The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-23 00:00:00

MERCANTILE Siff PPING-.

' USE OF LIFE BOATS.
Extract of a Letter from Hartlepool, dated January 21 :
" Eleven brigs ands ketch, coal laden, were driven on shore
near this place last week, and two of them are wrecked. The
Hartlepool Life Boat brought on shore the crews of most of the
vessels without any loss of life ; and those who saw her say that
she went through the tremendous seas like a bird."

DEAL, Jaw. E.l,LE—Arrived this morning and
sailed for the ltiverlihe Resolution, Greenag, from Jainaiaa
and Plymouth.

HALF-PAT Sm.—The Resolution hay brought up agaiD,
and remains with the Ajax, for St. John's, and thrz, other
brigs, bound to the Northward.

FALMOUTH, JAN. 211).—Wind E.--Arrived the itingdov2,
Orchard, from Newfoundland in 32 daft.
HALF-PAST ONE P.M.—The Eastern mail is not yet ar-
rived, owing, it is supposed, to the quantity of snow which
fell last night. '•*

PORTSMOUTIt, JAit.22.—Wind!N.E.--Artived the Georg::
and William, Bulche, from Bordeaux for Antwerp ; also th.,
Edward, for London.

PLYMOUTH, JAN. 21.—Wind E.—Arrived the Pelican,
Manuel, in 7f days from Rio Janeiro, bound to Jersey.
liAnwtcri, Jwx. 22.—The Aurora, Blomlzg, from ilrosa
to ilavre, was lost the 20th instant on the lirentisit Knozk--
ere w saved.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the, East ,irfiht
House, when Richard Thomas Goodwin, Esq. VIVI appointed
to a seat in Council at Bombay,' in the room of Guy Lenox
Prendergast, Esq. ; and James Joseph Sparrow, Esq., was ap.
pointed a Provisional Member of Coundl at Bombay.-
LXIENSIVE ROBBEIY.

lIIANSTOV-IlOtiSE.--:Thomar Clarke, porter at Mr.. Flint's,
on Fish-street-hill, was brought before the Lord Mayor,
charged with having robbed the. premises, in conjunction with
his brother Richard Clarke, who had formerly been in the
service of Mr. Flint, in the same situation. The latter was
charged with being the receiver.
Mr. Flint stated that Richard 'Clarke had lived as portetin
the house for three years, and then left the service on pretence
of ill health.* Witness took the brother, Themes Clarke, into
the situation, and hnd reason to believe that huh had robbed
hint to 0.-considerable eanount,the facilities being rendered very
greet by the fact of the brothers being well acquainted with
every part of the concern.
. Mr. Sharp stated that he was superintendent of Mr. Flint's
business. On Friday, the 17th Mee, two Cyprus &ems and.
some plaid earsnet were missing from a drawer at the back cif
the warehouse, and when Mr. Flint came to town it. was write!.
that a general earth should be made, as well in the boxes of el/
who were employed in the concern, taeeleewhere. -When wit_
ness asked Thomas Clarke for the key of Ids box, the Jetta
produced four keys, gave them to witnese; and urOn said, cctake eate
of the erift•ty.box.'? Thomas Clarke was in the habit et
sleeping in a Amen room or elOset by hit»self, and slit' witness
intending to examine the other parts of the house first, locktd
the door of the room, and proceeded in his search. Upon re-
turning to the door soon afterwards, he, found it had been juet
broken open, and on further examination he found that thew,—
goner's leet had been also forced open, and that the person who
had committed the violence must have wounded hiniself, 'as
there were marks of blood about the box and on the articles con.
tarred in it. Witness sent for a oonstahle; and on making in-
qniry after Thos. Clarke, learned that he wee not at home. The
prisoner howeierearne in soon after with his hand bleedinge
and said he had scratched it in taking down the shutteest 'Jr;e
hex cons tined ;ionic articles which Mr. Flint belleeVatte" i.e
hie property .The witness asked the porter Vb., ',,0 e money
of which he had spolterrwas, an
r.ot'S not having found . eb:
to which Thomas Clarke replied that he could isie artyto-, i I
such a plai'e. *Between the bed and bedstead siir,c droperty w,t..; .
forthri, echich was iientified by 'Mr. Flint. The sum of 'et, if,:e.
was rental upon.Thotnas Clarke. . ' letk;
Mr. Fl in t !'-aveevidence ocidirist Richard Clerl.e, brothee to
Thorium //e ',euspected that the two Li uteri welt; cozwel'iid
in plunderin4 itiAtie and-went, accompanied by Turnpenny th
olfieer, to the jibuse of ltichard Clarke in Cartein-road, where
be fennel a main ht or imitation shawls end toule, of all torts,
which be telleved to 1:e his property. _Amongst them vtre
lota pair of cuK; which had beerrin his drawers on the 9th of
the. month e . The officer tonna Ain thlt., which .31r, .I,liet N...
lieeed to .be part of the produce of the goods steku from hint.
ThePtiseners mid the money 'which was taken from tleett
had been left to them by a relatton'tet his death, and that they
knew nothing of a,lly Jobbery upon :MI. Flint.
Air. 'Mho,: adtielo d his former eividi,ic, thet Thomas Cl rice.
rice.
hall denied all.knowledge of hie brother's residence, as wile.
the circumstance of having seen`inin fair Some day*, and that
Itieltord admitted that they had met at the house in Curtait._
mash a day or two before.-2-The prisoners were tally ceuntele:ei
for trial.

