The Sun.
London, England, 1818-09-14 00:00:00

A MANIAC.

MANSION HOUSE.-Sqturday, in the course of
business, the Lotto MAYOR - was much surprised
by the appearance of a venerable looking man,

dressed in the uni!orin of a General Officer, of The
last century, who presented himself at the table,
and demanded an audience. The LORD MAYOR

having told him to proceed, he said he was
a native of America, and had fought, as a
Loyalist, for this country in the first Ame-
rican war. He left America for England
for the purpose of demandinz tl►e Prin-
cess Elizabeth, daughter to his Britan►►ic Ma-
jesty, in marriage, and he wished to obtain the
interest of I►is Lordship to procure an audience
with the proper authorities ul►on the subject.—
The Lord Mayor told the applicant lie•was too
late, as the Princess Elizabeth was already mar•
tied. The American then said, that any other
►laughter of George the Third would do as well ;

one he was determined to have. He went on in
an incoherent manner to state, that upon an es-
tate which he possessed in America he had disco-
vered a gold mine, but he could not prevail npon
the unenlightened inhabitants of that country to
work it, and he therefore intended to solicit the
British Government to
.grant hits a vessel filled
with artists to explore his hidden treasures.--The
Captain of the ship in which the applicant came
over being present, was asked how he came to
bring a •passenger who was evidently deranged.
He replied, that the Gentleman was perfectly
sane, except mtt, one particular point, and hay-.
ing once got him on board, • he could not get rid
of him Slitte money which the American had
about him was taken care of, and he himself sent
to the Compter, until some arrangement can be
made respecting hint.

THE GRAND DUKE MICHAEL.—On 'Need iy
evening the Grand Duke MicuAct. and suite ar-
rived at the York Hotel, Huth; and the follow
ins; day, Mr; Marshall, M. C. or. the Kingston►
Rooms, escorted him to all the principal objects of
attraction and cierinsity-the Baths, the Pump'-
room's,. the Abbey, Guilrlitall, ASSemblv-tooms,
Sydney-garden, &c. At the his Imperial
Highness was met by Dr. Gilihrs, who showed
the various apparatus and accotriModations for

bathing., and explained the nature of the seaters.
At the Upper As.Centhl-roorns Mr. Heaviside
escoited rite Imperial Visiior thrbugh the magni-
ficent suite of rooms under his d4minion. 'Dist
tirand Duke 'expressed If in tet'ms of the
highest 'admiration with the various,bull'lings, &c.,
as they successively fell Under. his notice":" he
cited Mt'. Alatiltall's •ciititpany to 13ri tol and
Clifton, an honour which Mr. Marshall was pre.;
eluded accepting, through his official engage
went at Melkshain. 1-1 k Imperial Highness lett
Bath on Thursday: Morning tutus Bristol and
Clifton ; and thence proceeds to. Exeter and Viy-
'flout Bath Herald.)

The Journal des Debuts says, that a woman
!tanned BARRE{ RACO,• now living in the district of
Mondugon (Allier), 11,18 attained to ihe surprising
age of 112 years, and still retains all hrr faculties.
She has experienced the kindness- of her loyal
ME-illness MADAM E, who sent her a sum of money.

~lllt. BROUGH Am.

ON EDUCATION.

FOR THE SUN.

