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THE SUN.

10LEM 9073 DICERE FALSU3I AUDEATY

LONDON,
THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1821.

We received this morning Paris Papers of
Monday last.. A private Letter from Naples
states, that -at the close of a long Sitting of the
National Parliament, on the 15th ult., after
hearing the Report of the Committee appointed
the day before to examine the ultimatum of the
Allied Sovereigns, the PRINCE REGENT Mt the
Hall, followed by all the Members of Parlia-
ment, and read to the People assembled outside
the House the substance of a Declaration of War
against Austria and the other coalesced Powers.
The troops received orders to march. General
C.taascos.t was appointed Commander-in-Chief,
and General BEGANI set out for the fortress of
Gaeta. Another Letter from Naples says, that
the PRINCE Vic.uz. REGENT has given the Junta
of Sicily the option of choosing either the Nea-
politan Constitution, or any other which may be
deemed better adapted to the Country. The
same dispatches announce to the Sicilians the
recal of the Neapolitan troops which were sta-
tioned iu Sicily ; and at the departure of this
letter the Neapolitan squadron had sailed for
that Island, in order to receive on board those
troops. It appears, by subsequent accounts, that
the PRINCE REGENT takes the Command in Chief
of the Neapolitan army ; General CARASCOSA,
at the head of three divisions, occupies San Ger-
mano ; General FLORESTAN PEPE is at the head
of the Prince's Staff; General GuLrEcmo PEPE
commands the division which occupies the Ab-
bruzzi, and all the militia of that Province ; Ge-
neral BEGANI, besides being Governor of Gaeta,
commands the forces situated between Stri and
Fondi; Genera/ ARCOVITO is at Terracina with
another division; and General FILANGIERI
commands the reserve. Previously to their de-
parture for the Army all the Generals met at a
banquet at Naples, where the most cordial union
prevailed.. The Neapolitan army and militia are

said to be on the frontiers of the Papal States,
and every thing leads to the presumption that
hostilities will soon commence. Intelligence had
reached Vienna of the recent measures taken by
the Neapolitans, and of the march of the greater
portion of their army to the frontiers. The
knowledge of these events had caused a consi.
derable sensation in the Austrian Capital. It is
not known when the King of Naples will leave
Laybach, but it is supposed his departure will
be governed by the result of events in Lower
Italy-; the general opinion, however, is, that his
MAJESTY will proceed to Sicily-. On the 17th
ult. the Austrian advanced guard had not entered

the Roman territory.
It seems that •extraordinary couriers are conti-
nually passing through Bayonne to and from
Spain. On the 26th ult. an Austrian Officer of

high rank from Laybach, proceeding to Madrid
with dispatches, only stopped there to change
horses. The report of the Allied Sovereigns
having demanded the presence of a Spanish Mi-
nister at the "Congress, is contradicted in the
Madrid Journals. Private letters from the
Spanish capital give us reason to believe that the
present session of the Cortes will be very stormy.
Several petitions have already been presented

against the Ministers, and one of the. Deputies
has moreover proposed their impeachment. Lists
are circulating with the names of the persons who
are to succeed them, and the liberal party mean
to appoint CAMBRONERO Minister of Justice,
GALIANO, Minister of the Interior, Rua°, Mi-
nister of War, PIZARRO, Minister for Foreign
Affairs, and An.tniA, Minister for the Colonies.
Troops are marching towards the Capital, and,

the garrison is daily expected to be reinforced
by two or three thousand men. Signor MORA,
the Editor of the Constitutional, has at length
been set at liberty, on giving security for his per-
sonal appearance whenever he may be called on

to take his trial. It will be recollected that this
distinguished Spanish advocate was arrested in
December- last, when the Debating Societies at
Madrid were suppressed.

The last accounts from Constantinople state---

hat several inportant changes have been made in

the Ottoman Ministry. It is generally supposed
that the Pachalik of Egypt will be divided into
two governments. Cairo is to remain under the
authority of MEHEMED•ALI-PACIIA, and Alex-
andria will form a separate Government. The
Ottoman Cabinet are aware of the opposition

they are likely to meet from MEREMED•ALI-
Pacnt in the execution of this measure, and
have given out that they will be assisted in car-
rying it into effect by an European maritime
Power.

FIRE LT SURINAM.—The ship Sirevor, AF-
FLECK, from Surinam for Amsterdam, has ar-
rived off Dartmouth ; she sailed the Ist of Fe-

Iruary.

