The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-15 00:00:00

MERCANTILE' SIIIPPENG.

DEAL, OCT. 14.—Wind S.W.—His Majesty's ship Olsa..
goy., passed through for Petersburgh. Arrived and sailed for
the River the Governor Halket, Dixon, and Ethcldred, Wilson,
from Quebec in 24 days, sailed in company with the Barba.
does, Lee, for Chatham, and Mary, Handy, for London ; t'l.l
Grecian and Albion parted company in the Gulf. Arrived the
Ariadne, Tod, from Oporto. Came down from the River and
remain the Castle Forbes, Ord, for Madras; Perseverance,
Ashton, for Oporto ; Earl Talbot, Everard, for Cadiz.; Nep9s*
Trader, for the Isle e,'; France ; Perseverance, Jameson, for
Buenos Ayres. Passed through the Baron Vander Capetian,
from. Rotterdam for Batavia. Remain the Prince Regent,
Lamb; Apollo, —; Perfection, and two others, names un-
known.

PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 14.—,-Wind W. to S.W.—Arrived
the Ann, Grey, from London for the South seAs.; and Ant,,
flicks, troth ditto for Cork.

Fai.mov'rn, OcT. 13.—Wind N.N.W.—Off the port the
Branaton, of London, from Rio .Janeiro. Sailed the Elrick.
M'Lean, for Vera Cruz ; Maria, Spriggs, for. Alvarada • Argo,.
Jackson, for Rochfort ; James and "Isabella, I.L•Culm, -for
Bordeaux ' • Four Sisters, Foreman, Etzabeth and Mary, Wil.
son, and Auspicious, Fox, for Seville ; Betsey, Nicholas.
Union, Brokenshire, and Active, Banks, for Lon,don.
LIVERPOOL, OCT. 13.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Dalt.
son, Robinson, and Diadem, Curry, limn David;
Scotland, and Juniote, Kirk, from Philadelphia.
Vaßstou TIC, OCT. I4.—The Neva, Blake, from Memel to.
London, was got off Wintcrton Beach this morning, and it is.
expected will be got into harbour next tide,
BELFAST, OCT. 12.--The Hopewell, Patterson, fratu
Greenock to Limerick, was driven on shore in Dundrum Bay
the Bth inst.; she makes little water, and is expected to be
got off.

The Hope transport, with troops for Portsmouth, has put int.l
am agate.
The brig Jubilee, laden with brandy, and which was Jamie
near twelve months ago on Margate sands, has been raibe4l,
and carried several miles up the Queen's Channel.

SPHINX ATaopos.—One of these beautiful and.
superb moths entered th© shop of Mr. Roberta,
grocer, Church-street, Hereford, a few e-venino
since, and is now in the possession of H. Bea van,
Esq. It is about 24 inches in length, and toes.
sures nearly four inches and a half from the points
of its wings when they are extended. The va.
!legated and brilliant colours of its body and
wings are beautiful, and entitle it to the distine,
tion with which it is regarded by naturalists.

About three weeks ago, a member of the So.,
ciety of Friends, as he was walking one night
in Cheapside, after having taken more wine than,
he was accustomed to drink, met a young female.
who prevailed upon him to forget himself, hi 4
wife, and children, and to accompany her to a
well known house of entertainment in Elbow-,
lane. The Quaker treated his fair companion to
oysters and punch, and became so facinated with
her conversational qualities that he' detertnine'd
not to Eome till [naming. lie awoke at 'an
hour when he ought to have been biS
business, and on searching his pockets foe.
money, with which to discharge his reckoning,
found that he had not a farthing. This was a pain..
ful dilemma, for he perceived to his astonishm'en't.,
that the young is ly, who bad been so disiuterest-
edly attached to mins all night, turned like A.
serpent upon him ; in other. language, (!. Wowed
him up," called him a shabby rascal, and d—d
his eyes and limbs, ale appealed to the woman
of the house, who, although a very civil and
respectable person while she was waiting upna
him, suddenly joined the other -party against
him. He did not know what to do. in vain he
assured those ".whited sepule,iirk-s," that he
would call again, and. pay them to the utter-
most farthing. They swore he should never
leave the house until he procured the .means
of discharging the debt, and they. accused
him loudly and bitterly of liavin •deceived.a.
poor young woman who had nothing but -her
character to live upon. In consternation at
this treatment, and suspecting something worse,
the Quaker said he would give his check upon a
banker, who resides in the neighbourhood of the
Mansion-house, for three pounds, the amount
of the charge for his entertainment, two of which
were to be appropriated to the person who had
so wickedly, he said, represented his wife, and
the other to the landlady for her kindness and ;lc,
commodation. The check was taken to his banke;,
who, surprised at the smallness of the sum for which,
it was drawn, hesitated about paying it. sup.
posing it was either a forgery, or that it .had
been extorted. The bearer of • the check
sheaved a decent reluctance to mention front
what house it was brought, but upon finding thqt
concealment was dangerous, whispered that the
drawer or it was up one pair backwards, with
his wife, in a house in Elbow-lane. A clerk
was dispatched from the banking-house, to
Elbow-lane,wbere he found Obadiah locked up in
a room. When the money was paid, the laticlq
lady and the lady returned with wonderful ease
and quickness to their former declarations of love
and friendship.—(Morning Paper.) •

