The Sun.
London, England, 1827-07-10 00:00:00

STEAM PACKETS.

"WILLIAM ALDHA:I AND FIFTY OTHERS (SUING AS THE
PROPRIETORS OF A STEAM PACKET CALLED THE LEE),

PLAINTIFFS, AND ABRAHAM MEREDITH AND RARA-

CHIAS GLASCOTT, DEFENDANTS.
This cause came on to be tried in the Court of
Common Pleas, before the Right lion. the LORD
CHIEF JUSTICE of the said Court, on Saturday last
the 7th inst., when it was stated by Mr. S. Wilde,
as Counsel for the 51 plaintiffs, that the action was
brought to recover the sum of 4831. 7s. 9d. as due
from the defendants (two respectable gentlemen of
the City of Bristol, who had acted as agents to and
for the plaintiffs), being a claimed balance of money
received by them for the use of the plaintiffs, (a
Company formed at Liverpool, and owners of a
Steam-vessel called the Lee, trading between Bristol,
Liverpool, and Cork), to which the defendants had
given a set off for monies due to them as
Agents, for certain persons forming a Company
called the St. George Steam Packet Company,
at Liverpool aforesaid, by which Company three
other steam-packets, called the Severn, Emerald Isle,
and St. George, as well as the said packet called the
Lee, were placed under the care and management,
at the city of Bristol, aforesaid ; during which agency
very considerable sums of money were due and ow-
ing to the defendants on the account of the said
steam-packets, called the Severn, Emerald Isle, and
M. George, and of which they (including the money
claimed by the plaintiffs for the Lee,) had (in the
month of February last) transmitted to the said
Company, called the St. George Steam Packet Com-
pany, a general account, ascertaining a balance to the
said defendants on all the before mentioned packets.
The plaintiffs rested their case on the proof of the
SUMS stated to be due to them as proprietors of the
Lee only, contending that the other steam-packets
were not part of their concern placed under the de-
fendants' agency ; but, on examining witnesses, and
inspecting various letters and documents written and
sent by the plaintiffs' agent at Liverpool and one of
the plaintiffs to the defendants, the Learned Judge
left it to the Jury to say whether the evidence
given by the defendants, and the inspection of such
letters and documents, did not lead them to conclude
that, the defendants were general agents for all the
said steam-packets, and not the steam-packet called
the Lee exclusively; of which opinion the Jury
were, and immediately returned a verdict for the de-

fen dan ts.
Counsel for the plaintiffs—Mr. Sergeant WILDE
and NIL HOLT.
Counsel for defendants—Mr. Sergeant TADDY
.and Mr. Sergeant LUDLOW.

At Orgon, in France, a toad and two mussels
have lately been taken out of the bottom of a
deep well sunk in the rock, and re-opened after
having been filled up for 150 years. One of
the mussels and the toad are still preserved alive
in some of the water in which they were found.

It will be recollected that some days ago a
melancholy occurrence took place at Stoke by
Nayland, in Suffolk, six individuals having been
poisoned in consequence of eating a pudding in
which a quantity of arsenic was mixed up by mis-
take. Soon after partaking of the pudding, Mr.
Simpson, the husband of the lady who unfortu-
nately mixed up the arsenic with the flour in
mistake, died in great agony, as also did the ser-
vant girl who lived with them. The other four
persons, one of whom was their grandchild, sur-
vived the effects of the poison, but have been
left in a very debilitated state ever since. On
Monday, 2d inst.. an inquest sat on the bodies
of Mr. Simpson and the girl alluded to at the
village above named, before Mr. John Wayman,
and a respectable Jury. The following are the
circumstances attending the unfortunate catas-
trophe :—lt appeared that about a fortnight
ago, Mr. Simpson borrowed of a neighbour
about an ounce of arsenic, for the purpose
of destroying rats, with which his premises
abounded. Having used a small portion of it, the
remainder was placed in the pantry, without,
however, the precaution of either labelling or
tying it up, so as to distinguish it from coarse
flour, for which it was subsequently mistaken.
. The arsenic was lying on a piece of paper near
a jar of flour, and on the morning in question,
Airs. Simpson, desirous of giving her family a
treat,) went to the pantry, and having used all the
flour in the jar in the preparation of a pudding,
not having a sufficient quantity to make it into
the proper consistence, she unluckily took up
the paper containing the poison, and conceiving
it to be a little flour which she had left out in
making starch, mixed it up in the pudding. Im-
mediately after the family had dined they were
all taken ill ; the deceased persons having eaten
more freely of it than the rest, expired in two
hours. A verdict of " Accidental Death" was
returned.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Gazette de France, dated Sunday, July 8.)
" CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNE 11.—Before the Porte
made known in writing its formal refusal to admit
the intervention of Foreign Powers in the affairs of
Greece, the Russian Ambasador had had his audi-
pee in the palace of the Porte, and received on that
occasion presents of horses and pelisses more splen-
and valuable than are usually given on such
occasions.

