The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-31 00:00:00

ROYAL NAVY, &c.

His Majesty's yacht Herald, Captain HENRY
J. LEERI, returned to Portsmouth on Friday evening from
Quebec, after a fine passage of twenty-two days, having con-
veyed thither the Earl of DALHOUSIE and suite, who resumed
his Government- of the Canadas on the 16th of Au„ .t. She
has brought home his Excellency the Hon. Sir F. 1 ton,
Lieutenant-Governor of Lower CapiztiLord Ar.thut enno
Mrs., Captain, and Miss Mountain, the
fariiily of the late
Lord Bishop of Quebec. The settlements of Upper and Lower
Canada were in the most prosperous condition ; trade was never
so brisk ; upwards of 750 ships having quitted Quebec this
season. Nearly one hundred sail of merchant shipping had
been already launched, which had caused such a dearth of
seamen, that 151. per month wages formed the current price,
and it was expected that it would soon increase to 20/.—Ten
ships were loading with corn for England, but it was not ex-
pected there would be great exports of this article, as the pre-
sent crop, though it was all saved, was considered rather a
light one; and the new Colonial Act, which levies a duty of 1.5
per cent. on all imports, would prevent the Canadians from
importing American Wheat, in lieu of their own crops, which,
if this new duty had not been imposed, they would have done,
and „sent their own produce to this country.—The Romney,
Captain Lockyer, was daily expected at Quebec, with the
79th Regiment from Cork, to embark the 37th Regiment for
England : the 68th Regiment had gone to Upper Canada to
take the duty of the 37th Regiment. The Niemen, Captain
Wallis, left Quebec on the 29th of August for Pictou and Ha-
lifax.—(Hampshire Telegraph.)

PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 29.—The Rainbow, 28, Hon. Capt.
Rout', for the Cape of Good Hope, and the Cyrene, 18, Captain
Alexander Campbell, for the coast of Africa, will shortly sail
from this port—General Bourke, appointed to command the
Eastern Division of the Cape of Good Hope, takes his passage
in the former ship ; Colonel Douglas and Captain, Royal En-
gineers appointed to examine into the state of the forts on the
Coast Of Africa, in the latter.
On Wednesday the Fly, 18, Capt. WTetherall, went out of
Harbour, fitted for a foreign station. She is expected to sail
on Tuesday with dispatches for the Cape of Good Hope and
the East Indies.

Remain at Spithead—Piranha, Herald, Fly. In the Har.
hour—Victory, Ganges, Warspite, Volage, Icarus, Mastiff.
Calliope; Magnificent, convalescent ship, for Jamaica; Royal
Oak, for Bermuda.

The transports Layton, Lieut. Lovitt, and Southworth,
Lieut. Sanders, will embark the remainder of the 90th Regi-
ment on Monday, for the Mauritius, and sail on the following
day. It is expected they will bring home the 56th Regiment.
The Duchess of York transport, Lieut. Green, is ordered to
take detachments and recruits from Albany Barracks to the
Leeward Islands in the West Indies. Major-General Main_
warren, appointed Governor of the island of St. Lucie, takes
his passage by her.
l'he Hibernia, 100, and Ajax, 74, having been taken out of
Dock, the Nelson, 120, Queen Charlotte, 100, and Bulwark,
74, were this morning taken into the large Basin Ducks for
thorough repair ; the Bason will again be cleared of water and
cleansed out, the masonry work repaired, and new gates will
be erected instead of those which were lately so lamentably
burst open. The Princess Charlotte, 120, has been taken into
the South Dock, to be coppercd.
The Americans are building twelve corvettes of between six
and seven hundred tons burden, which are to mount twenty-
two 42-gounder carronades, and four long 24-pounder guns
each.

We learn by a letter from Rio Janeiro, August 17, that the
officers and crews of his Majesty's ships Spartiate and Welles-
ley, have exchanged ships, the former ship having been found
unfit to remain on active service. Kear-Admiral Graham Ham-
mond, C. 11., may be daily expected to raturn to England from
Rio Janeiro in the Spartiate. The Diamond, 4(1, Captain Lord
Napier, arrived at Rio Janeiro on the 15th of August, from
England. The Tartar, 42, Captain T. Brown, was daily ex-
pected there from round Cape Horn, on her way to England.
The Packet was to leave Rio for England on the 21st August.

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.

POST-OFFICE CASE.

