The Sun.
London, England, 1819-06-05 00:00:00

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outs ; him and his family are Christians.

" Several private letters state that great dissen-
dons prevail ainong the French refugees in

America, who arc in a deplorable situation.

FIVE PBR CENTS.

Tuesday . .66 f. 85 c.

DEFERRED STOCK.
Of the 9.2 d March, Ist?, . .96 f. 65c.
22d Sept. 1817, .. .841. 65c.
22d March, 1814,
9.2 d Sept. 1818, „Bo f. 65c.
22d March,lBl9, ..761. 75C.

MANHEIM, MAY 27.-The Minister of the
Grand Duke of Hesse to the Germanic Diet, has
officially communicated to that Assembly an Edict
of his Sovereign, by which he engages to publish
a Constitution, and to convoke a Representative
Assembly, by the month of May, 1820."

Boston Papers arrived this morning to the 3d
May.
M'GREGOR'S EXPEDMON.
(From the New York Gasette of the 29th of ilprit.)

By the schooner Retrieve, TSYCROSS, arrived
from Santa Martha, in 30 days, we learn, that
official information had been recei►ed at Santa
Martha, that General WGREGOR, :With six sail,
and from 1200 to 1500 troops, had landed near Porto
Cabello, and were daily expected at Santa Mar-
tha. The town was under arms. All the Indians
and troops in the vicinity were ordered to that
place to defend it, should General NPGREGOR
make au attack upon it. On,the Bth April the
Retrieve spoke a transport ship (No. 16) off
Eleneaga, from Jamaica to Sierra Leone, with
black troops on board.

(From theColumbianCentinel, May 2.)

SANTA MARTHA.--Official advices have reached
here, that General McGaEGoa, with six sail, and
from 12 to 1500 troops, have landed at Porto
Cabello.

• (From the same Paper.)

TRINIDAD, MARDI& 16.—Panz has announced,
in dispatches dated thr 15th February, the retreat
of the Spanish Army over the Arauga, after in
vain attempting to bring the Patriots to action.
He adds, that from the time of Moßu.Lo's cross-
ing and re-crossing the Arauca, he lost 1400
men and one field-piece, cut off in the Plains by
his cavalry, which amount to 2500.
Two thousand infantry and artillery are pro-
ceeding from Oronoque to join Palm. On, the
27th February General BOLIVAR set out from
Angustura to rejoin the Army. General HURIILEY
and English troops are daily expected ; they will
probably co-operate with the Expedition from
Santa Margaritta, and form a junction with Ge-
neral MARINO, in Barcelona.
MARGARITTA, MARCH 18.—An Expedition of
6000 men is fitting out here, one half English,:to
be commanded by General OUDBNRTTR.
CURACOA, APRIL 12.—Information has this
moment arrived that Admiral BRION, with 15
sail, has blockaded La Guira, and that at Porto
' Cabello there is an Embargo.
WILMINGTON, APRIL 20.--Tbe President left
this place on Saturday, at 12 o'clock, in the steam
boat, for Fort Johnson, accompanied by a number
of Gentlemen, where be arrived in the evening.
On the next day he embarked on board the re-
venue cutter, and proceeded as far as Baldhead
Island ; on his return be landed at Oak Island,
taking a complete view of the Channel and pro-
minent points of land, on which it may he neces-
sary to erect fortifications for the defence of this
port.
The Baltimore Patriot states, that the United
States slop of war Ontario, Captain RIDDLE,
arrived at Annapolis on the evening of the 25th of
April, after a long cruize on, the South American
station—last from Rio Janeiro.
(Prom the Quebeek Papers to the 20th April.)

On Tuesday a Message was sent to the House
of Assembly by his Grace the Governor-in-
Chief, informing, that Body that his ROYAL HACH -
NESS has been pleased to order Grants of Lands
to the Militia embodied during the late War, and
requesting an approbation of Three Thousand
Pounds to carry his ROYAL HIGHNESS'S Orders into
effect. The money was voted in a Committee of
the whole House, and a Bill is, we understand,
preparing accordingly.. The discussion of the
Civil List commenced last evening, and will be
resumed on Saturday. ,

By a Leeward Island' Mail, arrived this morn-
ing, we have received the following Ex.traet of a
Private Letter from st. Thomas's, dated the 23d
April :

"No news from BRION. It is reported that
600 men had arrived at Margaritta, under the
command of Col. ENGLISH."

_ Three Commissioners are arrived by the Packet
from the Patriots to oor Government.

