The Sun.
London, England, 1821-01-02 00:00:00

TUESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1821.

CH HONOLOGICAL Vi.EW

(Jr THE -
EVENTS OF isio,

JANUAILY.

JANthstlY I.—flochelm,!,,a (a new Town) begun on the
banks of St. Lawrence, and contiguons to Montreal.
Regulation' of the Landwehr, by or King of Prussia.
.—.lnsurrectint: of the Spanish Army of Expedition.
New Russian TaritTbecatne in force.
Hurricanes in Newfoundland.
Alarming Fire at Smyrna.
6. The Pope's Nuncio received at Paris by the King. • /
Intense Frost at Glasgow.
7. The Birmit-sgbani Theatre burnt.
9. Burning of Magdalen Hall, Oxford.
10. Contiagration at Savannah.
Accounts of Earthquakes its India.
13. East India Company vote a-Statue': in honour of War-
ren Hastings, to be placed in the. Cotirt Room.
14. Society Instituted for the Relief of the Houseless.
F.xtirpatiots of Negro Slavery in America.
Twenty-four Prisoners arraigned at the Old Bailey. for
Forged Bank-notes.
17. J. A. Curs-ol and A. Villemont both convicted at the
Old Bailey for landing 200 Slaves in the Island of Mauritius,
.Bout M.antipisear, tin .the Ist ot.,•lune,, - •
-4.. hiblie Debt of Prussia fixed at One Hundred
and Fighty Millions, Ninety-one Thousand, S;,sen liondred
and,Twenty Dollars: and a sinking I.eizd created to liqui-
dat it.
Public Dicrier at Sierra Leone. •
18. Outrages in Ireland.
Emancipation of the Russian Peasantry confirmed by
their Emperor.
19. New Constitution for the States of the Duchy of Bruns.
wick agreed '.o. . •
.Foreign Journals to. be prohibited in the Austrian
Monarchy.
21. Decease of the Landgrave of Iftsse Homberg.
Earthquake in tiro lonian Islands.
22. Overtures fur.conciliating the resident Jews. made by
the Senate at. Frankfort.
23. I?ecease of his Royal Highness the. Duke of Kent at
Sidmouth, in his 53d year, after a very short iltness. His de-
parting words wers.,--." I am quite prepared !"
24. Fifteen Housei burnt in Thames-street. •
25. Accounts of au Insurrection and Conflagration at
Constantinople.
-28. Permission first given for Qttaters to settle iri Chris-
tiana, till the passing of souse general law, under the stipu-
lation of their tuaLing nu proselYtes.
29. Demise of his InOSt exci;ilent and gracious Majesty
George the Third, in Windsor Castle, at 35 minutes past eight
at night, in the 82d year of bis age, and the 60th year- of the
most eventful reign recorded in our history.
Accession of George tine Fourth, his present Majesty.
30. This day (although a Sunday) high Houses of Parlia-
ment met, in consequence kif the demise of the late King, but
no roanntr of business was dune.
George the Fourth's first. Privy Council, at Carlton
House, %chili lie aunouneedlbis Father's. Death. .
Alterations in the Liturgy were agreed on in Council
this day, which were entrusted to the Archbishop of Canter-
bury and the Bishop of London.'
31. Proclamation of George the Fourth, as eldest Son of the
deceased King, in front of Carlton House, Pallmall.; and
afterwards at Charing•croSs, Temple-bar, the end of Chan-
cery-lane,.and the Royal Exchange.
Parliament usgt, by adjournment, for business.
FEBRUARY.
FtiattuatiY 1. Bulletin this day issuedannouncing the ill-
ness of his Majesty.
Most of the ,Judges of the King's Bench, and King's
Counsel, took the oaths of supremacy and allegiance to
George IV, itsCoutt.
2. Parliament adjourned to the 17th of February.
This day,a Grace passed the University of Cambridge
for•granting to that of Cephalonia a Copy of all BoOhs issu-
ing front the Cambridge Press. •
Address of Condolenceand Congratulation voted to his
Majesty by the Common Council, on his Father's. death and
his own accession.
3. Mourning for his late Majesty began.
Arrests inn Madrid at midnight .•
4. Vice Chancellor took the usual oaths to George IV. in
the Court of Chancery, at Lincoln's Inn.
b. Mr. John Cam Huishouse brought by an Habeas Corpus
into Court, when the Judges of the King's Bench declined
to interfere with the decision of the Commons House, who
bad imprisoned him.
6. Churches and Chapels in London hong with Mourning,.
7. Master of the Roils took the usual oaths to his Majesty,
its the Court of Chancery.
- S. Sir Vicary Gibbs, Chief Justice of the Comnion Pleas,
died.

