The Sun. — London, England, 1816-12-27 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPIVIS. [FURTH KR itXTRACTS.3 PARTSS Dec.23.—We fire assured that M. Bion• s►et de rangier, one of the old companions of Ge neral Georges, and who WAS condemned to death withltim, is recalled from the isle of Bourbon, where he has been Governor, and that his Ma jesty has eonferi.ed on him the title of Count. The Austridn troops were to evacuate the "king dom of Naples last month. it is rsported in Catalonia, that his Catholic Majesty• intends to call a meeting of the Mem bers of the Cortes at Madrid. 'Die confirmation of this news seems to be anxiously desired. According to letters from Constantinople, dated the th of November, the great beats have pro [Nerd the most fatal effects. Notwiths•anding tha efforts of Government to terminate the evils thence resulting, the people of Constantinople werestill obliged to drink stagnaot and corrupted water, which caused many maladies, and forced a peat number of strangers to remain in the coun try. The Reis-Effendi, himself had not yet re turned to Constantinople. DAVOIISt, who had resided for the last year .on his eirate of SavignY, has 'returned to Paris, where he occupies Eti3 hotel, rue St. Do- minique. A Nttt•emberg journal announces, that the King of Prussia has made a grant of four millions of rix. dollars (sixteen millions of francs) to those proprietors of Sast and West Prussia who were ruined by the late wars. From Petershurgh we learn, that 840 sail of vessels have this year entered the port of Cronstadt, h e number is not very great ; hot it will be re collected that the importation of many articles of English manufacture is prohibited in Russia. The exportation of the native products of Russia has been very conside r able, and will be yet greater during the ensuing year. Grner4l riffreau, who was for snme years French Ambassador to the United States, died lately at Lis estate of Couches, in Normandy. M. atratt tie Conlon, cx.senator, and who filled many offices (hiring the revolution, also died lately, at the age of 72. AnuLTetesrlotst Ott W 1N e....-The Police Court of Paris lately ordered the seizure and conrisca tion of kix casks, four of which were filled with water, and two with water colon' ed ted, found in the cellars of a wine.met chant of the name of Be rard : the casks were ordered to he emptied on the pavement, and Berard also condenmed to pay a fine of 10fr. and ;all expellees. A horrible assassination, accompanied with robbery, was committed on the night of the fith inst. in the vicinity of Rochelle, on the Skim IL)Hanger, his son, daughter, and a maid servant. On the kith three men were arrested at Rochelle on suspicion of being the assassins, ?sets, Dc.c. 22.—The King having taken into consideration the proposition for an early promo tion in the Order of the Legion of Honour, has determined that it shall not take place on the Ist o f .13nlAry. [lit Majesty has not made known the period to which he intends to postpone the promotion. INIADato, Dr.c. 9.—lt is reported that there is to be it reform io the Monastic Orders, which will 'reduce them CO four Chief Orders. The negocia. tiuut with his Holiness on this subject are be lieved to be sufficiently advanced to enable the eh Inge t k o be effected before the end of the year.' t itt also in agitation to make it reform in the Clergy, and it i 4 even said that a plan to this eSeet has been adopted by his Majesty. Accord iog to a work upon the property of the Clergy an l Monks nE psiit, which was published by a Deputy of the Cortex, their revenues amount to Ho leFK than 51 Millions of piasters (10,625,000/, stet bag.) FRENCH HOUSEBREAKERS. TliF,ltt SENTENCE. Pititts, DEC. 22.—The Court of Assizes, this illy, after four hours' deliberation, pronounced judgment on the affair relative_ to N great number itt robbers. Sixteen of the accw,cd, viz. eleven men and five women, figured in them. Some as authors of midnight depredation, committed for the most part by scaling ;- others as receivers of the stolen goods. One of the prisoners,' nanied Gollthier, was aged only fifteen years six, tumults the rest tr:td hardly passed thirty years. !must all of them manifested at the trial a sur prising efirontery, One of them, named Jardi nand, the elder, who had assumed as his nom de guerre the nick-name of Pied-de-Ccieri, said, " How ! Mr. President, do yon desire me to avow myself guilty, to destroy my mistress? Promise the that she shall he sate, and 1 will acknowledge every thing." Another, mimed Ourgy, pleaded his own cause : he dissembled nothing, and sought only to ks Get his Judges by stating the tnisfor tunes, true or false, which, according to hirn, left Min no alternative, Shice the age of 13 years, but to become a robbei*. - • • One.ot the complaints band, Jardinaud, the eider, the Chief 61 thii:band, was, that he bad iatroduetti 1llnys:11, in tl►c asontl.'d Sarinarylxst , into the apartment of the Countess of Cullman, rue Saint Dominique, an►! of