The Sun. — London, England, 1824-09-14 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN. POSTAGE. Mr. EDlTOR—Perceiving by your Paper of the Bth instant, that a postage of one penny has been charged upon newspapers at Cloumel, I beg leave to apprise you that the same charge has, within the last twelve months, taken place in England. I know no good reason for it ; Ido nottnow whether this charge is general through out all England, or the precise nature of it in Ireland. With us it is called a Id. post charge, at least-the envelope of our newspapers is marked " Barnstaple Penny Post." I presume, SIT, that nothing can warrant an increased 14. Postage but an increased price of provender ; but this with us has decreased more than one half, for, during the war, oats were from fis. to 6s. a bushel ; now they average not more than from '2s. to ts. 64. I cannot help saying, Sir, that one of the most valuable appendages of a free Govern ment is the free circulation of the Daily Press. This new regulation, which makes a newspaper a Id. a day dearer, is certainly a check on that in formation which the public Journals convey. I have many a long year subscribed to your most useful Journal, because the Police Reports are im partially given in it; it is for this reason that when I have done with it I always send my newspaper into my kitchen, and have uniformly found that my servants pay particular attention to the Trials and Police Examinations. I have mentioned this to many of my friends, who, like myself, have edopted the same plan, for the most obvious ren sons. Sir, if any one will point out to me a better mode of preventing crime than by letting the lower orders themselves discover the evil conse quences attending it, I will at once give up the argument. Every sensible man must be an advo cate for the doctrine of rewards and punishments. Experience teaches us that religion must have its sanction ; but is not the prevention of crime by the daily exposition of its dreadful consequences a part of this holy law ? Of what use are all the gratuitous schools which aro now established, if the reading of newspapers is to be in part prohi bited ? It may be said, that a person who will not pay a Id. a day in addition does not deserve a newspaper. ' I beg leave to observe, that 'I am not a person of that description, or I should not have seen in your useful Journal, of whichl have been for so many years a constant Reader, the letter from Clonmel. The question is not about a id, a day, but about the justice and abstract policy of the charge ; the objection does not pro ceed upon a mercenary, but upon a liberal idea. The Daily Prints bring in to the Government (thanks to the good policy of our free State) an immense Revenue, without in any wayoppress • jog, but in every way by benvfitting the Public. The newspapers daily record the evil conse quences of crime, and enforce upon all the sum total of the Commandments. "Thou shalt do no man n e r of wrong, for no mortal can do so with impunity." Behold the Law, read the conse quence !! ! A newspaper, Sir, is of all produc tions of Modern . History the most valuable. The Legislature must have originally thought so, by granting to it the privilege of free postage. Now, why this novel encroachment of Id. Posts ? I have left out the definite article, for I do not know whether the regulation is extended to the whole of the United kingdom or not. I have, however, thought proper to give you-this inform ation, to the intent that if you think it of suffi cient importance, you may publish it to the world through the medium of your widely-circu lated Journal. Some legislative provision seems, therefore, necessary to compel id. Posts, where they are appended to the General one, to deliver newspapers gratis. This would be no more than a restoration of the old Law. We have had a J. Post in this locality appended to the General one for these last W years, but we never, till this last year, paid Id. for a newspaper. UTILE DULCE. Ilfracombe, Sept. 11, 1824. . tuvostertctnn.—A murder of on infant, under circumstances of unusual and appalling barbarity, occurred a few days ago, near Scot's hitiyov, in the county of Monaghan. A young unmarried woman„-the daughter of a farmer in com fortable circumstances, and rather above the common class, bad been visibly with child for some time past ; and report attributed it to an illicit intercourse with a Roman Catholic clergyman, who was intimate at the house, and whom report stated to have seduced and got pregnet another sister, who was some time ago delivered, though no trace was ever heard of the Infant. A few days since, the young woman lay in ;. and shortly after, her,father, mother, and two uncles were in the -room with , the door closed; anti a servant outside heard the cry of the child, and ,also heard its mother say to her own mother, " Oh, mother, don't kill my child." There was no appearance .of the infant afterwards. Suspicion was excited, by the general knowledge that the young woman lay in—the disappearance of the infant...