The Sun.
London, England, 1821-01-18 00:00:00

TO THE RIGHT. HON. EARL GREY.

MY Lour,-T2ln looking at .the complexion of
the Gentlemen who attended..your Lordship at
the late County Meeting at 'Durham, and who
seem properly drilled into your service, I am led
to' consider your Lordship as' the author
of tie Address and Petitions which were

brought / forward with intently to -promote
your Lordship's advancement to power. Mr.
LAMBTON, however conversant with the arts
of declaiming, seems not very skilful in argu-
mentative reasoning with his pen, as We has

not yet answered any of his able opponents, ex-
cept (when they were not present) by assuring the
populace that their statements were contemptible :
the, talents of Mr. S. M. BARRtTT and the other

itinerant orators, however useful they may be in
assisting to delude a gaping multitude, are not
calculated to have been employed in framing
the elaborate compositions which were approved
at the meeting. Whatever tinge of colouring to
your Lordship's representations may have been
derived from the splenetic suggestions of other
members of your gloomy cabinet, they assimilate
with your Lordship's views, and blend in one
uniform shade of sullen discontent. I shall con-
sider them, thdrefore, as the dramatic works of
your Lordship, got up for stage effect, and de-
signed to give weight to your appearance in the
house of Lords, and to that of Mr. LAmwroN,
when encouraged by the absence of Mr.CANNING,
to rise, in the other House. I proceed, therefore,
with all due respect to your Lordship, to examine
the contents of the Address and of the Petitions.
Your Lordship first informs his Majesty, in the
name of different classes, (from among which some
of the nobility and most of the clergy have al-
reac&y entered their protest against your measures
under the countenance of the High Sheriff,) that
" the nature and character of the proceedings
against her Majesty appear calculated to inspire
the greatest alarm, and that you see in their ori-
ginal adoption principles openly acted upon, which
we and our ancestors always have held to be con-
trary to the dictates of justice, and subversive
of the Constitution, for the maintenance of which
his 111‘.1JESTY'S August Family was placed on the
Throne of these Realms."

Now, my Lord, you must be aware that this
is not a correct statement. Your Lordship ad-
mitted at the Meeting, that Bills of Pains and
Penalties are constitutional, and that they have
been resorted to in times most auspicious to li-
berty. It is certain that the constitution could
not be. deprived of such expedients upon-suitable
occasions, without greathazard and injury to the
Public. The only question is, whether this mode
of procedure was applicable to the case of the
QUEEN; and I confess that I cannot conceive a
case of stronger necessity than that which existed
to induce the Ministers, as protectors of the dig-
nity of the crown and guardians of the public
morals, to institute such examination into her
conduct : and never did any proceedings indicate
greater impartiality or moderation than those
at which your Lordship assisted. Had it been
practicable to determine (as your Lordship in
your kindness to the QUEER recommended) to
proceed by impeachment, her life might have
been endangered, which surely the public would
not have wished.
It is to be recollected also that however dis-
gusting the details which have been published
are, they must ha\'e resulted equally from any
other mode of inquiry which could have been in-
stituted ; and they are to be attributed,
,not to
any wantonness of disclosure, but to the exist-
ence of those lamentable circumstances which
are recorded. Your Lordship voted for the di-
vorce clause, and thereby, expressed your con-
viction of her Majesty's guilt ; and if you bad
not, it was your duty _to bow to the decision of
the majority of your House. Certainly it must
ever be considered as degrading to your Lord-
ship's character, to employ your talents in bring-
ing forward garbled statements of evidence to
the populace of Durham, in order to disparage
that august Assembly of which you constitute
a part, and to vilify what you know to be the
most illustrious Council that ever has existed in
the world.

The professions of loyalty which are made to
the person of the SOVER.IGN in the Address are
effusions exuberantly poured out when your party
imagine that they have a chance of coining into
power; but they come 'with an ill grace from
men who have exerted every nerve, and employ-
ed every art, to diminish his authority, and to
render his Government (glorious as it has been)
odious in the eyes of the public. If your Lord-
ship has endeavoured to support the just pre- I
rogatives of the Crown, the party with whom
you act have uniformly laboured to assail
them, and very recently have endeavoured to
oppose one of its most essential rights-I—that
of proroguing Parliament. The deep feeling
which your Lordship expresses for the depres-
sion of the country, in its agricultural, manufac-
turing, and commercial Interests, is the wailing
of factious complaint at difficulties resulting, you
well know, from causes not within the controul of
government : the most effectual relief which
would have been offered to the country was
counteracted by the measures of your party,
compelling administration to give up the property
tax, by which measure the burden, borne by the
opulent ranks, was thrown upon the middling
and lower classes.
To what your Lordship alludes by " the repul-
sive harshness" shewn towards the complaints
of the people, and of " the substitution of
force and coercion for the dominion of British
law," I really am at a loss to understand, nor do
I know of any refusal to correct abuses where
they have been specifically proved to exist,
• though I believe that idle and hackneyed
declaimers upon the subject have been treated
with merited contempt. With respect to" the
sacrifice of our national interests to a system of
foreign alliances," when your Lordship shall bring
forward the instances, I shall be ready to examine
them ; at present I see nothhig in your statement,
but gratuitous and unsupported assertions.
It is not, my Lord, from these causes that a
spirit of discontent has arisen, but from the flag-
. rant misrepresentations of your patty. The peo-
ple were disposed to be gratefiil for the vic-

