The Sun.
London, England, 1823-03-21 00:00:00

MERCANTILE Sill I'Pf NG.

BERMUDA, FEn. 15.--The Launch of the
Salishuri flag-ship was upset and sunk on the 31st ult. It was
commanded by Mr. James IT'harton, Admiralty Midshipman,
who was accompanied by Mr. James Maude, a young gentle-
man belonging to the ship, nine seatnen, and the wife of one
of the men, who were alt unfortunately drowned. Mr. Whar-
ton's body has been washed on shore, and buried at, the Ilos-
pital, attended by the Officers of the Salisbury and a concourse
of persons. The bodies of three of the seinnen, viz. Philip
Anderson, John Davison, and John Smith, have also been
washed on shore and buried.

DEAL,- MARCH 20.—Wind IV.S.W.--*Sailed this morning
the EaClancarty and the whole of the bonieward-bound for
the River. Arrived to-day and sailed for the River the Long-
ford, Curry, from Demerara . • Onyx, Wilton, from If onduras;
Elizabeth, \Victim)), from 13erbice; and the June, ()very..
from Cadiz : the two former remain in the Downs with the Ala.
dyes, Trial, and Niger, Outward-bound vessels as per la.t.
PORTSMOUTH. W.S.W.—Arrived the
Balloon, Smith. from Rotterdam for Baltimore ; and Alexan.
der, from ditto for Surinam.
FALMOUTH, MARCH 19.—Wind N.—Arrived the Enter-
prize, Basket, from London. Sailed the Success, Russell, for
Riga.
HARWICH, MARCH 20.—Wind W.S.W.—Sailed the Lei.
cester packet, for Holland; and Lady Nepean packet, for Cux-
haven.

COWES, IVtancu 19.—Arrived the American vessel Ocean,
Bond, from New York, bound to Amsterdam, very leaky, with
loss of bulwarks, &c.

THE ARMY.

Saturday his liajesty's 3d Foot, or Buffs, gave
a farewell dinner at Deptford, previously to their final em.
barkation for New South %Vales, Colonel Stewart in the Chair.
The party- was attended by Msjor-Generitl'lllunt, tln former
old and diatinguisheil Commander, Captain Young of the
Royal Navy, the Resident Agent for Transports, and other
Gentlemen, friends of the Corps, who spent the evening with
the highest- cordiality and feeling.
Monday, the Ist division of the 66th Regiment of Foot ar-
rivea at Liverpool, from Hull, and embarked the following
morning for Dublin.
The Vectis Yeomanry Cavalry; in the Isle of Wight, had a
muster-day on Monday. The state of discipline of this highly
respectable corps is t of inferior to that, or regular cavalry,
winch reflects the highest possible credit on their 'worthy Com-
mander, Sir L. T. W. Holmes, Bart. of Westover Park.
LEEDS, NIARCII 18.—A party of Royal Marines, belong-
ing to the Chatham Division, marched into this town yesterday,
for the purpose of beating up for recruits.

THE MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE, MAncif 21.

There has been a very good supply of Wheat and Flour this
week, but not much Grain of other descriptions. The IVlteat
trade continues very dull, and the 'prices are rather lower than
on Monday. Barley is also heavy sale at our last quotation.
In Beans and Peas there is no alteration, and snore money is
asked for Oats, and in some instances higher prices are obtained.
The Flour trade is exceeding dull, and expected lower. •

SMITHFIELD MARKET, MAncit 621.
There was a short supply of Oxen at market, and the price
of good Beef may be quoted as last market day; in Sheep the
supply was as usual on Fridays.
Beef 2s Od to 4s Od
tireal
.M utton 3* 0,1 to ds Od l'ork . 3s thl to 4s Od.
Lamb Os 0 to Os Od.

HAY AND STRAW, PER LOAD.
Hay £3 las to £4 Da 1 Clover £l lOs to £:4 las
Straw £2 2a to £2 14a.

SHOCKING YOUTHFUL DEPRAVITY.

