The Sun.
London, England, 1830-02-01 00:00:00

BILIOUS AND LIVER COMPLAINTS.

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to remove most complaints occasioned by irregularity of
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MEMORIAL FROM THE MAGISTRATES

OF BERKS.

The Berkshire Chronicle gives the follow-
ing correct copy of the Memorial addressed to
the Duke of Wellington, by the Magistrates of
Berks ; together with the answer returned by his
Grace to Mr. Dundas

(Copy) Reading, Jan. 13, 1830.
MY LORD DUKE,—The Magistrates of the County
of Berks, assembled at the General Quarter Ses-
sions at Reading, venture to intrude upon yonr
Grace's attention, and to express the alarm and con.
cern they feel at the great increase of crime which
the discharge of their duties on the present occa-
sion has brought under their notice. They are un-
willing to attribute the melancholy circumstance to
any other cause than the almost unprecedented
state of distress under which all persons are at this
time suffering. They feel confident that this arises
chiefly from a general want of employment amongst
the labouring classes, consequent upon the depressed
state of agriculture and the trade. They therefore
trust that they do not exceed the bounds of their
duty, in earnestly entreating the serious attention of
your Grace and his Majesty's Ministers to the sub-
ject,' in the hope that some effective measures may
be devised for alleviating the distress which now
presses so heavily upon the country.—l have the
honour to be, my Lord Duke,
Your Grace's most obedient Servant,
CHARLES DUNDAS, Chairman.
To his Grace the Duke of Wellington, &c. &c.

ANSWER,.

(Copy) London, Jan. 16, 1830.
had the honour of receiving your letter
of the 13th instant, written as Chairman of the
Quarter Sessions, by desire of the Magistrates of
the County of Berks, assembled at their General
Quarter Sessions, to express the alarm and concern
which they feel at the great increase of crime, which
the discharge of their duties has brought under their
notice, which they are unwilling to attribute to any
other cause than the unprecedented state of distress
tinder which nearly all persons are suffering, which
they felt confident arises chiefly from the general
want of employment amongst the labouring classes,
consequent upon the distressed state of agriculture
and trade.

I will submit this statement, of the observations,
feelings, and opinions of yourself, and the Magis-
trates of the County of Bells, to his Majesty's
Servants.—l have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient humble Servant,
Chas. Dundas, Esq. WELLINGTON.

SHIPWRECK AND LOSS OF LIFE.-With
feelings of regret we record the death of Captain LYON,
of Boston, a man generally esteemed and respected, who
lost his life in the dreadful gale of last week; he was
master of the brig Aun, which has become a total wreck,
the Yorkshire coast. According to the account re-
ceived, we learn that on Wednesday night the Ann went
o I shore at Mapleton, four miles south of Hornsea, and
• ton after became a total wreck. Besides Captain LYON,
two of the crew, named HENRY HOCKFORD and ROBERT
Tsityrrr, were also drowned; indeed only the mate
escaped, and he states that he cannot describe how he got
on shore; he appears to be totally unconscious of whether
he was washed off by a billow, or floated on a spar. The
bodies of Captain LYON and HACKFORD had been found ;
the wreck was strewed along the beach, and the ship had
gone to pieces. The mate, who communicates these melan-
choly tidings, adds that there are four more vessels on slime
. near the same spot.--Lincoln .14rald.

