The Sun. — London, England, 1820-01-01 00:00:00

i b aye Mi d for , and e ori sters from lino( meat care 'try- their and clefs, they their itiori lion. 'hat, TVCd :eived E IN . 5. ord. s SO LI in t of ka and and for t 9. ,well clot' 111: L'3l3 tort 20, rli IS tin rt:d tha are ing 1 :~~ ofd 9 zeD rtil ilia loft Ids last B 13• 1 of a Ye of (or ATE !1 . 0 1 t . 1 i oft' et leCa t , CY Ir 5' lee "ii e!•3 be led rt, he or Cl' FOR THE SUN. MR. EDITOR—Upon opening your Paper to day, I eagerly turned to your Correspondent's Letter signed A., which you so highly recon►- mend to your Readers' attention, hut it did not answer the expectation you had raised. He pro poses to have a great many irons in the fire with out a bellows, and to move a world by a lever fixed on a heap of sand. M o ney borrowed by the Land-owner upon his estate (already deeply morgaged perhaps) is the only means he suggests for carrying his great works info execution, for he acknowledges the Fonds of the Slate are too much exhausted to do it. In the name of common sense I ask hin►, if be can expect Land-owners to borrow money for purposes that are likely to turn to so little ac eoont ; where Parishes have united to build pco houscs, it has been attended With great expence, and after all the difficulty of getting them well lo►oked after, has been such that the contrac►ing parties in the Union would be heartily glad to be rid of their engagements, having found that they could keep their poor separate at their respective houle, at two thirds at least of what they cost them in what is called the House of lutlist►y, but whi:h it rather (to say no worse of a house of Idtentss. Your Correspondent is much mistaken if he thi►:its these houses will make the spendthrift main tain himself' by the sweat of his brow. If the Laws r Cre duly enforced with good order and regula tions, itirlevd they might do a great deal, but it is next to iiupossible to accompUsh this among the prcj.,dices and igno'rance of common farmers, who some of them perhaps, may some way or other he clumected Sri h the Governor, and iu- teres , e4 so as to wink at Isis abuse. But; Sir, at present the case does not turn on this Hoge. Our POOR are willing to work ; it is not industry but employment that is wanting; who Can employ the Manufacturer if there be no Market for his wares, and what Agriculturist can employ the labourer if the price of Corn will not make bins a fair return for raising it ? Should that return become more favourable, the waste lands might be cultivated to good effect, if the . xpences of our Acts of Parliament could be made wore easy; for a friend of mine told me that he lived in a Parish where they had lately had an In- closure Act which, though it met with no opposi tion, cost 9001. Mr. A. expresses prettily enough his romantic ideas of the mountains waving with the trees of the forest, and being given in rrpetual tenantry to the beasts of cline ; two things quite incompatible. He might as well keep a fox in bis poultry-yard as deer in a yonru,: plantation.— With the same sort of consistency, be proposes to turn our mechanics into agricultural labourers, Aher► the faritiers have aheady inure than they ktioW bow to employ. Dec, 30, 1819. P. S your Correspondent, PRUDENS, pro. posed to pby,Cl - ore four h of the Stocks, I con clnfie he 1,, 5 , AUtile progiess, because I have Tint seen the ),;,,e s the Five per Cents, in your Pn)er ?inre. 1`.V.:3 , ; , ; recommend to these two Correspondents of y. , o re-consider their sub jects, and I ,conit; recommend to Government to tax the estates and money in Int Funds of its ab- Atitee subjects pretty largely, 1101151?-5"-TVALING AND SWINDLING —Yester gay a wan oi)i)orseback went to th, shop of Mr. Jennigt, a sa•:dler, in the Ci:y.toad, stating bitucell to have been sent by Mr. Schwi;zrr, a gentleman resoling at Lliglibury Terrace, and that be was to have a new saddle, a saddle-cloth and bridle for the horse, li•being a lie %‘' purchase, and hone of the saddles they had would fit ; be was also to have the bridle he had with bin) Co be re palled. Mr. Jennings knowing the bridle to be long to Mr. Schwitz,r, did not hesitate 9 1 e man have the articles he wanted, which hav ing obtained, he immediately went away. In the course of the day, the bridle was repaired and tent home, when. it was discovered that Mr. Jennings had been nicked out of the articles, and that the bridle had been stolen out of Mr. ebwitzer's stables a few evenings before. Ott Inquiring in the neighbourhood, it was discover !(l that a stable bad been broken open that morn Ng, and -a horse stolen, and, from the deferiv 4ion, there can be little doubt but it was by the lame. man who obtained the saddle, bridle, &c. THE SERPENTINE RIVER.