The Sun.
London, England, 1811-01-11 00:00:00

POMRY.

ON THE ASSISTANCE AFFORDED BY ENGLAND
TO OTHER NATIONS,
IN TUE CAUSE OF Lineßne.

England, shielded by her laws,
True to Freedom's righteous cause,
Now the sword vindictive draws
Fur others.

On ev'ry shore that Ocean laves, .
To BritonS, rulers of the waves,
Ihey who scorn to rank as slaves,
Are brothers.

Fir'd by Valour's quenchlea
EitiOlutt, conscious that her name
shag ever shine with Lane,
10 story,

Calls the trembling nations round,
Rous'd from apathy profound,
To Shaft!, thro' all the world renowli'd,
Her gLiy.

England 1 blest with liberty,
Nations, Like thyself, to tree,
This has been, and e'er shall be,
I'hy charter.
Dangers meet thy breast appal
Should the foe the world craiii al,
Thou the very last wilt Call--
A martyr.

But, no I '—his pride shall soon abate ;
The-tyrant's bloody thread, tho' late,
TW impending shears of angry Fate
Shalt sever.
Yes! ---Nor think my words are vain,
When joised by this prophetic stra'n --
14 England's freedom shall remain
4* kor ever I"
04. t, at*.

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THE OREdT C 1,513 OF PROX4S.

'order to clear this ques.ion, we shall advert to
an obje6lion whielfmsy be made from the Standing
Order of the Lords; not to admit Proxiei iii judicial
eaSeS..Apd it must be confessed, that the objettion'
ha 's4orce, s.pposing the Peers e% er possessed the pri-
viieglt of making a Proxy lie- such a case. But the
fad 0, they' never had' this privilege; for the privi-
legenf granting a ProXy is limited in the cases stated
in a summons to Parliament Now the summonses
ruti in varlotis form q; wt traciandem;.l:onsuliandem,
consentiendm, but 'never ad Pidicandurs. When
the Crown summons the I.urdi to Parliament, it
never Ehmmons them in their judicial 'capacity, bPi
mei.eiyaS hereditary counsellors ; but Whenever the
Peers are once shinmoned by the Ciown, and assem-
bled, the judicial powers attach to them, of course,
kvit bout any special recommend stion from the throne;
and althon'gh it former times Lards have given judg-
ments by Proxy, yet, in latter times; it appearing
that the privilege of granting Proxies could not ex.
tend beyond the causes staled in the writ of sum-
mons, the extension of the power beyond those
causes i. properly disallowed.
AXe un‘krstand that the doctrine we have laid
down as to Proxies is not disputed, when the King
is not in a state of personal iticapacity, and wl*tt the
Parliament it once regularly opened, and the causes
for its meeting by Commission ; but :iliac in
the present case, the right of acting by Proxy does
not attach, because the Parliament is not tegulariy
opened, and the Lords and •Conitnons act merely as
Slates of the Realm. •

' Now, in'order to put an end to this silly objet—
'don, cVe beg leave to ask, whether, when the l'at-
liatnent i, regularly opened, they will not be equally
the States a/ the Itealm, and nothing less, and nothing
more ? Certainh the two tout are now acting as
the tthites the.ifeillm, nod, as Lord GRENNILLE
assorts, in his printedlqpeeeli, they are .the two re-
maining- &cinches of the Legistatare; and in that
6ip.teily. they nutst ;cunt till their privileges, or
none; there can be no distinction, tto.tnedinitt.

Does any man mean to aisert, that in the present
suspension of the personal capacity of the KING,
the two Houses of Parliament, called together by
lawful Commission, and sitting under that Commis-
sion, have lost all their ancient and legitunate
privi-
leges ? And it they have not lost thefts all,' We should
W. happy know which are abolished, and which
remain in force ?--The Lords certainly have not
lost the privilege of protest, for they have used it
%shit uncomMon licenSe. That privilege is nokex-
tinguished; we should then wish to know upon
what principle any other privilege is extinguished,
and why.the pc iviiege of acting by Proxy is abolish-
ed more than any other ?
Let us tbr a moment advert to the concluia of the
Commons. ]'hey, during the present -emergency,
having voted themselves to be lawfully; fully, and
freely reptesenting the• Third Estate; have confined
Ur-mit-Ives to the issuing of Writs, in order to keep
. their representation full and toilful; Whereas the
• etY:ct of the new doctrirre about Proxies would dis-
franchise all the absent Members of the HuUSe of
Lords, so that their representation at Last, could not
be toll.

