The Sun.
London, England, 1823-11-29 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SMITING.

Dem., Nor. '29.--Wind S.W. blowimr strong.—efve
dawn from the River yesterday and rennin] the New Albion,
Powcl, Cambridge, Mason, Somerietshire, Parent, Heart of
Oak,, Robertson, Bunter, liodgson, and ('tinnnerce, f.tonnerce, Harvey,
outward-bound vessels. Several other veks44.; from the River
are now venting in-.:_names not yet ascertained.
PottTsflowrit, Nov. 28.---Wind S.W.—Arrived the
(Patton, Gordon, from Gie Downs, for Honduras; his
jesty'a ship Snap, flout ,Nevatiundland ; and Eagene, Braiion,
from lioston
PLY:u 0 u u, Nor. 27.—Wind S.S. W, :to, S.—Arrived:his
llajeaty'k,ship Falcon, from Gibraltar in 9 ,days;
Eekston, from Lon ;sound. Off the port the Magnet., froro
New York.
LivEni,o6l..,, Nov. 27.—Arrived the Nero, Mooraome ;
Bellona, And rson ; ,and Regent, Boston--front Miramiehi ;
Friends, Clark, from St. Andrews,. N.B. ; Fame, Jackson,
Bay of Purdy Ciosar, Fisher, Quebec.; and the• Hope,
from Alextualria.. •

The Britannia, Martin, from Ketuda to London, was driven
on Nhore nearltevel the sth irstant, but got otr with loss or
rudder and an anchor and cable, and intended to put into Bevel
to repair.

'l'ru AuMy----TIW 17th (TAcester‘hire)
mem of Infantry, which marched from 'Gosport, on the Ilft
instant; will arrive at Doneaster this day, on its route to Hull.
The 17th Foot is ordered. to replace tint Regiment. The
115th (:Itl York North Riding) Regiment of Inthntry,' which
marched slum on• the 14th instant, will arrive at Edin-
burgh on Wednesday next. The 73d Regiment of Foot,
which has been ordered to proceed from Scotland to Ireland,
by way of Portnitiriek and Domighadee,' will be 'replaced at
Edinburgh by the 66th Itegitnenti

flume -tat ES PItEcENTEIL—LiSt night about
8 o'clock information was given to Mitchell, the
Street-keeper of the Strand, that therewere three
ill-looking fellows down Brewers-yard, oppo-
site Northumberland-court, and it was beyond a
doubt but that they intended to commit a bor.
glary. Mitchell and Mr. Lovell, the Cooper,
instautly armed themselves and went down the
yard, (it most dreary place lending to the River, nod
communicating with Craven-street by a flight of
steps) in pursuit of them, on reaching some empty
carts they heard a man breathing and apparently
creeping by the side of the wall ; presently three
men rushed forth, and were attacked by the
street-keeper, but they succeeded in escaping'
after a severe struggle. On searching afterwards,
the back premises of Mr. Holland, the wine-mer-
chant, had been attempted to he broken open,
and also those of Mr. Pitt. A crow-bar and
some skeleton keys were left behind by the fel.
lows, w$ ho are well known, and are expected to
be soon in custody.
ESCAPE 'most TUE IT mat s.—Late on Wane:-
day night, or early al Thursday morning, th ee
convicts named Ed.r. linight, IVoi. Payne„ and
Jos. Stereniton, effected th ,ir escape front the
Etha/ion hulk mooted tif Wool., ch, in the fol-
lowing manner :—When the muster- roll was z!al;ect
over on Thursdaymorning, the above names were
not answered to ; but as the hatrhways were in the
same state of security they were the night be-
fore, it was at first imagined the men might he OR
bolted. On carefully inspecting the ve,,,el, how-
ever,it wasdiscovered that the convicts had escaped
from their births by cutting out the window which
communicates with the stewn rd'srooni; the window
of the hiter place they also foiced ( p -a, and one
of thew, it is supposed, plunged into the River,
and swam to a sheer-hulk that was moored tome
distauce from the Ethalioe, a id cut off it beet
which was fastened to the sheer-hulk a lid 1 o wad
hack to his ro npanions. They then plonder-
ed the steward's room, and at r led off a dozen
shirts, several pairs of stockings, and some wear-
ing apparel, with them in the l‘o.tt. After dili-
gent search had been made, the boat was found
en the Essex shore o i Thursday, but. no tidin: a
have yet transp'red as to a piob deility of clis.
covering the fugitives. Two of the convicts were
sentenced to seven years transportation, and the
other for a shorter petiod.
On Thuriday last Mrs. Wind; 11, the wife f f
a journeyman tailor, at Sheerness, and two of lo r
children, who, with a number of othe-s, ice
often employed by the proprietor of the oyster
grounds at Cheney Rock, on the eastern side
of the isle of Sheppy, to pick up oysters o t
the ooze at low water, went out for the oho% p
purpose as usual ; when they had nearly done
picking, the woman told the children that she
should leave them to finish their stint, and that
they were to take the money and go home, and
she would go along the beach, and try if "hill*
coold pick up a few at fish, there being some-
times some left by the tide among the breakers.
The children shortly after reached home, and
anxiously waited the return of their mother, but
she has not since been heard of. it is feared.
that she ventured too far into the sea, and w: g
drowned, and, as the wind was blowing off ti e
shore, was immediately carried out.

