The Sun.
London, England, 1822-07-23 00:00:00

THE COLONIES.

NEW BRUNSWICK.

POET OE ST. JOIIN, NEW BRU rzswicx.—An Account of
the total number of Ships and Vessels that have entered in-
wards and cleared outwards at the several Custom Houses in
this Province, in the'year ending the sth of Januiry 1822, with
their Tonnage, number of Men and Boys, and the quantities
of Goods imported and exported in the same Vessels.
Ships entered 1,212; Tonnage, 223,211 ; Men & Boys ; 10,153
Cleared 1,254 256,061 11,587

IMPORTED.
23,604 bbls. Flour
2,013 do.
38,618 busks. Corn
3,502 bbs. Beef and Pork
11,095 gals. Wine
28,074 do. Brandy and Gin
672,945 do. Rum
214,936 do. Molasses
22,734 lbs. Coffee,
47,384 do. Pimento
9,384 cwt. Sugar
5,253 tons Salt
1,047 bbls. Naval Stores
2,040 cwt. Tobacco
507 chests Tea
3,301,000 feet Pine Boards and
Plank
2,960,000 No. Staves
3,894,000 do., Shingles
2,614 tons Coals
Packages of British Merchan-
dize, including. Cotton, Silk,
and Woollen Goods, Sail-
cloth, Cordage, Ironmong-
ery, Shoes, 1,590, Trunks,
&c.

EXPORTED.

9,302 bbls. Fltur
1,141 do. Bread
117,620 gals. Rum
18,400 lbs. Pimento
1,468 cwt. Sugar
46,000 gals. Molasses
1,047 bbls. Naval Stores
1,290 MG Tobacco
262,597 tons Timber
25,216,000 feet Pine Boards &
Plank '
6,023,000 No. Staves
18,249,000 do. Shingles
6,653 do. Masts and spars
8,379 do. Oar Rafters
4,967 do. Handspikes ,
5,614 do. Hhds. Shooks
7,260 cords Lathwood
45,895 qnls.Dry Fish
836 bbls. Salmon
12,508 do. Herrings
453 dp. Fish Oil
44,554 tons. Gypsum
2,088 No.-Grindstones
1,467 tons Coals
4,595 bush. Potatoes.

EMPIRE OF MEXICO.

The following is the Decree of the Mexican
Congress by which Ituantin is declared Em-
peror,:—

DECREE.
The Supreme Regency of the Empire, by an act of extreme
urgency, issued, in the capital city of Mexico, on the 21st of the
present month of May,. the following public act, which they had
prepared for the occasion.
The Regency of the Empire, invested intermediately with the
functions of executive power during the vacancy of an Emperor,
to all those to whom these presents shall come, health.
The sovereign constituent Congress of Mexico bath decreed
as follows :
In the Palace of Mexico, the 19th day of May, 1822, second
year of independence.
The Sovereign Constituent Congress of Mexico, assembled
in an Extraordinary Session by the occurrences of the preceding
night, and called upon this day by the Generalissimo and High
Admiral, to consider various documents recorded in the trans-
actions of the day, abhorrent to the wishes of the people;. conform-
ing with the general wishes of Congress and the nation, having
taken into consideration that the Cortes of Spain, by a de-
cree inserted in the Gazette pf -Madrid pf the 13th' and
14th of February last, have declared null and void thel,
treaty of Cordova ; and that, therefore, the case provided
for ceases to be obligatory on the Mexican nation : by
the third article of the said treaty the authority recurs to
the Sovereign Congress, constituent of this empire, to nomi-
nate a person as Emperor, and to exclude all others from
I thenceforth ; and, after due consideration,. they have declared-
that the Senor D. Augustin de Iturhide is the person who is
best entitled to that office, upon the basis of the plan proclaimed
at lgnata, and accepted by the body of the nation, and to which
they have taken the oaths in due form, in Congress, on the day
of the 21st current.
The Regency. in its wisdom direct that it be communicated to
all the authorities of the empire, that it be printed, published,
and circulated, and that with this act ceases the functions with
which the Regency was invested. -
Done in Mexico, 21st of. May, 1822, second year of Inde-
pendence.
(Signed) Francisco Garcia Cantarines, President.
Francisca Maria Lombardo, Deputy and Sec.
Jose Ignacio Guitterrez, Deputy and Sec.
By the Regency of the. Empire.
Therefore it is commanded, that all the tribunals, judges,
chiefs, governors, and all other authorities, as well civil and
military as ecclesiastical, of whateber class or station, respect
and cause to be respected, to fulfil and execute the present de-
cree in all its parts; taking special care that it be printed, and
circulated throughout the nation.
(Signed) Jose Isidro Vanes,
)
Miguel Valentin,
El Conde Dc Casa Heras, Regents,
Nicholas Bravo,
A. D. Jose De Herrera.

