The Sun.
London, England, 1826-09-15 00:00:00

ie accuracy of the report.

SMYRNA, JULY 28.

Captain Davis' commanding the English brig the Sky-
lark, sailed again from Napoli on the 17th 'July, after hav-
ing landed his cargo of cannon and military stores. The
Greeks received with contempt this tribute of European
enthusiasm, saying to the Captain, in a reproachful tone,
" What have we to do with cannon ? It is money that we
want—it is money that you should have brought us."
They suffered these cannon and their carriages to be
landed on the beach, and a month afterwards, when the
Skylark sailed, the sand was beginning to cover them. The
inhabitants of the neighbouring houses came every morn-
ing to break up the carriages to light the ,fires in their
kitchens.

Captain Davis sailed for Smyrna : he had some pack-
ages on board, and furniture to the amount of 30,000
piastres. On the 20th July, at day-break, he was sur-
rounded, a Capodoro, by seven mistics ; resistance was
vain. The deck was soon covered by 300 pirates, who
stole all they could lay their hands upon—money, gogds,
arms, provisions, clothes, cordage, sails—every thing, in a
reach
gave
them un
provisions
Smyrna. to meet
word, was carried off. They even stripped the Officers
ort
and sailors of the shirts they wore. The unfortunate crew
were two days without food, but had afterwards the good
f
anforAmtheeir f
support corvette,
till
theyh c h
kindlycould

We have received this forenoon the Journal de St.
Petersburgli of the 29th ult., and Hamhurgh Papers
of the Bth inst. The, accounts from Moscow come
down to the 22d August. His Majesty the EMPEROR
has recovered from an indisposition which she
had suffered under. ,
eDnijtoi ye:tl perfect health, and the Empress ALEXAN-
w

Some regulations have been published at St. Peters-
burgh, under which men and women banished to
Siberia
are to be allowed to marryothers who are not

criminals in that country.

The Commission appointed to investigate the
smuggling of gold at Ekaterenen has closed its labours,

and some of its members have been rewarded for their
zeal with the Insignia of various Orders.

By the following article from Stockholm it would
appear that the harvest in Sweden proves very deficient,
and that the Potatoe crop will also be short :

STOCKHOLM, AUG. 29.
It appears now, that the Winter Corn has suffered more
in Sweden by the drought than could be foreseen on the
22d July, when hopes were still entertained from the ap-
pearance of the crops; serious apprehensions are likewise
entertained for the Potatoe crop. It may, perhaps, be
time to avert, by importation, the scarcity that threaten*
many districts, where they already begin to speak of bread
made of bark of trees.

STOCKHOLM, SEPT. 1.

The Gazette of to-day contains a Royal Proclamation
of Aug. 31, by which, on account of the deficiency in the
harvest, the duty on the importation from abroad of the
following articles for consumption is reduced, viz. ;--On
Barley, to one rix-dollar, 24 schillings ; on Oats, to one
rix-dollar, and in Pease to two rix-dollars, per ton; Corn
of this description already in warehouses, in Swedish
ports, is included.
It is said, that the Tapperhelen and Chapman, men-01
war, sold last year, may be expected back from America,
at Gothenburg.

BERLIN, SEPT. 6.
On the 3d, His Majesty left Konigsburg to review the
coops at Stutgardt.

EXCH•NGIS ON LONDON*
HA MBURGH, SErr. 8.-36. 9.—Two months, 36. 6.
PETERSIGIAGH, AUG. 25.-9. 13-32.
VIENNA, AUG. 20.—Three months, 10. 13.
bursto, SLIT. I.—Three months, 6. 19k.
BERLIN, Sm. s.—Three months, 7. 31.

At a very late hour, this afternoon we have received
he Homburgh Correspondent of Saturday,
the 9th
ust., from which we have only time to make the follow-

ing extracts :

COPENHAGEN, SEPT. 5.
The Naiad corvette, lately returned from the West
dies, has brought per account of Government, 160,000
piastres in gold, which are to be sent to London for par
ment of the interest and part of the principal of the Loan
contracted for in that city.
Great activity now prevails in the Royal Doek-Yarila"
2 ships of the line of 80 guns, a frigate of 50 guns, sn" a
brig of .16 guns, are on the stocks.

