The Sun.
London, England, 1822-05-21 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING, &c.

DEAL, MAY 20.—Wind \.E.—Came down from the Rivet
last night the Montreal, Garkett, fOr Quebec. Als3 this morn.:
ing and sailed the Castor, Bouker, for the South Seas ; William,
Spurn, Quebec. Arrived and Sailed for the River the Brothas,
Forbes, St. Michaels ; Jos: and Jane, 'fetus, Demerara ;
Flying Fish, Belles, Gallipoly.

PORTSMOUTH, MAY 20.—Wind Westerly.—Arrived the
Lord Liverpool, Coulson, from the Downs for Van Dieman's
Land.

FALMOUTH, MAY 19.--Wind N.--:Arrived the Lady
Louisa packet, from New York and Halifax.

The ship Lady Rates, Capt, JAMES COXWELL, sailed
from the Downs on }ridgy the 17th inst. with the following
passengers for Madras and Calcutta ;
Fox 3Ltortas.—Capt. Willows, Mrs. Willows, Miss
lows; Mr. Metcalf, Mrs. Metcalf; Miss Minchin ; Reverend
R. W. Moorsom, B.A. Company's Chaplain;. Capt. Tennant;
Mr. Mungo Park, Assist. Surgeon ; Mr. E. J. Yateman, As.;.
sistant Surgeon ; Mr. J. S. Elliott, Mr. J. Simpson, Mr, Geo.
Woodfall, Cadets.
Fox CALCUTTA.—Sir Samford Whittingham, K.C.B. ;
Lieut.-Col. Armstrong, Mrs. Armstrong, 31iss Armstrong,
Miss Emma Armstrong ; Mrs. Colonel 3PCoomb, Miss
3PCoomb ; Mrs. Hun gerford ; Mrs. Law; Miss Hayes; Miss
Bristow ; Mr. J. Ronald, Assist. Surgeon.

[From the Board of the New England CoSix-house.]
We have received a list from America, of the names of the
different passengers who were on board.the Albion as follows :
NEW YORK, APRIL 2.—Sailed yesterday the packet ship
Albion, 'WILLIAMS, for Liverpool. The passengers on board
the Albion are—Mr. Chabert, of Paris ; Mr. Gravez, of ditto ;
Mr. Lemercier, of New Orleans; Mrs. Garner and son, of
New York ; Mrs. Pye, of ditto ; Miss Powell, of Canada ;
Major Gough, of the British army ; Proctor, of New
York ; William Dwight ; G. H. Baynow; Mr. Benning ;
Philotime Delpla, of Paris; Vicar Melessent, of ditto; G. IL
Clark and Lady, of Albany; Colonel Prevost; Alexander M.
Fisher, of Yale College ; G. Hill; John Gone, of North Ca-
rolina ; William Overhart, of Pennsylvania; and two Gehtle-,
men from the Northward.

NAUTICAL REPARTEE.—A very ingenious bar-
rister, notwithstanding all the confidence he may be supposed
to have acquired from his long practice at the bar, received an
answer the other day which not a little confused him. An
action was brought for damages on account of half the fluke of
an anchor having been carried away by one ship running fou:
of another, in consequence of which one ship was supposed to
be damaged by the sharpness of Cie anchor. In the course o'
examination, the barrister, not being able to obtain a satisfac.
tory answer from an old sailor, in the heat of passion pulled
out a pen-knife, and holding it on the table—" Hark ye, my
lad, suppose your breech was to fall on this, don't you tinak it
would mark you ?"—" No, :Master," replied Old Ztoreas
" if so be as how, like you, I were well coppered." ,
A writer cf a modern book of travel., relating the parti.
culars of ' h's being cast away thus concludes :--After hav-
ing walktd eleven hours without having traced the print of
a numan foot, to my great comfort ane delight, I saw a man
hanging on a gibbet; my pleasure at the cheering prospect
w.ts inexpressible, for it convinced me that I was in a civilized
country.
Yesterday evening, at twenty minutes after five, a meet-
ing took place near Sandymount, between Mr. W—r, ac-
companied by Captain M. and Mr. 14—h, attended by Cour.
senor B. when after an exchange of shots, at 12 paces, withot:t
effect, the seconds were satisfied that each party should retire tJ
their carriage.—( Dublin .Morning Post. )
Five Aisters, all widows, are now living at Creditor, the
youngest of whom is eighty years of age, and the oldest above
ninety. _

