The Sun.
London, England, 1818-12-12 00:00:00

THE LATE QUEEN.

It mnst,be consoling to every friend to Virtue,
which was so strikingly exemplified in the cha-
racter and conduct of our late excellent Queen, to
find, with hardly an exception, but in a leo,: des-
picable Weekly Journals of the Metropolis, the
most of the Country Newspapers throughout the
British Empire have manifested feelings of re-
spectfol sympathy on the melancholy occasion of
her death. The following article we have taken
floin The Blackburn Mail of the 14th inst. one of
the twist respectable of the Provincial Journals :
" Wednesday-, the 2d day of December inst.
having been appointed for the interment of the
remsins of our late aged and highly-esteemed
Queen, the Police and .Constables-of .this Town
postponed the Alatket, and recommended that all
slior , warehouses, &c. should be closed during-
the butt! day
" This recommendation bad its desired effect ;
sit appeared to participate in the same feelings of
sorrow, and were anxionS to express them in

site!' a manner as humanity and religion required.
The Pulpit and Reading Desks of the Parish
Church were covered with black cloth suitable to
the melancholy occasion, and Divine Service was
performed there at seven o'clock in the evening,
which was attended by the Members of the Pitt
Club, their atedals being suspended round the
neck by black crape, and all in deep mourning,
and also by tie Members of the Commercial Be-
nevolent, Utrion, and Tradesman's Societies,
likewise dressed in `deep mourning, as well as by
the Orange Club, and two Lodges of Freemasons,
vent) their usual decorations. After the Church
ht.(' beet; crowded within,. the concourse of peo-
lic remaining without was still so wear, as to re-
riuire the active exertions, not only of the con-
stables, btu also of several of the military, in
order to preserve quietness during the solemn ser-
vice.—Prayers weie read by the Rev. R. Dobson,
a.:ter which our worthy Vicar,, the Rev. T. D.
Whitaker, LL.D preached a very appropriate,
eloquent, and impressive Sermon, from the 16th
use of the 3d chap. of Prov. " Length of days
is in her• right hand, and in her left band riches
a"bil hotionr."—The Rev. Gentleman commenced
his Sermon by explaining the word wisdom' to
import religion, and observed that in this world
Wen of opposite characters often porstie the saute
objects, and that prosperity or adversity were not
peculiar to any particuliir part of mankind—that
the exertions of the good to obtain the blessings
of this life sometimes onacconordily l iilcd, yet,
it was evident, notwithstanding this, that there is
a moral Governor of the world, antra future state
of rewards and punishments—and remarked, if
the same were awarded here, we 'shoold not sup-
pose there was a future sratc. The Rev. Gentle-
man then observed, that we should admire the
wisdom, justice, tied above all the goodness of
Go:I, in cootiimilly protecting his people—that
he strewed flowers along the thorny ways and
paths of life, and prepared for them a house
not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.' '
" He then alluded, in pathetic and elegant lan-
guage, to the death of her late Royal Highness
the Princess Charlotte of Wales, and observed,
that it was only a year since use had to lament the
cleath of youth, health, and virtue in that amiable
Prisicess. After alluding to the numerous puldic
and domestic virtues of the late Queer', he be-
wailed, in a very affecting manner, that Providence
which deprived our revered Sovereign of mutat
light, and caused him to breathe only the air of
animal life ; mentioned the excellencies which
had distinguished, in so etninent a degree, both
the Ring and Queen, and said that Providence,
in giving us such Governors, had probably some
other intention then merely what was expressed

