The Sun.
London, England, 1823-05-14 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock, but there were
not sufficient Members present to make a house.—Adjourned.

A LIST OF THE MINORITY
ON LORD ALTIIORP'S MOTION,,
For Inquiry into the State of Ireland, previous to the Intro.
duction of the Insurrection Act..—May 12.
Abercromby,lln..E. Haldimand, W. Osborne, Lord F.
Allen, J. 11. Heron, Sir R. Palmer, C.
Baring, Sir T. Hill, Lord Arthur Palmer, C. F.
Barnard, Viscount Hohhouse, J. C. Parnell, Sir H.
Barrett, S. M. Ilornhy, Ed. Pelham, Hon.C.A.
Becher, W. W. Hume, Joseph Phillips, G.
Bennet, Hon. H. G. Hutchinson, Hon. Phillips, 0. jun.
Bentmck, Lord W. C. H. • • Power, Rd.
llenyon, B. . James, W. Price, It.
Byng, George Jervoine, G. P. • Poyntz, W. S.
Carter, John Johnstone, W. A. Ramsden, U. C.
Caulfield, Hon. IL Kennedy, T. F. Ricardo, David
Cavendish, IL • Knight, Robert - - -RObarts, G. J.
Chaloner, Robert Lamb, lion. O. Robinson, Sir Geo.
Clifton; Viscount Langston, J. H. Russell, Lord J.
Colburne, N. R. Latouche, It. Robertson, A.
Creevey, T. Leycester, R. Scott, J.
Davies, T. Leader W. Smith, J.
Denison, W. J. Moberly, John Smith, W.
Denman, Thos. • • Alaberly, IV. L. Smith, T.
Duncannon, Visct... Martin, J. C -
.• Stanley, Hon. E. C.
Ellice, E. Milbank, M. . . Whitbread, S. C.
Fergussun, SirR.C. Maxwell, J. W. White, Colonel
Foley, J. H. >Tilton, Viscount Williams, J.
Folkestone, Viset. hlonek, J. 11. - • Wood, Ald.
Glenorchy, Visct. Moore, Peter
Grattan, J.• Newport, Sir J. • TELLERS.
(lrenfeli, Pascoe Normanby, Visct. Althorn, Visct.
Griffith, J. W. O'Cadh4chaii, J. Rice, T. S.
Gordon,- ,R. Ord, W.

It is, not, we believe, generally known that
Illyr,Ey the Poet, and the Friend and Biogra-
pher of Cowenit, was for many years engaged in
writing the Memoirs of his own Life. These
Memoirs, which, we understand, are nearly ready
for publication, are enriched by a variety of
Letters and Anecdotes of the most illustrious
men of his age ; for 'JAIME Y, though rather a re-
cluse, was in constant correspondence with all
the eminent men of his time. This work, as a
Literary History, written with fidelity by an ac-
complished scholar and most amiable men, will,
no doubt, prove a rich treat to all lovers of
genius and distinguished talent.

SUN-OFFICE, Two O'CLOCK.

We have just received and are enabled to an-

nounce the following most important informa-

lon, on the same high and indisputable au tho-

rity on which we have from time to time exclu-

sively laid political intelligence before our

Readers :—•

It is certain that the basis of an amicable ad.

ustment between France and Spain has been

laid down. The last dispatches from Seville

state, that as soon as the change of the Mi•

nistry has been completed, the Negociations are

.0 be formally opened ; and that no doubts are

entertained of their pacific result. Both in Seville

and in London, the obstacles to an accominoda-

ion are believed in the highest quarters to have

been completely removed.

INDIA.

The following paragraph appeared in 77w
Times of this morning :

" A courier arrived on Saturday at Paris from the French
Consul at Aleppo, with intelligence of the utmost importance
to Great Britain, but implicit relianee cannot be placed upon
its correctness. The Consul apprises his Government that
an insurrection had broken out in the British possessions of
Western India of the most serious nature, and that all our posts
on the Persian Gulf had been carried. It was understood that
a copy of the dispatch from the French Consul has been handed
to our Ambassador in Paris."

We are enabled to give the gratifying assu-
rance, that Government have received no intel-

ligence confirmatory of the above rumour ; and
r that there is nothing in the tenor of the last ac-
counts from India to warrant the slightest ap-
prehension of such an insurrection. The only port
we have in the Persian Gulf is a small detach-
ment in the island of Kishme, at the entrance
of the Gulf, but which it was the intention
of the Bombay Government to withdraw, on
account of the unhealthiness of the place.—
There is a British Agent at Musaut and a
Commercial Resident at Bushire.-We trust
that this statement will have the effect of
tranquillizing any unfounded alarms which
the unpleasant report from Paris may have

occasioned, particularly to those who are more
immediately interested in the security of our vast
possessions in India.

Private letters received this, day by Express
from Paris, continue to speak of a severe battle
having been fought between MINA and Marshal
MONCET, with great loss on both aides, and a
doubtful result.

