The Sun.
London, England, 1823-02-18 00:00:00

from
.the opinion expressed by Lord Livett-

poor. at the opening of the Session of Par-
liament, viz. that the hope of preserving
peace was even then not entirely destroyed.—
,—We are not insensible to. the additional
strength which must have been given to that
hope by the public declaration of the sentiments
of the British Government. We are not insen.

sible to the effect of another and unlooked for
motive for preserving peace, which is to be found

in the announcement given last night by •the
Earl of Liverpool in the House of Lords, viz,
that,Austria had consented to a principle for the
repayment of the debt which she owes to

this country, and that his Lordship hoped
to be soon able to communicate the completion of
arrangements for carrying the liquidation of the
debt into effect ! The financial difficulties of
Austria are well known ; and if at this crisis she

is about to come under engagements whic'4 will
pledge her resources to the discharge of her pe-
cuniary obligation to England,it will be evident
that from Austria at least France cannot reckon
upon receiving any very powerful assistance, in
the event of her Spanish a ar, either entailing
upon her disasters abroad, or exciting commo-

tions at home. Still, notwithstanding all these
considerations, the chance of preserving peace
appears to us, for the reasons which we have
stated to be so extrerrn slender, that. We antic'.
pate,the commencement of hostilities as an event
that is almost inevitable.

We extract the following from the German
Papers received this morning :
" BAYONNE, FEB. B. W e have heard that an
order has been sent from Bilboa to all the ports
in the Gulf of Biscay, to remove all vessels and
boats fit for the service to the port of Bilboa, or
to burn them. Several detachments of troops
and of militia were sent from Bilboa on this
expedition, and came even as far as St. Se-
bastiana.

•44 BERLIN, FEB. B.7—The Royal Government
of. Cologne has given notice; as a. warning to
those Whom it may concern, that PrusSian subjects
who go as soldiers to Greece, are not 'to expect
any kind of assistance" on their return, and the
less so, as the distress that there awaits them
will have been wholly drawn on themselves, by
transgressing their duty as subjects."
44 Ihmnunott, Fro. 7.—The presentstate of
political affairs has considerable influence here.
The price of goods and rate of insurance are
rising. Thus the insurance to Bourdeaux, Which
was lately 2 per cent. is now 6, and to Cette 6 is
ROW 12, Stt."

The enthusiastic reception given to the Duke
bf SAN LORENZO in England is but a faint ex-
pression of the intense interest which is felt by
the British nation in, the fate of Spain.

The rumours which were rpeently circulated
of changes in the Spanish Ministry are 'falsified)
by the unanimous support given to the present
Ministers by the Cortes.

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.]
STOCK EXCIIANGE, Half-past Twelve o'Clock.—
Little or no business is doing this morning in the

!above -Nail t. Consols opened at 741, end up
„to this hour they are 74f8. No. prlce: of the
:French Funds. Owing to., its beiug Sunday
there is kgreat dullness in all speculations, n th.
Funds. • •

4ronP6l'f MAriltatii.---The above Market is
very: dull this mothirig, and little doing. Spanish,
Bonds opened at 331, and went down to 321 1.

New York Papers arrived this morning to the
`_'sth January, but they do not contain any infor-
mation of importance.

[From tyle Ne-4 rode Gazette of the 17M.1
We have seen a letter from Curacoa, dated the
17th ult. which says. that MORALES continued in
possession of Maracaibo; the schooner spoken of
in yesterday's Gazette, on leaving been captured
by the Colombian, is said to have had a cargo on
board worth 30,000 dollars, the Most valuable of
MORALES' plunder.

"To the Senate of the United States. -
" I transmit herewith to the Senate fa their constitutional
consideration, a Convention between the United States and
Great Britain,' concluded at St. Pctersburgh on the 12th day
of July last, under the mediation of his Imperial Majesty of
all the Ruisias, together_ with the documents appertaining
thereto. " JAMES .11IONROE."

