The Sun. — 1826-10-12 (London, England)

BERLIN, SEPT. :30. The Grand Duke Constantine arrived at Warsaw 01 he 11th instant.  Kingston Papers have been received at the Nora and South American Coffee-house, to the '2sth Aug. inclusive, the following are extracts :  On Friday last, about twenty minutes before one P.st., two smart shocks of an earthquake were distinctly felt in this town, and we perceive by the paper, also at Montego Bay, they were more like sudden gusts of wind than irregular undulations, and shook all the dwellings, particularly in the more elevated situations in the town. The stores of Mr. Harris in Church-street, were damaged, but we hive heard of no serious injury of any description. His Majesty's packet, Lord Sidmouth, is appointed to sail from Port Royal on the sth Sept. His Majesty schooner was to proceed Aug. 26, with convoy to the Havannah, his Majesty's ship Dartmouth, Captain Dundas, and his Majesty's ship Aurora, sailed on the 20th August, for the Havannah and Great Britain. His Majesty's ship Harlequin, was to sail on the 26th August, mid would give convoy to the trade that may be ready for St. Jugo de Cuba. Commodore Laborde, with the Spanish squadron, consisting of a 74, four frigates, and a schooner, sailed from the Havannah on the 296 August, and were spoke on the 6th September, steering .S. E., a few hours before the commencement of a hurricane (by the brig Merad, bound for Gibraltar) which vessel, whilst laying-to under bare poles, in lat. :33. long. 77. was overset, and obliged to cut away the main rigging; that not answering the purpose, they cut away the fore-rigging, both masts broke in the partners, taking with them the bowsprit, and the brig righted, with four feet water in the hold, and the loss of two seamen, who were drowned, and every thing lost off the deck, two of the dead lights stove in, and the upper works much injured. She was proceeding for the first port in the United States.  13y an arrival at this port, we learn that fifty-two negroes and one white man who had been condemned as conspirators in the late insurrection at Porto Rico, were soon to be executed and that the Governor of the Island, had passed through Ponce, on his way to the place of execution.—Boston Patriot, Sept. 14.  Gibraltar Chronicles of, the 21st- September have been received this morning ; they contain a long list of  the names of the Members of the Cortes 'and other persons excepted in the twelfth article of the Royal Act of Amnesty (proscription) of the Ist of May, 1824, who are condemned to death, with confiscation of their property and effects. The general contents of these papers furnish a melancholy proof of the falling fortunes of Spain, under the contemptible guardianship of her absolute, slave, and his priestly traitors, who are luckily accelerating their dissolution, by being left to the freedom of their own most infallible road to ruin which the advisers of His MAJESTY could invent. It ap-, pears that the eastern coast of Spain continues to be ravaged by Algerine and Colombian cruisers, who make capture of every vessel venturing out of, or going into, a Spanish Port. The consequence is, that trade and commercial enterprise are completely destroyed, and the sight of the Spanish flag has become a wonder along its own coast, from the consternation inspired by the presence of these audacious piratical adventurers. This is a hopeful realization of the golden reign of FERDINAND and his dark advisers,— Sn but - ra;.n fallen so low that even hate could not wish her worse, although charity would smile to behold the People and their rulers change places.  The public Papers.for the last month have been unusually tragic in the number of melancholy suicides, murders, and other crimes of a less heinous nature ; but as if public sympathy was not sufficiently excited by these real events, it appears that several affecting cases have been got -n a superlative style of interesting horror, for no bun prebend, u 1) i : . -t'ose, that we can com but to outrage public sensibility for a paltry consideration. Who the parties are that labour in this visionarY vocation we do not know, but we think that the Journals first imposed on, ought to bring such scandalous Abysm of truth to justice, or at least to  denounce them to the world by well merited exposure. If their object, be to bring the press into ridicule by such attempts at describing the moving accidents that may take place, they are marvellously mistaken, nor can they acquire any honorable distinction by palming off as real a " touching tale of woe," when by the mere alteration of dates, names, and locality, and a due admixture of brutal ferocity in one character, with tender sensibility and confiding honour in the other, any case of a year's standing, like one of Joe Miller's jests, may be stamped with all the air of affected originality. But even this trick, like baby's play, gets stale, and the " poisoned chalice returns to plague the inventor." The most charitable construction which can be put upon this last shift of some desperate genius, seems to be that the thing is concocted to satisfy the irresistible callsofh unger,and nothing is more natural than that he should conjure up a fictitious tale from the musings of his moody madness, harping on a good dinner, with the prospect ofstarvation darkening in the distance —and so he strikes of an ideal woe from the vivid apprehension of his own sad fate—  Too truly pictured in to-morrow's page•