The Sun.
London, England, 1829-02-07 00:00:00

LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY '7, 1829.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

SUN OFFICE, Half-past Two.

We have just received, by express, the Paris
Papers of Thursday morning. The following arc
the only articles worth extracting which have not
been received this morning by the German Papers :
(Frorn the Quotidienne.)

FRANKFORT, FEB. 1.

Commercial letters from Vienna, by the last Courier,
state the disappointment of the speculators in the funds,
when they reported that the disposition of the Porte was
pacific ; but letters from Constantinople officially contra-
dict the 'Shore report. The mission of Matuscewics to
London also greatly occupied the attention of our politi-
cians. It is said his mission was to explain to the prin-
cipal Powers of Europe his Imperial Majesty's motive, if
he should be forced to make another campaign. The Rus-
sian Court will decide on the answer of the Sultan to the
notes of Austria and England, which is stated to be that
the Sultan has taken the resolution not to trout for peace
before the Russian troops have evacuated Moldavia and
Wallachia, and to retire to the other side of the Pruth ;
and that the fortresses taken from the Porte on the Da-
nube should be restored.

(From the Journal des Debuts of Feb. 5.)
They write from Marseilles, Jan. 30, they laud received
letters there from Smyrna, of the 2d December, stating,
that several Austrian and Sardinian vessels laden with
grain from Egypt and Constantinople, entered Smyrna,
being forced in by the Russians who blockaded the Dar-
danells.

LISBON, JAN. 21.

In regard to the troops of the line, they are continually
shut up in their caserns, and the soldiers sleep is their
clothes. Numerous pieces of artillery have been placed at
Belem and at Ajuda ; they are also working at the fortifiea-
cationi of Queluz, that the Palace should not be surprised.

The contents of the French Papers are not marked
by any particular fact of interest with which we
were not previously acquainted. The Moniteur con-
firms the arrival of the English ships the Lyra, Mi-
nerva, and the Susanna, at Brest, on the 30th of
January, having on board 630 Portuguese refugees,
under the orders of Count Saldanha. These unfor-
tunate persons were conveyed by two English
frigates as far as Cape Finisterre, whence they pro-
ceeded to Brest.
" The Government has ordered the maritime
Prefects to give speedy assistance to the vessels and
to the Portuguese : these orders, which were imme-
diately transmitted, have been executed with that
humanity and zeal which distinguish our nation."
The news from Turkey presents a frightful picture
of the miseries which prevail among the new recruits
of the Turkish army in the environs of Shumla.—
Great numbers of them die daily in the hospi-
tals, while the sick were removed to Adrianople
and other places, where more attention could be
paid to their wants. The Asiatic Turks, who wear
no stockings, have had their feet frozen in crossing
the Balkan mountains. So much for the winter
campaign.

FIENCII FUNDS, PARIS, Fa'. 4. —Five per Cents.,
109 f. 80e. ; Three per Cents., 76f. 15e. ; Naples Stock,
80f. 5e.; Royal Spanish Loan, 76f f. ; Spanish Rente
Perpetuelle, 41f. Haytian Loan, 475 f. Exchange on
Loudon, one month, 25f. 20c.; three months, 25f.

German Papers, of the 30th January, have been
received. Their cements, if correct, aro important,
as indicating a new plan of campaign which the Rus-
sians are contemplating, and which they ought to
have carried into effect last summer, seeing that they
had the entire command of the Black Sea. The
plan is to have an army of observation on board the
fleet and transports, which can act according to cir-
cumstances, either in support of the army of Bulga-
ria or that of General PASKEWITCIL, by making, or
threatening, a descent on the shores of the Black
Sea, either in Europe or Asia. The wonder is, that
such a play should have been so heedlessly neglected
last campaign ; but the truth is, that every thing was
mismanaged then. Should the Russians make a des-
cent in Asia, they will greatly facilitate the progress of
General PASKEWITCIi towards the Bosphorus. And
a plan of operations, if well conducted, and promptly
executed, on the Asiatic side, would ultimately prove
more ruinous to the SULTAN than the passage of the
Balkan by the Russian army, because the Russians
in Asia having the command of the Black Sea, could
effectually cut off any more supplies of men or pro-
visions to recruit the fores in the capital.

