The Sun.
London, England, 1825-11-26 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

PORTSMOI.I7II, Nov. 25.—Wind N.N.W.--Arrived the
Cato transport, from Quebec in 24 days, and the followirg
outward-bound vessels from the Downs, viz. :-13arrell,
calf, for Sierra Leone; British Monarch, Pearson, for Dente.
rara ; Robert, Bathgate, for Montserrat ; Mauly, Sayres, for
Barbadoes; and Justina, Young, for Grenada. Sailed hi
Majesty's ship Rainbow, Honourable • Captain Roe+, for, the
Cape of Good Hope and India.
FALmouTit, Nov. 2.1.--Wind
Nocton Packet, from the Leward Islands, sailed from St.
'Thomas's the 19th ult. ; and the Trial, Jenkins, from London
DEAL, Nov. 25.—Wind N.W.--Arrived and sailed for the
.River, the Earl St. Vincent, Middleton, from Batavia; Faitli,
Goldswordi, from Quebec; Orpheus, Ford, from Smyrna; and•
Rtiby, Ilaswell, from Altea. Arrived from the River, and
sailed with the whole of the outward-bound, the Abcon;,
Turner, and London, Turner, for Jamaica ; Agerona, Baker,
for Montserrat; Coriolanus, Cole, for Rio Janeiro; and Fox,'
White, Malta.

,
LP/ ERPOOL, Nov. 24.—Wind S.—Arrived the George,
Thaxter, from New Orleans, sailed the 9th, and from Balize
the loth ult. The Neptune, and Margaret, for this Port, sailed
seven days before; Arturus Wharton, from Lisbon ; and the
Cottager, Cornish, from Cadiz.

DiscovrAity or Alm. Holt TA's
morning, at IO o'clock, the constables of St. Pierre Porkpies- •
cd the Court with Mrs. Home's' child. She has been in the.
island all this time, drecmd as a boy, and living with a Mr.
Campourccy, a professor of the French language. On Friday
evening Mrs. Horne sent for the child to come and' sleep with
her, and at 7 o'clock this morning removed her so the house, of -
John Brock, where the constables repaired and took her into
custody. She will be sent to Chiswick by the first vessel horn.
here. I have some reason to believe, that, as Mrs. llorne tits
nothing more to lose, ce tain disclosures will be made that will.
astonish the curious world.—( Gutftrzey, Nov, 19.) •

INQUEST 1s THE FLEET PIUSON.—This morn..
ing at eleven o'clock an Inquest was held in the
Fleet Prison by Mr. SIIELTON, the Coroner for
London, on the body of Joseph Colehank, Esq.
a prisoner in the above gaol. It appeared that
the deceased was very highly connected, and re-
sided at Doncaster. He was 75 years of age,
and unfortunately l►e became embarrassed in his
affairs : he was arrested, conveyed to London, iand
lodged in the above prison on the I lth instan:.
On entering the gaol he declared he should not
live long under his afflictions, and in a day or
two after he took to his bed and died.—Dr.
Bates, who attended him, gave it as his opinion
that he died from natural causes, and the Jury
returned a verdict to that effect.—The Jury ob.
served, that they considered it a great pity that
the deceased gentleman had been removed from
Doncaster, and they had no doubt that the long
journey, and the idea of being so widely sepal
rated from his family at his time of life) accele,
rated his dissolution,

THE LONDON JOURNALS.
DAILY

xtracts from the Morning Papers, Nor. 26,182,5.