grom another Letter of the 11th. )
" There would be reasons to infer, from the late
measures taken by M. de Ribeaupierre, that that
Minister will make a long stay here; but many per-
sons doubt of this, on account of the written refusal
of the Porte to listen to the proposals in favour of
the Greeks, and they are rather inclined to believe
that the crisis is at hand.

".The declaration made by the Porte on the 9th
June is in substance as follows :-6 The Porte must
reject the proposals--Ist. Because they are contrary
to the doctrine of the absolute obedience which
subjects owe to their legitimate Sovereigns; 2d.
Because the right of the Sovereign to regulate his
affairs himself cannot suffer any diminution, and
because the chief as well as the people of the Mus-
sulmans have never permitted such an intervention;
3d. Because these proposals are contrary to the de-
clarations made on his return from Verona by Lord
Strangford, the late English Ambassador, who
affirmed that he would never interfere in this affair ;
4th. Because they are equally contrary to the con-
vention of Akermann.—Augsburgh Gazette.
" PARIS, JULY 7.—The last letters from Rome
iay that the Pope has had a relapse.
- - - -

" The following is in the Veradique, dated Mar-
Seines, June 28 M. Ricard Jarrat sailed this
morning with the Pacifique, Captain Hermitte, car-
rying his artillery with him.
" Sutton, the nephew of Lord Cochrane, who ar-
rived here on board the Unicorn schooner, brings a
despatch for M. Eynard, and states, that up to the
tth of this month the Greek fleet was in excellent
condition, consisting of the fine frigate the Hellas,
'4,ith a crew of 500 men, commanded by Miaulis,
ps Captain under Lord Cochrane, of the Saviour
rig, of the steam-boat, of two corvettes, or three-
tnasted vessels, formerly merchantmen belonging to
ponduriotti, and of 12 Greek brigs, belonging to
the same 'chief.

" However, their prizes are limited to a Turkish
chip laden with gunpowder; for two Egyptian fri-
'gates, to which they gave chase, escaped by favour
of the night. They have been received by the com-
manders of the French and English squadrons, and
even by the Captain of an Austrian frigate, with de-
?nonstrations of joy and friendship, which show that
they were already, informed of the present determi-
nation of their respective Governments. In fact,
letters from Alexandria say, that Admiral Rigny has
persuaded the Pacha to defer for three months the
fdeparture of the new, squadron intended for the Mo-
rea. The Pacha is also resolved to have a fleet in
the Black Sea, and has bespoke four more frigates
in Sweden, and six at Venice. The cost of build-
ing at Marseilles is too high for him, and the build-
ing of the frigate on the stocks here is discontinued.
IThe bomb-vessels necessary for Algiers are fitting out
at Toulon."
(From the Journal des Debats of Saturday.)
LISBON, JUNE 20.—We are assured that under
the new Ministry, business will be transacted with
more despatch, and it is already said that Sir W.
lA'Court, who was blamed for the indifferent ma-
iagement of affairs of the late Administration, has
fen ti rely changed his proceedings.
'lt is supposed, that divers decrees of the Empe-
ror of Brazils will be published as soon as M. de
!Palmella arrives, the preceding Administration hav-
ing opposed such a course.
The Princess Regent remains at Bemfica, and ap-
Imears to be in good health at present; shehas display-
al much firmness of character in the late change of
the Ministry.

The Spanish Refugees are suffered to remain un-
molested these several days past, however four of
them were arrested yesterday, having been accused
of an intention to organise a Guerilla for the inva-
sion of Spain.
Three ships belonging to the English squadron
stationed in the Tagus are to sail immediately on a
cruize before Brest, for the purpose of receiving
the Infant Don Miguel, who is to embark for the
Brazils.

