The Sun.
London, England, 1827-02-22 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE AND MISCELLANEOUS.

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The medical report of Mr. Canning's health is also
of the most gratifying description, The Right Hon.
Secretary came down stairs yesterday, for the first, time,
to dine, has had a good night, and is much better this
morning. It is now confidently hoped he will be able
shortly to resume his official duties.
The Earl of Egremont is recovering, under the care
of Sir Matthew Tierney, from his late indisposition.
The Duke of Dorset left the Pavilion on Sunday
last for town, but is expected to return in a few day&
There are now in the Royal party at Brighton the
Marquis and Marchioness of Conyngham, Sir An.
drew Barnard, Sir Edmund Nagle, 'and Colonel
Thornton.

Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington held a Levee
yesterday, at his Office in the Horse Guards.
EARL OF LIVERPOOL.—ShortIy before 10 o'clock
last night, his Lordship's medical attendants assembled at Liver--
pool-house, and after deliberating about half an hour, stated,.
" His Lordship was going on pretty well, and was a little better
this evening."—After the consultation a messenger was despatched
with the account to His Majesty, at Brighton.
The Earl of Harrowby, it is expected, will submit,
in the House of Peers, the Resolutions on the Corn Laws, to tine
consideration of their Lordship.

Mr. Canning is so much better, that we are happy
to say, he is expected to arrive in London on Saturday.
Mr. Wynn transacted business with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer yesterday.

Yesterday the Earl of Westmorland entertained the
Cabinet Ministers to dinner, at his residence in Grosvenor-squad.

Emily Marchioness of Londonderry entertained a
distinguished party of the Haut Ton yesterday at her house in
St. Jainee's-square.
Mr. Peel has now three brothers in the House of
Commons.
On Monday last an Address of Condolence on the
lamented death of his Royal Highness the Duke of York, from the'
Freemasons of the Province of Somerset, was presented to his
Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, by Charles K. Kernys Trkte,
Esq., 31. P., Grand Master of that Province.
EVESIIAM.—The friends of PATRICK GRANT.
Esq. the late unsuccessful Candidate for this Borough, are making
arrangements for a sumptuous dinner at the Northwick Aim*
Inn, to which they intend to invite that Gentleman, seMetinie
the present month. It must be in the recollection or our
readers, that Mr. Grant made his first appearance In Itirosharn
on the morning of the Election, and, without taking any
canvass, appeared on the hustings, and stood a poll of -three
days, which was carried /on with great spirit by all parties, itiltani
conceiving that his late arrival might militate against hirtii he
honourably declined any further contest, which would only invalid
himself and the other candleates in unnecessary trouble and en-
pence. We understand this Gentleman intends to contest the
representation of the Borough on any future vacancy.— Worcester
Journal.

The London Docks are about to be paved with
Maenamara's patent pavement.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the E
India House, when the following Commanders took leave of the
Court previous to departing for their respective destinations, vie.
—Captain John Charettie, Bombay ; Captain Alexander Nairn,
General Kyd ; and Captain Wm. Manning, Waterloo, for Mte,
dras and China.—Captain George Probyn was sworn into fht
command of the ship Minerva, consigned to Madras and Bengal.
The following ships were thus timed, viz.—Barroea, Alfred.
Broxbournbury, and Lord Hunger:ford, for China direct, to hz
afloat 13th Mardi, and sail from Gravesend at the expiration of
30 days from that period.
The following curious notice appears in the shop.,
window of a hair-dresser in the neighbourhood of Dean-street,
Soho :—" Notice.-11 the gentleman who left his mustachios
here for alteration, about two years ago, does not call in a few
days and redeem them, they will be sold by public auction, to de.
fray the expense of warehouse room, &c. &c.

The Post Office has given notice that in future the
Buenos Ayres Packet mail will touch at Rio de Janeiro, both on
the outward and homeward passage till further notice.

