The Sun.
London, England, 1822-05-20 00:00:00

ROYAL NAVY, &c.

PORTSMOUTH, MAY 13.--:The Hind,.lB, Capt. non. .1.
Rous, fitted for the Mediterranean station ; and the Arab,'lB,
Capt. Holmes, for the Irish station, Went out of harbour; they'
are expected to sail on Tuesday. The Phaeton returned this even.
ing. -Remain at Spithead—Phceton, Hind, and Arab ;.'ship'
Providence, for Bengal ; Alexander for liladeira and Cey.••l
lon, waitinglor passengers; and the Sir George Prevost, tim-
ber ship, for Quebec. The Providence will probably sail to-
morrow. The Barkworth; for Bombay, is daily expected.—
The Linnet tender, Lieut. J. F. Appleby, sailed yesterday for
Plytteiuth, with friohey (silver), for the Pay-office at that port.;
and the Cameleon, 10, gun sloop, Lieutenant Charles•Witharn
(tender to the Apollo yacht), to the westward, for theptirpose of.
cruizing at the entrance of the Channel for the homeward-
bound trade, and of supplying provisions and water to such
ships as may sta:.d in need thereof; in consequence of beingun-
able to get into port from the late prevalence of cast and north-
easterly winds.

MERCANTILE SHIPPING, &c.

DEAL, MAY 19.—Wind N.E.—Carne down and sailed the
Rambler,. linight,,for Gibraltar; St. Relena, flueson,, t.
Helena. Arrived and sailed, for the River the Liberty; Wilson,
from Tucira ; Joseph, Oporto ; Isabella and Euphernia,
Cormack, Teneriffe, the 18th. Arrived and sailed for the River
the Fingal, Linguan, Lisbon ; Dean, Scotland, do. ; Friends,
John, do. ; Dent, Yawherly, South Seas ; .111irables; Ruther-
ford, St. Vincents ; John, Watts, do. Sailed the Lord Liver-
pool, Coulson, Van Diemen's Land ; Celerity, Ferguson, St,
John's.

PLYMOUTH, MAY 18.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Fahny
transport from Portsmouth, 72d Regiment on board. Off Ply-
, mouth the Lanock, Pearson, from Bengal: left the 26th of
Dec amber the Wm. Manning, Smith, St. Kitts, 7 weeks. '
Pon•r3asouTH, MAY 18.—Arrived the Triton, Caster, from
Leghorn. Sailed the Alexander, Surfleur, Mauritius. and
Ceylon ; Sir Geo. Provost, Morrison, Quebec. Arrived his.
Majesty's ship Phmton from a cruize. Passed down Channel
the Lady Raffles, for India.
FALMOUTH, MAY 17.—Wind N.—Sailed the Duke of
Marlborough • packet, • for Lisbon. Arrived off the port the
Titus, Neil,• from itlalta, in 42 days ; Gibraltar in 39 days.
Pi.Ymo u Tu, MAY 18.—The master and' crew of the brig
Providence have arrived here, stating that the vessel had been
run down at 12 the preceding night by the Thalea, Haigh, for,
Bengal.
MAY 18.—Wind N.—Sailed the Princess Elizabeth packet
Sleeman, for the Leward-Islands. Arrived off the port the
Jane, Black, Valparaiso. s'

On Saturday the dispatches for .31aciras and Bengal by the
ship Astell were closed at the East India House, and delivered
to the Purser of that ship.

- - • - --
On Wednesday last HERBERT A. D.COMPTON,
Esq. was appointed Advocate-General to the
East India Company at Madras, in the room of
the late Sir SAMUEL TOLLER.
EDINBURGH, MAY Mt.—Yesterday afternoon, about seven
o'clock, the Lord Provost and Magistrates waited upon his
Grace the Earl of Morton, his Majesty's High Commis-
sioner to the General Assembly, at the Levee-room, Mer-
chants' Hall, when the ancient ,silver keys of the city were
presented to his Grace- in the customary form. The Ge-
neral Assembly of the Church of Scotland met here this
day. • His Grace George Earl of Morton, R.T., his Majesty's
High Commissioner, walked in procession from the Merchants
Hall to the High Churchi accompanied by a number of No-
blemen and Gentlemen of distinction.—The streets were lined
from the Merchants Hall to the Church by the 3d dragoon
guards and a detachment of the 77th regiment.

