The Sun.
London, England, 1820-08-16 00:00:00

FOR TILE SUN.'

Ma. EDITOIII—AS I „presume it is not incon-
sistent either with the' objects or the general
character, a.itcl certainly not with the title, of
your.iotelliient and respectable Journal, to make
known whatever is calculated to enlighten the
understanding, perhaps you not have- any-- •
objection to insert, at some convenient oppor-
tunity, the following account of a . Literary .So-
ciety, of which, for a considerable,time past,. I
haVe had the pleasure to be a member. The.
formation of the Philomathic Institution, Burtoa-
street, .;
Burton-crescent, took place in •Seiltenal)er
18(0:- its progress ,has been gradual and satisfac=
tory. It is provided with a convenient and re,
spectable place of meeting, erected by the So-.
clety,- and every wty adapted to its different en
g-agernents. The objects which it professes to
have in Vie NV, re. mental improvement and pro:..
titable relaxation ; and the means, by which its
proposes to accomplish these desirable cods, are
the most liberal and impartial discussion. of lite-
rary, philosophical, and miscellaneous questions ;
the delivery of lectures on subjects of literature.
and science ; the reading of original compositions
and communications ; and the establishment of a
library.. It has been found to produce the most
beneficial effects on the minds of its •members.
It has been seen to Call forth dormant talent, and
to improve acknowledged ability ; to promote
the most valuable friendship, and to ,store the
mind with a variety, of useful knowledge, by
leading it to think OTT subjects which, perhaps,
would otherwise have :never occupied its atten.-
tion. To all who nay be desirous of cultivating
the useful art of Public Speaking,.,or who may
be partial to literary pursuits in general, the
above Institution, -conceive, presents. many-
important and peculiar advantages. flaying My-
self derived very: great improvement from afteihd;
ing its various. engagements, ,I am, inducekto
adopt this mode of attracting your notice ;mit
that of the Public to a Society, so desirable in its
objects, and so beneficial in its tendency.—l am,
Sir; your's respectfully,
A LOVER OF LEARNING.

I.* We fee) it to be our duty to insert whatever may 'end
to the mtvantage of society, without any conside4ation of
pecuniary requital, as in toe present instance, it being our
anxious wish to render Tit eSt, v theleneral vehicle Of all useful
knowledge.—We assure the Public, thaton numberless occa-
sions we hare acted upon the same principle, though we

know that we are subject to Stamp" Office Notices, and. can
solemnly aver that on such occasions we have had tto recom-
pense but the satisfaction of diScharging our duty to the

Cuuntry.

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Not less than 120 medical practitioners re-
celved the degree of Doctors in Medicine, on
Tuesday se'nnight, at the University,of ,Edin-
burgh.

LONDON JOURNALS,,

1:1)211:1,1" EXTR4CTS.I

'EOM THE INTORNIN.G PAM&

Post.] •
W e hope we- have .strtisfactorily refftted the
vharges, or rather effectually repelled the revolu-
tionary attack -Made by Queen fipiti the
whole systeth of -MP. "Governinent, King, Lords,.
;and CommenS, Hitherto, all thew :who have ..a
acctised-, to.,he -.tried. by the -House of
Lords, considered' that as-ayi.important
The.COnstitutlOn grants to:every subject trial .by
.Ikis Veers. The Lords are the nearest to equality
-with a Queol. Is it for her to refuse the
'whiCh the Constitution allots' her; and-to Amour
'fols.,orne other, ;which she knows she cairnothave?.
If she were to be tried by impeachment, instead
of Bill, it, is by ene .flouse -of Lords that. she
:would .he tried, at last. Butims she is new. ac-
tttsed only .of offences, committed abroad, the
law does• not
...permit_ any 'other course of pro-
.ceeding than one by a Bill ..of Pains-and Penal-
ties„—To protest. Against this is therefore to pro-
test against ail trial whatsoever;; and the tlfteat
of resistance,' we 'cannot help remarking, savours
strongly of the Language of treason. The Queen
is a subject, and is as much bound as any other
to pbmitto the laws which may be passed by
the LegiAature, and she has -as little right as
.any ether subject to resist those ;laws.

