The Sun.
London, England, 1821-07-14 00:00:00

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UOVI.rNt :UARDENi-L—The benefit of Mr. BRAN•
tsox took place last night at this Theatre, and we
were glad to find that this old and respectable
servant:of Oh pabjic had a very numerous :audi
ence.. The Play revived on this occasion was
the Comedy of. Ev 24 one has his
The public are indebted for this excellent
Comedy to , Mrs. hictinAEni a• lady whose
name is justly high in literary estimation -"for
some admirable dramatic productions, and for
novels of the most interesting and affecting
description- Her style is original and' chtt,i
ractensed by talents of no common order. , The
Public are also indebted to her for critical re,
marks on most of the dramatic productions of
this cJuatry, which have stood the test of time,
and are likely to be brought into occasional re-
resentation. The remarks in question . are
d:stin:guished by taste, judgment, and .can-
dont'. We have deemed it an act of mere
duty to pay- this just tribute of :respect to
a Lady Who has adorned the Literature of
our country, whose works, to use the words.-of
Dr. JOHNSON, have" increased the public stock
of -harmless pleasures," whose private life has
been marked by kindness and benevolence,•and
who has raised herself by superior talents, per-
severing industry, and laudable prudence, to 'a
state of honourable independence.—We should
not close this article without stating that after
the Comedy,- which was well supported and
highly applauded, the two daughters' of Mr.
BaANnory came forward, and displayed such
musical powers and taste, as procured them very
warm applause, and entitle them in no slight
degree to public encouragement and protection.
NEw HA-vmAnacT TurATHE.—The popular
Opera of Guy Mannering was the dramatic at-
traction of last night to this Theatre,
_and it is
but justice to say. that, on the whole, it was very
well supported, On this occasion Mr. LEoNI
LEE, from the Bath Stage, made his first appear-
ance in the part of Henty Bertram. His vioce is
pleasing- but not strong, and he sings with skill,
but is..rather too Bami.uwrcAL in his ffburishings.
He was well received. It is obvious that he has
studied music more than acting, but allowance
should be made fora first appearance be:fore a
London audience.—Mr. J. RussEEr. was promi,
nent in the performance of Dant& :Dinmont.--,
MISS CAREW was all that could he desired
in Lucy Bertram; her acting was interesting and
her singing delightful.-- s- TAyEEunE was a good
Dominic Sampson, and Mrs. IL JOHNSON was suf-
ficiently terrific in Meg Merrilies.—Miss R.
Coital was the Jzdia Mannering ; her singing
was justly applauded, and her acting is obviously
improved.

Besides the -numerous Grand Prizes in Tom,
KINS'S Picture Lottery, there are Thousands of
smaller Prizes containing exquisitely coloured
Subjects from the Old Masters, eminently calcu-
lated, when framed, for elegant Drawing Room
Furniture.

The Earl of CRAVEN'S fine yacht, the Louisa,
and the Right Hon. CHARLES PELHA3I'S- brig
Falcon, tWQ vessels of the largest class belong-
ing to the Yacht Club, are DOW in Cowes Road,
and above fifty others belonging to Members. are
cruizing in the Southampton waters.
A very fine sturgeon was taken at Blackwall
yesterday morning, which was, by order of the
Loran MAYOR; conveyed to his MAJESTY. at
Carlton Paiace, by Mr. HOWELL, the Water.
bailiff.

A few counterfeit sovereigns are in circu'ation
in some parts of the country ; they are of silver,
Of, but are very easity detected,,as they weig,ll.
I dwt 14 grains less than the. genuine coin,
VotUNTAILY STAKVATION.—A man named
Mourn,'Ea died last week at Cullompton,. of
voluntary starvation. He had a small property,
by which he had been supported for some years;
but finding he was likely to outlive it, as it was.
reduced to about 150/. and feeling the apprehen,
sion of want more than the natural love of .life,
he came to the resolution of ending his days, by
starvation. To effect this dreadful purpose, he
took nothing but Water for a month before he
died ; at the end of three weeks his body Was
wasted to a skeleton, and a medical gentleman
was called in, who advised him to take some
nourishment, but this he refused, and even dis,
continued the use of water. In this way he
subsisted another week, when nature yielded the
contest !.

