The Sun. — London, England, 1820-12-28 00:00:00

LONDON JOURNALS. [DAILY EI'CItAC'i • N leltt.Y:"E - IE, MORNING PAPERS.] [Morning .Chronicle.l Ptivateletters of the highest commercial authority, from Paris, received yesterday, mention, that the King of Naples had.at leogth rt - criyed the permission of his Parliament to attencl.the Conferentes of the Allied Sovereigns at Layhach, to wbielt he had "been invited. The French Papers, some slays ago, noticed, that a secret comuttinication has hero tell by the Minister for Foreign .Affairs, to the Neapolitan Farhtament. It' would . now s,eerts that the object of this Me— sap( wai to lay,ltefore the Parliament the Remonstrances and injunctions reerive.; fr em the Allied ,S,trereigns, accompa nied hy a respiest to kite whet her they ought to he coin- Idied with. The 1.165 letters state, that a positive refw.al was at firer give!) ; but on a secured COMillllllliCklooll . being toad e, with' It, her el oci,lations and additional.data, the Par . liatitent gave their consent that the King should attend the Ca t tereneeS, to which he had been so streintutisly We ourselves hate reasorts for-believing this . statement to be co4ect, but we are ohm of opinion that this affair is attended with circ . o.nistitoces,'for a true knowledge of which. ace can only trust to tune. The ParliametitHof Napes utay have ac quipced, under a pri-vi•nts guarantee from Fiance, as to the personarsatety of the King, as well as-his freedom of:action, a guafantee that, tinder Whet - circumstances, might,hay.e been looked .for from England but Lord•Castiereagh basinatiaged matterg'so , weil, that Fratice - now occupies. the high ground on which we formerly stood. It iS,added, that Laybacli may possiblyl not be the' place where - the nett conferences are to. be held. •. • • Letters from froin Lima, of 9th September, mention, that the Country was threatened with an attack from Chili, hut they do hot state Salt Martin had hooted his troops slit LOOS6tUtipP Witt Fee "t istticlisiasett its the eetost enthnsios tic manner, and the Vici:rity into a farce of 10,u0 4 . , men for the defetme of the Vsce;royAlty.-(./Lid:j . , [Morning .Post.l . Wi are happy to tins) t h,t loyal Addresses to his Majesty are..peeparin not in, every County, City,. and Pariith lot 'England, which bare not yet transmitted their sen timents of inyalts tritd atrection to the •Throne, but also, thloughoot the whole,'Of Ireland and Scotism!. The address (iectv•Y, and 16'eeltolder5 of the C" 3 "tY of f‘enti which is kelready numerously ui respect ably ,signed, utter ~otking the open attempts of blasphemy to' sap the sacred foonjimions of our religion, and. the effticts unexampled of a licentious press to t ir ing loyalty . e contempt, piously nod forcibly adds—". gut, 'Sire, Grid fur our the Machinations .of evil men shall not prevail. •' We will not exchange the v.hplesonie Ltrvs' and Constitution, of England, cemented by the hlUo,l Cf out' forelo he rs, formed' to 'wisdom And perfected Sty ttsc experience of ages, for the wild chimeras and visionary pco)rsts of politiotl !peculators, 41Viptrilt . t alike in fortune, eliaeseter, Ind reputation.'.', The Parochial Adds evict of Vie Metropolis- are in a state of zrear forwardness.. Thiete of Msry-le-lione and St. James's are already most nunierimsly and, re3pectahly s:gtied, and will in a few days present proud and gratifying lists of their respective loyal InhaLitants. ('Morning Herald.] 'The thief foreign acc o unts arrived are from South Awe vita.; Buenos Aries .continues in a state of deplorable un certainty. Another vev-iltition has :17.1.1 place ; new Authit- Aties have beep constituted, and there is no plobability that the present ordiir of things have more stability -than in preceding instances. It appeat's that the agitation is but transient, and that as soon - as the crisis has passed oyes, all again as tranquil as if no disturbance had taken place. But still, though . :there is less . of peril And anxiety than might ,be expected,. tr.de must be totally lit sus pense.—lt appears that Lord Coelirane has arranged his differences, if any such really existed, with the . Autlio. rifles of the Repufilic, and has again sailed-un the great ex tiition with a large.and well-erittipped naval force. The late accounts . res.peeling the . fortunes of Bolivar were evi dently exaggerated against hint ; and it is, extreetely doubt ful whether he has ailio . itted any other basis than absolute in pninnotreations with Murillo. Our own deeiited helief is, that he bai tun. No stress should lie laid up on the estahlislitinint of fri;t-doin in Spain. It is a blessing to siiiain herself, but cu t out not, by possibility, extend to the Cdotties. •How enol , l, so vast an extent of popidation . and territory be