The Sun.
London, England, 1820-11-25 00:00:00

LORD FOLKESTONE'S ADDRESS.

[From a Morning Paper.)
TO THE NOBILITY; GENTRY, CLERGY, FREE.
HOLDERS, AND ISHABITANTi OF THE COUNTY

OF BERKS.
GENTLEMEN-Though I have not the honour
of any political connexion with you, and though
I am known to you only as a resident and acting
Magistrate of the County of Berks, yet, having
occasionally met many of you at County Meet-
ings, and having always found on such occasions
a great concurrence of opinion amongst the ma-
jority of you on political subjects, I take the
berty of now addressing you.
It is not many days since I took upon myself
to send to several Gentlemen resident in different
parts of the county, copies of a proposed Requi-
sition to the Sheriff to call a County :Meeting,
for the purpose of addressing the King on the
treatment which the Queou was experiencing at
the hands of his Ministers, and of passing such
Resolutions as the state of the country might
seem to require ; but the event of this day, and
the scene I have just witnessed in Parliament, do,
in my opinion, imperatively demand that some
further steps.should immediately be taken by all
who value the stability of the Throne, and the
tranquillity of the country.
It having been stated by the Minister, in the
early part of the proceedings against the Queen,
that no provision could be made for her Majesty
hile those proceedings were pending ; and it
having been lately signified to her on the same
authority, that neither could provision be made
for her, nor residence appropriated, until Parlia-
ment met for the dispatch of business ; it does
seem a little extraordinary that the Parliament
being at that time actually sitting, arid the two
Houses being to meet, and a Call of the House of
Commons having been ordered for to-day, that
under these circumstances a prorogation should
take place. But the case is infinitely aggravated
by this fact, that,the Queen had prepared a com-
munication, and liitd„directed her Law Officers
to deliver it to the`' House of Commons—that
Lord Castlereagh was apprised of their intention
—and that the sitting of the Commission for pro-
roguing the Parliament was so timed as to pre-
clude Mr. Denman from presenting it, though be
rose at the very first possible opportunity for that
purpose.
This, however, is not all. The prorogation
took Place ; but quite contrary to the usual (I
believe, the invariable) practice, no communica-
tion of any sort was made to the two houses on
the state of affairs, and the political relations of
the country, internal or external ; though most
indubitably the events which have occurred, both
at home and abroad, since the commencement of
the Session, have been of sufficient importance to
require that the King's Ministers should have
advised his Majesty to state to his Parliament his
opinion thereon.
Under these circumstances, and considering
the present agitated state of the public mind, I
cannot but contemplate the prorogation of the
Parliament till the 9.3 d of January as a measure
pregnant with the greatest danger to the, State,
to the tranquillity of the people, and thence-to
their liberties, and to the permanency of the civil
and religious establishments of the country.
am therefore disposed to recommend that a Re-
quisition should be presented to the Sheriff, to
calla public meeting of the County• as soon as
'possible, • for the purpose of, praying the King to
re-assemble the Parliament without loss of time ;
and I take this the most expeditious mode of
making known to, you my opinion, that, in case
any of you should agree with me, requisitions
may be immediately prepared- and signatures pro-
cured to them, which requisitions may be either
forwarded to the Sheriff direct, or, if .sent to me,
shall,. Avhen collected; be transmitted without
delay.—l have the honour to be, ( entlemen,
Your faithful humble servant,
FOLKE'TONE.

Lower Grosrepor-street, Nor. 23, 1820.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

[DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS.