As the Marquis de Monteyro has declined tile
office of Minister of Finance, the Minister of the
Navy has been charged ad interim, with the conduct
of that department.
The arrival of the Marquis de Pahnella had been
expected; the Secretary at War has therefore ac-
cepted the Foreign Office, which the declining Mi-
nister of Finance was to have undertaken.

PARIS, JULY 6.—His Royal Highness Prince
Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, accompanied by Lord
Granville, at twelve o'clock,paid a visit to his Ma-
jesty, which lasted for an• hour. His Royal High-
ness afterwards visited the Dauphin and Dauphiness.

(From the tonstitutionnel.)
PARIS, JULY 6.—On the day before yesterday
(the 4th of July), the citizens of the United States
residing at Paris, to the number of 80,
,met at the
Cadran Bleu, Mr. Barnet, their Consul at Paris,and
Mr. Lyon, the Consul at Lyots, acting as Chair-
man and Croupier, to celebrate the 91st Anniver-
sary of American independence.
On Monday, at six o'clock in the evening, a ter-
ribls? hurricane burst over Arcis sur Aube. Part of
the leads of the Church and the roofs of more than
twenty Muses were carried away by the wind.
Almost an eiztire row of poplars, near the mills,
were either striplw.i of their branches, or broken.
A woman in the fields was thrown forward several
paces, and broke her -arin in the fall. Several
pieces of the lead from the roof of the Church, of
extraordinary size and weight, were colind at consi-
derable distances. During the continumie. of the
tempest, there was very little either of lightning rir
of thunder; but the wind was terrible, and the rain
fell in torrents. It was-a species of waterspout,

(From the Quotidienne.)
PARIS, JULY 6.—The persons appointed by the
President of la Loire Inferieure, to the office of
Censors over the Journals of the Department, at
Nantes, are the Viscount Walsh, author of the
Vendean Letters, Mr. Bouteiller, and Mr. de Con.-
.
tenem.

On Monday the populace of Limerick evinced
a disposition to oppose any potatoes leaving the
market, except for home consumption, and the
streets continued in a tumult the greater pait of
the day. In Tipperary and its neighbourhood
there exists a great scarcity of provisions amongst
the labouring classes, and the Magistrates per-
mitted some car-loads of potatoes to proceed in
that direction, under an escort of Police, fol-
lowed for a short distance by a detachment of
the Scots Greys.—Tipperary Free Press.
THE WAKEFIELDS.—(FROM A CORRES-
PONDENT.)-It is, we believe, a circumstance
not generally known, that the Wakefield family
are allied by marriage to his Royal Highness the
Lord High Admiral. Mr. William Wakefield,
brother to Mr. E. G. Wakefield, and who is at
present confined in Lancaster Castle, having,
been married at Paris a short time after his
brother had carried off Miss Turner, to Miss
Louisa Sydney, daughter of Sir John Sydney,
Bart., of Penshurst Park, in Sussex, whose son
and heir, Capt. Philip Sydney, of the Life Guards
married one of the Miss Fitzclarences previous
to Mr. William Wakefield being united to Miss
Sydney, consequently Mrs. William Wakefield
is sister-in-law to Mrs. Sydney, and niece by
marriage to his Royal Highness the Duke of
Clarence,

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LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 10, 1827.

The Paris Papers of Saturday, and the Ga-
zette de France, dated Sunday morning, reached
us last night. They contain the reasons said
to have been assigned by the Porte, for refusing
the intervention of Foreign Powers in behalf of
Greece, namely.-Ist. Because they are con-
trary to the doctrine of the absolute obedience
which subjects owe to their legitimate Sovereigns.
2d. Because the right of the Sovereign to re-
gulate his affairs himself cannot suffer any dimi-
nution, and because the Chief, as well as the
people of the Mussulmans, have never permitted
such an intervention. 3d. Because these pro-
posals are contrary to the declarations made on
his return from Verona by Lord STRAWGFORD,
the late English Ambassador, who affirmed that
lie would never interfere in this affair. 4th. Be-
cause they are equally contrary to the Conven-
tion of Akermann.

These papers also contain the Proclamation
of the Greek National Assembly at Trezene,
on the close of the Session, which we gave yes-
terday from the German Papers. It is said also,
that before breaking up, the Assembly resolved
to exclude the Clergy from all political employ-
ment, to authorize Count CAPO D'IsTRIA to
contract a loan of five millions, and to give to
General CHURCH the command of all the
fortresses.

