The Sun. — London, England, 1806-01-21 00:00:00

NAVAL • iVE W. Porrst,totrri, JiK. 20.--;;Arrived the 4tio and the Hitton, from Oporto.. Passed by the homeward-bound Oporto Fleet un der Convoy, from the Downs. Sir istuie COFFIN, returned here this day, re hoisted his Flag' on board the Gladiater, as second in command at the Port. It is a circumstance worthy ef notice, that the 'San Josef, ,which was captured by_the Captain, should have been thetneans, in all human probability, of saving her from being wrecked, after she unfortunately got on shore at Falmouth.; when the San Josef fell in with the Captain on the Coast of France, "it blew so hard on shore, that the Frigate which had her in charge could not manage her. The .Captaln is come into Harbour to be re- • Paired. ' Sir GEmos-PaEvosT, our Lieutenant-Governor, gave a very elegant dinner on Sattirday, in honour of the QUEBN'S Birth-day, to General EVELEIGII, Ge neral Poiti.Eft, COI. HANCOCK,...Major CRAWfORD, Eind a number of distinkuL4hed Officers. Capt. MARK ROBINSON is appointed to the Gitra& lee; of 80 guns; at this port. The Hon: Mrs. Gen: Fox is disembarked from the eamel, there being no probability of the wind shift ing soon, for her to proceed to Gibraltar. PLymount, .tor. ig.—The shipwrights and arti ficers of the Yard and Arsenal here are puflately on a most excellent • footing. They work Saturdays this season of the . year, all -dinnertime, : and go-out at sun•set each shipwright receives one guinea, and the.over,tirne and extra wort; they receive at the end of thee - half-year; by which regulation, establish ed by the present *Admiralty, among other whole tame ones, that. batly of Men, One of the sinews of the, ,Navy,, ate freed from the extortion of money lenders and jobbers in Dock-yard!ricketd. . -- FALMOUTH, JAW; 1 Majesty's , • Ships Impetuezzz and Glory ; Penelope Frigate, Con- . test and 7iiago GU -brigs, on a Cruize. 11/hisiniliant Packet, ROBERTS, Mails,for Lisbon. FaLssouvt, J.t T. t 8.--Arrived' the Xingsware, littiCKLzA, and Brothers,, DUNBY, from Oporto, in leViriteeri days, with wines - for this - Port ; 'alSO the integrity, T.nobasug, from Quebec, with pot-ash, !t: for Newry, taken by a French Privateer, and te-taken by the berd Hobart Packet; belonging to Passed this Port to-day the Lisbon and :Oportci •• , • 'Fleets, under convoy of La Constdnee Frigate. Put back the: lirctisinikaa Ifacket, which siijeci. Tesierday. tRIXITAH-ChlAt) JAN. trisk 6utter, Lieut. NORTON, to-join the Channel Fleet, in Torbay; under command of Admiral: Contr *Amin, as advised: 62iled His Majesty's Shifts kefigte And L'Espiqk Ott a Craize: DEAL, JAN. 20.—A large Fleet arrived ftoni boti'under Convoy of His Majesty's Ship. Constance. La Constanq remains in the Downs with the Vereclet, Edgar,iand Trusty .Mes c)f;Waii"Pallas, hills, and the Tribune Frigates; 0140 r, Kite, Cyg:' rett, and La Fleche Sloops of. :War I.iaastatidn and ospe r o Bombs Combatant Traatn, several Gnil=. brigs ; a Fleet of Transports and 'outward-bound Vessels. ORVORD, JAN. 19.—Passed by this port, on day, for the Nore, the Tribune Frigate; andi . oti Sa turday, the Utile Sloop of War.—Same day came in the Imntortalite Frigate, Capt. OWE*, from Har -rich, and remains with one Gun-brig. Last Friday morning the Cattier, ,of Hull, TOsEm ELLISON, master, laden with iron, shot, guns, &c: 4t4me,ashore on this beach; acid soon after. Went to pieces, and a principal part of the cargo i.vaehed aut of her; but by the perseverance and exertions of Win J. CULHAM, merchant, of this place, and the Salvagers employed under" hin the remaining part of her cargo, and most of the.roaterials belonging to her, were saved.—Two of the crew were unfortu nately drowned. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MONEY. 