The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-11 00:00:00

THE FROST.

Fahrenheit's Therniometer, in the, Strand) ye
terday morning at eight o'clock, was. again at 28 degrees. 440.
Hackney, at the same hour, it stood at the same degree ; but,
on Thursday morning, at eight o'clock, it was at 24. Thin as
the ice on the Serpentine river must at present be, there wen,
scores of boys and lads upon it yesterday, hazarding their lives
for the amusement of sliding!
EDINBIIaan,..IAI4. S.—The navigation of the Union Caniii
is again free from ice,
imam, DEC. 3l—The frost continues here with th
greatest severity. The Macao has been, for the last eight dap+,
completely frozen over, and is now paiaed over by carriages,
carts, &c, Marquees and booths arc erected he every dirce-
tion for 'the accommodation of akaiters and others. The cot-
course of people, assembled daily on the ice in every direc-
tion, is immense. A number of individuals have been arownt
here, at the commencement of the frost, through a pretnatur-,,
desire of skaiting. Among them were a young man and h.e
sweetheart, who were much' admired for their tieste.rity in tltait-
ing ; they both went down together hand in hand to rise ru
more. Indeed the Dutch are so familiarised to such incidence,
that they think nothing at all of them, as thtle it scarcely e
week passes, at any season of the year, without the occurrence
of such Accidents in the various canals.

I,t tIAR v 2,—There was a fair took place on the rivt:r. Maese
there were regular marquees and booths erected—the termer
affording" entertainment, and the latter decked out with the
most f4etnating articles of Dutch attraction. There were ten
ice boats, decorated with fancY streamers., the proprietors of
which fared well by letting them out by the course, which they
perform with the velocity of a raee.horse. Carts and carriages
continue to cross the ?Suess in various directions. Thetv is no
prospect of a change of weather; ,the frost continues with the
greatest severity. The labouring people are literally starving
ior the want of employ, the canals being all blocked up. Liberal
subscriptions have just been entered into for thilr

Lord Viscount MtLYILLS, Sir GEORGE Cock.
BURN, and Commissioner CUNNIN4IIIIAI4I
that laudable Charity, the Seamen's flospitaY,
established on board the Grampus, off Deptford
Creek, on Wednesday last, and examined evesy
part of it; they expressed great satisfiwtion in
witnessing th© comforts provided for the poor
fellows who are the objects of the Charity.
Ninety-five sick seamen were then on board.

TIIE LONDON JOURNALS.'

11XTRAVTF). FROM TIIE DAILY MOII,IING PAPERS,
JCO? liar)) 11, 18'23.

r. [NEW Tim Es.)
By advices of Wednesday last from Paris, it
appears that antyther rapid fall in Spanish Bonds
hpd taken place there ; and this intelligence of
cot rso produced a similar depression in that
fancy-article ott our: own Stock Exchange. The
fall at Paris on Wednesday was from 53 to 491;
and the reason assigned for it was a pretty cogent
owe. It was said that the bills drawn by the
Itep4blican Government at Madrid were disho-
noured by the Liberal Bankers who had hi-
therto cashed them. The Bankers stated that
Rll' the money received by them as instal-
ments had' beau previously advanced, and
any therefore declined advancing more for the
piet,ent. It is not improbable that when, this
news reaches Madrid, it will produce an explosion
fatal to the faction in power. These gentry are
already in Et great strait. On the one side they
are attempting to put down monarchy by fire and
sword : on the other they are struggling against
the still attire ferocious anarchists of the Lauda-
boleti Club. For our own part, we regard the
refusal of the Paris Bankers to furnish them any
longer with money as an event pregnant with
the best hopes to Europe.

[vii a ,TIMES.]
We have seen a letter dated Kingston (Ja-
maica), November 18, which comments with
strong, and, if the allegations are correct, with
just, indignation on the recent conduct of
Morales, the Spanish General, at the taking of
Maracaibo, a port on the Spanish Main, belong-
ing to the Republic of Colombia. ThiS place
had hero fixed on by the foreign merchants in
general, but particularly the English, as a maga-
zine fur the deposit of goods suited to the traffic
-with the interior, which was expected to be very
consideiable. It appears that at the period of
the capture, which took place, early in Septem-
ber, the English merchants resident in Maraicabo
made application to the Spanish Commander to
learn what course of proceeding was meditated
with respect to tl:em, and received, through
the medium of the Captain of a British fri-
gate, then in the port, general assurances that►
they would not be molested. Soon after he
wa's fully established in the possession of the
place,. Morales, whose chief object in the whole
expedition seems to have been plunder, subjected
them to frequent annoyances. and at length, on
some vague pretence of a violation of his blockade
of the coast by a British merchant vessel, con-
tiseated and seized upon the whole of their pro-
peril, and ordered them to leave Maracaibo im-
mediately. This arbitrary command was carried
into effect, and the greater part of the English
merchants settled there, or consignees, for mer-
cantile houses in this country, with their families,
had arrived in Kingston. A warm remonstratree
on this subject will be presented, we understand,
to the British. Government., -