If Russia► understands her own interest she will
persevere in a plan of this sort—but if we were the
Duke of WELLINGTON we should take good care
that she did not. It is manifestly the intention of
Russia to obtain a preponderance on the shores
of the Black Sea, as well as in the Eastern part of
the Mediterranean, but it is equally the interest of
England and France that she shall not accomplish her
purposes. If England and France continue in their
present happy union of sentiment with regard to
the affairs of the East, we can apprehend little

danger from the powerof Russia, however encroach
ing or ambitious :--

ImisY, JAN. 12.

If we may credit private letters from Odessa, prepara-
tions are making there, and at Sebastopol, for the next
campaigns in order to attack the Porte, not only in Eu-
rope but in Asia, with the greatest energy. A consider-
acle number of transports is to be collected iu the port of
Sebastopol, to receive troops and artillery, and it is sup--
posed that this corps is intended to laud on the Turkish
Asiatic coat of the Black Sea, partly to support the ope-
rations of Gen. Paskewitsch, partly to make diversions in
favour of the army near the Balkan. It is said that
Gen. Paskewitsch, who has with him the Baron Von
Sassen, one of the most distinguished officers of the general
staff, has received the Emperor's orders to draw up a
new plan of operations for the army in Armenia, which
General Diebitsch is to endeavour to connect with that of
the main army, which was not the case in the preceding
campaign. Russian moveable columns, which may ulti-
mately support the army in Bulgaria, and that of General
Paskewitsch, will be landed for this purpose on the Aasiatic
coast, supperted by the fleet, and employed in interrupting
the communications with Constantinople, and with break-
ing up the Turkish depots. It cannot be denied that if this
plan is well executed, with the facility of supplying the
troops by sea, the advantage to the Russian army must be
great, and the port be attacked in the most sensible part.
For if the Russian columns could succeed in approaching
the Bosphorus by land, on the Asiatic side, the impres-
sion that such a circumstance would make on the inhabi-
tants of the capital would be incalculable, and the Sultan
would find it difficult to keep the disturbers of the public
tranquillity in check.
A new kind of Congreve rocket has been made at Mos-
cow, and the army is to be considerably strengthened.
The late changes in the positions of the troops in the in-
terior of Russia have put almost the whole army in mo-
tion, and it is difficult to say what corps are, and what
are not destined to act in the field, as they are all on
the war establishment. The statements in circulation do
not agree with each other, and do not enable us to form a
correct idea of the strength of the army, which is to open the
campaign, but it will be at least 200,000 men. The Rus.
sian nation is iu general in favour of the war, and its en-
thusiasm is increased by the clergy, who represent it as a
religious war, undertaken to fellow Christians. It it`
affirmed also that the clergy have contributed large sums
to defray the expenses of the war.
Great exertions are making here for the organization of
the hospitals. Several French surgeons have been induced
to leave the army, because their ignorance of the Russian
language hindered them from communicating with their
patients, and they were therefore unable to be so service-
able as they might have been. The continued frost has
proved very salutary, and there are now hardly any sick in
the hospitals.

BUCHAREST, JAN. 14.

Nothing has occurred since the last post; even the
slight apprehensions respecting an invasion of Tchapan
Oglou from Nicopoli and Tournul have vanished. A
heavy and continued fall of snow prevents all operations
on that side. It is even affirmed that Tchapan Oglen has
never left Nicopoli. We have letters from Krajova, up
to the 12th instant, which likewise contain nothing of im-
portance.

VIENNA, JAN. 26. —Metalliques, 97 '7-16 ; Bank
Shares, 1,106 ; in the evening, 1,107.

CORFU, JAN. S.
On the Ist inst. the anniversary of the introduction of
the constitution of these States was kept with great so-
lemnity. The Lord High Commissioner held a levee in
the morning, and in the evening gave a ball and supper.—
Admiral Sir P. Malcolm was present. This morning the
Admiral sailed for Malta, on board the Asia, Captain J.
Hope Johnstone. The Rifleman, Musquito, and Wenzel
sloops, and the Hind cutter, sailed nearly at the same
time. The African, English steam-boat, arrived on the
Ist, in two days and a half from Ancona, with despatches
from London (supposed to be for Mr. S. Canning), which
were sent front that city 12 days before.

We learn from N;varin that Colonel Fabvier had
arrived there with several engineers, and that he was
believed to be charged with the organizstion and command
of the new Greek troops. We learn from Santa Maura,
that the Grecks made themselves masters a few days ago
of the town of Vostizza, in the Gulf of Ambracia, and that
the castle which was closely invested, . was on the
po7nt of surrendering for want of provisions.

