The Sun.
London, England, 1822-08-02 00:00:00

SLAVE TR!

The statement in the following extract of the captures of 1
Slave Ships, made by a single vessel in one year, serves to prove
the extent of the traffic in Slaves at this time.
[Extract of a letter from Sierra Leone, JUne 17,1822.]
A List ofCaptures nzade by His Majesty's Ship Iphigenia, in 1822.
Conde de Villaflor, Portuguese schooner., 172 slaves on board,
taken off Bassau.
A Portuguese brig, called the 20th February, 10 do., taken
off Apam.
Nimfa del Mar, Portuguese schooner, 3 do., lost in St. Barbo

River.
Esperance Felix, Portuguese schooner. 187 do. off Lagos.
Yacaram, Spanish schooner, 380 do. off River Bonney.
Vecua do., 325 do., do.
Vigilant, French brig, 343 do., do.
Petit Betsey, do., 218 do., do.
La Ursula, do., 216 do., do.
Defendo, Portuguese, 100 do., scuttled at sea, being unfit to
proceed.
Josef, having Spanish entres, condemned.
The whole of those between the brace fired on our boats,
and were lying in a regular line of battle, and kept it up for a
long time, until our brave fellows jumped on board, and made
great havock amongst the Spaniards. The French, except the
Vigilant, left off fighting as soon as they observed the two large
SpanNh schooners had struck. The Vigilant fought, until board-
ed by our boats. lam sorry to say we had two men killed in the
engagement, and several wounded. The boats were commanded
by Wm. Mildmay Bunt, of this ship, and the Myrmidon. I
am sorry to inform you that, since writing the above, we have
received news of the Yacaram being upset in a tornado, and
300 slaves and 23 of our seamen have perished—shocking acci-
dent. We shall be paid for the slaves, the Governor informs
us ; in fact Sir R. Mendes has the documents from this place
for that purpose.

IRISH PAUPERS.

Yesterday a case of importance to parishes,
and interesting to every friend of humanity, came on before
Alderman J. J. SMITH, the presiding Magistrate at the Town
Hall Office Southwark, in the shape of an application for
parochial relief, by a poor Irish pauper, against the directors of
the poor of St., Olave's parish. The church-wardens resisted
the claim, on the,ground that the pauper was not entitled to re-
lief,but ought to be passed home to his own country, agreeably
to the provisions of the Vagrant Act, which the Magistrates in
most parts of the country have lately declined acting on rigidly,
from a feeling of humanity, in consequence of the present un-
happy condition of Ireland.
Mr. Alderman SMITH informed the pauper that he must get
work, and support himself as the rest of his countrymen do, for
he had no power to make the parish minister to his wants, and
the only other alternative was to pass him home, which he cer-
tainly would not do.
At the mention of the alternative, poor Paddy gave a despair-
ing shrug, then walked out sadly dejected.
After a pause of a few seconds, the Churchwarden addressed
the Magistrate, expressing his surprise that the laws relative to
Irish paupers were not now enforced with the same rigor as
heretofore. The Act of Parliament was imperative; and ex-
pressly states, that all persons who came under the denomina-
tion of paupers were to be passed to the place of their nativity.
The law allowed no discretion, and he thought it hard, whilst
,this was the case, that his own parish, for instance, should be
put to an expence of 101. a-week to support strangers, who
ought to stay in their own country, whilst the adjoining parish
of St. Saviour's was rightly availing itself of the benefit of the
Act, and getting rid of all their Irish poor.
The Alderman denied that the parish of St. Saviour's had
made any application to, him for such a purpose, or that any
had been passed by himself.
The Churchwarden admitted this ; they had taken them be.
fore other Magistrates, who would put the law in operation, and
the parish of St. Olave would be obliged to do the same, for the
Committee thought they ought not to be s addled withe ex-
pense of supporting so many persons who had no claim upon
their sympathy.
Alderman SMITH replied. He said it surprised him much to
hear the heads of any parish recommend a proceeding of the sort
suggesed against the thousands of poor refugees from Ireland,
during the present shocking distress which prevailed there, and
to which that proceeding would add most materially. How-
ever he could not supersede the powers of an Act of Parlia-
ment • and however he might deplore the awful visitation
which'had befallen Ireland, he was bound to do his duty ;a he
did not sit there to indulgepity, but to administer justice nd
if any of !the wretched beings alluded to were'brought before
him, he should be compelled to p
and ass them torom their homes to
meet all the horrors of pence want f which they
had already sought a refuge. This, however, would be a
tribute paid to the Laws in which his own feelings, would
have no share, and which he should not carry into eXecu-
tion without great reluctance. He hoped, however, there
was no one so cruel as to impose this hard task upon his feel-
ings, during the present condition of the unhappy country in
question.
The Churchwarden was by no meats satisfied. He still
urged that the law ought to be put in force, and threatened he
would take the paupers in future to the other offices.
Mr. Alderman SMITH.—You must do as' you please, Sir ;
you know my sentiments upon the subject. If you compel me
to put th‘e law in force, I must do so ; but I would advise you
to take the sense of the Parish upon the matter first, and see
what support it will obtain.—The Churchwarden then retired.

