The Sun. — London, England, 1819-07-19 00:00:00

FOlt THE SUN. SMITHFIELD MEETING. EotToß—lf it be trio that trifles make the 4tl ft) of bninan bliss, it is equally true that cir cumstances, apparently trifling, often form the actiye and efficient causes of happiness or mi- St I V. It is equally true that trifles have roused and that trifles ir.,ve quieted the stormy passions of a mad Populace, nay, of a whole People. It is well known that a celebrated French Character, in the early period of the Revolution, saved his life from a furious mob by a well• timed witticism. When those %On) had hold of him, and those im mediately around him, cried out " A /a lanterne !" he calmly asked them, " Well, my friends, will you then see any better 1"—IIis life was saved. Now, Sir, though an English Mob may not be so susceptible of the influence of a witty trifle, yet it is not impossible sometimes to catch them by surpize ; an instance of which I recollect some years ago, when, on a Sunday evening, sauntering from Cheapside towards Temple-bar, I observed several, or at last many, young men walking Eastward, with a rapidity much beyond that of a Sunday lounger. The enigma, for such it was, attracting the notice of other passengers, was solved on my arrival in Fleet -street, where I found that some wag, with a piece of chalk, had written, in large characters, on almost every window shutter and door, " Go 1-lomE, Tom!" The effect of this on the imaginations of Read -era thus designated, was almost incredible ; and I have no doubt that timely admonitions, judi aionsly displayed on broadsides, and placarded on IVeduesday morning in the various avenues lead ing to Smithfield, might have the effect of stem ming the tide of population which will be on the flow towards the scene of desception and folly. " Go HOME, MY FRIENDS and swell not by your attendance, for the gratifi cation of idle curiosity, the Bands of RIOT, PLUNDER, AND REVOLUTION. Of you, now hurrying to this scene of danger, not one in a thousand will be able to see the active Agitators on the scaffold—not one in ten thousand will be able to hear a word of the proceedings; vet, if the Civil Power is forced to interfere, every indi vidual present, after reading the Riot Act, will be subject to the Law as an Abettor of Riot ; and IF 'MILITARY AID IS NECESSARY, in order to preserve Life and Property, Eica of "rf ou ‘vili be instantly exposed to the confusion of the moment. REMEMBER tile torch of the Incendiary spares neither the Cottage of the Poor, nor the Mansions of the Great—then Go Home!!! and take care of YOUR OWN DWELLINGS !" I trust, Sir, it is not too much to presume that such an Address, or one better drawn up, might have happy effects to a considerable extent, in saving many tho►►ghtless, honest, well-meaning, but simple people, from aiding the general con fusion that must be expected, when the whole of" the Lower Orders are thus called into action. Your's, IGNOTUS. P.S. As those defeated in the day, may attempt something at night, I hope care will be taken to place sufficient guards over all the Public Gas works, and that patroles acquainted with the di rection of the main pipes u ill be stationed so as to truitrate any plan to throw the Metropolis into darkness. LONDON JOURNALS. Fitom THE MORNING PAPEILI OF THIS DAY. [Morning Chronicle,] 'Every advice that reaches us from Spait, proves great agitston among the people, anti apprehen sHos and uncertainty on the part of thc Goveru ment. O'Donnel's visit to Madrid, with some other circumstances attached to it, is not satis tac;orily accounted for, but it has been in lowed by a srange rumour. It is now said that King Ferdi nand hay formed the chivalrous project of accompa nying tie Expedition to South America, under a hope that his presence may do what the force of arms could not effect, and that he is privately to etnhatk at Lisbon, Ferdinand may certainly have gr , ,unds tor not placing full confidence in soy of his armed pacificators whom he may wish to charge with the exercise of power on the other side vf the Atlantic, end he may also feel anxious with regard to the last effort it will he in his pow , r to make, hut we do not tbink he has cou rage enough to undertake a voyage attended with sa many dane,et!:, or mind to conceive such a pro ject. Certain it is, that the Spanish Government Ht la‘t begin set iously to be alarmed at the impos ing attitude the new Transatlantic Governments have attained ; experience has taught them the inefficiency of all their former plans to reconquer and pacify, and they are in a complere dilemma ;vita( new mode to pursue, though, if they could gain their object, there is not a sacrifice they would not feel disposed to make, In the mean time, to chew the wavering state of the Cabinet, we are toH, find si nil,tr reports are mentioned in the Val is P7ipers, that M. Garay; the Finance Minister, who upwards Of a year ago was dismissed in such haste, and in so ontrar4eous a manner, has 'now been called up to Madrid to be placed at the head of the Council of