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

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

Taking a strong, interest in the welfare of Ire.
land, we must of course be 'always gratified in any
opportunity of testifying our respect for those
who hiive essentially contributed to its prosperity,
and we therefore insert with pleasure.tbe follow-
ing,' tribute •to the .merits of Lord WitiTworizit
and Mr. Mut., from The (Dublin) Correspondent,
of liie,7th instant :---

" Nothing, gratifies its neore than to, see the
Nobility and Gentry of Ibis coantry always at their
posts, whenever it. is necessary that the to
interest should be maintained, or the public feel-
ing fairly expressed. They 'are the best a h:e
ways to uphold their _cone; nn' only
hecat,te the; onderatand !item the best, het lee-
caose they also have it it their vowel' to give eon-
ationional of to hottest ,and fintoly eriocteplese
They are the best organs of the politic evertor,
because that 9pinion materially at sees, out of :!+i es.
selveS—not of. the tuldeyiitarding and sentinomc
of the rational and the informed; and they a'te
the purest channels for it, because; in being coat-
mueicated by them, it will not be tainted with
any low or illiberal intermixture of prejudice or
error. We have endeavoured, trust) ttmeoo time,
to impress the necessity, as well as the importl-
ance, of an active spirit among the persons of
rank and property in this country ; for, owing
to their secession, some time ago, from their pub-
lie dirties, in pany particulars, peraous of
low understandings, and of turbulent dispositio.l9,
usurped a leading and influence. to which they
were not entitled, and which they were not•on-
willing to abuse always ; and they made perni-
cious impressions upon the understandings :red
feelings of the prejudiced and the ignorant, which
sober reason,and justice could not readily efface.
kKe,are glad to see, that what we presumed
exhort, has, on account of its own self-evident
importance and-necessity, had a 'proper weight ;
and that the Gentry of the country, upon all pia-
perieceasions, are now asserting their:paramount
right to the transacting of such public concerns
as must be indebted to gratuitous zeal., We owe
to this revived deld• re-established manly
those grateful dimonstratiams of the' peopte's teel-
fries to wards'ille Earl of Whitworth, and the Right
Honourable 'Mr. Peel, which all the Counties of
Ireland are now -sending torth—which honour
those that give not less titan those that receive.
'Never, in the history of 'this country, was there
an Administration more-pore in every principle,
more chaste in all its prectice—more reeling to
public distress—tn Ore _sensible to public desire—
more calm, more patient, more just, firm, and
wise, at the same time, than that -of Lord Whit.
worth and very few have ever been 'half as Sin,
cereiy respected and honoured by the people at
large ;—avid-- of the, Right Ilouourable Geode-
man, whose' iudetatigable labour, _ ell/05e bo-
nest tend unremitting zeal, :sod whose power-
ful and effective talents, contributed so essen-
ti,illy, to the honour
.of the tti..crtirnent, and
the prospeeity and traequillity of the ceootry, we
are folly con vieeed--aed elder. Sses.upou Addresses
tire daily testifying the truth of the opiniott—th tt
!here never. .Was tiny Secretary in the eto.ut,e at
ever possessed au equal share of the publ?e ad-
miration and thanks. This testimony is bottle,
not by those Whom commost sentiments have coo-
nected in partiality, or in the attacionceis of
party, but by these who. have opposite desires,
opposite hopes, and opposite principles—and more
honottrable holnage never wait paid to great public
Merl!, titan the gratitude and applause of those,
who have, upon, principle. felt themselves bound
to oppose' its measures, from time to time. There
is a- manly liberality in this, which, while .it is
doing justice, to our feelings, as a people, does
its great honoor, also. The diffctenee between
Mr. Peel, and several of those who have, in what
they hate said, been only the representatives of
the public gratitude, is amicably recognized, as
it shbuld be, tool we are glad that it is so. Mr.
PeO, however, need net repine at any exceptiou
upon this head, which rather confers
_upon Nina
the Character of a strenuous supporter of the Pro-
testant cause, and its Religion, than that of an
adversary to any sect or religious community
whatever.. Ile found that cause put to periodical
trial at the Bar Of the blouse of Commons—he
found the Constitution, with .which it is identifl-
Pd ;
for its defence to its oven awful and intrinsic im-
pintance—while those wird were opposed to it,
spared no efforts, nor no power, to recast it into
a new form, and upon :- new principles. 'There
was was something generous in standing upon the
side of a cause, which it was alinost 'becOmine
Modish to disavowand which could not be sup-
ported without coming•rots conflict with ma I
of the greatest power, as well as- of the greatt st
abilities. In this honourable effort, Mr. Peel Suc-
ceeded—not only in rebuking the lOve for preci-
pitate change, with which Parliament seemed
lie disturbedbut in doing so with a delicacy ,
and an abstinence from the asperity Which is al-
most natural to such occasions, as is without any
example. The arguments were thoie Of 'principle,
and of great talents—the language, that of the
best good temper, and the best good breeding.
The Catholic must respect him, tvlrom he is not
yet-able to-convince out of his princbiles; and the
Protestant must vow attachment to that man,-.
who had taken a cause so dear, and so sacred,'
under such generous and powerful patronage."