BIRTH. • •
On Wednesday, the 11th inst., at Hawloiworth-hall,. Yoticr
shire, the lady of George Carroll, Esq. of a son.

MARRIED.
On. Friday, the 29th ult. at Blickling, in Norfolk, George
Warr( n,.Esq. of Greenwich, surgeon, to Elizabeth, fouith
claughtef of the Rev. R. D. Churchill, of the former place.
At: St. Marylebone New Church, Thomas Dunbar, Esq..
second son of the late Sir George Dunbar, Baronet, to Miss
Clementina Symons Trickey, only daughter of Samueltlohri
Symons Trickey, Of Upper Charlotte-street, Fitzroy7square,,,
Esq,

DIED.

On Friday, at his house at Walworth, Mr. George Dowse,-
of Cheapside. •; .
On'Tuesday, the 11th instant, at Melbourne, in Leicester,
shire, Robert Stanley, Esq,, aged 82.
Yesterday, at the Mansion-house-cottage, Camberwell, the
Rev. Wm. Smith, A. M. in his 79th year. •-
On Thursday last, at Uxbridge, aged three years and ah4lf,
' Thomas, the youngest son of Thomas Witts Walford, Esq." •
SUDDEN DEATHS.—The following awful instances of the.
frail tenure of human existence, have occurred within the laNt
fortnight :—Aged about 50, a helper in the employment oe
Mr. W. Hughes, of the George Hotel, Cheltenham, of the
name of Pockets, whilst standing in High-street, apparently in
good•health, said, in,a jocular manner, " Now I will go to my
breakfast;" and turning suddenly round, he fell on the pave-
merit, and died instantanecusly.—At Whatley, in Oxfordshire,
Martha Sturges, who was attending a Mrs. Neighbour, as her
nurse, went down stairs, and was found in a very short time
lying on the earth quite dead.—Willian Abree, of Fisherton
near Salisbury, suddenly expired whilst drinking at ;he George
Inn in that city.—At Mangotsfield, Samuel Bennett,. a coal-
miner, aged 45, as he wasgomg to his work, thiipped down dead,
without having suffered a• moment's previous .illness.—A poor
old man, named Joseph Bailey; who resided at Barnwood, and
had gone into Glocester for the purpose of being bled, fell down,
in Southgate-street, and almost instantly expired.—And
Cheltenham three persons were found dead in their bees L.-1 •
few days since, near Stroud, a poor man who had left his home
in search of work, became unable to pioceed, fell down and died
in the course of a few hours—S. Bassett, an infirm and aged
labourer, when returning alone from work, fell backwards into
a ditch and was suffocated.—At Cirencester, Ann ..Fett, died sud-
denly whilit at work, spinning in a rope walk..—At Chedworth,
Catherine Broad—at Eastleach Turville, J.Williams—at South
Cerney Sarah Taylor, were found dead in their beds.—At Ey-
ford, ihos. Williams died suddenly whilst at work in i barn.
Well may we exclaim " In the midst of life we are in death
(Bath Herald.)

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS.

July 14.

