The Sun. — London, England, 1827-01-06 00:00:00

Tilt only business of any interest in the House yesterday, was the p , ,g of the stamp act. fify this measure the representatives of the peopie have violated their pie.hre not to pass any money' bills tilt the questionuf the double duties vac fully disp ose d of. _.-1 That the stamp act is a money-bill cannot be denied; but it i s contended that it is passed in consequence of its proceed s w ing applied to the taking up the island debt on certificates, as it be comes due. The fact is, that the proceeds of the stamp law are appropriated as a part of the aggregate of taxes raised, and are to all intents included in the general bala-nceaccount of the public ledgers. The real cause of hurrying the bill through the House, is to put in a complete state of security the appointment of his Grace's servant to the office of Commissioner of Stamps. With all that respect we really do feel for his Grace, we consider that the public will think with us, that the representativsa of, toe p e ople ought not to have been so lavish of this present, (for such it is to his Grace), as it gives him the honour of appointing his dependents to the offices of Commissioner of Stamps, and indi rectly, that of Deputy Receiver-General for Spanish Town, until they had ascertained' something about the double duties. The country will, we are afraid, be disappointed in the expec tation it has formed of the firmness of the legislature. A com promise of the constitutional tights of the island will bg made by the Assembly ; they will pass a tonnage-duty bill to provide for the payment of the salaries to the custom-house officers, as fixed and regulated by the mother country, and then the Act of Par liament, with the Government order founded upon it, will cease to operate. In other words, the British Government says, "we are resolved to tax you to pay certain sums of money, that we, in de-, fiance of your constitution, will appropriate as we please; but as, you are such children as to be content with the representation for the reality, we will gilie you a legislative toy for your amuse ment—we will have the money, and we will appropriate it as we please; but then we will gratify you 6y allowing you to affix " passed the Assembly, David Finlayson, Speaker," to our man date, to get your money for any officers we may choose to fasten upon you. The money must be raised for these officers, and by parity of reasoning for any sinecures we may choose to create." This is the plan which our Assembly, we fear, will submit to. ANTIGUit. (From the TVeekly Register, Nov. 14.) We have just learnt, on good authority, that Captain Cham bers, the senior naval officer on th:s station, has declared his in tention to seize all British vessels, which, after the Ist of Decem ber next, may be found proceeding from any of the neighbouring foreign ports with articles of the growth, produce, or manufac ture of the United States. Tbis determination, it will be seen, is lat variance with the notice issued by the Collectors of his Ma -1 jesty's Customs here, and inserted in the preceding page ; although we understand the Order in Council of the 27th of July is con structed in the same way at Barbadoes as it has been by Captain Chambers. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Constitutionnel. ) " Letters from Madrid of the date of the 26th of December, state, that the Spanish Government has ordered a body of troops to be sent into Estramadura and Old Castile. It is to be com posed of seven regiments of Provincial Militia, one regiment of the Guards, and one regiment of Chasseurs a cheval, in all '7,000 or 8,000 men. These troops will be under the order of General I Redd, whose command will be independent of the Captains-lie- nerals of these provinces." " We see that the talon tour still perseverei in preserving the most profound silence as to the acceptance of the ultimatum by the Cabinet of Madrid, of which the English Journals have been talk- , ing, and of which the rumour has been spread in Paris for some I days past. It is true, that in this pattern-government, what was true in the evening become false the next morning. Besides, the I Aristarque announces to-day, in the most positive manner, that the King of Spain has formally refused the ultimatum of Mr. Canning. .If this news be confirmed, war between France and Spain becomes inevitable. What resolution will the French Mi- I nistry then adopt? " The Quotidienne says to-day that the King, Don Miguel,' is a prisoner at Vienna. (PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.) " Malmo, DEC. 25.—According to a report that has reached the office of the Minister at War, the town of Laguarda and the militia of Coimbra have revolted. This new revolt, however, does not cause any anxiety at Lisbon, not only on account of the presence of the . English troops, hut because the national troops begin to be well disciplined, being conducted by chiefs entirely de voted to the Ministry." (From the Etoile, dated Thursday, Jan. 3.) " Pants, JAN. 4.