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the foHowitir, I , :etra(ts, but they contain °t hing o f any moment- ST. PETERSBURGH, Nov. lg. O rd 1 4t trangforcl, the new British Ambassador, arrived here i,, t wee k, and Count Ferranoys, the French Ambassador, who bs so abs en t on l eave , re t ur ned on Sunday. `Har t Woronzow,.: the Governor General of New Russia, n ow in better health, will not make use of the leave a t i)s ilte d him by his Imperial Majesty, to go abroad, till next ti 4 g ; he w ill, t h ere f ore , cont i n u e in the exercise of his func -1,:1 till that t i me , an d Admiral Greig will not assume the e t -viai saal Government of New Russia and Bessarabia till e ate Count's departure. the Ilth September, St. Alexander's Day was kept with t, d4tl' k olernnity a t S c h u seki, the capital of the province of Ka -4el(a, conquered from Persia. Prince Madalow, the Rus t ro :.overno r , h a d i nv it e d several Persian Tartars, and o erli atili of distinction, to the entertainment given on the s' l3l ea. k ) : alost favourable accounts continue to be received from 41 ' 0 g, respecting the health of the Empress Elizabeth. STOCKHOLM, Nov. 15. it .Majesty has now appointed Dr. Wykman to be Bishop e , ter as . :e citizens of Sh e l s ingberg are said to have addressed the tl la ll t el lnent against the proposed increase of the garrison o f t°l7ll , with a view to support smuggling. N i ''Ning to the declaration of the English Consulate here, l ete litt t ements of William Dodde, who has been brought in un der arrest, deserve no credit, and it is proved that he is tuglishman. I. 4lt,,, S3 ' ie tY has lately been formed here to work the rich Co. tOl trea at Askersand. There are •140 shares at 1800 rix Th•-rs bane() each. th e ! C ommittee of Legislature has completed the revision of 1 14 h l ' r Swedish Code, and it is hoped that it will shortly be ti k ,,, /bt e The Supreme Tribunal and the Council of State for 4anatiOrl. HANOVER, Nov. 25. 4 3 , Proclamation has been issued calling a new t he Estates of the Kingdom, which is to meet on the 234 Is ti le Proclamation dissolving the Assemby of the . States, ky was opened on the 28th of December, 1819, his Majesty his satisfaction with the proceedings of the assembly, Its Patriotic efforts to promote the welfare of the kingdom. T he 1 HAMBURGIL, Nov. 29. tel o Ste storms have again produced very high floods, and ')11 t° to the dreadful visitation of last autumn and winter. titrelay night and Sunday night the water in the Elbe Nrnely high, on Sunday it rose 19 feet one inch. Zh e BERLIN, Nov. 24. %.t ob 7°llll g Princess, daughter of Prince William, born 15th 4 s k .,: t ' w s baptized yesterday by the name Frederica Francisca 1 11< t o Maria Hedwig. The Official Gazette mentions as 1 , 1.8110 less th an 25 R o y a l and princely persons, besides all and sisters of tile mother of the young Princess.— the 1g are the King of Prussia, the Emperor of Austria, kt. o g ,, i llre:tt of the Netherlands, and the King and Queen of Th e HAGUE, DEC. 2. 41 14 r : lost , Rev. J o hn Van Sarten, Archbishop of Utrecht; i ley, r 7 n i Bishop of Haarlem ; and William Vet, Bishop of ect. ter ' appeared to.day at Court, accompanied by their t 14 4 1: 4 -11 -Gener a l. the Rev. Martin Glasbergen ; and the first 114 4f ter a private audience, took the oath of allegiance to JeAty. Th e 1 , FLUSHING, Nov. 27. itr e ' tl glish brig Asia, Captain John Story, which arrived I ) ;:„ tcrd % and was to serve as a packet between Antwerp ~ or a : h e Janeiro, was driven from her anchors by the break, 4 1 0/ sl cable, and s now on the bank of Kalvotlalf ' w4t et) a so that there : is little prospect of saving her'. 4) 4 „ EXVIANGES ON LONDON. 39 8 )I.."I'ERDAR DEC. 2.-39.11.; two mon . ths, . . LT — l ll , llll -GIA, ' Nov 29.-35. 84. ; 2 Us., 30. 31. ',, , t/: -T xustsußGX, Nov. 15.-10. 15-32. c'tv,' l rl, Nov. 25.—Three months, 6. 144. `4 -114. , Nov. 26.—Three months, 6. 24g. 444 ' Nov. 19.—Three months, 9. 45. ll v ttoiversal consent England and morality tO 4tilt ed, and E ng li s h women are esteemed the • vu luous, as they certainly are the most ri ' :: tiful of their s t ,x. We are little disposed to ii, '- ` lo tl the truth of this assertion, and altog N e "ilog to hop e that in nothing it exceeds ( i Neverth e less our Courts of Law have t i(hi 4.41 Bonn e cases o f C r i m . Con. and Seduc- I t t o ry, and our Courts Spiritual teem with 4 41‘ %re° causes, an d s u its for alimony or %, 41 1 °11 . How far these proceedings are con 14v rit With the char - acter which English females he cbt ailled w e s h a ll no t stop to enquire, but t lle 4tillu t help expressing our astonishment at " spa 4 eavours ma d e b y d e f en d an t s i n th ese tH m to cover up th e i r own d e li nque ncy, by at.