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

CITY, .TUESDAY EVENING.

This day Las‘passed away almost without a
rumour, and nothing political has occurred to create theslightest
variation in the value of public national securities. •In the best
informed circles, is supposed that the-Emperor ALEXANDER
will be forced to abandon his hostile designs against the Turkish
Empire, and that the A nti-Mahomedan population of Eu-
ropean Turkey must in future depend on their own resources
for emancipation from the most bitter yoke under which human
nature ever laboured.

The freedom of Spain and Portugal is not more necessary to
the pri:4erity of the British Empire than is the liberation. of the
Christian population of ancient Greece. A powerful Empire
may -be created •in that part of Europe so highly favoured
by nature, and it will in that, event be the natural Ally
of England, for each produces what- the other wants. At
the'head•of the Liberties of Europe the power of England is
not to be resisted, but in league with despots, or under a baseless
neutrality, where freedom is ibterested, she becomes her own
destroyer. The independence of the Peninsula, of Italy, and
the Levant, consolidates the Empire of England and of know-.
ledge, whilst the thraldom and oppression of these nations must
assuredly produce the triumph of bigotry and the destruction
of the happiness of mankind. To restore the Grecian Empire
will for ever limit the power pf Russia. To assist the liberties
of the Peninsula -will -produce a,powerful Ally in 'any future
war with France, and the independence of.ltaly will be equally
beneficial towards a'free intercourse amongst the various Eu•
ropean States. It is in this view of Europe, that the merchants'
will not credit-any rumour -which may militate. against .the fu-
ture freedom and independence of Greece.
The want of reports, and the scarcity of money, usual at:this
period of the. year, rendered Consols very dull this day, and
scarcely any variation took place in them. The idea of war.
betwixt Prance_ and Spain does not produce any effect on prices.
—For the -January settlement they, opened at 8111 sellers, and
closed at 81,-k There was very:little business done in Foreign
Public Securities, and their value is nearly the same..as quoted
yesterday.—(2llorning.Chroiiiele„)

THE SUN.

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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1822.

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.]

CITY, Half-pait Twelve o'Clock. —Consols
opened this morning at 81-k, but the moment it
was known that an Express had arrived from
Paris, bringing the French Funds, 89 f. 55 c. and
89 f. 75 c. for time, our Funds became rather
heavy, and were done at at which price
they remained steady up to this hour.--The
Foreign Market was also heavy : Spanish Bonds,
which opened at 59, fell to 574, 58. We do
not hear that the French Express brings any
news of importance.

The Journal des Daats has renewed its paci-
fic reasoning and assurances; and it very pro-
perly ridicules the Quotitlienne, nearly in the same
terms which we used yesterday, for the sim-
plicity and folly vtith which it inquired where
and by whom a Treaty of Peace between France
and Spain had been concluded ! The Journal des
Whats now maintains, that no friend of the
French Monarchy can longer remain in the
fatal error of desiring war with Spain,—
an error, which, it alleges, is shared by so
small a number of persons, that it is mat-
ter of astonishment to see their paucity. If
we may credit the account of the extraordinary
enterprise which is attributed to some of the in-
habitants of the arrondissement of St. Girons,
who, marching into Spain, attempted the libera-
tion of sonre Spanish Constitutionalists, whom
the Army of the Faith had made prisoners,
it would appear that the popular opinion in.
France is not only adverse to the projected
war, but that it is decidedly favourable to
that very cause which the French Government
was anxious to destroy ! It is little less than
madness to suppose that a French. Ministry will
plunge into a war so doubtful in its results, even,
if it were agreeable to the feelings and desires of
the nation, and which, in addition to the ordi_
nary perils and chances ,of discomfiture from the
external enemy, might, from the actual disposi-
tion of the public mind, create ..a contest at home,
involving the safety and the very existence of the
Government itself. We can understand, however,
the motives (we will not say the reasons), which
induce a small party in France still to demand
the commencement of -hostilities, in defiance
of the manifest imprudence and danger of the
attempt. It is not so easy to account for the
pertinacity with which one or two English Jour-
nalists still persevere in inciting France to an
act of aggression, the success of which would be
scarcely less prejudicial to the interests of Great
Britain, than its failure would be ruinods to
the French Monarchy! One of these Writers,
although he at length acknowledges, in his pub-
lication of this morning, that England cannot
suffer a despotic Government to be 'imposed upon
Spain, continues, notwithstanding, to excite
France to the invasion of the Spanish territory,
although the result of that invasion might be to
place Spain at the absolute disposal of France
Finding, however, tlrat the French Govern-
ment have resisted all the arguments for
war which were founded upon the alleged
necessity for remodelling the Spanish Con-
stitution, the Journalist 'to whom we allude
endeavours to work upon their fears, and to in-
duce them now to plunge into a war with Spain,
because it is possible that Spain may une day. at-
tack France. That the SpaniSh Constitutionalists
will be disposed to go to war, according to this

