The Sun.
London, England, 1832-12-03 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

A Lisbon mail has arrived, which sailed on the 22d Nov. ;
also a Malta mail, which left on the 12th Nov., from Gibraltar
22d Nov., and from Cadiz, 2-2 d Nov. The news by the for-
mer mail is already anticipated in the Morning Journals; but
the most important arrival is by the Dutch and Flanders mail,
of hostilities having commenced at the citadel of Antwerp on
Friday. The public are now anxious to ascertain if the Dutch
army, under the Prince of Orange, will come to the assistance
of General Chasse. Should this be the case, it will prove a
most important crisis. A few days will determine this paint.
Consols which left off on Saturday 83%, sellers, opened at
83% to ►( ; since which they have receded to 83 for the Account.
HALF-PAST ONE.

The expresses from Antwerp and Brussels with the opera.
tions for the siege of the citadel have caused the most lively sen-
sation in the city, and the summons of General Gerard, in
general is acknowledged to be a mild and gentlemanlike
document. It is expected that Chasse will not fire on the
town of Antwerp. There is still a prevailing opinion that ne.
gotiations are still going on at the Hague, for an accommoda.
tion to prevent further bloodshed. Up to the present time we
have no confirmation of the sortie made by the troops of Don
Pedro to destroy the Miguelite batteries at the entrance of the
river.

Consols, which were in the early part of the morning at
lg for the Account, got up to 83M, owing to a purchase of
100,000 ; at present they are 831,E sellers.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Stock has been the chief
speculation; it has been done at 17%, at present 17
THREE O'CLOCK.

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Camels for Account, 831.
CLOSING PRICES. FOUR O'CLOCK. =
Consols
Ditto for Acoount 831 Greek
Brazilian Bonds Mexican
Buenos Ayres... Peruvian ... ...• •• •
Chills= Ditto.... Russian , 97i
Columbian 1824 Spanish

DOVER, DEC. ‘2.—Arrived off port, the General Hewitt,
Barker ; and Protector, Buttanshaw, from Bombay.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. I.—Arrived the Allerton, Gill, from
Manilla; Dart, Gill, from Pernambuco; Gaspe, Reay, from
Demerara; Morea, Girdler, from Boston; Hope, Peel; and the
Antigua packet, from Quebec; Dorothy, Dearness, from St.
John's, New Brunswick; London, Harland, from Miramichi;
Manley, from Danzig•. Off port, the Niagara and William
Russell, from Bahia.

GREENOCK, Nov. 30.—Arrived the Robertson, Ned, from
Ouebec ; Carlton, Callender, from Miramichi, after being on
shore; Twig, Heclin, from Newfoundland.

JERSEY, Nov. 30.—Arrived the Adonis,Tenge, from Gaspe.
MARGATE, Dec. 2.—Arrived the Cyras, Marquis of
Huntley, and Kingston, Crouch, from Quebec.

The Sir Hoµ•ard Douglas, from Bombay, has arrived in
Shedwell Roads.

The following communication has been received by Messrs.
Quarlis, Harris, and Sons, in reply to a letter from them to
Lord Viscount Palmerston, requesting to be informed whether
his Majesty's Government recognised, or intended to recog-
rfise, the land blockade established by the Officer command-
ing Don Miguel's army, as affecting British merchant vessels in
ballast, or not having on board provisions or munitions of war
" Foreign.otfice, Nov. '2.9, 1832.
" GENTLEMEN,—I am directed by Viscount Pahnerston to
acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this day's date, and
to state to you in reply, that a communication has been ie-
ceived from his Majesty's Consul at Oporto, by which it ap-
pears that the General commanding the forces of Don Miguel,
has announced his determination to resist by means cf land
batteries which he has erected, the passage of all foreign mer-
chant vessels into or out of the Douro, but Lord Palmerston
has at present no means of judging whether this measure will
prove to be an effectual blockade, or if so, what will be its pro-
bable duration.

" GEORGE SHEE.

(Signed)
To Messrs- Quarlis, Harris, and Sons."

LIMERICK -MR. MOORE.

At a meeting of the Political Union of this city, on Monday
night—Mr. Patrick W. Creagh, in the chair—the following
letter was read from Mr. Thomas Moore :

