The Sun. — London, England, 1817-04-18 00:00:00

HAMBURG!! MAIL, tiIECEIVED THIS MORNING.I STOCX.noLNY; APRIL I.—:The 'Deputies of the Army have now closed their meeting (which had but 'been called together for 23 years), after two nu sittings. The 'organization of this. Assembly is now changed, he purchase of the higher Commissions in the,Artny is _limited, the , peosiOn of a million of dollars is placed under a neW direction, wounded Officers are entitled to Itigfrraiiiiitities; and a separate establishment' is founded for the support of their widoiVa anti -orphans. ..All 'this concerns . only the officers., I, l l lre.privates have their own hospital; in , the for lycelebrated'Convent of S. Brigit:'a, at Wad-, 4tepli;•esides two hospitals for the invalids of this .gitrrison and they enjoy a considerable revenue 'troth all, appointments that are made out, besides .4e.per thOnsand on the sale of all estates. It is now in ecintemplation to found for their benefit r; still' larger establislonetit, towards which near ''..:00,600 dollars, in voluntary contributions, have been .itiready eeeeived : they have had their au dience .of leave . of the King, the Crown Prince, and Pilnee Oscar. Field Marshal Count Stedingk made a Skeph'to . his Majesty, thanking him for the attest in n ' paid to the Army, foi the benefits conferred, on the.Couutry, and lituring him of their.entire devotion' ;' to which the,Kingiitilrocil. .• a very graaiono answer, ~11 it Excellency also made speeth to the Crown Prince in the usual-style' of tionipliinenr,, to . which ,hiS Highness replied at length. 'None Of. these Spccclies, (as piloted : 11) tie Ilaolburgh Papers) takes any notice of 'the Lite Cons t i r )irac)i. •-• ' '• • • ANuTHIIIt I.Wri&lt FROM STOCKIIpIM, ,ArlitLl• • A Conscription is now making in the •whole kingdo'in : of 'all the young men horn in 1700i' they arc ,to be' exercised for a fortnight in June, after which the Jeginients formed into brigades ivill go, into climP. •It is, said also, that a camp will be formed near Stockholm, to exercise the t,roops this summer. The younglnen 111400 in the conscription consist of five classes, from afl< the'yarrths . from the age of 20 to 2.5 inclusive, fortning a Well-disciplined and- uniforthed Miliiia of about 300,000 men,..from which, o n ly in time of war,. tire regnlar. regiments, taisedpartirby •• vecruiting, partly furnished and equipped by all landowners,, were re atter ail . 11 . titt filled: • .ST. PSTOMBURGII, MAacu 26.—Yesterday the Ambassador of the Nettieritinds gave a splendid entertainment in honour ot,the birth of the young Frinee, sOn to the Prince of Orange. . . The Doduiboozi, who; it maybe remerribeted, me entirely under the protection. of C'iOvernutent, are refuoved, as peaceable and mo gOodnien, from 'the superintendance,of the Minister of the Poli^e, under whom 'Millie •seals ire, and plated under dint of the Miniliel• of the interior._ From the name of their chief place •of residence; Molitopolls, in the Government of they are to be called in future Molitopo : Mans, They consist, in that part, chiefly of fa milia of Cossacks employed in agriculture. There are;bowever, adherenti of this sect in other parts of the Empire • Vtittli , iA, Arnie. 2.—Count I3itol Sebauenitein, our A minissador to the Diet, arrived hero to-day. He will stay here some weeks' in 'oner-to receive precise' instructions on several important .affairs that arc before the German. Diet. HAstovati, Arum. 7.- 7 -It said that many Civil Officers will'he removed from here to East Fries latnl.—The receipts of the Tltoltre from Septem ber hilt till now is 16,000 dollari. - '.The 'salaries of the Actors amount to about 500 dollars per week ; all the rest of the great expences for the Theatre are,defrayed by ;he Government. HAMEURGII, APRIL, IL—The Steam packet, the Courier, 'infra here happily yesterday evening, with passengers, from Berlin. The passage was :link in 351 hours, not including stopping. It probably will return this week ' VIENNA, ArnsL 2.