The Sun.
London, England, 1824-06-22 00:00:00

*4* POT LIITTEII, on the late Mr. 31t/sa, and that on the
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PRICE OF STOCKS TiIIS I
Bank Stock _ I

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3 per Cent. Red. 94ai
per Cent. Cons shut
)1i per Cent. .10134
{Dissd. 101 i 100
4 per Cent. Assd. 1011 i
New shut

lmlia Bonds 81s. 803.825.
South kiea Stock
Old Annuities
New Ditto
Ex. Bills £lOOO, 2d. 27 21 25
Ditto 500
Ditto Small 25 20
Bank for Act.
India for Acct.
Cons. for Account ......

Basil( Long Ann.
Imp. 3 per Cents.
India Stock

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Austrianßds, 5 per ct. 94i
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Bds, 6 per ct....
Colombian 6 per ct
Scrip liA pr.
Banish, 5 per cent.
Greek Scrip
exican Scrip 2 211 pr.
Neapolitan, 5 per cent.
Peruvian Bonds

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Prussian, S per cent.
Ditto New
Russian, New, 3 per et.—
Spanish 1821, 6per ct.
-- 1823, ditto
Alliance Skarea 17 17
Palladium
Equitable Loan

Irish Ditto
Manchester Ditto ....... . -
French Rentes
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PortAguese Bonds

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QUIS- DICERE FALS.I ALTDB,I T

LONDON,
TUESDAY, JUNE 22., 1824.

We are enabled to assure our Readers posi.
tively, that the KING does not intend to pro,
rogue the Parliament in person.

New York Papers to a late date have this
morning been received in town by Express
from Liverpool. They bring accounts from
Mexico of the 17th of April. The state of
affairs in that Republic was so very unfavoura.
Me that the Congress had felt it necessary
to create the office of Dictator. A Member of
the Executive Government had been appointed
to this office (the creation of which is a sure
indication of the danger of the State), and was
clothed with absolute authority over the whole of
the national affairs. All the provinces were in a
state of alarming insubordination.

We have received the Paris Papers of Satur-
day and the Etude of Sunday, and have given
extracts from them in a preceding column.

We this lay before our Readers the official
Proclamation of the King of PORTUGAL, for the
convocation of the ancient Cortes of his King-
dam, together with other Lisbon intelligence (for
which see our preceeding columns). The mea-
sure, it appears from the private accounts, was
received with great rejoicings on the part of the
people. - The Cortes are expected to assemble at
the latter end of October or the beginning of
November next. The KING, has also published
an Act of Amnesty, which grants a general par-
don for individuals accused of political offences
committed before the sth of June, 1823. The
only exceptions to this amnesty are those persons
who have maintained- and propagated what are

. .
called " perverse political opinions" since the
period above stated. A private letter from
Lisbon adds, that the KING intended shortly to
issue a Decree, recognizing the public debt of
Portugal. The conduct of JOHN VI., Nvhen
contrasted with that of the King of SPAIN, pre-
seas the former Monarch in a favourable point
of view ; and we trust this example will not be
lost upon the misguided Government of the
Peninsula.

Dispatches were received yesterday at the
Colonial Office from Sierra Leone, dated the

ISth A pril, fully confirming the melancholy af-
fair between Sir CuArtr.cs MACARTIST and the
Ashantees. We have given in another column
the official account from the Sierra Leone Ex-
traordinary Gazette, announcing the defeat and
death of the lamented Governor. We have also
received letters from Sierra Leone of the 17th.
They contain no additional information respect-
ing the battle, his Majesty's ship Bann, which
brought the news from Cape Coast, having sailed
before the date of our last direct advices from
thence. One letter, speaking of the original
objects of Sir CHARLES'S expedition, says—" lids
Excellency left Cape Coast in consequence of
the hostile feeling manifested by the Ashantees,
in the hope that he might be.able, by his inflti-
ence and conciliatory" disposition, to effect and
establish a permanent peace with therd; and'
it was after he hats satisfied himself of the

possibility of concluding any amicable arrange-
ment with them that he had recourse to
arms." Though Sir CHARLES, when attacked
by the Ashantees, had only four hundred men
with him, it appears that he might have defeated
them, or at least have escaped with his life, but
for the want of ammunition. Had the other
divisions, commanded by Major CIiISHOLM and'
Captain LING, only been aware of his danger,
there seems no question but that the Ashan-
tees would have been completely routed. We
close our extracts from these letters with the fol-
lowing tribute to the private character of Sir
CuA.nr.zsM'CARTNy :—" I cannot possibly depict
to you the distress and sorrow which pervade all
classes in this Colony at the untimely end of our
beloved Governor. The widow, the fatherless,

the poor and needy, the desolate and oppressed,
will deeply feel his loss. lie was a man uni-
versally esteemed, revered, and beloved. His
object and aim was the good of ' Afric's sons.'
He delighted in deeds of charity. Ile supported
every institution here whiCh has for its object
civilization of Africa in general."

