The Sun.
London, England, 1820-12-13 00:00:00

NOVA SCOTIA.

UALIFAN, OCT. 3.---We.uuderstand that the
documentg' annexing
,sidneYJO-ittis Province ha
arrived in the Mail ; and that ftfg.re..7ie,efkri'c'y
James Kempt will soon proceed to visit'that
por-
tion of his Government.
We arc indebted tb a mercantile friend for the
followint 'statement of the and
Port Charges' recently paid at --Di7.IIEAARA and
thii place, upon a vessel of 122 fotts burthen.—
The difference'vef treat.- AVe not pre-.
tend to say, thfitthe ofikers at Demerara are not.
Entitled to all they have Charg'ed, ive think
British Owner's' :are exposed tCrhtsavier and
more numerous taxes' at that: pIACe 'than they

Coilectors , and Searcher.'
Fees fur Entry ft urn t!
West lodirs
Clcarittgtor Ditto
Certificate of landing
Comptroller
NaVill Office

Ca IG•
2 11 -5i
0.6 8.
0 12 0.
1 2 6

CG 9 7f,

Excess of Detneraracharges over those
is
Halifaxi......

CHARLOTTE-TOWN, P. EDWARD ISLAND, Aug. 20.

PROROGATION OF THE ASSEMBLY;

Qn thiS day. his Excellency the. Lieutenant.
Governor was pleased to-deliver the following
Speech :
"Mr. President, and Gentlemen of his Majesty's Council,
" Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House'ufssembly,
Raving convened you for. the .purpose men-
tioned at the opening of the Session, 'iv-filch' has
been duly regarded on Soar parts, and, having
_been given to understand, that no further public
business requires attention, I feel disposed to re-
lieve •you from the inconvenience of- further- ap.
plication to the affairs -of the Colony, at a dis-
tance-from the homes and the avocations of seve.
ral of you.. But I cannot allow- the General As.
sembly to separate, _without expressing My grate-
ful sentiments lo•you Gentlemen Mentbers.Of his
AlajeSty's.Council, for your constant-eOonornical
care of the Public Revenue, and for the..assist.
ante I have ever received from you idyour.Bxe-
cutive capacity, on that- important point,' well
acquainted as' I must be with- your integrity and
sound judgment-on such matters. r must nOt.with.
hold from -you Allis my Most public testimony to
that effect, ascribing to'your .aSsistalice • the, -2-c-
-•tu4ilt4te of -the pecuniary affairs -of COlouY,
which may well challenge scrutiny, and need•not
shrink-from remark. .. • , „

" I am happy -to have had it in my power to
concur with both -Houses, *Ol,l the Bill's .which
have been presented'; but it is impossible forme
fo-paS4 unnoticed some of `the proceedings of • the
Lower Houseovltieh have forznally.cohre to my
litiowledge,through.the-Copies of their-Journals,
which have beets communicated.- Frorn thern it
appears, that certain •Resolutions„refliaing upon
me, have been adopted, .and.an Addieis
Majesty -framed- and 'founded on thein, which'is
to be transmitted. through his Eircellehey Me .Go-
vernor in.edifif, a measure equally extraotdinar.y
and Unnemosaryi in' as rnuch,ns-I should-myself,
if I had: been applied.to,.have readilyperateci
in any •sti;sh measure, -that'would have attracted
his•MajestY's attention to my contlitct,-jtv•ltose
faithful' servant I. anL !

"-Tite Address in question would thus have

reaehedlbe Throne, unqueitionahly nitidh sootier,
and, let ine add; with•more eerthinty, aS• it ro.
niains.'to be seen What conduct his lordship:may
feel. it ednitisti.trt with. his .ditty 'to ittlOpt;- oil* so
delicate-a point as the interposing
concerns-Of'a:distalit'Uolosny.

anYcirCuM.stnces,..my 'liearty and
, •
earneSt.desire to proniote the public Ni-elfare will
contiuneuntlithinished, feVling, as I trust I ever
to 'all' party ptlitics, and neces-
sarily with both. regfet' and_.wonder
those who.allow theinseliies to be :hurried away
by Iheni.

