The Sun.
London, England, 1817-12-09 00:00:00

T 11 E LOTT ER Y.

RICH WHEEL.
FOUR PRIZES OF TWENTY THQUSAND POUNDS!
And Only ONE DAY, more to Draw.
CAR ROLL, the Contractor, has the plea-
. sore of announcing to the Public the Rich State of
the Wheel, which contains •
FOUR PRIZES OF TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS! -
And which must be ALL "Drawn on SATURDAY, Dec. 20.
The
.present. Price of 'rickets and Shares are as follows,
viz.—

Ticket- I .21 19 0
Half L.I I 9 0 I Eighth - .... L. 2 18 6
Quartur - 5 15 0 1 Sixteenth,......... t 9 6
The following Capital-Prizes were drawn on Friday last,
Dec. 5, and Sold by G. C.3IItROLL, at his Offices,
7, CORNHILI., and 26, OXFORD-SIT.EET,
where the fortunate Holders may receive their Money on de-
mand, viz.—' ' •
4,349 a Prize of tj.-20,000, in Shares. •
5,842 .. . 500 Guineas, in Shares.
4.740
2,028 ......... 200 i tillieas,"in Shares.

TWENTIETH DECEMBER LOTTERY WILL FINISH.
tir atul J. SIVEWR !GUT congratulate the
915 • Public on the result of the '-econd Day's Drawing, the
Capital Prizes that happened to be driwo having been well..
distributed among the Public in Shares, lint le.iving FOUR
of the 20,0001. Prizes,
,besides 14 Minor Capitals. to be de-.
termined on the LAST DAY of, Drawing riOth of December
when the First-drawn Prize will have added to it the Sum of
20,0001. As Tickets have not been obtainable for several
'days past, those who intend to adventure should apply imme-
diately, a few having been returned unsold tn Agents at re-
mote parts of the Kingdom. J. and .1. SIVEIVRIGHT have
• a select Variety at their. truly fortunate and veld established
Odice's,•
• 37, Cornhill, I 38, Haynihrliet,
11, • 1-101bnrn, A miol4l, ;Ixford- street ;
where the last Prize of eo.onol. and numerous other Capitals
in the last and present Lottery, hare been Sold in tillairs.

4,949 a Prize of 20,0001.—MONEY and CONSOLS.
In one Qnarter, One tighth, and Ten Sixteenths ;
Also, 3,908, 1,0001.-4,720, 2101,--3,092, 2001.
• MI drawn in the present Lottery,
• Were Sold in Shares by T. BUSH, Stock-Broker, 4,
C.6111U8, aittl 9, Chating,-('rosy, London.
Money for Blanks, till Thursday, the lath of This Month,
(December.).
TBisu respect,„,iv reminds the Holders of
the 5,700 Blanks drawn on the Second Day, that thee
are entitled to a Second Chance, as their Numbers will be
put into the Wheel again, and re-drawn on the Third and
Last Duy,
SATURDAY, (20th Decembek),
when the Lottery, will lini,h, and
The. Four Prizes of 20,0001.
- Besides the other minor Capitals, must all be drawn. •
If. however, they prefer accepting the t:ontractor's offer, as
stated in the Scheme, they may-receive at the rate of .121. per
Ticket, (and in proportion for Shares.) if presented at either
of BISH's Offices in London, or to any of his Agents in the
Country, on or before THURSDAY., 18th of THIS MONTH,
(December.) But they must observe, that, by so doing, they
forfeit all clam to its ult;mate fate. Whether it is drawn
small Prize or a Capital of 20 0001,, as was the case on he
tulle ,Inly last, when Nn. 4,267, drawn first a Blank, was, in
its Second Drawing, a Prize of 20,0001., and shared by T.
BISH in Sixteen Sixteenths.
Warranted tutdraWn Tickets and Shares are stdhng by T.
•131SH,•5totli-Broker, 4, Coral:nil; and 9, Charing-Cross.

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200 Hhds. Do. of the finest Chateau Margot, A.
',Atte and Chantilly of the first growthso- per Mid.
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in Dock
1300 Dozen of Full Bodied Claret, second }
635. perdoi.
Growth
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118 Do. of very Old Hock • 90
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N.B. As these latter Wines lie at the Company's Storei; al
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ON THE MODERN INNOV kTIONS IN THE PRAC-
TICE OF THE LAW-BY THE EMPLOYMENT OF
CERTIFICATE D CONVEYANCERS.

It is not perhaps sufficiently known, that in the
-early part of last Session a petition was presented
to the House of Commons, praying for the Le-

gislative suppression of -a grie,,ance, which,
though gradual and almost unobserved in its pro-
gress, is fraught with the most setiot:s danger.