ITAMBURGII, SEPT. S.
The accounts from Courland are very melancholy. The
corn is parched up; what fruit has escaped the caterpillurei
falls off from the heat. The cattle suffer from lII°
mer (Sum,
water, and it is feared that disease will break out at
them in the Autumn. In Esthonia the
been good, but the other kinds of corn
pulse and fruitcosh)
have almost wholly failed, as well as
hay is very scanty. The accounts from the Culices " are
also unfavourable. rye harvest nos

Private letters from St. Petersburgh,
noW
that it was generally understood that the
would take place on Sunday the 3d ingt.

In the letter which we inserted in our Paper 4)1
Tuesday from a Correspondent, who signed himself
" Fox-hunter," some arguments were used in reply to
our Article of Saturday last, upon the necessity 4
throwing part of the burdens of the Country upon the
Funds ; and in a preceding column of our Paper of this
day will be found a very sensible letter from another
Nish to direct
et tolrri
Cor-
respondent upon the same subject, to which we would
v
ahttoeinvet ivoeirt, ofa Reactorpoptetrarto il
Both these i
eespP"condetillit:,
founded their arguments, so far as they
are in oppo-
,i
tion to our suggestions, upon the supposition that our
recommendation was confined to charging the Fund'
with the payment of a part of the sums raised for the
relief of the poor ; and to rest their objection to thi'
measure principally on the assumption that the achni"
nistration of the Revenue thus paid in aid of the Pow.
Rates drawn from the land, would rest with those who
would not be interested in the proper distribution of it•
Now we deny that our proposition was confined to the
charging the Funds with part of the Poor Rates. The
gist of our argument was, that as property in the Fonds
is considered as secure as any other property, it 000
not to be exempted from taxes rendered necessarY fuir
the protection and security of the whole State; Anu
we added, that we also saw no reason why it should
.be
exempted from contributing towards the relief of the
e
we eontetulel
fl
Poor. The principle, however, which
bear a Part t,
for, was that property in the Funds should In,
j,i„,t,
the national burdens; anti the mode of accomPtl3
Dot
formed but a secondary part of the consideration. n
admitting, for argument's sake, that our proPasiti°
rt of
solely pointed to the charging the Funds 'Ol°P
;to it
tile Poor Rates, we cannot admit for an Oh°
on
the
would be transferring the administration of ~~-100
so raised to those who had no interest in 'it' 1,4•
are the holders of Stock—are they not the sod
owners and house-occupiers of the Kingdwu ?
OW •
'
are not these the persons charged with the o
?
Iw
nistration of the affairs connected with the Poer
So far from adding to the evils;which we are f°lote
to admit exist in the administration of the pooriereo
Funds, we contend that it would in a powerful • it
rodent
tend to the correction of these abuses, by
a to the
a greater object with men of property to 3tle.U., es, old
concerns of the Poor in their respective plos'lcontri"
to check the expenditure towards which they
Luria-
buted from property in the Funds as well l's e .o.‘erty
Many a man of property in the Funds, es
Prni,i to
to
in land is too small to render it an object alto
were
parish affairs would do so, if his funded propertYf the
liable to a deduction, regulated y the sol°opt ,
Poor Rates of the Kingdom : anbd thus, w! e
vinced, a more intelligent and correct admonsi
of the Poor Funds would ensue 'des.
* this
We are by no means, however, mgotte“ to well
be Pat, object,
as threw it out as appearing to us to object,
: but If the its
as expedient, at the present tone ; , by lot
which we contend for can be accemplishett 0 etivo•
which are considered less objectionable,
,we 81
letter
cate them. hose rl
lent w
The proposal of our Correspont vo,
• we believe no
appears in our Paper to-day, is
.6t
entitled to much consideration.
I for slit' bet'''. it
As the Sinking Fund is mail-48111e( ot
he proposes that the al all"'
did to
of the Fund-holder, f the sums r
should be raised from the amount Q

them in dividends. Thus, for instance, supposing the
amount of the Sinking Fund to be 5,000,0001., and the
amount of Dividends paid to the public 55,000,0.001.,
a deduction should be made of 14 per Cent. to pay
the Sinking Fund. This would have precisely the
effect for which we contended, as it would im-
mediately 'relieve the other property of the country
from the payment of taxes to the amount of 5,000,0001.,
now raised from it for the Fund which benefits nobody
but the Stock-owner.

