The Sun. — London, England, 1820-12-30 00:00:00

• I . LoNn()N [DAILY ENITRAtTS NiORNING P.IPERS.] [ Uoruiir i:lirenicle.] _ . . • . Our readers find in 3tifit her cOlinTin a translation of lie Message •friirli'King ri : rtfiliattii to for Deputies ofitlie Pa r raiment irf Naples,• informing them of the Letters rticeived ( flout the Sovereigns of Aiistria, Prussia, and Russia, ;:ivit.i”:.; him to isipair in person Ui Layboch, •anil'artnoitticiag his de li I - initiation to accept of the invitation; and in the tette:. of . iriv'ration from the 'firopertier of Austria, wiiieli is said to be ,ceinetived is dUe sain, terms as those of the two Sore sayiii, IbCte was in; alternative, :is the Sure , reigns had declared ltiist liiey w‘iold treat with no o,liqf per of his Rival ma merit Ihis M i s;a•iii-• was 1,10)1 , st-it:if expres : sian,f dissal is faoion was every °tiara. The.pet , p)e. viewetlt he pro voseil .as a tt enciteronS nieirSurF, and th e cry ,t be sliimld not be alloWed ld sro•- 1:Itc Debalesion the : , 1,-;age w ct e v e ry wariii. Pepe, 'Porrio, anti BOrela, eh • it as tincetistitiqiiitial• as emanating fro,n had :iiinisters. The 1 they' said, ntigiit go, if he chose, 'lnt.they would giv - e no sanction to any • dial roils t.ty'a Deput:ttioo- of tonr of their I\ leintrtir's,. rsi 1 hey could receive no propit,ition for a change in the Consttiii :ion they' now eujoyeLL ON this. point there Was complete unanimity.; every Member declaring against atty. comequence itt t hie oppo-ition tot lie King's defiartrite, the in tent 1011 welt h stern to hive been ;it one time retionticed. It was at lea: t generally understood; lira he hail yielded, in spect, tothe Wisheiof the people. Alt Evening Pni.erff in; itt), cif last itightstates, that •`. by.:t privattisiniiimmicaliiin,dated . flout that city (Naples) the 13th instant, 'opini which we car, rely, are 'happy to r In id that the Parliament had consented • to the tiatnr's departure, Lynn r cer— . lain modilicaiions .1.0, Constitution which they had !pro ano his agreeing Cit.tilgt!tlse title of his itexresonta, ' tier triiiii Vicar General to thiit of Regent Burin;; ,his 1 - I°A:ever that may he, there can he no ctiia'~t of Isis diiartnre ft.r faiyintl:ll. 7 --I'he olojectof4lie St;veri'iglis in de manding a conference with this' iinliveile old 'man, alone, and determining to accept of no sithoitute, not even' any of the . Princes °lbis family, is obvtou., enough„ They goi ,fid e e,tly expect that they Sliall be able tO prevail on hint to agrel, to measures, which may givi. them a'heiter pretext than any they . now have for Mit, feritigt with the affairs of Naples. If their' intentions were honest, they scant, not bars e nd ea r uil eyd.n, Withdraw the King front his kgai advisers, 1101 have conrrltn • nie,ted ant' propositio , s thry tact to inahe regarding Naples to the respoositite Ministers of brat State. VS'e may lay oar account, thet efore,with string, a f,!!ort. time, a . M ;tiniest. Drclara titni friint Layitacli, to which the name of iFerifittand wiil hr • Miltilfited, deelatimg - all the htte proceediogs apfys an d on all 1,0,ti Neat , orttanb to aid in . ! estoting the o fd 9t- hiogf., ott his . testitution to his ' full tights of sot-erci;T,,,ty, to se , cure the of bib Skli)- }vets in:such'a inaviter a$ i.nay lea k ee his Royal I:re:rogatiee. , in . ,, u p a i re d. The s o vereigns will then vtigage to aid hit , King and, the loyal part of the Neapolitan people iit down' the usurping faction;;atitt'quarcli to: troniiers Napies",evitli alltliatis rotten ,and corrupt in that State at the, heart of, their [mod , . l'hesp despotic Soeereigiis ciaiin the right dfinterferin4 with the iitternal affairs of t vet y State, for the purpose, as they Say, uP `• securing the rep se aria . . , • prosperity of Europe, by the repose and prolierity of each of the countries of which it is compos - e d.' Upon - this principle, the C:institutional .States may demand , that these: Monarchs shall grant. Constitutions to their sutr jects, securing to them in the amplest manner their perse.nal awl political rights. The Governments of Spain, Frince, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Bavaria, Wortemburg, Batten, &c. might, for instance, call• Upon the King of Prussia • to grant the long prodeisert Constitution to his people, as a measure essentially necessary to the trampillity of Europe. - They might urge,•that fill all the. people. of Europe are ad • spitted to the enjUyment of Constitutional rights, its tranquil lity can never be considered as secured. History has proved that no countries-are Subject to such frequent convulsions as • those which are 41thjeCt to arbitrary-Governments. lo the two oust arbitrary States in Eur4e, -Russia and Turkey, a •number of Sovereigns have, during the last century, been de - posed and mur dered; while England, since the Settlement of • the Constitution. at the Heenlution, has experienced tio change. The arbitrary. Sovereigns may be considered the gre•it enemies-to the tranquillity of Europe; for no Govern ' ntrrir a I iiG alts on any other foundation than that of the . will of thepeciple, 'canfre dee:mol secure. 