The Sun.
London, England, 1824-10-08 00:00:00

NNRCANTLLE SHIPPING.

MAL, 00T. 7.—Wind S.W.—Arrived and sailed for the
River the Louisa, Barnard, from Alalaga; Royal Sovereign,
Cooper, from ditto for Petersburgh ; Martinique, Begg, front
Grenada. Came down from the River and sailed the thinges,
Lloyd, for Madras; Nile, Retidler, for %tier; and Prince
of Orange, Horn, for Lisbon. Sailed. the Roseville. Anderson,
flit Antwerp. Several vessels are now (6 it.s.t.) off the Nook
Foreland, coming from the River.
PoßTsmouTli, OCT. x..-,Wind S. W.—No arrivals or
sailings.
FALMOUTH, OCT. 6.-.=-Winti E. to N.N.E.—Sailed the
Hero, Wilson, for Malta and Corfu.
_ _

lavturocri, Oc•r. ti.—Arrived the Trusty, Henderson,
from Seam.

BRISTOL, OCT. el.—Arrived the Cumbrian, Burbeck, frnu
the Cape of Good Hope ; Earl Talbot, —, from Lauautretio
Richard, and Sarah, —, from Villanova ; and fling t*ter.
—, from Peteraborgh. .

THE MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANOE, OCT. B.

This week our arrivals of Grain in gentral, are only itto:.
derate. There has been a thin attendance of buyers at marker
to-day, and although more money is asked for Wheat, yet the
prices are unaltered from Monday; Barley is again dearer, as
also Is Malt; Beans and Pease are unaltered; Oats find
tolerable good sale but not at higher prices than Monday.
A arttlrA I. s.—English Wheat, 3,800; Barley; 780; Oats,
140; Foreign Oats, 1,400 qrs.; Flour, 4,300 sacks.

SMITHFIELD M kRKET, Ocr. 8.
The followhig im an accurate Report of the numbere aral
price* nt Smithfield Market thin morning:—
CATTLE AT MARKET

Beasts - 652 ; Sheep and Larnhs 0,320
Calves ttw ; Pigs
To sink theptld, per stone of gib.

Beef
$ to 4s 2tl Veal 4% td to As ca
mutton 34 10d to 4s 6d 1 Pork
Land) ON uU to Os OIL

AND sT UAW, Pl.: it LOAD.
Hoy £3 th to Lb tis t Clover
Strovr £2 Os to £2

The Rev. Mr. I►iVING is at present staying in
Dover for the benefit of the air and v+a.Lailtin:;,
and attended Divine Service at S►. Mary r.
Church, on Sunday last. Be has been solicited
by the Elders of Lady Huntingdon's Chapel,aud
other dissenting congregations, to preach at their
respective establishments, but declined from
health.--(Kent &raki,)

TILE LONDON JOUItNA4S.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers) Oct. 8.