The [louse has heen informed, that many un-
edneated and ungitifified persons have taken on

themselves the occupatiun of Conveyancers, to
the great detrinwirt of the regular' practitioners,
and the still 'greater injury of the community.
As the inhjett ‘vill prob:ibly be revived in tio.
ensuing Session, we feel it a duty to make public
those considerations which occur to us on a (pies-

tion so pectilierly interesting.
It appears very stisilLe, that while no man,
without a clerkship of five years, and the payment
of Stamp Duties, and Ad►nission Fees of tiearly
one bundled awl lilt y pounds, can practice as an
Attorney or Solicitor, the mere entrance into an
Inn of Couri; which may be obtained without
ttitlier time or study for a few pounds, should
trictli:y any man for the_tunctions of a Convey-
incer ; and, that iudividnals of the lowest trades
and classes. in life, have actually availed themselves'

of this oversight of the Law—tor we can term it

nothing else ;—and have set up for privileged
COnvs!yancers, with no other qualifications than
a desk, an inkhorn, and a quire of paper.
important as this question is to the Solicitors
and Attornies who have qualified then/selves for
the Public confidence by an expet►sive education,
by an exclusive appropriation, of their time., by
unintermitting'study, and by a perfect conversance
with the LAWS of FROPERTY, we consider it still

lore important LOTH E PEOPLE, wlio,4re continually

suffering , from iusecure titles, fraudulent trans

furs, and ininotis litigation :-.-since, in a country
like Great Britian, where industry extends such
facilities for the Acquirement of wealth, and landed,
property offers the main security- wherein Elio-:t
wealth cmi he invested, wealth roust be precariou
it property is insecure, and indwory must be hope-
less it ‘vealth is endangered Upon our Coroner
dal State, the effect or this evil is indeed fear-

strikes at the root of all internal prospe•
lily, by removing' AU internal confidence. API
bins must the grievAni'e rciniinue, cvhile a mock

anctioileer, or au old-clothes-man,,may determine

imo the inv'estigatiot► of settlements, the descen
i4lteritanees, the val];htv of leases, the opera•

tion, of thoraces, the import of deeds, the con-
stttetion of wills, and the thousand other points
wlich are attendant on the sale and purchase of

land, Shippillg, and other property..;
When a respectable body Of Solicitors and At-
tot nies are interceding with the Legislature to
abolish so serious an evil, they seem actuated by
a motive directly adverse to the purposes of prOfit
or monopoly. Did they consider theii own emo-
lument merely, and neither their own credit
_nor
the Public Good, they would still acquiesce in the
grievance ; and, !calling our estates and proper-
ties to the management of the trading Convey-
ancers, remunerate themselves by that abundant
harvest of litigation which ignorance and error
are sure to produce. The Conveyancer cannot
remedy his own mistakes ;• grans as they may be,
and palpably blundering, they must be brought
into the Solicitor's or Attorney's Office for the
reparation of the Law.

if, however, their professional emoluments are
abridged by the proposed refOrmation, • their re-
srettability will be,increased in at least an equal
ratio. That '' glorious uncertainty," which has
afforded its fertile source of reproach and sarcasm,
will henceforward be ascribed to those alone who-
create it ;' not to those who AIM LawYers; but to
those who are Nor Lawyers ; riot to the regular,
Professors, who enter in at the door, but to. the
Intruders,. who slip in at the window. The Law
is not uncertain ; its rules are founded on princi-
plei, and its principle on justice ; the uncertainty,
which: has generated so much complaint and
spread so much ruin,. is occasioned by the knaves
who pervert the .law, and by the fools who mis-
take it.

We will not lessen the National ImportahCe of
this.question, by .any further reference to the pro-
fessional interests of the Solicitors and Attornies ,
neither will we narrow it to ihdividual advantage
or reputation, while it can be advocated on the
broLd ground of general utility. But it is essen-

to the Public Safety, that re,pectable men
should b • induced, by the prospects of emolument
and credit, to devote themseltres to the Public

Service ; and Conveyancing, in country pritetice
especially, stands very forward among the expen-
sive studies of the Solicitor and Attorney, and'his

wrative Compensations.