THE LONDON JOURNALS•

Fail'aCiS from the Morning Pqrers,November2o.

[MORNING POST.]
Although France be the State whose arms
effected the restoration of Ferdinand, it grows
every day more and more clear that she possesses
but a secondary influence ever his councils. The
Despot knows that she only acted at the sugges-
t's') or command of Russia, and therefore keeps
all his gratitude and deference for the latter
Power. Of this, something was lately revealed by
the manner in which the Russian Minister, Count
Pozzo di Borgo, mixed directions with the
congratulations which he presented to his
Catholic Majesty : but still more has been
ihown by the measure which the tatter
has since adopted. France, it is known, has
throughout warmly recommended to the King of
Spain the establishment of a Constitution some-
what similar to her own ; and having solely in-
curred the dangers and expences of the war, had
a right to expect that some attention should be
paid to her counsel and request. The Emperor
of Russia, on the other hand, who abhores free
iestitations, and has even more than once ex-
pressed his displeasure against Louis XVIII. for
having given a Constitution to his people and
refused to withdraw it, has, on the contrary,
strongly remonstrated against a similar weak.
ness on the part of Ferdinand ; and has al-
most insisted that nothing in the shape of le-
gislative or deliberative Chambers shall be esta-
blished. Now, in order to ascertain whose
influence predominates in the Cabinet of King
literditiand, it is only necessary to consider
whose advice he has followed. Has he granted
any thing like a Constitution, or a national re-
presentation to his people ? lie has not uttered
or published a syllable which can create a be-
lief that such a measure has even come within
his contemplation. What has he done then ?
lie has re-established his Government " as it
was formerly established by his august and
dear predecessors :" that is to say, he has formed
a " Council of Ministers," who can put no check
to his power, but on whom he can throw, as it
may suit him, the odium and responsibility of its
exercise. In ibis Council " all questions of ge-
neral utility are to he considered : each Minister
is to give an account of the affairs belonging to
his Department, and the resolutions of the King
are to be received, and their execution attended
to." This, it is evident, is intended to super.
cede the institution of a Representative Assem-
bly; for the powers conferred on the Coun-
cil are exactly those with which Legislative
Chambers would be invested. An attempt is to
be made to govern Spain in the good oltt ways of
arbitrary Despotism, in opposition to the wishes
of the greater part of the nation, who, though
they disapproved of the Cortes, and there-1
fore did not fight in their defence, desired and
expected a Constitution in an amended form. This
attempt is also to be nude in contempt of the
urgent representations of France, who now finds,
when it is too late, that she has been made the
toot of a greater Power, and that when she
fancied she was labouring to strengthen herself,
she was only rooting in the western extremity
of Europe the overpowering influence which
already crushes the north, and which threatens to
swallow up hi time the whole Continent.

