The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-07 00:00:00

notice.

American Papers have been received. They
observe that the expedition which sailed on the
sth of July from the Havannah against Mexico,
is supposed to have landed on the Mexican
coast, from the circumstance of the Bingham,
one of the transports that conveyed the Spanish
troops, having been spoken, on the 22d of July,
in the Gulf of Mexico for New Orleans. A
second expedition was fitting out at the Hawn-
nah, the destination of which was supposed to
be either the coast of Mexico or of Colombia,

A conspiracy to overthrow the Government had
been detected at Lima, and the principal con-
spirators had been arrested. Extracts from these
Papers will be found under their proper head.

By the German Papers which arrived this
morning we learn, on the authority of private
letters, received by way of Hamburg from St
Petersburg!), that Count DIEBITSCH had en-
tered Adrianople, and Count PASKEWITSCH
Trebisond. The reports are not much entitled
to credit, but we give them as a specimen of the
on dits of the day. Another rumour, which is
also of a doubtful complexim, states that the
Treaty of the Gth July was definitively agreed to
by the PORTE on the evening of the 7th inst.
A hatti-scheriff was shortly to be published,
proclaiming liberty to Greece. Accounts
from Belgrade state that the GRAND
VIZIER was reported to have arrived from

Shumla with part of his troops at Adrianople,
which the rumour above alluded to announced
to have been entered by Count DIEBITSCH.
Other accounts mention that the Russians are ad-
vancing rapidly towards Kirk-kilissa, that Count
DIEBITSCH has 60,000 men under his com-
mand, and that the enemy cannot muster
strength to oppose his progress. This, we think,
is the most likely account of any.
HAMBURG, Ace. 31. —Private letters from St.
Petersburgh of the 22d instant announce, that shortly
before the departure of the steam-boat official news had
been received that Count Diebitsch had entered Adrianople,
and Count Paskewitsch Trebisond. However, as we
learn from Belgrade, that on the 13th inst. Adrianople was
still in the possession of the Turks, and as the report of
Count Paskewitsch, which came down to the 22d of last
month, does not speak of operations against Trebisond,
these statements require confirmation.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Ace. 10.—The Treaty of 6th
July was definitively agreed to by the Porte on the evening
of the 7th instant, subsequently to the receipt of an urgent
note from the British Ambassador, in which he is said to
have declared that "on acceding to the terms of the
Treaty, to which England had bound herself, the Porte
would he immediately taken under the protection of that
Power, and might rely upon her assistance." A Hatti
Scherif is shortly to be published, proclaiming liberty to
Greece.

No intelligence probably ever caused such a sensation
here, and general anxiety is felt respecting the influence
which it will have on the march of the Russians. It is said
that an English advice-boat has sailed to-day for Bourgas.
The Russians are advancing rapidly towards Kirk-
kilissa, and the force that can be opposed to them is not
sufficient to stop so enterprising an enemy. It is known
that Count Dichitsch 1111560,000 men under his command.
The Porte has published no account of recent events, hut

it is affirmed that the Grand Vizier has left Shumla with
most of his troops and gone towards Selimno, whence he
hopes to reach Adrianople, which has not been put in a
state of defence. The Sultan is sometimes at Terapia,
and sometimes in Ramis Tchiflik, and neglects nothing to
forward the measures taken for the defence of the capital.
Tranquillity prevails every where, and the Government
doubles its vigilance to maintain order. On the approach
of danger this is the more necessary, as several of the great
men advise peace, and this wish is even repeated in the
Divan. Of the levy of 80,000 men, ordered some time
ago, about the half hare been raised.
BELGRADE, Aix. 17.—This afternoon, the Pacha re-
ceived dispatches by a Tartar, who came in four days from
Adrianople. The Grand Vizier is said to have arrived
from Shumla, with part of his troops, for the defence of
that important city, leaving Hussein Pacha to command
in Shumla.
HAMBURG, SHPT. I.—ln our Borsen-halle article of
Friday we alluded to the report then already pretty gene-
rally circulated here, that the conditions of the Treaty of
the 6th of July had been consented to by the Ports, and
that couriers had been sent to the different Courts with
the intelligence. The report has since been most indus-
triously kept afloat ; but we regret to say, that no official,
or even demi-official confirmation, of so welcome an event,
has yet reached us ; on the contrary, we are apprehensive
that the total silence of the Prussian State Gazette and
the Austrian Observer must be considered in the light of
a tacit contradiction.

BORSEN-HALLH, FOUR O'CLOCK.-Transactions in
Funds have not been very extensive to-day; but prices are
firm, at the quotations below :

_
!End of August.
Anglo-Danish Loan, 5 per cent
Anglo-Russian Loan 96%
Hamburg-Russian Loan 9osi
Polish Bonds lOO
Austrian Bank Shares 1135
Austrian Metalliques DS%

His Majesty's ship Druid has at length ar-
rived at Portsmouth from Vera Cruz, and various
other places, last from Curacoa. She brings a
large amount of specie, and a quantity of Co•
chineal, on merchants' account.

