The Sun. — London, England, 1822-12-28 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PARIS, DEC. 25. On Monday night an extraordinary courier from Madrid arrived at the hotel of M. Pozzo di Borgo, the Russian Ambassador. Yesterday evening his Excellency dispatched the same courier to St. Petersburgh. Yesterday evening the Duke-de Montmorency, ;Minister of Foreign Affairs, dispatched a courier to Madrid. . . Yesterday the King received, in private au dience, M. the Baron Portal, Minister of State, Peer of France. Yesterday his Excellency the Minister of Ma rine transacted business with the King, and afterwards with his Royal highness the Duke of Angouleme, Grand Admiral of France. In- the afternoon his Excellency, the President 'of the Council of Ministers, transacted business with the King. It is affirmed that General Quesada had on 'Monday an interview of three quarters of an hour with the Minister of Foreign Affairs.- - (Constitutionnel.) On Monday, an immediate change pf Ministry was much talked of, and it was stated that all those 'who do not appear decided for war were to retire : but it is probable that this rumour ori ginated with some fanatic or stockjobber. We cannot, however, conceive why, whilst it appears .positive, from the most apparent indications, that the President of the Council of Ministers is opposed to the war-party, the latter should cause to be sent into the departments gratis • the Journals which are for war. It appears to us somewhat ex traordinary, that the authority which has the Journals under its jurisdiction should thus stand so palpably in contradiction with the President of Ministers, and every where circulate papers opposed to his system. Such a state of things does not, doubtless, imply a perfect union in the Council, nor is it in accordance with that system of unity which is constantly recommended. It is therefore not surprising that the public are in a state of great incertitude, and that it should be believed that changes one way or the other will take place. The public funds yesterday fell nearly one per cent., and as persons naturally look for causes to all effects, it was circulated that very animated discussions had taken place in the Coun cil, on the subject of the affairs of Spain ; it was even added, that one of the Members of the Council, who, it is thought, is opposed to war, withdrew before any determination was come to. —(ldem.) Advices from Bayonne, dated the 16th instant, state—" The couriers from Spain begin to arrive regularly. We had our letters on Saturday last before nine o'clock, and it has been the same to day : this seems to indicate that. the partisans of the Faith can no longer obstruct the intercourse. O'l)onnel is expected this very day in our town. The Regency is not yet established ; its mem bers are not all arrived."—(ldem.) It is said that a deputation of the merchants of Bordeaux was yesterday admitted to an inter view with the Minister of the Interior. It is said that his Excellency assured the deputation : -that the commercial interests should have timely information of the resolutions which the Govern ment would deem it its duty to adopt in regard to Spain..—(L'Etoile.) Letters from Warsaw and \Vilna, of a recent date, have been received in Frankfort : they announce that great movements are about to be made in the Russian armies of the south and west. The corps d'armee which is in Bessarabia will immediately be reinforced with four regi ments of infantry, and several pulks of Cossacks, •and artillery in proportion.—(Journal des Debuts.) The Pilote of yesterday has the following paragraph :—" The Spanish Ambassador has in stituted a suit, in the name of his Catholic Ma jesty, against MM. Ouvrard and Rougemont, for having concluded a loan with a chief of rebels against the King of-Spain. This affair will come on about the beginning of January, before the ;tribunal of Correctional Police. M. Manguin will be counsel for the Duke de San Lorenzo, Ambassador from Spain." We know not whether M. Ouvrard had begun to collect supplies of forage for the Army of the • 'Faith, of which be is the treasurer ; and whether Government, from respect for the neutrality still existing between France and Spain, has thought fit to seize the supplies : hut we are certain that some forage belonging to M. Ouvrard has lately been seized at Montesson, and that the sale which took place on the 15th produced 281 francs.—(Courier Francais.) On the 24th, the anniversary of his birth day, the Emperor of Austria was to leave Venice and part from the Emperor of Russia, to take 'the road for the Tyrol and Bohemia. The latter SoVereign is to be Warsaw on the 12th of anuary. Ur.m; I) cc. 19.—(Extract of a 'Private Let ter.)