EstoasitNG. clutorsict.e..]
The adviccs received from Madrid are to the
20th instant, and by them we learn that King
Ferdinand's promises of " the Wonders he would
perform when ho arrived in Madrid, the capital
of his ancestors, and was there surrounded by his
faithful sublets," have (laded in a short decree,
dated the. MI, by which he establishes a Council
of live Ministers, or Star Chamber, by the aid and
advice of which he intends in future to govern his
kingdom, and for which he quotes a precedent from
the times of Philip V. and Charles 111., by no
,means the brightest period of Spanish history, so
far at least as relates. to matters of Government.
In point of fact, therefore, the Administration of
Spain will be carried on in exactly the same way
it was carried on preVious to the Revolution, and
the first Peninsular war, that is, by a Ca-
reurilla, or a Coterie of Courtiers, in which
all the important state questions will be dis-
cussed and decided .upon' privately with the'
King, before they go before the Council
of Ministers for their final decision, which
will always be conformable to the' opinion the
King or his Representative may there please to
express, as he can always rely on a majority of
votes. This, therefore, we have reason to con-
clude, is the whole that is to be done for the
present in Spain, to reconcile and satisfy the
people ; a Constitutional Charter, or some equi.
valeta under another name being entirely out of
the question. in fact, all our anticipations are
but too truly realized. Vengeance and proserip•
tion are the order' of the day, and it would seem
as if Ferdinand, and the Monkish party by which
lie is guided, are resolved to have their fill of
them.

['ma TIMES.]
The opinion which the King of Spaio enter-
tains of a Government suited to the times in which
he lives, and the necessities of his subjects, will
appear by an official article in this day's journal.
Ills Majesty, copying, he says, the examples of
his predecessors, Philip V. and Charles 111., in-
stitutes a Council of Ministers for the govern-
ment of the kingdom. The degree of restraint
to be imposed by such an institution on the ab-
solute power of the King, will ho best understood
from the functions which lie himself ascribes to it.
" The Council will receive all my resolutions,and
attend to their execution." Here is an happily
poised constitution 1 The date of this instrument
is the !Stilt instant. The influence of the Spanish
Court with that of France, in matters of finance,
may be justly appreciated from the following
Statement, at first doubted, but since confirmed :
" The fact of the Spanish Ambassador having
4s applied to have the quotation of the Constitu-
tional Bonds excluded from the Court Authen-
-44 tiguo)it corroborated in other letters) with. the

addition, that the application was rerused."—
It is added, that the contributions of the Spanish
clergy, of which we copy the list given in the
Madrid Gazelle, amounts to about 119,0001.
sterling.

[MORNIN6 HERALD.]
Paris Papers of Wednesday were received in
the course of yesterdny. They bring intelligence
of the 20th from Madrid. The Ministry of the
Confessor Saez seems to be firmly and fully esta-
blished, and a Royal Decree is published which
gives somewhat of a new form to Spanish Admi-
nistration. The Cortes abolished the ancient
Councils of Castile and the Indies. It was sup-
posed that one of the first acts of Ferdinand
would be to resuscitate them. The Duke of
Angouleme even affected to convoke them, when
he created the Regency. Though it was a
mockery on his part,the act still proved that these
councils were regarded as among the first elements
of the old Spanish Monarchy. It does not strike
us, however, that the Spanish people lose any
thing by the extinction of these Councils. They
merely shared in the spoils of the nation with
the Crown and the Clergy, and thus increased
oppression and plunder. There were two ty-
rannies for one. The system of Administration
created seems to be little else than a Council
of Ministers as in France --or a Cabinet
Council in England. It will be, in fact, a close
Junta of the Spanish Ministers. If we might
venture any judgment upon this new organiza-
tion, its object is to exclude the Spanish Aristo-
cracy. Indeed, all of the Spanish Nobles who
possessed ambition or talent—or •ven a name
—appear to be either proscribed or under
surveillance. Great numbers, who took no
share in the. Revolution, are in this predica-
ment. Looking at the names of those who
compose at present the Ministry at Madrid,
they seem to be persons without distinction,
either acquired or hereditary. Men of that
class, headed by Saez, an ecclesiastic, with-
out capacity or authority, and supported only
by his ascendency over the mind of the Seem
-
reign, would naturally relieve themselves from
the controul and pretensions of the Nobles. M.
Saez is duly installed ns First Minister, and is
to preside at the Council in the absence of the
King.