[THE T [MEL]
An attempt is making to create an alarm re-
specting a French expedition to St. Domingo,
than which, we believe, there is in fact nothing
farther from the contemplation of the French
Goveroment. Independently of the absurdity of
such an undertaking at the present moment, and
with such inadequate means as are said to be em-
ployed, there are facts sufficient to prove, or to
furnish a strong presumption, that no such design
is entertained. By letters received yesterday
from Havre, it is ascertained that vessels are
loading in that port for St. Domingo, freighted in
part with military stores and equipments for ca-
valry, which would not be permitted if hostile
measures were in view. A negotiation was but
recently pending for the acknowledgment of the
independence of the island, which at one stage
was thought so near completion, that the Hayden
Commissioners had made propositions for raising
in England the sum of money which was to be the
price of the concession ; and although two of the
Commissioners have returned to Port-au-Prince,
one still remains, we believe, in France, with the
hope of renewing the negotiation under more
favourable auspices, in consequence of the
accession of the present King. The mea-
sure is well known to be anxiously desired
by the French merchants, who feel that
the only consequence of delay will be to
throw a monopoly of the trade into the hands of
the English. Shortly before the death of Louis
XVIII., whose illness and the unsettled state
of the French Cabinet were probably the chief
cOuses of the suspension of the negotiation, n
very spirited remonstrance on the subject was
presented to the Government by the merchants
of Havre, but which, through the interference of
the censorship, did not find its way into the jour-
nals. In this they exposed with equal force the
utter impossibility of re-conquering an island, in
the attempt at which the flower of
.Buonnparte's
army, had perished, and the advantages that
ould result to the French Government from an
amicable arrangement with its present rulers.—
These representations will now be renewed, and
liave too much reason in them not to produce
au effect, in the altered situation of the French
Government.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
We give to-day, from the Eloile, a comparison
of the situation of Protestants in' France, with
that of Cethotic's in England, written for the pur-
'pose of lauding the toleration of the Catholic
Church, ut the expence of the Protestant Clergy.
The ,statements are exaggerated, and will there-
fore not produce the effect,—in 'this country at
•• ]east,--at which the writer aims. The estimate
• of Protestants in France is certainly too low, and
that of the Catholics in the United Kingdom too
'high; and the religious policy of England towards.
those who differ-from the religion of the State is
not depicted with much candour. It isnot a prin.'
ciple of English law to destroy Catholics or Dis-
sewers, though no support is administered to thesis;
and taking the converse of the proposition,even the
• Catholic advocate in the Elate will not pretend,'
that it is a principle of the' Catholic Church to
give aid in spreading what' she considers to be
heretical opinions. As to the assertion that the
Protestant Clergy in the British Empire live on
the spoils or the ancient church, it is enough
to say in reply, that we have only given to a
fresh set of trustees the funds bequeathed by
o'er' ancestors, for the service of religion, to a
former Set who had grossly abused their trust.—'
In France, we are told, the Catholics have not
ta :it a farthing from the Protestants.' :It is im-
possible they should ; for it is only since the Rem..
lotion that the latter have lived in security there.
Before that period, how many atrocious blots
n're there in the history of 'France occasioned by
ihe' persecutions suffered by the Protestants ?
—TheCritholicshavebeen excluded from political
power in this country, but they have never been
massacred. Mit while we defend ourselves from
misrepre,sentation, let us be careful not to excite
the vindictive feelings of either party against the
other. Each.has sinned. in the spirit of animosity
during the ages that are ,passed. Let our object
be, now to heal all wounds, and do justice. We
wish the Catholics would be advised to more mo-
deratiou in their mode of pressing their claims,
because 'we ire' convinced their warmth not a
little Tetards•their success.' The condition of the
Catholics is not what,sat. this day, and in the pre.
sent state of Europe, it ought to be. It is too
true, that' 0 they- are children disinherited by
their fatlier,,and excluded from all marks of con-
fidence, and from every pursuit which leads to
honour and fortune. They bear all the burdens
of the State, end share none of its advan-
tages." We should be, glad to see them re-
stored to the' full enjoyment of their political
rights, and their .clergy supported by Govern-
ment, as the Protestant Ministers are in France.
The danger to which we were once exposed froth
the Catholic religion has ceased ; and it is due to
the loyalty of their demeanour as subjects, to
open every avenue _ to their honourable ambition.
Never was there a time more fitted to this great
work of justice. The exclusion, of the Catholics
from power,was a measure justifiable solely by a
course of political circumstances, which have now
no parallel. The excluded dynasty is extinct,
and our political institutions-are no longer me-
naced With, perils arising from-religious dissen-
I,etus hope therefore, that we may soon
have all feelings of jealousy and irritation on the
part of our Catholic fellow-subjects, removed, by
their admis,sion to every privilege which, con-
. aistentli with the suorernacy and safety of the
Established Church, they. can enjoy.

rt'f,:;,-) ---..----.
[MOH NIN(; POST.)
PK;t4 We noticed a few days ago the infwmation
lota to have been received in the City, of the
17,alling or a French fleet froici Blest, with four
4'''fr.4 - hottilnd troops, Gil the (2tith of Au4u,o. WI.
toted th,,1,1,..ti0ut although it wa3 not impossible
00,71 hat 11)e expedition should be directed agititlst
;.-4141-sm'pait of St. Domingo) we thought it would