-the former confinement of her sister—and the dis appearance of th at c hild ; an d f rom some hints which fell from the servant m a id, a searc h was ma d e a b out the place, which led to the discovery of a fresh interred child, and the bones of another, in an old f ort near t h e i r h ouse . Th e di scover y caused mother of the child, her parents, and her two uncles to ab wand. Came Madden, of h Milton, M a ago) ra e, a 't t s been exerting himself for their a ) I th i s d rea df u l ar,o6ty ' h Me tension, ,and the elucidating of ed but as !at his exe r tions have not sue . ceed.—€ Cavan /braid . A , It is said. to be the intention of resi dent Bar risters of the Counties to att en d the Circuits of .;the Commissioners for . . the relief of Insolvent -Debtors. FRENCH PAPERS. ( From tla Etoile 11 Sunday.) PARIS, SEPT. 11.---The King heard mass in his apartments. His Majesty granted a private audience to M. Pouyer, who is appointed Inten dant of the Marine for the Port of Toulon. The Count de Villele transacted business with the King. By an Ordinance of. August 20th, the King has named Knight of the Military Order of St. Louis, M. the Chevalier de Weber, foster-brother of the Queen Maria Antoinette, and .a Member of the Legion of Honour. , [From GalignanVe Ares:ever.] STOCK-EXCHANGE, SEPT. 10,.5 cedock.—There has been more inquiry for stock than for some days past, but neverthe less few transactions have been effected. The 5 per cents. for money closed at 90. 90. For the end of the month, the price at four o'clock, when the Parquet dosed, was 99. 15.: at this hour it is 99. 10. The Neapolitan Funds have been in greater request, without any alteration in price. The other foreign funds are unvaried. A Cabiuet Council was held yesterday at the house of the Count de Villele. Yesterday morning . the Duke and Duchess of Angouleme visited the exhibition at the Louvre. The Marquis de Clermont Tonnerre has dimi nished by two-thirds the number of the officers ' which formed the staff of the Minister of War under the Duke de Belling) and the Baron de Dumas. . Letters from Bayonne state, that preparations are making in that town for the embarkation of two companies of artillery, and a quantity of materiel, for Cadiz. The Memorial Bordelais says—" Count de, Revilla-Gigedo having declined his embassy to' London, is about to return to Madrid, where it is said that high functions await him." Extract of a letter of the sth instant from Frankfort :—" The High Germanic Diet has again adjourned its meetings until January the 15th, and Its President, Baron Munch de Belling hanger), set out last night for Vienna, to receive fresh instruc tions from Prince Metternich. The Baron de Nagle, Prussian Minister to the Diet, is gone to Berlin, where he will resume the general administration of the posts of the kingdom." . The twenty millions which, after the,peace of Paris, were taken from the military contributions imposed upon France, and destinetrfor the construction of the fortresses of the Ger manic Corifelleration, have been withdrawn from Rothschild's house, whcre they w . deposited, and placed under the imme diets nwingumear • Diet. they ,!" ( ; . ' 'the llfoniteur, Sept. 11.) VI ENlSTOAtia.'29.—Prince Metternich has re turned from ischel, where he had derived some benefit from the use of the waters; they would have b e en still more .beneficial if he had followed the advice of the physicians to refrain from con stant occupation ; but the numerous dispatches which he received, and which made it necessary for him to exert hiraselkdid not allow him to tie as he was advised. lie continued to direct all the business, and the chief Officers of the Aulic Chancery who were with him drew up the cor respondence under his eyes. I.4AusANNE, SUPT. 3.—The Privy Council of the presiding Canton has communicated to the several Governments the result of the felicita tions made to the King of Sardinia on his jour ney to the frontier of Switzerland by a deputa. lion of tho Diet. A. :letter written by his Ma. jesty to the Confederation, and dated Chambery, the 28th of July, shows the distinguished re ception given by his Majesty to the Deputies, and the friendly sentiments which animate him with regard to Switzerland. Thu. Great Council of the Orison has given notice, that the measures of police, relative to foreigners, ordered last year, have been con tinued to the close of the Session of 1825. (Front the Journal des Delmar.) Coiteu, AUG. I.