The Sun. — London, England, 1830-01-04 00:00:00

the battle.of Waterloo, and the military possession Aiding painful or incurable wounds. He, there of France, they rallied and combined in - common lore, to use his own words, held his legal dogs in cause, to maintain elch other against any ! lrash—he allowed the lightnings of public censure lar and future danger. And in this alliance, ito flash arround him unnoticed, and neither Sit Louis, now avowedly, and George secretly but • James &mica, Mr. Gurney, Mr. Brougham, solidly, were of the contracting parties ; and there nor any one else, ever received a fee can be no doubt that the Allies are bound .by i from him to prosecute in the name of the Crown. Treaty to aid England viith their armies, should lor the Government. But • how differently con insurrection take place among her people. The strueted is the mind of the 'Duke of Welling coquetry that is now playing off between her ton. Mr. Canning was a civilian and a publicist. people and her allies is perfectly understood' by He was a lover of liberty and literature, because" the latter, and accordingly gives no apprehen- he owed his fame and his rank to the privilegei , sions to France, to whom it is ail explained. which the former conferred, and the talentswluch The diplomatic correspondence she is now tlis- the latter engendered. The Duke of Welling playinff-•--these doable papers, fabricated merely ton is a soldier, and his ideas of free discussion for exhibition, in which she makes herself talk and constitutional freedom arc bounded by the of morals and principles ) as if her qualms of I conscience would not p erm it h er t o go a ll lengths with her Holy Allies, are all to gull her own people. - It is a theatrical farce, in which the five Powers arc the actors—Eng land the Tartuffe, and her people the dupes. Playing thus Bo dextrously into each other's hands, otul their own persons seeming secured, they are now looking to their privileged orders. 'rinse faithful auxiliaries, or aecom plites., must be saved. • This war is evidently that, of the general body of the Aristocracy, in which England is also acting her part. Sure 'out the Nobles, and there shall be no war, says she, masking her measures at the same time under the form of friendship and moderation, and hypo critically, n hilea party offering herselfas a judge, to betray those whom she is not permitted openly to oppose.”—Morning Chronicle. The Morning Chronicle and the Examiner seem extremely perplexed to discoVer the real reasons for . the. present arbitrary proceedings against the Press. The former is naturally jea • lona or the honour, the professions, and the a;- atoned lillerality of the Whigs., and, while it ad that the Attorney-General, Searlat, belongs mid has ever belonged, to this sensitive class of politicians, it would willingly extricate the body f rom s o disgraceful tut imputation, and make the vindictive lawyox the scapc-goat of his party. The object is a benevolent one, and the argu ment, to say the least of it, is plausible, for the admissions and professions of Sir James Scarlett himself are in pccordance with the conclusions of the Chronicle. The learned lawyer has Crankly confessed, and in a tone as bitter and satanic as are his opinions, that he is one of those military code. His liberality is passive obe dience, and his text-book the articles of war. But, besides this, he has committed an error, and is conscious that he merits censure. He has " broken in upon the Constitution, be trayed his own professed principles, deserted the opinions of his whole life, discarded the men to whom he is indebted for his rank, his pensions, and his renown, and therefore the small still monitor within speaks daggers to his wounded spirit, his rankling pride, and the now fiercely opposed aspirations of his ambition. He knows :hat he stands in no very ftivourable light in the estima!ion of his Sovereign—that he is sus pected by the very highest personages in the kingdom—that his Government has been a dis astrous one—that all his measures have proved unsuceeesful—that his friends are disappointed, and the people at large impoverished, discOn tented, end unhappy. He rises in the morning to read letters of remonstrance and reproach, and he retires to bed at night to dream of perfidy, and wrestle with the spectres of wretched and starting men.. He sees the machinery of the state crumbling to pieces in his lands. lie sees the vessel which, in a mad hour, he attempted to steer, already on the breakers. He sees a declining revenue, an exhausted exchequer, a murmuring population, taxes that arc unproduc tive, and' threats to reduce even these ; and when ha turns round to solace himself in the efforts and wisdom of his colleagues he finds that Mr. Peel can 'render no assistance—that Mr. Goulburn can devise no cure—that the concele ;.ons of Sir George Murray arc limited to a bag, who think that the Press of this country has, for the last ten years, ei;joycd too much liberty. He considers that it requires some wholesome cor rettionss-that public writers should he restrained In their animadversions—that liberty shou'd kihiria in awe of the King's Attorney-Ge 'neral, and public opinion be strained through the sieve of an information ex-officio.