[Morning Post.]
The dreadful loss which the Country has suffered in the
prevention of a night's inflammatory speechifying in the
House of Commons, by the opportune appearance of Black
Rod, is, of course, largely expatiated upon by our factious
cotemporaries. Considering how very little has been said on
the Queen's subject, how few occasions there have been in
Lords and Commons, and taverns, and parishes, and wards,
',and every sort of meeting, to discuss the momentous ques-
tion, there can he 110 doubt but that the bar to fresh ora-
tions from Messrs. Moore, Denman, Hume, Hobhouse, &c.
is a serious calamity and sad uational grievance! Now must
we plod on two months longer in the dark as to most impor-
tant matters—whether her gracious Majesty will take the
allowance temporarily offered by Ministers, or try to keel) up
her game of confusion, by disclaiming it as unsanctioned by
Parliament whether she will go on in the wrong course of
r c ng public money improperly, or may think it better
o her views to make a stand an the opposite tack;
,also, she wilt remain at Brandenburgh House, di-
as it is by her friendly visitants, and reject a resi-
den n London, or insist on having a Palace from the King
her outraged Sovereign and Husband; or rather, whether she
will adopt the advice of aTime-serving partizan, and assert by
force her right to take possession of Carlton House; then, whe-
ther she shall holdeourts,andhave places and rewards to bestow
on her supporters; these are vital points, and especially the
first and last. If she refuses the casts, and has not the means
of bribery and corruption, a marvellous change will appear
in the signs of the times. Neither the devotion of the Press
—nor the spirit ofaiddressing—nor the taste for processions,
will retain that distinguished space in the rye of the people
which is so absolutely requisite to keep up the farce of popu-
lar opinion. This is much to be dreaded. In a couple of
months common sense may re-assert its empire, and we
should not wonder even if adultery ceased to be considered
a virtue. Nay, at the end of that time, conviction may he
held not to be synonymous with acquittal ; effrontery may
be no longer amiable ; sedition may fall out of esteem; and
disgrace and degradation no more be equivalent to victory
and triumph. Should this unfortunately prove true, how
shocking it will he. A base press will find its harvest over ;
and the passions of the multitude being unstirred. the nation
may enjoy rational repose,—industry may supersede idleness,
and good habits debauchery; the hopes of Revolution may.
have no foundation to build upon. But our wicked Ministers
have taken care that the strong stimulant prepared for
Thursday should not be given to keep alive the ferment—the
Radicals and the Faction are therefore thrown on their in-
vention for new devices to disturb the peace. Whether im-
pious processions, or orgies of soother kind, surely they can-
not be at a loss to fill op this short interval, and keep us from
tranquillity and its concomitant blessings.
If the report be correct, that the Queen's intended visit to
Sr. Paul's on Wednesday next, is not for the purpose of re-
turning thanks for the remission of Penalties, but to do De-
nonce, it will not he the first instance of a Royal penance.
Henry 11. submitted to much greater mortafications than the
Queen is likely to do. The white sheet is, we believe, be-
come an obsolete ceremony; but there will, no doubt, be
some peculiar solemnities provided for so rare an occurrence.
If such. a spectacle should take place, St. Paul's Cathedral
would no: be sufficient for the immense crowd which would
attend. A history of Royal Penances would be an interesting
subject; and we should be much obliged to any of our learn-
ed Correspondents for such a communication.—(lbid.)

[Morning Chronicle.]
There was a report at the Stock Exchange yesterday. that
seven frigates were ordered to be put in commission. We do
not know upon what authority this rumour was founded ; but
it had a sensible effect on the funds, and if it should be vet i-
fie& will produce an universal alarm that we are again to
• pludge into the mire of foreign politics.
We are assured that his Holiness the Pope, apprehending
the consequences of the march of Austrian troops into the
Papal territory, namely, that once in occupation, they would
'never leave it, assembled a conclave of Cardinals, and sub-
mitted to them the question, whether a Representative Con-
stitution should not be granted to the States of the Church?
Upon this a long and interesting debate arose, in which the
Cardinal Albano warmly urged the wisdom of securing the
affections-of the people, by conceding to them voluntarily
what would otherwise he soon extorted from the Government ;
but on a division it was carried against granting a Constitu-
tion ley a majority of three.—(lbid.)
It signifies nothing, it seems, that the Bill of Pains and
Penalties has been withdrawn. It signifies nothing that her
Majesty stands now tmaccused, even by that branch of the le-
gislature which alone listened to her calumniators. The Bill,
Preamble, Enactment, and all is vanished. The parents who
nurtured its native deformity, confessed in its maturity, that
i: excited universal disgust, and they strangled it. But it
signifies nothing. It was begotten by rancorous hatted upon
servility; and though the child is gone, the' parents re-
main, and are still hoping that their obscene connexion may
produce a progeny less revolting in- appearance, though as
dark in disposition and effect. Queen Caioline was accused by
the King's Ministers. The great .Jury of the Nation acquitted
her—the Ministers witledrew their indictment, but still they
refuse to acknowledge her as rightful Queen ; they refuse
her a royal residence; they permit her to live in a private
dwelling ! It is difficult to write upon such proceedings, but
in a tone of indignation, so strongly do they combine the
most deadly rancour with the most contemptible weakness.—