Mn. norrort,---.flu my arrival in town, I was
very anxious to peruse Mr. BRoUGIIAM'S Letter
to Sir ROMILLY, on the abuses of Pub-
lic Charities. I expected that he would at-
tewht to sink the provisions of the Bill as origi-
uoity introduced by him into Parliament, and
which were so properly and so early reprobated
in yoer excellent Paper, as unconstitutional, in-
quisitorial, arbitrary, and unjust ; and I find my-
sell collect in that respect ; for, throughout this
lahoured, pamphlet, he has endeavoured to show
that the powers with which he first proposed to
invest the Commissioners were perfectly consist-
ent with the rules of onr Courts of Law and Equity,
and not contrary to the principles upon which their
proceedings against individuals, whose conflict is
arraigned before tbem,are regulated. To enable the
poblic, however, to form a correct opinion of the
nature of Mr. Brougham's Bill, as FIRST brought
into the House of Commons, I call on that Gentle-
man to add to the Appendix to his Letter, which
is riot yet published, the Bill as originally intro-
duced, the Bill as amended, and the Act as carried
up to the House of Lords. The public will then
have an opportunity of judging correctly of this
case, and of the degree of credit which is to be
give') to Mr. Brougham's statements in his Let-
ter to his friend Sir Samuel Romilly. But until
these different editions or revisions of this famous
Bill are before the Public, and there were sir edi-
tions of it in the Commons, it will be difficult for
them to form a proper estimate of the conduct
which has been pursued on this occasion. Mr.
Brougham in Ibis Letter most studiously avoids
mentioning the case of Dulwich College, and the
Bill to alter its constitution and management ;
the provisions of which were in direct contradic-
tiou to the express will and the statutes of the
Founder, and which would have compelled the
Fellows of the College to violate the oath that
they had solemnly and voluntarily taken upon
their admissions, and from which they had pledged
themselves never to consent to be absolved. Mr.
Brougham also forgets to notice or justify the in-
road, which, as a Member of a Committee of
the lost Parliament, it is said, lie made on that
great constitutional rule, which, for ages past, has
been observed in our Courts of Law, " that the
information communicated confidentially by a
client to a lawyer, in the exercise of his profes-
sional duties, is not to be disclosed." That this
principle was most shamefully disregarded in a
Committee of the last Parliament is notorious.
It is to be regretted that the subject was not
brought before the House. it would then have
been seen, whether the House would lend itself
to the assumption of a pourer and rigour beyond
the law, for if Committees of the House of Com-
mons have a right to extort from professional men
the secrets of their employers, a power not ill-
vested in the Courts of the Kingdom, it is high
time that some legislative enactment should he
made to limit all authority so dangerous to the
cH,,,iits, liberties, and properties of the people.—
The assumption of jut:tic's'. power by Com-
mittees, of by the House of Commons, should be
siewed,with jealousy, awl opposed, by all consti-
tutional means, by the Public. I may on another
d., V' bring- to the recollection of your renders the
circumstances which gave rise in former 'hues to
the Kentish Petition and the Legion Letter,- and
in more modern tittles to the celebrated Speech of
Mr. 'Littleton, in which he denied this power in
the Commons, and reprobated as unconstitutional
their attempt to exercise it.
It is very convenient to ,write and circulate
pamphlets, and to suppress and overcharge facts;
bat Mr. Brougham forgets altogether that the
public attention was drawn to his Bill,within two
days after it was first printed, by your remarks,
and which were followed. up by further observa-
tions your Paper, and in other public Prints.
Fur the present 1 have only to repeat my request,
that Mr. Brougham will print the several editions
and revisions of hist Bill in the Appendix which
he is about to publish, and in the third edition of
his Letter he may probably condescend to assign
some reason for the unconstitutional and arbitrary
conduct which he adopts throughout the inquiries
into Public Schools and Public Charities. It he
does, I may be induced to trouble you again, for
lie must he aware that the Press is open to all
parties ; and motives may be assigned for questions'
asked, in the course of these inquiries, which may
lead the Public to conclude that such zeal as he
has shewn on these occasions is not always bot-
tomed in disinterestedness, impartiality, or the
love of justice.
That this measure of Mr. Brougham, Sir Sa-
muel Romilly, and Mr. Babington, for they were
the triumvirate named to bring in the Bill, was
not free from suspicion on political and religions
grounds, is generally admitted. As far as the
Public arc concerned, a less expensive, • shorter,
sad more certain mode of proceeding might have,
been adopted than that which has been establish-
ed in the present, instance. The great objection
to the investigation of the abuses of Public Cha-
rities ,and Schools has been the want of funds to
institute inquiries. If, therefore, the Attorney
aid Solicitor-General had been by Act of Parlia-
ment authorised to direct informations to be filed
at the instance of persons making applications to
tliein, pointing out abuses in these Institutions,
but at the public expence, wherever the funds of
the Establishrnents were either inadequate or
could not be resorted to for costs, the great ob-
j.ct would have been obtained in a manner con-
genial to the spirit and the laws of the country,
and the present Bill rendered unnecessary ; for,
in Mr. Brougham's first Bill, his own Commis-
sioners, with the large salaries which they were to
have enjoyed under an indefinite commission as
to duration of time, were directed to proceed at
law, atter they had most likely spent more
Homey in investigations than the costs of a suit
amount to, and to draw on Government for their
expences in carrying on the same.