in the text.
fie then descanted upon the confused state
in which we had been for a number of years past,
and more especially when the Revolution took
place in France, mud remarked that it required the
exertion of all the talents of the ablest Minister
ever known, to prevent the deluge of rebellion,
and the disorders of riot, from spreading over this
country. He also observed that it was his wish
to tread lightly upon the 'ashes of the departed,
hut he would contrast the characters of their Majes-
ties here with those of France, previous t 9, the
Rovolution. That the King of that country had
done nothing to cause the events which succeed-
ed, but that the follies- and misconduct of the
Qieeii, when compared 'sit(' the virtues of the
late amiable Qaeen of this Kingdom, must excite
us to exclaim in the words of the text—" Length
of dais is in her tight hand, and in her left hand
riches and honour." Sortie may ask, said the Rev.
Gentleman, does not profligacy and vice still pre-
vail among•eall orders of society here ? Yes, he re-
plied, it does, and in the higher walks of life, but
that there was a material difference between
the influence witch is exerted to prevent, and
that which endeavoqrs to accelerate ; and left his
ao:titors to infer what ityould have been the re-
sult, if ,we had not possessed Monarchs of such
exemplary characters. Ater mentioning the
goodness of Prr,vidence in giving the late Queen
so many comforts, and such a large portion of
happioess, during a very long life, the Reverend
Gentleman said, it sometimes happened that indi-
vidirds, thus Blessed, prayed for affliction to be
inflicted upon them to pkrepare them for a future
world ; and he concluded by saying that the late
Queen, iu her last months, had been visited by
a painful and long• protracted disease, that she
had spent hours in submission to her Heavenly
Fattier, and that we had not only reasona to
, hope', hut to _think, upon solid and Christian
grounds, that she had obtained another crown,
a crowns of glory brilliant'as the stars of heaven.
" It is a maxim with us, whenever we coo-
template any event or personage, intimately con-
nected with the Government of this Country, to

assume no premises for-the purpose of introducing
language r)t- a diirespectfol, and much less of a
dekmatory nature Oil the contrary, we had much
rather record theJ.virtnes than the vices of man-
kind, but espeeiai!:. of the Great amid Noble, and
we hold in deteitil.tioi, those motives %%hie!' 'excite

l%en to cast a shade over the virtues of the de-
arted, and induce them to infer crime when no
,n:lt is apparent. But it is to he lamented, that
there should be a set of men in the world who
seek for opportunities to attack with licentious
fitly all who do not happen to support the mea-
snres to which they are friendly; a set of men who
can palliate the outrageous actions of a lawless mob
or bionlitt i, and almost, at the saute moment, ana-
lise Jaw conduct of -the virtuous, pass over the
lustre it displays, and if a speck should appe3r,
apd►ly their microscopic intellects to view it with
insatiate attention and exulting delight. To re-
view the observations made upon our kite lament-
ed Queen, in some of the public papers, would
be an irksome ondertaking, because of the prin-
ciples of the individuals who have made them ;
and' foolish, becatts,e it is so far from being ne-
cessary. tier example, during upwards of half a
eenttov, has been that of an affectionate consort
and mother, and of a benevolent and unassuming
Queen. In her we liSve lust a friend to Britain,
and mote especially to the poor and unfortunate;
while her Royal Children are deprived of one who
preach'ed to them by her conduct, such lessons
as morality might dictate, and virtue ()arts as the
promoters of her influence in the human breast."

BELFAST TOWN MEETING.

PROTESTANT PETITION IN FAVOUR OF CATHOLIC

EMANCIPATION.

The Town Meeting fixed for Wednesday last,
at the-Brown Linen-hall, to petition the Legis-
hitinc for the total emancipation of the Roman
Catholics of Ireland, met, pursuant to requisi-
tion. The Hall was crowded at the appointed
hour. RoBERT GE TTY, Esq. was called to the
Chair.