be founa. mereTy to consist of the,reinforeements
which it had been publicly announced were to
be sent from Brest to the garrisons in the French
West and East India possessions. A letter has
since been received, said to have been written by
'a Member of the Chamber of Deputies, who has
'access to ministerial communications. This letter,
which we subjoin, certainly says that an expe-
dition sailed from-Orest on the 28th of August
with 4,000 troops, and that its object, after taking
4,000 more at Martinique, was to seize upon some
of the strong places on the Haytian coast, enlarge
their fortifications, and then enter into negocia-
tions with the Chiefs known or supposed to by
friendly to France. Should these fail, the troops
would retain their positions and the fleet bloc-
kade the principal ports, till a sufficient force
should arrive from the mother country to en-
ter upon offensive operations. A communication
of the purport of this armament is said to
have been made to our Cabinet some months
since, and no objection to have been started, on
the ground that every nation had au undoubted
right to attempt the recovery of her colonies, if
she could. On this point, and we sincerely hope
on more then this point, the statements in the
letter are incorrect. The only communication
made to our Government, we believe, was that a
fleet should sail with troops to relieve the French
garrisons in the West Indies. Should false re-
presentations have been made to, obtain our ap-
parent sanction of a measure not only of doubtful
policy) but of undoubted injustice, considering
the length of time that Hayti has enjoyed perfect
independence, the French Ministers may find
that something more effectual than mere'; objec-
tions" may yet start between them and the ac-
complishment of their euterprize. The following
is the letter :---

"Soon after the dismissal of the Hayden Commissioners,
sent to France to negotiate the acknowledgement of St. Do-
mingo as an independent State, orders were given by the
French Government to prepare an expedition alpinist the island.
Four thousand men, forming part of it, were ordered to Brest,
andthere embarkedon the 28th Augrat. The expedition then
set sail to join Admiral Duperre oil Martinique, where an addi-
tional number of troops, collected for several months past, were
to be taken on board, and the whole to proceed to St. Domingo.
On arriving off' the island, it was not intended to undertake any
thing decisive in the first instance which the smallness of the
forces would not admit of, but to get pOssession of some strong
places on the healthiest part of the coast, throw up additional
fortifications, and then enter into negociations with some of
the Chiefs many of whom are stilrattaihed to France.. Should
these fall; then strong reinforcements would be sent from
France, and hostilities commence, whilst the fleet would esta-
blish the strictest blockade before the principal ports of the
island. Communication respecting this armament was, it is
added, made several Months ago io the British Cabinet, hich
acting upon the principle that every nation has an undoubted
right to attempt to recover her colonies, started no objection.--
The journey of a certain Lord (11—by) to Paris, some months
ago, it is even said, was not altogether unconnected with.this
object. Spain, claiming part of Hispaniola, it is confidently
asserted, will act in concert with France, and probably extend
her views to the Guiph of Mexico."

[NEW 'rim Ls.]
We have repeatedly deplored the lamented
state of confuSion in which Spain at presient la-
bours, and we feel. no disposition whatever to
palliate enormities which may occur there, whe-
ther perpetrated by men calling themselves
Royalists or Constitutionalists ; but we cannot
agree with The Chronicle, that because some.
outrages take place in Spain now, we should
think no more of. the French Revolution and its
horrors. A virtuous mind will equally abhor fe-
rocious cruelty wherever it presents itself ; and,
will judge of the magnitude of the evil by the
quantity of the suffering. The Chronicle " sup.
poses" that " the number of individuals sacrificed.
during the reign of terror in France were'not the
tithe 'of the number who have been assassinated
in Spain" within the last eighteen months. This
is a matter of simple enumeration; and we un-
dertake to produce, proof of at least ten murders
by the French Jacobins to every one ,that our
cotemporary will specify as committed by. the
Spanish Royalists. He says, "the most bloody.
minded Jacobin that ever disgraced the name of
liberty would have shuddered at the ideas which.
the Spanish Su periutendent General of Police has
dared to express." We can at once point to the
" bloody-minded Jacobin" Fouche, who not only
expressed ideas more savage than any 'of the Spa-
tilards, but acted up to them, by sweeping off
his countrymen by scores and hundreds, day
after day, in the market place, with grape shot.
Has any thing like that been done in Spain? We
Can point to.tbat other 46 bloody minded Jacobin"
Buonaparte, who massacred in one day between
three and four thousand prisoners of war. Has
any thing like that been done, we will not say in
Spain, bur in modern Europe ? No, no ; let us
be fair ; let, us be just. It is grossly unfair and
Unjust to minor villains to ;compare them with
such monsters of atrocious and unfeeling barbari-
ty as a Fondle or a Buonaparte.

