The Sun.
London, England, 1817-10-23 00:00:00

SHIP NEWS.

EXTRACT OF A LETTRR FROM LIVERPOOL, DATED
OCT. 21.

" The wind still remains to the eastward, and
there are therefore no arrivals. A Letter has this
morning been Addressed to the Chairman of the
Committee of Pilots, signed by several Merchants,
requiring that a sufficient number of Pilots may
be provided 'to answer the demand of them for
the inward-bOund vessels as soon as the wind
changes."

DE.tL, OCT., 22.—Came down from the River,
and sailed, the- Lady Raffles, for Bencoolen Ly•
dia, for the South Seas ; and the Eliza, fur

PORThIVOUTU, OCT. 22.—Arrived the Hope,
Moss, from Malaga. Arrived off the Wight the
Hopewell, SMITH, from •Barbadoes. Sailed his
Majesty's ships' Prometheus and Rosario, to meet
the homeward-bound.

PLYMOUTH, OCT. 21.—Sailed -the SWIftSUTE;
TREMAYNE ; Diana, BATCHELOR ; and Honor,
EMERSON, for London ; Voyager, DUNBAR, for
Bremen; and 1)Int nal, SCOTT, for Rotterdam.

Dovsn, OcT. .22.—Parsed by the schoonet.
Johanna, SctitTENsom, from Trieste for Elsi-
neut., having'lost an anchor and cable off Seaford.
Sailed 25 sail of colliers for the River.
FALMOUTH, OCT: 20.—Arrived the Endeavour
from Malaga, for Plymouth. Sailed the Tipus,
CASE ; Polly, LANGH AM ; Providence, BOLT ;
Caroline, COATS ; and Penrhyn, EVANS, for
London.

The Charlotte,. SMITH, from London' to Faro,.
foundered at sea the 24th nlt. ; crew saved.

The following .vessels, homeward-bound, have
put into Croukhaven :—Duke of. Richmond,
PURDY, and Henderson, STERLE, from Mirami-
chi ; Bull, TuomPsON, from Maranham ; Wood-
park, ARMSTRONG, from Archangel ; Alexander,
JAcKsoN, from Hambnrgh ; and Neptune, Fos-
TER, from Africa.

The. Swallow, from I3omhay, touched at Crook-
haven the 15th inst.'for provisions and water, and
sailed again for London. •
From tic long prevalence of north-east wind'',
numerous ships flout the southward and westward
have been prevented from getting into port ; but
notwithstanding the winds have been favourable
fbr. vessels ftom the• northward and .eastwardi
Lloyd's books on 'Tuesday presented a novel ap•
pearance, the only entries of homeward-bound
ships being the arrival, Of Niel at Dartmouth front
St. A,ndero, and ,thother at Harwich from Arch-
angel i such a circumstance's, we believe, without
precedent. •
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the
East India House, when—
Captain F. Adams was sworn into the command of the ship
Buckinghamshire, corsigned to Bombay and China.
The under-mentioned ships were thus timed :
Marchioness of Ely and Prince 'Regent, consigned for Ma-
dras and Bengal, to be afloat 21st January, 1818, to sail to
Gravesend 4th February, /6 stay there SO dayS, and to be irk
the Downs on 12th March.
Astell, and Phmnix, for Bengal, to be afinat,6th March, to
sail to Gravesend 22d March, to stay there 30 days, and to be
in the Downs on the 46th April.
Warren Hastings, Asia, and General Hewitt, for Bengal
and Madras, to be afloat 6th April, to sail to Gravesend 211th
April, stay there 30 days, and to lie in the Downs on 26th May.

We are glad to find that the old Ditties on Ex-
cise produced nearly Ninety Thousand Pounds
more last week than in the corresponding Week
last year. The amount tieing
Last Week
The corresponding week, 1816

L464,Od'►
374,21(i

Excess in favour of last week• L89,754

LITERAIfir REVIEW.

Oddit) Otto "Or, r POOR itAi)i.s

TORY of ENCILANIV from die EAiliest Period down to
the l'i-eieht Tilue.--APPLETAKI), A 4.1.E.RN1L, &C &C. &C.

