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THE SUN.

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LONDON,
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 18'23.

gOMBARDMENT OF CADIZ;

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

We have received by Express, at a late'hour
this forenoon, the Paris Papers of Sunday, and
the Pilote of yesterday morning. The Etoile an-
nounces the important fact, that the Fretich
had begun the bombardment of Cadiz fruit
the Trocadero, and that every thing was ready
for the debarkation of the troops to be em-
ployed in the grand attack on the Isle of Leon.
We have neither time nor room for observa-
tions. The following are extracts :
(From the Etoile of Sunday Med.)

GRAND HEAD-QUARTERS, PORT ST. MARV.
SEPT. 4.—lt is this evening reported that the
attack of the Island of Leon will take place or.a
the side of Santi.Petri, opposite to Chiclana. Our
pieces of artillery, which were at the taking of
the Trocadero, have been sent to the batteries
constructed on the side of Chiclana. All is ready,
it is said, for the attack. Our troops are felt
of ardour. The Constitutionalists are dismay-
ed. The Militia have returned into Cadiz.—
,
The prisoners taken at the Trocadero-have. been
sent this morning to Xeres. There were 1,100,
all young men, who are laid to be the best troops
of the Revolutionists.

PORT ST. MARY, SEPTEMBER 5.
8 o'Clock in the Evening.
We are on the eve of great events. Last
night our troops began to throw bombs into Cadiz.
They were thrown from the extreme point of
the Trocadero. In a short time we succeeded
in setting fire to the vast magazines of wood and
brandy which were near Fort Puntales. The
conflagration continued during the whole of the
night. The flames were so great that we could
read by their light. The troops have been exer-
cised, and every thing is now ready for their
debarkation.

General Bourmont has set off. It is by him
that the attack is to be directed, and there is no
doubt that we shall be successful.
All our soldiers are full of ardour and en-
thusiasm.

Since the taking of the Trocadero, we have
been continually occupied in establishing hat-
teries, to obstruct the navigation, and to injure
the shipping of the enemy, as well as their works
near the Trocadero.

BERRIO PLANO, SEPT. 9.—There is nothing
new -before the walls of Pampeluna. In about
three or four days, we hope to attack the rebel
town on all points, and to take it by assault.
MADRID, SEPT. 7.—The Duke del- Infantado

arrived at Port St. Mary on the 4th inst.—lie
immediately had an interview with the Prince.
(From the Drapeau Male a Sunday.]
Ax, SEPT. still continues cur-
rounded, near the camp of Tarragona, by Mar=
shal -Moncey, who has doue all in his power to
give him battle.

ST. PETERSBURGH, A UG. have re-
ceived from Odessa the following :—" The
Porte has made propositions of Peuce to the
Greeks; she has offered to give them the same
rights as Moldavia and Walachia ; but the Greek
Government have not returned an answer."

[Peon' the Quotidienne, Sept. 14.]
VIENNA.. SEPT. 2.—The Court will return here
to :morrow, but the Emperor will not remain, but

will depart Mt 'the 18th init. tor the trontiera
of Poland, where he will have an interview
with his ally the - Emperor, of Russia. The
place of Abair, meNking will be Cternowitz.
Prince Metternich accompanies his najesty. It
is pretended in the political circles that this in-
terview is the forerunner of a Congress, which
will probably take place at Milan, when the af-
fairs of Spain and Portugal will be discussed.

%Ye have received a late-Madrid Gazette of
the-9th September, ' ''''''''''''' contain
any thing ot importance•.except the: rollowing
Riego- has ordered seren:tnen to be shot at
51alaga, and has arrested a number of officers
lieloliging—iitaias' army. It was reported that
2,000 French, under Alolitor, were expected at
Antigua on their march to Malaga."

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.]

. S-rocn EICUANGE, Txelre o'Clook.—Consols
aliened at S to 1, and, up . to. this hour, are
831, bitlers. A great deal was doing in the earlier
part.of the morning. The chief topic of conversu-
the. City this-morning lathe meeting-which
it to be held concerning the Colombian Bonds,
.4- which it-is expected great contention will
tnie place. It is understood that there are
.oker:ts to a very large amount, who cannot obtain
the Bonds to deliver to-morrow, (which is
settling day,) owing to the buna fide holders of
Colombian Bonds being determined not to part
then.

