The Sun. — London, England, 1823-09-05 00:00:00

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE Sia--A paragraph appeared in .the-Papers: on she 31st alt. without a signature, •charging me - with acts foreign to my feelings, antherimes void of the smallest particle of truth, as it NO!, I trust be proved by my reply to them ; and though I must'be brief, I will venture to appeal, lo all who. may condescend to notice my case, if the conduct pf these Gentlemen is not most cruel and unjust in attacking me in the way they have , done throUgh the Medium of the public Newspapers, • when my constant prayer was, that they would point oat to me the grounds on which I was as . charged, and afloW nie the privilege, if I were . in fault, of making that. explanation which.l was sure I could make, being convinced I had ever -.served them faithfully. All I could say, and all My friends could say, would not induce them to name my faults: They only stated them to be of a nature which rendered it impossible that they could retain me in their service; and in the most• Ambiguous manner they held out an annuity which they knew I could never get i and in order lo : have it. in their power to say they had done still more for me, they advanced this annuity from about sixty pounds, which should have been their portion of it, to one hundred end fifty : but how was that 1501. offered to me ? Mr. ROBERTSON (the man who now presumes to cast this-stigma on me) went to my friend, who it is well known is the friend of the Theatre, and has been so all his life, which part of the lessees, if they have any gratitude, should acknowledge, and said if would leave my house on the following,Monday (this being on the Saturday), the lessees would be allowed 1.501. per annum: But it must be re.. membered that they never proposed to secure this to me in any possible Way ; on the "contrary,' they eutered.my house, and I was turned into the street in the way that has been • too truly de scribed fur my feelings or peace of mind. I now appeal to the Public if this is giving me 1504 per annum, and I venture' also to think that if all or o»,y port of what they have publicly asserted against me had been true, I should have been the. lust in the world to have merited. the offer .they made me ; but should have deserved to 'have re , tired on no better portion than the bitter refiee.: tions of a bad conscience.. Ar it is, though this persecution and .cruelty at my..time of life may soap send me to the grave, I assure my friends that I feel most happy in having it in my power to.declare to GOD that 1 have ever been diligent .and watchful for the benefit' of my eroployers g and had I not outlived Mr. - TTIONIAS HARR'S and. Mr. JOHN KEsiut,r, I am convinced I should have found friends in them who would have de-- . fended me from the malicious attacks made by Mr. ROBERTSON, in the names of Capt. FORBES, Mr; WILLETT, and Mr. C. K EMILE. With every . .apology for permitting my distresses to infringe so long ,upon your kindness; 1 will proceed to ~t hat explanation of the charges which I.pro . wised, and r hich my case requires. X am, Sir, your obedient servant, J. w. BRANDON.' :Princes.place, Ogivrit..Ciartlen, Sept. 4, 1623. ,ANslVttt TO TUE FIRST CILARCIE. Ist Part.--To this Mr. Brandon replies they were paid by .him most regularly. 2d Part.- - -The whole <of this statement: is false--,for the be. ..ginning of the last Season, every .servant was paid by the .Treusurer.' Mr. Brandon's duty extended no further than to verify the accuracy of the accounts. 3d Part.—ln reply to this charge 1 state that every one of these accounts were delivered to the .Proprietors when they took possession of the books and other papers. They have sub. ieqUe,ntly destroyed many papers, and probably these amoligst die 'number. 4th Part.-1n consequence of r.-Robertson's having stated that he would n.Y - arose servants who were in arrear after I 1, 4 1 .4,Anained theiccoants,./ did on the 14th of July certify tto the correctness of the same, and they were then delivered to the Treasurer. Wity , these persons have notheen-paid since the.l4th July ~remains,with the Proprietors to account for. I also beg to state, that from tbe commencement of the ',Lessees' career, in the middle of the season before.last, until the close of that season, T paid the servants of the Theatre. as I Ltd been accustomed to do, and as I.received the money from the Treasury agreeably to my list delivered in, io I paid it, and I will challenge and defy an, man living to say to the . contrary. If they can', let them accuse me before a Magi strate,,or confirm the 'degradation, which the Lessees have en deavoured to put upon me by a public manifestation (in the newspapert, as that is the method by which they prefer attack ing me)of the names Of the persons whom I have so defrauded. I repeat that I challenge them to do so if they can ; and next, Jet me state, that at their commencement e list of all debts owing by the Theatre Was delivered to the Lessees, among which woe one tam 111'3911. 