The Sun.
London, England, 1823-02-26 00:00:00

BAYONNE PAPERS.

The following are extracts from the Bayonne
Papers of the 12th inst. received this morning :

" The military preparations in our city are pro.
ceeding with the utmost activity ; and if we rely
on the general opinion of the agents of the Army
of the Faith, the entrance of the Army into Spain
will at furthest take place by the end of March.
Their principal plan is first to attack. Saragossa,
lvikich would serve as the centre of military ope-
rations, leaving a strong force to blockade Pam.
peluna.—Mr. JAcriSON passed through this city
yesterday for the third tithe, proceeding with all
expedition to Madrid.
46 Letters from Saragossa, of the 12th inst. say,
that the Speech of the King of FRANCE has pro-
duced the same effect there as in the other States
of Spain ; and 'that they expect General BALLAS.
TEROS, who is appointed to command the Army
in that district. The Royalist bands continue to
traverse various parts of that great Province,
especially the country contiguous to Navarre and
Catalonia.

" The Constitutional troops not being in suf-
ficient force closely to blockade Mequenenza,
cannot hinder their adversaries from going in and
nut of that placeorhich is their principal point
of support."

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.]

STOCK EXCHANGE, 114f-p«st Twelve &Clock.—
This being Settling Day in the Stock Exchange,
the chief business is the settling of accounts. En
the earlier part of the morning, there had been
already four defaulters, and more are expected.
Consols opened at 731 and were done at 74,
but went down again to 73 at which price they
are up to this hour, with rather a heavy market.
The Expresses in this morning from Paris bring
the French Funds somewhat improved, 801. 10c.,
and Spanish 39.—We understand by the French
Papers that the expected Expos 6 of CHATEAU.
ISRIAND has not taken place as yet ; and it ap.
years that the warlike preparations still con-
tinue.

I 1 OREIGN MAft K ET.—There is not much doing
tl►is morning in the above Market. Spanish
Bonds opened at ;;3-331-331- with a slack
.Market.

. .
Last night, Mr. lluMc moved for an Address
to his MAJESTY, praying that there should be
laid before the House separate'estimates of the
Revenue of several of the Colonies, in the last
year, together with the amount paid by Great
Britain, during the same period, fur their Civil
and Military Expenditure, and the total expen-
diture for each colony. After some remarks,
however, from Mr. WI LMOT and Mr. BRIGHT, tkie
motion was withdrawn, on an understanding that
the information required should.be granted as
'soon- as possible.. In the course of his Speech,
Mr. liustc contended, that as the revenues of
the Colonies are insut*ient for the expences of
their 'Government, they are a source of -debility
and of impoverishment to the country, rather
than of power and of wealth, and that it
'would therefore be better to render them
independent of Great Britain than to retain the
unprofitable sovereignty which she now exer.-
cises over theta! Mr. WILMOT both resisted
the doctrine. of Mr. HUME, and pledged
himself to chew, when the proper time ar-
rived, the fallacious .reasoning on which he
had assumed that the colonies were rather a
burthen than a benefit to the country. After
such a pledge frOm Mr. WILMOT, it is unneces-

sary to enter upon any serious examination of
Mr. ROME'S propositions, or to illustrate the
modes in which great advantages, as respects
Political Power and commercial wealth, may
be derived from Colonies, independently al-
:together of the profit or loss on the account, of
their Revenue and Expenditure. It would be
nearly as reasonable to propose that the public
roads of a country should be 'abandoned to decay,
14cause they occasion a heavy expenditure to the
C9lolllUnity, without being directly productive of

wealth, as it is to recommend the abandonment
of Colonies on the narrow and fallacious grounds
stated by Mr. Hu ME.

