The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-09 00:00:00

DEATH S.

At Bombay, on the lBthTit' April, Donald, infant sou ef.
Captain B. Sutherland, of theist battalion 7th regiment N.
aged 17 months and 10 days.
(in the same day, the infant atm of the late Captain jehrisoo.
aged 12 months.
At Cutidalore, Madras, on the morning of Tuesday, the
, F • •
Ist of April, William French ag of the Maar:Maass(I,vll
Service.
On the morning of the 210th of March, at hut. peden..hettar,
Royapettab, Madras, aged fityear., ./11r$. Thorlily, the relict
of the late Matlock Jacobjan, Esq., a respectable Armenituit
inhabitant of this place.
At
Chittagong, Calcutta, on the Ist of April, whither
he
proceeded on account of his health Andrew Reid, Dol. of St;
Andrew's, .N. 8., and late of the Calcutta Committal Bank,
aged 24 yenta.
William Graham Thornam,
had
In camp, at Doolln, on the lath of March, Brevet-Catitai„
of the 7th Bombay regituart 4
infantry, and Brigade-Major to the forces at Alalligaum. The
death of this brave and excellent °nicer will be regretted by Mo
whole army 3 the service luta lost ft most distinguitdied rneubb,,,
anti his numerous friends* most hantaAmble and l,jeasanient
Hiatt.
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Till; LONDON JOUUNALS.

DAILY
,}74irarts from the Morning Papers, September 9.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The whole of the public attention is at the
present moment directed towards Cadiz, where
the French are vain enough to expect an early
sienouement of the grand military drama they
have been acting in the I'enisula. Their efforts
have uniformly been directed to the seizure of
the King's person, and they now think they have
Dim safe in a trap from which they wish to extri-
cate him, if they can, without loss of time. Ex-
actly the same calculation did the French make
during the first war of invasion, when they passed
Abe Sierra Morena so easily, and spread themselves
aver the Andalusian plains. They had then the
Cortes in the same trap as King Ferdinand is now
iiil and they then calculated, that if they could
once get hold of them, there would be an
end to the war. Soult at that time distributed a
large army in front of La Isla, raised batteries
and redoubts, and even sent to France for car-
venters and sailors to build and man a flotilla,
for the purpose of competing with the combined
one operating in the Bay of Cadiz. For thirty-
three months did they keep their positions in
front of La Isla, making trial of every means
that could possibly be invented to enable them
to succeed in their operations against the place.
T heir efforts tvere,however,fruitless,although the
means their opponents at that time possessed
were not nearly equal to those now possessed
by ,the Spaniards. The Duke d'Angosleme,
since his arrival at the Bay, has disco-
vered that. Cadiz is amply supplied with pro-
visions, and he throws the blame on the Admiral.
The works on the Trocadero have been built,
and the Duke conceives he ought also to have
prevented this. For an attack, a sufficient num-
ber of small vessels has not'been prepared, and
this again is established as a charge against the
Admiral, and it is further added, that he has been
weak enough to give it as his opinion that any at-
tack against the Graditanean Island with such
means as his countrymen at the present can bring
against it, is not only likely not to succeed, but
also to be attended with the most serious conse-
quences. lie is also said to have requested that
whatever the Duke may determine on may be
executed promptly, as the situation of his vessels
on a lee shore will be very precarious the moment
the Le ranters commence, n Welt is usually in
September, and of which they have already had
experience during three days, when it was utterly
out of his power to prevent the arrival of a num-
ber of vessels in the Bay, laden with provisions.

[aarrtstt euEss.]
Cadiz still remains unessaulted end secure.
Saturday's French papers bring nothing but new
menaces and boasts of prepa►ation ; but yet
nothing has been done. All hopes of obtaining
possession of the Andalusian city, either by
treacherous negociation or assault, seem now,
however, abandoned ; and the most rational of
the French journals confess that the siege is likely
to prove difficult and protracted. Valdez, the
Governor of Cadiz, has made the most unceasing
and determined preparations for defence.—
He is unapproachable by corruption, and under
his authority distrust and treason are extin-
guished, and Cadiz, from her natural de-
fences, and the determination of her numer-
ous garrisons, stands secure. The Trocadero,
it is now admitted, might have been car-
ried by llourdesoult, on his first arrival ; but it
is at present almost impregnable, from-the efforts
of the veteran Valdez. Angouleme appears dis-
satisfied, both with his military and naval officers.
Hamelin, the French Admiral, was about to re-
tire, and even Bourdesonlt did not stand a jot ton
firm in his command. The renowned Captain, it
appears, was discontented at the want of energy
betrayed by his Lieutenant previous to his great
arrival. The report was still prevalent in Paris
ea Saturday that an attack had been made on
tl►e Trocadero and failed, the French suffering
severe loss. The assertion is repeated not only
by the Opposition Journals, but by one or two of
die most violent Ultra prints. Moncey is said to
Live suffered heavily under the walls of Tarra-
gona, in the lute contest with Milans and Unbent,
though his garrulous dispatches prate about suc-
ceases.