NEW PUBLICATIONS.—The following interesting
works are just published by Mr. Colburn, 8, New Bar'intim-
street (removed from Conduit street), viz.-1. Travels in Me.
sopotamia to the Ur of the Chaldm.i, and the Ruins of Nineveh
and Babylon. By J. S. Buckingham, Esq. 1 vol. tte., with
numerous Engravings.-2. Napoleon in the other world, a !Car-
r ati v e found near his Tomb at St. Helena, 1 vol. Sco.-41. Cons!
Segues Journey with the Empress Catherine to the Crimea, form-
ing the 3d vol. of his Memoirs.-4. An octavo edition of the
Personal Narrative of Travels by the Honourable Captain Kep-
pell, 2 vole.-5. A second edition of the Life of Frederick
Reyr,olcle, the Dramatist, by Himself, 2 vols.-6. The Natchez,
an Indian Tale, by the Viscount de Chateaubriand, 3 cols.--
7. Truckleborough Hall, a Satirical Novel, I vole —And 8. The
Confessions of an old Bachelor, 1 vcl.

A Bill has been brought into the Legislature of
Virginia to relieve a Mr. Lynch from the payment of taxes. Mr.
L. is the father of 34 legitimate children, of whom 27 are now
alive. He has keen married four times, and is now a poor man,
(-27 children, and not one able to support the father). Meer har-
ing heard so much of the ease with which a man in the United
States can bring ,p a large family, this specimen of poverty on the
part of 27 childre:, of a family, and not able to support the father,
appears extraordinary, and says little for the comforts attached to
a residence in that quarter.—From. Niles's Register, printed cr.!
Baltimore, Jan. 13.

A curious anecdote has been communicated to us
of the late George Frederick Cooke, who, it appears, knew Kean,
when the latter was a boy, and noticed the talent that lay dormant
in him. On one occasion, when he was playing Richard the
Third in some country town (we believe, Colchester) where Kean,
a boy of fourteen, was at that time living, Cooke, according to
custom, was most royally drunk, and in the middle of the play,
found himself not in a condition to proceed. He accordinglye
walked forward very coolly to the front of the stage, and told th
audience that he was unable to go on ; but there, said be, point-
ing to the gallery, is a boy who will finish it for me ;
on whit. ls
much applause. Old as this story may appear,.tre are assured by
who has stated it to us, that it is a literal faet..—.
the gentleman
Brighton Herald.
young Kean was brought down, and went through te part "nth
Very serious consequences were likely to result the
bed. The:
other day from a very innocent cause. A young Senator zealously
preparing a speech for the Corn question, was in the habit of re-
peating it aloud before a looking-glass, with the laudable purpose
I:aarrddenvot.tith
postession of the fair
of adding the graces of action and clear intonation to the excellent
and learned materials which he has collected. He is blessed
with one of the most amiable of womer. for his epotow,
and their previous life had been one of uninterrupted bliss, hut
yhoi immediately efilyr:oltookedr
sad was the change, when the poor Lady one day heard from het
attached handmaiden, that she strongly soufsphecentesdirheerre
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there every night, after all the servants were gone to
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frightfullylater e
lady, and after several violent struggles with herself, she at length
condescended to listen, and all her apprehensions
confirmed by the evidence of one
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ill—and finally exhibited all the .
constitution. No entreaties of her husbandsymptonas of
a blighted
the secret of her grief for some weeks could extort from her
~,, explanation of the strange ; but we rejoice to add that
this amiable couple to their former mistake has since restored
dame has formed the e former happiness. The fair
excellent resolution of henceforth
mAing her husband the confidant even of her suspicions;
and the youthful orator says, that he will never make a speech
on Corn or Catholics
of his intentions. Even
Catholics, or any other subject, without apprising her
the officious Abigail has been pardoned.,
of
and the happiness
the
household is complete.

Among the many ridiculous uestions that were
seriouslArabi y proposed to Mr. Buckingham, the traveller, at Assnit, is
Arabia, when talking of the different countries that he had visited,
he was asked " whether he had seen the Gezinet el-'hack, on the
island in which women grow on trees, budding at sun-rise, sod
becoming mature at sun-set,
when they fall from the branches,
and exclaim, in the language of the country " lEfiaak / Ifiaak 1"
—" Come and embrace me !"

MITRIT ol► taIIPUBLIC JOtTRNALs.