' r. C. DOUGLASS SMITH', Lieut.-Governor.
4' Aug. 10, IttiU." • A ,

The President of his Majesty's Council, by his
Excellendy's:coinrnatlcl, then prorciguett the Gene-
rat.ASsenthlY to the 4th SeptetabeT next. • •

SAGACITY OF A DOG.—A farmer near Albany,
in kineritz-a; Was_ lately attacked with insanity,
am}, in a fit of•this 'd.readittl *i.:ladyV•attempted
to put an end-tO'his ekist'ence.t •Eeiy pfecantion
to prevent stietr ,C atamstiophie, vas. adopted "by his
family but.Z bite -he escaped. frOm the
hotise, taking' with tiitiva 'razor...4llS 4-4;lati'3ns
used 'every .effort to discover-
The dog of -the .unfOrtnitate.. man quitted the
house shortly after •his inaster,,•ancl, feniained
absent. This circom:Etance wa",i regarded• ar a cer-
tain proof that the :rriaster -was &id, and that
the dog had -remained-by the body. At night,
-to .the Ant prise-' And-. joy. 44- -the' farnily,-: the
two: fugitives ?eturned. The., man, -whose; lit
'of ima.ACkY had lefe.him, Stated' 'that- he • Was
joined by hi&'dog- .at the.- ‘miarnent •when he
was about 'to eat his throat,•when:the faithful
animal caught hold of bib arm, and prevented it.
ff he 'same- thing, was' repeated several times--with
Success, and towards night, when-hi'mental de-
' rangement-had•coMpletely left him;.: the grateful
master caressed his dog, atict returned with him
to -dicer his desponding -family.------•-(Ga.zelle de
Francc.)

Ri.".;SIAN LOAN.

UKASE Or "Tits IMPS:111AI. MAJESTY

TO 1115

O!•' FINANCE.

Having (lAertninctl to open, in conformity
with the tenour of 5.71 of the regulations of the
Commission of Liquidation, a loan of 40 millions
of silver metallic rubles, and having confirmed,
ele arran,ements made with, the honses of
Bar-
ing,'Llrothi4sV•and Co. of London, and Hope and
eo—haf—Axtuterdava„for.the this:snut
carrying an annual interest of 5
per cent. I d
ire
y tl
1. °To inscribe in the ;Treat book of (he public
tindt..;lthe.Gad,Of'Qehts'a.t,Perpetnal,l6,
terest;•the sum of 40 millions of silver metallic
rubles. . .
. . _

2. The funds which wilt be, receivP.d in virtue
of the above arrangement will be•converted, at
the p7riosls of their reception, into Bank notcs,
which will be current. . ,

3. Those that will be reqUisite for the py-
tnelit of the interest, .as well as to provide the
two per cent. far the sinking fluid.'nf this dvitt,
will be supplied from the thirty tnillious destined
annually for the diminution of the paper.money
in circulation.

.4. The. payrnent of the interest accruing 4n
this loan will be made as is stipulated in the ar-
raugnwut, commencing from. the Ist of March in
ncxtyear (15'.21)," at two annual periods=--narriely
from the. Ist to the 15th March, and frOm ,the Ist
t- the 15th of
.september, by the Imperial C tft-
mission of Liquidation., •

