The Sun.
London, England, 1823-07-31 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, Ju LY 30.—Wind S.W.—Passed through the Mid.
dlesex, Illearns, from Quebec.; William and Henry, Partridge,
from Grenada ; Nelson, from South Seas ; Richard, William.
son, from Demerara. The Asia, Weynton, for Quebec, put
back at l l A. M.

PowrsdfOr/111, JLTLY arrivali or
FALMOUTH, JULY 29.—Wind S. to W.—Snilecl the En.
terprize and Union, for London.

The Marchioness of HERTFORD, it is estimated,
will not expend less than 20,000/. before the alterations of the .
late Putne otel, opposite the Green Park, are lit for th 4
admission oft upholsterers, to complete it for the reception of
its distinguished owner.
SOMNOLENCY.—A. singular affection has been
observed in a mendicant, aged 79. in the infirmary of Mentz.
This man slept without ...liking eighty days. When they sought
to awaken him by violent shaking, he sometimes uttered an in.
articulate sound, and would swallow two or three.spoonsful of
wine or broth, and then relapse into his usual state. All sti.
mulants were applied in vain, and on the eightieth day he ex.
pired.

A most extraordinary and sudden effort having
been made to procure patronage and pecuniary
assistance to the SCHOOLS belonging to the Na.i
TIONAL SOCIETY, by means of the king's Letter
to the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, the friends
of the education of the poor upon liberal prinei
pl&are reminded that the BRITISH and roattGN
School. SOCIETY, which was the means of giving
rise to the National Society, and which has been
productive of the best moral effects, both in this
country and in all the quarters of the world, is
greatly in need of funds, and arrangements are
now in progress for making known the nature of
its claims,and applying to individuals throughout
the country for aid.
HUMANE BARTER.-1-111 the Lengviona
ther of last May is the following
Negro for sale, or will be bartered for sugar.
Apply at this office."
A laughable incident occurred while ilie clerk
of the Court was calling over the commission of
the peace at the Bury Quart,,r-Sessions. When tvi,
came to John, Earl of Stradbrook, a voice "very
like an Earl's answered " Here." It appeared
it was a John Earl, of Stratibook, who was
attending on business, and thought he was.
called.-.(Bury Gazette.)
COMET OF ENCKE RE-DISCOVERED IN Ncw
SOUTH WALES. On the 2d of June, 1822, Mr.
Runiker re-discovered is Gemini the periodical.'
comet of Enck e, which has excited so much notice,
and from which it appears, that the revolutions '
of this comet in 1,204 days is put beyond st.
doubt. This comet was observed in 1786,179!,
1801, 1805, and 1818; and by a comparison of
all these observations, he calculated two sets of
elements, which represented the obervations with-
in two minutes of a degree. In these element's,
the revolution for 1809 was 1203.452 days, and
1204.452, and half the greater- axis 0,,3472191
and 0.3474(112. With these data, M. Encke
computed ephemerides of the cornet for 1822.-
11e announced that he had little hopes of its
being seen in Europe in 1822, as before June it
would be extremely faint, and always near 64
horizon, and in the month of June it woieol
set at the same time with the sun. He added,
however," that in south hit. 34 degrees, the comet,
in the beginning of June, would be elevated 24
degrees above the horizon at sunset, and would
then be as bright as a star of the fourth magui-
tole. Our readers cannot fail to remark the singe-
larity of the circumstance, that Mr. Rumber, who
accompanied Sir 'l'. Brisbane to New South Wahl,
should have discovered this cornet on the 2d ef
Jnire, 1822, at Paramatta, in 30 deg. 48 min.
45 sec. south latitude.
A DUNDEE FUNERAL.—Curiosity drew to-
gether a crowd of people on Monday, at. Dundee,
to witness the funeral of a child, which was con-
signed to the grave in a 'novel manner. The
father, in terror of the resurrection meni had
caused a small box, encasing some deitthfril
apparatus, communicating by means of wires
with the four corners, to be fastened or the top
of the coffin. Immediately before it was few-
ered into *the earth, a large
.quantity of gun-
powder was put into the box, and the hidden ?la.
The common opinirin was, that if any one at-
tempted to raise the body, he would he blown up.
chinery put into a state of rratailless for execution.
The sexton seemed to he in drend of On ittme.
( for he started back in alarm
lte explosion,
afterit tehxrol:itilognin the first shovelful of earth.---
(Scotch Piper).

TUT LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Extracts from the Morning Papers, July 31.

