The Sun.
London, England, 1824-10-30 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

Drat., Ocr. 29.--Wind S.W. to IV.S. W., and moderate...-.
Arrived yesterday and *ailed for the River to-day the Alert,
*holes, from Plante; and the Montreal, Thom, from Tobago.
Came down from the River the Columbiam Packet, Jonei, for
Hityra ; Amide, Hoyt, for Havre; Coriolantis, Bristow,
for Africa; Rambler, Knight, for Malta ; Meanwell, Phil
lips, for Jamaica • and Speculation, ----, for Faro.—At
7 A.M. near the whole of the outward-bound sailed, but have
since put back and remain.
PonTessouTu, Our. 29.—Wind B.W.—No arrivals or
sailing'.
tAtotrn, OCT. 211.—Wind S.W. to B.—Arrived the
Thetis, Dtmley. from Bilbao. in 14 days for Bristol. Sailed
his Majesty's ship, on a cruize; Cahn, Ashton, for Riga ;
Sophia, Rogers, for Bristol.
Idly T. RPOOL, OCT. 28.—Arrived the Lightfoot, Hind, from
Santa Alaetha, sailed 18th August; on the sth September, in,
lat. 26. 30. long. 79. M. saw a suspicious looking armed
schooner, which, on the approach of an American armed
schooner, made off; Benson, Smith, from Quebec; Friendst,
Wilson, from Boston ; anti the Clio, Kennedy, front Smyrna.
The Amity, Vaughan, for Buenos Ayres, has iiut back with
bowsprit sprung.

Wit tniY, OCT. 28.—Arrived the William and Ann, Tarry,
from Davis' Straits, with 13 fish, 158 tune; and the James,
Quickfete, from ditto.
Hu LI., OCT. 28.-l Arrived the Zephyr, —, from Davies'
Straits ; the Hercules, Becker, from Hull to Stettin ;-
Wilson, from Memel to Hull; and a Swedish wallet; from
Oottenburgh to England, were lost the 12th inst. nearlielle.,
sund ; crews saved. r
The Boni Fiat has put back to Bahia, leaky.

AFFECTING biloll/ENT.*Mr. Work, Captain.of
the Don Giovanni schooner, from Cottenburgii, while deli-
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deals and
young man, just returned from America, beseeching a little
accosted
employment. The Captain in reply, said, he was sorry he
was not in want of any additional hinds, as his crew were
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by a
fully adequate to discharge the cargo. The young man in
return expressed his regret, but urged the Captain to suffer
him to work only for his meat, as he was literally starving for
want of food. Commiserating. the youth's 'unhappy situa-
tion, the Captain complied with the condition, and the young
man went cheerfully to work in the • hold among the crew...-.
Observing on the foLlowing day the assiduity of the stranger
to discharge his duty, the Captain asked him of whatplace lbe
was a native? —" Loughrea, in Ireland," hereplied" Loughreo--
Loughrea," rejoined the Captain, and " What is your name ?”
" Dennis Work," replied the youth. Palpitating with anxiety.,
and afraid be might be mistaken, the Captain immediately in-
" Come, come along with MC."
ouired if he had a brother. " I had," said he, " but it is a lag
time since I saw him." " What is his name?" almost breathless..
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The Captain, assured then almost to a certainty who the
young man was, produced from his desk corresponding letters
to himself, and upon the mutual correspondence being laid upon
the table, each exclaimed, " Brother !" and they instantly
rushed into each other's arms, and for several minutes then.
feelings were so overpowered with the warmth of their stfroc.
dons, that neither of them could speak till tears came to their
relief,

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Extracts from the Morning Papers, Oct. 30.

