The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-23 00:00:00

LOSS OF THE SUPERBE.

(From Galignani's Messenger of Monday.)
The following is an extract of an official report to the
Minister of the Marine from Rear-Admiral Baron Huron,
dated on hoard the Iphigenie, in the Roads of Nauplia,
on the 27th of December, 1833 :—" I have the painful
task of communicating to you the loss of the Superbe,
Captain the Count d'Oysonville, which was wrecked on
the 15th instant, in the port of Pareika, in the island of
Pons. As I had the honour of informing you by my
despatch of the 10th instant, I had made every prepara-
tion for quitting the Roads of Smyrna on the 15th. In
artier to prevent tilt re being too many ships close together,
in case of adverse winds in the narrow straits of the
Chateau, the difficulties of which you are well aware of,
I directtd the Superbe ship of the line, and the Ga.
lathee frigate, Captain Armand, to sail on the 14th, and
at the same time recommended the two Captains to
come to anchor on the banks called the Salines, if the
appearances of rough weather, which had been already
observed at Smyrna, continued when they were in the
gulf. The two ships were to proceed to Nauplia,
and there wait my arrival. Misled by the expectation
of a quick passage, which was encouraged by a fine breeze
from the east, that carried them at a good rate towards
Cape Carabourmou, they determined to leave the gulf.
They were not long without having to regret this resolu-
tion. In a few hours the weather becaine tremendous,
and during the night of the 14th there came on one of the
most violent hurricanes ever known in these seas. After
having lost her maintop-ma-t, all her ails torn from the
yards, and her boats washed overboard, the Galathee
miraculously gained the passage of Cape Doro at midday
on the 15th, though unable to distinguish the land, from
which she was only distant a few cables' length, and
entered the Bay of Carvi, where she lay till the storm
had ceased. On the 22d she cast anchor at Nauplia.
The Superbe, having also lost her maintop-tnasr, and a
part of her sails, was driven into the channel between
Tino and Myconi, and made for the port of Naxos. The
darkness, however, prevented her from distinguishing the
entrance, and having passed to the west of it, she wis
compelled to suffer herself to be carried on, in the hope
of gaining the small port of Pareika. At two o'clock
in the afternoon of the 15111 the ship was no more. She
had struck on a concealed reef of rocks and gone to
pieces. The fall of her masts, and the difficulties in
torming at first a communication with the shore, caused
the loss of nine men. These, Sir, are all the particulars
that have yet come to my knowledge respecting this
unfortunate wreck. But incomplete as they are, I hasten
to transmit them to your Excellency, in order that the
public in France may not be alarmed with more disastrous
accounts. I hastened to despatch the Ville de Marseilles,
Captain Leland, to the port of Naxos, which is the nearest
Pareika, in order to bring away the crew and convey them
to Nauplia. They will be distributed among the ships
which are about to return with me to France. I shall leave
on the spot where the ship was wrecked 14, sailors, under
the command of an officer, to watch it till the weather
permits an attempt to save something of her.
" I am waiting the arrival at Nauplia of the Cornelie
and the Palinure. I am somewhat uneasy about the
former. She left Smyrna on the 9th for Salonica, where
she was to receive on board the crew of a merchantman
which was wrecked in November, on the coast of Mace-
donia, and may have been overtaken by the hurricane of
the 14th. The Palinure left Smyrna on the 19th, 48
hours after the Iphigenie ; and the calms and westerly
winds which have prevailed since my arrival at Nauplia
may be the cause of her delay.
" I am, 84c., Baron HUGON,

" Rear-Admiral commanding the Squadron in
the Levant."
" open my letter to announce that the Cornelie
has just been descried. I have also just learned that the
American ship the United States, Commodore Patterson,
which left the Bay of Smyrna a few hours before the
Superbe, after having lost some of her masts, and her
sails tern away, and her boats carried cff, and being
nearly embayed off the coast of Andros, and expecting
every moment to be lost, a sudden gleam of light enabled
her to discover the narrow passage between Tino and
Andros, she was enabled to get through it and gain the
harbour cf Milo."
A letter of the 14th instant from Toulon, after men-
tioning the loss of the Superbe, says " This is the second
ship of the line lost in 35 years. The Band was
wrecked on the coast of Africa, and the whole of her
crew were barbarously murdered by the Bedouins. But
the Band was an old worn-out ship, while the Superbe
was newly built."

We find by the accounts from Hayti that there
W 39 every probability of a rupture between France and
that Republic, in consequence of the French agent having
failud in procuring the indemnity. The French Consul-
General had, in consequence, left the Republic, the Pre-
sident, Boyer, having refused to deliver up Fort Jerernie
to France as security for the future. payment.
Lincoln has, for the last ten days or a fort-
night, abounded with light fingered gentry, and the
impudence with which they carry on their investigations,
almost induces people to believe that they are sent from
London on a commission of inquiry by authority.—Bos-
ton Herald*

LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 23, 1834.

