The Sun. — London, England, 1815-02-09 00:00:00

r lk t l'ith pet:sons of distinction in this co' irgitnated thdt- our - lot -will- . soon be chA It ap eats ' that -iu the. ne.‘v -- , ingdotn which is -about-to be formed in Italy, Venice will become atapital.:- The Kingdom will comprize the Du elliessof Modena; the Legations of Ferrara, and 11 9!.qgna, the territory of Vicentin and that of Venice,- and the countries of Frioul. and Treviso: It is, thought that the lonian Islands will form a Part of. this kingdom, but we must first know. AvbEther it will suit the English. " PArtfs, FEB. s.—The Basle Paper of the 31st Jan, contains the following article :—The Ex -10or Sweden who is now here, has published . a retn arkable'declaration signed by him, and ad dtessed in November 1814, to the English Ad ?liiral,'Sir Sidney Smith, to remit - to the Congress of 'Vienna.. It is in substance as follows : " Having in 1809, been the victim of a Re "Yolotion„ in which the Swedish nation thought light to sacrifice its 'lcing to its political interests, my act of abdication was the conse tinc. •-I wrote it,. and signed it with my own . " 1 1(1, being a prisoner, though I declared that it . ‘ 4, 'as a fre e and yoluntary-Act. But in the present - tate of things,.] think it right to revoke that act. declare, at the same time„that I never renounced - t h F.throne in the name of my son. I had no right to ciu It, a n d I.could not do it withbut dishonouring ' ll Y' 3 ttlf, -But 1 . . hope that. my son, Gustavus, as s -9 0 n„ash e obtains iris ma . jolitv, will express him 4flt' in a manner '‘vorfhy ofhirnsejf, his father, ;•114 the Swedish nation, which excluded him from • • CONSTANTIITOPLE Dic. 2-I.—The plague . 118 broke out again this capital, pro 1/14WY -in consequence of our tratle--with Smyrna, Mrherq it- was entirely suppressed. • ". said that the In fant Don Carlos is about to enter into a religious order. 'lt is thought that he will. gire'fbe pre ference to that'of St. Francis. The fleet destined. fox America is still in , Cadiz. There is an English fledbeftire t'he port; and • apprehensions are en tertained that it'ovotad seize our fleet if it Were to " The English Journals have been prohibited, Fren c h P a t and it is thought-that It be extended to the pet's also. - . - . nothi ng . important is expected, at the Meeting ref Parliament t.hl nll. know, Talents may ask sorne citi , :tst; D'l' S • hut we d a y' Th e C atec hi sts o f the t hat like their Speeches, they lead to nuzi - 1:'-g• 7.. • was lately s t ated in the D'uLtia Evcriiv Post, th'itke Population of Ireland amounted to six Thifl i . °Ds, of Vritiell'only 400,000 were Protestants. lAz *d r , n " o t suppbse that this Print has any autho rity..for this statement, but what arises from con jectitre '; especially as We have See n a v er y dilfe l'ellt a.ceotint, 'founded - on an authority on which eau ray. - 'The proportion of Catholics to Pratestatit&iSabont 24 of 'the former to one of the tatter, or certainly under - [tires to one. The inquiry has been made , and such is the result. — Truth is altvnys valuable; and it is wrong, On %natters of Such importance, to give exaggerated statements, or to represent, at random, the number Of one class of his Majesty's subjects to be so much greater• than that oof another, when the fact hashemaetnally ascertained, and directly c ontradicts the allegation of the Print alluded to. (Dublin Correspondent,) -ktAL'Dt7F,'L.