The Sun. — London, England, 1821-10-24 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. BERLIN, OCT. 11.—The results of the adm r74tration of justice during the years 1819 and 18'20, having been laid before his Majesty, he has authorised the Ministers of Justice to ex press to all the Officers of Justice his Majesty's gracious satisfaction with their indefatigable di ligenCe in their duty, their zeal, and their regard fot truth and justice, and their impartiality. In the provinces of this side of the Rhine, in which the Prussian genersi system of the admi nistration of justice is introduced, there were ptqtcling last year before all the higher and infe rior tribunals, besides the examinations 1. ci7a Suits-345,811. 2. Suits relative to Bankruptcies, Liquidations, and Auc. duns, 13.,:125. 3. Ctuardianshipc--372,?.03. Of thlse under fiat and second heads, there were terminated by judicial smtences By compromise -80. ;43 By renunciation-37,567. The bookseller Brockhaus, who had lately ob tained the revocation of the prohibition imposed on him to sell and distribute his publications in the Prussian dominions as formerly, without un dergoing a second censorship, has been suddenly deprived by the Prussian Government of the benefit of this concession. Many persons think that M. Brockhaus has drawn upon himself this unexpected measure, by a printed circular lette r to all the Prussian booksellers, in which he per mitted himself to make some very unbecoming and offensive remarks against the subordinate Prus sian authorities. BRUSSELS, OCT. IS.—The Gazette of Dord recht publishes accounts from Java to 29th May ; they confirm the statement of the decrease of the malady, and state that it was almost wholly con quered in the district of Samarang, but that eighteen thousand persons, mostly Europeans, had fallen victims. Batavia and Sourabaya were still infested. The inhabitants highly praise the solicitude of the Governor-General, who would not quit the capital. PORTUGUESE CORTES. Llsnort, OCT. s.—ln the Sitting of the 29th of September the order of the day was the de cree respecting the duties to be imposed on the importation of brandy, which gave'rise to a long and warm debate. The Deputies of the islands of Madeira declared that it was necessary that Portuguese brandy should be allowed to be im ported into their island without duty, and the duty on foreign brandy diminished, that pro posed being too heavy, because brandy is neces sary to mix with the wine intended for the Lon don and American markets. Some Deputies on the other hand affirmed, that formerly brandy was not imported into the islands of Madeira to mix with the wines, which were then of excellent quality, and celebrated all over the world ; that it was only in the time of a certain Governor that it had been - allowed, but that it was an abuse, and contrary to express laws. The debate on this subject was adjourned. In the same Sitting the measures taken by the Government to repress the banditti, who openly brave the laws in various parts of the kingdom, were communicated to the Assembly. A very long circular of the Government has been pub lished, inviting the Provincial Authorities strictly to examine the passports of all persons with the greatest care ; to impress on the people the neces sity of associating and going in bodies in quest of the robbers, to apprehend them, and to deliver them to the nearest Magistrate, with the booty they have made, and with all the proofs that can be collected of their crimes. The,Magistrates are to make the people comprehend, that by thus acting for their own defence and security, they will imitate the most polished nations in Europe, who consider it as one of their first duties not to permit such criminals to harbour among them, but to denounce them to the Magistrates, and assist the latter, when necessary, that the crimi nals may suffer the penalties of the law. In the Sitting of the 2d of October, M. Fer nandez Thomas made two proposals, which were approved :- 1. That the nation being very ill served by foreigners acting as Consuls, they should be removed, and Portuguese appoint ed in their stead. 