The fall of the Spanish Minister ZEA, so
long anticipated, has at length come to pass.
Considering the present state of politics in that
distracted country, divided between the two hot
parties of the Carlists and the Liberals, with. a
sort of go-between juste milieu of which little is
known, but that it is like most such parties in
stormy times, feeble, vacillating and inefficient,
it is not matter of astonishment that M. ZEA
has fallen now, but that he has not fallen long
before. Our surprise is increased, when we
remember that he was the favourite of FERDI-
NAND, and sided with him in all his disputes
with the QUEEN, to whom he was personally
obnoxious. Again, he had no friends, made so
by affection for the man and a conviction of his
private, if not of his public, worth ; he
was himself the Alpha and Omega of his
system, which was bound up with him, and
with him, now falls, most probably—

" Like Lucifer, never to rise again."

M. ZEA'S successor is Senor MARTINEZ
de la ROSA. This gentleman has been called
to the helm, less, we suspect, from any dispo-
sition in the QUEEN to encourage a Constitu-
tional Cortes, than from the late military re-
presentation from Catalonia, and the general
expression of dissatisfaction that was beginning
to make itself felt all over the kingdom. But
whatever be the cause, certain it is that M. de
la RosA's Ministry is an augury of good import.
It is an undeniable proof that absolutism is fast
wearing itself out in Spain, though despite pre-
sent indications, we are convinced that the
factious monster will yet give much trouble to
the constitutional party. We take for granted
that one of the earliest acts of the new Minister
will be the issuing of a general amnesty, un-
clogged with exceptions or equivocations, to
those liberal patriots who, from motives of na-
tural distrust, still remain exiles from their
native land. That he will convoke the Cortes,
too, is most likely, seeing that he himself has
been of their number, and was Premier (luring
the eventful year of 1822 ; and must by this
time be fully aware that Spain, to be well go-
verned, can only be governed by a Constitu-
tional party, which may act as a salutary check
on the encroachments of Royalty.
We hail, therefore, the accession of M. de
la ROSA to power, as an omen of good to
Spain. We imagine we see in it the first dawn
of justice, of common sense, of liberality on
that benighted kingdom. Spain has within her
all the elements of political and commercial
greatness, which need only to be directed into a
fitting channel, to restore her to the " high and
palmy rank" which she once held among the
nations of Europe. Time was, when under a
CHARLES V. she was the first European
Power ; this she can scarcely be again ; still,
under a judicious Government, she may always
make herself feared and respected. At present
she is simply despised.

We beg to call the attention of our readers to
a report, given in another column, of the speech
of Mr. FRYER on the occasion of a dinner given
to him by his constituents at Wolverhampton.
Its burden was the absolute necessity to the

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manufacturing interest of repealing the corn laws.
It will be seen that Mr. FRYER is a supporter of
the opinion that the abolition of the coin laivs
Will materially lower the liriCe vt'heat, and that
the landoWners are now robbing the people, and
ptitting tie amount of the robbery into their
own pocket. That they intend to rob the peo-
ple and put the amount of the robbery into their
own pocket there ran be little cloulyc; but we
have long toniended that they fail in reaping any
aaVantage from their neia'rions legislation, how-
ever successful they flay have been in raising up
rivals for our manufacturers, and depriving our
capital and workpcople of profitable employment.
Whether, however, the landlords most injure
the country or themselves is now, except for
their peace of mind, and the soothing away ofdiffi-
citifies, which may otherwise retard our eman-
cipation, of very little consequence, for the manner
in which the millions are taking the question up
must, ere long, set it at rest. It would indeed be
strange if the men of Birmingham, of Wolver-
hampton, of Manchester, of Liverpool, of Glas-
gow, of London, having once discovered the
cause of their industry being fruitless, of their
toiling fourteen hours a day, of their
children growing pale with hunger and
fatigue, of their capital yielding no profit,
of their rivals on the continent driving
them out of foreign markets,—it would indeed
be strange, we say, if, having discovered that the
landowners were the cause of all these evils,

they should hesitate as to the steps which should
be taken to restore their prosperity. Fortu•
nate may the monopolists consider themselves
if they succeed in making any terms with the
people which shall humour their selfish appre-
hensions. We see that it is one of the prin-
ciples adopted by the Central Anti• Corn Law
Society, to proceed gradually, though with a
view to the total abolition of the Corn Laws ;
but how long they may adhere to this
sentiment it is impossible to say, and
we would advise the squirearchy to take advan-
tage of their present conciliatory disposition.

.f the cry be once raised for immediate aboli-

tion, we would not, in the event of their re-
sistance, give two years' purchase for their interest
in their estates.

Brussels and German papers have been re-
ceived this morning, but their contents are of
little importance.