—Baron Ompleda, Who is going to Rome as Hanoverian Ambassador Ex. traordinary to negociate.a Concordat, set out on his journey to Rothe yesterday. ' ; • In . the neighbourhood .of nag g, in the Haus rucksviertel,, a district of several acres has bunk down, Our papers contain now the formal contradic. tion of a report, which has been circulated here with incredible confidence for some weeks pait, namely, that the son of one of our most merito rious Generals had been privately' shot in the Prater, by a military sentence, out of indulgence ,to his family, a story which is totally unfounded. DUTCH PAPERS. We, WILLIAI4, by the Grace of Cod, King of the Netherlands, Prince of Orange, Nassau, Grand I)uhe of LitxeuthUrgh, &q.. Wishing to proceed to tit+ execution of what is prescribed by article 17 of the law of the 'lst of August kV, respecting the ;lame!. ()Teach meaiu re and weight, and.the multiplications and subtlivi. sions of the - same ; • Tat.iiig into consideration, that theitaitl•mea. sures . and weighs arc already known throngii the Sotirbern kovir*S tiv systematic names, and that cestSequently i the stating of 'these. systenixtic names will tend .ii;v•:rtialf. the inhabitants 'of. those provinces the better understand what measures and weights are meant by the tient names; On the report of our Minister for Internal Af the'Council of State, being heard, Have found the undermentioned names lit and proper ,to .be , adopted . and confirmed for the new measures and Weights, and also for the divisions and multiples thereof, and to be employed on the introduction or the new system ; the .systematic names being only added in the present decree for explanation.- - -Art. I. Conformable to the law of the 21st of August, 181 C, the name of Ell is adopted for the same unity of.me&sures of length 'which, according known under the systematic name of Metre. ' st. The names- for the subdivisions of the oil are :—. -POD, for the 10th part (the decimetre). Daint {inch), ter the hundredth part (decimetre). Strepp. (line), fur the thousandth part tmilleutetre). 3. For the 'multiples of the ell : ,•' Roc!le (perch), for the: tenfold (decometre); . hlijle for the thousandfold (thllorrietre). ' ••- 4. The mime of ykritante ell, fur the foundation of mea sures of superficies. • 6. For the squared (4, the subdivisions of the ell: , Vierkante palm (square palm), fur the square of the tenth. Vierhante,duinrlsquareitlehL :for the square of the bun , . Oath part. , • Vierkatite streep (nuare line), for the cquare of the thou sandth part. 6. For the : lquarel"ofthe - multiples of the ell : Vlerliante ltoede (square perch), for the square of the four , fold of the. 911 ., , • . . . Burder(acre), for the . square of the tenfold of the roede, or of the hundred fold of the ell, whirls is equal to ten thousand sitna re ells : (the Systematic beet:it e). .7. The term huhjeke elle for the cube of the clt, as the foundation °fall measures of capacity in the gross.. (Stere or metre cube.). l!'or the cube of sUbdiviSions of the ell: Pain, fur that of the tenth. Kidneke duim (cubic inch), fur that of the hundredth of the ell. • • Kuhicke streep (cubic line), for that of the hundredth of the ell. 9. The term Wisse, fur a load of faggots one ell lung, one ell high, and one ' r • in, the:term Kan (pint); foe the unity of the Pleasure for liquids being - the cube of the.palmjlitre), Il. , Thevterm Moatz (merlittie) . , fur the tenth part of the kan (decilitre). And Vingerhoed fur the hurl. dred•th part (ce ntilitre). • • 12. The term Vat (cask), : for, the hundredfold of the hats (hectolitre). • • 13 : The term Kop (cup); for the unity of the measure for dry'wires, being the cube of the paint 14. Mitatzi (small' . measure), for the .tenth of the b o p (decilitre). Schepel (bushel), for the tenfold, and . Muside for the hundredfold of the kop (decilitre). The nolite of Zak (saelt)shall he given to no other quantity beside the hundred hops, or the mudde. • ast, r fora quantity of three thowiand 10)0, or 30 multde. The name of Ponil (pound) conformable . to Article if, of the before-Mentioned law, is gfren to the weight of the quantity of pure distilled water which can,,in u state of com pression; be contained within the square cube of the palm (kilogramme). Ons (ounce) for the tenth part of the pond. • Lood, for the htiudredth part. •Wightje, for the thousandth part grannue)., Kurrel (grain), for the ten thousandth part. Thispecree shall be printed in the'o "trial Gazette. Given at Brussels, March 29, 1817• WILLIr 3f. By his Majesty's order, •A. L. FALCK. MILAN', MARCH 28.