The Sun.
London, England, 1819-02-24 00:00:00

itEGi 3TEI'Z OF FASth3N;

. ,
Tsr: MARCIIIGNESS OF SiiIIVIORY'S dis-
tingnished Lady in the fashionable world gave her first grand
card party and assembly on Monday evening, at her elegant
mansion in Arlington street, which was attended bY nearly
300 persons of the first rink and fashion; including his Impe-
rial Highness the Archduke Maximilian, the Doke and Du-
chess de San Carlos, and most of the other Foreign Ambas-
sadors and their Ladies. The four principal drawing4noms
were thrown open un the occasion : fheY were brilliantly illu-
minated. The company began to arrive soon after nine
o'clock.

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The Duke of MontNiSte will give a grand dinner on S'atnr--
day next to the Duke of IVellingtun and all the Ministers, at
his residence in Grosverttir-square.
The Ambassador from the Netherlands' intended grand
entertainment to-morrow, to the Archduke Maximilian, is
postponed till Tuesday mitt.

The Earl of Powis arrived on N ondap evening-, at his house
in Berkeley-square, from his seat, Walcot, Salop. Her
Ladyship is expected in a few days.

The Earl and Countess of Vernkm and 'family arrived yes
:erday for the season, at Omit house in Groivenor-square,
'root their seat, Gorhambory, Herts.

Sir Philip acrd Lady Hales and fail-lily arrived yesterday, at
heir house in Charles street, Berkeley-square, from their

seat, l%ryniore,•Bridgewater.
Arrivals at Blake's Hotel, Jermyn-street—Colonel White;
from a tour; Colonel and Captain Pepper, from Paris; Jos.
Beete, Esq. irom a tour.
Arrival at Cook's Hotel, Albemarle-street—Colonel Bailey
and family, from Brighton.
Arrivals at Warren's Hotel, Regent-street—The Marquis
and Marchioness of Thomond f►one a tour; and Lord and
Lady Itiversdale, ditto. De?artures from ditto—Sir Wm.
and Lady Jame Holston, to their seat in Sussex; and Sir John
Davie, Bart. to Oxford.

'l'l►e !entail's of the Countess of THANRT were
removed on Monday morning troin her late sent,
Hothfield Park, for interment in the family vault
at Itninhntn, near Sevenoaks.

The Duke of SAN CARLOS' banq'iet, on Mon.

day evening, was given in the same style of mag-
nificence as on the day when the PRINCE RE-
GENT honoured his Excellency with his presence.
The company sat down at half•past seven, and
broke up at eleven, when the grea er proportion
proceeded to sthe Marchioness of SALIASURY'S
par►y.
The Reverend Jakas THOMAS Hot.LowAv, late
Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, has been col-
lated to the endowed Vicarage of S►anton-uhon-
Hine Heath, on the presentation of the Rev. R.
Hill. The Rev. Mascie Doraville Taylor, NI.A.
Rector of Langton, in the county of York, has been
instituted, on the presentation of Sit Andrew Cor-
bett, Baronet, to tne Rectory of Moreton Corbet,
in this county, void by the death of the Rev.
George Dieken.
SPARRING.—There %vas a benefit at the Fives-
Court yesterday for Neate, but it was not well
attended, the general opinion being that Neale
was not entitled to a benefit, as he received lOW.
for beating Oliver by s chance blow, and refused
to fieht again.

Mr. MATURIN —We are requested to state. that

the next Number of the NEW MONTHLY MAGA-
ZINE Will contain, among many oilier articles, a
very interesting Memoir (accompanied by a
striking Likeness) at the Rev. C. IL MATuatN,

the celebrated author of Bertram. Manuel, &c.—
The Public are requested to ob•lerve that this
Number is the second of a New Volume, and as,
in consequence of the increased ►temand 16r this
%Vol k, disappointments have unavoidably occurred,
those who wish to commence with, the present
volume are advised to transmit their orders intme

tliately to their respective pre-
ceding Number is accompanied by a eharacleristic
Portrait and Nlemoir of the Poet Wordsworth.

