The Sun. — London, England, 1814-09-24 00:00:00

GIBRALTAR AND MALL',. By the way f France were received yesterday,, letters from Gibraltar to the 2d inst. and the fol lowing is an extract from one of them : "GIBRALTAR, SEPT. am very sorry to inform you, that the disorder here, instead of being removed, as the ?üblie accounts state, has re-appeared 'undei , very uitpleasant eir lintriStaitees: Not the least doubt of the esistirice of the in,i lignaOt fe‘ver being: entertained, all the usual Precantiou Ivhieli had been abandoned are again resorted to, to lessen as much as. pos , ihle the ditiusion of the malady. It is some 'consolation, that the contagious effect will be very much the previoas,alarm, which oceasiOu , 4 the departure • of almost all those who had not before been visited with this disease. . . . „ " As it affects trading intercourse, you inay, : assunie that . busineis.will be Suspended for two months , at 14a . .st, and per haps the 'sates proceeding will be to.consider the whole sear as,lost to commercial adventure." • We have 'aNri a statement 'of the 'progre'ss of 'the ditlorder froll the Medical Reports, which was as follows : •' On • the'2Bth' - Aua r , five or six new - cases Were discovered. On the 29th and 30th there were tour deaths, anksi.x.or s6vcn new cases. `On the.3lst, ore death, and thtee new cases. The statement of the condition of the malady on the Ist had not been published. - • Tbrougb the same channel, there arc advices from Malta to the 21st ult. when thepexfizt_health of the Island is acknowledged, and of the little neighbouring dependencies: .The GOverninent• of General MAITtAt4D is highly npprowd, and the merchants from . Italy and Greece were again rc 'sorting to to supl4y from .the depOt their several markets. AMERICA. HERISINER, • AUG. .I.—We learn, by the West ern Mail of this evening, and also by an Officer direct froin,General I.lroivii's army, that the situa tion of the remnant of our forces at Erie is .gloolny indeed. • :The army is so ifttith. reduced; owlifg to the,innuense slaughter in the late battles, and-to the small detachments sent cif -as escorts to the wounded, and as guards•:over the prisoners, that the.Maiu.• body, now cote handed by General Ripley, does not exceed one: thonsand men.— 'When the Officer lett Fort Erie" General Ripley bad _just :received a summons from the British Cotrimaridcr to — surrerrder - , - - - anti ban tont - two. hours time given him to consider it. • The following article was publishetljji a SeCond :Editinn of The Plymouth Chroniele of Tuesday last : "Hie Majesty's Ship Dispatch, Halifax. Aug. 25. "Dispatches have just arrived. Sir A: Cochrane has sUr prised and. taken Baltimore !—Lots of vessels !—An expetli; tiCiti.emlykerl to . -day—Sir Shcrbroke gucs, and Ad-niiral Griffiths, Giid knows where !—'tis not knbxvn, but supposed to be 'New London.—Jonathan mnst tiowb4rin - fdlook sharp ebont him; he will have enough to do. By American Papers w•e see that Stonington is completely rained ! !". ,•"-"7".""!"-‘` • . AuntyEn—l Lisbon, 1 Surinam, 1 DulAin, • . 2Waterford. LkvE-1 France, I Lisbon, 3 c4crA . enburgb, 1 Holland. PrtICE 01 114'; spm 1 4 1 . v ' "STOCitS - 'gr.v F. o'ebocK, ~India Stock, • India Wilds, 7s. pr. Ekelieq.l3ills; 3.. dis. par' On 5 6 dis. Consols for Account, 631 taTtk Stock, Shut R per Cent. lieu. shut 3 per Cent. qous. fi3 f; 4 per Cept. cons. shut 5 trer Ct. Navy Ann: 944 a 54 Dauk L. Ana. shut , . E. EY:Toy, and Stodi,Brolier, N. `E,.2, .COrillaitc No: IS, Coventry-street. T-H WATER AT .LONDON MOGI; TO-MORROW. Morning, 51 minutes after 10. I Evening, IC minutes after it. THE S TiO SOT,EM QUIS nICERE FA LSUNI A 11,1nAT LONDON, s_4ruitm4y*, SEPTI:IIIBER, 4 24, 1814. AMEIUCAN PAPERS OF BiroRTANCE. We. lament to say, that the'follbwing has just reached us front the:City. We 11:1ve,no idea what degree of credit • is due to•it, but the bare report is painful and distressing : " the Jenny, MY RES, arrived at Dart Mouth, in 23 days from Rhode, Island, American Papers to the 28th ult. have been received. They . con tain the unpleasant intelligence that, an attack was• made on Fort Erie on the 15th 'August, at 2 • • o'clock' in the-morning, which failed of success, and the. British wereeompelled