The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-08 00:00:00

MEEICAN I'l LE SHIPPING.

DEAL, OCT. 7. Wind W.S.W. blowing strong in squalls.
—Arrived the Persia, Ellwell, from Pedang in 119 days, and
spoke the Pero, of London, from the Isle of France; on the
7th August, in lat. 35. S. long. 25. E. the Alpha, Rawden,
from the Mediterranean ; Ariel. Buxell, from Africa ; Bri-
tannia, —, and William, Spence, fmm Quebec. Put back
the Leda, Lady of the Lake, and Enterprise.
PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 7.—Wind W.N W.—lt blew a hard
gale from west :di night and this forenoon,—the ships in the aif-
ferent Roadsteads rode it out well ; this afternoon the weather is
more moderate.

FALMOUTii, OCT. 6.—Wind S.W. to S.S.W.—Off the
Port the Adventure, Adamson, from Trieste, for orders.
lavEarooi., OCT. 6.--Wind S.--Arrived the Al:l:ibis,
Morris, from Buenos Ayres; Commehe, Ort, from Monte
Video; Iris, Butcher, from Faro; Bradock, Hudson, and
Creole, King, from New Orleans; Swan, Morrison, fr:.l,n
Demerara, sailed the 11th of August In comp-any with the
Mersey for this port, ship Caroline and briz Ann. for London.
The Sir Charles M'Carthy, for London, and Gle►ibervie, for the
Clyde, were to sail in two or three days. . The Harmony,
oodall, and Miranda, Wild goose, for LondOn, were to sail
about the Ist of
.September.—Off the Port the Elizabeth,
from St. Domingo; Bounty Hall,-,'Master, from Jamaica";
and Sir John Newport, Williams, from Quebcc. The Warrior
from Buenos Ayres, was on shore on the North Bank, but has
been got off, and arrived in the River.
COWES, OcT. 7.—Arrived the Peace, Preilhain, from
21alaga in 10 days.

The mail from Coblentz to Giessen was
tacked by a party of eight robbers nu the 18,h
ult., who took from it a conNidi•rablo sum of
money. The conductor was datigerunsly.-nouttk-
ed, and two of thethorses were killed. The pa
"stingers escaped, by running into the,sinrOuntl..l;
woods.

A Violent dispute broke out on Sunday evenilg
last, at the Montacoe Ste. Genevieve, betweea
some workmen and a party of soldiers of our al
the regitnents stationed in Paris, who inqamiy
drew their swords ; several of the former were
dangerously wounded, and one of them killed on
the spot.

It appears by the Boston Gazette that a plan
is in agitation to forward five stock from ti;at
port to the London marketi, by meaas of steam-
vessels.

Last Tuesday afternoon a gevtlew mrpn corn:ng
down Chancery-lane had her right eye forced
into het head by the carelessness of. a butcher's
apprentice,