—" It is confirmed by several letters from Upper Italy, that since the departure of the Eng lish Ambassador, Lord Strangford, Prince de Metternich has received very important dis patches relative to the affairs of Constantinop!e. It is affirmed, that these dispatches consist of the Reports of M. d'Ottenfels, Austrian Inter nuncio at the Porte. Nothing is yet known as -to ,the contents of these dispatches ; it is only known that they have occasioned several very long conferences,. and that a courier has been dispatched to Lord Strangford, rho had not then left Trieste. These dispatches must be relative to new events, or at least to overtures made since the change _which has taken place in the Ottoman Ministry, for the change itself was known previously to the de- Parture of Lord Strangford. It is even known at Verona, that it was this Minister who first, .and before M. de Metternich,, received advice of the fall of Ilaleh Effendi and his party ; it was in dispatches from M. Chaper (Councellor of the Brstish Legation at London, and provision.: ally filling the functions of English Charge d'Af fairs at Constantinople), that the event was trans mitted to him by an extraordinary courier, who travelled with incredible rapidity. Lord Strang ford, witiaotat delay, communicated the intelli gence to the other Ministers: It appears that only two days afterwards the same news reached Prince de Metternich. The mission that Lord Straugfard received previously to his departure from Verona was, therefore, given to him at a moment when the change in the Turkish Minis try was already known. It results from this, that the new dispatches which have been sent to Trieste relate to other events which have subse- quently transpired at Constantinople, and the knowledge of which reached Prince De 11etter nich by dispatches which he lastly received from M. De Sturmer. Here is a vast field for all sorts of conjecture."—(Constitutionnel.) FRANKFORT, DEC. 19.—Credit is recovering, and stocks are on the rise in our Exchange since it is positively ascertained that France will not hazard an invasion of the Spanish Peninsula. The Parisian Correspondent of the Augsburg Gazette under two stars is a German Baron, or at least a. person who assumes this character, paid by M. Cotta, the proprietor of the Gazete, to amuse the good Germans by his . boastings written in the most bombastic style of the French .Ultras. This Correspondent has also endeavoured to become the correspondent of the most liberal paper of Germany, the Universal Political Annals, which is published at Stutgard. At first he so licited for the insertion of a long article under the title of " State of the Interior of France since the Revolution." The author describes himself as formerly Director of the Police at Ghent. M. Murhard, editor of the " Annals," thought it not right to refuse the Baron, but he affixed a number of notes to the article somewhat striking, which will probably influence this inde• fatigable correspondent to seek for his political debates some other paper, or at least to confine his lucubrations to the space the " Annals" is willing to allow them.—(Courier Franpis.) The Ottoman fleet continues to suffer great checks. It was reported at Trieste that a Turkish flotilla consisting of three corvettes had been captured in the waters of Missolunghi, by a Greek fleet of seventeen sail, having on board a considerable number of soldiers destined for the attack on Corinth.—(Journal de Paris.) AUGSBURG, DEC. 17.—The new Gazette of Zurich, after giving an account of the sailing of the last expedition to Greece, which quitted Marseilles on the V,d November, adds—" The expedition had to contend with many difficulties; not only were there among the persons engaged several individuals whom it was necessary to ex clude on account of their bad characters, and who, angry at this, endeavoured to mislead others ; not only did certain persons at. Marseilles succeed in persuading some of the adventurers to join the Spanish Defenders of the Faith, instead of going to Greece, but the representations of several Offi cers who had returned from Greece excited des pondency in many. If these Officers in the moment of general alarm, when the Greeks, attacked on all sides, fled from the valleys to the mountains, con sidered the cause of that unhappy people_as despe rate, and returned home—who will blame thena,if they painted the moral, the military, and economi cal state of Greece in gloomy colours ?—who will accuse them of falsehood, since we know that despotism every where, and consequently in Greece, tends to debasement ? BLit that some of these officers did their utmost and used the basest means to turn aside the assistance,which it is to be hoped will contribute to make the Greeks free, and consequently more moral, is inhuman and un christian. All these difficulties were at length over come by the good sense of the better disposed, and the indefatigable exertions of the Committee, con sisting of Messrs. Kephallas, Steocking, Hoffmann, Captain Dittmar, and Deutsch. It is true only 150 men embarked out of the ,`2OO that were in tended ; but, however, the wheat was thus se parated from the chaff. To the great joy of• the expedition, it was joined by five of those who had returned, and who are convinced that a corps well provided with all necessaries, and well or ganized in every part, may be of infinite service in Greece. If preceding expeditions were not so well organised, it was not owing to a deficiency of good will or of judgment, but of money. How ever, the exertions of the Societies for the aid of the Greeks have been so successful in this respect, that at the beginning of next month another_ship will be dispatched for Greece, which will have some men on board, but be chiefly laden with arms and stores."