The Sun.
London, England, 1824-04-22 00:00:00

MASONIC NOTICES FOR NEXT WEEK.

4 ENt; AND.
11,4-
April 26, I,orn horn. Nos. 4. 46 71, 91, 104,
.
30,5, 321, 407, 458.
COUNTRY. Nos. 227, 246, 320, 490,
546, 578, 707.
- 27, I,o:thorn. Nos. 86, 349.
GOUNTRY. Nos. 38, 67, 68, 145, 427,

TAtesdity,

868.
edneaday, - 28, LONDON. Grand FestivaL Nos. 2,
12, 235.
COUNTRY. Nos. 84, 112, 215, 314,
414, 440, 442, 478 548,
549, GM
Nos. 7, 39, 327. Lodge of
Benzvolence. Gen. Com.
Fern. Sch. at 12.
COUNTRY. Nos. IW, 176, 453.
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---30, LONDON. •
Coux•ruir. Nos. 33, 236.
Saturday, May 1, LoNnoN. No. 173.
COUNTRY. •
IR ELAND.
ar, April 27, Coux. No. 27.

Thursday,

Ptiii4r,

- 29, LONDON•

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PRICE OF STOCKS
TIIII L) .1 y .vr Two o'cLocK•
ItalLk Stock ....
$ 2-Isi India Stock 300 i
per (;ent. Red. 951 India Bonds B3s.
?, Per Cent. cons. 96,14 South tiea Stock
'li Per Cent Old Annuities —
4 per Cent. 14114 loo,i F.x. Rills 55 &E
n i
er ~ I New loBai Ditto Small —
p (:eats. 1797
Onk Long Ann. 23i 3-I(iths I India foriOnt. Acct,
"11P. 3 Per Cutts. I Cons. for Acct. 96i i

ou FOREIGN STOCKS i LONDON, ArRIL 22,

AT ONI; O'CLOCK.
Vrensii f Five per Cents. 103.1.
I. Scrip, la pm.
I Six per Cents. 00.
Five per Cents. (Metallic) 00.
( Ditto New 974.
Neapolitan Five per Cent. Bonds, )61.
Austrian Scrip, la prem.
Fire per Cent. Bonds, 1820, 90.
Spanish Ditto 1021, 17i.
Ditto 1023, 16.
Prussian i Five percent. Bonds, 9til•
I Ditto New, 99i.
Portuguese .1 Bonds, 96k.
k Danish Scrip, 51.
Five per Cent. Bonds, BPI
Peruvian
Chili Scrip, 1.
874.
Colombian f Six per Cent. Bonds, 9.1 i.
Alex.
lean t. Scrip, 4/ prem.
Scrip, 14 prem.
2 dis.
Alliance Insurance Shares-17.
j Bank Shares £24 Os. 01
American Seven per Cent. 95.
Six per Cent. 94 —lOl.
1 rive per Cent. 100 —lO-2.
Three per Cent. 77.

llussian

Rion WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
11"ainit, 21 minutes lifter 9. 1 Evening, 50 minutes after 9.

THE SUN.

SoLEM QUIS DICERS F4LSUM AsinhiAT

LONDON,
THURSDAY, APRIL ►, 1824.

City, Twelve o'Clock.—Consols opened this
niorning.at 96k, went up to 4, but lowered again
to 961-1, at which price they remain steady
with no business of consequence. For Money
the, are 964.. I do not hear of any Express
litiving arrived from Paris. We have no reports
iu the City.

FOREIGN MARKET.--Scarce any busines doing
in the above Market.

Letters from St. Petersburgh, of the 26th
March, state that the EmPEttott's health is en-
tirely re-established, and that he rides out daily
the environs of his Capital. On the 23d, the
anniversary of the EMPEROR'S accession was cele-
brated with great pomp. Colonel ESSEON has
returned to St. Petershurgh from Berlin, where
he went on an important traission.

Letters from Madrid, of the 7th April, state
that several arrests had taken place at Valladolid
in consequence of a conspiracy haying been de-
tected in that town, but no disastrous events had
occurred.

It
it understood that Austria and Prussia, in
imitathici of Great Britain and France, have re-
solved on attempting, in the course of the ensuing
Stutner, the reduction of the interest of their
Public debt.

The following is an extract of a private letter'
received yesterday from Lisbon. It is scarcely
credible that the Portuguese Prince can have con-
ducted himself in the extraordinary, violent, and
Most unjustifiable tnanner related :
" Lzseore, Arnie 9, 1824.—An English merchant, of the
name of MOON, lately arrived from the Brazils, was standing
in' the Rua Augusta on the evening of the 2d, when the
prince, Dore Mrotme, passed by on horseback. Mr. M. not
seeing the Prince, and not knowing whe it was, did not take
,his hat off, and his attention was suddenly roused by seeing a
Peraon'en horseback- cut at him with a sword, which for-
tunately missed the object against which it was directed, and
struck one of those large stones which are placed at the edge of
the Pavement, of about four or five feet high, and left the mark
there.--Mr. Moore immediately escaped into a staircase, and
did not know until he came out that it was the Prince who had
struck at him. Mr. M. besides being extremely short-sighted,
had never had the honour of seeing this hero before. ITpon
the Prince hearing that it was a foreigner whom he had at-
tempted to strike, ho replied that he thought it had been merely
a vile Portuguese. What happiness the nation have before them
with the prospect of this modern Quixote for a King ! Mr. M.
is reported to have said, that (upon being told that it was the
Prince) he would have taken both his hat and his coat off if
they had. told him. One cannot be surprised that he has not
dared to represent it to the Minister here after such an avowal of
his sentiments. If such outrageous acts of violence arc permit-
ted, San British subjects consider themselves safe ? The Agent
for Packets here, received by the last mail an order from Mr.

