The Sun.
London, England, 1827-03-23 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PLysioum, MARCH 22.—The Alligator, 28, Captain Simeon,
sailed on Monday for Bermuda; and the Rifleman, 18, Captain
F. T. Michell, for Gibraltar and Malta.
In Hamoaze--Britannia, Windsor Castle, Ocean, Harrier, Cad-
mus, Leveret, Frolic.

At the Island—Nightingale.—In the Sound—Bittern.
Lieutenant Joseph Chegwyn, of St. Stephen's, Sallash, is ap-
pointed to the Ordinary at Portsmouth.
Captain Patrick Campbell, C. 8., is appointed to command the
Ocean, 80, as a guardship at this port, and the following officers :
Lieutenants Indedon, Bolman, Lutman, Thackery, Acherly,
Truscott, and Burnett ; Mr. Griffiths, Surgeon ; Mr. Diddams,
Purser ; Rev. Thomas Surridge, Chaplain.
Lieutenant G. Smith is appointed to the Nightingale, vice
Kitchen, promoted.
Captain the Hon. Wm. Gordon has commissioned the Briton,
45, at Woolwich.—Lieuts. Chas. Smith (late of the Ganges),
Rd. Byron, W. Broughton, and C. Douglas, and Mr. W. Hall,
Master, are appointed to her.—Mr. Alexander Neale to be As-
sistant-Surgeon of the Sybille ; Mr. Sturt, Schoolmaster of the
Boadicea, has been appointed Master of the Fly ; Mr. Ruddle,
Purser of the Helicon, to the Semarang, vice Long, invalided;
Mr. Smith, Clerk of the Owen Glendower, to be Purser of the
Helicon.—Lieuts. J. H. Turner, and J. B. P. Hay, to the Rom-
ney; Lieuts. Atkinson and E. Hawes, and Mr. Loney, Purser,
are appointed to the Weasle.
Capt. the Hon. George Elliott (brother of Lord Minto), will
be appointed Flag Captain to Admiral the Hon. Sir Robert
Stopford, on his assuming the command at Portsmouth.
Capt. Frederick Lewis Alaitland, C.B. has taken the command
of the Wellesley, 74, at Portsmouth.
The following appointments to Telegraph Signal Stations have
just taken place on the line of road from Portsmouth to the Ad-
miralty :—Lieutenants J. Hughes to Chelsea ; W. J. Snow, Put-
ney ; N. Newnham, Kingston
E. Turner, Cooper's Hill ; R.
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Hutchinson (b), Chatley Hill ; IT. Mackenzie, Bewley Hill ; E.
Garrett (a),
Bannicle Hill; John Wildey, Haste Hill; T. L.
Knevitt, Holder Hill; W. Eldridge, Beacon Hill; J. S. Murray,
Compton Down ; Thomas Edmonds, Portsdown ; Thomas Pike,
Lump's FoU.
The following appointments to Revenue Cutters have taken
place : Lieutenant Perkins,to the Defence; Lieut. G. Biesett,
to the Rose , • Lieut. J. Moore (b), to the Hawke ; Lieut. T. V.
Watkins,
to
the Tartm.......pyrnouth Journal,

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PRICES OF STOCKS THI:
Bank Stock -
2 Per Cent Red --
simper Cent. Con.
.itto R Pert Cent. -
et -
4 per Cent. New 983-8 7X, Ditto, 1816
Bank Long Ann. -
India Stock -
Ditto Bonds 57 58 pm.

PRICES OF FOREIGN F
Austrian Bonds, 5 per cent. —
Brazilian Bonds 65%
Buenos Ayres Bonds.
Chilian Bonds, 6 per ct. EN 5
Colombian Bonds —
Ditto, 1824
Danish, 3 per cent. —
Greek Bonds —
Ditto, 1826 163ii504%
Guatemala
Mexican Bonds —
Do. 1825 7NILM

PRICE OF IRISH S'
Bank Stock
Consols, 3 per cent
Gov. Stock, 3,14 per cent. 87%41
Ditto, New ... ............. ...... 8734%
4 per Cent. Gov. Deb. Deb. 3N per l eiit
Royal Canal Stock
Grand Canal Stock --
Clty Deb. 4 per coat.
/lallast Office Deb. 4 per cent. --

DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
South Sea Stock —
Old Annuities —
New Ditto —
Ex. Bills, £l,OOO 2d. .26 38 pm.
Ditto 5OO 2d 36 a() pm.
Ditto Small
Ditto Commercial pm-
Bank for Account..
India for Account .
Cons. for Acct..