[THE TIMES.]
An event of no mean importance has just oc-
rarred—viz. the commencement of a canvass in
the great county of York, on behallof .Mr. R.
Fountayne Wilson, and on the principle of-hos-.
tility to Catholic aimancipation. It would be
false to say that our minds have been unprepared
*Jr such illustrations of what now begins to he
a general -.feeling, throughout this Protestant
.country. • In truth it may grieve, but does not
astonish us. The Shiel and O'Connell curse has
long been on the cause of which these men pro- .
fees to be the ministers ; nor is it conceivable
that any cause should prosper, with madmen for
its counsellors and guides. Woefully is the empi
rical attempt to frighten the people of England
already about to visit the heads of those who
have devoted themselves, and staked the hopes
of six millions of their countrymen on an ex-
periment so much worse than desperate. If
the Catholic cause be now a losing one, who
tut Catholics are to blame ? It has
.become
a hackneyed fashion with the talkers and
writers of that' body, as at present constituted,
to identify the constitutional principles on
which the measure of emancipation supports
itself with some half a doien of persons who
have thrust themselves into public notice as its
prescriptive champions. Whenever the O'Con-
sells have been charged with a blundering
misapprehension of the policy which they ought
to follow—when they have been assured
that intemperance was not courage—that invec-
tive against England was not the way to conci-
liate English prejudices—that they were making
enemies where friends were most wanting—that
'they were plunging a good cause in obloquy
and ruin—that their zeal had all the effect of
treason against their own best interests, and that
a question of immense universal import, to Pro-
testant as well as Catholic, was wasting and pe-
rishing in their hands, the parties making the
remonstrance were treated as foes to emancipa-
tion itself, because they would not flatter the
demagogues who had seized upon it as if it were
:a personal inheritance. Nevertheless, we shall
proceed, and maintain the cause by exposing the
incapacity of its self-appointed trustees.--
Let us just ask one plain question : Through
what means—what human means (apart frOni
miracles)—do the Catholics hope to carry their
l3ill through Parliament ? So far as our expe-
rience serves, a majority of both Houses is the
proper instrument for getting a new law enacted.
Is there any wisdom, therefore, in offending,
or alarming, or disgusting the Legislature, at
whose hands they look for this great boon of
power ? Is it common sense, to deluge the
world with attacks upon the Reformation ?
to shock the prejudices, if they were pre-
judices, of a powerful community, com-
posed of Protestants, in the ratio of 20 to
? Is there any disgrace or humiliation in
striving to propitiate those who honestly fear
.mischief to the constitution ,of their forefathers,
from an admixture with it of one certain leaven,
which those ancestors had industriously, in their
zeal for liberty, rejected ? We say that the dread
entertained of Popery in England, is an honest
and conscientious—not, as it has often been iii
Ireland, a mercenary and monopolizing terror.—
What care the bulk of the people of England for
the mess of pottage so long in dispute between
the 014ange and Popish interests of the Sister
Island ? The oppression against Catholic power
in this country, then, being, if in error, one
founded in manly and virtuous sentiments, it
shews an utter ignorance of even the outlines of
human character to assault such a feeling with
virulence of threats. Men may he beaten, may
be awed, out of their tangible possessions : the
sovereignty of a State—of a whole world of Co-
lonies—may be wrenched by main force from a
powerful nation ; but out of their favourite pas-
sion,a passion founded on principles which, young
and old, they reverence as the most sacred be-
quest of glorious progenitors, as the noblest
relic of themselves which can he left to
their children's children, does the most furious
visionary dream that he can scare fourteen
millions of Britons? It is stupid nonsence, there-
fore, to abuse and exasperate the English mind
by language fit only for bullies. This nation
fears nothing. If the penal laws themselves,
barbarous and insufficient towards any good end
as we have found them, appeared to the people
olEngland desirable for their own security, it is
not the rills or gesticulations of Catholic orators
that' would deter us from reviving them. We
shall not, whether fairly or unfairly treated, be
unjust ; but if the Catholics should succeed in
making us feel the dangers which they labour to
impress upon
.us, we may be driven to the adop-
tiwi of such, defensive measures as they will be
theforemost to regret. At the sante time, this,
No Popery"! movement, upright thought it
bevis, we think, discreditable to the judgment
of-4er countrymen. What have they really to
filo-,BY,,letting the CathOlic Nobles and Gentry
,
sit in Parliament, tney may perchance inoculate
them with wore enlightened views as members of
a free society ; they may withdraw them from
their priests ; they may dis-Pope them : while,
as the Catholics now are situated, we see not how
they can be reformed. Nevertheless, whether
good or bad, the Yorkshire feeling is making
progress. through this country. It will now hi-
fa,ilibly operate upon the general election ; it bids
fair to diminish considerably the friends of eman-
cipatien in the next Parliament. We are sorry
for it—unfeignedly sorry ; but the Catholic des
megogues have themselves to thank for. it they
have sinned against counsels far better than their
•OIVIT. •

[NEW TIMES.]

.For some days past there has been 1 series of
articles in The Times, tending to spread alarm
throughout the, country, and to produce the most
injurious; effects possible on public credit. Mis-
representation, gross and wilful, was the basis of
all these articles, but the !climax of shameless and
impudent fabrication is to be fou►►d in the article

