The Sun.
London, England, 1819-04-12 00:00:00

roils.

" The result of these proceedings is, that Mr,
Au wood h►►s been returned. The numbers ten-
dered and accepted tv te tollokis
FOR Lot f) VALLETORT.
Tendered. Accepted.
Scot. and Lot i s'; ll2
Prince's Tenants 53 2
-- 206

FOR MR ATTWoOD,
Teridertd. Accepted.
Scot and Lot lO5 99
Prince's Tenants.... 53............ 53
153 15'2

" From ►bis it appears, tl►at though Mr. Att-
wood has been retained by a nominal majority of
38, Lurd Valletort bs►t bn actual majority of` 48.
Set c!,l of the votes ,endered for Lord Vailetor
and rejected by theleturning officer, were allowed
to J;L.legal by .the late Election Committee. liosv-

eVer, ac ilirtoestsion.%v;lj l,e
.Bgll,l submit! e.l to a
C-mtnittee of the House, if is utine,-,sity to 4.
large,. art it at..pre,ent Put there is.tt circuit].
Stance Which deserves more partietill'ir attention,
as.it invoke, a great constitutional question, and
may he regarded as. one of the most
,Oatiog a:t-
'ack, on the liberties of the people that has been
matte since the Revoktion. '

gf Ever since the dissolation of the Corporation,
no effort has been omitted, nor any influence nil-
resorted to, in order to obtain a new Charter.—
Every speCies nt provocation has beets adopted by
the tontler-agents of the ex-eorpoiators, to pro-
voke the inhabitants to acts Of violence ; arid if,
at any dine, these manceiteres-prodoced a 1110-
MellcarV ebullition of 'the poptil at- feeling, it was
magnified to the utmost, as a pretext for demand-
ing a Charter in order to secure the peace
of the boronigh. Qt the toundation on which
hese representations rested,' we may judge
from the fact, that even the counsel and agent
of the tel Menifter,' Nlr. AttWood, (feels)led
pobliely, that they had never seen soy people- con-
(fact themselves more I.raceably (hiring a contested
election than the inhabitants of Fowey had done
In tact, tine inhabitants were aware of the snares
that were laid to entrap them, and they carefally
avoided tieing caught. However, it appears that
Mr Lint had, by some rot-ant, contrived to satisfy
the advisers of the Prince )reeent that it was ex
peilientii) force 4 new Charter on. dr: inlidsitatos
ForveY, and during the. I,or electioo,
:Ind his triends boasted that they hail obtaioed one.
Vtt tigers to a considerable amount were laid, that a
new Charter would be produced and read in the
borough betore tine Ist April. Though the friends
of the independence of Fowey could scarcely slip-
poQe that Ministers would so tar commit themselves
a. to a•tempt to force unto; the inhabitants the
authority of a faction the)/ detested, under the
pretence of erantiog a Charter, it weas indeed ex•
pedient to provide against tie worst. Two of
the County Magistrates attended at the Town-hall
of Fewey on the 24th of last month, wisest mote
than t reo-thirds of the inhabitants of the borough,
and whin ate rated for mote than two-thirda of the
property within it and the parish, voluntarily
came before them and declarer), that so tar
front wishieg for a Ctsarter, they were deter-
' unlined to refuse one. if proffered to them On,
the next ddy, the 25th, the Portreeve and re•
turni7,,,z officer of the borough, who is also a
County Magistrate, appeared at a window of the
Ship' Inn, at Po•vey, decorated with the coltentS of
the intt'lnied Patron, arid informed the people who
were assembled in the street; that Mi. Brown,
the' new town clerk, was ahout to read tire new
Charter Immediately Mr Brown cadre forward,
:bet wet n two mace -hearers, who were also deco-
rated with party colours. and attempted to read.
the Charter.. As soon as he appeared, a cry of
' No Charted' was set up, and -continned with-
out intermission. Mr. Brown moved his lips ins
if in the act of reading, but not a word could be
heard. At length bomehody in the crowd snatched
