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in the Port of St. Ices. The crew have been saved, with the exception of the Mate, who, it appears, _ was drowned .by imprudently gettiag into the main rigging : and the greater part of the cargo having been landed, it is confidently expected that the vessel wily be got off with very little damage. It ought. to be generally known to seamen, that vessels driven into St. Ives Bay by violent North-Westatly winds, may escape a destruction that appears almost inevitable, by running upon the beach, where the brig now lies. It is easily distinguished by being to the westward of the opening of Hayle harbour, and directly under the Sand hills, where Lelant church tower stands ; it is, in fact, " dead to leeward," in the winds alluded to ; a circumstance which induces mariners to avoid it, and, keeping their wind as much as possible, with the hopeless prospect of teaching the pier, they perish either upon the rocks, or steep sand; iu the western part of the bay. As often as accident or local knowledge has throWn the vessel upon the beach in question, the lives and cargo have been saved, and the-ship but little damaged. Yesterday a Court of Directors watt held at the past India-house, when the under-mentioned tch►ng were thus stationed, viz.:— For Bengal and Bence , "len.—Northampten, Capt C. Teb butt; and Lord Keith, Captain J. Freeman.. For Ben - 01 an , ' Bombay —Henry Percher, Captain J. P. Anstice ; and Fairlie, Captain T. E. Ward. For Bombay direct.—Lady Lushington, Capt. T. Dormer.' . . . The following Captains were sworn into the tommand of their respective ships, viz.:— Lady Lushinrton, Captain T. Deriver; for Bombay direct. Henry Poreher, Captain J. P. Anstice, for Bengal and &mbar. Yesterday the dispatches were closed at the East India-house, and delivered to the Pursers of the following ships. viz. : Canning, Captain W Patterson; and Thomas Coutts, Captain W. Matioribanks, for Bombay and China. Passengers per Canning.—For Boni hay—Messrs Harding lOW Lewis, and Major-General .1. Bailie. P.issengers per Thomas Coutts.- . —Forßombay—Mrs.Alrares Vad family ; and Mr. J. R. Duncan. • COMMERCIAL. The business done in Sugar yesterday was very renerat ; the purchases were to the extent of )600 itbds. chiefly good Sugars. The prices were little varied; in one or two instances flue parcels were disposed of at rates a shade higher. In the kftued Marker art advance of Is. a 2s. took place, knd considerlble purchases were made at the im- Ptovement. The purchasers wished to secure eoods Itt the former prices on account of the news from the %Vest Indies ; and as the supplies at market were trivial, the prices immediately advanced.— The wholesale grocers purchased considerably ; Lunps. and Loaves were in request for crushing lint melting. In Foreign Sugars there was no business doing. On account of the alteration of the import duty, which will take place early in January, the Sugar market will continue open this- week. to consequence of the last letters front Peters timer, of the 28Th ult. mentioning the severe set ting in of the winter, the purebasersof tallow took the alarm, and the prices rose 4s_ per cent higher. Th e demand for flax was also more extensive; the Prices yesterday may be stated 21. per ton higher, end rather a brisk sale at the •advance. , -Hemp is 4 130 in more request ; the priers 4 shade higher. 1 :1 , e iniports this year from the Baltic are more limited than usual, owing, it is stated, to the ex tensive purchases wade by other nations, particu larly by America. , The prices of Oil are again higher. The 4 olders were yesterday asking higher rates, with *very probaloility of obtaining them ; for Green tithd 60t. is demanded. Cod Oil is higher; the Ic e fire at Newfoundland having destroyed a con tklerable proportion of the expected supplies, and it ve sse l-, with a considerable parcel on board, has hee n lost on the coast of France. The opinion entertained that Rum would be al towed in France, appears entirely abandoned, and the market basin consequence become heavy. There a te, however, few sales, as the buyers still antici. Pate a further decline. Brandies„ from the very Svc supplies, and from the firmness of the Wders, on account of the trivial stock, continue 10 advance. In Geneva there is no alteration. The Annual Meeting of the Society of School liasters was held yesterday at the Crown and dials. Tavern, the Bishop of CARLISLE in the quill% It appeared from the Treasmiter's Report, drat the Funds of this excellent Establishment I sete rapidly improving, and its beneficial purpo se s s i ncreasing in proportion. The Bishop of CAR 'ISLE, in a speech of extraordinary merit, point • out the great utility of the Institution. advert lt,d to the high respectability and importance of instruction of youth, and expressed his earnest ; 4 13e that both hint and his worthy Colleagues, he Presidents and Vice-Presidents, would, in heir elevated situations in the Church, " always t'amember with gratitude the place from %%hence t i'eY started." THEATRICAL A NNOYANCE.