c on s tin i tiurisny -vaprisenred at ? Sup pn-ing it possible, the ttansiparint Deputies would over-, shadow the small group of native Deputies. As to the pie sent tcpresentatiUn of the Colonies, it is a mockery. • • F Pr e ss.] liatever half-tlerled• pair of politicians shall be selected its either liouse by the Nlinisters to siliove. and Second thy' Zdtiresti at Abe, opening of Parliament, they will find their task very much ligiit;,ne , l tiv the eare specimen. , of Ministerial nines which aro occasionally trunstiatted to thy other of the 2,ecretary of State, u tnir tht flattelivg title of Loral Ad- dresses. They will . also receive a vast : assi,i;ince fro*: the ancwers whlch are ruost gracitto4yreturnerf by t , ,e Ministers under the' sanction of his N,lesty's name and presence. They Intty thence learn .that acceptable duty they can' perform will be to. deliver, in good set phrase, as pompous a panegyric upon the wisdom of his Majesty's Ministers as:they can protitie for the occ.ision, interspersed with sundry invec ti.ves against the wicked-peuple 'of England, whnor they will he in dot' , hound 'to find guilty of every offence which it can enter into the heart of malt to conceive or e /Cc - e , The more appalling the crimes are with which the -people are charged, the greater of course_ -be the merit of the 'Ministers in keeping the Crown upon his Majesty's head, preserving the fabric of the Cott 4titution front tumbliur about our ears;and protecting the property of .the. church "from being swallowed up by an bun gee mob of blasphemers and atheists. To the praise of the • -Ministers let it also be .recorded; that these Wessiogs were .aceomplislied„'„ without eff,irt upon their part that 'could these the necessity of exercising the power of the laWs • with more than ordinary vitytitr., These young aspirants to political-fame shrw, no ioconsitlephle wisdom slmuld they imitate the examplet heforc . mentioned, iu prodro t ly al staining from particularizing toy acts that could warrant 'a general -censure upon the, people. Nothing is so safe as , ro • deal in genera) charges, and should aoy rude Member of the Opposition deniand any evidenCe in support of the, charges Ti.eferied against' the people, tlie'clialtenge may he easily foriroVen in the reply, orit may be!. trusted to some more ex-. perienced tactician °tithe Treasury Bench, to Avoid or meet it at - his discretion: , • ' . . [i\izoSties.] • • The spirit of Loyalty is spreading ,With the same rapidity in SAttla4 , l a.t'in-England.T We noticed with great -satisfac.. tam the Meeting of the Freeholders at Edinburgh; and we have now to acid, that at, a Nteeting of the Preeholders aft(' Connie of Aberdeen,. WAS lief f on the 20th instant, the ,Lord Dente-omit - in the Chair-, a Loyal Address to the liiug r Was• ot oil b v t 11ieat 111,110$ ,t he t . n itibt.rs being 99 tu 15. • jt is sat y to see - the „proecetting to a division at these ,Meetings,,`Whe the restilt 'so "decidedly proves their ,aiett of properiy,:lan de() or commer cial, they are heaters is or, evert to our : ... bot tilt, the weir stf.praperty are told by rAc filws that t hey are Ultra-Loyal. For unr part we iTty, give•tlS afh.ay.s such Ultras. • a • [l. 'le • . undet;sthnd, tii:•.:auilcl , rity , , p irate pr front letters fro , • • Nafils, that iv' King diascon.4o4.t,ed. t rviiair to I, , tybac , in compliance wit or,more'distifictly &peaking, the sufnutolis is;ited for , thfirifilrkgf;r by,the •, Sove'reigos.':. •This„ftud. I..C9uo l "i'd• 1 ""st 'Prove of t . ntiost;scTionsimpurtance:.: 4 , ll *. ppuiise to appear on such -a cpyntuitslntiri to' 'fie j -if receded • • frtini, witthil seized, s a •k!rotinil44l vuot.tat,tiffewe hy the arm- ' ' ed PotOttatts,'who',&otiid-,desiri,.../to tut-at:7lA VOlll'ahle pretext Inc titeiir pi , fiplc and liberties, of l',:-.loes.,:,ll;,.'n.ll:..tio.yittjt•r tiafid,:ttietKiog's,_intilil mice' !• • retituresbevme t3tp "flionttitlis i?f,' , his.;;overt • PLealim i it is not . • ; inaktrr of .spv.i.ilatiftn fir; siutpi,c)on. What use would be wade ; hint: an) Royai tiseir'pands.,..fht, tlie' •, pui,ipet of their will. • Jl, tutri?lspe:ih!whateverla:nguage., they dictate. „Ile insist retract•Wishtvvvr;!4tl,4'...lie.ti,ay ordered to asseverate were fnuit•SktrWilatelre'r itsproaclies • I).fp)-,ag;iiiist.ntrisjuntittvpy.l4ol3le.,;: I-le must jj . nlitish wtiktAvnt•...,prlatuations. tioay bits •iipproved •by • ; rebel's—enjoining ••• hty7;il4lgin S f its—z-dispersing .the Atiiintl.Pittlistpn•st it utiat , ; and restorlitg the despot iSoi from 004.i..they.h,Dd liven : cmancipated, fin pain of nillitiry exe'CiietifiV)4loo',Orib ins,•vv.c shuilder to think.,-is the perspective, should Ferdinand lie•stifft.ifeit by his Parlia • tueut to put himself beyond t , hearing Of