The Sun.
London, England, 1824-12-16 00:00:00

WHIMS OF MUSIC:At COMPOSERS.

'Whenever ftAynm sat down to compose, 1w
niways dregipti himself with the utmost carp.;
haii his heir oiceiy powdered, and put on his
best suit of clothes. ..Frederick. If. had given
him a diamond ringramitlinytin decisred, that
if 'lte happened to hegin,composing without it, he
could not summon a single idea. would

-write only upon the finest paper, end was as
pirticular in forming his notesars if he were en.
&militia' them upon copper-plate. After all these
minute reparations, he began by choosing the
theme of his twirled, and =tiring into what keys
hi' wished to modulate it, he, As it were,
varied the action of his subject, by-imagining to
bialhof the, inckleut of--some little,adventure or
romance.

CibucK, when he felt himself in a humour for
composing, had his piano carried into a beautiful
meadow, and with 4 bottle of Champagne on
each side of him, transported his imagination
into Elysium.

SAAR', a Magi or a 1410orny irnaLlitiation, prefer,
reirthe solemn oiliness of a spacioui room, dimly
ligbtetl by a single lanip.

eigAlleilA delighted in noise and mirth ; sur.
"minded by a party of friends, he composed his
opeius ; and as the ideas presented themselves,
be seized and embodied them. In this way he
planned his beautifu I opera, it Matrimonio Secreto.

•
PA ES' riALO COMpOSed Ilakbierk ,S e cevighof
gild, La Molinaro, jn bed.

SACCHINI declared that he never had moments
of ipspiration, except when his two favourite cats
4teto,sitting one on each shoulder.

FRENCH PAPERS,

( From the Etoile, dated Tueaday.)

MADRID Dec. 2.—The King's health is so
entirely re-established, that no more bulletins are
to be published. "
Prince Maximilian of Saxony, and the Princess
Amelia kis daughter, will notlerrive till to-mor-
row. They were,detaified at Burgos by the dee
sire to see the antiquities of that city.
Our Gazette contains to-day the regulations
approved by his Majesty on the '23d September,
relative to the steps to be taken by such of his
subjects as, conformably to the treaties of 1814
and :181,601ave any .claims to make on the Royal
Treasury of France. .Before taking any direct
steps they must have their claims approved by
the. Committee of Liquidation.
TANnteits, OCT. '27.—A. Sardlaian vessel hav-
ing arrived here, the Pacha ordered the crew on
shore, and 10 Moorish soldiers were put on
board. ft is, therefore, now under the superb'.
tendance of Moors.

The English Consul, who for the present acts
as Consul for Sardinia, has taken down tl►e Sar-
dinian colours. The Pacha, in excuse for this
act of violence, says, ltat the Emperor of Mo-
rocco had declared that he allowed Sardinia only
six months to send hither ass Ambassador or.
Consul invested with full powersond when that
time was expired he could no longer recognize
Sardinia as a friendly Power. The time has
elapsed, and the Moorish Government will no
longer recognize the Sardinian dug.
An American corvette of i 4 guns put in here
on the 6th of this month. As soon as the Ca,pteitt
came on shore, he went, accompanied .1).1, the
Consul of Ms nation, to the Castle..tod.reat with
the Pacha for the embarkation.a %Valdez, Mar-
conicini, and others of the revolters of Tarifa.
The Pacha has not acceeded to the wishes of the
americans, and the latter .has sailed for Gib.
.raltar.

P.kftl3, DEC. 11—Brigadier-General Bald°.
mero Espolatero, who :lately arrived at Madrid
from Peru with dispatches, has se. out to em-
bark at Bordeaux. ate ,is said to be charged
with a mission to General La Sem.
( From the ,afortiterr t f ,Ifostiay.
(NON•O,EFICI AI. ptier.)

