The Sun. — London, England, 1816-04-05 00:00:00

DUTCH MAIL. FRA . NKFORT, MARCH 26.—1 n consequence of the happy ,arrangement of the territorial differ tnees between Austria and Bavaria, which is now officially known, it is hotted that the German Diet ‘Vill - certaittly opeo on the 15th of next month. Ills Excellency Baron Humliohlt, Prussian Mi '-niiter of State, makes his arrangements to return to Berlin' in the first half of the morith of May, as it is supposed that all the territorial partitions end cessions will be regulated by that time. BRUdtiBLS, Mason 30.—The reports that tire I~rerrch army will nut be completed this' year are 'Onfirmed: The regiments of cavalry at Lille and "Arras Wire. not more than two or 300 men, and take on recruits. The number of biases required for them is' complete, most of them are from the army of the Loire. The national gitards do the duty with , the greatest' zeal, in those fortresses where there are no garrisons of the Allied troops. `The first Aide-de-Camp of 'the Duke of Wel lington is arrived here from Paris, charged with fa special mission, the object of which is not IttrOwn. It seems that' the delay of the departure of the Duke of Wellington from Paris, to review the army of occupation, which has been so often announced, is connected with some affair of great importance, which is not yet sufficiently cleared up All the French who arc named in the oviinance of the 24th of Jul)',- most absolutely leave this city. The necessary orders have been given to hasten their departura; Merlin de Douay, who was already embarked, but wrecked oft Flushing, is .gOitig to Ant warp to embark again for America. General Excetmans is gone. Messrs. Flare) and Bory de St. Vincent, who wrote in the Noin Jaime, and who had staid beyond the time that was granted them, have been conveyed out of the city by the Police. The number of houses that are to he pulled down for the purpose of fortifying Charleroi is 160 : steps arc to be immediately taken to indemnify the proprietors, so that none of them may suffer by that measure. COPENHAGEN, MArtc►H 23.—0 n the 15th of this month, there was a dreadful thunder storm at Marii)o, accompanied with a violent litirricane and : pillar of the Cathedral was thrown down ois this occasion. ST, PETERSBiIitGkI, nkitCri B.—The Emperor bus, given orders to the Merchants of this city to choose ftoar among their own body the members of a Committee, %rho, with two per , ons belong ing to the Department'of the .111i!Jist ry of the h pances, have to draw up the plan of a Chamber of Commerce, for the establishment of ‘vhic.,4,.the . nterchants have petitioned. The election • took place yesterday, and the fallowing Gentlemen had the majority of ,votes :—Kassoff, Bilibia Cramer, wo, Brifxuer; llieglitz ,Tscherbatoff, St mart, Baum, and. Sevcrin. Great advantages to the trade of this city are justly expected from such establishMent as a Mintier of Commerce,. consisting of able and active member's, which has been found extremely useful in all countries. . At the last masqeerade on the Taurle Palace, the magnificent decorations and the illuminations in the apartMents of the palace, the refined taste and . 'order in every part, the winter 'garden flourishing with natural grecn and' flowers, lighted up with a splendour equal to the light of day, excited in the astonished guests a kind of magic charm, which transported them at once from the cold regions of the North, in the middle of winter, to : the mild climates of the South. in fact, one of the to. reigneri of distinction who were present saith that if an exact description of this fete were rind in his country, people would' be, persuaded that the relater had allowed his imagination too free scope.. Last Thnrsday the English Ambassador, Lord Cathcart, gave a Ball, which his Majesty the Emperor, and her Majesty the Empress, Eliza, ti.th Alexriovna, the Grand-Dukes and the Grand Duchesses, with their Consorts,,honoured with titeir es'enee. WARSAW, MARCH 18.