The Sun.
London, England, 1827-02-03 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY).

7 FROM LLOYD'S.
DEAL, FEB. 2.—Most of the outward-bound sailed. Arrived,
with despatches for the Netherlands, the brig of war Zwaluw.
The Pilot of Flushing, No. 2, sailed yesterday, at a.m., and has
this day proceeded to Ramsgate.
FAtmonzit, Fru. 1.--Wind S.E. to E. S. E.--Arrived off the port,
the American brig Florenzo, for New York. Arrived, the Lisbon
packet Prouese, from Newfoundland, for London, sailed Oct. 6.
Sailed, the Matilda, Vaux, for Smyrna and Constantinople.
PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 2.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrived, the Ark,
Arkhurst (late Caslin), from Sierra Leone in 70 days ; the latter
Master was murdered Dec. 6, by one of the crew, who after-
wards jumped overboard. On the 11th Dec., spoke the Louisa,
Daniels (South Sea-man), in lat. 10. 33., long. 22. 30. ; the
ship Enchantress, in lat. 48. 48., long. 10. 10. The ships left
at Sierra Leone were the Adamant, with 1,000 loads of timber
on board ; the Maria, of Liverpool, to sail in about three days;
Orestes transport, from London for Sierra Leone; Cape packet,
Kelly, for Van Diemen's Land. Arrived, his Majesty's cutters
Arrow, Repulse, and Rose, from a cruise—the latter has sailed
again on a cruise. The Economy, from Oporto, off the Wight,
has landed the mail.

Hmovicn, FEB. 2.—The Waterloo Dutch line-of-battle ship
was seen at anchor on Wednesday last, at the back of the Sandy
Island, near Heligoland, dismaeted, by the Vansittart packet.
Livarrom, FEB. I.—Arrived, the Delaware, Hamiller, from
Virginia; and the Brown, Stanton, from St. John's, New Bruns-
wick.

GRAVESEND, FEB. 2.—Arrived the Grecian, Allen, Marga-
ret, Wrangles, and Demerara, Venables, from Demerara ; Speedy,
Giles, Totness, Severn, and Sally, from St. Michael's ; Colum-
bine, Tait, from Bombay ; Alpha, Ilowden, from Oporto ; Al-
bion, Procter, from Sincapore ; Jessie, Tweed, from Teneriffe ;
Security, Ross, from Batavia; Mary, Lee, from Rio Janeiro;
Lavinia, Brooks, from the Isle of France. Sailed, the Fame,
Banks, for Messina ; Edward, , for Bremen.
B FEB. 2.—Arrived the Lucy Ann, Whitmore, from
Jamaica;
Angel, from Carthagena ; Manchester,
BRISTOL,
Atalanta,L,
from Zante.

The Union, Berry, from Newport to Wexford, sprung a leak
on Wednesday, and was run on shore near Milford ; it was sup-
posed she would go to pieces.
The Atalanta, Davidson, from Liverpool to Belfast, sunk in
Castleclown Bay, Isle of Man, during a gale on the 28th ult.

MR. HOUY, THE EX-EDITOR OF THE EDIN- '
BURCH COURANT.-This unfortunate man, for whose apprehen-
sion, on a charge of extensive forgery, a reward of 5001. has been
offered, is by this time, in all probability, Fafi_l landed in that
rtfugium peccatorum, the United States. He was seen in this
city, where be remained one night, about three weeks ago, by our
informant, who had opportunities of being intimately acquainted
wit!i hie person during a residence of many years in the
Scotch metropolis. His exterior betrayed evident signs of
the anxiety that reigned within. He went from hence to Li-
verpool. It may be mentioned as honourable to the national
character, that the circumstances in which Houy was placed
well known to our informant, who, by a singu-
lar c incidence, had a London paper, giving a minute descrip-
tion vieCF;ec
the:f tfluYgitive, in his pocket, when the latter entered the
room of a public-house in which he was seated. Motives of de-
licacy to the unfortunate man prevented our informant making
himself known to him, and the same disinterested spirit pre-
vented the secret of which lie was in possession escaping his lips
until now, when the fugitive may be considered beyond the reach
of his pursuers.— Chester Courant.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW•
‘lQrning 25 minutes after .7. I Evening 52 minutes after 7.