Captain ATFLtCK reports, that eight

days prefious to his departure, a dreadful fire
had broken out and consumed nearly the whole
town, with an immense quantity of produce,
which had in consequence become very scarce.

The following extract of a letter from Captain Arn.t ex, of
the ship Strevor, from Surinam for Holland, arrived off Dart-
mouth, and dated the sth March, gives further particulaTs of
the fire at Paramaribo. The accounts received this morning do
not mention how the accident originated :-
44 I am extremely sorry to inform you of the almost total de-
struction of the Town of Paramaribo by a fire, which happened
on the 21st of January. Three hundred and ninety-two houses,
and including stores and back buildings, amounting to a
thousand, were reduced to ashes. The loss is estimated at 20
millions of guilders (Surinam currency)."

Every man, we believe, who examines with
accuracy the present distresses and difficulties of the Country,
may easily convince himself, that it would be imposiible for
any Administration, however just in its views—however pa-
triotic in its designs--however indefatigable in its endeavours—
at once to remove the difficulties, or relieve the distresses. They
depend upon such a complicated variety of causes ; they have
resulted so unavoidably from the course of events ; that much
must, after all, be left to time, and patience, and individual ex-
ertion. Do we mean then, to distrust the wisdom of Parlia-
ment, or to deny its influence ? Assuredly we have no such in-
tention : we are sensible, that it is chiefly to Parliament we
must look for the real and ultimate amelioration of our circuin-
stances : and we trust, that by its prudence, and its firmness,
affairs will at length be put into such a train, as to lead, gra-
dually but certainly, to the improvement of trade, to renewed
activity in every department of labour, to the diminution of
pecuniary privations, and, by a necessary consequence, to the
secure establishment of permanent repose. But these things
will not happen in a day ; nor can they happen at all, unless
the various orders of the community will co-operate with honest
earnestness in the' restoration of national prosperity. It is
hardly too much to say, that the respective efforts of these dif.
ferent classes might be of more immediate efficacy than any
possible enactments of the Legislature. , We turn naturally, in
the first place, to the Nobility and landed proprietors of the
kingdom. They are supposed with justice to lie the guardians
and ornaments, the " decus et tutamen" of the State : from
them will the inferior ranks expect instruction and example :
and it would be, indeed, lamentable, if they should ever be
found wanting to the Country, or to themselves. For our own
parts, we are far from suspecting them of any wilful dereliction
of their duty : their rank and their property, their education
and their habits, their connections and their early associations,
are all securities for their lo've of the Constitution, and their
support of the true interests of the Empire. They are too ex-
alted, we are sure, to be influenced by the vulgar views of am_

bition or interest ; too wise, to love confusion for its own sake ;
and they have too much at stake in the Country to derive any
possible advantage frOm a tumult. But is there nothing, of
which we may reasonably complain ? May we not perceive
some degree of thoughtless inattention, and some occasional
forgetfulness, that they have particular, as well as general,
duties to perform ? They harangue, and they legislate ; and
when that is done, regardless of quiet and practical utility,
they seem to imagine, that nothing more will be expected from
them. They are contented to indulge themselves in the expen-
sive amusements of the metropolis; or in idle. dissipation, or
intellectual trifling throughout the Cities of the Continent. But
they ought to,be at their post : and their post is either in Par-
liament during the Session, or at their own estates in the coun-
try. Here is their proper and most beneficial sphere of action :
and Heaven forbid, that the agricultural districts of England,
like those of Ireland, should ever be deserted hy the natural
proprietors of the soil ! We shall say little of the lowering of
rents ; we know we are treading upon tender ground and pro-
bably the greatest reduction of rent, whatever good effects it
might have, would not be sufficient at the present moment to