[MORNING POST.]
It must have struck many of our Readers as
curious, that those who speak disparagingly of a
Coronation, altogether describing it to be a vain
and absurd pageant, are the very parties who have
most distinguished themselves by clamouring for
the admission of the'Queen to its honours. If
it he the unnecessary and ridiculous ceremonial
which they would have it thought, would not
they consult the Queen's dignity by advisiiig. her
to abstain from gracing the vain parade with her
presence ? When they tell us, that the thing is
in itself unimportant, and then add, that it is of
groat importance that her Majesty should be in-
vited to share this unimportant proceeding, we
should really be at a loss to understand them, if
their former love of mischief did not conduct us
to a just conception of their present object.—
They do not call for the admission of the, Queen
to the Hall or the Abbey because they think
it would confer benefit, dignity, or importance
on her, but because they hope it may revive tine
expiring embers of discontent, and enable the
factious again to menace the peace of the me-
- tropolis. But it is well that the first subject in the
kingdom should suffer herself to be made the
instrument of such persons. Could their designs
succeed, would she profit by their triumph ? Oh !
no. Were Parliament reformed on the plan
which the friends of the late Mr. Thistlewcod
would recommend, not even the great virtues of
her Majesty would ensure the regular payment
Of her 50,0001. per annum. Yet that, after 011,
from the promptness with which our disinterested
Queen made known her readiness to receive it,
after declining it before it was granted, we sus-
pect is rightly valued at Brandenburgh House,
and considered as only second in importance to
the insertion of her name in the Liturgy.—But,
much do her pretended friends deceive themselves
if they suppose the peace of the Metropolis is
now at their mercy. We speak not from mere
surmise, tut from a positive knowledge of facts.
If Englishmen, mistaking the Queen for an in-
jured woman, when a solemn question of the ut-
most importance to her interests was to be agi-
tated, were anxious to save her from the terrible
penalty which seemed likely to punish her irre-
gularities and levities, they are net so mad as to
run riot because her Majesty is not invited to a
banquet, or assigned a place in a procestion.—lf
she has been persuaded to the contrary, she will
find her informants are not to be depended upon,
and that it would have been quite as well " for
little credit" she has left, if she had kept the
promise which she made through her Solicitor-
G eneral, and submitted to
_the decision of the
Coimcil to which she appealed, with resignat:on.

[THE TIMES.]
Human folly has no bounds. The Queen of
England has been refused that to which all others
of the King's subjects have been invited—nay,
solicited—the privilege of seeing the Coronation
of George the Fourth ! The refusal has even
been joined with an act of indignity to her Ma-
jesty. It will be recollected that the Queen,
after the decision of the Privy Council against
her legal right to be crowned, addressed a. letter
to Lord Sidmouth on the 11th instant (Wednes-
day last), demandinn as is already knoltn, a suit-
ab!e place at the Coronation. To this requisi-
sition, a letter, professing to be an answer, was
sent in the course of yesterday, but without sig-
nature or address.—(Sec another column qf THE
Sax.)—Disgusted as the public will necessarily
be with this fresh instance of petty and unjusti-
fiable annoyance, aimed at this innocent and
high-minded woman, there is a circumstance con-
nected with the transaction that will add the
sharpest stings to the general contempt. We
have reason to know, that Ministers themselves
felt the propriety of complying with the Queen's
demand for a place at the Coronation ; that the
majority, if not all of them, had determined to
grant the accommodation demanded : and yet
they afterwards sacrificed their sense of what
was right to the fear of losing their places. Some
hints, it is said, were given which induced them
to change a resolution of obvious propriety and
of conciliating tendency. The Queen's mind is
not to be so changed : her Majesty has deter-
mined to attend the Coronation, and will not be
precluded, except by force, from that spectacle,
which is open to the meanest subject of the
nation. Her Majesty will be accompanied by
Lord and Lady Hood and by Lady Hamilton.

[moaxlNG cintomcm]
A letter has at length been received by her
Majesty, dated Whitehall, July 13th, 1821, but
without any signature, or even address, stating in
answer to the demand of her Majesty, that a
suitable place might be appointed for her at the
approaching Coronation ; that. 44 it is not his
Majesty's pleasure to comply with the application
contained in your Majesty's Letter," and refer-
ring to a Letter from Lord Liverpool to her Ma-
jesty, of the 7th of May, in which he informed
her, that " his Majesty having determined that
the Queen shall form no part o the ceremonial of
his Coronation, it is therefore his Royal pleasure
that the Queen shall not attend the said Cere-
mony." Her Majesty, on receipt of this strange
communication, immediately wrote to Lord Sid-
mouth, that as it was without signature or ad-
dress, she should consider it as anonymous till
she heard from him. Our Readers will find this
extraordinary Correspondence in another column.
—lt has been said by one of our Porsts, that
" True no meaning puzzles more than wit."—
Without presuming to dispute Lord Sidmouth's
claim to wit, we should observe that his con-
duct on this occasion is puzzling in the extreme.
It is, indeed, altogether beyond our comprehen-
sion. ft may, for aught we know, be a very re-
fined and ingenious piece of policy to send a
Letter to the Queen without signature or ad-
dress; or his Lordship may, perhaps, have been
waggishly disposed, and wished to see what
curious or sagacious surmises this proceeding
'would give rise to ; anticipating probably, that'