,The infectious fever, wh?ch has for some time
.pa“ coininiTted such ravages in Ireland, has, by
the advices received yesurday, abated in a sat.e
prising degree,

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There is an article in The Morning Chronicle of
this (lay, relating to the ROYAL FAMILY, and
pointing to a measure, which, even granting the
possibility that it may hereafter become the sub-
ject of contemplation, is at least so indecently
premature, as to spew that the Paper is con-
ducted with an utter destitution of shame, %Dd a
total want of respect for public feeling. It affects
to cover itself under au Extract fronan,Evening
Paper, but if the livening Paper in question
really did contain an article capable of such an
interpretation, it must induce the Public to believe
that it is by no means in possession of that Minis-
terial confidence which has bittern) been ascribed
to it. We can, however, vesture confidently to
state, that no Member of Government would
suggest any such measure as a topic for News-
paper animadversion.

It is difficolt, and hardly possiblsh indeed, to
relate the effect of the recent dreadful calamity
upon the near connexions of the beloved Object
whose loss has been so deeply felt and is so sin-
cerely deplored, but from all the accounts that are
likely to be probable and authentic, and which
have yet transpired, the shock was such as might
be supposed to attend so unexpected and so fatal
an event. The Royal Family in general have
been overwhelmed with grief, and we are
assured that when the Duke of YORK first an-
nounced the lamentable tidings to the PnlNca
REGENT, the latter fainted, and when he recover-
ed enough to be sensible of his situation,, he threw
himself into the arms of his Royal Brother, in an
excess of agony that could only be expressed by
a flood of tears, and unintermitted. sobbing for a
considerable tune.

We stated last week that the Ceremonies at

tending the Interment of our late beloved Prin-
cess CHARLOTTE would be similar to those which
attended the Funeral of the late Princess AMELIA,

excepting some variation on account of the supe-
rior rank of the Princess CHARLOTTE as Presump-
tive Heiress to the Throne. This information
has induced some of the Public Prints to insert

the Ceremonial which attended the Funeral of
the Princess Aucua, as if it were that which has
been ordered fur the Princess CHARLOTTE. We

liaa.dra nek t - ep all.
lentic Ceremonial of thc approaching Funeral

as yet been published. We yesterday stopped

the Press to inform the Public, that the melan-
choly Ceremony is positively fixed for this day
se'unight. We are sure that we need not de-
sire the Tradesmen ,throughout the Metropolis,
and indeed the whale Kingdom, to close their
Shops on the mournful occasion, as the whole of
the Community have testified feelings in the

highest degree honourable to the National Cha-
racter. Never has an event more lamentable
been recorded in the history of this Country, and
never has universal sympathy been more con3pi-
cuous and aillietive.

We stated yesterday that the ,PROVINCIAL
JoURNALS, of all the places to which the tidings
of the recent lamentable event had extended, bad
testified sorrow by sable borders, in the manner
of tha Metropolis. We have received Journals
from many other places this by, which bear the
sime mournful ensigns of pUtlie'iegret, and we

are persuaded that not one will be published
throughout the United Empire withoet the same

affecting mettiorials.

