The Sun.
London, England, 1815-01-19 00:00:00

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• By referring to THE SUN of the sth inst. it will
be seen, that a very painful =report which is in
circulation respecting the failure of the Expedi-
tion against New Orleans, and the Capture .of
Admiral COCHRANE, is altogether destitute of
foundation. This intelligence is dated 15th No-
vember, from the Mississippi : but our letters
from Barbadnes, of the 9th
_rf that month, stated
-that' Admiral COCHRANE Was then at Basse-
.terre, Guadaloupe, on his way from the Che-
sapeake- to Jamaida, where the Expedition against
New Orleans was to assemble. It is therefore
impo'ssible that there can be any truth in these
rumours, of his being lost "in the dalph of Mexiati,
before the fifteenth.
The Whole' story is probably .-an exaggeration
and mis-statement of the facts. already known to
the public, on the subject of the attack of Mo-
bilk; and Sgbsegnent operations at Pensacola. and
Barataria.

Since writing tbc above, we are confirmed in
our opinioa that the report is utterly unworthy of
attention, and haveleatia, from official authority,
that,Admiral COtIiBURN, WAS at Dermuda on the
s'll.N'orember, at which date there ai-et several
letters , and 'Sir -A. CoCxitawtt Was- at
Guadaloupe on .theA:Oth NOrember, when there
are dispatches-from

Flamburgh Papers to a late date let Its no fur-
ther than before into the secrets of Vicuna. The
first paragraph proses how well-founded we were
in our remark upon the European influenee Great
Britain would derive from the Treatyof Ghent,
its signature was a masterly stroke of Polics.

We have received—man-5? Communications on
the subject of the CORN laws, and as truth and
the welfare of our Country, are the sole objects we
have in view, w'e beg to assure our Correspon-
dents on both sides that their favours shalt he most
impartially attended to. At present we shall only
say that we have been widely misunderstood,
if it has ever been imagined that we wish
to deprive the .Landed and Agricilltural In-
t Crests of the fair and full protection to which
their merits and importance so justly entitle them.
Neither are our efrorts confined to the mere re-
duction of Corn pr fees. Every person who does
us the honour to peruse our daily labours, will
have the justice. to acknowledge, that we are
the determined adversaries of every species of
.monopoly and exorbitant rates. Rarely aotlay
passes without our endeavouring to 'render our
columns stsefirl to- the community at large, by-
assailing that system which, whether in colonial,
proJuee, in oils and tallow, in. porter, in hour, in
butchers' neat, or in any other great article of
Reiman ensuntion, enables a junta of (mot--

-mously wealthy individuals to grind and oppress a,
whole people., And never was there so open a
field fol the beneficial exertions of the Press. At
this hour, the Country feels in every transaction
the baleful effects of sham sales, false returns, and
regrating Capitals, and till a remedy is found for
these evils, no reduction of taxation, no fall of
rents, no clr:apuegs of grain, (though each will
ameliorate the condition of the people to a certain
extent), will avail to restore us to any thing like
the plentiful blessings of Peace.

THE SUN is pledged to toil in the cleansing of
this Augean stable, and we are proud of giving
this answer alone to the calumniators who accuse
uspf being the tools of corruption.or the advo-
cates for popular oppression.

The Trial of Sir JOHN MURRAY is expected to
last the • whose of the present week ; and may
possibly extend to Monday or Tuesday next. The
evidence of the prosecution, it will be seen, was
not closed on the third day (yesterday) ; and
when that part of the proceedings is finished, the
Court will probably adjourn for a few days, to al-
low time to. the Accused to prepare his defence.

A Morning- Paper, alluding to a report whick
kas current about ten days ago, has the follow-
ing•public-spirited paragraph
" According to Halifax Papers, several of the Americas
frigates were at sea. One of Deer's saiv the Cohstitutiots, Bur
FORTUNATELY AT A GREAT DIiT,iNCE ! ! !"

