The Sun. — London, England, 1816-12-10 00:00:00

DUTCH MAIL. ERVSSIMS, DEO. soiree time past rob beries and all kinds of excesses, such as maliciously burning houses ,ind barns, have begun to be again very numerous in the neighbouring French dejiartments. The nearness of provisions is by no means the only cause of this; The numerous *editions painpblets of incendiary writings which have been -circulated there for some time past, proves 'that the evil-disposed and adversaries of the Governthent make use of every Circum , stance to increase the general distress. The Civil and Authoritieiliave taken meitintes to cheek this Oil as mina as possible. In the towns and in the country the tuitional guard performs its duty with doatile zeal : the military force must asii,t, the• Commanders of the Army ot OC• have been rept:sten, in those places where the Hwang ace to ASSISI the Ma• gist rates to the utmost of their power. It is loped that these uted;ures will hare the best re sults.- AmsrEnrior, Dec. 4.-According to advices from the Dutch Cousul at Gibraltar, the Entperor of Mortsceo gave,orders„ on the "kh of November, for the release of the two Dutch ships which were detained for want of Turkish passes, and expressed himself In the most (Littering terms in respect to uStion. • _ The Friendship, of Zierielczee, with a cargo of 00 and fruit, sailed on 3lst October from Faro; met the same day an armed schooner, under Turkish flags, which fired a shot, and then sent a Lieutenant with a boat on board, who said they were front Buenos Ayres, and haViug examined the papers, let the ship prosecute, her voyage ; but on the 211 of November they ,met frigate under Spanish colours, carrying 36 to 40 guns, accompanied by an armed schooner, which smiled with them the whole forenoon to Cape St. Vin. .cent, and also fired a shot at the Friendship, on which .Capt. Van Weelde hoisted the Dutch flag, :and having, answered to the questions put in the :English language, respecting, the destination o( the vessel, the Captain was ordered to go under sail, but while he was, busy abosit this, the frigate tint en-11y fired a broadside iuto his vessel, but the soldiers stood upon the deck to fire, which at the dktan6e of no More than two ships lengths did much damage. The frigate then fired a shot at the Dutch flag, whicii induced toe Cdptain to haul it halt down, then a boat came an board ivith a licutenant, and interpreter, two soldiers, and four sailors, alt armed with daggers and pistols, and wearitigi Spanish 'uniforms, who asked the number of guns and men on board-, to which it was replied theta were no gnus, but only figs and fruit, and but nine men. Captain Van ‘Yeelde asked the name of the ship and captain, which they would tint tell. On illleVt in them the damage 'done by the shot, the Officer promised to send 'them cordage to repair the damage as far as possible but scarcely was the bo4t on board the frigate when the latter hOisted all its sail, tint) abandoned Capt. Weilde to his fate, who, after being 2.4 days at sea, at List arrived at Zierickzee on the 26th of November, with much difficulty and danger. liatlssaLs, Dac. 6..;-rThey stilC speak of the ef., foits made by the French Government to open a lotin in England. It is affirmed, that the journey of Mr. Ottvrard. to London is relative to this affair, but Mut the negotiation is not yet concluded. THEATRICAL, .REGISTER. Perforinmi Last Night. r t iftUßY-LANli.—The Iron Chest ; Ftir Edward Morthner, Mr. Kean ; Helen, Mrs. Min. After which, The Bridal of Flora, and Vhu's Who? Ccrvusyr-thtanEN.-.Julius Catsar t Brutiii, Mr. Kimble ; Por tia, Mrs. Egerton. After which; Blue Beard. MAILS. AttnivED—.l Milani', 1 Dublin, I Waterford. Du?. —! icalurgit, I Frauce, 3 Ilitusbungli, 1 iitsernaryantWistsry. PRICE 0 STOCKS 11113 PAT AT T' 3 per Cent. Red. 62ii 3perCent. Cons . shut 4 pet' ltS per Cent. N. Ann shut /FINK o s CiuCli . Bank L. Ann...... 16 3-iiithsi India . , • .17s, 19s, pr. Exch. ..... pr. Cut;s. (or Januarb.... 