The Sun.
London, England, 1823-07-12 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, JULY 11.—Wind S.W.—Arrived and sailed for the
Myer, the Laurel, Dunlop, from Jamaica ; Lady Raffles.
Coxwell, Madras and 'lenge!: St. Laivrence, Douglas.
Quebec; Patty, Heed, Cadiz ; Duke of Manchester, Mod,
Jamaica ; and Britannia, Davison Tobago.
PonTstto writ, Juror I.—Wind S.W.—Arrived his Ma-
jetty's ship Kangaroo, from the West Indies; and Andromeda,
platr, from Riga.
PT. 'V no TH. JULY 10.--Wind W.S.W. to 9.E.—.Arrive ti
the Success, Driver; from Memel t Petre and John Trenamne,
Rouen ; the Shannon, Kendall ; and the East India ship
Hercules, Vaughan,_ are reshipping their cargoes. Sailed the
Wanderer, Dixon, for Newfoundland.

The Thomas James, of Poole, front Sunderland, coal laden,
was upset off Snuthwold in a sudden gust of wind ; the crew
saved with the exception of a little boy the master'S,son, who
was unfortunately drowned.

BUILDING SOCIETICS.--•AVe have now twelist;
of these flourishing societies in the town, and
buildings and dwelling houses are rising up in air
quarters with uncommon rapidity. The increase
of houses does not however keep pace with the
demands of an increasing population, for mit
sooner are the foundations laid than there are a
dozen applications for every house. The above
twelve societies contain upon an average 200
shares each, the subscription opon each share is
10s. per month, and they produce in the whole a
clear capital of above 14,0001. a year. This is a
surprizing sum, when it is considered that the
greater part arises from the savings of artisan 4
and other persons employed in manufactures and
tre d e.--(Stockpokt Advertiser).

Causes of varitins Revolutions in Pashion.—The infanta'
Isabella, wife of Archduke Albert, vowed, before the , siege:
of Ostend in 1601, never to change the garments she then
wore until the place surrendered ; tt held out three years anti
seventy-eight days, during which she adhered to her resolution. ,
I—ln this period lier linen, particularly that next tq her
body, became changed from white to yellow, and illthOugh
the latter colour was before held in great contempt, it, front',
this circumstance, became very fashionable under the name of
6, Isabella." The close crops of the reign of Francis I. of Franca
were occasioned by a wound he received in his head, which
obliged !Mr. to have hiS hair cut WE The beitutifbl hair of tqnti,l
XIV. when a child, Introduced . perukes with flowing curls r.
and the enormous wigs, which succeeded were invented to
cover an inequality in the shoulder of the Dauphin. ' The ruir
was introduced to conceal a scar in the neck of Francis 11.
Perhaps the variations in the fashiona Of the present tkay be-
tween loose trowsers anti tight pantaloons, or breeches, for tiresv,,
may be attributed to the pafect or malformation of the terra of
the traders of the ton at the moment. •

SUOCKINO OCCUltitENGE.—Yes4rday morning
an old woman, eighty-one years of age, threw herself front.tho
top of Clerkenwell work-house, where she had been an intnatc
for some years, anti fell the height of four stories into the W..:
yard. She broke both her arms and legs, her breastbone, and
was likewise much bruised in various parts of the body. he
was carded in and put to bed, and the parish surgeon num,
diately attended her. Considering her great age, and the'
height she fell, it was wonderful she was notfkilled on the spot
however, it is impossible she can recover. On the landing t4*
the attic story a woman was washing before a sliding window
which opened into the gutter. In the absence of the washer-
woman, this unfortunate creature pushed back the window,
stood on an arm chair, crept into the gutter, and precipitated[.
herself over the parapet.
TowNsaND, the Bow-street Officer, has takers
his station at the Bank of England, dpring tho-
payment of the dividends, to the great obstruc-
tion of the light-fingered depredators, who tom.
plaits that from the new cimstitlttion of the
Police their• game is aeariN all tip hi and Omit'
the Metropolis« Townsend was some,tiuiltt sitters`:
rend) Jportiplg it' Thot.
denominated by thy
Chief Magistrate of the Police ; "'and if we may"
judge from the moaners of Gentlemen who con-
.verse with "him iii the course 'of one day, ho might
be taken by strangers for a Minister of S;tate,
holding daily Levees.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAItY
.Extracts from the Morning Papers, July 12.

