The Sun.
London, England, 1822-12-02 00:00:00

HAY AND STR

Hay £3 Os to 1:4 Os
Straw £1

' AGRICULTURE, d'r.
MONTHLY REPORT FOR N EMB Elt .-FrOM
the delay occasioned by a .want of rain in the early part of
the Autumn, wheat-sowing was not generally finished until
the middle of the present month. Much seed, however, was
got in sufficiently early in good and well-tilled lands, and, rain
soon after following, those crops have at present as luxu-
riant and fine an appearance as ever was witnessed in this
country : in truth, they already stand in need of frost to check
their exuberant growth. The latter sown, from the warmth and
moisture of the weather, hare germinated rapidly, and promise
at no rate to he backward in season. In the inFan time, should
the heavy rains continue, it must be injurious to the low-land
corn and • more especially if followed by sudden frost. An
experiment has been made in various parts to sow the refuse,
unsaleable wheat of last season, nearly double the quantity of
seed being allowed. Turnips have continued to improve, and
many cultivators have been agreeably surprised to find per-
haps three-quarters of a crop of Swedes,- where, two months
ago, they expected none at all. The straw-yard has commenced
almost generally, the last crop of clovers and grasses being
nearly exhausted. The difference between the extreme low
price of fruit in the country, and the very considerable one
which that which is good obtains in the metropolis, has excited.
notice.

A turkey-cock, the property of John Lee, Esq.
of Redbrooke, near Whitchurch, which was black last year,
has now become perfectly white : this extraordinary change
took place so gradually, that, in the moulting, the bird. was
beautifully mottled, the feathers being black and white alter-
nately.--(Shrewsbury Chronicle.)
A. letter has beep received from Mr. iNcE,
Prince of Wales's Island, dated June 10, con-
veying the distressing intelligence of the death
of that invaluable missionary, Dr. MILNE, who
died at Malacca on the 27th day of May last,
four days after his return from Sincapore and
Penang, which islands he bad visited with the
hope of recovery. Dr. TAYLOR, formerly a.
missionary, died at Shirez, in Persia, in the
mouth of Dec. 1821,

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

IgN.TRACTS FROM THE n LILY MORNING PAPERS.
December 2, 1822.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The transactions at Verona still continue to be
wrapt up in mystery and silence. Although
fully aware of the great precautions observed
from_ the very commencement, in order to pre-
vent any thing connected with the deliberations
from transpiring, we did not think it possible
such profound secrecy would last so long, for, in
Verona itself, little or nothing that may be con-
sidered substantial is known. This is, in some
measure, attributed to the very few females who
have accompanied those immediately concerned
in the conferences, and the 'great care taken to
ensure the secrecy of those entrusted with
any part of the business. That the Mem-
bers of the Congress, previous to their meet-
ing, were aware that they would have the
eyes of the Liberal party in the whole of
Eurupe stedfastly fried upon them, from the
moment they assembled at Verona, may easily be
conceived by those who reflect on the motives
-which call the Allied Sovereigns together—
motives, which may he considered as little short
of a positive conspiracy against the liberties of
mankind in general, and, of course, sufficient to
rouse the enmity, and excite the curiosity of all
those professing liberal sentiments. 1t is against
any unseasonable disclosures that might be turned
to their own detriment, that the Verona Congress
have so studiously guarded—yet, most political
men agree, that this profound silence and mystery
wear a consoling aspect ; for, it is very generally
thought, if the Congress premeditated, or rather
had, collectively, agreed on any thing ominous to
the Liberal cause, it would have transpired long
ere this.

[MO RNI NG POST.]
Paris Journals to the 29th ult. have brought
intelligence from Spain, which shows that the
seal is set to the fate of Rebellion in that country.
The attempts lately made by the Insurgents and
their friends to conceal their reverses can no
longer avail, and the evidence of positions, one
which never deceives, proves that they have been
beaten out of the field in every direction. "Mina
had`taken possession of the Seo d'Urgel, and is
said to have given up that town to the sword
and to the flames. The garrison had taken re-
fuge in the citadel to the number of one thou-
sand, accordit, to some accounts? and to that
of only five hundred men according to others.—
But whether they subsequently abandoned that
post, or surrendered, Mina does not seem to
have stayed his victorious march on their account.
Letters of the 19th ult. from St. Beat announce,
that whilst the Baron d'Eroles had fallen back
to the valley of Paillas, and his Baroness had
escaped to the French territory, the Constitu-
tional Commander had reached Real, a small
town, within little more than a day's march of
St. Beat, at the bead of sixteen thousand men,
after having passed through very difficult, roads
and the worst country in Spain. Puycerda was
in his possession, and the Regency, who had fled
from the Seo d'Urgel to that place " for the
benefit of the air and the health of its Members,"
had found it necessary, probably for the same
reasons, to run away from Puycerda. to Llivia, a
small town surrounded on three sides by the
French territory.

