The Sun.
London, England, 1821-11-17 00:00:00

MYSTERIOUS OCCURRENCE.

[From the French Papers.]
An occurrence which took place yesterday
(Sunday last) in the Bois de Boulogne, and which
is at this moment the object of
,the most active
researches, has already given rise to numerous
and diversified reports. The following is the
most certain information which we have been able
to collect respecting it :
" The Sieur Menette, horse-patrol of the
Crown Forests, was making his accustomed tour
during the
,afternoon of Sunday, when he per-
ceived a man concealed in the bushes, and ad-
vanced towards him. The stranger called to him
to stop; but Menette continued to advance, anti
the individual fired a pistol at him. Menette's
horse made a plunge and threw him. When he
got up he saw the man making off, and, was unable
to pursueshim. lie found on the spot a double-
barreled gun, and a little further a hat, which the
stranger had, doubtless, lost on taking to flight.
" The gun and hat have been deposited with
the Magistrates. On drawing the charge of. the
former it was found to contain about 20 buck-
shot. A name is inscribed inside the hat ; we
think it our duty to forbear mentioning it, from
motives which may easily be appreciated."
The Constitutionel adds to the above :—" Various rumours
are to-day in circulation respecting this affair. %re wait to
communicate to our readers more exact and authentic informa-
tion. Justice has taken cognizance of it."

SIR CHRISTOPIIER ROBINSON, lately elevated
to the Bench in the Commons, was educated at
the Charter House, and was cotemporary with
the Earl of LIVERPOOL. The same School has
also to boast of the Archbishop of CANTERBURY,
the Lord Chancellor of IRELAND, and the Earl of
WESTMORELAND.

A testy old gentleman was incessantly pestered
by his neighbours with inquiries after his health :
at last, losing all patience with the most assi-
duous of these inquirers—" Tell. your master,"
said he to the servant, 44 with my compliments,
that I am pretty well this morning, and shall
continue so for twenty-one mornings to come."

THE LONDON JOUItNALS.

DAILY EXTRACTS FROM TUE MORNING "PAPERS,
November 17.

[MORNING POST.]
SURRENDER. OF LlMA.—This important Intel-
ligence, which announces the separation of ano-
ther vast empire from Spain, was brought yes-
terday in letters from Buenos Ayres to the sth
of September last. The advices previously re-
ceived from that quarter had informed us that an
armistice had been concluded between the In-.
surgents and the 'RoyalistS, for the purpose of•
Segociating a treaty, the basis of which should be-
the independence of Peru from the mother
country. It now appears that some further
steps had been taken- towards the conclusion of
that treaty, and that the armistice had been ex-
panded into a truce for eighteen months. Depu-
ties, it is said, had also 'been appointed to re-
pair to Spain to adjust ',the independence of
the New Empire. Yet the blockade by sea and
land seems to have been carried on with unabated
rigour, which would induce a belief that the
arrangement said to have been completed was
merely in progress. Cut off from all supplies
by the activity of Lord Cochrane at sea and the,
vigilance of San Martin by land, and having
nearly exhausted all their provisions, the majo-
rity of the inhabitants came to the resolution of
giving General San Martin instant and uncondi-
tional admittance within their walls. If any
opposition was made to that measure it was un-
successful, for the gate§ were immediately thrown
open, and Lima and all Peru laid at the feet of
the Patriots, without the firing of a single musket.
.11 may be easily anticipated that since the sur-
render of this place, with all the troops which
it contained, all its riches and all its matericl,
the task of adjusting the indepeddence of Peru will.
be settled on the spot, instead of being left to' the
chances of a long and,distant nogociation in. Spain.
Thus with Mexico on the one hand and Peru on
the other, do the ancient 'Empires of the Ca-
ciques- and the Incas rise at once from their
ashes, and resume that rank upon earth of which
they have been deprived by the injustice, the
'treachery, and the barbarity of the Spaniards in
their day of power. , The present advices state
that Lord Cochranq had at length agreed to re-
store the two following - English vessels, the
Lord Suffield and Edward Ellice, with their car-
goes : hut the Egham and Lord Cathcart, of
London, were still detained by his Lordship at
Valparaiso, ha',.ing been there since the 26th of

