The Sun.
London, England, 1817-08-28 00:00:00

AMHERST AND BUONAPARTE.

The Cesar, which, in consequeire of the loss
of the Alceste frigate, recently Ininiehr huare
Lord A Nib EasT and his suite from B its% a, is the
bearer of the latest intelligence from St ll,tena
relative to the health and manner of living of the
ex-Emperor of Frauctt.—Tae Csirar having oc-
casion to touch at St. Heleua, Lord Amherst ex-
pressed a desire to be introduced to Buooapatte,
and in spite of some obstacles which presented
theMselves, his Lordship, with Captain Maxwell
rand. Mr. Lynn, surgeon of the Alceste, was al-
lowed to wait opon, him. On the 3d July, Lord
Amherst was ushered into Buouaparte's presence
at Longwood, whilst Captain Maxwell and the
St►rgeou waited in an anti-chamber. it was not
lon,g before those Officers were desired to joie.
There was nothing in the appearance of Burma-
parte which in the least indicated ill health ; on
the contrary, he looked well, and less bloated
than ordinary. In his conversation with the party,
his questions were put with his usual rapidity
indeed they followed each other in such quick
succession, that answers could only be given to
those which appeared most marked and important.
With his general curiosity, Buonaparte inquired
of the Officers what stations they filled on board
the ship, and on learning Mr. Lynn was the sur-
geon, he inquired what system of pharmacy' he
pursued. " That depends upon circumstances,"
replied the Surgeon. " I hope," 'rejoined the
General, ”" it is any Other than that practised on
this Island, for here we have the same thing over
and over again=-bleeding' and -Calomel for ever."
The conversation taking a turd on the mission of
Lord Amherst to China, his Lordship related the
cause of its failure ; which he ascribed to the ne-
cessity imposed upon him by the Emperor of
smiting the ground nineteen times with his fore-
head ; an indignity which his Lordship intimattd
could not be submitted to. 'Here Buonaparte's
answer showed the man,—" Indeed ! Now had
it suited my policy to send an Ambassador to the
Emperor of China, I should have instructed him
to kiss his great toe ; and if that would not do,
he might, if required, have saluted a,more offen-
sive part, provided my object could be attained.",
In the course of conversation Buonaparte said
he knew of no law which gave the Powers of
Europe the right of detaining him a prisoner at
St. Helena or elsewhere ; and strongly urged the
propriety of his present situation being taken into
consideration by time crowned heads of Europe.
Notwithstanding his disappointments, he still
affects great reliance on the justice of -the Prince
Regent of England, when miconnected With 14A-
tional policy, and the influence of Ministers;
and, with this impression on his mind, he ex-
pressed an anxious wish that Lord Amherst would
be the bearer of a letter from him to his Royal
Highnes, which had been p-repared some time,
with the intention of forwarding it to England.
We have reason to believe we are correct in
stating, that his Lordship undertook to deliver
the letter in question. it is said to be couched in
the most respectful terms ; but discovers a sore-
ness throughout on account of the unnecessary
restraints he alleges that he is made to undergo.
The Officers of the late Alceste found that he can
have the range of the whole island in his exercise
of riding, driving, or walking, provided he will
allow a British Officer to attend him ; but to this
he objects. As it is, he may extend his walks
about twelve Miles, but then he is liable to meet
in his perambulations British sentinels at various
points, who never fail to present arms to him.
Madame Bertrand was seen by the British Of-
ficers, and the impression made upon them was,
that she was a very handsome and clever wo.
man.—(Times.)

REGISTER OF FASHION.

THE ROYAL FAMILY.

EGHAM, AUG. 27.—The Duke of GLOUCESTER
(being one of the Stewards of E:zham Races) paid
great attention. His Royal Highness had two
tents pitched near the Stand for her MAJESTY, the
Princess ELIZABETH, and aleir attendants, with
refreshments ot every thing in season. We are
very sorry to say the Duchess was not present to
see die sport. The Duchess of lonic came in a
curricle, with her beautiful grey horses. After
the first two races the QUEEN and suite returned
to the Castle to dinner. In the evening a grand
Ball was given to the Nobility at Bham. The
crowd was so great, that when his Royal High-
ness went to attend his Duchess, he had his
pocket picked ot his pocket-book, although the
Bow-street Officers were present.

