The Sun.
London, England, 1823-01-06 00:00:00

THE ROYAL NAVY.

Capt. Charles •Bowen is appointed to the Driver, 18 gun
sloop, on the coast of Africa.
His Majesty's ship Doris sailed from Uma on the 4th of
August, for .Valparalio and England. His Majesty's ship
Aurora was at Lima on the Bth of September.
The Trinculo, 18 gun sloop, is ordered to be commissioned
at this port, and to be fitted for Channel service.
The Leander, 60 guns, was paid off on Tuesday, by Capt.
Job Hamner, and laid up in ordinary.
The Pandoira, 10 guh brig, is ordered to this port from Ply-
mouth to be refitted.

Ship: at Spithead—Calliope and Cameleon,—/n Horhotir—
Queen Charlotte, Ramifies, Albion, Briton, Itingdove,Clinker,
and l'elter.

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAT, JAN. 4.—Wind S.E.—Came down from the River
and sailed the Lady Hannah, Ellice, for Savannah
burgh, for Teneritle ; Industry, for Gibraltar; God Hope,
for New Orleans; Lady Macworth, for Honduras; Sisters,
for Demerara ; and Delight, for Berbice.
Jag. b.—Wind S.E.—Sailed the Barclay, for New Orleans.
41rrived and sailed for the River the Cyrus, Beckwith, from
Ballast ; also arrived and remains the Mellish, Ford, from Ma-
dram and Bengal. Put back the Barclay and Delight.
• PORTSMOVTII, JAN. L.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Mr..
flan, Prince -Leopold, James, and Roselle, from Londoz;*
Sailed the Charles Forbes, Bryan, for London ; Cyntha, far
thC Mediterranean ; and Sally, for Leghorn.
Jars. 4.—Wind
PLYstotrru, Jan. 3.—Strong wind and squally.—Arrlyed
his Majesty's ship Brazen, and Ocean transport, No. 44, Nut
Ireland. The outward-bound which sailed yesterday retutned
again last night, the wind having shifted to S.E., and blows
strong, except two or two or three, among which is the Boro-
dino. Also arrived the Enchantress, Bond, from Rio Janeiro;
Prince, Braithwaite St. ,lohn'st N.& ; Minstrel, Hodges.,
from Smyrna for London;i Risibto, .M`Williants, from Alex-
andria.

COWES, JAl.l.4.—WindB.B.E.--Anivel the Potoma, Web-
ster, from Batavia in 106 days ; Charles Forbes, Bryan, from
Bombay in 118 days; Vrow Catherine Elizabeth, Ingerman,
trap Batavia. _

PaLstouTtr, Jaw. 3.—Wind E.5.E.,--Arrived the Nep-
tune, Roden, from Alicant ; James, Dunlop, 'from St. Kitt's :
Dorset, Brisk, Trepani ; and Regent Packet, Collins, from
Sicily.
JAN. 4.—Arrived the Lord Ilobart Packet, from Corfu_
sailed 20th November.

Cowns.—The American brig Indus, J. Day, muter, whicti
arrived here from India, about two months since, afterwards
proceeded to Hamburg to discharge her cargo. In removing
the bags of coffee between decks, two of the crew discovered
a large snake coiled up. The reptile reared his head and began
hissing, which so alarmed the nie.n., that they both fell back.
wards ; but the snake remained coded up very quiet, it being
rather cold for him. The men soon recovered themselves,
and mustered up courage to make a blow at it with an axe,
which nearly severed the head from the body. The skin is
remarkably beautiful, and is now In the possession of Mr. W.
Cubitt of this town. It has a yellow serpentine line from
the head to the tail, each side of which is bordered with.
black and brown, anti in every hollow is a spot of white
in the shape of a diamond ; the head resembles that of a
large congor- eel, and the body, in its natural size, was
four inches wide ; the tail was similar to that of, an alli-
gator, or lizard, about twelve inches long. •On opening the
body, it had a quantity of undigested Indian corn in
its stomach, which must have been its principal food for about
nine months—the time it must have beentut Ward.. The Indus
ouched at several parts of the East Indies, before she could
procure a cargo; and it is conjectured, the animal must have
got on board by the cable, through the hawse holes, whilst the
brig was at anchor at Siam ; for a number of smokes were. ob-
served ;swimming about. in the water there, but at no other
place that the brig touched

THE 149NDON JOURNALS.

MXTRACTS FROM THE DAI TAT MORNING PAPERS,
January 6, 18'23.
tstoftiVNO POST.]
French Papers to the 4th inst. reached us last
night by express. Their" contents are still unim-
kortant, as sufficient tune has not yet elapsed to
allow the Spanish Government to frame, Rod
still less to send an answer and until one be
received, the march of events must necessarily
remain suspended,. The only article of foreign
intelligence entitled to some attention is one
dated Nurembeig, the 2,7 th ult.,- which states
that the maintenance of peace between Russia
anti Turkey was growing every day more pro-
blematical. ImportantdistussiOns are said to have
occurred on the subject at Verona,- and the
deep interest taken in them by the Emperor
Alexander is assigned as the reason which pre-
vented him from carrying his projected tour to
Florence, Rome, and Naples into execution. It
is added, that the nature of the dispatches sent,
during the Congress to St. Petersbu'rgh and to
the Commanders of the troops stationed on the
Turkish frontiers, was calculated to confirm the
belief that approaching hostilities were in con
temptation. A last attempt, however, was to be
nmde by negotiation to settle the existing dif-
fetences, before the sword was drawn and the
scabbard flung away.