CORN EXCHANGE, 11AY 20.
The finer runs of Wheat go off this morning on full as good
terms as last week; but the ordinark sorts aro very fiat, and
not much in demand. Barley is full 2s. lower, and but little
in request, the weather being too warm for the operations
of the malting. Pease and Beans as last week ; the Oat trade
full as high as this day week, and the demr.nd ready. Our
supplies aresvery good generally for every thing.

AVERAGE PRICE OF CORN IN F.NOT AND AND WALES.
Wheat, 455. 2d. ; Barley, 18s. 2d. ; eats, 16s. bd. ; Bye,
I9s. 11d. ; Beans, 21s. 6d.; Peas, 225. Id.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the Returns made in the Week ending the fsth day or
May, 1822, is 325. 100. per cwt.

SMITHFIELD MARKET, MAY 20.
The market was well supplied this morning with all descrp-
tions of Cattle, but owing to the warm weather the trade was
dull, as the Butchers vould not over stock themselves. The va-
rious prices of Meat are much the same as per last rmitket day.
Beef ~ 2s fid to 35 4d IlVeal
.24 Mutton - Od to 2s 8d Por"W'7 ' 2s etfo 3s 104
Lamb .... 4s. d. to '5B. Od.

Green Peas, ready for boiling were sold on Saturday in Co.
vent-garden at six shillings per quart.

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*THE LONDON JOURNALS.

174111,ACT1 MOW THE I) 4.111.1; MORNING TAPERS,

May 20, 1822.

[NLW TIMES.] • •
Consols closed on Saturday at 79. 'They have.
been rather improved since it was understood
that the South :Sea Company would not enter
into.the contract for supplying the Half-pay and
Pensions. Out Continental letters- continue to
speak confidently of nn'approaching Congress of
the European Powers ; but they do not agree on
the place :where it is to be held. Some mention
Florence, others Vienna ;- and it is said that if
Vienna should- .be the chosen spot, the Emperor
Alexander would attend it in person. The
French Funds are rather in an improving state;
the closing price of the Cingpour Cent. Consoli(Ms
was-on the 15th inst. 88 40. Public attention in
France is occupied almost wholly by the Elec-
tions, which turn out very favourably to • the
Royalist Ministry. Out of 34 nominations which
have taken place in the Colleges of the lower
rank, IS have been Royalist ; and there is no
doubt but that the victory will be much more
decisive in the 'higher Colleges.

[THE TIMES.]
The term " loan" we now perceive to be ap-
plied very generally and very justly to the plan
which Government has developed for paying the
pensioners : and that word " loan," so often used
during the struggles of the late desperate war,
and now repeated-after a seven years' peace, im-
presses upon us very forcibly the feeling of our
present condition. The loan-, then, has failed in
the first instance, having been refused by the
South Sea Company. We shall neither be sur-
prised nor sorry if it fails altogether: not that
we are indifferent to the relief of the country,
but that we think any measure injurious to its
welfare, by which Ministers are enabled to evade
or elude the pressing cry for retrenchment. The
objections to the proposed scheme, as it affects
the lender, are, that he can neither turn his
money to immediate advantage, nor can he make
a provision out of it for posterity, repayment
being finished and abruptly stopping at the end of
45 years. It is true that at the close of that
term, his representatives will have received all
that their father originally lent, with, no doubt,
a considerable gain ; but they will have re-
ceived it, as the old sonnet states, " driblet
by driblet "—year after year ; so that, ex-
cept they are very provident persons, living
within their income, they will find themselves
suddenly aground. This reasoning applies, in
the first instance, to the supposition that the loan
should be taken by individuals : but it applies
also with almost equal force to companies or cor-
porate bodies, the individuals composing which
must be very careful of bequeathing their heirs a
provision which ceases after a term of years ; no
one being able to ascertain in advance, whether
the disposition of his successors may be of that
prudent kind, which, foreseeing the future years
of scarcity, hoards out of the current years of
plenty. With respect to the servants of the
Crown, as the financial arrangements of this year
were made before the loan was proposed by
them, they will at present sustain no great incon-
venience from the failure of their plan : but next
year, retrenchment must supply the place of the
loan; if the loan does not, as they intended, suc-
ceed in taking the place of retrenchment.

