The Sun.
London, England, 1821-02-09 00:00:00

COMMON COUNCIL.

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Yesterday a Commou Council was hea .at
Guildhall, which was very fully attepded:-.
The Irish Society was appointed for the year ensuing the
Lord Mayor was elected Governor, and Mr. Deputy Lucas
Deputy Governor thereof. _ •

On a-Report fronithe Committee of General Piripos.s for A
donation of 1051,-,to the City of London Auxiliary Bible Society,
a discussion ensued,• and an Amendment was moved for Skto
scribing 2101. In'lieu • which w,ts lost on a division liyA
rity of six, the numbers being_
For the Report - - 70 Commoners, 2 Tellers-72
For the Amendment 6 Ald. 511 Commoners, 2 'yellers-1;6
A Petition from Mr. Dodd, as presented to Parliament,
lative to London Bridge, was delivered into Court by the.. R-
emembrancer; and referred to the Bridge-house Committee.
The consideration of the Report relative to the Orphans'
Duty on Coals was adjourned to the next Court, then Att bs
• considered the first thing after petitions.
The court then proceeded to elect six (lentlemen :to fill. up
the present vacancies of Attorneys'of the Sheriffs' Vorirt : when
the following,partiw having the majority.of votes, Nere.didy,
appointed, viz.—Mr. James Davies, Mr. ('hides Reeves, -MT,-
fohn Pullen, jun., Mr. Thbmas Ilalv.uod, Mr. Sohn Matti
Mr. IL •

The Court agreed to - petition Parliament for power to raise
a slim of Money to repair Blackfriars Bridge. • •
A Bill for altering the present Law relativeloN'Orareemeti
was read and.ordereci .to be printed. - •

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There is' at' present a Judge iti't.V.Sco'ich..
CoUit of Session', to whi)se gown ha's. ben onlj
two.appointtnents, save his own,- since:The yyA-t..
1689, when it MIS-held by LordFaUNT A 1 N
Upon his death -Lord Mturo-.N,‘VaS Op.poittted to.
it 4th June, 1724 ; .and, upon his death; LOrsl.:
MoNuonno, 0n.12.th February, .1767 ;':and
the death of theiatteri Lord', BAl.:Utircx7gx)t . (V,
gown' 21st. june, 179'9.

On Tues(ly se"huigbt" the 'Friehtily\SOciety..,ig
Highlanclers of Scot_land held' theii.7auting hall, ari_
the Calton Bridge Edinburi4i:;'
when about 60 or 70 of the.Menibe-rs-aPpeared itE
the full Highland garb, and •sperit,the-evening in
ych:u church is about:"lii..e
theAglrleaantdtmletrnmeown
butit
at Sculebates, near Hull; it is to lie-in theCothici
style of architecture, built of white sbrkli.,
buttrsses and'Vitmacles, and- -s"oo4rtie
are to be- appro-priMed,in it "for the Of
pOor. 71'
Alderman Bainats -Met "with art Aft:pleasabf
accident lag . week -at
children's nurse's was ineandoilily7arilyin:J., flue:
from one bed-room-to ?another, agpark:
Out into Alie bed fringe,.. w tho',
bed in frames; the nurse trio] out for-help,
the" Alderman 'ran up -stairs ;'and'; tssithed
a couple of 'men Seronts,:succeededin Preverifz"
ing the tire -going -furthr.;:-hUt
ve;rely burning one. Of

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TEE LONDON JOURNALS.

