The Sun.
London, England, 1821-09-17 00:00:00

ROYAL NAVY.

MittoßD, Styr. 15.—Wind N.W--Tlais day the Royal
squadron (the KING having ptoceedel by land) sailed hence
with several Merchant vessels fotthe Channel, and Z.' the wind
is uow, we think they will get round the Land's End :o-morrow
early.—Sailed the Wolf sloop of war on a eruize.
COWES, SEPT. 15.—Arrived his Nlajesty's ship Glasgow,
to take Lieut.-General Sir EDWARD Pmat T to Ceylon.
PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 15.—Capt. Thomas Herbert hcs
commissioned the Icarus, 16, for the home station.—Lieut. A.
Hoseason is appoiated...o the Semir.irnis.—Capt. J. G. P4,llips
is appointed to the Spey, for the coast of .Afriza.
In the Harbour—Queen. Chatlette, Rarr.illies, Albion, Salis-
bury, Andromache, Euryalus, Tees, Icarus.
The Portland, oc 60 cant, will tie 3hbztly la-ozahed• f,oai
Plymouth Dockyard.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY EXTRACTS FROM Tit) AIORNING PAPERS,

September 47.

[MORNING -POST.
• When we advised our .Radical contemporaries'
last week not to waste at once the Whole of their
impotent fury against the Subscripion for the
relief . and remuneration --of the wounded Life'
Gbards, we knew that fresh claims would be
made upon tbe -Stock ; and. that however inex-
haustible:it' Might appear, it partook too much
of the nature of empty froth, not to evaporate
speedily into air if it were not carefully managed.
We had no
.idea, however, that the next call
-would be so immediate or so powerful. A third
Subscription List, larger than the two preceding
ones, is really an awful visitation for men who could
scarcely bear the appearance of a first, and who
pledged their'patriotism and their credit that there
-never would be a second. A fourth might perhaps
.-prove fatal and stifle them in their own gall. It
is therefore, we strongly suspect, a feeling of
Mercy towards them which has induced the Corn-
mittee to declare, that having " collected within
a very few, days more than 1,0001:; a sum which
they conceive to be fully adequate- to the object
they proposed, and which by the extensive sup
port which they daily receive from different
parts of .the centitry, will rapidly be increased to
an amount exceeding their most sanguine expec-
tations, they think it would be improper to
trespasS further on-the liberal and grateful feel-
ings of the public, and have resolved that the
Subscription Books shall be closed after Tuesday
the ...ISth instant."

•[iial risll PRESS,]..
Consols for the Account rose on Saturday to
76, at which price, after some slight fluctuations,
they finally closed. This improvement may be
attributed to the belief
.prevailing generally on
'Change, that the answer of the Ottoman Porte-
to the Russian ultimatum has been approved by
the Emperor Alexander, and that the amicable
retations subsisting between Russia and the
Porte will not be interrupted. To this purpose
speak ateOunts from Paris and Vienna, and un-
doubtedly if the tone of the answer returned by.
the Divan be so exceedingly humble as it is
represented—to be, and. that the Porte has pro-
mised to agree to all the requests contained; in
the ultimatum, it is inapos;ible. to imagine any
pretence that could be urged by the Emperor
Alexander for invading the provinces of Turkey.
It •may indeed be 'recollected that in .the case of
Naples no opportunity was allowed to the people
to escape by any submission the horrors and dis-
grace of an invasion, but the Turks, barbarOns
though they be, are brave soldiers, and bear
sharp scimitars in willing hands. The Turks
are therefore entitled to more consideration than
could be due to. the poor Neapolitans! and it
may become the prudence of Alexander to treat
the Porte with some appearance of respect.