It is indeed high time that the community
sho4l- be rescued from thitir evil, that property
should no longer he endangered by every illiterate
pretender, who propises cheap work, and evils his
ignorance under price, that the regular Solicitor;
and Attornies 'should no longer be censured for
the mischiefs which !hey did not create. We
trust farther, that the remedy sought by ti,ese re-
spectable individuals will bergreatly extended; anti
that the Legislature will not only prevent the per-
sons before alluded to from practising as Convey-
ancers, under cover of an admission ituo some Inn

of Court, btu restrain a1.,0 their connecting
therwelves ‘cilh tiny Solicitor and Attorney,' and
doing businese muter his name. 'Until this refut.
tnation shall he accomplished, until time transfer of
property shall betaken out of tl:e hands of Ad-
venturers, whose want of knou!edge is almost as

angerons as, in many instances, their want of

integrity, the profession of the Law will be de-
graded, and the Law itself will be discredited;
still worse, litigation will be aggravated and aug-
mented, and the security of property will be sa-
crificed to ignorance, to presumption, arid fre-

quently to dishonesty.
The first Petition presented to the'Legislature
last spring, was by Mr. ANDERTON, of Kimbol-
ton, and in the course of the Session other Peti-
tions to the same effect were presented by the Soli-
citors and Attornies a" the folloWing places ; and
we understand, in consequence of the injury
which has been so very generally sustained by the
prof. ssion' at large, an application will he made
in the next Session of Parliament, to give (ffect
to the REAL intention of the Lvgi.slature in pass-
im! the 44 Geo. 111. and to remove the grievance
which they now labour under in that respect :
Taunton, Christchurch,
Wellington, Ford i
Wiveliscombe, Ashby-de-la-Zouche,
Melrert on, Wolverhampton,
North Shields, Essex (County)
South Shields, Dudley,
•
"%Vantage, Camhridge,
• Plymouth, Ely, and adjoining
Plymouth Dock, places, .
Stonehouse, Whitchurcb,
Barustaple,and adjoining Drayton;
places, Went,
Portsmouth, Derby,
Port sea, Be% erley,
Gosport, Hull,
Way ri ogton, Winchester,
Exeter, Birmiughatu,
Ringwood, &C. &c. &c.

We are authorized to insert the following cor-
rect Report of the Trial which took :lace in the'
Court of. Exchequer, on Monday, the Ist instant,
in the Cause of the ATTORNEY4iENERAL against
HARDING, HowELL, and Co. on the seizure of
lace and other goods. Upon the trial of this cause,
in which a verdict wits taken lot the Crown, the
following observations were made by Mr. Ser-
jeant VAUGiIAN, one of the Counsel for the de-
fendants My Lord, in this ease the defendants,
tinder My advice, are not "disposed to give your
Lordship and the Jury any further trouble; blit
that there may be no misunderstanding`,
and as I
have taken upon myself to give that adVice, I
vztsli it to be understood on what groUnds, against
the judgment of my client, I have giVen that ad-
vice. Your Lordship is Aware that this is an
extensive seizure, consisting of various articles,
thread lace, cambric, and silk : 1 have toll my
client it is not snfl^,t.•ient for him to bring into
doubt whether these articles are British or fo-
reign, but that the Act of Parliament, the wisdom
or policy of which it is not for me. to dispute in
this place, has made it an imperative duty upon
him to satisfy the Court and Jury that every in-
dividual article is manufactured in Great Britain,—
Now, referring to the evidence for the prosecti-
tion, from which your Lordship and the Jury
have learnt, the very extensive stock in trade and
the quantity of articles seized, and referring par-,
ticuh.aly to the examination of one witnestc; who
said. it was impossible for them to account for
-every individual article, I think the law much too
strong for toy clients, and I have advised thetn to
submit, and it is upon these grounds that 1 con-
sent that the verdibt shall be taken for the Crown."
reply to which, Mr. DAUNCEY, one of the
Counsel for the Crown, observed, -that the great
object of such a prosecution as this is that which
the Serjeant has mentioned, that the law of the
case should be understood by every body.

SHOCKING INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATH.-011
Sunday evening, the landlord of are Peterborough
Arras, in Poland-street, Oxford-road, left his
house for the purpose of taking a walk ; he had
not proceeded far when he fell down in a fit, He
was ennveyed home, and recovered,. from which
time he was in a state of delirium, so that h was
necessary to confine him in a straight waistcoat,
in which state he died.

POR XI-1E SUN.

LEA .T 7 OF THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE.

tia.lintToa,—The genuine, unaffected, and uni-
versal sympathy, which pervaded the Nation on, this
rnelatichOly.occa.Sion,•does, end-will always do-,the
highest honour to :the .right Welings and good prin-
cip:esf theßritish Nation. But w ho,!hat had nor
5.., you and 1 know, Ore whole diabolism (I
Inns( coin the wore!) of faction -ationg us, would
:belitive, that even this feeling' could have been
perverted to the puToses of Party, and of the
darliest.ilisa-ffeetion ?--,Yet, so it k, as I pledge
myself to prove; if not to your satisfaction, at least
to your entire conviction. -

