The Sun.
London, England, 1823-05-15 00:00:00

FOR THE SUN.

'Ma. EDITOR-1 am induced to call the atten-
tion of your Readers to the late accident off'
Brighton, by which one of the Fishing Vessels
was swamped, and its crew (one the father of
seven children) drowned—for the purpose of ex-
pressing my opinion that hundreds of fishermen
are yearly lost, because no naval or scientific
man will give to them a model of a better and
more seaworthy (decked) vessel. The men
saved would soon form a complement for a man
of war.

. A FRIEND TO OUR (neglected) FISHERIES.
Temple, 15th May, 1823.

EAST INDIA HOUSE.

Yesterday a Special Court of Proprietors was
held at the East India House, for the purpose of receiving a
resolution of the Court of Directors, granting the sum of 60,0001.
per annum to his Majesty's Government, with the view of re-
lieving the finances of the country from the charge incurred for
retiring pay, pensions, &c., on account of that part of the army
maintained in the East Indies, from the Nth of April,lB22, to
be paid out of the territorial revenues of India.
The minutes of the last Court having been read,
The CHAIRMAN read a letter which had been received from
the Marquis of Hastings, expressing the gratitude which that
Nobleman felt at receiving the thanks of the Court for his con-
duct in India.

The CHAIRMAN then called the attention of the Court to the
subject for which they were specially summoned. Reread a let-
ter which had been sent by
the Court of Directors to the Presi-
dent of the Board of Controul, stating their intention to enter
into the arrangement with Government for the payment of the
pensions. Ile next read a letter which the Court of Directors
had received from Mr. Wynn, in reply to their communication.
Al r. Wynn's letter exp temed the pleasure which Government felt
at knowing the intention of the Court of Directors, and stating
that as soon as that intention should...receive the approbation of
the Court of Proprietorss a bill would be brought into Parlia-
ment to carry it into effect. In proposing that the Court should
approve of the resolution of the Court of Directors, he merely
wished to observe that the latter Court, in the arrangement
which they had made with Government, had been influenced
by an equitable feeling ; they took into their consideration that
a great proportion of the military force of this country had been
employed in India. The resolution had been agreed to almost
unanimously in the Court of Directors. He concluded by
moving that the resolution be approved by the Court.
Dlr. IluMic objected to the motion on a point of form. He
observed, that according to the 56th of the late King, and one
of the by-laws of the Company, the Court of Directors had no
power to make the arrangement with Government, unless they
first presented a report, signed by every Director who agreed
to it, to the Court of Proprietors, stating the groivids upon
which they had proceeded. That had not been done in the pre-
sent instance.

The Omni MAN denied that the Act of the late King, or the
by.-law of the Company, had the operation which the lion. Pro-
prietor contended tor.
Mr. PA TT's° N maintained, that the arrangement which had
been so much blamed by some Hon. Proprietors was in every
way advantageous to the interests of the Company. Ile would
not, however, oppose the wish for delay, if that wish were felt
by the majority of the Court.
Mr. llowaitp observed, that the Act of Parliament under
which the Company held its charter, took from the Court of
Directors the power of voting a single shilling beyond a tixed
sum chargeable on the funds of the Company, but vested in the
Court of Proprietors the privilege of voting any sum that might
be considered necessary and advantageous to the interests of the
Company. But were the proprietors to be called upon to agree
to any arrangement for burdening the funds of the Company,
without being informed of the grounds upon which that ar-
rangement was made? lie had no doubt that, when the Court
of Proprietors came to examine the adjustment which had been
made, they would find it an equitable and advantageous pro-
ceeding; but he thought that the consideration of the question
ought to be deferred until the Court should be furnished with
the means of forming an accurate judgment upon the subject.—
(Hear!)
LOWNDES supported the proposition for adjourning the
question.
The CIIAIII3IAN then put the question on the ammend-
meat ; a division took place ; when the numbers appeared—
for the amendment, 31—against it, 82.
The CMAIII.MAN then put the question on the original
motion.