Yesterday some Officers arrived in town from
Sandhurst, in Kent, in quest of a man named
John Goodwin, for whose apprehension a re,s art!
has been offered, charged with attempting to
murder two constables a short tit4ie ago at that
place, named John Ctuttenden and William
Vaughan. Goodwin resided before he abscond-
ed in the.parish of Benenden, in Kent. lie had
frequently threatened to be revenged upon Crut-
tenden and Vaughan, because they, in the exe-
cution of their duty, had imponoded his horse
and cart; and on one occasion he was heard to
say, " 1 should die comfortably upon the gal-
lows, if I could hut be revenged on those tworas-
cali." On the next night bur one, as Crotteoctep,
and Vaughan were walking along the road side,
in the patish of Sandhurst, some person fired at
them from the opposite side of the hedge, and
both were desperately wounded, Cruttentko dan-
gerously, a grea,t number of shot having entered
his back. Vart4han had forty-eight shot taken
out of his back, and several from his arms and
legs.
Sunday night the dwelling-house of Mrs. Jen-
kins, a widow, residing in ilayerstreer, Beth-
nal-green,, wat broke open, Wy..wr'enching the.
street door. The villains rifled the drawers of
linen, wearing .apparel, &c. and likewise took
from a box between 201. and 301. in coppers, tied
up in 5.3. papers. The thieves got off undiscover-
ed, leaving a crow-bar, and a box of phosphorus
behind them.
At en early hour no Sunday morning, some vil-
lains entered the dwelling-house of Mr. Joseph
Ankh), No. 7, \Vest-place, West-squat e, Ken-
nington, by means of false keys, and stole pro-
perty (chiefly consisting of clothing) to the value
of 150/..and upwards.
The house of Mr. Monk, No. 13, Marlborough-
place, Borough, was robbed on Saturday evening
by some villains, who got . over the parapet
of an adjoining empty house, and descended
by the trap-door on the roof of Mr. Monk's prc•

mises. They succeeded in carrying of consider-
able property. The previous another bowie
in the same place was robbed by similar means.
NVettnestlay last, R. Stephens, Eq. of South-

cute, while coursing on his estate, alter a sha►p
rue►, killed a hare, which, upon being opened,
was found to contain the extraordinary number
of seren young ones ! This circumstance determin-
ed Mr. Stephens to re:inquish coursing for the
present season ; and no doubt every sportsm3o
o ► recling this will come to the same
Xercury

WE3TMINSTERIANA.

EXPE,NCE Or WESTMINSTER CONTESTS.

At .a moment, when the axiom, propounded on
Saturday last UpOn the hustings by Mr. Hois-
t-1668a (a prophet who does not die in Isis
speech'), vie. that a 51. note is still better than
a breakfast'—when this election aphorism appears,
horn Mr. tionnovia'a merry pull for the last two
days, to have had ample Verificationwhen, upon
the Other hand, the election tactics of Mr. Fox
are so faithfully followed by Mr. GEORGE LAMB ;
and the Whig ManageMent of former West-
minster contests is so ably revived by Mr. GEORGE
LAME'S supporters ; it may be, not with.mt in.
serest, to look back at the expcnceS of Mr. Fox's
contests—those expences being the tritest mirror
fut reflecting the system upon which the contests
were conducted.