— Thm are the solemnly-declared opinions of Sir James Scarlett ; anti, r hen we consider that the learned Knight is a Whig, and moreover a tetutious and subtle lawyer, we may take for grented that his words are intended to express but a tithe of his intentions. •Having rtnifessed thus much, and we listen to the eon rcusion with equal indignation and disgust, we may rest assured he means much more. By wholesome correction he means arbitrary re straints By circumscribing public censures within the bounds of moderation he means • eswinething akin to the manacle, the slave chain, the cart whip, and the burning brand—he means silence—he means slavery, and the prostitution of public opinion to the dictates of an imperious Minister, and a cool-blooded and heartless t tensor. It is his opinion that it is criminal to animadvert severely on the measures of the Administration— thet it is criminal to laugh at the follies or blunders of public; m en— that it is criminal to condemn "inconsistency, and seditious to bring a bad, a cruel, or an oppressive measure into contempt Such vre the speculations of our contemporary of the Chramcle with regard to the personal eon dttot of Sir James Scarlett in these proceedings. The , Examiner takes a different view of the subject. • It, with equal freedom, reprehends the sentiments of Sir James Scarlett. It sub scribes to the general opinion that he is an enemy of the liberty of the Press:; but it dives deeper into the mystery, and, with more shrewdness, considers Sir James as a mere tool, or, in hi, own more classic language, the mere cart tulip in the hands of others. It conceives the Attorney to be nothing else than the driver of his master —the instrument of the Duke of Wellington ; for, says our Suni.ay contemporary, Sir James Scarlett instituted no such prosecutions during the Administration of Mr. Canning. • He filled the same, office under that Minister which he at present holds under the greatest and most re morseless enemy of the Attorney-General's for mer patron. The Press in the days of Canning, indulged in invectives equally severe, if . not more severe, than any that have appeared against the present Premier. lie was assailed in the most viru lent and malignant manner by the Dawsone, the Peels, the Letlibridges, and the Bankeses of that period. Ile was invidiously and ungenerously op posed by the Duke of Wellington himself; and slandered in the most shameless and atrocious man ner by those apoetate and unprincipled subal terns whom. he has retained in pay. If the Standard would only publish a few of the let ters it received from these men .against the un fortunate Air. Canning we should see the nature of those scurrilous attacks under which he writhed, which Sir James Scarlett did not pro secute, • but which, nevertheless emanated from the malignant feelings, and are in the hand writing of the very individuals, we had almost :ell(' wretches, whom he now serves. The Exa miner, therefore, naturally argues that Sir James is not the originator of the present prosecutions.. It cannot reconcile his. past -yids his present conduct, and it naturally concludes that the Duke of Wellington has delegated to him powers which Mr. Canning disdained to employ. This theory is perfectly reconcileable to the truth without in the slightest degree exonerating - Sir James Scarlett from the shame or the guilt of being a willing instrument in such merci less hands. But the fact is this, the real author i.; the Duke of Wellington ; and the reasons for the crusade are contained in a nutshell. We shall state these reasons as briefly as we can. Whatever may have been the errors of Mr. Can ning he strictly adhered to his principles, and not even malice itself can charge him with incon sistency., lie had his faults we admit—he was a statesman of flashy and superficial views—the martyr of popular opinions, of liberal id t-', and oratorical ilium. He had the vanity to t, elk he could silence Parliament, and dictate to Europe, by a speech delivered on the floor of the House of Commons. But he, nevertheless, loved the Press, and stood in awe of the Press. He knew he could -not crush it, and he was wise enough not to make the• attempt. His private character was a shield against its invectives, and ..hiss sentiments were too well.. known and re peatedly enough expressed to prevent it from in goge-waggon—that Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald does no► know the difference between a bale of silk and a bushel of potatoes—th:4 Mr. Courtenay's mind is a sheet of white paper—and that the rest arc either old drones whom he laughs at or shabby tools whom he despises. In one word, the Duke of Wellington perceives, that like Cardinal Wolsey, a greater man, and a brighter genius, he has got e "beyond his depth." He perceives that ruin and disgrace arc before him— that his Ministry already totters—that the voice of the nation is against him, and consequently, like all other vindictive and disappointed spirits, he is resolved to fall with his system, entangle more intricately the web he cannot unravel, and punish while his power lasts all those who have dared to oppose him, or have had the audacity to condemn his measures or censure his apostacy. In this illustrious but now fallen man's conduct, his irascible disposition, and calamitous policy, is the mystery of the present state prosecutions.— His life, his character, his blighted hopes, show the spirit that breathes and the anger that burns. Sir James Searletes opinions are but the reflec tion of the Premier's views and intentions.— His empty denunciations against the Press are but the echo of his master's.sentiments; and our only consolation is, that such denunciations manifest weakness, and denote a speedy end to the Wellington Administration. Morn. Jour. At a time when the character of the Duke of Wellington was assailed by the bitter reproaches and malicious *sarcasms of. those writers who arc now among the foremost of his flatterers, we recalled to the public mind the great and splendid services which he had rendered to the country in her crisis of extreme peril ; when her fate might be said to be weighed in .the balance, and she struggled, not for glory, but existence. We knew that the country had been, in the evening of his life, ungrateful to a wart ior who most resembled the conqueror of Napoleon in his genius and his achievements, and we did not wish to see the repetitition of that scene in modern times. We tucked upon the fame of the Duke of Wellington as identified with the proudest and most brilliant recollections of England ; a rich and precious possession of his country, which, if undervalued by the present generation, would be sure