—The following is the manner in which the Journal which first spoke of the entrance of the Marquis de Chaves into Portugal gives an account of the answer of King Ferdinand : " We are informed from Madrid that the ultimatum of England wits reduced to three principal points. That power demanded of the Spanish Cabinet. " 1. The sending of an Ambassador to Lisbon, and the ad mission of a Portuguese envoy at Madrid. " 2. The recognition of the Portuguese constitution, and of the Government established in Portugal. " 3. The dismission of M. de Calomarde, and the removal of the three Captains-General, who are accused of having fa vented the Portuguese Royalists.' " His Majesty King Ferdinand answered on the lst point— " That the Portuguese Ambassador at Madrid had withdrawn, of his own accord, without any provocation on the part of the Spanish Government; that it was the Portuguese Government that had declared to the Spanish Ambassador at Lisbon that his mission was terminated ; therefore it was the Portuguese Go vernment, and not the Court of Madrid, which had interrupted the diplomatic relations between the two countries, relations, which the• Court of Madrid was perfectly well disposed to re establish. On the second point, the answer was, that the Spanish Go vernment no more interfered with the internal Government of Por tugal, than it would suffer an interference, with that of Spain ; that with respect to the present Government of Portugal, the Court of Madrid, imitating the other Cabinets on the Continent, had recognised the Government appointed by the testament of King John VI. At the time when that testament had been notified in the usual form to all the Courts of Europe, that it was not very certain that France itself had recognized the Government estab lished at this moment at Lisbon. . "Lastly, on the third point, which tends to nothing less than to impose Ministers upon the King of Spain. His Catholic Majesty has caused it to be answered, that M. de Calomarde had the con fiden,.:2 of his Sovereign, and that so long as his Majesty should judge the services of that Minister advantageous to the country, he would retain hint in his council. " As for the General Officers, who are accused of having fe, vavred the projects of the Portuguese Royalists, these officers had i done nothing which could render them deserving of being de-I prived of their posts ; that, besides, the-three Captains-General in' vestiun had at no time done any injury to the English Govern ment, whereas it was notorious that the Government at Gibraltar bad received the factious Spaniards, and permitted them. to be arined and equipped in the town, in order to be thence conveyed' on boaid English ships to the coast of Spain, where they had oe easioned such disorders that the French troops had been obliged to march against them. " That the same port of Gibraltar served as a place of refuge to the privateers of the pretended independent States of America, and that great injury resulted from it to the Spanish commerce. " Lastly, that the British Cabinet, whose agents had suffered or , induced these acts of hostility had itself, arid, alone, of all Govern naents recognised the existence of the new Republics of America, and this in contempt of the existing treaties between England and Sp'. in. '_il i‘v cats this journal pretend to g ive, as it were, word for ktr4 - nst, a 'secret communication ? Either it is an abuse of confi ipnr.., ar we must 3:tse-h little 14.ith.totbe truth of its expressions?' i li g N catFc - r - 45.-- r PA - ass, JAN. 3.—Five per Cents. 99f. 99f. 11111,, 35r, 30.. ' 1.5 c. 30c. '‘..54e. 30c. ; Three per cents. 67f. 80f. ri3t4.701. ; issa.ls. Stock 2020 f. I:4 4 18f. 75c. ; Rentes de Naples, 73f. 701. - 69 f. ; Reutes d'Espagne, 411. ; Royal Spanish Loan 48if. ML ; Eschar.ga on Londcn—One Month Paper, 25f. 9 5c. ; .I`lirl. :gond*, 25f. 20c.— Cones Authentique. C;OLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. JAM. ICA. • HOITSE.OF ASSEMBLY, Tursoar, Ocr. 17. fl Ifyslop, ur Chairman, r 'genteel the report from the com mittee appointed to inquire into the right of the Custom-house officers to collect certain duties, payable under the island law, to the Receiver-General. The egport was then read by the clerk of the house. ItrPORT. Mr. Speaker,—Your committee appointed to inquire into the authority by which the officers of the Customs collect certain ditties payable by the law of the island to the Recciver General or his deputies, ' Report,—That they have examined, in tke most solemn man ner, the acting collector of his Majesty's customs 3t the port of Kingston, and the Receiver-General of the