The Sun. — London, England, 1817-12-03 00:00:00

SO I.J'f I-I AM EP ICA. The recent PiioCLAIATION probfbiting 'l3rit:ish Subjects from engaging in behalf of 'the Spanish Colonies, must, of course, liervent o u r Country- Dien from enga t :i , ige in so desperate an undertak ing. It is.moch to 'he retzretted that our Govern. ment did not isittell;is Proclamation months ago es it iiould have 3,eved many of our gallant Conn 'trVm•`si frrim an untnnely far. We have often cautionedfiritish Adventurers agai'ust this perilous - enterprise, into which they have been seduced by the artful Agents of the Insurgents in this Conn try, as well as by The Morniag Chnolikle, and other Reforming journals. IVe take the following ar ticle from The Leeds futelligencer, a Paper that is always Zealous to diffuse sound principles and to give good counsels : ADVENTURERS TO SOUTH ANIERMA. " The proofs of the mi,ery attending emigra tion to North America, are scarce equal to the horrors, which have overtaken•the adventurers to South America, in aid of the Spanish Rebels.— Seduced by the specious. descriptions and glowing falsehoods of unprincipled writers, -thousands of enterprising young tuen,have fallen into the pit of i li sery prepared for thim. There have been no distinctions in the fate which indiscriminately overwhelmed British Officers and disbanded .pri 'vale solifiers and sailors—the spirited sous of re spectable families, and needy or desperate adven turvrs. On the 31st of inly, about a hundred British Officers, noturUhstanding the solemn warnings which were given theni, embarked at Portsmouth, on hoard the Two Friends, on this desperate and culpable enterprise. Amongst these was a young Officer,t he son of a re.spectable Gentleman in this town., Front his anxions dint afflicted Fadier we have received the following Extract from his firgt • Letter —not an unfair and garbled extract, but containing lively word of the original at all relat ing to the sunjecr. It will be ;sad by the public • with interest—wilb pity and indignation —pity for the sufferings of - the unfortunate men, and indig nation aghast the cold-blooded villainy of their • beti avers. " We know that this Letter was also carried to - the Editor of The Mercury ; and we trult that very fair and impartial' Gentleman can satisfactorily account for dismissing it with a short paragraph, not in the slightest degree descriptive - of its con tents. Though he must he conscious that not a small shark( of the responsibility for all this mis chief ought to rest upon his own bead, yet instead • .of expressing any compunction, he contents him self with speaking - of the affair as an individual • disappointment to the Officers by that single ship. Not one word of the three British Officers who died of want f—Not• a, word of tide danger of sharing the same fate, from which the writer him self was rescued by the humanity of a Frenchman ! Not a word of the ruined cause of the Indepen dents, or rather Banditti t nor of the numerous Officers whO are returning from - their Service, in . a state of naked wretchedness, after having . been plundered - of every thing by the robbers with whom they had the dishonour to be asso. • Ciated 4" _ Island of Thomas, Oct. e, 1817. " DEAR FATHER,.--We arrived here on the • :Ist •of Sep:ember, after a most unpleasant voyage, but the most unpleasant part of the event is, that we 'have all completely been im • posed upon, and taken in, for you will scarce cre dit me when I inform you, that instead of meet ing an agent here to pay us our dollars, and give directions as to our removal to the Spanish Main, and tb transact the other necessary business of the ship, as promised by that Mr. Mendez (the agent in London), we found ourselves ino;t shattlefidly duped, and not a single snuff to ad vance-a farthing for the skip, neither by hills, or any other plan, so that the Captain has been un der the necessity of selling part of. the ship's stores, &c. to pay the port charges, and we to part with our clothes to get a meal, having•left the ship, and endeavouring to get a•passage for our return to England, the affairs of the Inde pendents being in such a wretched situation, as 'to preclude the possibillity of going