4 To the Officers and Company of His Majesty's Gun-brig Minx, for the Re-capture of the Ships Francis and Betsey, the 14th and 15th September, 18 , 5; and the Rover, of New:. eastlsobe 29th September, on board the Minx, at Sheerness, to-morrow; or every Tuesday arid , Friday afterwards, at No. xB, Clement's-Inn. To the Officers and Company of Ills Majesty's ShipCharn pion, for the Capture of the jonge Klasino, in company with the Orestes, Dart, HermasALucitcr, and Blazer, Cun-brigs, the 2.4 th Oalober, 'Bog, on tit, Champion's arrival in Port; or every Tuesday and Friday afterwards,at No. IS, Clement's lnn. • To the Officers and Company of His Majesty's Ship Mal ta, for the Detention of the Mushoom, Dutch Ship, the 4th June, 1203 ; and for Destroying La Bayonnois, the alth No vember, 1803, by His Majesty's Ship Ardent, on board the Malta, at Plymouth, this day; or every-Tuesday and Friday afterwards, at No. 23, surrey -street, Strand. The Fleet which sailed from Oporto and Lishoni it is presumed, are safely arrived. The following is an Extra& of a Letter from Capt. GRIFFITHS, of His Majesty's Ship Constance, dated Jan. 18, 1806 : " I am now off the Start, with a fair wind, going on with 13 Sail of the Trade from Lisbon : and Oporto to see them into the Downs, and then to, re turn to SpitheaCl. • About 30 Sail ' left the Convoyi, being unpardonably a-head of the Commodore (the Jamaica Frigate, which is gone with the Trade for Liverpool,& - c.),oriThe 12th at night, appearing to me turposely done ; several parted in a very heavy gale inse. I left the Liverpool. Trade'about 30 leagues W. of Scilly, the Itith, the wind then scant .for heir rounding Scilly, and b]owing strong. The Con oy on sailing amounted to 80." E.Dryn rr unG, 3 A r, is. • - , • AICHLANti SOCiETY•OF'gCOTLAND •• _ Tn E Anti iv - efsAry Gen etal Meeting Of this Society, in terms of the Charter; was held in their . Hall here on Tuesday last, at which there was a respectable attendance of the 11.1embeti, to the number of' too'. The Right Hon, the Earl Of DALHOUSIE, ono 6f the Vice-Presidents in office, in the chair (in the absence Of the Earl of MOIRA, who had not arrived from London) ; when, after . a ballot, as required by the rules of the Society, the followin g Noblemen - and Gentlemen were dUly admitted Members, their names ordered to be recorded, and public notifica tion of their ele6tion given,. viz. , Right Hon. Lord Viscount Primrose. . Right Hon. Lord Glenbervie. Sir loha Hope, of Craighall, Bart. Sir Thomas Gibson Carmichael, of Skirling, Bart. Colonel Elliott Lockhart, of 13orthwichbrae. Lolonel Keith Nlacalisteroal Loup. Lieut.-Col. Robert Stewart, of Fincastle, 27th Regt. Lieut.-Col. Callender, of Craigforth, Inspecting Field- Officer, Edinburgh Distriet. Major Donald Campbell, of Knock, 4eth Regiment. George Hepburn, Esq. of Clerkington. ° " 'John White Melville, Esq. of Bennochy. I. Wolfe Murray, Esq. Advocate, Sheriff-depute of the County of Murray, William Murray, ESq. yotinger, of Polmaise. lames Hare, Esq. of Calderhan. Patrick Miller, Esq. younger, of Dalswinton. Archibald, Macnab, Esq. the younger, of Easter Torry. Gilbert Young, Esq. of Youngfield. Archibald Maclachlan, Esq. of Craigenterve. . - Cohn Maclachlan, Esq. Merchant, Glasguw. Alexander Ramsay, Esq. of Demerary. !,. • lames Fyfle, Esq.:of Smithfield. George Crawford, E sq.Ed i: o rbtuhr!gnet. t i 2oilninei Lang, Russell, Esq. Edinburgh.." Cohn M' E L ' ..uir William Gilchrist Esq. Merchants•in Edinburgh. 1 01 vv, John ..cite, Esq. , fames P. Esq. Merchants in Leith. Henry Raelaum,, Esq. , 33. Captain lames M'Vean, of the 7Etit Regiment. , • After the:ballot was Over, Sir JOHN SiNct,Ata congratulated the Meeting, on the admissiOn of so Many respectable Members by ballot, and begged 'v leave to move the eleatiOn of ,one, in whose case, he trusted, that form of proceeding: would most readily .be dispensed with. He alluded to his Royal Highness the .DUKE of SUSSEX and Earl of Inver . ness, who, by a letter, in which he .mentions the ' Institution in very' handsome terms, had authorised . his being proposed as a Member of this Society, and • whose partiality to the Scottish Nation was so well - known, that he was persuaded the Society would be proud to iutoll his Royal Highness in the list of its embers, in the manner the most likely •to be gra-' tifyinglto the feelings of so distinguished a per soilage. r The motion being seconded by Mr. MACDONALD, the Treasurer, was unanimously approved of, and His Royat -Highness was ele6ted- a Member of the Society by a show of "hands, -and not by ballot, and .. his:name was Ordered:t6 'be put at the