—YesteRhy the Ma- Iltrates of Bow-street were called on to investi klite one of those improprieties which belong to e miseries of social life, and by which the fre ikleutcrs of our Theatres are annoyed from even. 4 g to evening. It appeared, that on Monday (;entleman and his daughter were seated 1 a box on the first tier in Covent-Garden flie ltre, when he found it nisell much inconvenienced Y a Lady, then sitting behind them, who pushed : e l' knees against his bark, and goaded him in ‘ titer ways. R emons tr a nce was employcd in vain, { 11 . 4 , in fact, was returned with abuse by the 41 I' assailant. The Gent IC,ltall now coolly rose, ?klled in Smith and Donaldson , the Officers, and 41 'e the offender in charge. Upon her way the Covent-Garden Watch-house, she struck ,Nith, and was detained about an hour , but WaS tilledby a Captain P--. She yesterday went tiow,,treet at about twelve o'clock, when she tt ributed bet misconduct on the preceding night I li;irtaiug too freely of Wine. After the Ma :trate had investigated time case, she was ordered find bail to answer the assault. THE THEATRE. The Shakspearean Compilation, brought forward on Monday at Drurv•Lane Theatre, under the title of Richard Duke of York,. was represented ng.tin last night. It has undergone much re trenchment, and was somewhat more effective in. its general operation. The character of King Henry, as it appears in the stage play of Richard the Third, appears so meekly amiable that w e regret to see him placed in a more humi liating and submissive point of view in this compiled tragedy. There is, indeed, a kind of meanness :bout him, compared with the heroic qualities of Queen Margaret, that is apt to throw its representative into a kind of abjectness. In justice, however, to Maywoon, it must be ac knowledged, that he displayed a kind of composed dignity and feeling that .softened this effect. KEAN made as much of Richard as the part admitted, and was at times powerfully energetic. We have seldom seen better acting, seldom, indeed, so good, as that of POPE in the dying moments of Cardinal Beaufort. There was an expression of horror, agony, and wild despair in his manner, that was most forcibly impressive. The previous part of the character he sustained well, but it is nothing in comparison with the last _scene in which the character appears, and it is impossible for that scene to be represented' with • a more faithful and affecting adherence to the author.— Mrs.Gt.ovita Is one of the very best comic actresses on the Stage, and it is greatly to her credit that she is able to appear to somuch advantage in a part so diffetent from her - usual style of acting as that of Queen Margaret. Styfolk was well performed by RAE, who gave the curses with strong and (Milking effect.—WALLACK's Word was spirited, but we conceive that the passage importing his having killed an unoffew'ing Child should be omitted, as it reduce. the Hero to a Savage. We were glad to find that the reforming topics of Jock Cade and his followers excited the laugh of 'con tempt rather than of approbation last night. There was a numerous, -but by no means a crowded audience, a.id the play was again well re , ceived. RETIREMENT OF WM. GRANT. ROLLS-COURT, DEC. 23. His Honour came into Court at 3 o'clock, and was occupied for nearly two hours in hearing petitions. He gave judgment in one case. As soon as he had finished, the Gentlemen of the bar bowed respectfully, they then all rose up, and Sir ARTHUR PIGGOTT, the father of the Chancery bar, thus addressed his honour : " Upon your retirement, Si r , f rom t h at seat o f justice upon which for more than sixteen years you have presided, the Gentlemen of the bar at tending this Court are desirous of expressing the sentiments with which they are impress,d neon an event of great regret . and concern to them, and upon which they are desirous of. expressing the unfeigned respect which you abundantly merited, and to which you are so justly entitled. The promptitude and wisdom of your dicisions have been as highly conducive to Lie benefit of suitors as they were eminently pro ductive of the general - administration. of equity. In the practice of your important and arduous duties you have exhibited an uninterrupted equa nimity, and displayed a temper ne v er disturbed, and a patience near wearied. You have evinced a uniform and impartial attention to those engag ed in the discharge of their