The Sun.
London, England, 1825-08-20 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, AUG. 19.--Wind N.W. squally...--Arrived and
sailed for the River, the Beaufort,. Sainthill ; Kingston, Jack-
son ; FlreiwoOd, Buck, and David Lyon, Berry, from Jamaica ;
also, and remain,, the Somersetshire, Ross, from ditto; the
Ratcliff, from the South Seas, and the homeward-bound, sailed
for the River this morning. Sailed the Europe, Willis, for
Quebec.

PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 19.—Wind • N.N.W.—Airived the
Lang, Lusk, from the Downs, for New South Wales; Jane,
Riddle, frOm ditto, for Madeira ; the latter foremast rotten, and
must be replaced. Edward transport; from Cowes, for Sierra
Leone.
PLYMOUTH, AUG. 18.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrived the
Prince of Saxe Coburg' Tremayne, from the Downs, for
Gibraltar.
.Sailed the Elissa, Edwards, and Fly, Carrel, for
Newfoundland.

FALMOUTH, AUG. 18—Wind N.N.W.- to N. strong
breezes—Arrived off' the Port the Liberty, Hurr, from Cepha.
lonia, in 12 weeks, for Hull. Arrived the Fancy, Crews, from
Cork ; Alfred, Liston, from Guernsey ; Union, Brokenshire,
and Active, Banks, front London.
LIVERPOOL, AUG. 18.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Gen),
Farrier, from New Orleans, sailed the 29th of June; Africa,
Cox, Savannah ; Clare.ssa Ann, Owens, Charleston ; Thomas,
Hanway, from 111 iramichi, sailed the 26th of July ;, Alexander,
, Leghorn ; and the Traveller, Harvey, from Quebec,
sailed the 24th of July.

Arrived off Hastings, the Java Packet, -.,--, from Bata,
via ; and the Fortuna, --, from New Orleans.
DUBLIN.—SHIP LAUNCH.--'Phis day, at four
o'clock, will be launched from Mr. Morton's yard, near the
drawbr4dge leading to Ringsend, schooner, fully, rigged, in-,
tended for a Bordeaux packet, about 130 tons measurement, and
built particularly for the trade, under the inspection of Captain
Cowley, an experienced Office in the Royal Navy. This
vessel is allowed to be, by the best judges, the haedsomest
ever built in this port. She is throughly copper-fastened.,
framed of Irish oak, and planked inside, with beams, &c.
teakwood. Her cabins are elegantly fitted up fir the accom-
modation of passengers. She has been built in the course of
few months by Mr. Morton, notwithstanding the violent com-
bination existing against him by the working shipwrights,
to which, as our readers may recollect, one of his apprentice
lately fell a sacrifice. We anxiously hope that the result or
that melancholy and wanton attack on an amiable, industrious,
and unoffending young man, will lead to the correction of that
dreadful evil. The merchants and shipowners of Dublin
should feel it a duty incumbent upon them to encourage the
spirited and enterprising individual who has succeeded in build.
ing this vessel under such serious disadvantages. We are happy
to learn, that Mr. Morton has received orders from Messrs.
Rogers Brothers and Co., to lay a keel of 110 feet for the first
steam packet that was ever built in this country. She is in-
tended for the Dublin and Wexford trade, and will have ex-
cellent accommodations for! passengers. Her materials will he
all Irish, and the engines will also be made an this country..
(,Freeman's Journal, Wednesday.)