—On the 14th of the rionth, the Vistnitt broke ,up', and on the 15th it vas entirely cleared of the' ice by a great inunda tion, at part of the suburb of Praga beyond the Vistula, and the houses near the bauks'on this *hie are under water.' The inhabitants were forced to save themselves by o precipitate flight on hoard of boats sent to their, assistance. The ice has done much mis chief, we expect every moment the ice to come flown on the river Save from Austrian Galicia. Berkheim, who is returned from Litau, by way Of Switzerland. It is affirmed that' most of the Distrieri on the left bank of the Ith'the,• which hate been provisionally ceded to Austria, except what comes to rartustadt; will be unit'ed to our Grand Duchy; and that the territory suit . :tied between the Lamer and the Queish *ill be included in this aggrandizement ; but that parti cubir arrangements - will be made respecting the Protectorship, and the military importance of Landau. It is added, that the cessions to be made by our Court consist in its Possessions in Upper Swabia, to the east of the Black Forest, includ ing the country of Furstenberg, as well as the parts of Franconia situated between the Tauber and the Maine, which belong to the Grand Duchy. rill thetle territorial arrangements cannot but have, a great influence on the higher branches of the Administration, and the: repartition of the Pro vioces. BRUSSELS, APRIL I.—The King set out this morning tor Mons, whence his Majesty will take a tour in the countries ceded back by the late Treaty of Paris, its Well as the fortresses of iippr.viiie and Marienburg. Mancu 1G. , -,The introduction of a mo dified Representitive Constitution into the Grand Duchy ot•Hesse is more and more talked ot. Princes aod Counts hately presented: to the Grand Duke, requesting that the States may be immediately convoked. WeitaußGH, MARCH 24.- , A Proclamation has Veen published by our Duke William, announcing that in consequence of the death of Duke Fre derick Augustus, his cousin, the. Government which he shared with. his cousin is now devolved . upon him alone, and he expectS that his subjects will continue to show the stone attachment as hitherto. FLANDERS MAIL. AucsuullG, MAneu )I`.—The arrangements be tween Bavaria and Austria are terminated. Ge neral Baron Vflegoant lies sent a courier to Italy, w lay them before the b.mperor for his sanction. —Until the return of the courier, the Count de Ricu b e r g is gone to 'pass some days on his estates. Cititt.SRUHIL: M4KCil'l9.:—Otir Court, is much satisfied with the result at the Laission at baron SAINT JOHN's, NENVFOUNDLANI), DJ STItOYELY UY FIRE. EXTRACT OF 4 LETTER ?lion rLYMOUTIV, TO THE COMMITTEE AT LLOYD'S. " PLYMOUTH, Arm 3.-1 am sorry to inform you, that , t Ship is just arrived from Newfound land, and brings the melancholy news that St. John's is burnt down. Report ,says, that some of the Families are arrived in tha Vessel that brings the account." The Dutch Mail which arrived this morning excites some interest, by stating, that the delay of tie Duke nt• WELLS NGTO in leaving Pa ris to review the Army of Occupation, is caused by some important • matters, the nature of which is) not known. If we may conjecture, from the arrival of Count D'AtAvA at Brussels, however, the subject, whatever it may be, relates more to the Netherlands than to Great Britain. lt is again innounced that the differences be tween Austria and are finally adjusted. The Dict at Frankfort may consegmently be ex pected speedily to open, for the determiption of the Germanic arrangements. There is, ‘ve la ment to see, great difference of opinion and many clashing materials in that powerful Body, and it will be no easy task to reconcile the various parts or organize the discordant interests on a solid foundation. The proscribed French are compelled to leave Brussels imniad;ately. Bon Sr. Vnsoststr •and Frd•Aut., the Revolutionary Editors of the Nan' Jctune, hove very properly been sent nut of that city, under toe 3opetiiltVOdenOe' of the Police. Little of rest or tpiiet will that country experience which permits such Incendiaries to