We have received with the Paris Papers of
Monday a Telegraphic Dispatch from the French
Army, announcing that the head-quarters of the
Duke d'ANaouvEstE have been at Burgos since
the 9th instant, and that the first corps has made
a movement upon Valladolid. The French,
therefore, are by no means so near the capital as
was supposed. On Wednesday, the 7th instant,
letters were received in London by express from
Calais, which alleged that Segovia had opened
its gates to the invaders. We then expressed
our disbelief of the intelligence ; and it now ap-
pears that the French only began to mmie
towards Valladolid subsequent to the 9th I
Even supposing that the march of the Duke
d'ANcouLEmE, therefore, continues to be un-
obstructed by an enemy in the field, a con-'I
siderable period must elapse before he reaches
the Spanish Capital. The tardiness of his
advance is. almost equivalent to a victory
for the Spaniards, whose eventual triumph is
rendered more probable by delay. The Cortes,
as is evident from the Speech delivered by their
President, expect that some pacific propositions

will be made to them at Seville, on the part of
France; but if the overtures of the enemy should
be such as they cannot accept, they are pre-
pared, it is understood, to remove with the
KING to Cadiz, being fully aware that it
is their interest to protract the contest as
as long as possible. Indeed, as we have for-
merly observed, we do not see how the war can
be brought to a conclusion, so long as the Con-
stitutional Government, with the KING, can re-
tain a footing in any part of Spain, or in Portu-
gal. Supposing the French to be every where
triumphant in the field, still they would be un-
able to occupy the whole country ; and unless
the Spanish nation were universally devoted to
their views, therefore, they could not prevent
the Government from eluding their pursuit, and
always re-establishing itself in some new quarter
as it was driven from another. Will the French

Government continue their armies in a country so
circumstanced ? That would be taking permanent
military possession of Spain, an intention which
France has disclainied, and against which
England has solemnly protested ! Will the
French, then, after beating any force that may
be opposed to them, and establishing a Regency
at Madrid, and proclaiming it in the principal
Cities, affect to believe that they have completed
their work, and withdraw from the conquered
country, without having gained possession of the
KING'S person? No sooner will they have eva-
cuated the Spanish territory, than the civil war
will re-commence, and will speedily re-esta-
blish that very Constitution for the overthrow of
which the French invasion of Spain was under-
taken ! In either case, it is evident that if the
Spanish. Cortes are inflexible, the Spanish war
must be interminable, if tho, French persist in
asserting their pretensions. At the opening of
the late Session of the Legislative Chambers, the
King of FRANCE was made to say that he would
use every effort to contract the circle and
to shorten the duration of the war ! But
the Ministers of His Most Christian MAJESTY
do not seem to have very wisely calculated
all the chances of the position which they were
about to assume. The duration of the war, it
appears, depends, not upon the wishes of France,
but upon the degree of firmness, and even upon
that of the obstinau, of the Spanish Cortes; and
as for its extent, it has been happily enough an-
ticipated by the figure of a circle, for Spanish
obstinacy might absolutely prevent it from hav-
ing a termination ! We do not mean to say
that the contest will really be a prolonged one.
On the contrary, we know that the French Go-
vernment will gladly avail themselves of any loop-
hole by which they may escape from the danger-
ous situation in which they have placed them-
selves; and we also know that Spain is not
indisposed to make some slight concession,
not inconsistent with her national honour, which
may furnish the French with a pretext to re-
tire We only wish to shew, by the example
of France; the dilemma to which a Government
may be reduced, by entering into a war upon
the► principles and with the views alleged by that
of France, as the motives for its unjustifiable
attack upon the Peninsula.

--°"leiM..,,•-•-.

[rßom A COIMESPONDENT.I

STOCK EXCHANGE, Twelve o'Clock.—Cotisols
opened at 781 went 'down again to 781 e, at

which they remain steady. The Express from
Paris this morning brings the French Renles at
87f. SOc., and Spanish 381, the leaving off prices,
but it is said they were done much lower after
four o'clock.

FOREIGN MARK ET.—panislt Bonds opened at
.11- 11, but again lowered to 3-li, with a heavy
market, and but little doing.

THE KING'S CovnT.—Yesterday, at half-past
two o'clock, his MAJESTY held a Court at his Palace in Pali.;
mall, which was attended by the Lord Chancellor, the Lord
President of the Council, the First Lord of the, Treasury, the
Lord Privy Seal, the Secretary of State for the Home Depart.
ment, the Master-General of the Ordnance, the First Lord of
the Admiralty,
of thedmiralt mi
y,thnet,
Viscount President Sidmouth,t
oflteßoard of Controul, the
Master
Lord Chamberlain, the Lord Steward, the Groomlird B
ofe txbieeYi the.tole,
the Vice-Chamberlain, the Earl Cathcart, Gold Stick in Wait.
ing, the Treasurer of the Household, the Lord Chief Justice of
the Court of King's Bench, the Recorder of London.--T+
Earl De la Warre and Colonel IVhatley were the Lord and
Groom in Waiting.—His Majesty held a Privy Council, at
which the Recorder of London was admitted, and made his
Report of the Convicts capitally convicted at the last Sessions
of the Justice Hall in the Old Dailey.—His Majesty
audiences to the Earl of Harrowhy and Mr. Secretary eth-•
The Court broke up about half-past four.

