The Sun.
London, England, 1825-08-17 00:00:00

AMERICAN WHALE FISHERY.

On Moncia;,Ttitiiii of June, a whaling company at rro-
spect Harbour, in the town of Goldsborough, discovered a
whale off the harbour; they soon got within a proper distance,
and fastened to. the monster of the deep, secundam artcm. The
whale, not well pleased with 'the uncivil salutation, made the
best of its way out to sea, propelling the boat by the force of
the wharp fastened to its body. After proceeding in this un-
comfortable situation four or five miles, the animal became
weak from loss of blood, and the company then hauled in the
warp, in order to get within a proper distance to throw the
lances. They inflicted repeated wounds, until the huge creature
seemed entirely exhausted, and sunk to the bottom of the
ocean. After waitinc, the usual time for-the body to rise, they
began to haul in the wharp, but without any suspicion that
the whale was alive or near them; it leaped from the water i:nd
laid itself directly across the boat, as it were in the twit,lCing pi
an eye. The boat's crew disentangled themselves from the
unwelcome visiter, and took to the water. The whale remained
across the boat about two minutes, and then slid off, tail fore-
most, into the ocean and aga'n sunk. The boat was left by
the whale upside down, and the men, with great labour, gained
her, and placed themselves on her bottom. It was with much
difficulty they kept themselves in this unsafe retreat. expecting
every moment to be swallowed up in the mighty deep. They
remained in this situation four or five hours, when they were
happily relieved by a boat which discoVered them at a die-.
tance. Two of the crew were badly bruised by holdinj on
to the boat, and one severely wounded by a stroke from the
whale. The whale rose on the ~econd or third day. It was
about 20 feet long. Although this account is not so calamttous,
as might have been, yet it shows the ltazardot nature o: the
business of taking whales, and we have often woad, red that
more fatal accidents do not occur to those engaged in the busi-
ness. The boat's crew consisted of Robert C. Palmer, Daiiel
Noonan, Stephen Clark, John Russell, and Stephen Clark,
jun. Mr. Palmer, after remaining on the bottom of the boat
for some time, attempted to swim to the shore; but after pro-
ceeding about a quarter of a mile, finding he could not reach
the shore, he returned to the boat, and took his former position
among his suffering friends. Before he left the boat, he thook
hands with all his associates, expecting never again to see them.
The person who relieved them was Captain Joseph Wass, of
the boat Star, by whose assistance the whale was towed into
Prospect Harbour.—( New York Evening Post.)

CORN EXCHANGE, AUG. 17.
There are moderate fresh supplies of all sorts of Grain tbia
week. The weather is now very favourable for harvest, and
the Wheat trade is very dull at Monday's prices; Barley-is
rather dearer ; Beans and Peas find buyers at last quotations.
There is not much business doing in the Oat trade to•uay, and
prices remain unaltered.
ARRIVALS.—EngIish Wheat, 2,100; Barley, —; Oats,
2,500 ; Irish Oats, 2,500 quarters; Flour, 2,400 sacks.

