The Sun. — London, England, 1819-01-04 00:00:00

SHIP NEWS. The Mary, WILLIAms, Master, from Limerick I ') London, ran on shore on the Goodwin Sands ° I I the 21st ult. when the greater cart of her c argo, consisting of butter, beef, pork, linen, &c. It3 s taken nit by boats from Deal and vicinity, 44, 1117 is not been restored to the owners. In•the G azette of Saturday is a Proclamation from Lord frp.•.rouTt-t, !promising his !MAJESTY'S pardon to 411- Y one of the parties concerned in secreting the D'operty, who shall discover their accomplices ; a 'ld a reward of 100 guineas is offered to be paid " th e conviction of any of them, by Mr. JOUN .14 :NNETT, j un., Secretary to the Committee at LLOYD'S. btAL, JAN. 3.—Sailed this morn i ng, with the 4 st of the outward-bound, the William Pitt, 'clikHAM, for St..llelena and India; C. S. rot bes, LAm B , for Bombay ; Prince Regent, CLIFFORD, t ()I . ditto ; John Shand, Rees, for Jamaica ; and Britannia, HAMLYN, for Grenada. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 3.—Yesterday arrived the Mariner transport from London, to take in troops; 11 4 Majesty's ship Sophie, from Chatham for St. l ielena. Came. into harbour his Majesty's ship Larne, to be paid off. PLYmotrx, JAN. 2. Carne in the Clyde, Irtprti, from the Cape of Good Hope ; Elizabeth "d Mary, ilitowN, from Buenos Ayres, with her loom and bowsprit sprung—both for London, arid remain wind-bound. HABWICU, JAN. 3.—Arrived the Castlereagh Packet, With wail, &c. from 1-10114 mi, and reports, That there is no ice at the 3.llaeze or Brine, but Plenty at Rotterdam. WATERFORD, DEC. 28. —Arrived the John rainier, SAUNDERS, from Calcutta for Liverpool 3, tileci the Ist Aug., from Madras the 9 h Sept., trorn the Gape the 4tli Nov., and trou► St. He "lm the 16th Nov. CoIIK, DEC. 29.—Arrived two transports with t he ISth regiment Itoyal Irish Windermere, WILLIAMS, from Liverpool, to take troops for St. Leietui. Sailed the Importer transport for the Isle of Night, with troops. THE BRITISH NAVY. The Official List of the Royal Navy, corrected of►' to the 31st ult. contains the following Of kers, &c: A dmiral of the {Red l7 A dmirals of the ...... ...• White •• • • 16 Blue Red 23 /1 (e -Admirals of the ..... White lB Blue l9— 1 employed. Red 2s— 1 employed. 11 ear-Admirals of the.....-White. Blue.— 22 3 employed. t'Perannuated Rear-Admirals 26 R etired Captains ,` - 'tittains . . - 865-6? employed. ` j othnianders . N I ... , 1 3 eranr uated Commandeis ... ICO LHi' Or Knights of Windsor - Iftenants .. ' ‘ Nierannuated Masters //14 stets for Service 631-135 employed. P.,:.si .- • •cians %„rgeons retired 44 r4eong for Service ... 910-106 employed. A istant-Surgeons 374-147 employed. Dispensers of Hospitals l9 V i clepital Mates trsers titiplains 4 1: , % of various descriptions in Com 14iission CUSTOMS LIST. Entered Inwards, Jan. 2.—Sicilian, Ruston, Messina 11, 0-mas, Wotton, Harlingen; Aurora, Jackson, Smyrna 4, M, 'Wilkie, Ancona; Volharding, Bakker, Amsterdam kitgaretta, Buining, lintered Outwards, Jan. 2.—.Tonge Pieter .Tacobus. Wybes, k 'tterdan); Alcrt, Ma►►n, Hamburg!) ; success, Mercer, S erra Leone. ' cleared Outwards, Jan. 2.—William Bowers, Mason, Rot 411ain ; Little Sally, Gibsen, Buenos Ayres; Thetis,Yarrow, ktbadoes ; Catalina, Andrew, Rio Janeiro; Vansittart, Nqn,rie, China ; Glory, Scott, Cadiz ; Gustaf Wasa, By do.; Eliza and Ann, Coeh,ey, South Whale Fishery. THE KING'S HEALTH .—Sacurlay, a little be t°re twelve o'clock, tie Council of the late , skt.spv trim have the superintendance of the •;,NG't: person, assembled at the Upper Lodge, ‘Pinf4or, where they received the Report of the 4 ‘'e Doctors, as . to the state of mind and health -,, t4 the KING during the past month, and the : 40 etots having been sworn to the correctness of by his Glace the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, the President of the Council, the Members pre 3ent adjourned to the Castle to visit his MA 3T.r. Soon after one o'clock the Council broke ap ; the Duke of MONTROSE remained to be in ' w aiting on the KING during the ensuing month, "d to have the care of the Royal Person. This being a Quarterly Meeting, the Archbishop of CANTERBURY prOevetkil to London, and left the Iteport at the Privy Council Office, agreeably to th e directions of the Regency Act. Yesterday the following Bulletin was exhibited at St. James's Palace, by Lord ARDEN and Sir HENRY CAMITELL, tile KING'S Lord and Groom in Wait in.4, and other Gentlemen in attendance : Wmroson CASI LE, JAN. 9.—His Majesty's disorder rt.