The Sun.
London, England, 1822-01-30 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SIIrPPING, &c.

DEAL, JAN. 29.—Wind N.W.—Arrived and sailed for the
River the Trafalgar, Waller, from Africa' ; Burr, limmerson,
from Galipoli ; and Sceptre, Nicholson, from Dublin. Came
down from the River the Olive Branch, Kind, for the Caps of
Good Hope; Henry, Quick, for Malta ; Curter, for
Jamaica ; and Bee, Mahan, for Naples; the two lattsr have

DARTMOUTH 4 JAY. 28.—Arrived the Elizabeth, Osentrag,
from Curacoa for Hamburg!), in 88 days, from ilamburgh,.
with loss of staucheons, bulwarks, bdats, and sails ; 2 men
washed overboard, and 1 with his leg broken.
r.ILMOOTH, JAli. 28 -- Wind N. W . —Sailed the Prince
Regent, Lodge, for Lisbon ; Robert and Mary, Attwool, for
Waterford ; Nimble., Gale ; and Elizabeth and Catharine
Rumson, for Cork. ,

Mix.Fonn, Jaw. 27.--Arrived the Maria, Jones; from
Bristal for Liverpool ; on 23rd inst., in a fog, struck on a roc
near the 1-lolms, broke her keel, &c.; cargo discharging.
LYDD, JAN. 28. --Passed Dungeness on the 25th inst. the
.eiinerican ship Louisa, Smith, -102 days front Batavia for
Aninterdarn.

Po ter gmOu'r if, JAN. 29._—Wind W. N. W. --A rrived tie
Unity, il;artin, from Oporto ; Sisters, Bishop, from the Downs
for Barbadoes ; and New Albion, Critchell, from ditto liar
Trieste. Sailed the 'Vesta, Andrews, for Poole ; and Nils.,
Davis, for Plymouth.

The Rufus, Tam,
.from Liverpool for New York, put into
Halifax the 26th of"Decembef, w:th loss of foremast and very

ROYAL MILITARY ASYLUM.

QUEEN,souARE.--YeSterday Lieutenant-Colo.
tel WILLI NIsON, the Governor of the Royal
Military Asylum, Chelsea, came to this office,
attended by the Adjutant belongincl to the In—
stitution, with two hackney-coaches, both of
which were loaded with bread.
The Lieutenant,Colonel stated, that the establishment to
which he belonged was supplied with bread by contract at a
certain price, in which contract it was agreed that the best
wheaten bread should be supplied, .and of the legal weight_
The last contractor who supplied the Asylum was twice con-
victed of selling bread to the Institution short of weight, and
was at last deprived of the contract. The present Contractor
had agreed to supply the best bread, and he prornind it
should never be deficient of weight. For some time the breed
which he supplied was full weight ; but lately it was found to
be not only of bad quality, but considerably deficient in weight;
and that morning about 200 quartern loaves arrived at the
Asylum, which on being weighed were found to be from six to
twelve ounces each, on the average, deficient.
dr. RAYNESFORD, the sitting Magistrate, ordered the ht eal
to be brought into the office, and the officers weighed in—The
Act of Parliament requiring that the loaves should be weighed
within twenty-four hours after they were baked ; out of the
whole, one hundred and twenty-one were found to have been
baked within the time. They were separately weighed ; some
were as much as twelve ounces deficient, and very few less than
five or six ounces. There was a deficiency of six hundred and
seventy ounces in the one hundred and twenty-one loaves.
Mr. Samuel Till:, baker, of High-street, Mary-le-bone, the
contractor, was sent to by order of -the Magistrate, ar.d
in-
formed of the :circumstance ; he immediately attended, and
begged Colonel Williamson would act with lenity towards
him, and not go for the penalties which he had forfeited by
the deficiency of weight. In extenuation of his offence, he
said that he had a silver plate in his head, andliad left the
baking to his men, who had overbaked the bread and spoil-
ed it by scalding the yeast. It was not his fault, but the
fault of his men, two of whom he had punished at Marlbo-
rough-street Police-office lately for spoiling his bread.
Colonel Williamson said, that the present was not ele
only instance of bread of short -weight being rent to the
Asylum. The bread sent to him on Monday, and also to the
Adjutant, was fOund to be seven and nine ounces each loaf
short of weight. In the present case he had no alternative,
it was an offence against the public; and, on the part of
the public, he felt it was his duty to prosecute the Wait to
conviction.