lu page ten of Mr. Brougham's Letter he says,
" we had armed the Commissioners with the
power of compelling the production of Papers, and
obliging every one to answer such questions as
(lid NOT criminate himself.." Now, 1 venture to

ask Mr. Branlt& ') if this assertion does not apply
to the third revist in of his Bill,and not to the first or
second; and whe her, in the first edition, the Com=
missioners were not authorised to commit to prison,
there to remain without trail or main-prize, " any
person who wo ild not answer such questions as
were pia to hi n ;" and whether the restrictive
words, " wide') should not criminate themselves,''
were not intro bleed as an amendment, in couse-
quencedf the reprobation expressed in y'onr and
other Papers ; and whether the powers origiftly
proposed to he given to these Commissioners did
not also authorise them to investigate the titles of
the hinds, &c. belonging to these institutions, and
enable them to call for title deeds as well as pa-
pers ! ! An inquiry into the management of pub-
lic Institutions of this nature is certainly necessary
wherever abuses exist—but any attempt to dis-
close the tides of the estates by which they arc
maintained and supported, is a strong feature of
THAT SY!•TPSI which the writers in The Edinburgh
Review have so long endeavoured to inculcate and
impress on the Public Mind

cases noticed iti Mr. Brougham's Letter are
partially selected. lie probably Might, without
much difficulty; have found a few other masterships
of Hospitals similarly circumstanced will' those
of "Mere and Spital, but then some of his own
political friends and their connexions might have
been implicated ; but more of this topic in an-
other Letter.. Other schools in IVestu►oreland
and Cumberland might likewise have been men-
tioned, -as Well as St. Bees, but for the same
reason ! ! !
NOT A LAY PROPRIETOR OF NORFOLK
LIVINGS.'
Trtvistock Hotel, September 32, 18;8.

LONDON JOURNALS.

[Morning Herald, Sept. 14.]
THE QUEEN.

Her Majesty, late on Friday night, again became exces-
sively restless, and unable to bear the least. deviation from a
perfectly upright position in her chair. In consequence, she
passed a painful and sleepless night.
Throughout Saturday her Majesty remained, however,
somewhat more at ease than might have been expected, anal
Sir Henry Halford left the Palace for London, for a few
hours. At twelve o'clock the Duke of York arrived front his
bouso in St. James's Palace, and, after remaining upwards of
an hour with her Majesty and the Princesses, he went on to
pay his customary Saturday visit to the Princess Sophia, at
Windsor Castle. His Royal Highness intended returning
thence to Outlands. In the course of the day, the Princess
Augusta and the Duchess of Gloucester walked in the Botanic
Gardens, with their Ladies in Waiting, and accompanied by
General Taylor. In the evening, about five o'clock, the Prince
Regent arrived at the Palace, front the Stud-house, and im-
mediately visited her Majesty. His Royal Highness after-
wards had a long conference with Sir Francis Milman and
Sir .Henry Halford. At seven o'clock, his Royal Highness
dined with the Princesses, General Taylor and the Physicians
being of the party; and, her Majesty becoming more and
more composed, his Royal Highness left the Palace, abou
nine o'clock, for Carlton-house.

Yesterday inurninir, the Official Bulletin was—
" The Queen has had a very good night, but her Majesty's
symptoms continue without any variation in thew.
(Signed) " F. 111ILNIAN,
" 11. HALFORD."

.Up to eight o'clock, last night, no material alteration had
taken place ; but (ruin these repeated attacks,, her Majesty,
we understand, is in a state of the most distressing- exhaustion.
The Princesses again walked out yesterday, accompanied
by General Taylor, the Earl of Winchelsea, and Colonel Des-.
brow, the former of whom arrived at the Palace from Wind-
sor, and the latter from London, about three o'clock.

The Prince Regent arrived about five o'clock, and, as usual,
passed nearly an hour in her Majesty's chamber with the
Physicians, and afterwards dined with the Princesses. Ar-
rangements were made for his Royal Highness's re turn to
Carlton House at nine o'clock last night. .