101-I WATER AT LONDON BILII)C4F, TO4IORitOW. Mornings 43 iniatites after 6. Erenitig, 4 minutes atter 7. FRENCH PAPERS. Pays, DEC. 6.—Private letters mention that there had 'been much murmuring amongst Ow Turkish soldiers at Constantihople, on account of a dimitiution in their Pay; but the Uovernment put an end to the revolt by granting the soldiers their demands, and inducing them to kill the chiefs °who hod led them Into insubordination. A letter horn Copenhogen of the 10th;sayt r• The eclipse of We sou which took place to-day wits very visible. About tett minute's past ten in the mornini, ;here was so ►ni►ch ul►scurity for two minutes, that one could neitlicr read nor write." ii‘re learn from Iletlin, that a . Colonel arm ofilerr of the staff of t:Je King; lz44'been killed in a duel ivith Captain tiottsellysky, Adjutant of General gitthen. The society of Knights liberators of white slnvcs in. Africa held their 6th mesting on tt►e• 29th Nov. On this occasion Sir Sidney Smith exhi. ..._ • _ hired the !upti-terrestrial imitibmergible canoe or raft ! destined to be thken to pieces, and carried over land in order to navigate the lakes and rapid rivers tef the inticrior of Africa ! ! Letters from,lgadrid statethe completion at the great work for securing the naviglttitin Of the ver Guadalquivir, and preiVent the mischiefi caused by the inundation of its 'waters. A large cttt, or rather canal, has been wadi n ear Seville, wkich, The dignified rebuke winch the infiatpmatory Address of the City demagogues has • forced from the Throne will, we trtist,. have its proper effect, both in the City and throughout, the Country. A more undutiful anti injurious Petition from any respectable body of " dutiful and loyal subjects,”. It has not been our chance recently to peruse ; for what becomes the Spa4elds is ill becoming in the- Corporation of the Metropolis, and 'what , befits the Luddites of Nottingham it very-unsuitable to the Citizens of London. But this was the Ad dress of the political Faction which ha , long (lit graced it, and not of the Common Councilre presenting the intelligence and honour of the His Royal ilighnesq instructed by the mit his tory pf,England looks beyond the " ignorant pre sent," arid derives consolation from the 4onvic tion that, he character of his People will, as heretofore, enabla them to surmptint all their un avoidable distress and difficulties, '' notwithstand ing the various attempts which have been made to irritate and mislead them," one of the most misehievous, cif wlcir His Royal Highness might truly have adctt cl, '' 1 am now resisting!'— But Our well-adviActi RRocrtr did oct directly tel the Addressers what euery ratan of understanding sees to he the fact ;he kindly left them an opening fat . shelter, 'and relied u,) good the government and the public spirit of the nation to counteract eflectually those proceedings which, front whatever mativt6 they piny originate (Spa- fields valutiau entire, or City Revolutiint to a certitin extent), ere coi f:Allot-cif to , render temporary diffir 4 loe s .the mew l s of producing permanent and irreparabie cahnnity.i. [lts I;oyel Hi i ..briess's reliance, we will venture to say, is wcll placed...Ws Pcoille ore 'whims. to liFtWernirown - by ITlre..open n6rlfsietl by the pretended Reformists. aim of both is the same; and whether Orator !Iv NT bellows or Orator WAITURAN measures out the prelititiL names—.whettrer Sedition applauds them in, the field, or Disalrection hails 'them in the chLitubt.t, the end is I:like--41evoltitioit. • We will not animadvert upon time indecent and intemperate style of this " Humble Petition ;" a perfect sample of the impudent cleverness with which obscure persons think they can throw their filth over• the Royal Station. Its false