....
st...
.. S%

ENDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Neapolitan, 1821 —
Peruvian Bonds —
Portuguese Bonds ... . —
Prussian, 5 per cent ..........
Ditto, New —
Russian, New, 5 p. c. 8173
Spanish, 1821 ............ 13% 12% 13
1823
French Rented, 5 p. c
--Exchange 2sf. 50c.
3 per cent —f. —c.
—Exchange —t. —c.

'OCKS, MARCH 20.
St. Patrick Insur. (per share)
Royal Irish Ditto
National Ditto
Patriotic Ditto
Hibernian Bank
Provincial Ditto
Royal Irish Mine
Imperial Mine
Mining Co. of Ireland
Commercial Buildings —

MAILS. ,
Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due.
O America 0 . 0 Guernsey &Jersey. 0
O Brazil 0 0 Harnbargh
O Buenos Ayres
O Donaghadee 0 0 Jamaica 0
1 Dublin
O Flanders 1 0 Lisbon 0
1 France ~ 0 0 Malta 0
O Gottenburgh 1 1 Waterford 0

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
Morning 5l Minutes after 11. I Evening ....... 0 minutes after 0.

It 0R4a4.1.,,-4'l. 'lnt

LONDON,
FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 23, 1827.

We received last night the Paris Papers of Tuesday,
and the Etoile dated Wednesday morning.
The Journal des Debats copies from a Journal
published at Lyons an account of an extensive con-
spiracy having been discovered in General RoDIL's
division of the Spanish Army. At the moment when the
Division was to have disbanded itself, and part to have
Passed into Portugal and part into the Interior, forty
soldiers were arrested and shot on the spot, together with
eleven subalterns, and five officers of other ranks. The
Generals SARSFIELD and RoDIL are said to have ten-
dered their resignation, on the ground of their not be-
ing able to maintain-. subordination in the Army, and
the King of Spain is said to have demanded succours or
an escort to conduct him into France. It is added
that letters of the 12th from Marseilles state, that
FERDINAND was just setting out for Parnpeluna, to
place himself under the protection of the French.
The circuitous mode by which this news. has been
received is of itself sufficient to throw discredit upon
it ; and the Etoile classes the most material parts of it
under " Lies of the Day."
Extracts from these Papers will be.found in another
Column ; and we subjoin the price -of the- French
Funds on. Tue4day, which had rather improved

Faxxcit Fawns.—Pasts, MARCH 20.—Five per Cents.
98f. 95c. 99f. 10c. ; Three per Cents. 69f. 45e. Gbc. ; Shares
of Bank of France, 1,987 f. 50c. ; Paris Obligations, 1,4.75-;
Neapolitan Rentes, Falc. 75f. 60a. 75c. ; Royal Spanish Loan,
WI"4 e i•

Mr. HumE brought forward last night his long-
talked-of Motion for the production of various papers
respecting the Mutiny amongst the Native Troops at
Barrackpore, in the year 1824. However deeply the
unhappy circumstances which then occurred are to be
deplored on the ground of humanity, still they appear
to have been justified by the conduct of the troops,
and by the necessity of making a strong example, for
the preservation of discipline amongst the Native
Forces in India. The Commander-in-Chief, Sir
EDWARD PAGET, has been universally acquitted of
all blame on the occasion, and it would be much to
be regretted if the investigation of the subject were to
be renewed in this country, after the length of time
which has elapsed. The House appeared to be of
this opinion, Mr. HumE's motion having been lost by
a majority against it of 176 to 44.
It will be seen that Mr. HART DAVIS, in the
course of the debate, made some observations reflect-
ing on Mr. HUME'S conduct in Greek affairs, which,
tuough unnoticed by Mr. Hur.lE, called forth all the
aver of his friend Colonel DAVIS, which was pacified
"1Y by the interference of the SPEAKER.
The Duke of CLARENCE'S Annuity was passed
in the Commons.

