The Sun.
London, England, 1822-01-19 00:00:00

RACING.

h‘..x cargo.

Thirteen horses are atready entered for the first class of the
Riddlesworth Stakes of 200 guineas each, to be run for at the
Craven Meeting at Newmarket ; and 14 horses are entered for
the 2d class of the same stakes—l 4 horses are entered for the
Oatland Stakes of 50 guineas each--12 horses are entered for
the 2000 guineas stakes of 100 guineas each, to be run .for at
the first Spring Meeting at Newmarket; and 10 horses for the
1000 guineas stakes of 100 guineas each; 25 horses are entered
for the renewed Newmarket Stakes of 50 guineas each.

PEDESTRIANISM.
A Match of twelve miles for 58 Guineas was run yesterday
morning over a mile piece of ground, at Horton, near Chertsey,
and it was a fine treat to the spectators. The cotemporaries
were a Captain Griffiths and a Gentleman of the name of Bar.
rington ; each two miles were performed as fbllows
111. S. BARRINGTON..
First two miles - 11 2 First two miles
Second ditto - 11 58 Second ditto
Third ditto - 13 4 Third ditto
Fourth ditto - 13 26 Fourth ditto
Fifth ditto - 13 30 Fifth ditto
Sixth ditto - 13 32 I Sixth ditto

Hour 1 II; 32

It was one of the closest mat
years, by about sixty yards, gai
last half mile, Mr. Barrington
but it was two to one against tie

m.
- 11 4
- 12 2
- 12 54
- 1:1 28
- 133`2
- 13 44

Hour 1 1G 44
tches that have taken place for
Lined chiefly by strength in the
was hacked at even at starting,
me after doing the second mile,

We mentioned some months since the finding
of certain fossil remains, at the extreme low
water mark of spring tides, on the sea shore op-
posite Hampton-hill, between Herne Bay and
SwaleclifFe. Amongst which were the teeth and
several bones of an elephant, also the head and
horns of an animal of the ox species, supposed
from their immense size, as compared with
the existing species, to be those of the Taur-
Elephantis described by Ca,,sar in his sixth
Commentary, LIJ -me of the animals inhabit-
ing the 11 ercynian (now the Black) Forest,
in Germany. To these is now to be added
the lower part of the antler of a stag, that
which had been attached to the head, equally
fossilised, which, within these few days, has been
sent to us, having been found on the sea shore at
the spot above-mentioned. Thus it appears
that the remains of animals of three different
species have been discovered within a few feet
of each other, on a part of the coast, which, not
many centuries since, was probably a promontary
or head land ; and hence it may be justly conclud-
ed, that they arc the organic remains of a former
world, decisively corroborating the truth of the
sacred writings.—(Kentish Gazette, Jan. 18.)

PORTS74OUTIT, JA N. 18.—Wind W.—:.Arrived the eel
iambus, Kennedy; and Williain Byron, Davis, from London
for Jamaica. PaSsed by the Radius, Deleno, from London fai
New York. Sailed the Emperor Alekander, Webster, for
London.

Pi.YIIOUTII, JAN. 17k—Wind N.W.-:-Arrived the Henry,
Atkinson, from Riga.
FALMOUTH, JAN. 17.—Wind N. 1V..-Arrived the Enighe.
den, Pederson, from Marseilles, with loss of sailS. Sailed the
Margaret, Wildgoon, for Grenada; Union, Brokensher, foi
London ; and Hop/jet, Paten, for Lisbon.
DEAL, JAN, 18.—Wind W.—Sailed the Grand Sackem for

the River. Arrived and remain the Hebe, Maitland, from Cal-
cutta. Remain in the Downs the Loyalist, from St. John's ;
Haworth, from St. Lucia; Favourite, for St. Domingo ; Nanct
for Madras and. Bengal ; and Barbara for Pernambuco.
PooLE, JAN-. 18.—Arrived the Carbonear, Stevens, from
Newfoundland, with loss of boats, stancheons, &c. ; the 111erope,
Battericki is got safe into the harbour after discharging part of

