The Sun. — London, England, 1822-12-09 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PARIS, DEC. s.—Yesterday, before the Coun -ell, the King transacted business with the Mini - ster of War, and the Duke of Angonleme with , the Minister of the Marine. On Tuesday evening a Cabinet courier was dispatched for Madrid by the. Duke of San Lo renzo, the Spanish Ambassador in Paris. M. Villanueva, appointed Minister from Spain to the Court of Rome, and who lately passed through Paris on his way to his destination, was, on his passage through Turin, officially informed by . the Pope's Nuncio at that Court, of a decree passed by his Holiness, according to which, M. Villanueva would not be received in his quality of Minister to the Holy See. M. Villanueva then determined to proceed to Genoa, whence he dis `patched one of the persons of his suite as a courier to Madrid, to give au account to the Government of the Pope's decree, and to ask in structions for his future conduct.—(Journal des D ads.) _ The Constitutionnel announces that the Prussian Chancellor, P . rince Hardenberg, died on his journey to Venice. It was not at Venice, but -at Genoa, where he arrived on the 14th, that this Minister terminated his long' and memorable career. His death will, perhaps, lead to great changes in the Prussian Cabinet, of which he was the chief, with an extremely extensive power; but for two years past he made no use of his power, as his great age prevented him from ap plying to business.--(lbid.) A letter from Munich,. dated the 26th ult., states that on the preceding day the marriage contract between the Prince Royal of Sweden and the Princess Josephine of Leuchtenberg was signed on the part of the King of Sweden by Count Wetterstedt, and on the part of his Bava rian Majesty by Count Rechberg. Extract of a private Letter from Perpignan. " Just as it was expected, the Baron d'Eroles, not being in force at Belvar, retreated, and left on that point only a weak corps, which did not hold out half an hour. Mina entered Puycerda on the 29th of November, at nine in the morning.— The soldiers of the Army of the Faith fell back on Bourg-Ma dame, and took a position under the walls of the gardens, where, on an intimation from M. Lavit, Lieut.-Col. of the 6th regiment of light infantry,who commanded the French troops at that point, they laid down their arms. Mina's troops immediately ceased. firing. They inquired for the French Commander, and in formed him that they would respect the frontier of France. The troops of the same General (Mina) pursued those of the Baron d'Eroles in the mountains on the left , of Puycerda, as far as nearly to the village of Ur.. The latter also defended them selves on the extreme frontier, and laid down their arms on being desiied so to do, by chief of battalion Lafeuille. The different parties of the Army of the Faith have taken refuge in France. Those who penetrated into the valley of Andore, eva cuated it on the first order of the Syndic. Mina showed a great respect to the privileges of that valley. The French troops were under arms and in position on all the points where these actions took place."—( Moniteur.) PARIS, DEC. G.—Yesterday at eleven in the morning the King transacted business with the Duke de Montmorency, Minister of Foreign Affairs. llis Majesty gave audiences to the Duke de Fitz. James, and to the Count de Blairepoire, Secretary to the Embassy at Constantinople.— During the afternoon the King transacted business ivith the Count de Villele, the President of the Council of Ministers. Yesterday the Count de Villele gave a diplO matic dinner, at which their Excellencies the Ministers were present. It has been reported by the Constitutionnel t hat the Prince de Polignac was appointed Mi nister Plenipotentiary at Madrid. This report has no foundation in truth. Wednesday, on the breaking up of the Coun cil, the Ministers met at the Hotel of the Mar quis de Lauriston, his Majesty's Chamberlain, which meeting continued from three o'clock till half-after six in the afteinoon. M. Pozzo di Borg° arrived in Paris on Wed nesday, and o❑ Thursday had a conference with the French Minister for Foreign Affairs. The Courier Francais states that the Duke of Wel lington arrived on Thursday. A letter from Foix, dated the 7th, mentions the arrival there of the Marquis de Mataflorida, and that the Baron d'Eroles was every moment expected. The following has appeared in the Regulator, a Lisbon 'Paper : a The undersigned is ordered to signify to M. according to all the accounts