The Sun.
London, England, 1821-06-01 00:00:00

-AGRICULTURE, &c.

MONTHLY REPORT FOR MAY.—The continual
night-frosts through the latter part of the month have much
injured not only the Wheats, but also the Barleys and Oats,
particularly in the Northern Districts. In the Eastern Coun-
ties much complaint is also heard of the increase of the wire-
worm in their various crops. On free-growing tilth lands the
Wheats have seldom appeared so forward as in the present sea-
son, having, in many parts, already run to ear. If the Soft
Corn recover its strength and colour in time, a full average
crop may be looked for. The Beans never appeared more pro-
mising, especially those under the cleanly horse-hoe system.—
The early crops of Peas have suffered by the sharp winds, as
have also the forward potatoes. The Hop plantations are weak
In bine, and the crops of Mustard and Rape are not expect-
ed 'to prove an average crop from the same cause. The
young Clovers 'have planted kindly in general. The Grass
lands are well-bottomed, and so forward that hay-making
has already commenced round London. The fine bloom
of Apples and „Pears in the cider „countries of Devon,
Hereford, , and Worcestershire, has been so much cut by the
frosty winds that they do not reckon now on more than a third
of a crop. The complaints of the 'market gardeners are equal to
those of the agriculttrnsts.in the.injury which their young fruit
and vegetables have suffered from the severity of the weather.
Smithfield, and the other principal meat markets have been sup-
plied through the month fully adequate to the consumption.—
Prime Beef communds a fair price; but half fat, which is the
largest portion, sells on lower terms. Good Mutton, Lamb, and.
Veal, hold last month's prices. In Live Stock but little busi-
ness is doing. Scots .and short-horned beasts, have been driven
from the Midland fairs without. a purchaser. The Graziers
that can will not buy on the exorbitant terms required ,hy the
drovers: Store-Sheep fetch-more money, and the-Wool market
is somewhat brisker.

THE SUN.

SOLEM QUIS DICERS FALSUM AUDEAT?

LONDON;

FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1821.

We received this morning the Paris Papers o

Tuesday. The following are Extracts:—
" PARTS, May 29.—His Majesty transacted
business yesterday with several of his Ministers.
In the morning the King received Gentlemen',
and in the evening Ladies.
" Madame Catalani arrived last Sunday at
Paris, and means to reside there in future.
" The famous Neapolitan General, Gulielmo
Pepe, is arrived at Madrid.
" Letters from Corfu of the 4th instant con-
tradict all the reports respecting the death of
Ali Pacha.

" The process instituted in the Nether,
lands against Messieurs Goethals and Mar.
tens, Vicars-Generals of Ghent, and M. Bous.

sen, Secretary to the Bishop of Ghent, has ex

cited the most lively interest throughout Bel-
gium. They were accused of having published,
with the intention of disturbing public order, a

pastoral letter from M. de Broglie, Bishop of
Ghent, in which that Prelate was deemed to
have instigated disobedience to the Government.
—On the 25th the Sovereign Court of Bressels
pronounced a verdict of acquittal. The Presi-
dent, before delivering the judgment or the
Court, strictly forbade any expression of ap-
probation or disapprobation from those present;
but they were not to be restrained, and broke
out into loud expressions of satisfaction.
" The Governmentof the Netherlands is nego-
dating a loan with Messrs. Rothschild.
" One of these brothers, Mr. Chas. Rothschild,
who is now at Naples, has just obtained from
his Sicilian Majesty the title of Marquess.
" NAPLES, M.►Y 12.—The following Decree
was made public yesterday :-
4" Having resolved on instituting an inquiry into

the conduct of our Naval Officers, we command,
that a Commission for this purpose shall be form-
ed, to consist of the following members :—Ad-
miral Danero, President, and Rear Admirals
Calcagno, Leffler', and Maurizio. All persons
belonging to the Naval service, both Military
and Civil, and all persons employed in the offices
of the Naval Department, are desired to appear
before this Commission, to be examined as to
their conduct.'

