The Sun. — London, England, 1816-09-18 00:00:00

"S I•I I P N • LtftnPooe, Strr..l6.—The George, LiNnsii!,' from this port for Sligo, was totally lost, on the 10th instant, near Malin Head; the Mate and . three men drowned. PENZANCE, SEPT. 15.--The Eilipttlarinrie,' Of . IriStol, JAMES SEATON, Nl4Ster, from Grenada ; t 'or London, of embayed in this bay yesterday, .a thick fog. A Newland boat went off, and agr:(-1 f o► • 200 guineas to bring him into a place of snfetkY. The . p il o t meant to have hrought :Lim to an anch,l4. in Guavas Lake, but being de.' ceiv e d by the f og, • the vessel came on, shore on . the sand near Chyand:Nm before they knew where they were : by assistance from hence, and ,clear ,ing the decks of lumber; and taking out 3 1 pun cheons of rum, with plenty of fresh' . 4)ands she was 'got oil, amid, I think, without much tlaNiase• She is now in deep water again, and will sho,"Ciy pro- teed on her voyage. .VORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 17 —Arrived his Majesty's !hip Dr . Othedary from Dantzic ; Fame, DALE, from the Downs for Botany Bay.. The Ma's:l'6 Wel ; !ington, Igicriat. ) and Sir William Bensley, Wm , . LIAM, from the Downs, passed by for India.— ; • Sailed the Urania, HOWELL, for Bermuda. — Wind S. E. PLYMOUTH, SEPT . 16.—tailed the Richard, NOBLE, for Demerara. Put back the Hippolita, iitt.b, bound to Prince Edward's DEAL, SEPT. 17.—Remain his Majesty's ship Ganymede, the Rattlesnake and Scourge Revenue hlggers, and Prince Frederick Dutch man of war. 'Wind S. E. GRAVESEND, SEPT. 17.—Arrived the Lady Borringdon, Smouson, from Trinidad ; Amphion, ,Coburg, from Skedorn ; Johanna, Aubert, from Videry ; Colletta, Boss, from Antwerp ; Centurion, Hiprerstall, from Jamaica ; Industry, Avenent, from Dunkirk ; Friends, Warren, from Jamaica ; and Severn, Warren, from North Ca- Tolina.—Sailed the Maria Francois, Paulnier, for Lady Sherbrook, Love, for Madeira ; anti Hetmes, Straffen, for flavannah. HIS MiIItSITS 11RIG CAMELEON. An Evening Paper of yesterday having pub lishei, on the authority of a Madras Paper, the 1 055 of the Cameleon, together with that of captain LAW, and more than half of her crew, which may have an alarining effect on the minds of their mends in this country, we hasten to give publicity to the contents bf a Courier Extraordi• Mary, published at Madras on the 30th April, 'Which will be found to be a complete and satisfac tory contradiction of the loss of his Majesty's ship in question : " Courier Exlra, Tuesday; April 30, 1816. , idsoaets.—We have infinite satisfaction in con tradicting the account which appeared in this ,Courier, of the loss of his Majesty's brig Catneteon, on Point Palmiras. Accounts Live, we ere hippy to state, been received of her arrival at Saugor on the 15th instant." Then follows an apology to the public for the stnin►entional uneasiness the false report may hove occasioned'. •We have also received the annexed corrobora tion of the above " It gives us infinite pleasure to be able to contradict from authority the reported loss of the eumeleon brig of war, off Point Palmiras she .arrived in the Bengal River on the Milt 61 , 461 last." • Letter's 'direct front Naples to The 2.ttt state, that the Atnerican squadron Wn3 Mill at I s lepietri, and Mr. PINKNRY busily employed in urging his paint with the Neapolitan Govern. tent ; but, as the account says, to very lade V,lrpose. The notes of Mr. PINKNEY to the "eapolitan Government, in the first instt,nce, Were eara c h e( ' menacing terms s but the Ktng, }laving taken time t ° consult a neighbouring Power, refused the American Ambassador either a‘ontir. pensation, or the promise of any, for the property claimed on behalf of the subjects of the United State s , The Day, in his fury, says a , private letter from Paris, had several of his superior Officers be headed, because they had not resisted HS success tally as he had expected ;. among the sufferers are reported to