The Sun.
London, England, 1817-12-30 00:00:00

MR. HONE'S SUBSCRIPTION MEET!

CusTom-HOUSE, Dec. 29.—Ships entered in- 1 LADY HESTER STANHoPa, AND LORD AND LADY
neemotta, &C.
czar d :
The Prince of Waterloo, —, front Ostrod ; Heart of OA, The t mail from Malta brought accounts from
Nicholson, from Dantzic; Pilot,Ovenstan; front Memel ; Tra- several
t yellers, persons of the first distinct tart,
Ivellet,liowes, front Eiubden; Britannia, Browo, and
Caro
.Tune Jan, Grand, from Rot- Inrotigh Syria, Egypt, and the Grecian Islands,
Vine, Stare, from Gottenhort;ll)
tertian); Liddle, Englisli,frous Norway; and the Kate, South, scatty of which have reached out hands. ',Ay
grow Peters burgh. Hester Stanhope has taken up her residence at
Outward—the Creole, Martin, for St. Michael's; Planter, ,
13rnd, for Demarara ) Elliott, jun. for water_ the convent of Mir Elias, near Bayreuth, on the
Stei; industry, Arni,,•ton, for Antwerp; and Loyal Briton, coast of Syria. Her Ladyship's influence is con-
Insingteuu, for .I.onaica. siderable throughout the country, and her pa-
tronage a certain security.—She does honour to
English hospitality by her manlier of living, awl
many of our Scavans tierce, within the last year,
left her abode with sentiments of gratitude and
admiration. Monsieur Baudin, her Ladyship's
Dragoman, or Interpreter, is mentioned in terms
of approbation, for his politeness and attention
to the visitors at Mar Elias. The Earl and
Countess of Beltnore, and the whole of their ac-
complished and interesting party, wLre at Cyprns
during the latter end of the summer. They then
proceeded in his Lordship's yacht to Baltic, the
ancient Sidon, ou the coast of Syria. '!'here, tin
their arriv.it, they found the Dragennlll of Lady
H. Stanhope, waiting to conduct theta to her
Ladyship's place of residence, whither Lot d and
Lady 13elmore, and the youths, their sons (who
accompanied them throtigiwut their extensive awl
vaiied journey), the pri,atte tutor, paysician, and,
others 01 their party, proceeded. To visit Jertts3-
tem, we understand, was the peat object with
which our travellers reached the port of Sidon ;
hut it %,;45 discovered 'that there was no harbour
in t.e entire coast of Syria, sufficiently secure to
otect a vessel from casualties which might occur
during the time necessarily spent in a journey
from tle coast to the Holy City, and the design
was given up in consequence. Daring their stay
in Syria, the noble travellers employed ,heinselves
in geographical inquiries ; and, we understand,
they sat;sfied themselves that the Bible contains a
better history of the country, with 'nova geogra•
phical distinctness and precision, than is to be
touted io any other book, descriptive of the Pagan
countries of antiquity. From Sidon, Lord Bel-
more and his suite proceeding to Acre, not re-
nowned for tiny thing so much as for the noble de-
fence of it by Sir Sidney Smith. From the Sytiac
coast his Lordship set sail for Alexandria, where
the travellers remained for a fortnight ; and front
thence they all proceeded to Grand Cairo, in
I,..ypt, where they were on the Bth of October
last. In this place they were waited for by a few
persons well known for scientific researches, who
were ready to proceed on a mission set on foot by
his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, to compare
the accounts given by the French Scavans of the
course of the Nile, with the real state of things.
Het e the two parties having united, prepalations
were mode to ascend the Nile, for the purpose of
scientific exploration, which was expected to be
greatly facilitated by the mathematical apparatus
which Lord Behnore had with hint, more particu-
larly for ascertaining the exact latitude of places.
The ascent of the Nile, as far as time first cataract,
may be made with facility, as every body knows ;
and we are glad to be informed by correspondents,
professionally employed lit the undertaking, that
the ascent of the second cataract is perfectly easy.
For' the sake of persons long valued by their native
country, and every where honotned, we are glad
to be assured, from the very best authority, that
the country through which our Missionaties
in
science were about to travel, is in the utmost re-
po neither tumult nor disease bring at present
known—the Pashaw's power dreaded and obeyed,
while the British name is held in reverence. The
expedition, it was calculated, would conclude
shout Mardi ; after whicla Lord Belmore-and his
party were understood by our literary Correspon-
dents, who had met his Lordship in Egypt, to
intend travelling by laud across the Isthmus of
Suez to Gaza ; from thence to Jerusalem ; and
passing by the Lake of Gennesareth, to Nazareth,
to proceed through Tyre to Sidon, to rejoin Lady
Hestor Stanhope; and afterwards to visit Balbec
and Palmyra. It was calculated, that about April
his Lordship would be met by his yacht (which,
during his land excursion, remains at Malta) at
Sidon—whence the design was to proceed directly
for England.—(Morning Post.)

