The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-08 00:00:00

51ERCANTI1 SHIPPING.

DEAL, Jas. I.—Wind L.N.E.--Arrived this morning and
sailed for the River the Thames, Winspear, 73 days from the
Cape of Good Hope; Amphitrite, Morgan, Havannah an d
Charleston; and Eagle, Coates, from Baltimore for Amster-
dam. Came down from the River this afternoon: the Farquhar-
son, Cruickshanks, for Bombay and China; Herefordshire,
hope, Bengal and China; Kent, Cobb, ditto ditto ; .Phmnix,
fur the South Seas; Burlington, Wilson, Jamaica; and Jan.:,
Leader,: Pernambuco.
HALV.PAST Slx—The Farquharson has sailed; the Kent
and Herefordshire have brought up to take on board supplies.
POIITSMoIITII, JAN. 7.--Wind E.—Arrived the Venus,
Kilgorn, from the Cape of • Good Hope ; Juno, Pritchard,
4=1443.; Resolution, APOregor, Cephalonia.
FALMOUTH, J Ax. intl. variable.—Arrived off th;
port the Barbadoes, Kinsale, frOm Pictou in 43 days ; London,.
Elworthy, from Quebec 26th November. Sailed the Duke ot
Kent (Ist) Packet for Lisboa.
GRAVESEKD, JAN'. 7.—Arrived the Layton, Miller, from
Bencoolen; Adamant, Easterly, Bengal ; and Mary Ann,
Parker, Cape of Good hope.
ILFRACOMBE, Jam. 6.—Arrived the Lady Hamilton, Kerr,
from Lisbon for Bristol--she spoke off the coast of Ireland the
Waterloo, of Liverpool, from • Caropeachy for Cork, out 71
days; she had been plundered by a pirate,, and was supplied
with provisiona and water.

The Flora 3.1Ta11, from Quebec to Liverpool, was on shore
in Waterford harbour the 4th instant.

The -Company's outward-bound ship Coldstream put into
Table .Bay, on the 4thof October, having sprung her bowsprit;
she was expected to sail about the 14th of October.. The Clem-
rat-Hewitt artiVed in Table Bay about the 2il of October, and
was to proceed on her voyage about the ithh or lath of that
month. The Ueneral Harris left Penang, fur China. on aft
6th of July, and was to touch at Sincapore. The Mar9uis
Camden was to leave Penang in a few days after the General
Harris.

W. hear it is in contemplation, if possible, to
have another County Meeting, for the purpose of
taking into consideration the present state of agri-
cultural distress, and the best means of relieving
it. Should the promoters of this object be able to
carry their plan into effect, we trust they will adopt
some course to prevent a recurrence of similar
proceedings to those that took place at a forme:.
Meeting assembled to discuss the same subject,
and which brought such an indelible disgrace
upon the County. A similar trick, it will be seen,
was played off at the Norfolk Meeting on Fri-
day, and this too by the same individual Wit)
figured away here. Surely the Freeholders of
Kent will never again allow their schemes to he
thus thwarted and rendered of no avail:a—(, ,Na-
stone Journal.)

A letter from a very. intelligent Gentleman ie
Lisbon, received by a mercantile house in Glasgow
this morning (Friday, 3d inst.), states posititely
that the 'PortAtguese Government is determined, to
make an attempt to regain their supremacy in the
Brazils.. They had 3000 men in Bahia who still re-
mined faithful ; other 3,000 men had lately
been dispatched from the Tagus on the stone
destination ; and they were busy at Lishen in ta4-
ing up as many ships as would carry out an add i..
tional 4,000, along with wlkich a' Regency lot.
the BrOzils,was to embark. They expected to be
joined by 2,009 troops which were at Monte:Vi-
deo ; and with this united torte had no dottlit.of
speedily changing the face Of affairs in the New
World.- Doubts, however, were entertained of
the mother country being able to retain the Co.
belies Itilfg,if they continued refractory, as rhe
was incapable of supporting'a protracted struggle„
—(Gtuvoto Ilorako
The amiosphere was. more loaded with dense
and snow-charged clouds en New+year's day
than his lieen known for many year's. The
CiergYrnan in Ty nemoulli ChirtCh with difficulty
got through divine service With the aid of c4rl4l*l.
Ou Monday morning last,, the &shiest son of
Captain SAYI:n. of Tamar'-terrace accoMpanied
by Lieu teaant LITTLEWOUT, of the 110) 41 Na vy,
was proceeding on a shooting 'eS.enrsion, when
shortly after leaving Turitchapel, In got 4P eh a
hedgeond in drawing hisgun after hire by the muy,
zle, the trigger caught in the branches win.zhe caused
the charge to explode, and the contents entering
his righbside under the pectr)rai utLet.:cle, lodged tie
the axilla. Ile was iisimecliatoly re:novtl'd
inn at Turuchapdst, where he Ava., attended by the
first ntedical clnkractm
,the neighbourhood
but nothing could stay the fatal .vtfects of the
scented, as tntet'94l hetnorthage etonetl, and hi'
!expiren on nursday more:l4,---(WrYinini("4.
ehrtnti,:ic) -

