The Sun.
London, England, 1826-04-24 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 22.—This afternoon arrived the Son-
reign transpint, Lieut. J. T.: Kelm!, Agent, having left Malta on
the 20th March, and Gibraltar the 7th inst.., with various de-
tachments of ordnance and naval stores, and mails from those
places. The Marquis of Hastings had left Gibraltar, in the He-
rald, 12 days, for Malta. The Brisk, Capt. Charles Hope, (the
only ship of war at Malta), arrived on the 20th March from Eng-
land. The Eden, with Commissioner Ross, from Jamaica, left
Gibraltar on the 6th instant, for Malta. The Vibelia and Cato
transports left Gibraltar, for Edgland, with the Sovereign; and
the Maria transport arrived on the same day from Portsmouth and
Lisbon. The following passengers came by,the Sovereign:—
Mrs. Handcock and family, Mr. A. B. Whitmore, Mr. P. Whit-
more, Major Peddie, 95th Regiment; Major Butler, late 80th;
Capt. Fraser, Royal Artillery ; Capt. Kirwan, 91th ; Captain
Gascoigne, 94th ; Lieut. Jeffries, 80th ; Lieut. Gordon, 95th ;
Lieut. Ravenscroft, 64th ; Dr. Jones, R.A. The Sovereign has
brought three asses of unrivalled beauty, strength, and symmetry,
as a present from the Civil Government of Malta to his Majesty.
The Philomel, 10, Lord Win. Paget, went out of harbour this
morning, fitted for the Channel service. At Spithead—Dryad,
Jasper, and Philomel. In the harbour—Victory, Ganges, Mel-
ville, Spartiate, Ariadne, Espiegle, Heron, Contest, Arrow, Asp,
Dwarf, and Cracker.

SIERRA LEONE, FEB. 8, 1826.—The Maidstone (Commodore
Bullen) sailed on the 30th, on a cruise to leeward; the Esk in
company. The Leven, tender, Captain Owen, Balled on the 4th
inst. for the survey of the shoals of St. Anne. His Excellency
General Turner sailed on the 7th, in the Colonial brig Susan,
for the Sherbro, accompanied by the Commissary Judge, and
another Member of the Council. The Redwing is gone to leeward
on a cruise; the Brazen is daily expected, having sixty men
and officers absent from her in prizes. The conflict and steam-
boat are hourly expected. On the Bth arrived his Majesty's
ship Swinger, from Ascension, having been there to recruit her
ship's company. The Dispatch is expected to return to England
in April, with the engineer officers who came out to inspect the
forts on the coast. Nothing more is known of the enterprising
travellers landed at Badagry, in November. A Brazilian prize of
the Athol's is just arrived, which vessel had been given up, owing
to the length of her passage—every body well on board, but the
slaves have suffered much for want of provisions.
DEVONPORT, APRIL 21.—Arrived the Badger, 10, Captain
Charles Crowdy, from the River, with seamen.-L-Sailed the
Beagle, 10, Captain P. Stokes, for Cork; Bittern, for Liverpool;
Camelion, on a cruise.

Ships in Hamoaze—Britannia and Windsor Castle guard ship.
Java, Blonde, Forte, and Success fitting ; and Vigilant cutter
refitting.

APRIL 22.—Arrived the Nightingale, Cotton, from Bristol,
with volunteer seamen for his Majesty's ship Forte.
Sailed last night his Majesty's sloop Badger, for Cork.
The signal is now flying for the Britannia and Windsor Castle,
each to send 20 men, to assist in getting the Blonde ready.
The weather at this port has been unusually fine, but rather
cold for the climate and season : the winds prevailing so much
from the N. and E. have been the cause.

SHEERNESS, APRIL 22.—His Majesty's ship Gloucester, of 74
guns, in commission at this port, has been ordered to lie fitted
with all possible expedition, for the reception of the Duke of De-
vonshire and his retinue of about 60 persons, whom she is to con-
vey to the Baltic. The Lightning, and one other steam-vessel, will
accompany the Gloucester to Cronstadt, for the purpose of con-
veying the mission from thence to St. Petersburgh.
Capt. Joshua Sydney Horton, of the Gloucester, was ordered
to attend the Lords of the Admiralty, for the purpose of receiving
verbal instructions upon some points of preparation, and it is ex-
pected that the Gloucester will be ready in a fortnight.
His Majesty's ship Blonde, Lord Byron, which was fitting
for his Grace's reception, would not have afforded buflicient ac-
commodation for the numerous suite.

