The Sun.
London, England, 1822-06-21 00:00:00

THE SUN.

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LONDON,
FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1822

Par;
rapers of Tuesday have arrived, from
It lett we give- extracts in a preceding column.
4Ppears by the Quotidienne, that, notivith-

'standing the existence of the Sanitary Cordon,
the Spanish insurgents, when defeated by the
Constitutionalists, are received into the French
territory, and notwithstanding the alleged pro-
mise of the French Government, that the Refu-
gees should be removed from the frontiers, and
sent into the interior of France, they are kept on
the frontiers in a state of pretended quarantine ,
for, when the danger of pursuit is past, they are
allowed to break quarantine, and freely to re-
enter Spain. The accounts respecting Turkey
and Russia possess the same indecisive character
by which they have been distinguished for some
time past.

FRENCH FUNDS.-JUNE 18.
Five per Cents.
Highest
Closed at 9O f. 90 c.
Exchange on London—One Month 25 f. 50 c,
Three Months 25 f. 30 c.

Brussels Journals to the 17th, and Hamburgh
Papers of a recent date, have also been received.
Extracts from them are inserted under the head
of Foreign Intelligence.

A mail from Lisbon has arrived. It furnishes
very little additional information relating to the
late conspiracy. The following is all that is stated
upon the subject:—
LISBON, MAY 8..---The conspiracy, so fortunately discc-
vered, has not excited ,so much sensation here as might have
been feared ; only 4 conspirators appear to have been arrested,
and two of these are servants. M. Januario das Neves, former-
ly Under-Secretary to Lord Beresford, with some others of his
own rank, being discontented with the present state of things,
formed a plan to overturn the Constitution. Their first object
was to gain the army, but it was judged necessary first to find
some officer of rank to head them, and they fixed on General
Luiz do Rego Barello, as likely to join them. Januario accord-
ingly applied to him, but he declined giving a decisive answer,
and desired him to return at a certain hour the following day.
The Minister of Justice was then made acquainted with the
circumstance, and Januario developed the plot before conceal-
ed witnesses. He was immediately taken up. No person of
high rank is named as being implicated, but many are suspect-
ed ; whether with or without sufficient reason will doubtless ap-
pear hereafter, when the affair shall be fully investigated."

[Extract of a Letter from Paris—Monday Night.]

44 The news received this morning relative to
Spain are very alarming. The war with that
country appears almost certain. It is also re-
ported on 'Change that the Portuguese have
sent 12,000 men, infantry, cavalry, and artil-
lery, to join the Spaniards. A great number of
troops from various parts of France are in move-
ment for that point, and Marshal SOUCHET is
spoken of as the Commander-in-Chief of the

army."
CANADA.—As a Bill is brought into Parlia-
ment to unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower
Canada, we shall refrain from any comment on
the subject until we have perused the Bill. In
the interval it will not be uninteresting to peruse
the debates on the Quebec Bill, which establish-
ed the present Government in both Provinces,
and which, if we recollect correctly, was warmly
contested by all the Great Men of that day.

If it be true that Mr. HUME made the decla-
ration imputed to him in The Morning Chro-
nicle and The Times, viz. " that a State which
could not exist without a Church ought not to
exist," (Morning Chronicle), or " the Govern-
ment that could not stand without a Church Es-
tablishment, ought not to stand at all," (Times),
there must be a total end to what popularity he
may have acquired, among all people who have
any sense of religion and morality. Even the
most barbarous States have been found to enter-
tain some sense of religion, which has always
been deemed necessary, in addition to the enact-
ments of law, by the wisest Politicians, and which
in many minds operates more strongly than all legal
denunciations. The sanction of an oath, appeal-
ing to a Supreme Being who formed and governs
the universe, has been found to make, a strong im-
pression upon the most corrupt and hardened
minds, while they have any sense of religion
remaining; but an oath not referring to a superna-
tural Being would be considered as little more than
the passing wind.—We cannot believe that Mr.
HUME, whatever his real opinions respecting reli-
gion may be, would have been so unguarded as to
utter the opinions imputed to him, and we trust
that he will take the first opportunity of disclaim=
iug them. He ought to know that a belief in the
existence of a Supreme Being is universal, not-
withstanding that some ideots or depraved
wretches may affect to be Atheists, and with
such a belief must be connected a sense of sub-
mission to his power and solicitude for his pro-
tection. If a Church. Establishment, or rather
Religion, were not to be supported by the
State, what, idleness, depravity, and vice of
every species, might be expected ! Instead of
the solemn awe and decency which now charac-
terize- the SABBATH, and preserve peace and or-
der in general among all classes of society, it
would then become a scene of the most licentious
revelry.. If it were possible that Mr. HUME
should attempt to justify the opinions thus, erro-
peously we trust, imputed to him, or remain

silent under so heavy a charge, we earnestly
hope that our Political, but more particu-
larly our Ecclesiastical, Correspondents will
promptly and resolutely come forward in support
of the important, the essential, the indispensable
utility of religion to a State, and not suffer an
opinion to prevail, which, by removing its salu-
tary restraint, would give scope to the worst
passions of mankind, and reduce them to the
basest degree of licentiousness and turpitude.

Accounts from the Cape of Good Hope state
that there has been no rain there for the last two

years.

The following important Resolution of the
Bank of England, regarding the discounting of
Bills at 4 per cent., was promulgated yesterday
afternoon :

" Bank of England, June 20, 1822.

