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KINGSTON CHRONICLE. VOL. II.] FRIDAY, (jfTERNooN) JUNE 9. 1S20. [No. 23. Notice to Carpenters. PERSONS defiroua to undertake the building of a Prefbyterian Church, will Rive in fealed tenders by the firlt day of July next, to the fubferiher, with whom a plan and fpecificatfons of the work are 1 oged. A. MARSHALL,S<y. May 31ft, 1820. 22 NOTITR AHORSE having been brought to the Pound, the owner fa defired to come forward, pay charges, and take him away, or he will be Wd at *u£kion. HE*JRY BAKER, Pound Keeper. June 2, 1820. 22tf FOR SALE, A FARM in the front Concession of the Township of AogtKf*. three and a half miles below Brock v;'le, con¬ taining 150 acres, about 75 of which is under improvement. There is a largp two story house on fhe premises, built of square timber and boarded outride, a frame barn, &r. This farm is well wor¬ thy the attention of any person desirous of a pleasant Country residence, and will be sold on libenl terms, and possession given immediately. For furtherpartuu- lars apply to A. k W. MORRIS &Co. Brockville, 19/A May, 1820. 21 tf JOHN C. MORRILL, R' ESPECTFULLY informs his friends and the public, that he has commenced the Boot # Shoe-Making Business in the fbop formerly occupied by Daniel Wafhburn, Efq in King Street, where he intends keeping conftantly on hand a gen¬ eral afTortment of BOO IN & SHOES. Likewife LEATHER of every defcrip tiuii wnicn he wtii icii qk low a& can Uc procured in town, for Cafh only. May ii. 19 - ^ * Window Glass. THE fubscribets have on hand a con¬ signment of WINDOW GLASS, of 7 1-2 by 8 i-«, 9 by 9, 8 by 10, 10 by I*, of excellent quality, and warranted to open in good order, for fale at very low prices for cafh or fhort approved credit. THOS. S. WH1TAKER &Co. May 17. 20, To Clothiers. For sale, a quantity of PRESS-PAPERS. Tho. S. Whitaker & Co. Jugusi 19, 1819, 34 For sale at this Ojjtce, A FEW copies of a SERMON, preached at Quebec, on the 12tt> of September, after the death of Hi:- Grace the Duke of Richmond, by the Reverend G. J. Mountain, A. B Bishop's Official in Lower Canada, and Rector of Quebec. 41 " NOTICE fJlHE Board for iMlLitiA Pek- ■*■ sioks, will meet on the lajl Monday in February 1 and continue Jo to do* the jame day in each Months until the bufmefs of th'tf D'lflr'ffi. nt rerr^^d' t?*f taittt it Jipifh**? JOHN FERGUSON. Kindlon, Feb. \/l, 1819, 6 For Sale or to Let, /ft TWO ftory framtd Houfe, and a WjL large aud commodious ftone Store, fituate on the water's edge in the centre of the Village of Prefcot, on exceedingly ad¬ vantageous terms to the purchafcr or lessee. Enquire at the Office of CHr. A. HAGERMAN. Kingfton, 26th February, 1819. 9 From Blackwood's Edinburgh Maga zhiz* THE LATK KING. The pM-jisdire which fixes our regard upon the lortunos of worldly grandeur, is deeply rooted in our nature ; and il it will not bear the chilling scrutiny oi metaphysics, stands impregnable in the stron^-bolds of the heart. The affec¬ tions—at least so faras th*-y are expand¬ ed upon objects of a public nature,— look upuaid by an inborn direction, which no philosophy can control; and if they are not repelled by the lowering and unkindly aspect of their idol, they will gather round and concentrate upon it their brightest rays. The mere glitter which invests the summit of society, is sufficient, of its elf, to attract and detain the common eye; theenchantments which play around the unexplored elevations of earthly grandeur, are omnipotent alike overthe humble and the more pretendiug vulgar i—and while they chain dov*u the spirit of the one in stupid wonder and amazement, exhaust the fluttering acti¬ vity of the other in servile and senseless imitation. The spectacle of great power and exalted station, will at all times cx- *rt a mastery over the feelings of the greatmassof mankind ; aud while the philosopher will respect the bias with ^vbich it is tain to Contend; he will en¬ deavour to give it a wise and a whole¬ some direction, by exacting from the objects of popular idolatry that energy of virtue, and purity of example, to which their stations imperiously call them, and which, when they are realized, render the prejudice that invests grandeur with admiration, the fountain of the best and most precious blessings which can be dif¬ fused over society. There is nothing indeed, which the imagination of man can conceive, at once more august and attractive, than the spectacle of a virtuous monarch, filling, not iu name, but iu fact, the parental re¬ lation to a faithful people, and acknowl¬ edged with deep and universal homage, as the Father of his country. The ma¬ jesty, which in such a case is inseparable from the conception of the character, fills every channel through which the gentler feelings of the heart take their course, and expands every generous e- motion to its own fullness and magnifi¬ cence. There