Foremost- in the rank of those places which
wished, to express their honest feelings on this
sail event, Was the Boloirgh'of Reading. Simi are
stirrrised ; but,•Sir, though Heading lies under,
just censure, for the•factions disposition of some'
ofits inhabitants, I have the satisfaction to as-
sure you that a more loyal, upright, wrell-affected
body thatrthe Corporation, and ttle principal in-
bahitints of that Town, no where can exist.—
The persons who give the ill name t 6 the pace
are a set of !nine, unconnected, idle, unrespon-
sible Periple, low Tradesmen, not Members of the
Corporation, half-pay Officers, disgraced Men,
once in frost, Ste. who on any emergency herd
in swarmi together, with the populace at their
he'ls (whotn they cajole as usual), and create a
tumult, in which the voice of truth and reason
strives in vain for audience. These ate the reople
who, when a loyal Address of 'Condolence was.
proposed by the real Town of Reading, came for-
wdrit with their insidious proposals to disturb the
harmony of the Meeting, and, but for the firm-
ness of the Worthy Mayor, would have thrown
the whole business into contu,ion. They were
baffled, however, this time, and loyalty prevailed.
They
.reser'ved their stratagems, with new and
-more ah:e anxrliaries, tot the County Meeting, (m-
a similar occasion.

You; Sir, have reported, but some of your bre:.
three more fully, the proceedi,►gs on that occa-
sic►n 'The Courier had then► pretty much at large.
I wilt not detail any part of them, so tar as the
Opposition was concerned—they are too dis-
'gnstiugA

, Sir, of men, pretending to have weight
anti influence in such a County as Befits, who
conic! Eo forget all teeling,s of honour and huma-
nity, as to endeavour to convert a Meeting in-
tended to express condolence with a Father on
the loSs of his beloved Child, into the means of
insultilig'and wounding ',hit very Father ? Who
Could take that-oppOrtunity of taying such things
as most, of necessity, be most disgusting and•pain-
col to him ? Added to this shameful want of feel-
ing, the offering of insult under the hypoeritieal
pretence of condolence, wa. the meanness and
the.hascness (for I will not check the word) of
doing, it in such a way, that while it was specious
in its firSt appearance, it absolutely precluded an
answer. Who, when the fame and the feelings
of a Lady in the first class of life, were held up to
notice, who, I say, could poSsibly step forth as ,
her accuser, arid deny hf r the attention claimed
'for her au that ground ?—No man, I vm-
it:re to 'say, though he had judicial proofs against
her in his
.pocket wonlfl e‘er step forward to pro-
duce them on such_tin occasion. Whatever may
be the relative situation of a Prince and Princess,
no non; who has any feelings worthy of a math
would inquire into them rudely, coarsely, and pub
licly. None but au Oppositiouist ; and what they
can and will do, we every day see more clearly.—
Btrt if it at•ere right at any time t.o do it, is that the
time to choose . for it, when the most afflicting of
all.possible calamities has already fallen upon the
grin ipal personage ; and when the whole Empire
(perVeitcd minds excepted) truly condole and sof-
ter with him ? if this, Sir, be not-a conduct de-
serving of the strongest reprehension, nothing
can be so.- But let not the odium tall upon the
County of Berks. The persons offending are a
small, though, as usual, a very active put of it.—
The High Sheriff sheaved and 3upported the real
spirit of the County ; .and the disaffectvi gained
nothing by their manoeuvres but the display of
their own shame.

VINDEX.

ADDRESSES OF CONDOLENCE.

WORCESTER, llnc. 6.
The following A DDRRSSES from the Mayor, Re
corder, Aldertneo and Citizens of the City o

WolicEsTEß, have been presented by the Noble
Reconler of thii City, (he Kiri of Coventry) to
his Rov:11 Highness the PRINCE REGENT, to her
itiost Excellent Mlje.sty the QUERN, and to his
Serene Highness Prince LEOPOLD cf SAxa CO.
.13OURG.

To His R Higlinrss GEORGE PRINCE qi WALES, Regent

of United 4ingdo;n of Great Britain and Iretqrtd.
We, the Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, and Citizens of the
City of Worcester, approach your Royal Highness with feel-
ings of the ni,st y1.6101)0,1 grief, under the heavy and jrrenar-
alit, loss which your Royal Highness has recently suffered, as
a Father, and a Prince, and which has overwhelzued the
whole Empire with consternation and sorrow. Far he it from
its to presume that our City, thongh always distinguished fur
loyalty and attachment to your august Family, is peculiar at
present in its affliction on !his awful and inelanclio/y occasion,
an affliction that must uqually and deeply h ire affected all your
Loyal people. ‘Ve shonld conceive that we were officious in ob-
truding on your Royal Highness so soon after the deplorable
event, if we were riot anxious to manifest our dutiful feelings,
and to express our earnest hope, that the A lmighty Power who
indicted the dreadful stroke, will administer that consolation
to your Royal Highness, which cannot be derived from any
other source, and that a due submission to the decrees of that
Almighty Power, will, at the same time, south the anxiety of
-your people at large, as well as of the oyal City which now
humbly, and with all possible veneration and sympathy, takes
the libeety of addressing your Royal Highness on this great
uational calamity.
Given under our Common Seal, in the Council Chamber
of the said City, this 21st 'day of November, 1817.