A few nights ago the .warehouse of Messrs.
Price and Gifford, No. 7, Suffolk-lane, Upper
Thames-street, was broken into, and 'the robbers
carried off 2001 b. weight of segar,,, a quantity of
Paddy-bird feathers and tippets, anctabout
of fine leaf isinglass. A liberal reward has been
offered by Messrs. Price and Gifford fur the dis-
c covery of the thieves.
AN IRISH BLUNDER.—An Irishman on board
• a man-of-war, was desired by his messmate" to go down the
hold, and-fetch a can of small beer. Teague, knowing that
preparations were making to sail, absolutely refused. " Arrah,
-by my shoul," said he, " and co while I am going into the cellar
to fetch beers the ship will sail and leave me behind."
- THE ()PAH DORT.—A very rare and peculiarly
beautiful fish, called the Opah Dory, or King's fish, was caught
on '.l;hursday last off Skegness, by some fishermen of that place.
This superior species is a native of Africa, though it is some-
times met with in the Mediterranean and-Northern Seas. Tts
form somewhat resembles the fish called John Dory, though
it is much superior, both as regards its size, and the diver-
sity of its colours. It exceeds in size every other fish of its
species, the one caught off Skegness measuring upwards of
three feet in length, and nearly two feet in breadth. Its ap-
pearance is very handsome, and the colours of the .akin are
especially worthy of notice ; the ground ix a bright green,
shaded by a brilliant blue, and when seen in different positio tt
it appears diversified with red, thus exhibiting the splendii
colours of the rainbow, varied by numerous large white oval
spots, and the whole forming a striking contrast with the firs
and tail, which are of a bright scarlet. The-fish is entirely
destitUteof teeth, the absence of which is compenstead for by
the peculiar structure of the tongue, which is thickly set with
prickles pointing backwards, so that any food may be easily re..
tained or passed down the throat, but would present an insur -
mountable obstacle to any trod repassing its surface. The
breast-bone is remarkably prominent, and rese-übles in ap-
pearance the keel of a vessel.• The extreme rarity of this beau-
tiful production of nature in 'these climes ,may be inferred
from the fact, that only three of its kind are recorded -to
have been hitherto caught on the British coast; 'he last ore-
was caught in the year. 1762, off Torbay, Devonshire, and is
now preserved in the British 11Iusensn. • The person who has -
obtained possession of this fish exhibited it at Boston on Friday
and. Saturday last, and afterwards conveyed it to Nottingham
Fair for the inspection of the anions at that place.—(Beaten
Gazette.)
The BLIND WATCHMAKEIL—It Ills often been -
recorded that persons dehriied of that most ineStiniablesbles.: :
sing, eye-sight, haver by dint of perseverance aid -by. poss.:
sassing other faculties to a greater degree of nerfection than
usual, been enabled ti re id, wri • , draw, play. cards, Sc.c
and have produced many : specimens of their :knosisledge, of
the Mechanical and Fine Arts, that woull have reflected
honour on any artist. Instances of this kind seldomoceur,
but when it 'does, it shows the benevolence of our Creator,
who, in depriving us or one faculty, bestows the
,others in
greater abundance. We have been led to these remarks -by
witnessing, a few yearS "since, at Barnstaple, a .igrt over a
door, denoting that docks,' watches, weas:rspaired by
Wm. Huntley, a blild man. On making inquiry we. were
informed that this man was born blind, or at least, that he
hag no recollection of ever seeing. He was br:'d by his fa-
ther, who was a watch and clock maker, to that businets, which
he now follows, and has plenty of employment. pFi!ig consi-
dered by the inhabitants very superior hi his pratessinne he.
repairs musical clocks and watches, and lel:loin meets With any
difficulty in repairing the most complicated. it-often. ()Cetus
that in cases where others have failed in complete. v repairing a.•
watch or clock, this mail has discovered the defect.—(4iiirsor.).
On Tuesday eteDitig, the tiotv.,..(if
man in Queen Ann-street was robbed by the fidlo..ving
—A workman employed in the ertrance-hall was requested
a respectably-dressed man to be allowed to go (town into the
area for a tortoiseshell comb he had accidentally let fall there.
The workman unguardedly went with the fellow, leaving the
street-door unfastened. No comb was to he town', :bat an fie-
complice found time to carry off a valuable table elOck. The
thieves both escaped. _

• .
ATltoclOui IWIIDF.R.—The French Papers
contain the following details of an atrocious murder lately com-
mitted at Chantbery :-,-" A most shocking occurrence took
place here on Sunday the 25th ult., which has struck with ter-
ror the whole of the inhabitants of this city.' Few crimes,
thank Heaven, present circumstances so atrocintis' at those
which we have just witnessed.. Our imagination recoils at the
bare recital of them. For some time neat M. 14_—, of this
city, had lived upon very ill terms with his wife, without its
ever having transpired that the latter had given him- cause. On
Sunday last a very great altercation took place between them ; .
and after a terrible quarrel. M. lot his house and
went to an apothecary sto buy some spirits: Lie ;.refiirned
home, and after remaining there s a short times hth • went
to a house where his duty repaired hioi to he present.—
' During his absence it was rumoured that his wife had just
been assassinated ; an officer of police was immediately
sent to M. house, where he found tile ',body 'of' the
unfortunate woman. most shockingly milt-fated and de-
prived of life. From some serious contusion on the head
,it appeared that 'she' had been knocked down with- great
violence, but the most horrid circumstance that.presented shelf
was, that the assasSin, with a view, no doubt, to remove the;
traces of his crimes, had actually boiled the head of the corpse
in a saucepan, hoping by this means to do away the marks of
the blows. The teeth and the hair were found in the sauce.
pan, having been removed from the head by the action of the
boiling water'; the spirits, which had been purchased at an
apothecary's,. were found upon the table near the body, and a
shirt and waistcoat, which the husband of the poor victim bed
worn that morninho were also found with soine greasy- rpo-s
upon them,:corresponding with the conten.s of the saucepan.—
Sieur B— being very strongly suspected, was arrested and
taken to prison. We wait with anxiety for the result- of this
dreadful atthir. The father of the prixonfr also died a violent
death, and it is rumoured that his son is tr,ilty of his murder.
For ourselves, we will not prejudge any body, and although
very strong proofs at I).i...sent appear against M. B— yet we
shall wait until the decision of the Judges is pronounced:"

YHE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Pc.pers,Oct. 8, 1325.