on. Such 'unfortunate officers, Americans, Fiend), &c. as had entered their service, have been ret trruing by this island, in a most wretched state, having been robbed of their clothes and effects ; _and the descriptions they give arc truly shocking, being nothing but a set of hand , tti, living on raw . meat like cannibals, all quarrelling one with an. ether, and instead of au army, there are two' or three parties, jealous of t itch other, and conse- Trendy injuring the cause they wish to serve. On imy first arrival here, when I found the situation (if things, I &let mined to return, as did a ls o a great number of the most yespectable characters, ainongst whom is Lieut. P— -t of the Ma rines, who resides at Portsmouth, and who will put this letter into the post for me. " We are trot the only ship that has been taken in, a schooner with 30 or 40 officers left England on the same terms that we did, arrived here, and found themselves in a similar situation with ours - Selves ; after selling their effects to pay their - debts, they got into debt again, and being unable to pay, some were put into dungeons, others fled to the Mountains, where three of them died through want of food, and the rest, in the greatest distress, returned back to England. There is no British Consul here,. therefore no means of getting money, even by bills. All the places on board the two brigs. that are here direct for England are taken up by the passengers, consequently I turned ray attention towards New 'York, thinking 1 could easily get a passage from thence to Eng land, by introducing myself to Messrs• but how to accomplish this I was at a loss, being svithout money, and the Captain having refused to take me on my promise of paying him on my arrival ,at New York, and it is more than proba ble, 1 might have staid to perish, had it not been for a noble act of generosity I met with how a res dent Frenchman, Monsieur Souffron, a very respectable merchant, who most kindly offered to pAy my passage money in tbe and It. Livy, to New Bedford (about 16 days and •Irom, then c e in the stage to New York, in one 11.1 v ; when Loffered hint an ackowiedament for the !Worley. he refused it, saying he knew I sholild pay him when I was able; and which 1 promised to do from New York., " The scenes I have witnessed here of our dis tress, I was not prepared to expect ; we love been obliged to sell every thin:..7 mein% and eYenltece" sary ; if that Monlet could take a view of us, I think lie 'Would repent.' " MORE THAN SIX THOUSAND TICKETS 'WILL BE DRAWN NEXT FRIDAY, THE SECOrk:D DAY OF DRAWING, AND,VERY TICKET W;LI, BE A PRIZE. ALL :FIE SI PRIZES OF TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS ARE YET IN THE WHEEL. ERRATUM.—Iff Mr. SWlPz's Address for Mrs. RAYMOND'S, late Benefit, line 29,—for doom, read room. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed Last Night. THEATRE ROYAL, Datitiv-LANE.—The Honey-Moon : the Dube Aranza, Mr. H. Johnston; Juliana, Mrs. Davison. After which, The Falls of Clyde. TH EATRE ROYAL,COVENT-GARDEN.-6uy.Mannering : Henry Bertram, Mr. Braham ; Lucy Denial% Miss Stephens. After which, Killing No Murder. MAILS. ARRIVED-. 1 France, 1 Dublin. DUE-1 France, I Holland, Gottenburgh, 3 Hantburo, I Guernsey and Jersey, 4 Wa terford. _ PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TwILLYE iett.. , CK. Bank Stock,.. 2.90k 291 1 Bank L. Ann. . . .... 2: 1-16th 8 per Cent. Red........ 82114 j India Stock, 247 A per Cent. Cons 8346 4 , India Bo di.... .964..975. pr. 1 4 tier Cents.- z . : 1.:.'36c.) 99i4 . 1ti11'5....... 184. 235. hr. 5 per Ct..N. Ann...loBi 101 CIIIIS. Inc Acc0urrt,....83.1/ 84 HIGH WATER ATIJONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning, 7 !ninnies after 10. I Evening, winutcs after 10, THE SUN. 301.144' QUIS DICERS FALSUM AUDEAT. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER $, 1817. We received this morning the illoniteur and the Journal des Debuts of Saturday last. None of the other journals of that day, nor any of Sunday, which were due this morning, have yet come to hand. The following ,are extracts : " Plats, Nov. 29..