Ed q'ard the Confessor seemed to have boic.it
the first, who made use of a seal hanging to the eime;,,r,i.m. grants, Some of which are preserved to this nay. Among thi.,
charters prior to his time, which are still renunaing, it has observed that there is not any seal found, nor is there any itp.
penance of their ever having had any.
:The first tittie that Zt coach went from Ox.fotd
to Lcindon in one day was in April, 2669. t
contained six passengers, had a boot on enelt sid.,t,
and was 13-Itours Oil this road.
Asinnole s Diary of iris Life, is the
in" passage 1581. April I. took eltiv
• •
in the mornmg, a good dose of elixir, Un:l 11U!!g-
-three 'spiders about my neck, and Alley druvtl
my ngue
ev away. Deo gratta,s.
,• b'i'}lis,—From the inclemency of the
tllt'r, no UYSter smacks have arrived at Billirrgete sin- •
Thursday ; and most of the dealers have not been shit
nib ec dish for their best customers :in fact, *zecely any been brought to the London market, fold those only ;! carriage. On Monday one witgg,tin load arrived at
'gate, which was of seized by the principal fishmong.
four guineas per bushel, a price unprecedented since the ye;i
; when. the River, as now, sat; rendered uo-naxiFGOi F,y
the intensity of the frost. The demand for the tew •
arrived was so great, that much squabbling ensuktl4,,ttra's--
ripos conseflutgices might have ensued, but Ito the &To 'Orot-ly,lltet.
ilet. or a Poltee-oificer, 'who was aiwohtte cleiid..r
COMES first served."
Sul D Coroniats !ugliest ‘vls ht-itl
terday nt two o'clock, before Mr. Slit:V.l'o"qt
rOlsPr, itt 'Sty Theitiasls tiospitnl, 'tlit the
l'hotnas hoope, aged sixty yeats, who put a
period to his existence:, by cutting leisthroat
Jury toturned tc verdict of-4"; Mental' de-
rangement." •'