Joseph Cole has been committed to the
Bridewell, Devizes, charged with stealing kW,
gallons of pig's victuals, value sixpence ! the prq4
perty of Thomas Hatherill, of Bremhill

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Aziracts from the Morning: Papers,Oct. 15, 1825.

[BRITISH PREI9.3
In addition to our detailed statement of yes-
terday, with regard to the decisive-success ob-
tained over the Burmese, we can affirm, upon au-
thority on which we can entirely rely, that Sir
Archibald Campbell and his gallant -followers
Hare entered Promo, and that the subjugation of
the Burmese Empire is complete. We have seep
that these warlike natives were not a people
Whose hostility was to be despised ; we have
b.onght this experience dear; and we cannot turn
is, more profitably to account than by bringing the
Burmese territory within the circle of the British
dominion in India. The natives would 50011 begin
to find that their allegiance was well exchanged.
They would become the subjects of a protective
sispremacy, instead of the slaves of a destrUctive
tiespotism. Governed, as they would be, with
wisdom, and in the spirit of conciliation, they
would lose, after a time, their habits of predatory
warfare, and settle down. into an intercourse to
which they would insensibly mould their opinions,
Manners, and *nodes:of thinking. This is a Point
which demands the most serious deliberation of
the India Company. They have at present the
ball at their foot, and any other course of policy
would, we think, be deeply hazardous, and would
risk the throwing away the glorious result of that
skill and valour which had led to the attainment
of a 'victory as important—looking tosthe crisis in
which it was gained—as any which distinguishes
titee annals of British warfare in India. The emi-
nent services of Sir Archibald Campbell will na-
roTally excite inquiry as to his previous military
history. We have therefore thrown together the
following particulars for the information of our
readers :—Sir Archibald Campbell went first to
India, we believe, in - 1787, in the 77th, 'and
after continuing there in active service during
thirteen years, he purchased into . the 88th,
and came home in 1800, and got- upon the
staff of Sir I'. Maitland, and shortly after
obtained a majority in one of the reserved
regiments. We find him next in the 71st,
with which regiment he went to Portugal, and
served with Sir J. Moore till after the battle of
Corunna, when he again returned home. His
great skill in military tactics, and his known per-
sonal intrepidity, occasioned 'him to• be selected
by Marshal Lord Beresford as the most fit'officer
to assist in organising the Portuguese army on the
British system ; his distinguished 'merit- raised
him at this period to the rank of Lieutenant-Ge-
neral ; he served- under Lord Beresford• till the
close of the peninsular war, during the whole of
which his services were most conspicuous, and.he
was, in consequence of them, created Grand
Cross of the Bath by his Majesty, and a Knight
of the Tower and Sword by the, King of Por-
tugal. When the revolution broke out in that.,
kingdom in 1820, he offered to quell it singly
with his own brigade of about 3,000 mon. Rut
those vs ho ruled in the absence of Marshal ,Be.!
resford—Who was with the: King at,-„Rio aneiro,,
had not that firmness of purpose which the:-prompt
acceptance of so spirited an offer required,..and
it was consequently not accepted. When the
Cortes was appointed, they immediately ordered
Sir Archibald out of Portugal, being aware. Of
*pis influence with the army, and being themselves
desirous to be relieved from the presence of a
man, the energy of whose mind they feared to
resist, and dared not venture to controut. The
peninsular war being concluded, he returned
again to India in 1821, in command of the 38th
regiment ; immediately on his arrival, Lord
Hastings placed him in the command of Barrack-
poor, in which station he remained until he was
selected—for he was not the senior officec-r-sto
the command of the Burmese expedition. That
he should have bet;n so chosen,- does great credit
to the Governor-General Lord Arnherst; of
whose talents and judgment it seems the fashion
to speak lightly, but of whom it May be enough
to remark, that he has the good fortune to stand
highest in the estimation of those by whom he is
best known.

