The Sun.
London, England, 1831-07-18 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Stn,—Nothing spews the falsity of the motto which
you are pleased to inscr;l”. to your paper, when you quote
solem quis dicere falsum

Audeat I"

You have coupled my name with that of Messrs. Bing-
ham and Francis Baring, as acting with them in my ca-
pacity as a Magistrate, at the apprehension of Mr. Deacle
and his wife. I beg to state that your report is untrue.
I was not in company with the above-named gentlemen or
incorporated in the indictment; but many miles distant
from the place to which your statement alludes.
Your report, as it now appears, shews that unnecessary
severity was used against the plaintiffs.
Feeling- that such insinuations are detrimental to my
character as a Magistrate and a gentleman, I desire that
you will, in several of your next papers, contradict your
report as far it alludes to me.

I am, Sir, yours, &c.
:chin Abbey, Wriclyde, July 19. 11. WRIGHT,

The squadron under Sir EDWARD CoDRING-
TON was off Torbay on Monday, off Sidmouth on Tuesday,
off Plymouth on Wednesday, and on that evening stretched
away to the westward. Since its departure from Spithead
it had met only with light winds ; all, however, that
could be performed in the way of manceuvering had been
practised daily. The Curacoa sails the best of the squadron,
and then follow the two razi!es, the Alfred and Barham.
Of the line-of- battle ships the Asia answers best; of the
two first-rates the Caledonia is superior in sailing, and is
the roost wearherly. The Donegal was sent into Plymouth
on Wednesday to have her capstan repaired ; and the
Talarera looked into the Sound on the same (lay to land
her Commander (who was dangerously ill) at the hospital;
she then departed to rejoin the squadron, which is not
expected to return to port for three weeks or a month.
The &gib Captain Sir TuromAs TROWBRIDGE, Bart.,
sailed front Plymouth on Saturday last, and the Chargb-
dis gun-brig, Lieutenant CRAWFURD, from Spithead yes-
terday, to join the squadron.—Hampshire Telegraph.
His MAJESTY'S sloop Nautilus, Commander

re Right Hon. Lord GEORCF. PAur.v.r, arrived at Innis

Gowla: an island in the bay of Newport, on the 17th of
June, for the purpose of protecting vessels arriving with
meal and potatoes for the relief of the distressed Irish.
Commissioner HILL, of Deptford, has been for some time
at Westport, inquiring into the actual state of the country,
and administering, as far as his means will afford, to the
relief of the famishing Irish. In order to ascertain the
true state
.of the island of Achil, he requested Lord G.
PAULET would send a Lieutenant, together with the sur-
geon of the Nautilus, to the island ; and such is the zeal
of his Lordship upon all occasions connected with his 111-
aEsTY's service, that he resolved on accompanying- the sur.
peon himself; and from the information acquired, it ap-
peared that the statements that have already appeared of
the distress of that part of the country are not overdrawn.
The result of this visit has been a subscription of one day's
pay by the officers and ship's company of the Nautilus,
for the relief of the distressed in the Isle of Achil.—Hump•
shire Telegraph.

Mr. EDMUND PEEL gave a notice (not heard
in the gallery) on Thursday, that in the Committee on
the English Reform Bill, he should move " that all the
present privileges of freemen, in respect to the election of
Members of Parliament, shall be permanently persevered
in." This is notice No. twenty-three.

THE DEATH OF JAMES NORTHCOTE, ESQ,
R.A.—On Wednesday evening the 13th inst., died, after
a few week,' illness, at his residence, Argyll-place, Regent-
street, JAMES NottnrcorE, Esq., R.A., in the 86th
year of his age. His protracted life of health, the result
of a constitution naturally vigorous, upheld by a course of
abstemiousness and regularity, gave him an opportunity of
prosecuting his profession with unremitting industry, and
unabated ardour, down to a very recent period of his
existence. His death has destroyed the link that had
united the celebrated characters of the present age with
those who were in the habit of assembling around the
tittle of Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS. To the learned in the
art must be allotted the pleasurable office of e!:iogizin
the productions of his pencil, while the chief consideration
of his other friends will be derived from the frequent re-
collection of those silver streams of intelligence, which
almost invariably flowed from his lips in a manner at once
novel, epigrammatic, and impressive.

FUNERAL OF MR. ELLISTON.--011 Friday
he remains of this comedian were removed for interment

from his late residence, Great Surrey-street, to Sr. John's
church, Waterloo-road. The funeral was a w,tiking one,
perfectly unostentatious ; and in further compliance with
the will of the deceased, the coffin was of oak with black
nails, bearing on its lid a brass plate, on which was en-
graved, from his own dictation, the following inscription
in Latin :—" I?obertas Guile:lnns Elu ston, Niztas
S(ptimo Die ApriEs 1774 ; Obiit—(which blank
was filled up with the day of his death)—Octavo Die
1831." The following relatives and friends at-
tended :—Messrs. H. T. ELLISTON, WILSON, HA RRIS,
C. R. ELLISTON, TORRE, RUND AL, Wri4sroN, Dr
141 E, Messrs. BEA Z LEY, BROWN, OSBALDISTON, Major
WATHEN, Messrs. ROPER, ROGERS, DURR ANT, FAIR-
BitoTIIER. The body was deposited in a vault under the
church, near the coffin of the late Mr. BENGOUGH. The
sixteen hearers were obliged frequently to relieve each
other, in consequence of the extreme weight of the corpse,
which, besides the thick oak coffin, was enclosed in a
leaden one.