The preparations . for the new edifice of King's
College are now considerably advanced, though.the
ceremony called laying the first stone has not yet
taken place, nor have we learned that the time. for,
that imposing affair has been fixed, or the personage
chosen upon whom the honour of the great deed is
to devolve. -;" The King, God bless him," has now
become a little too ancient for feats of that classr arid
possibly his Royal Highness the Duke of
.cyrnber-
land may represent Msjesty upon the Occasion.—
Since the 7tb- of last September, 306'llaCiietn "the
average nUmberscif men employed in e4tiViitihgtand
laying the footiAtions, the greater part-ssf‘wshieh are
DOW up to tW round level. For thoe• near the
t
Strand it bas' ' t been 'recess* to sink more' than
about six feet;: or more than fontteen ' even close
to the river. ',Like all building*Opon'a:dediVity,
one enctof the edi&pe would contain a much greater.
number of floors than the other, were it not arranged
that the more qacious, apartments are. to be at the
end of the building',. where the ground descends,
namely, nex :the river, and the rooms of le,sse(di-
mensions at .0
-north end. .. '._
-The hieh' shit . cifitei€ Will occirfr6isiiilitiht'
between 50,000 and 60,000 square feet. On the
south, it is bounded by the Thames, on the west by
the east end of Somerset-house, on the north by the
Strand; arid on the east by Strand-lane.
From north to south it measures about 400 feet,
and from east to west upwards of 150. Two
houses in the Strand have already been bought and
taken down, and, if insuperable obstacles do not
nresent themselves, possibly others may hereafter
be purchased. The contractor, Mr. Martin, has
merely undertaken for perfccinis what is technically
called the carcass—namely, the walls and roof, for
which he is to receive somewhat upwards of
60,0001., the work to be completed within three
years. • That time we should -humbly conceive
would be more than sufficient for all, even to the
most minute finishings of the interior, if expedition
were the object. Mr. Beckford, of Fonthill, would
get up such a building in half the time, even with-
out the aid of torch-light. But Mr. Marrin has
his full three years, and may proceed with all the
ecnnomy to which abundance of time is, in such
undertakings, so eminently conducive. It has been
proposed, we understand, to complete the interior
portion of the building, not by contract, but in
conformity with plans and specifications, the whole
being subsequently surveyed, the actual prices of
labour allowed, and also the trade prices of timber
and other materials, with a per tentage on the tim-
ber, &c., but not on the labour, to Mr. Martin, or
whoever else may be employed to superintend ; for
the conductors are not bound to that gesttyman be-
yond the mere contract for the carcass.
The site, as the reader must have already antici-
pated, precludes any exercise of architectural inven-
tion, or combination. It must be a fac simile of
the one wing of Somerset-house, or it cannot be
called into existence at all; that is, it must present-
to the river a short terrace and a pitiful little front of
80 or 90, or perhaps 100 feet, composed of an arch-
way, surmounted by a short colonnade of four small
Corinthian columns, not fluted, with an advanced
section of the building decorated with four pilasters;
and this, at best, is to be the grand point of " King's
College ;" for that which will run along the east
end of Somerset-house, is probably to be built in
conformity with the sides of the present quadrangle,
of which that edifice is principally composed; and
as it must stand in immediate proximity to Somer-
set-house, any thing like a noble or imposing effect
is totally out of the question. Though there will
be an entrance from the Strand, the spot occupied
by the two houses recently pulled down affords no
capabilities, as Brown would say; and thus the
whole architectural character of this great national
and metropolitan edifice is, its being a copy of an
unfinished wing of Somerset-house ; anti its splen-
did triumphs dwindle into being nothing more or
less than the new wing of that building. This ob-
servation is made from no feeling of hostility to the
principle of the estaLlishment, and none can be more
willing than we are to admit how highly desirable
is that Somerset-house should be completed, but
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the mere adjunct of a set of Government offices is
not the sort of habitation in which the men who
have lived in Oxford or Cambridge, Edinburgh,
Dublin, or even Aberdeen, would expect to see a
British University located.
To the particulars given above, there remains
little further to be added, except that the estimated
saving effected by avoiding land carriage of mate-
rials, owing to the proximity of the river, will not
be less than 5 per cent. upon the whole expendi-
ture. There are but three varieties of stone used—
Portland, Yorkshire, and Scotch granite. The
average number of masons employed is about 25,
but more than SO or 100 will soon be called into
activity. There are 47 bricklayers engaged.at pre-
sent, and their number also will be speedily aug-
mented. Much of the carpenters' work is done on
Mr. Martin's own premises, but 12 or 13 carpenters
are generally employed on the ground itself, with a
few smiths and other artisar s. The payments average
300/. weekly, and the ultimate cost of the whole
building will probably not be less than 250,000/.
May it proceed and prosper, producing all the good
which' its warmest advocates promise, and escaping
the failure and misfortunes which its enemies, if any
it can have, may possibly predict.