• [MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The letters received yesterday from Paris were
by -no ineani encouraging to the Bourbon cause,
and the French Funds were consequently quoted
as having experienced a depression, entirely at-
tributed to the bad news received from Spain,
which the Governmenti nevertheless, carefully
conceal from the public eye. Numerous-private
communications from the army are, however, cir-
culated all over France, and produce a great sen-
sation. The hardships of the campaign, particu-
larly in Catalonia, are appalling to the Bourbon,
noviciates in war. The mortality experienced in
that province, both throtigh. sickness and the
sword, is great, and yet they have not yet expe=
rienced the favours of •the month of August.
One private letter from Paris states, that the
- sortie made by the Constitutionalists from La
Isla, and of- which the Paris Papers give so
flaming an account, was in its result quite the re-
verse of the' picture drawn for the public eye,
and tact gradually a few • secrets respecting it
And their way out. The sortie was made by a
division not exceeding from four to five thousand.
men, who fought with the greatest ardour. Their
object was to destroy. certain works the French
were raising, and their success was complete, the
enemy. losing at least as many men as they
did. After their operation had been completed,
they withdrew, and entered their lines: These
Partial sorties will continue till a more general
moveinent is concerted with Ballastefoi and
Lopez Banos, as much for the purpose of giving
the men confidence, as to harass the enemy.—
Operations on a grander scale are however pre-
paring, and with this view BallisterdS has en-
tered Andalusia, the theatre of his former exploits,
and where he is so popular adiong .all classes of
the inhabitants. Ile will operate on the rear of
the enemy, and then, if we are not greatly de-
ceived, the position of the French in Andalusia,
with, the Sierra Morena .also hetWeen them .and
their centre,-Will he rendered very precarious.-,-.
:The mOnient the' result of the Coruitna
.business
is known and the neighbourhood, the
enthusiasm will. be immense. We yesterday al-
'hided toa Portuguese party in faVour of the Con-
. stitution, assembling on the frontiers of Galicia,
and we are now enabled to add, that further
advices have been received, mentioning that
the two brothers Cabreira, excellent officers,
belonging to the Artiltery,, have
,gone off
for this purpose, with half a Reffiinentrof, Ar-
tillery ; and that their example had been followed
by General Pego, with a Battalion.of Infantry.
grigadier Claudino and General Pamplona
Monix have also embraced the same cause, and
numbers of soldiers are deserting, in order. to
join them. The fact is, the new Lisbon Govern-
ment, and the Madrid Regency, alike in their
acts, and equally actuated by' personal revenge
and the most liberticidal prinCiples,, are on the
eve of sharing the same fate ; for the foundations
on which the two structures are respectively built
are rotten. The best part of the population or
both countries has a desire of freedom, and will
not allow their rights to' be trampled upon with'
impunity. Let the protectioff.of a French' force
be removed,- and we shall soon see in What an
awkward situation bOth of the new Governments
will be placed, as welt as the high diplomatists

grandees,. and bloated clergy, who have sided
with them.

[New. TatEs.]
The French Letters of Monday inform us, that
the efforts, of Saturday afternoon in London to
depress the Funds Were not without a corre-
spondent effect in Paris,. In truth, the, inter-
course by Expretises between the two capitals is
now so rapid and constant that no great opera-
tion can take place o 0 the one Exchange with-
out being felt in little more then q 4 hours on the
other.. Great exertions were accordingly, made
in Paris to lower.the Itentes, but the result did
not quite correspond to the.. wishes of the Parisian
gears, although some small depression was pro-
duced. The prices on Monday afternoon were
11_8,1'011(1w

~ . .. , .
French Five per Cents. 91 00. Ex. on London, 3m.25 55
----=-- Scrip. lif 2 ',remittal. Neapolitan Five 'ober Cents. 79
Exchange on London, 26 70 Spanish Bonds, 36

• .[THE TIMES.]
Among our extracts from the French Papers
will be found a bulletin from Guilleminot, which
gives his version of the engagement of the 15th
inst., on the heights before Coranna ; but he
prudently stops;.; short with the proceedings of
that day. Lorca, a fort towards the southern.
extremity of Murcia, was captured by Molitor's
division on the 13th. HO was. then many days'
march in 'the rear of Ballasteros. It seems the
Ultra-Royalist editors of Paris are not quite easy
at:the indications which they have discovered of
plots against the life of the Generalissimo : is
this the precursor of a retreat from Madrid ?
tile novelty 'of blockading ports must be et-
timely gratifying to the French Ministers ;
for so fond are they of this new power, that they
exercise it not only in reality, but in idea—not
Merely against the SpOniards, but against them-
e-elves. It grippers from an article in'the Paris
Papers, that the French Minister for Foreign
Affairs officially notified on the 26th of July the
blockade of Corunna and Ferrol.' Now the suc.
cessive arrival of vessels for some days past from
Coruntta, proves that there was no blockade
Wits* they sailed, and it is difficult to suppose
thit the 'French Ministers can have ascertained
that they had a sufficient naval force off Corunna
.witett they issued this notification. Besides, they
have told us that Ferrol was in their possesskn.
Do they mean, then, to blockade their own
troops and their friends of the Faith ? or have
they received intelligence that the force which en-
tered Fermi has already round it necessary to
abandon a place nf.so much importance?