received by the British Govern ment,, there is nothing to justify theidea entertained by his most Faithful Majesty and his Ministers of an invasion of the Peninsula. that " The undersigned does not •hesitate - to assure his most -Faithful Majesty, that his Majesty the King of Great Britain will never look with indifference on any, attempt against the -independence of Portugal ; and that his Majesty will always be ready to afford to Portugal the protection which that coun try is entitled to expect from an allied nation. (Signed) " G. CANNING." The Monileur published yesterday the Royal Ordonance calling out 40,000 conscripts of the class of 1822. We read in another Journal that another Royal Ordonance of the 27th Novem ber, which has not been officially .published, -calls out the young soldiers of the class 1821, w h o are still disposable.—(Constitittionnel.) Upon what pretext can France attack 'a people who respects her territory, and who has neither threatened nor provoked her ? These are questions which will naturally be asked; and as the public persist in believing that reason and interest w ill . finally prevail in the decisions of Cabinets, it is concluded that war was less probable, and the public credit has gained by this . belief. The article inserted in the English Courier has not checked this partial return of confidence. As this journal has alternately declared itself for and against the Greeks, so it al) ; pears to adopt the same course in opposing and approving by turns the war against Spain. ,We know not whether the object .of these vacillations is to leave foreigners in uncertainty as to, the policy of the British Cabinet. This Journal seems' to . think, that, by the time its article should appear, hostilities .must have already commenced between France and Spain—an assertion which proves how ill it is informed, and leads us t o doubt the official character of the reflections which it publishes to-day.—( Courier Francais.) The Constituionnel in a Note on an artide in The Courier, . in which it is said, " An armed intervention may be imme diately expected, and we should not be surprised to hear that the French army had advanced on the line of the Ebro," ob serves, " We are astonished to see The Courier, which Wal for a long time the great Apostle of Peace, insist so strongly on the necessity France is under of making War."—(La Con . stitutionnel.) The Journal des Debats remarks on This same passage of The Courier:—" We are astonished to see a Journal. generally wwellinformed as The Courier, collecting with such credulity the reporti of the Paris Exchange. Happily for the repose of Spain it is well ascertained that negotiations are yet going on; of which the success is not impossible."—(Journal des. Debate.) The Journal des Debats adds, relative to the same article in , :..The.,Couriery "It seems to .us that there is a contradiction be. lween an absolute system of neutrality and the approbation of an armed intervention in the interior affairs of Spain. " If the state of Spain is dangerous for Europe, how can Eng land remain indifferent and neutral ? How can she 'say before hand, that whatever, may be the results of the war in Spain and in Turkey, she will not quit her neutrality. • AUGS BURG, Nov. 3o.—A correspondent of the Gazette of, Augsburg writes from Paris, dated Nov. 20 " As to the war agaixist Spain, it is believed that Russia de sires it ; on the other hand, if the ministerial declarations of England are attentively read, it will be clearly seen, that though this power does all it can to stop the interference of the other Governments, it seeks, however, to excite France to make war, by telling her constantly she has the right to make it, and that this war can only be attended with unimportant con sequences for her. Such a reflection ought to be particularly weighty for a Government which believes itself capable of suc ceeding in every thing. It is difficult to conceive how the French Government, after all which it has said and done, can avoid acting openly. The result of the late elections which has so much frightened M. Villele, that he has foUnd them, as t he report goes, much too favourable, will, no doubt, have some influence on this question." SEMLIN, Nov. 28.