The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-13 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, OCT. 12.—Wind S.S.W..—Most of the outward-
, bound sailed early this morning, the wind about south. The
James Watt and the Soho steam vessels; hare arrived from the
River, and remain in readiness to take in tow the Baron of
Renfrew, which vessel has not yet made her appearance. Ar
rived the Margaret and Jane, Nicholas, from Hamburgh for
Seville; and the Luna, Frazer, from Leith for Jamaica, and
remain with the Golden Spring, and Phillip, for Jamaica, Spoke
transport and a brig. The Prince Leopold, Carlisle, from.
Honduras, ran on the Goodwin Sands at I a. m., but was got a'
by assistance from Deal, and proceeded fur Margate Roads
(reported) without damage.
PORTSMOUTH, Oc•r. 12.—Wind S.—Arrived the Young
—, from Baltimore in 20 days ; Enterprise, Brown,
from London for Sailed• the Catherine, M'lntosh, for
Calcutta, with the whole of the outward-bound.
FALMOUTH, OCT. 11.—Wind S.W. to S.S.E.—Arrival
the Smollett, of Newcastle, from Quebec; Magnet packet, from
Lisbon, sailed the 2d instant ; Lady Louisa packet, from the
Leeward Islands, sailed from St. Thomas's the Bth ult. Off
the port the William and Henry, Partridge, from Grenada.ko
40 days.

LIVERPOOL, OCT. 11.—Wind W.—Arrived the Rebecca,
Herbert, from illacaio; Hibernia, Field, from Paraiba; Ja..
msica, Harvey, from Jamaica; and Ann and Maria, Hart,
from New Orleans.

The bark William Ifuskinson, from Milford for Quebec,
was abandoned on the 4th instant, in lat. 44). long. 20., being
waterlogged, and on her beam ends ; crew. saved, and arrived
at Liverpool, _ _

The Vigilant, Fotheringham, from Nalaga to Leith, was
driven on shore near Warkworth the lOth instant, but was got,
ofF, and would proceed.
Arrived off the Wight the Budget, -, from Havannah.
Arrived off Dover the Rapid, -, from Bahia.
Arrived off Dartmouth the Speculation, Keiling, from Cam,
peachy...

The Frattllanza, Boratine, from Ancona to Leghorn, wax
tAken by a Tripolitan cruizer, and carried into Tripoli the 29til
A ugust.

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

SLEEPING ON BRICK-KILNS.
An Inquest was held before THOMAS STraersrs, Esq., at
the sign of the Perseverance, William-street, Somers-town, on
Tuesday, to inquire into the death of a very young and un-
fortunate man, who was suffocated by sleeping on the burn..
ins; brick-kilns in the Hampstead-read. It appeared in evi-
dence, that the deceased had become very destitute, and hav-
ing lost his character by committing a felony, for which he
was tried, convicted, and punished, and being diseharAT
he had no home or friend that would receive him or lead
their protection. lle wandered about, and endeavoured, by
holding horses, and assisting the larickmakers, to suppart
his existence, but so trifling was this most precarious assisz.,
ance, that it was proved by a young man named Scroggins,
a companion of his, that the day before his death he had eaten
three or four potatoes. Towards the close of Saturday e, en-
ing, he, with two or three others, homeless outcasts, sought
refuge from the inclemency of the night about the brick.klfn,
and, as is their usual practice, mounted the bricks, and
stretched upon the top of the kiln, having previously settled
that one of the party should remain awake for a certain nurn.
ber of hours, when he was to arouse another of the party, to
perform in his turn the same dreary watch, in order to guard
against the veering of the wind. The whole party /ravine. re-
tired to sleep to windward, the suffocating fumes arising from
the pile was thus avoided, as they in some degree escaped ira
direct influence ; whereas, if they were at the leeward, the effiu.
via coining directly over them, would have proved fatal almost
instantaneously to them all. Scmg,gins the man on the watch,
perceived his unfortunate comrades ;11 asleep, and uncon.
scious of the dreadful danger gathering around them, the rain
coming down in torrents, and getting through the layers of the
bricks caused a thick vapour to arise, and the fire glowing vet::
vividly gave the kiln the appearance of a burning pile rr oTe
than any thing else, which so alarmed him that he aroused
them, and they with difficulty escaped, being almost overcome
with the fatal effects of the rising vapour, This circumstance
scattered them around the brick-field, but the deceased would
' not be persuaded to come away from the kiln, but laid down un-
der some hurdles close to it, where they left him to seek a shelter
from the ra'n and cold. On the following morning very early
they again met, and on approaching the hurdles under which
the deceased had taken refuge, they found him cold and dead,
having evidently had a violent and convulsive struggle. They
removed the body to the Perseverance public-house, where,
upon a medical examination, it appeared he had died from suf-
focation, caused no doubt by the (much dreaded) veering of the
wind blowing the suffocating black vapour thickly over where
he slept, and thus he was suflbcated.
The Coroner said it was a lamentable thing and shewed the
almost certain danger of sleeping near a burning kiln.
The Jury fully acquiesced in the remarks of Mr. Stirling,
and returned a verdict of—" Died by Suffocation."
The parish of Pancras have at their own expellee buried the
body, the deceased having even in death no friend who would
perform the last offices of humanity for him.
The Coroner and Jury gave some pecuniary assistance to
one of the witnesses, who appeared in a very destitute condi.
tion.

