The Sun.
London, England, 1824-05-04 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET FIR%T SPRING MEETING, 11t2.4.
secrynsir, star 3.
Sweepstakes of 100g,s each, for colts, Bst. 6th. and fillies, Est.
Ott. rising four years' old; 11. C.
D. of Grafton's b. f.-Veil, by Bubens - I
IA Grosvenor's Bryn-y-orkvn, brother to Botubasine - 2
Mr Thornhills b. c. Spoilt Child, by Scud - - 3
141 Stradbrooke's ch. c. Phasis, by Quiz - - ,4
D. of (Irafton's b. c. Talisman, by Soothsayer - • - 5
7 t.i 4 agst Veil.-6 to I agst Bryn.y-orkyn:—Two Paid.
The Breakfast Stakes of 1011gi each, •h.it. for fillies, Ost.
I). M. raising three years old ; untried stallions or marts
allowed 31b. if both, Vt.
Mr. Goddard's by Anticipation, out oi'Viscountess thorioe
untried) - - - 1
lAI Verulam's by Comas, out of Laurel-leaf - 2
6 to 4 on Anticipation, f.—Four Paid.
Sweepstakes of 100 soy. each, h. ft. for colts rising three years
old, gat. 41t. D. M.
11. R. H. the D. of York's by Phantom, out: of sister to
Prince Leopold 1
Ld Verulam's by Soothsayer, out of Blowing - 2
3 to 1 on Phantom, c.—Two Paid.
Ld Exeter's c. by Pericles, out of Advance,.beat Mr. Pow-
lea's brother to Antelope, Bst. 7tt. each, I). Id. 100, h. ft.
Sweepstakes of 100 gs each, h. ft. for fillies, Csi. 3ft. T. Y. C.
IA O. H. Cavendish's by Orville, out of Itarogsa _ 1
Ld Grosvenor's Angelica, by R.tibens, out of Plover 2
Even betting on Orville, f.—Two Paid.
Sweepstakes of 200 gs each, h. ft. list.' H. M.
I
Sir J. Shelley's Cedric, brother to Ivanhoe -
Ld Stradbrooke's ch. c. Cydnus, brother to Tigris
to 4 on Cedrie.—Four Paid.
Mr. Goddard's \%'isaacre, gst. 7th. beat Mr. Ramsbottom,s
Cephalus, Bst. et. A. F. 100, h. It.
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TILE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extrath from the Morning Avers, May 4.

1340 RN 1!,7
-13y.the arrival_Of the Britannia,: at Cork, from
Sierra Leone, we learn that fetters have been re-
from thence, bearing date the 11th of
The only 'mention they make, of- Sir
Charles`M'Ciirthy is, that it had ex-cited, great
surprise_ among the inhabitants that no, accounts
Triad been received of a late date from thtit,Ofer,
whose return was expected at the end of the pre-
cedinti month, and who was consequently consi-
derably over time. 'this remark naturally leads
to an apprehension that the melancholy intelli-
gence, via Barbadoes, will prove' but-too-correct,
Whilst at-the same time it may be_ deemed some-
what singniar, that from the 30th ofJenuary (the
-date of the intelligence from Accra) to the 11th
of,March, no accounts should have reached Sierra
• Lone of the dreadful diSaster.•We • fear, how-
ever, t tt this circumstance tiffa'rdi,ito
ground for disbelieving the' intelligence :
:Sierra Leone being so 'far to' the windward, that
- it-sometimes. takes a vessel many
.weeks to beat
up to it frorrOhe Gold Coast. Before the aboli-
-tion of the Sive Trade, the warlike propensity of
-the Ashatiteesi was exercised in *kidnapping in-
/ -ctirsions tippri 'the 'territories of nations further in
-'the interior; their captives were disposed of
FentWillealers, the agents and filerids of
4...--the whites. a loss of their accustomed- traffic
'l4;, -was ignoralitotscribed to. the Fantees, Who,' in
• •
,-rousequenc.s, became -the Object of their resent.
,anent ; and ,it will be recollected that it was in
1807 that they, for the first lime made their ap-
Fsy
yearan.ce on -the CoaS,t, when, after utterly de.
--feating the Fantees, they got. possession of the
:-Dutch : fort of Cormantine, and subsequently
....:atticked the British fortress of Annamaboc in
.•,great force, from whiCh they were repulsed,
7--thotigli the garrison Consisted only of about
: thirty persons. Near 10,000 of the Fantees
-were massacred by the ...kshantee force in this
--expedition.' In 1811 they again invaded this
unfortunate' territory, and subsequently, in the
:le• year 181t5, just previous to Mr. BOwdich's
:.sion. The A Shantees then blockaded Cape
-Coast Castle, and the Government having averted
imminent danger by advancing a large sum in
gold, on account of the Fantees, earnestly re-
--quested the African Committee to authorise and
-enable them to venture an embassy to deprecate
-those repeated calamities, to conciliate the
Monarch of Ashar tee, and procure, if possible,
an extension of commerce.. The result was, the
mission of Mr.-James and. Mr. Bowdich, which
closed in the treaty .since violated by these bar-
barians, from *hem, we fear, it will now be very
- difficult to obtain any reasonable terms.

