The Sun.
London, England, 1823-03-17 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE, 'Alancu 17.
The arrivals of last week were moderate ; this morning the
fresh supply consists chiefly of u tolerable good quantity 'ot• •
Wheat, Barley andneans, from Essex, Kent, and Suffolk, with
a few vessels from the north. The Wheat trade continues very
dull, the prices are quoted lc to 2s.'.per qr. lower than this day
tetnnight.,. Batley is: also lather cheaper. Beans sell rather
heavy, but not at less prices. Boiling Peas fully support their
last quotations, Only Pea are rather dearer at present, sok
sell readily at the prier' of last week. There is a free trade fn
Oats of all kinds, and the best samples rather exceed the terms
of last Monday.
AVheat, Red 94s MOs Pease, White ...... .2fla
White 406 Ms- fifty ; • 27a
Rye 'Os 2fix Beans 30s 328
Barley ' 03s 31is Oats , lsa «lis
Malt 40s 58iii Flour 4os 50a

AVENAGt PRICR Of CORN IN It:NOLAND AND ICA.I.ZIN.
Wheat, as. 2d. ; Barley, 30s. Od. ' • Oas, 19a, M. ; Rye,
251, 6d. ; Beans, 265. 9d.. Peas, 31m. lid.
The Average. Price of 'frown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the Returns mule in the Week ending the nth day of,
Manti, 1823, is 365. 74d. per cwt. ' •

• SMITHFIELD .MARKET, Moen n. -
The above market was well supplied this morning in Oxen,
and the prices- are somewhat lower than last week's markets ;
but in Sheep the numbers were not so great as this day sennigh t,
but they ask full as high for good Sheep as on that day.
(To sink the Offal, per stone of Bth.)
Beef 'ls Od to 3s Oa I Veal
Mutton 3s Od to 4s Litt I Pork . ... 38 ed t, 4s Od
Lamb Os Od to Os Otl.

HAY AND STRAW, P]f LOATI.
Hay £3103 to £4 031 'Clover ll3 103 lo .C 4 103
5traw,.....02 23-to LI 14L

In consequence of the late advance in the price
of wheat, the bakers on Monday rsised the (pattern leer a
penny. it is now selling at 71. mid 114.—The prkti of battroe
rose twopence the peck in Vdinburgh market on Vasday.—
(Edint,erith Courant, Nardi 13.)
The French Ultra papers are making a great
fuss about a ball given by the French Alinis4r its
London, which they pretend took place on the
Same day as the hi,* anish antler. Every body
knows that the ball wau on Thursday, and the
dinner on Friday.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

EXTRACTS FROM THE DAILY MORNING PAPERS

March 17, 18'23.

CNEW TIATCS.
The French Papers of Friday afford much and
interesting information of the state of affairs both
in France and Spain. The Cortes declared on
.the 3d instant- that its sittings should be sus-
pended till the Government had been removed
from Madrid to some place of greater safety.
Ppinions seem to have been divided whether
they should go to Badajoz or Seville, but at
length it is said the latter was preferred. Pro-
pably the insurrection in Portugal, of which
news had reached Madrid, deterred the Spanish
Ministers from approaching the Portuguese
frontier. ft was fixed that the King and
Royal Family should be marched from Madrid
under 'a strong escort, on the 10th or 11th inst.,
although the. King is ill of the gout, and the poor
young Queen is in a state of the utmost weak-
lie'ss and nervous agitation. The conveyance of the
Royal Captives to their destination is expected,
however, to be a service of danger; and there will
be some difficulty in collecting a sufficient force to
guard them; for there is no doubt but that the
cortege will be attacked on the road by some of the
numerous Royalist bands, who are on the alert
to reicue their Monarch from his- chains. The
inhabitants of Madrid, too, are greatly agitated
at the proposed. removal of the. Government;
since it announces to them, in language too plain
to be mistaken, that they cannot be protected
fiom the French army; while at the same time
it deprives them of the means of making favour-
able terms-with the Invaders, or with the Re.
!piney, which will doubtless establish itself in
the capital.

