The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-03 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

PoltTsfuotfTir, SEPT. its.:-Wind S.W —Arrived the Bro.
thers, Williamson, from Riga; his Majesty's ships Menia and
Seringapatatn, from the lVestword. Sailed the Orpheus, Ford,
for Smyrna.
PLvidouTit, SEPT. 1.-419m1 S.S.W.—Arrived the Fa-.
vourite, Shns, from Memel. Off the port the Kingston, frottk
London for Demerara.
FALMOUTH, SEPT. I.—Wind S.NV.—Arrived the Jason,
Ebbage, from Galipoli in 84 days.
COWES, sEpT. 2.—Arrived the Finsbury, Walker, from
London, to take troops for Aloha.
SEAL, SEPT. 2.—Wind W.S,W.--,Came down from the
River yesterday the Three Brothers, Wright, for Ferrol ; 14,
gulus Anderson, for St. John's, N.B. ; anti Neptune, Bayles,
for Lisbon.'
Arrived the John Clackling, Uste, from Barba..
does ; and Rio Packet, from ,Rie Janeiro ; with several others,
particulars unknown.
RAMSGATE, AUGUST 29.—Some days ago the American
schooner Echo, Capt. Johnson, caught fire, in consequence of
the leakage °fa considerable quantity of sulphuric acid, *form-
ing part of her cargo. The captain and some of the crew. ia
endeavouring to save the cargo from destruction, remained so
long in the hold as to be nearly suffocated by the deleterious
gas emitted by the action of the acid upon the articles in the
hold, mostly piece-goods. All the crew have recovered, after'
suffering extremely from its noxious effects, but the Captairt
fell a victim to his zeal, for the interest of his owners.

The vessels belonging to the. Corporation of the Trinity
House, have placed a buoy, with a staff and vane, near the
Goodwin South Sand Bead, hearing by compass South by East
from the South end of the Town of Deal. It is understood
that by a new regulation, the Masters of ships of war are is
future to have the charge of the Warrant Officers' stores with
an increase to their pay, fQr such additional 'responsibility.—
(li•crifish Cazette,Srpt. L)
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OituaN PAyiNa Tmics.--During the first
and purest days of Christianity, the property of the Church,
was in one common stock, and distributed by appointed,
officers. In the progress of degeneracy., the sh in.
Franco devoted themselves entirely to secular ailßiltirsops • and
the Abbots, who were originally appointed to provide the
King with soldiers, and to accompany them to the field, cm-
ployed the militaryinstead of the spiritual sword, In this ;nib,
tary capacity, they plundered the poor priests, who, attending
to their clerical duties, administering the word of Ood, and dis-
pensing the Sacraments, had nothing left for their maintenance,
and were consequently thrown upon the voluntary contribution*
of the people, who, according to their (-potence or their zeal,
supplied their wants. Thus, contribution were very unequal, and severe complaints arose ; and the question came to be
cussed ?*"'What was thereasonable proportion for the minister?"
The received opinion was, that it ought to be determined by the
Divine Law In the Old Testament, which appropriated to hint
the tenth. Such was the case under the old, and why not under the new law? The result was, that the sermons of those tini,
abound more with exhortations concerning tithes than concern.
ing the practice of moral duties.