settle in it, and entry oil their nefarious and dissociating practices. • A Chamber of Commerce nias , established in St. Peter3burgit in the• beginning of March, under the patronage of the Exi;aaott: 'Much benefit is anticipated from its tabours., Sir Jams NRWPORT, aft.tr insisting so vehe mently, and so recently as Wednesday too, that his motion on the State of Ireland should come on last night, and after procuring a very respect able attendance to discuss this important toestida, very gallantly postponed his notice to the 26th, when he hripes to have a fuller audience to listen to his propositions. In order to obtain this, there is to be call of the House; and, in truth, we coma imagine nothing snort of that compulsory 'measure which could people St. Stephen's Chapel for sirJoutei. Oratory.- ' Lord MILTON. was stopped .by a soldier in at. tempting to ride 'down the Space kept clear for the. Drawing-room. yesterday. The Opposition made a mighty story of this in the House of Coin mons, and it is to be hoped, that instead of the dreadful development of military force, upon future State occasions, Kings, Queens, Princes, and Princesses will be content to have their con veniencies studied by worthy Constables, whose staves can only break heads in keeping the peace, While the swords of furious Soldiers are calculated to cut the Coxcombs of either troublesome Lords or boisterous Ragamuffins, On the present oc casion, it seems, oddly enough, that our Constitution was likely to be lost on Constitution Hill. We do not like to jest on so grave a subject, but truly Lord MILTON'S danger, and his friends speeches about it, remind us strongly of " Much Ado about Nothing." We continue, as will be seen, our Regular Summary of Important Parliainentary Papers, and, under this title, lay every Return printed for the House of Commons that deserving of the name of information before the Public. Numerous hoist ever as these abstracts are, our Readers would be astonished at the ma of waste paper from which we select them, and the country indignant at the extravagance with which its money is squandered upon the production of the utterly useless documents with which every Whipster in _Opposition thinks he has a right to load the Re cords and Tables of Parliament. NVe slightly advert ed to this subject yesterday, but cannot help con sidering it tvorthy of more distinct animadversion. Every night new motions are made.for papers which cost the Nation large sums in having prepared and printediand when they are produced,jt is found that there is neither end nor object in view in calling for them; that they are expensive, useless, and waste. It would he well that the Economists refrained from. this silly practice, or that Ministers resisted thesis on the grounds of the inutility and expence of their motions. The salary of a poor discharged clerk is swallowed up in an idle demand for what conveys no intelligence; Or such intelligence as is already before Parliament, or intelligence which is not wanted for any practical purpose.. It may be thought that each paper costs but .a trifling sum, but people will start when they find a hundred thousand pounds thrown away in this manner in the course of a Session. We again repeat that it is, the duty of Ministers to set their faces against this growing evil, or it they decline doing so, from knowing the misrepresentations to which their re fusal of Papers is likely to expose them, we trust that some independent Member will take the opportu nity of directing the attention of the House to this subject. I - Ic can be at no loss for grounds on which to put it to the vote, whether they will continue to burthen the people with this needless expendi ture. Let hint take up a bundle of the Returns, &c. ordered within the bust few weeks, and he will find one with an account of Lord CUCHAANV'S lanterns, accompanied by plates, another of 30 or 40 pages about Mr. GRENFF,LL'S taxes, a third of forms for affidavits, copies of dozens of appoint ments made out in the customary words, multi tudes. of lists