The Sun.
London, England, 1823-11-05 00:00:00

'III.E 140NDON JOURNALS.

terday. The psoposition was to contract for a
loan for the service of the " Order of St. John
of jirusalern." This excited no little surprise
among the monied interest, who at first regarded
the affair as unworthy of their notice, We shall,
however, give publicity to the c•;planation al-
forded by the parties concerned of the motives
for this undertaking ; premising that we offer no
opinion—that is, no favourable opinion—on
the nature of the security. The object, then,
of this loan is said to be, the very extraordinary
one of establishing the Knights of Sr. John of Je-
rusalem, commonly called the Knights of Malta,
once more in the situation of a sovereign order,
and confiding to them the government of op-
pressed and enslaved Greece, in order that a
barrier misty be Conned against the Turks, and
the Greeks supported in their struggle for
liberty, without the necessity for any of the
powers of Europe to take part on either side.
The residence or Court of the Knights is to be
fixed in one of the Greek islands, which is to
be ceded to them for th►t purpose ; and
the money raised is to be employed in intro-
ducing a better organization into the Greek
armies, in enabling them the more effectually to
resist their invaders, and finally to establish their
independence. It is further stated, that the whole
plan obtained the sanction of the Powers lately as-
sembled at the Congress of Verona, and has only
been suspended by the Into► contest in Spain.
Upon this project, however; we must take the
liberty of observing, that England (we believe,
and the matter is not worth investigating) stood
bound by the Treaty of Amiens to restore the
Island of Malta to the Knights of St. John when-
ever their order was completed ; that Buonaparte,
at the re-commencement of the war, assigned as
one cause for hostilities on his part, aur► perfidy
in retaining the Island ; and our justification
was, that there were no Knights to whom we
could restore it, and that there was no posslb►lity
at the Order ever could be restored.

r'NEw Tutu.]
Yesterday was a IFoliday at the Bank ; bti
some business was done in the latter part o
the day in Consols, which closed at 8311.
Nothing can more distinctly shew the ebun
dance of money at the present moment than
the fact that Exchequer Bills now bear the
extraordinary high Premium of '4Bs. ; and India
Bonds, 78s. ! Th;• arrangement mentioned
in The New Times some days since, as being
about to be put in execution by the East
India Company, of paying off their present:out.
standing Bills for the purpose of reducing 'tlie
interest, has already commenced, nod the. in
fluence •of so large a sum of :money cooling
into the Market tends, no doubt, to produce
the present high prices of all real Securities,.
bearing a reasonable interest.—Spanish Bonds
fluctuated about one per Cent., but in other
respects nothing worthy of notice occurred
yesterday at the ' Stack Exchange, kept a
Loan for the' Knights of Malta may be so consi-
dered. The ingenuity of our moneyed men,.
seems taxed to the utmost to find: out persons to
lend their loose cash to. We should as soon have
thought of lending half a million to the Poor
Knights of Windsor as to the Knights of Malta;
but.lastes no doubt differ. The money it seems
is to be repaid when the Order of St. John of
Jerusalem has recovered its estates in Fiance ;
and it 'will recover its estates as soon as it has
got " a local habitation, and a name." 'What it
' wants just now with so much. money, we are not
informed ; perhaps it is to set up again the Co.
losses of h.hodes.,

EBRlTisli Fa t:Sa.j
Justice and humanity both, imperatively call
for immediate attention, from the !lightest autho-
rities, to the present state of the prison of New-
gate. There are now no less than forty-three
unhappy inmates within those walls—thirty-
nine males and four femafies—under sentence
of death, and all but. twelve tying over, in that
dreadful state, from the September Sessions.
Can the Secretary oT State for the Home De-
partment be aware of this, and suffer so many
wretched beings thus to lie for weeks—" in torture
of the mind and restless agony ?" We are opposed.
to Mr. Peel's politics, both upon principle end
conviction; yet in every private feeliug that can
fit him for his high office, as well as every public
qualification,—and humanity among the first is
the most distinguishieg,—we believe him much
superior todtis cold-hearted and wretched prede-
cessor. Torture is now, by common sanction,
abolished throughout Europe ; it forms no longer
a horrid part of the criminal judicature of this
country ; yet what agony can be so cruel,
its that misery of mind, where the wretched
victim, whose days the law has, numbered,
rises each morning with the fears of every
hour bringing the fatal confirmation of his
sentence, and lies down in his cell at
night, not knowing whether the coming day, that
will rise upon hint may not be one of his last. The
sentences prouounced at that hall, of death—the
Old I3a►ley,and delivered with such heartless flip-
pancy by the City Judge, who is the organ of that
Court,should be laid with► as little delay as possible
before the King, and his Majesty's opinion at once
taken on the cases of the unhappy individuals. If'
the victim is to die, he ought to know it, and pre-
pare for his fate ; but to keep him in uncertainty
is dreadful. There is no necessity to wait his Ma-
jesty's holding a Court, to submit these melan-
choly records to him : the King might, on proper
application, be seen at Windsor on any day, and
his decision obtained. No business besides can be
of such importance, as the lives of so many human
beings forfeited by law, and waiting their fate
front the Royal hand. 'lids is a subject which
calls for prompt attention from the respectable
Sheriffs of London, ehuse. active exertions have
done them so much honour since they entered
upon office ; humanity requires it.at their hands :
they ought to have an immediate interview with
the Home Secretary, so as to have the fate of the
many individuals, now lying convicts in New-
gate, mercifully decided with as little delay as
possible, and such cruel procrastination pre.
vented by proper exertion for the future.