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

EXTRACTS PROM THE DAILY MORNING PAPER.
Januat'y 8, 1823.

[MORNING POST.]

Paris Journals,- to the 6th instant, reached us
list; night by txpress. Their contents have not
yet resumed their importance ; and, indeed, it
- -.seems to be expected, that whatever intelligence
the Ministers may 'receive from Spain, it shall
net.be communicated through the medium of the
papers to the public, but shall be kept until the
meeting of the Chambers shall afford the Govern.
meat an opportunity of laying the whole at once,
and in its fullest details before them. The con-
tinued 4iepressimi of the Funds is attributed -by
the Constitutionnel to the uncertainty which
still hangs over, the relations of Francti with
the Peninsula ;. to the approaching conVoca.
flan of the chambers, of which it is impos.
slide beforehand to ascertain the exact spirit';
and to the boasts of the Ultras, who stilt confi-
dently assert that they will force the Ministers
to adopt` their views, or ‘v ill drive them out- of
power. it is perhaps in order to conciliate this
party, or to weaken its strength by gaining over
some of its adherents, that sudden changes have
been made in a great number of Prefectures, and
that ancient Royalists have been appointed by a
Royal Ordonnance to succeed the Prefects in
whose Departments Liberal Deputies had been
elected, at the last renewal of the fifth of the
Chamber. A letter from Perpignan), dated the
' nit., states that immense quantities of snow
• had-fallen on bath sides of the Pyrenees.

[stuaNlNu cnuoNrcLE.l
AVe Rave seen recent letters from 'Madrid,
from a most respectable quarter, which state,
that the Spanish Ministry hod at 'fast become
Sensible•of their error in the decision they came
:to on the claims of this country, and .that they
are now not only prepared to restore the vessels
belonging to this country, seized in South Ame-
rica, but to withdraw' their pretended blockade:
At first considerable indignation was manifested
that England should choose a time when they
were under so much embarrassment, to agitate
this question---They shoold have reflected that
the first duty of a Government is to accord
protection to its own subjects. Called upon, in-
deed, us ours has been by the Merchants and
Shipping interest, to afford due protection against
the depredations of pirates and spoliation, under
arbitrary and ridiculous blockades, it was
Bible for it, even if it had been desirous tore-,
.mein passive, without incurring an awful respon-
sibility, Nothing but blind passion could inter-
pret an interference of this kind to recover an
immense property, unjustly taken from the sub-
jects of this country, into an act of hostility to
the Spaniards.

[uarrisn mess.]
We rejoice to see the Annual Revenue Ac.
count assume so favourable an appearance. it
must be extremely consolatory to his Majesty's
Ministers, as well as highly gratifying to the
public, to discover that the system of retrench•
loot" works well ; " and that it requires nothing
but political steadiness in carrying on the good
work, to enable the oppressive amount of taxation
to bear still further reductions. There is no ar-
gument that can beet experience. We ►ere very
gravely tohl that the loss of the joint Postmaster,
:Hid the two lay Lords of the Admiralty, would
go far towards the utter destruction of that
" just and necessary" influence. of the Crown,
without which the affairs of Government must
come to a stand-still. Yet although these super-
incumbents ere thrown over-board,, we'find the,
vessel of the State dips her nose (a's•the sailors
phrase it) in the sea, shifts her sails to the wind,
and rides along as gaily as if this worthless cargo
were still In the hold. So with the taxes. The
Revenue, it was predicted, could not bear the pro-
posed reduction ; the Ministers expressed their ex-
treme anxiety to lighten the public burdens, " as
spoons a favourable opportunity arrived." But (natty
of the galled jades winced, and cried out in the
spirit of the old maxim," Nothing like the time
present." Several of " the tried friends of Ad-
ministration" magnanimously slipped off their
harness, and the reductions were carried. And
Item we are, atlhe and of the Christmas quarter,
with the Revenue account smiling in our faces,
and presenting a helance•sheet that whispers
how much may yet he done by " Cre Minister of
the. Interior" in the way of retrenchment. This
is the practical conclusion to which
,this cheering
statement should lead, and we trust Ministers
will profit by it.