[NEW TIMES.}
We regret to occupy so much of our columns
with remarks upon The Times; but the extraor-
dinary baseness evinced in that Paper,on Satur-
day last, renders it our duty to take more than
common 'pains in its expbsur2. The Paper of
that day contained three diStinct libellous at-
tacks—one on the King and the People- of Ire-
land, another on the King's Ministers, with re-
ference to the resignatiOn.of Sir -Robert Baker;
and a third on the Constitutional As-sociation.,
and their Assistant Secretary, Mr. Sharp. Of
the first we have spoken ; and on the two others
we must- bestow some short notice.' The resig-
nation of Sir Robert Baker gives occasion to the
Journalist to assert it as his opinion, that" if the
King's Ministers remain-long unchecked in their
pre:sent course, the whole genius and principle
of this limited Monarchy will ere long be su-
perseded by those of .a Military overn-
ment.'.' This is .• a mere echo of what •is
repeated over and• over again, in Hone's.
daring' and insolent libels : and of what
Waithman had the impudence and folly ,to
assert -in the Common Council. Yet' upon the
face of it, the assertion is so destitute, of common
sense, that even the last mentioned of these wor-
thies cannot, be., stupid enough to give it a mo-
ment's serious belief. A Military Government,
and such a daily libel as The Times, co-existing.
together ! A Military-Government, and the rni-
litary as a body so shamelessly calumniated by
WaithrrAn, so atrociously held up to public hatred
by Hone ! So fir from exhibiting the, least. ten-
dencyto deapotiC sway, the 'domestic Govern-
ment of this country has for many years past been
little else than
.a series .of concessions to tabpolar
opinions, and even prejudices. --These same w:i-
ters, at one and the same mornent,toasf that Go-
vernment cannot resist public opinion, and accuse
it of placing that opinion under the most 'power-
ful restraint,that of military force ! But the most
barefaced
.piece of impudence that perhaps
ever disgraced a public print is shewn in what
The Times says of the indiCtments preferred'
by Mr. Sharp and the Constitutional Associ-.
ation. The [flair] fact is,' that ,in the 'course-
of last week the Association. preferred five
bills, and Mr. Sharp two ; and that three of
those preferred by the Association, and one of
those 'preferred by Mr. Sharp, were returned
true bills. Of the true bills, The Times does
not say a word ; its readers could. not suppose')
that any such had existed, but must have.believed!
that the Association and Mr. Sharp had been
fOiled in all their atterripi. Surely if the readers
of-a Newspaper are entitled to awy thing, it is to
the truth. By a studied and'systemdtit'suppres-
sion of the truth, they are insulted as well as
misled. But what Will they 'say when they
learn that. one of the bills thus slurred overin
silence- was a true billagainst the Printer and
Publisher of- The Tlmes,for a libel on Mr. Sharp?
..„ .
The Times was the original source of the libel ;
which - was copied into a Radical weekly
Paper, called .The News. "Whether it was
on account of this distinction ar :of any other
we know not, but the former bill was found and
the latter not. From this sample 'the Readers
of The Times may, judge'.how• impudentlrthat

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Paper endeavours to keep them in the dark ! As
to the gross and slanderous abuse of Air. Sharp,
it is infinitely too Vulgar to deserve any notice
either at his hands or ours for the present.

