The Sun.
London, England, 1818-01-10 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

The Letter on OAK 'PimaEa, and the admirable Poem of
PHILI:ccLustAsT, are unavoidably deferred till Monday.
We shall be glad of any Communication with•As OLD 13mt-

RI ST EH.

THEATRICAL REGISTER.
Peiformed Last Ni; ht.
THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.—The Hypocrite Doctor
Cantwell, Mr. Dowton ; Charlotte, Mrs. Davison. After
which, Harlequin's Vision.
THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.—tetribtition : Varanes,
; Zinira. Miss O'Neill. After which, Harle-
quin Gulliver. •

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THE SUN.

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LONDON, -
SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 181 g.

Boston Papers, to the 18th December, arrived
this morning.

(Front the Boston Ativertk,er of Dec. IG, 1517.) •
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Mosp.ty, DEC. S.

(IMPORTANT.)

j AMELIA ISLAND and SPASISH PATRIOTS.
- Mr. RHEA offered for consideration the follow-
'in Resolution :

" Resolved, that the President be requested to
lay before the House of Representatives any in-
formation lies may possess, and think proper to
communicate, relative to the proceedings of cer-
tain persons who took possessio❑ of Amelia Island,
at the Mouth of St. Mary's River, near the
boundaries of the State of Georgia, i❑ the
summer of the present year, and make an
establishment there ; and also any information
he bath, and may think proper to communicate
relative to an establishment made at an early pe-
riod by persons of the same description, in the
Gulf of Mexico, place called Galvizton, within
the limits- of the United States, as we contend
under the cession of ‘-‘ Louis," together with the
reasons inducing him to issue orders to suppress
the said establishments."

Mr. VORSYTII moved to strike out the last clause
of the proposed Resolution.
Mr. HoLmES (of Massaehusotts) said, he should
never be opposed to any call for information on
any subject when moved by the House 3 but it ap-
peared to him that the call now preferred was un-
necessary ; since the Resolution now desired,
he thought the House should wait a day
two,. to see whether they would nit obtain,
without any further call, all the information
they desired from the Executive ; with this view
he moved that the resolution should be laid on
the table. The question to l,r the resolution on
the table was then taken—For the motion %
Against 81—so the motion was lost. The main
question was taken on the resolution, and tlecided
in the.alftrinative without a division, anti a -Coin-
Wit tee ordered to be appointed, to ‘rait on the
PRESIDENT therewith.

• MINPREEs BoHoUGH (TEN), Nov. 21.—An
express has just &I:lived in town from General

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tra'y to 'General 7A'c.F.3oN., hear:,:34
information 'that the Spaniard and Seminole It"
dians had 1-::::.rch'ed a large fOrce up to Gelierj
GAINES, near 'tin!. St. Mary's ; had surroundol
his fort, and were pushing him hard at all point.i
that they were vastly superior in numbei.st.o.otic
tro'itys; Ato, wit houtimmediate assistancj;
fall a sacrifice to Indian barbarity.

The Boston Paper of the IGth contains da`
Annual Ticasury Report as to Finances :

Reventie in 1815 was 49 millions dollars
1816 36 do.
1817 —33 do. do.

The permanent Annual Rrventie is estimated At
24 millions dollars. The expellee in 1818 wo-"I'l

be greatly lessened ; estitnattd about '2.'3
millions of dollars.

We are informed by good 'authority, that the
Venezuelian. Minister, after perusing the I'res7
dent's Message, immediately dispatched an Es-
press to his Colleague, Don PEDRO GAUL, the
Deputy from New Grenada and Mexico, and t°
General AURY, at Amelia Island, advising the°
of the contemplated hostilities against that place'
It is added; he
,has directed AURY to defool
the place to the last, unless attacked by aver}'
superior force, in which case, to enter a soletuil
Protest in the name of the South American G 0
vernment, capitulate, and surrendered themsela%
prisonei's of war.