rDAILY EXT,RACTS FRO'I THE MORNING PAPERS.]
1 •
•
ThiliiveWdefeat whieir the ,-Whigs#ittstained
on tg&4yrit'quess TatfiStock'Ymbtion,--Wil I pro.
babVieich•lhem": to'-be::koore 'cautious ;Wand in
that--itse :the basing of the 'nation, and not
party itifer•eits, tivill oc-cu-ff -the "attention of Par
In- that' case thecGoverarfient. too =-Avill
havi;irloi&- time to fotin s:ticli; :plans lb TelieVo: the
sufferf-ne:interesti of- the = gut nary: as ' circum-
stani.-eLial.render"'piaelledble ;.- they 14'11 ---de-;•
"V 0 t tierniiel es- p ca I refOrm64. he re& ' can
be --slifily"intro"dticetl, and 14airejilielgpbcotative
brarifoli'= Of it; :-to their oPp'Onents-. • .There :are
many- subjects Conne:ted-;With the Police:of-the
kingdom -that i..zhiimprornpfattentionl“lid .c.annot
be introduced by Ministers.,.--without provoking
misrepresentation, and exciting-popular prejudice
aniT-61*.imotir. - An evil must' be a crying one, be-
forE,GOvetturent can venture to suggest- a suit-
ablre-Aiianedy: The pres-ebt Mode Of -punishing
and:-"4.'epresSitig —crime is, capable of receiving
g irprOVeziient. ivhich aught at once meet:the
end-S,ef justice and hurnanity%' no time Ale=
twee,* coin ttal and-triat is. tooqtnigi: and- a:pers-
son:*hO -is up 1 43 fferfcei' per;
hapi-the:firstijhe has committed, is-almost cer.
tain'Aii, be - ban: oii :society
rile villain:= If he be innocentOntinaniry
aralLz,:fkislice -revolt at the tedious imprisonment
he: suffers :before._trialc as well as,af 'MO, chances
of-tlepravity to, lthich .is exposes• from' .a
lofig,intetcottmerwith hardened. criminals. , Also,
the. ieesnt :practice of transporting felons wants
te*isiptc;,and it would,be infin4Viy better _
.for the
dtihoquent,As well-as for the . that the
serlience ,shouM not:be for 'a limited lime, but
per.pvtuali • .Imagination • cannot conceive a harder
lettitAn;that of a man who returns from trans-
portation. -His blasted. character survives the
• period: of punishment,::and forms an almost in-
sti;mountable bar to honest . employment. He is
obliged to revert to his bad practises,, and society
hes -togo.ntend with a more. experienced depre-
datr:7- If this wretch:- had been banished for'
life, -he would try to. conform his habits
,and
feelings to his situation, and miglitin 'time be-
come,:a reclaimed and. useful indiVidual. Thus
humanity is. decidedly in favour ,of what is
-usually -called the harder sentenee; and it. has
an titer recommendation, that it would render
tbA...,p.unishment of death- unnecessary,.. except
in cases of great enormity. --It would also make
..lined all comparison less frequent.
11e..-state of the poor receiving parochial aid.is.
t*ther question that calls loudly. for inquiry
andl.melio.ration. How much preferable are re-
forms-of.- this kind to the. scheme to which the
Whigs have become of: late- such • zealous Con-
verts ? When it is considered that the House of
Commons, constituted as it is has raised the na-
tion-to a pitch of glory and prosperity which no
rtiOdcr'!i
_state has attained, it is neither just nor
grateful to .niake it the constant theme of the
+5;-..:.rsest invectives. It has hitherto protected our
liberties with a zeal and fidelity that can only be
disputed by a violent partisan. Can the public have
more freedom than they actually enjoy? Greater
Altitude would be licentiousness, and would cause
roo;gion and ultimately despotism. The coun-
try certainly has difficulties to contend with ; and
the:y are of no slight character ; but it has also
si."o#44".t;Ces that are sufficient to meet and surmoun