- totins unaltered. His Majesty continues chcerittl, and in Pod general "H. MILFORD, " WILLIS, " M. B 11E1,1E, " R. WILLIS." " W. H In consequence of Lord CASTLEREAGH not he recovered rim his indisposition, a Cabinet ohncll was held at the Noble Viscount's house in St. James's-square, at two o'clock on Satur tlav, which was attended by the Earl of LIVER- Vi,colirit 81 DMOUTH, the Earl BATHURST, the Mike tit WELL' NGTON, Mr. WELLESLEY POLE, "I" • CANI3ING, and Air. RoEINSON. TLC Council tuutiotted in deliberation till near four. THE LATE MRS. tRUNTON.* It is with deep concern that tve announce the death of a Female Novelist, whose pen was conse crated to the interests of religion anti virtne. The Author of Self Controul and Discipline has prema torely terminated her honourable career, in the flower of life. This amiable woman has been torn from the bosom of domestic felicity, and front the enjoyment of a well-merited reputation, almost before she had learnt to measure her intel lectual strength ; and whilst anticipations of fu ture success were inspired and authorized by the consciousness of progressive improvement. Mrs. BRUNTON was a native of North Britain. tier childhood was chiefly spent in the Highlands, and it is itot improbable that these early habits of seclusion conspired. with native enthusiasm, to give her character that romantic bia.s, which is in general unt'avourable to the tranquillity of its pos sessor. Fortunately, however, although Mrs. BRUNTON married the object of a first choice, and without any regard to prudential calculation, she married happily, and therefore wisely, a man who pos'sessed little fortune, but a large fond of learning and taste, and who subsequently, as a Minister of the Kirk, engaged universally respect and affection. In his society, and under his direc tion, Mrs. BRUNTON insensibly repaired the de fects of an ordinary education, and was gradually awakened to the consciousness of her own pecu liar talents. With the approbation of her hus band, site at length ventured on an original work, Self Controul, the first novel (trout a female pen) ever published in Edinburgh. The knowledge of this circumstance, without doubt, contributed to create a favourable impression in Scotland, but it must have owed to merit alone the distiognished favour with which it was received in England. Mrs. BRUNTON'S second novel, though less po pular, probably because the author was no longer a novelty, is written upon a better plan, and is altogether more meritorious than her lost produc tion. Ft om commeice with the world, and a more liberal intercourse with society, she had ex tended her sphere of obset vation and expel ieoce, amid it may fairly be presumed, that the maou script not-el which she was preparing for the press, will be loom! to equal, or perhaps to sur pass, its predecessors. It is impossible, without feelings of tender com miseratioo, to advert to Mrs. BRUNTON'S death ; she expired shortly after having given birth to a lifeless infant, the sole offspring of that harmo nious conjugal union, Which, during 20 years, had been so crowned with a mote than ordinary portion of human felicity. We trust that the literary remAtis of this amiable woman will not he withheld flout the public, and we hope ,to see them prelaced by an account of her life, which, however barren of incident, could not be uninteresting or uniostroctive. - Her character appears to Lave been formed of no common elements. In the purity of principles, and blameless propriety of conduct, she striking ly exemplified the rental k, that genius exalts wo man above the ordinary standard of humanity; and that the vigorous exercise of the intellectual powers in that sex, implies the existence, the cultivation, the maturity of superior virtues. Amongst our literary countrywomen, it would not be difficult to produce living examples of filial and conjugal affection, which might challenge comparison with the ideal models of romance, and compel the Poet to confess that his most de lighttni visions of moral beauty are reduced to in significance by the realities of domestic life. • We inserted on Friday last a character of this Lady, co pied from The Edinburgh Courant, but her moral and intel lectual merits were of so superior a class, and lier death has been a source of so much regret to her numerous friends, as well as to all who wish for the happiness of society, which her talents were so eminently qualified -to improve, that we most readily submit to our Readers this original tribute to her memory from a valuable Correspondent. THE MARKETS. COHN-EXCHANGE, JAN. 4. Althongh we had but a small