REGISTER OF FASHION.

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FASHION AULE ,111.1tIVALS. .
46ncliess of Wellington and family, Earl of. Chesterfield,
*e Ladies tittiiihfipe, Lady Calendon, Countess Painsella,
Itatty Gifford, Admiral and Lady L. Harvey.

SPORTING. INTELLIGENCE.

SrATENIENT O TI-1E ODDS ON THE DERBY AND
OAKS sTAKF.S, t3l3.—Dr.c. 49.

DERBY.
Paten' a. to. I agst c. by Waxy, obt of Matonia.
Taken 11 to 1 apt c. by Sorcerer, mit of Ilornhy Lass.
13 to t agst c. by 11'axy, out of ltingtail.
taken 14 and 15 to I asst c. by Orville, out of Allegretto.
to I agst llrothtt to Crecy.
Taken 21) to 1. agst ch. c. Nlartnion, ottt of Lancashire
Witch.
Taken 20. to 1 agst c. by Selint,'out of Parasol.

OAKS.
to 1 agst Loa, by Waxy:
12 to 1 against any tither.
Kit The odds at one time of the day were as high as 15 to
t aT.,•-ainst the Allegretto colt, hot at the latter part 14 was
ctuly offered.

DISTRESSING EVENT --Sunday afternoon Mat-
thew Hirst, the son of Mr. Hirst, of the. Three
Bats, Islington Green, a very promising boy,
about 14 years of ay.,. came to his death in the
following aingidAr and unfortunate anner
had returned from a boarding-schmool home to
spend the Christmas holidays ; on Sunday after-
moon he was playing with his brothrr and sisters,
all younger than himself, and said Id them," I
will spew you how they hang tnen at the gal-
lows;" he procured a rope for the purpose, one
end of which lie tie(l to a hook, and having got
upon.- a stool, he fastened the other end round his
neck ; he then either kicked the stool, or it tdl
accidentally front under him. The children seeing
his'tace going black, and his features distorted,
they called to him, and asked him if lie was only
" making believe ?" He not making any reply,
they went to the bat to their mother, and said,
01) ! Mother, Mat is banging himself to frigh-
ten us." The mother not suspecting an event of
so serious a nature had ()centred, and thinking
the children were merely at play., took no notice,
until the porter went. into. the kitchen where the
accident- happened, and found hill suspended ;' he
was terrified and gave an alarm, and the boy was
cut down immediately. Surgical assistance was
sent for, and several .surgeons attended, but all
their efforts to restore him proved unavailing, the
spark of life basing fled.

A poor but sturdy anthoi- once presented a
book to JArvins the Second, in the Great Chamber
at Whitehall, as he passed from the chapel, but
omitted the tts,,Rl ceremony of kneeling to the
King. The Duke of Itictimosn, who was in at-
tendance, said, " Sir, where did YOU learn the
;manners not to kneel ?" The author replied, "
If
it please our Grace, I do give now; but when I
come to beg any thing. then will I kneel."

The follnwing Letter has appeared in seve ra
:Not hit) g • Pallet S
ttir,—Olisereing u paragraph in your Paper respecting the
cure or an Hernia, performed (of a large size) by the Medical
Board, at Charlette-House, Great Charlotte-street, Bloa-
friars-road, in justice, Sir,to Messrs. COOPER and ro. I beg
to add my personal testimony. Having been afflicted near
twenty year, and deemed incurable by eminent Surgeons, I
patiently bore any aillietion, expecting every hour to be my
last ; I at length applied to the Medical Board, and have tea-.
son to pray for that excellent Establishment, for although I
am near 50, I was perfectly cured in a few weeks, and now,
thank God, enjoy good health.
1 think, Mr. Editor, all who know me will allow that I can
have ❑o other motive for this communication than a public
benefit. ' 1 inn, Sir, your obedient Seryant,
C. CLEVELAND.

peg and Stile, near London-road,
St. George's Fields; Oct. 1817.

Yesterday being the day appointed for holding
a Meeting to consider ot the best means of rais-
ing a subscription to remunerate Mr. Hone for the
tosses to which he has been subjected by the late
Trials, at 12 o'clock several hundreds Of.persons
assembled in the Great Room at the City ot Lori-
,&)n 'laver). The busities.s of the day did not
commence till ahont one o'clock. Before 'the
Chairman entered the room, a paper was hand--
1 ed round, on which the following Subscriptions