—After a silence of three weeks, we have, at length, some intelligence from Larissa down to the 6th inst. In the middle of October Chourchid Pacha had received the rein- forcements" so long expected by him, and on the 20th he marched in order to traverse Thermopylae. On the 22nd and 24th of October fresh rencontrs took place, in which the Seraskier was defeated, and he returned to Larissa with the loss of about 0,000 men. He was pursued with alacrity by the Greeks. Scarcely had he reached Larissa when he received a Firman from the Grand Seignor, by which he was ordered to return to Constantinople, in order, as it is supposed, to give an account of the treasures of Ali Pacha, and of his un successful military operations. Abdallah, the Pacha of Salonica, was appointed to succeed him ; he had collected an army, and designed, it is said, to undertake a winter campaign in the Morea. We are anxious to know whether Chourchid Pacha will consent to relinquish his command, or whether he will devise means to evade the certain fate awaiting bins upon his ar rival in Constantinople. Numbers of Christian children hate been seized in different parts of Macedonia, whence they were conveyed to Romelia, and afterwards sold.—(Gazette d' Augsburg.) VERONA, Nov. 24.—The Emperor Alexander made an excursion to Milan, and proceeded as far as the biidge of Garda. The Duke of Modena with his family set out on the 20th to return to his States. The affairs of Italy will henceforward be the subject of deliberation with the Members of the Congress. The Ministers of the various Italian Powers have frequent conferences with the Prince Metternich and Count Nesselrode. SMYRNA, OCT. 18.—The Marquis de Paulucci, Admiral of the Austrian fleet, arrived here on the 2d. The squadron celebrated with great solemnity the birthday of the Emperor of Austria. The Admiral disembarked, and proceeded to the Imperial Chapel, where Te Deum was sung. The Austrian Consul gave a grand ball in the evening. —The Puha sent to compliment the Admiral, and through his interference the Captain of. a Russian vessel, who, had been de tained under a false accusation, 'obtained his liberty. CON - STANTINOPLE, OCT. 11.—Every thing is tranquil here. Many persons indulge in specu lations founded on the Congress of Verona, but we have more ground for hope now than before. —The Pacha, whoa short time back experienced some check at Erzerum; has been replaced. His successor surprized and took the, Persian camp, and made himself master ,of some of the enemy's territory. SPAIN. MADRID, Nov. 16. An article in the Universal of yesterday con tains the following passages : " It is impossible that the judicious men of Spain should not feel that if at the moment of the present crisis we should con sent to touch a single article of the constitution, fear and dis couragement would take possession of every mind, and that the social edifice would fall in ruins, by opening a passage for des potism to come and execute, without being resisted, the atro cious vengeance that it meditates. " The harmony which exists between the public authorities in Spain, and the concert with whichlve see vigorous measures are adopted for the defence of liberty, tranquillize, with respect to this point, all those persons in Europe who are interested in the fate of Spain, and we believe that all the artifices which the French Government make use of to weaken and divide us will prove ineffectual. " Let the Cabinet of the Tuileries place the direction of pub hc affairs in the hands of the fanatical zealots, and without de lay openly declare war against Spain. To speak candidly, it must be acknowledged, that such a frank and straight-for ward course of conduct would - carry with it an appearance of greatness which might give a more favourable colour to the blind fury of our enemies. They would not, perhaps, attain their end, but prridence requires that Spain should fear the worst, that it may not experience the dreadful'misfortune of being surprised. The friends of Spain and of liberty behold with satisfaction the ctoice w"hich the Government has made of Generals Mina, Tornjos, and Velasco, and they hope soon to hear that the factious have abandoned the three posts of Irati, Mequinenza, and Seo d'Urgel. But these--advantages are not sufficient. It is necessary that an army o f reserve s h ou ld b e or ganized, which may act as the safety of the State may require. The friends of liberty desire to see the illustrious and val.. liant General Ballasteros at the head of this army. His for mer services would be his recommendation to all Europe, and particularly to the French warriors, who are enthusiastic ad mirers of glory and military talents. " Finally, let the Spanish people do what the French peo ple and its national representation did at the memorable period when the Manifesto of the Duke of Brunswick made its ap pearance." _ OLoT,.Nov. 24.