" VIENNA, MAY 18.—The Emperor of Russia
will make but a short stay at Pest, where be
proposes to pay a visit to the Archduke Palatine,
and thence continue his route for Petersburgb,
where he will arrive about the 2d of June.

" The letters from Constantinople continue to
present a deplorable picture of the state of affairs
in that capital: The revolt of the Morea and
the islands of the Archipelago have carried the
fanaticism and exasperation of the. Turks to its
height; and this people, greedy of blood, have
abandoned themselves to the greatest excesses
against the defenceless Christians. The Porte
acts like the multitude, with an inexorable
cruelty, of which the annals of Islamism have
hot for ages offered an example. At the moment
when the Greek patriarch and the other bishop.;
were arrested by order of the Grand Seignor,
the Greeks who were collected in the temples,
struck with terror, took refuge in the houses of
the neighbouring ecclesiastics ; but they were
pursued and massacred in great numbers by the

furious populace.
66 FRANIisonT,MAY President.of the
Germanic Diet has communicated to that body
the Declaration of the Allied Sovereigns at Lay-
bach. It was presented by Prince Metternich,
and Baron Anstett, Russian Minister to the Fe-
deration. The Diet voted unanimously 6 the
homage of their respectful aclittowledgment to the
Emperors of Russia and Austria for this commu-
nication, and the assurance that they are of one
mind in_revering in aii its parts the beautiful mo-
nument of their equity and love of order which

those Sovereigns have erected for the permanent
consolation of all well-intentioned men.

11NCH 'FUNDS.
• , •
May 28„. Five per Cents.
Dank Stock ,, 1567 f. 50 c..
'May 29, Five per Cents. . 'B5 f. 15 c.
" Neapolitan. Stock closed- af•Parisi on thisNriy at 72.'l

Lisbon Papers to the Path ult., and Barn-
burgh to the 25th ult., were xeceived this morn-
ing, and we subjoin their contents
LISIION, MAY G.—The Diario of to-day

contains at length the Decree of the Cortes re-
gulating the its of grain and pulse into
IPortugal. It is in /9 articles, of which the fol-
lowing are the heads :-1. The importation of
all foreign corn, flour, bread, and pulse into Por-
tugal and Algarve is entirely prohibited by land,.
and 3d, by sea, except in the ports of Lisbon
and Oporto. 2. The Regency may, in cases of
urgent necessity, suspend the prohibition. Im-
portation of foreign wheat is permitted when the
price of that of national growth is at Lisbon 800
rees, and/ at Oporto 1000 rees per alguiere.
The duty, which is 200 rees on hard corn„ and;
100 on soft, at Lisbon, when the price is from
800 to 900 rees per alguiere, and at Oporto 240
on hard, and 120 on soft, when the price is from
1000 to 1100 Tees, is only 2d ree' at Lisbon,
when the price is 900 rees and above, and in
Oporto the importation is free from duty when
the price is 1120 rees and above. The impor-
tation of mullet is permitted when the price
rises to 400 rees per alguiere at Lisbon, and to

500:at Oporto; when the price is 400 to 500

rees at Lisbon, and 500 to 600 at Oporto, fo-
reign mullet shall pay a duty of 120 rees at
Lisbon, and of 160 at Oporto. The duty is,
twenty, rees at Lisbon when the price is

five hundred and above, and there is no duty
at Oporto when it is six hundred and above.—
The importation of rye is under the same regu-
lation as that of mullet. The importation of fo-
reign barley and oats is permitted, without any
scale, on payment of 40 rees per alguiere in
Lisbon and 50 at Oporto. Beans, and all kinds•
of foreign pulse, shall pay 100 rees duty at
Lisbon and 20 at Oporto per' alguiere. The

