The Sun.
London, England, 1822-11-09 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL Nov. B.—Wind N. N.W.—Came down from the
River the Ealing Grove, Falconer, for Demerara ; Smyrna,
Farmer, Smyrna ; Agnes, Garrick, Teneriffe, and sailed this
morning with the rest of the outward-bound. Came down from
the River this afternoon the Coromandel, Boyer, for Jamaica ;
Colonial, Smith, Barbadoes.
Po RTSMOITT n, Nov. B.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrived the Prince
Regent, Taylor, from the Downs for Tobago. Sailed his Ma-
jesty's ship Thracian, for. Jamaica; Zephyr, Ross, ditto; Tho-
mas, Bell, St. Vincent's ; Renewal, Cromartie, Barbadoes ;
Andromeda, Muddle, Van Dieman's Land ; Friden, Omer-
long, Alicant ; Laurel, Taylor, Malta; Katharine, Bowers,
Valpariso ; Hope, Harris, South Seas ; Louisa Wilhelmina,
Bahia.
PLYMOUTH, Nov.7.—WindN.W.—Remains wind-bound
the Wallace, Edkin, for St. Domingo.
FALMOUIII, Nov. 7.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Pranc;s
Feeling Packet, from Americaz-sailed from New York the
11th October, Halifax the 23d. The Duke of York Packet,
from the Mediterranean, is now (half-past one) 7 miles off the
port, but from the lightness of the wind it is expected the mail
cannot be landed in time for the post.

SEIZURE OV SMUGGLED WIIISKY.—OR Wed-
nesday, the 30th ult., when Mr. Thomas Wilson, officer of
Excise in Beith, was at Kilbirnie discharging the ordinary
round of his duties in that part of his district, about fcui
o'clock in the afternoon, a horse and cart passed thrangh the
village, conducted by a man who appeared to be a plain hone;t- .
looking farmer ; and from the well-contrived manner in which
the cart was loaded, it would never have excited any other
idea, either in the mind of the officer .or of any other person,
but that it was a draught of cheese, or other farm produce.
on the way to the market. The attendants, however,, who
immediately followed this simple conveyance, did not alt.-
gether correspond with its unattracting and unsuspicious up;
pearance ; nor is such a guard as four stout Highlandmen
generally made use of in that part of the country for the protee--
don of such a cargo as its external aspect indicated that it was.
Upon seeing the cart so closely followed up by this audacious
and formidable corps d; garde, it instantly convinced the
officer that its contents was in reality what it turned out to
be : he therefore immediately went after, and made a seizure
of the whisky, and of the horse and cart along with it, at
the toll-bar a short distance out of Kilbirnie, on the road tsy-
wards Lochwinnoch, he being then unassisted. The proprietors
of the booty perceiving this, 4 of the number, without hesita-
tion, and in defiance of repeated remonstrances on the danger to
which they were exposing themselves, in thus by forcible mea-
sures defeating the intentions of the Legislature, forthwith
most violently attacked the officer, knocked him down into
the adjacent ditch, and were proceeding to abuse him in c.
barbarous manner, while the fifth made off with the horse
and cart, &c. Two men very soon came up to the assist-
ance of the officer, and succeeded in getting him rescued from this
assault ; and on his attempting, with them, to follow after the
cart, they were strenuously opposed by the four Highlandrnen,
and a severe skirmish was kept up betwixt them until they
reached the lands of Bar, near Lochwinnoch (a distance of
about four miles), where the officer suspected that the cart
had been unloaded, and its illicit cargo deposited in the plant-
ing on the side of the road ; and upon searching they ac-
tually discovered nine casks, containing about eighty or ninety
gallons of whisky. Hereupon a most vigorous contest en-
sued, and had it not been that great additional assistance
was procured from Lochwinnoch, there is reason toithink that
the seizure could not have been carried into effect; but it was
at length accomplished, and the above-mentioned quantity car-
, ried to the excise office at Beith. The officer, and several of
those.who assisted them, have received considerable personal
injury in the affray, and it is thought the Highlantimen are
much more severely bruised.—(Glasgote Herald.)

,TuE LONDON JOURNALS..

ZVTRACTS FL N 7 TIiF. b ILY 101INING PAPERS,
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nibei- 9, 1822.

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• LMOI:NING CHRONICLE. j
An ex.:pyess.from Paris brought yesterday the
Afoniteitr; Courier Francais, and Gazette de
France of, Wednesday. The accounts of the
'French funds are •now looked for with some
anxiety, as affording an indication of the inten-
tiens of the Government. They opened at 92,f.
80c., reached 92f. 85c., and left oil at 92f. 75c.,
according to, the Cours Authentitpie, but private
;I(!counts state the closing price to have been 92f.
Sec. This, it will be-seen, is a considerable de-
cline since Monday ; and the Courier Francais
does not hesitate to state that the cause of this
decline was the belief that a declaration of war
had been issued against Spain. The Neapolitan
Rentes continued low, being 79:1f.

