The Sun.
London, England, 1822-10-12 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TIIE ROYAL CALEDONIAN HUNT RACES,
MONDAY, OCT. 7.
•
Over the Course at 'Musselburgh.
His Majesty's Plate of lOOgs. free for any horse, &c. Four
miles. Three-yr-olds' , Bst. 41b. ; four, 9st. 41b. ; five, 9st.
101 b.: six, and aged, 10st.
Sir W. Maxwell's ch. h. Monreith, 5 yrs
Sir I). H. Blair's ch. h. Milton, 5 yrs -
Mr. Armstrong's b. c. The Pactman, 4 yrs
Mr. Johnstone's b. h. Sir Thomas, 5 yrs
Lord Kelburne's b. c. Albany, 4 yrs
Won easy.

2
3
4
dr

PERTH RACES, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 2.
A Gold Cup, 100 gs value.
Hon. Mr. Leslie's Hambletonia - - - 1
Sir D. H. Blair'd Maria - - - - 2
Sir D. Moncrieffe's Caroline - - - - 3
Sir A. Ramsay's Eglinton - - - - 4
Match.—Fifty Sovereigns, h. ft.
Mr. Grant's c. g. by Hambletonian, agst Sir D. Moncriaffe's
c. m. Louisa,—Gentlemen riders.—Won by Louisa.

A Plate of 50gs, given by Sir David 3loncrieffe.
Sir D. Moncrieffe's Louisa - - - -
-
Sir D. 11. Blair's Maria - - -
Mr. Grant's c. g. by Hambletonian, aged - -
Mr. Carleton's g. f. Ilambletonia, 3 yrs - -
--

2 2
3 dr
4 3

THURSDAY.
A Sweepstakes of lOgs each, with 501. added from the Racing
Fund.
lion. Mr. Leslie's m. Hambletonia, 5 y;s •
•
Lord Kennedy's Eglinton, aged
Sir D. Moncricffe's b. g. Warlock, 4 yrs old •
A Plate of 501. given by the Hunt.
Hon. Mr. Leslie's Hambletonia, 5 yrs old.
Sir D. Moncrieffe's Louisa, 5 yrs old
Mr. Grant's c. g. by Hambletonia
Sir D. H. Blair's Maria, 4 yrs old

1
2 dr

GREAT FOOT RACE.—Yesterday morning a match, which
excited very great interest at the Club-houses, and upon which
there was heavy betting, was decided on the Kilburn-road.
Captain Smith, well known in the sporting world as a good pe-
destrian, undertook to run five miles in thirty minutes, for a
stake of 501., play or pay, and time for the favourite at odds.
He started at eight o'clock from Maida-hill, a mile in and out,
and finally performed the match, not having even a second to
spare.

PIRACY.