Cnamsir encss.]
h is strongly rumoured that the leading Euro-
pean Powers will interpose their aid to give a
settled form to the Government of Greece.— I
TIIQTR is no doubt but their services, if rendered
in the spirit of integrity and good faith, may be
eminently useful ; but if they manifest anything
of an opposing temper, the evil arising from the
present position of affairs in that quarter, instead
of being mitigated, will be infinitely increased.
Looking at- the elements of the power at this
time in the possession of the two parties, the
Christian States of Greece have greatly the ad-
vrrntage over the degenerate territories of the
Turks. The regeneration of the former might be
easily enough accomplished were the Christian
Powers sincerely disposed to effect it. With
royalty as the basis of her government, Greece—
without any thing to be feared from the example
—might combine with it a Senate of Nobles and
a Senate of the Representatives of the people ;
without the latter she would have no security for
her freedom—without the former she would
have no supporters of a lawful monarchy.—
Were it known that such was to be the form
of their Constitution, the Greeks might hope
success to persuade the surrounding So-
vereigns to give their support to her cause.
—These Sovereigns have grown wary, and
will not be forward to admit a new Government
among them, till they have first satisfied them.
selves what shape it will assume. They would
fain take security against the appearance of a
power one and indivisible in their neighbour-
hood ; and to a certain extent they are in the
right. Neither would such a Government secure
the independence of the Greeks themselves, for
under a democracy, where power belongs to all
and is therefore boundless, freedom cannot be
maintained. The Ancients had no such Govern-
ment; it cannot, indeed, exist ; it supposes such
an equal distribution of the public will as is in-
compatible with the exercise of supreme autho-
rity, and without this, Government, for any prac-
ticai purpose, is good for nothing. The manners
and morals of the community—if the popular
mind is well-trained—may, perhaps, under such
a system, preserve a show of order and obedi-
ence, and personal freedom may be safe ; this
may he, because personal freedom consists in an
exemption from all restraint as long as we conform
to the laws ; bot political freedom there can be
none, because it is essential to political freedom
that there should be public responsibility, which,
under a democracy, where all are rulers,
cannot be found ; and when this fundamental
of all government is wanting, po%%er, whatever
cutward form it may assume, cannot fail to be
arbitrary. It may be republic in name; but in
substance it will be a despotism. With regard
to the Greek cause, Ministers have taken a stand
roost honourable to themselves. Their publicly-
avowed sentiments have been in its favour ; but
much of the moral, and almost the whole of the
political duty of Statesmen is comprised in prt>.
deuce ; by involving Great Britain in hostilities
from a quixotic interference in her quarrel, she
could certainly not promote the real interests of
G7eece ; and they must be euthusiasts beyond
all cure from rea,ou or reflection, who would
have had our Government pursue any other than
the neutral course it has adopted, and by which
it has so wisely determined to abide.

[MORNING POST.]
We received last night French Papers to the
sth instant, and the Etoile of Thursday. The
Journal des Debuts contains a vigorous attack on
the Austrian Observer for the " malevolent exag-
geration" of its pretended Expose of the conduct
of the Philhellenic Committees of England and
France. It declares that the manner in which
the names of two Princes of Royal Blood (the
Duke of Sussex and the Duke of Orleans) have
been brought forward, must excite the indigna-
tion of all impartial men,and that no propositions
for procuring them the Crown of Greece have
ever been made. " But," it ad 's, " this is done
to punish those Princes for having too elevated a
soul not to wish for the triumph of so pure a cause
as that of the Greeks." It then demonstrates,
as we did about the same time, the utter false-
hood of the Austrian Observer's assertion, that
the Turks and their Allies had put down the
insurrection every where except at Napoli di
Romania and Missolunghi. it shows that there
remained untouched, and even unapproached,
Athens with its citadel ; Salona, with Gourra's
army ; Corinth with its almost impregnable for-
tresses ; the strong town of Napoli di Malvoisia,
the mountains of Maina, and in fact every part of
the country which was not actually under the
foot of the invader. To this enumeration of
places and provinces on the Continent and in the
Morea, it adds the islands, Hydra, Spezzia, the
Cyclades, Samos, Candia, once more in arms and
half delivered, and then confidently asks :
' whether there be any reason for despairing of
success this year or the year to come ?" " How
often," it continues, " have not the intrepid Ba-
tavians under Nassau, and the Chivalrous Visi-
goths under Pelasgus, been reduced to a
shorter space and to means of defence far
less imposing !" Alluding afterwards to the
daring attempt made by the gallant Cana-
ris in the port of Alexandria, and to the angry
reproach of the Austrian Journal, that if it had
succeeded European vessels would have been in-
jured amidst the destruction of the Egyptian
:iavy, it justly observes " And if one hundred
European vessels had perished in the port of
Alexandria, whose fault would it have been ?
Would it not have been that of those who dena-
honalised their flag by lending. it to cover the
transport of arms and ammunition to the Egyp.
Gan troops in the Morea ?" The most curious
part of the article, however, is one which in-
timates that Mehemet Ali, who seems to en-
ter so heartily into the views of the Porte, and
'rho has hitherto so powerfully supported its
interests, only awaited the conquest of the Morea
to proclaim his own independence, and to lift the
:.ncient standard of the Caliphs of Egypt. The

