The Sun.
London, England, 1820-01-24 00:00:00

A CARLSBADIANA.

A MOtiT EMPOR FA` I' I)OCLINIENT.
Copy of a Dispatch from t Prime Minister, to the
Ambassador of --, at the Court of St. James's.

St pt. 13, ISM.

(Fr4orx the 13a•iti,h..31,,iritor of Yesterrlay.)

By the colum,llol of his NiAiesty, our most gra..
dolts Soverei::n, trunsrnit to yrnq Excellency the
following coulidentia/ communication, the sub-
-s!unce of whrCtr you can, front tittle to time, and
as -occas:on may require, slate to the English Se-
crctary St.ste fur roreign relations, as it is trot
interLdvd thi4t tiiis communication should be en-
tere-d c,o do! Protocol of the Etohasq.
The present agitated state of tire public mind in
every Etitopvtiti Shirr may, anti must be attributed
to that portion of liberty which loss sxisled itt
England only for the last century. Brit for that,
the Europ-an Con•inent wank!, belore the Fi.ench
Revolution, And t.ioce the restoration of the flour- ,
bons, have cow eined onc grand and united family.
I,Vitnes,ing its superior eieil;zat ion And prosp?ri:y,
the inhabita,tts of t;ie Continent them have
striveil to obtain, •with a sort of social compact,
or a political adoption. The slao4liter of genera-
tions, aud tt:e devastation of nations would then
have been ttn.trown. A slight chastisement

vrtwlti titers have heft] ttlieittlt to in;ithidme the

retraeloiy And t coirect- the di.ohedivot. Bot
-when Rt.-hellion wet..publiely pleat :lied op...as a vir-
tor.io both Chambers of tie lititich Parliament,'
as was the case during the Revolutions of America.
And Flance, it (vas not so Cdsy a task to punish
AiAtchists. Hid it not beets for tho4e-prece-
dttits, (car God alot obedience to the King
would have been the theme of all Nati.n.J.,,s, But
When men' ber,,,10 to canvass the ditorn,loll of tiicir
heavenly Creator, •Rbey
,not long lit skate to
assail the preroga7ives of their earthly Sovertigns..
Rebellion is tier grin brother of In.piery.—Auar-
chy and Atheism ate their common offspring.
Toe English Wiekliff had thy sacril,gions=audaeity
to propose innovations in Religion long before
the Bohemian Huss am' the Saxon. Luther pro-
claimed themselves heretics. • The latter would
nut have dared to stir, had not England alr;ady
distributed its poison.among the Germans; they
merely took adyJntag: of a contagion, suffered io

-become popular by the ignorance and vices of the
•-• Clergy, and by the apa:lty kind had policy of Go-
_vet ninents. Since this time it: particular, Eng-
land Ir.:is never been cp,ivt within herself, and has
nevt:r ceased to disttt6 the. !ramptillity•of all other
bta*ee. • As might have been overseen, the success
'of..'.the religions innovations, encouraged tbe_
tempt ok political •ineendiiries. The Confluent
wens at.t hat time already inundated with tile btas-
-1,1.4/lemons and perverse reveries
.of English arri-
•• ,Chtistiaws and Arf!i-,Nlottatchists.• • They sapped
-the -very foundation ‘of•social order. To prove
their •utter. content-pi f:ir all institutions, divine
and political, t!:ey opened -their temples to the-
most ignorant a:A vicious of fanatics and dema-
gogues, deiiveted the most virtuous of their Kings.
into the hands of the most ferocious regicides.
Ito.m many.tuil:ions of Europeans lave not, bled

because the English -had with impunity braved
their God .atid- hutchered their Monarch, and even
in a lew y:-rs b3ashed -another, or what they
c,►lled, in the jargon of the day, cashiered him for
misconduct. But.for tl►ese wicked perpetrations,
Louis Ate I, might still reign. In tAct, if the in-
fcrnal assassit►s of that unhappy, martyred Me-
witch were deb.tsed .Frenchmen, they woe tutored
by Engii3l; t,ortiistry : they have been misled by
,exampleseor seduced-by the gold of the Eng-