island, whoee examin ation your committee have annexed, by which it appears that t island is unjustly burdened with a double duty—one collected by do Receiver-General, under the Colonial law ; and the other by his Majesty's collectors of the Customs, under the authority of the Act of the British Parliament, George IV. e. 114, a Treasury !Minute of the 25th of April, 1826, and a.Board of Customs order lof the 15th of May, 1826. Should your committee be permitted to express an opinion on the ailritrary measure by which the sum of 17,000/. sterling per an num is levied on this Nand, to pay officers appointed by His Ma jesty's Government, not ire any way subject to to the control of this house, they must characterize it as one destructive of the con. stitution of the island, and which calls for the immediate atten tion of the house. Mr. ifyslop then moved that the examinations on which the l 'report was founded should al s o be read, in order that Hon. M. I bees might be fully acquainted on the subject. The Speaker then put the question, when cries of yPS, yes,' Caine from ail parts oldie house. In the examination of the. Collector of the Customs for the port of Kingston, reference was made to a communication he had made: on the su;., , ject to the Coinmissioners at home, and to which an answer was very shortly expected, and which would, in a great measure, tend to guide their rule of conduct on the disputed points. The report was ordered to lie on the table. (From the public Advertiser, Oct. 25.) We can positively assure our readers, that the Duke of Man chester has received a letter from Earl Bathurst, stating that His Majesty's C3vernment will immediately re-consider the subject of the orders relative to the duties, and make any arrangement with the colonies which may be reasonable. (nid, Oct. 26.) Tire stormy rharatter of the sessions has passed away—party spit, is subsiding, and we do not expect, till the arrival o f t h e many opportunities for th e di splay of the eloquence next pselet, of our legislators. The interest in their proceedings has not at all diminished, and we all look adziottaly forward to see whit improve ;7lenti they make in the Consolidated Slave Law. fbid, Oet. 31.) (Du, Nov. 21.) We have received the following letter from Captain Chambers, of his Majesty's ship Druid, from which it appears that the in formation communicated to us last week, of his determination to detain British vessels proceeding from any of the neighbouring fo reign islands with articles of the production of the United States, is incorrect. We can only say we obtained the statement from so unquestionable a source, that we felt no hesitation in apprising the public of it. " His Majesty's ship Druid, Freeman's Bay, November 20th, 1826. " Sirs—l with regret observe in your paper of the 14th init., that you understand, from good authority, that it is my intention to seize all British vessels proceeding from any of the neighbour ' ing foreign ports with articles of the growth, produce, or manu facture of the United States. " I have to request you will without loss of time, acknowledge that your information is erroneous, as it may occasion considerable uneasiness in the neighbouring islands —as, if the law prohibits (of which I am unaware) the importation in British vessels of the articles above-mentioned, no one will more regret it than myself, at the same time no one will be more strenuous in putting in exe cution the orders of his Majesty's Government. " I am, Sirs, your humble servant, " SAMUEL CHAMBERS, " Captain of his Majesty's ship _Druid. To the Editors of the Weekly Register, St. John's, Antigua." COLOMBIA. DECREE OF THE EXECUTIVE POWER. BY FRANCISCO DE PAULO SANTANDER, VICE-PRESIDENT TO TEE REPUBLIC, &C. In order that the law, sanctioned on the st of May last, rela tive to the tribes of the natives who inhabit the coasts of Guagiri, Darien, and Mosquitos, may have due effect, and taking into con sideration, not only the reasons that gave rise to this law,, but I also that it is the duty, and at the same time the established and indiiputable right of independent Governments to make, for the whole of their territory, and for the ports under their dependence, the special and necessary commercial arrangements which the situation and nature of the said ports require, I have decreed and do decree as follows : 1. The rules contained in the orders promulgated by the Se cretary of State for the Department of the Reveuue on the 19th November, 1824, shall remain in full force. 2. Therefore, national and foreignvessels that may be engaged in the trade with the before-mentioned coasts ()f Guagiri, Darien, and Mosquitos, are to observe the said rules, and be subject to the penalties attendant on their infringement. 3. On the coast of Mosquitos, no vessel coming from a port where there is not an agent of the Republic shall be allowed to trade with the natives. 