peace and happiness of a State. We know that
our beloved Princess died in childbirth ; hat this
is a very indefinite. knowledge : the birth of a
child is an operation of Nature; of which, without
some co-operating cause, no female ever died. Fer
our further satisfaction, we are informed that she
died of exhaustion, which proceeded from her
severe and protracted suffering From what cause
this suffering was so protracted Might be consi-
tiered as an useless question, did it not involve the
important one of whether .or not surgical skill
could have put a termivation- trir Natttte,
though -fatally slow, at length completed her
work ; a child •was born perfect, and the mother
was uninjured. No obstacle, therefore,- of an in-
surmountable nature, it may be thought, existed
to prevent the• birth ; and
,we are led to imagine
that- Art,-possibly, might have performed earlier,
what Nature effected too late. One of her Royal
Highness's three medical attendanti, though emi-
nent as an Anatotnist and a Physician, is un-
knowr to the public in the capacity of an Accou-
cheur. Practical Midwifery, it is well known,
forms a distinct branch of Surgery, and is still
more remote from the Practice of Physic. I should
apprehend, even that the palse of a woman in
labour might inspire fallacious hope in the most
experienced Physician, .not in the habit ef.
tending such cases. The bodily anguish and pe-
culiar mental agitation which A woman endures at
thote moments might stimulate the pulse, though
dangerous exhaustion bad commenced. Of her
Royal Highness's two other:medical attendants,
one was never admitted into her chamber, though
the'only one, the Public Prinis inform us, capable
of using instrtiments. When be arrived at Clare-
mont, which was very long after the labour com-
menced, a letter, it is understood, was dispatched
from Sir R. Croft to the Prince Regent, informing,
him that his daughter's sufferings were so pro-
tracted, that it might be necessary to employ art
in her delivery. Are we not naturally led to fear,
and do not some of the I'nh'ic Prints strengthen
the cruel apprehension, that the First State Au-
thority was required by those around her Royal
Highness, before they would venture to act for
her relief ? Shall we he 'eft in the afflicting doubt,
that a nation's ardent hopes, -a lrsband's.excrn-
dating anxiety, and the awful responsibility to
the. Supreme Judge of all, trere not motives of
sufficient fotce ?

Unfortunate Princess ! the .meanest stibject that.
owns your 'Royal Father's sway would feel it hard
to wait for hell) wider such circumstances, hut
before succour co,id be e?rtended to you, is it true
that hundreds of miles were to be travelled ove:- ?

Untortnitate infant ! whose unborn grandettr
•
poirred to the grave, 'did you, like your Roye
;k • .
St(Vther, sink-a victim to the fardyeffOrts of N.
• •
tote ? li there a heart in all this land'of sue •
adamantine hardness as not •to be impressed w
the sorrows - of the Husband ? the tibliaky
band, who strove, by his presence; to soothe and
to support, and who strove in vain—yet not in
vain; for though his. loved presence inspired
strength beyond human strength, only to support
suffering beyond human suffering, still the affec-
tionate and confiding- heart was soothed. No
man can understand the Widower's feelings, for
no man like hint has been the object of.unbotind•
ed love and reverence to the greatest Princess of
the earth—no one like him has united the loss of
all that could delight, the heart of than in priiate
happiness
_with all that could excite the ambition
of a Prince in public life;-he stands exalted on a
roek of desolation,frnm, which no path descends
to the 'ways of common life ; its base is now sur.;
rounded by people from every civilized nation of
the world, bringing that tribute of respectful
sympathy which all feeling hearts must render ;
hut their avocations will call them-away, they
will disperse, and hii grief will remain in sad
loneliness. The heart shrinks front the picture
the fancy has drawn, and Faith whispers conso-
lation— •

4, When Dian brar,und be resigned,
" God ever soothes the suffering mind,
" And studs him future bliss."

F. A.
•

FOR THE SUN.

