The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-09 00:00:00

MEItCA N'l'l SIII PPI NG.

DEAL, JAW. B.—Wind E.N.E.-,-The Kent and Hereford.
shire, outward-bound Indiamen, sailed from the Downs early,
this morning with a fair wind. Came down from the River
this day the General ICyd, Nairne, for Bengal and China::
Inglis, Serie, for Bombay and Chinn ; Repulse, Patterson, for
St. Helena, Bencoolen, and China ; Favourite, rotted, South.
Seas ; and Mary, Beasley, for Barbadoei.
HALT'-PAST SIX o'CLocK.—The Ituliamett ire lying' too,
and will proceed on their voyage this day ; they have get a•
supply of provisons on board ; the wind is.quite fair, and fife
weather.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. B.—Winti N.E.—Arrived the Usk,
't-irelrlay, from Demerara ; Regent Packet, • Collins, and Sir
Henry Stanhope, from Messina ; Weasel, Wright, Leghorn ;
Highland Lad,' Lisbon.; Harmony, Griffitlis, Wales ; .11aria.
Appleton, Quebec, with loss of sails, boats, bulwarks, and
other damage, having experienced very bad weather.
.PLI(3101;1:11, JAN. ti.—Wipti li.—Arrived the Charlotte,
Wolffe,. from Bordeaux for Hamburg') : Amelia, Bully, Ca.:
dii; Martha, Strecker, Messina in 68 days; Cossack, .Harley,
Buenos Ayres ; anti Regent, Hill, Seville.
Far.monpt, JAN.. I.—Wind E.—Arrived the Lady Ara-
bells PaCket,- from Lisbon ; Good Hope, Kelly, London ;
Maurice, Dower% Gibraltar in 20 days. Off tint port the
Nymph, Hope, from Newfoundland in 30 days.
GRAVESEND, Jaw. B.—Arrived the Mellish' Ford. from
India ; and Thomas,' Winspear, from the Csear Good hope.
War tF0111), JAN. S.—Yesterday the I. lora., .from ,Que-
bec for 'Liverpool, with timber, staves, &c., went on shofe un-
der Broom Hill, at the Wexford aide of our river. Crew saved
vessel in the greatest danger. The President Al addition, Stuart,
from St..llllchaers for Liverpool, was dismatted off Trairlore,
on the morning of the 3d ; was afterwards towed by boats front
the shore, and from the preventative service, to about two
miles • south of Brownston Head, the eastern point of Tra-
more-bay. The crew and the boats all left the wreck on the
evening of the 4th, letting go both. anchors. " Capt. Stuart and
his crew went into Dunmore East. This morning Captain
Hunt, pilot-master, sent a party with Capt. Stuart and his crew,
in. search of wreck, and it was expected that their search woLlil
be effectual.

The Posthumus, from Jamaica,. has arrived at Bea rhaven,
with considerable damage.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was heldut the East jp4i4
House, when the following ships were timed :—For China, the
Charles Grant, to be afloat the 27th instant, sail to Gravesend
the 11th Feb., stay there thirty days, and he in the Antrim, the
19th March. The ships Bombay, Warren Hastings, Lowther
Castle, to be afloat the 24th Febritary,•sitif to Graretteritt'the
12th March, stay there thirty days,. and be in.. the Doles
17th April. The following Captains were sworn into the corn.
mend of their respective ships viz. Captain George Prohyn,
Minerva, for Bengal: Captain William Hay, Charles Grant,
for China.

The Rev. Jolts CAMPTIELL, in his Tr ards irr
South Africa, gives an account of the liberty of
speech taken by a young Captain at a public
meeting, nt which King MATcEnt presided in
person. The orator told his most sacred Majesty
that he did not like to see Kings with thick legs
and corpulent bodies : " they ought," he added,
" to be kept thin by watching and defending th
cattle."