—Brigadier Mosen-Anton traversed some days since, the village of the Marine. He was attacked at Bla eas by the militia of Mataro and the Gironne, and also by a corps of Piedmontese. Victory was in, favour of the Royalists, who killed many, of the enemy, and took 200 militia prisoners, together with 150 Piedmontese. Milani having been informed that the Liberals were in great danger, left Vich to succour them. Brigadier Costa went in pursuit of ,him on the 21st, leaving a sufficient garrison at Olot. .He overtook him at Santa Coloma, where the Constitutionalists were beaten and dispersed. —( Gazette de France.) LAST FRIDAY was the Fourth Day of Drawing, when No. 16,52'2, was drawn a Prize of TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS, was sold in SHARES by CARROLL, 19, Cornhill, and - 26, Oxford-street. This is a continuation of that good fortune - which has for so many years distinguished CARROLL'S Offices. The above is the only Prize above 82,000 yet drawn ; there are but Two Days more, and the Wheel contains 91 Capitals, in cluding Two of R 20,000, Two of ,Eio,ooo, Two of 1 ) 5,000, and 85 others Of k 2,000, k 1,000, k5OO, &c. &c., TUESDAY, December 17, is the Last Day of Drawing but One. DREADFUL STORM. ( Extract of a Letter from Chester, dated the 7th inst.) Most deeply do I regret that it is my unpleasant task to ac quaint you of a tremendous storm that took place on the night of Thursday last and yekerday morning, in this city and neigh bourhood, and the town of Liverpool. It commenced here about 10 o'clock, p.m., and continued with increasing violence till 4 o'clock,'.a.m., during which period the roofs of a great number of hoUses'ivere in a great measure removed, and several inhabitants with difficulty escaped with their lives, in conse quence of the falling in of. chimneys, &c. Meadows were and are ' greatly overflowed : a 'boat on the river Dee, with corn to the 'Dee mills, was upset, and the two people therein, a man and woman,. drown e d ; Th e event took place two miles distance from the city ; but I have the satisfaction to observe, that not one life is lost in the city, and no one materially in jured in person—though many were in most imminent danger, from the falling of the roofs, &c. • 'With regard to Liverpool, I regret to say, that a more melancholy picture presenth itself, viz. Mr. Dixon of Everton's two daughters, about II and 13 years of age, were killed by the falling of chimneys ; Mr. Yates's house, Seal-street, the servant's mother killed from the same cause—the daughters escaped by leaping out of the win dow : Mrs. Worrell, of. Upper Islington, was sitting in her parlour, and was, by a similar accident, crushed .into a cellar., and buried in the ruins, from whence she was extricated, a dread fully mangled • corpse : her two daughters were 'also consider ably hurt. In Strand-street, a chimney also fell in and killed a woman, and much hurt a man. Sign-boards were torn from the houses, and drifted .in some instances to a considerable distance; and much mischief was done in' Liverpool to the roofs of dwelling-houses and other buildings. I do not enter on the losses sustained by the owners of shipping, on the river Mersey, - as represented to the underwriters in Liverpool, as it will be probably better communicated to the public than in my power. Hatton Hall, near Waverton, belonging to the Mar quis ChohnondeleY, near Chester, was blown down—no .lives lost, but twenty cheeses, about 901 b.-each,. - each, dispersed to atoms. I now come to the most melancholy circumstance of all, the loss of the Elsernere steam-packet, a total wreck, which sailed from Liverpool at three o'clock on Thursday evening for Else mere port, Cheshire, with, 22 passengers 'on board, 9 of whom are lost, including Captain Dial - mind, who, in the act of taking off his great coat, iii order to endeavour to save his son and himself from being washed overboard, and unable to ga i n th e shore with Thomas Patten the blind fidler, whose wife was saved, as well as Mr. Burt, a very eminent miniature painter (whose son was lost), the engineer, a black and another of the crew, and three otheri, they leaping instantaneously into the flat, as it passed; whose- stem cut the :team-packet, and even tually occasioned her loss. W. H. F. P.S. To the Funds of the Ladies' Clothing Committee for the Relief of the Distressed Irish Peasantry, the Hon. and Rev: Mr: Dymocke, his Majesty's Champion, has very hand somely contributed,as also the Dtichess Dowager of Rut land ;—the Female Friendly Society at Kingston upon Thames, a Society established for the Relief of Poor Widows and chiefly maintained , by wealthy ladies, has contributed 1461. 