The present situation of the is like that of the
Coßige of-Cardinals.when the Pope is in extremit. They
meet in conclave, debate-, disagree, confer again, and settle
nothini, There is in one part of the Ministerial body, a
stiff *R disinclination to give to a certain Right Honourable
Ottntleman„in form, the -official dignity which his talents
must confer upon him in effect—namely, that of Prime
Ministet ; and that opposition is said to be as obstinate as
it is unreasonable, so.that in fact it will prevail; and some
anasia phantom of a Prime Minister must be sought for,
whilst the person objected to may retain his situation as
leader or the Honse of Commons. This gives one but an
unfavourable idea or the amicable feeling, individually and
perscmally, that will subsist among the members of the
forthostning Administration; when it shall be formed ; and the
telailon in which they will stand with respect to political semi-
, ineut is little less antipathetic. The Right Hon. Gentleman,
whatever his powers may be, labours under one disadvantage in
these biekerings, Which is, thathe feels he is sensitise; the brutes
who thWart kiln are callous, and impenetrable to acute sensation.
The County hates and despises them ; hut what signifies that %
:Popeus me sibilat, at mini plaudo. We cannot help surmising
4./tat it will be a difficult matter for an Administration thus formed
to subsist long. Mr. Burke's fantastical description of the dove-
tailed Ministry will hardly apply ; it does not sufficiently describe
the unamalgarnating qualities of the body now to be formed.—
Times.

We have in our own case protested against the holding
to bail for libel, as a practice utterly irreconcilable with
justice ; and, on a recent occasion, an applicant against
its was referred by a respectable Magistrate to a Grand
Jury. We should be ashamed of ourselves if we did not
equally protest against a recurrence to this practice in the
case-of ..
others, whateer the nature and character of the
libels with which they ace charged. The case at the Man-
,,aort Ilcrase is one in which no class of the community is
?nine interested than the Proprietors of Newspapers ; and
if they meanly remain silent, when a sanction is obtained
fir the practice in the instance of an individual, whose
conduct may have rendered him obnoxious to the public
in general, they abandon the cause of the Press, and de-
prive themselves of a_ justification when the precedent is
brought to bear against themselves. We enjoy, at this
time, the unspeakable advantage of being under a Govern-
Mtnt, as little chargeable with a wish to fetter the Press
as any Government which this country has ever possessed.
in this respect we have a great advantage over our neigh-
bours, the French. We are, in fact, left to ourselves, under
laws which allow us to pull each other in pieces—a liberty
of which we are not slow to avail ourselves. The French
laws arc better than the Government wish them to be;
our Government, on the other hand, is better than our
Irma: nut of what avail is the fairness of a set of Mi-
nisters, if-the laws allow the people to harass and prey
int each other. Now what we maintain is this—that it
is a mere mockery to say the Press of this country is inde-
pendent, so long. as the practice of holding to bail is tole-
fated: The Journalist is at the mercy of every one of his
neighbours; his public existence can be brought to a close
Avlietiever a party arises sufficiently malicious,and sufficiently
persevering, to avail himself to the full extent of the
Ower a practice like this places in his hands. No
Newspaper is, ever was, or ever , can be published, in
which matter may not be found that, under the present
Law of Libel, may be termed a libel. A Prosecu-
tor has the choosing of his Magistrate ; and it
would be strange indeed if, under a system which
admits to the Magistracy any man who has sense enough to avoid
jumping into a chalk pit or a pond, a suitable instrument could
botbe found for the prosecutor's purpose. Let it be borne in
Mind, that it has been decided again and again, that a Magistrate
is protected against punishment for errors of judgment; and that
ff a corrupt motive cannot be proved, he is in the enjoyment of
complete impunity. Now a prosecutor having, with the aid of
a well-disposed Magistrate, held a journalist to bail, has only to
follow up tho blow by successive applications, to succeed in
lodging him at last in a gaol, and to ruin him long before it can
be determined by a Jury whether he is innocent or guilty.—We
ObierVe that the Lord Mayor departed from the principle respect
ng sts-earing, laid down by himself on Monday. The City Soli-
tecording to the report, asked the bail whether they be-
liswid in the Books on which they were about to be sworn. Now
en Monday his Lordship reprobated the putting of such questions
at' that stage ; and told the defendant, that his security was in
the penalties attached to perjury, and in the justice of his
tentatry. We cannot bring ourselves to suppose, that his Lord-
ship has ens law for one party, and another law for another; but
it is obvious that he cannot be in the right on both eccasions.—
We Wish it to be understood, that we bear no grudge against his
Lordship, for bad dinners and coarse knives and forks—these are
matters for the consideration of Aldermen and Members of the
Corporation, who may be safely trusted with the care of their own
interests; and that we found no faith, as our contemporary of the
New Tittles did, with his speech on the retirement of the Rev.
Mr. Clayton. We care not for his kitchen or his chapel,whather
he be a follower of Calvin or Joanna Southcot, but we care for
himin his character of administrator of the laws. In that cha-
racter, we wish be could have reconciled it with what he owed to
" God and his Country," to discourage the practice of holding
tit .bail, which, though recommended by Lord Sidmouth, was
reprobated by- a man whose opinion is much more deserving of
regard, Earl Grey, whose speech on the subject of the famous
Circular has always been very much admired by the best judges.—
:Wining Chronicle.

