The Sun.
London, England, 1824-01-01 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

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DEAL, DEC. 31.—Wind W.N.W.—Carrie down from the
River and remain, the Lord Cochrane, Sutton, for Alexandria
Elizabeth, Ross, Trieste ; and Liberty, Clifford, for Rio
Janeiro. Sailed the Euphernia, Norte, for Buenos Ayres; the
rest of the outward-bound remain.
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 31.—Wind W. by N.—Arrived the
Juno, Starr, from London, for the Mediterranean. Sailed the
Henry Addington Martin, for London.
PLYMOUTH, DEC.D 30.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Re-
becca, Scott, from Yarmouth, for Trieste, last from Falmouth,
having been as far as two degrees west of Scilly.
FALMOUTH, DEC. 30.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Duke
of Marlborough packet, from Lisbon, in 8 days ; and Briton,
Cram, from Liverpool, for St. Domingo ; the latter having been
as far west as long. 10., and out 11 days. Sailed his Majesty's
brig Lyra to the eastward.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 30.--Arrived the Bencoolen, Kirkwood,
and Seaforth, M'Dowel, from Calcutta : sailed the 19th .of
August, and from St. Helena the 17th of November. Off the
Port the Dee, —, from Demerara_ Put back the Hope,
for Africa ; Atlantic, for Bahia ; La Hata, for Monte Vid:o ;
and Comet, for Milford.
PETERHEAD, DEC. 28.—The John 0' Groat, of Lerwick,
last night, on taking this harbour, was thrown out of the Channel
by the sea on tke rocks near the harbour's mouth, where she
still lies, and it is feared she will break up.
ScAßßoitouGß, DEC. 30.--Arrived the Thorp, Hardy,
from Memel, has experienced very bad weather, and thrown
part of her cargo overboard, and lost bulwarks andstautcheons.
The Ruby, Hall, 44 days from Memel, is in the Roads all
well ; and the Caroline, of Rye, Gravett, with loss of main.
boom. '

A SMUGGLER CAPTURED IN BOSTON DEEPS.—Laft
Thursday morning, as a detached party belonging to the Red-
breast revenue cutter, stationed at Fritton Shore, were return-
ing from patrol, about nine o'clock, they saw a strange vessel on
W rangle Main, to which they proceeded without a Tr oment's
delay. The vessel was found to be a smuggling lugger, of
considerable burden, with a crew of nine men, wno, on per-
ceiving the determined advance of the armed and courageous
preventive men, betook themselves with great haste to their
boat. The cargo, which was immediately secured by the party
who took possession, was, on Saturday, conveyed in four war-
gons to Boston, and safely deposited in the Custom House. It
consists of 318 half ankeis of Geneva, besides 50 bales of dry
goods; some of which contain tobacco or snuff, others plate
glass, and others highly finished Dutch paintings, which are
said to be of great value.—(Boston Paper.)

Such are the expectations of an increase of
trade on the Union Canal, that one boat-builder,
in the vicinity of the basin, has contracted, since
the middle of summer, fur building ten boats.—
Vessels are also frequently launched from the
yard at the west end of Gilmour-pace, and
three are now building at Leith. It is not a
little extraordinary to find that the cowfeeders
of Edinburgh are now supplied with draff from a
distillery at the distance of thirty-five miles. One
brings about 40 tons weekly of this article.--
(Edinburgh Courant.)

HARWICH, DEC. 29.—0 n Wednesday, that
extraordinary and majestic animal, the Swedish
Elk, which has for some time been at the Three
, Cups, in this town, was sent off to London ; he
was led off harnessed by the head wih a strong
leather halter, attended by five men, but after
going file or aix miles, his tra:ctableness rendered
.Enure than three unnecessary. It. is said to be
for public exhibition at the Egyptian Hall, Pic-
cadilly, as the breed is now nearly extinct in
Europe, and this is the only one ever imported
alive into this country. Although it has. not
attained half its growth, it has already reached.
the height of nineteen hands at the shoulders ;
it is a singularly made animal, capable of en-
during much fatigue, and going at an incredible
speed ; one has been driven in a sledge, from
the interior to Stockholm, a distance of three
hundred and sixty rreiles, in thirty hours, but the
exhausted animal was obliged to be killed on its
arrival.-.. Three very beautiful Rein Deere, wh!clt
arrived last week by the Emily, Gothenberg
packet, now occupy its quarters at the Three
Cups; two females and a male; they are
going to the North, where an attempt is
being made, with every prospect of success,
to naturalize this most useful animal. It ap-
pears the favourite food of the rein deer is, the
lichor rangiformus, or mountain moss, which
abounds 'in many districts in the North of Eng-
land. A quantity of this curious moss was
brought over to sustain them during the voyage.
A fine male and female shedder ( Tetros tirogallus)
or cock of the woods, accompanies them.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, Jan. 1.