fatonstso ncuAr.n.l
.The Paris Papers up to Sunday last, from
yinich we have given some extracts, do not con-
tain any intelligence of a decisive nature re-
specting the progress of the war in Spain. There
are some details of operations in Catalonia, which,
according to the customary cant of the French
6ulletins, represent the Constitutionalists as
having been repulsed in all the encounters be-
tweet) theM and the invaders; they speak of
partizan leaders being driven into towns, and of
active preparations being made to bombard the
towns; hut they do not inform us whether
any Of these towns have been taken ; and
tbe next accounts wilt probably state, that
trio titans, who took shelter there have
keen beaten, in some other quarter. The chief
object of attention, on the part of the French,
1444 inti to be the intended attack on Cadiz ; for,
u the proposed negociations have been entirely
broken off, nothing now remains for-them but to
apply the whole Of their strength and exert their
utmost efferts in endeavouring to capture that
important place. We have already stated that
they failed in their attempt to carry a certain
Work celled the Trocadero, which defended the

approach to Cadiz. The papers which have just
been received confirm this intelligence,and some of
,tern even declare that the siege of Cadiz will be
a very protracted one. slut the Journal des De.
liols—with a view, no doubt, of rescuing the great
Oeneralksitho from the disgrace that must attach to
a failure, after the most confident prognostications
tod been held out by him—asserts tinit the fort of
Trocadero, properly so culled, has not been at-
tacked, but that the name Trocaderia is given to.
kotße other places u the vicinity and then the
writers would make us believe that hit the Itc.,
counts which bad been previously given of rah.;

ing parallels, and carrying on bombardments,'
which terminated unsuccessfully, were mere fic-
tions ; and that the operations hitherto begun,
preparatory to the siege, were nothing more than
children's play. Now it is very well known that
the Trocadero is a strong outwork on the narrow
isthmus leading to the city of Cadiz ; that there is
no other work of that name which could have
been attacked ; and therefore, if the French
have been foiled in this first attack, there is every
reason to anticipate a long and protracted siege.
The friends of national independence may, in
fact, have good ground to hope that, before the
French can make the least approach to the town,
the severity of the season will force them to
abandon their project ; and that they will even-
tually get sick of a war, which can never be con-
sidered as terminated, until they have possession
of King Ferdinand, and those persons whom they
have been pleased to call his gaolers.

[-rtes TIMES.J
Whatever differences may exist with regard to
the extension of Mr. Owen's plan of education
and employment to the mass of the community,
the success of it, as confined to his own manu-
factory at New Lanark, we have always heard,
and still believe, to be unquestionable. Such,
however, does not appear to be the opinion en-
tertained by a reverend person and his as-
sociates of the Presbytery of Lanark (or rather,
the opinion which they are anxious to cir-
culate), concerning Mr. Owen and his system.
From a letter which this benevolent gentleman
has published in the Glasgow Chronicle, we learn
that a Mr. Menzies, the Calvinistic Minister al-
luded to, has long been collecting and exhibit-
ing very hostile dispositions towards the esta-
blishment at New Lanark, and that he and the
Presbytery have transmitted a most unfavourable
statement on the subject to the General Assembly
of the Kirk. But this statement, unfortunately,
as Mr. Owen declares,—and he refers to well-
known facts for his authority—contains a direct
falsehood in each distinct allegation. It charges
him with excluding the Scriptures from his
schools, whereas he appeals to the whole country,
that they and the Catechism of the Church of
Scotland are taught regularly to the children
more days than one In the week. Mr. Owen
is charged by the censorial voice of the
Presbytery, with having deceived the world
as to the real state of morals in New Lanark,
and more particularly in relation to the
intercourse of the sexes. The reply is, that
among 630 young women, the average number at
New Lanark, the number of illegitimate children
for twelve years has not exceeded 51 per annum,
or about one child to 114 females. He further
affirms, that 24 years ago, when the population
of New Lanark was not more than half what
it now is, the Justice of Peace Court was
constantly occupied with the petty squabbles
and offences of the villagers. Whereas now, with
an increased number of inhabitants, a case from
the establishment of Mr. Owen is a rarity which
creates surprise. But it is not merely the false-
hood of their charge which constitutes the re-
proach of the Scottish Minister and the Pres-
bytery on this occasion: It is the conceited and
intolerable spirit of meddling, by which they
seen, to have been instigated. Mr. Owen's is a
private manufactory. The Calvinistic Parson and
his brethren had no more business to pry into and
report upon, the manner in which its owners con-
ducted their business, than they would have to
obtrude themselves upon any other household in
the kingdom. It is worse than the old intriguing
confessors under Popery, one of those abomina-
tions against which that fierce and unforgiving
faction in Scotland, composed half of fanatics—
half, we suspect, of more worldly-minded hypo-
crites, opened in former times their loud throats,
and lifted their sinewy arms; nay, the part as-
sumed by the Presbytery in the present instance,
was nothing different from that of a Spainsh In-
quisition. It is not indeed the only case of
which we have heard, where the encroaching
spirit of the Kirk over private life has been more
conspicuous than credible.