Eunmsit eaess.l
The Decree issued by the King of Spain for
insing the punishment of treasonable and seditious
offences, is a shocking instance of the evils of
despotism, and the misery of uncertain
Ferdinand VII., who is fit only to pass his days
hi 4 nursery, is empowered by the French Go-
vernment to sport with the lives of his wretched
subjects. In his idiot rage he has sent forth an
Ordinance which would disgrace the most barba-
rous horde of savages that ever existed. We
spoke some time p.go, in strong terms of reproba-
tio►y, of the atrocious order of the Spanish In-
teittlant of Police, Rutin° Gonzales ; but that was
a document issued only by the head of a depart-
ment, and wanting the weight and stamp of au-
thority. Now we have a Royal Decree, prefaced
via an hypocritical and disgusting declaration of
the King's " natural clemency," and tl►e " bene-
volence of his heart," directing that all his sub-
jects, " to whatsoever class, rank, or distinction
they may belong," who shall, " since Oct. 1,
1823, have proved themselves, by any acts what-
ever, to be enemies to the legitimate rights of the
shrone,or partisans of the self-cal led Constitution of
Cadiz, shall be considered guilty of high treason,
and as such subject to the penalty of death !"
It, was wisely remarked by Montesquieu, that the
vagueness of the laws relating to high treason
would alone render a government despotic. We
know how anxious, lu all free States, the legis-
lators have been to define with the utmost clear-
ness the limits that separate this capital crime
from all minor offences against public safety, or
the dignity of the throne. But Ferdinand over.
throws every safeguard of innocence, and ex-
poses to the vindictive passions of the infuriated
bigots of the Faith, the life and liberty of every
individual in Spain, who ►nay, " by any act what-
ever, have displeased the members of the military
commissions. No rule is to fetter their pro-
ceedings. "It is for the discernment and the
equity of the Judges to determine the force of the
proofs for or against the accused !" The Free-
masons, Communeros, and Sectarians, are sub.
jetted to the punishment of death and the confis-
cittioi► of their goods, 46 as guilty of high treason
against divine and human laws." It is absolutely
frightful to contemplate the situation of Spain,
with such a decree in operation through the
country. We shudder at the sanguinary enor-
mities which will follow the promulgation of this
horrible ordinance, the worst of all Ferdinand's
deeds yet. The Powers of Europe should either
insist upon his adopting some settled principles
of rational government, or withdraw from abet-
ting him in his wild outrages upon justice and
humanity. His thirst of vengeance grows with
indulgence; and if the people of Spain are to be
utterly abandoned to his capricious cruelty, we
may soon expect to hear sonic appalling intelli-
gence of their desperate and frantic efforts to
deliver themselves from his intoler►►ble oppres-
sion.

[Tim TIMRI.)
The French Journals convey to us another lan.-
guinary Decree by the King of Spain. In this
production, his Majesty specifies a variety of new
cases of high treason, in which cases the punish-
meat of death, also, by a military .commission (and
this is no bug-bear in Spain), is denounced against
ate Offerfders. The first article Comprises in the
iist of traitors, and subjects to death, " all those
.4soloi. since October, 1823, have declared or
" proved themselves enemies to the legitignitte
" rights of the throne, or partisans of the self-
" styled• Constitution of Cadiz." Now the boun-
dary of the " legitimate rights" of the throne
being always with us matter of dispute, it is
probable that could such a decree as that
ea which we are speaking pass in England,
it would render liable to the punishment of
death of all the Whigs, and some part, also,
o the more moderif Tories. Article the 9th
would comprise all the Dissenters in this country,
itild render them liable to suffer death, with con-
fiscation of property. As a Spanish Freemason
differs from one bearing the same appellation in
&gland, it is probable that the decree would
only direct au English Freemason to be bunged
with hit rule and compasses about his neck, and
Stiffer the rest of his property to descend to his
heirs. This, however, is a sweeping and shocking
decree ; and most sincerely do we wish to see
justice &le on the guilty. Crimes cannot be said
to prosper in Spain, for we have no doubt the
Ater author of them is more miserable than
Iris victims ; but still they are endured. The
King is said to "ham augmented his guard by.
three companies of horse artillery, amounting in
tile whole to 270 man, with' 20 pieces of cannon.
I:tese will serve to perform, or at least help to
perform, the military execution denounced by
the decree against traitors. We obserVe that the
'Spanish Papers, when speaking of the late King
eff'France and his obsequies, call him the " August
Chief of the Lloyd House ! " Why is the King
'4CFrance called chief rather than the King of
40itin? They are both descended from Louis
XI.V. :If the King of France be chief, then
would Spain, as belonging to an inferior person,
be but an appanage of France.

