The Sun.
London, England, 1824-02-03 00:00:00

THE KING.

l3Rrarr•roN, FEB. 2.—We are rejoiced to state that the
health of our beloved SOVEREIGN continues to improve. The
short but satisfactory answer to the many enquiries at the
Palace, to-day, has been—" His MAJEST Y'S health continues
to improve."

CITY, Twelve o'Ciock.-----Consols opened this
-morning at 90,t-3, but afterwards lowered to 9033
for the Account, and for Money 90-14. Up to this
hour they are 904 i, with little doing, as all par-
lies are anxiously waiting for the King's Speech.
I do not hear of any Express having arrived
from Paris ; indeed, none is expected this day,
*'xcPpt some political event has occurred.
FOREIGN MARKET.—Spanish Bonds opened at
4241 i, and remaiu steady at the above price, with
little doing.—Mexican Bonds opened at 54-k, at
Which price they remain steady.
- nuff-pt,st One o'Clock.—Consols are now, for
the Account, 90.41 8 90-5-7 and for Money 90L 90k.
."-sliedUCed 91 to 918.

The alarming situation of our West India Co-
letties has so powerfully excited the attention
both of GOvernment and of the Public, that not-
lytthstanding the great and almost insurmount-
' ";iiile difficulties of the subject, we indulge a hope
that tranquillizing and satisfactory measures will
be successfully devised during the present Ses-
-81" of Parliament. Our present Paper contains
ain "lie and interesting communication on this
of. i deeplyinteresting subject, to which we think
the more necessary to request the no-
tice of our Readers, in consequence of our
'laving yesterday copied from a Morning Paper
all• article on the West India Question which

was probably a littlp.toO. violent against ilia
Party of which Mr. 'WILBERFORCE IS the head

and whose mistaken, or at' least ill-timed, phi-
lanthropy has certainly contributed to pro-
:4uce the calamities and the alarming appre-
..iiensions under which our important West India
`COlouies are now suffering. The Letter of our
• Correspondent C. is written with more temper,
and its Author is evidently intimately acquaint-
, .ed with the subject of which he treats. We do
not, by any means, identify ourselves with all
his opinions, any more than with those of
the Journals from which we make our daily
extracts, Lut we think his practical sugges-
tions are entitled to great weight, and more
especially those for declaring solemnly the
inviolability of time property of the Planters,
and for sending out to the Colonies a conci-
liatory Commission for the purpose of cor-
rectly ascertaining their condition, of removing
asperities, and of endeavouring to determine some
loyal principle, and safe and practical course, for
extricating them from their present dangers, and
Permanently insuring their future prosperity and
rePose.

THE BODY OF MR. PIERCE, OF BRISTOL,
,FOUND.
"e are authorized and requested by Messrs.
,-,LARKE, RICHARDS, and MEDCALF, of Chaucery-
'la", to state, " that they
b shave this morning re-
ceived letter' from i
their CorrekTondent, r.
1,41:31Eit, of Bristol (the late PNrtner of Mr.
ituucE), announcing that the water in the Bris-
th -.'„afrh°l2r was yesterday again drawn Off, and
fozat,T, °tie o'clock the Body of Mr. PIERCE was
", the float. At the time the Mail quitted
sititt°' last evening a Coroner's Inquest was left
pet;t1107:,(1:le body, and to-morrow we may ex-
pect
-etle the result of such Inquest."
h.t..tenr aredga,iitvi,t'end to the above, we have also seen a
this morning from Mr. Etxr.s, of
but announcincr the same melancholy fact,
Vic.gpirvitzlttteodparticulars as to the appearances,
.suff,,rer. . the
byremains of the ill-fated

esterday the Earl of LIVERPOOL gave a
number of
grand Parliamentary dinner, at Whitehall, to a
ln9ver Noblemen. Among them were the
and seconder of the Address to the KING
Upon the delivery of his Majesty's Speech at the
°P,T'illg of the session of Parliament.
, ares lr• Secretary CANNING also gave a grand
"s party to the Members of the house of
Cornmons, consisting of about 35, including the
Breaker, and the mover and seconder of the Ad-
ss. Th, substance of the King's Speech was
read by both the Ministers to their noble and
disti •
nguisned guests.
sarn, Yesterday
t
t he Lords of the Council assembled
deterat
the
C"ncil Office, Whitehall, to hear and
mine Plantation Appeals. The Lords pre-
-B:ent were the Lord President, the Judge of the
of
t}:es Court, the Lord Chief Baron, the Master
of 'lll, and the Judges of the High Court
last iiilrt'raltY• Their Lordships also assembled
Tht, '-aYS at the same place, on similar Appeals.
The D 40rds Were present.
.11 t DU
of FIucKINGHAm, who was expected
•ipre:%r" Yesterday from his seat at Stowe, was
Pa':l,llted- t'Y- indisposition.
Church firitj!""*---
are now
We are informed that theilioanmg-pending
finally
.et
.-errnents at Christ Church and Dur
•Ls to Ued- Dr. HALL, the present Dean of christ.Chuarct,
Deanery t° Durham, and Dr. SAMUEL S3IITH is to have
TitY of" Christ Church.
I,e late BARBER. GASCOYNE,
—AV hen the
utculous and misleading reports in circulationed
subsided, and common sense is permitti
:altf to exercise a temperate jud
...ingular events which have so recently occurred
gment on t
..Ik.this respectable family, we shall resume our
.
fialthful narrative thereof, under that correct in-
- 9rmation which will not be questioned.

FASHIONABLE A RRI VA LS.
Earl Spencer and his son, the Honourable Captain Frederick
Spencer, from Chatham ; the Marquis of Salisbury, at his
house in Park-place, from Lancashire ; the Dowager Marchio-
ness of Londonderry, at her house in St. James's-square, from
from her seat, North Cray, Kent ; the Marquis of Exeter, at
Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from his seat, Burleigh,
Lincolnshire; Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury, from Lady
de Roos's seat, Boyle Farm, Kingston ; Earl and Countess
Cowper and Family, from their seat, Pansanger, Herts ; the
Earl of Cardigan, at his house in Portman-square, from his
seat, Dean Park, Northamptonshire ; Viscount and Viscountess
Hambden, at their house in Green-street, Grosvenor-square,
from there seat in Sussex; Lord Althorp, at the Albany,
from his seat in Yorkshire ; Lord Alvanly, from Suffolk.
DEPAUTURES.—Lord Hope, from the Royal Hotel, St.
James's-street, for Scotland ; Mr. and Mrs. Nightingale and
family from ditto, for Brighton ; the Hon. Thomas Barnwell,
for Paris ; Cavendish Bradshaw, Esq. from Fenton's Hotel,
St. James's-street ; Captain J. Parker, from ditto, for South-
ampton ; Montgomery Campbell, Esq. from ditto, on a tour ;
J. Spencer, Esq. from ditto, for his seat in Northamptonshire;
Lord de Dunstanville, from Nerot's Hotel; Gage Rockwood,
Esq, from ditto, for the Continent.

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