The Sun. — London, England, 1819-06-05 00:00:00

LITLRAR Y REVIEW. A VOYAGE up the PERSIAN GULPII, and a JOURNEY overland from INDIA to ENGLAND, in 1817 ; containing an Account of the Arabia Felix, Arabia Deserta, Persia, Mesopotamia, the Garden of Eden, Babylon, Bagdad, Koor distan, Armenia, Asia Minor, &c. &c.—By Lieutenant Wit. Liam 1-IFunE,.of the Madras Military Establishment. Tire Woik before us comes forward at a very seasonable period, as we have now a Persian Am bassador in this country, and have entered into amicable connexions with his Government. It is toll of interesting information, and is appa rently written With candour, liberality, and a strict regard to truth. But we shall at once pro. 7 ceed to notice its contents. Of the Pirates of the Persian Gulf, Captain MODE gins the following account : " Their history reaches beet to a very remote antiquity, as the Empire of the pirate King, seiz ing (as described in the Koran of Ebu Hankal), on every valuable ship, is said to have been known priOr to the deliverance trout Egypt :of , the Chil dren of Israel. The vVababees, in, particular, first mentioned by Niebuhr, are also noticed as springing from the province of Nedsjed, where Moseillama, the great contemporary adversary of Mahomed, first propagated tits doctrines of his faith. These are probably the same with the Mo beyyidites, Or the eufid Jamehghians (as they are called by the Persians), who 'were anciently fol lowers of Hakeni Elsa Hashers!, sometimes called Al Mokanna, and Al Bokai (or the veiled) by the Arabs. Of this ,sect it is related, that in the reign . of Calif al Mohdi, of the race of AbbaS, Hakem Ebu Hasem, their Prophet, gained a num ber of proselytes in Naklishab and Kash, giving out that the divinity resided in his person, and had descended to him from Adam, though the Pro phet had appeared. He acquired great power, but being at last besieged by the Calif's forces, be poisonerfand burnt his wives, children, and concu bines, and threw himself into the flames, in the' 163 year of the Helirza, promising his followers he would again appear." It is from the history of this impostor our author informs us, Mr. Moore has taken the ground work of the part of his celebrated poem, which he styles " The veiled Prophet." His remarks on our Trade up the Gulph, which cannot be entered into at length ,contain man y useful hints, which our Free Traders, who go out almost freightless, might avail themselves of to ad vantage. The overland part of the journey com mences from the author's departure from Bussora, being now for three weeks amongst the Bedouins; and writing from their camp, he says : " Sheik Hamood is the Chief of the Memifies, a princi pal tribe amongst the Bedouins of the Desert ; .1 had, therefore, a favourable opportunity of ob serving their manners, if the expression may be used, at the Court itself. Nothing can exceed the simplicity of living that may be observed it) the tents of these eastern patriarchs. The pen cannot describe the anasauming courtesy, the open, generous hospitality of these lawless rob bers of the Desert, to the confiding traveller who throws himself on the honour of their tribes. " During. the temporary absence of his father, the eldest son of Sheik Mahamoud (a handsome youth of 16) was presiding in his stead. He was sitting on a carpet, in a large open tent, with a numerous retinue of venerable bearded Chiefs, sitting or standing (according to their rank and occupations) on either side. The fur niture of the tent consisted of the carpets only, which they were reposing; upon; whilst their more favourite coursers were picketted in the vicinity ; and a few tents and large droves of camels filled up the surrounding scene. On our introduction, the youth gracefully rose, and kindly beckoned me, with intuitive politeness, to his side ;' Secretaries were reading dispatches, messengers were receiving their orders, whilst the pipe and coffee filled up the intervening time, un til the expected arrival of their Chief ; the patient, hardy warriOrs of the desert, watching attentively, but not meanly obsequious, each nod or smile of their favourite hope, and offering their opinions and councils with perfect freedom wherever the occasion required it. At last a general buzz an nounced the long-expected approach of the great personage ; the Council rose (the youth himself setting the example), and went to meet the group that was advancing towards the tent."