The Sun. — London, England, 1817-08-21 00:00:00

FR ENC R PAPERS-. Auc. 17 —lt is understood .that the Electoral Colleges for the election of Deputies are to as-:enible ~ n the 15th of next month, and that all the Presidents of these Colleges have been al rea,:y appointed by the King. Tire Minister of War is still indisposed, and unable to attend the Councils of Ministers. • Tin. Duke iif Wellington ;willed here yesterday evening, at halt past seven o'clock. The Count (le I{upl'in (King of Pri. - sla) artived here yesterday evaning. His suite consists only of a single carriage. M..Dclaconrt, a pensioner of the State, died at Commerey the Sth instant, a;,:ed 100 years an►l one month, without having beets inflicted by any ji,fil miry The procession on Friday at Notre Dante began about h df-past . hree, the PrinGes and Pt incessei of the Royal Family having arrived about a quar ter of - au hour before. The crowd of spectators was more considerable than in the preceding, years, but the greatest order prevailed during the whole ceremony. The King heard Mass in the Chapel of the Thuilleries. The Count de I3uol Schanenstein, Austrian Mi nister at the Diet of Frankfort and President of the Diet, has arrived here. Madame de Krudener is about to fix her resi• dence in the Kingdom of \Vurtemberg. The 7th instant the solemn installation of 59 ligieux of la Trappe took place in the Abbey of Meilleray (Loire Inferieure), in the presence of an ititnren , e concourse of people. We learn from Toulouse that there have been public prayers there for rain ; a part of the South still continues to suffer from prolonged drought. The last Lausanne Gazelle states, with regard to Martinez, the Chief of the rebels at Pernambuco, that he %. as au Italian, born at Parma. He studied mineralogy at Presburg, and married at Vienna a very rich woman. Ile was then summoned to Spain, to take the Administration of the Mines of PUtosi, in South America, where he acquired an immense fortune. Happening to be in tl►e Brazils when the insurrection broke out at Pernambuco, his imprudent ambition induced bit•7t to place him self at the head of it. The Count de Marcoff, Privy Councillor of the Emperor of Russia, arrived on the 7th instant at Carisruhe. He was at Paris for some months. A picture, representing the embarkment of the King, at Dover, in 1814, painted by the cele brated Bird, of the 'Royal Academy of London, at the excress command of the Prince Regent, has been placed in Carlton-bouse ; 1000 gui neas were paid for it: A copy of this beautiful picture has been made by the same artist, for Sir Thomas Clifford, and placed in his charming !louse at Tixhall ; a .seat often honoured with the visits of Monsieur during his stay in England. Lady Morgan, in her book on France, has been lavish in her praises of the bravery-of the present youth of France at the expense of their fathers. According to her, till the last twenty years, Frenchtnen had neither talents nor courage ; the aged are in her mind cowards and dotards. A venerable old Nobleman, equally remarkable for Isis services and his sacrifices in his country's cause, was told some days ago in a large com pany, of tLis strange calumny, so ungraceful in the mouth ofd female. " What !" said the aged warrior with a smile, " does this lady think that, at the battle of Fontenoy.the French foughtmere, ly %,-ith balls of cotton ?”. On Satnyclay 0)(17 began to erect in the Champs Eiysees, the Amphitheatres for the fete of Saint Louis. Several grenadiers of the Royal Guard have al ready been incorporated in the company of the Swiss Guard. Count de Forbin, Director-General of the Royal Museums, arrived at Marseilles on the 611, with the Artists who will accompany him in his voyAge to the Levant. Five per Cents.—Saturday, 681. 50c. , MADRID, Awa. s.—lt is said that the Liberales, known by the distinguished parts they sustained in the Crates, including Arguelles, liomanillos, Qaintana, &c. have been set at liberty, and em ployed by the Government. MADRID, AUG. 6.—The expedition for Buenos Ayres, fitting out at Cadiz, is about .to be com pleted at the expence of the rest of the army. PETERSBURGH, JULY 22.—The Russian fleet from France, with part of the army of occupation, has at rived from Calais at Cronstadt in less than ten days. FRANKFORT, :AUG. 12.