The Sun.
London, England, 1817-09-11 00:00:00

This morning we received New York Papers of
one day later than the last arrival :

(From the New York Commercial .Idecrtiscr of Arw. 9.)
LATEs-r raom AmeLta isLAND.—The brig Com-
modore Decatur, Captain DaGAN, arrived this
morning, five days from Amelia Island. Captain
DUGAN informs us, that while be was lying
at anchor in the Roads, the night before be
sailed, a Battle was fought on the shore, be-
tween two or three miles distant from him, which
continucd without intermission for three hours.
The battle commenced about 10 o'clock, p.
and the firing, as well as rnusquetry, was con-
tinued until 1 o'clock, a. 73. The Captain and
crew sa‘v distinctly the advancing anti retreating of
the parties engaged by the flashing of their guns.
As Captain D. sailed early in the morning, he
had no intercourse with the shore, and of course
obtained none of the particulars of the engagement;
but he thinks that the Patriots must hare been
victorious, as he saw the Patriotic Flag flying on
the fort on the block houses, and on a brig of
war ly'J)g at anchor in the harbour.--.Captain
DurGAN also informs us, that there were three pri-
valeers fitting out at Amelia a few days before the
Suchen& sailed; a privateer belonging to the Pa-
triots captured a French brig, bound front Ha.,
vannab to Boiirdcaux, on suspicion of having Spa-
nish property on hoard ; the brig was laden with
a valuable cargo of sugar and coffee.

FROM HAVANNAH.—By the Mary Ann, arrived
at Boston, we learn, that a new Revenue Law
was in the press at Havanna!), and it was believed
would go into operation very soon, compelling
Masters of 'Vessels to give a manifest end oath,
immediately on their arrival, and another oh
coming to entry, similar to those of the United
States.

(Fom the same Paper of Aixtst 8.)

EMIGRATION.—The following is an account of
emigrants who have arrived in the United States

I Captain ANDREWS, of the schooner Colonel
Dowry, from Latoira, informs, that a Captain
PoTs, in an English vessel, arrived there from
Barcelona, who reported that an American brig
was taken off the river t)ronoko by two armed
vessels, plundered, and the Captain andSnpercargo
murdered. Two of the crew had arrived at Bar-
celona. The brig was said to be a Northern
vessel, but the name of which, or that of the
Captain, was not recollected.

Letters received this morning from America
state, that the Harvest in the United States,
which was getting in, is one of the most abundant

ever known.

We received this morning the Paris Papers of
Monday last. The following are Extracts :
" PARIS, SEPT. King yesterday re-
ceived the Spanish and Neapolitan Ambassadors,
the Ministets, Marshals, Cardinals, &c.
" They write from Constantinople, the 256 of
July, that the plague was making great ravages ;
it bud manifested itself in every quarter, and in
the suburbs of Pera and Galata. Vessels from
Alexandria had chiefly contributed to spread it.
The hospitals were full— The interpreter even of
the Porte had been infected through one of his
domestics. Smyrna and Canca were again suffer-
ing fßim the contagion.
The Duke of Wellington, after reviewing to-
morrow at Colmar the Austrian Corps d'Arni6e,
proceeds on Wednesday to Reichshoffen. His
Grace on Thursday reviews, near Gundershaffen,
the Wirtemberg Corps d'Artn4e, and then pro-
ceeds to Haguenan ; from whence, the same day,
he will review the Austrian Artillery, who will
exercise before him in the Plain of Marienthal.
On Friday the Duke gill review the troops con-
centrated on•that point:
" The august personage rho travels under the

title of the Count de Ruppin (King of Prussia),
before quitting the caliital, tkeorated with the
Order of the Red Eagle of Prussia, of the First
Class, the Pere Elizee,, surgeon-in-chief to the
King; M. Distel, surgeon. in ordinary, and M. de
13,tudry, surgeon-major of the-gardcs-du-corps.
" BERLIN, AUG. 26.--Colonel de Massenhach
arrived here yesterday, accompanied by M. Reel-
hen, Captain of a Regiment of. Prussian Infantry;
they alighted at the Hotel de Russia. This morn-
ing Colonel de Massenbach was sent off to the for-
tress of Custrin, aCcomranied by an °nicer of
Gendarmerie.

" CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 26.—A dreadful fire
menaced this
.Cqital yesterday. One of the
powder mills behind the Seven Towers blew up
with a tremendous explosion. Eight persons
were killed, fortunately the flames were prevented
from communicating to the powder magazines.

" VIENNA, Aug. 28.---The Infant of Spain,
Don Francis Paul, who travels under the title of
the Con❑t de Moratalla, and who is now in the
Netherlands, is expected here. his Royal High-
ness proposes to remain here for some months.

" It is understood that a Captain and an Inn-
keeper hare discovered a second mine of gold which
k situate near Brumaw, in Moravia, on an estate
belonging to the Count d'llleshazy, in the neigh-

bourhood of the Carpathian Mountains, It is
said to be one of the richest mines hitherto ex-

plored.

" LALI34NNE, 2.—The orders issued to

the Swiss. 51ilitaiy in the service of France
to rejoin their carpi are not general. They
only refer to the Officers, Sub-Officers, and
soldiers, who were absent, on leave, or for
the purpose of recruiting, anterior to.the •lst-of
'lupe. This corps is to execute grand mancenvres
in the course of the present month.

The last posts from Germany have been
stopped by a•ocir rise of the Lake.of Constance,
. .
and of the Rhine.— The tower libinthal is again

under water.
. •. • .
MADatn.,
,4u5..,25.-7—A.sotemn Te Deism has
been performed_in the Kikl,g's,Chapel to return
thanks to Heaven for the:liappiy acCouchement of
the Queen. There has been: a'general illumina-
tion and a grand. gala' aCcrouri. The Ring has
made a considerable prOmotion in the• Orders of
the.bk)lden Fleece, and of Charles 111. Amongst
those who hare received the decorations of the
former Order, are the Dukes de flyer and de
Montemar, and the Count de Peralda. The Pre-
sidents Of the Councils who were not Council-
lors of State have been raised to that rank, and
also (be Duke del l'argile. The Aiinisters, Se-
cretaries of State, have obtained the Grand Cor-
don of Charles 111., &c.
" VIftsINA, AUG. 28.--it is said their Imperial
'Majesties will stay fifteen days at Clauscaturg;

for two weeks preceding the Ist inst. by ‘vbich it
appears that the total number is 2272 ; of them,
1.113 have arrived from Great Britain, 826 from
Ger Many, and 31 from France.—The Dutch ship
Jultaiiita euut Elizabeth, GREEN, has arrived at Phi-
ladelphia, from Amsterdam, with 470 passengers,
50 of whom died on the passage.

that they will then go to Scullin, and (et'
Agram and Gratz.
" The Prince de Schwarzenberg qrdit‘ 12tL
bad the 2d, the Count Cabo d'lstria (143, tb
the Prince de Hardenberg the 23d. Nei° bem
Prince de Metternich nor Mr. Lamb We of
there. We may judge from this of their::t!ie
what certain Journals have asserted respects
pretended Congress of Carlsbad. .
i
&RUN, AUG. a6.--Various csuses3ll'
lAc
signed for the arrest of Colonel deMtoseP 0-
It is known that l was Chief of tbe'"l'
v ;j4l
Corps d'Artile, under the Prince :lobe.ioct
in the campaign of 1806, and tl :JO clliticox.
was not free from reproach. He ' 011..0
fessed his misdeeds in his Memoirs, ye lot
charged before a Council of War with bticifif is
himself to the Capitulation of PreoZilar'the
November, 180 G, but the clemencY 416
King put an end to the prosecution.-` I.
that a short tiine• since be demanaed',l4/
high tone, that his trial should reconnye,°e'dpl:
that his arrest is in consequence of
_OW (le'f,lch
But the most probable opinion, and that to ,ter'
most credit is given, is, that he trad ‘8?-e' (lc
to the King of Prussia, to the Princrir
Hardeoberg, and to the Minister of VV'tr'
We
sulent letters, in which he threatent"A
publication of new memoirs, with d° c1111;','.1
which he had taken from the archives oj !
Staff, a crime which our military law
with death. It is added, that he proP°sejov
publish these documents;- if it were%th°l4l3l
pedient to purchase them, and he deit"l'de:,:i4
them no less than 240,000 francs.
Massenbach is the same Wbo has played °; O.
spictious character amongst the Oppositioa I
in the States of Wurteniburg, and whO /11°6;e
cently ordered away from Heidelberg' by the