4. Vessels coming from ports where the Republic has a com mercial agent, shall be permitted to trade with the natives of the Mosquito coasts, on producing their invoices, with a certificate from the said commercial agent attached thereto, stating that the duty provided by the law has been satisfied. Vessels detected in trading on the said coast without the documents just mentioned, will incur the penalty of confiscation, conformably to the existing laws. 5. Vessels'iri , nding to trade on the coast of Guagiri and Darien must first enter into one of the ports of the Republic appointed for the purpOse, solicit there the necessary passport for the said coasts, pay the established duty, and provide themselves with a certificate of their having complied with these formalities. 6. Without these requisites, no vessel, whether national or foreign, shall be permitted'to trade on the said coasts; and such 'as may .be taken trading there without them, will incur the pe nalty of confiscation. 7. No vessel, whether national or foreign, shall trade with the natives of the said coasts of Guagira, Darien, and Mosquitos, with implements of articles of war that are prohibited. And all such as may be detected in carrying on their illegal traffic, shall be con fiscated, together with their whole cargo, although they may have complied with the formalities required by the preceding articles, and be provided with the document to prove their having done so. 8. In order to enforce these regulations, cruisers shall be con stantly stationed on the before-mentioned coasts, to be provided out of the national navy, until the guarda costal, referred to in the additional law to - the one passed in the 14th year, and the esta blishment ordered to be formed by the decree sanctioned on the !Ist of. May last, can be provided. 9. In the foregoing regulations it is not intended to include the coasting trade that may be carried ou between any of the licensed ports of the Republic and the coasts, provided the same be carried urs in national vessels, and sufficient prcof be adduced of the lawful exportation of the articles. 10. The duty to be paid by national and foreign vessels, in the trade which they may carry on with the coasts of Guagiri, Darien, and Mosquitos, under the conditions stipulated in the preceding l art id es , 4 1-411 be 12 reals, or one dollar and a half per ton, with out being subject t; any other. 11. In the Custom-'homes, a separate book shall be kept, in which shall be entered the receipts and distribution of this duty, and at certain periods (not exceeding three months) particular statements thereof shall be transmitted to the Treasury, setting forth the names of the vessels, their tonnage, the place from whence they came, the nature of their cargoes, and where they were shipped, the names of their masters, owners, supercargoes, and, in short, the amount of duties they may have paid. 12. The same obligation is binding on the commercial agents of the Republie in the ports from whence the vessels come, that may trade with the Mosquito coast, which agents shall retain the amount until they receive instructions as to the manner of dis posing of it. The Secretary of State for the Department of the Treasury is intrusted with the due execution of this decree. Bogota, 2lst of Sept. 1826. 16th year of independence. '(Signed) FRANCISCO DE PAULA SANTANDER. Jose Marie del CaOillo, Secretary of State for the Treasury,Depar4nent, (From the Caraccas Colombian°, Oct. 4.) By late accounts front Curaqoa, we learn that a Spanish squadron, commanded by Admiral La Borde, and consisting of one 74., two sixty-gun ships, three frigates of 44, one brig of war, anti two schooners, was shortly expected at that island, from the Havannah. Other accounts state that part of this squadron has already been seen at anchor off the Taqueses, on the coast of Coro. Although this intelligence requires confirmation, it is by no means improbable, coinciding as it does with reports from other quarters, and with the fact of tt Spanish squadron having positively . sailed from the Havannah on the 28th of August. This fleet, though formidable,from its numbers, and the size of its ships, is, we understand, but indifferently manned, nor do we learn that any troops are on board. If the report be true, hosi ever, we are inclined to think that its operations are combined with other plans, which yet remain to be developed. It is now generally believed that Spain labours hard to send troops to this, eountry, and we must think than so expensive an equipment as this under La 804 would not have been undertaken with any minor view than 024. of co- operating in sow grand operation of the enemy. • THE PARKs.