—(Allgemeine Zeitung, De cember 18.) DEE. 19.—The Correspondent of The Gazette of Augsburg, under the signature of two Stars, says in his letter from Paris, of Dec. 10th—" The people of a certain party are doubly irritated, because they see that the Government, in place of making war with Spain, treats with her, and proposes a Constitution to her, which they desire to see destroyed in France. Hence their violent attacks on M. de Villele, whom they regard as the author of these negociations.— They wish also for war, because they hope that four Ministers will be dismissed before the opening of the Chambers. It seems cer tain that the Ministry is not, without fear, if we may judge from the efforts which it makes to send away the people, whom it dreads. M. Hyde de Neuville has not, it is true, accepted the embassy to Constantinople, but, in order to give him time for reflection, the ancient Secretary General, the Count de Beaurepaire, has been ap pointed for the present."—(Gazette d'Augsbourg.) On the 12th of November a farmer's wife, of the name of Weischwall, at Wilkischken, ix Prussia, poisoned with arsenic her daughter, a girl of 15 years of age, for fear she should make it known that her mother stole soma geese. After the crime was disovered, she confessed that two years ago she dispatched her father-in-law in the same manner, to inherit the property sooner, and five months ago the husband of her eldest 'daughter, in order to Marry her to a richer man.—( Frankfort Papers, Dec. 21.) A correspondent says, 'that " Alston is now one of the most flourishing towns in the north of 'England, owing to the richness of the lead mines. The proprietor of .Iludgill Burn mine will share this year between thirty and forty thousand pounds,sexclusive of the fifth lot of bre to the Governors of Greenwich Hospital, as Lords of the Manor. The whole of the land under which the above mine is situated is not 'worth 41, poy annum."--( Tyne Mercury.) NORTIIUMBERLAND7HOUSE. . . ' The repairs at the front of - . I .Noithumberland House (which are now completely finished] have given an en tirely new face to this memento of the splendour of our an cient Nobility; and were it not for the confined situation in which it stands, which prevents any thing like an advantageous sight of it, it must, notwithstanding the grotesque character of its ar chitecture, be viewed with a considerable degree of admiration. A drawing,, by Holler, in the Pepysian library at Cam bridge, gives us an interesting view of the original mansion on this site ; which though generally resembling the present building, differed in several particulars from it, especially on the Thames side. In that it is shown of a square form, with towers and turrets at the four corners; and gardens at the back, reaching down to the river, which are bounded by a wall, and stairs for taking water. The style of this first structure, as appeared from considerable remains of it lately existed, -was that distinguished by the name of " Elizabethan :" the walls being of red brick, with large stone-framed windows. It was erected on the site of the Hos pital of St. Mary Rouncival, which was founded by William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, in the reign of Henry 111. sup pressed as an alien Priory by Henry V., refounded by Edward IV, for a fraternity, and finally suppressed by Henry VIII., at which period its inmates are mentioned • to have con sisted of a master, wardens, brethren, and sisters. Edward VI. granted the site to Sir Thomas Cawarden, or Caver den. It was afterwards transferred to Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, who, in the time of James 1., built him self the house just described, which he called after his own name. He left it to his kinsman, the Earl of Suffolk, Lord Treasurer, and by the marriage of Algernon Percy, Earl of No: thumberland, with Elizabeth, daughter of Theophihis, Earl of Suffolk, it passed inte,the family of the present Noble Owners. Part of the present mansion is from the designs of Bernard Jansen, and the frontispiece; r gateway, from those of Gerrard Christmas, who haOeft- his mark, or initials, at top. This gate way cannot possibly be described correctly, as the ornaments are scattered in the utmost profusion from the base to the attic, which supports