having carried off a gold.. watch, suspended et the head of the bed, withrint disturbing her Lidyship's repose. He .was acquitted of this action, but found guilty on all the others. The Jury acq uitted fo u r of the accused, and de 6tred all the oth►•rs guilty, hut pronounced only by a majority of germ voices to five, respecting two sisters, one aged 18, and the other 28 years. They gave a like decision on the question of dis cernment, with respect to Louis Gonthier. The Court assented to the opinion of the majority of the Jury. In consequence, Jardinand the • elder has been condemned to 20 years of hard labour ; Jurdinnud the younger to six years ; Gtvgy to livc years ; the rest to twenty, tee►, or five years; With re spect to Goraltier, the infamous punishment has been converted into five years' imprisonment, on account of his yowl). The three female convicts wept abundantly on hearing their sentence pronounced ; Jardinaud the elder exclaimed, with violenee'and blasphemy— " The judgment is bad, Gurgy is. more guilty than 1, and you have condemned. him only to f►ve years." The gend'armes imposed silence on him, and all the prisoners suffered themselves peace ably to be reconducted to the conciergerie. THE ArItICAL REGISTER. Pei:formed Last Night. De.utty-LANe.—George Barnwell: George Barnwell, Mr. Rae ; Millwood, Miss Boyce. After which (first time), Harlequin Horner. COVgtiT•GA RDEN.—George Barnwell : :George tlarnwell, Mr. C. Kenthle; Millwood, Mrs. Fancit. After which (first tinge), Harlequin and the Sylph of the O. ARSivin-2 Guernsey anti Jersey, 2 Waterford. Dtte-1 liul land, 1 Crottenburgb, I lianiburgn, 1 Dublin. ST. Joni.; TIMEVANGTGIST.—IIiaidav at thelit, Exche quer, Eitst India and south Sca Howes. NIGH IS'ATEIt AT LONDON BiuDGE To-stolutow. .lorttitig, 8 'titillates after 9. 1 Event ttg, 83 mutates after 9. ERRATUM.---A few Numbers of our Early Impression of this day ore by mistabe dated, ir► the Front I'age, Thursday the vith, i►►stead of Friday the 27th December. THE .SUN. totEm LUIS mccio: r‘i,u,ll AUDIT! LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1816. We are much indebted to a Friend at Bristol "or the following communication. We beg him o accept our thanks, and to assure our Readers hat they may rely on the accuracy of the state• 111 COL sip r E IMITOR (w TIIE SUN. " Bristol, halt-past Three, 'Thursday Afternoon. " Damt Stu,---1 have jest time to tam m you that the Spit-fiends Orator his this monieut re turned from his harangue at Brandon MU, with about 200 boys and idle raggamullins in his tr a in, most completely drenched with the torrents of rhiti Which have been falling all this', morning, Every thing ltas hitherto pasted oil - perfectly quiet : Hoar was, I understand, the only speaker. A string of Resolutions and a Petition, which he'brought with him, were of course unit nimou%ly carried. Moulted% of our Citizens have enrolled themselves to assist in keeping the peace; and should any disturbances occur in the evening, I have no doubt that the civil power will be suffi cient to quell them without the interference of the nillitary, of which Government have very prpclently taken care to supply us with a sufficient force." tovernment had, Indeed, taken every precau tionary measure ‘vhich human foresight could de vise to prevent any mischief which might arise out of the machinations of these worthless agi tators. A agt►adron of the 234 Dragoon Laneerspassed through Bath on Wednesday for Bristol; three companies 'of the 38th were on their route from Portsmouth a troop of the 6th Dragoons were marching from Dorchester Barracks and the North Somerset Yeomanry, with the Mith Rifle corps, had been directed, by order of the Score oily of 'State, to hold themselves in readi►►ess to march for Bristol, where the 25th Regiment is at present quartered. At ten o'clock on 'Wednesday morning a route WO received for one troop of the Inniskillitig Dragoons to proceed, by forced marches, from Exeter to Bristol immediately. The men were passing through Longhrook-street, on their way to chnrch, when the order arrived ; >they were halted, and Captain HADDEN with his troop re turned to the Barracks, got ready, and set off at one o'clock ; there is thereforemo reason to ap. prebend any injurious ebullition front this Meet . The Duke of WELLINGTOt4 arrived in London yeaterday afternoon. His Grace came very unex pectedly; evon the Duchess had no notice of `more than his intention to he inEughend, within a few weeks. Lord CASi_LiiiitiAGii knew of his arrival only by a me s senger seat ivo it t L Dart - ford-road, upon the chance th'at he tufght he at his seat, at North Cray. Lord CASTLEREAGH meiliately came to Town, and the Duke of WEL LINGTON had a long interview with him. All the other Ministers are out of town. It is conse quently rumotied that the Duke 14as come upon some sodden business of importance. Lord An- THUR HILL accompanied his Grace, to London. There are no Foreign Arrivals to-day. The Morning Chro►►icle confesses