The Sun. — London, England, 1817-12-17 00:00:00

DUCTILITY OF,THE CROWD. There is so much gond sense in the following Article, which displays an' air of vigorous origi- Jialityin the style, that We readily insert it by the desire ;01 an.. aid . Correspondent. We- confess, however, that we do nt;it see the - immediate Britt o.t the Writer', except it. be' to vindicate the me mot.}' of a.late persecuted Nobleman,. As for the c iprict of the multitude, that was well knownsbe fore they were; characterized by SHAKSPEARE, un der the designation Ot the " fond (foolish) MANY." " In the whirlwinilof the passions the reason of Man-lies still. It is only when the storm sub sides that 'the . judgment, breaking through the which obscure its course, comes. forth to assert ill dominion in the moral sunshine of the under,tanding. Among the great, the collisions of inlet est, the vividly of genius, the confliets-of ambition, the contagion of party, the fermenta tion of confederacy—in. the low awl vulgar, tire 'congregated workings Of mjlice, sof igifOrance, of envy, Arid the total destitution of all the charities, obstruct the sight and vitiate the opinion. Men see'with.the eyes and feel with the perceptions of the it comates in popular agitations. Injustice is vindicated .by, nunilrs, oppression concealed within the mist of expediency, and the cruelest' per?ecutinii sanctified - 6y: the fashion of the mo- Ment. Neither genius, nor virtue, nor•a long life. of jitiblicservicenonor celestial attributes, can save the that is 'destiiied for --sacrifice.— Universal history concurs in the universal suite , lorliyof SOCRATES to all.cotemporaries. They 7-- • even they, who question CHRIST'S divinity are sraggvred at the spotless perfection of his morals: 'Yef, no two beings were ever run at .with more pOpular fervour than were the illustrious heathen, ' and the heavenly founder of christianity. The • Godand the godlike mortal were put to death like' Malefactors—the besotted crowd in both cases - being eu,4er that upon their beads' should be the irloOd of both. Protesting agbinet any profanity, would refer to the sacred weather of this illn— itration no farther than by recalling' to memory tithe blessed benevolence of that last prayeeforhis' ene'nkleC,- upon a principle which -deseribes - the:. ArOpulace . '"throngh every age, 'viz: , 'T'frat'''they-; %new riot . 'Ow they did.' At the instigation of . a ; "r* . feaV, the many insisted upon devoting- the most. pious man in lthens—Orfthe score of impiety. He, velio lived in the 'constant contemplation of the , Onlnipotent, was di'spatche'd from the face of the,. - earth—as a denier of his "existence. ' • • " Bnt ,SOCRATES had posthumous justice.' His destroyers' %vire slest royed in turn that senseless fury which commonly marks the dispen.- .sation of the people; the murderers- of - the fore most of mankind fellnpon their own Copartners in guilt;' fancying anindeninitylor one Crime in the perpetration of many more. It is true, no laW . is tnoretiist; than that the .devisers of wickedness shot& perish by their own arts'; arid to the lovers of even-handed' retribution it is consoling to see those who. make the 'public the tools of 'their scbeming, fall by_ own -instruments. Bin these capricious reparations come too late, 'l he ear of . SocttATEs was cold and dull when the vep . geanee of the mass of his' peiseentors overwheltrivd a portion of their accoMplices. The grand pro-• genitor .of the mischief is the trick of making the prililic. parties to crooked courses. -Rotten to the core is ;he philosophy which implies that the bias Of the human animal is towards - good. If there 'belt principle whose generality admits of no ex , Ception, it is this--?