The Sun.
London, England, 1823-12-12 00:00:00

victims on the pulley or thelack, the sallow
Monk would have looked on utnovefl,
and coolly registered every groan. -r- The
pusillanimous Tyrant, whom foreign baY.:
onets
_have made absolute, •is now the
hourly slave of alternate influence and fear ;
France and Russia hold him in almost equal
bondage,: both_ are opposed to every thing like
freedom as strongly as the despot himself; but
they fear a re-action that would overturn the
Babel of Spanish oppression in the dust; and they
compel the weak tyrant to palter, to preserve even
the hopes of uncoutrouled dominion. Saez, by
the last decree, ceases to be Minister and Con-
fessor together. Ile can no longer whisper the
suggestions of wide-spread proscriptions into the
ears of his wretched penitent, which have too long
sucked in the " leprous distilment." The appoint-
ment of the new Ministry proceeded decidedly from
the strong representations of the Foreign Am-
bassadors ; all their influence must have been
exerted to force out Saflt : the necessities of
Ferdinand and his fears were their best allies ;
without them it is probable they would not have
succeeded. Our Paper of yesterday contained,
in a second edition (the express having come too
late for our early impression), a list of the New
Spanish Ministry, with Irujo at its bend.—
Salazar, the Minister of Marine, (Query—where
is now the marine of Spain ?) is the only indivi-
dual of the late Administration, added to the pre-
sent; and the decree of the 2d December, an-
nouncing the change, was countersigned by him.
To the new Ministry, the vacillating Ferdinand
has added a Council of State, of which he has
already named ten individuals, reserving a power
to add to their number. Among these there is
not a single name of promise. We find among
them all the worst Serviles of 1820 ; and some
of the late sanguinary Regency, as Eguia and
Calderon, with others, who come—

" As doth the raven
O'er th' infected horse, boding to ill."

To ESCAPE FROM Olt 00 INTO A HOUSE ON,
Frae.--Creep or crawl with your face near the
ground, and although the room be full of ,amoke
to suffocation, yet near the floor the air is pure,
and may be breathed with safety. The best es--
cape from upper windows is a knotted rope, but
if a leap is unavoidable then the bed' should be
thrown out first, or beds prepared for the purpose.
CHRISTMAS CAROLS.—On the Continent the
custom of carolling at -Christmas is almost uni-
versal. During-the last days of Advent, Cala-
brian minstrels enter Dome, and are to be seen
in every street saluting the shrines of the Virgin
mother ,with their wild music, under' the tradi-
tional notion of charming her labour-pains on the
approaching Christmas. Lady Morgow observed
them frequently stopping at the'shop of a car-
pouter. In reply to questions concerning this,
the workmen, who stood at the door, said, that
it was clone out of respect to St. Joseph. We
have seen an old print of this practice. Two Ca-
labrian shepherds are represented devoutly .play-
ing at Christmas in a street of Rome, before
stone shrine, containing a sculpture of the infant
Jesus in the Virgin's arms, lighted up by candles,
with a relief under it of supplicating souls in pur-
gatorial fire, inscribed, Dice Ave Maria." A
young female, with a rosary, is praying on .her
knees before the sculpture. The shepherds stand
behind and blow the bag-pipes and a clarionet.
BATH, DEC. 10..----Last night as Mrs. Tunott,
a very celebrated lady of this city, and who was,
previously to her marriage, on account of her
fortune (30,0001. a year) and beauty, the toast
of Bath, was on her why in her chair to the
Italian Opera, which has recently commenced
here, under the management of Colonel Pal-
mer, M, P. she was Oken suddenly ill, and de-
sired the chairmen to return home with her;
but before they could get back to her resi-
deuce, :which is only. a short distance from
the Theatre, on the Queen's Parade, she had
expired ! She was married to Mr. Tudor, a cu..
lebrated surgeon of Bath. About four or five
years ago, a paralytic attack deprived her of the
use of her limbs for a long time ; but she even-
tually so far recovered their use as to be able to
wall with the aid of a stick, when thus sud-
denly snatched from existence,. attired as she
was in full dress for the Opera.. This memorable
beauty was only 35 years of age! Her maiden
name was FEN,VICK.

FATAL ACCIDENT.— e have just heard that
Mr. BLACK MOtt E, the slack-rope dancer, who ex-
hibited at Mr. Ltioicu's Circus in this town, a
few weeks ago, has been killed by falling from
the rope, his foot having slipped in ono of his
most dangerous feats.--(Cheltenham• Chronicle.)

,SINGUT.AII. CONFESSION rOF Muntnit.--7At.the
Ilembay Sessions, in April last, Laskey M'Car-
thy, a soldier, was arraigned for the murder of
Michael Cohem The only evidence against him
was his own confusion, before Mr. Snow, the
senior magistrate of police, taken on the 17th of
January last, in the following words :—" I,
Laskey M'Curthy, being miserable and tired of
life, do confess and hereby declare, that in con-
sequence of a quarrel I had with one Michael
COhen, of the Bombay regiment, in the month
of February 1815, 1 borrowed a pistol from
John Chapman, shot at and killed Michael
Cohen behind the town barracks, in the pre-
sence of the said John Chapman. That a re-
ward was offered for the apprehension of the
murderer, when John Chapman, for the sake of
the above reward, ,accused upon oath one
Williams, of the same regiment, who was
committed by the Magiitrate for trial, and
acquitted by the Recorder's Court of the
murder of the said :Michael Cohen.; and I
do declare that I am the murderer of the
said Michael Cohen."--Mr, Snow proved the
confesiion to
,have been voluntarily made, and
that he had warned the prisoner of the conse-
quences of making it--7he, however persisted.
The prisoner, in his defence, called ,RObert
Thorogood and John Chipman ; but the evi.
dence being inconsistent with 'tho testimony
which they had given on former investigations re,
specting the murder of Cohen, the Recorder, in
summing up, stated to the jury that no sort 'of
relianCe could be placed on their testimony.
The Jury retired for about 15 minute', and re•
turned a verdict of 6u.