—The proceeds of the Loan have been sent from !ante to Napoli di Romania, where this money has arrived. The following is the first bulletiu of the naval operations publish ed by the President of the Executive Council on the I 5111 July " Captain Khoreb Pasha, who sailed from Mitylene on the 2d July, with 37 large ships of war,4o gun-boats, each carrying two large guns, and 150 transports, reached Ipsara on the 3d. The Ipsariots, who had been informed, some days before, of the enemy's plan, had embarked in 31$ brigs their women, chil dren, and most valuable eßcts, sailing for Hydra and Spezzia, to leave their families, and ask aid there. The Admiralty of Hydra, in concert with that of Spezzia, applied to the Greek Government at Napoli, for troops, which acre granted. Nicetas, the Turcopleaze, was immediately embarked with 500 men, but in spite of every exertion, the first attack of the Barbarians could not be prevented. " The Captain Pacha landed 45,000 men in Ipsara, command ed by Ismael Pacha; nephew to All Pacha of Joannina. The enemy was found in possession of the great battery employed in bombarding die forts of Mitylene, Palseo-Custron, defended by 2,000 Greeks of Ipsara and Chios, some companies of Chris. tian Schypetars. It was on the 7th July, God, who protects Greece and her children, sending a violent tempest from the south, the Captain Pacha, fearing the shipwreck of his fleet, was obliged to put to sea, and separate from his army on shore. The infidels, &inking themselves abandoned, hurried , to the beach. Theperceived the Greek squadron, and thought only of flight, seizing all the boati they could find. Nicetas lands; the Ipsarlots sally from the forts ; the Turks are overthrown ; the Greek vessels discharge showers of grape-shot on all that put out to sea ; three frigates and ten brigs ran aground ; on the Bth July in the morning the Turks had disappeared. Among the dead are two Pacha., Ismael Poet) and Omer Omni. liana, of Argyro Cashow The booty is immense—the victory complete." FILEN cif Pim ns.—Five . Per Cents. Opened at 98. 85.; closed at 119.; Neapolitan, 87g.; Spanish Bonds, W. A. letter was received yesterday from the Agents to Lloyd's at Smyrna, dated the 2d of August, which states that the city' and neigh bouring villages had been frequently alarmed during three weeks by the constant passage of Turkish troops towards Scala Nueva, collected from ail parts of the country. They are de scribed chiefly as an undisciplined rabble, who, in the villages, had broken into Greek houses oc casionally,in seeking for lodgings and provisions, and had also assassinated ten or twelve Greeks in the town and vicinity of Smyrna ; but neither had any robberies of money or goods from mercantile travellers taken place, nor had Europeans or their houses in the country suffered. Smyrna had been perfectly quiet for the last ten days, the Pacha having forbidden the entrance of any more of these men, whom he could scarcely expect to controul by his police. Upwards of 60,000 were at Scala-Nuova, waiting for the Captain Paella's fleet to carry them against Samos. He was still at Mitylene. The Greeks are said to have about 50 armed vessels in the Archipelago, employedin watching the Turks. BRUSSELS PAPERS. BaussEts, SEPT. 10.—The new Smyrna Jour nal (the Smyratan), in its number of the 2d of August, gives an account of the re-appearance of the Greeks at Ipsara, which reduces the advantages said to be gained by them to nothing. The Turks in the island, it says, descrying the fleet as it ap proached, had time to embark with all their effects for Scio and Mytelene, leaving only some small vessels, which the Greeks, who arrived some hours later burnt. Three or four days after , the Ottoman fleet appeared, on whi c h t h e G ree k s w i t hd rew to the distance of some miles from the island, and on the 22d of July the fleets remained in sight of each other. The same journal has a letter from Alexandria, dated ) 4th .July :—" The plague has ceased at Cairo. Some cases now and then occur to alarm our city, but we hope to be soon re lieved from this dreadful scourge. Alexandria has the appear ance of a town in time of war. We are crowded with soldiers Ana sailors, who are eager for slaughter and conquest. The strictest discipline prevails among the Egyptian troops. The conqueror of the \Vnchabites (Ibrahim Pacha) son of the Vice roy, is General-in-Chief of this fine army. With much pru dence and firmness he unites a diffidence of himself, which makes him listen with pleasure to the counsels that are given him. Like his father, he is very fond of the Europeans. Ibra. him Packs will be accompanied by 1,600 infantry, 4,000 cavalry, and 5,000 Albanians. Two hundred transports are to receive the provisions necessary for the army, a . park of artillery, and the mass. The rendezvous is at Mani, in Caramania. The Commander-in-Chief his accompanied by a great number of European officers, particularly of Philhellenis, who, disgusted with the service of the Greeks, had retired to Egypt. To these preparations the Viceroy had added a very rich military chest, that Ibrahim Paella may be able to procure whatever he thinks proper." FRANKFORT, SEPT. fl.