The Sun. — London, England, 1823-12-20 00:00:00

TILE LONDON JOURNALS. DMIX Extracts froin the Morning Papers, Dec. 20. LNEW T m Es.l In the absence of all news from France yes terday, Spanish Bonds declined. A rumour pre vailed that the Spanish Government had notified to the great Capitalists who are negotiating about a Loan, the .t the resolution not to re. tognise the Loans of the Cortes was irrevocable ; but this appears to have been mere conjecture ; however, nothing positive was opposed to it ; and the result was, that the Bonds fell to 9.7 i, at which price they closed.—Very little business was transacted upon the Stock Exchange, and Consols for the Account closed at 86 i i. r .t-a slight improvement o►► the closing price of the pre. ceding day.—lt is reported that one of the boats usually employed in the conveyance of the French expresses from Boulogne to Dover, was caught in the terrific gale on Wednesday ►,ight, and the crew have perished. The anew of the party to ►whom the express was directed, and thobe or the crew, have not yet been ascertained. rmoatit POST.] We received Brussels Papers last night, to the 17th inst. They contain intelligence from Con ,stentinople, which states that the communication made by Lord Strangford, respecting the inter view of the Emperors at Czernowitz, as well as the pacific dispositions of the Cabinet of St. Petersburg, which had taken the first step in tiending M. Menzuky as Charge d'Affaires to Con not produced all the efrect that was expected on the minds of the Members of the Divan. They seemed not to place entire confidence in the modertithm manifested by Rus s i a , Had .lei id e d that the . safety of the Porte required a' considerable force to be kept upon the Northern frontiers of the' Ottoman Em pire to be ready at all events. This distrust was greatly increased by the news that an acci dent had befallen M. Menzuky which would delay his arrival. The same accounts represent the vicious system which prevailed in the Mill- Lary Administration of the l'erks as extremely :injurious to the inhabitants of the right bank of the Dattuhe. The Ottoman troops contorted there were ill paid and ill fed, and exacted whatever they wanted. The inhabitants had in vain complained of the oppression to which they were subjected, as the Nelms and other Com mis:rulers its the army, were unable to make these ; troops observe any kind - of discipline, on account of the state of destitution in which they were.— Only two of the Captain Pacha's vessels had reached Constantinople by the 14th ult., and they were in such 14(1 condition as to require immediate repairs. Most of the others were to winter out of the streights. 'Hifi ship of the R e a r -Ad m i r al was snick,to have been destroyed by the Greeks, and so ill had the results of th e expedition corresponded with the expectations of the Government, that it was thought the Captain Pasha would most probably share the fate of his! predecessor. Lyn There will be seen in our paper to -day, the congratulations of the King of tignill to the King of Portugal, on whet his Catholic Majesty is pleased to cull his Faithful Majesty's recovery of his legitimate rights..—llis Faithful Majesty re. turns the compliment, and congratulates Isis Cu *tholic Majesty on Isis recovery of his legitimate rights over the Spaniards. Whet these two Royal Logicians have described us ,legitimate `rights, others of more humble attainments in `their art of reasoning may consider as inH just, and therefore illegitimate rights. There is this difference, however, in the conduct of the King of Spain from that of the King of Portugal—that the former has re gained his despotism by the intervention of foreign bayonets, and the massacre of certain of, his - subjects : the latter is restored to whet is really the greatest of . all evils to OW Sovereign binsself--to absolute power—by the ill-advised end venal eirorts of his own subjects. It will be observed, that the King of Portugal calls the King. of Spain Isis brother-in-law and son-in-law. Wwould puzzle on (Edipus, wise as he was in the solution of enigmas, and tinctured as he \MS. with incestuous marriage, to enumerate the many degrees of relationship in which the chil dren of these