The Sun. — London, England, 1817-07-08 00:00:00

I'oll'll6 14i - gli Constable had been in the habit, or Lakin money from versons to let ,them of} from the (Ivy of 'serving. If tlte money, thertiore, should he granted, tie iilist.rd flo.-se wooki take tare that it should be ploperly administered. ilnd that it should not go into the p, , cket of the Digh Constable. Mr. BAN li.ES o!,jected to the motion, as eansine an indovation,in Ittlying pet SMIS ti hose Linty it was in setve without rcw , tril noje p 'Hen heeause it r -is bruntzht i, time of the . tiessiou, and ;It'at no good ground hatl• been 1.11.1 Tor it. • • Mr. 1311 . 013 G JI‘ANI Sa NV no reaion whv any !mini eion 'should attarn to the pr,,eot High Constable,. because a carte corrildtion a2aiwt • 'one of his predecessors'. lie paid tie Itidtest com pliments to Mr. Mou is, the High I> ohti of West :Minster (who had been accidentally confounded %vitt] the Iligh Constable), .and declared his Opi ;lion that the former was as respectable and effi cient an officer as any in the country. Tc CHANCELLOR of the EXCHPIatiVR Qotzuested that it might be better to pospon.• the mo'ion there had been time for i,quiry. llt thought the 'proposition for remitneration to be jis .,, t and lea sonable, but he would wish the motion to be worded in such a manner us not •to imply th,o• was meant to give an animal renoineration for .services that ought to be performed gratis. Mr. CALcRAvT; in reply, objected that any op positibn should now be made to his motion, as he bad given repeated notice of it. Instead •en trhsting the money to the High Constable, be ' s ho u ld Tri,‘olise to give it to the Serjeant at Atrits, • 'who would see it ` properly distributed. The mis coodnet-of . foemcr High Constable had no :e -lation Wh , ltevvr to the subject. lie thought a fair renoineration to the Constables would be - three . shillit'_ , •a•iday; which teas nothing equal to • 7 , oit lose hy being withdiawn trout their business. Mr.,- Ossoax soppirted the motion, on tbe grown(' the,e, (10,,stallie had as m u c h right to he l aid for their tiou)le . AS those who attended at the Drawing . Rooms and Levees. The Home divided on the rptitiOn— Ayes . I,Tet - . . Majority against the Motion STATE OF THE NATION. Mr. IikOVGHAM a Ave notice of motion for Thursday, ou the pres,:nt S , Ate nt Pli hiic Atfiirs. - . Sir F. n(THDETT )!is motion respect ing toWeitnesday. NEW S CHEF F. Sir P. BtittnETT resented aßep . ort from the Comtnittee ,on the partition ►►f the inhabitants of Norris-stteet.. The case had been inquired into, and it had" beeil !aur a l that the claims of those who were entitled to compt-nsition had been in. vestiv:aied and satisfied.—The Report scab laid on the tohle. _ . Mr. Hus'xtssoN said, in the early part of the Sessiot,, a complaint had been made to the !louse by 'petition,* that the new plan sanctioned icy the Sne , ,,ker. 0C the House for 'the New Strect was pot the plan which had been cifri . cd into c freer. This had provid to be true, but it had also been prove! that no blame attached to Mr. N e fsh and the whet. persons coneuvired ; but that by mis take a diervreilt ph,' had been presented to the Sp'eaker for h,is signature, titan that which had been a 4 reed to by the Cothmittee of the ilonse• To prevent such itstiies' in future,• he should inote two Stantlin;: , . Orders on the subject Pliyate finis That every plan or schethde order«l by .a Committee to be appended to an Act of Parliament, should be signed by the Chair man. 2. That et cry such plan or schedule sub- Initteil to the Speaber for his .s:gnitture, in con sequence of an Act of Parliament, should be as certained by oat to be . the which had been ap proved by the Conuuntee.