head of the Society's List. 7 • Mr. JOHN TAIT, Chairman of the ' . Standing Com mittee of the Society upon the Fisheries, stated,. that he had it in charge from that Committee - to signify to the Society, that, they had derived much benefit froin several" communications with the Right ‘• Honourable •PRORGIV Rose, who had of late bestowed much attention upon that important' 'subjeCt, and that there was every reason to hope the Society and the Country would receive much , vantage from that Gentleman's labours. Mr: TAO, _therefore, in the name of 'that Committee, submit ted to the Meeting the propriety of eletling the Right Hon. GEORGE ROSE an Honorary Member. which the :Society unanimously agreed to, and he was ele6ted accordingly: Thereafter ; the Meeting, on a motion from the Secretary; proceeded. to the ele6tion of President; Vice-Presidents, and other Officers,- for the current year when His Grace the Duke df ARGYLL was re.;eleaed President; Most Noble the Marquis of L•ittl, ' Right Hon. the Earl of DAL HOUitI, , vice-Presidents. • Right Hon. tne Earl of M•rx".., „ Right Hon. the Earl of MA NSFIELU, ii3M .M 4 Dol)aldi Esq. Treasurer: ' Donald M' Lachlan,, Esq. Secretary. Francis Farquharson, Esq. Auditor of Accounts. .Mr. Lewi s Gordon; Depute Secretary and Collator. Mr. David WatSoh; RecOrdei and Clerk: Rev. Nlil.)Onald Mackintosh, Translator at the. Gaelic Language. • Mr. tilexT Cuningham, Jeweller and Medalist. ..Besides 30 Ordinary Diredois resident in Edin burgh; for Managing the affairs of the. Society, se vdn of whom go out annually by rotation, the So ciety- made choice of the following Itildblemen and Gentlemen, some of whom are only occasionally in town, and cannot' regularly 'attend the 'stated Meet ings,. _to be Extraordinary Directors, . viz., - His• Grace the Duke of Athol'. • Most Noble the Marquis of Huntlj;%• • • Right. Hon; rite Earl of Haddington. Right Hon. Lord Macdonald., Right lion. Sir James- IVlontger,2ry, of Stanhope, Bart. Lord Advocate of Scotland. The Hon. Robert Dundas, oft tville, M. P. - 'Sir 'John ShiclaiF, of Ulbsier i Bart. M.P, Sir John M'Gregor Murray, of Lanrick, Bart, - Brigadler-Gtnerai Dirorn, of Mount 'SLIM -Charles Nlackintosh, Es 4. , • . • • Letters Were received .in Glasgow Ant- week, dated Madeira, 26th. November, from the Master of two of the Clyde Vessels which sailed'sOm 'Cork on the 28th of 06.tober. There were at that time at Madeira the following Clyde Ships : Hope, Clib, Hero, Belize, Irmelinia, and Chard. The General _Hunter was said to be with the Fisgard. These letters state, that 15 Sail of the African Fleet, under cOmmy of the Lark, had been taken by the Roche , fort Squadron ; the Lark escaped. They also add, that six of the Cork Fleet had been taken ; but we hope that this is a mistake, as one of the letters men tions the Ardent and Ajax in the number 3 which Ships we know, from Capt. LAKE'S letter, were with the Fisgard as late as the gth of December. According to the Russlau official account of the Battle of Austerlitz, only six Generals, five of wherri Were wounded, fell into the hands of the French. The Princes REP&IN, GALLITZIfv, and StRIIISKY, made .priseners, had none. of them at tained the rank of General. The first had Only the rank . of .Capiain ; the second commanded a squa drOn of the Imperial Guard ; and the latter was at the head of a battalion of Infantry:' When the Russians withdrew from the Austrian PrOvihees, they carried with them, according to a positive . statement . in the official repOrt, t wo pies of cannon. - The loss of only six stand of colours is admitted. The 'price of Bread remains the same as last week 4 • A foiltlGPv* INTELLIGENCE. ~.ntatuk, s. —:Count HAtioilTz eerta - aily Tarried with him to BOghl'AltT'S head-quarters proposals for a general Pacification, to be negotiated at the 'sate • time - , iii .iiOre continental City, not distant .from the Rhine ; but he was answered :by. tV.A..gYRAND, " that frani the .length of time re quisite to arrange the 'affairs Of ..Europe, previously to' the Treaty of. Munster, the Emper6r: of. tht French hael. determined, never to .put the fate 'of Nations; which . must always, Le determined by . If 'ar riors, Into the hands