The Sun.
London, England, 1822-01-28 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD MARKET, J. 23.

The supply at Market this morning of every description a.
Cattle was exceedingly great for the time of the season, and
the various prices of meat were much the same as last week's.
market, but the sale very heavy. The price of Hay remains
as per our last.
To sink the offal per stone of 811).
Beef
Mutton ... 2s. Bd. to 3s. 6d. Pork

COMMERCIAL REPORT,
FROM THE 21ST TO THE 26TH JAN• 1822.

With the exception of coffee, which has advanced from 3s. to
4s. per cwt. scarcely any alteration has taken place in the'vcdue
of produce; there is however, an increasing demand—tie
strong augury of a good trade.

TEE LONDON JOUI.4..NALS.

DAILY EXTRACTS FROM THE 31ORNING PAPERS
January 28, 182'2.

• [THE TIMES. j 7
PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.—[PARIS,JaIZ.23.]
—While reports are every day spread here of
little conspiracies and plots in different parts of
France, the small portion of surprise which they
excite, and the ease with which they are cre-
dited, shew some great uneasiness in the public
mind. It is certain, at the same time, that no
person of any political consequence has been
found implicated in any of those which have hi-
therto been detected, or which are said to'have
been-attempted, and failed. That of Saumur is
now firmly believed to have been arranged, as
well as denounced, by the Police. It is certain
that Ministers are extremely uneasy amid the
difficulties of their position, and that were it not
from fear, of the consequences, they would en-
deavour to strike some coup d'etat to awe their
enemies into silence, and to gain over the feeble
and the indifferent by revolutionary alarms. It has
even been discussed in the Council of Ministers,
-whether a blow of this kind should not he struck
immediately, so as to withdraw public attention
from their proceedings in the Chamber, and thus
help them through with their despotic laws.—
The project was to seize on two or three of
the most distinguished of the Chiefs of the Li
berals under pretext of their having encou-
raged the conspirators of Saumur and of Belfort.
You would see that M. Royer d'Argenson
abruptly left Paris, after writing collie Chamber
of Deputies of the violence exercised in his house
near Belfort. His declared design was to ascer-
tain the mischief done by the Police, and to pre-
vent, if possible, its repetition ; but his real ob-
ject was to defeat any attempt that might be,
made in his absence to implicate him in the con-
spiracy, by depositing forged papers in his cabi-
net or drawers, and pretending to find them
there on their domiciliary visits. It immediately
struck him, that the wicked agents and spies of
Gi4rninent might make the plot which they
IcOUld not find, and support a false charge by
forgeddoCuments surreptitiously conveyed into
his 'house. He therefore hastened to his country
residence, at the hazard of being absent from the
Chamber during a most important discussion,
to prevent the success of a plot which would have
rendered that discussion of little value. At pre-
sent the Police are extremely active, and the
agents of the post-office equally so. Every thing
that happens in the provinces is reported to Go-
vernment, and nothing that occurs is known to
persons at a distance, except what Government
chooses to communicate. The present Ministers
inherit this terrible engine of Police and Admi-
nistration from their predecessors, the Ministers
of Buonaparte, as they do the telegraph. They
work both for their advantage, .though they
could have invented neither.

It appears from the American Papers, that
while some of our most experienced lawyers and
statesmen are endeavouring to mitigate the se-
verity•of the criminal code, as the best means of
pi eventing crime, the people of the United States
are changing a milder code for a severer one,
with (of course) the same object. The reasoning
by which a writer in the American Paper justifies
this departure from a lenient system is not very
convincing ; for he appears to think !Alai it is not
worth while to convert a bad citizen into a useful
one, but that it is much better to kill him out-
right. This may be very decisive; but it is the
decision of Morocco and Algiers, rather than of
civilized states. It is like what we read of the
surgical practice of ignorant times, when the only
cure for a wounded limb was to lop it off : and
that surgeon was reckoned the most eminent
who had mutilated most of his fellow-creatures.
—(lbid.)

