The Sun.
London, England, 1822-05-23 00:00:00

CITY, .: Ai EDNESDAY EVENING.

Very"little business has been 'done this day in the Public
Funds. Consols for the July account opened at 80i , fell to
764, and finally closed at 794 80. The amateurs of finance
have again been put on the tip-toe of expectation by the notice
given last night in the House of Commons by the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, of his intention, on Friday next, to place be-
fore the Representative Wisdom ,of (the kingdom a new plan
for contracting for the payment of the Half-pay and 4nsion-
List. This subject is considered amongst the non-monied in-
terest of the deepest importance to their future welfare ; for,
should the Minister be pleased (his ability to do so, consider-
ing what he has already done, no person need doubt) to pro-
duce a plan by which generations yet unborn will be compelled
to feed and clothe all the Half-pay List and Gentlemen Pen-
,sioners of the present day, no man in future, whatever may
be his habits, needs fear either penury or want, fof every
general rule must necessarily apply to particular cases, and
the same mode which his Majesty's Ministers adopt for
transferring the payment of the
.present public expenditure to
those who may be the productive labourers of the country
forty-five years hence, must from necessity enable every man
to do the same thing in his private affairs, provided justice
be the foundation of the new way to pay old debts. The City
Merchants generally confess that they do not comprehend how
the plan can be rendered practicable. Some of them, who sel-
dom say much, just insinuate, that the inhabitants of England
45 years hence, will, in the opinion of his .MAJESTY'S present
Ministers, be extremely virtuous, for should they be saddled not
only with the enormous public debt of the present day, but also
with the payment of a part of its most extravagant Pension List,
our successors will have quite enough to do, without giving either
pension or half-pay to any who may serve the country iefuture.
It must be this feeling which prevents Lord LONDONDERRY
from lending his assistance to the descendants of the virtuous
ancient Greeks. No war must be permitted in Europe for the
next forty-five years; there must be no further extravagance—
no new pension must be given—no sinecure place invented—
now new Ambassador must be created ;—all the British em-
pire has to do for the next forty-five years must be religiously
to pay up the pensions and salaries' now in existence, but to
think of rewarding the future Soldier or Sailor, the poor and
virtuous Statesman, or the literary benefactor of the human
race, the man who props the falling grandeur, or promotes the
future glory of his country, must be rendered impossible. The
present enlightened inhabitants of England, however, do not un-
derstand this new system of moral philosophy, and they promise
themselves much gratification and amusement from its develop-
ment in the House of Commons on Friday evening next.—lt was
announced that, the Bank of England Directors had declined
again to be the Contractors, and a depression in the public Funds
towards the close of the day was the natural consequence.—
Foreign securities remain very nearly at the quotations of yes-
terday, and few transactions can be effected. The French Rentes
are nearly nominal at 88. 50., and Prussian Bonds at 86. Co-
lumbian Old Bonds, 1004. Six per, Cent. Bonds, 844. b and Scrip
854.4. Spanish Fives are 614. 63. And the New Loan, 63i
Danish Fives, 844, and Neapolitan, 704 The idea of the
Austrians vacating that unfortunate Kingdom, gives English-
men a more favourable opinion of their future prosperity,
and the hopes of a powerful empire in Italy, founded on free
and equal laws, have not yet been entirely abandoned.—By a
letter from Havre, dated the lath current, it appears that the
President Boyer is not deficient in asserting the just rights of
his empire. It seems that several French frigates, about the
end 'of February, assisted the Spaniards in removing their pro-
perty from St. Domingo, when the revolution took place in
that part of the island. Amongst other things which they were
pleased to call property, were three hundred men, who had de-
clared their independence and placed themselves under the
protection of General Boyer. These were shipped into the
French frigates. The consequence was, that the President
placed an embargo on all European ships. It continued for
more than a month, and was removed on the sth of April,
on an express understanding that the three himdred slaves
should be immediately restored to liberty and their country..
—At the Corn Exchange scarcely any business has been done
this day, and the prices of all description of grain are entire-
ly nominal. Lord Liverpool, next winter, will, in every human
probability, have farther cause to complain of the misery of
superabundance, and the farmers and productive labourers will
have equal cause to rejoice. Fair rents and lower taxes will
be produced by a large crop. and lOwer prices for the neces-
saries of life, attended with better wages, will be its concomi-
tants. It will produce a more equal distribution of the gifts of
the Almighty,. it will be followed by a more general happiness
and comfort; it will do infinite good, and cannot introduce a
solitary evil. The whole of the national distress arises from
the want of employment for the, people. At the time that
Irishmen are starving and receiving alms from English-
men, the production of their country is daily poured into
Liverpool and 'other English ports. They have grown plenty
of corn to maintain themselves, but they have not re-
ceived wages sufficient to pay for the necessaries of life, and
these necessaries,' too, produced by their own soil. In many
Counties of England,' the same fatal effects are visible. No-
thing can produce higher wages, except free trade with all the
civilised States of the Earth—permission to purchase the ne-
cessaries of life where they can be got cheapest—equitable rents
between landlord and tenant—a great reduction of taxes, and
a diminution in the number of idle men living in luxury on
the labour of their neighbours.—( Morning Chronicle.)