importation of foreign flour is absolutely prohi-
bited. Foreign . corn, imported in Portuguese
vessels, only half of these duties.
" LISBON, MAY 19.—The debates in the
Cortes have been on subjects of mere local inte-
rest. One of the most important projects still before
them, and which they discuss article by article,
is the law relative to the Liberty of the Press,
A very warm debate arose mt the 11th Article,
which runs thus Whoever abuses the Li-
berty of the Press in any of the cases mentioned
in the preceding Articles (viz. Ist, Directly in-
citing the people to rebellion; 2d, Combating '
the Constitutional System ; 3d, Insulting or abus-
ing the National Congress, or the Head or the
Executive Power) shall be condemned to hard
public labour for a period not less than six
months nor more than five years, and to a fine of
from GO to 600 milrees.' Some of the Members

thought the punisinnent in some of the cases out
of all proportion with the crime; that to excite
people to rebellion, by writing or putting himself
at the head of the people ; that to condemn a
writer to five years hard labour was a barbarous
punishment ; that it was far more severe on a
man of letters, not fitted by his habits to any
thing of the kind, than on a person of a different
situation, and that it might in some instances
lead to suicide. After much discussion in their
successive Sittings,it was decided that the penalty
should be deprivation of offices and dignity, five
years imprisonment, awl GOO milrees fine, as the
maximum for the crime of exciting the people by
inflammatory writings to rebellion. The penalty
to be attached to the two other cases is to be
fixed in a future Sitting.
" BRANDENDURGH, MAT 19.—Mr. Pieschel,
who lately died at London, has bequeathed
33,3361. in the 3 per cent. Consols, with the com-
pound interest to be accumulated for three years
after his death, for the foundation of a School for
Poor Boys and Girls born in Magdeburg and the
neighbourhood. It is to be in or near Magde-
burg, where the Testator was born."

Notwithstanding the various reports respecting

the attempts of the Greeks to throw off the yoke
of Turkish oppression, we have every reason to
believe that they will not only effect their deli-
verance, but shake the foundation, if not- abso-
lutely destroy, the Ottoman Government al-
together. The cruelties of the Turks, and par-
ticularly the horrible martyrdom of the vene-
rable Greek Patriarch, have given an increased
stimulus to the glorious cause of the Greeks,
and, as they have the hearts of all people
but the Turks in their favour, they may expect
aid and contributions from various quarters.—
Prince YPSILANTI, though a young man, is an/ ex-
perienced and able warrior. lie manifested his

valour and skill in a very striking manner ifl
the Russian service, in which he lost his right
hand. He has a numerous army, and, is, in the
full confidence of his troops, who augur complete
success under so intrepid Ittid so skilful•.a leader.
The Servians are up, and people flock with eager-
ness to the StandsBd of Liberty. YestLANTI is
in no want of the munitions of war, deriving
abundant means from
.Odessa and other places.
It is not true that the Prince and THEoDORE
are at variance, bn t, on the contrary, they heartily
sympathize in the same laudable object, though
they are obliged to act in different directions.
YPSILANTI is strong enough to be able to ad-
vance, but THEODORE remains in. Moldavia,
where there are several Turkish fortresses,
which it is proper that he should' watch, and
which it was confidently hoped that he would
soon be able to subdue. Finally, it was ex-
pected that the odious barbarities exercised on
the venerable Greek Patriarch would be highly
offensive to Russia, and soften its opposition to
the progress of Greek freedom, if not actually
occasion its co-operation. In Short, the world at
large have reason to hope that the soil rendered
interesting by history, poesy, and every endear-
ing charm of rornantieWeroism, will regain its,
ancient freedom, and be once more the nurse
of Valour, Genius, and Literature; of all that
can embellish the social state, ,and give dignity
to man.

His MAJESTY received visits yesterday from
the Du,chess of GLOUCESTER, the Princess Au-.
Gusil, and the Princess SOPHI
Yesterday the Duchess or CLARLNCE visited the
Duchess of KENT, at her residence in the King's'
Palace, Kensington.—The Princess AuGusT
dined with the Duke and Duchess of Ct.A.RENcg
yesterday.—Prince LROPOLD was expected in
town last night from Claremont. —Yesterday
the Earl of LivEn,root, and Viscount Sin:not-Ili
had audiences of the KING, at his Palace its
Pail Mall.