And their Lordships- took• this measure at five
o'clock in the mornitig,wittiout any previous no-
tice to the absent 11iPmbers, without any previous
suns nuns of them, intimating their intentions; anti
when a large proportion Of the absent Lords, con
tiding in their ancient undisputed privileges, bad
sent op• their proxies in the usual manner.
It has been said, that (he House of Lords, on
Friday last, was not acting as a branch of the
Ltclillature, but that it was acting as a body of
Peers self'-assembled, without any of the tights
or privilegi!s or the Peerage. But s hat wili the
Commons say to this ductline I It the Iwo
Houses are at present without privileges, be it re,.
metnbered that' above Ibrty days have elapsed since
the List prorogations, and the Bailiffs may attend
tie lobbies and arrest, the Menthols; for if the
. House el Cornmons does nut Sit at present as a
branch of the Legislature, but in some new capacity,
all their personal, as' svell as other O'iVileges are'
gone, and the mace may be defied %vial impunity,
and their persons imprisoned.
We have too high a respect for Lord EaSKINR to
suppose his Lordship could have used the argument
put into his month by the Reporter for the Morning,
einonicle. He is there said to have argued---" that
" 14,02-les ought to be rejected, because, their ad-
mission might alter the determination made kg the
Peers present." It would be au admirable ex,
cu,e for a Sheriff, on tejetting a large clasit of
voters, to allege it' was through fear it might alter
the majority on the poll.

. All the Officers of thy Royal Academy, who are
annually-eletled, are to remain in the exercise of
their duty till his MAJHSTY shall be able to con6rin
the re-arpointments.—The vacaucies in the Acade-
tnic'body are however to be tilled np, as otherwise
all the Aletnbets might sot:Willy be swept away by
a suJden stroke of death. The new Member.i,
course, must aho bra ewnlirtned 'in the nomination
by tht: Royal sanction.

Mr. WESTRACOTT, the ingenious Statuary, is
mentioned among thuse who have lull minion to ex-
pect tit:nil-ley witi bu raised from the Assihime list
at the Royal Academy to the rank of Academicians.
We do not hear that the dramatic productions
which the elder DIuDIN has presented to both'
l'lleatres is in a train for . representation. Surely it
would bu politic Mille Alatvigers to bring fOrw..:d
the WiAks of so popular a wilier and musician,
who stings and melodies are likely to be .chaunted
by our Saltliergh Sailors, attd patriotic Englisfirnet),
116 long as Ilritotn preserves In 7 iuttependeoce and
heir latlgt:vige. Nay, if we could suppose that our
independence could ever he lust by 'a degenerate,
posterity; our lattgo;rge' continues in exist-
ence, the'songs of Dian! be'always Ikartl
tii ith pleasure, said keep alive 3 Strong expressiw:
.4 the tree Et-q2,1;,11 chata7:.l:r:
Time tst art -.1-4,ernetiti at th,:: Op .ra
it is ciej,:ived the Ditches, el Golfo
of tier
bitx—a ch,..,tristatit7e that wpl r,-gri:tted by tuauy
of 10.4 tr:k-,nti.t, 95 it Was \va) 5 the redivn of
!!..eil.t,Jaiable Chi/ ckut.

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OLD... 8,..,i7LEY.

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estertli.}•Jo,4lLiiiite way capitally, in.lith:7l for fry;
lonlously,assaulting Benjamin:l'oll(lmq, pin t in•. hint
in fear,,and taking from 1)14 'prr.on sgaitht It's will
a silver WfliCl4, ititt:i:i chain, g.)1.1 seal, key, atia
ring, on the liling'khighveay, in the month .of 947
cetn.ber last.

From the, test:rpony of the prosecutor, who is
servant., to Alderinan Scln.ley, it appeared twit lie
went intro the-Tink's 'Head public-house, in Dvo!t-,
sleet, St. Giles,. on the d:. mentioned its th:et in-
diament, where he Sa* the prisoner amigo:iv atbit
men drinking'; hai tiff; taken some tetteshmenf, he
left the house, but bel;ao he got Out of
,the s;reet,
he %VHS ovettoketi by the prisoner and t 4,70 of the
other men he seen in ihe tap-roots; ‘vho knock:4
ed him doCtrd, ant took his watch from his fob. Qt:
getting up, he called, Sii.p thief atid the pri•inver
was apprehended by a Witch:nail, the plc iwity
in his possession.—GOliy, Death.

LfttiCENY.
ganry iYilson wit* coavitted of SiC:iiitle
piece; of gingham, value eleven vc,und-i, in the
dwelling-house °ibis master, Richard Let'ett I.lrucik,
a linen-draper. „ .