A'rTl: Atrp:l) Sctoter..---, estflrnay niorninv;
young wotn.ul, respectably attired,vT-
nangy, was observed wAlking in a th,ireted
Vauxhall-bridge, and suitfacion being exxited t, • bl,e
drowning herself, a nun and a boy watclo.-d ' r
unfortunate woniatt at oue thbe aPI" in prayer, and immediately aftrwords !. •
ThitnJOS, where lit 4• rssh lott otions we;
tftr.Haptitade Of the roan, who vonveyed
neighbourhood. 'V lie unhappy creatnre
acct ttitt oI hersclf Mr some woe, but we 4‘-,.
length make dinlostires, induct. 4 her r c
ward her to her Mends in Weanninster.
We gave ttri account of the execution ar:,l
regsion of Hartley iii our lit'; t,
is stated ott °lva au#.loll ty,
father formerly kept the Sir, John
tubislioc ;usjet;stl (lie 411 V tilt7°lti 107:4S( .1t)u) o:eas
that the Arr. liar/ley
sons both of wham tiled 111 the navy
ago ; the proofs of which we have to :1„
sit vertittr.)

The Ceres, 'Mathews, is arrived at Crookhavn from Rio
Janeiro, with loss of bowsprit, bulwarks, sails, &c. bound to
London.
The Two Sisters of 'Whitby, Alert of Yarmonth, Friends,
Gof/f Clfty, Expedition of Seuth Shields, and of Lynn, were driven on shore last week near Ilartlepool—
crews saved by the life-boat.

THE LONDON JOURNALS. tk,

IXTItACTS FROM TUE. DAILY MORNING PAPEDS,
Juntiaq ‘23,

[THE TIMES,)

An officer, who crossed the Spanish frontier so
recently as the 12th inst., has communicated to
as a statement of the force of the French army
.11p,
stationed on the Pyrenees, between Bayonne and
Perpignan. Our informant had tht means of
forming an accOrate judgment, for he had passed
along the whole line. There were 18 regiments
of infantry, consisting each from 1,000 to 1,200
men ; two squadrons of horse artillery of 200
men each ; one,regiment of foot artillery of 600
men ; and fives regiments of horse chasseurs
of 500 men each ; in all about 25,000 men.—
The Staff of this army is very numerous,
and its materiel considerable ; but it is far
from being well disposed to the service on
which it is at present employed, and still
Tess to that future destioation which has been
marked out for it by the war faction in Paris.
The devotion of the cavalry, it is understood,
may be relied on,iiut that of the artillery is ex-
tremely doubtful ; while among the ranks orthe
infantry the order to march into Spain would, in
the opinion of our informant, bring on serious
disaffection." Yet this is to be the instrument for
effecting that which 400,000 of Boon apa rt e's
best soldie failed to accomplish.

[NEW TIMES.]
Mr. Vansittart retires at length from office,
and is to he elevated, it is said, to the Peerage.
No man with so little ostentatien of talent ever
100essed clearer views of the financial interests
'of his country; or carried those views into execu-
tion with more persevering steadiness and ability.
To speak of his integrity, his amenity, his kind-
ness, and benevolence, -woul4 ,Only be to repeat
.svhat is too well knownt 410 too indisputable
for comment. As a Financler, of course, his
measures encountered much and persevering
oppositiote---an opposition, which, however un-
constitutionally conducted, be always regarded
in the constitutional light as a new incitement
to vigilance, a perpetual stimulus to improve and
perfect those schemes which he had formed for
the public good. Among the most distinguished
measures in which he took part, the reduction of
interest in the Five per Cents. is one which will
be regarded by posterity with the greatest 40:
miration for the magnitude of the operation) and
the ease with which it was effected.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
kr4 E„ r thing threatens war at Paris. The
limit tave experienced a great fall, and the
Cabin It is confidently reported, have deter-
mined n hostilities. We know, however, that
the Cabinet already came to the same detervni.
4chtration, and it is neither impossible nor improbable
rifiat the Sovereign will again pause before it is
"too late.—The extracts from the Lisbon Papers
chew that Portugal Is about to form an AM-
ponce offensive and defensive with Spain. If
France, therefore, attacks Spain, she attacks also
Portugal, and England is pledged to make com-
mon cause wilts. Portugal. We shall therefore be
"force4l,- to take a part in the war notens voter's.
Indeed every feflecting person must have seen
from the beeitraing, that in case of war it would
be impossible for us to remain neutral. We trust
choose our party, and swell the ranks of one of
the contending parties. The combat is between
Liberty awl- Despotism ; and the Holy Allies
will allow of no middle position. We must either
act, our part like men, or prepare to bend the
krt,oe,, like other slaves.

