The Sun.
London, England, 1818-03-14 00:00:00

THE DUKE OF BEDFORD.

There has perhaps seldom been a more unnee
cessary intrusion upon public notice than appears
in the Letter of this Nobleman, on account of the
appointment of Lord G,RANTHAM to the Lori
Lieutenancy of tbe.,Connty of Bedford. In the
. •
first place, the,Duke of BEDFORD had no right S.
expect that, because that honour had been Coda'
red on his family in-former times, it was to be
heteditary in that family. In the next place, the
part which his Grace had taken in politics
'chided him from all reasonable hopes that it would
be conferred on him. Then, granting that the
late Lord OssoaY might wish to be relieved froth
the labours of the Lieutenancy, he bad no right
to confer it on the Duke of BEnpoan. Again, 03
the death of Lord OSSORY, it does not appear that
the Duke of BEDFORD made any application to
succeed him in the office; and why should he sue'
pose that Government were to hunt out. for hints
and beseech him to accept it. As to the inter'
tion on the part of Lord OSSORY to resign 0,
office, when he accepted it in 1771, in favour 0
the late Duke .of 1-I,A3Foan, till he became of
age, that is rather matter of conjecture than of
proof; and it is not certain, that if he had resign'
ed it at that period, he would have been allowed
the nomination of a successor. On the contrary,
as the late Duke was of the same political party
with the present, it is very probable that, in case
of a vacancy, he would have been passed over i°
the .same manner. But why were the present
Duke's mournful effusions addressed to LOra
GRANTHAM, who probably never heard of the
presumed arrangement by which Lord Ossosa
was to be locum teams to the late Duke of BED'
YORD, and, if he had, was under no obligation to
attend to it, and to decline the honour now cow

terred on him. There can be no reason why the,
Duke should have addressed the Letter to Lore
GRANTHAM, nor was it at all consistent with deli'
racy and decorum that it should have been pub'
fished in a Newspaper. In every view of the sub'
ject, the Duke seems to have had no reasonable
plea for thrusting himself thus on public notice.
As to the Letter itself, it is so full of egotism's,
that it seems to have been framed by Lora
ERSKINE, particularly as the Duke was one of
-those who signed the Loans' PROTEST, avowedli
the production of that Noble Lord, who is noto'
riously partial to what Mr. GIBBON stiles " the
most disgusting of all the pronouns." Upon the,
whole, we cannot see any fault on the part of
Ministers in their allotment of the office in titles,'
tion. If they had offered to bestow it on 1111
Grace, they might have been charged with an a"
tempt at mean conciliation, or have exposed then'
selves to the proud rejection of party zeal. `libel
have conferred it• on a very respectable Nobleman'
who is likely to become possessed of very cool'
derable property in the county, and whose arias'
tors enjoyed the same honour. We shall nod
avail ourselves of some Extracts from Cowrie°
PEERAGE, which appeared in a respectable Mora'
ing Paper of yesterday, which Paper bad previous :It
contained some pertinent, judicious, and spiricea
observations on the subject. The following r"
cords will skew what connexion the family of pg
GREY, of which Lord GRANTHAM is the wale re-
presentative, have had with the county of 13 e
ford :

JOHN DE GREY was Sheriff of Bedford and Bucks, 23 11.111 d
office tantamount to that of Lord-Lieutenant in later
JOHN DE GREY, 5 E. 11., had a grant of the Manors of SviaW
ton and Sharnbrook, in the County of Bedford. hAd
ROGER DE GREY, residing in the County of Bedford,
summons to go to Guyenne with Earl Warion, 18E.
, in 11 E. 111., the King sent him a schedo 6
of the propositions offered to the King of FKANc“Qr
Peace, to show to the Clergy and People in the Counties o
Bedford and Rucks.
, 26 E. HI., one of the Commissioncr,i.
arm and array all the Knights, Esquires, and other au."
persons in the Counties of Bedford and Bucks. of
REGINALD DE GREY died, 12 It. 11., seized of the Manors
Wrest and Flit te, in the County of Bedford.
Jolts DE GREY, Knight of the Garter, left twosons, EsEIW-w.
created Earl of KENT, 3 E. IV.; THOMAS, created Lord
GREY of Bougenzont, in the County of Begord, who left 10

