The Sun.
London, England, 1821-05-21 00:00:00

[ltiEw TIMES.]

Letters of the 27th February have been re-
ceived from Sierra Leone, which afford the most
satisfactory accounts of the state of that interest-
ing colony. Our readers are aware that there
are some individuals in England whose animosity
to the establishment of Sierra Leone leads them
to represent it as continually exposed to the

most tremendous evils—sickness, hurricane, at-
tacks of the natives, &c. &c. The old, dread-
ful stories were not- long since revived, par-
ticularly in regard to the alleged devasta-
tions occasioned by fever '.qmong the Earbpean
kopulatiou. • We havet.the. 'satisfaction to \state,
that the t3tal loss aiming tire 'Europeans tending
at Sierra Leone.,'• iti,the course of the late rainy
season, up to the above-mentioned date, amounted
to no more than six persons. On the other hand,
we have before us The Freetown Gazette,-of the
24th of February, containing the particulars of a
grand dinner given a short time previously by
the Turf Club of Sierra Leone, to upwards'of 70
persons : the annual races had afforded much
sport, and were numerously attended. We
have also before us two play-bills of the
Amateur Theatre, one announcing the Tra-
gedy of Douglas for the 9th of February, the
other, the Comedy of Love-a-la-Mode for the
13th. The fair, of Freetown had .been celebrat-
ed in the beginning of the month. It was open-
ed with the usual solemnities by the Mayor and
Aldermen on horseback, the band of the 2nd
West India Regiment attending them in proces-
sion through the principal streets. This is a to-
lerable disproof of the alleged mortality ; for we
have never yet heard of dead men attending
fairs and races, or performing a very conspicuous
part at public dinners, or private theatricals.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The agriculturists are beginning to look anx-
iously for the Report of the Agricultural Com-
mittee, hoping that some device will be therein
suggested for alleviating the distress which un-
doubtedly prevails very generally among them.
The Committee has now been sitting for a consi-
derable length of time, and have pursued the in.
quiry submitted to them with great industry and
exemplary perseverance; but the des:ires of the
agricultural body are not in their nature capable
of being gratified to the extent that is contem-
plated; the exertions of the Commitfee must) there-
fore, inevitably fail in attaining the object proposed
by their deliberations. In the mean thne there
are, as we understand, constant applications made
to the Ministers, urging them importunately
to do something to save the agriculture of the
country ; and threats have even in some instances
been offered, that if the -Government should
hesitate in acceding to the desires of the agricul-.
turists, the Ministers shall no longer receive the
support of that body, who have hitherto been their
staunch adherents. The something now required,
by the agriculturists is that the prices of corn
shall be raised, and the only means suggested for
effecting this • purpose is to impose further diffi-
culties upon the importation of foreign corn.—
Much is said about altering the mode of stiiking
the averages, and it has been intimated in Parlia-
ment that reland shall be deprived of the benefits
she now enjoys of a free exportation of her pro-
duce to Great Britain. But no alteration in the
laws now affecting the 'importation of corn, no
changes in the mode of striking the averages, can
possibly have the power of raising the price of f

grain throughout the country. A considerable
length of time has now elapse since the ports• were
open for the free ndruission of foreign scorn, so that
whatever quantity may then have been imported
has since most probably been consumed : yet
we find that not only does the price of this first.
article of necessity remain below what the far
mers call a remunerating price, but that it has
even recently experienced a further fall. This, in
our opinion, shews very clearly that the power of.
Parliament is not sufficient to maintain corn at a
high price, when other circumstances, of a nature
purely domestic, are silently operating to coun-
teract its exertions.