15s. Bd., and the poor MemberS themselves have given 1/. 2s. 6d. The Ladies of Kingston upon Hull, Derby, Leicester, Plymouth, St. Neott's, have likewise contributed largely. The Ladies of the Stair Corps, at' Hythe, have also made a collection, to which the •Soldiers" Wives contributed their pence; and the Soldiers' Children assisted in making up the clothing_ From the LONDON GAZETTE, Dec. 7. Foreign-Office, Dec. 4, 1822. The King has been pleased to appoint the Hon. Francis Re- Binald Forbes, late Secretary to his M a j es ty' s L egat i on at t h e razils, to be his Majesty's Secretary of Legation at the Court of Denmark. Whitehall, Dec. 3, 1828. The King has been pleased to appoint Alexander Murray, Esq. to be Sheriff Depute in the Shire of Aberdeen, in the room of Mr. Alexander Noir, resigned. Crowp-Offlee, Dec. 7, 1822. MEMBER returned to serve in this present Parliament. County of Salop—John Cressett Pelham ' of Cound Hall and of the Castle in Shrewsbury, in th e said county of Salop, Esq. in the room of Sir John Kynaston. Powell, Bari., de ceased. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. T. Slyvester, Witney, Oxford Shire, currier, Dec. 17, at ten, at the house of R. Bartram, Oxford. J. Day, Fenebureli-buildings, merchant, from Nov. 30, to Jan. 13, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. J. Armstrong, Reading, Berkshire, linen-draper. ILANKRUPTS. _ _ _ R. Errington, Hexham, Northumberland, -butter-factor, to surrender Dec. 30, 31, and Jan. 18, at ten, at the Bush Inn, Hexham. Attornies, Mr. R. Adams, Verulam-buildings, Gray's Inn, London ; and Mr. Friend; Hexham. T.Turner, Saundridge, Hertfordslirre, timber-merchant, Dec. 10, 17, and Jan. 18, at twelve, at the Court of Cointhissioneis„ London. Attornies, Mr-Roche; Charles.-street, Covent-gar den, London ; Mr. Piggott, St. Alban's, Herts. • • IV. Crisp, Brainfield, Suffolk, grocer, Dec. 23, at four, 24, and Jan. 18, at eleven, at the New Swan, Southwold, Suffolk. Attornies, Mr. B. Pugh, Bernard -street, London ;. and Messrs. White and Woodcocke, Halesworth. J. Wiltshire, Woottori-Bassett, Wiltshire, draper, Dec. 20, at seven, 21, and Jan. 113, at one, at the Angel Inn, Wooton- Bassett. Attornies, Messrs. Thompson and Jay, Gray's Inn place, London ; and Mr. Mullings ' Wootton Bassett. - J. Wiltshire, Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, sadler,' Dee. 20, at four, 21, and Jan. 18, at ten, at the Angel , Inn, Wootton Bassett. Attornies, Messr s . .Thomson and Jay, Gray's Inn. place, London ; and Mr. M u lli ngs , - Wootton Bassett. L N. Browne, Manchester, cotton'-spinner, Dec. 24, 26, at one, and Jan. 18, at nine, at the Bridgewater Arms Inn, Man chester. Attornies, Mr. Edge, Manchester ; and Messrs. Milne and Parry, Temple, London. W. Heap, Cobbers Nab, Bury, Lancashire, calico-printer,. Dec. 23, 24, and Jan. 18, at one, at the Bridgewater Arms Inn, Manchester. Attornies, Mr. Edge, Manchester; and Messrs. Milne and Parry, Temple. J. Austin, Berkhampstead, St. Peter, Hertfordshire, coach maker, Dec. 10, 21, and .Jana 18, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners, London. Attornies, Messrs. Williams and Goddard, Gray's Inn-place. T. Jones ' Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire, innhold er , D ec . 19, 20, and Jan. 18, at twelve, at the Black Horse Inn, Wor cester. Attornies, Mr. Becke, Devonshire-street, Queen square ; -and Mr, Hill, Worcester. .• IV. Cotterill, Bishop's Cleeve, Gloucestershire, farmer, Dec 12, at five, 13, and Jan. 18, at eleven, at the Swan Inn, Tewkes bury. Attornies, Mr. G. Edmunds, Exchequer Office, Lincoln's Inn ; and Mr. T. Williams,' Winchcomb. W. Balster, Sherborne, Dorsetshire, maltster, Dec. 14, 21, and Jan. 18, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. At torney, Mr. Nicholls, Great Winchester-street, Broad-street, London. P. C. Hawkes, Little Abingdon-street, Westminster, coal merchant, Dec. 17, 21, and Jan. 18, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Attorney, Mr. Orchard, Gray's Inn square. J. Shackle, Milk-street, Cheapside, hosier, Dec. 14, 21, and Jan. 18, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Attornies, Messrs. Pearce and Son, St. Swithin's-lane. DIVIDENDS. Jan. 8. R. Lucas and H. Lucas, Southampton, linen-drapers —Dec. 28, G. Daniel and W. Cross, Birmingham, merchants. —Dec. 28, J. H. Sniiffi, Bristol, auctioneer.