Don JUAN ROMERO ALPUENTE has lately ar-
rived in London. Proscribed by the besotted
Government of King FELIDINA.ND, at the ad-
vanced age of 80, after undergoing incredible
hardships, he effected his escape to Gibraltar,
and from thence has sought an asylum in this
country. lie was one of the most distinguished
deputies of the Cortes during the period, pf 'the
Constitution.—(Morning Paper.)
AFFECTING ACCIDENT.—On Friday se'nnight,
Mrs. Thompson, of the Liverpool Tavern, in Greenock, aunt
William Cunninghame, formerly mate of the gamer biig, were
unfortunately drowned in returning in a small boat from He-
lensburgh; They had left Greenock; the one as a warm anti
impassioned sweetheart to visit the daughter of the other, who
was in the service of Mr. Nimmo, of Glasgow, then re-
siding with his family at Helensburgh. There -had been
a quarrel between the parties previously, and Betty Thomp.
son had rejected the true-hearted sailor, from some of those
undefined reasons that work upon the female mind. The
mother was favourable, to his suit, and ; the daughter, to
avoid pressing, sought and obtained a situation in .the re-
spectable family above-mentioned. The occasion of the dif-
ference was, howeVer, but trivial. Betsy'S bosom' throbbed
anew when she saw - her husband and her lover again be-,
fore her in Helensburgh. The title of affection returned
with redoubled force. The wr:tidin,,,day Was fixed=-" and
all was sunshine, hope, and joy." • After a 'short 'time,- Mrs.
Thompson, with • the enraptured Cunninghame, left Helens-
burgh to return to Greenock in an open boat. They were seen
by the Helensburgh steam-boat half way over, lait they
were seen no more A sister of Betsy's, at Greenock, mar-
velled that her mother did not arrive. her anxiety bec,ame
unendurable, and she set off from Greenock to Helensburgh in
search of her. The meeting of the sisters divulged the aw-
ful truth, and gave to the fearful anxieties of both. a horrid.
Certainty. The mother was found, and buried on Wednes-
day—the lover is yet in the bosom of the waters. The poor
girls returned by the Greenock steam-boat—Betsy 'hysterical,
and " would not be comforted." The name of her mother
-was ever in her mouth, Some charitable ladies ende wound in
vain to sooth her sorrows. She was wild in her -grief, and
tho Ugh now she is calm, her happiness, alas ! is the stillness
of insanity—her hopes are buried in the deep, and her mind is
wrecked for ever.--(Glasgow Free Press.)
EDINBURGH, AUG. 15.—Satiurday aftertfoon,
about half-past three o'clock, eight convicts Made'• their escape
from the Calton-hill jail,. in the following manner :—One of
them called to one of the turnkeys to take out a bundle of
clothes to wash, and contrary to the jail orders not to open the
airing ground gate, without two turnkeys were -prevent, 'he
opened the gate to receive the clothes, • when he was• instantly
knocked down, and the whole 'rushed through the passage to
the outer gate, the inner barrier gate not being locked, also con-
trary to orders, when they knocked. doidit the turnkey took the
key from him, opened the outer gate, wicket, and got clear off
Capt. Young, and Lieut. Stuart,of the Police, who was then in the
Captain's house, and some policemen pursued them, but without
success; nor have any of the convicts yet been apprehedded;altho'
every search has been made for them. The following are the
names of those who escaped, viz. : James Mitchell end John
Sharp, lately under sentence of death; but their sentence com-
muted to transportation for life; Walter Broomfield,.? -years
transportation ; -Henry Gunn, transportation: for life-. Alex.
M'Farlane, for 14 years ;'Alex. Mackay (lately whipped), for
7 years; Robert Smith,' for' 14 years ; Thomas Tomlinson, for
14 years. John Murray, also tinder sentence of transportation
for life, who was confined in the same plice from whence the
' above convicts escaped, did not accompany them as he is sou itl
jaiL

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAll,y

Extracti from the 3lormna P apers , Aug. 17, 1825.