[Morning' Chronicle.]
(htr Readers will gee from our Report of y'es
terday's proceedings in the House of Lords, that.
'we were right in onr conjecture, that after the
Lettel• of her Majesty ne attempts would be made
to.put an end to the proceedings against her. The
Measures preparatory to the .openilig of the pro-
ceedings to-morrow were adopted, altd 'among
these it will be 'seen, that though the Queen has
not been impeached, an Addresi was voted tco
hi Majesty, td order the attendance of the'
Guards, usual in cases of -iMpeachment. The
o,re of his Majesty's Ministers, however, led
tlieln to anticipate this vote ; for •soldiel have
been some days stationed round the Houses of
,Parliarnent. We were given to understand that
during the course of the proceedings , the civil
power was to be alone - entrusted with the pre-
servation of order and the securing a free ap-
proach-to Parliament. This information gave us
great pleasure, for whatever may be the feelinas
nt the people with respect to the nature of the
p'oceedings, we are convinced that their feelings
will not lead them to attempt any measures of
nowever,general the regret that Par-
liament should act in -tire double character of
tegislators and Judges, in a -case in which so
tinLcia suspicion will naturally attach to their mo-
flves,
*raid 'however dangerous the precedent
which may thereby be set, we have no fears that
Abeir authority will be resisted. It requires a
great 'cleat, indeed,' to provoke the people of,
'England to resistance.
The Peers have been -all' summoned to attend
in their respective- places :to-morrow, and from
day to day during thetontinuance of the trial.--
*Xmoncr others, we understand, that the Honour-.
ible Thomas Morton - Berkeley was summoned
,tinder the style and title of Earl Berkeley, and
That the young Noblenian has declined to. obey
The summons, alleging that it ought to have been
:dite.cred ' eldest brother. It is supposed,
'that the House will enforce their order, and that
the' young man will have greatness thrust upon
it is a' curious question.--(Aid,)

fillarning -.Herald.]
-Horse Hof Lords. met yesterday, at half-
past three o'cloick. There was a very full attend,
once of Peers, bat no business of importance was
gone into, and the House continued, sitting only
till half-past five. On the motion of the Earl of
Liverpool, an Address of Condolence :was voted,
to his Majesty, on the, death of her late Royal
Highness the Duchess of York, and a Message
• to the same effect was ordered' to be presented to
his Royal Highness her Illustrious, Consort., The
second Report of the Committee of Precedents
-was brought up by the. Earl of Shaftesbury, and
• the Resolutions recommended therein, read, and
agreed to by the House. These Resolutions
merely related'to the arrangements necessary for
preserving a free access to the House, and the
protection of the 1)(403 in its vicinity during the
course of its important deliberations. 'The officers
and special constables employed to enforce the
- regulation with respect to carriages, and to clear
away all obstructions, are to be on duty each
day from nine o'clock in the morning till six in
the evening ; and, according to precedent
.in
cases of impeachment, an Immble Address is to
be presented to the, King, requesting that his Ma-
jesty would be. graciously pleased to order the
attendance upon the Muse of a detachment, of
the Guards, on the 17th, and during the course
of the subsequent proceedings.

