The Sun.
London, England, 1819-10-28 00:00:00

IHE LATE STORM.

The hurricane of Friday morning last drove se.
veral vessels from their anchors, which had'brought
np for the night in the channels leading to the
Thames. Tie storm was so violent that the ves-
sels rolled with their yard-arms in contact wisli

the wares, and any attempt to afford assistance
was impracticable; fortunately it was of short
duration, or its effects M those narrow seas would
bare been most destructive.

One of the galleys employed on the preventive
service, in which was a midshipman and six men,
was upset, off Margate, in the night of Saturday
last, and all on board are supposed to have perish-
ed, as tlic boat drove under .tiargate Sun
day eveniog, overturned with her sail set.—(Cun-
lerbury Paper )
Ihnisilay night and the greater part of
Friday last, we exp-rieHcel it severe storm of
wind from the nurihsvaid, accomnAnied with
hail and rain, which tee are atraiti has doe
con•iderable damage amongst tine shipping tna
coast. On Friday morning, at eleven o'clock.
the Mary, Storey, from Ulverston, foundered
about three miles N.N.L. of the Float in 4 Light
three men and a woman were saved by the Pilot
Boat, No. 11, but the Captain was drowned. A
sloop (name unknown) tonndered at the same
time, and the crew. lost.—(Liverpoel Acker tiser.)
ECULVEB.--:rhe damage,
which we lately no-
ticed as having been done by the high tides, at this
ancieot station, is more p oticularly prominent
On the western side,where the stone pavemeht has,
in many intervals along the whole extent, been
displaced, and has sunk into large Gold in the
sand; the waves having pressed with much vio-
lence against the low mound of earth, in front
of svhich this work of defence has been con-
striieted to check the inroad of the sea into the
vatium and marshes beneath. No material in-
jury has been sustaincd on that part of the work
mulcr the clitl immediately in front of the church ;
but to the eastward, at the toot of the eminence
on which this edifice and its surrounding ruins."'
stand, a tearful inroad has been attempted by
the waves, and portions of the clay batik have
been washed away. he devastating tory of the
sea was also directed against that part of the cliff,
on which tests the east wall of the ancient CASI11(11,
and the clayey soil having been removed from be-
neath, by the action of the waves, the wall, over-
hanging, several feet front the cliff, with its pio.
file and tonlid..!ion in the most perfect form,
is exposed to anew, and front which the mode and
twine of its construction, may be more readily
conceived, than has, perhaps, hitherto been Con-
icctured. Considerable portions of the ground.
on the edge of the cliffs, iilong the coast in that
vicinity have also given neav, front the high titles
having penetrated into their bases; ant', should
I the !:piiog tides of the approaching winter be at.
tended with strong Northedy wiiids, it is feared
clinch land will be lust on that part of the coast.
( Kentish Gazelle)

C. C. WESTERN. Esq. M.P. has left Ellgbina
for she South of Eittoct, tta the rccoery of leis
heRl,ll. _

i‘liiol'•GelerBl Sir liER3h.RT TAYLOR, I(.C.G ,
and IIL RY H Loc.;Ktot, E%ci. 1,,5; AT: It i-iot he
toio,datioo stolie ot 'tie two National School% to be
ectel at \l'itidsor, tor the education of the Cbil.-
tfrk'n 01 the Poor ut the Boro..gti, Blot
its urt~;h-
-hottrllowd, to the pritlCtilies o: the Church of Eng-
hod.

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

Uroni The Maidstone Journal )

-r) THE ),:DITOR OF Ti-IE MAIDSTONE JOURNAL

iovving that the pages of your valo•
ablu .I.,urnal are always open tor the admission

•10>ject written ~;ith the intention to pro-
piibic good, I shall feel greatly obliged by
y•,r inserting the annexed remarks, which I have
c,..1.1,,,54ed int.° as -stniill a compass as the nature
14 the subject would possibly admit.

I am, Sir, &c.