• • •
MARLBOnouott-STlttrr.—Joseph Small, a lad
about 13 years of age, was yesterday placed at the bar, charged
with having robbed- his aunt, Mrs. Cooper, u lady residing at
No. 8, Cleveland-street Fitzroy-square, of a valuable gold
watch l chain, and 7 gold seals. Mrs. Cooper, who while giving
her evidence laboured under the Most poignant anguish, stated,
that the unhappy boy at the bar was theson of her favourite sister.
who died during his infancy, and ever since she, Mrs. Cooper,
had adopted lum' and brought hint up as her own child. She
had apprenticed him to three difnirent trades, and paid a pre-
mium each time with him; but such was his attachment.. to
vicious habits, that lie would not remain at either. •A short :into •
ago she procured a situation for him in Staffordshirei'in order
to keep-him away front London, sod there she thought
Was ; hut on Saturday morning lust, to her tuitonislinient he
caned upon her, and said he had left Statfordshire about
three weeks, and was staying in toirn at his father's, who it
appears is again married. The boy being a great 6vourite Of
hers, she wasrejoiced tosee him,although displeasedat his leaving
his situation, and said he should stay and dine with her; but this •
he declined, saying that he promised his father to be home to
dinner ; he then kissed her and went away. He had not beet,
gone above a minute when she missed her watch oft' the mantle..
piece, and instantly went to his father's, but there she /earned
that they had seen nothing of hint for a week. She then walked
about the neighbourhood of Soho, and in less than half anhour
saw him in Compton•atreet with another boy ; on seelng'her
they both ran away
`; 3lrs. Cooper pursued the nephew, WI,
ing " Stop thief,' nd after a long chute he was taken behind
the door of a pawnbroker's passage in. (...ieorge-court. Ile de.
hied all know edge of the watch ; but .on examination it was
found upon the ground near where he stood ; the chain was It.
tached to it, but the seven seals were gone. 'He was taken to •
the watch-house by Webb, the constable, who happened. to b,
passing. The watch and chain were produced, and also one or
the seals, which, on the same evening, was found on a boy nettled
"lead, -who was taken offering it for pawn. Head was
placed at the bar. He said he bought the seal from another
boy for a shilling, who said he found it. Small's father atteta,-,
ed, and entreated the Magistrate to use hia influence to get the
boy into some asylum, as he was quite incorrigible; -he had
repeatedly robbed him and several of, his friends.

"Mr. itot said, it was first necessary that he should be con-
victed, before any provision of that kind could be made for him::
Such was Mrs. Cooper's fondness still ter the ungrateful boy
that she could only be induced to prosecute by the earnest
surance of the Magistrate that it was the only mode of saving
him from an ignominious death. Ile was then fully committed',
as was also the boy [lead for receiving the stolen seal:
Mrs. Cooper now said, that within the last five years this tir-
Animate boy had robbed her of property worth upwards of EMI
At one time he contrived, by the aid of his associates, to carry
off a whole service of plate from her ; they took it to Bath, ant
there sold it for one-fourth its value. On.another occasion lin
able a diamond broach worth 70 guineas, belonging to a lady
who was on a visit with her. This be sold for M. anti Mrs.
Cooper had to replace it for the lady.
The Magistrate said he had never known a case of more base
ingratitude.
The unfeeling young thief, notwithstanding the agony of his
aunt, stood during the whole proceeding quite unmoved.

