The Sun. — London, England, 1817-01-07 00:00:00

FRENCH .~wtN^^ l'Ants, JAN. 2.y--1 ' o•~l.rythe Kinglreside.l tit N Coif,lei! of Minkters, and at eight o'clock in ttie evening his Mitiety received OH: ladies The (:) , kit . Angtioleme, acompatticti- by the , DllitV áf I e,l the troops y e s( el d4y. Thr King g4ve,,Ofilit4liindience yestcrtlx,y to Wltters, Prefect of Lit Veu(ke, who is ou the eve o 4 to h 4 Department. To•day the Metropolitan Chapter, the Clergy of Pails, the Lutheran, Calvinist, dud Israelitish k*.:oindstories, had the !unman' of being adninted to pay their respects to his MAiesty, on the occasion of the new year. The King Of irokr the n me or - the Coma de [Nag, ditived at Vicuna on the 2311 De. eeinber. klis :mite cmc,i , , ,, ,(1 only of sol) per itoni and two carriages. On the 2.lst Dec. a violets' fire hrolie not, about mid-day, itt the etimmane of Nforietival, cant.Ol (sit I.:teal (Oise). It appears to iti”,e beenmeension- IA by an act of impradence too common ita the contntty, snipe ill 7 extiognished ashes of an oven `aying been (40,ited trill near cOmbaskillle. 'Prrittls : 21 hoases., atatiaiv, which were 5 Win- Louses, - Io,ooo'* , heives of wheat, and other graio In proportion, With a great (timidity of furniture, were committed. _ _ _ The' Merettr de France, which is to appear every fortnight,! includes among its new ennteilintors Messrs. Benjnuiin Constant, Estaenard, Jay, Joey, and Lacretelle, sett. '1 hey propose to give, tie• riotiieally, a literary and po)itical - sketch of the improvements, the 1, gislation, and the literature 01 the age. Th e King of 'Bavaria, under his sign manual, has, during his -absence, invested his Prime lli 'titter, Como, MOntgelas, whit power to Aix his sign ,tuautial to every pitper connected w i t h the departments of foreign . a inirs, finance, an d the ittictior, Where the iloyd hignatnre %void(' uthetesisc he necessary., His Majesty has given the saute potrcrs., iii the department of justice, to Count Iteigeyslierft. 'rite and Queen of Wrteinherg have ar rived at Frankfort, under named. the Count awl Coahtesc 1)*1111 , 101; MAUttln, Dec. 19,—Our Gazette, after a long silsatte , has at last communicated lii us various details respecting- events in the provinces of Vette. meta, hut they come down no later titan the Nth of 'A st gum. . I . I Th ese d eta ils a re •conm taet n cl.pute..tes f rom • . non Salvador' Maio, f4apt,ttio•Cwneral of the pro vinces of Vette/ida. The' Fitt dispatch from C en ci a l Morales , details the' defeat'of Bolivar a t Agnactott,. on the 13th of July. 'rim roWaldly 11”livar, it is said, svas the first to flee Inuit the fi e ld of hlttle. The hiss of the insurgents was 400 killed or wounded. There fcli - iittO the 'bandit of the victors, 1,000 ttew muskets, that had never been Unpacked, 30{) collected on the field, 70,000 b.lll.eartridges.l3 (Om al* of potvder,32,oo4 15 Einets, a complete printing-machine, 19 Imo- K e ta ty r a, ...*tycarrontoes rouutt to a letent near the putt. thuteral Mutates pursued the re ;stains of liollvar's bands, who a,lont; was able to embark sit the port of ()connive. They atal kit at the dispoh,al of the conquerors the sacred vases anti other plate of the piltaged ,ehurcises. The 24 dispatch, dated August S. continues -to yeitort the (lestruction of such uf I u ht:ing uoiiblv to cPult,iik,' wet e w►tndri lug shoot the, provinces. It repeats the . httitettient 'Al'Gregor, who called himself Gemeral of li, gado, attd 150 of stalii'ltaving been killed on action with Major Quero. [ s q. tteli is n speci men of the eatly intelligeoee which Fretlinand prontillgates to Kitt good subjects.] AtasTtiatwa,•Dic. '23.-1 lie continual rise of the %vistas in our rivers causes - peal alarm among the inhabitants Of our lo“ ,, bitithi; and the wretch edness which prevails in the village% 'limited on the banks of the Meuse is inexpressible. T , XII•T. ix * TitACT Of A `1;li 1 / 4 "fltil Vat Chi ?A Anit..llll. " Our Ainbassadiff,' Sir th , .N3:y arrived here front Ziglintil du the 9th : re ception by the I;:rtto was highly fl ittcring, and upon-his way to the palace he \vas greeted_ and cheered by the popubta with repeated acclaims tioni. Nobody has e xerted hiu n unite ail parties 30 muds as Sir H. Witt.r.t.:stdot, and there fore nil lin)! 