The Sun.
London, England, 1816-12-27 00:00:00

THE ArItICAL REGISTER.
Pei:formed Last Night.
De.utty-LANe.—George Barnwell: George Barnwell, Mr.
Rae ; Millwood, Miss Boyce. After which (first time),
Harlequin Horner.
COVgtiT•GA RDEN.—George Barnwell : :George tlarnwell, Mr.
C. Kenthle; Millwood, Mrs. Fancit. After which (first
tinge), Harlequin and the Sylph of the O.

ARSivin-2 Guernsey anti Jersey, 2 Waterford. Dtte-1
liul-
land, 1 Crottenburgb, I lianiburgn, 1 Dublin.

ST. Joni.; TIMEVANGTGIST.—IIiaidav at thelit, Exche-
quer, Eitst India and south Sca Howes.

NIGH IS'ATEIt AT LONDON BiuDGE To-stolutow.
.lorttitig, 8 'titillates after 9. 1 Event ttg, 83 mutates after 9.

ERRATUM.---A few Numbers of our Early Impression of this
day ore by mistabe dated, ir► the Front I'age, Thursday
the vith, i►►stead of Friday the 27th December.

THE .SUN.

totEm LUIS mccio: r‘i,u,ll AUDIT!

LONDON,
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1816.

We are much indebted to a Friend at Bristol
"or the following communication. We beg him
o accept our thanks, and to assure our Readers
hat they may rely on the accuracy of the state•

111 COL
sip r E IMITOR (w TIIE SUN.

" Bristol, halt-past Three, 'Thursday Afternoon.

" Damt Stu,---1 have jest time to tam m you
that the Spit-fiends Orator his this monieut re-
turned from his harangue at Brandon MU, with
about 200 boys and idle raggamullins in his train,
most completely drenched with the torrents of
rhiti Which have been falling all this', morning,
Every thing ltas hitherto pasted oil- perfectly
quiet : Hoar was, I understand, the only
speaker. A string of Resolutions and a Petition,
which he'brought with him, were of course unit-
nimou%ly carried. Moulted% of our Citizens have
enrolled themselves to assist in keeping the peace;
and should any disturbances occur in the evening,
I have no doubt that the civil power will be suffi-
cient to quell them without the interference of
the nillitary, of which Government have very
prpclently taken care to supply us with a sufficient
force."

tovernment had, Indeed, taken every precau-
tionary measure ‘vhich human foresight could de-
vise to prevent any mischief which might arise
out of the machinations of these worthless agi-
tators.

A agt►adron of the 234 Dragoon Laneerspassed
through Bath on Wednesday for Bristol; three
companies 'of the 38th were on their route from
Portsmouth a troop of the 6th Dragoons were
marching from Dorchester Barracks and the
North Somerset Yeomanry, with the Mith Rifle
corps, had been directed, by order of the Score-
oily of 'State, to hold themselves in readi►►ess to
march for Bristol, where the 25th Regiment is at
present quartered.

At ten o'clock on 'Wednesday morning a route
WO received for one troop of the Inniskillitig
Dragoons to proceed, by forced marches, from
Exeter to Bristol immediately. The men were
passing through Longhrook-street, on their way
to chnrch, when the order arrived ; >they were
halted, and Captain HADDEN with his troop re-
turned to the Barracks, got ready, and set off at
one o'clock ; there is thereforemo reason to ap.
prebend any injurious ebullition front this Meet-
.

The Duke of WELLINGTOt4 arrived in London
yeaterday afternoon. His Grace came very unex-
pectedly; evon the Duchess had no notice of
`more than his intention to he inEughend, within
a few weeks. Lord CASi_LiiiitiAGii knew of his

arrival only by a messenger seat ivo it tL Dart -
ford-road, upon the chance th'at he tufght he at

his seat, at North Cray. Lord CASTLEREAGH
meiliately came to Town, and the Duke of WEL-
LINGTON had a long interview with him. All the
other Ministers are out of town. It is conse-
quently rumotied that the Duke 14as come upon
some sodden business of importance. Lord An-
THUR HILL accompanied his Grace, to London.

There are no Foreign Arrivals to-day.

The Morning Chro►►icle confesses to-day that the
Administration is carrying on the work of re-
trenchment with every possible degree of vigour
and impartiality. This is an honourable tri-
bute from so bitter an opponent, and the
Party, of whose opinions the Journal in ques-
tion is the most favoured Organ, must have
felt some compunctious visitings before they au-
thorized so painful an acknowledgement. Were
they afraid to continue their clamour and tnisre-

presentations to the period of Parliament's Meet-
ing, when one speech from a Minister might
convict them of a thousaisd false slanders and
cover them with shame and confusion ? Or do they
think that their EMUIIOIIS have been repeated
often enough to effect the purposes of their in-
vention, and poison the public mind so much as
to defy the power of this late recantation. A re-
cantation it is too, made with an ill grace,

for they say of Lord LIVERPOOL, " that his
Colleagues could on►y prevail, upon him to re-
main in office by the condition of reducing
the extravagance of the Civil List," &c.
Oh Wonderful Conjurer of the Chronicle ! What

1.40111 CASTLEREAGH, Lord BATHURST, Mr. CAN-
NING, anal 01 those Ali OM yon have
represented as so eager to step into the Premier's
place ; are these the men who have made such a
sacrifice to prevail on his Lordship to remain in
office? Into what grossness of inconsistency does
the Party fall ? Verily all the changes of all the
Pantomimes at all the Theatres last night are
not so astonishing as their changes—the_ shifts
sink into nothing when compared with their
shifts—and for assuming forms and being here,
there, every where at once, no Harlequin or
Clown that ever were seen are equal to Harlequin
Whig and his Clown of the Chronicle:

WlNnsott, Dec. 26.—Yesterday being Christ-
mas-day, the ROYAL FAMILY attended Divine Ser-
vice in the Private Chapel in the Castle, which was
performed by the Archbkhop of Canterbury, &c.
titter the service her Majesty, the Princesses Au-
gusta and Elizabeth, went to Bagsbot ou a visit
to the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester. In the
evening they returned to the Castle.
It having been asserted with some appearance
of exultation by the French newspapers,that many
English families had purchased estates in various
departments of France, we wish to undeceive the
ciedulity of our countrymen, and to relieve the
apprehensions of the public here, by assuring
them, that according to the fundamental laws
of France Os well as of Great, Britain) no fo-
reigner can, by purchase or otherwise, acquire
there a single acre of land in permanent or
devisable property. By the rrench indeed,
an Englishman may, buy sin estate, and enjoy- it
during his own life; but he cannot, cif her directly or
by the intervention of trustees, transmit that estate
to his children. On the death of a foreigner his
possessions devolve to the Cri)Wll ; and this aise-
' quence extends, as we are informed, to sums at
interest, whether, on bond Or moitgage; and to
every species of perioind property, with the est-
vele ion of money in the public funds. We' 'are
far from quarrelling with this principle of French
jurisprudence, which, wherever it is adoptedvdis,-
plays a becoming jealousy at strangers, setl;l4
cherish at the sante time a sense of the trOotial,
dignity, anti to pt eserve the identity of a
(Morning Toper.)
According to some. of the letters received' on
Tuesday last from Buenos Ayres, there had been
some fighting on the Portuguese frontiers, bet ween
the Spaniards under Awrions, and the Brazilian
troops, in conselttence of which many were killed
and wounded.
Colonel Cussinutts, accused of having at the
head at a party, nit the high road at Rouvray, in
the night of the 18th of .1111 y, rubbed two Eng-
lishmen of a sum of money and property in gOld
anti silver, has been condemned by contumacy to
perpetuel hard labour, to the pillory, and to be
branded on the back.

The Dutch Ambassador is among other distil)•
guished personages at Bromley Hill, on a visit to
the Right Hon. CHARLES and Mrs. LONG.
Last week the French soldier, on whom the
Operation of amputation at the hip joint was suc-
cessfully performed by Mr. GoTime, Deputy in-
spector of Hospitals, after the battle of Waterloo,
left the Yolk Hospital, Chelsea, on his way to
France, his Royal Bighrtess the Duke of Yokx.
having been graciously pleased to obtain a pension
for hint front the French Government

On Clnistmas-Day the'Loan Mayon ordered,
that each of the prisoners confined in the prisons
of. the metropolis (amounting to about 900) should
be supplied with n pound of beef, a pint of por-
ter, 14 d halt kl threepenny-loaf.
Most of the Provincial towns are about to give
Balls and Concerts in aid of the subscriptions for
the distressed labouring poor.

3. C. CURWEN, Esq. M. P. has appropriated
42 acres of potatoes to the poor of 'Workington :
the produce is nearly 18,000 bushels, which, at
the present price, ere worth upwards of 2000 i.--w
This is indeed a boon worthy of a ptitriut
Christian.

Silt I', NEWS.
EAST INDInI4f WING.

The private ship la.dian Oak, Isom Bengal, sr.
rived at Liverpool the 23th inst. : it is said she
sailed from Bengal 28th June.

The private ship City of Edinburgh, also from
Bengal, which she left about the 13th August,
arrived iu the Dots'ns yesterday.

DEAL, DEC. 26,—Arrived the City of Edin-
burgh East Indianian, Captain Loot, from Ben-
gal ; she sailed the 15tli August. Remain in the
Downs the Clinks Grant, Inglis, and General
Harris East !iflame() ; the Sir Stephen Liishing-
ton, and the rest of the outward-bound, all well.
Wind S.W.

RAMSGATII, Dec. 26.—Came in the Isabella,
GORDON, from Lonclo►► fur Senegal, baying
slipped her chain cable in the Downs; London,
RICHARDS, from London, with loss of anchors
and cables. Put in here for shelter the Severn,
Betsey, Unity, Amity, Atkinson, Moon, Swat-
low, and Two Bruthers.—Wind S.W.
Nouru SHIELDS, DEC. 24.—The Fergus, Fisu,
of Kincarin, was,to-day upset, and carried away
with the tide, until brought up by the Dorkish
Sand, where she now lies on her beam ends. It
is hoped she will be got up next title, but not
without considerable damage.

PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 'M.—Arrived the Prince of
Orange, TELFEN, from lialifax. The Fox trans-
port, which ran on shore yesterday, has not
been got off, and as it has blown very hard all
day from the S.W., it is expected she will go to
pieces.—Wind
FALMOUTH, Dec. N.—Arrived the Dutch ship
%`rederyk, KRAAY, from Amsterdam for Berbice
Spanish schooner Numancia, TVINE, from Am-
sterdam for St. Andero ; Aurora, JACKSON, from
London for Malta and Smyrna, with loss of bul-
warks ; Reed, ROBERTS, from London for Car-
;tiff
.and his Majesty's brigs Heron and Trafa%
gar from a cruise.--Wind W.