remove the embarrassments of the agriculturists. But there are
other means of benefit besides pecuniary relief. Let the Nobi-
lity, and other persons of large landed property in the kingdom
live more among their tenants ; let them mingle more with their
tenants in habits of daily intercourse ; and endeavour to con-
vince them that their privations have been necessary ; but that
the Legislature is willing to take their wants into considera-
tion, and adopt any feasible method which may contri-
bute to their diminution. We would say, too, let them
encourage or revive the ancient diversions and festivities
of the country, nor suffer them to fall, one by one, into
oblivion, until the old customs and recreations of the peo-
ple are irrecoverably lost. That man is only half a po-
If tician who thinks that these things can be but of little service ;
they have a great influence—they have an excellent influence--
they preserve, in the strongest manner, local feelings and local
attachments, and they prevent the mind from brooding over the
privations of the moment. The national manners, it must be
almost superfluous to add, have a most intimate connection with
the national character and the national strength. The pre-
sent, too, is a time when the kind attentions of the Land-
ed Proprietor are more peculiarly required ; and when any
amusements which may serve to keep up old feelings, or to re-
store former cheerfulness, should be more peculiarly encouraged.
We know that, where soldiers are brave, it is not in the day of
battle that they most need the exhortations of the Commander ;
it is chiefly in the fatigues of the march—in the general toils
and hardships of the campaign, that his ardour can revive the
drooping spirit, and even seem to invigorate the falling limbs ;
that his courage can awaken alacrity and his confidence diffuse
animation. In the same manner, it is not when any great ef-
fort is demanded, that the People of England will ever be found
deficient in vigour or resolution ; but it is amid the exhaustion
consequent upon these efforts, and while there are no farther re-
turns of glory or of triumph to repay their sacrifices, that they
most particularly need the fostering care and exertions of their
superiors. We are not altogether " laudatores temporis acti ;"
we have not that querulous impatience of present evils ; we
are not so much inclined to pay a compliment to our ancestors
at our own expence, as to suppose that no political improve-
ments have been Ilmade in the existing generation ; that they
were, on the whole, more comprehensive in their views, or
more accurate in their principles ; but we fear that one radi-
cal defect is creeping, with secret rapidity, into the present sys-
tem. The science of politics is become too much a matter of
cold and heartless calculation ; man is treated as a kind of moral
machine, and an exclusive attention is paid to the wealth of
Nations, as if wealth alone could secure the happiness of Na-
tions. It would require no long argument to prove the folly of
the notion, and the danger of the practice. Surely, too, the
People of England deserve at the hand of their superiors the
greatest encouragement, the most benevolent attention. They
have acted nobly and they have suffered patiently ; still sober
and honest, industrious and unperverted, they must not be
confounded with the populace of the Capital ; they are the
strength and stamina of the Kingdom ; on them the fate of
England must finally depend, and in them will the freedom of
England find its firmest bulwark. The care of their natural
protectors is alone wanting to repress any disposition to mur-
mur which is ever likely to arise. It has been said of old, that
a good man struggling with adversity is a sight worthy of the
Gods ; what, then, ought we to say of a great Nation, which can
bear up against accumulated evils not only with courage but
with cheerfulness--not only with a resolution to resist its diffi-
culties, but with a determination to despise them ? Let but the
Nobility and Landed Proprietors exert themselves, and this
glorious and exhilarating spectacle will be seen in every County
and every Village of Great Britain.

HAMBURG)", FEB. 27.—We have received by express, news
from St. Petersburg!), of the 13th instant, containing the fol-
lowing extract from the new Tariff:—

" IMPORT DUTY.-Rum, and all kinds of brandy, 20,
30, and 40 R. according to the strength, from 10 deg. and
under to 15 deg. and above; silk goods, 4 R.S. per lb. ; wines,
in hogsheads, 30 R.S. per hogshead ; ditto, in bottles, 40 copecs
per bottle ; refined sugars, 4A R.S. per pood ; raw sugars, 1
R.S. per pood.'"—(llamburghßorse.n Hall List, Feb. 27.)

By a Dutch Mail which has arrived, we learn
that the intelligence from Italy has caused a
feeling of deep interest in Spain, and that se-
veral Spanish officers have embarked at Barce-
lona to offer their services to the Neapolitan Go-
vernment. A ship freighted with arms and mu-
nitions of war has also sailed from Barcelona for
the same destination.

Charleston Papers to the 23d of January have
been received. They contain nothing of prominent
importance.• In the Charleston Gazette of the 1 sth
is an Extract of a Letter " from a Senator of the
United States"announcing that official intelligence
had been received by the Department of State
at Washington, of the ratification of the Spanish
Treaty, ceding the Floridas. The much-disputed
grants, it was added, were cancelled.—We find
the following fact, so interesting to every mind
which considers the diffusion of Christianity as
tantamount to the diffusion of human virtue and

happiness, in one of these papers :—" The South
Sea islanders are so eager for the sheets of the
Gospel of St. Luke, that no activity can satisfy
them. They have six hundred and eighty persons
who can read; and they frequently sit in circles
till midnight, teaching each other." _
Yesterday morning Mr. MAstt, of the Lord
Chamberlain's Office, left town for Windsor, to
make arrangements at St. George's Chapel, for
the opening of the Royal Mausoleum for the re.
ception of the remains of the late Princess Etitga-
BETH, the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of
CLARENCE, the interment of which is expected
to take place on Saturday, in the most private
manner possible,