The Sun.
London, England, 1806-06-11 00:00:00

CUSTOM HOUSE.

THE Bill for abolishing Fees -received by certain
Officers and other persons employed in the service
of the Customs in the Port of London, and fur re-
gulating the Attendance of Officers and others so
employed, has been printed.---The following are
the principal, Clauses : •

No fee or gratuity to be taken by certain Officers and per.
sons therein descrihed, and employed in the service of the
Customs in the Port of London.

Any'Officer or person receiving any fee er gratuity, to be
disinissed tor the first offence. _

The Att however, not to prevent such Officer or persons
from receiving their 'shares of seizures, penalties, and com-
positions, or any allowance or reward from the Crown.
Compensation to' be made to -those Others .and persons
who may suffer by the abolition of fees.
Oath to be taken by certain persons at their admission to
any of the Offices or Employments described in Table s(',
No holidays to be obserVed at the Custom House in the
Port of London, except Sundays, Good Friday, Christmas'
Day, arid the Fasts ordered by Proclamation.
Hours of attendance for'Cjflicers and persons ern p loyed in
the service of the CustbMs -in the Port of London, to be
eight in the morning in winter, and nine in the summer, to
four o'clock in the afternoon.

,Cointnissibners of the Customs may direa and entbrce
the attendance of •any Officer or person employed under
them, at any time that the public service 'shall require.

The following miraculous and providential escape
from impending destruaion may be depended on as
a faa

On Wednesday, the 21st of May, as Capt. Joxy.s,
of the Royal Flintshire Militia, quartered at Hythe,
who had that morning accompanied the Regiment to
.field exercise on the Heights, near Folkstone, was
Standing, with several of the Officers, near the edge
of the Cliff, the earth suddenly gave way under him,
in consequence of which he was instantly preCipitated
for the distance of twenty-eight yards, in an oblique
diredion, from the top; but was most providentially
stopped in his fall by a small abutment on the surface
of the rock, against which his foot accidentally struck.
In this dreadful situation 'he lay suspended near a
quarter of an hour, without daring to move, before
any effedual 'assistance could' be rendered him.—
Scarcely, however; had this distreSsing circumstance
occurred, when THOMAS ROBERTS, a private in the
Regiment, alarmed at the truly perilous condition of
hii Officer, endeavoured, at the obvious risk of his
own life, to extricate him ; but, in the attempt, lite-
rally fell from the top to the bottom of this tremen-
dous precipice, being adistance of 549 feet, of which
264 feetwere quite perpmdicular. Providentially, the.
man, in his rapid descent, did not touch the Captain,
who, anxious to save him, had already extended his
hand to_him for that purpose. During this interval,
a rope was expeditiously procured .from the Signal-
house, and a noose being made at one end, it was
lowered to the spot where Capt. J. still lay; when he,
With much difficulty, succeeded in fastening it round
his body, and was thus gradually drawn up the fright-
fril steep by the speetator, 'who still, for some time,
doubted,the possibility of rescuing him : he, how-
ever, at length happily escaped, without having sus-
tained any material injury. The soldier, though
terribly' cut and bruised on the head' and various parts
of his_ body, was taken up alive, and without a single
bone being fradured, on the beach, near a large stone
quarry, and immediately conveyed to the Regimental
Hospital at Hythe, where, to the utter astonishment
of every olie, he is now able to walk about, and is
declared by the Surgeon of the Regiment out of all
immediate danger.
The height of the Cliff, having since been accu-
rately taken by an Officer of the Regiment, is Ibund,
by adual admeasurement, to be as tollows, viz.

Oblique distance of Capt. loNes's tall Feet 84
Perpendicular height horn the above point, downwards 261
Remainder (again oblique) to the base - - zoo

Total

Lately four Frenchmen, 'supposed to have been
Prisoners of War from Portsea,, or some other place
in Hampshire, took a small boat, used for the pur-
pose of carrying fishermen to their smacks, at. Wor-
thing, and put off to a pleasure-boat lying at anchor
a little distance from the, shore, which they imme-
diately boarded, turned the small boat adrift, and set
sail for the opposite coast, which, it is supposed, they
reached in satety,"aS they were pursued by another
boat as long as the crew of the latter thought it safe
to continue the Chace.

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By Mr. WHITE,

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_ _

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