On Thursday night, about ten o'clock, the
Marquis of BLANDFORD, on his way to Car-
boldisham, stopped at the Angel Inn, in this
town (Bury). The coachman requested a limn,
whom he considered as one of the ostiors4
to look to his horses for a few niimites';
while he took some refreshment : hut he
had yea been gone many minutes when the
careful guard began plundering the coach. The
Marquis accidentally made his appearance at the
moment, and seized the fellow in the act. He'
was given in charge to a constable, and has been
fully committed.—(Bury Gazelle.) •
INFANTICIDE.—A Coroner's Inquest was held
on Tuesday night, at the Union public-house, John-street,
Oxford.street, before Mr. STIRLI' NG Coroner, on the buds
of An infant found in the privy of Mr. Ellis, a jeweller's
house in the same street. It appeared by the evidence that a
woman, named Elizabeth Saunders, came into: the service of
Mrs. 1141 a few days ago, and on Monday night Mrs. Ellis
having gone into the yard, observed spots of blood, and earn.
municated the circumstance to her husband. Mr. Ellis imme-
diately procured a light, and discovered the body of a child ;
instantly suspected the woman, who had gone to bed, and accused
her, and at the same time sent for Mr. Kerr, a surgeon in the
neighbourhood. She denied all knoWledge of the child, but
confessed she was very ill. Mr. Kerr, however, on examining,
discovered that she had been delivered. The child was immedi-
ately conveyed to the workhouse, and the woman to the Mr,
wary. Watson, a nightman, who searched the privy, .stated
that he found the child quite dead, with a handkerchief tied
tightly round its neck. Mr. Kerr gave it as his opirrion tha!
the child was born alive, and the Jury brought in a verdict of
Wilful Murder against Elizabeth b'aunders ; tho Coroner issurd
his warrant accordingly. She is about 30 years of age. It ap-
pears she took great paimt to conceal her situation front air.
Ellis, by stuffing her clothes.,

'JacAnn!, Occuanrscr.—On Sunday night
three females were crushed to death in a^ cabin
near Bonnetstown, by the falling in of a loft over
the bed in which they lay. The names of these
unfortunate sufferers are Mary Nary, Mary, her
daughter, a girl only fifteen years of age, and
Mary Hayes, a child only six years old. It ap-
pears that there had been about twenty barrels
of potatoes on the loft, under the weight of which
it sunk. An inquest was held on the bodies on
Monday by Mr. Colles, one of our City Coroners,
and a verdict corresponding with the facts of this
deplorable fatality was reitirued,—( Kaenay
Moderator.)

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

XXTRACTS FROM THE DAILY MORNING PAPFRS,
January 9, /823.

[NEW Tlses.l
The Paris Papers of Monday bring nothing of
remarkable interest. The Funds were rather on
the decline. The hentes closed on Monday at
87f. 50c. for money, anti at 87f. 80c. for the end
of the month. The changes in the Prefectures
announced by the Moniteur of Saturday afford
great satisfaction to the friends of the Monarchy,
and, proportionate vexation to the disaffected,
who exhale their complaints in the paragraphs
of the Constitutiovel, and such like journals.—
We find among the newly appointed Pre-
fects severals individuals who hed been removed
from office by a previous Administration for
their loyaly—a singular but not less real cause
f persecution in those days ; and we are happy
to observe, that the principle on which we have
so, often insisted as equally politic and just, is
fully recognised in practice by the French Mi-
nisters; namely, that those individuals whose
zealous and honourable devotion to their King
and country bad rendered them objects of 'formal
persecution should now be considered as having
a paramount claim to distinction.

[MOItNIN[.E CHRONICLE.]
We cannot too often impress en our country-
men the importance of reducing taxation to the
lowest possible amount compatible with the exi-
gencies of the State. At the various Meetings
about to be held (and sixteen County Meet-
!Ogg use already announced), let pledges be
exacted from the Members, not merely to vote for
Reform and the abolition of the Assessed/Taxes,
and of the pretended Sinking Fund, but to urge
economy into every branch of the State expen-
diture: Increased allowances were made during
the War on account of the deffeciation 'of the
currency or advanced prices. r Those ought to be
placed as nearly as possible on the old footing,
except when special circumstances, such as the
inadequacy of the former allowance previous to
the depreciation, warrant an augmentation.—
Nothing is of so much importance to a country as a
rigid economy in the expenditure of its revenues.
Every thing beyond the necessary is a premium
in favour of misgovernment. When labonr for
the public obtains a 'better return than its fair
marketable value, interest and base trafficking
come instantly into play. If the taxation of a
country is light compared with its ability to bear
it, still it should be kept. steadily in mind that
all: that is raised beyond the strictly necessary,
fUrnishes means for corrupting the guardians 0
the public, so that what is below the ability 0
that public, will not he long in at least equa'
ling it.