supply of English Wheat this morning, and that chiefly of land carriage samples from Essex, yet the trade was not so brisk as on Friday, but last Monday's prices were obtained for that of fine quality. The dulness experienced in the sale of NVheat to-day, is owing to the Ports remaining open for importa tions from abroad till the 15th of February. Fine Barley supports the prices of this day week 1 hut the demand was vet y trifling, and only Fine Samples could be disposed of ; Oats fully sup port last week's prices, but sales were not so brisk as on Friday ; Beans and Peas go off ve slowly, having but few buyers. of those articles, and a very large quantity at Market. IMPORTATIONS LAST WEER Foreign Wheat Barley Oats SMITHFIELD, JAN. '4. Onr Market was abundantly supplied with prime Beasts this morning, and Beef was cheaper: sales were uncommon br sk. The show of Sheep was very large, and much business doing, but prices fully maintained last week's quotatio n s.— Veal was dearer; Pork cheaper.—The business in the Hay Market was very dull this morning, and although fine sam ples of Hay were offered at last Friday's prices, t hey could not be got off but at a decline of 4s. per lad. In Clover t her.) was nothing doing; and Straw sold freely at 4s. pet load cheaper. The annexed is a correct statement of the Numbers and Prices at Market : (To sink the Offal ; per Stone of sibs) Tieef 4s. Od. to ss. 44. I Veal ss. Od. to 7s. 0, Mutton ..3s. Od. to 6s. 6d. I Pork ss. Od. to 7s. 0, CATTLE AT MARKET. Beasts 2960 I Sheep and Lambs ....19,420 Calves HAY AND STRAW PER LOAD. Hay.... k 5 0 0 to,CB 0 0 I Clover..k6 0 0 to,C9 0 0 Straw.. ,£2 8 0 to,C2 16 0 Lies.—A French Nobleman who, bad three valets or servants, promised them one day, that he who could tell the greatest lie should he re warded. The first said," My Lord, I have never yet told a lie :" the second, " I cannot lie ;" hut the third said, " My Lord, both of them till the truth."—The latter accordingly re ceived the reward. P 0 E T It Y. ANSWER TO TIM EPIGRAM IN Youß PAP= OP S.,.TURDAY, SIGNED " QUI SI." Your Epigram, QUI SI, Must meet with a nice eye, Its wit and its worth to discern ; The whole it has got Rests in a tea-pot, And where its point is we've to learn. No more we will say ' About tea and hay, Because all we've been able to find Is, that your tea-pot, Cold, liaewarm, or hot, Is not of the jelly-hag kind. Jan. 3, 1819. QUIZ I. FOR THE SUN. iVin. EDITOII,—The following extraordinary I.4 , !pend having been lately discovered, and having perhaps more meaning than immed►ately meets the eye, I am disposed to communicate it to the world through the channel of your patriotic Paper. 0. S. The History of the Giant Ocutos, who had ten thousand Heads, and twice as many Hands, but very few Brains. Ocneos was a Giant of immeasurable size, who resided every where, and was at borne no w.bere. He had ten thousand heads, sometimes more, sometimes less, but the great majority of them entirely without brains, and not many in the rest. Consegnently he was rather foolish, but his strength was immense, and as he had al ways twice as many hands as heads, his power would have been irresistible, had he poisessed only one good bead to direct it. In that ease, he would have been truly formidable, for lie had a very tyrannical disposition. Happily he was apt to forget his own strength, and while that for getfulness lasted, was naturally indolent, or suf fered his vast strength to be quietly directed by those who had much better heads than any of his own. In ibis quiescent state, there could not be a more useful creature than he was ; insomuch that few achievements of great magnitude or diffi culty were ever brought about without his assist ance. In this temper of mind he could be for a long time extremely good-natured ; and would huzza with all ,his mouths at works of Try and milky, in which he had been actively em ployed ; fairly giving the credit to those heads which had planned what be performed. But who ever possesses power, in any shape, will have base flatterers about hint, eager to di rect the employment of it to their Own advan tage. OctiLos was never free from the attempts of these'creatures, whose machinations were the more base, from being always cloaked with the meanest hypocrisy. The pretences of public spirit, of reforming the state of shings, of doing the greatest good to poor OcisLos himself, these were always in their mouths ; but in their hearts was the most insatiate ambition, and the most intolerant spirit 'of tyranny. Their cant always tended to persuade the Giant that he was