list) factions. It is not Engle/id aluue which -He
.this moment distracts Europe I There lies the
-cancer which 4vill -destroy the Continent, unless
the knife is applied to the gangtened part. Eng-
hied-has combeted with honour and with loyalty
to annihilate Continental jecobinism ; but Eng-
land herself contains the most noxious of the ja-
cobinical lava, which, threatens the annihilation Of
every social St.te on the Coruitient. England
was powerful abroad, but at home she is too
weak to dare to be. just.... It cannot, 'there,
fore, be longer doubted that the Continent must
continue to be disturbed until some changes
ate made in the British Constitution, with re-
spect to the Liberty at ttie Press (the dangers of
which are so ably exposed in the recent publica-
tion of NI. Von Gentz), and the liberty of Mem-
. bias of Parliament indulging themselves in bitter.
sarcasms against every Continental Sovereign. In
hoe, the Blitish• Constitution must, for the sake
of the general I rauquilli y of Europe, be reformed
in a manner more congenial with the spirit of the
Continental Governments, which at present secure
the digeity and the power of Sovereigns, and the
obedience and safety of time subjects of the Con-
tinent ; and unless this be dime, all our efforts on
the Continent to act in conformity to the spirit
of the lioly Alliance will be unavailing.; as it is
there where every-boutlefeu of the Continent will
he able to seek-refuge, to obtain protection from
the tactioos, atilt promulgate his dangerous dog-
tills with impueity and without restraint. When
the piatsoe is at Dover the infection soon extends
itself to the Continent.

Treaties. Contracts, and Alliances, hound.Na-
duos to destroy JA'!Ohiltisal in France. The Treaty
ut Chantnont, concluded in 1814, strengthened
the bootie which united inure closely the legiti.
mite Sovereigns against fraud, violence, And
What if all thOse- Nations were to say to
Enghtni, change To,tr Constitution, or a-solemn
decree of every European Power will repudiate
you for ever from roe great family of the Ettio-
pedn Cointtionwedlth, and'. pot you under ban ?
nu-gland is a commercial Nation, -and-is not io-
titriviettr of the Continent. This- may appear
severe towards her, considering the obligations
w.ieb.the Continent owes to that Power, but it
would he en act of huntanitv with tegard to all
Nations !Ton' the Gate, not excluding-Britain

bers,lf. This tact May be proved.witliout any, dif-
tcoity. or rite poisibiloy of a contrialietion. If
were .triaie of those materials thit

compose nil •ot her, peOple, it would require little

ku :r.•tr.,tgr or the human mi►sd to foretell the mos'

fivieriligis,ne, without resorting to extremities ;

hut ;hey totiAily from he rest of the human

sprees

`1: cAtt sl,iny that a King, according
(Irganized Constitutional Anarchy of his

K;ngdoin, iy now the most humble of slaves 3.
When the Alowirch is not free, how dare his sub-
j,cts_talk of Liberty ? The truth is, that the bon-
dageof Euglishmeo becomes heavier as it ascends;
it Cm:lll,oes hoot the lowest of the rabble, a set
of petty tyrants, ignotiant and brutal, corrupt and
oppressive.