-that the people are never pain- pered but for a bad purpose. - Flummery is a viand serve/Ito the community only for illicit ends ; and: the ascribing of infallibility . to its deeds is the sitprethest of . impostures. As capricious in its' equity as in its tyranny ruthless, while no trust can •be placed in its impartiality, its -despotism is insupportable. The most luminous wisdom in all the gravity, first of silent - meditation, afterwards of social council, journeys—slowly—to doubtful tie termination ; resolving, perhaps when most de cided, only upon a choice among evils. But the crowd is never at fault. It dashes on like a pack of hounds ; yet, though led by the ,nose, it wants the hound's instinct; and trusts for the trailto precarious guidance. Equally devoid of retro spect foresight—' wanton' but without heed' and giddy' yet not • cunning,' the mul titude, in the confident port of ignorant rashness rushes to conclusion in full gallop. Incapable of understanding the prnportions of a pig-sty, it pronounces upon impala; works ;' and, though as blind to the merits at issue as the grubs under gr . /tutu!, Vociferates denunciation of mighty con cerns and great tneu, just as it is played upon by the wiles of the wire holders—who, even at the moment of making its gullibility a stalking 'horse to their own pursuits, despise it, utterly. - '" These truths are specially unveiled in a let,- ter to the late Mr. %VINDHA-M, when Secretary of State, written by another Member of that Gentle m'an's party. The letter is dated the I lth of Oc /ober 1806. Of it, though never published., there arc divers copies. Its general purport is .extrane ous to this discussion.; but some of the passages happen to 'be most peculiarly apposite. For exaniple' , s . 4 .."rhe 7ent,h Report' . (meaning the,,,doctiment out, of whiCh grew the impeachment against the late Loud MeLvit.Le), ' became the next topic ofpo :pulay interest. How that .business was •handled, though at that time yon slid not Conte much to Buba,s, you,. -1 believe, are not ignorant, the:night of. the 9tlt.of April ; (1805,-tise n girt after the vote of the Cornmons agaidst o tiOrdMi ..vitn,s) -Mr. said to me' Pray Pray stir the coon- -try if you can. •We !cOtild work- with.• tiouble effect, within„doori, Jrtve iiere ,pupported rwithout.' t"ete all in i the ni i -Fils't of -your rural enjoynie`..tsYduring recess 4 J !vas at the anvp ; •he . ;.country,' vpiittere td. say, the 'uniformity of • sengation, 4 lyHtieve - t - equalled Of toil yl 9 l, .form„ k oinekties f ,..w.hen yOu learn; that tlri v Akitess to the King front West 141ineY.s<41i14.4g,i 4 ~tyci.tt en the Mid idleses. 'Which %vele written. 14 - Mr; - . C-- ; a part of one Resolution Which ryas Worded; in a note to me, by the Duke of --;_ every line of every Resolution, Petition to the House of Gout- Irons and address to Oge King, (tliongll all lAA ciently varied not . to detray their corn - win origin). from the City of London ; from IVeStminster ; from Middlesex . ; and from' the Borough of Sowthwark, were all written,. by,nte. •The conW• try caught the example. of the capital,' &c. &c. Not SHAKSPEARE himself has depicted the Malleability of the populace and themanagement of their agitators-L , not 'Oren Shakspeare has given so clear a peeP at the Eleusinian mysteries of po litical caballing astbe passage just quoted. The . Monarch upon 'his throne was obliged to bear a part. in this, swelling scene,' against one of his faithfulest servants. In virtue of the privilege ac corded to the Corporation of - London; ` condign punishment' 'uppri' his. Naval Minister was invoked fromthe Sovefeign-L-to his very. beard—thizearot a private individual being the leeer that lifted this seat of empire against a Nobleman, the fidelity ,and generosity of whose character are known to have excited the esteem ,of this his opponent ; whose sole Motive in 'clothing his own conceits with the pomp and circumstance' of deliberat , ing cities and assembled counties was .the mere ardour of partisanship. 'Tis true, that in pro claiming the results, of .all . ctivveniious some one. person- must be , penstnan—but never, in any age or nation, not even at Athens, where almost every distinguished man was successively immolated, up- • on the altar of public baseness or folly,. were the contrivances' of political factorshipio maskedllll.