The Sun.
London, England, 1823-02-06 00:00:00

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.]

STOCK EXCHANGE, Half-past Twelve o'Clock.—
Consols opened this morning at 7tii, and went
down to 75t1, at which price they remain up to
the present hour. No business of magnitude has
been done this morning. A report was in circu-
lation last night that the Spanish General MINA
had been surprised and taken prisoner ; also that
press warrants had been granted, but on strict
enquiry we could not trace the above to any
authentic source. The public are anxiously
wailing the result and effect which his MAJESTY'S
and Lord LIVERPOOL'S Speeches will have on
their arrival at Paris ; it is imagined that they
will be kept from the perusal of the public. The
Expresses from Paris this morning bring the
French Funds 80f. 40c.

FOREICIX MAILKET.—Very little 14 doing in
this Market this morning. Spanish Bonds opened
at 38k, went down to 38L but rose again.

A Correspondent who has just arrived in town
from France reports, that a considerable degree
of alarm has been excited among the English
visitors, who are preparing to leave it. About
two hundred arrived at Dover in one vessel.
Doubts appear to be entertained of the personal
safety of the Duc D'ANootmEmr, should he
proceed with the Army. The French are di-
vided in opinion as to the► policy and expediency
of the War with Uzauee.

Ma. JEKYLL—We now learn that,, on the
first day of the present Term, this Gentleman
resigned his Office of Master in Chancery, as a
return to the duties of it was considered as pre-
judicial to the permanence of his late recovery.

It has been some time too generally supposed
that certain Journals have been favoured with

Ministerial communications, or, as it has been
said, were " semi or demi official." But the
constant language of those Papers, in panegy-
rising the conduct of France towards Spain, and
in throw ing the most hitter invectives against
the Cortes, being in total opposition to his MA-
JESTY'S Speech and to the sentiments expressed
by Ministers in both Houses of Parliament, must
inevitably laud to the inference that the Papers
in question, so far from being in the confidence
of Government, are directly opposed to its po-
licy, and consequently must deprive them of all
that reputation for official confidence which has
hitherto, been so strangely ascribed to them. It may
also be truly obsetved that this erroneous notion
of official confidence attributed to the Papers
in question, may have been attended with the
most pernicious consequences, for if the French

Cabinet and the other Powers really considered
them as organs of the British Government, all of
those Powers might be induced to adopt that po-
licy which Is likely to precipitate a war against
Spain, and to bring in hazard the peace and
security of all Europe.—lt is therefore full time
that the delusion should end ; and if those Jour-
nals should lose their Ministerial reputation, they
have only to blame their own rashness and folly.

William Tunbridge, convicted at the last Sit-
tings before Term, at Guildhall, of publishing a
blasphemous libel, Was this morning brought up
to receive judgment of the Court of King's
Bench. The judgment of the Court, after the
defendant had been heard, not in mitigation,
144 iu aggravation of his offence, was, that he

be imprisoned two years in the House of Correo-
Lion, Cold Bath-fields,' and that at the end of
that period be pay a fine of one hundred pounds
to the King, and give sureties' to keep the
peace fur five years, himself in 1001., and two
sureties in 501. each. Mrs. Wright, con:
victed of a similar offence, was sentenced to
eighteen months imprisonment, and to pay the
same fine, and give the same securities, as Tun-
bridge.

The trial of the persons charged with a con-
spiracy against the LORD LtEUTENANT of Ire-
land commenped in Dublin on Monday ; but the
Court having issued an injunction against the
publication of any part of the evidence until the
whole of the proceedings are terminated, we
respectfully acquiesce in its direction, and shall
reserve our account of the trials till we can pub-
lish it without impropriety.

Letters from Lisbon have brought the follow.
ing Decree, relative to the establishment of a
Protestant Chapel
" Whereas it has been represented unto me by the Charge
d'Aff.stres of my ancient and faithful Ally, the King of Great
Britain, that in virtue of the permission Oren by me, in Ar-
ticle 13 of the Treaty-of Friendship., Commerce, and Naviga-
tion;signed in 1810, for building and maintaining, Tin the For-
.,
tuguese States, places of Divine Worship for foreigners who do
not agree with,the religion of the country, a Chapel has beef
erected near the English and Dutch burying-ground in this
city, for the celebration of Divine Worship, conformable to the
ritual of the Anglican Church ; and that the said Chapel hav-
ing been built with funds furnished by the English Parliament,
and a Chaplain being appointed by the King of Great Britain, it
ought to be considered under the direction of the British Lega-
tion, requiring on this ground that it should be recognized as
such by the Public Authorities of this Kingdom. To which,
having given consideration, 1 hereby think tit to order, that the
said Chapel shall be held to be under the special protection and
direction of the British Legation at this Court.

(Signed by)
" Palace oNueluz, January 7, 1823.

" To the Competent Authorities."

" THE KING.

