The Sun.
London, England, 1823-06-11 00:00:00

P 913,11 PXCECANCM, Ju 11.

There is plenty of Corn left-on band from iklomlay, but the
fresh arrivals this {roguing arak inconsiderabje. Wheat eon.:
tinues very dull at the quotatioUs of las; market day. Barley
is alio heavy. deans find but few buyer*. (lass remain innch
the same as at our last; the prieei 'howeve,r, are not lower-
today. •

The
lt y, hot sum that prevailed for Itie llastdays
.
in a and the two first in June, worked wonders with the
corti.crpps throughout tik country_, adest Tanners In exist.
mice' not r'ecoll'
ecting'quell a rapill change fot the better.
wheat is bursting into ear. and the oats and barley are putting
on Illeir'very best face. The tine shower we have lately bad,'
have mach altered the prospect in tile meadow 'and a fair,
though late, crop of hay is anticipated from diem s but on•
the uplands It is Short. Haying partially commenced in thin
neighbourhood yesterday.--( illaidrlone Journal, Ant 10.)
' •

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, June 11.

[MOUNING POST.]
The adhesion of certain individuals of the
Spanish Nobility to the Provisional Government
established at Madrid by the invaders of their
country, is an event so perfectly in the natural
course that we should not have thought it de-
serving of any particular notice, if it had not
given rise, on the one hand; to a burst of exulta-
tion the !nest preposterous from the enemies of
Spanish freedom, and, on the other, to general
imputations equally ridiculous upon the Aris-
tocracy of every country. The adhesion of a
certain proportion of this order of the community,
which now furnishes to one party the subject of
such triumphant boast, and to another the,
of vehement and indiscriminate invective, is in
truth a circumstance which any man of ordinary
sagacity, who expected the Duke of Angouleme
ever to arrive at Madrid, might have foreseen. It
admits of an easy and natural explanation, with-
out assuming either that the Nobility of Spain
are more base and unpatriotic than any other
class of their countrymen ; or that the insolent
dictation of France 13 in the slightest degree ac-
ceptable to the feelings of the Spanish nation.—
It may be considered as incontrovertible, that
wherever there it an arbitrary, cruel, bigotted,
or vicious Monarch, he will either find or create
Nobles of congenial character to be the partners
of his Councils,. the instruments of his will, and
the objects of his bounty. If there had not
been found in Spain a considerable number of the
existing Nobility solicitous, no matter by what
means, for the restoration of Ferdinand to abso-
lute power, a considerable number to- hom the
reinstatement of despotic authority is all,and the
welfare, the happiness, and the glory of their
country nothing, it would have gone far to re-
deem the character and government of that Mo-
narch from the obloquy and contempt it had
justly incurred,. and precisely as far to- reduce
the value of those institutions by which the pre-
rogatives he had been accused of perverting to
the injury 4f his subjects were henceforth to be
abridged and controuled. If the number of
Nobles so dead to. all the feelings of a
generous patriotism and a noble pride as to
view with unaffected complacency their native
land becoming the victim or the sport of • an
invader were considerable, would not this
circumstance alone dgmonstrate that a great
change of political institutions had been so neces-
sary that it could not fail,to be popular. It is
clear that no difference of political opinion can
justify or palliate the enormous crime which is
perpetrated whenever the weaker party in any
independent country invites or encourages the
interposition of a foreign State. The adhesion
of Spanish Grandees therefore to the cause of
France, if it were strictly voluntary, would prove
with a force in exact proportion to its extent,
that the former Government was injurious and
degrading to the nation, and that the great ma-
jority of Spaniards, unless they are constituted
differently from other men, must therefore have
beld it in abhorrence and contempt.