This is keeping up:the tone of. British feeling
with a vengeance!
The letteri from Paris delivered from the Post.
Oflice. yesterday, are to Sunday list, and those
obtained from the coast- are to the date of 'f ries.
day. High expectations were entertained at Ca-
lais and Dieppe,• of- commercial prosperity, from
the following arrangement as to what is known
in France by the distinction ,of the Law of -
Transit . • '
" Foreign tnerebandize will be admitted to enter the 'king--
dom without the_paynient of duty, if forwarded from the free
ports,
,cunformably-witlt the law of. The "6th Flereal', the
year It, or from ,the pprts of Ca litis and Dieppe, Which will,
under certain ristriettons, enjoy all thp immunities of such
free poits.7
It is to be understood that this regulation apm
Plies only to2goods in iransitui or in the course
of conveyance through the kingdom, and the egress
of sach goods is to be. at Gives, Charleville, and'
other situations particularly distinguished. The,,
merchandise, in such cases, is not wholly exempt
from
,Itity,.but it is so-small as to be called a droit
tie balance, or 15 centimes for the value of 100
francs, 6101 to, lid. in 51. sterling. '

THE QUEEN'S BIRTH7PAY.-=•HT MAJESTY coma
pleted her 70th year on the 19th. day of May last;
Which was celebrated yesterday,'accoreling to an-
nual castor!). The day was celebrated in a private
manner at Windsor. The QUEEN received the
congratulations on the return of the day from the
Royal FaMily : the Duke of YORK Went front
London-at eleven o'clock for that purpose, where--
he was met by the Duchess. from Ostlands. Its
the evening, her MAJESTY gave a:sumpttions- din-
ner at Frogmore to • the Royal Family,'-and a se.
lect party of the Nubility.
.His Royal. Highness the PRINCE REGENT IC"
mains still at Brighton.
Yeiterday forenoon several of his Majesty's
Ministers left town, forßrighton.
The ceirrespondence with Vienna was, we be-
lieve, never so active as at present, or recently;
as.the bets are always most frequent towards the
close of a race or a battle, On Friday JOHNsoN, the
Messenger, arrived ; anti on. Saturday, MEYER ;
on Sunday, Vicx ; and on Monday, Baoi.vx.—a
BROWN left Vienna about seven hours before Vicx,
who came by the way of Ghent. Lord LIVERPOOL
is still at Bath, to Which place a.Messenger was
sent oft- with BaowN's and VICK',S.
RUFF,, the King's' Messengeri-was in readiness to
lealle-Englarid yesterday, and will probably set
off this morning, 'if not inlhe course of the pre-'.
ceding night.
Orders have been sent to the Lords Lieutenant
to disembody forthwith the Bedford, Cumberland,
Dorset, sand Oxforif Regiments of Militia. Simi-
lar 'orders Will immediately-be sent to- other re-
giments.. '
Mr. JOSEPI, the -artist, who painted the cele-'
brated portrait of the late Mr. PERCEVAL, is en-
gaged in preparing for the Exhibition, a full..
length portrait•of Miss O'NEILL, as Melpomene.--
Miss O'NEILL is also at.present a subject for two.
others of our- portrait painters, viz. DAWE and.
DEVIS. All the pictures, it seems, are in a for
ward state.

The nen►• Juliet forthcoming at Drury-lana
Theatre; has. been performing some time. on the
Edinburgh Stage with great success, which inv
duced the Managers of the former to keep a Keats'
look out for her,

Messrs. BLIAHAM and KELLY-are clubbing their
wits for a new Opera, which is soon to be brauAbt
forward at Drury-lane Theatre, and in which tbo
former is of course to be the Hero.
On Monday was -opened in LLoyn's a policy of
insurance on sonic choice wines, per -Esperanz3),
from Madeira to the island of Elba, for the use 01
BUONAPARTE. M it was a matter of much Cum
riosity, the Underwriters %vete only indulged with
lines of 201. each.

MESSRS. 6EO. S'I'VEL UV AND SONS.----At
meeting of the Creditors of Messrs. G. STEvßtfir
and SONS held this day, we understand, that it
was finally determinta to proceed on the Statat4
of Bankrupt against that Firm.---(Fork ildrerta"
ser, Jan.. 12.)
Ten; Thousand Two Hundred Poundsr—The Tic;
ket, No. 2502, f? r a wi► yesterday a Prize of 2001;
and as first-drawn above 231. untitled to 10,000'
%•.•as sold in one Quarter, three Eighths, and slic
Sixtecuths, at Wcsa'S Office, 17, Ludgate-street!
where the fortunate Holders may receive thel'i
money on dernand.—oct Friday is the See('
4
Day of Drawing, when the 14 Prize above `Dili
also be entitled to 20,0001.—Tickets 01)t4
Shares, warranted, ate on sale at Wzmn's
()like, 17, Ludgat4:',streef.

