The Sun.
London, England, 1823-03-31 00:00:00

I,IEfICANTII.Ic SHIPPING.

M Alien 49,—WIT A.E.—Carne down from the
River last night the Camden, Billinghurst, for Antigua. Alsn
this day, and proceeded on her voyage, the Providentia, Will-
man, for Alicant. Sailed yeSterday the Robert. Edwards,
Sherburn, for Cuba.
MARCH 30.—Wind k_W.—Canie down from the River the
Cincinnatus, Seber, for New York ; Lotnan', Barnard, for St.
Michael's, and remain in the Downs with the Duke of York
from China.
PowramonTri, MARCt( 9th _Wind N.—Arrived his Ma-•
jesty's ship Seringapattan from a cruise.
PLYMOUTH, MARCH 29.—Wind 4.—Arrired the Bustled,.
Rich, from Lisbon'
; Alliance,. Gray, from Jamaica. Sailed
the Elizabeth, Fox, for Miramichf ; dropped into the Sound
the Barbadoes, for North America.
FAL UTI ,t Mattel!. 29.—Wind E.—Arrived the Three
Brothers, Griffin; and Active, Quartile, from London; and'
Pomona, Graves, Maracaibo. Sailed the Duke of Marlbo-•
rough packet for Lisbon. •
MAncu 28.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrived the Zeno, Talbert,
from St. Mary't River, Gambia; in 33 days.
Cowt s? lUARCH 30.—Arrived the Clarissa Dennis front
Batavia, in 105 days. , ,
LystmaTom, Mac 29.—Arrived Yesterday, anal sailed
this morning, the General Palmer, Truscott, for Madras, &c.
GRAVESEND; MARCH '2J.--Sailed the William Miles,
Beadle, from Madras.

The Kent, Sutherland, from the Maritius, &c., Is arrived
off Dartmouth s sailed the 224 of December, and from St.
Helena the 224 of January.

THE MARKETS.

"CORN EXCHANGE, 111sien 31.
There were tolerably large arrivals of most descriptions of
'Grain last week, but this morning the additional supplies are
I only moderate. Wheat has sold on nearly the same terms as
this day se'nnight, but upon the whole the trade is very dull.
Barley hardly maintains the terms of this day se'nnight. Gray
Peas are unaltered, Boiling Peas fully support, their last
prices. There is a tolerable good supply of Irish Oats, but
not many English, and the trade fully supports last week's-
terms. The Flour trade is in an unsettled state.
Wheat, Red .... 34s 503 Pease, White •.... : ...... 211 s 40s
---- White 40s 55s --- Grey 26s ld
Rye 20s 26s Beans 30 3
s 32s
Barley 28s 31ls Oats lbs 27s
Malt 40s 55s Flour 4os 45N
AnutvAis LAST WtEK.
English Wheat, 4,93 B—Barley, 3,639-3141 t, 4,372—0ut5,
0,340 —Beans, 2,33o—lrish Oats, 7,316.

AVERAGE PRICE OF CORN IN ERGEANT) AND WALES.
IVheat, 500. Od. ; Harley, 331. Od. ' • Oats, 21s. 3d. ; Rye
30s. ld. Beans 29s Od ; Peas, 325. 10d.• ,
The Average Price of Drown or muscovado Sugar, computed
from the Returns made in the Week ending the 26th day of
March, 1023, i 3 301. lid. per cwt.

. SMITHFIELD MARKET, MAntrt 31,
There was a full market of Oxen this morning, and the
trade being heavy the prices were somewhat loiver than last
Monday ; in Sheep and Lamb the numbers were also grtet,
with little dbateinene in the prices from this day sesnnight 4 upon
the whole the supply of all destription of Cattle were much
greater than the dematid.
Beef 3s Od to 4s :lil Veal
Munn 3s Od to 4s rod I Pork .s 3s Od to 41 04
Lamb 51 6d to 6s 4d.
HAY AND STRAW, PEI( LOAD.
Hay.., ' 4,3 lOs to £4 4s I Clover 4:3 108 to .C 4 104
Straw...;..A:2 109 to .E 2 Os.

