The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-27 00:00:00

FROM THE PORTFOLIO—No. XXX.

CONFIDENTIAL DESPATCH FROM COUNT
NESSELRODE TO PRINCE LIEVEN.
DATED ST. PETERSBURGII, JANUARY 9TH, 1827.

We have postponed, until the departure of a courier, who
will be sent to you in eight or ten days, the explanations
which we reserve to ourselves to make to the Cabinet of
London on the affairs of the Peninsula, on the circum-
stances which have given rise to the expedition of British
troops to Portugal, and on the position of the Infant Don
Miguel. It is, nevertheless, impossible for us to conceal
from you at once the deep feeling of regret and of pain
which the Emperor has experienced in reading the speech
of Mr. Canning, in which that Minister, who had just vin-
dicated the measures adopted by the Government of his
Britannic Majesty to save the Court of Lisbon from immi-
nent danger, has suddenly thrown contempt on the policy
of France, revealed the secret views which guide him with
regard to that State, and declares that he had called the
new world into existence ; and that all the revolutionists
in Europe, all those who only seek to betray their Sovereign
and their country, were the natural auxiliaries of Great
Britain.

His Imperial Majesty approves of the observations which
you hastened to make to Mr. Canning respecting this lan-
guage, which Europe had nowhere heard since the sad
epoch of the French Revolution. Judicious replies have al-
ready reduced to their just value the praises which the
English Minister had lavished on his own combinations and
their effects. A moderation which cannot be too much
appreciated has led the Government of France to the wise
step of not giving importance to words, which may, never-
theless, bequeath to both countries centuries of interna-
tional hatred. Finally, Mr. Canning himself, struck with-
out doubt with the consequences of his imprudent asser-
tions, has modified and almost retracted them, in a new
edition of his speech. This disavowal, whilst proving the
justness of our remarks on the character of the principal
Secretary of State of his Britannic Majesty, and on those
passionate expressions which only entail upon him a tardy
repentance, offers, on the other hand, the only reparation
which one can exact from a Minister, placed in the exalted
situation which Mr. Canning occupies—a reparation which
claims from us even due respect ; and you will not, Mon
Prince, offer him any official observations on the subject of
the declarations which he has made since he seems to have
acknowledged his error. But, in your private interviews
with him, his Imperial Majesty desires that you will not
leave him in ignorance how much he has been affected by
seeing principles hostile to all Governments, and subversive
of the general peace, loudly professed by one of the first
functionaries of a power such as Great Britain.
You may observe to Mr. Canning, that the Emperor
has sufficiently proved, and continues to prove, his desire
that relations of strict amity and mutual confidence should
reign between Russia and Great Britain ; but that this con-
fidence and this friendship would be inadmissible, if every
State were to see in the English Government a secret
enemy, whose policy would lead it to foment discontents,
and to encourage treason, in order to be able to count, in
case of need, on their results, and to profit by their sup-
port. Could a doctrine, so contrary to the rights of na-
tions, and to the morality of civilized Europe, be really the
doctrine of the Cabinet of St. James's, the rule of its de-
terminations, or the instructions of its agents ? We do not
believe it, notwithstanding the speech of Mr. Canning, and
we would rather believe that, carried away by the heat of
the debate, he expressed sentiments, the application of
which would be, even in his own judgment, an universal ca-
lamity. It is in this sense, Mon Prince, that you will
have the goodness to enter into explanations with him,
whilst intimating, in the name of the Emperor, his Imperial
Majesty's confident hope that we shall not be under the
necessity of recurring to the subject.
Receive, Mon Prince, the assurances,
&c., &c., &c.
NESSELRODE.

(Signed)

