The Sun. — London, England, 1833-12-09 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS. (From Galiguani's Messenger of Thursday.) The Sentinelle des Pyrenees of Bayonne of the 30th tilt , has the following :—" Don Geronimo de Valdez arrived at Valladolid in the afternoo❑ of the 20th, and after a long conference with General Quesada on the situation of the country, set out the following day to take the command of the army of General Saarsfield, who has been appointed Viceroy of Navarre. On the 17th Ge neral Pastor, at the bead of 3,000 men and 10 pieces of artillery, entered Sepulveda, and on the 19th Aranda de Duere. The rebel chief Zurnalacarregui, with 1,800 of his men, has been beaten by General Lorenzo, near Puente de la Regina. The chief Balmaseda passed the night of the 19th at two leagues from Aranda, with 60 horse. Letters of the 18th from Ciudad Real state that Don Carlos, after having shown a dispo-ition to approach Almeida, had returned to Chaves, crossing the Douro at Pined. General Rodil was yesterday at Aidea del Obispo. At Calzada de Calatrava Don Thomas de Yarto, with a column of the Royal Guards, has defeated and dispersed the band of ralillos, who secured his safety by flight. On the 19th about 20 insurgents, captured in the mountains of Esteras, were taken to Soria, and there shot by a detachment of light infantry. Two chaplains of Bubierca effected their escape." The Diario of Barcelona cammunicates the following : " A traveller arrived at Valladolid, from Palacios, having passed the Sjierra, states that the Priest Merino had aban doned 1.1 5 defiles of Silos, Arlanza, Barbadillo, and Canales, and directed his course towards Ezearay and San Domingo t l .e 1e Ca , zada, accompanied by only 50 horse, leaving the vest of his volunteers at the above-mentioned places. A person, who saw the companions of Merino at San Do mingo, says they were in a pitiful plight. They were nearly all officers and soldiers of the late Royalist Volun teers." The Memorial Bordelais of the 2d instant has the following, of the 28th ult., from St. Sebastian :—" The authorities of Navarro demand, to carry on the war in that province, the return of the several chiefs who are still in France or England. It is not known whether Z,a's Government will comply with this demand. Among the chiefs on whom they have cast their eyes is the brave Colonel Barenna, whom we have been expecting here for some days past." The Ind icateur of Bordeaux of the 3d instant has reached us by express ; the following are extracts :—" We have received by way of Madrid intelligence from Valla dolid, stating that since the town had been recovered from the insurgents by the Queen's troops it has enjoyed perfect tranquillity. As early as the 22d ult. the former depu tation returned, and at its first sitting voted an address to the Queen, congratulating her on the successes of General Saarsfield. On the following day the deputa tion drew up and distributed a proclamation, recom mending the inhabitants to preserve peace and har mony, and, at the same time, announcing that the rebels, having been beaten at all points, were hastening back to their homes. The authorities of Vittoria were also engaged in drawing up a report of the events which had occurred during the preceding 40 days, while the town was in possession of the insurgents." A letter of the Ist inst. from Bayonne says :—" General Saarsfield granted a pardon to all who took up arms at Bilboa, and were of no higher rank than that of captain, but on con ditio❑ that they should come in and make their submis sion within 24 hours. The Corregidor, Meta, immedi ately resumed his functions, and directed Don Juan de Arana to form without loss of time an organized urban militia. Uhagon, and the other Constitutionalists who left St. Sebastian in a boat, were driven back by foul weather. As the roads are not yet sufficiently safe for travellers, all the inhabitants of Bilboa who had fled hither are going to St. Sebastian, where they wi'l embark for Bilboa. La C,sttro, the postman, Castro Allende, of Guernica, and five young men, who declare that they only took up arms from compulsion, have written to General Saarsfield, soliciting pardon, and on this account they have not been sent to Tulle." The Augsburg Gazette of the Ist inst. has the following extract of a private letter from Vienna, slated the 24th alt.:—" Although there was no exchange to-day much business was dune, and many sales effected ; the state of the funds is however dull, on account of the unfavourable news received from Constantinople. A French courier has arrived at the embassy, but it is not positively known - what information he brings; the report current is that the Sultan has been compelled to change his Ministry, and to send the Pacha Chosrew into exile, he being suspected of having taken part in a plot against the Sultan ; great con fusion prevails at Constantinople. It is said that the above Pacha, who was the Sultan's favourite, meditated the murder of his master, but the plot was happily discovered in time. This, however, appears improbable, as a matter of so much importance would not be an nounced to the French embassy alone. The despatch of the French courier has probably another motive; it may be that Admiral Roussin complains of the recall of the greater portion of the French fleet from the Levant, which the Government has appointed to proceed to another sta tion. The trifling expedition to St. Sabaatian, if it be as reported, was the first participation of France in the civil war of Spain. It may perhaps be the opinion in Paris that a greater display of force may be usefully made upon the ocean, as the Government may wish to serve the Qieea without making too great a sacrifice, or without fettering itself its any way. Such expedients are resorted to ; we have lived to see a similar one made use of in Portugal, where Don Pedro was completely installed by an English Admiral; they are, however, frequently in effectual, and sometimes prepare, as possibly may be the case in Spain, a chaos of difficulties, from which the most resolute may find it impossible to extricate himself when once the first step is taken. It