THE LATE M It. PITT.—By the•death of Lord
GUILDFOUD, on the .sth of August, 1 i 92, the
Warden Ship of the Cinque Ports, worth about
30001. a year, became vacant ; and the King im- ,
mediately offered it to Mr. Pitt, in the following.
most gracious and pressing terms :
" Windsor, August 6, 1792.—Having this morning roceiveti:
the account of the death of the Earl of- Guildford, 1 take the
first opportunity of acquainting Mr. Pitt; that the WardenshiP
of the Cinque Ports is an office for which I will not receive ant
wtcommendations ; having positively resolved to confer it 00
inn., as a mark of that regard which his eminent services have
deserva from me. lam so bent on this, that I shall seriously
be offended .& anyattemptlo declire. I have intiniateti these
my intentions to
Dundas." .heEarl of Chatharn;Lord Gr:nville, and :qr.
—His Majesty, knowing that Mr. Pitt was at •
Burton Pynsent, on a vliait to his, mother, sent
the above letter to Mr. Dundas,,in London',
adding," Mr. Dundas is to forward it with a for
lines from himself, expressing that I will not ad.; -
mit of this favour being declined. I desire' that:- •
Lord Chatham may also write, and that Mr-
Dundas will take the first opportunity of ac!'
quainting Lord Grenville with the step I have
taken." This appointment, Mr. Pitt having
been nine years Prime Minister, felt himself en'
titled gratefully to accept.

His GraceAhe Duke of RUT LAWD has been pleased to .a 1;.;
point the Rev. W. EvaNs HAnTopr, of this County, one of
his Domestic Chaplains.—(Leicester Journal.) .
Mrs. Anne Marriott, of Bath, the surviving sister of the late
Rev. Sir Charles Cave, Bart. has been pleased to give a Don
tion of Two Hundred Pounds to the Leicester Infirmary.—(lbiLo'
The Rev. Mr. Slade, Rector of .Thurlaston, in this county,
has reduced his rents £lO per cent.—(lbid.)

NEW,SERIES OP SCOTTISII HISTORICAL NOYELS'
—A new Novel, entitled " A I.T.:GEND OF ARGYLE," will be
found to form a new, instructive, and entertaining Illustration,
of the Rebellion in Scotland in 1715, thus embracing one of the
most important epochs of our domestic History.....-In " The
Legend of Argyle," fiction is so ingeniously blended with failts
of historical record, that the illusion is complete, and while pc'
rusing its pages we fancy ourselves carried back to the olden
time of Scotland, with its turbulent Barons, its obsequioi;s
Vassals, and all the peculiarities of Clan Government.-,-We
strongly recommend this Novel, together with " Lochicl ;- c;ra•
the field of Culloden, also lately published, to all who wet'
obtain an intimate knowledge of the History of their CoUntry,
without wading through the arid details of the Historian ; the
latter Work being founded on the events of 1745, as the four
is On those of 1715, thus forming a series in which, the one ,a
supplementary to the other.

SUICIDE.—On Saturday morning, Mr. Fon'
REST, breeches-maker and glover, one of the
oldest and most respectable inhabithnts of St.
Martin's parish, residing in James-street, Co-
vent-garden, was found dead in his bed-room, -
having hung himself during the night. He had
been for several days in a melancholy state of
mind. No cause is assigned for the fatal aqc!
Coroner's verdict—" insanity."

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THE SUN.

SOLEM QUIS DICERS F4LSU.II AUDEAT Y

LONDON,
MONDAY, MAY 21, 1821.

