The Sun.
London, England, 1824-07-22 00:00:00

INUNDATION IN BOHEMIA.

Pnactuit,Jutv thirty.six hours ruin,l
commencing on.the With of .leoe, the waters of the iStoldau near
our town rose to a prodigious height. They were only two
feet and a half short of the height to which they rose at the time
of the breaking up of the frost in 1784; but, as at that period,
they were only increased to that extent by an enormous mass
of ice, the swelling of the river now must be considered greater
than the one at that period. The Maldau as not only impe-
tuously broken over its own banks, hut it has penetrated into,
the heart of the town, many of the streets of which it has in-
undated. An immense quantity of timber has been torn along
by the violence of the waters from the principalities of Schwar-
zenhurgh and Furtsenburgh. The rivers of Berm), Micas Sa-
tawa, &c. have made equal havoc, and their surface was so co-
vered w lth wood thatthewater could scarcely be son W hole rafts,
more than fifty boats laden with timber, an immense quantity
of various kinds of goods, even some roofs of houses covered
with men, besides carts drawn by oxen and horses, floated
under the bridge of this town. A small portion of these were
stopped between the arches, but the remainder was borne along
further, and either broke or thrown over the beaks into the
fields and roads. Near the Hotel of the Invalids, and ,the
villages of Lichen and the Holzehowitz, several boats were
stopped, and a great quantity of wood was taken out of the
water. Among the rest, ut Lichen, near a tbrge, before which '
an arm of the Moldan passes, the wood accumulated to such a
height that the water could not force it further. An empty
boat was even carried by the violence of the torrent over the
roof of a house, which it completely drove in. An account of
similar disasters are at this moment received front all 'parts of
Bohemia. The Elbe, the Adler • the Eger, &c., have every-
where overflowed their banks, and drowned a number of men
and anituala. There have been likewise great inundations at
Dresden; also in all the countries
( F each Paper.)
washed by the Elbe.—

WAR IN INDIA.

(ExTRACT or A LEII'P.II,)

tt CAT.Ce'I:TA, M.-kitelll6.---Government brunt
at last issued a proclamation, declaring us at war with the Bur-
mese ; and the 1:Ith Light Infantry is once noire ordered to be
ready for service, together. with the 31ith, the Loth Native In-
fantry, two companies of artillery, and a train of sixteen guns.
These, it is said, are to be joined by a much larger force from
I,Judras, so as to amount to • about ten or twelve thousand
men, and to attack liangooo, or some iMportant point on the
roast, where they are to go into cantonments till the season for
active operation commences. Troops are also gradually assem-
bling on our eastern frontier, and a regiiiient.Of cavalry Ism-tiered
to Kisaergunge to be at hand. A depot of artillery is forming at
Dacca, and half the rocket troop is on its way to take its share
in the campaign. Already, however, the ill effects of draining
tke upper provinces of troops has begun to appear in a pretend-
ed insurrection of .• one of Scintlia's Sinters, which, no doubt,
has Occurred with the privity of the Alah.raj himself. Gen.
Knox has marched against these people, but we have not heard
with what success. The Russians are quietly but constantly
approaching us. Some men who have been at our north-western
stations, and as far within our limits as Delhi, made no secret
that an establishment was being organized at Ilalk, which,
you know, is not very far front the limit of Mr. Elphin.
ston's excursion ; so that the talk of their finding the route
difficult is all nonsense. The extraordinary, and in many cases
minute knowledge which some Russian officers were found to
possess With respect to the sitnatitm of our cantonments, and
the disposition of the regular troops, attracted a good deal of
attention, when some of our overland travellers fell in with
their advanced posts; and lately we arc told the question hes
been so far entered into by Russian' military men, that the ad-
vantages of marching boldly into our territory and taking up
cantonments amongst the Itlahratta States, during the hot sea-
son, have been weighed against the more prudan plan of pass-
ing the first year Lahreo, and organizing the Scik army.'

Calcutta Papers to the 14th of March, have been received,
from which we learn little in addition to what has already
transpired. The accounts from the Sylhet frontier are dated
'2oth Febninry, on the rivet-under Tailin, in Casher. Our loss
in the att►►ck by the Burmese on the stockade was severe.
Lieutenant Armstrong, of the 10th, was killed; Lieutenant•
Colonel liciwen was slightly wounded with a spent ball, and
Lieutenant Graves slightly ►n the arm. Enstirliarbane was
dangerously hurt in the leg; amputation has since become
necessary. About 120 men et' the 10th were killed and wounded;
Captain Johnston Was sere-rely wounded through the knee; and
about 40 then of th 4 28d Rungpore were killed and votindekl.
The camp hospital was tolerably full.'

THE REV. C. COLTON.