[THE TIMES.]
-We have seen an interesting memorial to Go-
vernment from the merchants who are endeavour-
ing to establish a competition midi the French in
the valuable gum-trade of Senegal; of which
France has, since the peace, enjoyed'an almost
absolute monopoly. It appears that the French
traders have employed slaves exclusively, in all
the labour carried on by them at Senegal ; white
the English are by law compelled to make use of
free labourers only; and that the increasing suc-
cess and prosperity of the French settlements in
that quarter are closely connected -with an active
prosecution of the brutal slave-trade, which
tempts the native Chiefs to abandon a traffic in
produce, for a traffic in slaves—interrupts inces-
santly the peace of the inhabitants, and renders
hopeless all attempts to civilize and improve them.
Our merchants, -therefore, describe their claims
upon the protection of Government, as powerfully
enhanced by cobsiderations of "a higher character
than 'those which belong to the immediate be-
nefit of commerce, and they ask accordingly
for some e&ctusl tnethod of securing the opera-
tion of the Act 3 Gee. IV., c. 43, .which gives
the exclubive'suppty of gum Senegal to the British
merchant, and excludes the article Shipped from
France—the law being now evaded by a ship-
ment of the gum from 'France to •Atherica in
French vessels, and a re-shipment in British
vessels'to the ports Of togland from America.—
How far Ministers may regard this question as
atifording opportunity for the full application of
the principles, of free trade, or fora modification
Of-or exception to those principles, we cannot
determine. It is Clear that the surrender of Se-
negal to France, or of any other spot upon the
coast of Africa once in our possession, was among
that ,myriad of otTences against the best interests
of England and of humanity. which 'will, to the
end of time, be brought against 'the memory of
our incapable and unfortunate aegociator of the
peace of -1814-and 1815.

tnnyrtszt Pla.ss.j
Alittle 'time will disclose whether any projects
are really meditated by France against the inde-
pendence of •Brazil and Spanish America. The
presence 'Of so many French vessels in those seas'
is certainly in itself a subject of strong suspicion.
Our force, we trust,' will be .increased. sufficiently,
so as .effectually to check any attempts that might
be meditated by Vineleis:mi„istry in that
quar-
ter of the world. We •vould trust nothing 'to the
faith -df that Cabinet, and -Yet, with the im-
portant financial arrangements now making with
British capitalists, on Which so much depends,
urn which a single breath of hostility ‘„„vita
tyre rturn„ it is strange that any attempts of This
doubtful description should be made on the part'
rtf France, which -the Slinistry of that country
must know cauld.not pass without the peremptory
demand from us .of immediate explanation. 11`11e
Etaile of Sundarnotizes this subject markedly,
anti denies positively that there is-any foundation
for it. The' *English Papers, the -Dale says,
oir The'faitli of pretended 'letters "from Rio Ja-
neiro,, lave given currency in London 'to news
from Should appear That the Frp_ncir
force, on the liazil gtation has been incrensed,aud,
oasea' to 3..8 %Oar. We can affirm (the Paris-'
men add" that 'this•news is without any foun;
thetiom, `The 'force in those seas, which
los not been augmented for teveml years., is only

there to protect oar- totikeree, and'often even
that of other nations; the late events of Per-
nambnco and' Para have proved the necessity of
it. The Mali states that the ColOsse, which
the Courier pretends was then at Rio, Was 'laid
up in orditiary at Brest. The state of these
Colonies (this paper concludes by saying) onight
perhaps call for an augmentation of the French
force at these different points ; but while we
admit whet it might be proper to do, we are
bound to Speak the truth as to what exists. We
place little reliance on the statements of the
Ethile.. Our best assurance lies in' the powier and
relotYrces of this country, and our superior naval
strength.

