The Sun.
London, England, 1821-12-25 00:00:00

PROTECTING DUTIES.

" CUSTOM-HOUSE, LONDON, DEc. 11.
" Whereas, the prohibition which heretofore existed upon
the importation of Irish Poplins and Tabinets into Great Bri-
tain bath been removed and entirely done away by the Statute
39 and 40 George Il 1., chap. 67. ; and whereas, the lame may
now legally be imported upon payment of the proper duties of
Customs, whether the same be imported for sale or for pri.
vate use.

" And whereas,.repeated attempts have been made by pas-
sengers and others arriving in vessels from Ireland to import
such articles without payment of the duties due ;hereon :
" Now the Commissioners of his Majesty's Customs hereby
give notice, that all such articles are required, Upon the impor-
tation thereof, to be sent to the Custom House for the purpose
of being charged with the said duties, and. that if any such
Poplins or Pabinets shall hereafter be imported without the
payment of said duties, the same will be liable to seizure, and
the parties concerned in the unshipping thereof, to a prosecution
for treble the value of such articles, and that the said Com-
missioners of his Majesty's Customs will duly enforce the same.
" By order of the Commissioners,
" G. DELAV7D, Secretary."

Sur CID E.—Yesterday morning, Mr. Thomas Barrett, cow.
keeper, of 31orthner-market, Fitzroy-square, put an end to
his existence in his own houie. The. deeased had been no-
ticed for some time past to be in a low desponding condition,
and was frequently heard to complain of his,einbairassments.
He had formerly been a fishmonger. The deceased left home
at about nine o'clock in the morning, and on his return pro-
ceeded to the kitchen, where he fastened himself up by a rope,
one end of which was tied to a hook, and the other round his
neck ; in this situation his wife found him. She immediately
cut him down, and sent for a surgeon, but he was quite dead.
FATAL At: CIDEN T.—On Thursday last It. Bath, one of the
chaise drivers in the employ of a respectable innkeeper, in York,
went with a family to Boroughbridge. •As he was return-
ing in the evening (whicii was very boisterous), with the
empty chaise, he had, it is believed, either from the severe cold,
or from having fallen asleep, dropped the reins, and in stooping
for them had been kicked by one of the horses over the head,
-
on which was a deep wound, which, no doubt, caused his
death instantly ;.• as he was found near to the seventh mile-
stone from this city, his body lying on the foot-board and
his head hanging over the splinter-bar, a lifeless corpse.—
One of the horse's legs was entangled in the reins, which had
stopped the chaise. The deceased was an honest and indus-
trious man, and has left a wife and four children to lament his
loss. A Coroner's Inquest was held on the body, which re-
turned a verdict of Accidental Death.

A blackbird's nest, containing two-young ones
fully fledged, has been discovered within these
few days in the garden of Count BottuwLAsKr,
adjoining the city of Durham; where the parent
bird may be daily heard singing as though it
were the month of May.
On Saturday was distributed at Eton, tickets
to nine hundred persons, including all the work-
ing classes, entitling each to a pound of beef,
the fourth of a' quartern loaf, and a pint of beer,
for Christmas dinner, furnished from a reserved
part of the Coronat.on subScription.
COUNTERFEIT SOVEREIGNS.-Yesterday Anne
Jackson was fully committed for trial, from Hat-
ton-garden °floe, charged with the passing •of
counterfeit sovereigns; where Mr. PowELL, the
Solicitor to the Mint, attended for the prose-
cution.

LONDO_N

DAILY EXTR.ICTS FROM VIE MORNING 'PAPER!,
December '25.