to retire with the' loss of 600 men, killed, wounded, and prisoners: ." Col. DanwmoNo,.,,a relation'of the General's, is among the killed; These Papers also state, that Commodore CHAUNCEY was left blockading the British squadron on the Lakes. " The sante Papers admit that Adm. COCHRANE the Chesapeake, with 46 sail, consisti?lg 0 - men of war, transports, &c. ; and that he had eirected a landing with 4000 men,, with the In tentium of going against Washington. At•tlfe . same time they hold out that the Atherican Go- vernment had collected a force of 7000 - men to % meet theni. The above the most important part of those Papers.". . • • It is to 'be observed, that the above 'is Anieri / eah, a n d 6 rAsecluen!lY• of the most doubtful The dates are, however, .accordant with nature. preceding facts, and as we know r6 , tiforcements join to , t{ie`'Enemy were h istcningat Erie, it is not unlikely that a battle might be. fought 'aabout.tbe•middle of .August. _ • arliamnt s e we hear, will meet for the f business on tlie - lOtli of November; a Proclama tion for die parpose will be proposed, and nb doubt agreed up'un, by the PRINCE REGENT in Couh . ril this day ) and which will be issued after the breakiv,g up of ,the Stocks are fulling rapidly—Omni= is at 6 per Cent. discount—Consols 6*. The Captain of a vessel; a►°rived in the Downs - , from Africa, reports. that in lat. 49. he spoke a brig given up as a cartel by the Wasp American sloop, since her action with the Aeon, and from the-pas.- sengers'he learnt, that in that action the Wasp escaped without any material damage, and had Only one man lillecrand two wounded. We yesterday annonnced the safe arrival of two of the Leeward Island fleet, and have now the satisfaction to add, that the whole of this valuable fleet, - under convoy of his , Majesty's ship Glouces ter, arrived yesterday in the Downs, andproceded for. the River. It affords us pleasure to add, the homeward holind Jamaica fleet, under convoy of his Majes ty's ship Warrior,, consisting of 'about 64 sail, we're off Kins'ale on. the 20th. inst. They left Jamaic4, 26th July, andmaY be hourly looked for; two of — the fleet have already Arrived, Susan, Dbnpi, in the River and'ihe ATKINSON, at Bristol. ,‘ The destinations of the East India ships were yesterdy fixed by the Committee of Correspon dence, and will be confirmed by the Court of , Directors on Wednesday _next. . A report of the taking of Baltimore has reached Plymouth, and is consistent enough in circum stance with -all the previous movements with .which we were acquainted in - the Chesapeake Bay. It is, however, supposed "that this intelli= gence is as yet nothing more than an antidipa tion of what .is likely to haypen ; and much, as we shall ,hail etery blow struck at these brag gard and mischievous enemies, there is not a spot in the whole United States where an infliction of . . Britain's vengeance will be more entitled to our applause than on this sink of Jacobinical infamy— Baltimore. We insert in another part of our impression Extracts from Communications said to have been received from St. Domingo, the authenticity of which we _most' strongly doubt.. The views taken of European affairs in one of these letters, and the arguments. in the other, are so completely in unison with the views and arguments which the parties who have published - tbern woutu .selves employ, that we confess neither the strange signatures of Secretary of State Lemonade, nor of the Duke of Marmalade himself„ have force enough to convince us that 'these are boa fide of The vast importance of the island of Java, as a commercial acquisition'lto this country, has not, till the present time, been sufficiently Appreciated and, under a Government less enlightened and less energetic than that which. : now rules- the island,' its value might have remained, in a great. degree, long unknown. It appears that the Governor and Council are so highly , impressed . with its importance, that they have scat hove, expressly, a Packet with dispatches and represens tations of the utmost consequence, and an Officer: of Rank, with Confidential communications to his Majesty's Ministers and the Directors of the Hon. East India Company, which, it is hoped, will lead to the