The Sun. — London, England, 1825-02-28 00:00:00

PRICE or STOCKS Ili Is Steck 23(41 3 Per Cent. Reel. 9 403 4 1,erCent. Cong. , 14 Per Cent Oitto lied ....... ......... 101iz,11 4 Per Cent. 10" Polk Lo ng A nn . ... 231 5-16 , 111 P. 3 per Cents. Stock bitto Bonds tiatlt.Sea Stock Pltler.s OF FOIMIGN [t A utrinn Ilds 5 per et. ... 93 14112:1.1ian lids ------- Scrip — '" - -..----1325 „. 30 1 pin. ! enos yresl:ds 9l :; Q iilitin, lids, ti per et. 894 8-. l!qiu:tibian ltd.s.li per et. 1 1 . 3 \ ''• do. 1824 ......JOA i i ..,0,;„1, 5 ; ••,, per cent. reek ltd , • 5721 bo• Scrip, 1825 •„ h "" . & xicitll nits lip 102,5 3L 2,i 34 pmh DIY OSSE 0.41.00 E. Old Annuities New Ditto • ' Ex. Bills 10001. 2d. Ditto 11d. 58 56 58 Ditto - 5001. Ditto 14d. 6O 58 Ditto Small 2d. Ditto 1 Ad. 56 60 Ditto Commercial Bank for Act. India .for Acct. Cons. for Acct. NOS, AT ONE. O'CLOCK. Neapolitan, 5 per cent. — Neapolitan Scrip Peruvian Bonds ... 84i 5 4i Portuguese Bonds Prils,iati, 5 per ct. Ditto New lO Ol . . Russian, New, 5 per cr. iinti Spanish 1821, 5 per ct. 1823, ditto French It entes Exchange ... —f —c. Scrip rrticEs OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK Per Share. 411411 ce Fire and Life Assurance Company - Ditto, Marine Department - I n glo-Mexican Mining Company 1• ) 11 129 12u Ar ltlo-Chilian Mining Company Brazilian Mining Company , Chilian Mining Company 39 eolorai3ian Mining Company General Mining Association liib ernian rvli n i ng Company Pa co Per uv i an Mi n i ng C om p a ny ( 0 0 de la Plata Mining CoMpany - 3 l 3l 30,} 'll 9puxallua Mining Company I New ,Welch I ron an d C oa l Mi n i ng Comp a ny 4,o ndon and Northern Railway Company . , l3 A ustralian Company British Iron Company tr:oitol Ship Canal Company A 1 ( ;aziad a Company l'iuitable Loan flank Company God Coast Association (4eat Westm 2i Ainster Dairy Company Al etropolitan Alderney Dairy Company lie.._ , , • - 4 leirop o li tan Fish Company . 'X ew Corn E x chan ge Pearl fishery C ompany, Yellow Receipt _ P ovincial Bank of Ireland 7 6 rat e at Ericks ~....._ THE SUN. ° E QUIS DICERE FALSUM ALIDEAT LONDON, frioNmiy EVENING, FEB. 28, 1825. We received, at a late hour this morning, by "Press from Paris, the Etoite dated yesterday. rtl 'is journal cot►trail:c is positively the report of 4 Congress being about to assemble in the French ;4 Pitol. Th e [antes on Saturday were 101 f. 05 c. fa r notley and the end of the month at three The Paris Papers of Thursday and Friday ' l ave arrived. They are chiefly filled with the debates in the Chamber of Deputies on the in ihultY to th e E m i gran ts. The discussions on gen eral principle of the indemnity have ter itininated3 and the Chamber has begun the consi t'ration o f the numerous amendments that have i l'ea proposed. The first ofthese went to effect 4 total chang e in the very nature of the law, pro l'64llg the resto ra ti on t o th e E m i gran ts o f th e i r ; 4 nded estates, and t o gra n t the whole indemnity d :tended for their original proprietors to the pur t'"asers of thOse estates. This amendment, we 44 glad to observe, was rejected by the unani k:;nus voice of the Chamber, save its author, the L'aron de COUPIGNY. The next was a proposal 114 (le by M. BRETON to allow an indemnity of 441 millions of rentes at five per cent. to the emi -sraat fundholders. The share of each ancient luedholder • was in no case to exceed ten thou sand retries. The discussion .of this amendment Was not concluded when the Chamber adjourned. t The t r i a l o f t h e mur d erer P apavo i ne di v id es attention of the Parisians with the Debates u ' l ate Indemnity. His appearance before the u aurt of 'Assize excited great curiosity. He I sPlayed neither ti m idity nor arrogance , a nd did tlat betray the slightest emotion even when the I r:'anguitted c l ot h es o f hi s v i c ti m we r e exposed to ' view. : In his examination he admitted having "innlitted the crime, but said that it was in a )'lornent of phrenzy, to which he was subject, it t l'd with ou t any cause comprehensible even to lir nself. He d en i e d h a vin g m istaken the children fur those of the DuchesS of BERRY. although he jad made that assertion during the first period of n s c onfinement. The woman Malservat having I l ' i e f4 Proved i nnocen t o f an y acq uaintance with ti n o. was one of th e witnesses examined, but no: itli g had transpi re d t o th row any light on the i n ° tives for this most detestable crime. It is Confirmed th a t th e l a te Portugbese Minis r) Cond e P ALMELA, w i l l not b e appo i nte d Am 4ssadorr at Pails. (From the Etoilt of Saturday.) PAWS, FEB. 25. ajtille,Eci.to du :Midi, on the credit of some letters from Paris, after it several .Tournals of the capital,. have announced c i s ti le coronation is deferred till July. This is mistake:_ we , I_vfate positively that the august ceremony take plit.e ~ocably on the 25th of May next. ..' est erday the Fr enc h A ca d em y p ro ceeded to the nomination Al4,t:herober in the room of the Count de Ferrand, and . elected_ Delavigne. Out of 27 votes, C. Delavigne had, The first ballot, 26 ; and the Marquis de Valo 1. l'4 1; ! L Y° ll l l g Lucien Murat is still in the dungeons of Algesi tri,,,_Te_lre even'reason to suppose that this affair be pro t.,4eaci.. five or six months. xcH FUNDS.