On Saturday William Henry Austin, a young man of re-
spectable appearance, was indicted for stealing a bank-note,
value 51., the property of Charles Gardener, which had come
into his possession by virtue of his office as a letter sorter, at the
General Post-office. There was another indictment against
him for stealing another 5/. note, the property of John Pike.
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Mr. Sheppard opened. the .case.
-The Attorney-General ad-
dressed the Jury for the prosecution. The prisoner had been
employed in the General Post-office as a letter-sorter. Ile
need scarcely inform them that stealing money from letters was
by law declared to be a capital felony. He then stated the case
for the prosecution, after which he called the following wit-
nesses

51r. C. Gardener said he was a traveller in the employ of
Mr. Pike, a hop-merchant at Oxford. On the 7th of July he
put the note in question, with others, in a letter, and sealed
them up, and put the letter into the Post-office at Wimbourn,
about five o'clock. He paid a penny because the box was
closed.

Joseph Bedford, a messenger at the Post-office, delivered
the letters on the Bth of July from the table letter F to their
respective divisions.
Mr. 'l'. 13rydges, a letter-sorter, said he made up the Ox-
ford bag on the Bth of July, and it was sealed by the mes-
senger.
H. Tolley, the messenger, said that he sealed the Oxford
bag on the above night.
Cross-examined—Strangers are not allowed to come into the
office to see the clerks.

J. F. Bicknell, postmaster at Oxford, received the London
bag on the morning of the 9th of July ; the seal was unbroken.
Mr. John Pike, hop merchant at Oxford, examined—Did
not receive a letter on the 9th of July, containing a remittance
from his traveller at \Vimbourn.

Mr. R. Watts is President of the Inlan-office ; on the even
ing of the Bth July, the prisoner was senior clerk at the Man
chester Division.

Charles Wallace said, he had known the prisoner since 1811 ;
he met him at Holton shortly befbre the 9th of July ; had not
seen the prisoner before for a considerable time. Ile asked wit-
ness how he was going on, to which he replied, but middling ;
he then said he had an opportunity occasionally of putting some-
thing in his way, and took witness's address, No. 3, Bermond-
sey New-road, and they then parted ; he called on witness on
the morning of the 4th of July, and requested he would go for
him to the city, to get change for a few notes; it was about 10
.o'clock in the morning ; he gave witness three 51. country notes,
and told him to get sovereigns for them at the banker's where
they were payable in the city, and to meet him afterwards on
Southwark-bridge ; witness went to the banks of Stevenson and
Co., and Fry and Co., where lie got change for the notes ; he
met the prisoner afterwards, and gave him the money ;
they then walked to Cornhill together, when the prisoner
asked hint to purchase 101. worth of French money at Thomas's
bullion-office, and then to go to Clerken well to fetch his watch
from a watch-maker, and meet him with the watch and the
French money at Guildhall. Witness went to Thomas's, and
asked fur the French money, for which he produced two 51.
Bank of England notes, which he had received front the
prisoner. One of the notes was objected to, on which he
went and changed it at the Bank, and wrote his name and
address on it; then went back to Thomas's, and procured
the French money. Afterwards went for the watch, but
could not obtain it; met the prisoner at Guildhall, and de-
livered the French money to him ; told him he had been
at the Bank to change one of the five pound notes, as it had
been objected to by Mr. Thomas ; he asked if witness had
put his address to it, he told him he had ; he appeared to
be flurried ; witness said he could not be too candid with
such a public body as the Bank of England, and that it was
probable he would hear no more of it ; he gave witness a so-
vereign, and they parted, the prisoner saying he was going out
of town ; he met him a few days after, when he asked if wit-
ness had heard any thing more about the note, to which he re-
plied in the negative. He then said if you do, let me know
immediately ; you will find me every day, at four o'clock, at
the Weavers' Arms, Kingsland-road. Witness afterwards re-
ceived a letter from Mr. Freeling, Secretary to the Post-office,_
respecting the note, desiring he would call on him. Went to
the prisoner immediately, and told him of it. Prisoner said he
did not wish his name to appear, as there had been several em-
bezzlements in the Post-office lately. Witness was taken into
custody a few days after; told the officer he had an appointment
to meet the prisoner on Waterloo-bridge.
Gardner, a Bow-street officer, proved that he apprehended
the prisoner, and on searching him, found one gold Napoleon,
a silver five franc piece, and a franc.—This closed the case for
the prosecution.
The prisoner declined saying any thing in his defence.--
Several respectable witnesses then gave the prisoner an excel-
lent character for honesty, &c.
The Learned Judge (Mr. Justice PAttm) then summed •up
the evidence, and the Jury returned a verdict of—Guilty—
Deatk•

LOSS OF THE COMET.