1t forced state of things can never f)e coosidered as conducive to tranquillity, roe!! !ire then dispused to avail theniselvcs of every facutir ' able conjucietwe for changing their situation. What art outcry vt•arakicl wheo.lteputilic.an France declared it would ,aid r people I , f every country who ',pitied to rid themselves of their ;:c.ings The pririkApie.is 'the very tame onwtret, t torte Snvel eig.os are ti , iw proceeding.. They arc now confident in , their strength, but a time may soon conic when they will re . . pent tueir present measures. • • [Morning Post.] The follurvince,' 1) - 110' Extract of - a 'l,7etler from Naples is ft'Oioll ; r--Petvot - , one of , I h•rnost. Members - of Senate. It is OP.:idore not nt Iy curious, a s a de, scrip' !ion of the new Neapoliran Parliament, but important as a juilitival if : lc/vas : , Lai:I:ACC OF A REce:til I,F:TTER FROM NAPLES. ":Ihfe. crop of Constitutions multiply every where, and the ' Parliament of this• Kingdom is an interesting object. Igo fregtMotly ta.its &hates, and see great display of talent nod good,Set3SO it the principal debaters;, wore practical views and fervour of 7itnac - ination, than I look , u 1 for . in -the • South of Italy ; clear and fluent language; no hyperholes'or 14,./se taste; fair rhetorical flourishes, arid an earnest desire. ip Ito the !not thiOg'in the best way. A - ,1 I he'new Ministers hare doliveredo the Parliament full and detailed reports of th 4 statiitif putilje atfairs.in their respective departments ; Forei.mA4fairs Firtante, War, Judicatrite, Police, &c.; and these are curious documents. There are some faults in thii mole of proceeding, nod some unsettled points; very essen . iial . points in thecuotpletion of their Constitution, But the Concress of Troftpati attracts all the Attention of politlcians in these parts; its issue is 'hitherto unknown, and perhars, becanse it has oat yet;any issue. fdo not know ter, here, and perhaps you have none, until the recognition , ta.f4his..Govertswetst is . declared by your Sovereign ; but that delt;s, and all others' of the sane sort, will end in a short space of•• tittle." . .IVe have received Demerara Gazettes to a late date, which give Jjetailed accounts the number and state of the Slaves in • that part. 'of the West The report is given by • dames Itob;:rtsop, Esq. the new SlaVe. i:egistrar of the United Colony. It is a triennial statement of the Slave population, and the I:ieliorter tualic's 'some judicious comparative remarks. • It appears 'that there-has been it'lavge decrease of the number liy oaths; bUt the Creoles have greatly increased as compared wit h.foi mer ye A rS. lis,haVe been in the proportion of One to forq-Six. The' report defends - the conduct of the West India Plinuers, and observes that ." the state of the Wadi seems to call for little or no amelioration; so ,grt_F , it, is, Or Wildness, the liberality, and indulgent care of propriettM`. 4 'eli ild&Oltat theiromin interest' is a. perpetual call upqn' t heir 111171144 ity, In the colony there are few crimes coanmitted of abt illt,ilS'Of atrocious nature, and capital pu vlslimen` is almost never heard of. At the present moment there•are .1;'.X89 male on the island, computing Afri cans : and there are 33,940 female slaves of the E;tnie rltm ruination, nraiiiriz a .foal of 76,929. The slice popuhit.,,:o . in 1317; amounted in the whole to 77,667. 'I he Purober Of births Which bii've occurred since that period is 4'.Bl7.aiddeilths concludes with spine gratifying oh,ei rations upon the flourishing state of tile [The Times.] The communications troth - Naples bec o me h o urly more im porfant. We this day present •two, highly interesting state liam,r9..: one a letter froml he Emperor Francis to King Fer•-• s.linand, dated Troppau, Nov. c.'O, wherein he desires that the 'King will repair to Laybach. This being the purpose of the "is•txpressed with gailicient clearness,; while we Must observe that the,motives assigned tier the summoris, and the ad rant ages to he derived freer the intercourse which it recom mends, are enveloped ii; doubt and ambiguity. The imperial , missive sets off with stating . ,. that, " unhappy circumstances have.prerented tbc.writer bon) receiving the letters addressed to bitty by King FtY:llitiand diming a period of four months," Yet it.sulijoins ih flie• next passage, ,that the " probable", stihject of tliese- letters has not ceased to occupy his serious lOetlitatio,9 and thin, of his Mother Soverei4us at Troppau.