The Sun.
London, England, 1825-03-21 00:00:00

SWEDISH TARIFF.

The following is an extract from the Swedish
Tariff :
Silks, as brocade, tissue, and similar -
Half, or part silk, brocade. &c. as Madras and
similar - - - - -
Plush and similar articles of silk - -
Cloth with gold and silver, of all descriptions, as
well genuine as imitations - -
,Oold and silver gauze of all descriptions -
Silk velvet - - - - -
Crape gauze and similar kinds . -
twOrfteroy - - - -
fustians of all kinds - -
Jiadras - - - - -
Handkerchiefs' neckcloths, &c. at least of the
value of one dollar Banco Swedish, per Swed-
ish ell - - - -
dull and other similar muslins, flowered and

20 per Cent.

1.5 per Cent.

- .
plain - - -
Quiltings, worth at least two dollars Swedish
Banco, per Swedish ell - - -
'able covers (woollen) - - -
liorn'cr...ce and camblets, of all sorts
Coffee - .. - - -
White kerseyrnere - - - -
:balloons, serges, and similar descriptions -
Satteen, moreens, shag, &c. - - .
'.l'4inmies, and similar goods - - -
Shawls, worth at least 33i dot. Swedish Banco, ea.
(3ouon cambrics, lenos, and cloth, part or like
le.nos, of all kinds - -
aorse-hair seating - •
•I'arkev carpets .: -
(Aber 'foreign carpets - -
ludian straw hats:,.of all kinds
doves, of all kinds - -
Artiflcial flowers, of all kinds
rite linen, binding, tapes, &c.
alto silk, ditto (as ribbons, &c.)

25 per Cent.
15 per Cent.

ROYAL NAVY.

- 20 per Cent.
- 25 per Cent.
- 30 per Cent.
- 25 per Cent.
- 15 per Cent.
- 30 per Cent.
- 50 per Cent.
- 25 per Cent.

PORTSMOUTH, MARCH l9.—The Experimental Squadron
of Ships, will sail on :Monday morning, under the orders of
Captain Henry E. Sturt, consisting of the Pheaton (Commo-
de,r3) ; Champion, Captain Studdert ; Pylades, Captain Feed ;
Ovistes, Captain Litc'nfield ; Pandora. Captain Wm. Gordon ;
itose, Captain Hon. C. Abbot; to be joined off Plymouth, by
Oannet, Captain Francis Brace ; and 31artin, Captain
Wikon. All sloops of war which the squadron may fall in
vac..h during the cruise, will be required to join in the experi-
ments of sailing to be made. The Phaeton has been fitted with
an experimental iron mainmast and bowsprit, which will thus
ibe put to the test of usefulness, as compared with those made of
fK wood. The squadron will cruise %bouts month (if necessary)
*O'iut fifty leagues to the westward of Sicilly.

The following is an extract from a letter re-
from an Officer of his Majesty's ship Maidstone, dated
Sisrra Leone, Feb. 3 :—" I regret saying this place is dread-
Sully unhealthy ; and at Cape Coast you cannot move without
seeing either dead Ashantees unburied, or some of the Fantee
people who had died in the town, left only half buried. Not a
. ;lam belonging to us is permitted to sleep out of the ship, or go
on shore, except on duty. The consequence is, we have not
on,- man on the sick list with either dysentery, fever, or any in-
1-ctious disorder whatever. The Ashantee war is now com-
pote!), at an end. They have returned to the capital with the
--erri:lant of a miserable army, suffering from dysentery, famine,
'mull-pox, and being dreadfully harassed in their retreat by
Queen of Akim, and a very powerful chief, the head of the
Ilentookies. The Maidstone has released on the coast nearly
2,209 poor wretched blacks; One vessel of 120 tons had 336
mrw: and boys, and 141 women and girls; the men's room was
only about 20 ft. square, and 3 ft. 2 in. high ; the women had
a plate 0 ft. aft, ,13 ft. forward, and 4 ft. high ; thus 326 men
arid boys ware crammed into a space of 20 ft. square. When
the ship was boarded, the women were on their knees crying for
mercy, and 50 of the men in silence awaiting their final orn
(far so the Portuguese traders had assured them) ; but when, by
mi:.ens of an interpreter, they were assured of protection of their
fir3t, and of intended location in a spot where they would be
• free, the transition from despair to joy was overwhelming ; they
knelt down, they wept, they kissed the feet, the hands, and the
dram of every by-stander; the scene was touching and over-
po oering.—(Portsmouth Paper.)