1 From the LONDON GAZETTE, Nov. 4.

Foreign- Office, Nov. 1, 1 823.
The King has been pieased to appoint the Hon. Francis
Reginald Forbes (now Secretary of his Majesty's Legation
at Copenhagen) to be Secretary to his Majesty's Legation at
Lisbon.
The King has also been pleased to appoint Peter. Browne,
Esq. to be Secretary to his 31ajesty's Legation at Copenhagen.

BANKRUPTS.
••Robert Smith, Piccadilly, 'fruiterer, to surrender Nov. 8,15;
Dec. 16, at the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-street.. Solici-
tors, Messrs. Fielder, Bartley, and Fielder, Duke-street, Gros-
venor-square.
• The. Rev. Charles Caleb Colton, Prince's-street, Soho, wine-
Inerchant, Nov. 8, 22, Dec. 16, at the Bankrupts' Court, Bas-
in 'ball-street. Solicitor, Mr. Gale, Basinghall-street.
-John Curlina, Jewson, high Holborn,' linen-draper„ Nov.
11., 18, Dec. 16, at the •-Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-street.
Solicitors, Messrs. Smith and Weir, Austinfria.rs.
George Ttingshaw, Tooting, builder, Nov. 8, 22, Dec. 16, at
the Bankrepts' Court, Basingitall-street. Solicitor, Mr. Rat-
tenbury, Thomas-street, Horselydown.
Bober Watson, Britannia-terrace, City. road, es:rel.:merchant,
Nov. 8, 15, Dec. 16, at the Bankrupts' Court, Basinghall-
street. Solicitor, Mr. Turner, Percy-street, Belford-square.
Edmund John Glynn, Launceston, Cornwall, hanker, Dec.
1,2, 16, at the King's Arms Inn, Launceston. Solicitors,
leteFrs. Drake and Michael, fled Lion-square.
William John Arnold, Idol-lane, Tower-street,.wine and
spirit-broker, Nov. 8, lb, Dec. 16, at the Bankrupts' Court,
Baeinghall-street. Solicitors, Messrs. Paterson and I?eile, Old
Broad-street. ..
James Thorndike, Ipswich, cheese and -butter factor, Nov.
19,.20, Dec. 16, at the Coach end Horses Inn, Ipswich. Soli-
Citors, Messr3. Bromley, Gray's-inn-square.
George Laing, Dunster-court, Muiaing-lane; merchants,
Nov. 11, 18, .Dec. 16, at the Bankrupts Court, Basinghall-
street. Solicitors,,,Meesre. Freeman and Ileathcote, Coleman-
street.
Charles -Harrison, Aldg ate Iligh-etreet, cheesemon ger,
Nov. 8, 15, Dec. 16, afl'llte Bankrepts' Court, Basinghall-
street. Solicitor, Mr. flutatirison, Crown-ccart, Threadneedle-
street.
Robert Cart, Cow-cross-street, West Smithfield, currier,
Nov. 8, 15, Dec. 16, at the Bankrupts' Court, Basingnall.
street. - Solicitors, Messrs. Drew anti Sons, Bermondsey-
street, Southwark.
Thomas Hoar, Flamstrad,- Hertfordshire, baker, Nov. 8,
22, Dec. 16. at the Banktupts' Court; Basingliall-street. So-
licitors, Messrs. Taylor, Featherstone-buildings, Holborn.
Robert Nunn and Thomas Fisher, Grub-street, timber-
merchants, Nov. 8, 15, bee, 16, at the Bankrupts' Court,
13asinghall-street. Solicitors, blesses. Fisher, Aldersgate-street.
William Pickard, Ktraresborough, lime-burner, Nov. 14,
15, Dec. 111, at Abbott's Hotel; Knaresbereugh, Solicitors,
111 essrs.Stockerand Dawson, New 13oswell-conrt, Lincoln's.inn.
- Henry Bettrell, Ostend, and Belvedere-place, Surrey, mer-