his count lyllll 11. :ma tinder the tuition of .ittangers heat on smothering every spa? of political independence in States contiguous to their OW ii. Nor will a pretext for the march of the German troops he ivanting . ,*e are afraid, if the King slid dectinea to leaVe the Neapolitan territory. He yv'tll thei ie considered under restraint, and must be liberated ny foree of arms. If the King's acquiescence in the demand made upon him from' Troppau were authorized by . his Ministers, and not given be hind their bac. s, they can hardly escape impeachment ; and two Ministers, say the private letters, have been impeached, though for what Cause is not told: We are sincerely - afflicted at the train of evils the prospect of which is thus opened upon mankind, By the packet from Jamaica advices have been received to the 14th ult. The most important part of the intelligence from this - qoarter is contained in the private letters; and n is a singtttar coincidence that, as we yestetday f under the head of infortnat ion derived through Buenos Ayres, noticed the sailing from Valparaiso'ol - th'e expedition tinder the Command Of General St. , Martin, we have this day to mention, as our intelligence by way of Jamaica, the landing 14 that expedition at Pisco, a port to the southwat dof Lima. 'This tact is stated on the authoilty of letters front Lima, dated Sept. 10, and received at Jamaica. The event appears to have taken place only three days before, and to have been communicated by an express from Ptsco to the Viceroy of Lima, where the news of tit. ,Martin"s 'disembarkation produced a very powerful im pression, and nothing le'ss was apprehended by the citize ns than A nother attack on the' harooor of Callao—an attempt which we know from other sowers not t olive been in, laded in the original luau of operations. At Pailanin, front whence c o m m unications hatlitlso taken place at Jain the same aa-• prehension scents to have existed ; and it was angtnented in this latter instance by dissensions between the military and civil auttioritiei of Panatna—as it had heem promulgated there that Lord Cochrane was actually. blockading Callao. and that his views were even extended to the possession of Panawa.,- The re...tutees of the Viceroy of Lima- are described in these lett esa to be far. more abundant Clan has been reeently con jectuved--sonie of the aecntrots'stMing the hirer in the neigh houi-bood of that coy at .3,503, and others. as high as 11,000 I edeetive traops suva:teil by' a considerable fleet in the har t litittr; antOngi which were the three frigates Bsmeralda, Vett gan7a, anti Prueva. The intelligence from Spain of the King's acceptince of tine Constitution had arrived and the requisite .oath to it. had been taken by the people and the taut hurl lies.of the Pe:atviancapital. The instailatirm of the Spanish mation in the blessint.....s .of liberty has extended its bent fits to a -portion of oar countrymen. The deluded,' unfortun ate E.:flowers of Macgregor . , •desertcd by hint on 'his flight :front Porttilaithlo, and afterwards captured and conveyed to Panama by General Hors, regained theirlibet ty ou the - 20th ut Sept., Uy an order from the cointitutional government of Old Spain. Fenn with this alleviation, humanity shudders M the fitte of one portion of th,ni, and the sufferings, of the remainder. Out of n,arry 310 prisoners, marched froth Por tobello to Pattama, in 17 months, only 1 t 3 survived the ini-ery and priest amts to which they were a herwards subjected. The destiny•of the officers has been still more severe . than *hat of the . private soldiers. About 40,0 f the former were tent off to qt.coa!t.and Davies., bOieagues along the coast of thee. Pa cific. Of these, 14 were shot by the order of Government, must of whom were- British . pay officers, Captain.; and Lieu tenants. Only eight survived of those—the rest having, as ;s stated. died of diSease and hardships.. The Prisoners taken at Rio de la Haelle, equally the victims of Macgregor's ink- . t nation and ; cowardice, have • experieuced a similar relief. — Twenty-five of these. unfortunate men arrived at Kingston on the 29th October, in his Majesty's ahip. Bann, iit she. most abject state of destitution; On the application of the surgeon oldie Bann, stating their miserable condition, they were re ceived into the public Hospital of that place, until the plea sure of his Grace the Governor of Jamaica could -be ascer tained. The local news by the .lamaica papers is wholly devoid Of interest. From the Spanish Main no new event is corn municated i; and if the a deices front that quarter strengthen the' belief -that proposals for reconciliation have . act ually been made by Bolivar to NloriLlo, they leave little room for doubting that the President.hadcanaled with that