M. nun), Nov. 30.--The Minister of War has
addressed the following general order to the
,Captain-Genera; of this nrovince,:—

" EXCELLENT Stit—The Superintendent-General, ad in.
*rim, of the Police, having received representations .fmrti'the
Intendant-General of Police ut Cadiz, respecting certain'
viduals who are in various partssaf thislimvincelwith Riispbeted
persons and officers without destination, who chase theirabode
in the towns and villages nearest to the coast (which might to.
excite distrust), and having given an account of this to hie
Majesty, he has decided that thaseiindividushi should no longer
he permitted to reside in place* semen the sea-coast and that
the greatest care and vigilante AA he employed thia,noisus.
pccted person or officer without destination; be sutl'ered to
remain on any point of the coast, unless they are natives of
•"!..!.nlaces." _ . _

- ; '► the Spanish fortrases will have
nothing to do but IntiranteTlAntiuntity and good order ; !they,
will take no concern whatever in events that' occur beltimi the
walls.
It Is observed that there are now fifteen Archbishops and
Bishops in this capital. As the prisons cannot contain' the
prisoners that arrive daily, a spacious edifice, which .served as
Imrracks for one of the French regiments that have left us, is
to be placed at the disposal ,be eh,. Itummillint.l.lt~raLter thp
11.-it
r From the Condttutionnet.)

SEMLIN, Nov. 25.—Letters from Bitoglia,
dated Nov. It, announce the arrival ht, that
place of the Seraskier Derwisch, Pacha of La-
rissa. From the moment of his arrival, it has
been rumoured that Larissa was evacuated by the
Turks. The same letters state that the army of
Derwisch has been considerably diminished by
the continual combats in which it has been en-
gaged with the Greeks.

- MADRID) DEc.2.—The Apostolic faction be.
gins to break loose in the most outrageous man-
ner. Th e decree for the re-establishment of the
Inquisition is actually prepared, and ready to be
submitted to the King for his signature : the ra-
pidly decaying influence of M. Ugarte alone has
hitherto prevented its promulgation. Every
possible species of opposition is directed against
t)u Minister Zea, who is characterised as a he-
retic and free-mason, because he does not agree
to a system of universal ;persecution.

PARIS, DEC. 12,—Tht; Etude, the official jour-
nal of the Ecclesiastical Bigots, severely re-
proaches the English Ministerial Journals for
their attacks on the Catholics. WP are grieved,
in common with every true friend of humanity,
at all the oppressive measures directed against
the freedom, of worship ; hut is not English into-
lerance the result of the growing influence which
the Uhre-Montenes exercise in France I And the
diatribes of the Etolle itself, the fury of Us friends
Against the cemeteries, that spirit of persecution
which shews itself in all their actions, and speaks
414411 (heir writings,—will not these things yet a
long while retard that epoch of emancipation for
the Irish Catholics, so ,earnestly desired by true
philanthropists? The French fanatics are re-
sponsible for the delay.

• (From Ma Journal des Debato.)
111 Anitin, DEc. `,----The evacuation. of this
country by the French army begins to produce
Espagna, Commandant in Arragon,
the results which were naturally expected from
it. :General
has forwarded dispatches to the Minister of War,
in which, we are assured, he strongly urges the
neeeseity of sending
him a further . supply of
troops, to enable him to .restrain the eteesses
which are committed by the ,people, Particularly
in Lower „Arragots. _ _

The Curate Merino has hastily set out from
this city, to pput himself at the head of a strong
detachment netrnopti, and pursue a body of Con-
stitutional Guerilla, which 4nts been newly raised
in Old Castile,

It seems certain that:the Covertitnent thinks
seriously oChringing to trial all the Ex-Political
Chiefs whom it may be able ,to get into its power.
The Marquis de Cerralbo„ a •Grandee of Spain
atm!. Fa.dltiefof has already been ar.
J'eSted, and iS 1101 v oit his way to the capital, in
ordentoibe put on his trial.
IDZC. t2.—The Gazette de Lausanne
has the following para4raPh.:-,---"
The rumour
w troops hich was cir,calLkted, that the Swiss trps were
to pass detioitivety into the service ofSpain, ii opt
conlirmed ; on the contrary, it uppears that these
corps out only continue, in the French service)