• der the trappings of the popular. voice ae in the case of Lord MELVILLE. ' In that of Mr. flitsT ,l N.GS, the name oftbe nation was unabused.' His impeachment wa's the sole act of the•HOUse of ComMons'; and lengthened life has given to that' venerable Gentleman the rare solace of seeing the reverence '(when he lately appeared in the lower House. upon the renewal of the East India,Char= ter) manifested towards him—as if atonement were conveyed in the courtesy—by that branch of the Legislature which had formerly amerced what must be dearer to such a man than life—his fair fame. - " Let it' not be imagined that these observa tions'imply a sacrilegious disregard to the dead, or . any insinuation that the chief assailants the proceedings alluded to, were conscious of other than honourable Impulses.• Human conscience, however is a fallible monitor: Not to be righteous. over-much'--not to trust' too :im plicitly to the illusiveness of conscience' are, warnings which would be suggested by knOwledge of man's mind, even if they were not enforced by apostolic authority. Purity . of heart eloes not ex . - elude 'error of head—not esen in the impeachers, !nighty as they ,were, of Lord MaLvnt,e and Mr. HASTINGS. Yet such surely were their mental powers, that if Seized' with 4eonsciencet for calling the Ruler' to account for his that Grand Endowerhad showered intellect upon their minds in such prodigality . that they : could prefer a plausible impeacbthent against himself--- for his architecture of the universe. • . •,• • It would, however, be paltering with truth and, candour—it would be falsehood and-fraud, to disown that ,the prosecution against Lord ATELvILLE .was in reality .a contention 'for the administratiow.olthe9ovettiment. In Jacohioic lore, such a pursuit is bunting for loaves and fishes.' I affect to call the struggle by a truer appellative. Though reprobating the apothegm, that tricking is' all fair io love' or in politics ; yet is the strife of English Constitutional parties for ministering the .Constitutional Government - of England, the . ambition of, elevated souls. If the emotion, be sober folly' it is as the poet termed it— - ' The sober folly of the wise and. great ;' for in any other class the passion would be ludi crous. A desire to be intermingled with the high relations of the country—to be incorporated with its history—to redeem it from adverse, and to share its prosperous, 'fortunes--to promote and to par ticipate in its-glory—these are excitements which the slang of malignity cannot degrade ; and which nothing should ever extinguish in those who are qualified by nature and. fitted by station for the loftier spheres of society. The altitude of Lord MELVILLE attracted the siege, which in his person was laid against . the whole body of his colleagues. That the Government was the urotiveis truly and fairly avowed in another passage of. the letter to Mr. WINDHAM, before quoteo. words ate as, follows I am sure I.need not remind yon that in dis posing the public mind to a change of administra tion, the present Ministers (the Whig Government of 1806) had no more immediate agency than so Many of the Emperor of China's. Mandarins. , It is not that the present Ministers . Would not have done the thing with transcendant powers ; but, Parliament not .sitting, the opportunity did not exist. The business was done, to their hands.