---A fatal duel took place at the Island of Booro, on the 22d February last. It NPpeats, 'that in consequence of some inisunder tudiug which took place on board the Hon. - cruiillrklahar, Lieut. P— awl Dr. of 'that ship, - went ashore at• the Island twnve-mentitMed, ..and — exchange'd shots, when liis received a hall, which-went through heart and killed.hini upon the spot. AST Trichinop o ly, on t h e .5 1 `)(4 August, aged 52 years, her Highness HABIB ITISSA BEGUM, wife to his Highness Hossam At HULK BAIIARDEIS, the only surviving brother the 'late Nabob' •of the Carnatic, and son of gr ALLAJAt i• A * M eeting was held at Colombo on the 28th August, f or t h e purpose of calling upon the Eu pean 'inhabitants of Ceylon to promote the be nevolent -intentions of the Patriotic Fund at 1 41 crYb's. .A C ommittee was appointed at which l'entenant-General BROWNRIGG presided. Sub eription Books were opened, when upwards of 4000 rixdollers were immediately subscribed. _ is.absurdly report e d t h at Si r J OSEPH YORKE tvill take the Nn port c omman d at Portsmouth, next tith, in'the room of Sir RICHARD BICZERTON, M inse term of pervice e x pi res. Mit Roya ' l High ness t h e PRINCE REGENT is not Sal to leave Brighton. until Sunday next. ; 14s tetday, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council i,was held at th e F o r eign Office, which sat till be eer' four an d fi ve. al, A e 11. US s TRiAN A MBASSADOR transacted busi , Yesterday at the Foreign Offices." ,C ce aterday Lord M ELVILLE held a Levee at his Admirals at the Admiralty. Th e f ollowing Officers dmitted, and had au di en d e o f his Lordship : MANTLE Lord A. BEAUCLERK, RO LLS , an d 'FREE vItatILE ; Captains Sir M. SEYMOUR, BUTTER PEARec,-and BOLTON. . 'r E • up on e t ., S AA•ta s arhamentary Levees commence oaturday, the 18th lust. NASAL NEWS• CAPTURE EY THE AML:LICANS IN THE LUANNEL. -L " .:;tra ct VaZatcrjoini Vie .4 gen.!' 10 Lialltr.q at .Plymoat 4. "*PLY . mouTu, FIE. 7.---Captaiu Evans, of the bri,.; lingtou,'.vho arrived here last evening-, hound from London to Bristol, has itiiAked•to use that on Sunday last, the f;tlt init. at 3 o'clock its the afterooon, an American privateer captured, off and between the Boit Head and Start Point, the Wig Amity, Evans, from Waterford„ bound to London, and the sclioouer Agenoria, Williams, also, front ,Waterford to London. The brig Driade, front Waterford, was likewise, nearly captured, but she was seen to escape., "'the Master of a Smuggler that left Roscoe,' in France, on Saturday last, states that three English vessels, names unknown, had been carried into that port, one of the three laden with brandy ; all of which had been captured in the Channel by a privateer, fitteAout at St. M'aloes under the American 'flog, and is commanded by a Captain Goodridge, well known at this psrt, having beert . here fUr some time, a few 3 : ears ago, the Master of a large American ship." DEAL, FEE. B.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Desiree from the East Indies; having under con voy the Cambrian and Sherborn East Indiamen, and the Hunter, of Boston, prize to the Arrived, and sailinl for the River, the Asia East Indiaman, from Madras ; London Packet and Trader, from Limerick: Came down from the Inver several sail of outward-bound \Vest India men S . IV. LivEßrooL, FEB. 7.—Arrived the Goldfinch, WoitsINGTON, from Bermuda ; sailed the 12th January. The Amiens, WitionT, Wilk') was cap tured: by the Chasseur American privateer, has been recaptured, and arrived at Bermuda. The General Maitland, from Trinidad for Bermuda, was taken the 7th January, within two miles of the latter place, by the Dash American privateer. _ HA:(WICH, FEB. B.—Arrived the Henry Free ling packet, with a mail from'Cuxhaven. Sailed the Lark packet, with a mail for Holland. PLYMOUTH, FEE. 7.—Caine in La Favourite, from Rochelle, and Le Junon, from - Atartinique, for Havre. Sailed his Majesty's ships Opossum, Bloodhound, Foxhound, and Euro! . ..as, on a cruize. The Desirie frigate, with two more of the East irnliamen, have arrived in the Downs ; they part ed company with the Starling from Batavia, and the Mary Ann from Bengal ; the day after they fell in with some American privateers, and tears are entertained for the safety of those-two ships. A Erench. bi ig from Cette was lost near Veit zance the 4th iust. The Eliza Ann, from London to Dublin, put into Torbay a few days ago, being informed there was a privateer in the Channel to the windward. The Lark, CozENs, from Jamaica to 11(!.rittnda, was abandoned near Cuba, on the Gth of Septem= her, being in a sinking state. a 1 . 