,w-iirrile Paris Papers of Thursday and,Friday,
r,:ich reached us this day, contain a variety of
Leresting intelligence ; .but the most important
relating to the deplorable condition of Spain,
have been anticipated by Madrid Journals which
arrived
yesterday, the contents of which will be
1011114 in another column.—A. private letter of
the • th, from Madrid, states in addition, that
the
atrocious murder of VINUESA was the work
of
about one hundred individuals, many of whom
'Were unarmed ; and nothing can be more evi-
tietit than the guilty connivance of the Public
An t.
-Liorities anti particularly that of the Captain
e
—heral, Don RAMON VILALBA, who has been
di •
Irnlssed by the KING, and succeeded by Ge-
ne,,,,
MORILLO. It appears that, after having
dis
thePatehed VINUESA, the assassins proceeded to
At Prison in which the Chief of. the Guerillas,
plat.'uLo, was detained, with the intention of
the-it'g him to 'death, but the troops stationed
to -tlieeirVr 611eed so determined a spirit of opposition
pru',l execrable designs, that they thought it
r
icent to retire. At Cadiz, the Public Autho-
px:r have been compelled by the populace to
and imprison several persons of the first
disci s•
c,ion, among whom are the Bishop.
B:verat Canons,
Lawyers, and Judges. Simi-
14r disorders have occurred at Algesiras, and
Geng the proscribed is Don JosEF O'DONNEL,
Co ellerai Officers and brother of the famous
11,." of AntsnAL.—The French Chamber of
400 s are still sitting on the trial of the
1114,34sPlraters of August 1820, and from the
of tbh9r of witnesses to be examined on the part
olitp:e, Prosecution, these proceedings will not ter-
-1":`e speedily. The law relative to the auginen-
i)roLl7.ll of the number of Bishops and an increased
'lsi°ll for the Clergy, has almost entirely en-
ties ss the attention of the Chamber of Depu-
StiC-. We learn from Constantinople, that the
exi dine Porte does not feel very easy under the
b,„Btiog state of affairs in the Greek provinces
etigtt the rumours respecting Prince Yrsit-isrt's
of uerPrise do not augur favourably for the cause
gre reece. His troops are represented to have
111. at disinclination for their work ; the chiefs of
able are at great pains to secure their vain-
‘es in places of safety, as if they despaired of
ce6oecess of their own efforts, and the baggage
tit "le Prince himself had been sent to the fron-
,". It is also conjectured that Prince YPSl-
will conform to the orders of the Emperor
4valjsslA, and disband ,his army. Moldavia
Wallachia are said to have declared against
thm_
_and to have transmitted their submission to
agents 7 orte, at the instigation of the Russian
~enlt should be observed, that this intelli-
the t'e Is derived from the Foreign Journals under
Censorship of Governments inimical to the
ttill °.f Greek independence, and thatO we are
..vithout information direct from Greece.
authority
tit'', tshe.
Lea. that the of letters from Sicily, it is
English squadron had left the Sici-

Tian seas to station itself on the coast of Greece.
In a preceding column we have given Extracts
from the last arrivals of Paris Papers.

New Orleans Papers arrived this morning to
the 4th April; they do not coutain•anp news of
importance.
64 ST. THOMAS, MARCH 28.—His Most Chris-
tian Majesty's frigate La Gloire, bearing the flag
of Rear-Admiral Baron Dupers, arrived here on
Saturday, and on coming to anchor interchanged
salutes with Fort Christian. his Excellency
landed at the King's wharf at four o'clock, un-
der a salute from the fort. The La •Gloire sailed
on Saturday evening for St. Croix.. Accounts
from Curagoa of the 12th March confirm the
death of Commodore Auray, at Baranquilla ; the
manner of his death is differently reported,
which, for the present, Iveforbear to mention."

The importance of our Asiatic Possessions, and
the honour of the British Arms, induce us this
day to give the whole of the Supplement to the
London Gazette, containing the last dispatches
from India, the substance of which we have al-
ready presented to our readers.

NAPLES.-The intelligence, received from the
Continent last week is not.of material import.—
The Austrian troops which were returning from
Naples, through the POPE'S States are said to have
garrisoned Ancona and Bologna. There is not a
word of the advance of the Austrian troops into
the Neapolitan provinces, and the exploits which
the Provisional Government is performing only
convince us the more that the Neapolitans ire
cot subdued, but that a spirit of Liberty still
exists among them, which may finally lead to
the liberation of their country. The system of
coercion pursued by the Austrians can only tend
to exasperate the people, and goad them into
acts of desperation and revenge.—People are
much easier to be cajoled than forced into mea-
sures, and we think FERDINAND, if he wi:3hes to
return in safety to his capital, should send a pre-
cursor authorised with power, who, by his con-
ciliating disposition, could not only make the
people satisfied with his administration, but in-
duce them to submit to whatever constitution he
chose to give them. Such, too, should be the
measures of the " Holy Alliance," if they are de-
sirous of allaying that opposition to tyranny
which is abroad in the States of the Continent.—
Following, however, a different course, we find
the Austrians shooting a young man for having
arms, flogging men and women for being infected
with Carbonarism, and arresting some of the par-
liamentary deputies, who had remained at Naples ;
among others the celebrated orator POERIP.—
Several other persons have also been arrested,
among whomare BonEw, ex-President; General
COLLETTA, ex-Minister of War ; General PETRI-
NELLI, ex-Governor of Naples; and Gen.V.tatto.
—The old King, FERDINAND, has, it appears,
fallen sick at Rome ; should he die, will the
" legitimates" set his son, the late PRINCE RE-
GENT, aside, in consequence of h►s predilection
for liberal and constitutional principles I This
PRINCE has entirely retired from public businesS,
and lives at Caserta, about 25 miles from the
capital. 'fie is generally believed to have been
sincere during the whole period of the revolution,
and therefore is a great favourite with the nation.