have been two French Officers of En gineers. Rear-Admiral MILNR, who so ably supported Lord Exsiouru, as Second in Command in the ) tutn•egnable, which suffered so severely from the t heeny's lire, is a native of Edinburgh, tend a friend of the Duke of ButcLaudn. He was r4 iced to the rank he now holds at the last gene -1111 naval pioinotion, and is appointed, we be lieve, to the Halifax station. It appears the French Government haS had the t hgratittide to order the arrest of Mr. WILLIAMS, the Oculist, a tt er a ll t h e ma rvellous cures which ii has been gratuitously performing for some time upon the people both of the provinces and the ca pital,His door was literally besieged by paticjits. 4e has made an application to Sir C. STUART, in Which he ascribes his arrest to the envy and avarice tar the French surgeons, who succeeded in int ( P o sing upon the Government, by representing his Erdtuitous services to the poor, and the tenacity w ith which be sticks to Paris, as suspicious Cir. cenititanees.'. The Doctor's affair is tort numb tr en ted as matter for pleasantry by both the French a n English. A Frenchman toeing asked, in my telence, why Mon s i eur , t h e English Oculist, iv !WAN!, bad been arrested, replied; " Because o ur tiovernm en t d oes not want t he p eo pl e to se c too . cle ar ly." li e is merely under the surveilltaic* (4 the Police, an a l his papers seized ; but it . is i:‘,lli: d posed. that he will b e a l mos t ituumiiateli44- ! ORIGIN A tionirrt. •.•• • • • LINES on thc. DEATH. of a " e rstitcripN," being a Patodfoo those wh;Lli apnear.d. in the Moroi:kg, Chronictc of Aft;; k oay, Augnst 5, 1816, and addressed to a Personage of the highest Poetical Talent. Miser Catulle ineptire. CATULT-171. • Poor Little play the fool nn M—rc. Vulgar Tonguei. Grief will hare way, but the fast falling 'fear tic mingled with deep Execrations on those Who could teuipt it.poutmitlen frum virtue's carre'r,. Then leave her thus lonely her sorrows to close; Whose vanity flew round her, only while fed By the fame and the bliss which her Spring Beauties gave' Wstose vanity auw to new victims has Sled, • Who, like her, will be left s tO deipair and the grave! Oh ! it sickens the heart to see bosoms so hollow, And spirits so mean in the great and high-born ; When nought from their cruel seductions can follow, But the bringing a anklets to death and to scorn. 'Tis tick'uing to tee bow they 14010 with the gay, Regardless of her who is pining in sorrow; "fit bailiffs may seize her last blanket to-day, A L , ot her corpse be dragg'd out by the parish to-morrow. And thou 040 ) ,whose life a siek epicure's dream Incoherent and gross—in corrupting has pased ; Thou hast.chang's , ' 10 a blight gentle Poesy's beaus, And what might hare ieft blessings, b a st us'd it to blast. No—ncK for the riehes that i...•Vstts collected=— Not fur all that is heapsd upon ;".44 -, r , y's shrine; so—nut fur the wealth of all those youisc infected, , . Tho' tuillions on millions would thus become aline— Would I bear the pang:—E'en with the heart that thou bast, The pang must have shot thro' that heart's inwost core, .1-ladit thou heard this poor victim sob, breathing her last, " My mind was picpurlefor seduction by M--11E." "Spaniel. Sharnel,6 the Bard 1" future ages will st,e, Whose lascivious soul•stirring song is a . curse; a Far better, like insects that buzz fur a day, " Be forgotten iisiouls, than remenakeed as worse " Shame ! Shame tu'ilie Bard ! to the high gifted man, " Who might hare instructed bower, palace, and ball T. But win, adding fre'sh fuel to wantonness, ran ."fhrot each mode Ulthe Lyre, and mixed venom with all. " Whose mind IMA a toi;isaU conipOuililed with rt.