The Sun.
London, England, 1827-04-17 00:00:00

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LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 17, 1627.

The Ministerial Arrangements are in rapid
progress ; but the several Patents of Appoint-
ment will not be out for some days, and there-
fore it has bees► arranged, that the change shall
take place at each office on the tot May.
The Marquis of ANGLESEA has accepted the
Master Generalship of the Ordnance, and des-
patches have been sent to the Duke of CAM-
BRIDGE, renewing the offer to his Royal High-
ness of the Office of Commander in Chief.

The Law appointments are not yet arranged,
but the Solicitor-General, Sir N. C. TINDAL,
has given in his adhesion to Mr. CANNING'S
Administration.
Mr. 'WALLACE and Sir C. ARBUTHNOT
have resigned.

We understand that it has now been arranged
that Sir GEORGE CLERK is, as well as his
present Colleagues, to remain at the Admiralty,
as one of the Council of his Royal Highness
the Lord High Admiral.

The retirement of Viscount MELVILLE is,
perhaps, the least comprehensible among the
recent secessions ; and it is that which will pro-
duce the greatest changes in the machinery of
Government. The re-modelling of the Constitu-
tion of the Admiralty has already been hailed with
general applause. Let us fervently hope, as in-
deed we cordially anticipate, that the spirit
which animated the official life of the Duke of
YORK, will rest on his illustrious Brother ;
and the result will be the accession, on the one
hand, of new credit to Royalty, and, on the
other, of added lustre to the mural crown of
Great Britain. The meteor, flag will certainly
lose nothing of its brilliancy by being surmount-
ed with—

The sparkling crest
' Of Clarence's Plantagenet.' .
There is, however, room, if not necessity, for
another change, little less important ;—a change,
not indeed respecting the system of the Admi-
ralty, but respecting one of the appendant arrange-
ments of the late Board. We allude to the dis-
tribution of the Patronage of Scotland. No part
of the organization of the Government during
recent years has occasioned more surprise, or
yielded less satisfaction, than the annexation
of the greater part of the most valuable appoint-
ments connected with the northern division of
the Kingdom, appointments of all sorts and sizes,
civil, fiscal, financial, ecclesiastical, military,—to
the person of the First Lord of the Admiralty.
For ourselves, we have been as greatly perplexed
to discover the reasons of this arrangement,
as we remember to have been perplexed, in
the juvenile days of our introduction to the
study of classical mythology, to understand
why King Neptune, instead of being content
with his innumerable stud of sea-horses, should
also have been worshipped as the great patron
of coursers of terrestrial race. There was no
reason, no fitness, not even any meaning, in at-
taching an entire division of the national patron-
age, not to an office, but to an individual;—in
bestowing it, as a pocket-privilege, a sort of pa-
tronage in gross, on the ministerial head of the
naval department. It would be just as intelligible
an arrangement, that the Archbishop ofCANTER-
BURY should have the power of appointing one
of the corporals in every grenadier-corps of our
army, while serving on the coast of Coromandel,
or that his Majesty's principal Physician in
ordinary should be complimented with the per-
quisite of nominating all the tide-waiters in the
province of Connaught.
There was, however, a cause, though not what
can properly be called a reason, for the arrange-
ment in question.- The privilege came to Lord
MELVILLE as an heir-loom from one, to
whose memory he may well recur with reverence
and with affection. The very circumstance however
of Lord MELVILLE'S connexion with Scot-
land, constituted the chief objection. It is true
is a small
provided
that calumny has ascribed to him a partiality
in the disposal of his Scottish patronage,
from which we believe him to have been in
a great measure free. But it is not fitting
that there should be any colour for such an
t i
countrys appointments.
every
Scot Scotland,ofsgentleew ha t besides,
bloodl
imputation ; and colour for it there
eavlwel-a:"
will be, while a native of Scotland, merely
of Scotland ;
as such, has the exclusive disposal of all Scot-
with a number
the
but weed
honest o of
soils.—There-
fore, les°.
substantive portion of the gentry
arse circum-
ference if he has places to give, will find no want of
applicants within the
—tlaiTidh,erae-s
of his domestic circle.
of relatives, constituting
Seventh-cousin-
iit is on short, is f
all poor
fore, if the whole patronage of the country
is to be thrown into the lap of any one Minister,
merely as an individual, the very last person to be
selected for the benefit is a native of Scotland.
On this subject, some new arrangement will
now, we conceive, be adopted. Either let there
be a Minister for Scotland, who shall regularly
watch over heri t n crests and dispense her places; or,
let the patronage, as well as the duty, flow, as it
naturally would, into the hands of the Secretary
of State for the Home Department.