To the QUEEN'S Most 4..reellent MAJESTY.
May it please your Majesty,
We, the Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, and Citizens, of the
ancient City of ‘Voreester, ever anxious to testify our loynl
sentiments of duty and affection, humbly offer our sincere and
heartfelt condolence to your Majesty, on the great and irre-
parable loss which your Majesty and the nation have sustained
in the premature death of tiae Princess Chat lotte. We pre-
sume not to encroach upon your sensibility by eulogizing the
rare and transcendant virtues of the departed Princess; they
Are rooted in the hearts of a grateful and mourning people,

hnJ th. 2 of chino ‘san *never ocrWl.
youth, beauty, and talent be inclosed in the cold to:oir
though the ell:trills which b11,01:i?Il health he Witherc,i, And
the hopes which promised yeArs of joy and klo,y lie bed,
yet a lath of consolation still open to vour.Majrsty's
gui is and gracious-mind; and w'- earnestly implore Mat t)!a
nipOtent Power, whose Divine Will- has inflitteil this ca' a-
mitous visitation, forts continuance of that Almighty
port which has hitherto rewarded your Majesty', patiept
subluission under those inscrutable and afflicting decrees with
which lie sees fit to exercise the purest_ and most exalted ,
virtue.

Given under out. common seal, in the Council Chamber of
the said City, this 21st day of Ntirenibei, 1817.

To his Serene Ifighness.l'az NC E COPO I. 1) of Sa.rc,Cohottrg.

We, the Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, and Citizens irf the
Coy of Worcester, humbly otter to your Serene gliliess the
condolence of a:mourning. people, whose frelitnr,L ive`horne
earliest and genuine testimony to the value oft he. object they
have lost; but the sorrow whiolt in" every varied expression
has united the public voice, would most naturally stand
checked with the silence of iltep and :4 ffeeiottate sympathy.-be-
foie the aggravatt d loss your Serene II ighness has been called
upon to sustain yet, attached to her country by the choice of
your Ulu:di-ions and lamented Consort, revered as the sharer
and ceiAre of her domestic .rittues,and now endeared to it fur
life by every melancholy recollection of her loss ,the t ears of Eng-
land have fallen with additional bitterness for you. We mourn
over the talents which might have enriched a throne, the moral
worth which would have given them energy and consistency,
and the disappointed hopes of •futurity; hut to your Serene
highness the storm has readied the sacred asylum of home,
has rooted up blossoms of felicity too bright, perhaps, for the
terrestrial climate in which our hearts are' forbidden wholly
to rest, and the voice of outward consolation cannot reach an
infliction Peovidenee• like this. A mourning country can
only look to the arm that guided the storm, referring yotir
sufferings with its own to that Almighty Providence who call
alone weigh the fate of kingdoms in the balance-, and bind up
the broken hearts of domestic sorrow.
.Given under our common seal, in the Council Chamber of
the said City, this 21 at day of November, ISt 17.

Sottrirmitt,To7q, Drc. G.—At a numerous and respectable
Meeting of the inhabitants of this town -and neighbourhood;
convened by the'Mayor on Monday lost at• the Audit House;
addresses of Condolence were voted to his Royal Hialutess
the Prince Regent arid to his Serene Highness the Prince
Leopold of Saxe Cobounz, oii the late must melancholy es•ent
of the death of her Royal Hiehoe,s the Princess Charlotte.

CIinIsTCHURCII, DEC. 5.—A numerous and respectable,
Meeting Of the Gentry and principal inhabitants of,t his town
and the neighbourhood, took place on Thursday last, at the
Town hall, to consider of the propriety of riding .Addresses of
.condolence on the late melancholy event, to his Royal' High-
ness the Prince, Regent, and to his Serene Highness t he Prince
Leopold. George Eyre, Etq. the Mayor of the Borough,
having taken the Chair, addressed the Meeting with much
feeling, on the subject of the lamentable Zaps,' of their
assembling together, which evidently excited the sensibility
of his auditors, anti was listened to with the float touching
interest. The Right Hon. George Rose then prefaced the
troduction of the Addresses, by pronouncing an affecting
eulogy •the moral and political, public aial domestic cha-
racturmf her Royal Highness, whose loss they, in common
with all classes 'of his Majesty% Subjects, deplored and
paid a well merited compliment to the inhabitants of
the parish, .of all ranks, fur their spontaneous and so-
lemn observance of the day of her Royal Hightiess'i
meta, and to the clergyman for his excellent and appro-
priate discourse delivered on the occasion. The Addresses
being then read and proposed by. Mr. Rose, and seconded by
•fir Georg.• J. Tapps, Bart. wire tmanimoasly agreed to, as
was a vote of thanks to the Chair Man, which was proposed
by James Jopp, L,l.