[British Press]

When the Ministers of the Crown hesitated, upon the re-
presentations, as it is said, of the Speaker of the House of
Commons, and of Mr. Cooper, the Chief Clerk of the House
of Lords, to gratify their avowed wish of proroguing Parlia-
ment by Proclamation during the adjournment of both Houses,
the concession upon their parts was naturally to he referred
to their desire of pitying proper attention and respect to the
great Councils of the Nation. The most usual course ot pro-
ceeding was thus adopted, with the view, as it might he pre-
sumed, of being also the most respectful. This course too
afforded one peculiar advantage, as it would enable our most
vac:ions Sovereign to express to Parliament collectively his
sentiments respecting various topics of general interest, arid
the public were so convinced that the usual forms would be
pursued in every instance, that conjecture had begun to be busy
in fancying the terms which should be used in the speech
from the Throne on the present very peculiar circumstances.
A fatality, however, seems to hang over our precious Cabi-
net. The course pursued, as being the most respectful to
Parliament, has had the effect only of aggravating the insult
of a premature dismissal of the two Houses. Far better had
it beer it the prorogation had been effected by way of Procla-
mation in the Gazette, for although that course would have
beets open to many objections, and especially to one founded
upon the obvious impropriety of dismissing the two Houses
without a speech from the Throne, yet souse excuse might
have been found for it, founded even upon a consideration for
the time and the convenience of the Members, and the expe-
diency of not detaining them longer than might be absolutely
necessary front the discharge of their duties its their respective
country residences. I nthis there would he at least some plausi-
bility. But how have theNlinistersacted ? They resolve to permit
the two Houses to meet, thereby necessarily implying the
promise of the accustomed communication from the King;
they adopt a strict precaution not to suffer the attention of
Parliament to be drawn for an instant to the public business of
the nation : by a disingenuous trick they interrupt a direct
communication nom the Queen to the House of Commons,
port a matter highly interesting to the nation in 4tineral ; and
having c ,mpelled the attendance of the Speaker at the far
of the House of Lords, they dismiss the two Houses with
and in a manner as undignified
most ungracious precipitance,
upon the part of the Crown as it was insulting tohoth Houses.
There was no time allowed fur the performance of public bu-
siness ; why then was Pal liament mocked by being permitted
to meet ? There Was no speech from the Throne ; why then
were the Members of the House of Commons subjected to the
inconvenience of beirig dragged to the Bar of the Upper
House? It was adding injury to insult—a unAckery of forms,
as if for the purpose of evincing their inutility when opposed
to the wishes of Ministers, and thereby displaying to-
wards Parliament a more studied contempt. As an innova-
tion upon Parliamentary usages it is deeply important, as a
proof of Ministerial power it is alarming, as an indication of
the disposition of Ministers to exert their power it is dange-
rous. Had Ministers entertained a constitutional dread of
the power of the House of Commons, arid a proper con-
viction of their own responsibility, they had never
dared to treat Parliament with ;tic!' contempt; it is
probably the. first step in a system framed for the hu-
miliation of the two Houses. We hope, however, that
will operate as a timely warning to the Members
of each to preserve their independence with more than urdi-
Is care, if they would protect the privileges of Parliament,
and even the prerogatives ut the Crown, from the insulting
domination of an intemperate ministerial faction. Even to the
corrupt Members of both Houses the warning ought not to be
even iu vain, they ought to consider that their price depends

upon the opinions entertained of the power of Parliament,
and that should the dignity of the great Councils be degrad-
ed, their wretched claims will weigh but little with their pur-
chasers. The Speaker of the House of Commons was so much
ashamed of the conduct of the Ministers, that contrary to
uniform practice, be declined returning to the House, and
slunk away to his private apartments. The Ministers must
rely firmly upon their corrupt majorities, or they would never
have dared to practise such a disgraceful trick. They have
always shewn themselves to be a Ministry of shifts and ex-
pedients, but they could riot De so stupidly short-sighted as
not to foresee that the proceedings of Thursday will neces-
sarily be made the subject of animadversion in February treat.