,

[THE TIMES.]
The French Papers continue to possess hn in-
eerest with respect to the affairs of Spain. 4 The
Journal des Debuts of Wednesday gives an ac-
count of the ceremonial with which the Duke of
San Carlos was received by the King of France,
as Ambassador from the Gallic Regency of Spain,
and reports also the speeches of those two emi-
nent personages. The Ambassador excites the
King to continue his aid. The King assures the
Ambassador that he will fulfil his heart's desire.
The expressions of his Majesty deserve notice.
lie says' that " he will not lay down his arms
44 t►ll he has restored Spain to happiness, her
i 4 King to liberty, and Europe to that repose,
"of which the Spanish troubles threaten to
IC deprive it." Who would have expected such
dectaration as this from a Bourbon King of
France, ten years ago ? and how like the despe-
ration of tt, gamester, or the vanity of one en-
riched by sudden success at play !

It will be recollected, that some time ago (in
the debate on the 'Rd of May) Mr. Brougham
made several statements of the actual and me-
naced injuries of the Holy Allies to Switzerland,
asking of Mr. Canning whether the circumstances
enumerated were as. stated ; and whether the
Right Ilenourable Secretary was aware of them ?
To this Mr. Canning replied in a quaint manner,
that, " if the least part of Mr. Brougham's state-
" meat was too much for him (Mr. B.) to tell,
" that least part was also more than his. Majesty's
" Ministers knew ;" and this acknowledged ig-
norance of the Right lion. Secretary and his Col-
leagues., was clamorously interpreted into the non-
existence of the facts staled. It now, however, ap-
pears beyond, all doubt, that Switzerland has been
bullied, menaced, and insulted very much in the
manner described ; that no communication had been
made oo the subject to our resident there ; and that,
his sagacity not increasing in proportion to the
amount of his salary, he had not found the mat-
ter out by his own means. This is the advan--
tage. of. having highly-paid Ambassadors ! Mr.
Brougham,- therefore, who said on Thursday
night that he, was as much Prime Minister as
Lord Liverpool, appears also to have a better
knowledge of foreign occurrences than the Noble
Earl's colleague, . the very Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs !--(ibid.).

rMORNING POST.]
French Papers to the Uth inst. reached us
yesterday, by express. They have brought two'
Bulletins, the one from Marshal Moucey, who,
after nearly throe 'months lost in marches and
countermarches, announces with something like
an exulting tone that his troops are at last 44 ap-
proaching Barcelona," where it is admitted that
Mina had arrived, although he had not sought a
refuge within its' walls, but had fixed his head-
(porters at Sans, about half a league from
the town. The other is from the Major-Gene-
ral, Guilleyninot, and describes a series of petty
skirmishes and movements in the Asturias, in
which the enemy not only claims the advantage,
according to his invariable rule, but adds to it
the privilege of scarcely ever having any. killed
or wounded. The Spanish mountaineers, who
were so dreaded by the French for their uner-
ring aim during the first war of invasion, must
have lost much of their skill, if this boast be well
founded : for whilst they are sure to be hit down
by hundreds .•whenever they show themselves,
their shot seems to fly ,harmless over the heads of
their foes, anti they are considered to do great
execution iithey strike down one out of one hen-
tired.---'These Papers,add
.nothing to what we al-
ready know respecting Morillo, with the excep-
tion of the Pikle of Thursday last, which states,
on the authority of a letter
,from Bayonne, dated
the 4th inst., not only that the Commander
had solemnly refused to acknowledge the
Madrid Regency, but that having been made
Acqualoted with. the restoratioo of Ferdinand to
the exercise of the Royal Functions, he had ad-
witted the necessity of the case under which the
Cortes had acted, and had made his
,troops take
a fresh oath to the Constitution. Although this
information be not official, we see no reason to
doubt its accuracy. IVlnrillo's refusal to recog-
nize the Duke of Angouletne's Regency was men-
tioned in the first accounts that reached us of his
opposition to the one appointed by the Cortes ;
it is therefore a point nearly established. It is
also clear, frem the nature of his Proclama-
tions, that he protested against the act of the
Cortes because he conceived them to have de-
throned, not suspended, the Monarch, without
waiting for the occurrence of the case in which
the Constitution authorized the deposition of the
Monarch. When he found that his conception
was Amine:Qua, and that the measure adopted was
the . only one which could combine tenderness
for the Sovereign with the safety of the Govern-
meta, it is natural that hey should have. retracted
what ho had done, and should have induced his
army NO the provieces where he commandS, to
renew their oath of fidelity to the Constitution,
which lie thought had perished with the 'Monar-
chy, but which he found still existed in all its'
force.;

[NEW T I Ittcl.l
ERENCH LOALL—We are happy to be able to
gratify tbe anxious desire which has been so uni-
versally felt in the City respecting the French
I,oans by announcing that the whole loan was
taken by the House of Rothschild at 89. 55,. The
information had the hest possible 'effect on the
price of the French Stocks, the gentes, at Paris
having closed',, as we are informed, on Thursday
at 90 25.—This is another striking instance to
be added to the list of stupid misrepresentations
on the part of Pie Times. That Journal, which led
many hundreds of English farniliesinto the ruin-
ous speculation of the, Spanish Opuds) ba4 the
vanity and folly to suppose .it could cry down
the Finances of France ! From the abundance
of money at present in England, and from the
wise management of the national resources by his

, <
Majesty's Ministers, wfitcti promises a still fur-
ther accumulation of capital, it is probable that
the introduction of the French Loan into our
market will have little if any effect toward de-
pressing funded property. Consols yesterday
opened at 83i4, declined to but finally
closed at their previous price, 83t.t.

