The Sun.
London, England, 1824-01-21 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, JAN. 20.—Wir.d N.W.—Came down from the River
this morning and sailed again the Duchess of Athol, Daniel,
for Bengal and China. Sailed the whole or' the outward-bound,
for their different destinations.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 20.—Light airs from the Westward.—
No arrivals or sailings.
PLYMOUTH, JAN. 19.—Wind N.W.—Sailed the Minerva,
Phillips, and Hope, —, for London.
FALMOUTH, JAN. 19—Wind N. light airs—Arrived the
Ann, Mills' from London. Sailed the Royal George, Wil_
hams, and Minerva, Crawford, fur London ; and the Good
Intent, Tomkin, for Terciera.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. lg.—Wind N.V.r.—Arrived the Laura,
Lilburn, from Savannah, sailed 16:h December, in company
with the .Juno, for Liverpool ; also arrived the Margant
kinton, from St. John's, N.B. ; and Neptunus, Dick, 'from
Antwerp.
HANISURGH, JAW. 13.—Two hundred and fifty pieces of
oak timber, and an anchor and cable belonging to the London
Packet, have been picked up by the Blankenese.

TRINITY CHAPEL, SALFORD..—The eastern dial
of the clock of this chapel is now brilliantly illu-
minated with gas, by means of which the hour
may be distinguished by persons at the distance
of the old bridge.

iVIELANGHOLY ACCIDENT BY SR ATING•—•Art
Inquisition was taken at the Swan Tavern, in
Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, before Mr.
'boos, Deputy Coroner for Westminster, uncri
the body of Joseph Parsonage; the set) of Mr.
Parsonage, Great Queen-street, Edg,e,.vare-road.
It appeared by the evidence, that the deceased
was a tine young man, aged tS ; and on Friday
morning he went, accompanied hy a young
brother, to skate on the Serpentine River,
Hyde Park: there were several people upon
the bank, but there was only one boy upon.
the ice. The deceased and his brother 'put
on their skates and ventured out. An present
cautioned them of the danger, as the ice was not
sufficiently strong ; bat the deceased, notwith-
standing the entreaties of his brother, proceed_
ed on, intending to cross the river, when un-
fortunately the ice broke about the middle,
and he was immersed in the water. He was
'seed struggling with the ice; but before the boat
reached him from the Royal Humane Society's
house, he sank to rise no more. Pis body was.
taken up about ten minutes afterwards, and con-
veyed to the receiving house, when the usual
means of restoring suspended animation were
unsuccessfully tried by Dr. Elsgood, of Park-
street, for about two hours, when he was obliged
to cease his exertions —The Jury considered
that the men employed by the Society were ne-
gligent in their attendance, and thought a pro-
fessional man should be continued there from the
commencement of the frost.--(Accidental _Death.)

" CORN-EXCHANGE, JAN. 21.
The arrivals of this week are only moderate. Wheat, 3300 ;
Barley, 2800 ; Oats, 3200 ; Irish Oats, 860 quarters; Flour,
3400 sacks. There is not .mach business doing in the Wheat
trade this morning, and prices remain as quoted at the close of
Monday's market. Parley is dull at last quotations. Alore
money is asked for Beans and Peas, but not yet obtained.
Oats meet a good sale, on terms fully equal to these of last
market day.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Mornsng Papers, Jan. 21.