-7--The.waters in the Parks, though frozen, were not yesterday sufficiently so to bear any great weight. There were, however, some indisCreet adventurers upon the ice, and in St. James's Park, we regret to state, a young man was drowned. HAYTI. The following paragraph appears in the Jamaica Public Adver tiser of the 17th November!:— Extract of a letter from a correspondent in Port Antonio " On Sunday evening, froth the American schooner Susan, from Port-au-Prince to New Orleans, was landed Mr. Lister (the Bri tish Consul) and his servant, direit from the former place. The schooner was in the offing three days previous to landing her pas sengers on shore at the Bluff, above five miles to the westward of Port Antonio. The weather was tempestuous, accompanied with heavy and constant rain. Mr. Lister hirkl horses, and on Mon day proceeded on his way to Spanish Town, with despatches for his Grace the Duke of Manchester, and also for the Admiral. "It is stated that the Code Rurale' has set the coloured popu lation and blacks of St. Domingo at variance, and that the object of the Vice-Consul is to procure protection for British property." We have reason to believe, from the perusal of a letter dated Port-au-Prince, Nov. 7, that the above is entirely a false alarm. It appears that a violent philippic against all the foreigners re siding in Hayti, has appeared in the Telegraph, the official paper of the Government, and conducted by M. Inginac, the President's Secretary. Shortly after, an individual British merchant, who thought proper to consider the article as a personal attack, com menced an action against the editor, and employed an individual named Mullery as his counsel. It was brought into Court, but on the following day the President Boyer sent to Mullery to say that he could no longer practise at the bar, and on the succeeding day the officer of the Court who carried the notice of action to the defendant was dismissed. The President further sent an order, that the merchant in whose name the action was brought, should quit the country at the expiration of his yearly patent, and that lie should be inc a p ac it a t e d ever after from acting as a consignee merchant in Hayti. This indi vidual was also given to understand, that foreigners were to be considerel in no respect under the protection of the laws in Hayti, except for the recovery of debts. This subject, as his functions required, Was very warmly taken up by the English Consul at Port .au-Prince, but his representations up to the date of the letters above referred to had received no attention. The French Consul, who had an equal interest in the affair, had adopted a similar course. Finding the appeal to the Government' useless, Mr. Lister, the Consul, had engaged a vessel to proceed to Jamaica, where it was his intention to apply to the Admiral on the station, to order a frigate to repair to Port-au-Prince, hoping that the presence of a British ship of war would induce the President to favour Eritish interests with more attention. We have thought it us.:ftl to give this explanation of Mr. Lister's visit ,to Kingston, as the paragraph in the Public Advertizer is calculated, without it, to create an alarm of a far more serious nature. THE ARMY. The undermentioned Services due ;he 24th ult. will be in course-of payment, on Wednesday, the 17th inst., viz. : Retired Pay—Military Pensions for Wounds—Adjutants of Local Militia—Adjutants and Sergeant-Majors of Militia—Fo reign Half Pay, and Foreign Pensions. Detachments belonging to the 33d, 77th, and 91st Regiments of Infantry, embarked, on the 29th and 30th ult., at Newry, for Jamaica. The 11 th (North Devon)Regiment of Foot, marched into Cork on the 2d inst., for immediate embarkation for Portugal. EMBARKATION OP TROOPS AT WARREN POINT FOR JAMAICA. —On Friday last about 200 recruits from the depot of the 91st Regiment, embarked on board the Dorothy Forester, Captain Honey; and about 200 men from the depot of the 77th, on board the Beaufort, Captain Sainthill ; and on Saturday, about the same number , from the depot of the 3Sd Regiment, were received on board the Loyal Briton, Captain Crosby. We have seldom seen so fine a body of men. The embarkation was under the di rection of Lieutenant-Colonel Thorn, Deputy Quarter-Master- General of the northern district. Captain Ramsay commands the detachment of the '77th Regiment. The other officers who ac company this distinguished corps are—Captains Raines and Pas chal ; Lieutenants Persse and Butler ; Ensigns Bevan and Powell ; Surgeon Munro. —Dublin Evening Post. Priamsaiorrit, s JA N. 4.—The 10th Hussars, and the remainder of the 12th Lancers, were hurried on board. the transports yester day ; and this morning, with a flowing sheet, the fleet of trans ports went out of harbour, direct to sea. Since four o'clock this afternoon, it has blown very fresh from the northward ; long pre vious to this the fleet was out of sight.. