The Sun.
London, England, 1824-02-10 00:00:00

Munication :

" I arrived at the Havanna Dec. 9, and I im-
mediately transmitted my dispatches to the Cap-
tain General. He commenced by dissolving the
Revolutionary Assembly, and broke the Constitu-
tional stone. rie following day 7's Deum was
chanted. I must give great praise to the probity
and loyalty of the Captai❑ General."
To this dispatch is annexed a Proclamation of the
Captain-General of the Isle of Cuba, Don Fran-
cis Vives. The Castle of St. Juan Ulloa, con-
tinues to brave all the efforts of the Insurgents,
and reliance can be placed on the zeal of Gene-
ral Vives. His artillery is immense.

A Royal Decree announces that his Ma-
jesty has recommended to all his Ministers, and
Particularly to the War Ministers, to observe the
strictest economy in their respective depart-

On the t 6th in the morning, General Sarsfield
made his entry into Barcelona.
Courcr NEWS, FEB. B.—His Majesty heard
Mass in his apartments.—After Mass, his Ma-
Jesty received the Ambassadors, Peers of France,
Ministers, &c.

it is said that the opening of the Chambers is
fixed for the 7th April, the day on which the
Eidassoa was passed.

The Paris Papers are unusually barren of im-
portant intelligence.—The elections, or rather
the manoeuvres adopted by all parties to prepare
the return of their respective candidates, continue
to engross the whole attention of the French
Press, and the war is carried on between the
different Journalists with considerable ability.—
The Government displays a degree of activity
and anxiety which proves that it is not so secure
of obtaining a Chamber according to its own
views as it affected some time since, and even
boasted to be and its agents suffer themselves
to he carried by the ardour of their zeal to an
extent which is far more likely to injure than to
serve its cause. The Opposition Journals skil-
fully avail themselves of all their faults, and by
Publishing them, destroy the effect of most of the
Circulars which are secretly issued. The follow-
ing extract. from one sent round to all the Ent-
PloNjs at Evreux by the Ring's A ttorney at that
Place, will show how far the principles of the
Charter are derided, its injunctions evaded, and
the freedom of election destroyed, by the blind
Qugerness of furious partisans :

" The Kixa wishes that the elections should be completely
'ree : the right of voting freely is inscribed in the Charter; but
that Charter also consecrates another right. To the head of the
"fate belongs the nomination of all public
,functions. Now the
AIaTG deigns to forewarn you that he will act towards you as
pou will have acted towards him. Your conduct shall regulate
his own ; you will dispose of your vote, and he will dispose of
Air situations."
The Constitutionnel, which publishes this disgraceful in-
,P.ll tance of direct menace and dictation, justly observes, that it
impossibleii it should have been authorized by the Govern-
ment, and points out that it is degrading the Kugo's 11.1A-
atsTy to use his name and make him engage personally in
tteetioneering contests.

The intelligence of the death of Sir THOMAS
MAITLAND, brought yesterday by our express
from Paris, was but too well founded. Govern-
ment have received dispatches from Naples and

Malta, announcing the melancholy event, which
took place on the 17th ult. by apoplexy, at
Malta. Sir THOMAS' MAITLAND was G. C. B.
and G. C., Colonel of the 16th Regiment of Foot,
Governor of Malta, Commander of the Forces in
the Mediterranean, and Lord High Commissioner
of the lonian Islands. Shortly after the intelli-
gence of his decease had been received by Go-
vernment, a King's Messenger was sent off with
the ►nelancholy tidings to his noble Brother, the
Earl of LAU DKIIDALE, at Dunbar, in Scotland.

Curt, Twelve o'Clock.—Consols opened at
911, and got up to 914 for the Account, and
911 for Money, with a good deal of business
doing in the earlier part of the morning.
FOREIGN MAnKET•--Very little business was
doing the early part of the morning ; but, on
the arrival of an Express from Paris, Spanish
Bonds rose to 25 for next account with 'he market
looking up. This favourable movement was owing
to the letters brought by the Express containing
accounts of purchases in Spanish Bonds by seve-
ral great houses at Paris, in consequence of some
agreeable intelligence having been received by
Express from Madrid.—The Mexican Mine shares
excite considerable interest, and are regarded as
a gocd article.

