The Sun.
London, England, 1820-01-17 00:00:00

[Morning Chronicle]

It was repotted some time ago, that a great
Jew house in the City had been employed (either
fur the supply of Government or for the aid of t;:e
Banl%), to obtain•a quantity of bullion, which, it
was said, was in the Elbe, on board of three
ships ! ! It is somewhat unfortunate just now,
that the frost should have set in so severely, as
the Elbe may be frozen up for months to come,
when the Bank will be liable to pay all its notes
in bullion 'on demand, which may be prest!oted to
it for that purpose, on and after the Ist of Fe-,
bruary next, now only a fortnight from this time,
We think it would have been inure prudent in the
Directors to have provided a supply long ago than
to have put it ofruutil the laSt nio:netit, fOr there
Is no knowing, with the small stofk they are sup-
posed to possess, to what price bullion might
rise, if the exchanges continue unfavourable to us,
or a disoositiOU should be shewn by the'lublic to
speculate in it. • . •

[The Times.]
WAKEFIELD SES'SIoNg.

On Friday last, at the General Quarter Sessions
of the Peace, held by adjournment at Wakefield;
for the West Ruling of the county of York, the
Grand Jury returned a true bill-for misdemeanour
agaiust Joseph Mitchell, against whom an indict-
ment had been preferred for directing abusive and
seditious language against the Prince Regent and
the' two Houses of ParliaMe'nt, at a Radical Re-
fOrrn Meeting held on the 4th of October last, at
Skircoat•moor, near Halifax ; and for then and
there using expressions tending to excite the peo-
ple to partition the estates of the great nobility,
and among' others of Earl Fi'zwilliam. It vvill
be recollected that Mr. Stuart Wortley le:fel-red
to these latter expressions, without stating who
had used them, more than once during the last
sitting of Parliament, as indicating the nature of
the views entertained by the Reformers in York-
shire; end that he did, nut cease to hold them up
to pnblic notice, until he was reminded by Mr.
Brougham, that to tell one half the troth was just
ai useless as to join to it one half of another
story ; and that the teal inference would be very
different front that %side!' Mr. Wortley had drawn,
when it was knowp that it was nitChell who had
',sett them. • At the same time it was added, that
Mitchell was the individual who bad introduced
the intentions spy, Wirer, to the Reformers •,f
Yorkshire, 'and was more than suspected of act-
ing'in that capacity bitmelf. The present indict-
ment does not originate with Government, or any
of its agents, Wit with those who though equally
loyal subjects, are politically hostile to the indi-
iidual members composing it. It will remuio
therefore to be seen, whether Ministers will take
this. prosecution upon themselves, or, by not do-
ing so, remain liable to the imputation of wishing
to screen a malt like Michell, avowedly desig-
nated as one of their creatures in the propagation
of seditious and revolutionary sentiments.

SHELTER ion THE HOUSECESS:—Upwards of
300 petsuns.ate now admitted into the Lor.don-
wall,Asyltim, who were ycsteiday lihetally sup-
r!ied with food, under the persona! superinten-
dence of the House Cornn►ittee, and it being Sun-
day, most of them remained the whole day. At
twelve o'clock they assembled for the purpose of
joiriin,4 in the morning piay6-s, which were
by the Rev. Dr. IttiDGE, who afterwards made a
most impressive address to these poor %vanderer;.
Abe Rev. Gentleman was listened to thronOiont
respectful attention. Several of the C.,tn-
mitt CO were present, and it was altogether a 111,ar.
alfecting sNct.scle.