[MOR NiNG POST.]
French Papers to the 15th inst. have arrived
since 9or last. Their contents confirm, though
in an obscure manner, the rumours which pre-
vailed in town on Saturday, that disaffection and
insubordination had displayed themselves to a
great extent amongst the troops collected for the
invasion of Spain. The clearest 'allusion to the
subject is the statement that 44 a report had been
made to the Duke of Angouleme by the Major-
General, on the situation of the several corps
of the army." It is certainly possible that
such a report shuld only refer to ordinary mat-
ters, such as the distribution of the forces, and
their progress in the preparations required for
the contest. But the public opinion in France
has affixed a different meaning to this document,
and it is generally believed to convey intelligence
calculated to alarm the authors of the iniquitous
enterprise against the rights of an independent
nation. It would not he surprising indeed that
desertion or insubordination should prevail to a ,
considerable extent in the French army, if it be
true, as it is asserted in an article from Madrid
given in the Journal des Debuts, that " at Roses,
in Catalonia, a, Regency has been organized in fa-
vour of Napoleon II." it is rather remarkable,
that instead of denying the fact, that Journal not
only admits, hut confirms it, by stating in a note,
44 that the Regency in question le composed of
some 'French fugitives, and of Neapolitan and
Piedmontese refugees." In establishing the ex
istence of this Regency, it also establishes another
important fact, that it is not the work of the
Spanish Goverument or people, but that of
French, Neapolitan, and Piedmontese Refugees;
and yet in the very teeth of this declaration, it
proceeds to draw the following unfounded in-
ference, in order to afford a pretence for justify-
ing the meditated aggression : and yet it
will be said that the Spanish Revolution does
riot attack legitimacy, and does not corn-
promise the French Government." Against
this charge, fortunately, this Journal has
unintentionally provided an effectual antidote.
It has declared that the Spaniards had nothing to
do with the establishment of a Napoleonian Re-
gency, and it will certainly not contend that at
a time when France is marching to crown her se-
cret manoeuvres against the internal peace of
Spain by an open violation of her rigljts, and an
unprincipled attack on her independence ; at a
time when a new Spanish Regency is formed at
Perpignan under French auspices, and treated as
the legitimate Government of the country, the
Spaniards should be so senselessly generous as to
drive the French Refugees from their coasts, or
prevent them from following the example given
them by the Bourbon Ministers.

[MORNING CIIRONIct.E./
Lord Palmerston, in defending the prerogative
claimed by the Crown of dismissing officers- with-
eut trial, asserts that the Crown could not convey
to a Court Martial any power which it did not
itself possess, and thence would argue, that as
Courts Martial have the power of dismissing
officers, the Crown which convenes those Courts
must also have that power. This is a very gross
blunder, arising from his Lordship's not duly dis-
tinguishing between the legislative capacity of
the Crown in respect of military offences, and
the
•judicial capacity of a court martini. Lord
Palmerston might as well say, that the Parlia-
ment could not convey to a Court of Justice any
power which it did not itself possess, and thence
argue that Parliament might transport, imp' ison,
and hang people at pleasure, hecause Courts
of Justice do so under its authority. The
power is entrusted to the Crown, we will
not say with what wisdom, of legislating as it
pleases, with regard to military offences, it may
form articles, of war,. and apportion ptmishments,
not extending' to ,life or limb, hut there its power
oeases—it is for the Court-Martial to find the in-
fraction of those articles, and to ascertain the
commission of the offence, the judicial character
belongs to dip Court.Maitial only. If, how..
ever, the Crown have the judicial power which
claimed for it indeed unite the legiila-
tivo, judicial,. and executive functions Ot
glaring anoninly.), we should like to know why
it ever,delegates its powers to Courts Martial,
which, according 'to Lord Palmerston, are so pe-
culiarly obnoxious to the worst, descriptions of
error, favour) and prejudice. We are no great

