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

EAST INDIA INTELLIGENCE. Fr:RO t ist . BOS2P.A . Y PAPERS.] The firs► part 'cbiltains Extracts mane b - y ti►e Donltiay E•litfir from the Ccilcuita Papers, and . Ps as 161 Ib : 'FORT WILLIAM, ',PAN 20. „ . Di , Ctissionc haring: oe.ctio'red I el ire€n the TlVitisit Grofifti "poen': 'and the Government of Poona, which threatened to shake the Molts- sufosistinzhetween the two States, the Go 'ysrtonr-Groleral in • Cioitileilliaq the olti factioft tb announce the execution of a new Treaty bet seen the .flononrable com 'pony al i t ! Cis Flitloness the Pishiea, explainiu - 4 and antentiint: the article of the Treaty of Bassein, with the addition of c.ci`tain f roei=ions calculated too improve the Alliance, and to -promote and render permanent the harniony Which booth Go vernments are solicitous to ntaintaio. By corninond of his Excellency the most Noble the Gover nor-Gyneral in Connell, July .L ADAM, Act. Chief Sec. to (jot. FORT WILLIAM. PUBLIC DEPARTMtNT, JULY 8. His ThcCelimey the Most Noble the Marquis of Hastings, Governor-General, 'having nominated the.HonOnrabli, N. R. Filmonstorie to be Vice-President and Deputy-Gortrtior of Fort William, dining% his Lordship's absence from thr Presi" detcy: the Honourable N. B. F.dmondstone has this day taken his seat 'accordingly, under the usual salute from the rampart 'of Fort William. IV order of t lieViee-:Preident in Council. W. It..BAYLEY, ad. Chief Sec. to the Goy. The intended movements of the Nagpore subsi diary force have been prevented by the amicable arraugemeots with the Peishwa. We hear that the Madras Army was shortly expected to be put in, motion, and that the Commander in Chief was about to leave Madras, to place himself at the bead of the army,---(btdit Gazette, July 14 - - BOMBAY, AUG. 9.—His Excellency the Most Noble the GovernowGeneral and his Suite left Calcutta on the 8 it ult. on a tour to-the Western Provinces.—(Calcutta Paper.) We have letteri from Cttttack to the 22d. No thing of particular importance bad occurred in that trihrter. • We observe in the Government Gazette a plan for increasing in India the consumption of Eng lish broad-cloth. It is amongst other things pro posed, that all natives admitted to the durhar of the Governor-General should be clothed in an uniform 'dress of superfine broad cloth ;' and it is remarked, that a durhar, or levee, held once a month, .would gratify the ‘vealthy natives, and assist most [materially in introducing the wear of broad,clotb into general use !'---(Bengal Hur kary, June 28.) ONLY ON.F. DAY TO DRAW—NEXT SATURDAY. — FOUR PRIZES OF TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS, &c. IN'THE WHEEL. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We are obliged to defer ANtiaeAs Gontrcri till To-morro*, when it shall ceitainly appear. The admirable Answer to Mr. TASlETN's.Lettcr (inserted in our Paper of Saturday last), on CERTIFICATED CONVEV. ANCERS, shall appear to-morrow. F P nAtt , m.—The article Kingston olamnica), in THE Stet of yesterday, t-spectint: the hurricane, should have been dated front Kingston (St. Vincent's). THEATRICAL REGISTER. Perftwmed Lost" Night. TMATRF. ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.—Outwitted at Last : Prin cipal Chnraetrrs by Mr. H. Johnston and Miss Byrne. Af ter which, Lilliput. TsizATRE RnYAL,COVIENT-GARtmv.—Guy Manuel irsz : Henry Bertram, Mr. Btaliani ; Lucy Bertram, Miss Stephens. Af ter which, Husbands and Wives. M A I LS. ARRIVED-1 France, t iGnernsey and Jersey, J Thiblin, 3 Wa terford. DtLE---i Lisbon, 2 Haulhurgh, t Waterford. PRICE ()I THIS 1).1Y AT T F'sTocKs •vvELvp: 0-cm•ck. 3 per Cent. Tied. 821 Ki India Bonds ...1005. pr. 4 per Cents. 994 I Exch. Bills l7s. 235. pr. r3ank L. Ann..... 21i 1-Ifith Gm.. fur Account... 