—We learn from Peters burgh, that. hi s Royal Highness Prince William, sort of the King of Prussia, was bit by a dog, which at first fawned upon the Prince, but on which he trot) by accidert. The animal was im mediately killed. Through excess of precaution the wound,was canter ized,and letters from Peters burgh mention that it is in a satisfactory state. The Emperor of Russia announced the accident to the King of Prussia by couriers. FURTHER PARTICULARS OP THE EARTHQUAKE AT ST. JOHN'S, NRW BRUNSWICK. The Earthquake was felt cut th-e-'22,1 of June over all the island of Grand Marian, and has been thus described to us :—The reporter was awaken ed just after day=break by the shock of a loud sound, and a violent shaking of the house at the same instant. The shaking ceased very soon, but the sound, he thinks,continued from 30 to 4 7 seconds after he awoke, gradually lessening till it entirely died away. Some of the inhabitants say it was perceived much longer, but the best opinio ns were, that it lasted a full minute. All agree in describ ing the motion as most violent, and the sound to have been very loud ; the weather at the moment was fine and serene, with a light breeze of w i n d from the northward : the previous day it had been uncommonly hot for the season. During the 22d the weather continued fine and warm, the wind easterly and light. This earthquake we already trace from Boston to Portland, St. Andrew's, and Fretletirkton, nearly 400 miles; and in another line, of a similar distance and parallel direction, taking the opposite side of the Bay of Funds' in its route, anti going through Grand Passage, bighy, Annapolis, and Windsor, extending in each end of this line, from which we have yet no tidings. Slit - RDBERT S I EELZ. arithmetic to have lice) as 'ertrittebits had I hintsclf wade his figures in rhetoric ridicolons. By herding men together, yoll prevent their exercising the spirit of individual enterprize, which distinguishes one Man from another, and leads to beneficial results. The idle attd the industrious Would share alike, which would destroy. the incentive: tti in dustry, or you must use coercive ttleastitTs to' make the lazy labour. In whom is that authori ty to be placed ? 3. There is no check to licentious intercourse : the passions would be indulged by individuals, be cause the common stock would suppoit:the coin mon offspring. 4. The plan would tie-moralize, instead of te- moralize the tower classes ; the feeling of honest • independanee wcittld subside and consume it self ; bringing Men and women under the influ ence Of tlititlfal seduction; is certainly' an Owen way of preserving their innocence ; to have a man honest, and a woman chaste, you must keep them out of temptation. - 5. Military or Naval Law was found necessary, and instituted to govern collected bodies of men, even in a single state under which of these would Mr. Owen place his villages.? But, Sir, why need - we urge objections to a Plan that has no advocates. There , can be no occasion to keep the ball up to divert the crowd ftom its distress—the golden harvest of plenty is around—manufactories are increasing in employ — trade revives, and things are flowing back into their proper and natural coarse. The Prince who ruleS over us, and the able Ministers who surround him, have the glory and the good of the people e'er at heart, and I entirely subicribe to the quotation made by the Committee of the House of CO9IIIIOIIS on the Poor Laws— • " Patience, latrour, frugality, sohricty, and religion, should he recommended to them (the labouring classes)—all the re6t is downright fraud." Under all the circumstances of the cast., I hope same person at the next Meeting will move' the Thanks of the Assembly to Mr. Owen for li's gobd intentions, and his labour lost, and wish hit► a safe return to his favo►uite Institution at Lanark. I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, Dastaxmth-row, August 15. ROBERT STEELE. 