1)c Louisa, Di:GF,NEk, from I3erniqa to Hali fax, was captured by au American privateer, on the 19th of November, and i!estroyed. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India house, when the undermentioned Commanders took their final leave of the Court previous to departing. fur their respective destina tions, viz. • Captain 021ABB, Lord Melville; Captain enAin, Pritice.s Charlotte 'of Wales; and Captain 7 .%l‘T.annAit r. 'for ftladras and Bengal; . Captain H. t'corr, Ceres, fur S. Helena and C bins. • The following Captains ‘vere.sworn into th e . command of - their respective ships, viz.: — Captain Fortsrs, James Sibliald; 'and Ciptlin WAR:), Fairlie, for Madeira and Bengal ; Captain TAitlauTr, Ari, l / 4 11 0 , forMadvirai-liengal, - and Bombay;. CaptAin 114"IING, baVid Scott, for Madeira and Bombay. Several -American privateers are reported to have. been seen between lat. 22. and 34. north. ' The Duke of WELLLINGTON was proceeding with all rossible expedition to Vienna-- . --on the 29th he passed through Augslmrgh. A cartel has arrived. at Havre de Grace from New York, which place it left the sth nit. hit it has brought no news that is now of any interest. The Bramble which took out the first notice•of the peace by dispatches to Bermuda, had arrived in lomg. - 42. after a very quick and favourable p'as sage. She left England the cud of December, be fore the ratification by the PRINCE REGENT, in the confidence that it would receive his sanction, and to take the earliest instructions arising upon it to the Governor of the Burnnulas. The Fa vourite, a new 20 gun ship, which conveyed the Treaty when ratified, has not been heard of, but there can be little doubt of her having had a good passage. She sailed from Plymouth on Monday the 2d January, at eight o'clock in the morning. The Laurel, from the River Plata, - has arrived at Jersey, and fins brought advices front Buenos Ayres to the 7th December. Very melancholy news for the Independent Party had reached that Viceroyalty. 'The expedition from Lima, fur niched by the Royalists, had arrived at the capi tal of Chili ; had invested the place, and after suf fering serious injury it had surrendered to their arms. A large portion of English property, which had been conveyed by land carriage from the River Plata, had devolved .into the possession of the be siegers.—We mentioned yesterday that the forti fications of Montevideo were to be razed, We now learn that they have actually been destroyed . by explosion. The Inconstant frigate, contrary to expectation, bad not sailed from the River Plata. The Perseverance had taken her depar ture. The freights on hides were 17/. per ton, on tallow 141. and there were about 2 or 300 semons of the latter• ready for embarkation. Advices have recently reached us from the Ca-' nary Islands to th.e latter end of November, by which it appears that the proceedings of the Gro vernment there are carried in the same spirit of rigour as those recently adopted by the mother Government. His Excellency Don PEDRO 1 -10- DRIGVES DE LA BURIN is Captain General of Te neriffe, and through hint are all the acts of Go- Ml LILL4. T.l whole of the depots in ,England t and and Sco land of the f:dlowing IlegiMents are •orderett to the Isle f f Wight by the 24th - instant, where they ‘-;11 in future be concentrated,. 11 . 