A Westminster Election is capable of being
either the Most expensive, or the least SO, of any
part of the empire. A NOble Commoner, some
weeks since, questioned the writer of these ar-
ticte,-:;-. whether in his op in ion 50001. would afford
to Westminster a fair ilia! for redeeming itself'
from Jacobin usurpation upon the present va.
cancy ?' that question the .answer was in these
Words :—` Taking ail the circumstances of the
present crisis into Consideration, I do not know'
how 50001. could be honestly spent.' Thou
the opinion alluded to ‘vas given iu private, the
giver bolds himself as responsible for its sound-
ness and probity as if delivered in the presence of
a million of men. Upon some of the data on
which that opinion was founded, the reader shall
for himself br enabled to judge—first premising,
that there have been two contests for Westmiu-
ster of so peculiar a character as not to fall within
the pale of any election comparisons, namely,
those of 1784 and 1798. In a future, possibly a
final, number of these essays, reasons will he
offtred why those two contests (of 84 and 88)
should be deemed suorum generum. No such con-
tests ever took place before—or since---;or probably
will—to the end of time. Without touching here,
upon the two conflicts referred to, abundance
of illustration upon the subject of expence is fur-
nished by the. tither \Vesttniuster contests of Mr.
Fox. Those expences were as follow
expences of the contest of 1780 fell short
of 16001. Lest the omission of a nought in the
figures should he supposed, the suits shall be stated
in words. Mr. Fox's first election for West-
minster fell short of sixteen hundred pounds ! The
15 days' contest of 1790 (while the prodigal ha-
bits of 84 and 88 still Adhered to some of the
Foxites) cost bet weer' 4 and 50001.—between
four and five thousand pounds ! ! including some
tainted demands which ought not to have been
mitteil. For the contest of 1796, a little pllrSe
Wtti made very little exceeding 30001.—very little_
exceeding three thousand pounds!!! —anti when
this contest, also of 15 days, bad been far.
ad-
vanced, the late Noble and excellent Duke of Nor-
thumberland sent a spontaneous aid of 5001.--:fle;
hundred pounds. Of this handsoMe co-operation,
only a part was wanted for the election ; and the
proposition of returning to the Doke his overplus
was sanctioned by the advice of Mr. Fox. A Com-
mon friend, however, of the Duke and of Mr,
Fox flushed his belief that the Duke would be
,offended' at the return of the residue. How fan-
tastical this thought was,. the reader will pre-
sently see; but the driving of a pig by the tail
through et ball-room, without uisconcei ling the
dancers, would have been about as facile a task
as subduing the titterer of that strange fancy out
of the wrong side of any opinion (on the right he
had been known to waver), though, neverthkiess,
l it would not he easy to point out a better-tem-
tiered or more ingenious man, even in the first
'form of intellect, than the Gentleman alluded to—
now no more. To that Gentleman's closer inter-
course with Northumberland House all differences
yielded ; and the remainder of the Duke's gift ex-
tinguished the suspected claims above mentioned
—an election policy which will generally he round
to be, by its example, like cutting off the hydra's
bead,

We 'are now arrived at the contest of Ma—
The expence of this contest was so extraordinary,
as to need a detail, which the reader, if he lovts a
curiosity, will possibly excuse.
In June 1892, a few days before the di:solution
of Parliament, the Lords THANET, LAUDERDALE,
and ROBERT SPENOLR, went from; Londouro meet
poor General F:TZPATRICK 0110 came from his
,place at SOunihg Hill), at a dinner at St. Ann's
Hill, with Mr Fox ; nearer to the heart and con-
fidence of whom tour persons could not be named
than were the four above mentioned. On the re-
turn to Lonthin, at night, of the Once ;Noble
Lords, the deterniinstion of Mr. Fox to retire
from public lite (an intention which had been
rumoured for a .considerable time before) was
announced at BuooKs's ; and on the next day Mr.
SIIERIDAN began a canvass for the RepresentatiOn
of Westminster—the Dissolution of Parliament
.being presently expected. A person, upon whose
authority all these facts are stated, meeting Mr.
the,next day, upon his canvass, at one
of the Bartking-houses in Pall-mall, advised him
to desist ; and after a little wrangling SHERIDAN
did so. The person alluded to repaired; straight-
ways, to St. Ann's Hill.' On the day-after ar-
rival at S.. Ann's, the present Duke of BEDFORD,
then upon a visit to his late Noble father•in-law,
Lord TORRINGTON, in Windsor Forest, rode over
to St. Ann's, to consult about Ms. Fox's wishes
upon the approaching Dissolution of Parliament.
His Grace found Mr. Fox and the person al-
luded to' in full atgutnent respecting the retreat
front public life. To the object of the. Duke's
visit, Mr. Fox replied—that 'solar, at all events,
he ngreed with------ (naming the per,ou), it must
be Westminster or no place.' The Dulce departed,
leaving Mr. Fox and ' the person ' exactly as he
taund thew, in Mr. Fox's book-room.