PT= Times.)
On the prorogation of Parliament, it has been already ob-
served, that some Members of the House of Commons be-
haved in a •way disgraceful to themselves in their official
character, and utterly unbecoming the rank of Gentlemen.
It is, however, incorrect to say that this conduct was encou-
raged by the approbation of any considerable part of the
House, or that the Speaker was attended only by a few Mem-
bers. All the friends of Government and many. of the Op-
position attended the Right Hon' Gentleman ; and his pro-
ceeding was well known by every judge of Parliamentary
usages to be strictly legal and correct.. The Morning
Chronicle boasts of the vulgar vociferation of Mr. Bennet.
All that we can say on this subject is, that if Mr. Bennet be-
haved as he is represented by The Mooting Chronicle to have
behaved, he exhibited the most convincing proofs of weakness
of intellect, and vulgarity of manners. It would not sur-
prise us that a person who had often exposed himself to
the rude applause of mobs, and who was imbecile enough to
be tricked with their ignorant flattery, should act as Mr.
Bennet is said to have dour; nor should we much admire
to find a lowbred fellow like Joseph Hume joining in the
disgraceful clamour; but that any Gentleman, at least any
Gentleman possessing common sense, should nut see how
much such behaviour disgraces the House of Commons would
indeed afford us cause of admiration As to the message de-
livered oti the part of the Queen, it deserves not a moment's
notice. She is to remember the number of Peers who have
pronounced her iii their opinion guilty of Adultery with her
Footman. Can a woman so branded and stigmatised per-
suade herself that she will be treated by the Legislature of
Britain as possessing any title to the unimpeached rank and
honours of a Quern Consort ? Is Saint Caroline of Jerusa-
lem to be put on a footing with the late virtuous and excel-
lent Queen Charlotte ? Monstrous folly! The mural and
reflecting people of England are nut to be deluded by a false
pretence of piety ; on the contrary, it will move their dis-
gust. Let the Queen think of this in time; and not insult
all moral and religious feeling- by a Thanksgiving to Al-
mighty God, grounded on au open and notorious falsehood!
We regret to say, that in our Paper of yesterday there was
an incorrect statement of the preparations for the reception
of the Queen at St. Paul's. The fact was, that the account in
question arrived at a very late hour, and was inserted
without due examination. It purported to be derived
from a Committee appointed to make the necessary arrange-
ments, and was therefore the more readily credited ; hut it is
obvious that nu Committee of Citizens can have the slightest
authority whatsoever in the Church, which is wholly and ex-
clusively under Ecclesiastical authority. Time Radical Fac-
tion are always anxious to profane Churches; but in the pre-
sent instance they ought to be particularly and anxiously
watched. The noble metropolitan Church of St. Paul is en-
riched with a vast number of valuable monuments, part of
the permanent riches of the Nation. These the mob will, no
doubt, injure ; and it is much to be feared they may occa-
sion a deitruction to the amount of thousands awl tens of
thousands of pounds. It will be very proper, since the Lord
Mayor has thought fit to bring the procession into the City,
that he'should be made strictly responsible for the consequen-
ces ; but still the Ecclesiastical authority cannot and must not
give up an iota of its power over the Church. It cannot and
must not wake or permit to be made the slightest variance
in the service of the day because the Queen chooses to come
thither. She has certainly a right to come, but not the
slightest right beyond any other female, even the lowest in
London: and under all the circumstances of the case it would
he disgraceful to pay her any wore attention. Neither have
the Mayor and Corporation any more right to occupy the
Church on Wednesday next, (beyond their own proper seats)
than they have to invade any private dwelling. The present is
not a time to give up anything to the unlawful demands of a
Faction, and we earnestly hope, that in the disposal of the
Church, nothing whatsoever will be conceded beyond stric
lawful right either to the Queen, the Lord Mayor, ur to the
Committee, who seem to usurp a right of interference with
the sacred edifice.—(nid.)