84 E. EYTON, Stock-Broker, , 2, Cornbill, and Lombard-street. HUM WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning, 18 minutes after 10. I Evening, 43 minutes abler 10. THE SUN. SOLEM QUI, DICERE FALSUM AUDEAT ? .LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1817. We received this morning the Paris Papers of Sunday last. Those of Saturday, which have been due since yesterday, have, not come to hand. The discussion (or rather the reading of Essays, each Deputy reading a written speech) on the Projet regarding the Public Press, continued in the Cham ber of Deputies. The Moniteur, which is always in arrear in its Reports of ' the Speeches delivered in the Chamber, gives on Sunday a considerable part of Friday's discussion. This includes a long speech delivered by the Count BETYGNOT, in favour of the Projet generally, but who concluded by moving amendments, the Chief purport of which is, that in case, of appeal from the jmigments of the Tribunal of Correctional Police. regarding offences respecting the Press,' a Special Jury in each instance, chosen from a pannel formed by ballot, shall be appointed to try the case in the Cour Royale. M.deVILLELE, atconsiderable length, opposed the Projet, and generally all laws of ex ception ; and proposed that the Chamber should adjourn till the Ist of March,, to give time to the Government to prepare repressive laws, with re gard to abuses of the Press.—M. RAVEL defended the • Projet as necessary to prevent licentiousness on the cart of the Press.—M..PONSARD, on the other hand, maintained .that the Projet tended to keep down the Liberty of the Pless, instead of being confined to its abuses. An abstract of the proceedings of Saturday, to gether with other extracts, follow " CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, DEC. 13. ce On the report of the Committee on Petitions, the Chamber passed to the Order of the Day on the 'Petition of the 'lienetal Bury St Vincent ;in chided in the Ordonnance of the 2 . 4 th July 1815. " The discussion on the litiv respecting the Press was resumed-. " hi. -Boordeau expressed himself itrint4Chl to the idea of interposing Juries for the trial of the offences created by this Projet, contending that they must wait for an age of light and truth be fore they entrusted to Juries the offences of the press.—(This phrase excited some murmurs in the assembly.) --They • must wait, It said, like tire English, for an age of firm establislunehLand prosperity.—(Laughter.)—After observing that the Tribune of the Chattber was the principal guarantee of liberty, he concluded by supporting the Projet, but proposing tb amend. Article 18, by sending the affairs direct to the Cours Royales. " M. Casimir Perrier opposed the Projet, con tending, that if it passed ih its present shape into a law, neither abuse of the Liberty of the eresi, nor the.repression of it, would be possible, as the li betty itself would be destroyed.—(Laughter.)-- He maintained, with respect to the trial of offences of the Press, that Judges were no better qualified than Juries to try them ; and with regard . to Jour nals, he contended that, from the system now pro posed respecting them, the result must be an uni versal oppression, as the freedom of the Journals could alone guarantee the independence of tire Press, ha therefore opposed the Projet. " M. Sitmion, Comnrissaire du Roi, maintained, that with the exception -of .the restraint upon the Journals, the Projet tended to soften the rigour of the existing laws regarding the lioblic Press. He opposed the interposition of Juries, contend ing that they could not try offences-of tire Press which were beyond all definition, and c3tild only be estimated by enlightened Judges. " M..Hernout denied that the Projet.tendedei. , thee to secure the liberty of the press, or to re press its abuses. He advocated juries, claimed an entire freedom for the journals, and opposed the Projet. " M. Camille Jourdan contended, that tire tervention of Juries was necessary with regard to offences of the press, to prevent the arbitrary measures which would otherwise arise (ruin the • appreciation of such offences. Of these of fences the description of men, who would usually constitute Juries, would be the best :lodges. He denied, with respect to England, that the Trial by Jury, with regard to the Press, had caused fre quent Suspensions of the Habeas Corpora. Every one knew, on the contrary, that these suspensions had been caused by the progress of the French Revolution. As to any objection founded on the errors of Juries, government would have ample means in their bands, independent of these, to kecp down the Press. He supported, therefore, the Projet, provided the Trial by Jury were sub stituted for that by Correctional Tribunals. " The diseussiou Was adjourned .till Monday, for which day also the President announced a com munication from the Ministers relative to the Bridget. " Pants, DEC. 14.