[BRITISH PRESS. i

The,Paris Papers of Sunday arrived last night.
At-Hayti we are informed President 3oyer was
prel4ring to have the Royal Ordinance registered
by -,tie ;Senate .with becoming solemnity. The
Haytians are represented to have received the
concessioti of their independence with transports
of joy, and it was reported, that so great was
their eagern.ess to avail themselves of
.the terms
of the Ordinance, that 'the- Bearnaise, by which
the 4ispacches were brought from Port-au-Prince,
sv4tthe hearer also of 15 millions of francs in
cash and 19 millions in letters of Credit and bills
of exchangs, remitted by the Haytian Govern-
ment,, as a first instalment of the indemnity pay;
able to the old French colonists. This report is
howeyer
,evidently unworthy of belief. The
-iiaytian Government has been too long lode-
pendent, in spite of. France, to rush into such blind
anttabsUrd excesses, because-tit last it happens to
suit the policy of the French Cabinet to issue an
equivocal instrument agreeing in form- to that which
all -
.its; power, could not prevent in fact. There
would necessarily be some time consumed in the
deliberations of the Haytian legislature. Boyer
'is not, like Christophe or Dessa lines, an arbitrary
monarch. He is but the chief officer of the exe-
cutive. department. Until we have the details, of
the proceedings of the Haytiaus, ire can know
little of the true character of the recent transac,
tipns
.that have taken place in their island.
Meanwhile, tVe Ministerial Journals of Paris are
publishing commentaries on the King's Ordinance,
which are calculated to create serious difficulties,
should they reach the eyes of the Haytians be-
fore the negociation be concluded in all its parts.
The Prapeau Blanc, a Paper principally be-
longing to M. de Villele, and understood,
therefore, peculiarly to speak his sentiments,
sAateattha t " the officer who was the bearer of the
PrdinanCe gave the people of St. Domingo the
alternative to accept it within fifteen days or
-to
commence hostilities." According 0) this „state-
ment, the Haytian authorities submitted to me-
nace? instead of receiving the conditions offered
.to them " with respect .or gratitude." But the
statement is certainly incorrect. The Haytian
government has not shown itself so easily ter-
rified into concessions. —if it was now alarmed,
as the French journalists affirm, at-the name
and greatness of Charles. X., why did it tiOt
yield:last year on the terms which _were then
proposed to it ?

. .
[THENt.Es.]
If the decree of tl • King of France, which has
Itien construed into his Majesty's recognition of
thip ‘e independence of St. Domingo, were
analyzed in a suspicious or even critical spirit, it
might: be said, perhaps, to resemble any thing
• - acknowledgment of what we understand
hy the word " Sovereignty" in that Republic.--
103 a curious mode of disclaimittg the dominion
uxer a colony, to begin by issuing various. Orders
for its future administration. The King of France
ages not commence his ordinance by saying, that
for several .weighty reasons him thereto moving,
he renounces henceforth all authority and power.
over Hayti, and therefore that the Ilaytians may
.a.ct.as they think fit in their own harbours,receive
sohvessels, and impose such duties as they please:
ffe., sets out, on the contrary, not with a permis-
siou, but with a comstAND, that the poctS. of St.
Domingo shall be open to the ships of ull nations,
and that the.duties on all foreign- vessels shall be
equal, except oh those of France, which are to
bear.only half the amount levied on the rest of
the world. This really is-more in form, as well
as substance, the assertion, than the-surrender of
Ii (sovereignty. It states-no ground for the regu-
latiOns particularized, no treaty with Boyer,' no'
. • •
pUblid act, beyond the sic volo of Charles X.,
t.ixereSsed- in a decree which his Ministers have
cOntersigned, hut. to which there is not annexed
one. line on behalf 'of any other contracting party,
nor the name of a single Haytian Minister. The
independence of their Government iSacknowledg.
editor the actual'.' inhabitants.of_llayti, but nn-
toting is stipulated for their successors. Neverthe.
• i4j45-,if the 131a,c1; power be satisfied with its bargain
we.have no reason ,to be. other Wis. .Charles.; X.
I'oounces:that he has laboured to secure by. a
454/4. rf.s,tolation, specified in his ordinance,: a
monopoly of the market of St. Domingo' •as coo"-
' elite as ever before existed by virtue of the.most
nigorpgs..corcpiat, policy, seeing that in the face
of..double duties it would be difficult for the Re.
•puhbc. to, supply its wants through any other
clifinnel but that .of French commerce. The be,
nelitt however, thus designed for French ships,
rasp, have orte consequence not clearly anticipated.
by thq negOcJators—(that is,, if any treaty has been
sikteed)---the Ilaytians may choose to- be. heir own
etWierA, rakher than remain subject to a monopoly
iplavgur of, the French marine., One of the ef-
Octs we have already spoken- of as fairly'to
• hie ilnfe,ried:from an arraoiotent.
.between France
aria- St,. Domingo, was a .breaking';-.44,..,,.- of 'the
s-fli.pfkrygrp legitimacy with regard to the
uu.k.S,(ates of 'North, anct.Sonth Anterica.' That
l'esultipppears to be now on. the its:,ac..
...4bitifiliiinnetit...foetters have arrived from Dor'-
dux, iOnfhling."us. that, the .French Govern,
Enent have. finthnrized tl a ad.rniSSiOn,"Of vessels
(i'otnthe-new.Republics into the ports or France:
• *Vikt'A'itc'e;ipe,treated as friends,but to display
• • ziftliag,:tior„at, it vvool.s.eerns:. to, be protected-,
?bile: Ministers or agents. The ice,
right of resistance is
ptacacakly 144nYiledged, anti the monarchical
14)Aciplirs,#:•ititherg, be• any logic in the heads
.44itt,gs4 :given up ai.,,ontCttable by .his Most
-dirighmi-Majesty. 'l7 here can, indeed, be 'title
•, 414141e,the reluctance with which-this decisive
irsiaa are -has - embraced 4y, the goose of
• T;Blitirbon, The argument on which legitimacy,
suisdp.,‘cotv.no, qualification or compromise.
* • IS: Ist, • tLai el I,.power, all. privilege, ay , po-
".• prai-'',.reht,, -no matter how necessary, must.
fl'.l
• ti** • .`-'h r d
_my*, tht'e, rown, oo urn as
positive usurpation. the system, therefore, is
at an end, the doctrine becomes a dead letter,
-when those who have expelled their despot