13s. 4d. for servants and the band— arrears of wages, which I should hare paid had I ever received the nwaey from the Trea.rury ; but as I never• had received it, the servants and band had so much due to them, as, no doubt, the Soliciun of the Theatre can certify, since ft was to that Gentleman that the list of debts was delivered : and if Mr. Robertson will presume to say that any servant, or any person whatever, can assert that money is due to them which is not tit.. cluziedinthat von of 3971. 13s. 4d., and.that I have charged It to the Treasury, I shall then deserve the disgrace awaiting a most public exposure, and demand the punishment due to the offence ; and much rather do I think I should deserve it than the annuity they pretend to have offered me. Last season; Sir, all payntents were made from the Treasury direct to the ser a. rants and band't consequently, I presume that it exonerates ,tie from any imputation during that period ; and although_ I' believe many servants are still unpaid by Captain Fozbbe, Mr. Willett, and, Mr. Charles Kemble, the money so due to then% will be found included in the sumnf 3971, 13s. 4d. above stated.' ,And this is my reply to this foul charge, as far as the limits of a newspaper will allow me. !%..7,IOWER, To TUC fIECOND CHARGE. In reply to this charge I have to state that I always pe r . formed my duty with seal : and to the best of my abillly, and" to LIM perfect satiaraotion of the former Management; but; during the whole of lest season, the new, Managers took all Ol authority from e, and placed it in thehadas of Mr. Robettsen, for whenever i had any cause to complain of the servants .of the Theatre—the reply was, " Mr. Robertson has- giv en me orders." One proof I will adduce, which is in the case of a lamp man of the name of " °wilt," who was in a state of in toxication, two nights following, during the performance of the Pinion of the Sun. Mr. Farley complained to s tne of the circumstance, and in consequence I discharged him. Mr. Robertson applied 'to Mr. Farley, end " Giwilt wax reinstated, and I verily believe it was done merely out of opposition tOme.: ANSWCIt TO THE THIItO CHARGE. 'The charge of having sold a free admission to 'the Theatre without any authority from the Lady whose property it was, arose entirely from a misunderstanding between the Lady's , -brother and myself, upon which an explanation took place some months ago in the Treasury when it was settled that the nomination of the above Gentleman 'should beconfirrned for the season,. and' the money for which I' had sold the admission should be paid into the Treasury. ANSWEIt TO THE; FOURTIf CHARM:. To this 1: reply—That a Gentleman made an arrangement in the year 1784, with the We, Mr. Harris, by cancelling two Annual Admissions for one viettly ow, which of course en_ titled him to the use and privilege of a transferrable admission. This privilege has descended to his son, a Proctor of the first respectability ba Doctors' Commons) in the just exe rc i se of his authority this admission was sold nightly, and on the even ing in question the Lessees thought fit to stop h. ANSWER, TQA . TIE FiFTH, MARGE. In answer to this ciliate—Whenever Captain Fortrett afld Mr. C. Kemble applied to me for any.information, I unhesi tatingly gave it thim to the best of my ability. And as to the allegation that there was " a constant deception apparent to them," I answer I never used any, and I cannot divine or con ceive how that which never existed can be apparent to them, or to any one else. TUE SIXTII The next charge is that of general injustice and veniality to . the Kibbe. I can.only say that any person living, holding my situation, will be liable to this charge from all that part of the public who do not get .places to.their mind. As the house contains but`l2side boxes, Which are to be divided nightly among the numerous frequenters of the Theatre against 80 boxes vouch 'inferior, I humbly submit to the impartial part of the cominu nity,„ whether I have not a nice.line to draw, as to who should have those places on crowded nights, which, however.; I lament to