—An individual who.had ar rived at Paris, was arrested yesterday at the Hotel de Mayence, Rue de Courty. He is charged with committing a rubbery in London to the amount of 300,000 francs ; 160,000 francs were found upon him. " The current report • for some days in the - Northern Departments of France has been, ac cording to the Lausanne Gazette,' that unless un foreseen circumstances happen, or the negocia dons on foot should not have the desired effect, the Army of Occupation will be diminished in the course of next spring, so that there will only re- Main the contingents of the four Great Powers.— Those of Bavaria, Wurtemberg, Hanover, Saxony, and Denmark will in that case return to their homes. " FIVE PER CENTS. " Saturday 64 f. 5c." • The rumours of a negociation between Spain and her Colonies seem to gain ground, and to- Wear a credible shape. We sincerely hope, that the negociation may really be carried into effect, and that perfect harmony may be restored. Such a result would be beneficial to Europe, as well as to Spain and the Colonies in question. The Times of this day says, that it is " far from being 'san 7 guine in the belief that the Colonies will now ac cept the same terms with which they might once have been satisfied." But here we conceive that The times aeems to place too much confidence in the reports which have been issued by the Insurgent Leaders in the South American COlonies, which most probably have been gross exaggerations, and in which they have artfully disguised their own defeats, and misrepresented the strength of the Royal Forces. Those Insurgent Leaders are chiefly desperate adventurers, %vitt), unable to raise themselves into importance at home, endeavoured to rise upon the disorders which clicy created it, otbet - eon :tries. It is hY no means impro bable, that the inhabitants at large pant for re pose, and the renewal 6f thereantile ipterCimr s se with Europe. A liberal Amneity therefore offer ed by Spain, follOWed by a negociation, founded on an equitable basic, might perhaps soon restore peace and amicable relationa with the Parent State. bur CippOAikiOn Writers have zealously, from a congeniality of principle, taken by the cause of the Rebel Leaders, and 'vaunted their successes. But it may be asked, what confidence can the Colonists place in the Revolutionary Leaders, who can have little interest in the dis putes with the Mother Country, except in relation to their own advancement to power ? We find that Alms has been driven from post to pillar, and Alt GREGOR has not been more successful. The trinh is, that no well-authenticated dispatches have ar rived from the quarter in question; anti such a ne. gociation as is said to be in contemplation, seems indeed the, only measure, likely to elicit truth, and produce the happy result of Mu tual concession. We know that the same mis• representations have been directed against Yea- DINAND the Seventh by Foreign Misereano, and Our Party Writers, who have described him as frivolous in his pursuits and tyrannical in his dis position ; but we have been assured in a quarter upon which we are inclined to place great re- Hance, that he is very amiable in Iris private cha racter, and that be endeavours to mould his con- ' duct as a Sovereign by the model of his Grand- father, who has always been admired as the best and wisest Monarch that Spain ever possessed. It is certain that FERDINAND is beloved by his subjects at home, and it is therefore probable that he would not be less regarded by the Colo nists if they' were thoroughly acquainted with his character, and fully cware of his benignant in tentions. has severely tasted of adversity, and by all accounts the lessons derived from than best of schools are not thrown away upon him, but would appear in good fruit, if his virtues had scope enough to be ripened into action. - '.rbis morning we received American Papers, but not of so late a date as those which had pre viously arrived. (From .the Yew York Commercial -4tlverti„Ter of Nov. Is.) The