—Dec. 28, J. M. Fuller, Worthing, linendraper.—Jan. 18, J. Turnbull, J. Forbes, R..A. Crawford, and D. Skene, Broad-street, London, merchants—Jan. 21, J. 'Williams, Comb',ll, London, stationer —Jan 18, T. and R. Wood, W. Troughton, Smitham Bottom, Coulsden, Surrey, brewers—Jan. 3, W. S. Horton, ROchdale, •Lancashire, woollen manufacturer—Jan. 4, P. C. Fletcher and T. Fletcher, Queenhithe, London, coal-merchants—Jan. 18, G. Whitehead, jun., and G. Clarke, Basinghall-street,, Blackwell Hall-factors—Dec. 31, W. Chafer, Kingston-upon-Hull, gro cer—Dec. 17, S. Palmer, Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucester shire, mercer—Dec. 28, D. Stevens, Harlow, Essex, linen draper—Dec. 28, W. Lloyd, sen. and W. Lloyd,, jun. Lower Thames -street, slopsellers—Dec. 31, J. Johnson, Sculcoates, Yorkshire, corn-factor—Dec. 14, N. Bliss, Water-lane, Fleet street, London, printer. CERTIFICATES, DEC. 28. J. hewer, Little Windmills-treet, Golden-square, Middle sex, carpenter—J. C. Howarth; Bristol, dealer—G. H. Ed wards, Craven-street, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, wine-merchant —J. Beley, Birmingham, dealer—J. G. Bidwell, Exeter, wine-merchant. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. W. H. Walters and. H. Neale, Fleet-street, warehousemen— M. A. Goeity and S. E. Reed, New Charlton-street, Sent, ladies boarding-school mistresses--J. Palmer and R. Knight, Wood -street, Cheapside—B, Butler, sen. and H. Powell, Bir mingham, rule-makers—W. Linton, Waterloo-place, Com mercial-road, St. George's, East, and .1. Fitch, Old-road, Stepney, auctioneers—J. J. Cole and S. Green, Pye-gardens, Bankside, Surrey s sawyers—W. Field and J. Reeve, Red ditch, Worcestershire, needle-makers--W. Allen and S. Hard grave, Greenwich, Kent,' coal-merchants--H. Wheatley and Co. Gteat Garden-street, Whitechapel-road, silk-dyers—J. Salter and J. S. Foster, Kington.upon-Thames, Surrey, ale- brewers. • FOR THE SUN. SECULAR CLERGY-AN ANSWER. Ma, EDITOR—If VcarrAs is so well informed as he appears to be as to the etiquette or law which regulates the Bar,l think from thence arises presumptive evidence, that he is or ought to be aware of the law that regulates the Church of England. if he does know it, he might have given yoq references to it, and dispensed with his inquiry. If he does not know it, he had better divulge the name of the individual to whom he alludes ) and then those who do know the law, will know also how to deal with the case. Veritas appears, or would wish to appear very zealous for the honour and dignity of the Esta blished Clergy, and, so illustrates his sincerity by stating a (and for what the Public may know, by making a fictitious) case of irregularity in the life of one of its members ; without giving any clue which in the first place, can possibly lead to a discovery of the offender or substantiate the accusation ; and in the second place, render the interference of High Authorities justifiable. No doubt Veritas would assail me, as a Me. thodistical writer, were I- to quote from the sa cred writings certain passages to shew what oc cupations employed the ,first Christian Ministers, and afterwards point out the reason why in our modern Church, it was necessary that a new rule should prevail, which was to prevent the Chris tian Ministry, neglecting those who were by Providence put under th e i r care. Indeed, it is unnecessary to do this, as it would not apply particularly to my purpose, and it might be thought that I wish to extenuate im proper conduct in the Clergy. But, Mr. Editor, I do think that in the pre sent day, especially, and at all times, that it is most unmanly and unfaithful, if Veritas be a IVlember of the Established Church of Eng !anal to spread these accusations against any of its Members, without daring to afford any means whereby the transgressor may be fixed upon. Veritas may nr obliged by being told what is nom meant by _Secular Clergy ; that I do not doubt ; but what will the satisfaction he may ex perience in having gained his desired information avail in this case ? It will neither prove the in dividual.to whom he alludes to be a real living character or the case not to be a fictitious one made, as is now-aday too much 'the practice, merely to lower the Clergy, in every possible method that can be invented. This is certainly much the fashion, like those pitiful and empty anecdotes which, I regret to say, were lately in truded into your useful Journal.