DARING. BEY ttnr.4 ny.---The counting-house tit
the Brass-works belonging to Messrs. Butler and Hill, situated
near Stone. was broken open on the night of the 22d ult. b.•
means of crow-bars anti ehissela, with which the robbers bait
broken down the casement of a strong outer and inner door,
and an iron cheat, weighing near 400 lbs. was removed flout
the inner wall of the building, and carried a diStance of V.
yards to a remote corner of the Works, where it was thrown
over the boundary wall, which is near six feet MO, into the ad,
joining fields at the back of their Wire Mills. 'I he door and in.
side drawers were then dashed to pieces with a sledgehammer, '
which the robbers had procured by breaking into the smith's
shop at the opposite side of the premises; and all the cash and
effects carried off; but the books were rar,-fully tl.nosited on
the tfloor of the workmen's privy, whic!l adjoined the scene of
demolition, very little injured. Early on 6aturday morning 31r.
Hill applied to the Magistrates of Staffind. there being no Po-
lice or other Authorities at Stone, and obtained the ass stance of
an active and intelligent officer, 31r. R. Jones, who accompanied
him to Stone; and, after a diligent inquiry around the neigh-
bourhood,
they obtained a clue which led to the apprehension of
one William Rock, who is well known in the town as leader of
a desperate gang of poachers and midnight robbers, who have
long been the terror of the inhabitants ; and, owing to the want
of an efficient police establishment, have for some years com-
mitted the most desperate acts of housebreaking, and robbing of
hardens and poultry yaids, without molestation ; the neighbour-
ood being held in fearful thraldom by their threats of vengeance
against any one who should have the temerity to bring them to
Justice. Rock was taken at half-past twelve o'clock on TOestlay
night, at his own house, by Mr. Hill and R. Jones, without
resistance, seeming confident of ultimate escape. ,t Ir. 11ill had
obtained information at a remote inn of his haviug heen there
with a eonsiderable sum at' money, and Jones was diVatehed
to IAtIC Rod On the Wednesday morning, accompanied by a
person who knew the neighbourhood, and there traced out a ,
Dank of England note for 20/., which had been changed art
the Saturday at a grocer's shop, and also a one-pound note
of the late bank of Mytton, Jones, and Mytton, at' Welsh.
Pool, which was placed in the hands of 11r. Hill a few day*
before the robbery by the late proprietors at' the Works, to seo
if any dividend could be obtained ; both of which notes wort* •
circulated by Rock, and the holders recognised him, and muster
affidavit of the circumstances. On his removal to Statibrd gaol'
on Wednesday night, a large and disorderly body of people as- sembled in the streets, and so molested the constables that they
were obliged to retreat with their prisoner into the Crown inn,
It. Jones, the officer, having been attacked, and an attempt
made to disengage him from his charge I but there being no
place of security wherein the prisoner could be placed for the
night, Mr Hill insisted upon the removal being accomplished;
and being charged by the constables as an assistant, he mounted
his horse, and with the handle of a stout hunting whip drove)
away the leaders' of the mob, who had closed hi upon the chaise
which was to convey the prisoner, while a few of the most re-
spectable inhabitants kept an open way for the eatistables to
pass with their charge. l'he mob seeing their resolute deter-
mination to enforce the removal, ofibred no further violence,
anti Rock was the next morning fully committed for trial.
Some days since, in the family of Mr. Mount,
a gentleman residing near Shacklewell, at a family dinner,
that gentleman and four others, who sat down to the table,
were all taken suddenly ill with violent pains in the throat an, .
stomach. A doctor was immediately sent for, when powerful
emetics were administered, and after each of those affected
had sustained alarmirg illness, Choy were saved from the dread,
ful consequence; which there was reason to believe the poison
would otherwise have produced.' There was afterwards car ~
siderable difficulty in ascertaining its what the poison had beet
taken. The wine was tried, but it was found to be of an iota,
cent quality. Ono of the auff.,rers stated that he felt a coppery
in
taste his mouth, and this led to an examination of the French
beans which bad beep eaten at dim ~r,and which were found to tki
highly impregnated with copper. It ultimately turned out that the '
cook, who had not long been in the situation, had pat about half
a dozen halfpence in the pan in which she boiled those vegetable*, tint) by that means gave them the fine green which they pos,
,i,„„,„4. This she had always been accustomed to do, and there
is great reason to believe that this highly reprehensible and
dangerous practice is pursued very generally by ignorant rooks,
to give their vegetables the green colour which so many per.
sons foolishly consider as a recommendation and a test of their
excellence. All the soarers are, it is said, perfectly recover-
ed.-..(Morning Paper.)