—Between the canton of T ess i n u(h l the Italian. frontier, a band of robbers h ave l ate ly mumbled, whose number amounts to nearly 2,900„ They chiefly consist of disbanded Soldiers, who formerly belonged to the'ltalian re giments in Buonapartes service, and are headed by the ci-divuni General Lecchi,who, in his mili tary career, obtained considerable renown, The depredations of banditti are daily increasing. The three following places are infested by bands of robbers ; namely, the frontiers of the Papal terri tories in Naples, the Spanish side of Are J'yrenees, and the southern filintier of Switzerland. Ravi %%lien his troops betome mutinous from berg kept in arrears, he gives them perhaps half.tlir pay, with authority to plunder to- the rtmennot what is still due to them. 4. Holkar i s p oor , an d h as on l y 17 , 000 me ; A . nne'. Khan, Alabotued Shah, and Lall Sing, is nominally his Generals. The Pindarees are a tribe of military adve., toren, who, having followed the standards f different chiefs, and •from- the present trangul state of Elindoostan being out of employ, hau joined with other vagrants, and have cemente themselves into one great body of - 40,000 soldiers These hardy troops infest the neighbouring pro. vinces for plunder, and will fight under any chic who will best pay them. Letters from Nagpore of the 22d ult. inform us, that the Nagpore subsidiary force, commanded by Colonel Walker, was about to move on the Nurbuddu, in the direction of Horshingabad. . AST INDIA INTELLIGESICE. We have received Calcutta Journals to the end of November last. We select from them e the fol lowing articles, which comprise the principal part 'of their contents CALCUTTA, Nov, G.—An alarming contagious lever,, with all the symptoms of .the pkigue., , had made its appearance at Mandvee in''kattirvar,, carrying off great numbers daily. Au epidemic raged in the western proOneeS dtiring .the last month (October). At Cawbpoie,- eight or nine Europeans were buried daily. The Indian chiefs had not reeently been so active in the field, or in the- pursuit or plunder, as they were sonic time ago. The foliowing is the sketch of the military strength of the Powers bordering on the British , dominions I. The Seiklis possess a large tract of country ; their tribes are headed by Runjeei Sing, a warlike and ambitions leader. Their usual milittiry'esta blishment may be estimated at 28,000. Th e Scikhs under our protection can bring into the field about 17,000 soldiers. Scindiab has, about 40,000 soldiers ; he i s said to be- in close alliance with the Rajah of Be rra, and with the Bhurtpoar Rajah. He has ac quired much strength since the Maliratia war, by bringing the feudatory States under his ininiediate, control. 3. Ameer Khan may have 28,000 soldiers ; Mahon►ed Shah and Lail Sing, who generally act with him, can bring '20,000 more it►to the field. Amecv 'Kiwi is generally.nauclisin watt of Money THEATRICAL REGISTER.. • 'Performed Last Night. ' ' - • DituiLy-lANz.- 7 (lst time), Elphi I3ey ; Principal 'c'erformers, Mr. Rae stud Mrs. Bartley. After which, The.Tritikeeßer's Daughter. • CovENT-Gaituiir.fille . Jealivis Wife : Mr. Oakley, Mr: Yuung; Mrs:o4log, Miss O'Neil). After - Which, Robin- aou Crime. ARRIVED-1 littrilbllfgh, I Guernsey and Jersey, I Dublin; 1 Waterford. Due—l France, 2 Liscron Fluders, I Holland. • PRICE Or STOCKS ' • ' . TIM' t)AY- AT TwELYt; W.Ci.oCt.' ' i Book Stock, ...... .',. 250.251 i I Dank Long Ann....'...... 1 Eli A per Cent. Ret1......701& it I siclitt Bonds, 665. 03s. pr. 3 lity Cent. C 005... .. 7 lif ii Each. MIN,: I f s . 2 e s . pr. 4 Or' Cents: .. ... +3B ii 1 Cons. for Nloy,, 71gii 72 lit 6.vortit.N..