THE KlNG.—(l3righton, Feb. 1 G.)—Excepting
the remaining weakness common after the gout,
we have now the heartfelt satisfaction of an.
nouncing the complete recovery of our Most
Gracious Sovereign, His MAJESTY has left his
private apartments, and dined with his company
and suite for several days past. Ills MAJESTY
will hold a Privy Council at the Pavilion in the
afternoon of to-morrow.

The KING will be in town on Thursday to re-
ceive the Recorder's Report, and will stop at
Carlton Palace for three or foar days, after
which he will return to Brighton, and remain
there till Easter.
Some of the Cabinet Ministers left town yes-
terday morning for Brighton, to attend a Council
at the Pavilion.
The SPEAKER'S Parliamentary. Levees for the
present Session, will commence On Saturday next,
the c•22d February.
,
fiLORENTE, the author of the Li„ istorN of the
Inquisition, and other works of high reputation,
(lied lately at Madrid. In conseqUence of the
representations of the Pores NUIICiO, ittewas in
December last suddenly compelled to leave Paris,
I where he had resided seven years. Obliged to
travel at so severe a season, and to pass the fron-
tier at the moment when Spain was infested by
the bands of the Faith, this venerable gentleman
had to encounter great hardshipkand dillicUlties.
He was often withotit any means hardships._
of conveyance,
and was on one • occasion under the 'necessity of
walking four leagues in the snow. His health
received such a shook by the fatigue, that' he
lived only a low days after his arrival at Madrid.
—(Paris Paper.)
After the election of the Right Hon. WILLIAm
liusxissoN for Liverpool on Saturday (the particulars of
which were given in our Paper of yesterday), there was a grand
procession from the Town-hall to Mr. Bourox'a, and Mr.
lIIISKISSON was received every where with the loudest ac.
Clamations.
Sir WlLLtAist Bart. and Mr. BAL-
I FOUR having declined a contest for. Berwick-Upon-Tweed, it
ii supposed that Rear-Admiral Sir JOIOr BERESPORD,
will be returned without opposition.
THE PORTSMOUTH CAUSE. —Whatever the
Portsmouth Commission may make of his Lordship, it ap-
pears likely to make a considerable reduction in his estate.
i'wenty guineas a day are paid for the use of Freemasons'
Ilan, where the inquiry is held; covers are laid for sixty every
day at dinner, for the Commissioners Counsel, &c. then
there are the fees of Counsel, the travelling expences, and
maintenance of five or six hundred witnesses, and many other
minor charges. All these matters are said to cost at least four
hundred pounds per day ; and should the . inquiry con-
tinue three months from the commencement, as was anticipated,
there will have been on expenditure of more than 30,000/. !
and that, too, for a mere preliminary proceeding.—( Morning.,
Herald.)
The Dublin Papers contain the details of a
riot which took place in that City on Thursday
last, in consequence of the occasion of the Chair-
ing of Col. WHITE, the newly elected Member for
the county. On the procession arriving at Col-
lege-green, it halted, and numbers of the mob,
armed with bludgeons, who had previously been
shouting, " on to the College," demanded of the
people who were within the rails, to take off their
hats. This demand was received with some hisses ;
on which a volley of stones was thrown, and the
thob scaled the railings, within which, a severe
Conflict ensued. The assemblage within were soon
compelled to yield to numbers, and took refuge
within the College gates. The populace then pro-
ceeded to demolish the windows. A Child,it is said,
was killed in its mother's artns,and one man was
killed by the wheel of a carriage passing over
his body. Several persons were dangerously and
many severely wounded by stones and other mis-
siles which were thrown.
JESSE Foir.--"l'his Gentleman, after a
successful practice of nearly half a century in
this Metropolis, as a Surgeon, and having written
many Professional Works, which are deservedly
respected, naturally conceives that he has paid
his due contribution to society, and is about to
retire to his native County. Library, we find,
is to he sold, and, among other curious matters,
the following lot seems to be particularly entitled
to the notice of both Collectors and the Profess
Mon
271. An Illustration of the LIFT: of 'the Late JOHN
lIIINTEL—The Author knows himself justified by all ho-
nourable truth in offering to public sale this work, his last la.
hour of his last year's practice.—This Work elegantly bound in
three vol. royal 4to, by Lewis,_ is made up under a careful ar-
rangement of 30 appropriate Drawings, calculated especially to the purpose of displaying the prominent parts of the Life—of
200 engraved portraits, of personages named in the Text Life;
besides of 100 Anatomical plates of engravings, called fur, as
they aro demanded for the occattion.
Two shepherds, with their flock of about 200
sheep, have perished in the snow near the Bridge
of Dye.---A shepherd and 600 sheep are knissing
at Fettercairn. It is supposed they have pe-
rished in the storm.--(Edinburgh Courant,
Feb. 15.)

FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.
The Earl of Fowls, from his seat, Walcott, Salop ; Earl of
Abergavenny, from his seat.. Eridge.caitle, Sussex; Sir Thos.
and Lady Farquhar, from their seat at Raehampton ; Sir John
and Lady Shelley, in Berkeley:square, from their seat, Meres.
field-park, Sussex ; Sir Wm. Hope, Bart. from a tour ; Hon.
Edw. Foley, at Greillon's Hotel; Sir Fred. and Mr. Vane, at
the St. James's Hotel, Jermyn-street ; Admiral Sir Richard
Strachan, Baronet, at the Hyde-park Hotel, from Brighton ;
Admiral Nugent, at ditto, from Seuthatnton ; Capt. Bayard,
Ist Life-guards, at ditto, from Yorkshire; Joseph Tharpe,
Esq. at ditto, from Chippenham.park ; G. 'Wilkins, Esq. M.P.
at Batt's Hotel, Dover-street, from Herefordshire.

DEPARTURES.—Mn. and Miss Esdaile, from the Hyde
Park Hotel, for Florence; Mr.and Mrs.Pembertonifrom Blake's
Jermyn-street, for their seat in Hefts ; George Thomp-
' son, Esq. from the Royal Hotel, St. James's-street, for his
seat in Hants ; James Augustus Bateman, Esq. from the Lon-
don Hotel, Albemarle-street, for India; James Hope Vere, Esq.
from ditto, for Paris ; Mrs. Hamilton, front ditto, for Clifton ;
Lord Blantyre, from Warren's Hotel, Regent-street, for his
seat, Erskine-liouse, Glasgow.

FASIIIONABI4E PARTIES.
Mr. Alexander Raring gave a Grand Entertainment
day at his house in Portman.square.

Sir William Alaly, Bart. gave a Grand Dinner yesterday, at
his house in Hill-street. Berkeley-square.

The Vice-Chancellor had a Dinner Party yesterday. ,
The Earl of Liverpool and Mr. Speaker, gave Grand Dinners
on Sunday last.

The fallowing Noblemen and Gentlemen gave Grand Enter-
tainments on-Saturday last, viz. The Earl of Westmorland
and Lord Calthorpe, in Groveqnor-square; Sir John Nichol, in
Burton-street, Berkeley-square; Sir Robert Gifford, in White-
hall-place; and Mr. Maberley, in Grosvernor-square—.the
Hon. Wm. Ponsonby and Agar Ellis on the preceeding day.

Mrssloxany SOCIETY.—The Annual'General Meeting of
this Institution, which has for its object the support of 150 l‘lis-
sionaries in die West India Colonies, Ceylon, South and,Wes-
. tern Africa, was held yesterday evening in Great Queen-street
Chapel, Lincoln's Inn-fields. At half-past six o'clock, LAN-
CELOT TIASLOPE, ERci., took the Chair, anti was supported by
several persons of emitlence, who in the course of the evening
delivered able and animated speeches in furtherance of
,the
objects of the Society. The Report, which was read, detailed
at great length many interesting and affecting statements of the
progress of Christianity in the places above-mentioned. The
Officers for the ensuing year were then appointed ; and thanks
having been voted to the Chairman, the Meeting, which was
highly numerous and respectable, adjourned.

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