The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-15 00:00:00

AIERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, JAN. 14.—Wind S.W.—Arrived and sailed for the
River the June, May, from Seville ; also arrived and remains
the Anson, Fleming, from Leghorn and Genoa for Antwerp.
Came down from the River and remain the Minerva, for New
Orleans; Dryad, Tobago; June, Naples; Nancy, Gibraltar;
Wilding, Honduras ' • Salisbury, -Palermo; Helen, Genoa;
Prince, St. John's, N. 8.; Providence, Stockholm ; Fame,
Bilboa'; and Charles, Charente.
PORTSMOUTH, Jaw. 14.—Wind S.E.—This morning at
daylight the wind being at S. by W. and moderate, several of
the homeward-bound ships got under weigh, and stood clear of
the Island ; but the wind having again got to the Eastward,
and blowing flesh, they have returned, and remain in safety.
Pwratotralt, Jaw. 13.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrived the. Bed-
ford, Martin, from Sierra Leone.
FALMOUTH, JAW. 13.—Wind E.—Arrived the American
brig Ann, Rousseau, ftinn Petersburgh.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the Bast India-
house, when the following Captains were sworn into the corn.
mand of their respective ships, viz. :—Princess Charlotte of
Wales, Captain Charles B. Dribble, for I%ladras and Bengal ;
Lowther Castle, Captain Thomas Baker, for China.

SYMPTOMS OF NATIONAL DISTRESS

COTTON-TnanE.—The Cotton Spinning Trade, was never
morebrisk than it is at present. We some weeks ago noticed
the building of two large Factories in. the immediate neigh-
bourhood of Blackburn, and that the erection of a third was in
contemplation. In this town, a new Factory began opera--
tions about a month ago ; the larger one, which was blown
' down will be re-built with all expedition, and another is likely
to be shortly commenced. There are also two large Factories
now filling with machinery at the town of Bury in this county.
The system of weaving by machinery, in the manufacture of
strong calicoes, is gaining ground fast, and when brought into
full play must create an immense demand for the coarser kind
of yarns.--( Preston Chronicle.)
iIitPROVEZIENTS IN BOLTON.—The inhabitants of the
flourishing town of Bolton have come Ida determination to erect
a Town Hall—Mikes for the transacting of public business—.
places for the imprisonment of offenders--anci a house for the
residence of the Deputy Constable. The site of ground ticket-
ed for this purpose is in St. Geor.ge.'s-street.—(Meni.)
SOUTHAMPTON', JAN. 14 .—the improvements which have
taken place in this town during the last twelve months are sur—
prising. One hundred houses have been built, and most of them
occupied; all the line of the Canal, from Ilanover-buildings,
has been taken in, and converted into gardens, houses, or tor
mercantile purposes--trees have been planted, to give the en-
virons an agreeable shade in summer, and we anticipate fnr-
ther improvements. The new lights on the Cliarnberlyne pillar
are now conspicuous at a great distance, and it is in oantern-
plation to add another light, to make it a more distinguished
object.--( Hampshire Chronicle. )

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

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EXTRACT FROM TIM -DAILY VIC/YINING PAPERS,
January 15, 1813..

UMW TIMES:I
Last night we received by express the Paris
Journals of Sunday. The most important intel-
ligence contained in them is a full confirmation of
the accounts previously received of the violation
erthe French territory by the Spanish Constitu-
Monalislo. They passed through the French
Commune of Aldudes on the 29th ult. and pro-
ceeded to the village of Valcarlos, where there
was an hospital, which had been appropriated to
ttte wounded soldiers of the Amy of the Faith.
Totally unprepared for defence, the Royalists
were butchered without mercy. The conduct of
the person who was acting at the time as Mayor
of the Commune of Aldudes, had appeared so re:
prehensible to the Prefect of the Department,
that he had suspended' him from his functions,
and an investigation into the affair had been
ordered.