—The Orders were agreed to. he Animal Accounts respecting. the Revenue, up to the 511 i of July, 1817, were moved for by Mr. Lusl.itigion, and presented. Sir F. BURDETT prt seined a Petition from John Colley, a seawall, of Blidport, complaining of im proper coneuct of a 'recruiting serjeant, in in veigling his, son —Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. BROUGHAM presented a Petition from the Town of Stockton upon Tees, against Extents in Aid, and praying for a Repeal of the Acts respect ing lasolvent Debtors. LUNATICS. - Mr. BENNETT moved for an account of the number of places lieetved to received Lunatics in every county in' England and Wales, and the number of 'Lunatics confined therein. He took occasion, in making this motion, to observe, that the II ,use of Commons bid not been very deco rously tr.ated in another place. 'Though the Bill passed that llonse, no one step had been taken on it in another place, though a person holding a high sitoa:ion 'here (the Lod C., ll ancellor) was the le2al I,natics. By the return to the motion, the Muse %tool(' see the import ?nce of Some re2nl3tion on this &object, Lk was t!iqi-osell to believe, t at the boost's tor the recep tio of insane p , •rso , s were often not reunited to tie Clerk of the The house in - which Captain Niiiler Wri'i destroyed by a patient, who aftervards di i ruyrd l i tti e it ,was not licensed; and there terry reasim to believe that the ne .glict was w,l1.1; as'the person who had 'kept it, bad been a keel er of Bedlam. —The notion was agreed 40. SA I.T. Mr. JONES to h u nw, , whether the G o . verennut • intended 10 wake any alteration iii the. ineth,nt• of di•livering out Salt tr, ! ut the Govern mew Warehouse , In the enmities of Carinar-• then and Cmrtligan tlic distress which hid pre vailed had increased instead of- being '1 he prople ‘i ere prerhided from. the relet.t . I ht might dei iv,. !Lour cm hie fish by itie xegulations iy , pet.ting the me,bud of obtaining Salt. The CrlANcr Luna the ExctieQuEtt s'Aid, si Bill kill i) ou t A . subject. Wh a t ol io ( Ur jolt icld distticts he could. Loi say, ‘ritliont local MYI ?Jr. QRENF-Ft ~,IloOlog t,, %Oat had already passed' on tiee sohipet,of plymetits irt specie t , o . small Notes of the Bank of England, dated prior to a certaiu period, observed, that lie still hail reason to think that the Right Hon. Gentleman's (tbeenanclior of the Exchequer) vie* of this .. n bi t , vt, as to the amount of such ria!pnents, was erroniqms.. The whole aggregatx ,ainonnt of PiAtik'Notes i;1 . dreniation, of all irescriptions, A - I:r"as '1:8 iThrfits , otsi.hich not trii;ie than ft 01W,0001. were .4 . 11. and 21. He would therefore leave it to every Gewleman to conceive what pOrtfon of such Note ! : Cmild he dated anterior to the Ist of Jan.aty, iBl6. in - order to ascertain to what .111ount.11.;i" *sumption of cash payments had o , le, ht. shoolti rtnove, ‘."that there, be laid be- Hre the liotte 'Account of the agg,regate amount of flank Notes in c . rr•ctilation, anterior to the Ist of Januaiv, 1816, The .CHANcetd.ott of the Excitt , ,tattEtt, after some introductory observa2ions, which cotthi not be distinctly heard, sid, that ,the Bank, had vir tually paid a great :number of their small notes in cash, and it was not known that There had been anrinconvenienee through a want of Currency.— WhetherAe hmotint of notes which the Bank had tuldertaken to pay was more or less thin what 11;1,1 been s t ate d, was an o bj e ct not worth -00nsi -deration. lint the restimplion of cash payments iu another year was as much a matter of certainty as any • contingency could be S. and be could not foresee any event but one, which was extremely that'would prevent such an occurrence. -This was, an.extretnely bad hafvest in the present yeart,which. it was thought was hardly possitAe. he present motion of the tionotuable Gentle man was one fOr which he had laid no grotnids, and he should therefore meet it with , theprevii.lns question.: Mr. BANKES expressed himself agreeably disap pointed at heating that the public were so near having their expectations realized by the pay ments of the Bank in cashi.and he thought the Bank entitled to great commendation, for placing the country