In consequence of the state of the rocls, the
time of the arrival of the stage coaches that pass through
this city, has become quite a matter of uncertainty ; and
by the provincial papers it appears to be the same through.
out the kingdom. It is worthy of notice, that although
some of the coaches have been six or seven hours behind
time the Liverpool Mail has seldom lost more than half an
hour.—Lichfield Mercury.

The Calendar for the ensuing Wilts Lent As,
sizes, contains already the names of 70 prisoners for trial
many of whom are charged with very serious offences.—
Bath Herald.

WALES.--Rather an extraordinary occur-
rence has taken place at Llangollen, in the county of Den-
bigh, between a Jack Tar and a Knight of the Whip, on
a curious question, viz. which of the two had the best
claim to a spouse, both husbands being living? It ap-
pears that about the year 1818, a Cambrian lass being in
service at Liverpool, and not before able to judge of the
power of a first rate man-of-war, she after a short en-
gagement was persuaded to bear to, and be made his partner
through life. But, in the course of a few months, Jack
was " called to sea again," and did not return until after
the late battle of Navarin, and being then paid off at
Portsmouth, he took an inland cruize in pursuit of what
he termed " his own." But on arriving at Llangollen,
and making his demand (it being late at night), he found
that his rib had deserted her pledge, and taken shelter un-
der the protection of the Knight of the Whip ! Tick was
not to be outdone in a hurry; for he had not forgot the '
command of the kite Lord NELSON, at Trafalgar, that
England expects every man to do his duty.' He there-
fore immediately attacked the enemy, caused him to re-
treat through the hatchway with the loss of ammunition,
accoutrements, &c. and took possession of the female with
whom he had endured such a short campaingn. .Poor
Jack had not remained with her long before he ascertained
that his vessel bad borne the Knight of the Whip two
izes (children), which be could not deprive him of. Jack
was hauled to account for the engagement—When after a
fair and impartial investigation, he was declared to be the
conqueror,, carrying with him his prize, to the great
i grief,
and mortification of the Knight of the Whip, who s left
behind to bewail his loss--:Shrew,iburp Chronicle.; •

LIEUTENANT-COLONELS,—J. Nuthall, East India Com-
pany's Service, Reigate ; Knox, ditto ; Fitz Gerald, ditto,
bath ; Sir J. Monant, Bart., ditto, on bored the Prince
Regent, on passage to England ; B. Stewart, East lia
Company's Service; Nation, ditto, Cawripore ; Taylor,
48th Foot, Bellary ; Reh; half-pay, 4th Line German
Legion.-
Masons—Spottiswood, East India Company's Service;
Taylor, Royal.. Artillery, Woolwich ; Marlay, half•pay, 83d
Foot.; ;T, Otutsay Cave, half-pay, Unattached, London.
GtovnlNs—Fead, late Ist Royal Veteran Battalion;
Lucas, late 2d Royal Veteran Battalion, Torquay, Devon ;
Kenyon, half-pay, 25th Foot (formerly 2d Life Guards),
Brandon, Suffolk; Stewart, half7Pay, 61st Foot; Wall,
half-pay, 4th Foot.
LIEUTENANTS—Myhie, 92d Foot, Jamaica; Ball, 83d
Foot, Malta; Milligan, half-pay, Unattached (late Rifle
Brigade); Meheux, Royal Marines ; B. Gascoignei
half-pay, Royal Marines.
SECOND LIEUTENANTS AND ENSIGNS-r-KiEllOCh, half-
pay, 52d Foot ; Dusautoy, Royal Marines; Cornish, half-
pay, Royal Marines;; French, half-pay, Royal Marines;
Koch, ditto; Prytberch, ditto; M'lllireach, late Bth
Royal Veteran Battalion, Porchester ; Huntly, half-pay,
Cape Rc fer of Good Hope. • . . •
21st
AiverrAter-Eastiff:lialf-:pay,
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QUARTER-MASTERS-Graham, late 6th Royal Veteran
Battalion, Ayr, North Britain; Bruce, half-pay, Rox-
burgh nneibles.
VETERINARY SU RG EON—BIOXIIatTI, Lite Ist Life
Guards, Eton, Windsor.
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SURGEON—IIPAdams, half-pay, Calais.
N. B. The death of Wi liam liannagan, Esq., on the
half-pay of the Irish Commissariat, was erroneously in-
serted is the Army List for last month.