THE LIVING SKELETON.---A II the accounts

hitherto published of the Living Skeleton are,in-
correct in some particulars, as are also the like-
nesses, even that by Cruikshank ; none of them
represent the ribs as reaching 16w enough; nor 'do
they succeed in giving the real character or the
face. The receipts of the exhibition hitherto have,
we understand, averaged 401. per day ; andabe
Anatomie Vivante, as he is now called, will shortly
be sent to Edinburgh for the purpose of being
exhibited there. The health of this Pxtraot di-
nary being has been, on tilb whole, very gocni
since his residence in England ; there has, we
believe, been only the exception of one day's
illness, which was during the last week, and
which, was caused by an odd fancy he took
to breakfast on stewed eels. This, as may be:
supposed, 'did not agree with him, and he was
for some hours much indisposed.; but he was
relieved by, a profuse perspiration, and is now
once more as well as ever. The circumstance of
such perspihtion in a body of so pecuiiar a con-
formation, is in itself not a little 'extraordinary.
All the stories circulated of his being troubled
with the night-mare are totally without founda-
tion. We have made particular inquiry as to the
circumstances in which Seurat and his relatives
are placed since their arrival in this country,' and
have every reason-to believe that they are much
more comfortable and happy than in their native
land, and that they have no desire whatever to
return. It is expected that in Edinburgh, which
abounds with medical and- scientific men, this
extraordinary lusus nuturaz will be eagerly sought
after.—(Morning Poper.)

POPULAR Music,-There are two Parrots in
the neighbourhood of Walworth that whistle the
hunting: chorus and the vfaitz. in .Der Frieschuh.

We understand that it is the determination of
the management at both the great winter houses
to discourage, in future, the custom which has
of late years obtained, of paying their principal
performers by nightly salaries, a system as inju-
rious to the interests of the Theatres as to the
profession itself. Mr. MAGREIDY has.., in con-
sequence,' t is said, accepted an engaginent at
Drury-lane, on,a weekly salary ; and Mr. WA!tu
is to take the first line in tragedy at Covent,
garden, on the same plan.—(Darning Paper.)

In our Paper of yesterday we gave an account
from Queen-square Office, headed " .A'sTurrlNG
CALAMITY," of a young man named Mr. Peter-
Maxwell having been lost by his keeper on Wed-
nesday last, and it was supposed he had drowned
himself, in consequence of his handkerchief hay-
ingtecn found by his sister, Mrs. Hall, on the
steps. at Westminster Bridge. Upon inquiry,

however, respecting the fate of the unfortunate
man, we are hap2y to state, that he was brought
home to his si*'s residence in The New-cut,
about twelve o'clock last night, by three watch-
men, who found him in the Westminster-road,
nearly naked, being without shoe, stocking,toat,
waistcoat, or hat. He gave no account where he
had strayed, but was most cordially received by
his disconsolate relative.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DA I LY
Eartractsfi Dill the Morning Popo s..Aag. 20, 1825.

['rim 'rimEs.]
Althc!ogh, we trust, there is little doubt of the
acce;sion of Lord Cochrane's brilliant name and
valuable services to the cause of Greece, we have
not yet heard any good authority for that portion
of the current rumour which assigns a similar part
to Sir Robert Wilson as to his Lordship. How-
ever important might be the assistance of a brave,
upright,and skilful soldier, to a people who have,
fear; felt the want of leaders as d6tinguished
for knowledge and- rectitude as for courage, there
'.,;•,ctir to us one or two considerations which ought
to weigh with Sir R. Wilson, in forming his de-
cision upon a proposfl to join the Greeks. In
the fire: ptace, although maritime warfare is little
ki)nsid er eit upon the Continent, and Lord Coch-
is! probably not at all regarded by the Turks
arunder the cootroul of the British Government, or
by the Holy Alliance as a proscribed person, it is
not the same With the land-service, or with Sir
Robert Wilson. He has long been, as a soldier,
otinoxious to the military Potentates abroad, and
might provoke them to an intervention against
the unfortunate Greeks, more decisive and iniu-1
rious than they might otherwise meditate. With
a view, moreover, to the possible good offices of
the British Government on behalf of Greece, as
a mediator between her and Turkey, it would
not be advisable to give the Porte a handle for
objecting to the partiality of this Government, on
the ground of a man so well known throughout
Europe in his military character as Sir R. Wilson,
a Member, too,'of the Legislature of Great Bri-
tain, engaging himself personally in the service
of the Greeks. 1 t would of course be, all things
considered, a highly generous proceeding of Sir
Robert Wilson, to decline a career where glory
night be acquired, from the apprehension of em-
barrassing the present English Ministry ; yet we
have heard it stated that such has been the de-
termination of this gallant officer.

