The Sun.
London, England, 1822-04-22 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PARIS, APRIL 19.—A special messenger from
Madrid arrived last. night at the residence of the
Spanish Minister.
Yesterday the Duke of Fernan Nunez, for-
merly the Spanish Ambassador at Paris, had
an attack of apoplexy at a diplomatic dinner
given by the Sardinian Ambassador.
M. Zea, Envoy from the Republic of Columbia,
gave a grand dinner yesterday ; several Peers
and Deputies were among the company.
N. de Chevigny, Sub-Lieutenant in the Guards,
.has,married Miss Seymour, grand-daughter of the
Earl of Yarmouth, one of the richest heiresses in
England. The marriage ceremony took place
the day before yesterday at the house of the
English Ambassador.
In the sitting of Thursday, the Chamber of
Deputies came to a final vote on the whole of the
'budget, which was adopted by 272 votes against 52.
The Session of the Chambers is about to close

One of the Secretaries of the French Embassy

at Vienna arrived on Tuesday at the Ministry for
Foreign Affairs. He travelled with great expe-

llition.

The officers of artillery, arrested at Strasburgh,
have been brought to Paris. One of them signed
a written declaration, stating himself to be a
Member of the Carbonari.

The Madrid Journal, the. Universal, of the 9th
inst. confirms the arrival of General Berton at
Saint Sebastian.

An old soldier was committed to the prison of
Caen ou the 11th, for recruiting for Gen. Berton:
FRENCH FUNDS.
April 17, Five per Cents. B7 f. 60 c.
April 18, Five per, Cents.
April 19, Five per Cents.... 87 f. 35 c. 40 c. 25 c. 30.
Bank Stock 1580 f. c.
.AFFAIRS OF THE EAST.

FROM THE 13ANKS OF THE DANUBE, APRIL G.-

-Our latest accounts I from Constantinople, of
.March 12, leave no doubt of the invariable de-
termination of the Porte to push '.e war with
the greatest vigour. The Divan hu been long
since convinced of the impossibility of maintain-

ing peace, resolved, as the Sultan was, as well as
all his Counsellors composing the Divan, not to
accept the conditions proposed by Russia, and to
reject all its demands ; but policy made it im-
portant to the Porte to gain time to finish its
preparations for war, and especially because it is
impossible to make the Turkish troops act in
winter. The Divan has, in fact, employed in its
negociations with the mediating Courts a degree
of art far superior to the boasted diplomatic skill
of the Europeans. Up to the last moment, it
continued to nourish the hopes of the Ministers
of Austria and England, who greedily listened
to the insinuations thrown out, from time to time,

very, ill humour at being deceived in his hope, and that with
good reason ; the consequence of this affair will be the cutting
off of some more heads, and I think it very probable that those
of the conquerors of the tyrant will soon figure over the Gate of
Felicity of the Imperial Palace at Constantinople."
BRUSSELS, Amu. 18.—The letters from the
frontiers of France speak in a mysterious manlier
of the motives which had induced the Govern-
ment to dismiss the Commi-saries of the Police
of the city of Nancy, and to change some of the
superior officers of the garrison. It seems cer-
tain that discoveries have been made respecting
a project for a military conspiracy, not only in
the capital of Lorraine, Init also in the fortresses
of the province. All this is very obscure, but
what is certain is, that the genius of evil is again
at work in several parts of France.
The Deputies of the Second Chamber of the
States General, who had been to their homes
to enjoy recreation after the fatigues of the Ses-
sion, already begin to set out for the Hague.—
The deliberations of the Second Chamber will
be extremely interesting, on account of the num-
ber and nature of the subjects which it will have
to discuss before the conclusion of the Session..
An Antwerp Commercial Journal of the 16th
says, " A.Mr. C. L. de Cock, of Haenens, living
at St. Nicholas, last Saturday swindled several
merchants of this city of 80,000 francs, under
the pretence of purchasing, for ready motley,
several parcels of goods. The'police is in active
pursuit of him."
The Austrian Observer, to the 9th inclusive,
preserves the same silence respecting the affairs
of Turkey. . .

HAMBURG'', APRIL 9.--The following is an ex-
tract of a commercial letter from Constantinople,
dated the 28th February :
" Fof some days the intelligence has been privately circulat-
ed that the EMperor of Russia had caused to be signified to the
Porte, that idthe event of its not consenting to the demands
contained in the Ultimattmi, a Russian army would on the Ist
of March (the 13th) enter the Turkish territory."

AIX..LA.CIIAPELLE, APRIL 13.—The article published in
the official Gazette of Berlin, of the 4th, has not put an end to
the warlike reports which circulate in that capital, and which
are so much the more credited, as they are in accordance with
the opinions of several persons, who fulfil eminent functions in
the Prussian Government.

