The Sun.
London, England, 1822-09-06 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD kIARKET, SEPT. 6.

The market was well supplied this morning with Lamb and
Mutton ; in Oxen the numbers were as usual on Friday's mar-
kets, but the trade was very dull, and last Mondays prices
could not be obtained.

Beef 2s 6d to 3s 4d ',Veal
Mutton 2s 4d to 2s 104 Pork
lamb 38. . to 4s. Od.

V ALI] E OF THE NETTLE.-Nettle, urtica wens.
In Shropshire, it is dressed and manufactured, like flax, into
cloth. This is the case also in France, where it is made into
paper. This plant, when dried, is eaten by sheep and oxen.
In Russia a green dye is obtained from its leaves, and a yel-
low one from its roots. In the spring a salutary pottage is made
from the tops. In Scotland they make a runnet from a decoc-
tion of it with salt, for coagulating their milk in the making of
cheese.

TIIE LONDON. JOURNALS.

SIITRACTS FROM TILE DAILY MORNING FAFER.S,
SePtember 6, 1822.

[MORNING POST.
EXpress arrived last night from Paris, by
which,.however, we have only received the Quo-
tidienne of the 3d'instant. This is rather an ex-
traordinary circumstance, and coupled with the
astertion of the Constitutionnel, some days agoy
that the French Authorities threw every possible
impediment in the way of its circulation and of
its receiving intelligence, would appear the
effect of intention rather than-that of accident.
It was the Constitutionnel that gave the details
of the affair at Nantes, which had been sup-
pressed in part by the Quothlienne, and colou6-
ed as suited its politics. It may, therefore, have
incurred fresh displeasure, or else have been
purpOselydelayed,.in order to allow time for the
I.lltras to anticipate and defeat any impression
which its contents might make in foreign coun-
tries, were they permitted to circulate without a
previous antidote. However this may be, the
readers of the Quotidienne run no danger of
being surfeited with information. It scarcely
contains any intelligence, and what it furnishes
relates chiefly Spain, and is not of a later date
than that which we published yesterday. It
states that the ground on which permission had
been refused to the King to go to Sacedon, was
the Want of troops to supply him with a sufficient
escort, all the disposable force having been sent
against the rebels. It also says that changes
were going to take place in the various Spanish
Errbassies, and that General Zarco del Valle had
been appointed Spanish Minister at our Court,

I:EATTISH. muss.]
The Paris Papers of Monday have arrived in
du"" course at our office. We find in the Arai de
Oiaile a version of the tumults at Nantes,
very different from that which we extracted
yesterday from a/Ministerial Paris Journal. We_
were by that statement taught to believe that a
seditious tumult had. arisen-in Nantes, excited-
solely by the spirit of Carbonarism, which seeks -
to. destroy the whole fabric of social order, and
that in this tumult the cry of " Napoleon 11. !"
was heard. We ridiculed the story as a fabrication,
and we now find that we were perfectly right in
refusing credit ,to so suspicious an account.—
Our readers will find under the head of
" Paris Papers" an address to the Mayor of
Nantes,—(scc THE SUN of yesterday)—signed
by 165 inhabitants of the town,- representing: the
very atrocious conduct of an Officer of the Swiss
Guards stationed in _Nantes,. who deliberately
caused his troops to charge twice upon the un-
armed multitude, solely on account of some dis-
pleasure excited in his mind by the remon
strances of a merchant at his cruelty towards a
person whom he was dragging to custody. This
ruffian was coolly proceeding to command his
troops to load, for the purpose of firing upon the
people, when complaint was made to the proper
authorities, and means were adopted to prevent
further mischief. These are the facts of the case,
as they are detailed ina solemn act of several re-
spectable merchants and other inhabitants of
Nantes, and they are as little calculated to jus-
tify the impression sought to be cieated by the
first account as. can well be imagined.-

[MORNING HERALD.]:
it is difficult to conceive why. the restored-Go-
vernment of France has so obstinately persisted
in maintaining Swiss regiments, in opposition-to
the universal feeling. of the French people. We
remember,. that in an ably and calmly written
expose, of the causes which led to the short
reign of Buonaparte, after his return from Elba,
this ineasure was reckoned as one—and ever
since we receive accounts in the- French papers
of the quarrels and animosities,between the Swiss
soldiers and the French, both civil and military
—not only exciting the popular passions in Paris,
and in the departments, but seriously disturbing
the public peace,•and ending in scenes of blood-
shed. We mentioned, -yesterday, the occurrence
at Nantes, and the evidence borne by. oue hundred-
and fifty of the inhabitants, and indeed by the
public authorities themselves, to the intemperate
conduct of the Swiss troops. Thts, however, is rather
tke.fault oc the position in which they. are placed,
than their's personally. Conscious that they are
surrounded by public hatred—at least public pre-
judice—liable to frequent insults being offered
them, they behave naturally with more passion
and violence than otherwise. But why is it that
this perpetual firebrand is-maintained ? They are
no security to the French Throne,. if unhappily,
k were in peril. The hundred Swiss Guards
in the Place du Carousal, and the few bat-
talions scattered through France, are a scarcely,
perceptible fraction of the military establish-
ment. The , truth then seems to be, that
they have been-recalled through mere vanity- as
an appendage of the old regime. This was na-
tural and befitting Louis XIV., a vain despot,
who was flattered by beholding foreign uniforms
in his train. But why Louis 34111., who cer-
tainly does not estimate Royalty merely by its
plpmagei and who has frankly adopted the limi-
tation of the French Monarchy; by a Constitu-
tional Charter, affronts the prejudices and ex-
poses the tranquillity of his subjects, as well as
the attachment of the people to his Government,
is somewhat difficult to be comprehended.

[NEW TIMES.]
The seeds of national degradation were sown
in Greece mid), the corruption of public opinion
at Athens, when the greatest of Orators was
unable to inspire the Athenian Liberals with
spitit and energy to defend their free Constitu-
tion against the 13conaparte of his day. Hap-
Pily for us, our modern Demosthenes (as Mr.
Fox has often been styled) was equally unsuc-
cessful in urging our national prostration before
the modern Philip ! Happily for us, public
opinion in England was proof against all the
poling and Whining of those abject writers, who
tially.toiti us we could not resist the " Great
Man,' :the ." Invincible Captains" until their
prophecies were silenced by our exhibiting their

idol to thelb, a cleteated, degraded runavhiy aria
captive--
A fixed figure for the hand of scorn
To point his slow—lt/moving—finger at;
The panegyrists of Napoleon the First, the
partizans of Napoleon the Second; are now
loud in exhorting us to take Alp arms for the
Greeks. This is the first 'and least doubtful
symptom of hollowness in the Greek cause.—
But they make strong appeals to our feel-
ings ! they—the tender-hearted admirers of
a monster who could shoot Twelve Hundred Pri-
soners in cold blood! These Gentlemen talk to
us of slaughtering an unoffending population,
and carrying off women and children into capti-
vity. Atrocious deeds, we grant—deeds, at
which every Christian feeling revolts—deeds, not
to be justified, not to be excused, not to be pal-
liated. But are they all on one side ? Have no
murders been perpetrated, no cruelties been
practised, by the Greeks ? 0 yes, abundantly.
Just as murders and cruelties were practised by
the Irish Whiteboys; just as the Carbonell' and
Illuminati deal in assassination ; just as Robe-
spierre and Buonaparte slaughtered their pri-
soners by hundreds and thousands. But then
the Greeks and the Whiteboys, and the Carbo-
nari and the Illuminati, and Robespierre and
Buonaparte, were all Revolutionists.