Mr. ROBINSON thought the Court ought not to proceed to
approve of the proceedings of the Court of Directors, until they
had obtained the opinion of the Company's law-officers upon
infringed.
Mr. question whether the by.law had been
Mr. num E intreated the Court not to consent to the original
motion, by which they Would sanction a gross infringement of
their by-laws.
Mr. Btnn expressed a hope that the original motion would
not be pressed.
The CHAIRMAN stated, that as far as the Court of Directors
were concerned they had so objection to hear the opinion of
their learned Sergeant. For his own part, he had no hesitation
in stating, that in his opinion the by-law of the Company had
not been infringed by the proceeding of the Court of Directors.
'rlie arrangement to which, they had made themselves parties
was neither in the shape of a pension or gratuity.
Mr. um+; recommended that the following question should
be put to the learned Sergeant Is the proposed resolution
to grant 00,0001., on account of retiring pay and pensions, to
be considered as coming within sections 19 and 20 of chapter 0
of the Company ?" Ile also desired to have the answer of the
learned Sergeant delivered in writing.
Mr. GRANT suggested that the question proposed to their
law-officer should be--" Whether, in proposing the resolution
of the Court of Directors for the approbation of the Court of
Proprietors, the obligations of the by-laws had been fulfilled ?"
Mr. Sergeant BosAN(4Oi:T, the question proposed by Mr.
Grant having been submitted to him, declared, that in his opi-
nion, none of the by-laws of the Company had been violated by
the proceeding of the Court of Directors.
The CHAIRMAN then put the question on the amendment,
which was negatived.
The original motion was then carried in the affirmative.
The CHAIRMAN then moved that the Court do confirm the
Resolution of the Court of Proprietors, granting a sum of
:10,000 rupees to Major Camuck, on account of his services in
India.

After a few words from Mr. Hume, Mr. Lowndes, and Mr.
Gahagan, the motion was agreed to.

TILE SUGAR QUESTION.
The Citainmax then presented a report of the proceedings
which the Court of Directors had adopted in consequence of the
resolution which the Court had passed upon the subject of the
sugar question. 'I report stated, that the Court of Directors
had waited upon tie Earl of Liverpool, to inquire whether the
Government would consent to the equalization of the duties on
East and West India sugars, sr to the appointment of a Com-
mittee of the House of Commons to examine the whole sugar
question. The Earl of Live 00l stated, that Government
would consent to neither of the propositions which the East
India Company had made, hut that it would support a motion
for the repeal of the acts of the Ist and 2d of Geo. IV., which
imposed an additional duty of As. per cwt. upon clayed sugars.
Upon the motion of the Clt,Atu MAN, the report was confirm-
ed,,and the Court then adjouilied. •

LAMENTABLE Acct - Yesterday after.
noon, about five o'clock, as Prince's Brighton
Coach, which runs from Islington in six hours,
was driving towards town along Newington
Causeway, the driver (a part proprietor) John
Lawton, seeing fOur children, the eldest 12, and
the youngest three years of age, running across
the road, nearly opposite the Peacock Public.
house, instantly pulled up, and two of them, a
girl 12 and a boy five years old, succeeded in
getting safe across ; but two little girls, named
Woodroffe,one five
and the other three years old,
daughters of a labouring man, residing at 41,
Regent's Place, Kennington lane, were knocked
down by the leaders: The younger was trampled
almost to pieces by the horses, her entrails being
torn out ; the other lay between the horses, and
for a moment there was a hope of extricating her
without injury ; but the hinder wheel passing
over her head, crushed it to pieces. The driver
was taken into custody, and examined at Union
Hall, where, from what transpired in evidence, it
appeared that he bad conducted himself on the
occasion with the utmost propriety. The Magis..l
trate, however, felt it to be his duty to detain
him to await the result of the Coroner's inquest.l

FRENCH PAPERS OF MONDAY.

PARIS, MAY 12.

