The Sun.
London, England, 1818-02-20 00:00:00

cited,by theirown Agents, those disturbances, con-
spiracies, and insurrections, which those Agents
were employed to watch, to detect , and to frnstrate•
liy the statement of his Lordship, founded upon
facts, and evinced by indisputable dates, warrants
had been issued for the apprehension of the Insur-
gents before the name of OtAvutt was ever heard.
BRANDRETH obviously died w it b a lie on hii tongue,
prompted, no doubt, by revenge, by the instigation
of wicked Coadjutors, and by hatted of that Go-
vernment which he At temp, ed to ()vellum.

Lord ARCHIBALD HAMILTON last night pre-
sented three Petitions from persons arrested at
Glasgow for seditious and treasonable practices.
Those Petitions alluged that the persons from
whom they came had been art ested under the
HABEAS CORPUS SUSPENSION ACT, bud been, for
a long time, &privet! of fire and of food, and had
suffered other severe hardships. b prove the ig-
norance, as well as the falsehood of these allega-
tions, in the first place it must be observed that the
Habeas Corpus Suspension Act did not extend to
Scotland, and Mr. FINLAY, the respected and re-
spectable Member for Glasgow, not only stilted that
their other complaints were utterly unfounded, but
that the very Petitioners had expressed their grati-
tude to the Magistrates of that place for the hit-
mane tieatment which they had experienced dur-
ing their confinntent. The Honourable Member
condoned, with solemnly declaring, that " there
was not one word of truth in these Petitions
from the beginning to the end." Now what
must be thought of those who submit to be the
vehicles of such falsehoods, as a very slight in-
quiry would have enabled thew to detect ? Must
it not evince a lamentable proof of the effects of
party zeal, which can tender men blind to troth,
pervett their intellects, and expose them to gene-
ral ridicule and contempt, as well as to serious
reprobation.

The report which has been some time in circu-
lation, and which has been noticed in ant Paper,
implying the intended removal of Lord MELVILLR
from the Admiralty, in order to succeed the Mar-
(pis of HASTINGS in the Government of India,
we
ate disposed to think is without foundation, as we
have reason to beliese that the latter high appoint-
ment had been imire than once offered to Lord
IIELVILL6 before, but was declined. The talents,
judment, and experience of the Noble Viscount,
quality him to do honour to himsclf, and to render
eminent services to rite Empire in any situation, but
as he presides over onr great National bit vark,antl
follows the steps of his wise, jndicions, and in:
inred Father, in his conduct or it, we shall rejoice
to find that it is likely to continue under the same
able, vigilant, and steady .uperiutendance.

Since we wrote the above article, which we will
not cancel, becauie tt exp►resses our sincere opinion
and honest conviction, we have hero enabled
mos? POSITIVELY to state, that there is no truth
iR the rumour ot the intended retirement ot
Viscount MELVILLE from the post which he fills
so much to his own honour and the advantage ot
the station.

The Paris Papers of Tuesday last, which were
due this warning, have not come to hand.

Haitch, the Murderer, who was to have taken
bit trial this morning at the Ohl Bailey, for the
wilful m►►rder of Mary Mining, on the evening of
Saturday last, (the particulars of which have al-
ready appeared in this Paper), this morning, at
half-past eight o'clock, was discovered to have
taken a razor and nearly severed his head fron►
his body. The wretch, it seems, had himself
shaved last nighr, but how, or in what manner,
be had got possession of the deadly instrument,
we have not yet been able to learn. A Jury has
beets summoned to investigate the cause of the
Prisouer's death.—Tl►e Trial of Evans, for the
murder of his Wife, commenced at 10 o'clock this
day.. It had not finished when our Paper went to
press.

We can now state with confidence, that the
destination of lime of battle ships, which we
mentioned some days ago, is Copenhagen ; and
the objeet is to tiring to Englsnd her Serene
Highness the Pt incess of DENMARK, the affianced
Bride of the Duke of CLARENCE. His Royal
Highness the Duke recommends his friend, Ad-
miral Sir IlEsitty BLacKwoon, 40 the agtegable
duty of Conducting the expedition ; but we un-
derstand that since the littler (or the equipment Of,
the ships was given, a demur to the union has oc-
curred—not owing to the indisposition of the Royal
Duke.—( Chronicle.)
We have received an official information from
a Solicitor, i❑ the behalf or Francis Ward, that he
has already commenced an action against a con-
temporary Journal for a statement similar to that
made by Lord CASTLEREAGII, upon which we
commented in our number (if yesterday : and that
the Journal above-mentioned, after a delay of
nearly three weeks to consider the plea, had not
entered a justificotion. We ate therefore request-
ed to warn the Public 4‘ from a belief in Lord
CASTLEREAGH'S statement made against Francis
Ward's character, upon which a Jury ►sill be call-
ed upon dccide at Guildhall early the ensuing
v.eck."—(Tintts.)