-. " Which declAt Vice In brauty with wizard like powerli " And gave, by exciting the lusts or the heart, " For one gleam of sunshine, a &Is@ of shouers l Wuose linmoUr destructive as bog-gender'd light, " Led to death whilst around it seducingly play's! ; " Whose Wit in die combat put Virtue to eight; " Aid carried her heart-stain away on its hiatle`; " Whose Eloquence, Witting whatever it tried, " Whether treason or ckncy—the gay or the grave' ' , " Was as rapid as deep and o'erwitcluting a tide " As ever sank Modesty under its wave." Yes—such is the man—and most wretched l►is fate, When for talents perverted at last hg most grieve ; When stretch'd on his death-bed, repentant ton late, The world and its joys can no longer &cries ! In the tortures of Hell there are DORIUMIS that prey nn mon, by corrupting them till their last sigh; thy Perverters, oh Genius ! as cruel as they Whil►t living pollute them, and damn when they die. THEATRES. .., : • DRUItt• * LAHR ' according to its rule in compli ment to the memory of Mr. SHERIDAN, last night repeated the Opera of the Duenna. . . ENGLISH OPERA.—Free and Eiisy was repeatel 11I3t night with increased success. ' It is an agree able production, and dines credit even to the fertile genius of Mr. ARNOLD. RE-SALE of the KING'S THEATRE. Yetiterd,ty the re-sale of thil valuable property took place at the Public Sale 'town in tionthamp ton-hultrings., pursuant to the order ut the Lord Chance•tlur. Previous to the ctimineticeitießt of the , some disco's . sion took place respecting the ward , robe, scenery, music, machinery, and the other properties of the Theatre, if which it appeared 'lint 04 aCtoiittl had Ween stated, or inventory tuide ..... , Mr. D'Ecvit.t.s tVredge - , thilt the value of these articles, when Mr, Taylor tpu:r,!(l the management of the Opera, wns be tween 20,0001. and 30,0001., perhaps eglial to the value of the building Mr. RICHARD IVILSoiI was of o pi n i on t h a t the sale shotdd not proceed till such account and in ventDcy_bad been Made ; and from what itie knew cat Lohl Chancellor, he was persuaded bis Lordship would tot have authoriied the re-sale of the Theatre had he been aware of this. Mr. Mtta.s, the Solicitor for Mr.WaterS; in answer to these objection* , stated, that if the value of the properties . of the Theatre when Mr. Taylor left the management of the concern was so great, he could assert they were much more valuable now ; and he pledged himself, that every article belonging to the Theatre should be deli ! , vered up to the purchaser; whoever he might he ; and he would direct an account of thew to be taken immediately. On this assurance, all apposition to the parti culars of sale Was withdrawn, and the biddings commeneed, beginning with 6000/. The principal bidders were Mr. Duthie, Mr. Galt, Ml. Ebers, and Mr. %Vaters, who, at seven o'clock; was de clared the purchaser, at the price of 70,150/ , being 29,150/. more titan it. produced at the for mer sale, So great was the cariosity excited by•this Sale, that the room ivas crowded at two o'clock. In the midst of the hiddings, a kind of scaffold, form• ed of benches, etc. gave way without intimation of " goiift," anti the spectators were precipitated to the flour. Luckily, however, no aetident took place. The contest lasted nearly five hours, and there were no len thou two hundred and fifty-two hid dings! 'rIIL NAitKETS, .00it;s1•EX ' ClIANGE, SEPT. 18.--ilre bad nO fresh arrivals tlt's inoriiing, and bitt very little business doing. / rhe'saie of Wheat wits verv ,dufl. Oat's were scarce and supported their price. Other k.ntls of Grain remain sat put. last 'quoted prices. Foreign Mira -LtR. ti4s. Fide ditto - M s. -n - ••• Wheat - 6 is. 7h. Fite ditto -94 c. Rye - 4#io ► r-s. nntiry - 345. Fine ditto - - Pine Oi;:y Prase - 41:s. —s. Tick livhiis - - -34 g. 40 . Old 11444. - —s . Simill Tick Beams 40.. 455. Old dna - - - —.A —s. Fred Oat* - - - 20: 2 , 25, Finetlitio 7 2-4 s. e 4.1. Poland ditto - - 5235. 275. Malt - - -61 s. Fine ilia% - - Whit (Prate (boilers) 434. 4S•. Fine din() • - - 601. ; —y. _ Fitie ditto - • - - 245. 994. Polotoe ditto - - 355. --s. Itaiir.Stivtl 341. 