of DipleMatists and Plenipo tentiaries : that NAPOLtON the First wished :siiicerety for a general Peace, and that the Temple of Tama might be shut during the remainder of his reign; but, that he has resolVed .to negotiate with each of his foes separately, as the only means tti conclude Treaties as expeditiously as to , gain Vidories, dissolve Coalitions, :and finish Campaigns. - The Congress of Rastadt had besides shewn the impossibility to negotiate ert masse." A private Letter from Hamburgji, of the Bth, contains' the following paragraph : • " Yesterday BOURRIE4N E i PONAPARTE'S ErnissAry here, caused the whole editions of the French and German transla tions of " The Memoirs of Tallecrand," and of " The Female Revolutionary Plutarch," to be seized,_ and the Printer is still, in custody. Such is the oppression here, that a Bookseller who soli a ballad, in which the BON'AP ART E - Dynasty was ridiculed, has been fined one thonsandmarks, and condenmea to three months imprisonment. Theliarlieror of the French may (lease to tight Cabine'ts, but he Certainly will never be in peace with Printing-offices." Mi. DAN4SO.;I'S Letter in : our 'Paper of yesterday, forcibiy shows the folly of attending to anonymous charges and-insinuations. This Gentleman hai , been repeatedly urged by anonymous assailants to account for the money subscribed for a Naval Pillar, and these secret assassins of reputation endeavoured to make th e world believe that he had employed it 4 - Or own advan tage. If thesestabbers in the dark had thought proper to inquire, instead of accusing, they would haVe found that, as Mr. DAytsoN states, " the money received has been uniformly put out at interest for the benefit Of. the Fund and that if the matter his been otherwise, the Committee, and not Mr. DAVISON, would have teen responsible. "Oh ! shame, where is thy blush !" , Master BETTY'S Douglas, drew a very numerous Audience to Covent-garden Theatre last night. He *as Much applauded, but hot more than' CooKE, who gave a masterly portrait of Glenalvon, which is, indeed, one of, his very best efforts in the art. -The Miss 'SEYMOUR - Who has excited so much competition for Guardianship; is, according to all' accounts, 'a young Lady of the most promising ta lents, with an- extraordinary aptitud t e for those studies which arc calculated to embellish the' female cha raeter. If report may be trusted, CHERRY, in his new Opera of The'Travellers, will amply compensate.for his dramatic failure last year. Ile is '.much esteem.: ed by his brethren_ of the Sock and buskin, and' it may therefore be expeEted that they will do all they can to insure success.to his produCtion„ • ' An Irishman was lately brought before ..a Magi strate in the West of England, on a charge of having six wives. The Magistrate , asked him how he could be so hardened a Clain as to delude so many.- 7 . ir Raise_ your Worship, said , Pat, I - was . onlr try frig tb 'get a good one? • • , . Aa event has recently happened. which must be a source of considerable anxiety to the female world, - Not to keep our fair readers in suSpense, we have,tO afinourice the death of Sir Joint DINELY, the roman tic Amoroso of eighty, .who for ' many years offered his hand in marriage, through - the 'medium Of the Public Prints ; and who, acccrding to his own deserip. tion, was at ,the meridian of youth and leauty. It is said that a Certain Peer who has been divorced from his wife is so inuch in love with her, that he wishes to renew his vows of eternal Alelit? It is very seldom that real life presents a Sir Basiful Constant. • The Earl of CIIATI/Abi succeeds to tie Military Command of the Chelnisford District; and will im mediately make the mansion lately bought by Govern= went of Sir. H. MILDMAY his Head-quarters. The American Ship Maria, Captain H/GC4-14:5, which left Charleston so late as the 25th ult. is ar rived in the Rivet. The Papers received by this conveyance contain some severe animadversions on the condu& of Gen. AHMStIiONG, the Arrierican Mi nister at Paris, for Ilis:prddelietion in favour of France, evidently . disphiyed hi one of his Letters, on the sUbjea. of the Capture of an American Vessel by a French Citiiier; under . pretence of