[BRITISH I REss.l
Congresses are now the rage of the Continental
Despets, and two new assemblies of this descrip-
tion are, it appears, to take place in Europe—one
in Petersburgh to try and enthral Greece ; and
the other in Paris, to controul, if possible, the
liberty of the New World. With these con-
gregations of despots and their satellites, this
country, we trust, will hare no privity of under.
standing. It is our policy to keep Greece free,
and South America free also ; national character,
as well as policy, require from us the first de-
termination ; the commerce of this country in the
New World is too valuable to be sacrificed to
the resolves of an association of jealous despots.
They, and their Ministers, may therefore repair
to the frozen north, and there second that ambi-

tions power in its long-conceived designs on the
Turkish provinces ; or troop to Paris ht as body,
and for the oitroose of more see.atcornmunichtions
with the French Cabinet, resolve and re-resolve,
a-la-distan•e, on the enslavement of Southern Ame-
rica as they please. But Great Britain, we trust, is
already irrevocable determined on her conduct;
and any designs of France and Russia on these
great Republics, if attempted to be put in exe-
cution, will, we hope, be met by us with open
force. It is clear this country can no longer
palter; if dissuasive arguments will not succeed,
we must ungird the sword, and fling it into
the scale. One false stop at Verona has
draw with it all these fatal consequences :
decion there would have averted the Spanish war ;
indecision now will lead to the destruction of
our commerce in America. Who now can doubt
the composition of the Continental Powers as
regards this country ? Di Borgo's address is a
perfect indication of the views of Russia, whose
Ambassador he is, and of France from whence
he came. The invasion of the New World will
depend on the language of.this Cabinet: if a de-
termination be avowed to oppose it by force, it
will not be attempted; if cold diplomacy only be
resorted to, the finest portion of the discovery of
Columbus will be again beleaguered and en-
slaved. Our influence and character will then
receive another fatal blow, and our fine and
rising commerce with these great countries will
be annihilated.

NEW TIMES.
We have made extracts from the Spanisl
Papers which reached us yesterday to the 211
inst. Two things are very remarkable in these
Papers ; first, that they prove beyond a doubt the
entire falsehood of the pretended Aranjuez De-
cree recognizing the Loans of the Cortes ; and
secondly, that they give a statement of the volun-
tary Contribution of twelve millions of reals
(120,0001. sterling), which was presented to King
Ferdinand by four Prelates, and the Chapters of
as many Dioceses. It is true that five-sixths of
this sum was in paper-money, and probably a
very depreciated paper; but still here is no less a
sum than 20,0001. in cash, presented by only
eight contributing parties; and we may be sure
that this example will be followed by the whole
body of the Clergy. Indeed the Orifiamme of
Wednesday asserts, that the Spanish Clergy
will contribute to millions sterling, and the
Grandees as much more, to the exigencies
of the. State. Another circumstance is also
deserving of attention. The King of Spurn
has named his Cabinet : Don Victor Saez,
who advised the Decree of the Ist of October,
is the Premier; and M. Erro, who contracted
the Loan with M. Guebhard, is placed at the
head of the Finances. Now lit us put all these
things together, and without passion or pre-
judice consider how they bear on the questions
which agitate the public mind. Last year we
were told that Spaniards were a brave, en-
lightened People, armed in defence of li-
berty from one end of the, Peninsula to the
other, and possessing exhanstless resources
and an unbounded credit ; now it is the fashion
to describe them as, a cowardly, bigoted, servile

race, and the Loans contracted by their Govern-
ment are hissed off our Exchange. These ex-
tremes of admiration and contempt are alike to be
avoided, if we wish to understand Spain. The
Ministers of Ferdinand are no favourites with
the Continental Powers. The Allies think the

fluenco of the Clergy is too great in Spain ; and

therefore they do not wish to see Saez, who is a
Churchman, at the head of the Ministry. But
the power of the Clergy in Spain is a fact, which,
however we may disapprove of it, we cannot alter.
The Clergy excited the resistance to the Frence
under Buonaparte ; the Clergy exhorted their
flocks to eo-operate with the French under the
Duke d'Angouleme ; and upon the Clergy King
Ferdinand must now rely for support, or he must
fall. When, therefore, we see the Clergy coming
forward with such liberal pecuniary offers to the
Kin'.—when we see the Dean and Chapter of
Toledo voluntarily contributing Six Thousand
Four Hundred Pounds sterling, in cash, besides
100,0001. in paper—we cannot doubt but that
there is a perfect understanding between the
Clergy and the King's Ministers.

PARISIAN' ETIQUETTE.

EXTRACT. OF A LETTER, DATED PARIS, NOV. 25.