401„per lost. Fine ftoor - - • 704.755. Grey reuse - - - Cs. 455. j Seconds -1115 s. 703, MP INTELLIGENCE. SOUTHWARK, SEPT. I G —We bad not so much demand towards the rigid of last week as at the bexinning, and w,e certainly have mote Hops on sale. The,prices continue pretty steady. , There has been two pockets of New Hops in from Peas .marsh, the quality tolerably . good ,for first pick ings.. They were sold tu-disy, we belitie, at 181.18s.ptr cwt. . . historrota, accounts from tt►ost parts ut Sulsex euntiutte unfavourable; and although.there are some pauisl►ts that trill grow „half as niuch tis ialt yeAr, the others • but little. Th e. K vnt gr ,,wth i socs oir,daili, suit will be a very short crop.. Farnham •is quite us bad as any other, Dart. Our alccounts Iron) Worcester say, that where . tbeyexpected three tons in a growth, they now tin not expecti cwt. puty expected to fall under, 30001.. kingilont nt 45,000. Three-fourths of this year's growth will be great rubbish, which will cause healthy and good samples to bring higher:prices thin were ever known. TUE P(LCU.UtD FISHERS. We haYqbcen 'favoured xviththe followink esti ma e, in roinul numhers, : of the quantities of fish now cellared ku Corn wall the Mouut's Bay, 5000 hogsheads'---pt COverack, 450 hogsheads— Ma wes, GQt:ran, !Audi- 1 01110e, 2000—Qorrans, 150g—NevIgissev, 10,000—St. Austell Bay And Foti•ey, 3000-1 1 01perenw, 800 77 -Lnoe,, 1000— Cawsand, 1,000-13autam, 350-,--St. Ives, 600-- 7 ., St. &vies, 450—Port-lsaac, *2o—total,. 26,270 LogSheads,—The presvnt calm, warm MO close weather, is highly ,favourable to. still, farther sucersilit RS IltllltrotlS Sli,).118 still . appeai• nn !he coasts, even as high tip us the South-eastern extre mity of D,:von.,. Fresh pilchards abounded in I.lceter, market last week.—(Flindell's Western . . . • • • . •.., . . , The commerce of the,co.untry continues tci im prove ; the letters received groin, holland, Ham burgh, &c. give a favourible report of the mar kets fur the chief articles of colonial produce. . . An intelligent person, Who left Devonshire some s;it or seven years ago, to reside . in Russia, .has Just returned ,to Exeter, .and gives some in terestingparticuisis of the ,present state of the country, and the dispoitionsof the people :—Fre vious. to the invasion, French tutor's and 119111..1. tics were in great .tegnest., and few respectable families were without one or more of theon. The invasion 'pot every thing Frencli.completely but of fa%hion, and begot a deci,H . partiality for thi. ghglifsh, whom they now consider as more st orthy of esteem anti confidence.. IVliateeer may be their legal 'prohibitions ,of inamitacture, our cottons are very generally worn by the tipper and middle, classes ; ainong. whom English clivese is also in general use. • Tile person alluded to let MoseoW in May last and describes the weather as tlien very warns there., '!'lie city is about halt rebuild ; but as the, builders have ')eert left at li berty to consult their own taste and convenience, it exhibits very little of improvement ,the streets are as narrow as before; and many fine houses are:joined by mere hovels. A Pr'ench Paper nays, " We learn by pr!Vaie letter,‘„ that.. the boats of the Metinhe frigate, wrecked within sight of Cape Blanco', had arrived at the Isle of Gorec, where all necessary succours were furnished by n tbe English 'oovernor of Seim gig, who was 'expecting orders from his Govern ment in 'deliver tip the colony to the represeuta tit•e of the King of ntatica." The fee to the tleik of tt SitiStir in Chancery, on sales -that take, place before bust, is halt-a. crown upon each bidding, so that the hi4diugs for the Opera House of yeSterday must havebeen • v e ry anoisHig to thistlentteniati. .Mts. 13ARTLEY played four nights at Margate l a st week, and was ably siippcirted by Mr. Am• !wail. and Miss SIMh3Y. v, • Graml Pedestnan Motch'V 1560 Miles in 32 days.