The Sun. — 1802-07-28 (London, England)

GRA. SRAM's Porters were canvassing for the W.!!minster Eleetion, Some thieves fmnd means break into a hoitSe in flerkeley-street, Piccadilly, whet e he had a sales by iiudion, and stole several articles of plate, to the amount of. upwards of flirty pounds. On the 79th inst. a French cook, at the A/Lir' Shal-DeTu,renne Tavern, in Rotterdam, completely severed his windpipe with.a large carving knife, it: the kitchen, and. dropped down dead on the spot. It was singular that this fellow would never Stay alone. after dactk, itave the kitchen iby any means. without company, exclaiming that' the Devil would fetch him! This is the third act of suicide committed at the above place within a few day:_... the wife of a mastrr hair-dresser left her iced privately in the night, and threw herself into a cilia; and a traveller sat him Self down o :e day on thelother side of tfie'Maev:, in a -tiej,,Cted posture*, when, being addressed by a person who passed along as `to the' cause' of his apparent melanch6ly, he drew a pistol Irdih his bosom, and stopt at once the effect of all' inquiry. '  Gentlemen, I trust I.may also affirm, that I have not been inatteittive to the local concerns and particular interests of my Cimstituents.—Chiefly indeed owing to a *weak constitution, which after the labours of a Session of. Parliament requires to be restored by medical attention, and recruited by rest and quiet, partly from various other causes, I have been-less personally•present among ,you than it was eny wish to be , hut I have trusted that you would prefer the solid substance of diligent itiention.to your public and private concerns, before those petty • personal assiduities in which they must needs abound, who by them...l,,eoulti compensate for the scanty:l)o- *lrrnance of more important duties. . Gentlemen, it is natural for me, in meeting you this place, and giving, as it were:, an account of lily Stewardship, to cast my ey.e backward upon the 3eading events. which havne happened since we were lasi assembled here upon the same Occasion. We haN,e lived in times fruitful in events the molt importan't and eitraordinary, its times, abounding also -in difficultres which have-often rendered the path of . • Duty- the objui of-serious, difficult, and painful in. quirt'. Allow me here to mention one consider-ation which often tends to mislead others on this • head, and to make ,thern think the difficulty of form. ing a right Judgment in political Questions to be than it really is. Not seldom it happens, that : hOnestly desirous of doing our Duty,. we meditate ... :With Seriousness, we, inquire with Diligence ; we weigh with close Attention; and after ail, -when we have long poised the balance, and watched it with a wary and an impartial eye, we are scarcely able to make out .to our .own satisfaction which of the two scales preponderates: yet when at length we declare our opinioni thus slowly and painfully fortned, we are apt to speak , with 'Confidence and Positiveness, as if there were no doubt to be enter. tained-on the point in question. This diffictilty of judging aright in the complicated Cases whichcome before us, should teach those .who think differently on. political Subjefts, mutual Moderation, and Can. dour. We cannot expert that even our Constituents Should approve of every particular of our condo& They may indeed, and ought to require, that their Representative should agree with them in the, great principles of Political ConduCt, and likewise in the general line to be pursued in any given Conjundure of Affairs. But provided there be this general agreement, they ought not too scrupulously_to look for an ex,A conincidence in every individual vote, and on every particular question. [Here aprobaTons mail;festen Gentlemen, I heartily rejoice to ,find that you ap. prove of these Principles, they are Principles worthy of the rank you hold, and of the place you fill in our National Representation. They send your Member to Parliament the •free and liberalßepresentative of a free People, and not your Slave, let.. tered aed shackled, a charaifler which I should, feel -.-- degrading, though ft were to be the Slave even of - the County of York it:eq.. Gentletnee, when last I met you in this place, we were in circumstances of great Public Danger. The prospeft shortly after became more gloomy, and the danger more imminent ; yet, even these dangers, great ai they were, appear but small, compared with the number and magnitude of those to which we were expo ed about the beginning of the very last year : .Then, ;nide.' to a new ,and piiwerful Colfederacy, formed among the Northern States, against the very sources of our Maritime Strength; added to the entire deledion of our Allies, and the  " I .will trespass on your patience for a very few moments, but I should be unfaithful to my  LO N DON : Printed by