--Pmus, FEE. 25.--Five per , Cents. c•--- . Bank Stock, 1998 f. 75c.—Rente de N . aples, :11 7 e4l,ti..e.t Certificates, 90f. 45c.—Rente d'Espagne, 114. —Royal .4nah Loan, 1823,- 54.—Eichange on London, one month, • ; three months, 24f. 85c.—( Court Authentique, Feb. 25.) .1) 'utell Papers of the 27th inst. arrived this 0 0 , • , t ung• They contain l ong li s t s o f c h ar it a bl e 1„ C us eriptions f or th e re li e f o f t h e su ff erers b y the t 4 i t° inundations, which flow in from all part of kingdom of the Netherlands. The amount collected at the Hague is nearly 100,000 florins, at r4( 1411, 35,000, and at Haerlem, 52,000. 4 00tli, 3 5.TE9. RDA sr, FEB. 25.—E xc h ange on L on d on, 39. i. ; two rrankfort Papers to the 21st inst. arrived yes 4rdaY• The following is an extract from the Jp,.urnal de Fran fort of the 20th : ORT FEB. 19. ,ate The l ast letters froniParis announce that the King of France appointed a Corrimittet to draw up a statement of the debts of Frxlch Princes in foreign countries which are yet unpaiA. This Committee, in obedience to his Majesty's orders, and in conformity with the wish of the Noble Peers, Ministers of his Household, is employed without interruption in drawiug up these estimate:, that a sufficient Vote of Credit - for the payment may be submitted to the Chambers during the present Session. Brussels Papers to the 27th lust. arrived last night. In addition to his Majesty's gift of 100,000 florins towards the general subscription, the Kixa has placed 4,540 florins at the disposal of the Governors of North Holland for the relief of the sufferers in that part of the Kingdom. The First Chamber of the States-General has passed the law against the use of French coin. Twenty-one Members voted for it, eight against it, and five abstained from voting at all, on the ground that the project had been rejected in the Sitting of January 13th, when the numbers for and against had been found to be equal. Hamburg!' Papers to the 23(1 lost., were also re ceived last night. They contain intelligence from St. Petersburgh to the 10th. The temporary military Governors and Commit tees appointed by the EMPEROR after the inundation, had made a Report on the subject, from which it appears that 480 persons perished, half of whom were in the environs of the Ca pital ; that out of 1,987 sick, only 37 died, and 1,456 were per fectly restored;—that 15,495 individuals received relief in pro visions to the value of 16,873 rubles, and that in the whole 898,040 rubles were distributed, 702,000 of which were received in money by 24,026 persons ; and that 462 houses were entirely swept away or eestroyed, and 3,681 damaged, out of which 2,824 had been repaired. Letters from Belgrade assert that the Servian insurrection had been put down by Prince MiLoscit, and that its leader, MOLVIA PoPovicm had been taken prisoner and immediately beheaded. EX CILI NG FS. HA3InuRGH, FEB. 21—London, 36.4 A. ; 2 Us., 36. 1 St. PETERSBURGII, FEB. B.—London, 94. LEIPSIG, FEB. 18.—London, 2 months, 6. 14. FEB. 19.—London, 3 months, 6,24 j. Viksx.k, FEB. 12.—London, 3 months, 6. 47. TNUNDATIONS IN HANOVER.—An article from Hanover states, that Captain DAvisos, Aide-de- Camp to his Royal Highness the Duke of CAM BRIDGE, set out on the 17th instant for London with a state►nent of the boundless misery caused by the late inundations among our fellow-subjects in his MAJESTY'S Hanoverian dominions. The first subscription for the sufferers already amounts to 15,100 rix dollars in gold and 4,720 rix dollars in silver. At the head of the list are his Royal Highness the Duke of CAMBRIDGE 10,000 rix dollars in gold, and the Duchess, his consort, 1,000 ditto. Various contributions had been made prerious to the invitatio►► issued by the Government. The new Danish Loan of three millions is po• sitively taken by Air. lio.rnicumn, and is ex pected iliortly to be brought on the market. The Duke of BRUNSWICK and his brother arrived at Hanover on the 17th instant. Mr. STRATFORD CANNING, our Ambassador at St. Petersburgh, had an audience of the