[MORNING POST.]
We received last night by express, French
Papers to the 13th inst. and the Etoile of Thurs-
day. 'lie Prospectus of the llaytien Loan was
pithlisited on Wednesday morning. It is for 30
'millions of francs, to be repaid in 25 years, and
bearing en interest of six per cent. The mode of
reptiyment• in. 25 years has been preferred, we
are told " because the resources of the country
(Ifayti)• being' more than sufficient to discharge
the' anflual interest of the whole indemnity, as
Well as to redeem one twenty-fifth of the amount
of the Loan, there will be no necessity to lay.
any fresh taxes on the people ; and the grow-
ing prosperity, of the State; favoured in its de-
,velopement as it now is on all sides by circum-
stintces,•. promises to enable • the Government
tO*traier recourse progressively until the whole
Rquidated, to the same mode of borrowing."
his:therefore propOsed to create 30,000 annui-
ties of 'lOOO francs, • redeemable by twenty-fifths
annually from'.the Ist'Janttary, 1827 : the inte-
rest 'of 6 per cent. upon them, to be paid :for the
•first half year' on July 1, 1820. The sale of
emissidn ,of these 30,000 annuities is to take
pierce-on the 25th inst., at-.51r. TN-naves house,
iu'Ont single lot. 'Sealed tenders are to be:pro-
duced 0, the different candidates and to be
opened WilPll • the Loan will of course
liemssigned :to, the's, highest bidder. A deposit
'of three, millions .of francs in specie or in in-
'scriptions of. 5 or 3 per cent. Rents at par,
is to -ocean-0011y every tender, together with
a written engagement to transfer the Rentes
immediately in Case, the tender should be
•accepted. The -whole amount— of the Loan
is—to• be paid' in at the rate of six millions,
t: rnctt~th; commencing on the. Ist of next No-
vember; and. should the first payment not be
corsapleted on that day,. the Deposit is to be for-
feited ,to the lloytian Government, • under the
title,a.damages. The first six thousand annui-
ties are uot• to, be delivered to the Contractors
till after the second instalment shall have been
prid in, and so on ; and should any of the in-

stalment, not be forthcoming when due, the
Contractors shall
,have it in their power to de-
mend instant payment of the whole, or to sell
the remaining annuities to new Bidders. Such
are the terms on which this Loan is offered to
the public, and as the interest is great, and the
security, notwithstanding the late conspiracy of
Christophc's Nobles, is considered good, it was
expected that many houses would be disposed
to bid high, iu the hope of obtaining its adjudi-
cation.

D.trw Turas.]
It is quite remarkable how very stagnant the
French funds have been for many weeks past.—
The 3 per Cents., which have been so long be-
tween,7l and 72, remained on Wednesday at
exactly the same price as on the day preceding.
The Etoile of Thursday states that Condu-
riotti has recovered his health, and returned from
Hydra to Napoli di Romania, to resume his func-
tions as President. This does not argue very
well for the Greek cause. Conduriotti may be an
honest man, and a good patriot, but he has
shown a total incapacity forgoverning his country-
men amidst the storms of civil warfare, and his
ill success has naturally rendered him unpopular.
The Hay tien Envoys have begun to make experi-
ment of their financial abilities : it is rather sin- j
gular, however, that they have had recourse to
M. Ternaux on the occasion, as he is so strongly
opposed to M. de Villele, with whom they must,
of course, carry on their political negotiations.
They are speculating in France, as well as in tog
land, on a new election. We suppose the French
Ministry will consult their own interests on the
occasion ; and we believe that, with few excep-
tions, the great bulk of the nation is_ in favour of
the general tenor of their measure. If they have
done some things which men of sense cannot ap-
plaud, they have probably been driven into those
measures by an influence which they could not
resist ;. and if they succeed in getting Chambers
more congenial to their own views,-much of
what is objectionable will probably be repealed.
The Quotidientze is eloquent in alarm :—" The
termination of the seven years is approaching (says
the Editor); and nothing can aid us in supporting
this vast electoral movement, which is almost a revo-
lution ! The Monarchy will find itself, in the face
of this great political convulsion, deprived of the
support of strong and powerful institutions. Per-
haps this will be one of those difficult movements
which mark the duration of States !!"—Perhaps
so ; but they must be very petty States indeed
which cannot stand the vast movement Of an elec-
tion. We do not sympathize in these terrors. The
Bourbon throne appears to be firmer now than ever
it was since the death of Louis XV. ; and nothing
hut a laMentable want of common sense will be
. able to shake it. The Buonapartists are gone—the
Jacobins are going—the Liberals (speaking with
reverence) are not much better than blockheads
--and .the Royalist opposition displays no great
share-of the wisdom of Solomon. We are happy
to he. able to record these marks of the prospe-
rity of ,France ; for when she is restless, the re-
mainder of Europe has little chance of being
lon at :peace.