—(He con cludes this part wi.h a curious description of his reception, and of a public entertainment in the Arab Camp.) After entering at some length on the later History of the Montific Bedouins, he introduces the Reader at once to a remarkable tribe whom be became unexpectedly acquainted with. The meeting is truly characteristic of the incidents of an overland journey.—" Our course now lay through a perfect desert, Shatra being the northern boundary of the little cultivation that can be dis tingeished above the junction of the riders. We proceeded for two hours in a melancholy silence. `suddenly, in a flat dreary tract, overgrown with furze and broshwood, we came to the bank of a River, that bears the name (amongst the Arabs) of the town we had left behind. We had scarcely descended the steep declivity that leads to this hidden stream by a narrow rugged path, before the hideOus battle shout of the Bedouins assailed our ears ; and we found ourselves surrounded, in a ruotneat,- by the most uncouth, savage, milieu race we had yet encountered ; and who seemed to rise from the parent earth, with their bristling spear, and pointedaatms, a dreadful ruthless, savage progeny. Our Sayid certainly behaved with the greatest coolness and hot epidity on this trying occasion. Urging his aisle courser forward, with out the slightest hesitation he sprang off his back in the midst of them, and throwing himself on the ground, ill the pt ostrate at Goole ot devotion, placed a sm.!l brass amulet, inscribed with sentences from the Koran, under his head, beginning the recital of his Creed in a loud, monotenous, yet impressive tone. On the instant, every voice was hushed, the dreadful yell that had spread far and wide around us, subsided in the solemn sound ; and as the prayer was continued, the arm pas u4nerved that had raised the sword to strike ; the hand was withdrawn that had reached the fatal kry of destruction, and all was peace ; their spears eloprio ! ! on the ground, as they joined, with errant zeal, in the sacred devotions of our holy guide. Not 11 man roe from the supplicating posture they had all gradually assumed, until the Sa)I,I himself had set them the example: when exchanging compliments of gratulation with our late dreaded enemies, we joined in the extensive circle, and endeavoured to improve the 'friendly understanding which the presiding spirit of reli gion had inspired, by presenting them with our pipes, and replenishing their Chubooks." [To be continued.] LONDON JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. [?horning Post.] By the way of Flanders we are, informed, that the sailing of the grand 'Expedition from Cadiz, which is to restore the authority . of Spain over her revolted Colonies will take place cer tainly in the beginning of September. The fleet will consist of 100 sail. The St. Petersburg/4 Gazette states, that frequent Couriers pass bet Ween the Cabinets of Petersburg!) and Stockholm ; but it dOes not mention the subject of this extraordi nary correspondence.—Letters from Germany state, that there is some jealously between 'aussia and Austria respecting the question of influence in the Germanic Empire. [The Times.] The principle of the alteration in the by Taxes we understand to be this—that by paying a composition of: five per cent, in addition to their present Assessed Taxes for houses and win dows, and of ten per cent. for horses and car riages, persons may increase their existing esta blishment to any amount ; but they may not add fresh articles : for example, a man, by paying ten per cent. upon his present stud of horses, sup pose three. inny, if he likes, add other three to the numbers; but r.ot keeping any carriage, he may not now set up one for the comp osition. The following copy of a Requisition to the Lord Mayer has been sent to us : the meeting will pro bably take place on Wednesday ne x t. " To the Riebt Honourable the Lord Mayor. We, the undersigned, Members of the Common-Council, request your Lordship will call a special Court as early as convenient, to consider the propriety of petitioning Parlia ment against passing the Foreign Enlistment Bill, equally unnecessary to