The Sun.
London, England, 1823-11-17 00:00:00

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cts from the Morning Papers, November
[MORNING POST.
e received last night, by Express, French
Tapers to the 15th inst. They inform us that
the great iniquity of Spain has been consummated,
and that the Patriot who had given an example
of moderation and disinterestedness hitherto un-
,equalied in the history of nations, has fallen the
first ,vittim to the resentment of a sanguinary
_faction, and of a King who knows neither justice
nor mercy. This murder was committed at
Madrid on 'the 7th instant, ant every indignity
,was used to break down the spirit of the victim.
He was fixed in a basket, and dragged to the
piece of execution by an Ass. But the disgrace
intended to be
.inflicted upon him recoiled upon
those by whom it was planned. " Meg° was
not insulted," the Journal des &bats tells us :
that is' to say, he was pitied, if not lamented,
by the people; and the significant addition
" that order was perfectly maintained," seems an
assurance rendered necessary by the disposition
Of the populace. Not satisfied with destroying
hit life, the assassins of this brave man have also
.-',,taken upon themselves the base part of calm-
•'.stiators. The Journal des DAats asserts that he
• tagged on the scaffold " pardon of the King and
ihe People !"—the King, whose life and throne
-he .had preserved, and the People whose liberties
tie hid established ! The Quotidienno, with a
true Ultra spirit, casts a deeper stain upon his
fame, and wishing to convict him of cowardice
as well us patriotism, declares " that he skewed
in his last moments the greatest weakness,
and even fainted several times on his way
to the gibbet on Which he was hanged." These
• fabrications are worthy of their authors. They
• will tell' against them at a Higher Bar, where
they will have one day to give an account, and
where the blood of the murdered will cry out,
not only against his assassins, but his calum-
niators. Already do the judgments of the Al-
mighty begin to reveal themselves. We said, at
the 'commencement of the late iniquitous aggres-.
sion, that they would not slumber ; and at the
very moment of earthly triumphs one of its chief
authors now withers on the throne to which be
bad been recalled for juster purposes. The same
year will probably witness the accomplishment
mind the punishment of an enterprise prepared in
hypocrisy, founded on motives of ambition, and
executed through the means of bribery and
betrayal.

[MORNING cnnoNrci.E.]
The Paris. Papers of Thursday and Friday
have been received. They are nearly filled
with the continuation of the trial of Dr.Castaign.
One piece of important informantion, however,
is, conveyed by them, the execution of Riego,
who, if we are to credit the Elvile, was dragged
by an ass, in a pannier, to the place where he
suffered. The effect produced by this murder
will be very different from that which his execu-
tioners anticipate. No, the death of this brave man
will not soon be forgotten,. neither will it he for-
given' to Monarchy. it will not be placed to the
account of the wretched creature now let loose on
Spain, nor to the account of the brutal populace
of that country, nor to that of the Monks by
whom they are guided. It is a solemn judicial
tnuider, for which every crowned head in Europa
is responsible.---The Monarchs, elated with
their successes, are now dreaming of any thing
rather than reverses of fortune. But though
Spain is prostrate, the pitiful spectacle she exhi-
bits in her fallen state will incessantly remind
the nations of the cause (alter calamity. The ha-
tred of baseness and depravity will not surely be
diminished, because the authors are invested with
Mower. it would be.a libel on our nature to sup-
pose wickedness a stmble support of dornintheion.
Mo-
The '
'people never die. The men on whom
narchs rely are taken from the people, and acted
'Hi by popular impulses. liovOver confident they
may, be in. this arm, it may be wrested from them
as in times past. Then 'the murder of Meg() will
6.remetnbered—that deed will silence every in-
tokessor for the. victims to offended justice.
They will stretch out their bands in vain for
mercy.