THOUGHTS ON A PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.
Tiie great object of a Parliamentary Reform, 1
he this, to procure a Parliament totally
independent of the Crown and its Ministers ; iu
which no Member shall be intimidated by powtr,
seduced by hopes, or corrupted by interest ; this
seems at present to be the chief pursuit of all
our political doctors ; the grand specific which
-alone can cure all our national disorders, and re 7
store our Constitution to ils original vigour.
On this important subject two questions offer
themselves for our consideration ; first, what are
the most likely means to obtain such a Parlia-
ment ? and, secondly, what would be the effect
of it if obtained. .
For the first, many_ are the schemes presented
to the public by real and pretended patriots, -that
is, by those who have Mare honesty then sense,
and those who have more sense than honesty.
Some are for shortening the duration bf Parlia-
ments to thrce,,and souse to one year : some re-
commend
voting by ballot, as the most effectual
method'io put an end to bribery ; others disap-
prove of it, as inconsistent.with that open avowal
which ought to accompany every act of a British
freeman, some have proposed to annihilate all the
small and corrupt Borongbs, and to add the same
number of Represcidalives sNltich they now
send to the several Counties ; some to add
to the 'Counties, and not to disfranChise the
boroughs ; oiltvrs to abolish the boroughs with-
out any addition' to the comities; some to enlarge
"and ,iotne to diminish the qualifications of the
Electors ; and others to reiptire no qualification at
but to nI;ow every man a vote who is not diS-
ThrdifpM-by nature for want of reason, or by law
for tae commission of some crime : but as very few
are agri':eil in any one of these propositions I shall
not litre enter into any discns,ion.of their merits;

Or make any coniparisotchetween then); but shall
-only observe, that Of all ihese'plans, that of giving
It•riglit of le,tiog universally, together with An-
nual ELctions, appeals to carry the most weight,
and to'be thought the most unifoim, consistent-,
and effectual ; and it has indeed but one capital
defect, which is, that it is absolutely and uttetly
impracticable. To be convinced of the impracti-
- cabili'y of this scheme, let IC Is but-figure to our-
selves moltitudes of all descrintions and denotni-
'nations called out to exercise their right of voting,
inflamed by contest and intoxicated by liquor ;
labouters and toani:facturers o' every kind above
and under grolind;,Aseavers front then' looms, and
miners from coalpits ; sailors from their ships, and
t ()Idlers from their quarters ; to whom we must
add, ii.ousands of inieves, smugglers, rogues, va-
gabonds, and vagrants : 1 say, let us figure to
oti;4.-ters all these respectable Electors, let loose
in one day throughout every part of the kingdom,
and such -a scene of confusion, of drunkenness and
rapine, murder, and .conflagration will
ptesent'itself,-as must shock us with horror, even
in imagination Nor would it be possible to carry
on, at ever e. ei;nchide Elections in which the
Vote!s are so iontimerable, and consequently so
TI-'y [mkt be polled in one of these
two ways ; they must either be admitted to vote
only in the parishes to which they belong, or per-
tnit.yd to be polled in' whatever place they hap-
pei.ed or chose to be at' the time of the
•Election. Should thy first of these methods be
adopted,' the acceptance or rejection of every
vote - might be attended with the trial of a
settlement, andConusel learned in the law he beard
on Itut: sides. if the Lifter, crowds numerous,
einf-sa unknown to the Candidates and all whom
they could employ to poll them, would press into
every place where money and liquor flowed in the
greatest abundance, that the chief -part of them
!nip! vote in ten different places, or tell times in
,ante place undiscovered ; and if these Elec-
tions were annial, one 'could not be finished be- ,
Pure the oilier began. But 1 -do not think that
even, the people at large would be extremely zeal-
ous to'SuppOrt it; at first, indeed, when they are
told that they shall a2I be Legislators, obliged, to
obey no laws but of their own making, nor pay
any taxes but of their own imposing, and that
every one of them shall have as good a vote for a
Parliament-man as the 'Squire or the Parson, they
Kill in.t+ Ips be a little elated and delighted-. with
tneir new acquisition;• but when they are better
;wormed and find they are precluded from re-
ceivinv- one- shitling or one dram of gin for their
votes, they will rejeo IltiS useless donation with
contempt ; and there will'not he a tinker who-will
not choose rather to mend a kettle'for sixpence,
than the constitution for nothing, nor a labourer
'Who v ili not make faggots rather than laws, nor
a 'lA:pocket who will run prefer the exercise of
his profession at an ElectltN to giving his vote.
litir Was 'this scheme of universal representa-
tive, any other of, the.proposed plans of refor.
!nation, practicable and pursued, I think most
assuredly they won'd not in tie least contribute
the great end;"which is the forrhotion `of an

