The Sun.
London, England, 1824-10-16 00:00:00

[NEW T 1 NI ES.]

The Mode of Thursday, which we received
yesterday evening, contains a piece of informa-
tion which is not a little appropriate to the dis-
cussion lately raised on the Proclamation of Sir
Frederick Adam. A Greek cruiser met with a
French merchant vessel which' was conveying
some Turks (possibly they may have been sol-
diers) to Alexandria. The Greek, acting upon
the New Law of Nations, which The Morning
Chronicle has discovered in Galiani, butchered
all the French seamen except one, who

'fortunately escaped and conveyed the in-
telligence to Captain Droualt, the French
Commander on the Levant station. Captain
Drouault, with a proper feeling for the honour
of his flag, proceeded to sea immediately, with
a frigate and a corvette, in pursuit of the
sanguinary Greek. We expect to find in The
Chronicle of this day a violent abuse of this
French Officer, for not allowing the Greeks to
massacre his countrymen at pleasure.—The mur-
der of the two children on the Bois de Vin-
cennes continues to excite an intense interest at
Paris. It is to be hoped the Police will detect
the real motives of the act, and that the parties
who instigated the act will finally be brought to
justice. Another singular but less terrific story,
relating to a child, is also occupying the criminal
tribunals in Paris ; it relates to a coalman's son,
about seven years of age, who was stolen from
his parents, and, as it seems, was intended to
have been palmed on a man as his child by a
woman of profligate principles.

[THE Tiat Es.]
Intelligence was received yesterday at Lloyd's
of the safe arrival of the Cortes packet from
New York (which was reported to have been
stranded at Bangor), at Liverpool. This vessel
sailed from New York on the Bth tilt., and has
brought papers and letters to that date. Their
contents are not important. A New York paper
of the 3d of September quotes from the Louisi-
ana Advertiser of the llth of August, a journal
published at New Orleans, an article which
appears to be a commentary on a statement
in a former number, that the province of Yucatan
had rebelled, and declared itself independent of
the Central Government of Mexico. The whole
affair seems to be, that General Sautana has ad-
dressed a very long letter to the Chief Secretary
of State in Mexico, complaining of certain
abuses in the administration of the existing Go-
vermnent, and calling for their reformation. This
letter, it is material to observe, is dated as far
back as the 13th of July, and was written there-
fore before the execution of Iturbide, an event
which could not fail to have checked the rebel-
lious design of Santana, admitting that his letter
was written under any•such impression. It is al-
ready known that this officer had been deputed
by the Central Government of the Mexican
States to quell an insurrection which had broken
out in the province of Yutucan. His manner of
executing that commission,or rather his total neg-
lect of the instructions confided to him, had at-
tracted the attention of the Government, who
would probably find it necessary, in consequence
of such misconduct, to remove him from that
command. In such a case no resource would be
left him but to acquire the protection of a power-
ful party in Yucatan, through whose support he
might be enabled to hold out in resistance to the
will of the supreme Government ; and he had so
far proceeded in this course as to cause himself
Ito be elected by the Provincial Legislature to
the Government of Yucatan. The resistance,
however, of so insignificant a province, after
the splendid results of General Bravo's ex-
it:
Iturbide
too.ereGukantioa,l::: r
coi,uliaindhartdhely
pletudri of
calcu-
lated on. We understand thattbleeatli
dispatches from
the Mexican Government to
their Envoy in .4i
country have been brought by the Cortes.—No
intelligence from Peru is found in the papers
from New York. According to accounts from
Caraccas of the 14th of August,troops, intended
to be sent as reinforcements to Bolivar, were
daily arriving at Laguayra ; and Commodore
Daniels had departed for Puerto Cavell°, to
take the command of the ships of war in-
tended to convey them to Chagres. Commo-
dore Beluche had arrived at Puerto Cavell() with
the ships Bolivar, Boyaca, and Ceres, to be em-
ployed in the same service ; and the 20th of
August had been fixed upon for the sailing of
the expedition. A letter from Caraccas to the
editors of the Daily Advertiser, dated Aug. 9,
states that the situation of foreign merchents there
is by no menus a pleasant one. They have even
been obliged to shut their stores, and report says
a petition is about to be sent to time Congress, to
prevent foreigners from retailiug goods altogether.
In the plains of A rragua, the scarcity of provisions
is said to be so great, that a famine may almost
be said to exist, and the mortality is excessive.
Business is at a stand" there, money is extremely
scarce, and foreign goods so plenty and low,
that shippers cannot expect otherwise than to
lose by their adventures to that country at
present.

PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

(From the Liverpool Currier, (221.13.)