is no good man, born and educated under a constitutional monar¬ chy, to whom the very idea of nis lawful Prince does not bring with it a thousand associations of deep aud generous enthu¬ siasm,—of heartfelt respect, of firm at- tachment,of boundless fidelity, and when to these natural sentiments, which are the offspring of habit and of feeling, ra¬ ther than of reflection, are added the qualities which the judgment unites with the heart in approving—the image, to which the public devotion may rationally as well as naturally be paid, is complete. When the errors of education, the se¬ ductions of flattery, the malic nan t influ¬ ence of power, the fasciJiai ng piospecls of ambition have all been snttered, expe¬ rienced, and resisted, and the Prince comes forth from the terrible ordeal un¬ tainted ; when he issues from the dense atmosphere of the court, beaming with every virtue which, in the h tmblest ci i- •7*>n -r ',t>m rorr>rr>9nd affection and n" teem, we are compelled to recognise in (he royal prodigy, the depth and sound¬ ness of a heart, of which no inferior con¬ dition could attest the existence, or de- velope the value. At the moment we are committing to paper these hasty and imperfect reflec¬ tions, our city is putting on a solemn as¬ pect of mourning for our departed Mo¬ narch, the suitable emblem of the inward emotions which have already filled every loyal bosom. The vara...> >.»unds issu¬ ing in alternate sadness from her lofty spires aud rock-built fortress announce that the honr approaches which is to con¬ sign his mortal remains to the dust ; the reign of more than half a century is clo¬ sed ; the majesty of Britain, under the guardianship of which the far greater part of the present generation saw the light, has partaken the fate from which no earthly grandeur is exempted. Our venerable monarch, after guiding, through¬ out a long and troubled peiiod, the des¬ tinies of a mighty people, has paid the lastsad debt of nature, aud is severed for ever from our anxieties ar.d our hopes. Uut he never can be sc*...J from our profound a d grateful rea.rinbrance— there he lies emba.med in the immortal freshness of his virtue—there his image is preserved imperishable—and realizes a fonder aud liner commemoration than rhe proudest ambition can hope from the most Splendid historic monument to its lame. It is far from our intention to d-scend to the compilation of the various anec< dotes of his late Majesty, many of them very trivial, and almost all of (hern with¬ out any stamp ol authenticity, 11 hich the periodical press, in its venal fever of ac¬ tivity, has so profusely obtruded upon public notice. The public character of George III. is written in the auttals of the country ; his private virtues in the af¬ fection and reverence of his people. And ^o deep is this affection, that, al hough his descent to the grave was long prece¬ ded by the darkest of human calamities, which hung like a cloud over his decli¬ ning years—although the moral separa¬ tion betwixt himself and his people had long been completed in the mysterious dispensation of Providence—although (here was nothing upon which their eyes could fix but the majestic pile n hich en¬ closed the royal sufferer, or to which their hearts could turn but the shadow of a name,—there was an interest more so¬ lemn and touching, if not more intense, rhat clung to his fate* than if he had been snatched from us in all the pride of youth, and had fallen at once from his meridian greatness. It is the privilege of virtue that affliction only digni6es aud conse¬ crates it. The long continued suffering of the late King only saddened and so¬ lemnized the impatient sympathy with which its first access was universally je- garded. The most considerate retrospect of the public character of George 111. w ill make no one blush lor the feelings with which his individual fortunes were contempla¬ ted by his people. What vicissitudes of storm and sunshine chequered the long reign now terminated ! What a wide expanse of light and shade does its his¬ tory present ! Yet in every alternation ! of the public fortunes, we find the Mo¬ narch maintaining a dignified consisten¬ cy of character—faithful at once to the majesty of his throne; and resolute in sustaining th<* high hopes and the best interests of his people. The course through which he was fated to pass was untrodden before by an English Prince ; the annals of the country, or of the spe¬ cies, would h&FC been consulted in vain for intelligence of the'dark and devious track through which the state was to be whirled amid the commotions of the world. Geo ge JII.it is well known, was not a p p >et i 1 the hands of any administrati a—nor was he carried pas¬ sively round ihe circle of public policy, without the constitutional exercise of his own presiding will. His spirit mingled with the current of affairs, and his image is impressed