The Sun. — London, England, 1820-01-13 00:00:00

LONDON JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS BAT. [Morni►►g Chronicle 3 We have undoubted authority tor stating, that there is no foundation for the paragraph inserted in our Pdper of last week, in which we announced the recal of Sir Thomas Maitland. [Morning Post.] A change is shortly to take place in the Chief Direction of the Quarter-Master-General's De partment, at the Horse Guards, Sir Benjamin D'Utboi, ►rho► at present fills the distinguished post of Quarter-Maater-Gencral having been ap pointed to rite Government of two of the West India Islands. We are not etiahlrd to speak with certainty at to the person likely to succeed to the vacant sitteion, hut we understand, an arrange ment to be in contemplation for bestowing it on Colonel Jackson, of the Guards, while his Grace the Duke of Richmond, who is et present on half pay, is intended to succeed that Officer in his Regiment. FOR ME SUN. THE . 131.F.SSINGS OF TUE C'ONSTI 1.13T10N. (Continued from our Paper of Tuesday, the i ith inst.) An►t bow truly tl►e itea,al Power edsuinDDter ► jnstice in tpetcy, let e‘ery London 4 ,e , sittits, im4 l its civirpted autl.olity at the Assizes, slew. But, whence tin blessed prerogative and its eon- sequenees emanate ? From th. religions prinei plr, which pervades, and regulates, and humanizes unr Constitution ; which instructed its framers, that punishment can he justified only, so far it is necessary for the public safety, and that whensoever it m,4y he remitted wirliont future danger, it needs not to be visited on the past of hurl.. By the same principle we are instructed also, that As the Almighty has graciously temper ed, his juts ice with merry, his vicegerents on earth are required to exercise the like forbear ance. With our REGeNT, as with his venerable FATtlEft, the duty has been a delight, and will be pot only here, but in a better world, a rewird. however, in its union u ill the Laws of Boit heis beCome bleritied with all our habits, and and connexions, and institutions, Religion stands• at the entrance of life, Dads us thron g !' its passage, anti conducts us to its close. Without 'it,' otir dearest affections would he lest dear;—witti it the husband and wife, the parent and child, the brother and sister, the friend and neighbour, are b:tund together in (me progressive and expanding fellowship. Such are the religious blessings of the British Constitution. If the fruits which they were de signed to bring fotth do not appear iu their full valise, we insist blame the depravity of those per sans, who, through selfish or cot rapt motives, impede their genuine influence. Would we, in stead of foolishly or perversely rejecting them, tibide by the religious principles of the Constitu tion, all would be unity, and peace, and order. It were well to .consider, if with the blessing of such principles we cannot be contented and hap py, what were our situation if we bad been al ways strangers to them, anti what is will be, if we stiffer ourselves, to be reformed and revolu tionized our 'of their possession. Let us, then, ere it be too late, secure the con- tinottnee of the strongest, and at the same time. the least painful restraint of our corrupt nature. The religious principles of the Constitution are its best privileges, and its most lasing safeguards.— Therefore tht•y should be asserted against the In fidel and Scorner, as its highost blessings. [To be eontinoeci.3 [The %Vritrr of this excellent Article no►• pro ceeds *with its second division, •` The Security of Life and Person."--But we prefer publishing it in its entire and separate state, and earnestly ex pect to be favoured with its continuation.] [The Times] Letters from Paris, dated Friday last, state, that the Bank of France, in consequence of the very limited appl:cari o ns for disciounti made in the depressed situation of comineree, ha• accumulated a lisp:►➢able capital of 170 millions of francs, nearly 7 millions sterlin4, which at •this moment is in a great ttieeree unproductive. This has led to a reduction of the interest on shares held in that institution, to 6 per cent, per annum, the lowest rate permitted by the conditions on which their charter is held. As the •hares in the Bank ot France are now quoted at 1430, originally issued at 1,000 francs, the real interest paid is little more than 4 per cent., and that et period when the GovertiOient sectoities of the country are realizing 7 per cent. per annum. The . Directors of Ate Batik of France are now meditating a inca sut•e which will ptohaiily approximate their own fun•'s. and those of the country, to the lame le vel—to obtain the sanction ot their proprietors to the inbeement of the portion of thtir capital for whi c h ito commercial 44'111.110 i+► the par- chase of mites. The attempt was made last year, and as .lien remitted abortive its a minority of our person only. The rice of the rentes, as brought by this mail, is miser than the lost, the gt►otatinn►o at tilc cot►e:o6c,ui or Frithy's market being 