Extracts of these Papers are in another column,
and we subjoin the price of the Funds in Paris
on Saturday.

FRENCH FUNDS, JULY 7.—Five per Cents. 103 f. ;
Three per Cents. 73f. ; Bank Stack, 2,015 f. ; Neapolitan,
78f. 10c. ; Spanish Loan, 1823, 611.---Exchange on
London, one month, Paper, 25f. 35c. ; Money, 25f. 30c. ;
Three Months, 25f. 20c. ; Money, 25f. 20c.

We received last evening Hamburg!' Papers
to the 7th inst., which were brought by the
William Jollife Steam-vessel. According to the
accounts from Copenhagen to the 3d instant, the
Russian fleet for the Mediterranean was daily
petted there on its way to the Mediterranean. The
terms on which the Citadel of Athens capitulated
are given from the Austrian Observer, and will
he found in another column. We subjoin a few
extracts :

" Coexxnarcrr, JULY S.—On Saturday the Russian
frigate sailed for Amsterdam with Prince Wolchonski, and
Princess Gallitzin, his sister. On the same day another
Russian frigate anchored in thv.outer road, where a transport
arrived . some days ago belonging to the great fleet that is
expected. On Sunday it sailed to the North Sea. The
English steam-boat George IV. arrived on SundaY from
St. Petersburgh, took some passengers on board for
London, and sailed again on Sunday.
" F/CANKFORT, JULY I.—A very severe ordinance
against poachers has been issued in Schwartburgh Son-
dershausen. The penalty for killing a stag is 500 dollars ;
for a wild boar, 500 ; for a buck, 100 ; for a swan, '75 ;
a hare, 50 ; a bustard, 50 ; a partridge, 30, 2cc. If the
poaching is at a forbidden time, the penalty is doubled."

EiCHANGIS ON LONDON.
HAMBUROH, JULY 6.-36 7 ; two months, 36 4.
LEIPSIC, JULY 2.—Two months, 6 15g.
BERLIN, JULY 3.—Three months, 6 261.

Mexican Papers to the 10th, and from Vera
Cruz to the 13th May, were received yesterday-
Their contents are not important. The letters
received by the same opportunity are also very
barren of political intelligence. The execution
of the sentence pronounced against the Priest,
ARENAS, has been postponed, in consequence
of irregularities having been discovered in the pro-
ceedings of the Court by which he was tried.
The proposition for withholding public employ-
ments from Spaniards, until the Court of Madrid
should recognize the Republic of Mexico, was
debated in the Senate on the 24th and 25th of
April, but the question had not been disposed
of. The disvvssion of a new tariff and Custom'
house regulations hada-lief:ly occupied the Cham-
ber of Deputies. The project of a law for pro-
hibiting the founding of benefices, majorats, and
certain other ecclesiastical and civil institutions,
had been introduced ; and also one for prevent-
ing convents, congregations, and fraternities,
from receiving • testamentary bequests. In the
preamble in which the grounds on which this
measure is proposed are stated, the ruinous
effects which Spain has experienced from such
establishments is forcibly described.

We have received this forenoon Frankfort
Papers of the 3d instant, and the Austrian
Observer of the 28th ult., which furnish the
Articles :
following

swiTzERLANDyiuNx 27.

M. Herzog, Minister Plenipotentiary of Wurtemburg,
is expected at Zurich in the course of the month of July,
in order to discuss together with the Minister Plenipoten-
tiary of Bavaria, and the Commissioners of the Diet, the
modifications which it is requisite to make in the Treaty
between the kingdom of Wurtemburg and the Swiss Con-
federation, in consequence of the Convention which has
been recently concluded between Bavaria and Wurtemburg.

BERLIN, JUNE 28.
The last Number of the " Bulletin of the Laws," pub-
lishes an ordinance containing the regulations for the pro-
vincial estates of the Duchy of Silesia, the County of Gist;
and the Margravi*te of Upper Lusatia. The Estates will
consist of— _ _

1. —ln the class of Princes and Nobles, 10 votes.
2.—ln the Equestrian order, 116 votes.
3.—Class of the Deputies of the cities and towns, 30

Deputies ; and for the cornmwaes of the county, 16
Deputies.