Mr. WALLACE boasts that hi& new Bills are to
introduce a greater degree of simplicity into our
Legislation ; but we trust they will not pass un-
til we can introduce a greater degree of simpli-
city into our Legislators.

FRENCH EXPEDITION to St. DOMINGO

Letters dated the 17th of April were received
yesterday from Port-au-Prince, which contain
some information, apparently authentic, respect-
ing the French expedition to Samana, and the
subsequent embargo on foreign vessels, on the
real grounds of which scarcely any thin& was
before accurately known.—The following official
letter from President BOYER on the subject has
been published at Port-au-Prince

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" JEAN PIERRE BOYER, PRESIDENT AT HAVTI, TO THE
CITIZEN COLEMDEL, HIS PRIVATE SECRETARY AT

PORT-AU-PRINCE.
" St. Domingo, March 1, 1822. 19th year of Independence.
" I have received your last letter, which my great occupa,
tions have hindered me answering.
" I thank you for the adrices you have given me, and beg
you will continue them.

" I inform you that French men of war were called to Samana
by some Frenchmen that are established there, and by some
Spaniards discontented with the change in favour of liberty:
they have attempted a debarkation on that island, in the view
to carry away all the ci-devant slaves in the province which re-
mained in that place ; but their project failed at Samana, where
I had sent in due time General Toissaint, with forces that will
secure that important place from a coup de main, which they
had effected on Savannah la Mer, and forced to a retreat a little
detachment of 12 to 15 soldiers, which General Toussaint had
left there. Informed of this event, I ordered immediately
General Areye la Riviere, with the 27th regiment, to repair
and relieve Savannah la Mer, if contrary to my expectation,
the enemy still occupied it.
" I have taken all the necessary measures for the mainte-
nance of order and defence of the territory from any unforeseen
accident.

" I have also transmitted the same particulars to General
Thomas Jean, in order to contradict the alarming reports spread
by malevolent people to disguise the facts.
Every thing is in perfect tranquillity. I hope to receive
news from you by Captain Viner, who will deliver you the
present, and who will join me in the Cape, whither I shall lose
no time in repairing.
(Signed) " BOYER."
We subjoin a letter from a commercial houSe
at Cape Hayti, to show the spirit by which the
Government was characterised in enforcing the
embargo :

"Cape Hayti, March 28.
" It is true that the Government has laid an embargo on all
ships without any distinction ; it is only since last night that it
was taken off English and American ships, on the condition
that they have no French property or individuals on board.—
The said embargo is exclusively on French ships; and, accord-
ing to the explanation given by the President, it seems that
these measures taken against the incerest of the French nation
are only provisionally to hinder the going out of their ships."
It is ascertained by a vessel arrived at llavre,
that the embargo with respect to French vessels
also was finally raised on the 7th of April, on, an
understanding that all the slaves carried off by
the ships of the expedition should be restored.
We are still without authentic accounts of the
manner in which the French force at Samaria
proceeded on their landing, respecting which the
American prints have published statements not
very honourable to the conductors of the expe-
dition, but which are, in all probability, much
exaggerated.