at the Charter, when the reader fled precipitately,
and the rortreeve ordered tine Riot Act to be
read Several Gentlemen present told him, if he,
as '4 County Magistrate, would read the Riot
Act the people wou4d quietly disperse, Ile said
Ike new Mayor should read it : the multitude
cried, We will acknoWledge no Mayor !"lhe
4mi:twat Air. Brown ceased readin, the people
became quiet, and all pretext for reading the Riot
Act ceased. I is certain that government must
fill.Fowey with soldiers, it they aredeterm:Sied to
forme the inhabitapts to submit to-this detested
Charter, as they cats only (team it down the• pro-
ple's throat at the point of the bayneet. The new
Mayor possesses inn propettY in the borough, in'
which he merely_occopies an occasio.n.al lOdging
the Recorder, Mr. Lucy, is a stranger, ivi,b has
purchased the patronage; elevens opt of fifteen of
the new Collimators are not" natives at Fowey ;
four of them are nOn-residents, and two never
paid any i'ate whatever within the borough. In
tact, Ministers have ?Appointed as' ;*nitiers of tine
new Corporation the very men Vieririte the Lord
Chancellor hid 'decided hail 'used the charity pro
petty, 'eutrusted to their mattagement; in further:
iniZeof boroogh pairptetieS ; and vidin'ssatnee-tliat
th; y had'not their accounts for rl. great•
many years ; and that as tie charity.
.property.
had beet, used in the same nay for grerit'outne
brit of years before, ,lhey considered themselves
authorised to act as their predecessors had done..
These are the 'pr;rsOni.who-ore to be constituted'
the rulers of FoWey; to' the exclusion of the-
County M •rKi.criates, in direct opposition to a'
_decided maju rt y of all the adult male population
of the place ! Can such on outrage on the
aild liberties of the people be sup-
ported ? We should thiok it impossible. In all
_Quo Warrant°
,pleAdings in Charter cases, it,most
be set forth, tint only ihat'llie Chatter was duly
granted, hot that it was accepted. The inhabi-
tants at Fowey have solemnly refused to accept
the Charter attempted to be.throst on theta.
Ministers succeed in this odious measure, there is)
an end to the liberties of the subject. Any town
may be forcibly ineorporated, on any terms ; and
tine inhabitants may- be subjected to the Most
otliosis tyranny, by giviog.rueexelosive local juris-
diction to the new AlagiOrat es, who may manage
the rates as they please, and deprive all whom they
do not regard as their obsequious instroineuts
of the, elective franchise. This wos the case
during the rule of the ex-corporation" of. Fowev,
this will he the case agajn, it the infamous
project of forcing the new Charter on the bo-
rough should succeed'. We trust there is yet suf-
ficient public spirit left in the country to put
down this daring outrage on the constirtitioual
rights of the people. The Charter is evidently
_and avowedly intended to coerce the inhabi-
tants, and deprive 'them of the tree exercise of
the elective franchise; and as such, is a violation
of Coustit of ion. The following Resohition of
the Nurse of Corllllloll3, dated Dertember 10,
1779, sliews the Manuel' in which the Legislature
ot that day regarded such proceedings

\ •
That it is highly criminal in any Minister or Ministers,
or other Servants Under the Crown of Great Britain, directly
or indirectly, to use the powers of office in I he election of Re-
preseotativys to serve in Parliament; and an attempt at such
influence will at all times he resented by this House as ;tinted
at its own honour, dignity, and independence, as an infringe-
ment of the nearest rights of A.eery subject throughout the
Empire, and temliag to sap the basis of this fro:. and happy
Constitution."

LrtEnAnY llEV;r:ilt.

REPLY to the LETTER to the Right Honourable ROBERT
PEEL, on the PERNICIOUS EFFECTS of a VARIABLE
STANDARIi of VALUE. m.o. pages 63.

•
(Contluded from our Paper of. Satui day.)