following is, an Extract of-a Letter from a Gentleman at Savannah, dated Nov. 8, to hit Friend in Philadelphia :—" Thv present has been the most sickly season ever known here. As many as 15 a day have died ; to-day there are five deatlit. A sudden change from extreme heat to cool weather has taken place ‘vithin the law 4S (tours, and I hope in my next I shall be able to give yon a more favourable accbunt of the health of this place." h e latest accounts from New York have been received by the American ship Tontine, Captain TURLEY, which vessel has made her passage to the London Duck gates in 21 days ; she brings intelligence that the crops of Rice are more abun dant in the United States than were ever known ; Flour was at 6 to 7 dollars a barrel ; Anxrican 6 per cents. 107 ; Exchange on London 134 per cent. advance. Capt. TURLEY would have been in the River in 15 days, from New York, had it not been for the great fog, which compelled him to lay, too in the Channel. lie has, however, made the quickest passage to London that was ever known. The Franklin, 74, American man of war, ar rived yesterday at Portsmouth, having Mr. itusn, the Minister of that Country, and family on hoard. This ship is of the burthen of 2500 tons ; she is going to"the Mediterranean to join the American Squadron. The Company's ships B, ::!aewater and llereford shire arrived at Madras the 26th June. Intelligence from India received yesterday con firms the statement,' that a country ship, named the Palladium, had been spoken with by the Eliza, and that the former reported her having on board a Government GEzette, containing the official an nouncement of the concht , ,ion of peace With the: Government of Poonah. That dispatch is now ar rived in England,. being copied by the Bombay Editors from the Calcutta papers.. The terms of the arrangement are not publicly known ; the Proclamation only stating that the '' Governor- General has the satisfaction, to announce the ex ecution of a new Treaty with the PcisnAw, ex plaining and amending the articles of the preced ing one, and containing certain provisions calcu lated to improve the alliance, and to promote and render permanent the harmony which both Go -vernments -are solicitous to maintain." His Ex- Cellency also makes an excursion from Calcutta, with a view to give practical effect to the peace ful arrangements which have been signed and sealed. Mr. EnmoNsToNE has been left at Fort William, with the title of Vice-President and De puty Governor, during the Governor's_absence.. Parliament was yesterday formally prorogued by Commission till the 27th of Jaimat y. Dispatches for Sir CHARLES STUART. at Paris, were yesterday evening sent off 11'0111 Lord CAS.' TLEREAGEL'S Office. hil I I) politsi,touTti, bcc. 16.—Aryived the Puke of Wellington, KFRK, from Harnburgh for 1-3,11,41 ; Constance, I,l2,i;Evßk, from Havre for L'Orient ; and the Franklin, Amet jean 74-gun ship, Conuno tiore CHARLitS STEWART, Capt. H. E. BALLARD, frotn Philadelphia, last frilin Anapolis, baying en boat(' his Licellency Mr.•litisn, Minister to the Court of St. James's. LtirEurOor., DEC. 15.—Arrived the Stanton. HAnaiS, from Calcutta—sailed the 21st July. The john Tribin had been repaired, and was to sail in three week's. Tilt: Monarch, for London, would be beady for sea its a-Week. The True Briton, of Liverpool, eind Princess Charlotte, of Whitehaven; were in chick,• repairing and load ing. On the 22d July, passed the Minstrel, of 'London, at Miapoee, having been on the Miapor6 Sand, bufnot Much damaged ;—ort the 23d July, passed the Sir J. H. Craig, at Diamond Harbour, with loss of windlass i—on the 27th July, passed ilie Atlas, at Hedgaree, with loss of three an chors ;.--on the 22d October was boarded by his Majesty's ship Leveret, off St. Helena, who stated that the Lord Cathcart; for Calcutta, out 93 days, had put in there for provisions and wa ter. Also arrived here the Ceres, BROWN, irons Calcutta.. Pi.YMOtrili, DEC. B.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Iphigenia front Ceylon, and the Borodino transport, from St. Helena, having on board part of the 21st Regiment of not ; they reniala here wind-bolnd: PLYNIOUTII, DEC. I4.