TEE MARQUIS OF HERTFORD.---We are happy
to announce the entire restoration of the Marquis
Of HERTFORD. His Lordship intends-to he
town about the middle of the ensning.month.
the 27th he proceeds to Orford. in Suffolk, to be
present at the nominating a. Mayor for• the nexl
year ; and thence goes to SudbOrne Hall. for the
hunting season, to which a numerous party is in-
vited. The PtitxcE REGENT and the ,Duke of
YoRK intend joining the circle in'Oetober.
The Earl and Countess of SPENCER are shortly
expected in town from the Isle of Wight.

The Earl and Countess STANHOPE intend lelr7
log their seat, Chevening Hall, in a few days, for
the Continent.

T. F. BARHAM, Esq. M. P. left the Earl of
Thanet's seat, in Kent, on Friday, for Geneva.
to join Lady CAROLINE BARHAM, who has resided
there for about two years.

INCLEDON Salird, on ;flinrsday last, from Liver-
pool, to fulfil his engagement with his friend
HOLMAN, in America.
JOHNSTONE and EMERY, in their way from Li-
verpool to Birmingham, performed Dennis Brul-
gruddery, and Dan, in John Bull, at the Man-
chester Theatre, to a crowdedliouse.

Tuesday morning Mr. S------, from Lower
Brook•street, a Gentleman highly respected, was
proceeding from his house in town on a visit to a
part of his family at Brighton, when he was sod.
denly taken ill in his chaise, and alighted at
Streatham for refreshment. He had just given
directions to his grand-daughter to order break-
fast, when he fell back and incantly
He was 67 years of age.

PA it LI A M ENTA R Y PAPERS.

PAPERS RELATING to the S.N.Uf DUTIES, &e:

tCoiitiau'ed. from Tuesday's Sum)

(N0.29.-licr. Bernard.)

Extracts from Second Aeport of a Committee of the
House of Comnirms, respecting,the Laws relating to
Salt Duties.—Anno 1801.
ChfsEßVATioss by William Jackson, Esq. Commissioner of

Excise.

" 'NOTICES 'JO OFFICERS:

" ari a!pv,hte necessity for their attendance at the storing
In and weighing out. of Salt ; weighing the Salt in their pre-
sence, whenever trans-shit,ped, and a..;;eitt on landing, at the
port or place of its destination ; keeping and swearing.to the
daily deliveries; and obtaining permits awl other official 10-
cunienrs, must unavoidably occasion trouble and driay. It
may not, howreer, he improper to (A:sett-L., that if the duty
Here repealed, the trade could. not perhaps be cm ital on,
and the proprietor or merchant. secured again 4 plunder.
mitliont weighing the Salt as frequently, and with nearly as
ti:uch rare, as is done at present. But the chief Objection to
the laws iiy.which the Salt Duty is guarded and collected,
ore the-forfeitures and penalties to which the merehants,ma-
nuf cturers, a,:d agents are liable, more especially in regard
of boneN•and permits. Salt removed, though but a shed dis-
tance, will unquestionably vary in weight. Stove-dried Salt,
exposed to the air, will increase in weight to a certain extent,
and that increase will be noire or less rapid in proportion as
'the air is more or less daily. Salt not dried will in general
decrease in weight, being exposed to a damp air, which
dissolve:* the particles, and necessarily occasions a waste of
the commodity.
" Tints, on Nyeighing Salt removed .by permit, or delivered
upon bond, the quantity will, perhaps, in every instance, be
found to have increased or decreased according to tine state
of the salt, the time it may have remained exposed, and the
tiampness of the air.
" Salt intended for curing and preserving fish is removed
tits ler the security of bonds, and accompanied by permits, the
effects of which, as interrupting or obstructing the trade,
have been already described.
" Fish-curers, before they can receive-Salt duty-free, must