by force of arms from his possessions are re-
cognized as lawful sovereigns of the territory
which they have so acquired—the' recognition
being made by the .original teachers and pro-
mulgators of the " legitimate" philosophy. Here,
then, in the English Revolution of 1688 acceded
to in principle by the Bourbons after their resto-
ration ; and the unwillingness, the tardiness, and
extreme repugnance,' with which the point has
been yielded by this family, is to us a source
of joy, for one reason only—because it proves
as well the irresistible force as the rapid pro-
gress of those principles which carry with them
the emancipation of the world. 7—t Powerfully
will the establishment of freedom in America
' re-act upon the spirit of Europe; and the very
approximation produced by that commerce with
the New World, which both France and Eng-
land have fOund indispensable to their own wel-
fare, must add wings to the return of liberty
across the friendly. ocean. For the .mere mer-
cantile effects of this opening between France
and South America, we view with unmingled
pleasure. Whatever serves the interests of the
American Republics must conduce to ours ; but
there is a nobler object which animates us—the
general happiness of nations.

[MORNING POST.]
French Papers to the 15th inst. *ith the Etoile
of Monday arrived last night by Express. They
contain intelligence from Greece of a more au-
thentic nature than any received since the official
Reports of General Roche, and which though of
too early a date to confirm the capture of Ibra-
him ,Dacha, states important facts which greatly
encrease the probability of that event. It
was brought by an English packet which left
Napoli di Romania on th” 4th of July,
and arrived at Marseilles the 7th instant, with
Dispatches for our Government from Captain
Hamilton. It was to have sailed on the 2d, but
Captain Hamilton detained it till the 4th, as in-
formation of great moment was expected every
hour. Whether this information had arrived and
was communicated in that Officer's dispatches,
can only be known when they shall reach this
country. The Captain of the Packet would not
or could not say more than that 4 6 the affairs of
Greece were in the most satisfactory state, and
that Greece would certainly again emerge tri-
umphant this year out of the sanguinary strug-
gle." The private letters do not come down
later than the 2d of July : but even then their
statements are highly encouraging and gratifying.