• In other ° i The situation of Naples is most Sellolls - and alar.hiFi'g," • - mid occupies our whole anxiety : so dial inAi..et);. to be understood, and so formidable in its aspect, tjnat, we are afraid to read one line of information front the tCiiin of NapleS himself on - the affairs of his Own kingdino,":opl.to. trui4 our ears wish a single explanatory sentencg from. the lips of one of his A.libas,adors," N ow , with every disposition to' respect the rank and intentions of Hie Pilo&riii. of Austria, we -really fear that he has on this occasion exposed himself and the other Sovereigns, VOW ate partakers of his pulley, •to many Unfavourable sur • . !nisei. The "arg'trnent tee' in a sinAl Cornttsi4. the Allied Sovereigns tleen desirous to hear and examine before they resolved, thttrwould have heard the Neapolitan:Minis ters, and would not; on a premature or - es paste opinion, bare - signed antrpronitilgated, through Prince 'Aleitertd,h, a formal, official, and most severe condeuyration . of the esta blisinuent of domestic liherty by the in`dependent people of Naples. Againihaving once, a , is too Manifest, 'resolved so to act, we could, wish that the toilitary potentates lead notin vited the King of . Naples to put himself irrevocably in their power; because, considering the age tint talent Of the King, it is plain that his presence at Lay Oach Can contribute nothing towards elucidating any mysteries connected with _the Neapo litan Revolution, or towards tbccorrection of any: errors into which the Allied -Sovereigns ',may have fatten ; as tittle wolt(d•itlitove that mite Neapolitans h d acted wrongfully in overturning heTild system of arbitsary guveromuni, that KingFertlinand was t)t.r-ttersaaden: hi the subtle , heads anti •wit whoci he might come in con . tin! Laybacli, itoo a notion that the new Constitution was sonie , .hiii„; hail acid terrible—and S sat li . ilthhine foolishly, and his triple wickedly; in - aiming or consenting to set tip a free Community, lint. although to. Site, real merits ot ykirstioh, whether the NZ , apolitans ought to he respected sir punished, it signifies just nothing - what chimernifiray big -put Ail' the head; :or: what, Irlirases. in ti.tkt Ferdinand, it will.iinfortunattly serve a very inischievottS end - the 'or the Ket) , !;'s p , •1 . 4.1"611,11041• furni,4ll-theen whose desi,ms are already matured,' and their resolionnis formed, with a pretext earl ying them into execution. This, we are comerntd to say, appears to it: let be time trot, c owe of all the anSielv shown by certain 'Powers to have the at a distance from. home, where I...,taiay be talked" ov v r without. int eh - alnico/I—where he may be played upon throng!) his pride, or fears, or prejtidices, to sign a rel meta- , tioli of *ll :Inv promises-:,10 - accept absolution for his bridien vov o proclaim his subje etc ebe:s—to command his rips folay iloWn ihrii arms, and to require the f)(Y)forei,:oers against the Cirlitiriari and their pans sans, the destroyers ut. Throoes" and d,stuiln-rs,rf the. race . of.Europe . . • A captive Kent Teal, always the langiVige of his het:pers. Rut; on the other hand, we have the ad dress of Ferdinand to his went, in consequence ,cf, arid in reply to, the letter of the Emperor Francis, This - doeu. meta is drawn up with care and spirit; and eolnitrt , i4oril by Chiaro, the SeCietaty, for Foreign Atiairs : it the King di:stioctly announces that he gg,t-s as " Mediator" between the three Sovereign , and his own subjects;' that the above Sovereig,s have, Ojected every either nieditiMfiir treating, " were it evert one . of the Prin Royal of his Family" (a strinig proof, this, that more is meant than meets the car ;) foul the King pincceds by stating, that " lie owes it to hiniself and to his people to give' them a ncw and , solemn guarantee,"- by enotirtiating once tno're the .several bases of the free constnntion to which he has already sw(irti, awl from which 'rip circumstance shall here after indocetiiiii to depart; lii this catalogue it ns r tst be eon.; fessed that every principle essent,al JO the enjoythent of po litical and freedom is comprelmoded: but We neap rernarl,., t hat such principles tuulirace t he total overthioW of ttiose.systeins of Giveruitient, the pre,reatiou of irhieh 'is the sole ohfcct 61 the 'three armed Potentates ;non)* whoui Ferdinand still have to maintain and enforce the merits : and 'tendencieS freedinn. The King secnis anxious that a • dePtJuitiun of four Nfenibers Of the, NVap . olitan should accompany him, to be witnesses.of, and sharers in, the trials to which he may be exposed. Ile: requests the legisla--! ture to abstain, during his absence,' from proposing any nuts rueasares, except such as are fiecesSary to the'potilic safety. , He recommends all practicable cerinotny, and confirms the. ?rime Royal in his functions .as Vi,•ar-General. Such are. the contents of this important paper. • [lllor72ill , Herald.] We have as yet no farther particulars of the voyage of the,Ning of Naples to meet the Allies. It is einious„ that in the intelligence of yestercray, there is nothing stated respect ing a must particular ciiceostance, vie.. by t hom the Sove reign is accompanied. The questioh upon this point reduces: it , elf to a dilemma. If the King of Naples be accompialied: by one or more of,his constitutional Ministers, it will innolint: to an acknowledgment of the neW order of things in Naples. If he be .not, and must treat, and be treated with, in his sin gle person, nnadvised and unaided, it will he'it mockery of de liberation upon great international rights'and interests. The age atrdinOreil , itynf King Ferdinand are both equally knoWn. There are several reasons whit% indhcc us to think that 11 . 0 unfair use is intended to be made of the presence of the' King; of Naples. Li the first place, we Will not suppose that they: who have'socetwitently, and so justiy-reprolrated Itionaparte, will imitate his cxaniple. They who deponmed as it violator of the faith of nations. of Princes, and of men, the man who inveigled into his power, the King of Spain, will not them illVeigle the King 0fti.,1 .1 ,?c,. riot t tee example is ogee-, ratter re.taitettient,'.noi '..errty,as rs aire'Afier of conscience, but a matter of prudence. What rtil ,kluonaparte gain?—or, rather, .what did he not lose by his signal act of treachery ? Did the andicatiOns, renunciations. or other pretended docti me4its# extorted from King Charles, or King Ferdinand,. disarm a single Spaniard ? tau th e contrary, the Spanish people were inspired with additional 'courage; and patriotism in the vindiCation of their rights. -'!'his false colour of the Royal consent and will of King C'.arles, or King Ferdinand, did not satisfy the Sovereigos of oth'er countries—if we ex-, cept indeed the Emperor of Russia, who called the Spahlards . " subjects in a state of rebellion against their•Sovercign"'—: (Joseph Napoleon). In like mariner, any proclamations :gained from the fears or the imbecility of • King-Fet dinand Of . Naples, would but nerve the Neapolitans with new vigour, if they are really able and determined to defend their liberties; and make the Congress of Trot); au odiotis to all the world. [The • Public Letker.] Paper.; and letters were yesterday -received front Madrid to the usth inst. Rodrigues, who had ,been ()lief of the Staff to General Campana, and who is accused of being one of the 'principal actors in the horrid massacre at Cadiz on the 1011! of March, has been delivcied up, by the Provisional Govern - merit of Portugal. One of the Journalists points out some serious inconveniencies Which' must•result from the-recent probibitoryLCommercial:Decreei : of the (:cartes, so far as they apply to certain articles of importation from this ceontry. The interior of Galiea still Coeitioves`to' be infested with ilittt.' The following is an extract of one of the latest pri;• vale letters from the Spanish Capital : " Every thing he ye is perfectly tranquil, although there were some slight symptoms of agitation three weeks ago. order of the Cortes for the disposal of religious property is enfoiced with activity. Addresses to the permanent De 7 potation a the Cortes, congratulating them on , their deco 'tion to the Constitution, come in front every province. The Goremment have ordered large grants for the encourage ment if/ the' rrianufacfOrie,i ulf grips throughout the kingdom'. A general conyocation of t beCortes Extraordinary is spoken of as being at hand. The. Duke of Cauzarib, the Amhassador of Naples, was presented to the King on theist instant, and was most graciously received.: His Majesty was .heard, to ex claim, •.! wish them success.' M. y , Baaxi is spoken of as the new Ambassador to . the Court of Great Pritain, to replace the Duke de Frias, who will be called !untie." [New_ Times.] NVe remember that a'ite'r tne 111'0 four or fire Addresses to the King bad appeared, a err! a in. malignant Journalist artfully insinuated that they were all very ritneh alike, and, - thefefore, probably carte from a common source. There was; more truth in this remark than it was inttmied to convey. All these Addresses and all these beclarations have a certain family likeness— facie9 non omnibus una, Nec diversa tamen, qualem decet esse Sororom ; , . All come from tue.s . ame source, from the same spirit of Loy alty winds animates all Britons whir' know and prize the Constitution, and who venerate the Throne. as time hey stone of that Constitution,. Such Men most of course speak in the saute strain, and touch on nearly the same topics, whether their -Address fit, sent-up from Aberdeenshire or from -Exeter, whether their sentiments be uttered at Man chester or at Norwich.