FIRES IN NEIVFOUNDLAND,

[FURTHER PARTICULARS)

We gave yesterday a full account of the de-
structive conflagration which recently devastated
the town of St. John's, Newionndland.—The I°l-
- private letter contains some further par-,
ticolars ;

- Tvlti3AY, DEC. s.—Arrived the schooner
Rorer, Captain Bovvpi,-N, front St. John's, New-
foundland:in twenty days ; Voided several pas-
sengers, who report, tha( on Friday, the 7th' ot
November, aboja nine o'clock at nigiit, 4 fire
took place (supposed to he the work of incen-
diaries) between the Uppe'r and Lower King's
tVitarfs, St. John's; which continued with dread-
ful fury until eight the next ot,uoing, having de-
stioyed all the houses, wharfs, stores, fidi, &c.
• and was not entirely got under for several succes-
sive days. All ,the shipping lying at or near the
wharfs began take in the stores as fast as they
could be saved, and then hauled off, and little or
no damage happened to the vesselS. Ail embargo
(by order of Admiral Pickmore) was immedi.ttely
laid on all shipping, and no boat or vessel Untiered
to leave the harbour for one week. Among the
numerous stores, wharfs, &c. destroyed, are the
dwelling-house, wharfs, &c. of Mr. Hunter ;' all
the stores, &c. of Messrs. Atwood and Haynes,
(the largest concern, in St. John's) ; all the
stores, wharfs, &c. of Mr. Tremlett ; all the gaol
and court-house, with post-office, &c. ; all the
stores, &c. of Hart and Robertstm ; all the stores
of Bulky and Job (the north side) ; and all the
Macbrier's ; and hundreds of other houses, ships,
&c. with about 30,000 quintals of fish. To give a
just description of this dreadful fire the passengers
state to be impossible. The general distress now
prevailing, with. the loss of so many thousand.
bags of bread, barrels of pork, &c. is heart-rend-
ing ; 300 families at least, left without hotise
or home, or common necessaries of life ; people
hiring,vessels and flocking away to Halifax, anti
other parts in America, every day. The schooner
Pike sent home with the dispatches by Admiral
Piciemone, and no doubt, ere this reaches you,
will have arrived in some port in England."

DUIILI N, Nov.s.

KFLMAINHAM GAOL PARTLY CONSUMED.

About five o'clock in the evening of Wednes-
day, a most alarming fire broke out in cite west
wing of Kilmainham Prison, (the Hospital part,)
the whole of which has he,-ti consumed. There
can be little ;!oubt of the fire having been the ef-
fect of design.—lt appears that it Borst out in the
roof, ailllnst instantaneously, as we understand
that the officer who had the charge of this wing
of the building, had -been through it about five
minutes before the flames were discoVered, tvith-
°yr pet ceiving any symptoms which could occa-
sion suspicion. Fortunately, from the formation
of the budding, the flames were circumscribed,
and the communication was cut off from the re-
mainder of the Gaol. Near 200 Convicts were to
have been removed this day from the Prison to
the transport ships, and it is not improbable that
the diabolical attempt was planned Enid executed
to aid escape.
Another Dublin Paper says—" We are much
pleased to hear that the fire, which took place in
Kilmainhani, did not arise from any misconduct on
the part of the convicts. It is conjectured that
the cause might arise from setting the chinmies on
fire, for the purpose of cleansing them, which had
been done, tour or five days previous to tht sod-
dent."

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l'irfonned La.rt Night.
. • .
ttotA, Diti-;itv-LiikE.—Alachetb : Macbeth;. Mr.
Fisher; Lt!v ;V:ichet. Bartley. After Which (first
time), 'Me ip the N 1,0).
TittvricEltop ( .01;F: XT-GAPJF.N.--Jant. Shore : Lord Hast-
ings, Mr, `, 'mug- : Jane S Miss O'Neill. After which,
Htisbands -and il•ires. To ‘t hich was added, Mura's Love.

Alllllo°,o-1 Y-Toktul, 1 nubliti, 1 Waterford. bur-1 Lis-
bon, I liamburgh, I Gottenborgli, I Guernsey and Jersey.