- Da rt t; to Pro ve th e super i or d e li nquenc y o f the ` r s of their crime ; as if the crime was the a nu s on their part, because the object was eattention or pursuit ; and as if the tht B nt had been the victim of the lures of o „, `lve -'ausnot the woman the victim of the seduc %B '"w Prs of , t h e man. Wh atever ex t enua ti o n hcl: ' circumstances may be supposed to form for R ~"ti ;co ndu ct on the part of young and headstrong t° xl,'Private life, they cannot, and ought not, 4tt"t f urther, and save th e m from the conse lalic" of their error , w h en t h e i n j ure d party t li i. 3 „: °k r eparation a t th e i r h an ds. We look at -e8 with contempt upon' the man who t° c ( : " " l kes his own wea k ness , and who seeks (1, 4 t Q:er up his own crimes by an avowal to tii,4"ther has mi s l e d him. But when NN IB weakness is added dereliction from the f or :et Modern codes of honour have pointed out 4 A4 . elt ° ccasio ns , and behold h i m unblushingly t ht 4 tltPti ciently stigmatize the character of. the ‘°14, 11 44 ' w hose crime at all events he -glared -114 W e behold him heaping obloquy on a weak female, and dragging her before the " h sc w it a h all her faults all her errors ) and all cc di ll -I° es, with, no other purpose but to' screen himself—indignation is excited,•and can• tempt is turned to loathing and disgust. We do not wish to hide the fault of the female ; or to be understood as offering the least excuse for such conduct on her part. Far from it, we condemn it to the full, but would leave her to her own reflections, and the scorn and infamy which attends such debasement of the female character. In this she will find punishment enough, and many, many bitter tears will attest, the pain and misery she has brought upon herself. But is it so with the man ? He has blighted the prospects of a husband or a father, or hasten ed the rain of a woman, who although charge. able with levity had never yet been absolutely criminal. Ile has done all this, and yet hope to escape the censure of the world, and to go un requited for his crimes. He confesses his crime, and yet hopes all this, because he says the woman was worse than himself. Such a plea is only an aggravation of the offence. We have been led into these remarks by the line of defence which was adopted in a cause lately tried in the Court of King's Bench, and which we are sorry to say i 3 growing too general. It is re sorted to upon all occasions, and appealed to as forming an unanswerable demand upon the Jury to assess their damages at the lowest sum.— Happy we are to add, that in the case alluded to it was unsuccessful, and that the Jury repu diated the defence as false, or, if true, as un worthy of consideration. rßELAND,—(Representative Peerage.)—state of Voting yesterday :—Lord MouNTcAsnEL, 31 ; Lord FARNIIAII, 31.—We understand that Lord FARNHAM has sent a special messenger to the Court of Russia, to get the vote of Lord STItANG FORD, the British Ambassador. There is about 46 Peers to rote yet. The poll must he kept open until the 16th instant.—(Dublin Evening Post, Dee. 3.) CAPE or Goon HorE.—Letters from the Cape of Good Hope, to the 25th of September, were received yester day. Nothing had been heard then of the Enterprise steam vessel, which left England on the voyage to India on the 10th .of August, and had, consequently, been out 45 days. She was expected to have reached the Cape in 30 or 35 days. The Commercial Advertiser (Mr.' Greig's paper) of the 21st, publishes the debates in Parliament of the 18th and 22d of June, on the presentation of Mr. Burnett's petition, together with the petition itself. On this publication a private letter remarks, that a very salutary effect was produced by it on the colonists, who entertained so formidable a notion of the power and family influence of Lord Charles So merset, that they did not, believe that any charges against him would be entertained by the British Ministry. Colonel Bird, formerly the Government Secretary, was to sail for England on the 6th of October in the Espiegle, and to carry with him for presentation to the Colonial Office copies of all the procla mations, addresses, petitions, &e., relative to 'the recent al teration in the currency. It ha been intended to dispatch Sir John Truter, a Judge of the Supreme Court, to England with the documents, but a suspicion gaining ground that he was too much devoted to the interest of the Governor, means were found to set him aside. The colonists had also been able to defeat another project of a still less equivocal nature—to get up an address to the English Government from the Dutch settlers, to continue Lord Charles-Sum erset irt—the—gavernutant_of the Cape. They were perfectly well disposed to this before the publication of the debates ; but their sentiments were so much changed by them, that nearly to a man they all refused their signatures.—( Times.) THE POST-OFFICE.