there are
him. No country has such a history for the
choice of such a novelist. The attempt 01.
the natives and the English invaders ; the
reign of ELIZABETH, ill which SPENCE. RALEIGIi,
and ESSEX adorned its, from that time, classical
shore ; the grand Rebellion of 1641, and more
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Derry writes us this morning, that Sir WALTER
and 1)r. CHALMERS landed there on Wednesday
last, from a steam-pa.cket from Glasgow. Some
say that he is on a tour of observation, and
PEIUUN WARBECK ; the different wars between
especially the period of the Revolution of 1688,
all present a noble field on which to exercise the
highest powers.—(Dublin .Paper.)

•
DUELLINC.—At theMonaghan Assizes, Messrs,
Mrrcum.i., as the principal, and BAT TERSBY, as the second,
in an unfortunate duel, which terminated fatally to Surgeon
Rounisox, of Monaghan, and noticed at the time, were in-
dicted for the murder of Dr. RourssoN ; they were both found
guilty of manslaughter, the former sentenced to nine months'
imprisonment and burned in the hand ; the latter to one week's
impisonment, the Court hu manel taking into its considera-
tionr the previous confinement of Mry . Battersby since this fatal
rencountre occuired.
ALE.--A Correspondent says—" The present
low price of barley, and the late reduction in the Malt Duty,
have not generally produced those effects which might have been
expected. If the brewers had a fair profit in 1799 and 1800,
what must be their gains in 1822, when grain is so remarkably
low ? I would ask, is the quality of the ale any better, or is
the meure improved since the: former period, when corn
sold so easxtravagantly high ? Every one who remembers any
thing of the matter will instantly answer, they are both much
worse. Some means ought surely to be taken both to improve
the quality of the ale and to lower its price."—( Whitehaven
Gazette. )
WORTHING, JULY 30.—The following melan-
choly occurrence took place about noon yesterday, near the
village of Lancing, in this vicinity. Three youths of the
names of (lomery, Harwco 1, and Kimber, about sixteen and
eighteen years of age, and a boy of the name of Tate,
who were employed, some at plough and others reaping, in
the Millfield, left their respective occupations in consequence of
a heavy shower, and took shelter under a shelving part of a
neighbouring chalk-pit, when, dreadful to relate, the torrent
it supposed to have entered a fissure above, which detached
a large portion of chalk, and they were in an instant buried in
the mass: On digging out the bodies the vital spark was ex-
tinct in 'three of them, viz. :—Gomery, Harwood, and Tate,
and the other apparently hastening very fast to dissolution, but
who, contrary to expectation, rallied, and is still alive, with
fractures of the leg and thigh, and considerable internal injury.
SMALL-PDX. AND VACCINATION.--During the
last month the casual small-pox has been very gentle, amount-
ing in all the parishes to not more in the aggregate than 37
cases, and-23 at the Hospital at Pancras, of whom only 5 died.
_Vaccination has its effect in every month of its progress, and its
beneficial effects are felt in every part of the town hen the
warmth of the season, might, in the confined parts of the city,
and suburbs have rendered the casual small-pox very genera former
l ;
247 were vaccinated at the Hospital, and 316 in the
month. The co-operation of these measures with those of the
several other National Boards, has never been so much felt as.at
this time, when the experience of two-and-twenty yews has
amply diffused the blessing and the security of the discovery.

PLYMOUTH, JULY 31.—Wind W.S.W.--Arrived the
Enterprize, Primer, from Poole for Newfoundland. Sailed
the Regulus, Weekner,` for New Brunswick, and Asp, Brine,
for the South Seas.
FALMOUTH, JULY 31.—Wind W.
PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 1. wind S.W.—No arrivals or
sailings.
DEAL, AUG. I.—Wind S.W. squally.—Arrived and sailed
for the River the George the Third, Poppleville, from Jamaica ;
Melantho, Parry, Trinidad ; Zepher, Awete, Belfast. Also
arrived and remain, wind-bound, the Hopewell, Laughton,
from Newcastle to Caen. Came down from the River the
Harmony, Woodall, for Demerara ; British Tar, Clark,
Quebec • Montmorency, Wood, ditto ; Albion, Ranier, St.
John's, 'N. B. • Aid, Chater, ditto ; and remain with the out-
ward-bound 'as before.
The Friends, Head master, picked up off the Bolt yester-
day, one puncheon of Cogniac brandy, marked L. 'l'. E. No. 2.

