The Sun.
London, England, 1825-11-09 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN FISII COMPANY.

MANsToN-IfousE.—A Gentknian Who holds
Shares in a Company called the Metropolitan Fish Company,
applied to the Lord Mayor for advice in what manner to act, for
the purpose of obtaining the amount of the deposits paid by him
to the bankers upon the Shares which had been kindly allotted
to him. He stated, that there was r.o pretence whatever for de-
taining what remained of the deposits from the Shareholders, as
the Company had drawn its last breath. lie had, when the shares
reached a premium, been advised to sell, but as he had no idea of
gambling or encouraging others to gamble, and as he had been
told that there were great probabilities of success, he locked up
his shares upon which he paid 1/. each, determined to abide the
result of the experiment. The proceedings of the Managers
shewed how ill qualified they were to undertake an extensive
business. They appointed Mr. Myers the fishmonger, to be
a sort of nominal superintendant, and purchased from him his
concern and business, which it is well known had been very
great. He enlarged the premises at a considerable expense, and
operations commenced. The Managers, however, presuming
upon an instinctive knowledge of the business in which they
had embarked, set up two or three concerns at the West end of
the town, and placed over them persons, one of whom was wholly
ignorant of the trade. Even the premises selected for the sale
of the fish were considered by those who were capable of judg-
'ing, wholly unfit, and Mr. Myers, the moment he saw them,
declared that the fish could never keep. The predictions of
failure began to pour in from all sides, and the business be-
gan to flag. Mr. Myers, who conceived that his old customers
would continue to deal at the old shop, though he was no
longer master of it, soon found out his mistake. His former cus-
tomers did not think it fair that the business of individualsshould-
be interfered with by a Joint Stock Company, and transferred
their dealings to a less aspiring tradesmen. This defection upon
the part of Mr. 'Myers's friends was not to be met by any advan-
tage operating as a counterpoise. The Shareholders, who could
afford to buy fish, all considered it but fair that they should be
provided with it at a cheaper rate at the Metropolitan Fish con
cern than anywhere else, and looked very blank upon the thing.-
when they were dealt with as if they were merely part of the
public. After the Managers had wasted a great deal of money
in dabbling in fish, Mr. Myers became rather uneasy, and, as
he had not let the premises out of his possession, he determined
that the Company should come to a perfect understanding with
him. He succeeded, after a good deal of trouble, in obtaining
10s. in the pound upon the debt of the Company to him ; anti he
now was busied in getting back the business he had lost to his
old shop, which was once more in his own peaceable possession.
The applicant said, that the least that the Directors, one et
whom was Lord George Seymour, one of the Commissioners of
Excise, could do, was to make a speedy division of what re-
mained of the deposits amongst the shareholders—The Loci.
:MAYOR advised a meeting should be called of the shareholders,
that the Directors should be required to lay before then: the
state of its funds., and as the Company was in such an untortu-
nate condition, that an immediate settlement should take place.

LONDON MARKETS, &c.

CORN EXCHANGE, Nov. 9.

The boisterous state of the wind keeps out supplies, and the
market this morning presents a small spew of ship samples.
Wheat Continues dull at .11onday's terms. Scarcely any Malt-
ing Barley at market, which fully maintains last quotations.
Beans and Pease are unaltered. Rather more money is asked
for Oats, but not obtained, the sale !Ring slow.

AltalYALs—English Wheat, 3,650; Barley, 3,10 e ; Oats.
5,970; Irish Oats, 1,030 ; Foreign Wheat, 1,150 ; Barley.
75 qrs.; Flour, 6,500 sacks.

FIOP INTELLIGENCE.

CANTETMURY, OCT. 7.—The hop trade is totally at a stand
—not a bidder attended the market on Saturday. The con-
sumers seem determined to do without the new hops except they
can obtain them on lower terms than the short crops entitle the
growers to expect.
MAIDSTONE, NOV. s.—Our hop market still continues
very heavy, and there are but few sales made ; the demand for
new ones being considerably less than could have been expect-
ed at this season of the year. Price in pockets, from 17 to 201.
per cwt., in bags 16 to 181. 18s.

DARING ROBBERY.—A Gentleman named
ARNOLD was hustled this morning in Fleet-street.
near the end of Fleet Market, by three fellows,
who robbed him of his pocket-book, containing
bills and Bank notes to the amount of 3741.; the
thieves, however, will not benefit much by the
robbery, as the hills are not due. The Bank
notes only amount to about 151.

UNFORTUNATE FAMILY.—Not many months
since, D. Guild, coachman to J. iqudie, Esq., of
Pitmuies, fell from the carriage on the road to
Forfar, four miles distant from Arbroath, and
was killed on the spot. Shortly after that acci-
dent one of his children was burnt to death ; and
on Thursday, the 27th ult., a fine boy, another
of his children, was drowned in the water th.:t
runs past the Castle of Guthrie, where he had
gone to amuse himself fishing for minnows.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.
DAILY

Extracts front the 31([7•7-iirs-i-Papers, Nov. 9, 152.5.