THE TIMES.]
So far as can be learned from the Paris papers
of lift Thursday, the cause of the Faith is in its
mortal agony. The Journal des Daals applies
a very proper term to the extracts which it inserts
from the Mari() d'Urgel, i❑ stating that it has
culled the most curiuusamon,g them—and curious
enough they are. One is a decree from the Re-
gency, or late Regency, announcing the departure
of that illustrious body from Seo d'Urgel, and
assigning all sorts of reasons but the true one.
The difficulty of the means of transport among
the mountains induces the Regents to try a
second range of mountains ; then the impossi-
bility of accommodating such " an assemblage"
of General and other officers, as well Spanish as
" foreign," who come to fight under the standards
of the Faith, compels the Court of Urgel to re-
tire from that city, and to enlarge its quarters by
residing in the village of Llivia—a little place en-
clave, as the diplomatic people call it, or, in other
words, almost surrounded by the French territory.
However, the truth peeps out from a paragraph of
the Faithful Gazettes of the 18th of November,
which affirm that - the Constitutional Colonel
Costa (this had reached the public previously
through other quarters) left Barcelona a week
before, with two thousand men, to join Milans at
Vich ; and, it was feared, to steal a march upon
Spanish Cerdagne, in which case these officers
might have got behind the Regency had they
remained at Urgel ; or caught them, had they
retreated no further than Puycerda. The official
intelligence from Urgel itself admits, that after
some fighting in the Conque de Trempe, Mina
had driven Eroles from that, his last tenable po-
sition, and had entered Talaru, where it is
alleged (though with an expressive doubt of the
veracity of the tale) that the private residence
of the Conimander of the Faithful had been
burned to asl:es.

[MORNING HERALD.]
Thursday's Paris Papers contain some few not
uninteresting paragraphs. The affairs of the
Spanish insurgents appear to proceed from bad to
worse. The " Regency ". had fled from Puy-
cerda to Llivia, a small town on the frontier, and
of doubtful appurtenance,—whether Spanish or
French. In the mean time Mina is said to have
occupied both Urgel and Puycerda. But this
is scarcely probable. On the other hand, it ap-
pears more likely, as stated in other accounts,
that he is pursuing, to dispersion, the remnant of
force with which the insurgent Chief Eroles
abandoned Urgel to its fate, and took the direction
of Andorre. The rebel bands, it is stated, join the
Constitutional Army by hundreds. We can ea-
sily conceive that this might be invention ; but un-
der the circumstances it is highly probable. Great
disasters are fatal to such forces, and such .a cause

as that of " the Faith," resting as they do,
for the most part, upon ignorance, superstition,
and delusion. Gen. Torrijos seems in Navarre
to emulate Mina in Catalonia. He had arrived
at Vittoria with 4,000 men, issued proclamations
of alternative pardon or punishment, in the same
tone as those of Mina, and, it is said, pledged
himself to rid the province of insurrection in two
months. There are no fresh accounts of O'Don-
nell, the Insurgewt Commander opposed to him.
A Journal of the South of France mentions as
" a most touching spectacle" the Trappists of
Toulouse, with their brother of fighting celebrity,
performing a requiem for the souls of those whom
the Trappist" had led to victory."