---AmtNat, the Pedestrian, last night, at hull -pant nine o'clock, accomplished 96 miles,. making. turat that time, sitice his catumencpuent, i6B nuiks (an.Satiurday), at two o'clock. liiirtng the greater pin of yestetilly hi s regular pace, troin hii starting in the morning to his finith, was neatly tour miles an hour, being neeessikited, from the intense heat in the middle of the day, to rest for some time. It would seem Iron) thiS, and the recent tent he completed, that man is hardly aware of his toll capabilities, and would almost induce us to believe that as the human being sot pasSei all the animals in intelligence, so he would ' be foubd their superior iu every possible eonibina tion or application of strength. His friends yes terday haul him weighed, being anxious to know, at the conclusibit of this match, the (hitt:levee in point of weight. Betting is beginning to be ra ther brisk ; anti, at present; some tew odds are offered against him, which have been tskeui up by his friend*. B.SKNkT is in hei g ht A feet 2 inches, And remarkably strong, and having been for many years habituated to travel the country as a pedlar, his task seems to him to he at present amusement only. He Cats but sparingly. This morning, after having enjoyed a sound slit) for nearly six h ou rs, he started off at a quarter past threeo'clock. ami d had accomplished at half past eight o'clock eighteen miles, when he retired to breakfast, and Set off at nine, anti war travelling on in most ix ceucut spirits, MURDER. rolinußn's 1.161)F.ii..—•-All Inquisition (ail 'w st steti in Alontlav's Pape') was held sit Nritylehone klorit-house, in the N , ..%r-roail, on tilt: of (pond in the canal. in the Itegent';-park,,On . thilistiay, it ii-iv , ng. peen Coro:4o'4i by it .ivoniati. A !.tirgeon gave it 'Hs' ilk pinion thacthe child was horn alive ; attcl the Jury ietirliett a verdict murder against the unnatural 1116 I her . The follow . ing s accoant of an investigation at 'the Marlborongh- street Police-ofllce throws fur.. on this case :—On Saturday an elderly ivoMan, and a mother of Sixteen ehildren,_ was brought up from 111arilebone watch-house, charged with 'being accessary faith Mary ()ridge in mat tiering her infant chili), by drowning it in the Ttegent . "s . Park net ThurSday John Stephens, inirtner in the Om of Stephens and f wyder, trurserythen,Pew;road, Marylebone, about five o'cloeit on Thursday evening teas standing at the door of his residence in the New Circular, Regent's Park, which is called the Ser pentine ; he Saw a woman going towards the Wit ter, wish appeared in great ,agitation : suspecting she wanted to dtnwn herself, be was resolved to watch her, .and accordingly placed himself in is situation to see her motions, She went to the edge of the water,. and seemed to explore all the places adjacent with her loOks, There were a. number of boys standing abont fifty yards oft, whom . she eyed ,vith great caution ; butt they semi depatte ! l, when she again looped tonna for the last time, and, observing no person near her, „she threw something into the water. Mr. Stephens imagined it seemed like R . Ollll li:e threw in by its legs ; he was now juiced by hiS nephew, John Edwar.!s, who had been also watching het.. Haying communic iced their suspicions to each outer t hey proceeded towards her : she then rattl ed np to t child ahont six years old, who Was with her", but_ ivhont she lied left at a distance during this proce:ding, and now took it in her arms, at to lfer,having cast a look hack at the water, as if to some object, and immediately went away with great precipitation.. Mr. S. and his lie** het , owl began to question her respect ing tvlatt ,she i ad (tang into the water ; at first slit seemed confused, but soon reco..ered her presence of mind, and replied it was it dog, Edwards then went 'tome, and My. S. priseeeded.With her alone . ' as far as builford-'news, where it beginning to. rain, they got under a gateway for slither. Here he plainly, told her he helieved it was a