— Mr. Pyrr"s death intervened ; and prevented any ParliaMentary strugle.' " Such is one of the passages in the letter to Mr. WI ND HAIIT, not unaccompanied, however,_ with a comment. pretty. similar to ( Mr. Grapoat's notable observation, upon the unennal division of the spoils after capture of the fortress,, =:•". Notwithstanding whatever may haie seemed exceptionable idthe,promotion of the impeachment alluded to, the demeanour of the promoters after they had won the prize, does honour to their ashes. Not one Minister opened his lips at the Peers'.bar nor was there ever a whisper of any tampering to tinge the stream of justice. " Beautiful • Constitution of England ! , What emphatic contradiction have not those two im peachments afforded to the fanciful foppery of .the theorists who, looking askance at -eve/thing, can discern nothing: but. deformity in that frame of Government shied like the , appetite that grows, by: what it ''feeds on; augments admiration 14 mote it is studieth Had.. Athens in its civil frame possessed an intermediate .Body, alike indepen dent Of the Man as ,of the Million; and ,fitted, to, restrain the encroachments .of -both—par taking of the : civil properties of each, but usurping *On neither—a Body, whose •solid firmness -(`in spite of individual fbixibility).conhi not be shaken' . , a tyrant's presence, or by.the depreVed 'fory• of a raging rabblesto'Althe,ns, to that' celebrated nation' had not : , adtinfed.the tin - - dying disgrace, that those immortal -riatnes• (the dreMes''OleriComitists, the , modelszial exccitence, the stars by which, for five and . twenty centuries, the beat and brightest of the beaten race ,have set their moral compass) • were, one after another, clinsign'ed to the doom of Baralids" the robber. A sort •f death-bed repentance, indeed, came at the heels of all these iniquitiee;-but the contrition cyas only momentary. Like the dogs to the vomit,' the populace, ever false and silly, 'soon relapsed into their wonted turpitude. The Dutch can nonized the DE WlT'ig j aye—after they had first tortured their bodies and'swilled their blood. But John Bull is never inhuinan.• " Making it my occupation to speak plain; I profess, for tine;that . l prefer the non-trial of such a point. It is not yet_two years since the follow ing scene took place in a region of .gaiety—reven in the Theatre of Covent-garden. That trans cendent artist, Miss O'NAILL, playing SOLIT,MERN'S Isabella; was, in the third act of' the piece, sod— denly seized with illness and forced to retire, all but lifeless. After a' considerable interlapse, the impossibility of :Miss O'NEILL's going on with the part was very impressively announced to the sym pathising audience ; and allowance earnestly be spoken forMrs..FauctT, who, to attempt all that circumstances admitted in Mitigation of the dis appointment, 'would endeavour, with the book, to forward. the completion of the drama. The. consenting appro . batinn of the house ratified this substitution. " No sooner, hoWever, had the Lady advanced, than she was greeted with a chorus of hisses, liar monised.by a round ,ot yells as fell and ferocious as from so many Alpine wolves. That tneritorious .actress and beautiful woman, in return for a com pliance made up of every amiable ingredient, was hooted off the stage with us little mercy as if she, not Providence, had curtailed their enjoyment,— to the only mode of repairing which, themselves had just been acclaiming parties. . . " The historian La GRAIN, after narrating the sacrilege of the populace to the corpie of the Mar shal D'AtecitE,, • which they dragged from the tomb ; cut into `thousands of pieces ; and made their dogs devour, , closes his ;account in these words 'Tis' certain that a- herd of mad bulls %%ill as soon hearken'to reason, and are less to be feared, than a mutinous mob.' Now every mis cellaneous collection is -a mob ; and every mob, when least 130, is only a.. many-headed fool. With however moderate an opinion of the good sense - br good , manners a man eaters" a public scene, whether it, be for- pleasure, or far politics, lie must have an egregious taste, or luck quite be side the ordinary march of incidents, if he, does not crime away;,. with -an abated feeling of both. It an English Brutus or Anthony could be listened to, the same- results would follow as in the play ; and the audietwe prove aS,wavering and worthless as the,Roman•rabble. 