—Mr. FREELING has sent the following answer to the query of a gentleman who consulted him as to the practice of the bellman requiring a penny on the delivery of a newspaper to him : " General Post-office, Nov- 29- " Sift—l have received your letter of yesterday's date. You have been misled by the paragraph to which you allude; and there is neither abuse' or 4 impOsition' on the part of the bell man in requiring the usual sum of one penny for every letter or newspaper delivered to him.-1. am, Sir, your obedient servant, 44 F. FREELING, Secretary. " Mr. Joseph Pedley, 373, Oxford-street." The Bogota Gazette of the 15th of September contains a letter from General Sucre, dated Chuquisaca, the 24th of May. It states that every thing was quiet in the five provinces of Upper Peru. The General stated that he intended to proceed on the 30th to Cochabamba, and thence to La Paz, to meet the Liberator, who was expected to arrive there early in June. Bolivar, however, on the Bth of June, was at Arequipa. The letter which he wrote from that place, on hearing of the recognition of Colombian independence by Great Britain, has already been laid before the public. The Gibraltar Chronicle received yesterday states, that the fever on the opposite coast had arrived at such a dreadful height, that the inhabitants were falling dead in the streets. A subscription had been opened at Gibraltar for the sufferers at Tangier. Many erroneous statements having appeared regarding the measures taken by the Court of Directors of the East India Company, in view to relieving the money-market during the late crisis, it has been thOught right simply to state what has been clone. The Court resolved to discount at 4 per cent. their own acceptances of all bills of exchange due in De cember, January, February, March, and April next, thus an ticipating a payment of 800,0001.; and upon the greater part thereof for upwards of five months. The tea prompt was not ppstponed, nor was any application made to the Court for that purpose : the sum receivable was not larger than is usual, and it has been very well paid up. Exchequer bills receivable for duties, are taken at the India House in payment of the excise duty on tea. A report prevails in York that Lord MIDDLE TON had again signified his intention to subscribe 20,000/. fir the advancement of the election of the Anti-Catholic candi dates.—(Leeds Mercury.) In consequence of a large extra arrival of in land and•foreign letters, the letter carriers were not dispatched from the General Post Office iesteiday morning until a later hour than usual. Several .pqst,..chari*RA. were dispatched on Sun day from Lombard-street with supplies of gold for country banks. THE WooL T A DE:-,We are sorry that we should have been inadvertently instrumental to encourage hopes which are not fully justified by the situation of general circumstances. The in formation given in our last, respecting the im-, provement in the wood trade in Wakefield, was communicated to us apparently from the best authority, and was confirmed by the little inquiry time allowed us to make. From sub sequent and more extensive inquiry, however, we f►nd that the only improvement has been in wethers, and that cannot be stated at the utmost at, more than 10s. per sack. In hogs there is in reality • no .assignable advance ; nor does the ge neral.stath of the woollen trade inspire any san guine hopes .of a speedy improvement•, as manu factured goods, in general, can scarcely be dis posed of without loss.—(Wakefield Journal.) DEPARTURES FROM TOWN, &c. The Earl of Gosfort, for Ireland ; Countess de Grey, for Putney Heath; the lion. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith, for Gay hurst, Bucks; Major Coles, for Exton Hall, Hampshire; Mr. E. Amherst, for Pardon House, Essex ; Mr. Louis Johnstone, for Trinidad ; Mr. John Curtes, for Esscx ; Lord Dude, from Cheltenham, for Woodchester Park, Gloucestershire ; Mr. J. Drummond ] for Uxbridge; Sir C. Jervoise, Bart. from South ampton, for Eudesworth Park, Hampshire. From Warren's Hotel, Regent-street—Colonel Waldo Sibthorpe, from Lin colnshire; Mr. and Mrs. Watson Taylor and family, for Wilt shire. - From the Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn-street—The Rev. J. Sumner, for Reading. From the Burlington Hotel, Old Burlington-street—The two Ladies Hastings, for Brighton . ; .Captain Cuyler, for Portsmouth. fft 0 " d . - re , • , • , - - fR 0E ARRIVALS IN TOWN, The Marquis of Camden, from the Wilderness, Kent; the Earl and CounteSs of Jersey, from Middleton Park, Oxford shire; the Earl and Countess of Hardwicke, from Wimpole, Canibriageshire ; Lord and Lady Carrington, and the Coun tess Stanhope, from Brighton. At the Royal hotel, St. James's street—Sir C. Buirel, from Sussex. At Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-place—James I)ashw•ood, Esq. from the Continent. At Jordan's Hotel, St. James's-street—J. Howler, Esq. from a tour; G. Roebuck, Esq. from Brighton. At Miller's Hotel, Jertnyn-street—J. Belfour; Esq. from a tour. At the Wat,-r -100 Hotel—Thomas Mason, Esq. and Miss Mason, from Berks. Biunerrox, DEC. 4.