2. That it being indubitable that there were Portuguese so degenerate that they sought, by public speeches and pri vate conversation, to disturb the new order of things, and to sow distrust among the people, he proposed that the Committee should draw up and lay before the Cortes a project of Criminal Law; to punish, as treason to the nntion (keeping in view the ordinance of the kingdom on this subject), all those who shall in this manner disturb public order and tranquillity. The decrees respecting the organization of the Provinces of Brazil are now published officially, as well as that on the Constitution and Powers of the Council of State. In the Sitting of the COrtes on the 3d, M Rloniz Tavarez brought forward two motions, which were reserved for a second reading :- 1. On the large grants of lands made in Brazil, which were an injury to the poor ; and he wished to have the grants re— stricted to what is sufficient for a man and his family, &c. The 2d was in favour of the unhappy aborigines of Prazil, who ought to be trcatsd with mildness, and preserved in the inviolable poss;:ssion of all the land which they now have, a s the conduct of "Wm. Penn towards the Indians s,,ould be taken as a model. MUSIC OF THE EAST. Among the Turks and Arabs, a man rather regards the learning of music as a discredit more than the accomplishMent of a man of rank : the native austerity also of their manners render them insensible to the charms of harmony ; and the contempt in which they hold the art extends also to those that are musicians by profession, who are but little esteemed and ill paid. An art thus despised by the great, neither cherished nor admired by connoisseurs, cannot be supposed, when labouring under such disadvantages, to have made any rapid progress. The music of the East is of a very different character from that of Europe it is grave, simple, and without any complexity of modulation : the Orientals use no notes when they sing, but sing by air ; and the Demises, when they chaunt, do not seem to have the slightest knowledge of musical notes.—At Bagdat and at Constantinople they have concerts, which are not ill-formed to please those ears that are unaccustomed to all the iuiricacies of the musical art : but it is very disagreeable to hear all their instruments playing in unison, unless it happens that one of the musicians takes a fancy to play in one continued bass, by making an incessant repetition. Yet if the musictof the East is not to the European taste, ours is 14 less disagreeable to them ; they seem in particular to dislike the violin, and think their own music much more sublime and excellent. The Turks say that the music of the Europeans is wild and disagreeable, and they wonder that any man of sense or gravity can take pleasure in it.—From the simple construction of their musical instru ments, they are certainly of very ancient origin, and have been transmitted down from generation to generation, without any material alteration.— Several of them are well known in the islands of the Archipelago. The Greeks have there a bow instrument, with three catgut strings, upon which they play with a wooden bow, fitted with horse hair, to which they give the necessary tension in playing, by pressing it with th e little finger ; it is called the Lyra. This instrument is always accompanied with the voice.—Some bow instru ments belong peculiarly to the Arabs, such as the semenge, a sort of bad violin, joined with a drum. Its body is commonly a cocoa nut-shell, with a piece of skin extended upon it ; 3 strings of catgut, and sometimes of horse hair, are fitted to it ; and it is played upon a bow, not less awk ward in its form than the Greek lyra. The semenge is the instrument of those wandering musicians who accompany the dancing women. —The Arabs have another kind of violin named Maraffa, with a string of horse hair, and a skin stretched upon the body of the instrument. This violin suits admirably well with the shrill voices of the common singers at their coffee-houses.— Among the wind-instruments used by the Turks, is the flute called Sulamaric; it is entirely open, and without any reed, so that to wind it is no easy matter. This is the favourite instrument of the Merlavi Dervises, who excel in playing on the flute. It is made either of reed or of a piece of fine wood.—The samara is a sort of flute with, two pipes; the shorter is used for playing airs, and the longer a continued bass.—ln Asia, the natives always accompany their dancing with tambourines : these are of different sorts, either circular pieces of wood, or earthen pots made for the purpose, covered with skin, and sounded with the fingers. The most elegant tambourine is what they call the Doff, to which the women dance in the harems. The castanets may also be reckoned amongst their musical instruments, and these are carried by the public - dancing girls : a few orders also of mendicant Mahometan priests alway carry different kinds of horns and drums, which they blow or sound before they ask alms. —The military music of the Turks is now be ginning to be known in Europe : that, however, which is in use through the East affords only an unpleasant jarring noise, and would be entirely unworthy of notice did it not serve to mark the distinctions of rank. A Pacha of three tails is preceded by a greater variety of musical instru ments, playing martial music, than a nobleman of inferior rank dares to use, so that a person's dig nity may be known by the music going before him. The prindipal martial instruments consist of a very noisy kind of trumpet, called the Surma; a Turkish drum of prodigious size called Tabbel; this they hold horizontally, and strike against it on both sides; a hautboy of a very acute sound, and another which has much the same sound as the European bassoon ; and a favourite martial music among the Turks consists of two plates of some sonorous metal, which they strike against each other to mark the cadence.