The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-26 00:00:00

Barbadoe4 was immediately communicated to our
excellent Governor, whose attention, no doubt,
has been somewhat awakened towards the secu-

city of this island. Our political destiny is, un-
der existing circumstances, very critical ; but we
hope that peace and tranquillity *ill be pre.
served among us.
I' ROM Ilivrr.—The term for which the law,
forbidding intercourse between Hayti and the
other. West India Islakls, which was suspended
with St. Thomas and Curragoa, will expire in
November. Some efforts to have it renewed have
failed, and we understand several merchants in
Hayti are collecting stocks of goods, to be ready
for the discontinuance of the intercourse. A
British frigate lately paid a friendly visit to Port-
au-Prince, and the officers were treated with
great politeness.

APPOINTMENT OF CONSULS TO SOUTH AME.
RICA.—An Evening Paper of yesterday has put
a kind of qualified contradiction upon our an-
nunciation of the appointment of British Consuls
to several of the South AMerican States. We
repeat, therefore, in the most positive manner,

that the appointments,- though not yet Gazetted,
and although that official announcement may per-
haps, be for some little time delayed, have ac-
tually been made. It is not. less Mischievous
than absurd in a .rournalist to pretend to nega-
tive statements of this kind, merely because he
happens to be ignorant of the facts, the reality
of which he takes upon himself to deny.

Gibraltar Papers and Letters to the sth inst.
have been received. On the evening of the 2d,
a considerable number of small craft left the bay
with supplies .for Cadiz. Sir R. WiLsos, with
Generals QUIROGA and ZAYAS, and several
other officers of the Constitutional party, went as
passengers. The Tribune frigate had sailed for
Malaga, to inquire into the circumstances under
which the English ►merchants resident there had
been thrown into prison by R►reo, for non-
payment of their assigned quota of contribution
to the forced loan. The American Commodore,
who- was solicited to sail for Malaga on a similar
errand in behalf of the American merchants and
Consul at that place, refused, on the plea that he
had no authority to interfere. Little information
existed in Gibraltar of what was passing at
Cadiz. The French troops at Algesiras left that
place on the 2tl for Port St. Mary's. The Spa-
nish Guards remained.

AViNnspit, SEPT. c24.—On Tuesday his MA-
J EST Y, with his usual attendants, took an airina
in his little phieton from the Cottage to the
Castle, where his Majesty staid -some time and
viewed the..apartments) and afterwards returned
to the Lodge to dinner. This morning
k his Ma-
jesty tools, also in his phaeton down the
'Long Walk, and went to the Castle with his
usual attendants, where the King remained some
time, and then returned to the Lodge'to dinner.
We are 'happy to say that his Majesty appears in
excellent health.--:-'Tie Duke of Saxe Weimar
arrived at the Castle Inn this morning .from
Bushy. Park. His Serene Highness inspected
the Castle, and then viewed Eton College and
different other places, and afterwards returned to
Bush Park.. The afternodn • being fine, the
Bands of the Royal 'Horse Guards and the Royal
FUzileers, played on the hill to the left of the
Royal Standard. The walks were thronged by.
all the neighbouring Nobility to hear. them.
The Bands tiniihed with " God save the King."
PORTsMOLITH,SEPT.e3.—WhiIe general anxiety
is felt respecting the fate of Captain PARRY, and his adventurous
companions, to-which public attention has been lately called by
premature statements, which have ended in disappointment,
we have keen visited by another navigator of great celebrity,
who is going_bn his third voyage round the world. We allude
to Captain OTTO Vow KOTZEBUE who accompanied. Cap-
tain Krusenstern, and afterwards made a voyage to the South
Sea, and North East coast of America, in a small vessel fitted
out at the expence of that munificent patron of science Count
Romanzoff. The very interesting account of that expe-
dition, and the discoveries he made, are well known in Eng.
land, having been translated and published two years ago. On
the present occasion he is sent by the Russian Government,
and nothing has been neglected to insure the success of the
voyage. The ship was -built last winter expressly for this
voyage. She is a corvette, called the Enterprise, carrying 24
gutis, and manned with a crew of 80 men anti 13 officers, all
volunteers from the Imperial navy; she has on board two rhy-
sicians, both welt versed in natural history—one of them is
Dr. Eschschloz, who accompanied Captain Kotzebue on his
late voyage. The Astronomer is Mr. Preiss ; Mineralogist,
Mr. Lintz.; and professed naturalist, Mr. Hoffman. These gen-
tlemen are all from the Universia of Dorssat lininetlit.tely
on
his arrival Capt. Kotzebue went to London to receive the astro-
nomical instruments and the chronometers, which had been
previously ordered by the Russian Government .for this expe-
dition. The astronomical instruments are Made by the cele:.
breed Troughton, who is justly considered,throughout Europe
as the worthy successor of Ramsden, and by. Jones, instruinent_
maker to the Admiralty: The chronometers are by ParkinSon
and Frodsham, whose improvements in these machines have
obtained much well-merited praise, since their !Superiority
has been so fully proved in several of the late scientific voy- ,
ages, especially Captain Parry's to the Polar Sea, and Captain
Sabine's to the Coast of Africa. As the object of this expedi. '
tiers is said to be not so much for new discoveries, as to make
accurate surveys,ittid-nlost. strictly to determine, by astrono-
mical observations, the real situation of many important points.;
Cannot bitt applaudtthe judgment and liberality of the Im-
perial Gyvernintmt in applying to the above eminent Artists
for the numerous instruments required for the full attainment
of the,object proposed. Captain Kotzebue's, destination is to
Rio Janeiro,yound Cape Horn to Karntschatka, where he will
find further instructions, which are, to be forwarded overland
through Siberia.
CAPTAIN SABINE'S EXPF.DITION.--A letter from
an officer on board of his Majesty's gun brig the 'Griper,
ott
her voyage to the North Pole, dated Hammerfast Bay, Nor-
wegian Lapland, June, 1823, says—" We arrived hoe safe on
the .2tl instant. On the :.4th May we passed the arctic circle,
and experieneed some difficulty in finding Ilimmerfast_ Bay,
its the whole land is one continued chain of islands along 41e
coast, and but imperfectly laid down in the charts. We enjoy
excellent health, and are extremely comfortable. The weather
we
Is now getting better, as atinniter is rapidly advitncilig, an
have a continuation of day-light
.all the twenty-four hours,
the sun never sitting below the horizon. The island is
about twenty-four miles in circumference, and five or six in
breadth and gives name to a small town of about thirty or
forty wooden houses, containing about two hundred inh.
Sabine has all his instruments on shoreabi to
tants. Captain
tloVSepitzbergen. Should we return
expect to remain here 12 -or
candnaiyesn,cewhbiesnolpveeraprtiooenesed.
this winter, the Cag_tairnimorpnosesenacaualrhnnagoat Drontheim, the
, capital of NorwaY•