—The return of the KING continues to be ardently wished for here, but nothing is known relating to the subject. Two or three of his Alajesty's private Band, up3n leave of absence, came in from Windsor yesterday, but they bring no news. Again we have weather unsettled, turbulent, and damp. Yesterday, in the midst of showers, the Dachess of Gloucester, accompanied by Lady C. Legge, took a carriage airing; but the increased inclemency has prevented 1 - Kir Royal Highness from taking similar exercise to-day. The Han. Mr. and Mrs. Jervis have taken possession of a house in Bedford-square; they left their names at the Palace this morning. _ . marriage of Lord flowth and Lady Emily de Burgh, sister to the Marquis of Clauricarde is expected to be cele brated on Saturday next. Lady Emily's fortune is stated to be_2o,oool._ _ , _ . _ • , . The Lally Mayoress. with her family, arrived at the Man sion Rouse yesterday. ANECDOTES, Bcc. • REMARKABLE DAY.—This da y is remarkable for being the anniversary of what has been termed " Colonel Pride's Purge," who seized and prevented certain Presbyterian Members from entering the House of Commons, and ad mitted the most furious and determined of what were called the Independents, in 1648 ; of Col. Blood (who attempted to steal the crown) seizing the Duke of Ormond, with intent to hang him at Tyburn, but was frustrated, 1670 ; of the death of Nichlas Rowe, poet and dramatist, 1718 ; of Guatemala, in New Spain, being swal lowed by an earthquake in 1773; of a great storm in London, which continued three-days, when much damage to the shipping; in the Thames was done, 1774 ; and of the death of Mrs. Clive, the celebrated actress, in 1785. ST. NICIIOLAS.—This day is the anniversary of St. Nicholos, who was conspicuous fur his piety, meekness, and charity, and was made Bishop of Myra, in Lycia, by Constantine the Great. On this day formerly, in our Ca. thedrals, a Boy Bishop was elected. The Episcopus Pue. rorum, or Boy Bishop, was. chosen from among .the choristers, was invested with great authority, and had the state of a Diocesan Bishop from the time of his election till Irina. cents'-Dsy, on the Nth of this mouth. He was to bear the name and maintain the state of a Bishop habited with a crosier or pastoral staff in his hand, and a mitre on his head. His fellows, the rest of the chili'ven of the choir, were to take upon them the staff and office of Prebendaries, and - yield to 'the Ilitaiop canonical obedience, and also the - sail - 0s service as the very Bishop himself, with his Dean and Prebendaries, had they been to officiate, were to have performed, mass excepted, as done by the chorister and Canons upon the eve and holiday, and it was required that upon. .the eve of Innocents' Day, the Chorister Bishop, with his fellows, should go in solemn procession to the altar of the Holy Trinity, in copes, and with burning tapers in their hands, and that during the procession three of the boys should sing certain hymns mentioned in the Rubric. The - procession was made through the great door at the West end of Church in such order that the Dean and Canons went foremost, the Chaplain next, and the Bishop with his little Prebendaries last ; agreeable to that rule in the ordering of processions whic assigns the reward station to the most honourable. In the choir was a seat or throne for the Bishop, and the rest of the. children were placed upon the uppermost ascent. If the Boy-Bishop died within a month, his exequies were solemnized with great pomp. Near the west end of Sarum Cathedral there is a figure of a youth clad in the episcopal habit, standing on a monster having a lion's head, and the tongue and tail of a dra gon. The Boy-Bishop was chosen on St. Nicholas's day, be caw that Saint was the patron of Infants—he having himself, when extremely young, as the legend states, shown such singu lar piety, that when he was at his mother's breast he would not suck on Wednesdays and Fridays, that he might observe the fasts of the Church. In the Statutes of St. Paul's School, framed by its founder, Dean Colet, it is expressly ordered that the scholars " shall every ChildermaS (Innocent's) Day come to Pahli's Churche, and hear the Chylde Bishop's sermon, and after be at High Masse, and each of them offer a penny to the Chylde Bishop, and with them the masters and survey ors of the Scole." This custom was abrogated by Heory Vlll. in 1542, but was restored by Mary in all its ancient splendour in 1554, and an edict issued by the Bishop of London to all the Clergy in his diocese to have a Boy-Bishop and procession. On the accession of Elizabeth it was again set aside. St. Ni cholas was venerated as the protector of Virgins, and peculiar patron of mariners. IlomEit.