72 f. 3U c., with 24 fur the rate, of exchange. FOR THE SUN. BILL FOR THE MORE EAST RECOVERY OF SMALL DEBTS. ! Ma. EnlToß—it Noble and Learned Lord hav ;rig given .notiee in the House of Peers, last Sea •inns, that he should, during the ensuing Sessions, introduce a Bill of this nature, and such a mea •ure appearing to be of high importance to the Community, it may be permuted me, through the respectable medium of your Paper, to invite pub lic attention to its purview and objects. About 10 years since a Bill of this description was in►roduced by the same Nobleman, with whom the Writer of this bad the honour to correspond on the subject at that period ; it was read a first time, and ordered to be printed. The Learned Lurd has announced, tbat the measure in contem plation is similar to that which be before intro duced, awl the Public will be enabled to estimate the probable benefits from an untline of the printed Bill then offered to Parliament. It is intittded " An Act for the more convenient recovery of Sinai! Debts in England and Wales." After reciting that " the administration of Justice " would be assisted by establishing Courts in the several Counties of England mill Wales for re " covery c►f Small Debts ;" it enacts, that a Bar risterfat Law of fix years standing, shall he ap-' pointed Judge of a Court to be established for recovery of Sinai( Debts in every County, and that the Justices of the Peace shall yearly at their General Quarter Session, fix the salary to be paid to such Judge out of the County Rates. That the Judge so appointed shall, in case of illness or inability _to attend, appoint a Deputy being also a Barrister, and subject to the appro bation of the Lord Chancellor, Lord Keeper, or Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal, to act fot such Judge. That the Judge shall appoint . a proper person to be Clerk of such. Court to be subject to re moval when and as such Judge shall think proper. That all money which shall be paid into any such Court, shall be paid to such Clerk, for whom the Judge shall be responsible, and 'shall take security from him ; and all money so received shall be deemed a Debt of Record to the King, and be paid accordingly, and the order of Court for payment of such money by the Clerk shall be made a judgment of such Court, upon which pro cess shall issue against such Clerk, as upon a judgment; for a Debt due to the King. That the, several Judges and Clerks shall re spectively take oaths of office faithfully to exe cute such offices. That all persons having freehold lands or here ditament' of the yearly rent of 51 , or freehold and copybold lends or hereditaments of the rent of 101., and all occupiers of lands, tenements, or he-. reditaments, of the rent of 501., being of the ag• of 21 years and under 70 years of age, shall be deemed liable and qualified to serve as Jurymen in the said several Courts. That two lists Of the names and residence of such qualified per6ns shall be returned to the Justices of the Peace, and to the Sheriffs of die Counties, in the same m anner as lists are return ed of persons qualified to serve on Juries at As• sizes. summon That the Sheriff of each County shall twelve of the perilous so returned to attend every Court to be holden, of whom six shall be a July; and that the Justices of the Peace shall give di rections to the Sheriff with respect to the number of persons to be summoned, and the rotation in which they shall be so summoned. That if the Justices shall be of opinion a larger number than 12 may be summoned, and a larger number than six may serve, such Justices may so order. Provided that the Persons so summoned shall in no case exceed 24, and the Jury to be sworn shall in no case exceed 12. That the summons shall be personally served on every Juryman, or left , at his place of abode with his wife or servant, six days at least before the Court shall be holden ; or at the discretion of the Court, at a greater distance of time, not exceeding in any case teu days before the holding of the Court. And that if any Juryman drily Immnoned shall pat attend, or make l a wf u l e xcuse, t h e J u dge to impose a fine on such Juryin fn. This, Mr. Zlitor, is an outline of the Court proposed to be established in each County, to enable suitors to obtain payment of small debts, without incurring those disproportionate ex pellees cvhich too frequently attend suits in the superior Courts at Westminster HAIL 11l my next,.l shall detail briefly the nature of the pro ceedings on the part of plaintiffs and drfendants, from the commeocenteot of the suit to .the time of hearing in such proposed Courts, a nd in the meanwhile remain Your's, Temple, Mb January. W. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed Lest Night. TULA 1111 ROYAL. DRUKT-LANI.—Guy Mannering Henry Bertram, Mr. Braliarn ; Lucy Bertram, Miss Carew Meg Merrilies, Mrs. Egerton. Afar which, jaek and the Bean Stalk. TM MAYBE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.