concession he preliminary and absolute re cognition of independence. — Aid). - . „ PROVINCIAL JOURNALS. (From 7'he Leeds lntelligencer, Dec. 25.) Sedition ensnares the poor, and betrays. them in a thou sand specious forms ; and, after all, what are they but tools' in the hands of the cruel- and crafty, for exterminat, inK the humane. find the. honest ? And forone who realizes• the object, WhICII first inflamed him, or riots, as he hoped, in the spoils of his benefactors anti superiors, thousutids are wantonly sacrificed, solely that their murderers stray rise to infamy and uhhorrence on their demolished etre.: cases..'7---"Alot a. . The friends of the King and the Constitution are accused, by their eneniies . , of endeavouring to make a di. eision in the country, between the aids and the poor; we deny ,the charge,. and retoti it upon oar adversaries. They excite disunion and dissension ; they create diOsions between the 'different classes of society; they instigate the poor man .to rebel against the hand that erriplo}s him; and they encourage the labourer and the mechanic to set up their judgment against that of the Nobility, Gentry, Cleigy, and Magistracy of the land ; thus attempting to subvert the very foundation of our Constitution, by opposing numbers to pro perty; and pub:at-Oaring, to prevent the latter from baring that weight and influence in public affairs, which the laws of our ancestors, end thoSe by:which we are governed, intend ed it should possess. Dr. Walker, at the Huddersfield meeting, called the atten tion of his auditory to the strong points of. resemlabiner be tween the proceedings of the Jacobins of France, anti the Psa dicats of England. In nu one point is that resent dance more striiting, that in the base and wicked endeavours to set the poor against the rich; thelatiouret against his master; the peasant against the land proprietor; and, in fact, all the lower , and labouring classes, against the privileged orders ; against the Nobility, the Clergy, and the Magi;traey.—Erery man, no matter what his rank, who does nut fall down and worship the *Juggernaut of tire molt, is assailed with the most gross in vective, the most teurrileus abuse.. His motires'are misrepre sented ; and he is held op by the liberal faction, as a supporter of abuses, by which.lre benefits; assn oppressor ofiunueence, the Itioniph.of which be dreads; and as a tyrant 'over the people, on ultose sehjection his own importance depends. In such a strain are the characters of the most eminent amongst the nobility,' the clergy, and gentry of the country, assailed by a set of dastardly malignant libellers, who merit the scorn and iiiilignatiou of every hottest inan. The effect 'of this conduct is too plainly perceptible ' in the altered man ners•of out,population ; intbat spirit of disloyalty, insuboi aillaiinn, and infidelity, which now characterises so large a portion of the English peoPle; that people, who, hut slew short years hack, Were as aural: as they are brave ; and were . ? distinguished fur their .devoted attachment to their King; ,their manly respect to their superiOrs; their obedience to the ordinances of divine, and the laws of ittiman, authority, ' Woregrei for the sake of the people (or. rather the popu lace themselves) the too successful efforts of mir radical de magognes and editors in thus exciting a - feeling of dislike, not to say hatted, in'thelower against the higher orders.. Site!) a spirit can herer benefit, the former, hot will ,eventually. re coil upon their own hearts; and,.should it break Out :in revo lution, their utter ruin trust ensue. storm which as sailed the palace of the noble, would.not pass over the cot : t'age of the peasaat it vmzilo involve bn!Li in its rurtes.; and the only beings who could- pirstit from such a concussion, Would he those worse than fiends—the.men who had by their falsehoods and calumnies,' goaded their credulous followers on. to acts of ,desperation and rebellion ; whilst theyiteptoit ui the Peach of danger, ready to s...ize hold of. any favour able opportunity to aggrandize themselves and to laugh at ,the wide•spreading devastation of which they had been the Cit,n . • this diabolical system is now pushing to its ver y furthest extent.' in the calumnis s with which the framers and signers • of the loyal and constitutioual widresses are assa;led. The names ittoiched to those ' addresses are . those of per s'on's of the first 2 res pe c tability and opulence in the respective towns ; ernhr4cing . a vast preponderance of the , pro perty in all of them. And yet this gioluine'exprestion of. the public voice, is derided by the radical scribes; and the ad di•esses Voted by such assemblies as we have seen held 'at Bean Int; and in the Cloth Hall Yard, are set up in opposition to it