Emperor and Empress mother on the Bth instant. An Address has been presented to the Grand Duke of BADEN by the Magistrate of Constance, praying him not to establish the intended repre sentative institutions. An answer was given ex pressive of the Grand Duke's thanks. Mr.SeCretary CANNING, we are happy to Slate, was better yesterday. Ile continues to be at tended by Dr. HOLLAND. It is supposed that an abscess has formed in one of the Duke of Wcr.r.lNGToN's ears., which considerably impairs his hearing. Saturday Morning, at ten o'clock; the Lords of his Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Council held a meetin ,, at the new temporary Council Office in Whitehall-place, which was attended by the Judge of the Arches Court, the Lord c.ier Baron, the Master of the Rolls, and Sir Henry Russell. The Appeals before their Lordships were principally from the Island of Guernsey ; the questions under litigation were principally of a private nature, and of no public interest. Their Lord ships continued their sitting till about five o'clock. Friday the Alacrity, Captain FiNur, arrived at Cowes in 62 days from the Cape of Good Hope. The accounts she brings of the Settlers state, that they are going on more prosperously than they have done since they located. The Commissioners of Inquiry, who had been two years employed into the affairs of the colony, had not nearly completed their inspection.. The celebrated astronomer, Dr. OLuEns of Bremen, has published some astronomical obser vations, by which it is shewn that the title on the 4th of March, owing to the respective posi tions of the sun and moon on that day, will be considerably higher than it was during the late disastrous floods of the 3d and 4th of the present month. No danger, however, of the recurrence on the 4th March of the late calamity :teed be apprehended from the excessive height of the " tide, unless it be accompanied with a violent hurricane from the North-west, as was the case on the late lamentable occasion. THE ARTS.—That respectable Veteran of THE ARTS, SINGLETON, has made an admirable Por trait of CROSDULL, the great and unrivalled Per former on the - Violincello. The portrait belongs to JOHN FuLLEa, but it will be gratifying to the Musical World to . learn that he has allow ed a Print to come from the spirited and accurate hand of TURNER. The Lady whose Memoirs have excited so much attention, and class her with Moll Flan ders, and other heroines of the same description, is said to have lately been married to a British Officer!! HORRIBLE ATTACK. UPON A YOUNG LAD Y.— This morning information was given at Row-street by the Rev. 1)r. Alexander Manning, of the Adelphi, of the following out rage upon his daughter last evening, by one of those miscreants called monsters :—Abou t eight o'clock the young lady, attended by her maid, was returning front divine service at St. Martin's church, and on turning down Adatn-street a man of middle size, elegantly dressed, wearing spectacles, advanced ton ards her, and using an expression which we cannot reapeat, struck her a blow on the upper part of the thigh, just below the hip, , and repeated the attack in another and more dangerous place. The young lady did not discover she was stabbed, such was the villain's quickness, until he had lied and was lost iu the pass ing throng in the Strand. Miss Manning proceeded home , and on getting within the door fai n t e d. Th e servant, in a state of alarm, 'stated what had occurred, and medical advice was called, and the wounds, we are informed, were not dangerous although severe ; they were given by a sharp instrument of no very great width. Dr. Manning and some friends instantly proceeded out, accompanied by the servant, and remained until twelve o'clock walking in every direction about the neighbourhood, but they could not meet the cowardly miscreant. WET FEET.—How often do we see people trampling about in the mud with leather soaked through, and how often do such people, \then • they return home, sit down by the fire and per mit their feet to dry without changing either stockings or shoes. Can we then wonder at the coughing and barking, a n d r h euma ti sm an d in flammations, which enable the Doctors to ride in their carriages ? \% r et feet most commonly pro duce affections of the throat and lungs, and iv hen such diseases have once taken place, " the house is on fire ; danger is not far off;" therefore let us entreat our readers, no matter how healthful, to guard against wet feet. --- (Medical Adviser.) FASHIONABLE ARRANGEMENTS for the WEEK. Txas E Ni NO.—The Marchioness Dowager of Salisbury's third Assembly. To-monnow.—The Countess of Arran's Party, in-Dover street. WEDNESDAY.