—The Comedy of Errors.; Drotnio of Ephesus, Mr: W. Farren Adriana, Miss Ste phens. After which, Harlequin and Duo Quixote. PRICE (ii STOCKS THIS DAT AT T' Bank Rtnek 420{ I per Cant. Red GSM 3 pet Cent. Cons. 67iii 3i per Cent. 4 per Cents. per Ct. Navy ELI/ v. cec 1,6 C it . Bank LongAnn.l7 15-16th• la India Stock 2051 India Bends Bs. 9s. pr. Exch. Bills, 2d.... ls. Qs. dis. Cons. for Account .. 694ifii MAILS. Aunivitn-2 Dublin, 1 Waterford, 1 France. Due-1 Guernsey and Jersey, 1 Holland, 1 Gottenburgh, 1 Lis-bon. HIGH WATER ♦T LONDON BRIDGE To.monnow. %turning., 42 minutes after 0. j Erening,.l7 minutes after I. THE SUN. SOLES! QUIS DICERY FALSUM AVDRAT ? LONDON, THURSDAY, JAAUARY 13, 1820. We.receised this morning the Paris Papers of Sunday and Monday last. There had been no sitting of the Chambers. The following are Ex. tracts :-- " PARIS, JAN. 10.—Ths King received yester day the Ministers, Marshals, a great number of General officers, Peers, Depties, &c. " The Prince de Tallsyrand has been indispos ed for Sonic days. " A private Letter from Naples says. the Ist instant snow fell here accompanied by muck thun der. About the middle, of the night the inhabi taots were awakened by a subterrantous noise, and soon afterwards one of the most dreadful eruptions commenced that has been witnessed for 20 years. The inhabitants of Torre del Greco, of l'Anmenziata, sod even of Portici, experienced the greatest disquietude, apprehending the fate of Her... cultoeum and Pompeii. The lava,however, fortu nately divided itself into five torrents, and flowed to the foot of the mountain for the space of a league. The crater is much enlarged, a part of its brink having fallen into the Gulpb. Oa the 7th the lava still continued to flow. • - " Marshal Sault (Duke of Waist's) yester day received from the hands of the King in the Salle de Throne, the Baton of a Marshal of France, and took the oaths in that capacity. " The health of M. de Serres is in a more sa- tisfactory state. " Letters from Petershurgb, dated the 15th ult., state, that the Baron Mullen Sakomelaky, General of Artillery, had been appointed Minister of War. " The Ex-Director Barras is dangerously ill. " Saturday, at midnight, the thermometer of ch e v a llier was 7 degrees below zero. The River is frozen. " One hundred and thirty.nine Petitions have been received at the Chamber of Deputies; rela- tive to the maintenance of the Charter aird the Election Law, which will be reported upon, at the, £.st public Sitting after the 10th instant. The number of signatures to these Petitions is 19,057. " Le Carpentier, the Conventionalist Regicide, who was arrested in the Department of La Manche, having been charged before the Cour Royale of Caen with infringing the law which condemned bins to banishment, appealed in Cassation ; the Supreme Court has rejected his appeal, and confirmed the art-it, which sen.ds Le Carpentier before the Court of Assizes of Is Manche. PIVR PRR CIiNTS. Saturday DEFERRED STOCK. Of the 12d March, 1817, .. . . 94 f. 55c. 92d Sept. . 181/, 99f. 55 c. etd March, 1818, 9O f. 55 c. 22d Sept. 1818, BB f. 55c. 24d Marsh,' 819, ttd Sept. 1819 84 f. 60 c." We 'received sometime since en Artiide which we insert this day, as it appears to be of great importance to our Commercial Interests, and the prosperity of our Colonial Possessions. As we do not profess to be sufficiently acquainted with the subject in question, we deemed it proper to consult some of our mercantile Readers, whose knowledge and experience might enable them to afford such information as would deserve the attention of Government. The article is taken from a public Journal of Halifax, Nova Scotia, entitled 'l' ite Fees PRESS. We have been parti cularly desired by our mercantile connexions to give it insertion, and therefore we now , comply with their request, not doubting that our Admiralty Department, which is distinguished fur knowledge, experience, and activity, will examine the subject with zeal and decide with judgment. Indeed, we have heard that the 'subject has al reedy been discussed, and that Halifax is to be restored to its former state, a . citentustance, we ire assured, which will afford much plesbure in this Country as well as in that qtt.irter, anti emi nently conciiice to our Comusercid Prosperity. SHIP NEWS. DEAL, JAN. 12.—Came down from the River and sailed the Ariadne, HAMILTON, fur Grand Canary ; Minstrel, LINKLATER, for Malta ; Seneca, BELL, for Mogadore ; and several others, naines unknown. 1 PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 12.-Arrived his Majesty's ship Hind, from a cruize.—Sailed the Barton, CORNISH, for Stangate Creek f; and the Prince Leopold, Mangles, for Weymouth. • HARWICH, JAN. 12."..Arrived the Ann, Hun. BARD, from London, with loss of anchor and cable; and Sarah, WHITE HEAD, from ditto, also with loss of anchor and cable. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 11.—Arrived the Dutch cut ter Le Chasseur, from Malaga to Antwerp, ill distress. , CORK, JAN, 7.—Sailed bis Majesty's ships Tri bune, Dotterel, Arab, and Shamrock, and the Fanny revenue eruizer. HULL, JAN. I 1.