At the Blackheath Bible Society Anniversary,
held on Saturday, at the Gre n Man, many of the Nobility and
Gentry were present ; the platform erected for the Speakers gave
way, and several persons, among them Mr. VANSITTART,
were thrown down, fortunately without receiving any injury.
INVERNESS, MAY 9.—The season, so far as it has advanced,
promises to be one ofgreat productiveness. There has scarcely
been any frost materially to check the growth of any plant.—.
The fruit trees are covered with an unusually rich blossom,
and the fields of grass and corn present an appearance of the
greatest luxuriance. We are very happy to hear too, from the
Highland districts of Ross and Sutherland, that the lambing
is going on under the most favourable circumstances. '
The Aylesbury Florist Society's show of tulips
and anemones took place at the Bull's Head Inn, on Tuesday.
the 14th instant, when there was a full attendance of members
and a fair exhibition of flowers, there being eight candidates for
the prizes. The first prize for tulips was gained by Mr. Fell,
the second by Mr. Franklin ; the first prize for anemones by
Mr. Husband, the second by Mr. Turner. The prizes were
adjudged by Mr. Stevens, of Ilarefield,
Saturday evening, a country waggoner passing along nigh-
street, Whitechapel, with his waggon laden with goods for the
country, he was accosted by a respectable looking young man,
who addressing him politely, inquired if he would have the kind-
ness to carry a parcel for him to a certain part in Essex ? Being
answered in the affirmative, the waggoner went with the man
to the Three Compasses, to fetch the supposed parcel, and dur-
ing his absence the waggon was robbed of a bale of goods of
considerable value.

Saturday evening about dusk, a gentleman named Adams,
crossing Hyde-Park, was attacked by three ruffians armed with
bludgeons, who knocked him down and beat him most se-
verely, till he became insensible ; they then rifled his pockets
of his watch and money, and dragged him into one of the sand
i pits where they left him for dead. Sunday morning a gentle.
man passing that way heard him groaning, and came to the
spot, but the other was incapable of giving any account of the
transaction. The Gentleman proeurtd assistance, and he was
taken to St. George's Hospital, where, on examination, mostly
all his ribs were found fractured, and he was in other respects
most seriously injured. He now lies in the Hospital in a most
dangerous state.
Saturday' night, the George public-house, in Leather-lane,
was broke into, and robbed of several articles of plate, 301. in
money, and a watch and seals.
31r. JameS Hill, of Wennington, near Romford, has in his
possession a Dorset ewe, with five lambs, which are all 1.1t!ly
to live.

On Sunday, after dinner, the family of Robert
Adamson, farmer, of Nunbarnholme, near Pocklington, six in
number, were seized with severe and alarming sickness; a me-
dical gentleman being called in, found reason to suspecttitey h d
been poisoned, but nothing could be discovered to show in
what manner it had been done. By the administration of the
proper remedies, the violent symptoms abated, but they con-
tinued very ill the whole night. Several of the neighbours
kindly rendered them every assistance during that night, and
next day, sat down, seven in number, to dinner, part of which
consisted of pancakes, of which some of the family were ais)
able to partake. Immediately afterwards the whole p ty
were again attacked by symptoms of the same alarn I n
ti-
tore as had been manifested by the family on thel preceding
day. The medical gentleman again attended, and succeeded
administering relief, inasmuch that the whole are now in
a fair way of recovery. Upon a close investigation, there is
reason to apprehend that some poisonous article had inten-
tionally been mixed up by some evil-minded person in part of
a barrel of flour, from which the pancakes were made, anti some
of which had also been used in articles for the Sunday dinner,

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

v. 7"," FROM TIII: 1)111.Y MORNING PAPERS,

Nag '2l, 1'3'22.