—The Countess of Essex's Party, in Hill street. TuuttsnAY.—The Countess of Arran's second Party ; the Marchioness of Hertford's second Assembly. FitiDAY.—Easily Marchioness of Londonderry's Rout, St. James's-square. SAT nnAr.—Mr. Secretary Peel's Grand Dinner, in Privy Gardens ; Lady Arran's Party. NDAY.—Mr. Peel's third Grand Dinner. FASHIONABLE PARTIES. Saturday, the Chancellor of the Exchequer had a numerous dinner party at his house in Downing. street. Saturday, Mr. Peel gave his first grand dinner party. at his new house in Privy Gardens, to his Royal Highness the Duke of York. The lion. Secretary's house has been fitted an in the most elegant style ; the gilding is of the most highly-finished order.—Mr. Secretary Peel gave a dinner to a select party yes terday. i , %: ° , 4 k s 'A' '2 4,- , " 'st - . 3-7, •• ... t.:40 . A . , A t : . ~,.. , s , , -4* .i i7_,', 7 g, ,i' •••-• Ai ' f/f -' 1 P A --I.i'-'."*-=;.1:.3"1:;4.17"-\9.1..:k*i'-,' •:, ' , - '.'"-- -• e-;>. .'i'' 1 4 .. : 10 ,; 6 1 .., %•, .. • ...,;., ~•,..,.. r -, s itii E ARMY. [From the LONDON GAZETTE of Saturda u.l War-Qffice, Feb. 25, 1825. 111EmoRANDr731.-- . -His Majesty has been pleased to approve of the 31st Foot being pumitted,to bear 3n its eolours and ap pointments, in addition to arty other' badges or devices which may have heretofore been granted to that Regiment, the word " Peninsula." in commemoration of the distinguished conduct of the late 2d Battalion of that Regiment in the Peninsula under Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, from the Bth April, 180 , i, to the 12th July, 1814. His Majesty has also been pleased to apnrove of the GOth Re giment (or the Duke of York's Own Rifle Corps) being per mitted to bear on its colours and appointments, in addition to any other badges or devices which may have heretofore been granted to that Regiment, the words" Albuera,' " Pyren nees," and " Nive,"‘ in consequence of the distinguished con duct of the Ist (late sth) Battalion of the Regiment at the battle of Allmera. on the 16th May, 1811 ; in the Pyrennees, in July and August 1813 ; and in the passage of the Nive, in the month of December, 1613. War-Office, Feb. 25. 2d Regiment of Life Guards—George Thomas 'BulkeleY, (lent. to be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Dutton, whO retires. Pith Regiment of Light Dragoons—James Pybus Seward, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Itantsbotturn, promoted in the 91st Foot. _ _ Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards—Lieutenant Hon. William Thomas Graves to be Lieutenant. and Captain, by purchase, vice Beaufoy, who retires; Hon. Arthur Upton to be •Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase. vice Gritves ; En sign and Lieutenant William brook Northey to be Adjutant, vice Beaufoy, who resigns. Ist Regiment of Foot—Gentleman Cadet Charles Curtis, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur chase. vice NVilliamson, appointed to the 73d Foot. 2d Ditto—Lieutenant Charles head, from the 92d Foot. to be Captain, without purchas ; Ensign 'Honourablo Frederick Cavendish, front the 22d Foot ; Ensign George Stirling, from the .58th Foot—to be Lieutenants, without purchase. Gth Ditto—Lieut. Henry Sharpin, front half-pay 24th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Thomas Noble Clark, who exchanges. 18th Ditto—Wm. Octavius - Temple, G,nt., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Hull, promoted in the 48th Foot, 22d Ditto—Ensign James lluie, front half-pay Bth West India► Regiment, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Caven dish, promoted in the 2d Foot. 31st Ditto . ---Lieut. James Spence to be Captain, without pur chase ; Ensign Edmund Gennyss; Lieut. Win. Gibson Willes, from half-pay 45th Foot ; Ensign John Ayres Kingdom, front the 94th Folt, vice Spence—to be Lieutenants, without pur chase ; Robert Wm. White, cent., vice Uennyss, to be Ensign, without purchase. _ . . . . 34th Ditto—Lieut. Chas. Harford, from the 82d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Hadwin, who exchanges. 38th Ditto—Lieut. Edward Hopper to' be Captain, without purchase ; Ensign - John Cathpbell ; Muss:Al ale, froth half-ray 28th Foot; Ensign Robt. Alends, Trots the Z.l7tim Foot, vice Hopper—to be Lieutenants, without purchase; Robert Deane, Gent., vice Campbell, to be Ensign, without purchase. 41st Ditto—Lieutenant B. N. Bluett to be Captain, without purchase; Ensign John George Bedingfield ; Ensign James Douglas, from the 81st Foot; Ensign Edward Cerjat Spencer, from vice Bl ue tt— to b e Li eutenants , w i t h ou t Purchase Gent., vice Bedinfield, to be En urchtahse e 73d William Foot, Evan 8, sign, without purchase. 