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Plymouth Journal.) ' PLY)IO:ITh, JAN. 3. The Nightingale entter appeared in the dffing on Tuesday, and sailed again to the eastward. The Vigilant ketch, Lieutenant Meredith, arrived yesterday from Lisbon, in ten days. Five hundred marines had been landed at Fort St. Julian. On Christmas Day she saw a large shipuff Lisbon, supposed to be the Windsor Castle. The Alligator, 29, Captain H. ("lads, was paid off yester 'clay, and will he re-commissioned to-day for foreign service. In Hamoaze—Britannia, Thetis, Alligator, Rifleman, Sate!, lite, Bramble. At the Island—Vigilant. In the Sound—Ringdove and Leveret. The Mary, merchant *easel, taken up at Lisbon, for the pur pose of bringing despatches to England, arrives' at Falmouth on the night of the 80th ult. in 14 days. The despatches were sent off immediately to the Foreign Office. It is generally reported that Sir Sidney Smith, who so nobly repulsed Buonaparte at St. Jean d'Acre, is likely to succeed Vice= 'Admiral Sir Robert Moorsom, at Chatham. Lieutenant B. M. Festing, of the Brazen, is promoted to the rank of Commander. Captain Henry Buiirehier, R.N. 'is appointed to command and superintend the Quarantine Establishment at Stangate Creek. Lieutenant James Barber, of Gosport, late of the Ramillies, is appointed Agent of Transports. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LLOYD'S.--(Tius DAY.) DEAL, JAN. 5..-LWind N.W.—Arrived horn London and sailed the J. Harris, Tilley, for Jamaica; Hiram, Brown, for Gibraltar; Patience, Sowel, for St. Abes; Flora, Warrant, for 'Smyrna. The Lowther Castle came down and proceeded for India in the night. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. N.N.W.—Sailed the Lord Cochrane transport for Corfo, and the Alexander and John Eris man transports for Lisbon. PLYMOUTH, J.N. 4 —Wind N.—Sailed the Vibelia, Cor bett,, for Jamaica. Fatscotrn, JAN. 4.—Wind N.E. — Sailerl the Simpson, Black, for Gibraltart LIVERPOOL, JA)i. - 4.---Arrived the Orortsmbo, from New York; the Robin Hood, Woodbury, from Savannah; the Sedulous, Goldsbury, from New York . ; the Colonist, M'Master., from St. Andrews, and the Francis Pearce, from Virginia: GRAVESEND, JAW. s.—Arrived the Arnlaby, Overton, from Oporto ; the Hope, Madge,. from Fereira ; the Martha, Robin-- ion, from Honduras; the William, Murdoch, from Teneriffe; and Sylph, Underhall, from Newfoundland. Sailed the Cale donia, Crighton, for Vigo; the Caesar, for Calcutta; and the Caledonia, for La Guayra. • Yesterday despatches for St. Helena, Bombay, and China, by r the ship .Adas,Captain John Hype, were closed at the East In dia House, and delivered to the purger of that ship. PORTSMOUTH, JAIL 4.—Sailed the St. Laurence, Charlotte . Maria, Barrack, Mon arc h, E m p eror Alexander, IVanderer , Harriet, Ocean, Cro wn , Champion, and transport, with troops, for Lisbon,—Wind N.W. Cambridge As the state of the 'cotton trade acquires great interest at the present moment, we annex a comparative return of its results for the concluding three months of 1825 and 1826 : EXPORTED — FRONt THE PORT% or toNowt, LIVERPOOL, Allto HULL. In IS week., from the 11th of In 13 weeks, from the 10th of October, 1825, to the 3d of October, 1826, to the 2d of January, 1826 : January, 1827 :- 1 Calicoes, plain yds. 30,608,931 Calicoes, plain yds. 27,556,839 Ditto, printed do. 28,225,591 Ditto, printed do. 2 0,596,377 Cotton Twist... lb. 11,341,488 Cotton Twist... lb. 1 1,978,201 —Times. W e are sincerely happy to hear that it is in the con teinplation of the Admiralty to extend the late considerate and gracious boon, granted to the old Subalterns of the line; by his 3lajesty, at the particular recommendation of his late Royal highness the Commander-in-Chief, to the old First Lieutenants of the Royal Marines. We trust the indulgence will not stop here; but he extended to that undeservedly disappointed class of Officers, the old Second Lieutenants of that distinguished Corps, as some recompence for serving, their Country from fifteen to eigh teen years in the same subordinate rank —a period of time unpre. cedented in the annals of the British Military Service.—Morn ing chronicle. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6, DEATH OP HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF YORK The s ufferings .of his . Royal Highness the Duke of 'lonic are over ! Death has kindly stepped in and relieved his Royal HiomNEss from the agonies of that lingering malady which afflicted his frame, but could not. .subdue his spirit. Last nig ht , l at twenty minutes -past nine o'clock, the measure of his time was full, and he breathed his last, surrounded by those who had ministered so long 11 tO'llis - iffiiction, and witnessed the magnanimous pa tieuce with which he endured the slow but certain progress of a disease which he knew to be 'mortal.