[THE TIMES.]
The Etoile and other Paris Papers continue to
Auld out prospects of an amnesty from the gentle
Ferdinand to bis wicked subjects. This boon,
by whatever qualifications to be clogged or neu-
tralized, has not yet, it appears, been tho-
roughly resolved on, because of the expediency
--of calling up examples from the auspicious era
of Charles V., who effaced every vestige of an-
',lent Spanish liberty, and from the generous po-
litics of Philip N., who laid the foundation
of-that enlightened and instructive Government
'which Spain has now enjoyed under five Princes
of the Bourbon race. When the amnesty does
come., it will prove, we dare say, a curiosity;
and why it should not come, is, after all, sur-
prising. Let certain great men only do with
their resentments what they had no difficulty
in doing with their oaths, and the amnesty
is settled. The Journal des Debats has a let-
ter from Stockholm, dated the 9th of Decem-
• her, which contains his Swedish Majesty's an-
swer to an address of the Diet, recommending
that publicity be given to the proceedings of in-
ferior Tribunals and Chambers of Police. The
King, in his answer, states -his conviction of the
advantages of publicity ; but foi• several reasons,
and chiefly because he wishes it to be seen how
far the plan of a new form of proceedings, pre-
sented by the Committee of Legislation, may em-
- brace publicity, he, for the present, rejects the
proposal of the Diet.

[MORNING POST;
French Paper: of the 30th ult. and the Etoile
of Tuesday, reached us last night by express.—
Their contents are unimportant. According to
an article from Madrid, dated the 20th of -De-
cember, there were daily Councils of State on
• the subject of the Amnesty, which was once
more " on the point of being settled," though its
publication was postponed to the 30th. The
archives are said to have been consulted,in order
• to ascertained exactly what had taken place in the
reigns of Charles V. and Philip V. but what neces-
• situ there can be for a reference to ancient autho-
rities to do an act of common mercy, even sup-
posing it not to be one of justice, we are at a loss
to comprehend. Amnesty is only another ward
for pardon ; :rid pardon ceases to be politic if it
'be burthened with conditions which make it in-
effectual or insulting. A letter from Bayonne
speaks. of
.an affray between a Spanish battalion
quartered at Estella and its Officers, in which
eight of the latter were killed, after which the
sold:ers marched out of the town, drums beating,
and divided themselves into three columns, which
'had not since been heard of. The same letter
also asierts that Saez was going to resume his
place in the Spanish Ministry. Advices from
Rome and Milan state that the new Pope's illness
had become dangerous, and that the Emperor of
Austria was expected in the latter city in the
mouth of March.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.I
Paris letters mention that several Spaniards
who had sought an asylum in the French terri-
tory, have been arrested by order of the French
Government, and that others, who had come
from the Low Countries, have gens d'armes
placed in their lodgings.

We have had an opportunity of reading the
Manifesto of the Mexican Government, dated
the Bth of October, in which the reasons for de-
claring that country to be free and independent
are stated in a precise and spirited manner.—
The accusations against Spain for violating the
rights of the Mexicans amount to a fresh decla-
ration of war, called for by the wanton aggres-
sion of the Governor of the Castle of St. John
de Ulloa. The two French spies, who had been
arrested, and respecting whom, it will be remem-
bered, we, some time ago, published an official
denunciation, pleaded that they visited the
country merely forsmercantile purposes ; but
on examining their baggage, a cypher and other
matters calculated to excite suspicion were dis-
covered. On being asked for the key of
the cypher, they declared it was lost ; but
sufficient evidence was established to prove that
they were there in the character of secret agents of
the French Government, with a view to intrigue
in the interests of the Holy Alliance, or for the
purpose of establishing a Bourbon Prince on the
throne of Mexicoom a plan similar to that of M.
de Cate for Buenos Ayres. These emissaries
continued in. confinement, and it was thought
that they would be sent out of the country under
an escort.—(lbid.)

Letters from Bilboa give a melancholy picture
of the state of that place. As soon as the late
change of Ministers was known there, the fana-
tics went howling about the streets, proclaiming
their abhorrence of the measure, and declaring
they could trust no one, except clergymen, near
the throne. Meeting two persons in the streets,
known to be Liberals, they immediately put them
to dead►, to satisfy their own thirst for vengeance.
No person of learning or liberal ideas ventured
into the streets after it was dark.—(lbid.)

[NEW TIMES I
We have received Siena Leone Gazettes to
the 13th of September, and we are happy to learn
from them that. the mortality occasioned by the
fever in the preceding month of May was exag-
gerated in the accounts then transmitted to
England. The visitation had been severe, but
not to the extent stated ; and we collect from
the present Journals, that healthfulness had
been NA orecl in the Colony,. We find the inde-
fatipl,le Governor, Sir Charles MacCarthy, as
usual, et.?ployeci iu tours .of' inspection from
townt•hip t., township, stimulating every be-
neficki e•:.(,-;i:.):1 by his countenance, advice,
or assit,tai Even in the month of August,
which hir; fleet; considered by sonic as the most
pernirioes part of the rainy season in that cli-
mate, the rivernar in person visited the towns
of Kisse' and Wellington. " In September he

commenced a tour to the mountain establish-
ments, in the course of which he visited and in-
spected the towns of Gloucester, Bathurst, and
Leopold. By occasional attentions of this kind
to the local wants of the inhabitants, and by the
personal encouragements which he is thus enabled
to give to industry and enterprise, his Excel-
lency powerfully contributes to the internal pros-
perity of the Colony ; while on the other hand,
by an energetic display of force, he renders the
neighbouring Powers duly sensible of the impo-
Hey of any unjust aggression on British interests.
The Ashantees, as we have heretofore stated,are
the most inveterate of our enemies in that quar-
ter of the world ; and by the horrid murder of a
British Serjeant they had forced Sir Charles to
take up arms against them. Captain Laing, who
had marched from Cape Coast against these Bar-
barians, was not able to bring them to action, but
had effectually stopped their incursions. He was on
the 9th of August in camp at Yancomassie, near
Mansue, about 20 miles beyond Donquah.