—The whole surface of this fine piece of water was covered yesterday, by one uniform sheet of ice, perfectly transparent. A few adventurous skaters appeared at the east end, notwithstanding the remonstrances of the Alen belonging to the Humane Society, who *tie in attendance the whole day with ropes and bidders. Happily no accident happened. Whe ther it was owing to the absence front town of all ')pr most accomplished performers, we know not, but the ice was but thinly attended. There were, Lowever, some actors who went through the usual evolutions, in figures, with peculiar ease and grace. The Tink's cap was adm►rably cut by many. The female pedestrians on the south side of the River were very numerous ; many displayed a ll the pomp of Siberia. Wednesday mottling some villain, by means ° I a false key, entered the landlord's bPd-root' 6 . 1 the King's Arms, Houndsditeb, and slot , . five , I4 tr watches and twelve one-pound Bank of i''gland note!. snip SEAVS.‘ TanBAY, DEC. 30. Arrived the Thomas putts East Indiaman : several other vessels are seen working up. Sailed the Amphitrite, Mar tin, for the Cape ; she had great difficUlty in working out of the Bay, 'and at one time fears were entertained for her safety. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 31.—Arrived the Heroine, Garrick, from Madras, sailed Ist Aug. ; from the Cape 26th October; and from St. Helena 9th Nov. ; she experienced very bad weather on her passage. Also arrived the Ophelia, Dewson, from London for Canton. The Ocean transport, that sailed yesterday, has brought up at St. 1-1 den's. LIVERPOOL, Dec. 30. Arrived the Ann .1 Kenzie, Morrison, from Demerara ; on the h December, in lat. 42. 21. long. 40. she expe rienced a violent hurricane, and received consi derable damage ; and the Waterloo, I'enrice, from St. John's,- N. B ; on the 23d December, in lat. 51. 33. fell in with the brig Rub Roy, front Quebec for Belfast, with loss of fore-mast, and in tow of one of ,his Majesty's schooners, steering for Fa imout 11. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 30 —Arrived the Sir Sidney,. Smith, Lef, vie, troin Naples, and Albion, Ni cho!son, from Havre. DEAL, Dec. 31.—Arrived and sailed for the River the Hannah, Webber, for Quebec. Ar rived and remains the Pioneer schooner from Mar gate ro:4ds. MILFORD, Dec. 29.—Arrived this day the Auckland packet, Captain Evans, from Water ford, with a mail and passengers ; the Supply Navy transport, from Haw'bowline, and Ranger transport from Plymouth, with naval stores for the Dock. ard ; and Gleaner, Davies, timber laden ; Helicon sloop of war, and Antelope Re venue cutter, both from a cruise. Sailed the Di ligence Admiralty cutter. Dec. 30.—Jn3t arrived the Mansfield packet with a mail and passengers from Waterford ; and the Sandwich sails this evening with the mail thereto, upon the arrival of the coach from Lon don. We are apprehensive that during the late hiavy gales some vessels have been lost or greatly damaged in the Bristol or Irish Channels, as con s;derable quantities of spars and wreck were seen at sea on Monday last, during a beai'y gale, by our different cruisers. LYNN, DEC 30.—We are sorry to state the loss of the William, (..1 this port, Junn, master, e O-41 laden, which on Thouday morning List, be tween 4 and 5 o'clock, was unfortona:ely run down by another vessel off the Lincolnshire coast, Hto sunk down so tapitily that two of the hands, who were dovv'ti below,-had but just time to save their lives, We ate havpy to say, the master and all hands were saved. IRELAND. Samuel Wellington, private in the 23d Fns:leers, lately tried by a General Court-martial at Cork, for preienting his musquet at Lient: 'rant Smith, while exercising at Newcastle near Limerick, was sentenced to receive 900 lases ; but which has been commuted to drumming him, with ignominy, out of this respectable' corps. The 3d Dragooo Guards,cantoned in the County Tipperary, at p; esent faced with purple velvet, are to change their uniform to yellow facings and silver lace'; the coat to be long, and made . exactly similar to the Life Guards. We sincerely regret to state that the Earl of FARNHAM experienced a serious accident on Tues day week, as he was coming into town. Very iiear to Farnham 1-I,use, and riding rather quick, his horse's hoof came in contact with a stone which was sticking up in the road, when it stumbled, and threw his Lordship, with, considerable force, fo the ground. IVe understand he fell on his head, which was s^verely cut near the temple an , t eye, and inte,•ll bruised, as was also his neck and shoulder, and his hat cut through in se t-eral places. Though we regret that we are unable to state the injury his Lordship received as of a ial nature, we however, hope that it will not prove of any very serious consequence, or he attended with whet ill effects, than the confine ment necessarily resulting trom so severe a fall, and which, we arc induced to think, will, for the present, prevent the Vice-regal visit to Farnham. His Lordship is under the care of Surgeon Roe, troth whose judicious treatment she most satis factory results may, we hope, be confiden!ly anti eipated.