'FOIt THE SIT"'. Ma. EptTnlit,,---Dnring several years I have read • yourTisper with itstrrest and approbation ; it ha's been directed by a uood - sense and temper; a loyalty anti patriotism, which .made it equal to any, and 'preferable to most ; therefore, and in the exercise of thai impartiality which has also been the attribute of THEStnj. I trust vow will insert the following observations on the ite 'tints anti Hem-arks relative to the Meeting hell at the London Tavern, on Thursday last, for the discussion of Mr. OwEtes Plan. In the first place it is proper to state, that there really was no rude and brutal abuse of Mr. Owen's exertions. Mr. Waithman, Mr. \Vooler, and even Mr. Hunt, front whom I differ widely as Lidos from the Pole in all political respects—these, and every other Speaker, gave Mr. Owen praise for his phi lanthropic intentions. I went there to meet Mr. Owen upon a question of humanity, and I must think you have taken across view of his proceed ings, or I am sure you would express your usual disapprobation of the following specimens of Mr. Owen's sentiments : " The Ministers of this Country, and I know " them well, do not possess sufficient energies " and practical knowledge to lead the public " mind as it ought to be led." " They are now as conscious as any atl►er class " in Society that the way in which they find then►- ` selves advancing is the high road to confusion " and misery." Of the excellent, humane, and enii&ened Lord Sichnouth he says—" Still, the Secretary of State for the Home Department is pursuit►g, ana, for some time to come, I fear must pursue, a course which creates, in its consequences, more .cruelty and ininstice than can be obvious to him, and many others . ; therefore I must oppose, (notwithstand ing I feel a regard for the individual!) with all my powers, the errors of the system under which he acts." Now, Sir, when a man had printed elicit pre tensions as these, I went prepared for something uncommon. 1 thought the Political Alcbymist must have found the Philosopher's Stone, what. ever my friend Major Tureens (who is a tolerable judge in such metiers) might say to the contrary; brut when Mr. Owen came'forward, anti read; not ttpoke, his Address, my expectation was succeeded by disappointment. I found,!however, that this good and amiable Gentleman was but the dupe of his own credulity ; it seemed a new light had burst upon him at Lanark, diet ,ire had started - under its influence to the metropolis of the uni verse, and ascended the forum of modern Rome, to telt the Cosmopolites who surtoiluded " that they had lived in utter darkness, ignorance, and superstition ; that :in the 18tlt century the 'Dove of truth had, for the first time, gone forth front the ark, never to return." Ile then called upon them to enlist under the banners of his ex perience, and was proceeding with the allegory, when be became involved in all the mazes of metaphorical confusion. Indeed, Sir, bad you been present, you must have instantly retnarked, thatin the Plan of his Village he had forgotten a mad-house ; and how much more melancholy that madness is, which slcall be unattended by iospira time.. He proceeded h these words twhieb he has also published)—“ I s h ou ld' h a ve bee n de lighted beyond any thing which I can now 6no.2an gi,go to ti;OCertt that the Gov , aanotent, the Legislature, or any parties in the Country, had possessed the requisite knowledge and practical expetience, to remove the physical and mental evils 'antler which we and other nations are now suffering. I patiently and calmly for years sought for this knowledge amongst the most enlightened . and experienced of all classes, sects, and parties in the State !"—(of Lanark i)—" I attended the proceedings of time Coalmines of both Houses of Parliament. Soon, however, to my mortification, 1 learnt that the knowledge and experience neces sary to enable them to comprehend tire subject, did not in any degree exist amongst them!--They (both Lords and Commons) speedily involved themselves' in an heterogeneous mass of particu lars, admirably calculated to confound their intel lects, and disappoint every hope of the country." I think I have quoted enough to thew that downcast modesty concealed none of the charms of the Village Plan. The letter which was read, and the extracts of letters which were given, made nothing for Mr. Owen's Plan there was one croaking Justice front Hampshire, and two Reve rend Politicians from Suffolk, who thought it a mighty fine thing ; but their names were perhaps prudently concealed. The string of Resolu tions being read, and the first Resolution put, Major Torrens, in a philosophical and argumen tative speech, proved to demonstration, that Mr. Owen's " Practical Theory was founded in error, contrary to all experience, in the face of reason and deducted fact. He fought Mr. Owen upon his own ground, with his own weapons; and if he did not convince Mr. Owen that he (Mr. Owen) was wrong, lie satisfied the audience that be (Major Torrens) was right. I took occasion to say " that I deprecated