Mr. Ralnesford said, that a deficiency of near fifty pounds
of bread in one batch could not have arisen from accident;
but the deficiency having been ascertained, it was for C010n,21
NVilliamson to determine whether he_ should prefer an inter.
oration: if the Colonel did so, be felt it to be his duty, setirlg
that the offence was against a public establishment, to re-
ceive it.

The Colonel prefe,red the information, by which penalties
amounting to near 401. will be recovered, should a conviction
take place. The case will be heard to-morrow, before the Beric
of M agistrates.— ( Morning Paper.)

inn') Frith.—On Tuesday last, about seven
o'clock in the evening, the servants of 111 r. Daniel Lynch,
druggist and apothecary, at the lower end of Niarket-Street,
were by direction ele4ning out the warehouse cellar, under his
shop, and had in the course of their duty to remove a ten-gal-
lon spirit of turpentine bottle. The bottom of the basket was
decayed by dump, and in lifting it the bottle unfortunately fell
through, and was broken. The vapour which issued ignited from
the candle used, and in an instant the whole of the cellar was
enveloped in flame. Mr. Lynch, who was at this fearful period
engaged at his counting-house desk, which is situated over part
of the cellar, endeavoured to save his books; but hearing the
voice of Mrs. Lynch below, who had in a moment, with ad-
mirable presence of mind, rushed down with a wet blanket to
try to check the flame, he hastened to her. and by his interfer-
ence probably saved her life and the lives of those about her, as
it was with great difficulty they were extricated from their very
perilous situ ;.ion. The tire now raged uncontrollably, and the
valuable stock in the cellar and first story were quickly destroyed.
Engines arrived, but no water could he got, the plugs of the,
IVaterworks Company being immovable from long disuse. In
this dilemma, the good offices of Messrs. (-loather and Paden,
calenderers, in the New-Market, were gratefully accepted. By
the power of their steam-engine they raised large supplies of
water, and sent all their men to assist their distressed neigh-
hour. By these means the upper part of Mr. Lynch's housc
was saved, and it is very likely the whole of the circumjacent
valuable warehouse property filled with heavy stocks of manu-
factured goods.—(Manchester Chronicle.)

BARNSTAPLE, JAN. 22.—The bellman has just
been round to inform the inhabitants that there
is good beef selling at lid. per pound, and fine
wether mutton at 2d. I have been to see it, and
it is very prime.
A fire broke out about half-past eight yester-
day evening, in a house of ill-fame, No. )2, Gar-
lick-hill, which shortly reduced it to a heap of
ruins, but was prevented by the activity of the
firemen from injuring the adjoining buildings.
An Inquest was held last night on the body'of
Joseph Franklin, butler to the late Admiral Sir
Benjamin Caldwell, who put an end to his exist-
ence by cutting his throat with a razor on Friday
morning last, at the house of Mr. Inwson, No.
2, Union-street, Berkley-square ; who proved
that the deceased had been very low and des-
ponding for some time, and having ruptured him-
self by lifting a chest of plate, and being com-
pelled to leave his situation in the family of
a Nobleman, he grew very melancholy, anti
though he possessed property, his gloomy pros-
pects of the future affected his intellect, and in
a deranged state of mind he cut his throat, and
was found weltering in his blood in his bed room.
Verdict—" Cut his throat in a fit of temporary
derangement."

THE MA RKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE, JAN. 30.

Having but few buyers of Wheat at Market this morning,
the sales were very heavy, but the little that was disposed of
was at Monday's prices for prime samples, but there was not
the least demand for the inferior qualities, of which the supply
this week chiefly consisted. A large quantity of Barley re-
mained over from Monday's arrivals, which met exceedingly
dull sale, at a decline of Is. per quarter. The Oat trade was
heavy, and rather cheaper for the inferior qualities. In Beans
and Peas there is no alteration.