It is not without much surprise that we find a
respectable Evening Paper, which, till lately,
seemed to have been a firm and per,)es,elin,g sup-
porter of Government, accu,,ing, by implication,
the Earl of LIVERPOOL, and Mr. CANNING of
44 official ambiguity," because, when they both
declared that new circumstances had arisen
which gave a more favourable aspect to the state
of affairs between France and Spain, they did '
not deem it prudent to outer into a farther ex-
planation of the circumstances to which they al-
luded.—Parliament, in both, Houses, appeared
to be fully satisfied with what the Noble Lord
and the Right Hon. Gentleman had said on the
subject, and not one even of the most determined
of the Opposition Members seemed to think that
their language was marked by a greater degree
of what is thus characterized as " official ambi-
guity " than was necessary, but rather inclined
to give Ministers credit for sound policy in their
endeavours to avert as much as possible the in-
calculable evils of war, rather than run the ha-
zard of promoting them by a premature disclo-
sure. It is to be regretted that any of those
friends of Government, who have long been dis-
tinguished for firm and liberal adherence to its
general principles, should now give the world
reason to suspect that they are deserting a cause
which they have hitherto so ably defended, and
at a time too when Europe is in a very critical
situation, and the affairs of France and Spain are
not likely to involve those countries alone, but,
considering the known feelings, and indeed the
avowed objects, of other Powers, all Europe in
the miseries of war. We may he permitted
to say thus much, and the Paper to which we
allude cannot think that we have ►►ny indirect
views on the occasion, since it has obviously
drawn on itself, not only in the French Journals,
but even in those of this country, the suwicion of
having deserted the ranks to which it had been
so long and so honourably attached, and that
suspicion will naturally be strengthened by the
expression which we have noticed. At all events

it must be highly gratifying to the wiser people
of this country, and indeed to those of all others,
to know that the two leaders of the British Ca-
binet are in complete unison of sentiment, and that
no essential difference exists among the members
of Government in general.

CAPT. PARRY'S EXPEDITION.—The Editor o

the Literary Gazette has made the (mode ho-
nor•able, in a letter to a respectable Morning Paper
this day, for the imposition which had been prat.

tised on }dm, in a pretended report of accounts
of this interesting Expedition, but, in justice to
our ourselves, it is proper to state that the con-
tradiction, FROM AUTHORITY, first appeared in
THE SUN of Monday last.

The Doke of YORK continues confined with

indisposition, except daily riding out in his car-
riage. His Royal Highness generally visits the
Princess SOPHIA.
Two vessels are said to have availed them-
selves already of the permission to export arms
and munition, and have actually sailed for
Spain. The one a ship of 350 tons, and the
other of nearly the same burden.
It may be important to some of our readers to
know, that there is a Committee formed from the members of
the Corporation of London, to investigate the rights and privi-
leges of the fellowship porters, and to establish a fair scale of
charges for the porterage, &c. of coals, corn, salt, and fruits.—
The Liverpool charges scarcely amount to one-third part of
those of London.

AN ILLUSTRIOUS. ABSENTEE..—We have heard
that, on the arrival in town of the first Personage
in the State, his illustrious Brother, who has
been so long labouring under severe indis-
position, hastened to pay his dutiful inquiries
after his health. An illustrious Absentee,
it is said, quickly followed, and, if we may
credit the on Qs, he was not graciously re-
received ; indeed, we have a shrewd suspicion
that, besides getting a severe lecture for want of
dutiful inquiry, or attention, ,during the severe
iiiness that has afflicted this Great Personage,
he was reminded that, with it splendid income
voted him by the nation, the country would
be quite us well pleased if he should for the
future ,condescend to spend it in England.—
( Morning. Herald.)
AFFLICTING SUICIDE,—A short time since, Mr.
Ssurn, an eminent grocer' in the 1110-street; Borough. sent
a young man, named Lee, a near relation, to the. banking-
house of Sir JOHN Prwirouw, to depogit there the sum of
fifty pounds, but the youth absconded with the money ; and
although every effort was made by his friends anti relations, who
employed the police, and disseminated. hand-bills, offering
a large reward for his recovery, no tidings could be had of
him till last week, when Sir John nog
received a letter,
with the banker's booir, which he had in his possesion, stat-
ing that the young gentleman who had that book, and who
went by the name of Smith, had shot himself that morning at
the Woolpack-inn, Ingatestone. Sitio the deceased arrived at
the inn,' he conducted himself in very penurious manner,
except once he went to a a certain sporting place, when he
hired a chaise : he was particularly sober, and of a most muta-
ble disposition. It is said that on the ;day he committed the
'rash act, he begged of his hostess to permit a fortune-teller who
was passing by to go with him into his room ; to this she ob.
jected, but afterwards consented to his seeing her in the back
parlour. • She was overheard telling hint he lutist cum the
water or die. Whin she departed, he shook hands with the
hostess, gave her a small present, requesting her to keep in re.
membrance of him, and
_gave, other small presents to other
members of the family. He then retired to his apartment, and
in a moment afterwards the report of a pistol was heard, and-
he was found lying on the floor in a gore of blood, quite dead.
A New York Paper of the 29th ult. states that
,YAna.Ow, a Moor, died at Georgetown, Colum-
bin tiu Sunday last, aged 130. years!

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