The Sun.
London, England, 1822-09-30 00:00:00

CRICKET.

A grand Match is to be played on Wednesday newt, at Roth,-
ley Temple, betweeu Cornet Chmlyn, of the Leicestershire
Yeomanry-Cavalry, who is to be allowed to select from the
Regiment, and Cornet-Babington, who is to be confined to 11:s
squadron ; much interest is in consequence excited.
We.are informed that the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Lei-
cestershire are about forming a Club on the principles of the
Mary-le-bone Cricket Club, and similar to the Nottingham
Chib lately established, at which Lord Middleton presides ;
should they succeed, it is supposed Earl Howe will be solicited
to take the lead.

...0a Tuesday and Wednesday last, a single-wicket match
was played on Southsea Common, between Brown, Cox, and
.B. White, of Emsworth, and Loop, Carpenter, Watkins, and
Ilaslett, of Portsmouth r, and a more eventful and interesting
display-of this manly game has not been witnessed this season.
The Emsworth being crack players at single wicket, and the
Portsmouth players of no experience in that game, hence the
confidence with which three of the former challengtld four good
general players of the latter, and the many bets that' ware
laid upon their success and lost. Though BroWn was not to
bowl, his powerful 'hitting was considered more than a match
for all the-skill and steady play that could be opposed.to in—
The state of the game will sufficiently 'show the disappoint.
ment that was experienced at the issue of it : .
Pon,. s3to writ-Ist Innings. Pownawirrii-2,1 Innings.
Loop, b. White - .2 ' Carpenter, b. White 7
' Watkins, b. ditto - 11 Loop, b. White . 18
Carpenter, b. ditto ' - 0 Ilislett, b. 'Cox - 14
Haslett, b. ditto - 6-19 I Watkins, run out - 11-50
EMSWORTII—Ist. Innings EALSWOIiTII-2d Innings.
White, b. Carpenter 0 Cox, b. Carpenter - 1
Cox, b. Carpenter - ..' 9 Brown, c. Carpenter 3
Brown, c. Loop,- - 30-39 White, c. Carpenter 1— 5
Betting at the con-tenement of the match 2 to 1 on Emsworth,
and 5 to 1 was offered at the commencement of the Emsworth
second innings: The return match will be played on. Tuesday
next at Emsworth : great odds are offered against Portsmouth.
Brown is supposed to be the hardest bowler at present living,
and challenges anv man in England at single wicket.

- Owing to the very early harvest upon the Continent, shoot-
ing and hunting has generally commenced in the northern parts
four weeks before the usual time, i. e. early in September, in-
stead of early in October.

GOVERNMENT 7,T ATION Y AND
The Report of 'the Select Committee of the house of Com-
mons, appointed to inquire into the manner in which the print-
ing and stationery are supplied to the Houses of Lords and
Commons, and to the Public Departments in the United King-
dom, has been printed. This Committee was appointed in the
last Session, in consequence of charges of abuses and frauds,
chiefly preferred by a man named Henry Constantine .111-
nings, stating that Mr. William Ready, the Keeper of the
Board-room of the Lords of the Treasury, had been in the a-
bit of selling stationery,. the property of the King, from the Sta-
tionery Office, to a very large amount, to Sir IL Wilson, Mr. P.
Moore Mr. Hume, and several others. The Committee state,
that the evidence of Mr. Hume distinctly negatives the fact of
Sir H. Wilson and Mr. P. Moore having been so supplied ;
that it appears, from the evidence of Mr. Hume, that he was
induced to allow Jennings to send him the paper purchased
from Ready, for the purpose of establishing unequivocally the
existence of the fraud ; and that it appears, with the same view,
it had been intended that some of the taper should have been
sent to Sir It. Wilson and Mr. P. Moore, to be held in deposit
by them; and that it was sent by Mr. Jennings to Mr. Hume's
house, addressed to them, but was never delivered to them, and
they appear_to have been entirely ignorant of the whole matter.
The characters of.: these Honourable tientlemen having been
thus cleared 'from all imputation, the Committee proceed to no-
tice some irregularities in the conduct of Ready, in appropriat-
ing to his own-use more paper than he was entitled to, under
the claim of perquisites, for which he has been suspended from
his office; and some other improprieties in the Stationery Offic„,
which they recommend should be avoided in future. The Com-
mittee, in Conclusion, say, they think it due to Mr. Hansard,
Mr. Strahan,..Mr.. Nichols, and to the other individuals' ern-
ployed in Parliamentary printing, to state, that nothing tending
in any degree to countenance imputations against the characters
of these gentlemen, has appeared in the course of the inquiries. •
Yesterday,-at three P.M., aCCofdirli; to annual
custom, the preliminary ceremony of " knocking down the
glove" being dispensed .with, Freedom Eve immediately became
Freedom Day. The Freedom Boys then levy contribu;ions
upon_ the shops with impunity the most trifling gratuity,
however, usually prevents
,the mischief which an obstinate
refusal. may incur. The embers of the Corporation aid
other inhabitants also' escort the Mayor-elect on horseback ;
the Cavalcade " riding round to Freedom Fiera," and going
on foot to take the two head boys out of the boat at the pier,
on the Barbican, and at Lambhay-point, giving each a slight
touch bn the head with a present • of some silver, saying:,-
" Remember this when yo.g are .grozen a man, and make a good
citi.ien." All the Bounds being shown the Mayor-elect, a
scramble takes place on the floe for buns and apples. The
procession returning through the new iron gates, men by the
late Mayor, to pass which the annual solemnity has been de-
ferred to the last day but one, upon which it could take p 1
Plymouth Devonshire Freeholder.)
Itonusay.--liarly on Saturday morning last,
some thieves, by means of a wherry, got .onboard
the sloop Mary, lying under Chamberlain's W harf;
and plundered .her of goods to a considela)le
.amount..- • A- bale. of manufactured cotton, that a
merchant. had shipped for some. foreign port,.was
cut open, ,and, the contents carried :off. The
wrapper only was left. On the Captain and
crew •returning to the vessel at eight o'clock, they
perceived the hatches had been broken open.