upon the history of his reign. What a histo:y this is, and what a mag¬ nificent volune of instruction and exam¬ ple it will afitrd io the latest posterity ! The very spe;ies appears to have grown in magnitude- in he progression of half a century—t\e mi d of man has burst from its prism of Rges—the power of intellect has Parted into existence with the terrible cad volcanic energies that denote the iistant of creation. What are all the naxims recorded in the old digest of poli;y ? What ! the mere phy¬ sical collision* which broke at intervals the slumbers of the European states— ceased withoit leaving a trace of their al¬ most innocuois rage, and now serve only to variegate tie dead level of history— compared with the exploits performed b) the Herculean infancy of opinion? The wave has been impelled over the surface of society to recede no more, and the reign of George 111. has been rendered for ever memorable by the most terrible ■i and majestic phenomenon of the moral world, in the novel and appalling tri¬ als to which the royal fortitude was put. the Monarch uniformly acquitted him¬ self so as to command the confidence of his people. His spirit was bound up with their genius and character—he was himcotfp profound irv-rer of the nation¬ al institutions— and, in the stern virtue with which he resolved their defence, thi nation saw the pledge of its own secuiit) and glory. It is in this point of view—the most interesting aud important surely—that it appears to us, the public character ©I the late Monarch ought ciietly to be studied and appreciated. We should scorn to try the merits of a British Prince by the loose and paltry scale of a gang of modern philosophise—or to put hi* deep and solid virtues in tiieir faise ba¬ lance. We shall not inquire whetherbis views of public policy were expansive aud enlarged to that capacity which ad- raits all opinions with profligate indif¬ ference—whether he had the liberality tosueer iu private at the honest prejudi¬ ces of his people, to which he outwardly professed a polite regard—-or, whether he could return from performing his so¬ lemn mockery before the altars of his , country's religion, to revel in free and convivial blasphemies with his compan¬ ions at the royal feast of renson. There have been monarch* to thi taste of the class of philosophers to wlu>rn we allude —but happily not in England. It is the highest praise of George HI. that he was truly a British Monarch jn his whole feelings, principles, and habits—and while it may be justly affirmed 0f him. that, by example as well as by policy, he was the great patron of |U that is most generous, solid, and characterise of his people, his memory can In.-*,* notbine b* the reproaches of tho^e whose applause it would be infamy to deserve. The) may sneer at the tamenos of character superinduced by the regular practice ot the domestic v'u tues—at the mediocrit) of understanding indicated to their de» pravv'd natures by the solemn submission of spirit to the duties of religion—they may *mile at rhe manly aud vigorous rus- l.cily which it was Lit! pi.de of the Mo¬ narch to re*tore by his example, and which was most valued in Kugland'sbest and brightest dajs ; but in all these traits ot the character of the departed Monarchy every genuine Englishman re¬ cognises something which distinguished his Sovereign from a mere gaudy abstrac¬ tion of regal power—vhich imparted its peculiar quality to nis sway—and proclaimed bled to be truly a British King. It would require a vohme to give even a sketch of the great public events upon which the name of George III. will be imperishably superscribed by history. The general cast of his disposition and character, with regard io political mat¬ ters, muy easily be gathered, however, even from the most v.vgue and hasty glance at the great transactions of his reign. In its cominencencnt he was in¬ juriously branded by He virulence of faction as a Tory, in the stern and obso¬ lete sense of t:.at foolish name. While the species w as no longei extant, but had passed away with the ba-barism and stu¬ pidity in which alone it could have breathed, that man who had just ascend¬ ed the mightiest throne m Christendom in the vigour of the very principles by which Toryism was for t ,er overthrow n, and who of all men upou earth, had the most powerful motives tor abjuring it, was suspected of a faut,sl(C bias in fa¬ vour of this loog extinguished political superstitiou. The choito 0f a minister, who was reconiaicuded >0 him by ties which it can never be generous or noble to forget, was the single point upon which this miserable charge was made to turn. But, besides that the calumnies by which Lord Bute was overwhelmed, have since been exposed, so as to force the convic¬ tion, if not the contrition of those who tried to blacken his memory, the whole course of the late Monarch's political career was a conclusive comment upon the malignant slanders which sought to cloud the dawn of his administration. The name of Wilkes has perished—or is remembered only for scorn and shame ; but the memory of his royal master, whom he dared, io a paroxysm of inso¬ lent folly, to rate as an antagonist and a rival, stretches its mighty shadow over a scene of political magnificence, upon which the intrepid demagogue, even in the height of his popularity, would have been but an imperceptible atom. We rejoice in this—for Wilkes, even con¬ sidered as a minion of party, was not of the true English Breed, but presented an aspect of unblushing licentiousness and profanity, which nothing but the more matured profligacy of our own days could have surpassed.