The Sun.
London, England, 1814-12-08 00:00:00

PRICE OF .:1(-c:xs
THIS ()AY AI 'IWFIXF: n'ci.oesr.
Bank Stock, --i 1 Rank L. Ann. In I-16th I
3 per Cent. Red. 641* I India Bonds, 17s. IGS. pr.
3 per Cent,. Cons-. shat Excheq. Rti!ls, ss. pr.
4 per Cent. Cons.-8144 Offiniurn, 21 dig.
'SperCent. Nary Attn.4tut. . Cons. for Opening, 66i

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE To-moitßo
Morning, 25 minutes after 12. I Evening, 50 min►ites after 12.

TUE SUN.

"LFM QUIR 11.1CF.RF. rAL4ITNI AIiTIVAT?

LONDON.
77-furesn.4. k, DEC EMBEri 8,11814

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The Lords of the Treasury ha% e'agrled upon an
other Minute on the subject of the Bonding Sys
tem, which important document we shall cote
ruunicate to the Public.

By our Naval News it will 'be seen, that the
East. India ship Devonshire,Captain MURRAY, %VAS
lost at the eutranee of Bengal River in July last.
She upset in a violent squall, and we'regret to
state that 29 of her crew perished. The Devon-
shire was hound for China, and nearly loaded.
The Lord Castkr•vgh, front Bombay, for whose
safety serious apprehensions were entertained, put
back to that port in consequence of a violent gale
she encountered off the Cape, which compelled
Ler to throw half of here ago. overboard.

Z: will also he seen that three or four American
privateers are cruiting in the Indian Seas, where
they have made several captures. The report of
the -American frigate Constitukion being also to
the eastward of the Cape of Good Hope-is evi-
dently erroneous. At what Ports in India these
vessels can refit, or even procure necessary sup-
plies we are at a loss to cnnjecture.

..-Prom a prevalent opinion in the City, that the
gevciations at Ghent were not likely to termi-

Pate amicably, Stocks have suffered a considerable
depression—Consols were this day at 66, and
Omni= at 21 per cent. discount.
;_.

We have no arrivals of any kind from the Con-
tinent to-day, and our quidnuncs are not a whit
worse off than when there are Newspapers from
eves y shatter of the globe. In plain sin:erity it
must be confessed, that the news from Vienna
(via Paris), front " Frontiers" of countries, and
from " Banks" of rivers, which we have of late

tides, possess but small claims upon the be-
lieving faculties of our Readers. Neither has the
deficiency of authentic information been well
remedied by the flume-made private Foreign
letters which chiefly abound in the patriotic por-
tion of the Press, which has such an affection for
the People, that it cannot endure that they should

even appear misinformed upon any subject. This
is however a holiday, and we congratulate the
Public upon the respite—tbe only rumour being,
that Prince REPNIN'S.-Proclamation had been dis-
avowed at Vienna, in consequence of a note from
Lord CASTLIMEA-Gx.

Our Last Page is nearly filled with- Official
Documents, published by the Sable Sovereign of
St. Domingo. These are not only curious but
interesting ; and not only remarkable but impor-
tant. Such productions from such a quarter must
convey to Many of our Readers very different ideas
of the Haytian Kingdom to those they formerly
entertained. Enlightened politics, and animattd
feelings, expressed in terms not devoid either of
dignity or polish ; and brave and virtuous resolu-
tious, to live free or perish, conveyed to the world
in language as pure as it is apparently sincere,
afford a notion of the state of information and
literature in this island, very little if at all previ-.
♦ugly known.
Whether France will or will not attempt to re-
conquer St. Domingo, is a problem not likely
to he solved till the more weighty affairs of
Europe are adjusted. But be that as it may, it
does not strike us that Great Britain has much

political interest in the question. An inde-
pendant Negro Government in that Island,
mast, infallibly, at no distant date, lead to
a similar state of affairs in Jamaica and all our
West iudia Coloniei. This, in the abstract, may
Or may rot be desireable, but, practically speak-
in, it is a matter of very vital moment, as affect-
ing the future prosperity and greatness of this
I:,:nofre, and iuvolves vital consequences, not
only to a multitude of our_ Population, but
to our commercial and naval grandeur, and
to tine essential well-being of the Country at
large. The point is too intricate, and probably
too remote for present discussion ; and we, there-

fore, only throw out these hints as cautions against
the headlong policy which we hear co much in.-

nuie4ted, that woul4 even involve us in a war

4anlliku—l Dublin. Duz.-2 France, 2 Hamburgh, I Ho!-
land, I Waterford.