It was believed on the 4th, at Perpignan, that
the head-quarters would on that or the following day move for.
ward, and that an engagement with Mina's corps would take
place.--(Journal de Paris.)
A journal, after remarking that the Moniteur of Saturday
contained no news, speaks immediately in another paragraph
of an affltir supposed to have taken place on the 4th inst. with
the army of Catalonia. Have a few moments longer patience—
give but time for a part of Molitor's division to pass the Segra,
and to manoeuvre on the flanks of Mina, and it will be seen
why the Moniteur has hitherto had nothing to say of the army
of Catalonia.—( Journal des Debats. )

The Prince of Carignani has come to France. He is to go
to the Duke of Angoulerne to serve as a simple volunteer in
the 'French army : the noble resolution of this young Prince
proves that he will be worthy of ascending the throne to which
he is called by birth.—(lldd.)
One of our frigates has captured, off Corunna, a small
Spanish vessel, laden with 5,000 muskets and ammunition, on
account of the Cortes.—(ibid.)
We learn that St. Ander is possessed by the French army.—
(Gazette de France.)
PERPIGNAN, MAY appears that the enemy have de-
cided upon keeping on the defensive by means of occupying the
mountains, which bound ,the right flank of the road from Fi-
gueras to Barcelona ; the enemy's army continues to occupy
advantageous. positions. It is stated upon the authority of dif-
ferent reports brought to the refugees of the Faith, which re•
ports have been sent by persons who as,sert that they have
reckoned the enemy's army corps by corps, and man by man,
that it consists of 10,000 effective men. It is added that the
last regiinent which arrived at the army from Barcelona,
escorted a convoy of 6,000,000 reals.—lt is stated that the army',
of Catalonia into be reinforced by 6,000 men.
BAYONNE, MAY 9.-There has been no messenger from
Madrid, nor have we received any Spanish Journals. We know
no news but by means of private letters from the army, and those
that are written by a few merchants,who from their age and infirmi-
ties, have not followed the Constitutional troops. The last arri-
vals from Vittoria announce that some indications have been given
of the intentions of the enemy's Generals. It is asserted that Mo-
rino has marched into Austria with his corps d'armee, in order to
manoeuvre on the right wing of the French army, for the purpose
of relieving Santona, and attempting to retake Bilboa from the
Army of the Faith. As for Ballasteros, it is said, that after seve-
ral manoeuvres before the division of General Molitor, he had
returned to Tudela, to fix himself between the head-quarters
and the division, die march of which he pretended to oppose.
'L'he number of his troops is undoubtedly much exaggerated,
by making them amount to 15,000 men. It is a very singular
circumstance that this General, three days before the entrance
of the French into Saragossa, had refused to lend any assist-
ance to the garrison of that town, against which he had suc-
ceeded in exciting a part of the population.
Pastor, who had been charged with the defence of San-
tona, has just been replaced in the command of this place by
Colonel Paredes, who performed the duty of Fiscal in the pro-
secutions instituted against the conspirators of the 7th of July.
The Pastor, a friend, and formerly a companion in arms of
Mina, is charged with the command of a corps of Guerillas,
who are to throw themselves on Arragon, in order to connect his
operations with those of the General in Chief of Catalonia.
Some travellers, in company with a messenger from the Eng-
lish Government, who is just come from Seville, related that the
Cortes are actively engaged in using every means to raise Com-
paniesof Guerillas. Several decrees relative to this organization
have been issued. It is also quoted as one of the acts agreed to
by the Cortes, and sanctioned by the King, that Gen. Mina has
had the unlimited power conferred on him to act in the present
war according to circumstances. It is believed that one of
the first acts of this General will be to send into Navarre, a di-
vision of his corps, which, forming itself into Guerillas, will
serve as a support for those which are beginning to be formed in
there provinces. _