tilt idea tbai any individual conic there hostile to Mr. Owen, but that we had a 'right, and it was our business'to question his mental j ability." If, I exclaimed with honest warmth, a man starts front ob i seurity, and presents himself to time world to say, " you have lived in ignoeance and folly--your Government—no Government on the Continent—(noise) —neither Houses of par liament, no sect or party—(noise) — have any en lightened ideas." Mr. Owen's party drowned my voice, Sir, or I should have said, " It was too much for a man of such feeble intellect to tell us in bad English, that we were born and descended from blockheads, and that we were blockheads ourselves, to attempt to persuade its, although he had evidently persuaded himself, that he possessed the only Hahn in Gilead, that the great men who had conducted the helm of time State through such dangers, to such everlasting glory, were inferior to him, that he could instruct them, and both Houses of Parliament, and all time Talent of what ever Party," &c. &c. I however proceeded to state my objections to the Plan, supposing hi s calculations bad been correct, amid though Major Torrees had not proved Mr. Owen's figures in THE SUN. aDLILM QV'S DICERS FAUSUNI ALIDEAT. LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1817. Last night and this morriing we received the Paris Papers of Sunday and Monday last. The former, from which,we give extracts in' another Column, announce the arrival at Paris on S nur day evening, of thesKing of Pizussn, under the title of the Count de auPrix, and also of the Duke of WELLINGTON. The following are extracts from the Journals of Monday : " PARIS, Auc. 18.--Yesterday, at a quarter be fore two, the Count de Ruppin (King of Prussia), attended by the Count de Goltz, the Prussian Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten tiary, and three Aids-de•Cnmp, proceeded to the Thuilleries to visit the King, Monsieur, Madame, and the Duke d'Angouleme, " The Count then went to the Nine of Ely 56e Bourbon, to visit the Duke - and ,Duchess ale Berry. " The Count tie Iluppin dined yesterday with his Majesty and the Royal Faniily. 'I he Aids-de- Camp attached to his suite dined With the DnEe d'Escars, first ,Maitre . tillotel of the King's Household. " '['he Count cje Rnppin went on Saturday evening to the Theatre des Varies. " The Count de Boo' Schanenstein will make, it is said, a short stay at Pails. His Excellency proceeds to Aix in Provence. "M. Santini, Es-I ttissier of the Cabinet of Buonaparte, has been transferred from Milan to Mantua, tinder an escort. , " They %Trite from Pau, the lath instant : The French Consul Saint Ander informs, by letter of July 28th, the Chamber of Commerce at 13,1 , 0t;ne, that tiSs Algiers, and has ektended its r‘ivagei on the c 0,1,1 of illorocel) and to Gibraltar. 'rile authorities of this Department have adopted ail the necesSai y inei3sures to prevent the introd'netion of this scourge into our ports.' [We hav i e reason to believe thLit the French P. rers are in error in stating, the conannuication ot this t:reatifol malady to Gillraitzir.} " FIVE PER CENTS.—Sat (11.636 GSf. 50c. " LUBBC, AUG. 4.—A Russian Ukase has bcekt published, by whit') the Treaty of Commerce be tween Sweden and Russia, ,respecting Finland‘ is indefinitely postponed. This Ukase is so much the more agreeable to the Swedes as the Emperor of Russia has extended the dispositions to Nor: way. The commerce hi produce and ,articles of the first necessity with Finland can now be freely carried on without any check, as heretofore, when Finland was a Swedish province. - 4` There is again a talk of the marriage 'of the hereditary Prince Oscar with a GeMiati Ptincesi. It is understood that the negociatians relative this object are far advanced. " Letters from Norway state, that a Genera and Extraordinary Diet of Norway will be con yoked at the end of September, which the Princ6 . Royal will open in person, 'and then declare hit son Viceroy of Novi ay. " DRESDEN, At/G. 6.—r- 7 13e proposition for imposing duties on English manufactures imported to Leipsc has been rejected, as prejudicial to the freedom of commerce. " The free exportation of grain leas been esta blished in the States of Saxe Cohonr~, and the other territories pf Saxe propose to tnllow the ex ample. " BAMBERG, AVG. 9.