but in the pay of France, even during their so-
journ in the •• vanish territory."
( Prost the Courier Francais. )
M A Dill D, 11Ev. 2e.••••17 he re-establishment of
the inquisition is more certain than ever. The.
reports that are circalitetton- this subject canmt
be without foundation., and 'it is known that a;
.Tanta, presided Inquisitor-Gene
ral, and composed jof, persons who have been
noted in the ecclesiastical hierarchy, and of others
to whom had been c9o“lefr. the . examination of
the papers belonging to the secret societies, are
at this moment forming a new plan for the regu-
lation.of the:
.Ifoly Mice ota, its re-establishment.
Fifteen. Prelates, Bishops, or Archbishops, are.
at present in this city.
PAnis, 12.—His Majesty the King of
Bavaria has directed that if, in the marriages be-
tween Protestants and Catholics, the Priests of
the latter religion should refuse to the Catholic
party the publication of the banns (and there are
many instances of such refusals) or the nuptial
benediction, at least when the two parties engage
to bring up their children in the Catholic reli- '
gion.; then the Protestant Clergyman shall be
authorised to bless the marriage ulotto, and to
pay no attention to the dimissory letter of the
Catholic priest.
FRENCH FUNDL—PAnzs, DEC. 13.—Five per Cents.
opened at 102. 0. ; closed at 102. s.—Bank Stock, 1,990.
Neapolitan Renter, (Falconet's Certificates), M.—ltentes
d'Erpagnei 411.—Royal Spanish Loan, 54—Ex:change on
London, alto month, 24.0. a three months, '24. 05.—( Cour,
Authentique.) e

CEYL o N.

THE HON. SIR J. IVOYIX, BARONET.

Died at Kandy on the '2sth May last, at one
o'clock, A. M. of Remittent Fever, caught on an Official Tour
in the Seven Korles, the Hon. Sir Joitx D'OYLY, Baronet, a
Member of his Majesty's Council in CeYlon, and Resident and
First Commissioner of Government in the Kandyan Prosinces.
His remains were removed from his late residence in the Palace
for interment in the burial ground of the garrison on the morn.,
ing of the 26th instant, at seven o'clock, the troops .of the garri.
son lining the mad from the Palace to theburial gronfid, resting
on their arms reversed, while minute guns were fired by the
Royal Artillery in the Castle, as the Procession moved along
in the following order :
The Korales and Aratchies of the Udarate.
The Band of the Ceylon Regiment.
THE 1101)

Borne by twelve European .Soldiers of the 45th Regiment.
The Pall, borne by six Field Officers and Captains of the
Garrison.
Chaplain, Medical Attendant,
The Rev. N. Garstin. Surgeon Armstrong.
Lieut.. Colonel L. Greenwell, S. Sewers and If. Wright, Esqrs.,
the Commissioners of the Board, ns Chief 3lourners.
Officers of the Garrison and Gentlemen of Kandy.
The Adigar of the Kandyan Provinces and Kandyan Chiefs.
Mod Ham Mohandirams of the Residency.
Clerks of the Public Offices, together with an immense concourse