RIOT IN CATO-STREET, EDGEWARE.ROAD.—.
About one o'clock yesterday morning the neigh-
bourhood of Paddington was in the greatest dis-.
order and tumult, owing to a numerous body of
Irishmen who inhabit Cato-street having bad
quarrel amongst themselves, and which was only
duelled by calling out the Guards, who ad»
vanceci with their arms loaded, aided by a posso
of constables and watchmen (two of the latter
are reported to be seriously hurt), and succeeded
in taking about 40 of the most riotous into cus-
tody. The exact cause of the disturbance is not
correctly ascertained:

. •
Ft n E.-An alartntng. #re broke out this morn-
ing at five o'clock, at the house of a tallow-chandler, in Wych—
Street, Drury.huie, opposite the Olympic Theatre ; the flames
burnt with great rapidity, and. communicated to the adjoining
house, which' is also materially damaged. Great fears were
entertained for a very large livery.stqb)es adjoining, to which
the fire at length cornthinea,ted, and did it considerable da.
mace; fortunately, however, they succeeded in removing the
cattle, vehicles, &c.: before they sustained any injury. A t
seven o'clock.the flames Were entirely subdued.
A Coroner's Inquest was held on Satureay on
the hotly of Robert Osborn,lsq., of New Inn, who shot him-
self in his chamber* on the preceding days It was proved in
evidence that the deceased had been for some time preceding iit
a state of depression and melancholy,' by which his mental fa-
culties were affected, and the Jury accordingly recur* a ver.:
diet of insanity. He wag Only 24 years of age.
On Saturday.evening an inquest was held at theCroWn tavern,
St. Dunstan'gthill, near Tower-hill, before T. Shelton,
Coroner for London, on die body of Mr. Samuel Sampson, watt
19, son of a respectable nterchant of Hamburgh, who was fouctt
drowned in the Thames on Friday morning. Verdiet..-4, Found
drowned, but how, or by what means the deceased came by his
death there is no evidence to prove."
DEATII.-08 Friday morning; Mr.
llutioaixsoN litery,stablekeeperiof Bury-;street;
Bloomsbury, was proceeding up Cray's-inn-fano
on horseback, when he exclaimed," Oh, dear,
I illilavebegotthtehe
dgeoattath is myt
of
i ln:ltinacih So brit!,
rehai:l flat
proceeded far before he was observed to reel
about on the saddle by a person who was near;
and who went to his assfstance, and arrived just

in time to catch him as he was in the act of falling
(ram his horte. A medical man was immediately
procured, who attempted to bleed him, but he
was dead.

IS

TILE LONDON JOURNALS.

rxTR.ACTS FROM THE D4ILY MORNING PAPERS,
March 31y 1823.

[MORNING POST.]
If the intelligence received since out last can
be trusted, the first blow of the campaign between
Spain and France, has been struck, and the war
commenced in a manner auspicious to the cause
of national liberty.---Confident in their military
power, and blinded by that sense of vanity which
forms one of the chief foibles, though it ,leads to
some of the most brilliant virtues of the French
character,•the Ultras had not only boasted that
they would enter the Peninsula, and march to
Madrid without meeting• with any effectual oppo-
sition, but they had acted on that belief, and,
wholly taken up with the idea of invading the
territories of a weaker neighbour,. had neither
anticipated nor Vrepared to meet the invasion of
their own. They fancied that they might safely
publish their meditated iniquities to the world,
and that if the victim made a vain struggle to
avert its doom, it could not possibly inflict
chastisement on those by whose unprincipled in-
justice it had been denounced. In that spirit of self-
confidence and insolent disdain Were all their
measures conceived, and their military disposi-
tions made. In front of the French army, and
-within sight of the Spanish frontiers, they as-
sembled the bands of Rebels who had betrayed
Spain, and who, in the pay of a foreign enemy,
were preparing to pave the way for the desola-
tion of their country. Though ready to violate
the soil of the Peninsula, they imagined that their
ovh mnst be respected, and that the apprehen-
sion of hastening by a single hour the announced
aggression, would induce the Spanish Constitu-
tional Commanders to snbmit patiently to all
kinds of insults and provocations. But happily
there is reason to hope that their calculations
had been erroneous.

ETRE TIMES.]
At a late hour last night we received by ex-
press the Paris Papers of Saturday. The reports
of the entry of Mina into the, French territory
continued to be circulated on the Exchange, but
were without confirmation, and obtained little
credit. On the subject of thsyconspiracy in the
army, the papers preserye_ewary silence, 'while
thelood order and dtleipline of that portion of
it which continues faithful tis ostentatiously put
forth. Vhe Moniteur, under the head of Bor-
deaux, and describing the disposition of the
troops in that city, says—" It would be difficult
" to express Ole. joy of the brave soldiers who
" are so happy us to serve under the orders of a
" Bourbon. they advance towards the frontier
" filled with a noble enthusiasm, and ani-
" mated with the most lively ardour to combat,
" tinder colours without blemish, the enemies of
" legitimacy and true liberty !" The depar-
ture, of the Duchess d'Angouleme for Bordeaux,
to join her hushaud, is fixed for the ¶ld of
April, from Winch it is probable that the entry of
the French into the Peninsula is not so near as
has. been conjectured. Letters from Madrid of
the 21st add to the former intelligence, that the
Cortes would close the Session as soon as it was
ascertained that the King had passed Ocana,
when they would adjourn to the 16th of April,
the day on which they would bold their first
sitting in Seville. The Ministers Egea and San
Miguel were to remain some days longer at Ma-
drid. General Morillo was to set out imme-
diately for the army of Galicia. The few Spa-
niards who remained in Paris were preparing to
quit that' capital. The Count de Toreno, who
has resided there for the last two years, was
about to repair to London.