peodent if oil4inent, bccatise, le.ison clots !to:
)gets cede the that Electors t'• e loos(
f~i~ali,-anli the mot fleCeg-ii Otis, ‘VOtlld retui.o

mymbers more incorrunt t 1 an the present, nor
lines expel tepee tette!i that ten or twenty eurvati-
-1 rata'sl,%•olll(l Choose repre,en!etive3 Its, LO)ie. or
4-.4 honest than tent or t Went v thoo,and. f of

htlt do taherrvion in the itittile of electlng,
tir to the Eletors ti:etnselves, wool(' produre any
cli.mlo.• in the cle.cted ; in them lies the swirce.ot

evil, (it evil there be) which nu external
cm] appr:l;tcl: : whether thoi are chosen
bV,-;n greater or legs number, by /Cniintirs or
'114),(1410)4, hy the rich or by the poor, by ballot or
H':,,ir!ible voices, the Paritanten, heti assembled

hr jinn the amine; different modes .of decline,
rrm•+v ►Hake surne clitrereucr in the trouble awl ex-

ti; (he c./1041aLes, exi4d may dititif:mly

the morals of the people and the peace of the
-Country, but will make nn difference in the repre-
sentative body when brought together, and it is
of little signification by what means they conic
there : the majority of any legislative body con-
sisting of six hundred and fifty-eight members io
the sione circumstances and sittatinn, will infalli-
bly act in the same manner; if their situations differ,
their proceedings will differ with thern. In times of
imminent danger they will be mote intent on the
safety of the commhnitybecatt,e t brit own is imme-
diately included in it ; but when the danger is re-
moved they will be more inflncnced by the views
of interest and ambition, they will split itito.fac-
tions and parties, and list tinder contmoling faders,
and sometimes prefer their interest, or their own,
to that of their country. Tlo6e who cannot make
shift with such a Parliament mart have none, be-
' cause it is impossible for,any mode of Election or
species of Electors to ehoo,e a better, unless they
could make men as well as members.
Let us now.see what would be the effect of this
'independent Finliament it obtained. By an in-
dependent Parliament, in the language of the pre-
sent times, is to he understood a Parliament in
which the majority would oppose any Admini-
Stration ; now no arguments are necessary to
prove that with such a Parliament no public
busi-
ness could be transacted, nor any government
subsist. But it will be said, this is not whit:: is
wished for, but one in which the Members shall
be always ready to support the measures of the
Ministers when right, and to resist them when
wrong ; unawed and uninfluenced; and gliided
only by the dictates of their own-,judgment and
conscience. This indeed is what every wise man
would desire, but what no wise man expects to
see, as 110 such assembly, it 011111e1011s, ever ex-
isted in thii or in any colortly from the beginning
of the world to the plestnt hour, nor ever can,
nilde3.4 mankind were melted domo and run in a
new mould.