allegations arc even more offensive : and what answer but such as was returned, could be given to not only a sweeping ill•mannered censure of the PRINCE RRGIINT'S Government, but to a Document which, in defiance of truth, and in the face of common sense, asserted that the war for our existence ,as a nation, was , unjust in its com 7 mencement and irrational in its object, (Why did it not add, I inglorious in its 'conduct and termination)--that our subsidies were lavished induce Ppreigu Powers to commit aggressions on their neighbours, (where is the instance i)—that our Paper currency (now above par with the guinea !) was delusive —that the Civil List (which has been much reduced) was increas ing in magnitude and mis-appropriation—that the expenditure of every branch of the Govern,- meta wits lavish and improvident (when there is not one branch in which there has not been, some and in most very great reduction4—What answer, we repeat, but reproOf,-ctmld be given to suel,l unfounded allegations as these, 'urged fit a period .of popular ferment ar►d suffering, to irritate the lower orders and destroy the Peace of the Country SUN-OFFICg, IL l,r-PA3T OXE, O'CLOCK. The Paris Papers of Saturday ha% e jot arrived. Funds are still falling. %lilt; it tapes tife'soptrahundant Waters . , Is aliio nsefol for navigable pufposes. How, Nov. 21.—His Holiness has littely tiered a census to lie taken of all the citizens of the Roman States, classint them according to their religion, profession, and fortune. It is un derstotid that this work will serve. as the basis of the plan of national representation which the wis don► of the Sovereign Pontiff has adopted for his subjects. The robbers of Cardinal Ruff() have been lately arrested they formed part of the bands which infest Calabria. rz ENcIT FUNDS, b per Cents. Baik Actions I • ll3l f. 40C. EAST INDIA INTELLIGENCE, • Madras Couriers to the middle of Ana c oust last reached ns yesterday, and sliew that a desultory warfare is still carried on in India amongst the restless Chiefs. Intelligence from Jypoor has been received to the 26th of June, by which it appears, that that city still held wont, although Unteer Rhan conti nued to push the siege with great vigour. Ile had been joined by a reinforcement of four thousand troops, and haVing made every preparation for a t,eneral assault, intended immediately to attempt to c:u•ry the city by storm. It was expected that the assault would be made the night after the ac counts cone.awev. The Rajah in the mean time has called for assistance from the British which application Umeer !Chan affects to treat with indifference, and says it shall not' deter• him from the accomplislunent of his purpose.--In so far as the British aye concerned all is peace and tranquillity. The following are all the extracts we haVe toot for to-day MADRAS, AUG. 7.—The arrival of the'Cbarles Grant, Capt. Moffat, which we announced on, Wednesday last, has put us in possesSion of a file Of the Java Gazette. The most interesting article of intelligence received by this ship is the arrival of his Excellency the Right lion. Lord. Amherst and his suite at that Island, on their passage to China. Ills! Lordship, it appears, had taken up his residence with. Sir William Grant Keir, Com mander of tbe.Forees.,-during-his *fay-at-Batavia. It does not appear that any, orders had arrived from the Right Hon. the Governor-General in Council, to give up that settlement to the Dutch Authorities, when the CharleiGrant sailed. THE SUN. SOLIN QVIS DIOEKE FA'4IIOM.AUIII;.it LONDON, TUESLMY, DECEMBER 10, 019. FRCNCII FUNDS. 5 per Ceriti. , .541. 355. 60c. IlattisA-buns Tittle is no news whatever of the slightest in. tert.M. Froth Dutch Papers we learn that the Emperor of Mcittocco has released the vessels of ihat coml. try which were seized for want of Twills,/ passes. There is rather a perplexed' account of the mis haps of another Dutch ship, but We cmmot tel to what country the ,Aggressors .belong. Files of American Papers from varions,parts )f„ tbcUnion.reached town yesterd.iy to the 14th ult.