The Sun.
London, England, 1810-04-21 00:00:00

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE,

April a, aro.
THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS of MISS MA-
. YESTY 's ORDNANCE do hereby give Notice, that
Proposals: wil be received at their Office, in Pall-Mall, on or
before
•Monday, the 30'h day of April inst. from quell .fersons
as may be willing to undertakie the Supply of PIG LEAD.
fvr Servke of this Department, for a period of Six Months from
3d of May next.

A Specimen of the Lead to be supplied may be viewed uppt
application to the Comptroller of the kyal Laboratory at Mot-
wiP'''; and further par;icklars, together with the Terms and
Conditions of the Contract, may be known at the Secretary's
Office, in Pall. Mall aforesaid, any day, between the hour: of
Ten and Four o'clock, where the Proposal: must 6e delivered

sealed up and indorsed, " Proposals for .l'ig Lead ;" but no'
Proposal can 6e admitted after the said
.31b inst. al Twelve.
o'clock at Noon of the same day ; neither will any Tender' be
noticed, unless the Party ma4ing it, or an Agent in his behalf,
shall attend.

Order of t'e Board,
R. 11. CREW; Sec.

MAILS._
ARRIVED-1 Dublin. Dug— I GOttCllbUigh, t Lisbon,
Cadiz, 2 Waterford.

PRICE OF STUCKS
THIS DAY AT TWRLV 'O'CLOCK•

Consols - 69; 7o
•

E 6 U N.

SOLEM QUIS DICIR.II FALSUM AUDIAT ?

L 0 N D 0 IV,

SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1810.

No news whatever has been received from the
Peninsula this day, but we have made some further
Extraas from the Portuguese Papers which arrived
yesterday. 'lt is said that the Spaniardi have failed
in an attempt to txpel. the French frcitn the town of
St. Andero.

. -
In recurring again to the events
.which; Ipppeued
at the late dinner at the London Tavern, we can
assure Mr. WHITBREAD that we are not adualVd
by any motives of personal holtility towards 'him,
although we are aware that the renewal of the sub=
jet is calculated to give Elicit considerable pain.
The situation in which he was phced was most
mortifying: After all the caresses and blandish-
ments which he bestowed upon the Chairman of
the Meeting, it certainly .was not to be . exre6led
that, even in the moment of all his condescen-
sion, he should be treated with so much harsh-
ness. lint however painful the experiment was
to Mr. WurriptgAn, it May •be useful to some

of his fiieuds, who, like him, are coquetting
with the BLI4DETTITES. It wilt- teach them the
cliggler of their new associates, -never admit

a man as a proslyte who will not subsribp to every.

article of their faith, and it will open t beit7 eyes with re-
sped to the real °attire, if riot to the full eaten t; of
these articles to which they are calle'd upon to assent.
It was in vain that Mr:"WHITBREAD, when he van,
tured to vindicate a small portioni.of the rights of
the House of Commons, put the strong St case.of

insult to them, in order to justify a commitment,
that he could conceive. It was in vain that, to
_ make the insult appear still more atmeions to the
company, he supposed it to be offered to two such
Oembers as Mr. WatifumAN and Mr. W4ant.E,
t would not dq—thg inflexible Vendvt. of I..inen,

and the tried Patriot, were not to be softened, even
by this compliment. to themselves ; they would not
allow him to capituPite—they woultl grant no terms
—they required an absolute unconditional surrender.
—lt may be said that it was
,iejudicbus in Mr.
WHITBREAD to venture, 011 such 'an occasion, to
say a word in favour of the Constitutional Privi-
leges of the Hoese of "Commons ; it certainly was
so ; but at the same time it Must be admitted that
he was in a very embarrassing situation, for:though'
his new friends, the BURDETTITES„ will not allow
the House of Commons any Privileges at all, his
old friends, the Whigs, allowed it a great many;
nay, those great Whigs, Mr. Fox and Mr. GREY,
not only maintained that the House had the privi-
lege of commitment for libel, but actually en-
forced .that privilege themselves upon unfortu-
nate printers who had incurred their displea-
sure. Mr. WHITBREAD therefore could not em-
brace the dortrines of the BURDETTITES, with-
out abandoning the principles of the Whigs; but as
he had not quite lett one party, and had not actu-
ally joined the other, he, in the simplicity of his
heart, endeavoured to please both, and thereby ex-
perienced that unfortunate catastrophe which, we
are told by the proverb, usually occurs to persons
who trust to two stools. But whatever benefit some
`of Mr. WHITUREAD'S friends may derive from the
scene which passed at the London Tavern on Thtirs-
day, we fear it occurred to late to be productive of
any advantage to that Gentleman himself. He
seems to have placed himself in such an unfortunate
predicament, - that he can neither advance nor re-
treat; he is now in the situatioo of MAtrOMET'S
coffin, which, we are told, is kept in a state of sus-
pence, because the powers of attraction of the bodies
between which it is placed are equal, with this
difference, that he is kept Bust ended between two
parties, not because he is equally attraeled,but be-.
cause he is equally repelled by both, The one party
will not take him back liecatise. lie hai. gone too.
far; the other will not receive him because he has
not gone far enough.—The one will attack him as a
deserter, the other will repel him as an enemy.