The French Papers Which we received yes-
terday contain the Speech of the King of
France to the Duke de San Carlos, the Am-
bassador from the Spanish Government.—
It is conceived in dignified language, and
expresses sentiments at once honourable and
firm. The Liberal papers endeavour to con-
sole themselves with the hope that General
Morino will still hold to the Jacobinical Con-
stitution ; but it is quite obvious that this
is no longer in his power even if it were in his in,
clination. Liberal rumour, too, has given Ballas-
teros a large army, and sent him to do wonders,
like Don Quixote, in the Sierra Morena. The Allies
have obtained successes in various parts of
Spain, and both Cadiz and Barcelona will soon
be closely blockaded by land and sea.--(lbid.)

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
Among our extracts from German Papers will
be found an article, said to be from the frontiers
of Russia, on the subject of the late Ministerial
changes in that country. The light which it
throws on this subject, the awful importance of
which it seems to have been sufficiently impressed
on the writer's mind, is not indeed very great.
The substance of the information it conveys, as
far as we can collect it, would seem to be, that
the great Autocrat, who has constituted himself
Judge of all that takes place in every country
of Europel knew nothing of the real cause of
the discontent of the most numerous class of
his own subjects, namely, the slaves, and that he
has lately been indebted for this knowledge to an
honest ecclesiastic, who found means to drop a
word in the ear of thel.mpress Mother, through
whom it reached the Autocrat in safety. The
Nobles of Russia Proper, in what manner does
not appear, had contrived to make the ex-slaves
participate in the blessiMg which always accom-
patties freedom, in this part of the world, exces-
sive taxation ; and the rigorous exaction of the
taxes bad made them regret the happy days when
they had no privileges, but at the same time no-
thing to pay. Having been enabled to make
this important discovery, a new set of Mi.
sisters became necessary,—,either because Mi:
:asters are not so flexible isn Russia as in Eng-
land,---and would not change their principles, or
because their guilt was too heinous to admitt of
pardon. These are the blessings of Despotism.
An individual, who may or may not possess good
natural talents, but whose education is sure to
be one of the worst possible, is constantly sur-
rounded by a set of persons who flatter him into
an idea of his omnisciencei that they may make
him the dupe of their interested-, misrepresenta4
tionv. Catherine was much cleverer than Alex.
adder, who in point of penetration does not seem
I much beyond the average of Sovereigns (which is
certainly not saying much), but she existed in a
perpetual delusion. So far was deception carried
with regard to her, that in her journies in the
southern provinces of her Empire, the materials for
the construction of wooden houses were conveyed
before her to the place where she was to halt,
and set up, and after her departure taken down
and conveyed to the next station, with the view
of impressing her with an idea of the immense
improvements that had taken place itt her dif-
ferent deserts. The Emperor Joseph, who inter-
fered with every thing, and thought he knew
every thing, kept issuing all his reign Edicts in-
numerable, which remained generally unex-
ecuted under his very nose.

rRItITISIS pitEss.]
We have received the Paris Papers of Wed-
nesday, together
.with private intelligence from
the French capital. In the llioniteur of that day
is a bulletin, detailing various successes which
have attended the French troops in Asturias.
Nothing, however, of importance has been done
by the invaders, the details being only of trifling
rencontres between the Royalist and Constitu-
tional bands. The strange conduct of Morille

has, it appears, excited- much surprise in the
French capital ; and the Government are evi.
dently somewhat perplexed by the business
which they have marked out for themselves
in Spain. ft is stated in some of the French
Journals, that Quiroga had been dismissed
by Morillo ; but private intelligence, from
a most respectable source, informs us that
so far from this being the case, the two Generals
had resolved to oppose, by every means in their
power, the Regency of Madrid, whilst a single

()stile Frenchman remained in the Peninsula.