[NEW TimEs.l
No legitimate Government in Europe can
possibly approve of, or countenance the sangui-
nary and disorganising measures of the factio❑ in
power at Madrid. Had their cause (which be-
gan in mutiny and rebellion) been originally
better, they would have completely disgraced it
by their cruelties, tyrannies, and anarchial pro-
ceedings. England may not regard these as suffi-
cient causes of foreign interference ; but no Eng-
lish Statesman can say that the conduct of the Re-
publican faction has been such as to entitle them
to support. The French Government may pause
before it proceeds to the extremity of an inva-
sion ; but it must certainly feel that its own in-
terests are involved in those of the Spanish
Royalists, and of the Spanish House of Bourbon.
Even if Russia, Prussia, and Austria should be
induced by the earnest remonstrance of England
to abstain for the present froth any armed in-
terference in the affairs of Spain, it is impos-
sible that they should tamely sit by and see
all the friends of legitimate Government in that
country brought to destruction, and a sanguinary
democracy established in triumph. The ulti-
mate success, therefore, of the democratical fac-
tion in Spain seems morally impossible; and
with this prospect in the future, and the severe
lesson taught by the settlement of the last
account, we trust that few Englishmen will be so
insane as to risk their property again on Spanish
Loans.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The French Funds fell on Thursday to BSf.
60c. It is presumed that the decline was the
result of gloomy accounts received by express
from London. The news in the Paris Papers
was favourable to the peace of the Continent, and
as such calculated to raise them. That the
Urgel Regency is on the eve of resigning its
functions, and that its cause is hopeless, is as-
serted in the Paris letters without reserve ;
though the Journals do not, by any means, sup-
ply a clear history of its expiring struggles.—
Mina, as it is admitted by the Ministerial Journals,
has made himself master of the city of Urge!, but
they add that the garrison, 1000 strong, had.
retired to the citadel. This force is known,
from other and more impartial sources, not to ex-
ceed half that number ; but even these, accord-
ing to the Constitutionne/ of Thursday, have
been abandoned by their leader. the Baron
d'Eroles. He is said at first to have enter-
tained the intention of defending the fort to the last
extremity, but had since retreated towards the
valley of Andorre, a territory the right to which
is in dispute between France and Spain, and had
sent on the records of the Regency to Llivia,
which place is now described as a neutral State,
but which is at all events wholly surrounded by
the French territory.

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

PROPHETIC COINCIDENCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE BELFAST NEWSLETTER.

SIR-I have read your observations on Pasto-
rini's explanation of St. John's prophecies, and have noted what
you say about Mr. Mede's remarks on the same subjects.—
These expounders may be wrong in the particular points which
they endeavour to clear up ; but surely, Sir, you cannot pretend
to say, that the Pope is not plainly pointed out by St. John as
The Beast, whose number is 666. His very titles prove it.—
This is one of them—

" Vicarins Dei generalis in Terris."
That is " GOD'S Vicar General on Earth."—Sum up the nume-
rical letters contained in this title, and you will have the very
number required. Thus—
V - A

666
If you, Sir, or any man can gainsay this satisfactory evidence,
I would be glad to hear by what arguments you will do so.
I am, Sir, your very humble servant,
ALEXANDER CREEVIE.
Navan, Nov. 13,
Mr. Creevie we hope will excuse us for declining to enter
into any controversy with him respecting the Apocalypse, the
Pope, and the number of The Beast—subjects which would
lead us into endless debate. We cannot, however, refrain from
remarking, that the numerical letters of Mr. Alexander Crecy ie's
own name, when added together, exactly produce 666, the num-
ber of The Beast which St. John says is the number of a man.
Thus—

666
If cur Correspondent have signed his real name, we wish
him joy of this discovery, for, on his own principles, he is now
on a level with the Pope, who is not only a temporal Prince,
but, in the opinion of many millions of men, the High Pontiff
of Christendom.

If Mr. Creevie's name constitute him a beast—the thing must
be admitted. With his Christian name we naturally associate
the term great. So that his title will be " Alexander The
Great Beast." If this title should not please him, he has no-
thing to do but write his name with a y instead of an i, and he
will resume his manhood, like the disenchanted companions of
Ulysses, when Circe's spell was withdrawn. There is but an
iota, it seems, between a man lid a beast.

A correspondent informs us that his Royal
Highness the Duke of SUSSEX has been solicited
to take the Chair at a Meeting to be held on
Wednesday next, at the City of London Tavern,
for the purpose of establishing a " Sub-Way
Company" to prevent the opening of the pave-
ments in the streets for the water and gas pipes,
&c.--(Morning Paper.)