a copy of Michael Angelo's celebrated lion. Double ranges of grotesque pilasters inclose eight inches on the sides, and there are a:bow window and an open arch above the gate. The basement' of the whole front contains fourteen niches, with imitations of ancient weapons crossed within them ; and the upper stories have twenty-four windows, in two ranges, with pierced, battlements. Each wing terminates in a cupola, and the angles rustic quoins. . , The quadrangle within the gate is in a better style of build ing, but rather distinguished by simplicity than grandeur. The present gardens next the Thames, from their fine growth of trees serve to screen the back • part of the house from those disagreeable objects -which have, in modern times, usurped part of their site, and which generally bound the shores of the river in this vast trading city ; but it is to be regretted,. as a late writer observes, that the whole of these in cumbrances cannot be done away with, and as the public con venience would not admit of restoring the gardens to their origi nal length, the site formed into a noble terrace walk. The Dukes are said . to possess the powers at any time• of giving the spot this desirable improvement ;.- as the late Duke received a lease from the Crown of all the intervening ground as far as the River ; and within the last few years; an absolute exchange for certain lands in Northurriberland to erect batteries on against foreign invasion, at the period when the project of universal fortification prevailed. Northumberland-house was discovered to be on fire March 18, 1780, at five o'clock in the morning, which raged from that hour till eight, when the whole front next the Strand was com pletely destroyed. Dr. Percy's apartments were consumed, but great part of his library escaped the general ruin. The Duke distributed large sums of money amongst the firemen.— 1 The present front was only erected after this accident; and though it needed the renovation it has just received, was, it will be perceived by this statement, by no means so old as some people may have imagined it. The ground adjoining Northumberland house, on which Hungerford-market now stands, was formerly the 'site of the town-mansion of the Himgerfords of Fairleigh, in Wiltshire. Sir Edward Hungerforcl, created a Knight of the Bath, at the coronation of King Charles the Second, owned thi4 residence, which had then large gardens attached; but, influenced by the same motives that prompted his illustrious eastern neighbour, determined to sacrifice the honour of his ancestors at the shrine of Plutus, and obtained an Act in that reign to make lease Of the scite and grounds, where the present market was soon after wards erected ! - It, however, now bears strong marks of ruin, though honoured ,by the presence of a hideous bust, probably of Sir Edward—possibly of Charles IL The passages round this market, from being, so extremely narrow and unpleasant, seem to have been the cause that it is so little frequented. St. Martin's-lane, much used as a thoroughfare from the northern parts of the town, is extremely narrow and incon venient. And the Strand, facing Northumberland House, is, perhaps, more confined than any ;other portidn of that busy street; consequently the front cannot operate, as we first observed, in improving the general appearance of the neigh bourhood. The public are indebted to Dr. Barbor for widen ing St. Martin's-lane, which formerly was much worse than at present, as may be seen from old prints of the spot. This happened about the year 1639. He petitioned the Legislature in that year, representing that part of the revenue from hackney coaches had been appropriated for this purpose • that he had contracted with the 'Commissioners for 50001., and for 7501. to purchase a piece of ground to enlarge the church-yard, and that he had received but 4990/. when the Act expired. Charing-cross, as now widened, is also anotherimportant im provement to this spot. The 'ancient cross, which gave it its name, stood on the exact site where the statue of Charles I. is now situated, and was removed by the frantic populace as a rem nant of superstition too leniently spared by time. Ina scarce tract, intituled " a Dialogue between the Crosse in Cheap, and Charing Crosse, comforting each other as fearing their fall in these un certain times" (1641), is a wood cut, in which two Bishops are represented in the act of supporting the cross, which appears reduced to a mere fragment, and over the tallest are - the words " Help Wren—or we are undone men." To which the other answers, "It shall not fall—to ruin all." • Wren was Bishop of Ely from 1638 to 1863. This dialogue informs us, that it was made all of white marble, which was not perceived by every one • and so cemented with mortar, made of the purest lime,, Callisssand, the whites of eggs, and the strongest work, that defied all hatchets and hammers whatsoever. That first 'in Henry the