of yesterday. It is strange that any thing so'
absurd could obtain a moment's credit. The
Editor of a worthless Print gives his readers to
understand that he is in the secret of what passed
at a private interview of the Governor and De-
puty Governor of the Bank of England with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer! Who could have
let him into such a secret ? Could the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer communicate the se-
crets of Government to this despicable scrib-
bler ? Could the Governor or Deputy Go-
vernor of the Bank have made him their con-
fidant? Idiocy itself will hardly believe that.
Then we ask again, how could this fellow
know what he pretends to retail to the Public ?
Ma senon a vero,- some one may say, e ben tro-
vato. At least, if it be a fiction, it is a probable
one! Indeed! Is it probable that Mr. Robinson
would jeer, insult, and scoff at the Batik Direc-
tors with the vulgar insolence attributed to him
by The .Times Mr. Robinson is certainly a
Gentleman in manners as well as in birth and
station. But to cut this matter short, though we
do not, and cannot knoW what did pass, we know
what did not pass ; and we assert that, out of the
thirty lines purporting to contain an account of
what was said and done at the alleged meeting,
the only portion that approaches to truth -is the
last line and a half. if the. C overnor and Deputy
Governor of the Bank did wait on the Chancel-
lor of- the Exchequer, it is not unlikely that
they took leave and returned to-the City."—
An 'Evening Paper, speaking of this pretended
dialogue between the eminent persons in question,
says—" The whole is given in such an unquali-
fied manner, that little doubt is entertained of its.
truth." Really they must be very simple Gen-
tlemen who believe any thing- because it is 1
" given in an unqualified manner" by The
Times. We would trouble these credulous
souls to turn over the files of that veracious.Jonr-
nal for the last eight years, and just reckon up
the unqualified statements which have, prOved.to
be utterly without foundation. There are other
considerations besides the manner of this narra-
tive. The time of putting it forth
.will serve as
a tolerable touchstone of its truth. The moment
of busy speculation for a fall in the funds is al-
ways the moment chosen by The Times for its
alarming articles. The great secret of The
Times is always to have somebody to abuse and
vilify. Preceded by its dirty pioneer Daniel
Hardcastle, it has of late shot all its mud
at the Bank Directors. A peddling stock-
jobber and a hackney scribe, forsooth, understand
the business of these Gentlemen better than they
do themselves! We are told by such oracles that
the Bank Directors have managed 'their affairs
ill, and that their mismanagement is sole cause
of the. late fall in the price of Stocks._ And how
have they managed their affairs ill? Why, (the
Times tell us) by limiting -their discounts. Now,
this again is totally unfounded. They have not
limited their discounts. They are at this mo-
ment and have long been dicounting as liberally
as heretofore. True it is, that they have of late
returned many bills •of eminent houses. But
why ? Because the number of applicants is- in-
creased, and accommodation having -been -afford-
ed to individuals in the second classnf mercantile
distinctions some of those in the first class must
of course receive only limited discounts.- .

[MORNING POST.] . .
Brussels Papers to the 24th instant reached us
last night. They contain a long article from
Wurtzburgh, descanting on the retrenchments
now effecting by the new . King of Bavaria in
every branch of the public exPenditufi;, but
especially in those connected --With. the Roy-al,
Household and the amusements of the Court.
Thus he has parted with 200-of his horses, and
given up the expensive establishments of -perfor.
mers for Operas, Ballets, and Concerts. A doubt
is raised, which without apparently intending it,
involves no less a question than that of the inde-
pendence of the kingdom of Bavaria ; for it is
asked whether the Great Powers," who since the
new order of thiags have reckoned on the numerous
armies of the little Monarchies, will oppose the
indispensably disbanding of part of the troops of
the small States ?" If those Powers possess any
such authority, then Germany and all its Sove-
roigns, under every denomination, form hut one
mass of slaves. But even then the expence of
supporting large armies ought to be borne by
those for whose use they are intended : for it is
hard enough for Kings and States to be made
dependent, without having to pay for the means
of being kept so. The same article asserts
that Russia is " resolved to follow the great
principles now adopted in commercial matters."
This does not surprise us. After the example
given by our Government, and the successful
results with which it has been attended, Sove-
reigns must be blind to the evidence of facts, or
indifferent to the prosperity of their subjects, if
they cling to ancient prejudices, and refuse to
adopt a system proved by experience to be a cer.
tail' source of wealth and power.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
We are glad to find the attention of the Ma-
gistrates has been again drawn to those annual
nuisances in the neighbourhood of tlw metro-
polis, the Fairs of Camberwell and Peckham.—
The reader will perceive by the important in-
vestigation which the subject has undergone—
the full particulars of which will be found in
another part of our paper—that no right to hold
them could be established. As it is likely,
however, that the question of right will be by a
Quo Wel rant° before the Court of King's
Bench, we abstain from offering any remarks
upon this head.—Fairs, when originally insti-
tuted, were of incalculable utility in bringing
those commodities into every village and market
town, and to every one's door. which could not
otherwise have been obtained without travel-
ling to a distance, at.an expence greater than the
value of the articles to be purchased. The value
of this accommodation has long since ceased, ex-
cept at a considerable distance from tnarkettowns.
In the vicinity of London, fairs have been for the
last half century the annual resort of the disso-
lute and idle from all quarters, and have served
little other purpose than to furnish an annual harvest
to cheats and pickpockets. The term Fair, in

its primitive signification, is very different from
that kind of market, the advantage of which we
have just described. The fairs, feria were kept
on festival days, dies sancti, and had no relation
to the sale of merchandise. They ought not,
therefore, to be confounded with the Nundince or
markets which in Rome were kept every ninth
day, and to which the people resorted for the
purpose of buying and selling. The difference
between a market, mercatus, and a fair, is likewise
observable from the intervals at which they are
kept : the former is usually kept once or twice a
week, the latter annually, or at most twice in a
year.