For the purpose of fixing the right to be elected in the
equestrian order, a register of all the Nobles' estates shall
be drawn up in each circle. In the cities landed property
gives a qualification. This property must be worth in
large towns 10,000 crowns, in those of the second class
4,000 crowns, and in the smaller 2,000, with the excep-
tion of those in Upper Lusatia, for which there will be
other regulations. In communes a person, in order to be
eligible, must have a real estate, which in Silesia and
Gists pays a land-tax of twelve, and six crowns, and in
Upper Lusatia consists of a certain number of acres. Each
deputy will receive three crowns a day for attending the
assembly, and one crown ten groschen per (German) mile
for travelling expences.

VIENNA, JUNE 27.

The changeable and rainy weather continues, and in
some days we have the most oppressive heat and
very disagreeable cold in rapid succession. The Jour-
nals of Croatia, Carinthia, Carniola, Styria, and Tyrol,
continue to be filled with the most melancholy ac-
counts of the ravages caused by the heavy rains, and the
inundations are more extensive than ever were known. Not
only all the places on the banks of the rivers, but even those
at the distance of one or two leagues, are under water,
and the inhabitants were obliged to take refuge in the up-
per story. The communications are almost wholly inter-
rupted. The heavy rains have so softened the ground, that
in the vicinity of the mountains, vineyards, and the houses on
them, have sunk in and been destroyed. The Mednitchak
has again formed itself a new channel through the gardens
and fields, and the fragments of rock and stones which it
has brought with it, has destroyed all well founded hopes
of an ample harvest. We look with apprehension for far-
ther accounts.

Whoever has paid the slightest regard to the
characteristic peculiarities of the new Opposi-
tion, must be aware that the virtue which they
most prize, is Consistency. The presumed want
of this cardinal quality, is the theme of their
sorest complaints against the Administration.
The presumed possession of it by themselves, is
the sorest temptation to their own vanity. Their
strains, both oral and written,—their prose and
their verse,—their comic and their tragic
tirades,—all are eloquent in the praises of
consistency. Whenever their country-gentle-
men stumble on a classical quotation, it
is always the " Justum et tenacetn propositi
virutn." And were it possible to suppose that
some of the weightier heads of the party should
undergo the fate of that of ORPHMJS, consist-
ency would still be their parting cry. Consist-
ency, consistency, would tremble on the forky
tongue, till it ceased to articulate.
The doctrine of the fraternity on this head, is,
of course,—and by virtue of its very subject,—
beautifully reflected in their practice. Accord-
ingly, it may be observed, that the Marquess of
LONDONDERRY, proverbially eager for Catholic
Emancipation, and indignant at the coldness and
neutrality of the Cabinet in regard to that sa-
cred cause, has thrown himself into the tolerant
arms of the Earl of ELDON. The Earl of EL-
DON, again—the sworn advocate of things as
they ate, the Sage " who doats, yet doubts,
suspects, yet strongly loves," whenever old
abuses are even mentioned,—the political anti-
quarian, who, like the patriot in the prologue to
" Cato," is ever shedding tears " for dying laws,"
—his; under' the inveterate and overwhelming
influence of these feelings, formed a political al-
liance with Earl GREY. Earl GREY, the con-
stant and uncompromising advocate of popular
rights, the very devotee, from his earliest years,
of liberty, peace, and rcforyn, could not, in his
eager pursuit of these cherished objects, resist
the temptation of standing forth as the
champion of the privileged order, and the bro-
ther-in-arms of the Duke of WELLINGTON.
The Duke of WELLINGTON, pledged, like all
the other members of the LIVERPOOL Govern-
ment, to all the leading principles and provisions
of the Corn Bill, and called, under the circum-
stances in which he was placed, by every consi-
deration that can come home to a high and sin-
cere nature, to fulfil that pledge liberally and
generously—has selected, as his chief counsellor
and coadjutor in this excellent work, the Earl of
LAUDERDALE. Once more, the Earl of LAU-
DERDALE, conspicuous, through a long life,
for his zeal for all sorts of freedom,
except freedom in corn-dealing, has been
so fortunate as to secure a complete co-
operation in respect both to the rule and the ex-
ception, by closely coalescing with Earl BA-
Tituß sT and the Earl of WESTMORELAND.

These are surely very beautiful varieties of
that rare product of nature, a consistent States-
man. Nor can it be thought surprising that the
soil which they adorn, should also have been
fertile of humbler specimens of the same dis-
tinctive excellence. In plain terms, the consis-
tency of these mighty men is admirably emulated
by their followers.