We were surprised to see a man of Mr. Waithman's
good sense and discernment imputing the state of the poor
end the amount of the poor-rates in the metropolis, to the
Corn Laws; the fact, we believe, being, that bread, as
.well as other mere articles of necessary food and clothing
of the poor, have not fer many years been so cheap in Lon-
don as they have been for some time past, and happily
continue; notwithstanding the severity of the winter. That
there is much distress among many of the middle and
Tower Atlases in-London (as, we fear, there always must be
int,thedestae population of a vast metropolis) cannot he
denied; TOCeasiored by a great stagnation in all or most
of &a- great sources of employment, and not u little ag-
gravated by the extreme cheapness of spirituous liquors,
and the other too great facilities with which they are ob-
tained. Mr. Waithman neetkonly look round his own
ward to see what we mean. He expresses his surprise
too at the number of persons in particular parishes ex-
cused from payment of the poor-rates on the score of po-
verty. But this does not surprise us at all. It is
clear that the same persons cannot be both receivers and '
-payers; and to expect that those Who want relief them-
selves should be able to contribute to the necessities of
others, is a proposition which no reasonable man will
maintain. It follows, therefore, that as far as individuals
go, the poor themselves must be exempt from the burden
occasioned by their own relief. We are well aware,
however, that a great abuse exists on this head,
and that Mr. Waithman and the other Members for
the metropolis would be doing a very acceptable
service to:lhe public, were they to bring a Bill into Parliament
making the landlords subject to the payment of all rates upon
lioness. In some parishee this is the case; and it should be so in
all, fur it is quite notorici: that no small pert of the distress
which exists among the lower classes in the metropolis arises
from the high rents they are compelled to pay. Persons unac-
quainted with the fact would hardly credit the enormous prices
which ars given for wretched houses in vile streets, courts, and
alleys, in Spitalfields, St. Giks's, the lower parts of Westmin-
star, &c., many of which belong to persons of great opulence,
and who obtain these large rents, in sonic degree. in consequence
of knowing that their tenants will be exempted ' from parochial
rates on the score of poverty. It is quite erroneous, too, to sup'
pose that the poor-rates are altogether spent upon the poor. The
county-rate alone is no inconsiderable drain upon it, and one
from which the poor derive no benefit. And if Mr. Waithman,
or any other active MenAber of Parliament, could apply the search-
ing qualities of the Speaker's wan ant to the archives, the freaks,
and goings-on of certain immaculate bodies yclept " Select Ves-
tries," he would find that there are other causes besides the Corn
Laws for the increase of parochial burdens in the metropolis; and
eat those who are causing, and, in not a few instances, fattening
upon the abuses which exist, in fact, laugh in their sleeves, while
he, with other sensible men, like himself, unconsciously set up
the Corn Laws u a bugbear, while the real evils, as well as their
remedies, are passed by unnoticed.—Morning Herald.
According to the latest accounts from Portugal, the re.
fives are still in considerable force in the province of
Tras-os-lkiontes, and evidently watching an opportunityto
make another irruption into the interior of the country.