NPAV SETTLEMENT
AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

Extract from a- Letthr, dated ON Blue Krantz,
, • Algoa &iy, Aug, 23,-1820.
" I shall only at present give yOu a-short' ac-
count of what has taken. place since our arrival
up-the ..country, ail. leave the lirst of our journey
to a more leisure time. We are located about
hurnired wiles from Algoa Bay, in one of ~the
finest parts of the 'colony.- My farm is, without
exc-eption;th'e best I haVe yet seen. To attempt
Lo,, describe. the beauty of the Blue Krantz, •is
far beyond my pen ; nothing can possibly exceed
the land is capable of producing any kind' of
crop ; there.are abundance of springs in almost
every. part of the farm, in: beautiful fields of
• about: one hundred to two hundred acres, inter-
-- .:spers(d with the finest trees,with shrubs and flowers
every :kind, the most delightful. I am at
loss where to build my house, as in every field
.there.. is the twist. inviting situation. I have,
.however, determined, I think, on ajising ground,
-where nature has done more.for me than any one
:could attempt to accomplish with thousands in
'their pockets : it is, without a-joke, laid out to,
.my -hand in every respect to any gentleman's
.park in :England. .My property extends about
three.miles in a-valley surrounded with immense
:mountains; I. have the finest and, largest trees,
.and-plenty• of. stone for building ; in. short, the
,plaCe- altogether far exceeds my expectations. I
-shall by and:bye, be able to live like trk king, but
it has been and will be, for a time, of little worth,
tmust_be at the head of every thing myself.
Londoners are the worst' of people for such an
inntirtaking. had -I - had
.but ten Scotchmen
with -me, or people bred to fo,r,ning, I would
—haVe'dOne well. '1 could at this moment employ ii
• stvi.e, -but as .bad as things are,. I, have already
plourhed;and sowed about 30 acres of wheat and
• barley;'which look beautiful. It is customary to
:Plolgh- with twelve oxen here ;- this I, can
-easily accomplish --with four, or, with two horses,
.having just. bit upon the
_proper kind of Scotch
plough. , The oxen are certainly the finest I ever
.saves hitt- devils.fo
.wprk,:never in haste; in this
department there_ is great room for improvement,
as well as „iw.e.very thing else, especially .the.
.dairy. The cows are good, but badly managed:
sompletedevils ;. no butter, no cheese.. Sheep and
goats very fine ; - the ,wo,ol capable of improvement;
Horse,s small, and never used .but for the saddle;
on which I - have . rode two days
.1,00 miles—fed
on nothing bttt grass ; they get, wonderfully
at a hand-gallop=cannot
,You will no
,doubt expect nie to give my can4Lopinion of this.
country, which I do-in a few words. it is, without,
exception, the finest I ever saw. The land is a fine
rich loarn,capable of bearing any thing; easily cul=
tivated, and nothing in many places. required
.but,
to plough a.nif.siksN'. After one bushel you generally
have froM sixty to one hundred in a favourable
season. I lave about one acre under crop, of
pottoes, pease, cabbage, turnips, tadishes, Sze.
tz.c. Yothing,can exceed the rapidity of growth,
or the quality of the' vegetable. The winter
has been moderate,
,and is just over. The
cTnate every thing one could wish. To make
• a long tale short, my advice is, that all env
. friends should —at once. Pome here ; for. LUZ
a-year • you may, live ,like a ,King; prices of
oxen, 31. or 30 'dollars—cows, '25 dollars--
sheep. and. goats, 3 to 4 dollars—horses, 50 to
10Q dollars,F--cheese, none—eggs:, none—butter,
Ed. to 10d. Bring otit:coßking,, tin
.and japan
ware, wearing, apparel, shoes,- bedding, tobacco-
; pipes, and a snialt.assortinept of necessaries, hut
no luuries,H.no ...los; for auniisernent-shootimg
and hunting all.day long. All kinds of English
ga7den,seeds grow here."

.• A Meeting,of the Agriculturists of West Kent
vcas holden at .the Saar Inn, in this town, on
.Thursday last, convened for the purpose of peti-
...:,'lon!r; Parliament toy bistituti.s an investigation, of
..thz.prespnt depressed state of Agriculture. JOHN
Esq. was called to the Chair., A Peti-
. :tion was then read and -unanimously; agreed to.
.Sir-E..ls.lNATcnaur.r. hononred the Meeting with
his presence, and•expressed his readiness to-nse
. every exertion to, again Oe object, of their
wishes. Several rpsolu,tions-"were then •Passed,
• ;lad Sir:EdwatO: was ,r,ettiAested to present the
. _Petition- to .Parlianlent.-77.0in:LIstone Journal,
it appears by, an. offi.,cial., report, that besides
batter and Cheese, East' India cotton
\goods and
saltpetre will be allowed entrance into Spain,
only if imported in Spanish vessels.

FOR THE SUN.