• [MORNING POST.]
We" '.received Gibraltar Papers yesterday to
the 4th instant. They contain the message sent
by the Spanish Monarch to the Cortes, and the
Report mace by a Committee of the latter on the
con insubordination displayed by the people of
Seville and of Cadiz. Both these documents
haVe already appeared in our columns : but there
are many .additional particulars from other places
in Spain, which prove' that the spirit of resistance
to the G overnment and the Cortes is not:con-
fined to the two rebellious cities, or even to the
tingaom of Andalusia. In this state--of things,
the mild course recommended by the Cortes
tray appear a very inadequate- remedy to the
existing evils ;. but it is upon the whole the most
politic. It abstains from exasperatinr, the dis-
contented, and affords them, if they have any
love for their country, an honourable opportu-
ti:v of returning to their duty ; and what is still
/77:7,-.-e important, it does notexpose the real weak-
tees of the Government. There is no doubt
had .the Cortes felt iltat it was possible 'to
rely on the fidelity of the whole, or even of part
of the army, they would have recommended a
more spirited course. But conscious that it
would not be in the power of the King, or in
their own, •to enforce any measure of severity
against the inhabitants of one of the richest and
mist populous provinces of Spain, they have
wisely abstained from venting menaces to- which
they could give no effect. As long as their weak-
ness remains untried, they may retain the repu-
tation of strength, and obtain credit for the mode-
ration of their conduct' with those who have suf-
fered 'themselves to be misled rather through
icinorance ,than through any political feeling or
sinister views. The following are extracts :
From the GIBRALTAR CHRONICLE.] •
The Authorities, Militia and Inhabitants ofilledina Sidonia,
have adopted, in their fullest extent, the principles of Cadiz,
and bound themselves to resist any authority, the object of which
should not be the preservation of their freedom.
Complaints of the Ministers have been signed at Corunna,
by the Authorities of the place, at th; call of the inhabitants
who had met and drawn them up.
The Patriotic Society of Montoro has been dissolved by the
Civil Governor of the Province of Cordova, and accordingly the •
liberal part of the population has petitioned his Majesty against
that Magistrate and the Town Council.
The meeting of the Society of Saragossa, which argued
against the present system of pensions, &c. was interrupted by
one of the hearers, who thrice cried out—" Down with liberty,
'what we want is a King and Religion." This individual was
taker, up, that he-might be dealt with as directed by law. A
band of 40 Anti-Constitutionalists, who had assembled in
rums at Borrado, and in Catalonia, has been dispersed by a
detachment of regtilars and militia.
[From the same Paper of November 30.]
Cases of the Epidemic Fever in Barcelona and Barcelonetta,
on the 13th Inst. 367—Deaths bf ditto on the same day, 18—On
the 14th, 12—and on the 15th, 7—Cases of ditto on the 15th,
Wl—Burials on the three days, 58,47,36—Number of Patients
io the Lazaretto ()Malaga on the 24th inst. 25—Deaths in ditto
the day before, I—Deaths in town on ditto, of suspicious fever,
I—ln the harbour on ditto, and of ditto, 1.

[NEW TIMES.]
The accounts from Spain are almost, litera
copies of the occurrences which took place in
France in 1792. The Cortes who have climbed
to power by dissolving all the bonds of social
order are much surprised that their power is not
field together by those bonds. In Lerida an
addteSs has been carried for the death of the
Ministers and the banishment' of the King. In
one of the chief towns of Navarre a placard has
been posted beginning " Death to the King who
opposes the freedom of his subjects." Mina, it
is said, is fortifying the passes of Gallicia, which
province he proposes to form into a Republic. The
King's orders are openly set at naught by the inha-
bitants of Seville and those of Cadiz. A Commit-
tee of the Cortes has passed a gentle censure on
these, acts of open. rebellion ; but punishment it
is not in their power. to inflict. Meanwhile the
wretched Ferdinand:- declares that he will die
sword In Inind ! It has already come to the
point which we predicted, that the King's life is
openly menaced, and with it the subversion of
the Monarchy. Were we wrong• in anticipating
these consequences from a monstrous Constitu-
tion, established bymeans as monstrous ? Were
we wrong iu saying that the weak and vacil-
latinp-, conchict of Ferdinand must be fatal to
himself and his country ? It is too late for
him now to. talk of dying sword in hand ;
he should have long ago contemplated the pos-
sibility of being driven to such an extremity,
and should have preVented it by a firm, manly,
but liberal and patriotic conduct. When
he annulled the Constitution of 1812, which
it was his. duty .to have done the moment he ob-
lained his freedom, he should have convoked the
Cortes on their ancient, legal foundation ; he
should have chosen enlightened and loyal Mi-
nisters, and have maintained them against popu-
lar clamour, so • long as their labours tended
to the security of the Throne, and• the im-
provement of the State. Instead of this, no-
thing was ivitnessedi but the most capricious
changes of Ministers : and the King, without
any plan or object of his own, would not seek,
in the wisdom of. a well-chosen Representative
body, the means of sound and. rational Govern-
ment. Be the fate of Ferdinand what it may, it
will excite little regret for himself personally ; but
the evil consequences of breaking up a mighty
monarchy cannot be calculated. W e have seen
them in France : and it seems we are fated
again to behold them in Spain. There are per-
. •sons who argue that France has obtained
.from her Revolution more good than suf-
fices to couterbalance the evils she has suffered.
Such persons may and ought to.look complacently
on the present state of Spain, who is in progress
toward a similar change. For our part, we dis-
tinctly avow our opinion, that France is in a much
worse situation now than she was before her Re.-
volution-7--worse in power, worse in wealth, worse
in,manners, worse in morals, worse in Religion.-7
Could she, by a miracle, be replaced in the situa-
tion in which she was immediately before the
convocation of the Three Estates in 1789; but
with the wisdom acquired by the sufferings which
she has since experienced, it, would, indeed, be
tp her a mighty gain. We. love, indeed, to
- believe,, that the Revolution has profited, her
best- Statesmen, by teaching them what to
avoid ; but alas ! it is clear that this expe-