STAvEs.---We are still sorry to observe that a
preference is given in the King's Service to Fo-
reign Staves.—Surely, after the examinations
which took place between 1807 and 1809 on this
subject, NONE but staves from our own Colonies
ought to be used in the Navy. In these days
of inquiry, it is not a little surprising that some
of the advocates for reform, and reduction have
not directed their attention to this subject, and
to the supply of foreign timber, for ,the public
service—for we have AT HOME, and in the Colo-
nies, a superabundance of all kinds of wood ; so
that there is not any occasion whatever to resort
to Foreign Countries for it.

Yesterday morning, at nine o'clock, his MA-
JESTY left town in his travelling carriage and
four, for his Lodge in Windsor Park.
Yesterday a Cabinet Council was held at the
Foreign Office in Downing-street, which broke
up soon after four o'clock.

On Tuesday Colonel BARTLETT, our Consul-
Genpral in America, arrived at the Foreign-
office, in Downing-street.
On Miinday the RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR trans-
acted business at the Foreign-office.
Yesterday the Cabinet Ministers dined with
the Earl of HARROVBY. •

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The New York Advertiser of the Bth ult. states,
that four dogs; well broke to harness, had performed a journey
of BO miles, attached to a vehicle with two persons in it. The
dogs were at Philadelphia, and so irtmse was the public cu-
riosity to behold them, that the Managerof the Theatre had
• made an engagement. with the proprietor for their appearance
on the stage.—Wonders never cease !
DISTRESS IN IRELAND.-Following the. praise-
worthy example of the great cities in the empire, (which re-
flects immortal honour upon the country !) the ancient town of
Newcastle-upon-Tyne has determined upon raising a subscrip-
tion for the benefit of our distressed brethren in Ireland. The
Corporation, with their usual munificent spirit, voted ONE
HUNDRED Pox NM for the benevolent object on Monday last;
and the banking firm of Sir MATTHEW WHITE. RIDLEY,
Bart. and Co. have put down their names for FIFT Y GUINEAS.
A general meeting of the inhabitants is to take place in the
Guildhall on the 23d instant (this day), and no doubt is enter-
tained of a handsome sum being' immediately subscribed.
After an appropriate sermon preached in the Brunswick New
Chapel, in Northumberland-street, 'on Sunday evening last,
the sum of nearly 251., and o pair of gold ear-rings, were col-
lected for the said benevolentpurpose.
The Duke of Wellington, in a letter dated
the 10th inst. regrets that his public duties will probably occupy
so much of his time this summer, that he cannot avail himself of
a renewed invitation to a dinner and ball in this town ; yet lie,
in the politest terms expresses his gratification in the recollection
evinced by the Gentlemen of Manchester, and assures them that
they " may rely on it, that should it be in his power this summer,
or whenever it may be in his power; he will pay his respects to
them with the greatest pleasure." The town of Manchester may
therefore still hope for the honour of seeing the deliverer of Eu-
rope, who, it is said, will be accompanied by his noble brothers
in arms, Lords Combermere and Hill.—(Manchester Ex-
chan,7e Herald.)
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.--2-We have the melancholy
duty to record
,an accident which happened to
Lady THOROLO, in the town of Grantham, on
Thursday last. Her Ladyship was driving a low
four-wheeled carriage with only one horse, when
the animal took friht and became unmanageable.
Lady 'l'. being unable to restrain her horse, and
conceiving she might with safety, from the lowness
of the vehicle, jump on the pavement, she at-
tempted to do so, first throwing the reins from her,
but on alighting on the ground, her feet be-
came entangled, in the reins, and she was
thrown with much violence on her head, which
with her back and other parts of her
body were severely bruised, and her Lady-
ship now lies, in extreme danger at the George
Inn. Fortunately medical assistance was imme-
diately procured. Not only Sir JOHN and the'
whole of Lady TrioßoLo's family, but their va-
rious tradesmen and numerous poor persons, are
thrown into dismay by this unfortunate event;
but as there are some favourable symptoms at-
tending her Ladyship's case, we are not without
hope she will recover,