Letters from St. Petersburgh, besides coming from a good
source, state that the War Department had transmitted dis-
patches of great importance to the Generals and the Chiefs of
Military Administrations. The plan of the campaign has been
sent from Petersburgh to the head-quarters at Tulczyn. A su-
perior Officer of the Staff was the bearer of it ; who Was also
directed to transmit private instructions to the Generals com-
manding the corps forming part of the armies of the South
and 'West.

The Danish Government is stated to have found itself under
the necessity of again contradicting the reports in circulation,
of a negotiation with England, for an exchange of territory.
These reports have excited a disagreeable sensation throughout
Denthark, and particularly at Copenhagen, where the inhabi-
tants appear much to dislike the English. It is said the indi-
viduals of that nation, domiciled at Copenhagen, have been
insulted in the streets.

THE NAVIGATION LAWS.

TO THE RIGHT HON. THE LORDS OF THE COMMITTEE

OF PRIVY COUNCIL FOR TRADE AND PLANTATIONS.

• Ship-owners' Society, New Broad-street, April 15, 1822.
Mw Loitlis—The • Committee of this Society having had
under consideration the Bill which was introduced into Parlia-
ment at the close of the last Session, for altering the Naviga-
tion Laws, and also the Bills ordered to be printed by the
House of Commons, on the 25th ult., which have been substi-
tuted for the former, have been happy to find that much of the
objection which they had felt to the form of the Bill is re-
moved, the present being constructed very nearly in the man-
ner which the Committee had deemed to be best adapted to the
object of consolidating and comprising into one Act, and
thereby rendering more intelligible and certain the laws of
importation.
I am, however, requested most respectfully to represent to
your Lordships, that although the form of the Bills is so much
more satisfactory to them, the Committee have observed with
much regret, that in substance they remain the same ; and as
it appears by the returns to the inquiries which they have made,
that the Ship-owners at the principal outports almost unani-
mously concur in the opinion which the Committee have
formed, that the proposed relaxation of the principle of the
Navigation Laws is not required by existing circumstances, or
likely to be attended with advantage to British commerce and
shipping, the Conimittee have therefore felt it incumbent on
them to submit their sentiments for your Lordships' consi-
deration.

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The Committee find the most important of the proposed al-
terations to be the following :
That so much of the 12 Car. 2, cap. 18, as restricts the im-
portation into Great Britain, of goods of Asia, Africa, and
America, to British ships, and directly from the place of their
growth, &c.—and as restricts the importation of goods of Rus-
sia and Muscovy; currants and commodities of the growth of
Turkey ; and masts, timber or boards, salt, pitch, tar, ,rosin,.
hemp, flax, raisins, figs, prunes, olive oils, corn or grain, sugar,
pot-ashes, wine, vinegar, and brandy, to iiritish-built ships, or
ships of the country of which those articles respectively are the
production, or of the usual place of shipment for transporta-
tion ;—and so much of the 13 and 14 Car. 2, as prohibits the
importation of spicery, grocery, tobacco, pot-ashes, pitch, tar,
salt, rosin, deal boards, hr timber, and olive oil, from the
Netherlands and Germany, in any ship whatever, shall be re-
pealed; and that instead thereof, goods the production of every
part of the world, (except the British Colonies), shall be allowed
to be imported from every part of the world, though they may
not be the growth or production of the country from which they
are imported ; and, that goods of Russia or Niuscovy, currants,
&c. (as above enumerated) shall be permitted to be imported
either in British ships, in ships of the build of the country of
which the goods are the production, or in ships of the build of
the country, port, or place in Europe, from any part of which
such goods shall be shipped for this kingdom, being wholly
owned by the people of such country.
The " wisdom of the principle of the Navigation Laws, as
indispensable to our maritime power, on which the security and
protection of commerce itself, and the greatness of this country,
essentially depends," being admitted, and nothing more being
intended by the Bills in question than " to remove such re-
strictions as may be removed consistently with that principle,
in order to give to foreign trade, and the productions of foreign
countries, the utmost facility of access to our ports, for trans-
mission and distribution over every other part of the world ;"
the points to which the Committee have directed their inquiries
are—

First, What are the objectionable restrictions alluded to ?
Secondly, How far are they likely to be removed, and the
ends in view promotFd, by the measure proposed ?
The objection to the existing restriction regarding the trade
with " Asia, Africa, and America," appears to be, that " if a
British ship find in an American, an African, or an Asiatic
port, articles the produce of any other quarter of the world,
however convenient for assortment or market, it is prohibited
from receiving and conveying them, under the penalty of con-
fiscation of ship and cargo, on its arrival in a British port."