The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-12 00:00:00

( From the )

A report prevailed on 'Change to-day of the
taking of Fort Louis, which crowns the Troca-
dero, and which trnly contains 110 men. It is
said that the details will apyear to-morrow in
the Moniteur.

( From. the Eto{leaf Tuesday. )
ANOTIIER. ACCOUNT.

Pour ST. N 1 A Y, AUG• 31.---This mort►ing at
two o'clock, the position of the Trocadero was
carried in a 'most brilliant manner. Two coin-
panies of Voltigeurs passed the fosse by swimming,
having the water up to their necks, and carrying
their cartouches in hankerchiefs on their heads ;
and the bridge was thrown at the same time,
under the fire of the enemy. The Duke of An-

gouleme passed over at the head of the trobps.
In less than half an hour all the enemy's batteries
were taken, and the Spanish cannoniers died on
their pieces. The attack was, so sudden, and
the success so decisive, that the enemy Ebnld
neither retreat nor rally again. Our troops pursued
them with ardour, and the combat recommenced
in the village of Troradero. All Were made
prisoners or killed. It is calculated that the
Constitutionalists lost 500 men killed, and
1,'200 prisoners. Our loss was 40 killed and
100 wounded. The result of this affair is of the
greatest importance. We are now masters of•
the interior road ; for all the ground from Fort
Matagorda and Fort Saint Louis has fallen
into our power; independent of which we have
taken 54 pieces of cannon, four mortars, several
howitzers, ammunition, and magazines, with some
gun-boats, which could not escape. The Prince
was continually in the midst of the fire. He was
the first who passed the bridge, and "the fire
killed several persons near him. Nothing can
equal the enthusiasm which the whole of the
army shows to the Prince. Prince Car►gnan dis-
tinguished himself by the intrepidity he displayed.
,He wished to be the first to pass the fosse, swim-
lug; and in scaling a redoubt, one of the grenadiers

'geeing him in great danger,- pulled him back by
'his coat, and threw him into the water,
saying, ' My Lord, you-. have-- taken my
place!' ' Comrade,' says be; 6 I am a Royal
volunteer mounting to they assault.' It was
'his Royal. highness who. fired :the first shot
against the 'enemy. This night, I believe,
they are going to tire 'red hot balts Into'
the Spanish squarlron, and forte them to, Tetuvu
into the Basun of Caraque, for they have no
other asylum, unless they come over and us,
which Tay probably happett.77-Reai. Admiral
Hamelin has died of a

[From the Courier Pramici.;

It is.said that: since lasi Satniday. the Cam Me-
r.
cial Expresses 11.3%1. become the object of an extra-
'ordinary surveillance-; and if we can believe the
repdrts on, that subject, one of the couriers going
to FranVort wes 'arrested at Bondy: Five
others were also arrested at. St. Denis ; anti -on
• .
examining the dispatches of one of the couriers,
there was found one line which related to poli-
tics, for Which his dispar.:ll Wus detained. Al-
though this repOrt is credited, we Cannot believe
it. We live ill a time when politics are so much
connected with commercial FpeCtltailUUS, that it
Is. lain to imagine they can be exclUded 'from
'commercial dispatches.'

•
It appears that the intimation thrown Out by
Count 13.tr....4rt.LA, at Lisbon (on the meeting of
the Commission appointed to frame .a new Con-
stitution for Portugal), of an intention to assimilate
the different Governments of Europe as much as.
possible to. each other, was better founded than
most persons at the time prObably iniagined. -The
King of PaussiA, it well known, has.. Since the
period alluded to, taken an important step towards
introducing the representative principle into the
go'vernment ofhis states ; and we have now the sa-
tisfaction of laying before oar !leaders the
sub-
joined Frankfort article, received by the Flan-
ders Mail, in ;which it is announced, that a
special Committee has-just been appointed " for
the purpose' of drawing up ti Constitution for both
the German and the Danish 'provinces tu.lt cent-
pose the kingdom. of Denmark !" We sincereiy
rejoice at 'the prOspect of the gradual arneliora-
Co-& of the
.political condition of the civilized
world, which. thus seems to be.. opening upon
mankind. The most effectual' method of pre-
venting violent and sudden revolutions, and their
. _
accorripanying evils, is for Governments to con-
cede, to the just wishes of their people, all such
institutions as are really conducive to their Wel-
fare, security', and happiness. •••
ittANk.rotur, SEPT. 4.—We learn livin (.7openlisten, that
a'Special Committee has just been appointed for the rurpose of
drawing up a Constitution for both the Cilerman and Danish
provinces that compose the I:ingdom of Denmark. A publica-
tion on this subject, emanating from the Royal authority, is
extiebted, which is the best answer that. can be made to the No-
bility and Protestant Clergy of Holstein, who lately made an
app cation directly to the Cieruum Diet without the consent of
their sovereign, .to obtain, by the interposition of that Assem-
bly, not a rapnisentative organization, such as the Act of the
Congress of Vienna had promised, but the restoration of the
ancient estates of Holstein, _ with all the exclusive privileges
drawn front it.