• - • . - •
'FRANCE.- i he abolition of the censorship on
the press has been one of the first acts of the new Sovereign.— '
Whether he himself approved of this relaxation of power very
cordially is doubtful ; but the Minister felt its unpopularity,
and chose rather to brave the censure of inconsistency and
changeableness, than to persevere in a measure which threaten-
ed to unite both ultras and liberals against him. Opinions differ
as to this act of the new (imminent, whether considered as.
an index of its future policy in the internal government of
France, or of the state of public opinion in matters affecting
public liberty. Some regarded the imposition of the censor-
ship as merely temporary in intention, adopted in anticipa.
tion of the late King's death, and designed to prevent discus-
sions which might have embarrassed the succession. That
having taken place in perfect quietness, the object is gained,
and the removal of the restriction , followed of natural conse-
quence. lf, however, this be the fact of the case, it looks
very much like apprehension, and was a tacit acknowledgment
of the unpopularity into which the measures of the French Ali-.
nistry had, plunged the Bourbon dynasty, or at least its direct
' line. We incline rather to the opinion, that the imposition of
the censorship was an experiment too rash for the state of France,
which is not yet drugged, by Jesuitical art and by the wither-
ing Influence of revived .Popery, into a torpor sufficiently
profound, and into a spirit so degradingly prostrate, as to
part, all at once, with the only remaining check upon the
. project of establishing a complete civil and ecclesiastical despo,
tisin ; and that it was given up under the apprehensions of the
dissatisfaction and resistance which it was rapidly creating.__
That it was designed to be temporary, is, probably, no more
than the pretence set up by the Minister ; forbad it been under.:
stood, in the high political circles of France, to be designed to
facilitate the peaceable accession of Charles, Chateaubriand and
his party would not have dared to asail it, anxious as they
might be to render the Minister unpopular. The repeal may
be considered as indicative of the remaining ekistence of a pub.
lie spirit, to which it is still necessary to defer, and by which
an influence may still be exerted favourable to the best interests
of the country. All the hope for France is, indeed, hi the state
of its parties. Among the ecclesiastics, the Jesuits and the
advocates for the liberties of the Gallium Church are begin-
ning, as formerly, their beneficial quarrels; and the ultras, mo-
a derates, and Buonapartists arc immiscible as oil and water.' It
lis rather unfortunate•for any country when its liberties have no
better guarantee than the jealousies of. parties, who do right
on no better principle than that of vexing and thwarting tiler

oppoesett ; but this is, in a great degree, the case with France,
and whatever of real liberty is preserved to her will be chiefly
owing to this state of things. The Moderates =not command
influence enough to governi though they may sometimes check;
any great change would throw the power wholly into the hands
of the Papistical Royalists or the Radicals, both, though by
different modes, equally the enemies of liberty. One tramples
it to death, and the other hugs it breathless by hypocritical
embraces.

PIRACY.

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We extract from a New York Paper of the
Sth of September the following statement of the
capture of the American brig Henry, Captain
JoslAh RHODES, of Hartford, Connecticut, on
her passage from St. Jago, Gulf of Mexico,
bound to Mantanzas, with a cargo of mules, cap-
tured by two piratical schooners:— _ _

" On the 16th Of August, about five miles to the eastward of
the Bay of Honda, and about 10 miles from the shore, was
boarded by those two schooners, and about 10 men ; they car-
ried the Captain on board of a large schooner that lay at anchor
in shore. She was armed with four carriage guns, muskets,
pistols, cutlasses, and knives in abundance. She had about
44 or 46 men ; they demanded money from the Captain ; he
not having any, they hung him by the neck twice, then lowered
him down, and laid him on two boards on the deck, and drew a
knife across his throat twice; he then informed them there was on
board of the brig Henry 10 ounces in gold, which they iinmedi-1
ately sent for. They then run the brig on shore on a key, cut away
both masts, unbent the sails, took the rigging oft the masts, put
them on board of two-small schooners, likewise anchors and
cables, and several boxes and bales from the piratical schooner,
which Capt. Rhodes supposed had been taken from an American
schooner a few days previous. In the evening, four of the brig
Henry's crew were brought on board of the piratical schooner,
who told Captain Rhodes that the pirates had treated the crew
of the brig Henry most barbarously, and had broken the arm of
William Kelly. On the morning of the 17th, the small
schooners sailed to the eastward. Captain Rhodes and the four.
men were confined in the hold ; their diet was rice and water.
In the afternoon the remainder of the brig's crew were brought
on board of the piratical schooner, and likewise confined in the
hold. On the morning of the 18th, the drogging schooner
No. 331 joined company with the pirates, and took a cargo of
jerked beef, bees'-wax, coffee, and part of the brig's rigging
and sails ; she then sailed to the eastward, no doubt to the
llavannah. The mornink previous to dispatching this
schooner, the brig's crew were ordered on deck, engaged
fitting gun-tackle, &c., and Captain Rhodes in fitting cart-
ridges. At two in the afternoon, the two piratical schooners
came in, who also took cargoes from the larger schooner,
and made sail to the eastward. At sunset Capt. Rhodes and
crew were confined in the hold. On the 19th, the two piratical
schooners returned, and took in another cargo, and sailed to
the eastward. Captain Rhodes and crew engaged as before.
On the 20th, at day-light, the large piratical schooner got under
way, and gave chace to a schooner ; could not come up with her,
gave up the chace, and returned to her former anchorage. On
the 21st, at 4 in the morning, the brig's crew were sent on board
of the Henry to hoist the mules out to be landed ; they had just
commenced when three armed boats made their appearance. The
pirates then being entirely confused, some jumped. in the water,
and others in their boats, and made the best of their way to.
the shore. The brig and schooner were taken possession of
by the boats of his Britannic Majesty's ship Icarus, who saved
the lives of the brig Henry's crew, who were to be murdered as
soon as the mules were landed Among the piratical crew,
Captain Rhodes recognized Mr. Johnson and Elias Manuel,
whom he had seen in New Orleans, and who told Capt. Rhodes
they had been little better than three months in the piratical
business.. They had taken and burnt twelve vessels, and upon
Captain Rhodes inquiring as to the fate of their crews, they
would not give hint any answer. From the appearance of the
wrecks, it wits Captain Rhodes's opinion they must have been
navigated with about 130 souls or more, all of whom he sup-
posed had fallen a sacrifice to these blood-thirsty murderers.

