The Sun.
London, England, 1821-10-23 00:00:00

BUTTER TRADE.

General Statement of Butter entered at the POrt of London,
consigned from Ireland and from the Continent of Europe,
in the years 1819, 1820, and 1821, from June 1, to Sept. 30,
in the several years
Ports of Ireland.
Cork -
Waterford
Ross .
Wexford -
Dublin -
Belfast
Limerick
Newry

1819. 1820. 1:121.
Firkins 45,794 47,790 14,735
- 56,501 52,321 39,329
- - 12,877 7,239 5,501
- 7,150 6,181 1,530
- 6,330 9,513 1,008
. 14,637 7,906 56
- - 9,834 9,626 /0;137
- - 7,970 104 1,064

Firkins 161,093 140,610 73,711

Foreign - - Casks 39,964 41,656 .69,.02.
The Irish Firkins average about 661 b. nett. The Foreign
Firkins average about 981bs. equal for. consumption to about
491 bi; of Irish, the Foreign being weak in quality.

CORK MARKETS, OCT. 17. - •
Grain of every description in abundant supply, the quontity
of inferior Wheat is so considerable in proportion to middli•ig
and prime, that it appears to affect the general market 'pi ire,
which may be quoted this day at a decline of 2s. - Prime 26;.
middling 18s. a 20s. Inferior 14s. a 16e. Oats are down 2s.
18s. a 20s. Barley 265. a 335.
PRICE OF BUTTER. .
THE MERCHANTS. THE COUNTRY. -
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First Quality - 78' First Quality
Second do. . - 73 Second do. -
Third do. - - 67. Third do. -
Fourth do. - - 63 - Fourth do. -
Fifth do. . - 60 Fifth do. -
Sixth do. - - 54, Sixth do. - -
Received at the Weigh-House, October 15 and 16.
3280 Firkins-42 Kegs.

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The price of Cow Beef has opened, and some parcels deli-
vered-4i cwt. 275. a 2Us.-41 cwt. 265.-4 cwt. 24s.—S1
t.
20s. Pork 20s. a 21s.

PRICE OF WHEAT IN FRANCE.--A respectable
correspondent informs us, that at one of the
largest monthly Corn Markets in Picardy, last
week, the very best seed wheat sold at 60 francs
(50 shillings) the 3001 b. French weight,.which is
10 francs, or Bs. 4d. more than the same kind of
wheat sold for at that market at this time last
year.—(Sussex Advertiser.)

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POST OFFICE REVENUE.—It is expected that
there will be a great increase in the Post Office
Revenue this Quarter, from the influx of Co-untry
Letters with Orders for Tickets and Shares-for
NEXT TUESDAY'S Drawing, when the First Prize
will have Thirty Thousand Pounds Money.
ANGLING.--On Thursday last upwards of 100
dozen of fine roach were caught in Harripton
Deep ; several of the fish weighed a pound and
a half each. The oldest fisherman on the Thames
does not recollect any thing like it before in
angling. It was one of the finest day's sport
ever known; and the fishermen attending on the
Gentlemen could not take the fish off the hooks
fast
_enough,

THE I,qIDO-N_JOURNALS.

DAILY LXTRACTS tRO3I- TIJI: 'MORNING PAPERS,

Odpber 23.

[MORNING POST.]
We have received files of American Papers to
the'26th ult. and are happy to find that the ra-
vages of the malignant fever have_ abated. These
Journals teem with accounts of piracies which
are daily coinmitted by Buccaneers of all nations;
lnit principally in the neighbourhood of Havan-
nah and Matanzas. Plunder appears to be their
only object, and if they are opposed in that spe-
cies of depredation, in many instances they do
not hesitate to commit murder. Representations
have been made to the United States' Govern-
ment of these daring acts, by meetings of Mer-
chants at Boston, Baltimore, &c., and it is sup-
posed that it will take a very strong ,naval
force to cope with them; so great is their
number and so well are they generally armed.
Thp pirates seem particularly anxious that
the vessels plundered by them should not go
to the Havannah, for in most cases they en-
join, the Masters not to touch at the Island
of Cuba on pain of death. This, it is sup-
posed, is in consequence of several large Spa-
nish vessels of war being in that port, as these
Pirates pretend to cruize under the Patriotic
flag,---The Baltimore Telegraph of the 21st
torttimo has a paragraph extracted from the New
Orleans Papers, which states that Vera Cruz
had fallen into the hands of the Patriots.—
If this be correct, the whole kingdom of Mexico
appears to be in their power, as former accounts
had announced their occupation of the Capital,
and had mentioned that Vera Cruz was the only
place which remained unsubdued.

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[MORNING HERALD.]