I in the ‘e good old times," of which our railicak boast so much and know so little, the lowerclAsscs would not thus have opposed themselves to the opinions and judgments of their superiors. .They would hare recollected that, neither their habits nor their of information could resider them so•. comps tent to decide oo pubiic qOestions, as those who,pos sesstd both more leisure to devote to the study of the taws and constitution of their country, and the means of devoting that leisure io . a heifer' purpose. In those gays, some respect was. paid to rank and some deference to property ; and in pro portion to the manner in which the people observed their duties, they woe happy and . contented ;cliee'rfulness was then the companion of.thiSr fire-side, Irons whence it is now ba nished to make m room for glooy discontent and disaffection. ~This is do uis natural,state„Of sPeiety and one a hich, if it continues, must luring cenSegliences that every lover of his country will deprecate. It can produce, as we hairs; already stated, no good to that class whom the radicals exclusively style •‘ the people ;" their interest is indissolubly connected with that of their superiors; their prosperity is as intimately dePtruftist npon that of the latter. Those who Would per suade thtm, that the highest . trclers h:tve any Interest in op presl4ing and tyrannizing over them, are their greatest ene mies; and t Hose; in particular, who are continually Searching for 'occasions which will enable them to bring - the ministers of religion into contempt, are the direst foes to their happiness, nut only in this world, but in the next. We call upon time people to disclaim the principles which are promulgated in their name; we call upon them to ret urn to that allegiance they are tm),:lit to Scorn; to that faith they are taught to disavow.— " Fear God and honour the King," is a command stamped with the ineoituable force of divineaut hority; they cannot fulfil one branch of it and neglect the other ; both must be obeyed, or the precept is violated. Whether there is any" fear of God" before the eyes of thOse. Who disseminate blasphemy aud sedition through the land ; whether those " hollow the King," who at once insult their Sovereign and traduCe his Ministers, we leave for every conscientious Christian to de termine. LAW APPOINTMENTS BY THE QUEEN. (Pron. the Dublin Correspondent.) •It is stated in a Morning Paper, that - her Majesty the Queen has been pleased to appdint an Attorney-General, and also a Solicitor-General for Ireland.. We have no right to queition what is stated as a tact, however odd or singular, unneerS sary Or illegal it may appear—hut we have a right, certainly, to doubt her - Majesty's authority tit bestow, in Ireland, either rank or power noon any mendier of the profession of the Law. Her Majesty's rights in this - way, are undisputed ill England ; heciaus . e, as Blackstone says, rind speaks always upon ant horit v-4 4 The Queen of England hat h separate Courts and Officers distinct from the King's, not only in mat- ters of ceremony, but even of laW ; her Attorney and Sobel tor-Peneral are entitled to a place within the Bar of his Ma jesty's (*inlets, together with the King's Counsel.che rea so9 given for this is not founded Nom any prerogative inhering in the dignity of a Qateen, - but upon grounds of public nee,es 'snty: " The reason," says Black-tone, 4. given by Sir Edward Chaise is this llecause the se;saloat of the tutu troll Law would not have she King, whose continnttl rare and study is for the public, et circa ardllo regni, to be troubled and dis quieted nts'accontet of his - wife's. domestic affairs, and there faire it vests in the Queen a power of transacting her own concerns, without the intervention of the King, as if she was an unmarried • For about .eight hundred years, no consort of any Lord of Ireland, reigning in England, or of any King upon the throne of England, had any dornestic affairs tai he transacted. in Ireland—or supposing . for a Moment, that she had, the King's deputy in this kingdom would final, in the ordinary aids which the law officers of his Majesty have time and liower afforded hint, sufficient means to vindicate her Ma jesty's rights, without trouhlrng or...disquieting the King on account of them. But, in this matter, the Common Law, in order to prevent t he King front being - disquieted or ItOubled about the (anirea's" domestic affairs, allows his Consort her Courts of Law, and her law office's in England-'—but the rea son for this permission never exist ed in Ireland,, where the Queen of; England never had a court of Law, or any officer of law down to the present day. There is the reason of the Common Law .against the pretension claimed by her Majesty, there is the silence of all preceding time, to strew that the Queen of England never.had a court of law in Ireland, nor a law officer—how then, .can any Judge of this* land recognise the Law appointments,. said to be made by her Majesty in Ireland.? If it were a matter not obligatory upon the Loud High Chancellor of Ireland and the other Judges, to.disalinw.