The Sun. — London, England, 1816-07-12 00:00:00

The. Muoister could refrain n o In io gvr ; he Ivrpt ;0(.1;11. Tbe neighouriug hilly echoed the 4 olions .of the tattlers and the shrieks of the mothers. None eaw lqachean rise ft nun this posy. tare; but the recruits .and their friends observed him stag,;ering in advance, blahheriug.his piety to Heaven and 'his gratitude to Ow Minister, and the crowd foiloued him. Rol). 'toy could pot fill his bag-pipe for a long time ; and, except the confttsd noise of crying and Sobbing tire whole company were a furlong from the manse before any owe knew he could speak. At length Mr. Dillies ' and the donlinie broke silence. " Your bairn is 'me mak• sad since the good :Minister taste him his benison.' Though the blessings of the Most High follow the lad, the Scripture line where fin bids us to sorrow,' 4 ' 1 dinna profess to he s3e Wed !ennui' the tible as ye are ; hut really, douiinie, ye might cheer op your heart ti' wee : your example Will he followed by the lave ; we a' look to the INliiiister and you for guidance i' this weary 11',4 h a rd to drain comfort from one that is dry—na! na ! my gray hairs shall go down to the grave wi' sorrow ; it 'll he well if I go. into the threshing Hour of heaven like a sheal'o' corn roll ripe.' " They had now come in sight of the Iyaird St. Clyde's house. 11:•Ii. lioy, by the sergeint's or ders, struck up • The highland Laddie ;' and the . whole of the company that could lind the song, joined'in the chorus. '' • 0 ray bonny, bonny fliablatid ladilie; My Intodsorne charroirigHighlairil hddie ; May kiviiven still guard anti love r,ward . The Lowintol.lass and her Highland Wine," ' " Sandy Glass, who kept close by the sergeant's side till they cane to .St. Clyde's, ran up to the Laird, scraping and bowing - , and pointed tir.st to Fergus, and next to the dominie. - " St. Clyde and his son were (to the edge of the road to receive the salute and refresh the spirits of the recruits by a parting. glass. " The mixed emotions of the recruits, of their parents, their brothers - and sisters, and sweethearts, were finely read in their countenances. There was not one of these people but would have gone to the earth's utmost boand to serve the laird : and though their griet was immoderate at parting with 'their sons, they were reconciled to the fates of the lads, since none of them would have enlisted but for the sake of young St. Clyde. They reflected Oat, if their sons defended Colin in the day of battle, his . father would shield them from the op pression of their richer neighbours.; and a poor whlow, hung on her son's arm, and as she weepy(' in till the _bitterness of her heart, cried, ‘, 0 addle ! !addle I yq've been a weary ',oldie It) Me .and yet r wi,lna part wi' my laddie for a' the jewels our King's Crown ; but since he is gang ing the young Laird, I Iraq wi" mo l ly a fear . ; but I can. gi' hint a toOther's!blcssing„and Ail lie be spared to come hack frae the wars, there` is natal will be happier thao me ; but should midst the hail-blowers o' balls, he'll fit' fur St. Clyde, an' •11 aye hatr a friend.' • " Sergeant Machean, you'll have the goodness 10 ; 101 l your awn; and allow St. Clyde tei give „King George's angers one glass of whiskey before they talte , the sea,; ,it is two good unites to the filry,„ and the sea is a little rough, a glass will give the lads spirit the sea-air will soon pot it *int •of $llOl heads ; they are all as sober as 1) Sunday, and one glass can do none of them alty arm: ', It was a fine compliment St. Clyde paid the s'rLeant u Macbean felt all the pride of liis cloth at the words your men ;' and the sergeant was trb,)beying tin coninzand in !wiring Ow ryci-nits tit the deco /4 Ole laird. "l'he bait d was .a 'gentle- Nan, and the reeriiits were h4.son'.B men ; and the sergeant knew his do:y too well to stop when every body wished Lthe reernits were now • the K g J‘wu, the laird vas the justice of the peace, and had sworn them all in ; .it was nothing more I ban batting for a refreshment, and the laird would never give them spirits to get drunk: Ideas like these besieged the veteran's mind whilst the laird spoke his rerytest ; the recrest the laird am; the answer of the sergeant took op mach less tithe than the describing of it. " Forty-second ! h alt !'