During the present summer the temperature of
the atmosphere has shown most unusual alterations in various
parts of the globe. At Riga complaints have been made that
the weather has been hotter than for many preceding years.
In the country between New Ruppin and Oranienburg, the
nights of the 31st of July and the 3d of August were so cold
that the buck-wheat and the foilage of the apple-trees were
completely frozen, and the surface of the water in the ditches
turned to ice. At Philadelphia, in North America, it was so
cold on the Ist of June, that it was necessary to have fires in
the rooms. In the environs of Munich, the fineness of the
summer and the abundance of the crops have been • subjects of
self-congratulation to the inhabitants. In the greater part of
Germany water has been so much wanting that the mills have
been stopped, and the meadows so parched that it is expected
there will be no second crop of hay. Bread is extremely dear,
not from scarcity of corn, but from want of means of grinding
it into flour. The price of meat has risen, and it is expected
to be still higher.
The branches of manufacture carried on in Stirling,
and its neighbourhood, are at present in a very flourishing con-
dition, more so, indeed, than they have been for a long time
past. In the woollen shawl trade, goods have risen twelve per
cent. within the last four months. Tartans, blankets, and
plaidings, have experienced about the same advance. The
carpet trade is also brisk, and prices high ; but owing to 'the
great advance in the price of wool, the profits are small. All
hands are, or may be, employed in the spinning and weaving
departments. The wool-spinning department is brisk beyond
all precedent, so much so, that two large mills are now build-
ing in Stirling and its immediate neighbourhood. And two
others are about to be built, besides what is being done in Til-
licoultry, Alloa, and other places, where trade is equally
brisk. Wages are good, so that the industrious operative has
cheeringa prospect before him for the winter. All our do-
mestic traes are equally busy, and a sufficient supply of work
men can scarcely be found.--Stirling Observer.
It is not, we believe generally known that England
is the convict settlement of the Channel Islands. The fact is
so, nevertheless. On the 18th inst., some men who had com-
mitted an offence at St. Helier were ordered " to find security
for their future good behaviour, and in default thereof to be
banished to England (the convict settlement of the Channel
Islands) for the term of three years."
The Dumfries salmon fishery is stated to have been
less productive this season than has been known through the
the last twenty years. This is ascribed partly to the coldness
of the season, but in a greater degree to the operations of
the poacher. By law the fishing must cease on the 25th,
and it is lamented that this is the period of the year when the
draughts are most abundant, and the fish in best condition.
The money market at Liverpool presents a more
favourable aspect this week than last. Last week money was
worth six per cent., and then could only be obtained upon first
rate paper ; now it is more plentiful at five per cent. The
determination of Government to advance the rate of interest
upon exchequer Bills, and to apply their surplus to the
buying up the Exchequer Bills as they become due, has given
satisfaction, and more confidence to the mercantile world.
Coleman being asked what he thought of John
Kemble, in Don Felix, answered, " that there was too much
of the Don, and too little of the Felix. _

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—A very melancholy
occurrence (the nature of which will be seen by the evidence
of Miss Haines) took place on Thursday last, in the Solway,
by which Sarah Ann Miller, aged 22 years, the daughter of
Mr. Haines, one of the Preventive Officers stationed at Bow-
ness, and Mrs. Isabella Irving, of Wigton, aged 40, two re-
spectable females, lost their lives :—" About half-past two on
Thursday the 15th inst., I requested him to take us across to
Bowness—he said he could not take us before seven o'clock.
Upon this Mrs. Irving proceeded to Mr. Irvin's, at Whinney
Rigg, who also keeps passage boats. She there applied to a
female, by whom two of Mr. Irving's labourers were called
out of the harvest field, who took the boat up as far as Brough's
house. Witness then asked them if it was safe to cross, at the
same time expressing her fears that it was not, as Brough
had previously refused to go with them. They made answer
it was perfectly safe, and in a joking way said,' Brough could
take them well enough, but he wanted us for lodgers
all night.' Witness at this time requested them to let us out ;
Fergusson was willing, but Bell refused. After proceeding
a little way we struck upon the sand, and I again desired
them to let us out. When we got into the channel of the
river, we saw some stakes and nets below us, and called the
boatman's attention to them ; but the current was running so
very strong that the boat immediately came down against
them broadside and capsized. I threw myself against the
stakes and took hold of my sister, who remained :itdh thethn
boat. Mrs. Irving was at this time up in the boat
little girl was clinging to the nets. In a very boat,
time
the nets gave way and fell over, and the boat sunk, keel up-
wards, and I remember nothing more. The men did
render us all the assistance, I considered, they might have
done. I was about chin deep in the water".—Carlisle

Journal.
AGAIN—The Bangor
THE SEA SERPENT SEEoNf
August publishes the sub-
(Maine) Advertiser of the 10.ttlito
tor
aour shores paid 11 the tea
joined account of another
absentvisi
considerable time :---This
setpent, who had been inlet between Mount Desert Rock
creature was seen inn the
Saturday, by Captain Black, of the
and the mainland,
Fax,
of Sedgwick.. Captain Black is an
fishing schooner F•
intelligence and veracity. He says that he was
elderly man of
of
his
snakesbip for an hour, and at least
within fifty
yards
'body were exposed when in motion and that
sixty f eetbeot'
at' least twenty feet longer. The
head was only
he mustabove the surface ; it was precisely like the
two or three
land snake,
and the neck
was smaller just below the
head of a lan
in this particular resembling the snake family ; his co-
ihead,
was perfectly black, and looked like a porpoise. When
r:state of quiet, atone-third of his diameter was ex-
d and Captain Bl judged that the exposed part was
po9e t . _
about the size of a half 'barrel. There were no protuberances,
but when in motion it answered the descriptian of the lumps.
The Captain attempted to near him, but the noise of the boat
alarmed him, and he sank and rose some distance off. If ho
had had a gun, he thinks he could have killed him. He is
going again immediately, prepared to give him battle.
.11:
has never believed in the existence of the monster before, but
is now ready to make oath to the above statement. There
were with him at the time a man
and a woman,n boat with
t ucksport Hotel is an old woman who was in the
At the
B
Parson Cummings in the revolutionary war,whe -n be saw the
this.
serpent, and her account coincides with Our informa-
tion comes from a gentleman of this city, who conversed with
)a Jen,
Captain Black at Bucksport.—New York 1