The Sun.
London, England, 1830-06-17 00:00:00

ABDUCTION BY THE MOORS.

The following is a copy of a letter intended to be sent
from the Navy Board to the masters of all transports and
freightships bound up the Mediterranean. The Highland
Lad therein mentioned arrived at Corfu on the 2d ult. :
" Information having been received that Mr. Hill, an
officer of the Ordnance Department, who was proceeding
to Corfu as passenger in the Highland Lad, having
landed on the Moorish coast near Cape Spartel, while the
ship was becalmed, was immediately surrounded by the na-
tives, and carried away into the interior of the country,
this is to c rution you, in case you should have occasion to
go near the coast of Morocco or of Barbary, generally,
never to land on the open coast, nor to allow your crew to
land, nor to furnish boats to passengers to go on shore.
"...By command of the Commissioners of the Navy,
" G. SMITH•"

According to the Dublin Papers Miss
PATON and Mr. WOOD are to make their appearance in
that city on Saturday next. Madame VESTRIS has been
prevented, by indisposition, from fulfilling her engagement.

In addition to what was stated last week, we
understand that upon the Currency Question the Tories
will cordially co-operate with Lord GREY, and that both
parties, as we indeed then intimated, are firmly resolved
to watch with a wary eye the proceedings of the Govern-
ment, checking them wherever their measures may appear
to be wrong. The Tories will rally together, and form
what the Duke of RICHMOND on a late occasion termed
" A Country Party," acting as an organiz body, adhering
together, and determined to hold the balance between all
others. This result will; we are sure, be highly satisfac-
tory to the country; and we are happy to know that they
will constitute a body sufficiently powerful in numerical
strength, as well as in the moral influence of political in-
tegrity and sound talents, effectively to maintain the po-
sition of arbiters. On the Greek question, the course
which we pointed out last week, is fully settled and de-
termined upon.--Brighton Gazette.
FATAL EFFECTS' OF INTOXICATION.—
The entertainments in the neighbourhood of Bannock-
burn, in honour of Mr. RAMSAY, of Barnton, having at-
tained his majority, had a very fatal termination on Sa-
turday. His workmen at Bannockburn Muir Colliery and
the Sauchie and Craigend people having united, to the
amount of 500, met in a sequestered field, called the
Dovecot park, where was the carcass of an ox, 40 stone
weight, revolving on an enormous spit, which four men
were turning like a windlass between two large fires of
glossy charcoal. The ox had been put to the fire at nine
o'clock on the previous evening, while relays of men had
constantly relieved each other in turning it. Four half.
hogsheads of porter and If.x of strong ale, with about 60
gallons of whisky, had been also provided for the feast.—
Pitchers of whisky, mixed with strong a'e and porter,
were distributed, along with slices of beef and bread, to all
and sundry. In the course of a couple of hours, the po-
tent liquors, quaffed by the multitude, strewed the green
with the victims of gluttony and intoxication, and before
sunset many had been removed in carts. On the roads
from Bannockburn-mull, in every direction, people were
found lying perfectly helpless. One man relates that be-
tween Bannockburn and Stirling, •he loosed the neck-
cloths, and placcd in e'evated positions, no less than eight
individuals who were evidently in danger of suffocation.—
Indeed, it could not be well otherwise, when the lads and
lasses of the neighbouring villagers were furnished, ad
libitum, with mingled strong ale and whisky. On the
Sunday morning parties were out in all directions looking
for relatives and friends, and removing them from the
highways, that they might not be observed by people going
to church. The effects of this disgracfeul drinking were,
that three individua's have lost their lives in consequence ;
not to mention several others who have narrowly escaped
a similar fate from the same cause, having been obliged to
be repeatedly bled, and afterwards attended by medical
men.' Among the incidents, of another and more pleasant
descriptien, we may mention the following :—A stout
healthy wife, in the vigour of life, took such an active
part in the convivialities of the day, that she was at last
fairly overpowered by John Barleycorn, and lay prostrate
on the ground. Some-friend took care to put her into a
cart, conveyed home, and put to bed. After tossing about
for some time, she fell sound asleep. When she awoke she
had become, quite unconsciously to herself', the mother of
another "thualpia' wean. Scotch Paper,