[km rusts.;
The agitation which lately prevailed in the
Money Market is rapidly subsiding; and the
Funds had yesterday nearly reached the quota-
tions at which they were previously to the
recent alarming reports ; Consols having clos-
ed at 964 for the account, and the other
funds bearing a proportionate advance in value.
—The expresses from Paris have brought the
closing price of the French Funds on Satur.
day at 104.10., on which day the private let-
ters state the financial project for the re.
duction of interest payable on the Rentes
to have been carried by a larger majority
of the' Chamber of Deputias than was gene.
rally expected. The Foreign Securities in
which the late depression took place, have re-
covered, and much business was yesterday done
in them at the following prices :—Colornbian

ilonds•at 90i, exclusive of the Dividend, and
the Scrip at 3} premium ; the Scrip of the
Mexican Loan advanced from 8i to 10 pre-
miern. The price at which investments were
made here for the French Rentes was 104. 25.
A t length the last hope of the duped and credu-
lous holders of Spanish Bonds both in Paris and
London has vanished. Those people deserve in
general but little commiseration; for many of
them even now appear less displeased with the
knaves who imposed on them, than they are
with the friendly monitors who warned them of

he fraud. Let them call to mind the audacious

falsehoods by which they were 'first tempted to
venture their money on the credit of the Cortes.
Let them remember how distinctly the bankrupt
state of the Spanish Finances was Stated on the
one hand, and with what unblushing impudence
it was denied on the other. We by no means
justify the King of Spain for the course which
he has pursued ; because we have all along de-
clared our opinion that he is equitably bound to
a reimbursement of the money advanced before
the infamous 7th of July, 18Q2. But King Fer-
dinand's injustice (if it be such) does not in the
slightest degree extenuate the villainy of those
who originally contrived the scheme of loans
which they well knew never could nor would be
paid ; but which served them as means to defraud
the public.

[MORNING CIiROIYICLE.]

• The truth of the intelligende respectinr the
defeat of Sir Charles M'Carthy is doubted by
The New Times.—" The stiteMent (says our
Contemporary) is given in a Barbadoes Paper of
the gOth of March ; it was brought thither bj 'a
merchant brig, called the Elizabeth, and states
that' the battle was fought near Succondio, which
is to the westward of Cape. Coast. The account
is given in two different letters, one from Accra,
of the 31st of January, the other from an officer
of the Owen Glendower, at Cape Coast, on the
Bth of February. We know that the 0 wen Glen-
dower sailed on the sth of January, with an in-
tention of running down to call at Gape arid
proceed thence to search the harbours and rivers of

Benin-and Biafra. We know also that Brigade-
Major Rickets accompanied Sir C.M'Carthv from
Sierra Leone to Cape Coast in Novetnber ; and
the name of Major Rickets is given as severe-
ly wounded in the Acera Letter. Still this
does not appear to us very conclusive ; and there
are some,circumstances a little -suspicious in the
story. It is rather singular, that if a battle was
fought on the 21st of January on the Gold Coast,
the first account of it should reach this country
from 13arbridoes. Barbadoes it a place sylle-re
any news unfavourable to Sierra •Leone, or its'
Governor, would easily find credit. Accra,
too, is a place where the Dutch party would
be likely enough to invent hind -news."—Our
contemporary proceeds to notice the circunistande
of the death of Belzoni, while the Sierra ',veil
Gazette of Jan. 24 mentions his recovery, and
starting out on his enteprise with every hope of
ultimate success. From the details elsewhere
given respecting Belzoni's death, the doubt raised
on that circumstance is unfortunately removed.
With respect to the first news of a battle on •the
'Gold Coast reaching England from Barbadoes,
we understand from naval from that this is easily
accounted for. The reason of the oircuitout route
is this :—The calms which prevail within a few
d'e►grees of the equator, end the trade winds,
make it 'necessary for vessels coming from the
coast of Africa to England to proceed to .the
southward of the line, and run so Air to the
westward before they haul to the northward, as
to make some one of the We►st India Islands.