DEATH BY EXCESSIVE DRINKING.
On Tuesday afternoon an Inquest "was held at the Coopers'
Arms, Highgate, on view of the body of John Fuller, foreman
to Mr. Holborn, of that place, butcher. It appeared by the
evidence that the deceased had been for some considerable
time an habitual hard drinker. On Sunday night last, between
' seven and eight o'clock, a person went to the house of Henry
Evans, a lamplighter, and told him that he had heard a dread-
ful noise like snoring, and requested him to accompany him
to see whence it came : he accordingly took a. light, and went
into Mr. Holborn's premises, and discovered the dec aced
lying on the ground near to the privy, and his hat was lying
in it--he was quite insensible. Mrs. Holborn was ilium.
(Bate), informed of the circumstance, and gave directioAs that
deceased should be taken up stairs and placed on a bed. Ile
was carried up and left there : about one o'clock next m, r iing
he was found still insensible, and Mr. Dobson, a surgeon, of
Highgate, was called in; and on examining him, he was found
to be dead. He was a very hearty and robast man, and known
in the neighbourhood many years. The Jury, after consider-
ing the evidence, returned their verdict—" That he died in a
fit of apoplexy, caused by excessive drinking."

An Inquisition was held before RICHARD CARTER, Esq.,
the .Surrey Coroner, at the Lord Nelson, in the Kent-riad, on
Tuesday evening last, on the body of a new-born female child,
found in Peckham-fields.—Edward Brooks, a weaver, deposed,
that on the preceding morning, about half past seven o'clock,
he was in a field at the back of Thirza-place, near the
Kent-road, and near a hedge he observed in the grass .a
something, he thought to be a rat; he moved the grass with
his foot, and then discovered it to he the body of a new
horn infant, quite dead; he gave information to the nearest
house, and shortly after the body was carried to the Lord Nei-
son.—Mr.. Thomas Pritchard, surgeon, of Burlington-place,
Kent-road, stated, he was called in to attend the deceased in-
fant, about nine o'clock in the morning. On examination
there were no marks of violence visible that would occasion
death. The child appeared to be full grown and perfect in its
birth. He subsequently opened the body, and on minute in-
spection he was firmly of opinion the child had breathed, and
that freely, after birth, in consequence of the lungs being so
well inflated with air; but whether the death of the deceas
ed was occasioned by cold or haemorrhage, he could not say.-_
-,Witness saw no blood on the body, but proper care did not
appear to have been taken of the infant. His opinion was, that
it had been born about 12 hours. There was no doubt the
child was dead before it had been left in the field, as the body
was clean. The Jury having viewed the body, returned the
following verdict :—" The deceased was found dead—that there
were no marks of violence about it, and how it came by its
death no evidence appears before the Jury."