two /Ones will stand to each other. We should not have noticed the circumstance, though impure, enough, had not many of the evils Of Europe sprung from such marriages. We throw out of our consideration the physical ef fects, es observable in _other enimels, and but too unhappily observable in the Royal Families of Europe and Asia. 13ut in Roman Catholic States, the necessity of dispensations, and the consequent interference of the Pope, are politi cal evils of the most injurious consequence to national independence. [IIIIOIININU cnuotsicr.e.] The prices of National Securities in Paris, on Wednesday evening, have not as yet been re ceived. Tlic speculators in National Public securities had yesterday a good opportunity to exercise their imaginations on the future fate of the debt which Spain owes to the British nation, end on cool reflection they cannot bring them selves to believe, that gentlemen so eminent in the mercantile world, us Messrs. Bating, Rallis child, and Irving are, could engage their fol lowers in a Loan of Cash to Spain, at a time when the Government of that most unfortunate coun try has candidly declared it to be insolvent. The Austrian Loan is a much more legitimate reason for the Congress which is at present held in Palls by the Money Holy Alliance, for if rumours in circulation have any real founda tion, his Italy Apostolic Majesty wants the advance of a few millions sterling to himself, in addition to the compromised sum which he bi►il'agreed to pay to England in discharge of the 'debt, which he contracted with her Government is 1795 and l 797,, amouuting with interest to the sum of upwards of twenty millions sterling, which has been compounded for, in consideration of the payment of his Imperial Majesty of only two millions starling. On meeting with the Austrian Ministers, according to report, the great proportion of this money was asserted to ,them to have been advanced by way of subsidy, and not of loan , and letters of Mr. Pitt, ad dressed to the German Imperial Government, were produced, calling on his Majesty tb ad vance his armies in 1704, 1795, and 1797, and pledging England to pay all the expenses.-- The Austrian Ministers accordingly produced ac counts which were nearly equal to the cash at the time received, and the result of the whole nego ciation has been, that two millions instead of twenty have been found to form the total of the Imperial debt. This small sum of two millions his Imperial Majesty cannot even pay, without applying to England for assistance ; and . If the reports be well founded, he menus to take the opportunity to borrow a few millions farther for himself, with which he may pay the Austrian soldiery, who at present trample on the inde pendence of Italy. [nalTlsu Pae.ss.] The French Papers of Wednesday possess little interest. Paris is a scene of light and heartless festivity, to celebrate the unresisted triumphs of Angoulea►e, and the degradation and misery of Spain ! Joy and exultation amid the proscription and sufferings of thousands in that unhappy country, like the sportive flower rising from the rottenness of the grave ! The Moniieur contains, in its non-off►cial part, an article from Vienna, taking great pains to prove that the utmost unity of views and feeling prevails be tween the two Emperors of Austria and Russia ; that the meeting at Czernowitz took place solely on the affairs of Turkey,'and in consequence of previous arrangements made by the two Po tentates at Inspruck, in the Tyrol, at the close of the Verona Congress. This laboured article then goes on to say, that the Northern Autocrat, and his fellow labourer in the sacred cause of legitimacy, are perfectly satisfied with the result of the political system they have adopted, and by which they have maintained and consolidated the repose of Europe ; and will remain faithful to their principles, which they have openly Ma ni fes ted. The Italian decree of the Austrian Emperor, just promulgated, and the declarations of Russia at Madrid and Lisbon, are to lerably strong proofs of the consistency of both these Potentates. In the meantime it ap pears that the 4 4 Sublime Sultan, the Brother of the Sun and Moon," and his cross-legged Dl6an, ►are not quite satisfied with the meeting of the two great " Infidels" at Czernowitz, and fear some coming mischief in the wind. Lord Strang ford, the eternal peace-maker between the True Believers and the " Christian Dogs," had ad dressed a communication to the Divan on the subject, which (lid not bring conviction,•since it was decided by these high authorities to maintain a considerable force on the northern frontiers, as a check to the Russians. Heaven help the Turkish Councillors !