Mr. GETTY then stated to. the Assembly the
object of the Meeting, and said, that be trusted,
it the proceedings went on, that he would be
supported, by the Gl:nth-men Around hint, in the
preservation of order and decorum.
Dr. DRENNAN then rose and spoke nearly as
follows :—Sir, I rise to propose an adjoutnment
of this Meeting to Monday next, at the hour of
one o'clock ; and I make this motion in COl-15e.•
tpience of the interment of her late Majesty,
which, we are informed by the papers, takes
place this day in the metropolis of the empire.
The adjournment of this Meeting is an act of de-
served respect to the memory of her late Ma-
jesty the Queeti of , these realms—it is au act of
deserved respect to his Majesty, with whose suf-
feriug every humane and honourable bosom must
sympathise—it is also an act of respect (Inc to the
Ptince Regent, and to all the Royal Family—it
is an act of becotuitig sympathy with the British
peopl,: ; and it is also an act of respect to our-.
selves. For these rewqms I shall now move you,
Sir, that this Meeting do adjourn to Monday
next, at one o'clock.
The BAY. Mr. CROLLY seconded this motion.
Mr. LAWLESS made some observations, and
concluded by agreeing that the Meeting should
adjourn till Monday next.
The CIIIRMAN then put the following Rest).
lotion :

" That, on account of the interment of her
late Majesty, which, it is understood, takes place
this day, this Meeting do now adjourn 111/tii Mon-
day next, the 7th instant, at one o'clock, as a
tribute of our respect for, and sympathy With the
feelings of the Prince Regent, and the other
branches of the Royal Family, oa that melan-
choly occasion."

Phis Resolution was unanimously agreed to,
and the Meeting adjourned.
The following is given by the Dublin Evening
Post as a copy of a Petition to be proposed- at
the adjourned Meeting :

" To the !tight Honourable and Honourable Me House of
Commons,
" May it please your Honourable. House,
" We, your petitioners, inhabitants of the Town of Bel-
fast, come before your Honourable House, in behalf of the
Catholics of Ireland, a large, a loyal, and a long suffering
portion of his Majesty's subjects. As Christians who desire
to do to others, what,' in like circumstance, we should
wish to be done to ourselves.' As mess who think nothing
foreign to us which is connected with the best feelings and
best interests of humanity. As Irishmen who have been al-
ways fully sensible of the mer,itorious serriees of one Catholic
Countrymen during the war, and of their inestimable value
in the time of peace, we warmly sympathise with their civil
and political grievances, we bear testimony to their merits,
we buns ly advocate their just and reasonable claims, and the
aver of our Petition is, for a total and unqualified Repeal
of all the Penal Laws, which keep the Catholics of Ireland a
distinct people in the body of the Empire ; that by such Re-
peal this invidious and humiliating distinction may he for ever
abolished; that every relic of a Code of had and barbarous
policy, so disgraceful to the Statute Book of a humane, a
civilized, and an enlightened station, should disappear and
be done away; that there should be no such thing as either
religious or political persecution; that the pledges either
given, or understood to have been giros, atjthe period of the
Legislative Union, should be redeemed and faithfully per-
forased ; that peace abroad may be speedily followed up by
this still better peace at home ; and that, in happy conse-
quence of a spirit of conciliation, and consolidation of
strength, there may be, for time to come, one glorious Con-
stitution, one Law to protect or to punish, one paternal
Goverumeist, one heart and one hand in the British Empire."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, DEC. 11.

nis Honour the VICE-CHANCELLOR was occu-
pied this day in healing motions from the LORD
CHANCELLOR'S paper, as well as'tortie froni
own ; but none •of them were of any particular
importance, except to the parties immediately
concerned.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DEC. ii.
Middlesex Sittings after Michaelmas Term, before the Chief
Justice and Special Juries.

ATROG;IOUS PERJURIES.

THB KING V. WILLIAM ALLCORN.

This was an indictment against the defendant
foi: wilful and corrupt perjury.
The prosecution was conducted by Mr. GUR-
NEY and Mr.DiiNmAN, and the defence by the AT-
TORNEY-GENERAL, Mr.RAINE, and Mr. WALTON.

It appeared that the defendant was examined as
a witness in support of an information filed in the
Conn of Exclieques- against three persons, named
Walter Guy, the elder, Wal:er Guy, the younger,
and -- Bishop, Sussex fanners, for being con-
cerned, on Sunday, the 14th September, 1817, at
the landing of smuggled spirits at a place called
Mill 'tide Bridge, near New Haven, in Sussex.—
Ile positively swore in the Court of Exchequer,
that these individuals. were concerned in that
transaction. The present indictaient imputed to

him foul and corrupt perjury, and negatived the
truth of his statement.