sagacious politician, " is the more likely, be- 1
cause a foreign war will tend to consoli-
date their power at home ; and they will
easily be persuaded that they can revolu-
tionize France ; and to this latter scheme they
will be the more prompted, the more weakness
and indecision the French Government shall have
shewn !" The same Journalist, our Readers
should be informed, has been daily giving the
most positive assurances that the majority of
the Spanish people detest their Constitution
and the present form and spirit of their Go-
vernment ! And yet, as an indirect incen-
tive to war, he now represents that Go-
vernment as capable of carrying a war
of injustice and revolutionary aggression into
France ! Would England, too, consent to a re-
volutionary attack upon France? And would
Spain venture upon such an attack in defiance of
the power of England, when we have just seen
that the influence of England has been sufficient
to deterthe more powerful Monarcy of France from
the execution of its intended attack upon Spain ?
We confess that we are utterly unable to compre-
hend the motives of those persons who would thus
blindly urge the French Government over the
precipice upon the brink of which they have so
fortunately paused. 'We do not like the em-
ployment of strong epithets ; but, when we find
that there are Englishmen who thus endeavour
to produce a rupture, which is so much to be
dreaded on the grounds of humanity alone, and
which is so obviously mischievous to the inte-
rests of their own country, and opposed• to the
policy of their own Government, we are con-
strained to view their conduct with feelings of
horror, and to stigmatize it as atrocious.

New York Papers to the 20th, Charlestown
to the 19th, and Philadelphia to the 21st of N -
vernber, arrived,this morning. The following are

extracts :

( From Me Norfolk Beacon, Nov. 14.)

An intelligent Gentleman who arrived here last
night in the schooner Dart, from Carthagena,
which place he left on the 20th of October, states
the respective positions of the Patriot forces at
the time of his sailing to be as follows :
General Montilla, who had just been ap-
pointed Commander-in-Chief of all the Colom-
bian forces employed on the sea-board, was at
Rio de la Hache with 500 men, and expected to
be joined by 400 more. General Paez was en-
gaged in the siege of Porto Cavallo, and .General
Soublette between Valencia and Caraccas. The
last advices received at Carthagena from Mo-
rales states, that he had marched from Mara-
caybo into the 'interior upon a secret expedition,
leaving 200 men to garrison that place. General
Bolivar was at Guayaquil, about 140 miles south-
west of Quito, and two expresses -had been dis-
patched by Government, requiring his immediate
return to Colombia. Much dissatisfaction was
anticipated on the part of the Congress at his
late movements.

[From the Boston Paper. of the'lsth cf November.]

By the brig Hope, Capt. Man, from Madras,
we received Papers to the 25th of July.
A violent storm and inundating rain were ex-
perienced in India early in June, and nearly de-
stroyed all the Indigo plants. A great amount
of property has been lost by the inundations, and
some lives have been lost; it was feared that, on
the Small Churs, the greatest part of the popu-
lationhacl perished; 12,000 rupees were, subscribed
at Calcutta for the surviving sufferers.

The rice harvest has particularly failed at
Manilla. Mr. Willock, the British Charge des
Affaires in Persia, had refused to pay the usual
tribute, and demanded his passports. This has
produced a report that there would be a rupture
between England and Persia. A good under-
standing is said to have been afterwards restored,
and Mr.Winock left the Persian Court in all ami-
,cable manner, to proceed to England to consult
his Government.

On an -important point mention is made a a
Russian Officer having been discovered in dis-
guise in the neighbourhood of Dolio. There has
been several important failures among the native
merchants who have speculated in cotton..
A Junk of 800 or 900 tons from Amoy, 'China,
for Batavia, with 1600 passengers, from the ages
of seventy to six, a valuable cargo, and numer-
ous crew, was shipwrecked on the sth of July,
on Gosparo Island, and all but 190 perished ;
those saved were taken up by the British ship
India. One of the Noncowrie Islands is said to
be occupied by a large number of Europeans
who exist as pirates. Several persons bathing
not far from Calcutta have been seized by Alli-
gators and Sharks..
CALCUTTA, JUNE 14.—A most violent storm
burst over Calcutta ou the night of Friday last
the 7th inst :—Accounts from Dinapore mention,
that boats without number have been lost in

the Ganges, and the shores were covered with
wrecks.

LATEST FROM COLOMBI.I.—.A passenger i°
the Georgetown Packet has favoured us with
Caraccas Papers to the 7th ult., which contain no
news ; he left Laguira on the 16th October,
General Morales had evacuated Maracay bo, and
arrived at Porto Cavallo. President Bolivar and
General Devereux were daily expected at Ca•
raccas from Quito, when more active measures
would be adopted for the reduction of Ports
Cavallo.