[MORNING POST.]
Letters from Madrid, dated the 14th hist, an-
nounce the important fact that the whole of An-
dalusia had returned to its duty, and submitted
to the government of the King and Cortes.
This fortunate termination of a resistance which
threatened Spain with a civil war, and the throne
with ruin, was effected at Seville by the change
-which Ferdinand had at last consented to
make in his administration. As early as the
12th instant, the Commandant of Seville in-
formed Mr. Albistu, who had been appointed
Political Chief of that city, that all the oh-
staclei which had hitherto prevented its submis-
sion were removed, and that he would be received
Within its walls to fulfil his functions, without
ank other authority than that of the law. The
submission of Cadiz took place about the same
time,. though the intelligence was only commu-
nicated to the Cortes in their sitting of the
14th, in a dispatch signed by Jauregui himself.
He' had resigned his command into the hands
of .'General Itomarate, whom the Government
had- appointed to succeed him, declaring at
the same time, that he would have done so
sooner, had-he not feared to compromise the tran-
quillity of the province. It is remarkable, that
this event occurred before the intelligence of the
resignation of the Ministry at Madrid had reached
Cadiz'. The party of agitators, who had pro-
child-led disobedience to the Government, say the
letters, "is now ascertained to have been very'
small, and it is the general sentiment of the
people, tired by the excesses daily committed, '
which has forced them to the only alternative---1
that of obeying."

EBRITISIf PRESS.]

The domestic intelligence contained in the
Paris Papers refers chiefly to the discussions in
the Chamber of Deputies upon the project of
law relating to the offences of the press. Upon
this subject it would be indeed difficult to strike
out any novel sentiment, and in looking through
the speeches recited by the several Deputies, we
cannot find that their ingenuity has been emi-
nently successful. The proposed measure has
been opposed very strenuously, and they who de-
fend it are not deficient in energy, notwithstand-
ing the evident unwillingness of what would seem
to be the majority of the Chamber to listen to,

them. In the debate of Wednesday, MM. de
Bonville, Devaux, and Mechin, combated the
measure. M. Mechin complained of the want
of fixed principles in the successive adminis-
trations, and ascribed to this the agitated state
of France. lie observed that it was the sub-
jugation of the press under the reign of Henry
I V., which promoted the success of the Jesuits,
whose re-appearance at present constituted the
terror of all France, and which society had
whetted the poniard which put an end to the
existence of that good King. One of the crimes
charged against Buonaparte in the Act of For-
feiture,•was his having subjected to the Censor-
ship of the Police the Liberty of the Press,
which had been established as a national right.
But the violation of a right so sacred, which had
precipitated the conqueror from the summit of
the Tarpeian rock, now made the Ministry
ascend to the capitol. The Keeper of the Seals,
at great length', and amidst repeated interrup-
tions, defended, the measure. The discussion
will probably continue for some days.

MORNING HERALD.]
Paris intelligence of three days has been re-
ceived since our last. The accounts from Spain
are gratifying. It appears by letters of the 12th
and 14th, from Madrid, that order and obedience
had been restored in the province of .Andalusia.
Seville had returned to its duty, and the PubHs
Functionaries appointed by the Executive Go-
vernment were established and recognized. The
Military Commandant of Lower Andalusia had
left Cordova to assume the command of that pro-
vince. The bead-quarters, we believe, are at
Seville. The Political Chief, Albistu, had also
written to the Government, stating that he had
received a communication from Seville in which
the Commandant General of the refractory
party apprized him that tranquillity and or-
der were restored in that city ; that there
was no longer any obstacle to his assuming
his functions ; and that be had in consequence
set out for Seville " with no other escort than
that of the law." Subsequent accounts stated the
actual installations of the legal authorities, with-
out the least resistance or disorder. These ac-
counts, it is true, profess to rest on the authority
of private letters. There is not, however, the
slightest doubt suggested of their truth. The
statement of the return of Cadiz to obedience is
still more circumstantially given. The Political
Chief, Jauregui, who had hitherto held the chief
authority de facto, addressed a despatch to the
Government, declaring that he hathresigned his
command to Gen. Romarata, the officer legally
appointed ; and that he had suspended the ex-
ecution of the orders of the Government merely
to prevent the public tranquillity and safety from
being compromised, as they must have been,
had he attempted to enforce obedience at the
point of the bayonet. There is no doubt of the
immediate restoration of order in the other towns.
Cadiz was the great focus hmiked to for direction
and example. The return to submission appears
to be unconditional, as no allusion is made in
these accounts to the change which had taken
place in the Spanish Ministry. There is no men-
tion of the appointment of the new Ministry,
and another change had taken place in the tem-
porary occupancy of the portfolios. Don Cairns
Manuel had resigned the Ministry of the Interior,
and was succeeded by the first Secretary of
the Department. It is curious to observe
with what reluctance and disingenuousness
the Ministerial Paris Papers communicate this
intelligence from Spain. " Thus," says one (the
Journal des Debats)," the dissolution of the Go-
vernment is put off at least for the present." In
the meantime the " Champions of the Faith" are
represented as " very redoubtable" in Navarre,
upon no other ground of fact, than that the con-
veyance of the post from that province for Ma-
drid required an escort.