retention and ultimate incorporation of that valuable Island with the British dominions in the East. It seems to be the opinion, that in possession of Java Great_ Britain need not be under, any.future apprehensions as to the unfa vourable diSposition of the Chinese Government to the British Interegts, in, that Empire. .:While we, from day to 'day, devoteour columns to Foreign' News of, comparatively,:very trifling interest, we have not cost sight of our promise to return to that question of vital importance to this Country, of which we last week took a hash no tice, and to the discussion of which we last year devoted a .considerableportion of our tithe and at .tention,: .need we say we allude to the projected measures respecting the CORN LAWS ? 'We have been charged with disregarding the great Agricul tural Interests -of the'.gmpire; we deny' the charge, and assert that we are not only the friends to these interests, as entwined with the general welfare of, the State, but that 'we are distinctly their friends considered per se;. exclusively and peculiarly. It is true, as may reattify be imagin , . . en, that i t i s no easy matter. to persuade or Con vince thanY Land-owners, that they would be bettered in. the first instance, as well ,s mately;' by having their incomes reduced, • yet such fact, in our opinion, is not difficult of detriOn stration. But even were it otherwise, we would contend that it must be wisdom in these persons to look a little beyond the present mota .nt and, by, the partial sacrifice which justice and the uni versal good demands, save themselves from even tual ixiin, only aggravated by being in the midst of that ruin, Whicht . a perseVering struggle in the course they appear to be "tithing cannot 'fuil of bringing upon the Country at large, t, s for the Farmers, we heartily commiserate their situation : They have-made bad bargains with their leases on war calculations ; and unless-a sense of prudence, as well as of humanity, induces the Proprietors to yield to the new state of things, and voluntarily lower their rents, it, does appeal that the earliest effect of the contest bet Ween the People and the Landlords wilr be bankrnptcy and destruction to them. They are -precisely in the condition of merchants, whO, speCulating on the continuance Of hostilities, ,might-purchase, at high prices, the produce of Nations with whom we were at war— if peace suddenly comes, the article declines in Value, and'thei'r names are seen the Gaidte TO u s it.does seem,, of all idle and vain hopes, the most idle and the most vain, to look for the continuance of present or . late'prices. This nei ther can, nor ought; to be'suffered. In,lleaven's name,. What pretensions have any one . classof,the ComMunity, however respectable, even were it . for their benefit as it must be to their loss, to. inflict so infbleiable a load,of misery upon the entire mass of the population:; to raise beyond endurance the price of the prime - article of sus tenance to the lower orders ; with_ the price of Corn necessarily to enhance the price, of labour and of Manuf.i\ctures, till we should be a; little .able to compete With the Artisan as with the Agriculturist of .the Continent ; in fine, by - one act of selfish blindness and- political suicide ) to elect Old. England into the horrid fre-eminence of being the'Papdemoniatn... of High Prices, ex cluded from the world by that distinguishing fea tore, and not by the ocean— : " Toto orbe divisos Britannos ;" and, in reality, that laud which BUONAPARTE only boasted he would snake it ",a count.' y not worth living in." It is impossible that we should allow any set of men to bring these evils upon us, b►►t yet these evils are inevitable, if the Report of. the Corn Committee is . received -as Gospel, and acted upon It is with uncommon delight ne.perceive that neither the evidence on 'which this Report is found, ed, the Report itself, nor the measures obviously in the Contemplation' of its Framers, are difficult to - be controverted, overthrown, and set at - naught. On a rotten foundation has, been .erected .a totter ing superstruCtiire, to the (1 - einclition of which we betake 'ourselves with right good will—trusting sincerely that the arguments: we adVance gill