—Such was the veneration of the poet BOILEAU for HomEn, that he was heard to say, " I main tain that were a man to devote several years of his life to the study of-Greek, merely that he might be able to understand Homer, the reading of the poems of this author would amply repay him both for his time and for his trouble." Tms: COMPANY in the PA RTER RE of the reE FRANCAIS, perceiving one night a young Abbe in the Stage-box, began to cry out, " Down with M. I:Abbe." The latter, with Out being disconcerted, rose, and politely addressing the Pit, said, " Gentlemen, since I happened to lose my watch among you, I prefer paying more for a seat than to run the chance of losing my snuff:box also." This sally was loudly applauded. • TEE PRINCE OF CONDE.—ValiarifintritiC generally induce the Athiest to profess his incredulity. This was proved by. the following words addressed, by the great Prince of Conde to his domestics, whom he had summoned to his death-bed, • -44 You have too often heard me indulge in im pious discourses, but in my own heart I believed reverse of what I uttered. I pretended to be a libertine and an Athiest, merely for the purpose of appearing more daring than the ge nerality of men." • _ . _ _ AN OPERA written for the purpose of being represented at a a to given by the city of Limoges to a new Go vernor, opened with the following remarkable line - --0 Sun • . !last thou ever beheld so magnificent a night ! EPITAPII.—IIere lies Juan de Cabecn, choris ter to our Lord the King. When he was received into the choir of angels, in augmentation to that happy company, his voice was so distinguishable from the rest, that even God him self harkened to him with attention, and at last said rather severely to.the angels, " Hold your tongues, he elves, and let Juan de Cabeca, chorister to the King of Spain,. sing my praise." Resurgam. Sir JOHN AlooßE, after he was made Knight of the Bath, preferred to be Galled General, rather than Sir John, Moore.—" Sir," said he, one day to an officer who called him Sir John, Sir John, at the beginning of every sen tence, 6 ' I atn your General ; I am General Moore." COAL TRADE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR—I shall at once proceed to -execute the promise I have made of giving you a comprehensive and cote detail of all the frauds practised in the Coal Trade, par ticularly as it relates to the port of Lo'ndon. To avoid per plexity, and render the subject as intelligible as possible to the public and the trade, I shall divide my subject into four parts, as follows : Ist. Pit-owners, Agents, Fitters, Ship-owners, and Masters of Vessels, (Newcastle.) 2nd. Factors, Buyers, and Clerks of the Market. 3rd. Ship Captain, Ship Meter, Lightermen, and Buyers. And—" Last but not least," Committee of Controul, Whar angers, Dealers, Retailers, Advertisers, Land coal Meters, Informers, and the Act of Parliament. The last part, being the most formidable as well as the meat intricate, shall receive my particular attention, and, as it passes immediately under the public eye, with ,a little care and a knowledge of the manner in which the frauds are effected, many of them be prevented or detected. As the Trade hush all these malpractices with money, and their re spectatility, I shall endeavour, in the course of a few letters, to chew that the cant word Respectability is only a distinction which the richest of the tribe appropriate to themselves, to dis tinguish them from their poorer and more numerous brethren. Advertisers shall be particularised, and as quality, quantity, and price, are the desired objects, that class which so long with impunity has deluded the public, shall be " shown up " in its true colours. My next letter will relate to the first part, and in the mean time I conclude by advising you, Sir, to ob serve, from your first-floor window, the flatness of the sacks in some of the waggons that go through the Strand.. I am, Sir, yours, Id December, 1325. ARGUS. THE ARMY. Detachments belonging to the • lith and 93d Regiments of Infantry, marched, yesterday, from Westminster. for Albany Barracks. A Detachment belonging to the 70th Regiment of Foot, marched, yesterday, from 'Westminster, for Winchester. A Detachment belonging to the 71st Regiment of Infantry, marched, yesterday, from Westminster, for Chichester. A Detachment belonging to the 28th Regiment of Foot marched yesterday, from Westminster, tbr Portamonth. Detachments belonging to the 24th and 62d Regiments of Infantry marched yesterday, from Vt'estminster, for Bristol, on route to Ireland. A Detachment belonging to the 94th Regiment of Foot marched yesterday, from Westminster, for Plymouth. A Detachment belonging to the 14th Regiment of Foot marched yesterday. from Westminster, for Chatham. Detachments belonging to the 2d, 3d, 6th, 41st, and 48th Regiments of Infantry, marched yesterday, from Westminster, for Canterbury. A Detachment belonging to the Royal Staff Corps, marched yesterday, from Westminster, for Ilythe. A Detachment belonging to the East India Company's Ser vice, embarked, yesterday, at Billingsgate, for Gravesend, on route to Chatham. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. As the conductors of Public Journals are often misled by ex-parte Statements, we deemed it proper to decline the insertion of the account which appeared in a respectable Morning Paper of yesterday., relative to the affairs of Drury- Lane Theatre, till we should find that it remained uncontradicted this day, and the following Letter, of course, justifies our caution : Covent-garden, Monday. Ain. EDlTOR—Having read in the Times Journal of this day, a statement under the head of " Affairs of the late Mana ger of Drury-lane Theatre," in which my name is introduced, you must allow me in justice to myself, to Mr. Elliston, and to those creditors who attended the Meeting in question to assert, that scarcely one syllable of that statement (be the - Reporter whom he may) is correct. his stated that Mr. Elliston proposed to mortgage the lease and wardrobes of the Olympic, Croydon, and Leamington Theatres to his creditors. This is not the fact. Mr.. Elliston's sons have been some years lessees of his Leamington property upon a fair and equitable rental, and as to the Drury-lane lease and wardrobe, so maliciously adverted to, I believe every shareholder of the Theatre have it in their power to contradict that part of the statement, inasmuch as their property by the nature of the lease from the Committee, can only be converted by Mr. Elliston to the use of stage representation at Drury lane, as lessee of a ready furnished Theatre ; therefore, it needs no conjuration to discover that Mr. Elliston had it not in his power to make the lease and wardrobe over to his sons, for the purpose of cheating his creditors, as your informant would insinuate. The truth is, that, since Mr. Elliston's severe bodily afflic tion, his son has been delegated to manage his affairs by power of attorney, in his father's name, and that he still continues so to do—but to state that Mr. Elliston has made over the pro perty of which the Committee of Proprietors are the sole Guardians, only proves that there are people in the world so base as to leprive a man of the support of those friends, whick in the hour of adversity he stands so much in need of. Mr. Elliston has expended upwards of 30,0001. in the im provement of the property, of which lie is the lessee, and to such a vast outlay, and his subsequent severe indisposition, is to be attributed his present difficulties: it is not for me to give publicity to what may be Mr. Ellis. ton's available property, but I can boldly assert, without fear of contradiction, that one-fourth of the amount stated by your informant, and considerably less than the sum expended upon the improvement of the Theatre, would clear Mr. Elliston from every pecuniary difficulty, consequently his debts " bath this extent, no more." To conclude—The statement that a creditor present refused to sign the letter of licence, and added, that it was precipitate in me to propose it, is entirely without foundation. There were assembled creditors to the amount of 12,0001. and up wards, and I should do injustice to the kind feeling that prompted them all, to deny myself the gratification of stating, there was not a dissentient voice. I am, your very obedient servant, G. H. ROBINS. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. STATE or TUE ODDS.—: ETTING-ROOM, DEC. 5. 11 to 2 agst Monarch 12 to 1 agst Tredille c. 13 to 1 agst Bolivar 20 to I agst Br. to Twatty DLit 13 to 1 agst Mignonette 8 to 1 apt Pawn B Y . 20 to 1 agst Sophist 20 to 1 agst Gramaric 20 to 1 agst Zuleika c. DONCASTEI 8 to 1 agst Bedlamite 11 to 1 agst Crusader KS. 1 9to 1 agst Rachel 10 t• 1 a*s_ f. out of Master Henry's darn. ST. T,EGER. 25 to 1 agst Monarch. 35 to 1 agst The General. PEDESTRIANISM.-41r. P. Crewke of Bagnigge Went!, undertook yesterday morning to run a mile in seven minutes, and carry a boy four stone weight. The boy was strapped on so as to give the runner full scope of his arms, and the pedes trian won easy.. It was accomplished over a measured quarter of a mile in Holloway lane. ASIIBURTON 13ANK.—MESSRS. BROWN,WINSOR, AND CUMING.—We regret to say that the above firm sus pended their payments yesterday evening, after a tremendous run of several days. A report that such was the case was cur rent this morning, and was fully confirmed in the afternoon.__ (Devonshire Freeholder of Friday.) SUDDEN DEATll.—Yesterday afternoon, at the establishment of Messrs. Whiting and Branston, printers, &c., of Beaufort -buildings, Strand, an elderly Gentleman, named Moxon, fell down and expired. The unfortunate Gentleman had just returned from dinner, and had gone up stairs ; on his arrival at the top of them he fell down. The deceased was the sole support of the numerous family of his daughter, whose husband fell down dead about four months since, leaving her in a state of pregnancy. Every assistance was afforded, but in vain, as the vital spark had fled before medical assistance arrived. MERCANTILE SHIPPING. DEAL, DEC. s.—Wind S. E. by S., fresh breeze, with rain.—Passed through from .the River yesterday the Mary, Hodges, for Barcelona; Gulnare, Lunt, for Charlcston ; Ann and Mary, March, for Alicant; Arab, Rolstone, for Lisbotr: The Susan, Banks, sailed about noon for Hamburgh. DOVER, DEC. s.