is therefore possible that, owing to the critical affairs in Spain, the station in the Levant is weakened, and that the remonstrances of Admi ral Roussin will be unheeded ; for, to judge from appear ances, the past loses much of its interest for France in the present state of affairs there, and cannot be of so much consequence as some persons in Paris wish to make it ap• pear to be. The report that six Wallachian regiments were incorporated in the sixth division of the Russian army is wholly without foundation ; at least no one here knows anything of it." The following, from Vienna, is dated the 26th ult. :—" Notices have been sent to the several German Courts relative to the Alinisterial Congre.s to be held here. The report of a loan being about to be raised by our Government is not yet confirmed. Oar funds to-day are, Aletaltiques, 5 per Cents., 93 7.16 ; Bank Actions, 1,195}." This paper contains the fallowing from Trieste, dated the 20th ult.:—" The frigates ilebe sand La Guerreira, with 156 Poles on board, will sail as soon as the weather permits. The Lipsia remains in port, waiting for the Poles, scattered through the pro vinces, that have not yet arrived. These vessels have strict orders only to touch at Gibraltar during their pass sage to New York, and to remain there only so long a, may be found absolutely necessary." After a letter from Munich, dated the 28th ult., the Gazette states that it is the intention of the Greek Government to send twenty four youths of families that have deserved well of the state to the Greek Institute, established in the Bavarian capital, paying all expenses attending their complete education. A private letter from Rome of the 21st ult., given by this paper, announces that Monsignor Brignoli will shortly be created a cardinal, and it is said that Alas sini will have his place as treasurer. A change of admini stration, somewhat in favour of reform, was considered certain ; Cardinal Gamberini alone, it was thought, would keep his place as Alinister of the Interior. The Zara Gazette, of the 22d of October, gives an account of a sally made by the Pacha of Scutari, of which more recent intelligence makes no mention. According to our infor mation, on the Ist of November all remained in stutu quo at Scutari, that is, the markets were closed, and all the inhabitants were under arms, no decision having arrived from Constantinople. Famine was occasioning the greatest troubles. Meal, made from Indian corn, was the only food, and that was expensive. The inhabitants of the neighbouring mountains were in want even of this, and were going forth seeking food by force; no propetty was any longer safe. Even the foreign Consuls, who are known to have provisions in their houses, see the necessity of giving it freely up, to save themselves from plunder." The Berlin State Gazette, of the 29th ult. quotes Prussian 4 per Cents. 974, 96k ; ditto 5 per Cents. (1822) English loan, 103 i. Tue Nuremberg Correspondent gives the following, tinder the date of Berli n, Nov. 25 :—" It is affirmed that the new alliance about to be formed between the three Northern Powers will be founded on a treaty defin ing the measures they are to take in concert. Many per sons are expecting that the veil which at present conceals their future policy will very shortly be drawn aside, and ou b it i hi that the resolutions come t o b y th em will e be . idpeurnligsl at ed in i a manifesto. This is highly p robable, is their intention to invite the accession of all the Powers of Germany to the new alliance. The affairs o f S pa i n excite a general interest here. The majority of the people are decidedly in favour of the young Queen, but, if sh e is acknowledged by . our Government, it will not be from good will, but from necessity." A letter from Frankfort, dated the 10th ult., says : The new commercial relations of Germany have called the attention of both France and England. The English are alarmed lest the new system of the customs' duties which is about to be brought into action throughout the Ger- `` ,~+ manic states • hould become as injurious to their commerc as the famous continental system, and we are informed that they have already opened negotiations with se v,ral of the Germanic Cabinets, with the view of pre serving their present markets in the Confederation. France also feels the importance of this object, and, thanks to the co-operation of the Great Powers, we shall probably have not only a Germanic but an European system of customs, founded on the real wants and interests of all the different countries of the continent." (From Galignani's Messenger of Friday.) It is reported that the Spanish Government has just contracted with some capitalists at Paris for a new loan, to the amount of 5,4.00,000 f., 3 per Cents. Rentes, or 1,000,000 piastres. It is added, that the terms have been settled at 31f., deducting a commission of If. 50c., which reduces the price to 291. 50c. Upon this subject, the Constitutionnel has the following :—" We do not wish to throw obstacles in the way of a Government which is endeavouring to establish itself, and which, as it can only gain solidity by following the paths of amelioration, is entitled to our sympathy. It is, nevertheless, our duty to warn the public against the snare which is laid for it, and, at the same time, to turn the Spanish Government from the erroneous course it is intended to pursue. The credit of Spain is not yet founded on the basis which alone can render credit sound and durable —the control of an independent public autho rity. Every effort ought to be made to attain this point ' which was the salvation of France, and now constitutes her main strength. If Spain takes a different course, she cannot find a more certain road to destruction. To negotiate a loan by fraudulent means, and endeavour to make France the dupe of clandestine manoeuvres, will be an act so completely opposed to the true interests of the Government of Spain that, by unmasking the plans hi therto enveloped in profound mystery, we shall render a service to Spain as well as to France. The plan in con templation is as follows :—lt will be recollected that in 1828, in consequence