[NEW TIMES.]
'TLS rumour of the capture of Lima, frequently
so repeated, and so often contradicted, at length
assumes an air of truth. Intelligence of that
event was received by several mercantile houses
in the City yesterday from Buenos Ayres, which
intelligence reached that place by two distinct
conveyances—by express overland, and by the
Montezuma schooner,' both of which left Lima
immediately after the entry of General San Mar-
tin and the Republican forces under his command.
it appears that the armistice for eighteee❑ days,
which had been agreed upon between the Viceroy
of Lima and San Martin, had not expired ; but
the Authorities finding the: inhabitants in such
severe distress from the want of provisions, deter-
mined on surrendering the, town ; and as a pre-
paratory step appointed five Deputies, in whom
authority was vested to proceed to Spain, in
order to adjust some measures for the future
regulation of the place ; in this step, however,
they were vigorously opposed by a small band of
Spaniards, who were determined that
.the town
should not yield to the Patriots,unless compelled
by force. This determination, in spite of intreaties
and threats, they resolutely maintained; and
finding that San Marti❑ was advancing, they
planted themselves at the outer gates of
the city, and for some time successfully op-
posed his entrance. The conflict which took
place, and which is represented as having
been carried on with great vigour on both
sides, was not of long duration ; and it is a mat-
ter of some surprise, as well as regret, that the
accounts do not furnish any particulars of the
numbers of persons who have been killed and
wounded, but merely give the general' account
we have mentioned.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
Is it not singular that the finest part of North
America (which Upper Canada is by all ac-
counts), where abundance of fertile land can
be obtained for the mere fees of office, should
require protection from American corn ? The
Americans have a variety of local and Go-
vernment taxes to pay, land sells at a con-
siderable • price in all the States adjoining
the Canadas, which, compared with it, con-
tain a dense population.--One would think
that, instead of the Canadians dreading im-
portation from the United States, that the United
States would be dreading importation from Ca-
nada. There is a mystery in:all this, but the
subject must no longer be allowed to be involved
in mystery. The fact is, that the distresses of
the Canadians, their inability to compete with
the Americans, is altogether occasioned by the
abuses of every kind of which these provinces
have so long been the theatre. Jobbing of every
kind has been practised there, to an extent hardly
credible. The industry of the people is fettered
and paralysed. They cannot move under the
incubus of misrule which presses on them. Lord
Bathurst and Mr. Goulburn know little about
the Canadas„ and probably do not wish to
know more. At all events, ignorance is the
best excuse for some of the recent arrange-
ments in which the latter has been concerned.—
What they are no doubt most anxious about is
the disposal of the patronage the Colonies give
them, which they probably think is valuable in
proportion to the extent of uncontrouled power
reposed in, the hands of their office bearers.
To deprive then 'office hearers of any part
of that influence though it might contribute
most essentially to the welfare of the people,
is not to be expected from them. All this might
go on long enough, and Canada might conti-
nue to languish under her system of misrule;

while the neighbouring provinces of the
United States were advancing rapidly in industry
and improvement, but for the expence occa-
sioned to this country, which will force on an in-
vestigation. While we are casting about for
objects of economy in all directions, and even
subjecting the clerks of the Government offices
to the harshest reductions, the unnecessary addi-
tion to our burdens, occasioned by the misgo-
vernment of the Colonies, must draw the atten-
tion of Parliament and the Country.

[MORNING HERALD.]
It is to be hoped that the sentence passed on
Tuesday, in the Court of King's Bench, will put
an end to the profligate dealing in blasphemy,
which has been so long carried on in Fleet-street,
under the notorious name of Carlile. The career
of this wretched man and his family has been at
once disgusting and deplorable. lie -embarked
in the circulation of impious pamphlets, which
were branded with infamy already, by opinion
as well as law ; and made some momentary profit
of his scandalous speculation, before the salu-
tary and humane delays of the law allowed its
being put effectually in force. The time, how-
ever, came when he was consigned to want and
to a prison. The laws of the country had proved
themselves too strong for him. But his thirst of
infamous gain was stimulated, and with an utter
disregard of conscience, humanity, and natural
affection, he chose for his instruments and his
victims the members of his own family—his wife
and his sister, with some ,of those youthful out-
casts of society (always found in a large city),
whose hardihood, inexperience, or destitution,
rendered them fit for his purpose. What can
be more disgusting thafi to see a man thus
knowingly fling his victims in the way of
being inevitably crushed by the engine of
the law, which, once in motion,-could not with-
out compromising the interests of society be ar-
rested in its course. It is difficult to strip of all
compassion the situation of the unhappy woman
who was brought up for judgment on Wednesday.
It was a situation, however, repellent to all sym-
pathy. It would be painful to dwell upon it.
It is to be hoped the long captivity to which she
is probably consigned will wake_in her mind the
sentiment of penitence and shame.

