The Sun.
London, England, 1825-07-14 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, JULY 13.—. Wind 14%8:W.—Arrived from the River
and remain, the Glatton, Lawton, for Honduras ; Henry
Porcher, Thomson, for Van Diemen's Land ; and the Rebecca,
Scott, for Seville.

PonTsmouzu, JULY 13.—Wind W.—Arrived his ML
jesty's ships Brazen, Pandora, and Ranger, from a cruize.—
Sailed the Fame, Smith, for London.
FALmouTtt, JULY 12.--Wind W.S.W.--Off the Port.
the Elizabeth, Perryman, from Miramiehie. Sailed the Tient,
•M`All, for Quebec.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 12.—Wind N.—Arrived the James,
Glynn, from Bahia New Hampshire, --, from Savannah
Aurora, Lewis, and Maryport, --, from Miramichie. Oft
the Port, at 8 p. m., 14 ships and 13 brigs, two of them sup-
posed to be the Andes, from Calcutta, and the Roscoe, from.
Demerara.

Arrived off the Wight, the Susan and Sarah, -, from
Georgetown.

The Minerva, of Rio Janeiro, was lost, near Bahia; flit.
7th of April.

Extract of a letter from Paris, dated July 9:—
" A few days back a duel was fought between
two Lieutenants of the Body Guards, Messrs.
Jassan and Quelen, both parties about forty or
forty-live years of age. M. Quelen, who is ne-
phew to the. Archbishop of Paris, had memorial.
ized to be allowed to quit the Body Guards,
and to enter a regiment of the line with the rank
of Lieut.-Col., equivalent to that of Lieutenant in
the Body Guards. This permission was not
only refused him, but he received on the occa-
sion a rather uncivil letter from the Duke
d'llavre. M. Quelen, attributing both the re-
fusal and the letter to the ill-offices of M. Jassan,
challenged him ; they fought with swords—M.
Jassan had an eye put out, and M. Quelen was
slightly wounded in the breast. Another duel,much
more fatal in its results, which took place some
days before, took its rise from a very frivolous cause.
M. Pothene, who had but just joined the regiment,
was dining at the same table with two of his
brother officers, when a dish of pease being
brought in, he complained of their not being good.'
One of the other racers asserted that they were
excellent, and added that if M. Pothene had
been accustomed to such ,hard fare as they had
partaken of during 20 years, he would not be
so delicate in his taste. This allusion to his want
of service led to other words, the result of which
wara challenge. They fought with pistols, and,
on the first fire, M. Pothene was shot dead.—
The slayer on this occasion is called a vielle
moustache (an old campaigner), and his victim a
young and unexperienced man, who had been
very recently one of the King's Pages."
A black man, named WILLIAM PA,COE, %t ho
came from the coast of Africa in the Bann sloop
of war, and was paid off at Chatham a few weeks
back, was the person in whose arms BELZONI
died. This man was the companion of Belzoni
in his last expedition, and travelled with him
several hundred miles in the interior of Afri-
ca. Belzoni gave Pascoe two letters, one ad.
dressed to his wife, and another to a friend,
which he requested might be delivered in
the presence of witnesses, to some respectable
merchant, to be forwarded to their destination--a
charge which we believe Pascoe faithfully exe-
cuted. In order to induce a compliance with his
request, and U a mark of his satisfaction for the
fidelity of his services, Belzoni made a present to
Pascoe of a brace of pistols, one of which the man
gave to his sister before he left Africa', and the
other he sold to the Assistant Surgeon of time Banu
for one pound. We uuderstand that Captain
Pearce, who is about to proceed on an expedi-
tion into the interior of Africa, having heard
of the circumstances we have stated above, and
that he had entered on board the Ranger at
Chatham, applied to the Admiralty for the
dis-
charge of Pascoe, for the purpose of taking him
with him to act as a guide and interpreter.—
(Maidstone Gazette.)
Toll-bars have become so numerous on the
roads in this county, as to be a serious nuisance
to persons taking the recreation of a ride on
horseback. On the Cambaslang-road there are
four toll-bars in little more than as many mile,.
On the road by Carluke to Lanark there are
nine toll-bars in 24 miles. The time consumed
in waiting for tickets, which the toll-keeper is
precty sure never to have ready; is. a great nui-
sance ; and then there is the trouble of putting
them up and giving them avt ay.' The object of
these so frequent exactions is to catch travellers
who go short distances ; but this would be much
better attained by side bars.—(Glasgow Citron.)
THE OUTRAGE ON MRS. RYALS.-.411 our Pa-
per of last night we gave an account of a most
diabolical outrage, which was committed by a
man on Mrs. RYALS, wife of one of, the per-
formers of Covent-Garden Theatre, the night
before, in St. John's-square. The assailant was
carried before Mr. Sergeant SELLoN, at Hatton-
Garden Office, this morning, and the charge
having been sworn to by Mrs. IL, he was ordered
to find bail, but it was subsequently arranged
that he should make a public apology in the
newspapers.