—The Regency of the Bavarian Circle of the Rhine has addressed a circular note to all the tri bunals of the ceuntry, to the effect, that " considering that the good which the clergy are able to effect, in the exercise of their functions, depends almost entirely on the degree, of support which they receive from the civil authorities, they are enjoined to give all possible co-operation." Fnow wilE MAINE, SEPT. 7.—We hear that some distur bances have taken place at Coburg. The people have long since entertained a very bad opinion of one of the Duke's fa vourites, a Pole by birth; and at last thevy have considered this man as the chief cause of serious differences between the Prince and his consort (a Princess of Saxe Gotha). In conse quence of these differences, the Princess went to an estate in the neighbourhood. These circumstances were scarcely known when the mass of the people took a decided part in favour of the Princess, who is universally beloved. They repaired in a crowd to the above-mentioned estate, took the horses from the carriage, which was ready to proceed further, and brought the carriage, with the Duchess in it, in triumph back to the ca-' pital. They then forced an entrance into the Prince's palace, whither the favourite had retreated, and demanded both that proper satisfaction should be made to the Princess, and that the favourite should be given up. It is reported that the Duke himself was so pressed on by the crowd, that he was obliged to take hold of one of the leaders to make way through them, and that the military shewed no great zeal in dispersing the crowd. In the end tranquillity was restored by some Members of the Assembly of the States, and some Magistrates who came up in time. It is affirmed that the affair will be laid before the Diet. Sr. PETERSBUIIOII, Atro. 25.—The 29th of this month is fixed for the departure of his Majesty on his tour to the re mote provinces of his Empire, and as far as Orenburg. THE ARMY. CONTINUATION of his ROYAL HU/TIM:SS the DUKE '1 of CLARENCE'S VISI T to CHATHAM. After the review of the Brigade on Thursday , the 9 th Inst. a trial was made of the efficacy of the two different methods of passing guns, troops, &c. over a rapid stream,. by pontoons, near Rochester Bridge, at half-ebb , as directed by Lieutenant_ Colonel Past.tY, of the Royal Engineers , as well as by Lieu_ tmant-Colonel Sir James Colleton. The judges were selected for their abilities and experience, but the result will not be known till the report is niat:e The_ Duke of Clarence, attended by the principal Officers pub o li t c ' . the Navy on the spot, and of the forces in this garrison, minutely examined the construc tion of both methods. In the evening a ball anti supper, given by the Queen's Royals, at the Bull Inn, was attended by about two hundred room wits tastefully ornamented with warlike trophies, the people of the highest respectability. The ball upper end having a transarency with the letter C. surmounted with a naval crown, i n allusion to his Royal Highness; the floor was elaborately and brilliantly chalked, anti the entrances hung with A profusion of variegated lamps. The supper was elegant, and abounded with every thing desirable on such an Occasion. The dancing was opened by Lady Torrens and Co lonel Rolt, of the Queen's, and was kept up till three o'clock. —On Friday morning his Royal Highness revi ewe d the Royal Fusileers, which chiefly performed the evolutions applicable to Light Infantry, whitili were executed in the usual style of ex cellence of that very distinguished Corps, and called forth the encomiums of the Royal Duke and every military spectator.— Soon after retu r ni ng f r om the fi e ld o f exercise his Royal Highness had a Levee of the Officers of the Military Corps and Departments, at the Commandant's house (Colonel Sir A. Christie.) At three o'clock .his Royal Highness returned to the Lines, anti reviewed the Queen's Royals, under the imme diate command of their Colonel, Sir Henry Torrens (the Ad jutant-General), who put the Regiment through a great many movements of his 'own new system, all of which were per formed with admirable precision, and ca ll e d f orth the highest praise from his Royal Highness; after which th e P uz il eers h a d the honour of the Royal Duke's company at an elegant dinner. Oo Saturday morning his Royal highness inspected the Di vision of the Royal Marines minutely on the Barrack Parade, when the Battalion marched past in slow and quick time. After this, Colonel Campbell had the honour of receiving his Royal Highness, with a numerous party of Ladies, and Officers of the Garrison and the Navy, to a most elegant thleuni l a la jburchette, from whence the Royal Duke set out for Busby Park, having a puny to dinner. DISTRIBUTION of the BRITISH CAVALRY, exclusive " of the HOUSEHOLD TROOPS, viz Ist Dragoon Guards, General Cartwright, Colonel—Newcastle. 