The Sun.
London, England, 1822-12-18 00:00:00

CORN EXCHANGE, DEC. 18.

-The fresh arrivals to this day's market are not considerable ;
prime Wheat is wanted by our millers, and fully supports the
prices of last week's market ; Barley is dull sale ; Beans and
Peas remain unaltered ; Oats sell on much the same terms sa
on Monday.

Mr. James Folliott, of Pembroke' College, Oxford, ion of
W. H. Folliott, Esq., of Chester, has been admitted Bachelor
of Arts, in that University. _

Lord BYRON was in the neighbourhood of
Genoa the middle of November. A private let-
ter says:—" You must have heard of the
wretched end of his two friends, SHELLEY and
WILLIAMS, who perished in a voyage from Leg-
horn to Spizia—the bodies were found, and, by
request, burnt, with all the horrors attending
such a scene. Mr. arranged every thing,
and attended the horrid performance."
The prison breach lately made by the four
desperadoes still under confinement in Aylesbury
Gaol has awakened the most diligent attention
of the Bench of Magistrates. Some locks of a
peculiar construction were exhibited at the
Quarter Sessions by a Mr. LAWTON, and the
visiting Justices being convinced of their security
ordered them to be fixed throughout the Gaol,
which has since been carried into effect.—(Bucks
Chronicle.)

ON THE FRIENDSHIP OF CHILDREN,

BY M. L. ABBE DE BOUFFLERS.

If there be a kind of friendship That owes its
origin to custom and ,con-VenienCe-, -doubtless it is
that which children cherish towards each other.
I believe, indeed, that in -childhood sentiment
has no other foundation,: and the„guestion is,
whether it deserves the name of fliendship ?
For myself, I most candidly iconfeiethat it does
not. Children are susceptible of"xlittost every
passion ;_ they spring up in their • m ds sooner
or later, accordingly as they aTe'fotmed, or as
they announce a-decided character-':' irk observing
them with care, we easily perceive they have
antipathies and affections. It is -not' sufficient,
then, that children living together' should of
necessity love each other ; it is absolutely
necessary that they should please' One another.
—But .in infancy, what motive is 'there to ex-
cite a partiality, for one more • thhn another,
among, companions, especially when the one who
is rejected is equally pleasing in--exterior, or
it may be very similar;in 'appearance ? Grati-
tude, merit, virtue,,knowledge of 'character, has
nothing to do with the choice; therefore there
must be a kind of instinct which impels the feel-
ings to the. one object rather than the other .
—a kind of attraction, or feeling, which is
perhaps more pure than any that we ad-
mire. 'The friendihip of children may not be
durable, but most assuredly it is true.; and truth
is one of the principal characteriSties of sense.
—The simplicity of -infancy is at variance with
falsehood, and candour reigns triumphant, because
there has been no communication with the world
to teach hypocrisy. Children only know pleasure,
they have not even.the idea of pure happiness,
because they have not reflection ; they are engaged
only with the present—the future, however near
it may be, is always too distant for their feeble,
organs. When an object pleases them, they do ,
not foresee that it may be injuriousi they behold
only what .it is, without ever thinking what it
may become. In a word, they enjoy all the ad-
vantages of friendship, without ever fearing
they will have an end. Happy period of life,
when the delight of friendship is never mingled
with bitterness—when onr sentiments and sen-
sations are so united, that we enjoy all the
charms of which friendship is-susceptible ! If
length of years render us more capable of know-
ing whom we love, or of more justly appreciating
the value of the blessing, they deprive us of that
happy simplicity. which attracts us to the object
that produces Weasure ; and without this attrac-
tion, so rare, friendship is only a _name that our
passions take, for the purpose of either deceiving
others or ourselves.

A Gentleman at Cranbrook, on Friday the

13th inst. had a large turnip brought to his house
es a present, and which he conceived to be in-
tended as a mere joke, but to his great surprise,
on making an opening in it, he had the pleasure
of finding two brace of. partridges and a couple
of very fine rabbits, curiously packed -in the iu-
side of it.