DRITISII PRESS.]

An application of a very singular nature was
made yesterday to the Court of Chancery, and
which, if it could be successfully established as
a principle, would lead the way to the most cer-
tain means of affording relief to the farmers
throughout the country. A petition was pre-
sented to the Lord Chancellor by two persons of
the name of Hudson, who hold a farm in the
county of Essex under the Coopers' Company,
praying that it should be referred to th.
Master to inquire and report whether the
rent they now pay to the Company ought not
to be reduced. The farm was let some few years
ago by the Coopers' Company, as trustees of a
charity, at which time the lessees were supposed
to have acquired a very- beneficial interest in
the land. .The produce of 'the farm then sold
at a good remunerating price, but the profits
of agriculture had since that time suffered
throughout the empire a very serious dimi-
nution, and the farm in Essex was Unfortunately
not exempted from the general evil.. The peti-
tioners had in consequence of this sustained
a very considerable injury, having lost in the
year 182.0 alone not less than 10001. We
dare say that this particular case differs in
a very minute degree 'from that of the great
majority 'of fa'rmers in the United King-
dom, but this, we believe, is the only instance
of such an application as the -present to the
Court of Equity for special relief. The Court
of Chancery, we presume, has jurisdiction in
the present case, as the farm forms part of a
property that belongs to a certain charity in
Essex, and charities are especially placed under
the protection and care of that Court ; but at the
same time we cannot see why a claim of this na-
ture should be sanctioned in a case of a charity
which might not be admitted' in the case
of every other property in the- empire.—
The Lord Chancellor remarked, that he
had taken land some time since, where he
had some sheep, and he asked whether he should
now, be entitled to a reduction in his rent, be-
cause mutton, which when he took his land sold at
d. a pound, was now selling, in some places,
at 31.--d ? This is one of those subjects upon
which, as Sir Roger de Coverley saysi a great
deal might be said upon both sides.

[THE TIMES.]

A curious case, illustrative of the distress of
the agricultural interest, came on yesterday be-
fore the Lord Chancellor. It was an application
made by two tenants of the Coopers' Company,
to have their rent lowered on account of the
reduced value of the produce of their farm.—
The Lord Chancellor strongly discountenanced
the application, observing, with some severity,
that in time of high prices he had never heard of
farmers giving their landlords more than their
stipulated rents. His Lordship, however, re-
ferred the petitioners, on payment of costs, to
the Master for inquiry, whether any, and what,
reduction of rent might be made for the current
year. Every body must feel the propriety of the
Court's discouraging a species of application, the
tendency of which would be to invalidate all lease-
hold securities, and which would therefore be as in-
jurious to the tenant as to the landlord. A bargain
is made for better for worse; and endless uncer-
tainty and distrust must ensue, if it could once be
imagined that a solemn legal contract could be
rescinded for the benefit o either party without
the consent of the other. Before we dismiss this
subject, we may remark, with respect to the re-
duced price of provisions, that several Corres.
pondents have requested us to notice the great
difference in prices at the east and west end
of the town. While almost every necessary
of life has fallen a third in the former division of
the Metropolis, in the latter scarcely any alter-
ation has been felt. This has been ascribed, and
we have no doubt justly, to the higher classes,
through indolence, delegating their household
affairs to servants, who find it more advantageous

DIED•
At Brighton, on Wednesday night, Mary, the wife of Ed-
ward Shewell,,Esq. of Stockwell-common, Surrey.
On Thursday last, after a short illness, Mrs. Vincent Sells,
of Bankside, Southwark, aged 24.
On Tuesday last, at the house of W. M. Pitt, Esq. in Dover-
street, Isabella Mary, wife of the Rev. G. A. Seymer, Rector
of Shroton, in the County of Dorset,. and only daugliter of the
late J. Bastard, Esq. of Blandford, in the same county.
On Thursday, the Bth hist., at Reigate, itobert Salisbury
Cotton, Esq., in the 74th vear of his age.
At Caen, in Normandy, on the 10th inst. Ralph Skimmer
Gowland, Esq., formerly of the county of eurhafi.
On Thursday the Bth inst., in his 7.oth year, Thomas Pres-
ton, Esq., of Green Royd, near Halifax, one of his Majesty's
Deputy Lieutenants for the West Riding of the county of Yoik.