The Debate of last night will be read with deep
interest. Having given so full a report of the
speeches, and from the pressure of other matter, we
have not room for any lengthened observations, but
we cannot omit to point attention to the manly
avowal of Mr. DAWSON, in explanation of his cele-
brated speech at Limerick. That speech we de-
nominated at the time as the harbinger of good will
and peace to Ireland, and so it proved ! The speeches
of Mr. HusliissoN, Mr., CHARLES GRANT, and Mr.
PEEL, Will also be read with that pleasure which their
eloquence, sincerity, and occasional pathos so highly
deserve.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.:

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, FEB. 6.---Wind W.—Arrived the Asia, Agar,
from Bengal. Arrived from London, the Montreal, Elder,
for Jamaica. Arrived the Union, from St. Michael's.

Prxmounr, FEB. s.—Wind N.—Arrived the Quixote,
Le Boef, from St Ander°.
FA-I.MOUTII, FEB. s.—Wind N.—Arrived the Char-
lotte, Amy, from Palermo. Sailed the La Virginia,
Packet, for Savannah.

MARGATE, FEB. 6.—Arrived the Concord, Elliott,
.1-ortl St. Michael's.

ItAmscATK, FELL 6.—The Standard, 111‘Bitd, of and
from Dundee to New York, west on the Goodwin Sand
last evening, and was abandoned by the crew; she was
afterwards got off by some Deal boatmen, and carried into
the Downs with loss of anchor and chain, and leaky.
YAILMOUTH, Fen. 6.—The Thomas and &trait, Gatton,
of Poole ; Williams, Pettigrew, from St. Petersburgh to
London ; and the Union, Wells, from Dartmouth to
Lynn, have been got off, and brought into this harbour to
repair.

LEITH, FEB. 3.-The Perseverance, from Peterhead
to Glasgow, NMI driven on shore the 26th ult. on Inch-
tnickney, but since got off, and carried into Newhaven. A
great many casks of oil, part of her cargo, have been con-
veyed to Cragnond.

TUE FUNDS.--(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TIVELVR 0' CLoar.

A decline in the price of Consols took place yesterday,
arising from some rather heavy sales of money stock, and
they closed at 871 ; this morning they opened at the
same price, with little business, but have since impro•ed to
87t both for money and time. India Bonds are heavy
at 62 4 pm. ; Exchequer Bills, 64 6 pm.
The Foreign Funds are still extremely limited in their
operations ; Brazilian Bonds ate 6211 3a ; Buenos Ayres,
4O ; Mexican Banda, 6 per Cent., 281 91; Russian
and Danish fully support their price, the for ater being 971
91, and the latter, 64
In Shares there is nothing fresh to state; Imperial Bra-
zilian Alining Shares are 37 9 pm. ; the other speculations
are without alteration.

In the City the opinion on the subject of Catholic Eman-
cipation is that the proposition of Isis Majesty's Govern-
ment will pass with a considerable majority in the Com-
mons ; may, it is added, that if a division does take place, it
will be limited to one instance only, but even this is doubted.
Three per Cent. Consols, 874 Ditto, for Account,
; India Stock, 236 7 ; Bank Stock, 2111 121 ;
India Bonds, 62 4 pus. ; Exchequer Bills, 64. 6 pm.
TWO O'CLOCK::
The Consol Market remains in an uninteresting state,
and they are for the last hour again 87/4.
-

THREE O'CLOCK.

Coils°la. 87a 1.
FOUR O'CLOCK.-1
Consols 87 a
Do. for Ac. 87a
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayros
Chilian Do.
Columbian, 1824

CLOSING PRICES.
Danish 64i
Greek, 1825
Mexican, 1825 --
Peruvian
Russian 98
Spanish 91

Mr. Secretary Peel, Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald,
and Mr. berries visited the Chancellor of the Exchequer
yesterday.

Despatches were sent ofF yesterday evening
from the Foreign-office, for Lord Stuart de Rotliesay, our
Ambassador at Paris.

The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland
arr:ved at Northumberland-hous.? yesterday afternoon, from
their seat Alnwiek Castle, Northumberland.

LAW COURTS.--THIS DAY.—Nothing of
importance occurred in any of the Courts previous to our
going to Press,

FIRE AT YORK MINSTER.

(From the Second Edition of the Leeds Intelligeneer.)
THURSDAY, THREE O'CLOCK.