—Off the port the General Palmer, Tres. cott, from Madras, sailed 30th July, and from St. Helena the 22d • October; Jonge Anthony, Jaconette, from Ilatavia for Antwerp, out four months and a half. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. s.—Wind E.S.F. to S.W.—Arrived • from the Downs his Majesty's ship Dotterel, for Halifax. ; his Majesty's store-ship Dromedary, for Bermuda; and the Re. , trieve, Steel, for Lisbon. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 4.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrived the Save. reign transport, from Gibraltar in 21 days; Goodwill, Pullen from Faro ; Fly, Sampson, from St. Michael's ; Margaret, Boorman, and Dalphin Jones, from Lisbon. The g reater part of the outward-bo u nd shipping have put to sea. FALMOUTH, Dzc. 4.—Wind N. E.—Arrived the Ann, Alexander, from Jersey for St. Thomas's ; Traveller, Mo namy, from ditto for Cadiz. Sailed his Alaj?sty's ship Dis patch, for the Coast of Africa ; Louisa and Indian Trader transports, for Kinsale and Barbadoes ; and the whole of the oatward-bound. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 4, THREE P.M.—The stew - I:packet from Dublin has brought an account of the Juniata, from this for Java, having been driven on shore near the Sherries (Ire land), and bilged. The Margaret, Bigland. from Newry for this, is totally lost at the Isle of man ; great part of the cargo saved, four of the crew drowned. The Dove, Wood, of Bristol, was driven on shore at Dun - garvon on Thursday. The Richard, Bennison, from Kiel to Hull, is totally lost in the Cattegut ; crew and stores saved. The Nancy, Evans, from Newport to Cork, and Brilliant, from Ross to Cork, were driven on shore near Youghall on Thursday. The Mayflower, Callow, from Whitehaven, sunk in Derby haven Bay the 2d instant; cargo expected to be saved. (Extract of a Letter from Rath, near Drogheda, Dec. 2.)-- " Last night, or early this morning, a ship called the ja Item, Captain Kirk, bound for the Island of Java, laden with cott( cankers, &c. &c., was cast on shore during the storm of the night, about a mile from the town of Skevris. The cargo is valued at 70,0001. and principally belongs to Messrs. Evans and Co. Liverpool. The ship is an American—the crew all saved."—(Dublin Evening- Post. Dec. 3.) PIRATES IN THE INDIAN SEAS.—Extract from the log book of the ship Honqua, arrived at Cowes from Canton in 197 days :—" June 29, 1825, latitude 2. 25. North, longitude 130. 52. East, steering W.S.W., with a light breeze frost: the Eastward. At five A. st. made the Island of Lord North, bear ing S.W. by compass, distant about three leagues. Six—Dis covered several prows in the offing, and a number standing out from the island to join them. Half-past six, 18 prows, with from 14 to 20 men in each, stood down towards us; called all hands to quarters and cleared the ship for action. Seven —Four boats succeeded in coming alongside, holding up cocoa-nuts and other articles, pretending they wished to trade; and on finding we refused to purchase of them, appeared determined to board us ; fired two muskets over one of the prows, and al_ though the balls struck very near, they laughed at it, and would stand down within 10 yards of the ship, and make the most frightful grimaces imaginable, apparently defying us to injure them ; the other 14 did not succeed in cutting us off, bat as soon as the ship had ranged a-head of them, they set a larg• latteen sail and stood after us, each man using his utmost exer. tions in paddling to overtake the ship. A t this time the wind was light, and they coming up with us fast, which, if they had done, would inevitably have taken the ship, although we in tended and should have made a desperate resistance with board. ing pikes and small arms. At half-past eight o'clock, a.m., breezes increasing, the 14 began to drop astern, which appear ed to exasperate the four alongside, who kept continually beckoning to them, and would haul off, and hold an argument, 'considering, as it were, what was best to be done, and then stand down on us, with every appearance of boarding, which we momentarily expected. At ten the four alongside, finding it impossible for their comrades to come up, (although they continued after us) hauled their wind and stood to the east. It is the opinion of every one on board, if it had fallen calm (which at one time has every appearance of so doing), that al though the men were cool and determined to defend .the ship to the last, that she would have been taken, as the beach _was lined with prows, who were ready to assist if an attack `was made ; and we could distinctly see the blood-thirsty wretches taking something to exhilarate their spirits." ARIGNA IRON AND COAL. COMPANY.