:admirers of military tribunals, but must confess
that our principal objection to them, was the
great i►►fluence of the Crown over the minds of
the members. Lord Palmerston, ot► the other
hand, seems to think that it is necessary for the
Crown to interpose, lest, we use his Lordship's
exemplification, officers accustomed to acts of
cruelty should atquit officers tried for cruelty.—
Ills Lordship has also great fears of an insolent
soldiery, and dreads that a constable armed wall
a staff may not be a match for an officer sur-
'rounded by six or seven hundred bayonets.—
Let us then, as a cure of this evil, have a
few more constables, and a lesser proportion of
bayonets. The tenderness, however,which his Lor-
dship feels for our civil rights, will be duly esti-
mated, when it is. considered that he is strenu-
ously defending the act of power that deprived a
gallant Officer of his Commissions, and with them
his fortune, because he interfered to prevent' his
Majesty's troops from making free with the Hies
and limbs of his Majesty's people.—We feel a
little more difficulty in dealing with the argu-
ment of MT. Charles Wynn, that every prero-
gative which the Kings of England have at any
time exercisedr they still possess, except what
has been specially taken from them by Parlia-
ment. This argument would certainly, go a great
way, as the Kings of England used formerly to
give a very convenient interpretation- to the word
prerogative.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The treatment of. Napoleon ,Buonaparte by
the British Government has not only fixed an
indelible stain on our national character, but has
produced a, bitterness of hatred towards us on
the Continent which this country, we teary will
one day have the deepest reason to regret. The
.provocations of France are heavy, and the resent-
ment deep. The success of our arms at Waterloo
crowned us with glory—the use we made of our
victory steeped us in dishonour. What miserable,
what short-sighted policy on the part of our Go-
vernment, was its treatment of the Ex-Emperor
from first to last. To prevent his escape wasoo
doubt, a measure of real prudence. But any
exercise of rigour beyond what the precautions
for that purpose justified, was not only unwar-
rantabler. but most unwise. He should have been
subjected to no unworthy treatment, still less
should he have been made to suffer daily annoy-
ance, and have been harrassed by insult and pri-
vations. Some person of rank and character should
have been appointed to the Government of
St. Helena, whose conduct would have been
worthy the enlightened nation on whose generous,
protection Bonaparte had so unreflectively thrown
himself. It was the interest of the English
Government to have preserved his life, and con-
sequently to have contributed by every means,
consistent with his personal security, tcrensure it.
Napoleon, in, our hands, was an engine of power
and influence that would at any time have bent
the Continent to our will,—an engine that saga-
cious statesman might have employed at any
juncture, and have made effectual for ally pur-
pose. England held in him the means of con-
trolling the councils of the Allied Sovereigns, and
giving hprown impulse to every Cabinet in Europe.
Through him she might at once have preserved to
freedom its dignityand to royalty its respect.W Quid
France have dared to enter Spain, if, with Na-
poleon in her keeping, England had declared for
the Peninsula ? No; she might then, had she so
chosen, have frowned the conspiracies of monks
and priests out of existence. She might have
' counteracted the aggrandizing projects of Russia,
and have dictated to the Court of Vienna. When
we think of the policy which opened itself to the
foresight of enlightened minds, as it respected
the illustrious captive of St. Ilelena, how morti-
fying is it to recur to the pitiful conduct of Lord
BaLlitirst, and of his underling, Sir Hudson Lowe!

[MORNING HERALD..
Mr. Wallace's Warehousing Bill is to be-read
a second time this evening. As it is the form of
the Mese to discuss the 44 principle " of a Bill
at such a stage of the proceeding, and as the Bill,
of which this is a copy, was defeated lust Session,
we may expect that there will be some discus.-
sion. The Bill was printed and' delivered on
Friday, but copies of it would hardly get gene-
rally into the hands of Members before this morn-
ing; and at it occupies fifty-one folio pages,- due
time is not allowed for the deliberate investigation
of the new system proposed by this Bill. We have
from the first contended against its principle—
from England to all parts of the world of those
namely, bringing to England the manufactured
goods of other countries to be put into compe-
titian with our manufactured goods, when the
West Indians, the United States' people, &c,
have been well satisfied to freight their return
yesiefs with British goods. In an article that
appeared in one of the Ministerial Papers, the
writer admitted the fact ; that it had been
deemed expedient to exempt from the operation
of this Bill Irish linens as they could not com-
pete with German linens, the protection of
them must be continued. We said in reply,
and we repeat the observation, that such defence
of the Bill was an arguMent against its prin-
ciple. if it be good policy •to protect Irish
linens, surely it must be good policy to protect
other branches of our manufactures. If the
writer alluded to be prepared to deny this posi-
tion, he is ready to question the golden rule of
three. We have looked at 'the new Bill, par-
ticularly at the schedules enumerating the articles
that may be warehoused. We shall mention
some of the foreigis manufactures that are to be
introduced into warehouses built on purpose in
London, Liverpool, &c. and put in competition
with the same descriptioe of goods of our own manu
facture. There is at present a very large export
from England to all, parts of the world of those
goods ; and in the very teeth of such fact, we
are to afford the United States, East and West
India, and other merchants, the option of taking
foreign .goods, provided they are cheaper
than our own I And this is legislating gg to
promote the interests of the country !" Having
detailed some of the articles in the schedules,
we may remind all those who are in.
terested in the manufacture and trade of
such articles, to consider hdw far their interests

are threateniid by this Bill. If they see the ne-
cessity of petitioning, we can assure them that
they have no time to lose; and we may add,
should they suffer the opportunity to escape, that
it is much easier to get a bill through all its stages
than to procure its repeal. At present, beer, trin-
kets,cards, clocks,watches, glass, la ce,paper,plate,
&c. are ex ported,in considerable quantities,in pay-
ment of goods imported ; but the Board of Trade
will bave foreign goods of the same description
brought into competition with ours. It therefore
behoves the brewers, the paper makers, the watch
and clock-makers, the glass-blowers, lace-men,
silk-men, and even our artificial florist; to look
forthwith to the teddency of this Bill. The
Marriage Act shows how easily an obnoxious
Bill may pass ; and the Stamp Relief Bill, which
would have multiplied litigation, would also have
passed, but for the resistance, and exposure of
its character.