On Thursday night last, Mr. Baliday, mat-
tress-maker, of this place, was drinking at the
Indian Queen, when suddenly a blood vessel
broke, and in less than five minute he was a
corpse.—( Boston Gazette.)

THE LONDON JOUItNALS.

DAILY
Extracts gram tote Morning Papers, July 14,1525•
• • _

• 1 • [THE TIMES.]
The agitation of the question respecting the
acknowledgment of the independence of Hayti
by France, has caused some interest to attach to
the arrival, from thence of the Robert Barclay,
which left Port-au-Prince on the '24th of May,
and brings to this country a member of the House
of Representatives, a gentleman of colour. We
are assured that his arrival has no connexion
whatever with any negociation of that nature ;
and further, that there is no subject of the Hay-
tian Government at present in Europe who is in-
vested with powers to conclude any treaty with
France. There was no discussion pending in the
islandolor any commissioner on the part of France
resident there at the time the Robert Barclay
sailed. The determination of the French Go-
vernment, therefore, on the point of recognition,
if the report in circulation is true, must have
been made contingent to the approval or that of
Hayti, whose disposition it will now take, at all
events, some months to ascertain.

At this season of the year, preparatory to the
dispersion► of the Ministers, either to their country
residences or to watering-places, there is always
a quick succession of Cabinet Councils. As the
bulk of society are tO3 much engaged in business
to have an accurate recollection of such circum-
stances (however regular), it is observable that
every year after the close of Parliament all sorts
of political rumours spring up. As Council suc-
ceeds to Council, the quidnuncs look graver and
graver, till at last some great political convulsion,
either at home or abroad, is predicted with a con-
fidence not the less absolute for having been gene-
rally mistaken. We may therefore, perhaps, do a
service to those whose brains are now, from the
usual cause, beginning to effervesce with the usual
vivacity of imagination, and also to others who
are apt to be worked upon by them, if we state
our belief that Ministers, like any other men who
are engaged in managing a great concern, feel it
necessary, before they separate, perhaps for two
or three months, to meet for the discussion and
arrangement of all such matters as are imme-
diately before them, or which may come before
any of them for decision during the ensuing ho-
lidays. Such, we believe, we may confidently
assert, is the sole cause that Cabinet Councils are
now held every other day, .instead of meeting
about once a week, which is the practice when
every Minister is staying in town, and accessible
at an hour's notice.—(ibid.)

pitonsiNG cnno:stcLE.)
The belief is very general in well informed
circles in Paris, that France will recogrAze the
Independence of Hayti. We never doubted the
inclination of M. de Villelv to pursue -such a
line of policy with respect to the New World, as
that of which England has set the example.—
The, question is, whether lie is so far the master,
as to be able to give effect to his views. ills
enemies do not accuse him of fanaticism of any
sort ; but then it is very generally believed that,
as he consented to the war against Spain, of
which he disapproved, he would consent to other
foolish measures, if necessary to the permanence
of his influence. An article from Milan attempts
to make the affair of Pavia political. The Aus-
trians are unable to account for the resentment
of the citizens, as the dragging three citizens
through the streets, like criminals, merely for
bathing in some place not allowed to them, in
any other way than by supposing a political
conspiracy !

