The Sun.
London, England, 1821-11-03 00:00:00

(COPY.)

Reduit, 2lith April, 1821.
Srn— It is a most pleasing part of my duty to acknowledge
the very valuable services rendered to the town of Port Louts
by the troops composing the garrison; on the occasion of the
alarming fires which have occurred there during the last eight
days.

The promptitude, zeal, and alacrity displayed by Colonel
Barclay, cowman ling Port Louis, and by all the Officers of the
garrison ; and the good order and exertions of the men of the
Royal Artillery and of the 56th Regiment, and the earnestness
with which all concurred, with every effort of the most strenu-
ous exertion, to extinguish the fires and to secure the property
from pillage, are only further examples of what has on fowler
occasions been effected by the same means.
In conveying my thanks on this occasion, I but feebly ex-
press the gratitude of the inhabitants of Port-Louis, in witnes-
sing the interest taken by the garrison in the security of their
persons and property.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient, most humble Servant,
(Signed) R. T. FARQUHAR.
Major-Gen. Darling, Commanding.
&c. &c. &c.
A true Copy.

E. LINDSAY, Dep.-Adj.-Gen.

A laughable circumstance took place last week,
near the Market-place, in Shrewsbury. As a
soldier was carrying the dinners belonging to his
mess, from the baker's, one of his comrades com-
ing behind him, called out " attention !" when
this well-disciplined soldier dropped his hands,
and at the same time the dinners of his unfortu-
nate comrades.

SItRCANTII,g SIIIPPrNt,-Sze.

DREADFUL HURRICANES.

Eitran of a L2tter from the Agents to LLOYD'S it Antigui
dated I Ith of Septemly2r t

" On Sunday evening, the 9th inst., we experienced a smart
gale frtim the N. E., which continued in that
.quarter till mid-
night, thcri suddenly shifted, and after a calm of an hour, blew
with great iHene.e from the touthiard till day-break. With
exception of several small craft and the brig Rachel, Clark,
arrived on the Ist inst., from Quebec, Which were driven on
shore, tame wood fences and trees levelled appears to be the
extent-of damage received here."

Extract of a Letter from the Agent to Lloyd's at Nevis, dated

September 14

‘1 Oh the 9th inst. a severe gale of wind was experienced here
It Cemnienced at N.,-went round to the S. E., and blew hardest
at N.W. about midnight. The American brig General Jack-
son, of BastOm fras driven on shore on the beach : she had be,,n
blown out of Guadaloupe on the Ist ; the sloop Mars, of Do-,
minica, from St. Thortus's to Trinidad, seas driven on shore;
arid went immediately to pieces; the sloop John, of this port, in
ballast, was also stranded during the gale at Guadeloupe on the
Ist; 201 houses were blown down at Basseterre, 50 of then: level
with the ground. Three sloops foundered at their anchors, and
the crews drowned. A large ship from Point Petre, for Rouen,
which sailed in the morning, had all her masts carried away,
but afterwards got into Basseterre, and it is feared was wrecked
there. I have just heard that many vessels and houses suffered
at St. Bartholomews."

;Extract of a Letter from the Agent to Lloydsi at SLThomas's,

dated Sept. 21.)

" On the 9th hitt. it blew a severe gale from the S.W. and S.
The British brig Commerce, of Tortola, McAlister, laden with
mahogany for Porto Plate, was driven on shore, and will not
be got off.:--zZtrgo saved."

DEAL, Nov'. S.W.—Arrived and sailed for the
River the Watson, Wcbson, from Malaya; Mary, Patterson,
from Quebec; Margaret, from Dublin; and Brothers, Coati),
from Plymouth. Passed by the back of the Goodwin Sar.,:s
the Jbliima, from Philadelphia for Hambuigh. Came down
from the River the Windsor Castle, Lee, for Bengal, &c. ;
Valiant, Ferrini:m Hive, Slader; Lan Rumney, Turner ;
Atalanta, Wilson ; Lady Hannah Ellice, Urquhart ; and Eli-
zabeth, Glittery, for Jamaica ; Leipzig, Thompson, for Lc,;-
horn ; Prince Regent, Taylor ; and Betsy, Frith, for Tobago ;
and Kellingbeck, Spence,. for Antigua. They remain in the
Downs with the Royal squadron—all well. The French Ketch
Julienne Vigilante, Bonzans from Rouen for Stockton, get
on the south part of the Goodwin Sands last night, and is to-
tally lost ; crew landed at Ramsgate.
RAMSOATE, Nov. 2.—Arrived the Frederick, Davis, from
Rotterdam for HaVie; with loss Of anchor and cable, sails
spht, &c. _