again into that wholesome state of currency of which it had so long been depiived. He must take this opportunity of observing, that the Finance 'Committee. had found it would not he passible for them to go into the inquiry of a con nection b e , „ Teen the andßai debtthe ciotcyit, the management of the publ i cl would .he one of their ea:liest measures in the next Ses sion. Mr. Gaa?. , :Fitr..z. said a fete words in reply, and his motion was negatived without PUBLIC EDUCATION. Mr. PRou6aAm Presented . the RepOrt of . the. Committee on Public Education, and moved that it lie .on the Table. He observed, that the House' would recollect the nature of the facts that. already came before them, as to the enni , mo „, o,„sus in the ma n a gement, in many instances, of the funds devised for this great object. These abuses the c,,,mmittec had verified. He would otelt!inn one instance in p:.rtieular, wher e a -f un d of 1,500 t. dear, arising from at treeholif estate, had been so perverted, that the Pat run of a living, having also t h e . appointintnt of a Schoolmaster, bad con ferred that appointment .on his own brother, w h o was .thu Vicar, and the latter had delegated the task to • a common journeyman carpenter, to whom he paid fool; po n d s ale ar. Bit he after wards begrudged him this stipend, thinking it too much, which !ladled to the discovery of the.whnie affair ! There were other,School) parts, the endowments Of which: were three hundred or four kindled pound s year, aud where only one se holar was tangy, to girt a colour to pocketing the money. The Rep.ott ,had been thus lung de- ', qt . ( ' by accidental circumstances ; but it had been found that it .would he necessary to have a. WA to effect the ()fleet. of it ; and the only way he to appoint Commissioners, armed with t h e a uthority of Ptrliament, to carry 'on an in vestigation in different palls of the country. — Th ere was no deeibt (lie 1-L mse wo u ld lie, of opi nion that this Bill should he passed next Session,. in order to rescue.the funds front m i gap pli ea l and to secure to the poor the benefits to Which they Were entitled. • Serjeant ONsLow wi'lied to pay his sincere tri bute of applause to the great - zeal, knowledge, an d i n dustry of the Learned anti Honourable Gen aleman on this subject ; but he wished it were extended to an inquiry into all public fiords what ever for education, and not to confine it to the education of the lower orders. He did not think Yirliamentary aid - would be beneficial. Mr. V. BLAKE was of opinion that this inquiry should also extend to II eland. Mr. BROUGHAM replied, that the propriety or advan'tage of extending any money would c be a subject , of consideration, As t o thelnlie t iti l lita! tion of the objects of this inquiry, he perfectly understood the objection to the narrowtn'ss of it, and it bad occurred to the Committee ; but it was not without reason that they dismissed that -point; as they Would have found it necessary ;01„thide the great Schools of Eton And Westminster, an d even the Universities. Yet it must be observed that tii . ere !yid not been a shadow of -.spici,;ll thrown on' these finers. Respecting the state-oi education in Ireland, a series of valuable reports bad already been made ou this part of the subject, and therefore the Contmittee had not thought pr o _ per to interfere with it. The Report was then ordered to lie on the table, and to be printed. On the NlOtion of Mr LOSHINGTON, the. East India Goods Bill was ordered to - be' read ' ll thi r d time this day three months.. • CAPTAIN Hal% t 7 t the motion 1. 1 Mr. 1313NNETT, the papers t to C::,pt4in Hoy were ordered to be Intuit ; he I ki t Alerhber observing, iliat'ke t. . ootti take an e-alv opportunity of again calling, the n'tehtion to the House to th i s subject. A ti Han of Cotton Yarn exported, was laid on• the tab:e. I'TThLIC BUSINEss• Ilit , uottAm vihrther'the Noble Lord (C aalett• a_ ) „ o appear in his phir , . ac hr (Mr. bad t tittetion to put to 111.0 ..N.,1,1r Lora ? li.. LustiiNGioN re plied, 85 the House wa• plobable vt 1 4 mit t,, a vio , 'ro, he could not think it I k -iy tit.tt tl.r 'Nubie Lord would be in his place p i ib e c ,;, 11 ., 5e ( if that ci..ening, tint he rpt ctrl the Noble' Lottrs presence t..