--All arc " ill * " 10 be contiptied] LIBUT.-COLUNILL SIR JOHN DYER, , The remains of this pliant Officer were inter ,red Un Wednesday at: ‘Voolvvich, where he :mantled t he 2d battalion of ltuyal Artillery. His death was occasioned, on the 2d inst., in cutlets -S(ollring to stop the carriage and horses of Col. IRVINE, nt the same service L his coachman, 'Who - was on the top•bf the coach, brushing of some dust, called .out to him, as he teas coming out of his torden, " Oh, Colonel, stop the imrses !" lie entleavOured to •do so, and caught one of them by the bridle; the horse plunged for. ward, and the pull struck the Colonel in the breast, enil knocked him down, and the horses'.,and car-• /jam! Went over him : he got tip, and walked into its own honse, And dropped down. His wife was ininantiy sutft for to where she wis, and ail pos., tate'rsid vroctiretti but three of the ribs had been broken; and One stock into his benti : he lingered. in great agony.until three o'clock in the morning, an.i then died. rice Went hamened abort half...past one o'clock, at noon he left a widow and four children totally unprovided for., talent, Col. Drait was a Knight Commander ol the Kith he had distinguiOied himself on many occaion. PCDEITIITANISAI,—We have not heard I)o\.v the IThickheath Pedestrian goes on this snorniog, but have retool) to believe that he continues hie walk ~Urcc S ly. EvAnsi the Peilestrian, who has-undertaken to walk fifty-six miles per day for la days, on New inarket fleath, is expected to comptete, the seine this day, lie waikg with apparent ease, and great sm./pie:4g, for such an extraordinary under taking,. lii scents ag ili r ettleolated for the per. foriniliee a s A person erm well be, and so very thin,.that one might sieppose a gust of wind kvoift.l take him aifnanyrndes as are allotted 19r his daily .—(Cumblidge Paper.) t,ICEL; PLANDFAIS MAIL ria . tYkset.s, JULY 6.-The D,tik'c•of Wellington Is expected at his head-toarters at Cambray in a fortnight, on his return from England. His Grade will then to to Sedan, thu h ea fHo lr t ers of the Prwisiati army, awl then to Colmar, the bead -f l oat e'r, of the Atoltriaw, I'he put Irmo Germany' lots not arrived for these wo thqi, Which i 3 prObably owing to the Atid tile dreldfol tVeather. VIPNNA,NB 4 24.—We learn from. Constair tittople that the Itossials Ambassador, Count Pa linsky, is recalled, and is going to Rome on ii niissioU from his Court. lie is s.aeree(led by Mr. Strogati2ff. liefin'e he left Constantinople Mr. 1). Italinsl4 deliv'ered to the Divan, an inliti,ll Nine, to assure them of the pacific intention:3 of the Cibinet of St.yetersburgh, ' The 'Miniti . ter says, in this lithe, that the Em peror, his Master, iiAi tio' other wNi than to see Europe at peace, Mier the 'violent agitations which it has suffered. This declaration has given very great sat isfaetion to the Sublime Porte;. FRANKroaT, JULY I.—A great many French Officers have lately passed the Rhine at Kehl, to return to France. They came from filingary and Moravi I," where they were detained as prisoners of war, s having served under Murat in his mad ex - ped it i on. It is•at the intercession of the King of Fm Mice thiit they have recovered their liberty and pernikiion to return to their OWO conntry. 'Fhey write front Darmstadt as follows Our exchanges with Prussia are concluded, and it is believed that the giving tip of our new acquisi tions will take Place mm the 15th of this month. Our grand thichf actiaires tt most precious pos session by the cession of the salt works of Crenz-, - hit ch 1 , the want, of an article so necessary as salt; rendered us hitherto tributary to a neighbouring: power" GIIIMT, JUL? I.