The Sun.
London, England, 1832-11-16 00:00:00

FALMOUTH, Nov. 14.

We have this day two additional arrivals from
Portugal, viz., his Majesty's schooner Pike,
Lieut. Brooking, and his Majesty's brig Pan-
taloon, Lieut. Dacres : the former left Lisbon
on the 7th, and off Oporto on the 10th, at 11
o'clock, a.m.; the latter left Lisbon on the 9th,
and from off Oporto the same day, at 5 o'clock,
p.m., having been out only the short space of
11 days from this port. Both these vessels are
without mails from Oporto, not being able to
communicate with any of the authorities on
shore, on account of its blowing at the time a
heavy gale of wind, with a heavy sea running
over the Bar—they delivered their mails to the
Raven cutter, and by her received information
that Miguel had erected batteries on the south
side of the Douro, from which he was conti-
nually throwing in shot and shells to the city,
some of which were directed to their shipping.
The former were of large dimensions, and sup-
posed to have been discharged from heavy pieces
of ordnance. The two vessels perceived the
firing going on up to the latest period of their
sailing.
Letters received at Lisbon from the army
mention that another attack was meditated ; the
letters received there also from Oporto represent
the cause of the Constitutionalists in the most
favourable light, and state of their constantly
receiving supplies of men, arms, money, and
horses from England and France. On the other
hand the Royalists continue sanguine as to the
result of the next attack. The discount upon
Government Paper remains at 26 per cent. In-
dependent of the above, there appears to be
nothing additional in the shape of news to that
received by the Royalist.

His Majesty's brig Trincu/o, 10, Cow-
man ler BOOTH, put in here on Sunday from Plymouth,
for the Mauritius, having on board the newly-appointej
Governor, Sir WILLIAM NICOLAY. She put in here
(Fahnouth) to wait for despatches, which arrived in t",
course of yesterday, after which she immediately procerclel
for her destination.— Coniubian.

THE TITHE ATTACHMENTS.—A police,
exhibition against Danesfort parish was made on Thura-
d.iy last, but not a single capture effected. Between at°
and ten o'clock at night information was given that the
enemy was approaching. Immediately the chapel bell
rung, and, of course, the farmers quitted their beds, 30,..
took cover about the ditches. The warning given by we
hells was aided, we understand, by the exertions of a re;
s;:ectable widow in the parish, who directed two of he
servants to mount horses, and alarm their neighbour:;
The bell ringing continued till about two o'clock ;
which time, it may be presumed, every man in the al',
trict was secure from pursuit ; but the police coal,
ously persisted, and did not begin to retire till six o'el'le
On their way home they called at a gentleman's boo
and inquire I if it was to collect the people that the bell rA6,I
He answered them to the contrary, and said the ge9.„e 11,
understanding was, that, on the first toll of the It:
every tithe-payer in the parish should conceal 111.0 to
They subsequently met a party of women proceetitatv.
dig potatoes, and asked them who had rung the baa
One of the females replied, " She did not know wbo 9 it
done it that turn, but she believed it rang by 301 s
often does of late, it shivers so much at the sight „of*
Peeler." The police rettsned without a single
—Kilkenny Journal.

LONDON,
.RIDAy EVENING. NOVEMBER 16, 1832.

We learn from Paris that a messenger arrived
fhe on Wednesday from Berlin with despatches
highly pacific character. The Journal des
bats of that day also contains a letter from
erlin, in which it is stated in the most positive
'riner that the Prussian Cabinet is entirely in-
ched
for peace, and that the Prussian troops
1c) are to oocupy Venloo, according to treaty,
°tobe on the peace footing. This is highly
'obable, for the King of PRUSSIA has nothing
gain by war. He has a large army, it is true,

it would not suffice at the same time for
enstve operations, and the protection of his
hertish provinces. TALLEYRAND was right
,
len he said to Lord PALNIERSTON, " Les
wires portent it la guerre ; nzais les esprits
pour la paix." Neither Russia, Austria,
1r Prussia, could make war with effect, for the
`ople in each of those countries have no interest
a war, and without the people even despots
rmot carry on war successfully. Thus circum-
4nced, we trust that the first display of energy
anifested by our Ministers in foreign policy
l'ee they came into office, will be productive of
l"leficial results, not only as regards the Belgian
i
`uestion, but also as regards the cause of liberty
Iroughout Europe.

