The Sun. — London, England, 1821-11-17 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOUItNALS. DAILY EXTRACTS FROM TUE MORNING "PAPERS, November 17. [MORNING POST.] SURRENDER. OF LlMA.—This important Intel ligence, which announces the separation of ano ther vast empire from Spain, was brought yes terday in letters from Buenos Ayres to the sth of September last. The advices previously re ceived from that quarter had informed us that an armistice had been concluded between the In-. surgents and the 'RoyalistS, for the purpose of• Segociating a treaty, the basis of which should be the independence of Peru from the mother country. It now appears that some further steps had been taken- towards the conclusion of that treaty, and that the armistice had been ex panded into a truce for eighteen months. Depu ties, it is said, had also 'been appointed to re pair to Spain to adjust ' , the independence of the New Empire. Yet the blockade by sea and land seems to have been carried on with unabated rigour, which would induce a belief that the arrangement said to have been completed was merely in progress. Cut off from all supplies by the activity of Lord Cochrane at sea and the, vigilance of San Martin by land, and having nearly exhausted all their provisions, the majo rity of the inhabitants came to the resolution of giving General San Martin instant and uncondi tional admittance within their walls. If any opposition was made to that measure it was un successful, for the gate§ were immediately thrown open, and Lima and all Peru laid at the feet of the Patriots, without the firing of a single musket. .11 may be easily anticipated that since the sur render of this place, with all the troops which it contained, all its riches and all its matericl, the task of adjusting the indepeddence of Peru will. be settled on the spot, instead of being left to' the chances of a long and,distant nogociation in. Spain. Thus with Mexico on the one hand and Peru on the other, do the ancient 'Empires of the Ca ciques- and the Incas rise at once from their ashes, and resume that rank upon earth of which they have been deprived by the injustice, the 'treachery, and the barbarity of the Spaniards in their day of power. , The present advices state that Lord Cochranq had at length agreed to re store the two following - English vessels, the Lord Suffield and Edward Ellice, with their car goes : hut the Egham and Lord Cathcart, of London, were still detained by his Lordship at Valparaiso, ha',.ing been there since the 26th of [NEW TIMES.] 'TLS rumour of the capture of Lima, frequently so repeated, and so often contradicted, at length assumes an air of truth. Intelligence of that event was received by several mercantile houses in the City yesterday from Buenos Ayres, which intelligence reached that place by two distinct conveyances—by express overland, and by the Montezuma schooner,' both of which left Lima immediately after the entry of General San Mar tin and the Republican forces under his command. it appears that the armistice for eighteee❑ days, which had been agreed upon between the Viceroy of Lima and San Martin, had not expired ; but the Authorities finding the: inhabitants in such severe distress from the want of provisions, deter mined on surrendering the, town ; and as a pre paratory step appointed five Deputies, in whom authority was vested to proceed to Spain, in order to adjust some measures for the future regulation of the place ; in this step, however, they were vigorously opposed by a small band of Spaniards, who were determined that . the town should not yield to the Patriots,unless compelled by force. This determination, in spite of intreaties and threats, they resolutely maintained; and finding that San Marti❑ was advancing, they planted themselves at the outer gates of the city, and for some time successfully op posed his entrance. The conflict which took place, and which is represented as having been carried on with great vigour on both sides, was not of long duration ; and it is a mat ter of some surprise, as well as regret, that the accounts do not furnish any particulars of the numbers of persons who have been killed and wounded, but merely give the general' account we have mentioned. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] Is it not singular that the finest part of North America (which Upper Canada is by all ac counts), where abundance of fertile land can be obtained for the mere fees of office, should require protection from American corn ? The Americans have a variety of local and Go vernment taxes to pay, land sells at a con siderable • price in all the States adjoining the Canadas, which, compared with it, con tain a dense population.