[rincrtsu rims.]
The influence of the Jesuits seems to revive
at Paris. They it was who stlceeeded in causing
the French Government lately to order out of
Frauce a most respectable old Spanish Priest,
named Liorente.—The crime of this learned and
good Ecclesiastic was, his having published a
work, in which lie unveiled the enormities of the
inquigition ; and also, another, under the title of
'Political Portraits of the Popes." As to the
latter work, the 'Jesuits made a curious mistake.
It appears that they confounded it with another
work, entitled " Crimes qf the Popes," not by
Llorentu, They regarded the titles tks syno_
nymous, and concluded that the, contents were
identical.

[MORNING POST.)
received last night Bayonne Papers to the
3d inst. They contain intelligence from Madrid,
by which it appears that all parties were disposed
to forget their differences and to unite as a *ingle
man, in case- any attempt should he made by fo-
reign interference to effect a chanzu in the Con-
stitution of their country. Even the Landuburian
Club had ceased to abuse the Ministers, and de-
clared that they had " surpassed the hopes of
all good Spaniards.'' Ilhey have indeed shown
much energy and skill in their measures, for
in the contse of, a few months they
,have rege-
Iterated the army, repaired the disorder in the
finances, and placed Spain in a situation to bid
defiance to all the Powers of the Continent, if
they should he so mad as to send their troops
across the Pyrennees, not to victory, but to
slaughter. They have besides, it seems, dis-
played a degree of forbearance,and moderation
for which they have as yet obtained no credit,
though they are entitled to much, for the con-
duct of the French Ultras towards Spain, the
incitements which they gave to insurrection,
and the arms and resources with which they
supplied the Insurgents, would certainly have,
justified a sysfetn of reprisals on the part of the
Spanish Government, But though such a system
was actually ,proposed by the Neapolitan General
Pepe, and by several distinguished French
Generals who had taken refuge in the Peninsula,
and though 'there was no doubt that, with the
aid of the leak' and the influence which they
possessed over the French people and soldiers,
insurrections might have been created in France
'to a far greater extent than they had been in
Spain, yet, those Ministers who are represented
as hohtite to every thing just and moderate, re-
fused to avail themselves of a plan which they
knew would be advantageons, but which they
thought would.be dislitemurabk.

[ttron,Ni yr nv...ttALu.]
The same preamble--if preamble were neees.
sary, might serve to introduce the notice of the
Paris news at least six days out of seven—with
no alteration htit"that of date. The accounts
of "Wedooday, which arrived yesterday, re.
setnbte their precursors in the ascending line
nearly as far haik as the late clvinge in the
French Ministry. If there be any difference, it is

that the public seems in a more doubting and de-
pressed temper. Itis in vain to look for satisfactory
or probable causes. There is no light—scarcely
any conjecture, to be derived from interrogating
the whole
_round of probable events on the face
of French politics. The non-assignment of the
true causes by the French Journals may he the
consequence of their restricted liberty and their
fears. The health of the King of France is a
subject the most important. It would go a great
way in accounting for the state of anxious'
alarm, if his Majesty were is imminent peril---a►nd
this is a point upon which the French Journals
would be dumb. If his infirmaties were even
less alarming, still it would, at his time of life,
account for much of the anxiety that prevails.--
The Journals, however, state that he transacts
public business. It is difficult to reconcile .the
eagerness to rush into a war with the evident
distrust of the spirit of the French army which
prevails. The war Journals of Wednesday—
whose evidence, when it tells against themselves,
may be relied on, mention several instances of
superior and. other Officers either dismissed or
placed on what 14 e call half-pay—the Colonel,
Lieutenant-Colonel, and sixteen Officeriof one
regiment have been absolutely dismissed.

[MORNINGItONICLE.]
The French Funds continue to fall. The com-
mercial men throughout France are full of alarm.
They naturally tremble for the ruin to which
their preperties may be exposed by war. Accord-.
ing to intelligent travellers who have returned
from France, the fear among the classes not en-
gaged in trade or manufactures, and who dislike
the Bourbons (and of this description there
as may be supposed, a great and a growing
number), is rather that there wilt be no war than
that there will be one. The Bourbons indeed
had at one time the real support of the Liberals,
but that time way at an e►nd when the system of
terror commenced. What their real sentiments
are respecting the war we. will not attempt to
state. War, however, is not certainly feared
by the generality of the people, who would
gladly see the approach of whatever might
rid them of the Bourbons. it is true the
mass of the French have, by the division of
property effected by the Revolution, and
the abolition of the old inequalities of taxation,
lac., been placed in comparatively easy circum-
stances, and if events do not put them in motion,
they will remain tranquil. With a population in
the enjoyment, of such competency, it would be
no easy matter to overturn the most unpopular
Government (luring the continuance of peace.
But war alters.the state of things. War fur-
nishes the very conjunctures which persons de-
sirous of change would wish. Of this the Ultras,
with all their gasconatling, are now perfectly
aware; and their clamour for war is rather the
result of an impossibility to change their system
without exposing themselves to the consequences
which it would produce on their own instru-
ments, than of any.confidence in the result. in-
deed the late desertions on the frontier, which we
were at first disinclined to believe, but which we
now know to have taken place to an alaru,i►rg
amount, and the peremptory refusal of the men
whose term of service had expired to renew their
engagements (a thing quite unusual among the
French, eighty out of every hundred having
hitherto been ready to enter on a new period),
must have taught them how little they possess-
' ed the affections of the army.