[SEW T[MEs.]

We.said last Friday, that the Letter of Mr.
Canning to M. de Los Rios was a masterpiece of
argument; but we could only speak. of. its .sub-
stance—the form, mutilated and barbarised, by a
dpu.ble translation, and that from no very expert
pens, presented nothing of that combination of
energy, terseness, • and elegance, for which the
State Papers of Mr. Canning have been always
remarkable. We have, therefore, made it our
business to procUre, anti we have the satisfaction
of exclusively laying before our readers, an
authentic copy of this memorable doctitnent, as it
was transmitted to the Spanish Ambassador.—
(See another column of
stantly "be seeti;'on a conipariscin'with•the former
pLiblication, that the genuine letter was not:only
far more classiCal in its style, but that the reason-
ing was rendered more cogent and conclusive by
the proper 'choice and connection of the -terms
applied. Thus, in the very first paragraph, we
'find Om translated copy concluding almett, uniti-
teiligibly—" On that decisive event, as it ap-
pears to be, the undersigned can only say that it
will be a great satisfatition *to the British
Government that it takes place 'before,' its
intentions are announced` respecting the other
countries of South America." Now the-" de-
cisive event " here spoken of is the issue
of the events referred 'to by M. Zea some months
before, whiCh issue ,had taken place-when Mr.
Canning wrote; ;and the issue was the very con-
trary of ia expected by M. Zea. Mr. Canning,
therefore, thus expressed himself--" Of that de-
cisive issue,-as it appears to be, the undersigned'
is directed to say that it is a great' satisfaction
to the 'British Government. that it had actually
taken place before the intentions of the British
Government towards Spanish America were an-
nounced." We cannot give a stronger proof of
the necessity there was for laying this important
letter before the public in its true shape than is
afforded by the comparison of these two passages ;
in the one the British Minister is made to talk
vaguely about some future event ; in the latter
he-speaks' with 'certainty and confidence, refer-
ring to an event already past, and which could
deitlier be denied nor evaded by the party whom
he was addresSing.—lndeed t4tis is the character
of the Note throughout. It presses fact upon
fact, and authority upon authority. It first proves
distinctly that in treating with the New South
American States, Great Britain had viiilated no
positive obligation of any Treaty which hound
her to Spain ; and then it demenstrates, with
equal clearness, that the general principles of
ternational law did not prohibit the course which
his Majestyldeliberately pursued.' But we are
detainining our Readers from an examination of
the Note itself, a single perusal, of which will
show more forcibly titan any words of ours can
do, that it was truly a Response sans- replique.

[THE TIMES.]
A Paris correspondent assures use on what he
considers good authority, that the health of the
young Duke of Bordeaux has much deteriorated
of late--that he suffers from a scrofulous distem-
per—that one of his legs is in a state which causes
great anxiety, and that his immediate relatives
do not now rely upon him with so much confi-
dence as formerly to continue their august
dynasty. Thus the French have cause to appre-
hend that the " child of miracles," as M. de
Chateaubriand called him, may not live to- pro.'
long the race of St. Louis,and that his prerriatbre
decay may spoil many a bright anticipation,
or falsify many a fine prophecy. But the most
cbrious part of our correspondent's letter remains
behind. The whole family of the Bourbons; as
Might be expected, are thrown into alarm,' and
the old King, like a man in panic, is said to have
adopted the desperate resolution of (guess
reader)—of--marrying again, and giving France
another chance forgoodgovernrnent. The illustrious
lady who is destined for the honour of his hand
is stated to be a Princess of Saxony, and ividqw
of the Grand Duke of Tuscany., Though both
in the same state with respect to widowhood, the
age of the'Princess is. Very different from that of
her intended husband.; he being, we believe;
about and he just 65' on Thursday last. The
match would thus resemble, in point of the ages
of the Parties, and-their previous deprivation of
Connubial bliss, the viceregal nuptials which-have
lately spread so much •hilarity over the sister
island.; the Viceroy having the advantage of the
King, or the King of the. Viceroy, by only two
years.—We alluded above to Thursday )ast—
the birth-day of Charles X. On that day' many
flattering addresses were delivered, and of course
many sage answers returned. On former occa-
.

sions " the child of miracles" was always men-
'tioned or alluded to in this bandying of birth-
day compliments with the Throne, but on Thurs-
day„ last he was as much, forgotten as the
little King of Rorne. Whenc,e can .this for-
getfulness have proceeded, bfit from the pro.
spect of another " child of miracles?" Nay, is
not this theory confirmed by the 'following re-
markable expressions in one of the Icing's an-
sweis---expressions wirich the courtiers are said
to haveapplied to his intended matrimonial en-
terprises I must not only occupy myself
" with the present happioess,or my people, hut
" prepare their future felicity. This " future
" felicity" was snpposed to 'be a Charles XI.
We thus giVe the report current in the political
circles of Paris;and some of the grounds on vvhich
it rests, without pledging ourselves for its truth.
Malesty having exhansted all his' present
'means of pleasinz his -ungrateful Parisians, and
taVing enacted 'a coronation—
having passed the ordeal of a public entry—hay.,
'Eng given city balls, free' theatrical 'admissions,'
fire-n•Of kg, and Mutt:nations, without producing'
the intetilled effect, becau-e, fors36ofh, he endea-
'voured talp, a paltry 'franc from their annul
Hest -
must try to recOv'ee his 'poOttlarity-by nup-
_ and birthidayjejocings." -'Nothing, however,

