The Sun.
London, England, 1824-03-22 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, MARC!! Easterly.--Passed through.. the
Albeon, Shadforth, for Demerara. Sailed the William Fair_
ley, Smith, for Madras. His Majesty's ship Maidstone, for
the Coast of Africa, has been towed into the Downs by a Steam-
boat ; and his Majesty's ship Glocester towed up the River by
ditto. Remain the Richard, Reynolds, for Jamaica.

PoitT o MARCH 21.—WindS.S.E.-Arrive:: the
Loyal Brit(in transport, from. the VYet Indies. Sailed the
Larkins, Wilkinson, for India. Arrived' off the- Port the
Waterloo; -and Bombay,; from China. • - •
Pr.I3IOUTrr, Mancu 20.—Wind E.—Sailed the General
Palmer, Truscott, for Madras.
FAL srOnTit, MAIt C 20.—Wind S.W.—Arrived yester-
day the -.Brilliant, Way, from London, and two Post-office
Steam vessels, from the eastward. Sailed the Alexander, Braille,
for Alexandria; Sisters Bishop, for Naples, under convoy of
his Majesty's brig Pandora, for Gibraltar; Friendship, Pope,
for. Figueira. Arrived the Duke of Kent packet (2) from
Lisbon : sailed the 9th inst., Sailed the Rinaldo packet for
Jamaica.

• L V ZIIPOO T., MancH 20.—Arrived the'Henry, Hart, from
'Rio Janeiro ; Franklin, Riley, from Savannah ; Aurora,
Gould, Chure'ston ; :Montezuma,. Potts, Philadelphia ; John
Wells, —, New York ; and Lady Ford, Terciera.

The Favourite, Burns, from New York to the Clyde, was
on shore in Amboy Bay the 18th ult., and had 7 feet water in
her hold.

The Royal George, Kent, and General Kyd, from China,
had arrived at St. Helena.
The Buckinghamshire, fronr London, had arrived at China.

THE MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE, Mancit 22.

-There was another very large artival of Grain in general last
week ; and this morning there is a fair additional supply of
Weat, Barley, Beans, and- Pease, from Essex, , Kent,- and
Suffolk, and several more vessels from the North with Pats.
The Wheat trade continues very dull, and is declined 2s. per
quarter since this :day se'nnight ; there have, however, been
some purchases wade to-day, by. country orders for shipping.
• Barley is excessively'dull, and
.25. to 3e. per Quarter lower, as
our distillers purchase nothing, and our maltsters buy very
little at present. Beahs are also declined in 'value Is. to 2. per
quarter. Pease, ,both.grey and white, are further reduced Is.
per quarter. The large quantities of Oats now here occasion a
very dull trade for the article at -present, and the prices are de-
clined full 2s. per quarter since this day se'imight. Flour is
expected to fall ss. per sack.
Wheat, Red s2s 70s Pease, "White 3Bs 423.
White 58s 78s ---- Grey '3os 37s
Rye, 58s 44s Beans 353•413
Barley 30s 39s Oats 20s 30*
Malt s—s Flour Ns 60s
ARRIVALS LAST WEEK.

English Wheat, B,oBl—Barley, 9,118-31 alt, 8,302-oats,
17,362—Rye, o—Beans, 3390—Peas, 1807—Foreign Wheat, 0
Irish Oats, B,73s—English Flour, 11,806 saelcs.

ATRIIAGI PRICZ OF CORN IN ENGLAND AND WALES,
IN THE WEEK ENDING MARCH 13.
Wheat, 655. 7d. ; Barley, 365. 10d. ; Oats, 255. Bd.; Rye,
445. oth ; Beans, 41s. 3d.,; Peas, 495. 4d.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the Returns made in the Week ending the 17th day of
March, 1824, is 335. 33d. per cwt.

SMITHFIELD MARKET, MARCH 22.
There was a good supply this morning at market of all kinds
of Cattle, but there was not a brisk tra.2e' owing to the weather
being warm ; the prices of all sorts of Cattle may be quoted
much the same as on this day se'nnight.
To sink the Offal, per stone of Rib.
Beef 3s 43 to 4s CI Veal 4s 6I to fis Rd
Mutton 3s 81 to 4s BdPork 4s 3d to 5s Od
Lamb Os 0 to Os 03.

HAY AND STRAW, TER LOAD.
Hay - £4 lOs to £5 lOs I Clover £s 03 to £6 Os
Straw. £1 18s to £2 4s.

•
JUDGMENT.-This morning, in die Insolvent
Debtors' Court, Joseph William Young, a hoot
and shoe-maker, was brought up to be heard on
his petition and discharge. The Insolvent, after
undergoing a long examination, was sentenced by
the Court to twelve calendar months' confine-
ment, and kept within the walls, for fraudulently
obtaining a quantity of goods, and making away
with his property to cheat the creditors.