HOL llEab, JAN. 17.—The Eliiabeth, Graham, has been
got off the rocks, and brought into this harbour. About two.,
thirds of the cargo landed in good order.
P,itm Ln•ro T ON, JAN. If).—Aitived the Mary, Watson, from

London for Sunderland, with loss of anchor and cable ; Vera-
city, Hutchinson, from London for Stockton, with loss of two
ditto ; Eupliernia, Robson, from London for Sunderland, with
loss of one ditto ; Eagle, Gascoign, from London for Sunder-
land, with loss of One ditto; John, Niel, for Sunderland, with
loss of one ditto ; and Lively, Jones, from Hull to Newcastle,
with loss Of two ditto, and other damage.
CLYDE, JAN. 16.--,The vessel mentioned as being on shore
at Whitefarlane Point was the Homer, Kerr, from Charlston,
but 3Vas got off without damage, and has arrived here. The
Pictou, for Genoa and Naples, has lost an anchor
and cable in the river.

AYlt, JAN. 16.—Wind N. V.—During Sunday night and
the whole of Monday it blew a heavy gale. On Monday, the
Thomas and Ann, Walsh, of Liverpool, from Dublin to Glas.
gow,was driven on tile rocks near Turnberry—crew saved. Both
vessel and cargo (wheat and flour) are very much damaged.

Yesterday the dispatches for Bengal and China, by the ship
Duchess of Athol, Capt. E. M. Daniell, were closed at the East
India House, end delivered to the Purser of that ship.

REDUCTION OF. RENTS.—W" have great plea-
sure in noticing the liberality of Earl FOIITESCUE,
the proprietor of an extensive tract of land in
the Barony of Guarder, County of Waterford.
This Nobleman, with a just and considerate feel-
ing for the difficulties of his tenantry- in the
above mentioned district, has made them an
abatement of '2O per cent. on their rents.—(iVa-
/el:ford Chronicle.)
The Countess of ESSEX, we lament to state;
has been for some time confined to her house in

Hill-street ; her Ladyship took an airing yester-
day in her carriage, for the first time since her
indisposition. The Earl-of ESSEX is not yet suf-
ficiently recovered from the attack of ague to
leave Cashiohury.
The nuptials of the Hon. Miss FiNCII with
Count AnAmia, the Piedmontese AmbLs
are fixed for Tuesday next ; the happy couple
will pass the hoLey-moon at Hampstead-hill.
FATAL A cciDENT.—Yesterday afternoon a
youth, in the employ of Mr. Jacobs, coach-
maker, Horseferry-road, was sent nhh a horse
•and chaise to Messrs. Tattersall's Repository ;
he led the animal by the reins, and on his arrival
in Grosvenor-place, his foot slipped, and he was
pushed down by the horse; the near wheel of
the vehicle passed over his neck,. and the blood
was forced from 11:s nose and mouth. He was
conveyed to St. George's HosT'' !i2re he ex.
pired in five minutes after his arrival.

DEATH BY BOXING.—OiI Monday last, a
quarrel took place at the Coach and Horses pub-
lic-house, in this city, between Samuel Dimmock
and John Hitcher, when some blows ensued ; but
the landlord very properly interfered, and pre-
vented a continuance of the affray. The parties,
however, repaired.toa field on the Lower Bris-
tol Road, and renewed their fight, when, dread-
ful, to relate, an unlucky blow from Dimmock
laid his adversary a corpse, upon the ground !
An inquest was yesterday held on Hitcher, and a
verdict of Manslaughter returned against - Dim-
mock, who is in custody on the said charge.—
(Bath Herald.) .
H IMPUDENCE: IN CRIME.—A Norwich paper says,
" It has recently been discovered that there has for a length of
time been a subscription carried on in several parishe,. to raise a
fund to retain Counsel to plead in their behalf when it happens
that any of the subscribers are committed and brought before ,
the Court of Sessions for poaching, fowl stealing, or any other
crime, and it is. now a matter of notoriety that at the time some
of them subscribed, they were receiving parish relief.—The
Cossey Gang are now tired of committing depredations on his
Majesty's liege subjects on foot. About ten o'clock at nght,
or as soon as they find those who keep horses are gone to bed,
they resort to the stables and take out what horses they want,
ride them to the spot of depredation (whether for game, poultry,
sheep, &c. &c.) and, when done, return the horses, almost
jaded and harassed
.to death."