•-• Yesterday the King, after transacting business with the Duke de „Richelieu, went to Saint Cloud.' " The funeral of the Pere Elys4e took place yesterday afternoon. His remains were conveyed to the parish church of Saint Germain l'Auxerrois, and, after the religious ceremony, were interred in the•ceznetery of Pere la '" CHAINVER OF DEPUTIES. " BULLETI N OF NOY. 28. " To-morrow there be au assemblage in the Bureaux at noon, for the examination of the ojet of Law regarding the Concordat. " At three o'clock there will be a public sitting to receive a communication from the Kingl Mi nisters respecting the Law of Recruitment. " Monday, it is supposed, M. Faget de Banre will report from the Committee on the Projet re specting the Liberty of the Press. " The Pension List, copies of which have been delivered to the Deputies, contains 196,205 pen sinners. The amount of pensions is 63,595,003 francs. " The sentence passed upon Mr. William Wal lace, an Ex English Officer, by the Tribunal of Correctional Police of Paris, on a charge of swindling, has been set aside on appeal by the Cour Royale, and the complaint against him dis missed. " FIVE PER CENTS. "Friday 63 f. 90 c. " LAUSANNE, Nov. 2l.—The Ministers of France and Austria have, in concert, transmitted an official note, formally complaining of 'several public Journals of Switzerland, which become the echo of incendiary Journals in. other Countries, directed by incorrigible Revolutionists, and de clared enemies to the repose of nations. These two Ministers also complain or' incendiary Pamph lets, which they designate by name, circulated by means of the Swiss presses in France. They con cliide their note by demanding the effe.:-tual sup pression of these scatulalous abuses of the Press.". Lest we should be mistaken as to what we said yesterday, in answer to the article which appeared in The Anti-Gallican Monitor of Sunday last, we t chink it necessary to resume the subject. When we declared our conviction that the continuance nt the Army of Occupation in France was abso lutely essential to secure the continuance of the King upon the Throne, we did not Mean to say that we conceived the majority of Fre nc h /mil to be inimical to his Government, but, on the contrary, intimated our belief that the wise part of else French People would reflect on their sufferings, under the control!l of bloody miscreants, and re . joice iq.tlte rectotatiou of their lawful Monarch, flit how 'easily are a . people, or at least such a part of the pe , :ple, Who may be ahle awe the rest, seduced by artifice., 'terrified by Menaces, Or tempted by interest ; hm - V easily, we say,. mIY a peOple he prompted to thrOU7 off their allegiance by such means; and incited trio by the hopes of shaving in the Government ! The dreadful - hist cofy of the French Revnlution slims with what facility artful, anibitions, and wicked men can ter rify a people and spread ruin over a State. France, therefore, and all Euinpe, cannot be too cautious lest the same cause izhiitild produce the same effects. ft is eVident that there is a Jacobinical predorni nance ih the present French Ministty. it is im possible that if the Kbig were not influenced in his choice of Ministers by a desire of temporary repose, after all that he and his Country have suf fered; that he would haVe selected such Men as, directly or indirectly, had a Aare in pro ducing the miseries of Vrance, and in uphold ing the authority of a flagitinus Usurper. They have forted themselves upon him by their intrigueS; and obliged him to decline the serviEei of those who feel fur his honour, who participated in his sufferings, and who have the character of their country More in view than the possession of pri ical power. Such men are excluded from a share in the Government, and are honourably branched by the name of Ultras, as if such men had not suf ficiently tasted of trrisfortnn - a, and were likely to expose themselves and their country to new hor rors, by measures tending to injure that country, and to incense its people. Those who revile or ridicule those Ultras, as they are artfully and in vidiously designated, may be reasonably suspected of having some secret bias, and they give strength to the rumours circulated, not ()Orin Paris, but in this .CO . nntry, that the French Minister is daily -attended by an English