7 --But the Mass, whether in a town hall or a theatre, gives scarcely an ear even to its own panders; and is always deaf, though never dumb, toi the other side of the question. Till the fit, referred to in the words servitque animis ignobile vulgtis, -that, paroxysm has spent itself, argument might as well be addressed to the roaring seas as to a raging auditory. The ntultittple bears in hySieriesand decides 'in con vulsions. those lies the guilt, who ascribe reflect ion to any fermenting concourse—who, in popular ebullitions, confound scum with, essence who identify fragments of the scattered public with the body - of the nation ; dress abiurdity• iu the semblance of ‘visdoni ; and colour the emana tions "of noise and nonsense with the cast of calmness and sagacity. More heinous still would be those tactics . if rendered conducive to personal oppression ; and if, morally' indifferent to - right and Wrong, ,they should extort from the bad of litirna'ninature what the good refused ; or, in the, language of Virgil, if, failing to move. the super.. nals, they should dive to the depths of Acheron for the attainment of their obliquities. " Decemlrer 15, 1817. D." From the LONDON GAZETTE, DEC. 16. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.' J. Baker, St. James's-it-reel, ,dress-maker. 7 . • BANKRUPTS. Ladbrook, Draycotc, 'Warwick, farmer, Pee. 29, 30, and Jan. 27, At eleven, at the King's-Head Inn, Coventry. At torney, Mr. Carter, Coventry, . M. White, Lowdham, Nottinghamshire, bleacher, Dec. 26, 30, aJan. 27. at eleven; at the Lion HOtel, Nottingham. Attorney, Mr. W. Chippindall, Great Qneen-street. W. Gilbert, Bath, baker, fan. 2,3, and 27, at one, at the, Castle and Bull Inn, Bath. Attorhies, Messrs. Nether . sole and Barron, Essex-street, Strand. R. Collyer, Chelteghani, phrter-dealer, 'Jan. 5, 6,'aud 27, at eleven, at the George Hotel, Cheltenham. Attorney, Mr. NV. R. King, Syrjeant's-Inn, Fleet-street. • DIVIDENDS. Jan. 9. D. Newbold, Birmingham, lin-plate worker Dec. tO. J.. Jones, J. Owen, and H. Abbott, Bucklersbury, merchants—Jan. 20, J. Whitehead, M. Howard, and J. Had dock, Cateatun-street, bankers—Jan.'B, 3. J. Wood, South Hamlet, Gloucester, coat-merchant-Jan. 6, G. Meliss, Feneburch-street--4thi. 6, D. Morgan, .Neatb, Glamorgan shire, ironmonger —Jan. 10, A. Anderson Philpot-lane, merchant--Jan. 8, J. Howard, Bridlington-quaY . , Yorkshire, ship-builder—Jan. 8, It. Wigan, linen-draper— Jan. 6, E. A. P. Lob - ato, Finsbury-street, merchant—Feb. 3, Molyneaux-street, Bryanstone-square,,linen-dra per—Dec. 23; 21. Mowbray, G. L. Hollingsworth, J. We therell, W. Shields, W. Boulton, and W. It. Stokes, Dur ham, bankers—Jan. 10,'.J.'Adlington, Chesterfield, draper— Jan. 3, T. and J. Dowley, Willow-street, Bankside, coal merchants—Jan. 17, J. Hand, Wormwood-street, warehouse man—Jan. 10, A. J. Mackesuie and 11.1 loper, Cross-street, Finsbury-square, merchants—Jan. 9, W. Davy, Norwich, gun-maker—Jan.'6, J. Francis, Hunsdon, Hertfordshire,' corn-factor—Jan: 16, •11 7 : Hewitt, Cargo, Cumberland, monger—Jan. 12, J. Blount, Lancaster; dealer—Jah. 6, W. Wall, Maidenhead, lierkshiresurgeon-I-Jan. 9, G, Cautton, Aston, near. Birmingham, •Wire-worker—Jan. 8, J. Dowley, Willow-street, Bankside, coal-Merehauti—Jan.2, A. Adair and D. Cunninglcam, Winchester-street„ niehhants— , Jan. 9, M. C. Millers, Liverpool-, niilliner.LJan. 9, T. NewcoMbe, Bowbridge, Gloucestershire, clothier—Jan. 24; D. Gra; hs, Canterbury., draper—Maaeli , 21, W. Easterfield, Fleet-mar ket, haberdasher. " ' CERTIFICATES, JAN. f 3. . . - R. Meacock, Literpdol; - dealer—J. Wilson, Crosby-square, Swedish inerchant-E. - 14eharne, White-Hall, Carmarthen shire, dealer—Gl Burgess, Manchester, woollen-draper--T. Vaughan, Newport, Monmouthshire, shopkeeper—G; H. 'Hodgson, Watliog•street, merchant-.