chant, Nov. 8, 15, Dec. 16, At the Bankrupts' Coert,.Basing.
hall-etreet. Solicitor, Mr. Hutchinson, Crown-court, Thread-
needle-street.
William Stokes, Livetspool, carver and gilder, Dec. 1,2, 16,
'at the George Inn, Isivetieool.' Solicitors, iNic‘ssre. Lowton and
Nicholson, Lanstlown-plece, Brunswick.square.
John Peacock, - Alanchester, merchant, Dec, 1,2, 16, tit the
Star Inn Manchester. t;olicitor, 11Ir. Bower, Chaneery-lane.
Henry' Withington, -Mancheeter, silk-mannfactuier, Dec. 1,
2, lb, at the Star Inn, Manchester. Solicitors, Messrs.- Al' illi s,
Watson, and Bower, Tokenhouselard.
Chasse Armstrong Ifell,'Worceeter, printer, Nov. 25, 26,
Dec. lli, at the Bell Inn, Worcester. Solicitor, Mr. Berke,
Devonshire-street, Queen-square..
DIVIDENDS.
Dec. 2, J. Cowie, George-street, Manaion-bonse, wine-mer-
ehant-Nov. 11, Nl'. 'Pate,- Csteaten-street. bookseller-Nov.
25, J. Oldtield, Edgewate-road, 'coach-maker-Nov. 29, T.
Freethy; ACtOO - baker-Not.. 15, 1. H. Ilandscomb, New-
port.Pai,enell, face.rnerchani,:e-Nov. 18,. J. tend H. Bird,
Poultry„, and 13artletre-boilAings. jewellers-Nov. 15, 11.
Hatfield, Abingdon- roA4, thlsVell-street -road; - merchant--
Nov. 22, F. Pothonier; Corporetion-row,. Clerkenwell, dis-
tiller-r-Nov.. 15, J. Ritseell, . Rochester, wine-merchant--
Nov. 22, T. Stabb, J. Preston, and T. ProWse, St. John's.
Newfoundland, nierchants--•-Nov. 10, I. ;SPeece. •Provi,
dence-row, Hackney, merchant-Nov. 25, W. NI: Ashby, Al
SurreY,' PaPer•rnaltqaeturer-Dec. 5, It , Derhishire,
Liverpool, grocer-Nov. 2t;, 11. Hardy anti .1. Debt, 141enches- '
ter, warehousemen--Dec. 8, 'l'. Lesingliam, \Vorceeter, bottler
-Nov. 27, J. Dovey, Wolverhsliwton, factor-Nov. 27, W.
Slade, Leeds, coal-merchant--Dec. 1, .1. Park, Tower Royal,
merchant-Nov. 22, Al. Berry, Miner*, chart.eeller.--Nov.
2.4 P. Giblett, New top(l4trect, butcher. ,
CERTIFICATES, N0v.25. •
I. flenn, Birmingham. screw-Maker-It, stephens, Gowen-
st reet, saddler--W. J. Kirkpatrick, I.i in e-s trele t," m ereh an t-
L.. 1. Goubatt, Haymarket,,liotel.kee.p.:r -A. Salisbury, Wind-
sor, and D. Sailsbury, 7eTottuiiharn,' drapers-D. Bisp, Shire-
hampton, Gloucestershire; dealer-LG. H. Cocker, Grenville-
street; . Brunswick-square, bill.broker -- J. .Ark ell, Steeple-
Aston? Oxfordshire, dealer in cattle.
- , - PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
T. Tinley, jun., .1: flail, and IL -Holt, Liverpool, ship-
brokers, so far as regards J. Hall-T.'end- 'l'. Lance, [Aver-
pool--T. 11., and .1. Bury, Salford,' Lancashire, woollen-print-
ers, ,so ,far as regards T. Bury-8.. Andrews and J. Little,
Church-street, Whitechapel, sa.w.makers-J. P. Blakernore
and W. Robbins; Westbrom wich, Staffordshire, naihmerchants
C. Pound and J. B. Waters. St, ' Martin's-court; Leieester.
fields, tailors-J. 'Milne, J. Ramsbottnm, and .E. Rarosbottorn,
Liverpool, paintere-J. R. Weatherhead and C. Clarke, Wis.
beeb St Peter's, Cambridgeshire, surgeons-T. Newshara and
J. Garth, Preston, corn-detAlers-J; Laurenson and G. Cum-
titers, Lancaster, cottou-spinners.