The Sun.
London, England, 1823-10-31 00:00:00

SOU'I'II MARKET.

On Thursday afternoon, the first stone of this
market-place was laid by GEORGE BA!iICS, Esq.
in the presence of the Committee and a numeratb

assembl►►ge of people. On the btone being low-
ered into its place, Mr. Banks spoke to the fol-
lowing effect

culated on the value of 3,600 reas per quintal ; that from any
Fellow Townsmen--The event which brings us toxether to-
•
foreign colony or country shall pay, besides this duty, 1 ,26ti
day, the laying the foundation stone of the South Market, is of
rees per quintal ; but it shall only be adinittsd in the case irt
a nature highly gratifying to me, although, through the kind-
which the resolution of the 25th August, 1018, permit, its im-
ness of the friends about me, I have been induced to place my. which
derogating from the Alvaro of the ,24th July, 1601. self in a situation of public notice, which from choice I would
White Sugar shall pay, per arroba, 960 reps, uscovadus 480
always avoid. Instrumental, as I have been, in bringing the.
Tees, Coffee, 1,600 reel ; and the laws which favour exclusively
scheme so far in its progress, I cannot help complimenting Mr.
the commerce of Brazil, shall remain in full vigour, as shall
Jaques (and it is but justice to do so), od the frankness with
likewise the laws that favour the Porttiguese commerce of A aiti ;
which he met my first proposal, and the fairness, the prompti-
and the Rice of that `country shall pay the saute duty its that ot
tude, and spirit with which our neighbours took it under their
Brazil. Foreign Pork, fresh or salted, 40 per cent. on the cur.
protection. And here I may be allowed to observe, that, on
no occasion that I have ever witnessed, where feasibility and rent prices. (The following are the duties upon Tea (Cho) of
the denomination stated, Cl:a prat', Afar,Chitlon, 480 recs •
public utility could be united, have I seen my fellow-towns-
Gigon and Uxitii, 300 rees, and every other sort' 240 rocs per
men backward. There is, lam hippy to say, at this moment,
a public spirit afloat, which bids fair, combined with the gene. pound.) The difference between the duties in the Casa ,da
raj diffusion of intelligence, to raise their town to an eminence, India and the great Custom house is abolished for those goods
which even only 20 years ago; few, If any, ever contemplated.
which are rated in both, and the value in the former shall be
The tide of prosperity in this- place rolls perhaps slowly, but
steadily on, and has been, hitherto, subjected to fewer flue- regulated by the latter. The additional produce ot those in-
tuitions than in any other town lam acquainted With, We
cannot soon forget that, for the purpose of building a corn- creased or re.established duties shall be placed to separate ac.
modious market-plate for the population of the divlsicn in count in the Royal Treasury, and serve to pay the interest and
which we live and its neighbourhood, a tingle day sufficed the principaloftl I h •alreadyl
to raise a sum of twenty thousand pounds, subscribed with a redeem
confidence and spirit, the almost certain presages of sue- ; tracted on very advantageous terms."
eels; ' Great numbers have contributed to this subscrip- I Ltsnois, OcT. 17.—The armed brig Infant Dtm Migut4„
tion, who will know how to value their money, having earn- from 111aranham, has brought we of the arrival of Lord
ed it themselves by their unwearied industry, and have found Cochrane in the Don Pedro 1., at that port on the 27th July.
great satisfaction in meeting such men (many of whom now The Governor went on board on the 211th to compliment Lord
surround me) as fellow-labourers in our committee; men of . Cochrane, and on the 201.11 independence was procleimed.
whom I had previously . but little, if any knowledge, and on j 0 port To, ()c.c. in—We have before mentioned that some
whom daily experience.has taught me to set a higher value. i persone had been ttrrosted, for 'hosVg sold or ineritifecturia
The practical knowledge and the intelligence they possess are, I daggers prohibited by the laws of the kingdtim. The
I think I may confidently pronounce, sure guarantees to the , trate made the necessary investigation, and the persene prinei»
subscribers of the safety of their investinents.—Of our archi- pally intpliceted have been condentittd its inlinwe :e.etineaellcr,
test, it is due to say, that his plans have met our general appro. 1 as the owner of them, to 'six years transportution to ...Itgala,
bation ; and that he has entered into our views with a spirit and 100 milrees for the costs; the
,cutler, two years transporta.
and interest which do him infinite credit i and I have no doubt thin to Cape 'Vert], and 20 Milreea costs; and the manufac-
but that, on this spot, he will raise a lasting monument to his turer of the sheaths to two years treinsportation to Castro,
fame t and if, as f anticipate, he succeeds in infusing his own non, and 15. milrees costs. Strict investigations are tnaking
spirit into the various undertakers of the work, that not only respecting the propagators of the celebrated news eireulatea
strangers who occasionally see, hut our own townsmen, who ' on the !lath and 211th of last month.' Some of the peraous are
may daily witness it, will be astonished at the progren4 rested have been sent to Lisbon, end we arc infbrnied that
which a short period will exhibit. I have been told, a-d I others will be sent there to await the destiny due to 'their
• heard it with great satisfaction; that effective measures t mimes.
are now taking towards the establishment of a central
market ; the situation • spoken of is, in my opinion; ex-
ceilent ; ant 4 from my heart, I hope that this, as well as
all other attempts to benefit the public, may be success.
ful. The narrow contracted spirit, which at one period
shackled public improvement, is gradually yielding to a
Utter and more, enlightened influence, and I hope we may
all live to see and enjoy its good effects. The cordial co-
operation anti good understanding with which our work has
been so fur conducted, cannot but be a subject of just congra-
tulation to us:all, and I do trustthat nothing will occur in its
further progress to Interrupt the harmony which now exists ; for
be assured, that 'that we do zealously we, shall hardly fail to
do effectually. I dislike long speeches; they not only gene-
rally weary the auditors, but in most cases send them away
with a very • imperfect recollection of what they have heard.
The little I had- to say to you I. wished should be intelligible,
and in the hope that it has been so, I will now proeeed to lay
the foundation stone of this public edifice, solemnly invoking
Almighty God to continue to bless this town, and to prosper
Our proent undertaking.
Ilir. Ba its then proceeded to lay the stone in the usual
manner, and deposited the coins of the present reign in et ca-
vity cut in the stone, over which was placed a brass plate,
bearing the following inscription t— •
" foundntion-stone of this market, called the Smith
Market, was laid on the 23d day of October, in the fourth
year of the reign of George the Fourth, and thd year of our
Lord, 1023, in the prettenee of the Committee for erecting and
managing the said market, by George /ulks, Aldermen,
Chairmen. IL is. Chantrell, Architeet."--( Leeds Independent,
Oct. 28.)