-Inortow, etetti which (as we linacistm)(l the lion. Gen tleman) vrottld probably be the last day LA the meeting of the HonSe, until Vriday, as no busi ness stood for Wednesday or Thursday. Mr.d - irtoyonAlq expressed his sttrptoe ;rt the observation £)1 rhe Hon..Gentienian, , that- the House - waS nc't liittly•to .. . meet On Vire-dm:mi.-Tor ll'oi . sdaY• It was no iloubt. ccnitpetent to the Secretary of the - Treasdry to say whether ,theie sllOt)4d be a House, or not, as the formation of . a House at fwir o'clock depended very touch upon his will and pleasure —Meat - , heat : on the Op position Side.)--lint it was extraord.inary to as sume that there was no business for the House to meet upon, becante according to the Honourable Gentleatan there WAS no Government business to tr/insaet,i, and the elOrft so, as an important mo tion of anAlon. Friend cif his (the Member for Ilainh e r) s t oo d for \liednesdciyi upon the subject of the Slave Trade, and aS he himsell: had given notice of a motion for 'Thursday, with respect to the present State of Public Affairs. He hoped, therefore, that it would not be inconsistent with the wishes or arrangements of the Secretary of the Treasury that the House should meet on %Veil, nesday and Thufsday.—Adjouriwd till to-morrow. VENEZUELA. i'ort of Spain, Trinidad, May2B, . I had the pleasure of addressing you by the ship Oakes, which Sailed lately, and gave you an ac count that a Spanish fleet,'coasiving of a ship of the line, two frigate, and fifteen transports, hadi been signalled from Port George, oil the 11 th instant, standing towards the Main. By three arrivals ivithin the last, four days, from the iSland of Margarita,. and: one,from Caroparto on. the Continent, it is ascertained that this •flv.et.„ after anchot log for a day off Saint Juan's (a small port to leeward of the Bocas,) proceeded to lye ward .by the northward of Margarita, -from wHeli latter circumstance it is supposed his gone to La Goayra, ,Butf. the vessels from Margarita assert that it was only a convoy of merchantmen, protected by a single frigate and a brig of war. ; and that the Diana and Pelican, two of Admiral Brion's squadron, had dodged them to see if they could pickup ally stragglers. It is clear they did not go into Cninatia, nor did they make any at tempt on ;my tit the piirt's in possession.Of the Patriots. The persons wire) have arrived in these launches say the. appearance of this fleet did not make the least unpleasant impression': .1 1 1s4i:in Nlargat it a every matt was : at his post in a moment, and well prepared to receive them: The MaCga iitanianS muster abOut' 4000 fighting men, ,have bad an itnagease crop of provisions, and ate. _well supplied with arms antl ammunition._ The glory of having ex!ielled the Span* ids front their island, whit very inadequate means, after destroying t wo thirds of all the enemies who landed upon it, in spire th'at hardy people with invincible :courage. They are the Norwegians of these Seas., I o Guayana, Genet al Piar obtaino ou.the 11th of April a most Signal victory. He was hettieging the fortresses of Ohl du..iyana, While_Geoe.ral Ce ! . deno was blockading Angnstura, when the II (lops that m or int, btoo g ht-- with him from New Gta nada arrived under Brigadier-Geoeral' %I lit re succour the place. As they cams from Sant F et .