The Sun.
London, England, 1824-01-24 00:00:00

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FALMOU Tx!, JAN. 22.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Prince
Regent packet, from the Brazils, sailed from Rio Janeiro 21st
N ovem 1) November;
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• jesty's ship - Glasgow, 14 days- froth Plythouth ; also arrived
the Mary, Foorde, from Lisbon in 22 Nays; Syren,v Stanmers.,
uoknet}l'fat Bent packet,
from Newfoundland; Hope, Roach, from ditto • his Majesty's
brig Lyra, from Plymouth for Lisbon ; and Lord - Hobart
packet, from the Mediterranean, 16 days from Gibraltar.
POR Ts mou TR, JAN. 23.—Wind N.W.--Arrii,ed the Wil-
Baal Harris transport, from the Mediterranean.:
COWES, JAN. 23.—His Majesty's ship Seringapatam, from
Lisbon, got ashore by Gurnett Lodge last night, and reineans
high and. dry ; it is supposed she will get off next tide..
LIVERPOOL,jAN.22.—Arrived the Minstrch, llodges, front
Buenos Ayres; Union, Peart, Macaio ; Elizabeth,-----:, Ja-
maica; Frolic, —, Newfoundland; Adeona, -...._., St.JOhn's ;,
Rapid, Miller, Messina. -
• DEAL, JAN. 23.—Wind W.----Arrived the Lion, Tong, front
Caen; Diana, Lord, from New York ;„Eliphrates, Meade,
from Bombay ; and Hoogley, Lamb, from, Gibraltar. Came
down from the River.and remain with the rest'of the, outward-
bound the Minerva, Dale, for Virginia; Posthumus, Spencer,
and John,. Popplewell, for Jamaica; and Barbadoes Plamcr,
Redman, for Bbadoe
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FIVE P.M.—Two ships are coming in from the Westward;
one reported to be the Mellish, from India ; the Claudine, from
Bengal, passed this morning.

The Penelope, Smith, from Carron to London, was on shoe,
Yesterday near Wells, but after being lightened was got oIT.
without much damage.

LITTLE WADDING TON.

G u ',pH Ar. L.—Little Waddington, the one?
far-famed Radical standard-bearer, after many vicissitudes of
fortune, including among others a durance vile in the Cold
Bath-fields prison, has at length resumed his former profession,
but in a more dignified situation, no longer himself a placard-
bearer, but a master and director of placard. bearers, having
got himself engaged at what he terms " a comfortable sa..'
lacy," as a sort of placard-master-general, to one Pool, a
professed cheap coal-merchant, of the nature of whose deal-
ings the public have heard so much some time ago, on
informations against him at this and another public office,
and whose immense placard-boards present a continual annoy-
ance not only to the eyes, but to the heads and shoulders cf
the passengers in Fleet-street and on Ludgate-hill. The
fellows who carry these beards, as might be expected, are con-
tinually coming in contact with the street-keepers, the essen-
tial part of whose duty it is to prevent the obstruction and
annoyance they occasion. All this • opposition on the Part of
the officers, Waddington of course holds to be injustic !"11:-.d
. oppression, and loud and repeated have been his complaints
both at: the Mansion-house and at this justice-room ; but as
the statute forbids not only•the fixing, but the carying or
hulling these sort of annoyances in the public streets, his
application's for redress for the supposed injuries lave been
ineffectual, to- the great indignation cf the little orator, who,
upon the last occasion, gave vent to his feelings by exclaiming,
I am not Etiogenes to be going about with a candle and lent rn
to hunt for an honest man, but there is a new invention cf com-
pressed gas lately. I must buy a lanthet-n full of it to seek out for
justice." Undismayed, however, by his repeated defer' s,li ag in
made his appearance at this ofriceyesterday, to suppo. to co./. plant
against Snow, the street-keeper of Ludgate-hill, for not having;
complied with the wording of the statute, in giving him notice ver-
bally or in writing, where lredeposited twoof these plac:trd-boards,
he having seized and carried away a couple of them. without
giving him any notice whatever where they were. This com-
plaint was obviously a mere feint to procure an opportunity to
deliver a long oration an the hardships and oppressions his poor
fellows were subjected to, some of whom had fought for their -
King and country, and were willing to fight for their King and
country again, if necessary; but the Magistrate, Mr. A lderittan
ANSLEY, having probably no taste fir this species of oratory,
insisted on confining him to the specific complaint, and cut short
his speech by calling upon Snow, who declared that lie told
the men at the time that he should take the boards to the green-
yard, and brought the toll-taker on Ludgate-hill, who also sub-
stantiated that fact. Airaddington, on nit; part, produced the
two men from whom the boards•h3d been taken, and was pro-
ceeding to question them as to the whole affkir, how they had
been assaulted, &c., when the Alderman again interposed, .by
observing that it was notorious that every tiling seized as ob-
structions by the officers of the city were taken to the green-
yard ; that it could not be even pretended that the complainants
did not know what had been done with their beards ; and he
had no hesitation in believing the toll-taker, who bad no inte-
rest in the affair, that Snow had stated he should . take them to
the green-yang, and accordingly dismissed the complaint, to
the great dissatisfaction of little Waddy, who expressed his
determina"on to emyloy a solicitor, and file regular informa-
Coas anew, for he would have justice.

