The Sun.
London, England, 1817-08-15 00:00:00

LORD 1131111.THST,

The Newcastle, bearing the ftag of Sir PULTENEY
MALCOLM, at-rivet! yesterthty .Spitib-ara.l , 'the'
Conqueror, with Rear-Admiral PLAI6I,I Oil board,
having relieved the Newcastle from her statiou off•
St. Helena.

The Newcastle passed the Car on the 22d July,
in latitude 13Q Nortl•►, having on board Lord AM-
HERsT and his suite, all well.
The Newcastle brings frothing new or interesting
from St. Helena, where matters were in the usual

state,

lire have received Charleston Papers to the 14th

att. this morning

" FROM HAVANNAII.--Captain 111(Dotmpa.t., of
the ship James end Agnes, arrived on Saturday
evening, in 7 days, from Havanna)), inforths us,
that the Consulado Fleet, composed of G or 7 war
vessels, }vell manned and equipped, was to sail
from Havanna', about the .Ist inst., destined for
the defence of St. Augustine. If they arrive
there before Sir GREGOR M`GRUGOR and his fol-
lowers gaits possession of the fortress, we may
expect to hear of warm wortrg between them.
" A Gentlt man lately fiom Havannah informs
us, that the Captain of the Spanish, Government

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which, is tnnjuactton witL a frigate, hiAe
a clattardly attack some months since onthe 'United
StateS schooner Firebrand, hai i;'eCii lately tried
by a Court-Martial at Havannith; aiiil iiioke. The
Ciiptain of the frigate has bee, sent hotnc to Old
Spain to take his trial, and there was no doubt
would meet similar punishment.

‘.-‘ Since the Patriot Standard has been planted
in East Florida, hundreds- of recruits have floated
to it, aiiii we learn that APGrtgoott will soon have
as mao-Y Men as lit may require. In a few days
we shall he able to give a sketch of the formation
of a new system of lttw§ intended for the Govern-
ment of Florida, and the names of the new pub-
lic functionaries. The patriots have A naval force
lying before Amelia."

We received last night the Paris Papers of
Monday. last. Those Of Tuesday, which were due
this morning, have not come to hand. We give
fioni them the Royal OrdonnanCe, to which an
tillusion was made a short time since, fOr gradually
incorporating with the.o4l3oosof.the line the Of-
ficers on halt-pay. it is substantially the same
..:as before stated, tidwely, for attaehing to the
different arms of the military service a cer-
tain number of Officers on half-pay,. \'‘r.ll6 are
to succeed in each to half the counnissions of
officers on service that become vacant. The vacan-
cies thus caused amongst the attached officers on
haV-pay to be filled itp from the unattached officers
. • /
of that class. Several objections have been matte
to this-plan on the ground of its tending to intro-
duce a number of Buonapartists or Revolu-
tionists the Army, the officers on half-pay
. ,
being! by^ some so designited. It should be
recollected," however, that it is sound policy on
the part of the Government, to allay discontent
and irritation as far as it is possible to he done by
conciliation, without compromising those
pea-
ples upon which all Governments must test for
Security. In this point of view, it is difficult to
discover by what means, except the course now
adopted, the restlessness of a great number of
ntilitary Officers (many of them of considerable

talents),dissatish'ed for %rant of employment, could
be at all allayed or abated. A fair prospect is
now opened to them of being employed in the pro-
fession which they have chosen, and it is greatly
too much to say, that it is impossible for them to
become good and loyal sahiects.
The Senate of Hamburgh, has en the invitation'
of tkt Emperor of RussLA...farcy.dhd r. the Huly
Alliance.

The Emperor and limpness of AUSTRIA returned
from Brody to Lemberg on the •17th ult., and re-
mained at th.e latter place on the 21st.

The King of Pi.“..TsA anived on the ath last.

at iianatt.

Several of the Southern Provinces of France
are, it seems, suffering front extreme drought.

7lre chief topic of public interest yesterday was
the Meeting at the London Tavern, on the sub-
ject of Mr. OWEN'S Plan, of which Meetittg we
have given a brief account in another column.
Our Iteadets 'will sec that when the Zealots of
Party mix in any assemblyrhowever enlarged and
liberal its views, they are sure to introduce politics
and promote confusion. Mr. ROWCROFT, the
Chairman, very properly deprecated the intro-
duction of such topics, but Mr. HUNT, ac-
cording to custom, entered upon his usual
subjects of harangue, and ventured to give
a fiat contradiction to the Chairman. The'
latter, however, at once reduced the a ator to
silence, by referring the matter to another room.
Sir ROBERT STEELE and Major TORRENS strenuous-
ly opposed Mr. l-lut!r's resolutions, and their ob-
jections were suppOrted by a large majority. Mr.
WarfHNIAN was temperate, but the new candidate
for vulgar popularity, Mr. ‘VooLER, introduced
other, topics,_ and: of cnurse interrupted that phi-
lantropic temper which otherwise might have cha-
racterized the Meeting. AnatherMeeting of the same
nature is,, wernd, take place ; but unless there
91Yould be a•resolate—forbearance or political to-
pics, and a 'temverate discussion of. a system
highly interesting to the Moralist, the
pher, and the Politician, we may expect tQ hear
that it has Irden disturbed by the efforts of Pride,
'Vanity, Party, and Fattion.

CORN-E%CHANGE, AUS. 15.—Owiog to the
fine state of the weather, we Kati but vet y 'little
business doing this morning. A few :ales were
made in fine:Wheat at Monday's prices,,but there
is • Do demand Whatever for inferior grain :
short, there is' so little doing in any kind of grain,
we consider the prices nearly nominal.

We ate glad to find that the reputation of this
Paper is extending over the. Continent, tia
through the British Empire. THE SUN is fre-
quently quoted in the Feirei,_,att Journals.
Yesterday evening her 111A.rEsTY had a select
party ,at ter Palace,
Yesterday twilit MUNSTER had en audience of
die PXINCE REGENT at Carlton House.