Letters have been received from our gquadron
at Algiers (via Marseilles), dated lard► 12,
which state that , the DEY had renewed his en-
gagements with Admiral Sir IlinnY NEALE, not
to make Christian captives, and to abide by the
Treaty made with Lord EXMOUTH. Sir ILNEALE
was iu consequence about to return to Malta,
with the Revenge, Naiad,, &c.

ASSESSED TAXES.—The inhabitants of
Win-
chester have resolved to petition for a repeal of the Assessed
Taxes, particularly those'imposed on Houses and Windows.—
A County Meeting is about to be called for alike purpose.
GUY'S HOSPITAL, FRIDAY, MARCH 19.—HIP
JOINT AMPUTATION.—Jones, the subject of this operation,.
gains strength rapidly ; he has been out of the ward twice dur-
ing the past week, and was each time wheeled about the squares
of the hospital for a considerable period.=( The Lancet.) •
TRINITY ,COLLEGE.—II is confidently stated
that, in case .of a dissolution of Parliament, Colonel BLACKER.
intends opposing Mr. PLUNKETT, • for the Representation of
Trinity College. If 'such be the case, there is no doubt of Col.
Bi.ActeEn's return, aslthe eleetive.boily of the College are un-
animous in their desire of changing their Representative. In
fact, it is a matter of astonishmcnt'how a'Protestaht University,
could ever have sent such a man as the Attorney. General to
represent them in Parliament.—( Dublin Star.) •
BOW-STREET—(TIIIS • DAY.)=John Davey, a
mere child, -was put to the bar, charged with having obtained
goods toa very considerable amount in the most artful way.
The young plunderer contrived to get a note written, purport-
ing to be from an acquaintance of the prosecutrix, with whien
he appeared to borrow a portion of the property. Being suc-
cessful, he repeated his visits for several days, until at length
the fraud was detected and he was secured. The case was
clearly made out, and he was committed.
We are happy to inform our readers, that Jack, the cale-
brated Obeah-Professor of St. George's, has been safely con-
signed to the stocks at Buff Bay.. After a vigilant search for
this infamous and deluding impostor, he was taken near the
Swift River on Wednesday. In the first instance he was con
veyed to Mount Saint Bernard, and conducted by a party of
Maroons on the following morning to his destination. If this
culprit will relinquish the 4 black art' on his examination, we
are in hopes much interesting information will be extorted from
him, and throw considerable light on the late insurrectionary
proceedings.. Oliver was to meet his fate as yesterday, a fresh
warrant having been forwarded for that melancholy purpose.--
(Jamaica Courant)

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Fatrads from the Morning Papers, March 22.

[THE TIMES.]
The Austrian Obrerver undertakes a defence
of the criminal law of Austria against the attacks
Of 'Mr. Canning ou the 'first day of the present
session of Parliament. The force of the defence
is confined to this 'single affirmation—" that the
" lakv of Austria, humane as' the,Government,
"'desires the confession of a criminal, as such a
confeision leaves no' doubt of the guilt ; but
"'does in no case extort it"—and why ? " be-
"`cause torture was abolished by Maria Theresa."
It' is not necessary to go into a speculation as to
What means are at the disposal of an arbitrary
GovernMent, for persuading a prisoner to confess,
even though the instruments and visible signs of
torture may have been formally abolished. Is
solitary confinement no torture ? Is starvation
the gentlest figure of rhetoric in the world ? And
may not -these-, with a thousand other modes of
importuttitl, be applied by a gaoler not amenable
to county Alagistrates-nOt liable to be questioned
by" a CoMmittee of the House of Commons, for
the purpose of extracting from a heart-broken
captiVe that acknowledgment which a despotic
Sovereign so humanely ." deSires," though he is
too conscientious to " extort ?" The truth is,
that where concealment of the trial itself forms a
leading feature of the judicial system, there is no
security for any thing like faith, or honour, or
rectitude, in the adminiStration of the laws. The
principle of an English statesman is, that, with-
out responsibility, there must be abuse; and
where is the responsibility of an Austrian or Rus-
sian gaoler, judge, or executioner ? To whom
is he responsible ? To the Crown ; that is, to
the Minister. And the Minister—to whom ?
Why to the Autocrat. And the Autocrat ? To
his own caprices. In Austrian Italy, therefore,
there may be promulgated things called " laws,"
but being edicts of the Court, and the Court
alone cognizant of the manner in which they are
really executed by its own Ministers, it is, to the
mind of an Englishman, quite the same, whether,
under military despotism, one ;node of torture
has been abolished and another practised, or
whether mercy or severity is the professional
rule of action. • The predominating passion of
the hour is the only law ; the bayonet
matter how disguised—must exercise the func-
tions of judge and jury : hypocrisy and ven-
geance are without an effective controul ; for by
the very principle of Government, the opinions
and feelings of the nation whom it coerces are
excluded from all influence over it.