Witness our friend Bull, of last Sunday. In
the same breath he describes the junction of the
Opposition with Mr. CANNING as the utter
late
,i)
rostr
ation" of the former to the latter ; the
absolute degradation of the Whigs into
,4 the
suitors and subalterns of the most enrage Tory
in existence,—and yet announces, most autho-
ritatively, that, " even now Mr. CANNING must
.c 4 either descend (from his Premiership) or go
about his business ;"—that "the High Whigs
,4 will not act under him,"—and that " we (that
is, Bull and Co.) shall see how far " Mr.
c, CANNING will carry his condescension and
pliability."
So, also, he ominously warns the SOVEREIGN
against the creation of fresh Peers favourable to
the Catholic Claims—speaks of Mr. CANNING
as the "most able, vehement, and ardent ad.
vocate" of those Claims,—nay, talks dis-
tinctly as if the declared sense of the Adminis-
tration, and even of the KING, as manifested
by the choice of that Administration, were in
favour of the measure ; and, before his pen
is dry, proceeds to tell us that it was the
very ~
condition " of the alliance with the

• A
•

Whigs, " that the Catholic Question should
" be postponed SINE "DIE," • and emphatically
speaks ‘i of the prostration of the Premier to
the Archbishop, and of the prostration of
" BROUGHAM tothe Premier UPON THIS VERY
" QUESTION, AS THE TERMS OF OFFICE !"
In the same spirit, again, our friend informs
us that the proceedings of a certain True Blue
Club, who will not toast the Administration, be-
cause it is " decidedly a Whig Administration,''
are strongly indicative of the real feelings of the
country, that is, of the country as opposed to
London, where there is an affectation of sup-
porting the Ministry kept up ;" and yet face-
tiously describes Mr. BROUGHAM as having Un-
'Rigged himself to receive the cap and bells
fitted for him by some undiscerning admirer
in the Edinburgh Review.

By the way, this very pleasant jeu-de-rnot of
our friend (whose propensities in the punning
line are well known to be ungovernable) on the
word unzuhigging, would seem rather to be
framed by a Londoner than a Countryman.
Certainly, it almost rivals the old cockney
conundrum on Mr. Fox's having the honour of
associating with the KING when Prince of
WALES. " Why is Mr. Fox always seen with
" the Hair Apparent 7' " Because he is a
Whig ! ! !"
Such, however, is the grave, the austere, the
dignified consistency of our double dew-lapped
friend. And such, we may add, is the consis.
tency of the Ultra Tories in general. Whenever
Mr. CANNING is to be vilified, he is held up to
view as a manifest Whig. Whenever Mr.
BROUGHAM is to be attacked, he is proclaimed
as a palpable Tory. And the burden of both
songs is always CONSISTENCY ! ! !

Reports are in circulation that the Bank of
England have it in contemplation to sell a por-
tion of, or all the Annuity of 585,0001. per
annum, which they hold for 44 years, from April
1823, and that the Resolution lately come to for
discounting at 41. per cent. was principally passed
with a view of upholding the money market to
enable them to effect this operation. The Bank,
in July next, will complete the payments to the
Government for this Annuity, which will then
have cost them 13,089,4191., and if they can
sell it piecemeal to the public at the price which
it ought to bear with reference to the present price
of Long Annuities, it will produce to the Bank
the sum of 14,040,0001., exclusive of the ad-
vantage which they have derived from the pay-
ment to them by the Government of this An-
nuity of 585,0001. from April 1823, although
the payments by the Bank in instalment, for it
are not complete till July, 1828.
If the sale of this Annuity be really contem-
plated by the Dank, it 13 not surprising that
great efforts should be made by that Corporation
to raise the price of public securities, which they
have so many means of influencing ; and the An-
nuity once disposed of to the public, we may,
perhaps, see the same means put into operation
to lower the value of Government Securities, in
order that a better bargain with the public may
be made by the Bank next year, when the Mi-
nister will have to dispose of a further portion of
the Half-pay Annuity, or abandon that most
unwise and unfortunate scheme of raising an
annual loan.

The Morning Post will certainly be the
death of some one—it is so very droll. Nor is
its fun confined to leading articles, for its readers,
catching the infection, reflect back some of its
humour in the shape of letters. Space alone
prevents our giving a bright specimen of epis-
tolary satire, which occupies a considerable por-
tion of to-day's Post, and which is addressed
" To the Right Rom GEORGE CANNING,
&c. Sic."