—The Prince de Harden berg still prolongs his stay at Carlsbad ; the use of the baths is very advantageous to his beatib. The Prince de Sebwauzenberg will remain about 1.5 (lays at Carlsbad, and then go to his estates in Bohemia. • it is said that M. de Capo d'lstria has fre quent conferences with the Princes de Harden berg and Schwartzenberg. The Count de Cara-- man, French Ambassador at Vienna, is expecter) at Carlsbad evety day. Mr. Lamb, the Euglish Minister at Munich, also continues to reside tit Carlsbatl. There are many conjectures y the object of the negociationS between tlie , e ferent Miaiisters, but :here is uo eto as it is known that all the great poo rrs I , a , e the best understanding with eaeh other,. there exists no subject of dispute amongst thew. " CONSTANCE, AUG. ° ;."—rilt2 , .itlitit? zle Lirittivi'et has been refused permission to rezitie in the king tiorn of Nyurtemberg." , By a Leeward Island Mail, which arrived (;: morning, we received letters frow dated the 19th ulr. ; but they euntain from the Spanish Main of ;importance. No-44, , T , counts had been received of AI i I illus . 's Squadron since it sailed front the Otoiloko. New-York Papers, of one day later, rirrivei this morning. The tollowing are Extracts:— (Franz the New York Commercial .Ideertiore'rf the I Sth ult.) • " The survey of the American Coast, recently ordered by Govetnment, is to be cominenced at Portland. The United States vessels lying in the harbour of Newport are to be employeki this service, and are now preparing for the yoy4ge. The Legislative Assembly of icur A Scotia has been prorogued from the 23(1 June to the 2 1 ti of October. (From the Commercial Advert k•er rf..lalg 19.) _ . PUI.'ETO CABELLO, ON THE SPANISH MAINE, JUNE 30.—After leaving the Copero we had a f 3 , e passage to.withia 10 leagues of Laguira, our Nit of destination, when we Nvere unfortunately he calmed, and fell in with a Sl>.tnish_l►rivateer, the crew of which boarded, and brought us into this. port. Co:in-my to all law, the vessel and cargo: were immediately condemned, and both sold outhe 4th instant.—Mr. WILSON, as SU QU SS i ti f orme d, or theSe proceedings, Camelrom Lagaira, hut (fur utmost endeavotirs for a restoration of the l►roper• tv were of no avail. What will add to the asto. aishment of all Americans is, that :nstead of being, taken by,what are called the Patrim 5, whom we h t o cause to dread, and who are' at war with theke were captured •by-• the .very people. % :.9•lbi(b)tenrs: we we came to feed, the Spaniards that ac-' knowledge the Government of the Kin 4 111SPA17.T. The marauders also robbed me of Tart of tny' clothes.—l slyll'remain here tief> ui thf ee ec o longer, in the expectation of hearing from a . .ItulgiF %Ott; lives about 2'oo ogles iron, thi• place, on', whose sanction or reversion of this con , ftninatiota • much depends." That the plague has broheo Alt , ,irit auti other poiuts of the coast of Ar:teat do. Mr. M'aiNNEL, the British Consul, %slit) ewes tills alarming new, adds, that the dm.ase \was ititrodoced to Algiers by a cnriv,kis of M., •rtt returning from itheea, -who afterwartll proccANctit over laud to Morocco. ~~~_ '2 X T - At rels Stal Barr rio, Taut - Ch isi, r., Ri W' At TO CORRESPONDENTS The ADVERTISEMENT Tom A WI FE, iu verseyTo.ruorrow. We hope our fair unmarried Readers will be on the alert, amd ready to. ANswea the requiiitions of the Poetical Candidate for their favour. SOVERS, Letter 111. also 'ro-ntarrow.—Other Articles' as Soon as we tau. . THEATRICAL REGI S TER. Performed Last . IVight. TUTATRE ROYAL, HAvmARKF.T.--Teazing Made Easy; Prin cipal Characters by Mr. Terry and Miss Matthok's. After which, The Actor of All Work. To whkh was added, The Panne!. • NEWTHEAriIE ROYAL, ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE.—The Pet slat', limiters : Principal Characters by Mr. Horst and Miss M. H. Buggins. After which (2d time), Fire and Water. To which was added, 'The Adopted DIAILS. ARRIVED-1 France, 1 Leeward Islands, 1 Dul►lin, I Water ford. Due---3 Gottenteurgli, 1 Hollan3, i liarnburgh, I. Guernsey and Jersey. rRiCE O STOCKS . THIS nAY A'f TWE LV E O'CLOCK . Bank 510ck,.............282i B:ink L. Ann... .20 13-16ths i 3 p t . r Cent. Red. BOAII Imperial 3 per Cent. Ann. 75i 3 per Cent. Cans. 7931„ India 80nd5,...1 '2ls. li2s. pr. 4 per Cents 97gi Exch.Bills, 29s. ats. pr. 5 per Crnt.Navy Ann. 1051 V Cons. for.Accutint,...Bo 79ii HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE To-moßrtow. Morning, 40 minutes after 10. j Eviming, 5 minutes after 'll