of the remonstrances of the press, Count Roy obliged M. Xavier Burgos, then agent at Paris for the Spanish Sinking Fund, and now one of the Ministers of Queen Isabella, to make a public declaration of the coupons of Five per Cent. Rentes Perpetuelles which were then in circula tion, and to publish the numbers in the Moniteur, in order that no more might afterwards be clandestinely issued. When, in 1831, Spain created Three per Cent. stock, under the pretence of converting the Cortes Bonds, the operation was also announced in the .Uoniteur, but we may venture to assert, that the total amount of tha Rentes ultimately issued was never officially tnade known. We are therefore ignorant of the precise amount of the 3 per Cents. in circulation. Well, in consequence of the uncertainty in which the public has been left as to the quantity of this species of stock, an attempt has been made to issue coupons of the new 3 per Cents. The amount of the 5 per Cents. being very limited, a rise in this stock may be very easily produced. This rise will have an influence on the price of the old 3 per Cents., and thus facilitate the issue of the new loan. There is a simple means of defeating this manoeuvre; it is for the Minister of Finances to declare that the new loan shall not be issued at the Paris Exchange without publicity, and with all the protecting forms which ought to surround this kind of appeal of Governments to the confidence of the people. That this condition would throw a serious difficulty in the way of the issue of the new loan we admit, but this un doubtedly will not be a reason for our Government not to fulfil its duty. ha silence or inaction in this matter would be so singular a kind of intervention in favour of Spain, that we are unwilling to believe it without proof. But the new Spanish loan deeply occupies the public mind, and such open blame has been thrown upon the manoeuvres that were known to be contemplated for making money fraudulently in France, in favour of a Government upon which we cannot yet rely, that Ministers will unques tionably acknowledge the utility and urgency of giving to the alarmed public a word of explanation on this point." Extract of a letter of the 24th ult. from Madrid : " It is said that our Government will allow the entry of a Spanish journal, which is to appear at Paris, under the title of Spain, a journal which, as may be supposed, will not set itself in opposition to our Ministry, and which will be altogether in the interest of the Queen. The sudden journey of the Marquis de Casa Irmo excites much attention, as he had been exiled by M Zea. The relations he has had with several persons of influence have led to a supposition that he is about to be called to an important office. It is said that the treasuries of Don Carlos and Don Miguel now form but one : the success of one de pends on that of the other ; it is a royal mercantile house, under the firm of Bourbon, senior, Braganca, junior, and Co. The manifesto of Charles V., of the 6th of October, by the moderation of its language, and its amnesty, with out exception, has gained him the affections of many ; if the Queen wishes to oppose moral force to this act, sbo must go there. The Apostolicals are labouring with an activity which the Government ought to take for an example. They enlist even in Madrid. Money is not wanting, for a hundred francs are offered to any one who will join the factious. The Captain-General of Extre madura has ordered the fortress of Badajos to be supplied with provisions for three months, and demanded troops of the Government. It is said that this measure is owing to the Princess de Beira's recruiting for Don Carlos." The Memorial Bordelais of the 3d instant says : " We have no further news from Spain, except intelli gence from Madrid, that the Commissary-General de la Cruzida had been dismissed and ordered to give an account of his administration. There is nothing remark able in this, except that the last circumstance would lead one to believe that it is at length in contemplation in Spain to put a stop to the scandalous dilapidations of those who are accountable for the public revenue." The Indicateur of Bordeaux, of the 4th inst., received by express, contains the following, of the 2d, from Bay onne :—" For two days past there has been a total scar city of news ; we must await the operations of Saarsfield in Navarre, and we do not yet know whether he has entered that province. The emigration of the Carlists has ceased, which is thus accounted for. On the day after Saaisfield's entry into Vittoria the junta of Alva solicited and obtained from the General an indult (a pardon) for all individuals who had taken part in the insurrection, from the rank of Captain downwards. This indult was granted on the 22d ult., but for a fortnight only; the Govern ment has approved of it, and the Gazette of the 24th makes mention of it. Doubtless, some of those who came hastily into France were not aware of it, and, probably, those who consider themselves included in its provisions will return home." The following is from Madrid, under date of the 24th ult.:—" Many arrests have taken place in the capital among the Carlist party, who had organized an insurrection for the 15th of last month, which was discovered and prevented. There is no doubt that the new Minister of War will hasten the organization of the provincial militia to put down the factions, the number of which might increase. The troops sent against them are not as yet sufficiently numerous to exterminate them, and the clergy who direct this rebellion have the means of extending and prolonging it. It is thought that this body will not so easily abandon an enterprise which is become a question of existence to the fanatical monks. Still it is not to be supposed that the rebellious party will triumph ; it may spread civil war wider, but it will soon be checked. It is affirmed that Zea having demanded from the Queen Regent the exile of the Count de Florida Blanca, imme diately after his protest, the Queen replied that she would not exile him, but would recall all the other exiles." The Augsburg Gazette of the 2d inst. has the fol lowing front