We were in no small doubt for some time,
as to what step the Law Officers of the Crown
might deem it their duty to take, under the Com-
bination Laws, in consequence of the late Strike
by the Members of his MAJESTY'S Cabinet. But
the participation of one of those Gentlemen in the
crime, must make it a still more delicate and dif-
ficult task for the Solicitor-General to commence
proceedings against those distinguished con-
spirators. Indeed, we have been informed, that
conviction would be almost impossible—the
irosemvetrleter
apparently never con-
templated the possibility
framer saioi
3f.
professionbt
übte 0 Ipa
tvroa havingtwivhe of such conduct on the
ise
iaintdh
es mechanics—the
person s
belonged par-
"'tie:itin:a-1r thereby exempted from the pains and
penalties to which the humbler classes of society
pthaoinusghofth
law,ei r rankrr
e
are liable when guilty of similar' conduct. But
dmouaybt pwrhotesthcterthaemstil

punishment does not await them in the contetti
and indignation of their countrymen,---contemi
at the pitiful spirit which such conduct display
and indignation at the insult which they hal
presumed to offer to their Sovereign and Bent 3'
factor.

This is the language of almost every indis
dual whom one meets, it is the langs.lagei of tl
whole respectable Press of the countrs-,
-rad ch
has in this instance laid aside party spirit
sorting the cause of our insulted Monarch, and
injured people. We are told not to put our faith :in
Princes, but Princes also will now doubt the
of putting their faith in subjects, at least ii i those
who standin their presence, and who b .ask
their Royal favour, but when self-interest sews
to point out the vi. (lull of seeking advanc( unent
by embarrassing and annoying them, fe, n°,
scruple in deserting them though overwhe
with public care and individual anxiety.
We are glad to understand that the liopt 13 of
the faction begin to diminish. They are not
quite so certain of returning to office as they
were. The masterly stroke of embarking Ro: yaltY
On his side by the appointment of the Dulce Of
CLARENCE, has shown the consummate
dons of the new Premier, and the promotion
of Sir J. CoPLEY has converted a formidable
opponent into a strenuous and efficient pas-
tisan. So that they judged rashly, v‘ 'ho suppoa ed
that Mr. CANNING had undertaken s What he los
unable to perform ; that he had. engaged
in an enterprize of which he did not see
the issue ; and that, like a frantic gam tester, he
had risked the renown of years upon .the cast
of a die, which they thought they had loaded
fbr their own purposes.

We can scarcely conceive it possible th at there
can be any foundation for the rumours . which
are in circulation, that the Duke of WE, GLING'
TON intends to publish the correspondence which
has taken place respecting the retirement of his
Grace from the Cabinet. These rumour have
even stated, that it was the DUKE'S intention to
print the letters which he had received frc Hit
MAJESTY on the subject. Such a brt !ach
decorum towards his SOVEREIGN, can hardly
have been contemplated for an instant by his
GRACE. It would virtually be an attei ript to
place the KING in the wrong in public o pinion?
and consequently would be as unconstil artionel
and unjustifiable, as it would prove unsucxessful
in its object. Allowance may be made for the
mortified feelings which the Duke of NNT:ELLiso-
TON may suffer under if he actually met with
the check in hi:3 career which report st ales ; air
thereby found that bounds were successft illy place'
against his ambition which heretofore h a.d known
MAX. Unless we are greatly misinfol ntued, the,
disappointment his Grace experience ad by 11''
NIAJESTY'S refusal to allow him t o fill the
highest post in the Government, as w eLI as the
office of Commander-in-Chief, was the reill cause
of the break-rep of the Administrati on. klre
ambition, it is stated, had induced him to' pro'
pose himself to be First Lord of the TreavurY
and the nation owe their escape from ,such
a catastrophe to the unadvised, but judi-
cious and manly determination of their So-
VEREIGN, to decline acceding to the .arrange'
ment on the constitutional ground that it: would
be improper to allow a person at the head! of the
Army to be also at the head of the Ci vil Go-
vernment of the Country ; and likewise on the
ground that his Grace was unequal to ,:ombo
the House of Lords.

