The Sun.
London, England, 1824-05-24 00:00:00

HAMBURGII AND DUTCH PAPERS.

-54—The Conservateur
ST. PETERSBUGII, AT
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state
Impartial of yesterday hasthe, the followi
iisc°onftathine
" The foreign Journals received by
the
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highly exaggerated accounts relative to present
relations of the Ottoman Porte with the Allied Powers in gene..
ral, and with Russia in particular. These accountsnsltay failed;
"'lst, That M. Minziacky's mission has entire
and 2d, That great armaments are making on the Turkish,
...frontiers along the Danube.
" To this we answer:—
.
."'lst. That M. Minziacky has executed in the
moat
suc-
cessful manner the commission confided to him, having been.
enabled to open his office for the concerns of commerce in the
month of March, and consequently the relations between Rus-
sia and Turkey, which he had orders to renew, are in fact
actually renewed, and at the same time on the most satisfactory.
" 2d. That no official account has -yet been received of a
-reinforcement of the Turkish troops in the fortresses on the
Danube.
It is, therefore, with great regret that.we have observed, that
the most respectable French Journals have hastened to disse-
minate such 'false reports on the credit of the Augsburg and

Nurentbur Journals, and to copy all that these Journals in
their zeal for the cause of rebellion and disorder have been
pleased to prophesy."
STOCKHOLM, MAY 4.—The Government is engaged in ef.
fecting the reduction of the Navy, which has been judged ne-
cessary. This reduction is to take place from Ist January,
)825. We hear that above half of the Officers will be dismiss-
ed, but still retaining their half-pay ; and as they die, the pay
of the survivors will be considerably increased. The nine com-
panies of sailors will probably be reduced to three or four.
The moment is particularly favourable for the operation, be.
cause' by the death of the High Admiral Baren Stedingk, the
great fleet and the galley fleet are united into one, and the dif-
ferences in the promotions ceases.
The Gaiette of the sth contains a letter from the King to
the Minister of Justice, requiring the acceleration of the opera-
tions of the Committee appointed to draw up a new Civil and
Criminal Code.
COPENHAGEN, MAY 11.—His Majesty Sets out for Jutland
on the 9th of this month.
An historical account of the Danish Asiatic Company has
just been published. From the table annexed, we find that,
from the year 1732 to 1745, 17 ships sailed for China, and 20
to the East Indies. Their cargoes were worth 3,973,474 rix-
dollars. The goods brought back in exchange were sold by
auction for 7,470,761 rix dollars. Front 1746 to 1771, 49 ships
went to China,—their cargoes were worth nearly 15,700,000
rixdollars. The sum realised out of the sale of the return cargoes
was 30,539,807 rix dollars. From 1772 to 1791, 40 ships went
to China, and 159 to India,—the value of their cargoes was
nearly 21,470,000rix dollars; that of the returns 71,660,0(10 rix.
dollars. On the one hand, we here see with pleasure how im-
portant to the country this Company once was, but it is painful
to reflect how this trade has dwindled away to nothing in later
times, and how the 4,800 shares, which were formerly worth
10 millions, are now scarcely worth half a million.
CHRISTIANA, MAY 3.—The operations of our Storthing are
in general very uninteresting to foreigners. There has been
nothing remarkable lately, except a debate on the payment of
the Civil List of the Crown Prince in silver. The Committee
has proposed to the Storthing to fix the sum of 24,000 rix dollars
per annum for the household of the Crown Prince.
BRUSSELS, MAY 20.—A very important cause was brought
yesterday before the High Court of Justice at Liege, between
his Highness Prince Charles of Bohan, appellant, and their
Serene Highnesses the Duke of Bourbon anti Madame Louise
tie Conde, Prince Louis de la Trimouille, and the l'rincess of
Poix. The question relates to the property of the Duchy of
Bouillon, the sovereignty of which was given to his Majesty the
King of the Netherlands by the treaties of 1814 and 1815.
The Court will have to decide on the effects of an entail made
in 1696 by Godfrey Mouriel, Duke of Bouillon, and that of
various decisions of the Congress of Vienna, of arbiters ap-
pointed the mediations of the High Allied Powers.
M. de 1 alk, Ambassador from the Netherlands to the Court
of Great Britain, arrived here on the 18th from the Hague, and
will set out in a:few days for London.
Eighty thousand lbs. of gunpowder, of the manufactory of
Loysel and Co., at Fouqucment, arrived at Liege on the 16th,
in four boats. These eighty thousand lbs. are the eighth part
of the powder intended for the two fortresses erected in the pro-
vince of Liege
_

His Majesty has issued a decree, prescribing measures of,
precaution relative to the employment of steam engines. By
this decree, whoever intends to introduce a steam engine into
the kingdom, for any purpose whatever, must give notice to the
Governor of the province ; he must state the construction of the
machine, the name of the maker, the capacity and form of the
boiler, with its safety valves, &c. ; whether the boiler is made
of cast or hammered iron, or of copper or brass; and last, what
is the degree of pressure at which the engine is intended to act.
These declarations are to be transmitted to the Ministers of the
Department of National Industry and the Colonies, who shall
appoint two or more qualified persons to examine the steam
engine, before it is set to work, and especially to prove the
boiler, so that in proportion to the material of which it is made
and its construction, it may be able to bear much more consi-
derable high or low pressure than that required for the force
with which- it is intended to act, and that in the following pro-
portions :
For a low pressure, the double •
For a high pressure, the boiler being of forged or hammered
iron, of copper, or brass, the double :
If the boiler is of cast iron, sextuple. '
A project of law now before the ,Second Chamber relative
to various financial operations, proposes; among other taxes,
one on foreign loans, by means of a stamp duty, on all bonds,
receipts, obligations, certificates, &c. in the following pro-
portion :
If the nominal capital is 250 florins or under, 75 cents. ; from
250 to 500 fl., If. 50c.; from 500 to 1,000 ft. inclusive, 3
And for all sums exceeding 1,000 florins, 3 fl. for every 1,1100
fl. without fraction.