[THE TIMES.]
We published yesterday in the later impres-
sions of our journal, the first accpunt which has
reached this country of the external and apparent
effect produced by the several notes of the great
Powers of Europe on the Spanish Ministers and
capitol. The internal feeling excited by those
productions will be best explained by the Spa-
nish answers, for which we must wait some time
longer'. The French note was presented on the
sth inst.: those of the other Courts, Russia,
Austria, and Prussia, on the day following. The
visible effect produced by them, and the observ-
able proceedings consequent on the receipt
of them, were of the most impressive kind,
and highly calculated to bestow importance
on the final determination. Ministers did nor
shut w themselves up in conclave, and draw
their own conclusions, or form their own
partial resolutions ; they, on the contrary,
called together the heads of all the parties in
the Cortes. The replies, therefore, will not be
ministerial, but national replies ; and from this
circumstance we can not only apprehend their
efficacy, but their tenonr also; for as it is not to
he conceived that all the parties in Spain, how-
ever dissevered upon minor points, however
tinged more faintly or more deeply by the prin-
ciples of reform, or even infatuated by those of
arbitrary power, should unite in a common act of
infamy---namely, that of bowing down their
country to the debasement of receiving a Con-
stitution upon foreign dictation—the assertion of
Spanish independence cannot but be the result
of these joint councils. We hope the suaviier in
mode will be observed in the replies to be re-
turned ; and that the,fortiler in re will be reserved
for future occasions, if necessary.

[MORNIXo POST.]
French Papers to the 13th inst. reached us
last night by Express. They are totally silent
respecting the intelligence brought in private let-
ters of the 12th inst. from Paris, and given in a
preceding column. It is probable, therefore,
that the communications from Madrid alluded to
in those advices arrived too lute for insertion in
the Journals of the 12th, and were not deemed
of sufficient consequence to justify them in pub-
lishing u second edition. And, indeed, what im-
portant fact do they announce'? They state what
we knew must be the case, that the Note of M.
de Villele, and those of the Austrian, Russian, and
Prussian Cabinets had been received at Madrid,
apti presented to the Spanish Ministry, who had
referred them to the Council of State, and that
zo answer would be returned until the matter
bad been well considered. They also say that
the notes were to be submitted to the heads of
parties in the Cortes, and infer that a firm and
collected reply would be given. Now all this
was the natural course, and not only might be,,
bat actstally was, anticipated, without eny
,great
pretension to extraordinary foresight or prophetic
iiiuminatibu. With respect to the remarks of
the Ugiversaion the instructions of M. de Villele,
'which it considers c' as only a second edition of
the famous officio published in the Journal des
PALtts on the 13th November," they are them-
selves but a second edition of the comments which
the Universal published on that article at the
time, and contain nothing beyond `newspaper
speculations. it is not astonishing', therefore,
that tho Paris Journals should not have,gone out
of their way to publish what was matter of, course,.
and possessed no importance.

[MORNINO cuttoNtenr..]
The Ministerial Papers are every day full of
accounts from different parts of the country of
the advantages obtained by the diminution of the
Snit Duty. We rejoice exceedingly that they
have at length madd the discovery that a diminu-
tion of taxation does not always add to the suffer-
ings of the people, a doctrine very strenuously
meintained by them only a short' while ago. As
they have found out that the people are better
without than with a high Salt Tax, and that a
diminution of taxation is not always an evil,
we trust they. will soon make the farther 'dis-
covery that it always a benefit. We can-
not, for instance, suppose that the country would
be at all injured by the repeal of the Assessed',
Texes, which lve understand Mr. Maberly is to
propose early_ in the Session, even though the
:Sinking Fund (the use of which has been so
naively ,revealed in the Minibterial Mani-
festo) should, be abolished in consequence.—
'At one time, we know the farmers would
ljave been gravely told—take care what you
arc about—if taxation is reduced, the num-
ber of purchasers is also thereby reduced—
what, you want hi consumers, and the more
the number of people who live by the taxes is in-
creafied, the greater of course
,ts the number of
consumers, and the better it will be for you.—
This language, however, will not do now, any
more than 114 r. 'Vansittart's simile, from Burke,
of taxation descending in refreshing showers on
the people. The farmer does not find his hih
taxes procure him high prices, and suspects that

if they were lower, his capital would not pass a
bit more rapidly out of his hands.

