The Sun.
London, England, 1822-01-05 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, JAN. 4.—On the 21st of December, Mr. John
Whitmore Wall was admitted Fellow of New College.
On Wednesday last the Rev. Thomas Marwood, M.A. Se-
nior Fellow of Queen's College, (New Foundation) was pre-
sented by the Visitors, to the Rectory of English Bicknor,
in the County of Gloucester, void by the cession of the Rev.
J. M. Mundell.

HAND EL.—The celebrated composer, HANDLL,
had such a remarkable irritation of nerves, that
he could not bear to hear the tuning of instru-
ments, and therefore this was always do nejae-
fore he arrived at the theatre. A musical wag, who
knew how to extract some mirth from Handei's
irascibility of temper, stole into the orcheF-
tra, on a night when the Prince of Wales was
to he present, and untuned all the instruments.
As soon as the Prince arrived, Handel gave the.
signal of beginning, con spirit° ; but such was the
horrible discord, that the enraged musician started
up from his seat, and having 'overturned a-
double bass, which stood in his way, he seized
a kettle-drum, which he threw with such violence
at the leader of the band, that he 'lost
full-bottomed wig in the effort. Without Wait-
ing to replace it, he advanced bare-headed to the
front of the orchestra, breathing vengeance,
hut so much cloaked with passion, that utter-
ance• was denied him. In this ridiculous at-
titude he stood staring and stamping for
some moments, amidst a convulsion of laugh-
ter; nor could he be prevailed upon to resume
his seat, until the Prince went in-person, and
with much difficulty appeased his wrath.
When MARMONTEL was a school-boy, his IM.o.
ter chastised him for some youthful offence,
which he resented by so severe a laMpoon, that he
was under the necessity of running away. Ileing
afraid of returning to his parents,• he entered
as a private soldier in a regiment commanded by
the Prince of CONDE ; and in the year when he
obtained a halbert, this celebrated Poet wrote
his charming history of Bclisarius. Many appli-
cations were made for his discharge, which
the Prince. always Withstood, declaring it- to
be the most flattering honour he could poisibly re-
ceive, to have such a mad as MARMOI,7TEL a .ser-
jeant in his regiment. Once a year, at the ge-
neral review,. this distinguished indiyidual ap-
peared in his station, and multitpdes always
crowded to see him. After the review was over,
AIAnmaNTEL had invariably the hon Our to dine
with his illustrious Colonel, and the: principal
officers of the army.
MATRIMONY THE BEST DOCTOge---AD artist
belonging to the Royal Academy being much
hypped, was eternally complaining of illness, hut
could never tell what was the matter with him.
At length he married, which being told to
FOOTE, he exclaimed, " I heartily wish hint
joy ; for now he'll readily find Out what is the with him."

On the 21st and 22d instant, an important
seizure was made by four of the " Preventive
Water Guard," at Port William, accompanied by
Andrew M‘Kie, and A. Livingstone, tide-waiters,
the former stationed at Drumore, and the latter
at Portnessoekt, Mull of Galloway. The
seizure consisted of 151 packages, containing
10,180 lbs. of tobacco, and thirty three kegs,
containing 129 gallons of excellent geneva, 26
per cent, above hydrometer proof. The exer-
tions of the officers on this occasion were greatly.
aided, we understand, by the sagacity of a New-
foundland (1-3 g, who, whether or not in the
King's pay, has more than once distinguished
himself in the King's service, and whose item:
acuteness was one of the chief means of ferret-
ing out the smuggled commodities. About a
fortnight previous to this event. a vessel appeared
on the coast carrying 18 guns, and' apparently, corn-
mandedby a person who wore the navaluniform;
and it is conjectured that the goods seized had
formed part of the cargo of this well-appointed
cruiser.—(Dumfries Courier.)

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DA 1,LI:
:EXTRACTS FROM Tlfl TtIORNING PAPERS,
January :5, 1522.