,We insert a. paragraph from the National In.
014ga:or, (S another column of TILE SUN),
which announces that Russia has not yet with-
drawn her ,pretensions on, the north-east coasts of

the Pacific, but intimates that measures are in
train. which it is hoped may lead to an " adjust-
cc merit satisfactory to the Emperor, and at the
cc same time consistent with all the rights" of the
United States. - There is of course not a syl-
lable here stated, nor elsewhere that we can yet
discover, about a prospective-adjustment-between
Great Britain and the Russians, respecting the
claims put forth by the latter Power in the
famous Ukase on the above subject,- aii'd
.those
British rights which it has so arrogantly threat-
ened . (Ibid.)

' [Barran PRESS.]
The French Papers of :Monday Morning and
evening. reached us yesterday, with our Corte-
spondent's*CommuniCations, by express : we giie
also the. 24th Bulletin of the French army in
Spain, which does not appear, in any of Monday's
papers: this.doctiMent is signed, as usual, by
Angouleme's Major. General- Guilleminot, and
dated on the 22d, from Madrid.. it states that
Bourck marched on the 15th, at three 'o'clock in
the morning, on.COranna, and re-established the
bridge of Burgo, with such celerityi that his troops
had passed over before mid-day.' At one o'clock,
it goes on to say, they encountered theadvanced
posts of the enemy, Which' occupied the heights
that command the place, and drove them in at
the point of the bayonet. The Spaniards,
cording to this account,.. were afterwards sueces=
sively driven from all their positions, and forced
to shut themselves up within the walls of the
town, which, notwithstanding a constant-cannon-
ade from the batteries, was completely invested on
the land side by four o'clock ;--further this
account does not go. When Guilleminot stated
so much for the information of his Cabinet and
France, he ought to have stated the result of
_the
inVestment too. ire should haie added, that
after four'days of successive carnage mid hope-
less contest,. Bourck, with his diminished forces
beaten and dispirite4 had retired on the 19th
from before Comma, on' whose ramparts and re.
doubts the Constitutional flag still waved trium.
phant . that 1,200 men were 'collecting' to'. fol.'
low the retreating enemy and hang on his rear ;
and that 6,000 Constitutionalist regular troops
were •cottbentrating near Vigo'and Orense; with
whoin a' plan of operations would be immed la tely
formed to haraSS the routed invaders, 'in the long
and toilsome retreat which there was little doubt
they would be compelled to undertake, after
their signal discomfiture before the wills of Co-
runtia. Guilleminot's bulletin further states,
that Molitor, after having made the necessary
,dlSpositions at Murcia, to strengthen the gar.
'Axons of Alicant and Carthagena, had conti-
rined'his movement against Ballasteros. The ad-
:vanced guard of the for Mer, under Loverdo,arrived
before Lorca on the 12thi which place, it is
stated, was taken by assault, and the garrison, of
five officers and 530 soldiers, . made prisoners,
with an alleged loss. to the French of three offi-
cers and 36 soldiers wounded, and one officer
,and' 'three soldiers killed.' Lorca is a place of
very little moment, and had' we a true accoubt
of its capture, we' should probably find it was
much more feebly garrisoned than Guillerninot
states, and that the loss of the French before its
walls was' much heavier than the Bulletin- men,
leus.
f_DtiORWING' POST.]
_ _