The Author, observing on the present State of
the Paper Cut rency, proceed :7
‘‘ But then, you ask, it the currency is at pre-
sent in so good a state, why shall Mr. Vansitlart
and others, who think as lie does, express an
anxiety to return to payments in coin, as soon as
they think it can, without injury, he accomplished
Theteason is, that though we ate goiog on very
well, as .we-are, it would be more satisfactory to
many. and more_ consistent with ancient usage,
to return to such payments. An experiment has
been made. It has answered in every respect.—
It has surpassed, in its,success, what the moat
sanguine political economist, it he was the Author
of ir, could have anticipated. The exiirrinienr
was forced upon the Gnveynment and the Court-.
fry at a great and awful Troionctore. It was
itustified by the exigency It has been continued
doting that -exigency,. because the great advan-
tages and powers wt,iels it gave to this country
were sitiloig and conspicuous. It has been con-
tinued so long, that it has ceased to be an expe-
riment, and iis safety and security have been, by
the trial, decisively established. It would, there-
tore, be unwise to discontinue it, until it can he
discontinued without risk or injury. That pet iod
Is approaching rapidly, but not yet art ived. The
great scale upon which the war was conducted,
romthensurate with the great cause for which we
were contending, has caused such an incr ease of
our debt, together with such a consequent increase
of our revenues, as added to the general increase
wealth`during that period in this great country,
demands a much greater currency than hereto-
fore; and, therefore, the Batik' must proceed with
great caution and circumspection in returning to
payments in coin. Many things are to be consi-
dered, even if at this instant, .r.",s two years ago,
bullion was to be had for about the Mint pm ice ;
and notch may be expected front the inquiries of
the Committees now sitting in the two Houses of
Parliameor,

" In order, however, to appreciate more accu-
rately the advantages which we derived dialog.
the war, from a pure paper currency, let ng take
a view of the principial consequences which would
have followed, if, at the time the great cry of de-
pieciation was•raised, the Ministry and the Par-
liament had consented to make the Bank revert to
cash payments; At that time, on account •Of rite
great expence of supportioa large fleets and armies
abroad, and of the convulsed state-of the contie
neut. and the extraordinary measures adopted by
the then Rider of France to exclude our commerce
trout every continental putt, together witleothee-
operating occurrences, the ,exchanees were very
nntavourable to us. if the Bank. had their issued
guineas, there cannot be a doubt but theywool,‘!
have bectLimmedtately eepoeted, as every country
would have been ready ter receive then), eowe,ver
closed agoinst•our Other commodities. The Batik •
must, therefore, have•.stopped its discouoEs ;
must have contracted, in every ‘vayepossible, tee
amount of its ootes in circulation. aiel, at the
same time, continued issuing guineas,. which
would. be rapidly disappearing, until nut etrett-
meolinnt should have .bOeu teduced.
quaryity as to have been coto„iderehly eetrauced
in value, and this 'must have been coil! 11111Cli*G11.00
at len'gl, the guinea %tooth{ have b eu A•Oi, 1; Si)
much at home, that there would: tot lto
been an advantage in sending': it abfTtad. - tel (13-•
suppose, then, that, this•otteration, the mr-
renry remaining in eirculationieut been thus en-
hatter& 25 'per cent abovelesbetgotal ' valuea•you
and others who hold the S'Atni''OpttiltillSi will per -
Imps-say, that it would still,'have auswered, sem y
veil ; for 751., in this enhanterlf eurrew y, would •
be equivalent 'to 1001. in the' fin,itter curre- ey, and
perform every operation as 'a4 the 1001, did
before:- But Mark the consegoences. do the firt'
place, conld we have ventured, in that time ot war,
to leave redneed the pay of our .army' v y onea
fourth ?: Tbelieve no' nee Avillesay ;we co:I-W.-
1a would he difficolt to make them understand, or
to reconcile thew to •itetheory oft his kind; and to
satisfy them., if one-fourth of their pay was-struck-
off; that they' were really-paid as much as befOre..
Therclore,eas far as Mated-tO. a'considerahle.part.
of one great military expenditure, our expellees,
though nominally thesarneewonid, by this change
in out- currency; have beeneincreased really One,
tout:11, because they would then have been. paid
in a currency of one-fourth more' vatute than the
former. Could the nation have well borne this.
increase ? or would it' not" have been obliged to
diminish its Navy and its Army ? But let us look
to the interest ..of our debt, at that period, and see
what rtheet such a change in our currency
Would have hail upon the payment of it. Though
751. Of, this enhanced currency would have been
'worth 1001. of the former currency, would the
public creditor be satisfied with receiving but 751.
instead of 1001. in payment of his interest ?
Would tint such writers as you have told him, that
the currency was not enhanced, but that the t r-
ater currency had been depreciated ? "tlTould not
such writers have said theneas you say now, that
it would he a fraud to pay the public creditor to
a dieninished
,rate of interest ? Could we, have
attempted to do so Without shaking the whole fa.-
brie of our credit to its foundations ? We should,
therefore, have been obliged to pay the public
creditor the WI nominal amount of his interest itt
this enhanced currency e---that is, almost in an in-
scant, by this operation, the interest of our debt
would have been really increased one-fourth, and
this, without any new loan, or any tithe,
advantage?--Could the Nation have foone
this ?—Would it have been possible for tee Na-
tion to have paid this ? See, too, the etiket in
point of taxation, which it would have had on
• the people :--our ,axes must have been le;lal by
• them in a currency one-fourth more valuable than
hbefore; that is, in other words, by this notable
operation, the whole taxes paid by the peoior
would have been at *once increased it value too -
fourth more than they had been IVould they, 01
could they, have borne this ! I answer, no ; its
would have been impossiine—you could not ha .e
gone 00. ; After some itroggling antr,great uni-