9. The last Bulletin, announcing the recovery of the King.
10. Princess (Marius and Alfred. both removed in their
Coffins to the-Royal:Mausoleum at Windsor.
Relief of inundations in Holland. -
- Interment of the remains of the Duke 9f Kent, at
Windsor.
Proclamation from the King against Vice and Immor-
ality.

14. AssasSination of the Duke de Berri, in Paris, who ex-
pired at six o'clOck this morning.
15. Advises (dated July 17. 1819) 'from Sierra Leone, •
This morning the Public were admitted to see the Body
of hislate"Majesty lie in State in the Audience Chamber at
Windsor Castle, where he had recently-died.
. If. Public interment of the. Body of the deceased King,
with mournful and solemn state, in the Royal vault, prep4red
by his orders for his Family, in St..tjeore's Chapel, Windsor.
• 17. Both Hennes of Parliament 'tnet, pursuant to adjourn-
meat., when a Message was delivered from the King; and Ad-
dresses were voted to him.
18. General Sir David Hondas died.
20. Resignation of the. French Ministertount Decazes ac-

cepted. . .
It. Decazes (Count) advanced to a Dukedora by Ennis
XVIII, and appointed his Ambassador tothe Court of London,
22. Conversation on the Queen in the House of Commons.
Apprehension of Radicals at Glasgow.
23. Thanksgiving forshis Majesty's convaleicence.
Arrest, of several of•the Cato-street gang, and a Reward
for the apprehension m' Thistlewood., .•
M. Greffulh, nne of the French Peers, 'who gave the
Ball at which the Duke tie Berri was upon the"evehing he was
assassinated, died literally of grief in consequence of.i.t.
98: After the Royal Assent had been given by Commission
to several Bills, followed with a Speech delivered on' behalf
of his..Nlajesty by the'Lords Commissioners; both Hintses ttf
Parliament were prorogued .the 17th of March ensuing.
19. Parliament dissolved by Proclamation.
M ARCH.
MARCH 2. High Winds in different parts. . •
3. Committal of the State Prisoners to the Tower.
Dreadful Fire at Chatham. . .
Murder and Arson at Woolwich, when .Mr. Parker anti
his Housekeeper were murdered.
6. Exeter Theatre burnt. • , - , •
• Ferdinand Vii. decrees the Cm-repetition of the Cortes.
-- Spanish (New) Constitriiioli
7. Inquisition aboliihed by the Spanish King, who aetedeS
to the.ConstantiOn 0: IEI9. • • , „
8. Spanish Refugees, authoriied to return to their native
country.
10. Massacre at Cadiz.. , •
44. Funeral of the murdered Puke de Berri, in the Boyal
Clutch of St: Denis, at Paris.... ".
15.,ffible4 --sent -as present's from `this Foreign
Bible Society; converted into, cartridges by the Cbtassians.
17. Emigrants first arrive at the Cape of Good Hope•from
this country. , . -
2t. Eeniamin West. P.R.A. died. F
'93: P. Burdett ;mind guilt y,,ut Leicester, of ptiblfs!iitiii
a• litre! in the letter to his Constituents on the occurrences of
August Di, 1819, at Manchester.
Apprehension of l'iesbitt,' at Ports4notith, as the;naiii-
deree'of Mr. Paritir.atid liis honSelieeper, at Wiinlie4i.
24. The ponorternin.lGoVerortient ,nyikes,
of the stq.ncstta;rd property eLftie Cattwlict..Chut!..:,t•i, •
27. If. 'Hoot, together with fouti -othAtf;" found.: galley at
York, atter a trial 'of, ten difyi, of ',a;:setitifilidOiitli uniaktittl,
banners on the 16th of August, 1819, at Manchester, in order