The following is a correct statement of the
plunder of the ship Edward Protheroe, of Bris-
tol, on Monday, 10 A.m., 19th of August, oppo-
site Saddle-hills, coast of Cuba :---
" As the Edward Protheroe was standing in towards shore,
a schooner hove in sight, bearing to W., which had, on first
seeing, the appearance of a drogger, with a boat at her stern ;
when we tacked, the schooner was within musket-shot, fired
three muskets, and ordered us to heave-to (at which time se-
veral brigs and ships were in sight), and send our boat on
board ; but finding our boat at stern to cause detention, they
immediately hoised their boat out, and came alongside with
ten men, who had the appearance of savages, armed with drawn
swords, knives, and pistols ; after boarding, they drove all the
ship's company down the fore-hatchway, when some kept
guard, remainder came on quarter-deck, and surrounded
the Captain, and Messrs. Fedden and Smart, passengers.
The Captain they threatened with death, drawing a knife
across his throat several times, and said the rope was
ready on board the schooner for hanging him, if he.
did not immediately deliver up his property, and all monies r,
on board, the ship's manifest papers and parcels, which they a
tore to pieces and threw about the deck ; they took all the Cap-
tain's money, plate, two gold watches, one silver ditto chrono-
meter, sextant, charts, writing desk, with all its papers • they
then proceeded to Messrs. Fedden and Smart, who delivered
up all their property, but having suspicion that Mr. Smart had
money concealed below, they beat him cruelly with a naked
sword, threatening his life; during which time another boat
came alongside, full of armed men ; they then ordered the Crew
up from below, and desired the Captain to follow their schooner
in towards shore, and get the anchor ready : in the act of the
sailors getting the iron cable from below, they cruelly beat and
cut them. They ran the ship on a reef, as the crew were cutting
the anchor from the bows ; they then ordered the hatches to be
taken off, and all the coffee to be hoisted on deck part of which
they lowered into the boat. They ordered the ship's company
to unbend fore and main gallant sails, flying gib, &c. and
took sails from sail-room, colours, awning from quarter-deck,
Sec. ; they even ordered boom and irons from aloft, with a
quantity of running rigging, blocks and tackle; likewise water,
beef, bread, peas, and other provisions, with candles, paints,
and two coenpases, and plundered the cabin of all its stores,
breaking and destriking every thing that came to hand, still
continuing their cruelty ; they took the whole of the captain's
wearing apparel, beds, and linen. Messrs. Fedden and Smart
were served in the same manner, nor were the ship's company
exempt ; the steward, being a black, was served in a most
shocking manner, by being cut and stabbed in several places :
they ransacked the ship fore and aft, and took all. stock, wines,
&c., and destroyed all the medicines, and were about continu-
ing further devastation when hailed from the schooner to board
a brig to the leeward ; they left us then, and proceeded to the
brig ; during all this time the ship was beating very heavily on
the reef, and it required the greatest exertions of captain and
crew to get her off, which she did at 10 p. m. after being obliged
to slip her cable. •
" Lat. 23.40. long. 79. 40.
" The above is vouched by the signatures of
" WM. ATKINSON, Master.
" JAMES CLOUTER, Chief Mate.
" EYMER FEDDEN,
" JAMES SMART, Passengers."
The Feliza, Captain Cundy, arrived in this port, was chased
near the Havannah, during the whole night and day, by a sus-
picious vessel ; she spoke the Edward Protheroe whilst the
above schooner was in sight ; other ships had also been chased,
which induced the Captains to present the following memorial
to the senior officer of his Majesty lying in the Havannah :
" We, the undersigned Masters of the ships John, Thisbe,
and Feliza, actually consider it necessary for the preservation
of the property and ships committed to our charge, to put into
the Havannah, to present this petition to the Captain of any of
his Britannic Majesty's ships that may be in the port, praying
that he may affbrd them protection through the Gulf of Florida.
" The undersigned are not actuated by any groundlesi ap.
prehensions--attemps having been made on the Thisbe on the
morning of the 15th inst. and on the Feliza several times during
the same night, by a suspicious schooner-rigged vessel, that re-
fused to give any information as to her name or nation,
_and we
can only attribute our present safety to keeping close company
with each other.
" We have strong grounds to apprehend a coalition will take
place during the night, as three schooners are now in the Offing,
one of which we discover to be the vessel that already attempt-
ed to board us.
(Signed) " POPPLEWELL, Ship John.
" PETER REDDIE, Ship Thisbe.
" F. CUNDY, Ship Feliza.
" Dated 16th of August, off the Havannah.
"To Sir Robert Mends, Iphigenia."
On waiting on Sir Robert Mends, he with great alacrity, and
at the request of Captain Reddie, sent an officer and 30 men on
board the Thisbe, for the protection of the ships during the
night, and ordered the Tyne sloop of war to sail before day,
and convoy the ships through the Gulf.
The Captains consider themselves much indebted to Sir Ro-
bert Mends, for the prompt manner in which he afforded them
every protection.
Captain Popplewell spoke the brig Blackett, Captain Smith,
on the 13th. Captain /learn, of the brig Vittoria, was pas-
senger, who stated that his brig, as well as the Endeavour,
were taken by a piratical schooner off the Saddle Hills. •
Since the above was in type, we have received information,
that the brig which was plundered put into Havannah, and
that Sir R. Mends sent her out again, with a compliment of
men, when the pirates bore down, and a number of them hav-
ing come on board, were all taken and hung immediately.—
The schooner was also taken.—(Bristol Gazate.

TRADE WITH HOLLAND.

6, Circus, Minorics, Oct. 11, 1822.

SIR,—I have the pleasure of acquainting you
that the Dutch Government has issued an order by which Bri-
tish ships, in respect of tonnage and lastage dues, are placed
upon the like footing with Dutch ships in the ports of the
Netherlands, and that the exemption from the extra dues will
take effect from the sth day of July last past.—l am,

(Signed)
Mr. John Bennett, Jun., Lloyd's.

JOHN HALL.

