The Sun.
London, England, 1822-12-26 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

PLYMOUTH, DEC. 24.—Wind N.E.—Sailed his Majesty's
ships Gloucester, 74 guns ; Valorous, 20 ; Billette, 18 ; Phmton
40; and Eden, 20—for the West Indies. - Off the port the Co..
ral, from Charleston in 29 days.
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 25.—Wind E. and S.—No arrivals or
sailings.
DEAL, DEC. 25.—Wind E.—Ditto.
FALMOUTH, DEC. 24.—Wind E.—Ditto.
SHEERNESS, DEC. 25.—The Good Intent, Richardson,
which has been on shore at the back of the garrison, was got off
last night, without appearing to have sustained any damage.
HARWICH, DEC. 25.—Wind E.—Arrived the Henry Free.
ling Packet, with mails from Holland.
YARMOUTH, DEC. 24.—A boat marked " Pearce, Shields,
Robert Cooper,". apparently a jolly boat, was picked up at
Caister to-day, much damaged.

Yesterday, by order of the light lion. the
Lunn MAYOR, the Prisoners in Newgate, Lud-
gate, and the Compter, each received one pound
of meat, one pint of porter, and half a threepenny
loaf, in addition to the increased allowance of
bread, meat, and coals, given by the City of
of Londop.

On Friday night, while Mr. MURRAY was at-
tending bis‘duty on the stage, his house in Thistle
Street,"Edinburgh, was broken into, and robbed
of property to a 'considerable amount. Notice
was immediately given to the Police, hut their
endeavours have as yet been unsuccessful in dis-
covering the thieves. .

EDINBURGH AND AYR MArr..—A recent alter-
ation in the departure of the mail from Edinburgh
has been attended with results which, if not im-
mediately checked, must,prove highly injurious to
the commercial interests of this quarter. The mail
which formerly left Edinburgh at 9 o'clock at night,
is now detained till 10. , This arrangement pre-
cludes the possibility ofits reaching Glasgow in
time for the morning dispatch, consequently it re-
mains in Glasgow till afternoon, and instead of
arriving here at nine in the morning, as formerly,
it does not now reach us till nine at night, when
both bags come together. By this means we
have of course only one 'Edinburgh arrival each
day, and four days - (instead of two) must
now elapse after a letter is dispatched from
this before an answer can be received. We
understand the bankers, merchants, &T. have
presented a petition •to the Post-Master-Ge-
neral, praying for an immediate remedy of
this evil, either by recurring to the former hour
of dispatch from Edinburgh, or by protracting
the departure of the Glasgow morning mail for
an hour, by which it would arrive here at ten
o'clock instead of nine, and bring the Edinburgh
mail as usual.—(Ayr Courier.)
LYNN, DEC. 23.—0 n Saturday last a novel
proceeding took place at Grimstone, in Norfolk.
Forcible possession having been taken of a piece
of land belonging to the Rev. G. Barnes, as
Rector of \t.hat parish, complaint was made to Sir
W. B. Folkes, a neighbouring Ju,ticeof the Peace,
who, under authority of the Act of Bth Henry VI,
cap. 9. issued his precept to the High Sheriff for
summoning a Jury, to mett at Grimstone, and
inquire into the fact ; in pursuance of which the
Jury met, who being sworn, and a charge deli-
vered to them by the Justice, heard the evidence
produced on both sides, and afterwards returned
a verdict of the forcible entry. Whereupon Sir
William, attended by the Sheriff's officers and
constables, proceeded to the spot, and reinstated
Mr. Barnes in his land, and afterwards required
the aggressors to find sureties for keeping the
peace.—(Bury Gazette.)
One evening lately a.man went into a house in
Chapel Street, Aberdeen, pretending he wanted
to purchase bread, when being directed to a
shop in the neighbourhood, by a womary who
happened to be with the landlady, he went
away. A short time after, however, the fellow
having, no doubt watched the departure of
this casual visitor, returned to the house, w:rere
the mother of the family was alone, who had just
time to observe him near her, and that he was
followed by two associates, when the villain
rushed upon her, and seizing the poor woman,
in an unsuccessful attempt to throw her on
the fire, precipitated her with great violence
on the hearth, threatening her with immediate
destruction if she did"not deliver up the key of
her husband's ropositories, and that without giv-
ing any alarm. The accomplishment of the base
and nefarious purpose, seemingly so much in his
power, was, however, suddenly defeated by the
fidelity of a favourite domestic, a bitch—who, on
seeing the alarming situation of her mistress, made
a furious attack upon the assailant, and after a
long struggle compelled him to fly, leaving
bloody vestiges of the severity of the contest.
Nor did the infuriated animal quit the aggres-
sor until she again attacked him in the street,
bringing him to the ground, and treating him
very roughly ; his worthless associates, who
had declined sharing in this part of the busi-
ness, having previously disappeared. It is
painful to add, that the shock occasioned by
this brutal outrage brought on premature labour
on the woman, who was delivered two days after
of a child, which died in three days. This dar-
ing and unfeeling ruffian is described as a well
dressed man, about the tallest of the middle size,
and of rather genteel appearance.—( Edinburgh
Courant, Dec. 23.)
EXTRAORDINARY Cow.—On the 4th instant,
a milch cow, seventeen years old, was slaughtered
by Mr. JOHN FEARON, of Gilcruix, weighing
145 lbs. a quarter, produced' 131 lbs. of tallow,
and was nearly four inches thick on the rib. Until
within four days of her death, she had been
milked daily for upwards of seventeen months,
and .was fed altogether upon grass, with occa,
sionally a few potatoes, •