[Morning Chronicle.]
o one of the many unhappy circumstances
-tqtmected with the wicked and foolish proceedings
inst the Queen, gave more pain to the enl_ight-
•etoxl admirers of the British Constitution, than
14ite ;tendency which they .had to diminish in the
people their respect for the head of the Mo-
narchy. :-. The maxim that the King can do no
rorrg, and that where wrong has been done, the
....responsible Ministers of the Crown are alone
elwgcable with it, though, like all other maxims,
it has its-occasional exceptions (of. which we have
- an. instance in our. Revolution), has been found
- of so much advantage in What Lord Castlereagh
-:would call the working of the Constitution, that
.the...-introduction of the .King himself into- the
Arena of public strife and agitation, might well
-,;give rise to the most serious apprehensions.—
was impossible to arraign the conduct of the
Queen, without at the same time sitting in
-iti4grnent on the conduct _ of her husband;
: and, therefore, nothing but an overruling
-necessity . could justify the commencement of
-proceedings, which, under all the circumstances
.. of the case, any man of common prudence must
have known, would exhibit his Majesty. in a
disadvantageous.point of view before his people.
It _is _ not enough that the Sovereign himself
;4:iight be personally anxious to_ institute these
"liroceedings : a Constitutional Ministry ought
ttri yield only to those desires of the Sovereign
V7hich they conceive to be innoxious, and to re-
: Sicri when fheir advice, is not listened to. Mini-
- sters, however, preferred a 'guilty compliance
7 with unwise desires to the honest discharge of
;their duty ; and without necessity, they entered
on the calamitous proceedings. There is not a
• Man in the country, who really believes, in his
heart, that the regard for; female purity laid
claim to by Ministers, is any thing but a hypo-
.- 'critical pretence.

• [New 71:nes.]
In speaking of his Majesty's reception at Co-
vent-Garden, The Times has varied its strain of
• falehood, from that which it applied to the case
of Drury-Lane. It no longer says that the tnajori-
'` .ty of the persons present were ttniesrent, but it
-boldly asserts that the whole " was a packed au-
lience." The gross folly of such an assertion must
• 'be evident, not only to 'those in the house, but to
tire vast number who crowded round the doors.
Tosay That no single individual entered the body of
the house from the stage part of the building would
not perhaps be true on any night of performance,
but that out of an audience of some thousands
there were not more than twenty persons, We be-
neve may, be safely averred. The house was
literally crammed in every part, and the struggles

which were kept up for places some time after
the play had actually commenced ,sulficiently.
r proved that the greater part of the persons pre-
sent had made their way in, by main force. As
elit~l ci'=.4l-it'iitifi -t ,
That on the'ciaiide.-OF -the -liiiuBe• the cries .were:
generally in fivotir Queen. '- Persons who
iernained among those who were
waiting for 'the 'Opening of - the gallery' door,
assured us' itiat They did not hear. _the: Queeo
`name once Menticined, but numerous and repeated
shouts of 4" Gokl7'sat'e the KingT) •"_Long live
.the King :41e *as -strongly felt among this,
as welt-as•anionii, superior claSses-of the audience,
that his Majesty's gracious :condescension in vi,
siting the would' not only be :beneficial
'to those -6C i'esOrt,=but to the trade of -the
Wietrqiiiiis in-general, in giving a new spur-• and
incitement' to tke attendance of the higher ranks,
'and Of -Contse fuiriiShing an increased demand for
dress,.and other means of employment to-the la-
botiting classes.

[Morning. leralfl.l
By the .asconnts from Spain ft appears that
there is still an impatience of the Spanish Consti-
tution among the refuse of the old servile party,
-.consisting of some few priestS, peasants, fanatic
,guerillas, and higlAway robbers, who, in theform
of mere banditti„rather teaze the local Authorities
than endanger the Pi4l3'lic security. It appears
that the . Spanish Government suspected that
Bayonne- was the focuS from which conspiracies
issued against Spain. Several of the exiles, called
4 Persians," a.esided there. 'These, however, in
consequence of The suspicion entertained, and
probably' (though this is not stated) by order of
the French Government, have left Bayonne for
Paris.