maintain the principles of neutrality, and highly injurious to the mercantile interests in a state of great depression, and at, a time when the country is threatened with additional burdens ; to consider of the necessity of urging the importance of economy and retrenchment, with a sub stantial reform in the Commons House of Parliarnont, as may prevent the r,•corrence of such national Alamities, and re store the confidence of a suffering and touch-injured people." —(/bid) [New Times.] Our Venerable Sovereign (God bless him !) en tered his 82d year yesterday ; age Mode is re spectable ; but the deeds of a long tenour of ele vated life, accompanied and supported by -unde viating integrity, and moral principle ; evidenced by conscientious piety and unsullied virtue . ; dic tated by manly firmness in negociation and steadi ness of action ; have combined to record his me rits in the :Annals of Europe, and to hand them. to posterity with a respect more lofty than his station, and far higher than the cavils of his enemies. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed Last Ni THEATRE' ROYAL, DK!? RY-LA NE.—Romco and Juliet: Romeo, Mr. H. Ketonic; Juliet, Mrs. W. West. After which, Raising the Wind. TiteArne ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.—The Heart of• Mid -Lo thian : George Robertson, Mr. Macready; Madge Wild6te, Mrs. C. Kemble. After which, Cozening. To which was added, A Roland fur an Oliver. STOCKS ELV WC LOCK. Bank Long Ann ..... 18i India 13nnd5....35. dis. ls. pr. Exch. Bills ss. 7s. pr. Ditto Commercial....3o3. dis. C ow s. for Ju1y..G914 70k 714 71 71i 70i 71 7041 PRICE () THIS DAY AT Bank Stock 2tB ezo 3 per Cent. Red. 69ii 70i 694 3 per Cent. Cons shut Si per Cent 784 4 per Cents... 88 904 S per Cent. Navy Ann... shut MAILS. A.iitzvzt,-1 Dublin, I Waterford, I Holland, I France, 1 Let:ward Islands. !Jut Liibou, I Malta. HiCT-I WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning, 47 minutes after 12. Evening, la minutes after I. THE SUN. SOLEM QUis DICERS FALSUN AUDEAT LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1819. %%re *revived this morning the Paris Papers of IVednesclq la.t, In the Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday the diheussion on the projet respecting the estimates for the service of 1819 was again continued through the Sitting, and was again ad journed till Wednesday.—The following are ex- racts : " PARIS, JUNE 2.—Yesterday the King re ceived the Ambassadors and Foreign .Ministers. " The persons arrived at Bourdeaux ,in the Maria Theresa, from New York, are a family of Oneida Indians, natives of the country - adjacent to the Niagara. The Chief of the family is an 7 old man about 85, with two sons from 3-o,to 35, and three daughters, still young some. They are of a copper colOv; with . the exception of one of the daughters, .who is married to a Frenchman, and who is White, The Chief of this family was formerly a Sachem, that is to say, a King, or rather a Generalissi►no of a tribe of savages, and lie possesses warlike talents, which be has often had occasion for in the quarrels between tribe and tribe. Re sp'eaks, bad English ; has quitted the Oneida territory to instruct his children in - the customs of Europe. The dress of the women is very decent ;. ii tbat of the men simple and very p!ctu:esque.- The chief of tbt family is named Cornelius Sali- at 6V-,, went to 70, 70-„1, 714, 711, 72, Thep outs ; him and his family are Christians. " Several private letters state that great dissen dons prevail ainong the French refugees in America, who arc in a deplorable situation. FIVE PBR CENTS. Tuesday . .66 f. 85 c. DEFERRED STOCK. Of the 9.2 d March, Ist?, . .96 f. 65c. 22d Sept. 1817, .. .841. 65c. 22d March, 1814, 9.2 d Sept. 1818, „Bo f. 65c. 22d March,lBl9, ..761. 75C. MANHEIM, MAY 27.