Frankfort Papers of the 16th inst. have been re-
calved this morning, but their contents possess little
political interest. The following are a few extracts :

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:7 VIENNA, MARCH 9.
t /11:: f°ll"vi;rlg iirtiCelars-'hat;re transpired respecting the unfor-
u•
-^ abbe Plank. The murderer had formed an acquaintance
W-ith t 4 Abbe, under the pretext of acquiring a better knowledge
of the mathematics. Hero pposed to the Abbe if he had any of
Paper e
them lirrency called obligations (bends), to give hit°, money for
'eni• The Professor had deposited his bonds (6000 florins, it
14 said), in the hands of another person, and sent for them. The
murderer
came at the time appointed, and deprived the good old
favour, it is
In an of hisproperty and life. The Professor, had made a will in
said, of the Students, in which the number of the
Bondsl were
. stated. The Police gave notice to all the merchants,
t f
ti:ncithg, anti money
changers of the robbery, and the number
dereie• bonds,
and by this means succeeded in discovering the Tur-
nalists. -eft bonds are the political secret which some haveJour-
eagerly
worthy Professor. announced to have been in the possession of the

MUNICH, MARCH 10.
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Professor prochi, the celebrated Italian Geologist and Conchy-
liologist, who has been travellin in Africa for five years, at the
expense of Mehemet Ali Pacl a,g as the Director of a European
l‘sleinnninagarerPani, and who lately examined the gold minces in
, stated, in a letter from Trieste, from one o.
frieuus, to havedied.at Cairo, • tas he was on the point of re-
his
turning to Europe with. the valuablejus acquisitions which he had
made in his travels.

On the Bth instant there viva ELBERFF.LD, MARCH 10.
Rhenish West India Coo,„ -1 a meeting of the Directors of the
r-ny, at which M. Becher read a detailed
report. The result of the transao •
making good a loss of WAGE; doll:
ingot last year was this, after
payment to the shareholders of the amr'inuaanldio(toefrescotuorsef )fourerguplaerr
cent. on the present capital of the co
, which is 1,500,000
dollars ; and also, after the deductionsdoopufaanrlll the expencea of the
concern, there is a balance of 30;000
two per cent. on
the Capital, which the Directors, howevei, ,isoivoir
se not to divide this
time, but rather to add to the reserved fund intended
to want
of the shares
pos-
sible losses. M. B. then spoke of the depreciation to
meet
want of know_
whenthe added, that their
;.,,_f tlli Company, which could be ascribed only
smigi e and its affairs. We have no doubt, he
value will be more justly appreciated,
state of our
tio--irLA,l_eaao shown.. by the report read to day, shall become known,
I‘___... it is considered that our. Shares, part of which time has
we7aegrnouletrclitical for the commercial world, have yielded, besides
together to interest (4 per cent.) three extra dividends, amounting
10 per Cent, on the average, an annual interest of

5/ per Cent., and that there is the more reason to expect an
equally favourable result in future, as the Company now know
the ground better every year, and can profit by experience, which
especially at the commencement, is usually dearly purchased.