42d Ditto—Gentleman Cadet Harcourt Bill, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Raynes, promoted in the 44th Foot. 44th Ditto—Lieutenant Robert Smith to be Captain, without purchase ; Ensign Thomas Robinson ; Ensign Win. Wemyss Fraser, from the Cape Corps of Infantry ; Ensign Thomas Raynes, from the 42d Foot, vice Smith—to be Lieutenants, without purchase; George Bayly, Gent., vice Robinson, to be Ensign, without purchase. 48th Ditto—Lieutenant Thomas Brotheridge to be Captain, without purchase; Lieutenant Robert Vinceitt, from the 89th Foot ; Ensign John Trevor Ilull, from the 18th Foot; Ensign Edmund Carrington Smith, from the 99th Foot, vice Bro theridge—to be Lieutenants without purchase. 50th Ditto—Benjamin Baxter, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice William A. Ross, deceased. 58th Ditto—John Blaquiere Mann, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Stirling, promoted in the 2d Foot. 60th Ditto—Captain William Abbott, from Ist Royal Vete ran Battalion, to be Captain, vice.Berttze, who exchanges. 73d Ditto—Ensign Hedworth Huddleston Williamson, from the Ist Foot, to he Ensign, without purchase, vice Spencer, promoted in the 41st Foot. B'2d Ditto--Lieutenant Thomas Hadwin, from the 34tleFoot, to be Lieutenant, vice Harford, who exchanges. 87th Ditto—Dennis Herbert, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Mends, promoted i n th e 38th F oot . 80th Ditto—Ensign James Beveridge Harris, from the 24th Foot, to be Lieutenant, without puchase, vice Vincent, appointed 'to the 48th Foot. 91st Ditto—Lieutenant Thomas Murray to be Captain, with out purchase, vice Campbell, deceased ; Ensign George Wil liam Molyneux Lovett, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Murray ; Cornet John Richard Snord Ramsbottom, front the 16th Light Dragoons, to Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Burge, promoted; Herbert Laye, Gent: vice Lovett, to be Ensign, without purchase. 93d Ditto—Ensign Henry Co:mon, to be Lieutenant, with out purchase, vice Head, promoted to . the 2d Foot ; Ensign John Ambrose Russell, frern the Ist West India Regiment, to be Ensign, vice Common. 94th Ditto—John R. Currie, Gent. vice Kingdom, promoted to the 31st Foot; Samuel Alpres George Osborne, Gent.—to he Ensigns without purchase. 99th Ditto—Henry James Day, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Smith, promoted in the 48th F o ot. Ist West India Regiment—Tempest W. S trou d e, G ent . to 1 3 e dio Ensign, ,ot. without purchase, vies Russell,. app o i nte d t o the , j ) Cape Corps (Infantry)—Jantes Neil Richton, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Fraser, promoted to the 44th Foot. _ Ist Royal Veteran Battalion—Captain Francis Bertize, from the tillth Voot, to be Captain, vice A bbott,.who exchanges. BREVET—The undermentioned Cadets, of the Honourable the East India Company's Service, to have the temporary rank as Second Lieutenant, during the period of their being placed under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Pasley, of the Royal Engineers, at Chatham, for Instructions in the Art of Sapping and Mining :—Gentleman Cadet Wynch Willis; Gentleman Cadet William Barclay Goodfellow ; Gentleman Cadet Wm. Henry Atkinson ; Gentleman Cadet Walter -Scott. IIIEMORANDA.—The rank of Major Alair, of the 7th Foot, as Major in the Army, has been antedated to the 21st ot January, 1819.—Assistant-Surgeon 'Henry nekton Bloxam, upon halt'-pay Ist or Grenadier Foot Guards, has resigned. Commissions signed by the Su ss Lord Lieutenant of the County of ex. Richard Hasler the younger, Esq. to be Deputy Lieutenant; \Vm. Lucas Shadwell, Esq. to be ditto. Commissions signed by the n Lorwall.d Lieutenant o f t h e County of Cor Sir Richard Rawlinson Vy ya vn, Bart. to b e D eputy Lieu tenant ; John Borlase, Esq. to be ditto. Royal Cornwall Reghn ent of Militia—R ich.. Johns, Gent. to be second Lieutenant, vice the lion. George Edgcunibe, pro- motcd. St. Germans . Troop of Yeomanry—Francis Glanville, jun. Esq. to be Captain Commandant, vice the E ar l of at. Germans, resigned. itcwAL NAVY. PORTSMOUTH, PER. 26.—Yesterday the Nam transport, arrived from Malta and Gibraltar, with Government stores and invalids. She sailed from Malta previously to the date of our Correspondent's letter, in our last Paper.