The most remarkable document in the ll,ydra
Gast( tee is the following report of General Gouras, which we
translate literally, dated Lukura, 16th (28th) December:—
" To the august Directory.—host of the western troops under
my command are at Calaritta and Kerpeni, while the others be-
siege Diakopto. The tyrant Zaimi is besieged by the brave
SuiioLs in three towers rear Kerpeni. I hope that the measures
I lave ordered will bring this wicked apostate to Napoli. It
will then appear whether the laws of Greece are founded on
justice. If from false notions of philanthropy and political de-
iicacy, the members of the Government should choose to pardon
those Anti-Regents, and their late or present partisans, they
may know that next year they will have to pardon me; for
wtiere wickedness is not punished, it easily finds imitators.—
Cientlewen ! You will please not to despise these rude words of
mute. For the Greeks are not a saleable commodity, to be
given up to the contempt of a Zaimi, the dissoluteness of a
Lando, or the hypocrisy of a Notara, to say nothing of the rapa-
city of Colocotroni, and the folly of Nikita, as being too noto,
roes. The pious Sissini, after having drained Greece, and
sent the wealth of Gastouni to Zante, now sends his son with
3101-asen to support Zaimi at Kerpeni.
(Signed)

" GOURAS."

A TLESBURY, MARCII 19.—0 n Tuesday last,
Mr. ELLIOTT, of Luflield Abbey, near Silver-
stone, a respectable farmer, nearly 90 years of
age, and one of the oldest tenants on his Grace
of -lanclumnuAm's estates, put an end to his ex-
ifAßnre by shooting himself. The rash act is
alone to be attributed to imbecility from hisad-
vaaced age.

MEXICAN PAPERS

(Frain El Sol of January 2, 1823.)
INSTALLATION OF THE FIRST CONSTITi:-

TIONAL CONGRESS.

The Deputies having assembled in the hall of,
their sittings, theact of the last preparatory Junta was read and
approved of. The senators having entered and taken their seats
among the deputies, a list was read of the committee which- was
to conduct the President of the Republic on his entry and de-
parture, conformably to the regulations, composed of six indi-
viduals of each Chamber, named by their respective Presidents.'
The session was suspended till the President of the Republic
arrived. His Excellency presented himself, and having taken
his seat, made the following speech. :
" Gentlemen—lt cannot be doubted, though solr.e have af-
fected to do so, whether modern societies established for the
liberty of man, arc the necessary results of just and beneficial
ideas ; or whether they exist momentarily, through the scanda-
lous subversion of principles, and the tumultuous progress of
the passions. The partisans of superannuated tyranny —those
who from the region of the clouds draw down compacts and ob-
ligations—refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy and vigour of
those governments which have originate,: with the sovereign
people. According to them, individuals in free nations possess
neither restraint nor guarantees. They mutually assault and
devour each other, and in thig.bloody contest, cruelty and the
remorseless anger of factions annihilate the hope of any regular
system of legislation.
" It is not necessary, gentlemen, for the confusion of the
enemies of the people, to lead them to the ruins of Carthage, to
call up the remembrance of free Rome, or to open the annals of
that Greece whose literature, noble arts, and sublime philo-
sophy, gave a beginning to institution a which have been ad-
mired through all ages. No ! America, our adared country,
raising her head above ancient days, ias resolved the pro-
blem which most interests the human race, and has torn
aside the veils which covered the origin, the end, and the
object of power.
" The profound Legislator of Carolina, and Wm. Penn, the
friend cif man, planted in the virgin soil of America the pre-
cious seeds of civil liberty, which, cultivated with care by
Washington and Franklin, are now deposited, with the fruits
which they produced, in this capital, which derived its wisdom
from the banks of the Potomac ; from thence shoot desolating.
beams upon despotism—and from thence arises the genera-
tion of sovereign nations. How great is the glory of the New
World ! How elevated the grandeur of its destinies !
" Light has even penetrated to the Colonies founded by the
Adventurer of Medellin. It is certain that genius has over-
come resistance, that morality regulates the heat of parties, and
that sentiments of philanthropy are dislodging the habits and
the errors which time consecrated.
" But I have come hither, Gentlemen, to congratulate you
on the triumphs of opinion, and of the social doctrines,
which have assembled us under the conditions of a compact
created by ourselves, and for our happiness. Who can deny
to the representatives who fill these seats, consecrated to me-
rit and to virtue, the incomparable satisfaction of being replaced
by citizens equally illustrious, equally solicitous for the national
greatness ?
" The union, the security, and the well-being of these States,
are confided to the prudent men, who, by their wise counsels,
• will draw on themselves the admiration of a people able to ap-
preciate justice and talent. We, proud of having regulated the
elections for the public good, shall see realised in the first Con-
stitutional Congress the plans of the Legislature, and the uni-
form wishes of the Mexicans.