Pardoe, the chief constable of York, arrived in Leeds
yesterday, with a warrant signed by Archdeacon Mark-
ham, as a Magistrate of the West Riding, against Jonathati
Martin, a description of whom we su!join. The follow-
ing are the facts 'relative to this individual, and the charges
against kim Which have as yet come to light. So far as
they go they may be considered authentic':—
He had been some time in lodgings at York, with the
shoemaker alluded to in our latest particulars of last night,
and who identified the pincers found -in the cathedral, on
Monday morning, as those which had been taken from his
house. On Friday week he left York, stating that he was
coming to Leeds to reside, and his luggage was sent off ac-
cordingly to this place. On Saturday morning last he again
arrived at York from Leeds, and spent the day at the shoe-
maker's, in whose house he had before resided. On Sunday
he went out at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, but did not again
return. He is a man of singular habits and manners, and it
does not appear that his absence excited any particular ob-
servation. On Monday, however, his landlord having
missed a pair of shoemaker's pincers, and hearing that an
instrument of that description had been found near the
window from which the incendiary made his escape, ap-
plied to Mr. Pardoe for permission to see them. The re-
sult was, that he was able to swear to their identity in the
most positive manner. Those pincers he used to bend back
the leaden fastenings of the window, from which be
escaped by means of the rope-ladder. Martin has not been
seen in York since Sunday; but, during his temporary re-
sidence in that city, previous to the committal of the
shocking deed, he stated that he was in a good situation in
Leeds, and that his wife was also there, keeping the house
of another man. These admissions, if correct, are of great
importance, and we hope the publication of them will be
the means of discovering the criminal. It has been ascer-
tained, from the inquiries instituted by the Police, that
his boxes, which, as we before stated, were despatched
from York in the early part of last week, reached the wag-
gon warehouse of Messrs. Scott and Carver, in this town,
yesterday week. An active search for the delinquent is
now going on ; but, we lament to add, he has not vet been
caught. The result of the investigation, at the iiesiden-
tiary, at York, has been the publication of a placard, of-
fering a reward for the apprehension of Jonathan Martin,
and giving a description of his dress and person. The fol-
lowing is a copy:—
" Whereas, Jonathan Martin stands charged with hav-
ing, on the night of the Ist of February instant, wilfully
set fire to York Minster. A reward of 1001. will be paid
on his being apprehended and lodged in any of his Ma-
jesty's Gaols ; and a further reward of 1001. will be paid
on the conviction of any accomplices of the said Jonathan
Martin, to such person or persons as shall give information
which may lead to such conviction. The following is the
description of the said Jonathan Martin, viz. :
" lie is rather a stout man, about Live test six inches
high, with light hair cut close, coming to a point in the
centre of the forehead, and high above the temples, and
has large busby red whiskers ; he is between forty and fifty
years of age; and of singular manners. He usually wears
a single-breasted blue coat, whir a stand-up collar, and
buttons covered with the same cloth ; a black cloth waist-
coat, and blue cloth trowsers ; half-boots laced up in front,
and a glazed broad-brimmed low-crowned hat. Sometimes
he wears a double-breasted blue coat, with yellow buttons.
When travelling, he wears a large back-leather cape coming
down to his elbows, with two pockets within the cape; across
the back of the leather cape there is a square piece of dark-
coloured fur, extending from one shoulder point to the other.
At other times he wears a drab-coloured great coat, with a
large cape and shortish skirts. When seen at York last
Sunday, he had on the double-breasted blue coat, a coin
mon bat, and his great coat. The said Jonathan Martin
is a hawker of pamphlets, one entitled " The Life of Jona-
than Martin, of Darlington, Tanner," the third edition
of which is printed at Lincoln, by R. E. Leary, 1828 ;
and another entitled " The Miraculous Escape of Jona-
than Martin." He had lodged in York about a month,
and quitted it on the 27th of January last, stating that he
was going to Tadcaster for a few days, and thence to
Leeds. We returned to York on the 31st January, and
said that lie and his wife had taken lodgings in Leeds. He
was not seen in York after the Ist February.
By order of the Dean and Chapter of York,
CHRIS. JNO. NEWSTEAD,
Clerk of the Peace for the Liberty of St. Peter of York.
York, sth February, 1829.
We have just got the pamphlet which Jonathan Martin
has hawked about for sale. It is entitled as follows :
" Third edition, considerably improved, with engravings
by the Author, the Life of Jonathan Martin, of Darling-
ton, tanner, written by himself, containing an account of
the extraordinary interpositions of Divine Providence on
his behalf, during a period of six years' service in the navy,
including his wonderful escapes in the action of Copenha-
gen, and in many affairs on the coasts of Spin and Por-
tugal, in Egypt, &e. Also an account of the embarkation
of the British army after the battle of Ccranna. Like-
wise an account of his subsequent conversion and Christian
experience, with persecutions he suffered for conscience
sake, being locked up in an asylum and ironed, describing
his miraculous escape through the roof of the house, having
first ground off his fetters with a sandy stone. His singular
dreams of the destruction of London, and the host of
armed men overrunning England, also of the son of
Buonaparte taking England, &c. &c. To which is added,
a letter from Mr. Fletcher, on the Prophecies concerning
the latter times.