1.1.5 ht

LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 3, 1827.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

We have received, at a very late hour this after-
noon, by Express from Paris, the' Etoile of yesterday
morning, from which we have only space to insert the
following extract, without comment :
(From the Etoile of yesterday, Feb. 2.)

MADRID, JAN. 23.

The Regiment of Lancers of the Guard left yesterday, with a
detachment of Artillery, to reinforce the Corps of Observation of
the Tagus. The Gazette of Madrid, of the 23d, gives the news
from Portugal, from the Lisbon Gazettes, which we inserted
three days ago. The force of the Marquis de Chaves, which the
public papers state to be 10,000 men, occupies prin-
cipally the Tras-os-Montes ; the brigade of Canellas,
Montealegre ; Magessi, Silveira, and Telles Jordan, are
in the Province of Beira. On the side of the Regency,
the troops are in the entrance of Duero and Minho, and Tras-
os-Montes. Marshals de Camp Anjega and Stubbs, have under
their orders Brigadier Correa de Mello, Colonels Moura, Zagallo,
and other detachments in the Beira ; Count Villa Flor, Silveira,
Claudino, Accredo, and Colonel Pinto, are in the Alentego.

PARIS, FEB. I.
Every means has been taken, and orders sent to Lisbon by an
Extraordinary Courier, that the Marquis de Chaves and Count
Canellas should be immediately sent to France. On the part of
Villa Flor, he had taken measures to open a communication with the
Spanish Authorities on the frontiers, and assured them he would
respect the system of neutrality adopted by his Catholic Majesty.
Notwithstanding the rigorous measures adopted by the Spanish Go-
vernment, some of the military Chiefs of the town of Castile,
have still persisted in their connivance with the Portuguese Insur-
gents who have taken refuge in Spain after the combat of CornclT.
General Longa, whom they ordered to remain quiet at Valladolid,
the head quarters of the Captain General, has again set of for the
frontiers.

CONSTANTINOPLE, intc. 31.

Letters from Pstersburgh announce that the Minister of Fo-
reign Affairs of Great Britain has sent to AL Nessefrode a copy
of the full powers which he received from Napoli di Romania,
from the Greek Provisional Government, in consequence of which
it is stated, that on the moment of the arrival of Ribeaupierre
negociations will •again take place in junction with the English
Ambassador.

FRENCH FUNDS.—Five per Cents, 100 f. 50c. 65c. 60c.;
Three per Cents., 68f. 50c. 55c. 45c. 85c.

The Paris Papers of Wednesday and the Etoile
dated Thursday morning have reached us. They con-
tain no news from Spain, which some of our cotem-
poraries consider as satisfactory proof of things going
on as might be wished. We cannot think so, because,
if FERDINAND had come to any decision favourable
to the wishes of Great Britain, it would have reached
us in some more conclusive shape than the article we
published on Thursday from the Madrid Gazette.
The absence of further intelligence from the Spanish
capital shews, therefore, that the state of doubt of
FERDINAND'S intentions, which has existed so long,
still continues.

The Etoile has a long string of Lies of the Day,
amongst which we find a paragraph which appeared
in the Constitutionnd, stating that the unexpected re-
turn of M. de FONTENAY, the first Secretary of the
French Legation in Russia, was, in consequence of
important papers seized by the Russians on th© Fron-
tiers of Persia.
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unimportant.
The French Funds on Wednesday continued steady,
Extracts from the Papers are given in another column,

"PAuzs, .lAx. 31.—Five per Cents. 100 f. 35f. 40c. 50c. ;
Three per Cents. 63f. 30c. 25c. 15c. 20c. 25c. ; Bank Stock,
1,995 f. ; Rentes de Naples, 74f. 20c. 15c. 10c. ; Rentes
dEspagne, Royal Spanish Loan, 52.—Exchange on Lon-
don, one month, paper, 25f. 45c. ; money, 25f. 40c. ; three
months, paper, 25f. 30c. ; money, 25f. 25c.