An American Paper makes the following state•
men t respecting this singular character :

During the residence, of Mr. Colton in Charleston he occa-
sionally amused himself by giving his, thoughts to the public in
a Newspaper column. The following, from The Charleston
Courier, may be considered as an American Appendix to Lacon,
by the author :

" Have you such a thing, Sam, as tenpence about you ? Re-
member, I only cukfor information."—J'EUEDlY DIDLEA.

QUERIES.

Whether the moderns are not wise by the ignorance, no less
than by the wisdom of their forefathers ; and whether their
errors have not been unto us as a beacon, anti their discoveries
as a light-house ; and whether the march of knowledge, like
the march of time, doth not progress in the darkness no less
than In the light.

IVhother there are not three insurmountable inequalities
among men—inequalities of physical strength, wealth, and
talent; and whether talent be not the highest of the three, inas.
much as it can command the one, and acquire the other.
Whether wealth does not begin to be the most dangerous of
all powers the moment it eases to be the lowest; and whether
man, if placed in a society where money can do every thing, is
not too often tempted to do every thing for money.
What will be the result of the great tragi-comedy about to
be enacted on the stage of the world, and will the march of the
bayonet be strong enough to put down the'march of opinion.
It is impossible to build a marble temble of brick materials ;
and are there not many that could defend their liberty but who
do not deserve it—while there are some that do deserve their
liber►y, but who can hardly defend it.
Whether Universal Suffrage be the best node of accom.
plishing the highest object of all Governments, namely, that
the men of principle may be the principal men.
Whether an Englishman who comes to America a Whig,
has not to thank his philosophy rather than his feelings if he
does not return a Tory.

Is not he that prefers the submissive society of slaves to the
rough raciness of freemen, more to be pitied than he who pre.
fors a pumpkin to a pine-apple, because the one has a smooth
coat, and the other a rugged one.
Whether a half enlightened population, with the fullest scope
allowed than of thought, speech, and publication, be not pre.
cisely the materials moat liable to be made the dupes of the de-
magogue, the property of the ambitious, and the prey of the
hypocritital.
Whether America cannot offer this dilemma to all her aggres-
sors—" Attack me with few, and I will overwhelm you—attack
me with many, and you shall overwhelm yourselves."

Whether an union of truth in the bond of reason be not as
as great a good as an union of error in the bond of faith.
Whether ignorance be not all that certain popular Preachers
demand froin their congregations, and impudence all that they
rely on in themselves.
Whether the whole realms of human intellect be not under
the abject despotism of that capricious tyrant, doubt—who
resigns in the breast of all of us, but gives satisfaction to none.
of us; and whether we can define one of those most important
things on which all our reasonings depend, life and death,
time anti space, matter and mind.
Whether prudery of conduct be not an armour resorted to for
the defence of that which the fair owner suspects may be en-
dangered ; and whether freedom of demeanour be not the result
of that confidence in the strength of the citadel, that can fear-
lessly permit an enemy to reconnoitre the outworks.
:vvitetitur •• red:lieu/as" be sun,a good proverb, and many have
not failed from t4criniethrifxpeettueed by the very tmodness nr
their cause ; runt whether he that defends a bad cause is not
obliged to do every thing for it, because it can do nothing for
itself.

Whether it be not. fortunate, that the ancient library which
was given as fuel to the public baths, should have kept the good
people of Alexandria in hot water for a season, rather than all
posterity in tho same predicament for ever ; and whether it be
not better that men shotild grow wise by reflecting on their own
thoughts, than blindly poring over those of others.

Whether Napoleon sincerely meant to have given liberty to
France the moment she was capable of enjoying it ; and whe-
ther the single intention be not the only thing that is required
to stamp hint the greatest man of any time and of any place.
Would nut Napoleon who succeeded in Franca have failed
in America ; and would not Washington who succeeded in
America have failed in France ; and do not great men often fol-
low events, yet fancy that they guide them.

Whether the greatest event in modern times did not hinge
upon the merest trifle; and whether the French Revolution did
not result from the turn of a mutton-chop.
Whether the " cid bonoil" or questions so triumphantly asked
by the advocates of despotism with regard to the French Revo-
lution, be not a question as impertinent as it is absurd.

Whether all those who were the victims of the French Revo.
lotion would not have been where they are now without it
and whether the abolition of tithes, and the law of primogeni.
titre, be not fully worth the price of their removal ; and if the
establishment of trial by Jury, and the Code Napoleon, be not
positive and extensive good, as certain of security from their
value as stablity front their weight.
Whether it be not the particular interest of America to sup.

port the general interests of freedom throughout the world ; and
whether, at the present crisis, the overwhelming brightness of
her example be not her surest and her safest course.