Is that Monarch not a slave, who is deprived
of selecting his own Counsellors and Servants ?
Who, dutiog a reign of more than halt a century,
has had,pmong scores of Ministers, not six he
liked orAsteemed. Are the Letters of a Royal
Parent fight, who during mouths was forced
to see and hear a beloved Son the butt of the
most malignant passions, of the most malignant
and debased of men ? Do these Ministers s!eserve
the name of freemen, who are obliged to be un-
dutiful and ungrateful to the Prinee.vsho has ele-
vated them, to flatter a licentious mob that de-
spise and insult them ? What must we think of
the heads or hearts of sworn Royal Counsellors,
who (tare not save the bosom of their Pt ince from
rtosture, and the character cif his child from unjust
igootniny, though they noi,t know that the tor-
mentors ire the at st piotligate of villains, and
the most unprincipled of con.ipiralors*! Can
any decency or any loyalty be supposed to exist
among the citizens of the fist City of the British
Empire, who not only join the wild fiends of their
Sovereign eve; y where, but encourage the sense-
less pratings of insolent and ignorant shopkeepets,
never opening their mouths but to babble intrrti-
nenee—but•to hswl out treason ? You see,now
what has been pissing at the Meetings of tbese
coinspiratins ! Did the Aristocracy of a Njo,tie
County endeavour to check their eudacity ? Did
not, on the contrary, evoryCtointy einitl-t,, in this
race of Demagogi,, which sioold be foremnt to
countenance: di,,ffection, ‘vbelt riiey call Reform%
Is if tint esident, even to the most superficial ob-
server, that either sound morality or rational li-
berty must be wantiag in the British Nation
It it .ould be uncharitable to suppose die former-
it would also beridituinus norto see the total
absence of the latter.

In( GI eat Britain, faction meddles with every
aid every body ; even the Ki.ig is com-
pelled to be. factious, in self-defeurn----for self-
proservation. H .ve not, however, both ancient
and modern ; both in Greece and France ;
hoot in Rome and in England—have not the fac-
tious always, always heel) the most oppressive of
despots ? Have not the factious always, and
every where, been the companions of licentious-
ness,- and the assassins- of freedom ? ,Have. not
the factious at all tines been intolerant, daring,
unjiist,and incorrigible ! To, judge of the Scan-
dalous .proceedings now passing in Britain, which.
an innignant Continent have lamented of late,
Ile hope iemains that the factious there woold de- .
sist from their ncftrious dco:is, were even France •
(as she night easily do), to produce damming evil-.
j
dente (or.centut ies. past, to the downfall of4he
late Imperial GoVernment) of every chief 9f fae.
tion,aaf every usurper of the name of Patriot, and
of every candidate for popularity in Great Britnin;-
having either fixed his price to„, or intrigued
with the enemies of his country; either accept:
id bribes or receive& instructions from rival or
inimical Cabinets. Though the majority might
be convinced, .._a• .despciate minority would
commend. In England,- as has been the-case
of France during the Revolution, and at present,
factions could not have been and never can
he mended ; they must be extirpated. Some few
persons, ambitions, or bankrupts in character and
fortune, will, always,
_under the
~existence of the
Cons: itution .of a. Royal Democracy, find
opportunities to mislead the ignorant, aud to head
.the needy and tiic disaffected, in committing ex-
cesses dangerous to the peace of Europe, by con-
tagious examples. In short, it belongs. to His-
tory to recapitulate the many acts of daring spirit
of British factions, and of their influence on the
internal and external policy of Great -Britain,
mote especially during the wars of the American
and French Revolutions.. •

In all the branches of the constitutional esta-
blishments of Great Britain, factions .sway an
anarchical sceptre, confounding, deranging,..and
invading all order. Do we not see Mountebanks
travelling about the country exciting the lower
orders to rebellion ? Have we not seen a Captain
in the British Nasty (Lord ernizing near
England, drag his Commanding Officer • before
a Court Martial ? Is it not notorious, that Bri-
tish Officers Who served in India seduced the
foitliers to mutiny ? has not this been done
in the very Senate of Britain, by the so called
Patriotic Members, who under the mask of .com-
miserating the condition of the soldier held
out language which excite him to mutiny ?
Is not the licentiousness of the British.- Press
the model for licentious German and French
writers ? •

In 18t)9, when Prince ---. was still 'Ambas-
sador at the British Court, the Proprietors .of a
London Theatre augmented the prices of admis-
sion.—Elglishmen, like the Romans of Sangui-
nary memory, do - not miss such apropitioustip-
portunity to create new factious. Tire most dis-
gusting scenes, the effects of the most shameful
licentiousness, •transformed the Theatre into
field of battle for boxers.*ind bruisers, for prosti-
tutes and pickpockeis. •
Now, indeeif,- British Anarchy exhibits itself
in all its dreadtul glory. Faction combats faction.
—Lives are lost wherewer the demagogues meet ;
and when the *Civil and Military Authorities are
called in-to quell Rebellion, they are called the
murderers of the People