We received last night, Brussels Papers to the Ist
instant, from which we make the following extracts.
The coronation of the Emperor NICHOLAS, as KING
of Poland, is to be accompanied by military fetes of
the most brilliant description ; and 45,000 Polish
troops, under the immediate command of the Arch-
duke CONSTANTINE, are to be assembled on the oc-
casion :

" BRUSSELI, JAN. 27.—1 t is said that the Coronation of the
Emperor of Russia, as King of Poland, which is to take place
next spring, will be accompanied by military fetes, which it is in-
tended to render as brilliant as those that formerly took place in
the reign of
King Augustus. It is reported that between 40 and
45,000 chosen troops of the Polish army will assemble on this
occasion at Bezecv-Litonsky, and will perform grand evolutions
for several days,
in the presence of his Imperial Majesty, and
under the immediate command of the Grand Duke Constantine.
" JAN; 28.—His Royal Highness Prince Frederick arrived
here at midnight.
" A British Cabinet Messenger passed through this city last
night, on his way from Germany to London, with despatches.
" The Second Chamber of the States General met yesterday in
a General Committee, to deliberate on two proposals respecting
the Reporters for Journals. The President stated, that according
to the Report of the Central Section, the majority had declared in
favour of the proposal of De Hooft ; he therefore proposed to inti-
mate to the Reporter for the Journal de Bruxelles, to whom a
place in the body of the Hall had been assigned, that this favour
was withdrawn from him because he had not answered the ex-
pectations of the Chamber. This proposal was unanimously
adopted. The Reporter will therefore have to sit in the Gallery
assigned to the Reporters.
" Means will be considered of in lie sequel to place the Re-

porters in such a manner that they may take their notes without

inconvenience.

" JAN. 29.---An extraordinary courier has come this morning
root the Hague, with despatches for his Majesty.
" Jaw. 30.—Captain Imbyze, of Batenburgh, who quitted his
Majesty's ship Waterloo on the 24th instant, brought to the
Hague, on the 28th, news of that ship, from which it appears,
that on the day mentioned it was at anchor about four miles north-
west of Borkum, in twelve and a half fathoms of water ; that
the hull was in very good condition, and without any leak. Jury-
masts had been set up, as well as possible; and when the Cap-
tain left the ship they were weighing anchor. He afterwards saw
the ship sailing towards Heligoland, in order to seek a safer
anchorage. It is hoped that, as the south-west wind has blown
for these two days, it has arrived there.

" Letters from Berlin of the 23d say, that the 25th bulletin of
the King's health states the cure of his foot to be proceeding in a
satisfactory manner.

" Letters from Dresden of the 22d, announce the delivery of
the Princess Amelia, consort of Prince John of Saxony, of a
Princess.

" The Carlsruhe Gazette says, ' the Universal Gazette lately
stated that the Duchess of St. Leu had lately given to Sir Walter
Scott, documents for the history of Buonaparte, which he is writ-
ing.' The Gazette of Carlsruhe declares itself authorised to
affirm, that this assertion is wholly unfounded.
" Lausa>rxx, JAX. 19.—For some time we have seen in
Western Switzerland some agents of the Vieeroy of Egypt, who
ndeavour, by the most seducing promises, to engage in the ser-
vice of that Prince young soldiers and subalterns who have served
in France. Most of them are Piedinontese exiled from their
country, for having served the cause of liberty in 1821. Hi-
therto nobody has been caught by their harangues, which are
worthy to be compared to those of our recruiting officers in the
villages, and they have every where met with hatred and eon-
tempt."
[These papers contain the Project of Law on the Organization
of the Courts of Justice in the kingdom of the Netherlands : it
consists cf 5 Sections divided into 118 Articles.)

The following are extracts from Dutch and Ham-
burgh Papers received this morning. It will be seen
that the Waterloo has arrived safe at Rotterdam :

MERLIN, JAN. 24.

His Majesty's recovery proceeds in the most favourable manner,
but it is said to be his Majesty's wish to keep the foot bound up
for a fortnight longer than the physician at first thought neces-
sary, in order that the cure may be more certain. We hear that
the King will go to Toplitz so early as the beginning of May.—
The King has appointed M. Andrew Richert, in Cape-Town,
Consul at that place.
The funeral of Lieut.-General Von Brauchitsch, Governor of
Berlin, who died on the 19th, took place yesterday, quite pri-
vately, according to his own directions. Only an hour before
his death lie received the discharge which he had solicited from
the King's service.