some would conclude that he meant to offer a
studied insult.to her Majesty, while others might
suppose that he had been profiting by the lessons
of some pettifogging attorney, and avoided put-
ting his name to the letter that he might keep
himself clear of all responsibility. But, as we
have already said, the matter is altogether beyond
our comprehension. We can comprehend, how-
ever, that it is determined to exclude the Queen
from the Coronation. But we understand that
her Majesty is, on the other hand, fully deter-
mined to attend, accompanied by Lord and Lady
Hood, and Lady Ann liamilton. , If such is her
.‘lajesty's determination (and that it is we have-
every reason to believe), it remains to be seen,
whether Ministers will dare to make use of forci-
ble means for excluding her. We know not by
what right they can prevent her appearance at
the Coronation if she chuse to attend.

By the way of Odessa, we have received ad.
vices from Constantinople, to the Bth .Tuner:
Baron Strogonoff, the Russian Ambassador, has
shut i''-nself up in his house at Buyukdere, with
the determination of having no further communi-
cation with the Turkish Government, until he
receives answers to the dispatches he has sent
to the Emperor at St. Petersburgh. The fact is
his conduct towards the Turkish Government
has been irritating in the extreme, and he has
done every thing he could to bring about a war,
and he has refused time offers of the other Am-
bassadors to bring about a reconciliation. lie
cannot have acted, we should think, without in-
structions from the Emperor. Capo D'lstria is
with the latter, at St. Petersburgh, so that we
cannot look to him without reflecting that the
events in the Morea have been chiefly brought
about through his intrigues, and those of his
subordinate Agents. As a Pretest, Baron S.
has made a formal Protest against the Turkish
Government, for detaining at Constantinople the
Cargoes of Corn coming from the Black
Sea. But of all the European Powers Russia
has the least to complain of, as the prices
paid for the Corn are such as to induce specu-
lators to make further shipments from Odessa
(where the price has risen in consequence), for
the express purpose of sending them to the Con-
stantinople market for sale. \Ve have very little
doubt that the Turkish Government possesses in-
formation that the correspondence of Baron
Strogonoff with the Morea, which he carried on
through the medium of his banker, Danesi, was
not of the most friendly nature, and the execution
of this man, notwithstanding the very great exer-
tions made by Baron S. to save his life, is a con-
vincing proof that he, at least, was guilty of
some high crime against the Government.—The
Russians sent, some time ago, two small ships of
war down to Constantinople, but this being con-
trary to existing treaties, the Turkish Govern-
ment are determined to get them out of the
Bosphorus.—(/bid.)

[BRITISH PRESS.]