7 the 13 t h, 15th, 17th, 18th i .22c1, 29th, 31st, 41st, 4(ith, 47th, 49th, 50th,.634, 64th, 65th, 76th, 86th, 89th, 97th, 98th, 100th, 101st, 102 d, 103d,tand the 15th and 18th are to proceed Jersey. , The 18th Hussars from Chichester and Arundel, are ordered to Canterbury. • The 2 , 1 battalions of the 7th and 53d Regiments haye Marched into Portsmouth, the former from Winchester, atnl the latter from 11ilsea Barracks, The 13th Reval Veteran Bittalion has arrived at SpitheA from Lisbon, and is ordered to pitsceed to the Vicinity of this - metropolis, v . i•L'. Lambeth, Newington, and Camberwell, where they are to be quartered ti!l dishonled. The - ISth Light Dragoons are expected in the Kentish district, to relieve the I I th in pari of their dine,. both on the coast and in the irittrior. Friday morning, the Ist, and Saturday morning the 241 division of the 2d battalion of the 83d Re giment Ib't iknetiny on the route to Dublin. Detaelmcnts of the 42;1 Regiment have been sent upon out-post duty, and we understand the whole of the public duties of Kiikelllly Garrison are to be, fist the present, pt . :l4'o6mA by that dis -tioguished Regiment. RA'Z'ES" OF POSTING. Yesterdar there was a metting of 'Noblemen and Gentlemen at the St. Alban's Tavern, to con sider the I►igh price at which the Post -masters stiJl keep up their demand. The Neeting was but .thinly.ttended, i►t consequence of an ambigttit'y in the_ wording _of the adyertisen►ent, by which it appeared to b 2 addressed only to those Noblemen and Gentlemen who had been of the Committee in 1808. JODDRELL was called to the Chair, and a short conversation took pla ce respecting the best measures to be adopted. The Chairman conceiyed that an application should be made to . the Legis lature to protect the publip from unreasonable de ❑landls from the Post-master 4. . Some other Gentlemen appeared to be of opi nion, that the Magistrates at the Quarter-sessions ought to have power to fix the rate of posting. The Duke of NOR VOLK thotte,ht that the inter ference of the Legislature in matters of internal trade was seldom advisable. Mr. Hymn was of opinion, that the questiOn had better he left alone, and that, from the effect of competition, tip price must fall of itself. He vvas the more inclined to think that' no :;9ml could ar i se f rom interfering, ,as it had been found in 1803, that the exertions of the Committed bad beeU Altogether ineffectual. • • , It appeared, however, to be the general sense of the Meeting that some steps ought to he taken 5 but as the Meeting was, too small t , tconte to any decisive resolutions on. the. Subject, it was pro posed and agreed to, that the Chiirmart should C0114.,1182 the Noblemen Geatiemea vt . tho were Mentlicrs of the Committee_in 130 S, for the pur pose of adoptiiip; ,such. measures as should appear to theta advisable. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the Meeting broke up. WINDSOR, Fit. S.—This morning her MI 3EsTy.and PaiNcEssy.s took an airing in a coach ao d f o ur thrd, og h Slongh,—On Monday her MA. JEST and PraNcEsS'Es dined With the Princess CnAILLOTTE Of.WALES', at- Craubourn. Lodge, for the first tinie since her Royal Highness has resid ed there. There'waS a seieet party to meet the QUEEN, and'her Royal Highness's morni'ng- the Duke of \rotx. arrived at the Castle, and is expected to. leave again in the evening for London, after dining with the QUEEN and PaIN. C ESSES. J'he Court has- come to a deCision on the case of Sir J. :AI uRRAy, and some of the Gene:lib com posing it . bare left Winchester, and are arrived in toI4IL. Admiral lIALLowELL quitted Winchester on Tuesday morning fur Portsmouth. Two houses in fhe City, we regret to state, stopped payment On Saturday last. One pf them, a .lewish hotke, Messrs. L. and Co. to which we formerly alluded, failed fo'r not less than'3oo,oool.` and upwards. • Mr. K F:A N has procured a theatrical furlough, to go rO Edinburgh for three weeks, where he Will perform for few nights. This excursion is tocommenee in the course of about tell days.' D'ESTERRE, who fell in the late &lei Witb Mr. O'CuNNIML, MIS an Officer on board the fleet at the Nore dorinp the mutiny, and di,tin:-4nislied himself by his courage and loyalty upon that oe• easion. On Monday laSt the remains of Sir WILLIAM CHARLES FARRELL SKEFFINGTON, Bart. were re moved from hit late residence in Charles -street, Grosvenor-square, for interment at Paddington.