abomi nably ill-treated, that all the world was 'injuring him and trampling upon hits, and that no one thought of doing him any good but themselves. The poor monster, cajoled by these-flatteries, and having, as we observed, no great share of under standing, began by degrees to be fond of these sycophants ; to open half his mouths in their praises ; to be restless and uneasy in his mind ; and much inclined to do something, th oug h h e could not exactly tell what. , The word Re form had a particular effect upon Oh, it must be a fine thing to have matters reformed I" This was muttered by all his mouths, :hough not one of all his ten thousand heads knew in what they wanted reforming, or what was the best way to set about it, if they did. Having thus worked him up into a good deal of ill-humour, and impatience of things as they were, the next business of his sycophants was to remind him of his own amazing strength ; they proved to him that his power was naturally irre sistible, which was true enough (though better not told to him) ; and they argued very wisely from that, but very falsely, that therefore it ought not to be resisted. That might was right, and vast power a kind of divinity. That, in short, his collective voice, though proceeding front so many empty heads, was the voice of a god ; and that all who heard it were in duty bound to tremble and obey; while those who resisted might very justly be destroyed, in any way that his Highness pleased. ['t'o,he continued.] THE THEATRE.-Fladden Field was rather more attractive on Saturday than on the pre ceding night, on account of sortie improvement in the atmosphere. It wig well received through out, and having derived advantage from the per formance, as to what admitted or addition or of ciirtailinent, was, on the whole, more interesting as well as compact, and very well represented. We, by mistake, on Saturday, made the Mar quis de DESSOLLES and M. de JAI COURT one and the same person. It becomes necessary, there fore, to correct the error, by stating that they are two different individuals. Saturday the Hon. 'N. GORDON left town or •* mission to Vitnna. Ile proceeds by the way 01 It is understood that he is gone to re. 16eve LOH STEWART, who will return to .Lng• Lfiid for a short time. Friday Mr. Mosuroc, the King's Messenger, ar rived in town with dispatches from Vienna. Saturday ,Mr. VicKE, the King's Messenger, arrived in•town with dispatches from Italy. Yesterday Mr. DANIEL, the King's Messenger, arrived in town with dispatches from Madrid. Wednesday Mr. KROUSE, the extra Messe'nger, employed by Lord STEWART, left Calais with dispatches for Vienna. THOMAS TURTON, Esq. Chief Magistrate at the Hatton-Garden Police-Office, has resigned, and Mr. Serjeant SELLON has been appointed to till his situation, who on Friday took possession or the late Air. LEACH'S apartments at the Office. EXECUTION. OF ROBEIIT JOHNSTON, AND FIORRII;LE OCTItAtiE! (From The EdinburghCourant, Dec.. 31.) We have this day to record one of the most dis-, graceful scenes that ever took place inn ahis city: ‘Ve shall not at present enter on the question as to the precaution which might have been taken to insure the due execution of the awful sentence of the law, but simply detail the . hort'ible transac dons of yesterday, as - far as they fell under our own observations. The unfortunate man was convicted and sen tenced to die for robbing Mr. Charles, candle maker ; his two accomplices, Galloway and Lee, were sentenced, the former to 14, and the latter to seven years' transportation. Day-light yesterday exhibited the new appara tus for the melancholy catastrophe. The place fixed upon was before the notthmost window on the west side of the New North Church, a tear yards from the High-street. Numerous groups of people continued to assemble about the fatal' spot, to examine the dreadful preparation, and as the hour approached the crowd was very great. The onhappy etiminal Walked from the Lock up-house to the scaffold, which he ascended with a firm step, at 20 minutes before three o'clock.