--One would think that, instead of the Canadians dreading im portation from the United States, that the United States would be dreading importation from Ca nada. There is a mystery in:all this, but the subject must no longer be allowed to be involved in mystery. The fact is, that the distresses of the Canadians, their inability to compete with the Americans, is altogether occasioned by the abuses of every kind of which these provinces have so long been the theatre. Jobbing of every kind has been practised there, to an extent hardly credible. The industry of the people is fettered and paralysed. They cannot move under the incubus of misrule which presses on them. Lord Bathurst and Mr. Goulburn know little about the Canadas„ and probably do not wish to know more. At all events, ignorance is the best excuse for some of the recent arrange ments in which the latter has been concerned.— What they are no doubt most anxious about is the disposal of the patronage the Colonies give them, which they probably think is valuable in proportion to the extent of uncontrouled power reposed in , the hands of their office bearers. To deprive then 'office hearers of any part of that influence though it might contribute most essentially to the welfare of the people, is not to be expected from them. All this might go on long enough, and Canada might conti nue to languish under her system of misrule; while the neighbouring provinces of the United States were advancing rapidly in industry and improvement, but for the expence occa sioned to this country, which will force on an in vestigation. While we are casting about for objects of economy in all directions, and even subjecting the clerks of the Government offices to the harshest reductions, the unnecessary addi tion to our burdens, occasioned by the misgo vernment of the Colonies, must draw the atten tion of Parliament and the Country. [MORNING HERALD.] It is to be hoped that the sentence passed on Tuesday, in the Court of King's Bench, will put an end to the profligate dealing in blasphemy, which has been so long carried on in Fleet-street, under the notorious name of Carlile. The career of this wretched man and his family has been at once disgusting and deplorable. lie -embarked in the circulation of impious pamphlets, which were branded with infamy already, by opinion as well as law ; and made some momentary profit of his scandalous speculation, before the salu tary and humane delays of the law allowed its being put effectually in force. The time, how ever, came when he was consigned to want and to a prison. The laws of the country had proved themselves too strong for him. But his thirst of infamous gain was stimulated, and with an utter disregard of conscience, humanity, and natural affection, he chose for his instruments and his victims the members of his own family—his wife and his sister, with some ,of those youthful out casts of society (always found in a large city), whose hardihood, inexperience, or destitution, rendered them fit for his purpose. What can be more disgusting thafi to see a man thus knowingly fling his victims in the way of being inevitably crushed by the engine of the law, which, once in motion, - could not with out compromising the interests of society be ar rested in its course. It is difficult to strip of all compassion the situation of the unhappy woman who was brought up for judgment on Wednesday. It was a situation, however, repellent to all sym pathy. It would be painful to dwell upon it. It is to be hoped the long captivity to which she is probably consigned will wake_in her mind the sentiment of penitence and shame. DRITISII PRESS.] An application of a very singular nature was made yesterday to the Court of Chancery, and which, if it could be successfully established as a principle, would lead the way to the most cer tain means of affording relief to the farmers throughout the country. A petition was pre sented to the Lord Chancellor by two persons of the name of Hudson, who hold a farm in the county of Essex under the Coopers' Company, praying that it should be referred to th. Master to inquire and report whether the rent they now pay to the Company ought not to be reduced. The farm was let some few years ago by the Coopers' Company, as trustees of a charity, at which time the lessees were supposed to have acquired a very - beneficial interest in the land. .The produce of 'the farm then sold at a good remunerating price, but the profits of agriculture had since that time suffered throughout the empire a very serious dimi nution, and the farm in Essex was Unfortunately not exempted from the general evil.. The peti tioners had in consequence of this sustained a very considerable injury, having lost in the year 182.0 alone not less than 10001. We dare say that this particular case differs in a very minute degree 'from that of the great majority 'of fa'rmers in the United King dom, but this, we believe, is the only instance of such an application as the - present to the Court of Equity for special relief. The Court of Chancery, we presume, has jurisdiction in the present case, as the farm forms part of a property that belongs to a certain charity in Essex, and charities are especially placed under the protection and care of that Court ; but at the same time we cannot see why a claim of this na ture should be sanctioned in a case of a charity which might not be admitted' in the case of every other property in the- empire.