• MORNING HMI:ILn.]
Tuesday's Paris papers arrived last night.---
Their contents are more various than interesting.
They have not gained much in importance by the
removal of the Censorship. Comparing their con-
tents before and since, there is really no striking
difference, except that no blank spaces are left.
Whilst the Censorshipexisted,it was SuppoSed they
could say a great dealif they were free. New they
are free;and the'wonder Is that the Minister should
have ever thought it necessary to controul them.
Their care is somewhat like that ofa blockhead Who
loses, the moment he opens his mouth, the reputa-,
tion which he obtained by his silence. It-is to be
remarked, however, that M. de ChateaUbriand has
loosed his hold upon his colleague,,M. de Viliele,
and after ,some half dozen :pamphlets of about
as many pages, arid at as many SOUS each, pub.
lisped, by him on recent events, is gone to Swit-
zerland, for the commendable purpose of convoy-
ing his Lady back to Paris. If the Journals may
be received as fair representations, of opinion in
France, the
,Government stands ..in „rather a cu-
rious ,position. It consists .of a. most popular
King, and most unpopular Administration. Four-
fifths of the Journtili soon. 'to marshalled.
against the Minister ; and in'this oppositiOn ex-
tremes meet. The most farrnldeble and strenuous
adversaries 'are the Ultra partisans-4or 4 very
obvious reason. Should the present men in poioer
be disphiced,. the Ultra Opposition most succeed
them ; whereas the Liberals have net even a can-
didate for place and power. There are some
articles, 'of little interest, from Portugal and
Spain. In the farmer country the King appears

engaged in directing public education; and it is
'worth observing, that.. the Lancasterian me-
.thod, whiCh has been pretty generally con-
demned and interdicted by other Governments of
Europe, is protected by him. In Spain matters
seem to go in the usual order—or disorder.
Exiles, arrests, and assassinations, are recorded
in every arrival. There is further intelligence
from Greece, confirmatory of the defeat—it is
even said, the destruction of the Turkish fleet at
Samos. But still there is nothing official or strict-
ly authenticated. The chief ground of credit is,
that had these advices been mere inventions,
they must have been already detected.

[MoRNING cnaommx.]
It is ,with nations as with individuals; in both
there is the greatest disposition to look with an
eye of favour on the faults to which they are
more partkularly addicted. We have no doubt
that there are not a few individuals in this coun-
try, who, so far from regretting the frequency of
crime among us, are positively vain of the length
of our Criminal Calendars. Howard tells us,
that he heard in Italy criminals express
with seeming satisfaction that they were only
murderers, and not thieves. Old Chancellor
Fortesque, in his work, which bears the
title of the difference between an Absolute and
Limited Monarchy, actually boasts that England
contained more robbers and murderers than any
other. I f an Englishman be poor, and see another
possessed of riches which he can take from him
by might, he will not fail to do so, except the
other be the better man'. The passage is so cu-
rious that it is well worth giving entire.:—