'fed in doing justice to the good y, ebb Of his intentions. • " Tll`tre ill It very general report that the KING propt4elt to form COMpl/Srd of . 1 . 2 half of kVilOal 41 Lie segt with fmib authority to the Congress lloenos Ayres, aid the other half to that of iklexico, to treat of con cessions to be granted them, nearly similar to those duet red by the Cortes and it is believed Generals ItOell i ft will btitielll out With these commissions, tvho are bOth great ritotitites with the KING, alai alto certainly are both well qualified for this ardumil undertaking, as well from tlieri• talents as their local know.; ‘ked : ze, from long residence, both in Spain and America." TLIEArRICAL REGIS . T it. Performed Last Night. Datißv-Loorr..—The Iron Cheit Edward Mortinseri Mr. Kenn; lialen, Mrs.. Knight. After, which, ilarlquin Horner. C'ewcwr-flAnoim.—Ronien anti Juliet c Romeo, e. liem ble; Miss CeNcili. Alter lice Sylph of the Oak. . SOUTH AMERICA. fly the Brazil Packet there are Letters from Rio Janeiro tn'tlte 2thh of October, .which state that the Portuguese wet e'adr:aneing, and hod al ready vowed that part of the Buenos Ayres terri tory nearest their own frontiers. Tie Comman 4cr-iu•Chief bad issued vt prochountion tuldiessed to tte Inhabitants of Monte Video, and the Eastern bank of the River Plate, declaring that the Por tuguese canoe as friends, (or the purpose of re storing order :and liberating them frowthe dotni- Dion of Artigas, whom he slimmers's to ixtersiti nate. The further views of she Portuguese are not',explained, nor is any thing said of their acting on behalf of Spain. Some accounts also atld, that so firm was the belief of the Brazilian atniy taking )tionteVideo, that already vessels with passengers bad left Rio Janeiro for that place, and mercantile specsilatious were also on toot for the seine deals. not ion •• On the other band, it. i 4 said that ARTIOAS has o►n army of 71100 men, Ilat't`t►t which tire well dis cil►lined troops of the line, and the remainder light cavalv ; that, he lois keen sitocessfid in Some skirmishes, end penetrated into the Brazil terri tory from another point. It is added, that his Om is to grant freedom 'to salves, roosts the in. babitants of thelntefiot, levy contribution, and Ma n deelare the country intl.:pendent of the Bra ziliao Government: - The adviccs relating to liiienos Ayres by the same conveyance are not of so late a dale as those hitedily re, , ,ek ell ihreei f and which CRllle tip to the 26th ()curlier. hi) , ve‘ e l mention (list ot troops were 'witing; r tl,at a great inundation bad been expetienco in the River, which had done much damage, and occithioned the toes of a Spaniab rite and crew, with the exception of three men ; and that General, Belgraau had as lint/Q(1 the command of the army twartr, in kicru. THE SUN. SOtEM DIME YALIIIIIM At(l)lin ,LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1617. • Our Corretpondeot' at Bath prefaces the LetAcr which we have thii morni►►g recci►ed from him with noticing an oversight of our's on Saturday, when we sail that the 11nIk Herald did t►ot men- tion the aprosching Reinim Meeting, which actually toots 1111liCe yesivt,l“) , . It ispioeuri dint though it escaped our attention, the Meeting was announced in the Bialt,l l ,lvr, in theform of an advertisement from the Mayor, prescrihing the necessary precantionrro• be taken to prevent the mischief which ruck assemblages a . re calculated to nrodnee.* These precautions were taker► rrith the utmost,. cordiality and alacrity. The nittnhcr ut the 'most respectable Inhabitants \ of Bath, who cri►wded to the Hall to be sworn itt as Special Constables, fonottitted to upwards of five limulred. The North So►aerset Yeomanry were ordered out , the Bath Rifle Co+, were also under arms j and two "loops of the' Dines arrived on Sunday ,to aid, if required, the Civil rower, ,and the Citizens Whir stood f►►rward for their owti and their neiiobours' protection against these turbulent 111.1 Cans. Fortunately (says our Correspondent) none o them were wanted ; the tel of their an ay scry ed to keep the Demagogues and the !hob in id