— The Lord Chancellor remarked, that he had taken land some time since, where he had some sheep, and he asked whether he should now, be entitled to a reduction in his rent, be cause mutton, which when he took his land sold at d. a pound, was now selling, in some places, at 31 . --d ? This is one of those subjects upon which, as Sir Roger de Coverley saysi a great deal might be said upon both sides. [THE TIMES.] A curious case, illustrative of the distress of the agricultural interest, came on yesterday be fore the Lord Chancellor. It was an application made by two tenants of the Coopers' Company, to have their rent lowered on account of the reduced value of the produce of their farm.— The Lord Chancellor strongly discountenanced the application, observing, with some severity, that in time of high prices he had never heard of farmers giving their landlords more than their stipulated rents. His Lordship, however, re ferred the petitioners, on payment of costs, to the Master for inquiry, whether any, and what, reduction of rent might be made for the current year. Every body must feel the propriety of the Court's discouraging a species of application, the tendency of which would be to invalidate all lease hold securities, and which would therefore be as in jurious to the tenant as to the landlord. A bargain is made for better for worse; and endless uncer tainty and distrust must ensue, if it could once be imagined that a solemn legal contract could be rescinded for the benefit o either party without the consent of the other. Before we dismiss this subject, we may remark, with respect to the re duced price of provisions, that several Corres. pondents have requested us to notice the great difference in prices at the east and west end of the town. While almost every necessary of life has fallen a third in the former division of the Metropolis, in the latter scarcely any alter ation has been felt. This has been ascribed, and we have no doubt justly, to the higher classes, through indolence, delegating their household affairs to servants, who find it more advantageous DIED• At Brighton, on Wednesday night, Mary, the wife of Ed ward Shewell, , Esq. of Stockwell-common, Surrey. On Thursday last, after a short illness, Mrs. Vincent Sells, of Bankside, Southwark, aged 24. On Tuesday last, at the house of W. M. Pitt, Esq. in Dover street, Isabella Mary, wife of the Rev. G. A. Seymer, Rector of Shroton, in the County of Dorset,. and only d aug l i t er o f the late J. Bastard, Esq. of Blandfor d, in the same county. On Thursday, the Bth hist. , a t Reigate, itobert Salisbury Cotton, Esq., in the 74th vear of his age. At Caen, in Normandy, on the 10th inst. Ralph Skimmer Gowland, Esq., formerly of the county of eurhafi. On Thursday the Bth inst., in his 7 . oth year, Thomas Pres ton, Esq., of Green Royd, near Halifax, one of his Majesty's Deputy Lieutenants for the West Riding of the county of Yoik. THE COLONIES. CANADA. ' ' (nom the Quebec Gazettes to the 9th of Ott.) QUEBEC, SEPT.. 27.—:The latest accounts from ..the West Indies leave very little iionlit of the entire subversion of the au , thority of Spain 'hilt - he ! Vied-Royalty of Mexico. Vera Cruz still held out, tut iVith-little - proSpect of final success. The pe riod of the final sePaiit ions of the Whole of the Spanish Colonie s ' in America from the Mother COuntrY, cannot now be far dis-• twit. Whether they have 'bettered their condition, is another quation. If factious leaders,:acting on the ignorance and the prejudice's of the.cliaratt. raceOf people who inhabit Tthese countries, continue to succeed,imexciting intestine broils, as seems to be the case in the Provinces on the Plata, they will have made but - a sorry exchange.!.:! Their liberty'cannot their independence will be nominal. For lahour, industry and the arts, which are the chief sources of public prosperity and in. dividual enjoyment, and which cannot exist without internal pence ansl security of property, will be substituted rapine and murder, and every vice destructive of society. The season here still •continues uncommonly wet. There have not been more than two dry days in succession, since the 29th August last; but as the temperature has been cold, the injury to the harvest, which is nearly completed, has not been very material: • SOMETHING. NEW IN CANADA.