The Sun.
London, England, 1822-01-22 00:00:00

NAVY DEFAULTER.

'[From the New York Papers of the 27th and 28th tilt.]
NEW, Yottic, DEc..27.—The British sloop of
war Hind, Sir cndtaLts ButtauuGns, Comman-
der, arrived at this port on Tuesday from Ports-
mouth. To the politeness of her Commander we
are indebted for London Papers to the evening
of the 10th ult. all that were in the vessel.—The
Hind had just arrived at Portsmouth, with the
Royal squadron, from Calais, when she received
orders to proceed to New York, and was dis-
patched in three hours' notice with a letter from
the Marquis of Londonderry to James Bu-
chanan, Esq., British Consul at this place, rela-
tive to one of the chief clerks in the Navy Office,
London, who had absconded with a considerable
sum of public money, and sailed for, this port in
the Cornet, which arrived on Thursday last. An
officer came up to the city on Tuesday afternoon,
at three o'clock, delivered the dispatches, and in
one hour, and a half the man was taken, and
nearly all the property stolen, amounting to about
100,000 dollars, was recovered.—The Hind came
up yesterday morning, anchored in the East
River, and fired a salute, which was returned by
Fort Columbia, on Governor's Island.

The cause of the visit to this port of the Britisl
sloop of war hind, was briefly noticed in yester
day's Gazette. The following is an aecurate'ae.
count of the matter

" A person . arrived here on Thursday last, in
the, ship Comet, Capt. Griswold, from London,
who had been cashier in a branch of the British
Navy Department for 29 years ; his sadden dis-
appearance from his desk excited an alarm ; and
upon an examination it was discovered, that he
was a defaulter to the amount of 18,0001. sterling.
After searching in vain for him, it was ascer-
tained that he had purchased a bill of a broker
in London for 8,0001. sterling, under a fictitious
name, on a mercantile house in New York ; he
likewise bought 50 shares of stock of the Bank
of the United States, besides 30,000 dollars in
the United States' stocks of 6 and 7 per cent. all
of which, besides other property of his own, he
took with him in the above,mentioned vessel.

"The British Government, without delay,
dispatched a sloop of war in pursuit of the above
property, with instructions to the Commander to
proceed to New York, where she arrived on the
'2sth inst. with documents directed to Mr. Bu-
chanan., the British Consul for this port, who
immediately called upon the house above allud-
ed to, and was informed-that the bill of 80001.
had been that day accepted. It was now time
'for the Consul to act. He procured the aid of
two Magistrates of the Police, who, with the
Consul, traced the defaulter to a boarding-house,
where he had taken lodgings; but not finding
them suitable to his views,he had shifted to another,
where they repaired, and found him with his
wife in a private room. One of the Magistrates
having introduced himself in a way to prevent
alarm to the lady, proceeded to relate such par-
ticulars of his case, in accordance with truth,
and in such a manner, that it produced his con-
fession of the whole affair. His- detail of the
causes leading him to this disgraceful act (al
though eloquent and interesting) would occupy
too much of the columns of a newspaper. The
property above mentioned was delivered up in
less than three hours after the arrival of the said
sloop of war."

It is said that the Court of Directors of the
East India Company have given the Marquess of
HASTINGS full permission to remain in India as
Chief Governor, and that a ship of war has been
lately dispatched by Government with advices to

that effect. Should the Marquess, however, pre-
fer to return to England, Sir E. PAGET will pro-
ceed from Ceylon, and assume the rank of Com-
mander-in-Chief of the forces in India. It is also
said, that in the event of the Marquess's return,
he will be appointed Ambassador to the Court
of Vienna.

NAUDE, physician to Louis XIII,
says, that the ancients, though they bad no linen
to make paper, had a knowledge of hemp as an
herb, but did not apply it to that purpose. lta-
belas, at the end of the third book, mentions hemp
under the term Pantaguellion, as a newly dis-
covered plant, which had been in use above a
century. In the time of Charles VII. linen made
of hemp was very scarce, and the Queen only
had two shifts made of it.

LATELY DISCOVERED, • Terrace or Terrace,
not inferior to that found near Collett, on 'the
Rhine; commonly called " Dutch terrace," on
the'estates of Edward' Morrall, Esq. of Liver-
pool.—lt is a singular coincidence that the best
terrace is brought from Collen on the Rhine, and
the same material found so near land of the same
name in Wales, Llangollen, or Llim-col-
len.)—(Chester Chronicle.) -- • --- -
W 6 understand that the;,Mendicity Society
have, upon the suggestion of their ;-.7ecretars,,
been making some efforts to employ able bodied
male mendicants, who assign as a reason for beg-
ging, that they cannot g-et work, and who eithet:
have no parochial settlements, or which are at a
considerable distance from London. They have,
during the last week, sent forty-eight persons of
this description to the Canal at Paddington, to
break stones for the use of the road.; near
London, which are repaired upon the Oat)
suggested by Mr. MADAM, and it is found
that several of these rnen,,wh2 work, can
earn from ls. to Is. Gd. each per day. The Corn..
mittee have accordingly directed engagements to
be made, with a view to carry this design com-
pletely into effect, which it is apprehended will
achieve the objects of the Society more com-
pletely than any effort they have yet attempted,
more particularly as it has been found that 35 of
the above number never went to the depot to be
employed-as they were dii.ected ; and out of the,
remaining thirteen, several -woiled only a few
days, and then left it.