—The Kitty and Cl4ra is arrived here this day from Roscoff ; she has ori board three Gentlemen, who had been wrecked in a ship bound to Liverpool. When. the Clara, left Roscoff, news had arrived there of two India.: men being on shore on the Island of Bas, and were complete wrecks. On the coast of France generally, •ncconini have been received of 14 sail of merchantmen being wrecked; among tlietn ‘ s:jil to be several East and West Indiarnen. IA. pa;•- senger on board this ship from-Guernsq states, that a large ship from London, bound to Ireland, was totally lost on that coast. on Mond ,y night, and all on board drowned. The Master of the Malvina states, that when he was on shore the French peasants assured him the large ship, with so many persons on board, was an East man ; this vessel is the one supposed to be the Indian ; awl that it is this ship eves y one seems Satisfied, for her description, and the persons Oh) hoard her, are well known to many masters here, who sailed from the Downs in company with lief. FaLmourn, I)Ec. 14.--Arrived the Catheriere Tell, Atalanta, Enterprize, and Vittoria, fron4 London, bound , to jatnaica ; the Atalanta anti Welling - ton, froth - ditto, bound to the Brazili and be Britannia, from ditto for St. Thomas's.:-.• The following plackets are gone into the Ito'ads : Lord .Chesterfield, tor Lisbon ; Grace, /tn . New York ; and the Wt.liington, for Jant3ica. DEAL, DEc. 16.—Arrived, and sailed for :he River, the Sovereign, FAIREUEN, and John Rickard, DmisoN, tram Jr maica:, NI 1 Bony, and Hannah, DIXON, from Qiebec ; anti De Vrow Dorothea, BUDOK, from Palermo.— Came down from the River the Unity, for Ja— maica ; Probity, for Lisbon ; .antl Brunswick, for Hui 15.—The Darlington, LAwnrptce, from Smyrna to Grimsby, is performing (parkin tine in SVhitebooth Roads. On IVednesday a fine new ship, called the Tha lia, of 290 tons'measurement, the pro'perty of Mr. JOEL FosTEtt, was launched from the yard of Mr. GIBSON, ship-builder, at this pott. On the 4th inst. the Sally, a small vessel, be- . longing to a poor man at Sunderland, laden with bacon, butter, &e. from Whitby, was wrecked near Easington, and the owner and another man, the only two on board, lost. The Scots Craig, ABBOT, of Dundee, from' London to Hainburgh, ran on shore on the Schar born Sand the 25(11 ult. and was afterwards to tally lost on a bank near Newark. Very little of the cargo expected to he saved. 13RIGwroN, DEC. 15.—The early part - of this day promised fairly, but the %find was strong, and heavy rains came on about noon, which have continued ever since. The PRINCE RKG ENT, con sequently', was again prevented front taklog a pub lic airing, and our tashionables have been com pelled to look for amusements within doors. The Gazette of last night contains twenty-seven Addresses of Condolence to the Palace REGENT ' , and eight to Prince LEOPOLD. Captain J. WALLts, who was Lieutenant to Captain Welowr, murdered in the Temple by order of BUONAPARTE, is promoted to the rank of Post Captain, and to the command of the Racoon sloop of war, on the St.litlena station. _ _ The Governor or St. Lucie, whose lamentable was mentioned in our intelligence from tlt4 West luclies, general Seymour, formerly of the 15th Dragoons,---a man of amiable character• A Letter hum New York, received this morn' tug, stales, that DUNCAN STEWART, Esq. elected Lieut.-Governor of the New State ; and Judge LAKE and THOMAS H• WILLIAMS, Esq. have been chosen by the Legis' lature to represent that State in the Senate of .the United States. Yes":erslay, the LORD MAYOR btid a Cnnrt Aldermen . at Guildhall,- when Mr. Jont4.Klo3l" was. admitted, on the nomination of the Sheriti) , to be Keeper of the New Debtolf. Prison. Sir J. GREY EGERTON, it appears, has really declined standing for Chester on the next General- Election. 'il►c.wirlow and children of the late Tit0:4.4 4 SHERIDAN, eldest son of the late Right llr'n. 11 , B. SuE.kunAN, came passengers in the Iphigentft , front the Cape-, kit wl:icl► place Mr; T. 6}ißitioa: l 'add an ottcial situation. Al R. Inns s 1 4hotdri the Sc tatio n t he as uf the It fna itre ex 41 1owi have 1 or wIJ Lai 'hi. , 0 the T 1 - 1 0 pa hucer duce In ib Patse, Otit i tite s i hav, - ; Who their Was th►e t PrOv Ai caild thns lute Pote ) gar is fi tVis't tel ab rn( wl