All these machinations have their influence on
the Demagogues of the Continent, as it is well
known that their ramifications are pretty general
in all Europe ; a species of propaganstaexists
among the political 'incendiaries of Hogland—of
France—of Germany—of Italy—of -Spain, and
even of South Atnerien. What indeed 'can be
mote diigraceful than to, see equipinents made,
and -troops levied, to assist distant- Prot‘inces,-in
a-state of Rebellion to the Mother Cont.tty,
State in alliance with 'England hocldina-
tiOn of the British Govertimetit,:. no order (d
Council, whieli prohibited such nefarious acts
had any effect upon those political,ineeodiarits,

'" An this alludes,l inn,ginc, to the intrigues of Wardle and
Co, agaiust the Duke of Yurk.-141. ot

who are ready to take up anus against every le-
gitimate Government.
Since the wisdom of most of the Continental
Sovereigns have thought proper to adopt mea-
sures to extirpate sedition and the seditious, it
behoves the British Cabinet to do the same. The
above remarks, as I have already stated, are en-
titely-confidential. * * * * * * * *

To
Ausbassador at the Court. of St. James's.
Or in his absence to M. , time Charge critffairs.
(Confidential.)

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, SATURDAY, JAN. 22.

CONTEMPT OF COURT.
DEAN V. STABLES.
[Furtl►er Particulars.)
Mr. XVETHERELL was heard at considerable
length for the prosecution, and was followed by
Mr. DoWDESwELL ; after which Mr. HEALD, for
the defendants, addiessed the Court for nearly
three hours.

The LORD CHANCELLOR entered generally into
the facts .of the case. He regretted that it was
not in the power of the Court to act in cases of
this kind, according to its known and established
rules of justice, without doing that which was
calculated to wound the feelings of parties, who,
Willi the exception of their participation in the.
transaction in question, nigh he persons of ho-
nour and char,eter ; but it was : i.r..essary to the
due discharge of the functions of the Court, with
reference to those 'ohm's, Alio were placed tender
its immediate protection. ttia persons were not
with impunity to mix thenise:ree,lir, transactions
'leading to a clandestine marriage. It was-difficult,
if not impossible, for him to determine upon
the degree of delinquency attributable to any
of the parties promoti ,g, or concerned in the
marriage, without minutely attending to all the
•-tthdavits, and with respect to the -nature of the
imputations tegaith might-rest on Mrs. Stables, .he-
could not make up his mind until he hatilsome
fur-
rher explanation of What passd betwe*n her and
D.r. Moore, the curate of St. P incrtrs; at-ter the
!taints of marriage had been t mice publiithed. If
'there was any.thing with view to that -part which
Dr: Moore wished to explain forth:4lfoot as ap-
peared upon the present affidavits, he was at liberty
to lay before the Court any new affidavit he might
think proper. With respect -to the question of the
•legality of Are marriage celebrated in Sc ,tfand, that
was a question which it was necessary should -in
the first instance be determined. He should diruct
a reference to the Master; whether a legal mar•
riage had actually taken place ; and upon all the
other points of the case, as referable to the con-
duct-of the parties, -he should take till Thursday
next to con Sider what his judgment• ought to be.
desiring- to have -it• understood,- that if, in the
meantime, the parties were desittius of laying-be:.
fore him, upon allidavits;-ank•furthee.facts or ex—
platiations,•they were at liberty-so to do. • .
Court was extremely crowded during the whole'
..irithe 'discussion, which did not terminate tilt a
late hour in the day.