The following paragraph is extracted from the
Courier of last night :
We have authority to state, that the only sanctioned copy of
General Sir Herbert Taylor's narrative of the last illness and
decease of his late Royal Highness the Duke of York, was pub-
lished on Wednesday by W. Sams, 1, St. James'systreet, book-
seller to his late Royal Highness.
Now we should be glad to know what the authority
is on which the Courier made this assertion. We can
only say that Mr. SA MS, the bookseller, called at our office
yesterday to request the insertion of the same paragraph
as an advertisement, and that we refused to give it ad-
mission, on the ground that we had only the ipse dixit
of Mr. SAMS, as to his having " authority to state"
any thing on the subject. We can easily understand
the Courier's object in following a different course.
They are naturally sore that we should anticipate them
in the publication of any thing of such interest as the
Memoir alluded to. It militates with a most erroneous
notion, which they are desirous to perpetuate, that
they are the exclusive organ of Government. This
petty spirit they have evinced on more than one occa-
sion. It will be in the recollection of our readers,
that we pointed out the mean manner in which thq,
and the New Tinzes, mis-translated the speech of
one of the Chamber of Peers in France because that
Noble Person (upon internal evidence of course),
talked of, no doubt being left on some subject, by the
" Sun, the Journal of the English Ministry." These
words they thought themselves authorised in omitting,
though all the other Papers honestly gave the speech
as it was spoken. We are aware that the Courier
has generally access to early information : but we
deny that they have this exclusively. We could
point out several important occasions, such as
the invasion of Portugal, the King's Message, the
illness of LORD LIVERPOOL, &C. &c., in which
cases they will recollect that we completely anticipated
them. But in our zeal to give early information, we
have no doubt been once or twice misled—a circum-
stance to which every Journal: is liable.
With regard to the memoir in question, we obtained
by special favour one of the few lithographed copies
from Sir HERBERT TAYLOR'S own hand-writing,
which we published on Tuesday, exclusively, and 'ver-
batim, and it was the following day copied by all the
London Papers, not excepting the Courier, which of
course garbled it. We have not seen Mr. SAMS'S
pamphlet, but, if it exactly corresponds with what we
published, we have no hesitation in adding our tes-
timony to its being genuine.

The half-yearly meeting of the Proprietors of Bank
Stock, which was held yesterday, did not lead to the
important disclosures which had been expected, and,
consequently, considerable disappointment was expe-
rienced in the City. That the Chairman should have
given the answer which he gave to Mr. YOUNG'S
question, whether the Bank intended to advance any
further sums to Government, was to be expected ; but
it is worth considering how much depended on the
discretion of that gentleman, and whether a system,
which might involve serious consequences to the pub-
lic, is not wrong in itself.

For argument's sake we will assume that the CHAN-
CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER had been in negotiation
with the Bank, to induce them to advance 4 or
5,000.0001. to supply the expected deficiency of
the year, and to obviate the necessity of a public
loan, or the abandonment of the Sinking Fund ;
and for our argument it matters not whether the Bank
had acceded to or refused this request of the Ministers.
We will suppose farther, that the Governor, not acting
with the discretion and propriety which marked Mr.
RICHARDS'S conduct, had let out the decision of the
Directors, on this important subject ;—what would have
been the consequence ? why, the immediate rise or fall
(according as the decision was) of the Funds, to the
extent of three or four per cent. ; and a proportionate
advance or reduction of the price of various other
commodities, producing disastrous consequences to
thousands. There can be no doubt that such would
have been the effect of a sudden announcement
of the decision of the Bank ; and hence we argue that
a system which places in one man, or one set of men,
the power of affecting the property of others to such
an extent is wrong, and ought not to exist.
We fully admit that the Bank Directors, than whom
no more honourable men can be found in the City of
London, or the Empire, have generally on these oc-
casions conducted themselves with caution and judg-
ment ; but this argument is no justification of the
system, and only goes to show that the public are at
the mercy of those who conduct the affairs of the
Bank. But the evil lies deeper than in the prac-
tice of Proprietors asking questions at the Bank
Meetings,—it is in the connection which subsists
between the Government and the Bank. This
connection sprung up, and grew to maturity,
during periods when the national credit stood in need
of the united efforts of both to support it ; but the case
is now different, and we contend that no secret nego-
ciation or bargain should ever be carried on between