--and if it. were only a /natter of mere discretion whether or not they should recognise the appointments which we are to-suppose the Queen has made—would they riot feel themselves hound to be satisfied, that the very 1:1111e reasons, and dto other, required and justified the s sanctioningof the Queen's Law Officers for the first time to Ireland, which ac- Cording to Sir Edward Coke, constitutes the only ground up , on, which the Queen was empowered .to have CoArt s' of her own, arid Law Officers in England ? Would they not - be bound in -conscience., aS wise.and grave men, to examine, suspici ously and jealously, the causes Which - may have induced the Queen, for the first time sinCa the creation, to set up a right to appoint Law„Officers in I . reland--not deferring tn-.hypotbe tical inventions,' bust exarnaiing solely public,groUnds of ne cel4ity and polity?' 'We tippet:bend that if her late Majesty had advanced such a claim, great as her virtues were—nohle as her example was—enthusiastic as were heraffections for her linsban&—and sedulous as tier tenderness uniformly,was, to preserve him froM troubled and disquieted by her , domestic affairs'—yrt the Judges conid nut eoneur in it ;-. fair there was no precedent for - it, - no law, nut• no politic neees site—though the latter wutild be matter for the Legislature, and nut fur them to interfere, in, if it were to assume a press ure; shape. And does the present pretension advanced by her Majesty, affect to found itself upon the reason of the Common Law right. to Practice•the sane in Etneland.? Is it for the Ring's peace,t hat the Queen has taken such an unprecedented sten ? Is to present our SOVeleigo Lord King George IV. from being troubled and distmehed by her domestic affairs, that her Ma jesty has appointed an Al; ot oil and Solleitiff:Geneeal in Ire land ? will leave the answens to be given by the common cerise of tile Country. -At present, we only propose to our selves to make alimited.and. Impartial suggestion tision this head. We respect the . protesslori intent' which tier Majesty has 'Selected bel Ministers in Ireland, and we seminal not un provuleedly transgress against that 'respect—hot we cannot conceive the possibility of that selection, or any other to the purpose, receiving the ancient essential to the giving of it efficiency, • The famous American Recipe for the Rheu nuttism.—Take of garlic two cloves, of gum am maniac one drachm, blend them by bruising them together ; make them into two dr three bolusses, with fair water, and swallow them, one at nights and one in the morning; . drink, while taking this receipt, sassafras tea, made very strong, so as to have the tea-pot tilled with chips. —This is generally :found to banish the rheuma tism, and even - contractions in the joints; in a few thbes using. It is very famous in America, and 1001. have been given for the receipt. Fatal Consequences of Noctambulation.-7-Early on Friday morning the Ist eurr ent, .a young man, the only son of a respectable family in Airdrie, arose froth his bed:while asleep, and is supposed to have fallen when coming out, • and, struck the corner of a chair With his head ;. he died in a few hours after. The head was inspected by the medical gentlemen of the place, when a small fraeture was found on the' right temple bone, and a great quantity extravasated blond between the skull and dung mater, by the rupture of a 'blood' essel, which occasioned his ,death. • From his infancy he had been in the habit of rising in his sleep.---L-(Edin6urgh Coarant, Dec. '25.) An earthquake, exceeding in duration any whiCh has for a length of time previously been experienced, was felt at the island of Antigua, on the 17th ult.; fifteen minutes after eight o'clock in the evening. .A second shock was also felt on the following morning, at twenty Minutes 'before the Same hour. One of those natural curiosities, which some Orson affect to believe does not exist,-ealled a Aferthaid, has arrived, on board the Borneo, J. C. Ross, master, now lying in, the _Thames, from Bencoolen, in Sumatra. It is of a perfect 'human form from the head to the middle, and the rest consists of a rail of a .fish resembling the dol- phin. As Captain WILSON, of the sloop Harmony, was coming 'ap from G rimsby, on Saturday even in lastoo.late as ten o'clock, and making the harbour mouth while the wind was bloc ing . fresh, he was unfortunately precipitated, overboard and lost before any assistance could have been afford ed him. His body is not yet found. Any in.. formation on the subject, when found, will 1w - gratefully received by . his distressed . friends ; or at Mr. JouNsox's, 23,. Princess-street. He. -was an active and .a worthy'young man, and has left a wife and two children to deplore his loss. ( Packet, Dee. 25.) MURDER AT HO)CTON. CORONER'S INQUEST. Yesterday morning Mr.