—The following Advertise ment is copied from the Montreal Herald of Tuesday last :-,- " NOTICE.= (Bank of Upper Canada, Sept. • Li, 1821.) — The President and Directors of the Bank of Upper Canada, boxing Observed .(widrgreat concern) for several months past, au endeavour on the,part of the. Bank of Canada to injure its credit'and cripple its operations, by using means highly unjusti liable el d, as ,they are advised, illegal, to 'collect their tills by means of numerous - agents established in every part on the Upper PrOvince ' for the purpose of producing a run of the said Bank or Upper Canada, deem it expedient (in order to prevent any false impression) to give this!publia notice, that they will not hereafter reaem any of the Bills so collected and presented by the said Bank or its Agents—Until compelled by the judg ment of his Majesty's Courts of Justice. In coming to this re solution, the President ,and Directors have been entirely go verned •by a sense of justice towards those individuals who re pose confidence in the Bank of Upper Canada, and who may desire to have Bills redeemed that they have obtained by those lionotirable means best described as being opposite to'those pur sued by'the Bank of Canada." "By order of the Directors, . . • • - • '"S. BARTLET, Cashier. The Criminal Term of his Majesty's Court of King's Bench opened on Friday last. Several convictions have. been had ; among others, that of John Malkahey, for the murder of Moses 11.I 4 Allister, at St. Michel Telegraph Station, on the 2d of July. He was sentenced to be executed on Wednesday, but has been reprieved till Friday the sth of October. The Calen dar is stated to be uncommonly full. PRICE OF PROVISIONS SOLD IN THE MARKETS OF QUE . '26, IS2I, BEC K 8E1 ) 1 s. d. s. d Beef per lb in the Butcher's Stalls 0 4 a 0 5 Mutton, ditto 0 5 a 0 6 Veal, ditto 0 6 a 0 Beef per lb in the markets - 0 3ia 0 4 Pork, ditto 0 4 a 0 5 Mutton, pr. qr. 16 a 40 Fowls, pr. couple 0 0 a 2 6 Chickens, ditto 0 0 a 0 0 Partridges, 1 6 a 2 6 s. d. s. d Ducks 2 0 a 2 6 Turkeys, 5 0 a 6 0 Tallow, lb. •ft 9 a 0 0 Fresh Butter • 13a 2 0 Salt Butter 010 a 1 0 Pease, minot, 4 0 a 5 0 Eggs, per doz. 00a WO Maple Sugar 0 0 a 10 0 Potatoes, minot 20-a 2 6 Flour, Cwt. 10 0 a '0 0 Wood per Cord 010 a 0 0 QUEBEC. VED. ,tó 'connive with the diskonesi tradesman than to 'serve with fidelity a careless master. It is the 'dut:y,. however, of the higher classes to exert 'themselves for the sake Of their poorer country men, who are suffering to.pamper the fraudnlknt trader and the faithless menial. I3ILLINGGATE-DOCK - . • Yesterday the owners of a salt vessel, called 'the George, attended before the LORD MAYOR, to prefer a complaint under the following.circurn stances against the officers wto superintend Bil lingsgate-dock : • It appeared from the statement of the parties, that the com plainants were salt merchants, and that salt vessels have been Accustomed for many years to land salt at Billingsgate-dock, where fishing boats have alsO taken their station. Very great con tests have of late taken place-between the salt-men and the fisher_ men for the right of precedence in landing their goods; but the fishermen, whose numbers exceed those of the salt-men, were . ! generally successful, and the victorious party exercised very ! little magnanimity towards the vanquished. The saltmen have in consequence been obliged to land their carooes at neighbour ing wharfs, much to their inconvenience, and at a very great expence. The proprietors of the vessel in question applied to the Lord Mayor for his protection against this system. They laid claim to right of landing 'salt at Billingsgate upon Idng esta blished precedents, and hoped that his Lordship would order the officers to enforce their right of admission at the !dock. It was complained, - that - when the Captain of the George endea voured to gain admission, the master of the fishing-boat Cat his ropes and set him adrift twice. The vessel was twice.in great danger ; had been obliged to lie out in the stream for four . ,lays, and at every tide fishing-boats crowded in and filled up the docks. The complainants were thus kept constantly at the expence of demurrage, and At length obliged to land their cargoes under other heavy expences. The LORD MAYOR said the case was one of difficulty, as the fishing-boats had an equal right to land'their cargoes, and when. they were in the docks, it did not appear that they were obliged; to leave them to make way for the salt vessels, until they should deliver their cargoes. • The proprietors said, that unless some effbetuaL•Fegulations as to the turn were put in force, the right of the strongest would` be the only right recognized _The officer who has • the superintendence of. the Pocks, .said that was the only law recognized at Billingsgate,.where those who landed goods had not hesitated to pull up piles which had been fixed by order of the CdiporfitiOo: for the regulation of the market, as often as they were driven down, merely because -they interfered With the convenience of the fishermen. The Loup SiAYOR requested to see the act on which the complainants founded their right. They were not• prepared with it, and after some furtheidiscussion, it was agreed to ad journ the case to another day, when his Lordship would - lay down some regulations on the subject.