The Sun.
London, England, 1825-08-02 00:00:00

WIERCANTILE SIIIPPLNG.

PEAt., AUGUST I.—Wind light and variable.—Arrived
and sailed for the River, the Julius, Jackson, from St. Kitts
Ark, Ranger, from Berbice ; Boyne, Stephens, from Bengal ;
Providence, —, from Newfoundland • Martin, West-
ward, and William Lushington, Sughrie, from. St. Kitt's.
Sailed the Cato transport, for Cork, and the John Dunn
lil`Reath, for Van Diemen's Land. ,
PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST I.—Wind W.—Arrived his Ma-
jesty's ship Cyrene, from the Mediterranean, and is under quz-
rantine; Arethusa, Jameson, from Quebec; and Zeph:r
transport, from the eastward. Passed by the Mexican ship cf
war Swiftsure, Tilly, from Vera Cruz. Sailed the John
Major, for Riga. Arrived the Royal Mail, —, from Hon-
duras.

PLYMOUTH, JULY 31.—Wind S.E.—Arrived the Vesper,
Jefferson, from Sierra Leone, in 10 weeks ; and Eliza, Edwards,
from Figueira. Sailed the City of Rochester, TeascTale,. for
Petersbargh ; New Thomas, Quincy, and Brutus, for
London.

FALMOUTH, JULY 31.—Wind variable, light aivs..—Ar-
rived his Majesty's brig Camelion, from PlymOuth. Sailed
the Velocity, Brooks, for Valparaiso and Lima; George, Jan-
sen, and Alfred, Rees, for London.

Arrived off Scilly, the Castlereagh, Weightman, from
Miramichi ; Eliza, Stockel, from Cadiz ; and Hope, Mudge,
from Lisbon.
[Extract of a Letter from the Agent to Lloyd's at Honduras,
dated lath June.]
The Robert, Dunlop, arrived here 23d May from Greenock
and St. Thomas's ; was boarded by a pirate the same day she
left the latter place, who took Captain Dunlop out of his vessel,
kept him on board for three hours, and then dismissed him.
The pirate was a schooner mounting one long gun on a swivel,
with muskets, &c. Capt. D. says he saw the same vessel at
anchor while he lay at St. Thomas's with only four or five men,
while he was on board she had about sixty men, all ruffians,
of different nations; captain and all hands in a state of intoxi,
cation. They told him they were Colombians, and waiting for
the brig Hunter, Captain Nicoll, bound from St. Thomas s for
La Guayra, with a considerable quantity of specie and ten pap-.
sengers. The captain of the privateer said, that when he went'
into St. Thomas's to reconnoitre, he always landed his hands
on Crubb Island, and Capt. D. has no doubt but he must cruiie
with the connivance of the authorities of St. Thomas's or the.
residents of that island."

Last night, between the hours of 9 and 10,
an alarming fire broke out on the premises of
Mr. Oliver, builder, Turtibridge-place, New-
road, near Battle-bridge, when two houses be-
longing to the same were complkely gutted.—
The engines arrived with their accustoined ala-
crity, but were unable to do more than save the
adjoining houses, from the starchy of water.—
The houses were new and hardly finished. We
are sorry to add that a poor man was driven over
by one of the engines, which lacerated his hand
and toes in a shocking manner. The mob were
so indignant at the conduct of the fireman, that
he was given in charge, and sent to the watch-
house. The fire was completely subdued by 11
o'clock.

The Chapeau de Pails, painted by Ittysrats,
and purchased at Antwerp by Mt. SMITH, the
dealer, in Marlborough-street, is now in Mr.
Secretary PEEL'S gallery, at his new reside! ce 'n
Privy-gardens.
An immense body of white butterflies passed
over Dunkirk a few days ego, in the direction
from east to west.

FilE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Pxlracis from the Morning Papci's, Aug. 2, 1825.