(;otiier OF KING'S BFNCH ,sIifIGEANTe-INN-11ALL,JAN.2t,
SPRING GUNS.
ILOTT V. w ICKES, ESL

This was an action of trespass, tried. last As-
sizeir •at Chelmsford before Baron Gaevow. On
the trial it appeared, that the defendant had set,
in a wood belonging to himself, several spring-
guns; they were loader► with small shot, ft,:(f
pointed on-low level. Notice of such guns being
set there was painted on four boards ; the-boards
were black, the letters white. These boards were
pot up at the outside of the wood, in different parts.
The plaintiff, in company with another trien;went to
the wood in the (lay time to gar her nuts. The plain.
tiffhad been told that guns were placed in the wood,
and his companion refused going into the wood un-
less the plaintiff went first, for fearof being shot by
them. '['tie plaintiff went into the wood for the pur-
pose of getting nuts, and one of the guns went off,
and wounded hint severely. The Jury on the trial
of this cause, under the direction of the Learn-
ed Judge, gave a verdict for the ;deltoid,. da-
mages 501. A rule for a new trial having been
obtained in the last term, Mr. Adolphus, Mr.
Dowling, and Mr. Chitty, • now showed cause
against it. They. urged, that in order to support
the present rule,, it would be iuctintbent on the
o:her side to show, that if the defendant bad him-
self been present, and had given the plaintiff notice
not to enter the wood, and he persisting in doing
so, the plaintiff had shot him, he would have been
just ificAl in ,so doing. The la whad given to per-
sons
peculiar remedies for the protection of their
property, and it was not competent for oily one
to have recourse to a more violent remedy. Be-
fore a men can justify turning another off his
land, he must first request him to depart, and if be
refuse, lie -may endeavour to remove him gently;
if this he not sufficient, he may have recourse to
a greater degree of force, such as the tre.spasser
makes necessary by his resistance, but he would
not be justified in wounding the trespasser. If there 7
tore, a man could not lawfully do an act directly,
he shall not he allowed to do so indirectly. The
plaintiff is the mere instrument of letting the gun
off. by treading upon the wire. The person who
sets it is the real actor—it is the same as if be him,
self were_ present, and committed the act. It
would be watch more humane to allow a man the
privilege of shooting at a,trespasser with his own
hand. He would then be able to distinguish the
guilty from the innocent, and he might, too, feel
compunction at the shedding the blood of a fel-
low-creature for committing trifling trespass ;
but this contrivance left no room for repentance •
—whoever came .within its operation, whether
guilty or innocent, suffered by it.. They also con-
tended, that it was Hot sufficierit.that the plaintiff
lusd notice that gons.were placed in the wood; he
ought to have bad notice of the particular place
where the wires were placed. This was in the
day time, and it was not usual to set such inatru-
inents in the day.

The Court, vvitbout bearing the Counsel on the
other side, said,, that in this case it Was not neces-
sary for thcm to droide upon tile general . ques-
tion' of the legality of this practice. That, in
this case, as the diArtidant had had particular no-
tice that gunt, were set in the wood, and chose,
rtotwi'kstanoing, to, enter, in consequence of
which be received the. injury complained of, be
Was nut entiiled to a recompense in damages.—
The rule was accordingly made Alulute,

DREADFUL FIRE IN THAMES -STREET.

FIFTEEN HOUSES BURNT.

Yesterday morning, about half past two o'clock*
the-utmost uproar and confusion prevailed in tbg
neighbourhood of Thames-street and its envi-
rons, in consequence of a most alarming fire
which broke out in the premises of Messrs.;