• • .•
[BRITISH PRESS.]
The" accounts through Vienna from Constan-.
iikoopie. are' of so late a date as the 29th of No-
vember-, and•as these ate'wholly silent Upon the •
subject of the pretended insurrection of the Ja-
taissaries, they falsify, by inference, the report of
the revolution, and of the death of the Sultan.—
is-~indeed, admitted in tile Vienna Papers, that
ti..e report originated in that:city for the purposes
of stock-jobbing. The •Turkish capital, however,
has not enjoyed undisturbed tranquillity : .ex-
ces.des of the worst character have been com-
mitted, and the Pars- of the Christian inhabit-
ants have been kept constantlfalive by the fre-
quent buntings and ." plunder of • houses. The
death of Haled Effendi, the. Obnoxious favourite ,
of the Grand Seignor; is again mentioned. The
head .of this.person, and•those of two Ministers,
are said to have been, thrown •to the JRlliS-
narief; 'but the report is discredited. in the
very moment of its utterance. The Turks seem
still resolved on war. The English Ainbassador,
'not deterred by. the ill success of, his former ne-
gociations with the Porte, - but .being- still de-
iitons to preServe the.peace,of 'Europe,, and the
Turks themselves from inevitable destruction,
offered a further memorial of advice and remon-
strance to the Divan, but on the 27th the Reis
-Effendi caused it to be returned. -This might be
cdnsidered as almost tantamount to a declaration
of war, and it is probable that in this light it is
esteemed by all parties. 'Every circumstance,
indeed, already bears the impress of' a Warlike
disposition. The Turkish Government has ad-
vanced fresh troops to Jassy, and the Russian
artillery has crossed the Dniester and advanced
towards the Truth.

[NEW TIMES.]
The Paris Papers which have arrived, to Tues-
day inclusive, contain little that is interesting on
;French politics. The Ministers appear to be pro-
ceeding calmly in the arrangements of office and
other matters preliminary to the more distinct
avowal of the line of policy which they intend to
pursue. By a Royal Ordinance, the direction of the
personnel of the War Department is entrusted to
Lieut..-Gen. Count de Coetlosquet. This officer is
not quite forty, years of age. He entered young
into the army, and served with distinction under
Buonaparte. In 1813' he obtained the command
of. the Bth Regiment of Hussars, and the same
year was made a General of Brigade, being re-
rnarkedno less for his bravery than for his skill
in Military manceuvres. , In 1814, after the first
restoration, he was appointed by Louis XVIII.
Commandant of the Department of the Nievre.
During the hundred days he retained his senti-
ments of loyalty to his Sovereign, and resisted
the agents of Buonaparte both at Nevers and at
Orleans : here be organised the Royalists in
such a manner as to enable them efficaciously to
prepare the way for the second Restoration.—
Immediately after that -event took place, he was
pitched upon as a proper person to be employed
.zin_a Mission by the King to the Rebels who still
held-OUt_in the West and the South,•which office
he discharged with great ability ; and as a reward
for his important services, was made one of the
Aides Majors-Generaa.2: of the Garde Royale.

[THE TIMES.
An express received by us yesterday from
Faris enables us to present the public with the
substance of the new project tendered by the
new Ministers for the government of the-Press.
Before we. bestow, its we must, our unqualified
disapprobation upon the measure proposed, we
shall frankly acknowledge also, the difficulty of
offectinc,v that in which these Ministers have so la-
-naentably failed—riamely, in establishing • a new
law, for the press, which shall unite a -majority of
suffrage in its favour. The clause in the Address
upon which the last Ministers were defeated, re-
lated to the foreign policy of France: "It was
" hoped that the continuance of peace had- not
" been purchased by the loss of national honour."
BS the new servants of the Grown 'certainly
gave a pledge that they would dispense with the
censorship: this they have done, as a man would
get rid of the doctors by killing- the patient.
'fie liberty of• the 'press would not merely be
fettered, it would be ,-ipso facto, extinct, by such
a,law as that now proposed. A Ministry, pos-
sessing the, stnne opinions as that of the present
ultra Royalist. Ministry of •France,' should have
held forth no such expectation as • that of dis-
pi,nsing with the censorship. It is- inconsistent
v:iith their principles to- allow of a free press ;
and they should have been aware, with respect
to the censorship, that " none but itself is-fit
"—to be its substitute." Indeed, all France;
kowing their hostility- to unfettered -discus.
sion, wondered what measure they could - pos.:
Wily, devise ,which should .give effect :to
- their opinions, sufficiently fetter the press,
end yet appear less odious than the censorship.
•When die- tyrants of- Europe first invented the
lisw of censorship, it is not to be c;snceiveds that
they- intended to- aggravate, by needless insult,
the heavy injury which they inflicted .on the
human mind : they meant to control, as they
th-ought their safety required, the free exercise
01 reason, with as-little offence as possible to the
feelings of their subjects':•and,.diabolical as the
censorship is, it yet-effects its purpose' 'with less
• clamour, and in a more unobtrusive manner; than
anfother -project that has yet been Invented.
I 4 :does the thing , for .which it is employed, and
it does no rtthre... =