to-day that the Administration is carrying on the work of re trenchment with every possible degree of vigour and impartiality. This is an honourable tri bute from so bitter an opponent, and the Party, of whose opinions the Journal in ques tion is the most favoured Organ, must have felt some compunctious visitings before they au thorized so painful an acknowledgement. Were they afraid to continue their clamour and tnisre- presentations to the period of Parliament's Meet ing, when one speech from a Minister might convict them of a thousaisd false slanders and cover them with shame and confusion ? Or do they think that their EMUIIOIIS have been repeated often enough to effect the purposes of their in vention, and poison the public mind so much as to defy the power of this late recantation. A re cantation it is too, made with an ill grace, for they say of Lord LIVERPOOL, " that his Colleagues could on►y prevail, upon him to re main in office by the condition of reducing the extravagance of the Civil List," &c. Oh Wonderful Conjurer of the Chronicle ! What 1.40111 CASTLEREAGH, Lord BATHURST, Mr. CAN NING, anal 01 those Ali OM yon have represented as so eager to step into the Premier's place ; are these the men who have made such a sacrifice to prevail on his Lordship to remain in office? Into what grossness of inconsistency does the Party fall ? Verily all the changes of all the Pantomimes at all the Theatres last night are not so astonishing as their changes—the_ shifts sink into nothing when compared with their shifts—and for assuming forms and being here, there, every where at once, no Harlequin or Clown that ever were seen are equal to Harlequin Whig and his Clown of the Chronicle: WlNnsott, Dec. 26.—Yesterday being Christ mas-day, the ROYAL FAMILY attended Divine Ser vice in the Private Chapel in the Castle, which was performed by the Archbkhop of Canterbury, &c. titter the service her Majesty, the Princesses Au gusta and Elizabeth, went to Bagsbot ou a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester. In the evening they returned to the Castle. It having been asserted with some appearance of exultation by the French newspapers,that many English families had purchased estates in various departments of France, we wish to undeceive the ciedulity of our countrymen, and to relieve the apprehensions of the public here, by assuring them, that according to the fundamental laws o f Fr a nce Os well as of Great , Britain) no fo reigner can, by purchase or otherwise, acquire there a single acre of land in permanent or devisable property. By the rrench indeed, an Englishman may, buy sin estate, and enjoy - it during his own life; but he cannot, cif her directly or by the intervention of trustees, transmit that estate to his children. On the death of a foreigner his possessions devolve to the Cri)Wll ; and this aise ' quence extends, as we are informed, to sums at interest, whether, on bond Or moitgage; and to every species of perioind property, with the est vele ion of money in the public funds. We' 'are far from quarrelling with this principle of French jurisprudence, which, wherever it is adopted v dis,- plays a becoming jealousy at strangers , setl ;l 4 cherish at the sante time a sense of the trOotial, dignity, anti to pt eserve the identity of a (Morning Toper.) According to some. of the letters received' on Tuesday last from Buenos Ayres, there had been some fighting on the Portuguese frontiers, bet ween the Spaniards under Awrions, and the Brazilian tr oops, in conselttence of which many were killed and wounded. Colonel Cussinutts, accused of having at the head at a party, n i t the high road at Rouvray, in the night of the 18th of .1111 y, rubbed two Eng lishmen of a sum of money and property in gOld anti silver, has been condemned by contumacy to perpetuel hard labour, to the pillory, and to be branded on the back. The Dutch Ambassador is among other distil)• guished personages at Bromley Hill, on a visit to the Right Hon. CHARLES and Mrs. LONG. Last week the French soldier, on whom the Operation of amputation at the hip joint was suc cessfully performed by Mr. GoTime, Deputy in spector of Hospitals, after the battle of Waterloo, left the Yolk Hospital, Chelsea, on his way to France, his Royal Bighrtess the Duke of Yokx. having been graciously pleased to obtain a pension for hint front the French Government On Clnistmas-Day the'Loan Mayon ordered, that each of the prisoners confined in the prisons of. the metropolis (amounting to about 900) should be supplied with n pound of beef, a pint of por- ter, 14 d halt kl threepenny-loaf. Most of the Provincial towns are about to give Balls and Concerts in aid of the subscriptions for the distressed labouring poor. 3. C. CURWEN, Esq. M. P. has appropriated 42 acres of potatoes to the poor of 'Workington : the produce is nearly 18,000 bushels, which, at the present price, ere worth upwards of 2000 i.