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.?
By tFte Robert Barclay, merchantman, advices
were received yesterday from Hayti to the
25th of May. They settle the controverted
question as to the resumption of negotiations be-
tween the Island and France ; for, whilst in most
of the letters there is not the slightest allusion
to the circumstance, it is expressly denied in one.
Since the return of the Deputies from Paris, no
fresh overtures had been made by either party,
and it is positively stated that no Commissioners
had arrived in the Island from France. This
must convince the most sceptical that there was
not a shadow of truth in the rumours which prevail-
ed on this subject ; and it convicts, in our opinion,
the French Government of insincerity in all the
overtures it has hitherto caused to be made to
Hayti. If it was actuated by frank intentions in the
last negotiations, it would have lost no time in
trying to resume them, particularly as the offers
of the Hay tian Government were really too
liberal, considering all circumstances. But it is
probable that this farce was got up by the French
Ministers, to see whether they could not gain by
intrigue what they must have despaired of ob-
taining by arms ; .and. they may have flattered
themselves that the Haytian Deputies would lend
themselves to the design of creating a party in
the island favourable to France. In their most
liberal wood, the Ultra Ministers of the French
King
scould not have contemplated any thing
beyond what we have ascribed to .them ; and well
versed as they are in intrigue, and accustomed to
see it prosper in their hands, it would not be ex-
traordinary if they thought that the Haytians
would not be proof against it. If they ever enter-
tained such hopes, it is clear that they have been
. .led astray by them ; and the Deputies were no
ordinary. personages to have been able to evade
the snares that were no doubt laid for them. As
the French Cabinet cannot sett le the dispute with
Ifayti in their own way, they have, we suspect,
no design of settling it in any other ; and the
right of sovereignty, under some name or form, is
absolutely a sine .qua non with them, or we are
greatly mistaken. The French Government,
however, has not abandoned its views, notwith-
standing the repulse they have hitherto met with,
Ipr the possession of Hayti would furnish it with
prete..xt,of. introducing a large force into that
pact nf Ate world, which it cannot set up at pre-
sent without creating intense suspicion and
provolag the strongest remonstrances: With
such a force it could take advantage of any
opportunity that might offer to disturb the

Settlement that has been made on the op-
posite Continent. Though it is obliged now to
acquiesce in that settlement, this does not bind
it to the same course always ; and the Bourbons
of France have probably as decided a repugnance
to acknowledge the independence of the New
American States, as the younger branch of their
family in Spain. The union of the two Crowns
is not so very improbable an event ; in which case
France would succeed to the claims, which are
advanced with so much obstinacy by Spain ; and
preposterous as such hopes may seem to others their
accomplishment does not appear at all extravagant
to the Ruling Party in France. We have shewn,
we think pretty clearly, that the French Govern-
ment has not the faintest notion of terminating
its differences with Hayti in the manner that is
usually mentioned. If it had no fixed views on the
subject itself, it would soon see the necessity of
adopting them, or of renouncing its close alliance
with the other leading Continental Powers, for
it is a fundamental principle with the latter, that
there can be no compromise between legitimacy
and rebellion, without imminent danger to the
former. But this sternness of purpose and prin.',
ciple must relax in time, particularly as the New
States cannot but acquire increased consistency
with every revolving year, and as their prosperity
will hold out to the enemies of their independence
a strong inducement to exchange that hostility
for friendship. Moreover, the league now sub-
sisting between the great military Powers is too
unnatural to last long ; and the jealousy of
Monarchs towards their subjects will be directed
against one another. A single demise may
upset the present system altogether; and there
is abundance of matter in Turkey to produce the
same effect. We are inclined, therefore, to attach
very little importance to the views of the French
Government with respect to Hayti ; particularly
as, from the vigilance of the latter, they are ut-
terly impracticable at this time; and in a few
years more, the New World will probably be in
a situation, in which it may despise European
hostility. We have heard much of late of the
incompetency of its Rulers ; but there is no
proof of this in the military and political trans-
actions of the different States, which, on the
contrary, are marked by no slight degree of
energy and wisdom ; and we appeal, to the
British Commissioners, whether they have found
out this pretended incompetency. We know
they have repeatedly borne testimony to the good
disposition and successful efforts of these Rulers;
and the rapidly growing property of the diffe-
rent States, with the firm attitude that they pre-
sent to their enemies, spews that their affairs are
any thing but mismanaged.