professional dirties here, and who had the opportunity, and en joyed the advantage, of observing that eon duct in the dispensation of justice, which has been ccitspicuouslycalculatedto excite emulation, and to form an illustrious example for imitation. Accept, Sir, the cordial and sincere wishes of those wr-om you leave devoted to the labour of this place, that, with the gratifying reflection which will be the merited reward of so considerable a portion of your life, so meritoriously -and exemplarily emplOyed, you may enjoy health and happiness in repose, on your secession from the bu s in ess an d l a b our , from the toil and anxiety of a painful judicial sta tion, to the importance and eminence of which you have, in so great a degree, and in so . distin guished a manner, contributed, and on which you have cast additional lustre." His Honour rose, was visibly agitated, and re plied to this effect : " It is impossible that I should rot be deeply affected by the sentiments expressed towards me by the Gentlemen of the bar. The favourable view they have taken of my conduct, and the kind wishes with which they regard my retirement, ex cite my warmest gratitude. The attention I have shown to them could not be greater than their own merits claimed. I have uniformly found the Gentlemen who attend this Court equally distinguished for learning in their profession, and fur the honour and liberality with which they practised it. The kindness, attention, and respect which I have always experienced from them affect me sensibly, arid call for my most cordial thanks. Their conduct towards me since I had the honour to preside in this Court, and the sentiments they now express on my retirement, I shall ever re member with gratitude, and cherish the remem brance as the sweetest solace of the remainder of my life. Gentlemen, farewell ! My best wishes shall ever attend you." While pronouncing the last sentence, his voice faltered, and he hurried immediately out of Court, struggling to repress his tears. The Gen- Heinen of t::e bar seemed greatly affected. The Court was quite crowded. All the King's Coun sel (except Mr. Leach), and the other Chancery Lawyers, were present. 'They were heard re marking as they retired, " We shall never again see such a Master of the Rolls." Letters from the Irish coasts state that great loss was occasioned by the storm on the 7th and Sal inst;tht. Last Sunday night, and on Monday, there was another storm ; and the Agent to Lloyd's at Poole represents it as most tremen dous. It was accompanied with the most awful thunder and lig-btain. FOR THE SUN; 67, Old Bailey, 23d Dec. o'olockf MR. EDlTOR,—lnformation has this moment been given me, that bills have been posted to day, announcing the re-publication of the Paro dies upon which I have been tried. Permit me t.a assure the Public, through the medium of pm. Paper, that I am much disgusted, and that I may, perhaps, be muehinjured in public estimation by this procedure. I have no intention of re-pub lishing those works in any other shape than in the Report of my Trials, which I am .preparing for the press, and wherein their appearance is indis pensible, as constituting. the ground of the prose cutions upon which 1 was acrinitted. I disclaim all knowledge whatever. of those bills ; and I de sire to add, that if I did not think it necessary that the Report k of my Trials should he upon re cord, I would not re-publish the Pa rodies at all. I shall never write any work of the-sarne tendency again ; and when I c ome to publish that Rep o rt, I shall feel it my duty most earnestly to exhort all my fellow-citizens to abstain from , narodying any part of the Holy Writ or the Service of the Church of England. 3 am, Sir, with great respect, Your obedient Servant, W. HONE. *** We readily insert the above letter, because it `shows a disposition in the Writer to respect the proper interests of Society, in a due regard for Religion, but the good sense which he displayed on his trials ought . to convince him, that Paro dies on HOLY IVRIT, however intended to be merely political, have a tendency to bring ridi cule upon the forms of devotion, if not Upon Re ligion itself, and we confess that we see no inqis pensible necessity for his republication of the .Pa rodies, as his arguments would have an equal ope ration upon the judgment if they were on►itterl, and then there would be no danger of inducing vulgar minds to treat sacred matters with levity, if not contempt. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, DEC. '23. OPERA-HOUSE.