it is said, could be more-melancholy than the at. •
tempt of Thursday. 71 -
['rue pon't-tc LEDGER..]
''The Moniteur of Sunday, tihictv'haS Come 'to
mand with the other Paris Paper&.•of that day,
Contains an extract-from the Madrid Gazette.Ol
the 27th ult. in which, the dismissal *UM. Zea
'Bermudez, and the appointinent of -the Duke of
infantado to the functions of First Minister, and
Secretary of State, are officially' announced. The
notice is so dry and concise, that it is impossible
'to found upon it any conjecture respecting the
fate of the discarded Minister ; but that it will
not be an exception to the general rule, which his
Catholie Majesty haS followed. in matters of this
kind, it is only reasonable to.Presumne.. As. Fen-dinand has at last attained his beau ideal of Go-
-I..erntnent, and acquired- a person after his-own
heart for his Chief Minister, we may.expect ex-
traordinary results, such is no..dnubt will throw
all the former passages-of •his reign- completely
into the shade. It be a• perfect time of
Jubilee for the Monks, acid it wilt'be no 'longer
reckoned a trime.in a loyal and pious Spaniard
to cut the throats of the Negroes, and commit a
whole Lodge of Freemasons to• the flames.—
•Energy,of purpose, and firmness of execution; in
hunting down the Constitutionalists, still be the
characteristics of the new (Adel' of things ; and
the lives of that ".accursed sect" will be held
more vile than those of the wild boars that are
kept in the preserves of his Most Sacred Ma-
jesty. This is nothing but just and reasonable,
for the latter conduce to the amusement of that
amiable and considerate Monarch ; whilst the
former nerve to• annoy him bg their visionary
schemes and senseless jargon, about public good'
and national regeneration. • However, the new
Ministry purpose .giving other proofs of their
energy; arid though a forced loan is not men-
tioned, it is probable that it will be one of the
first expedients resorted to, as this is a mode of
replenishing, the treasury particularly congenial
to the fiscal notions of Ferdinand, besides the
pretext it will give him of 'punishing the mer-
• chants, who, almost to .a matt, have the abominable
taint of liberalism. But as the system would
be-imperfect, unless the same energy, by which
the management of domestic affairs is to be dis-
tinguiShed, were to- be extended to the foreign
policy of the kingdom, a formal and peremptory
demand, it is confidently stated, ,has..been made
to the French Government to withdraw its troops
immediately, and to abstain.from all ftirther in-
terference in Spanish 'concerns. The Moniteur,
it is true, takes no notice of this application;
but this omission does not in the slightest degree
invalidate the account, particularly as it contains
a paragraph, which indirectly confirms it. It
announces, for example, that the camp near Per,
pignan was raised- on the 22d ult., and that time
troops who occupied -it had marched into that
town, where a-part of them were provisionally
quartered in the Citadel, and the rest billeted
on the inhabitants:

EMO II NINd POST.)
French Papers to the 7th inst., and the Etoile
of Monday, reached us last night by Express:
They
,are chiefly filled with accounts of the re-
joicings which took place on the King's Saint's
day (which is generally kept in France instead
of the birfhday), and of the speeches addressed
to his Majesty by various public Bodies on that
occasion. Though the Hay tian Commissioners
have succeeded in obtaining better terms for their
Loan than any of the white States of South Ame-
rica, yet as even those terms did not• supply ~them
with more than twenty-four out of the thirty mil-
lions of francs which were wanted ; they have
taken upon themselves to pay ..the first six
millions down at once, and to let the Company
clear the rest by monthly instalments. A letter
from Rio de Janeiro given in. One of these l'apers,
states the important fact that the Emperor Don
Pedro had written to. Bolivar that he would send
a Deputy to the Congress at Panama to represent
the empire and defend the interests of Brazil.—.l
Mr. Stratford Canning had passed through Lau-
saline on the 31st. ult. on his **ay to Italy and
Naples, where he was
,to embark for Constanti-
nople. A work has lately appeared in France,
‘‘4o J. the Greeks and their present Situation,"
in which it is asserted that the last visit
of Prince Metternich in Paris was occa-
sioned by the report that the King •of
France and the Duke of Angouleme began to feel
some compassion towards the Greeks. The Ails=
trian Diplomatist, it is added, came purposely" to
implorethem to delay all the interference for an-
other year, on the assurance that . the campaign
then ping to begin would be the last, a decisive
blow being about to be struck." That deciSive
blow was the expedition of Ibrahim, which was.
expected to annihilate the Greeks, but which has
only served to try their constancy, to exercise
their valour, and to terminate their dissensions.