When this-sort of warfare will end, or when our troops
^ay safely be recalled, it is impossible to say, but it is
xtremely probable that it will go on so long as the Spa-
!ish, the French, the Roman, and indeed the whole Ca-
Clergy of Europe shall lend them their countenance
ad aid. That this is the fact at present, no one who pays
be least attention to the subject can deny. The Clergy of
hose countries look upon revolutions and liberal govern-
uents as the forerunners of their downfall. They know
hat wherever a regular system of free government is
-stablished the power and influence of the Clergy are di-
ninished ; the people become more enlightened, and less
tisposed to submit to the dictates of the Church than to
,:ommon sense, They have seen that the French revolu-
tion stripped the Clergy of all their church lands, tithes,
and other sources of revenue—that the people of France
are now the least subservient to the priesthood of all the
nations of Europe, and they naturally dread, if Clio revo-
lutionary spirit should be allowed to extend itself, that
they too, shall lose their influence, with their church
lands, and be obliged to subsist on a miserable pittance
7-T.:lobed by the Executive Government. Though this
not happen for many years after the establishment
of the Constitution, they have sufficient foresight to dis-
cover, that soon or late a most material change to their
disadvantage would take place. If Spain had any thing
like a free Constitution, and were governed by the laity,
it is quite evident that the Clergy would not, as now, be
allowed to raise a revenue nearly as great as that raised
for the purposes of Government. We cannot, therefore,
wonder that they show enthusiasm in the cause, and do
every thing in their power to excite a war. Self-interest
is the most powerful of all motives, both with Clergy and
laity, and we may be assured, that the Catholic Clergy,
whose chief objects for centuries have been wealth and
power, will act like other men, arid not submit without a
struggle to such an important change. But beside the
Clergy, there arc other classes in the different states of
Europe highly friendly to the Portuguese refug.:e,. The Nobi-
lity must naturally dislike a free Constitution, which tends to
raise plebeians and persons in the middle rauha of life to a level
with themselves ; and absolute Monarchs must hate it still more.
If the Portuguese Constitution succeeds, Spain must ere long
adopt one of a similar description. The infection will soon spread
along the shores of the Mediterranean, and at length make its
way into the German dominions. With what horror the Empe-
ror of Austria and Prince Metternich would regard its approach,
their past conduct has sufficiently shown. They lost no time in
extinguishing the Constitutions of Piedmont and Naples, and we
have no doubt they look upon this of Portugal with exactly the
same fe:7:l.g. It makes no difference to them, in reality, whether
the Monarch grants the Constitution, or the people take it by
force. Reform, liberty, and liberal institutions are the objects of
their hatred in any shape. The late Emperor of Russia always
acted on these occasions with the Emperor of Austria, and from
all accounts, his successor is treading in his footsteps. We have
thus arrayed against the Constitutionalists of Portugal the prin-
cipal Courts of Europe, and almost all the Clergy—a fearful odds.
They, of course, do not act openly, but they have many other
ways of serving their ends. It is easier to transmit to the re-
fugee, money than troops, and with money, troops in all coun-
tries will be found. Looking, therefore, at the disposition of
those Courts, the self-interest of the Nobility and Clergy, and the
want of enthusiasm among the Constitutionalists themselves, it
cannot be denied, that their cause at present has a forbidding
aspect, and that, taking it even in the matt favourable point of
view, many years must elapse before it can finally prosper. We
must, in the mean time, maintain troops in that country at an
annual expense of two or three millions sterling, and thereby in-
crease the burdens of the country without receiving the thanks of
the great body of the Portuguese people. We are as anxious as
any party can be to maintain the faith of treaties, but we think,
in this instance, the case was not sufficiently made out, and we
are only confirmed the more in this opinion, by the repeated ac-
counts of the apathy of the people, and the little thanks we have
received for our interference.—lbid.