[NEW grturs.l
Curaqoa Papers to the 13th September have
been received, by which we learn that Padilla
had declined for the present the command of the
La Guayra squadron. The Spauish frigate Con.
iti t u tion, in company with two corvettes, Carabobo
and Maria Francisca, from Puerto Cabello, call.
ed on the 4th off Curaqoa, and were joined by
the corvette Ceres, then lying in that port. They
were said to he destined to Ifavannah. The
(faculties started by Morales in complying
with the terms of his late capitulation have been
removed, and lee has, in compliance with the pro-
visions of the 4th Article, taken and subscribed
an,onth never again to take up arms against Co.
lombia till lw shall have been regularly exchang.
*drat) pain of death.:—Our news from Colombia
direct comes up to the 15th of August, under
which date a Potter has been received from La
Gnityra, of which the following is an extract :
I, LA OUAVII At AVG. 25. --The siege of Puerto Cabello is
:abbiit'Ulog forcibly renewed. General Paes is already on his
.tiny to resume hostilities, and will be followed to.morrow by
filtehatt.slion of Grenadiers, 1,240 strong. The 61 gun ship ut
Ititrnent.trily esreted from Margaritta, in company with the
frigate' VOICZU a and sloop of war Boyars, to join the 20 gun
toptcCharlest lately arrtvothere from Bngland for the Co.
mbittn ,b)errice ; the Pichincha and the Bolivar are daily
'tked for from leeward. This formidable squadron will pro-
ceed forthwith to the blockade'of Puerto-Cabello."

[BRITISH PRESS.'
With deep and indignant regret we announce
the ',execution of the gallant and unfortunate
Riego at Madrid on the morning of the7th. This
diskinguished patriot was publicly murdered by
the tyrant's satellites on that day. The Journal
des DObats Aid-el, that an immense crowd was as-
sembled to witness his last hour, and that, vile as
that rabble is, 'the dying moments of the depart-
ed Chief were unembittered by insult. The Etoile
oft7s, he Ives taken to the place of execution in a
patinierdrewn, by an ass. What must those exe
grabk wretches be who could thus add obloquy
toinurder ! who, not satisfied with Riego's death)

sought also to make his closing scene of death '
degrading I. Throughout Europe there will be
but one Feeling on this infernal act. Horror and
execration will universally attend its mention.—
We yet hope to see a terrible retribution attend
the remorseless wretch who gave his fiat to the
foul deed : may he one day yet occupy Riego's
dungeon, and perish on the same scaffold, " with
no creature to love him while living, nor his me-
mory when dead 1" We are happy to find that Mina
and Rotten have escaped from the scene of mur-
der; they both quitted its shores on the 6th;
Mina for Gibraltar, from whence, it is stated, lie
comes to this country, and not to France ; Rotten
proceeds to Swisserland, of which he is a native.
Their deaths would follow certain on Riego's,
could the tyrant or his crew of assassins clutch
them in their fell gripe. These are the blessings,
this the happiness, the French arms have entailed
on Spain. Angonleme's hands are full of Riego's
blood ; no water will wash it from them. lie might
have preserved him, and the Duke delivered him
into the hands of his murderers, and saw him fall
without an effort for his safety'. The tyrant's
career is now commenced; and, like the tiger
that tastes of human gore, he will be for the fu-
ture insatiate of victims ; he ' will run riot in
slaughter, until absolute despair rouses all Spain
into united resistance again ;—and when it does,
the monster Ferdinand, end his whole race, will
fall before its fury. If that day should arrive,
how poor an atonement will his death and
theirs make for the incalculable miseries
he is now entailing on Spain ! What must
Madame Riego's feelings be in this dreadful
hour. It would be an act every way worthy of

this country to offer her all the consolation pos-
sible ; and, though the incalculable loss she has
sustained never .can be replaced, sympathy and
attention might lessen her sorrows. We need
not suggest it, we are sure, to a people who never
yet have been insensible to suffering and misfor-
tune, either on this or any other shore.