—(Ceran Her aid ) About tb,• second year of the present KING'S reign, a man of the na►r.e of George King was convicted in Dublin of a capital felony. lie tire.►• up a memorial to the 'KING, which he forwarded with the following lines : George King to King George sends his humble petition. Iloping King George will pity poor George King condition ; If King Georg e to kolze King will grnt a long day, George King for King George for ever will pray. The following is the literal copy of a letter lately sent to a Medical Gentleman, not far dis tant from this town :—" Cer—Yole oblige me ut yak ko tin ce me 1 hey a Bad kowd an► Hill in my 13ow 1-11!Is and bee lost my Happy Tight."— (Blackburn Mail ) CAUTlON.—Thursday, Badcock, a jour• neyruan baker, was ordered by the Magistrates of Covent-Garda office to be imprisoned cue month in the House of Correction, Coldbath•fields, for leaving his v . ork unfinishrd, and otherwise nor complying with the commands of his employer, Mrs. Laing, widow baker, residing near Co raul-strcet, Bruuswick-squate. REGISIER OF FASHION. FEMALE FASHIONS FOR JANUARY. (FROM ACISERMANN's REPoSIToRY OF ARTS, FASHIONS, &C.) HALF-DRESS.---A round dress composed of velours epingle . the colour is difficult to describe; it is between a dark fawn and a sage green, without being exactly either, but of the two, it is nearest to the green. The body is made rather more than half high; the back has a little fulness at the bottom of the waist; the fronts are tight to the shape, and sloped a little on each side of the bosom, so as partially to display the upper part of the neck. Thelmdy is elegantly finished by a ruff composed of Bros de Naples and satin, to correspond with the dress ; it stands up behind in the Eliza beth style, so as to shade the back of the throat, but it opens on each side of the bosom. Head-dress, a cap, ornamented with pomegranate-flowers. Necklace and car-rings, dead gold. Black kid shoes, and Limerick gloves. EVENING DRESS.—A round dress, composed of white lace of Urling's manufacture, over a white satin slip. The skirt is elegantly ornamented with lace draperies, which are beaded by a trimming composed of white satin, intermixed with pearls; each drapery is ornamented at the points with stars formed of white satin and pearls. This trimming is at once light, elegant, and novel. The body is tight to the shape ; it is cut a very decorous height round the bust ; the front is formed in the Grecian style, with a little point in the centre of the bosom ; it is ornamented by a tucker a l'esf'aat, and that is headed by a roulcau of lace twisted with pearl. The hair is dressed in light loose curls in front; the forehead is very little exposed. Head-dress, pearl ornaments, and a superb plume of feathers, one of which droops a little to the right side. Necklace and ear-rings, pearls. White silk shoes and white kid gloves. (FROM LA BELLE ASSEM V LEE FOR JANUARY.) PARISIAN EVENING COSTUME.—Dress of Arrosqi'Etd of a faded violet colour, with white satin sleeves; and ornamented round the border and bust with rich gauze en carreaux, set in separate squares. Bufont sash of white sills net, fastened on the left side. White satin dress hat ornamented with violets, and a superb plume of marabout feathers. Necklac? , and bracelets of rubies, set in gold (1-1' iintique. White satin slippers and white kid gloves. ENGLISH EVENING DRESS. , --ROUnd dress of very fine clear India sprigged muslin, over a white satin slip, trimmed next the feet in two rows of white satin ro s ette medallion orna ments, over which runs one distinct row of the same; the whole sue - mounted by white satin points en roquilluge: Short sleeves to correspond with the skirt, finished round the arm by white satin, edged with fine narrow lace, and separated from the muslin by a new embossed trimming en rosettes; in the centre of each of which is placed a fine pearl. Stomacher el-la-Parisienne, of white satin, and blue ribbon. White satin toque bat, with rich cordons of coquelicot, and a superb plumage of white and scarlet feathers intermixed. A carved ivory