— Death is at all times an awful visitant, but when lendsit occursiii additional the chambe r of Royalty, the contrast solemnity omtiie to co n t t l e ie mp s i c a e t n io e n . of T h N e V O h r l e d a l r t is sadly recalled fiy grandeur, to the terrors of mortal dissolution., The decease of his Royal HIGHNESS but too forcibly illustrates the uncertainty of that promised boon which busy hope is constantly presenting to the imagination —that undefined enjoyment which cheers our youth, but is not destined to solace our years. His Royal HIGHNESS had some chance of one day filling the Throne of his father—but that prospect is now blighted by mortality, and he descends to the tomb of his Ances . tors. Although the public mind must have been some ' time prepared for this melancholy event, yet the pain- 1 fulness of suspense is now embittered by tI4 certainty of unmingled regret and universal sympathy, for the loss of a Prince, who was not more endeared by his kindly virtues in private life than adored for the uniform integrity and manly demeanour of his pUblic career. The merits of his character ;-,, have 'been too, well appreciated by the nation to re i quire But though our; the .eutogium of panegyric. . ``~"- I praise may well be spared as tributary to his memory, yet the expression of our esteem may be alloWed as illustrative of our afflicted feelings. Upon an occa sion of this kind, we do not envy the hearts of those who can find patience in seeking out, and pleasure in ex ulting.over, the too frequent failings of our nature, nor can we admire the ingenuity of that • pen, affecting sorrow, but dipped in gall, which can turn sen -- tences not less despicable for their literary merit than contemptible for the malignity of their spirit. Far can we tolerate that neglect of decency—that scandalous exultation of factious demagogues--who, not more lost to shame than dead to the common feelings of humanity, could utter sentiments of joy over the bed of sickness—who could betray the deadly venom of their 'hearts over the illustrious sufferer, and point in no decent language to the dissolution of a Fellow- Christian, because conscientiously oppos e d t o them in certain matters of religion. The object of their reproach is now beyond the reach of malice—but theirs is not the proud conscious ness of noble animosity, generous forbearance, or manly pride—they cannot review their conduct with out a tear, if they have any shame left ; but their con trition will awaken no gentle sympathy, nor their re morse forgiveness. Who, on this' melancholy occa sion will meet their countenance but with scorn, and hear their sorrow but with indignation., Let them go —the uncharitable Journalist to muse over the indeli ble columns of his own shame, and the orator: to hear the loathing echoes of his own reproach. The memory of the Duke of YORK is embalmed in the hearts of those whose gratitude is full, while their recollection yet teems with the urbanity of the Prince, and the generous sensibility of the soldier. Long, very long, after the best friend of the Army is laid in the dust— will the tear of regret bedew the cheek of the veteran in distant climes —and the mournful honours paid to his memory wherever the banner of England waves, will not be more general than sincere—the grief not more deep than lasting. The Army may get another Commander -in -Chief, but not another Duke o f YORK THE LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY. FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1827. WHITEHALL, JAN. 6, 1827. " T evening, at twenty m i nutes past Nine &Clock, departed hsi this life, after a painful and protracted illness, his Royal Highness FREDERICK Duke of YORK and ALBANY, his MAJESTYS next Brother, to the great grief of his MAJEsTy . and of all the Royal Family," was T h w e or D se u -i: e 0 f I l li e i rn led oo t n o , Throughout Thursday night his Royal Highness en joyed" thwathwheni Y he Physicians pronounced state became yesterday to the numerous e t v the e har i e l td aert survive the day. s w hit o . r o s y e al an H d ig N h v n ors es e s !could tcosicililTivloedhn n n o ognoat,l r c: e pin: s c:o. t ese , kiii a bgy n gie: d i (amed that he e WELLINGTON, Earl BATHURST, and Mr. inquiries the KING, which were made, were simply, a s t , were th e f fß s e a a d or m ey Secretary PEEL, called frequently Ambassador, the day; and T wo messengers were despatched at tnb d as i Prince ESTERIIAZY. the Austrian different tn r l , git, a i thetomnhddeegse iinu , SPEAKER of the House of Comm on the day, to nu merous inquirers at Rutland House. His Royal Highness the Duke SUSSEX arrived at Rutland House as early as nine of o'clock yesterday morning, and the Duke of CLARENC E at twelve o'clock. They were with the Duke till .within an hour of his death. The Duke of CLARENCE then the n c d o s