The Sun.
London, England, 1820-05-20 00:00:00

JUSTICES OF ASSIZE

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL obtained leave to bring in a
'Bill to give full her •facilities to the procceding3 the C,,urt
of King's Bench, by giving certain powers to Jas,ices of As-
size. The Honourable and Learned Gentlem to soon atter
brought in the Bill, which was real a fitst time, and ordered
to be read a second tittle o t the 30th of June.
ORDNANCE 1-:TIMATES.

Mr. 8.. WARD brought op the Ordnance Estimates, which
were ordered to be Fiord.
The other Orders of ti.e Day were then disposed of, and at
halt-past ten the 1-1.,u, adjourned to Th,tr,day next.

THE Blittlan itpoca s from a Par-
liamentary Return, that the nionbcr of persona
who visited thi. National Hert,sitory ot Literature
and from the 26th of March, 1819 ,o
the 25-h of Match, 1820, wit,. 53 614. I r the
year preceding, 1618-1819—they nmonnied to
63,253. Every year, sit,e, 1813, the dale tr,ta
which the Return is made, the number of
has been progressivelyincteasiog. Wheu we consi-
der th,at during tke 211101-His io the year (Aug. 4mi
September), there is no minllSSl,m, awl that d,.r.
ing the remaining ten months the ildyi ot adtms.
,ion in each week ate only three (viz. M
‘Veduesday, and Ft iday), it may be ie,g,arded as
irakin proof of the iuttlicctual curiosity of tli4
Metropolis.

FOR THE SUN.

ON THE nEcENT PETI I'RON' FOR A FREE TRADE

(tio.

INitt.Errrox,—lf the wistii;tn of past experience
tlematuh; our assent ‘vith a better grace than the

tvisurance of untried theory, though not with so
loud a voice, %ye may be permitted to pause bt•fore

sobscsiWtog to a new set of principles in commer-

ci4l policy, or rather to a revival of principles long
tihee exploded in our jurisprudence, which pro,
tyie touch, but without the test of any historical
expetim,nr in their favour. They may be loud ;
but clamour is not artzument. They may assert

generalities ; hot as prActice must he in iirtica-
lark, we have a right to ask Rot only for the Cui
liono, but also for the Quo 31ndo.

adv,lnre that as I:eller:411y good, which may
pro'ed in some eases to be specifically bad,
tl)ongh this ono certdinly does not lie upon the.
opoonen,s, is tindoub•erily bold, it not presump-
tuoos, and might be passed over as the whim of
tlie moment, to be puffel up like bobbles in the
sunheams, and to expend itself as readily, were it
not that n secret potiion iodic behiA, slowly, yet
sorely, (lestroctive of the Constitution.
'But if we admire our ancient Barons, who, in
ihe s;mple state of early British Polities, were tm-
Avi;iintz, 'hat ?he Laws should be changed—if ne
edruire 'lie good sense of CoLunltT, who answered

iris Soyerei4n's wishes to encourage Commerce
will% a request that be tvoubl " let it alone"—

own, wittiow shel;ering ourselves under what is
mere subterfuge of the Logician, we mot-t
attack the enemy in his own fastnesses, and be-
come aqsailants, instead of merely acting on the
Alefensive.

In fart, Sir, the principle of "Commercial libe-

rali'y, So recently petitioned for, seems to me to
s'rike 4t the very root of the Commercidi pros-

veri,y not only o' our North .17nericn7, !rat of our
'West Indian Colonies, and also both directly and
inotrec,ly of Britain berseif. 1r is, 10 short, a spe-
cies of Po!itical Cerberns ; hot we tilot,t attack
I►ii th=ee heck, Eind I trust even his bark will re-

-novate and strengthen our existing Conslitution.

