The Sun.
London, England, 1820-05-29 00:00:00

CLERGY ORPHAN CORPORATION.

A General Quarterly Court of this incorporated
Society, for Cloathing, Ma►ntaining, and Edo;
caring
_Poor Orphan Children of Clergymen, was
held at Freemasons' Hall on Thursday list, at
which the Bishop of LONDON Presided, supported
by the Bishop of St. Asaph, the Rev. Loki
Aston, aoti a great many Dignitaries of the
Church, tt.e Hon. Philip Posey, John Round,
Esq. &c. The Petitions of the Orphans were
read and considered, and six children were there-
upon elected into the Schools, which, with the
number at pre►Qeut therein, make ninery-eight.
Mr. WATsols7, rite Treasurer, said, when the
Meeting took into their consideration she very
excellent manner in which the children went
through their public examination on 'Monday last,
it was impossible not to give the utmost credit for
it to the Master and Mistress of the respective
Schools, to whose great -attention and exertions.
the Institution at large was much indebted, and
he therefore proposed a suitable vote of thanks to
them.

The Rev. Mr. SHEPHERD, Preacher of Gray's
Inn, begged to .secont; the motion, because he had
peculiar opportunities of bearing testimony to the
excellent system of education which had been es-
tablisbcd in these Schouls : he was in the frequent
habit of examining the children, and it always
gave him satisfaction to.. observe ittprovement
they were making.

The Bishop oftoNDow fliVy concurred in every
thing which had been stated with respect to the
excellent state of the Schools, and a separate vote
of (batiks was then passed unanimously to the
Reverend Thomas Wharton, the Master of the
Boys' School and to Miss IVood, the Mistress of
the Girls' School.

The Bev. Dr.CHAFY, Master Of Sydiley College,
Cambridge, then shortly 'addressed the Meeting.
lie said, he should not fail ott his return to niske
this Institution better known in t,liat University
than he was conficiVnt it at present' was.

Amongst the distinguished persons present at
the public examination, on Monday last, at Sr.
John's Wood, were,

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop% of London, Salis-
bury, Ely, Exeter, and Llandaff; Lords Kenyon, I.:idst6c4,
De Do nstanrille.; Countess of Grosvenor, Dowager Lady 11-
cl:ester, Lady Charlotte Preby, Lady Emily Pelham, Lady
Badstock, Lady Glynn, Hon. 'Miss Needle, Lady Neave, Sir
James LanKhan', Bart.: Archdeacons Heslop, Watson, Cam-
brislge,.and Prosser ;,the Hon. and Rev. E. J. Turnour C•Rev.
Drs. Barrow, Chary, Moore, Gashin, Gardner,
.Holland,
Randolph, Bright, and Woodward.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION.-From calculation
by the College of Physicians, no less than 40,00 C
(lie annually in Great Britain of. Consumption,
and at least 10%000 in London. The late SVi.lliam
Turnbull, Esq. a very ingenious Surgeon, ascer-
tained that every 20th -person was ruptured.—
These complaints are truly alarming to every in-
dividual who uses the least'exertion. It is also
incredible the number that suffer tLom a certain
Disease, by being itriProperly treated. It was
those circumstances induced Dr. COOPBR to select
eminent Physicians and Surgeons, of at least 30
years' experience, to form a Medical Board; and
since the establishment upwards
,of 30,000 Pa-
tients have been cured without confinement—
many of them after hospitals had failed.

Mesbrs. COOPER and Co. arc consulted at
IVoodstock•strcei, 00mA-street ; • and at Char-
lotte House, (great Charlotte•street, opposite the
Rev. Rowland Hill's, daily, from eight till eight.
Mechanics have advice gratis every evening, from
six till eight ; and on Sunday mornings until 12
o'clock.

*** RuPruges of 30 years standing radically
cured without confinement.

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.There are private doors at each ho►tse, and
private rooms for Females.
N. B. The Afflicted would do •well to read
Messrs. COOPER and Co.'s. Lectures on two pre-
vailing Diseases, published at one shilling, by
Mr. 11AatigY, 22, Blackfriars-road. They will,
also prove wetut togyouog Practitioners,

(Front the horning Post of Friday last,)

We revert to this skibject with some reluctance,
for we regret most sincerely the opposition which
it is evident Lord Jot N RUSSELL'S Bill will meet,
notwithstanding the suspicious circumstances
under which it was introduced to the notice of
the House of Commons in the last Parliament'.