shy, hag not been the case during the present manage- Inept, for the great difficulty has generally been as to whom I could bra to fill them. . But I solemnly declare that I never did receive a bribe he the discharge of my public duty, or ever knew what it was to distribute the property committed to my care in any other' way than was consistent with the ceonveni.: ence of the public, and with the advantage of my employers. —This charge is ev2deutly intended to excite the of the public against me, in case all other calumnies should fail ; and like the Quaker, who cried out his dog was mad, because he could not get the animal a name bad enough to hang him, they have calculated on getting me knocked on the head unheard and anpitied. With more thanks than I can ever repay, for trespassing so long upon your patience, I commit myself to the kindness of that public, to whose generosity alone I have to look, at my advanced period oflife, for a good name and my future support. J. 'W. B. FRANKFORT PAMS. VintNA, Au G. 20.—Letters have lately been received from Salonichi of the 25th of July, and from Seres of the 30th. It apPeurs from- them that the Seraskier Mehmed Pacha, whd commands the troops destined for the invasion of the Mortis, had not entered the Morea, but was still at Larissa on the 20th of July, with his whole army. Odysseus was still encamped at Zeitouni. This completely does away the news of the victo ries said tb hive been gained by the Greeks at the Thermopy lie. It scerna that what gave rise to these reports was the cir, cumstance that a small corps which had advanced towards Zei touni, has, it is said, received a check; an event which can have no influence on the operations of the main army. FRANKF9RT, Atio. 27.—Baron Anatett, Envoy Extraor. dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Emperor of Russia to the Germanic Diet, set out yesterday for Stuttgard, where his Excellency is to sign the marriage contract between his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Michael and her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wirtetriburg. SW I TZE ILLINT), A uo. 2g.—The Diet of 1.02'3 was closed on the 14th, in its twenty-fifth Sitting, by an excellent speech from the President, which was answered by the Laridamman Von Reinkard. -The Diet has left the commercial of of the country nearly in the state in which it found them. The Courts of London, Peteisburgh, and Berlin, support in the most humane manner the Piedmontese 'Waldenses. The Russian Ambassador at Turin is also collecting subscriptions for the providing these communities with an hospital, in which the Protestant countries of . the Confederation are invited to join. SAtznu AG, At:o. 20.—His Imperial Highness 'the Crown Prinie of Austria arrived here to-day on his return from his tour through Tyrol, and his Imperial Highness the Archduke John:from Styria. VIENNA, Avo 30.—Metallique9 81 11-16; Bank Stocl 924 3.b. 21.-31etalliques 81 13-16 ; Bank Stock 925 i. STOCKS ON*: O'CLOCK. India Stock India Bonds., bps. South Sea Stock — Old Annuities Ex. Bilis. , 34 38 pr. Ditto Small Bank for Act. India for Con. Acct. Cont. for ....... 82iii MR. BELZONI. into): THE CAMBRIi)CIE CIIIIIO*ICLE.] I Our readers may probably recollect, that about three walks ago we inserted an extract with which a we had been favoured, of a letter from Mr. BELZONr, giving an account of the failure of his projected enterprise in regard to passing Prom Fez acrosi the Atlaritian range of hills to Tafilet, and from thence by the caravan to Timbuctoo. As our readers, we doubt not, arc equally interested with ourselves in the welfarw of this intrepid and persevering traveller, we have great plea. *Mein communicating the latest intelligence which has been received from Mr. Belzoni. Upon leaving Gibraltar he pro ceeded irrot to Madeira, anti by letters which were received from him, dated 15th July, it was then his intention to embark for Santa Cruz, a Moorish seaport, a little to the southward of Morocco, and from thence to cross the Great Desert in his way to Timbuctoo ; and if he did not succeed in dull quarter, he should try another and another till he did succeed. Letters have since arrived from him, dated at Tenerifib on the 25th of July, of which the following are extracts I hays to lament my misfortune in meeting with such a reverse, after my hopes had been so highly raised, and the seri. ous expence I had incurred, as well as the loss of so much precious time. My life is certainly a good deal endangered ; as I told you in my former letter, that now the Moors see