to be vindicated by the pen of history, which, in restoring his fame to its proper eleva tion, would be sure to cast merited obloquy on the people who could take pleasure in its de struction. We then gave the Duke credit for the apparent magnanimity he displayed in not seeming to notice the taunts and calumnies with which certain Daily Papers, at the time when he went out of (Ace with Lord Eldon and others, abounded. We did not then dream that • any -consequences arising out of his reinstatement in power would ever cause us to retract our opinion as to the magnanimity of his disposition. We never could have anti cipated the arrival of the day when lie was to wield the vast power w hich the State confers upon a Prime Minister in this country to crush the Editor of a newspaper, and, through him, strike at the Very root of free discussion tia Eng land. We are sorry' that one for whose talents and public services we entertained so high an admiration should ever have been betrayed into such an exhibition of moral infirmity of cha racter, where more than ordinary greatness of mind was to have been expected. We alluded, the other day, in commenting upon the ay-officio informations, to the circumstance of Frederick the Great of Prussia, when his attention was directed to a libel on himself, which was placed rather high upon hi; palace-gate, haring ordered it to be placed lower, that it might be the more easily read by his subjects. We observed that the libel soon passed into oblivion, but that the moral dignity of the action will never be forgotten. History records the latter among the examples that ought to instruct kings and statesmen, but what the former was no memorial remains to inform us. We have also alluded to the name of Marlborough before, as conveying a lesson that ought to be written in those records, more worthy of being perused and remembered by Statesmen than the books in which the precedents of es-officio in formations arc to be found ; that name brings us back to the period which, in allusion to the in tellectual dignity of the Press, Sir James Scar 7 lett - called the " glorious days of English litera ture." We still are prepared to show that there never was a time when fiercer and more Malig nant party libels were published - than that " glo rious era" to which the Whig Attorney-General so unhappily—we will not say so ignorantly— ; alluded. When Sir James Scatlett was so nice and so unsparing in criticising the literary or .historical mistakes of another, he ought to have taken csoevial care to have been betrayed into no • error himself. Among the distinguished into a state of the utmost agitation and persons who were grossly and perseveringly S dismay in anticipation of a twenty years' libelled in the " glorious days" of Queen war, and the doubling, at least, of the national Anne, was the Duke of Marlborough, -the debt, on the appearance of the least symptom of man who shed • more lustre upon than reign coolness or alienation between the French and than any other that graces its annals. There English Governments, now in an agony of was no name of scandal and detraction that alarm for public liberty all over the world, be could be applied to a great man which was not cause the Duke of Wellington and the Prince heaped on him ; nor was he attacked only by de Poliguac maintain a perfectly good under obscure and contemptible scribblers,whose genius standing with each other. Cabinet Unions and was too blunt to wound, and whose writings were Cabinet Distinions equally afford these potent too dull to sting—men of education and talent, magicians the means to conjure up phantoms of instigated by political motives and party feelings, terror ; or if there be any difference between the pointed at his reputation their arrows of wit, two, it is only that the existing position and:re and irony, and sarcasm ; but he was cased in lations of Cabinets, whatever these may happen the armour of a proud mind—he was conscious to be, are invariably the most favourable of. all of the invulnerable dignity of virtue, and the possible positions or relations, to the success of shafts of malice fell harmless at his feet. In their gloamy incantations. .It can excite no speaking on this subject Burnet - says, " many surprise that the remarkable and ominous coin virulent writers threw out in many defamatory eidetic:es which have lately been presented by the libels a great deal of their malice against the • conduct of the French and English Govern Duke of Marlborough. They compared him to metes, should have given rise to the most serious Cataline, to Crassus, and to Antony, and studied apprehensions in the minds of persons so execs to represent him as a robber of the nation and as sively prone to alarm as those we have just de- a public enemy." Certainly there is no dark scribed. The British Government has recently and dangerous quality which a public man can • prosecuted certain individuals for abusing the possess that is not impli'ed in the application to liberty of the Press; and the French Govern him of tire name of Ca;aline. This includes merit -has, nearly at the same time, done the moral and political profligacy of the highest na- same thing. Can airy thing more truly alarming ture—desperate intentions—treason to the State be imagined ? This, however, is not all. There —and an ambition reckless of airy amount of appears too much reason to believe that coinei misery and blood which it might cost the country. deuces equally important will be multiplied be- But, besides all this, those libellers charged yond all endurable bounds. It is too pro against him acts of venality and peen- a liable that the British Parliament, end the Did he prosecute and answer French Legislature, will be called together the accusations by having the writers shut nearly at the same period. There is reason up in prison? He did no such thing. Inquiries to apprehend even that the Session will be were made which ended in the complete excul- opened