child she had rlrowned hpt, she still persisted it waS a dog xvhich had goue:taid. Edwards, his nephew, here . joined then' agent,. and, both insisted On ascer taining her residence, which she said was at Marylebone-lane. Finding they would not go, and tverc ktermined in their resolution of seeing lier hoMe she went 'on, and brought them to a court called Rrunfort.cotrrt, Maryle bone-street, and Paradise-row, Where the went into it house. Mr. Stephens remained at the dour, whilst Mx. Edwards went in to see the landlady, Mrs. Pitts, who said' he had known the %%roan five years, and gave her a good character; that liar name was bridge, alias Mason. On this information they relinquished their 'doubts, and went home, but still thought proper to make further inquiry. At the first dawn 'of day. nest 'mom" ing they got up and proceeded 'to the spot togs.. and after a great deal of trouble in raw lag; they dragged up the body of a newly borrt infant child a large heavy brick was tied to its left anti another to its grist, so very tight, that the :cOrd cut through to the bone : the bo:ly quite naked. They gave information to .the proper officers, and went to the house of Mrs. bVIt Mrs. °ridge hid absranded. A little child told thein another woman had been with her on the preceding day, and during her stay Mrs. °ridge had her door locked. Mrs. Pitts tole, them,. after their departure on the night before, Mrs. Oridge 'seemed very fearful, tied tidinbted gently, telling tier they bad lint her in a must terrible fright; when Mrs. Pitts replied to her, that it A* Was right she need not he lrightened, as she could. not be hart. After this conversation she ate a hearty Slipper and *wit to heel. About 7 o'clock next morning Mrs. Pitta beard her come down stairs and ga out, and had not seen her since.... The prisoner is supposed to be the person who had been With her locked up in her room, as , stated by the child. She was eximined at the Co i rontl's Inquest, when a verdict of " Wilful • Murder" was returned against Mrs. Oridge, the supposed unnatural Mother; hut she prevaricated to, such a degree it) her evidence, having gone so far as to otter !U s swear Mis, Oridge hail not been. pregnant et all, that the Coroner ordered her to he apprehend d. She was ordered to find two re.. spectahle ItoaS: keepers to bail her in 401. each, ...a herself in 604. A Small detachment of the Lancer-Dragoons appeared In the Park yesterday. The flags at. Whed to their latices are red and white. Yesterday a new sort of road way was laid clown at the font of Blacktriars Midge, on the Surrey side. It consists of cast iron sqnsres, in the form of paving stones ; a stratum of gravel is laid ►spun the iron ►work, which is intended to form a hard futintlation. it i,s not at present k flown what ttfect the iron may produce when it comes in coup tact with the hones shoes in frosty weather,. A vast number of spectators assembled round this novelty. _ _ _ A most awful visitation of Divine Providence occurred here on Timidity morning, in the person of Capt. Wm. ATKIN, of the brig Silva, of this port, aged 35, bound to Petersburgh. Captain ATKIN had just discharged an account with a witterman on the New Dock Quay, near the Inert and given orders to unmoor the vessel, when he was struck instantly motionless in a tit of apoplexy, anti berate surgical assistance ',mild be prohurest the vital spark was extinct l ---(Hull Paper ) Sunday afternoon as some boys were etteroPting to get behind a hackney coach in the Ilatutteast Road, one of them named T. Jertningson, residing at 3, Wild Passage, Lincolieseinn.fiside - , felloff,and though very prompt exertions were matte to pick him up,hecould out be prevented from being run over by a post-chaise,whieb 'vas Owe heti ind,nod bywhich his collar-bone was broken, and his head frac. tared dreadfully ; he was conveyed in a senseless state to the Middlesex Hospital, whereto-stilll:ea without any impala his roomy.