The Sun.
London, England, 1822-04-17 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING, &c.

DEAL, APRIL 16.—Wind N.E.—Came down from the
River last night and sailed the Joseph, Christopherson, for
Demerara ; Hopewell, Price, Richebucto. Also to-day the
Prince Kutusoll, Woodham, 111iramichi ; Good Friends,
Thomas, South Seas ; the Averick, Lawrence, Virginia ; Bram-
ley, Smelt, Genoa ; Pargon, Smith, Pictou ; Spring, Shelton,
St. John's, N. B. ; and Hope, Briggs, Quebec.
SEVEN O'CLOCK.—Wind E. and moderate.

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PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 16.—Light airs from the Eastward.
—Sailed the Maria, Fowler, for New York, and Minerva, Bell,
for Van Dieman's Land.

COWES, APRIL 16.—Wind E.—Arrived the Helvetius,
Swift, from Batavia, in 126 days, all well ; and sailed the Nary,
Mayo, for Boston and Virginia.
FALMOUTH, APRIL 15.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrived the
Marchioness of Salisbury packet, from Corfu. Sailed the
Boyne, Bidwell, for London.
The Bee, 31‘Laren, from London to Leith, was on shore
yesterday in Sea Reach, with loss of two anchors.
The Hound, Proudlove, from Memel to Hull, was on shore
on Gothland 25th ult., but got otr after discharging part of her
cargo, and proceeded for Rhoneham.

From the most early times of English History to the present,
the town of Dover has ever been considered the high and
direct road to and from the Continent, probably on account
of the short water passage, and the certainty of making it
in a given time; but perhaps, the intercourse between the
two countries, has never, at any former period, been greater
than atihe present time. The Arrow, steam-packet, Capt.
King, left Dover on Monday, the Bth instant, for Calais, with
one carriage and 28 passengers, and returned from thence
to Dover on Tuesday, with three carriages and 54 passengers ;
sailed again on Wednesday with four carriages and 75 passen-
gers, and returned on Thursday with five carriages and 93 pas-
sengers ; sailed again on Saturday, with six carriages and 84
passengers, and returned on Sunday with six carriages and 7t
passengers ; making in the whole 25 carriages, and 410 pas-
sengers in a week, by one vessel. The Arrow made her pas-
sage on Sunday against the tide, in 3 hours and 25 minutes.—
( Kentish Gazette.)
ARTFUL SWlNDLER.—Yesterday Miss Adams, who keeps
a child-bed linen warehouse in the Borough-road, attended at
the Town Hall, and gave information of a fraud (rather novel
in the plan) which was practised, upon her on Thursday last.
In the course of that morning, a young woman dressed like a
servant girl, rather slight made, dark complexion, and of good
and pleasing address, called at her shop, and representing-her-
self as the nursery-maid of Mrs. Saunders (wife of Mr. Nicho-
las Saunders, of Thames-street, and one of the CommOn'Coun-
cilmen of Billingsgate Ward), requested to look at some baby
linen, and mentioned Mrs. Fitzherbert (a customer) as the
person by whom her mistress had been recommended. Nliss
Adams produced an assortment of articles, and the female
selected two cambric caps, value 21. 2s. ; three nankeen frocks.
11. 18s. ; five white bodies, 21. 2s. ; nankeen, H. Is. ; and two
short robes, 21. 16s. ; making in the whole 91. 17s. She said her
mistress was very particular in paying for every thing on de-
livery, and requested Miss Adams to carry home the goods and
she would accompany her. They proceeded together as far a,
Thames-street, and the woman stopped at a house which is let
in chambers to commercial men, and in which Mr. Saunders
occupies apartments; she proceeded up stairs With the goods,
leaving Miss Adams in the passage, and her own bonnet and
shawl on the balustrades of the first floor. In a few minutes she
returned, put on her bonnet and shawl again, and told Miss
Adams that the goods were approved of, and that she was going
out to get change for a large note, to pay her for them. She
then departed, and the latter after waiting two hours applied to
Mr. Saunders, who declared his ignorance of the whole trans-
action, and his fears that she had been made the dupe of some
designing person, as Mrs. S. never lived at that house. On this
statement, Reeve, the marshalman, went to the house in ques-
tion, which is occupied by three merchants, Mr. Saunders, Mr.
Archer (one of the Churchwardens of Horselydown parish)and
Mr. Tisdle, a ship-broker, whose respectability at once exoner-
ated them from all participation in the fraud. From what the
officer could collect, it seems that many persons had been de-
frauded in a 'similar manner within the last week, and that a
cutler in the city had furnished six dozen of knives and forks
'worth 201., under an idea that they were for Mr. Archer. On
the same day that Miss Adams had the misfortune to lose her
property, a mantua-maker from the London-road, named
Drisar, came to the same house with a large bundle of valuable
goods, which had been ordered for Mrs. Archer, but she had
the good fortune to come when the chambers were shut for,the
day, or it is more than probable that she would have been like-
wise done. The swindler is about 20 or 22 years of age, and
rather marked with the small-pox.