ISSUE.
REGINALD nE GREY Sheriff of Bedford and Bucks, n IC3,*
Sir HENRY GREY, of irreat, succeeded his half-brother
Earl of KENT, in 1524. .
It may here be proper to observe, that the fl"
mily of RUSSELL had no connexion with (11
County of Bedford until many years after this Pe'
Hod, namely, in the Ist year of E. VI., when 1,116
first Earl of BEDFORD had a grant of Woburn ,
hey. But :o return to the family of DH GaBY---",„
HENRY GREY, 6th Earl of KENT, was Lord-Lieutenant of tr.-
County of Bedford, 1585 to 1614 27 Ye3l*
HENRY GREY, Earl of KENT, 1646 to 1651..
HENRY GnEv, Duke of KENT (the last Male Heir
of the Family), 1711 to 1740 3O ditto'

In all 63
The family of RUSSELL held the same houour
able post, as under— 10
WILLIAM RUSSELL, Earl, afterwards Duke of BEDroftv, r
1660 say 1 Ye 3 .
,
The Same, 1639 to 1700 l2 altia
WROITHESLEY RUSSELL, Duke of BEDFORD,
____

1700 to 1711
JoIINT RUSSELL, Duke of BEDFORD, 1745 to

11 ditty.

1771.

27 ditto

5t ditto•
From the above statements it clearly arpor6.;
that the " succession of ages" referred to by tni.
Grace of BEDFORD, sinks into insignificance wil
contrasted with the services of that family, to
head of which, in all probability, Lord Gil
THAM is destined to be, in no distant pe!,,.i'ud
when his estates within the County of Bea.P
will be little, if at all, inferior to those of Ih%
"-
Duke Of BEDFORD.
It may he further observed, that the DE GROS
were Lords of Parliament at their commence;
ment, in the reign of EDWARD I. 3 and that til
RUSSELLS did not attain that dignity until the
reign of HENRY VIII.

The Morning Chronicle has this day had the PH/
to resume the subject, and, admitting that Lord
GRANTHAM is " a man of good character," c°l"
tends, that as " he is not possessed of one shil;
ling of property in the county," lie is not qualifie
to be its Lord Lieutenant ; admitting too, at, the
same time, that lie is presumptive heir to alarge
estate in that Counly. But as the Noble "rj
has no immediate connexion with the County, be 13

lota's
tho
I tilt
rt Oi

Fong.

I.BR COUNTRY.

SHIP NEWS.

)014
wee
no 4
[NSI
oriv

rc.•
Ds
re-

E.
edo
for
u)

„•5 Of

11%
!r

CC'
the

y I)
Ica
tbe

likely to be impartial, to hare no political controul
or:influence, and may have in a short time as much
Property in it,"and consequently have, even in that
respect, as strong a claim as the Duke of Bap-
The Chronicle is silly enough to advert
to the Dulte, matiere his subscription for HONE
and his blasphemous Parodies, as leading,a " re-
Irgiotts "-life, granting, however, that political
Motives made him extend " the shield of his pure
character " over the Bli;spherner. It may now
be presumed that.the Doke of BEDFORD will not
here;tfter be quite so anxious to"make an epiito
iary appeal to public opinion, and tht he will
"nestly implore The Chronicle not to expose
Liin to ritlieule by any further vindication. We
calinot eo-nclude•more properly than by quoting a
passage from The Chronicle, in which, by its Usual
blundering ill-luck, it has exactly described itself,
li4 THE REVILER .01? .ACTIONS IN OTHERS