„ tiondo de Apure, by the .Rivet Orinoco, Paez not having a fleet to cowl:taud the river, Could not prevent their g.attin:: into the fortresses, but he hit upon 'a scheme to draw them out id tlrein. He raised his camp preeiPiraately, telling his soldiers that as the enemy had received a consideta* rein forcement, he found it necessary!to change his posi tion fora better one., Upon this a serjeant and.three men deserted to the Spatriards,and told the new Ge neral LaTorre, and the' Governor Co ruti, that Piar was runiting away: and that if thep pursued him quickly they_ would aes,troy his army. • 'Phis plan was immediately adopted, bait as they hail no ca valry, Piar cootiinted iris march nail he Canie to a position called Li aaneo de San Feliz, where his cavalry could act to advantage, and there lie halted • and Ivaite4 for the _enemy, who was so anxious_ for his prey, that it appears he did nut cAlculate• the chances. Piar's , brief account of the battle is this :—" As enemy's, troops consisted of infantry alone, they were formed in solid co " lonin ; as ours Were infantry and cavalry, they " waited for them in orderof battle; and the action, " commencing at S A.M. was concluded after some " hours by a completedefeat of the enemy, whO was " surrounded on ail sides. From this .circumstanee we made 590 prisoners; of these 200 Spaniards, " and among theta the Governor of Guayana, Cer " ruti, and 17 otlkers. The rest ot the 'enemy " remained on the fiidd of battle, except Briga- . " tiler Latorre, who escaped; with from 30 to 40- " carabineers well mounted. We have also taken' "-about 90(J tnuskets, 25,000 . ..ma5ket cartridges, " I field-piece, 2 pair - of colours, -12 drums, 8 ! " fifes, and' t 3 horns, with all the baggage. '(}tire " loss consists of little more than 100 Men, anti " among those I have particularly cu lament Gil) ` 4 Chiiiia and Lieut.-Colonel Landact.a." The' enemy's force is s'atcd by Piar at 1,500 infantry. Paez, as..you ,will Ita.e srrn, had dcireroycd •;11'. Mordlo's cavalry in an action previous to his get-: ting into San Fern:U;(l , l. , General Paez has advanced from Apure, and taken possession of Cala , ti so that all th e !!altos or plains iu the provinces of Guayana, Ba rinas, Cumana, Bat ctiona, and Caracal, are' in the hands of the P.itriiits Paez, at the.-last ac counts, bad upwards of 4000 cavalry, Mid his nunibers increasing daily as he advances. •, rumoured that he has defeated Murillo hitely !tear La Villa de Cora, in' a mote signal manni..r than' at first, but this is not *official a s 'yet, a , ,d th e re. lore not to be relied upon too implicitly.' But. nothing can oppose him' in the plains, anti as lo ng : as be maintains his superiority, the Spaniard cat ( mount no. cavalry, and the Patriots Can Star Ve them in the towns. Bolivar has crossed 'the Orinoco, and joined; Cedeno with 1500 infantry, so that it is rape( tedi Old and New Gu.tyatia (the towns) will soon he, starred out, - Marino, With 1500 men, occopies Cariaeo and Cumanacoa, and Cuts off all sopplies' from Cannana. Carupano, Caribes, and. Maturiti are the Patriotic, ports hi this reigh hourhood, as well as the Esineralda, which is the' port Cariaco. The town of Barcelona has been taken by Ole : Spaniard's. Ilfdivar only. left a garrison of men, who defended it bravely, and almost all pe • fished. But the Spaniakds ate cut off flow coin runimation, or stspplits tram ibe interior, by (I,:n. Ziirai7a, who occupies all the plains and interior of the province with his caValry, 'All the Generals and Chiels 41 every des'crip:: Lion, recognize HoliVar as .t.'ilprettie, Chief of the, Republic of Venezuela; and a Coingriss' , .if Repre .entatives from all the Provinces .is Margarita will probably be selected of the, seat , or toe National Representation, and it is expect- peeted to be installed almost inimediately.. In the mean time we enjoy here a constant and, tree intercourse. Mides have fallen in conse , quence frdin 160 to &G, and We also receive con.. stint supplies of horned cattle: A einitinuatioti of tiris barter for our 1111thrtfactm es depends on the success of the Patriots. With the Spaniards all is monopoly, hatred awl sumvicipti of strangers iu their American possessions, and umwessiou oC every species of their owu subjects. On the con trary, the Creoles receive them with open arms,, particularly the English, who c an . su pply theta' with. what they most want at a cheap rate,. lila of „whose love of liberty they are convinced. Dispatches have been received front. Sir Gregor M‘Gtegor, - announcing that he might be expected daily at Margirita, with a naval force, &c. He has passed the winter in America. THEATRICAL "REGISTER.. Performed Last Night. COVENT-GAUDEN.