The Sun.
London, England, 1831-08-09 00:00:00

SIR E. coDRINGTON'S FLEET.

PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 8.---The Pantaloon ketch, Duke
of Portland, left the fleet this morning about twelve
leagues from nunnose, going eastward. 'the Pantaloon
had no communication with the fleet.

The Britannia, NO, will sail to-morrow morning, to
join the fleet in the Downs.

The Experimental Squadron, consisting of the Tweed,
20, the Victor, is, and theldOn and Clown, ar-
rived this day ; Pantaloon a-head of the Tweed about
three hours, and a-head of the iticior eight hours. Very
light winds, or there would not have been such difference.

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At SPITII EA Tweed, Victor, and Recruit yachts,
Pantaloon and Harlequin.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)
HAY MA it K ETS.—(At per Load of 30 Trusses.)
CU M BERL AND (LATE ST. JAMES'S.)
Coarsc. heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 10 to £2 15
New Meadow Hay 3 5 3 10
Useful Old Ditto
Fine Upland Meadow and Itye-grass Hay 4 10 5 0
. lover Hay 3 5 5 5
Oat Straw £1 Sto£l 10 I Wheat :q.,atv... 114 1 1(1
Clover Hay 5s , and Straw 45., per load lower than last quoted ;
prices otherwise stationary. A moderate supply, and a dull trade.

SMITHFIELD. - - -
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 10 to £2 15
New Meadow Hay 2 10 3 10
Useful Old Ditto 3 0 3 10
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 10 4 5
Clover Hay (extra fine)...£s 10... Generally
1),,t Straw X I 6to £1 '8 1 Wheat Straw 1 12 1 14
Straw 2s. per load lower than last quoted ; prices otherwise
stationary. A limited supply, and a very dull trade.

CITY MARKETS.—(TWO O'CLOCK.)
SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation Sugars is
still heavy. The delivery last week from the West India
Docks was above 2,700 casks, and the stock there is
nearly 33,600 hogsheads and 3,300 tierces. Fine
Jamaicas are still quoted 525. to 565., and brown 15s. to
465. per cwt. In Foreign Sugars not much has been
done to-day. East India Sugars continue firm ; the de-
liveries of Mauritius are small. Refined goods still in de-
mand for export.
COFFEE.-The private contract for British Plantation
and Foreign Coffees is large. Good Middling Jamaica is
from 78s. to 83s. ; fine fine ordinary and middling 68s. to
775. ; fine Berbice, 86s. to 86s. 6.1. The consumption
of Coffee is increasing.

Rum.—The notice given by the Commissioners of the
Navy Board for the contract next month for 100,000
gallons of Bum, for the use of the Navy, has made this
market firm. The stock on hand, however, being con-
siderable, prices are not higher.

BALTIC PRODUCE.-Tallow is again heavy at from
40s. 3d. to 40s. 6d. per cwt. Hemp and Flax are firm.
The delivery of Tallow last week was 1,922 casks ; the
stock 33,000 casks. Hemp at St. Petersburgli was firm
at the last date.

Ou.s.—The accounts from Greenland have not altered
the market. Seal Oils meet a ready sale ; Linseed and
Rape are rather fiat ; Sperm is at 78/. ; pale Seal
311. 10s. ; Greenland at 32/. ; ditto, for arrival, 301. ;
South Sea Oil 28/. to 321. per tun. ; pale Rape 365., and
Linseed Oil 335. 6s. p( r cwt.

EAST INDIA SALES.-This morning the East India
Company's sales of Saltpetre and Spices took place at the
India-house, and, in consequence of the warlike state of
affairs on the continent, the demand for Saltpetre was very
active at advanced prices. The quantity of Saltpetre
offered was upwards of 300 tons, and the biddings com-
menced very actively at 41s. per cwt. An advance,
however, to 465. 63. per cwt. immediately took place,
and the average of the sale was ft-6m 455. 6d. to 465.
per cwt. ; refraction from to 2?r per cent. Upwards
of 3,000 bags of this article was announced for sale
this afternoon. The speculative demand is very great
as compared with the price of last Company's sale.
Saltpetre has improved from 7s. to Bs. per cwt., of about
1,200 bags of Blark Pepper, taxed at 2id. EN hags sold
at 3d. per lb. ; White Pepper went off at 54-4. to 5-;7-,d.
per lb. ; Fins Cloves at is. lld. to 2s. per lb. ; Nutmegs
were bought in (about 400 casks) at 3s. to 3s. 5,1. per lb.;
and Cassia Buds at from 60s. to 655. per cwt. ; of Cassia
Lignea, there were 400 chests, and all sold very briskly at
from 71s. to 725. 6d. per cwt. The Spice market is firm,
the attendance was very numerous.
The accounts from the Hop Plantations continue favour-
able, and the market is very' flat.
SILK.-The market is in a very depressed state, and but
little business doing.