- CAUTION TO COAL MERCHANTS.—SeveraI in formers from London are on an excursion into the country, levying contributions on coal dealers, by infOrmations against such as do not send out perfect bushel measures with their coals, in com pliance with the Act of Parliament.—(Bath Herald.) EDINBURGH WHIGS.—The Glasgow Sentinel lately stated that AITON, who made a con spicuous figure at the Whig Meeting in the Pan theon in Edinburgh, had determined to raise an action against the Proprietors of the Scotsman for a libel, in the account which they gave of that day's proceedings. Accordingly, he sent, through his'agent (we quote the Sentinel) " a note and a fee to Mr. JEFFREY, Mr. CRANSTOUN, Mr. COCK BURN, Mr.-MONCRILFF, and Mr. MURRAY, re taining them as Counsel • for the prosecution.— The whole of these eminent " Whig Lawyers," however, '(Mr. CRANSTOUN, much to his honour, excepted) returned their fees, with an answer, that they always considered themselves retained as Counsel for the Scotsman! As this happened be fore it was possible that the conductors of the Scotsman could have known of the action, the answer could only mean, that these.. " IVhig Lawyers" had a general retaining fee to stand in defence of that Paper !"-(Glasgow he r ald.) Yesterday, at a Petty Sessions held at the Public Office, Palace-yard, the Ma , istrates com mitted John Mayo, of the parish of Tibberton, servant to. Mr. John Price, of the same place, farmer, to hard labour in the County_Gaol for the space of a fortnight, for running away from the service of his said master, and -endeavouring to traduce his character .by false and malicious expressions.—(Trorcester Journal, Nov. 15.) COAL-MARKET, Nov. iii. Ships at Market. Ships sold Price. 31)NeAreastle - - 21 -36 s 6d to 47s Gd -3i Sunderland - . - 2 -43 s Gd to Os Od COURSE OF EXCHANGE, Nuveml)er 16. Amsterdam Ditto, at Sight l2 11 Rotterdam l2 15 Antwerp l2 7 flaniburgh 37 9 2 Us Altopa • Para, 3 Day's sight 2.c GO 0 Us. Ditto Bourdeaux, ditto Frank forton the pain Madrid Cadiz 86 Ettec!ive Bilbua Barcelona Seville Gibraltar Leghorn CieLua • ..... .... 434-Venice, Ital. Lie 27 (0 Malta 45 -Naples S9A Palermo Lisbon Oporto Elio Janeiro Dublin .... 81 Corti 9 per Cent. BULLION. Portugal Gold, in Coin I .0 (1 0 per Oz Foreign Gold, in Bars 3 17 10% New Doubloons New Dollars o 4 9, 1 1 Silver in Bars, Standard 0 4 11 BIRTHS. On the 12th inst., at Edinburgh, the Lady of Major James Harvey, of Castlesemple, of a daughter. On the 14th inst., Mrs. J. A. Twining, of a son. • On the Bth inst., at the seat of the Earl of Farnham, the Lady of James Saunderson, Esq., R. N., of a daughter. - MARRIED. On the 15th inst., at St. Pancras. Church, Lieut.-Colonel A. Hogg, of the Hon. East India Company's service, to Agnes, daughter of Wm. Dinwiddie, Esq: of Burton-crescent. On the 15th inst. at the New Church, St.Mary-le-bone, the Rev. George Ernest Howman, of Shiplake, Oxfordshire, to Jane Sarah Wightwick, eldest daughter of the late John Wight wick Knightley, Esq. of Offchurch 'Bury, in the County of Warwick. PORT OF Altlt 12 days from Miramichi, to Pat: assengers, Mr. Strect, ,nd 4 children, 2tliss Brown and 23d Sept. Chatham, Wilson, terson and Wier, sugar—p: ton, Mrs. Raimesbottiam Miss 14 4 Gregor, 2 settlers. —24 Bark John Howard, Smith, sailed 15th August from Lon don, to Campbell and Sheppard, ballast-100 settlers from 'Anticosti, being part of the wreck of the Brig Earl of Dal housie.' 40 remain on the Island. —Ship Jlannalt, Webber, sailed 13th August from London to P. Patterson and Co. ballast. —Brig Hoye, Goldsworthy, sailed 13th „August from Liver, pool, to Ireine and Co. coals, salt and rum. . —25 Brig Elizabeth, John, Thompson, 19th Aug. from Liver pool, to It. Hamilton and Co. salt—brought 4 of the crew of the Earl of Dalhocsie from Father Point. —26 .Brig William, J. Stewart, 4tii August, from Newcastle, to Froste and POrtcr, coals. —27 Brig Fame; James - Bridge, Ist August, from Thmerara, rum, sugar, molasses and coffee , —passengers, Mr. John son, N:r.White, find a boy. • Below—One brig at l'lslet, not boarded. , DEATIIS.