• Son(lay last, Mr
~3. Lion, the wife of a sawyer,
of Favtrsham, was fJund dead by husband on his re-
turn from church. It appears the deceased had been unwell,
and on the above day her husban I proceeded to church, leav-
ing his wife in bed : before his return, however, she got up,
and it is supposed was standing in a chair to reach
,sonie-
thing from a shelf, when 'she was seized with a giddiness
and fell. The deceased was found hanging across the chair,
which being near the wall kept .her suspended ; and her sto-
mach appearing to have received the principal pressure, it is
conjectured that her head hanging down, with her body in
that position, must have occasioned strangulation. An inquest
has been held on the body, and the Jury returned a verdict—
" Accidental Death."

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Extrads from the Morning Papers, Jan. 24.

[MORNING CBRONICLL
An -Ukase has been issued by the Emperor of
Rossia, imposing additional duties on commo-
ihties imported into that country. In several
instances the existing duties are quadrupled; in
all cases they are considerably increased. The
reason assigned is, " in order to diMinish the im-
portation and consumption of. certain foreign
articies, tending, principally to the encourage-
ment et luxury, and to the prejudice of oar own
ioditstry."---W hen a nation has once acquired a
fondness for certain commodities, an attempt to
prevent the use of them will always be nugatory.
Prohibition, or duties amounting to prohibition,
will only give rise to smuggling. Nations
-not forego their accustomed enjoyments
:It the command of a Government. Laws may
De multiplied, heavy penalties may be im-
posed en their contravention, oaths- may be
roqnired ; the commodities will still- find their
erly to the 'consumer. The attempt will only
make an immoral people still more immoral, eud
demoralize a moral people. Lord Kames states,
;hat in Scotland, where the reverence for oaths
e as, anti still is greater perhaps than in any
other coantry, all the claret and other French
i,ifirties Were regularly sworn to at the Custom-
house as Spanish wines, and that the Custom-
b.)use officers regularly connived at the perjury.
.1n America, on the other hand,-where the duties
inipoittiOn are in all cases low, smuggling is
nllicnown.—ltussia is of all countries perhaps

th:d of which the population can least withstand
'-";1;11ation. From the Nlinister of State down to
;owest officer in the .' emplo of the Govern-
.l
mel,t, all are accessible to bribes. Of course,
is :lot itS such a country that the problem which
hitherto puzzled all Statesmen, of giving,
e.F.(-ct to la'r"ds imposing high duties on goods in
g-c.nt.tal request, is to be first solved :--
At the Custom-houses (says Dr. ',yap) the general venality
is alarming in the highest degree to the fair trader; and, no
.doubt, forces men of the best principles to have recourse to ex-
pedients of whiCh they never would have dreamed in other cir-
cumstances. I have had some expemience myself at the Cus-
tom-house at Petersburgh; and to avoid having my numerous
be .es opened, both on entering and on quitting Russia, I have
'allowed an agent to anange the affair. He asks you so much
each of the 'officers with whom he has to deal, and so much
for Wrn,ell; and the sums being paid, your property may be
conveyed off as soon at the regular forms are gone through.
I have also managed the affair myself, and openly given the
sums of money. ..... The Custom-house officers might
b changed every day, and cne mass of corruption be sup-
planted by another without the least change in the system of
pnver2on and roguery."

[MORNING POST.]
The conduct of the Emperor of the Brazils, as
represented by the last accounts, bears unques-
tionably a very treacherous complexion. We
'never considered that Prince any thine more than
a suspicious friend to Constitutional Government,
either in the new or the old world, since the epistle
to his Royal Father against the Cortes at Lisbon,
p'lblisheri by him some months back ; but after •
not only successfully following the example of
tz.ose adventurous tyrants Cromwell and Boone-
per;.e, but improving on their Republican temerity,
we confess we now see scarce any prospect of free-
dom for the Brazilian people. An army is certainly
often useful to restrain internal commotion as well
as to repel foreign aggression or resent foreign
insult. In this case, however, it has been em-
ployed to subvert the whole frame of Govern-
rne:lt, and in the first instance, arbitrarily to
arrest its most efficient members. A Monarch
who thus dispenses with the very forms of justice
at:'l constitutional decency, under whatever pre-
tence, is not-likely to feel any scruples in resort-
in!, to the same means for the worst possible
o;)jects ; nor can we, for the present at least, see
any reasonable ground of hope that the Emperor
of the. Efraz.ils will .prove the error of the opinion
tGri:ied of h-is conduct in this respect.