np the sohiect; first, h a geoeral point
of view, we may admite the liheralil alluded to';
bit still may we doubt whether the- repeal of a
'pleat porlion of our Navigation Laws, with the
.NVhole of their principle, for th'at is literally the
point proposed, will he productive of good equal
to that it must destroy ; nay, whether it will

pro An. e any good at all !
'F e gond %rik;ch we possess, we know ; bet who
.C3TI insure to us that the hopes held out shall not be

detuaive? Shall we seek that assurance in the in
ternal evidence of the Petition itself ? No, truly;
:for that petition has too much the air of being
founded on the private interests of the petitioners,
and not on the public _good, notwithstanding its
plausible liberality. Are we certain that it is the
petition of 8.-itish and not of-Fnreign-Nierchants
resident here ? \Vlto shall say that they are not,
though themselves, unconscious of the tact to its
full extent, actually instigated, if not specifically
prompted. by foreign political policy ? " Timeo
Damao,, et d.)na ferentes," said the Trojan Sage;
bat here gifts are not given, but asked for by the
heroes of the new Wooden horse They may
state indeed that their principle into avoid every
thing that !nay injure the Revenue ; but that is a
trap tor_ Ministers badly baited, for the Cabinet
litio,v too well that the Revenne may be injured
-by the ruin .of thousands at home, and by the
stoppage of Exports, just as readily as by the
foregoing of (Lrect import ditties.
It is assumed indeed that Government are not
averse from a partial remission of the Ditty on
Foreign Timber—undoubtedly, provided that will
produce a balance of good ; but Government are
fully aware of existing advantages, and have too
patriotic a .spirit not to be also aware that we
were forced inter our present policy on that head
by the hostility of the European Powers and of
the Tilted States, in hopes to destroy us ; but are
we now to second those hostile views in another
shape, when our Rivals find that, Balsam-like,
they have blessed where they meant to curse ?
But Ise question requires notice in another
,point Of view, before we examine it in detail ;
and ,ve have a right to inquire, if we adopt mea-
sorrs that must curtail the trade and consequent
'welfare of our North American Colonies, in the
first instance, shall we then have a right to com-
pl.tin, if they seek en union with a country which
may offer them a free trade? Far he it. Irons us
to say that such a dereliction of loyalty wonld be
it,:titiabie; but it is not impossible, and is too
dangerous to he lighly haz,rded. America is in-

(1°0(1 Rf present virtually shutting lip her own
purrs. rind !heref.re out 1M prewilitu for
tra eruiz,tritin—h, tot she may try the expetiment,
gm! nr,y learn kvi3:otn ; let her nu+, Ito:sever,
e%cn she torces, to 14 change in
our 1,, g-est,hl2lllc4l policy.
I ~111 tEr‘l,4SAiile 104) f:rr upon rurculucting,.
Mt. 611011 thcreforu voTtpone any ob

TREAT It ICAL ILEGIST F. It.
Performed bust X' ht.
THEATRE ROYAL, DavitY-LANE.—King Lear : King Lear,
Mr. Kean: Edgar, Mr. Rae; Goocril, M rs. Glover ;
Nlrs. F.,;.;ertcn ; Mrs. W. West. After which,
The Lady and the Devil.
I'i4EATKE •ItoYAL, CovE..lcr-GARDSN.—(Third Time), Virgi-
inn% ; Virginiui, Mr. Macready; Icilius, Mr. C. Kembte ;
Vert ini e, Misi Foote; Servia, Mrs. Faocit. Liter which,
The Marriage of Figaio.

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THE SUN.

‘OLVNI QUIS DICE.HE FALSLIM AIIDEAT

LONDON,
SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1820.

We received this morning the Paris Papers of
Wednesday last. It is officially announced in the
Morlitcur, that the Ddchess de Balm has entered
the fifth month of her pregnancy. In the Cham-
ber of Deputies on Monday, the discussion was
continued on the Election projet, an Orator
being heard alternately, for and against the projet,
and some of them reading speeches, or rather
essays, of enormous length. The speakers (as they
are.cal'efl), that is to say those who on Tuesday
read their previously written speeches, were M.
M. de DONALD (de l'Aveyron), DUMB/LET, Jossa
BeAuvoia, LE GRAVE fIRND, Da MONCALM, and
ADM IRAU LD . The discussion was adionrned till
Wednesday.—The following are extracts :
" Pants, MAY 17.—Her Royal Highness the
Duchess de Berri has entered the fifth month of
her pregnancy. The health of her Royal High-
nos continues to be very good..—(Moniteur
Official.)
" Yesterday the Ambassadors and Foreign
Ministers paid their respects to the King, and also
to Monsienr and Madame. Amongst them was
the Russian Count, Schoutstaloff. His Majesty
afterwards transacted business with the 'Duke tie
Richelieu.