" My heart expands in contemplating the blessing we enjoy,
and those which we hope speedily to realize.
" The magnificent fabric of our liberties, which hereto-
fore was a fine ideal perspective, is now founded on inde-
structible bases, and shines with the institutions which a great
people deserve.
" The high attributes with which the law and the will of my
fellow-citizens have invested me, as the depositary of the exe-
cutive power, have put me in the happy situation of employing
them all for their benefit. A glance, however rapid, on the
state and progress of affaira, will convince you, gentlemen, that
the greatest possible gond has been effected, consistently with
the extent of my information, and the very short period of my
government. Happy shall Ibeif I have succeded in perform-
ing the wide circle of my obligation to my country.
" The Secretary of Finance will inform the Congress, that if
his situation is not advantageous in respect to revenue or to
debt, he has succeeded, by multiplied and laborious efforts,
in clothing, arming, and increasing the army and the marine ;
in assisting New Mexico, California, and all the frontiers ; ap-
peasing the clamours of the emplay6s of the Republic, whose
pay was in arrear ; and meeting,. in all parts, the wants of the
administration, by the judicious and regulated use of foreign
loans.
•"The security of the Republic demands sacrifices, but al-
ways compatible with the condition, strength, and patriotism of
its heroic citizens.
" The judicial power of the Confederation being not yet form-
ed into existence, the Government is deprived of the power of
interference which was formerly enjoyed by that of the old
provinces ; its action in this respect has therefore been almost
null, and will remain so till the Court of Justice is installed,
and the number and location of Judges of circuit and district
be determined, and the regulation of the tribunals and territo-
ries throughout the federation be fixed by law. Without wait-
ing for this, the objects of the administration of justice have,
as much as possible, been attended to, and the cititizens have
only to complain of the vices of our legislation, and those which
were introduced into judicial proceedings, through the degrad-
ing indolence of the Spanish governors. The gaols and houses
of correction have undergone the fate of the times; but I do not
despair to make them serve for securing the delinquents, with-
out increasing their affliction and misery.
" The Mexican army, which enjoys so many laurels, has ad-
vanced considerably in discipline. its force is on the point of
being completed. The Secretary of War and Marine will show
my labours in this department.
" The system happily adopted confines the internal ad-
ministration of the people to their local authorities. The
Government-within its sphere has employed itself in checking
inveterate abuses, and introducing to beneficial activity the laws
of the country. The Secretary of the Interior will explain the
details.
" In all free countries of the universe wishes are formed for
the consolidation of Mexican independence, and since foreigners
are in a condition to calculate the immense value which the
union has given to our collective and individual prosperity, I
am persuaded, gentlemen, that they will admit us to the rank
of independent and sovereign nations.
" A.id is this the people that was subject for three centuries
to a pitiful administration—to a miserable Government? The
Mexicans, deprived of the advantages of an equitable system,
broke their bonds with the mother country, after enduring be-
yond the limits of human patience. Our countries devastated
—our properties invaded—gaols always full —grief, desperation,
death threatening our heads unceasingly ; these were the titles
—these the characters which marked with fire and blood the

..•••••
liberty that we enjoy. On recovering our outraged rights,
and raising a strong arm for the glory of cur country, -we
have given signal examples of moderation. Our detractors
are confounded, aid must admire, if for once they can be call-
ed just, the sway of the gentle Mexican temper, and the most
philanthropic system of legislation and government which is
known.