SINGULAR DISCOVERY
OF AN ANCIENT VESSEL.

[From the Kentish Gazette, July 30. j
'e mentioned in our last the discovery of an ancient vessel in
the old channel of the Rother, with such particulars as had then
come to our knowledge : subsequent information, together with •
personal observation, have since enabled us to state the facts re-
garding it with more accuracy. The spot where it was disco-
vered is in a field, the property of J. it Pomfret, Esq. of Ten -
terden, near Maytham Wharf, on the left bank of a branch of
the Rother, (as now denominated,) a short distance from its con-
fluence with that river, at the west end of the Isle of Oxney,
and distant about two miles from Rolvenden and Newenden,
the site of the ancient Roman city of Anderida. It is now six
years since, when the water of the stream being very low, that
the vessel was first accidentally observed in the side of the bank,
and some planks drawn up and used for paling, &c. it being
then conceived to have been part of an old tank used for sheep-
washing. Within the last fortnight, other wood being wanted
for a similar purpose, the shape and nature of it became more
apyarent, and Mr. Pomfret, at the request of his looker
(Mr.
. Elphee), who first made the discovery, granted permission
to him, with the sanction of the Commissioners of Sewers, to
break up the bank, dam up the water above, and use whatever
means might be necessary to get at the vessel. The work was
accordingly commenced, and after a week's labour through a
bed of sea sand ten feet deep, the surface of the deck was
cleared, and the whole upper part of the vessel, shewing its
make and shape, rendered visible, when it was found to
measure sixty-six feet seven inches' from stem to stern, and
twenty-five feet across the midships ; its make is that of a
barge, with a round stern, and its whole form similar to
the present Dutch galliot, . the aperture for the mast being
nearly in the centre, before the main beam. The timber of
which it is constructed is oak, perfectly sound, and render-
ed nearly as hard as iron ; of which metal itself, whatever
has been exposed to the action of the element, is wholly corrod-
ed, and breaks with facility, with the exception of the eye of the
hook of the rudder in the stern-post, which remains as perfect
as if recently fixed there. Its inner sheathing is oak plank two
inches thick. In the sand on the right side of the vessel, and
as if driven and lodged against it, a balk of hewn oak umber
was found ; which has been rough squared, and measures nearly
40 feet in length, and from 20 to 24 inches square. The hatch-
ways, of which there were two, one behind the mast, the other
in the stern, were open, and the internal space was conse-
quently filled with sand and water : in clearing out which, the
various articles described below were found in the sand :—An
earthen jar or pot, very. thin, of a dark (nearly black) colour,.
with three short feet triangularly placed ; another earthen pot,
of a rather lighter colour, but with two handles. and longer feet,
similarly placed ; these are very like, from their figure, the anl.
cient Roman utensils. A pint pot, of earthenware, rudely
fashioned, and similar in shape to those depicted by Teniers. A
hollow ball of yellow metal, to which part of the blade of a
sword, about an inch wide, and much corroded, is attached, a
crescent and a hollow tube, each of a similar metal : these, from
their perforations and apparent conjunction, formed the handle
and hilt of the sword, and from their uncorroded state may be
presumed to begold ; there are some dots and strokes marked
on each side of the crescent, but too imperfect to be deciphered.
A large steel, sufficient to embrace the hand, and a piece of
flint lying beside it, black and much worn with use, but still re-
taining the property of emitting sparks ; two rusty locks, one
with an iron ring, as if it had belonged to a chest or locker, the
other with an iron handle in the wood, as if for a latch ; a brick
of light red colour, measuring in length 6i inche b
readth
31 inches, and in thickness, I inch ; parts of the stays of the
which is an inch
mast with iron hooks attached to the rope,
in diameter. In what appeared to have been the 'cabin and
cooking-room, the following were discovered :—The glooin of
the stove with' the charred wood ashes still adhering to it •O a
tile, chequered green and red, glazed ; another tile, abut
seven inches square, glazed with a five pointed star in a circle ;
part of another of a larger square, nearly similarly marked and
glazed ;an hair-glass, about five inches in height, on the one-
half of which was delicately delineated the figure of a ship in
full sail, which, on the glass being dried, peeled off and- was
obliterated; a pair of leather soles, very round (or cow-
mouthed) in shape, with the upper-leathers to cover half the
foot only, and fastened with thongs, the hinder part uncon-
nected with the front, and surrounding the heel, with a strap
on each side, as if to buckl roundsin iont of the inst p; a
e
paper pen-case and ink pot, and curi mark-
ed, and nearly similar in shape to those itsed by school-
boys : a circular wooden board perforated with holes, supposed
to have been used for a game ; a sounding lead, about eighforatedat
t
inches long, very heavy, and of an octagon shape, per
the bottom to admit the soil, the metal not in the least corroded ;
with many other articles, too imperfect for description ; but as
yet nothing to fix the name and country of the vessel, or the
period of her wreck, for that such was the cause of her destruc-
tion cannot be doubted, from the mortal remains which have
been brought to light, and of which we shall now speak—a hu-
man skull, that of a man, with several sound teeth, also a rib
and hip bone, and several parts of bones of an adult; the hip
bone, thigh, and several smaller bones of a child ; the skull of
a dog,
.which, from the roundness andlength and shape of the
upper jaw, is conjectured to be that of a greyhound ; the skull
and horns of a goat or sheep ; the lower jaw of a boar, with its
teeth and tusk. These, with the, exception of the man's skull,
were found in the cabin above mentioned. Hitherto nothing of
value except for curiosity, beyond the piece of timber above
described, has remunerated the labour ; ere the close of the pre-
sent week, it is expected that the sand and mud will be so far
removed, as to admit of the vessel being floated and drawn up
on land, when it may be more completely examined, and. its
actual value better ascertained. In the meantime the'spot has
been enclosed with a temporary fence, and as the expense of ex-
cavating must be considerable, a small demand has been made
to inspect the vessel, and such articles as have been taken to the
looker 's cottage for exhibition ; and it is hoped that eventually
he will he more than indemnified for his labour.