[The Public Ledger.]
AccOrding, to the latest accounts from Lay:
bach, the conferences had not yet commenced,
nor were they to begin till all the Ministers had
arrived. A Plenipotentiary from the King of
Spain was expected among the rest; as also the
Marquis de Marialva, Ambassador from the King
of Portugal to the Court of France. A Berlin
article of the 23d of January states; that the
King of Prussia kill only repair to Congress in
a certain case (we presume the declaration of
war), and when his presence will be indispen:
sable forsigning the definitive act of the Congress-.
" The. period," it is added, " of his Majesty's
departure is so much the more remote, that it is
impossible to foresee when the negociations will
have arrived at such a degree of maturity."

[British Press.]
Those who voted in the House of Commons
against the Marquis of Tasistock's motion, in the
hope that by so doing.they should put an end to
the agitation of the question. respecting the treat-
ment, of the Queen, must feel themselves very
much disappointed when they find Petitions
night after night presented to the House upon
this subject, winch lead necessarily to further
discussions. Numerous Petitions were presented
last night from various parts of the country, pray-
ing for the restoration of her Majesty's name to
its place in the Liturgy. The Ministers vainly
hope that the People of England will alter their
feelings upon the conduct of the Government
with regard to the Queen, or, as Lord Castle-
reagh calls it, " come to their senses," until the
Ministers shall have complied with the earnest
wishes of the People in this particular. On the
subject of the " hole-and-corner" Addresses,•
which the Treasury Writers venture to represent
as conveying the sense of the Nation, we beg
leave to refer our Readers to an explanation
given by Sir It. Ferguson. 'The speech of the
gallant General so completely exposes the
trickery of the system, that we should only
weaken its effect were we to describe it. The
speech indeed relates only to one of these Mi-
nisterial Addresses, but—ex uno disce

We understand that soon after the judgment
of the Court of King's Bench was pronounced
yesterday upon Sir Francis Burdett, several
Gentlemen, the most distinguished among the
ranks of the° pposition in Parliament,waited upon
the worthy Baronet, and requested his permission
that a subscription should be proposed to the
public for the purpose of thereby raising the sum
of two thousand pounds to pay the fine imposed
upon him. The request was accompanied by an
assurance that the acquiescence of Sir Francis
would he esteemed as a favour by his political
friends, who, considering the princely fortune and
munificence of the worthy Baronet, could, in
proposing such a measure, have no other object
in view than to obtain the means of expressing
their concurrence in the feelings that prompted
him to write the letter which has brought upon
him the unfriendly notice of the Ministers. We
learn that Sir Francis*Burdett expressed his gra-
titude for the proposition, but requested that
time may be allowed him to consider the pro-
priety of accepting theip

The Loun I`.TAYOrt of Dublin, Alderman DAR-
LEY, and. some other Members of the Deputation
from that city,,, dined on Wednesday at Apsley
House with the Duke of I'VELLINCTON.

DREADFUL. A I.•tt A T.—A private letter from Ire-
land, daS.ed Templemoreßarracks, Feb. 4, com-
municates the following very serious affair :
" Yesterday an affray took place, which put
our men upon their mettle. Au officer, with a
serjeant, corporal, and 12 men, went out to
seize a still about four miles from Roscrea. They
made their seizure good ; hut, on their return,
were attacked when entering a gateln a narrow
defile, by about four or five hundred ragged ruf-
fians, who were waiting in ambuscade for our party.
They rushed so suddenly upon our men that seven
of them were pißioned, and their arms were taken
from them in a trice ; but the serjeant, a gal-
lant stout fellow, although run through the
lungs by 'a bayonet, and having a finger shot off,
rallied with -his seven remaining firelocks, and
completely boat the assailants off the field, leav-
ing four killed and nineteen wounded. This
was not atchibi-ed without several.. of our men
being wounded severOyf but none -I hope mortal-
ly, though these pitchforks, their . general
weapons, _ inflict wounds of a sad description."