ll:Anwicir, Nov. 2.—Arrived the Vansittart packet, with a
mail, from Holland.
NORTR Suitim)s, OCT. 31.—Arrived ,off the Bar the
Trafalgar, Ridley ; she spoke on the 21st-inst., in lat. 7. 8,
long. 57. 35, the John, of 11011, with loss of maintop-mast and
main-yard, and one man washed overboard.
PORTSMOCTII, Nov'. 2.--Wind S.W.—Arrived the Stray-
ford, Rogers, from Cuxhaven for New Orleank. Sailed the
Belt, Waters, for. London ; Louisa, Barnard, for Leith ; and
Thetford, Much, for Hull.

PLYMOUTH, iNov.-1.--Wind S.W.—Arrived the General
Moore, Bryant, from Jersey for Bridgwater, with sails split:
Arrived off the port the Eliza, Duckels, from Malaga tor
London and Ilenry, Wellesley, from the South Seas for
London, in 11 months.

FA.l.3iou•ru, Noy. I.Wind S.W.—Arrived Ihe.
packet, with a mail, from the
.I.eward Islands ; sailed frc-.1
St. Thomas's the 22d of September ;' John, King ; and Aug
stein, llenshelwood, from- •Londimi for JaMaica ; Nymph,
Sanieway, fivtini 'Gibraltar ,; Thalia, Welch, -frorn.J.ondoi
Port Jac.kson ' • and Tartar,. Downing, from tialipoly for Li:_..
Sailed the Industry, lieegtre, from Fors-ground:
31.0 C'lll_, Nov. Industry,-Brawn, has pick; d
up and brought into 13riAllain a jolly boat, built of fir, without
marks or number, painted white and green, -supposed to belong
to a foreign vessel: • •
lIIILFORD, Nov. L—Arrived the Fclicity, .Evans,, from
Waterford, with her cargo shifted ; and William, Beer, from
ditto, with het pumps choaked, and must discharge past of
her cargo.

ROYAL NavY.—Ships building, and ordered to be built at
Chatham, viz. :
Builuing.—King George the Fourth, 120 guns ; Formidable,
04; Powerful, 04 ; Diana, 46 ; Thames, 46 ; ILttlesnake, ;
Ntreazle, 10; I'rocris, 10 : Etna, bomb; Basilisk Revenue
cutter.
Ordered to be Built. —Neptune, of 120 guns ; Nermaid. 46 ;
Unicorn, 46 ; Rainbo\i7, 21; ; Crocodile, 26 ; Sulphur bemb.—
(Kentish Gaiette, Nov. 2.)

MAnixn NOTIcE.—A paper, of which the following is a
true copy, was found, in a bottle, at Petit Tron, on the coast of
St. Domingo, lat. 17 N. long. 71 8, W. on the 24th July;
1821, by Captain James Robinson, of the brig Endeavour,
which arrived from that island at this port on Friday last .
" This bottle is thrown into the sea from the ship Duke' of
Marlborough, of London, forty-two days from the Cape. bound
to London, to ascertain the current among the Cape de Verde
Islands, which we believe to be to the eastward from this.
(Signed) GEORGE THONE.
" It is requested that, if this bottle is found, it may be made
public when, where, and by whom it was found.
Lat. 16 22, North, 2 o'clock,
Long. 28 31, West j P. at.
" 14th October, MO."-

