The Sun.
London, England, 1822-12-06 00:00:00

IMPORTANT FROM CANTON, MAY 10.

The Emperor of this country having by some
means discovered the disgraceful conduct of the
Mandarins at and about Canton, has issued an
imperial Decree to the High Officers about his
Court, to inquire into the conduct of these
people, and to report correctly the nature of
the transaction M' ith the English at Lintin, and
the measures which have been pursued in regard
to the introduction of opium. Thirty Mandarins
are already imprisoned. This examination, it is
thought, will produce important results.
F►to:►t PERNAMBUCO.—On the 16th September
a mob and part of the troops insisted in a tumul-
tuous manner that the President and Members
of the Junta should be turned out, which object
they effected in a few days. The President fled
to Rio in the British Packet. It was feared
there would be some fighting between the troops
and citizens, who were in favour of the Govern-
ment. A new President and Junta were elected,
and all was quiet again.
FROM Sr. SALVADOR.--We learn from St. Sal-
vador that the city was closely besieged ; a par-
tial engagement took place, and after some slight
skirmishing the Brazilians retired without the
city.

The gossips of the Continent have been spe-
culating lately on a very ludicrous idea, in con-
sequence of some supposed extraordinary atten-
tions paid by the Duke of WELLIN(‘TON to the
Archduchess MARIA LOUISA, indicative, in their
prolific imagination, of a still more intimate re-
lation between the Courts of London and
Vienna!!! Some English Journalists seem to
have been silly enough to attach importance to
this wild conjecture ! _ _

Yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, a Cabinet
Council was held at the Foreign Office, Downing-
street, which,was attended by the same numerous
assemblage of Cabinet Ministers as on Tuesday.
The Council broke up about five o'clock.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the
Foreign Office from the Duke of WELLINGTON.
Letters were received yesterday at Lloyd's
from the agents to that establishment at Batavia
(via Rotterdam), dated Aug. 19, containing the
following intelligence :—The Richmond, of Lon-
don, KAY, from Port Jackson to Batavia, was
totally lost on Hog Island on the 31st of July.
The crew were fortunately saved by the Abno-
rah, WINTER, and carried to Batavia. The Mary
Ann, WARRINGTON, from Port Jackson, arrived
at Batavia o❑ the sth of August, after being on
shore. The Hon. Company's ships Princess
Amelia, Marquis of Huntley, and Lady Melvile,
from London, arrived in the Straits of Sunda on
the 2d of August, and proceeded on the 11th for
China. Various arrivals at Batavia, and sailings
from thence, are contained in the letters.
PLUNDERING OF A VESSEL ON SHORE.-White-
haven, Dec. 3.—The sloop Mary, of and from
Dublin, to this port, lately driven on shore off
Nethertown, has not been got off. Yesterday
week, whilst the master was here procuring as-
sistance,,he bad the whole of his clothes stolen
from the vessel ; and on Tuesday the tiller was
taken from on board.

NEWSPAPERS.-Yesterday the Proprietor of
the Observer Newspaper was sued in the Court
of Requests, Castle-street, by Mr. Taylor, of
the Strand, tailor, for 155., being the amount
which the plaintiff had paid for the insertion of
au advertisement. It appeared that in the print-
ing of the advertisement a trilling mistake had
been committed, which the advertiser considered
injurious to his literary character in the estima-
tion of his customers ; and he therefore insisted
that his money should be refunded, or that the
advertisement should be correctly re-inserted,
gratis. The Court decided in favour of the de-
fendant, on the ground that the inaccuracy was
an accidental error, which did not affect the
sense.

CANOVA:—We regret that there is no likeli-
hood of an engraving from the admirable portrait
of this departed Genius by Sir THOMAS LAW-
RENCE, at least in this country, as the picture was
given by the Artist as a memorial of friendship
to CANOVA, who carried it abroad.—The last
picture of the KING, painted by Sir THOMAS, is,
by all accounts, the best portrait of his MAJEsTY
which this great Artist ever produced ; and this
report implies as high a panegyric as can be
offered to the Art itself.

DRURY-LAN E.—The Opera of Guy Mannering
was repeated last night, but without any notice-
able novelty.—lt was followed by a new farce,
entitled Old and Young, written purposely to
draw forth the talents of that little prodigy Miss
CLARA FISHER. We regret that we have not
room to dilate on the plot, and can only say,
that, first as a Military Boy, she beats a drum,
and assumes martial airs with great spirit and
humour. In the second character she is a
gorged little glutton, a sort of Liliputian Alder-
man, in which, in size and affected voracity, she
was not less exact in the portrait. Her third
character was that of a Bond-street Petit Maitre,
in which, if possible, she was still more success-
ful. These characters she assumes in order to
disgust a rich uncle of her father, who wants a
troop of boys to inherit his fortune, but her
her father happens to have only one child, a
daughter. The old man is completely dis-
gusted with his supposed three grand nephews.
She then appears in the proper character of his
grand Niece, and by her tender and soothing
manners enchants the old Gentleman, and brings
about a reconciliation between him and his Ne-
phew, and he consents to receive the wife of the
latter, the marriage with whom had occasioned
all his anger. We have often noticed the very
extraordinary talents of this charming little girl,
and every time we see her our admiration is con-
firmed. She possesses real genius for the stage,
and, if it increases in proportion as site ad-
vances in life, she will probably become one
of the very first comic actresses that have ap-
peared on the London Boards. But it should be
observed in justice to her various merits, that in the
part of the Daughter, she manifested great sensi-
bility. The audience testified their applause
with great fervency through the whole of her
' performance.
COVENT GARDEN.--There was a much more
numerous audience to Maid Marian last night