*terling, the Coroner, came to the Police tolice, Worship-street,- and produced at: anonymout letter he received by post, stating that the writer had been attempted to be- robbed by Charles Taylor anti another, in Flom on, on last Friday night, when he shot Taylor jn seitdefenee, and the other wan then escaped. He remained consultation with Mr. Benoett, the Magistrates till three o'clock, the !tont• appointed to take the inquest, and then met Mr. Unbein, the other Corone , for the county of Middlesex, at the Horns Tavern, opposite Shoreditch church, where a respectable Jury Was empuonelted to itivesti-s gate all matters and things relating to the death of the de ceased. An'immense crowd was collected about the house during the proceeding. The jury being sworn, they went to view the body, whichlay in a vault in the church, and on their remit Mr. Unwin read the following letter, received by Mr. Stirling in the morming as above stated " Sir—Having seen in the Newspapers various accounts re specting; the unfortunate man Who was killed iu Hoxton-fields, on Friday eveni,g last, beg leave to state the following cer tain facts respecting ,lnin,for the satisfaction of the Jury, and hint who holds the inquest " Passit , p, through the fields on Friday night about eight o'clock, I wet the deceased and another man, who ordered me to stop and deliver toy money, which I refused ; the deceased replied, if you make the least noise I will hlutv your brains out. • I answered, if you touch use, I have pistols and will shoot you. Whilst spelking, he made a kind of thrust, et' forward b:ow afire, which 1 parried with my umbrella. Hr again reheated be would blow. toy ottt if I spoke a worn. I vet tinned, retreating back sva,.ds 11010 the moment n:et hint, and he.follOwcd, sheaving a determination, notwith standing I repeated nty threat •itf shooting hint. The dark- Iles, of the night prevented. my konwiug what he was artoed with, but I tell it wit, something rough which struck against my umbrellti, and after repeated threats to blow my brains out, trotting escape front' apparent instant danger itupossi;tle. by•any other means, I made a sudden spring hackward;, and tired at.hrsi from the distance, I believe, of in or 12 fret ; Gz received the charge (a bullet), and exclaimed, " Oh, I am killed I" nod then leant. aganist the railing, and alt.vrw.ads tell. Had I not been convinced the wound *as mortal, r,c had there been the least hittie of his recovery, I wOuht have procured assistance, but the" aim made at this moment of the most painful agitation was too true.--Tee other mart ran oil. • -- ‘• From that time till I 441 the field I met no lintri-iti-beine• The truth ut thli • statement may he relied upon, mot Int t her search of, the body the bullet, I doubt not, nill be found, unless it passed quite tough the ndy. " The very peculiar cunt - haling feeling at the moment, gratitude fur my • providential escape, and sorrow for the vunhappily attempted crime of, the deceased, operated so forcibly upon my mind, together with the natm e my bu siness, .deterinitted me to leave the discovery to ehatr,:e. did not Conceal it froth any idea of Ganger fur toynelf: the arm of justice, sellpreservation (the first law oi".rtatuie , , the duty of my conseience,lhe happiness of my wife and family, partly are the motives by which I am induced to give this statement without my nanie; but this relation of the truth may be relied on as well as if it was attestedliy the most unquestionable names in London, and I solemnly swear to the truth of it. My object in writing to you, is to prevent suspicion of his being killed by robbers. Front his deter pitted manner of attack, I believe. hint to have keen a prac tised footpad. To account for my having pistols, it may be proper to state, that this is the third assault I have met v.-10 in four months. in the first of which I was robbed of consi derable property, and hare since carried pistols in my own defence." ' Mr. G. - T. Heath, surgeon, at tioxton, examined the body at the Whitmore's Head, and found a wound to the bream!, which he tilt!' thought was inflicted by some sharp instru ment. 