Mr. Gwynne, the Solicitor of Lewes, who was
concerned for the prosecutors in the Court of
Exchequer, produced the notes he had taken of
the defendant's evidence.

A multitude of witnesses were then produced,
to spew,-first, that the prosecutors were not near
the spot at the time, but were at home in their
own houses, when the defendant represented them
to have been present at the transaction mentioned;
and, secondly, to spew that the defendant himself
was at the distance of 20 miles from the place in
question, at the very moment when he pretended
to have seen the prosecutors assisting the smug-
glers.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL addressed the Jury on
behalf of.the defendant, apologizing for his so ap-
pearing, by stating that the Crown bad felt it to
he its duty to-afford the defendant such means of
defence as the law would ALIO him, which he
could not otherwise procure a a man in an hum-
ble station of life. The Learned Attorney made
such observations as appeared most favourable to
the defendant, contending that it was possible for
the witnesses for the prosecution to be mistaken
in the evidence they had given. He admitted,
however, that he was not in a condition to con-
tradict them, and therefore he was obliged to sur-
render his client into the hands of the Jury, who
would pronounce such a verdict as the facts before
them would warrant.

The Jury, without hesitation, pronounced the
defendant -Guilty.

TIIE KING V. WILLIAM BRIDGER.

This was another indictment for the like of-
fence against this defendant, who was another
witness on the part of the Crown, in the Court
of Exchequer, against the same prosecutors as in
the last case, with reference to the same transac-
tion. He positively swore on that occasion, that
the two Guys and Bishop were present and assist-
ing on Sunday evening, the 14!11 September,
1817, at 11ji1 Tide Bridge, the fact being, that
they were in their own houses at the time, and
that the'defendant himself could not have been
present at the transaction (it it really took place),
he being a way from the scene of action many miles,
and confined to his own bed with sickness, at the
very moment at which he described the affair to
hare taken place.
A vast number of witnesses tv'ere examined to
support the assignments of perjury, and they
proved to demonstration, that this witness for the
Crown had not spoken a single word of truth,
but had acted from the most foul and wicked
motives.

Mr. ItArtii, who addressed the Jury for the
defendant in the absence of the Attorney-General,
whose other avocations called him elsewhere,
followed the sante course pursued by his Learned
Colleague, and resigned the defendant to the ver-
dict of the Jury, acknowledging that his talent
was without defence.
The Jury immediately found the defendant
It appears that both these miscreants are now in
custody on charges of felony, committed since the
nefarious -wickedness imputed to theta by these in-
dictments, and therefore they were remanded to
their former custody, instead of being committed
to the custody of the I%Lirshal, as at first prayed by
the Counsel tor the prosecution.

TllB KING V. WILLIAM EOUTER.

This was also an indictment against another
person of the same class and character, for foul and
wicked perjury, in falsely swearing in the Com t
of Exchequer, on the 14th of May last, upon an
information filled by the Attorney-General against
Geo. Henty, Esq. for concealing -certain smug-
gled spirits at a place called Ferring-lane-eud, in
the parish of Kinest on,. in the county of Sussex ;
that the said George Henty, Esq. was personally
concerned in locking up the said spirits in one of
his barns.