That must reasoning intellect which perhaps
GOD ever gave to nian was the most susceptible

to reason

Rea4'ning with all and nerer in the wrong,'
was part of a poetical character of Mr. Fox,
drawn by one who knew him well. Before • the
person' left St. Anne's Hill, be entirely won Mr.
Fox trom his intended dereliction of public ;
aid it was a condition of the victory that • the
persOn alluded to' should undertake for Wc)t•

miwter—of which &see Mr. Fox imagined thii
periont knew something.

The first. measure of this perso►►,' on his re•
turn to London, was the writing of hall a column
in the Morning_ Chronicle ; and of that half co-
lutnn in the Morning- Chronicle the result was, the
instantaneous setting off, upon a country canvass,
of the late Sir THOMAS T. JONES—who had been
cultivating Westminster for several months. Col.
ELLioT—' never once thought of such a thing as
disturbing the re-election of Mr. Fox'—a resolu-
tion which should not be forgotten t;y Mr. Fox's
friends, in the event of that respectable Gentle-
mat►'s ever again standing for this city.
Having thus cleared away the only apprehend-
ed resistance roan unanimous choice of Mr. Fox,
e the person's' next movement was, a provision
of that which makes the mayor go'—money for the
unavoidable expences. Instead of the customary
party purse, the small sum of 2001. trout each
of four personal friends of Mr. Fox appeared to
• the person in question' sufficient for an election
which he calcula{ed would be over in one hour.—
Some of the four friends, upon whom former
NVestn►inster Elections had pressed heavily, in-
(ilged themselves with a smile at the notion of an
Election Fond of 8001. for this city. The money,
however, was immediately paid into COUTTS'S
bank to the credit of this person,' for the West-
minster Election.
Perhaps the four friends ought to be named.
They were Peers; and would it not be worthy of
the crystal pure election practice of Sir FRANCIS
BURDETT, to charge, as a breach of privilege, the
enormous contrib►ttion of no less than 2001. a
piece, for corrupting the independence of West-
minsrer into the shameful choice of such a slave
and driveller as CHARLES Fox ? The four delin-
quents were the late Dukes of DEVONSHIRE and
N“IITHUMZERLAND ; the living Doke of BEDFORD
and Earl of FITENVILLIAM.
Though Sir T. T. JONES, Colonel ELLInT, aud
all such, were too rejoiced, notwithstanding any
difference in politics, that Mr. Fox took to public
life again, for them even to Mink of disturbing his
re-election, the re-election was disturbed. In
Westminster the opener of a poll, whoever and
whatever he may he, renders a certain routine
of expellee indispensible—hus• ings—constables—
committee - rooms--messengers--publications—
roil (legs—stationery, &c. &c. All these sprung
a- unexpectedly as so many ghosts upon the
undertaker for the Election, and upon his rich
fund of 8001.—and the delights of Covent-Gar-
den were inflicted upon him for no less than
nine days, instead of singing Io Peans, in one
hoer.

Over the heaviest item in that eontest,the High
bill, the person alluded to ' was debarred
by custom from all corttroul. Usage sanctioned
the charges ; and he gave a.check for the whole
amount—between 4 and 5001. Another heavy
item was Mr. Fox's advertisement, nearly the
longest he ever wrote—the history of which would
be interesting, but not to the present point.—
What the person ' did towards success may be
gate cried from wiiat he did mot. He did not inun-
date the town with publications productive of no
other elfect than expence and injury to their own
cans., if read. Every printed' dOcument, except
Mr. Fox's advertisementS, was either written by
himself or passed through his hands. No debt
was incurred but by his special order, and no de-
mand survived the close of the accounts. Where
economy was possible it was practised. One set
1011-clerks answered for Mr. Fox and Lord
GARDNER ; but they had nothing else, in com-
mon. No useful services were stinted. Nothing
was wasted or wanted. Not a shilling was - ex-
.pended upon any concern of the election by any
human being except by the person alluded to.'
And now for thin aggregate expence.
It is the opinion of the Writer of these letters
that the gland source of !Inman Malefaction is
lying—that lying is the primary cause of all the
crimes and miseries of mailltindthat a lie in
print is as bad as a lie in manuscript—in verse as
.bad as in probe—in, private conversation as in a
Court ofJustice—that the stater of a lie would he
its swearer, if needful. 11th these sentiments