---if the two Emperors conceived the time was come for attack and spoliation, this force or the Black Banner of the Prophet would avail his followers but little. The Shahs and Ja►►is varies would soon fall before the northern hordes, " amid drink, the sherbet of martyrdom." An in teresting detail ►s given in the Flandus Papers, miller the head of Lausanne, of the return of the brace Rotten, the Governor of Barcelona, to his native country, Switzerland, and time cordial re ception he most deservedly experienced. There is yet, thank Heaven ! a feeling through Europe, which, in despite of tyranny, consoles the patriot for his greatest sacrifices, and follows him with honour and respect, even in retirement and exile. [MORNING HERALD.] The Lisbon papers received yesterday contain a speech of congratulation addressed by an Am bassador of the King of Spain, specifically sent to the King of Portugal on his restoration to e b solute power. Thera is, perhaps, no reason why this speech should not have been duly listened to at Lisbon, but there seems a great want of discretion in publishing it to Europe. Those who directed the publicution must have strangely ►anted a perception of the ridiculous. His. Faithful Majesty Don John cau do no less than return the compliment, and then the adage " Asians asinum, Sze." will be happily exemplified. It is, true that the matter has less of ridicule and imprudence, as affecting the King of Portugal. Ile owes the re•esta blishment of his power to Portuguese alone—and if he made a faithful use of it, and kept his pro mise, perhaps evert the violatiot► of his Constitu tional oath might have been got over, in the la. Wink of political ethics. But though the King of I• ortugal has not been vindictive, great and unnecessary severities have been exeroised since the counter-revolution. The whole Executive power, indeed, is said to be vested in the Queen and Prince Don Michael—and application for mercy have been made to the latter by the families of the sufferers with a want of suc cess little favourable, to his character. Ats address of congratulation upon the restoration of his liberty to a Sovereign who oweil his emanci pation front thraldom, if thraldom it was, to a boy and is woman, and who is notoriously a mere cypher which they employ at their pleasure, can scarcely fail to 'excite some portion of, con tempt or pity, even atming his subjects.— There is moreover a disclosure, or avowal, made in the unswer which tends , to confirm It suspicion that he► has been entertained at, The King of Portugal formally abjured absolute power, when the late change of Government took place, and his Minister, Count Palmella, put forth the promise of a representative Coosa titan, in the' form of an official document. It is► now some months since its appearance, and not a word has been expressed or a single step taken to fulfil this pledge. A sense of common pruilence and common shame should have made the Portuguese Government studiously avoid any thing that might recal this promise—held out most likely at the time, as a mere "tub to the whale." Butthe speech of Ferdinand's Ambassador, and the answer of the King of Portugal, show that the idea of giving a Constitution has been given to the • winds, and that " the two states of the Peninsula," as they are called in their speeches, being delivered by the same " ge nerous efforts, from it malignant influence ) " are looked on as re-established in the same state of " order and legitimacy." In this interchange, however, of compliments between the two Royal Captives, congratulating each other upon the recovery of power and freedom, which in reality neither has attained, the situa tion of the King of Spain is, as we observed above, the most pitiful of the two. A Sovereign recover ing power over his subjects, by the employment of foreign bayonets, should at least have the grace to be ashamed of the means. The King of Spain boasts of owing his authority to " the efforts of the French nation," and talks of having " the chains of his unhappy captivity broken," at a moment when some fifty thousand foreigners have military possession of his kingdom, and a foreigner is the Governor of the capital in which he resides. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFOUT), I)Ec. 19.L.The names of those candidates who, at the close of the Public Examinations this Term, were ad mitted by the Public Examiner into the First and Second Classes of Litene Hunurniorcs anti Disciplinty Mathesnatim et Physic'r respectively, according to the alphabetical arrange ment in each class prescribed by the statute, stand 'as follow: -- In the First Class of Literte Humaniores. Colquhoun, John C. Oriel. Curzon, lion. Francis, Brasenme. Dayman, John, Corpus - Christi. Hall, Robert, Christ Church. Mylne, James, Balliol. Short, Augustus, Christ Church. Wilberforce, Robert Oriel. In Mc First Class of Disci's. Nathemat. ct Phys. Bruce, Charles, Christ Church. CurZon, Honourable Francis, Brasenose. Falconer, William, Oriel. Riggs, George, Queen's. Talbot, Christopher It. M. Oriel. Wilberforce, Robert J. Oriel. Williams, harles K. Pembroke. In the Xreond Class of Liter's. Hunumiorcs. Abrahall, John C. J. 11. Wadham. Abrahall, Theophilus B. H..Wndham• Badeley, Edward lb Brasenose. BaYne, Thomas, V. Jesus. Bramston, John, Oriel. • Bruce, Charles 1). Christ Church. Carrington, Edmund F. Queen's. Colquitt, Scrape Brasenose. Corry, Hon. Henry T. L. Christ Church. Hartley, John, St. Edmund Hall. Hornby, Thomas, Christ Church.. King, John M. Dania Llewellin, Richard, University. Maude, R. Brasenose. - • Iteivlandson, Edward, Queen's. Tuckfield, Richard H. Oriel. • Wickham Robert, Christ Church. ' Wynne John A. Christ Church. In Ma Second Class of Thscip. MaMental. et Phys. Hal!, Robert, Christ Church. Irwin, William, Queen's. Rendall, Pinkney P. Exeter. Lit Hum. Crowdy, Anthony, Brazenose. Falconer, William, Oriel. Falk, Edward, Pembroke. Fawcett, Christopher, University. Goode, Alexander, Pembroke. Gray, John E Christ Church. Oreaves, Charles, Queen's. liall,' Cecil J. Christ Church. Hammond, Edmund, University._ Henry, John W. Pembroke. Ilopton, William, Trinity. Mame, Francis, St. Alban Hall. • Jell'reys, John, Christ Church. Irvine; Robert, Magdalen Ila/1. • Millard, Edward, Exeter. Parker, Joseph, T. Queen's. Pope, Simeon L. Trinity. Pinkn P. Exeter. • Riggs, George, queen's. Robinson, Francis, C. C. C. Salway, Richard. Christ Church. Thomas James, Pembroke. 'Wakefield, John, St. Edmund Han. Wildman, Richard, Christ Church. Williams, Charles K., Pembroke. PUBLIC IMANtINEIIS. T. Grantham I C. A. Ogilvie .1. A. Cramer C. 0. Stocker Wednesday, Dec. 17, the last day of Michaelmas Term, the following Degrees were conferred :-- BACIIIMOIIi IX DIVINITY. The Rev. James Edell Tyler, FelloWWCriel College. MASTERS or Artl Rev. John Charles Lucena, Ilrasenoso College. Rev. (leorge William John Chard, Trinity College. 'Wm. Rosser Williams, Michel Scholar of Queen's College, and Vinerian Scholar of Common Law. ISACJIELORS Or ARTS. John Langley, Magdalen hall. (Nary Ames Legge, St. Alban hall. 'rands Rolinson, j Scholars of corpus Christi Theophilus Biddulph, -lege. Charles Kevern Williams, Scholar of Pembroke College. Hugh Hughes Wynne, Scholar of Jesus College. Vera Monro, University College. Robert Shepherd, Queen's College. The whole number of Degrees in Michaelmas Term was, D.D. 4 • B.D. 3; B. Med. 1 ; M.A. 35 ; B.A. Matricu-, lotions, 133. Ecc I,ES 'MT ICA I. PIIEFERMENTS.—The Ir v. Thom as Lowndes, and Fellow of Magdalen College, has been in. stituted, by the Lord Bishop of-Winchester, to the Vicarage of Worldham cum Tested, In the county of Haute ; patrons, the President and Fellows of that Society. 