LMORNING posT:11,
In the House of Commons last night, Dr. Phil-
' !,intore's Bill for amending the Marriage Act went
• tilroughi -a Committee of the whole House, and
-was ordered to be reported this evening. It was
,•ipposed by Mr.Wetherell in an ingenious speech.
The lion, and Learned Gentleman admitted the
• 1-•-vits of the present. law, but argued that the pro-
. posed 13111 left it optional with minors to con-
:Tract delusive marriages, which -it was in the
'power of their parents or guardians to 'dissolve at
any period previous to their majority. On this
. :;ratind Mri,Wetherell preferred the law as it
,kt present stood. Ur. Lushington, while he
•;:clvocated this Bill, acknowledged the im-
,iwrfection pointed: out.by the Honourable Mem-
.for Oxford, and would have all marriages,
contracted after the age of 1 valid-in law. He
dwelt upon the' hardship of leaving four or five.
tears of uncertainty to-elapse, before the expira-
tion of which, perhaps, two or three infant chil-
dren might: .be illegitimatized by the guardian of
oof their parents, though the latter themselves
;•n o • .
iemained fixed in affection to each, other. Dr.
''Philliniore) Sir James Mackintosh, and the Mar-
.
guts of Londondeiry, severally supported the
Hill with great ability and effect. Dr.
Philli-
more •put it to the House,•whether the marriages
of all Minors, without regal consent, should con-
tinue to be ipso facto et ab initio void, and the
....Offspring of them, therefore, without any future
limit, bastardized--or a necessary evil be sub.-
rnitted to, of confining the period of un-
'certainty to • three or
_four years,: and making
then 'dependent upon the parents or guardians
•of the.parties. -in our opinion, the difference is
• so immense between the two cases, as to destroy
all difficulty of choice. The mischief of the ex-
isting law is, that it renders property, and the
;rights connected with it insecure, without those
:affected being aware of their situation. It is
• ;enough to divest a person of his natural inheri-
tance, if it can be proved his father or mother,
or one of their parents, from whom his property
may be derived,, was married a minor, without
,:'regal consent, although no cognizance of the fact
had ever been hitherto taken. But under the
• Bill now in Parliament a legal process must be
..Instituted before the parties are of age, or the
contract is and remains valid. We thus see that
certainty will supplant uncertainty with regard
. to Legitimacy, ani that instead of being subject.
to one indefinite evil, it is brought within the
narrowest bounds consistent with our established
institutions. Mr. Wallace, subsequently, went
at considerable length into the merits of his .Bill
for amending the Navigation Laws: lie first
entered on a• historical review of the original
statutes on this subject, and afterwards ex,
filained the. principle and proposed advan-
tages. of the measure • now introduced.--In
the House of .LOrdi, last night, the Bill for
allowing. Catholic Peers to sit in Parliament was
brought up from the Commons by Mr. Canning,
, ;attended by a number of Comnnonel's. The Duke
of Portland moved that it be read a first time,
which was done without any opposition, and the
second reading was fixed for Friday, the 31st
• inst. for which day their Lordships are summoned.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
Iu moving the order of the day for the Corn-
Mittee on the Navigation Bill, in the House of
:Commons, last night, Mr. Wallace, the Vice-
President of the Board of Trade, stated at some
kngth the nature of the alterations which it
.:was intended to propose hi the existing Naviga-
tion Laws of this country. The general object
of those alterations he stated, to be the simplifica-
tion of those laws, by relaxing some of the enact-
ments in force for the regulation of the trade of
foreign shipping with the ports of this kingdom,
so as to place the several nations of Europe upon
the same footing in that respect one with another.

"In the course of his observations, alluding to

• the-present state of South America, the Right
• Hon. Gentleman stated it to be his intention,
without atternptinff to prescribe to the Execu-
tive Government what course of policy it should
pursue with respect to the recognition of the in-
dependence of• the South American States, to
propose that the shipping of those States-should
be admitted into the ports of this country on the
same terms• as those which regulated the admis-
sion of British ships into the ports of those States-
• respectively.

[MORNING HERALD.]
Although St. Genevieve has ejected the phi-
losophers and heroes of the French Revolution,
and once more gained possession of the Pantheon
at Paris, the Spaniards are about to " desecrate"
one of their Churches at Madrid—that of Saint

Thomas—by converting it into a Pantheon, to

'receive the mortal remains of their illustrious
• dead. The question is before the Cortes, and
not yet decided. It is intended to contain mo-
numents of Spaniards dead, living, and to be
born; who shall be pronounced worthy of that

honour, for their virlues, talents, or. patriotism

and is also to be the receptacle of all colours
taken from the enemy. It is to receive the
aslieSl- of the more ancient heroes and pa-
triots--Padilla; Bravo, Lanuza, Maldonado,
Heredia, and the following more recent 44 VIC..
tiltts-of -Despotism," Daviz, Velande, -Alvarez,
POrlier; Lascy,
_who, to borrow the significant
phrase of. Gibbon, were convicted of rebellion by
their failure. The- Academy of Fine Arts at
Madrid is to furnish an architectural model of
ti4e:bnildiag, and also, drawings of the interior
economy and decorations. There is one circum-
stance which creates some uncertainty as to the
execution of this project—viz. that it is to de-
pend Upon the result of a voluntary subscription
to 1,.e opened throughout the kingdom of Spain.

[TUE 'IMES]
It is said that some new disturbances haVe
taken place at Lyons, and that the civil autho-
rities were obliged to obtain-military aid Co re-
store order.—The Duke of Richelieu, the late