Such were, we have reason to believe, the'
motives of the SOVEREIGN, and such hava been
the effects of the disappointed ambition of hi
Grace of WELLINGTON.

We beg to insert, for the edification of out
readers, the following letter, which appearei I 10
the Courier of yesterday :

TO THE EDITOR OF THE COURIER.
Sir—As there is evidently no better mode of brit) 44
grievances before the eyes of those in whose hand' i the
remedy rests, than through the medium of the public !Pre's:
I beg in the name of myself and military friends, to
Du',"
t
out to your notice, a letter addressed to his Grace the Du',"
of Wellington, which appeared in the Sun of the st"
March. Why the writer addressed it to a paper so Teri
unlikely to come under the eye of his Grace I don't kilof.
but I am confident, you will, as an old friend of the arroi,
conceive it worthy of a place in your journal, and if tof
good results from it, be assured the credit will be jmetly st""
tributed to your Paper, which You are well aware is to be
found in all our Mess-rooms at home and abroad, and daily
placed before the Commander-in-Chief.
of Aitsiailiciluidaidvmidiuttaeld' al dcaounbvttioiniely'ofourr'
statements in the letter to be facts, at the same time I 911°°`1
be sorry to request or recommend the insertion of any partl
am, Sir, your obedient servant,
C. C., a very old Officer of the Line'
Garrison of Tynemouth, April 14.
[Of the letter alluded to by our Correspondent, we kon`°
tmlieinir:ost prt. of thie
nothing ; and it is our uniform practice to decline the io'
sertisn any communication of this kind, twins origi-
nally sent to us for publication.]
Now we would ask for what purpose was this
printed
lfoply showrabthe letter
the
itselfsp was
of o
aesnot given
ctoft:lnel
it,
iorar writhing
n
y a
o t aat
littletil e c
ingrinnotoriousea successttl chang
of out
Paper,)e
of Administration, which has left their " No
Popery" friends so sadly in the lurch.
If we have not the honour of having our
columns perused by his Grace of WELLINGTO,
and by all the messes in the service, we re'
gret the circumstance, but we really should require
stronger testimony to this being the fact than
the apparently purchased remarks of this very
old Officer of the Line, who seems to us to be
a very old fool.

We received last night the Paris Papers
Saturday, and the Etoile of Sunday morning.
The latter contains the news of the appointment
of Mr. CANNING to the office of First Lord of
the Treasury, and of the
resignation of the seveti
Cabinet Ministers ; the next French Papers
therefore will possess much interest, as they will
inform us of the public feeling in France upon
these events.
The Constitutionel contains an account of s
popular commotion which. had taken place 3t
Spain. It It of
Malaga. The cause ofi it was as creditable to the
as disgraceful to the
inhabitants
Government
appears that upwirci9
of 4000 Galley Slaves in the Presidio:, having
had no raiment
.furnished to them for four years: •
were in a most indecent state of nudity ; the'
were lodged in stables heaped and fre
together,
quently did not receive
the usual scanty alloy!'
ance of coarse food. ss
A contaffious fever vi a
engendered, and the inhabitants 0
naturally dreaded
its spreading amongst them. Representations t'',
Madrid were
ofof.thsatp
til'
unattended to, and it Was not
a sort of assessment • lisbii
was made on the in o
tan.ts that these poor wretches had a shirt 3°_,
pair of linen trowsers supplied to each of thev;
In other parts of Spain bands 'of Fanatics ravage
the .:;,! p . 0
the Country, and daily furnish proofs or

miseries Which always_retult to the people from
a bad -Government. Extracts of these Papers
will be found in another column.
Fituctt Fumns,—April 14.—Five per Cents., 100 f.
10e. ;-Three per Cents., 70f. 90c. ; Neapolitan, 77f. 30c. ;
Spanish Loan (1823), 55k. Exehanges—London, one
month, 25f. 35c. ; three months, 25f. 20c.