In fact, merchant ship;freqtrently touch at one
of them. It would appear, then, that no conclu-
sion against the authenticity of the information of
the defeat on the coast of Africa can be drawn
from its hating reached this country from liar.
badoes.

The Courier thought proper, a few days ago,
to contradict a statement in The Chronicle, that
Mr. Lushington .was going out to Bombay. We
can assert with confidence, that the statement
was perfectly correct.; and Mr. Lushington's
Constituents were to assemble (at the time we
are now writing) to determine on his successor.—
," By the bye, where does The Courier pick up
its intelligence ?"—(ibid.)

;[MORNING-HERALD.]
Tice 'House of Common's yesterday resumed
their lahours,, after the long Easter recess. There
was an uncommonly full attendance of Members,
49 is ell as of professional persons in the lobbies,
'8". Many petitions were_ presented, together,
with Bills regarding the various /few Loan, An.;

unity, and other Joint Stock Companies, that
have sprung, up in the City, in Manchester, in
Dublin, and other places; ivid the promoters
of such Bills have a. good deal of extra trouble,
expence, &C., as the finite for presenting petitions
for private Bills regularly elapsed in March.--
The parties now have to present " petitions
for leave to present petitions to bring in" the
Bills ; and those " petitions for leave to present
petitions," have tobe referred to private Com-
mittees. By granting the prayers of such peti-
tions, praying for leave to present petitions, and
they are seldom refused, the customary forms of
Parliament, and the previous six months' notice
of intention to apply for private Bills, are dis-
ponied with; whether wisely or not, of course
time must slew ; but by such forbearance re-
specting the enforcement of their own standing
orders, the public have not those long previous
notices of projected private Bills which were
heretofore held to be such sacred safeguards
of individual and local interests. Besides,
by thus acquiescing iu these petitions for
leave to present petitions, even a month and
more after all private Bills were ordered to be in
the House, or they were lost for the present Ses-
sions, there is a vast accumulation of the business
of the House. The business of the Private Bill
Offices has commenced anew, es it were ; and
the bringing up petitions and the forwarding of
what is termed the " private business" of the
House, now occupy till about seven o'clock
every evening, whereas they Used to be dispatch-
ed in one hour (instead of three hours !) after the
meeting of the House. This is another remark-
able change in the character of Parliamentary
proceedings, in addition to that of the decline of
long speech making. The gallery and the pas-
sages leading to it were last night crowded to ex-
cess by those interested in the numerous " joint-
stock" petitions and Bills brought forward ;
and by divers well-known faces and persons
concerned with the " Foreign" Market, who
were anxious to learn what might be said
regarding foreign affairs—the French fleet and
disasters in Ashanfee. Mr. Canning was in his
place by five o'clock. In the House of Lords
an important notice was given. .The Earl or Lau-
derdale announced that he should this day apply
for leave to bring in a Bill to repeal the " Spite!.
fields' Acts," to remove all restrictions on the
Silk Trade; and his Lordship added, that he
should then state his reasons why he thought the
total repeal would be preferable to the partial
repeal (which had been adopted) of those mea-
sures, and would be more beneficial to local and
general interests. A curious petition was pre-
sented from Sir John Shelley Shippey, of Kent,
laying claim to the dormant Peerage of Baron
de Lisle, praying an investigation of his claims,
and that he may be forthwith summoned
to attend in his place as a Peer of Parliament.
lie traced his descent from Baron de Lisle, who
was summoned to the Parliament by Edward 111.
The petition had been presented to his Majesty,
and on Saturday last Mr. Peel signified his Ma.
jesty's pleasure that the petition should be for
warded to and investigated by the House of
Lords.