---.WATERS V. TAYLOR. The SOLICITOR•GENRRAL—My Lord, I have to request your Lordship, that a motion in • this case, which is placed in the Vice-Chancellor's paper, may be transferred to your Lordship's paper. When I-harne'llie case, I ant sure your Lordship and the : Gentlemen around me are fa miliar with it, from the rereated hearings which it has received. It' is, my -Lord, the case of Waters and Taylor, and my request is, thar this motion for the Receiver passing his accounts may he transferred to your Lordship's paper, and be heard to-morrow. The Logi) CHANCELLOR.-0, it is the Opera-, bouse. Really, Mr..SolieitOr-General, when such a case comes on the dose of the Sittings, when will it end ? If one gets into the Opera•huuse on the last day of the Sittings, don't'scehow we Can get out. The SoLICITOR-GENERAL,—I should think, my Lord, it won't occupy much time • to-morrow ; and I should tonglly hope your Lordship will order it to be put on the paper. The LORD CHANCELLOR.-111 hear it if I can but it 1 were to promise you absolutely, I should make a very foolish promise, for I bdieve the motions specially fixed for to-morrow would occupy at least three days. I know well the dif ficulty of getting rid of the Opera-house case w4en I . once hear it. But take your motion—l shall bear it it I can. DEED OF SEPARATION. DURAND V. TITLEY. This was an application for an injunction to restrain the defendant trout executing a judgment cbtaiued by him in an action of covenant tried in the Court of Exchequer, for giving validity to a deed of separation between the plaintiff and his wife. By the deed which was executed in th e ye ,r 1809, the plaintiff engaged to pay his wife 5001. a-year in the event of a separation, no dit fcrences beoveen them then exisiing, and the se paration not having taken place till eight years afterwards. - A temporary separation had indeed taken !dace during the interval, but the parties had been reconciled, and had several children subsequently. The present defendant, ,who was plaintiff ill the snit at lair, was the trustee to the deed, and now sought to enforce it on behalf of the wife, as she bad with tint wit from her hus band's residence, in consequence of his alleged infidelity. It was contended, that the judgment of the Court of Exchequer was erroneous ; that the deed was illegal and void ; and that it was the province of a Court of Equity to relieve against it. The LORD CHANCELLOR was strongly inclined to think that several of the decisions of Courts of Law, with regard to deeds of this nature, were wrong, and inconsistnt with the general policy of the law. He cotiid see no difference between a deed of separation agreed to unt'er such circum stances as the present, and one agreed to the first moment after the parties had left the altar at which their marriage was celebrated. These prospec tive instruments were calculated to produce dif ferences, and to cause the separation fur which they provided. The objection was less where the trustee covenanted to indemnify the husband, as in the case of the late Mr. ;Whitbread and Lord St. John, with . the determination of which, how ever, he could not agree ; for, by establishing the deed in that case, it operated to make Mr. Whitbread, of whom he was always disposed to speak with respect, the supreme Ecclesiastical Judge between the parties. Still, as a judgment at law had been obtained, it was too late to apply for equitable relief, and the plaintiff must result to his suit of error. A boat with five persons Went out from Rot• tingdean to weigh anchor on the 17th inst. vbcn bile swamped, and all on board perisbcd. Crtfhi CON. JURY COURT, EDINBURGH, Dec. 15. KIRK V. GUTHRIE. This was the first action for Grim. Con. that -ver came before a Scottish Jury, and therefore it created a good deal of interest. Mr. SANDFORD opened the case as junior Coun sel for the pursuer. He stated that his client, who sued it: forma pattperis, was a private soldier in the Royal Ariilery, stationed at Leith Fort, and the defender was a Mr. Wm. Guthrie, a writer (attorney) in 1 - a'Atlinbuvgh, the year IRV, the pursuer, then a private in the Dumfries Militia,wes married to a girl named Elizabeth Cairns, who bore to him ttvo children. Having s (du:livered into the Artillery, he removed to Woolwich,- t a kin g his wife with him, where they resided together hap pily and affectionately for some time, when lie hav ing been ordered on the expedition to Walcheren, and nu woman having been permit Led to accompany the troops, his wife returned home to her parents in Scotland. After the return of the troops front Walcheren, the pursuer was stationed in different places in England ; during which period he and his wife corresponded In the most affectionate manner. and, in evidence of that, a letter of hers bad been produced, written in the year 1814, when the pursuer expected to have been sent on foreign service, and which was couched in the most af fectionate terms. In the