tories and distinctions which their country had

obtained, under his MAJESTY'S present Go-
vernment and Councils ; they rejoiced at
them with unprecedented exultation. It is
your ' Lordship and yoUr -adheients who have
madly scattered the seeds of discontent among
them, who-have taught them to attribute every
difficulty to the misconduct of ,their rulers, and
have introduced a- spirit of turbulence and insub-
Ordination, by which. the happiness of the country
is greatly impaired : in every district idleness
and wickedness are produced, which we shall
long have cause to deplore.
The apprehension which your Lordship 'ex-
presses as to the ulterior measures of farlia-
Ment with respect to the Queen. are palpably
intended to
,keep alive the irritation of the
public mind, of which your Lordship speaks,
and- to preclude the Ministers from adopting
such measures as the conduct of her Majesty

may render necessary, while she is urged by
her intemperate .advisers to a line of conduct
equally injurious to,her own interests and those of
the state. The prorogation of Parliament, of
which, in your zeal for the Royal prerogatives,
you complain, was intended to allay this irrita-
tion. It has already been productive of the-most
beneficial effects; and your Lordship may be per-
suaded that the delusions which have prevailed
are rapidly dispersing—that the predominant
sense of the community is convinced, that your

Lordship's party, even when wielding the Radi-
cal force, is not the best calculated to remove the
difficulties which prevail—to preserve a confi-
dence in the financial resources of the Country,
and to maintain unimpaired the Constitution as it
happily exists in Church and State. Having ex-
ceeded the limits which I wish to observe, I
shall postpone my remarks upon the Petitions to
a future letter. I am, my Lord,

Your most obedient servant,
SCRUTATOR.

FOR THE SUN.

ROYAL GRANTS

Mn. EDITOR—As a Parliamentary grant to a
Queen Consort is about to be proposed, I send
you an extract from the Speech of our late
venerable SOVEREIGN to the Legislature, on tirst
meeting them after his nuptials 7---" I
.dare say,
your affectionate regard for me and the QUEEN
makes you go before me in what I am next to
mention, the making an adequate and honoura
ble provision'.for her support; in case she should
survive me. This is z,;hat not only her royal dig.
pity, BUT lIER OWN MERIT, CALLS FOR ;. and
earnestly recommend it to your consideration."
" Hcu quaalurn urotato RI/ 111 a !"
Four's,

I. G. N.

P. S. To the foregoing I think I nib well
subjoin another extract—" I will only add, that
there never was a situation in which unanitnit.l,
firmness, and dispatch were more necessary for
the safety, honour, and true interest of Great
Britain."—lf such was the case in the glorious
war of 1761, what shall we say of it now

FOR THE SUN.

TUE COAL. TRADE.

MR. EDITOR—I lately called the, attention of
your readers to the injury which the Ship-Owners
sustrain by the unfortunate system now adopted

in the London Coal Trade. The Counties of
Durham and Northumberland are suffering se-
verely from this, circumstance, and it loudly calls
on the real friends of those Counties to provide
a remedy.
There are other trades which might be opened

out for the Shipping of the North; if a few zea-
lous and active friends could he found. It is
confidently reported that a Commercial Treaty
with France is on the carpet ; if sn, uo tune
should be lost to endeavour to obtain a diminu-

tion of the duties, in order to enable our Coal,
which is, I believe, very superior to the French
or Dutch; to be carried to France.
A part of our Shipping are employed in the
liamburgh Trade. I beg to call the serious at-
tention of Northern Members to the practicabi-
lity of a treaty with llamburgh, which might not
only increase the Coal Trade there, bat also.
create other branches of trade mutually advan-
tageous to both parties.
Jan. 13, 1821. A NORTH COUNTRYMAN.

FOR THE SUN.

EXk:NIBLARY BENEVOLENCE.