" Citizens of the two Chambers of the General Congress of
the heroic Mexican Nation—May the conquest of the •Revolu-
tion not be lost for us ! May the followers of tyrannic power
bear tribute to the ideas of the age and to the advances of civi-
lization in America, by their forced and tardy repentance ! May
your ardent zeal for the Constitution, your constant love for the
country and for liberty, may your foresight and energy, procure
you the pleasure of raising the United Mexican States to the
highest point of prosperity and greatness which the Supreme
Arbiter of Destinies has decreed."
The President of the first Chamber of Deputies replied to his
Excellency in a similar strain of congratulation.
The President of the Republic then retired, and the Presi-
dent of the Chamber of Deputies said, "This day, the Ist of
January, 11325, the General Constitutional Congress opens its
Session. The Assembly then adjourned.

We have received the Sol of the 3d and 4th January, along
with the anterior numbers, from which we have given extracts.
The assemblies of the General Congress, those of Senators and
Deputies, were on the 2d and 3d principally employed in
routine business, in administering the proper oaths to new
members, or appointing committees.
It is mentioned in the paper of Jan. 4, that official dispatches
had reached the Supreme Government of the resolution of the
commander of his Britannic Majesty's frigate the Isis to respect
the blockade of St. Juan de Ulloa. The journal contains the
letter of Captain Forrest to Gen. Rincon, of which the following
is a copy :
•." I have the honour.of acknowledging your letter, inclosing
the supreme order of the President of the United Stites of
Mexico, relative to the blockade of the castle of St. Juan, de
Ulloa and Sacrificios, which I shall forward to my Chief on the
Jamaica station, to be forwarded to Europe. If you have any
more copies of the same order, you will oblige me by sending
me some, to hand to other ships of my nation which may arrive
here in my absence. I assure you that so long as 1 am here in
command, the conditions of this supreme order shall be punc-
tually observed.. I have the honour to be your most humble
,servant, Al. FORREST." • .

At a late hour this day we received the Moil*
of yesterday. It does not contain any political
information of importance. We find that Prince
GALLITZEN, gentlemen of the household of the
Emper of RUSSIA, has arritcd at Paris with Ex-
traordinary Dispatches.

Rentes, opened 103. 10.-103. 5. Money—Time 103. 30.

The Paris Papers of Fiday do not contain any
news political importance. The Prince de MET-
TERNICH had an audience of the King of FRANCE
of \Vednesday. It lasted upwards of an hour;
and afterwards a report was current at Paris,
that the intended. Congress..ll:Milan would not
take place. The King of SPAIN h had a relapse,
and is so very ill that no person is permitted to
see him but the Queen and his physician. The
relapse is attributed to a circumstance somewhat
remarkable, if credit is to be given to the fol,
lowing statement :

(From the Constitutionnel.)
MADRID, MARCH 7.
The King has had another attack. His Majesty had a vio-
lent fit of sickness on his return from the review on Sunday last
at Caramancha, where ail the Royalist Volunteers of Madrid
and its neighbourhood were assembled. His indisposition was
occasioned by anindividual going up to his Majesty's carriage
and crying out several times, " Death to the King." His
Majesty so sensibly felt this outrage, that he underwent a spe-
cies of internal revolution. The man who spoke these words was
-immediately arrested. On being questioned, he answered that
he was ready again to repeat those same expressions ; that he
knew well enough that he should he condemned to death, but
that his firmness should never fail. He even added the most
outrageous insults against his Majesty. He was conducted to
the prison of Madrid, and he will be tried forthwith.

Notwithstanding his severe indisposition,
FEunrsAsu still perseveres in his pernicious
course ; and it is very probable, from the last
Mad rid accounts, that the next victim to the
Royal vengeance will be Gen. Dos FRANcisco
MARTIN, more generally known by the name of
the Empecinado. Conscious of the hatred with
which he is regarded by the majority of his sub-
jects, yet inflexible in his system of terror, FER-
DINAND has determined that the least possible
publicity shall be given to his flagitious acts, and
has just ordered the suppression of the only re•