The weavers, we regret to say, are again at
work with the old story of riot and insubordi-
nation. During the past week, they have been
distinguishing themselves at Barnsley in that
particular line of business, which will, no doubt,
entitle a few of them to take a high rank as con-
victs on board his Majesty's hulks. At Man-
chester, too, if not absolutely riotous, they are
still sullen and threatening ; and, " after twenty
weeks' suffering," (we quote the language of the
Manchester Times of Saturday) " still seem
determined to starve on rather than submit to
the terms offered by their employers." Now, can
any thing be . more preposterous than this?
Sooner than accept a little, and wait confidently
and unmurmingly the approach of better times,
which cannot be far off—for we never yet knew a
period of commercial languor that was not al-
most immediately afterwards succeeded by a re-
action in trade—these unfortunate mechanics
prefer taking nothing at all ! Starvation, they
think, is better than poverty, and perverseness
the certain key to success. For their own sakes,
we hope they may find it so, but the experiment
at best is dangerous, and should it not succeed,
cannot fail to involve them in distresses, deeper
—far deeper than any into which they have yet
been plunged.

The case lately before the public of the arrest
of an innocent person by the clerk of Mr. C LILL-
COTE, an attorney, in the absence and without

the authority of his master, upon a false affidavit
of debt, naturally suggests the reflection whether
any means can be devised for the better protec-
tion of the public against offences of this nature.

The question of the expediency of the system
of arrest for debt in general does not exactly
arise out of this transaction, as it was one where
the power of those who are authorized to hold
persons to bail, was usurped by one who
was wholly unauthorized ; and it is there-

fore more immediately useful to consider how,
in the event of the continuance of the law of
arrest, similar frauds may be prevented in future.
There is no probability of arrests being abolished
at present—the commercial world are not yet
prepared to part quietly with so powerful a re-
medy against debtors ; and without giving an
opinion here upon its justice, it should not be
overlooked that the manner in which our trade
is carried on absolutely requires credit, and often
very long credit, to be given ; and therefore we
doubt whether the abolition of arrests would
have the effect of making merchants and trades-
men shorten their present credits, as is strenuously
insisted in some quarters.

It is well known that our Courts exercise over
solicitors a special jurisdiction, arising from their
being in fact officers of the Court—that the
Judges frequently :fine them for malpractices ;
and in case of gross offeNces, like that we allude
to, strike them off' the roll, and thereby disqua-
lify them for ever from the practice of their pro-
fession. The Solicitors themselves, therefore,

being in a situation of immediate responsibility,

the point seems to be to prevent the indiscri-
minate use of their names upon writs by clerks
and others ; and we should suggest, that in addi-
tion to the present regulation, requiring the at-
torney's name to appear upon the writ, such
name should be obliged to be in the handwriting
of the attorney himself, and that counterparts of
the signatures of every London attorney (as no
other can issue a writ) should be deposited in
the Seal-office, through which all writs neces-
sarily pass.

This regulation would be a great security
against fraud, and would compel every attorney

to be personally conversant with the circumstances
under which an arrest is made in his name.

In London the plaintiff himself makes the oath
before the proper officer of the Court, who signs
the writ, but when an affidavit made iii the country
is presented, the officer has no means of knowing
whether it be a forgery or not, beyond the sig-
nature of the Commissioner by whom the plain-
tiff is sworn, and which signature the officer is
seldom, if ever, familiar with. It would be de-
sirable, therefore, if counterparts of the signa-
tures of all Commissioners were kept by the
signers of the writs ; and if it should be objected
that every country attorney is a Commissioner,
and their signatures would be too numerous to
be promptly referred to, the answer is that
their number ought to be reduced. One Com-
missioner is quite sufficient for a moderately
sized town, and two or three for the large:t

(which would then be as well off as the metro-
polis), and their diminution would, we think,
add to their respectability as officers of trust, and
add weight to the solemnity of oaths which can
be but lightly regarded when administered by
the meanest and most contemptible of practi-
tioners.

Experience certainly shows that no means for
preventing frauds are infallible ; but it is surely
the duty of the Legislature to use every exertion
in its power to remove the temptations offered
by the present system to unprincipled persons,
who are aware how little risk they run in making
attempts like that of Mr. CHILCOTE'S clerk ;
and we think the Law Commissioners would do
well to turn their attention to the subject. It
answers little purpose for people to declaim
against arrest altogether—the time is not yet ar-
rived for its removal ; but, in the meanwhile,

those will do the greatest service to the community,
who exert themselves the most for the reforma-
tion of the abuses to which this system is unfor-
tunately at present liable.