2d Ditto, General Loftus, Colonel—Norwich. 3d Ditto, General Vyse, Colonel—Cahlr. 4th Ditto, Sir Henry Fane, Colonel—Dublin. sth Ditto, Prince of liaxe Coburg, Colonel—Dundalk. 6th Ditto, the Hon. Robert Taylor, Colonel—Glasgow. 7th Ditto, Sir Robert Bolton, Colonel—Newbrkige. Ist Drag(ions, General Garth,Colonel—Peershilr. 2d Ditto (Scots Greys), Sir Jas. Stewart, Colonel—Manchester, 3d Light Dragoons, Lord Combermere, Colonel—Coventry. 4th Ditto, General Hugonin, Colonel—Bombay. sth Ditto (broke in Ireland in the year 1798). flth Dragoons, Earl of Pembroke, Colonel—York. 7th Hussars, Marquis of Anglesea, Colonel—Hounslow. Bth Ditto, Sir Itapastre Tarleton, Colonel—Dorchester. 9th Lafleur:, Earl of Rosalyn, COlonel—Dublin. 10th Hussars, Marquis of Londonderry, Colonel—Ballinrobe. 11th Light Dragoons, Lord Wm. Cavendish Bentinck, Colo. net_Bengal. 12th Lancers, Sir William Payne, Colonel—Brighton. 13th Light Dragoons, the lion. Henry Grey, Colonel—Madras. 14th Ditto, Sir John 0. Vandeleur, Colonel—Exeter. lab Hussars, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, Colonel, Cork. _ l CO! LanCas,.Earl Harcourt, Colonel—Bengal. 17tli Lancers, Lord It. E. H. Somerset, Colonel—Canterbury. Preparations for the Irish survey are actively going on.— Detachments of officers are now in various parts of England, for instruction, and the Director, wi th one subaltern, have re cently arrived in D u blin, to decide on the part to commence, which beginnin g will be in the spring. Twenty of the senior cadets, from th e 'Woolwich Academy, intended for this service, have been for several months past at Cardiff, on the survey of that part of the country. They will be assisted by a company of Ordnance soldiers, taken either from the Artillery or Sappers and Miners. _ The Viet Regiment has left Halifax for Bermuda, and a de. tachment, under the command of Major Cole, is gone to Cape, Breton. The 72d Regiment, -which sailed from Plymouth on the Ist inst., on board the Royal Briton and Joseph Green transports, for Leith, on his route to Edinburgh Castle, put into Shields, by contrary winds, on the 111th instant. EDINBITIVIII, SEPT. 11.—Thursday the 65th regiment, now lying in the Castle, was reviewed in Burntstield Links by Major-General Sir Thomas Bradford. A considerable num ber of spectators were on the ground. Mn. BR.OUGIIAM.—A- paragraph having ap. peered in several newspapers regarding the place of this gentle. man's birth, which, though containing . some truth, is in the material part erroneous, we have been induced.to make parti cular inquiry, and we find that Mr. Brougham was born in the house, No. 21, St. Andrew's Snuare, New Town, in this city, on the 19th September, 1778• From Mr. Brougham's family being English, it is generally supposed he was born in the north of England, but Edinburgh has unquestionably the honour of having given birth to this great statesman and eloquent advo eate.-4 Edinburgh Courant, **pt. 11. ) STATE OF BUENOS-AYRES. We yesterday gave a brief description of the present condition of Mexico, as it could be gathered from a series of five or six weeks of the journals published in that re public. We have since received materials which would enable us to give a similar outline of the state of the provinces On the Rio de la Plata, and we should have much pleasure in doing so, did not the able and candid statement of Ribadavia, publish ed i❑ this journal about a month ago, render such an under. taking superfluous. We cannot, however, refrain from briefly alluding to the contents of the file of the Argos, a Buenos Ayres paper, now before us. This part of Spanish America was the first to throw off the yoke of colonial bondage, and has been the most persevering and successful in maintaining its independ ence. From the year 1010, to the present hour, it has not seen a single hostile Spaniard on its coasts, and during those thur teen years of trial, has shown, both by the maintenance of its amicable relations with the rest of the world, and the generally judicious management of its internal affairs, that it was worthy of the freedom which it had acquired. The file of papers be fore us, which include those of June, relate in their political matter principally to two topics—the defence of the Republic from foreign aggression, and the settlement of its internal Ga. vernment.