EM.OIINING cintoxicrx.i
The following Proclamation was found posted
up in most of the principal places of the Portu-
guese capital, in the morning of the 30th of July,
and stuck to the walls with a preparation so ex-
tremely adhesive, that the Police were unable to
tear it down. On the morning that it appeared
in the capital, it was in the same way found
posted up in the main streets of Oporto, Braga,
Villa Real, &c. We publish this document
without any comment, as we luxe further parti-
culars on the same subject to lay before our read-
ers. We long ago noticed the barefaced manner
in which the Queen of Portugal and her adhe-
rents were plotting against the King, for purposes
the most nefarious :

" PROCLAMATION ADDRESSED TO THE NATION.
" Valiant Portuguese—The British Government acts accord-
ing to a, plan of complete intrigue. They favour our party
as far only as they conceive is consistent with their own illa-
chiavelic views, with unheard of subtilty, afterwards so manag-
ing, that the French Government should be the executors of
the very plots they themselves had framed, by extorting the
banishment of our Prince, the only person who ought, to re►gn
over us. It was they- (British Government) who dictated the
Decree of the 24th June, on seeing that the publication of our
innocence and just pretensions, by the competent tribunal, was
so near at hand, which would have brought eternal confusion
on our enemies. The moment has arrived, Portuguese. The
continental governments are en our side, and, although the ab-
dication of the King should not take place, an equivalent will
-be-obtained, without the number of evils, Portuguese, such a
measure would bring with it. Let us therefore, unite—let us
ward off the tempest gathering against us, by resorting to a
policy that is not our own. Let us establish a Regency, pre-
sided over by the Queen, our Lady, with whom alone we can
be happy"

[TUE PUBFJC LEDGEII.]
it was reported last night that Lord Coch-
ranehad actually set out for his new destina.
tion ; but, if this report ,be premature, it will be
only so for a day or two longer. We under-
stand, in the mean time, that there is no truth in
the rumour which appeared in a Morning Paper,
and in which it was stated that he would visit
Scotland previously to his setting out fyr Greece.
As his Lordship knows the advantages of pro-
ceeding with celerity in the business in which he
is•ongaged, he will not lose a moment's time, we
should think, beyond what is absolutely neces-
sary in order to complete his arrangements. We
should imagine too, that every thing was ready,
or nearly so, before the public was let into the
secret ; and this supposition is the more proba-
ble, as the plan is nut a sudden suggestion, but
actually formed the subject of a correspondence
between the Greek Committee and his Lordship
whilst he was still in the Brazilian service. We
understand, it is settled, that two vessels large
enough to cope with any two carrying the Turk-
ish flag, are to he. placed in the first instance at
the disposal of this eminently enterprising and
skilful alter ; and as to steam boats, any num-
ber that it may be deemed advisable to employ,
can be obtained at a few hours' notice. There
is no want too of the necessary funds ; and every
thing seems to have been arranged in a way
• that reflects great credit on the persons intrust-
erl :With the arrangementS, and encourages
most sanguine anticipations of success. ' EVery
• man with whom we have conversed on the
subject anticipates also the• most brilliant
results ; and the change, which 'the ac-
cession of a single arm to the Greek cause
has' produced on the' feeling's of the PubliC
wards it, is Certainly a fine tribute to theProfesi.,
sional character Of Lord Cochrane. This homage
is in like manner a source of high gratification to
the admirers of real, as distinguished from'coni-
ventional, Worth ; and the unlimited, confidence
placed by the Public in his tridents, and which,
like a lambent flame, encircles his brows, sheiwp
thrift true merit cannot be put down by the frowns:
'of power. . ,

[BRITISH PR ES.S.i
The Paris Paperswhich arrived last nigk tare
deyoid of political intelligence. The'
constitutional question.regarding the right'of the
,:Grown to concede the. independence of Ilayti
is
discussed at con►;iderable length by the,Journa..
The.principal,difficulty on the. part of the.
Alinst,ry is, with respect,to the indemnity to the;
old colonist.% :It seern.quite clear, that under a
Representative Government the rights of any set
of citizens cannot he bartered away without their