+Xon.lolil 102 if-1 •• , 'HIGH WATF.R. AT LONDON. Biting E TO-MORROW t Nlorning, 54 minutes after S. I Evening, 14 initiates after 4. THE SUN. lOLEM guts DIOERZ VAI.SUOI nu uicaT 1 1 . 401S11)0, finDdf, * APRIL 18, 1817. . • . liamburgli Correspondents to the 13th ii-,rl have . - . arrived. 1 1 hetr contente- are given in a preceding column. A private jester from ti rand Cairo was received in town yesterday, and we were favoured by a communication of its contents.. it is dated De cember 28 • " The plague, which had- raged with great fury, had con eiderably• abated,' but the son of the Neat, bad fallen a victim to this Vestilence. He was a young man of distin guished abilities and' attainments, and admired by the people and the aoldiairy; Some other relatives of the PACIIA had also died of the plague, and agreat number of his•subjects.• " At Cairo they had eikperieiieed a circumstance not re membered by the i?idest Egyptian—four - clays of successive torrents of rain; which had nearly destroyed whale villages., The lionses having, heirs built of unhekeil clay, scarcely a dwelling esc a pedwithout Mery l -and had the rain continued a few days longer, half the city of Cairo itself must :inevi tably have been washed away. • " The Turkish (Merchants reported, that the Princess ,of WALE 3 'Tilight' . expecte4 at Cairo in the course of the en suing stimmer, and state, that her reception at Constan tinople, last surnmer,iVas of the most distinguished description. The Vmattliituself, attended by a numerous suite, ensue to the seaNsbore to meet tier, whenlauditi;, under a discharge of one tunared guns ; after ivbiebi itlutu inatioos acd greatest rejoiciags took place in 1.1 c ity. Sbc Is '''' d tu '. bad twenty Whom i n h er train, eac h d wheel v,,:ts rill by the PORTS with a separate set.of attenda(lts. The IV' of EGYPT continued to pay the greatest attention to the El l, 1 Ish, and bad recently presented the British Consul s nil ' Secretary each w ith a beautiful'Arahlati horse, ricbll c a r p ith r i so ned, and upon a ll .occasions treated they 10 civility. ..., 5 l ' ialffl‘trbLadee4mdyt:4lll.tersacb.rhurrlilasdiaiSTANlreYE It a d reached r.gyp., 61';; ship continued in good health, and was distioguithetils ~ humanity to all around her, and the generous assiinanu, " Tlic Nile was at that tint re 60114; leariglitcWll n ri t luxuriate Pilgrims g:g to '.11°"1611. . 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Thus. we see part el A P 11176 °CCI of yobifir ß :l theeliri t il ec t ilal:lcY i t t el ebilrui(lsleilii'i(-I:eitsoil:(::lsse:r:vocim angers--so use with_. i l s:1 1 b 1 ssi e t- e teoei l' called Il e : 'S t il l )Lo:S..i°llsl°.ei Surface. b liCirfe e lg l iVtii i ia ‘ i r'4lltlcit b inbleel e rt:i'e. r t elt' 11 illigil' , elgl°' t ll9lYt e irilael ligAt o ci:lckliBielliet:g7 isl.( i l'll l 'e))eal j 'i til''s s i.P3:18 ; 01i1 1 :11ri e l)')::: etri r il'ls°li 'tl'ilV:ic":sl°rejeffil..ll.l"ig:l:ls.c°l.. aoafsteljefe illegal eottibioatious, it tedol. i 'file strange tbe. " knobsticks," (A tetre,.° 04 have we, beyond' their sphere. 'and • their colol'rellreoudigti the most . qnaint associations and contrasts, I P 1,0, ourt•sei'l ConftiSiOtt of theivitle.al Pt P ~ ole o wishes. 'it was thus in the days or P— , 1 o il ~w.,!4h admirable wit,, has ridiculed t he P° ' ~) , ta t lisle • .0-swum petitions o f the pnpulaceSl t" - , . ' So wer e for tb' utter exiirpti'" , Solis . Of L. O ise y-tcolsey in the nation. ; . . ~ . . . : And-some against all itiolisiop?; , , i ' . The Cross, in Shopboohs, 04,71 Some for a Third Estate of 's'4l'; It. :kW' bringing down the 0.'104 "'lu ~ I . ~....... 11.- eating iinining wit the Tod , ..- 7 r tlltirtiVrteri,Tciuinqd Cr. 34C."h': , • , a : ll .