fan, white hid gloves, and white satin shoes cueeplete the dress. The shape of the bonnets differs but little since last month; a puce-coloured feather silk bonnet seems much in favour fur walking, edged with a narrow certain of fine white blond, and ornamented by two black drooping feathers of the cypress hind. Caps of the Caledonian kind of black velvet, promise to be much in favour for the carriage. There has been an innova tion wade in these caps, which destroys in them their beauti ful Scottish originality: the shape of their crowns might give 1 hem the name of the Westminster College Caps; the t re ucher form of which, though a novelty on a Lady's head, is not an attraction. Morning presses, merely for the breakfast table, are of fine cambric, made high to the throat with a double frill : the border, pelerine, and edge'S of the frill arc richly worked in embroidery. Coloured tabinets, with the elegant appen dage of a Parisian stomacher of white satin, with ribbons to answer the colour of the dress, are much worn in half-dress. Nothing can be more elegant than these stomachers; they set off the shape, and give a beautiful finish either to half or full dress. A Chinese' silk of French pink is much admired for even ing dress or for the ball room; the sleeves are made short, and are of white satin and blond; the border is trimmed with rows of white satin foliage. Another evening dress for youag ladies is of celestial blue and white striped satin; trimmed witli'Llue and white satin foliage, and an elegant Parisian stomacher to correspond. Diadem bandeaux of feathered silk, edged with pearls or blond, are much worn as evening head-dresses; by the very young without any other ornament than the hair full dress ed; ladies of riper age add a full plume of feathers. CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES. Lord Sydney and the Misses Townshend are entertaining their fashionable friends at Frognall, near Footscray, i❑ Kent. Earl Winchilsea is returned to town, to pass the holidays in South-street, Park lane. Earl Stanhope is rendering the neighbourhood of Seven Oaks, in Kent, very gay, by his parties of Chevening. The Hon. Colonel Stanhope left town yesterday, to juin the social circle. Sir Fred. Harvey Bathurst is entertaining his friends at his villa, on Englefield Green. Weston House, Shipstonc-on-Stour, the seat of the Earl of Clonmell, is the scene of much hospitality. Lady Georgiana Morpeth takes the lead among the fa shiunables in Queensbury-place, Brighton. Much hospitality prevails at Beau Desert, the scat of the Marquess of Anglesey. FASHIONABLE DEPARTURES. Mr. and Mrs. Dering, from their house, in Queen-street Nlny-fair, to their seat, in Hertfordshire; Mr. Stafford, from Albemarle-street, for Exeter. BATT] ARRIVALS.—Marquis of Lansdowne, Marquis Cam den, Lord Bishop of Down, Lady Waller, Hon. Mr. Eardley, Sir W. Burdett, Sir J. C. Hippisley, Sir R. and Lady Jeph sun, Sir T. and Lady Shelley and Family, Sir H. Turner, Sir W. ‘Vynne.—Admiral Sir J. and Lady Saumarez and Family, General Dixon and Family, General Holcombe, Major-Gene ral Bowniss, Major -General Colonel Butler, Cap tain and Mrs. Bartlett, Captain Adams, Captain Derby, Captain Phillips, Captain Thomas, Captain Wynne, Lieut. Gawen. On Vriday week, as Mr. Jones, butcher, of Llansaintffraid, was renaming borne froTh Lianfaii fair, be was found dead on the road, near Lian gedwin, and his horse was found hung by the bridle upon the hedge, near the body. SLIOCKING CIRCUMSTANCE. A letter from 13,11)gondee, &Iced May 23, in a late Calcutta Journal, contains the follotting shocking recital : " About 5 o'clock in the afternoon of Tuesday the 20th instant, some of toy servants came run ning Into the room in the greatest alarm, say ing that an alligator hail just taken away a boy about fourteen years of age, from one of. the gliauts near the house. Every body near the place were seen running to the gbaut, to which place I proceeded in company with a gentleman, as test as possible, in the hopes of rendering some assistance. A little after we arrived at Ole river side, some one among the vast numbers of natives collected, cried out that he could see it, and on looking down the river, at a short distance we clearly saw the alligator with the boy in his mouth ; shortly after which he disappeared, then rose again, and elevating himself with his head out of the water three or tour feet, he still held the buy in his mewl) by the hand, and tossed hint front one side to the other in the air with the greatest violence and rage; then dashed him on the surface of the waterovith the hope, as we supposed of dislocating his bones, the more easily to gorge bins. This he repeated several times, but nothing at the 'moment could be done. In the hope of saving the boy's life, evety thing was thought of to recover the body, and people were sent orlfor fishermen residing near the place ; but above an boor expired before they came with boats and drag-lines. Ott their arrival, we provided them, with these, in the hope of obtaining the boy, and after dragging with the line up and down the river near the place where they were last seen, we succeeded in hoohiug up both boy and alligator. 