As, they are now formed, in every
nonetous assembly there must be some who have,
no judgment, acid 411 lier, who have no cons,ienee,
and some ~elio have neither :.take away sell-in-
serest and all these will have no star (0 steer by,
hut niu,t sail without a compass, just as the gales
of favour or resentment, of popular absurdity' or
their own shall direct them ; a Minister therefore
must lie posisessed of some traerive influence to
enable him to di aw,logether these discordant par-
ticks, and to unite them in a firm and solid ma.,
ionic v. vvithoitt which he cart pursue no measures
of public ,utility with steadineis or success. An
independent House of Commons is no part of tile
14.:ngli,diConstiunion, the excellence'of which con-
sists in being composed of three powers mo-
tuallydependent on each ‹,ther ; Of these if any
one was to become independent of the other two
it must engross the wholtipowerlo itself, and thc
form of our GOvernment would be immediately
changed. A numerous assembly nninflueticed is
as meet) a creature of the imagination as a griffin .
or a dragon, the one crated by the poets, the
other,by ignorant or designing politician's. Par-
liamentOtave ever been influenced, and by'that
means our Constitution has so long subsisted;
but the end and nautre of that influence is Per:
neurally Misrenreseuted and misunderstood. They
are seldom, very seldom, bribed to injure their
country, 'because it is seldom the interest of Mi-
nisters to injure it ; but the great source of the
alleged corruption is, that they will not serve it
for nothing. ,Men always have, and always will
get into Parliament in pursuit ra honour, power,
and prefermentst,and tint illheir'obtain them may ob-
struct and disturhGoveromeut, bin happily for their
country, they are no sooner gratified' than they are
equally zealous to promote the one, and support
the other. Upon the whole, under.the.same mode
of Elections, a4ml tinder Patliathents not less in-
fluenced titan the Irreseot, this' nation has not on-
ly subsisted for so many years, but arrived at that
summit of wealth, honour, power, and dominion,
which has no equal ; for if we survey the condi-
tiOn of every country on the globe, and compare,
it with our own, we shall find abundant reason to
he content,: there' are in it some evils and mud)
good, which is the utmost that any human insti-
tution will admit of.

The- great iuei4aAe of national debt, and the
changes that have taken place throughout Europe,
cons Tient on the French Revolution, are the
true sources Whertee have 4.risen our present diffi-
culties. England is like a ship come sant of a bug
and severe action in which many political vessels
of state have been stink; but although she is hard
battered in hull and rigging, let her not be broken
up. We are certainly hard pressed by taxes, and
-our manufacturing districts are-doubtless in great
distress, nor is it in the pow'er of the masters at
present to relieve those they eailploy. TO ame-
liorate the former instead of adding ro the already
overbearing, vexatious, and unproductive list of.
Assessed Taxes, let a well-modi6eiltax be again
placed on real property.
To relieve the widows and orphans of our sol-
diets and sailors who have fallen in battle, tip COD-
rribute to the sufferers at Leipsic; find other dis-
tresses abroad, the people of England'have always.
beeri prompt to lend a generous and bounteous
hand; let us -not then be wanting to chew our
liberality at house to our poor coUntryihro: this
would greatly tend to allay hat irritation-arid tit.
nodt which now prevails, as it may be hoped the
stagnation of our trade is only temporary.; it few

words, let the rich assist he poor, ,atid. all will

4;4)1) be well—to COI/dude (fur iutuiortal

Bard,—

" better sit-e to hear the ills we lino,w,
•6 Than fly to others which we know not of.:

At the general Quarter Sessions for the East
Riding of Yorkshire, held at Beverley On Wed-
nesday last, a true hill was found against Frederick
Coleman, a joiner, for distributing among the
-nilitary, in the garrison at that town, a scditirnts
libel on the Government, in. Sherwin's Leiter to
the soldiers, and published in his freckly Political
Register. He was taken on a Bench warrant, and
remains in custody in the East )tiding [louse of
Correction, for want of bail. At the time Cole-
man was arrested, lie and two other of his CUM-

paGiolo were busily eMployed iu painting the
figure of " Lthvrty," with cu ours stolen limn Ills
maocr's pHi(tr • 9)114).

Provost AtiiingasoN, nt fittntlee, having tier•lin-
ed rnH a rittriie Aleetint: of the inhabitants, the
Requisitionists, it is said, ate to utre tht,'Ln-
st.l“:s, toll; to Nuvullber.

LAW I'NTZLLIGItN6E.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Om 27-

Sittings at Sergeant's Inn flail.

The Cont.,. Proceeded with the Special Paper
to-day, hat mine of the cases disposed of were of
general interest. The only case worth mention-
ing was the tollowing':—

FLANNIGAN if, %WATKINS.