(From the " Claws, Courier" of Saturday, received this
morning./

Public anxiety and sympathy still continue to
be directed to the sad accident which befel the Comet steam-
vessel, and the fate of the unfortunate passenger and crew who
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were,on board at the time. of the strophes, nteke espe-
cially as there is the strongest gun 'eve that the' num-
berOf victim*t•bas been underrated. ince our last the under-
mentioned bodies have been found. . -

Wednesday Afternoon.—Duncan 1111Kenzie, fireman of the
Comet, immediately recognized and claimed by his wife and
father. A girl, apparently about 10 or- 11 years of age,
unknown, but supposed to be Grace AP Kenzie, niece of the
young woman Rose, found on Saturday, and whom it is
believed she was accompanying from the north. A stout young
woman, unknown ; had on a brown born bazeen gown, coarse
grey worsted stockings, and shoes tied with white tape, supposed
to have come in at Ohan, and then to have had on a black
bonnet and two black feathers.

Thursday, Oct. 27.—The body of a man with fustian jacket
and trowsers and black vest, was found ; he is supposed, from
certain certificates found in a pocket book on his person, to be
either Lewis or Donald M`Kay, a son of George M‘Kay, be_
longing to the parish of Duthil ; Peter Sutherland, the car-
penter of the Comet, says he is Donald M‘Kay, by trade a
smith, and that he was on his way from Invergordon to Glas-
gow to seek employment ; and this ac-count is by no means im-
probable, from the coincidence of a smith's leather apron being
among the articles washed on shore the day of the accident. A
man named Munro.

An elegant scarf, which is, with much probability, supposed
to have belonged to the unfortunate Mrs. Sutherland, was
brought up by the drag on Thursday, and from the weight
which continued for some time to be attached to the drag, there
is reason to believe that her body was also attached to it ; but,
geting disentangled from the scarf, the corpse again sunk to
the bottom. It is to be hoped that it will be immediately
come at. Lord Fife, much to his honour, has, we learn, ex-
pressed the utmost anxiety for the recovery of the body of this
amiable lady, and communicated his wish that no expence may
be spared to accomplish this object.
The fate of Captain Sutherland and his lady (married about
five weeks, instead of five days, as we were at first informed)
has excited the utmost commiseration. Their recent mar-
riage—the youth, the beauty, and the accomplishment of
the lady, and that her husband was a brave and gallant
officer in the service of his country—these—all these things,
as they became more generally known, raised and spread
an interest and a sympathy for their character and their
fate, as deep and extensive as it is honourable to the pub_
lie mind. Every particular, therefore, concerning them will
be received with deep attention. We stated, in our paper
of Saturday last, that Mrs. Sutherland for some time clung
round Mr. Alexander Anderson, while he was struggling in
the waves to save himself. This account was communicated
to us at a late hour on Friday evening by a gentleman of
this city, the brother-in-law of Mr. Anderson, who obliging-
ly waited upon us immediately after the arrival at his house of
Mr. Anderson from Greenock, with all the particulars he could
learn from his relative, in his then enfeebled and agitated state.
The account we gave, was, lie states, the impression left on his
mind, from what Mr. Anderson said with regard to Mrs. S.—
Upoa more particular inquiry made at him on the subsequent
clay, however, we learn, that the following is the correct ac-
count of what took place during the last moments that Mr.
Anderson saw the unfortunate pair. He heard the engine man
call out to steer towards the shore. Almost at the same mo-
ment the engine was stopped, from the water rushing in from
the bow. The bow of the Comet was sinking—the passengers
were rushing in a crowd to the boat astern. Mr. Anderson,
who was an excellent swimmer,• and calculated upon that re-
source in the last extremity, stood on. deck holding by a rope.
At this moment he was seized round the arm, near the shoul-
der, with a convulsive grasp by a person behind him, lamenting
their fate. In his perilous situation he endeavoured to shake
the individual off, exclaiming, " let me go !" when turning
round to disentangle himself, he perceived that the person who
had seized hold of him was Mrs. Sutherland. His heart smote
him at the sight, and he immediately apologised to her in the
kindest manner for having accosted her soroughly,being ignorant '
who it was thathad addressed him. At thatrnament he perceived
ci4int_ Sitthhethanit int a littltt di.tanrp, in the act Or LlM...wing off
s cloak or coat, to prepare himself, as he conceived, for
swimming. In the mean time, without letting go his hold of
the rope, and wishing to render Mrs. Sutherland all the assist-
ance in his power, he gave her a strong shove forward in the
direction of the boat astern, as the only place of safety. Mr.
Sutherland must have immediately joined her, as Mr. Rankine
assures us one of the crew told him that he saw them leap to-
gether into the sea from the starboard quarter, as the Comet
finally sunk. What took place aftewards, however, Mr. An-
derson cannot tell, as he was almost immediately compelled
to turn his attention to think of his own safety by finding the
water above the deck where his:feet stood. He, however, kept
his hold till the water reached his middle, when a wave rolling
over the Comet carried him off. his feet. He then betook him-
self to swimming, when a second wave threw his great-coat,
which he had retained, over his head and almost suffocated
him. He,fhowever, succeeded in getting it thrown hack, when
he perceived that he was swimming from the shore instead of
towards it. In the latter direction he turned, when he was soon
afterwards laid old of by the engineman of the Comet, and
reached the shore as we formerly mentioned.
Captain Sutherland's body remains here still uninterred.—
Upon reconsideration it was judged proper to delay the funeral
in the hope that the body of his Lady might be found, so that
as both had perished together, both might be buried together.
Lord Fyfe, also, and some friends from the North have, we hear,
signified their wish to be present on the melancholy occasion.
An elegant coffin stands ready at Greenock to receive the remains
of Mrs. Sutherland the moment that the same may be found.
As the last bodies found are rapidly approaching to a state of
putrefaction—so rapidly that it is difficult for their friends to
recognize them, it is highly desireable that the Comet should
be got raised. This is likely to be carried into effect without
delay, as our River Superintendent, with all the necessary ap-
paratus and assistance, left this at an early hour yesterday morn-
ing for the purpose. During the whole of yesterday the weather
was exceedingly mild and favourable, and by this time the
Comet has probably been -raised, and the extent of the loss by
this melancholy event been ascertained.
Courier Office, Friday Evening.—No more of the bodies of
the unfortunate sufferers in the Comet had been found at a late
hour this forenoon. Men were still actively employed dragging.
The most active operations were going forward in order to raise
the vessel ; and our informant says, he is confident that she is
by this time in chains, and is expected to be got up by Sun-'
day. Part of the pump of the engine was brought up by the
drag this morning, which shews that the machinery must have
been broken, and also how dreadful the fatal stroke from the
Ayr must have been.