RIOT WITH SOLDIERS AT CHELSEA.

stt Ye ,
rday information was given at several of
the Police offices of a most desperate affray, which took place
at Chelsea on
Thursday night.—About eight o'clock on Thurs-
day night three of the Life Guards were drinking in the house
of Mr. Ansted, the sign of the Bedford Arms, Pont-street, Ca-
dogan-place, Chelsea ; they. were inebriated, and spoke con-
temptuously ofevery person in company, and of their superiority
over meeanics. One of the soldiers, in crossing the room,
dropped three halfpence, and insisted upon a man, who was
present, picking them up, and giving them to him. The man
re died, " You are not toy master, pick them up yourself." The
soldier swore if he did not pick the money up, he would knock
his bead off. Another man present said they were as good as
neral ._
the soldiers, and the man should not
e stoop t
scufflo e
pick
ensuedup what
the soldier had dropped ; and a g
The soldiers, possessing great bodily strength, knocked
their opponents about in the room as it' they were children.—
'l'he
landlord, interfering to put an end to the tumult, one of
the soldiers struck bins a violent blow on one eye, and another
threw a fire shovel at the landlady ; but luckily she escaped
with little injury. The landlord had some friends in the bar,
Tumline, entered the
and the soldiers drove them out into the street, and cleared the
tbtehst adrienirssedrit'iaclknehaim a tremendous blow
house of all, except the landlord, who would not quit his bar.
i Thehouse,
el i, rsatnd watchman
oneof the
on the head with a poker, which felled hint to the ground—
Another soldier took his staff from him, and beat and kicked
hint as he lay in a senseless state on the floor. The three soldiers
being armed with poker, staff, and fire shovel, swore that they
would beat and murder all the watchmen in England before
tbilloewcsonisntatbhieesco..nzflicptr.octOirne(ei
the would be taken. A posse of 15 watchmen, headed by the
in which; ('}strict the
constables, Maybank and Cousins, arrived on the spot, and
attempted to secure the soldiers, but their efforts were unavail-
rrinii. constable pointed out to
lug, for as they approached them they were beaten off, and se.
'ricks, and the three sol-
diers to secrete a fire-
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jtlriiiv(wigolisee,fieiritl,tylovsliwilii,silaernitinviteitcleisogeloriolee;:t.k:lßol
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froiit tim, and conveyed
hint and his companions to Knightsbridge
onasdvtliireiiiiieeorl.
Barracks, and they
were locked up in the guard-room. Canning
uMidlybank,
the constables, accompanied the soldiers tothaern al,r.croorn,
The watchman was carried to St. Gorge's llospitrii,
lies in a dangerous state. One of the three soldiers wasleP he
found
to be in so had a state yesterday morning, that the Surge
the regiment pronounced him unable to be removed "of
without
great danger. The soldiers would have been
lexamined yeter-
day before the Magistrates of Queen-square
able to attend, but as they are in safe custody,' itrnd thebeen
was thought
best to wait the issue of the watchman's unfortunate condition
before the investigation took place, and the examination was
postponed for a few days.

A private letter from the East communicates
the following curious anecdote :—" No history,
ancient or modern, can furnish a parallel—they
fought with a courage never equalled, and when
every hope was lost, they plunged with their
mocked children from the rocks headlong into
the sea ! French frigate was lying-to during
the engagement, and picked up many of them.
I saw one of these poor children at Smyrna, a
slave to a Turk of distinction—his history is
deeply distressing. His mother, he says, shot
the first man who broke into the house, but was
speedily overpowered ; his father fought for a
long time—he at length retired into a room where
the family had taken refuge ; he killed his three
little brothers, and twice lifted the sword to dis-
patch him ; he was the favourite of his father—
his resolution failed him ; and that wretched
parent had only time to use the weapon on him-
self, when the room was broken into by the sol-
diers."

A gentleman named GIONOUX, residing at
Miramont, shot his servant dead on the night of
the 24th of September. The deceased was a
tine young man, only 20 years of age. Among
many causes assigned for this extraordinary mur-
der, the most prevalent is, that the rash act was
perpetrated through jealousy of his wife, who
is represented as a very beautiful woman, and as
having been much attached to the unfortunate
deceased.—(Echo du Midi.)