- .
We received this morning Hamburg Papers
of the 14th instant, but they contain little of
political importance. - Trade was very dull at
14elpSle •
ET. PETERSRURCH, MARCH 51.
It is reported that General Count Araktschejeu will very
probably be soon invested with one of the highest offices in
the State.
A change is going to be made in the Administration of
the Post-office. The number of persons employed is to be
considerably reduced, but the salaries of the officers to be
increased. Two officers of the General Post-office will set
out in a few days for Berlin and London, in order to make
themselves acquainted with the organisation of the Post-
'Aces in these cities.

At the end of last month, General Appraxin, of the
Engineers, died at Moscow • and on the '7th of this month,
at Lieut.-General Baron Von Driesen.
A society has been formed at Moscow for the promotion
of the National Manufactures, Commerce, and Agricul-
ture. Several agricultural and other societies, already
fttablished in that city, are united with this new society.

ST. rETERSBURGH, APRIL 1.
The ImPerial 111"--.e of the Bth June, 1808, by which
all children of both sexes, whom Russian merchants have
obtained from the Kirghise, either by purchase or ex-
change, are to receive their personal liberty at the age of
twenty-five
years, and which ordered this humane regula-
tion, to be extended to the whclo Siberian line, has, by a
resolution of the Council of the Empire of the 10th
February, this year, confirmed by his Majesty, received the
f mro of a law, for the Kalmucs and other Asiatics who
come into the lands of Russian merchants as prisoners of
the Kirghise.

At Lei • A
Frankfort on nzarax, Aram 11.
tion '
The f psicair trade remains in a
the state
Oder, on the of great stag
con-
na-
trary,
has turned out pretty well. Leipsic loses one branch
o.f trade after another, thus the trade in English yarn is
transferred to Zittau.
The snow,
in the Saxon mountains was still from three
t? 4ii feet deep on the 31st of March, and as the cold con-
tinued, and snow continual)y fell, it rather increased than
diminished,
maA Dantzie Journal says, that " in the neighbourhood of
th tZity, between.Fieginhoff and Ming, on this side of
bad given way, and a tract of coun-
b.,
vili,._ °gat, the dykes
-.! ,aree (German) square miles in extent, containing 31
—soy and 11,000 inhabitants, was laid under water."

In Another part of our paper will be found
`` Sortes Virgiliance," copied from the "TIMES"
of this morning. They are worthy of the pen of
I\jnottE, to whom, report of course, attributes
bln, and such of our readers as are fond of
ner and polished satire, will find no small en-
tenainment in perusing them. .To the charitable,
4° doubt, they will seem too severe.

• Atrionoit the many useful inventions for the
Prevention of accident and the preservation of
unlan life, none, we think, is more deserving of
Iblic attention than the ingenious method of
kr. Cook, of Long-acre, who has contrived an
epParatus for stopping a coach at a moment's
The plan is so simple as to be readily
adapted to any vehicle whatever, 'and must prove
k
y beneficial to those who travel with restive
°r nigh-spirited horses. It is lamentable to hear
°fthe constant accidents occurring daily through-
-15,44 the country from the unskilfulness of drivers
the unruly nature of the horses. We are so
thoroughly convinced of the peculiar efficacy of
Comes method, that, we think, no stage or
! lentict,ian's coach ought to be without it. In-
deed, an Act of Parliament ought to enforce all
gages and mail coaches to adopt it, for it is
1114* more desirable to preserve the lives of his
filled subjects, than to see the papers daily
p with accounts of lamentable accidents and
o'nroner's inquests, from the upsetting of coaches
r people run over on the road by furious
orals gallopping away with coaches, to the
ornrninent peril of the passengers and the terrific
in of beholders. In a populous town or
lage the danger is so much greater, and the
remedy.e the more valuable. One principal re-
(lrotaendation of this useful invention is, that a
L
dY or gentleman, sitting inside, may stop the
c'teli in a moment, should the horses take fright
or serious danger be apprehended. This cir-
tnrnstance, we think, decisive of its utility, for
"410 would trust their lives to the continual
4111 c of precarious accidents, when such an easy
Preventive can be procured ?