ALA lIMI NG FIRE.—(From the Clonmel Herald.
Four o'clock, a.m. Oct. o,)—Just as our impression was worked,
off, one of the most awful and alarming fires we ever witnessed
broke out in the extensive and valuable premises of Messrs.
Greer and Murphy, brewers. With painful regret we have
to state that the entire are in a state of fearful ignition. The
extensive range of fire—when the whole of these ample build.
ings (which occupy a space of upwards of 200 by nearly 500
feet) was subjected to its devastating influence—has excited the
most painful and alarming fears for the safety of the vast and
surrounding buildings, and the combustible materials, such
as hay, straw, &c. that immediately adjpin them. It corn.
menced about half, after two o'clock, and still continues with
unabated fury; fear and dismay are in almost every counte-
nance. Six o'clock—All apprehensions for the safety of the
adjoining buildings, &c. are now removed. Though the wind.
is high, yet as the flames are confined within the roofless walls,
and to the lower floor, on which the timber, corn, coals, &c.
are burning with inconceivable fury, there is no danger of the
flames extending beyond the premises. We are happy
_ to find
that the concerns were insured 'Or 10,0001., one half in the
Patriotic, and the other half in the Westminster Insurance
Offices,

111 E LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extruett from the Morning Papers,Oet. 13, 1825.

[HORNING CHRONICLE.]

We can state positively that the puke of Buck-
ingham has been offered the Governor-General-
ship.of India, and though we are not enabled to
!..tatir• that he has accepted the offer, we know
thatlii,i- Grace has gone so far as to make pro-
positions to gentlemen, of whose services he
wished to avail himself, provided he went to
India. Whether his Grace means to play off a
little coquetry, to enhance the importance of the
surrender of the services of one who•fills such a
space in the eye of the country,—or whether he
actually balances between the grandetir of a Go-
vernor-Generalship, preceded as it must be by
rather, a painful, physical, not mental training,
‘fordillidencein his mental qualifications for the

skuatiou is the last weakness which we should
think of laying to the charge of the Noble Duke),
and the pleasures which a wealthy Peer can
always procure in England, we have no means
of knowing. We should suspect, however, that
now that the contemplation of the Ducal Co-
ronet ceases from familiarity to give the satis-
faction it once did, and that no farther con-
quests in the way of honours remain to be
achieved at home, he may not improbably feel
desirous of exploring a fresh field of ambition in
the gorgeous East. His Grace has truly regal
feelings in all that relates to state and pageantry,
as was evinced by the style in which he navigated
the Western Islands of Scotland last year, con-
voyed by a ship of war. In India he will be
qaite in his element. Such personal qualities as
his Grace possesses are held in high admiration
in that part of the world, and as the celebrated
711arquess of Alontrose, who achieved such sur-
prising victories with the Highlanders, does not
live in their traditions, while his bulky associate
Macdonald is yet the theme of their wonder,
we have no doubt that in like manner the great
Duke of Buckingham will, be famous among the
Brarnins long after the Marquess Wellesley, his
mettlesome but puny predecessor, has been for-
gotten. As for the interests of the people of
England, as they are never consulted in these ar-
rangements, it is of no earthly use considering in
what manner they are likely to be affected by the
appointment of his Grace to the Government of
our immense Indian Empire.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The Address of the Constituent Congress of
Mexico to the people of that State respecting the
attempted usurpation of the Pope over them, is a
document of great importance, and will be read
with deep interest in this part of the world. We
rejoice heartily that the Mexican Government
have resolved to forbid the exercise of an autho-
rity which must speedily have overthrown their
newly established independence, and destroyed
every vestige of their civil and political rights.
The Mexicans have adhered hitherto with bigoted
fidelity to the Roman Catholic Church. The public
celebration of any other description of religious
worship is forbidden by their constitution,hut they
show by this declaration that they know how
to discriminate between civil authority and ec-
clesiastical supremacy. If the people of Mexico
feel in unison with their Representatives (which
we can hardly doubt) we need entertain no ap-
prehensions as to the prevalence in their country
of the doctrines which all enlightened Catholics
have already condemned in every other region
where that Church has attained the ascendancy.
The power of releasing subjects from their al-
legi►►nce, though claimed now with as much au-
thority as ever, will every year, as general know-
ledge and the genuine principles of the Christian
religion shall be more widely extended, find
fewer supporters, and ultimately, we have 110
doubt the pretension will become as empty as
that of the King of Spain to the sceptre of Je-
rusalem.