—The American war lormed the test at once of the Monarch's principles and of his spirit. The uni¬ versal voice of his people resented, in the lirst instance, the audacious pretensions, and the factious machinations of the re¬ volted colouies ; and the late King, when he frowned upou the infant seditions of his transatlantic subjects, appeared but as the index of the mind and soul of Eng¬ land. The chance of war declared in¬ deed iu favour of rebellion ; but the most renowned of our modern statesmen —the man of the people—the illustrious advocate of papular rights; but the proud spirit also which spurned from it popu¬ lar license with disdain, was the fore¬ most to declare, that the sovereignty of England over her rebel colonies ought nev^r to tv* abandoned,' ami fhM. in th*> glorious struggle, it was her duty to nail 1 lie colours to the mast. It is well enough to s;iy now, that it was not a umb but an txcieseoce that was lopped off, aud that it was folly to attempt to reiaio it—and from what the world has seen of the spirit and tendencies of Ame¬ rican patriotism, it may be concluded that England has suffered little by being dissevered hum the angtity mass of occi¬ dental pollution. But such were not the sentiments natural 10 fhe injured Mo¬ narch—for they were not the sentiments ol ivhat was great and high-spirited a- mong his people. He vindicated the dignity of his crown by pushing, to the tarthest verg* , that coercion wliich aim¬ ed at upholdtug the integrity of its do¬ minions—he deserved success, although he could not comaod it ; and while the difficulties of a savage and remote war- tare battled all rational calculation— when rebellion raised its triumphant crest over the disasters ot legitimate power— wheti fortuue had decided contrary to every anticipation of reason, and had es¬ tablished a new order of things, which it was scarcely worth while to lament, aud vain to resist, the sagacity as well as the magnanimity of the Sovereign were con¬ spicuously displayed In that memorable remark to the Urst oi his American sub¬ jects, whom he saw in the novel diguity of the ambassador of an iudepeudent statey—that he, the King of Englaud, had been tue last man iu his dominions to recognise the independence ot Aminos aud would also be the la^t to violate it. rhe man who could speak thus, ay, and who could act up to tne dignity of his royal pledge, was worthy to rule over a people, to whose legitimate pride the revolt of America could not but be of¬ fensive, but to whose lofty political sys¬ tem the independence of nations must, when once established, appear lor ever sacred. The great and prominent event which distinguished his iMajesty'sieign—which although it occurred in a ioreign coun¬ try, deeply coloured and affected the en¬ tire course of our dome tic policy,— which shook the civilived world with its volcanic agitations, aud rolled its burn¬ ing lava over the entire surface of Chris- t udom,—which, although originating in the special prolligacy aud peculiar rnis- fortuues of one great nation, has insinu¬ ated itself into the very being aud history of all, and is destined to torm, for the future, the universal basis of human reasoning aud policy,—was the French Revolution, In the great crisis, produced by this event, bis lata Majesty was still worthy of himself and of his people. As a Bri¬ tish Sovereign, reposing upon the deep and stable foundations of a constitution, adapted at once to the dignity aud the imperfections of our common nature, and turning to scorn all the allusions of the¬ ory, by the visible presence of various and unquestioned good, be could n t look with favour upon a system over which empiricism presided,and in which the dawning of frenzy was coeval almost with the first movements of reform. As a Christian, he could not behold with in¬ difference the march of the most daring impiety, nor, as a mighty prince, could he listeu with equanimity to the crash of neighbouring thrones, or view with com¬ posure the subversion of empire. But, abeye all; a* the belored chief of a gene- rous and noble people, deeply participa~ ting their genius, and attached to their proud habitudesof thought and of action, he could not but contemplate with horror the advance of an appalling spirit, which declared war against all that had been consecrated by their veneration forages; which singled them out for experiment and .for vengeance.