The Sun.
London, England, 1822-01-21 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE, JAN. 21.
'We have but little fine Wheat in this morning, the best of
which made last Monday's prices:; the inferior very dull,
.and
not much in demand ; Barley rather a short supply ; the best
qualities experienced a rise of Is. per quarter since this day
week ; in otner things no alteration sikce this day week ; in
Flour no alteration.

Wheat, Old 80s 70s Grey Peas 91s 24s
New s 34s 60s: Beans, New lBB 24s
Rye 26s 28s Old —s —s
Barley 18s 26s Oats 16s 26s
Malt 508 66s Flour, per sack .SOs Sos
White Pe.'►se .... ....... 28s 32s

AVERAGE PRICE OF CORN IN ENGLAND AND WALES.
Wheat, 48s. lid—Barley, 19s. Bd.—Oats, les. 7d.—Rye,
225. Id.—Beans, 22s 3d.—Pease, 255. 3d.
Tht Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
putee from the Returns made in the Week ending the lOth day
of January, 1822, is 31s. 100. per Hundred Weight.

S',4IITRFIELD MARKET, JAN. 21.
The supply of all descriptions of Cattle at Market this me:r-
ing was very numerous, in consequence of which, all descrip-
tions of meat have lowered in price, and the inferior qualities
are nearly unsaleable. The price of :gay remains as pr.: our
last.

To sink the offal per stone of Blla.
Beef
Mutton ... 2s. &I. to 3s. 6d. Pork

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

WORCESTEN, • JAN. 18.—In our market, on Saturday, 158
pockets were weighed; good samples are sought after, and for
prime lots 7:25. is freely_ given ; but ordinary pw.kets remain as
before.—A letter from Maidstone says, ". We have had within
the last week a good demand for our second run of hops, and
at a small improvement iteprice; a house here 'having. pur-
chased B:Vera' hundred bags, the quantity now 1,::t is very
t:ifiing."

111.; ,LO_N PQN- J U

;ILy EXTRAcTs FROM MORNING FArbats,

January 21, 18'12.

[MORNING cIIRONICLE.I
• :;:,;et riaong our extracts from the French Papers
715 a 'letter- from Corfu, of the 3d December,
stating that Arta was taken, by assault on• the
,ISt of December, by the Greeks. The cap-
': hire of this town, it is observed, r` is a cOnquest
• •
'Of the utmost importance for the Greeks, not on
recount of its fortress, but the strength of its
4ituation, which from its union with the defile,
!.rad the fort of the five Wells, forms an impreg-
nable bulwark. From its position between Epi-
-1 os, Acarininia and Etolia, it is the key of these
provinces, which it commands."—We have in our
. possession, however, a setter from an individual
:y ho had excellent means of information at Mil-
-•'solungi, on the Coast of Etolia, an extract from
we have given in another colunin ; which,
• though dated the 13th December, speaks of the
Castle of Arta as still holding out, though the
.greater, part of the town had been taken. A good
deal of con fusion not unfrequently arises from the
stiles,the G reeks reckoning by theold,and the
-West of Europe by the new. Our Correspondent
se know uses the new stile; and the letter in the
Constitutionnel is probably - dated according . to
the old, and therefore in reality later. In the
4.-o7stitutionnel.of the 13th, some important par-
ticulars are stated in a letter from Corfu, re-
specting the taking of TriPoliza; After giving
on account of the murder of the Greek hostages,
• the- letter goes on to state, that the Beys and
;gas of the Morea inflathed the imaginations-of
their followers with the terror of the punishments
which the Infidels would inflict on them; that
in-the assault the Greeks had to overcome,a most
determined resistance; that the Turks, entrench-
ed with their families within their houses and
other tenable places, fired on the assailants ;
that the place could only be reduced by setting
fire to the houses ; that this engagement
within the ,walls lasted two days, and that
it_ terminated with the destruction of nearly
the whole of the Turks ; that those who sur-
rendered at discretion were all treated with
humanity ; that the few Mussehnen who sur-
vived the combat were not slaughtered, but re-
tained prisoners in the fortresses ; and that as to
the Turkish women, they most of them perished
with their husbands, under the burning roofs,
the victims of their barbarous institutions, accord-
ing- to which a iNiahomedan female, who becomes
a captive, is held unworthy to live with a Mus-
sulman, the Mahomedan law expressly declaring,
that " the true believer ought to live no longer
with his spouse, if she has had the misfortune to
become captive, and still less if she has had the
still greater misfortune of being dishonoured."
This is a very different version of the affair from
that given us by the Austrian Observer. •We
observe from the Scots Papers,, that letters have
been received by Mr. Gordon's friends in Scot-
land, dated long posterior to the capture of Tri-
poNza, in which no mention is made of any
cruelties having been committed there.