in both couNtrie3 by a speech or pation of his character, and the historian says message from the Sovereign. Nay, one of our " thus happy does the malice of an enemy some- contemporaries supposes that many of the topics times prove?' And again—" he bore all with 'to which the Kings of England and France will si'ence and patience—with an exterior that al- I severally advert, may be the sar;te. Be this, ways seemed calm and cheerful ; and though he ' however, as it may, there will, no doubt, be co prepared a full vindication of himself, yet he incidences enough. Laws will be proposed for delayed publishing it till the nation should re- the adoption of the French Legislature and the turn to its senses, and be capable of examining English Parliament at the same time. The those circumstances in a more impartial manner." French Minister will produce a Budget, and the , This was the conduct of a truly great man : he 1 English Minister will produce a Budget. Cri , would not be accessary to throwing a doubt minals in Paris and in London will be sent to on his own innocence by admitting that it re- prison, to trial, and to execution, simultaneously. quired the vindication of penal law—he awaited On the same day the Duke of Wellington soil a better vindication from the force of truth and Prince Polignac will each sign various official the retributive justice of history. He received papers. On one and tke same day the French it. We quote this instance of a genuine tri- and English Ministers will, we fear, rise, break umph over libel for the Duke of Wellington. fast, dine, sup, and go to bed. After coinci- History is not an " old almanaelt." to those who dences so numerous and striking as these, will it , pet use It with the spirit that they ought—a great be possible any longer to doubt the existence of authority has given it a better definition : " His- k a conspiracy dangerous to the rights, liberties, tory," says Lord Bolingbroke, " is philosophy and welfare of nations ?—Morning Post. teaching by example."—Morning Herald. THE PRPSECUTIONS.—The noble example Notwithstanding what may be said or thought :o the contrary, on either side of the water, we iave no doubt that the fact of the meeting of the of integrity and wisdom which has recently been furnished by the French Judges, in the acquit tal of the Editor of the Journal des Debats, French Chambers being fixed to take place after that of the British Parliament, has been deter mined upon to enable the Prince Polignac's Administration to avail itself of a previous knowledge of our—King's Speech, and of the views of the Duke of Wellington's Government, that there may appear nothing like collision be tween two Statesmen supposed to be so inti mately allied as the Prince and the Duke. To this we are aware it may be answered, that this very intimacy itself would enable the two Go vernments to come to an interchange of views, and even of King's Speeches, without waiting for the publicity of the latter document either on the one side or the other. But besides the well known facts, that the King's Speech on the opening of Parliament in this country, is seldotii finally settled till up to the last moment, such a complete identity of views as a simultaneous operation of the kind would evince, might not be qui.° palatable to such of the people, either in France or England, as look with some pride to national independence, and with comparative feelings of humiliation, to the idea of the Go vernments on either side being Maier the con trout or influence of the other. Nor arc we at all ashamed to admit that we arc among the number of those who look with jealousy, nbt to say with some degree of alarm, at the new species of diplomacy which, in the shape of Cabinet Unions, are growing up among modern States. Formerly the connections between foreign countries were defined and made known 5y treaties. The Holy Alliance introduced a dif ferent species of national union, and one alike inimical to public liberty and improvement. But even that had precise limits and defined objects. Not so this new species of Cabinet Union, in which measures may be concocted more-inimical to public freedom than any which an Open con federacy could produce. We say way be con cocted ; for we would not appear to impute de signs where we only mean to sliOw Nor would we, on the other hand, appear to wish to keep alive that rivalry, distrust, and hatred among Governments which have been produe;ive of most of these calamities of war with which Europe especially has been inundated. The object of all Governments should be the general welfare of the communities over which they preside. Unfortunately there is not only a tendency in all human institutions to deteri orate ; but in political institutions in particular a striking and universal tendency to sacrifice the interests of the many to the ambition of the few, as well as to introduce restraints upon public freedom. 'These latter tendencies ought to be carefully watched. The flame of true 'freedom (we speak of it not in any theoretical or fliiniful sense) ought to be guarded with as vigilant and holy attention as the sacred fire that burned in extinguishably on the altars of the ancient Vesta. The existence and the maintenance of national liberty, must ever mainly depend upon the virtue of those who would enjoy it; and : past. of that virtue cannot be more undeniably-;proved and exhibited, than in a constant watchfulness over those encroachments which not unfrevently proceed from the quarter on which reliance for its protection has too implicitly seen Ibid. must surely suggest the question whether the boasted institution of Juries is indeed so pre eminently excellent a bulwark for the protection of liberty, and the means of liberty, as Eng lish Men have delighted to believe. Responsi bility to public opinion is the grand moving and regulating principle of duty, and by Juries responsibility is reduced to the slenderest force. Between the Judge and the. Jury it