[New Times.]
• •
The Queen's Letter has excited just and gene-
ral alarm throughbut the Metropolis, Every
respectable individual feels indignant at the
daring attack on the Constitution which it con-
, tains ; and What is very remarkable, even The
limes, servilely devoted as it is to the cause of se-
dition, dares not to undertake a, direct defence of
this treasonable composition. No one for a mo-
. merit supposes it 'to have been written by the
Queen.. It is well known that she cannot write
English with facility. The letters transmitted by
" her from Italy are full of German idioms; but
t!icre is something stronger than idiom to detect
the brking traitor who penned it. There is the
tainted mhld,. there is the incendiary spirit, there
is the deep-rooted hatred of that glorious fabric
-Lithe Britifilt Constitution! All these bear tes-
t titnony undeniable 'to the authorship of an indi7
-vitt-nal long; hacknied in the ways of rebellion.
'They 'evince the secret hope (vain hope, indeed,
we trust!) that the 17th of August, MO, will
consummate in London, what the 16th of August,
1819 y was meant to have produced in Manchester

----a 'complete intimidation •Of the Legislature,
practical-Sovereiguty of the Mob.7-7-I'ainfig,
deed, is it 'TO" contemplate a Queen of tngland.
fallen into.such hands, entangled'in such snares,
entrapped,Awund, committed to the guidance,
not of hbr known. legal. ;rtivisers (They are ho-
noitrable men), but of secret, hidden tempters
land tyrants, who have fascinated her Majesty's
Judgment, and now controtil her Will. She, hers-elf
had. explicitly declared her;iconvitien that the'
House of Commons was-a.faigiful,representati'Ve
of the Britisji. People ; but ipcthis
la icSgTfabri-
cation, palmed, upon her and given vv;rid
with her signature, we Lind that ItTitielibelledas
shameitSsly as in the foulest pages of the 'no-
penny' Register. Lord John Russell had fairly
stated that his Alajesty's Ministers far froin`hav-
ing the House of Commons under their controul,
were themselves forced to defer to the *ill of the
Independent Members of that Bonse the very
contrary.is assoted in the Letter with which hiS
Majesty was insulted in the nanie hi's Wife.
Her Majesty had with proper decorum appeared
as:a Petitioner for justice before the Honse of
Lords : the fabricated Letter makes her say " to
regard. such a body as a Court of Justice would_
be to calumniate that sacred name." Is it possible-
that the Queen can have been nowingly and deli-
berately guilty of such gross inconsistencies? How-
ever, it is a lamentable fact that the legal and
constitutional powers of the two Houses of Par-
liament have been audaciously denied; and defied,'
and that in the name of a Princessef the House 'of
Brunswick.: This must.not be suffered to pass
without -the, most .open and public disclaither,
without the most stern and solemn reprobation., by
the loyal part of the community. We theyefore
With great- deference submit to: our Readers
in all -parts of the United Kingdom,.but more
especially in. the Metropolis,. whether it would
not be advisable at the present crisis .to de-
clare their firm adherence to the Constitution,
and especially to its main pillars, the two
Houses of Parliament, in all the plenitude of their
lawful power and authority. When,: the Trai-
tors and Revolutionists of last year, in terms not
very unlike those employed in the Queen's Letter,
denied the power of Parliarlient, the Merchants,
Bankers, and Traders 'of London thought it be-
came them .to disavow these • lawless doctrines.
We cannot see that when the, same doctrines are
ushered to
,the world with the signature of
queen Caroline, they become less noxious, or
demand a less,. formal ,disavowal on .the part of
every loyal subject. It is clear that what em-
boldens the factious to preclairri their revolution-
arpsentiments so loudly at the present moment, is
the example of Revolution in other countries.
They burn to hoist the tricolour flag as at N&ples,
and to confiscate, at one blow all the Church pro.
perty as in Spain. But the same motive which
impels them. to assume every clay a bolder tone
should animate those who really love'the Consti-
tution to avow the
.principles of a determined and
generous loyalty. This is a matter totally dis-
tinct from the Queen's guilt or innocence. Hu-
manity prompts tis_tO46o,, that her Majesty May
ultimately clear 'herself of the charges brought
against her ; justice demands an entire suspen-
-sion of opinion on thai`fOint, until the evidence
shall have he,en heard ;. but patriotism and honour
forbid us to Stiffer the great Constitutioii6.lAutho,
rities to be 'attacked in the Queen's name, and
under the pretext of her defence.