[ThiE 'rimEs.]
.We rejoice .to.find, from the Leeds intelligetzcer,
that the malcontent workmen in the Yorkshire
clothing country are following the footsteps of
the Thames disturbers, in their .overthrow, as
they had done in their unnatural struggle with
the masters. Some 'fellows -were ; taken up at
Bradford for " molesting" those who had return-
ed to work. At Halifax the people are " return-
ing.to their senses,"—the sense of.hunger was, we
dare believe, a key to all the, others,—and have
signed the engagements required. by the masters,
against all connexion with the Union. We are
convinced that nothing more than manly firm-
ness is necessary for the masters to force the tur-
bulent into submission.

The purchases of stock by tie Commissioners
of the Sinking-fund have been considerably re.
duced, not amounting to more than 10,0001.
daily, which, as they only purchase on four days
of the week, makes the annual amount of the
sinking-fund little more titan 2000,0001. The
surplus is to be applied, we understand, to the
redemption of a portion of the Exchequer-bills
deposited at the Bank, representing the excess of
the payments for the dividends over the receipts
from the Exchequer.—(lbid.)

. .
[THE PUBLIC 7,ED61311-]
Though there were arrivals yesterday of French,
German, 1 talimn, Dutch, and Flemish Papers, we
cannot find in them a single article having a claim
to particular notice. This dearth of political
intelligence is likely also to last ; for the po-
Her of the different Cabinets at this time is
clearly and decidedly pacific ;.and, with the single
exception of Spain, there is every where an evi-
dent tendency to conciliate the good opinion, and
improve the condition, of the people. Even Spain
may not always continue an exception ; and the
late conspiracy, which war intended to rivet her
chains, may be the means of.loosening them. To
produce this result, the French Government will
cordially contribute ; for it is evidently tired of,
the responsibility, expence, and odium of sup-
porting the present abominable system. It has
also the credit of strenuously endeavouring to im-
prove the salutary impression which the detection
of the late plot is supposed to have made upon
the mind of Ferdinand. If it succeed, a Repre-
sentative Government=-at least in name-and
the recognition in reality—of the late Spanish
Colonies in AmeriCa, will crown its efforts.—
France is the mare earnest on the latter point, as
she is anxious to enter into commercial relations,
as a prelude to a more intimate and friendly in-
tercourse, with these new and thriving States.

:_;-
[_IItORNING HERALD.]
In adverting again to the Silk Trade, we can.
not but lament the mistaken views which the
persons interested in that branch of our manu-
factures entertain of their own interest. We
have stated that the prohibition of French silks
has hitherto been attended with no beneficial
result. On the contrary, it has given our manu-
facturers a sense of security, which has made

them but too careless about the execution of their '
work, and brought the production of the British
loom into merited disrepute. We regret this, be-
cause we would naturally feel a patriotic pride in
the well supported pre-eminence of our own ma-
nufacturers. But experience teaches us that the
cant of 6' British superiority" is opposed to
truth. This is not a question of abstract reason-
ing. Every man and woman in Great Britain, who
purchase and wear British silks, know to their
cost the deceptions which are practised in this
trade. We have already observed, that there are
several other branches of British manufacture
which are so fraudulently conducted as to require
foreign competition to improve them ; and in-
stead of desiring the proposed introduction of
Foreign Silks to be done away, we rather hope
the same principle of free commerce will be ap-
plied to other departments of British ingenuity,
in order to work in them the desired reforma-

flog. We do not deny that the capabilities of
machinery have improved of late years, and that
there is a facility of production in silk as
well as other manufactures unknown to former

times. But the quickness which most of the
useful arts have attained is a very different thing
fiom the honesty with which they are exercised,
and our manufacturers will at last discover, that
to make goods of genuine quality is of more im-
portance ,than to execute them with rapidity.
But how are they to be taught this wholesome
lesson ?—Not by having the market in their own
hands, but by having to contend in it, against the
foreign traders, for the public favour. Has pro-
hibition hitherto done the public any good?—No.
Has it improved our manufactures ?—Not at all;
yet the policy of prohibition has been long
tried. The experiment has utterly ,failed. The
public find by experience that French goods are
superior to ours. The demand is created for
them, and the enterprise of the smuggler coun-
teracts the severity of exclusion. The prohibi-
tion is in itself the highest bounty on illicit im-
portation, all heavy duties must,. operate in
similar manner, but in a less degree. When the
manufacturers demand a system of prohibition
to protect them, they prove themselves , the
most zealous friends to- contraband traffic. So
far then individual interests cannot be pro 7,

