The Sun.
London, England, 1822-11-15 00:00:00

CITY, 'THURSDAY EVENING.

From Paris 'several expresses again arrived this
morning; bringing private letters from that capital dated late
in the evening of the 12th current. One of those letters states,
that the rumours (which within these few dap have created so
much misery to families and, to individuals) originated with a
certain foreign Prince in the French capital, who, although it
was generally known that his authority was of the worst de-
scription, was yet able so far to warp public opinion as to cause
a general belief that advices had been received by him from
Verona of a very hostile nature to the repose of mankind ; and
an English Gentleman, supposed to be connected with the
London Press, had made himself exceedingly prominent in cir-
culating the intelligence reported to have been received by
this legitimate. Another letter received froth a Gentle-
' matt,- not unknown in London for his high Ultra senti-
ments, and dated late on Tuesday evening, states, that M.
de Villele had that evening sent for the Syndic of the Agens
de Change, and informed him, for the satisfaction of the pro-
prietors of public'national securities, that the latest intelligence
from Madrid had assumed a more pacific aspect, and that the
proceedings against the Princes of the legitimate Royal blood,
and also against the prisoners taken in the treason of 7th July
had been stopped, and all the latter set at liberty. Nobody, in
the slightest degree acquainted with the Spanish character, will
for one moment give credit to this version of a transaction, as nefa-
rious as any on record. It must either be,founded on the well
established wish of the Holy Alliance to deprive Spain of
those liberties for which so many, of her virtuous sons have
perished, or the high ROyalist feelings, which, unfortuhately
for France, at presentdirect the Councils of his Most Christian
Majesty, have really entertained the vain hope of trampling on
the rising freedom of the Peninsula. Had the Holy Alliance
possessed the confidence of mankind, no efforts of Stock Jobbers
could have produced results so calamitous.
The following are the prices of Foreign Funds this day :
French * Five per• Cents. Dividend from 22d Sept. 90 91.
Spanish * Five per Cent. of 1820, Dividend from Ist No-
vember,
74 2.
Ditto Five per Cent. Bonds of 1821 (sterling), Dividend from
Ist Nov. 6l 24441.
Ditto Scrip, 24 2 I.H dis. -
Russian * Six per Cents. Dividend from Ist July, 82.
Ditto * Five per Cents. (metall.) Div. from Ist Sept. 82.
Ditto New Five per Cent. (metall.) Dividend from Ist Sept.,
874. A.
Prussian Five per Cent. Bonds of 1818 (Sterling) Dividend
from Ist Oct., 874.
Ditto of 1822 (sterling) Dividend from Ist July, 87i 8.
Austrian * Five per Cent. (metall.) Div. froin Ist Feb. 84.
Neapolitan * Five per Cent. Bonds, Dividend from lat July,
78.
Ditto Scrip, 79/.
Danish Five per Cent. Bonds (sterling) Dividend from Ist
July, 904 1. _ _ _

Banco Marks, Dividend from Ist July, 88.
Colombian Six per Cent. Bonds (sterling) Dividend from Ist
Nov., 844 k.
Chilian Six per Cent. Bouds (sterling) Dividend from Ist
Oct. 82.
Peruvian Loan, 80.

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Marked are subject to the rate of Exchange..
—(Morning Chronick.)

GREAT ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS.

(EXTRACT FROM A PRIVATE LETTEFC.)

Naples, Oct. 25, 1822.
You will have heard, my dear brother, before
this reaches you, of the awfully grand eruption of Vesuvius.
Nothing similar has been witnessed since 1794, when the town
of Torre del Greco, seated at about four miles from the crater,
was partly destroyed. During the eveningof the 21st, a little
smoke appeared, and distinct reports of artillery, as it seemed,
proceeded from that part of the Bay. Had the sky, not been
perfectly serene, one would have considered it as thunder. To-
wards nine o'clock, however, a little fire appeared at the old
crater, and left us in doubt no longer of the cause of -the deto-
nations. At a few minutes past eleven it burst forth in all its
fury, emitting stones to a great height. In three hours after-
wards the lava rolled forth in two grand streams, one taking to-
wards Retina, where the King's villa, called La Favorite, is
situated, and the other inclining in a more southerly direction
to Torre del Annunziata.