'Tire later, however, made his escape, but the body of the hotly was secured, and though dreadfully Mangled with the loss of head and shoulders, was brought on shore, and delivered to the parents for burial. The boats were again sent out, and again caught the alligator ; but in drawing him to the surface of the water to liar pools him, he broke the lines, and got away a se cond time. It being then very late in the even ing, nothing more could , be done, but the fisher men requested to attehd the next morning to make another attempt. This alligator, as tar as we could judge, was Attic 12 or 13 feet long." BRIGHTON, DEC. 30. -The PRINCE REGEI7T returns to this place to morrow evening, His Royal Highness, prior to his departure on Tuesday, decided to take his New Year's dinner with his beloved sister, the Duchess of Gloucester, in Marlborough-row,— Her Royal Highness renewed her warm bathing at W;lhains's yesterday; in the evening, the Eat and Countess of Warwick, Lord and Lady S.ry anti Sele, and few others ot Nobility, had.the ho ts , or ot being of. her party. The Roy4l band were " straining each note in melody's wide com pass" till nearly midnight. The Royal Doches3, accompanied by her Grace the Duchess Of LEEDS, took a carriage ait log this morning.. A small party will have the honour of bein entertained in Marlborough-row this even ing. PEDESTRIAN FEAT,—An inhabitant of this pa. named Harman, for a trifling wager, under took to go on toot, from the Fountain Inn, Shore ham, to the George Inn, here, in 45 minutes, distance of al4ont 100 yards, over six miles, which he performed tliis morning, and had one minute to spare. When it is considered the deep snow and ice on the ground must have much retarded his progress, that he had two stiles to cross, and When about a quarter of a mile from Shoreham he was compelled to scale a - wall, in consequence of the high tide in the harbour over flowing the road he would otherwise have passed, the effort will be regarded as one of truly extraordinary character. BOXING. To finish the holidays and tt►e old year, as they had begun the week, the holiday folk had a fight to themselves yesterday, in a field adjoining Old Oak Common, between Nicholas Smith, a carman, and John Carter, alias Jack the Drover, otiginat ing out of a quarrel about the division of a Christmas-box. It was a smart fight of twenty minutes, in their own way. _ lu the first round, the drover received a mow. ink; hit on the left ear, which floored him neatly. 2• Both appeared very awkward, in a busincss o<•w to them ; but they worked away, and gave each other tome muzzlers —The drover had the best of the round, although be seemed inclined to jib. 3. The carman was stopped short in running in, by a lefr. banded floorer. The blood flew in all direc►ions in facing each other in the 4,1 i round, and the drover was backed at odds from being decidedly the best hitter. In this round the carman was thrown, and both would have been contented to have remained on the grass. Two minutes elapsed before they set to again ; the drover was bit down heavily and gave in, but his setonds did not listen to him ; they got bin' to fight two other rounds, when he said his op ponent was not the man he first began with, and he wonid fight no n►o►e. Bo'h were in bad con dition from Christmassivg, and although the car• wan won, he was hit severely. OLIVER AND SuvuroN.---This match, which caused sty much t r i salty ointment last week in not coming off, is' tenewed for the same stake, 100 guineas aside, and it is fixed to take place no Thursday . se'unight the 13th instant. Oliver's. backers give five guineas to the other party to 'ante the place of fighting. Betting is even on the event. Thursday night, as Mr. Samuel Taylor, of Upper York•street, Paddington, was•on his way home front Sadlets_r.•ells Theatre,' he was stopped on the New-road by two fellows with large sticks,. who demanded his money. Mr. Taylor itnms. diately gave them his waich, a two pound note, and totate.en shillings. They then tied his hands behind his hack, threatening his lite if he gave any ahrm, and effected their escape.