Eighth's days, it was begged, and should have been degraded, for having, as it had, :a stately ascent of many steps,. it should have been , taken from them ; and when Somerset-house was building, it was again in danger ; that one of Queen Elizabeth's footmen had like to have run away with it, but its greatest danger was in the time of James 1., when it was begged eight times. It appears further, from the same tract, that it was then so decayed as not to be worth ' begging ; and the following are the uses to which it is said to have been destined. Part of it was bespoken to make a kitchen chimney for the chief constable of Shoreditch ; an innkeeper in Holborn bad bargained for as much of it as would make him two troughs, one to stand under a pump to water his guests' horses, and the other to give his swine their meat in. " The rest of my poor carcase," the cross is made to say " should have been carried I know not whether !" Few places are better calculated for a cross or statue than this. The present figure is elevated on a pedestal of stone, seventeen feet high, and is ornamented with trophies, palms, genii, and the Royal Arms. The horse and effigies of bronze, are by Herbert Le Scour. V.lfe Medley for August, 1719, mtn tions that the King's statue had been defaced, and expresses some surprise that the artist had omitted a girth to the saddle, which is certainly the fact. This statue, about which Pennant tells his entertaining story of the brazier, is said to have been not buried in the ground, but to have been concealed during the interregnum, in a vault within Covent-Garden church-yard. Mr. Vancost, of - Hyde Park Corner, cast an equestrian statue of George 1., modelled from this, in 1721. The St. James's Evening Post,of July 19, 1729, contains the foll6wing article :—" The workmen, in making the new Sewer at Charing-cross, have found a statue in fine marble. The labourer, by digging, broke off the arm. The work manship of this statue is surprisingly beautiful, and has amused some of the virtuosi, and was generally said to have been a Julius Ccesur ; but it is found to be St. Sebastian tied to a tree. who was to be shot to death by arrows. The dying passions expresied by distorted muscles anti agonising pangs are beauti fully fine ; and it is looked upon as a very great curiosity." he value of the freehold and inheritance of the ground and buildings from Spring-gardens-passage to the Admiralty was gstimated, in 1757, at 25,3441., exclusively of a brick house ad joining to the gateway near the Horse Guards, said to be worth 1,137/. * Year Books of the reigfi of Henry VIII. Extracts from The Dal% Journal Newspaper of January 1, 1722 : " Last week a very considerable sum of money was lent into the Exchequer at 3 per cent. " On Sunday a woman was seized near London Wall, for wearing a 'gown faced with calico, and being counselled before a Magistrate, and refusing to pay the penalties inflicted by the Statute, she was committed to the Compter." PRICE OF SOME OF THE STOCKS. South Seas . Swordblade Bonds - 1001 21. 10s. per cent. dis. FOR THE SUN. NEWSPAPERS. Mtt. EDITOR—We all remember the famous Whig Vote, that the Influence of the Crown " had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished ;" which, like many other posi tions of that sect of philosophers, was directly in _opposition to the truth ; but nqw, with more sound reason (if you will not be offended) we may apply a similar assertion to newspapers; namely, that "they have increased, continue in that state, and ought to be diminished." Ido not allude to their number, for that might admit of a more exact parody ; 44 it has increased, is increasing," &c. But the natural check to that increase, and one that is infallible, is the failure of some, of which we see frequent examples. I speak of the enormous magnitude 'of our papers, a;id the compressed form in which they are printed, with types almost invisible, except to very acute sight ; insomuch that any single paper of the Herald, Post, Times, &c. would make a very ample octavo volume, if printed in the common form and letter of political pamphlets. Such is the effect, that many honest persons, who might otherwise study books, now read nothing but newspapers, to the total loss of their time ; for all that they read in the Herald is regularly contradicted in the Times ; all that the Post says, is pronounced false by the Chronicle, to which the Courier again gives tile lie, which it is in turn to receive from the Statesman, Examiner, &c. Thus the whole amount of this laborious study comes to nothing ; the several Papers, like acids and alkalies neutralizing each other. Mean while, the eyes of these readers must suffer grie vously, by the smallness of the letters ; and it may be doubted whether the Egyptian Optthal mia ever made havock with those organs as the news-mania: and this at a time when there is really no news. Observe the foreign papers, how modest their