The Sun.
London, England, 1822-04-22 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING, &c.

DEAL, APRIL 21.—Wind S.W.—Arrived to-day and sailed
for the River the Inglis, late Borradaile, from China ; Syren,
Coffin, South Seas ; Dispatch St. Donimga, Birch, from
Messina; Newcastle, Lord Wellington, Anderson, Batavia,
for orders ; Austhwaite, Demerara; Competitor, Law, Madras ;
Nimble, Wroughton, Liibon ; Acasta, New York. Came
down from the River last night and to-day, and remain, David,•
Jameson Virginia ; Mint, Patton, Quebec ; Andromeda,
Crown, do. ; Luton, Dooton, for Calcutta ; Mauteneer, Motley,
Asia, Blackwood, Asia, Hart, and Minerva, for Quebec ;
Ruby, Elliot, St. Michaels ; Crisio, Mead, Philadelphia ;
Pomona, Handyside, New. York ; Wellington, Anderson,
tit.. John's ; Hyperion, Stewart, Miramichi ; and Alfred, lve-
son, Tobago.
FALMOUTH, APRIL 19.—Arrived the Princess Elizabettt
packet, from New York ; and Duke of Bent, do., from
Lisbon.
APRIL 20.—Wind S.W.—Arrived off the port the Cossack,
Newick, from St. Domingo, out 77 days, for Cowes for orders.
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 21.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived the
JeSse; Clapham, from Cephalonia.
PLYMOUTH, APRIL 20.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrived the
Good Friends, Thomas, from London for South Seas ; and
Ave:ick, from London to ; and Hope, Briggs, from
London to Quebec.
COWES, APRIL 21.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrived the Countess
of Harcourt, Burn, from Batavia, in 140 days : left the Cape
the 2d of February, and the Texel, Harmer, from Batavia ;
spoke on the 15th the ship Boyne, 72 days from Calcutta.
MARGATE, APRIL 21.—Arrived in Margate Roads the
Hon. Company's ship Inglis, homeward bound..
LYMINGTON, APRIL. 21.—The Purser of the Company's
ship Inglis, from China, landed here with dispatches for the
Company ast night at 11 o'clock. The Inglis left China the
29th November, and St. Helena the 18th of February.

The East India Company's ship Royal George and Bombay,
from China, passed Portsmouth, yesterday, for the Downs.—
The Royal George sailed from China on the 13th of December,
arrived at St. Helena on the 16th of Feb. anfl sailed from
thence for England on the 20th of the same month. The Bom-
bay sailed from China on the 7th of Dec. ; left the Inglis at an-
chor off Lucepara, in the Straits of Banca, on the 24th of Dec.
—arrived at the Cape on the 3d of February, sailed from thence
on the 13th—arrived at St. Helena on the 22d, and resumed
her voyage to England on the 26th of the same month.—The
Minerva arrived at the Cape on the 4th of February, and was
left there on the 13th by the Bombay.
A Court Martial was held on board the Queen Charlotte, in
Portsmouth harbour, on Saturday, to try James Ayres, a sea-
man belonging to the Phaeton, for drunkenness, and the charge
being proved, the Court sentenced him to forfeit all his wages,
and to be imprisoned in the Marshalsea for one year.—Capt. E.
Brace, C.B. of the Ramillies, President.

On Wednesday last, two Petitions (one to the
House of Peers, the other to the House of Commons) were trans-
mitted from North Shields to London, against any alteration
in the Navigation Laws, tending to shake the preponderancy
of Great Britain, either commercially or martially, on the ocean;
or, under guise of canting liberality, to do away the essence of
the Acts of 12th of Charles 11. _ _

We understand that the witnesses who were
summoned to appear on the trial of William Mittray Borthwick,
on Monday next, have received notice that it will not be neces-
sary for them to appear. In what manner the business is to be
disposed of we have not heard.—( Glasgow Courier, April 18.)
A short time since, a very respectable drug-
gist in Sheffield was fined in the mitigated penalty of 311. 10s.
for having sold to a victualler a mixture of liquorice, ginger,
and pepper,—articles which, however far from being deleterious
in themselves, the legislature has thought fit to forbid in the
manufacture of malt liquor, under the very heavy penalty
of 5001.