[MCIIVNIING CHRONICLE.]
• , •
• The appointment of Mr. Plunkett to the situ-
atidri of Attorney-General, and the rerhoval,
of
Mt. SaUrin from this high office, is the death.
of o.r46Keism in Ireland. SOme other changes
will take*, place, and. o'e learn from one of Our
Oublin.correspondents that the jobbers are se-
ritusly Alarmed.' The Marquess Wellesley, rtis
udderstood,will,immediately issue a declaration of o
those principles n which he: has undertaken the go-.
Yerttment otthe Aster country. This exposé Will he
satisfactory to.all,and.it will be founded.On the in-
sttiictio6 insFAcelleuty received, Hewill dispense
ittours. with impartiality, add lienCe, crush 4ie

?actions. The violent of either-side will be ex'
eluded, and thoSe views which the King deve-
loped in his admonitory letter, will constitute
the guiding principle of the Irish Administration.
Mr. Plunkett, Mr. O'Connell; and Mr. Blake,
are constantly occupied in arranging the provi-
sions of the Catholic Emancipating Bill; but
difficulties have occurred. We tretst, however,

that no important difference among the' parties
will obstruct the final adjustment of a measure
of such vital consequence to Ireland, as the
conciliation of men whose political and religious
quarrels have so long distracted their country,
and rendered the fairest portion of the Empire
the abode of wretchedness. Mr. O'Connell,
whose conduct deserves the highest praise, will
concede much to ensure repose, and certainly,
neither Mr. Plunkett nor Mr. Blake can be ac-
cused 'of bigotry—we therefore anticipate the
amicable arrangement of some points, which may
be considered rather speculative objects than mat-
ters of substantial importance.

[MOIINING: POST.]
French Papers to the 2d inst. arrived yester-
day. They contain intelligence of considerable
importance, which makes it appear that the ques-
tion of war and peace is nearly decided, and that
if hostilities have not commenced between the
Russians and the Turks, it is because further
preparations are deemed necessary by the former,
in order to make the blow which they intend to
strike as decisive as it will be terrible. Mean-
while, the cause of the Greeks-and of. their. allies
is every where prosperous. The reported capture
of Cassandra turns out to have been a snare which
led to the destruction of the corps by which_ the
works had been occupied, and occasioned the
Paella, who 'was-already exulting in his fancied
triumph, to fly back with the wrecks of his
force to Salonica. Churschid Pacha, one of the
most active and dangerous enemies of the Greeks,
is said to have suddenly. disappeared, after some
communications with Prince Ypsilanti, which,
though represented as relating to the capture of
his Harem at Tripolizza, may perhaps have been
intended to serve, as an opening for negociations
of another kind. The fact of such an overture
having been made is, however, in itself .a proof
that the horrid -atrocities, the murder of men,
women, and children, said by the 'Correspondent
of one of our Cotemporaries to have been com-
mitted during three whole days at that place,
were. greatly exaggerated, if ilot totally false.
—Had Churschid Pacha heard of such indis-
criminate slaughter, which he must have done
as early as Ypsilanti, he would certainly not
have offered to ransom his harem from captivity,
for he' could have entertained no doubt of its
having fallen the very first victim to the fury of the
C reeks. Our contemporary exulted last night,
in the " extraordinary -sensationi! produced by
the accounts which it recently published, " re-
specting the enormities of the Greeks at' the cap-
ture of Tripolizza and Naiarin."' The sensation
was Certainly as extraordinary as the accounts
themselves. It was one of, disbelief and of won-
der, (not to use a harsher expression), not only
at-the statements given, but at the triumphant
tone with which they were put forward as hav-
ing been committed under ;the banner of the
Cross, in evident contradistinction to the mild-
ness and 'holiness of the CreScent. This side
blow at the Christian Religion was really what
we had not expected- from-a quarter which we
had hitherto considered as. not less disposedlo
support the Altar- than the Throne.