- Dr. WattAY . , Archbishop of Hierapolis, and Coadjutor of Dublin, left Paris on the 3lst Ja nuary, on his return to Ireland. That Prelate, since his return from Rome, has spent several months in the French capital, where he solicited the restitution of the property belonging to the Irish Catholics. "He bad the satisfaction to ob tain the accomplishment of his willies. WINCHESTEN, 7.—At the rmsning Assizes.. a trial is expected -to come on Qf considerable in-. terest. The parties are, •a brave and gallant and a Gentleman formerly resident at Ali cant, but now living in the county of Hants. It• is, we understand, an action by which the Gentle man in question seeks (o recover colupensation in damages for false imprison:nem, litt having been ordered into en'stodv by the gallant General, to. whom we haVe alluded, during the stay 9f -the British army at Alicant. The circumstances or this ease it would be imprudent to publish, before they have been stated to a Jury. Among the wit nesses to be sill:ilia:ivied for the defendant ale Ge nerals Clinton kind M'Kenzie. There are no fewer than forty-seven felons con emned to death in the cells of Newgate, and the L:'3V-- :INTELLIC-iENCE-. COUICI' OF CIIANCP,RY, FEB. 8. OYSTER BEDS. UDLEY il.. CORPORATION OF WHITSTAELF. The LORD CHANCELLOR gate judgment thus clay, in this long litigated cause,, which arose on the right of dredging for oysters, in certain beds on the coast of Kent, by custom, or prescript,--e im eniorial, in poor p(!rsons and others near th sea; similar to corliolti rights in certain lord ships or manors. The inhabitants had extended the trade by im portation of marine materials, bleed, &c. from iant parrs, and some from the coast of France ; and althoUgh the ori 4 in of the institution %vas too remote for human memory, an Act of Parliament Was obtained under an early reign, to confirm the tact of Incorporation. The plaintiff being admitted a Member of the Corporation, after previous :.: , .2rvices and expendi tures for their use, filed his bill for an account of the funds, and payment of a balance clue to him for his services. The great difficulty of this novel case was owing to the remoteness of th e o r i g i n o f t h e i nst i tut i on , and the doubt that it was a Corporation, added - to the want of any fund or ostensible officer to act in such matters, the mode of appropriating the fruits of the dredging for oysters having been prac tised by dividing the same continually, as soon as received, among the proprietors, without any re servation for a fund to discharge the debts ,or other public necessities of the body corporate, and the distress to poor persons, children, and ap prentices, in being ordered to refund. Some witty remarks were made at the Bar Oft the ineyality of the division of the fruits, the one contending that his clients had the shells on ly, while the contents went elsewhere; and the other side contending, his clients had neither the shells nor 'oysters, which was a worse distribu tion of the spoil. • The LORD CHANCELLOR was clearly of opinion that this was in tact a corporation, notwithstand ing the obscurity of its origin, and that the plain tiff was entitled to his debt with all costs to this period. As to the distress of children andapprentices that had immunities in the corporation by contri buting towards the creation of a filmd to pay debts and other necessary expenditures for uSe of the body corporate, that .was incident to every cor poration, and must be complied with in this in stance. iii Lordship ordered a reference to the Master to settle the establishment, unless due satisfac tion be made or offered to the plaintiff, to save the vast expense, and whiCh, if he refused, would be 'remembered againit him finally, on the question of future costs ; adding, that the terms of compromise and refusal, if any might be again nlentioned in Court.