The High Court of Justice has this morning confirmed the
sentence of the tribunal of the first instance, which condemns
M. H. Vanderstraelin, Editor of the Frien.l i!". the King and
the Country, to six months' imprisonment, 200 francs fine,
and deprivation of civil rights for five years.
FRANKFORT, INLAY 19.—An Ordinance has just been issued
in the Duchy of Hilburghausen, and in the Principality of
Schwartzburg Rudolstadt, prohibiting games
,of chance, on
pain of a considerable fine, and even of imprisonment.
On the 2d of this month a fire broke out in the suburbs of
Schwartzemburg in Erzgeberg, which in less than four hours
destroyed not only the greater part of the suburbs, but the
whole town, except the Church and Palace.
" NUREMBERG, MAY 12.—8 y letters from the coast of
Italy, of the 30th of April, we learn that notice his been given
in the ports of the Levant, that Russian vessels which ar-
rive there are under the special protection of the forte, and
that every assistance is to be afforded them. As there are not
yet any Russian Consuls in these ports, Russian subjects
who arrive there will have to apply to the Austrian or French
Consuls to obtain the necessary signatures or certificates. The
instructions given on this subject make no mention of the
English Consuls. All this has been arranged at Constanti-
nople, between the Russian Internuncio, Minziaky, and the
French Charge d'Affaires. The appointment of some Russian
Consuls and Vice-Consuls in the Turkish ports, is deferred for
the present. The stipulations of the treaty of Peace with
Persia are now gradually carrying into execution. The Per-
sian troops that were in the Pachalik of Bagdad have evacuated
it, and withdrawn to the Persian frontiers ; but it is affirmed
that they were previously guilty of variou§ excesses. Plenipo_
teatiaries are to be appointed by both parties to regulate the
frontiers."

HANOVER, MAT I.—The State and Cabinet
Ministry of Hanover comprises at present, under the Presi-
dency of the Governor-General his Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge, seven members, of whom the oldest, Count
Munster, is in London ; and the Ministers Von Hardenberg
and Ompteda are absent. The Foreign Department, which
takes cognizance of the Military and Finance Affairs, as well
as what concerns the Frontiers and the Post-office, is confided
to Mr. Von Bremer : Mr. Von Arnswaldt is charged with the
affairs of the University, the Church, the Convents, Seigneural
Rights, and what pertains to the education of the schools. Mr.
Von Meding has under his purview the Police and Municipal
Affairs, as also what relates to mining, building, end the
making of the high roads. The high office of Chief Justice
is confided "to Mr. Privy-Counsellor Rumann. The military
force of the Kingdom consists of two battalions, and two riding
batteries of Artillery, a Corps of Engineers, four Hussar Re-
giments, two of Cuirassiers, and two Regiments of Lancers.—
The Infantry is comprized in three brigades of twelve Regi-
ments, and a Corps of Sharpshooters. Thu.: is also the Land
Dragoon Corps. and a Depot of Invalids.—( Humburgh Cot,
respondenten, May 11. )

On the 28th ult. his Excellency Baron Ye
XOLAI, the Russian Minister at the Court of Copenhagen,
caused a solemn requiem to be performed in the Austrian
Chapel in that city, for his late Concoct, ALEXANDRA
SIM-
PLICIA, born Princess of BRAGLIO. The inside of the chapel
was lined with black cloth ; the Katafalgue and- its side dra-
peries were richly ornamented with the arms of the deceased.
The _Requiem of Mozart was performed in a very impressive
style by Dillettante, as part ofthe imposing ceremonies. Th &gal-
lery of the Austrian* Embassy was entirely filled by the mour-
ners. In the body of the church there were, besides the Catholic
aommunity, their Serene Highnesses the Princes of flEssx,
the Members of the Corps Diploniatique. and the greater part
:of the chief Officers of State, exclusive of azonsiderable num-
ber of friends and acquaintances of the deceased. On the
-whole it was a ceremony of the most moving description, and
' the entire congregation seemed deeply to feel its awful solem-
nity.; for the late Baroness was universally honoured and re-
spected—and it had pleased Divine Providence to summon her
to happier sphere" ere her virtues had full time to expland
in this sublunary world !
Accounts from Stockholm, dated 23d April,
say, that for four days the finest spring weather has been ex-
perienced, accompanied with a temperature of 14 to 15 deg.
according to Raumur. The gooseberry bushes were in full
blow, and the beautiful verdure of toe fields was daily in
30,000 ship
eoinadsoi
instead
dd ofpoa tiertrole afd9iyrtoitne April,lela n had
exnamenced this year on the
exported.
wasetL the case last year;
The official statement of the number of deaths
and births in the Kingdom of Hanover, for 1823, bears a strik-
ing resemblance, in its proportions, to what we noticed a few
days ago, respecting the Dukedom of Courland and Denmark;
in other words, there is a vast excess in favour of population,
the numbers born in Hanover being 52,807, and the number
deceased, 32,220.