• )'?ICE OF STOCKS.
A 7. revF.;!,vi: ciet.ectc.
3 per Cent. a:lZi 1 India Bonds... - 975.
4 per Cents. 9131 Exch. 18s 245. pe.
Bank L. Anti. 21 1-ICtli Cons. for Account......tin B:4A.

Areraze Price of Brown n iNiTn‘corado Snor, computed
from the Returns made in the Week ' the 3d day of
December, is 51s. hi. per cwt.

IllGt WATER AT LON[mN nitTOGE TO•MOl'tltntV.
Morning, 53 minutes after 3. y Evening, 18 minutes after 4.

E SUN.

SOLEM QUIS• DICERS FA LSUM A UDEAT ?

LONDON
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9,-

!The Paris Papers of'Satmliay last, tvhich %vete
clue this morning, have not come to band.

Philadelphia Papers, to the 13th of November,

arrived this morning.

It is stated in the Nashville Paper of the 30th
October, that the exports from West Tenn Ase to

Ne►v Orleans amounted, during the last year, to
more than a ►nillion and a hail of dollars.
(F ~nit the Plrittelelphia ,lournal 17.)'
" CONSULATE OF -THE UNITF.I). STATES.
" St. Pierre's, Martiftique, Oct. 20, ISI7.
_

" request you will inform the Colima-rev of Phila-
delphia that the admission of Flour from the United States is
forbid here from the 10th of this said mot:t.h.

" I have the honour to he,

" Sir, your most obedient Servant,
"To John Steele, Esq. "JOHN MITCHELL.
Collector of Philadelphia."

EXTRACT OF A LETTER P.ROM CHARLESTON (SOUTH

CArtoLINA.)

The number of deaths herr, from the 30th
of October,lBl6, to the 30th of October, ISI7,
was 1249, of which 623 were during the Months
Hof July, August, and September, 232 being of
the yellow fever•"

EKTRACT OF:A LETTER FROM CCRACOA, DATED

OCT. 4, 1817.

" The arrivals and clearances of vessels of all
nations front this port, especially from ports of
the Spanish Main, %%ithin these fast two months,
have been more than has been known for a length
of time;. therefore it appears dial commerce is
getting ve't.y brisk : tlt markets arc well rapplied
with' all kind of provisions, which are eery reason-
able in- price, and the Island' is extremely'
healthy."

As we made some 'comments on an article that
we extracted front The Juti-Galliean Monitor last.
wet k, which nave drawn forth another article in
that Paper of Sunday last, it is proper for us to
take some notice of the tatter. Mr. GOLDSMITH
seems to take rumours for_tacts, though he, who
knows the Jacobin character so well, ought to
know, that revolutionary Spirits are constantly at
wo►k on the Continent, to disturb all countries,
and to bring legitimate authority into contempt.
llence he takes for granted the reports that Prus-
sia has made unreasonable dentands on France,
though there is .no absolute proof of this fact.
Ile says also, that there is a party in Prussia
which is exciting the nation to a %%ar against the
French. That there are had men in all countries
our own Opposition Journals sufficiently attest;
but sve believe that the Prussian Monarch and the
Prussian Nation have had too much of war to be
anxious to renew hostilities. 'Mr. Gotosmmt
says that our reasoning is the same as that of the
Ultta-Royolists andAcobins ;
," namely, that the

BOURBONS can only remain on the. Ilaone o

France so lung as the Allied Troops remain there
as inaroles and watchmen," These are Air. GOLD-
smITH's words, not ours. We rather designatp
the Allied Troops as Protectors of France and of all
&trope ; and though we do not think that they

ought to stay there longer than necessity in:ty re,

ittire,yet we think that the time is still distant whet

they can safely be removed. There is certainly a
Jacobinical predominance in the French Cabinet- at
present, and while that femme shall mark its coun-
sels Europe cannot be safe. Do we not see that France
is increasing her military strength, and when a Ja-
cobiu Ministry shall have a powerful Army, ivhat
is likely to be the result, but that it will employ
the Est convenient opportunity to direct its move-
ments to the an, toNance of other countries, that it
may secure its authority at home ? The history
of the French Revolution thews that it is not a

difficult matter to convert a People into a Rabble,
and an Army into a National Banditti. " Good
mem are scarce," EIS Jov,siiAL says, and the well-
disposed, besides their peaceable and virtuous