DREADFL7I. ACCIDENT.—On Thursday afternoon, be-
tween four and five o'clock, the village of Hackney was thrown
into great alarm, by the servant of Mrs. Goodhehere running
into the streets and exclaiminlshe should lose her mistress.
The neighbours instantly rushed into the house, and discovered
the unfortunate Lady just quiting the drawing-room enve-
loped in flames. They were instantly extinguished; but Mrs.
O. was so dreadfully. burnt that she only lingered until one
o'clock yesterday morning, when death put an end to her suffer-
ings. Mrs. G. was near 40 years of age.
AGGRAVATED BOBBERY.—Martha Bettelag,
servant to Mrs. Atwell, of the Edgware-road, was
charged •at Marlborough-street Office, with roh-
bing her master of 1101., contained in a box. Mr.
Atwell went out on Sunday se'nnight, and on his
return he found two doors broken open awl a
chest, containing a small box, from which the
money was taken.. The prisoner, who was left
in care of the house with a young child, said she
had taken a walk and the robbery was then com-
mitted. She was suspected and taken into custody,
and by the vigilance of some officers belong-
iftg to this establishment, she was traced to
have carried the box, containing the treasure, to
the Golden Cross, Charing-cross, on the Sun-
day' afternoon, and at her request the clerk
wrote a direction on it to her sister, and it was
,sent off. This led to an additional clue, and
the prisoner still denied any knowledge of the
robbery until the box was exhibited before
her, when she gave a piercing shriek. Finding
the prisoner was in custody the box was returned
to the owner by some of her friends, with 901.
in it. The prisoner was remanded.

TUE LONDON JOURNALS.

*AMY EXTRACTS FROM Tin,: MORNING 'PAPERS,
January 19, 1821.

[THE TIMES.]
It is known that M. tie Serre, the late Keeper
of the Seals, had, ere the dismissal of the Mi-
nistry of which he was a member, presented two
.projets against the press of France, one of which
only, viz, that continuing the censorship, was
abandoned by his successors in office. We gave
in our publication of yesterday, a sketch of the'
report upon the other projet presented on Mon-
day last by M. de .Chifllet, an Ultra Royalist
placeman, and active deputy in the Chamber of
1815. We have since received by express the
Moniteur of Wednesday, containing the entire re-
port, (seethe Ist and 2d pages of THE Surf.) The
report partook deeply of the distinguishing spirit
of the party from which it sprung. It so com-
pletely metamorphosed the original propositions
of M. de Serre,, as to constitute in itself a new
projet, and offers to the French people the
tempting prospect-Ist, of having juries super-
seded by a set of paid, functionaries, under the
immediate influence of the Crown, in a class of
cases, the most important of all which can 'affect
the rights and liberties of the subject; and 2d,
of having the property of individuals made liable
to be confiscated at the- will of the same arbi-
trary tribunal. The grand attack upon the
Charter itselfs and on the very foundation
of those rights and free institutions which it
recognizes, is in the clause of the report which
proposes to abolish absolutely the Trial by Jury,
in all questions relating to the Press! What a
picture does this present to us of the progress
made by French statesmen in the study of
civil government! And should the attempt suc-
veed—should the legislative body be willing to
abandon the first fruit of a representative consti-
tution—then France is none the better for such
a cumbersome apparatus as the Chamber of De-
Puties ; and the' Ministers need fear no great re-
vistan ce in sweeping-away every other semblance of
an obstacle to the restoration of principles of Go-
vernment Which were enforced under Louis
XIV., and improved upon by Buonaparte. And
besides the power of finding the offence, which
is thus to be transferred from Jurymen to Place-
men, what is the amount of punishment which the
latter are to be authorized to inflict ? Here,
again, the project is appalling. It is not only
whom they are to punish, but how they are to
punish, that will be left to the discretion of the
tools of Ministers. The right of suspending or
suppressing journals is to be given to party men,
for party purposes ; and this, says the Ultra
Royalist reporter, is not equivalent to confisca-
tion, because there is no forfeiture to the Crown.
But what matter how we designate an act of total
destruction to the fill-tunes and subsistence of
families ? Is there any 'nit a Jesuitical distinc-
tion between plunder from a rapacious, and ruin
front a revengeful persecutor ? The whole law
is of a piece. It appears to have been suggested
only by men who felt that they had to deal with
a barbarous or hostile nation, who must be dis-
ciplined into slaves, before they could be edu-
cated into free citizens, or. cherished into loyal
subjects. The report was to be discussed this day.