—This slight ac count of the state of Eastern Music serves to confirm the received ideas concerning the rude ness of the Jewish music, and the simplicity of that of the ancient Greeks.—Among the Chinese, however, a desire of improvement in music seems evident, and was particularly exemplified at the time of Lord Macartney's embassy. The chief director of the Imperial Orchestra frequent ly was a visitor at the evening concerts performed by the Ambassador's band. He was particularly attracted by some of the instruments, which, when offered to him as presents, he declined, but re quested permission to take drawings of them. He accordingly sent for painters, who spread large sheets of paper on the floor, and having placed on them the clarionets, flutes, bassoons, and French horns, they traced with their pencils the different figures of those instruments, measur ing a:I the apertures, and noticing the minutest particulars : when this operation was completed they wrote down their remarks, and delivered them to their employer, who said he intended to have similar instruments made by Chinese work men, and to fit them to a scale of his own. The European violin had already been adopted in China, but it was not in common use ; they had an instrument of their own bearing some resem blance to it, but with two strings only. Several Chinese have now learned to write their music on ruled paper. Several German Journals, Brussels and Lisbon Papers have arrived since our last, from which we give extracts under our head of Foreign In telligence.—At Vienna new passports are given for Turkey. Foreigners who wish to go thither are not allowed to pass through the Austrian States.—A new production of the celebrated Professor GOEttRF.3 has just been published at Stutgard, under the title of " Europe and the Revolution." The work contains some bold thoughts on Italy and Greece.—A Proclamation has been issued at Turin, to protect the States of Piedmont from the contagious fever, by which it is ordered that no traveller shall, enter that country from France, unless be is provided with a certificate of health from the F rench authorities. JAmAtcA, AUG. 28.—The Kingston passed close in shore of Carthagena on the 22d inst., in sight of the Popa. Every thing appeared quiet, and only a schooner cruising off and on. His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor has been pleased to issue a Proclamation, prohibiting the exportation of flour, bread, biscuit, rice, corn meal, corn, or peas ; the Proclamation of the 1.3 d July only extending to flour.—For these last ten days the weather has been very hot and oppressive, with little wind, nor has there been any heavy thunder during the season until the 25th inst., when the wind came on moderately from the N. W., with heavy rain, and during its continuance several severe claps of thunder suc ceeded each other. MONTREAL, SEPT. 13.—A letter from l'As sumption mentions, at about three o'clock in the afternoon of last Sunday there was experienced in that' place a hurricane, by which three houses and 13 barns were dismantled, but no lives lost, although the families were within them when the roofs were tore off. It is highly gratifying that the Revenue of Ireland has been flourishing with that of Great Britain. In the Sister Island, indeed, the results presented by the official statement of the Revenue are still more satisfactory than those which have marked the financial year of Great Britain; since in Ireland there is an increase, not only upon the October quarter as compared with the October quarter last year, but upon the whole of the year ending 10th October, 1821, as com pared with that eliding 10th October, 1.820. The increase on the whole year is 216,3251. — That on the last quarter is 147,000. The total Revenue of the year ending October, 1820, was 3,704,935; so that the increase of 216,3251. is nearly super cent.upon the whole amount of the Re venue ! It is impossible not to see in these very fa vourable circumstances of the United Kingdom, corresponding indications of a great increase to the national prosperity. When coupled with the accounts from the manufacturing districts, which chiefly represent a great increase of business, and of employment for the manufacturing la bourers, there cannot be a doubt that some of the branches of the national industry