The Sun.
London, England, 1824-01-13 00:00:00

FRENCH
.FUNDS.

PARIS, JAN. 10.—Five per Cents. opened at 94f. 5c.; closed
at 94f. sc. Loan of 1823, si. Bonk Stock, 1,630 f. Neapo-
litan Five per Cents., 794. Spanish Rentes, 23. Exchange
on London one month, 25f. 45c.; three months, 26f. 35c.
(Coors Authentique.)

The contents of the other Foreign Journals are
so extremely uninteresting, that we have only
taken one extract from a German Paper. The
private letters from. Madrid, however, confirm
the accounts previously received from that Ca-
pital, and from Bayonne, and prove that
the state of affairs in Spain is daily becoming
worse and worse, and. that that unfortunate
country must in all probability undergo aro-
other convulsion, still more bloody 'and ter-
rific than those which Elave already occurred,
before it can be delivered from the calamitous;
circumstances by which it is at present over.
vrhelmed. We have inserted one of these letters
in .a preceding column, under the head "SPAIN."
It states, amongst other matters, that scarcely a
day passes in which soar French soldiers are not
assassinated, and that General BouinsroNT, who
is now the Commander-in-Chief, has applied for
an additional number of troops from France, in
order to enable him to keep down the people
whom their " Liberator and P aqficator," the '
Duke of A NGOULEDIE, was so kind as to restore
to tranquillity. Even the Royalists themselves,dis-
appointed in their expectations of rewards from
the KING, are said to be at length manifesting their
national antipathy to the French, as well as a
great diminution of the fervoux of their loyalty
for FERDINAND. During the Christmas holi-
days a ballad was even sung through the public
streets of Madrid, the chorus of which invited
the Royalists and Constitutionalists to unite for
the purpose of driving every Frenclic.an from
their country.

CITY,. Twelve o'Clock.—Coniols opened this
morning at 89H, afterwards dropped to 89 and

898, with very little doing. The warlike article
inserted in an Evening Paper last night, has not
had any effect on the above Market, as persons
well informed do not attach any credit to it.-1
do not hear of any Express having arrived from
Paris this morning, nor have we any information
of the least consequence in the City.
FOREIGN MA 1C ET.--Spanish Bonds opened at
9.4-1 to ,f. got up to Little doing except in
these Bonds and in Austrian Scrip.

Wa are glad to see. that the greater part of our
Contemporaries are exerting themselves to de-
stroy the false and pernicious interest which had
been excited in the public mind in favour of the
atrocious murderer Thurtell. Even respect for
the feelings of the wretched culprit's family must
give way before the paramount duty of exhibit-
ing, in its true light, one of the most cold-
blooded, savage, and unrelenting characters that
ever disgraced this or any other country. To
us, notwithstanding the eminent degree ;n which
he seems to have possessed that mere physical
courage which enabled him to meet his punish-
ment with fortitude, we confess that his cha-
racter appears still more detestable than those of
the infamous companions of his guilt, Hunt and
Probert. They, it is true, violated their accursed
friendship, and for the sake of preserving their
own worthless lives, sacrificed that of their mord
derous associate. The !motive which induced them.
to betray their confederate, base as R was,was still
that of sef-preservatiov—whilst he,—he fawned
upon, betrayed, and murdered the man whom
he called his friend,—and that from the most foul
and detestable motive b.y which a human being
can be influenced, the mingled thirst of plunder
and of vengeance ! That he would not have hesi-
tated also to sacrifice Aunt and Prober!, if' by
so doing he could have saved himself, is there•
fore extremely probable ; but as it was by bins
that the murder was planned, and by his hand
alone that it was perpetrated, he knew that he
was altogether inadmissible as a witness for the
prosecution,

We have received Gibraltar Papers to the
23d ult. from which we extract the following
articles :

•(From the Paper qf the 22d. )
Pursuant to an order of the Commandant-Ge•
neral of the Canary Isles, the Intendant of the
same officially notified to the inhabitants, on the
26th November last, that until the King's plea-
sure should be known on the subject, the parts
of those islands would be thrown open for the .
admission of foreign cotton goods on payment of
a general revenue of 15 per cent. besieles one
half per cent. Consular Duty on their value, e 1
settled by the Tariff in force in the islands pre-
vious to the introduction of that which th.e Con-
stitutional Government circulated on the 25th
June last. And as cotton goo[ls were the only'
ones prohibited by the first mentioned Taxi'', it
follows that the ;uhabitants.are now -allmved to
speculate in meachandia of .every desc.tiptioo
except tobacco.

The same order confirmed, until the ,King's
pleasure was known, the exemption from all port
duties hitherto enjoyed by foreign vessels t Duct.,
ing at the islands for the mere purpose of re-
pairing damages, or getting refreshments, without
any commercial object in view.
( From the Paper of the 21st.)
The following is the Address from the Rooda
district to the King:—

" SIRE—The Ronda Mountaineers, who understand nothing
about compromises with the enemies of order, and whose• re-
spectful attachment to your Majesty's august person can n ever
cool, have renewed those days of glory, which once rendered
their name formidable to your enemies. Fiercer ones made
their appearance—and the Mountaineers again made head
against them.

" Unfortunately their first
.rising proved unsuccessful—they
fell a sacrifice to the ruffians—some on scaffolds, others in pri-
sons, and all in the most bloody persecution. But their very
sufferings spurred them to fresh exertions ; nor would they be
cast down by the burnings of their houses, the plundering of
their towns, or the arrival of troops from Malaga, Cadiz, tte'
They entered the lists without arms, ammunition, or pecuniary
means; but impelled by their valour, and emboldened by the
justice of their cause, they attacked the factious troops, beat,
captured, and disarmed them, and equipped themselves with
their spoils. The first action fought elect rifled the whole dis-
trict, and the dispirited enemy hastened from our soil, stained
with disloyal blood, and left in our hauls many hundreds of
prisoners, who experienced a- liuniane "treatment which the
lovers of order only can give, to which the factions bud
proved themselves strangers. The district having been thus
cleared of the banditti, and the loyalists having been joined by
some troops who had abandoned the Insurgent cause, GPI-len:I
Caro assumed the command ; and under his orders they fought
until the deliverance of the kingdom of Grenada.
" But it was your own, Sire, and that of the Royal Family,
that they chiefly longed for, to achieve it they gladly exposed
their lives; and upon seeing; your Majesty restored to the
throne of your ancesters, after returning thanks for so great a
blessing, they have the honour to kiss your Majesty's hands."
" Ronda, Oct. 21, 1323."

THE GREEKS.—Letters from Constantinople/
of the 10th December, represent the last can
paign in the Morea at; having terminated de-
cidedly in favour of the Greeks. It is cer-
tain that the Turks have not gained an inch of
ground, in consequence. of which the Divan is
said to he seriously engaged on this question
it more prudent again to try the fate of arrnSl
for to treat with the Greeks ?"
Tut: POPE.-11iS Holiness, according to recent
letters from Rome, ii much better, and on the
26th ultimo signed a few briefs. At the Quirinal
hopes of his recovery,are entertained ; however
the physicians are still of opinjon that his Ho
ness is not yet out of danger.