THE GREEKS.

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STRANGE NEWEL FROM TUE MORE A.

S Ylt N A SEPT. B.—T he Oriented Spectator
gives, under this head, the following account :
The Greek Government had, in the absence of Celocotroni,
appointed Prince illaurocordato Vice-President. Coloethront,
offended at this, wrote au insolent letter to the Senate, cow--
'mantling it to.dismiss the Prince,- otherwise he would empley
force. illaurocordato, thinking his life in danger, tied in dis-
guise to Hydra. Colocotron,i
.not satisfied; came breathing
revenge into the flail, where the Senate was assembled ; but the
Government, instead of yielding to him, had him arrested and
thrown into n dungeon. The people and the senate hiite him.
An account is required froth bins of the treasures which he has
taken at Tripolizza, ',ippon di &c., of which he is
said to have appropriated to hinhi_lf 13 millions.
is closely blockaded by the Turks by sea, and by fifteen thou-
sand Albanians by land ; probably it will be obliged to sur-
render; the Turks will then -be toasters of all Etiilia, they
Thermopylai, Euhira, Bcotia, and Attica. The I irlTt. i., it
is true, are diligently building flat-bottomed boats to succour
lliasolonghk but how will they et thither ? ),rte, from
Syra say expressly, that the ilreeks rive dct4tnvd acted
near Santana two vessels slider English coh)urx, th, yahm of
three millions of dollars. The llydriou, spex4iots, and ittsa..
riots have sailed from Nedra with 7ii slops of w4ir, • to- o,nwrve,
the fleet of the Captain Tacha. The Egyptian ffotilla, tern_
mantled by Gibraltar, has returned to Alexandria sieve the
death of its last commander, Cassell P.d i, to fetch frt it troops
and another commetuler in the room of Cnssan, after which the
fleet is to sail to Callen. The Ipsariots had landed in. e.loos,
anti laid waste the vineynrds. The Somians' attackea term,
and drove them away, On which the Ipsarlots, one of revenge,
cannonaded the Wand. It is affirmed that the 'Selietar of the:
Paella of Scutari has arrived at Tricola, with 10,000 men, end
an equal number from LiVadia will pin hint. The Creeks,
on the other hand, have collected 10,000 'men, who have(
marched from the Peloponnesus to oppose the Turk's; 'A con-
tagion has broken out on board the Turkish fleet.
the last accounts from the illorea, MisAc-
longhi was not yet taken, and it is well defended and foreifien
that it will be difficult to subdue it by /bra. '
Tile Greek Government is in great want of money, and
has called on every Greek to contributo according to his abi-
lity to the expellee of an expedition .igainst the Turks by sea
and land.