—l r esterday afternoon, the air being cold 'and the kviiod stormy, it.ttrrihle tem- pc,t Arose here. The thooderand lightning wale' fuliowed by heavy ratio, mut:a fitiontity of hail as largo as hazel-mos. We year for the'productions of the countvy.—The Gazelle • of Liege contains an account of a' terrible st min that Its at and French Flanders, and A rti,is, coot ia to give proofs of attachment, to the King ; both these ProvinCes have , lately furnished fine det‘uli- Ilivntl, consisting otyoung men of good families, and designed for the Royal Guard. JbLY 5.---The torrents of :raiti and walerspoikks . c.aused by plany severe tempests in Germany and Switzerland, have had an ef fect upon the Rhine,- that the water stood this mouniug here at 15 feet 7 inches, till almerst un exattipled elevation at this season. it inr ; reased 14 inches last night, and continues rising. The' accounts froin Nimegnen and many wirer places are very alarming ; the meadows lot a great ex l - 1 tent are.inundated ; the cattle have been with difficulty saved in haste, and the new mown hay h:ri been got out of the water. ' If the water con= times to rise, there is evety reason to fear, none but those lands which arc secured by very high dikes will escape inundation. Anon/no—l Lisbon, 1 Flantlvri, 2 Guernsey am! Jersey, 1 I}uhli►t. 1 Clottenborgb, 1 I.htblin, I Waterford. T'RICV,' 0 THIS O.IY AT r• 3 per Cent. Red. fi3A 3 per Cellt . Colts 021 i f •1 per Cefits. 781 5 per tent. N: Ann ' D2i STOCKS 'WfILVg Bank 1,. Ann.— 15i I &-!Otils- India Bonds, 4s. .ss. pr. Exch. 3s. Gs. pr. Cons. for Aciount,.... • • • 64 fiIMIAVATEIt AT L()NI)UN BRIDGE 'l'o-hiOltltOW. Morning, minutes after 4. 1, Evening, fit minutes ;tfter 4 may Eve better, as ,re cheaper, in any fart of England, th..in in this country." STAGNATION O 1 TRADE!!! " The following entries of Goods to be exw ported by a single vessel have been made at out Custom-1 ouse this week. An entry of woollens, - • ," kouniongery; Ste. upon which an export duty is payable, 59,534; another upon non-duty goods is computed 'to amount at least to 60,0001.; end another entry for bounty upon debenture goods amounts to 11,500/. ; the mimic of which is en tered by one house in thiS town, and for the satuo port . 7 - - (Licerpool Courier.) NVe copy- the above with great pleisure, as another proof Of the utter stagnation of our Com merce, the entire ruin of all out• Manufactures, and the approaching Binkruptcy of the CountrY• " Several of our Cotemporaries have indulged rather freely their _conjectures as to the causes of the Duke OfWELLINGTON'S arrival in London some alleging that the journey was occasioned by ciorumstances unfriendly to the peace of Europe i while Others pretend that his motive was CO facilitate a negociation for bringing the Marquis \VaLLESLEY into office. We have reason to be neve that both , parties are fltistaken, and that private business and the recovery of his hea lth ' were the real and only objects ,of his Grace's return to this country. Nothing Whatever has arisen to indicate an immediate interruption of the public tranquillity abroad ; and .with respect to the second Arotive attributed to the illustrious Duke—namely, the furtherande of certain nego.- ciations for the accession of the Noble Movie tattle present Ministry—we have good grounds for assuring our Readers that it has no foundation in truth, nor even the least z eolOur of probability. No such negociatlon has ever existed—no over ture towards it has ever been made. '" if a proof Were wanting of the truth of otre . . assertion that the Duke of Wit.taNGTON had Conte over with a view to mere private objeets, we might observe, that when he appeared last week at levee, he was presented to the Pattica REGENT by his own brother, Lord WALLast.F.v : whereas, had lois journey been connected with public affairs' sotue Minister of the Crown must, aceordingla etiquette, have performed the ceremony of his in.. trodnetion." above is taken from the Times, and We have only to add that we are convinced of its accuracy; and, indeed, we have throughout dismintenanecit