'rho Res% Noel Thos. Ellixon, DI. A. Fellow of Baia College, has been presented to the Rectory of Huntspill, Somerset; Patrons, the Master and Fellows of Balliol College. The Rev. Geo. G. Beadon, to the Rectory of Axbridge ; Patron; the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells. The Rev. Richard Prowde, M. A. of Trinity College, Cam bridge, Chaplain to the Earl of Carlisle, has been presented to the Rectory of flinderwell, Yorkshire. The Rev. Thos. Mclhuish, jun.' to the Rectory of Ashwater, Devon. The Rev. W. Vansittart, to the Mastership of Wigston's lospital in Leicester The Rev. F. J. C. • Yrenow, to the Rectory of Langton !erring, Dorset. PATENT COPPIIII.--It is HOW nearly 40 years since the more intelligent among our ship-owners introduced the use..of copper as sheathing tbr, their vessels, ,and the advantages - soon became so conspicuous, as to lead to its adoption in tow cases • where the circumstances of . the owners were such as to admit of the expellee. In the Navy, 'the more general use of copper has formed one of the .main features of theimprovements of the age, but at a great ex.' pence, in consequence of the rapid decay of the article ; for While in a few cases copper would be found to last ten or fif. teen years, in the great Majority of instances it was worn out in a third, or less titan a third, of the time. The Com missioners of the NaVy, anxious to lessen this sourcb of ex. pence, and still more the uncertainty which attaches to the duration of vessels, particularly on foreign stations, from the decay of the copper, determined that a course of experiments should be instituted to ascertain, if possible, the cause &this remarkable difference in the quality. Application was, we hear, made to Sir H. Davy, end the Council of the Itoyaltsociety, for their assistance, also to the Officers of his Majesty's Mint. At the Mint the investigation was undertaken by Mr. illushet, whe,.from his situation in the melting department, had ,great advantages," both in experience and in the command of ma chinery for making experiments. He was also supplied with specimens of copper by the Navy Board, taken from the bet. tutu of a Dutch ship, the Batavia, captured in the year 1798, the cootie. of which, after 95 years wear, was very perfect, though considerably reduced in weight. During the last twelve months, Mr. Musket has been engaged in this important invei. tigation, and has, we hear, at last irrought his 'about* t o a ar . tisfactory close, h aving arrived at a knowledge of the chemi ca l process by which durability communicated to copper, and hav ing taken out a patent for the newly discovered method, Ile has, we understand, lately visited Portsmouth, and ha s ma d e, at the works of that yard, a quant i t y o f coo per, whi c h i t i s in tended to try, under the direction of the Navy Board, on aeve. rat of our ships of war. IRISH PEASANTRY. SOCIETY FOR IMPROVING THE.CONDITION OF THE IRISH . PEASANTRY. REPORT transmitted• from the COMMITTEE of NEW MARKET, in the COUNTY CLARE, through Sir EDW. O'BRIEN, Ban., October, 1823. • In drawhig up our Reptirt, on the experiment tried by your Society in these parishes, your Committee feel pleasure in stating, that the kind permission of the Society to defer the distribution of premiums until Michaelmas, has been attended with the most satisfactory results. If our communications with your Society have been fewer and less detailed than you could have wished, it has arisen from our fearing to give any opinion ,on the subject, until we were fully convinced that the Reform in the cottages in our district was likely to become permanent. We now feel much pleasure in stating, that the views of your Society have been more effectually answered than we could have dared to anticipate, from the miserable and dirty appearance which the habitations of the poor presented, before they were stimulated to exertion by the benevolent and liberal interference of your Society. it is almost impossible for a person, accustomed only 'to the habits of neatness which are universal in England, to formany , idea of the total want of good order, decency, and cleanliness, constantly formed amongst the peasantry of the South of Ire land, and of this County. in particular. It is therefore only those win) have been in the habit of visit ing these habitations, that can judge of the improvement whtdi has taken place in the internal and external appearance of our cottages during the summer ; most of those who. were candi:- dates for