which are irt every Almanack in England, and countless reams of Army, Navy, and other Returns, so inconceivably trifling, that we are lost in wonder to conjecture for what earthly purpose. they 'could ever have hien asked. /laving - called atteutioit.tO this matter, We shall leave, it „in him& Which. we hope will stop this profusiOn, 'atul save the Country some sixty or eighty thousand pounds annually wasted in this manner,. A Morning Paper of to-day advocates the kis tics of depriving Lord .CAMDEN of a " vested right,": and very honestly.produces, the argument against his Lordship that the People " have something more than a veiled right to be relieved from starving." Not being such able logicians as the 'writer of this paragraph, we confess we camuit perceive, the applicability any - more than the eandmir or patriotism of this invidious and inflammatory discourse. We know not why an act of injustice should be particularly perpetrated against Lord CAmoasi , : nor can we discover any good reason fot tlestroying a legal right in him beyond what might suffice for violet ing the property of the Writer himself. If a vested right is ta be disregarded, we wmild recommend it to this' new apoStle of revolutionary principles in Eng land (us a contrast, we soppose, to his support of anti revolutionary principles in France) to advo ,cate the nnivermil and not the partial rupture of all these bonds which separate the poor fromlhe rich, secure the man of property from the inroad of the man of no property, and protect every indi vidual:ln his lawful possessions. Why should' he , stop with Lord Comes: I Why not let us hare a sweeping 'annihilation of "vest ed 'rights" if we are,to have one at all : Inc the former toight do good, - by relieving us from . many weighty obligations, while the latter is la breach .of principle and sacrifice:of character for a inure paltry and inefficacious purpose. Pray let theLearited--Gentleman be 'cortaisteat. gad sub 'Bluely unjust, SUN-UFFICIi, UALI PAST VNI% U We have just been favoured with a letter from Newfoundland, dated 23d February, and brought by the schooner Pike, which sailed thence on thet 25th, having with notch difficulty got clear of thv ice. As any particulars of the disastrous Eire at St. John's must be interesting, we stop the. press to give the substance of this letter. " The fire broke out on the 12th, about eight o'clock in the evening,' and consumed beleil a htindred and thirty and a hundred anti Nat Louses. What increased the danger, and added' 4 the extent of this calamity, was the svay in whialk the town of St. John is built. r The houses are entirely of wood ; not a brick being used, excett: in the chitnnies. They are also irregularly 10.1 and huddled together, as suited the conveniency of their various owners, and without regard tG safety or order. A tremendous gale front the Solt 11 •4 cast was blowing when the fire commenced, and threatened the total destruction of the place. To wards morning, however,, a heavy snoVv had been falling up to this period changed int 4 t rain, and materially checked the rapidity of, tbo, progress of the devouring eleMent. The extraoo,' (Unary exertions of the Navy, Array, and Publitt Departments, is represented as beyond Olie. Several houses %rem pulled down before tbe, flames reached them, and thus the coramunicationC being cut off, the injury was limited to the neal 4 : ' ber of habitations specified. We are sorry tol!/:. that the lower order of the populace gave t l . O , selves up to plunder, instead of assisting t ll6 ' ,wretched fellow-creatures, of whom 1500 W e ': been rendered destitute, during a rigorous and clement season., by this awful visitation. Their` houses and provisions are detroyed, and wha t ' augments their distress is the impossibility vessels entering the port with supplies, in cOn s ", quence of the ice. The other inhabitants ;As": their store with these unfortunates,. but sorbealr a loss must be felt by all. A liberal subseriPti7 was i entered upon,which afforded tempora r y reb el, and we have no doubt