•
[HAMM PRESS.]
It is quite natural that rumours should break
forth of all kinds and from all quarters in the
present state of Europe, and while three despots
contend in the face of day against social improve-
ment and human happiness. Couriers from
Madrid are said to have arrived in Paris with
intelligence that the hostile messages of Emperors
and Kings caused no panic in the Peninsula.—
This is far from strange. Who ever imagined that
idle,and insolent threats would stop the high-
minded Spanish nation in their glorious efforts to
liberalize their institutions, and to improve their
moral condition? An article from Bayonne, which
we insert this day, represents war to be necessary
for the consolidation of interests and the sup-
pression of party-divisions in Spain. The Spaniards
are,evidently not afraid of war, and perhaps they
would derive internal union and political decision
from the very necessity of periling their lives for
their liberties. We feel the utmost confidence
in their sober sense and manly spirit for protect-
ing them against the riotous metaphysics and un-
feeling enthusiasm which converted the Revolu-
tion in France into a bugbear against political
amelioration.

[MO RN! NG HERALD.
It appears by the Paris accounts of yesterday
that the Notes of the French, Austrian, Russian,
and Prussian Governments, to their respective
Ministers, had been presented to the Spanish
Government. The result at Madrid was such
that it has confounded the enemies. of Spain
and of European tranquillity. The Note of
the French Minister received the construction
which was generally put upon it in London—
full of vague menace, and untenable accusation.=
but on the whole, and under the circumstances,
pacific. The effect of the other Notes is still
more important, from 'their breathing a more
marked spirit of hostility—particularly it is said
the Itussian,—and from the distinctive step of the
recall of the Ambassadors. But the presenting
and publicity of these Notes had, it seems, been
so far from agitating the Councils of Spain as
not even to produce any excitement among the
populace of the capital. The Government of
Spain is represented to have,lon the occasion, not
only maintained an attitude of firmness and moderaf
tion, but seized, with tact and prudence, the
chief advantage which it presents. The tendency
of foreign menace, we have already observed,
has been to. unite the Spaniards, of all parties—
but one—making them forget their sectarian
differences of political opinion. The first step
of the Ministers has been to communicate
these Notes to the Council of State (a body
.independent of, and sometimes opposed to,
the new Ministry) and to the Cortes—and
in concert with both these component powers
of the Constitution of Spain, the answer to the
Notes will be prepared. It will be some days
before the answer of the Spanish Government can
be received in Paris or London. The Notes of the
Foreign Powers were presented—that of France on
the sth, and those of the other Courts on the 6th—
and theTaccoUnts of yesterday from Madrid come
down,only to the 7th. When it is considered
that these Notes must be submitted, and re-
ported on, by the Council of State and the
Cortes—prebably with the formality of a Special
Committee of the latter—moreover, that Spa-
niards think dispatch incompatible with dignity,
we may presume that some days may yet elapse
before the. Spanish answer arrives.

Firm—Between seven and eight o'clock on
Snnday evening, the Inmates of the Old-square,
Lincoln's Inn, were thrown into great alarm in
conseqdence of a fire which broke out in the
Chapel ; it was first discovered by one of the Inn
porters, and was found, on inquiry, to originate
under the great staircase, the vaults underneath
being let for wine-cellars, contained a large quan-
tity of spirituous liquors, straw for packing, &c.
which greatly enhanced the danger. In less than
a quarter of an hour there were several engines
on the spot, and plenty of water being procured,
the flames were fortunately subdued without do-
ing any material damage.

The erection of the TREADIMILL in our count)
jail is' now so far completed, that it was set to
work on Thursday last, (Bth inst.) and will find
constant employment for those prisoners whose
sentence includes hard labour. It is upon the
same principle as those already described in the
public prints, and appears to be extremely welt
calculated for the purpose for which it is intended.
when we, inspected it, there were 'A men upon
the wheel, 18 upon each side the building, whose
weight gave motion to two pair of stones. The
labour at present is of course greater than it will
be when the stones are worked to their proper
surface, the roughness of which, as a necessary
consequence, occasions a corresponding coarse-
ness in the meal. But a little time will obviate
this difficulty ; and, while it lessens the labour
of the men, will improve the quality of the flour.
Every two minutes two men are relieved from
the wheel,, whose places are supplied by two
others. Strict discipline' is enforced amongst the
prisoners ; and officers are placed at each wheel
to prevent any unnecessary conversation or iude-
corous behaviour. In addition to the operation
of grinding corn, the wheel at the same time•sets
in motion machinery for bruising barley,. and
pumping water for the use of the prison.—
A Tread-mill upon the same principle, but upon
a smaller scale, has recently been erected and set
to work in the House of Correction at Horsley,
hi this county.—(Gloucester Journal.)
On Saturday last; 4th inst. a sawyer belonging
to Airdrie, about 50 years of uge, went into a.
drug-shop in that town, and asked for a penny-
worth of arsenic to kill rats. Instead of apply-
ing it to that purpose, he went home, swallowed
the fatal Mineral himself, and died a few hours
afterwards. He hadlndulged in dissipation since
New Year's-day, and his wife being dead seve-
ral years, his mind was so affected by the effects
of the 'drink, =anti a dispute with his children,
that he went home and committed the dreadful
act of suicide.--(Glasgow Chronicle.)