On Monday night, or early on Tuesday morn-

ing, some person or persons broke into the
Parish Church of Bobbing, in this County, and
stole the Bible and Common Prayer Book, with
sundry other articles, and defaced the cloth
upon the communion table : it is conjectured, by
what was stolen being found at a short distance
in a field in the parish, that the communion plate
was the object, but fortunately, by a very pru-
dent arrangement of the Clergyman, they wer
disappointed.—(Kentish Gazette, Nov. 2.)
It is confidently stated, in the Memoirs of
the Kit-Cat Club, that the great Scottish No-
velist has received from one bookseller alone,
ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE, of Edinburgh, nearly
one hundred thousand pounds. If this account
be correct, and it is given with an appearance of
authenticity, it is quite impossible that any one
but Sir WALTER SCOTT should have written them,
as it is only by taking into consideration the sums
paid to this successful writer for his poetry anti
philology, that so large a sum can be accounted
for. The author of Waverley, for hi 3 works of
fiction, has not certainly received more than from
fifty to sixty thousand pounds.
This forenoon, the Police having received in-
formation, that there was a house in the Old
Wynd where a number of suspicious charac-
ters put up, paid it a visit. On their en-
trance, a young man precipitated himself from
the window (three stairs high) and lighted
on his feet, without any apparent injury. He
was taken to the Police Office, where he
was unknown. On being asked as to his mo-
tive for taking such a leap, 'he said, " he did nu
ken," but it was an ill thought. He appears to
be about 16 or 1S years of age, says his name. is
James Hill, and that he belongs to Airdrie.
.He
complains much of a pain in his ankles.----:(G lus-
gm Courier) Oct. 30.) •

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'l'llL DO-N. 7 `4.

November 3.

[MORNING POST.]

DAILY EXTRACTS FRO3I T 111: 3101INING PAPERS.

A Paper of yesterday was either misinformed,
or wished to make it appear, that the Lords J us-
tices had been engaged at their last meeting in
the consideration of some important business.
There is no ground for the assertion. The meet-
ing was only the regular weekly meeting : it
lasted the usual time,frorn one till between three
and four o'clock, and their Lordships were only
engaged in signing official documents. A procla-
mation from their Lordships is expected shortly
to appear, for the issuing of farthings of a new
coinage. The statement of our contemporary
was erroneous in several other particulars. The
Duke of York, who has attended every meeting-
except that of Thursday last, was not expected,
cs the account said, and, in fact, is not expected
in town for a week to come. It was also assert-
ed that Sir Richard Birnie was in attendance
at the Council Office where their Lordships met,
i..nd that Mr. Stafford was in attendance with
him, whereas, Sir
.Richard Birnie was in his

office at the Secretary of State's office for the
Home Department, Where his official duties call
him daily in attendance as Chief Magistrate of
the Police. Mr. Stafford was not present, being
confined by indisposition. In fact, no person
vas in attendance on their Lordships, except
Mr. Goulburn, their Secretary. Most accounts
also stated, that after the breaking up of their
Lordships, a messenger was sent off from the Fo-
nign Office. This, we understand, was incor-
rect, no messenger having been sent ofl'from that,
or any of the other offices.

[MORNING HER A LD.]
The independence of Mexico has beets pro-
claimed, and the basis of the new empire agreed
upon between the Republican General and the
Viceroy. The King of Spain, Don Ferdinand
the Seventh, is to be " Emperor" of Mexico,
provided he goes to America and establishes his
Court there (which, were he so inclined, the
Spanish Cortes would hardly suffer) ; or, in de-
fault of his not appearing there, to take the
oaths to the Coustitution,the Throne is to be filled
by a Prince of his Family, subject to ,the above
condition, and to the selection of a Prospective
Cortes. Mexico is to be a limited Monarchy,
under the title of the Mexican Empire, wholly in-
dependent of Spain, and of Every other Power,
even upon the New Continent. Thus has Spain
lost her northern Colonies, and in the southern
_
all hope for her is gone by. Bolivar is endea-
vouring to bring back the Royalists of the Ca-
raccas, who fled from the Colombian troops,
abandoning their properties. Their flight is as-
cribed to their dread of the re-action of the
Spanish Authorities, should the Royalists regain
possession. But the victory of Carabobo makes
such an event next to impossible.