that I have no protection, they will act towards me as they please. But armed with the perseverance which has always conducted 'ine to the accomplishment of my wishes, I shall hope to arrive at a happy end of this journey ; and the more obstacles which i stsay be put in my way, the more shall I exult in my final sue gess. Happen what may, I shall not turn' my face towards Europe till :I reach the intended point ; and as none of the other expeditions into Africa mention either the Niger or Timbuctuo',• tQ bo their point of destination, I shall, make bold to aim at those plaees, in the hope of not intruding upon the ground of other' , travellers. I trust, indecd, that the true Englishman, whose *motor :I have sp . :long studied, will be- the judge of my conduct;; and, should iI prove successful, he will, I am conft4 dent, impartially bestow on me thO reward of my labours hint I havelong dedicated, and shall continue to dedicate, my efforts, well assured that my endeavours to gain his good wishes, in spite of calumny and misrepresentation. will finally be successful. I thank God I never was in a Vetter state' of health than at the prcsept moment. I beg to be kindly rernembereit I shall write to him as soon as I have any thing of importance to communicate. The people am going among, I am told, are chiefly . savages ; so much the better—for if I meet with the worst in the beginning I shall have better fortune to encounter afterwards." The reason of Mr. Belzoni's failure, when he was just at the point of setting out from Fez, and the sudden change in the Emperor's determination concerning him, have not yet been explained': various causes have been assigned—among which are, the utiseiteled state of the Soudan territory, and the com mercial jeitlousy of the Moorish and Jewish merchants. But one thing is quite clear, that Mr. Belzoni was not remanded to Tangier from Fez, for any fault committed by hint—of this we have ample and decisive proof in the following letter, which has been submitted to our perusal: it was written in Arabic, by Sidi Bengelul, the chief Minister to the Emperor of Morocco, to the Moorish Consul at Gibraltar, and kindly translated into English by Mr. Salame. " Know - ye, that we had written other tette* to you respecting he Great ChristiOn, who came to us, desiring to proceed to the Negro country ; and that we had asked permissiim of our Laird, the Ever Victorious, for him ; and obtained his Majesty's leave to see him ; upon which he went, 'and met his exalted Majesty with a present after his circumstances; and requested of him to be permitted to proceed .to the Regro count r y ; f or whiel bur Lord gave hirri permissions and we then began to prepare for him the necessary things for- his journey, against the end of Ramadan, that he might proceed with a friend of us here to Talfilet, and were attentive to. his *train more than to our own:; -but while we were thus engaged, a letter from his Majesty our Lord came to us from the Palace in which he or dered us to convey • back The said Christian to Tangiers ditectly. We then became quite .drnazed and ashamed at the mystery of the fact, and its reversed 'state. Of course we 'Could not to otherwise than obey the order; and we could net. learn from what part this . misfortune befel hini in consequence of which wo remained ashamed both-'of you and of him; because this thing happened .quite the re, verse of what, we wrote to you . about. But God is great and with regard to the said Christian, there was nothing that fell frOm him to cause this displeasure; nay, I never saw a wiser Mon than him . t . and fromshlsperfect wisdom and steadlneas, he never went out of the place in which he was from the day he entered, but only , on that vCry day of his Meeting our Lord the 'En - instal.. But I shalt, if God please, investigate the matter till I learn from whence this accident carne upon I him, and will inform you of it," We 'shell look with great anxiety for the next cornmunica. don with which we may be fiVoured, in regard to the move ments of this enterprising traveller. Although,Mr. Belzoni is not an Englishm an , we cannot b ut consider - him as possessing very stropg claims, both to the gratitude and to the protection 'of thhs country., He is married to an English lady; resi dence since his return from abroad, In 1111 R, has been princi. pally in England ; to, his exertions, and in part to his indivi. dual generosity, the 'British Museum is indebted for the va- Noble Egyptian antiquities which it contains; and hie interest ing Travels' (and a more interesting work has