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, OCT. 11.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived and sailed for
the River the Florentine, Runnington, from Bombay ;. Mala-
bar, Ascough, Batavia ; Temple, Walker, Jamaica ; John,
Taylor, Virginia ; Tropic, Brandford, Barbacloes ; and a trans-
port, from the Westward. Came down from the River the
Richard, Williamson, for Demerara; Ann, Lowry, South
Seas ; and Truxilla, Anderson, Maracaybo.
PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 11.—Wind W.—Arrived the Hero,
from St. Andrew's. Sailed the Koutosoff, Doklooroof, for St.
Petersburgh.
FAL MOUTH, OCT.lo.—Wind WS. W.--Sailed the Adeona,
Stewart, for London ; Pilchard, Wilcock, and Union, Brokin-
shaw, ditto.
DOVER, OCT. 11.—Passed this port last evening the Had-
low, Craigie, from Bombay ; Temple, Walker, Jamaica ; Ider,
Lodder, St. Croix ; Briton, Crane, Jamaica ; and Amazon,
Holder, ditto.
LOSSES AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
The Olive-Branch and Leander have been driven on shore
at the Cape of Good Hope, and were to be sold the first week
in August. The Royal George from New South Wales, and
the Sun, were driven on shore at the Cape of Good hope prior
to the 7th of August, but expected to be got off:
The Adriatic has been condemned at the Cape of Good Hope,

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
The Florentia, Remmington, from Bengal the Nth January,
Madras the 20th March, Isle of France the 2nd June, and St.
Helena August the 15th, is arrived off Portsmouth.
The Hadlow, Cragie, from Bombay the 2nd June, is arrived
off Dover, and brings an account of the Brailsford, Spring, and
the Swallow, Ross, from tpondon ; also the Seaford', Jones,
from Liverpool, having airiired at Bombay.
The Elizabeth, Storey, from Sumatra June the Ist, is arrived
at Cowes ; she is an American ship, and waiting for orders.
No accounts have yet been received of the Barissa, Hutchin-
son, from Madras, or the Lord Castlereagh, Briggs, from
Bombay.
PASSENGERS EN THE FLORIINTIA.—Mrs. Harriet Dare,
Mrs. Isabella Garnham; Lieut.-Col. Hastings Dare, 25th regi-
ment Native Infantry, Bengal ; Major R. C. Garnham, 29th
regiment ; Mr. George Gordon, from Madras; Misses C. Dunn,
L. Blackball, A. Boyd, K. Syme, and three Misses Garnham.;
Masters A. Ross and M. Boyd ; 15 invalids, one woman, and
three children.
SHIPS LEFT AT ST. HELENA—The Indostan,Williamson,
from Madras, sailed the 20th May, and bound to Liverpool ;
I and the Vansittart, Dalrymyle, from China, for England.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

•EXTRAC'SS FROM THE DULY MORNING PAPERS;
• October 12, 1822. ,

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
The most contradictory reports are in circula-
tion with rpspect to the India❑ Governorship.
The prevailing opinion, at present, is that Lord
Melville will not go out to India.

The gloom which the slaughter of so many
brave Men in France,
,and the executions Which-
are still meditated, are calculated to diffuse over
every well constituted mind, is to a certain ex--
tentsrelieved by the cheering prospect opened in
Spain. The Conslitutionnel contains some in 7
teresting details of the brilliant and imposing
festival on the AnniversarX of the Installation of
the Cortes. If the national property continue to
sell as it has done, there will be upwards of-
-16,000,000,000 reals to
.pay, 5,500,000,000 of
debt. -An honest Government will soon set all'
to rights in Spain. We augur well of the'North,
from the number of monks said to be seeking an
asylum in France.---a(Mid.)

