The Sun.
London, England, 1823-08-23 00:00:00

AIERCANTILE SHIPPING.

Par.mouTxr, Atr.u. 21.—Wind W. S.W.—Arrived the
Apollo, Jennings, from London t Prince Leopold, "Lain,
from Manzanillo de Cuba, sailed /27th June, and front offJa,
maim 2d July, under convoy of his Majesty's ship Pyramus ;
Lord Wellington, Giere, from Lisbon; and .13lizabedt, Rowe,
from Giion; Mary, Stronach, front Wit. %lucent's, sailed HO;
July; lino, Gibb, from Smyrna in 74 days; Vent's of Pooa.,
from Newfblindland in 29 days • Robson, of Sundt nand, front
Quebec in 35 days ; Lord Wedington, of Landon, from Nova
Scotia in 39 days; James Harris, Sims, from Jamaica in 33
ditya
DEAL, Aua. 29.—Wind \V.S W.—Arrived from London
the Ariadne,.Pitt ; and Catherine, Holmes, from ditto.
PanTsmount, AUG. 22.—Wind Southerly.—Arrived his
Majesty's ships Carnelian and Seringaintarri, from a cruile..

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COMMUDOI4: °TRIAL—It will be recollected
those who were conversant with the details of the Royal
visits to Ireland and Scotland, that among the humbler of him
Majesty's subjects who paid him the homage of their luyel'y •
and respect, was an individual named O'Brian, who, being a
cripple, sailed from the south coast iu a cutter of his own con-
structing, not more than five feet in length, and in which he
encountered rather a stormy passage in coasting along Dublin.
Bay. "He *got safely alongside the Royal yacht, and his Ma-
jesty, pleased with the novel Aim: of the dwarfish and adven-
turous sailor, ordered ten sovereigns and a plen drill supply of pre,
visions to be presented to him in the act of delivering which,
a leg of mutton, carelessly put on. board, nearly upset the
Lilliputian man of war. Thu sailors immediately gave him
the title .of Commodore, which he has since maintained. On
the following. ye hearing: of the King's visit to Scotland,
he went to Leith to repeat his demonstrations of loyalty to,
his Majesty. lie wus recogniscd, kindly treated, and the
Commodore's sea stock. was so profusely stowed, that after
setting sail with the fleet, a gust of wind carried away his
'• hat, and in the attempt to regain it the cutter upset and
sank, and he was with difficulty saved. " The diraster,"
say the details of the day," happened in a depth of water
which , precluded all hopes of weighing the pondero.to
wreck,'• and only one of the guns was saved t The Comm.,-
dore's loss was, however, soon retrieved by the generosity of his
Majesty, who immediately 'ordered another cutter to be built for
him at the Naval Arsenal, l,eith, only five feet eleven inches in
length, which the Commodore rigged with his own hands.—
" He has since performed," says an Irish Paper, " such naval
exploits as neither the far-famed. Drake, nor the illustrious Nei.
son, could hale imitated or even imagined." He arrived here
a few days since front Liverpool, and has exhibited hi:nautical
skill in various parts of the harbour, which has gained him some
retkaaailal marks of approbation, and will be further called
into action at the ensuing regatta, when we understand the
Commodore intends to start for the prize in his " unrivalled
set-out."

NEW TURNPIKE AcT.—We feel much Wis.
faction in stating, that the objectionable clauses in this Act
relatiVe to the wheels of waggons, are repealed, and that the
agriculturists, &c. are allowed to use their carts and .waggons
as now constructed, except that after the lst Jan. 1823, the nails
of the wheels atust be an reduced or counter-sunk, as not to
project more than one quarter of an inch from the tire.
Colonel BERKELEY and the Cheltenham Ama-
teurs perform . this evening at Birmingham in Henry Ott
Fon rth, for the benefit of Mr. CiLtniAs KE MULE and to-
morrow evening in Khig Jain, for the benefit of the Deaf and
Dumb Institution established in that town.—(Birniimliui