ficlent ewe, and pi event their pushing into out rage. At four o'clock thu Meeting was over, and the Military, &c. were serarating for their qUarters and homes. With regard to the Meeting itself, it assumed a focus about twelve o'clock, at the phte4 appointed, but the moving Orator, Master Huai., with his usual impudence, addressed his liagg3 l ;iliffin Party, which was at this time pretty nuurerous and of the very lowest desciiptioh, and stilted, that the spot where they stood being his • The lies. Mr. notienea, in his "Sermons on the Ame rican Revolution," justly observes," When once a multitude is tumultuously collected, there is no saying to what a pitch of mischief they may easily be led. It; matters not that, as individuals, hey are mild, beneficent, and humane ;* I would nut trust the milkiest man upon the eat th, when he is one in a disorderly and riotous crowd. It matters lint that, in our individual capacities, we are wise, temperate, and just ; collected together in. a mob, we inevitably become ir rational, violent, and tyrannical. -A large body of men drawn together, may not Unaptly be toiniarid to certain chemical prilniratiunt, which, in their separate state; are perfectly hunnsious; but, by being united, use rendered in damnable, and even pohamous, hlankind Ilave assembled in great numbers for any useful•purpop. I whenever. we see u vast multitude, we mOy well exclaita,with Jacob, " 0 my soul ! came not there into their secret t i unto then assembly, mine bonnur, , be not thou united." leis notlw probable, that " many of the people" whom Pilate " called together" to the trial of QUI' Saviour had, before that took place, sincerely believed that-" wgreat prophet had arisen hut no sooner were they assembled in the Prattorium, than " all the peo . pit" (in the fullest sense of that cmphatical 'phrase) cried out " Crucify hini, crucify him." blAll.S. Attnivr.9-1 Dulitin. Dur E-41 Francr„T Ilamb ‘ , 2 Got. tenhtir,;ll, 2 liollaltd, 4 Guernivy And Jerry, S Witt et - foi (1. Plitt N; F STOCKS Ti4l% ItAY AT r i per Cent. Red. . C.ll ;pet ver • .79 S per Cent. N. Ann....Ai/I vt:t:vr. u'ci.uctr. Bald; b. Ann. lft 9-16tlis India Honda, site. Yrir. 'Hi. pl. Exch. Bills, . Cuus. fur Accuuut,....... (14i [HMI WATEIt LONDON BRIDGE 'lll-N10!MOW. ~lnrniug, 19 minutes aftvr t. I EVellitig, 43 initiutv* alter s'. vale yroperty, Itc i;risCost4l to Inliottern . _ to the Orange Grove,' that it might Itut appear , that Ise took any ailvantage of this circuntSttino. ' A removal accordingly took plee, and ;t i t th ‘ e Orange Grove the Orator moonted, And held forth its his customary style Of: haranguing. llis co adjutors on this occasion were a Air or Doctor lItCKMAN, who, our informant stiyS, is a shopman to BiNtts, the Bookseller, and a preparer of Quack ')rugs in his mast et 's house. This vender of poisr.in= ons nostrumsts as avly enoitg;t selected to read the Address and Resolutions. A Master ,YOUNG, it seems, also figured in the caus - e. lie is the Caleb Quntent of some ob.eure alley in Bath ; and hav ing managed a parcel of boys fur some tittle, he of course wishes to extend his sphere, and step forth the Manager of this populous Empire. The only other distinguished individual whom our letters no tice is described as ti Mr. CARPENTUR jun. a ban , smilibler in the vilest periodical prints, and of a us me, if not a family, some7hat notorious in the Annals of our Criminal Court ; a person of the same inauspicious surname having been tried . at the Old Bailey for robbing Lord AVIA:MR' Y'S house in Svymottr-place, some year 3 ago. It is indeed rather curious to flu] tharso many of our Patriots lance either personal or relative causes for their dislike to the Laws ?As now adminis tered, atifl Constitution AS now established. One has been convicted of trawl, another .of hur glaty, a third of desert ion, a fourth of perjury, many of lihek, and so OH through the whole gong; till it iy cle:ir in almost every instance that the foun dation of patriotism is the commission of Crime and the smart of punishment. 