BuoNAPAßTE.—Letters from St. Helena were
received on Friday to the 31st March, and at
that time the Ex-Emperor was certainly indis-
posed, but not to such a degree as to cause the
slightest apprehension for his life.
Her MAJESTY dined yesterday, for the first
time, at her house in town, and returned in the
evening to Brandenburgh llouse.
Yesterday the Earl of LIVERPOOL had an au-
dience of the KING.

Orders have been received at Portsmouth
Dock-yard to hasten the equipment of the Royal
George yacht, commanded by the Hon. Sir
CHARLES PAGET, which, we are confidently as-
sured, is to convey his MAJESTY to Ireland. His
MAJESTY'S interesting visit to that country will
follow the august and splendid ceremony of his
Coronation, which has been decidedly fixed to
take place on the 12th of July. The cost of his
IVIAJEST Y'S robes, we are informett, is 30,0001.—
(Hampshire Telegraph.)
On Saturday Prince LEOPOLD, attended by
Sir ROBERT GARDINER, left town for Claremont.
The Duke of YORK visited his MAJESTY yes-
terday.
The Duke of,CLARENcr and the Princess Au-
GUSTA attended divine service yesterday at the
Chapel Royal.
Yesterday the Duchess of CLARENct•attended
divine service at the Royal German Chapel.
The Duchess of GLOUCE3TER, the Princess
AUGUSTA, and the Princess SOPHIA visited the
Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE yesterday.

Yesterday.the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE
visited the Duchess of KENT, at her apartments
in the King's Palace, Kensington.
Saturday night, the Princess AuGusTA,attended
by the Countess Dowager CARDIGAN-, the Coun-
tess Dowager •HARcounT, and General CART-
WRIGHT, honoured Covent Garden Theatre with
her presence. Her. Royal Highness sat in the
KING'S private box.
The late visit of the Princess AUGUSTA to
Woolwichwas for the purpose of inspecting the
yacht which is preparing to convey her Royal
Highness to Germany &c. to visit her Royal
relatives'.

The Troya (Venus), Swedish frigate, 48 guns,
Lieut.-Col. Count CRONSTREDT, Captain, arrived
at Portsmouth on Sunday from Havre, having
landed there the luggage of the Swedish Ambas-
sador to the Court of' France, from Sweden.—
Her object in visiting that port is curiosity only ;
she will return in a few days to llavre. Permis-
sion having been given to the Officers to see the
Dock-yard, they had that gratification on Thurs-
day. The Troya has a great number of super-
numerary' officers on board, for the purpose of
practice. The First and Second Captains (the
latter holds the rank and title of Major) have
been entertained by our Naval and Military
Commander-in-Chief (SirJAmts II A wx.r,rs WHIT-.
SHED and Sir GEORGE CO OliE), since their ar-
rival.

CORN EXCHANGE, MAY 21.—A. good supply
of pll sorts of Grain, and a brisk demand for the bent Wheats,
which went off at full 2s. per quarter dearer than this day week.
Barley from Is. to 2s. dearer for the best quality, but the infe-
rior sorts remain unsaleable. In other things no material al.
teration.
Wheat 30s 02s Grey Peas
Barley 20s 27s Beans `"•is 30s
Rye
°6s 28s Oats 15s 26s
M. hite Pease .... ....... 34s 40, Flour, per sack ..... .. 46s 50s

A statue,in honour of the late President WEST
IS to be erected in St. Paul's Cathedral.