the Government and the Bank. The Government,
by these bargains, may, for a time, obtain money
easily ; but eventually the national burthens are sure
to be enhanced by them. The Government becomes
dependent on the Bank, and the Bank, in their turn,
are so mixed up with the Government, that their re-
sources are cramped or exhausted, and they are un-
able to act in cases of emergency, such as the Crisis"
of 1825-6, with efficiency in supporting the comrm.,r-
cial and banking credit of the kingdom.
We are convinced that it would be greatly for the
benefit of the nation and the Bank that this connec-
tion should be put an end to. With this
view, we would recommend the CHANCELLOR
of the EXCHEQUER by some means or other, to pay
the Bank every farthing which the Public owe it in
the shape of transferable Securities ; and that in future
the pecuniary wants of the State, should be fairly ob-
tained in the Market, in the same manner as any other
commodity is procured ; and that no private bargain
with the Bank, or any other great Capitalist, be sanc-
tioned for the sake of a temporary advantage, or to
bolster up the Funds beyond their natural level.—Such
private arrangements only lead to fluctuations and re-
vulsions, which arc injurious to every interest of the
country.

The Echo du Midi has published a letter from M. du Ponte,
dated St. Jean Pied de Port, March 9, as follows :—" I declare, as
a positive fact, that by the general opinion in all the towns in Ger-
many, that our august Prince Don Miguel is so completely watched
by his German domestics, that he is inaccessible to every faithful
Portuguese, nor can any despatch or letter be delivered to him,
and that he is ignorant of the state and fairs which are pawing

in Portugal ; and all acts which are said to have come from Lim
have been forced from him by intrigue. Thus it is proper that
Europe should be informed that the King of Portugal, Don
Miguel I. is confined a prisoner of state at Vienna, but I will not
name at present his gaolers, and I will only state that Austria is
executing the tyranny of England.

The Courier of last night had a long article on the
Errors of the Catholic Religion, and on their omis-
sion of the Second Commandment of the Decalogue.
We are as decided in our objection to that Religion as
the Courier can possibly be, and only advoCate Emanci-
pation from an honest conviction that it would tend to
the overthrow of Catholicism, and as an act of mere
justice to the Irish nation, which should be no ways
affected by their religious creed. We are satisfied that
his Grace of NORFOLK was perfectly sincere in what
he stated the other day at the Meeting of the British
Catholic Association, regarding the omission of the
second commandment, but we must say that the
Catholic Priesthood lay themselves open to the im-
putation of duplicity, by having one Catechism for
general use, and another ready to be produced in case
of controversy. The subtle reasoning, so admirably
understood by the disciples of IGNATIUS LOYOLA,
might successfully defend this double dealing in any
Court on earth, but such ingenuity does infinite injury
to the cause of the Irish nation : -Let them believe in
.'7hat they please, in transubstantiation, in pur-
Cry, in the efficacy of extreme unction, and in the
noce3sity for superadding auricular confession to
mental repentance ; but let these points be distinctly
avowed and settled by their hierarchy without evasion
of any sort, and we arc convinced that they will obtain
Emancipation." It is the suspicion of deceit which is
their ruin. Over subtle logic is like a two-edged sword,
which cuts both ways. If the Priesthood will be so ex-
plicit that their Protestant opponents cannot even charge
them with deceit, and if they will agree to the Veto as
established in other Catholic countries, we say that they
deserve well of their country, that they are true friends
to Ireland ; but if, on the contrary, they can resign
none of that intoxicating spiritual dominion which one
. man should not possess over his fellow, being unable to
be his surety at the bar of Heaven, whatever he may
fondly think to the contrary, if they should thus prove
themselves desirous of maintaining their dark domi-

mon at the risk of their country's—ruin, we trust the
people of Ireland will at length see through such
selfishness, and emancipate themselves simultaneously
from penal laws and priestly tyranny.

The Private Letters received this morning from Paris state,
that the accounts in the Papers relative to the disatisfaction in the
Spanish Army, are greatly exaggerated.
They mention also that there have been some differences amongst
the French Ministers, and that reports are in circulation that the
Minister of War was going out of office. Certain operations
in the Funds are said to be going 'on in Paris, which, it is ex-
pected, will lead to a great improvement of the price of the French
Three per Centi.

By advices from Toulon- of the 11th instant, we
learn the Junon, French frigate, had sailed to join Admiral Rigny.
The Revenge, Vice-Admiral Sir H. Neale, arrived in the roads
on the 10th, from Malta in seven days. The Admiral and family
immediately proceeded for London via Paris.