pre vail on the high price advocates to desist, because we know that they cannot carry their point- 7 41w united voice of the Empire is against it,, and the consequences of an actual struggle would-he fatal to them, and most ruinous to the Country.' . • - Among the prominent fallacies upon which the Legislating Committees have proceeded with their investigation into this subject, it seems'to be no small one,that they have ever chosen to consider the question of prices as resting between the Land owner and the Manufacturer, the Agriculturalist . and. the People, and not as it really does, be , : itween the Landowner and the Tenant.. They have inquired into all possibilities upon which theories could be built and calculations made, ex cept the right one, and the only remedy for the existing embarrassment--the R.eduction of Rents. Thqt expedient has been as guardedly avoided even in hypothesis as if it could not exist, or could have no bearing in affording the relief sought after. Yet we fancy ' "'To this complexion they:roust come at-last ; 4. for, though they paint an itch thick, it is the sole and grand panacea, the only cure for dear.bread,, emigration, stagnation of trade, and national ruin. Now, let us examine first,' what right Landlords have to the perpetuation of the War Prices ; .and; seco'ndly,. what would be the result of their estab lishment ? The heavy taxes, to which all classes are liable,' and the general expence of living are the onlygroundsnpon which they can pretend to have secured to them, by legal restrictions upon -the freedom . of commerce, the continuation of the exorbitant emoluments which have accrued to them in ,consequence of a twenty years war. If we look to these grounds we will discoVer, that it is thus that the high -price advocates., by turn; - -convert cause into effect, and effect into cause and, by a dexterous shifting of syllogism, (all aimed to demonstrate, not how the, public may be served, but bow the farmer may be enabled to meet their exCessive demands) endeavour to blind us to the, real merits of the case. They must, they contend, have high 'rents to be able t 4 pay heavy taxes, and - the increased expence living 1 .• To this we reply, there, is no tax which bears upon you directly but the Property Tax, -which will diminish in proportion with Four di nittished revenue, The to es ,on I: "' Ll'.:cs' 51ctile I &e• 4 as carriages, i u m d onds, ar orial cnsit,9s' tot only paid as you indulge in them 11(1111the es t ,, of i your irtcome ; and as for the other ill ' P S ole t fa t i e l y ne a r re infinitely More burthensorne 1111°IlthalI and common consumer of toidalclif'6i, upon , yon. With regard to die-greater cape; 51,4' ." . . c QecessAl'y to rear a f am ily i ll a ino"r'er bi: tli a r t e ) .,n l. ; :afbur- rank, this is the elect of Y °9l. edio e' i. ith , t a e l::: ,i i ;Then tl!ey cense., the effec t tvill Joel tfac s r:t a r t :l: m Haana 1J- labour &c. . &c. Volt 0111 be ' '' l be conipensated by • their cheapness I'll.lo lowered will demonstrate this 1 A. B. lets law' 3t sheer'llo he essive •.. of " ,pi ice JOs. ,e_•' b which .5 p i % - tlo acre, - „ i e. tritigmenterl, uml every 5001., '• • , .pc-.l..6.rinutn. ,lh consequence of ..:' - er ii also 50s'. To make rent; tl}6 price of labour, &c. t'o tile f`'rn!,.„ila co' :tarn a rticles t 4 colonial pro( ore sell his cortt,at 803. ' 'flit the of , per quarter. A chanic purchases, and must have 30s• we a r 0 wages, b • Ihe cannot lice. The nvanufaet'"-e oi,c _ g a o cr o ‘-e d i nt:lcir:sitei v:ittiut:su;. costs iiii.fileit, employs hint is therefore : compelled a ls.° t° ' ;l4 , h ph. t is he ex c e l: e a t i l n y r i l i f; ; l t t i ; g il lt i I ' ls (leTands, and the yard of cloth, wh ic. ;;; it be made itt 145.: costs 20s. ibecattse eve r Y ' t oo r I °''' to co ve 0 0 0 the im • II potter sells sugar at 70s• wlli cii sh° f iti' e • s ° only 50s. ; and • so on through everf whit ir rental pro I "lee or external acquisition, w bi 5 1 ' , coa t, A be named. Thies A. B. pays 51. for ''' I% VP for colonial produce, and 5/. for linen, n' hie.' s td ,0,,, it °- , Corn cheap (he of 40 - • lif'ere_lie content s•., the cause 'of its dearness), b e l ' il° 4o os ' ~ ,beSe - Ai, lie liiight virally obtain . for little more than hill :- "IP q(l° tj j tt e. ;i l t.. y l ' l l 3 a o ll o ua t.p i l e .e r c a e n ' t ) l t • si.l ' st‘tel ‘ e •r i fel s- while thas p .e l i c t 'll o a rt s ing n produces 41 reate r 'r es n l3l he ro . 