not for many years been issued from the press), are written in English, and evince the uncommon pains which the writer has taken to make himself thoroughly acquainted with our language. We have been induced to offer the above remarks, in conse quence of a requeet w hi c h h as b een ma d e to us b y a Gentleman of this University, an intimate friend 'of Mr. Belzoni's, who . is desirous, tlirciugh the medium of our Paper, to inform the public, that a subscription will be immediately entered into for the purpose of defraying die entire expense of Mr. Belzoni's journey to Fez, where his further progress to the south was so unaccountably stopped, after the fairest prospects of success. —We shall heartily promote, to the utmost of our ability, the above benevolent intention; and we feel confident that the public mind will sympathise most strongly with the private friends of - Mr. Belzoni on this occasion. We have received Paris Paper% ; but , con trary to expectation, they contain nothing of im portance, except the lollowing intelligence from the Duke of ANGOU . LEME'S head-quarters, which s the only article worth translation. It is ad mitted that the Spaniirds .have been violently contesting, night and day, the approaches of the Frenclt..to the Trocadero. It is acknowledged that theassailants have' halt 4 ,‘ sOme men wounded!" This annunciation is perhaps preparatory toa con. fession that theOttemPt.ott the Trocatlero has_been Ibiled by the obstinate valour and incessant re sistance of the Constitutionalists !—The conjec, turn is strengthened by the acknowledgment that the grand attack on the Isle of Leon is put of till the . 28th, after having been fixed for the 25th, St. Lours's day ! Indeed, we indulge.a hope that the threat of a combined attack. :by sea and hind might be nothing more than an ex periment on the liminess of the Constitu tionalists, and on the fears . of the population of Cadiz, and that the Duke of Alsoour.rs,E, finding the -resolution of the besieged infleicible, will shrink froni'exposing his troops to the TurdenAti consequences, of assaulting the fortifications ! The present account affects to throw suspicion on the Queen's Itegitnerit i as forming part of the gar rison of Cadiz. It is some tittle since the Freneh assured us that this very Regiment of the Queen had joined them in Estretnadura, after submitting to the Regency ! !. Here we find it, however, still under the banners of the Con stitutional G overnment ! If it b e t rue t h at i t was sent f ro M 'Trocadero, but Cadiz to the was subsequently recalled, that fact would only strengthen the suspicion that the operations of the French against theTrocadero had lieen frustrated, and that the Queen's regiment, after having contri buted to its successful defence, were withdrawn to some other place where their services were more necessary. Every thing was to be accomplished as soon as the Duke of ANGOVLEME reached Port St. Mary !—He arrived there on the 16th. From that date to the Nth, is twcive days; and what has he done in the interval ?—Nuthing! GRAND HEAD-QUARTERS. (BY AX EXTRAORDINARY COURIER.) 44 PORT ST. MARY AUG. 24.—There is no thing new to-day. They have been trying night and day, at Trocadero, to arrest the progress of our engineers ; we have, accordingly, had some men wounded.; but the works themselves have not been interrupted. Both the batteries, now called d'A ngouleme and de Carrignan, are finished. It appears that the general attack will be de layed till the :?Bth. 44 The Queen's Regiment has caused some un easiness to the Court Officers at Cadiz. They were embarked for Trocadero, and then recalled. They were afterwaids sent to the Isle of Leon, and compelled to return to Cadiz. 44 A vessel from Cadiz came hither in search of some fruit for the King, but as those vessels had been'seiZed which were trying to get into Cadiz with fruit, it was easily seen that this re quest was merely a pretence for espionage. All communications of this description have ceased." CITY I Half-past Twelve o'Clack.—Coneo is opened this morning at 821, and got up to 821 7 1, with a steady Market. I understand that a pri. vate Express has arrived from Paris, bringing the French Rentes nt 9f. 75c. ; Spanish 432 to 44 ; but I do not hear any news of consequence from Spain by the above arrival. Owing to the improvement of the Rentes and the Spanish Bonds at Paris, our Foreign Market has also risen. Charleston Papers arrived to the 3d of August, but do not . contain any information. LIDIA.