premiums have made great exertions, and hare spent what time they could spare from their labour, and the cultiva tion of their gardens, in i m p rov i ng t h e outside of their houses. This has been done, in some instances, at the' expence of mtich labour; and although flowers have not yet been introduced in any of the districts, many have laid out a small space for them. and brought the whole into that kind of good order, necessary to secure them from the invasions of the pigs and poultry ; the manure heap has been removed from the door, pigs-sties built, and walls raised,. the yards gravelled, and a covered channel made to carry ofr the water. But what has been most particularly enforced as essential to the health and comfort of their families, is the internal neatness and good arrangements of their cottages: That thorough cleanliness, which can only be attained by a constant habit of scouring th e wooden vessels and articles of furniture, has been in some instances so well attended to, that there was nothing which we could say ought to be cleaner. In no part of the cottage has there been a more visible improvement than in the bed room. We have 'insisted, that neither potatoes nor turf should be kept under the beds, that the floors be well swept, the beds always clean and neatly made, and the win dows, when practicable; left open during the day time. It may be gratifying to your Society to learn, that in every instance the first premiums have been merited by persons who have large families of children, and that the neat and decent appearance of the younger branches' of the family has been made a criterian of the merits of the claimants. In one instance all the outdoor improvements were 'effected by two little boys, who seemed to feel much pleasure in pointing out the effects of their industry, and we have been anxious, to interest the youth ful members of the different families in these improvements, convinced that it is likely to prove apowerful means of keeping them from idle and diierderly habits. Several of the poor in the neighbourhood wish to procure Bees, but have not been able in the late wet season having made them so scarce, that in a few places where it was probable to obtain them, the price far exceeded the means of- our cottagers —from a guinea to a guinea and a half each stock. Domestic manufactures have been mentioned in the Report of our Society, with the attention" they deserved, considering how far the advancenient,of them .tends to the comforts of the people ; and we have pleasure in being able to state, that much flax has been sown by the cottagers fur their own use. It may not be foreign to our subject to mention, that an As sociation for promoting industry in this district; auxiliary to the British and Irish Society, has done much towards the encou ragement of woollen manufacturers. The flannel made by , the poor has been all given amongst them as payment for their labour ; twenty pair of' blankets, manufactured in the district within the last two months, have also been nearly paid for by small instalments, and the demand for them is still so great, as to give a prospect of employment to many florin:4 the winter. The power of purchasing these articles, so essentially necessary to the comfort of the peasantry, may, it, u great Inca sure, be attributed to the muslin embroidery manufacture, established in this neighbourhood within this last nine months: this simple species of employment has been a most powerful assistant in our plans of promoting industry and cleanliness, as it is impossible for the women engaged in it to arrive at any degree of perfection without close attention to the- work, and great personal neatness. We consider it well to state here, that there are now upwards of' 200 young women employed, at their own homes, i n thi s kind of work; and 'that, through the benevolent exertions of the Ladies of the British and Irish Society, agents have been appointed in different parts of London for the sale of it ; and it is hoped that in a very little time, it will be found n..arly equal to the French embroidery now so highly prized in the fashionable world. We should feel ourselves wanting in gratitude to your society, if we did not take this opportUnity