Munich, dated the 30th ult.:— "The Crown Prince of Prussia arrived here yesterday, a❑d in the evening appeared at the theatre with the King and Queen.' The new Prussian Ambassador, Count Donhoff, has ar rives!, and the Russian Ambassador, Prince Gagarin, has returned from Vienna." This paper contains the follow ing extract of a private letter of the .25th ult., from Prague :—" Much interest is attached to the proceedings in the case of Count Wallenstein ; it is thought that the Supreme Court will present a formal petition to our Sovereign to restore the name of the Duke of Friedland to honour, and to give back the confiscated property to the descendants of that renowned General. The number of of Carlists increases here; but there are no distinguished personages amongst them. In the Carlist circles extracts from memoirs about to be published by a French Marshal are handed about, which expose many a deception prac tised upon the fallen Bourbons by those who were supposed to be their friends and dependants." The Gazette quotes the funds at Vienna on the 27th ult., Metalliques 5 per Cents.,93 3-16 ; 4 per Cent. ditto, 83, Bank Actions, 1,197 1-3. The Berlin State Gazette of the 30th ult. quotes the Prussian 4 per Cents., 97i 961 ; ditto, 5 per Cents. (1922), English Loan, 1031. Extract of a letter of the Ist inst., from Toulon : " The storm which raged lately on the African coast, and has been mentioned in the accounts from Boujeia, was also severely felt on the coast of Bona, where it did great damage both by sea and land. Many ♦essels, and amongst them one having horses on board for the Government, have been lost. Several boats belonging to the coral fisheries likewise perisied about eight leagues from Bona, but their crews were happily saved." Mr. Byng will shortly, it is said, be created Lord Wrotbam, of Wrotham, in the county of Middlesex. GERMAN PAPERS. PRAG ux, Nov. 25.—Important historical information respecting the celebrated proceedings against the renowned Wallenstein, Duke of Friedland, will probably be brought to light, and which will greatly soften, if not wholly refute as groundless, the charge of high treason against the great commander. His Highness the Prince of Win. deschgratz, has been to institute an inquiry in order to prove the innocence of the Duke of Friedland. From what we can learn this has succeeded, to a certain degree, as nothing can be discovered in the papers of the Duke in the imperial archives from which legal proof of the accusation of high treason can be deduced. The principal documents by which Count Piccoliminie endeavoured to prove the treason, are said to have been laid before the Supreme Tribunal in copies only, and that there is no trace of the orginals, which, how. ever, would be necessary for a legal proof of the fact. It is thought now that the justice of our Sovereign will order a general investigation of this interesting subject, in order to re-establish the honour of the name of Friedland, and to lead to the restoration of the confiscated estates to the descendants of that illustrious man. For some time past the number of the C rusts here has increased, but there are no distinguished per. sons among them. In the Carlist circles extracts are shown of memoirs which a celebrated French Marshal is said to intend to publish shortly. They are said to be interesting, and to treat chiefly of the time of the restoratio❑ and the overthrow of the older branch of the Bourbons. They are reported to contain much informa tion respecting intrigues carried on against the exiled Royal Family by their supposed friends and adherents. VIENNA, Nov. 27.—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Berry has had a tour at Gratz, where she now is for six months. A Russian courier has been despatched to St. Petersburgh, and a French to Paris. AUSTRIAN FUNDS. Nov. 27. Nov. 2 Five per Cents O3 3-16 93 21.32 Four per Cents. Bank Shares —Allgerneine Zeitung, Nov. 2 and 3. ' ST. PETEaszniio H.—An ukase has been published, which the priests of all religions are commanded to read to their congregations, in which the Autocrat enjoins the people not to put faith in the reports spread by evil dis posed persons relative to the pretended emancipation of the serfs. It is declared therein, that servitude neither can nor ought to be abolished ; that this system, besides, is the most advantageous for the people, whom it secures from indigence. The accustomed menaces follow against the persons who may continue to propagate reports so pre judicial to the public tranquillity and to the dignity of the Sovereign. BERLIN, Nov. 27.—The bulletin of the laws published to-day contains the following Cabinet order addressed to the Minister of State,Van Schucktnann,under date of 18th Nov. " On your report of the 16th inst., I hereby ordain, that the changes in the tariff of customs, of 30th October, 1831, which are the consequence of the conven tions with other States for the adoption of a uniform tariff and commercial system, shall be made public and carried into effect on the Ist of January, 1834. /Prom that day forward, as the immediate consequence of the conventions, the levy of the import duties on goods from the States included in the convention to the Prussian dominions, the export duty on goods going to those States, and lastly, the transit duty on goods going to or coming from foreign countries, and passing through the said States, shall cease. As the publication of the convention could not take place earlier, it is necessary to make in this case an exception to the rule by which changes in the tariff ought to be announced eight weeks before they take place, which, in the present instance, however, may be justified by the advantages which the trade and manufactures of the people will derive from these treaties, by the extension of a free market, and by the circumstance that, most of the changes that are made in single articles of the tariffeonsist in a diminution of the duties hitherto taken. " FREDERICK WILLIAM. " Berlin, Nov. 18, 1833."—FrankforiPapers, Dec. 3. DUTCH PAPERS. Tux HAGUE, DEC. 2.