Our readers will find, in another part of The
numerous extracts from French Papers,
contain much gossip and conjectural opi-
'44lB, but little or nothing of a definite, positive
riaracter. Among the letters found at Nantz,
'ld belonging to the Duchess of BERRY, were
it appears, from the Prince Royal of
RUSSIA, who has always been remarkable for
hostility to the pacific policy of his father's

German Papers state that no doubt is enter-
'lined in Berlin of a speedy and definitive ar-
ta
ngement of the differences between Holland
111 d Belgium, and that the Protocols of the
Cabinet of Berlin, which have been approved of
at the Hague, contain Holland's renunciation
of the right to search all ships that enter the
eheldt under the Belgian flag. The same
authorities, in speaking of the progress of affairs
tot)
e!ng the East, mention that the SULTAN is now
mire
u his chief attention to his navy, and has
Ten proposed to take into his service twenty-
English men-of-war, armed and manned !
should he fail in this strange project, it is his
'Mention to apply to the French Government.
eanwhile the Pacha of EGYPT, though nego-
14tions are on foot between him and the Porte,
4h continually sending reinforcements to his army.
Extracts from the above Papers will be found
n another column.

1, The negotiation for a new loan for Don
12,R0 has, it seems, been suspended, the old
°Titractors claiming the right of pre-emption.
4‘B the circumstances in which Don PEDRO
SOW finds himself are essentially different from
those
i which existed when he contracted the first
°,an, we hope his agents will be able to nego-
tte a new one on terms more advantageous to
the R egency. Without blaming the old con-
::aetors for getting the best terms they could
hen the risk was so great, we may venture to

tell them that unless they bid more liberally for
the new loan they cannot expect to obtain it. If
we are rightly informed, they have had some
pretty pickings out of the first affair in the way
of commission, contracts, &c., but like turnpike
road returns, they will talk of losses in order to
deter ethers from competition.

Count FLAHAUT, who has been twice to this
country on special missions from LOUIS PHILIP,
accompanies the Duke of ORLEANS to the
army, without command or diplomatic character,
but at the particular invitation of the young
Prince, who has a high respect for the Count,
both as a Statesman and a General. Count
FLAHAUT was one of BONAPARTE'S favourite
Generals, but he received the greater part of his
education in England, and married the Baroness
KEITH, who has extensive estates in Scotland.
Count ZAMOISKI, the nephew of Prince CZA R-
TOMSK', also accompanies the Duke of OR-
LEANS to the army.

Extract of a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's
at 'Rotterdam, dated the 13th inst.:—
g' It is the general opinion of well-informed men, as
well as my own, that the Dutch Government does not in-
tend to detain British vessels. _

" This morning the Magnificent from London, was
reported at the Custom-house, and received permits to
discharge as usual.
" Permits to load are also granted, and I regret that
the English vessels have left our port in ballast, from fear
of being detained."

We learn by the letters from various parts of
Spain, that the monks and priests who were
most determined in favour of the Apostolical
party, were using every influence they possessed
to incite the ignorant of the lower classes in the
towns, and the peasantry, against the new order
of things, and that the provinces were in a state
of great ferment. The prudence and determi-
nation of the QUEEN REGENT, in removing the
suspicious functionaries throughout the king-
dom, would, it was supposed, obviate all danger.

We find by the latest accounts from Madrid
,hat the health of the KING continued to improve.

Don F. A CANSERO had been named In-
tendant General of the Army.

A Carmelite Monk named Father PERIZ
MARTIN had been arrested on the 31st of
October near Madrid, for preaching discourses
inciting the peasants to revolt. He had been
conducted to Madrid and thrown into prison,
and would speedily be put on trial. The QUEEN
appeared to be steadily and vigorously pursuing
the renovation of the Government. The Spa-
nish Ambassador at Paris, the Count d'OFALIA,
had issued a public notice, informing the emi-
grants who wish to avail themselves of the recent
amnesty, how they might obtain passports and
return to their country. We hear that the Spa-
nish Ambassador at our Court will shortly make
a similar notification.