Whether he that at every step of his political career makes
one friend and one enemy, does not play a losing game; and
whether revenge be
opt 4 stronger principle of action than
gratitude.
Whether most duels are not fought through fear; and whe
ther the bravest of us would not gladly refuse a challenge if
he thirst.
Whether of opinion be not still a tyrant existing . ~„ ;„
the
; and whether, like othei WO",
midst
ortl freedom;
eeladwom
not often capricious and sometimes blind. -
W press be hether despotism and a free not two things that
can by no possibility co-exist.
Is it not better that a bad life should bq joined to a good- doc-
trine, than that a bad doctrine should be supported by a good
life ; and will not the sect survive the founder.
is not he that can make an opportunity it be
superior to him that
takes it ; and is not he that strikes only when the iron is hot
likely to be outdone by him that makes the iron hot by
striking.
Whether it be not
natural that those who hold power should
be most anxious to retain it ; and whether it be not unfortonate
that the right use of power is not always the best mode of affect-'
ing its continuance.
Whether man be not too easily tempted ; and whether a wise
Legislature ought not to he more proud of having removed one
temptation, than of having punished twenty crimes.
Whether a knowled y
ge o others ought not to prevent our diffi-
conies, and a knowledge of ourselves, our presumption.
Whether it be not easy to calculate bow many, seconds make
up the longest life ; ant whether it be not impossible to calcu-
late how many such lives would make up an eternity.
Whether a single second does not bear a greater proportion
to the longest life, than the longest life to an eternity; and
whether one may not humbly be permitted to hope that endless
punishment may not be awarded for sin committed in a period
that bears a far less proportion to eternity than a second does
to a single life.
Whether it be not far more easy to ask the above questions
than to answer them.

CITY, Hatr-partwoOinc otet.oce.
The Money Nlark,eta are rather more corn.
posed this morning.; but there h little or nothing
doing in the Foreign Fends. Consols opened at
91i, and advanced to 9'21, at which pricy, they
are now.

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contents of
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preceding columns. The intelligence contained
in these Papers, as well as that which reaches us
by private channels, is highly favourable to the
cause of the Greeks. The divisions amongst the
Chiefs in the Morea have been, as we antici-
pated, almost entirely healed, private feelings
and interests being nobly suspended or stifled by
the patriotic motive of uniting for the defence of
the country against the common enemy. One of
the fruits of this happy spirit has been the sur-
render of the important fortress of Napulia to
the troops of the Greek Government, by one of
COLOCOTRONI'S Lieutenants, who, together with
the garrison under his commond, took the oath of
fidelity; and Cor.ocoTnoNt himself, who is sur-
rounded on Mount Melanus, and is incapable of
doing any mischief, had made proposals
to surrender. From Cerigo it is asserted that
a mutiny had broken out in the fleet of the Cap-
tain Pacha, and that that Turkish Commander
had been assassinated by his crew. The Greek
Government having ratified the Loan raised in
this country, part of the money had been deli-
vered to Prince MACIROCORDATO at Missolonghi,
and part of it had been sent to Hydra. This
seasonable supply would invigorate the military
operations, and have a most beneficial influence
owthe spirits as well as on the comforts of the
Cieek troops. OMER. BIIIONIS, in concert with
the Pucka of SconaA, had offered to enter into
an' offensive and defensive alliance with the Greek
'Government, proposing at the same time to
make to the Greeks the important cessions
of Arta, Prevesa, and the Five Wells, whilst
014E11. BatoNts should establish the seat of his
own independent power at Beret. Fresh ac-
counts from Semlin and Belgrade still assert that
DERVISCII PACIIA was signally defeated at
Thermopylm ; and to crown all these cheering
and triumphant indications of the favoural4e
progress and result of the campaign, advices
from Alexandria assert, that no preparations
whatever are making for the embarkation of the
threatened Egyptian expedition,---that the corps
which could be embarked do not exceed 6000
men,---and that besides it was never really in-
tended to send this force to the Mores, hat to
Candle, which the Pacha of EGYPT is endea-
vouring to conquer for himself.
' The Done contains an article, dated Mentz,

k which great praise is given to Prince MET.
TERNICiI, for his dexterity in prevailing on
Count MUNSTER to conclude a negociation for
sending a Hanoverian force to Portugal. Our
Readers are aware that we exclusively announced
the arrival of Count MUNSTER, at Johannisbeg,
but otfr well-informed Correspondent .gave
us reason to believe that the project of
sending Hanoverian troops to Portugal was
opposed, not recommended, by Prince MEF
TERN/ICH and the other German Ministers at the
Congress, and that a new and formidable objeC•;
tion to the measure had been started on the
ground of its being inconsistent with the system,
of the Germanic Confederation. How these sp-
parently contradictory statements are to be re•
conciled, time will probably show. In the mean
time we rely on the accuracy of our corre•
spondent, and are inclined to believe that the ob•
jections of which he spoke was really made at the
Congress, and that the objection will not be
easily removed.