'tie Worthies of the Bath, like those of . the IVcstn►inster Alect4og, ,did not ,►greens to t.lie;r own plAns for Refor►n. The aim esuid CdltrEN'r►•:K Lptight Parlikunctits would du ; 01:sitor nuNT s insisted, on Annual Our - friend furnislies us with no further-particu lars, but promises a list of the ltcquisionicts, with marginal tunes, which, he says, will slim, that they are quite as respectable iu this city as ist other places, being many of them Tried Men. .4 EXTRAcT Or A Lurrv.n vaost 'mowrittst.. " On politics I have list little to.say, not lov ing much tithe to attend thereto.—Yon have s ! en in the Public,PaPers'the scrim's disturbances which have occurred at the Red River, between the Earl of Selkirk nod the. Noi th-We,t Company, Ilk Lu on his entry into Superiov, lieu I of the destruction of his Colony for the second time, and of the Mai:there of GOVVI'IIOr SCIMple and 21 of his Colonists ; he immediately proceeded to Fort William, the N. W. Co's depot ao that Lake, and by virtue of his Commission of Justice of the Peace for Upper Canada, issued wartantS to apprehend Wni. iNP Gil livray and seven other part tiers of that Company, took thent prisoners,' and sent them down under escort, occu , ,ed of treason, murder, anti robbery on their arrival here they were admitted . to and they have returned to that country with about, 1.50 Indians and Canadians, for the purpose, it is !relieved, Jif dispossessing his. Ltrdiltip of Fort which lie Initl kept, with their furs and other property, to the amount::of froM 50 :to 70,0001. We may ~therefore soon hear of more blood being shed, and, God only :knows what such doings may . lea f l to, or where they may m end. Messrs. Coltan and Fletcher are appoint ed Commissioners to investigate the business,' Intl arc expected here to-morrow on their way to Fort. William, butt the season is too fitradvanced for them to reach that•place this year." We now insert the . particular and comparative statement of the Revenue hir the last Quarter., the result 'of which we yesterday communicated to the Public. it affords a ,complete answer to call .the croakinK about immense deficiencies in chip Revenues of the Country. Tbere'l, it partial de - creiiie, but for the reasons we liesterday gave, it is not of a hat um or extent to warrant the slightest • of the bodingtt of the Alarmists. The rungs are. but little Weltd by this Account, .and tuitain to within a traction the prices to \dich . ,they have Legit lately gradually rtsitig. ',f,iuniols, are (14i. A letter published in nil Evening Paper IiSSNfM► that the linutdeanx Conspiracy was snore exten sive than has Willem.° been shited, and that the arrests continue. froison, senior, was only. taken to Ncwgate last night. lie is, it is said, very. indignant at being tried tinder Lop! ELLENBOROUG Ws Act, and 111914t$ Upon it that he ought to ht . :. tried for iligh Treason. Letters from Paris mention, th it the Duke of WELLINGTON "ppetlrEil at the. Tuileries on the Ist instant, with It most splendid equipaKe. llis Griter . B Staff arc in Paris, the Ititshian anti Pros- stun Staffs are both expected, and it has oei:asion ed some speculation at Paris to find out.the.ob ject autl cause for this warlike assettiblatte. V TIIE LATE -AR JAIIES L 1 ITIL No mall ever 'stood higher in the estintatiutt u( thy Army under his coaiinantithan the late Lieut..; Gmerat Sir JAssita LEITH, of wllich.tlie following Qtliei4l Commtanicutions are proofs highly ha-, nourable to his memory and gratifying to his re• • \ latives and Friends :-- r• I (CITICUI.AI?..) Adjutaut , netterars Office, Ilarbadoes, Oct.lB, 1414. ' Sin,—With the deepest regret I hare to api.rise 'you of the dealt of his Excellency Lieutenant-Ceneriii fiirJastss Ltyrit, G. C.R. And K.T.S. Commander of the Forces: which me- lanchaly eventlook place on tbe ereoing of the lath inNta,,t, at half-pa,t eight o'clock, after 1 , 11 indiirOtiUll Of SIX days ; A feW hours previous to the fatal Occ4rrence, our lamented General desired, in the most impressive manner, that his feelings forihe welfare of this Army should be expressed in the warmest terms, with his earnest hope that every 'l;cmi • fortune should attend them, and their conduct would always be such as to reflect credit on themselves sod the Service thus evincing, nearly in his last moments, the same ansiotts desire for the honour of the Army under his command, which unceasingly occupied his attention and activity. • • The shining abilities and heroic actions which haves° emi nently distinguished Sir James Leith throughout the'glorions career of his military life, are such as would render it pre sumptuous in me to say more, than that his memory must he cherished in km as talents, bravery, and ti . ..refined juiciness of a finished Gentlemen are objects of admiration in the pre fessiori of arms. • The command of the Army in the Windward and Leeward Islands and Colonies now devolves upon Major-Gener. 