[THE TIMES.I

The late wet weather,• which led many per-
sons to fear an unproductive harvest, has had the
usual consequence of such causes or pretexts for
alarm, by giving rise to extensive speculations in
the corn trade. Next to starving a nation, one
of the most inhuman of all attempts is to disturb
it with the groundless apprehension of famine.
I t is true that every speculation in corn; which
has for its object to produce a higher price of
that article than the real state of the crop- will
warrant, must inevitably recoil upon the specu-
lator himself at last ; . and it is rather as a;
caution against the precipitate entrance upon such
speculations, than with a view to rescue those
whose eagerness ' for gain _ may have al-
ready plunged them into the mischief, that
we offer these few sentences to our readers.
-!--Upon the best information which we have
received, there is no reason for concluding'
that grain will bear, after the first alarm shall.
have subsided, a higher price than it has sold. at
for the last six months; or that those dealer's who
act upon the expectation of such arise will escape
eventual 'injury. Under every disadvantage of
the late unpromising weather, the most intelli-
gent farmers are of opinion that the present will
turn out to be an "average crop throughout. Eng-.
land. France and the Netherlands
.have had an
abundant 'harvest ;. and the stores of the latter
country, the most fertile in the west of Europely,
are described to be'overflowing with grain. We
are given to understand that a very large propor-1
tlon of English wheat remains on hand from last
year's crop. The most recent letters from Atn-
sterdam state it to •be the opinion of the great
com-merchants there, that the rise in the British
market - Will be as transient as it has been
sudden, on the ground that it has sprung
altogether from speculation-. In. ' proof of
this, it is well known that the prices at
Amsterdam have got up only Is. per quarter ;
whereas in England there has been a start of full
20s. ..Had there been, the least hope entertained
in Holland of such a rise in this.cotintry.as would
have opened
„the ports, the Dutch market east:
have advanced more considerably., But although
the evil must in the long run cure itself, we can-
not disguise the fact, that unfounded panic pre-;
mated . by the artifices of the adventurous specu-
lator, is an evil of some moment—an evil inferior
only to those of. too great carelessness and im-
providence, which are likely to involve a nation
in permanent and extensive want. The poor, who
live from hand to mouth, are the Most serious suf-
ferers from this undue rise of prices. -The funds
droop, fears are expressed Of a fall in the exchanges,
and of the Bank' of England being embarrassedby
the exportation agold in repayment for imported
corn. It may not be unseasonable to remind the
class of jobbers above alluded ta; of some prin-
ciples, even such as are almest,"elementary, 'which
aught to regulate the conduct of theii: trade, and
which ere recognized by the first authorities.—
" The interests of 'the inland (corn) dealer,: and
.that of the great body of the. people, how oppo-'
site soever they may at first sight appear, are,
even iu years of the greatest scarcity, exactly the
same. It is his interest to raise the price of his
corn as high-as the real scarcity of the 'season re-
quires
; and it 'never be his interest. to raise
it higher.
.By raising the price, he discourages
the consumption, and puts. every . body; 'more*
or less, but particularly:, the inferior ranks of
people, upon thrift and good management.—
If, -by raising it too high, he discourages:
the cottsinuption so much_ that the supply of
the season is likely to go beyond the consump-
tion of the season,. and someto last for time
.
filter the next crop begins to come in, he runs the
hazard, not only of losing a considerable part of
his corn by natural causes,,but of being obliged
to sell what remains of it for much less -than
what he might havehad for it several months be-'
fore."* As for any dealer, or bodY of dealers,
suppoSing that they can, by whatever outlay of
capital, or by" whatever dexterity of delusion, ob-
tain a monopoly of such a trade as that of corn,
and thereby secure to themselves a permanent
command of a market 'in itself so'unliinited we
I 1
have only to say that they ought to be once more
provided with leadhig'stritigs, being 'unfit to walk
alone. ' ,

* Smith's Wealth of Natious, b. iv., c. 5.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]

HER LATE MAJESTY.—Mr. Hieronymus, Ma-
demoiselle -Brunet, Songez, the Mo*tten-
dant, and other domestics who accon l'her •
Majesty's remains to Brunswick, have returned
to arandenburgh Rouse. Lord and Lady'Hood,
Lady Anne Hamilton, Mr. Austin, Mr. Wild,
and Dr. Luiliington return by the way of :Paris.,
and are .e.xpected to arrive this' day.. Imme-
diate measures will' be taken by the Executors
to carry into effect the directions 'contained in.
her Majesty's. will, of the disposal of the pro-1
perty. .None of the accounts are yet discharged, j
nor has any arrangement of a pecuniary nature, yet j
taken place with respect to them. •Libitoz, her
late-Majesty's principal cook, has accepted a si-
tuation at- Brunet's Hotel, .Leicester-square.---
The -subscription for a lasting testimonial of
the affectionate regard of: the inhabitants. of
Hammersmith for her late Majesty proceeds with
More spirit than the most sanguine expectations
of the Committee could have anticipated. It is
not yet determined where this monument is to be.
placed ; it was the wish of the inhabitants to fix
it in the centre of the'liamlet,:in the Broadway,,
but this will, it is expected, be opposed by the Bi-.
shop of 'London, who is Lord of the Manor; and
has the right of ground. A nooli in the chnrch
will not beaccepted, particularly as the situation
would be selected by the Rector, and the object
of the subscribers might thus be frustrated.. The
Committee are, we understand,' in treaty for a
piece of freehold 'ground, in a very conspicuous
situation, on which to erect the cenotaph in con-
templation: Mr. Rossi.and several other artists
have sinfdesigns.fOr the. approbation of theCorn-
mittee;and.rio time will be lost in making the
selection.