The policy of Mr. Canning promises to be as successful
in respect to America, as it has been in the mutual relations
between us, and Portugal, France, and Spit). Mr. Can_
ning refused to make the intercourse between our West
Indian Colonies and the United States the subject of ne-
gociation ; and, in doing so, he acted with candOur, and
with spirit ; for the law of America had prescribed a con-
dition to that intercourse, with which England could
never comply, and with which the American Executive
had no authority to dispense. The Congress seems to be
inclined to recede from their extravagant pretensions. If,
in the legislative measure, which is stated to be now under
consideration, for regulating the intercourse with our Co-
lonies, they abandon their absurd demand to be placed on
the same footing with the mother country, the great bar
to negociation will be removed; and if they are content
to participate in the trade of our West Indian Islands, on
the same terms with other countries, we doubt not but
that our Government will show every disposition to pro-
mote the settlement, by treaty, of differences of opinion, or
collision of interests, on these matters. Undoubtedly, in
all questions touching the mutual relations of sovereign
States, it is infinitely better to proceed by negociation and
treaty, than by separate and independent legislation. Eng-
land adopted the latter course, not because she deemed it
in itself preferable to the former, but because America had
left no other alternative. An Act of Congress made nego-
ciation at once impossible and useless; by imposing a most
unjust and extravagant preliminary condition. What other
course was then left to us, except to regulate, by Act of Par-
liament, so far as our own interests were concerned, that
which the Act of Congress rendered it impossible to regulate by
tieaty. When that objectionable Act of Congress is replaced by a
more temperate and rational law, it will be the duty of our mini-
sters to consider anew the course they ought to follow:—We de
not object to the United States following any course of commer-
cial policy, which shall be agreeable to their own notions of their
own interests. If they choose to.attewpt, by means of heavy im-
posts, to favour this or that species of industry, and to create
among themselves manufacturing establishments, which would
not otherwise exist, they check the progress of their own wealth
and prosperity in a greater degree than they impede that of other
nations. But it is abslusl enough in them to follow one system,
and yet, is all their official documents, to laud themselves as the
patrons of principles directly opposed to those on whicl: they act.
They load trade with restrictions, and then wish that other States
would imitate their liberality, and adopt their enlarged princi-
ples. :lot satisfied with reciprocity, they insist on enjoying pre-
f r.nces beyond other nations, and, with the same breath, talk of
.thzir own wisdom and moderation, in doing their utmost to pro-
, trie..e free trade on equal terms.—At this very moment a project
,s under the consideration of the Legislature, the purport of which
is, to raise, enormously, the duties upon the importation of the
most important class of manufactures. Whether the measure will
pass is, as yet, uncertain; but the opposition to it arises from
the wants of the Treasury, and not from aversion to the narrow
and erroneous views on which it proceeds. America is adopting
and cherishing the very errors, which more mature experience
leads England to throw aside. So far is the child behind the
parent in the maxims of a liberal commercial policy. Nttc
Times.

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CATHERINE OF RUSSIA.—" 1 It will not
be altogether useless to mention here a, fact, in itself of no great
moment, but which may contribute to give a just view of the
character of Catherine. One day, as I was sitting opposite to
her in her carriage, she expressed a desire that I would repeat to
her some light pieces of poetry which I had composed. The
delightful familiarity which she permitted to those who travelled
with her, the presence of her young favourite, tue remembrance of
those who had preceded him in her favour, her philosophy, her
gaiety, her correspondence with the Prince de Ligne, Voltaire,
and Diderot, having led me to suppose that she would not be
shocked at a tale of gallantry, I recited one to her which was in
truth a little free and gay, but still sufficiently choice in its
expressions to have been well received at Paris by the Due de
Nivernais, by the Prince de Beauveau, and by ladies whose virtue
equalled their good humour. To my great surprise, I saw the
laughing traveller suddenly assume the deportment of a majestic
sovereign. She interrupted me by a question altogether foreign
to the purpose, and changed the subject of conversation. Some
minutes afterwards, in order to shew her that I understood her
lesson, I entreated her attention to a piece of verse of a very dif-
' ferent kind from the former, and to which she lent the most oblig-
ing attention : as if desirous that her weaknesses should be re-
spected, she took care to cover them with a veil of decency and
dignity. This anecdote reminds me of what my brother said,
with so much justness and originality, when speaking of the in-
dulgence permitted by women thoroughly virtuous, and the ap-
parent severity of those who are not quite so perfect. " Where
virtue reigns,' said he, 'the thew of nice decorum is useless.'"--
Serer'. Memoir.