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hand over her mouth dragged her to the kitchen
and threatened to cut her throat if, she spoke.—
Having thus secured her, two more of the gang
in the mean time ransacked every room below
stairs, and curried tor a quantity of plate, linen,
wearing apparel, &c. These daring offend+ ra
have made the►r escape.
An eccentric individual, at an advanced age,
recently died at Upstreet. Ile had not changed.
his clothes, nor lain in a bed 'for above fifteen
years; he used to sit in a large wicker arm chair
before the fire, from which he very unwillingly
moved, chopping even the wood he used as fuel on
`one of the arms of his chair. In the extremity
of death he fell from his se►►t tb the floor, und,
when taken up and undressed, he presented a
shocking spectacle as a corpse. lie was not in a
state of want, having a competent annuity ; but
his habits were the effects of eccentricity.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

V.'XTRACTS FROM. VIE D ILY MORNING PAYERS,
March M 2 18'21

[MORNING POST.] •
Is it possible to believe that Ferdinand, in the
hands of the French Ultras, would be more free
than he is surrounded by the Cortes of his country,
and seated on a Constitutional Throne ? But
even if he were the captive which he has been
represented, is it to restore liberty to such a man
and Monarch as he has shown himself to be at
the hour of unlimited power, that the rights of a
-whole people are to be destroyed, the blood of
nations shed, and the peace of the world en.
dangered ? . Is there something so interesting in
ideotic superstition; heartless ingratitude, and
sanguinary despotism, as to enlist all the sym.
pathies of the heart on the side of the tried op.
pressor, merely because he is no longer permitted
to oppress? With respect to the Constitution
which is said to be imposed upon him, but to the
free establishment of which in ISM he owes in
fact his Crown, it may not be faultless, though it
was sanctioned at its birth by the approbation of
nil the Legitimate Sovereigns of Europe. We
have never contended that it could not be irn.
proved. Our own has only reached its present
state of perfection by a series of improvements.
Put, what we Jiave contended, and what we still
contend for is, that those improvements are to be
made by the Spaniards themselves, as the want
of them is progressively discovered ; and that to
receive them at the dictation of a foreign Power,
or at the point of the sword, is what Spain can-
not do without losing all title to the respect and
esteem of mankind.-

[THE TIMES.]
We really are at a loss to understand the con-
duct of Government, or at least to reconcile their
assertions with what we see passing in Europe. '
An act more atrocious than' any that were ever
perpetrated even by revolutionary France, is at
the point of being attempted by the restored
Bourbons; we, above all nations, except those
of the Peninsula itself, must suffer in relative '
power, if the enterprize prove successful. Our
remonstrances—for we suppose we have remon-
strated---against the wicked attempt, have totally
failed. It is made in spite of us ; and yet it is
said, we have come with honour out of the ne-
gociation. All these things, it is obvious, are
inexplicable, or irreconcileable to common under-
standings. If the forthcoming Papers do explain
and reconcile them, and so take the apparent tar-
nish from our character, they will effect more than
ever was effected before by any diplomatic docu-
ments. In thinking over this matter, as English-
men anxious for the reputation and consequence
of their country in the scale of national power
ought .W think it ever, it has occurred to us,- that
our disgrace would not be so flagrant on account
of our acquiescence in the invasion of Spain, if
we have held some such language, or insisted
upon some such stipulations, as the following in
otir'negotiations with France 'Welly if you
tc must commit this act of invading a people most
44 friendly to us, and who. have done you no
" wrong—if, as we find to our shame, we possess'
"-net stiflicient consequence or consideration
44 with you to stay the enterprise altogethery at
44 least do not attempt its execution by sea !
" Do not violate that element, of which we are, or
" ought to be masters ; thus, as it were, stabbing
44 Spain under our arm! Such an atrocity—such an
" insult—such absolute contempt of our power—
" such ungracious forgetfulness of what we once
" were as a nation—such holding of us up to the
derision of Europe, we cannot suffer. If your
44 ships put to sea, they must meet us there as
44 enemies." If even such language as this, we
say, has been held, however different from that
which a William or an Anne would have used to
France and the Bourbons, we shall not be wholly
dissatisfied. We must look a little at our pre-
sent situation ; and the reflection but too
often occurs to us, that those under whose
administration we have sunk into it, are still
at the head of our affairs. That France also,
or rather that the Bourbons, would have no
right to complain of language such as the
above, and a corresponding system of action, is
obvious ; for they assert that all that they are
now attempting is, 44 to set Spain free from a
44 domineering faction, and that as soon as the
" French forces shall enter the Peninsula, the
" fetters of the' King and of his people will be
44 broken ; myriads of loyal Spaniards will flock
44 to their standard, and the • invaders will be
46 hailed as deliverers." Be all this, then, as as-
serted : we will. not dispute your word : but
then it follows, that you have only to pass the
Pyrenees, and the► business is done—at least you
have no occasion to join your friends by sea ;- the
Uyerx•xexiaa, can only lead you farther from
their embraces.