Forttios MAnKET.—Very little doing, ex-
cept in Spanish and Colombia Bends.

Letters from Rome of the 4th inst. state, that
the-Conclave was opened 'on the'3d, and that a
ballot had taken place, which was not .productive

of any result.

We have extracted from the Herald of this
morning a long reply to .one of our recent arti-
cles (See THE SUN of Friday last), on the West'
India, Ducks, or rather on the controverted
question as to the superior advantages attainable
frotn competition or from regulation respectively,
• •
or from "a system of free trade, in preference to
one of protection and restriction.The•Herald says
that its opinion against the coutinuauce of the pri-
vileges Of the West.lnditt Dock ComPany was
formed on "general grounds ;" and yet it goes on
immediately to argue the question on the parti-
eularground furnished by the success of the Dock
Company, and of the fact, of its. having uot
ouly divided annually a good interest," but of its
har anK also realized " a surplus of 300,0001 1"
But, leaving the particular case of the West India
Dock Company entirely out of consideration, let
US see what the Herald says to the generalprin-
ciple.
It roundly asserts that a system of open
competition is more beneficial than one of legis-
lative direction. It makes this allegation in con•
tradittion to a. proposition which we had laid
down, which is confirmed by all experience, and
which we fearlessly repeat cannot be success.
fully controverted. The Editors of the Herald,
however, come boldly forward and say, " We
dare assert to the contrary !"—But when we
lo'bb for their arguments 'and their proofs in
support of their assertion, we find that they
amount only to this,—" for we believe that the"
legislative, management of any trading concern
is the worst of all management, and we
have Spain as a striking instance of the
fact !"—Now, we oppose our belief to the beliqf
of the Herald ; , and we adduce the example
of the stupendous commercial greatness of Eng-
land, under her system of legislative protections
and restrictions, in opposition to the contrary ex-
ample produced, in the state of Spain—of the real
causes of whose failure, by the bye, perhaps very
little is known! But, supposing that the com-
parative failure-of Spain is attributable to her
Government, even -that fact, or any number of such
facts, does not affect the principle. Because bad
Government, and bad legislation, and bad or un-
skilful regulations, have been found practically
mischievous, it by no means follows that good-
government, good legislation, and reise and
ski ful
regulations, are also to be practically mischievous,
or that they are not, on the contrary, capable
of producing the greatest possible advantages
to - Society !—AII the hypothetical reasoning
of the Herald, on this subject, is founded on
the assumption that legislation is necessarily un-
skilful and vicious. Take away this imaginary
foundation, and his whole theory vanishes !—A
private concern, he tells us, is often well con.:
ducted and prosperous.—Why ? Because it is
welt governed, well regulated, well directed! How,
then, is a state to be rendered prosperous ?•--Cer-
tainly by no other than the same means,—by
being well governed,—well• regulated,--cell
and skilfully protected, controlled, and directed
in all its parts and in all its affairs ! This
is the whole principle,—the whole of t te

don at Issue; and the reasoning or the Herald
does not overthrow, but -support,- the .uffirma-
tive furnishes- an. Instruttive -probf
of the fallacy of the principle of freeitosh—
Every estate in that unhappy country is AprOate
concern, under the management of its proprietor
The results of that management of the resources of
an important division of the Empire, are mani-
fested in the wretchednes, of the'great mass of
its population.—The advocates of the free prin
ciple do not seem to perceive that that principle,
carried to its extent, leads them to the abso-
lute subversion of all law, and justice, and order,
and happiness. The opposite principle, on the
contrary, the further it is wises, fusels, and skil-
fully pursued, leads only to further and further
advances in the great aim of human association,—
the promotion of the security, virtue, and pros-
perity, of every member of the community.