• They are principally with disquisitions on the approaching election for President, and rC tornm of such 'electors as h4tl alre.ad.q been clioten in some of . the Stmei. The nomination of Air. Nprooz it declared by tbeJtepublicans to be certain. The New York Gazette of the I lth Nov. says, it the sailing, last summer, of the United States sloop of war Prometheus, on boar►l of Wl►ich it now appears Mr'. Cotes, the l'►'ivate Secretary of,ther l United States, was sent to Russia, joined to Some other circumstatwes which have come to ot(r knowledge, make us fear that a very serious mis understanding has taken place with Russia." Congress was to convene on the 2d of De cember. A company of 100 French Enilgrants, and - others, has been funned in Philadelphia, far the purpose .ot making a settlement on ,the Ohio or :Mississippi, where the vine and olive will thrive. lt is said JoirepH BIIONAPARTE is at tlit. head of the company, and Mr. LEE, late Consul at Bour deans, tha Vice. President. Guneral MINA, who, by the last :vr.connts from America, WAS so anxinot,lv loqkcct for at Port-au -, • I . Prince, arrived there in the. Calypso about thp 1,5t1l of Octobcr. from Baltimore. lie was im:- mediately to take the command of an expedition against, Mexico. '1 here. was profound peace, it seems, between . PETION and CHXISTUPHII Up to the mjdtle of October. • ... if we total() credit the folioNittg statenseto, the : rioted Admiral 41tov:z4 1u betAi captured by one of. our cruisers: FATIIACT FROM THE HALIFAX PAPP.It OP Nov. 9.. " His nijesty's slap:Brit:ten, on her way : froth Barbadoes for Antigua, fell . ; ii with the ship ,Achilles, 1061 to be commanded by the Insurgent Adtniral linowN, of South Ainerica, and i I crimec her into English lorhour, for investigation. "lhe Achilles is said to be vory richly luden.'!.. We have the satisfaction of confirming our re port of yexterday, as to the tranquil state of those places which were lately in disorder, by the ac counts of this day, which were all of the same pacific character. DISTURBANUS AT• »UN•'EI. it is with considerable regret we state the for luAing article, but hope the account is exisci , aerated: -- " Wednesday night, about eight o'eltielt, iit eousequenee of consideroble shipments of tie number of about 2000 persons, 034ctuble,i *on the streets of Dundee, atld pmeer,led, riotous manner, to attack every hou s e twined the articles of food. plundered npwerds, of 100 shops of various descriptions; they proceeded to the house of Mr, Loth-Av,, an extensive corn-dealer, and, aftei• stripping .it of every thing valuable, set it un fire. It 4ppears, however, that this daring 'and outrageous art Wish' not committed without some degree of remorse, as the. house was twice set on file, and 'as often extinguished by their own hands. For a consi derable time the streets presented nothing but a lawless and disorderly' mob of people, running in all directions, with cheese, sugar, hams, &c. Of course, the grocers must have suffered consi . derably."—(Perth Courier) Ta" 7 4 - ef SHIP NEWS. The Company's ship Thomas Grenville, from China, arrived at St. Helena the 23d, and sailed from thence on the 25th of October. PORTSMOUTH DEC. 9.—Arrived the Barossa transport front the Brazils, and his Majesty's ship Rosario from n cruise :—on the 22d Nov. the Barossa fell in with the Hibernia, DAVIE, from the Azores for Madeira, in a sinking state, and one man washed overboardi she had been blown out of Gracia Harbour, with only a fete pipes of bra:nly on board. The crew were taken on board the Barossa, and the vessel went down snort after.