The Sun.
London, England, 1824-09-02 00:00:00

130W•STREET--('l'nr DAY.)

GROSS IsteosmoN.—The driver of the hack.
ney-coach, No. 426, was summoned by a
respectable gentleman, named West, who,
it appeared, had hired the defendant's coach
for upwards of six hours, and on asking
the coachman his fare, he replied 205., and
would not take less. The gentleman said he
had no less than three times, within a few days,
gone the same distance, and then he was only
charged 15s. The coachman, in his defence, de-
nied ever asking 20s. as the fare, but admitted
receiving 56. in the evening, and 154. the follow..
ing morning. Sir R. Litumn said, from the
coachman's own showing, he had takeu more
than his fare, and convicted him in the penalty
of 10s. and costs.

William Sullivan, a mere boy, but en old
offender, was charged with stealing a very valu-
able silver watch, two seals and a key, the pro.
perty of some person unknowu. The prisoner
was met, in company with two other reputed
thieves, near St. Giles's Church, when he took
out the watch and chewed it to his companions.
Rawlins, the officer, observing them, went up
and secured the prisoner, hut was unable to take
the ottiiirsi who are, however, well known.—
From the contradictory statements of the pri-
soner, Sir ILALroiti.:. remanded him until the
owner can be found,

GENERAL QUARIER SESSIONS.—A"
circurn-
stunce of rather a novel nature, but certainly
highly improper, occurred at n General Quarter•
Sessions of the Peace held within the Bills of
Mortality in July last, by a person personating
mother in Court for the purpose of discharging a
recognizance. This proceeding remains unknoWn
to the Court, but no doubt for the future the
Courts of Session will take care that persons
do not appear again by proxy, and prevent
repetition of such gross imposition and con•
tempt. This forms
Ivaiangisittirsitiatienscels;,irtilnigmin)telry.
Session others, of
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musto r t -
d thje,oliiien.i!ropriety Of the 'Conrts of
sons to
,act its Attornies who are not on the
Roils, as persons aggrieved are .unable to bring
their conduct before the proper tribminl for in.
vestigation. if the Law Society '‘vere aware Of
practising
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by
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one-huff of the business that done by these
to the►
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enter into a recOgnisance by
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aanno'dthtenr to get one discharged, tbotepoetlr'seoniC:e;
be equally as dangerous a proceeding.
appear in a Court 'or Justice
to
slate orthattlr.

TIU LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Ezra' acts from the Morning Peipers, Sept. 2.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The approaching death of Louis XVIII. not
only places France in a state of alarming ex-
pectation, but excites considerable uneasiness in
alls the continental Cabinets of Europe. Hie
lineal successor, the Count &Artois, is very far
from being popular, as, under his Government,
France must look forward to the complete as-

vendancy of the adherents of the old regime, and
to the revival of that ecclesiastical sovereignty
which it has cost her so much to suppress. At
this juncture, and in the present state of public
opinion; there is mach of perilous experiment in
this system of policy. M. de Villele opens the
campaign by subjecting the periodical press to the
most severe censorship, as if, in the times in
which we live, a despot could work his purpose
with this sort of instrument. Common sense
shonld have taught him the folly of resorting to
it, and common prudence might have shewn him
the danger of it. If a Minister is decidedly hos-
tile to whatever savours of freedom in public in-
stitutions, be must be in the last stage of idiotcy
to suppose that he ran support himself in his at-
tack on the liberties of the nation by the estab-
lishment of the Censure. Such a measure, so far
from keeping him clear of difficulty, will mul-
tiply his embarrassments at every turn. Such a
Minister must be always in hot water, because
the wi'rkedness of his heart will always create
more obstacles than can be overcome by the
weakness of his head. There is, unhappily, a
wonderful aptitude in mankind for self-decep-
tion, awl, in spite -of experience, they stumble
over the same stone that, with their eyes open,
they Crave seen trip up thousands that have gone
before them. Villele and his partisans are
not blindly working their engines of power ; they
have seen the operation of them in other hands.
If it were in the nature of such men to reflect at
all, they wOula soon discoveer that they are
arraying a force against themselves, by which,
ere long, they will be, to a certainty, overthrown.
The moment oppression comes to be felt by the
great mass of the people, the energies of nature
will rise up against it, and there will soon be an
end of the oppressor. You may annihilate the
freedom of the press—you -may suspend the se-
curities of personal liberty,—but you cannot—
. in a nation like France,—destroy the force of
human feeling. A Constitution may be virtually
set aside ; a Charter may be made waste paper;
but Nature has her existing laws, which cannot
be abrogated, and which will force their way in
the face of all opposition, and, in spite of a Cen-
sure, wilt defeat the expedients of despotism. The
personal position of the Con d'Artois is, at this mo-
ment, ex tremely critical. Ile is not overburthened
with political integrity,and he wants the good sense
to perCeive, that the policy he is pursuing is not
suited to his circumstances. lie has in M. De
Yillele a. sufficiently flexible instrument, but he
has. in him also a very ambitious, and therefore
most unsafe adviser. • if this, Minister, unwilling
as he is to bend to the dominion of prudence,
and carrying everything, as he has hitherto done,
with a high hand, imagines that he can go on, at
this perilous crisis, to conduct the administration
of Government in France,.after the manner of the
days thilt are gone, a very short time will shrew
him that he is miserably mistaken. ].'intrigue
et Tesprit da coterie, aided, too, as they are, by
all lee tracasseries de la police la plus inquirito-
ride, will avail him nothing, if he continues to
pursue, as he now is pursuing, a course of policy
indirect opposition to that which is imperiously
prescribed by the internal situation of •France,
dud by its present position, as it respects the dif-
ferent Governments of Europe.