" Nark ! my kind readers, the hand of God in a poor
humble cot, God has raised or us four brothers ; my oldest
brother he has made a natu►al philosopher, my youngest,
an historical painter, his drawings and engravings has
made Kings and Emperors to wonder. The Emperor of
Russia at this time has made him a present of a diamond
ring, but I, the unworthiest, God has given to me the
gift of prophecy, which is the best of all, for I feel that
God is with me.

" Lincoln.: printed for and sold by the author, by 11. E.
Leary, 1828.—Price sixpence."
It would appear from the above, that the wretched
maniac is brother of Mr. Martin, the printer and engraver,
to whom the world is indebted for the splendid picture,
&c. of Belshazzar's Feast, and those of so many other re-
markable subjects. We have looked over "Jonathan
Mortinjs Life," so called, and it certainly appears to con-
sist, for the most part, of the ravings of a fanatical
madman.- We cannot, however, discover, any passage
expressly prophetic of the burning of York Minster,
though fire is the great agent of destruction which setnus
to fill his imagination.
On the blue wrapper is a rude wood-cut, representing
the lunatic asylum at Gateshead, near Newcastle upon-
Tyne, from which Martin says that lie effected his mira-
culous escape ; and opposite the title-page is a frontispiece,
in the same rude style, representing a male figure naked,
with a dart in his lea hand, a sort of glory reund the head,
and -the right hand uplifted and holding a flaming ball.

Jonathan Martin's wife, who has been for a short time
residing in Marsh-lane, in this town, was this morning
taken into custody while vending. the "History of her
husband's life." She was immediately sent off to York,
to be examined before the gentlemen there assembled t ) in-
vestigate into the circumstances of the fire. Martin him-
self has not, up to this hour, been found, but the police
have been in the hottest pursuit after him for the whole
day. We hope to be able to announce before night that
he is in the hands of the officers.
THIRD EDITION.

INTELLIGENCER-OFFICE, THURSDAY NIC;TET.

Mr. Chantrell, the eminent architect of this place, has
just returned from visiting York Minster to-day, in com-
pany with his Grace the Archbishop, and the venerable
Archdeacon Markha:n. That Gentleman has favoured us
with the following summary of the actuA extent of in-
jury sustained from the fire. The public will have the
satisfaction, however melancholy, of learning from thence,
that the loss has been hitherto exaggerated in all the pub-
lished accounts of the conflagration. 11r. Chantrell's
epitome is as follows :

The Side Aisles are not materially injured, in consequence
of having stone groins ; nor have any of the ►nona-
ments or statues in them seriously suffered.

The clustered columns of the Choir are twelve in number,
each column consisting of a quatlrangular pier in the
centre, surrounded by small cylindrical columns. The
piers are scarcely injured, but the shafts of the cluster-
ing cylinders are burnt, flawed, or otherwise destroyed
to a considerable exteat.

The Capitals of the Columns are nearly safe except two—
those near the Lantern Tower—which are destroyed.
The Lantern Tower remains perfect, and the Great Piers
supporting it are only superficially injured.
The Arches between the Columns are not materially in-
jured.

The Clustered Columns in the Lady Chapel, six in num-
ber, are but slightly injured, and that only to the
height of ten or twelve feet, and superficially. This is
owing to the fire being here confined to the centre of the
Aisle, and consisting merely of the fallen roof.
The celebrated Screen between the Choir and Lady Chapel
is so much injured, that it must be taken down and
rebuilt.
The Entrance Screen to the Choir remains nearly perfect.
The Great East Window is scarcely touched.
The Clerestory Windows (that is, those windows above