We rdsuthe our Extract this trnljovhlukble
'body of sotthd 'CiiNts'PrtrwriOl'aL kNowstaiice,
which no.person cinCread withotir Obtaining eom-
A)rellehSii'eiuforilitifisut respeetik the i'dLincAL
iiisTotey of 'GRF.III-iigirgiN. iVe have otdy to
observe. that the iribrk wits written b'y on-e 6f the'
'Most lenrifi'd lind diseingraibeil Literary Cha'rac-
ters of this Country, aiii to assure 6t Er itiaders,
that we have redsfin to believe that 11;3
Inctibtatiotis.t,eill'often eritigbtett the eolifenus of
SOL

rota ufir Paper ui yeitertly.)

" It was necessary•to enter at some length 'upon
the interestingiseriod we have been reviewing in
our later nuMbets, because it comes home to
every naan's bosom and occupation at a Moment
when public disturbers and croakers, and preachers
.of sedition. are following npAhe same line of con-
duct, end labouring, day and night to draw you
inro the saute snare with the cbipes of faction and
ebellinn in these Good Old Times nay, •
Must repeat to you-..they disguise not their in-
tentions—they take the express-model, and call it
the Good Old Cause and only trust to, your
ignorance of this model, to carry their diabolical
plans into effect.
" The remaining part of our history, however,
will nut hang 'you hand vs. long, for, now that
this road has been opened, matters go on in
more reenlar course, and objects will catch our
eye rapidly, as we journey on.
" There. is one evil, however, superadded to
all the other evils of revolution:, which is ever most
mischievous, and that is, the tracheal tendency to
tkin Iron) one extreme into another !—So tired
were the People of England with liberty, which
they found its the Republican vocabulary to signify
pains, penalties, blood, and plunder, that, when
they were really free, they seemed disposed to
surrender
_their real liberties up at The foot of the
thrime.—The fact 'is, the' balance of which I so
Often speak to you was so completely broken and
destroyed, that. it required not only wisdom, hut
time, to establish it in any degree +!
The lessons
of past experience were of too grave a nature for
a People who had jost'escaped from the gloom of
Republicanism and hypocritical cant ! They had
proclaimed a holiday, and would have thrown
tights and liberty, and money-bags, into the same
bonfire that consumed the rump of the reformed
Parliament ! All this, I repeat, was mischievous.
It laid the, toundution of finute-eitficiihi., and
became the cause of fresh distisrbalicea—The
Ring, bred in toreigo Courts, was naturally gay
and ihoughtless ; and met the good humour of
the. people with coirespondina sensations of gaiety
-and moriment !--Popular 6oVernitient was. out
of fashion ; and the old English- pr.nciples were
icilt midway between the at bitracy notions -of
French policy and the bitter effects, of the late
popular excesses The eood seine and firmness- ot
a new l'arliameot, however, stood- in the gap ;
and although they rejected all that. Was- pernicious
and had, tilyyendeavonred to retain so munch of
the popular sentiment as to give to their proceed-
ing' an entire new 'character, as far as respected
Tice councils of the country.—They passed laws
to prevent the return of • the tniSehiuvons revolu-
tionists to power, by imposing certisin oaths and
tests (which it has br ett the fashion, of late, to
call intolerant and cruel); upon all who in future
shuttld bold offices of trust or ensoloment under
tinvernmeut, upon the just principle that those
only who are attached to the Government will
faithfully serve it.—They had found by experi-
ence, that. the Church and State are so insepar-
ably united, that the overibrow of the one was
sure to,ineolve the destruction of the other ; they
iberefore excluded Dissenters ; that is, those men
who Woold not Swear to support the whole Con-
stittition, whether Puritans saints t,r 'UMW! Ca-.
tholics,. from any share in the Government ; the
one, because they,' from priociele, hated too.
narchy—!he other, 'because they had always shewn
a disposition to convert a monarchy into a des-
potism I
" Bad they stopped here, their conduct would
optibake been marked by prudence and wisdom ;
partaking of the 'zeal by which the great
,
mass of the people was actoatted; they became
persecutors of all ;v!ii-) did nut embrace the re-
ligion Of the church.:—Tile King was for a wide
toleration, but the Paeliameot would hear of no-
thing but of foe alit p,,okiniient for non-con-
y ; tar>it Is,' for notilneing .of, regular
church. .11eoce the ocople became again divided,
'em en .
old woktods were ripped .open, semen oioerw Ise
rtti: ht lkave been healed ; and the dreadful in-
crease of dissent,.)7l)ich we witness in our own
times,anight,,,perhaps, have.., beet) prevented by
niore conciliatory no.,asores at that
hoWevee, make allowance for those, who
Were snffering itt their persons and families,
frill, the barbarity and rapine of the Dissenters,
when 'they %vete in viewer, and had overturned the
chord) and slate, to estlblish their own opinions,
awl.pvrsce_uie all who wont(' not surrender their
lOdgment and conseieuces into their hands. They
were hiondy..and tyrannical rulers—aml those who
shaiply endured -their tyranny naturally wish-
ed to' keep their claws
.cut, mirl to prevent their
again. overturning.the Government.
,"-There were others "e'ircionstances which in-
(limed the Parliament to, keep at a distance from
the Goveromeot those who dissented from the
clinich.-11;e King b-ail become attached to the
Would Ciitlkolle rkligion during his absence trom
England, and the,partialitylte felt for the a,rbi-.
Feance induced hid' to op-
'lipid she one,, in the hopes of hrineine English-
men tO adopt the o,ther.-e.l.ltusf site Protestant
Governioent of F21104(1(1 was in danger from two
Mater tiij:onefits tlte• Puvitaus f 1
cominon parrotthe Clitiref), r hsl kave‘riceniaii;fied at shy sa-
crifice to see 'it pulled down ; the one to bring
back the 'Good old bloody cause' of Republi-
canism, the other, as
.I said before, to establish an