[MORNING eon.]
Notwithstanding the official report of Major-
General Guilleminot, which made no mention of
any fighting before Cadiz, up to the 2Qth ultimo,
the belief that a combined attack had been made
by the fleet and the army on the Trocadero,
and that it had been defeated with consider.
able loss, still prevailed in the French capital.
It was asserted with equal confidence both
by the Liberal Journals and by those of the
extreme Ultras, and had gained ground to
such an extent as to affect the price of the Funds
deeply. On a first view, indeed, they would
seem to have fallen four or five per cent., but
after deducting the half-yearly dividend, which
in France is added to the regular value of the
stock until the interest be paid, it will be found
that they were more than one and an half per
cent. lower than they had been about the same
time last week. This circumstance, and the pro-
bability that the depression would continue,
had evidently alarmed the Ministers, and the Jour-
nal del? Dards has consequently put forth a for-
mal contradiction of all the rumours in circulation.
this means we have been put in possession of
their nature, with which we were before but par-
tially acquainted. They appear to have consisted of
the following assertions, which we have some
lingering hope may still turn out to be facts :
" that Ilallasteros had resumed the offensive
against the French : that a fruitless attack
had been made upon Cadiz, in consequence
of which Admiral Hamelin had been remov-
ed from his command, as a punishment for not
having performed impossibilities : and that Ge-
neral Bourdesoult was implicated in the seine
defeat, and was to be also sent back to France
under a charge of neglect of his duty in not hav-
ing carried on the works for the attack of the
Trocadero to a greater extent before the arrival
of the Duke of Angoulerne at Port St. Mary's,
and having suffered the Constitutionalists to in-
crease their defences on every side. There were
other reports in circulation, but they were
of minor importance. Now how does the
Journal des Nbats disprove the allegation that
Ballusteros had resumed the offensive ? Not

by declaring that his junction with the French I
army had been completed, and that both were
acting in concert against the Constitutionalists ?
No; but by simply saying, that `' far from hav-
ing taken up arms again, I3allesteros had written
to the Regency ;" as if he might not have writ.
ten for the purpose of telling the Regencythat
his conditional capitulation not having been rati-
fied by the Cortes and that Assembly continuing
to exist, he would renew hostilities as soon as the
stipulated armistice should have expired !

[NEW TIMES.]
We have received the French Papers of Satur.

day, and the ()ours Authentique of that day.
The last price of the Rentes, up to the hour
of that publication, was 88, 70, for money,
without the dividend ; and the last price (by
our letters) for the account, was 91, 60, in-
cluding the dividend ; exchange 25, 75. The
French Admiral Hamelin retires from the com-
mand of the blockading squadron before Cadiz,
on account of extreme ill health. Of course
the Liberal Journals endeavour to give a gloomy
turn to this simple event. Some say he threw
up his command in disgust ; others that he was
superseded for inactivity; but both these state-
ments are unfounded. The Admiral himself felt,
that at so critical a period the good of the ser-
vice required that the fleet should be in the
hands of an Officer whose health would
allow him to devote to it his whole energies :
and on his resignation he received from his
Royal Highness the Duke of Angouleme
the most flattering approbation of his past
services. The attention of the Parisians has
been much attracted to a prosecution instituted
against the Editor of the Drapeau Blanc, for
the insertion of a letter signed by the Abbe
de La Mennais, and addressed to M. de Frays-
sinous, Bishop of Hermopolis, and Grand Master
of the University. Both these Divines are
highly distinguished for their talents and piety ;
both are eloquent and animated writers ; but
M. de. La. Mennais having been informed that in
some of the French schools religious instruction is
grossly neglected, has thought himself justified in
bringing this circumstance forward as matter of
charge against the Grand Master of the University,
under whose controul these schools are placed by
law.---We fear there is too much reason to believe
that in many of the French schools Religion in one
of the last objects of the teachers attention. How
should it he otherwise in a country where for so
many years Religion was an object of persecu-
tion, insult, and contempt, and where to this hour
the impious and execrable Voltaire, who dared to
apply to the Saviour of Mankind the horrible words
Ecraser infante, is held up to public admiration
in every possible way! The obscene and odious
works of this disgrace to human nature are to be
found in almost every. French Library, and his
Statue is erected in the principal Theatre of the
French Metropolis. While this continues; to, be
the case, irreligion must flourish in France ; and
though some of the facts mentioned by M. de, La
Mennais are probably exaggerated, we,fear that
they are not wholly without foundation.