NEW MODE OF TEACHING LANGUAGES.---LaSt
night, at the Crown and Anchor, Mr. HAMILTON
repeated his experimental Lecture on his new
mode of Teaching Languages. The audience,
which was very respectable, paid great attention
to the Lecturer, during the development of hlg
method of tuition, and testified their approbation
by frequent applause. It is perhaps impossible
to give, briefly, a perfectly correct idea of Mr.
IlAstlvroN's system; but his principle ap-
pears to be this,—that a foreign language
can be most successfully and rapidly acquired,
in the same manner as every human being
acquires the language of the country in
which he is brought up from infancy. The child
is first taught to speak, or understand, his
mother tongue, by his parents and other persons
with whom he has daily intercourse,—then to
read,—and, last of all, the theory, or grammar, of
the language. It is at once evident, that even if
it were possible to teach the abstract rules of the
abstract theory to the infant, before it was
permitted to speak and to read, such a mode
of instruction would be not less ridiculous and
absurd, than laborious and slow. Mr. HAMIL-
TON'S system, then, is founded on the natural,
universal, and necessary- law, by which alone
language can be acquired by any human being.
By first reading and translating each of his les-
sons to his pupils, he first teaches them to under-
stand, then to read, or pronounce, and then to
translate into English, the new language which
he has undertaken to communicate to them;
and, after they have so acquired a real,
practical, and extensive knowledge of the new
language, and can read, translate, and speak it,
with facility, they may,' if they think proper,
proceed to the study of its theory, which,
however, to intelligent and in other re-
spects well-educated persons, will be gene-
rally unnecessary. We confess that we think
this mode of teaching is a valuable discovery.
We have ourselves examined some of Mt. Hla-
idlLTbN'',pupils, who have as yet on:y received
two out of the first course of ten lessons. Their
progress is most satisfactory, and indeed sue-
prleng.—After they shall have gone through the
whole course of forty-right lessons, we shall be
able to speak positively, from personal observa-
tion, as to the result.

The Duke of YORK left town on Sunday morn-
ing, on a visit to the Marquis of HEnTroun, at
his residence at Sudburne, near Woodbridge,
Suffolk, where his Royal Highness Is expected to
remain a few days.
Yesterday. Sir HERRERA' TAYLOR held a levee
as Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief, at his
Office in the Horse Guards.

Private letters from Naples speak of fresh
Ministerial changes in the Neapolitan Cabinet.
The Marquis de MAYO, who enjoyed the.
greatest influence, has fallen into disgrace ; the
same has happened to the Duke del SANGRO,
who, it is said, ,will be exiled .to Sicily. It is
added, that the Duke tie MIRANDA wilt receive
the honours and dignities of the late Duke
d'Ascom. General Nwatatt-rE will be appoint-
ed Inspector-General of the Guard ; and Gen.
CHURCH, who shoved much attachment to the
reigning family during the late revolution, will
be promoted to the place of Inspector of the
troops of the line.
VIENNA, Aua. 30.—1 t is believed that the
Atithassadors of France, England, Russia, 4nd
Prussia, will accompany the Court to Milan, and
remain there during the winter. They will not
leave this city till the departure of Prince MET..
TERN ICII, which is expected to take place in a
fortnight after that of.their MAJESTIES. It is not
known whether the Ministers ,of the Powers of
the second and third class will go to Milan.
A letter from St. Petersburgh, dated Aug.
says:—" We have received the following news
from Odessa. 4 The Porte has made to the
Greeks proposals of peace, and offered to give
them the same privileges as the inhabitants of
Wallachia and Moldavia,' but the Greek Go-
vernment has made no answer to these over-
tures."

THE CANAL IN ST. JAMES'S. Partx.—We have,
from time to time, stated from personal observa.
tion the progress of the works for effectually
draining and cleansing the Canal. Yesterday,
the cleansing of the old piece of sewer having
been completed, the mouth of the sewer was
opened, and the water is now draining off to the
River. The workmen are busily engaged in
making channels through the accumulated mud
t the east end of the Canal, so that the water
may have a free passage to the sewer, the com-
munication with which is still almost entirely.
obstructed. The steam engine, which is in-
tended to force out the water that cannot be
drawn off by the sewer, is nearly completed. It
is of six horse power.
FInE.---This morning, about seven o'clock, a
fire broke out in the extensive premises of Mr.
K ITCHENER, the confectioner, in the. Edgeware-
road ; and such was the rapidity of the flames,
that the whole premises were burnt to the ground
in an hour. The cause is not yet ascertained.