[NEW TIMES.]
We have not space, this day, for the full and
accurate statement, which we purpose giving, of
the proceedings in the case of the King against
Ridgway, on the prosecution instituted by the
Constitutional_Association ; but we cannot suffer
the manner in which that case is treated in The
7imes, to pass unnoticed. " This is the solitary
case," says the Journalist, "in which the Bridge-
street' Association have obtained a conviction
against any of the parties whom they have in-
dicted." Very extraordinary, to be sure, when
it is the solitary case in which any of the parties
indicted have yet been tried. The writer is
either ignorant of this fact, or lie must suppose
his readers are so-; for his statement evi-
dently conveys an impression that the Associa-
tion have brought to trial several parties, who
with the exception of Ridgway have been all
acquitted. Now the fact is, that the only other
person indicted by them who has ever been put
upon trial is Mary Ann Carlile, which trial re-
mains suspended, owing (as avowed by an Op-
position Print) to the opposition of a single Ju-
ryman. This woman (as our readers know) was
afterwards brought. up for judgment on her. other
convictions ; and as she was then sentenced

to imprisonment in a distant gaol, the Constitu-
aonal Association did not think fit to pro-
ceed on their indictment against her; but it
still remains suspended over her, and may, or
may not, he resumed, according as she shall or
shall not show any signs of contrition. The Asso-
ciation have five other indictments for seditious

libel, against the notorious Dolby, Thelwall,
&c. all of which they came prepared .to try at
the Sittings after last Term. Mr. Dolby, how-
ever, on that occasion availed himself of a tech-
nical objection (not against the Special Jurors,
but the Talesmen,) by means of which the two
indictments against him were postponed ; and, the
other defendants, after some little blustering,
adopted the same means of putting off the evil
day—means which can only serve them till the
Sittings after the present Term, when they will
be forced (however unwilling) to face a Jury of
their countrymen.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.).
We are happy to hear that the intended
meeting of the Landowners, OccUpiers, and:
others affected by the present depressed state of

Agriculture in snrray, is likely id be the mast
-respectable and numerous ever known in the
County. Many Noblemen, Members of Par-
liament, and Gentlemen have expressed their
determination to attend not only to petition, but
to instruct their Members to
.demand economy
and reduction of taxation,; and (if we are to
judge from the expressions of most of the occu-
piers of . land who attend the principal mar-
kets in the county),
;they will be most firmly
and earnestly- supported in these instructions.
IVe cannot too much applaud this measure, and
we sincerely hope that the example will be
followed by most counties in the Empire, thereby
proving to his Majesty's Ministers, that the Agri-
cultural Interest, as well as all others, are deter-
mined on great reduction of expenditure, as well
as taxationj'and that the trick of voting Resolu-
tions for economy whenever they are hard presSed
will no longer avail them or satisfy the public.—
They passed a vote for economy in 1817, and ex-
ceeded upwards of two millions in 1820 the
amount which they themselves stated ought to
be expended, notwithstanding a second vote for
economy in 1819. Is it not. time to have done
with such trifling E. .:We think it is, and time
also for them to attend to their own language.—
(In their Report of 1817, they state, " That
the expenditure in future- should approximate as
near as possible to that: of 1792.") Yet when a
motion was made in the early part of last Session,
stating that the expencie of the Civil and Mili-
tary 6overnMent of the Empire in 1792 might
be taken under eight millions, and that of 1820
at near twenty-seven millions, making an excess
of the enormous sum of nineteen millions over and
above that of the year. fixed on by this Honourable
Committee, consisting of the following Gentlemen
—Lords Londonderry, Binning, and Clive ;
Messrs. Bankes, Vansittart, W. Bootle, Peel,
Hart Davis, F. Lewis, .Huskisson, N. Calvert,
Davies Gilbert; Cartwright, Holford, E. Lit-
tleton, Gooch, Tremayne, Sir . George Clerk,
Sir .1. Ne.wport, and Sir T. Acland, in the Report
alluded to—many of these very Gentlemen even
voted against the motion, CC That the votes of 1821
should not exceed the amount reported by this
said Committee-of 1817," which also, as we have
observed, recommended approXimation to the
expenditure of 1792.—We are, therefore, borne
out by this Committee, in • recommending to all
public meetings to keep in mind the expenditure
of 1792 (not eight millions), and that of 1820,
viz. twenty-seven millions, as stated in the House
in the discussion on the motion to which we
have alluded.