" The Court of Peers assembled yesterday, pur-
suant to adjournment, to hear the remainder of the
Report made by the Baron de BAstard, respect-
ing the proceedings instituted against Louvel; the
reading of the Report lasted till five o'clock, when
the reading of the Documents annexed to it cont-
meneed, the remainder of. which,at half-past five,
was adjourned till this day. It is said thist the
reading of these Documents will occupy the re-
mainder of the week.

The Duke d'Angonleme left Lyons again on
the 121 h instant for Bourg.

" M. de Serre, the Keeper of the Seals, is
expected at Paris 'this day.

FIVE PER CENTS,

Tuesday

DF.FRRRED STOCK.

79 f. 80 c.

' Of the 22d March, 1820 B9 f. 90 c.
" VIENNA, MAY 4.—The intended journey of
the Emperor and Empress of Auattia to Berlin,
will not take place. They will quit Bohemia be-
fore the end of June.

" MADRID, MAY 9.—Ou the Gth inst. the In-
fanta Donna Louisa Charlotte, consort of the
Intent Don Francis Paul, brother of the King,
was delivered of a Prince, who received the names
of Francis d'Assiaes Louis Ferdinand, and - who
fsSkei the title of Duke of Cadiz."

The Reports which have been in circulation for
the last three or four dap, implying a Change of
?linisters, are such common and hackuied expe-
dients to revive the hopes of Party thAr we did
nut consider tbeiri as w Drily of tiotice. They Are

only sapported by those who feel an interest on
the occasion. The Times of this day, in reference
to the qnestion respecting the Barons of the Ex-
chequer in Scotland, which, with its usual delicacy,
it styles the " Scotch Job," intimates-that Lord
LIVERPOOL " wished the measure to fail." This
is an unjust and illiberal attack upon a Noble
Lord who is known to be distinguished for the
sincerity and firmness ot-his character, and whose
judgment and rectitude are ton much respected
by his Colleagues to render it necessary that any
of his opinions should be disguised. The insi-
nuatiom is roll as devoid of foundation as the re•
ports of Ministetial Changes altogether, but is
still more absurd, as it is hardly possible that the
sentiments of a Nobleman so discreet as well as
judicious, should ever come within the cognizance
of an apostate Newspaper.

THE QUERN.-Mr. BROUOHAIVI, it seems, has
thought pl-oper to disclaim the words imputed to
him respecting the reported intention of her
MAJESTY'S return. He did no,t say that certain
causes of delay would be removed " by the imme-
diate return of her MAJESTY, but immediately on
her return." We need not comment on the great
difference between the two declarations, but we
may fairly say that the distinction which has been
so solicitously promulged by the Learned Gentle-
in in on the occasion strongly tends to confirm
'the opinion which we have so long entertained,
and so often avowed, viz. that it is by no means
very probable that she will ever return.