upon sliebiksenecs ofafahebood;the guilt would be

past the hope of mercy, if the writer were here to
say the thing that was not. -Airer this emphatic
preface he now declares that (with the said eX-
cinion of the High Bailiff's bill) all the expenses

of +hat nine days' contest of 1802 were not quite
three hundred guineas--1 HIM HUNDRED GUI-
NEAS !

'Cie four Noble subscribers (for the first time of
their common lives on the score of a Westminster
contest) received a dividend out of their joint con-
tribution of eight hundred pounds, in four drafts
upon COUTTe3 Bank, drawn by theperson alluded
to ;' which tour drafts were acknowledged by the
four Noble Peers, accompanied by such expres-
sions as may occur to the reader--those of the

individual out of the four, who, compared with
the other three, was almost a stranger to the
person alluded to,' being in the following words,
the Duke's letter, in his own hand, serving for
tl►e compositor's copy in p►inting this passage.—
The letter is addressed to the Gentleman who ap-
plied to his Grace for the 2001.—that Gentleman
bcing at present one of the ornaments of the Ju-

dicial Bench in a sister country, as be will ever be

of human nature, in its greatest excellence.

BATH, Nov. 19, 14302.
SIR,—I had the pleasure of receiving your letter of the
1r)111, with the draft on Mr. Courrs for ltl. 10:. the evening
hefoie I left tiyon for this place.
I eonfe,s I am a good deal surprised at the small expense,
at which a poll of nine days was carried on in Westminster.
It certainly proves the ability of Mr. —, is the depart-
rcut which he tindeitcok ; and is some proof likewise that
Ali. Fox's Popularily in Westminster has not diminished.
I ant, Sir, yiiir obedient Servant,
NORTEIUMBERLAND.
If arty Icepticiem, after this chapter anti verse
fief Ali, should !croak) upon any reader, two, out of
the four Noble subscribers, are still in health and
bappmesb, as they nre sure always to be in virtue

and hono►►r. It most be added, too, that in the
thit.e hundred guineas is included a Crown and

Anchor bill for apohlic breektAst given, atter the

teAntination the IVestminster contest, in the

iolit ',Ames of Mr. Fox and Lord WILLIAM Rus-
SSA L, upon the 12th day of the Middlesex poll in
1602, ‘4+ such unpoiled Freeholders as would ob-

iilJ. the inviter* by supporting Mr. BYNG and Sir
I'hANCIS BUnDITT (the interest of Sir FRANCII

a couple of days before, been earnestly

pressed by Mr. Fox upon the person so often a'
bided to)—tram which public breakfast near sl

relay iinpolled Freeholders were dispatched in Sir
FRANCIS BueptirT's carriages to Brentford ; at a
time when the ransacked county was thought in-
capable of yielding such a number of votes—for
which fillip, in that desperate crisis of the poll
(followed up as it was upon the next day by Mr.
CLuTORD's millers,' and ending in success) the

Jacobin followers of Si, FRANCTSBURDETT WO

tchen their victory was achieved, have soused thi
said person in the Thames, if not hung him a
the 1:4 rn!1.1)00-such is thejealous, selfish, kind,
less, graceless nature of time JAeohin heart. Bo i

obser‘en that this sentence refers to his followers,
and not Si! FRANCIS himself; who, in spite of his
politics, ran he, at all times, a Gentleman.—
February 24, 1819.