State, and a fiscal named to pro secute CaslJtnio. Oni, it is said, has re ceived orders nr•t to enter Madrid. Marrinez, one of the first Comedians of the capital, has been ba nished, and a coach was brought to his door at one in the (Hurtling, as has beets usual with the late Mi,i.tcrs or Stale. His fellow-comedians hail asiembled, and among themselves clubbed a sum of money for Isis support during the period of his banishment. [Morning Post.] Government and the Civic Authorities, we are happy to state, continue actively employed in the necessary preparations for preserving the public tranquillity on the occasion of the rabble meet ing so mischievously convened for Wednesdey next, in the very heart of the Metropolis. The meeting to be held near Leeds this day is merely preparatory to the Smithfield convention, which is to be attended by all the leaders of sedition from the North. A private letter from Leeds of the 15tU says:—" Mischief is certainly hi e tended, and the most nefarious means are taking to work upon and inflame the minds of the working classes, and an important blow will be aimed at the prosperity and peace of the Coun try, as soon as the parties feel sufficiently strong to undertake their projects with any chance of success. That time I tear is now near at hand ; for I am assured that the number of persons enrolled in these Union or Radical Reform So cieties (call them which you please) in the large towns and manufacturing districts of York , shire, Lancashire, and Cheshire, already amount to more than 120,000."—We have the coo , soietion, however, to know that the most vigilant measures of precaution continue to be pursued by the Government and the Magistracy.-- Lord Sirhnouth has addressed Circular Letters to the Lords Lieutenants, calling their attention to the onmerous meetings, and directing them to give orders to the Yeomanry Cavalry to hold them selves in readiness, in case of need, to assist the Magistrates in the preservation of the public peace ; and these instructions, we are happy to assure our Readers, have been strictly and uni versally attended to. The Yeomanry Cavalry have every where been ordered out, and Lord Grantham, who is Colonel of that excellent corps the York Hussars, left town on Saturday with the utmost expedition for Yorkshire, in order to place himselt at their head, and to act, if neces sary, in aid of the Civil Power of the County.— io the City, Special Constables continue daily to he sworn in. Agreeably to an invitation trom Alderman Scholey, the inhabitants of Dowgate Ward are this diy to be .enrolled ; and in all the other similar• cornmendeble precautions have been taken ; so that we have reason to hope the measures thus resorted to will prove fully adequate to the intended purpose of preserving the public tranquillity. We deem nothing further necessary for this desired end than a strict in junction on the part of all manufacturers, and re spectable inhabitants, to their workineu and ser vants, not to attend the mischievous meeting, as a necessary means of preventing an increase of the number of the mob, and thereby rendering it less formidable its appearance than it would other wise present itself to the public view. THEATn.rcAL REGISTER. Perfannert Last Night. TIT PAIGE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.—King Henry the Fourth. (Ist Part); Hotspur, Mi. Young; Lady Percy, Miss Foote. After which, Brother and Sister. TnEATRE ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-HoUSE.—Rosina: Mr. 13elville, Mr. Pearman ; Phoebe, Miss Kelly. After which (Ist time`, One, Two, Three, Four, Five, by Advertise ment. Tu which was added, Rendezvous. m i ,* For "A BRITON," see the First Page, and for PitovlN CIAL JOURNALS, see the Last Page. PRICE 01 THIS I)AV AT T Bank Stock -221i 3 per Cent. Red 691 $ per Cent. Cons.-- 6B Si per Cent ....78i 4 per Cents l3Bii per Cent. Navy Ann. 103H1 STOCKS ELvv. o'cr.ocic. Bank L. Ann.... 18 5-16 7-16 India 80nd5....... 6s. Bs. pr. Exch. Bills, 2d...... Is. 2s. pr. a at Pr* Consols. for August...lMA Ali MAILS. ARIIIVED-2 Dublin. 2 . Watei ford, I Guernsey and Jersey, I Holland, I France. DUE-1 IVaterford, 1 Gottenliurgb, 2 Lisbon, 1 Hamburgb. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Moen*, 51 minutes after 12. I Evening, :23 minutes after 1. Till SUN. MLEM QUIS RICEHE FALSUM A UDEAT ? LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 19, 1819. We received yesterday and this morning the Paris Papers of Wednesday and Thursday last. The Chamber of Peers assembled on Thursday. The projet respecting the importation and expor tation of grain was agreed to unanimously, after some discussion ; the Repott was then received of the Special Committee on the Budget of Ways and Means, and the opening of the discuisiou ordered for Friday, to which day the Chamber adjourned. The KING presided at a Council of Ministers at St. Cloud on Wednesday. M. MAURICR LEFEVER, Editor of the Biblio. theque llistorique, and M. CUGNET DC MON TAMA', Editor of the Liberal, were tried on Wed nesday before the