Paris Jeurnali to the 29th inst. 'reached its
, night by express. They at length contain some
official and private intelligence respecting the
events' at Corunna. The former, however, does
not come down to a later date than the
151 h, and consequently drily embraces the
details of the action fought on that day, which
we already knevi had ended by the Spaniards
retreating' under the proteCtion of the works of
the place. The latter cousists of a letter
written from Corunna itself on the 16th, in
which the occurrences of the preceding day are
faithfully described, and the repulse of the
French virtually admitted. For after saying
that the firing had lasted seven hours; noadvan-
tage is claimed, and the Spaniards are allowed
tP,h,ave retained their positions outside the town,
replacing the troops that were fatigued by fresh
divisions. his alsoacknowledged that the fire of
musketry and cannon had recommenced on the 16th
and. was continued without interruption, and that
the Governor,was determined to defend the place
to the last extremity; a determination in which
lie was zealously supported by the Commanders and
troops lately returned from Asturias. It is evident,
from the altered tone which prevails in this letter
and in the ' official Bulletin, that they were both
written by men who knew the sequel, although they
did not then record it, and who abstained from
indelging in the confident boastings. which
had marked all their former . accounts, because
they felt that the issue could not be. long
concealed, and that boasting would only create
derision. Indeed most of the Ministerial.
Journals, in order probably to prepare,thepub-
lic mind for the event, have faithfully, trans.
lated the various letters .announcing the defeat
and great loss of the French, .which appeared
in the English Papers when the gratifying. Intel-
ligence first reached this country. lt would al-
most seem as if the moderate, party wereonce
more reviving in France, and, had no objection to
enforce the necessity of adopting its poljet, by
an example so well calculated to
,prove .044 in.
stead of drawing to a close, the contest'. ii the
Peninsula was daily growing,MOre- ruinous and
full of peril.

[moammo itxnALn.]
The violent Ultra party of Paris begins to be
sick of the campaign in Spain, anti vents its
spleen very freely upon some of. the. Generals
who are detached from the immediate controni
of the Duke of Angouteme, and upon the French
-Ministry. The wonder is that they have been
so long silent. It was expected that if the inva•
skin had not a quick and complete success, the
war party would turn round upon M.do Villele,
and reproach him with his delays and tempo.
rizing. By the dint of fabrication, reports of
French successes in Spain, and the exaggera-
tions of the _Bulletins, however, they proofin' a
system of imposition upon the world, which they
were unwilling to dispel, until at length the
truth is become too glaring. One of the Jour-

. .
,
nals of this party—it Partisan of war, and a
zealous advocate for the Inquisition, treats as
null all that has hitherto been effected by the
French—" Some few chiefs," it says, 44 without
power, have come to terms, but almost in-
dividually, or without profiting the Royal
cause, or injuring that of Liberalism." -It
then proceeds to say, that the 44 entrenched
camps" which the .Constitutionalists may be
said' to have in the different garrisoned for-
tresies,-, threaten disaster ". to.monarchy and
society" unless French valour be aided by 44 Eu-
ropean policy;"—in other words, unless the troops
of the Holy Alliance are called in to assist the
French. Such was the impression in France of
the aid of foreigners being solicited, that fo-
reign troops were reported tO be actually march-
ing through the French territory in, disguise ;
and such the alarm of the French Ministry
on the subject, that the Constitionnel of Friday,
, which- Mentioned this iii'mour, was seized
by the police. The campaign, it is stated now,
was destitute:of plan.. The Ministers did nothing
but
.44 put- forth .their feelers" (.tatonner). At.
Madrid they expeCted that all would be ended
by a 4efection—meaning, i
.vp suppose, that of
.General A.bishal. Next, say these Ultras, a
denouement was expected at Seville. And, lastly,
it was hoped that the Kink would he deliiered
-by secret means. These secret means, it may be
presumed, were the conspiracy discovered im-
mediately before the translation of the Go-
vernrnent.. to Cadit. Such are the representa-
dons that escape'these' partizans "of the invasion,
now that their disappointed passions have become
ungovernable, and will no longer submit to the
systein of false colouring nil' imposture which
they had hitherto practised. They call loudly
for the introduction of foreign troops—and for
46 bloody and' decisiie battles," without which
monarchy and social, ordeit, :they say, must be
wrecked; or, in other •:_words;* with which the
French will be foiled in theii invasion of S'pern.
Let but the French troops meet a few checks,
and the situation of the French. Ministri will be
far from enviable. The late .intelligence deci-
dedly encourages the hope of something better
worthy of their cause than the Spaniards, have
yet performed. , No intelligence of any interest
arrived in the course of yesterday, at. least by
Paris Journals, excepting, if it, deserve to be
excepted, a paragraph in the Etoile of Sunday,
which states, that the fire at Madrid, mentioned
previously as accldentalovas the work of assas-
sins, and aimed at the life of the Duke of An-,
goulerne, who 'regularly, at a particular hour,
attended prayers in this church, Ills Royal'
Person, however, was in no Very imminent
peril, for the fire did not break out until an'
hour after 'he had concluded his tlevotiorii
and retired. It is stated that a great number 6

persons were taken up on suspicion, which may
be easily believed. The same Etoile says, that
Morillo and his troops were moving with shOtits
-of " Live Ferdinand !" -to St. Jago of Comp Os.
tella. 13nt the illOOeur annouked some days
since, that iVlorillo and his troops were mardiing
at the head of the French to attack Corunna
These diserephncies,' however, are teo coMlnon to'
excite any surprise;