'He now further examined the wound at the rely'4t of the Coroner and Jury. traced it through the heart, and found a pistol ball between the fourth and fifth till, left side of the spine. Joseph Richardson and two others, the men in the employ of Mr. Kutt, the Kines rioter, at Shak!eworth, deposed to the finding of the body of the deceased .about- twenty-fiv i e yard 3 front the bridge-way in • Rhodes' fields, htv.t they at first thought he was drunk,' and carried , him to the Wtiltroore's Head. A person who' met the deceased in the fields in thee Arly part of the evening, described his dress, out he had nt, ledge of hint. Crocliwell, the beadle, said, the woman with whom 1.! , e deceased cohabited at the Rose and .Crown, cow, and who sinee- his death deo rnyed herself, told bins the deceased left her at seven o'clock on Friday morning -to go gate•street, to rove-ire a hill or. 71. hr %yolk done Ivy 11,:t at. Woolwich for a Gentleman there. He was by % . :tdr a lit layeri but had no work for the last eight weeks. She Ite ed he lied a comple of shillin49 a hen he went out. The deceased's brother saw the body in the church. and re cognised-it. . . James Kennedy, Police Othcer at Workhip•street. knew the deceased eight years, but had not sctoi him the last twelve months till his death ; his name was Charles Taylor, he had a wile, - who is non- living in (lid Bet Wenn the Women he tired with was her sister's dittzliter, -her mune was filevi ha Singleton. He had the deceased in custody on 'no assault warrant some time • ago, and had no. doubt about his iden tity. - .His father, brother, or wife, did not know where he lived since he absconded limn Iris trfti. He was thirty- four years of age. The Coroner urged ar verdict of " Wilful Murder" . avainst some person unknown, but the Jury, atter half an bout's cis liberation, returned a verdict •' That- the deceased died its co nsequence of mOrtal.i: jut y inflicted by a pistol hall, but by whom or under what ciicomstances the pistol was fired, there was no evidence beton, the Joey.'' The Inquest on the unfortunate woman who lived with the deceased will be held this day. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. EX4MINATIONS, MEETINGS, &C. The Company Concern of Robert Craig. millers and grain dualers;Partick, to be ersixinini , d in the Sheriff-clerk's 'office, Glasgow, ed - and is,f7th .3,troary, at I. Creditors of Middleton, merchant, - Glasgow, meet in the Trustee's office there, 44 , h jaintaTy, at 12. Creditors of Willianr Gordon, merchant, Kelso,-will-rteeire dividend at the office of - Rohl Bruce, Writer there, Creditors of Gittsi;a and Duncan, merchants, Leith, will receive a dividend from the tt.nstce, 22, Elller•street, Edin burgh; Q3d January. Creditors of Robert Marshall, laic saddicr, Kelm, Will re eeive a dividend at tie office of Robsrt Bruce, writer there, '2oth January. States of the affairs of Colin Gltlies, merchant in Breehin, lie with the trustee—NO dividend. • Graltant and Storrrr, rnetchttuts, Edinburgh—James Buch anan, bleacher; Laucefietti; karat- Giasgow—THnim a nd W a n. 'TenderFon and Co. merchants, - Elitthurgh—qobert merchant, Glasgow—and Donald Grabant, merchant, Oban, have appliied for discharges. The Junction Canal from Wigan Leigh is nOlf Completed ; this, branch is about seven miles in length, and fortes a connminication with the mid land and southern counties, from that of the Earl Of FiRIDGEWA ; TER. An old CORO, of 83, at Matowie,, near Elgin, on Friday se'nnight, the ,Sth instaut, met with a veryshocking death. He had been drying corn 'on One' 'of the• o ld-fashioned kilns, in which stiiAles.and lit:Yr.:cloth are used in place of brick or metal ; and: having gone upon these to turn Ole corn, while the ingle was going, the stickles gave way, and he was -precic,sita . te4. to the bottom, where he was' in an - sulFocated, and buint to death.—(lnverness Pq,er.) Yesterday,' in Orvat, 11.uvell-street, Mts. David Francis Juries, of a daughter. • •• Can the nth 11 ,, bert Torrens, to Bliss Esther S. Serie, tinuyst daocilter of the late Ambrose SeC,e, 'Esq. CumtuissiOtler of the Tr,ns?t it Board. • DIED. On Tuesday morninz, fqed 33, at Camden Town, Mrs. Harris, wift: of Mr. John Harris, late 'of Sun-street, Liistiops- • I.ONDON: Printed hyJ. B. crifts - rA cf . N 0.99, G'vr! Oriun , lo,-street. Quern-scoare; and pribliqbed by W. :A. , SCRIPTS, of N , %. 7, 'South Molion-street, at THE ,Strr; Strand; where,Attrettisrments, Ordcr'f &c. . Strand he'aidtosxed. / 1 . ' i 6 _~~ ~_ '~f :s~.. of th( :hem 'rosy; Ceogr stance The 5t1.,50 t ions c Glactic. Ca qt Part and p( I St of e4rdin Great ture 'mat Gen round RAM , will b, All a cove Ivall 1)4 • 8111 than — tl Egttita mane! (i.Ei Rt. H 'lon. Sir J Sir '117; WilHa .lolin I S. I'. ftlatnes iFranc Pc r stiperl Ilrure Fol' lttarV lard, ~~~ -~~'~ti 'very i respet 11tzr si k 134 sc /Hit c( INow tar 50, ~~ I. Thi of the realai 414t1 LI Thi thost Th( day. valvy, Ivith legit and a at Is. Th day. Th( Is. GI is. lu 'rim 'ran ( en 'Fri Ant Fraud of Pe siuner Jur f eil