. PROMPT PAYMENT.—A plaintiff and defend-
ant were seated in Court, vis a vis, pending the
trial' of an action for defamation. A justifi-
cation had been pleaded, with which the
Jury were so well satisfied that.they returned
a verdict for the plaintiff—sixpence damages.—
When the verdict was announced, the defendant
threw a shilling to the plaintiff, saying aloud—
" Take the price of your reputation out of that,
and return me my change, and thank you."
Informations having been lodged, on oath, at
Marlborough-street Police-office, that Dr. Mo-
riarty and Roily White, Esq. were about to
commit a' breach of the. peace, by. fighting a duel,
a warrant for the arrest of the parties was issued
by the sitting Magistrate, and intrusted to peace-
officers Kelly and Hinds, of that,divisional office.-
They succeeded in taking the former gentleman
into custody in Sackville-streetobout the hour of
eleven o'clock on Thursday morning, and brought
him to Marlborough-street ullice, where he
was obliged to enter into . sureties to keep the
peace towards all his Majesty's subjects, for the
space of three years ; himself in the sum of
1,900/., and
,two sureties in 50012each.—(Dublin
Morning Post.)
The body of Mr. BURT'S son, who perished iu.
the Ellesmere packet on the fatal night of the
sth inst., was found near the place where the
packet sunk, on Wednesday, and was interred at
Stoke on Friday. This will' at least be some
consolation to the disconsolate father and family.
We understand 'that the body• of the blind fidler
has also been discovered.
On Saturday, the 23d ult., a girl of nine
years 'of age, with a child in her arms, having
gone into the corn-mill at Donne, in the ab-
sence of the •miller,. and. whilst the machinery
was in -motion to . threshing mill in
an adjoining apartment,. slae..-wient near an up-
:right shaft, which rises to drive a sack tackle

in the roof, and allowed the child to play
with the shaft as it revolved, :A large shawl,
which the girl had wrapped round herself and
child got entangled with the thaft, and began to
carry them both round. The girl, with consi-

derable 'presence of mind, endeavoured to extri-
cate herself and the child, and succeeded in get-
ting herself free 'from the shawl' bnt by this time
peticoats had got wvapped-round the lower
part of the shaft, and she was thrown down and
carried in revolution with it. There being but
about ten inches of free space on each side of
the shaft!, and • betwixt the boxing of two
pair of mill-stones, there was not room for
her body to pass through in .a lying posture,
two places. The miller, andtsome persons em-
ployed about the tereshing-mill, being alarmed.
by the girl's cries, came to her aid, and the ma-
chinery was stopped in the quickest manner.—
The infant was found hanging by the shawl to
the upper part of the shafts..considerahly corn-
pressed, but in no visible way injured., It was
necessary to cut away the clothes of the poor girl
before she could be removed,.and she endured the
removal to her home, at a little distance, and
the subsequent setting of her limbs, with cons'-
derable composure. She is now in a fair way of
recovery.—(Stirling Journal.) -

,THE LONDON JOURNALS.

ZAI,RACTS FROM THE I) ‘I T.Y MORNING PAPERS.
December 19, 1822.

[BRITISH PRESS.TJ
The French Papers of Monday contain mate-
vials for reflection and animadversion—none for
information. The Castor of our Pollux, L'Eloile,
enumerates the forces of the Faitlr, by way of
chewing that the great and all-interesting cause
of absolute Royalty has yet a chance. It is very
pleasant, and, to speak candidly, very poetical,
to rely upon ideal resources.

[THE TIMES.]
The French papers received yesterday present
no matter of importance ; neither, indeed, was
any to be expected, after the late elucidation of
the question of peace or war. We cannot take
leave of, or rather suspend our attention to, this
subject, without remarking on the very masterly
manner in which it has been discussed in the
Journal des D'ebats. It is not because that
journal coincides with us in our view of the in:.