the Ship being a British bottom. .A. Vessel froth Virginia brings a repOrt of some iets of hostility having ac tidy taken place between America and Spain, and Of an English Expedition having . landed on the Coast of - Paraguay, in the River La Plata. These Transat lantic i•urnours, ho never, will ho doubt be received with due caution by the Public. • Two hien of genteel appearariee, about four o'clock yesterday : afternoon, knocked .at Airs. Wil kinson's d 16r in South Holton -street, and desired to look at ..the lodgings. Mrs. Wilkinson spewed 'them up to the first fioor;. , which was to lett: They - wanted to see thebed-room ;. the door being locked, they said, if they saw the second floor; they would 'be' able to judge of the size of the apartnient ; one of them - walked up stairs Mrs.Wtlkinson followed; and the other remained in .the, dining-room, :till companion' said,", lc' Bob; -vq don't you come when he ran up stairs after him. Mrs: Wilkinson hearing something jingle in his pocket, charged him, with having taken something out of the room, and laid hold of his coat. The man who went first. up ran by, and made 'his escape;, the other took three 'silver spoons and a pair of silver tongs out of his pocket, and laid them . down ; saying, " I have no- thing of yours." He then forced past Mrs. Wilkin son, ran down stairs, 'and made his escape i:ito Verrott's HOtel, tower Brook street, went into a rOorn w.liere a woman servant was sitting, and taking hold of 4 . cr by the arm, said; "get Me pen and ink !" Being frightened, she ran to call her master, Mr. Perrott; and, in mean time, he pulled off his coat, and.threw it under a bed in the room, and ran to the.street-door . to inquire what was the Ma tter- By this time a lodger of Mi-s Wilkinson's had reached the - daot, acid said, " you are the fellow !" he was accordingly secured, and taken to MarlbO roughstreet, and was committed for fiirthei e3tarni nation. He gave a very incoherent account of him oe' if, and - is supposed is lie an old offender., E'EDJTOROFTIES it SIR, I .have read; Withriut hutch pleahlre Or aptirob tion, the various accounts of Splendid Monuinenti and Pillars td. be erebed in demnieditiratioti of the, late Laval Yit9orieS. There seetuS to he a puerility in such plans; and I think they have. seldbm been adopted in any couritty till. its inhabitant had passed the acme of valour and: plain manly sentiment : and perhaps if this fancy is analysed it will be found to Oqrry along With It an idea Of reposing oUrselvet in satisfaCtion with what has been done, Vntlioui a hope of ever equalling it hereafter. Besides the aboVe considerations, the Very great waste of money, time; and labour; is an obvious and a weighty objeCtiOn. In London indeed, and some other great.towns,. there seems tO be mote of these than they know how to spend Or Make use of. It is very common; when one -finds fault; to ba asked if we have any thing better to propose. To be brief - then, Mr. Editor,--arid waste kid more of my own time, yriur's, Or that of the Ptiblic, my plan is; to let our Heroes, NELsorz and STRAcitAN; live in letters of oak, if we cannot trust to the hearty and memories of the present race and of posterity. To hearts of oak, perhaps, thisMotiument would be equally gratifying : I would propose, therefore; al a substitute for the Naval Pillars above-Mentioned; to lay out the money contributed - for them in pur chases of waste lands to toe planted with•oak, form 4 ing letters.and-words recording .these Viaories ; and I think it would be useful this idea were adopt ed_ by Country Gentlemen who have waste lands. The history might be short or long,' according to the' richness of the fund, Thus, NELSON and STRACHAN destroyed. nearly the whole Combined Fleets of France and Spain, anno 1805 ;" or" NEL SON and STRACHAN took twenty-three Ships of the Line, ilicc." or " NELSON'S Victory, anno 1805."