•. .
alis4lifte inonarelly.-41A:fears trep't the Pdiria-
, meat on the alert ; and it is to their c-xettions,
however unjustifiable in their excesses at, this int-
portkiit period, that we owe that balance of
pottier ixhieb they manfully struggled to obtain—
' and to 'secure for us,,theit posterity.
."
'king Charles was so displeased, however,
with ibse Parliatisent, for urging these strong mea-
sures hgainst the Papists and Piisenters, for the
reatonS already stated, that tie would not for a
lengell of thoe'call it together j7—and this was his
utititiest.ioned prerogative at
.the time, for it WAS
only attpulated, by the most constitutional and
powerful 'Muse of COMIDOnS that had ever hitherto
existed; ttati ' Parliaments should not he ioter-
rupted above three years at the Most.' (P.. 395.)
" ThoS 'AiscontentS arose, mid the evils of civil'
discord again threatened the peace of this:unhappy
country.-.4lere both parties *.vere in the wrong-:
the King for wishing to grant power to the Roman
Catholics, who had always abused it.; the House
of Cottimons for desiring to oersecute them—and
for resorting' to sham plots : and for en-
couraging treacherous and lying spies and informers.
to make opt their charges—The historiafi, tells us,'
that Tumultuous petitioning .waS one of the
chief artifices by which the inaleOnteuts (the
• Sainted Rebels who 'overthrew the ConstitutiOn,,
and noirdered their King), in the lasr reign, had
attacked the Crown ; and though thetprittner of
subset 044; ailed delivering Petitions' veNS • now'
somewhat regidated by act of' Parli•ame:ot,.' the
thing ftself remained, and teas an admirable. ex-
pedient for infesting the Court, for spreading dis-
content, and for unitiogthe nation in any popular
clamour.' (Vol. viii. 125 ).
Now then, my Friends, the stcret is out ! you
are Ito longer at a loss to discover why yont Palace-
yard and Spit:fields frieni!s ale snchr declaimers for
retitions, or why the'lionse of COMmons, during
the last Session, had its table and fl n r blocked u
with parchment rolls of Petitions !—Petilion !
tition ! cries the arch Reformer Carty, Hell- ;---;
Petitiott ! Petition ! cry linrdeti, Cochrane, Cob-
bett, and ‘Vatson ;—Petition! Pelis ion ! ,cry
Hunt, Thistlewocod, Preston, and the rest of the
nameless crew !—Can you any longer br deceiv-
ed, cajoled, or deluded ? Do you not see the end,
-the purpose, the object of this cry and this po-
licy ? this not the Historian, in stlating a plain
simple fact, without reference to 'the miserable
mock Patriots of the present day, opened at one view
to you the means by,whiat plotters., and traitors,
and adventurers, have hitherto carried their 'plans
into successful effect ? Has he not opened to you
the workshop of iniquity, and the very tools which
:he rebels of old have laid up in store for their
degenerate descendants in all future ages) and
will you suffer these men to rivet your fetters, as
their fathers have done, MUM you ate Irak% ling
out, like parrots, Liberty ! Libros; ! NO, I will
answer for you ! with his eyes Open, a trite..bolo
Briton will never be guilty of iniquity, or wit-folly
tarnish the, honour and glory of his brave an-
cestors.