, •
Mr. EDITOR,—There is no token of 'national
affection which our dear departed PRINCESS bath
not merited ; and none which will he withheld
from her. The accustomed etiquette may not
perhaps allow any Parliamentary motion or reso-
lution for a Monument to her Memory :—and at
all events, the people would he better -satisfied
with its spontaneous proceeding from themselves.
Let me therefore, Sir, through the Medium of
your widely circulating :Journal, suggest.the im-
mediate opening of A NATIONAL SUBSCRIPTION
FOR A MONUMENT TO THE LATE BELOVED PRIN-
CEsS. CHARLOTTE; toward which the penny at
the _poor man shall be rece;ved as cordially as ;he
gold of the opulent.—Thus, a lasting testimony of
ilea worth, and of our affection, will be raised,
in the way most honourable to the dead, and
most consolatory In the living : since our share in
the tribute wilt be as general as our sense of
the loss.

I sugges-t this to y6re, Mr. Editor, because
think '('HR Subr deserves to be honoured with ori-
ginating a proposition so interesting.' and so
patriotic.

TITI rI'ANNICUS.

THE THEATRE.

It is with more thatireluetance that we ;turn to
any subject of tnere-:am.iiSement at tliis melan-
choly period, anti we should expreSs more than
surprise that Covent-Garden Tin atre was opened
last alight, as we conceive that an invitation to
public gaiety is unseasonable, afters° rePent and so
great a public calamity. We learn, however, from
tire ornhigPapers; that The Castle clAndalusio•, and
The Father and his Children, wece.represented, for
we. are ourselves- incapable of so soon forgetting
the loss which the Empire Las sustained. Some
-allowance, however,
.aught to be .made for'-the
Proprietors, who hai,e. heavy incumbrances to
.support, and for the Performers, in general, to
a 'cessation of eMployment is a grievous em-
harrassment. We wish, indeed, that, instead of the
lighter effusion 4 of the comic Muse, a moral and af-
fecting Tragedy had been represented, or that, like
the other Theatre, AN Ottivrocto had been perform-
ed, as Sacred Music would haveheen more suitable
to the time, more consonant to the general feel-
ings, and well calculated,.to draw the public mind
to an awful sense of anopter and a better world.

Si-I il' NEWS.

EXTRACT Ori A *LETTER FROM THE AGENT To
LLOYD'S AT GOTTFNBURGH, DATED THE flTif

INSTANT.

" Seisfactory accounts have been receivad of
the 'Russian frigate Mercurius, supposed to have
been lost. The squadron is now under stilling
orders."

DEAL, Nov. 20. Arrived the Caledonia,
Paco s, from Shields for Grenada, and the Tiger,
HOWELL, from Smyrna—the latter has sailed for
the River.

PLYMOUTH, Nov. 19. —Arrived the Hope,
HOARE, from Newfo indland : when
.off
she parted with the Friendship, Alit.t.s, in great
distress, and toen throwing her cargo 'ovrr-
board.

HARWICH, Nov. 20.—Arrived the. Alliance
packet with a mail from Gottenburgh.
PolurniouTm, Nov. 20. Arrived the Earl
Dalhousie, Lib.lc, -iron) Quebec;- Isabella and.
Queen transports, from Malta ; and Richard
l'laskell, TOLLy, from Shields, to take troeps to
Malta : also the following from tlie'Dot:tis
:
Kite, John Harny, FOrtitude, Norfolk Herb, De-
lafard, William Henry, Grace, DowsOn, Richard
and Sibella, Policy, and Johu. Sailed.the Charle
Milne for the West Indiet.;- Charles. Forbes
GRAY, for Tobago ; London, TURNER, for J.,
mica; .aaran, REGENEMGENi for Hambitrgh ;
Elizabeth, KLAUSEN, for Cadiz ; and_th.e ilsr
mony, Baatt.Evr, for Demerara. The nirl Dal
'tousle, spoke, on the • b inst. thy Favourite, 0
and from Leith for. Lisbon, in a very leaky state ;
she was then steering for a port ill Ireland, an(
was expected to reach Kil,salf. f,r Cot k in safety.