The Prince Ernest Packet has arrived with a
Mail from the Leeward Islands ; she left Barba-
does the sth of April, and St. Thomas's the 20tli
of April. Among the passengers on board are,
Sir ItAr.rn WOODFORD, and Mr.. and Master
GURNEY. The Mail is detained for quarantine -
We understand that sickness prevails on board
the packet.
The ship Anne has arrived in the Downs from
Jamaica, with letters from thence of the recent
date of 12th of April. Intelligence to the end
of January had been obtained, at Kingston. from
Peru, which made no mention of the capture of
Lima.

THE PLAGUE.—A Letter from Malta, dated
4th April, says—" Referring to my letter of the 29th ult. I
have now to acquaint you that four of the persons therein men-
tioned as having been attacked have died ; and it is said, that
one of the new crew has also been attacked. I hear that it is.
in contemplation to send the vessel back to Alexandria with her
cargo." _ _

ThSCOVERY Sit IPS.--The Fur.ri and Hecht,
accompanied by the. Nautilus transport, put int°
Wid ewali harbour, in the island of South Ronald"
sha (one of the Orkneys) on the 17th ult. in con"
sequence of contrary winds. On the 19th thei
had coniple ted their water, and were to put tc"
sea again .the moment the wind became mote
favourable

This day being the anniversary of the " Gl°'
rious First of June," in the year 1794, when the
late gallant Admiral Lord HOWE totally defeat'
ed the French grand fleet, took six sail of the
line and sunk several others, it will be comme-
morated generally in the Royal Navy, and par"
ticularly by the Officers living who then served
under his Lordship.
Yesterday being Ascension Day, the boys al
the several parochial schools of the metropolis,
in their new clothing, perambulated the bounds
of their respective parishes, preceded by the
beadles and officers, with wands, &c.
The Earl of STAIR, we are concerned to state/
lies dangerously ill at his house in Spring-garden"'
At Blackburn, in Lancashire, the Poors' Rates
have been reduced from two shillings to nitre'
pence in the pound. ,
DUEL.—Friday last a meeting took place at
Morelauds, near Limerick, between JOHN Wl'
GAN, Esq, late of the 12th Regiment, and Loll
B. CURTAYNE, Esq. when after an exchange °
shots, in which. Mr. MORGAN was wounded
the leg, the matter in dispute was amicably ad-
justed.
A monument is about to be erected in Edhil"
burgh, to the poet BURNS. The sum collects
for that purpose is near 1,500/., ; and Mr. FLSS;
MAN, the artist, has generously undertaken. "I"
execution without any pecuniary advantage) 11:
lowing the whole sum to be expended on the
materials and labour.
The Shrewsbury Chronicle says, " we hat!
great pleasure in informing the Public, that Mr. 3VADAg
arrived at Ludlow, wheve.,he has undertaken the care and 111;:t
nagement of the rods about that delightful and beautiful P3esr
of. the country. A Correspondent informs us, that the Trasl,ebo
have resolved to use every means and exertion to render 'to
communication between Liverpool, Ludlow, and all the w3Y
Bristol, (a route greatly nearer than through Worcester),
convenient and agreeable as possible." e
Yesterday an investigation took place befog
the Magistrates at the Police office, Queen-strori.:
touching the death of a woman named OW, L„
nell, or M'Donald, who died on liVednesTe
morning in the Westminster Infirmary-
cvcumstances relative to this affair are trhaa
afflicting. The husband of the woman se,
been an officer in the army, but ill c°ll
d been
quence of the impetuosity of his temper ha .at
dismissed the service.. He had a family of elis
t children, and lived in great felicity with he
wife till lately, when from some cause not
explained, continual broils existed between them;
On Sunday last, in a fit of rage,
he struck her
violent blow in the face which fractured her
e
skull. She was conVeyed to the hospl"tal where
r .
she lingered .till yesterday;. when she has
The unfortunate husband has absconded, and
left the poor children to the mercy of the world'