On 'the other hand, several rich proprietors have raised, at
their own expence, small bodies of partizans, who are betaking
themselves to the mountains. Among these is mentioned a
citizen of Ernani, called Doyarcabil ; his troops, it is said, has
already attacked a small detachment of soldiers, who were
join,ng their comrades.—( Courier Francais.)
llamnunan,'MAi 2.—We learn with pleasure, that not--
withstanding all the difficulties that were raised in the Swedish
Diet, for the purpose of getting rid of the motion relative to
the publication of the debates, the Order of the Commonalty
kept firm, and, thanks to that firmness, it has succeeded in
attaining its object, after having again irrevocably decided that
its sittings should be public. The Assembly of Deputies of
the Order of thd Commonalty, appointed a Committee to pro-
pose an arrangement for carrying into effect the principle that
the public shall be admitted to the Sittings.
VIENNA, APRIL 211.—Colonel Scheer has arrived here
from Rio Janeiro, on a special mission from the Court of Brazil,
to his Imperial Majesty.. Be was also the bearer of autograph
letters from the Archduchess Leopoldine, who styles herself Em-
press of Brazil, addressed to her father, the Emperor of Austria.
the object of Colonel Scheffer's mission was to prevail on the
Court of Austria to recognize the legitimacy of the new order
of things established at Brazil, and to take upon its' If the ini.
ocofgntliietion.amopsrtivdaistetinaguudiisehnedce
tiative of disposing the other Courts of Europe to a similar re-
reception and assured him that, being personally disposed in
Emperor`lliie Brazilianyrancis Envoy
whogase obtainedil a
favour of his son-in-laW, he wished it were in his power to ac-
cede to his wishes; but he. could not take the initiative in an
affair which could only be treated of in concert with the Allies
of Austria, and to whom it Ought besides to be forthwith pro-
posed. Ilia Inwerial Majesty added, that whatever were his
private sentiments in favour of Don Pedro, he could not ap-
plaud his resolution of taking the title of Emperor.
87.50. ;—closed 87. 30. Bank Stock, 1,580. Neaeolitan 5y r
FRENCH FUNDS. MAY 12.—Five per cents. 87. 30. ; 87. 20. ;
cent. 75g. Exchange on London, one month, 25. /5. ; 3 ditto,
25. 55.—(Coors Authentigne.)

Cutr.E.—(Bstract of a Letter, dated Valpa-
raiso, 24th January, received by way of Gibral-
tar.)---" You w ill have seen by, my last letter,
via Buenos Ayres, that our Minister of Finance,
RonamuEz, has resigned, and that thus his
party is broken up, and the obnoxious Custom-
house regulations, which have given much un-
easiness to the merchants, have been abandoned.
it is said, and believed by many, that these
regulations have been the sole cause of the dis-
contents in the provinces of Coquimbo and Con.
ception ; but the fact is somewhat different; the
measures of RonniouEz and his party in adminis-
tration were unpopular in toto,and the Convention
which had raised great expectations has disap-
pointed them, by supporting RODRIGUEZ and his
visionary schemes, and doing nothing substantial
for the purpose for which it was called together.
The troops stationed on the southern frontier,
under General FREYER, had been totally aban-
doned to the slender resources of the Province of
Conception, and thus offered a support to the op-
ponents of lionnlauEz. The end of all this will)
however, be favourable to the interests of the coun-
try ; the fall of the Minister has been the crisis; the
abuses will be reformed, and every thing will be
amicably settled. The two discontented provinces
having proposed to send commissioners to Talca,
in order to state their grievances, this Govern-
ment has assented to it, and the Commissioners
are to meet immediately in that town, which is
on the road from Santiago to Conception. The
ship Hugh Crawford, from London, has brought
a remittance to the Government on account of
the loan ; the gold is to be lodged in the national
mint."

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LONDON,
THURSDAY, MAY 15, 18e3.

HIS MAJESTY.—The Report at Carlton II ouse
this day stated, that his MAJESTY was better last
night, and continues so to-day. When our mes-
senger came away his MAJESTY was in a pro-
found sleep, which was expected to produce a
very beneficial refreshment. It is confidently
said, that his MAJESTY has been advised by his
Medical Attendants to try the effect of the Bath
waters, which will probably be the case, when
he is sufficiently recovered for the journey.

We have received the Paris Papers of Monday,
and have inserted their principal contents under
the usual head. There is no news of any im- •
p:ortance from the theatre of the war. A kind of
fearful suspense, occasioned either by the equa-
lity of their forces, or by the superior skill of the
Spanish Commander in taking up his positions,
seems to hang over the,. movements of Marshal
ISIONCEY and General MINA. The result, whether
it be in a general engagement, in the retreat of
MINA into Valencia, or in his shutting himself up
in Barcelona, cannot fail to exercise some intlu-
trice over the pending negociations at Seville. The
French Government is said to await the issue of
.the operations in Catalonia with great anxiety,
and to feel both disappointment and alarm at the
slow progress of its arms in that quarter. Un-
favourable impressions have also been produced
respecting the situation of the Duke d' ANGOI.I.•
I.ENIE the Moniteur having published no bulletins
for several days. It is believed that the com-
munications between Vittoria and the French
frontier' have already been interrupted by the
Spanish guerillas.