" Resolved—That Bills and Notes approved in the usual
manner, and not having more than 95 days to run, be discount-
ed at the rate of 4 per cent. on and after the 21st June, 1822."
The consequence of this decision of the Bank
Directors was an immediate rise of 1 per cent. in
the Funds. At the opening Consols for the Ac-
count were soil, and they closed at 811.

A very lively sensation was produced yester-
day on the Royal Exchange, by an intimation
that the Court of Bank Directors had, at the
usual meeting of the morning, adopted the re-
solution of lowering the rate of discount, and
of receiving bills in future at 4 per cent. This
measure, which has been for a long period
anxiously solicited of the Bank by the monied
and mercantile interests, and which has been also,
it is understood, urgently required of them by
Government, had been so long withheld, that
when announced it was quite unexpected. The
motives of the Bank, for selecting this period,
probably are, that after the present month the
reduction of the interest on the Navy .5 per
Cents. will be completed, and as there will then
remain no 5 per Cent. Stock of the Government,
la higher rate could not with propriety be asked
for commercial discounts. On the funds and on
the foreign securities circulating in this country,
this measure is likely to produce some effect,
nearly all of them having experienced an advance
in value soon after it was announced. Consols
for the account, which in the morning stood at
808, left off at 81+. No time is lost by the
Bank in carrying their resolution into effect, as
the new measure will be in full operation on
Monday next.—(The Times.)
• The sum subscribed for the relief of the dis-
tress in Ireland amounts to upwards of 90,0001.
The Prince and Princess PAUL ESTERHAZY are
about to revisit their native country almost imme-
diately. The Princess and her interesting young
family will set forward about the middle of next
week, it is said, and his Excellency will follow in
the course of a few days afterwards, leaving the
Count Colleredo behind him as Charge d'Affaires.
We feel great pleasure in announcing that her
Grace the Duchess of NEWCASTLE is recovering
from her late severe indisposition, which pro-
ceeded from a violent cold.
An Official Return to an Order of the House
of Commons of the total Population and number
of Persons receiving Relief from the Poor Rates
in four Parishes in the County of Sussex, states
as follows :—ln the parish of Northiain, total
population, according to the last census, 1358 ;
number of paupers 636. Salehurst population,
2121 ; paupers, 1062. Burwarsh population,
1937; paupers, 1056. Mayfield population,
2698 ; paupers, 1391. Thus the number of pau-
pers' exceeds more than half the amount of the
whole population in each of these four parishes.
THE NEW LONDON BRIDGE.—The new bridge
is to be erected as near as possible to, and not exceeding 170 feet
from the west side of the present bridge, and to aflbrd a clear
water-way of not less than 690 feet. It is to be faced with gra-
nite, and to consist of five arches; the center arch to rise 23 feet
above high water mark of an average spring tide, according to
the Trinity House standard, which is shewn upon the face of
the present bridge. Proper stairs of granite are to be pro-
vided. The acclivity of the road way to and over the bridge
is not to be steeper than 1 foot in 26 feet. In the instructions
for the engineers, architects, and others, who propose to
furnish the Committee for letting the Bridge House estates,
with designs or models and estimates for the erection of
the new Bridge, a desire is expressed that the bridge should
be worthy of the metropolis and the present cultivated state
of science ; due regard being had at the same time to eco-
nomy, and to the convenience of the traffic over and under
the bridge, during the progress and after the completion of the
works. A desire is also expressed that as little sacrifice be
made of the property at both ends of the bridge, for the forma-
tion of the necessary approaches, as is consistent with the cha-
racter of so important an entrance to the City of London.
The Anniversary of the glorious battle of Wa-
terloo was celebrated on Tuesday last, by numerous convi-
vial parties in this town. A considerable number of the
Members of the Corporation dined together at the Town-
Hall, in commemoration of the event. Many loyal inhabitants
also celebrated the day, as usual, by an excellent dinner at the
Wrestlers Inn, where loyalty, harmony, and good order pre-
vailed during the whole evening.—( Cambridge Chronicle.)
The following curious fact has been handed to
us from authority upon which we can rely :—An Irish Gentle-
man who came to Liverpool on Monday se'nnight took his
place in the Champion coach for London. Shortly after the
commencement of his journey, he sewed a bill for seventy
pounds and eleven guineas, within the lining of the coach, as
a place of security ; and on his arrival at the Swan-with-two-
Necks, in town, was proceeding to take it back, when, to his
utter consternation and astonishment, it was no where to be
found. Being totally at a loss to account for any means by
which his treasure could have vanished, having scarcely lost
sight of the coach from the time he first entered it, he applied
to Mr. Waterhouse, who unravelled the mystery, by inform-
ing him that the coach was regularly changed at Lichfield.—
•Information was immediately dispatched to Mr. Dunn; of that
city, requesting his assistance to recover the money ; and on
Friday morning, upon examination of the coach, which had
gone three journeys to and from Liverpool since the Gentle-
man left it, the property was -found safe, and has been restored
to him.—( Wolverhampton Chronicle.)
FlRE.—Yesterday evening, about ten o'clock,
a fire broke out in the extensive warehouse of
Mr. GILES, flock-factor, in Brewhouse-yard, St.
John-street, Smithfield, formerly part of Mr.
Dickson's brewery. The destructive element
raged for some time with the utmost fury, and
the adjoining buildings, consisting principally of
stables, were at one period in the greatest danger.
Several engines, however, soon arrived on the
spot, and a plentiful supply of water being
promptly procured, the progress of the flames
was fortunately prevented extending its ravages
further than completely destroying the premises
where the fire first began. The loss is estimated
to be very considerable,