The Prince de METTERNICH, we are assure!
by a letter received from our Currespoudent et
Mayence, was to leave Johannisberg, on the
15th, and after paying a visit to Frankforts
.and passing a day or two with the Prince of
HEssE ROMBERG, he would immediately proceed
to Itchel, in Upper Austria, to take the beet 4t
of the salt baths.

The Morning Chronicle has repeatedly 11.
sured us, and the Courier now takes ;IP
the tale that its friendly opponent beg
to be ashamed of, " that the Col9°•
biting are busily occupied in cutting canal'
making roads, building bridges, &c. &c. 8".“
If so, these enlightened Journals would Coe•
fer a great favour on many late travellers from
those countries, by indicating where are the said
canals, roads, bridges, &c., or any one of the's°
for the benefit of their future peregrinatio9oo
--Tire Courier has begun a very mystifyiei
series of articles relating to the acknowledg•
ment of Colombia by this Governments'
assuming a vastly official tone. It inforlo
as also of Mr. Iluttramo's invitation t°
Paris by the French Government, for the pig'
pose of treating, &c. We have reason, however/
to know, that Mr. MILITIA° has been solicitieft
for some time, passports for Paris, which We
just been conceded to him by the Fr•och
Government. The South American Agentli
generally, have :hewn a great predilection for
Paris. The late Mr. ZEA resided there; gr.
Itkvestai has been much there, and indeed we
believe is now there ; General SAN ALUMS i 1
gone there ; the Peruvian Envoys, we belie/et
are or have been there. Those who roller
ber the intrigues of France to place Freeoh
Princes on Thrones in South America, mai
draw their own conclusions from these cl"
cumstances.

Jamaica Papers have arrived to the 306 31!1/.
They contain no later intelligence from Melo°
or Colombia than what has already reached 111
through other channels. On the 26th MaYat:
alarming fire occurred in the vicinity of P,ra
Harbour. It commenced at noon, and 11010
nearly three hours, extending over about 1.7
acres, including several pastures of Bridgoltel, .
pen, and some negro houses. At one poi"' the
village of Dry Ilarbour was in cousidarabo
l
danger, but was happily saved through thug
exertions of the neighbouring overseers And El
groes. The origin of the fire was not known'

Yesterday afternoon, at two o'clock, the' Cr
Cp
binet Ministers assembled at the Foreign-0...c1,
Downing-street. There were present—the L°°ll
CHANCELLOR, the Duke of Wellington, the E,,Prmi
of Liverpool, Ilarrowby, Westmorland, 4.--rf
Bathurst, Mr. Secretar Peel, Mr. Secret's.;
Canning, the Chancellor of the Exch_irque,o;
Viscount Melville, Lord Bexley, - Mr. 1111'
&c. The Cabinet brokenp at five o'clock,' jog
Prince LEOPOLD arrived in town on Tuelu's
afternoon from Claremont. His Royal
honoured the 'MarquiS of Clio' atoNDBLEIA
his company to dinner, and afterwards hollbuTi
the Italian Opera HO-use with his-present In
evening..
ft the
Yesterday the Duchess of CLA& lICE 'PL.; ~'S
apartments of the Duchess of KENT,nt. the n'T"'
Palace, Kensington, for Bushey. et,
Prince Ltoporm left Alarlborouerh Lrousv
terday morning, for Claremont.
The young Greek, adopted by Lord Bletjlea,
is now at Lord Harrington's, and crowds °f .td
nobility and gentry are daily in the habit aco
ing this interesting child, his temper seosi
violent, and can only be tamed by depriviOg
of his dress, of which he appears to be Jut)
mutely proud. t
111°
At the Wilts Sessions, the order made - n
rstc
preceding Sessions fin reducing the interest on the cOO% 04
mortgages, anti paying off such of the mortgagees as u"
acquiesce in such reduction, was ordered to be rescinded• t
motion was brought forward by the Rev. Igr. Duke, 1310'
decided on the ground that the existing laws only
the Justices in Sessions to raise money for the purpor4 of Wfr
log off' loans borrowed at high. interest under the Ale' ol
4111 year of the present Kinos rei and did not Oteitbith
such loans as were raised under the Act' of 24 Oeo.
was the case with all the mortmes on the rates of this co
ck
We understand it is intended to introduce a bin in 'wl'
part of the next Session or Parliament to amend the law
t.
Partitular—(Salisbary and Winchester Journal.) CO
Monsieur LouisJ AQU ES, the celebrated F
Giant, has arrived at Cork.