[MORNING lIIMALD.]
The British Funds remained tolerably firm
during the early part of Saturday. Consols were
at 83, and the business in them considerable;
but about three o'clock certain persons took ad-
vantage of many of the principal monied men
being absent (which is generally the case on
a Saturday afternoon) to bang the market.—
They succeeded so far as to have Consols an-
nounced at 8311-4, and at the close of business
they were 83; sellers. In the Foreign mar-
ket Spanish Bonds were the, principal Security
noticed. The reported new Loan of M. Gueb.
hard has been the subject of conversation—but
of conversation only. Much has been said by
some of the Evening Papers respecting this Loan,
but all that we pretend to know upon the sub-
ject, is, that we believe the Committee of the
Foreign Stock Exchange have to-day assembled,
to consider whether this Loan ought or ought
not to be introduced on the market, but that they
have not yet come to any decision on the subject:
all the movements the Committee of the Foreign
Stock Exchange are strictly secret. The highest
price of Spanish Bonds of 1821 to-day was 244 ;
their lowest price was 22i, they closed at 241 t
The new Bonds underwent proportionable flue
tuations.

Ellie TIMES.]
The new Spanish restoration loan, if we may
so call it, as springing out of the return of Fer-
dinand, made its appearance on the market on
Saturday. It. was received with hisses : not that
we think that either the hissers or the hissed
would object to speculating in it, if they thought
the security good :
" Populis me aibilat, at mihi plaudo"
is the maxim of men in every profession whose
minds are given up to the acquisition of money.—
There are, however, some other slielt objections
besides those of honour and principle, which
may invalidate the success of the business,
and these we 'shall briefly notice. The
sum total proposed to be raised (for nothing is as
yet done in the affair) is 16,700,000 piasters, or
about two millions and a half sterling—no great
sum, in truth, except for a Government that has
nothing, not even character, the shadowy sub-
stance for hard dollars. Each bond amounts but
to 200 piastres, and these are to be paid off, in a
manner the most inconvenient to the holder, by
driblets of five per cent. Such an inconve-
nience, however, may be easily overlooked :
it will never perplex the holder ; for the first
payment of the principal is not to commence till
the year 1825—that is, to speak in even the most
measured language, it is to be contingent upon
the chalice of Ferdinand's continuance on the
throne. The final oppression, or a new insurrec.
lion, of Spain, it is thought, will be proved by
that time. In the latter case, the Bonds are
blown away by winds of popular commotion ; in
the former, they can only be paid in the case
Ferdinand were re-created by the hands of his
Maker, and rendered capable of exercising a
prudent frugal, paternal Government. The re.
imbursement of the capital is, to use the French
term, to be speedily affected,—that is, particular
funds are to be burdened with it ; and these
funds appear to be the'ecclesiastical property—
a property already confiscaled, and which,
could it even be reclaimed to its original purpose,
with all the insecurity, suspicion, and distress
of tenants, could not be rendered productive
in ten years.—The payment of the iuterest is to
commence a year sooner than the liquidation of
the capital,—namely, next July ; and this
also is affected er laid upon special funds, four
in number, which we would presume, therefore,
are either unappliod at present, or the revenues
from which must so improve as to leave
an excess during the present happy Govern-
ment. The deficiency, however, of these funds (it
is something to acknowledge that there will be a
deficiency) is to be filled up by the revenues of
Spain.and the Indies! The certainty of these
resources is so incontestable, that all lenders :bust
be contented with the speculation. It is unne-
cessary to say more on the subject. We shall
only, therefore, remark upon the allurement here
„held out to the trans-Atlantic Provinces to return
to their allegiance—that-their revenues are al.
;ready impawned to pay for the restoration of the
Roble Ferdinand. . ,

ROYAL LITERARY SOCIETY.

" Doctor, I want you to`mends my cacology."—lleir at Law.

In a Letter to the anyal Society of Literature,
a writer of the Mew Mont* Magazine proposes
to correct a few of the acknowledged misnomers
and vulgarisms which have crept into the English
language. The following is an extract :