[THE TIMES.]
Our statements of yesterday relative to the
situation of affairs in New Spain are more than
:COOfirmed. Mexico has declared her indepen-
kieriCe. She has become an empire—no longer to
be ruled by Spain, on any terms ; nor by Ferdi-
nand, unless he shall repair thither to take the
.oaths in person) on which condition only he is to
be acknowledged heir to the throne of Monte-
zuma. A plan of Provisional Government, long
previous to the date of the, transactions now nar-
rated, had been proposed by Iturbide toApo-
daca, the late Viceroy, for establishing the inch -
pendence and the imperial dignity of Mexico ;
but the powers of the Monarch to be ascertained
and limited by a Representative Constitution.
In case of Ferdinand declining to visit the new
imperial territory, such member of the reigning
family as the Cortes should prefer, is to succeed
him, who is to govern until the Cortes shall
have met, and in the name of the nation them-
selves fixing on the Sovereign (failing Ferdi-
nand) of their choice. All the inhabitants,
without distinction of origin or colour, are citi-
zens. But these are the only remarkable fea-
tures of the new monarchy, which contains,
among other provisions, what may be deemed
anomalies in the institutions of a country dictated
by the voice of the people—the maintenance of
the Inquisition, and its concomitant intolerance
in religion. On the latter point they are coun-
tenanced by the example of Old Spain; though
'some recent proceedings of the Cortes have led.
to believe, that this prejudice was giving way
before the influence of political freedom.—On
the 28th August, O'Donoju, the Viceroy appoint-
ed by the Spanish Government, and Iturbide,
signed what are denominated " terms of adjust-
ment," in which the main points of independence
—imperial dignity,- and a representation .by
Cortes—are fully agreed upon ; and the clause
which might have appeared more open to
disputation, that Ferdinand shall actually
come to Mexico, and establish his seat of Go-
vernment in the capital. If it were at all worthy
of serious reasoning, we might show. what this
stipulation must end in. By the Constitution of
Old Spain, the King, if he leaves the country
without permission of the Cortes, commits an act
of abdication ; and, if that consent be given to
Ferdinand, it will in all human probability be
on the condition expressed, or distinctly under.-
stood, that his Majesty shall not return.—The
title of " Chief of the Imperial Army of the three
guarantees," assumed by Iturbide, is now ex-
plained. Mexico is made an empire, and her new
institutions are pledged-1. To secure the right
to the throne in the family of the Boor-
.bons establish perfect equality be-
tween Mexican and European Spaniards ; and 3.
To preserve to the old ecclesiastical esiablish-
ment all its rights and immunities.—This reyo-
lotion, indeedithongh long expected, forms an
epoch in colonial history, and in itself decides
the future relation between the whole mass of
continent south of Mexico, and the parent states
in Europe.

[NEW TIMES.]
The American Papers contain the Protest of
)3on Joseph Callava, late Governor of West

Florida, against theproceedings of Genera? Jack- I
son. His history of the affair, for the truth of
which he most solemnly vouches, is so plainly told
by himself, that it would.gain nothing in clear-
ness or interest, by any repetition of the par.-
ticulars. The general features of it are simply
these. General Jack Son, it appears, made
a cavalier and informal demand of certain papers
in the possession of the Spanish Ex-Governor,
and imprisoned a subaltern officer, who felt that
he had no authority to obey the " orders" of the
American General. Don Joseph, on being in-
formed of this, wrote to Jackson, requesting an
explanation of his wishes, and afterwards sent
messengers for the same purpose. All the answer
he -could get was, that he should be sent to gaol
as well as his , officer. Some expostulation and
applications to the General from the Ex-Gover-
nor followed, which, if
,we may judge .from his
own account of them, were exceedingly temperate,
and far more strictly within the line of diplo-
matic decorum than could have been expect-
ed under circumstances of so irritating a na-
ture. They were all unavailing, and the
strange threat of Jackson was at length carried
into effect in as strange a manner. Colonel
Callava's house. was entered by force in the
night while he lay ill in bed, the depositaries
of his papers were plundered, himself compelled
to go before' the American General, and his house
and property left exposed to the soldiers. His
reception was not more agreeeble than the style
in which he hail been summoned. He was not al-
lowed to say or write any thing by way of inqui-
ry or explanation. The General strewed." all the
'furiousness of a person bereaved of judgment or
desperat," from which the unfortunate Ex-Go-
vernor inferred that he was " about to be assas-
sinated." 11l .as he was he was dragged to gaol.
On the following morning, a writ of _Habeas
Corpus was issued by a Judge, Don E. Fro-
mentin. This Jackson treated with contempt.,
and would not allow it to be carried into execu-
tion; but he gave orders himself in the evening,
that Don Joseph should be set at liberty. His
anger now took another direction, and he cited
the Judge to appear before him for an " outrage
upon. his dignity," and,' as the American Paper
has it, ". had not the rheumatism very fortu-
nately come to the relief of Judge Fromentin,
his habeas Corpus would probably have placed
him alongside of Callava." This is all very well
under a Republican Government. What Would
it be called under any other? Jackson's version
of the story is yet to crime.