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On the 10th of this month the Royal Academy of Ssiences
celebrated its 100th anniversary. in the presence of their Impe-
rial Majesties.
On the 6th, the gallery of Russian Generals of which we spoke
ST. PETIRSBURGH, JAM. 13.
in' our last, was consecrated in the following manner :—The
subalterns and privates of the Regiments of the Guards who
in the Hall Qf St. George and the White Saloon ; during the
liturgy, thanksgivings were recited in both the Halls.
tahned
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assembled who had the medals of 1812 and 1814.
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rma n c e of the hymn for the late Emperor Alexander,
and prayers for the welfare and long life of the present Emperor,
the gallery was sprinkled with Holy water. Henceforward the
standards of the Guards are to be preserved in it, the places for
which were fixed by the Emperor under the inscription, Borodino,
Tarutino, Klastgi, Krasnoje. After the ceremony was over, the
subalterns and privates were admitted into the gallery : it was
pleasing to hear these veterans, as they recognized the features of
the Generals who had shared their hardships and dangers, repeat
their names, and relate to each other their great actions in the
field.

HAGUE, JAY. 28.

Accounts from Ilelvootsluys of the 27th, say, that the ice boats
were employed for the first time, on the 26th, to convey the
English mails, viz., that of the 19th from England, and that of
the 24th to England.

ROTTERDAM, JAW. 29.

We have a report today that his Majesty's ship Waterloo has
arrived at Cuxhaven, all well on board ; none of the crew were
missing, and the troops were in want of nothing.
The state of the rivers occasioned by the iee, and the quantity
of snow that has fallen, have caused great delays in the arrival of
the mails, particularly those between the northern and southern
provinces, which have been delayed 14 or 1$ hours.
Most of the vessels that put out from Delray], and other place:
to endeavour to get to the Waterloo, have been obliged to p
back without effecting their object.

If we forget not, it is Mr. LocicE who says some-
where that objections to literature generally proceed
from those who are utter strangers to it, and whose
opinions respecting it 8
than that of a person who had never visited a strange
country would be, regarding Its therefore
e customs, nomore value
manners,
and institutions. Perhaps no subject has ever
suffered more from this species of blind-fold hos-
tility than what is generally stigmatized under the
name of Political Economy. Its merits and its de-
merits, its objects, and the means by
which it pro-
poses to arrive at them, are alike unknown to the
self-sufficient railer against the
whole
system. He
views it as a sort of blaek art, and prides himself in
his utter ignorance of any
thing so demoniacal.
We are far from
wishing to deny that po-
litical economists have occasionally overlooked
those circumstances which are apt to interfere with
the beauty and harmony of their ideal system—but
there is no more argument in this against Political
Economy, than if one were to deny the theory of pro-
jectiles, because some mathematician, in treating of it,
had overlooked the resistance offered by the air to the
flight of a cannon shot. Every sensible man, no
doubt, even after he has made up his mind that a
change is advisable, considers, next, wizen that
change may be effected. To attempt it too rapidly,
or to defer indefinitely what is palpably expedient, are
extremes alike removed from the line of wisdom.
In the opinion of some persons, nothing disqualifies
a man more for a seat in the Legislature than having
bestowed any attention on this subject. To them
there appears great absurdity, even in the notion ad-
vanced by Mr. Justice BLACKSTONE, that be who
pretends to make. new laws, ought surely to
know something of those already made—but as
to speculating on the subject, and endeavouring to
discover what errors have been committed by former
Legislators, in order to avoid them in future—as to
entering, in short, on the subject of Political Economy
_it is, in their estimation, a satisfactory proof of a
disordered intellect. To decypher hieroglyphics,
on the pyramids of Egypt, or to write folios on a
Greek particle, would appear rational compared with the
very mention of Political Economy. And, yet, without
knowing it, these persons are constantly discussing
. (with sufficient ignorance, no doubt) many of

most interesting subjects connected with it; such as
the Corn Laws, Free Trade, &c. &c. So that they
actually abuse a thing, the very nature of which they
are unacquainted with.