[rnE TIMEs.]
The *lse of 'the Leeward Islands, which Mr
Creevey presented to the House on Monday
night, is a lamentable and affecting one. The
inhabitants of All those islands, are reduced to
the lowest degree of misery by the low prices
of sugars and rums, and the increased expences
of culture. But five of them even exceed the
rest insutfering; from their being taxed with a
heavy duty, applied, we believe, wholly in
pensions. Whether' they are merited pensions
or not will be clear from the fact, that five na-
tural daughteri -uf the Duke of Clarence are
upon the list, .at 5001. per annum each—persons
who, whatever their inclination might be, have
no means of serving their country. The dis-
tressed Leeward Islanders are taxed for
the suppOrt of these young Ladies, whose
father has an income from the country at
large of (we probably speak within bounds when
we say) thirty thousand pounds a year! It is a
sad thing that the world should be so jacobinical
when there are such instances of virtue, disin-
terestedness, and patriotism in the great, before
its eyes. These were the things which brought
on the downfal of the old French Monarchy,
and will bring on the downfal of any other Ma•
narchy in which Statesmen suffer them to exist.
Certainly, when one considers the lamentable
end which the mother of these young
.ladies
mh.de, one would not have the daughters left
-without the means of permanent support. The
Leeward Islands, however, ought not in any si-
tuation, and least of all in a distressed and starv-
ing, situation, to, be taxed to sUpport the Misses
Fitzclarence. The expence should rather full
upon the nation at borne ; and we are sure that a.
generous British public, recollecting as it still
must the varied professional excellencies of their
mother, \remit), with mach greater pleasure, raise
a fund few their maintenance by a public sub-
scription, than suffer it to rest upon those who
are themselVes in the Inst stage.of. distress.

We regret to hear that the state of Sir Francis
Burdett's health is such as to render it doubtful
whether he will be able, during the few remain-
ing weeks of the Session, to fulfil his promise of
making a motion on the evidence adduced at the
bar of the House of Commons in the affair of the
Sheriff of Dublin. The subject, however, may
be expected to be in some degree brought before
the House in another shape. Lord Fingal is
understood to he in town with a petition,
,com-
plaining of undue administration of justice in
Lreland, and requiring redress; and such a peti-
tion, we should presume, cannot fail of laying
the groundwork for some observation.--(lbid.)

LMORNING CHRONICLE.)
England is now beginning to do its duty to
the COMITIOtI cause of nations. The popular feel-
ing has indeed been again and again pronounced
in the most unequivocal mariner ; but something
ware than mere declamations of opinion is de-

mantled horn us, when all the Despots of the '
Continent have combined to reduce an unoffend-
ing people to the state of thraldom and degra-
dation from which they succeeded in emanci-
pating themselves. The unfortunate country
now the theatre of this unholy war, has exertions
of no ordinary description to make, vritile her
means have been greatly impaired by her efforts
in repressing the disorders excited and sup-
ported by the perfidious Government of France.
Under such circumstances we are particularly
called on to afford all the aid in our power
to the Spaniards; and we trust, therefore, that
the example set by the Common Council of the
City of London, the first Corporation of the
.'
Empire, will be speedily followed in every di-
rection. The feeling in behalf of the Spaniards
Is national ; let the subscription be national
also. But we are sure that our countrymen require
no stimulants to excite them to the perform-
ance of so sacred a duty, and that every one
who has the least particle of honourable feeling
will afford a proof of it, by contributing accord-
ing to his means to the support of the great cause
of Liberty and National Independence. The
Court of Common Council may on this occasion
be taken as a fair sample of the nation. It will
be seen that only twenty-five individuals out of
this large body could be found to oppose the
grant to the Spaniards. Still it would be doing
injustice both to the cause of the Spaniards and
to these opponents of the grant, to charge the
_latter with any thing like approbation of the in-
vasion of the Peninsula: The opposition was
grounded merely on the poverty of the City
Treasury.. Indeed some of those who opposed
the grant were among the loudest in their con-
demnation of the invasion, and in their expres-
sion of anxiety for the success of the Spaniards.