" But you are now to learn the origin oi• be-
ginning of that distinction of parties in the State,
winch, however wising, 114* I;ecn of the gremrst
tienefit Rlter-ag;•%; anil %viticli may he said jo-
detti. to have aiiktl, more than any thing else, to
fit ablish th Insiance of the English Constitution.

•The popular Petitioners in the reignot Charles
I. having succeeded io their object of first 'ren-
dering the.Klog and his Minislos unpopular, and
then, of,opposing and destroying them by physical
forte, the satire party now renewal their
_in-
trigoei, and 'called their Spa-fields Meetings, in
all Apiartets pouring in their Petitions, just as
our worthy friends of late haVe done, iu the hope
of again hurt; ing the country, by appeals to the
passions and pri-juiliees of the people, into new
troubles and fresh rebellion !—But the country
was luckily on its guard, for the people could not
be soon open to delusion, whilst the recollection
f what the. li+spocrivical Reformers had clone,
when they had undone the Constitti:Hr, was so
fresh in their Minds. ./1 party therefore teas
folioed, which rallying round the King With a.
determination to resist the return of, the evil
times, brought up their parti7ans, and counter-
acted the Peti,ioners by petitioning against them,
or, as we now call it, by counter Petitions, '1
two parties were at first called Petitioners and.
Abhorrors , but in a short time the friends of
.the Court were nicknamed, by their opponents,
Imies, -because rbete was a Popish baoditti its
Ireland so called ; whilst they, in return-, gave the
title of Whigs to the opposition, because their
principles were of a similar character with the
Scotch covenantee so called, who were still play-
ing the game of the English Patriots and Puritans
in the reign of Charles 1. ; ' and after this man-
ner, Ocse foolish terms of repoach,' says the
' came into public and general use,
and even at present seem not nearer their end than
when they were, first invented.' (P. NIL)
' " Here then you'see what was originally intend-
ed by Whig and Tory, and a mighty silly sort of
beginning you will acknowledge it to be ; but
though the terms, as continued down to our time,
have little More !omitting, as a political distinc-
tion, than as marking those who agree with, and
those who disstnt Irons, the Mioisteri of the iley.
But you; have lately heard a good deal about
ultrx-
wbiggism, a new term to express an old piinci-
;de ; and what, tl,,ink ye, is that old principle ?
Nothing, More or less, my good fricmjs, than the
" Gorid old cause," which laid the axe to the
root of all our establishments in Church and State,
whirls overturned the Constitution, subverted the
Monarchy, cut off two of the three Estates of
the Commonwealth, and left the poor, wretched,
deluded, People of England, at the net cy of Re..
formers, Rebels, Protectors, and Military Tribu-
nal's; aticause which deluged thy country vvith
blid, gave it up to the pillage Of soldiers who
preached and plundered in the same breath, and
left no inan the liberty to claim his right, nor
utealWiti defend his person': This is ultra-tdlig-
gisin, or-that principlewhich the mercenary trail-
ers in the lives and properties .of their tellow-
coonti•ymen are for eter bringiog forward for your
adoption, obeli they find a slack trade or a bail
harvest has UMW to sour your natural disposi-
lion. llnt again, I say, beware of them; `'They
are Wolves in sheeps' clothing ;' ravelling wolves,
who have no prey but what your cal eless folly
may provide for them. Leave them to themselves,
and you will see them slink back into their hope-