Lieut. George Dyer, R.N., who recently so lamentably lost
his life in the Coast Blockade Service, was the son of the late
General Dyer, of this division of Royal Marines, and grandson of
Admiral Jones.

Mr. John Goldsmith, Purser, R.N., has been appointed to the
Prince Regent yacht.

NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICAN

SUBSCRIPTION ROOM, APRIL 24.

[Copy of a Letter, dated Batavia, 18th December.]
" The affairs of this Government wear a gloomy aspect ; their'
finances are in distressed state, owing to large debts, amount of
Paper money in circulation being great, and little silver to be had,
as you will suppose, when silver guilders range in the several
divisions of the island at from 35 to 20 0-0 ; they are bought
by this government at 20 to 22 0-0 to pay their 'troops. The
policy punned (hiring the last five years by Government have
brought this colony to the verge of ruin (I should rather say im-
policy); the natives have discovered the weakness of the
Dutch, and are taking advantage of it in many of their
possessions. In Java the natives of the interior of Samarang
have taken the field since. July, and this Goiernment ac-
knowledge that they have not power or policy to put down
this serious rebellion, as many eoldiers have been sacri-
ficed, and with no other effect than teaching the insurgents
hoiv to fight, to retract and value the Dutch power ; their leaders
are 'getting bolder every day. The Dutch forces are now com-
pelled to remain inactivein their several fortresses. I shall not
be in the least surprised to learn that the rebels have carried them
all by storm when the rains are passed. The object the leaders of
the insurrection have in view is to establish the native power,
say the Saltanus dominions, independent of European contrOul :
they have no disposition to make conquest of the Sea Board, West
of Cheribon. All is quiet, and no fears are entertained that it
will not continue so.

[FROM LLOYD'S.]
The following information was this morning received at
Lloyd's:—
TOTAL DISTRUCTION OF THE HON. COMPANY'S SHIP ROYAL.
Gaol= BY Pm: AT CHINA.--" The Royal George, Captain
Timmins, was totally destroyed by fire on 24th December at
China, no property saved, but fortunately no lives were lost. The
fire was discovered about half-past four A.M. by the Officer of
the watch, and which originated in the gun-room, and spread so
rapidly, that by a quarter past five every person MS obliged to
quit the ship, previous to which they had slipped her cables, and
she drifted down with the tide clear of several ships, and grounded
at the bottom of Whampoa Beach, where she blew up about
8 A.M., and by noon was burnt to the water's edge. The hull
and some damaged raw silk were sold two days previous to the
sailing of the Farquharson, the former sold for 10,400 dollars.
The Chief Officer of the Royal George has come in the Far-
(pharaoh." _ _

The Farquharson, arrived off Portsmouth, when nff the Cape,
spoke the harmony, two days out• from the Cape, bound eastward,
who informed them that the Honourable Company's ship Atlas,
fine, from, China, was laying there the 20th February, and that
Lord Charles Somerset lutd taken his passage in her.

DrAL, APRIL 22.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Ceres, —,
from Bombay ; Cambridge, Barber, from Bengal ; and John iuul
John and Elizabeth, from St. Michael's. Arrived from the River
and sailed the Zeno, Lawstin, for Jamaica ; Eliza, Barney, for
St. Domingo ; Prospect, .—, and Shakspear, Goldie, for Qne-
bee; Plata, White, for Trinidad; William Manning, Smith, for
St. Kitts ; Mary, Bennett, for Berbice, and Robert Edwards,
Sherburn, for New York.

PORTSMOUTII, APRIL 23.—Wind N.—Arrived the Sovereign
and Cato transports from Malta and Gibraltar ; sailed from the
former 20th March, and from the latter 7th April ; Joseph
Green transport, from Dominica in 37 days; Eagle, Tompkin,
from Galipoli ; Mary, Bridges, from London for Jamaica; sailed
the Arab transport for Barbadoes, and Ditchburn, Blackett, for
St. John's ; off the Wight the Minerva, for Bengal.
FALMOUTH, Aram 22.—Wind N.N.W.,--Arrived the Hope-
well, Cuthbertson, from Vera Cruz, in 46 days, short of provi-
sions, and the Amos, from New York and Brackson; Cumming,
from Zante.