• . •
IGIIWAY ROBBER Y PREVENTED AY
As one of the mounted patrol stationed on liounalow !Leath
was on Thursday night on duty in that neighbourhood, he ap.
proached a waggon •travelling towards town, and, as usual •on
such occasions, he challenged it by the call of 4. Good night
bUt to his surprise: he received nut the'customary answer. -On
his going up to the waggon, he discovered that there wax no
driver or other persim attending it, although the horses were go..
ing on at their usual pace. The patrol stopped .the horses, wad
in a few minutes he heard a foot.step coming up at a 'quick pace
towards him :in an instant or two afterwards a dog ran-up to OH
waggon, and after .running round it and the patrol (who stood
at the horses heads) as-if to see that. All was safe, he ran back to
'his master and fondly sprung on hint in congratulation that the
waggon was safe. When the driver came up, it appeared.that
he had been violently attacked by a footpad, who succeeded in
knocking him down, when a desperate struggle ensued en the
ground, hut the faithful dog so effectually assisted his master,
that he got up little injured besides the scratch of a sharp instru.
ment upon his arm. On the deg being examined, a deep wound
front the weapon in the hand of the robber was found in his
shoulder, and which he nu doubt receival in bravely defending
hie Master, Little doubt remains that the waggoner would have
been robbed and murdered but for his faithful companion, who
is doing well from the effects of his wound, and is supposed to
have left some marks of his teeth in the body of the robber,—
The patrol proceeded after the footpad, and from the activity
of the police it is to be hoped that the villain will be brought
to Justice.

edflrio`ilniuhrissdhaoyril
nwhen
ethAe ihro.uti
fe
jrn2nni7.ll3Secxiiieoyi, e‘yvittlwitmt
he had been taking a ride, he found the inside facing of the
lappet of his coat and the pocket had been cut, and a parcel of
inconsiderable value extracted, together with a bunch of keys. On
further investigation he discovered that the poekets of his. breeches
had been turned inside out, and his loose aumey taken away.
Fortunately for the worthy Alderman, his pricket.book, con..
tabling valuable property, was in his side-pod:Os whle:t the
thieves did not attempt to rifle.
Tits: MULLET.—When the mullet is dying, it
changes its colours in a very singular manner till
it is entirely
lifeless. This spectacle WAS gu
gratifying to the Romans, that they used to show
the fish dying in a glass vessel to their guest 4.
before dinner,

TIIE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Extracts from 11th. Naming Papers, August '23.

CMORNING CHRONICLE.)
By a Portuguese mail letters have been received
from Lisbon, dated the oth instant; the contents
of which are both important and interesting. It
was reported that king John was so unwell that
no audiences had been obtained from him for
some time. Many, however, thought that the
Queen's party prevented his Most Faithful Ma-
jesty from seeing any of his late advisers and '
friends, and that he was every signification of
the word, a prisoner in the hands of his own and
his people's enemies. " Things (a letter, of good
and high authority says) here mast very shortly
change, for a most powerful and distinguished
party is now inactive operation against the present
Ministers, and it is expected that they will spee-
dily be,overthrown,'-' &c. The Palmela and Pam-
plona system is, it is further stated,to shake off the
British yoke, as they term it,and to submit the Go-
vernment of that part of the Peninsula to the influ-
ence of the Continental' Despots. To effect this,
and to aid the general views of the Ministry, the
Duke d'Angouleme had been seriously solicited to
march 25,000 French soldiers into Portugal in
exchange for a Portuguese army of equal strength,
and by these means it was expected that employ-
ment might have been obtained for the lawless
and discontented Portuguese soldiery. Mr.
Ward, the British Charge d'Affaires, however,
protested against any such proceeding, and ;Mile."
diately acquainted the Minister Pulmela of his
instructions to cease acting us British Func-
tionary, the moment any foreign• troops inter-
fer,ed in the internal affairs of Portugal: The
disposition of the. Portuguese army continued
to (11150 the utmost uneasiness amongst the
friends of the absolute king, and during two
or three days previous to the sailing of the
packet, repeatedsinstances had been given of their
state of 'excitement. They were clamourons for
the re-appointment of their old officers, and re-
fused to obey the cutlets and monkeys, as they
termed them, whom the Queen's party had placed
Over them. They also openly declared that they,
had been duped, and it was thought that they
were ready to, follow any Constitutional leader
who might again restore them to the paths of true
honour. Whilst this was the state of the public
feeling in Portugal, the fanatical' Government.,
erected' there under the influent.* of a Bburbon
Princess, and' of a few interested traitors and
fanatics, was using all the power of the king-
dom to assist the French to strangle Spanish
freedom. On the 6th of. Auguste the brig, of we)
Procidentia, the schooner Nymphet and a ship
transport, sailed from the Tagus, bound to the
I"; nada 1 qui cer, limided;,by. the present Portuguese
Ciovernment, with artillery, warlike stores, and
ammunition, to assist the Frencluarmy in the vain
attempt to reduce Cadiz. The Royalists carried
their pretensions and claims to an extent which
exceeded impudence in so far as it bordered on
insanity. General Pamplona, the Marquess of
Lonle and Condido Joie Javier, claimed, from'
the e.clutusted Treasury, their pay whilst in the
Irene servire,and whilst they were employed by
that Government against their own country.—
Pamplona fought against the Duke of Welling.
tot) at the battle of Busuco, and' now requires
to be paid the stages of his treason. and iniquity.
His demand amounts twit sum equal to 10,0001.
sterling. What will the industry of Europe not
suffer, if all the Ultra 'tyrants who at present pol-
lige her kingdoms by their existeuce be permitted
the use of their free wills, to rob and plunder, to
debase and to oppress ? Many of the letters
from Lisbon express ardent prayers to the Deity
for a change for the better ; for the continued
banishments and imprisonments, rendered the siL
Nation of all the inhabitants uncomfortable and
precarious in the extreme.