[MORNING HERALD.]
We have accounts from Paris of the 6th. he
French Fands Still continued drooping,,for which
no satisfactory cause is assigned. Among those
Mentioned in the pacific Journals are the distri-
bution gratis, by the Government, of the Ultra-
Journals- which cry out for war—and an announce-
Went in one of these J ournals, that the Sovereigns
of (tussle, Austria, and Prussia, had recognized
the burlesque Regency of the Faith 1. If it be
true that breezes like these cau shake the spew-
letiona on the Stock Exchange, one would almost
think that, upon entering that, magic circle, they
suffered a revolution in their brains somewhat
like those whoeutered a certeln chateau, described
with morowit than decency a well-known French
poem. Another cause of alarm is the bias which
the Greivernment is manifesting to violent Ultraism
in general. A great move has taken place in the
Prefects of 'Departments—and six or seven have
been dis Missed. Dismissals are. expected also in
the Public Offices at Paris—and some have taken
place-in the University. All these are in the
spirit of what is called epuration—that is, the
removal of all but thoroughgoing Ultras. The
names are, out of France, obscure and %mime-
resting—all but one, IVI. de. Lacy, the celebrated
Oriental scholar, who is succeeded in the' Uni-
versity by Abbe, whom a private letter describes
as hn- Ex4esuit. , • •

[MOII NI N(. POST.)
We reciiived last night, by express, Freuc
papers to the 7th inst. On the subject of the
communications made to Spain the quolidienne
says The couriers who have carried to the
Spanish Cortes the notes from Verona cannot
have reached Madrid before the ist inst. The
Cortes,therefore can only now, at most, be en-
gaged in discussing what line of conduct they
shall pursue under present circumstauces,and the
result can hardly be known before the 12th or
15th of this mouth." An extraordinary courier
who left Madrid on the evening of the 29th ult.
reached Paris on the 4th inst. At the time of
ids departure from the Spanish capital, neither the
French nor the Prussian, Austrian, or Russian
communications had been received. The Minis-
ters and the Cduncil of State, ha stated, were
not entirely agreed respecting the Treaty of Al-
liance with Portugal. The latter were under-
stood to oppose its ratification. in the sitting of
The 27th ult. the Cortes adopted the various arti-
cles of the project of law relative to the govern-
ment of the provinces, and, in that of the next day
those vs hich created new military regulations. The
Universal of the 28th contained the following ar-
ticle; which is given by the Quaidienne as a spe-
cimen of the spirit which animated all Spaniards.
66 The rumours of war which have lately spread
from the capital to the provinces have produced
the same effeet on the inhabitants of Seville as on
all good Spaniards. Let us die rather than
yield to oppression gps the general cry."'

[BR ITI Sli MEM]

The question of war or peace in Europe, as a
result of the Spanish Revolution, seems to have
nearly► attained its final decision. It 'will be
seen from the extracts which we present from
foreign Papers, that the communications between
the several Courts most immediately interested,
continue to pass with the utmost possible ra-
pidity. Private information represents that in
Madrid time general opinion is expressed in a very

lofty tone, and that nothing can be more opposite
totthe views and principles espoused by the French
advocates of war, than the spirit of independence
which there predominates. It is even intimated
that the late propositions of the French Govern-
ment have been already rejected ; a fact which some
persons suppose is placed beyond doubt by the
sudden introduction of General Quesada, to M.
de Chateaubriand. In addition to this vague
sort of reasoning, the probability of a contest is
inferred by arguments of a yet more doubtful
nature. The Quotidienne of Monday has put
forth a long article, which contains a summary of
all the topics that are likely to influence tbe new
French Minister, or prepossess him in favour of
a hostile policy. It is somewhat curious that in
every, production of this kind it is assumed by the
writer, that,a great majority of the people of
Spain are averse to the existing Government, and
willing to aid in its overthrow. Now the events
which have recently occurred in the Peninsula
are enough, one would imagine, to spew the
weakness and fallacy of this assumption.