—What is there in those sentiments which so much irritates and annoys the miN/eartiitg Edi tor ? Is he grieved: and mortified to _find that not withstanding all his 'leading articles, all the doggrel of Hone, and all the audacious earictittires of Benbow,' still the respectable classes of society feel and avow their attach ment to his Majesty's Person and Government ? It there had been the slightest ground formic-fiftieth par't of the lilicls so lavishly poured hull) in those leading articles against t lra King--*-if his Wife . had been innocent and persecuted—himself a suborner and a conspirator ,against her life, the thousands who sign these Addresses and Declarations must he titterly destitute Of all homier and principle. But if (as i s no -, totionsly the case) these, arPmsers comprise nine-tenths of the respectability of the country, tlien the converse of the former proposition lutist be true, and the man who by im plication throws out these vile and shameless charges against a Magnanimous Soveretgri is the foulest of slanderers, the most infamous of traitors. There is no way to avoid this dilemma"; either the immellSe majority of: the Gentry, the Clergy,. the Magistrates, the Merchants, and the Traders of Great Britain, deser% e all the abuse of the Editor in girestion (he calls them, in his 'yesterday's Paper, M o eli-Loyali s rs, Snug-Loyalists, and Ultra-Loyalists), or he himself is at once the most insolent atld the most cerht-i-ii‘pt . rble.of libelle.rs; be libels the nation when he libels eveiy tiling in it ►hat deserves and commands 'veneration and esteem. - [British Press,]. It was boasted sonic ria)s since, by the Treasury .Papers, though the subject of congrattilation seemed somewhat, inju clicitinslY chosen, that at none of the public meetings held throntiqut the coqiituy for the purpose of condemtnng the conduct .of the Ministers, did the advocates of the party iu power ever interrupt by clamour the speeches'of persons who held- opinions contrary to. their own ; 011 the *con trary, -it was atlirtired that should airy Individual venture to utter one word in favour of the poor abused members of the Cabinet, its speech Was '.instantly inter - mined by tumult.. . Upon this ,point our readers %will: obtain -softie light from a Connitunicatiim which we received Yesterday "from a Corre'spond,nt at 'LieerpOol, respecting the public i»eeting which was attempted. Sc, .be , 'held in 'that . town on Wednesday ; for the . pitt poss. ofcollectinz the sense of .the iik hal,irants upon the conduct Of the Min,isters, in their recent proceodings,against the Qoeen. The Town Hall, which xvas .ipptinited by the Mayor fin this purpose, was unfortunately too,small , to accoinurdate any considerable umnber of pro ill', alit! 'advantage was Wien of this circumstance by , ine 1 !act,-holders and plac e hunt er s res idi ng i n Liverpoollo cupy large ptirtion of. the Hall at all early hour . with two or three hundred of their own immediate servants and win klitep, anti by the clamorous exercise if their powerful ungS to prevent thelny.sibility not merely oftliseitssion in ge tieral, but even oflopening to the meeting the purpose for which it had been convened. Generally' speaking, when a meet ing is fairly collected, wit hout any attempt at selecting the 'persons, or preventing any class or portion of the peopte, flout attending it, aef:oritini; to their own conveni e nce and . 416 the interruption of speaker by an evidc tit majority tit't he “ssembly, atfoids as eertaitt a means of collccling the . pr,vaili tig sentiments of 1 h t f it majority, as icany one person o,•r e deputed by the rest to express their united opinions, It is in fart by the loud expression of appladse or censure at the ele.ilvery of 01111/16113 . ple;ting ' th them or .otherwise. that a, vast li,dy 'of people, and i»4re particniarly of illiterate people, alone can convey their individual hind collective sentiments. - Nu personh 'who as ever ventured to add re ss a Coveut-garden meeting, or even the Livery tif Londfin, "can long be doubt' respecting the prevailing sentiments of his audience. lint packed as the Town Hall of Liverpool evidently was on Vi'ednestlay, - no Conclusion can lie drawn . trout the,thmult : concerning the actual sentiment of the majority. The Mayor himself could not succeed' in making himself heard with the respectful silence doe tutus . station; and hd vras'obliged to point