[THE TIMES.]
wire can state with satisfaction from the Irish
papers, that through the wise and salutary pre-
cautions adopted by the Viceregal Government,
and by the Dublin Magistrates, there was no
successful attempt made (though many abortive
cities) to violate the letter of the Lord Mayor's
proclamation, by dressing up. the College-green
statue, either on the 4th or sth inst., both which
days passed over in peace, and almost in good
humour. The police were at their posts in con-
. siderable numbers, and the gasconadings of the
Orange party ended in smoke. When it is re-
collected of what long duration was the stupid
and malicious practice, within this week, we
trust, finally and for ever put down—what a
parade was made about the difficulty, and so forth,
of suppressing it—how pompous and insolent
were the boastings of the Orange incendiaries—
and how much rubbish used to fall from the
lips of men in office, upon the duty of modera-
• ration, and patience, and neutrality between
opposing factions in those who held the reins of
Government I—and now, when we know that by
a. touch the spell has been dissolved, that at a
single breath of lawful authority- the whole fright-
ful
,bugbear has absolutely vanished, can there
.be presented to the mind a stronger satire upon
the pretexts through which all reforms are sys-
tematically shunned, aml all abuses, even the
-most-unprofitable to their patrons and advocates,
defended ?
[BRITISH PRESS.]
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We gnd from Papers received from Ireland,
that the peasantry in the southern districts pursue
their usual agricultural occupations. The tithe
sythtern, however, is become a subject of growing
complaint. it is observed that at the late Quar-
ter Sessions in thee County of Cork, the num-
b w
er of tithe cases as greater than had been
for many years. Of one thousand civil bills
tried at Middleton, seven hundred were tithe
cases ; and of 1,600 at Macroon, 1,300 were of
the same description. This latter place is situate
in one of the principal scenes of outrage in that
county. The resistance to the tithe syetem, to
whatever cause attributable, gains strength daily
among the lower

[mottNING POST.]
.The French Papers furnish no confirmation of
the rumour which prevailed so generally on
'Thursday evening, of the sudden breaking up of
'the Congress. But the belief that its sittings
-will shortly close, or be transferred to the
Austrian capital, is evidently gaining ground.
The Austrian Observer has copied the para-
graph which appeared on that subject some
time since in the Journal des ,Dbbats, and
-which wa's considered to bear an official charac-
ter. The authenticity of the intelligence which
it conveyed is thus placed beyond a doubt,
though the " cause of this sudden change" re-
mains unknown. The Ultra Papers continue to
assert that a war with Spain will be' sanctioned
by. the Congress, whilst both Ministerialists and
Liberals unite in discountenancing the idea.—
The assertions of the Ultras, however, have been
soloften and lo confidently repeated, that they
.1-egin to gain some credit.

[NEw mtcs.]
. .
A Correspondent has called our attention to
she Peruvian Loan, and to the reports which
have prevailed within these few days of attach-
ments having been laid upon that Stock in the
'hands of the Bankers, • and also upon other pro-
perty of the self-styled Government of Peru.—
The attachments, it is said, were issued in
the first instance, which have been set aside,
on account of their • informality : but it is
asserted, that other proceedings will be soon
instituted. The claims, it is said, are against
the Protector of Peru. How far all these sug-
gestions are founded in fact, we leave it to those
'who feel a peculiar interest in the question to
discover.—We understand that some Gentlemen
from the City connected with tile. trade to the
-windward ports of Coluinbia,accompanied by some
Gentlemen from Liverpool,had yesterday an inter-
view at the Admiralty with SiT G.Cockburn and Mr.
Croker, on the subject of establishing a regular
convoy for. vessels bound to and.from those ports.
A most satisfactory arrangement is in contem-
plation on 'the subject, which will very shortly
be announced to the trade. The gentlemen who
were present have expressed themselves particu-
larly. satisfied with the great promptitude shown,
by. the Admiralty to n►eet their wishes.

11.A.NINTABLE ACCIDENT.—An unfortunate ac-
cident happened on Thursday morning at Mr.
-Mus.kErr's Varnish Manufactory, in Snow's-
Fields, Bermondsey, by which a poor woman
named Lomax was so dreadfully burnt, that no
hops are entertained of her. recovery. She was
standing near a fire where some varnish was
boiled, when by 'some accident one of the work-
men overturned the vessel, and a quantity of
it fell into ,the fire. The workmen all ran away
from the spot instantly,' and escaped injury ;
but the' poor woman was so terrified, that she
was struck
,motionless,, and the 'flames burnt her
froth head to foot. She was carried to St. Tho,
ma's's Hospital.. The premises took fire, but
`Nvere-soon extinguished. Many engines were
immediately..Vit.-the' spot from the insurance
offices,

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, NOT. 8.

THE WATERLOO BANK.
Thomas Ambrose was opposOd by Mr. HEATH, on behalf of
Mr. Davis.
The insolvent, on his examination, stated that he .was dis--
charg,,:d under the Insolvent Act about two years and a half ago
from debts amounting to about 7,0001. He had been a bankrupt
some time before his diseharge, and some time since; the last
time was in January the present year. About six months after
his former discharge he took from Mr. Davis the house in Wa-
terloo-place, Pall-mall, in which the Waterloo-bank was after-
wards carried on ; the insolvent was an anonymous partner in
the bank; the firm was NVilleston, Beaumont, and Co. • there
was such a person as Willeston in being; he had formerly lived
near Pontefract in Yorkshire, at present he lives in Hull ; there
was also such a person as Beaumont; he formerly lived at
Islington ; his present residence is unknown ; bills were drawn
in the name of D. Miaston, but no person of that name had any
thing to do with the bank.
Mr. HEATH shewed the insolvent a bill drawn in that name,
and asked him whether it was his hand-writing ?
The insolvent appealed to the Court that he was not bound
to answer any question that had no reference to any debt he
owed, nor to any thing contained in hiS schedule.—The answer
was not insisted_on.
The Couwr said, it was quite clear the insolvent's case did.
not come within the Act of Parliament. His insolvency was
not produced by inevitable misfortune, and he could not be
entitled to be again discharged, under the Act within five years
of his former discharge, without the consent of three-fourths of
his creditors ; his petition must therefore be dismissed.