falls to the ground. The public dissatisfaction cannot fix upon the author of an evil decision. It knows not what share to allot to the charge of the Judge, and what to the stupidity, servility, or indifference of the Jury. If the fault should, however, be obviously with the Jury, the disap probation of society expends itself upon the mere name, and the twelve unknown men leave the box to bear the brunt of the animadversion. For .the recent doltish verdicts, what remedy have we against the wiseacres who returned them.? Their names are not put to their handy work'. We want even the poor comfort of their shame. Of this freedom from individual responsi bility to the public, Juries are well aware, while they too strongly feel the present awe of the Judge's 'eye. If they succumb, and waive the exercise of their judgments to his authority, they may prove the most pernicious scape-goats of a Ma gistrate's injustice. The Judge escapes the be- fitting odium under cover of the Jury's verdict, ' and the twelve recreants escape censure through their personal obscurity, leaving the empty name of Jury to answer for their misconduct. Judges, between whom and public opinion there is not this balk, must necessarily feel, with infinitely more strength, the force of responsibility ; and regard to their characters, and desire of the world's esteem, will powerfully bear them lop against the biases sinister to virtue. We sincerely believe,•that had Lord' Tenterden tried the two last indictments against the Morning Journal without a Jury, respect for his reputation for knowledge and sense would have compelled a verdict of Not Guilty. His charge against the defendants was as moderate as could be expected, but the ductility of the Juries was equal to his forbearance. Force of persuasion, as of other things, is proportioned to the resisting power.— Examiner. Some of our contempora ries labour under a vague and unintelligible k ind of apprehension, that the strict amity and perfect concord which at present happily prevail among the great Eu ropean Governments, may by possibility lead to consequences injurious to the, rights and liber ties of their respective subjects. Their melan choly forebodings upon the subject present in deed one of the most singular examples of inge nuity in the art of self-tormenting that has ever fallen under our observation, pre-eminent as our country has always been considered in the number and skill of its professors of this va luable art. Materials more unpromising for the Manufacture of jealousies and fears could scarcely be imagined, than the subsisting harmony and friendship among all the consi derable Governments of the world.; but there are no difficulties too great for the power Of genius to overcome, ami accordingly we find the same persons who would be throWn THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS AND HIS Gus nn.—The following circumstance, which took place before the illness of the Estexaon, is calculated to . give rise to the most curious reflections upon the strange mix ture of political desp.ltisin anal military independence which exists in-Russia,. and from which such serious con sequences have already arisen. It will -be recollected that the Estrettom, on his return from Waraw to St. Peters burgh, passed by Toulogzin, where the regiments of the Guards which were in the campai;n of 1828 were can toned. The Grand Dukes CONSTANTINE and AllenAvt. • accompanied the Estrettort,- who, on his arrival at Ton loezin, had the intention of reviewing the regiments. By • a mistake of the Colonel of one of these corps; some dis order took place in the execution of the evolutions which were directed by the Grand Duke Ithenazt„ as General in-Chief of the Imperial Guard; the latter, on'pereeiving the mistake, rode towards the Colonel, and after a slight repriinand for his awkwardness, he gave him a pull of the ear, as if by joke. The offiCer, second in command, hav ing remaiked this circumstance, and taking it up as a grave insult to the whole corps in the person of the Colo nel, immediately ordered the whole of the regiment to ground their arms. A scene then took place which :night hive eompromised the throne of the EAtrEROR, am! perhaps have affected his life, or that of his brothers. NtcnikAs; who had been' witness to What bad taken place along the line of his troops, then approached and ordered tilt two regiments drawn up in line by the side of that which had ar,unded _arms, to make it prisoner, in Order that it might undergo the chastisement which it me rited by an act which bore all the symptoms of a mutiny. lint the • Colonels of those regiments, proud of the title of pretorians, fir from blindly obeying this order, as military discipline required, • refused, humbly representing that they did not believe that their brave companions in arms ;had rendered. theinseir.ta ' g uilty of an offence deserving „of such severe punishment. The Egritaoa did not know how to act under these difft cult circumstances, as a rash resolution might have been at tended, with the most disastrous results. Nothing, there fore, was Alone, and the _Emeguoit set out for St. Peters burgh. The Grand Duke ithclattr, remained at Toulogzin, and CONSTANTINE, who bad made the mostviolent re monstrances, hut whom the EIIVEaOft suspected to have taken an indirect part in causing the excitement, received an order to travel for some time in Germany. [The above in contained in a letter from Warraw, 'dee I Dec. Ll—. Court Journal. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PoRTSmoUTn, JAN. 2.