. . . .
less 'state of infat4 and Obs&rity, Wh..ieh
they .totly b teal forth, like maggots from catrion,
when the times are out of order. Surely, huiely,
you cannot ati'Vlotiger Ite the thrOe''s Men %Out
play 'over o Stale a game With yiin ti's you Must
tie convinced it is ; or whose great argunte.t and
induCeMent tit urge yoti on towards their snares
Is, that RefVr in in' Parliament 'Will Supply a bail
harVest,alid pinduce rain rind sunshine ni.yal mei/
Implicit 10 t's,ant it. This is what in its simple
naked State they .rts6ert and,-if a village con--
jnror We're tit prirreS'S the saute think lit the way
of his art, he who'd; prob.shly, get a Itteliiiir, for
his int/tin:Cab e. So necessary i§ It, .Ir 6", friends,
to be upon your guard, as F nave often told you,
it ain St poptila terns: and p'opillal•pbraies, which,
nine times in ten, haVe some chill meaning lo co-
ver, or some lilt,' 1111,119 object to conceal.. .
" We must take leave of our liiStory td-day;
leaving the King— and his l'arlianient thwarting
and opposing each other by .every Means in their
power. I tell you both were wrong add both were
right, as is. the case in most goarrelS and, as in
most quarrels also, a third party Was the gainer !
This was the Struggle to secure a balance,
though not effected at -the time, paVed the way for
it, and ,by it the establishment of the COnstitn-
rion in that glorious state in which We now enjoy
it. This was a periOd of fever in our Contitution,
as.l may call it. It was life or death, 'and skilful
pliysicialis: were prepared to take advantage of
every favourable turn ! Quacks, as in our days,
prescribed for it, but the violence of their reuse=
dies were more calculated to kill than to
and they were forbidden-! The disease reached
its crisis, a nil the Patient' Cattle out more sound,
more healthy, and -more vigorous, than he had
ever been -It( fore.

" I have often told yott, and again: repeat it,
that onr happy Constitution is the work of no
One Man, or set of men ; it is' the work of time,
'aild the result of experience! that the defects of
one period were .amended at another; that the
excesses of one crisis were tempered by succeed-
ing events ; that the experience. of a partial evil
was made the prevention against its return ; and
that at length as our history advanced up to within
a short period of the present times, the Constitu-
tion was so invigorated by exercise, and So con-
firmed by temperate habits, 115 to bid defiance to
all the ills and diseases to which it. had hitherto
been subject. This is the state of things as they
are; modern quacks would inoculate' us afresh,
and try the experiment of a new lever—not out
ot any love for the patient, but that doting its
paroxysmS and deliriuM, they might rifle and plun-
der the property of tl:tit suffering victim t•

.
" YOU hikve seen theiogredients of their nos-
Rom, and you can now isulge whether we are
likely to be more free, more happy, or more lode-
pendent, by a dose of

44 THE GOOD OW MIES!"

POLICE INTELLICENCE.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY AND BREACH OF TRUST.

•
QUEEN-SQUARP..--A 11103 t eXICIISIye robbery lIHS
lately been costomillesllo the 1 sr of .john Carter,'
AI. P. in Diike•weet, Storey'*-G•me, Ircst-
ntiitster; tinder the