PORTS3IO trill, Ju IA 31.—This morning arrived the French
brig Vigilant, detained and sent in by his Majesty's' ship' Iphi-
genia, Captain Sir R. Mends, from the coast of Africa. ;We
lament to learn that the slave trade is still carried on with the
greatest openness. The Vigilant had 347 slaves on' board
when she was detained by the Iphigenia, the whole of whom
were set free. She was sent home with a British officer and
crew ; the French captain is still on board. The British Ai-
cer immediately went off to London. The following ships had
been detained by Sir R. Mends, and their human cargoes re-
leased :—Conde del Villa Flora, 173 slaves ; Des tie Feuero,
10 ditto ; Esperanza Felix, 187
34 ditto ; ZeLA uman, 3e
BeBo dtseyitto ;
Viena, 325 ditto ;Le Vigilant, 7 ditto ; Peti,
216 ditto ; Le Vigute, 218 ditto ; Don Pedro, 110 ditto. A
schooner slave ship, also detained by the Iphigenia, was cap-
sized on the 12th of June, when two master's mates, 16 seamen
,of the Iphigenia, and above 150 slaves, were drowned. In de-
taining these ships, the Iplugenia had one man killed, and two
badly wounded. The Myrmidon had also Octal:x(1 some slave
ships. Considerably above 2,000 slaves have been released by
his Majesty's ships.

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EXCIIANGE, AUGUST 2 •
The Wheat trade, for fine samples, this morning displays a
greater briskness than at the fanner part of the weck, and
Monday's prices were readily obtained ; the present showery
weather, operating on the minds of the millers, caused the
briskness this morning. Barley, Beans, and Peas, as on Mon-
day, and but little doing.

SMITHFIELD MARKET, AUG. 2.
Although there was a good supply at market this morning,
a higher price was asked for all descriptions of Cattle ;` Shecp
of good quality are full 2s. per head higher than last market
day, owing to their being a demand for all kind of small meat ;
there were but few Oxen, but Lambs were plentiful. •
4s Od
Beef 2s 6d to 3s 4do( Veal is NI to
Os Od to s Od
Mutton 2s Od to 2s 8l Pork
Lamb 3s. . to 4s. Od.

A very curious phenomenon has occurred NN
in these few weeks at Hickling Broad : thousands
and tens of thousands of fish have died, and floated
on the surface of the water. No satisfactory
cause has been assigned for this great and un-
exampled destruction of the finny tribe.—(Nor-
L zilch Post.)