The Bill for transferring the elective franchise
fr►►m the Borough of Grampound to Leeds, which
was read a second time last night in the house of
Commons, produced a long debate. It is a sub-
ject of constitutional interest that demands atten-
tive consideration. To disfranchise a Borough
altogether, because certain individuals have
been guilty, seems to be a very harsh measure.—
it is passing a Bill of Attainder, to a certain ex-
tent, upon posterity. The plan of Lord CASTLE-
REACH, to• extend the right of voting to the ad-
jacent Hundreds, is more consistent with sound
and constitutional policy. This plan was ably
supported by Mr. CANNING. And here we cannot
but express our.reprobation of the manner in
which this Gentleman is mentioned in the British
Press of this day, which styles him " the intrepid
defender of every established abuse, provided it
can be traced with tolerable accuracy to times of
feudal wisdom." We regret that such language
should be used by the British Press, because it is
really the only Opposition Paper, upon true Whig
Principles, that now exists in the Metropolis.—
But the poison, on this occasion, carries its anti-
dote with it, for it virtually admits,Mr. CANNING'S
staunch attachment to the Constitution, which in
practice is the best p►►litical system ever devised,
and his repugnance to sacrifice what the Press
calls " feudal wisdom" to the delusive theories of
modern times, the true character and tendency of
which have been fully illustrated in the French
Revolution. Mr. CANNING we consider as a sound
Statesman and a true friend to his country, who
is unwilling to expose to hazard a system of de-
monstrated solidity to the specious and ruinous
speculations of empirical declaimers. As to the
expediency of 'extending the elective franchise to
other places, that is a totally different question,
which ought to be tried upon its own grounds,
but still with caution, for whatever approaches
towards Universal Suffrage must be pregnant with
danger to that Legislative system which has so
long rendered us the freest and the happiest Peo-
ple upon earth.

We have the pleasure to find, that our invita-
tion to the British Merchants in general has been
accepted by a sh,rewd and intelligent Correspon-
dent, whose Letter, signed " RALEIGH," we
have inserted this day, and whose future favours
we are promised. Without presuming to deter-
:nine, in our own mind, who that Correspondent
is, we have reason to surmise that he is one of the
most intelligent characters in the City of London,
who, besides extensive knowledge and practical
experience, both at home and abroad, possesses
literary potters of no ordinary rate. We shall
be happy, therefore, 'to receive the future Com-
munications o( RALEIGH on a subject of such
ital importance to the Empire, as the prosperity
of our Colonial Possessions. We have only to
observe that, besides the large quantities of Tim-
ber which come from the Canadas, Hudson's Bay,
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Newfound-
land, as we stated yesterday, we ought to have
mentioned Prince Edward's island. And shall
the interests, the vital interests, of these import-
ant dependencies of the British Crown be sacri-
ficed to gratify the wishes and promote the views
of one cla-.8 of the Community, who, as our intel-
ligent Cot respondent RALRIGII hints, may be under
foreign influence, as well as blind to the general
p;ospctity of the Empire ?

CATHOLIC MEETING.—•A Meeting took'
on Wednesday last in Dublin, and Mr. O'COH.
NELL on that °cession professed his objections 4°
that part of Mr. GRATTAN'S Letter which mare
advice to the Roman Catholic', exhorting them to
oppose all tendency to the wild theories of Univer•
sal Suffrage and Annual Parliaments. Mr. CYCON'w
NELL observed, that the Irish Catholics needed no
such advice, and moved that a Committee of seven
should be appointed to consider if any, and ‘lll.Bt
answer should be given to Mr. GRATTAN:3 Let'
ter. This motion was strongly (apposed by th
Meeting, and was at length withdraw,.

SHIP NEV.S
Accounts have been received of the arrival °I
the Company's ship Duke of York, out boo[l6
in lat. 1. 0, N. long. 59. W. all well ; no date.
PLYMOUTH, MAY 13.—Arrived the Boyce'
Ferguson, from Calcutta ) sailed the 12th Jan.,
and
,frotu St. Helena the 29th March, in cam'
pany withithe William Mills, and left there the
Lotus and Prince of Orange, who were to 533
the following day for England.
DEAL, MAY 19.—Arrived the Norval, Skinner;
Magnet, Grime, from Africa ; Martha, Ellis, Iron
Liverpool ; and Merlin, Wet ks, from Jam ilea
the two latter have sailed for the River. The
Suffolk, Abison, and Mark", Grane lost an anchor
and cable each, during the strong S W. gale, in
the Downs. An American brig, from Loodonr
anti an English bark (names It! known), lost se"
chors and cables in the Downs yesterday.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 16.—Arrived he Bri on, Di'
vies, front- Trieste for Cot k. Sailed the John
Taylor', Atkinson, for Calcotta.
HARWICH, MAY 19.—Arrived the Lady Nepesa
Packet from Holland, and Lord Nelson ditto,
from Cuxhaven, each with a mail.
GRAVESEND. MAY 19.—AtrivA the Almorahr
Winter, from Calcutta. Sailed the Taujorer
Dacre, for Fort Sr. George.
PortTSMOUTH, MAY 19.—Arrived the Do!phio
Dutch frigate from Curaroa. Also arrived tltc,
Emanuel, Olsen, from Christiana ; Prince or
Wales, Francis, from Cardiff for Loudon, with
loss ot. fore-top-sail and jib; and the Min. rya,
Dale, from Virginia. Sailed the Rictond, FO'
zard, for Havre ; Success, Martin, for Deptford i
Heroille, Garrick, for Calcutta ; and the Dols
phin Dutch frigate for Atnstertlana.
Extract of a letter train Barcelona, dated Mg
6 :—" On Thursday last a Spankh vess,l a, rivet
here from Cadiz, after being plundered off Ap,,aila%
by an insurgent privateer, of moncy and part of
her cargo, to the value of about 12,000 dollars."