Paris Papers of Tuesday last came to hand

is day. A very warm discussion took place in

the Chamber of Deputies on. Monday on the
presentation of the Report of the Committee on

the Petition of Colonel SIMON LoßalErtEs, com-
plaining of his having been reduced without half-
pay, and of his name having been struck out of the
Army List. The Petitioner contested the right of
the Government to deprive him of his rank, and
attacked the Royal prerogative, which constitutes
the KING sole Chief of his Military and Naval,
Forces, and invests him with the power of select-
ing his Officers; and at the same time demanded
to be restored to his rank and pay, and to be
brought to a Court-martial. In the course of

the discussion, some allusion was made by
one of the Deputies VS the late explosions
in the Tuileries.—This induced General Fay
and M. B. CONSTANT to address the Chamber
the latter of whom complained of a libel pub-

fished by AT. RIB IRD, another of the Deputies,
against the dignity and privileges of the Cham-
ber, and attributing all the late attempts against
the KING and Royal Family to the speeches de-

livered in that House,-- A. most stormy debate
then ensued, which concluded at a late hour by
M. RIBiRD disavowing any design of attacking

the privileges of the Chamber. The Petition of
Colonel SimoN Loantraes was rejected by the
House adopting the proposition of the Committee
of passing to the Order of the Day.

It appears by private Letters from Naples,
of a recent date, that the Government conti-

nue their military preparations with an ac-
tivity corresponding to the danger which
threatens them from abroad. The large mi-
litary force destined by Austria to act against
Naples in case of hostilities, Ls caused
some appre‘hensions in the Neapolitan capital,
and even in the Parliament; the general opinion,

in consequence of these critical circunistan6es,
in favour of negociation.

An Article of the 31st ult. frOm Augsburg
states, that the last intelligence from the Con-
gress- is fat froin -pacific ; and it is the firm
opinion at LaybaCh; that-*ar will lie initni di'
ately declared against The 'Neapolitans. It is
also asserted, that the. Allied Sovereigns are of
the same opinion as King 'FERDINAND, and that
his Sicilian MAJEsTY will communicate to all
Europe,' in an authentic declaration, his senti-

meets on the present political situation of his do-
minions. Lord CLANWILLIAM has left the Aus-
trian Capital for Laybach.
An Article from Frankfort of the 2d infers,
from the recent conduct of the Emperor ALEX-
ANnra, in Poland and towards Baden, that he is
decidedly hostile to the Revolution in Naples;
and that his Imperial MAJESTY would act con-
trary to his known and declared sentiments, if

he were to remain a quiet spectator, whilst a sect
are working in the dark, and revolted soldiers
have imposed on their SOVEREIGN a Constitution
which only owes its existence to the extraordi-
nary situation in which Spain was placed in" 1812,
but which ought never to serve fora model in the
ordinary course of events.

FRENCH FUNDS. -
Feb. s.—Fire per Ccfits.. 53 f. cn r.
Bank Stock 1497 1..

The Radicals of Paris attempt to throw ridi-
cule upon the Plots evidently intended to de-
stroy the Royal Family of FRANCE, and of which
the Duke de BERRI fell a lamentable victim..
The letters from Paris , that appear in those
English Journals which are too ready to receive
them, have represented the recent Explosions
in that city as mere contrivances of Government,
in order to prepare for more restrictive Laws.
But from the nature of those letters, it is by no
means improbable that they are fabricated
in London from verbal communications of Fo-
reigners, and that the enemies of Government in
France are afraid of transmitting their odious
falsehoods by. the channel of the Past.' That

these plots are the result of revolutionary prin-
ciples, which infest every Monarchy in Europe,
we have no doubt, and we are apprehensive
that they will appear in other Countries be-
sides France, and with terrible success, un-
less the utmost vigilance prevails, and some
concessions' are made to the popular feeling,
which the character of the age, and the increase
of political knowledge may have rendered abso-
lutely necessary for the security of the recpective
Governments.