—We have received a series of Calcutta Papers from the llth to the 21ith of March. A shock of an earthquake was felt at Madras on the 2d of March extending through the Nilgherry and the country in that direction, as well as generally along the coast. The shock was also perceived in Travancore, but twenty minutes later than at Madras, and also in the Island of Ceylon. The sum subscribed for erecting an equestrian statue in honour of the Marquis of Hastings amounted at Calcutta on the 11th of March, to 13,450 rupees, above 1,3001. sterling. The new rule of the late Governor-General for regulating the press in India was pdblithed at Calcutta on the 15th of March. It ordains, that after fourteen days from the registry of the rule; no news paper, or book containing intelligence or strictures on the Go vernment shall be publiOted without a license from the Gover nor-General. Those licenses may be resumed or recalled im. mediately after notice given by the Governor-General or the Chief Secretary, which notice will be deemed sufficient on its publication in the Government Gazette. All persons con. cerned in publishing the works before described, if carried on without licenses, or continuing to do so after their vocation, to forfeit 400 rupees. . The fines to be determined in a summary manner before justices of peace, With' power, on failu re of pay. 'meat, to seize the g oo d s o f the offending parties. . . A private letter, dated Perpignan; Augus - t43, : st a tes, that the persons °bilged to leave 13arcelona, who are said to have disembarked at Miter°, are still there, on board the . Junon frigate. They wish to be allowed to proceed to France, but the Governor of Mataro demands them, and a rtspute on this subject has arisen between him and the Captain of the frignte. Their fate will be decided by Marshal Moncey and the Baron d'Eroles, who have been informed of the business._ The troops who set out lately for Mont Louis and Arles to guard our frontier from violation, are to return. The enemy has retired to Melia and the neighbourhood, w hi c h lie oc cupies. —Three Officers of the 60th Regiment have arrived at Perpignan, having resigned their commissions. FRANKFORT, Au o. 3il.—( Private Correspondence.?—" It is said that the project of having a grand European Congress in this town towards the end of the year, does not meet the ap probation of one of the great Powers. Its .Minister has insisted strongly on the impropriety of admitting the smaller Powers, or the Sovereigns of the second rank, to deliberate on the gene ral affairs of Europe. It would be of no use , . and would make the negociations tedious. The sa m e P ower has proposed Paris as the centre of future negociations, and for this purpose it will be sufficient to give the Ambassadors of the great Powers at present resident there some new instructions, and more extended powers.—ln our diplomatic circles, much is said of important negotiations opened between the English Cabinet and the Courts of Stockholm and Copenhagen. An intimate alliance between the three Scandinavian kingdoms and Great Britain is talked I of, in order to be able to oppose the menacing preponderance of another Northern Power. The negociation is nearly concluded with Denmark; but the Swedish Government still hesitates, and dreads to give umbrage to a neighbour whom it has the greatest reason to fear." _ _ Letters were received yesterday from Lima to the 21st of March. A plot, or a pretended plot, to deliver up the castle of Callao to the Royali s t Spaniards had-been disco. vered, in consequence of which fifty persons had been appre hended and sent to prison. Most of them were old resident Spaniards. A report prevailed at Lima of a revoletion having broken out at Cuzco against the Royal cause, but was not gene rally believed ; the -troops of that party occupied Pisco, Ica, Jauja, and Pasco. The transports had sailed for Guayaquil to bring u_p the troops sent by Bolivar, who was expected in per. son: The' detachments under Colonel Miller had returned to Lima.