[MORNING IL ERALD.]
Extract of a Letter from Paris :—.44 There is
universal disconteet in France against the war,
and if the Government do not come to an ac-
commodation through our moderation, it is im-
possible to say how it will terminate. The affair
of Manuel has occasioned ,a serious uneasiness
among the National Guards, and discussions
and referenctts' to. their services in former times
during the ,Revolution, and their principles
of blind obetlienee, which may lead to very
unpleasant and dangerous consequences. The
manufacturers and, commercial men are violently
against war,- and threaten to discharge ail their
labourers the day on which war may be de-
clared. * * * and * * * * are in. Spain
with 3,000 French deserters, and a° doubt
many discontented half-pay officers wilt join
them, to try the effect of their example and
proclamations to,the French army whenever war
is declared. Every one, excepting the most viol.
lint of the fanatical party, wishes that there had
not been any interference with Spain, and it is un.
derstood that the King and Villele are earnest in
hoping that our mediation will give them an op.
portunity of backing out of it, without any change
in the Spanish Constitution. It is supposed that
if the present Ministers were dismissed, and any
others appointed at Madrid, the French Govern.

meat would consider that sufficient to renew their
negociations,and although popular oratory obliged,
or rather Induced the King to restore them lately,
after this plan was in train, it is thought the same
measure will take place very soon through Sir
Wm. A'Court's influence.

[-NEW TIMES.]
We cannot conceive any thing more uncandid
than the attempt to entrap the Gentlemen who
attended the London Tavern Dinner into a pledge
in favour of engaging this country in war. Certain
individuals of honourable and independent feel-
ings wished to pay a compliment to the Spanish
Nation in the person of its Ambassador : and
they were expressly assured that by so doing
they should be considered solely to express
an interest in the fate of the Peninsula.—
They accordingly assembled at a dinner ; and
now they are told forsooth that this repast
was 66 a solemn ceremony ! " and that 46 they
were convened by way of making a confession of
faith with regard to Spain !" If so, the whole
proceeding must have been a disingenuous tricks
and would serve only to disgust any candid mind
with a cause which could require such support ;
but we will not do the Gentlemen who proposed
the Meeting the injustice to, suppose it possible
that they could have had any such object in
view: Indeed some of those who felt most
wormly in favour of the Spaniards, have expressly
disavowed all idea of binding either themselves
or others to the support of any particular course
of policy on the part of Great Britain:

[MORNING CIIRONICLEd.
The advices from Oporto so late as the Ist
instant, have entirely removed the apprehensions
excited by the letter from that place, published
in The Courier of Monday last, and we hope
very soon to have it in our power to inform our
readers of the entire discomfiture of this last
attempt of the French Ultras to create a civil
war in Portugal, on the plan they have been
long pursuing in Spain. When Count Amarante's
Proclamation first reached us, we considered
his attempt at a counter-revolution as the act
of a madman, and these same sentiments we now
find were excited in the minds of the peasantry
of the province, where he raised' the standard
of rebellion ; for, with the exception of some dis-
appointed characters and idle men, whose time
and services can always be commanded by money,
few had joined his cause.—The Portuguese
generally have been able to appreciate the
benefits of the new order of things, and although
as in all countries, there are men ready to rouse
the prejudices of the people, from personal
motives, yet in Portugal the effect can, only be
temporary. Amarante has been eclipsed by the
numbers of great and able men the Portuguese re-
volution has brought forward, unaided by titles
and distinctions. The law has made him equal
.with the rest of his fellow-countrymen, and the
pride of ancestry, and selfish vanity, have ren-
dered him insensible to the public good, and
`,made him the tool of a party, impelled at the
present moment by revenge, and by the most un-
worthy motives to destroy the hopes of the coun-
try. Fortumately, the Portuguese peasantry are
cautious and reflecting, and not easily led astray.
They are bound to their present institutions by
every feeling of patriotism, by the many advantages
and social blessings of which the Revolution has
put them in possession, by their love of independ-
ence and peace, and by their zeal for the cause
of intelligence lied moral improvement. Under
the old system, they were the feudal vassals of a
few pampered Lords, like Amarante, neither
possessed of virtue or talents. From this degra-
dation they have been raised by the Revolution,
and the Constitution by which it has been fol-
lowed secures their rights. It is to this impor.
taut event that they owe the present union of
public power and private liberty their regene-
rated country enjoys, us well us that impulse
which contributes to national prosperity, and
these benefits they will not exchange for fetters
and shame. The threatened danger from without
has, besides, united the Portuguese, in the same
way as it has done the Spaniards, and they are
ready to forget their local animosities when na-
tional safety is the order of the day. This feeling
is prevalent in the whole of the Peninsula.

• [BRITISH PRESS.]
We received at a late hour last night the Paris
Papers of Tuesday. • As
~ we anticipated, the
'insane revolt of 'Antennae has-ended in early and
total discomfiture. A letter from Vigo assures
us, that the troops of the Censtitutional General
Rego have exterminated the unthinking fanatics
whom the Count Amarante had excited by his in-
trigues. Tht Authorities of Galicia sent to the Pron.
tiers of Portugal the regiments of Arragonand Bur.
gos and a party of the militia of Pontevadra, to
repulse Amarante, in case he appeared otv that
side. The Conde Abisbal had totally routed the
bands of the Frenchman Bessieres. The Conde
had his head.quarters at Agreda, eight leagues
from Soria. Bessieres was on the 4th of March
at Sepulveda with only 40 horaemen,and entirely
isolated and cut off from the scattered remnant
of his band of traitors ; it is thought he was flying
towards the Sierra de Cuenca. The Contitu.
tional General. Torres, having come up with. the
factious in Lower Arragon, took 600 prisoners.
The Political Chief of the province of Soria had
written to .Bessieres, advising him to profit of .the
amnesty. The Conde Abisbal, in a dispatch
dated Agreda, March. 3, has written to the Go.
vornment that the factious are entirely destroyed ;
a great ninnberHof these unfortunate wretches
have been made prisoners, others have :been
killed, and numbers profited .of the amnesty
offered, which produced much good. The. Consti.
tutional General O'Daly took from the insurgents
their treasure, and the greater part of their am.
.Munition and materiel. It is stated that the
greatest activity prevails.at. Bayonne in the pre.
Orations.. for war, and every thing announced
that it would commence sootier than was at
first imagined. They write from Bayonne that
several tallith of the bands of factious in. Spanish
Navarre. have refused to recognize the authority. of
Queseda, notwithstanding. the great,care. he took.
to notify to them the new commission and autho-
rity with which he was invested. It appears

from private letters that Mina has written to
Madrid that he is, in no want of money, and
that he looks for above 30,000 muskets to arm the
volunteers of Catalonia. It is positively stated that
Mequinenza has fallen, into the hands of Mina,
and that the bands of Bessieres are entirely dis-
persed. The lateness of the hour at which we
received these Papers last night prevents our
making any further comment on the intelligence
they convey, than merely to express the un-
feigned pleasure we feel at Spain and Portugal
both succeeding in ridding themselves of domes-
tic traitors. There is not now throughout Spain
a band of traitors worth recording, and the revolt
of Amarante, in Portugal, is no more. Both
countries will now be able to devote all their
energies against the foreign foe, and, united, they
will be invincible, and ultimately triumphant.

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

( From the Leeds Independent, March 11.