Twelve o'Clock:—Consols opened at 894,
for Money, 83 for the Account ; vet y little busi-
ness doing this morning.

The Expresses from Paris have brought the
French ninth at 90 f. 55 c., Spanish 43.
Private letters from Paris, of high authoriry,
state that the King of FRANCE has had an inter-
iew with the English and Spanish Ambassadors,
to ily to settle the affairs of Spain.
'FOREIGN MARlCM—Littte doing except in,
Spanish and Columbia Bonds. Colombia left off
yesterday, and opened this morning at 57, got'up
to 59, and now 57!,.

Amongst our extracts from the Morning Papers,
of this day will be found an article on the sub-
ject of the West India Docks. The writer of
the article referred to seems to think that legis-
lative 'protection should be withdrawn from the
Dock CoMpaey, merely because it has been pros-
perous, and because it has successfully accom-
plished all the 'great purposes (public al well as
private,) of its formation ! On the of hand,
the same writer is of opinion that if the West
India Docks Company had been able to prove that
they had been unprosperous,--ttrat they had rills-
calculated thei rmeans,—and had coasequentlyjail-
ed in the attempt to place their concern on a solid
and permanent found ation,—that bad fortune, and
that failure, would have been a good ground for
claiming, not the assistance of Parliament to re-
trieve their pecuniary loss, hut the authority of
Parliament for the continuance of a
,system al-
' ready found N be ruinous ! ! We confess that it
is just the "reverse of all this that appears to us
to have any pretension to sound 'reasoning or
truth ; and that it is because the West India
Dock Company hot fnffilled all the purposes
for whith it seas iettitated, that it appears to
us to be 'entitled to . come forward anti de•
Maud that the foundations of an establishment,
the praetiCal Utility 'of which has been ineontro-

vertibly demonstrated, shall not be disturbed,"
and that the Legislature, in resolving otherwise,,
merely because the continuance of its protection
is alleged to be inconsistent with an illusory
theoretical principle, seems to us to violate every
sound principle of practical legislation !—With•
regard to what has been said 'respecting the
surplus fund realized by the West India Docks
Company, the writer of the article of which we.
are speaking' ought to have known that the appli-.
cation of that very fund is a subject of the provi-.
sions of the Act of Parliament under which the
Company was formed, and that .the Company
itself has proposed a plan for its reduction, by
the diminution of the Dock dues. He should
also be aware that one of the very advantages,'
as respects the Public; of continuing to
keep the Company ender the direct authority,
and protection of 'the Legislature, is the powersi,
which the ,Legislature wilt of course retain and
exercise. of fixing; from time to time, the amount of
the DockDues,so that they shall neither be oppress
sive to the Public nor to the, Wt.st India Interest,
nor insudicient for the just eNpeadittire and fair re-
muneration of the Company of Proprietors.-11
those objects can be accomplished by legis-.
lation (and. there is no one who ventures to
say that they cannot,) we ask again why the
certainty of accomplishing them by legislation, is
to be thrown away for the sake of the chance that.
they may possibly be effected by competition!
—Nothing can, be'mdre puerile or absurd.

We are sorry to learn that an express came to
town this day, announcing the death of Davin
Rictltno, Esq. M.P. ; a Gentlema❑ whose com-
mercial knowledge rendered him a distinguished
Member of the British Senate, and whose cha-
Tacter in private lifa was highly respected.

. .
Advires from Bermuda to the 3d ult. were re-
ceived yesterday. Considerable excitement pre-
vailed there, as well as in the other Islands, re-
specting the modifications proposed in England
for the improvement of the condition of the slaves
in the %Vest Indies. Some of the writers in the
West India Papers have recommended a sort of
Council., to be. composed of Dele-
gates from all the tslands, to meet at any ap-
pointed place; to deliberate on the general af-
fairs of the Islands, and to adapt sttitable mea•
surec.