Some of our Competitors have been rather too
hasty in praising THE SPEECH of the AMERICA:I
PRESIDENT, and we may venture to predict, thst
they will soon be obliged to adopt our view

its real character and tendency. Others I)3°
more wisely contented themselves with abridgit4
the po-ints in this memorable Speech, and expresi
ing themselves in general terms, which they nuts'retract or not, as they see occasion. 'Jude
smooth and specious covering, this-Speech toe
be considered'as pregnant with such matter as vvill
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put the judgment, abilities, and knowledge
our best Statesmen to the proof. Li our opiniosl
the Speech is portentous of future hostility 6
the British Empire and its Dependencies, and.°
calculated to produce a totally IleW aspect of
affairs across the Atlantic, when the designs (
the American Government 'shall be "
by the steu/ini; hours ofTime," and we earnestri
exhort our Rulers to weigh the whole with Pr"'
found attention, in older to guard against, 01..14
best to,retard, those mischiefs whlelt may oilief'
Wise come unwarily upon They shall 1144
want for our WARNING VOICE,

We have again to announce the DOD-arrival 111
Paris Papers. Two days' Journals are due.

Another Mai! has arrived from Lisbon, bratigit.
!:y the Chi!stolield packet, and is ten day' 1 14113;
date than the one received yesterday.

THE Ft:SM.—Stocks were again depressed tbl
i°
morning, being dune •at 811 ; they reco"r
however, at one o'clock, and were done at 824' ss
m
which price they remained steady. Money c`)o,
tinues very plentiful.'

We have the pleasure to state that the 00
Midshipmen, who so resolutely attempted to 'lir
charge their duty at Deal, and were so ctraoge4
ref Used to be liberated on bail, cruder all the Cll
cumstances of the case, were this (lay brought to
town, and. admitted to bail before Mr. Justice
14oLitoYD. The names of these_spiriteel yol
wen are Messrs. ARQUIMBAU and R011E1,1.1%111),
the Severn.

,
The Governors of' Si. Lucie and Dotnif"qe
-
have opened the ports of thosefislands to vessel,
of all nations bringing in provisions, and have i,
lowed them to take produce in return, althot*,
no difficulty could have existed in procuring Pr
visions for these Islands in British vesiels•
the recent Order of Council respecting e 4
.
foundland, the importation of similar articles i?
confine to British ships. The Governoi of Ajsr'
tinique has, for a limited time, permitted forele
vessels to enter there, but subject to an cOil

heavy duty.

•A
Meeting was Yesterday held at the Kid:
Head in the Poultry of the Committee for di'lf-;
buting the subscription collected for the Relief °4
DISTRESSED SEAMEN, according to aclvertisergelj.lA
in the Daily Pilots announcing that purpose,
prodigious crowd of applicants,. it seems, assn:
bled in the Poultry, insomuch that'it was cliff°
for the Peace-officers to open a path for passel;
L;ers and carriAges, which, however, INO
length effected. H judicious arrangement. Th,e
Lotto i'vlAvoa, anxious to 'secure the result of 11)1"
subscription for the objects for whom it wits
tended, issued a Proclamation to prevent it l''oll
being extended to mere Impostors. This l'iocl4;
!nation, which arose from,principles of jus; 31.1‘
humanity, and which forcibly evinced good se'l'o
and judgment, has exposed his Lordship to tla

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e`al. tOtamcntS of The Morning Chronicle of
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'Y, and a whining attempt is made to
forth all objects apparently distressed, as
.1,411 Y 'entitled to what was intended for a par-
. e`qar description. This contemptible attack up-
LorilshiP is the consequence of politicalhos-
not:real benevolence. The- factious Writer
11l en vents his 'spleen against the Admiralty, and
againSt Mr. CRoKEit, tbough it is
dell known that the Admiralty is doing all it
;1"0 promote the benevolent object in 'view., and
' CHOKER to live effect to its measures. It is
14rPfizing that there is not some regard'to decency
41)(1 liberal feelings shewn in a Public Print which
effects liberality of sentiment, and holds 'itself
forth as the great Instructor of the people in
111041s:politics, and the manners of civilized life.
1
• f the LORD MAYOR were to patronize a sub-
leliPtion for Mr. HoNe, and Mr. CROKER were to
•‘tiliPloy his " rhyming and reviewing," to use the
°rls of The Chronicle, in praise of impiety, it is
PrQbable that they would both have received the
..t.:44ltetulation rather than the malignant abuse of
t
4atpatriptic Journal.