[NEW Times.]
Consols did not vary an eighth in the course
of yesterday ; and the Spanish Bonds (of 18'21)
remained as the (lay before at 37 ii. The Ara-
bella packet has, brought letters from Lisbon'
to the .11th instant. By this arrival it was
learnt that Sir R. Wilson was on board a small
vessel, the Nassau, bound to Gibraltar, and
that in his night he had put into Lisbon to
obtain provisions and medical aid, which,
from the suddenness of his departure from
Vigo, he had been unable to procure there. A
letter addressed to a highly respectable merchant
in the City, after mentioning the above facts,
states that another arrival had subsequently
taken place, which brought intelligence of the
French having obtained possession of Commie.--
This event, although extremely probable, was
considered in the City to be premature, as it was
supposed that, had it taken place, the intelli-
gence of it would have been received ere now
through the medium of the French Telegraph.--
We are not quite sure, however, that the commu-
nications from Corm= to Paris are sufficiently
expeditious for this purpose. The French
Papers of Wednesday, which we have received,
convey no such information, and add but little to
the neus we yesterday gave from the Moniteur of
Tuesday.

[mover ING nurtAr.o.]
The French Papers of Wednesday, which ar-
rived last night, contain no intelligence of im-
portance. The Quotidienne has a long article
upon what it calls the Royal Loan for Spain,
which has been contracted with the house of
Guebbard, in Paris,and endeavours to acedunt for
the fact that the bonds of the Constitutional loans
bear a higher price than those of the Royal ones.
It repeats what we know to be a falsehood,
that one of the principal conditions of Gueb-
bard's contract is the annulment of all the
loans made by the Cortes. An attempt was made
to introduce such a condition into the contract,
but the Duke del Infantado drew his pen across
it, and observed that the King alone could decide
that question, The article concludes in the fol.
'loping terms, which are a pretty good evidence
of tho manner in which the Ultras of France
would Wish to deal with the good faith and ho-
nour of Spain. " In the last place, we cannot re-

(rain from repeating what we hare so often an-
nounced, that the loans made by the Cottes are an-
nulled for ever, and that Spain restored, will not
give a single maravedi to pay the revolutionary
debts; which are covered with blood and ruin, and
which have rendered an invasion unavoidable. The
guarantees of these illegal loans are already assign-
ed teethe Royal Loan which the Regency has con-
tractede Europe has approved/ monarchical opinion
has applauded,theßoyalists of France have hasten-
et! to take part in the operation. The high prlce of
the piastres (the Spanish bonds) is to be ascribed
only to a banking.tricki in which the buyers are
the dupes. We shalt add one word more—the
celebrated bankers who have, even in Paris, sup.
ported. these loans With their names and. their
credit, do not possess any of these piastres them-
selves, and their fortunes will by no means be
compromised by the discredit into which these
Spanish assiguats are about to fall." The fact
seems to be that the Royal Loan does not go on
—it makes no way, and this article of the Quail-
dienne is intended to bolster it up—if possible.