We stated at the beginning of the month, that
Mr. WEBB HALL had published in the
Farmer's Magazine, what he is pleased to call
" A Letter to Lord Milton on the Corn
Laws." We were in hopes, from its tide, and
by its commencing with a notice of the pamphlet
lately published by the Noble Lord on the same
subject, that Mr. HALL—counted one of the
principal writing advocates of the restrictionists,
because able to write good grammar—was about
to attempt an answer to the arguments advanced
by his Lordship for the abolition of our present
short-sighted system. We admit that the hope
was silly, for Lord MILTON dealt in facts which
it was impossible to controvert, and which had the
greater weight as coming from one who has so deep
an interest in the preservation of the existing
system ; that is, assuming, as the corn monopo-

lists do, that it can be the interest of any one to
appropriate to himself the goods of his neigh-
bours. By the way we do not think that suffi-
cient importance has hitherto been attached to
the secessions from their own body which the
landholders are continually doomed to witness.
All must admit that men are partial judges in a
cause in which they fancy their interest to be
involved. The landlords imagine they have an
interest in maintaining the corn laws, and must
acknowledge that they are, therefore, partial
judges of the rights of the rest of the commu-
nity. Let them reflect, then, how clear those
rights must be, when some of the most en-
lightened and deeply interested members of their
own body find themselves obliged to acknowledge
them. There are many men, and, we thankGon,that
England produces such, who, being producers of
corn, admit that they have no right to oblige their
fellow-citizens to purchase it of them ; but we
fancy Mr. HALL may look about for a long time
before finding half a dozen manufacturers who
will support his side of the argument. One
man, speaking against what he believes to be his
own immediate interest, is more likely to speak
the truth than a thousand tongues uttering the
language of selfishness. How ill poor human
nature is able to see the fallacy of reasoning,
which flatters our own prejudices or interests,
was never more forcibly exemplified than it
has been in the course of the controversy on the
corn laws. For instance, Mr. WEBB HALL
thinks the Corn Laws, " in the circumstances
in which we are placed, essential to the exten-
sive interest which is primarily involved—that
they tend to provide the best and least fluctuating
supply of corn for the nation at large, and pro-
vide employment for thousands who would
otherwise be precluded from earning their honest
maintenance, by that pursuit alone which is
practicable to their long-formed habits." What
a mass of errors are included in these few lines!
In the first place the landlords are not primarily
involved in the maintenance of the corn laws,
except upon the same principle that the Arabs
are primarily involved in the maintenance
of robbery. The public is primarily con-
cerned in having all labour free, just as the
nations upon whom the Arabs levy contribu-
tions are concerned in the reign of honesty and
the protection of their industry. We hardly
know what to understand by the phrase " best
supply of corn," but if it mean, most abundant,
to impose a high duty upon foreign corn with

the view of excluding it, is certainly a curious
mode of attaining that object. By " least fluc-
tuating" we understand just such a supply
short of bringing on a starvation price, which
the people will put up with. With respect to
the last position we have quoted, it may be an-
swered in several ways. In the first place the
corn laws do not provide employment for
thousands who would otherwise be without
any means of earning a subsistence. Agri-
cultural thousands are here meant, and we
fearlessly assert that the corn laws have so
operated as to throw thousands of agricultural
labourers upon the poor-rates. Mr. HALL
admits that our importation of foreign grain
has amounted to a month's supply ; bu t he has
omitted to state, that before the passing of the
Corn Laws our importation did not amount to
more than a week's supply, a fact which proves
that those laws have been inoperative as far as the
protection of the agricultural labourer is con-
cerned. To have attained that object, the duty
ought to have been prohibitory, and all the argu-
ments advanced for a protecting duty are of
equal intrinsic validity in favour of the total
exclusion of foreign grain ; or, if anything, are
stronger, because prohibition would more effec
tually attain the proposed end. What a pity

it is that certain other thousands, not agri-
cultural labourers, thought that they, too,
had some small title to a chance of obtaining a
livelihood by their labour. Mr. HALL has
not fairly stated the claims of the two thirds of
the population not engaged in agriculture, for
he says, " The argument for the repeal of the
corn laws rests upon the claim of the manufac-
turers to their being entitled to precedency."
The argument of the nation, Mr. HALL, or of
the manufacturers as you call all not agricultu-
ralists, rests upon no such claim. The argu-
ment of the manufacturers (if we may select one
from hundreds equally unanswerable) is that all
men have a right to give their labour to those who
will pay them best for it. The argument of the
corn monopolists is,that the manufacturer shall not
sell his piece of cloth to a foreigner, who will
give him enough bread to support a family of
ten children, but shall be obliged to sell it, if
at all, to another person, who will not give him
enough in return to feed even himself. The
ground upon which this argument rests is, that