MERCANTILF, SHIPPING.

. • DEAL, SEPT. 29.--lykkul E.N7l3—A.rri.vcd and rerpalnthe
Palladium, Patterson, from St. Vincent's. Came down froru
l`the River and sailed the Blucher, Clark, for Oporto..
HALF-PAST Sri—A ship is now coming through the Gulls; 4.-
supposed to be the Turkish.frigate. i
SEPT. 28.—Wind E;--Sailed this morning the homeward-
bound ships for the River. Came down from the River and
sailed the Malvina, Brook; for Genoa ; the John, King, for
Jamaica.

POItTSMOUTII, SEPT. 29.—Wigd N.E.—Arrived the Eve-
retta, Stoddard, from St. Lucia ; Rockingham, Warre, from
Ikirnhay ; August,,Alsin, Christina ; Lord Cranston, from Ja-
maica ; Ruby, Elliot, Madeira ; his Majesty's ship Myrmidon,
from Africa. Sailed his' Majesty's ship Shamrock, on a cruize.
FaLmouTri, SEPT. 28.---Wind E.N.F.-...Arrived his Ma-
jesty's ships Redwing and Seringapatam, from Portsmouth, and
sailed again on secret service with sealed orders. Arrived the
Tygris, Sisk, Jamaica, .with -loss of her fore-yard. Sailed the
27th July the Shamrock, Williams, from Malta. Arrived off
the port the Milford, from. 'Boston ; Northumbria, Johnson,
from Honduras—sailed 29th July. , Arrived the St. Mary,. Bur-
ton, from Jamaica; and .Cane Grove, Thcunson, from St.
Vincent's.
PLYmouTn, SEPT. 27.—" Wind E. N. E.-:-.A rriverhhe. Dash,
Nichols, from Naples ; Hoirietta Isabella, Bayles, ; Trieste ;
' Shannon Balph, Memel ; Obod Intent, Hapben, Malaga ;
Deptford, William, Carnarvan ; Isis, Bilboa ; Tiffen, To-
bago ; Dispatch, Gibraltar. ' •
LErtwrics, (ZETLAND), SEPT. 21.—The :Greenland ship
North Briton, of Ilull, arrived here this morning, with 9. fish
(130 tuns of oil). None of the ships which have returned from
Davis's Straits can give any account of the Discovery Ships.
This ship spoke the Mercator, from Archangel, off the north
end of this country, two days ago.

•
The following official letter' appeared on
.Saturday on the
board at Lloyd's : _

• " Admiralty-Office, Sept. 28, 1822.
" Sin—Having laid before my Lords Coinmissioners of the
Admiralty your letter of this date, expressing the wish of the
Committee for managing the affitirs of Lloyd's, that some ships
of war should be sent out with supplies for the assistance of the
homeward-bound trade, which are prevented by the prevalence
of north and north-easterly winds from getting into port, I am
commanded by their Lordships to acquaint you, that they have
directed the Admirals commanding at Portsmouth, Plymouth,
and Cork, to Send out any of their cruizers that they can get
at for the above purpose.
(SignO) " JOHN BARROW.
"Mr. John Bennett, jun., Lloyd's."