CORN EXCHANGE, SEPT. 3.
This market ham been moderately, supplied with Grain this
week ; Wheat, 2300 ; Barley, 100; Oats, 520 quarters ; an 4
Flour, 2700 sacks. The weather continuing so remarkably
tine, our buyers make warcely arty purchases to-day ; IVliaa;
is considered lower than on 31onday, especially new samples ; Barley is Unaltered ; Berms anti Peas remain as last quoted`.
What few Oats hava bee;i hold toAluy are at the UM° KIM aa
Monday,

H cO ir rBllou s
ops during the past week, but our
titlrcYee4itt.ittlrettiatteunclatr.h‘4t
for
NOW it our last quotation, except fur new Sussex Pockets, and
those wc consider U. ur lb s. per cwt. letwer,—Tbe duty is at
26,0001.
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knweTna.r:ltzentintdilnt
tl.aattiloteguirtia,
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ttsitiointrthl
t,i,:talt.lishhte)ortritt
The mould is reported to have made its appearance and to btt
spreading feet ill NOllle grounds' and in those that 2;ftewt,tl for
the best crops. It is computed that the extensive r lantatione
in the psrisites of Valding, Wembley, and Itonbridge, Nal
nut fiverage more than one cwt. per acre throttilltout, Many of
the surrounding parishes are equally unproliile. The piekrAgi
Odell hail begun this time last year, is tott expected to cont.,
inence before the hater end of the present'utouth.
eawct..nottnr, Av a. 28.—Some spots fits tide district of a
few acres each have feh the henetivof the present long wished
for warm weather—they, arc hosulstolle, aid will furnish the
market with some line samples, which its this scarce year of
good tropa, win moth, them to high prices, The rest of t.b.i
grounds are uniniproved, and, we believe, unimprovable.
sossEx,—The Hop Plantations hi this county are imid.lstelf
to have exhibited an improved appearance, which certainly berm leuenetl, but probably increased, by the late thungrit
d.
111004,

TIIE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY'
Extraet3 from the Morning l'apers, September 3

[MORNING POST.)
The illoniteur and all the other Paris Journals
of Sunday arrived by Express last night. The
former contains a telegraphic dispatch from Bor-
deaux (which is only remarkable for the utter
insignificance of the event which it records), and
a nkeport from Marshal Oudinot, announcing that
the troops of General Bourck- had entered Co.
mum on the 21st ult. The garrison of that

place is said to have still consisted of 4,000 men
at the time of its surrender, and a great quantity
of warlike stores and provisions to have fallen
into the hands of the enemy. There is no other
military intelligence in these Papers : neither
indeed any of a political nature.