A
[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]

Some sensation was excited yesterday in the
City,. by the receipt of intelligence from Calcutta,
dated the 25th of May, in substance as follows :
That Prome was occupied by our troops without
'opposition; that Boudoolah, the Burmese Chief,
had died of his wounds ; and lastly, that the
King-of Ava had maile overtures of peace. We
fear that the whole of this intelligence rests upon
,were rumour, though we have strong hopes.
from 'the favourable circumstances which had
previously transpired, that the only important
parts of it, the first and last, will be verified in a
short time. It i of the first importance that
our troops should get possession of Prome, be-
fore the rainy season set in, as otherwise they
-would be obliged to abandon some of their late
acquisitions and march back the way they advanc-
ed, in order to occupy proper quarters during
the continuance of the wet weather. It is, there-
foret'highly probable that they made a great ef-
fOrt. to enter Prome ; and from their gallantry,
courage, and perseverance, we have little doubt
of-their success.—With respect, however, to the
'overtures from the King of Ava, and the conse-

quota, prospect of au immediate pacification—we
are-tiot so sanguine ; for, in the first place, the
statement does not agree with the character of
the enemy ; and, in the next, it is wholly incon-
sistent with our Indian policy, which has been
bitheito'based upon' the famous Roman principle
—4)fircerc subjectis' debellare superbos.• If we
mistake not, the King of Ava, notwithstanding
bis reverses, was not sufficiently humbled to.sub-
snit to the 'terms which, consistently with this po-
licy, would be imposed upon him by our
Indian Government.. Any other pacification,
but one founded upon this principle, would
,be insecure, and even • shake the founda,
-tion of our Indian - Empire, based as it is

upon opinion. This may.not be a very agreeable
rellectibit.; but the necessity of ,the thing itself.
is palpable; 'and our dominion .in the 'East must
• be regulated • by the force of circumstances, and
by fine-spun theories. As the Burmese Monarch
was not still brought to the temper, in which. he
could submit to such conditions, as could alone,
with safety be laid liefore.hini for his acceptance,
we look upon the prospect of a speedy cessation

of hostilities, which some persons are likely to
anticipate, in consequence of this intelligence, as
highly improbable. Besides, he scarcely would
take this step, which he probably knew, meant
absolute submission, at the approach of the rainy
season, which would suspend hostilities for about
three months, and 'leave him, during the in-
terval, the state of an independent Sovereign.
Besides, lie would flatter himself, that some-
thing favourable would turn up in the inter-
vening period ; and it strikes us strongly that
another campaign, if not two, will take place,
before we can convince the Indian world, that in
this war we have established our reputation for
invincibility, as fully as in any preceding contest
in that part of the world. To obtain this result,
the only legitimate end of any struggle, that we
can now maintain in India, it may be a measure
of indispentlble necessity, that our troop; get
possession of the enemy's capital. Such an un-
equivocal proof of our superiority would silence
every objection ; and, if the King of Ava were
then dealt with leniently, it would be ascribed,
not to fear, but to generosity. From these con-
siderations we calculate with confidence•upon an-
other campaign at least; and where would be the
wisdom, •,or even justice, of appointing a succes-
sor to Lord Amherst, as has been rumoured for
some time, if there was a prospect of his Lord-
ship terminating the war with equal promptitude
and success ? lie may have entered into it indis-
creetly, though this is not clearly made out ; but
still the eclat with which he conducted it to a
close, e3hould certainly exempt him from the pain
of being suddenly and uncourteously recalled.
The Board of Controul would scarcely venture
to act, in this way, if their opinion at all concur-
red with the hope, indirectly held out in the in-
telligence before us : and from this circumstance
we draw a new argument in favour of a visit to
the capital of his Burmese Majesty, before the
latter will declare himself vanquished.