The Morning Chronicle adverted again yesterday
to the case of Mr..TOFFIAM, the Serjeant at Aims,
in the reign of CHARLES II; as a case in stipport
of the dodrine which they espouse respecting the
privileges of the House of. Commons. But every
man who will take the trouble to read that case, will
perceive, that the Judges gave no opinion whatever
against the privileges of the House of Commons ;
their decision was founded not upon the privileges
themselves, but upon the mode of pleading them.
The-words of Sir FRANCIS PEMBERTON are—" The
" question is of the manner of pleading this Order
of dig Home—whether it may be pleaded to the
" jurisdidion of the Court or not: And, under
" favour, I have always taken it that such_ a plea
" could not be pleaded to the jurisdidion of the
" Court, but is a good plea by way of bar." •

Yesterday. morning his MArts-ry, Princesses Au-
GUSTA•and- SuPHIA, aceompanied :by Lord. CHES.
TBRFLFI,,D, Generals GwYtoll3. and • FITZROY,- Col.
DRSBRow, and PRICE, rode to. St. George's Chapel,
and heard a sermon Preached, by the Rev. Mr.
LONG, from St. John, chap. xik. verse 30::,-9 He
said, it is finished, and he gave up the gitost."—The
Royal Party afterwards returned to the Palace.
Yesterday, being Good-Friday, the Dukes- of
'foal( and CAMBRIDGE attended -di'vitre service at
the Chapel Royal, and heard a sermon preached by
the Sub-Dean after which, Mr. W. KNYVETT
sung as an anthem, the-appropriate sOlo to the day
from the. Messiah—" He was despised and rejeated
of tuen." . •

Thursday being MaundayThursdajr; the Bishop
of London held a confirmation- at the Chapel Royal,
St.-James's 'Palace, and. confirmed .about forty Of the
junior branches, of the Nobility. • Toe PrinceSS
CHARLOTTE of WALES, attended by the Bishop.of
Salisbury, were present to see the ceremony. ,
A letter from Trinidad, of the 16th of 'Yebruary,.
received,in Glasgow; says, " An American frigate,
of 20 guns, .searched two vessels the other darout,,
side of the Grand Bocas. Two affidavits by- the:
capiains , are in the Custom-house. The reason
the American Captaln.gi.>e for his condua was,.
that the American ships had as goad is right to
search as the British." .

. Letters have been received -by the Packets from
Buenos Ayres and Rio JaneirO-L-the fortner after a
voyage of 77, and the latter of 63 days. We have
no news frprn either of these settlements of much
importance ; but we think we can-colle6f, by the
„accounts from the Spanish Colonies, an increasing
disposition in the inhabitants to.throw open the trade,
in the etent of the conquest of Spain by sIOSEPLI
IitIONAPAIITE ; and we know that some cornmuni•
cations have been made to the United States auxi-
liary to such a design. -
On opening Admiral Lord COLLINGWOOD'S body,
4 large stne was found in the passage to the blad-
der, which` it is supposed occasioned his death. , •
Sorne.changes have taken place attlie East India
Ilcuse, in the Freight Office. Mr. HOLLAND, the
Freight Accountant, • has retird, after: .a laborious
and most useful service of upwards .of 46
His retirement has produced the following arraiigx,-,
ment : lie is succeeded by RAENcoca,
who is now Freight .Accountant and Clerk to.
the Committee of Trade ; Mr. SAituEr. Sir...-
X./TOE is First Assistant to the Freight .Accountant ;
Mr. S. S. coNcEiute, Second Assistant ; and Mr.
JOHN LEE, : Assistant Clerk to the Committee of
V!-ivate Trade,