The Sun.
London, England, 1814-09-15 00:00:00

DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MONEY.

To his Majesty's ship Briton, for, the recapture of the
Wolf's Cove (in company with the Ville de Paris, Vengeor,
Warspite, Clarence, Magnificent, flippon and Cydnus), oil
Wedneidays and ThUrsdays,ut No; 9, New Broad-street, for
three minths.

To the Urgent, for the capture of the Charlotte (the Tar-
tar, Superb, Stately, Vanguard, Alert,'( ons,tant, and Mon.
key in company), on Wednesdays and Titurdays for three
months, at. N 0.9, Nvw Broad-street.

'Co his MaTe:ty's slip Sparta'', for the capture of the Ame-
rican snip Hector, for three months, at No. 12, Clement's
Inn, Strand. , .

T,
O his Ma.:e,ty's ship Zenobia, for the capture of the .114ne-
rican ~_:atlieritia, Cornelia, and America, fur three
months, at No. 3, Clifford's Inn.

THE SAILOWS HAPPY RETURN.

At the beginning of the late war with France,
'a sailor named C--1, who lived in .Shoreditch
parish, was so reduced by sickness and poverty
that be Could not maintain his wife and children.
He entered on board the tender, and left-his wife
half his pay. She was, however,
.driven by dis-
tress to the. workhouse; where she lay-in of 'the
child with which she was pregnant, which was
reared in that poor-house. At-the close of the
fourth year, her pay was stopped, and her husband-
supposed to be dead. Thus destitute, she struggled
on for three years more, when she married a
carpenter,. who died a short time ago, and.left her
again plunged in greater distress than ever. She
used to carry the child she had by him on her
back, and, with a basket of matches and ballads,
sought a precarious livelihood ; she had no home
but a two-penny lodging-house, and if she had. no
pence, the sky was her canopy, .and. the earth her
bed. It happened about the beginning of last month
that chance directed tier wandering steps to, a publie
house where her first husband used to frequent
and as she begged the humble guests, who were
drinking in the tap-room, to lay out a halfpenny
with a poor widow, a sailor, just discharged from
a man of war, sprung up, and almost overturning
both table.and guests, seized the poor ragged sup-
pliant in in his arms, calling her his long-lost wife !
She, was so much overpowered at thus meeting alive
with one whom she had long reckoned amongst the
dead, that she was near tainting. Mutual ex-
planations were soon made,. amidst the tearful
-eyes of the spectators.—" 1 deserted you in the
midst of want and misery," said the penitent,
" but I have sought yoo for weeks weeks, with-
out being able to hear of you. We must forget and
forgive. *l.am now well tOdo, and will henceforth
be a good husband to yon.' After! egaling berWith
the best the house afforded, he took his astonished
wife under his arm, and completely new rigged
her. His boy—still in the workhouse-he went
to see, to reclaim and provide for.
•He purchas--,
ed sotrre. decent household furniture, and is now
otit for employment:-Whereby to support
himself, and family.'

A'TTtI O i iS VI .

. Afr. WilinnEw, on retUrning last week rom
had severs I applications from the Captains
of the EligiOi packets to pi. with them, brat he
rcftt cc,, d'eelitring;• that be Preferred :goin:g by a
Jr nch packet: Ai fiength •one of the English
Captains made ati application ti him, and thi
Pat Hot appeared rather 'vexed, alledAing, that he
had been asked ten times before, IStit had taken
his passage with akencli Capain. -c‘ I knoW
_that very_ well,' said honest Jont BULL,.
remember, 'Sir, that Frenchmen dO not, dilnk
Portelz.:" •
Mr. CREEVEY, Ai. P. as well•A Mr. W.titritttEAn,
M. P. both patriotic Refarmers, latily freighted a
French Captain's krefbocit, .when three of thii
King's packets were lying in Dover harbotitl;.and
one actually sailed before 'the French Vessel. The:
_questions in • every body's niritith'at ,Dover Were
naturally these : Why do these Gentlenten pre.
her' a- Frenchman to an English Man ? Does the
Frenchman sail better ? Is' he wort- collected and '
intelligent in case of danger ? Does he kinivV the
coast better ? Is his vessel cleaner, and provided
with better accommodations ? •