" Under the head of Topographical Literature, I request the
attention of the Institution to various anomalous and contra-
dictory designations of locality, which would long ago have
been corrected, if, like the French, we had possessed a special
Academy of Inscriptions. .Thus we apply the name of White-
hall to a black chapel; Cheapside is dear on both sides; the
Serpentine River is a straight canal, and the New River an old
canal ; Knightsbridge has no bridge ; Moorfields exhibit no
more fields ; the Green Park was all lest autumn completely
brown, Green-street was in no better plight, and both, accord-
ing to Goldsmith's recommendation, should be removed to
Hammersmith, because that is the way to Turnham-green.
Endeavours should be made to assimilate the names of our
streets to the predominant character of their inhabitants, a con-
formity to which those lovers of good cheer, the citizens have not
been altogether inattentive, inasmuch es they have the Poultry,
Fish-street hill, Pudding-laneand Pie. corner, Beer-lane, Bread-
street, Milk-street, Wine-court, Portsoken-ward, and a great
many others.—lf the mountain cannot be brought to Alahomet,
we know there is still an alternative for making them both meet;
so, if there be too great an inconvenience in transposing the
streets; we may remove the householders to more appropriate
residences. Upon this princiyle, all poets should be compelled
to purchase their Hippocrene from the Meuxes of Liquorpond-
street ; those authors who began with being flaming patriots,
and are now Court sycophants or treasury hirelings, should be
billetted, acording to the degrees of their offence, upon the
Little and Great Turnstile. Some of our furious political
scribes should be removed to Billingsgate or Old Bedlam ;
those 'of a more insipid character; ,to Milk and Water Lanes ;
and every immoral or objectionable writer should illustrate the
fate of his productions by ending his days in Privy Gardens.
Physicians and surgeons might be quartered in the neigh-
bourhood of Slaughter's coffee-house; the spinsters of the
Metropolis might congregate in Threadneedle-street, and
all the old cats in the Mews ; the lame-ducks of the Stock
Exchange should 'take refuge in the Poultry or Cripple-
gate ; watchmakers might ply their art in Seven• Dials ;
thieves should be tethered in the Steel-yard; all the Jews should
be restored to the Old Jewry, and the Quakers should meet in
Hatton,garden.
" Chancery-lane, which would of course be appropriated to
the suitors of that Court, should by no means terminate in
Fleet.street, but should. be extended to Labour-in-vain-hill in
one direction, and to Lonplane in the other. lam aware that
if we wish to establish a perfect conformity between localities
and tenants, we must considerably diminish Goodman's-field,
and proportionably enlarge. Knaves-acre; but the difficulty of
completing a measure is no argument against its partial adop-
tion.—ln what may be denominated our external or stiopkeep-
ers' literature, the Society will find innumerable errors to recti-
fy. Where he who runs may read, correctness and propriety
arc peculiarly necessary, and we all know how much good was
effected by the French Academy of Inscriptions. Having, in
my late perambulations through London, noted down what ap-
peared to me particularly reprehensible, and thrown the vari.
oils addresses of the parties into an appendix, in order that
your secretary may write to them with such ent,,datory orders
as the case may require,--I proceed to'notice, first, the fantasti-
tical practice of writing the number over the door, and the
names on either side, whence we have such ridiculous inscrip-
tions as " Bovill and-127-IToys," which would lead us to
suppose that the aforesaid Mr. Bovill's tailors's bill must be
of alarming longitude, though perhaps less terrific than that of
his opposite neighbour, who writes up—" Thackrali and-219
—Sons."
" Not less objectionable is the absurd practice of writing the
name over the door, and the trade on either side, whence we
have such incongruous combination as—" Hat Child.—maker."
—" Cheese Hoare—monger;" and a variety or others, of which
the preceding will afford a sufficient sample. -
'c Anionttbose inscriptions where the profession follows the
name witht any transposition, there are several perfectly ap-
propriate if not synonymouS, such as, " Blight and Son,
Blind-n:kers :"—" Mangling done here," occasionally written
under the address of a. country surgeon Brewer, Drug-
gist Wrench, Tooth-drawer,"—" Soloman, Wine-
IDerchant,"—" Waters, Milkman," Sa. &e.—But on the con-
trary, ' there are many that- involve a startling cata-
chreals , witch as " Whetman Drysalter," " English,
China. Paul, •Rectifier Spirits,"—" Stedfast,
Turner, Going, Stay-maker t" white • among the co-
lours there is the most lamentable confusion, as we have
" White, Blacksmith."—Black, Whiteranith,"—" Brown
and Scarlet, Green-grocers," and " Grey, Hair-dresser,"
which would erroneously lead the passenger to suppose, that
none but grizzled heads were admitted into the shop. While
remedying these inconsistencies, the Society are entreated not
to forget, that the pavement now extends a full mile beyond what
is stilt termed " The Stones' End" in the Borough ; and that
the inscription at LoWer Edmonton, " When the water is
above this board, please to take the upper road," can he of
very little use, unless when the serval is perfectly pellucid,
which it never is. On a shop-window in the Borough there
still remains written, " New-laid eggs every day, by Mary
Dobson," Which the Society should order to be expunged as
an imposition on the public, unless they can clearly ascertain,
the varacity of the assertion.
One of the declared objects of the Institution being the pro-
motion of " loyalty in 'its genuine, not only of personal devo-
tion to the Sovereign, but of attachment to the laws and institu-
tions of our country." I would point out to its indignant notice
the following inscription in High Holborn—" Kiwo—Dyee,—
which is not only contrary to tlie.received legal maxim that the
King never dies, but altogether of a most dangerous and dis-
loyal tendency—" Parliament sold here," written up in large
letters,. in the City-road, is also an obvious allusion to the
imputed corruption of that body; and the gingerbread Kings
and Queens at the same shop being all over gilt, suggest a most
traitorous and offensive Paronomasia. I suspect the fellow who
deals in these articles to be a radical. Of the saute nature is
the indecorous inscriptions (which should have been noticed
among those, who place their names over the door), running
thus, " Ironmongery—Parsons—Tools of all sorts ;" while in
London-wall we see written up, " Deacon and Priest, Hack.
neymen." A Society, which among the twenty-seven published
names of its council and officers, contains one Bishop, two
Archdeacons, and live Reverends, cannot, out of self-respect,
suffer these indecent allusions to be any longer stuck up in the
metropolis. The French Academy having decided, that prd-
per names should never have any plural, I would implore the
Royal Literary Society to relieve the embarrassment of our foot-
men, by deciding whether they are authorized in announcing
at our routs " Mr. and Mrs. Foot and the Miss Feet;" who-
titer Mr. Peacock's family are to be designated as Mrs. Peahen
and the Miss Peachicks; and also what would be the best sub-
stitution for Mr. and Mrs. Man and the Miss Men, which has
a very awkward sound." H.