it would be bad for the manufacturers to ac-
custom themselves to a whole loaf, because they
may some day be reduced to half allowance ;
or, as Mr. HALL puts it, " under the most- fa-
voured supposition this is an investment of ca-
pital and industry (foreign trade) which is de-
pendent for its duration, and even existence,

upon the enactments of other countries, liable
to all the derangements of their fashions and

caprice." Good-natured man ! his only object
is to prevent his silly manufacturing countrymen
from investing their money in a trade which de-

pends upon the caprice of others. What an

admirer he must be of the French police regu-
lations, which forbid people bathing in rivers
when the ice is in them, or attending a horse-
race when it rains. The French police of course
calculates upon mankind being partial to death
brought on by colds, just as Mr. HALL does
upon merchants being fond of bankruptcy

brought on by unprofitable commerce. Take
his own words:—" When a foreign trade is
carried on to diminish, and to more than mo-
derate a similar one at home, no real advantage
ca❑ accrue." No doubt that ff a man changes
a shilling for eightpence or sixpence, he loses,
but men do not usually trade in that manner,
and Mr. HALL may be assured that our mer-
chants can take care of themselves without his

protecting aid.
As we have already hinted, Mr. HALL takes
special care to avoid grappling with Lord MIL-
TON'S arguments. Indeed, feeling the impos-
sibility of overturning them, he admits their
correctness, but says they only embrace a partial
view of the subject. What Mr. HALL may
have to advance in the next number of the
Farmer's Magazine, we know not, but in the
present we find nothing but such oft-repeated
common places as we have quoted, buried in
rather more than a usual quantity of verbosity
and mystification, any of which our respect for
our readers' patience prevents us from extracting.

It is remarked as a curious circumstance that
M. JoLy, the Commissary of Police, who was the prin-
cipal agent in the arrest of the Duchess of BERRY, and
who guarded her the whole time ehe remained at the Castle
of Nantes, is the same who was on duty at the Opera-
house on the night when the Duke of BERRY was assas-
sinated.— Galignani's Messenger.
S. HIBBERT, gamekeeper to J. W. COKE,
Ecq. lately shot in Holkham.park that extremely rare bird
the chattering roller.

WHOLESALE REJECTION.—Four parishes
objected to were disallowed by the revising barristers at
Dow nend on account of their being improperly signed ! !

Bath Chronicle.

MIDDLESEX ELECTION.—In the report o
Mr. HumE's speech in yesterday's Chronicle (which was
sent to us for insertion by an occasional reporter), there
are two inaccuracies, which that gentleman wishes to
have corrected. In the first place, Mr. ITuatE did not say
he attended church regularly once, and mostly twice on
the Sunday ; but he said he attended regularly once and
sometimes twice. In the next, the sentence beginning,
" They (the Ministry) owed more to him than to any
other man," ought to have been, " they owed as much to
him as to any other man in the House of Commons."
Mr. Hymn also wishes that publicity might be given to a
sentence which, in abridging the report, was omitted. It
was, that he hoped to be able to continue his support to
the present Ministry, and that he did not desire to see a
severance between the Whigs and the Radicals, but that
they should go hand in hand in carrying into effect the
great objects of the Reform Bill. —.Morning Chronicle.
The Lady's Magazine and Museum for the
present month, in a memoir of Sir WALTER SCOTT, gives
the following touching description of that great man's con-
duct under misfortune :—For a short' time prior to the
stoppage of the house, Sir WALTER. had observed one or
two circumstances to occasion suspicion and anxiety. He,
however, kept them to himself, indulging in the hope that
those circumstances were merely:the effect of the general
" panic ;" and that, in a few days, all would again be well.
On the 16th January, 1826, a confidential friend com-
municated to him the afflicting news. For some minutes
Sit' WALTER, who was sitting in an arm-chair by the
table in the library, continued resting his brow on time
back of his hands, which were both placed upon the old
oaken stick between his knees, without uttering a word.
At length, gradually raising his head, he asked in a low,
unshaken tone of voice, " Well, Sir, what is to be done?"
His friend suggested several expediencies; and, at last,
cautiously hinted that a bankruptcy would readily clear
him of debts which he had no hand in contracting.
Never ! Sir !" vehemently rejoined the author of
Waverley." " God has bestowed on me both physical
and intellectual strength ; and it shall never be said that
I compromised a debt while (pointing to his forehead) 1
possessed the power to discharge it in full—Homo
doctrines in se semper divitias habet."