N:i '.7 A .1.. i-c; F., \VS .

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 18.-6111161 his Majesty's
1145 CornwaVis, Prpheus, and Rorer, with the
Bas9julia fleet, ships for the Cape and Isle of
li'rance, and the trade for the Brazils. Also sailed
:be Amphion frigate, to cruize' off tile Western
Isles ; Boyne man of war, for Cork ; Ringdove
.aloof of war, to the Westward ; and the Haughty
gran-brig, for Plymouth. His Majesty'S ship
Crrior, for the 'West Indies, remains.—Wind
easterly.

FAEMOUTII,, JAN. G.--A: rived the Two Bro-
thers and Diana from Cork ; Ann and Susannah,
DUNN, from Southampton ; Assistance, JENKINS,
from Dublin ; anti the Teatshill, JEWEL, from
ov61"ill• Sailed the Nocton packet, with maili
l: Lisbon and Surinam.—Wind N.
.I‘I,4I(GATE, JAN. N.-Ca-111ebGATE, in tile Young Isa-
bel, DOELEN,, from London
for Ostend, with the
1055 of
both anchors and cables.
!18RWICH, JAN. 18.-.-Arrived the Lady Nepcan
pacpket, with a mail and passengers from HeligO-
d.

, . .
DEAL, JAR. ]8•--Remain in the Down= his
iojesty's shir,s
r Bombay, Rattlesnake, and
Scot] d
NEWCASTLE, jAN. 1 G.A-The Rufford, %MR,
from Pictoti with tiniber, arrived in the Tyne last
night. The Captain Jackson, of this port. STO-
.ctqls, plaster, on his passage from London,
While standing into Bridlington Bay, was -run,
clown by. the Peggy of Shields Crew saved.
ABERDEEN, iArt..l4. —We regret to state that
the apprelienkiouS long entertained for the stabi-
lity 01 the extended part of the New Pier bare
aggill been realized, by the fall of a considerable
Nirt Of the point, which nom, lies in rtiins,, while
ta.sre of the building appears,mitch shaken ; and
kt!tle same time, part of the Breakwater has given
11,,‘Y.,a,wing to an easterly swell, which set in on
''''(lrctiay with a gale from the north.

Gariand; from St. Vineents to Newfoundland, is re-
ttkerr by the Hamadryarl frigate, and arrived at her desti-
kllon on the 3d tit.
The Vier Gesustirs, ffazeurnteT, from Petersburg-1i to Got.
`kaiagb is pat. into Iteval with darissee, and unloading.
The tuna. Maria, Lange, from Riga to Copenhagen, was
'trawled near Riga arid 'Oil of water, early in December."
~,,..4erulatiorr Mimeo, from Norvi-ay, was totally lost
lITATrat early in December.
Phyelie Sehwyan, from Itevel to Stettin, was totally
-I;,t of Baltic Port, nth December.
'T'he IlYd.'ltohetts, Schouhock, from 'Ural to Lubeck, is pot
vark with loss of sails, and very leaky, having struck upon
Vrtsholoi.
The nchastiieff, Hossfeldt, front neva' to Stockholm, is
foundered at sea.--( revr JirtrVil ed.
tallyThelost Zephyr, Tunbridge; is run down off Cromer, d to-
..

.Yesterclay a Court of Directors waslied at the
East India House, when-the undermentioned Com-
manders took their final leave of the C&urt previ-
ous to departing for their respective destinations,
Vir. ":-

Captairt C. biThrtiock, Lowther Castle Captain P. Hughes,-
Bridgewater ; Captain G. Welstead, General Harris and
Captain C. O. Mayne, Atlas, for Madras, Prince of Wales
Island', and China.
Captain A. Nairne, General Kyr! ; and Captain C. Le Blanc,
Herefordshire, for St. Helena, Prince of \Vales Island and
China..
The following Captains were sworn into the
eon-inland of their respective ships, viz. :—.-..
Captain P. Rolland, Alnwick Castle; Captain J. Collins,
Watley; and Captain Pendergrass, Hope, for China direct.