The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-26 00:00:00

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REMARKS AND CASES.
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AN HISTORICAL arid PRACTICAL
TREATISE on SYPHILIS, its Consequences, on. Stric-
tures, Eruptions, Nodes, and Nocturnal Pains, so frequently mis-
taken for Rheumatism. These subjects are illustrated by
a variety
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vice. so long and so unhappily pursued by the youth of both sexes.
In the one it will be found an unfailing source of barrenness, in
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of debility which, if not timely remedied, terminates in impotency
these are its remote and ultimate effects ; whilst Consumption,
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Cure of which the Author has laid down a plan of treatment which,
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on the evils resulting. from attempts at self cure.
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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Devonport Telegraph.)

His Majesty's ship Clio arrived at dibr-altar the 3d inst.
His Majesty's ship Jasseur had sailed for Malaga. Left at
Cadiz, his Majesty's ships Malabar and Magicienne. Left
at Lisbon, his Majesty's ships Hastings and Cameleon. The
Quail sailed on the 10th, with a mail for England. There
was also the American corvette Potomac. On the 13th,
200 miles S. W. of the Lizard, wind W., saw a brig of war,
supposed to be the Scorpion, and a frigate.
From the coast of Africa, we learn that the Charybdis,
Lieut. Mercer, had captured a Spanish brig with 429 slaves
on board, after a chase of three days, during which the
slaver threw 50 poor wretches overboard.
.• The Lively lighter arrived on Wednesday from Wool-
wich, bringing round Mr. Walker, and assistants, who took
the Terror bomb from this port to Chatham. The Stag
frigate was masted on Saturday, preparatory to being corn-
missioned. A barge, with 16 guns on board, belonging to
the Royal Adelaide, sank at her moorings off the Gunwharf
during the late gales. Two brigs, of 16 guns each, to be
named the Grecian and Persian, are to be built at Pem-
broke Dock-yard. The Duck lighter arrived on Wednesday
from Sheerness.

His Majesty's packet, the Lord Melville, Lieut. Webb,
commander, is to sail from Falmouth, with the Lisbon mail,
on Monday next, the 25th inst.
Letters from his Majesty's ship Star, dated 12th Dec.,
four days later than the extract in our last, have been re-
ceived, when she was still at sea, and proceeding with fair
wind and weather on her passage to Antigua. The men
who have been injured were in a fair way of recovery.
The Pandora is ordered to be paid off at Sheerness, and
Lieut. Croke, her commander, is to have the Swift, a new
packet recently launched in the river. The report that the
Portland is ordered home is unfounded.
Remaining in Hamoaze—Royal Adelaide, Harpy, Duck,
and Lively lighters.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—A melancholy acci-
dent happened on Thursday afternoon last, by which two
seamen belonging to St. Andrew's were drowned. On the
day previous th; left St. Andrew's in a small boat, with the
intention of piloting a vessel coming from the Ferry up the
Eden, but not seeing the vessel, they ran down to the Ferry,
where they found her lying. They stopped over the night
there. Not having returned on Wednesday night, and as
the day had been rather blowy, the wife of the one man
and the mother of the other, went to the Ferry on Thurs-
day. They found them there, and after dining with them,
the mother of the one went over to Dundee to see her
husband, while the wife of the other left for St. Andrew's.
Her husband desired most earnestly that she should go into
the boat and sail to St. Andrew's with them, but as it was
at the time blowing rather hard, she said she would rather
walk than venture in the boat. A person going to the
coast, however, considering it a good opportunity to get so
far on his way, went with them into the boat. But they
had not got far when the man became fully sensible of their
danger in a small boat in such a storm, and desired that
they should immediately get landed one way or another, but
the two, supposing there was not the danger he dreaded,
persevered until they came to the mouth of the Eden, and
when he saw them still determined on attempting to get to
St. Andrew's, he beseeched that they should put him ashore.
With great reluctance they therefore run the boat in to the
north side of the Eden, when he leapt from it into the
water, and after pushing off the boat landed on the Tents-
muir ; but after landing and looking round for his compa-
nions neither they nor the boat was visible, all that he saw
was their hats floating on the water. In the course of the
few minutes (not exceeding five) that expired after he left
the boat, to his getting on land, the boat had swamped, but
how is only a matter of conjecture, though the storm that
was then raging is sufficient to confirm the supposition that
the boat and the two unfortunate men had been blown right
down. Both were good swimmers, and must have been
entangled by the boat.—Edinburgh Courant.
CHURCH ROBBERS.—Three parish churches,
viz., those of Rollstone and Llancilloe, Herefordshire, and
that of Llangua, in Monmonthshire, were lately broken
into in one night, and robbed of the communion plate,
&C. It has been since ascertained that the church of
Michaelchureh was also robbed of the communion plate ;
the whole being no doubt the work of an origanized gang.
On Friday week; a man offered some pieces of old silver for
sale to Mr. S. Lazarus, silversmith of Hereford, who
perceived they belonged to a cup or chalice which had
been broken up, and with commendable promptitude de-
tained the silver, and caused the man to be. apprehended.
His name is John Pritchard, and on his being taken to the
neighbourhood of Monmouth Cap, a sun-dial, stolen from
one of the church-yards, was found concealed in an oven in
his house. He has been committed to take his trial at
the next Hereford Assizes, on the capital charge of break-
ing into a church and stealing a moveable article.—Cam-
brian,