—The Stoats Courant pub lishes, in French and Dutch, the convention of Zondboven. The report that the Prince of Orange and his eldest son will shortly go to St. Petersburgh is confirmed. We hear that their Royal Highnesses will set out in a few days after the birthday of the Crown Prince. His Majesty having been invited, as Grand Duke of Luxemburg, to send an Ambassador to the German Con ferences, which are to commence at Vienna on the 15th of December, and in which Prince Metternich will pre side, his Excellency Baron Verstolk Van Soelen, Minister for Foreign Affairs, has been appointed by the King his Ambassador Extraordinary at the Conferences, and, as we hear, will set out the slay after to-morrow. In the negotiations that will take place respecting Luxemburg, Count d'Henincourt, our Minister at the Diet at Frankfort, and the King's Commissioner for the navigation of the Rhine, will take part as well as Baron Van Soelen. Our army is again going to be reduced one-fourth, by furloughs to officers, subalterns, and privates. DUTCH FUNDS—AMSTERDAM, Dec. g. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. 494, to 50 Amort Syndic, 43 per cent B B ,h to 8914 Ditto, ditto, 3},i per cent. Voluntary Loan, 1831, 6 per cent 10 2 3,.i to 103 1 ,1 Ditto, 1832, 5 per Cent. Ditto, 1833, 5 per Cent. —Dutch Papers, Dec 4. HA3IBIJIW, Nov. 29...80R5EN HALLS, HALF. PAST Two, r.m.—The arrivals of wheat from the Upper Elbe have been considerable this week, but buyers hold back, and a large part remained unsold. A few small par cels were sold to consumers at reduced prices. For peaß, barley, and beans there continues to be a demand. From the 16th to the 22d thirteen cargoes of corn passed through the Sound. Four were for British and seven for Norwegian ports, one for Rotterdam, and of one the destination was not known. Rix-dollars, Wheat, Anhalt, white -- red 73 to 88 Marks SO to 80 Mecklenburg Holstein Lower Elbe 6O to 72 Rye, Mecklenburgh 5B to 60 - Holstein Barley, Anhalt 5O to 52 Mecklenburgh 32 to 36 Lower Elbe `3 to 28 Oats, Mecklenburg Lower Elbe 23 to 28 Malt, Pomeranian Pease, Upland, yellow Tares 52 to 64 Rapeseed 142 to 150 Ditto Cakes 6l to 63 Linseed ditto lO2 to 120 Foram—The market has improved since our last, and manifested firmness to day towards the close. _ End of December, Anglo-Danish Loan, three per cent Anglo-Russian 98% Russian Inscription, 5 per cent., 1821 _.... Ditto, ditto, 1831 9oy! Ditto, ditto, 183 .) Polish Bonds 121% Prussian Bonds, 1832 Austrian Bank Shares 1203 Ditto Metalliques 94% Ditto 4 per Cent...... 8 3 31 '`J Spanish 3 per Cents. Ditto 4 per Cent 42 Dutch 2Y 2 per Cents. Ditto 5 per Cents. 91% EXCHANGES ON LONDON. __ _ HAMBURG, Nov. 29.-13 '73 ; two months, 13 C., STocettomd, Nov. 22.—Ninety days, 12 46. BERLIN, Nov. 28.—Three months, 6 ST. PETERSBURGH, Nov. 15.—Three months, WY, AMSTERDAM, DEC. 3.—One month, 12 03; two months, 12. —Hamburg Papers, Nov. 29. ROYAL OBSERVATORY. TRIAL OF CHRONOMETERS. On the 3tlth of November closed the eleventh annual trial of chronometers, under the immediate attention of the Astronomer Royal, when only two premiums were awarded, neither of the two chronometers having made a variation of one second, on an average daily rate, during the whole year. One of the successful competitors, Mr. Webster, of Cornbill, had on the two preceding years gained one of the three premiums given by the Lords of the Admi ralty ; his chronometer, in the year 1831, No. 685, hav ing made no greater variation than eighty-nine hundredths o f a second in twelve months, and his chronometer, No. 675, in the year 1832, the extreme variation did not exceed eighty-six hundredths of a second. Fifty-seven chronometers were deposited for trial on the Ist of Decem ber last year at the Royal Observatory, their rates were noted daily, and published monthly ; they were withdrawn by the several toasters as they exceeded the prescribed limits of variation. On the first of last month only ten remanied for competition ; at the close of the month, two preminms were awarded. I❑ the year 1821, the Government, aware of the ad vantages that would result in the improvement of chro nometers, invited the several makers to deposit two each at the Royal Observatory, in a department appropriated for the purpose of trial for one year, which annual trial has since been continued. 'I he advantages resulting from this stimulus is not confined to the chronometer alone, but is evidenced in every department i❑ the manufacture of watches, and we now find to what accuracy the respective makers have arrived in their performances, when compared with a few years since, and at a very considerable reduc tion in price. 431 414 0.114 Z n ", e II AW V 'rk" LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECENIBER 9, 1833. We promised on Saturday, at the conclusion of the trial in the Court of King's Bench, to give a contradiction to the calumnies spoken by P. GRANT on that occasion. In order that the refutation of these calumnies might be as widely circulated as the libels, we addressed the following statement to our Morning Con temporaries, two of whom, the Times and Morning Advertiser, with a generous spirit of candour and impartiality, have inserted the communication, for which we return them our best thanks. We presume that the press of matter has alone delayed the other papers, till to-morrow, from acting in the same spirit of fair play ; for those, whether in town or coun try, who have unintentionally given circulation to the calumnies cannot but wish for an opportu nity of doing justice by giving currency to their contradiction : TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Slo.,—As personal character is dear to every man, may I solicit, as a matter of public justice, a small space in your columns, in vindication of myself from the asser tions made by Mr. Patrick Grant with reference to me yesterday in the Court of King's Bench ? I would not have asked this favour, but that I could nut reply to them in Court, being no party to the information against the defendants, not one of whorls, either by themselves or their Counsel, ventured to cross-examine me. It is unfortunately too notorious that differences have long existed between Mr. P. Grant and myself. As these related chiefly to what