EXTRA() 13 DINARY CIRCUMb rANCE.—A Mr. CAI:.
PENTER, ‘ti hi) for a considerabie iod kept tlo
Three :11a,-itu rs at Esher, near Claremont, and who
was supported, in a greai measure, I,y the ilssiro,..
adi:e i < ttipl his family received from tbe late Prin-
cess CHAttf.mTTI.,;. her Consul and Establishment,
pitronizmg his house, ttas' So atiteied hen hi
hedrd or the demis.e of the Princess, that he neark
1-kilited. lie was seized with indkposition, am
talked of nothing but the death of the Princess
On the next i'av t•xpired !

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, N0v.20.

BRYANT, in the matter of BRYANT, a Bankrupt.

The Loan CHANCELLOR--" The first petition
hold in my hand is the one presented by the
father, the bankrupt, relative to the seizure of his
son's goods by Air. Stewart, the assignee of him
(the father), under the commission of bankruptcy.
It was amended afterwards by my order, as I
fought that in a petition referring to goods
a),hich were alleged to.be the property of the son,
it was proper that the son should petition in his
own right. This was the case, I believe, at our
last sittings here, and I sent the case to his Ho-
nour the Vice-Chancellor. I understar4 that it
Ayeut to the last Sommer Assizes at Surrey, -and
was there tried before Lord Chief Justice Ellen-
borough, at Nisi Prius. It was an indietylent,
which alleged that the defendant, Stewart, had
broken into the house of Mr. Bryant, the -Bank-
rup:, and brc.ke, destroyed, and carried away
the furniture of Charles William Bryant, the
son, and put the Bankrupt in danger of his
life. It lips long been established by the Court
on the other side of the Hall (the King's Bench),
that if a man proceeds both in a criminal and ci-
vil action for one assault, the Court will find the
means to stop one or the other of them. I know
this was the case when I was more immediately
acyminted with Law Courts. It, is difficult for
me to- say when the gout is below first did this ;'
isit it has been their practice. When the indict-
ment went to Nisi Prius, an order was made by
-that Court, of which I have got three copies, to
1.71 accurately informed before I read it. 1 will
ottly say that I have considered the case, first of
all to see whether Mr. Bryant, the son, was really a
p.irty, for if not, then the order of Nisi Fritts
could not he obligatory on him. I am, however,
satisfied that he is a party. I told you all again
and again, that sooner or later you would find
-something done as has been done at Nisi Priui,
namely, that the differences between the parties
should he amicably settled. I for that purpose
nominated Mr. Were, but this advice was not at-
tended to. The order made at Nisi Prius was,
that one of the Jurors should be withdrawn, and
all matters in dispute to he referred to Mr. Den-
man, and that all the parties abide by his decision,
if he makes his award in writing on or before the
fourth day in the present Term. Probably that
Learned Gentleman has extended the time."

" He has, my Lord, for uo

The Bankrupt—
report is, as yet made."
The LORD CHANCELLOR—" I withdrew the
prohibition about the papers, as will be-recol-
lected, as I thought the assignee had a right to
sie them.---•-The only difficulty I have is to know
whether the reference to Mr. Denman includes
the whole of the case that was before me; if it
does not, I don't know what I can do, I wish the
papers to he given to me again, and I shall hear
Counsel to-morrow, if they have any thing fur-
ther to say."
Sir SAMUEL ROMIL LY—." I understand the or-
der in- the same way as your Lordship."
Mr. MONTAGUE—". I hope your Lordship will
make some order in the second petition, as Mr.
Stewart, the assignee, has indicted the bankrupt
for peikay."
The Lotto CUANCELLOR^" When I bear this
said, I must own it is an accusation of such a se-
lions nature, that, as'a mere accusation, I cannot
listen to it. Furnish me with the papers, anal I
will see what I can say on it to-morrow."