F: 'EI 51Es.]
'e have as 'yet heard nothing from Norfolk
*hitt the two members, Coke and Wodebouse,
meats to do with respect to Cobbett's Petition.
We, hate 5p0".,.,,it efsointi.of the acts of the old
vagabond, as his dm etching to destroy his bene-
factor, his plot for forging' Bank-notes, and
Scattering them through the streets of;London—
the bare catalogue 'of all would title volume
lint we have his last notable project now before
‘N(ltat have I to do," says he, 4c. but to
44 forge lc parcel of theet, piece them in the
cc street, tell my brother 'where they will be?"--
Your:4,)oler, ? We, recollect' your once hu-
manely endeavouring to thrust yoUr son's neck
into it noose in which yOur own ought. to
have been : and this is the Way yon would
treat your brother ! matter': brother, son,
benefactor-4-destrOy them all, if any thin be
to be got or saved by it. But whet are the Mem-
hers.to do with a Petition .framed end obtruded
by such a man ? Why, spit upon. it ; first for
its stupid malignity', and /lett on account of tin
ehaniCter of,its author, Sir
,Frencis Hirrilett has
shOwn.theni 'what' fechills honest then 'ought to
enteric in towards Cobbett,'and every thing that
fins relatiorr to him. Vilhert some of the worth-
less aillwrents Of old Cobbett prOposed that'Sir
Frarkis shOtild forgive his inictetithde, end
acCept his—services during ttie,-WestrnhiSter
euutestt the Baronet manfully replied.' (c. 1 will

" have nothing to do with Westminster, if Mr.
" Cobbett has any concern whatever in my elec-
" Lion." Is it credible that a man thus spurned
should have been taken as the petition-drawer for
the county of Norfolk ? He will finely advance
the cause of the freeholders there, no doubt, and
add much to their respectability.

[NEvv TIMES.]
A generous and grateful attachment to the
Lord Lieutenant continues to be attested by Ad-
dresses of Congratulation from all parts of
Ireland, brought to Dublin in many instances
by deputations of high respectability. The
Mayor and some other gentlemen of Gal-
way brought an Address from that place
last Thursday, as did the Mayor sand Sheriffs
from Limerick on the-day following. A meeting
of King's County was held on the 2d, and one of
the County of Dublin is appointed for this day.
The Counties of Clare and Kerry met on the
31st ult. ; those of Kilkenny and Roscommon
were to meet yesterday; the County of Galway
in the course of this week ; and that of Tip.
perary on an early day not yet fixed. Although
we are most happy to see that in feelings of per-
sonal veneration and respect for the Marquis
Wellesley, and of indignation at the outrage to
which he was exposed, all classes, all parties, and
all communions agree; yet WO should much de-,
ceive ourselves and our re.ulers if we were to state
that any thing like a spirit of general harmony
and conciliation pervades the different parties
into which Ireland is divided. " Nothing can
afford us snore sorrow," sayt the Editor of
the Dublin Correspondent, " than to perceive
that every occurrence, as it fells out, adds
something to the acerbity of party feeling."
The Attorney-General certainly acted with a
due spirit of moderation, and agreeably we
rather believe to the magnanimous wish of
the Lord Lieutenant, himself, in abandoning the
capital part of the indictment against the rioters
in the theatre. But it seems to have been ex-
pected that because he did this he would
also abstain from exercising his undoubtedly
legal right of ex officio information against the
offenders. But though lenity be not inconsistent
with public justice, absolute impunity is so, in a
case of misdemeanour approaching to treason.