The debates in Parliament' respecting the property of the
Church in Ireland and the Otange Societies in the same part
'of the United Kingdom, will be perused with much interest
and cause serious regret for the mode in which the Opposition
appear determined to act. The motion made by Mr:. Hume •
upon the subject of the Irish tithes•could never be put in exe--
'cution without the utmost danger to the ecclesiastical este-
iblishments of these realms, independent of its manifest injus•
tice to the individuals against whom it would, in the first in-
stance,
operate. Much, indeed, has been urged on the emo-
'luments of the Irish Clergy, and' the comparatively small part
;of the population for the administering to 'hose spiritual needs
they are thus remunerated, but the calculation made out so
;'greatly in favour of reducing their revenue, is not under-
dertaken without evident proof of an unfair bias in the calcu-
lators against that body, whose income they are anxious to
curtail: That the number of Protestants in Ireland is not as
large as could be wished, every one will readily. allow, but
that on such grounds the Clergy arc to be deprived of their'
property, will not so easily be granted. The Protestant Mi-
nisters of the sister kingdom have ever been zealous in the dis-
charge of their sacred functions, and it is not to' their
apathy or neglect, but to the fatal' ascendancy the Roman
Catholic Priests have over their congregations, that so'
little fruit of their labours has yet been visible. We con-
sider the Irish population completely enslaved by their
Catholic pastors, as much so indeed, as any of the nations of
whose priestly thraldom we hear continual censure from the
,gentlemen with whom Mr. Ilume's motion originated. The
great complaint is that these bigots have to pay tithe to a Clergy,
of whose flock they are not members, and by whose labours
they do not profit. But can their obstinacy or infatuation
be adduced with any shadow of justice as arguments against
the remuneration of that Clergy, or in proof of their inefficacy ?
Certainly not; and the very attempt' at so doing only be-
trays the weakness of their cause, who build their hopes
of success on such unstable foundations. The government
of the countfy and the Protestant establishment must stand
or fall together. Any efforts directed against the one can
only be regarded as so many attempts at undermining the
other, and it is to be hopcd,for their own credit's sake that the
Opposition are not aware of the mischief they are preparing for
both, by sanctioning such,motions as' this of Mr. Hume. If
the Clergy can without injustice be deprived of their cclesiasti....
'cal property, by the same rule Government would be fully au-
thorized to adopt the suggestion of another Member orthe Op-
position,.and annihilate the' national debt without wronging the
fundholdeses, who have furbished money for the exigencies of the
State. Theother motion brought forward in the House of Com-
mons' the intention of which was to suppress the Orange Clubs,
is equally objectionable, at the present crisis especially, with that
for sequestrating' the property of the Irish Protestant Clergy.
That the Orange Clubs have been of essential service in times
of great danger and alarm, is a fact which cannot be contradict-.
eti: We are willing to admit that in sonic instances the difib-
rent political feelings of this body, and others with whom they
have come in contact, may have been attended with un-
pleasant effects ; yet still we must argue that these in-
convenitacies are nothing in comparison with the be.
nefits accruing from the existence of these dubs.—
During the disturbances in Ireland the Members of
them were ever distinguished. for their strenuous exertions
in maintaining good order anti subordination. Latterly they
have been accused, though assuredly on no good grounds,
and by men too whose accusations should not be received
but with the greatest caution, not to say suspicion; of fo-
menting disturbances, and recently of contriving an un-
manly assault upon tile Lord Lieutenant. To condemn any
set of men, for the bad conduct of one or two individuals, is
not the mode which Englishmen are accustomed' to pursue, yet
in the case of the Orange Men this has been done both in- and
out of the House. The destruction of these Societies would, in-
deed, be a great point gained witha certain party, and therefore
hardly to be wondered that means, at alllikely tattecomplish it is
this end, should be eagerly laid hold of. The attempt, how-
ever, has been unsuccessful, and we trust ever will be so. They
are amongst the worst enemies of a State who would disperse
the members of societies like these, instituted for the defence
of the laws and the maintenance of good order.