•
•
[The 7'intesl •
The Proceedings in the House of Commons on Thnrsday
will be fur ever memorable in our history, unless, as we be-
fore said, they are doomed to be overshadowed and concealed
by acts yet more dismal and injurious. Ministers have, in
their attempts to forms and destroy a persecuted Queen, vio-
lated the established usage of Parliament, trampled on the
most sacred right of the House of Commons, and, in truth, set
themselves up above law, usage, and the Constitution. It is
not that they have merely omitted the solemn acknowledg-
ments annually made by the King to " his faithful Com-
mons," for the liberality with which they have supplied his
wants, and those of the various establishments over which be
presides ; though even this would have been a neglect suffi-
ciently insolent in itself, and unsanctioned by good precedent;
for it must be recollected that, by the principles of the Con-
stitution and the letter of the law, the House of Commons is
the donor, and the Crown the receiver and dispenser, of the
funds necessary for the preservation of the Monarchy; and that
a gift can hardly be said to be bestowed, a donation scarcely
esteemed to be valid, unless he in whose favour it is made
signify his acceptance by some return of thanks, or some ex-
pression of satisfaction. Has the King, then, nothing to do
with the large grants which have been made, apparently in his
favonr, during the last Session of Parliament, and of which
the Kings of England have hitherto enjoyed the managetnent
and application ? Or has his Majesty only been made to ac-
cept them surlily, and scorning to tell those from whence they
spring that he will either receive, enjoy, or disburse them ?
Yet, singular as even this conduct may appear, it is an imper-
fect and feebly coloured discription of what has taken place;
for it must be observed, that the last Session was the first of
a new reign ; and that the Civil List, in addition to the ordi-
nary supplies for the whole reign, which is a kind of bargains
between the Crown and the people, has been arranged; and
without entering into a search fur all the speeches by which
every single Session of Parliament has been closed, it is suffi-
cient to say that a first Session has never terminated, since
the Revolution, without an avowal, on the part of the King,
that he accepted the supplies tendered in lieu of the here-
ditary revenues, and that he thanked his Commons for the
generous feelings under which their part of the contract had
been conducted. We beseech the King himself, and the na-
tion, to consider in what a situation his Majesty has been plac-
ed by his Ministers. He has never been crowned : he has
scarcely ever been seen since his father's death: supplies hare
been offered—a provision has been made for himself and Isis
family—no hand is put forth to receive the princely gifts— 1,
nu voice acknowledges that they are accepted—that they have
.or will be disbursed according to law.

[The Public Ledger.]
We stated in our last that Stranger. were not admitted to
the Gallery of the House of Commons on Thursday. Our
account of the proceedings was therefore, of course, derived
from a source which we had every reason to deem authentic.
In on e point, however, we find we were misinformed.-1 he
Speaker, after having been in the House of Lords, did not prac-
tise the usual courtesy of acquainting the Commons with what

had passed in the Upper House. On quitting that House, as he
was passing through the lobby, the Serjeant at .Arnis, who
was preceding hint, was, as is usual, about to enter the door
of the House of Cotillions, when the Speaker called to him,
and said, "Mr. Seymour, there is nu business to be done;
therefore I cannot go into the House."—The Serjeant bow-
ed, and the Speaker passed quickly into the avenues leading
to his house.

A Mail arrived yesterday from Holland with Papers to the
22d instant. The Second Chamber of the States-General was
to meet on Tuesday last, when it was expected that the an-
nual Finance Bill, and that fur a luau of 70316,334 florins, to
cover the deceit for the present and next year, would he laid
before them. The Ring of Bavaria is going to Troppau to
attend to the discussion of some affairs connected with the
interests of his kingdom. In Italy arrests for political of-
fences continue, and several important discoveries are said to
have been made.--(lbid.)