-T. Luff Ind H. Hen liceler-st reet ,Norton-Falgate, silk-dyers —J. Gregory, BlackwaTh, Poplar, botcher—J. Hollands, Romsey-tcrrace, Horseferry-road, Westminster, builder. • PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED:: T. Elton and E. Trimbey, Whitechapel High-street, iron nuingers—P. _Mathews and T. Hale, Copthall-aourt, mer chants—T. Hays and W. W. Cluluw, Mill-street, Bermond sey, lighterruen—J. Roberts and' G. Tucker, Tottenham coUrt-road, lead merchants-1. Cooper and H. Styriag, Ox 7 Bird-street, grocers—B. and S. Savage, Wolverhampton, staffordshire, maltsters- , -S. and T.. Wright, High-street,. Southwark, cheesemongers—J. Hemkrson and B. Davies, Change-alley, wine-merChants—W.Y. Hesketh, J. M'Cardy, J. Clegg an 4 J.:Beekton,rManchester—G.Mann'aud W. Wil hiroon, .Newcastle-upon-Tyne,. millers- 7 G. Collier and.'J. Dixon, Wellington, Shropshire, mercers—Ft. and T. Hare, Thirsk, Yorkshire, millers—E. Parker and J. Toulmin, Haughton-le-Skerne, Duch and M. Game, HaYer furdwest, CORONLR'S INQUEST. An Inquest was yesterday -taken by Jago mETT;Esq-Coroner of the County of Surrey, oil view,of . the, body. of Mr. Joseph Wells, jun., of TwiAenham, Who had been' missing since the ,evening of the 27th of - November last, under cir• cumstances which excited considerable interego and some alarm in the neighbourhood : ' John Coken, of Brentford; waterman, deposed, that he wat with two assistants fishing in Mortlake-reach, about 4.o'cloclt 'on Saturday , last, when they discovered a dead body entangled in their net; that they immediately brought it on shore, and conveyed it to the Ship-inn : lie afterwards understood that it was recognised as the body of Mr. Joseph . Wells, ju t i., of Twickenham. Mt. Joseph Wells, of - TwiCkenham, farmer, deposed, that the deceased Was his son, and previous . to his death resided with him; that he Was iu the habit of assisting him in his businesi; and on' the morning .of Wednesday,. the 27th. of November last, was to take with the horse and cart a load of potatoes to the residence of a Gentletnan in Grovenor.square; that about 5 o'clock on the morning in question the•deceaseti came into his bed-room, and observed that as it was a very,weS morning, he would take the great coat, and that he was then its perfect health and good spirits; that he expected his return from town abdut. S or 6 .o'clock in the afternoon ; and that as he did not come home, during the evening or night, know' ing him to be a young man .of generally sober and steady habits; he became alarmed for his safety, and very early on the following morning he went on the high-road to town in quest of him. 'At Kensington he received intelligence of his having received eleven pounds,; and of his having been seen afterwards drinking at a public-house at that place, so, as to become much intoxicated; but that he had kit Kensing , ton at half-past eight o'clock in the evening, with the horse and cart; on his way home. The deponent afterwards neaid of the horse and cart having been found without a driver during the preceding - night, by a watchman, at the entrance of Brent- , ford , and of their having been taVen to the Wagon 4.ocitiorSe9 in that neighbourhood, where he found the.:.; that- evert inquiry and search was made afterbis'son ; and in k hoe neat Strand-green, at a distance of a few brim:lrv. yards/auto the river, there was found the hat which the diseased had on the morning he left home, but that he could gee - no tidings what, ever of hint until the evening of Saturday last, when Lee lieard •f his having been found 'in Mortlake reach ;'that he believed the sum of 10/. 18s. and some' halfpence which were its the pocket of the deceased at the time he was found, was al the, property he could have had about hint at the time be left Kensington. Mr. Shillito, of Putney, surgeon, who had been called uPtitt to examine the body of the'deceased, deposed, that, he. could discover no marks whatever of blows, or of any ,external violence, upon the body; he stated that the body appeared to have been a considerable tune in the • water, and he believed death to have been caused by suffocation from drowning. Mr. Palmer, apothecary of Mortlake,•. who had been called teethe deceased when he was found, concurred in the same Opinion. The Coroner recapitulated the evidence, with come appropriate remarks, when the Jury imule. diatoly delivered a verdict of—Found drowned and suffocated. BOXING, 'NORWICH, MONDAY, Dac. Is.