A proposition of this sort would of course meet
with strong opposition from the Fund-owners ; but it
would be established on a principle founded on reason
and justice, and as such would soon triumph over the
objections which would be raised against it.

In another part of our Paper will be found a letter
from a Veterinary Surgeon, at Bristol, on whose opi-
nion, as to the injury occasioned to horses' feet, by
Mr.,MAcADAm's. system of road-making, we made
some remarks about a fortnight ago. It appears, how-
ever, by Mr. LEIGH'S account, that we were as sadly
mistaken in our opinion respecting the merits of Mac-
adamisation, as ignorant of the delicate structure of
the horse's foot ; and are referred for instruction on
these matters to a. Course of Lectures at that forge of
learning—the Veterinary College, where, probably M.
LEIGH hammers out his oracular doctrines of" rhymes
oh the road." Now, as to the evils of a rough road,
compared to a smooth one, there can be no doubt; and
we fully believe the truth of this Gentleman's expe-
rience, so far as sharp stones are injurious to horses'
feet; but are Mr. MACADAM'S roads always com-
posed of sharp pointed triangular stones ? He might
as well object to a tree being unfit for the Mast of a
ship before its branches were lopped off, as cavil at the
ruggedness of MACADAM'S road before it is smoothed
down into use ! For our own part, we see no differ-
ence between Macadamisation, and the roads which
are in use throughout the country. Mr. MACADAM
has only introduced the country system into the towns,
as being smoother, more durable, and more capable of
repair, in infinitely less time. Will Mr. LEIGH insist
that the texture of -the great roads throughout the
country, is less injurious to horses' feet than MAC-
ADAM'S, when Once worked dOwn into consistency
and smoothness ? It is manifestly unjust to argue upon
a part of a plan, without taking a comprehensive
view of the whole, with the ultimate effect result-
ing from its adoption. Mr. LEIGH admits that the
obstruction to vehicles is lessened by the improved
systent, and that horses travel with greater velo-
city, and yet he says that " there is infinitely more
concussion produced on the elastic parts of the
feet and joints" of horses, which is a contra-
diction in "terms. If the roads in the vicinity of
Bristol are mismanaged, is it any argument against
the system generally ? A farmer might as well say,
that because his crop failed, either from mismanage-
ment or natural causes, that the crop failed through-

out the kingdom. So idle is it to suppose that all
wisdom is confined to self, and all knowledge acquired
by partial experience in a limited sphere of action.
We know as little of Mr. MACADAM personally, as
of Mr. LEIGH, and advocate Macadamisation solely
from its superior advantages. No person who is rocked
along•the streets
-of London in jolting vehicles, can
see any thing deserving commendation in the present
paving system; which is incomparably more injurious
to- horses' feet, than that of Macadamisation, to
say nothing of broken knees and the eternal break-
ing down of coaches and coal-waggons, which
often occasions loss of life or limb to the pas-
sengers in our crowded streets, every second stone of
Which rises up alternately in mutiny against its
neighbour. But these things are managed better in
Bristol, we presume, and Mr. LEIGH expresses a very
natural sympathy for horses' feet, on the humane prin-
ciple that
" A fellow-feeling makes us wondrous kind."

We are sorry to announce that very painful
.appre-
hensions are entertained for the safety of his Majesty s
acket Francis Freeling, Capt. Frederick 'White.
She left Weymouth on Wednesday evening with the
mail and passengers for these islands, and has not
shlee been heard of. This intelligence was received
by the Countess (if Liverpool, Capt. Robert White,
which arrived here yesterday, with Friday's London
mail. It appears, that Capt. Frederick White having
gone to London on business connected with the steam
Packets, it was stated, as a probable fact, that she
might have run into Cherbourg, as the wind was fa-
vourable for going into that port. But, by the Mary,
which arrived here last night from thence, we learn
that she had not been seen or heard of in those islands.
—Guernsey Star, Sept. 12.