STATE of CRIME-in the METROPOLIS
IN THE YEAR 1122.

Statement of the Number of Persons committed to his Ma-
hesty's Gaol of Newgate in the Year 1822, and how they
ave been disposed of
Males. Females. Total.
In custody on the Ist Jan. 1822 - 185 67 252
Committed to 31st December, un,
der 20 years of age - 660 .2105
Above years f
- - 1134 281

Of wwhichthere'have been executed .. . 23 2437
Died - - - - - 2
Removed to the Hulks at Gosport, preparatory to
Transportation - - . - - 8
Ditto, ditto, Portsmouth - . . . 123
Ditto, ditto, Sheerness - . - 292
Ditto; ditto, Woolwich - , . . 55
Ditto to the Penitentiary, BMthank - - 51
Ditto to the Refuge for the Destitute - - 20
Ditto to Bethletn Hospital - - . - 1
Ditto by Habeas Corpus, for trial at the Assizes - 17
Ditto to the Houses of Correction for London and
Middlesex, pursuant to sentence - - 549'
Discharged, having received his Majesty's pardon 21
Ditto having been acquitted at the Old Bailey Ses-
sions - - - - - , . 512
Ditto bills of indictment not having been found - 219
Ditto not having been prosecuted - . 41
Ditto having undergone their sentence of imprison.
meat 4 . - . . - 50
Ditto having bten whipped . - . 53'
Ditto fined one shilling - - . . 104
Ditto upon bail and other causes - - . N

Remained in custody, Ist Jan. 1823—Males 195
2157
Females 85 - 200

, 2437
* Of this number 390'had been in the ghol before; Tffere is
an increase In the committals in this year of 62.
Statement. of the Number' of Persons committed to his Ma-
jesty's Gaol of Newgate, and convicted :in the year 1622,
and the nature of their offences, together with the num-
' ber acquitted, discharged, sentenced, eir.c: during the same
period.
Burglary - ... • - 33
Forgery - . - - . • 4
Forging the Goldsmiths' Hall mark - ..- 2
Housebreaking. . - -
Highway Robbery . . - , - 19
Rinse-stealing . . - ~ 8
Maliclouly cutting and maiming , - 1
Murder - - . ' -.- 1.
Rape - ..• . . . . I
Returning from Transportation .. - 3
Stealing in a dwelling-house to the value of 40s.
and upwards . - 53-
Sheep-stealing . - - 2
An unnatural crime 4. . .0" .10 . , 3
Uttering. Forged Bank Notes . . . 3
Attempting to commit an unnatural crime - 6
Bigamy - - - - 7
Embezzlement . . . l5
Fraud - - . - . . 10
Manslaughter . . - ... . 3
3lisdemeanour - . . . . 12
Procuring counterfeit coin with intent to the
same - . - - - 3
Receiving stolen goods . ..- - 7
Selling blasphemous publications . - 4 .
Uttering counterfeit coin . . . 10
Larcenies of various descriptions - .: 1117
Of which there were 'sentenced—
-1331
To death - .
- - - - 5135
To transportation for life . _ 94
To ditto for 14 years . , - l7
To ditto for 7 years ... . - 328'
To imprisonment in the Houses of Correction for
.. Two years - . - 36
One year - - - 118
Six months .. . . 149
Four months . - 7
Three months. . 111
Two. months. . - 54
Six weeks
One month and under . 66
To ditto•in Newgate for various terms - . 51
Fined one shilling and discharged - . 104'
Whipped and discharged• . - 53

Numbers convicted . . - 1331
Acquitted - - - - - 512
Discharged, Bills of Indictment not having been
found 219
Dichargml, not having been prosecuted - 41

2103

Of this number twenty-one have been executed.
Statement of the Number of Criminal Offenders in his Majesty's
Gaol of Newgate, who were executed iu the year 1832, with
the Nature of the Crimea for which they suffered.
For Murder - , 1
Forgery
Uttering Forged Notes -
Burglary
Highway Robbery -•- -
An Unnatural Offence . . 2
Stealing in a Dwelling House to value of 403. and upwards 3

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* Two of these were convicted to the year 1821.

On Saturday. last, 1141-9. "KNIGHT, an elderly
widow lady, of Horshamtvossessed of consider.
able property, put a period to her existence
by hanging herself to the bed.post.—Verdict,
" Insanity."