[MORNING EIERALD.] •
It appears that considerable anxiety was ex-
cited at Madrid by a rumour that the best under-
standing did not exist between King Ferdinand
and the Cortes. It would seem that the Resolu-
tion adopted by them in answer to his Message,
was a surprise upon him. There is certainly

some ground for alarm, even in the representa-
tions of thoSe Paris Journals Which are most fa-
Vourable to the Spanish Constitution. It was the
usage to receive. Deputations to.the Cortes, upon
leave asked, without postponement. On the 18th,
-the, Deputation bearing the answer of that As-,
sembly, requested to he informed at what tithe it
_would- be the King's pleasdre to.receive their. To
(hid reilitest no answer was returned. On the
19th there. was Still no, answer ; but on the '2oth
the' King's pleasure was signified for receiving,
the Deputation.- There are different versions of
the King's reply. Under every form, however,
it appears laconic and diScontented. He says," I
receive your Message.. The matter is important.

will consider of It." In substance his answer
could be no other, as the question, must, in the first
instance, be referred to. the Council of State.—
But the terms certainly might have been more gra7
dons. It may be, that the recommendation of the
Cortes to disMisi the Ministers was considered.
too peremptory, and,an invasion of the preroga-
tive'orthe Crown. - IlutifAho,King of Spain bas ,
taken it-into his head to retain a Ministry stigma-
tized with a sentence of incompetency by almost
the whole representation of his kingdom, be can
only do so by reigning without the Cortes— .
that is, by_ regaining the reins of. government
as 'an. absolute Monarch. It is true, that
in NaVarre and Arragon there are some bands
of insurgents " of the faith," estimated, with
und-isguised triumph, at 3,000, by the Paris
but these would be a weak support
indeed to King Ferdinand against the Cortes
and 'the great mass of the kingdom. The sen-
timents and objects of these ," soldiers
.of the
faith" may be judged from their rallying cry—
" Death to the. Constitntion!—Live.the King!—
Live God_!-:—Live the Virgin!" There is a
vague assertion of an engagement between
then) and 'the. Constitutional tr:ions ; but it
appears that .the Military. Commandants, to
avoid the effusion of blood, had. surrounded
. the main body
.of the Insurgents in the neigh-
. ,boUrhood of Pampeluna, and awaited .their
surrendering at discretion. General Alava, the
Commandant of Arragon, approached with a
small force the town.Of Colpo, where,an actual
' cou'nter-revolntion hd'd taken place, and new
authorities "of the faith" been appointed, De-
, .putations were sent out to treat with him ; but
. the General ref Used all treating with rebels,
en-
teredJ the town, and restored order without shed-
ding one drop of blood.