but it will be benevoleatil aidedby rapidity r:sintilar measure in this country . , with which the houses ,were cones e t r; i v e e r sunned is described as almost inconceivable Many of their inmates had barely time to escape stand naked, tlal ntdst shivering e r n i merely e i y n We rejoice their eyes. • ,to add, that report speaks of they bad in the world perished before one life lost on this melancholroccasion. setdortt'"l'itahntib'.l:oltlve,g'wrilitei Dispatches from St. Helena have been receive`K BUONAPARTE Was in good health, and apparel", resigned to his situation. ••• The lifornblk•Pronicte to-day, after n oticing a t few.of the Retrenchments in the War and Co lo t Department which take place from this dare, the amount of about 40001. a-yesr; " And this is all the mighty work of Retre n ', meta we are to expect'!" Surely the poor rt " t " , wits are gone, for no sane person could forget. that he has, for weeks past, been chronicling dal by day retrenchments to the amount of sever': oiillions a year ! ; The CHANCELLOR of the Exctinaosn , ; 1 , Committee of the whole House, on the "1t ilia last night, proposed a Resolution for taking ov a( War Duty of 2s. per bushel, on every hoh ei Malt made in England after the sth of July aegi, and a similar Resolution as related to Seotlandr. The Right Hon. Gentleman also proposed a rel lotion for allowing a drawback of 16s. up on evcr i oi)ef t t hree jcruel e b yn a t ri eh e xe i r s ,B o ta f hn A ndf l e tah o e r Pinter brewed in g I '1 1 ,; 1 Me and Porter brewed p i r n esel S i c t ot m la o li n d th i a a n t 4ll:l ;::: period. But, in ansu p 'e r r op to or g il u o e n t a ti t o e ns dr p l i s i vtbtao : k i i n' t i, i,: : lie said, he had no intention of making any ance to Brewers tar their stock on baud Right lion. Gentleman also 'stated, that it :4:01 his intention on Monday to propose n' lee s— r , for relieving the small Farmer from some P rq" tion of the Agricultural Horse. Duty. the fo , 2 r ,t t h he of r t e h p is ea m l Lord ALTHORPB intends to bring forw- after about on of th T . axes W e "P e " 11;lb Resolutions of the General Meetings, °l)s he rl% ; e l a rt i er ; verpoot, Maidstone, Oxford, and in °tiler 1' 1 , 4t of the kingdom without exception, that tl t glts tition resolved upon correspond with the lo f Lord's notice, Alit is, they are for the r e P ett the whole of the Taxes and Restrictions . C o CITY Bustrass.--Yesterday , a CC:4llft . 0 , 0 mon Council was held at Guildhall, whic a ,,,itl, numerously attended.- . ---The 'Navigation Cou'rtiatt. tee reported on their • proceedings on the 'r id in the House of Lords on the South w ark intp 1 3 r 1 sit Bill, whereby the Company liad entered agreement, under their seal, tor ni4ing te° b 4 i ic , rary stairs for the accommodation of P, u . )01 .6 within 100 feet of the present st airs, et ' ld be Cranes, during the time the latter stairs slioai stopped up by their tvorks ; and also for .1 . 1.? o , i& the first receipts of the'toll for complel ni oe: north avenue from the said bridge f° a 1 4. Thames street ;,which report was regd nu•eieed proved of, and a counterpart of the slid inept re was for Ger sealedeiiwail Purpose s t with th e C t yr epo sealr.--- ; nlit persist) should be allowed to become i a ce l t n der ter cba otEceofMars e al rr r i s an 30, who sf►oitltl he u~Gts or exceeding 40 y ea r s o f h; c‘ Na.r.natt• offered his resignation of Marshal l whicl accepted, SIA 1 LS. Annlvr.D-1 Hiutburgb, I llnllaud, 1 Flanders, I Gotten burgh, 1 GLICI7IbVS' anti Jersey, I Dublin, 2 Waterford. Dui--1 Lisbon, I Dublin, ; W4Lcrford• PRICE 0 ' Tsll4 DAY AT'T Rank stock, shut 3 per Cent ROL shut 3 per t. Cuos. • " per Cents. shut 1. per Ctl N. Ann. 900 nook L. Aou. shut STOCKS ibpowt.vy. n'c Is. 2s. pr. Excocii. I iitx, is. die. 2s. pr. Dint; 'fin 1 11 ,i) , 111rilt, Tr; II 1 Cults. fnr ACCOUnt, I WATER. ,Ir Los DON Itittl)GE TO-N16101.0W. 43 111111 U It'S all er Evtninir, 8 minutes alter i. THE SUN. //OLEN! QUIS DICFRE PALAU:4 AU;)EAT? LONDON., F.:7.11)4 r, 4I'RIL S, Ism