The Sun.
London, England, 1820-09-30 00:00:00

people a sense of independence.: Buonaparte was•l
a great enemy to the..right.of devising property
as settled at the Revolution, and caused essays,
to prove its injurious effect upon
_ttgriculture, to
be written by some swans of the Institute. his
real objection, however, is known to have been
his dread of the independent population, which
the new syStem created in the Middle and lower
classes.

[British Press.]

We are sorry to find by the Gentian Papers,
that not only has the Austrian Cabinet refused to
suffer the Duke de Gallo to pass the Austrian
frdiitier to fulfil liis mission to Vienna, but that
it has induced other Powers to decline receiving
Ambassadors or Envoys flOm the Court of Naples
under its present circumstances. We hope that
this intelligence is not correct, as it would evince
a disposition so hostile on the part of Austria, as
would leave no doubt respecting the object of the
military activity of her Cabinet.
Sovereigns were bought up yesterday in the
City to a considerable amount, at a premium of
three-halfpence, for the purpose of being sent to
/reload, to meet the exigencies of that country,
and , supply a deficiency in the circulating me-
dium. The recent failure of several banks in the
south of Ireland, the caution of others, the timi-
dity of the people in taking country bank notes,
and the necessary reduction of its issues by the
Bank of Ireland, for the purpose of making pre-
parations for the resumption of Cash payments,
have all conspired to reduce the quantity of the
circulation in Ireland, and its comparative Value
has been thereby so much increased, that Bank
of England notes are at a discount in Ireland.
Tlie necessary consequence therefore is, that
gold must flow into that country for the purposes
even of ordinary traffic.----(Mid.)
The ELECTION of Alderman to the
Civic CHAIR. may be considered,in sonic degree,
as unexpected. It certainly deviates consider-
ably from the order of rotation too customarily
observed in the successive Elections of Aldermen
to the Mayoralty ; but it serves very strongly to
mark the energetic feeling of Opposition to the
measures of Government which is entertained by
the Livery of London in general. The City of
London has, since the Revolution, been uniform-
ly regarded as the strong hold of those enlight-
ened principles of political freedom which ef-
fected that glorious achievement, and placed
the illustrious House of Brunswick at the head
of the British Government ; but circumstances
which have given an unhappy distinction to the
present year seem to have infused new life and
animation into those principles, and have given
them a proud and flattering triumph. It is a sin-
gular circumstance, from which, however, we
venture to• draw a propitious augury, that the
three Chief Magistrates of the City of London
for the ensuing year should be Whigs. The
Livery would not even admit of competition be-
tween the open defiance of the Whigs, and
the covert opposition of the Tories. They elected
the Sheriffs, Mr. Aldermen Waithman and Mr.
'Williams, by acclamation, and by uniting Alder-
men Wood and Thorp in their return of candi-
dates to the Court of Aldermen, as they did yes-
terday, they secured themselves against the pos-
sibility of not having a Lord Mayor on whose
political principles they might rely with confi-
dence. Those who defend the principle of ro-
tation as the best mode of choosing a Lord Mayor,
pletue themselves, and strive to deceive others
with the idle remark, that in the short space of
one year no evil of any considerable magnitude
could arise to the City or to the State, even from
a Lord Mayor of unsound 'constitutional prin-
ciples. But is it no evil to habituate the public
mind, even for the space of twelve months,
to entertain a distrust and a disrespect for the
depositaries of power. ? Is it no evil to ac-
custom the populace to hiss and hoot at a Ma-
gistrate, even in the moment that he is engaged
in the performance of his magisterial duties, and
while his person is adorned with the synibols of
authority, which, for the time, ought to bestow
upon it a species of political sacredness ? We are
not of those who repose a blind confidence in the
discretion and consistency of the million ; we can
appreciate the influence which forms and habits
must ever exercise upon their understandings,
and we should sincerely lament that the robe Of
the. Magistrate should even for a day fail in
enforcing that respect to the person who wears
it, which,' in the eye of reason and policy, ought
to belong to him in his official capacity----(Mid.)

COURSE OF EiiCHA'NGE, SEPT. 29.
Amsterdam
Ditto, at Sight l2 5
Rotterdam l2 9
Antwerp , 12 9
Hambitrgh
Altona -
Paris, 3 Day's sight ... .
Ditto - 26 10 2 Us.
's6tirdeanie, ditto
Frankfurt on the Maki ' .... 156- Ex. Money
Madrid - - 344 Effective
Cadiz
Bilboa
Barcelona
Seville - 114
Gibraltar
Leghorn
Genoa 44i-Venire, Ital. Lir 27 60
Mall a 46 --Naples 394
Palermo 1 tfoi. per Os.
Lisbon
Oporto
Mo./ant:in, ',4i
Onblin 6i Cork 74 per Cent.
BULLION.

Portugal Gold, in Coin 1.0 0 0 per Os
Foreign Gold, hi Bars -3 17 10i
New Donliloons
New 'Dollars 0 4 10-5
Silver in Bars, Standard 0 4 11/

ACCIDENT.—A very extraordinary accident
occurred on Wednesday morning, at Spital-fields-
market. As a large waggon, containing a dial-
dron of coals, and drawn by four beautiful fine
horses, the property of Mr. Bent, coal-merchant,
W estminster, was unloading at a coal-shed, the
waggon, by some unforeseen means, overturned,
and killed the shaft-horse, worth forty guineas,
On the spot, and likewise crushed-a fine dog that
was lying on the footway to death, and one of
the men bad a very narrow escape.