of expressing our deepsense of the benefits conferred upon this country by your society,. in leading the people of' England to take a n i nterest i n t h e provement of our poor; and while we would offer our warmest thanks'for the liberal 'assistance you have afforded us, and the equal liberal promise of a continuance of that assistance, we would also express our hope that ere long, the fruits of our ex ertion may be visible in making that entire change its the habits of' the peasantry, which it is calculated to produce. COURSE OF FACITANGE, Dttetrulier 19. ktostsidsm Ditto, at Sight lt , :ttertlant Antwerp Hemhough B7 7 2.4 Us Ailollit Paris, 3 Oily's sight I)itto , 96 90 12 • • t•-• - . .. . Mourdeetix, ditto Berlin P'reoltfort oit the Main . .... 156 i l'Ar ~. Motley Pet et shttrgli • 9 . Vienna lO It Trieste lO 13 Madrid ? 361 , E freetkpor Cadiz Itilhott Barcelona Neville tiibraltet Leghorn - Gtr..,,, ,—., . , ... ~ :li----Veilice, Ital. Lit 97 AO Melts 45.------Maples 39i , Palermo Lisbon Opot to • bi Itio.b!ilviro ' Bahia . b 0 pithliti .. • • 9i Curl• vi pet Cent. . . BULLION. Portugal Gotd,in - / .- 0 0 Foreign (it'll!, in liar* 3 17 ti Now DottlliontiS . . Now Dollars Silver in Hire, Mtendard o 4 111 Prom the IVezehaven He d usill 3i 1 States u a lly a e l r. l e j—Died, on the East hock, in this tairigewTiinnid"Th e Ile jt. This singular g ;::l had . ',t urne r, for a number of y ears li ved in salusion on the top of this rock, the ascent to which is both difficult and tedious. Ms residence was a cabin, built of eakrth and done, with an aperture which served both as an er trance and a chimney. At the extremity of this cabin was hie bed, composed of husks and boughs, where, on Sunday, the 2d i nstant, he was found dead. An In quest was held on his body, whose verdict was—" That he died by the Visitation of Clod." Ills person was co vered with rage, and, in that part of them w hi c h served as his trousers there Was found, strongly sewed in triple folds, upwards of 40 dollars in silver, which seems to show, that though he had renounced the world, the love of gain was still inherent. The only companions of his retirement were two or three sheep, which he fed with coo, and they enjoyed all his tenderness. Ile was extremely taciturn in his manner, com municated little to in qu i rers , and wits both, ignorant and re In winter he appeared frequently at the do ors o f t h e citizens, with a ba s k et ; asked for nothing, spoke little ; but whatever was given him be too k away quietly. The only food found i n his tenement, was tvio or three birds, picked for cooking, and a f ew potatoes. 'dye believe he was a native 'ci s me ' of the neighbouring towns, but of his early life, or the motives which led him to seek such an uncomfortable asylum from the vanities of life, we have no knowledge: POR THE SUN. UPAS TREE. Mn. Emon—Although the wonderful effects formerly attributed to this plant are now proved to have been incorrect, the following account of It may still not prove unacceptable to your readers. This pernicious tree is found twenty-seven leagues from Batavia, in the island of Java; and in the midst of a track of country rendered wholly barren by the deadly effluvia of the Upas, which is said to extend for ten or twelve miles around it. The poison is a gum which issues out from between the bark and the tree; and in its external appearance it bears a strong resemblance to camphor. Malefactors condemn' ed to death, are alone employed in the dangerono task of procuring it for the Emperor, by the hope of saving their lives if their enterprise pro successful, which is but very seldom the case. Of the deadly effects of this drug, the follow' ing account is published by a Dutchman. In February 1776, he was present at the execution of 13.0 f the Emperor's concubines. The fair de Unguents being b roug ht ou t i n to a court, were there fastened t o 13 s t a k es . Being stripP e naked to the waist, they were each lanced wIl! a lancet dipped In the gum of the Upar, in In ! middle of their breasts, and such was the vi olent „ effect produced by this poison, that the whole et, them expired w i t hi n t h e space o f 16 minutes, a nd apparently in the most d rea dful agonies. irit