out a little party in one corner of the Hall, whonehe observed to he di•ternaiiiiol in preventing all discussion. The boast of politeness wine!), with all ether virtues, the Treasury prints .arro!:ate for their blends, can now, no longer be .urged ‘ ; it has vanished, but without leaning the substantial and valu able '11:41,101011 which in most oth e r c a s es o f p o p u l ar meetings . mi - Jit he drawn from the clamour of the assembly.. •An opportuinty will, -wetruit, 'soon he given in Liverpool of trying the real strength of the Ministerialists in that town,. for the Mayor having heen obliged - by the rude iitrbulence of the weaker party, " the active `ninfority" in this instance. to disolve the nice tin g, a requisition is in course of preparatiOri, requesting his Mirship - to ciiil another meeting of the inhabi tants, and to appoint some More Capacious place where the inhabit tints may asemble with more convenience, alai where the properoilicers may he enabled tb preserve order during ' the discossion. •Or /r• L atT +kW .ktr,' Fr- . 1.5_ , !,,. _ ,4 1. 10 . 0 00101•11 . 13POMMINCOW r COURSE OF EXCHANGE, DEc.'2o. Amster darn Ditfo, at. Sight - l2 5 • Rotterdam . . AntN'verp' • • l2 9 flanilmvgli Altona I'aris,'3 Day'S sight Ditto Bouvieaux, ditto Frattlifort on th e Icii ri Madrid - • Cadiz' • • • ' 3sf Effective Bilboa .. Barcelona 3t f • i r eville " ' ' ' • 361 • filbcaltar .... • • , 304 Leghorn Genoa • 4`3i—Vertice, • Itai. I.iv '27 60 Malta. ' s 45 —Naples 3B. . Palermo fAsbon Oporto 14.10 Janeiro —De4b1iee... 446 ,.. 7. i•••i.t; rer t7el.%t BULLION. / .0 0 0 peg Or. Portugal Gold; in Coin * ' ' Foreign (;old, in Bari New Doubloons New .Dollars 0 . 4 10i Savo' in airs, Standard . . • ...... ... . ~ Fire at Dillon, near cambrithe.--0n Sunday evening last r bebween four ; and o'clock,-the upper room of a large thatched cottage, contain., ing five tenements fUlly inhabited, was discover ed to 1.) eon fire in this village. The cottage on fire-; was thelast Of a long row, all nearly joining each offier, a brisk wind ,setting, at the time, - full on the rest of the row. It was soon found that it would be impossible to' save the premises ready in flamcs, : and -the greatest alarm was felt for the fate .of the whole street. , From the cottage 'in which the fire raged, to the next to it, there was Tzcarce .an interval of four; feet, and ,the _flames were already_ bearing upon it, when the in., trepidity and zeal of an individnal,,sedonded' by the goOd conduct and exertions of the nib bitants of the village, succeeded, after several hourS of severe labour, in putting a • further stopJO the .calamity. That which actually took place is .of a most distressing nature. In the hurry and ~confusion inseparable from such a scene, much of .the furniture of those burnt out,. as well as-that of their immediate neighbours was greatly injured; much consumed in the flames or otherwise entirely destroyed ; and it is with considerable concern, that many portable articles, particularly Much of the .linen of the sufferers, was carried .off by strangers, unknown to:the . village, who .mixed in the crowd. To these circumstances, sufficiently distregsing, the inclemency of. the season, and the want of a horneand its accustomed comforts, are no stnall aggravations. The public is never wanting in kindness to objects of real distress, and - if the present sufferers may urge, as they surely may, ,this' claim npon public compassion, it is request ed that any little donations, which shall : arise from it, be placed at Mr: Fisher's bank, who'has had the goodness to consent to receive them, and great care will be taken to distrilnite them ac= cording to the exigencies of each case. * Mr. Bartltt, of Trinity College, an inhabitant of Ditto!). A few days ago, as Mr.Aiderman BARBER was standing with a Gentleman, conversing in his own shop at Nottingham, a pis'tol loaded with slugs was fired at him through a window by some villain. The charge lodged in the wall close to the Alderman—a reward Of five hundred guineas is offered for the apprehension of the offender. A silver coin of Trrus was found in the rubbish of an old house, which was lately pulled down in Eastgate-street, in. this City. In digging, the foundation for the new building,, a pavement was discovered at about eight feet below the pre sent level of the street. This gives strength to the prevalent ,opinion . that the level of the city was originally that of the floor of, the cathedral, to which persons have now to descend by seve ral steps.