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WILLIAM CunTts, EsQ.—We find, by the
advertisement in our Paper of to-day, that this
Gentleman, though under promising auspices of
success, has declined to offer himself as a candi-
date for the present vacant Directorship of the
East India Company. The interest naturally
attached to his venerable father, and his own per-
sonal merits, held forth a fair prospect, but the-
conscientious motives which induced him to with
draw his pretensions, viz. want of time to do
justice to the duties of the situation, must in-
crease the esteem of the public and his friends
for his character. It would be happy indeed for
the country if all who have merely the good for-,
tune to be supported by rank and power were
actuated by the same laudable feelings, and that
talents, knowledge, and meritorious service, when
without parliamentary interest, were deemed
suitable recommendations to efficient patronage.
His Royal Highness the Duke of YORK left.
town on Monday morning for Newmarket, for
few days.
Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, Prince LEOPOLD
left town for Claremont.
the EXCHEQUER to the Stock Exchange, of MS
A notice has been sent by the CnaNcELLort (4.
intention to receive proposals to contract for the
new Lottery on Saturday next.
Recent m-
coo
plain
loudly
commercial
the I
a te letters
fair from
ii,
thatl.eicpi zt iyg. b 0 t
torts of merchandize was in great plenty,m .
there were very few buyers. Hardly any It' :
sians or Poles were present. The consequeoge.
of all this was ruinously low prices. Books e .
were to be wished even that in this species 01
Id take place?
cepted, nothing maintains its currency. And ft
property a certain reduction would
as then there might be a chance of
done in the business. a states,
The writer of a late letter from Vienn .
he Porte hats
that t
upon unquestionable authority,
tine collet:,
longing to the Princes Mottu he
given orders to sell 4 weight all t
Constantinople
tions of books that were in C
par-
ticular mention is made of the noble library be'
more being
to that most
were objects of jealousy and hatred
despotic Governt •cOunt of their vast
Government on at
1 Is After
wealth, their patriotism, and their taten• •
I ten-
such a trait as this, one would.think no enligi b
ed State in Europe would care a rush what
came of such hopeless imbeciles as the Ottute
Government. t St.
The subscription in aid of the Greeks a : I
Petersburgh amounts to upwards of one Iniiite,l9
of rubles, above 45,833/. sterling. The &ore'
st, individuals who
Dowager subscribed 10,000 rubles. This is eax;
elusive of the money raised at Odessa and seve-
r
other places in Russia.
It having been stated in THE Sex a few,Weir '5
back, upon the authority of a letter Publislle- in
the Hamburgh Newspapers, that all Portuguey
property in Rio de Janeiro had been sequestrete;
and that in consequence the Royal Win! Coi-re-
pany at Oporto would lose a million sterling, . 0
have now very great pleasure in announciug,:uP°o
Rio
same authority, (i. e. a letter from o
Janeiro, published in the Hamburgh
Lisle, April '240 that the sequestration has be.e a
in part suspended, and it is confidently egPecle
will be wholly removed in a short time. , that
We learn from the Dublin Evening P"" ,i,,y ,
an Aggregate Meeting took place on Suter:sly'
when an Address to the KING was UnanilTi°- a
carried, as also a Resolution for the formation
it
an Association of Catholics for the Menageregi
of their own affairs.
Garalernan!
THE LATE MR. BENNETT. Tllls
whose death we 51,001 d floc;
yesterday announced,
pass into the grave without a tribute ef resPeral
to his memory. lie was, as the public ill gerne-.„
know, many years Master of Lloyd's Coffee I.l"'h'.
throug
the chief resort of commercial characters
out the world. Mr. BENNETT ‘las active.uhligit
liorsett;
and intelligent. No persou tan discharge
.t
duties of any situatiou tt ith more ofibil,,lliti
promptitude, and discretion, than he did ; -ilia;
his successor cannot do better than foil"' -
track of so meritorious an example. ~,,g
Yesterday being his Most Faithful MAJEsi,t
Birth-day, according to the custom observeu ..5
the Portuguese Legation, a solemn High 'Ts
1 or•
and Te Deum were performed at the Royal
tuguese Chapel, in South-street. South Audi:
street, at which were present M. de lq°lll-
S AILMENT° and suite, dressed in their Court en
forms. The music of the Mass was a selection
from MOZART, and the Te Deum
Musician,
position of the famous Portuguese
MARCOS ANTONIO PORTUGAL, both which IveT:.
very ably performed to the great delight of
large and respectable congregation. ni.
The young NAPOLEON was' dressed in his u
form, at a late reception at the Court of Vientint.
One of the officers, -- BELGARDE (the 6°::
asked 11itty t
vernor of the Hereditary Prince),
joke, how many battles he had served in? " I U.
%,‘ as the coil'
that question to me this day 20 as his
reply. Newer.
The Corporation of the 'Trinity-house,
donation of 25
eastle-upon-Tyne, have given a don
in
guineas to the Floating Hospital for Seamed
the River Thames. years," w

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