From that LONDON GAZETTE, Jan.l4.
BANKRUPTS.

B. Booley, Barge yard, Bucklersbury, merchant to sur-
render Jan. 18, 25, Feb. 25, at the Bankrupts' Court, Basing-
hall-street. Solicitor, Mr. Farrell, King's Arms-yard, Cole-
man-street. _ _ _

T. Hall, Old Compton-street, Soho, woollen-draper, Jan. 18,
28, Feb. 25, at the Bankrupts Court, Basinghall-street. Soli-
citors, Messrs. Barrow and Vincent, Basinghall-street.
DIVIDENDS

Jan. 21, J. Green, Oxford-street, smith—Feb 4, W. Thorpe,
Epping, hawker—Feb. 8, J. Hooper, Tooley-street, South-
wark, chymist—Feb. 4, NV. Durrant,Castle-street, Finsbury,
tailor—Feb. ii, T. Walls, Webber-street, Lambeth.marsh,
hat-manufacturer—Feb. 4, P. and J. Herbert, London, mer-
chants—Feb. 5 W. Wright, Tewkesbury, linen-draper—
Feb. 4, W. Welaford, Tower-hill, merchant—Feb. 5, T. Ar-
thur, Neath, Glamorganshire, shopkeeper—Feb.lo, A. Holmes,
H. White, and T. Tindall, Chesterfield, hat-manufacturers—
Feb. 15, T. Griffith, Hillmorton, Warwickshire, victitaller.
`MD +VI Dir..-

CERTIFICATES, FEB. 4.
J. Craney, Snow-hill, grocer—J. Robertson, Old Broad.
street, merchant—J. Passman, Old-street-road, merchant—
J. well, Nottingham, iron-founder—J. Thurtell, Bradwell,
Suffolk, merchant—M. Douglas, Sunderland-near-the-Sea,
coal-fitter—J., 1., and P. Cossart, Clement's-lane, wine-mer-
chants—T. Jacks, Bishopsgate-street-without, flour-factor—
J. Beattie, Portsea, victualler—F. Robinson, Aston, Warwick.
shire, dealer.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

J. Brice and H. C. Watkins, Liverpool, general Wolters—
J. Elverson and C. Lea, Leicester—C. Coombs and E. Lang.
ford, Gawbridge.mills,Sometsetshire, millers...T.Blackburne,
J. Bayley, and R. Wade, Over, Cheshire, salt-proprietors, so
far as regards J. Bayley—S. Courtnall and J. Starling, Dyer's.
place, St. Pancras,' cartwrights--J. Chew and H. Stanley,
Illackburn, wine-merchants--J. Sunderland and J. H. Drans.
field, Shepley, Yorkshire, clothiers —W. Bolton and J. Hazell,
Luton, Bedfordshire, straw-manufacturers—P. Moore and R.
Leese, Lucas-street, CommerciaLroad, drapers—P. and R.
Moore, Dudley, Worcestershire, and Hay, drapers--P.
dra-
pers—E. J. Birch, W. Moore, and C. Yates, Stafford, bankers
—E. J. Birch and W. Moore, Stone, Staffordshire, bankers—
.l. Buchanan and W. R. Euing, Liverpool, insurance-brokers
—E. Ogden, H. Ashworth, J. Barnes, J. Taylor, J. Lawton,
and J. Mitchell, Oldham, Lancashire, cottoo.spinners, so far
as regards IL.Ashworth—M. R. Kymer, J. 11PTaggart, J.
Kymer, encl.& Wood, Mincing-lane—C. C. and J. P. Packer,
Stoke,. Wiltshire, hat-makers.--0. Lackington, IL Hughes, J.
Harding, G. F. Mayor, and .1. Lepard,.Finsbury.place, book-
sellers, so far as regards Cr: Laeltington and R. Hughes—T.
Smith and R. Grimwood, High Holborn, linen-drapers.