At three o'clock on the morning of the 22d, there was a
shower of ashes, and as the wind was from the north, they fell
over Torre del Annunziata, Castel-a-mare, and Sorento. At the
former of these towns, placed within five miles of the base of
the volcano, is a manufactory of gunpowder, but no danger
seemed to be apprehended until the ashes fell, for the lava
made but little progress. About four o'clock an order was
given to remove the gunpowder to the water side, and
to destroy it if necessary. This was the signal for alarm,
and two battalions of Neapolitans were the first to decamp.
—I left Naples with some friends at four, and we reached
Torre del Annunziata at 'six ; and at that hour found the
cinders there an inch in depth ; but no pen can describe the
confusion in which was the whole town. One general panic had
seized the population, and nothing was thought of but the
means of escape. Furniture of every description was being
lowered from the windows, and every sort of vehicle was in
requisition to transport it—they knew not whither.
My friends and I went to Scafati, on the east side of Pompeii,
at the base of the mountain, and there we witnessed the opening
of the new crater, which took place at twe o'clock in the after-
noon. The lava from this mouth poured forth in torrents, and,
joining in its tract the stream of the old one, made rapid strides
towards the sea. At five o'clock TOrre del Annunziata seemed
in imminent danger. We repassed the town at that hour on
our return to Naples, and found it nearly deserted. The New.
politan troops had been brought back to within half a mile of
the town, where they were bivouacked, and I learned from
some of them that the Austrians at Nocera had stopped their
passage in ,that direction. The • shower of ashes continued,
and increased in size as we approached Torre del Greco.
There they fell as large as orange pips, twisted like tea,
of a dark brown colour, and being pressed crumbled into
fine powder. The noise was prodigious on the trees and
umbrellas, and the shower lasted to within a mile of Torre del
Greco, where we got tq windward of it. The depth of ashes
was, at six o'clock, eighteen inches at Torre del Annunziata,
and somewhat more along the promontory extending to Sor-
rento, which was the direction the wind continued to take.

As night approached, the blaze of fire from the mountain
seemed to increase, and the awful grandeur of the scene from
Santa Lucia, where I reside, must have been seen to have a
just idea of. There seemed to be three or more cascades of fire
thrown forth from what appeftred the entire cone of the volcano,
and several smaller streams, communicating one with the
other. During the night of the 22d the lava reached the wood
of Tre-Case, which burnt with great fury throughout the fol-
lowing day ; and yesterday evening nearly a hundred acres of
land were laid waste, being, as it were, overrun with lava.
The lire seems to-day to be spent, but as the wind has changed
to the south-east, or as it is called viroceoi the smoke and ashes
have' come over Naples, and the mountain, with Portici,
and all along that part of the Bay are invisible; while
at mid-day torches are almost necessary, and umbrellas abso-
lutely so. The Ring's villa at Resina was yesterday stripped
of its furniture, and I may say, that the whole line of
coma from Pprticl to Castel-a-mare, has been abandoned, un-
less we except the curious, who flock in crowds to see what is
passing. The police from Naples have been on the spot from
the time that danger appeared imminent, to preserve order as
well as possible, andhave an eye on the gangs of robbers
which appeared with the confusion, and last evening 19 men
were taken at Torre del Greco, in women's clothes, visiting the.
houses which their owners had abandoned so hastily.
The King departed _on the 22d. for the Congress of Verona.
He slept at Mole di Garta that night, whence he saw the erup-
tion of Vesuvius ;_and it is remarkable that when he left here
for Laybach, in December, 1020, three was then, on, the night
of his Majesty's departure, an eruption of the mountain,
though not so violent a one as the present: • C. J. R.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, NOVEMBER 14.
STAINMOOR RECTORY.
MUTTER V. CHEADVELL AND OTHERS.

. This case came on again in the shape of a motion foi leave to
amend the bill. Itiwas partly- heard on the day before term,
and the argument was this day resumed. The original ques-
tion was, the right to the living of Stainmoor. The defend.:
ant has been in possession since 1811 ; but the plaintiff claim-
ed the right of presentation to the living, and of occupying
it himself as presentee. The -.bill was filed in •1818, and af-
ter much Chancery litigation, and the death of many of the
partfes, a motion came to be made in 1822, for leave to amend

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the bill. •
Messrs. HART, St:EIDEN, 4d. rircKWORTII, supported. the
motion. The-grounds, so far as we could understand them from
the technical form in which the question was broug,.t for Ward,
seemed. to be, that both parties had assumed the living to be a
donative, while in fact it was a perpetual curacy; and that the
defendant.; Mr. Cheauveil, obtained ands held possession by
means of fraud.

Mr. HORNE declined-to reply to the arguments on the other
side, aSlhe practice of the Court precluded the prayer of the
motion. The fact was, that the motion was made, not for any.
object in that Court, but to usher into the world a publication
on the subject.

Mr. 81,TADIVELL:, Mr. PEMBERTON, and Mr. PEPYS,
spoke on the same side. _ . _

'Mr. HART, replied, and was proceedihg to answer a ques-
tion by the Court, -as to the specific amendments proposed to
be made, but

Mr. HouriE contended, that he must have leave to addicss
his Loidshlp upon that subject, if the 'practice of the Court
suffered it to be introduced.