f MORNiNG citnosicr.c.l
Ship letters and papers were yesterday deliver-
ed from Jamaica to the '2lst July, and among the
coritents of the latter, we notice the subjoined
extraordinary news from Peru, ..which, we con-
fess, appears incomprehensible. From this ac-
count, it would seem, that Olaneta, the Royalist
Chief, who has for some time commanded what is
called the Vanguard of the Peruvian Army,amount-
ing to 3,000 men, posted in the districts of Potosi,
Chuquisaca, and operating as fur as Tupiza, has
deserted his party under the moat IllttliCCOUtittl-
bill circumstances. The report states, " that he
wits pursued by Carratala (another Royalist
Chief) with an equal force, taken prisoner by
him, and that; then he immediately consented
to serve the patriotic cause." Had Carratala been
a Patriotic Chief, the circumstunce would at least
have been comprehensible, although not probable,
for of all the Royalist Chiefs' in Peru Olaneta is
the most servile and the most -devoted to: the in.
terests trf the Mother Country,. 54 was-proved by
the mariner in which be sought to form a party in
favour of. King Ferdinand, the moment he re-
ceived the noted Proclamation of the latter, dated
at Port St. Mary's, on the Ist of October in last
year. The other Chiefs are the most decided Con-
stitutionalists, opposed to the despotic Govern.
'melt tof Ferilinend, and they instantly reprimanded
Olaneta fur his conduct. If we remember well, an
interview on this subject took place between the
Viceroy La Seine and °lsraeli, when the dispute
was amicably adjusted. This 19 the dispute we are
naturally led to imagine that has given rise to the
story circulated in Truxillo, an immense distauce
from the spot where Oleneta was posted, for if
any thing of consequence had happened on the
aide of Buenos Ayres, that is towards Potosi, we
must have known it through en easier and quicker
channel. At all events, the communications re-
ceived yesterday from the Pacific, whatever may
be the purpose for which they are intended, by
their respective dates, folly confirm the senti-
ments we have already expressed respecting the
forgery to which the date of the '27tli of Moy
had been affixed, as -it will be remembered, and
put itu circulation. here nearly two.months ago.

1:14101U41140 rosT.j
We received fait night by express, Frend
Papers to the 31st ult, and the Etude of 'rues
day. The latter completely supersedeli the Ma

nileur) for .it publishes every kind of official
documents, twelve hours before they appear in
that nominal record of authentic intelligence.—
Thus it gives in its present number the various
reports addressed by General O'Donnel to the
Spanish Minister at War, describing the progress
of the siege. of Tariffa, and the Order of the Day
issued by General Digeon, which relates its
termination, and the capture of the island
where the surviving Constitutionalist had sought
a refuge. It appears from these documents,
which we have inserted in another part of
our Paper, that the struggle was more se-
rious than could have been imagined from the
paucity of numbers on the side of the Patriots.
They not only maintained possession of the town
twenty whole days, although amounting in all,
we are told, to four hundred; but they evidently
repulsed all the attacks made by the Spanish
Royalists,and it was only when the French took
the direction of the siege, battered the walls with
heavy artillery, and went through all the opera-
tions of regular warfare against this handful of
men, that they were overpowered, and perished
lighting bravely, or the unfortunate survivors
were reserved for the more lingering death of the
scaffold. It also appears that Turiffa was not
the only point where the Constitutionalists
gained a footing. Another party landed at Mar-
bella, and levied contributions to a considerable
amount, where a third penetrated to the moun-
tains of Ronda, where it may still maintain itself,
for though it is said to have lost some men in an
action with the Royalists, no mention is made of
its final destruction or capture. Whilst these oc-
currences show the capabilities of Spain for fu-
ture insurrections, they also prove that the time
is not come when they can be undertaken with
success. The other contents of these Papers are
unimportant.

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[NEW TIMES.I
We have received the Oesterreichestcr Dec.
budder to the 21st ult. and the Allgemeine Zei.
tang of the 24th. The former states that the
price of Austrian Five per Cents. at Vienna on
the 19th ult. was 94 3.16 ; and that of Vienna
Bank Shares, 1,120. The Algemeine Zeitung
quotes from the Florence Gazette a letter of the
24th of July from Corfu to the following effect:—
Several credible private letters, as well as the
Miasolonghi Journal of the 16th of July, say, that
whilst the Turks, ufter their landing and first
successes at Ipsara, were giving themselves
up to the pursuit of plunder, 80 Greek vessels
arrived quite unexpectedly, which attacked the
Turkish fleet with unexampled fury. On the
island itself, the Greeks had not been wholly
overpowered, and those who had survived the
slaughter or the preceding days, and retreating
from
.place to place, had continued to defend
themselves for a week, took courage once more,
and precipitated themselves with rage on the
Turks. After an obstinate conflict, the greater
part of the Turks remained on the field
of battle. Three Turkish frigates were run
ashore ; the Captain niches ship was dis-
. masted; and the remainder of the Turkish fleet
were driven back, part to the Dardanelles
and part to Lemnos. At Casso, a part of
the „Expedition of the Viceroy of Egypt had ar-
rived, had captured .sixteen Greek vessels, and
had forced the inhabitants to fly to the mountains.
To this Island, too, the Greeks took core to dis-
patch a flotilla, which not only regained posses-
sion of the vessels that the Turks had taken, but
also seized seven ships under European flags,
%i 'dell had been chartered for account of the
Viceroy, and were laden with. money and war-
like stores. The Diario di Roma also contains
accounts from Naples, that sure udvices had
reached that place, that the Turk; after their
!loody conquest of Ipsara, had been again driven
tom that Island.