h ' in a few hours after th e i r d e ath, the hedi l lowing singul ar ap p earance. l of the unfortunate sufferers p were covered resented the , with livid spots ; th e co l our was change yellowa kind of blue, and th e i r e) es assigned a yellow hue. They What caus e d th e id ea o f t h e ex i stenc e Of so per . vicious a d rug as t h at we have now described, it is scarcely possibl e t o surm i se ; unless We att ribute it to the love o f th e miraculous, or to the ex cel ' sive credulity, di scovera bl e i n too many of the earlier travellers. The v i s iting and de scribiag countries, till then unknown, a ff or d, full sc o p e for pnati the exercise of a f er til e im.' • !on nod at 3 period when knowledg e was l ess gen e rally geminated, the traveller might b e hi mse lf posed upon, and induced to conside r vu l ga r er' rors, as established facts, and publish them to such to his unsuspecting readers. These wild phantoms of the brain, the offspring of ignorance or of superstition, have, however, vanished be' fore the light of philosophy, and many are the wonders that have been either wholly erased from the book of nature, or rendered less miraculou s `by a more accurate investigation. The n ature and effects of the once . famed 'Upas tree, is among the latter class ; and notwithstanding the poetical description given by Dr. Darwin of plant so well calculated to inspire his muse-- Fierce, in dread silence, on th' blasted he4th, Fell Upas sits, the Hydra tree of death. Lo, from one root, th' invertoned soil below, A thousand vegetative serpents grow. The story of the baneful property o f the tiPa' l : now classed amongst the wondrous fictions which ignorance has transmitted to us. But although all that has been related of il situation, olfeetF, and deadly properties, or (1 ) 0 ; Upas tree be now proved erroneous, it is true that there is found in Java, a tree of e W it 1 ' 1 ; sap, when properly prepared, gives drug, as deadly as the most violent po ison lathe - to discovered, when it is introduced into the blood, a fact proved by the ingenious exPeri m i en of Mr. Brodie, made several years eV , a1n ,.. 1 , e :" corded in the Philosopliical Transactions. 0; singular plant which is called the anchar,grows la the eastern part of the island. It a ppears,moreove.: that the island of Macassar roduces a tree, cali t ed Arbor Toxicaria, of which the sap may rendered no less mortal than that of the ancher• __ and furnishes a shrub, affording a roisen more deadly even than the famed Upas. r o d& The anchar has a perpendicular and CY cal et" ) , which spreads and divides into "' ti 3 poiS33oUr roes wings near the ground, and rises wholly bare,be to height of from 60 to 80 feet. If a punourecor made in the true bark or cortex of this treci. l l,,, the earth, the cerebrated pni:•on, or juice, thick and yellowish, but of which the auirt, face becomes brown upon exposure to th e fro o oozes so plentifully, that a large tree - a tea-cup full within a short space of tine i;%. NVhilst the inner bark, or liber, of fihruu s 10 ,1 ture, resembling coarse linen, is either l eo , into ropes, or made into a coarse article of ' bo a worn by the common people. Poison is matte co• the gum, which alone possesses a deleterioui 11,10, lity. The preparation of this fatal drug, w , d he proves mania whenever it is introduced ill i " 0 0 circulation by a pointed instrument, is can t o: only in the eastern part of the Island of" ( iv but the cloth made from the fibrous part t) Sip, or niris_,,, plant is common throughout the island. Ag' •-• -00! l'sl)o 384 6 ,1 ° 4 31 0 ,1 3500 COAL-MARKET, DEC; 19. Shit at Market. Skips sold 874 Newcastle . 544 161 Sunderland - 164 Y OA fl °f. BIRTIIS. t the I At Weymouth, on Thursday, the 17th hot ° Colonel B Stewa rlinrd, of a son. 1140 6 In ugton-street, Bath, the Lady of ' 1011" of a son. Ne On:the a l7 B 6 instant, a li t S A ,t. R jßallllleisDis,. ou'dirri;l"l°ll( trani,isphropinsceista,st4e-strteerete,t,Lteoic i ........--- -- i estmilis.f 1 : tr 4 te t L Mr. il'a'r _On Thursday, at Ilacicney, 111 r. Thomas bare tic urbc dington.street, to ;Harp...Ann ' eldest daughter of ' Clark, of Stamford-bill. 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