It will not be deemed presumptuous in us to
surmise who is the Correspondent of our Con-
temporary, just as all the world take the liberty
of guessing who wrote JUNIUS'S Letters, and
in the absence of positive proof, we are oblig-
ed to make the most of internal evidence.
Now, with even a superficial perusal, we
have come to the conclusion that it was
written by Lord GREY. Having in early
life derived great edification and delight
from the study of his Lordship's eloquence, as
reported in the Parliamentary Debates, we
have for some time prided ourselves on being
able to detect him anywhere, whether he writes
in John Bull or in Cobbett's Register. But
whatever trouble it may cost us at times, in this
case, we feel none, and are quite clear that this able
letter could have been written by no other man in
the country. The deep irony, the polished die-
,
tion, and high tone which distinguish it, cannot
attach to more than one man in a century ; and
in these points who will venture on a competition
with the Earl GREY ?

But, though we cannot give the whole letter, we
must gratify the excited curiosity of our readers
by giving a sketch of it. It commences (with
but moderate pretensions to originality) in a
grave charge against Mr. CANNING for having
broken faith in saying that there was to be no
creation of a batch of Peers; when soon after
out comes the elevation of one individual to that
rank ; but quitting this style, he soon comes from
" grave to gay," and tells Mr. CANNING that
" his proverbial candour," (written humour-
ously in Italics to show that the author
does not think Mr. CANNING candid) "puts

any more creations of Peers out of the
question,,, and then proposes the following
OUTLINE OF A NEW ORDEE OF KNIGHTHOOD, TO BE CALI.XD
" The Most VERITABLE ORDER of the
RED HALTER."

GRAND MASTE R. —Rt. Worshipful HENF.Y BROUGHAM.
ASSISTANTS TO DITTO.--The Right Hon. Lord HOL-
LAND, and Sir ROBERT WILSON.

DIPITTY GRAND MA STElL—Right Hon. GiORGE CAN
NIN G.

ASSISTANTS TO DITTO.—Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, Bart.,
and Right Hon. Sir GEORGE WARRENDER, Bart.
DEAN OF THE ORDER.---Rey. ROBERT TAYLOR.
GENTLEMAN USHER OF THE RED ROD, AND HALTER
KING AT ARms.—Right Hon. GEORGE TIERNEY.

GINEALO6I3T—JXREMY BENTUAki, Esq.
REGISTRAL—WILLIAM COBBETT, Esq.
KrucHTs Comeamows.—The Assistants to the Grand
Master and Deputy Grand Muter (ex officio); and any
other Noblemen and Gentlemen the Grand Master may he
graciously pleased to appoint ; the number to be limited to
One Hundred.

N.8.--John Ketch, Esq., is appointed Executioner of
Recreant Knights ; but it is not yet settled whether he is
to be a Knight, in virtue of his office, or whether he is
to rank among the Officers of the Order, who are to wear
the mantle, collar, and halter of the Order, but
not the Star ; but to distinguish the Halter King at Arms.
from the other Officers, he is to carry a red wand, and to
wear, under his mantle, a coat of three or four different
colours, turned inside out.

But as we said before, space prevents our

copying the whole of this matchless article,
though our readers may take our word for it,
that the happy strain of irony is maintained

throughout.
Now is it possible that Mr.
CANNING,
or any other Minister can stand such at-
tacks. Don't his enemies charge him
with want of faith ; and will any one doubt their
word ?

In our Court Circular of yesterday a brief ac-
count was given of the fresh attack with which
the Earl of LIVERPOOL has been seized. We
have collected in another column all the par-
ticulars of this afflicting circumstance which have
appeared in the columns of our cotemporaries ;
and we regret to add that the answers to our
enquiries fully confirm the severity of the seizure.