THE COLONIES.

CANADA. ' '
(nom the Quebec Gazettes to the 9th of Ott.)

QUEBEC, SEPT.. 27.—:The latest accounts from ..the West
Indies leave very little iionlit of the entire subversion of the au,
thority of Spain 'hilt-he! Vied-Royalty of Mexico. Vera Cruz
still held out, tut iVith-little-proSpect of final success. The pe-
riod of the final sePaiit ions of the Whole of the Spanish Colonies'
in America from the Mother COuntrY, cannot now be far dis-•
twit. Whether they have 'bettered their condition, is
another quation. If factious leaders,:acting on the ignorance
and the prejudice's of the.cliaratt. raceOf people who inhabit
Tthese countries, continue to succeed,imexciting intestine broils,
as seems to be the case in the Provinces on the Plata, they will
have made but-a sorry exchange.!.:! Their liberty'cannot
their independence will be nominal. For lahour, industry and
the arts, which are the chief sources of public prosperity and in.
dividual enjoyment, and which cannot exist without internal
pence ansl security of property, will be substituted rapine and
murder, and every vice destructive of society.
The season here still •continues uncommonly wet. There
have not been more than two dry days in succession, since the
29th August last; but as the temperature has been cold, the
injury to the harvest, which is nearly completed, has not been
very material: •
SOMETHING. NEW IN CANADA.—The following Advertise-
ment is copied from the Montreal Herald of Tuesday last :-,-
" NOTICE.= (Bank of Upper Canada, Sept. • Li, 1821.)—
The President and Directors of the Bank of Upper Canada,
boxing Observed .(widrgreat concern) for several months past,
au endeavour on the,part of the. Bank of Canada to injure its
credit'and cripple its operations, by using means highly unjusti-
liable el d, as ,they are advised, illegal, to 'collect their tills by
means of numerous- agents established in every part on the
Upper PrOvince' for the purpose of producing a run of the said
Bank or Upper Canada, deem it expedient (in order to prevent
any false impression) to give this!publia notice, that they will
not hereafter reaem any of the Bills so collected and presented
by the said Bank or its Agents—Until compelled by the judg-
ment of his Majesty's Courts of Justice. In coming to this re-
solution, the President ,and Directors have been entirely go-
verned •by a sense of justice towards those individuals who re-
pose confidence in the Bank of Upper Canada, and who may
desire to have Bills redeemed that they have obtained by those
lionotirable means best described as being opposite to'those pur-
sued by'the Bank of Canada."
"By order of the Directors, . .
•
• - • '"S. BARTLET, Cashier.

The Criminal Term of his Majesty's Court of King's Bench
opened on Friday last. Several convictions have. been had ;
among others, that of John Malkahey, for the murder of Moses
11.I4Allister, at St. Michel Telegraph Station, on the 2d of
July. He was sentenced to be executed on Wednesday, but
has been reprieved till Friday the sth of October. The Calen-
dar is stated to be uncommonly full.
PRICE OF PROVISIONS SOLD IN THE MARKETS OF QUE-
. '26, IS2I,

BECK 8E1)1
s. d. s. d

Beef per lb in the
Butcher's Stalls 0 4 a 0 5
Mutton, ditto 0 5 a 0 6
Veal, ditto 0 6 a 0
Beef per lb in the
markets - 0 3ia 0 4
Pork, ditto 0 4 a 0 5
Mutton, pr. qr. 16 a 40
Fowls, pr. couple 0 0 a 2 6
Chickens, ditto 0 0 a 0 0
Partridges, 1 6 a 2 6

s. d. s. d
Ducks 2 0 a 2 6
Turkeys, 5 0 a 6 0
Tallow, lb. •ft 9 a 0 0
Fresh Butter • 13a 2 0
Salt Butter 010 a 1 0
Pease, minot, 4 0 a 5 0
Eggs, per doz. 00a WO
Maple Sugar 0 0 a 10 0
Potatoes, minot 20-a 2 6
Flour, Cwt. 10 0 a '0 0
Wood per Cord 010 a 0 0

QUEBEC.

VED.