ENEW TtMES.]
We have received the Etoik of Thursday, also
the Oesterreichitcher Beobachler of the 17th inst.,
,the Alltemeino Zeilung of the 21st, and various
other Papers from different Parts of Europe. The
only political news of any consequence relates to
Greece end Turkey ; but it presents the same
features of unsatisfuctory confusion and obscurity
which have long characterized the advices from
that part of the world. Much is said of the
bravery of the Greeks in their naval contests :
and of this there can be little doubt. ft
-letims, however, that all the advantage has not.
been on their side : ten or twelve of their fire-.
ships and a corvette were destroyed in the en-
gagement near Stanchio ; and the
last letters
from the Capital) Pacha speak of a aubse.
quent contest, in which he asserts the Greeks
to have lest thirty vessels, part sunk and part
taken. " However," as the Smyrna letter-writer

well observes, (( it will be advisable to wait till
we hear the Greek version of this story." The
Greek Government at Napoli di Romania ap-
pears to have taken a strong bet not very politic
measure, in sending a body of men to Naxos to
arrest and bring away as prisoner the Archbishop
of that Island, accused of wishing to deliver up
the Island to the Turks. The attachment of the
Greeks in general to their Prelate is well known,
and any violence offered to an Archbishop is likely
to produce deep resentment among his flock.

•
[MORNING HERALD.]
PARIS.—The best understanding prevails be.
tweeu the French and English Ministry ; as a
proof of this, Sir Charles Stuart retains his situa-
tion as Ambassador at our Court. This arrange-
ment was managed by our Minister agreeably to
the express desire of Charles X. Mr. Canning
acceeded with pleasure to the King's suggestions,
and the removal of Sir Charles Stuart will not,
consequently, take place.—The story you may
have heard, respecting the extraordinary con-
duct of Madame Peyronnet, the wife of the
Keeper of the Seals (Li Garde des Sceaux), is
mot correct as it is generally related ; it is
certain that a leading personage of the Co-
terie, who is endeavouring, by every possible
means, to obtain a place In the Ministry, took
advantage of the situation in which Madame
Peyronnet is placed, in order to produce a scan-
dalous uproar. This lady has been for a length
of time separated from her husband, and the
above-mentioned personages succeeded, by his
artful contrivances, in prevailing upon her to leave
Bordeaux,- where she resided, and proceeded to
Paris ; but the part that WWI assigned to her was
not played iu the spirit In which it was conceived.
It was anticipated by the Ultras that this affair
would produce a strong effect, that the capital
would have been entertained, during some
time, with the scandalous quarrel between man
and wife, and every advantage was to be taken
in the confusion that was expected to ensue ; but
how transitory, how fallacious their hopes !
The sole object of Madame was to obtain money.
His Excellency increased her former pension ;
she curtsied, retired—the curtail' fell, and thus
the farce ended, without the consolation at the
conclusion of pluudite.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The Constitutionnel contains a narrative of an
attack on Algiers, which we should be glad to
see noticed by those who are acquainted with the
transaction. The war was, we know, a mystery
in this country, but we should be sorry to think
that the Consiitutionnel has succeeded in solving
it.

One of our contemporaries observes—" The
following letter from a Gentleman, who has gone
on an excursion to Greece and part of Turkey,
we received last night. We some short time
since inserted his first letter ; the follow-
ing is the fourth—the second and third,
therefore, have been stopped at some of
the Continental Post•ollices."---We have to
complain of the same grievance. We had
made au arrangement for a correspondence from
Greece with a Gentleman of distinguished cha-
racter, to whom we are indebted for the lust
verses of Lord Byron, which appeared in the
Chronicle of yesterday. lie wrote in all to us
six long letters, which were put into the Post-
office at Corfu. One of these (the second) ar-
rived in duo time, and was published In the
Chronicle; the first came to hand more than a
month after the second, having evidently been de-
tained ; the remaining four we have never yet re-
ceived. That they were intercepted in the lonian
Islands we do not believe. The meanness must be
placed to the account of the Austrian Govern-
ment, which is quite capable of such things. We
really do think that Ministers should interfere
in some way or other in behalf of the people of
this country, whose corresßondence is thus dis-
turbed in its passage through the Austrian States.
There is a broad distinction between au inter-
ference with Letters to or from the subjects of a
State and Letters merely passing through a
State. There is no doubt that Austria, if she
chooses, may refuse a passage through her domi-
nions of the English correspondence, but she
ought not to steal the letters which she suffers to
enter them. It is really a gross insult to our
Government to act in the manner she does to the
people of this country.—(lbid.)