—His Majesty's ship Eepiegle, 16, Commander R.Elliott, arrived onTiotre day last from Plymouth, having on board raerely half a million of dollars, from the Havanna& which city she left on the 16th November. We regret to learn by her that the Hornet, American sloop Of war, with a vast quantity of treasure on board, from Tampico, bound to the Havanna!), is missing, and it is feared had foundered. The less will fall almost wholly on the British merchants. .Large quantities of silver were coming to the coast from the interior, end in a few days after the Hornet left, it wae pre sumed that three millions of dollars would be ready to be shipped. The mines in the po;scssion Of Englishmee had begun to assume a profitable ap pearance; all the specie, however, shipped. from them must not be regarded as profit, as the evendi tine of time establishment was paid for by bilis drawn on the spot on England, the rate of exchange being favourable to this practice. The Alexis . : in Govern ment had commenced emancipating a portion of the slave population, by giving to the slave owners a written undertaking to pay the value of the slaves at some,future period. This measure had created great dissatisfaction and considerable apprehensions among the Mexicans, lest the unemployed negroes should congregate together and commit excesses. The British squadron had enjoyed, with one or two exceptions, uninterrupted good health,. which was attributed' to the persevering activity of Admiral Fleming, bekeeping his ships at sea. We under stand the sirkuess on board the Arachne hard arisen entirely from =Hera : liar boats had been upset in a river, and the exposure of the people consequently had brought on'a diseilse which unfortunately proved so fatal. The slave trade was carried on with the most vigorous activity :. no less than six vessels em ployed in that inhuman trall-le were refitting . at the Havannah whilst the Espiegle was lying there. The Famna, the large sloop we have before noticed, Was also rafit.ing at the Havanna!' with the greatest ex pedition, for the purpose of rem ring to the coast. It. was said that in her last unsuccessful cruise, she had lode no less t han a thousand people, slaves and crew collectively : she was so weak in the latter, that she required assistance before she could get into port. The Bai-ham was perfectly-refated and fit for tea, her damages not beitig so extensive as Were at first apprehended. Sir Jaunts C. Smyth_ arrived at Nassau, in the Blossom, about the 12th. The Espic e le was 12 days in time Channel, during which the weather was so cold and severe, that 15 of the crew are en the sick list, from (mein; frest bitten and with chilblains. The next ship to Eng land with treasure will, most probably, be the Arachne sloop of war. The Espiegle was towed into harbour on the day of her arrival, to be paid off. His Mejesty's ship Pro:Tie arrived at Cadiz, from Cork, 23d November. The Lapwing anived at Gibraltar, from Falmouth and Cadiz, Ist December. The Arachne sailed from Havanna!), for Jamaica, Nov. 11. The Falcon arrived at Mauritius, from a cruise, 2d Sept. . The S;.iee cutter arrived on Sunday, from a c: wise, and sailed again on Wednesday. The High flyer cutter arrived from Newhaven on Tuesday. The Supply naval transport sailed with stores on Monday, for the Dock-yard at Plymouth. APPOINTMENTS.—Commander Russell to the Wolf, vice Captain G.• Hays, promoted; Com mander Sir Thomas Pasley, Bart. to the Procris, vice Captain Charles Paget, promoted ; Commander Luckcruft (Late First Lieutenant of tier - Blonde) to the Cameleon, vice Sir Thomas Pasley ; Lieutenant Martin, to the North Star; Lieut. Xynaston Cor bett, to the Ariadne. His Majesty's ship Worcester, 64. prate WAX yes terday se'neight launched from Deptford Dock yard. The Worcester is to proceed to Woolwich to receive her internal and other completions. Arrived on Monday the Ann, Spencer, from Quebec, in 42 days ; and the Epaminondas, Lan- AA from \Vyborg, for Malaga, leaky. Arrived on Wednesday the Sir Thomas 'Munroe, Gillics, for Madras and Calcutta, and sailed on Friday. Sailed the Eeling Grove, Falconer, and the Isabella, Wildgoose, for Dominica. Arrived to-day the fan. nibal, Ileberd, from London ; will sail for New York to-morrow morning. Arrived the Marlbo rough, Middleton, from . London, for Jamaica.— Sailed the Ottowa, Douglas, for London, from Quebec. We alluded lately to' the Establishment of a United Service Museum.. The institution, of which his Majesty has graciously signified his approbation, is in progress; Sir Herbert Taylor is appointed the provisional Chairmen, and Captain Henry Downes, R.N., acts as Secretary. It is inteaded that the subscription shall be 10s. per annum for Officers under the rank of Captains in the Army, reeking as Captains 155., Field .Officers Generals and Admirals 40s. Since our last the weather has been intensely cold, the severe frost which set in last week having continued to the present tithe. Every sheet of ice in this neighbourhood has been daily thronged with skniters, of • whom several have received serious hurts and falls; among them, we are sorry to say, are a son of time Rev. Mr. Tate, and a son of Mr. Creuse.e--llompshire Tclegtywk. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, JAN. 2. Robert Hunt, late of Knightsbridge, shopkeeper, was opposed by Mr. George Thomas Baxter, soap manufacturer, for a debt of 60/. • Mr. Baxter st4ted, that the insolvent , had done business with him for some time, and d;icing that period had p.id him considerable sums of money. — Ile had been in the habit of drawing bills upon the insolvent at two months' date, and 15 hen be applied io him, as usual, for that purpose, he said that if he woi,id allow the, account to run, he would pay in future for whatever goods were sent in to him upon their delivery. The amount of the last parcel was 91.; and when he called for mutt:tit, the insolvent made some excuse, and gave him an order for more goods, telling him that if he would send them, he would positively pay him for all on the Friday fol lowing, upon his calling at his house, at Knights bridge. Mr. Baxter did call, but did not see the in solvent ; and instead of the money, which he so po sitively promised, he only received a note from the insolvent's wife, in which he offered to accept a bill for him, at two months' date ; this Mr. Baxter re fused, and left the, house a good deal dissatisfied.