It was not at this -day that we expected to hear
such opinions promulgated as were maintained
(hiring the debate on Friday night—opiiiiona
which have been treated as exploded by all the
constitutional writers for more than a century;
and still less did we expect to hear it gravely asserted
as an incon'rovertible fact, that there was no
instance in which the right of Voting had been
created by Act of Parliament," bit '' that it had
hielierto-origirivedin grants of the'Crown." It
would be an idle waste of time to point out the
cases which negative this fact; as' they are well
known, and their authority universally acknow-
ledged. It is almost equally unnecessary•to ob-
serve upon the assertion, that " the right of
Voting has hitherto originated in grants of the
Croa-n." For our own parts, we acknowledge
ootaignorance of one single instance of a right 'if
Voting originating in a grant of the Crown. We
ktoiav, indeed, of instances where a right of Vot-
ing, having been exercised generally by the inha-
bitints of a place, 'has been limited to a select num-
b*sf. them, or to a particular class of persons,
but we never yet knew of any instance, even in
the wildest days of prerogative, of the King
granting _ the Elective Franchise; and even in
those places where the Itoyal Charter has limited
it,, we know that the right was so limited with
die concurrence of the general body, or it would
not have been limited at all. So far from the •
Crown having the power to grant the Elective
Franchke to a non-represented place, it i; main-
rained by the best writers, that the CM‘tot can-
not now grant that right to a town Mitch once
possessed it, but has ceased to exercise it.
It is laid dawn by an eminent and correct wri-
ter on this subject, 'we mean 'Mr. Prynne,
,in his
celebrated Work on the Parliamentary Writ, "that
since the Statutes of the 4th .ilic. 11. c.
Hen. V. c. Hen. VI. c. 25.—n0 Sheriffs,
' by virtue of the King's writ of summons, and fore-
cited clauses in them, can erect or enable any
new-created, or old long-discontinued, Boroughs,
to choose and return Brugesses to our English-Par-
liaments, %Olittevt!r they anciently did, or might
do before these Acts. That no Boroughs can,
since these Acts, he created, or revived, but by
sppecial Acts .of Parliament, as the Statutes of 27th
e. 26.-;--34th Hen. VIII. c. 13.-35 qt
Hen. VIII. c. 11. declare ; enabling and autho-
rising the ;Welch Shires, Cities, Boroughs, and
the County and City of Chester, to send Knights
find Burgesses to our English Parliaments, which
they never did, mir could, before ; nor can they
be legally created Boroughs by the King's mere
gra', or Commons House' order," &c.
The' e are modern instances to confirm the
doctrine of Mr. Prynne, namely, Durham County
and Durham City ; and therefore it was with no
little surprise that we heard the contrary doctrine
maintained ; for, though we do not expect that
'every Member of the House of Commons should
have explored the elaborate works of Mr. Prynne,
and other writers on this subject, it is not too
much to suppose them not unacquainted with the
source from whence the tight of voting sprung in
places upon whose elections they may he called
-upon, to decide in Select Committees, or that they
should be possessed ot. such Constitutional know-
ledge as will enable them to cherish and maintain
the privileges of Parliament, and that particular
branch of the Legislature of which they are Mem-
bers.

Reverting, however, td the doctrine, that the
right of voting enlist originate in a grant of the
Crown, we. confess it to be true that it may be
said, the right of election, in early times, was de-
rived immediately from the King, by virtue of
His writ directed to the Sheriffs of Comities, com-
manding them to cause Elections of Knights for
their.Conoti,s, and..of Ci•izens and Burgesses to
serve in Parliament .for,the Cities and Boroughs
tvithin them, to be therein made ; though even in
this respect, it can hardly, be said that the right
of Election sprung froM the Crown, as it is an
inherent principle in the Constitution that no law
shall be made without the concurrence of the peo-
ple expressed by. their Representatives, and there-
fore it seems the issuing of the writ is not to be
considered a grant of the Elective franchise, but,
merely an intimation that the King would bead-
vised by his people for the common wealth. Be
this however as it may, it seems now fully esta-
blished that the Parliament is the only source
front whence the Elective franchise can spring ;
and, in fact, the opposite doctrine was never
maintained till it Wag attempted by the high pie.
rogative writers in-the time of the Stuarts, and it
was then satisfactorily and completely refuted by
Mr. Frynne and other great Constitutional wri-'
ters : and it is no small consolation to find that
the spit it of those eminent persons survives in men
of such talent and ability as Mr. Wynn, to refute
it in the present _day. The sentiments expressed
in this debate by Mr. Wynn, whose deep re-
search and laborious application to the study of
the law and practice of Parliament justly render
him an authority of the greatest weight on ques-
tions of this nature, must have been highly satis-
factory to every supporter and admirer of our in-
estimable Constitution, and we hope they will
have that influence in the decision in this case
%%hich they deserve.

c
Upon the genera) question of a-Reform in Par-
lianmt, We have 5u our con-

viction of the propriety and necessity of adopt-
ing measures to correct some of the abuses and
imperfections which time has introdOced into the
practice of Elections, that it would-be almost te-
dious to repeat it. Ilire are, the enemies of inno-
vation, asour indefatigable, and, thank God suc-
cessful efforts against the schemes of the Radicals
sufficiently prove ; but we are the sincere and
.strenuous advocates of" whatever tends to restore
the Constitution to its original beauty and frame,
convinced that thus alone are the views of the
seditious and discontented part of the Community
to be•counteracted. To Lord John Russell, Sir
Charles Burrell, and the other individuals who
have given so much attention to the Cornish cases
of corruption, and who have so patriotically la-
h.odred to prevent a recurrence of the scandalous
abuses which have been found to prevail in those
places, the public thanks are pre-eminently due•;
for it is mainly by repressing and corr,cting indi-
vidual abuses where they are found to exist, that
we must hope to restore the Constitution to that
-uniformity which has rendered it the admiration of
all countries.

