The Sun.
London, England, 1823-08-22 00:00:00

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

CITY, Twelve o'clock.—Consols opened this
morning at 82.-3 k, at which they have been steady,
with little business doing...—Private letters from
Paris received yesterday state, that the French
Government do not expect any thing of im-
portance from Cadiz for some days.
Fon-max MARICET.—A notice has been posted
up this morning, signed by Admiral JAaET, the
Spanish Ambassador, stating that he is informed
that the Spanish Comissioners still persist in
issuing Spanish Certificates of Itentes, in defiance
of his Orders fo the contrary, and that they have
ordered a number to be presented at Paris, for the
purpose of fulfilling an alleged contract with
Messrs. and Campbell, and in conse-
quence cautioning the British public against pur-
chasing the, said certificates.

Our present Paper contains an account of ano-
ther pretended miracle by Prince HOHENLOUE
The authenticity of this new wonder is vouched
for by no less a person than Dr. MURRAY, the
Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin ! We
have hitherto taken no notice of the lying pre-
tensions to. the-ezercise of supernatural power,
which have lately been so ostentatiously put
forth by some of the more zealous adherents of
the Church of Itome. We have been silent
upon the subject, from a feeling of mingled dis.
gust and contempt,—disgust at the impudence
and effrontery with which the authenticity of the
alleged miracles has been asserted—and contempt
for the worker of miracles, his confederates, and
his adherents. It isimpossible that at this time of

day the sanity of the public mind can be endanger.
ed by artifices so gross, or that even a single indivi.

dual of sound understanding should be imbued with
the new superstition which HottErmottc is en-
deavouring to excite. At first view, therefore, it
seemed to be the more judicious course to suffer
the folly to have its run, and to permit the small
number of weak,spirits, whom its progress might
carry into darkness, to take that fate for which
alone, perhaps, they were by their own
imbecillity prepared. But on more mature

consideration, perhaps no evil should be deemed
too insignificant to deserve the trouble of correc•
tion, nor any imposture too gross and absurd not
to require an effort, however slight, for its expo.
sure. If Prince HOHENLOHE possesses the mira-
culous power to which he lays claim, the efficacy
of his, work depends on the holiness and sanctity
of his orcti character, and of the means which /w

employs, and not on the sanctity of the palie4ts
on whom his power is to operate. The miracles
of CHRIST and his Apostles were indifferently
worked on the penitent and impenitent,—on the
Jew, the Gentile, and the new Convert to Chris-
tianity. The miraculous augmentation of the
loaves and fishes was for the purpose of feeding a
in; ed multitude of persons, w ithout consideration
of the respective merits or demerits of the in-

dviduats who were assembled. The water be-
came wine, not in consequence of any virtue in
the water, but by virtue of the Divine power
wielded by the Agent in its conversion. The mi-
raculous power, when it exists, therefore, being
essentially the property of the miraculous Agent,
and not, in any degree, of the subjects on which
it is to be exerted, it follows that a single failure
in an attempt to work a miracle, is a proof, positive
and undeniable, that the claim to the exercise of
supernatural power is unfounded and spurious,
and is alone sufficient to outweigh the seeming
evidence of other alleged miracles performed
by the pretender, how strongly soever they may
appear to be authenticated. Now, applying this
unerring test to the assertion of a miraculous
power by Prince liouENtouts, we shall see, that,
by his own confession, there is arrayed against the
spurious evidence of every one of his pretended
miracles, a whole multitude of proofs that he 10
nothing more than a fanatic quack or a bungling
impostor ! lie says that the applications to hial •
by persons seeking to be cured by his means,-are
so numerous that he has found it necessary tO
perform the mass and put up his prayers,br all
the applicants contained in a given district, at once:!
It is not even pretended that more than a single
person, here and there,—(in all some half dozen
perhaps)—has ever derived any benefit, from his
spiritual nostrum !—Where it is only alleged that
he has succeeded once, therefore, it is proved and
admitted that he has FAILED A THOUSAND TIMES,--
and that the very same mass,—and the very same
prayers,—which are falsely stated to have cured
MARY STUART, have been utterly inefficatious as
respects all the rest of the sufferers for
whom they were performed and offered up! There
are many other grounds on which the spuriousness
of these modern miracles might be demonstrated ;
but we think that that which we have already
taken is sufficient for the downfal of the impos-
ture, in the estimation even of the weakest and
most credulous of those who may have hitherto
been its dupes !

TILE DECCAN BOOTY.—We hope there is no
truth in the report, that a certain Asiatic Knight
is endeavouring to depreciate the value of the
booty taken from the Mahratta Powers and the
Pindarees, during the late war in India ! If he
is, we can easily understand the motives which
have influenced him to do so ; but we trust that
he feels too sensibly the justness of the claims of
the troops to do any thing which will in the
most remote degree tend to retard or lessen the
bounty, which His MAJESTY is desirous that
they should receive fOr their bravery and disci-
pline, and which it is likewise the East India
Company's interest and duty to promote, on ac-
count of the vast accession of territory and re-
venue which they have received from the success-
ful and glorious termination of the late war in•
the Deccan.

NEW DUTCH LOAN FOR 6,600,0001. STERLING.
—Many of our readers may have seen the pro-
spectus, or heard of the conditions, of the above.
Loan, which was to have been brought forward.
in the Stock Exchange in London on the first
day of next month, having a bonus of a Dutch
Lottery Ticket attached to each subscription of
1000 guilders, which, being contrary to the pro-
visions of several Acts of Parliament, came
within the immediate cognizance of the Lottery
Secretary, Mr. flEssE, who has stopped in //mine
the progress of the Loan ; and we may venture
to say,
and we believe, that a' notice has been
given this day at the Stock Exchanze that the
bargains for it were void, on account (if the Lie-
gality above mentioned.

The
KING rode out in his pony elaiie ott
Wednesday last,
FRANKFORT AUG. 14.—Field-Marshal Connt
Walmoden anti General Count Osterman Tolstoy, Al&de-
Camp to the Emperor of Russia, arrived here on the 10th.---
The Statesman, a Journal printed at Offenbach, has Jo: t
been prohibited in Austria.—The Duke Dccazes arrived here
yesterday, with his family, on his return from Denmark.—A.
Letter from Larissa has been received at Belgrade, which Sal S
that the Packs of Adrianople has been as roughly handled at
the Thermopylce as Chourachid Paella was last year.
BRUSSELS, AUGUST 16.—The journey of the
Prince and Princess of Orange to St. Petersburgh, which has
been spoken of for some time, appears to be fixed for the
month of September next.—Count Agoult, late Minister of
France, in Sweden, Is expected here shortly, to fill the same
post at our Court.
Letters of the Bth instant, received yesterday
from Bilboa, state that the authorities and prin-
cipal inhabitants of that place had transmitted an
address to the Regency at Madrid, praying for
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the Constitutional Government.