HE HAD C()MMITTP.D HIMSELF, AND THE

CAtIiING AND DAILY TRADUCER OF SOME OF THE

It°T HONOURABLE AND VIRTUOUS CHARACTERS

sir 12$„"Ar.,, MAactt 13 —Came" down from the River
ravourite, BRAVENDER, for Havannab, and
l'siled with the ;hole of the outward-bound, ex.!
thrlt the Java and Lady Carrington Indiamen, for
eir respective destinations, with a gentle breeze
N• E. Also sailed the whole of the homeward
(
"od. for the River. A large fleet of ships is
t) Rang out of Ramsgate, and are passing through
,1e Ltowns to the Westward.—We have made
.I"4ost strict enquiry respecting
'"eel the vessel men-
yesterday as being lost on the Sands, but
• 'omt ascertain any furtherparticulars.
PottTsmouTß, MARCH 13.—The wind bas been
~orth nearly all day, which has enabled-the out-
-1A;"4-hgund to proceed, but it has shifted to the
I,>.\l•W this evening. Arrived the sloop Le
41i.1 Esperance from. Cherhurgh.—A seaman,
114 stated himself to belong tlre o
the AmericanAltig Francis, of Portland, has reported to us,
"on the night- of the 4t I, inst. site struck on a
betwe,fn Po,tland and the Needles and
totally lost, and only four of the crew saved.
le was from. Savannah, with a cargo of tobacco,
Bremen.
PLyvou'rn MARCH 12.---Aryived the Tamer-
- RANK Lit , irom tne uape of Good Hope,
vorm to Falmouth ; but last night it blew so i
eq hard that Captain FRANKLIN COMM not get
Into ralmontn, and Was.Ohligetl, in consequence,
to run for this port. She sailed from the Cape on
the Ist of Jarniary, and left there the True Briton
and Princess Charlotte, for Liverpool, 'and from
Helena on the 14th of January.
MARCH l3.—Atrived the Perse-
HARE, from Glasgow, with a general
elr;_c) 'or London; with loss of gaff, &c. and
prpt-s et windlass upset.
r,
• AI4RGA-re, MARCH 13.=—Sailed the Lars?
• "ngino, KettNE, for Bengal ; and the rest of the
eat ward bound.
Aectuonouoß, ATAEct 13.—The sloop Free
briton MANN, laden with flag stones, from Leeds
pto Colchester, was forcet; on shore by the vio-
'ettee of the wind anti sea yesterday morning up-
v‘o Or ford beacon, and immediately went to
!tieces—crew saved, Andat .the same time' was
rivet) on shore, at the entrance of Orford haven,
Ze Liberty, BARDWELL„ twin London-with corn
"'lyint of the_ cargo and crew saved—the vessel
ongs to Southsvold.
1, SHIELDS, MARCH 11.---Sailed the Grenville
-rk‘ja!it'eryiN.l'WlLLlAMS, for the Davis' Straits

4 'tie ficillands, ANDREWS, from Cbaleston to
4isterdAin, and the Rose, BARUY, from Lyme to
htierdeen, were driven' on shore near Fionlogne
edne and it is' feared would go to
PIS W
e rty?
cs crew saved.
b:lec,,,,,fis have been received of the loss of a
%(iteh 14 gun slip, which sunk near the Cape of
tt:" Hope. Sbe was richly laden • with coffee,
" was named the Amsterdsm.

ti74(l s t)"
GIFFORD, EiQ —The remains of this
'
c itdar, vowel toil Writer, genuine Put riot,
toti.g"t and sagacious Magistrate, are to he in-
RiliAP this day, at Bromley in Kent. The funeral
14 'esitunieJ attended, nly by a very few intimate
L, ,4
among wham are some of the Committee
11411,11 PITT CLUB, of which the departed Gen-
Was tioNortAßY SECRETARY, a due tribute
niernorv, as the impartial BIoGRAPtiEE of
4410411011a] Statesman. Mr. GIFFORD has left
,fit.4ll' and seven children, and, therefore, as his
ks
11, defence of loyalty and the true princi=
o,lir unrivalled Constitution are well
Itt,i '1
and much admired, we trust that Govern-
not neglect the family of so able an ad-
, anti so strenuous a supporter.
1

Sth 4vIONSTER.—On Thursday night, a young
'iciy)arned Matilda Emery, was walking along
4: ta''v, On her way from a friend's house to-
"' her home, wihen a man, whose exterior
Itip,‘v ilhll le kilt) the appearance of a Gentleman, address-
and•was very intrusive. He accosted ber
',ll l''' 'How do you do, my dear ;" she walked
Niout making any reply; he continued to
I'l`:‘v her, and a second time addressed her-
-0,"%v are pm, love," and pushed against her
il Y violently, which caused her to reel some dis-
iN:e', and hefore she could recover herself, the
Clio'l'hati villain ran a sharp instrument into her
he. screamed very loud, and fell on the
pt Ind he ran off the moment he had perpe-
., ir4ted the diabolical act. Her exclamation of
14,,1' ! I'm siabbed," brought several persons
141,7diacely to her assistance, arrd they instantly-.
!,e had gained too
k fled him. but unfortunately
11 "I.(%it distance
a to be overtaken by the pursuers.
I) 'e female was assisted to St. George's Hospital
ItY some
strangers;. the Surgeons examined the
: in. 164,0 . /
for/ onately. none of the vitals were
tt.) in-
J
en • , she was in great pain, and the wound is
~,
"flitted dangerous. •

PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF -LORDS) FRIDAY, MARCH 13.

The House proceeded in Appeals.
A local and private Bill were in ought Hp from
!be House of Commons by Sir Edward icnatch.
bull, Mr. Cawthorne, and other Members, and
read a first lime

The .Scots Aqua- Vita Bill was read a second
time, and committed for Monday.
• The Mutiny Act Mistake Bill, the West India
Indemnity Bill, the Madder Unties BM, and the
Kilmainham Bill,;were read a third time,
and passed. • .

.'Toe Royal Marine Mutiny Bill, and the Bank
Tokens Penalty, Suspension Bill, passed.throngh
Committees, and, were reported without amend-

meat.