[MORNING HERALD.]
An Evening Paper of yesterday (said to be a
Ministerial Paper) expresses its satisfaction in
laying before its Readers an account of the Re-
venue for the last quarter, which exhibits a de-
ficiency, as compared with the, corresponding
quarter of last year, of 804,5981. This sum,
multiplied by four, amounts to 3,222,392/. for a
year. Mr. Vansittart and the late Lord Lon-
donderry promised us a Sinking Fund of five
millions for the year 1822, ending the sth of
January, 1823. But if our said-to-be Evening
Ministerial coternporary has every ensuing quar-
ter to express its high satisfaction, and it is to
be grounded on similar results to this last quarter,
the sum of three millions and a: quarter per an-
num will mako an awkward sort of,reduction
from Mr. Vansittart's five millions surplus of
Reventie beyond Exenditure.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The decrease of 805,5981. in the quarter's re-
venue, compared with the produce of the cor-
responding quarter of last year, is the more dis-
eburaging, when it is considered that there was
an increase in that quarter of 837,2641. compared
with the corresiloning quarter of 1820. There
is in the Customs, Stamps, Post-office, and Mis,
cellaneous, a total increase of 198,2051:, but it is
more than counterbalanced by .the falling off in
the Excise, amounting to no less than 819,229/.
This de6-ease in that great branch of revenue is
,attributed to the repeal of the duties on malt, salt,
-and:leather, during the last Session of Parliament.
The produce of these articles in the quarter ended
10th October, 1821, was 3,361,195/.; but a•Mi-
nisterial Paper of last evening states, that in the
quarter just ended they have ,only produced
2221,978/.—making a difference of 1,139,2171.
To. this it may be objected that the reduction of,
the salt duty will not take place until the'lst of
January ; but admitting that, in contemplation
of that event, the dealers have limited their
present stock, yet this will not satisfactorily ac-
count for so •great a decrease in the Excise for
the 'quarter as 819,2291.—The reduction of a
duty upon any article may be expected to
produce -increased consumption ; but from the-
great falling off in the Excise, there is reason
to apprehend that the consumption has not
increased. Indeed, the decrease in the assessed
taxes, amounting to 140,3041. in the quarter
just ended, affors tolerably conclusive evidence
-of reduced expenditure in alt 'the branches of
domestic economy connected with the Excise.
Independent of the effect of the reduction of
taxes, it is totally impossible that the Revenue
must not suffer from the prevalent distress of the
country, the existence of' which no minion of
'Ministers, however blessed in his own circle with
ease and affluence,-can pretend to deny.

• [NEW TIMES.]
THE QUATITEICS REVENUE--Most gratifying is
it to, learn, that notwithstanding the recent loud,
and in some instances, no doubt, well-founded
complaints of distress, the Revenue not only
maintained its former extraordinary elevation,
but has even produced in the last quarter, as
compared with the corresponding quarter of
1-821, au increase of above half a million. When
We'say the Revenue is iiicreased, we of course
mean the existing taxes. Taxes that are taken
off cannot be productive. Yet though this is so
palpable a truism, there are some sapient gentry
(and we should not be surprised to find the Edi-
tor of The Times among the number), who wilt
argue that the taxes on leather, malt, salt, hus-
bandry horses, and tonnage, which have been
taken off, or reduced to the amount of above
1,300,0001. ought still to prodtkce this same
1,300,0001.; and because this has not been ex.:

actly the case, therefore we must pronounce the
Rovenue to have fallen off! We shall leave this
notable reasoning to its inventors, and proceed
to' state the plain facts.—The quarter ending
10th October 1821 produced (including the
above-mentioned taxes) 14,022,9121. The quar-
ter ending 10th October 1822 produced (with-
out those taxes) 13,217,3141., leaving an appa-
rentdecrease of 805,5981. To make a fair com-
parison
between these two quarters, we must add
the following items, in which there has been an
abolition or reduction of taxes.

Leather . -
Malt -
- - -
Salt -
- - -
Assessed Taxes - -
Tonnage Duties (about)

- £26,243
- 1.,033,765
- 79,204
- 140,304
- 50,000

1,329,521
Deduct apparent Decrease • 805;598

Remains real InCrease X 523,923

[MORNING POST.]
The intelligence from Madrid comes down to
the • &l instant. The Constitutionalists fairly
•• admit that on the 18th ult. the party commanded
by Colonel Tabuenca suffered, a, defeat on the
frontiers of Arragon. It consisted of only SOO
'men, and, fought for six hours against five or six

thousand Insurgents, whose overpowering superi-
ority compelled it at last to retire, with the loss of
its Commander, who was taken prisoner with the
head 'of his Staff, whilst reconnoitring the
ground at some diStance from his troops. The
first Royalist accounts stated him to have been
immediately shot, but later ones represent
him to have died of his wounds on his way to the
Seo d'Urgel. This is the action which was mag-
nified by the Ultras into a great victory gained
over Mina himself, who, it was asserted, had
either perished in the contest or was so closely
blocked up by
,superior forces at I.4erifia, that he
could not long avoid surrendering with his whole
army. These reports are reiterated by the
Royalists ; whilst the Patriots, who do not seem
disposed to conceal the real state of their affairs,
maintain that Mina was not engaged in the con-
flict ; and that, far from beinc, surrounded and
confined within the walls of Lerida, he had no
sooner heard of Tabuenca's disaster than he
gave directions. to march upon Cervera, in order
to strike an important blow. They add, that in-
flamed with thirst for revenge,,his troops carried
that place by storm, and growing ungovernable
in their fury, could not be prevented from put-
ting the whole garrison to the sword.