- -On the following Friday, however, his cletk called and took the insolvent's acceptance for 2.5/., WhiCh • was never Paid; it was only upon the promise 'So positively given that he would pay him, that he allowed him to have the goods. He had since learned that he had been seeking indulgence at .this very time from. his other creditors, and had, even under stood that he had offered them &composition, which, if he bad been at all aware of previously, he never would have allowed his debt so to accumulate. - At the same time be was not partienlatly anxious to throw any obstacle in the way of the a solvent's discharge. The insolvent did not deny that he had sought indulgence from his other creditors, but, never offered them any composition. After a further exa mioation the -insolvent was discharged. The general distress that pervades almost all classes of the community has extended to the medical pro fessien, particularly country practitioners, in a degree of which there is no parallel in former times. The trades men, they say, arc without business, and the farmers are subsisting on their little remaining capital. Debts from either class arc n , t t,) 1:e collected, yet the medical practi tioiii:r is called upon almost hourly to attar' patients who reside, in some instances, eight or ten miles 'distant, from whom he can hare scarcely any expectation of ever receiv ing a farthing fur the exercise of his talents, his attend ance, or his aiedicincs.- Great tunWters of eountry prae ' titioners, urged to id by the distress of the times, have recently embarked for America and the satletreat on the Swan River, in the hope of obtaining some sort of sub sistence fur theme:lva and their families,— Obeirver. :11ADDINGTON CORN MAIIRET.—j an ..L . A small market of aits—top up 6d. and Sd. on tha average-122 quarters said, 62 unsold. Barley is up 6.1 , on the on the top, and down about 9d. on the average-- 127 quarters sold-23 t0,c1.1.. Wheat is down 2s. c o the top, but the average is h. up. Pease and Beans s r e both flown. Wheat. First Ott ('es Oti Third There werea•Oqrs. A verage., DALKEI The supply of lint tuna large ; p sennight. First 5Rs s,cond 518 Third 46s Barley. ' Sls 0,1 25.; Oct 0 - .2g 0,1 of Wheat 56 Umsoit TIT eOIO all kinds -ices near!) Oath. 216 Ri 21s 2f)s ca in market,: 1-11 Grey, 21. !2a.3,1 i MARKET of Grain the same Pease. 29s Od Fie (ki 266 0:1 0 wkereol I. 11.12ths. F3l at this 1 as thoße o Beam. 324 NI 284 01 2N; 0.1 were anitl• ..at. Barley. Oats. OA :lOs 11:1 2ls Od OA 24. Od 21s lid Od 254 Od Bs Od rea,se. d" this d Rran~, St: Okl I 31. a 305 0.1 304 ed. gas 0,1 205 Cd CORNWALL MARKETS. Trunto.—Wheat (average) 235. ed.—Barley, t 3.. Od.—Oats, 103. 112.isTos—Wheat, Ws. 6d.—Barley, Us. SI Atwst.t—Wheat, 21s. to 21-I.—Barley, I Is. to 134.—Oadso Bs. to 9s. 6d. Ron tit tx—Wheat (average) 23, 04.—Barl7y, 134. I.s t; r.sTerc—W h eat (average) 234. Nl—Barley, 12s. 041.—Oatro Ss. o.l.—Beef, 6d.—Mutton, sd. rENZANCA—Wheat, 23a. to 244.—Barley. to 16,—Oats. St. to 10s. 0.10- 7 11 ed and Mutton, 441. to 514—rork, 31d. to 9d.- Mutter, 11d. per lb. LlSKeartb—Wheat, 225. 6.1. t.) 231.—8ar1ey,134. (Id.—Oats, 10: , to Its. Od, Sr. Comosa—Wheat, 20s. to 2:1a.--Barley, 11,x. to 13s...—Bref , and Mutton, id. to Nd.—Veal an , 1 Lamb, tO4 _to 6d. A question has been• raised in a - Sunda}' paper re!ative to the parentage of One of the fairest orna ments of our fashionable circles. The lady in question understood to be the daugliter of Mr. MACNAMARA (eldrr brother to the one of duel celebrity), by. Countess Div LON, daughter to Lady DALTron. Born at Vienna, a he was bequeathed by her mother. to the protection of Lora ELGIN, at that time Ambassador to the Austrian Cone , in whose family she was educated, and • regarded with so much affection, that • Mr. Bauer, who died a few year' agi) in India, left her the hulk of hie fortune. Her•Ladr, abip's connexion wish Lord iIEitTOCAD is squally. easy r' explanation. Herself end her children are -placed eicela , sively under hisguariliauship by the will of her late gal lant hu.band, who died in his Lordship's 'arms: s h , : is said to forfeit half her joinktire by marrying without bii consent.— Court Journal. THE STUART PAPERS.---It iS gated in . letter from Rome, dater] Decerttber 11, in a French Papers that there is no truth in the report of the King of ENO' LAND having presented to Sir WALTER. Scorr the archive° of the STUA nu, said to have been bequeathed to him Cardinal YORK. The archives were, it is now deelarbrit sent immediAely after the death of the Cardinal to the lat King of SA Mir NI . The papers supposed to have got into the iroascssion of GEORGE the FOLIZTH Were, cording to this account, a few inanuseripts which a' WO° less servant had obtained at the request of Cardinel GoNsAt.vi. [We know better. -51. L G.]—:—Literarg Gazette. L It G E .Tu ItY.--A gentleman in this tow!' received from London, on Torsday last, a turkey, which hcing ritrippill of its feathers, the enormoo weilht of 211lis. It me:gored fire feet from the bill to O. extremity of the legs.—Scolaman. PIG-KILLING EXTRAORDINARY.---FRE D nzatex GREEN, the governor of the poor -house it Bre wiro , f, Stafford/bile, last week made a wager of 10/. Olt he ‘vottl , l kill, scald, and well sad corapletely . dress, open , eight pies in finer hours, without any other assist' ante whatsoaver timing the proms, than that of having, the lett water conveyed .to the neildingAttly as hrylanie l it. He performed his task in the extraordinary shor e , time of three hours and 46 minutes, to the.admir,tion °: all present. One of thelbetve pigs iteigliedtE3o6l`.; ash none were of lets weight . than '24olbs. Thiptiereal' kilied iu a butcher's slaughter-1161We, and 1 40, advantage of the wind and Windlass, to get the "pigia the scalding-tub.— Coventry Herald. • - • A VEsuvws.