FIMELIIM to this effect, that all Newspapers and Pam-
phlets arriving at Lisbon by the packets, shall, for the fu-
ture, be sent to the Portuguese Post-office, there to t e de-
livered. There they will be inspected, and if they should
be found to contain any thing relating to their Government,
of which they disapprove, such Newspapers will not be is-
The.cousequences of this may be easily imagined. Two
or three persons have already written to discontinue their
subscriptions, and, in a very short time, such a thing as an
English Paper will not, be found in Lisbon, excepting those
which come to the Ambassador. It is much to be regretted
that our Government have acquiesced in so infamous a request.
Some months ago, Mons. de Veuville wished to turn out of the
Foreign Assembly Reading Rooms the Constitutionn el, but his
motion was received with a proper disgust."

A private letter from Lisbon, of the 10th inst.,
states that the Portuguese Government, in con-
sequence of certain alarming symptoms in the
provinces, have applied for aid to the French, and
that five thousand French troops have actually
passed the frontier from Badajoz. The same letter
asserts that it has been definitively determined by
the Cabinet of Lisbon to send out a force of ten
thousand men against the Brazils. Both of these
statements are probably unfounded, or at least
premature.

We understand that a Loan of five millions,
for the accommodation of West Indian Propri-
etors, has been negociated,. within a few days
past, with two most respectable houses in the
City, on the security of property to a large
amount in Jamaica and other islands. The inte-
rest is to be paid, and the redemption of the
principal effected, by means of regular consign-
ments of West India Produce to the Contractors
for the loan. This advance of cash to the West
India Interest can scarcely fail of being highly
beneficial to the Colonies in their present de•
pressed state.

Our present columns contain a Table of the
Petitions for Private Bills, and of the progress
made in them respectively during the cur-
rent Session. The list is in itself a rich and
splendid proof of the activity with which im-
provements of almost every kind are carrying for-
ward within the country. What a commentary does
it present on the favourite and fallacious notions
of the theoretical political Economists, who hold
that the national prosperity is best promoted by
the competition of individuals with one ano-.
Cher, and who violently oppose themselves to
combinations of all sorts, and to every proposi-
tion for legislating on the employment of capi-
tal One cannot sufficiently admire the in-
consistency with which, they pertinaciously
contend-for their general principle, at the very
time that they are silently acquiescing in the pas-
sage-of all these bills of exception through the
gislature, or actiiely supporting
_them in every
stage! 'Each of the Bills is directly framed
for the accomplishment of that by a com-
bination of persons and of capital which in-
dividual enterprise and competition either will
not or cannot undertake;—each of them, when
passed into a law, will be an Act of Legisla-
tion for for the employment of capital and the
promotion of industry ;—and all of them are enter-
tained by a Parliament which has sanctioned the
general principle of the Political Economists by
its votes, and which has almost declared that it
is little short of insanity to think of interfering
in any way with the ,commercial or other pecu-
niary operations of the people ! The apparent
triumph of the Economists, therefore, in the Le-
gislature, would seem to be but precarious and
hollow. The truth is, that, like our worthy
Correspondent - the " Inisu LANDLORD," they
themselves are at all times ready to turn their
back upon their own very precious principle,
when it so happens that their practical know.
ledge of insulated propositions forces upon them
the conviction of its futility.

Yesterday evening the Princess AUGUSTA. ho-
noured Drury-lane Theatre with her presence.

The Duchess of GLOUCESTER visited the Prin.
CeSS AUGUSTA yesterday.

Yesterday morning. Mr. Secretary CANNING
left town for a few days.
The Countess Of LITERPOOL drinks the Path
water, as well as the Noble Earl ; the health of
both the Earl and Countess, we are happy to
say, is much improved.

•
The Spanish Colonel DE PABLO, commonly
known by the name Of CHAPALANGARRA, is ar-
rived in town. He was the Governor of Alicante,
the last fortress ceded to the French, he having
maintained himself several days after the sur-
rendering of Carthagena, Peniscola, and Bar-
celona itself. He pledged himself to be the last
to yield, and he kept his word.
Mr. MATTHEWS, the Englishman who was
taken prisoner with the unfortunate Riego, and
conveyed to Madrid, has arrived in town. Mr.
MATTHEWS was released from prison on the 3d
inst., and quitted Madrid on the 7th with an
English courier. During the interval of his re-
lease and departure, he was unable to go out of
his lodgings, Sir W. A'CoultT having pledged
his word that he should not appear in public ;
but we understand that he was visited by nearly
all the principal Spanish Consitutionalists in Ma-
drid, who expressed a lively satisfaction at his
release.

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