[THE TIMES.]
A letter from Mr. John Hall to Mr. Bennett,
at Lloyd's, conveys intelligence _that the Dutch
Government has taken off the extra tonnage
duties on British shipping in the ports of the N-
therlands, and placed our merchantmen on a.
footing of equality with those of the Dutch
and Flemish merchants. This, then, is the
first and natural fruit of a more liberal system
of maritime policy than heretofore, on the part
of the British Government. This, too, is a re-
futation of the absurd prognostics believed in
by some commercial men amongst ourselveS,
and long employed and adhered to by certain of
our Statesmen,—that by relaxing our maritime
law we should lay Great Britain at the mercy of
other States, who 'Would profit by, but not
imitate, her generosity. This has been falsefied
in two very striking instances-Lin that of tbe
United States, which, by a proclamation of Mr.
Monroe, dated the latter end of August, opened
the ports of the Republic to British ships,
on the fair and salutary principal of reciprocity,
Great Britain having set the example on be-

half of American vessels in. her colonial harbours;
and 2d, in that of the Netherlands above stated.
The consequence must be a general increase of
commerce, the grand resource of the merchant
and the financier. The next good effect is a
final increase of comfort among all ranks of
people, from that reduction of prices which more
extended commerce always brings, and by which,
ultimately, the interests of agriculture itself
are promoted. The last result of an increased
commercial intercourse is, the powerful confirma-
tion which it produces of the bonds of friendship,
and of the spirit of peace between neighbouring
countries. In every fresh cargo' which passes
from one, commercial city to another, there is a
fresh assortment of mutual dependencies, of
common interests, and of amicable feelings,
which all conspire to postpone the day of (at
last, perhaps, inevitable) hostility, and to as-
suage its evils when it can be no longer deferred.
The small trial which the principle of free trade
has yet undergone from the measures of this Go-
vernment is, nevertheless,' enough to illustrate
its value as a principle ; and we trust' that ere
the lapse of another Session, the British mer-
chant will enjoy its benefits to a more ample and
satisfactory extent.

.
GROANING AND CRYING.--A French surgeon
lately.published a long dissertation on the bene-
tidal influence of groaning and crying on the ner-
vous system. He contends that groaning and '
crying are the two grand operations by which
nature. allays anguish ; and that he has- uniformly
observed that those patients who giVe way to
their natural feelings more speedily recover from
accidents and operations than those who ima-
gine it is unworthy a man to betray such symp-
toms of cowardice and weakness as either to groan
or to cry. lie is• always pleased by the crying
and violent roaring of a patient during the time
he is undergoing a severe surgical operation, be-'
cause he is satisfied that he will thereby so soothe
his system as to prevent fever, and ensure a
favourable termination.- Erom the benefit hyste-
rical and_other nervous patients deride from cry-
ing or groaning, he supposes that by these pro-
cesses of nature the superabundant nervous power
is exhausted, and the nervous system is in con-
sequence rendered calm, and even the circulation
of the blood greatly diminished. Re relates
a case of. a, man who, by means of crying and
laughing-, reduced his pulse from 120. to 60.
in the course of two hours. That some. patients
often have a great satisfaction in grinning, and
that hysterical patients, often experience great
relief from crying, no person will deny. As to
restless; hypochondriacal subjects, or those 'who
are never happy but when they are, under some
course of medical or dietetic treatment, the
French surgeon assures them that they cannot-do
better than to groan all night and cry all day.--'
By following 'this rule, and observing an abste-
mious diet, a. person will effectually escape dis-
ease, and may prolong life-to an incredible extent.
( American Paper.)
. SUICIDE.--CORONER'S INouEsT.--Yesterday
evening an Inquest was' held in the Committee-
room of the Middlesex Hospital, before THOS.
STIRLING, Esq. Coroner, on the body of 111 r.
Jackson Cranston, a half-pay officer, aged 40,
who put an-end to his existence by cutting his
throat on Wednesday last, at his lodgings, the
Cross Keys, Belton-street, Long-acre. 'lt ap-
peared from the evidence that the deceased 'was
labouring under a complaint in the head, and
haiing lately received a letter announcing his
brother's-death, it 'seemed to have a sensible
effect upon his mind, and he never since has been
well. On Wednesday morning last the inmates
of the house m which the deceased lodged were
alarmed by hearing groans, and proceeding ,to
his bed room on the second floor, they found
him with his throat cut, and two razors were
' lying by his' side.--;-Verdict—" Temporary de.,
rangement."