A few nights ago the Rectory-house of Ealing,
in Middlesex, was broken open and robbed of
property to a considerable amount in plate, &c.
belonging the Rev. Mr. HanvEy, curate of the
parish, and present occupant of the house. Among
the booty carried off were several valuable mar-
riage presents. The robbers effected their pur-
pose by perforating the window shutters with a
centre bit. The laundry house of J. Hopkins,
Esq. was also broken open, and stripped of a
large quantity of linen. These depredations have
excited great alarm in the neighbourhood of Han-
well and Ealing, which has long enjoyed uninter-
rupted safety and tranquillity.

BIRTHS.
On Saturday, the lhth Instant, at his house in Russell-place,
the Lady of, Rogers Ruding, Esq., of It son.
At ()Afield, East Lothian, on the 7th instant, 11Irt
Alexander Burn, of a daughter.

MARRIED.
On the 3d of June, 1823, at tiontbay, at his brother's, Colo-
net Aitchison, Auditor-General, George Berresford Aitchison,
Esq., to Anne Eliza Imabella.Trotter Ruthven, eldest daughter
of the late John Trotter Ruthven, Esq., of the county of Down,
Ireland.

DIE.
On the sth instant, at Kettle blanse,,Fife, Helen Aloncrieff,
fifth daughter of the tev. Dr. Bud-0,
' On the 12th instant,
in Berkeley-Square, Emily Caroline,
the infant daughter of Vernor Dolphin, Esq. of Eyfard House,
1 i louceigershire•
-- - the-26th of March last,
At Fort Marlborough, Bencoolen, on
the Lady of Lieutenant-Colonel Winne*, of the Hon. East
laLi.a Company's Service.