—Wind S. PLYMOUTH, Dec. B\--Criptaitl KING, of the Vizi (arrived here from the Isle of France), re ports, that on the sth Sept. the ship Orient ar rived at the isle of France from Calcotta ; on the 26th, Sept. spoke two whalers off the Cape Good Hope ; one called the Reward, RICHAIMS ; the name of the other is unknown : they inform ed him that the ship to leeward was ihe UnlOe extra ship, 40 days from Bombay, all well. Extract-of a letter front Cadiz, Nov. 10 :—" Our colonial trade suffers considerably by the eaptorcs continually made by the insurgent P'rivateers. The following is a list of vessels taken since the 3:1 inst. Nuntantina. frOm the Havanna!) ; - the , brigs SAD •Atvolin and Vulador, the ship I. i*fatrza, the ketch Nith), and the R aliiot Qtt trov Amigos, front La Guyra ; the brig Altinuls , from the same place, which was pillaeed, H ad the I'nh'ere Neriss r, front MA li gn to Ga m . some of these pinto , carry a black flag, others a red ma green Rig. Thine is (me of them called the tire 4. Napoleon, of 18 guns, Completely affil equipped, andhearing the tric 9 loured flag. whig 4 has Arcady made many captures. It would ap pear that.these cruise's have chosen the ilegcr.t imle at Tot:lugs, one of the Antilles, lot their place 'of rendezvous. It was to this isle that the hut. 'carders retired in the lu-gitiningi of the last c"(' tury, to procure water, and take care of their wounded." • (Ervin a German Poper.l LOWftit ELAN, Nov. is.aaid on the poll stf, is Northern .Court, a Note has been deliverol to the ench Government, in Which it is &clot. ef t that Ale interest of the first Court is so inri* linttely connected with that of Sweden, that i t Must consider any 'atraek upon the latter idog dam,' or the new dynasty which the Swedish na tiOn has . Chosen,,ni directed against itself, lid will employ every "ifFurt to preserve The Throne in its preient integrity, as well as to main' tans the new . Dynasty upon the throne... - We are informed 'lint an order has been Oven by the Princess CFt A RLOTTI: Anti Prince Le.orot , o for 2000 yards of silk., to be niade•by the %velvets of SpitaltieltlT, Large orders are expected from all branches of the Royal Family. IlEctraiT is aiso said to litve order ed new silk furniture for Carlton-house with 6 ; view to employ the same manufacture's. Sir 11191-IART) KINO, the Commander in Chief of the Sqinutron in the East Indies, arrived at Ala the 9th of August. " A It is the custom in Paris, to strike at tbe mint of medals pieces eilled 'marriage tokens, wisioh ore g iven by bridegrooms to bridei on the celebration of marriages : of these there were sold, during the first and second quarters of the vear'lBl2, 1,17 - 11 d and-during the second and third tfisatiers of the year 1816 4 : 24 b e i ng at, ; increafe of 1,053. It is ttnneeessury to state the reflections ruble !must occur to every good Flenchman Q" this list. The second battalions 119th and 90th Regiment" were disbanded last month. The. 3(1 Ceylon 1 144 gluten,. the Cape Regiment, and the Royal CCV SiCao corps, Ate ordered to be disbanded. 'l'hc sth Regiment will march into fist. r a cks on Thursday nex t, in ilie,ronm of the to ir,,"::7;itirsVu"ttii Wales, tNt has another Rettimiseinetp,ogrtoende that Trugetly in rehearsal at Drury-lane Theatre, and that it will be given out for representa:ion sate" time to January. • nc Rdom is committed to Ipswich 00 , ch,rged, %Otis feloniously cotting and stealing large quantity of hair from the sails of " 6 ' 4 ' 9 , horses, the property of Robert Osborne Fr~l erg t 7 He stands further charged wiili and stealing a large qintiOty of hair from off 0 14 tails of hue nurses, the property of Isaac (,:ooli er ' of 'I his morning Anderson, whose trial for, the wilful murder of John Levy, in the- parish Clerken yeas postponed on account of " teriul witness being not subprzned rill this 41fLY: cOlOnlefired this morning at ten o'clock, and w t , the time our Pap eragent to presi it woo !"' s , finished. 1 y ;