---Lady.Cochrane arrived at Rio tie Janeiro on the 13th of June last, to join her husband. .fie the wife of the Brazilian Admiral, she was treated with great distinction; a salute from the forts announced her landing, and one of the best houses in the city was prepared for her reception. ' ' The AmeriCan expedition under Gen. Agit LEY, employed to ascend the Missouri for the purpose of exploring the western districts -of North America, was attacked on t h e 2d of June by a 'p a rty of Ricaree Indians, in number about 600, who maintained a very obstinate contest. before they were repulsed. The Americans had 12 men kill e d and-11 wounded. About three-fourths of the Indians are said to have been pro. tided with Lcindtin fusils, carrying a.ball with great force anti exttethesk, and which they handfed with peculiar dexterity. - The Ricaree Indiana are described as a very formidable enemy to traders ascending the river, and contest with the Americans, will It atibrded them an experiment- of their strength,-was not likely to create an mineable disposition. - Mr. Secretary CANNING arrived, on Monday last l at Lowther Castle, ,Westmoreland, Ofi a visit to the Earl of LoNsDALE. Ilis Royal Highness the COMMANDER.M. CHIEF arrived , in town yesterday from Brighton, and transacted business at his office in the Horse Guards. The Duke of Baur/swim and suite arrived at Dover from Calais on Wednesday last. Highness remained at Wright's Hotel that night, and set out for London yesterday. Thii forenoon Viscount MELVILLE and the Board of Admiralty embark in their • yacht at Deptford, and , proceed to Sheerness, to attend the opening of the new docks at that place. The Earl and Countess of,LivEaPoor. also leave town to be present at the ceremony. And the Com- missioners of the Navy and Victualling Boards proceed at the same time in the several vessels.— (Morning Paper). PRICE --„----- 'I%A.Y AT Bank Stock i nO4 3 per Cent. Red. ..... 3 per Cent. Cons. ....... 3i per Cent. 4 per Cent { New shut 101 i 5 per Cents. 1797 Bank Long Ann. Imp. 3 per Cents. _ PRICE or FORCION STOCKS IN LONDON, SEPT. AT ONE O'CLOCK. 1 Five - per Cents. 00. Scrip, 2 pr. (Six per COM). 00. Russian Five per Cents. (Metallic) 00. Ditto New 83k. Five per Cent. Bonds, 00. Five per Cents. (Metallic) 00. Five per Cent. Bonds, 1820, 00. Spanish Ditto .1821, 361 . . • Ditto 1822, 00. Prussian - .1 . Five per Cent. Bonds, 88. 1 Ditto New,. 86. Danish.' Five per Bonds, 00. Chili 00. Colombian SI per Cent. Bonds, 60k. Peruvian New Loan, 00. Bank Shares £2l 15s. Seven per,Cent. 00. . American . Six , per Cent. 03. • Five per Cent. -914- , -100. ThrecTer Cent. 70. • French Neapolitan Austrian ----- . Pftle tir IRIS!' STOCK, SEPT. V. flank Stock .» .- 949 I Grand Canal Loan, 4 p*.cf. ,-- Gov. Dap. Si per cent 95 ----Ditto (I per cent..., ~..._ Stock, 3# per ct. , 93 —Ditto Stock - Goi , . DebT. 4 per contra , — Royal Canal Stock . l9 Goy. Deb. 5 per cont. .... r — Wide-street Cert. ti per et. —Stock, 4 per 5ent .......... - Do. Deb. with ' Goy. Sec._ _ .---.New .., Vi Pipe Water Deb. 6 per ct. Treasury Bilis, et per cent. Do. ...- ... ... 6 per cent. City Debenttires 5 per ct. Ballast O ffi ce Gavt. Sec. Lying in flospitill 4 per ct. 5 per cent. Exahange 014 Loudon, Sept.. l, 11. WATER AT LONDO horning. 2 n►inutes atter 3. , Bit MOE TO:ATOR ROW. Evening, 16 minutet after 3. THE SUN. SOLKM QUIS DICERE FALSU.II AuDgAr LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1823. SIR ROBERT WILSON. We are happy to present our readers with an authentic copy of a letter, written by our Gal lant Countryman, Sir ROBERT WILSON, to the Portuguese Government, renouncing the title, and returning the insignia of Knight Commander of the Tower and Sword. The letter speaks for itself, and pourtrays the honourable feelings of a Briton, indignant at the unjust and illiberal treat ment he had received from a people who owe to him so many days of glory, and into whose port he had steered to seek shelter in the moment of danger: it shews him great under misfortune, didaining to wear a distinction he had in com mon with his barbarous and tyrannical oppres sors. " British schooner Nassau, off Belem Castle, Aug. 13. " SIR-It is with pain that I take a step which may in sotae degree appear to be personally offensive to his Majesty the King of Portugal, when I have no such intention, being too well aware of his Majesty's present situation ; but after the un generous, vindictive, as well as lawless treatment I have expe rienced, under circumstances that would have secured me pro_ tection and hospitality from the Governments of even the most barbarous nations, it is impossible for me to wear the insignia of a country whose Government has so outrageously violated these duties. •: The very possession of these insignia implies obligations on my part which it is not for my honour should ahy longer exist, and therefore I have to request that you will take proper measures to have my name erased from the Commanders' roll of the Portuguese Order of the Tower and Sword. " Having formerly refused all pay and pecuniary remunera tion from the Government of Portugal during the time I was employed in its service, I have the