A Lisbon letter, received by the last packet,
mentions that the Council of War held on Gen.
AvILEZ was the subject of general conversation,
and had given rise to very severe remarks. The
following are the leading particulars connected
with this affair, as described in the words of the,
letter above alluded to:—

1‘ Gen. AVILEZ was always known as an intrepid officer, a
strict discipliniarian, and extremely punetual in the observance
of orders received from his superiors. lie is, besides, a Patriot,
and welfare of his -country at
and has always had the honour
heart. "Hewn sincerely attached to the Conititutional party,
from a conviction that they were in the right,' and like an ho
nourable man, he stuck. to them to the last. When the traitor
SEPULVEDA deserted h
and all was confusion in Lis-
ewlsl bapners,
bon, owing to the degeftion of the troops, and the advance of
then
counter-revolutionists
smeoncomthe
ad, in order to prevent an-
archy, capital, General Avltrz was
tru.itedith
u
the
andhe stood his post until the denouement of the af-
m
fairs was ended. This firmness and consistency constitutedhis
present crime, although -actin-
g in concert with the KING him-
self up'to the very last hour, and this tiinie those he then op-
posed have not forgiven. He has, in fact, been an object of
bitter persecution ever since the counter-revolution was effected
in Portugal, although it was through hit cool and deliberate
conductthat the etftision of blood was preVented, and in all ppro.
bability the pillage of the capital. At length, by a Myst
Order, dated Aug. 27, 1823, he was directed to be brought to a
court-martial. Six of his own colleagues were named to.form
the Council, and one of the Ministers was appointed-President.
The charges preferred against him by this Tribunal_tiere in fact
the tnost glorious actions of his life, and he was even re-
proached for having saved the feiv Portuguese troops in garri-
win at Rio de Janeiro, when the revolution commenced, on
which occasion he prevented the breaking out of a civil war,
by yielding to circumstances it was out of his power to cc/in-
teract or controul. The whole of the charges preferred agafnst
him proved the malignity of his enemies, and tended to evince
in a still stronger light the probity of his conduct. At the
fourth sitting of the Council, he was, for the first time, called
in and examined, and he then availed himself of the opportu-
nity to skew that by withdrawing the few portuguese troops
he had with him from Rio de Janeiro, he not only saved
them from useless destruction,
,but also • prevented the
horrors of a civil war, in which, most probably, all the
European residents in Brazil would have perished. At
length, three of the Members of the Council, although pur-
posely picked out for this trial, courageously voted in favour
of his innocence ; whilst the other three, with the Minister at
their head, condemned him in the most attrociousmanner, and
thus, by a majority of votes, a disgraceful sentence was pro.
bounced. At length, after warm debates in the Supreme,
Council of Justice, his sentence was commuted into the loss of
his rank, and one year's imprisonment in the Castle of Vide.—
The whole proceedings have excited the utmost indignation in
every reflecting mind, as they spew the crooked policy and in-
justice of those who stand at the head of affairs in Portugal."

SO immense was the supply of fish at Green-
wich last Friday that the town-crier was sent out to announce
the sale of several kinds at uncoramanlY
low prices ; amongst
'which were mackerel at eighteenpence the dozen ; gurnets at
threepence the score; and wilts at fivepence per hundred.
On Thursday evening, between eight arid nine
o'clock, a most singular attempt at robbery was committed up-
On a gentleman:riding on the outside of the Heresey stage; he
sat between two very decently-dressed men,whogotoffat the AU-
gq, at Islington. Soon after their departure some valuahlepapers
fell outOe his pocket, When, upon ekamintition, he found the
pockets of his greet coat `and Coat were cut through. He had
also cash to a considerable amount about him ; bet fortunatply
,the robbers did not succeed in their nefarious attempt. It is
supposed they afterwards got upon -a Paddi ngton
On-Saturday afternoon, an inquest was held 'at
the Ship, in -Haft-street, Crutthedfriars, before
Thomas Shelton, EN., Coroner, 'Upon the body
of Nicholas Grant, -ft 'man about forty years -of'
agei who belonged to the brig Mary Anne, en.'
gaged ,in the coasting trade, 'who came by his
death by.falling into the river While endeavour.'
'lug to go on board on Thursday night. The
J ut/. returned a verdict of Accidental death. 'rime
deceased lies left a wife and three children 01
lament his untirnely.end,