, .
of
Natives.
To all in Ceylon, and every one in any way connected with
this island, ,no.eulogium on the character of Sir John D'Oyly
is necessary:. and to. those unacquainted with the deceased,
language must Atli An,cpriveying an adequate idea of his worth
as ;a math, And vierit.aS a public servant.
INN doubt, will, be entertained On this head, when it is .
tinitted Westminster, he was palictt,tairrt, tii,litt4:.
.His talents.::iind acquirements were of the first
.ordekra,
known
' that:1)0001,11e
fingulAwd, by. the friendship of the
late learnlehle maintained
school, yr. :Vincent, with whom we have heart
11
octraersaphowinlaernacte
highil the
feelingsdttl i of
which the
w Reverendere
.Doctor.
conspicuous i
as Their
with an amiable gentle-
r realefl. iby all
Ile!'
execution
were
',John tyooy's character, combined
courteousness
. of man-
!lessor disposition, naturally produced a
saintedacq .
of their enjoying it ; while the
with him tha:inya
fully shared by the natives of every part of Ceylon in which his
telhate.tr!tewthsit).6‘:linetatititiltelntsiiikerissatwwitilelof his countrymen and friends were
• 1,.. It . ~.- .A. -J.._.-'t 4n4 towarda..svlsom. au-
arVitieinirTtice, tempered with attention to au their wants,
slrililosiiwsc liv,soorra.entdaesi
and is general charitableness of dis Position, that their regret, as
evinced by the numbers of all ranks in and about Kandy, who
spontaneously attended the funeral, and loudly limented the
lui-s'ilOy had sustained, we fplly believe to be unfeigned and
aincere.:., . • , . ,
. .
. ,
The.'ilerits and exertions of Sir John D''Oyly at a public
ticryaiii; 0011 principally as connected with die addition to his
Alajesty's dominions of the larger, part of this Island, have,
been duly appreciated by the highest
was first conveyed in
't)ltiter readers
dispatchauthorities. wfeirliolinski 3 'Fe (''tY i'
Secretary approbation4 f. S;a t e to Sir Robert Brown-
rigg, published by the Government : here on the Ist of June,
words:---" I am also commanded par.
1810, in the following
titularly to express the sense which his Royal highness (the
Prince Regententertains of the conduct and services of Mr.
D'Oyly upon tie late occasion. To his intelligence in conduct-
ing tie negociations, first with the Karalyan Government, and
latterly with the Adikars and others who opposed it,---to his in-
defatigable activity in procuring information and in directing
the military detachments, the complete success of the enter.
prize is principally owing ; and his }loyal Highness avails him-
self with ideasure of this opportunity of expressing how greatly
he appreciates, not only Mr. D'Oyley's later services, but
those which he has at former periods, by his attention to the
Kandyan department, rendered to the colony and his country."
His Majesty's approval thus expressed, was afterwards fol-
lowed by the elevation of the deceased to the Dignity of a
Baronet of the United Kingdom, on the ‘27th July, 1821. This
title becomes extinct, as Sir John died without heirs, never
having been married.—(Ceyhat Government Ga...:ette.)

SPANISH AND ITALIAN Rercoccs.---Yesterdny
a great number of persons of all ranks brought
subscriptions for the relief of the unfortunate
Spanish and Italian Refugees to the Mansion
House. Mr. Lim, M. P. for Middlesex, and
k Mr. Williams, the bunker, of Birchin.lane, were
amongst the number. Those Gentlemen observed
that too much praise could not be given to the
Chief Magistrate for his prompt and perse-
vering exertions in the cause of the Refu-
gees. They also expressed their warm upproba.
don of the fixed intention of the Lord Mayor
to consider the subject wholly divested of poli-
tical tendency. His Lordship has received in-
timations from several of the highest persons in
the Kingdom that his .humane views upon the!
subject will find powerful supporters, where aid
can most effectually he administered. We be•
lieye that 1501. has been received at the Mansion
House. his Lordship observed that he enter
wined ono doubt, from the coalmencetnent of the
-
PPPlicathmai of the liberality with which the
public would come forward on this mast distress.
lug emergency, He "had taken op the cause of i
the unfortunate foreigner, slot because they had
fought for this reason or for that, but because
they were starving in our streets,
country. and had a claim
upon our compassion, whether they It ere martyrs
to a just cause, or the- promoters of rebellion in'
their own
Fimu"stv.----Yesterday evening a robbery was
committed in the house of Mr. Jsmes Wraortss,
an indePentient gentleman residing in Grover
Terrace, Hear Lambeth, whose premises were
e n terveedry 'by
coimiderawe
seine during depredators, and robbed
of a
apparel, &C., to the amount of about 1001. The
4,illains, it appeared, quantity of plate, wearing
gained access from the gar.
den gate at the beck of the-house, and although
the thieves could have been but a short time
there, they contrived to strip the premises of the
above property, with which they escaped without
dete4tiott.