CorToN—ls very firm, and more business doing.
Woor.s—Are also purchased readily, low qualities con-
tinue in brisk demand.

Great preparations are making to celebrate
the natal day of her illaJEsTv at Bushey; the whole
place will be illuminated under the direction of Mr. UN-
nEitwoon, of Fleet•street. The illuminations in town
be very general.

BEAUTIES OF THE COURT OF CHARLES 11.
—This work is intended as an Illustration of the Memoirs
of DE GRAMMONT, PEPYS, EVELYN, CLARENDON, and
other contemporary writers. It will be forthwith com-
pleted in five parts. The contents of the first part may
serve as a specimen of the whole. It contains an intro-
ductory view of the state of female society in CHARLES'S
time, of the dress and manners—of the progress of Portrait
Painting from VANDYKE to LAWRENCE—Of the Windsor
and Hampton Beauties, &c.—Portraits and Memoirs of
CATHERINE of Bragauza, the unhappy and slighted wife
of CHARLES—of BARBARA VILLIERS—Of Lady CASTLE-
MAINE—of the Duchess of CLEVELAND, daughter of Lord
GRANPISON, the termagant mistress of CHARLES—of La
Belle HAMILTON, Countess de Grammont, oue of the an-
cestors of the Jerningham family—of the Duchess of so_
merset, (Lady ELIZABETH PERCY) for whose sake Ku-
NisosmaaK shot Tom THYNNE in Pall-mall, &c. &c.

The other day a poor countryman was sum-
moned before the Magistrates of the St. Alban's bench for
arrears of poor-rate. On being asked on what ground lie
objected to pay, he innocently replied, " Lord bless you,
gentlemen, I have nogroundat all, mine's only a cottage.',
—Herts County Express.

TIT FOR TAT.-111 a town in Westphalia,
Germany, justice lately punished with 25 lashes, and
exposure in the pillory, a crime of a nature rather singular.
The culprit had stolen from the body of a Jew deposited
in the grave the dress in which he was buried, as usual
with that people. He had the impudence to wear this
dress in public a few days afterwards, giving as a reason,
"the rascal robbed the often while he was living, why
should I not take my revenge now he is dead ?"

A few Sundays since a simple-looking country
lad, to whose lot fell the leading question in the Catechism,
" What is your name?" replied, " Carrot! !" "Nyho
gave you that name " Why all the boys in the parish,
Sir !" whiningly replied the red-haired urchin.
" In England," observes Blackwood's Ma-
gazine, speaking of Captain BEECHEY'S Narrative of his
Voyage to the Pacific, " almost the first thought of youth
is the sea, and the first aspiration of boyhood to be a
sailor. Every thing that we read, or see, or hear, im-
presses on our mind the same feeling; and who cannot
remember being enraptured long days together over the
tales of strange, new scenes, and dangerous passages, and
wild adventures in ANsoN, VANCOUVER, or Cow:, and
having longed to see the beings of another world there
pourtrayed, or to wander through those sweet islands, in
that ocean happily called the Pacific ? Among such scenes,
where the living changes of the capricious tropics were all
that accompanied the vessel in her course—now blazing
around her in the lightning—now sleeping over her sun-
shiny track in the calm drowsiness of an equatorial day,
Captain BEECHEY'S Voyage was directed, and the account
of it is conceived iu the spirit of a gentleman, and written
in the plain and unaffected style of a sailor. This book
contains within itself much both to please and delight,
from the vast variety of different scenes—the excitement
of some—the splendour of others—and the rapid transi-
tion from extreme to extreme." We are glad to find that
a new and cheaper edition of this delightful work, in
octavo, has just made its appearance.
ROYAL AND NOBLE ROBBERS.—Towards
the end of the reign of Louts XIII., or at the commence-
ment of the following reign, GASTON, Duke of Orleans,
used to take pleasure, after having made a debauch, in
lying in ambuscade on the Pont Neuf, and robbing the
passengers of their cloaks. It is related, in the Memoirs
of ROCHEFORT, that this Prince and his companions having
taken during the night five or six cloaks from the
passengers, some of the persons robbed went and com-
plained. The police arrived ; at their approach the
Noble robbers took to flight. Among the Prince's ac-
complices were the Count WI:IA aconaT, the Chevalier de
RIEU X, and the Count de ROCHEFORT. The two last having
fled for refuge toward the statue of HENRY IV., climbed up
on his horse ; the Chevalier de RIEUX hii.,g frightened,
wished to get down ; he placed his feet on the reins of
bronze—they gave way under his weight—he fell, and
uttered cries which brought the police. The latter forced
him to get up, and obliged the Count de ROCHEFORT
who had stationed himself at the back of HENRY IV. to
come down. They were taken to the dungeons of the
Chatelet, from which they only got out by powerful in-
terest... Dr. Lardner's cabinet Library, Vol. VII..