4 .Itamsay, to whom a communication hiss been sent by express. I have the honour to be, &c. &r. (Signed) J. H. BERKELEY, I)ep. Adr. Gen. Officer commanding his Majesty's Forces at (Miston.s.Nnven.) ' Ilarh,,docs, Oct. 17, 1 816 . A Milithry 11ourning for One Month to he obserivi througlhout this toniinand, as a mark of rcipect to the lam Commander of rho ['urces. (Signed) J. 11. BERKELEY, Dep. Ad). Geo. DRIOADE ORDERS. Moms Fottilye, St." Lucia, Oct. 93, 1816. Slajor-General Douglass most sincerely laments the never ~ ity,ot announcing to the Troops, that on the flak Uf Oeta'' her, MG. his Excellency Lieutcnant-General Sir Jag' Leith closed a life of ardent devotion to his King unit Coutitr” eminently distinguished by glorious achierrrreat; And 11 sp exetopinry display of every military and manly virtue. _ . . 'l 4 he loss of so celebrated and jnctly revered tt Commande r, 1 0ifted with every quolity that could render his life valualttl o Itis friends, his professibn, and his country, must t dyeis and lasting imp' ession on every r:efeectin,.. mind; 10 14 tbe.Major-General is confident tt will a'ccortl with thefeeEtifs of the:Tronrs, on this tcoly tneiancliol) , occasion, to wet' 'Nfottrniniz, as a rn•trl: of respectful regard and unfeigneeiv gra, till the WO of November next. Mt' NEWS. 60—Tt T.,pFts,e.atty„, the Isle of France, lost two anchors and col)lttif and broke ber.a•itidla - ss, Drat. the Brake: ors'sV . ; turd 4 oight , dining the gale ; st.te has I .. .etit':stql • ,plied with others, and now remains Arrived, and remain, the Abcona unit II irrok tifitiliorts, front ltio Janeiro, and the Fly, 'MAN, from Oporto Came down from the Rivrrt . and remaini, the Lord Catlicatt, for lionthay. - '' : The:Vtioedlord private tntliaman wiled for the": Tllver this morning. The • Egfrcd and British Army still remain al well. —Wind N. Vi;'. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. G.—Arrived his Majesty.' 111iir Primrose from .Tainakit, Ilk Majesty . * silir Ibter from the Mediterranean, n n his 11ajesty.4 ship Cyrus from Cork. Arrived clie Cruize r ' StiMMults, from the Metliterranvair, bunted t ° Fool?, and the Hilaire', MoLt.!yx, from Cope')lis• gen for 111alaga, ont two months, midi - tut, in 140 bystress'of weather, havinglier honiprit sprung' aim other damage. Sailed the 'Harriet, Moola' for London.-‘Vind N.W. PLYMOt/TH, JAN. s.—Arrived .the Sony, IV° . DRON, hOlll tiskon. Put in the Moffatt, Log' from Loodop for. Bengal. • PhimouTti, , JAN. 4.-;—Caine in his MojestY *hips tient y Telegraph front d cruise" Wind M , S.W. RAMSCATR, JA - N, G.—Came thr . , , SEBA, frwu iinistercluin tor, Ti•irt'e, with Ito of bou ; Maria, Ilc.LONr.ft, from ditto for Sorioat' kith loss of r‘s:o anchors and cithlti, and OW damage i thiTZ.'ITIILADII; Iron) dif:o fir Aiarseilles, %t ill; loss of boom, sails, and to ef 'ifamage ; Blrssitie, ALLEN, 15050 London for liVeyoiouth, vvitlf boo;o, The Lora cart, from Loudest fur Bombay, has' just scut °ls Shore for stiff Anchor. ( ;RAVESENt) , JAN. 6.—A riertl the Nlury,,l;ooo9 from Lisbon ; Newmte, Wintrtru, front 5 1 . 111)e'S' Sailed ' the Et , ,es . , flunking, for Juntairn ; nit), Lemao, for India ; .Rapid, Johnson, Inv tlsd Ct,pe of Good !lope ; AMON, Pearson, N° 4 cite ; GOlden Fleece, Wilk, tor St—logo ;* 1 'wet, fur , (iihrklfHr ; . 111 ; 1111 ; pLier, fur Dublin; Brititnnia, Stranut 19) i) 00entl. The Greehlit, Lieut. JEWRY, rnli‘vti en ',.el , I ;iy I<<st tymo a criiize, isAvitig stwaii t 1 d ot damage tronethe vioknce ot, I lie 18 ' g' is come ituri harbour to be irti r ce (l. brone,lit in #0 tuns of hileigo PilA ild ul the French coast.---(eturnuuth Paper.) p.