The NAVIGATION and COLONIALS YSTEM.—The
indifference which is shewn in various quarters by men of op-
posite- parties, to the wisdom and sound policy of our Ances-
tors, who founded this system, and. to the experience of en-
lightened practical. Statesmen in later times, who have main-
' tamed and given effect to it, has excited much uneasiness
throughout all the principal Outports, from 'an apprehension
that some great sacrifices will be made to the disciples of The.
Shelbourne School, who have, for almost half a century, been
.attempting to throw open the carrying trade of Great Britain to
the United States, and to other foreigners, and to repeal all the
restrictions which have been made in favour of British ap-ricul-
ture, shipping, and trade. Their object is obVions to *all prac-
tical men. It is the interest of the mercantile advocates of
these innovations, who are either British subjects or aliens, as
Occasion may require, to-obtain such an alteration of the pre-
sent system as will admit foreign goods and produce, free of all
restraints, in fdreign bottoms. To this general-principle, 'pro-
bably, there can be no objection in other countries, more . fa-
vourably 4rennistanced than Great Britain ; • but then the.
• English farmer, ship-owner, and trader must be relieved froni
the pressure of the present heaVy taxation to Which they are
liable, and be placed PARI PASSU, in point of expence, with
the foreigner. But even supposing it were possible, with all
Lord L.s.-ssnowx'S. financial talents, that he could, , if he were
once more in power, bring about such an happy state of affairs,
surely :t might reasonably be expected from him, that some se-
curity or pledge should be given for retaining within our own
power TIIE MEANS of raising, on any sudden emergency of
hostilities, an adequate number of able BRITISH SEACIEN to
man the Royal Navy ; we wish, therefore,. to know- how it is
to be accomplished; if foreign ships are to be let into the trade
of this country on terms of reciprocity with the Britigh ship_
. owners.—The apprehensions entertained at the Outports
on this national subject have led to Public Meetings,.
and petitions are in a course of signature at New-.
castle, North Shields, South Shields, Hartley, . Blythe,
&c. against any alteration of the present duties on ~ fo-
reign timber and deals, and against any change in the.Naviga-
don and Colonial System. It is perfectly clear, that it any
breach is made in these great conservative principles of the
Country, there will not be any. security either for the Agricul-
tural or any of the other Interests of the State, which 'depend
on the restrictive Statutes for protection against foreign competi,
tion ; for with what', consistency or decency can an abandon-
ment of the Shipping and Colonial Interests, to the advocates
of a free trade, be justified ; unless the ivhole trade of the.
Country is thrown open in all its branches, and foreign grain;
produce, and manutactures, of all sorts and descriptions, are
admitted on the same •principle.—lt is candidly avowed by
some of the Parliainentary Advocates for a free trade, that'
their minds have been' made up many.years on the subject, and
that it is vain to attempt to convince them that serious injuries
will result from these innovations, and that the wealth - and
happiness of the Empire will decline more rapidly than they
arose, under the wise, comprehensive, and beneficial system'' of
policy of our ancestors. - that policy this Empire owes its
present rank and dominion, anti whenever it is -deviated from it
will soon fall below the level of surrounding nations.

THE KING'S COURT.-Yesterday morning at
nine o'clock His MA.TESTY held a court at his
Palace in Pall-mall, which was attended by the
Lord-Chancellor, the Lord President of the
Council, the First Lord of the Treasury,
.the
Chancelloi• of the Exchequer, the Secretaries of
Stale for the Home and Colonial Department, the
Master General of the Ordnance, the President
of the Board of Trade, the Master of the Mint,
the Lord-Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse,
the Lord Chief-Justice of the Court of King;''s
Bench, &c. &c. His Majesty held a Council, to
which the Recorder of London was introduced,
and made his report Of tlie'convicts capitally con-
victed' at the Old Bailey, at: the, last .session.
The court broke pp a little before 11 o'clock.
At 20 mimes past 11 his Majesty left town in

his travelling carriage fOr Brighton, "`escorted by
a party of light-horse.