[THE TIMES.]
The public is amused at seeing the old vaga-
bond, Cobbett, writhe and howl under pur chas-
tisement. They will long recollect the *compa-
rison of the bear that sunk the boat : we are now
teaching the hear' to dance (in the same way that
those animals are usually taught a practice so
alien to their nature), by placing the monster on
hot clamps of iron, and making him skip with
agony, while we, his instructors, fiddle to him.—
Our first approach to him to-day, however,shall be
serious. Familiarized as we are to this worth-
less man's, monstrous falsehoods, we could really
hardly believe our own eyes when we read, in
his publicaiion of last night, the inconceivable
assertion that he was the author of the articles
which appeared in this Journal in support of the
injured Queen,—" which, he says, he gave to us
" in an indirect way ; for we should otherwiee
" have rejected them, and used our influence to
" tear her Majesty in pieces." Besides giving the
lie, as we now do in the most solemn manner,
to every tittle of this unparalleled falsehood,
we shall go further, and express our firm
belief, that the only
,man capable of falsely
claiming those articles as his own,—the real
author of every one of which is now seated in the
room where this, of which he also is the author,
is written,--is that man, if he deserves the name,
who had the heart to force his own child (his
lion so often mentioned in his writings)—to force
him, we say, almost weeping, into the witness
box to commit perjury I a black-hearted, moody,
perfidious soul-murdering villain. • Take that,
ruffian ! and if thou bast one particle of
a father's feeling still lingering in thy guilty
bosom, haVe at least one sleepless night, and we
forgive thee: perhaps thy son may do the same!.
With respect to the real author of those articles,
he has no wish toclaim any reputation from thew ;
his only desire being to do good : but he could
not submit, to the conscious shame of having his
productions, written under the strongest convic-
tion in sincerity and truth, fathered by such a
creature as Gobbet t.

ROBBERY OF THE BELFAST MAtr..----We yes-
terday published a paragraph respecting this
daring robbery. The Dublin Freeman's Journal
of Monday last, gives the following additional
particulars :—" The robbers (about fifteen in
number) surrounded the coach, and took the fire
arms, consisting of three double barrelled short
guns, three double-barrelled brass blunderbusses,
and four pistols ; they broke open the lockers,
and took the mail bag for Drogheda, and several
other parcels : there was a sum of 10,000/. in
whole bank notes in a part of the coach which
fortunately escaped their search. The know-
ledge of this sum (which was for the Belfast
Bank) being in the coach, it is thought occasioned
the attack. The robbers were two hours and a
half in arranging their plans before the art ival of
the coach. The went round to the neighbouring
cottages,and aftershutting up every person in their
place, and sending them in from their out-houses,
they left an armed sentinel at the doors to pre-
vent their coming out. The occasion of their
getting possession of the Drogheda mail bag was
owing to the guard having it uppermost, in order
to hand out to the Post-office when passing
through. There were four inside and three
outside passengers, all of whom were searched
and robbed of their watches and money ; they
also took the contents of their trunks. There
were five watches and about 100/. taken from the

passengers, but they had no great booty in the
Drogheda bag. The guard, Lewis Byrne, was
removed to Drogheda, and lies dangerously Hi.
There were soveral shots through the body of the

coach, but happily neither the coachman nor tin
pasiengers received the least injury. The coact
afterwards proceeded on to Belfast."
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.--On Tuesday last, be
tweeu the hours of three and four, a genteelly

dressed middle-aged person was oliverved walk-
ing to and fro on the banks of the New River,
near`the Sluice-house, Islington ; in a short time
he plunged into the water, but was fortunately
rescued by a Mr. OLlven, an inhabitant of Isling-
ton, and two other gentlemen; in a senseless state,
by whom he was conveyed to 'the nearest public
house, and every effort was used to restore the
unfortunate gentleman, which they succeeded in
doing in about half an hour ; and when he was
sufficiently recovered, he gave the following ac-
count for attempting so rash an act stated
his name was W— and that he
was a collecting clerk at an extensive sugar-
baker's, in the vicinity of- Wellclose.square,
in whose employ he has been several years ;
that having recently become acquainted with
a. woman of the town (who frequents the
Adolph! Theatre), he bad expended a consider-
able sum of his own, and likewise of his em-
ployer's money, on his fair Milt000d; and that
dreading an exposure, his feelings became so
harrassed, that he had determined to put an end
to his miseries by committing an act of suicide.
We understand Mr. OLIVER. waited on the em-
ployers, and one of them attended,. and Promised
every thing should be arranged to the entire satis-
faction of this middle-aged George Barnwell.—
(Morning Paper.)