make entry with the- Excise, and (-except where the Lords of
the Treasury shall interpose by their warrant) must provide
cellars or warehouses fur storing the salt. Thy must give
blind to aceouutonnuaily with the Excise for ail Salt receiv-
ed, and not to misapp!y any part of it. They must also verify
their annual accounts on oath, anti produce to the Excise
officer all fish for which they Mean to take credit; and they
;rre required, in sonic eases, to mark the fish in the presence
of111L• ottieers, and in ()thins to brand the casks in winch they
arc. packed.
•• These regulations are esseutiat to Ihe safety of ,the re-
venue; but they are, at the same time, troublesome and ex-
peniVe to the fish-curer.
-" The quantity of Salt allowed fur the curing of fish is, in
some CdSCS too small ; that incOnVenience, howererouight
be rt medit:a by an alteration of the law. -•

•• Whether the Salt Laws have.obstructed the Fisheries,
of prevented persons front engaging in them it is, PCrhaps,
ditbcult to ascertain : it is, however. very evident, that while
a high duty is to be collected, on Salt, •the laws which relate
to tire use of that article, duty free, eantiot be materially al-
tered or s4fely,relaxed.
`•At the same time it must he admitted, 'that those laws
neither are nor can possibly be rendered entirely effectual to
the
,prFvention of fraud...

.
'° lii part of the kingdom it has been found extremely
da,;;;lt to -apply the laws to the moth! of using Salt in the
cure of fish.

• " For preserving pilchards the Salt is repeatedly applied,
until it is become su foul, and blended with cxtraneous mat-
ter, as to he fit only for aniline, and after it has been once
and is mixed with fish scales, aid other substances, it
is hopossible to distinguish the Salt, to ascertain the quan-
tity,. or to .forui any check upon the application or expendi-
ture.

In the 1.-tst%Session of Parliament an Act was passed for
allowing-Salt duty-fl,•ese. until Octu:;cr next, for the cure of
fish for howe consuithtion, .either in buns or in barrels; and
it is asserted th;:t cz,nSiderable quantities of fish have, in con-
sequence thereof, beeu-preserved innr brought to niarliet in a
pwil state, which would.utherwise have been destroyed.
Tais Act has not been so extensively beneficial as it
perhaps might be rendered by an alteration proposed;
but by that alteration the revenue would be more exposed
to frind.

"The regulations of this Act have not, it is believed, been
complained of ; but 11)4 are by no - means ealculated to se-
cure the revenue effectually." •
" Mr. Hugh M'Cotquodale, ofLiverpool.
" IV.—Upusp what account have you declined shipping Salt
for the British Fisheries?—On account of the very heavy'
hotels which we (as agents) are, by the exi,ting law, obliged
to enter into, and the difficulty, and frequently the impos-
sibilit, of olbtaining certificates to enable us to cancel the
bonds. The agents at Liverpool ship entirely on comnnssion
of one shilling per ton, which is net by any means adequate'
tol be risk they run, as tire bond they are compelled to give
as shippers, is in a penalty of 601. per ton shipped. Many
of the fish-curers hate, upon _this account, been deprived of a
sufficient quantity, and some altogether disappointed. Were
the fish-curers- bonds to be taken from the time•itf shipping,
for such quantities as they way think proper to order, accord-
ing to the prospect-of fishing, the agents at Liverpool would
supply them as they might require; nut tf ibis or some other
mode is not adopted for the seutuity of the agents, I appre-
hend the fish-curers must suffer for the Want of sufficient or
regular supplies of Salt.
" V.—Hare you any bonds uncancelled, and to what
amount ?—There are many of our, bends Lineal-welled, the
Humber I do not exactly recollect; but,the amount is very
considt table."

6' Mr. John Holmes, of Liverpool.
"iv.—Do the fish-curers find a difficulty in procuring an
ample supply of Salt ?—Yes, fioni the agents-having refused
to ship Salt, from the difficulty. of getting the bonds cancelled,
which has been the cause of Some curers hawing been disappoint...
ed in receiving the necessary supplies. And the agents who have
shipped Salt lately for the Fisheries, have, in some instances,
been guaranteed by the fish-curer, from the penalties which
the agent might be liable to from' any waste on the voyage.:--
Others again have shipped Salt lately, niuler an idea that.
When Goternment were thoroughly acquainted with the -dith-
cultymidcr which the trade, laboured, relief would be given,
and the bonds cancelled. An allowance for waste and defi-
ciency on the royagi't,.ought in justice to be inade and this
swill appear the more reas-glable, when it is considered that
the Salt shipped for the kitheries is frequently new from the
pans, and that no stowed or nigh-tkied ;.tit is ever shipped fur
the Fisheries.