—Othello: Othello, Mr. 'Young: Desk—, mona, Miss O'Neill. After which, a new Dicurti•seutent, and Katharine and Petruchio. NEW THEATRE ROTA L, ENGLISH Opc , tA-ricalSE.—Nportet.. ter Bain. After which, The Cabinet, and Don *Llano, THEATRE RoYA E, .HAYMARICET.—aii by Mistake: Mr. Terry; Prattle, Mrs. Hibbs. after which,The Village. Lawyer, add Ella I.l.ciseliteig. To MORROW THE LOTTERY ,DRAWS.—FIRST pruzs L.IO,OOO.—TWO-THIRDS DRAWN FIRST DAY, AND ALL PRIZES—FOUR OF L:20,000 !--TICKETS AND SHARES CONTINUE CHEAP. MAILS. AttßivFn-1 Fe-ance, 1 Tiu",atid, 1 (Inert cry and Xereey. 2 flublin; I Mae, turd: Hatnbut. , ll t Gutten burBll. ScOCK!4 , 1 , ..4,VE O'CLOCK. , Bank L. Anti. 19i 15-1 2r India 1 7 .1und5,...85. 100 g. itr, Ex. i3iils, : Bs. I. Ei!. H 1:; Cons. fur 4c:cuutit, 7Si,a4i4 FRICE 0 •• • . THIS HAY .AT r Bank Stock, 31,er ReAL • A per Cent. Cons.... 4 per Ccilt s 5 lizr Cent..NaVy Ann. 106. ft HIGH \VAT'''. It AT LONDON mum; F, TO-N101!WW:. Nlorniug,.B9 minutes after 9. Ereniir4; 4 tultrutes after 13. THE SUN. SOLEM (UJS DICEItt; .tuIJE..II LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY S, 1817. tibS.--Yeste.riLiy mornin2, Consols opened at ii 4, went to 78i,- and'ieft Off tit 761; this thouni4%.they..p..vied at the to,t-ter price, 7. 4 1 i went to it, and are now, 12 o'clock, lookin g ' wards. :Towards the close of the market vesfer day, and 'the cat y part of this day; an immenst quantity of Stock has been purebaied, mid tat . . Monied Interest g.till bold under the impression of a "ftirther advance. • Parliament, we understand, will be proroguel on Saturday, or Itlonklav next at farthest. New York Papers to the 17th June, Boston to .the-13th, PhiladelPhia to: the lstl, and New Or- leans to the sth of June, arrived this moruitim A Philadelphia• Paper contains the foliovvin2, " We have peruser] a large file of Gazettes of Mexico, which detail the aiiiirs of the Royal' Spanish Troops in the several points of the ex— treme Kingdom, infested by Insurgents. Th e Gazettes comprehend the. whole series of and public affairs during the months 'Of January, February, and . March.. A few Extvatts of she above Otfitial Intelli;;ence are as. The several divisions of the Royal Army of Thesoutli, under lirigadier-Gen'eral Lr-mgo,scoureti ail : the gangs ,of insurgents and bandatti•iti.New Zac - alicas, anarGuattaxnatOr, killing a'n4 taking . prisoners Inanyof then:, to.4.etlier with their most elaring Ltatlers. Their arms, ammunition,' - and provisions fell Into the power Jf the Royalists. anniemy svgs riiiblidllo4l the time of the KING througho , it 'the whole Viceroyalty o f Mexico, and the Rebels were running from th e mountains and woods to profit of it, and Aleliver themselves to the Government. The divi,ions scut to protect the ittbabitants of the province of Huastica, Cruz, anti Puebla rle los Angeles, obtained every w h et e cern• idete Su ,etas. ail the strong The city of F e huxean, and ports of -C,Cero t;oloeado, ht . whi c h all the hopes of the intnrgent Party appeared to rvp,,se, were taken by the floyal 'Tr oo ps under Coto.ne,l Don. RAFEAL lißActio, as Ivell as the fa - 4 of St. traidis, where the 'Rebels intended ti) ()view' the broker) remains of their rash bands, a 5 Fehitxcau was the riepot of the arms, provisions, cannon, &o. of the insurgents: every thing there fell i„4O the hHild s „f t h e itoyalist3. 'j .? tl,Ote who us.:•art:ti thil,perseenti , qt, the general ins (Alt ii) c4;tiserence where , if iiislitgeigs iti thßt province . applied to lue tor tie itorilindulto, and 11)Wte restorel to' the inbabituts.ofa sad ro.,