The Pacte of Thursday reports that Morillo,
on learning that Ferdinand had been re.
stored to his functions, again acknowledged
the. Cortes ; but this rumour, we suspect, rests
on a very ,slight foundation. We are also in-
formed, by private accounts to the 26fli ult.
that the military members of- the Cortes have
departed from Cadiz to take their station in the
Geld. Looking, then, at all the circumstances of
the war, we see nettling to discourage the hope
that the Spaniards •will ultimately triumph. We
may safely speak thus, when we observe that
active Chieftain, Mina, with a small force, fur..
nishing employment for so large a body of the
enemy. The Duke of San Carlos, who has been
appointed by the Madrid,Regency Ambassador
to the Court of France, had a public au-
dience of the French King on Tuesday. T he
Duke, on this •occasion, mL4ressed his Majesty
praying him " to continue his noble and gene.
rous succour to Spain, united in wishes and in.
tentions with his august Allies, who already shew
so much interest iu the Regency." To this
•
prayer the King replied.—cc God has hitherto too
visibly protected the most just of causes, not to
afford a hope that he will continue his support to
it. For myself, strong in the purity, of my in-
tentions and those of the Sovereigns, my
allies, I am firmly resolved not to lay down my
arms until I have restored to Spain liappittess,
Co its King liberty, and to Europe the repose of
which the troubles of your country threatened to

deprive it." Really it is impossible to read this
without feeling an utter contempt for so base a
piece of hypocrisy and blasphemy.—The French
Funds closed on Wednesday at 89f. sc. for
money, and 89f. 45c. for time.

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

(From Me Liverpool courier, July 9. )

IRELAND.—The agitated state of Ireland is still, by the fac-
tious Papers on both sides of the water, ascribed either to bad
government,.or to the violence and bigotry of Orangemen ; and
thus the poor persecuted and harmless Catholics are represented
as acting on the defensive, and as driven only by acts of oppres-
sion to their somewhat rough and prompt manner of redressing
their grievances. We belieVe this to be a gross delusion, in some
instances proceeding from ignorance, in others from wilful per-
version and a design to mislead. Our readers know our senti-
ments on the system of letting and underletting lands, a source
of great misery to the Irish peasantry;; but in this evil the Pro-
testant peasantry have their full share, and there is nothing in
that system which exclusively bears upon the Catholics. We
' have as explicitly expressed ourselves in favour of it system of
Government firm, but mild and rigidly just ; and in favour of
the suppression of every real abuse of power or influence,
though such instances have most grossly exaggerated, both
in number and degree. But do the present' disturbances,
burnings, murders, and various atrocities, arise froM any of the
supposed causes, so often put forth in order to palliate them ?
We believe that it will be found, that a cause of a totally dis-
tinct kind, but far more operative, is producing these deplorable
effects,-and is rapidly bringing the great part of the Catholic
population into a confederacy, not against middlernen and tithe
proctors ; not against Orange associations and the Dublin Cor.
poration f but against the whole Protestant population itself.
—The principle of hostility and hate to Protestants, as Pro-
testants, heretics, and persons doomed to eternal wrath, be
cause out of the pale of the Popish Church, have been constantly
and carefully cultivated by the very priesthood, who, forsooth,
we are told, are in the habit of discountenancing those passions
which, in Ireland, are daily producing such horrors. This
tenet, so calculated to render an ignorant and superstitious
peasantry ferocious, has never been renounced by the priests..
The doctrines of charity have never been enforced, except by a
few, and a very few exceptions ; and the right and duty; and
even merit, of exterminating heretics, is the standing feeling
and conviction of the great bOdy of the Catholic Irish. Here'
lies the root of every evil ; it is one which fastens shame upon
Popery itself and upon its priesthood ; and When a principle
so deep and deadly exists, whatever calls it into activity kin.
dies a flame, the ravages of which cannot be calculated, though
we are sure that it must be ultimately suppressed. It is a
matter of fact, that this deadly principle exists among the
Irish Catholics ;:. and it is equally true, that. an ,exciting
cause is at work, which, perhaps, more than any Other, is
calculated to call it forth., We allude to those interpreta.
tions of the Book of Itevelations; by Pastorini, (itself a
fictitious name,) which promise the complete and speedy
triumph of the Catholics over the Protestants, and the
destruction of the latter. All know the infatuation which
such predictions are calculated to produce among igno-
ritut and superstitious people. The followers of Richard
lirotheis and .of Joanna Southeote are in proof of this; and
when such an attempt is made to delude the imagination, in a
case where a feeling of deep hostility exists among tens of
chousands, and adapts itself to a favourite and long-cherished
hope, the consequence must be tremendous. Of this inflam,
oratory publication,, we arc credibly informed that many thou-
sands have imued and are issuing from the Catholic press in
Ireland, and have produced the worst effects upon the passions
of the peasantry. To blind the Protestants and the Govern-
ment, a mutilated edition of this work has also been published,
with the most dangerous parts left out; lint the teal Pastorini
has gone into every part of Ireland. Who furnishes the moms'?
And who are the agents of the circulation ? These circum-
stances are in decided proof of a conspiracy to produce a uni-
versal commotion and rebellion. 11 e really pity the lower
order of the Irish Catholics. They are thus led astray by de.
signing men to their own misery, and the infliction of universal
misery on the country.