We beg leave to draw the attention .of our
Rulers to a most infamous Publication of Sunday

last, which contained the most horrid insinuations
as to the cause of tlm (teach of our late lamented
PRINCESS. Attached as we are to the proper
freedom of the Press) we cannot remain silent
while that freedom is brought into the slightest de-
gree of danger of being lessened, when such daring
scurrility, and such infamous rumours, are cir-
culated as never ought to be tolerated, but
rather indeed ought to receive exemplary punish-
ment in every civilized State. Many of our
Correspondents have expressed their surprise

that the Law Officers of the Crown should

appear to take no notice of such publications,
and quietly suffer them to work their way and
corrupt the minds.of the lower orders of people.
Surely the late alarming proceedings which occar
sinned the recent executions at Derby, ought
forcibly to operate upon all to whom our happy
political Establishment in Church and State is
entrusted. With respect to the Ecclesiastical
part of our Constitution, it has often been said,
that if any inroads should be made upon it, and
the Protestant Church should be endangered, it
will owe its danger to the supineness of its ap-
pointed Members, as well as to the activity of its

adversaries, who are always upon the alert to
effect its total demolition. Recurring, how-

ever, at present to the infamous publications
wl,ich every week am! every day issue from
the polluted presses of this Country, we hope

hat the Law Officers of the Crown will exert

themselves with the utmost vigilance to sup-
press them, and bring the authors unto the pu-
nishment which they are incessantly provoking,
and so well d-serve. Though the execrable
Miscreant, Coßue:rr, is removed from this Coun-

try, for ever, as we hope, yet his poisonous effu-
sions are still suffered to be circulated among

us, and there are many other Miscreants
who are not less active in disseminating the
doctrines of Treason and Rebellion. What must
other States think of the British Government when
they find that it is too feeble or too indolent to put
down such flagitious Writers. We appeal to our
Rulers most resolutely on this .subject, and can
assure them, that the loyal and xvell-disposed parts
of the community look with surprize, and a much
stronger sentiment, upon the unciabed licence of
those Writers, who are unremittingly employed
in attempts to corrupt the minds of the people,
and overthrow that plitical system to which we
owe all the blessings and all the security of
ci-
vilized life.

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We are so utterly absorbed in our present call).

lity, that all future misfortune appears as dim us

it is distant. One evil, however, is of too glaring
magnitude to be overlooked : and, therefore,
thought at this time we may be silent upon it, we
shall previously to the meeting of Parliament call
the public attention to the necessity of some Le-
gislative enactments, modifying the Act of Settle-

ment so as to exclude any descendant.ot the But).
NAPARTE gang from disgracing the British throne.
We shall do this, not on the argument of any
al-
ledged illegality in JEROME'S alliance with a foreign
Court, or of his previous marriage with Miss
PATTERSON, but upon the broad honest. principle
of rescuing our Country and Crown from the pos-
sible disgrace of such a Dynasty. Our present
misfortune is heavy enough, God knows ! without
an aggravation so intolerable. .

• By the desire of our valuable Correspondent,
LANFRANC, we have postponed his Letter, which
we intended for insertion this day, and we te7e-
rence the feelings that have induced him to re-
quest the suspension. He bad wtitten it before
the inelanchol-}, intelligence reached him,- which
has diffused sorrow over all people. At the same

time, as the subject of that Letter is of vital hn-
portance to the Country at large, we must add that
we shall take the first opportunity of presenting
it to the Public, when the tide of sorrow has
somewhat abated, and the minds of the people
in general can turn to other subjects of the highest
interest, but -not so affecting as that which occu-
pies the present moment.

We received this morning the Paris Papers of
Saturday last. The following are Extracts:—

" PARIS, Nov. B.—The. King received yester-
ley Aftirshal the Duke of Ragusa, who returned

fire :receding day from hiE" mission in the. depart-
ments of the Rhone and here.

" the Arrondissement of Avalon (Yonne) A
girl, 17 years of age, was on the 9th nit, carried
away, near C101:ei Censoir, by several wolves. A
number of individuals who assembled in consequence
of leer tries made a pursuit, and haA the good for-

toile to Indite the k‘olvt:3 Abtlll,loll prey.
time day, on the saute spt, a child seven yehrs°l
age Was carried away, SOttIC remains
whose 'Corpse were afterwards found at a shor'i
distance.

In the 'course of a fortnight since thel'.
events, 12 of these ferocious animals have hell:
killed by tht 'country people, partly by means "I
poison, and also by- Vartial -battues made on tbe
points where the wolves made the greatest 0'
wages.