—lp returning a few, years ago from Berwick-upon-Tweed, a stranger was much stir prised, as, night CalliC on, at seeing two immense 111 4 near Newc?stle. Upon inquiring, he found ; that. tbd were the small coal which tines not readily sell,. and i 4 therefore igou s tep . a a r p a s t separat ed by b t f , itbseEr(;enunsi formed oantt months tiie larger 0 1 o r c l k° l1 ; Prodpits ; and from the decomposition of the pyrites; it'd take tire - aud burn for years. One of these huge mound" was but a few mi!es from the road; it was said to cosl f twelve Acres of ground, anti to have . been burring fo r / elght years. As all that small coal might be Made' ass 0 to produce coal was, he. says the Legislature should inter" fere, to prevent such a shameful waste ; for not lesi the 130,000 ehaldrons are thus annually dastreyed on the hanks of the river Tyne; and neatly the same quantity the Wear. Beneath these burning heaps he found a hCd of (thickish scoria, ‘vhich resembles basalt, and is need for mending the roads. --Bath Chronicle. COUNTRY CORN MARKET DURING LAST WEEK. S. to A. --. V F 4 29 Its 94 19 23 s. (1. s. d. 3 6 40 ?n 40 33 40 36 40 22 2( j 33 40 15 A BA 4 9 3 6 70 88 14 8 70 WAKEFIELD CORN Al AR ET.—Jan. There is 7 a tolerable supply of Wheat here today, al though the navi;ation up the Humber is much impeded by ice ; the best samples of Wheat have obtained a trifling ailvmce, but all other descriptions sell slowly at the ravel of last week. Oats fully mailvain late prices. Gond fresh Barley is not plentiful, sad readi'y obtains last week'', prices, but the stained and damp sampled are very difficuls to quit. Beans ire dull sale without material alteration in value. Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suftl‘lk 523. New 545. -- White Old 555. to 575. 5411. to 61s. 57.. to Ns. fine (114. fine fine ------- New 504. Me. to We. fine ens,. -- Foreign, Red 47e. 3e. to l'.6s, fine Ms. White sls. 5 . 15. to filk. fine 665. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk 263. to aie. tine nia. --- Lincolnshire ' -- Yorkshire \Vold Foreign —s. to —e. fine —s. Beans, Old Als to 335. fine Ws -- New 31s. to 345. ,fine 353, Oats, Potato Poland %Os 2ls. to 9.53. fine *Gs. ---- Pi iezland and Small lSs. 265. to `23e. fine 245. -- Meating , I lit. to 13d. per Stone. Shelling 2fds. to 365. f■i. per Load. Malt 375. 41s. fine 435. per !mad. Rapeseed SCO MIT MARKETS. Wheat, f,O :33 S 8 :31 SS 4S '72 :30 82 48 62 36 40 60 • '76 50 '74 of the m, 4-aley Oat.. I Beams. lOntra.pal. T 1 28 19 2 - 2 18 SO I 5 17 IS - 19' It 18 28 28 Si 25 18 21 15 IR 20 25 90 28 It 27 II) 21 19 20 15 17 58 - tli 22. 19 21 19. 21 amine varies throml teB ) 9 24 :C3 10; 22 27 92 —• ,••••• 21 20 19 91 19 201 40 24 27 -- 110 24 4-- 96 St hout the ... _ auntry. Wheat. 1 lisrley, rer Qatartrr. Cw~liile Cannarthen I exliri ai %lorpeth.. Peri ri th - : 2 73 72 58 23 Sheffield NA'ffitfficgter 73 : - ti 29 Per Bashel.• . 1 EA. 5.,1. F. el. Coventry 70 90 48 Newcastle. (Stair.) 19 0 9 6 5 . 6 Northallcrton 7 0 9 3 3 6 StAbrd 9 0 9 t s'o Swansea i 7 9 8 4 4 4 Warwick i 9 0 10 0. 4 6 I%l* 8011. I • 11r.rnardeastic 0 16 0 8 3 9 0 Durham ----.. ;12 6 I.i 0 8 6 9 6 Richmond jl2 0 16 0 0 10 6 Stockton 6 It 6 8 0 9 0 s. tc, ~ 57 8. t(1 Aberdeen Berwick.-- Coldst ream Ciipar Elgin I iiverness...,—. Nchin Perth The size BIRTHS. On the let inst. the 1: , 1,10fL7r. E. T. Moran, et Bel' ford-place, of a son. ' At DenOteorth Cottage, near Chichester, the lad/ 61 Cain. Tontkinson, R.N., of a Non. Oti the 29th ult. at Chertsl, the lady of F. Lambert , Eq. of a swl. MARRIED. On the 31st nit at Troy, near Monmouth, the Hon. r U. Abbott, second son of the late awl only brother of the p Tsent Lord Colchegter, to Frances Cecil, &tighter- of th e Lady E. Talb.)t and the late Dean of Salisbury, and nieoe to the Duke of Beaufort. o,i the 31st ult. at Astiity, J hn Pickft;rd, Esq., of Congleton, Cheshire, solicitor, to Mia Drake ft.rd, - o f the same place. DIED. At Chaang-cross, Major H. Alarlay, 11. P. 8311 Re and late of the l 3d Foot (or Buffs). On the 3d inst. Afime,:the wife of G. Robinson, E 4 of New Broad-street, tig;d29. On the 84th alt. at Dad-oak, Worcester, Wni. Gi b ' E4q. aged 84. • MiTIMO Y61:11\ 0, ins 4lnf QiiICJE) finAkt, 141411010 ti e. il. A 4 60 46 .6 2 46 50 le( / - 11. IRS a ff. , s , ef the l' forte hips re ItrAtitad e for I reeeiveii, hen. at a sti I akea in preen Board in a celebrated 111 at IS,. Pah Contain% 2/ by various Ari baked at 21s. a Embullilked v bound in ...ilk, Siperlaly hi m , sit boantifnl &c. from pain eminent Artie lame for IS3( graving of 11 greatly bflprri Itlegaatly engrayinga h) T. Lawrence, WsW.. Thsis Siddons as Ls 0410taiHR I from painting from the mos licked at 124. This yolni 13 tine engra the works of butionß, in p the day. So This heant hshed with 1 ter, Warren, among •ther of Jairns," w Rev. Tk•anaa al 1 Bs. A New Ai Hulloed wick s loonnd in silk K es. 6d. Embellish' from drawini at 58. Od. Handsome gravings by moat eelebral at 12s. Contains Artists, hour Hailed at 121 Neatly ho Sold at 103 This beau engravings, Milford, Dr. instructive roam. Edi of Irish Cha Contains I &e., the Pn well, Mies Edited by P THE NEW Embellish Edwards, & Mrs. Opie, by Mrs. Ala Contaios, M. Porter, 1 valier, Cartr 74. Publighl The Enig eiate. Price The Altai all the Arun Lattice at fine engravit hated at 2s. Peacock's Inanack, tn 4 Peareek's fl ruirlisheil a letseci, in el Learsley'e rnercial Led! Tithe a TI Guides, Monk., tin , The Brit other iiescrii UNPRucur W. H. s hty, G mtry and other P. %Pontine th ... ... Ditto, gilt.... Superfine till, hot pressed Ditto, gilt.... thiperfine this P°.t. Ditto, gilt ....' kiPer middle LAU°, i 0.,.... iMfl)ittto, , do., gil ho Outside pat, ittality .. Ditto foo ls;; . do S Hl)&rti sail Ditto d.. , ail ou Pertlne eati Sr*. note I)itto, do. ite..l %Melina 'tint / 5.8 t (roriot, ......... TPsgr do. not .Atto, ditto sr ditto,,,,, """Portioe thi I: cx4 t, het-pi road or na aleek horde I. to s. - bl 3! 93 41 42 40 ..d. a. (I. 56 60 56 A 0 59 0R 73 8 (1 0 0 0 7 3 7 6 9 II 12 a 90 10 0 11 0 12 il 00 00 (33G:. Means, 2 - C-