We have Feceived several letters from Liver-
-1)0u1, in consequence of a Meeting of the CAN
111(/ CLUB, which was recently held in that
14w1), awl one of our Correspondents has transmit-
te't to us Billing's Lii;erpool Advertiser, of the sth
instant, which contains an account of the Meet-
ing. It appears, however, that the account is

slated ih that Pa'per to have been taken from an

tther Journal of the preceding Wednesday.—
Ihe object of these several communications is,
through the medium of THE Su N, which we
are told is held in 'high estimation at Liver-
Pool, to state, that, though the Writers are de-
tided friends
.to Mr. CANNING, highly admire
histalents, and particularly his attention to
the interests of the town of which he is one
"the Representatives, and of his polite and ac-
essible disposition to all his Constituents
intii-
'vu}ually, yet that they cannot assent to the exag-

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gerated praises which were so lavishly besNiwe
‘"iitn by some of the persons who %rem preset]
et that Meeting. We were not to learn first from
these communications that Mr. CANNING had
l'i-erted himself with the utmost zeal to promote
tb"interests of the town which he represents, and
111 he :displayed all possible gentlemanly tour-
';3Y ta any applications from his Constituents.
1 t*lleral estimation of his character rendered
aardi.
possible that he-should have conducted
—self in any other manner. As to any exuber-
alive
of panegyric which individuals .may have
-Bt?Wed on him, finch is t 6 be ascribed to per-
-3°114 regard, and the zeal ‘vhich naturally attends
Ott tt. pinch too, possibly, is co be attributed to
I'll effect of favours conferred, and, perhaps, we
1"Y add, without intending to offend, something
4:,aY be ascribed to the warmth. of convivial mo-
"'NIL But it is certain, that on the occasion
'diluted to, some of the. compliments paid to Mr.
e"Nrsto may appear, reasonably appear, execs-
. ‘4e, inasmuch,. as they solely .attributed to him
the merit of services which other branches of ad-
.
kinistration are fully entitled to share with him.
\Ve are desired particularly to notice the Speech
tlf Air. JOHN ECCLES, junior, at the Meeting ill
‘tOettipn, who, after a just tribute to the immortal
1141% anti his Councils, and to " those measures
44QP.'ed by him, and persevered in, through peril
and through opposition, by the succeeding States-
:l:en of Ids School," .added, but " by none more
•,ren
uctisk
y and with greater effect, than by that
§tatearnan to whom they looked up as the Inhe-
ritor of his principles and his abilities, the man
under whose name the Club hail arrayed itself."
We are then asked why Mr. CANNING, in particu-
lar, is to be held forth as the only inheritor of
PrreeS principles and abilities, when it is ad-
bitted that the succeeding Stat, ,:nen of his
school, in' general, all as strenuously exerted
themselves in supporting his principles, and ac-
- "illpliabing the object of .his measures ? We are
risked whether the Noble Lord at the Head of the
4thuinistratiOn, And who'takes his title from the
‘ll)wn ; who was brought up in the School of Mr.
who very early in .life raised himself into
,Bticll distinction by a Speech in the highest degree
creditable to his powers, in point of knowledge,
'argument, and eloquence, as led to his present
elevation, and who has maintained consistency of
"nduet throughout his political career, is not full
as ninon entitled to share in the lionour of being
t. flit inheritor of Mr. PITT's principles and abili-
ties 3 The names, the services, and the abilities of
the venerable LORD CHANCELLOR, of Lord BA-
.avr, Lord LASCELLES, and that sound and
tioquent Statesman, the RISING STAR in the
political Horizon, beaming with knowledge,
rwisdom and integrity, Mr. ROBERT *PEEL, are
The.ll mentioned; and we are asked wiry they
ate to be forgotten in the assignment of ho-
curs due to those who so ably follow the steps

of Mr. and vvi-ko have sectecded in ac-
complishing' those glorious events which he was
not -permitted to behold, as the only rewarA for

s wisdom, virtue, and perseverance, which his

patriotic heart could desire ? We are tieict called
to the Speech of Mr. RoptE, who, after expres-

sing political sentiments honourable to Iris charac-
ter, particularly in relation to Mr. PITT, procee►led

to say that, '' in his opinion, the TRUEST
REPRESENTATIVE of that immortal Statesman's
principles was Mr. CANN.ING.". In answer to this
ptmegyriE,Which is deemed extt avant anilinvidions,
we are agajn,rernitded of Lord ELDoN, and the otker
Members of Administration already mentid tied,
and part-kit-I.'l'ly of Mr..ll.62SEar I'EEL, as the fu-
ture great stay of the national interest and ho-
nour. One of our Correspondents then adopts
a lighter inood, and treats with something of

jocose 'irony, and sarcastic humour, the idea of
appointing a Lady as the PATRONESS of a POLITI-
CAL CLUB, and it is intimated, dial, however
exalted her merits may be. in private life, it was
not consistent with the decorum due to the-sex