rooted by the adoption of an illiberal prin;l
ciple, and we had previously shown that t.ll#l
general interests of the country would he greatly
benefited by freedom of commercial intercourse.
We have shown that although we should pay
for French silks in gold, yet having to purchase
that gold from South America, or some other
country, in exchange fur British goods, this com-
merce would still resolve itself into an exchange
of commodity for commodity. We formerly
went upon the narrow and erroneous plan of
procuring to ourselves great profits by injuring
the trade of foreign countries. The wisdom of
this selfish policy has been contradicted by ex-
perience. It is now.discovered that commerce,
being an interchange of mutual advantages, will
increase in value as it advances in liberality. The
advantages which we grant to a rival nationse-
act upon ourselves, and by encouraging thg„re-
sources of other people, we augment our own
This principle of commerce, which has been but
recently discovered, will be, in time, more gene-•
rally understood. The best goods will in, the end
keep the market, and it is for the advantage of
the public that the competition which creates the
manufacture of the best goods should be pro-
moted. As to the Spitalfields manufacturers, it
was artificial protection, which did them irre-
parable injury, and we wish all manufactures to
be left to the protectk.n of their own merits. At
the same time we are willing to admit, that there
ought to be a tax levied on all goods imported,
whether manufactured or in their raw state, but
we should think that thirty per cent. on French
silks is a sufficient tax.

rMORNING CH.ItONICLE!.I

We admire the tact with our Correspondent,
a barrister, has timed his vindication of the
unpaid Magistracy, and also the ingenuity that
he has displayed in shaping their defence, which
is prudently grounded, not so much on their own
merits, as on the objections to be urged against
the Stipendiaries. Our Correspondent's main argu-
ment against the paid Magistrates seems to be, that
in bad timesGovernmentrnight exercisea dangerous
influence over a body immediately dependent on it
for support; and that in such a conjucture the su-
perior skill of the salaried functionaries would
only render them the more formida)le to the ' I
people. The meaning of this is, that we are to
forego an immediate advantage, a daily good, in
order to secure ourselves against a possible and
remote danger. Let the laws be administered by
bunglers tO-day, let much present injustice
be committed by ignorance in authority through-
out the land, because if skilled stipenda-
ries are introduced, Government may at
some future period, make a mischievous use
of. its influence over these functionaries.—
Such an event might 'Certainly come to pass,
but the present benefit seems, at least, to coun-
tervail the possible inconvenience. We must also
observe, that it is always in the power of Govern-
ment to mould the unpaid Magistracy to its pur-
poses ; can compose this body as it pleases, ap-
pointiug its own adherents .and partizans to the
Commission o;: the Peace, and excluding those of
adverse politics. As for the boasted independence
of the unnaid, we do not exactly see where it is
to be found ; if 'they are not dependent On the
higher powers for their bread, they are dependent
on theni for things of infinite value in their eyes—
power "and .consequence ; and they, like the paid,
may, beinspeCted of looking for rewards for poli-
tical tiubseiviency. Honourable and high-minded
men are undoubtedly to be found among the un-
paid, but is it to be believed that the 'Minister
who is supposed capable of making tools of the
paid, in ticnes of political ferment, would
scruple on such occasions to root these in-
tractable individuals out of the conimission ?
Cceleris paribus then, the unpaid being assumed
at a certain conjuncture as much under the influ-
ence of the higher powers as the
paid ; the only
question would be, whether the superior skill of
the latter would aggravate the mischief. We
have oar doubts on this head—we are inclined to
believe that we attributed yesterday fully more

to the supposed greater innoxiousness of want of
skill than we were -warranted in doing. A skil-
ful man, even in abusing his power, will not go
beyond the occasion, he will serve his purpose,
and stop there, doing no more mischief or injury
than is necessary to the end in view. A bungler
and a blockhead never knows where to halt.—
There is nothing more really formidable than
armed awkwardness, because its operations
baffle all calculation. Your unskilled, unpaid,
volunteer, Gentlemen Justices may be likened
to the Manchester Yeomanry—the unskilled
unpaid, volunteer, Gentlemen Soldiers, who rode
into a mob, sabring and trampling under foot,
hacking, hewing, and sparing not, while the re-
gular, skilled men of violence and sixpence a day,
conducted themselves with moderation, just doidg
what was required of them, and no more.