RIOT AT ASTLEY CHAPEL.—A dispute has for
some time subsisted between the inhabitants of Astley, in the
county of Lancaster, and the Vicar of Leigh, respecting the
right of presentation to the Perpetual Curacy of the Chapel.—
The Vicar nominated Mr. BIRKETT, and on Sunday week
last, that Gentleman, accompanied by a Sheriff's Officer,
and the High Constable of the Division, proceeded to take
possession of the Chapel. The party were opposed by a
large body of the inhabitants who were,collected, and Mr.
BinNET T was very roughly treated; nor were they able
to enter tile Chapel until they had obtained the assistance of a
party of the 7th Dragoon Guards. On Thursday three persons,
Joseph Rawson, James Thorpe, and Joseph Beaumont, were
taken into custody, and conveyed to Leigh for examination
before Mr. BORRON, when Joseph Beaumont for an assault,
and Joseph Rawson and James Thorpe for a riot, and obstruct-
ing the Sheriff's officer in the execution of the writ, were com-
mitted for trial at the West Derby Sessions. Bail, however,
was instantly offered for their appearance, and they were set
at liberty. On the other side, writs of quare impedit against
the Bishop of CHESTER, the 'Vicar of Leigh, and the de facto
Curate, have been sent for, and will probably be served to-day.

•
Yesterday afternobn, about five
.o'clock, a very:
heavy rain came on, which continued without intermission till
an early hair this morning. The flood was so great that the
Cowgate and all the low streets were inundated, and the people
inhabiting 'them were employed the greater part of the night
in baling the water out of their houses.—On Thursday, a
little before two o'clock, this city was visited by some
loud peals of thunder, accompanied with vivid flashes of
lightning, and followed by a torrent of rain, which, however,
scarcely lasted an hour ;• but, after an interval of the like dura-
tion, the storm again commenced, when the noise of the thunder
was more alarmingly loud, and .showers of rain and uncommon-
ly large hail fell. A melaniholy accident happened during the
storm at Port Hopetoun. • Some of the workmen employed in
building the range of vaults on the west side of the Canal basin,
had taken shelter from the rain under one of them, and, un-
fortunately, while they were there, and at the same instant
with 'the last peal of thunder, the whole of the arches, four in
number, fell with an awful crash. One man named Pagan, a
mason, who resided ih the village of Slateford, and had only
come there to work the day before, was killed on the spot, and
another had his leg considerably injured --(Edinbur gh Courant,
July 20.)
AMILTON, JULY 15.—This day our jail was
again broken for the seventh time within these few years. But
this last effort to obtain liberty surpassed any thing for au-
daucity and ingenuity in the annals of jail-breaking.—
Two smugglers, or illicit distillers, were apprehended some
weeks ago in a moor in the parish of Kilbride, 'with their
malt and apparatus; they were. escorted to Hamilton by a party
of volunteers, and were lodged in jail. Ode of the smugglers
on Monday last sent for a man of business, who wrote a letter
to the Excise Board, offering ten pounds for his liberation.—
It so• happens that their place 'of confinement is immediately
over the Court hall, and while the Court was engaged,in taking a
precognition, the two smugglers cut a hole of about a yard
square in the floor, and had the lath so nicely cut, that when
'tile Court closed, the prisoners dropped down, mixed with the
crowd, and deliberately took the road. Their pursuers have'as
yet been unsuccessful in tracing the fugitives.
A very melancholy accident occurred on Wed-
nesday, in the immediate vicinity of Inverness. The mil-
ler's wife at Culcabock, washing some clothes at the mill-
lead, did not miss a child, between three and four years
old, who had been with her, until the little innocent having,
while playing itself, got entangled with the wheel, was
drawn in and instantly crushed to death. The mutilated re-
mains were observed in the stream by another woman, who
directed to it the attention of the agonized mother.
CORONER'S INQUEST.—Yesterday afternoon an
Inquest was held at St. James's Workhouse, Poland-street,
before A. GELL, Esq., on the body of Lieutenant JOHN
Hor..xuaat, of the Royal Navy. The deceased, it appeared,
was in the habit of hard drinking; but appeared to enjoy a good
state of health up to Saturday night last, when he left a party
of friends, and was soon after found in the street a corpse.
There being some suipicion that the deceased had met with
violence,in the absence of evidence as to the cause of hii death,
the Jury returned a verdict of " Found dead."