A letter written at St. Petersburgh on the 9th
ult., by a person of authority, says the rumour
seems to gain ground with individuals connected
in the circle of the Court, that a particular 51i-

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nistry for the Affairs of the IturinttA I. House
will very shortly be instituted ; and that the
[Lead of this new Department will be confided
to the Chief of the General Staff, the Adjutant-
General, Prince WOLCIIONSKY, who is now on
his route from France to the Russian Metropolis.
This new Ministry, it is further added, is to
embrace several important details, and to be very
comprehensive in its nature.

In the House of Lords last night the Marquess
of LAMDOWN gave notice, that unless he is pre-
vented by some anticipatory proceeding on the
part of Ministers, it is his intention, early in the
ensuing month, to bring for►rard a motion relative
to the independence of the South American Go-
vertunents.—ln the House of Commons various

petitions were presented praying for the repeal of
the duties on coals carried coastwise, a measure
which we have frequently recommended in this
Paper, o►► grounds that it is not now necessary to

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The K c No, we are rejoiced to state, is so much
recovered that he is expected in town before the
end of the present week, when his MAJESTY
will hold a Council to receive the Recorder's
report and transact other business.

Yesterday morning about ten o'clock the
Duke of CLARENCE left Bushey Park in his
travelling carriage, and arrived in London at a
quarter before twelve. His Royal Highness
afterwards received visits from the Duchess of
GrmucEsTe.a and the Princess SOPHIA. At two
o'clock the Princess SOPHIA went to visit the
Duke of Yont, after his Royal Highness had
transacted military business with Sir HERBERT

TA.TI.OII.
Part of the establishment of their Royal High-
nesses the Duke and Duchess of GLOUCESTER are arrived at
Lulworth Castle, to carry into effect the necessary arrangements
previous to their Royal Highnesses' arrival, and taking posses-
sion
of that mansion.
Extract of a letter, dated Bahia, Dec. 15 :
"We have advices from Rio to the 28th ult. The Emperor
had issued a decree convoking a new Assembly, according to
the formula fixed on by the last; and it is to be hoped this
may, in some measure, allay the agitation caused by the late
dissolution."
WILLIAM MARK, Esq., his Majesty's Consul
for Malaga and the Kingdom of Grenada, goes out in his Ma-
jesty's ship Phatten, now at Portsmouth.
The KING has been pleased to appoint GEORGE
R. CHI NNERY, Esq. Commissioner on the part of His MA-
JESTY, to reside in Spain, under the 7th Article of the Con-
vention concluded at Madrid, on the 12th of March 1823, be-
tween Great Britain and Spain, for the settlement of the claims
of British and Spanish subjects.
The Marquis La FAYETTE having expressed a
wish to visit the United States, the Ame7icans are about to send
a national ship to convey him to and from France.
, Mr. WINGFIELD, it is reported, is to be one of
the new Masters in Chancery ; and Sir GIFFIN WI LSO::, the
Recorder of Windsor, is, it is added, to be appointed the Welch
Judge, in the place of Mr. WIN GFIELD..
The remains of the Countess of HARRINGTON
will be removed on Thursday next, from the Stable-yard, St.
James's, for interment, in the family vault, in Westminster
Abbey.
A petition is about to be presented to the
House of Commons, by all or some of the per.
sons lately sentenced in the Court of King's
Bench for keeping gaming-houses. The grounds
upon which the sentences are to be complained
of, will, it is said, he rather curious.
SCANDALOUS REPORT.-Our street reports last
week would inform us, that the Proprietor of a London News-
paper, which had libelled an highly-respectable Member of the
Corporation on the subject of Sherif Thorpe and the Grand
Jury, had cried " mercy," and given up the author of the
libel, who proved to be no less a personage than one who looks
up to the Representation of a metropolis in Parliament! We
sincerely hope that, for the honour of Ireland, the fact may not
be so.—( Antidote.)
It is in contemplation at Newcastle-upon-
' Tyne to establish a Library in that town, adapt-
ed to the means and wants of the working classes.
Its establishment is for the purpose of affording
them an opportunity of gaining an increase of
knowledge and amusement on the most economi-
cal terms.
There was a very large supply of grain at the
Corn Market, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on Satur-
day, the 7th instant. The finer descriptions of
Wi fell about Bs. per quarter, and the inferior
10s., compared with the currency of the Satur-
day preceding.