-The Minister of the Grand Duke of Hesse to the Germanic Diet, has officially communicated to that Assembly an Edict of his Sovereign, by which he engages to publish a Constitution, and to convoke a Representative Assembly, by the month of May, 1820." Boston Papers arrived this morning to the 3d May. M'GREGOR'S EXPEDMON. (From the New York Gasette of the 29th of ilprit.) By the schooner Retrieve, TSYCROSS, arrived from Santa Martha, in 30 days, we learn, that official information had been recei►ed at Santa Martha, that General WGREGOR, :With six sail, and from 1200 to 1500 troops, had landed near Porto Cabello, and were daily expected at Santa Mar tha. The town was under arms. All the Indians and troops in the vicinity were ordered to that place to defend it, should General NPGREGOR make au attack upon it. On , the Bth April the Retrieve spoke a transport ship (No. 16) off Eleneaga, from Jamaica to Sierra Leone, with black troops on board. (From theColumbianCentinel, May 2.) SANTA MARTHA.--Official advices have reached here, that General McGaEGoa, with six sail, and from 12 to 1500 troops, have landed at Porto Cabello. • (From the same Paper.) TRINIDAD, MARDI& 16.—Panz has announced, in dispatches dated thr 15th February, the retreat of the Spanish Army over the Arauga, after in vain attempting to bring the Patriots to action. He adds, that from the time of Moßu.Lo's cross ing and re-crossing the Arauca, he lost 1400 men and one field-piece, cut off in the Plains by his cavalry, which amount to 2500. Two thousand infantry and artillery are pro ceeding from Oronoque to join Palm. On, the 27th February General BOLIVAR set out from Angustura to rejoin the Army. General HURIILEY and English troops are daily expected ; they will probably co-operate with the Expedition from Santa Margaritta, and form a junction with Ge neral MARINO, in Barcelona. MARGARITTA, MARCH 18.—An Expedition of 6000 men is fitting out here, one half English,:to be commanded by General OUDBNRTTR. CURACOA, APRIL 12.—Information has this moment arrived that Admiral BRION, with 15 sail, has blockaded La Guira, and that at Porto ' Cabello there is an Embargo. WILMINGTON, APRIL 20.--Tbe President left this place on Saturday, at 12 o'clock, in the steam boat, for Fort Johnson, accompanied by a number of Gentlemen, where be arrived in the evening. On the next day he embarked on board the re venue cutter, and proceeded as far as Baldhead Island ; on his return be landed at Oak Island, taking a complete view of the Channel and pro minent points of land, on which it may he neces sary to erect fortifications for the defence of this port. The Baltimore Patriot states, that the United States slop of war Ontario, Captain RIDDLE, arrived at Annapolis on the evening of the 25th of April, after a long cruize on , the South American station—last from Rio Janeiro. (Prom the Quebeek Papers to the 20th April.) On Tuesday a Message was sent to the House of Assembly by his Grace the Governor-in- Chief, informing, that Body that his ROYAL HACH - NESS has been pleased to order Grants of Lands to the Militia embodied during the late War, and requesting an approbation of Three Thousand Pounds to carry his ROYAL HIGHNESS'S Orders into effect. The money was voted in a Committee of the whole House, and a Bill is, we understand, preparing accordingly. . The discussion of the Civil List commenced last evening, and will be resumed on Saturday. , By a Leeward Island' Mail, arrived this morn ing, we have received the following Ex . traet of a Private Letter from st. Thomas's, dated the 23d April : "No news from BRION. It is reported that 600 men had arrived at Margaritta, under the command of Col. ENGLISH." _ Three Commissioners are arrived by the Packet from the Patriots to oor Government. THE FUNDS.—Long hetore the tuna( time of business, this morning, the Stock-EXchange was crowded : much bustle and:confusion prevailed during the whole of the morning, and a great deal cf business was transacted. The Consols opened fell to 704. The Commissioners' Box is now nearly annihilared.—The general opinion in the City is, that the Loan will not be taken under 75. It is currently repot led in the City, rlnit one of the Parties ash° waited on the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHFO.VER has declined bidding for the in tended Loan, but that another list has sprung up in consequence, at the he-ad which is a folmidatale Lottery Contractor. Bank Stock has risen 14 per Cent., and 4 per Cents. 