The question of the Queen's Coronation is un-
doubtedly one of great Constitutional importance,
and we should expect, from the well known vigi-
lance of the City of London, and some other
great corporate bodies throughout the realm,
that the discretionary power exercised by the
Cabinet of capriciously withholding from the
Queen an honour never before refused to any
Queen Consort in England, will not be suffered
to pass unnoticed. The resolution of the Privy
Council upon the claim recently made by her
Majesty, negatived in general terms the Queen's
right to the honours of a Coronation, at such time
and place as to herself might seem proper; but
the records submitted to the Council in the argu-
ments of the Queen's Attorney and Solicitor-Ge-
neral, strewed very clearly that an usage had
prevailed in this -kingdom, from the earliest times,
which went very far towards establishing a pre-
scriptive right in her Majesty, although in some
few instances the right bad not been exercised.
Allowing, however, that in the strictness of legal
construction there may be a marked difference
between the enjoyment of a continued usage,
and a right to claim it at any indefinite time
and place, a question then arises how far it may
be consistent with propriety to withhold the
enjoyment from mere caprice, when such con-
duct tends to inflict a stigma upon a personage
of the highest rank in the State. The ceremony
of the Coronation may, indeed, be what the King's
Attorney and Solicitor General described it, " an
act in itself perfectly indifferent, bestowing no
addition either of power or dignity, and which
might or might not be performed at the dis-
cretion of the King ;" but considering the painful
and peculiar circumstances in which the Queen
is unfortunately placed, the performance of the
ceremony becomes to her Majesty any thing
but a matter of indifference. The refusal of
coronal honours is to her a punishment of the
severest kind, because it is meant to operate in
the eyes of the world as a stigma and disgrace.'
The real question, therefore, for the country now
to consider is, whether the Queen, having been
acquitted according to the forms of the Constitu-
tion of all the extravagant charges that were pre-
ferred against her, shall now be punished in one
of the most interesting particulars, as if she had
been actually convicted of the crimes imputed to
her. The question of the Queen's absolute and
legal right to be crowned is in no respect in-
volved in the question of the propriety with
which the Ministers have exercised, or mean to
exercise, their discretionary power. With the
former the people, we think, have no concern
whatever ; but the latter is open for public anim-
adversion, like any other act or omission of the
respcnisible advisers of the King. The people,
therefore, are not barred by the judgment of the
Council from addressing the King in the way of
petition, praying his Majesty to cause the Queen
to be crowned at such time and place as to him-
self may seem meet.

[NEW TIMES.]
It happens singularly enoug, that while in this
country our would-be patriots are uttering loud
lamentations that the most atrocious libels should
be punished after publication, the French Legis-
lature, by above two to one, have passed a law

for establishing a Censorship• before publication.
These are the •twd extremes, and both are equally
to be avoided. It is a remarkable fact, that
among all the, discussions in Parliament and else-
where on the subject of the 'Constitutional Asso-
ciation,"among all the virulent attacks on its
members, and all the shameful misrepresenta-
tions of its proceedings, not one individual ever
ventured publicly to mention, much less to de-
fend or apologise,, for any one of the libels which
the Society has prosecuted. What was the rea-
son for this ? There was, there could be but one
reason, that the libels were too infamous to bear
repetition or description. This single considera-
tion not only shows how deeply the country is
indebted. to a Society which has prevented the
circulation of such poisons among the people ;
but it also proves that the Society has exer-
cised its functions with the greatest judgment
and discrimination, sparing every thing question-
able, and even among licentious and seditious
publications selecting only the most atrocious
for prosecution.

lire wish to put Mr. Alderman 'Wood on his
guard against a measure, which would otherwise
lower him considerably in public estimation.—
Circular Letters, it seems, have been sent into
different parts of the kingdom (we have one nonA
lying before us), marked Private and Confiden-
tial, soliciting a Half Guinea subscription, under
the imposing title of 44 National Tribute of re-
spect to Mr. Alderman Wood !" it is calculated
that Twu or ,Three Thousand Pounds may
be got together by these means ; and one
of the reasons assigned, for thus 44 paving
tribute," • that 44 the venal part of the Pub-
lic Piess daily asperses the character and
libels the motives" of the Worthy Alderman.
—Now, we have no doubt, this is a hoax, built
upon that other grand hoax, 44 The Queen's Plate
Subscription." Mr. Alderman Wood cannot
certainly let the begging box go. round for him,
as it did for Hunt, and so many others of the
ragged fraternity. Independently of the Worthy
Alderman's- high spirit and large. fortune, expe-
rience has shown that these baits don't take.—
Even her Most Gracious Majesty's subscription
came to nothing, the moment she pocketed the
Fifty Thousand Pounds from Government. The
Alderman, we are sure, would say with Brutus,
" I can raise no money by vile means."
And therefore, we suspect, that some crafty
knaves have put forward his name, in their
" Private and Confidential" Letters, with a view
to chouse the subscribers, and run away with
the proceeds.—(lbid.)