ARRIVAL OF TILE SHARK.—On Friday last, the
United States' schooner Shark,Lieut. Corn. M.C.
PERRY, arrived at Norfolk from a cruise in the
West India Seas, Gulf of Mexico, and Western
coast of Africa. She had been under sail 236
days, during which time she had boarded 166
vessels, given convoy to 30, assisted 5 in ac-
tual distress, and captured several pirates.—
tier officers and crew are in good health, and she
has not lost a man during her ten months' cruise.
The Shark sailed from Cape Mesurado on the
7th of October, at which time the American
colonists were in good spirits and improving in
health. Mrs. ASHMAN, consort of the agent of
'the Colonization Society, died in September.—
(American Paper.)

THE KlNG.—Brighton, February 4.—The
gloom which his MAJESTY'S 111diSpOSiIi011 cast
upon the circles of ton here, notwithstanding the
SOVEREIGN'S favourable state of convalescence,
is far from dissipated—it was a vital blow to gaiety,
from which, during the remaining part of the
winter season, it is not likely entirely to recover.
The answer to enquiries to-day, to learn the
state of the KING'S health, has been—" Ilis
MAJ LST V continues gradually to recover."

The Spanish Government has published the de-
cree of the Cortes, which orders the calling into
active service the whole of the militia of the king-
dom. This term militia requires an explanation for
foreigners. There are three kinds of militia inSpain,
each of which has a particular denomination and
object, viz. the Active Militia, the Volunteer Mi-
litia, and the Legal Militia. The first is a kind
of army of reserve, and in time of war those who
serve in it must perform the same duty as the troops
of the line. The Volunteer Militia are enrolled for
the purpose of maintaining order in the interior, and
above allot defending at all risks the constitutional
system. Finally, the Legal Militia is nothing else
than the great body of the male population
Ca-
pable of bearing arms, who are liable to be
called out in need he, in aid of the volunteer
militia, or to cooperate with the other troops
in defending the national independence against
the attacks of foreign Powers.--(French Paper.)
Yesterday morning the Duke and Duchess o
CLAFCENCE left Bushey Park for the litso'f
Palace, Kensington, where the Duchess stoppeds
and spent the day with the Duchess of KENT,
The Royal Duke proceeded to London, and re-
mained till near five o'clock, and on his return to
Bushey Park called for the Duchess at Ken-
sington.

On Tuesday evening Mr. RUFF, the King's
Messenger, left town with dispatches for Madrid.
Major CLOETE, of the 34th Regiment, left
Warren's Hotel, Regent-street, on Tuesday
morning, with dispatches for the Cape of Good
Hope.

Yesterday the remaining part of Lord Am-
REIM'S baggage was embarked at Deptford, in
order to proceed to Portsmouth, where his Lord-
ship and suite will embark, in tho course of the
present month, for India.
The Right lion. C. ARBUTHNOT, who is to be
removed from the Treasury, and to take Mr.
HUSKISSON'S office of Clerk of the Woods and
Forests, is, it is stated, to be created a Barent.t.
TUE NEW MARRIAGE ACT.--The notice given
by Lord ELLENuououou in the'll""' of Lords,
respecting this Act, on Tuesday evening, for
yesterday, was, we understand, afterwards with-
drawn and fixed for to-morrow, till which day
the House adjourned.--(Morning Paper.)

Park-lane, from Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdonshire; 81. r
Thomas Lethbridge, Bart., 111. P., at his house in Whitehall-
place, from Sandhi!! Park, Sotnersetshire ; the Marquis of
Camden, in Arlington-street, from his seat in Kent ; the Mar-
quis of Aylesbury, in Grosvenor-square, from his seat, Wilts ;
Earl and Countess of Sefton, and the ladies Molyneux, from
their seat, near Windsor; Lord Mount Charles, from Brigh-
ton; Lord Nugent, from bis seat Bucks; Lord Sydney,
from his seat in Kent ; Lord and ;Lady Amherst, from their
seat in Kent ; Lord Folkeston, from Brighton ; Lord Seim',
in Lower Grosvenor-street, from Sussex ;' Sir Thomas:Acland,'
at Witrren's Hotel, Regent:street, from his seat in Devon.

Dr.rAuTunrs.—The Honourable Mr. nutlet.; from Nerot'a.
Hotel,'Clifford-streit ;. Lord ar4l Lady Berry; frowdittov to
France ; -the Hair. Lady Erskine and Miss Pagets,' from
Hon.. General 0-iisilaghan, from Iltt's Hotel, Dover-farm,-
for Irc)and';- :Colonel -Jackson, foi Brighton '; fi. iif. Beau.:
Mont; Esq. for ditto Lord Say and Sele,ior l edvidete Kent..