--She is sixteen days from Gibraltar. The Blanche arrived at Bahia, from Pernambuco, on the Cth, and sailed on the Bth of December, for Rio Janeiro. The Emulous packet arrived at Bahia, from Pernambuco, on the 9th, and was to sail on the 11th of December for Rio Janeiro. The Briton arrived at Valparaiso, from the River Plate, on the 25th of Novemnber. The Esk, for the Coast of Africa, Egeria, for Mexico, and Niemen, for Halifax, arrived at Madeira on 23d of January. His Majesty's ship Wellesley, 74, Capt. G. E. Hamond, C. B. - continues at Spithead, awaiting the arrival of hi. Exce llency Sir Charles Stuart and suite. Some political reasons, we suppose, at present exist, which prevent the departure of the Ambassador. The Rose, 20, Hon. Capt. Abbot, went out of harbour yes terday, fitted for the Mediterranean station. She will previously proceed to cruise with the experimental corvettes. The Cham pion, Orestes, and Pylades, are expected to go out of harbour next week. On Thursday the Conflict gun-brig, Lieut. Chrystie, sailed for the Coast of Africa. Remain at Spithead—Wellesley, Phaeton, Brazen, Samarang, Rose, and Pandora. On Thursday the Aurora frigate was paid off by Capt. Henry Prescott, C. 8., and re. commissipned by Capt. John Maxwell, for Channel service. Mr. Charles Osborne is appointed. Sur geon, and Mr. Wm. Savory, Purser, of that ship. A brig of war on a new principle is to be built at this dock yard ; she will be bark rigged. Lieut. Symonds, of the Royal George, is the projector. Capt. the Hon. J. A. Maude is appointed to the Glasgow, and Captain H. Dundas to the Dartmouth ; Lieut. R. Griffiths to the Doris; and Lieut. Robert Caird to the Redwing. 11Ir. Robert Scott, of the Royal George yacht, is promoted to the rank of Surgeon. Mr. Baird, Jasper, to be Assistant Surgeon of the Royal George. John Elliott, Esq. to be Secretary to Admiral Plampin. DEVONPO wr, FEn. 24.—1 t is not perhaps generally known, that by a recent regulation of the service, any Officer of Ma rines applying for half-pay, or declining to serve when called in upon full pay, his widow, by his so doing, loses all claim to the pension, or his children to the Compassionate Fund. MERCANTILE SHIPPING. MILFORD, FEB. 26.—Arrived the Aspasia, Brewer, from Carthagena de Columbia, sailed the 17th of January. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 27•—Wind S.W.—Arrived his Ma jesty's ship Tweed from South America, last from Rio Janeiro. PLYMOUTH, FEB. 26.—Wind S.l.l—Arrived the Hans cutt, Hilcon, from Bremen. Sailed the Percy, Sayers, for Madeira and St. Vincent's; Mary, Hotton, for the Cape of Good Hope ; and the William, Snell, for London. FAT.3IOIITII, FEB. S.—Wind S.E. to S.S.W.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Thetis from a cruize. Sailed the Loyal Briton, Headly, for Alexandria; and Hero, Prouns, fur Jersey. vEnPOOL, FEn. 20.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived the Caro line, Cawman, - and Liddle, Thomson, from Alexandria (E) ; and Prince Eugene, ' , from Galipoli. COWES, FEB. 27.—The Manly, Bennett, arrived from Ber bice ; spoke in lat. 23. 40. N. long. 01. 4i. W. the brig Sophia from Liverpool, out seven weeks, having been struck by light ning in the bows, and lost both topmasts. DEAL, FEB. by W.—Passed through yesterday, the Earden, Heightman, for Gibraltar; and from the River and remains, the Ilippomones, Ross, for Cape de Vents, and Spe culation, Mills. - for Java. Passed for the River, the Alacrity; Lindley, from the Cape of Good hope The lame, Owen, from Limerick to London, has put back to Kilrush, leaky, and having been obliged to throw overboard 300 firkins of butter and about 40 casks of beef and pork. The Cambrian, Clarkson, from London to Bombay, was spoke with the 19th November, off the Cape. THE MARKETS. CORN EXCHANGE, Frn. 28. The arrivals Ofi:',Ori; -- e.ccumulated greatly towards the close of last week, so as to occasion a large return of all descrip tions of Grain, in which the Tsantity of Wheat from Northern Ports amounts to nearly two-thirds of the supply. This morning the fresh supply of Wheat, Barley, Beans, and Pease. from Essex, Kent, and Suffolk, is not con siderable, neither are there many fresh vessels in with Wheat and Oats from the North. Prime parcels of Wheat are still scarce, and such being eagerly sought after, met a better sale at Is. to 2s. per quarter advance on the terms of last Mon day; but middling and ordinary qualities are plentiful, and tare .experienced no improvement. Barley •of superfine quality fully maintains last quotations, but - other kinds are extremely dull in sale ; Beans that are dry sell well, but damp samples are almost unsaleable, though offered at rather lower prices ; Pease of both kinds are unaltered ; Oats find sale slowly but are not cheaper than this dny se'nnight. There is rather more doing in the Flour trade than of late. ARRIVALS LasT WEER.