We are happy to be able to communicate the
gratifying intelligence that a number of Ladies,
of rank and influence have undertaken the ar-
rangements for a grand Fete at the Opera House,
with a view to aid the gallant Spaniards. It was
impossible to suppose that the ungenerous war-
fare now waged against the Peninsula should not
excite the indignation of our fair countrywomen ;
but by this proof of their devotion to the cause
they have determined to remove all doubt on the
subject. The moral effect of this demonstration
will be incalculable. As the feeling which has
prompted the Ladies of the metropolis on this
occasion is universal, we hope their example will
be as universally followed.--(lbid.)

[BRITISH PRESS.]
Yesterday the French Papers of Stinday,ar-
rived at our office. The Journal des Debats
publishes a declaration ; it asserts to have come
from Abisbal, dated at Madrid, on the 17th of
May, declaring his determination to support the
Constitution of 181'2 to the last extremity, until
the National Representation, legitimately. con-
stituted, decrees any alterations in it. He pro-
claims his resolution to support it, as he bound
himself to do, by oath ; and that he considers
as traitors to Spain all Spaniards who take
a contrary course. These, he asserts, were
his sentiments when he answered Alontijo's
letter ; and his sentiments, he adds, will remain
the same, as his opinion as a private individual
will never prevent him from fulfilling his duty as
a General and Spanish citizen: Such a declara-
tion as this, if true, will scarcely redeem Abisbal
in public estimation, after his letter to Montijo.
It will not do at such a period to blow hot and
cold together. The fact is, that. the results.con-
sequent on this avowal of his sentiments probably
disappointed O'Donnell; he hoped to find his
influence bear him through, and he was de-
feated in his expectations. The French Mi-
nisterial Paper states, that he was almost im-
mediately arrested ; that his Staff refused to
obey his orders, and accused him of having be-
trayed the Constitution ; and that the com-
mand of his army was transferred to the Marquis
of Castel Rios. Thus Abisbal, as in all such
cases, met nothing but degradation and distrust
from either party. How fallen is he now in
Spain ! How different his situation and name
from that of the faithful and intrepid Mina

The Toulouse papers,,' the 2d contain a.dispptch
signed by Rotternberg, commanding in the East-
ern Pyrenees, dated Perpignan, the 28th, and giv-
ing the French account of the attack by the Spa-
niards on Mataro on the morning of the 24th.--
This communication states the onset to have been
made by Miler's and Llobera, and to have been
most sudden and determined. The Spaniards, ac-
cording to this account, were of course beaten on
all points. The fifth division of the French' lost,
all through, only three men killed and fifteen
wounded. At this rate, the Spanish soldiers
must have fired most feebly and blindly; but ac-
counts of this sort, false and incredible on the
very face of them, defeat the very purposes for
which they are prepared. No one can be infa-
tuated enough to swallow them. The French
Generals l3ourdesoult and Bourmont command,
it is asserted, 45000 men, detached by Angou-
leme against Badajos and Seville. Bourmont
proceeds with one column by Talavera, on Bade-
jos ; end Bourdesoult, with another, by Ocavia,
on Seville. If these troops succeed in their ob-
jects, all opposition must be disarmed and nerve-
less in the South of Spain. The Cortes, it is an-
nounced, have resolved to remove Ferdinand and
the Government to Cadiz. Talaru, the French
Ambassador, was about to proceed to Madrid, to
represent the Ultra faction with the Regency.

•
NEW TIMES.]
The Common Council of.. the City of London
has voted One Thousand Pounds to the " brave
and suffering People of Spain."—Prodigious!—
The money is all to be laid out in muskets,
bayonets, swords, pikes, and other articles con-
traband of war, which are to be shipped 46 for
account and risk " of neutral subjects, on board
a neutral vessel, and consigned to, the port of
an enemy, who has not on the seas ir single
cruizer to protect them from capture.. In
the first place, this is a gross violation of the
Law of Nations. Secondly, it is in downright
defiance of an Act of Parliament, and of his
Majesty's recent Proclamation. Thirdly,' the'
consignment is almost sure to fall into the hands