" Povertie onely is not the cause, why the Comons of Fraunce
rise not agoyn _their *ayeryong
.Lord ; for there were never
people in that lend more pore, . than wer in our tyme ; the
comons of the countrey of Caux, which was almost deserte'for
lack of tyllars ; • as yt now wel apperith, by the new husbondrye
that.ys done ther ; narnely,in grobbyng and stockyng of trees,
bushesoind grovys, growyn, while we wer titer, Lords of the
countrey. And yet the foresaid comons of Coax made mar-
velous grete rysyng, and toke Our .townys, castells, and for-
tresses; sclewe our captayns and soldiers, at such a time,
whan We had but a fewe men of war lyying in that con-
trey ; which provith that it is cowardise . and lack of hartes
and corage, that kepith 'the Prenche men froth rysyng, and
not povertye ; which .corage no Frenchehian bath like to the
English man. It bath ben often seen in Eaglond.th4-three
or four thefes, for povertie bath sett upon seven Or eight
true men, and robbyd them al.—But it bath not ben seen in
Frounce, that seven or eight thefes, have been hardy to robbe
three or four true men. 'Wheretbre it is right acid, that French
men be hangyd for robberye, for that they have no hertys to
do so terryble an acte. There be therfor too men hangyd in
.England, in a year, for robberye and. manslaughter, than titer
he banged in Fraunce, for such cause of crime, in seven years.
There is no man hangyd in Scotland in seven years together for
.
hangyidrprla.cFnyeand
irowner t aireet but their
hibri
tybsne rsgye
reovf;
ogaltlisyneloitltttlEeytaabkbeseeaenfemtee:(l)nftnytyinls
goods, while he is present,
and -will defend it; which manner of takyng.is callid robberVe.
But the Englisch men be of another corage for if he be poor,.
and see another man- havyng rychesse, which may be takyn
froui him by might, he wol not I mre to do so,. but if (except)
that peer man be right true. W ierforit is not. povertie, but it
is lecke of harte and cowardise, that hepyth -the Fiend, Men
from risyng."
This Is very well for a Chaticeller, and seems to
prove. a very ancient Taitiality.i9' the 'gentlemen
of lilt department for dispossessing people:of their
property. A changeihoneverthAs certainty taken
place in our national character since the :good •
Chancellor's time ; for murder and robbery, and
more especially the former, are by no means com-
mon' here now. The dlspoSition to make free with
the property of others, exists in full force, but
fraud is now-generally preferred to force. When
we see two countries under the same Govern-
ment divided from each other by an imaginary
line, employed in the same pursuits, and subject
to the same burdens, differing so materially with'
respect to crime as England and Scotland do, at
'the hazard of offending those, who like Mr.
Alderman- Wood, think that every English prac-
tice is the very best -possible ; we cannot help
thinking, that the difference is ono which is not very
creditable to this part of the Island. The Judges
itrScotland, except in GlasgoW, hardly stopped
longer in any Aisize Town, than was necessary
for a slight refreshment to their horses.' For in-
stance, the Assizes at Inverness, for the Northern
Circuit, including the counties of Caithness, El-
gin, Nairn, Sutherland, Ross, Inverness, and
Orkney and• Shetland, the population of all
which amounts to 306,55; lasted only six haurs,
the only case that could be said to occupy the
attention of the COurt being for child-murder,-
From four of the counties, Caithness, Elgin,
Nairn, and Sutherland, with. a population of
94,qe1t3, there were no cases whatever.
In the other extremity of that Kingdom,
the fertile • plains which border on England,
there was the same Absence of crime. From
Berwickshire there was one case, that of a jour-
neyman watchmker, Who being entrusted with
a watch to sell, got intoxicated, and continued in
a- state of drunkenness till he had consumed the
whole. In the adjoining county, Itoxburghshire,
there was also one case.—Every effect must have
its:cause, and we think one great cause of this
difference will be found in the local adminiStra7
tions of. Scotland, and the absence of that prac-
tice which Mr. Alderman Wood. so much ad- .
mires, that of refusing to interrogate prisoners.

The ancien.tEgyptians, from the Monarch to
the subject, believed that their souls, after many thousand
years would come to re-inhabit their bodies, in CMG time
latter were preserved entire. Hence arose the embalm-
Ing and the situation of the sepulchres, in places .not
subject to the inundation of the • river. These tombs at
Thebes, consist of sepulchral grottoes,. made in the side
osurnauitit.ll, .from its base to within three quarters of its
'I he lowest
e
to the east leads toa
spacious. The ptaii o
fßareli tlisl'nebaerslty et
ixteecsalltnediet. "Ad dooronploesnt
At the, end of the gallery a well, which leads to the rata.
'gallery, aiipportedby columns or pilastres.
combs, where the muturnies were deposited.These.walls, from
40 t 0.60 feet deep, abut upon long. subterranean alleys, ter-
minating in it square room, supported by pillars, In which
room are still remains of inuminies. In the upper
the
are
bria.reliers,' or paintingS' on subjects relating to the:funeral
ceremonies and every grotto ha4l a cieling painted hi a fan-
ciful manna, much resembling our paper for rooms, The
tombs of the-Kings 'are. particularly noticeable. The ancient
road to thein'has not been found. Every grotto communicated
with the valley by a large door. This leads into a succession .of
'galleries, with chambers on both sides. One of these contains.
the actual sarcophagus, -in which was placed the Mummy of a
King: It retains its cover, upon Which is the Royal effigy.
They exhibit all the arts of civilization which. were obtiuned:
inEgypt„ such as relate to the manufacture and agriculture,
saddlery, carriages, pottery; counters ter trade, rural employ.
went, hunting,, fishing, marcher; of troops, punishments in use,
musical instruments, habits, and furniture. But there also
prevails a great bizarrery, froth of subjects, fro which the Romans.
borrowed the grotesque, so commonly found, in the pictures of
llerctilaneurn.