--English Wheat, 10,686 ; Bar ley, 15,952 ; Malt, 13,235 ; (Tats, 18,156 ; Beans, 4,255 ; Pease, 1,821 • Irish Oats, 2,060 ; Foreign Oats, 790 quarters. Flour, 11.353 sacks. Wheat, Red (old) s2s 65s White (old) ...563 76s' Red (1824) 50s 56s 60s 633 Superfine ....66s 70s -- White (1824)...52s sfis Fine sBs 64s -- Superfine ....70s 76s 15s 40s 2223 368 Fine 38s 40s -Superfine 43s 46s 58s 64s -Fine 66s 70s Feast Grey 37s 39s -Maple 40s 41s White ..... 42s 46s Boilers 50s 54s Beans, Small (new) ....42s 452 (old) ~..48s 52s Tick (new) 33s 37s (old) ..._.4os 44s Harrow (new)...39s 41s (old) ...44s 48s Brank 34s 402 Oats, Feed ' , Os 22s —Fine 23s 25s Poland 0 2s 24s —Fine 9 55 27. Potatoe 9 53 28s Fine ns 30s Scotch 3ls 32s Flour (per sack) 60s 653 Seconds 52. 58s North Country...s2s 54s Bran B2 9s GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF GUAIN,FILOM THE DETURNS RECEIVED IN THE WEEK ENDING FEB. 19. Wheat, 665. Id. ; Barley, 395. 2d. ; Oats, 235. 7d. ; Rye, 40s. 7d. ; Beans, 395. 2d. ; Peas, 40. , . l Id. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed February 23,825, is 355. 11 id. per cwt. SMITHFIELD MARKET, FED. 28. The following is an accurate Report of the numbers and prices at Smithfield Market this morning : • CATTLE AT MARKET _ Beasts 2,475 I Sheep Calves lOB ' Pigs -14,810 140 To sink the Offal, per stone of 811, Beef • 4s 4d to 5s 2d j Veal Mutton 4s 8d to 5s 6d j Pork ss Od to 68 6d - Lamb Os Od to Os Od. HAY AND STRAW, TER LOAD. flay £3 Os to, 1:4 lOs I Clover 4l Os to .E 5 lOs Straw 172 Os to £2 10s. • We have authority to state, that a merchant of the highest respectability will offer himself as a candidate for the representation of this city at the next General Election.— ( flrorceiter Journal. ) IjISEASES OCCASIONED BY HARD DRINKING.— The diseasist proceeding from the bottle are in the following gradation ; — lst, Indigestion ; 2 d, Bilious derangement ; 3d, Appopexy; 4th, Pain in the side, from derangement of the liver; sth, Dropsical swellings ; 6th, Jattndice ; 7th, Stran guary ; Bth, Stricture; 9th, Nervous debility ; 10th, Sterrility ; 11th, Hemorrhoids ; 12th, Fistula 13th, Dysentery ; 14th, Mental muddiness . ; 15th Gout ; 16th, Wasting of the body ; 17th, Blood-shot eyes ; 18th, Carbuncled nose; 19th, Bile coloured skin ; 20th, Swoln lips. To this catalogue add the Various'accidents arising from too free use of the bottle, such as bursting a blood vessel, &c. &c. and then say is it not strange that people apparently in their senses will indulge in such dan gerous habits ? MARRIED. On the 24th inst., at ..i.Mary's,.lslington, Mr. Henry Hick man, of Edmond-street, Battlebrulge, and Elizabeth-terrace, Islington, to Miss Pritchard, daughter of Mr. Pritchard, of Holloway. DIED. At Edinburgh, on Tuesday, the 22d inst., Miss Katharine Wedderburn, aged 81 years. On Saturday morning, at his residence, Kingston, Surrey, C. J. Jemmett, Esq., Coroner for the County, in his 73d year. On the 25th inst., Mr. Henry Gilbertson, of Pilgrim-street, Ludgate-hill, in the 55th year of his age, of paralysis. On Tuesday, the 22d inst., at Hammersmith, Mrs. Marga ret Ogle Hammond, in the 76th year of her age. On Thursday, the 24th inst., Mr. Charles Peto, of Ockham, Surrey. TILE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extractsfrion the MorningPlTers, Feb. 9 B, 1825. • [NEW TIMES.] The extraordinary rise in th - e price of Colonial produce, particularly of Spices, which has taken place within the last week, has led us to make. some inquiry into the cause of this remarkable. and rapid increase of value. We learn that, the . Dutch are with great dexterity endeavouring t o create for themselves a monopoly of spices, and that, with their usual foresight and persevering industry, they have so managed matters as to . have some prospect of accomplishing their puT pose. Since they obtained possession of Sumatr,t they have continued to pay much attention to the cultivation of spices, which had been introduced, there, and, as we hear, the speculation is likely to prove a very profitable one. It is true a long period is requisite to bring them to perfection (we believe Cloves require thirty years) ; but Dutch patience is proverbial, and they will not lose their object by a premature production io the market of an inferior article. Nutmegs, Cloves, and Cinnamon, are cultivated at Trini dad ; but the West Indies cat► furnish little : and as consumption increases every day with the astonishing increase of wealth and population, the supply of these articles seems inadequate to the demand. Within these few years extensive , plantations of Spices have► been made at Prince of Wales's Island ; but we cannot speak positisely as to the result, or what success has attended the experiment. 