consent or the consent of the Legislature. The
anxiety of M. De Villele to bring this negocia-
tion to a successful close just at the time when it
would operate favourably on the Stock Exchange,
has betrayed him into an utter contempt of all
constitutional principles, The Journal des De-
bats contends that one of three modes of proceed-
ing must now he adopted
1. The Royal Ordinance must be• converted into a law at the
next Session of the Chambers ; or
2. A Bill of Indemnity must be obtained for the Ministers; or
3. The Ministers must be impeached.
It is not likely, however, that either of these
courses will be exactly followed. A law mill
probably be introduced to regulate the distribu-
tion of the indemnity, and in this indirect man-
ner the departure from constitutional principles
will be to a certain extent reconciled to them.
—These papers contain no later news from
the Morea. In a supplementary sheet, the
Journal des Debuts has published the Address
of the Provisional Government and Ecclesiasti-
cal Chiefs of Greece to the Pope. The object
of this address is to solicit his Holiness to point
out to the Greeks a Prince -of royal blood, and
belonging to the Catholic Church. When the
kingdom shall be established, Greece will be
ready to adopt such laws as may he judged use-
ful and beneficial both as to her own internal
warfare and-the general interests of European
politics. The address afterwards beseeches the
Pope to espouse the Greek Church, which, since
the martyrdom of the Patriarch Gregory, has
been in a state of widowhood. The Patriarch
since appointed by the Sultan is declared to be in.
trusive and illegitimate. The address predicts that
the union of the Roman and Greek Churches will
be followed by the adhesion of the filial churches
of Bulgaria, Servia, Moldavia, and even of
Russia. The document is altogether of a very
singular nature, and, if authentic, as it pur-
ports to be, it may lead to important conse-
quences in the Christian world. It was present-
ed to Prince Barbarini, the Papal Chamberlain,
o❑ the 24th of May, and on the 6th of June an
answer was returned to the Greek Commissary,
that the Pope had received it on the day on
which it was delivered to his Minister.

IMORNING POST.I
We expressed some doubts yesterday respect-
ing
the truth of the report which stated that Sir
Robert Wilson had engaged to take a command
in the projected expedition to Greece. These
doubts we find were ,correct, and we are autho-
rised to say that the gallant Officer does not pro-
ceed with Lord Cochrane, and that the expedi-
tion will be wholly a naval one. It is to convey
certainly a large auxiliary force, but that force is
to consist chiefly of seamen and gunners. The
300,0001. are ready in the hands of the Greek
Committee, and his Lordship enters into the
service without any stipulations regarding
himself. He left town on Thursday for a few
days, and early next month will proceed to
Scotland. In October, we understand, he is to
return, and as every thing is to be prepared by
that period, his departure and that of the expe-
dition will probably take place in that month.—

We wish that it had been earlier, as the affairs of
Greece, though wearing a brighter aspect than
they did a month ago, are still placed in a
most critical situation, and the arrival of his
Lordship with such powerful means at his dis-

posal, could not fail to turn the scale in favour
of the struggling Patriots. But it is evident that
an expedition on so extensive a scale cannot be
fitted out without considerable time and exer-

tions, and that the latter must even be great to
have every thing ready as early as O;tober.

[NEW TIMES.]