[THE TIMES.]
Ruffianism and outrage are again beginning,
the papers say, in Ireland. We know not whe-
ther this be instinct, or something more delibe-
rately systematic. Having a short time ago beg-
ged of our Catholic friends to be quiet, and let
the elections pass over without a re-excitement of
the no Popery cry, the printed organs of the Ca-
tholics turn round upon us and exclaim, " When
did we get any thing by being-quiet ?" We answer
this by saying, that opinion is to be secured by rea-
son only, and not by turbulence or noise ; that
the Catholic question has nothing in common with
a " free trade," which broke up English mono-
poly—for opinion there was not the obstacle ;
it was a selfish feeling, which remained as strong
at the moment of surrendering the " free trade,"
as it had been previously, though it had lost the
power of self-indulgence. In the same way the
grant of its independence to the Irish legislature
was not a point which ever could have been made
a proper subject of opinion in this country—it
was giving up a possession ; every man in Eng-
land felt that he was conceding a right, whtch he
and his ancestors had held in the nature of a pro-
perty. But it is far otherwise with Catholic
emancipation. No Englishman thinks that it is
a question between England and another coun-
try ; no En"glishman is foolish enough to fanCy
that the remnant of the penal laws is a
security to him for the possession of •Ire-
land—that it is a point of dominion, or a
national dispute. On this question opinion has
made, and if judiciously treated will make,
large strides amongst us ; the subject is one of
domestic policy. Numbers of enlightened men
are convinced that England would be an infinite
gainer by such a regulation of her internal inte-
rests as the friends of emancipation propose. If
the Catholics are wise, therefore, we tell them
(and they ought to know and feel by this time
that our hearts are in the, measure), to let the
above sentiment work. It is no matter of rivalry
between England and Ireland--it is an argument
between liberal and illiberal policy, like that of
remitting commercial duties, and so forth. It
was a question in Ireland itself between mono-
poly and the opposite system; but in Ireland it
is already settled : it is now an English question,
and must be carried by English means. Let our
'friends in Ireland give us credit for some little
knowledge of this country.

[NEW TIMES.]
" Great movements," says some intelligence
from Frankfort, dated the Bth of October, " are
taking place in Bessarabia, in the corps of Gen.
Sabanieff. The regiments are- concentrating, to
be inspected in detail by their Chiefs, in order
to be ready for the grand review of the Emperor,
when his Majesty shall arrive at the head-quar-
ters of Kischeneff." This is one of fifty para-
graphs, perhaps true in fact, perhaps untrue, but
certainly not to be depended upon in their in-
tended inference, which is, that the Emperor of
Russia is about in person to invade Turkey. We
have several reasons for making us disbelieve such
an intention on his part. His personal character,
we shall frankly own to be one reason ; the li-
mited state of the Russian finances another. We
doubt very much if they would bear a campaign
of any length or consequence against the Turks.
.That the Russians may take possession of some
of the frontier provinces, which were never of
any real strength to Turkey, may be possible
enough. So far from feeling jealousy at such a
step, those who dislike that Power ought to feel
pleasure in it ; for every extension of territory
must weaken Russia. Turkey, for airing time, has
ceased to be an influential state in the smallest de-
gree in Europe, and her opposition cannot be ex-
pected to be of any weight; but if Russia,outof pre-
tence of assisting the Greeks, should seize on any
thing advantageous, realty or in appearance,
to herself, the, Emperor must know that Austria,
through benevolence of the same disinterested
kind, may demand a share ; and that we' have it
in our power to turn all parties out of the mari-
time districts,, and claim them for ourselvps if we,
think it worth while, in caseof a scramble. In
France, the
spoculators,
who in all par.
ties seemto retain the ambition of conquest with
which Louis IV. and Buonaparte have inoculated
them, appear to be angry principally because

there k no chance for them under any regu.
lation.

[MORNING POST.]

The prosperous and happy condition of Eng-
land at the present moment is no longer affected
to be denied, even by the most factious opponents
of Ministers. At the Chester Whig Club Meet-
ing, however, it will be seen, that while the
proud and glorious fact was forced to be ad-
mitted, the liberal and sapient speechifiers had
the candour and modesty to assert that the merit
of every thing that has happened entirely
belonged to the Whigs ; because, forsooth, they
were the early advocates of peace and reduction
of taxation ; and this, too, be it well remembered,
at a period when the adoption of their advice
would in the first instance have entailed indelible
disgrace upon the country, and in the second,
have effected the ruin of our wise and provident
system of Finance, to which alone we were
indebted for the essential sinews of war.—Yes,
truly and undeniably, these sage patriots did
loudly and incessantly clamour for peace, when
the war could have been terminated only by-re-
calling our forces from Spain, relinquishing our
just claims, and sacrificing our best interests.
Alike incontrovertible is the memorable fact,
that they opposed with all their might the m-
newal of the war after Buonaparte's violation of the
peace, by his unprincipled return from Elba to
France,whilst,uornindful of the happy falsification
of all their dismal forebodings, they seem to reject
the important, and to them, unpleasant truth, that
it was from not having attended to their advice,
or followed their councils, that the implacable
foe of Old England was subdued, and overthrown
for ever by our arms, on the glorious plains of
Waterloo. Let the frustrated slaves of Party
only seriously consider these ever-memorable
events; and if in the contemplation of them they
can find any "flattering unction" for their factious
souls, they may be well assured that their heads
as politicians, and their hearts as m.,il, will alike
remain unenvied by every good and loyal subject
in the land.