INSOLVENT

Etwron--The Public in general, and Par-
the-ti4ding,fiart of the community-„have
reason to feel obliged by your having appropriated
so- frequently-your Columns to_the various com-
munications on the INS WA-ENT Law. I enter-
tain
no doubt that-your •CoireSpondents assisted
toward,s its present state of perfection, ,
as it is clear that the Insolvent Law 'must; if it
-may not already be so. considered, become an in-
tegralvart of the-.La:rof the Country. It is tci-be
regretted, that there is 'no fixed Court; the in,
convenience : which myself and several of my
neighbour's, rind no doubt inanv others have felt,
in `the Cokt inoying• from The Old .Ballev, to
ditfertni-Conitnittee-lrooms of the louse pf-(2,oin-
'nth's, might be Obi-iaied- at a small.-expence by
l,uildiug a. Courf and Offices. I hear that it is
inebntemplation to purchase a house for the pur-
pose' of the 'Offices, where a sufficient space of
i•Ound can be had near thereto .for the Co!,
tc.i that tlie'llf;eordS'mriy be at all times forth-
voming in the Court, and that several houses in
11 4.6 troinster have been viewed foi that purpose,
hut none !,:el liKed o Now,- Si,, I would fir ire
the liberty Of suggesting the proprieq that so inr-
portant a .Court," especially to the wholesale
deaters, should be fixed,- as well as the Of-
fices in some central part: of this greAt" Me--
tropolis. It. seemed agreed all haLd,i, when
the New, Post Office_ was in contemplation,
that' Saint Martin's-le-Grand was the most
central part; sitrely no difficulty. .can "arise
in building a court, acid ollieus in some part of
the space originally intendedfor that Office, at all
events :to carry persons in trade fi:erri the east
end of:the town to the- neighbourhood
fields to opimse an insolvent, or even to look tit
a schedule, will be a great hardship, .especially
when it is considered that mere than five-sixths
of the wholesale dealers; who are the great bud y
of Insolyents' town creditors, reside east of Tent-
' pie Bar.
With respect to using a dwelling-house 'as of-
fices- for the Court, there seehis to me considltra-
hie objection., and, any person who is aware that
already 25,000 schedules, besides' deeds of as-
signment and other documents in: each case, and
also the books, accounts, and papers of several
thOusand insolvents, the accounts of assignees,
kc...&c. are deposited in that office, I think will
agree with me, that the building ought to be less
liable to destruction by fire than any ordinary
house." Inhort, I conceive that the whole of the
offices 0u'414.t0 be on the ground-floor,. and so
bu'i'lt' as t.b_ be fire-proof, which is by no means
difficult. If nb part of the ground intended for
the New Post7Office can be appropriated, proba-
bly Some of your Correspondents will
_point out
more,osnvehielit spots for 'general accommodation
than can be the case with any part of West-

min;;ter.
B. S.. liath December, 18'20.

E LEGATEE.

I. N.

An old bachelor in the north of France,
alike famouS for his avarice and his wealth, laboured • under
• a misfortune .IkOt UtleolllllloO to the greedy rich, that of !.ring
shunned and , hated by every body. He required from his
domestics that their attention should be as with beyond, as
their frugality was Witlritt, all hounds; and the only recent-
pence he gave them, consisted in (tottering hopes of being,
nett remembered at his. death. In spite of his large .pro-
arises, however., he could never prevail on any person to re-
notin more than a-single season in his service ; and at length
his wretched character, -as a master, became so notorious,
that he could not procure a servant on any terms, and saw
himself, with all his wealth, reduced to perform the meanest
Aoffices for himself. In this emergency he fell upon a'certain.
sly device, which he thought would he sure to counteract the
odium under which he laboured, without obligint, him to de-
flate in the least frost his inveterate habits of r saving and
starving:. He sent for his attorney, and dictated to him a
will, containing, among other bcquests,the following
giv.e and beqaea,ll to the servant who shall close my eyes
fifteen hundred litres, awl nit'-d,,maiii of Varae." Nothing,
as will be afterwards seen, was farther front the old man's in-
tention, than that such a bequest should ever have effect.---
The report of Cis': having made it, however, soon spread ;
and, as entiplrigly antitipatvd, hundreds of persons hastened
to offer theiv scTviCO. Ihe fortunate candidate was a stout
Norman, that Middle Period of life, when the appetite for
:mid is gcrierally 'considered to be' at its lowest—a man'
:who.protesteel,loundly tlßit be cared not what he ate or
drank ; or; indeed, whether he ate or drank at all, so that
ht' c'unld only keep life in him. The miser exulted in hat-
ing -at last found a man after his own heart; and installed
;him forthwith in the office of his servant of all work. The
trial was "a severe one ; the penance of a Monk of la Trappe
was not Itiiig to-it ; -according to the gruel at opinion, the poor
Norman most have expired of inanition, had the old miser
lived six months -longer than he did. The day of his mas-
ters death, was
,a day of joy'and- reviving to his servant ;
hut on the next his hopes were like to have been all blasted
by, tke appearance of the heirs at law. -Although the inbe-
ritattee was immense, they possessed so much of the spi-
rit of their departed relative, that they' grudged exceedingly
to find the amonnt at ail diminished by the- few legacies which
the will contained. The famished valet endeavottred to touch
their feelings by a•represt Walton of the sufferings he had un-
[frig-one—sufferings, which years of comfoit and good living
would scarcely repair ; but • all to no purpose. One of the
heirs called for a sight of the will ; and Itliving read these
words, " I give and bequeath to the servant who shall close
my eyes, &c." he exclaimed with Itarbarou4 exultati•tn,
" the donation is worth nothing!" " why's(' ?2'-'iselted.the-ser-vant trembling ; by don't you know toy uncle was blind of
an eye ? tin* Own could you close his eyes ?" The tut fortunate
legatee-, repnlied by this obsei ration, withdrew ; but 011 pro.
ceeding.to take advice of a lawyer, as to the validity (Attie be-
quest, he had the satisfaction to learn that there was every
probability of its being sustained by the Courts. A suit was
lee [rdingly instituted-, and the Judges unanimously deter-
mined, that the intention of the testator was to lie gathered
from the,ordinary and fair meaning of the words, and pot
from any qiiibbling construction; that it would he unjust to
the memory of the decease, to suppose that in so solemn an
atfair as his last will, he could mean by h verbal equivoque
to commit such a fraud on the expectation of an lowest stud
faithful doinestic ; add in short, that there could he no doubt,
in reason or lan., of his hating designedly and actually be-
queathed the fifteen hundredlivres, and the domain of Varac,
to his Norman servant. The heirs. appealed to the Parlia-
ment of Paris: but without success. The judgment was con-
firmed, and‘they were at last obliged to discharge the legacy.
It is in ways like this that the laws often do Intraeles,of good,
by making even dead men do what they never intended, and
as hat is yet alAmdantly consistent with right and justice.