The private letters received to day from Con-
stantinople communicate some additional particu-
lars to those given in the Frankfort papers re-
specting the declaration delivered by the Reis
Effendi to the Ministers of the Allied Powers,
in answer to the requisitions for the pacification
of Greece. The tone assumed in it is depreca-
ting, though firm, but has nothing of an assu-
ming or insolent character, and is said to prove
the Ministers of the Divan to be, on the whole,
great adepts in the arts of diplomacy. The de-
claration begins by stating, that the requisitions
made are not within the power of the Sultan to
comply with, since he has been placed by Heaven
on the throne of that empire, and that he is for-
bidden by its fundamental laws to yield up or to
alter. the constitution of any portion of it; that
the Greeks, as a nation, on whose behalf the
interference of the Allied Sovereigns has been
resorted to, no where exist ; that multitudes of
Greeks reside in different parts of the Turkish
dominions, who practise, without molestation,
the religion they profess, who are in all respects
good subjects, and who acknowledge the swag
of the Government to be a mild and paternal
one ; that the people of the Morea, who pass
under the name of Greeks, and whom the Turkish
arms are now engaged in putting down, are the
mixed refuse of various nations, incapable of
government and good order, or of combining for
any object beyond that of plunder ; and, in effect,
no better than a band of robbers. After touching
on various other
.topics, for the most part con'
ceived in a similar spirit, the declaration con'
eludes with an appeal to the decisions of the
Congress of Verona, in which a victual guarantee
was given for the integrity of the existing state
of Europe, and an express declaration that the
Powers would not interfere in the affairs of
Greece. It seems evident enough, from the
general spirit of this State document, that though
the demands of the allied Potentates maybe
evaded by similar subtleties, they will not be
met by any effectual resistance, and that the
Turks, as they usually do, will yield with a goof
grace when they perceive that there is no altertAs-
tive.—Times.

THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY).

CITY, Twelve o'

Consols have shown a fidgety appearance alt the moo'
ing, and considerable difficulty seems to be felt by the
speculators which way they are to turn their attention"
either for a rise or fall. The first price of Consols wse
871 for account, and 861 for money, they subsequentlf
receded to 871 after some trifling fluctuations, at which
rate they continue ; the Commissioners paid 871 for Br
duced. It is understood their purchases every transfer dal
will be about 5,0001. stock less than last quarter, ariliof
from fewer holidays taking place; the amount will be the
same. The Exchequer Market has this morning been the
subject of a considerable fall, (103. per cent.) said to arise i°
consequence of some heavy sales made by Government ; the!
were quoted early in the morning at 62 3 pm., but hail
been 52 3, and are now a little recovered, being 53 5 pi*
India Bonds have also fallen from 93 to 90. Few transse'
tions have taken place in the Foreign Funds, Mexicao
Bonds are a shade lower than in the morning, being 69 I;
Colombian, NI 1+; Greek are rather lower to-day, beioi
161 171. The business in the other securities has bet°,
only to a trifling extent, and no alteration has ocearre
since yesterday. We have nothing fresh to report 14
Shares, either as to business or prices.

Three per Cent. Consols, 85i 6 ; Ditto for Account/
871 ; India Bonds, 90 pm.; Exchequer Bills, 53 5 pill'
FOREIGN.--Brazilian, 694 Buenosßuenos Ayres, 62 3;
Chilian, 27 9 ; Colombian, 1824, 30i 14 ; Danish, 63 i;
6Grpeeekr,cel6l,l679;4ll4lripcaenruysian,
21 6 ;
Portuguese,c Ditto 76
Russian, 94 4 ; Spanish, 10i- 11.
miNis.—Anglo Mexican, 45 dis.; Brazilian, part
1 pm. ; Colombian, 9 11 per Share ; Real del Monte, 60
60 dis. ; United Mexican, 19 18 dic
• -

Two o' Clock

Consols have been nearly stationary at 871 i since l~
o'clock, having been for a moment only 871 buyers, thel
are now at the former quotation, with little doing. The
Foreign Funds remain without alteration.
HALF-PAST TWO.

Consols, 871, buyers.
FOUR O'CLOCK--CLOSING PRICES.

Consols 85i i I Danish Bonds 63
Do. for Ac. 81 Greek Do. 1825, 17
Brazilian Bonds Mexican Do. 1825 69
Buenos Ayres Do. 621 Peruvian Do. 251
Chilian Do. Russian Do. 94
Columbian, 1824,, 30i Spanish Do. 11

Box-MOT.--A barber, who was in the habit
of stunning his customers' ears by the rapiditl
of his tongue, asked an individual, one day, hop
he wished his beard to be cut. " Without saying
a single word," replied he.
PA R A sur E.—One of our modern parasites
being reproached for dining so constantly at the
tables of other people—" What would you hair!,
me do ?'' replied he, " I am so pressed,
True," returned the other, " there is nothi4
so pressing as hunger."

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