The Sun.
London, England, 1822-11-23 00:00:00

PIRACY.

[From the Glasgow Courier, Nov. 19.]
MEETING WEST INDIA TRADE.—Yesterday, at
a general and full meeting of the West India
Planters, Merchants, and Ship Owners, of this
City, the following Memorial was adopted, and
directed to be forwarded to the Admiralty, by
JAMES EWING, Esq. their Chairman.

To the Right. Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His
Majesty's Admiralty.

The Memorial of the West India Association of Planters,
Merchants and Ship Owners, in the City of Glasgow,

Sheweth,

That your Memorialists are extensively engaged in the trade
with his Majesty's Colonies in the West Indies.
That authentic accounts have lately been received, of a pre-
datory warfare carried on by lawless banditti on the West
India Seas--interrupting the passage of vessels to and from the
Colonies—extending to the very shores and harbours of our
ISlands—endangering the'persons and property of British sub-
jects—and raising the premium of insurance to double of the
rate usually paid at this season of the year.
That, in a time of profound peace, when no risk was:antici-
pated but that of the elements ; when no preparations of de-
fence were required against a foreign enemy, and when confi-
dence was reposed in the vigilance of his Majesty's cruisers for
the suppression of every piratical attempt—your Memorialists
cannot but contemplate with sentiments of regret and surprise,
that the vessels of Britain should thus have been exposed to in-'
suit, 'pillage, and barbarity.. Aware, however, on the one hand,
of the prudential policy it was expedient to observe toward
Spain ; and ignorant, onsthe other, of the instructions which
may have been communicated to the Commanders on the sta-
tions, your Memorialists do not presume either to attribute
blame to the administration .of your Lordships, or to suggest
the remedy best adapted to the exigency. But feeling in the
strongest mariner the grievance of which they now complain,
,and confiding at the same time, with perfect assurance, both in
the care and wisdom of his Majesty's Government, they, can-
not permit themselves to entertain a doubt that effectual
measures will immediately be adopted to remove the evil, to
prevent its recurrence, and to afford the most complete protec-
tion to the Trade of the Country.
May it therefore please your Lordships to take the premises
into your consideration, and to give such redress as the
nature of the ease may require.
Signed in name and by appointment of the Meeting,
JAS. EWING, Chairman.
C. D. DONALD, Secretary.

Glasgow, Nov. 18, 1821

CITY, FIZID tY EVENING.

A private express arrived this afternoon from Paris, by
which a letter has been received, dated late in the evening of
'Wednesday last. By it the important information has been.
communicated, that the Patriot • General MINA had possessed
himself of the Seo d'Urgel, and it was farther reported, that the
Baron I)' Ettor.rs was his prisoner. The Funds, therefore,
Which the preceding day closed at 89, advanced 35 cents.,
and at the closing of, the, lit,:change this improvement
Was fully maintained. Afterwards news of the most mo-
mentous nature, as it regards both France and Europe, was
made public, and the Rentes were in consequence freely sold
in the Coffee-houses at 88. 50. It was publicly known that his
Most CHRISTIAN MAJESTY had been attacked with apoplexy,
and considerable alarm was the consequence. Before the cx-
preKkr. Paris, however,.the KING had been declared out of
danger, and thus confidence was in some measure again re-
stored. From Verona'the accounts were entirely pacific, and
the French Ambassador was to leave that City on the 20th
instant on his return to Paris.