justice and folly of hostile interference with
Spain that we offer it our tribute of praise : we
are familier enough in debate to distinguish be-
tween the justness of an opinion and the capacity
with which it is defended. We do not say that
the Journal des _Winds could have made the
darker appear the fairer side to men of pene-
tration ; but its articles have certainly given
truth its perfect triumph. The Etoile states
with great exaggeration the force of the
Army of the Faith now on foot. Were that
force such as is represented, and had one of its
Chiefs approached near to Madrid, what a poor
creature Ferdinand must be 7 not to have joined,
ere now, some of the corps—that is, supposing
him (what the Army of the Faith supposes him)
to be friendly to their cause ! The circumstance,
were it true, that almost half Spain is in motion
to support a particular system of opinions, and
that the King of Spain remains with the other
half, not having a collar and a chain on his neck,
should, to common sense, be esteemed a most
sa:lsfactory proof that he is attached to that party
with which he remains.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
_ Private advices from Paris, received in the
course of yesterday, by express, mention, that
the chief business for which the Representatives
of the Allied Sovereigns had adjourned to the
French capital, was closed, and that the Duke
of Wellington might be expected home itnmedi•
-ately. We are fully warranted, and moreover,
we rejoice that we have it in our power to state,
that his Grace has been indefatigable in his ex-
ertions to repair the errors he committed in Ve-
rona and his endeavours have been crowned with
success. Sir Charles Stewart has been entrusted
with the: chief negOciatimis with .t.he French
and other Ministers, whilst the Duke has been
more particularly engaged near the. King, on
a plan of perfect co-operation between both.—
.All the influence of which the Duke has been
able to avail himself, has been wielded on the
present occasion, more particularly at the 'null-
leries, and there are past recellections and for-
mer obligations which have been called into play,
and used in support of the pretensions of the
British Cabinet. If at the time we felt dis-
mayed at the result of the Verona Congress,.and;
in common with our countrymen, deplored con-
sequences which could not fail to involve us, and
tarnish our national honour, in the same degree
do we now feel elated at the change that has
taken place, which bids fair to render the Paris
negociations the most Successful of_the kind it
which we have yet been enga:;ed in the course o
the present eventfulcentury.

[MORNING POST.]
New York and Philadelphia Papers came to
hand yesterday to the 21st ult. The fever at
Pensacola was still raging, and had communicated
to the troops in the town, several of whom had
fallen victims to its influence. At Philadelphia,
Papers from Madras had been received, dated
as late as the 25th of July. They contained
some particulars of the dreadful storm at
Calcutta on the 7th of the preceding month,
which had done immense damage. The prin-
cipal part of the Indigo crop is stated to
have been destroyed by the heavy rains which
succeeded the hurricanes, and continued for four
days with but little intermission. The storm it-
self lasted forty-five hours, and swept houses
and every thing before it. At Jassore it is
represented to have raged with dreadful vio-
lence, and destroyed the rice both in store and
on the ground, leaving for such of the inhabi-
tants as had escaped the desolation not more
than ten days' consumption in the whole pro-
vince. The prisoners in the jail were liberated
to prevent their being starved ; and it was sup-
posed the rise in Indigo would be very great, and
♦could take place immediately.—A curious cir-
cumstance is related, of several Rtissian Officers
having been discovered in disguise, making ob-
servations in the neighbourhood of Delhi, which
had given rise to many reports among the English
residents there.

[MORNING HERALD.]
We were hardly prepared to find some of the
French Journals asserting that the Government
of this country is, strenuously, but secretly,
urging that of France into war with Spain ! The
reader may have some curiosity to know from
these profound publicists, what are the views of
our Cabinet in playing this deep game, so con-
trary to its ostensible policy. Here they are.—
‘C From the moment," says the Courier Francais,
44 that a war breaks out on the Continent,
between liberty and absolute power, England
becomes, by the force of things, the arbitress of
Europe. The moment peace is disturbed she will
acquire the despotism of the seas, and a monopoly
of the commerce of the two worlds. Whilst
concord existed between the Powers of the
Continent, what was England ? What part
did she act in the different Congresses ? Did
she not appear out of the sphere of the Holy
Alliance ?" Though the policy thus .imputed to ,

the British Government is as unfounded as it is
illiberal, yet in the latter part there appears
to us some truth. The tendency, and even the
great object of a union between the Powers
of the Continent, would be, and has been,
whatever professions they may make, to ex-
clude, or put down the continental ascendancy of
England. The following is another view upon
which the same Journalist proves how England
is interested in the war :—" Go," says he, " to
our (the French) sea-ports; you will find that
all our ship-owners effect their insurances in
England. The rate is 35 per cent. and the
amount is estimated already at a hundred mil-
lions (of francs)."