failure of the conspiracy by which it was hoped to I
gain possession of Napoli di Romania, and the
protracted resistance of the Moreans, are said to
hare made some alterations in his views, and to
have induced him to think that those Greeks
whom he could not reduce into subjects, might
he valuable as Allies. Hence, we are told,
it is not impossible that he may unite his
forces to theirs, when once he shall have as-
certained the impossibility of subjugatit47, them.
With this new plan floating in his mind, he is
said to have paid great honours to the Captain
Pacha on his arrival at Alexandria, but to
have secretly created every practicable delay in
the assembling of the reinforcements which this
Commander had come to seek, and which
Mehemet now does not like to place entirely in
the hands of a Turkish Admiral. May these in-
cipient differences between the Ottoman Em-
peror, and a subject grown powerful enough to
aspire at being his equal, be productive of advan-
tage to the sacred cause of Greece. Should the
journal des Mbals be right in its surmises, what
new political phenomenon may not be presented
to the world—Greece establishing her inde-
pendence under the protection of an Egyptian
Caliph. wiiiist all the States of Christianity are
contending who shall not be her protector !

7MORNING CHRONICLE.]

In our observations in Thursday's Paper on
the subject of the Siik Trade, we referred to the
authority of a gentleman connected with that
trade, of the highest respectability, for certain
statements we then made. One of these state-
ments was, " that enormous quantities of contra-
band silk goods have been imported into this
country, if not by the sanction, at least, under
the connivance of, the Customs." This affirma-
tion, however high the authority on which we re.
received it, certainly staggered us at the time,
and we took care to add, " of course we can
know nothing ourselves of the circumstance."—
We learn that an investigation has taken place
into the circumstance alluded to, which is now
nearly completed, and that it has been satisfac-
torily proved the goods supposed to have been
contraband have been manufactured in this coun-
try. The Report on the subject will, we are
assured, make its appearance in a few (lays. We
intended to offer some observations to-day on the
subject of the Silk Trade,but want of space com-
pels us to defer them till Monday.

The Funds were rather higher yesterday. The
speculators for the rise are anticipating a favourable result from
the report of the quarter's revenue on the 10th instant, the pay-
ment of the dividends, the advantageous alteration in Foreign
Exchanges, &c. Consols for Account opened yesterday at 38,
and closed at 88ii ; Exchequer Bills, 1 par to 2 premium.—
The South American Stocks were rather higher in,the morning.
Colombian Bonds, 74i to 75; Mexican Scrip, 10; discount;
Greek, 24 to 2.31 discount ; Spanish Bonds, 17 to l7i. In
Shares there was no alteration worth noticing. Consols for
Account were 83! ; a large purchase for money was reported at
that price. South American were also higher. Mexican Scrip,
9ii clic—(/4d.)

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
We have copied from The Austrian Observer,
which reached us yesterday, a letter from Mr.
W. T. Washington to the Greek Government,
expostulating with it for soliciting the protection
of England. It is a silly production, perhaps
an impertinent one ; and might certainly have
been spared from any practical results, which
the measure complained of by Mr. Washing-
ton has produced. If that Gentleman was as
well skilled in the art of reading the future, as
he is in that of fine writing, his mind would not
have been haunted by the melancholy reflec-
tion, that he had heard the death knell of
Greek independence, in this solemn appeal to the
generosity or ambition of the British Cabinet.
fie knows very little of our present Government,
notwithstanding the pragmatical manner in which
lie speaks of it; and we beg leave to assure him,
that its course with respect to this memorable
contest, is not as tortuous as he imagines. To be
the restorer of Greece is no part of its policy ;
and therefore the imputation in Mr. Washington's
letter, that the resolution of the Greek Govern.
ment was originally drawn up in the lonian
Islands, and with the connivance, or at the
instigation of British Agents, is not worth the
ink employed in forming the characters.—
This, however, we think, we may safely affirm,
that the Greeks will have no cause to regret this
proceeding ; for our Government, though it has
declined the honour of the Protectorate, will
never abandon the people, who have given it this
mark of their confidence, to the blind rage of
their enemies. Mr. Stratford Canning's mission
to Constantinople is any thing but a bad omen
for the Greek cause ; and their interests, what-
ever turn their struggle may take, occupy, if we
are not greatly mistaken, a conspicuous place in
his instructions. It would be useless to waste
another word upon a letter, which is of no intrin-
sic value, and which in fact has no other claim to
notice, but from the cause with which the writer
happens to be connected.