size, how limited their contents ; part of which they also borrow from our folios. Nor do I less pity the unfortunate editors, than I lament the suffering of the public. How they labour to fill tip their vast waste of Elephant-sheet ! One cuts a slip from this book, another from that. One pays a vast salary to a correspondent kept in foreign countries, to supply foreign lies, or, what is still worse, continental speculations. Another is at an equal expellee to pay runners, who are to attend, and detail, all the miserable petty causes of our several police offices. These narratives, to he sure, they sometimes enliven with wit and humour of their own ; but after all, what a pic ture of things is this, to go out into the world ! How must foreigners of all countries, be surpris ed and disgusted at it ! What can they think of a people who encourage such groveling nonsense? Permit me then to give one short piece of ad vice, of which you, I am sure, Mr. Editor, must feel the wisdom and advantage. Let the large sized papers be confined to the sittings of Par liament ; when Englishmen may have a rational wish to know what is said by those who are entrusted to make or amend their laws. But the moment the adjournment or prorogation takes place, let them shrink to their ancient form ; so shall much labour be saved to you Editors, many eyes be preserved to old age, which now must be early extinct ; and the book reading of many worthy persons be resumed, to the great advan tage and increase of learning. Your's, CONTRACTOR. The late expulsion of several students from the College of the East India Company in Hertfordshire is said to have been decreed, in conformity with the rules of the Institution. Upon that point we offer no opinion; but cer tainly those rules are originally bad, which, in a society of youths, that is, in circumstances, where the greatest probabi lity of error exists, are, found to afford no middle course be tween the toleration of gross outrages and the exclusion of every opportunity for exercising thelaculties'there cultivated, or gratifying the hopes there 'excited. At this College the system of education is, in a great degree, one of disqualifica tion for every other employment, than that under the East India Company. Languages of very difficult attainment are acquired, which are totally useless in any other service. Much of the other knowledge taught is inapplicable, or, at least, im material elsewhere: And to the acquisition of these qualifica tions for India, years are appropriated, in which faculties re ceive the direction and impulse and habits, that almost always form the future man, as far as regards intellectual exertion. It is also certain, that not one of the lads sent to this College is placed there except in consequence,of some particular prospect of encouragement in India. In our Universities the education is to be a Prqftssion, the whole sphere of which is open to the student ;in this College it is to a Service—a local and espe cial service. Yet in Universities, it is well known that final expul sion is rarely pronounced. Rustication for a year is asentence fora very flagrant violation of statutes. The offences committed at the Hertfordshire College require some severe castigatic le; but have any of the offenders deserved civil death ? Are they to be rendered burthens upon their families, or upon society, for the long remainder of their existence ? Are their families to be still further impoverished, after having made what to many was a painful expenditure upon their education ? We cannot believe that all this severity is without aPossibilitv of remis sion ; and we trust, that the Right Rev. Visitor, when an ap peal shall reach him, will be solicited to moderate the sentence even by those, who thought themselves obliged to pass it.— ( Morning Paper.) It was stated in a Chester Paper a few weeks ago, which we did not think it worth while at the time to contradict, that the late storm would cause a loss to the Liverpool Underwriters of nearly 100,0001.; but as the article has since been copied into most of the London and Pro vincial Journals, we now deem it necessary to say, that there is no truth in the statement. — We believe in no storm ever experienced here ha's there been less serious damage done to the shipping—the whole of the vessels which were diveu on shore in the river by the gale, having since been fortunately got off and brought into the Docks, with the exception of the Rock inghatn, from New York, which has been con demned, but her cargo was saved; so that the Underwriters have sustained comparatively but little loss. This is not the first time unfounded statements have originated in the same quarter, respecting the commerce and other matters con nected with this port.—(Liverpool Advertiser) A tread-mill is now erected in the County Goal at Gloucester. It is attached to the Peni 'tentiary, and will be worked in two divisions, by about 32 prisoners. The power is to be applied in grinding corn and pumping water. IN NOCE NT S.