u o r remained in I r se P o ark. Lie anti-room ; the Duke of Sussax his Royal B ro th er was no more. When inf orme d b y theP Physicia ns that his brother was in the agonies of death, he was deeply affected. Sir HENRY HALFORD was to have presided at a meet - ing of the College of Physicians yeste r d a y a f ternoon, b ut nie m he dispatched Dr. ITAEL to the Coll ege , to an nounce the impossibility his attendance. Mr. MAC GREGOR also- communicatedof to his patients that he could not possibly attend to His Royal Highness, them during the d a y. who had only b een a bl e occasion ally tp re cogn i ze h i s attendants, ,became totally insensible. about one o'clock. mortification reached ck. The m • • on had then nearly ched the vital organs. In the course of the afternoon, his Royal Highness once or twice so far recovered Inl as to appear sensible of ex ternal objects, but he ' mediately relapsed into his former state of stupor. At four o'clock, Mr. WHITE, the King's Messenger: was dispatched to Windsor with an account of the Royal Duke's condition. His Royal Highness continued in the same state during the evening with scarcely any change. The narcotics ad' ministered produced occasional repose, but soon after nine o'clock the approach of death became manifest. At twenty minutes past nine his Royal Highness, whose respiration had scarcely been perceptible for some time, breathed his last without a struggle. The instant .his Royal Highness's death was announced , a Messenger was dispatched to the Castle at Wiadsor, to. announce the melanchOly intelligence to his MAJESTY. After the embarrassment necessarily created by this event had in some degree subsided, messengers were dis patched to the other Members of the Royal Family, to the LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S Office, to the LORD CRANCELLOS' to Mr. Secretary PEEL, &C. The body of his Royal Highness was laid out, and pro' per persons stationed in the apartment, until the Lord Chamberlain sent a Deputy to take possession of it. His Royal Highness the Duke Of SUSSEX , after the legit spark of life had tied, left the chamber, and proceeded, his carriage, to his mansion, at Kensington. The medical attendants left the corpse soon afterwards' in the custody of Mr. MASBY, of the'Lord Chamberlain' s Office. Mr. BAILEY, of Mount-street, the undertaker to the Royal Family, was sent for, and the body was left ill Persons belonging to the Royal D u k e ' s l ate esta blish' thent were appointed to sit up during th e n i g ht with the During the whole of his protracted illness, his RoY' that or g entleman's possession. pse. Highness bore his sufferings with the most manly fortitude' He attended even to business when labouring under gr it pain, with an equanimity which has seldom been equalled' He yielded only to his disease when his powers raja sunk under its influence. His. Royal Highness FREDERICK, DUKE of YORK, second A of our late King, G eorge 111., was b orn A ugus t 16, 1763, a n d elected Bishop of Osnaburg Feb. 27, 1764. Ori the 27th of I`i , r vember, 1784, he was created Duke of York and Albany, Great Britain, and Earl of Ulster, in Ireland. The earlier yes ° of his life, up to the period of 1791, were spent (if we except duel with Colonel Lennox, which took place in 1789), in cone ( rative tranquillity, not to say privacy; but towards the close ° September, 1793, he was called into active p u bli c service, bY appointment as Commander-in-Chief of the armies destined for ja:edi T a MEETING of the COMMISSIONERS of the METROPOLIS TURNPIKE ROADS, NORTH of the THAMES, held on the sth Day of hitITAKY, 1827, it was • ORDERED, That no horses, or other beasts of draught, drawing any stage coach, or any stage- waggon, van, caravan, or other stage-carriage conveying passengers or goods, for pay, hire, or reward, after Toll shall have been taken for the first time of passing along the Roads (known by the name of the Kensington Roads) mentioned and described in the first part of the first Schedule to the Act of the 7th year of the reign of His present MAJESTY, cap. 142, intituled, as An Act for consolidating the Trusts of the several Turnpike Roads in the neighbourhood of the Me tropolis north of the River Thames," shall be charged with — any toll for the second time of passing along the said reads mentioned in the said first part of the said first Schedule, or any of them, or any part thereof, after having paid toll for the first time of passing, in case such second time of passing shall be merely the returning or coming back again ; but where the second time of passing shall be merely returning or coming back again, they shall be charged with one full toll for the third time of passing, but with no farther toll during the same day. _ _ By order of the Commissioners, J. 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