—Judgment tvas ti;ivc:l for the • COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Y. 8. EMBEZZLEMENT. TIII KING V. JOSEPH 30IINSTCN. The defendant was brought up a few. dayi) ages when errors were assigned upon a conviction against hill at last Assizcs for the County of Lan caster for having embezzled certain Bank -notes, the property of the Trustees of the Liverpool Dock Company, when their Lordships appointed this day for the discussiOn. Air.:WILLIAms accordingly, for the defendant, in a' very ingenious speech, addressed the Court, during which he subthitted three distinct objec tions to the said . conviction, which he' argued with considerable learning and talent, - maintain ' in,! , that if these objecti ons , or any of them, were allowed by their. Lordships, then that •thc •de fendant was entitled to his discharge. Mr. CLARK (Deputy Recorder of Liverpool), in support of the conviction, argued on the other side most ably and argumentatively, in which he shoved that the objections urged by Mr. Williams could not fairly. be sustained, considering the force of the new statute against the crime of embezzle ment by servants, which constituted olfence a felony, then before their 'Lordships fur their , consideration. Of this opinion was the Court, their Lbrdships giving their sentiments seriatim, and over-ruling all the objections, alleging law reasons for this . their respective adjudication, and all unanimously saying, that the conviction was good in point of law, the evidenCe before the Jury authorizing the verdict of Guilty. 'Whereupon the Court ordered the defendant to be remanded in execution of his fo;..!er sentence, viz.,transportation for the term of 14 years: He Was therefore immediately it morctl to his last plate cif confinethmt, viz. to thg Hulr„s at LangstoneHarhour. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. • Yesterday .Thancs howler, the farmer residin io th,e, pttli•th of Harrow, who, we sfated a few days since, was apprehended on a charge of committing a rape on the body" of a girl is Lis employ, who is deaf and dumb, in the capacity of a - scrvz, twice in one day, underwent a second private examination...- He Aras held to hail to answer what shall be objected against him at the Sessions. The prisoner, .uwcr, is a man to ap yearance•abouit seventy years of age. Jam.?s lioti WaS charged with keeping a house of in . Durliain-streetyMelphi, and was ordered to dad UNION-HALL. rieo.tgeEnr,-AiN., who has for some time past been in crtS• tody and u.l.lergone varions examinations, on stopici:m of hating been cot cernvil in divers robherics and bur,,,-larieg, W3S yesterthy again bi:oug s ht up. and underwent het finA ex sunination. It appeared feats the statement of Joseph :.tore, ' one. Of his accathol"..c,s,.whcliad turned Kin es evitlenc, that the prisoner had be/1j com , ;,rot-cl in upwards of tiny handrett mted r<q ) , .e ! 5q,....1-of , 'rarire;s descriptions, and had for a costriite . ralrh: length of time. saceessfully chided' the pursuit of the Police Olicji . s, by whinn he had fregnently deciarect be would never' be raked At length May and Goff haviqg ontaineti_infortirat!,ol •Alle're the prisoner lodged, in Martle-b,roi, pr,cceded thither, and Intririg by st.ratac eat 01,i Thied xdniic i ir, int', the liorise in !he middle of the night, they suczeetled in steering him woilit in tied anJ as ki y , and before he could make any I•esiNtatik2e. • In the e:mrse or fhe'i•arions examinations which he ha-, eindergone; toe fot lowin• charges have been ii"rought hh n , gloriously breaking into the, premkfs, of C a pp er , o f Walcot-placc nt , Lakwth t a burglary on tale premi3e's of Mr. Whitwmai, of Vine-street, Lambeth; l.eeakittg- into the pre mises of Mr. Russell, of Palace Tethibeth ; robbing Mr. Richardson, the travelling equestrian, i 7 5 .1. in notes and cash, which he took front the caray3Tl wt 1 . 0 ,4 a t Ch ar it e a Fair ; and robbing the gfird-m and VAI,I of NTD:Diivaies, of Francis-street, Lambeth. theso tfhatr's lie was fully