may be considered private matters, I had no wish to obtrude myself on the public merely to deny false statements which Mr. Grant found it convenient to publish against me in ref,renes to The Sun newspaper. But as, after a lapse of two years, during which these falsehoods have been sedulously circulated in every variety of form and malignity, without eliciting any reply from me, Mr. Grant, presuming on my forbearance, has deemed it safe to re-assert them in a Court of Justice, I cannot but think that my continuing any longer silent may be construed into an admission of their correctness, and I therefore request, in fairness, the publication of the following answer : Mr. Grant has stated in his pamphlet, and re-asserted in his speech, that " he found me and my family in rags— that he rescued me from penury—and raised rue from a state of abject destitution, to a situation of considerable eminence and emolument, namely, the Editorship and Ma• nagement of The Sun newspaper;—that he gave me the whole administration and outlay of sums amounting to be tween 10,0001. and 15,0001., and that for such kindness I had requited him by turning him out of his property— in short, that I had swindled arid robbed him." In ano ther plate he estimates the property embarked at 20,0001. Now these are very grave charges, if true ; but they are false. I was neither in. poverty nor rags when Mr. Grant sought me—l did not seek him. My talents, such as they were, recommended me to his attention in prefe rence to several others with whom he was then in treaty. I was in the receipt of upwards of 3001. a year at the time of being first introduced to Mr. Grant, and had previously conducted a Sunday paper (the Representative), of which I was half proprietor. Before I entered on the duties of the situation I was invited to his table repeatedly ; and was such behaviour, on Mr. Grant's part, consonant with his notions of propriety, if I were in rags ? Then, as to the large expenditure, though I conducted the paper, I had not the charge of the money until I became a partner; nor did Mr. Grant expend 20,0001., nor even 15,0001. on the paper, as these items will show. In March 1826 Mr. Grant purchased The Sun for 500 guineas. From that period till the 12th Januarys 1828, there were expended (including the purchase money) 9,2521. Os. 11d., which amount is copied from the regular account book kept by Mr. Waller Clifton, late Secretary to the Victualling-office, who assisted in the Paper, acted as Mr. Grant's co-proprietor, and paid the moneys weekly up to that time, when he and Mr. Grant separated. From the 12 th January till 24th Jane, 1828, there f w u e r r t e h eerx sum e nd ed d of , 1 u ,6 n 3 s e 1. 1. /1 9 Ir s: 4 Grant's a a k n i n d gi my n d i a r l e l c n the ooi. 10s. 3d., which is the whole amount of money advanced by Mr. Grant, or expended on The Sun newspaper till I became a partner. If interest be charged on the above capital, it will not amount altogether to more than about 12,0001., and here is the utmost limit of the fortune em barked. Mr. Grant has stated that only 6,000/. had been proved under the Commission ; but the schedule of his debts, in his own handwriting, makes the amount about 15,090/. Now, according to his own showing, his speculation in The Sun could not have been the sole cause of his mis fortune. But I abstain from stating more than is neces sary for my own justification. The daily circulation of the paper was raised by my management from 450 to about 1,800, and, subsequently to his retirement, to upwards of 3,000. Mr. Grant sold to me a quarter of the paper, for which I paid him 2,000/. He even offered me a fifth part of it gratuitously, " in consideration of my services".--hut that I declined, choosing rather to pay a fair proportion of the loss incurred. From the period of nay becoming partner the whole charge and management of the paper devolved upon me, Mr. Grant never having advanced one shilling afterwards. Mr. Grant's private embarrassments compelled Mtn, i❑ 1829, to leave England, by the advice of his friends and relatives, in order to afford time to arrange with his cre ditors. Some were refractory, owing to his high con nections, F.et , arrangement was found impracticable. During his absensPe strongly urged his relatives to purchase his shares fort •benefit of his family : the idea was entertained for a time, but it was at length abandoned—partly from Mr. Grant's own obstinacy —partly from motives of delicacy on the part of his relatives—and partly from the amount of his debts. For upwards of a year I succeeded in prevail ing on Mr. Alderman Winchester and Mr. Hill (the latter of whom actually sent an execution into the house on ac count of Mr. Grant's private debts), to refrain from car lying their threats of bankruptcy into effect ; but vexed at repeated delays, and the subsequent determination of Mr. Grant's relatives to " let things take their course," Mr. Winchester struck a docquet against Mr. Grant. When the day fur choosing assignees was fixed, such was my solicitude in the matter that I wrote to Mr. Thornton, then residing at Brighton, to come to town, in order that, being a private friend of the family, he might be chosen assignee and protect their interests. When the shares of the paper were for sale Mr. Grant wished me to allow him to purchase them for 6,0001. To this I objected, for two reasons, that he had not the means ; and if he bad the means, that he ought to have paid Mr. Winchester's debt, and so have avoided a bank ruptcy. Moreover, I found, from several circumstances, that his habits rendered it unsafe for me, then, to be again connected with him. Hence the whole cause of his hos tility towards me. In March, 1832, Mr. Grant started the True Sun, having previously published a variety of libels, which he has often repeated in that paper. It is not my purpose to recriminate on Mr. Grant by following his example ; but he has stated that the paper was started '‘ as the most direct means of doing justice to himself and to others." Now, his shares and interest in The Sun then belonged to his creditors, and in endeavouring to withdraw the sub scribers of The Sun to the True