Letters from Trieste, dated on the the 6th November, con-
tain information which must be agreeable to every person in-
terested in the liberties of Greece. 'The Deputation from the
Morea, with Count 11IATAcA at its head, had only been
required to perform ten days quarantine instead of forty, at An-
cona, and had obtained passports• to proceed, if not to Verona,
at all events to its suburbs. These are favourable symptoms, for
though his highly probable that the Greeks may work out heir
deliverance without any foreign assistance, still the interference
of Europe in'their cause may avert much valuable bloodshed.—
Christianity, liberty, and civilization may yetspread their bene-
ficent wings over this faireSt portion of the earth, and the ba4
harians will 'be expelled from that sail so deeply poluted by
their crimes. Under the patronage. of the British Empire, a
great nation of Freemen may be established in European Tur-
key—that land which formerly gave birth to every thing great
and good, and which still nourishes -the men of the finest form
and best natural capacity of any in Europe, and to have re-
established the descendants of the ancient Greeks in their just
station in Europe, would certainly reflect lustre on the reign of
his present MAJESTY, and, add to the character of the nation.
On the Foreign Market prices are generally higher, and the
prospect is certainly good: -After the 30th, should the King of
FRA NCE not .sufferany relapse, an-improvement may be ex-
pected, for nothing hostile to the repose of Europe will at present
arise out of the deliberations of the Wiseacres at Verona.
The following arc the current prices :

French * Fi%e per Cents. Dividend from 22d Sept. 89 A.
Spanish * Five per Cent. of 1820, Dividend from Isi No-
vember, 72.
Ditto Five per Cent. Bonds of 1821 (sterling), Dividend from
Ist Nov. 604.
Ditto Scrip, .111 discount.
Russian * Six per Cents. Dividend from Ist July, 82.
Ditto Five per Cents. (metal).) Div. from Ist Sept. 83.
Ditto New Five per Cent. (metall.) Dividend from Ist Sept.,
87. _ _ _

Ditto Scrip, 864.
Prussian Five per Cent. Bonds of 1318 (stei:ling) Dividend
from Ist Oct., 87.

Ditto of 18'i (sterling) Dividend from Ist July, 88:
Ditto Scrip, 89.
Neapolitan "' Five per Cent. Bonds, Dividend from Ist July,
77., . .
Rao Scrip, 78:3,
Danish Five per Cent. Bonds (sterling) Dividend front Ist
July, 90i. .
- * Ditto Banco Marks, Dividend from Ist July, 88.
Colombian Six per Cent. Bonds (sterling) Dividend from Ist
Nov., 79k. . .
Chilian Six per Cent. Bonds (sterling) Dividend from Ist
Oct. 77.
Marked * are subject to the rate of Exchange.
—( Horning-Chronicle. )

An Ultra paper published at Bonrdeaux, under
the title of the Memorial Bordelais, hi one of its
late numbers, asserts that England opposes war
with Spai❑ merely from hatred of French mili-
tary glory, industry, and commerce. Having
given this opinion, the chivalrous writer adds—
" At all events, should it prove true that England
refuses to co-operate in measures which appear to
have been long since concerted on the affairs of
Spain, we may, from all that we see, conclude
that the resolution is taken to act without her
participation. The continual passage of troops
towards. Bayonne and Perpignan speaks more
clearly on the subject than all the articles of the
journals, and than all the letters public or pri-
vate, though they may come direct from Verona."

FOR THE SUN.

REMARKS ON AN ARTICLE SIGNED " N."•

Mr. EDITOR—I am not inclined to gratify
your Correspondent. N. by replying to his quo-.
tations and childish invective, until he has learnt..
that 46 'Personal abuse, that favourite colour
which glares most in a fool's rhetoric is carefully
to be avoided ;" and until he has learnt to state
positions which he attributes to another in ate
words of the person to whom he attributes them„
and not advance his own statements instead of
•
them. The Review of Mr. Norris's able expo-
sure of the want of conduct in the proceedings of
the. Bible Society, consisted in great part of quo-
tations from the work. Among them it was
stated that one Dr. 0. Gregory had assured an
assembly of females that if they were active
in the cause of the Bible Society, " God would
be. their. Lover." This quotation N. terms a
cc gross error," an " attack upon a private indi-
vidual," and " unhesitatingly pronouncing Dr.
0. Gregory to be a Calvinist." If. the sagacious,
Mr. N. is right, then henceforth any man who
assures an assembly of Ladies that " God will
be their Lover," is to be considered as professing
the Calvinistic Tenets. The acute Mr. N. also
considers that any person reviewing a work,
which gives a detailed account of a vast combi-
nation of Sectarians, and quoting therefrom, at-
tacks- private individuals, and pronounces on the
religious tenets of others. If any arguments had
been advanced to prove the accuracy of the state-
ments made, then it is presitmed that the pro-
found Mr. N. might have concluded that the
person thus reasoning held the same opinions
as the writer from whom he quoted. But
no arguments were used, therefore Mr. N.
would have been more correct in his pro-
ceedings, if he had shewn that Mr. Norris
was in error in saying that Dr. 0. Gregory made
use of the phrase above quoted. It is not neces-
sary for a man to be Calvinist to address an As-
sembly of the Bible Society, and Dr. Gregory
may, ith zeal and sincerity, have attended the
meeting.at Hertford, but even his-Champion N.
will find it difficult to prove, that Dr. 0. Gre-
gory acted with either judgment or taste in in-
flaming the enthusiasm of a highly wrought as-
sembly of females, by telling• them that GOD
would be their lover.