--; A: shoat history of this kind would- read Well on a hill side, as one travelled along the country, and would greatly ornament many a - barren waste, MoreoVer it would look, Mr. Editor, as if we in tended, when necessary, to do so again ; and a Ship built 200 years hence from such a plantation would carry the memento along with it. - Should the above hint be taken,' it Would suffi ciently repay the trouble of- Jan.l7, 1806: SA RTi•gUS; SURREY SESSIONS: Yesterday Messrs. Fellowe. and, Tied eft . , p i a'itneri in rope manufaCtory at the Willow Walk, were: inditted for receiving half-a. torn weight -Of 11 r_flip; knowing the same tb , ire feloniOtisly stolen -frord the premises-.of Mes4is. Dunefin and .1 . -iayes, Whar iing,ers. ' ' . The- principal 'evidence- against the .Defendanti was John King, a confidential foreman in the service of Messrs., Duncan and :Co. ThiS •-man' stole the. propertY; and, in.:consequent* of confessing the, robbery to, his employers, - Was not. prosecuted. He stated, that in August.lBo4 he hada quantity-of heittp . under his charge at IfayeS'SWharf, whia..lQ- Id2iggd to Messrs. Forster and Co. The Defendants were in the habit' 'Of purchasing hemp, and in the rhorith of July "Mt. Fell Owes the - witness" at a public fiouse, where they occasionally met,.and ask ed him if he had a small quantity of hemp to dispose . of . The-.witness said he had, and, itFellows would send a call to Hayes's Wharf, he should have They agreed :about the price. Mr. &Bowes was to'- give, 455, .a hundred for it, and he paid witness 81. and gave -a note' for 151. the balance.—A cart Was accordingly sent in the morning at eight o'clock, and the hemp was thro'vn openly into it from the loft; after whiCh it*l.vas conveyed to the - Defendants' premises in the Willow -walk. It was not concealed;and went out Of the . wharf in the ordinary way, without any interruption from the - Clerk-of the Wharf, who had no knowledge of tile transaction.. On the 4th of August, in consequence' of a discovery that the hemp wa# missing, Witness' was discharged frOni the employ' =of Messrs. Dui , can and Co. He then confessed having stolen the property, and was suffered to go oft board a ship at Woolwich, 'and escape' a prosecution. Several Wit nesses corroborated the above statement; after which the Chairrhati observed there was no evi dence to implicate Mr. Beckett; and the Jury, with:. out hesitation , acquitted him. _ _ Mr. LAWES, as Counsel fdr the other Defendant, represented the transaction, as stated by King, to bd as honest on the part'of Mr. Fellow-es as possible.-- He described the Defendant to be a respectable trades man, who had bought the hemp, under a belief that King was the owner of it,. and conseqUently able to sell it. There had been no cdncealnient, or price given for it below its value. The Defendant had sent his cart in the face of day td fetch it aWay - , not supposing it had been obtained by the least act of dishonesty; and Under all the circuniStances of -the . case, be txp,resttil art assUrance that the jury would acquit the'Defehdarit, as they had done his partner. Mr; Serjeimt Orisscow; in gut - timing up the evi dence; Observed; that be was' enabled to say, ftor his knowledge of the price bf hemp, that the hemp in question had riot been purchased by the 'Defend _ant for less than its valbe ; and with respqt to the knowledgethat the property was stoitn, :it remained with the Inry to decide whether the evidence had ',applied td. that -point: The Jury pronounced the Lefendant--Airct Guilty. TueScEly last the sale of the. Courtney Estate, Which had lasted for several days, closed at the Corn mercial Coffee-house, Dublin, when the amount . of the different purchases appeared to be upwards of 2cio,boOli , . . , Ronnaltoti,".the historian ; Lays of• the keys of. Lochleven Castle , “ They were thrown into the - Loch; after DOUGLAS had dialed the escape of ( 7 1,UE& MART (Sunday, May 2, 1568)."---In the. Month of Oaober last, a boy, digging in the sands - near Kinras House, fetind the bunch of keys in a very decayed state. The Loch at that tirno was within narrower boUnds,'‘ on aecount of the severe drought: On Thursday morning early a duel was fought oa Mu§selburgh Sands, by kwo young Gent;i4men of Leith, in consequence of a dispute on the Monday preceding. They exchanged two • rounds without of e&, when the seconds interfered, and the matter Was adjUsted. The parties had bt.en watched on Tuesday and Wednesday by the' Police Officers, but they escaped their vigilance,