CHILDB, porter and cider warehouse, in Swaere
lane, leading to the river Memel, adjacent to
London-bridge. Tiie fire was discovered by eltve
family residing. in the opposite premises to Mr-
Childe, who were alarmed by the flumes issuitlf
from the windows at the lower part or the -frottee4
an alarm was immediately made, and the 'family
made their escape with great difficulty. The bre
spread with such rapidity, that in a short titre'
the flames communicated themselves to the Were-.
house of Mr. Matthews (at the back part), sepal
a stock of wood and other materials used in Mc-
Mattews's trade (brush-making) having caught:
fire, the vvhole of time front premises were,
less than an hour, completely burnt through
Tharnesestreet. The County Fire-office, the PhtlY'
nix, and several other engines, were by aria
time on the spot, hut, owing to a 'great scarcity
of water, in consequence of the frost, and its be-
ing low water at the time, it was Overly feared
that the whole of the street would be burnt dowels
as the &tines were spreading at a most rapid rate,
and Had extended to other houses at the back. of
Swan-yard, leading into Thames-street 1114 1113..
expected cirenmstance caused several fam..lies to
retreat fro.) their houses nearly in a state of nu-
dity ; the streets were lined with persons, some
of whom rendered every assistance, while others
committed daring depredations. The houses of
Mr. Holland, hop-merchant, Garrett's tea ware-
house, Mr. Field. tallow -chandler, near to
Fishmongers' Hall, which iV-aS threatened with
destruction at various times, and the fires.
tryn played on the element with the greatest ace.
Ttie violence of the conflagration three
a glare of light over the whole neighbuerhoUtl,
and viewed from•Londoo idge. #tie fire present-
ed a magnificent though melancholy spertadc.
The house lend weeehoeses of Mr. R „nide,
cheesenionger, shortly suer caught fire, and were
much injured ; awl the DI idgeward School wick
four or five other houses' in Swan-lace au:l thack.
Raven alley was materially damaged. It an-
ticipated several times that Fishmongers' -Hell
would be destroyed, but the attention of tue fi4e-
men apparently was fixed upon it, they playeA,,:rea
the adjoining houses, and it escaped with less in-
jury than Was expected. At about bait-past four
o'clock, the roots of Mr. Childe's and Mr, Mat..
iliews's houses fell in With a irtellitlldOtlS
and greatly spread the flames. The iron MAIM'
rectory irftize sve7 surro'Unded by- flurries; bist
eseapett.wiihout Tbey continued burning
at an alarming rate e east ten o'doele yester-
day moreing, when an '` oping explosion of
cembirstible matter took pteee, wt,ich tore of
the roofs of several of the houccs, sensed
great fear ; tiles, bricks, and wood were ',ice( tt2:;,:i
about in every direction. Some persons stan
near the spot were greatly injured in consequence
of their falling on then), a boy had his area lace-
rated very much, and some of his fingers tOtri of
Shortly after, the houses in Swan-lane fell dezae,
and completely blocked up the roati-•way, suet ifie
whole of the other houses mentioned Were' corme.
pletely destroyed, and, with the furnittlie
property, became a Mass of ruins. The whole
toss is domptred to amount to nearly three.huo-
dted thousand -pounds. A fireman narrowly
escaped with his life, while playing. on the pre-.
raises near Mr. (Milt-Ws house ; a high wall gave
way and, neatly- covered .-him, but by a s'nedcia
jump backwards he escaped. A report was in
circulation thai a man had perished; but .froza
every possible inquiry that/could be made, we,
.consider the .report to be unfounded. Several
trifling accident! occurred. The City officers end
parish coestables attended, and a great number of
pickpockets welecollecled in the hope of plunder.
The Comity Fire Office and the Phoenix engines
were excellent order, and it is owing to their
wonderful exertions that Fishmongers' Hall wti
not !strut down. It is not ascertained bow the.
fire commenced.

rSvVoRD FISH. The W,lkinson, Beta.,, of
Whitehaven, ol her passage iron) Buenos Ayres,
was pierced' in the bottom, th-rOugh copper and
plank, by that fish Supposed to ba of the sward., of
unicorn species; in. atterriptiog to take it, aftbort
one half broke away, and the other remained is
the ship.
. •
A felt days ago, at Lewisham, while a balker,
whose horse and cart was at a Gentleman's 4i emir,
and the. baker was being !laid his bill in the .hottfiet
a thief mounted the box of the cur, and drove of
with it. Upon the baker dkcovering his loSs., be
procured a horse, and rode atter the thief, who
was apprehended at -Deptford.gare, taken ber.ore
Mr. MASON, the Magistrate, and fully committed
for trial.

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SuoAß.—The Average Price of Brown or MUSCOVadp Sugar.
tioroputed from the Returns made in the week. ending. Jun. O.
1.820,. is 34 3. 7di. per cwt.