It would appear from the alternate reports of
war and peace—the contradictory accounts of
the motions and designs of the Emperor of Russia

—and of the marches and countermarches of his
armies, which reach us even from Petersburgh
and Odessa, that the negociations respecting the
Turks and Greeks are carried on, upon his part,
with lingering duplicity. The Russian Cabinet
seems balancing between ambition and prudence.
The sense of—it may be said, civilized Europe,
is strongly against any interruption of the pre-
• sent peace, so necessary to the exigences of na-
tions, as well as so desirable as a matter of hu-
manity, that Russia has no resource left but
to protract the negociations in the hope of
some change of circumstances favourable to
her views.. We find in these Papers an ac-
count of a battle on the Greek continent, in
which the Turks are said to be again defeated; but
no particulars are given. It is, if true, an in-
teresting statement, that the differences between
the Greeks themselves are about to be• settled
by a species of Congress, under the auspices of
the youngest Ypsilanti, whose authority has been
acknowledged by a portion of the Peloponnegus.
Internal disunion must prove fatal to their cause
if not speedily removed. There are some ac-
counts from Spain of the most favourable kind,
as to the political state of the kingdom. The
Cortes were sitting from day to day, temperately
and cordially discussing the questions of perma-
nent legislation submitted to them in the King's
speech. The fever is unfortunately but little
abated, in spite of every precaution. It appears,
by a Paris paragraph, that the Duke de Cazes is
about to return to his functions of Ambassador
in London.

rMORNING CHRONICLE.]
The Ministerial Prints have now abandoned
all idea of making out even the shadow of a case
against Sir Robert Wilson, and finding the most
infatuated of their readers growing impatient of
their " doubtful phrases, as, well we know ; or,
we could, if we would ; or, if we list to speak;
or, there be; and if there might ;" they now
complacently repose on the grand proposition of
despotism that might makes right. One of them,
The Courier, in all the daring of profound igno-
rance, made an appeal to Blackstone, on the sub-
ject of Prerogative; had he read he would have
forborne the allusion. " The King," says Finch,
" bath a prerogative in all things, that are not
injurious to the subject ; for in them all it must
be remembered, that the King's prerogative
stretches not to the doing of any wrong."—
Wherever, therefore, we can trace any wrong,
we may be assured that the cause is not the
just exercise of prerogative. Our two great
rights are the enjoyment of personal liberty
and private property. Sir Robert Wilson
purchased his commissions at the expence of
his private fortune, and has been deprived
of ahem without accusation or inquiry—but by
that which cannot extend to the doing of a
wrong ! it is true that every officer is well
aware of the very precarious tenure on which he
holds his commission, and of the comprehensive
latitude, which can he given to certain rules of
ntilitary conduct ; but he might still-be ignorant
that the genuine mark of servitude was to be
affixed to him, which Coke defines to be, having
the law, which is our rule of conduct; concealed
or precarious—that without trial, by an act of
the Prerogative, he could be punished for having
trap pressed against rules, the observance of
which is no where laid down in his own guide,
the Articles of War. Had the promulgation of
tine crime, and the infliction of, the punishment is-
sued together, the cause would indeed have been
one of sufficient oppression ; but the sufferer is, in
this instance, denied the poor consolation of know-
ing that he does not fall the victim of vindictive feel-
ings,but is punished as a warning to others. He may
exclaim, in the language of Strafford, " If I sail
on the Thames, and split my vessel on an anchor ;
in case there be no buoy to give warning, the
party shall pay me damages. But if the anchor
be marked out, then is the striking on it at my
own peril. Where is the mark set upon this
crime ? Where the token by which I should
discover it ? It has lain concealed under water :
and no human prudence, no human innocence
could save me from the destruction with which I
am at present threatened."

[BRITISH PaESS.]
The accounts from Ire Wad continue to offer
distressing proofs of the mischievous spirit of in-

subordination wlikh has heen•so.long suffered to
disgrace the county of LimeriCk. The lives and
properties of the peaceable portion of the com-
munity are still exposed to the wanton vio-
lence of an active gang of ruffians who infect
the county, yet no efforts commensurate with the
serious nature of the evil have to the latest ac-
counts been made by the Government of Ire-
land to restore the public tranquility. We
read of another murder having been commit-
ted, and the houses of country gentlemen are
still repeatedly attacked by considerable gangs
of armed men for the purpose of obtaining pos-
session of fire-arms. When the evil shall have
advanced some steps farther, and have assumed
an appearance somewhat more alarming, the
Government will then perhaps, according to
its custom, condescend to interfere, and a Spe-
cial Commission will be put into action for
the purpose of inflicting exemplary punishments
on account of offences which might have been
either 'wholly prevented by ordinary care, or
have been at least so far checked in their origin
as to have preserved society from many of their
eflects.