[MOTLNING POST.]
We received last might by express , French'
Papers to the 2lst inst. Their contents are of
considerable importance, as they confirm, ore
the one hand, the progress of pacific negociations,,
and on the other, the reports of advantages gained
in Catalonia by the Constitutionalists over the
enemy. The Journal des NSW:, which has.lately
resutned the confident tone of an official publica-
tion, contains the following article from Madrid,
dated the 14th instant :-44 We have learned
officially that intelligence of the capitu-
lation of I3allasteros reached Cadiz on
the 9th. Nothing is said of the effect which it
produced ; but great hopes are cherished, and the
arrival of the Duke of Angouleme at Port St.
Mary's must lead to important events. The King
is absolutely free within Cadiz; he is become the
salvation of those who oppress him ; he's caressed,
and respect has succeeded insult. Every time that
he appears in public the enthusiasm of the people
increases,and nothing now checks the repeated cries
of ' Long live the King.' All letters from Seville
and Port St. Mary's speak of the deliverance of
the King as of an event necessarily close at
hand."" We shall not remark on the inconsistency
of declaring the King "absolutely free," and
'then talking of his being oppressed. It is evi-
dent from the tenour of the whole article that a
confident expectation was entertained on both
sides of a speedy termination to the present con-
test,' and that the change which had. taken place
in the situation of The King was only preparatory
to a greater one, which would put an end to. the
%var. If, as it is asserted in other Papers, and
as we were the first to suggest,'thie submitsion
of Ballasteros was the 'result of arrangements
preconcerted with the Cortes, all doubts of a
speedy conclusion must vanish away. Mean
whirr! the operations of the war are not neglected.
In Andalusia, Estremadura, and Castillei Gue-
rillas are daily starting, and becoming more
and more enterprbing and formidable. None
of the garrisons to which ltallasteros trans-
' witted Ml' order to' surrender, have obeyed
his mandate. it is even growing doubtful
whether he was followed in his defection by any
considerable number of his own army. But the
most important military intelligence is the re-
sumption of the offensive in Catalonia, by the
Constitutionalists under MMus, who, during
Minies, illness, seems disposed to. emulate the
efforts and the glory of that .skilful and heroic
Chief ; for, like him, he has passed between the
enemy and the frontier, and has compelled se-
veral corps of Moncey's army to fall back, in
order to prevent him' from raising the blockade
of the Seu d'Urgel, or from ensuing trance

itself.
[THE TIMES. j
Sir John Downie has, from his prison in the
Caracca, addressed a memorial to Ferdinand (see
another column of THE Sex), through the Minis-
ter at Wur, praying for some pecuniary assistance
(iris, pay having latterly been stopped), and for
a speedy trial or inquiry into his conduct. This
prayer is preceded by a long narrative of alleged
vexations inflicted on Sir .1. Muti(' by the eon-
stitutional Authoritiesy from the period of his ar-
rest on the nth of June, at Seville, until the 28th
of the same month, being the date of the memo.'
rial. We know nothing as to the personal cha-
racter or merits of Sir John Downie, and while
he is at once a prisoner and untried, it would not
be consistent with the justice which he calls for
to pronounce him a fit subject for punishment.—
The memorial of this officer, at the same time, it
must be stated, lays no ground whatever for sus-
pecting that he was seized by the friends of the
Constitution, without reasons which fully jug..
tilled his arrest. He, with becoming dexterity,
pretends not to know what offences are imputed
to him, although the nature of the accusation was
published in every newspaper. Now, since the
world are not so ignorant as Sir John Downie,
but are perfectly aware that he and his associates
were takes) up on no less a charge than that of
plotting to carry off the King and Royal Family,
we do not think that' much impression will be
,
made against the Ministers by his complaints of
harsh and ungenerous treatment ; all resolving
tbemselves into the plain tale—that he and the
other prisoners have been kept in separate and
close confinement—that on June 17 they under-
went an examination—that they have not been
suffered to communicate with each ether—and
that they have received no money ; really we see
nothing in all this but the necessary precautions
against concerted falsehood, and against the resort
to bribery. Sir John Downie dwells on circum-
stances of little moment, but leaves the substance
of the question untouched. He speaks of his
being, with his fellows,.in the Royal residence
at Seville when they were arret,ted, and of their
being there by permission of the Constitutional
Authorities. But he remembers to forget that it
was of a treasonable conspiracy, not of a for.
bidden residence, that lie and his brethren were
accused. That a conspiracy for The alleged pur-
pose was a crime, we suppose it is not necessary
to demonstrate, Sir John Downie, is justly ac-
cused, deserved an.ignominious and memorable
punishment. Nor yet are we satisfied through what
expedients,or in virtue of what effectual &uarau-

tees, Verdihandtan be let loose with Any regard to
the public safety. Beset by bands of priests and
Ultras, he will betray an unceasing tendency to
act upon theiroinstigations, and to reject more
moderate counsels. Who, then, is to keep Fer-
dinand separate from these his natural friend ?
Who is to controul them ?—Are a French Ge.
neral and a Muscovite Ambassador to contend for
the surremacy over King, and priests, and
Grandees ? That would be at best but a clumsy
addition to the machinery of a legitimate Govern-
ment in Spain.