—(chester Guardian.): P f 3 A -& G. .. • • , . --':-The:::frustra 'E tion of -the Dutch xpeditinu against Palembang has been for: sOme lime kholyn ; but as-the particulars have not yet beep published, the following, translated from the Da/avian Courant of Nov. 20, will prove accept. able to many of our readers:— BATAVIA; Nor. 19. The Government have received inteiiizence from the Ex pedition at Palembang, by which it - appears, that on going up tli fiver.of that place they met wit►r impediments-which, it sec•ars, cannot he removed but Iw slaw and difficult opera. lions. he'Rear-AdMind, Walterbeek, had therefore, judg= ed it , advisable anti expedient, tor- the preservation of the health of the troops and crews, that for the present all fur ther undertakings in that quarter should cease; and, during the present unfavonrahle season, that he station him self at the mouth of.the river Stiensang, which resolution had, on the 4th inst. actually taken effect_ The following is a conneettd account of what happened to the Expedition, siuc sL their at rival at i‘fantoli, on the island of llama, about the end of the month of August;— " 'immediately 'after the of the expedition had anchor= ed in the harbour of Mantok, she Itear-AdmiralyWalterhecki took inform:dim) respecting ;lie depth . in the mouth of the titer of Palembang, wlien it was found that the batik lying there etruld'not be passed over by his Majesty's frigate, %rd. lemitte, and other large ships, With the-springs of•the 4th and 1!):1) of September, on account of ti loch all their endeavours had hitherto nikcarried : and it was not until the ontli of the same month, that all the ships-of the expedition could get over the hank and into the, river. .1 he taking out and hoisting in 'again t Ike . ships' ►guns, arid dividing of the troops ,it!ui the M!iug tip all. the water-Casks that had been eti , pliei to lighten them, delayed the expedition till the loth of (%cto . lier, on which day t)iiy began,to %VW I; op into the liver. The it heal ties they met with were almost • ionameralite ; the strong current.of the, river, the shallowness of the water at many places, and the continual care required to send off the floating tire-rafts, were the taus that the ships advanced but slowly, whilst, rt the saute time, ►l:e great fatigues and alaw,t . ,_. , . .... iime,sant rains, to which the troops and crews ..cre d.:y 4.11 (1 ite:lit continally expos,'d, soon increased con,itlceaoiy the number of the sick. Nut bin;, however, 'could abate the courage of our m VII : Mid on the I li 01 October, the squad. on bad already advanced as far as Palembang, twit hoot suf ering . any loss worthy to be mentioned from .the bat t;.t ins c+ the enemy, which here and_ there had been .raist d along (he baillis of the river. " On the 20th of October all the ships . passed, with great difficulty, he St rait.of SU la Nallia, where t trey found t in selves before Gombara, the battery where it seemed the enemy had all their strength United to prevent our pas,ing ; but the wine was not favourable to our purpose; and it was lot until the tol lowing day, being the 21st, at. noon, that aft an tack upon that battery became possible for us. "' . l'he Stilton, being convinced that the place where, it 1912, he had endeavoured lik e wi se . t o di s p ute t h e passage to the English, was by no areans . a fit mie, had now chosen a poSitioll, which indeed one 'would 'almost be tempted to Litt ti wmore advanced knowledge of the Art - of war t he is likely to possess• Well-placed batteries on both barrks ' the. river fat Med and maint a in e d a h eavy an d we ll-j udged cross fire,which moreover was supported by a great n timbered float ing batteriesam.horeilt here in the Centre of.the.rtrer. AU these batteries were constructed of treys; and so thick were their breast works, that our ba!ls could hurt them brit little; whilst, at,t he sometime, very high roots, roust t ucted oft ranks of trees, and piir:d upon one another, secured them against otry bombs. However, these difficulties might have easily Leek overcome by our men, bad net such an incalculable nuniber of piles, rammed so closely together into the ground, shut op entirely the'whole breadth of the river, so that it was 'Ulf possible for a vessel to pass tin oogh them. Yet, in defiance of all these impediments and difficulties, our ships, notwithstanding, stationed themselves, at the noon of the.e. st of October, in the best order at battle, across , the batteries of the enemy, at the distance of about half a musket front them. This firing laSted untiil 4 o'clock in the af ternoon, when a flow of wind sprang up, which compelled tht squadron to put buck to the. former position they had taken on the 20th, or the day before. Though the menus of de,- fence of the enemy, which", during the fight of the wl% we were folly able to view,, were by no meats insurmontname by the valour of our troops, yet it was nevertheless quite o her %sise respecting the works of defence raised by the enemy, in -ruler to make the bed. at the. river entirely innavigable. 