Ma. Envroa,—l request that you will insert in
your valuable Paper the following, as au excellent
example (to the Nobility and Gentry of this Me-
tropolis) of humanity, liberality, and fveling.—
From undisputed authority I have learned that
those most excellent characters, Mr. and Mrs.
Cowrrs, while they are enjoying every luxury,
and are honoured. by thb society of the most
illustrious Characters of the Kingdom, do not
suffer the poor and wretched to be forgotten.—
Upwards of a hundred poor families have at the
same time reason to rejoice, having received
bedding, clothing, and food. I most sincerely
trust that so laudable an example may be more
generally followed, and remain,
Sir, with respect,
Your obedient Servant,
INVESTIGATOR.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.-A. case of individual
importance came on, ye4erday at this Office,
touching how far the military had a right to in-
terfere with publicans where soldiers are quar-
tered. The Magistrate expressed his opinion
that it was the duty of every publican, for the
preservation of good order, to allow every faci-
lity to non-commissioned officers to ascertain if
the privates were in quarters ; but on looking at
the articles of war, he .could not find section
which authorized searching a house, excepting for
a deserter or a felon, and he must therefore dis-
miss the case with the observation, that the house
of an individual was different from barracks, but
he Tecommended.that publicans should give every
facility for the subordination and good discipline
of the soldier, and the good order of his OWn.
house, The case was dismissed.

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SOLIDI 61U IS DICTItE E.4I,SU,V A UDEAT

LONDON,
TiIURSDAY, JANUARY is, 1821.

We have received this day Paris -Papers of
Monday last.—The projet of law for the provi-
sional credit of six-twelfths of the taxes for the

present year, has received the Royal sanction,
pd
been officially published. The Minister of
Finance has delivered a report to the KING, sub-
mitting a projet of- law for the definitive regula-
tion of the Budget of 1819, v.hich'
presented to the Chamber of Deputies.

,~
i:c

ials -of the persons accused of exciting

'le disturbances Which took place -at Paris
t the month -of 3 une last, finished on th.e
4th instant, when the whole.of them were ac.

quitted, except Fay°lle and Adam, who -were.
condemned to be placed under the surveillance
of the Police, the former ten years, and the latter.
five years; to give security for their good beha-:
viour, and to pay the costs of the trial. The Cott-
gres of Laybach will be rnore'numerous than:that
of Troppau, and each of the different Powers
will .be represented by a greater number of
Ministers. The Emperor of Iltys.st.t will h=r
attended by all his Ministers, and three French
Ambassadors from different Foreign Courts will
repair to Laybach, and assist at the conferences ;
Counts 'CARAMAY, de la FERONNAY't, and de
BLAOS. • The Marquess de SAINT-MAnsA,N,
:Sardinian Minister of Foreign Affairs, has set out
for the same place. It- is reportt',d at Milan that

hostilities against Naples will shortly, take place,
notwithstanding the mediation of the Papal
Court to prevent a war. Accounts from Augs-
burgh state, that political objects of the
highest importance will be the subject of de-
liberation, at the approaching Congress, anci
that the Otto►iau Porte will he a party interested:

in these discussions, in consequence of- the pro.,
tectiou afforded by Russia to the Set-vial-s, whq
have in vain petitioned the Divan against the: ex-
actions of the Pachas and other''.farkish Agents-.
. A new conspiracy has just been discovered at
Saragossa. ; Several persons have been arrested,
among whom are the Marquess .de LAZAN, (fa-
ther of the celebrated PALArox, and former-
ly Captain-General of Arragon), f and four

Canons ; the tow❑ was then perfectly trart-
(oil. Besides the Editor of The Constila
tionel, whose 'arrest was nuntioned in our Paper

on Tuesday last, IM. LUNA, a Guerrilla.
Chief, and the Duke del PARouE, have also,
been. arrested, for having been active in promot—
ing the late , disturbances. at Madrid. A great
many pamphlets have appeared against the Spa-
nish Ministry, denouncing them as traitors to
their Country.

The loyal AddresSes which are poUring from all
quarters, have naturally excited the spleen of the..
Opposition, who hope to bring into discredit those
attestations of respect for the Sovereign and regard
for the Constitution, by styling then' "Ministerial'
Addresses. This epithet, .however, sheWS thac.
the Party Writers are .blinded by their zeal In,
bad cause, and are not aware of their inconsist--
eniy. They frequently declare that Ministers,
have sunk into the lowest estiniation in every part
of the Kingdom. If so, how is it that these
" Ministerial." Addresses, as they style them,
should be so general and so abundant.? The
act, however, that Ministers have nothing to
do. with . these loyal Addresses, •and any in-
terposition on their part would only tend to
cheek that spirit of loyalty from which those
:addresses actually proceed. If Ministers
were really to • interfere,. those who wish
to manifest their respect for their- Sovereign and
their attachment to our glorious political system;
might be apt to fear that interested motives would
be imputed 'to them ; but now they must be sup-
posed to act from pure disinterested feelings, not
however without alarm at the daring progress of
sedition, and the attempts which are daily made
by factious and infidel Writers'to -root out every
principle of loyalty and religion from the mind:*
of the lower orders of the People, who of course