IIIiti,I4IIGHAAI PITT CLuit

(From the Birmingham and Lichfield Chronicle-1
of January 3, scno
The Eighth Anniversary of this Club was cele-
brated at the Royal Hotel in this towns on Fri-
day last. A numerous and respectable assem-
blage of members sat down to an excellent din,
ne', at five. o'clock. ISAAC SPOONER, Esq. in the
Chair.—After the cloth was removed, " Non
nobis domine," was finely sung. The Chairman
then gave " Church and King," 44 the Royal
lamily."—On proposing the toast to the me-
mory of Mr. PITT,
Mr. SPOONER. said it had-been customary for
the Noblemen and Gentlemen who had occupied
the chair which he had the honour to fill, to-ad-
dress some observations to the .meeting illustra-
tive of the character of the great Statesman whose
birth they were assembled to commemorate, or
expressive of the perfect coincidence of the Chair-
man in the sentiments which animated the mem-
bers of the Club. In the present instance, Mr.
Spooner said he should deem the custom more
honoured in the breach than in the,observancß,
.because it was not in his power,by any language,
to add to the character of Mr. Pitt, and his opi-
nion of what the country owed to that great States-
man, was well known to be in unison with those
of the Gentlemen who were there assembled.
In one respect the present occasion might be
said to differ from any which' had preceded it,
inasmuch as each succeeding year gives us the
power of forming,a more correct judgment how
far the view which Mr. Pitt took of passing events
with reference to future consequences, had been
borne out and justified by the experience of facts.
Mr. S. then alluded to the French Revolution, and
said the principle which Mr. Pitt advocated was,
that not only the integrity, but the very existence
of the country as an independent nation, depended
upon resistance to those revolutionary principles
which had overthrown every ancient institution of
France,and threatened,if unopposed,to involveone
glArter of the globe in common ruin and' devas-
tation. He foresavi that the sway of a mob, dis-
guised tinder the specious and ill-applied terms
of liberty and the rights OP man, would ulti-
mately terminate in a military despotism, under
which every recognised form of Government,
every protection for property, public or private,
which revolutionary anarchy had spared, would
be swept away. We had Tv the benefit of 25
years experience by whicti-''to judge whether
Mr. Pitt was justified in the opinion which he
had early formed of the progress of the Revolu-
tion in France, and its probable consequences,
as applied .to other nations. Mr. S. then tasked
what would have been the state of England, or
indeed of all Europe, if England, instead of being
firm to those principles of resistance to France,
which Mr. Pitt first developed and acted upon,
had relied for safety upon treaties of peace, dic-
tated by that power in all the pride of conquest
of the greater part of Europe, treaties which
would have held binding so long only as an ad-
herence thereto suited the convenience of those
who dictated the terms. England in that case
had long- ere this ceased to be an independent
Nation, and would have bkome a Province of
France ; of that very Country one half of Which
in former, times our ancestors had ever= with
victorious arms. The history of the Country,
however, would have remained, and- pointed out
to its degraded inhabitants, that England was
once a Nation, jealous of its independence, proud
of its honour, for near three centuries the arbi-
tress of the -fate of Europe, possessing every
means of sustaining its character and rank' among
nations, and weak enough to surrender all its
strength and forfeit all its high advantages, by
yielding to the councils of those, who held re-
sistance to the power of France to be nugatory.
That We 'have not been compelled to drink this
bitter cup of humiliation to the very dregs,we owe,
said Mr.S.under Providencel,to the compeehensive
mind of Mr. Pitt, and to the political conduct of
those who, since his lamented death, with one
short interval, have, directed the counsels of this
country:. It was true, said Mr. S. that in fol-
lowing the line which Mr. Pitt chalked out, we
have been called upon to make great sacrifices,
and to bear heavy burthens, which will still press
opon us ; but, said he, every comfort of which
we still partake; every particle of property which
we still possess, that national independence of
which we are still proud, every ancient and ho-
nourable instittition in Church or State which we
still venerate, havebeen won by those sacrifices
and Purchased by thoSe burthens. Such 'Mr. S.
considered to be the sentiments of the members
of the Club'; such were his opinions, strengthened
by every year'S reflection on the events which
had passed ; and
.he concluded by giving " The
Immortal Meniory of the, Right lion. William
Pitt."
The following toasts were then given :
The House of Munswiek ; may they. never forget the-princi'
pies which seated them on the Throne of these Realms.
The .Memory of George the Third, the Father of his People
The Protestant Ascendancy.
Lord Liverpool and his .ia.i.esty's Ministers.
May the principles of Mr. Pitt always animate the Councils
'of Britain.

The N'lemory of the Right Hon. Spencer Perceval.
England's great Captain, the Duke of Wellington.
The Rev. J. H. Sear in a few 'words proposed
the health of the Chairman, and madt, some ob-
servations upon the able manner in which he
had filled the chair, and the uniform and ef-
fective support which he had always given to
the' principles of the Club. The toast was drank
with a degree of enthusiasm we have never seen
surpassed.
The Chairman returned thanks for the honour
conferred upon. him.
The friends of Mr. Pitt throughout the United Kingdom.
, The Land we live in, and may those who don't like it
leave it.
The PRESIDENT then proposed the health of
Mr. Theodore Price, the Vice-President of the
Club, which was drank with three times three.
Mr. PRICE returned thanks, and in adverting to
the public.spirit and e,:ample.of the great States-
man -whose birth they were met to commemorate,
complimented the Club upon their manifestation
of that spirit which constituted the effectiveness
of the Club, and brought together so numerous