*-- c " y - --," .a.::----72:: —Sonic ir*:rsb:%%)‘l,lii niulle. a t' t z : 1 4 ): : :: 11:6fiali:':' • , ' ' .Of Warr io rs' ;, ; , and not, a nd thee, . st , The 'Veda of lii,si s aid Jii,ghlY )14s. I. been en; among ~ c t i l r i c e u mcostit:::inicloc:nensgtphriae(coai incongruity ibeals,ifui s ri t ,: o lict i ty i i e s °, 0 1 r I t Y be e:eiro::100(igoittol: These .. ; ue) n' s serve t . opt rendering them less likely t o Pr dllc .0 A , L 1 ip?werful justly Willed ness of the veopie.., 0 1136 . ........ollem"" -- (Sri° '.l always Among the invaluable privilege's n of go'. fair 10 6 f. and unbiassed TaiM. UY JOIt Y ns t ite, justly been.considered as one Of the in— dr i ., tiiii l'" I 0 , cant. Any attempt therefore 10 64. o i l PI -, rion of the social compact,. and eartutPsiet, 01t phailtdiscaitioy acti:dtho' siasnthilaitintilbte:Y, it:c111:11::s fain • o f a Penple's:rifilits, baialWiyi i: * , Ao rnen then shall . ( bf s e O tti l : o lie : g od paarisi::o,c.eniftlort fietitae::::::tel°;:e,g,:u ceIrs1111: by equal laws). belt! it; utter abliorr- wiles' trY' ifli state that 811- article appears in tb e :c‘urpre:oaßilntisi.%ivEonrlßeitio3lo:,,iseAeFsa.trn‘vr:letiotiTirtlijileselat'N°. litireSt.:P::°:ll'l4trsitisfit::::)tiii:lll:tie3ll:l;elStll::::LiiiiCirloirio;rsg:eld:]: iditioce ,110%. 3 : taitibicco! sticige,n;l:i,b, . . 60 00. I" - ' • 0e , .. it has not been oiLtirillilcc)(t)t, .1000 •II with during the period we have l ; no o f ti ~ . Press. There can be no sgriva.ti°llcutlilr cooscl6 401 going into particulars,. anti "re e nt til e 0 to prey lebafa the cii call' 0 from exercising its ludginenr on olcot t he , or brings find guilty it, and merely copy without eon' rd aver clu " It will be 'astonishing if an?' Indl°o,oll $lO,OOl .ChrOniele : oolsitiour, siotnileofret:l3:ll:oorna iinngtended in a verdict egxinst the periloo haii-.- oijr ► in this cose, or if a 3EOI ° 6 scosil. ' hot , or b e b. lamable—bis tealinions inaY I'B4 o to ti l° der th e statute, enot, without Ci°le be convicted ! ! !" i tch Cansolp L iel fell, yesterd.9Y, ~oro -tiatit, I P er , dot 4.1", t ins left off 71 large rst„cks for must have keen wade • Frencli rrjet)ll3 could not have reached -their Ol e I t taps, accQunt for this. SOUTH AMERICA. Vidun Curracaa Papers to tie litlvof January.) , It was repotted at' St. , Domingo, 'Mai eievelt armed vessels had been fitted out at Porf-au- Prince,..but no particulari of their sailing or des tination had transyired. The expedition under piton, .consisting of six schooners wand a brig, having I3Olivar on board, sailed from Jacquemel January 4th .for - Margaritta.•' The . Matilda, by which we, received .the above,- was boarded by a brig , privateer of 22 guns, from Monte Video, about 10 letfv,ues to the southward of Aim Cayes, The privateer's men behaved politely: By the schooner John, froM St.. Domingo, we learn that II vessels of the fleet which lately left La Goayra, consisting of 13 s4il,.'were forced into the above port . by a gale which they encountered `22(1 December: Of the two vessels missing, - one is said to have gone . to Coro, but the - other has not, bean accounted for. An embargo of . ,eightl days was laid, when they sailed again tar Spain., Extract of a Letter from General NIINA to a Gentleuta,u, in . .• Baltimore, dated.,: 'GAL . VOSToWti, Dec. 23, 1816.—Sh a ll re-- late to you my misfortunes * ?•:Yet none have happened which are capable 'of destroying my en terprize or my courage ;. and I.feel confident that I will be . able to surmount the diflicnities which till now have stopped my progress. .The accounts received from the interior are either satisfactory or they , are promiding, and I cannot clescribelny anxiety to be among those braVe Brig Prince Regent, 36 'hours, from- -Havana ,for Nassau; spoken off. 0'030404 Bank, Jat1.%23, informs that five vessels had been. fitted - OW at Havantii;' , to intercept the Patriot General:Mina, who wits supposed to be in or near Pensactifit., •At the last dates from CareccaS',7Spanishgarrie, a large Royal Army, computed by -some-atULM men,, was pressing upon the head quarters-of the, RpvoNtionists in that neighboitrlL underdate of,Cura44 ) . Jan. informs, .that that place and Laguira;•was then in possessiqn of . t:je Spaniattli. An agent from our Oovernment to the province Oil Ale La Plata" (says the Wastrington•City Ga zette) is about to take'lils ,ilepaiture; to reside amongst our republican brethren there. His vessels wars shattered. is Levere gale at P01y..., Prince. ~~, b:~