[NEW TIMES:2
After the breaking up of the Privy Council
wilich was held on 'Monday at Brighton, a 'Mes-
senger was immediately dispatched to Hertford
Gaol with a respite for Hunt for one week. W e
trust that this guilty wretch will make every
possible amends to the offended laws of God and
•rnan, and entitle himself to a ,further extension
tiVthe • Royal mercy, by a full developernent of
alt his' past crimes : and we do indeed hope that
a course will he pursued it awakening him to a
due sense of his guilt and of his duties, very dif-
ferent from that which was followed with respect
10-Thurtell. The followin,4 remarks by a re-
spectable and judicious correspondent will be
found worthy of serious consideration ;e this
priint of view, more especially by those to c. horn
the spiritual instruction of Hunt is committed
" In common cases it is esteemed an essential branch of the
ministerial office to urge on the sufferer the imperative duty of
a full and ample confession ; but in the case of Thurtell it
seems- as if the parties who approached him were struck as be-
fore some superior being. I cannot doubt but that Thurtell,
by some false reasoning in his own mind, was induced to regard
his crime as more venial than other murders ; and the guilt of
his horrid deed, I Lar, was never fully impressed on his mind ;
for I cannot separate in my ideas true penitence from deep
humility ; and a truly humbled heart is disposed to make every
reparation for injuries committed. He should have been urged
in amost solemn manner to disclose all he knew of the atrocious
villany of others, and to state fully his own conthict. so 11 to
.prevent much evil being hereafter done by his survivors in sin,
and- so as to give to the world an acknowledgment that he
suffered justly for the crime for which he was com?c:nned."
There is' ome pa.rt of the dreadful transaction
which has never- vet been cl..ared up, and on.
which true penitence may indUce Hoot, and
would most certainly have induced Thurtell to
have made a full disclosure. We allude to the
money which Wpnre was known to be in the
constant habit of.carrying about his person, and
which there can be little doubt but • that one," if
not all, the guilty parties obtained. Even if
Thurtell attempted to defraud his associates in
that respect, there may be many circurns,tances
within the, knowledge of Hunt which ma ;y lead to
a discovery of the truth ; and it is the bounden
duty of the Chaplain of the prison to represent to
this mart, :now lying under sentence of death,
that his silence may be the means of keeping
that property from its lawful owner—the sur-
vving brother of the murdered man.

IMORNfNG CHRONICLE.]
The Holy Alliance have at length ro7iseti a
spirit which they will find it difficult to cpell.—
They are not now at issue with an ignorant
Priest-.ridden population, driven by excess of
suffering to revolt against their oppressors, but
with minds still enthralled by the prejudices of
ages of bigotry and superstition, and therefore
ready to desert those who devoted !hem elves to
their cause on the first trying conjuncture. The
North Americans are not a people nor.ed under
Inquisitions,---they have' not been accustomed
from their infancy to walk by the leading strings
of Fath4r Confessors—they are the descendants
of the most_ determined enemies of Priestcraft
and7-Tyranny that this country ever produced,
and they have inherited all their spirit improved
by the liberaiity of modern times. With such a
people, then, have the Holy Alliance now to con-
tcnd.. Emboldened hy ther successes, achieved
by. this aid of Priests and degenerate Nobles,
they .have- put forth pretensions which they are
unable to make good, while to recede from them
will be attended with disgrace. But they must
recede. Against the union of England and the
United States they will be impotent, arid that
there is the best understanding between the two
greatest Maritime Powers in the World is un-
doubted.

(THE TplEsl
A. letkr from Lloyd's, ;which we have pub-
lished THE SUN of yesterday), will attract
the notice of commercial 'men ; and those whose
interests are served by it, if any such there be,
will ,find, no doubt, sufficient room for extolling
the liberality of the French Government. t
appears by tbi, coium,lnicatiou, that the Govern-
ment in -question his undertaken to indemnify•
" the merchants" for Ltny losses than have been
sustained froM Spanish privateers during the Irate
war—not only the sums insured in France, but
these also insured in England, amounting in the
whole, as is asserted, to about 320,000/. We
are a little perplexed concerning the quantity
praise to which the French Ministry are on
this occasion entitled. The. parties froth whom
the thanks are due it is no easier matter
to specify. English merchants, it is obvious,
have shadow of obligation conferred upon
them, because, neither in ships nor merchandize
of any sort was British property a sufferer from
the privateers of Spain. It is scarcely to be pre-
sumed, on the other hand, that French mer-
chants would send goods or or vessels to sea, on the
eve of a War with Spain, or duriiig its progress,.
without covering them by an insurance against
capture by the enemy. In that case, therefore,
" the merchants " wanted no indemnification :
they came upon the underwriters, and there was
ats end of it. And is it this latter class of specu-'
lators. who are so, tenderly regarded by the
French
,Government? If so, there never was'
a more sentimental passage in any. romance
of M. de Chateaubriand than this same official
notification ; because we will venture to say that
no underi4riter, French or English, ever dreamed
of such a styptic for his losses, having already
taken care, by demanding increased premiums
on all shipping exposed to the risks of war, to
secure beforehand a fair indemnity for such as
might he actually captured. There may have
been vessels, by some strange chance, insured
against "the dangers of the sea" alone,
,and not
against an enemy. In that case, of • course the
merchant ~vould have no claim upon the under-
writer, should a Spanish privateer make prize of
the ship. If such be the nature of -the losses to
be made good .by the Government, it is no more
than the bounden duty of those who plungedinto
the war, towards those 4ho suffered by it, after
having earnestlY petitioned against it. The cries
of the French' commercial interest against
.the
Spanish invasion .still„.sound in the ears of their