Mr. DENMAN, with whom was Mr. ADOLPHUS,
for the prosecution, stated the case in a powerful
and eloquent address to the Jury.
It appeared that Mr. Henty is a gentleman of
character and fortune, residing at Ferring-lane-
end, in the county of Sussex, and is partner in a
banking-house at Arundel, and had been subject-
ed to the proceedings in question in the Court of
Exchequer, through the malice and wickedness of
the defendant, and another man named Slater,
who was the subject of the indictment which fol-
lows the Court of Exchequer these persons
positively swore, that on the morning of the 4th
of April, being Good Friday, between 5 and 6
o'clock, thay saw Mr. Henty lock up in one' of
his barns a great number of half-ankers of foreign
spirits, which had been landed the night before
on the beach, by a party of smugglers. The
perjury was assigned upon this 'statement, which
the indictment charged to be founded in wilful
and corrupt falsehood.
Mr. V. G. Dow LING, who took down the de-
fendant's evidence in short-hand in the Court of
Exchequer, read his notes.
The evidence of 110 less than nineteen persons
was then given to support the assignments of per-
jury, from which it appeared, that on the morn-
ing of the 4th of April, 1817, air. !.lenty rose at
five o'clock, for the purpose of going to one of
his farms, about four miles distance from his
house, at Fearing-lane-end, to give some in-
structions to his farming people, as was going
into Northamptonshire upon some business, which
would require his absence front home several
days ; that he accordingly set off with his son,
in a gig, about half-past five, direct from his
house—dispatched his business at Offingham, the
farm in question—took his place in a London
coach—came to town, and went into Northamp-
tonshire, whence he did not return for a week :---
that, in point of fact, ono smuggling transaction
whatever took place at Ferring-lane-end cat] the
.morning of the 4th of April, but that in the even-
ing of that day some smuggling transactions
did take place some miles distance from his
house, on the coast of Sussex, at which, however,
he was not present, and could not be, as he
was at that time in London. That intorma-
tiona had been filed against a number of per-
‘sons supposed to be concerned in this last men-
tioued'afriir, many of whom had compromised
for mitigated penalties, although, in tact, they
were innocent of any share in the transaction.—
Iu short, the whole of the evidence went to es-

ttibiisb the perfect innocence of Ifr. Henty. atit
to slew that the proceedings instituted stgai°sg
him in the Exchequer were founded in the follies •
perjury.
Mr. RAINE did not even attempt to address th:
Jury on the part of the defendant, confessing 11)$$
the evidence on the part of the prosecution.sts
irresistible.
, The Jury instantly found the defendant .Gl',"`e

THE KING V. GEORGE SLATER.
This was an indictment against another of the
perjured witnesses examined in support of the in'
tormation against Mr. Henty. The same evidette4
was examined as in the last case, to which wae •
superadded the fact, that the defendant had givell-
the false information against Mr. Henty fr°°l
motives of base and malignant revenge.
Mr. ItAtNE also resigned this defendant to the
hands of the Jury, who immediately found the
deiendnnt Guilty.
Both defendants were ordered to be com‘mitted
to the custody of the Marshal.
The Court sat till a very late hour in the even'

MORE BOXlNG.—Stepney-fields vras the seat -Of •
a manly tight on 'lliorsday, between John Nevet_ti
and James Allen, in consequence of wards Mika
arose respecting the merits of the pugilists, Ran'.
dal and Turner, Allen having thrown out soing
hints about Irish Boxers not very agreeable cc'
Neven, who was one of the sister country ;
challenged his advessary for what lee termed 0.,e1
nation's sake. A regular ring was formed, a"
in the absence of the Great Captain and his Con".
missary others of inferior note filletkhose Stations.
The seconds were Dan M'Cartby and I'reen°l/
for Neven, and George and Thomas Johnson for
Allen. Thirty-five minutes of hard fighting
lowed. The second round was manfully concur;
ed, and some severe blows were placed, bn
Nevea hit his adversary down again. The icwl
lowing rounds, sixteen in number, were main'
rained the same determined hostility as is.'
the men were fighting for a nation's sae, 11!,4,
they had alternate advantages, but Neven's blou
at length brought him through, and Allen al:
knowledged defeat. Dan
_M'Cartby challengest
to fight any waterman upon the river who sot
run Ireland down, or any man in the ring, bat """
did not meet a customer.

Edward Walker was yesterday charged at Unfrial
Hall with having robbed the -premises of Ikifivge."'
and Co. bleachers, near Croydon, of a consider.
able quantity at dowlas. In his defence, the Pr;
sorer said that he purchased the property trait
hawker on the high road.—Prisoner was comloW
ted tor trial.