The following challenge was sent from Snip.
man the Great,. Emperor of the Turks, to Maximilian 11,
Emperor of Germany By connivance of the Great (h d in
Heaven, we Selman, 001) on earth, Great and Sublime Em-
peror of all the Werld, Lord, Master, and Disposer of all the
followers of Ciilt Isl., we send and &age unto thee, Alaximi-
lian, indignation, titsfortune, and infidelity to thee and thy
Princes, subjects and adherents. We moreover give theeto know
that We, by the sufferance of the Great (Inn, styled an earth the
Great and Perpetual God, Most Mighty Emperor Soldan of
Babylon, Lord of Armenia, the Mightiest in Persepolis and Ni.
midia, the greatest auxiliary of Lion, Prince in Barbary., even
unto the Mountains of Achaia, King of Kings, from the
ridian to the Poles, from the rising of the sun to the setting
thereof, the first and ehief-plaeed in the Paradise of Ma-
hornet, the i.eourge of Christendom and Christians, keeper and
defender of the sepulchre of thy Gon crucified, the only vieto-
dons and triumphant Lt,rd of the World, and of alt Circuits
and provinces thereof ; thou, Maximilian, who stylest thyself
King of our Kingdom of Hungary, we will visit thee for that
cause, and make thee acquainted' with nor strength of thirteen
kingdents, colleved in one hundred thousand horse and
foot prepared fer watc, with all the power of Turkish muni-
tion, such as these our none of thy servants have seen, heard,
or had ,knowledge of; and this even before thy chief city,
Vienna. We. Solyman,' tiod on earth, in defiance of thee,
thine adherents and Aettors with our warlike. tr(Aigth.f pro..
nuance and int,nd ti;ine ain't their utter destruction antl. de-
population, by every possible means we can devise; anti this
we signify unto the., to the end that thou and thy miserable
people may prepare yourselves for ruin- or death ; with us it is
eeterinined, by the }minis of .lanizaries. to ravage and spoil
thee, and all thy' German kingdoms anti principalities. This
misery we have (known:tett against thee and thy adherents
he.ve thou no tiotibt we' wilt come.—Date,l in the year of our
reign forty-sevtli, in the City of Censtantinople, front which
.we did expel thy predecessors, their wives, children, and friends,
and made them miserable slavea and captives."-

The stagnation of off oirtt in the Morea may be accoinited for.
when we learn that thirtAn Members of the th-eek tiov‘.rtnnenr.
have: been arrested, and being convicted of treason, were dimwit
into a dungeon, where they await their sfotenee.- Amenr
them are Colocotroni and his son. They were betrayed by (heel,
spies wnino the Greeks recognised and forced to confess. A se,
eyes correspondence
,w 3s round on thepersons arrestet), which
leaves no doubt of their guilt: An *Austrian Captain, who at -
Hsu.' here on Wednesday, saw part ,Of tare. Turkish fleet on
the coast of Samos, followed by the Oreck nett. A. betty,,
cannonetle took plate, which conthmed several hOurs. The re-
suit is tut known.,

FR AN I'o ItT, OCT. 22.—The atzette, ►►f Florence, of thy:
Ilth, condoms tl►e important news., given also by the thogitierg
Glacier, that the Turkish tie Et has sailed for ConstantioopE,
with the plague on board.' "
A lettcr hum Corfu, of the lath Sciber, says, clay, the
.
plague had forced the Turks to raise' the siege of Alim,oinntth
and that. the. army of Jussuf Paella was altnoitt entirely 'elk

`Mr. Wynn, the English Minister at Stutgarti, itas arrived
at Frankfurt.