—( Times. ) DEFENSIVE ARRANGEMENTS. The Argos of the Ist of June contains an announcement of the arrival of the official papers, presented to the British Par liament at the beginning of March, on the relations between Legitimate Europe, and Insurgent America. The publication of these documents seemed to have created a kind of sensation in the IA Plata, and to have increased the partiality both of the people and the Government towards the English Cabinet. They are faithfully given in two successive numbers of the Argos, both in their original English dress, and in a Spanish translation. The sentiments manifested by the Ambassador of France, in his conference with Mr. Canning respecting Spanish America, continued to keep alive the jealousy entertained towards the political conduct of that powe r . I n this state of mind it scarcely required the fabulous vigilance of the Argos to discover French Government spies or French political intriguers in the (perhaps) innocent merchant or adventurer who had the misfortune to live under the Holly Alliance principles which directed the in vasion of Old Spain. Accordingly, We find an account in the paper of the Ist of June, of the certain existence in Buenos- Ayres of a French cavellier, " who had acted as an agent of police in Paris." The patriotic journrlist alludes with serious alarm to the arrival of this agent of despotism, and points out his arrest and banishment as an exploit worthy of a republican policd. The same jealous vigil a nce discovers another ag e nt of France in a M. de la Sune, who had a year ago paid a visit to Buenos-Ayres in the command of a French ship of war, and who, according to reports which reached the Rio de la Plata from Brazil, now holds a kind of roving commission from the French Government to all the new republican governments in Spanish America. The editor of the Argos very properly de sires his countrymen to be on their guard against this man and his attendants, who (according to him) are employed to take plans of their cities and fortresses. "If you come as a friend," says a certain character to Apollo in a Greek play, " why that bow?" " If you mean peace," says the editor of the Buenos Ayres Argos, why these military engineers ?" Although the whole of the rumour regarding the presence of the French spies in South America may be unfounded, we think that the perfi dious conduct of the French Cabinet, in its recent invasion of Strain, and its mysterious acquiescence in the principles of the Holy Alliance respecting South America, justify the strongest suspicions on the part of the new republics. While the eastern coast is guarded with a proper suspicion of European aents of despotism, the Republic of Buenos Ayres is not insensible to the dangers that eareaten the tranquillity, if not the independ ence, of its western provinces from the political dissen sions and civil warfare of Peru. Accordingly we are told, in an article dated June 5, that preparations were making at Salta to resist any attempt on the part of the enemy's vanguard. An auxiliary force had been sent from Tu cuman to that province, with artillery and ammunition, and the province of Cordova was to follow the example in send ing a squadron of cavalry. "We are authorized," adds the journalist, " to state that circular letters have been addressed to all die Governments of our territory, requiring men for the army which is to be organized at Buenos Ayres, in addition to that forming at Salta for the common safety ; and that in the plan adopted, a provision is made for remunerating every man who shall join the ranks for this object." In the paper of the Bth of June we see another proof of the watchful attention di rected by the people of Buenos Ayres to the events happening on their western frontier. The movements of Olaneta are there alluded to with great interest; but as no date is given, we can derive from the passage no precise knowledge of the state of matters in Peru. The same paper informs us, that on the 4th of June the Government of Buenos Ayres addressed a note to the Hall of Representatives, reminding them of the state of things in Europe and Peru, and pointing out to them the ne cessity of taking such steps as were calculated to secure their independence against all aggression. For this purpose, the Government, after communicating with the Executive Power in Peru, Chile, and Colombia, had entered into an agreement with the Governor of the province of Salta to organize there a regular force, to act us the vanguard of a defensive army. The Govern ment of that province entered with zeal into the project. Anus, and every kind of ammunition, were, in consequence of this agreement, to be supplied to Salta, beside a monthly allowance of 1,509 dollars. This not appearing sufficient, a regular force of three squadrons of cavalry were to be sent to Salta, and maintained at the expense of the General Government. The Hall of Representatives sanctioned these and other measures for defending the Repuhlic on the side of Peru. Among the defensive measures taken by the Government of Buenos Ayres