[M 0 RNING POST.]
The French Papers to the 18th inst. contain
but little besides the proceedings of the Chamber
of Deputies; and as these have been entirely
engrossed since Monday by reports on the peti-
tions of private individuals, the discussions, how-
ever tumultuous they may occasionally have
bePn, possess but little general interest. The
only one to which some importance may justly
be considered to attach, related to the daily ex-
tirpation of forests in France for the purposes of
agriculture. The petitioner prayed that some
law might be enacted to prevent their clear-
ance. Ile stated that if the practice continued,
timber, which had already become a seance
article in the-country, would, at no very dis-
tant period, require to be imported, whilst
the lands restored to cultivation only bore
scanty crops, chiefly oats, and became sterile
at the end .of a few years. The Commission
• seemed inclined not to interfere, and to let
landowners act as they pleased, considering that
their own interest would always be the safest
guide, and that " in- order to be flourishing,
agriculture must he independent;" but the
danger of suffering' France to become-dependent
on foreign countries for so important an article
as timber,, was ably pointed out by several
orator,,, and the petition was ultimately referred
to the Minister of Finance.----An article from
Berlin in these Papers states, that' the most.ge-
neral and bitter complaints were made at St.
Petersburgh respecting the " pitiable state to
*rilich trade was reduced." Several consider-
able houses had obtained, on giving proper se-
curity, advances of money from the Govern-1
znent, who granted besides a particular advan-
tage to commercial men, -by allowing them';
not to pay the Custom-house duties on foreign
goods till four months after their importation.----
It was also asserted that the alterations which it
• had been intended to make in the tariff of those
duties, and which would have laid additional fet-
lers upon trade, would not be carried into effect,
in consequence of the pressing representations of
Count Lemberg. The proposed increase in the
,duty on trading companies was also to be aban-
• doned. Accounts from Wilua mention, that the
• liring-of one cannon on the Turkish side of the
Prnth had caused the whole diVision of Sabanief,
30,000 strong, to take up arms. It was ascer-
taaned, however, that the cannon had been fired,
-according to usage amongst the Turks, as a mark
451 honour at.the execution of aJanissary. Witt-
genstein's army had- not yet crossed the Dniester,
but' the -Don. Cossacks had received orders to
. pass that river. The prevalence of mild weather
had prevented the establishment of the necessary
magazines for the army, as the roads were scarcely
practicable. A famine was apprehended, and an
;embargo' had been laid upon corn to supply the
vants of the troops. There were-20,000 Turks
in the environs of Jassy, and 39,000 along the
right batik of-the Pruth. They were encamped
inlauts behind earthen entrenchments.

E TIMES.
%*the Lords of the Treasury are pleased to tell
04, that ahoy :have it in contemplation to suspend

all Exchequer processes for arrears of taxes due,
by individuals or parishes before the sth of April;
1816. This might pass unnoticed, but that
the paper which is ordered to propagate this
very unimportant fact can let neither Minister
nor measure escape without some daub of adtila-
tion from its slimy fingers. " A more popular
measure," says their official organ, " at the pre-
tent moment could not have been devised."
Nor, we would ask Minister's themselves to ex 7
plain on what ground it is that they pretend to
poinilarity, for giving as a boon to the nation that
which time arid misery had long since obtained
for all those amongst us to whom it was nominally
applicable—viz., an exemption from state processes
which it was physically impossible to enforce.=
An action, claiming to be popular in virtue (9f its
humanity or generosity, ought to be one which
comprehended some sacrifice on the part of those
who performed it. And what is here the sacri-
fice ? How many of those individuals or bodies of '
men against whom it was possible for the tax-
gatherers to carry on a successful pursuit, on nc-
count of debts accruing before 1816, have sur-
vived to take the benefit of any indulgence now
What property have they left that could be seized
upon ? As for their persons, they are wasting in
gaols or 'wandering in foreign lands, where rio
extent nor Exchequer writ will reach them

and to boaSt of suspending that power which had
already stopped its own movement for want of ma-
terials to act upon, as a title to real praise or gra-
titude, can bear no better name than a hoax.
Poor (Jandide had a similar act of clemency
tended to him—namely, a full pardon; but it
was after he had run the gauntlet Theinquisi-
tion, as has. been reniarke,d, after burning the
body of a heretic, are known to have occasionally
forgiven his soul ; and when traitors are once
.fairly hanged in England, the drawing and quar-
tering are very often gr-aciously dispensed with.
If the Treasury wishes to be thought humane,
let its officers circulate a list of cases in which
the Crown has -spared from any cause less over-
powering than necessity.