Mr. Norris's exposure has given to the world, a
very clear insight into the proceedings of that So-
ciety. And though some imbecile tirades, have
been made against the work, no member of that
Society has yet shewn, that with all the trumpet-
ing of its votaries, the prices demanded for their
copies of the Scriptures of the same description
as those disseminated by the Society for the Pro-
motion of Christian Knowledge, are not many
per cent. higher. Lest the comparative prices
should'he forgotten.. The table from Mr. Norris
work Aall be again quoted : •

Bible Society's Prices.

1812
s. 4.
3 6
3 0
4 4
5 3
8 0
8 6
_jeep.
Pica, Bvo.r " 31 I
Long Primer 29" 11? 2. r, 4r!
Brevier - 1 0 1 4 1 2 0 IIA !
Pocket, 24m0. - 1 0 1 3 1 1 OHi !
From this '.Table is is evident that the

1313
s. t/.
4 2
3 7
5 3
6 3
9 1
9 8

Christian
Knowledge
Society.
1822
s. d.
2 8!
2 8!
4 2!
4 11!
8 6!
6 10 !

1822
s. d.
3 6
3 2
4 6
5 5
9 6
7 10

Bible, 24m0. pocket size -
Nonpareil • -
Crown Bvo. -
Brevier, Demy Bvo. -
Ditto, with references -
Small Pica, Bvo. - -
Testaments, in

Bible Society is carrying on a very lucrative
trade, at very little expence. The acute Mr.
N. will discover, on inquiry, that any bookseller
in the Kingdom will gladly supply Bibles and
Testaments retail, at a lower price than that de-
manded by the Bible Society. And also that he
would soon realize a considerable fortune by the
extensive and profitable traffic pursued by the So-
ciety. Since the quotations from Dr. 0. Gre-
gory's works have been quoted by Mr. N. to
confute a•charge which was never advanced, it
will be but candid to acknowledge that the opi-
nions they contain and the feelings they evince,
excite great regret that the writer of them should
have forgotten his maxims, by using expressions to
an assembly of females, which his' indiscreet
champion, Mr. N. had better have allowed to
pass without unnecessarily dragging them again
into public notice. Q.
*See THE SUN of Wednesday last.

Mtronm.—During an Electionfor the City, a

•
few years back, a gentleman having ordered
'his carriage for the purpose of proceeding upon
a canvass in behalf of Sir W.Ctlwris,was compelled,
in consequence of his coachman being out of the
way, to content himself with a hackney. On
his way to Sir WILLIAM'S Cominittee he saw
JOHN yoked with a number of the, mob to Mr.
WAITIIMAN'S coach. When he returned he sent
for JOHN into his study, and, after some expostu-
lation on his being out of the way when wanted,
asked him how he could degrade himself
low as to change condition with the -brutes
he was in the habit of driving : JOIAN stared,
and, twisting the side curl of his buckled
wig, replied, "he was• only doing honour
to the man of the people." " And what is this
man of the people to do for you more•than the
other candidates, John ?" asked his master :
" Do, Sir," replied John, 44 Why he promises to
do a great deal ; he is to get us Triangular Par-
liaments and Universal Sufferings."