The Princess AUGUSTA arrived at her apart.
merits in the late Quaara's Palace, on TharsdaYe
from Frogmore.
Yesterday the Duchess of GLOUCESTER and the
Princess AUGUSTA visited the KING.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL, Viscount Carro4
REAGH, and the Kati of CLANCARTY, had aura'
ences of the KING yesterday.
The Duke of Yoßs attended. Epsom Races yes'
terday.
Prince LEOPOLD arrived in town yesterdaP
from Claremont.
Viscountess CASTLEREAGH, accompanied-by tbe
Hon. Miss FITZROY, left town OH Thorsd-sy after°
noon for his Lordship's seat at North Cray.'
His Lordship intended proceeding thither ais°
immediately after the rising of the House of Cott'mons last night.
It was at the last Installation of the Knights d
the Bath that the late lamented Princess Cliitro
LOTTB made her first public debut in Henry the
Seventh's Chapel.
It is reported in the fashionable circles tbs.:
the Duke SAN CARLOS, after having visited 1)/1
Court, will return and take up his residence ill
country,
The Marquis and Marchioness of CHOLMONPV;
LEY gave a superb entertainment yesterday tl
Chohnondeley House, Piccadilly, to the Duke on,
Duchess of CLARENCE, &C. Ac.—ln the eveui"
the Noble Marchioness had a grand assemblii
which was very numerously attended.
igg
The Marquess and Marchioness of Lataspo
cave an elegant dinner yesterday to Lord o.°o
Lady ARUNDELL and a distinguished part Yo.
Lansdown House, Berkeley-tquare.
MELANCHOLY ACClDENT.—Yesterday evertinfoi
about six o'clock, two lads, named IVilkins I.‘
Stephens, were sailing trotn the Ited•housee.o
Battersea, to Bittersea-bridge, when a soilio,
squall arose, and they not being sufficiently cr'op
potent to manage the sail, the boat was or,r,
and both tell kyr) the water at the same in4o.°_,
Stephens could swim, but the other grasped bliti;
round the middle, and was seen struggling 'oto
hint two or three times above water; they boa,
however sunk, and were not seen more. A 04
terman was rowing tip the river who wittleBllo
the accident, anti hastened to the spot, but,;o,
was too late. Drags were opt during the eld'itya
ing, hut the tide was so strong that the b 0
could not be found•

BIRTH. f 13er'
On Monday last, the Lady of J. E. Conant, Esq. °
ner's-street, of a sun.

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MARRIED. 0
On Thursday last, at Waltham Abbey, William
,ICifili:;
Sparrow, Esq. only son of Colonel Sparrow,- of Red 1.7 ?HO,
the Comity of.Anglesea, to Frances Einuia, second dads‘i4st
of Bodychen Sparrow, Esq. of Great George-streets -
minster.
DIED. Ford (3
On Thursday last, after a few hours illness, John„o
Esq. of Baker street, Portman-square, in the 82° ' ' ,
to°
his age. - ve rf
On Sunday, the 14th inst. suddenly, at Torqual, oeliv,
shire, whilst in conversation with a part of his fany,cViits,
Foot, Esq. of Berwick, St. John, in the County of
the 69111 year of his age.
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