Courier offieejciday Evening, 9 r.M.—The body of Mrs.
Sutherland WWI found about two o'clock this afternoon.

[From the Edinburgh Courant of Saturday.]
Since the account of the escape of Miss Munro from the
wreck of the Comet, which appeared in our last, our reporter
has had an interview with that young lady, and received from
her the following details of her providential escape :—She states
that she was standing near the funnel of' the Comet, talking
with Mr. ArKenzie of Edinburgh, who, on the near approach
of the Ayr, asked her if she would like to see that vessel.
While walking towards the how for that purpose, the dread-
ful collision took place. , From where she stood she was
among the first who fell into the sea, to which she, in a
great measure, attributes her preservation, as the greatest
part of the passengers were crowded aft imploring aid from the
crew of the Ayr ; consequently, by tumbling in heaps upon
one another, they accelerated their own destruction. Miss M.
sunk thrice, and on coining up the last time much exhausted,
she caught fast hold round the neck of a large black dog. The
animal swam towards the shore, dragging her along with him,
until they came in contact with two spars of Wood, which she
eagerly caught hold of', and buoyed herself up till relieved by
the pilot-boat, as formerly noticed. It is not a little remark-
able that when repeatedly driven back from the shore by the
reAux of the waves, the dog never left her side, but invariably
turned back, and accompanied her, and when she was landed,
'followed her into the house, when he remained at the foot of
her bed until the mistress of the house locked him in a cellar,
from whence lie made his escape next morning, to the young
lady's great regret. She mentions as her principal associates on
the voyage, Miss Al'lntosh of Campbleton, Inverness-shire, on
her way to visit her friends in Glasgow; Mr. C. Rose and his sis-
ter, accompanied by a little girl called Catherine, all belonging
to Glasgow, on their return from a visit of six weeks, to some
relations in Inverness; and Mr. Mackenzie of Edinburgh, for.
merly mentioned. They were all lost. One woman had five
children with her, three boys and two girls, who with the
mother were likewise drowned. At the time of the accident,
the four youngest children were fast asleep below in the steerage.