Sun, he was injuring the property of his creditors—a❑ odd way of doing them justice. Mr. Grant resorted to every species of charge against me. My accounts were false, &c., and yet, after strict investigation, they stood the ordeal of the Court of Chan cery. He tried to dispossess me of the management of my own property, but failed. Finally, after having denounced me by the most oppro brious terms, mark what follows : The shares of The Sun were advertised for sale in the Gazette for the 2d of April, 1833. On the 20th March, 1833, I received the following letter from a Mr. Thomas Wilkinson . Sir,—Though a perfect stranger to you, I take the liberty of addressing you upon a subject materially affecting your interests. Circumstances have given Inc an intimate knowledge of the firm and promising position that Mr. Grant has attained in his present undertaking, however visionary it might at one moment have appeared; I am warranted, therefore, in saying that a proposition from him ought not to be disregarded. I am pre. pared to make one on his behalf, and on behalf of those gen tlemen who are associated with him in his present undertaking, relative to the approaching sale of The Sun newspaper, if you will allow me an interview. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, THOMAS WILKINSON. 386, Strand, Wednesday, March `2O, 1833. To Murdo Young, Esq. To which I returned no answer. Ou the 22d March, Mr. Wilkinson, and Mr. Westley, newsvender, Strand, called on me, and made proposi tions for joining the True Sun to The Sun, which I, of course, declined. On the 24th I received the following letter from Mr. Grant : Sir,—Mr. Westley has informed me of what took place at your interview on Friday. I can easily understand why you should decline coming to any decision without consulting your friends, but there is surely no possible objection to our meeting at once, if you feel inclined ; you can be noways fettered by merely discussing what I feel convinced you would regret having rejected un. heard. It may not appear very politic to exhibit anxiety for this in. terview, but having to make up my mind in the course of to. morrow or next day, upon an advantageous proposition in an. other quarter, 1 shall do so with less hesitation after having seen you. No one is aware of my writing this letter, and, as far as I am concerned, the very fact of our meeting may be kept an absolute secret. I can meet you at the Rainbow C3ffee.house, King-street, Covent-garden, or any other place which you may prefer, at three o'clock precisely ; in fact, any hour will suit me from two to five this afternoon. I remain, your obedient servant, March 24, 1833. PATRICK GRANT. To M. Young, Esq. Envelope, marked " Private." To which I instantly returned the following answer : Sir,—Under present cir-umstances, and the recollection of the past, I feel it impossible tp meet you with any hope of mu. tual advantage. . I must, therefore, decline putting you or myself to the un pleasant trial of an interview which can only be productive of painful regrets. I remain, your, obediently, M. YOUNG. P. Grant, Esq., March 4, 183. On the 2d of April the three-fourth shares of The Sun were sold by public auction in the Public Office Court of Chancery, the Master, Sir Giffin Wilson, him self presiding, pursuant to the express decree of the Lord Chancellor. At that sale I became the purchaser, none of the other parties who bad made the previous offers having appeared. This it a simple narrative of facts for the correctness of which I bold myself responsible. I remain your obedient servant, M. YOUNG. gun-office, 112, Strand, Dec. S, 1833. In our review of Mr. POULETT SCROPE'S " Principles of Political Economy," we stated that, although, upon the whole, we should be well content to see every man in the kingdom entertaining the opinions he does, there were certain of his positions we should take a future opportunity of endeavouring to controvert. At the present moment, when, at length, the at tention of the public is fixed upon the Corn Laws, with a determination to take, at any rate, preparatory steps for their revision, no one topic, out of the many he discusses, will have greater interest with our readers than that. It is almost need less to premise, that Mr. POULETT SCRopE is decidedly against the principle of the Corn Laws both on the score of justice and of policy,—that he wishes to enter upon such a course of legislation as will ultimately admit all corn, and immediately corn from our own colonies, free of any duty imposed for the purposes of exclu sion. What we regret to see is that Mr. SCROPE contemplates injury to the agriculturist from an immediate repeal of the Corn Laws. What he says is this— " It appears that the present duties on wheat have not prevented the importation since the last alteration of the corn laws of a quantity equal to oue_twelfth of the entire consumption of England, and that though the rates of duty paid have varied from Is. to 285., the average upon this very large quantity is only 6s. Sd. It would seem from this that the present rate of duties is not very bur densome upon the consumer; and it is doubtful whether it would be an improvement to exchange this varying duty, averaging only 6s. Sd., for a fixed duty of more than the same amount ; while it is certainly- out of all quel l that any proposal fir a lower rate of duty w ould listened to at present by the legi.L i t ure . O n t his gr°l L.. we are by no means confident that any great advantage; to be gained by hastily unsettling the present systeatt oy far as relates to forei g n corn . Th a t system h av ing b , acted on since 1815, has pl ace d th e agr i cu l ture of ; 10 whole island in a false position ; has encouraged the Id vestment of much capital in the tillage of poor soils, ay the growth of a large agri cu lt ura l p o p u l at i on upo n th e m To repeal therefore, or to lower the corn duties Amide% would do much mischief by throwing a large po rtioi the home soils out of cultivation, and of the agricult labourers cut of work." He then goes on to enumerate a list preliminary steps to freedom of trade in d r :: which would a l mos t d e f er t h at w i s