[NEW TIMES.]
Political affairs in France appear to remain on
a satisfactory footing ; and the French Funds
consequently maintain a fair price. We have
been assured that the Rentes in Paris were on
Wednesday at 85.75; and to this price are added
the following—Bank Share 1535—Neapolitan 5
Per Cents 674—Exchange at one month 25.25,
and at three months 25.10.—The report of the
more general law on the abuses of the Press has
been drawn up in the same spirit as that of the
Law on Newspapers; both are opposed with
equal vehemence by the Revolutionists on the
left side of the Chamber, and both are equally
supported by the united Royalists of the right
and the centre. It is very gratifying to see
that among the speakers who have inscribed their
/lames to speak against this Bill, there are few
whose former conduct has not been branded with
the most infamous treason. At the head of this
list stands De St. Aulaire,the notorious father-in-
law of the notorious Decaze. This man (St.
A...lllaire) was appointed by his gracious Sove-
reign to the high and confidential post of Pre-
fect of the Department of Upper Garonne. It
was his sworn and sacred duty to have opposed
• rebellion to the last, to have encouraged loyalty
by all the means in his power, and to have
shed his blood in defence of the Throne—ln-
stead of this, he did not blush in March, 1815,
to publish a Proclamation, which happily
.will go down to distant posterity in the
pages of The illoniteur, stamping his name
with indelible infamy. In this document he
not only called on the inhabitants to rally round
'auanapatzte, but he had the audacity to declare,
that the least sign of attachment to Louis XVIII.
• (which attachment he called rebellion !) " should
be punished with the utmost severity." Such Is
the first opponent of the necessary restraint on
the press. The next champion of the freedom
of, the press is Etienne, who was actually a cen-
sor of the press under Buonaparte from 1810 to
and was again promoted to that honoura-
ble employment by the Usurper, during the re-
bellion of the Hundred Days. At this period he
bad the effrontery in a public address to Buono-
'parte to compliment that despot on the en-
couragement which he gave to letters, and on
" the freedom of thought and of writing" which
he was going to establish. Etienne is a creature
of Maret, who was a creature of Buonaparte.—
We need scarcely mention Manuel, who on the
tad of June, 1815, moved a resolution in the
Itebel Chamber of Representatives, " that Na-
poleon 11. was de facto become Emperor of
France by the abdication of Napoleon. l."—We
need not particularise Benjamin Constant, the
Swiss—or Sebastian', the Corsican—or Bignon,
or Lafitte, or Foy, or Corcelles, or Lameth.—
These Gentry are too well known, by their pre-
vious conduct in the Revolution, for any person
to pay much attention to their professions of re-
gard for rational liberty, or of attachment to the

cause of the Bourbons.—On the other side, we
see with pleasure the unimpeachable names of
De Castelbajac, De Coussergues, De Bouville,
De Bonald, De Frenilly, De Marcellus, De'
Kergorlay, &c. &c. &c., all true Patriots, all
men of undoubted honour, all firm defenders of
religion and of the throne. We may be assured
that they will be supported by the great majo-
rity of a .Chamber, in which their antagonists
are as accurately appreciated as Wood and Peter
Moore, and Joseph Hume and Waithman (when
he was there) have been in our House of Commons.