-At St. Thomas', on . Wednesday, the 19th inst. JOhn Bapt. Duberger, Esq. upWards of 25 years principal Draftsman and,Surveyor, attached to the, R. Engineer Depart ment, and latetinthe half-pay of Officers of the first class of that Corps.—On Friday, after a lingering iliucss, Mr. Win. Cowan, jun. of this City. FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE. . . [From the Kingston Upper Canada Chronicle, Sept. 7.1 BANK ROBBERY.--A man named Milligan, a clerk in the Phoenix Bank in New 'York, lately absconded from that city with' 24,00 Q :dollars belonging to that Institution. Two thou samtdollars reward have been offered fox his apprehension, and it is conjectured that he is endeavouring to make his escape into Canada. A question has arisen in New York Whether it is legal or not. to pursue fugitive felons into the British domi- Mons, and there to arrest them for trial and punishment in the United States. We make a quotation of some remarks on this subject by the'Editor of the New York Evening Post, from which it appears that in the opinion of the highest legal autho rity in New York,such pursuit and apprehension are legal, The question, we believe, has never been stirred here, though we should be glad to see the opinion of Chancellor Kent supported by that of our own legal authorities. Canada is the' place of refuge for many of the malefactors in the neighbouring States, and certainly they are a description of 'emigrants whom of all others we are the least desirous of seeing encouragecL On a case brought before Chancellor Kent he laid down the following principles : First. " It is the law and usage of nations, to deliver up of fenders charged with felony, ann other high crimes, who have fled from the country in which the crimes were committee?, into a foreign and friendly jurisdiction. Secondly. " It is the duty of the civil magistrate to commit such fugitive for justice, to the end that a reasonable time may be afibrded for the government here to deliver him up, or for the foreign government to make application to the pro per authorities here for his surrender. if no application is made in a reasonable time, the 'prisoner will be entitled to his discharge. Thirdly. " The evidence to detain - such fugitive from justice, for the purpose of surrendering him to his .government, must' be such as would be sufficient to commit the party for trial, if the crime, had been perpetrated here. • Fourthly. " The 27th article of the Treaty of 179;1, between the United States and Great Britain, was merely : declaratorY of the law of nations on this subject; and since the expiration of that Treaty, the principles of the law of nations remain 'obliga tory on the two nations. . Fifthly. " The Chancelleir or a Judge in vacation has juris diction to examine a prisoner before him on Habeas Corpus, and'who has been taken, in custody on a charge of felimiy com mitted in Canada, or a foreign state, from which he had fled ; and if sufficient evidence appears against him to reMaud him, or if there is not sufficient proof to justify his detention, to *discharge _ _ " His honour the Chancellor quoted Vattel's Law of Na tiOns, Marten's Summary of the Law of Nations, Grodus, and Burlemnqui. He also referred to the common law of England, and adduced a chain of decisions, to spew, that the Law of Na tions was a part of the Common Law, and of course that the doctrines here laid down 'Were British doctrines, and would be recognized by the Courts of England. " Whether an arrest has ever been made in the British pro vinces, and the questions raised in 's case have ever been brought up and investigated, we cannot say ; we are inclined to believe that they have never been agitated beyond the laws. But surely if the law of nations be a part of the, common law, as we know it is, and if the comnion law of England is the common law of the British provinces, we cannot see why the .principles, so clearly and judiciouSly expounded and enforced by Chancellor Kent, should not be recognized and cherished in the colonial tribunals of the Canadas. It is for the interest, the peace, and the safety of all nations, that the grasp of the law extends to crime wherever it is perpetrated; it is for the ' happiness of all countries that fugitives front justice, who have become outlaws from the great moral community of mankind, should find no-asylum nor resting place within the pale of Crei - . lization. , By the community of nations public offenders have never been shielded. Public policy,..as well as the dictates of justice, have resulted in the practice of aiding the policy of all nations to secure and vuntsh felons and fugitives, according to the lex loci of the land where peace and property were invaded. Those who flee from the Canadas will find no refuge here ; will the civil tribunals of the Canadas, then, deny this doctri2e, and protect those Aandon the tnitect Statcs, to esc a Our State. Prisons ? We think not. We. know th'atfugiti , ;cS been seized in Car.ada and brought to the United Stafes, an 4 we also know that no power there has intem.red to arrest tl - 1 course of punishment. We therefore . say, that if the maxi who has robbed the Phaenix. Bank takes up Ins abode in any part of the Canadas, it would be legal to pursue, arrest, - and . bring him hick to atone to the institution which he has defraud ed, and the community that .he has injured, in that manner which the laws.demand." All nations are interested in putting down crimes which in their nature are hostile to the existence and welfare of civilized society.