--w This is indeed a boon worthy of a p ti tri u t Christian. Silt I', NEWS. EAST INDInI4f WING. The private ship la.dian Oak, Isom Bengal, sr. rived at Liverpool the 23th inst. : it is said she sailed from Bengal 28th June. The private ship City of Edinburgh, also from Bengal, which she left about the 13th August, arrived iu the Dots'ns yesterday. DEAL, DEC. 26,—Arrived the City of Edin burgh East Indianian, Captain Loot, from Ben gal ; she sailed the 15tli August. Remain in the Downs the Clinks Grant, Inglis, and General Harris East !iflame() ; the Sir Stephen Liishing ton, and the rest of the outward-bound, all well. Wind S.W. RAMSGATII, Dec. 26.—Came in the Isabella, GORDON, from Lonclo►► fur Senegal, baying slipped her chain cable in the Downs; London, RICHARDS, from London, with loss of anchors and cables. Put in here for shelter the Severn, Betsey, Unity, Amity, Atkinson, Moon, Swat low, and Two Bruthers.—Wind S.W. Nouru SHIELDS, DEC. 24.—The Fergus, Fisu, of Kincarin, was,to-day upset, and carried away with the tide, until brought up by the Dorkish Sand, where she now lies on her beam ends. It is hoped she will be got up next title, but not without considerable damage. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 'M.—Arrived the Prince of Orange, TELFEN, from lialifax. The Fox trans port, which ran on shore yesterday, has not been got off, and as it has blown very hard all day from the S.W., it is expected she will go to pieces.—Wind FALMOUTH, Dec. N.—Arrived the Dutch ship %`rederyk, KRAAY, from Amsterdam for Berbice Spanish schooner Numancia, TVINE, from Am sterdam for St. Andero ; Aurora, JACKSON, from London for Malta and Smyrna, with loss of bul warks ; Reed, ROBERTS, from London for Car ;tiff . and his Majesty's brigs Heron and Trafa% gar from a cruise.--Wind W. SILVER COIN. A considerable sensation was excited yesterday in the retail trade, by the refusal of silver six pences in payment for goods generally among shopkeepers. A respectable tradesman, residing in .I.4lmbeth, applied at Union Hall, to DIF. EVANCE, the Sitting Magistrate, for advice. stated, that from the nature of the commodities its which he dealt, he was in the habit of taking small silver, particularly sixpences, to a magi. , derable amount.—He yesterday. morning sent $ sixpence which had a mint impression upon it, tar a baker's in the neighbourhood, for some camels:rols: the baker refused to take,it, and he - now ingaire of the Magistrate if there. was no mode of punishing him for his refusal. 'The Magistrate, after consulting the several Acts respecting th Coin of the Realm, expressed his regret that Ite had it not in his power to tender the complainant any assistance on this occasion. The poor man said, if such wits the case he had better shut oP his shop entirely, as the wicks in which b e dealt were of a perishable nature---ley tt s et 4 meats'-Feet :he could not keep his stock, end was useless for bins to take money which lie could not get rid of. lie asked whether, if be t°4 away the bread, and left his,muney for it on th e !counter, the baker could afterwards make any further demand of payment The Magistrate gave it as his opinion, that he could : the complainant. if he chose to try the experiment, might do " with safety, as the tender of sixpence of legal coin, anti such as the Bank or Mint would receive* wou ld b e a l eg al tender. Complainant went tool perfectly satisfied with this opinion. Tim The first reports of the expeditious to explore Africa, one of which we noticed . yesterday, are melancholy in the extreme: There are two expe's ditious, the one penetrating front Senegal througli the Deserts to the banks of the Niger ; the other pro ceedingbysteam-boats up the Congo, undertheido that the former empties its waters into the Allan tic through the latter great river, on the banks or which the two expeditions expected to meet; tlta former under the directions of Major Veddie, ttlt latter continently(' by Captain Turkey, who Pro: ceeded sooner than had been generally report"' Major Peddie was at Senegal the end of Septet"' her. The following is extract of a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's, dated Bahia, Or toher ''nu will observe by the 1 4 1 herewith, the arrival of the Congo and Durottl' two ships tilted out on the coast. of Africa for voyage of discovery ; they have p ut i n h e re fro" ,the opposite coast in consequence of the bit i t i f state of their remaining crews, nearly two-thirf having died of the fever, including the commtinde first lieutenant; and botanist. ,„ • esr The neighbourhorid . of Deverettx , cour t r ri co"' Temple-bar, was thrOwn into the greatest.fred, sternation about half-past one o'clock On "the nesday morning,, by the discovery of'a fire io e second floor of the Grecian - Coffee-h o "s e ' n left t° slotted by 41 candle being incoutionsil t t he near a bed, the furniture o f which catigi , flame, Bud set the room in is blaze. its .pro,,t, t ea wes arrested time enough to confine It„ t t oil loom in which it originated, though'. n°' considerable damage had been sustained.