Court of Assizes, at Paris, o❑ charges of libelling the Swiss troops in the puy of France, and were both acquitted. On the 25th August, the KING 15 to review the National Guards of Paris, The Madrid accounts state, that a fiscal of the Council of Castile had been scat to Avila, to take the declarations of the Marquess de CAsa-fauJo, respecting the articles of accusation against him, but the nature of the charges is not stated. There were reports, it seems, of the intended recal of Don PEDrto CEVALLOS to the Ministry of State, and of the recal to the Council also of Don MARTIN GARAY. According to another rumour, Don Luis ON's, who was on his way to Madrid, had received orders to stop at Valladolid. The Con vents of the Jesuits, we are told, were filled with novices ; there were no less than 130 in that at Madrid. Nothing more is said respecting the Cadiz expedition, except that the number of troops to be embarked is to be 25,000 men. An Article from Tangiers mentions that the Emperor of Moaocco, having assembled a body of troops for the purpose of imposing tribute upon the Mountaineers of Tedla, the latter surprised his camp in the night, cut to pieces his guards, captured his treasure, 12 of his women, and all his baggage ; and the Emperor himself nar rowly escaped with his life. The following are extracts from the Journals of Friday : " PARIS, JULY IG.—The Duchess de Berry dined yesterday at Sr. Cloud with the King and Royal Family. His Majesty took an airing pre viously to Choisy-le-Roi. " The King yesterday gave an audience to the Count Capo d'istria, who was accompanied by the Count Pozzo de Borgo ; the audience continued nearly an hour. " Letters from Frankfort, of the 11th inst. state, that the Germ* Diet, which was on the point of adjourning, will prolong its Sittings till August, upon the invitation of the Prince de Met ternich. FIVE PER CENTS. Wednesday 7l f. —c. Thursday 7U f. 80 c. DEFERRED STOCK. Wednesday. Thursday. Of the 22d March, 1817....30 f. 35 c...9u f. 25 c. 22d Sept. 1817.... 58 f. 35 c... 88 f. 25c. 22d March,lBlB... 8G f. 35 c... 86 f. 25 C. tid Sept. 1618.-84 1. 35 c... 84 f. 25 c. 24d March, 1819...82 f. 60 c.. .82 f. 40 c. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One Month R 4 f, SO c. Three Mouths ....24 f. 60 c. " CORFU, JUNE 10.—General Maitland, Lord High Commissioner of his Britannic Majesty in the lonian Isles, embarked on the Bth instant, on board the Ganymede frigate, and set sail for Ancona. He is to proceed to Rome, to negociate a species of Concordat, relative to the Latin Clergy of the lonian Isles. The Earl of Guild ford, is, by command of the Prince Regent, asso ciated with his Excellency in this negociation. " The day before the departure of General Maitland, the Deputies of the Parguinote Emi grants were introduced to him at the Palace.— They claimed the distribution of 666,000 piastres, which was due to them from Ali Pacha, as the p r i c e of their property according to valuation.— The Lord Commissioner consented to a deduc tion from this sum of 33,000 piastres, in order that payment might be received in available money, instead of the Turkish coins, which the Paella wished them to accept. General Mait land promised the Deputies also, that he would not depart without adopting satisfactory measures, aitl m t a li to the same day he issu e d t h e f o ll ow i ng Pro ciia His Excellency the Lord Commissioner-Ge neral has appointed Robert Forest, Esq„ the Count Antonio Lando, and Edward S. Bayne, Esq. Commissioners for arranging the final dis tribution of the sum of 633,000 talleris (piastres), which his Excellency has received from his High ness the Vizir Ali-Pacha, and which is nom in the Treasury-General for the indemnities due to the inhabitants of the town and district of Varga, for their property, valued previous to their emi gration and their arrival in these States. " His Excellency has also appointed Spiridion Usq. Secretary of the Commission, of which Robert Forest Esq. is appointed by these presents President. " The aforesaid Commission shall assemble on the Il th instant at the house :4 its Presi dent, where it shall receive all necessary in structions for regulating the mode of its proceed ing—instructions which it will be its duty to make publicly known to all persons concerned. " Lastly, it bis Highness the Visir Ali Pacha, shall make rcclamations on his own ac count, or on behalf of any one of his subjects, the aforesaid Commission, assembled to decide on the said reclamations, shall admit as an additional member, any person who shall be delegated for that purpose by his Highness. Palace of Corfu, 7th June, 1819. " By Order of his Excellency, FRED. HANKEY, " Secretary to the Lord Commandant-General. "The last paragraph of this Proclamation, re serving to the Paella the power of introducing a Deputy into the said Commission, excited much discontent among the Parguinotes, who asserted that he would be then both party and judge. " By another Proclatnati9n the same day, G,neral appointed Alajor.GoWa. lit Frederic Adam to fulfil, ad interim, during absence, the functions of llkh Commissioner ° his Britannic Majesty. "V T lENNA, JULY 4.