[MORNING resT.l.
We received last night, by Express, French
Papers to the iBth instant, and the Elude and
Pilots of Thursday. They have brought us fresh
proofs of the necessity which exists for the in•
terference of the Allied Powers between the in-
sane Despot whom they have unchained in Spain
and the people whom he persecutes, but unfortu-
nately none of that interference having yet been
effectually exerted. On the contrary, Ferdinand
seems to display increased violence as he pro-
proceeds in his career of cruelty and injustice.
lie has lately issued a Decree, which we have
given hi a preceding column, and which fully
equals in infamy the notorious Proclamation of
his Superintendant of Police. It even surpasses
it in one point, for it unites hypocrisy with

blood-thirstiness. The Police Mihister scorned
disguise : he did not pretend to be accessible
to pity or compunction; lie openly told those
who displeased him that ho would take their
lives, and that the lightning would not be more
prompt than his vengeance. Ile was in fact
candidly atrocious. Ferdinand cannot be frank
even in his cruelty. Duplicity has been for so
many years the ruling virtue of his nature that it
needs must mix with every thing he does, even
when it is unnecessary and injurious. Thus
whilst in the present Decree he erects into of-
fences, acts hitherto unknown to the Criminal
Code, and affixes the penalty of death, to them,
he talks of his 44 natural clemency," ,and pro-
tests that he does " violence to the benevolence
of his heart !" Re also pretends to have much
regard for the dignity of his character and

- -
the good opinion of Europe.. Had feelings
of such a nature ever found admission to his
breast, Spain would not now be a place of pro-
scription and ruin. Let her internal condition
during the Constitutional system be compared

' with the wretched and convulsed state which she
now exhibits, and the difference will be seen
between that Government which the Holy Al-
liance thought unfit to exist, though it made the
country tranquil and flourishing, and that Moloch
reign which devours, not only her institutions,
but her happiness, her strength, and her pro-
sperity.
[Till PUBLIC LTDO/11.]
We have received the Paris Papers of Wed-
nesday, with the Etoile and Pilote of Thursday.
The Etoile contains a new Decree of the King
of Spain, in the introduction to which that ex-
emplary Sovereign speaks of his extreme aver-
sion to rigorous measures, and bewails, in the
most touching terms, the hard necessity that
imposes upon him a task so painful to his sen-
timents, and so repugnant to his " natural
clemency." The hypocrisy of this exordium
is only equalled by the ferocious character of
the Decree ; and it must be admitted to be a
very hard case, that ten millions of rational beings
should be subjected to the will of such a
Ruler. There is not a man, raised above the
very lowest class, on the wide surface of Spain,
who does not excel him in every quality by which
human nature is distinguished from the brute
creation ; and yet unrestricted power is lodged
in the hands of a Sovereign, whose ignorance is
as proverbial as his cruelty. This anomalous
state of things cannot, we presume, last long ;
but, while it does last, what a host of victims
may be added to the present list! The French
Government must have anticipated all this, when
it embraced the resolution of invading Spain, for it
could not plead ignorance of Ferdinand's character
in extenuation of its meditated violence. When
the result too corresponded with the expectations
of all enlightened men, that Government, instead
of expressing contrition for the-calamities which
it bad brought on an unoffending nation, spoke
of its conduct in terms of unmeasured praise.—
Even the late King, with one font in the grave,
boasted ofthe co-operation of Heaven; thus adding
impiety to injustice, and rendering religion the
plaything of human policy. We wait with impa-
tience to see if the present King of France in-
tends to repair this wrong ; and our anxiety is the
greater, as his determination will decide the na-

tore of his professions generally. For the honour
of his own reign, he ought to afford the Spaniards
some redress for the incalculable mischief they
have suffered through French interference; and
we have great hopes that he will not disap-
point this just expectation. The task, we admit,
is difficult, and even somewhat hazardous ; but
there would be more danger in not attempting
it ; and as policy thus seconds the dictates of hu-
inanity, we think the rumours that prevail on this
subject, merit more credit than such speculations
can claim in generul. It is not probable too that
the English Government beholds with indiffe-
rence the suffering and degraded state of Spain,
or the dangers to which it may eventually lead.
From all these considerations, we are led to be-
lieve, that it is intended to procure for that much
injured country, if not reparation for her wrongs,
ut least some alleviation of her sufferings.