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

MXTRACTS FROM THE DAILY MORNING PAPERS,
December 26, 1822.

THE TI M ES.]
Had the Portuguese nation not been alive to
the danger resulting to its liberties from an inva-
sion of any part of the Peninsula, however re-
mote, or had the Spaniards not by the most
earnest instances urged upon theit: brethren the
expediency of a united provision against it, we
should have said that neither people was morally
capable of encountering the crisis to which it
• was exposed ; and that freedom, not fully ap-
preciated by its partisans, was in both quarters of
the Peninsula likely to be soon subverted. Their
treaty, therefore, is a pledge, not merely of the
stipulated scale of exertion on the part of Portu-
gal for the defence of Spain, but of such a tho-
rough understanding on both sides of their posi-
tion, and its difficulties, as well as of the identity
of interests which unites the nations, as must
communicate, to their conjoint efforts a vigour
progressive with, and proportioned to, their wants;
and a spirit of harmony not liable to disturbance
from intrigue or petty jealousy. There is an,'
other view to be taken of this treaty, which is to us
of decisive importance. If the interests of Spain
and Portugal be the same in relation to the passage
of the Pyrennees by a foreign army, a truth of
such value cannot fail to be recognized by Great
Britain, nor can it be void of its effeCt upon her
policy. If Portugal, therefore, beholds in a French
invasion of Spain a direct assault upon her own
security, is it possible that England can remain
insensible to such an aggression, pledged as she
stands to the support of her ancient Ally ? We
have already maintained that the defence of Por-
tugal, if an acknowledged principle of British
policy, involved and compelled a defence of
Spain, \rhich is the outwork of Portugal. There
are those to whom this single consideration would
be decisive as to the. probability of peace or war.

NEW TIMES.-1
A Correspondent has communicated to us some
extracts.from the authorized Report of the Charge
of His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, as pub-
lished by His Majesty's printer. Our Corre-
spondent wishes us much to give peblicity to all
the passages which he has selected: and most
happy should we be to do so, if we did not
think it would be adding fuel to the flame which
'we are sorry to see the Roman Catholic Archbishop
of Armagh and Friar Hayes are endeavouring to
blow up in Ireland. The words stated to be used
by the Archbishop of Dublin, and on which his
polemical opponents eagerly lay hold, are words
-which we cannot conscientiously approve.—They
are these—" We, my Reverend Brethren, are
placed in a station, in wlaich we are hemmed in
by two opposite 'descriptions of prOfesiing Chris-
tians; the one possessing a Church without what we
can properly call a Religion ; and the other,posses-
sing a Religion without what we can properly
call a Church."—Now, we have no doubt, but
that his Grace, who is certainly 4 4 a very learned
and excellent Prelate," meant and intended to
convey no more than the plain and simple fact ;
but unhappily he has used terms, which to the
generality of minds (and we confess, to our own)
convey ‘1 hat most assuredly is not the fact.