Notwithstanding our firm and unalterable ne-
herence to the Protestant principles of the Bri'
tish Constitution, and our sincere and fervent
devotion to the maintenance of the Protestant
A.:cendancy in the Councils of the Empire, we
early participated in the feelings of the more
moderate and less vehement body of the Pro'
testant interest in Ireland, who, in obedience to
the paternal admonition of his MAJESTY, were
desirous of removing, as far as was compa'
tible with the security of our Establishment
in Church and State, all causes of use'
less and unprofitable contention with their Re'
man Catholic fellow-subjects. The decoration of
King WILLIAM'S statue, our Readers are aWarel
was one of those unnecessary ceremonies, which,
though not only harmless, but even laudable in
themselves, served to perpetuate the most nume'
rous animosities ; and the resolution of the
Irish Government, therefore, to prevent its re'
petition, was justly regarded as an important step
toward the introduction of conciliatory feelings
amongst the people _chiefly remarkable for the
virulence and, intensity- of the mutual antipa'
titles. The interruption of this annual festival,
by the legal Authorities, has however violentli
exasperated a portion of the Protestants (we
hope a small portion), whose intemperance has
carried them so far as not only most grossly to
insult the Lord Lieutenant at the Theatre on
Saturday night last, but, on the part of some one
frantic individual, to commit an act of outrage
against his person which might have deprived
him of life ! Some miscreant threw a bottle 3t
his Excellency from the gallery, which split noe
of the pannels of the box in which his Excel'
lency sat ! Several persons were immediately
taken into custody, and it is hoped that the
author.of the outrage will not escape.

LORD KENYONe,--111 justice to this amiable
Nobleman, it is proper to observe that though the
late unfortunate 'Evening Paper, entitled TO
True Briton, was set up in opposition to TO
SuN, the Noble Lord had himself no particiPv
tion -in the intended rivalry, but was animated bi
the purest political, moral, and religious motives'
It is obvious that his mind was above all exPec'
tation of profit, but that he was fully impressedbf
a due sense of the interested and factious degrada'
tion of a great part of the Pc BUG PRESS, and soleif
anxious for the support of our admirable Consti'
tution in Church and State. For this purpose
he gave a 'liberal support to the Paper in goes'
tion, which, for a short time, was conducted in
conformity to his Lordship's commendable prir
ciples and wishes, but soon after was so vacillat'
ing in its course, and so often opposed t°
his Lordship's sentiments, that he had deep rev
son to regret that he had ever any concern in it.
It is much to be lamented that with such laou°
able views, and after such a liberal expend/1
tore, this amiable Nobleman should have been 517
great a sufferer in pecuniary matters ; but it Of
operate as a salutary warning to those who fire
inclined to speculate in the origin of Newspaperffl
when they reflect that this Nobleman, with al
his high character, all his distinguished conoecl
tions, and all his sacrifices, should experience
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nothing but disappointment, ingratitude, and -
augmented weight' of pecuniary obligations.

The Courier of Wednesday contains the article
which appeared in the Etoile ; but no obserc°'
tion or remark of any kind whatever is made en
the publication of such . conflicting opinioos -
those Paris Journals, which are known 06:0,
sionally to disclose the views of the French vhe
vernment. The silence of the Courier is te,
more remarkable, because, on every former iic
casion, it appeared anxious to guide pub 1,
opinion. It is true that the Courier has, in 140
most every alternate publication for the last iv
days, changed its tone : but if such contratiall
tion was only the result of the arrival of .00
French Papers with intelligence which was 1(
consistent with former accounts, the diversitiol
opinion would only prove that the Editor 4.,4
taken a superficial view of the posture of foreV
affairs. Indeed, the Dublin Correspondent cri Ito
give another explanation of the conduct 0.
Courier.—( Dublin Correspondmt, Dec. 14.)

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FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.
Duke
of Montrose, in Grosvenor-square, from -Brighton ;
le of Dorset, in Harley-street, from ditto; Lord Sidmouth,
fj°4l Richmond-pairk the Earl of Charlemont and Son, Lord
441 field, at the Pulteney Hotel, from Ireland ; Countess of
Buckinghamshire, in Somerset-street ; Mrs. Boyd, in Seymour-
eet; Miss Cherry, in Montague-square ; Mrs. Murray, in
tNilstone-square ; Lady Hyde Parker and Miss Onslow, in
4oraberland-place ; Mr. Moreton, in Gloucester place ; Sir
4 ,ger Gresley, Baronet, at the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street,
4L°k Crorne, Worcestershire.
DEPARTURES.--Viscount and Viscountess. Granville, from
Z°erstead-lodge, Suffolk ; Lord Lilford, for Lilford-house,
1111aMptonshire ; Rev. John Gooch, from Fenton's Hotel,
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°t Twickenham ; Marquis of Sligo, Sir J. Neddan and Capt.
5j,"711, from the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street, for Paris,; Sir
Asgill, _Bart. on a tour; Sir J. Harrington, Bart. for

FASHIONABLE PARTIES.
Count Worcmiow 'gave a grand dinner yesterday to his Excel-
e4eY Baron Wm. Fagel, and a distinguished party, at his house
Welbeek-street.
Lord Melbourn entertained the Earl and Countess Cowper
444 a select party to dinner, at his house, Whitehall. •
Viscount Marcellus, Charge d'Affaires of his Most Catholic
iitiesty, entertained on Sunday a select party of distinguished
°4igners, at his house in Portland-place.

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