COACH ACClDENTL—Thursday evening, about
8 o'clock, as the Carmarthen coach was coming
down Malvern Hill, the Ceachnum, owing to the
fog, mistook the road, and driving the coach
into a hollow, it was upset ; several of the pas.
sengers were slightly bruised (among whom was
Sir W. de GRASP! CiN Y, Bart.), but noneseriously
injured. The coachman had walked his horsee
nearly three miles before he came to the spot,
fearing that in such a dark night some accident
might occur.—On Sunday night as the Bits-
Minghamand Bristol Mail was approaching Droit-
wich, the coachman mistook the road down
ltushwood-hill, in consequence of the denseness of
the fog,and drove off the road : he was precipitated
from the box, but not materially hurt ; the horses
proceeded for a short distance, when the mail
was,upset ; as it was falling, Lieut. Folliott, of
the SBth regiment" who was inside, owing to the
pressure of his fellow passenger, had his hand
forced out of the window, and the coach falling
upon it, it %ir as lacerated in a dreadful manner;
surgi6tl, assistance was procured at Droitwich,
and immediate amputation was found necessary.
The other inside passenger was not hurt. The
guard received several severe bruises, but was
able to proceed. We are happy to state that in
both these- accidents no blame attaches to the
coachmen.—( Worcester Journal.)

DREADIUt; ACCIDENTS. -- The Macclesfield
market-coach, called the True Briton, on its way.
to Manchester, on Tuesday the 7th inst., in con.
sequence of the rim of one of the wheels coming
off, broke down within a few miles of Manchester;
when it is said that, dreadful to relate, two per-
sons were killed on the spot, and several others
received very serious injury.----( Stamford News.)
EFVECTS OF Dal NKI NCI To EXCEss.—Lafit night,
between ten and eleven o'clock, the neighbour-
hood of Green Bank, Tooley-street, in - the
Borough, was thiown into considerable alarm.
A seafaring man, of the name of Patrick Harley,
lodging at No. 7, Green Bank, in a tit of tempo-
rary derangement, occasioned by excessive drink-
ing for several days, rose from his bed, and after
a fruitless search ,of Mime minutes fora knife,
took a poker from the fire-place, and beat him-
self on the head with it in a most determined
manner, and afterwards stabbed himself no less
than eight or nine times in the abdomen with a
pair of scissors which were accidently left in the
apartment. A man who lay in the s•tne bed,
seeing his wild and terrific conduct, and alarmed
for las own safety, threw up the sash and leapt
into the street in his shirt, shouting out 64 Help !
Murder ! Murder !" A number of persons col-
lected on the instant, several of whom, assisted
by Icettrick the officer, who happened to be pass-
ing at the time, entered the house and secured
the unfortunate man, who had sunk down literally
bathed in his own gore, and conveyed him imme-
diately to Guy's Hospital.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, JAN. 10.

EX-PARTE CHELSEA HOSPITAL Ili 'DE BROTUERB AND

LEITH. -
Mr. MONTAGVE hoped that the Lord Chancellor would
give final judgment on this petition, which had been signed by
Sir C. Long, as Treasurer of the Hospital, and prayed that he
or his Deputy might be allowed to prove a considerable sum of
Java prize-money drawn from the Hospital by the bankrupts.
His reason for urging the Court was on account of the bank-
rupts being detained in prison while their certificate was
stayed.
The LOST) CHANCELLOR Was of opinion, that the (Hos-
pital must be allowed to prove the debt, andthe.bankrupts
must be again subjected to examination before the agent of the
Hospital upon that point. - It was his Lordship'S opinion (ex-
pressed in consequence of the suggestion of Counsel) that the
petitioner himself must prove the ;ebt.
Mr. 11loarraGtir inquired if the Court would not at the
same time order the discharge of the bankrupts who were de.
tained in custody.
The LORD CHANCE LLon said, that their best course would
be to. apply themselves instantly to the examination now, or-
dered, after which they would be at liberty to renew their ap-
plication to the Court for the certificate.