THE FUNDS.—Long hetore the tuna( time of
business, this morning, the Stock-EXchange was
crowded : much bustle and:confusion prevailed
during the whole of the morning, and a great deal
cf business was transacted. The Consols opened

fell to 704. The Commissioners' Box is now

nearly annihilared.—The general opinion in the
City is, that the Loan will not be taken under 75.

It is currently repot led in the City, rlnit one of

the Parties ash° waited on the CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHFO.VER has declined bidding for the in-
tended Loan, but that another list has sprung
up in consequence, at the he-ad which is a
folmidatale Lottery Contractor. Bank Stock has
risen 14 per Cent., and 4 per Cents. 7 per Cent.

An egregious mistake is made in The Tiznes of
this day, and it being merely a matter of calcula,
lion, we are surprised to see it so imposingly put
forth. We are gravely told that a Sinking Fund
of £5,000,000 will " only extinguish the Na-
tional Debt, in case of no-fresh war, in about a
century and a quarter." Now the
.fact is, as
every one who makes the calculation can at once
ascertain, that a Sinking Fund -of•£5,000,000,
with the continual addition, as of. course follows,
of compound interest, will extinguish upwards of
£800,000,000 of debt in the course of 45 years.

An alarm, as we have before stated, has evi•
dently arisen in the PROTESTANT COMMUNITY, in
consequence of Lord GREY'S proposed Bill for
practically removing the Tests which prevent the
introduction of PAPISTS into our Legislature, and
'from holding State employments under the Beta.
'FISH GOVERNMENT. The Inhabitants of St. Dun
scan's in the Westhaie meritorionsly come for-
ward in opposition to this alarming Bill, the more
alarming on account of its specious liberality, and
professed inoccuous tendency. We hope the
whole Empire will follow the example, and we
again inform our HIERARCHY, and all its Member!,
that THE SUN, which has hitherto opened its Co..
lumps, and has taken the lead, in snpport of our
Ecclesiastical Establishment, shall be still devoted
to the same vital cause, and that we shall deem it
our duty to receive and insert all their Communi•
cations for the same essential purpose.

The state of the Country.in the Manufacturing
Districts appears truly lamentable.. The evi-
dence, as taken before the Committee on the
Framework Knitters Petition, forms one of !hi
most singular and appalling descriptions of distress '
that we ever recollect to have read. We hem. rtilY
and sincerely wish every success to the Bill, which
has been brought 11111.7ParlianICIII by MN. Mese-
FIgLD, founded on the Report of a Committee,
who gave an almost uuanirnoui vote in favour of
the measure, by way of experiment, for shred
years, and was composed of some of the first! .
men connected with commerce in the country..-"
It appears, from the evidence given, that in con-
sequence of some difference in the manufacture of
certain articles, no less a number than 3000 hands
have been thrown out of employ, and that the
majority of those who are in
,employ can oar
obtain about 6s. 6d. or 7s. a•week for their is
hour, although they work 15 hours a-day. It is
a most singular feature in the present parliamen-
tary proceeding, that the application for relief. .
and for a recurrence to the old method of mane' ;
facture, is supported unanimously by both ear.
ployers and workmen. Adverse as we generaill
are to any Legislative interference with trade, sve •
think that the adoption of the measure proposed
is rendered necessary, and would not interfere
with private-interests, since it receives the stip
port of such interests., and 'is only solicited. je
the way-of experiment. To an application,"there.-
fore, made jointly by masters and men, we'itee et
a loss to know what objection can be .made.--"
The opponents of the present measure (as we coo.
ceive) confound cotton with wool;. in latter
(which is the raw material used in the maculae.-
tore in question) we have a monopoly ; so that
there is no danger of competition by,the adoptio •
Of the measure propoted.—The market may be
glutted now, and the present Rat not make a fur.
Cher demand; but if it pass it will glut it with
good article, and employ all the hands now idle;
whereas now the market is glutted with a bad sr'
title, and 3000 men out of work ! The Jilt
has nothing to do with machinery; since the
same' frame that makes- the good,', makes also '
the bad article But if the Bill pass •.it will do
this it will greatly benefit private property, by
raising the price of frames to what they used, to,
fetch, and by decreasing the poor rates, now 5(3
heavily affecting the landed interests of Leicester
and the neighbourhood. The case of the poor
sufferers, who, four years ago, with one-third less
work than they now do, could obtain double the
wages they now have, comes very strongly' recoeu-
.mended by•the peaceable and praiseworthy man•
ner in which they have borne their privations 3
and, as it appears in evidence, that nothing but
a legislative enactment would apply an tff,-ctiial
remedy to their case, since any private agtee"
meat amongst the Manufacturers ‘lotild be
.very
inefficient fur that purpose, on ac .odit t of. a de"