- Those who commit them are common enemies to - all mankind, and ought no where to be shielded from the punish lnent provided bythe laws which they have violated. It has -bead the disgrace Of Canada and the United States, that they have mutually become . the receptacles of the runaways from justice from each other. Such evidence of the commission of the crime by the person accused as would be sufficientin either country, to authorize an arrest in. the ordinary. course of law, ought to justify his being arrested in the country into which he may have escaped, and being delivered hp to the ordinary officers of justice in the country where he may have committed the crime, there to take his trial. Political offences; or those which in - their nature partake, more of an offenceagainst a particular society than against sO.i ciety in' general, ought not, however, to be included, and we believe they never have been included, among the offences for. which persons escaping from one country, into another have been delivered up; excepting' where coalesced tyrants, or their weak neighbours, have done so from:motives of common feel- , ing and interest or weakness. The most unhappyperiod for mankind was under the Roman Emperors, when the destined victims of the reigning tyranny could dad no asylum in any part of the then, known world. ST, Louis, AUG. 15,---(OBITUARY.)—Died in this place, on yesteiday, after a Ion , : and painful illness, the Pank of Mis-, souri.She had been for some years afflicted with pulmonary complaints ; but it is supposed her death was very much accele rated in consequence of having swallowed a very large piece of Silver Coin, . and tier which her physic had prescribed art . Emetic-L-and unfortunately administered Spirits of Wine, in stead of Antirnonial Wine; which entirely decomposed the - metal, and caused it to remain in the stomach ; producing lent spasms. The good doctor, not conscious or cis error, and supposing the spasms were prouct..d alone by the metal, admi nstered' on Monday last a Cathartic; bur the pill was so large and powerful in its effects, that the old lady's frame sunk under the operation, and she died the next morning, (yesterday,) to the great; consternation of the Doctor, to whom the silver be longed, which he was so anxious to make the old lady disgorge, and which he now fears is irrecoverably gone. As, a last effort, however, it is said he intends to (men the body. The last mo ments of the old lady were very much embittered from a vs. tiety of causes which shall be hereafter communicated. MONTREAL, SEPT. 22.—Pierre Du Charm, who was con demned to the gallows to be executed on the 21st June last, but who was afterwards pardoned through the clemency of his Excellency, with orders to leave the province, was on Thursday last committed to gaol, on a warrant from Thos - Johnson, Esq., for having stolen (since his pardon) from the farmers in Burtor , 'vile, 28 sheep. 'Provincial Secretary's Office, Quebec, Sept. 24, 1821, His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief has been pleased-to make the following appoinments, viz.:— t..lintt(4 Hatt, Esq. Commissioner for the-summary Trial of certain small causes in the 'parish of St. Joseph de Chambly, in the county of Kent, in the district of Montreal. Barthelemi !Weber, Esq. do. do. in the parish of St. Roch, an the county of Leinster, in do. do. Edouard Faribault and Alexandre Mabhutt, Esqrs. do. do. in the: parish of St. Pierre du Pottage de PAssomption do. do. Jean . Dessaules, Amable Archambault, and Louis Picard, Esqm - do. do. in the parish of St. Hyacinthe, in the county of Richelieu, do. do. The Hon. James Cuthbert,-Esq. and Joseph Douuire Bondy, Esq. do. do. in the parish of Berthier, in the county of War wick, in do, do. • Olivier Tremblay, Esq. do. do. - in the parish of Contreewui . , in the county of Surrey, in (”9. do, Jean Baptiste Constantin, and Rene St. James, Escirs. do do. in the Parish of Saint Vincent de Paul, in the County 4. Effil4faria, in do. do. Franvois St. Onge do. do. in the pariSh of St. Ours, in Ile county of Richelieu, in do. do. Charles Kilborn, and &lair Pommy, Esqrs. do: do. in ti.e township of Stanstead, in do. do. Kenehn C. Chancier, Esq. do. do. in the parish of Nicolet, in the County of BuCkingharnshire; in .the District of Truce Rivers. Henry Cull, Charles Whitcher, and Moses Nichols, do. do in the township of Batley and Ascot, in do. do. John Fletcher and Jean Thomas Tasehereau, Esqrs. t o bu jointly and severally Chairmen of the Quarter Sessions of affil for the District of Quebec, by Commission dated the Gth June, 1821. PRICES CURRENT 01' SEPTEMBER 24TH. .ASHES, Ist sort Pearl, .. -3.5 s per cwt.