[MORNING POST.]

Among the criticisms which have been pub-
lished on the debate originated by Lord John
Russell's Motion, we find one or two oberva-
tions deserving of a passing notice. The first we
shall advert to is an attempt to exhibit an incor-
rectness in Mr. Secretary Canning's reasoning
respecting the affairs of Spain. After a reluctant
- eulogium on the felicitous volley of wit and hu-
mour which the Right Honourable Gentleman
discharged against the Opposition, the fact that
Mr. Canning would deprecate and dread the im-
mediate evacuation of Spain by the French
troops is stated, coupled with his remark, that
although France invaded the Peninsula, as the
Ally of the Army of the Faith, she is now, and
has been for some time, protecting the Constitu-
tionalists from the fury of the other party, and
the country generally from the horrors of a san-
guinary civil war. One of our contemporaries
chuckles at the supposed detection of au incon-
sistency in the foregoing statement. liis argument
amounts to this—that as the Constitutionalists
were the dominant faction before the French
invasion, and then used their power with mo-
deration, if the French troops were at present
withdrawn, the Constitutionalists would re-
sume
the ascendant once more with equal
mildness as formerly, and therefore that
the French soldiers, contrary to the opinion of
Mr. Canning, might be marched home forthwith
witli perfect safety. Now, we admit most fully,
that during the whole reign of the Constitu-
tionalists they governed with perhaps unex-
ampled forbearance—but does it follow from
thence, that after having experienced the cruelties
and vindictive torturing's inflicted o❑ them of late
by the supporters of Absolute Power, they would
net, on their restoration to supremacy, retaliate
iu the spirit in which they have themselves been
recently persecuted ? On the contrary, if the
accounts daily received from the Peninsula did
sit prove the existence there of all the ele-
ments of civil strife in a state of the highest
exasperation, reason, history and human nature
would convince us of the fact. We shall there-
fore leave our redoubtable champion to the enjoy-
ment of the triumph he has so learnedly and

logically achieved. Another contemporary as-
sures us he always thought, like Lord J. Russell,
that if this country had assumed a similar tone
with France and the Allied Powers, on the sub-
ject of invading Spain, as she has on the subject
of attaching South American Independence, the
former would have been prevented as well as the
latter. We are identically of the same mind.—
But had this 'country such a case to Make out in
the one instance as in the other ? Were the in-
terests of England, corrimercial or political, in
any respect involved to a similar extent by the
invasion of Spain as they 'would be by an attempt
on the part of the Holy Alliance to reconquer
the 'ci-devant Spanish Colonies for the Mother
Country 1 Let the Public answer the ques-
tion for us. Ilence'the justification of Ministers
for the different tones they'haVe adopted on the
two occasions. his Majesty's Government, as
well as the people of -the 'United Kingdom, saw
that France: had neither a right nor a plausible
cause of war with Spain. But because this was
so, were we, who were equally without right or
cause to resist the aggression by force of arms, or
menace of such; to rush headlong into the contest
frOm a were: quixotic 'tufo!' for the constitutional
freedom of the Spaniards ? The public have all
along percei'ved And acted on the perception of
the distinction -ire here assert, and for that rea-
son, and that only, have they supported Minis-

ters in merely mediating against the invasion of
the Peninsula, while they have as unanimously
supported them in resisting any attack on the in-
dependence of the New World. In sentiment
the people of England were as much averse, if not
more averse, to the former than the latter—but
their interest is involved in the fate of South
America, and their right to interpose is thus
established, and has been successfully exercised.

[NEW TIMES.]
Consols for Account closed on Saturday at 94i,
and' it is supposed that they will maintain at
least this price till the account. The reduction
of the Four per Cents., it is also conceived, will
be easily effected ; though, in the nature of
things, this operation, which requires an expres-
sion of assent from the individuals, is not so
practicable as one in which an assent is presumed
from the non-expression of dissent. The gene-
ral principle that a reduction of interest is bene-
ficial to a country has been considered by our
greatest writers as almost an axiom; but the un-
precedented circumstances which have drawn
so much British capital out of the Kingdom
since the Peace, cause some persons lately to
doubt the soundness of the principle. Nay, we
have recently seen a paper, by a Gentleman of
great practical experience, which proceeds on the
ground of creating a new Five per Cent. Stock
irredeemable for 60 years. On this proposal we
do not mean to express any opinion ; but we
perfectly agree with the author, that it is " de-
sirable to draw the attention of the moneyed in-
terest to such
measures for the domestic employ-
ment of capital, as would, without infringing rights
of property, tend to discourage those repeated sup-
plies,
by,rneans of Loans, to the Exchequers of
Foreign States, which impoverish ourselves and
render them formidable." More especially have
we often urged the consideration on which this
writer lays great stress, that " in Ireland any
considerable accession of capital would encourage
industry, and therefore would tend to improve
the condition of the people by the most salutary
meaus."