* Impartiality has ever distinguished your columns ; but impar tiality, when it ceases to discriminate and act on fundamental rules of, justice verges too quickly into rank licentiousness ; and when justice is not the guide on both sides, impartiality has no room to' come in and decide. Such I conceive to he the case of Veritas : that his communication is neither, just or justifiable. Finally, I will give Ve ritas credit for his veracity, but, if without hy pocrisy, for his letter has a shade of that about it, Veritas does mean well to the Established Church, he, as one merely acquainted with the etiquette of the Bar, must know this, that, until a Minister is complained against and his name and abode given up by those shamefaced tra ducers, for we have a right to call them so, when names are not mentioned, it is not the duty of,, the higher Ministers in the Church to be seeking after instances of irregularity, but it is their DUTY, on any complaint being honourably and regularly made, then to interfere and punish the offender accordingly. If, also, Veritas is so much I interested about the dignity of the Church,would it not have been as mild and effectual a method, if he had-communicated the case which distresses him so much as it seems to do, by letter to the Bishop to whose diocese he belongs, and if he had refused to notice the matter, then for this Orthodox Defender of this Ecclesiastical State to have called the attention of the Public to it, through the medium of a Daily Print. Dec. 5, 1822. VESPER. .° It is proper to observe, that the Letter of VERITAS to which 'VESPER refers, appeared originally in a Morning Paper, and, by desire, was copied into THE SUN. SOCIETY of the SONS of the CLERGY OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH OF SCOTLAND: On Thursday last this highly respectable Society dined together at the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate-street, MATTHEW BAILLIE, M. D. F. R. S., in the Chair. Amongst the Company, which was very numerous, were— Sir Thos. Farquhar, Bart., Alex. Robertson, Esq. M.P. •the Rev. Dr. Barclay, Dr. Somerville, Capt. Nairne, A. Moncrieff, 11l Esq. G. 'Kenzie Simpson, Esq. W. M'Culloch, Esq. J. Ban natyne, Esq. H. Blain, Esq. D. Wilkie, Esq. T. Mackenzie, Esq.. Robert Small, Esq., &c. &c. The principal object of this Society is to promote a general intercourse amongst the Sons of the Scottish Clergy resident in the Metropolis; with a view to forwarding the advancement in life of their younger brethren, by the joint or individual patron age of the Members of the Society: Since the formation of this Society, in 1819, the Secretary has received strong assurances of co-operation from the various Societies established for similar purposes ; and particulirly from that recently fo r m e d a t Cal cutta, from which the laudable views of this Society are likely to derive much benefit: When the town of Sheffield first became fa mous for the manufacture of cutlery, a very curi ous knife, calculated for a variety of uses, was executed with great care, and sent to the Cutlers' Company in London. On one of the blades was engraved the following challenge : " Sheffield made both haft and blade : London, for thy life, shew me such another knife." The London cutlers, to show that they were not inferior to their more northern brethren, finished, and sent down to Sheffield, a pen knife, containing only one well-tempeied blade, in which was a cavity, and in the cavity a piece of straw, fresh and unsinged. Some lines on the blade, mentioning this fact, in duced the Sheffield cutlers to break it, when they found the straw, and, unable to account for the manner in which it was done, or to imitate it, they confessed themselves surpassed in ingenuity. Azefid Instance of: Sudden Death.—At four o'clock on Monday afternoon, as Mrs. Trye, of Moorend Grotto, relict of William Trye, Esq. was about to sit down to dinner, she was seized with apoplexy, and remained in a state of insensibility from that period until eight o'clock in the even, ing, when .she expired. PRICE 0 Tills DAY AT Bank Stock 243 3 per Cent. Red. 7B} 3 per Cent. Cons. shut 31 per Cent. ld 4 per Cent. { New shut per Cents. 1797 Bank Lg. Ann.... 20 20.1-10th Imp. 3 per Cents. ~ F STOCKS ONE O'CLOCK. India Stock India Bonds '..o South Sea Stock Old Annuities Ex. Bills 2 4 I' Ditto Small Bank for Act. India for Con. Acct....... Cons. for Account 803.1; PRICE OF FOREIGN STOCKS IN LONDON, DEC• d ' French Five per Cents. 854. (Six per Cents. 00. - Russian Five per Cents. (Metallic) 00. (Ditto New . 