[BRITISH PRIISS.]
We have been invariably of opinion that
France wonld not make war against Spain. We
are of that opinion still. Tin' three Allied
Sovereigns are zealous for war. All the world
know it, and no man can " doubt it. But
France is averse to war, the Government
for one reason, the nation for another. The
French. Gikvernment, that is, the King and his
Ultrag, are thoroughly convinced that their
'French tenure will not survive the conflict of
arms many days: the French nation recoil with
horror from a war against a generous and brave
people, who have achieved their own deliverance
from the most truculent despotism and the most
blood-thirsty superstition. The Government is
opposed to war from a principle of self-preserva-
tion ; the. nation from a love of liberty. But the
three Sovereigns abhor liberty, and would wil-
tin male it hurnt-otTerin of the Bourbons, and
all their emigrant adlimnrs on tar shrine of that
Moloch xtcico would extend the undisturbed sway
of absolute power from Cadiz to Constantinople,
from Parutaro to the Pole. They would have no
objection to Napoleon in France, could they
confine him to that country as his cage, except
when they chose to send him forth like a hawk
against the birds of rmolution.

[MORNING POST.]
Paris Journals to the 21st inst..do not confirm
the of,,zerted recall of the French Ambassador
from Madrid, and indeed, if the various rumours
which tlipy contain' have any foundation in fact',
it would appear that too much importance is'
attached to that measure to allow of its being
hastily a vd lightly adopted, It is never men.
tinned in any of the Journals without being ac-
companied with report that the leading Mini-
titers had tendered their resignation, so that its
adoption or rejeclion semis to be the pointon which
depends the existence of the present Ministry:--
)
The Ultras who have twice announced the recall of
M. de la Garde RR having taken place, have also
published a list of the new Ministry, which, nc.
cording to their anticipations was to consist of
the folloiving individuals :—M. the Count de

rVaublanc—lnterior ; M. the Count de la Bour-
donnaye—Finances ; M. Clausel de Coussergues
—Justice ; M. the Duke de Blacas—Foreign
Affairs ; and the Count Hyde de Neuville—
Marine. The Constitutionnel notices the rumour
(with this difference, that Mr. de Polignac
is named instead of Count Vaublanc) as hav-
ing prevailed after the Ministers had sat
in Council with the King, and when it
was thought that the French Ambassador in
Spain would be recalled ;• but it adds, that when
that was found not to be the case, reports of an op-
posite nature got into circulation, and it was ge-
nerally believed that those Ministers who were
for war had resigned.

[MO lINI NG HERALD.]

The accounts which arrived yesterday from
Paris mention, on the authority of one of the war
Journals, the approach of a dissolution of the
Ministry. The successors are named, and will be
found among our extracts. They are all of the
Ultras called" fanatic," to distinguish them from
the Villele or pacific Ultras, who are denominated
" politic." Amo►►st. them the old favourite M.
de Blacas, is named Minister of Foreign Affairs.
—lie would probably be the President of the
Council. Even though this change should not
take place, all uncertainty must soon cease.—
On the ‘2Bth instant the Chamber meet's, and
the tone of its Address will ' decide the
fate of the Ministry and the policy of France.
It would be idle to speculate at this mo-
ment. There are two circumstances men-
tioned, and by one of the most violent of the
" fanatic " Journals, whict►, coupled -together,
must suggest curious reflections—or, more pro-
perly, suspicions. The one is a statement that a
French General had arrived from the Pyrenean
frontier, at Paris, 44 to make an important com-
►nunication respecting the Army [of Observation]
which he had quitted." The other, that the first
proposition made to the Chamber will be a
projet of law for an extraordinary levy. One
would suspect from these assertions, which are
barely made, as we give them, that the Army of
Observation had, by its conduct; given cause of
distrust, and at the same time that war would be
still persevered in.