[.P .rcr SE-VEPENCE.

to excite both hatred and contempt of the Government and
Constitution of the.Realtu.
30. The new Law of Censorship was pasted by the cb3a)..
her of Deputies with regard to the French Press.
Return of the Expedition agalact the Persliva pirate's.
APRIL.
Anitri. 1. Waller Scott (the Pizetj created a Baronet.
Distorcrinces.'near ffuddersliild.
Dein Milner died. • ' •
--, Conspiracy at Glasgow, &c: &c. • • •
3. Conviction of Knight, I)ei.vburst, and others, at-Lan.
caster.
4. Shock of an. earthquake at C'at'lz.- • '
8. Conviction of Bruce and PrPlniiis, at •Chester, foi shoot-
ing- Birch, the Constable, of StoCkport.
10. Horrid catastrophe in India.
11. Parson Harrison and Sir Charles Wolseley found ,goi!ty
at chrSter, ofzt conspiracy.
The keeping of his Majesty's Birth-day changed frau,
the lith of August to April 23.
Mr. Arthur Young died.
15. Trials of Thistlevrood,. and four others of the Cato-
street traitors. at the Old Bailey.
18. Parson Harrison once more convicted, at Chester, for
• seditious language. • .
19. Thistle,woud found guilty of High Treasoo,
VO. Messrs. Broirgbirm and Denman first recognised as At-
torney•Gerieral *and 'Soliritvizs'ftkCeraflar her Maje :-:•
'Roman Cathuiic_trtravel operre'd in Nloorfiehlg. "
4s.sernbling of the fit st Par tiawent of his present Ma='
jesty at Wettrainstcr.
Shock of au earthquake at Brest.
Hon...Nlr. Manners Sutton having been re-chosen as
Speaker by the new House of Cc/unarms; is approved by the
Lords CommisSioners for the King.
'25. 'Mr. Patrick Colquhoun, Author of the celebrated trea-
tise on the'Police of the Metropolis,
07. The - first Session of the new Pariismelit was opened
by George the Fourth, who. delivered a speech froze
throne.

as. It was resolved, at a public nieetiog, to erect a statue
:o the memory of the Duke of Kent.

Termination of the Old Bailey Trials,for High TiCas,tr,.
29.' Warrants were icceived for the execution of
wood, and four of his colleagusi in crime, by the keeper
of Newgate.:

E;plosion at Paris near the apartments of the Duchess
de Berri, advanced it* pregnancy.

Y.

May. I. Execution of Thistira•uod. Tidd, Ings, Brunt, and-
Davidson, in front of Newgate, for High 7•reason.
5. Admiral Popham's reception at the Court of Hayti.
.6. Jesuits sent out of Russia.
7. Algerines renew !hair piracies.
to. Settlers first encamp at the Cape of Good Hope from
Great Britain.

Proclatuatlon of the Coronation of his Majesty.
15. Henry Hunt sentenced -to two years and six months
confinement in lieliester Giol, and tw• 'securities, in ;Awl.
each, for five further years—Sir Chailes Wolseley to eighteen
months Imprisonment ill Abingdon Gsol, and securities as in
the former case—and Parson HArrison to eighteen months
incarceration in. Clityni-rßiaol. •

. .
IS. First sitting of the Court of Claims.
Motiuu made against her Majesty in the Court of Chan-
cery.

20. Sandi (Charles) executed, at Manheini, for as-
sa‘sinatiou of Kotzebue.

Mr. Grattan landed at Liverpool, for the' last time,
rvnr Dublin, to take his. parliamentary seat.
Failure of Banks in the south of Ireland.
The first Civil List Bill in the new reign, read a third
uu, and passed, by ftle•House of Lords. •
• ['Cu be continues:]

,cLAVE TRADE.