are reviv- ing from their late depression. The official re- turn of the woollen .manufacture in the West Riding of .Yorkshire, represents, as we stated yesterday, that a greater quantity of cloth had been manufactured in that district, in the past year, than in any year in the memory of man. This return is obtained from a class of officers termed " Cloth-searchers ;" and is from actual measurement of the manufacture, so that its accuracy is indisputable. It corroborates the representations made respecting other manufac- tures, in which there are not the same means of obtaining a precise knowledge of their state from official data. We trust that. the improvement will be progressive; and that it will rapidly be come so extensive as to afford an adequate sti mulus to the languishing agriculture of the king dom. Though the severe depression in that most important branch of the industry of the nation has not yet, perhaps, carried the destruc tion of capital so far as to be attended by a diminution of the cultivation for the en- suing year, it is obvious that any long-con- tinned action of the circumstances which had reduced the price of agricultural produce 1.e10•.v the standard at which, on many soils, it is requisitefor the remuneration of the growers, must eventually reduce the gross annual amount of agricultural produce, and thus throw back the true source of the national properity to a point from which it could only be recovered by a slow progress. We cannot have permanent prosperity without a flourishing agriculture. We cannot have a flourishing agriculture, unless our manufacturing population is advantageously em ployed, and enabled to consume and pay an adequate price for the produce of the land. We cannot have a permanent employment for our manufacturers, unless the condition of the agricultural population, on the other hand, is such as to afford a brisk and profitable home market for our manufactures. Th►e prosperity of these two divisions of the people depends upon the stimulus which they reciprocally afford to their respective industry. Either of them may for a time appear to flourish during the'depression of the other ; but the appearance is fallacious, the prosperity fleeting, and the subsequent depres sion must be in proportion to the injury inflicted upon the unprosperous class by the diminution of its capital. Their dependence is mutual. Their interests cannot be separated without injury to both. It is on this account that the extension and security of our foreign trade are of as much consequence to the agriculturist as to the manu facturer. The extension and security of the home market are however of the greatest import ance to them both. It is to be lamented that the stimulus to continued prosperity rests in a gnat degree on so fluctuating and uncertain a contin gency as the state of foreign markets. So long as there is a profitable' and increasing demand for our manufactures abroad, it is all very well. There is a continued stimulus tlitis applit d to our agriculture at home. But so soon al the foreign demand for our commodities has sen sibly declined, our agriculture necessarily be g ins to droop. This is the process inevitably entailed upon the country by the existing relations be tween its agriculture and its manufactures. It would certainly be possible to place the comfort of both classes, and the extension and security of the home markel, beyond the influence of fo reigners ; and that with great benefit to our foreign trade also. Under such circumstances, an increase to our foreign trade would always, as now, be attended by an increase to our pros perity ; but the decline, or even total loss, of our foreign trade would not be sufficient to reduce us to a state of adversity. The reciprocal de— pendence of the great branches of the national industry being clearly understood, and placed under proper arrangements, they might be made permanently to act as an advantageous stimulus to each other, altogether independent of foreign influence. We would advise those factioas spirits who are always repining at the present state of affairs, and directing their attacks unremittingly against the Government of this Country, to - reflect on the Law proposed in Portugal, and sanctioned by the Cortes, viz.