" According to intelligence from Frankfort,
the Count de Laugeron will definitively quit IV
Russian service to return to France,
" We learn Iron.' Genoa, that the Medium-I,oc

Douaniers make the most scrupulous searches"
on the 30th ult. the Courier from Turin to Genot,
conveying jewellery, was found to have a fai
bottom in his carnage, and several valuable
articles have been seized.

" Two fishermen cif Aaruns, in Denmark; es'
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sert, that they have seen a Merman, which playe1
around their boat.

" Yesterday morning a man attempted to mar'
der his wife in the market of St. Honore, with!
poignard, iking prevented from completing 11
crime, by several persons wlio ran to her assist'
ance, lie shot himself through the head with 0
pistol.

" The Spanish Infant, Don Francis Fan% (pit'
ted Berlin the 24th ult. to proceed to Dre3den bJ
the way of Potsdam.
" The Mercure de Vienna states, that a Greciol
Lady, named Basiliki, has bequeathed her for'
tune (about 100,000 francs) for the establishmea
of a School of Science and Belles LettreS, at Si®'

tista, her native town, tinder the proteetiorf4
Cyril, the Patriarch of Constarvinople, who7i'
himself a literary man, and distinguished by 10
love for Greece, his country.
" tie Portuguese Consul-General has OW
notice that the blockade of Pernambuco is raised,
in consequence of the insurrection being emit-di

suppressed.
" The Duke of Devonshire has arrived s

Paris'.

" FIVE PER CENNS.

" Ft iday 65 f. 30 C.

" IRUN, OCT. 20.—Several regiments whirl'
bad been ordered to march from the Norther
Provinces into the Kingdom of Leon and towards
the frontiers of Portugal, have received counter
orders, and remain in their respective garrisons.
It is therefore presumed, that the differences be'
tween our Court and that of Portugal Lire either
arranged, or will not fail to be so. ,

. "I> CM E, OcT. 20.—Mr. Fos►er, the
Minister at the Court of Copenhagen, has arrive°
here on a visit to his mother, the Duchess of De'

vonshire.
" The researches at Pompeia and Pozzuoli are
very successful. At Potorieia several edifices 'Ol
superb architecture have been,discovered, an&W
Pozzuoli a great number of tombs in the Romaf.
style.
" The French brig Neptune has arrived withiti
these few; days at Civita Vecchia from Havre
She has on board 476 chests,containing part of lb(
Pontifical Archives.
" MILAN, OCT. 26.—1 t is said that the Dego-
ciations between the Holy See and the Court of
the Two Sicilies, respecting a Concordat, have
been suspended.
" NUREMBERG, OCT. 31.—The ProvinCial
States of Moravia have been summoned to
semble at Bruno.
" The negotiations between the great Power
of Europe, relative to taking measures against !be
Barbary Powers, are said to be already far advanced•
" Bnossims, Nov. 4.—A. part of the works •of
the Fort of Saint -Pierre, built upon the mountair
of that name, and forming the citadel of Macs'
tricht, have fallen down. •
" Gn ENT, Nov. 4.—The Councillor of State,
Director-General of the Department of Com-
merce, M. Golberg, has informed the merchants,
that, according to official intelligence from Spain,
the coasts of Chili and Peru are declared to .he
in a state of the most I:gorous blockade,
the exception of, the ports of Snnta Aida, Callao, "
and Colon.
" CONSTANTINOPLII, SEPT. 25.—A numerous
caravan of travellers from hence, for Natolia, have
been, it is said, attacked near Siwas by a number
of Delis, who were out of employ during the
absc:nce of the Governor. They repulsed the
assailants with the loss of 20 men.
" Much activity is displayed at the Cannon
Foundery and the Powder Mills, in ,the environF
of this Capital, under the direction of the ccle-
k)rated T schelebi Effendi. The workmen are ens
couraged by rewards proportioned to their zeal.
STOCKI-10LNI, OCT. 21.—We leatra from
Petersburgh the 12th instant, that arc!cles of con-
traband to a, considerable amount have been co.n•
fiscated at Revel, Riga, and Liebau.
" 'S/4ENNA,. OCT. 28.—The, Styrian Diet are.

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