Arrived off the Wight the Farquharson, —, from china ;
and the Minerva, Probyn, from Bengal.
• The jernima, Norton, from St. John's, N. 8., to London, was
totally hxt 25tli February, near Seal, sland ;—the master and six
of the crew drowned.
The Mary and Susan, bound to Hamburgh, was driven on
shore near Charleston on the 23d ult.
_

--, from New Orleans to Havre, was lost 26th
February on Florida Reef,
The Susan, Sullivan, from St. Andrew's, N. 8., was aban-
doned at sea early last month; only four days out.

Last night Viscount Fordwich left town with dis-
patches from the Foreign-office, for his uncle the Hon.
Frederick Lamb, the British Ambassador at Madrid.
The Earl of Liverpool and the Earl of Harrowby
transacted business yesterday afternoon with Mr. Se-
cretary Canning.

LONDON,
MONDAY .EVENING, APRIL, 24, 1826.

The French Papers 'of Friday and Saturday, which
reached us last night, contain matter of some interest'

The Ministers on Tuesday 'were defeated in the
Chamber of Deputies on a motion made by M. Cis'
SIMIR PERRIER, respecting the Royal Winona!) th
the Bth of February, for carrying into effect the 'stir'
lotions of the Convention of the 26th January, OW.
Wishing Reciprocity between the Port Dues of Eng"
land and France. Previously to that Convention
French ships entering the Ports of this Country, vvere
liable to a duty of three times the amount which they
will now have to pay : brit were not 'liable to any ton-
,
nage duty on re-entering the Ports of France, tinder
the conditions of the- Treaty, French ships on their
return in-such cases to French Ports, arc to pay an
a
equal duty to that levied upon them the Ports of
England, or as our ships pay in 'France.
The French
Ministry seem to have forgotten that
the Royal prerogative of makinaTreaties'wit
h Foreign
carrying
Powers, was restricted by the Charter fromthe conditions of those Treaties into effect, without the
sanction of the Legislature, if they involved the 013°-
sition of any new Tax : and they thus laid themselves
open to the attack of the Opposition, who approved
the principle of the Regulation of the Ordinance, but
contended that it was an usurpation by the Crown °(

•
the power of the three branchea Of the Legislate
After making an ingenious speech, Mr. CAssIMIll
PERRIER proposed as an amendment on the Law °f
the Douanes, a clause, sanctioning the conditions °t
the Treaty. This gave rise to an animated debate,
hich terminated by a vote of 183 for the amendinot,
and 145 against it, leaving M. de* VILLEL}
minority of 38.
The
Paperso
f. contain
Deputies, ai'°
on an
ate motionr es tfo iu
r the Debateprol
the Cha
tion of Documents relative to the Evences 0f tbu
War in Spain, but both propositions moved by NI.
de CAMBON on this subject were rejected.
g itic'

German Papers arrived this morning but their COO
tents are unimportant. We subjoin a few extracts'
1716.
_ ant•ricFoßT, •41,0.
The latest Italian Journals of April 8, make no mention of tug'

unfortunate events at Alissolonghi.

LEtesta,,itruli- 13
The payment of the last month of March has not produced 1:).
new catastrophe. Some compositions of foreign debtors WI 'n-
deed affected some of our merchants, but these are ordinarycurrenees. We have had no new bankruptcies, though
the Prj°cipal persons on our Exchange have not shown so much patrioti°
as those of Frankfort and Hamburgb, in supporting their
Christians. The number of Georgians anti Persians, rtheincreases, and their ducats are already in brisk circulati"
English Cotton, manufactures, and German Woolens,
&c: More are expected from these parts of Persia $s sill
as Russians and Poles, so that the prospect is pretty 1
English goods are not in great abundance, and gold is 14°4 ,
value, because a great deal is remitted to England, while
lithe
drawn from that country. The liberality ,of the, Prussian
°f
vernment in assisting the landholders with.loane upon dernis ,0
wool, has already facilitated the sales of the wool warebetoed 1.0
London; and, as this will check the sale of the Spring 'O3lOl.
Prussia, and our Government will hardly adopt the sarne
sure, it may be expected that the English, Netherlanders, "'be
French, will purchase to advantageut our first wool 04 t°
e
held in May, this year, when the prices willprobablyherßCll Wsir:
STOCKHOLUt
car'
Our commerce with the East Indies, which is now
ore
tied on for the account of private persons, seems to be 111.
f°f
flourishing than when it was carried on exclusively
the East „India Company. Within, these- few _days
Syren, Captain Mohen, has arrived in our roads vulture,
rich cargo from Batavia. and Sincapore. The Calcutta also

