The Sun.
London, England, 1816-04-05 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

AucsuullG, MAneu )I`.—The arrangements be-
tween Bavaria and Austria are terminated. Ge-
neral Baron Vflegoant lies sent a courier to Italy,
w lay them before the b.mperor for his sanction.
—Until the return of the courier, the Count de
Ricuberg is gone to 'pass some days on his estates.
Cititt.SRUHIL: M4KCil'l9.:—Otir Court, is much
satisfied with the result at the Laission at baron

SAINT JOHN's, NENVFOUNDLANI), DJ STItOYELY

UY FIRE.

EXTRACT OF 4 LETTER ?lion rLYMOUTIV, TO THE
COMMITTEE AT LLOYD'S.

" PLYMOUTH, Arm 3.-1 am sorry to inform
you, that ,t Ship is just arrived from Newfound-
land, and brings the melancholy news that St.

John's is burnt down. Report ,says, that some
of the Families are arrived in tha Vessel that

brings the account."

The Dutch Mail which arrived this morning
excites some interest, by stating, that the delay
of tie Duke nt• WELLS NGTO in leaving Pa ris to
review the Army of Occupation, is caused by
some important • matters, the nature of which is)
not known. If we may conjecture, from the
arrival of Count D'AtAvA at Brussels, however,
the subject, whatever it may be, relates more
to the Netherlands than to Great Britain.

lt is again innounced that the differences be-
tween Austria and are finally adjusted.
The Dict at Frankfort may consegmently be ex-
pected speedily to open, for the determiption of
the Germanic arrangements. There is, ‘ve la-
ment to see, great difference of opinion and many
clashing materials in that powerful Body, and it
will be no easy task to reconcile the various parts
or organize the discordant interests on a solid
foundation.

The proscribed French are compelled to leave
Brussels imniad;ately. Bon Sr. Vnsoststr •and
Frd•Aut., the Revolutionary Editors of the Nan'
Jctune, hove very properly been sent nut of that
city, under toe 3opetiiltVOdenOe' of the Police.
Little of rest or tpiiet will that country experience
which permits such Incendiaries to settle in it,
and entry oil their nefarious and dissociating
practices. •

A Chamber of Commerce nias, established in
St. Peter3burgit in the• beginning of March, under
the patronage of the Exi;aaott: 'Much benefit is
anticipated from its tabours.,

Sir Jams NRWPORT, aft.tr insisting so vehe-
mently, and so recently as Wednesday too, that
his motion on the State of Ireland should come
on last night, and after procuring a very respect-
able attendance to discuss this important toestida,
very gallantly postponed his notice to the 26th,
when he hripes to have a fuller audience to listen
to his propositions. In order to obtain this, there
is to be call of the House; and, in truth, we

coma imagine nothing snort of that compulsory
'measure which could people St. Stephen's Chapel
for sirJoutei. Oratory.-

' Lord MILTON. was stopped .by a soldier in at.
tempting to ride 'down the Space kept clear for
the. Drawing-room. yesterday. The Opposition
made a mighty story of this in the House of Coin-
mons, and it is to be hoped, that instead of
the dreadful development of military force, upon
future State occasions, Kings, Queens, Princes,
and Princesses will be content to have their con-
veniencies studied by worthy Constables, whose
staves can only break heads in keeping the peace,
While the swords of furious Soldiers are calculated
to cut the Coxcombs of either troublesome Lords
or boisterous Ragamuffins, On the present oc-
casion, it seems, oddly enough, that our Constitution
was likely to be lost on Constitution Hill. We
do not like to jest on so grave a subject, but
truly Lord MILTON'S danger, and his friends
speeches about it, remind us strongly of " Much
Ado about Nothing."