We have received several warm protests agains
the doctrine supposed to have been laid down by
Sir Richard Birnie, of the passive obedience due
to watchmen. We suspect, indeed, that some of
the remonstrants are on the youthful side of
twenty-five ; and that they have a little fellow-
feeling with the young gentleman who was con-
versing by moonlight in the street with a fair
Frenchwoman, at two o'clock in the morning.
" It is no wonder,"•says one irate writer, " that
these guardians of the night have become, what
they certainly now are, the greatest nuisances in
the metropolis !" " What !" says another, is a
respectable individual to be dragged to a dungeon
merely because he hesitates to obey the insolent
and arbitrary order of a watchman to move on?"
For our own part we must confess, that if the
question were to turn on the discretion of the
watchmen, we could find little lo say in their fa-
vour. They are certainly not a class of persons
to whose legal knowledge or gentlemanly feel-
ings we should he much inclined to defer. But
after all, even an Irish watchman (and most
of these night-work gentry are Ilibernians),
may by chance be right. in the case before
us, ,Mr. Dennis Murphy (or whatever else
was the watchman's name) did not begin, as is
the way with some of his countrymen, by
knocking down the gentleman first, and then
bidding him stand. He simply gave a gen-
tle admonition to parties, under circumstances
that seemed to call for such a hint, lie carried
into effect orders which lie had received from
higher authority. We cannot but say consci-
entiously that Dennis was right : and though
we., have as constitutional a dread of this
branch of the paid Magistracy, as our friend in
'The Morning Chronicle has of the unpaid Ma-
gistracy, still, when they confine themselves with-
in the limits of their strict duty, we do think
,they ought to he protected. The rulo of" move
on" i, a very sound and goOd one for a city like
London. We cannot see what very salutary
'purpose single gentlemen and ladies can have in
view, by blocking up* the pavement at midnight,
and carrying on their dialogues (as they usually
do on such occasions) in an elevated tone of voice,
and with a choite profusion of epithrts. When
this occurs, it is very apt to attract an audi-
t tory, which soon forms 'a crowd, which presently
becomes a mob, which ere long generates a
riot ; whereas the 'proverb says, " the rolling
stone gathers no moss." Promenading lovers
attract no observatiort : it is only when they are
stationary that they forth a rallying point for the
idle, the dissolute, and the uproarious. Whoever
Lid down this wise law of 64 move on" under-

stood human nature, and knew that prevention is
better than remedy. We.regret that we don't
know his name : he was certainly as great a street
legislator as Michael Angelo Taylor, to say the
very least.

LMORNING HERALD.]
Nothing can be more disgusting than the vio-
lent and indecent tirades (we had almost said,
the seditious ribaldry) with which some of the
itinerant orators in Ireland continually load .the
Duke of York. According to these people,
who are too such wordy lovers of liberty,
the Heir Apparent to the throne is the only
person in the kingdom not entitled to think
for himself : and in proportion as they claim
and exercise unbounded liberty of speech
for themselves, would they deny it to those
who differ from them. The Catholics com-
plain too that they are accused of holding a
divided allegianCe between their own Sovereign
and the Pope. This they deny ; but to dis-
prove it, they evince a divided allegiance at
borne, more mischievous to themselves and to
their cause than the foreign one with which
they are upbraided ; for while they speak
in terms of occasional adulation of the Kiwi,

the sentiments they use towards the Prince who
may to-morrow be their Sovereign, are such as
nothing like the spirit of allegiance can for a
moment be coupled with. But, luckily, experi-
ence has show❑ that violent talkers are not to be
taken at their word : and we dare say that
should the Duke of York, in the course of na-

ture, ever ascend the throne, he will find his pre-
sent vituperators in Ireland as ready to laud him
to the skies as they now are to vilify and misre-
present him.
The linen-drapers, haberdashers, mercers,
hosiers, and other shop-keepers of those descrip-
tions of business, held their meeting yesterday.
It was very thinly attended, there not being more
than from about 50 to 60 shop-keepers present.

The object, as we mentioned yesterday, is to pre-
vail on the whole of the masters of certain trades
to agree to shut up their shops earlier than is at
present the custom, so that the shopmen and
The apprentices might sally forth so much ear-
lier in the evening to the theatres, the oyster
and coffee shops, public and gaming houses,
&c.. &c. Mr. John Waithman was in the
Chair, and certain Resolutions were proposed
and passed ; afterwards a desultory conversa-
tion took place, as to the propriety of the
shop-keepers then present signing a , paper
expressive of their adherence to the proposed
beneficial arrangement for the shopmen and
the apprentices. On its being suggested by
some that before any signatures were entered
into, the sentiments of the linen-drapers, haber-
dashers, and other similar shop-keepers, might be
had, the signing of any thing was deferred. Be-
fore the parties separated, it was, said that the
measure had originated with Messrs. Waith-
man, Schoolbred, Brooks, and a few other
linen-drapers, who are driving considerable busi-
ness, and whose object it is to close their
shops early that they may not be interrupted by
customers in folding up their goods and posting
their hooks. A subscription was entered into
to pay the expences of the Meeting, and we
should also suppose, to reward Mr. Biss, the
Shopmen and Apprentice's Secretary, for his sex'.
vices.--(lbid.)