to introduce her name at a Tavern Meeting,,and
in some measure tended to throw an air of ridi-
cule on the Institution. , Upon the whole, though
as we before observed, the high merits of
Mr. CANNING, the force, beauty, and variety of

his* eloquence, the extent of his knowledge,
and the soundness of his principles, were readily
admitted, yet our Correspondents could not agree
to award to him the exelasire honour of being
looked up to as the " InheritOr of the Principles
and Abilities" and '6 THE_ TRUEST LIVING REPRE-
SENTATIVE" of Mr. PITT, when SO many Of his
colleagues have, at least, equally a right to assert
and to maintain hereditary claims to the same
honourable distinction.—Finally, our Correspon-

dents touch upon the subject of THE CATHOLIC
Cr-AIMS, and say, that as Mr. PITT'S sentiments

on that subject are well known, whatever attempts
may have been made to deny or to disguise them,
and as the other Members of Administration

above noticed, are avowedly and decided staunch
supporters of THE PROTESTANT ASCENDANCY,
and as Mr. CANNING'S opinions are not equally in
favour of what is essential to the security of our
Establishment in Cr-lull-et! and STATE, they. have
stronger pretensions to be considered as legitimate
Heirs.of the principles of Mr. PITT, than any
person, however great his talents, and meritorious

his services, who is not equally zealous to uphold
the national faith, which is vitally united with our
political Constitution, and equally resolote to-de-
fend it from the inroads and encroachments of
PORERY. •

LEGITIMACY.—A very silly Writer in The
Morning Chronicle, who affects to possess great
historical ktrowledge and sagacity, scents disposed
to discover, that according to. the title notion of
Legitimacy, there is not a Sovereign in Europe
that is entitled to his Crown. Upon the same
principle no landed proprietor who enjoys by in-
heritance, has a right to his possessions. This
affected and ridiculous writer asks the following
question—" Who in fact robbed King George the
Third of his real sovereignty . over the Colonies,
once ours, in North America ? Indisputably Louis
the Siiteenth and his German. wife." What must
be thought tof the unfeeling miscreant who could
thus speak of a virtuous Sovereign and his unfor-
tunate Consort, who were martyred .by such de-
testable Politicians as himself. It was not Louis,
but his perfidious and ambitious Ministers, who
involved hint in that American contest, which
brought the contagion of principles into his own
country, that ended in his own ruin. It would
be surprizing, that a Public Journal should ad-
mit such trash if the same Paper did n©t pa-
tronize a subscription to reward sedition and bias-
phenzy.
As the following Circular first appeared in an
Opposition Paper we were inclined to doubt its
authenticity, but as we find that it has really been
transmitted to all the Members of the House of
Commons,who are the supporters of Government,
we insert it : .
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Foreign Office, 3d January, 1818.
St rt,—As business of importance will be brought under the
consideration of Parliaaient, upon its
.tneeting,"
take the liberty of earnestly requesting your attendance irt
the House of Commons, on Tuesday, the Et7th instant.- •

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I have the honour to be, Sir, • .
Your faithful and obedient Servant,
CASTLEREAGH.

It is rumoured as probable, that Mr. DENT will
again offer .himself for Poole ; but we have not
heard whether Mi. M. A. TAYLOR starts for Dur- •
ham ; it has been said that General Sir GORDON
DRUMMOND will stand for that City.
There is some chance that Lancaster will be
contested at the next General Election; though
there is little doubt of Mr. CAWTHORN being re-
turned again for that Borough.
Mr. CEIAMBERLAYNE is mentioned as one of the
Candidates for Southampton, though we do not
see with what chance of success, unless lie relies
on the ground which enabled Mr. JACKSON to
throw out Mr. ATnEaLcv in 1806.
The Election for Cork County, and also for the
City, arc likely to be strongly contested ; indeed,
in many parts of Ireland, the contests will be se-
vere.—ln Scotland there are many indications of
opposition to the pre,2nt Members, but whether
the parties will go to a poll is very uncertain.
' It has often been remarked, that the Tolls of
the Grand Junction, and most of the Branch
Canals, are too high to induce the Timber Dealers
in the port of London to bring Oak Timber doWn
thein.—lf the tolls and freights were' modetate,
and barges adapted for the purpose, large loan-
tities would be brought to the London. Market
from Staffordshire, and other Wood Counties.