7.010 lININTI EIiALD.] •
..Tliere.is no fact of which men of all parties
and opinions seem to be by degrees more tho-
roughly convinced than of..the mischief which
Net
.O'Connell and -his immediate associates
iniv.e4lorne, and: are every day doing, to the Ca-
. tholic- cause... That they should continue this
.;•mischievous..career, and go on heaping error
• upon error, and That in spite of the daily and
hourly warnings they are on every hand receiv-
ing;must astonish every one. But we are happy
to perceive .that Mr. O'Connell has at length
shown some 'symptoms of retiring from his unfor-
tunate pre-eminence ; and indeed has at length
openly avowed his wish to divest himself of his
ill-fated supremacy—or, as he calls it, his Ca-
tholic Leadersini.-; but which he would, at the
same time, fain have us believe, has been
forced upon him greatly against his will, and
to his personal annoyance ! Retire when he
will, he will owe a heavy debt of -cernerse and
retribution to those on whom his total want of
judgment, to ascribe his conduct to the. mildest
source, will.have entailed the task and labour of
retracing the many steps of his most obvious mis-
leading. Friendly as we are to the principle that
a difference of religious opinions need not neces-
sarily form any bar to an equality of -civil rights,
and stilt more friendly as we must ever be to.the
inhabitants of the two islands forming but one
political family, united by common bonds of
the more is our disgust at seeing.our ge-
nerous,,
.open-hearted, unsuspecting countrymen
ins Ireland made -the unconscious took of people,
• who are . either the most. designing or the most
. ill-judging of the whole human race. Yet, dur-
ng everyday and every hour of the last. twelve-
- month, has he and his associates been sedulously
..employed in ruining the cause which'they profess
• • to espouse. - At length they seem to have entirely
succeeded ; and we much doubt whether any
thing can ever redeem the incalculable injury. they
have done it. Of all their blunders (and it would-
, occnpy more space -than we can afford to
-enumerate even a tithe of them), that of the
journey of the Association to London seems to
have been tine most °Watts and decisive, resern-
. Ailing very much in its natural characteristics, the
.memorable embassy of the Irish Parliament in
1788, when a deputation of both Houses were
sent over to congratulate his present Majesty on
his accession to tine Regency, which the previods
recovery of the late King hid rendered abortive.
-Mr. Cobbett, to whom th 6 Association, and Mr.
7,....0",c0nne1l in particular, had, in the exercise of
-.„what some people would call their indiscretion,
thought proper to pay court, has somehow or
. , other been converted from a friend into a foe ;
- and is beginning, as lovers and another kind of
people do, when they quarrel, to • divulge a few
secrets, which go far to establish' Some a wk-
-..quiard allusions to the selfish 'objects. which have
ii,"e'rn imputed to the leaders of that ill-
. ..starred. expedition. These circumstances, and
•-'" the spirit of recrimination which•they urn iwt;es-
- producing, must go far, we should-. think,
to-convince the people of Ireland
.of what slip-
pery, evanescent. materials these self-appointed.
leaders are composed. A short time, therefore,
we suspect,• Will accomPlisin Mr. .O'Connell's
wish ;..and we shall see him in a short time di.

vested of a leadership, in which character we can-
not too often-repeat our conviction, lie has done
more to'injure and mislead his too-conciding fol-
-Ikm;ers than could have been accomplished by
bitterest foes, if they had any.

• EN:MINING CHRONICI.E.j
The case of " Ths King, on the prosecution
of the lion. T. B. Pellew; v. John. Orton," for
arson, -reported in The Chronicle, of yesterday,
ekkibits in a striking manner the defectiveness

.of our Judicial Institutions. There did not ap-
pear a shadow of evidence against Otton. tie
:-was a :matt respectable--circumstances; he had
no quarrel with Captain Pellew, the fire, took
pia'cein (he clay-time,—in short, we are unable
to discover .a single circumstance which "could
fix suspicion on him for a moment. How

long, he xemained in prison on this charge,
does not •appear ; - but we+ are sure if Magis-
trates, qualified to conduct a
,preliminary-in-
vostigtition, had investigated the matterw they
would not, in the absence of all -grounds,
have' committed ;him for trial. The Jury.
Lit?,t;antly acquitted the prisoner, but where thete
iVtrs-no- room for doubt, there was no room, for
commitment:—Nr. Justice Gaselee was of opinion
Pellew was perfectly justified .in
what"he had done towards instituting_ the in-
quiry.'' Inquiry is one thing, and -commitment
lop trial another. What we contend is, that every
eotintryought to-possess Magistrates to whom
may ,h,c...safely entruSited the conducting of an
inquiry ,- with -view to• relieve itaiocence fro n
further troubles, and to place those, against whom
grounds of susiiicion. exist, on their trial. In the
ab;eryce of all, grounds of suspiriOn,:naman ought
to be pat..on '

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