['MORNING CHRONICLE.]
We .have been favoured with a perusal of a
Letter from a resident Irish Nobleman, the pro-
prietor of very extensive estates in the North
of Ireland, which gives a most favourable account
of the state of things in that part of the country.
He says,
" I have found my rents well paid this November. The .
• . . . estate owes only now a little more than 2001., and
b' next month I have no doubt not 20/. will be left unpaid. Not
a single person has been dispossessed or forced to pay, they
having all, except the few I have named, come alphabetically
to their day. Upon a smaller property, where nearly 10,0001.
was the sum of arrear six years ago, the arrears have been re-
duced one half, and only 9!. incurred in an Attorney's Bill.—
The tenants were miserably poor, and their holdings small, yet
they are now all improving and well satisfied. The Irish Papers
are fond of exaggerations. No country in the world was ever
so vexed with alarming reports, mostly without foundation.—
Trade was never more prosperous. The coarse linen business
is fast moving south and westwards, where it was always
wanted, and is sure to do good. Enough of coarse and fine
linen, as well aS cotton, remains here to employ a dense popu-
lation, at fair and regular wages. 3lasons and carpenters are
in greater demand than ever, and no individual needs to be
stile."

The Marquis of Downshire, a Nobleman who
may truly be said to be a blessing to that part of
Ireland in which his extensive estates are situ-
ated, from the good which he himself does, and
the influence which his example has on others, is
hew arranging with a cotton-manufacturer to
.build a factory. of 180 feet in front, upon a small
farm of 22 Irish acres, which the Noble Mar-
quess. consents to let at 241. a year—a small sum
in a part of Ireland (the county of Down) where
land is extremely valuable; but he will receive
ample compensation in the expenditure on the
estate, occasioned by the profitable employment
of 3 or 400 persons, and the impulse which will
thereby be given to the population. The build-
ings and machinery will, it is supposed, cost from
15 to 20,0001.—We thus see that-improvement is
making rapid advances in the North of Ireland.
The cotton manufacturer exported from Ireland,
.which in 1822 was only 871., was in 1823,
162,0001., and in 1824, 454,000/. It will soon
be the principal manufacture of the country.
Would that its increase could meet the immense
redundant population ; but that is impossible.—
(Ibid.)

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
• We learn from the German Papers which ar-
rived yesterday, that the new King of Bavaria
has come to the determination of reducing his
army to one half its present amount. He hopes,
it is said, to effect a saving of 3.000,000 of
florins (about 300,0001. sterling) in this way ;
and we have no doubt but his popularity, at least
in the_ first instance, will be equal to the relief
from taiation he will thus procure for his sub-
jects. But we have great doubts of the prac-
-licar Actsilimi of • this measure, as every one
roust have who calmly looks at the situa-
tion of -his Bavarian Majesty, which places him
in close contact with two of the greatest Mili-
tary Powers on the Continent. These, instead
of respecting his motives, will abuse his weak-
ness, and take occasion from it to make further
encroachments on theindependence of their Ger-
manic'co-esta tes of the second rank. This mea•
...sore is not only a voluntary surrender of the po-
litical weight and consideration which Bavaria
possesses as a member of the Germanic confede-
racy, but -it will be the means of levelling
-the- fences -"for the protection of the minor
States, by compelling them, as it were, to
follow her example. Wurtemherg and the
Grand Duchies of Baden and Hesse will now
see the utility of keeping up their present military
establishments, and the consequence will be that
they will be all dragged into the vortices of Prus-
sian and Austrian policy, and perhaps obliged to
sacrifice their Constitutional principles to boot, at
the shrine of an unseasonable economy. The late
King of -Bavaria, by forming an intimate union
between all the secondary members of the con-
federacy, was able to check the inordinate am-
bition both of Austria and Prussia ; but this
check will slip through the fingers of his sou,
in consequence of liberality. It
is probable, however, that this rash . resolu-
tion, before it can be carried into effect, will give
way to a more considerate policy ; and this is the
more desirable, as otherwise the Germanic Body
will
,n holly degenerate from the principle of its
institution. The other intelligence in the foreign
Papers, which have reached us since our last, is
wholly destitute of interest.