turned lately from the same voyage, and the Preciass, which has
sailed from these seas, will be back this year. —( Frankfort
Papers, April 17.)

.(The Milan Gazette, of 9th April, and the Piedmontese Ga-
zette of the 13th, have no intelligence from Greece. The Allege-
meine Zeitung has only the article from Constantinople of the
29th March, received by express by way of Bucharest, quoted in
the Etoile of Saturday.)

The Gazette of Amsterdam, after mentioning the
arrival of the Greek fleet at Missolonghi, says it has
brought provisions with two thousand disciplined men,
under the orders of Colonel FABRIER.

• -The Minerva has just arrived, bringing the Official
'dispatches from Calcutta, confirmatory of all the pre-
vious accounts of the defeat of the Burmese: She left
Calcutta on the Gth January.

On Wednesday evening, a good deal of discussion

took place in the House of Commons on Mr. LITTLE-.

TON'S motion, respecting Private Bill Committees.
We highly approve the object and motives of the Hon.
Gentleman, but without giving any opinion as to whe-
ther the proposed alterations would be improvements
or not, we much fear there is a radical error in the

supposition, that men, ordinarily speaking, will devote-
any considerable portion of their time and talents to
the private concerns of others, without receiving com-
pensation in some shape. We may here remark that
there is no real exception in the case of Members
of Parliament. They are expected and supposed to
discharge their public duties without salary, but in
that respect the acknowledged dignity oeihe station is
'sufficient recompence. This distinction, however,
once gained, there is seldom much additional glory to
be acquired by attending Committees on Private Bills
up stairs, and drudging from day to day in the details
of roads and railways, canals and collieries—and we can
not but suspect that these Committees never will be
what they should be, until some means are devised for
procuring disinterested attendance.
It was admitted on all hands during the debate, that

great abuses take place in these Committees, and in-
deed the whole history of this department of our Le-
gislation, points out the want of some effective con-
troul in the case of measures brought into Parliament,
With a view to the interests of private individuals.
Does any one suppose that such a vast number of use-
less, and worse than useless Bills, could have been
hurried through Parliament, had a specific and
limited number of individuals been, held responsible,

that strong remonstrance at least should be made in
all cases, where the object appeared frivolous or
wicked ? And what is gained by spreading. this re-
sponsibility over all the Members of the House, ex-
cept the salary of a few Commissioners, who might,
perhaps, be paid by fees from parties interested in the
measures ? It is not for us to say what number of
these Commissioners might be necessary, or what
amount of salary wouldinduee efficient persons to devote
their mornings to this occupation during the sitting of
Parliament ;—but we cannot help thinking that it would
be very satisfactory to the House to have an assurance
from able disinterested men in the case of every Private
• Bill, that they had examined strictly into its merits,
and that it was not what is vulgarly termed—a job.
As •our ideas are not very likely to be adopted, we
shall not dwell longer on this subject at present, but
We should feel great satisfaction, if our humble sug-
gestions were to lead more competent persons to follow
up our view of the question, which is simply, that inte-
rested persons are bad judges in any case, .that disin-
terested persons will not attend to the private business
of others without remuneration—and that consequently,
these Private Bills will continue liable to the existing
abuses until salaries are paid,to competent and disin-
terested persons, who shall be held responsible that no
objectionable provisions shall creep into any such bills.

It is expected that the Duke of Wellington will
arrive in town on Thursday next. The Hon. Mr.
Eligh, who arrived on Friday, left his Lordship well
at Riga.