— After spending a quarter of an hour in prayer, he shook hands with the Reverend Gentleman who attended him, and mounted the platfornewith for titude. The exeentioner ,occupying a longer time in adjusting the rope than appeared to a great part of the spectatots to be necessary, much disappro bation was expressed; the platform stink about a minute before three. Unfortunately the rope was ton long, or the height from the scaffold to the beam trom which the sufferer was suspended insufficient; in consequence of one or other of these causes, or both, his toes rested on the floor of the scaffold. Just at that moment ,it policeman in front, ' resisting the encroachment of tine crowd, wished one with his baton, who cried out " Murder !" It is probable those at a distance imagined the exclamation to be occasionel by the pitiable situation of Johnston, and therefore joined in it. Stones In gait to fly towards the scaffold (of which unluckily the state of • the ground afforded an • ample supply), and the Magistrates and their at tendants were compelled to make a precipitate retreat. It was \veil for the ecutioner that he escaped at the same time, for at such a moment the, curr!.equeitces to him must have been fatal. The mob continued to throw stones, some of which struck the unhappy object of punishment, and others the church windows. At five minutes past three, a person very deliberately stepped from the crowd on the High -street, leaped on the scaffold with a knife ready open, distinguish aide from its brightness (or, as we have,been in formed, a surgical instrument taken from a case on the instant), cut the rope, and, with seeming unconcern, returned to the crowd. The body fell with the head to the front of the scaffold,—a sight harrowing to the feelings of all possessed of the least sensibility. Missiles still continued to fly, chiefly directed against the windows of the church, almost every pane of which were destroyed. One large stone struck the inanimate head of Johnston a heavy blow. A lame person, with a crutch, next climb ed the scaffold, and then a gent ral rush took place. The body was raised up, and the rope unloosed, with which the lame man exultingly descended - 5 the can was taken off, and thrown among the crowd—at the same moment a cheer was given by those around the body, meaning, it is supposed, to announce that life remained, which was re ceived by loud clapping. The coffin, light in its materials, was thrown among the crowd, and in less than a minute broken to atoms. The body was then borne off in the direction of the Lawnmarket ; Bailie Paulson, who was proceeding to the Castle, protected by a strong body of the Police, to obtain the aid of the military torce, caused the bearers of the body to change their course, and they wheeled about and arrived almost unperceived on the Opposite side of • the street to tote Police Office, evidently without knowing what to do with it ; here, oil being attacked by the Police Officers, they dropped the body, divested of clothes from the waist up wards in the process of carrying (the most,appall ing sight of the whole), which was then taken into the Police Office. A detachment of the 88th regiment arrived soon after, ,followed by another headed by Major Graham, which were posted across the Lawn market at the well, and in a similar manner front the High Church to the Exchange. Various reports were current about the state of the unfortunate man as to his reanimation ; how ever, be was again carried to the drop, anti at five minutes before four o'clock • was launched into eternity. The military remained until the whole apparatus was removed, and. we are happy 'to state no farther diturbance took place. The shops in the neighbourhood • were closed, on the first disposition to riot, and many of them were not re-opened that night. We have not heard that any persons were se riously injured, but many inconsiderate women with children in their arms 'were thrown down and trampled on. With feelings keenly alive to the character of our metropolis, we do most sincerely regret the acts of which the above is • but an imperfect ac count ; but to prevent improper statements at a distance, we must declare that no appearance of preconcerted riot was visible—on the contrary, it arose we believe• from the untoward circumstances of the instain. It will be long a matter of reeeet to the country, and to the inhabitants, of Edinburgh in particular, that so foul a stale should thus be fixed upon us--butt we trust effectual measures will be adopted on future occasions to prevent a recurrence of scenes at once. disgraceful, and re pugnant to the feelings of humanity. We sincerely hope also, that the propriety of changing the hour and place, of pnnishmeni will now be felt by those in whose hands lie the exe cution of tine law, and that immediate measures will be taken to accomplish both of these desir able objects. Since writing the foregoing account, we regret to learn that the Rev. Mr. Porteous was severely hurt and carried to the Royal Infirmary : also that Lieutenant Bremner, of the Police establish ment, was seriously injured.