We continue, as will be seen, our Regular
Summary of Important Parliainentary Papers, and,
under this title, lay every Return printed for the
House of Commons that deserving of the name
of information before the Public. Numerous hoist-
ever as these abstracts are, our Readers would be
astonished at the ma of waste paper from
which we select them, and the country indignant
at the extravagance with which its money
is squandered upon the production of the utterly
useless documents with which every Whipster in
_Opposition thinks he has a right to load the Re-
cords and Tables of Parliament. NVe slightly advert-
ed to this subject yesterday, but cannot help con-
sidering it tvorthy of more distinct animadversion.
Every night new motions are made.for papers which
cost the Nation large sums in having prepared and
printediand when they are produced,jt is found that
there is neither end nor object in view in calling for
them; that they are expensive, useless, and waste. It
would he well that the Economists refrained from.
this silly practice, or that Ministers resisted thesis
on the grounds of the inutility and expence of
their motions. The salary of a poor discharged
clerk is swallowed up in an idle demand for what
conveys no intelligence; Or such intelligence as is
already before Parliament, or intelligence which is
not wanted for any practical purpose.. It may be
thought that each paper costs but .a trifling sum,
but people will start when they find a hundred
thousand pounds thrown away in this manner in
the course of a Session. We again repeat that it is,
the duty of Ministers to set their faces against this
growing evil, or it they decline doing so, from
knowing the misrepresentations to which their re-
fusal of Papers is likely to expose them, we trust that
some independent Member will take the opportu-
nity of directing the attention of the House to this
subject. I-Ic can be at no loss for grounds on which
to put it to the vote, whether they will continue
to burthen the people with this needless expendi-
ture. Let hint take up a bundle of the Returns,
&c. ordered within the bust few weeks, and he
will find one with an account of Lord CUCHAANV'S
lanterns, accompanied by plates, another of 30
or 40 pages about Mr. GRENFF,LL'S taxes, a third-
of forms for affidavits, copies of dozens of appoint-
ments made out in the customary words,
multi-
tudes. of lists which are irt every Almanack in
England, and countless reams of Army, Navy,
and other Returns, so inconceivably trifling, that
we are lost in wonder to conjecture for what
earthly purpose. they 'could ever have hien asked.

/laving-called atteutioit.tO this matter, We shall
leave, it „in him& Which. we hope will stop this
profusiOn, 'atul save the Country some sixty or
eighty thousand pounds annually wasted in this
manner,.

A Morning Paper of to-day advocates the kis-
tics of depriving Lord
.CAMDEN of a " vested
right,": and very honestly.produces, the argument
against his Lordship that the People " have
something more than a veiled right to be relieved
from starving." Not being such able logicians
as the 'writer of this paragraph, we confess we
camuit perceive, the applicability any - more
than the eandmir or patriotism of this invidious
and inflammatory discourse. We know not
why an act of injustice should be particularly
perpetrated against Lord CAmoasi,: nor can we
discover any good reason fot tlestroying a legal
right in him beyond what might suffice for violet-
ing the property of the Writer himself. If a vested
right is ta be disregarded, we wmild recommend it to
this' new apoStle of revolutionary principles in Eng-
land (us a contrast, we soppose, to his support of
anti revolutionary principles in France) to advo-
,cate the nnivermil and not the partial rupture of
all these bonds which separate the poor fromlhe
rich, secure the man of property from the inroad
of the man of no property, and protect every indi-
vidual:ln his lawful possessions. Why should'
he , stop with Lord Comes: I Why not
let us hare a sweeping 'annihilation of "vest-
ed 'rights" if we are,to have one at all : Inc
the former toight do good,- by relieving us from
.
many weighty obligations, while the latter is la
breach .of principle and sacrifice:of character for a
inure paltry and inefficacious purpose. Pray let
theLearited--Gentleman be 'cortaisteat.
gad sub-
'Bluely unjust,

SUN-UFFICIi,
UALI PAST VNI% U

We have just been favoured with a letter from
Newfoundland, dated 23d February, and brought
by the schooner Pike, which sailed thence on thet
25th, having with notch difficulty got clear of
thv ice. As any particulars of the disastrous Eire
at St. John's must be interesting, we stop the.