satisfaction now to feel that I am released from every sort of acknowledgment, and that the service which I rendered Portugal in an extreme moment of her peril, and crisis of her fate—services which cannot be denied, have thus been gratuitously given. " I have the honour to be, " Your Excellency's most obedient humble servant,_ " R. " To his Excellency the Count Palmella, Minister for Foreign A affairs." In making public this example of independent principle, we feel we are but pourtraying the character of its author in its true colours. For the honour of our country, we trust there are few Englishmen who would not with him spurn to wear the badge of such contemptible oppres sors. How different is this from the garbled tales we have found in the Lisbon Prints, the offsprings of surveillance and terror !—The first is the language of freedom and honour, ,which is never to be found without freedom, the latter that of the deceit which superstition engenders. —(4llorning chronicle.) THE CANAL IN Sr. JAMES'S PARK.--We had occasion, some time since, to contradict a para graph published by most of our contemporaries, in which it was asserted, that the " excavators had failed in their endeavours to open a passage for the contents of the Canil." The following pars-graph appeared in several of the papers of last night and this morning:—' " The Canal in St. James's Park was-drained last week, sad expectations were entertained that some fine fish wouhl have been caught; but, to the surprise of the keepers, none of any value were found. A quantity of Prussian carp was the only sort taken. It is supposed that all the good fish were killed by the frost, in consequence of the want of due attention in break, ing the ice to give them air." It the accuracy of the intelligence ob'ained by newspapers respecting occurrences at a distance, were to be estimated by the quality of that hich they sometimes communicate respecting circumstances under the very eyes of their con ductors, it would be deemed of very little value! Who that had not had the evidence of his eyes to the contrary, would have suspected, after all the minute particulars stated in the above paragraph as to the destruction of the fish, and the surprise of the keepers on finding in the bottom of the Canal " only a quantity of Prussian carp,"• that the fact is, that not one drop of the contents of the canal has as Net been drained or—The new and enlarged piece of sewer was only completed and covered over last night. Thu whole of the old piece with which it is united, is not yet cleaned out; and until that neces sary preliminary to the drainage is entirely finished, no part of the water will be let off.—Even then, in consequence of the vast ac cumulation of mud in the east end of the canal, where the mouth of the drain enters, it has been ascertained that it will be necessary to employ the power of steam, to force the water from the western extremity. A steam en gine is now erecting for that purpose on the north bank, and this interesting and novel spec tacle will be in full operation, it is expected, in the course of ten or twelve days. The canal having been once emptied, the bottom will be entirely cleaned out. and will then be on a level with the sewer or aqueduct, which will therefcre be sufficient for keeping up the regular influx and reflux of the tide, and the steam engine will be removed. The whole process C o o f u d r r s a e o ini t t . ig o , le p iti r s e hoped, month. ed,‘ will be be completed t he S; erro neous parag ra ph s w hi c h h ave ap p eared ri!,; ( :ectit) the Canal, have been made the ground (trifling as the , whole affair is), of very sagacious rellectioes on the conduct of the 'Board of Works ! What we have stated is sufficient to prove that the authors of the censure really know nothing of the subject on which they have so confidently pronounced judgment ! Sir ROBERT PEEL, Bart. has generously pre sented to the Birmingham General Hospital a be nefaction of 2001. The Duke of BUCKINGHAM'S indisposition is said to be very slight indeed, and the Leaming ton waters have been resorted to by his Grace with the most beneficial effects. 'His Grate pro ceeds shortly from Leamington to Cheltenham. Mr. JAMES GoLnErt, of Dunaghmore, County Cork, under sentence of transportation, under the Insurrection Act, has been granted a, free pardon by the Lord Lieutenant. The Emperor of AUSTRIA has granted permis sion to one of the Archdukes of Austria to unite himself by marriage with a young and agreeable woman taken from the lowest class of his subjects. —(Constigutionnel).