[BRITISH PRESS.]
In the Committee of Supply on the Irish Mis-
cellaneous Estimates on Friday night, sixteen
thousand pounds were voted for printing, sta-
tionary, and other disbursements, for the Govern-
ment Offices in Ireland, the monopoly of which
Sir Abraham Bradley King, a notorious Orange-
man, still retains by patent. This man is the
head of the Orange party in Dublin, the idol of
the Aldermen of Skinner's-alley, and openly op-
posed to the spirit and principles of Lord Wel-
lesley's Government, and yet he is suffered to
retain this profitable monopoly, which he has en-
joyed for near five-and-twenty years. While
Sir Bradley King, and others of that faction,
find bigotry the best road to wealth, they will
not be inclined to abandon their old principles
for those of the better cast. This man, and the
party by whom he is surrounded, are avowed
enemies of every thing like conciliation and
equal Government in Ireland. Eternal proscrip-
tion and discord among the people are the mot-
tos of their banners ; they still proceed in their
career while it brings no losses with it. The
spirit of mildness that has marked Lord Wel-
lesley's Admitilitration prevents these men being
dealt with as they ought; they are insolent and
contumacious, from having the Government
money in their pockets. While Sir Bradley
King has an annual contract of this sort to the
amount of some thousands, with full 20 per cent.
commission and profit, as his reward, and others
of the same crew are paid as Police Magistrates,
and in other ways, they will consider their
bigotry a good marketable commodity, and not
be inclined to disguise it. Mr. Thomas Ellis,
the Irish Master in Chancery, is another of this
pack. Mr. Hume read him a lecture on Friday
night, we fancy he will not soon forget. His
Parliamentary labours are likely, however, to
close with the present Session : he is one of the
incapables who come over from that country, and
the party who elected him are now heartily tired
of him ; he is too dull to serve even their pur-
poses. The vulgar mouthings of stupid bigotry will
not do for the House of Commons ; and the Dub-
lin Master in Chancery has no other talent ; he
is just on a par with Sir George Hill and the hu-
mane Lord Farnham—with Mr. Brownlow, and
the liberal, Mr. Dawson. These individuals all
herd and bark together; they are of the same
genus, and gregarious in their bigotry. A pre-
cious junta they are--most eloquent, most liberal,
and most useful in their vocation—a fine sample
of the ability and liberality imported from Ire-
land. Sir Bradley King will probably be sent
over by his party on another election, if the Ba-
ronet lives so long. The table will then be full,
and the cabal of the orangemen complete. When
will this state of things cease in Ireland, and
tranquillity and happiness settle over that most
unhappy country ? Never, while the Orange
faction have wealth and power, and Government
lavishes its favours on such men as Sir Bradley
King.
[MORNING HERALD.]

Sir Robert Wilson's debut in his place in Par-
liament seems to have excited some disappoint-
ment. From his opportunities of personal know.
ledge, and his individual share in the transactions
which took place in Galicia and at Cadiz, some
new and interesting information might have been
expected from his speech. He was eve❑ per-
sonally concerned in throwing some light upon
his correspondence with Morino, and the con-
duct of that traitor—much more so than
in alluding to other matters of a personal
nature upon which he expatiated at great
length. His lamentation—his Jeremiad, it may
be called—upon his being deprived of the in-
signia conferred upon 'him by the Continen-
tal Sovereigns, excited surprise, and among those
who are not indisposed towards him, a feeling also
of regret. He forgot his own dignity and that
of his country, when he deplored, in the language
of complaint, the loss of those mere baubles, and
somewhat in the pastoral style of a discarded
swain, reproached the donors with ingratitude and
unkindness. He should have remembered that it
was riot in the power or among the attributes of
these Monarchs, by an act of sovereign caprice
and absolute power, to degrade an Englishman

MARRIED.

Lately, at Clifton, Patrick Bartlett, F.sq., of Nottingham-
place, London, to Miss Span, only daughter of the late Samuel
Span, sen. Esq., of Bristol.
On Saturday, James Layton, jun. Esq., of Bloomsbury-
place, to Mary Ann, only daughter of Benjamin Atkinson,
Esq., of Nicholas-lane.