NEW TIMES.]
The outrages in the county of Limerick, we
regret to state, are still carried on, and every
post brings us the detail of new atrocities. To
the murder of Mr. Going have been added no
less than four others, namely, those of Mr.
Walsh, Mr. Sparling, and a person named Ivis,
and one Fitzgerald, besides a Mr. Barrett, who
was attacked and so cruelly beaten that his
fife is despaired of.' The police, however, have
been extremely active, and a party of them,
under the command of Major Stewart, having
taken four men, with arms and ammunition in
their possession, great hopes are entertained
that a clue has been afforded towards the detec-
tion of the whole conspiracy. The object of the
delinquents is not very easily to be comprehend-
ed. It would seem to be nothing more than the
gratification of a bloody spirit of revenge against
those persons who have most contributed to se-
cure the country, against nocturnal' depredation.
The feeling appears to be entirely local, though
within certain limits it would appear to be shared
by a considerable number of the peasantry;
for it is stated, that upon the murder of Mr
Going, fires were lighted on several of the neigh-
bouring hills, as beacons, to announce to the
more distant conspirators the successful execution
of the plot. --ssiste.--
(Tni TIMES.]
We anticipated some days ago the report now
published of the average prices of corn for the
week ending October 13; that of wheat show-
ing, as M a then stated, a decline of 9s. 3d. per
quarter in the previous fortnight, having sunk
from 70s. 7d. to 61s. 4d. The Mark-lane re-
turns down to yesterday discover a still further
tendency. to -fall ; as do the markets of Liver-
pool, -Bristol, anti Dublin. The speculations on
such a rise in price.aS would lead to an opening
of the ports .in. November may therefore pro-
bably be considered as at an end. In the mean
time, the." agriCulturists" murmur on, if we may
judge from- their gazette the '‘ Farmers Journal;"
and as every reasonable fear has subsided of
immediate mischief to 'their interests from the
openitik Of the,. ports, they seem disposed to
hunt backwards, and find cause for complaint'
in the by-gone 'bad. 'Consequences of importa-
tion'. *, As a specimen, of the moderation and
accuracy with which . this subject is treated
by the parties who- conceive themselves more
peculiarly interested'. in its discussion, we
are gravely inforined, that although •the corn-
law passed in .1815, it, -. was then a nullity
as to any protection. it could afford the farmer,
because the " 'Mischief was done before." If
this has any meaning, it must be that the present
mischief which the farmer cries out against took
' place in 1814, and has continued ever since—
that is, that the importation of 1814 was so large
as'still (namely, seven years afterwards) to over-
stock the country, and depress the price of farm-
ing produce ! This is very wonderful : it is the
more wonderful, because, if we remember rightly,
another importation occurred as recently as 1819
,—an imporfation which, could not have taken
place, had not the English farmer previously
obtained for his corn an average price of
80s. per quarter. The latter importation, in-
deed, is called C 4 most fatal"—more fatal than
that of 1814 and the preceding years, which
is in the same paragraph exclaimed against as
" the evil" of all evils which had blighted be-
forehand every wholesome fruit to be derived
from legislative interference,
.and to this hour
afflicting the whole race of " agriculturists " with
the sense or the dread of actual want. When
people suffer themselves 'to talk thus extrava-
gantly, they prove only one thing, viz. that half
at least of their complaint has no foundationsin
justice. It.appears to us that whatever cause the
...consumer may have to find fault, the farmer at this
' moment has no reason at all to accuse the Corn Law
of any share oragency in his distresses. Whatever
vices may be imputed to its principle or defects
to its construction, it does not now, and has not ,
for a very considerable period interfered in the
slightest degree with the English farmer's mono-
poly of the home market. If his prices have
been too low, it is' that his rent has been too
high : let him seek redress, therefore, not from
the Legislature, which can do nothing to help
the present embarrassment, unless by enacting a
minimum price for corn, but from his landlord,
as we have said before, who must be con-
tent with a smaller proportion of the profits
arising froth his land. If the landlord, then,
takes the place of his tepant, in complain-
ing of bad times, of diminished means, and
of (comparatively) increasing burdens, why
we can only say that-Ist, as a consumer of ma-
nufactures and luxuries, he gains considerably by
a general fall of prices ; and 2d, that in so far as
the " burdens" are concerned, since he, by his
servile or unthinking votes in Parliament has
mainly produced or 'aggravated these burdens for
other people, it will become him better to retrace
his own steps than to murmur at their natural
consequences.
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The City of Bristol is about to be improved
by the erection of a handsome bridge over a
branch of the Fromm.