MORNI Nt: HERA LIL]
The Paris Journals of the 2d, which have ar-
rived since our last, are almost wholly without
interest. The Royalists 'are still divided against
each other. But it is easy to perceive that those
of the 'party. who so vehemently clamour for war
have lost their spirits with the loss of the late
Minister, their pillar of strength in the Cabinet.
The disposition of ill. do Yillele to conciliate
them, 'and the distant hopes of war which he
holds out, seems to have injured him in public
opinion, without recalling airy of the Ultra-Schis-
Optics. Ilia ambiguous note to the French
Ambassador at Madrid, and the articles which
appear in a Journal under his protection, are
regarded as unwarrantable sacrifices of the pub-
lic feeling to party manoeuvres. On the other
band, the Ultras seem to disdain his advances,
and threaten him with a defeat on the opening
of the Chamber. They treat him as feeble and
1114 e-warm. They tell Trim that " the time is'
approathiog w hen weakness will be judged cri-
minal, and Inkewartrith• wickedness ;" and some
of them broadly tell him that he should quit the
beln, and yield the lead to M. de Chateau-
briali. lint what avails the language of journals
unsupported, as these appear to be, by opinion.
It is stated, in the Constitutionnel, that the
Ultra journals are circulated in the provinces by
thousands, gratis,' at the exponce of the Trea-
sury,
,and that this is their chief circulation.—
Urpeinthe whole, it appears that speculators upon
French politics may rest upon their oars until
the meeting of the Chambers on. the 28th. The
French Minister himself having adopted a line
of conduct calculated to keep up a state of un-
certainty and doubt, will probably not declare
himself until then. The early convocation,
which, no doubt, must be his doing, is evidence
that he calculates upon having the support of the
Deputies.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
V/e delayed till this dayt our report of the pro-
ceedings of the important meeting of the county
of Norfolk on Friday last, because, frOM the
distance, any account which could have been
given in a Second Edition on Saturday, would have
Ancessarily been very meagre and unsatiFifactory.
One part of the Resolutions moved by Mr. Alde-
rman Thurtell meets with our decided disapproba.
Lion. We allude to the demand for" such a reduction
of the national debt as is required by the present
circumstances of the country, and the imperative
claim of public justice." Against, the doctrine
of robbing any ont class of the community, of
confiscating their property under the pretence of
public justice, we shall alw,ays raise our voice.
It is impossible to be more sensible than we are
of the injurious eftects produced by a national
debt of such ma4nitude as that of this country ;
we regret its existence as we should rejoice at its
diminution or extinction, But let the dimi-
nution or extinctiOn be at the ex pence of
the community in general, and not at the ex,
pence
,Of those who lent their property to the
public on the faith of the national honour. The
public debt is private propertyi anti to reduce
That debt in 'amount, is barefaced robbery and
confiscation. We contend for the ;nviolability of
property of every description, anti that no de-
scription is entitled to be held more inviolable
than another. If contracts of one kind aro
interfered with, let contracts of all kinds be
interfered with.

FAV 'VLMES.I
The Norfolk Meeting has read the Gentlemen
with call themselves Whigs a lesson of most deep
and serious import. It has shewn them the
Abyss to which they have been so long anti so
•stagerly, hastening. It has taught them—feel-
ingly taught • them—the true nature and cha-
racter of large Popular Meetings !—May they
-.rather wisdom from the warning I If ever there
wus a Country Gentleman who felt an honest
pride in Atte influence NV bich he possessed
rot such in his own County, it was Mr. Coke of
Norfolk. Ihis wealthy, this respectable, this
popular landholder is beaten out of the field-7-
routed fifty to onv in the very, scene and centre of
all his influence =and by whom ? By Cobbett !I
Oh misery,l Oh disgrace to the House of Boll:-
ham !—Stuart Wortley warped the Whigs to.,
wards the end of -the last Session, that in the
eantest for popularity which they were carrying
on, they would be outbidden. HOW COMpiptely
is this prophecy fulfilled ? Only six months
since; :at the Kent Meeting, Cobbett carried
the people away from them by proposing " an
equitable adjustment of the claims or the public
creditor," or something to that effect. They
were excessively enraged, and . called the pro.
resat, with truth, vitiations and knavish, But
stow, mark you, they come to the Norwich Meet-

ing, and knowing that he will be there to bid
against them, they come up at once to his price,
and even higher. They attack the Debt more
boldly and more directly even than he did at the
Kent Meetipg.

[BRITISH PRESS.)
The proceedings at Norwich on Friday last are
entitled to the gravest consideration, on account
both of the rank which the Cdunty of Norfolk
holds among the agricultural counties of Eng-
land, and of the decided disposition 'of a large
and respectable assembly' to reduce the public
debt of the nation by an Act of the Legisla-
ture. Some may suppose, and one there is who
asserts, that the presence and the activity of Mr.
Cobbett were important ingredients in the Nor-
folk Meeting ; but we are fully convinced that
this person's conduct had no other tendency than
to disgust every seber-minded individual in tile
kingdom. It mould be idle affectation to say
that Mr. Cobbett is too contemptible for the
notice of a Morning Journal, or too unprincipled
to he noxious: Far, indeed, is he from being
Unworthy of notice or innoxious. Ho is the most
powerful person that ever figured in this island
without respectable talents or common honesty
—without the plausible accomplishments of
the 'demagogue, and without the ardent sin-
cerity of the enthusiast. Mr. Cobbett possesses
plausible tricks unquestionably 4 but they are such
as no cultivated= mind would endure. He de-
picts strongly too the shallovi notions which are
rudely grasped by his passionate intellect. We
are not disposed to undervalue the powers of Mr,
Cobbett ; on the contrary, we heartily wish they
were greater, for be would then be more harm-
less.