Sloperton Cottage, Nov. 8, 1832.
Gentlemen,—l hare to acknowledge, with every feeling of
respect and gratitude, the requisition so numerously signed,
which I have this day had the honour of receiving from you.
Already had I been, in a great degree, prepared for such a call
by a correspondence in which I have been engaged with one
,if your fellow-citizens, and which, though but preliminary to
the decisive step which has now been taken, had put me fully
in possession of the kind feelings entertained towards me by
the greater portion of the enlightened electors of your city.
To know that even a thought of selecting me for their re-
presentative had once entered into the contemplation of per.
sons like yourselves, so well qualified by a jealous sense of the
value of liberty, to judge of the requisites of those to whom
sych a trust should be confided—would in itself, have been
a: source of pride and gratification to my mind. You may
jUdge, therefore, what are my feelings on receiving so signal a
pi-oof, both in the cordial and unsought requisition which has
this morning reached me, and in those further proceedings
which, as I understand, you meditate, that the honuur you
did me, in selecting my name from among the many offered to
you, was no light or transient compliment, but that you de-
liberately think me worthy of being the representative of your
interests in the great crisis, as well for England as for Ireland,
which is now api.roaching.
" But, gentlemen, rarely in this life can so high and bright a
position as that in which you offer now places me, be enjoyed
without its opposing shadow ; and in proportion to the plea-
sure, the triumph, which I cannot but feel at this manifesta-
tion of your opinion—placing as it does within my reach, a post
of honour, which I have so often, in the ambition of my young
days, sighed for, in proportion to my deep and thorough sense
of the distinction you would thus confer upon me, as the pain
with which lam compelled reluctantly to declare that I can.
not accept of it. The truth, plainly told, is that my eircum-
,tances render such an appropriation of my time impossible—
not even for a single session, could I devote myself to the du-
ties of Parliament, without considerable embarrassment. To
the labour of the day, in short, am I indebted for my daily sup_
port; and though it is by being content with this lot that I have
been able to preserve that independence of mind, which has
now so honourably, and, I may be allowed to boast, in so many
quarters, won for me the confidence of my fellow-countrymen,
it is not the less an insuperable impediment to my acceptance of
the high honour you offer me.
I am not unaware, as I have already intimated, that in your
strong and generous desire to remove this only obstacle which
you know opposed itself to my compliance with your wishes,
you have set on foot a national subscription, for the purpose,
as you yourselves express it, of providing me with the qualifica.
tion necessary for Members of the House of Commons. This
proof of your earnestness in the cause, I feel, both on
public and private grounds, most sensibly. But however
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' should be my direct pay-master, the Government or the
people, I should say, without hesitation, the people ! but I
prefer holding on my free course, humble as it is, unpur-
chased by either; nor shall I the less continue as far as my
limited sphere of action extends, to devote such powers as
God has gifted me with, to that cause which has always been
uppermost in my heart, which was my first inspiration and
shall be my last—the cause of Irish freedom.

I have the honour to be,
Gentlemen, your faithful and devoted servant,
THOMAS MOORE.

BRIGHTON, DEC. 2.

Their MAJESTIES, her Royal Highness the Princess
AUGUSTA, Prince GEORGE of Cambridge, his Royal High-
❑ess the Duke of GLOUCESTER, and the Royal suite and
household, heard divine service this morning in the Palace
Chapel.

Friday (being St. Andrew's day) his MAJESTY gave a
grand dinner at the Palace. Amongst those who bad the
honour of being invited were—

Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Sir Colin Campbell, Mr. Hagart,
Colonel E. Drummond, Lieutenant-Colonel S. Blanc, Lord
Lake, Lieutenant-General Sir T. Browne, Lieutenant-General
Sir heir Grant, Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Bowser,
Lieutenant-General Sir James Fraser, Admiral Steuart, Colonel
Sir Alexander Maclean, Captain Forbes, R.N., Lieutenant_
Colonel J. Drummond, Commander Drummond, Mr. Master.
ton Ure, Lieutenant-Colonel Mackintosh, Sir James M'Gregor,
Lieutenant-Colonel Grey, Lieutenant-Colonel Storey, and the
officers of the 3d Dragoon Guards, Hon. Captain Dalzell, Lord
Dalzell, Earl of Carnwath, Mr. Aberdeen, Colonel Keate, Sir
Thomas Downman, Lieutenant Colonel Drummond, and the
officers of the Foot Guards, Sir David Ogilvie, Sir Adolphus
Dalrymple, Lieutenant-Colonel St. Clair, and the gentlemen
forming the Royal suite and household.
The QUEEN honoured the Princess AUGUSTA with her
company at dinner on Friday evening. Her Royal High-
ness also entertained the ladies forming her MAJnsnc's
suite.

Yesterday her MAJESTY, attended by Earl BRowlLow,
Eirl HOWE, Sir ANDREW BARNARD, Lfird F. FITZ -
CLARENCE, and the Hon. Miss Ds Roos, took equestrian
exercise for nearly two hours.

A messenger from the Home Secretary's-office arrived
with despatches for Sir HERBERT TAYLOR.
Mr. HUGHES, the American Minister, paid his respects
to their MAJESTIES.
His 111AJESTY" took a carriage airing, and visited the
Duchess of GLOUCESTER previous to his return to the
Palace.

Sir ROEKRT OrwAY had the honour of an audience of
ihe KING.

sir Thecha followingrles
Lord Marcus Hill, Lord
formed the Royal dinner party I set evening at the Palace :
dtheiros
The Duke of Gloucester, Lord and Lady Fitzroy Somerset,
no.na:iesss, wßagitoht, the suite and household,
George Hill, Earl and Countess of Kenmare, Earl and Countess
of Listowel, Marquis and Marchioness of Thomond, the Ladies
O'Brien, Lord Berehaven, Sir Matthew and Lady Thrney,
Sir Thomas and Lady M'Mahon, Sir Robert and Lady Otway,
and Sir Joseph and Lady Wheatley.

Sir Anot.ritys DALRYMPLE, the Conservative candi-
dme for this borough, had the honour of dining with the
Kura on Friday last.

ICING'S BENCH, DUBLIN.—On Friday last,
THOMAS BROWN and JOHN SHEEHAN were indicted for
libel published is a Newspaper called the Comet, en.
titled, "A Buckthorn for the Black Wigs (Parsons.")
After a lengthy trial, a verdict of guilty was returned,
when the defendants were permitted to stand out till next
terns, upon entering into recognitinces to appear then.
themselves in a sum of 2001. each, and two sureties of
1001. tub.