•
trl
s'ion woiN have been ohVged
reduce your. Elects and aimies—to reer.;l 4:ee'
[mil of thetuand to abandon ;he contineot
of
the Captive tit Si. Helena. What a reverse
fortune thi•it would such a measure have eireere';',;
He wonld, at this day, instead of alt
our toils, he'treadiog on the necks of subj"gale-,
)1
nations —lie would be now is ieldtog, 165
sceptre, seated in all his worts, on the
the Continent of Europe, I Will not add of tr'`,
islands of Europe also, atilt we .shotdd tie aril
oniler
stroggling with him in war, or crouchiog
hint in an insecure and capricious site Of Itr're,
worse than war ;—our gaVant troops gitard"'it
our own shores,—and the old Soserelgns tit 1116
I 1
Continent, not Meeting at a Cot gross to estahli,
with our negociator the peace anti happiness
the civilized world, misting and berlefia
t
tinder d
cent system of policy, but, perhaps, repairiur,
Paris, violent mapclates, to tollow the eh!'
riot-wheels of their oppressor and despoiler. THlst.
is no overcharged picture ; the arrogance 01111
nom, when,in authority, wairants ail I have So"
and more."
Anti then, in a very satisfactoty' manner' the
h.
Author discusses the numerous benefits Ich—ic.,
the County derived 'from her Paper CurrencY
timing the late way, in the following words
" It is, therefore, to this pore paper-cnrrebeY'
which you decry, that the people of EnroPe
tel
no small degi,er.intleb;ed for the tepOse which I"):
now etijoy. It was this depreciated correnc'
you call it, which enabled our rreat
-11
Hero to cover their a- It it s with his I°lllelsi v
Portugal, in. Spain, and France; and. ".1)3-Iiii
,
to extirpate Inc Despot after his resnscitati°"'''
consign hint to his ultimate sod inexrricab
le
aboiie. 1 hough we have.lived in eventful 1,1111:5'
vet we have seen nothing, perhaps., so nove",'-ie(;
thing so wonderful, as the colossal powers
tort►
this country has displard in its financial sys
during the last war. The abandonment 011", e;
titer of a metallic currency, Tice sibstito"°ll6
of one of paper, siaudiw4 npoo
basis of ant national credit and p,tood 13;11e
performing it 3 mighty operations upon a. ,;11
hitherto nnknovvn and uoconceived by the
wind ; moving our viciorious old 811Wh
with all the impetus of the most, solid ttelg;
and keeping, at the s'arne time, all the sr):-,
ofindustry in the Most 'active exertion at
is a phenomenon which has formei a nevi ePi)k"of
not Only in the histoty of this country.
taut
man. It has pry:o what liberty cao
push, when under the contront of a well-te„ti•••
tiered constitution of government ; writ
ere'deuce and what security it giv,:s ;- and er1);" vain
di:, so tstablisited, is able to pertottu• • ••`"
world the manda.ory edicts of an absolute
n.irch, in vain would the capricious ordin",uct,i;sll
a detnocrin-ie gi,vernment' attempt •to
such a system of. credit -n•I confi,k't'ec' t • titit
iIIUS
I,er
that our financiafvo'ver
imitate c—r couvituii„„. mon,ircb, iimstilt of 1V
'their h4,,„11 authori!y by impartiog a
bet-trio their enthralled subjec s ; tin't EeP`l3,,,c.A
..