--A large ship has been on shore on the Rinks, and has gone to pieces.-- The crew ere saved ; her name is not known, but she is supposed to be a Collier. MARGATB, JAN. 12.'--Arrived the Cordelia, URQUHART, from Messina, for London, with loss of anchor and cable, and has sailed again ;for London. The schooner William and Henry, waa got off Westgate Rock last night, and is brought into the Harbour. CUSTOMS' LIST. Zit ereil Inwards, Janucry IL—Brampton,,Green, Bon• bay; Sprightly, Miller, Leith. Entered Outwards, January I2.—Jean Pierre, Ileye, Os tend ; Re3ulution, M'Gregor, Malta. C7eared Outwards, January 12.—Celerills, Leger, Rouen. Advice. received from America state, that some important conamercid arrangements haiit lately been entered into between the Government of the United States and the King of PRUSSIA. By these, all vessels belonging to his Mas?tTv are placed on the same tooting as to tonnage, as those of America, and also as to the ditty ors goods im tpionret e o d f by t hem, being the produce or tr iatin f ae - An order has been issued front the Treasury Department at Washington, address ed to the Collectors of the different ports of the Union, for carrying these regulations into effect, which is as follows : • " Treasury Department, Nov. 15, 1519. " In the Circular from this Departmeht, of the 14th April„ 1519, it is observed, that when information should be re ceised that tl,e Prussian Government had repealed its dia.. crimitiatpry duties, so far as they operated agaiiist the Unitet State 3, you shookd he advised thereof. " " Flom an official communication of a copy of an Dreier of that Government, recently received by this Department, it appears— f. That the discrintinating,dotiei on the part -of Prussia wire difected t o be abolished on the 14th Mag. Mb, with vd glieitto the vessels of the United Stites', and their cargoes. '" 2. That Prussia is not in possession of any other sea ports. than Koningsberg,Dantaie, Stettin, Clic - Alin, - alisiStr a d. " You will, therefore, consider the vessels of Prussia-en titled to the benefit of the Atit of the 20th Apt il, en titled, < An Act concerning Tonnage and Disetiminatiug Dd.' ties in certain Cases,' and refund such ditties as .are incon sistent with the pro - visions of the Act, and which have been Collected since the 14th of August, I gl9, the day oo which the reciprocal measures on the part ofyrussia tools effect." THIS PRINCE REIRENT . S Couaf.—Yesterday, at three o'clock, tl►e PRINCE BaasNr held a Court at Carltnn•house, which was attended by the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Master-General of the Ordnance, the President of the. Board of Controul,, the Earl of Molgrave, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, &c.—The Prince Regent held a Privy Council; at which Mr. Buller attended as Royal Highness gave audiences ter the E+'arl of Liverpool and - Viscouut Castlereagh.— Viscount Melbourne was it) waiting for the Earl of De Is Warr, and Colonel Whalley was the Groom iu Waiting, tpr Mr. Cavendish Bradshaw, The Court broke up a little before six. The Nuremberg Correspondent cites a letter froth Riti Janeiro, of the sth of October last, which announces a rumour that prevailed there of an at tempt made to liberate BUONAPARTE. It is said, that an English packet had brought to the Ad• miral on the St. Helena station, an order to re move the Ex-Emperor to the Cape of Good Hope ; but it was soon discovered that the do cument was false. It apneers that a project bed been formed to rescue. AUCI.NAPARTIS on the pas sage, by means of five privateers, which had been equipped in a port , of South America.--- (Paris Paper.) By the Isabella, Captain BISHOP, arrived at Stangate Creek from Mog.adore, advice; are re ceived front thence to the sth tilt. at which-ptriod the plague was still prevalent there, but the deaths were, however, not more than three or four each day, and as the weather had taken a fa vourable change, it was confidently expected the infection would cease in a shoot time. Owing to the above circumstance, the Isabella brought a foul bill of health, and has therefore keen ordered to perform 30 days quarantine. The British Vice. Consul returned home passenger in the %e33d, and is now at Mtengate Creek. A letter received at Portsmouth from an emigrant to the United States, dated New York, Oct. 14, 1819, says—" Above all things, do not think of coming here. Tate trade' of this city, if doubled, would not support the present number of persons it contains. Upwaids (.1 . 5600 Emigrants arrived at Philadelphia, New York, and Baltimore, in one week. You can htii.e. 00 conception of the dis tress and dismay occisioned by the yellow fever it is calculated that upwards of sixty thousand persims have moved out of their houses, in con sequence of which they have been shut up, and fences placed across the streets, as a wart4i!,g not to approach the' infected places. Many tit the Emigrants are going to move to Can-+d4.— Ile Americans expect trade will be better next sprivg." 1