'lb remove all these impediments required a length of time, and many hands; we could not, therefore, think of this with out exposing the troops and crews still longer to excessive td tig.tres, and to the ineessant rains which daily poured down .upon triTaJiTto increas,e hereby the already great trundrer of sick, to such a degree, that perhaps the expedition in ght, even without fighting any more, have hcc•nrie unlit for „ „ y further operations. " In the meatr.Vhile, di:. desire of the troops to he engaved With the enemy was very great indeed ; ;and we sought every where, with great,cagerness, for a.fit place either to scale or to surround the liatteries of the enemy ; but wherever we cat»e we found nothing- hut very strong • pile Works, elin'e thickets, anal exten,ive,marshes„ which, in the present seas .m of the year, are entirely unt;rdahie. Having thus, fur three whole days, hestoWed in rain erery possible endeavour to taring tbe•enemy to close combat with our trt•aops, thereby to Como to a decisive conclusion of t Arai rove werefultyconvinced of the impossibility thereof, and that, in the alri:ady ;advanced preva lent:rainy season; not hingtuore to that purpose could now he undertaheo with the leapt hope of success whatever; in come— quer-ice of which, the whole squadron on the 80th of October dropped down again into. the. SuCIISaILg, where on the 4th instant we arrived. " The ships of war will , it is said, remain there to blocl,l4le the liver, whilst the Iran p ort ships are to carry bark to Jai, , a all the troops that are not ahsolutely wanted there, it, order to refresh themse . lyes at Jana, fur which ther e is n o coov !.:- nience 01 t i,iana of haoca. " The Rear•Adiriiral,. Waltyrbeck, praises much the -Con ragyons conduct of the troops under his command during the expedition ; tlmt neither the excessive fatigues a Inch the Inca and crews were ob!iged to endure, nor the diseases prt-v,iilitig• amongst.thera, were able to rlinrinish but for yin nparient their courage, and t hat the only complaint of the soidiers was, hai theY . youl:l in , tenk;ige With the t;tteiny . , and attaeli the:in in the interior of their very entrenchments, as had talien place at Banpa Cott., where they weft: led on by Captain Lacininn. " During the heavy ex•change of firirig,whicl►, for more thArt S honcsour4hipslept. up with,t he batteries of the enemy, sonic of our vessels suffered much from the fire of the latter ; amongst. which are Principally 'his Majesty's frigate With!, mine, and the corvette- Concur& Both ships received. much daniage hi their hulls, as well as in their rigging ; some } if otu• troops were also hilled and wounded in that engagehient. Amongst the first, we have greatly 4o lament the lo,s of the First Lieutenant and Aide-de-Camp Be Bonin, who at his OWll.request had vpltint trill accurr.partied the expedition ; that of the - First LirtifeWant of Marines, FalniCies . , first . oth - ref of ibis Majeltyls.corVelte Qom:tyro; and the First Lken4ett ant, Reynst, of his Majesty's. !nth Regiment of Fuot. Anwpgst the wounded officers, the Capt:iin Of Artillery, Vander Veell,, is mentioned. : • • We may view the advance of the season, and the delay which the ev,iedition 'Met, un ac'enitit of the bank in the river, as the proper- causes why,. for the present, we were obliged to put. a stop-to the totther operations of war. 11.4 the expedition, immediately on their arrival ;it the latter end of August, been able to proceed intro the river, they would now in all probability have out aineti their wished-for ann." It appears by the statement ;Addenbrooke's HospitEi tor the rre , ;;-.nt that the total num—, her of palientr, cared since th e o p en i ng o f t h a t institution in 1766, is 2.2,772. ;iF i ~~I.IS. On Sunda} , last, at his hon...•at 'Farnham-green, the wife .of kiediryahomp.:sol4, Esc}., of a.clanghttw.- 'On Thurzday, last, 21i5.0. Smith, of Golden-square of: son, MARIIIE3). On TtLisday last, at. No, the RFv. George Carter, Minor Canon ol\o-wich tat hedral,.and Vicar of Trowse witlt - Lakenton, :Coq:4li, to Am ) Ninrray, second daughter of , R. Browne, Fs , of the saint DIED. . On Tburstlay last, at liatvpstead, after a few (lays' illness, Israel 1.471, is, Esti:, in the 73t1 yea; of his age. the. cast., by the lireal..ing of a blood-vessel, at his house, i 4 Whittilead'so;ove, ',lr. Oaines Scott, many years a respeCtable ‘.oal ini•rchant at Ciielsea. r,()NPON: Prin!eil 17.1. 13. C.3IISTAIRS, of No. 29, Great Orinotol * -street,' - and published try W.A. Si:NUTS. of No. 7, South Nlolton-street, at THE SUN IF, Strand ; where - Adreitiserneuts, Ordes.,‘ Lecless, &c. (pus: •poid) - raiist be addressed. •