LAW INTELLIGENCE- (THIS DAY.)

VICE- CHANC.ELL OR' S COURT.
ROPER, J. AIa.—INJUNCTION.

Mr. Et.u;;rot4 appeared tot an injunction, Tx-parte,
to restrain the defendant from collecting or getting in any
of the assets of the paitnership, and from dialling or ac-
cepting any bills of exchange, or negoelating those al-
ready drawn, for piirp2.seS Unconnected with the part-
. nership. From the affidavits it appeared that in Oc-
, tuber 182f1, the parties entered into partnership, agree-
ing each to advande the sum of 20001. ; the plaintiff ad-
vanced his proportion, bUt the defendant would not do so.
In May of the pre:ent yett• the plaintiff discovered discoVered that
the defendant had drawn several bills in the name of the
p .rtnership ; and on iemonstrating with the iiefendant
with respect to it, it was agreed to refer all matters
in dispute to arbitration, but the defendant broke his
filth on this point, and continued to drat: tAlls, which it
was the object of the present injunction to restrain him
from doing.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR inquired when these transac-
tions took place, and dtl being informed by Mr. Elder-
ton, since last May, his Honour ferusta to grant the in-
junctl-n withont notice being giVen.
To-morrow is the last day of his Honour's sitting pre-
vious to November. His Honour, *e understand, intends
to rise precisely at three o'clock, and immediately to quit
town by way of Maidenhead, where his Honour will dine
at six o'clock.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-.•(THIS DAY).

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, Au0.8.--Wi❑dN.N.E.—Arrived from the
river and sailed, the Latona, Tweedale, for Quebec ; and
Excel'ent, Green, for Demerara.
PORTSMOUTH, Ana. B.—Wind N.—Arrived the Bri-
tannia, from Pernambuco ; and his Majesty's ships Victor
and Tweed, from a cruize.

FALMOUTH, AUG. N.W. to N.N.W., fresh
breezes.—Arrived off port the Angerona, from Cephalonia.
BRIGIITON, AuG. B.—Eight o'clock, p.m.—Passed by
the fleet under Sir Edward Codrington for the Downs.
Arrived off part the Ganges, from Singapore.
HASTINGS, AUG. B.—Arrived off port the Maria Chris-
tiana, Frosberg, from St. Thomas; and Elizabeth, Moore,
from Demerara.

Cowts, Auc. S.—Arrived the Susannah, Dunn, from
Port-au-Prince ; and Galiton, Love, from Havannah.

LIVERPOOL, Auc. 7.—Arrived the Hope, Swan,
from Demerara ; Martha, Ellerman, from Antigua; Maria,
Yeaton, from New Orleans ; Fenwick, Higgins ; and
Northumberland, Mitchell, from Quebec ; Royal William,
Bishop, from Palermo. Off port—The John and Eliza-
beth, Mansfield ; Minerva, Rice; and Alciope, White, from
New Orleans.
STANOGATE CREEK, AUG. S.—Arrived the William,
Larrey ; and John and Jane, Whittle, from Archangel ;
Perseverance, Shields ; Ocean, Bales ; Captain Coek,
Stewart ; David Ricardo, Smith ; Tods, Black; Douglas,
Guest ; Sir David Milne, Hill ; and Vine, Ray, from
London ; Tomkin, from St. Petersburgh ; Caroline, Ben-
nett ; Friends, Liddle ; Isabella, Irving ; and Mariner, Ire-
land, from Riga ; Cora, Wooller, from Dantzic ; Duke of
Clarence, from Stettin ; Perseverance, Douglas, from Co-
penhagen ; and Minna, Gass, from Memel.
RAMSGATE, AUGUST S.—The Eliza and Jane, Brown,
from London to Ostend, has put in here, in consequence of
a report of blockade.

BRIGHTON, AUG. 8, EIGHT P.M.-Eight ships of the
line, three frigates, and some small vessels, are passing to
the eastward with a light breeze from the north, under
very easy sail.

flasTINGs, AEG. B.—Arrived off this port the Bruns-
wick, from Nieuport, sailed yesterday, and reports that a
battle was fought between the Dutch and Belgians, and
that the latter had taken 14 pieces of cannon and 400
prisoners.
BAnia, JUNE 18.-The Phienix, Casta, which sailed
the 12th instant for Oporto, is reported to be lost, but it
is not generally credited,

A letter from Shoreham states that the squadron con-
sists of six ships of the line and four frigates.
Arrived off the Wight, the Cambria, Moore, from New
York.