Agent, for the base pur pose of learning from that Minister what 'is to be conveyed to the English Nation, through the base medium of a corrupted English Journal ? - The vacillating speculations of The Morning Chronicle are not much calculated to raise its po litical Credit. A . few days ago the Emperor of RUSSIA was held forth by it as the great Bugbear of Europe, hut now the King of Paussta has ex cited its apprehensions, lest his demands on France should . tend to embroil that Kingdom with new distresses. How long is it' Since The Morning 'Chronicle felt such concern for' France, except, indted, for the •Jacotinical part of Sit, who have strangely arisen into power, and whri may weld alarm,. and he expected to disturb the tranquillity .of other States, if they should be permitted to gain the ascendant in that kingdom. But of all the audacious, ant', at the same time, s 7 lly suggestions of The Chronicle, its observation, in a pretended letter from Paris, that Prussia " feels conscious that she, has wounded the pride and excited the animosity of the French Nation collectively, by injudicious insults and an ungenerOus abuse of victory," is the most contemptible. Does The Chronicle suppose that its credulous Readers have lust all recrillection ? What were the sufferings of Prussia tinder French *Domina tion % Was not the Prussian Monarch driven from his Throne, obliged to part with a portion of his territories, dragged into a war with Powers with whom he was anxious to remain in the most amicable alliance, by France ? Did not the Queen of Paussra fall, broken-hearted, a victim to the insults which her Husband, her Country, and herself had experienced ? Was not this mass of injury, irijnv lice, insult, and oppression►, sufficient to justify, retaliation on the part of Prussia, if ever she ob tained the Power of retribution ? It matters not to urge that it was BUONAPARTE, and not• " the French Nation collectiveffy " that in flicted these miseries on Prussia, for " the French Nation collectively" submitted to the . yoke of that Monster, and therefore • ought to be 'an'sfverible . for Lis conduct. But bow does it ap pear, except in the false rumours, and confident assertions of mischievous spit its, that Prussia has acted with harshness towards France in making demands which she is at present incapable of discharging. The necessities of Prussia, brought on by " the French Nation collectively," may. require from France an adherence to the ohliga : lions which it incurred for its own restoration to a legitimate Government, under which alone the French People can he happy and secure. But from the known character of the King of PRUSSIA, it is by no means likely that be would make any' demands, except such as might be prompted by his -Own necessities, and why, under all circumstances, he should feel more tenderness for France than for himself, it is difficult to con ceive. Besides, is it likely that, in any measures which Prussia might ad►►pt towards France, it ivould not consider its own character, and the itn- pressian which its conduct would make upon other S►arcs, before it proceeded to Any harsh extremi ties 1‘ it is also probable, that iu any measures rner. • 411 . 1611 tis:idnight l,ers•clif : of adopti t g toks•Ards France, site V. - 11(114 het' Mlles Ci ' t tier intentiiini, and woo;d be anxi f Co convince them that She intended more than tiec&i::ty requ:red and Inlly'tvarriqs o Upon the irhotc, Wte ba r e little doubt. that 11 ' conduct (f Prussia has been most basely atisreff seated, and if any Englisbjournal has, accortiii to report, really sold itself to i'rance, it is not it reasonable 16 suppose, that they who are constaP ly directing their venoni against the King PatisstA Inly act according to order, and parti4 pdte iu its pecunhiry pdtrondge; \%'e have received a communication ftotrt Correspondent, who states, that the arrangCtheif for the retirement of his Royal iliglinesS the bill' . of YORK front the office of Commander-itiCV, arc nearly completed. His Royal Highness tft carry with him into retirement from the acti l ' duties of,:this situation, a consciousness of a re,, indepeutfant and useful discharge of them, and Ali be accompanied by the applause and good wig!' of all classes. "the functions of Commander-in-Chief will (I ( ' yoke (.1c is usual in time of peace) on the &el . tary at War, who %rill conduct tine same under ti v contrail %f hiS Majesty's Ministers. That Most active and oicellent public Servafi f r. l , Sir HENRY TORRENS, will, on the retirement His Royal Master, succeed to the appniutme r of Adjutant-General, in the room Of Sir 11 , Cm.vaal., who has so ably filled' that situation many years, and who •Will retire upon a hsii! ( ' some private fortune, acid the provisiOn of 111? Regiment of two Battalions. ST. NEOTT l S. — Wecinestiq, tile 19th of 1. 