the conjectures to which it alludes. - SomC of the Loudon Jouotals ,have dissolve& Parliardent and changed Ministers according tCP their fancici in the most ►whimsical manner, buts ' a Dublin . Paper rather beats them in the mode of announcing the latter intelligence—it tells its stor* thus:--- CHANGE OF MINISTRY. " Lord CASTLEREAGH to be caltled to Abe TirPer douse. "Mr. CANNING to lead in the Commons. " Lord ELDON to resign the Seals. g' Lord SinmouTit to go out. Marquis WB" LESLEY to come in." Truly - one would suppose they were describing a Country Dance instead of a change in the Coun cils of an Empire, and it is, we can assure them , It Dance which - the Country it not likely to have• Then Comes the Dublin inference. " This (Vhlelicet, Lord SIDMOUTIeS figU rit4 .. out Lord . WELl,astaY figuring, in)--this,witl) 14 - w4 lallrP.R POOL'S Silenet in the last Catholics ,bate,' induces a confident ,expectation 14 Lon Ono thut Catholic Emancipation will be carried in the next Session of Parliament." • This is the.first .tinie we have heard of the CO" (dent expectation in London, but they must know these, matters better in Dublin ! * We, lament.execedingly that it is so often nor duty, to expose the very curious and entertaining speculations with which the Public arc, in the gre•at dearth of NewS, , s9 CO3tzuuallyatnused. We .e.:mfcss,. to our howener, that I,ve can only follow in the marvellous and tract of some of our fellow labourers. Our invention. poor. We cannot origifiate changes of Ministry , . either weekly in Ifrance, or montlity in England. We are not competent to hatch plots which neves break out—to explode the gunpowder cif the brain—to revolutionize a most tranquil country.;;' and revel in all the bixuries of a fitriuusbut tastical, an universal but non-existing war, whick desolateS"fertile regions, and ,scoarges peaceful Enrope-.--all happily, hoWever,'confined to private correspondence and the coluinns of a f ew Novs- papers. For our parts, in the discharge of our ptibli° duty,, are glad to lay hold of a new pnblica• plap—a picture gallery- , --4 discovery in art or science—.a highway robbery, or even 1 1. Critn. - Con. Wherewith to entertain nor friends; and we do hope thm they will not feel any regWit"'rFt,' because we d o n o r ga- o ish our daily offering the blotter6os on naves whieli they tnaya me° elsewhere, but Mich the next liar* sees—. Anti like the Iwries3 fatir•ck of a Vi4iVti 4ram nut a- wreck behind. -1 Flernalle-la-inonv, on the 30th of June. The Eic•Ft'ench Colonel LatApie been con , . ducted, tinder no escort, to the frontiers of the JUN 2G. , ---Italy has been 'hitherto without any road of ColliiiitniieatiOn With SVVRACt btIa, fitly colliffiel'Ci! With Which is., however, very great. The generosity of , our, Sovereign is now going .twbestow on us the 'important benefit of .a cottimercial road ; and his MHjesty has •as , igned a very considerable sum front theitoyal Treasury for this purpose. This new ball will begin from Varese and:. ex tend t e , the bridge over•the 'river Tresa, where the .Swiss territory begins. Its length will be 23,374 metres.--This road is to be commenced this year, and flee• hundred workmen to .: be constantly em ployed upon it. • Swr. zartLAND. 2:).---The Regicides Flor (las d'6,pinassy, Lattartple, and several, others, are still in the Canton of Vaud ; Soultait conti nues to reside on the' Simplon. On account of the state of his health the Council of State of the Valais has, with the consent of the Presiding Canton, given him leave to remain there.' DUrcu MALL. 13/IUSSRL3, JULY 6.