4 1 µ [rue Timm.] A petition was presented to the House of COM mons on Thursday last, from the city of Edin-' burgh, praying for the repeal of the stamp-duties on policies of insurance. ' There is no tax which appears to us more objectionable in its principle than this. Two parties are agreed, the one to insure, and the other to guarantee against a defin ed risk, whether of life, or fire, or the sea, wide!', owing to the immense number of theie transactions daily effected, is capable of being reduced by cal culation to the utmost nicety. It is worth a • given sum to the insured to protect his property ; and the insurer, by some slight exercise of dis, cerntnent and prudence, which enables him to • incline the balance of risk in his favour, finds in the aggregate his ow n interests benefitted by the constant engaging in such transactions. This latter condition is a necessary one, or no persons would be found to make a trade 'of iststirance.--: In this stage of the contract, Government steps in and lays a tax on it, in many instances equal to another insurance, and makes the bargain in that degree an unfair one to the insured. We believe that this form of taxation does not exist 'at all on the Continent, whither much business is in consequence transferred, winch the superior confidence in English security, would otherwise bring .to this country. Much is lost, too, from. • ' the consideration which intelligent persons ex ercise in taking their own risks, when they dis- • cover that Government compels them to pay a dis. • proportionate sum for protection. We have no doubt whatever, that if this tax is repealed there will be very. large sums annually paid by foreigners to this country for insurance, of which we are now deprived by its operation. We should thus be en:- abled, by the stability and superior knowledge of business possessed by our capitalists, to create • a source of national wealth, not less legitimate, perhaps, than that arising from our commerce and manufactures, from which, also, far greater 1.)e•• • [left would result in the end to the Government than is now derived from the operation of this' , most injudicious tax. 'We are sure that in urg, • hag its repeal, and describing the advantages tkat • would thereby be attained, we speak the senti ments of some of the most intelligent merchants in the city of London. [HORNING HERALD.] The Chancellor of the Exchequer this evening brings forward the " Budget"—or,as it is now call ed, since it is no longer a bag of ills to be dreaded, the Statement relative to the Finances. Thu Army Estimates should have preceded this state ment, and would have done so but for the de bate on Mr. Goulburn's Bill. By that prece dence, Lord Palmerston would have had the opportunity of stating the amount, the probable : expellee, and the causes of the contemplated in crease of the Army ; as it is, the Chancellor of. the Exchequer will be forced into details on the. • subject, or Lord Palmerston must irregularly. , enter upon explanations previously to moving his Estimates. His Majesty, in tie Speech on the opening of Parliament, after mentioning that thl, 44 state of India," and "circumstances connected. with other parts of our foreign possessions," rendered an augmentation of the Army indis pensable, said, that notwithstanding such in crease of expeuce, it would still • be in the power of Parliament, " without affecting public credit, to give additional facilities to the national in dustry, and to make a fur ther reduction in the burdens of the people." But if that increase of the Army, and the consequent expellee, could not be shown to be requisite—though we believe the contrary will be very satisfactorily proved-- then a greater reduction of taxation could be effected ; therefore that point must 'in some way be settled, before the Douse can very regularly approach the question relating to Revenue and • Expenditure. As to the objects of those re ductions which are at once, to give " addi tional facilities to national industry," and to lighten the " burdens of the people," the Chancellor of the Exchequer may b e s a id .to have given some idea of them by the me' • tions which he made on Saturday morning, after the division on the Irish Bill, and during the exclusion of strangers—namely, statement, which will take place in a Committee of Ways and Means, that the House do resolve , into a Committee " on the Customs and Excise Acts." That Acts, and on the Assessed. Taxes it events in those is the signal for alterations, at a- Acts are con- Acts. 'When changes in Money • o f the house first,to templated, it is th e practice hose Acts, in which' the go into Committees on ! le ver mov es iiesolutiong, 'Chancellor of the Exo • n Inch may b e d embodying those changes emn euk • after his