[MORNING POST-.]
We have the heartfelt satisfaction to state,
that the work of benevolepce in behalf of the
suffering Poor of Ireland continues to proceed
most prosperously in all directions. Ip addition
to the exertions making in every town in the
kingdom, we have to announce the completesuc-
cess of a number of Charity Sermons preached
yesterday in the Metropolis and its vicinity, at
the whole of which collections were made in aid
of this most humane and meritorious purpose.
Vie regret we have not this day room for the
gratifying accounts from all parts of the country.

The intelligence which we communicated on
Saturday last from Havre, respecting an Embargo
laid by President Boyer on all French vessels at
St: Domingo, excited so much alarm in the for-
mer place, as to induce the French Chamber of
Commerce to apply to the Ministers of Marine
and the Interior for some explanation on the sub-
ject. The Marquis de Clermont Tonnerre, Mi-
nister of Marine, has consequently written a let-
ter, in which he declares his ignorance of any
Embargo having been laid by Boyer, although
he will not deny the fact, but expresses his con-
viction that if it, did really take place, it could
only be a momentary measure, as it must have
been founded on a misconception of the step
taken by Commodore Jacob, which was the re-
sult of ,no hostile intention.—{lbid.)

BRIT SII PRESS.]
A series of New York Papers, from the Ist to
the 17th last, has been received at our office. The
vote for the recognition of the independence of
the' late Spanish South American States was car
-
;fed unanimously in the or Representatives,
with the:exception of one solitary dissentient:voice,
and that the Assembly, although pressed by the
dissentient, would not allow to be entered upon'
their Journah. This circumstance may afford an
idea of the enthusiasm with which the question
was carried. The House thought it would be a
disgrace;if a single negative were to be found by
posterity anteng its record. The numbers were
—Ayes '167, Nov 1. A Report made to the
House respecting the:Navy, states, that there has
been built and equipped one ship of the line ;
that.there have, been built and launched three
ships, and one frigate; ready to launch, one ship;
nearly finished, one ship and two frigates ; half
finished, one ship ; prepared to be put on the
stacks, one ship •and three frigates ; and
materials nearly collected for building one
ship, three frigates, -and two steam batteries.---:
The same Committee 'also reported a Bill
to fix the naval- peaco- establishment of the
United States. This Bill provides for the -esta-
blishing the grade of at Admiral of the Navy,

and to strike off
,the Navy List sit Captains,
eight Masters-Cdmmandant, 56 Lieutenants, 21
Surgeons, 11 Surgeons‘ Mates, four Pursers, four
Chaplains, 3S Boatswains, and a number of Mid-
shipmen. It was twice read and committed.—
A Committee of the Senate had made a Report
recommending that the President' should be re-
quested to enter into such arrangements as he
may deem suitable and proper with one or more
of the maritime Powers of Europe, for the effec-
tual abolition' of the African slave trade.—The
adjournment of Congress stood fixed for the Bth
instant, to meet again on the 4th November.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
We have received several letters on the subject
of the Vacant Sees in Ireland, some of them re-
commending that the vacancies should not be im-
mediately filled up, and that the revenues of the
Sees should be applied towards the relief of the
poor in the South of Ireland—a recommendation
which of course will not be attended to. A people
may be allowed to remain forages without the bless-
ings of education, a suitable administration of the
laws, and most of the advantages which men
are entitled to expect from Government ; but
they cannot be allowed to remain a single month
without Archbishops and Bishops to a Church
without followers—but with what is considered
of much more importance by its sons, the richest
revenues of any Church in the world. The
system of Government of this country requires,
we are told by the advocates of Ministers a total
disregard of all economy in the application of
the resources of the nation ; and the very exist-
ence of the Monarchy, according to them, de-
pends on profusion at home and abroad, on the
multiplication of useless and overpaid offices,
pensions, and sinecures. That-these notions have
abundance of partizans among the country Gentle-
men, is sufficiently proved by recent votes.