The Sun.
London, England, 1823-03-21 00:00:00

SUN OPFICE HALF-PAST Two O'CLOCK.

It is said that there is an express in town from

Madrid. But Government have no later Intel-

ligence from that capital than the 10th instant.
Mr. JAch.ioN, of the Foreign Office, arrived
this day with dispatches from Paris. He
left London about eight days since, as was then
erroneously thought, for the purpose of proceed.
ing to Madrid.

Mr. CANNING, yesterday, came to town from
Gloucester Lodge, Brompton, and transacted
business at the Foreign Office. The Right Hon.
Gentleman is still obliged to carry his arm in a

Letter, dated Rio de Janeiro, December 16,
(published in the Hambargh Correspondenlen,
Feb. 26,) says, through the sequestration of
Portuguese property, the Royal Wine Company
at Oporto will suffer a loss of. 400 Millions of
Reals, about One. Million Sterling !
A. Letter from Stockholm dated the 21st ult.
says—the day before yesterday the Advocate
Fiscal, in the affair of the Officers of the Hussar
Body Regiment of the King, against their Chief,
Colonel Baron Anckersward, moved the im-
mediate arrest of that Officer. The charge
brought against the Colonel is one which involves
the crime of treason, the punishment of which is
death, in case it be proved. The Court of
Assize allow eight days for the defendant to pre-
pare his defence. lle has fixed upon M. Theo_
tell, late Editor of the Courier for that purpose.
A recent Letter from Amsterdam says,—" A
violent wind from the Westward, in the Sea of
Heerlen), has driven the ice on the shore stratum
super stratum to such an immense height that it
presents the singular appearance of a vast chain
of mountains. This is particularly the case near
the village of Stolen :—Such a phenomenon has
not been witnessed fora great number of years.—
The Small Pox having created great ravages in
Amsterdam, (last year 744 children died of the
disease, and this year already 146,) the Senate
have issued a fresh Decree recommending Vacci-
nation in the strongest manner."
A letter, dated Lisbon the 25th ult., states,
that, among the dreadful shipwrecks that have
happened this winter on the Portuguese Coast,
they have to announce the loss of the French
corvette La Caroline, with 400 troops, from
Rochefort to Martinique. This vessel took out
orders from the French Government, forbidding
the sailing of any ships from the West lndies,with-
out a proper convoy.
Both at Marseilles and Bourdeaux Swedish
and Norwegian vessels command the preference
in atfreightment, on account of the threatened
war between France and Spain.
The severity of the winter has been such in
Poland that the wolves have entered the farmers'
stables in whole flocks for shelter, and numbers
have been destroyed.

A Curtrous OCCURRENCE.---A few days ago,
a Gentleman arrived in London from America, and
on leaving his hotel one morning, in the neighbour-
hood of Covent-garden, to call on individuals to
whom he had letters of in trodu ction,he accid en ta I ly
accosted a Gentleman, and requested to be inform-
ed the nearest way to Fleet-street. The lat-
ter. Gentleman, likewise an American, very po-
litely offered to escort the enquirer, as he himself
was going thither. In the course of conversation,
the stranger mentioned tha t he had just arrived from
America, and must call on a Gentleman in Fleet-
street with a letter of introduction he had brought
from Philadelphia to him. On their arrival in
Fleet-street, and at the number mentioned,
strange to say, the Gentleman who had politely
escorted his countryman from Covent-garden,
turned out to be the very individual the latter
was in search of. He presented his letter of in-
troduction, and this extraordinary circumstance
excited much merriment.

THE KlNG.—(Brighton, March lg.) His
MAJESTY continues well, and in the enjoyment
of excellent spirits.—The Duke of YORK, as a
pedestrian, has been much in public to-day.—
Affectionate gratulations and looks of respect met
his Royal Highness every where.

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