[MORNING HERALD.]
It appears by the French Papers that the de-
bate in the Chamber of Deputies on the subject
of the Press, stood for this day. The Report of
the Connnission has already been presented, but
from the perpetual clamour which prevailed dur-
ing the time occupied by the Chairman in read-
ing and commenting upon it, there is scarcely a
sketch of its provisions in the Journals. We
collect from it in substance, that the several reli-
gious creeds protected by the State in France
are to be guarded from insult or ridicule—and
that insult to the Royal Authority, and attempts
to bring the King's Government into hatred
and contempt, are punishable as libels. - The
vagueness of those two last mentioned provi-
sions excited a strong feeling of indignation,
which the. Chairman attempted to assuage by
gravely stating that nothing therein contained
should militate against the right to discuss and
censure Ministerial acts. This only heightened
the feeling of disapprobation, and very naturally.
Such ,DA exception is more like a sneer than a
guarantee suggested in good faith. The proof of
its nullity is, that exactly the same exception, in
the same words, was made at the passing of the
law which authorises the Censorship of the Jour-
nals. Thus far, however, there was, perhaps,
nothing really gained by the Government. The
definition of libel by eminent lawyers of our own
country is as strongly restrictive as that proposed
in the French projet. Yet is our Press free,
under that essential guarantee of almost all the
rights of British subjects—the Trial by Jury.
In England, the Juries incontestably determine
the question of libel, as well as the facts of pub-
lication. They do this in the spirit of free dis-
cussion and British liberty, not in that of the
strait-laced -definitions of our old, and in other
respects eminent, interpreters and authorities of
law. The French might in like manner enjoy
liberty in spite of the definitions of this projet,
secured to them by the Trial by Jury.

[MORNING POST.]
French Papers to the 16th have brought us an
account of the Sitting of the Chamber of Depu-
ties on Monday last, when the Commission made
its report on the new ~,Project of Law for regu-
lating the Press. Before this report was pre-
sented, however, an interesting discussion arose
on a petition from a Mr. Vial, praying that addi-
tional relief be granted to the Refugee Colonists
from St. Domingo. The Commission proposed
that the petition should be referred to the Minis-
ter of the Interior; but General Foy thought that
an opportunity had presented itself for procuring
the Refugees more effective relief than an elee-
mosynary grant, and for promoting at the same
time the commercial interests of the country.

He stated that General Boyer, the present Pre-
sident of the Ilaytian Republic, had made over-
tures to the French Government, to obtain the
admission of vessels under the Haytian flag in
the ports of France. If these overtures were
not rejected, he conceived that some arrange-
ment might be made with Hayti, by which some
compensation might be obtained for the losses
suffered by the refugees as the price of the con-
cession which France should make; a concession
which would prove at the same time highly be-
neficial to her trade. Ile therefore proposed that
the petition be referred to the Minister for Fo-
reign Affairs. M. Manuel and General Sebas-
tian' took the same view of the question ; and
the latter enforced it by the example of Eng-
land, who had eagerly formed commercial re-
lations with her American colonies as soon as
they had established their independence. These
recommendations seem founded on so just a prin-
ciple of
policy, that it would be difficult to ima-
gine any ground, except that of no overtures hav-
ing been made, on which they could be reason-'
ably opposed. Yet M. De Villele, not satisfied
with declaring that the Government had not re-
ceived any overtures of the kind alluded to,
added, that if it had, " to submit to them would
be the depth of degradation ;" and that "it would
ba its most imperious duty to refuse them.'.'
We do not really perceive what degradation
France would incur by recognizing the inde-
pendence of a State, over which for more than
twenty years she has ceased to have the least
controul, and the re-subjugation of which is as
impracticable as the attempt would be impolitic.
There is a noble pride which would make a na-
tion break rather than bend, and which France
might have honourably felt in 1814 and 1815,
when strangers trod down her harvests and her
glories; but the indulgence of wounded vanity
is always mean in itself, and becomes ridiculous
wheft it is united with impotence.