Mr. Carter and his family have- hymn for. some : time at
Portsmouth, for which place hr is Memlyer, and his house in
tow to was left-in the;rare of a woman who had lived several.
'months in the family, in the rapowity of cook. This carman,on Thursday last, gave notice to Master's f. in, town:
that the home had been robbed the ifycht.before. 11r. Smith,
of Park-street, %Vest minster; son of the Member for:Sothid],
and brother to Mrs. Carter, immediately -9-orost for illy, an
Officer of Qtteen-sqourre, who, in company with Gilmtour,
of tie same Mire, Went to exavaine the premises. • .
Illy stated to the Magistrate, t hat he moo Gilmour examined
the house with the greatest care and atteritinn, and fan lid that
nut a single fastening of either door ur window trail been foil:ref
or in any way injured. They were therefore convinced the
robbery must Move- •been committed lob- Iwrsotrs within the
butte. Witness questioned the cook wiNo,had the care of the
house. and boding her prevaricate very-much, he said to her,
as it he knew it, Yon loice h.td SOW:Wily sleeping in Ihe
house with yom," on which she owned a yonou; mato, whom she
had for same time kept company with, had sometimes slept
there for security to the lmnse, and if he had not been absent
took Wednestlay night.the roldrery'wontld nut bai.e taken place,
hut she being so deaf could not hear them enter the la, u.e.
Witness that drew from her that this young Mali was a water-
[7l,lll:lt fiutrgerford, trained Davis, on which he and his brother
officer went and took him into custody.

Prisoner_ Ifeirty Davis., on 'wily-, questio:ned by the N.l.pgis.
trate, prevatiCated "i•ie:itly, butt at length :;:teknowledgeti tb.i
he did sleep in.the hou:;:: 013 Wed livsday eight.--litg was
Terilaacltal.

Susannah Turner, the coot; before-nsentiontl,. was then.
put to the Bar, and being asked what she knew relative to,
the robbery, said that she fastened all tlie windows aria doors
before she went to bed, and wino she came down stairs
the morning.' she found a candle bunting in the kitchen, ;Aid
the door wide open. Oct being asked as to Iktris's haring;
slept in the house, 6e owned be had frevently done so, but.
that he did not sleep there on Wednesday /light.
James Applehy, a respectable cheesewougtr its tke Proad-
w..y, Wisteria:6.r who serves- Mr. Carter's .family with Se-
Trial articles lie deals in, stated‘ that ou.Thursday morning
last, as he was returning from Newgate Starket in his cart
with one horse, about a quarter past eight o'clock, Ile tnet •
Susan 'rimier, the prisoner, a little beyond Saint Cle-
ment's Church, in Pickett-street, going towards Temple
Bar, with a large bundle on her arm. Surprised to see her
so far from twine at so .arly an hour, he accosted her, by
" What, cook, are you fist,?„ She...answered she
was tu a great hurry, aid went on. About an hour alter
he gut hams -she came tutu his shop with a large -bundle °t
yro's, tied apparently in the. same cloth as the tither
things were in, but he was posit ire it was not ti3e saute bundle-
She thertYild him Mr. C.'s house had been robbed., and she
had been to the Temple. to inforiu the Clerk of it. ' She Wits
very much 'tired, but she must hasten Inoue to be ready to
let him in. Witness, on goitig into the parloor tUhi:eakfist
soon aft ermsrcts, inlormed his., wile 01 the robbery, and-that
'lnviter said they had broken open her Mistress's drawers,.
and taker till her linen and jewels and trinkets, hut lleuisola
'not help observing to !Its wile that he feared the rubbers ltecre
inside the house. L

:George. Pullen, Clerk to Mr. Carter, who liussliambersiii
theTeniph., and intended for the t;ar, stated-, that 'Fortier
the. cook called 011 t) kill at,Mr. Carter's eliandiecs ab.nud RS
minutes before nine o'clock on 'Thursday an...l:ming, and in-
furnied- him the -11011.4 e had been broke open, and her mis-
tress's, drawers•entirely stript. He told her to- 71.11011
and he wtiiild folloW htr irilueJiatelr, whieb, tic did, first
calling on Mr. Smith., in Par.li,!strect, to. in form him of it.
Mr. Carter being out of town,"prisoner Toroer was re-
manded for furtlits examination, old ordered, tss bane nu
cumninnicaticu with

Soule of the linen 1144 been found out through the activity
of the &dicers, but theniost valuable part of the propel ty is
still undiscovered. TherC a 'small cabinet 14 esue ul Tilt!
Ifrawers whiLli cost 75 :uineas, and it is supposed llte whole
will amount to nearly [AWL