—The town is all bustle for the approaching fight between Suitors and Painter. The. coaches from LOndon have been crammed, since Saturday, with all sorts of amateurs. It had been given out that the black was ill, and. Painter, who from his general good conduct has acquired much esteem at Norwich, wad backedat odds until yesterday. Sutton, who had trained the last week at Newmarket, arrived here from Thetford this morning, and in compli•. ment'to the town, who. subscribed the ,purse of 100 guineas, he Sheaved himself through the prin.. cilia' streets, and round the Castle, followed by ;coups of gazers, anxious to see the adverssilt their favourite. The black appeared in the finest conditiOn, as is also Painter, and the odds are at this time five to four on the black. The hattbs Will take place fourteen miles' from hence, nest Bungay„ Suffolk, and every vehicle in the cite is hired for the occasion. The. Grenada, Appleton', from Cronstadt, brought to Hull a singular Passenger, whose native,. according to documents from the Consul at Cron' stadt, and the Asiatic Society, at Petersburgh, Massa Kann Mackmeloff, and who is therein stated to have undertaken to travel from - Cabui, H at the Northern extremity of Hindostan, over the dominions of Bucharia, Russia, and the Kingdoto of Great , Britain, to. Constantinople i Mecca, and one account says Jerusalem). From what can be imperfectly collected froth, his broken Risss, we learn, that he was" a merchant. of considerable property, who, .in travelling with nine others, between Cabal and Bucharia; was attacked by large company of robbers, who murdered tour of them', and severely wounded the rest, ainimr, whom this man had Isis left arm cut oil- From Cabal he travelled, 'on ho'rseback, through charia to Oranberg, which he reached is about 100'days . ; and from thence he,Was forwarded 19 travelling carriages, and all his expenses defrayed by the Government. On his passage from Cron stadt,.and,since, he sleeps upon the deck and eats nothing but bread and water. We collect that he understands Persia'c, an? some other,Bastern guages. • He, will proceed from Hull by .way of London.—(Leeds Intelligencer) ' COURSE OF'EXCHANGE, TUESDAY, DEC. 16. Amsterdam . • Ditto, at• Sight - 37 0 • Amster dam 11 10 ' c. F. , . Ditto; at Sight ll 7 - , • Rotterdam .. . ll 11 2 Us . Antwerp ll 11Ex•Monei . Hamburgb ' 34 6 '2f CS. Altona .... : . , .. Paris, 3 Day's date . Ditto • 24" 60 2 Us. • Bourdeaux, ditto Frankforton the Main Madrid Cadiz - ' Seville Bilboa , . . . • Gibraltar ' 33, Leghorn Genoa... 47 -Venice 25 Malta... Palermo - l24d. per Oz. Lisbon • Oporto . . - 59 Rio Janeiro Dublin... . ..... 7i..... C0rk..... 8+ per Cent. Agio of the Bank on Holland.... 2pc r Cent. . . Portugal Gold, in Coin L. 4 • 0 6 per Or. Foreign Gold, in Bars • " 4 0 6. New Dollars . 0 5 . 4 Silver, in Bars __, BIRTH Yesterday,. Mrs. John Rowlatt,, junior, of Charterhousc . square,- of a son. . DIED. • On Monday last, at Hornsey-lane, lienry, seegnd son, of David Sadler, of the Repository, Gos Well-street, agell 26. On the 4th inst. at Cromer, whither he had proceeded for the recovery of his health, the Rev. S. J. Gardiner, third son of Samuel Gardiner, Esq. of Coombe Lodge , Okfordshire. On the 11th inst. of epilepsy, aged 36, Mr, Charles Hollo way, of Warwick-street; Charing-cross. , LONDON: Printed by J. B. CARSTAIRS, of No. 29, Great . Orruoud-street, Queen-square; • and. published by IV. A. ' SCRIPPS, of No. 7, • Sou/b-Moltou-street, .at SUN Office, No. 112, Strati(' where Advertisedients, Orders, ',titters, (post-paid) 'must be addressed. Ni H LIND Notice, 'that to held .bAY, t t This da COllll ( Pensiul Date 1 807, ) 11108, ... Co t IRI 0 , a 1 1 811; lal Ma r, 2a 1812, • d, :1615, 179 D, Als4 this di Court Lieut Vort S Audit I Cnp k • S' end o 'EWE hill I to be Duolt Vol the •FOI And • 'lb Dec. wile! Mau Nun will the l'riz fur AVIIC ri colt the in t duff elta DA ptit at(fun t;