---The Sittings of the Pro vincial Assemblies of West Flanders, liaioault, and Namur, have been succesively opened at Bruges, Mons, and Namur. Before the'Dnke of Wellington left France he gore the necessary instructions toGeneral Murray, who has the chief cominomi during his absence. Since the first of this month, an express with dispatches for the Field-Marshal is dispatched daily from Calais, where vessels are constantly in readiness. The Prince of . Hesse, Commander of the TY.inish Contingent, has returned front P,tris to his Head-trarters Donny. We learn front the French frontiers,, hat ,the evil disposed now again more than ever employ all kind of means, by the spreading of false re ports, to keep the inhabitants of the country alatin and agitation. At one time they affirm, that an insurrection has broken out in the South of France, and that the insurgents are marching against Paris; then, that the Austrian *DJ Prussian contingcots are going bone .; lastly, the departure of the Fiel4-Narslo has given them an opportu-. pity to' report that he will ,not return . ; that the British - nod , Russiao Contingent :will quit France, and abanthin the Bourbons to their fate. All these reports ardnlly, and at.th - e s itnc lion.coo. fulewly spread, cause an ;igitalion in people's minds which is really alarming to the frientk ut , the g o od Catise . i mute y tir !Hese divosed pvr, 5011 i have been arrested and imprisoned at Rheims SUN. VALSC M A 171!KAT .IA)ND()N, FRID.IY, JULY 12, 1816. 'We haVe n variety of Continental en ivuls this rooming, chic fly Irmo Germany at the Low. Cpontries. From these it appears that the Duke of .',YELLINGTON ANal .C4peCied hack at Ei44[l - quarters about- the end at the month. General 'MURRAY . cnomanik in the interim. The .dissatis; tied abr . oad as well as at home have spec9lated largely npan his Grace's journey, and have a c.. tempted to turn it to account in their course of systematic agitation. preadful storms continue to ravage the Conti nenv-=tbe'dctuils of which will be found among our selections. :Some of our Couteroporaries are boiling with indignation against the French Tribunal for con demning the Conspirators of 1816. They ex claim a gitiust the barbarity Of executing the three principal Critiiinals and really one would think, when we reflect on the very recent execution of the Rioters at Ely, that it. is, ,anilinglisb maxim that no Government but our own,, has a right to ;bang its rebellions subjects r Surely, if example was necessary in this Country, it is tenfold more necessAry, in France, described to us by•theie ; veil writers, as in a state of excitation and disorder which the, slightest spark sufficient, to kindle into flame: %Ve a isb, for the sake of common sense and consistency, that these hot Anti •Bour- • lignites would preser . vc at least ,soure..sliew of de cency in their censures. • • 'fhe recent IIVVVN (r+►n► has given an inte rest to evtryth;ng 1(1,11;111g to the political state of tl►;tt, country ; an►t the n►nrements of tt►c chief countrypowers are looked to with :,..ome anxiety. Ily letters Iron► Lola MotnA it appears, that SCINVIAti, wisoF,e iat,erierence itt the 'War matter of great- apprehension, was tit fiwali or with his army.. It will be remembered that this !celebrated fortress was 'ceded.. to the English by the Treaty concluded with the Malnattas by Lord WELLPSLEY in 1804, and WAS then consi dered as the main bulwark of our defences in that quarter. It was, however, afterwards restored to SCI4DIAII by Lord CototvALLts, tinder express orders from This Country. • The Madras Army, under Colonel DovtvroN, is assembled at Elicit- . poor ifs the Drickan, in a high state of efficacy and 30,0Q0 strong. The subsidiary troops of the Nizatu and the Peishwa are at 49111n14. These forces are considered adequate to the business of keeping Scitsniau and the Rajah of Ihnitti in cheek ; and, besides, the Bombay army is ready to move when ordered. ENCOURAGEMENT TO EMIGRATION. Extract - from a Letter from a Gentleman, dis tinguishetl for observation and the‘opportunityof knowing the rent state of affairs iu A merita, ;fated in April last Respecting the charges of living here, I have to inform you that beef is Js,, veal Is. 2d., and taut ton_.l s. 3d. per lb.; a loaf of intlifferent . bread, weighing 4 lb..costs Is. 24., butter 38. Ter lb., ego Is. 64. per dozen, tiring extremely dear, the w.tges of domestics equally so that y'ou plair4 perceive that, with all the taxes,