[New Tiines.] -

The Griffon sloop of war, Captain Wright, whose arrival at
Portsmouth on Thorsday, front St. Helena, we have already
announced, left that island the 2d of August, hav►ng been re-
lieved by the Dotterel, Captain Gore. The Conqueror, 74,
Captain Wallis (flag-ship) ; Racoon, Capt. Brine; Podargus,
Capt. Cairnes ; Redpole, Lieut. Pearson ; and Dotterel, Capt.
Gore, were at St. Helena. The Favourite arrived at St.
Helena the latter end of July, and was at Ascension when
the Griffou touched there. The Eurydice was at the Cape of
Good Hope. Mr. O'Meara, late Surgeon to Buonaparte, has
come home in the Griffon ; Mr. Stoker, Sturgeon of the Con-
queror, had been appointed to supply his place. Buonaparte,
it is stated, had rot been out of doors for several months, and
was much indisposed with a liver complaint. The Governor
had experienced a serious attack of bowel complaint the be-
ginning of Jul), from which, .however, he had recovered.—
We are sorry to learn that the crew of the Conqueror, as well
as the troops on the Island of St. Helena, were its an unusu-
ally u,healt by state, and that many 'deaths had taken place.
Capt. Pasley, of the Redpole, died at St. Helena on the 9th
July, after an illness of about six weeks. Lieutenant Pear-
son, of the Conqueror, had been appointed to the command
of the Redpole.—Capt. Bunn, of the East India Company'S
store-ship Mangles, died on the 29th July ; Mr. Dunning, of
the Conqueror, passenger on board the Griffon, died on his
passage. The James transport, laden with condemned
stores front the Cape, sailed for England on the same day with
the Griffon, and was to he followed in a day or two by the
Brilliant transport, Lieutenant Bothwell.

We were ycsjerday favoured with a tile of Sierra Leone
Gazettes to the 18th of June. It gives us great pleasure to
state, that they contain additional proofs of the increasing
prosperity of this interesting colony, not only in the improve-
ments which are daily made in the colony itself; but in the
rapid approaches to civilization which are visible in its ale-
pendencics. There is not only a considerable increase in the
commercial relations of this infant settlement, but also, what
is more desirable, a sensible amelioration of the morals of its
inhabitants. This may be proved, as it is in the present in-
stance, by the continual decrease of criminal business at.t he
General Quarter Sessions. For the last three or four of these
judicial sittings we perceive that the calendar has become
comparatively lighter, not only in the number of the
accused, but also in the magnitude of. the offences.
This diminution is, in a very great degree, owing to the active
and persevering exertions of the Governor, and those who in).
mediately assist hire in-the administration of justice. Amongst

THE SUN.

lOLEM QUIS DICEFtE YALSUM AUDEAT ?

LONDON,
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1813.

THE QU4EN.—The following is the Bulletin of

this day :

' KIM PALACE, SF:PT. 14.

" Han MAJESTY has not had a good night,

but remains as well as yesterday.
(Signed)

" H. HALFORD.
" F. MILMAN."

We received yesterday the Paris Papers of
Thursday last, and this morning those of Friday.
The liING held a Council of Ministers on Wed-
nesday, which sat from one o'clock till half-past
four.

The Duke of GLOUCESTER, after visiting Bag-
Beres, arrived at 'Montpellier on the 30th ult.
where his Royal Highness viewed the different
Establishments, and then dined with the Prefect
and the principal Functionaries. The next day,
after being present at the manoeuvres of the troops
of the garrison, his Royal Highness set out, as
before stated, for Nismes, which place he left on
the Ist instant.

The suit of M. de CHAPPEDELAINE aghinst the
authors of the Leib-es Normandes, for a libel con-
tained in a paragraph respecting the alleged con-
spiracy, came on for trial on WednesdAy. After
a long argument the defendants were acquitted.
In Bavaria the people are occupied for the first
time in electing Deputies to the Chamber of Re-
presentatives.

An article from Berlin states it to be no longer
doubtful 'that the Danish Minister, the Count de
13ERNSTOI1FF, will enter the Prussian service, not

as before stated, as Vice-Chancellor, but 0$ •
nister for Foreign Affairs.,
The discussions between Prussia and S°x°ll/
still continue, but they are said to be so far ter'
['limited that the Commissioners are only peed.
pied in ascertaining the line of the frontiers ;
labour, however, which is expected to laot t-e
hOl
during the ensuing winter.

The Spanish Minister at Naples has been ton"
missioned to demand the hand of one of the date
ters of the Hereditary Prince, for the Infant P°ll
FRANCIS PAUL.