most add (Ire stability of monarchy to (hell'
;,lusting, and, Licentious councils'. -before tileY
eStattllll any portion of tmal•confideoce
the foundation of our fivaocial supremacy. „s
Sovereigns, who were ASToniAled at. the po's
tlyic3
of this country,during the w tr, and ,sin'
it ititerWards, may have p-treived, tat 'e;
of our strength is in our well.reguk[ed fred"'il,,
1,10 some gradual approxinta• ion in the°. 'l;,ine
countries to Mir inS' itrliS !wit,/ he pertu'rs.lo, •
btot fi,i4l result. But whaieverelfect otis ex': at
tv proditee among other !itellt:S.
I hope that it have a lattiiir,.;
out own ;
.that It will make us sttil more
and venerate that equipoised consti' ton)" :tei,,ol
vernuivnt,- ••••Iticli• not onlysvcatres .01.1 r
happiness and peace, but which gives
mighty umllls, untitiown in all tormer
influencing the destiny and tipholt,ing 10's e neves ',
t
peLdence of the adjacent na! ions. ; ot, Or
10 get, that it is, to the m Y magical age e, for *
p ,'sent currency, which could not
m under a government that was nt)t
.ltdvc3
reguliped and balanced as ours, Ilia .
1
been indebted- for the powers which we e it'
dispiayed. Aiatl whoever attempts to dr
i-i‘gin so
and make its dissatified with it, coutributcs.oo.o
far as in him lies, to make us contemn 00 .1.11 th
oae of the most stupendous advanta4.es Of'
character ot our nation and of our constil or. tbe
fords us, for rendering us mighty ativjl"'wheo'
nations of the.earth. We might, thFrvf"re' 1 bye
ever we are aboutw ' to'recede ho the prc.,"
tent,
.by,establishing the old older tbiogi:i'iog
take care to do so, not as it we were fetrie ,
kl
front an evil,which we are glad to escAtio
laying by a great and potent in
tote)
,set red us well the time of exigencY, al"lete`e 1;0r
ti
we put op to he employed by us ag""
'' rr,ll,
the circumstances of the times shall CM. 10°
0,09
to pia forth extraordinary powers. (-)V.ite "'at'
adopted such a Curl'Clicy; dusting parlif.
0
lt'
may havtt proceeded partly front acct' have lia
from necestity.. Butt, however it roil actit'lL
pen-ed that we were induced to 11'1", 'll„kfid 1113 c
„
this mighty engine, we should
we have made the di covert'. teeth Dtrwhicii•
safety with which it can be used, the I)°%',e, be enr.
it col,ters, and the extent to which "" in tin.
pioyed. We now. know our superiori'Y, coon"'
tespeef, over other nations; for no ot,ie oe't.xter,
try out earth could, to any consid 1
ciab
.01 %co
faitupt. the same means. We know, t-00.14.,10
orvis-
uao recur to it, w believer the o.ccasioo
. And in..iead decrying and 10.
~1,„„,; it, Nve..,;f
oor
.1vg41(1 satisfaction and pride ay url
moat potent Vesonrces„ whenever we tuaY
ell 6 gicat and OTisvolita ,!Xertiori.
C
red
A young man of the name of Virrood"lar6:o,eit,
sidcnt of Exeter, who was pres,eut tti, jog
!ion of Ilietwo eetpirul coovicis el'Y
roc,
es-k, was shocked at the sight v• be" lla
'lie
1" ides
were ed eft:, that he complained e
nof a 6.il"'
1)"") 615 b ".".; when he reurtied hom
`niate,y, mud died a tew boars -dter•
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