2 4 ' ventbir, being the tiny nppointed for the terinent of the lamented Princess CuAtttorT/' our shops here closed with a general ceW' tion from business,' pursuant to a Itesolutto a passed at a Public Vestry Meeting, held in th e Parish Chnrch of this place. The new 13,,ptil' Meeting House was opened for public worship the morning, at half-past 1 0 o'clock ,where the col' gtegation assembled \ in expectation of hearing Sermon in unison with those reflections their lancholy feelings suggested and their sombre pearance warranted, but were disappointed V the Pastor prefacing a discourse, froth 4th verse of the 32d chapter of .Deuterono" my, with the following observation :—" The'" is no. doubt but some persons present hal , ' 'come with the expectation of hearing a neral Sermon for the - Princess CHARLOTTE ; if s.'!‘ they will be altogether disappointed. She wig;'" have possessed some amiable valifrewions, aught I know, in a moral point of view; but tlo can assert, that all who are not converted by tilt grace of God will go to bell. Of the nine& CHARLOTTE I know nothing, therefore can 5"! nothing about her ; and if other people choose preach a Funeral Sermon for a cat, that is no ree son why. I should.''—lt may he proper to obsol' that this Clergyman is a well-known characte . He is supposed to have been engaged in certaP periodical works, which made swats: R ! ' tacks upon Dr. MARSH, the present excellcri. Bishop of Llandaff. . COI N•EXCHANGE, DEC. 3.--Although we bac'' , but few fresh Arrivals this morning, the prices Monday for Wheat and Oats were not so easilg obtained as on that day : Fine Barley supports price ; Malt is Very dull ; in Pease and Beat'' there is no alteration. A ,curious dispute has arisen upon the meaning of words, with regard to the navigati' of the Rhine. The Congress for Vienna detrc mined in one o f its Acts that the navi gat i on o f Rhine should.be free to the sea (jusqu' a la and a Commission was some time since appoint' j to take the necessary measures f o r carr yi ng article into effect. The Government of the N . l_ , therlands; however, a t th e i nstance ( as a ll eg e; of. Alarine -Corporat-ion of - Rottetdarm, tend that the above expression mean 0 0 4 .that vessels may d escen d t h e Ri ver to mouth, and not that they should he "Wowed enter upon the sea, in support of which ed i e strnction it is alleged, that if the Congrf . , had meant so to extei4 the navige.tion, would have used the expression jusques daits The C011)11114S1011, PlAy, ntaii taiu tht de actual intention of the Coug„ress was to rentl' r the navigation going out and comiog in complete l f free, and thus the matter at present rests. question involves some geographical difficulty, the Rhine, strictly speaking, has, no opening i`. the sea, but loses itself in Holland,• where waters only flow in conjunction with those of Maese, the Yssel, and othir Rivers. Yesterday we were fa voure d w i t h the peril't, t of a lett e r - f rom C a l a i s , d ate d t h e 28,b tilt. ‘vhir" contained intelligence of a nature deeply to be (V viored. The %%liter, whose veracity or tneanc 1) , intormayion we cannot d ou b t , states , t h at a t.'": days ago, a party o f B r i t i s h D ragoons. w i th io few milts of C a l a i s , L iv i ng occas i on to return r % their former cantonments, weir refused a do :r tance, when a fr:4C4i took place, in which soldiers were killed and eleven tvotinded. affair occasioned much coot ersation the boorhood ; and the circumstances attemli . v 1. ": quarrel w e r e expemed to form th e sl bjeo of immediate in vest igat ion. —(Times.) ,