LMORNING HERALD.]
In 'a Paper of Monday an attempt was made to
answer the objections which we have repeatedly
advanced against the very objectionable encroach-
ment which is about to take place at the south-
east corner of Ilyde Park. The writer blinks
the main point, by stoutly declaring that he will
not condescend to discuss the question of right.
This is one way of getting rid of a • difficulty cer-
tainly; but probably his not condescendiug to
discuss that point may only serve to convince his
readers, that both lie awl his employers are, in
fact, unable to do so. The right is what we have
all along doubted—we still doubt it; and these
doubts are much strengthened by the inability of
the Government writer to show that any such power
exists. We are then told, as we have been before,
that the subject is a trifling one, quite unworthy of.
notice, and not to be compared with the advan-
tages the public will derive from the improve-
ments going on in the Park. This is nothing to
the purpose. If this encroachment is quietly
submitted to, there is nothing that are- know of
to prevent the whole of the Park being hereafter
parcelled out, or given in a lump to some fa-
voured individual, whose borough, or other:inte-
rest, may be able to command such a boon from
the existing Administration. But the next most
weak and amusing argument of all Is, that the
objections on this occasion are instigated
solely . by a hostile feeling towards the
Duke of Wellington. Wt have uniformly spoken
of the Duke of Wellington upon the occasion with
every degree of respect ; and have expressed
our regret that he should run the .risk of losing
the good opinion of the public, by deigning to
accept a trumpery personal advantage at the ex-
pence of public feeling. The Duke, we
,fear, is
not so popular in this country as we could Wish
him to be ; and we are sure that this matter, if
persisted in, will not make him more so. If the
Duke of Wellington despises Wilk: opinion ;
if he thinks that his high military renown will
carry him through the • remainder of his life
without any subsequent aid, he is mistaken ; and
he is only to look to the history of the Duke
of Marlborough, the greatest of his predecessors,
to convince him that the highest military reputa-
tion will not of itself secure a certain continuance
of popular favour. But why is the Duke of Wel-
lington dragged into this affair at all ? To him
the object can be nothing ; and- we strongly sus-
pect that the odium of this transaction is palmed
upon his Grace only to sanction future acts of
the same kind (some of which, perhaps, are al-
ready in progress), to- justify which the pre-
cedent in this case will be pleaded. We are
sorry to have been forced into this line of argu-
ment, because personal grounds are not in any
respect those on which we have adopted the sub-
ject. We have taken it up entirely upon
.on-e
general principle, which we have all along been
contending for—viz. the importance to the inhabi-
tants of the metropolis of keeping undiminished
the very few open spaces which are left for their
health and recreation. If the salus populi he in
any sense the duty of Government, it must be so
in its literal one. And we are sure that the
time will come, if it is not arrived already, when
those whose duty it is to look to such matters
will find, that,.by neglecting this essential consi-
deration, they will have compromised one of their
most important duties; and then the revenue
which is derived from driving the people to spend
their leisure hours in the alehouse, will be but a
poor recompense for the general vice and in-
subordination which will be the result of shutting
them out from the health, the virtue, and right-
mindedness derived from out-door exercise and
amusement.

A. HINT TO BAKEP..—B.y.e rs, the informer, has
lately visited and searched (under proper eutho•
rity) the premises of several bakers &c. in Hamp-
shireli- and made discovery of a variety of illegal
ingrOlients (plaster of Paris vid the like), which
are to he produced on the hearing of their cause
before the Magistrates.

There are now residing in the parish of Allem-
more, Hereford, a cottager, and his wife, whose
united ages amount to 182 years.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.