Cabinet ; and the moment is well chosen for this
parade of munificence—being the eve of a general
electioo, and of a septennial chamber.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
One of those attempts but too frequent in this
day of imposture and credulity has been made
on the money market within a few days, in the
specious shape of a Greek Loan. The would-be
contractor is the holder of the last Poyais. One
would have supposed that the very name of
" Mosquito," with the swarm of buzzing
wretches whO were attracted round it to
cheat and plunder the unwary, would have
been enough to damn every future attempt at
imposition of this sort ; but unprincipled auda-
city can attempt anything where there is the re-
motest prospect of gain. For ourselves, after
the strictest inquiry, we do not believe that the
Sclavonian and Greek (or pretended Greek),
Mr. Hendrik's deputies, have any authority what-
ever to contract this loan. But what expedients
will not fraud or necessity resort to ? Juvenal
says, of old— •

Grmulus, esuriens, in eceluin jusseris, ibit ;"
and this is a desperate flight of the same descrip-
tion. It is yet a question whether even a regu-
lar loan; sactioned by the Greek Congress, would
be taken until the government of that country
Is more settled ; but a loan to the present
agents in the market would be a risk indeed.
Mr. Hendrik's loan was brought out at the
modest sum of 40. We should consider the in-
dk7idual a fit subject for a strait-waistcoat, who
would take a single Bond at one-half that
price. The real deputies from the Greek Con-
gress, who come authorized to treat for a loan,
are now on their way to this country, having
touched at Corfu. Mr. Bowring holds the
only authentic document, authorising a loan
in the name- of Greece, and this barefaced at-
tempt at imposition must give him great pain.
—The mock loan has, as yet, had no success
vr.hatever, and will we trust, be scouted .with
indignation in the money market. It is calcu-
lated only to entail ruin on those who engage in
it to any amount, and bring down unmerited op-
probrium on the Greek nation. But loans are
the bubble of the day ; we shall yet hear of one,
we suppose, for Terra Incognita, or one of the
Otaheitan islands, taken by some worthy con-
tractor, for the descendants, perhaps, of Adams,
the mutineer from the Boutay. Nothing appears
too gross to be swallowed at present. This last
speculation is a precious attempt on dupes who
van shut their eyes and be plundered by specu-
lators at noon-day.

[MORNING POST.]
Some of the French Papers assert that the
" futurity" of France depends on the result of the
approaching elections, and this opinion, though
expressed by the Liberals, seems to have met
with the assent of all parties. Hence their efforts
to
whichgi
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theirtltecruespliaerctv shapeie tei
inand.esctos:
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are great and incessant. The object is no
longer, • with Ow one to hold divided sway with
the Government, through the means of an active
and powerful opposition in the Chamber ; and
with the others to securesuccessive majorities
for the measures which they may choosy
to pro-
pose. Both sides are eager to bring the question.
between them to an issue, but such an issue .as
will prevent all future struggle, by i„ficting pcs.7
litical annihilation on the defeated. For this
purpose they are collecting all their strength, but
their weapons are not equal.• The Liberals have
the sense and the wishes of the nation in their fa-
vour: the Ministers have its fears, in addition to
the almost boundless authority which they derive
from their situations. Those fears a re not excited by
the dread of future revolutions, but by the experi-
ence of the persecutions to which those who dare
to express an opinion and still more to do an act
hostile to the existing Administration are ex-
posed. Nero matters allowed to stand on a
fairer footing, and the Government to content
itself with exerting the influence which it legally
possesses, without descending to menace, decep-
tion, and the most flagrant irregularities, even
then from the peculiar nature of the Election Law,
the nation would have but a feeble chance of calls-
ing her voice to be heard. As it is, she appears to
us to have none at all. The only arm of which
her champions hare not yet been deprived
is argument. But, why—are they allowed to
speak and to utter what one might conceive to
be the most rousing and convincing things
Because the Government are aware that they
produce no new feelings in the people—that;
they only say what is generally thought, and
that . instead of creating a fresh conviction, they
only re-echo that which exists, and against' which
such measures have been taken as disarm it of all
possible danger. Some of these we have already
described, af:d we have shewn that they were of
the most dishonest.and unjustifiable kind. Pri-
vate letters have since supplied u 5 with details
of past and present manoeuvres of which use had
no idea,- and which tho Ugh ealCulated to excite
the disgust of every friend to national liberties,
are at the same time curious specimens "of the
manner in which the Representative system is
understood and carried on in France.