The measure proposed yesterday to the House
of Commons by Mr. HERMES will deservedly at-
tract the general attention of the commercial
world, and may be described as involving a grand
plan of Fiscal Reform. It will be perceived
that the Hon. Member introduced several Bills
for the consolidation of the Laws of Customs,
and intimated, that the same course will be-pur-
sued with regard to the Excise. It is needless
for us to say how important a simplification of
all the various enactments, under which the
duties on import and consumption are collected
throughout the Empire, must be to the mercan-
tile interest and to the public at large. Taxation
has been more carefully studied, and conducted
on better principles by the British Government
than by-any other, ancient or modern. Instead
of throwing the whole direct weight of the taxes
on any one class of society, those imposts
have been, from time to time, carefully
modified and spread over the community, so as
to equalize their pressure, and produce, in the
general result, as little hardship or injustice
as possible. In this view, the multiplicity of
the objects of taxation affords .a proof of the ex-
cellence of the Fiscal System. In the natural
course of things, however, it introduces a degree
,of complexity into the law. The legislative pro-
visions for collecting the various taxes are differ-
ent; they are sometimes adapted to local circum-
stances and temporary occcasions ; and in pro-
cess of time they come to form a mass extremely
intricate and confused, and often contradictory.

To reduce this labyrinth to order is a work of ►►o
small difficulty ; but its utility is most obvious ;
and we doubt not the scheme developed by Mr.
H ERRIES, while it provides for the necessary se-
curity of the Revenue, will afford great relief to
the trading world, by the abolition of many vexa-
tious enactments.

[Extract from the Agents to Lloyd's at Monte Video, dated
the 4th of April.]

" The Jane, of Leith, Weddell, put in here yesterday from
a whaling voyage, and will proceed in a few days for London.
The Master states, that he sailed from Port Egmont, in the
Falkland Islands, on the 19th ultimo, and left there a Spa-
nish
74-gun ship and a brig of war, taking in water and re-
freshments.
He went on board the ship, and was informed
by the Captain that they were bound from Lima to Cadiz;
but whilst his boat lay alongside, the crew of the line-of-battle
ship told his men that they were nine weeks from Cadiz, and
expected to be joined by two frigates from the same quarter,
and then proceed up the coast of Chili and Peru to Lima.—
Mr. Weddell adds, that during the progress of his fishing
voyage, he penetrated into 74. 15. S. lat., and between 23. and
30. W. long., where he found a fine open sea, which appeared
to be free from ice and icebergs as far as could be seen to the
southward from the mast-head of his vessel.
" His Majesty's ship Cambridge left the anchorage off this
port on the 30th ult., for the Pacific, having landed Mr. Hood,
`the Consul for this place; Mr. Parish, Consul-General for
i Buenos Ayres; and Mr. Itowcroft, Consul-General for Peru.
The latter Gentleman went up to Buenos Ayres, and intends
crossing the Andes to Chili."

His Majesty's ship Tamar, Captain Barnum,
which sailed from Plymouth on the 18th of last
February, on a secret service, touched at St.
Jago on the loth March (being the only place
she had then called at), and proceeded on the
following day for the Cape of Good Hope, on
her way to New South Wales. What may be
her precise object, or ulterior destination, is not
known.

Mr. IvLusa°, the King's Messenger, arrived in
town on Sunday night, with dispatches from the

Hague.

Dispatches were received yesterday morning,
at the Foreign-office, Downing-street, from Sir
EDWARD THORNTON, OU- Ambassador at Lisbon,
dated the 12th inst.

Mr. Avis, who arrived in town on Friday from
Madrid, accomplished his journey in nine days.
ROYAL FAMILY.--011 Sunday the Duke and
Duchess of CLARENCE dined with the Duchess of KENT, at
her apartments at the King's Palace, Kensington.—Prince
LroroLD, attended by Baron STocxmATI, arrived in town
yesterday morning from Claremont. The Duchess of KENT,
the Prince of LEiNsINGEN, and the Princess FEODORE, vi-
sited his Royal Highness, and partook of an elegant dejeune.
In the evening his Royal Highness had a numerous Grand
Party.—Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of YORK and
Prince LEOTOLD honoured the Marquis and Marchioness of
WINCHESTER with their company, at dinner, on Saturday,
at their residence in Cavendish-square.—On Friday evening
their Royal .Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of GLOU-
CESTER honoured Lady WARBURTON. with their company,
at her house in Albemarle-street.—Her Ladyship had a small.
select party to meet their Royal Highnesses.
A letter from Paris of Saturday, states that
Count of CARAMAN is to be the successor of M.
de CHATEAUBRIAND, in the French Ministry.