beginning Of the year 1816, the pursuer was ordered to Scotland, where he !mind his wife in the service of the defender ; but he soon also found that her affevions . were totally alienated from bin : . In a s h ort time, from the information he received, he had no doubt that a criminal intercourse subsisted bet tveen her and the defender. She was in the practice of dining at the sametable,and ac,companving him to the thea tre--;.thi»gs totally incompatible, with the distance which ought to be observed between a master antl servant ; nay, he had been Observed to dine with her in'her bed-chamber; and upon One occasion, had' been seen lying in her bed. Upon another occasion, the door ofhis bed- room was found in the morning locked ; and, upon being opened shortly afterwards, the pursuer's Wife was observed to come out thinly dressed ; and evidence would be laid before the - Jury to give every reason to sus pect that she, in the latter end of the year 1816, had borne a child. Here was an injury committed by the defender, who was perfectly aware that this woman was the wife of the pursuer. But not satisfied with thus deeply hurting him in the, nicest feelings, he added another injury : the pur suer's wife having been denied to hint, he went one day to the defender's houe to demand access to her, when the defender came out, and, after knocking him down stairs,' added still a third injury, by writing a most false and calumnious letter to the pursuer's Commanding Officer. It was for these injuries that the pursuer now asked reparation at the hands of a jitry of his country. The issues sent by the Court of Session to be tried by the Jury were three :-Ist, whether in the course of the years 1814, 15, 16, and part of 17, the defender did seduce and maintain an adulterous connexion, and commit adultery, with the pursuer's wife ; 2d, whether the defender, being in the knowledge that the pursuer was the husband of Elizabeth Cairns, did violently assault and beat him, and deny him access to his said wife, then living in adultery with the defender ; and 3d, whether the defender did write the letter to the pursuer's Commanding Officer. The counsel tor the pursuer now proceeded to call, lst, witnesses to prove the marriage;• 2dly, that the part=ies, lived happily together; 3dly, that the putstietwas a steady, sober, peaceable, and inoffensive man. One of the most material witne•ses for the prosecution was the brother of the defender.himself. He gave evidence to the de fender being seen lying in Mrs. Kirk's bed, in which he was corroborated by the defender's ap prentice ; and he also gave evidence to the par ' suer's wile having been found early one morning in the defender's bed-room, with the door locked, the defender being in a . state of nudity Wt the time, except his morning-gown. A mmorr of other witnesses, some of then: females tAho had resided iu the defender's house, were called to prose that an improper connexion subsisted betwixt him and the pursurei's wife, which closed the case fur the prost•cution. Mr. jr.FFREY, with his usual flow of eloquence and ingennil, stated the case for tl,e defender, and commented upon the evidence which had been let!. Mr. Jeffrey impressed upon the Wilins of the Jury the improper conduct of tl e pursuer in leav ing his wife for a period of between 4 and 5 years, unprotected, with a family of two children; and if she had ;;one astray, he was solely the cause of it, lie contended, however, that the evidence was entirely circumstantial, and of. the worst kind ; there was no proof of the adultery having been committed. lie proceeded to call the de fender's witnesses. These consisted chiefly of the mother and sisters of the pursuer's wile, who swore that the pursuer had behaved badly to her before they left Scot. land ; and that since his return he had threatened the life of the defender. An attempt was al :o made ro prove that the defender did not know that the pursuer's wife was a married woman. Mr. J. P. GRANT, M. P. senior Counsel for the pursuer, replied to the arguments of Mr. Jeffrey. At l 1 o'clock at night, the LORD CHIEF COM. RIISIONER (Baron ADAM) proceeded to sum up.--- His went over the evidence at very con siderable length. The Jury having retired out of Court for about 20 minutes, returned with a verdict for the pur suer.—Damages, ;01.- , -The • trial lasted fifteen hours. SHQCKING SUICIpE-Tucsilay an Inquisition was taken at the ‘Vorkbouse. at Tooting, iu Surrey, before CHARLES JENMETT, Esq. Coroner for the County, on view of the body of Patin`' e Gunner, an eldetly Woman, between sixty end seventy years of age, who destroyed herself by fines ieting a wound or. her right side with a razor.- Verdict, " The deceased destroyed herself in a state of insanity.