than could be expected considering the stormy
state of the weather. Mr. C. KEMBLE'S Friar
'Puck and Miss M. TREE'S Maid Marian were
again peculiarly prominent in merit and effect,
and the opera altogether excited interest and
abundant applause.

MozART.—We extract the following interes.

ing anecdote of the early excellence of this
eminent Composer from Grimm's Correspond-

ence

Wonders will never cease ! The leader of the choir of the
church at Salzburg, named \lozart, has just arrived here with
two of the prettiest children imaginable : his daughter, who is
only eleven years old, plays upon the harpsicord in the most
brilliant style, and performs the most difficult pieces with an
astonishing precision. Her brother, who is not quite seven
years old is such an extraordinary phenomenon, that we can
scarcely credit our senses. It is nothing for this child to play
the most difficult pieces, though his hands can hardly reach
a sixth : it is really wonderful to see him compose for an hour
at a time, and then give himself up to the inspiration of his
genius, and to a crowd of delightful ideas which succeed one
another with taste and without confusion. The most profound
leader of a choir could not be mores skilled than he is in the
science of harmony and melody, which he can conduct through
the most uncommon but exact periods. He has such a know.
ledge of the keys, that once when they were covered with
a cloth, he played upon them with the. same rapidity
and the same correctness. He comprehends with easel all that is
put before him ; he writes and composes with an astonish-
ing facility, and without going to the harpsichord to find his
cords. I wrote a minuet for him, and asked hum to put the
bass to it; the child took the pen, and without looking at the
harpsichord, did it. You may imagine that he can, without
difficulty, play any air that is put before him in a particular
key ; but I have seen him do something else equally wonder-
ful. A lady asked him the other day, if he could accompany
by ear an Italian song which she knew by heart ? She began
to sing, the child tried a bass, which was not quite correct; for
it is impossible to prepare beforehand the accompaniment to a
tune which we do not know ; but when the air was finished, he
asked the lady to begin it again, and he not only played with
his right hand the tune of the air, but with the other he played
the bass with the greatest ease. Afterwards he asked her to
begin again, ten times following, and every time he changed
his accompaniment; he would have made her repeat it twenty
times, if he had not been stopped. I suspect this child would
turn my brain if I were to hear him often ; he makes me tancy
that it is difficult to guard against madness when we see
prodigies.

In the new Tragedy of The thiguenot, shortly
to be acted at Covent-garden Theatre, we under-
stand Mr. SHIEL has introduced some alterations
and changes in the play, which were not there
originally; and which are likely to conclude i❑
an especial manner to its success. The character
intended for Miss F. 11. KELLY is drawn with
peculiar delicacy and force.
ASTLEY CHAPEL.—A writ of quare ienpedit
against the Rev. JOSEPH llonmoNsoN (Vicar of
Leigh,) the Rev. THOS. BIRKETT, and the Bishop
of CnEsTca, was on Thursday personally served
on the two former Defendants at Leigh, and nailed
to the door of Astley Chapel, as a notice to his
Lordship. We understand the cause cannot
come on for trial at Lancaster before the Summer
Assizes.—( Liverpool Advertiser.)
On Friday last the Duke of Buccleugh gave his annual do-
nation of 2.0/. to the poor of Dalkeith. The late Duke, his fa-
ther, requested it to be given on the anniversary of the birth-
day of his lamented Duchess, as a token of her many charities.
It is with much regret we learn that the Par-
liamentary Commissioners are not to visit Glas-
gow this season. They were to have been here
to constitute a Board this week, and so certain
was this considered, that they were engaged to
dine with gentlemen in this neighbourhood three
-days ago. Unexpectedly, and at a short notice,
the whole leave Edinburgh for Loudon. Some
Irish gentlemen appointed to meet them here have
been directed to follow them to the Capital. What
can have occasioned this sudden alteration in their
plans we know not, but regret, and we are sure
that the whole commercial world here will regret,
their sudden departure, as it was in this City
where they could have obtained the most exten-
sive and useful information regarding the shackles
which annoy and injure our foreign trade---7
the abuses carried on in our internal trade—
and a knowledge of the remedies the most cer-
tain to relieve the one and remove the other.—
Something of a pressing nature must have occur-
red to prevent these Honourable Gentlemen from
again visiting this great Commercial City, upon
their important mission, as was their first deter-
mination. The object of their commission can-
not be completed, without an investigation in
Glasgow.—(Glasgow Courier, Dec. 3.)