—In con sequence of great dissatisfaction on the part of some of the Proprietors of this Company with the conduct of the Chair man and Directors, and the manner in which its affairs were carried on, a meetiatiof thg Subscribers was yesterday held at the London -Tavern, for the purpose of considering the propriety of removing the Chairman and certain of the Di rectors from their respective situations as such, and of consi dering the general state of the Company's atThirs. Whatever may have been the grounds upon which the complaints against the direction were founded, it would appear from the very rigorous system of exclusion which they adopted on this occa sion against every person not entitled as a shareholder to be present, and against the gentlemen of the press in particular, that they were not very conscious that their proceedings would bear the light, without casting back reflections in some quarters ; at least, it was pretty evident that they did not anticipate a Wry triumphant defence. So far did they push their excluding plan, that Mr. Rosson, a most respectable barrister, who at tended as counsel for Mr. Flattery, (a large sharel older, and the original lessee of the mines,) and who, in.such capacity,had a strong claim for admission upon more than their courtesy, had the door closed against him ; and all his arguments to prove the injustice of refusing to admit him, when Mr. Serjeant Adams (who, however, was certainly a subscriber himself) was present as counsel for the directors, were unavailing. Our re. porter came away, leaving the meeting, apprrently, from the noise which reached his ears while going down stairs, in a state of great uproar; so much so, that a gentleman who had been present, and left the room in disgust, likened it to a Dutch concert, where a hundred musicians are playing at once, each a separate tune.-4 Times. ) DREADFUL ACCIDENT.-A dreadful accident happened on Tuesday morning last, by the fall of a building in James-street, Thomas-street, Manchester, by which two per sons were killed on the spot, and one very severely injur ed. It appears that the building in question comprised two houses which Mr. Heath was converting into one, for the pur pose of adapting it for a public-house. With this view he had taken down a considerable part of the front wall, and propped up a beam on which the weight of the upper stories mainly rested. The prop placed under this beam was, however, un fortunately placed upon an. old half-brick wall, ill calculated to support the weight thus thrown upon it. In addition to the instability arising from this cause, a considerable part of the back wall had been undermined in sinking the cellars, and had been very insufficiently under-set. About eight o'clock on Tuesday morning, Mr. Heath directed one of the io:ners to remove a small upright post which had been placed under the beeam, for the purpose of marking out the limits - of the lobby, but which was not intended or supposed to bear any part of the superincumbent weight. It would appear, however, that the foundation on which the main prop rested had gradually given way, so as to throw a portion of the weight upon the upright post ; for the latter _was no sooner removed, than the whole building fell at once with a tremendous crash, burying in its ruins all the persona then on the premises, consisting of Mr. Heath, Robert Dilworth, a mason, two joiners, and a bricklayer. One of the joiners,. and the bricklayer, however, made their way out without receiving any material . injury ; but the others re mained under the rubbish. A number of persons imme diately set to work to remove the mass of timber and bricks by which the unfortunate men were overwhelmed ; and in about ten minntes succeeded in extricating Robert Stanley, the joiner, who had removed the post. Ile was found buried to the middle in bricks, and his legs and thighs were severely crushed; but most providentially a large beam had protected his head and body. lie was carried off to the Infirmary, and, we believe, is likely to do well. Nearly an hour and a half elapsed before Mr. Heath and Dilworth, the mason, were found, and they were at that time quite dead. Mr. Heath had been forced by the weight of the falling materials into the cellar; and was found lying between part of the floor on N.: inch he read been standing, and a part of that which was over him when the accident happened. Tile house is entirely destroyed, all the walls having fallen completely level with the ground.— (Manchester Guardian.) General nowyErt, President of Ilayti, has lost one of his daughters, aged 21 years, of whom he was very fond. Wishing to surrender himself entirely to the indul gence of his grief, he quitted Port-au-Prince and retired to the country. In crossing the seas, - this news has become a plot of the Negroes against the people of colour. . This ru mour having had currency given to it by a Journal. found some credit, hut we now know to what credit it is kntitled.—.. The event which we have stated above is the only --circum stance of importance mentioned in the last correspondence from St. Domingo,