—to punish as Traitors those who by discourse and conversation endeavour to dis turb the new order of things, and excite discon tent among the People. What would bnotne of our COBEETTS, our HUNTS, our WILSON'S, Our \VATSONS, WOOLERS, and the whole tribe of Reformers, if such a law were to be passed in this Country, and Government were to carry it into vigorous execution ? They ought to re joice that they are happily placed under our free Constitution,which affords them liberty of sp e ech and action, unless they infringe those laws which bind the Sovereign as well as the People, and guard the lowest individual in the land from op pression. If the law alluded to should be esta blished in Portugal, we see not bow the Cartes themselves can be exempted from its operation, for it mast prevent all freedom of debate; and any of their Members who may venture to oppose, o r even presume to discuss, the propriety of mea sures adopted or proposed by the ruling Party, may be punished as a Traitor. Similar Ordi nances may be expected in Spain, where the Sc. vereign at present appears to be in the leading strings of a predominant Faction, which threatens the total subversion of the Monarchy REMARKABLE Taw. Iti FRANCE.—On Friday M. RouAuLT, whose desperate attempt 1 0 assassinate Major -Gets. t ..aron DUJ EON IPS already been mentioned, was tried before the Court of Assize at Paris. The features o f this case were of peculiar and revolting atrocity. The Baron was allied to his meditated assassin by marriage ; he found him in obscurity, and ad vanced him to rank is the corps which he com manded. He was always lavish of his regard,. and sincere in his affection towards him, and zealously promoted his interests on every occa sion. But Rouault's perfidy and cowardice, at. length, compelled the Baron to renounce him. — Engaged in a duel, Rouault watched an oppor tunity, seized the sword of his antronist with the left hand, and ran him through 'with the right. The proofs of this were upon record. An other duel ensued, and again Rouault triumph ed through treachery. It was then only tha t . the General dismissed him from the service, as- 1 ; dishonour to his distinguished regiment; and this imperative punishment it was which excited • his' deadly revenge.—On his trial the wretched mur derer avowed his intention, and on being askPa' what he had to say in his defence, demanded' that he might be condemned to death, and not• to' hard labour for life. His Counsel, Ai..Chuai%• d'Estanges, addressed the Court in his behalf.- The Jury jury declared him Gui/ty, and he was sen tenced to death. The Judge announced: tha 6 three days were allowed to him to , appeal, /la left the bar witho u t th e s li g h test symptom of or fear.—The General was not .able. to' attend in Court : certificates of the still griev2ll.s - of his wounds were read. Letters were yesterday received from Jamaica, dated September 3rd., which mention, that by a sloop arrived from Chaf„Tre, information had beets obtained confirming the report of the defeat of General SAN MARTIN at Chorillos, in an act m l which, it was understood, took place in JaAiot consequently subsequent to the siguhig e( Armistice. Her Royal Highness Princess AV G us T A is n ot expected to arrive in Finghlod until the ensuing spring. It is said, that her Royal Highness in" tends passing the winter partly with the Prince° of . flcssE HolstnEaG, and partly with the Q l le° of WIRTEMBERG, at the Palace of Stutgard. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke a nd chess of CUMBERLAND, and fsrdly, are expecte d to arrive in England early in the spring, from the Continent. Ilis Royal Highness has, in his dil -1 TH itches to Colonel THORN TON, within the 12a week, requ e st e d th a t their apartments mitel t ee . e put in prope r or d er f or t h e i r reception 11' bruary next. Lord livnoN has not ret urne d t o England, a 5 reported. The last letter from him was dat e at Ravenna, but he was about to proceed t: Pisa. A new T rage d y , i t seems, may s oon b e expected from his Lerchhip's prolific Muse. The harvest k now over in all quarters of the island ; som e di s t r i cs h ave su ff ere d much' rbut r the produce, t:lien altogether, w ill pfove a t i " average crop. IRISH REVENUE. 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WE HEREBY GIVE YOU NOTICE, That in a Suit instituted in the High Court of Chan cery, wherein THOMAS DAVIS and OTHERS are Plain. tiffs, and HAMMOND FISK, and OTHERS, Defendants, the ORDER for an INJUNCTION obtained by the Plaintiff's Was THIS DAY DISCHARGED. Dated Oct. 23, 1821. WM. UNTITANK, THOMAS BIG NOLD, jun. Solicitors to the Office. ERRATA in Yesterday's Sux.—Article Foreign Intelligence, under the head of Vienna, for "Convoy," read " Courier ;" and under the head of Frontiers of Moldavia, for the Court of Russia " writes," read, the Court of Russia " insists." —.1.- PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Red. nigt Bank Long Ann. 19,i 9-I6ths 3 per Cent. Cons.... 78 78 78 India Bonds 73 s . N per Cent 87 Excheq. Bills, 4 .per Cent. 966 Cons. for November 7Bli 6 per Cent. Navy Ann. ...111i HIGH WATER AT LONDO: Morning, 20 minutes after I. IN BRIDGE TO-MORROW. I Evening, 41 ininutes after 1. THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICERE FALSUM AUDEAT? 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