- Do. Ist sort Pot, - -20 s per do. BEEF, - - - -47 s per barrel- Po ILK, .. - £3 2sfid.per ' d 9. IfLotin, Superfine, - 1 Ostia' do. Do. tine, - -20 s per do. • DRIED COD FISIIi lOs a listid per cwt. - SALMON, - - £3 lOs a£3 15s per tierce. ' OAK, - - - li a ls2d per foot. RED PINE, - . Gcl. a 7.--d per ao. . , WHITE do. ' - -21 d a3d per do. - STAVES PIPE, 5i feet by 1 . .-, in. £32 a ..i.:35 per 1200 pcs. Do. PUNS. 3:1 feet by , 4- inch 17 lOs a .. 4 .73 ler do. DEALS, 12 feet 11 by 2i inches. £6 'a £7 per 101 . 0 1'c' 0 ovE RN ME N T BILLS, 30 days sight,—not drawing. ' - -MERCHANT'S' BILLS, 60 days sight, 7 a './, p. c. premium. ---o- • MONTREAL, SEPT. 29.—A report is in circulation whiff? reached this place from New-York yesterday, that the King; had been assassinated in Ireland : but as the subject is too ho portant for trifling, we cannot credit it, until we have proof Po - sitive of its correctness. SINGULAR.—There are now on a farm in La Chine, sonic young apple trees from which a crop of apples was gathero l about four weeks since ; which are at present in full blassora, and beginning to exhibit young apples the same as early in the spring. Statement of imports from Upper Conada.and the Unirct i States, by Coteau du Lee, from the 11th of September to •28th ditto, 1821 inclusive ; 11 boats with 985 barrels flour..: 68 do. ashes ; 137 do. Pork ; 98 bushels wheat; 48 do. beans' 6( Packs furs. Last Monday evening, as one Mr. LcMarch, of St. Leonard, was returning thither from this city, his cart came in contact with the gig of one Baptiste LeTremonilie;_ he was pitchta out, and his head sustained such injury that he died in a quarter of an hour. Last Thursday, about thirty Indians from Canglinawagr, ,, headed by their chiefs, and dressed (e: rather undresst:Z) ir, their war fashion, paid a visit to this city, and danced in front of tla aovernment house, the North-west Stores, and other esta blishments with which they are connected. They were wen. made, active young men, and decorated with a superfluity or silver ornaments, but do not appeer by any means so strung as the labouring class of our population. Last Wednesday night,; we learn two pay scrjeants of the , • COth Re t. deserted, with about £39 in cash belonging to their companies, and leaving debts - to the same amount; and took it direction towards the United States. In the morning, th , LY flight being discovered, four Officers of the regiment vc,nt %i t pursuit of them ; but the fugitives bad accomplished their cape into the neighbouring territory. QUEEC, :OCT. 4.—The lease of the King's Posts O r twenty xears from. October, 11122, was on Tuesday Lts t t conformably to the advertisenit,nt of the 25th June;to Cieudie of this City, for £l2OO per annum.. The last lease vial held by the North-West Comp:i.ny, which is now united with the Hudson's Bay Company. l'he Country, the exclusive trade of which is granted by the leaaa, extends from the Saguenay about forty leagues downwards, on the northern bank of S t. Lawrence, and back to the height of land forming the son's Bay boundary, in all enough to form a large kingdow The lease we believe is the oqy remaining vestige. of the:w°, nopoly in which the French hang once held the trade of ti" i Colony. Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman resident in the Distri ct of GasiA, to a friend at Quebec, dated 24th Aug. 11121. - o f " We have been Visited by two of his Majesty's sloops war, the Carnation, Capt. Ha/1, and *lased:, Car. Napier 7- -; The latter is yet on this station. They are, in the Gitipb f c r ; the purpose of preventing the Americans from encroaching our k'isheriel, but their interference tinder the existing treat., useless. The American Fishermen do not wish to come wit'a` three miles of the shore, and their right to fish at that distati c . c f is unquestionable. Our l'.'isherit.s z.J..e diminishing iast, ttr , 4 the treaty with the Americans remains (in that partieuhai , it now is, a few yearif will pet an end to it. Toe AinerunD, mist be kept out of the Gulph, or Canada loses its Cotitisliol' and the latter will, I. fear, be the result." [To be ,cori:inued.] Printed and Publi&hed, for the PnorßiuTc,tts tie OFFICE, 112; 6trar.d, by J. 3. C.A.I2.4I:ArI'J•