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vernment of Baden.
"13REst..Ati, AUG. 24.—tn consequence 0. •
ditions movement in this town, orders have I
issued for the assembly of 10,000 well

neighbourhood.
"
" LAUSANNE, SEPT. 2.--According ta 'cr
Edict of his Prussian Majesty, no traveller °I"
ter or travel in the Prussian States With Ont 3 Pj
port from a competent authority, sancti°ll''
the Prussian Minister in the country in vvilich
traveller is domiciliated."

We arc sneered at by The British Press ar
day because we approved of the lenity of C;°;fr,'
mcnt in not bringing the deluded Rioters Of 0, of
cheater, &c. to the most dreadful punishll'e.j..'
the Law, now that there is peace and tratie
ill'
in the districts that were in a state of disOr'
and alarm, and we are told that " it
whimsical in Ministers thus w spare the 1;f1-,:
and prosecute those who have proved i'mweet2i:o
We admit that Ministers have spared the
but we deny that they have prosecuted 0°54 d;
have been proved i'anocent. Acquittal for "'3llfic
melt evidence as the strict letter of the 12° to
quires, is by no means a proof of intwalgeicit
say nothing of the weakness-, prejudice, c'bsti9i'jil
and other motives that may sometimes gpvtlilod
decisions of a Jury, though the powers of al
are to be estimated aniorfg the best privileges eci4
ferret! by our unrivalled Constitution,for. ga%o
ing against the encroachments of Prelle
and protecting the Liberties of the People.

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As we do not pretend to the instinctive vv--,§ jr
which enables our Competitors in general t°o,
termitic,. at once, On a subject, however coall
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intricate, or eomprehensire,we did not, like th;f9
offer opinions on the further developementd ,
OWEN's Plan which appeared in most of the 1-41'1.,
Prints of yesterday, but, stitrered our duller fad
ties to reflect upon the matter before we presdilav
to offer any opinions at all. We did not inset •,.I
article alluded to, because we did notperceivef
essential difference between that and 144 f°rl•ji:.
speculations, except, indeed, his Table of C°'Slo
, .
fications of Religious Sects and Politicians•
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omitted the Table also, because we -did not Cto
ceive it likely that he wourd have any candide,,,
for admission into any of the numerous Fe ~,
hote.• of his Philanthropic Edifice. its to his tji,".
we have already communicated our sentimemts,J
He is certainly animated by pure iiuManitY' 1:f 4
public spirit but much too sanguine in higi 1,41
pectations. His sanguine expectations, irwe,..,
indicate a want of knowledge of human netti•
notwithstanding all his sagacity, and all the res,:c.;.
of his experience. His scheme, indeed, will l'e ' i
he practicable, generally, in our humble opill1(4.1
till he can make Man a totally different twill: if
from what he is at present, and so most pr°l/5.:1,
will continue till the consummation of all thiab4
stb'
On the subject of RELIGION, We hope l‘ir:
i °A
is misunderstood, for if he imagines it possible the
mankind can be kept in order by mere human los:rf
tutions, and without the terrors of Divine Dustier,
and the hope of Divine Mercy, he cannot lxa r