This'wsis a deintirrer to the pleas to a declara-
tion in debt on a bond of indemnity, dated sth
Alarell, 1811. The question raised in the argil-
munt was, whether under the 49th Gro. 111.
c. 121, commonly called Sir Samuel Romilly's
Act, the surety tinder an annuity deed, where the
annuity is redeemed after bankruptcy, may or
may not make good a claim against the grantor
of an annuity upou indemuity, bond, notwith-
standing the grantor of the annuity has proved
the v•thie of the annuity under the Commission.
The Court, alter hearing Mr. TINDAL tor the
plaintiff, and Mr. LATTLEDALF for the defendant,
postponed their jmigmew nntii ;he next term.

MIDDLE,EX SESSIONS, OCT. 27.

THE KING V GEORGE NICHOLSON, ESQ.

This was an indictment o,:ai ,st the defendant,
who is a 'retired Captain of the Veteran Battalion,
for an assault upon Michael Elijah Impey, grand-
son of the late Sir Elijah Impey, on the 4th of
June last.
• Mr. Anou.nus conducted the prosecution, and
Mr. ALLOY the defence.
Front the statement of counsel, and the evi-
dence adduced, the following facts were disclosed :
The defendant had in 1816, married the whir), of
the late Major Impey, or Jersey, where his regi-
ment was quartered, and the prosecutor, a young
mall aged eighteen, was one of the children left by
the Major, to whotn the defendant was guardian.
The prosecutor had been at Bagshot Military
School for his education, and on teaving that se-
minaly he became one of the ititna,es in the de-
fendant's family. During his residence wiih his
step father, ;hose disagreements which but tq
frequently occur amongst such relations, unhap-
pily found their way between the prosecutor and
the d,ft•ndant. In the month of June last the
prosecutor's married sister- was on a visit at the
defendant's house, at near Hayes, when
an accident having happened to her child, thern-
secutor immediately went for ,Mr. Evans, the
lantily surgeon, to attend it, but finding that 'Gen-
tleunsn from home, 1;c brought in the assistance
of a Mt. Oliver, who attended to the child.—
When Mr. Oliver appearerft he defendant express-
ed I is dispieaaure at the circumstance, and seemed
anxious that Mr.. Evans should have been called
in,prelerence. The prosecutor was about to
explain the reason why My.„ Oliver was called
when tine defendant, iminediatelv said' to hint--•
",What do you kooty about it, you dirty puppy ?''
Upon wlkich the prosecutor replied, " This is
very uncivil language to ,use to me, before a
stranger.; if you have any thing to say tOulfe, say
it, at another, time." 'The prosecutor having Ills:
put'on his hat to go out with Mr,: Oliver, Use
defendant came behind him, and struck him a
violent blow on the right, Ode of the head, and
knocked his , hat off. A scuffle ensued, tinil Mi.
Oliver interfered to preVent farther viOleuce, 'ln
the scuffle the. prosectnoe ,received several other
blows on his forehead, eyes and:mouth. He then
retired to his room to bathe.his face, when he was
followed by the defendant, who collared him, and
Again struck him several violent blows,
,using a
great steal of abusive language; upon being re-
strained from committing further outrages, he
said, that he was very sorry be had not given the
prosecutor a tl-41 good thrashing. 'Some tithe
afterwards he came up, iNtl again renewed the
assault, and said, "1 Will have him ethe
house"; I will have the villain out by the scruff
'of the neck." On his eross•exatninat ion :he 'pro-
"securor admitted, that when be was first struck.
he had his hat on in the room, there being qtr that
titne home Ladies present, but he denied that the
blow was given in consequence of his refining to
take his hat off when requested by the defendant.
Mr. OLIVRR, the satgeon corroborated the tes-
timony of the prosecutor, and stated on his cross-
eXaMitl6(loll, that the defendant had desired the
prosecutor to . take off his hat at the time last
mentioned.

Mr. ALLEY addressed the Jury with such topics
as the nature of the case suggested, but called no

witnesses.

:rite ,LEARN BD CIIAIRIiAN summed up the case
with his usual good sense and discernment, and
the Jury found the defendant quilty.
The Court sentenced him to pay a 'fine 'of 51.
and eater into securities to keep the peace for 12,
months, himself in. 1001. ilud two sureties in 501.
each,--(lllornitrg Chronicle.)