—he King of Prussia sr' rived yesterday evening at Tcep:itz. maintains the strictest incognito." \We have again to draw the attention of °4 to some excellent hints from our v 01 ' 131)11 and truly patriotic Corespondent IGNOTVS, is always sure to come forward when the sit u ` i f (ion of Public Affairs may demand the eff°r" a loyal pen. As we really do not know 111 ' 9 ' ; x ; cept a Correspondent who writes occ asiun9 with much wit and humour, as well as good seOe' knowledge, and true public spirit, we can ha ve n private interest in recommending him to the O tico of our Rulers. We should, however, re wr ite r joice if we had an opportunity of being .11 acquainted with him, and of drawing the attellti% of,Government to so able, spirited, and inte llit ' eg a friend to the Country. An infamous Paper, consisting wholly of lb° d most disgusting scurrility, entitled The fille d a, --. has, we find, honoured us with its abuse, in lo a last Number, and declares that " THE SUN, " en others, which it styles " villanous Papers, sh olli,' be burnt by the common hangman." It is 0 wonder that loyal and consistent Journals s lOl ld be the objects of revolutionary rancour ; and if tb traitorous wretches, who, under the pretence of o mere Reform of the House of Commons, mo t t it destroy the whole fabric of Government, cau l accomplish their diabolical purpose, there on b no doubt that not only our Paper would be °l' signed to the hangman, but ourselves a lso. SS(' are, however, not to be deterred from our dotY t° the Nation by the abuse or menaces of the creants in question, and only hope that We sha ll never be disgraced by their praise. The same infamous Paper stiles the Hou se Commons "the Principal Deo of Thieves," an d de ; cribes the Mcmbers as " Italians, who never in ee j but to oppress—never speak but to abuse--"8° never vote but to rob awd destroy those whom th e / are bound by their oath to protect ! ! !" is it V s' sible that the Law will suffer such infamous P ub ' lications to pass without a notice ; and can a n / person who possesses the slightest portion of Lill : derstanding expect any public benefit from sac " atrocious Libellers ? The following is the only article worthy of 11° 7 tice in our Port Letters of this day : PLYMOUTH, JULY 17.—Captain Sir Tg °l4llls HARDY is appointed to succeed Commotl° r6 Bow Las, on the Brazil station, the lat ter coming home on account of ill health. Tbe Superb was, in consequence, moved 810' 0- 4C of the Dock-yard yesterday, and such has be er' the unparalleled exertion in every department that she was reported ready last night, Bn, will go into the Sound this morning. Her N' 'dement is to be increased to 540 men, with ad; ditional officers; Volunteers enter very fast, an rendezvous are opened in London and Liverpo° by which means it is supposed that she will b 6 speedily manned. The Implacable came "` v. the harbour to be commissioned as a guard•O i l it in the room of the Superb." A Belfast Paper says—" We learn that Gene ra: , Count MACIRONE has received letters from (leg. M'GßEcroa, dated from Aux Cayes (St. Doming ) ( after his escape from Porto Bello. The Geo er ! acquits himself of all blame in the untort o " 6c ` e result (of course). He has been able to s ect)r d and take away with him a considerable snai , - a money, and is now, it is further stated, a t III ; head of nearly 2,000 men. He was prepar t , i % for making another landing on the Main. i- - ah . o Monarch and the Rambler were taking 10 men at New-York, and the Agents at Jarro' c : had enlisted for the same purpose 600 men of "- reduced Wes! India Regiment. General H 0 0 ,1 3; who heat INl‘Gaucon, is an Irishman, said to "- a native of Wexford." It is expected that the PRINCE REGENT • l c embark on board the Royal George yacht, tl Brighton, the day after the races in that row% His Royal Highness will take a cruize along tbd coast to Plymouth, view the breaktvater docks in that quarter, and sttbsequently sail f° , the Isle of Wight, where the fleet of NobleareD I yachts will rendezvous. Carlton-house was thronged on Friday and sa;' turday with Nobility, and the persons of distil; tion who had the honour of being present St Fête given by the PRINCE REGENT OIL Thurs, ul4 ,4 night, making their inquiries atter the bealL o his Royal Highness. On Saturday Prince EiTERHAZY, the A d ; strian Ambassador, had an audience of the Fi ol4 REGENT. Yesterday the LORD CHANCELLOR had 8 1 an dience of the PRINCE REGENT. Ib . e We understand his Majesty's ship Venge ur, guard-ship now lying in Leith Roads, is : 0 su i „ for Portsmouth this day or to-morrow. Her `lot Ornate destination, according to report, is S°", o , America, whither, it is said, five more sail of Is c, line and four frigates are to be immediately se n r , in order to protect the iutt.rests of trarie , and Pe..., Naps to have an eye upon Lord CoCliaiNS6' (E.ctinsargh Courant, Jai) 15 ) to th all to .sk 11 'I ti v C ' f . a