! With respect to the general question,, which.
tvill slimily be brought before the consideration
of Parliament, we trust it will recei►e that grave
and temperate discussion which its importance
demands; and from the feelings which animate
several powerful and Noble individuals attached
to the Opposition, who are said to have expressed,
their readiness to relinquish the influence which.
they are supposed to possess in certain Boroughs,
in case any system of moderate and rational Re-
form is entertained by Parliainent, we trust that
the discussion will not be unattended witls the
most beneficial results. In looking over Lord
'Somers; collection of Tracts, goal to edi
396, we met with a Tract on Parliamentary Re-
form,* which excited much attention at the time
of its publication It contains some valuable add.
excellent. suggestions, but we confess that the ge-
neral scheme pointed out by the Noble Writer is
too much tinctured with the wildness of, the en•
thusiast, to induce us to recommend its entire
adoption. The celebrity, however, of the Author,
and the general good sense which pervades ►his
interesting little Tint, induce tus to lay it before
our Readers, and we trust that they will not fitid
the perusal tedious, uninstructive, and unenter.
raining.

'll4iet referred to; see THE SUN of the 15th inst.
,rt which. it was printed at lefigtti.

THE COURIER COUNT.

The following account, taken from the Morning
Post of Saturday, respecting the extraordinary
elevation or a man which has brought soppicion
upon the character upon the Royal Personage
by whom he has been patronized, fully accords
with all triat we have heard of him. We hinted
on Friday that the favourable representation of
the man, which appeared in the Morning Chronicle
of that day, might perhaps be intended to smooth
his way inn this country. The information re-
specting THE QUEEN which has hitherto appeared
in the Morning Chronicle, has all received a fa•
vourable colouring, but that in the Morning Post
has been correct and judicious. We before
stated that this same Bergami, or whatever may
be his real name, was a common Courier to MuttAT,
the Usurper of Naples.

THE QUEEN.—It is not only with reluctance, but with
mingled feelings of indignation and regret, that we fiad our•
selves called upon to notice a person of the name of Berganti,
or Burgano, in consequence of the mention made of him in
a Morning Paper of yesterday, as a continued attendant piton
the person of the QUEEN, in the character of Chamberlain to
her MAJEsTY. Speaking of the Orders with which this man
is'decorated, thtewriter would give the British Public to un-
derstand, " that' these decorations be gained by his bravery
" with the French army in the campaign in Russia and else-
", where; and besides the high recommendation the QuEEN
" received with him, she says that she found his family was
" of respectability, and she has lost no occasion to reward hint
" for six years of tried services." We had hoped that so
much decorum, at least, would have been observed upon this
topic, as to have saved us the' painful necessity of entering
into any particulars; but the weak attempt mow made to de-
ceive the Public, in regard toit, compels us to state as much
of the real facts as the nature of the subject, and our respect
for her 'MAJESTY, will permit. Berganst, or Burgano, who
has so long enjoyed the flattering patronage, the high esteem
and confidence,. of the present Queen of ENGLAND, so far
faint having obtained his blu.s.hing honorer., by any military
exploits, was nothing more than a common courier for a long
time before he was taken into the service of her MaJtsTv.—
He first entered in the must menial capacity; was 50011 after
promoted to the situation of steward ; and, while in that ca-
parity, was iu the habit of standing behind the chair of her
MAJESTY during dinner. Many mouths had not elapsed when
he was still further promoted to the office of Chamberlain,
and very shortly after this exi laordinary elevation, was found
seated at the saute table 'with the Illustrious Female—not
much to the satisfaction of certain English Ladies, who till
then were in the habit of dining al must (laity with her MA-
JESTY. About this time the quondam. courier most impudently
and unwarrantably assumed the title of a German Count or
Bacon; which circumstance being made known to the Em-
pejor Of AUSTRIA, his IMPERIAL MAJESTY demanded an int-
mediate discontinuance of the use of the unauthoiized title,
as derogatory to the rank and dignity of the legitimate Nobi-
lity. 'Dins shorn of the honours which tre had presumed to
timirp, he no less daringly itssurned the style and character of
a Knight of the Illastrious Order of St. John of Jerusalem.—
In this, however, he' was not more successful than in his
former adventure; for, at'a meeting of the Knights of Nlalta,
he was in the most peremptory manner forbidden all further
use of the title of their Order, under pain of the most rigid
penalties they could enforce. Thus once more disappointed
and degraded, a new expedient was devised, and as his lloyal
Patroness Was well known to have visited Jerusalem, he very
shortly proclaimed himself the first created Knight of ii new
Order, from which he could not be disturbed, and which was;
called the Order of Caroline of Jerusalem! the glaring deco-
rations of which still cootinue to grace his precious person,—
This much the imprudence of pretended frier ds has forced us
to state. %Ve regret the necessity, and sincerely hope that no
further indiscretion, on their Dart will compel us to recut
again to so very unpll as,,nt a seth.ict.