We _give the following extract from a letter,
dated Sierra Leone, Nov. 13, 1820.. If the state,
meats it contains are true, there can be no doubt
that his Majesty's Ministers will take the neces-
sary measures in furtherance of that humane
policy which has long distinguished the councils
of this country on the subject of the Slave Trade

" You are most egregiously mistaken in supposing that the-
French have abridged their Shire Trade, for it is nosif carried
on under their flag to a greater extent than ever. Had I
time, I would give you a detail of the shipments of Slaves
made by the Senegal and Goree traders since my last; but
this I Must defer until the next opportunity: The grand de—
pot fur expo: tatiOn now• is Bissoa; from thence the French
residing in Senegal a,id Goree have lately despatched sererat
vessels with full cargoes of slaves. I saw, myself, while theta
in March last, a French brigantine (I have forgotten the name)
commanded by Captain Conyam, belonging to Mr. Mill, an
officer in the French Civil Departmentin.St. Louis (Senegal',)
sail with a full cargo of slaves; and Mr. Gabbarl; the Put,
tuguese com►nandant in Bissoa, was shipping another cargo,
chiefly youths, on board a large Spanish brig from Haranaah.
Being anEngliihmari, I dreaded goii.l; ashore in a place
almost entirely inhabited by dealers 'in L!.fraar creatures..
my landing, I beheld such a scene of misery and woe ai I hilie

1 shall never again witness. It would reqnitte the pen of a
Slialispeare to delineate the horrors attending the embarkiilg
and stowing slaves at Bissos. The screa►us of the female.,
the piercing shrielis of the parents, the horrid eiths of
w►fee!iug Europeans, and the noise of the chains, can only ba
equalled in l'andernonhuitself.

"Jar. Mill's vessel landud almost all her cargo in Senegal
and Goree, from which places the slaves were sent overland,
and down the coast, from Joal and Goree, by small trading
vessels, to 13issoa, whiClr has now, become the grabd cups)•
rium of the windward Slave Trade. Mr. Mill, being an
officer under the French government in St. Louis, was, by his
situation, enabled to adopt this plan; hut 'in general
,tlle
French slave-dealers in Senegal are now ohliged to embark
their slaves either at Little Portendick, Jual, or the island of
from,which ports they are sent tp the Cape de Vied
Islands, to be shipped off for their final lestination:
I hesitate nut to assert that one hundred who are nnw
expoited in this illicit trate endure more cruelty, and inhtt-
rnantty, both in the way iA which they are bidnapped,, and
tbiriog thi-ir painful passage' across the Atlantis:, than a
thousand dia during be ti.oes,while the, trade. was.geityrll.
Thep there were,proper regulationsand fit preparel to
'transport tits: poor'unfOrtu,ate to ti,e V.:est Inthei ;
but now, while the .1.1” s pvc“ ia!^ •:fricans litter cornmitteil
•their bodies to the slumbers of the night, 01.0 r raxyjnit,s
sadden!), .set on' flam'es, in trying to escape (torn which :they
are immediately, seized by a galig of the slats...di:ale& agent,
,and.v.li,thro it few !WM'S safely's:barbed, iri :the Itnidsfol.
schoonvrs. I. have seen one ofdhe.sevesss)s, measur-
ing only 90 :016, which liad'iletwilly 196'slayes on" hoard:
" our last utters from St:lll:,ry"s, Canihi4;l find' thatout,. titivful • cdono'erce hris 'start:red greittq' iihritn; the )list
years the waresapfiekhy the reriy:itig.ot the French Sta't'a
Tra‘de, to.witolwarkhave aintuvp,p,.t, ao, end to the gold arid
tradk. :None'ol*' the inhabit tradirls stare yr nt:ure near
:the coast, for feat' of thiF,inlitacplng slave:re+l es,'
• ‘ You have no dokt,ttt )leqvd vt a vessel tieing'l9l(.en by Sir
.d.edrgr whose, cntio during, the cha4e,
stoviTil 't slaves he had on hoartl'int6 stater' punihroins
.5.140-;ed-ge.iliscoverecl 'this villainy hiniself.. Tile notorious
yrar shipped so many slaves front
Goree; circa 'actliallY branded the:hi with a tut icon, hits lately
Raict true debt of nature."