The following shocking accident occurred last
week the Rev. -Joni REID, Minister of
the 'Reformed Presbyterian Church, Lauriston,
was passing some carts laden with hay, at the
Boat-house Bridge, near Linlithgow, he was
forced from his horse, and melancholy- to relate,
A wheel of one of the carts passed over his head.
lie was carried to a neighbouring house, and every
attention was paid to the unfortunate gentleman;
but we regret to ►idd' he died on Monday..----
(Edinburgh Courant, Dec. 9.)

VOR T!11 SUN

TIC E:,CI,II:KGY.
•
ON fat MODERN' ATTEMPTS TO USE ClltYltalES•eoll.

POLITIC* PURPOSES.
Ma. Eb-L,lc'lt,---The case of the- Rector of
\\Tyke Weymouth,- inserted in -your
interesting-Ad in4e.peudNt iineL
to send the -opinion of an eminent-Civilian, -on-
the right which has recently been set up by
Churchwardens to use their Parish Churches
fOr political. or other temporal 'purposes.; and 1
'trust the dissetninatiob of this.opinion will check
and put an-.entl-to a practice, -which '_otherwise
tt; ill convert the Sanctuary of our Religion ". into
'a den of thieves:.',
QUESTIONS. ANSWEIt-;.
•
Ist. If Churchwardens have Ist. I ant Of opinion, that
any anthm ity-to grant-the. use thel:burchwardens, generally
,of tire. Church for Meetito;s speaking, cannolovit h out the
.on Parochial subjects, 'with or consent of the Incumbent,
without lease of Rector ?- —.grant the use of -the Church
for:the put pqsr of Parochial
Nleeti,n4s. If the Inentntivnt
consents that his Church shall
lie 1.1• ed for such purposes, he
- would he answerable to his
t7rdittai'y fur the prdttriety and
decorum of the Nle,ting, and
I mu of • opinion that such
permission ought only to he
given tinder very special cir-
.cum,tances.
. ,

-
2d. If the Churchwardens id. I out of opinion that
are anthori•ed to convi•ne the Churchwarthins have not,
Meetings on political siihjecta, from their office, any autho-
and to grant the use of the rity to convene Meetings on
Church fur such purposes: political suhjects, mach less
. .
to-grant the use of the Church
• fur such purposes.
•
3d. Has tin:Clerk anv right gd. A; the Churchwardens
to give notice. of such M hare authority to convene,
•ihgr willnior the consent of so the tied; has no tight -to
the Rector' give notice u 1 speh-Nleeting,i,
without the consent of the
• Iticutuht in, nor, as I apple-
,
bend .with

. .
, 4th. If the Rector and one 4111., As I have before stated
Churchwarden (where t -iu my opinion, both,
are !wo) rCfuse the use oft,he Churchwardens-cannot, Wit h-
Church, can the other church- out the consuot of .the'Rector,
warclen convene
.and hold the ..grant toe use.uf the Church
Mertiug in hc Church on any for parochial or political
sohject, either parochial or Meetings, it follows, is tor-
political • •Boris that one cannot 'do so
against the express refusal of
the Inctinthent, and of the
other Churchwarden.
' -
ST. r,LEMENT DANES, sr. MARY-1.F.-STRAND, AND
_ _ _