With all our admiration, however, of Political Eco-
nomy, we are quite satisfied, that in its adaptation to
the present system of things, there is occasion for the
most scrupulous caution. It is a science universally
admitted to be still in its infancy, and one in which
the Philosopher will advance, step by step, and not
by sudden strides. And if such caution be requisite
for the speculative writer on this subject, how much
more is it incumbent on the Legislator. The mistake
of the one may expose him to the satire of an antago-
nist—the errors of the other may plunge a nation
into misery. The amount of this fearful responsibility
frequently paralyses the mind of the timid statesman,
who prefers existing evils to the possibility of worse,
seeing no middle course to take ; whilst the clear-sighted
mind of a CANNING or a HUSKISSON can see the
existence of evils in the present system, and disre-
garding the civium ardor praviz jubentium, unmov-
ed by the rash counsels of visionary theorists en
the one hand, and the childish fears of men bigotted
to abuse on the other,—can steadily pursue the best in-
terests of their country on the justifiable responsibility
of the pre-eminent talents with which they are gifted.

We are glad to learn that the Society for abolishing
the practice of sweeping chimneys, by means of climb-
ing boys, have of late been very actively employed in
drawing the attention of the public to this subject.
Branch societies have been formed at Tottenham, at
Edmonton, and at Hastings ; in all which places the
child-devoting system has been almost wholly abolished.
These societies are principally composed of ladies, and
surely the cause of suffering childhood is peculiarly
the care of woman. In the metropolis, where the
evil exists in its most frightful form, a new establish-
ment, for sweeping chimneys by mechanical means
only, has been formed, under the patronage of the
above Society ; and when we consider how great is the
evil, and how easy the remedy, we feel confident, that,
at no distant period, the labours of the Society will be
crowned with that complete success which they so
eminently deserve.

Our Paper this day furnishes a rare sample of no-
velty at three Police Offices :—Bow-street, the Man-
sion
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First, then, Bow-street, as being nearer home, de-
mands our charitable notice. No one who has
had the pleasure of listening to Sir RICHARD
that Magistratebut
naifkel;
promptitude which he displays in coming to a Inustlohokayse
ifeltnto thepi acutenesstter
a and withthe
g whicheat
conclu-
sion where less gifted minds would hesitate with be-
coming decisivecr:?ti:orar:odp taiset optics,
ia
rloeomfaettrhaae,
with half an eye, can see stars in the milky way, while
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seers,nd übbuthoughbefore
t theyesetF
loss to discover the milky way itself! Thus, it is, that one
half of the world see double, while less elevated people
are as blind as moles. In the case at Bow-street, it
appears that a poor but very honest,man had been taken
up by one LEVI, a butcher, for uttering base coin—a
half sovereign and a shilling. The money was pro-
duced before Sir RICIIARD who saw at
once that there were too good reasons for Mr. LEVI'S
assertions ; and he lamented that so much ingenuity
should have been misdirected. The counterfeit gold
was so like the genuine, that it really puzzled his
Worship to say which was which ; but LEVI,
who is perhaps no bad judge in such matters,
was positive as to the bad one. The prisoner
earnestly asserted his innocence, but of course to no
purpose; for who would believe the asseveration of a
man, charged not only with uttering bad silver, but
counterfeit gold ? The man had received a good charac-
ter, which was all well enough ; but a good character
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weighs little against a positive charge. In this dilemma,
one person in his simplicity suggested that the half
sovereign should be weighed ; and, indeed, it looked
rather odd that this had not been done at first. Well
—the counterfeit was weighed, and instantly rose ten
shillings in the estimation of his WonsitiP What
a discovery ! But then for the unlucky shilling—it
had to stand a different ordeal, while honest LEVI
felt the pockets of his inexpressibles, and shrugged his
shoulders. The shilling was cut, and proved to be
good also !

Now, all this only shows how dangerous it is to act
upon sudden impulses—prejudice was strongly
the poor man, and the circumstance having two
pieces of money in his possession, if they of against
happened to
be bad, was conclusive of his fate. There have been
such things before now as substituting base coin
for good, but detection is difficult, and the world
remaina ignorant of how many innocent people have
been convicted upon circumstantial evidence. In the
present case we acquit the parties concerned of any
corrupt motives—they have acted, as in duty bound,
for the good of the public. But as publicity is the
best safeguard of honesty and fair dealing, we would
merely suggest, for the satisfaction of persons who
' may in future be wrongfully charged with uttering
base coin, that it be cut before their eyes, so as to
prevent the possibility of collusion.
less we say the better—the poor lady's Wpm distress
Perhaps the
As to the case at the Mansion-House,

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