of the French. Fourthly, if it should by miracle
reach Spain, it would in all probability find the
war at an end. And, fifthly, if the contest should
be stilt continuing, the contribution of this
wealthy Corporation might serve to prolong it
about five seconds and a half—certainly not more.
That Mr. Galloway should move such a mass of
;illegality and absurdity is not at all to be won-
dered at. That person is at-least consistent, and
Acts now on the very same principles that he did
when he was Assistant Secretary to the London
Corresponding Society, an association declared
by Act of Parliament to be " inconsistent with
public tranquillity, and with the existence of re-
gular Government." But that men of decency,
respectability, and common sense, should support
this Air. Galloway in this gratuitous insult to

the King, the Parliament, and the Nation does
appear to us, we own, truly astonishing. The
King, the Parliament, and the Nation, have
deliberately resolved that England shall be
neutral ; but Mr. Galloway and his supporters
have broken that neutrality, and have done
their utmost to plunge the country into war.—
The candour and fairness of most of these per-
sons (we will not say all) was on a footing with
their rationality. in support of the motion no-
thing was urged but the most vague and irrele-
vant declaration ; not a single fact that would
bear examination was stated, not an authentic
document of any sort was adduced ; and when a
gentleman rose to prove, by reference to facts
and documents, the folly of the motion, so deter-
mined were they to shut their eyes to the truth,
that they endeavoured, by noise and clamour of
the most disgraceful kind, to prevent his state-
ments from being heard. Fortunately they were
not A% holly successful.

[MORNING 'JERALD.]
In our paper yesterday we gave the debate
which took place on the Bill for the repeal of
the Act, which was made about half a century
since, regulating the price of weaving between a
master silk manufacturer and the weaver. The
weavers wished the Bill to go into a Committee,
that evidence against its merits might be adduced.
his was successfully opposed by Mr.lluskisson,
and the rest of the Ministry, on the ground that
the sooner a bad law could be got rid of the bet-
ter. On the side of the weavers were Mr. Buxton,
the mover for a Committee, and Mr. Whitbread,
the seconder of Mr. Buxton's motion. It will be
as well to bear in mind that these two Gentlemen
are part proprietors of two extensive breweries ;
and that Mr. Buxton's brewery is in the very
midst of the Spitalfields weavers ; and that it was
reported some time since in that neighbourhood,
that if Mr. Buxton did'not support the cause of
the weavers, they would not frequent the public
houses where Mr. Buxton's beer was drawn. This
might have been a false report, and 'we hope that
it was ; and yet, even though it had been a true
report, it by no means follows that the loss of
the sale of Mr. Buxton's beer in that particu-

lar vicinity could possibly have influenced Mr.
Buxton in becoming the champion of the
weavers. Why Mr. Bright, the Bristol banker,
should have been so stren►aous in opposing the
Ministers, we are at a loss to imagine ; for be-
sides banking, he has been, and we believe, is
now engaged in a variety of trading concerns in
Bristol, in none of which, we dare to say, would
he like the interference of Magistrates in regu-
lating the price per day or year to be paid by
him to the servants he employs. If it be proper
for a Magistrate to fix the price per yard or piece
to be paid by a master silk manufacturer to the

weaver, so, also it Would be proper fora Ma.
gistrate to fix the consideration to be paid by
Mr. Bright to the clerks in his banking concern,
or the sum to be paid by him to the Captains or
crew of any ship he employs in either the West
India or any other trade. And, on the same
principle, a law might with propriety be made
enabling the Spitalfields
Magistrates to fix the
price per pint, quart, or butt of Mr. Buxton's
porter. In fact, as Mr. fluskisson and others