[Morning Herald.]
It is with great regret that we feel it an imperative duty to
remark upon the inefficiency of our Police Establishment.—
The subject forces itself upon us ;—day after day accounts
pour in, far beyond what our limits can allow us to insert, of
the acts of audacious violence and plunder which are com-
mitted in various parts of this metropolis, and that in the
most public streets, and in the open day! This insecure state
of the capital of England, with respect to the persons and
property of both citizens and foreigners, disgraces our cha-
racter as a civilized and welt-regulated community, more than
any other public abuse whatever. A semi-barbarous state of

society is thought to have no greater rune than the frequency
of the violation of private rights to whichit is subject, au
indeed can any State have a greater one. It was the dreado
such an evil which first hound men together in society, and
induced them to frame laws for the general restraint and pro-
tection; thus, sacrificing to the hope of individual security
their savage freedom. How can it then be accounted fur,
that with all our civilization, the Citizens of London, or the
strangers who visit us, are left unprotected from the fero-
cious assaults of desperate banditti, whose spirit has, by long
impunity, out-grown all dread of the civil power? In our
columns of to-daty will be fatufd•a fact of an alarming nature,
which is in itself a volume of evidence of the inadequacy of
our present police system, to protect the character and peace
of the metropolis. In the light of day, in one of the most
!subtle parts of London, a chain of thieves is rescued from
justice, and the felons triumphant int heir fetters, parade the
most noted parts of the town, under the escort of their com-
panions, who knock down and abuse all who come in their
way, and finally disengage, without molestation, from the
irton.gracp of justice, the companimos of their crimes If
this were a solitary act of extravagant audacity, we might
console (ourselves for the commission of the offence, by anti-
cipating the speedy punishment of the guilty; but when we
consider it, as we must, in conjunction with the numerous
and still-accumulating acts of hardihood, which, in this great
and populous City of London, make robbery aud outrage wore
common occurrences, than depredations upon travellers its the
Deserts of Arabia, we can see no remedy but in the prompt
atid vigorous interference of the Legislature. How is it, we
would ask, that those overgrown, those enormous gangs
of street robbers are allowed to congregate until they rush
with irresistible force upon their prey ? Are not their haunts
known ? Are not their nests under the eye of the police ?
How is it, then, that veteran ruffians arc allowed to pursue
their daring prsctices for years, and, by escaping obstruction,
allure others into the sante course of habitual and fearless
rapine ? Is it the system, or its agents which are more to
blame ? It is impossible to say where such an evil may end
it society should sleep over it any longer. A Committee of
the House of Commons inquired into the state of the Police
about two years ago, but there has been no practical result
from that inquiry. A mass of information was procured,
enough to make it quite evident that no time should be lost
in adopting decisive measures to abate the nuisance; yet it
has ever since been increasing, until it at last looks as if our
thieves were disciplined to an organized system of violence,
and threatened us with a servile war. Nothing more atro-
cious Wtal ever attempted by the rebellious Gladiators of
Rouse, than what is allowed to be perpetrated almost every
day, but wore especially on all public occasions, by the har-
dened wretches who pour out horn their dark haunts to the
work of unmerciful rudeness and pillage. History states, ,
that King Alfred so admirably arranged the internal economy
of the State, that a man might travel from one-end of the
kingdom to the other, with a bosom full of gold, without
fearing interruption. Such was the effect of an efficient Police
its the 9th century ; yet, in the 19th a man can hardly tra
verse half a street in London without risking whatever pro-
perty he may have on his person, and in many cases putting
his life in jeopardy. There is no other city in Europe so cir-
cumstanced. lf, its the centre of any other European metro-
polis, gangs of one or two hundred marauders were to make
a public appearance, they could not long escape extermina-
tion. Yet Englaud, that surpasses them all in her Govern-
ment and Laws, has so long lain under this grievance, that,
although its dreadful effects are every hour the subject of
complaint, yet the supineness which permitted its growth en-
courages its continuance.