may be reckoned its eager disposition to cultivate the friend ship and secure the alliance of this country. Accordingly, we fi n d in the paper of the 9th of June a circular of Mr. Riba davia, addressed to the provinces, informing them of the ar rival of Mr. Woodbine Parish as his Britannic Majesty's Con sul-General to Buenos Ayres, and of the appointment of Mr. linnet, the respectable merchant of London, to act in the same capacity for the state of Buenos Ayres in England. ltibadavia takes occasion in the circular to state, with great precision, the question of American independenc e , both as it ap pears to the Government of England, and the Cabinets of the Holy Alliance. INTERNAL GOVERNMENT. The provinces on the Rio de la Plata, though independent of Spain for the last 14 years, hav e not as yet a d o p te d a sta bl e system of Government. Great d isputes have at different times arisen between the partisans of a Central General Government, and that of a federal union of independent provinces. The great influence and arrogant pretensions of the province of Buenos Ayres have always excited the jealousy, and sometimes provoked the hostility, of the more distant provinces. The wise, moderate, and judicious conduct of the late Government, directed by 111 r. Ribatlavia, has allayed these heats. 'rhe great point was, in what province the National Congress should meet in June last. The following is the state of the votes on the question what should be the seat of this National As sembly :—Santa Fe has not yet voted ; Entre Rios, Corrientes, Missiones, Cordoba, Santiago de Estero, T ucuman , S a l ta , Moja, Catamarca, have voted - for Buenos Ayres; San Luis, for Tucuman; and Mendoza and San Juan for Buenos Ayres. Thus there seems almost a unanimous feeling in favour of Buenos Ayres, and there the National Body is expected soon to meet. The rapid increase in the amount of money expended on the poor, at the commencement of the late war, and during its continuance, was the subject of mach declama tion amongst a class of political economists, who considered it as a proof of the truth of their doctrine, that any attempt to al. leviate the distress of the poor by a legal provision infallibly adds to their number and their misery. It was in vain to tell them of the increase of taxation—the increase of population— the fluctuations of commerce in that agitated period —the ope ration of the Corn Bill—and the depreciation of the paper cur. rency. " Poverty," they replied, " gross in proportion to the means provided for its relief." War and its train of at tendant evils had exposed the poor man to the necessity of re. ceiving assistance from the hand of his more fortitgate neigh. hour ; and they assumed that after committing this crime, he would ever afterwards be guilty of the sins of poverty and de pendence, and that consequently the poor-rates. would go on increasing. The reductibn in the amount of rates, which h as gradually been taking place during the last six years, has con. tradicted their theory ; and now they turn round, andcompute the expenditure on the poor, not as before, when it suited their purpose, by its amount in money, but by the quantity of food which can be purchased with it; and they say that it is now as great in proportion to,the produce of the land and labour of the country as it was in 1817. We have had the curiosity to exa mine bow far this assertion is correct, as regards the expendi. o tu f r t e h o o n oo th o e o po ol o p r oy of m 3 o l o a ts nc f l o ie r s t te h r e . los T t h e e hc f h o t ll y o e w e i ri ng :— ls a statemen t 1810-17 £50,488 1 820 . 21 428,380 1817-18 - 47,340 1821-22 - 24,459 1018.19 - 84,543 1822-23 20,550 1819.20 - 31,022 1023-24 - 19,748 Manchester Gazette. We wonder that some means have not been found of getting rid of the mud , which w as l ast year taken. out of the canal in S t. Jam es ' s P ar k , the greater part of which still remains iu un sightly heaps along the banks; • WEST INDIA DOCKS. As a new arrangement has taken place in the Weekly Reports from this important Establishment, which we received too late for insertion this day, we are obliged to delay it till to-morrow, and shall then regularly insert it, as usual, every Tuesday. --..---- PRICE OF STOCKS THIS HAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock — Old Annuities ............... --. ; per Cent. Red. shut New Ditto .............••... t per Cent. Cons. 94 93g Ex. Bills 10001. 2d. ......... -- 3 i per Cent Ditto 10. 1 42 44 Dissd. shut Ditto 500/. 2d. ......... --, 1 per Cent. {A ssd. shut Ditto lAd. ......... ..- New ...1004 106 Ditto Small t!d. ......... --. Bank Long Ann. shut Ditto lid. ......... ... hop. 3 per Cents — Ditto Adver. ...2d. ......... ..-• [udia Stock Bank for Act. ............... Dibto Bonds lndia for Acct. ............ -- South Sea Stock — Cons. for Account ......... 94 / t PRICES OF FOREIGN Ft Austrian 13ds, 5 per ct. 94i 95i Brazilian u A a t T l e B: s ° 1 I N pe O' CLOCK. t o t n c ds • 5crip............ -- PniYsi Ditto New ....... Russian, New, 5 per ct.... 93 1i Spanish 1821, sper Ct. 2tss - 1823, ditto ... E 4 uAllianceEquitable ShamscLoan an . ................. -- ...... Palladium .................. Canadian ..................... French Rentes ............ Scrip ...... ........ Buenos Ayres Chinn, lids, 6 per et. Colombian lids,iiper et— — Scrip 12 dis. Danish, 5 per cent. Greek Scrip — Mexican Bonds 4l3i 49 Scrip — Neapolitan, 5 per cent. Peruvian Bonds — Scrip — FOREIGN MAILS.' ARRIVED. DUE' Guernsey and Jersey . 0 • I Lisbon - - . 1 0 Gottenburgh • . 0 liamburgh . . . 0 1 0 France . . . 1 II IGII IVATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-11101tR0W• Morning, 2 minutes after 6. Evening' ' titer after 6. nun TH E S UN. SOLE)! QUIS DICERE FALSUM JUDEA LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1824. The Etoilc of the 12th reached us last night. It continues to report that the KING daily re' ceives his Ministers, but is silent as to the reel state of his MAJESTY'S health. As the Cou nt d'A aTors, however, comes more forward in t he scene, and his communications with M. de Via LELE are more open and frequent, we may inf er that his MAJESTY'S decease is almost hourly el' pected. It is understood that the views of the MONARCH himself are different from those of bit legitimate successor; but, in his present condition, it is probable that only the form of obedienc e is paid to his counsels, and that, in fact, implicit submission follows those of his Royal Brother. A few days, or rather a few hours, will probably wholly change the face of affairs, and afford some decisive proof of the measures that ar e likely to be adopted when the awful event actually takes place. The news from Greece in the French ,opera is not of any decisive nature. That from Spa in announces the safety of VALDEZ, who had escape d' d to Tangiers, a circumstance at which e very ( 6 e n to the liberties of Spain must rejoice, a s he is re: ported to be an able and intrepid leader, nod • d e ' may, at a more favourable crisis, assist m the d liverance of his country from a foreign y oke aid the oppression of a native tyrant. The Courier Frangais of Saturday last coo' tains the following article, which, if authentic? spews that the King of PORTUGAL IS wise en olls/1 to see that there is little probability of his reg aiv ing the sovereignty of the Brazils : " Letters from Lisbon, dated the 20th of August, seu Sg _c e d it was generally thought there that a negociation would be ur". o as soon as possible with Brazil, and that the King WO ti iso disposed to recognise the government of his son. Seme d t he events give probability to this opinion. On the requ est st f th or at h 3 is i a . Agents from Brazil, all the Brazilian prisoners wh tl ,.„, t Hi, Lisbon have been sent home to Rio Janeiro. Another "" - te i tQtaliroson, Portugal. editor fl o n f d a in ß g razil him i: e n u .1 11 7: 1 1 ; o cei d e n br : f We is at Lisbon, requested the King to grant him a pneer teS° .; be said, that a public functionary, rather to Brazil. Not only did his Majesty direct the Pa ss P ° ; W it ise issued, but he granted M. Queiros a passage gra ils ' unfortuns tel f t lately said to the King, that for the (Dirndl Of ids L C : 3 7 13 ti of his person, he should make war against Brazil, "'" be Crovrn will replied, 'I do no t t hi n k t h at t h e di gn ity of my ere compromised in the least. The situation in which We lo P the ed is sufficiently explained by circumstances well hneletio, and whole world. As to me, if you suppose that my dir lif or ; you person are offended by w h a t has happened, to e , 11'4 that I will nev er , f or any persona l offences offered to ' O . the blood of two nati ons t o w hi c h I should act Si a father' . DON BERNARDINO RIVADAVIA.--The ____-....-- !view this Gentleman given in town has • n g an lore- de l i : . interest to The concerns of BUENOS AVar°: the Is well know n that he took a leading Part ifi d to Government of that country: H e Wan raile ; his his important station by the confidence °: ol fellow-citizens, whose con fi dence has been 'litho justified by the rectitude of his conduct anader, wisdom of his measures.—His family, W° 1311 the stand, have long held a respectable rank In ° ro, country, and his abilities and attainments Vice mend him t o th e es t ee m of mankind aS a g oo, o l uine Patriot and an accomplishe d State/D/ 0 When we an nounce d the arrival of t his Gen iedf man we said C 6 he comes not, we are I'vrs"11( t o to enjoy inglorious ease, while he can serVe . s to country, and his sole object, we d oubt Iwt, I i o , represent t o th e British GOVOTDDIOnt t he r