The Sun.
London, England, 1822-10-08 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SIIPPING. '

DEAL, OCT. 7.—Wind W.—Arrived and remain in the
Downs the Sordeign, Niren ; Echo, Linden ; Reward, Mil-
ler ; Sceptre, Gillespy ; Emperor Alexander, Brigs ; Cecrops,
Langdon ; John, Spencer ; Ida, Palsmore ; Delight, Allen ;
Victory, Braithwait ; Quebec, Murray—all from Jamaica;
Atlas, Sims, Trinidad ; James, Mansfield, Buenos Ayres ;
Brunswick, Blake, Canada ' • Chapman, Milbank, Quebec ;
Madras, Weldon, Calcutta ; George and James, river Gambia.
—The wind this morning blows hard from the W.S.W., dur-
ing of which the following ships lost an anchor and cable, N IZ. ;
The Jane, Mansfield ; John, Spencer ; Tigris, Sisk ; George
and James, Coulthard ; and Friends, Pearce.
PLYMOUTH, OCT. 6.—Wind E. by N.—Arrived the Ocean,
Lymington, from Sicily, out 12 weeks under quarantine, hav-
ing overshot her port, carried away her bulwarks, and split her
sails.

PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 7.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the' Indus.
try, Beakey, from St. John's, N. 8.; New York, Maitland,
from Flushing for New Orleans.
FALMOUTH, OCT. 6—Wind W. A rriv ed the Union,
Taylor, from Lisbon.

Extract of a letter received at the Jerusalem Coffee-house,
dated Cape Town, July 10 We have to communicate the
melancholy loss of the Sarah, Captain JAMES NORTON, from
Bombay. She was perceived to be foundering at her anchors,
when they were obliged to cut her cables, and she went on shore
near the place where the E 1717714 was wrecked, and she is now
all to pieces, and three of the crew were drowned. The beach
is strewed with her cargo, which consisted of coffee for this
place ; pepper, castor oil, drugs, &c. for England, part of which
will be saved, but much damaged.
His Majesty's ships Ganges and Topaze arrived at Ports-
mouth on the 6th instant ; the former from Bombay tbe sth
of May, and the latter from Madras the 20th of May they
sailed from St. Helena the 15th of August. The Company's
ship Scaleby Castle, and chartered ship Florentia, sailed from
St. Helena for England the 13th of August. The Vansittart,
from China, arrived at St. Helena the 9th of the same month,
and was to sail on the 17th. The undermentioned ships, out-
ward-bound, were at Bombay on the 18th of May last, viz. :
the Dunira, Berwickshire, the Duke of York. The Fairlie
arrived at Madras, the 12th of May.—An unfortunate circum-
stance occurred during the outward voyage of the Scaleby
Castle. On the coast of New Guinea, a midshipman with a
boat's crew had been sent a-head in the night for the purpose
of sounding, while the ship continued under weigh. At day-
break the boat had disappeared, and although Captain Newell
lay to for several days, no trace of the boat or its unfortunate
crew was discovered. Great fears are now entertained for their
safety.
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Jr is understood that East Indiamen will in
future occasionally touch at Plymouth. Some gentlemen in
the service of the East India Company have been inspecting
the store-houses at Turn-chapel, Catwater, preparatory to
the establishment of a depot there for stores, &c. for the use
of the Company's ships which may put into the harbour. It
is apprehended that the discharge of workmen at Plymouth
Dockyard will continue, as it has begun, for several months
to come, until the number of men employed in that great
naval establishment is reduced to about 2,000. At the com-
mencement of the reduction now in progress, above 3,000 men
were employed. The discharges take place every fortnight ;
150 have been paid off within the last month; and as in these
discharges the situations of the men with respect to the num-
ber of their families, &c. have not been considered, many have
been reduced to the utmost distress. In consequence of these
dismissals, the poor's rate at Plymouth Dock and the adjacent
parishes will be considerably increased. Some able workrne
discharged from the Yard have already embarked for South
America ; and nearly all the persons possessed of talent will
gradually quit the establishment; as, since the dismissal of the
Quartermen and the exclusive appointment of officers from the
Royal Academy at Portsmouth, the workmen are precluded all
prospect of advancing themselves in the service, whatever be their
merit or ability.—( West Briton.)