—Holiday at the Bank, Exchequer, East India and South Sea Houses. PRICE OF FOREIGN STOCKS IN LONDON, DEC. 28. AT ONE O'CLOCK. Five per Cents. 00. (Six per Cents. 00. Russian Five per Cents. (Metallic) 00. Ditto New 04. Neapolitan _( Five per Cent: Bonds, 772. I Scrip, 78.1. • - Austrian Five per Cents. (Metallic) 00 Spanish French Five per Cent. Bonds, 63. New Ditto, 57. Scrip, 71 disc. Prussian I Five per Cent. Bonds, 83. t Ditto New, 86. Danish Five per Cent. Bonds, 9/. Chili . 73A. oia Bonds, 00. COlom \ bian { Six per Cent. Bonds, 64. Ditto Scrip, 00. New Loan, 78. Peruvian AMERICAN FUNDS, LONDON. Dec. 27. £2l £2l 5 79 96 NEW TORIC. N0v.25,1622. 103 A 104 77 8 1044 105 t 103 4 104} 106 i 7 108 9 1054 Divd. from July, lthd. I-92 100 Divd. from Oct. 1922. 12i 1 pm. , . , N BRIDGE I Evening, 11 1 1 0-SfORROW. • i minutes after 3. r Bank Shares . 3 , per cents 5 per cents. 1820 1821 6 per cents. 1812 1813 .. 1814 ~ 1815 ~ 7 per cents • Exchang HIGH WATER AT LONDC Morning, 3 minutes after 3. flfl SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICERE FALSUM AUDEAT LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1822. The French Papers received since our last do, not contain any intelligence of importance re specting the great question of Peace or War. — OUR. PRIVATE INFORMATION, HOW EVER, IS DECISIVELY PACIFIC. One of our Contemporaries announced yesterday; on " high authority from Paris," that " thei King of FRANCE is decided for Peace,"—that " even the Duke of MONTMORENCY, the' sup posed Champion of the war party, professes to have no warlike intentions,"—and that " the KING and the Princes of the Blood had yielded to the reasonings of the Duke of WELLINGTON: 7 We anticipated this intelligence so far back as the 13th instant, having stated in THE SUN of that .day, that " the Duke of WELLINGTON is upori the most intimate terms with his French M JESTY, who has expressed in strong terms his in tendon to maintain peace in his old age." Our Readers are aware that we have since adhered to the opinion that the greater probability was in favour of the continuance of peace, and that we have ascribed the pacific disposition which had been communicated to the French Govern-- ment, chiefly to the influence of England, exer cised through the Duke of WELLINGTON, to whose high character and consummate address.,- under the direction of the spirited,.enlightenedr and truly British policy of Mr. CANNING, Europe is indebted for the prospect of continued repose- The Monitenr, the Official Paper of the French Government, has extracted several articles frotr , THE SUN of the 20th instant, and amongst others the following passage from our leading article of that day : " We regret to say that the gloom which was produced br the rumours of yesterday is not yet removed ; and the renewed confidence with which the hope of continued peace was enter' tained, has in consequence somewhat abated. It is obviefuo' that in the feverish state . of politics much must depend orl the prudence and forbearance of the Spaniards themselves- The first aspect of affairs, after the return of the Duke de 11losTmoRENcr to Paris- from Verona, was so deeded- 1 1 warlike, that it is possible that the Spaniards, for the believing hostilities to be unavoidable, may hoe' been betrayed into expressions or conduct which the' French Government would he unable to brook, without ut. , terly compromising its own dignity, and all claim to respect , ' We trust that this precipitate imprudence has been avoided 00 the part of Spain . ; and that France has been furnished with no new motive for war, at a time when pacific Councils seem to have gained the ascendancy in her Cabinet." We consider that the insertion of the preced ing paragraph by the Monitor,. is of considerable importance ; for, the unfavourable rumours to which we alluded merely regarded the alleged con' ductof MINA towards the French Army of Obser. vation, and the reported desertion of two regiments from that army, and their subsequent junction with the Spaniards. These rumours, it has since appeared , were false. Th© Moniteur, therefore, by adopt' ing our article, indirectly admits, that in th e decision of the question of Peace or War, " muc h must depend," not on any pre-d e t erm i na tion ° the 'French Government, but, "on the po i ' dence and forbearance of the Spaniards thrill' selves." By the insertion of our article, tool The Moniteur may be considered as joining wit h us in the expression of a hope that the Spaniard° will avoid all imprudent precipitation in their duct, and that " France has been furnishe d with no new motive for War, at a time when pacific Councils seem to have gained th e ascendancy in her Cabinet !" It is difficult to imagine any motive which could induce tb ° Moniteur to quote these expressions from Of ,' Y Pap tha:t Cab dap tion offic W of of Sin hay m 2 he B►