habits, are easily OVrrbriine by a -licel;t4oll41(1;
palace, backed by plundering and barb",
soldiery. But we tlt, not 'Understand why Mr.oll/,:
titiTtt should Oils fasteb on the Utira./toyafr;
and Jacobita the simile feaSOning and the
views, The limner mitst kVish to see tl'
Country and their King in a state of-ir
curity; and though they- may feel for the I' r.
nour of France, cannot wish .their Protf.,
tors to withdilw till both are secure from
nal EuernieS. The Allied Troops restored thei'
gitimate Government, and the Ultra-Roysi°ll
lutist feel the necessity of their remaining,
Government •is placed beyond the, .power'
internal danger. The Jucobins, on the other WI:
care nothing for the honour of France, 0100
they make it a plea in their attempts .to raiser
contents among the people, and to excite
hatred againit the Allies. AS to the komposilill'
of the present French Ministry it cannot be df'
nied that some of the Members and their depril'i
etas upheld the anthori:y of the Usurper, ad':
it is impossible that the King of France cool'
from cho'ice, connect such men with his counsel);
though he cannot brand thew ,with the infani'',
they deserve, infamy indeed sufficiently brawl':
on them by the general sentiments of mankio'
yet the very circumstance of being under the fle
cessity of making such men form any part Of
Government, spews the helpless situation in
he is already placed, and to What a lattienti4)l.
state he would be reduced if the Allied Trod)
were
.to be withdrawn, and the Incobini Ole
ro render' the French Government completell
Jacobinical, Such are Out opinions, and we migb;
almost venture to say that they are the opinions°
theßritish Government, and certainly of. the Bri'
People. The-only point in which we agree vvitil
Mr. GoLDsmrrn, whose political acumen and silr
cere regard for the interest of France, olthisCool;
try, and of all Europe, we are ready to admit, 41'
who must have a profound knowledge of 1114
French Revolution, its character and its tendew
cies, is in what he says respecting the jealovsl
and petty interests among the Continental Power"
which prevented such a cordial anti deternmio(‘'
co-operation with each other„ in order to ched`
the progress of BUONAPARTE, as might have , 1;.1)
France within her proper boundaries, attd, ft:4'c
preserved the independence of other States. 106
therefore cannot better conclude this article t
maim festing our own opinions by adopting !ti°
‘vords :—" Had Prussia assisted Austria in IS3tr"
had • again Russia or Priiiisia 'asst teal Austii A 0
ISO 9, BUONAFAKTE. vvoidd nut have been the Coo'
queror of all Palnany ; nor of Spain nor of
Portogal.'-'—lint, indeed, it would be iigustio;
to thi3 Country to end here. -The' restoratie'll
of the Fiend) Monarcity, and the trannoillil
of Europe, are essentially owing to the soun'i
political principles of the immortal PITT, to the 0'
gour which he
.infused into time Counsels of lb'
British Government, to the determioatioo of 31i6
histers to act upon his system, and to time ex-anl'
pie which this country held forth to all others, ill
supporting the rights of the. people and time po'
noun of the Empire.

There "were' so many applications for T''
SUN of yesterday, on account of the article re'
speCting CERTIFICATED CONVRYANCFRS,- which
we announced on Saturday, and insevted yester'
(lay, that, as the happiness of familits and Ge
security of property depend so much on the-re'
spectability of the legal profession, we conceivc-it
to,be a part of our public duty to reprint it thi4
day.—(See our First Page.)

By the last letters-from British North Americo,
it appears that at Quebec, Halifax, St. John's
St. Andrew's, Shelburne, and various otlie
places,. Petitions to the British Government are

in a Course of signature, priqing that not anf
duty may be imposed on Timber from those
p!aces, and that the present duties on joreigt;
Timber might remain as they were: Oo this 3 tib•
ject, likewise, Meetings are intended shortly to
be held at the principal Out-ports in Gress
Britain, to petition Government to the same
effect.

'We are informed by authority on which wg
think we can depend, that the 'Allied Sovtreitios,
have come to a resolution to withdraw their tLoops
from the French territory, before the end of tpo
won't) of March ensuing. The augmentation Of
the French fiaers, therefore, must not be coosi.-
dere(' as the means of listening their rernovnl4.
but as an expedient for supplying their pia.ce.7-'
(Times)

Prince LEopoun, it is said, will pass much Of
his time, during his visit to Dorsetsi,ire,, at Cdttle,
tice retired seat 01 Lady CAltutINE DAYIES..
A prnjeet is said to be on toot to erect on soniC
public spot :t Insmmilrlii or cenotaph to the toe-
mory of the late Princess Cu stit.oTTK. .011C1ie54
rrt YORK has consented to be PatrOtte"
t,) the pian ; the expellee is to tie defrayed by sob.-
scriptions, nut to exec, dime guinea tack.
The controversy which subsists in .Etlinbnrgli
among certain literary met) to that city, is at re.
sent the general topic of conymation in LUW/4,