Air. HART finished his reply.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, after giving a general history of
the cause, said he could not give leave to amend the Bill, with-
out having in writing the oniendments.proposed to be made.
Mr, HORNE suggested; that a notice, too, must be served
upon them (the 'defendants) as of a .new motion, at the same
time with the amendments to be made.

This was
.ordered, and the next motion day, this dalse'n-
night, was fixed for the motion,

VICEXHANCELLOR'S COURT, NOT: 'l4.
• • GOILTON v. SMART.

This Was a bill filed for the purpose'of obtaining the specific
performanceof an agreement.
Mr. HORNE, for the plaintiff, stated the facts of the cay.—
Ile stated that the defendant had let a portion of land to his
client upon a building lease. In the agreement which was en-
tered into by the parties, it was stipulated that the houses which
were io lie built upon the ground should not be under third or
fourth rate liciuses. The plaintiff had built several dwelling-
houses on the land, and also a brew-house : this was the subject
of litigation between the parties. The defendant refused to
grant a lease for this brewhouse; on the ground that the terms
of the agreement did not authorize the building of any but
dwellingouses, and he threatened to proceed against the plain-
tiff by ejectment. The Learned Counsel contended, that the
terms of the agreement did not prohibit the plaintiff from erect-
ing buildings of any description upon the ground, and he there-
fore prayed that the Court would decree the specific perform-
ance of the agreement and enjoin the defendant from proceed-
ing by ejectment.
.Mr. St: GREY, on the part of the defendant, maintained that
the plaintiff had acted in contravention of equity by building
the breiv-house, which was a nuisance to the surrounding neigh-
bourhood, inasmuch as it did not consume its own smoke.
Mr. IIvALD, who was also counsel for the plaintiff, said the
Court might be led to imagine from what Mr. Sugden said,
that the atmosphere in the neighbourhood of this brewhouse
was particularly pure, that it rivalled in salubrity Kensingtoh-
gardens ; but the fact was, that its immediate vicinity abounded
in manufactures of all descriptions ; there were saw-mills, iron
Manufactories, seven steam-engines, and two hrewhouses.
The VICE-Cii.Axc Lr.oit was of opinion that the- agreement
did not preclude the plaintiffs from erecting any description of
buildings; it merely provided that the dwelling-houses which
should he built should be of a certain rate. The plaintiff was
therefore entitled to the specific performance of the agreement.
If the defendant considered the brewhouse a nuisance, he could
seek his remedy at law.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 14.

THE KING V. AMBROSE CULLEN,

The SoLicfroit-GIExERAL moved for the judgment of the
Court on the defendant, who had been found guilty in Kent, of
assaulting an officer of the customs in the execution of his duty.
The COURT sentenced him to pay a fine of M. and give
Security for his good behaviour for three years, himself in 1001.
and two sureties in 501.' each.

THE KING V. VINE.
This was a case of a similar desscription to the last. The
defendant urged that his affidavit was lost, but that its material
statement was, that he had a wife, nine children, and an aged
mother dependent on him for support.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, on hearing this, said that he
would refrain from praying any judgMent on the defendant,
wbose recognizarces were accordingly taken, to appear and re-
ceive judgment if called on; and who was dismissed with an
admonition from the Court, that the lenity shewn him by the
Cross n should dispose him to refrain from all illegal dealings
in future.
_ _ _ THE KING V. HENDERSON AND ANOTHER.

Mr. RUSSELL moved for a rule, calling on Joseph Hender-
son and another person, a clergyman and magistrate of the
county of Carmarthen, ( whose name at present he would forbear
to mention), to shew cause why a criminal information should
not be filed against them. He made this application on behalf
of Mr. Saunders, a gentleman of property,‘a magistrate and
Commissioner of Roads in the county of Carmarthen, whom
the defendants had attempted to incite to fight a.duel with
Henderson. On the 15th of October last, Mr. Saunders went
to a public meeting in his official capacity, and; on entering,
was addressed by Henderson in very opprobrious terms in re-
lation to his public situation as trustee. After this, terns,
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son left the room, and defied Saunders to follow him, and give
him satisfaction ; when the clergyman told llenderson not to
disgracaliirnselfby putting himself on a level with Saunders,
hut, to treat him as he did. Saunders demanded if this meant
to refer to him ; when the clergyman added other insulting
language, intended, as the applicant believed, to provoke him
to fight. Under these circumstances, Mr. Saunders claimed
the protection -of the Court, which had often been granted
on similar occasions, and was peculiarly due to a man of high
rank, and of great public spirit, who had been insultid in the
discharge of important duties. If the Court would grant
the .rule it would probably he the means of producing a proper
acknowledgment of the offence, and, an assurance that Mr.
Saunders should not be subjected to such conduct in future.
The COURT granted a rule to show cause.