The Sun.
London, England, 1818-12-18 00:00:00

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"possession a Vast pr0p0.11166 of the late loan
undisposed of, the undertahing of the French Go.
vernment to discharge a part of it, woilld, in con-
seqttence of its severe detireclation, be a great re-
lief to the Contractor, provided he were thereby
wholly exonerated from an equivalent share of
his engagement to the Altiti. But to us is seems
not very clearly expressed-whether he remains, or
not, a collateral security.
When we had written thus far, our Private
Correspondence from Paris 'came to hand, which
fu„lly ctinfirtns are above deviation front the treaty
of Aix-la-Chapelle ; with the addition, that 'the
payment of debts to individual foreigners is, as
well as that to the foreign Governments, post-
poned for a term of six months ; not commencing
until the Ist .July, 181 instead of the approach-
ing Jationry. The French Treasury, according to
our private letter, appears pretty clearly destined
to he the sole security for the last 109,000,000
of franc's, in lieu of Messrs. Baring.

We know not from what private letters it could
he that a Morning Paper of yesterday gave' such
feattul accounts of certain occurrences at Madrid;
such as the flight of the King and English Mi-
nister to the Escurial, &c. &c. We do not mean
to describe the Spanish capital .as lulled in imper-
turbable repose; but we know that private letters
in peat abundance, and some of theM from the
most respectable and best ilitormi.d persons in
Madrid, have been received of so late a date as
the 3,1 inst., which speak of no such events es
those intimated above; and we are therefore con-
vinced that up to that date they had not taken
place. We may remark, however, that the King
goes every winter to the Escurial,
nothing is
more likely than that Sir Henry Welle,ley may
have accompanied' or followed his Maivsty in this
his ordinary excursion. On more close inquiry,
we have learned that the date of the surposvd
flidit is assigned, in some of the accounts, to•the
6th inst., which is three days after the date of the
letters of which we have split!). We still, how-
ever, adhere to the opinion that the flight is
imaginary.— (Aid )

Yesterday, at one o'clock, Mr. Hase, Chief
Cashier to the Bank of England, made his ap-
peat ance in the Stock Exchange, for the purpose
of giving notice to the parties who had petitioned
for an extension of the term for redeeming their,
deposits of Omnium, that the Directors declined
compliance with their application. This unex-
pected intimation had the effect of lowering the
Funds a half per cent. The holders of Oinnittm
twill therefote be compelled to convert it into
stock at the regular period. It .is supposed that
the quantity of Ontnioni thus pledged amounts to,,
❑early 6,000,0001. Twenty per cent, had been
paid before it could be received as deposit, ,and
the last instalment, which must always be paid by
the subset iber, and is due on the 19111 of Febru,
ary, amounts to 20 per cent. The total sum ad-
vanced by the Bank is therefore 3.600,0001. The
subscribers are now required to reimburse this sum
in three short instalments : 30 per cent. on the
22d of January, 1819 ; 30 per cent. on the 29th
of January ; and the remaining 40 per cent. ott
the 12111 of February, seven days before the final
conversion of the loan into stock.—(Thid.)

[Morning Post.]
THE NEW IMPROVEMENTS.

The straight line from Carlton House will ter-
minate with a magnificent pile of architecture, in-
tended for a public office; This will extend be,.
yowl the Crescent, in Piccadilly ; the site fixed
upon is Marylehone-street ; branching off with a
sweep to the left, as far as Swallow-street, will
be a superb double row of unifotm buildings, to
be called Regent-street. There will be a beauti-
ful colonnade on each side of the street, the mo-
dels of which ate taken from the finest buildings
in Rome.

The arrangements respecting the improvements

to the east are concluded. The north side of
Cockspur-street is to come down, and not a house
is to be lett in Suffolk-street, or' in any of the
alleys adjoining. All the buildings in the King's
Mews, except the new stables (those erected by
George 11.), are to be pulled down, and one of

the fronts of Carlton House will command a view
of St. Martin's Church.

Government will gain enormously by some of
ese improvements—for instance, Suffolk-street

pays them the annual sum of thirty-five pounds
only, but to the holder of the leases they yield
80001. The leases expire at Michaelmas 1819.

SLlDlNG.—Yesterday, at three o'clock, as some
boys were amustog themselves on the ice, in the
canal, in the Regency Park, they discovered some-
thing in the water, which they imagined to be
the carcass of a dog ; bait by breaking the ice
ith some sticks, they brought it to the surface
of the water, when it proved to be the booty of a
new-born male infsnt, completely totked, which
one of them carried to the Jew's Harp public-
house. It had every appearance of being recent.
ly thrown in, and had several bruises on the
head.

PITEOII3 CliCUMSTANCE.—Yesterday morning
young female of genteel address and appearance
was found, at five o'clock, sitting wider ti hedge
on the Deptford-road, almost frozen to death.—
Pearce; the man who found her, carried her to

the Turk's Head, on the Deptford-road, where,
by the humane exertions of the landlord, ahe
was, after a considerable time, restored to
sense and animation. She gave no other answer
to the numeromi questions which were asked,
than:that she came to town;about Friday las', that
she had been treated unkindly by her friends, and
that her mind was gteatly distressed. She declin-
ed stating the name or residence of any of her
friends, or front what cause her distressed feelings
arose. She refused all sustenance, and, when
taken before a Magistrate, persisted in her si-
lence, and at last went away without communi-
cating any further purticulars respecting tier
situation.

'l'i►e cock(,() was heard by several persons in
Cottingham woods, Lincolnshire, o►► the first
instant, and its notes were deemed as clear as they
arc iu thig month of May.