[THE TIMES.}

The official correspondences, which we now
publish, relative to the blockade of Cadiz (See
another Column of THE Sox), and its operation
upon the interests of British commerce, deserves
to,be considered with attention. The masters
of English merchant ships which bad entered the
harbour before any announcement of blockade,
having reason to fear that their vessels, if at-
tempting to sail after, the 15th of July, would
be there impounded by the Bourbon squadron,
applied to the British Consul for instructions
how to act. The Consul on the 14th of July
wrote to the French Admiral to ascertain his
intentions. Hamelin returned for answer, that
be would let the ships sail, subject only to his
visitation,: but requesting the Consul to prevent
tht British Captains from taking on board any pas-
sengers whatever. This was the sole condition
which on r countrymen were called upon to fu till. On
the faith of the Frenchman's written, formal, and
official promise, Capt. Win. Robert Airey, of the
schooner Susan and Maria, of London, attempted
to proceed net his voyage home, but at the har-
bour's mouth he was laid on board by two men,
OgLwar's boats, well armed, and threatened with
immediate capture if he did not return to his an-
chorage. The English tar complained, and the
Consul joined him in protesting before a Notary
against this gross abandonment of good faith, in
being robbed of his liberty of navigation, after it
had been solemnly guaranteed to him by the
Cenurionder-in-Chief of the blockading Power :
for it is to be remarked, that the prohibition to go
to sea was`peremptory and unconditional, not a
question being asked about passengers, and not
even a pretence suggested that Captain Airey
bad violated the previous conditions. The Con-
sul, on going to wait upon the Admiral, was told
by him, that. "in consequence of instructions
" from the Duke d'Angouleme, no vessel would
" be allowed to 'nisi." Such is one instance of
the innumerable vexations to which the trade of
this country has been condemned by the feeble-
ness and low reputation of its Government. Time
was when such nit indignity to the flag would
have brought a speedy downfall to the insolence
of those who had offered it. Hamelin was of
course justified in'obeying his orders ; but had
Lord Chatham been alive and in power, although
the: French Admiral would not have been re-
proached, he would have been unquestionably
sunk or captured by the first ship of equal force
'that could be employed, against him. It is not
merely an unjust blockade, the corrupt offspring
of an iniquitous. war, that we have now to tole-
rate, but the open disregard of the very principle
by which the belligerent had, of his own accord,
agreed to set bounds to his vexatious !
We, however, have already declared our-
selves in this journal against the legitimacy
of the blockade itself no matter in what
spirit, or with what seeming forbearance it might
be enforced. To our simple view of public morals
the original sin of this impious aggression vitiates
every subsequent act of the aggressor, and de-
prives him of every right accruing to an ordinary
belligerent. A deliberate crime against the law
of nations—and such, if ever that crime existed,
is the attack on Spain—cannot entitle its perpe-
trator to the known advantages of that law : a
lawful blockade, and olio binding on foreign
Powers, cannot grow out of an illegal and pira-
tical invasion.—“ Primurn ergo decimus, si belli
4" causa injusta sit, iiduntos ease, interred in.
miles status qui rode nascuntur."-
Grotius de Jur. Bell. ac Pac. 1. 3. Let this
Cabinet, therefore, look to their obligations,
and if they will not espouse the Spanish cause
,for, its own sake, let them at least perform the
obvious duty of protecting British interests, and
British subjects, from what they, the Ministers,
have recorded as an unprincipled and dangerous
offence against the independence of nations. The
excuse will not serve Mr. Canning or Lord Liver-
pool, that by another maxim of public law,
every war must, to certain purposes, be regard-
ed- as a just war ;" for this is a contest on the
parr of the House of Bourbon, which they have
'isked their own honour, and that of England,
in pronouncing to be intrinsically barbarous and
atrocious. Let the British Government, we
again say, do its duty.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The Mediterranean packet arrived yesterday,
luiving heept ordered at. Gibraltar to touch a;
Cadiz, and land her letters, and take on board
those intended - for England. On making the
harbour at Cadiz, she was tired at by the French
cruizers, and haying fallen to leeward, cninpelled
to come .to an anchor near the Admiral's .ship, to
the flay of Rota, late in the evening. The wind
blowing fresh, the French did not send a boat on,
bnard the packet till the next morning, when
they asked the Ca ptainl why he sought to enter a
blockaded port? lie answered, that he was ordered
toenter Cadiz., and he was unaware of any block-
ade; be then gave in a protest against.the act altos-
in not allowing him
tility committed against him,
to enter the harbOur, and came away with all his
correspondence on board. Letters brought by
ber.state., that on the 6th ult. a strong Levant
-wind commenced, and blew three days, which
enabled many vessels..to leave the harbour, and
ninon them, it is reported, one from Itavannah,

with a large sum of money on board, presented to
the Government by the inhabitants of Cuba. No
less than 48. Spanish gun-boats were plying
about,. From Gibraltar, we have by this convey-
ance received a file of the Espectador to the el
of July ; but in consequence of the delays and
circuitous nature of the route, it is not so late as
we could have wished. It nevertheless serves to
fill up an interval from the 16th, corresponding
to which date we published the official report of
the gallant sortie made by the La Isla Army of Re-
serve. This file conveys to us also some idea of the
spirit of the Cadiz people, as well'as of the kind
of negociations the French had been preparing for
the arrival of the Duke, and in anticipation of,
that interesting compromise the French have so
exultingly announced. The description of what
occurred on the sending in a flag of truce with a
Present of ice for the palate of the King, is cu-
rious. We also subjoin a correspondence between
the Spanish Commander of the Reserve and
Count Bourdesoult, respecting the exchange of
two soldiers, an opportunity of which the latter
availed himself to insult the former, by entering
into a review of the conduct of. the French army
in Spain. This gave rise to a very severe retort
on the part of the Spanish General, reproaching
the Count for his impertinence. From a va-
riety of concurring accounts, it appears that Cadiz
is amply supplied with provisions.