7 per Cent. An egregious mistake is made in The Tiznes of this day, and it being merely a matter of calcula , lion, we are surprised to see it so imposingly put forth. We are gravely told that a Sinking Fund of £5,000,000 will " only extinguish the Na tional Debt, in case of no-fresh war, in about a century and a quarter." Now the .fact is, as every one who makes the calculation can at once ascertain, that a Sinking Fund - of•£5,000,000, with the continual addition, as of. course follows, of compound interest, will extinguish upwards of £800,000,000 of debt in the course of 45 years. An alarm, as we have before stated, has evi• dently arisen in the PROTESTANT COMMUNITY, in consequence of Lord GREY'S proposed Bill for practically removing the Tests which prevent the introduction of PAPISTS into our Legislature, and 'from holding State employments under the Beta. 'FISH GOVERNMENT. The Inhabitants of St. Dun scan's in the Westhaie meritorionsly come for ward in opposition to this alarming Bill, the more alarming on account of its specious liberality, and professed inoccuous tendency. We hope the whole Empire will follow the example, and we again inform our HIERARCHY, and all its Member!, that THE SUN, which has hitherto opened its Co.. lumps, and has taken the lead, in snpport of our Ecclesiastical Establishment, shall be still devoted to the same vital cause, and that we shall deem it our duty to receive and insert all their Communi• cations for the same essential purpose. The state of the Country.in the Manufacturing Districts appears truly lamentable.. The evi dence, as taken before the Committee on the Framework Knitters Petition, forms one of !hi most singular and appalling descriptions of distress ' that we ever recollect to have read. We hem . rtilY and sincerely wish every success to the Bill, which has been brought 11111.7ParlianICIII by MN. Mese- FIgLD, founded on the Report of a Committee, who gave an almost uuanirnoui vote in favour of the measure, by way of experiment, for shred years, and was composed of some of the first! . men connected with commerce in the country..-" It appears, from the evidence given, that in con sequence of some difference in the manufacture of certain articles, no less a number than 3000 hands have been thrown out of employ, and that the majority of those who are in ,employ can oar obtain about 6s. 6d. or 7s. a•week for their is hour, although they work 15 hours a-day. It is a most singular feature in the present parliamen tary proceeding, that the application for relief. . and for a recurrence to the old method of mane' ; facture, is supported unanimously by both ear . ployers and workmen. Adverse as we generaill are to any Legislative interference with trade, sve • think that the adoption of the measure proposed is rendered necessary, and would not interfe r e with private-interests, since it receives the stip port of such interests., and 'is only solicited . je the way-of experiment. To an application,"there.- fore, made jointly by masters and men, we'itee et a loss to know what objection can be .made.--" The opponents of the present measure (as we coo. ceive) confound cotton with wool;. in latter (which is the raw material used in the maculae. - tore in question) we have a monopoly ; so that there is no danger of competition by,the adoptio • Of the measure propoted.—The market may be glutted now, and the present Rat not make a fur. Cher demand; but if it pass it will glut it with good article, and employ all the hands now idle; whereas now the market is glutted with a bad sr' title, and 3000 men out of work ! The Jilt has nothing to do with machinery; since the same' frame that makes- the good,', makes also ' the bad article But if the Bill pass •.it will do this it will greatly benefit private property, by raising the price of frames to what they used, to, fetch, and by decreasing the poor rates, now 5 (3 heavily affecting the landed interests of Leicester and the neighbourhood. The case of the poor sufferers, who, four years ago, with one-third less work than they now do, could obtain double the wages they now have, comes very strongly' recoeu .mended by•the peaceable and praiseworthy man• ner in which they have borne their privations 3 and, as it appears in evidence, that nothing but a legislative enactment would apply an tff , -ctiia l remedy to their case, since any private agtee" meat amongst the Manufacturers ‘lotild be . very inefficient fur that purpose, on ac .odit t of . a de" , Ti, ior c r t~~. g' 11, se lot nil ' of At Ch Cal De ( Of 410 i Poe! the °Ur n►Ca Pear chi, th e sous Vi fort Tt 14141(