4 of t r 7 (ilc:rs.e,lutpl obtain:e.e'll ylittle 61()re• .0; maintaio a more c ti °, 14 o o ezile r t et;i:folbaaflcletklsi,settrtylcul 1:11:::::bi, t:istilvteasholii:lo,.. i ~ ,, i 115,k,( 1 ) :° , 1 itself ; 'by, (3 - th an . • - (4)OE° g' vahte of allatl'lerclailrgti.clileisloflatrvglieirclit)rbc is theca, tiii:i e4rtt ~‘l.:e.ll):eosolleta.:(eattli inhii (le gg‘airtr.t.laal nineltteiiiiill:ligggst:b, 111.0 teithriaetttto:les rittleil) 4: cee:r1:11-4:::::c•eit1`51c:cs i i l l't ) :11.11:nitifi s g l o lli i p: g (Y r S , i a ti t on g , re he Lion --7 1t t l o e s v i n:fi n : k i . by p t i l . i 4 e r iz eduction O f his l as t ' cefi r l a of sa t c h rifice which be ought, and i ll i ' lc• 1- 4 0/.l:°-( l eri e :i::i d ar:lvggp o rati r bilt:ii a ilstie g iti c6rt‘tii%lic,,aiu:tilluesert.,:a)latlsirr,,eetiin.,iiiso3.lpelec.ste.lslei : t s b t ii c.,i si. y il 1 ocii 1,1501 t : i l , ) , I cli t i oil ' ili /l iif,r g , j ,.,( , little in any country when set ill ° P r 0 . lr : , Britain, whose • 1 . rertai"'' di? might and-110%1'o - . 3.0 no o r li• 10' )E , i loci) 4, ' ever have reached the elevation a t " 'tv ►', arrived ; etitfon 1 :l a ga l i : :1 '7 1 s e t ' bse:un.he:l:tio7t:ti:; :1 1-4 ' 1/kl:ierl a illtet : :: :: :I f i t :: „00' t o , ' :Ixitoitill:ltnfl°,o:il.uy:;ll(ll(eliiis.ll::e,aa.theulq;:t,'igdtii.sit.....ti.lt.lei:lif;e::-I—:.l,.l.l.ele.teic•c.cesn(t.):‘ritsystiale.erttYa:.l,citlYtilii,lllecrijllett.(:::: 1 c :: : l t si l ti: . 1:11: 1 1iic e e5 : 5::: : , this ~.. c o , ' i i loll ° ( 1 0j 1 blisiied 2 . tli' ; at the price of all kinds of labuiir" ti t ' t r , - 44 , 0 0 - ~,,v, hy the price of sustenance jll `l4). AO' 1 1 the forge, 'ii) the c 1 Corn , is detabfre,irwfatig:lellslinCilStistifi:l3lo:llt b'. .. itel tiSi r te.l y - r i ; t b i' ::: btet e : ll. : , : ' l l:; Of nc„CO' ~ICII i and thisnstate of things is felt eve 'ev e 0 4( ' es •1 e 4 ramifieation of our manuflictares, CE, 0( I # IndustrY, 'every partfele_ of r ad° se ,l; tll3 . Pi / •43thinnotlitv imported. It is cof° '.ate 11' f , ,: i ' I,,vi 3 ,i,el e p cannot raise proviSions at so .., i •,11 . o vi v) . 1,1? ,I Continental ,Competitors; but fli wa di) . 0 . 4 1 ' of our own accord.to fix thou s ° ls to eo,) it :J: to render it eglitall impossible for , ' so il O rr. , ; , , advantage of our" s'uperior cal; l° , it lia ° .1. • , .rker" .tlf lO ' CLinery, „ i Sheibe 0 9 ‘ 4 ' woollens, our Birmin,hain an l, - ro tt° pi n 'es " u ' v - ,,5 L' lt' fi c' and meetthemin toe ttio , 0 .0 i„ wrpaght 'mid , unwrought. 0 1 ' ~ OC , fit : , •, a i p. , ,p , :Iplpol ledtir p i Itl • ocicu l tsitcr t y io; t i o s s o ni f ch i a n k, e ve c c ia sk i i i . l , o, . ;i :i s e tt: t l, -,. e 0 i a1 : . 0 : ::; ,, i 0, , ''' • • al s 3 t lsl ' 0 4 ' psael(.3iesiseealtartlielled:Pis*.etiairlslegosnrecitl'ilai't.eballe}:tdb"eb riteli:l.l'l',/tlacilte:::11:::",'t loaf is necessaryto our natio , t 01 1- ill' I, folio'`' O il 1 •ec 'l l dare not trust ourselves to •e 01 I' o t / i t C h C a t t -nor (olobj:C'et d i c : i v re i ev ' r i ' t . :::f . ' ,l3l ' ' e i . rt i l : ii bl o c c e: : , ll :P i l eaLl " c ' • 3 1 ` 1 Were it realized, the la _,_ ofli" _ OO 4l 1 sealed, an d all her greatnes . 0 ,.. s . tio f il • e t he 511° ear .11 1 country could not Survo• to n er ii ke 1 p r the be driven born every Ina t i so( „et eu , ti! r mi r 'Commerce would ,he viP) ~0 11 0 it) ~, • , 'l, le c"" • 1 4.1c r n : the bild. At home. the peoP • diso E do,/ i s o r 1 ell 1/ , Th c t iO D o .I:ft cmigra•tion to foreign la"' ' 0 , tv ' t it c e . ,, ttcfnis.inst inevitably ensu-'l.s•cover ,for ot i ate Land Owner ss'olll`l- ( s i hAppY p ol o ); I , have been well for him, an . '. l , o cce l l le ..le s c,, 1 tyy,, had he suffered the lil i l i i t 7 t ot," 3 - t. 01 ::;0 5 ; like all other things, to tic'%ci, totrijeoieetiyel as n-early as possible flow 1, , - , ti ,i ; t , ti , ci bound which., -e>;iste d b ef° o C f L his feljt4. raised hita at• the expeno: , • 1 suWtr: T tt