The Sun.
London, England, 1822-12-24 00:00:00

F STOCKS

PRICE a

THIS DIY AT
(tank stock 244
3 per Cent. Red.
3 per Cent. Cons. shut
•4 per Cent 9ll
976
I per Cent. {\tw
shut
;► der Cents. 1797
Bank Lg. Ann 20 hloth
Imp. 3 per Cents.

ONE O.CLOCK.
India Stock it
India Bonds .335. 33'
South Sea Stock
Old Annuities
Ex. Bills 4 6 Pr'
Ditto Small
Bank for Act.
India for Con. Acct.
Cons. for Account...... 8og?,:i!

PRICE OF FOREIGN STOCKS IN LONDON, Dcc.
AT (sNE O'CLOCK.
Five per Cents. 89.
(Six per Cents. 00.
2, Five per Cents. (Metallic) 00.
(Ditto New 821.
5 Five per Cent. Bonds, 77. f.
( Scrip, 774.
Five per Cents. (Metallic) 00.
{Five per Cent. Bonds, 62.
New Ditto, 55.
Scrip, 9i disc.
5 Five per Cent. Bonds, 86.
( Ditto New, 86.
Five per Cent. Bonds, 91.
72i.
(Old Bonds, 00.
Six per Cent. Bonds, 68,.
Ditto Scrip, 00.
New Loan, 77)1.
(Bank Shares .1:21 10s.
j Six per C!rit. 92-93.
i Five per Cent. 96i.
kThree per Cent. 74 •
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Russian

Neapolitan

Austrian

Spanish

Prussian

Danish
Chili

Colombian

Peruvian

American

PRICE OF IRISH STOCK, DEC. 21.
Bank Stock shut Grand Canal Loan, 4 p.ct. --"
Gov. Deb. 34 per cent.... 931 3 Ditto 3 per cent....
Stock, 3A per ct 9Ol op DittoStock ....
Gov. Deb. 4 per cent...... Royal Canal Stock
Gov. Deb. 5 per cent.
--Stock, 5 per cent. — Do. Deb. with Gov. Sec.... -"
Treasury Bills, 5 per cent. I'ipe Water Deb. 5 per ct. -"
City Debentures, 5 per Do.
cent.
Lying in Hospital 4 per ct. 5 per cent.
Exchange on London, Dec. 20, B,i.

HIGH WA TER AT LONDO.
31orning, 12 minutes after 10.

J BRIDGE TO-31ORRONV'
Evening, 36 minutes after 10'

THE son.

SULEII QUIS DICERE FALSU.II AUDE.IT

LONDON,
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1822.

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.]
STOCK EXCHANGR, Half-past Twelve
Consols opened this morning at 80E-, with some
business doing ; got up to 80a ; lowered agaii►
to +. Up to this hour we do not hear of anf
Express having arrived from Paris, which mai
be accounted for by the Stock Exchange at Paris
being shut on Sundays ; but had there been an!
important information in Sunday's French Papers,
they would have been in London early this morn'
ing.—Various are the opinions in the City on the
return of the Duke of WELLINGTON ; by some it
is imagined that the King of FRANCE has given biro
a Carte Blanche to settle the disputes between the
two Governments, upon which he has returned
for further instructions from our Government/
after which he will proceed in person to Spain
to consult with the Cortes on such measures 39
may prove agreeable to the French Govern"
went. Consols remain steady at 801.
FOREIGN FUNDS.-This morning the above
Market has been rather brisk, particularly is
New Spanish Bonds, which opened at 55, were
done at 55.1, afterwards went down again to 55,
All other Foreign Securities remain stationary.

The Foreign Intelligence is of considerable
interest and importance, especially that which
relates to the Greeks, who, by the destruction
of another CAPSTAN PACHA and his ship, have
again demonstrated their superiority at sea over
their Turkish Oppressors. Besides the account
of this brilliant affair, which we lay before our
Readers, similar statements have been receives
from various quarters, all concurring as to the
principal facts of the triumph obtained by the
Greeks. There is reason to believe, also, that
the opinion which has for some time prevailed,
respecting the new policy of England towards
the cause of Greece, is well founded. It is the
obvious policy of Great Britain to procure the
erection of Greece into an independent State,
if possible with the consent of Turkey, in whiGi'
case an alliance might be formed between Greet
Britain, the Greeks, and Turkey, to protect the
remaining dominions of the Porte against the
encroachments of Russia.

The pretensions of the French Ministerial
Journals to official authority, on the question 01'
war, have become as ridiculous in Paris se
those of some of the English Papers have bee°
rendered here. The Journal des DZbats, however%
continues to advocate the preservation of peace
with great ability. The following article, COil'
tained in its last number, is of the utmost import'
ance, as regards the question between France nO4

Spain, exhibiting, as it does, in plain and forcible
language, the consequence of a military interveo4
tion in the affairs of the Peninsula, and affordio
additional reasons for believing that France will
not plunge headlong into so disastrous a war
" For some days past an attempt has been made to circabit°
the report of an insurrection in Portugal ; but we (Journaldei
Debats ) have seen letters from Lisbon of a very recent date"
which state that not the least symptoms of rebellion prevail'''.
in that country. We ought to be very circumspect with r"
spect to news relative to Portugal, for the present and fut
situation of that kingdOm is closely blended with the grell,
question regarding Spain. Perhaps even these very consider,
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" Portugal has adopted a COnstitution less monarchical even
than that of Spain • it is a second edition of the work of the
Cortes, revised and enlarged, in the spirit of democracy.

" Of what use, therefore, would be the restoration of the mo-
narchical power at Madrid by a foreign intervention, if a govern-
ment, strictly democratic, continued to exist at Lisbon ? Could
Portugal refuse an asylum to the partizans of the Cortes,
suPposing they were driven out of Spain ? Would not the
latter country be inundated with revolutionary writings and
emissaries ? Would not bands of insurgents be formed on
every part of the Portuguese frontier, invade continually the
adjoining provinces, and, though beaten, return again to the
attack, and thus keep up a perpetual war.
" The Portuguese Constitution would not even suffer the
Government of that country to deny an asylum to those men
Whom the Cortes of Lisbon might proclaim victims to the
cause of liberty.
"'We must, therefore, cover the rortugueie frontier, more
extensive and exposed than the Pyrenean, by an Army of Ob-
servation of 5Q,000 or 60,000 men, or perhaps extend our armed
intervention into Portugal to overthrow a Constitution still more
anti-Monarchical than that of the Cortes.

" The latter alternative is evidently the only one which must
ill the end be resorted to. It would be impossible, for any
length of time, to remain quiet in Spain, without placing Por-
tugal under an analogous government.
" A military intervention in the affairs of the Spanish Pen-
insula would therefore inevitably bring about a discussion be-
tween France and England, for this latter power, which regards
Portugal as its vineyard, as its colony, could not, even sup-
posing her to be in the most pacific humour, remain indifferent
to a military occupation of that kingdom, without which the
Occupation of Spain would be insecure.
" Every time, therefore, we resume with calmness and sin-
cerity the consideration of this vast subject, we discover fresh
reason for believing that France, not at all ambitious to light up
.a general war, will not be led into violent measures as long as
'they can be avoided, or even deferred."