Luarrisu PRsss.]
According to the intelligence from Lisbon of
the 9th, posted yesterday at Lloyd's, Corunna
had at length capitulated. Sir Robert Wilson,
with Captain Erskine and others, had arrived
in the brig Nassau from Vigo ; when she sailed,
Morillo and the French troops were entering
Vigo. In the some account it is stated that three
Portuguese brigs of war had sailed from Lisbon
some days before, with store for the French army
and fleet off Cadiz,. Such a decided breach of the
neutrality which at least was due from Portugal
to Spain is disgraceful to even the present de-
graded Government of that nation, and will
lay the seeds of much future hostility between
the.two countries, The surrender of Coruntia,
though the account comes from what is now
a auspicious source, would give us no surprise ;
it was impossible the place could hold out
against a bombardment where the Preach held
the adjacent heights, and the harbour was bock-
tided by their vessels. The Etoile has a letter
from Villafranea, dated the 13th, which' states
that Milans, after having concentrated his troops
at Montblanc, had Moved on Calif, with the in-
tention apparently of raising the siege of Urgel.
This intelligence agrees rather badly with the
annunciation of the Etoile,- the evening before,
that negotiations were depending between
Moncey and the Constitutional, Generals,' Mi-
Inns and Llobera ; but the Etoile is special had
authority in any case. D'Eroles, it instated; had`'
set out from Manresa Tromelin had quitted,
lgualada ; and two battalions that were at Vich
had, it is added,- marched against Miens. Two
thousand men had been moved on Igualida, to
replace' Tromelin's brigade. The Etoile further
states, that the French Government had re-
ceived accounts from Cadiz to the 841, but that
they possessed nointerest whatever. The French
Government Prints have now ceased to anticipate
the fall of Cadiz, and the Journal 'deg Debuts
adjourns over to September the submission of the
Andalusian City, announced so prematurely in
the Manikin-, 1 nfontallo, it appears, has left
Madrid for Seville; his object, of course, is to
watch the progress of Angonletnef and to secure
,ttili:ll::teesudpfiernet yittartto,eyf
totteslg)ltno! a
is said to he the directing
spirit of this body, anti to lie influenced in, every
thin, by the stiv,gestions of the Russian' resident
evert
afittrlVittstrtidp,t;owt-tliiiose,
bisodasygeolf•tietclo, lifts
ssiao
troops
to
sap.
Port the Regency,. itt case the French negotiated
and withdrew. Thisp however, would he rather an
expensive and dantmruusexperiment on the pnrt of
Russia, and one that would not be warmly relish=
ed either by rest Britain or France. Immense
preparations are stated to be making, under the
direction of Lauriston,Air the siege of Pampeluna,
which still kept 'up an uninterrupted fire. Lauri-
stores head-quarters were tit Vittoria, and not at
Tolosa,aspreviously announced. The last Bayonne
accounts mention private letters, which say that
an extraordinary sitting of the Cortes took place
on the 4th, in which it was decided by a great
majority, that the French proposals should be
listened to, and that the discussion of the means
to he employed for this purpose was adjourned
to the followin' day. Other accounts add, that
the Cortes only wait the arrival of Angouleme
to treat, under the mediation and guarantee
of this country. Little doubt can exist that the
Duke left Madrid principally, if not solely, for
the parpoie of negociation. It is said that the
Cortes directly solicited the good offices of our
Cabinet, through. Sir Wm. A'Court, and more
thau hints have dropped from the French Ministry
that the interference of England would not now
be unwelcome or rejected. The truth is, the
French Cabinet and French A rmy, A ngouleme and
Villele, are equally sick of the Regency and the
war. They would gladly avail themselves of any
fair pretext or concession to terminate it. Our own
decided impression is, that a speedy negociation,
probably under the friendly mediation of this
country, will close the campaign, equally to the
benefit of both parties; but the French Cabinet,
by its intrigues and subsequent invasion, has
raised an infernal spirit of fanaticism in Spain,
which it will be difficult to subdue, and which is
now tearing that country and its fine provinces
asunder. This melancholy result has been the
only one produced by the ceaseless intrigues of
three years, and the atrocious invasion of the
rights of a free people, nide') followed.