said, if a law be beneficial as applied to one
branch of business, so it must be beneficial as
applied to every branch. How would Mr. Whit-
bread like Mr. Huskisson to propose an Act to
enable a Magistrate to fix the price to be paid by
Mr. Whitbread to on, of the men who drives his
drays ? Though, as a general rule, it be wise to
get rid of a bad law as soon as possible, yet, in
this case, we wish the Ministy had given way, and
had permitted the Bill to go into a Committee, for
then the folly of such a law would have been com-
pletely exposed,and the evidence wottld have fur-
nished us with some curious matter to amuse our
readers tvitb—perhaps ns' entertaining as some
speeches we haVe read on the Irish Orange Ques-
tion. After a law like this had been so long in ex-
istence, and especially as applied to the working
class of his Majesty's subjects, it might have been
as well to have taken plenty of time in doing
away with it, on the same principle that it was
Mound expedient to get rid by degrees of the
old absurd law, empowering the Lord Mayor,
Aldermen, and Commen Council of the City
of London to fix the price a baker was to charge
for his loaf ; which was done .by the said
corporate body, without their having consi..
sidered whether the baker lived in Regent-
street, and paid a high rent and taxes, or whether
he lived in Petticoat-lane, and paid a low rent
and taxes; or whether he (the baker) did much
business and got regularly paid, or whether he
did little business and had many bad
.debts : all
this was never thought of by the sages of those
times.

The plan for the improvement of Whitehaven
Harbour was last week laid before the trustees :
the estimate for the great Western Pier is about
67,0001.
Miss DRYDEN, a genteel and very respectable
female, aged 2/, principal assistant to an emi-
nent milliner at Durham, drowned herself lately
in consequence of a young' man to whom she was
much attached, being about to marry a more fa-
voured Lady.
On Thursday last, in the afternoon, a heavy
thunder-storm of bail and rain pasted over New-
castle-upon-Tyne. k'or the last fortnight the
weather has been uncommonly fine in Northum-
berland. Vegetation has in consequence made
great progress.

From the LONDON GAZETTE, June 10.

Crown-Office, June 7, 1823.
Member, returned to serve in this present Parliament.

Borough of Bossiney— John Stuart Wortley, of Wortley
Hall, in the County of York, Esq. in the room of the Hon.
John William Ward (now Viscount Dudley and Ward, and
one of the Peers of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland).

BANKRUPTS.

' V. Kingston' Martin's:lane, London, Arine:merchant, to
surrender June 14, 24, and July 22, at ten, at the Court of
Commissioners. Attornies, Messrs. Patersbn and Peile, Old
Broad-street.

A. Grierson, Dudley, Worcestershire, draper, Tune 23, 24,
and July 22, at two, at the Star Inn, Manchester. Attorney,
Mr. Cunliffe, Manchester.
S. Davies Llandovery, Carrnarthenshire, grocer, June 27,
28, and July 22, at twelve, at the White Lion Inn, Bristol.
Attornies, Messrs. Bridges and Cuilter, Red Lion-square ;
and Mr. W. 0. Hare, Bristol.
J. Arkell, Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire, cattle-dealer, June
25, at six, 26, and July 22, at twelve, at the Bell Inn' Wor-
cester. Attornies, Mr. C. Becke, Devonshire-street, Queen-
square, London ; and Mr. Hill, Worcester.
T. Burtitt, Canwood, North Brewham, Somersetahire,
wood-merchant, June 25, 27, at one, and July 22, at eleven,
at the Lamb Inn, Hindon, Wiltshire. Attornies, Mr. Sey.
mour, Mere, Wiltshire; Mr. Popkin, Dean-street, Soho,
London.

J. Cave, Coventry, ribbon-manufacturer, June 25, at six, 26,
at ten, at the office of Messrs. T. B. Troughton and Lea, Co..
ventry, and July 22, at ten, at the Craven Arms Hotel, Coven-
try. Attornies, Messrs. Long and Austen, Gray's Inn, Lon-
don ; and Messrs. T. B. Troughton and Lea, Coventry.
J. Banks, Leeds, Yorkshire, flax-spinner, June 19, 20, and
July 22, at eleven, at the New Court House, Leeds. Attornies,
Messrs. Stocker and Dawson, New Boswell-court, Carey-street,
London ; and Mr. E. D. Conyers, Knaresborough.