" V.—Do-you riot conceive a much greater quantity of fish
would be prOcured, were the difficulties in procuring Salt re-
moved ?',—Yea. lam of opinion the quantity of fish would he
much increased, were the restrictions taken away, and the
difficulties removed. But, in my buns')le opinion, this can-
.--not he dune, as to laying the trade entirely open, till the du-
ties are wholly taken off. A clause was-traroduced in the. Act
pf 33 of Geo. 111. cap. 89. sec. 93, which wls intended to en-
-able Ashernicii and other inhabitants on the coasts to have
Salt duty-free for Curing fish, But this indulgence has been
•.-*of no service,-as the poor fisherman cannot avail himself of
it: and the fishermen have frequently stopped catching fish
for want of persons to purchase the fish from them in a fresh
• •

topme,Committee some of the difficulties that
fish-curers Libman under ?—Without entering minutely into
,the difficulties, which wohld trespass 011 the time of the Hon.
"-!Counffittee, and• Should more pViiperly be hrought before the
~;mm.Fislzety Committee, 1 shall premise that no system can he
that will prove of such general advantage as a free
' Use of Salt, without any restriction as to the quantity, which
ought to be left at the fish-curer's discretion, as much de-
--
.peiids upon the market he intends his fish for. It would also
;Lenahle him to use inhce
,dispatch, which is a most essential
' point in the fishing trade; and although it may appear ex-
traordinary to persons not practically acquainted with the
trade, yet the complying with certain regulations, of which
. there can he no cause to complain, is the most serious grim.-
ltucCm
.....tVcurer is under a great hardship in tint having a suf-
. fitient fillowariee for Taste on the voyage in getting his Salt
from Liverpool; as it is a certain fact, there will always he a
decrease, from the nature of the article, and this will depend
tipoh the quality-CNN-Set shippe.d. And when the whole
ur any ,part is lost distress at sea, at present the law di-
, xucts, that the master and mate of time vessel carrying the
Salt shall, within a liinited tinie,'appear, and bring proof, at
'time Gerieral Quarter Sessions of the County, or. before time
. 2'Cotruniisioners in London; and it frequently happens, the
•- Quarter Sessions are nctleld within the limited thne. On
the prvseilt lair, there is-no allowance-fur Salt used in curing
• r herrings in bulk. Lords off the Treasury gave liberty
tlatmt, season, Ader,certein. regniatious; hut thsy restricted
the curer as to the-quantity of halt for which he was to take
credit in his Salt Account, hyt-Whith' som4i.frf the cargoes
which were shipped for tit?. purpose of supplying the poor,
were lauded in bad order."
[To be continued.]

LAW INTECLia&t:E.

COURT OF CHANCERY, AucysT 27.

WOOD V. GRIFEITIIS.

HART mentioned, that as no prodas was
issued, or going on in any way against the de-
frnclant, it • might he better that his Lordship
should be allowed more time to consider what
judgment he wonl,l give in the case, on condition
of the plaintiff binding himself not to take a single
step against the defendant.

The LORD CHANCELLOR.—I nut glad that yon
have no wish to press me for jodgment, thoogit
am sure I mild he very glad if i could do so, lc
is proper thLat every kind of attention .should he
giver to the cw.e, as it itivolVeS several -important
points, to which I have given the 1.110:5t set ions at-
tention, anti wish to do more in it. Let it he
then understood as my wish, and in truth my or-
der, that no- process whatever shall be issued
against the defendant till my-judgment be giVen,
and I believe I shall not do so till next term.. It
certainly would he very improper in the meantime
to take any measures against the defeddant, and
this must not be done.