were entered :
A Member of -the House of Lords, and an enemy to per-
secution, especially religious persecution, employed for
political purposes
A Lady • 50
At ten minutes before one, Mr. ‘Vaitliman en •
tered the room, accompanied by Sir F. Rol-lieu,
Mr. Jones Bartlett, Mr. Pearson, Aldermen Good-
believe and. Thorpe, Mr. Wooler, Mr. Walker,
Mr. Hitchins, &c.
Mr. Warrn Ma:* took. the chair, . apd addressed
the Meeting.—He regretted that a Inure able ;Ar-
son had not been appointed to preside, but he had
never undertaken the performance of a (boy with
more satisfaction than tiro the present occasion,
becauSe no object cool(' be More important to the
liberties of Englishmen than the object they now
had in view.—With 114. Hone he had bad no
previous acquaintance, and as to the parodies for
which that Getoleman was prosecuted, he. didaiot
sea one, of them•uotil after -the trial, He certainly
batlanat muell-taste- for things of that deicription,
but it ,was 'known to the public, that this was the
first nrosecution upon such grounds, and it could
not .be doubted, that it those parodies bad been
published in favour of Government, and in ridi-
cule of reform, the slightest notice would not
have been taken of them. 'Had Ministers really
fakes); them op. from regard to religion, the laW
was trpen for them, and tiaey might have pro-
, eeded against Mr. Hone in the usual way ; hut
the course which had been pursued, he maintain-
ed, was connected with the Suspension of the
Habeas , Corpus. Here he took a view of the
Reports of time Conimittees of both Houses of
Parliament, on which the Habeas Corpus Sus-
pension Act had been :omitted. These Reports
he strongly censured, and described Mr. Hone to
have been dragged from his home, under the Act
passed in consequence of their being made, and
'subjected to various oppressions before' he was
brought to his trial. He (Mr. Waithman) bad
attended the last clay's trial, and witnessed Mr.
Hone's efforts in defence of the liberties of the
people; he said the liberties of the people, for
withbut the Freedom of the Press, and Trial by
Jury, -there was no liberty for them.—The cause
was so ably supported, that he (Mr. Waithman)
resolved to do all he could to assist an indivi-
dual persecuted as Mr. Hone had been ; and this
Meeting be stated to have been called in conse-
quence of certain resolutions come to by a few
individuals who had been present at the last day's
trial, and who in the evening of it had retired to
a coffee-house in the vicinity of Guildhall, to take
some refreshment together, They felt that Mr.
Hone ought to be supported by his countrymen,
and a Committee which had been formed had
prepared certain Resolutions, which would Dow
be submitted to the Meeting.
Sir F: Be RDETf 'said, it would- take up too:.
much time to express what he felt on tire import-
ance of the Liberty of the Press. It was their duty
to stand up tor this, and for the right of Trial by
Jury :.and next in importanee to these, was the
duty of supporting a struggling honest fellow-
citizen, who appeared in danger of sinking under
the most scandalcuS and hypocritical persecution.
The proceedings against Mr. Hone, had in reality
been', directed against the Freedom of the Press.
Agreeing as he did with the worthy Chairman, in.
What he had said of time importance of a Free Press
and Trial by Jury, lie would go one step further,
Hui sny there could be no solid support for either
teithout a fair representation of the people in Par-
liament. He spoke at some length on time im-
portance of a Parliamentary Reform, and then
returning to Mr. Hone, declared. the cooduct
of that person np to the close of the trials to
be such as merited the thanks of his country-
men.s He deserved those for the manner in which
he had defeated the Judges and all the Crown.
lawyers. Of the conduct of the Judges lie spoke
in very severe terms, and declared nothing could
be more flagrant aud disgusting than the oppression
which bad been attempted. There was another
person, he took occasion to say, who th served
their best thanks for- time efforts he had made to
get the old worn out Jury-list set aside, au+ the
names of good 'men pot in their place. This,
under a systeth of corruption like that which now
existed, was as great' a service as any man could
render to his countrymen ; to this they might
ascribe the triumph of Mr. Hone, and thus the
nation had had a foretaste of the advantages of
reformation, and of the good effects of an appeal
to the country. 'The doctrines which were pro.
ruttle,ated by the Judge on the late trials, were in-
sulting to thecommon sense of time people, and were
calculated to turn a most wholesome Act of Par-
liament into an engine of oppression. Never
had any attempt of this sort been mote glaring
than the construction put upon that Act, the pro-
feised object of which was to support the Liberty
of the Press. The Learned Judges attempted a
construction which was in direct opposition to the
object for which it was framed ; for, according
to them, the Judge on the Bench had right to
act as Foreman of the Jury, and deliver his own
verdict. And this with_ all due theatrical solemni-
ty—the hand upon the heart—at least the hand
where the heart should be, -at-the same time re-
!Dimling them that they were acting tinder the
solemn obligation of an oath of office, while they,
in the conicientions discharge of their duty, felt
themselves called' upon to direct the Jury to find
time defendant guilty. Acting thus, it was his opi-
nion they were not borne out by the Act to which
lie had referred ; if they were, the effect of it.was
to place those for whose protection it was framed,
in a worse situation than they stood before. 13ot
Mr. Hone and an honest Jury had' pot the right
construction upon' the Act, and they happened to
put a very different construction -upon it from that
of the Learned Judge. They could not be reit-
Soned out of their own plain unsophisticated
common sense ; they could see no guilt where the
intention did not accompany the act, and colt.