Great preparations have been made in the PO'
sian dominions, at each stage, for the recce°
of the Emperor of Russia;
The following are Extracts from the Journals
of Ft idAy
• ARIS, SEPT. 11.—The King transacted baud'
u
siness yesterday successively with the Duke a
Richelieu and the Duke de Tarente, Grand CIO'
cellor of the Legion of Honour.
• We learn from Avignon that his Royal High'',
ness the Duke of Gloucester arrived there 011 the
Ist inst., and the next day went to visit the Wit'
lain of Vaucluse. His Royal highness also 'ls4'
ed the ancient Cathedral and the ruins of the PP'
pal Palace. On the 3d he set out for Lyons'
General Protean has been appointed bY bi
Majesty Commandant of Calais. \
" The Review of the English troops is exPer
to take place immediately. The Duke of 1/4;
lington will then, about the 20th instant, 501
out for Aix-la-Chapelle, and remain there O
the termination of the Conferences. As s° 10
as they are concluded, the departing review °f ,
Allied Army will take place, and then every
tingent will be put in route to return to ,h 1:1'
homes. The order of march is already designated
viz. the Prussian Corps d'Arm4e will march throug
the Grand Dtichy of Luxemburg, and the Terri'
0%
tory of Treves ; the Russian Cavalry, after p fol 0
the Rhine, will traverse Germany t°
ceed to Poland ; the Russian Infantry and /°lO
ery will embark at Dunkirk. The English tr°
will march successively to Calais and Bo"l°gIe:
where they will embark; before; their dePrt°bis
they will sell the hOrses, and all that part °fTbe
train which has become useless to them. to
Saxon corps will take the shortest road trt 0
Rhine; the Danish and Hanoverian troops
41.
through Belgium. At Sedan, the principal
pages of the Prussian corps are ordered 10 re: of
grade to the Rhine. At Cambtay the Goof
the English Royal Guards are disposing °f
horses, and every thing in the cantonment' be
flounces the preparations for departure: :to
French Colonel of Engineers Baudran, and
Chef de Battalion Manrin, in concert with Se
ea
„101-
ral English Officers of Engineers, are elut
jive'
in inspecting the places occupied, in order t-
„ tie
rify their state, previous to their ,being surl-11

ed to the French Authorities. • IPt
"We learn from Cambray the 7th instant, it4
Lord and Lady Castlereagh arrived there :
°cg,
their suite, on the preceding evening, at 10°.c.,,,.
They occupy the house of the Duke of Well's to
ton. Lord Castlereagh, it is understood, °I

be present at the Reviews.
" Several quarries have been discover
France, of stone suable for the purPses°t

tliography.
/‘
41 .Jayecie Jaye Instruction examined on mn .r of
day two new witnesses, .respecting the a°l

General Cannel.

CO'

" The Duke of Wellington set out fro ll)
rhe
bray on the o
Bth inst. for Valencienn. '1"
loci
plo
view of the E ':
nglish contingent was to t"" '
ft
tic
yesterday, near Bouchain; and to-daY that
Russian troops near Maubeuge.
shot " An Englishman, aged about 22, 0° 06
on 'Wednesday in the park of Versailles'
Aired in little more than an hour.

FIVE PER CENTS.
Shut price ..... 77 f. 75c•
Ex. Div. Wednesda ............ 74 f 40
y-
Ex. Div. Thursday 74 f• 95c.

Of the 22d March,
DEFERRED STOCK
Wednesday. Thurs(l3l. f 2!•
..„c
22d Sept. 1817....84f. 10c.... 84 t.w"
f.l2llll,lareb, 1818 ..82f. c2O C. ...621* 2Clc.
1817.... Sri f. 10 c..... 86;
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EXCHANGE ON LONDON. C.
241.. 45
One Month
Three Months .9
gran D'`;
' " CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 30.--The e
received dispatches, confirtning the "Pull' br
bites,
Drehycli, the principal town of the Wecna al rim
the. Ottoman troops, under the brs 1
den °
Pachi" It was expected that Abdallah if V
orders ijed,
h se
the Chief of the Wechabites, would
Jai
made prisoner. for bllildi4
~ .--.1
r eparations are making here
nil
several ships of war. s'-'
l'Ogt
" The plague continues to raysge ''.)
Bre ol,"
the Islands of the Archipelago. lbered 0411 6c
some cases of plague in this capiolP a-
of '
Pere. f thC
" RASTADT, SEPT. 4.—An Address o'ed 0 ll't
habitants of Darmstadt has been Pres°