—and which threat¬ ened to tear up by the roots whatever was most hallowed to their remembrance. The popular Monarch of England, 1 'he highest aud most generous sense f luat term, could not take part in tin- foul conspiracy, or refrain from an.n ating9 by his own resolute deliancefcthe sn :gei- log resolution of his subjects. And for this great work, it was the good fortune of the late King to find a minister equal to the undertaking, which fate had sum-' moned him to perform,—a gigantic spi¬ rit, fitted to bear and to repel the terrors of mightiest revolution*. It was the glory of the KiMg that he could select, appreciate, and confide in this great Minister. William P t*s was indeed a maje.stic mind,—-nursed and cherished to its palmy state of moral and intellectual grandeur in 4he rich mould, of English freedom. There was, in all things, a tine sympathy betwixt him and his royal master—a conspicuous unity of aim and equal devotion of patriotism—a love of England, and of all that is implied in that venerable name, which no caprice of fortune could abale or extinguish. Together they walked in noble sincerity of purpose, and heroic energy of resolu¬ tion, throughout the darkest periods of our modern history—struggling to de~ fend the ark of the British constitution, and the majesty of the British name, a- gainst the storms by which they were as. sailed—maintaining the native hue of courage and constancy amid the wreck of empire and the desolation of the civil¬ ized world—aud putting their humble but assured trint iv th>- immivht **Vt»r'J of principle + of which it did not please Providence that they should witness the final triumph, but which, through the prevailing power of their spirit and their example, was destined, at 'ast, to hold its rejoicings over the honoured tomb of the great minister, aud around the un- couscious solitude of his royal and reve¬ red master. We cannot think of disturbing for a moment the solemnity of such contem¬ plations, by turning aside to notice the vulgar herds of faction which successive¬ ly arrayed themselves in resistance to tne royal and illustrious chan-pions of their country's independence a d fame. It has now pleased fat.* to round the course of our late monarch's earthly ca¬ reer, without having permitted them to make any sensible breich upon its mag¬ nificent continuity ; aud the sceptre which has dropped from his hand has been transferred to a successor, who will never bend it to their fantastir insolence and presumption. Be it their bitter portion to remember, that tb'y struggled to embarrass the career of a prince who was justly revered as the idol of his peo¬ ple, aud that they struggled in vain—and that his fame is now equally bevond the scope of their panegyric and invective— for it is recorded iu the triumph of all generous principle, aud the glory of a mighty people, whose regrets now gather round his tomb, while their affections I shall beam for ever upon his blessed FOREIGN NEWS. From the Nr.io York Commercial Ad* vertiser of May c29. LATE FROM ENGLAND. By the arrival of the (hip Hercules, Capt Cobb, from Liverpool, the Editors of the Commercial Advertiser, have re¬ ceived from their correspondent, London papers, to the 25th of April, Lloyd's and Shipping List to the fame date, and Liv¬ erpool papers to the 27th inclusive. The trials for high treason, were going on.—After Thiatlcwood's trial had termi¬ nated, James fngs, was put to the bar * the evidence against the prisoner wa* near¬ ly the same as that given in the first cafe. It appeared, from the testimony of Ad¬ am., that Ings was to head the party on their entrance into the room in which the ministers were at dinner, that he was to cut off the heads of Lords Castlcreagb and Sidmouth, and to bring them away. This trial lasted two days. When the pritcucr was called on for his defence, he faid he was a plain uneducated man, and hoped the jury would hear him with indul¬ gence. He gave a very minute narrative of circumstances which had happened to him fince leaving Portsea, in August last- He declared that he had been brought to the stable by a man named Edwards ; and that unlefs that man was brought for¬ ward, he was murdered. In feveral parts ofhisaddrefs he was violently igitated, and wept bitterly, efpecially when he men- tioned his own poverty, and the distref* of his family. He continued fpeaking for about twenty minutes. The Jury brought in a verdict of guilty, upon the i»t and 3d counts of levying war on the King to dc- pofe him. The next in rotation wa» Tho* mas Brunt The trial of thij man continu¬ ed two dajs. When called on for hi* de- fcuccj he ipoke for nearly three qwnmiof