On Saturday the 25th ult. the Mayor of NewcastlefttPQn-,,
Tyne, (ROBERT BEti.,, Esq.) gave an elegant dinner at the,
Mansion-House, to John George Lanibum Esq:
Ellison, 51:P,,. and a distinguished party °Client-Unelt.: •
It is said that the Marquts of Hertford is in treaty for Ux-
bridge House, t4' town residence of The Marquis, of Anglesea.

P 0 E T IL

SONNET.

fly LORD HOLLAND.

On that steepridge beyond BAYONA'S Hold
Methought a giant figure did appear
Sun-burnt and rough. lie on his limbs did wear
Bright steel, and raiment fairer than of old,
But yet uncouth of speech—" I nothing fear
" Yon Braggarts' threats, quoth he, in accents bold,
" Let recreant France her fine-spun plots unfold,
" And come with Train Barbarians in her rear,
6' Croat or Muscovite.—My native pride
" Wither'd such hosts when mightier Captains led,
" CESAR, NAPOLEON, ill with me have sped,
" And shall I crouch now Freedom is my Bride ?
"No ! The young ofilpring of that heavenly Bed,
" Stand ENGLAND firm, shall Igainst the world make head."

POPULATION.

ENO LA N D:

In London, last year, the number of births was 23,373 ; of
deaths in the same period, 18,865 ; being an increase on the
births of about one-fourth when compared with the deaths.

FRANCE.

In Paris in 1021 the number of birtha.was 25,156; of deaths
in that year 22,917; being an increase of about one-ninth on
the same comparison.

HOLLAND.

In Rotterdam were horn last year 2719 children, died 2003
persons. In Leyden 1205 born, and 075 died. In Utrecht
1463 born, and 1010 died. At Groningen 1125 born, and 781
died ; and at Haarlem 767 born, and 591 died. Total number
of births in these five cities 7279; of deaths 5260 ; which chews
an increase of population compared with the deaths of nearly
one.:half.

LENT ASSIZES.
NORFOLK CIRCUIT.
Before Lori Chief Justice A.npo'rT and Sir W. Winnow, Et.-
Buckinghamshire, Thursday, Feb. 27, 4t Aylesbury.
Bedfordshire, . Wednesday, March 5, at Bedford.
Huntingdonshire, Saturday, -0, at Huntingdon.
Cambridgeshire, Tuesday, --- 11, at Cambridge.
Norfolk, Saturday, - 15, at Thetford.
Suffolk, Friday; -- 21, at Bury.

Died, on Monday, Feb. 3, at the President's
Lodgings, C. C. C. Oxford, in the 89th year of
his age, universally beloved and lamented, JOHN
COOKE, D.D. nearly 40 years President of Corpus
Christi College, Rector of Woodeaton, and Beg-
brooke, and for about 50 years an active Magis-
trate for the County of Oxford.
We are happy to say, that the Marquis of
TAVISTOCK is recovering from his severe indispo-
sition ; he is attended by Dr. YEATS.
Baron LANGSDORFF, the Resident Minister of
Baden and Hesse, is arrived in town from the
Continent.

e understand that his Grace the Archbishop
of CANTERBURY has transmitted to the parish of
Lambeth, through the Rev. Dr. D'OYLv, the
Rector, the sum of 5001., as a donation from him-
self, for the use of the Church now building in
that parish, near the Waterloo-bridge.
We understand that Mr. CANNING will cer-
tainly be returned to Parliament for Harwich.
The chief trade of that borough, besides that
created by the packets to the Continent, is the
employment of fishing vessels, which we hope
may now be extended. The low price of salt,
and the assistance Mr. CANNING can give, not
only from his situation, but by his acknowledged.
talents, will, it is to be hoped, revive that trade.
It is not known who will be the usher member
for that borough.—(BarN Post.)
Louis XI V.—There was in the appearance
of this Monarch an air of majesty and dignity,
r which, when he assumed it, was sufficient to in-
spire awe into the feelings of those most familiar
with his person. Some of his servants once sent a
deputation to assert their right to certain priyileges.
Retire and Soulaigre, two of the King's Valets
de Chambre, were appointed deputies for the rest.
Accustomed to the King, they entered his pre-
sence with boldness. Bazire was about to speak,
when he saw the King's eye fixed upon him.
The King had put on his majesty, and Bazire
stammered out, " Sire," but all the other words
which he had committed to memory had flown
from his recollection ; after three or four in-
effectual attempts to pass the word " Sire," In.
at last exclaimed, " Sire, there is Soulaigre,"
and he stopped short. Soulaigre, fancying him-
self more ready than his fellow deputy, began;
but on seeing the King turn towards him, he
felt also embarrassed, and, although be thrice
essayed, he could not say more than, " Sire,
there is Bazire." The King smiled and 'said,
" Gentlemen, I know the object of 'your &putt-
tion to me ; I will pay attention to it ; I am
highly gratified at the manner in which you have
discharged your flltletiall RS delkltieSr".""(Memoirs
by Madame Cumpan.)

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