PRESS.]
We have received the Paris Papers of Thurs-
day and Friday, with private letters of the same
date. The King of Spain left Madrid on the
20th, with an imposing escort of from 5 to 6,000
men, commanded by the Conde d'Abisbal.—
Twenty-two thousand militia, patriotic volunteers,
were stationed, it is said, on the road to Seville,
so as to assure the perfect safety of Ferdinand
all through his journey, by the easy stages be
was^to make. The French army, 60,000 strong,
was concentrated on the frontiers, and was ex-
pected to enter Spain on the Ist of April. On
the other frontier, between Perpignan and
the Pyrenees, a band of the soldiers of the
Faith was stationed under. D'Eroles. The
heroic Mina, with the decision and secrecy
which mark this celebrated Chieftain, made in the
evening of the 17th, with General Llobera, a
sudden irruption into that part of the French
territory where D'Eroles and his army of
traitors were stationed ; and it is asserted at-
tacked and totally defeated them. `!'he Elaile
ef.,Thursday evening alludes to this important
occurrence, but passes it over as merely an alert
on the 17th, and the departure of some troops ;
but admits that both Mina and Llobera suddenly
made their appearance on the extreme frontier.
The departure of the troops was of course to
succour D'Eroles. General Moncey occupies the
line from Foix to Perpignan. Amarante's revolt
in Portugal has been, as we anticipated, wholly
crushed. The particulars will be found in our
columns,

rototorifti eunoNtcr.Ed
We have already expressed it as our opinion
that this country ought at present to remain neu-
tral ; but the grounds on which we go are, we
suspect, very different from those that influence
his Majesty's Ministers. They can only defend
themselves by the avowal of an abandonment of
their former principles, and an admission that the
triumph of despotism is more dear to them than
the honour and consequence of this country.
This leads us to observe that the twte of certain
Journals has given rise to a good deal, of appre-
hension. These Journals do not in the slightest
degree conceal the warmth of their wishes for
the success of the. Holy Alliance, in their hopes
that despotism will be firmly established thrugh-
out every part of Europe. All interests are
with them subordinate to the great interest of the
triumph of arbitrary power. That France should
keep possession of the ports of Spain ;. that

Alexander should gain Turkey, or become the
dictator of Europe ; that a combination-of
.some
or all of these Powers should be able to give laws
to England, is to them nothing, if the people
,every where can only be excluded from the
benefit of free Constitutions. That a great part
of the higher classes of England should possess
this depravity of feeling (and the Journals in
question may be taken as pretty conclusive evi-
dence on this point) is a circumstance which
excites rather our disgust than our apprehension.
Things are in that state in most of the countries
of Europe, that the political edifice which they
deem to be nearly completed, must soon, we
think, tumble about their ears.

NEW TIMES.]
We have received French Papers and Letters
of Friday. No military movement of any im-
portance appears to have taken place ; but every
thing announced the approaching commencement
of hostilities. • Still- expectations are cherished,
it seems, by M. de Villele, that the war may
probably be averted by El counter-revolution in
Spain. Our own private information, derived
from the• most accurate and imparlial sources,
hardly leads us to look to such an event at the
present moment. That it wit.' occur at no distant
period we fully believe; but our general impres-
sion is, that the great mass of the Spanish peo-
ple it too inhert to be Roved to any extraor-
dinary exertion on the one side or the other.—
The case will probably be different when a
pc4erful army appears in the field. Then the
majority of the different provinces will testify
their abhorrence of a Constitution -which they

aver chose, and which is alien from their habits
and modes of thinking. We say the people in
the different provinces will do this, not-simul-
taneously, but separately, as different circum-
stances prompt them; for in reasoning on the
affairs of Spain, it is most essential to ob-
serve that the Provinces have, little or no com-
mon principle of action—little or no union, or
centralization of power. Even in thb patriotic
war of 1808 Spain was governed almost entirely
by Provincial Juntas; and neither the Central
Junta, nor the Regency which followed it, nor
the Cortes which succeeded the Regeiny, could
ever establish any thing like an uniform system
of Government practically throughout the king,
dom. This circumstance goes a great way to-
wards accounting for the recent proofs of weak-
ness in th© Authorities at Madrid. That city, the
capital of the Empire, the seat of Government,
and the actual residence of the King and the
Cortes, was menaced for three weeks by a band
of insurgents, which was never estimated at more
than 5000 men, and to resist which 4000 troops of
all sorts were with difficulty collected together.