8-1. Neapolitan { ii;Crviepi:76ent. bonds, 75' Austrian Five per Cents. (Metallic) 00- Five per Cent. Bonds, 54. Spanish --f New Ditto, 51. Scrip, 124 disc. f Five per Cent. Bonds,- 3-Li. 1 Ditto New, 84. • Five per Cent. Bonds,- 90.• • 71. . ~ Old Bonds, 00... Colombian Six per Cent. Bonds, 72. Ditto Scrip,: 09. { Peruvian ' New Loan,. 00. . • Bank Shares £2l 10s. American Six per Cent. 92-98. ' Five per Cent. - 9tL . . . -..„ 'Three per Cent. 70i. • —.l. . Prussian Danish Chili PRICE OF IRISH STOCK, DEc. 5. .." Bank Stock - 251 - Grand - Canal Loan, 4 p.ctr , d Gov. Deb. 3} per c e n t 93 Ditto 3 per cent.... toi Stock, :31 per ct 923g DittoStock ' Gov. Deb. '4 per cent...... 24 Royal Canal Stock . ...... " Gov. Deb. 5 per cent. —Stock, li per cent., i - Do. Deb. with Gov. So Treasury Bills, 5 per cent,— Pipe Water Deb. 5 per ct. City Debentures, 5 per Do. cent. Lying in Hospital 4 per c t. Ballast perla st cent.Of Ie e 6Per Govt. ce s n e t ; Exchange on London, Dec. 4, 84. 111GH WATER AT LONDO Morning, 14 minutes after 11. .IBRIDGE TO-MORROW' Evening, 43 minutes after I" THE SUN. sor.gm QUIS DICERE FALSUM AUDEAT 7 LONDON, - MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 827. [FROM A CORRESPONDEK.T.] STOCK EXCHANGE, half-pastlzx Consols opened at 802, and. went up to 4 , a nd gr to this hour are 1. In the earlier part of morning a good deal of business was doing" Three expresses arrived this morning from Par ls ' when the closing price of the French Funds Saturday evening was 88, Neapolitan 77, Spa' ish 552 FOREIGN MARKET.—LittIe doing except A l° Spanish Bonds, which opened this morning at. 54, and are now 53. Private letters, by the C 74 ' press this morning, positively assert that th e French Minister VILLELE is against a war 1 411 ' Spain, and that he is determined to prevent i t ' taking place. It is also stated in private i e tter s that the King of F RANCE w ill d o not hi ng aga ins t Spain without the consent of the Britis h Government. Upon the Whole, the informati ° from Paris is of a very pacific nature, the pri Ces of Foreign Securities are the same as Saturclal up to this hour. Spanish Scrip 11 di scoun t,Ne Spanish Bonds 53. The tone of the French Papers, as our Reader"` will see from the extracts inserted in our P re; ceding columns, is ag a i n o f a p ac ifi c nature . r i b article in the Moniteur, gi v in g an accou n t of the final expulsion of the remains of D'Erto os army from the Spanish territory, studiously C O pliments General MINA for th e res p ect p a id t°- t he French frontier, and to the French Authoritieci „o when the line of s e p a r a ti on b e t ween t he ' c e countries checked hi s vict or i ous p ursu it of ' a rt routed insurgents. Th e f ug iti ves , on t h e ir p it s were required to lay down their arms as sO n , they entered upon th e F renc h soil. This res .ioo acknowledgment in the llioniteur of the utter O i l of 'the Army of the Faith, and the rspec tili t manner in which the conduct of the Constituti cirit' re" , General is at 'th e same time mentioneot o t „ ' strong symptoms of s ome is a"-ro tion in the vi e ws an d i n t en ti ons o f the freli, Cabinet. It must not be t oo h ast il y inferrevje however, that . the threatened war w ill act ualli averted. It is certain that Russia and France to' privately determined on the invasion of Sp"' a ce' which Russia would ha ve g i ven h er assist3.ol and that importa n t. advantages -awe stir° for by France, in the event of succe s " . , Her own wishes, therefore, the promised sic, s t.l port of Russia, and th e ex p ec t e d pro fit's 0' rid, cess, are in favour of war. O n th e o ther n o , there are the risks of failur e , f rom th e deter f° l o. ed character of the Spaniards themselves' e$ , the nature of their count r y, th e h azar d of n ri F ° plosion in France itself, and th e i n fl ex ible t he , sition of Great Britain to an attack ur ° c l; Peninsula,' all loudly warning the .: a Government against committi ng itself '" e e enterprise, of which it is impossible to fore m tb the termination. It is n o t s ur p r ising, dilemma to which it is reduc e d, that it sg l,oo s ' o appear to waver betweeen conflicting mot' r From the letter of Mr. CANNING to the 0 1 ' tuguese Government, (see a preceding, cola 00 , it is evident that England is distinctly and r o f tively pledged to maintain the indepoldefl° the] I TC111( a ssn a ;v., pr o s r than of s li on as ii Cor n a c °tit hay, iteo ob s , low ass, kJ, int( filo/ Pro Pr ( tor, Pro t o , Pr 4 .11p