•
CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC,
Against purchasing tea of persons echo carry it about for sale,
as it will be observed that the buyers, as well as the sellers, act
illegally, and subject themselves to penalties:—
.By the 19 Geo. 3, Chap. 69, sec. 21. It is enacted, that every
dealer in tea, &c. shall have written or painted over his door, or
'on some eonspicuous part of the shop, or warehouse, in which
Ite keeps or exposes tea, &c. for Sale, Dealer in Tea," &c. or
'shallforfeit the sum of Fifty Pounds, and be subject to all
other penalties that persOns are liable to who make no entry
at all.
By the same Act, sec. 22, it is enacted, that every person who
shall buy any tea, &c:, of any other person, or any other place
than such as have written or painted,
," Dealer in 'fei," &C. as
aforesaid, shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of Ten
Pounds. And that if the seller (having so disposed of tea, &c.
in any room or place, over the door of which Dealer' in Tea,
&c. is not written or painted), shall within twenty'dayS give
information against the buyer, he shall be exonerated and ex-
cused from paying the penalties he may have incurriti, arid the
buyer be.fined Ten Pounds.
The 12 George 3, cap. 4(, recites, that—by the 10 George
it is enacted,that " no tea, &c..shall be sold or exposed for sale
except in rooms, shops or warehouses, entered for knpfilgibe
At
same, on pain of forfeiting all such:tea, c. and treble the:va-
lue thereot. ' And it further enacts, that for every such offence
tae party so selling or exposing for sale, shall forfeit the sum of
Ten Pounds, in addition.
And by. the.o Geo. 3, chap. (17, see. 8, it is further enacted,
that whereverby any law or laws, .now in force, relating to his
Majesty's revenues of customs or excise, a penalty bt tretrle
the value of goods,is imposed upon any offender br offenders,
(as by the 10 (leo. 1,) he or they shall severally forfeit for
every such offence, one hundred pounds, or treble the value of
the goods, at the option of the person or persons who shall sue
or prosecute for the same ; and that such penalty
not be mitigated by any justice, or justices, below Twenty-five
Pounds. And the same Act directs, (sec. 13,) that one halt'of
such penalty shall be paid to the person who shall give infor-
mation, or sue for the same..

Any person having tea offered or exposed for sale contrary to
tLe above Acts, may themselves lay, information before a Ma-
gistra.e, or give notice to the Excise Officers of the District,
who have strict injunctions from the Ct mmissioners of Excise
to put the laws in force.

PuaLic WHIPPING.—This morning r,t an eirlv.
hour a crowd of spectators assembled in the Old Bai:ey to •-
witness the public castigation of six individuals, who had been
tonvieted for various offences at the Sessions just terminved,'
pursuant to their sentences. Precisely at nine o'tletzk., the-
gttes being thrown open, the Court-yard, in a fbw minutes,
was crowded to excess, where this disgraceful punishment was
immediately put in execution; and during the undergoing of •
which, the several persons roared out most lustily. One-of
- them, an old (Arendt?, received upwards Of 150 lashes. •
.G LAsuow.— Yesterday Edward 116,1(4 con.: •
victed at the late I ireitit Court here of an assault, aggravated'
with the inter.; ion.of committing a rape upon the body of a
young girl in the town of Greenock, was publicly whipped
through the streets of this city, agreeable to his sentence. The'
culprit was brought out of the prison under a strong guard
of cavalry. At the jail he received twenty- lashes--at the foot
of the Stockwell-street twenty.-Lat the foot of Glassforkl:
street twenty—arid at the Cross twenty more—in all eighty' ;‘
fetan whence he was conducted to -the prison, and is td' be'
transported the country for life. The unhappy man was tied •
to the tail of a cart, with the upper part .of his body- com-
pletely uncovered, a novel spectacle to the citizens of Glam_
gow, anti one which we hope will be a warning to 'young.
offenders of every description. His back was very n:u.:11 laces
ratt d from the .• flagellation. A very, great crowd attended.
his progress, but evinced the most orderly conduct. Neither..
censure nor applause was heard among*: them. We under-
s!and that Jack Ketch had nearly run rusty on this occaSicini
and from his extreme impertinence to the .Magistrates, proceed-
ing, no doubt, from an idea of his sapc-ior importance, hart ali
most merited a little of the discipline adniMistgred by himself to.
Hand, before he commenced his labours, Jack, a
s,ordy looking man, reamed to tic the 'culprit to the cai t, or.
carr; a spare cat-o'-nine-tails, alleging. that the former' was
nut his duty, and that a substitute ought •to be provided.
to carry the latter, or he would ribt be answeiablv to
the :o ;sequences. To accommodate-matters; the spare weapon
was put into a bag, and slung to the .cart. 'Jades ill-temper on
this occasion app: ars to have proceeded from the great offence he
took at the judgment of the Court, in conittridding the sentence
to .be. put in execution in Glasgow, in :place ' of' Greenock.—
If it had been in Greenock, Jack :says, •he . would have
been .entitled to ten guineas, whereas 'being inflicted in ,
Glasgow; where. he has a regular salary, he only reeeivtit
half-a-guinea fbr his trouble. In short, he dOes •nit
lish such jobs, and considers such sentences as an ituitivaioti
upon his usual -.duties, maintaining, that it costs hirn,ntore_
trouble to flog one than hang ten, with pay diminished hi pro-
portion to the more laborious - efise. (Glasgow Courier Sept.,.
'24 )