h e d f or obje ct till the Greek calends. As we really belie? ° Mr. SCROPE open to argument, and know 11 to be earnest in his desire to remove the ing restrictions on the importation of comp will take the liberty of making a few observatie s : on this paragraph. I n th e first place we doubti b fact of a large quantity of poor laud having be e° taken into corn cultivation since 1515. We hate not the returns at hand, and therefore cannot gou t : them, but unless our memory great l y d ee eivs us, we saw a docum e nt a s h or t t i me b ac k wit c h stated that it was si nce 1815 t h at th e n um' t of Enclosure Bill s b egan to f a ll o ff, an d the , 11 afford, we think, a t o l era bly sure i n d ex o f tP,d amount of new land brought into cultivatio; This is negative ev id ence , b ut t h e posits evidence the other way is still stronger. is not one, or two, or three, but the whole u l the witnesses examined before the Ag r ieulon! Committee of last session, who state either ° rectly or indirectly that land, of coins' in a majority of instances the poores t ' has, of l a te y ears , b een go i ng ra pid out of cultivation. The abuses of the 1 01 4 1 laws have, no doubt, occas i one d t hi s restP in the case of l a nd even o f t h e b est qua li t y, bu t t be the cause what it ma y, i t b e i ng a d m i tte d tha t land both bad an d goo d h as gone out o f 0 111 , vation of late years, it is too much to say that immediate freedom of trade in food would be f the cause of throwing much poor land out f) ,t cultivation. We endeavoured to prove a time back that the probable immediate effect the admission of food from abroad would be l simply to raise its price there, and thus cone foreign manufacturers to eat bread at as dear ti rate as our own. But whether that would be the only immediate effect of allowing our pope,# lation to obtain bread at as cheap a rate as e a sible, or whether, as the author of Engla u , and America" contend s , th e f ur th er e ff ec t wall be forthwith to occasi o n a f a ll i n th e price ° that prime necessary of life, we canno t s ee 11° 0 Mr. SCROPE can reconcil e wh a t h e sa y s ab° l6 with arguments in a previous part of his volo e. He contends in several places, and justly c°o tends, that an importation of corn from abrO or can only be concurrent with an exportation manufactures from England, either directly to the place from whence the corn is brought, Or t b , some other place, from which gold will be tained with which to pay for the corn. P e payment, at any rate, ultimately takes place in goods which the landowner of England e 3 . s , i not absorb, because lie is already over suppli e with them. As he has no need to take wha t the manufacturer has to give, he will not supi' l Y him with the food he wants. What is the con' sequence ? The manufacturer goes half fed ' he is not able to buy other things as well 115 corn which the agriculturists could supply ; t il 4 latter falls into difficulties, his labourers go nll, the parish, he cultivates at a loss, and ultintst e I his land goes out of cultivation altogether. We would submit to Mr. SCROPE that, be ; sides overlooking the fact of land actually g° l % out of cultivation at the present m o m en t, he 11 % ' not considered one or two effects which M us ts follow an immediate throwing op en o f o ur P° r f to all corn. We mean the rise in the price t ' t corn abroad, the consequent dis co u ra gera° ,4 and difficulties of foreign manufacturers (°° competing with us chiefly by means of th e ir cheap food), the necessary prosperity of to o own manufactures, and the demand which 0 11 0 forthwith arise for land for all th e p ur poses 5 .5 luminously dwelt upon in th e w or k t o which ' s have so often alluded. Till we h a v e seen som e answer given to the arguments found e d upon th e above circumstances, we must remain of opini on that the landowners would certainly not be 1 jured, although they might probably benefit b 1 an immediate concessio n o f th e consumer 6 right not to be starved into paying a high Pr ice for food. German Papers mention that an Ukase ha s been published at St. Petersburgh, in ‘‘‘ hich the autocrat enjoins the people not to put faith 1° the reports spread by evil disposed persons, re ' lative to the pretended emancipation of the serf s ' The usual menaces are held forth against tho se who continue to spread reports so prejudia a to the public tranquillity and dignity of th e Sovereign. We call attention to a letter of Sir PETER LAURIE, in another column, in answer to thc attack made upon him by the Court of Alder' men in the guise of a vote of thanks for tho conduct he has pursued during his mavoralti' A few days back there appeared in The Suit oc° advertisements, one being a vote of thanks to Sir PETER by the Court of Common Council, and the other a vote of thanks to himlby the Court of Aldermen. The first was cordial , sincere, and unreserved ; the second almost amou nted to a vote of censure, for it blamed Sir PE TER for his conduct in examining prisoners cha r g ed with criminal offences,—no unimportant p art of his duty we should have thought. The mighty offence of which the late Lord Mayor wa4 guilty was believing a man when he declared himself guilty, without thinking it necessary to. amuse Attorneys and Counsel by proving his guilt—secundunt artens ! The French Papers of Saturday and the Gazette de France and Messager des Chain' ores of yesterday's date, contain much raised-, laneous matter, but little or no intelligence of either importance or novelty. The news from Spain contained in these papers comes down t° the 27th ult. inclusive, up to which period. rem GEROI , RSFIEL ay, had Madri though quarter d by th especi; a to the Fire jo - erT Pour hnd Four per Three pe Bank Ac Rente de Roman Rente d' Rented': Royal Sp Reifite Belgian : One mot Three m —Corers Five ptt Three p , Nationa Bank A Rente d Roman Rente d Rente ci Royal S Rente I Belgian I Ohe me • Three I 130 A E n n gra i n e d n , ts connec left Mat] '4 conside Tt 'ofper A_ P e . oleo. 1 consent 'tore not in %son to hi his messen Mediation a that the re 11Pon. 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