_,„Accounts from Iceland,of the 16th ult., say, that 1
the. volcano of Kollugiars, in that Island, which had teen quiet
fai 68 years, Made a terrible eruption on the 26th July last, he. ,
companied by an earthquake. Enormous blocks of ice were
detached fromthexuniadt of the tnountain. A great extent of
country waa laid waste; but fortunately no lives were lost.
Ship, *llia were 20 leagues distant in the open sea,. were Co.
vercd with volcanic ashes. The* Were three distinct erup-
tions, each very violent.
One of the Siamese, Nobles, named Kongro-
meet Warle, one of die Embassy sent by the King of Siam
to Eiatavia, dicti on the 30th of April. At 'the request of
theAmbassadors,-and with the consent of the Oovernor:Gene-
ral, the body was tynrnt in the rreighboirrhood of that city, ac-
cording to the custom of their country.--( Dutch 'Aver. ) •
.His MAJESTY, we understand, has no intention
of relinquishing the Pavilion at Brighton, as has
been erroneonsly stated in some of the Papers.
The fact is, that not tt Week since orders for im-
provements were issued, and new furniture sent
down.—Windsor will be the future residence of
his MAJESTY iiuring the Summer and Autumn
the Spring and Winter Will be passed in London ,I
mid Brighton.
We have much pleasure *in hearing that her
Royal Highness the tiucbess of CLAIM" is in
that state which promises an addition to the il-
Itistrious Reuse of Bruns w orning Perald).
1111PitESENTATIVE P tan.— It is said, that the
vacancy caused by the death of Ow lamented
Lord PowenscouttT, as a fteposentative Peer,
is to be filled by Lord Viscount GOltr.—(DUO/in
Paper.)
IPSWICH ELECTION.—The contest, Oa Monday
last at Ipswich for the election of Bailiffs and Tow" Clerk was
carried on with all the exertions of both Order. Sir Svrilliam
Middleton, Bart. proposed Wm. Pearson, Esq. ; and F. F.
Seckamp, Esq. proposed R. Crawley, Esq., in the yellow inte-
rest. R. A. Crickitt, Esq. proposed Wm. Batley, Esq.; and
E. Bacon, Esq. John Aldrich, Esq., in 'the blue interest. The
poll commenced at 11 o'clock, and the yellows took the lead by
a majority of between 30 and 40: in the afternoon the blues got
the ascendancy, and after struggling till past 11 at night, the
poll dosed in their 'favour, the numbers being--For Messrs.
.Badey and Aldrich., 4iio; Mr. Jackaman, 461; Messrs. Pear-
son and Crawley, 436 ; hl r. S. Notcutt, 432. It should be re.
collected that upwards thirty persons who now hold situations
under Government are eligible to vote on this occasion, though
not for Members of Parliament.
Mr. BECIEFORD, the proprietor of Fonthill,
is the Author of several anonymous tracts ; and
among them a very amusing little work, entitled
Anecdotes of Painting, in which the Author gives
an account of painters win) neVer existed. There
is a very interesting Episode in this work en-
titied The Maid of Tivoli. The book has long
been out of print.
Mr. BEAZLEY, the Architect of the English
Opera- House, is .the author of A Thin a Day,
the new Musical Farce that has been so success-
fully repreiented at that Theatre.
A WIBROGETTI has returned to London, to visit
his numerous friends, but is not engaged for the
King's Theatre, as reported.. We hope, however,that the new Manager will avail himself of the
the, I ta I ian stage
opportunity, and endeavour to secure for next
season one of the best, if not the best, comic
ipnertftolirsncloetrl,nttlrlyat. evaerut appearedAtriott
Gort!rrl
is not merely
a comic actor, as his performance of the mad
ather was in the highest degree pathetic and
affecting.
Miss STEPHENS is not engaged at Covent-garden
Theatre, as stated in a morning Print. She is
ugaih engaged at Drury-lane Theatre for fifty
nights certain, commencing the early part of
December.--(Morning Peat.)
That excellent singer,
-IN -LAIR, is arrived in
London, preparatory to his appearance at Covent-
garden Theatre, which will take place soon after
Ore Opening:

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