Madame PASTA'S benefit, which took place
last night, was honoured by real and would-be
admirers of her talent and of Italian music, in a
manner seldom before witnessed. I mention this
fact, not as an introduction to any account of the
musical entertainment which was given, the ap-
plause with which it was received, or the sensi-
bility of the distinguished singer whom the pub-
lic patronage rewarded, but to afford me an op-
portunity of mentioning a Court anecdote to
which the representation gave rise. Lauriston,
it is well known, is now both Marshal of France
and Minister of the King's Household. lie is
therefore looked upon with great envy by less
favoured courtiers ; their hostility is increased by
the reflection that he is an upstart, and the know-
ledge that he is haughty and overbearing in his
new honours. As he owes all to the Court, this
class of persons are now rejoiced to find that there
is some prospect of weakening his position. His
wife, who is a great Ultra, two or three days ago,
in waiting on the Duchess of Berry, mentioned
accidentally Madame Pasta's benefit. Her Royal
Highness said she should like to attend it, and
asked the Marchioness for her box. The Mar-
chioness hesitated, said it was engaged—she must
consult her husband; but that she would go
home and try to make a new arrangement. The
Duchess, never accustomed to be refused any
thing by a subject, felt exceedingly surprised,
but recollecting her own dignity, said nothing.
On Madame' Lauriston's arrival at her house, her
husband perceived her error, and immediately
ordered his wife to write to the Duchess that the
Marshal would wait upon her to explain the affair
and to make her apologies. In the mean time the
strange conduct of this favoured Ultra got wind It
passed from courtier to courtier like electricity,
and reached the oars of Telleyrand, who imme-
diately ►rutted upon her Royat Highness to °Wei
the box which he enjoys as Grand Chamberlain.
—ln urging her Royal highness to accept of his
proposal, he told her it was not his box but that
of the King—that he only held it as a member
of his Majesty's Household, and that in occupy-
ing it her Royal Highness only occupied it from
the King, and not from him ; thus giving, a home
thrust at Lauriston, who likewise enjoys his
box as the Minister of the King's Household.—
' Her Royal Highness, however, finally de-
clined the Prince's offer, and likewise that of
the Marshal, who arrived soon after with his
wife's apologies. The King then requested
her Royal Highness to accept of his box, which,
from not being occupied for some t►me, was not

in a state to be used. Workmen were, however,
sort to arrange the cushions and to replace the
flew., de u I, and last night the. Duchess occupied
it along with the Duke and Duchess of Orleans
and their family. Marshal Lauriston's box, as
the Minister of the Household, is by the side of
it. The knowledge of the anecdote directed the
attention of the courtiers to the Marshal and his
family, nearly as much as to Royalty. One Ultra
Nobleman was heard saying to another, 46 And
is he still Minister ? Will the Royal Family
brook such insolence? Can the Ductless forgive?
the upstart always to remain in place ?" The
fact is, that it is not likely that he will much
longer be Minister of the household. The Duke
de Doudeauville, who represents one of the old-
est families of France, has for some time been
talked of as his successor, and this gaucherie
of the Marshal's wife may decide the Duke's im-
mediate promotion to place, which suits his rank
and fortune better than that of Director General
of the Post-office. It is. likely that this event
would have taken place sooner, had not M. de
Villelg been rather aifraid of the influence of the
" congregation" of the
,fanatic party, of which
the Duke and his family are members.

The Swedish Government have appioned Mr.l
WESTZYNTIIINS, Counseiller de Commerce,
Swedo-Norwegian, Consul at Leghorn ; and Mr.
WEsTuannta, Vice-Consul at Amsterdam, has
been elevated to the rank of Consul at that
port.
A splendid Gold Vase, which cost 300 guineas,
will shortly be presented to Colonel BIUND.
LINO, M. P. of Gosforth-house, Nortumberland,
by the several members of his Yeomanry Corps.
It is said to be a copy of the celebrated Warwick
Vase, found in Herculaneum, representing on its
sides a Lion's skin in dead gold, surmounted
with the heads of Snots, Bacchus, and other
Bacchanalian figures ; the handles are formed of
vine branches tastefully entwined, the tendrils
stretching round the margin. The work is alto-
gether executed in the very first style of excel-
lence, and does the greatest credit to the makers,
the town artists of Messrs. Lewis and Wright, of
New castle-upon-Tyne.
A Yorkshire farmer states, that hay, which has
heated in the rick, (if black, the better) is the
best thing to prevent the rot in sheep, and has
been known to save sheep after they have been
Infected with that disease.