press to give the substance of this letter. "
The fire broke out on the 12th, about eight
o'clock in the evening,' and consumed beleil
a htindred and thirty and a hundred anti Nat
Louses. What increased the danger, and added'4
the extent of this calamity, was the svay in whialk
the town of St. John is built. r The houses are
entirely of wood ; not a brick being used, excett:
in the chitnnies. They are also irregularly 10.1
and huddled together, as suited the conveniency
of their various owners, and without regard tG
safety or order. A tremendous gale front the Solt11•4
cast was blowing when the fire commenced, and
threatened the total destruction of the place. To
wards morning, however,, a heavy snoVv
had been falling up to this period changed int4t
rain, and materially checked the rapidity of, tbo,
progress of the devouring eleMent. The extraoo,'
(Unary exertions of the Navy, Array, and Publitt
Departments, is represented as beyond Olie.
Several houses %rem pulled down before tbe,
flames reached them, and thus the coramunicationC
being cut off, the injury was limited to the neal4: '
ber of habitations specified. We are sorry tol!/:.
that the lower order of the populace gave tl.O,
selves up to plunder, instead of assisting tll6'
,wretched fellow-creatures, of whom 1500 We':
been rendered destitute, during a rigorous and
clement season., by this awful visitation. Their`
houses and provisions are detroyed, and what'
augments their distress is the impossibility
vessels entering the port with supplies, in cOns",
quence of the ice. The other inhabitants ;As":
their store with these unfortunates,. but sorbealr
a loss must be felt by all. A liberal subseriPti7
wasientered upon,which afforded temporary rebel,
and we have no doubt but it will be benevoleatil
aidedby
rapidity
r:sintilar measure in this country. ,
with which the houses ,were cones
etr;ivee r
sunned is described as almost inconceivable
Many of their inmates had barely time to escape
stand
naked,tlal
ntdst
shivering
e rni merely e
iyn
We rejoice
their eyes. •
,to add, that report speaks of
they bad in the world perished before
one life lost on this melancholroccasion.
setdortt'"l'itahntib'.l:oltlve,g'wrilitei

Dispatches from St. Helena have been receive`K
BUONAPARTE Was in good health, and apparel",
resigned to his situation.

•••
The lifornblk•Pronicte to-day, after noticing at
few.of the Retrenchments in the War and Colot
Department which take place from this dare,
the amount of about 40001. a-yesr;
" And this is all the mighty work of Retren',
meta we are to expect'!" Surely the poor rt"t",
wits are gone, for no sane person could forget.
that he has, for weeks past, been chronicling dal
by day retrenchments to the amount of sever':
oiillions a year ! ;
The CHANCELLOR of the Exctinaosn, ;1,
Committee of the whole House, on the "1t ilia
last night, proposed a Resolution for taking ova(
War Duty of 2s. per bushel, on every hohei
Malt made in England after the sth of July aegi,
and a similar Resolution as related to Seotlandr.
The Right Hon. Gentleman also proposed a rel
lotion for allowing a drawback of 16s. upon evcri
oi)ef tthreejcruel
ebynatriehexeirs,BotafhnAndfl etahoer Pinter brewed in g I '11,;1
Me and Porter brewed pirneselSictotmlaolindthiaant4ll:l;:::
period. But, in ansup'erroptoorgiluoentatitoensdrplisivtbtao:kiin'ti,i,::
lie said, he had no intention of making any
ance to Brewers tar their stock on baud
Right lion. Gentleman also 'stated, that it :4:01
his intention on Monday to propose n' lees— r,
for relieving the small Farmer from some Prq"
tion of the Agricultural Horse. Duty.
the
fo, 2r,tthheofrtehpis ea
ml
Lord ALTHORPB intends to bring forw- after
about onofthT.axes We "Pe
" 11;lb
Resolutions of the General Meetings,
°l)sherl%;e
l artier
;
verpoot, Maidstone, Oxford, and in °tiler 1'1,4t
of the kingdom without exception, that tltglts
tition resolved upon correspond with the lof
Lord's notice, Alit is, they are for the rePett
the whole of the Taxes and Restrictions.Co
CITY Bustrass.--Yesterday, a CC:4llft .
0,0
mon Council was held at Guildhall, whica,,,itl,
numerously attended.-.---The 'Navigation Cou'rtiatt.
tee reported on their• proceedings on the 'rid
in the House of Lords on the Southwarkintp 13r1 sit
Bill, whereby the Company liad entered
agreement, under their seal, tor ni4ing te°b4iic,
rary stairs for the accommodation of P,u.)01.6
within 100 feet of the present stairs, et 'ld be
Cranes, during the time the latter stairs slioai
stopped up by their tvorks ; and also for .1.1.? o,i&
the first receipts of the'toll for complelnioe:
north avenue from the said bridge f° a 14.
Thames street ;,which report was regd nu•eieed
proved of, and a counterpart of the slid
ineptre
was
for Ger
sealedeiiwail Purposest with the
C t yr
epo
sealr.---
;
nlit
persist) should be allowed to becomei a celt n der
ter cba otEceofMars
eal rrrisan
30, who sf►oitltl he u~Gts
or exceeding 40 years of
h; c‘
Na.r.natt• offered his resignation of
Marshall whicl accepted,