The Sun.
London, England, 1825-08-15 00:00:00

stated the principal part of the conditions,namely,
the payment of 150 millions of francs, or six mil-
lions sterling, which we now learn is to be
paid in five equal instalments from year to
year, the first payment to be made on the 31st
December next, and the favour shown to French
vessels and merchandize, in admitting them with
a reduction of half the duties. This is the only
part of the Treaty at which other States can he
disposed to take umbrage ; but when the supe-
rior claims of the Mother Country are considered,
the preference granted will not appear unreason-
able, and cannot prove prejudicial to our trade, as
the immense advantages of greater skill and
capital are all o❑ the side of England, and
render wholly unavailing all attempts at
competition on the part of our neighbours.
It is rather amusing to see the delight of the
Etoile, because the inhabitants of Hayti express
themselves in courteous language, and profess
gratitude arid respect, which that Journal repre-
sents as homage paid to the dignity and legiti-
mate rights of the King of France. All the ac-
counts from Spain in these papers describe that
unfortunate country as becoming every day
more pitiable, being harassed by civil dissen-
sions, and all the complicated evils of misgo-
vernment. An article from Madrid, in the
Journal des Debuts, dated the Ist instant, states
that, in consequence of the disturbances
in the provinces, the appointment of a Junta of
Public Safety had been agreed to, and the re-
establishment of the Inquisition was under dis-
cussion. Indeed, that detestable tribunal had
been partially renewed, the Bishops of Tarra-
gona and Orihttela having, of their own accord,
set the example, and re-established it in their
dioceses. There have been civil conflicts at
Malaga, when the militia and royalist volunteers
took opposite sides, and many were killed and
wounded.

LMORNING HERALD.]
One of the Steam Vessel Companies, have it
seems, already acquired profits sufficient to ena-
ble them to declare a half year's dividend of
eight per cent., besides offering a bonus to the
shareholders; and we have heard of one other
of the new Companies which has been given up,
but the projectors of which, on resigning their
trust, returned the shareholders their full de-
posits, with a bonus of 10s. per share to the
boot, arising, we suppose, from the interest made
of the money. There is something like good
management in the one instance, and of honesty in
the other. But unfortunately these are rare in-
stances, standing almost alone among the multi-
tude of projects with which the credulity of John
Bull has been gulled within the last six or
eight months. Some of these are at a discount
—some are entirely out of the market—yet
to all of them were announced as Trustees,
Directors, &c. names which carried with them
weight, respectability, and integrity. Surely it
behoves such persons to let the shareholders in
each concern know what is become of their
money, what has been done towards realizing
the objects for which it was advanced, and
what, if any the ultimate prospect of suc-
cess. If this he not done, people who have hi-
therto passed for honourable men, may have the
misfortune of being accused of being parties
to a system of dupery, resembling an offence
known in our Courts by the uncourteou9 desig-
nation of obtaining money under false pretences.
Now to some whose names have appeared in
the lists we allude to, such an imputation would
be worse than death. To honourable mercantile
men, the very sound of fraud must be abhorrent.
Yet we suspect that some of those shareholders
will begin to talk pretty freely, if they have not
done so already, unless satisfactory statements are
speedily laid before them. Such of these Directors,
&c. as have been faithful stewards, whether the
schemes have been prosperous or not must be
anxious, we should think, to give an account of
their stewardship; while those who withhold the
required information must, after this warning,
be contented to fall under the censure they will
so well deserve.

A public inquiry has taken place at Dukinfield,
into the nature of the sudden death of FRANCIS DUICINFIELD
ASTLEY, Esq., which had been calumniously reported to have
been caused by foul means. It turned out that there had not
existed the slightest ground for suspecting such an occurrence.
The following are the certificates of the medical gentlemen and
the magistrates :
Dukinfield, Aug. 8, 1825.
We whose names are subscribed, having heard the evidence
on an inquiry into the circcumstances attending the death of
the late Francis Dukinfield Astley, Esq., have no hesitation in
declaring it as our opinion that he died by " visitation of God,"
and not by any unfair means whatever.
ED. HOLME, M.D. Jos. HUTTON, Surgeon.
H. HARDIE, M.D. J. BENNETT, Surgeon.
T. TURNER. Surgeon. PETER BOOTH, Surgeon.
.7. JORDAN, Surgeon. Taos. OGDEN, Surgeon.
SAMUEL KAY, Surgeon.
We, the undersigned Justices of the Peace, having duly
weighed the evidence before stated on the oaths of the respec-
tive witnesses, are of opinion that Francis Dukinfield Astley,
Esq., died by the visitation of God, and not by any violence or,
improper means.
S. P. HUMPHREYS.
GEO. WM. NEWTON.
Aug. 8, 1825.—(Stockport Advertiser.)