The Sun.
London, England, 1822-09-03 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, SEPT. 2.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived and sailed for,
the River the Owen Glendower frigate; front Madeira ; also
the Britannia, Lamb, Jamaica ; Nesbit, Dray, ditto ; Albion,
Coricaly, Odessa ; Margaret, Cray, Virginia. • Came down
from the River and remain the Treasurer, Watson, for Rio
Janeiro; George and Thomas, Hall, Naples, Messina, and
Malta; Lonack, Hackman, Bencoolen;-Criterion, Saber, New
York. Arrived and remain wind-bound the Aurora, Crabtree,
for Gibraltar; Fanny, Mitchell, Oportii. Put back the Ocean
transport, that sailed yesterday for Cork. • • •
PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 2.—Wind W.S. W.—Arrived his
Majesty's ship Dasher, from Barbadoes ; Philip, Leslie, Balti-
, more, tor Amsterdam, passed by all well.
FA MOUT IT, SEPT. I.—Wind variable.—Arrived the Nei_
son, Bishop, from Sicily in 31 days.
COAST or KENT, SEPT. I.—During the late gale on the
night of the 28th ult., the brig Cepheus, belonging to Sunder-
land, J: HANSON, Master, coal laden, bound to Little Hamp-
ton,. was. driven on shore and totally wrecked, opposite No.
3, Battery, West Bay, Dungeness ; the wind was blowing
strong from the S.W. and a tremendous sea running, which
made clear breaches over her. The situation of the crew was
most perilous, as a surf which rendered landing almost
impossible seemed to repulse the only hope the wretched
sufferers could cherish. In this extremity they were ob-
served by the sailors doing duty on this coast in the blockade
service, who soon collected, and under the able directions of
Lieut. Wheeler and Mr. M‘Tavish, succeeded in overcoming
every difficulty, and with that noble intrepidity and manly
exertion which need but to be called for to be displayed, res-
cued the wretched sufferers from an untimely grave. They
were all comfortably lodged for the night in the quarters of the
Officers above-mentioned, to whom every acknowledgment of
gratitude and thanks is due for the ready assistance ailbrded,
and their kind attentions to the unfortunates.

WHALE FISHERY.
The Alpheus' Duncan, has arrived at Peterhead from Davis'
Straits, with 150 tons of ;oil, the produce of 10 whales. She
fished to the S.W., and caught her last fish on the 10th June,
from which time till the 6th of last month, when she left the
ice, the weather was very thick. She brings the following ac-
count of the fishery :—Peterhead Ships—Hannibal, 4 fish ; •
Invincible, 5; Resolution, 1; Superior, 5; and Traveller, 2.
Leith Ships—Horn Castle, 1 ; North Pole, 2; and Rattler, 2.
Montrose Ships—Eliza Luar, 7 ; London, 5 ; and Monarch, 3.
Earl Percy of Kirkaldy, 3 ; Alexander of Aberdeen, 4 ; James
of Whitby, 4. Hull Ships—Abraham, 2; Mary Francis, 1 ;
Progress, 1; William, 2. Newcastle Ships—British Queen, 5 ;
Cove, 4 ; Lady Jane, 5 ; Eliza, 1.
The. Alert, Penny, from Greenland, is also arrived at Peter-
head, with 60 tuns of oil from five fish: she brings the fol-
lowing intelligence :—Peterhead Ships—Dexterity, 5 fish ;
Eclipse, 1; Gleaner, 5 ; Hope, 4 ; Jean, 3 ; Miry, 1; Per-
severance, 4 ; Union, 5. Aberdeen Ships—Dee, 6or 7; Hen.
rietta, 4 ; Jane, 7 or 8 ; and John of Greenock, 134,

LAMENTABLE SPORT.—Charles the .Sixth of
France gave a masquerade, in which himself and Give courtiers
played the part of satyrs ; to resemble which, they Were clothed
in close linen habits, besmeared with rosin,- and then-stuck with
down all over. One of the company in a frolic touched one of
these satyrs with a lighted torch as they were dancing in a ring.
The consequence Was, that all the six masks, or satyrs, were
instantly enveloped in flames.; four of the six ware burnt to
death on the spot ; and the hint never recovered the fright and
disorder occasioned by the accident.
.OPULENT LANDLORDS.—.B short lime since
a gentleman of this description called on a farmer, who was
deep in arrears to him for rent; and entering into familiar
conversation with him, inquired whether it was convenient for
him to do any thing in way of payment ? The farmer replied
that he was pennyless ; and further, that he saw no prospect
of being able to pay any part of the debt ; . hut added, that he
would willingly give up all his stock on the land, • and every
thing he was possessed of, in order for payment to be made as far
as that would go. His landlord said, he would hear of no such
thing ; but added, " You shall remain on the estate.—l will
abate you 2001. per ann. of your ren tin future; and I will entirely
exonerate you from all liability to pay what is already due !"
The abounding generosity of this noble act will be still further
manifest, when .it is known that these arrears athounted to
1700/. ! —The tenant, it seems, partook of the same feeling as
his landlord ;- for, on a butcher, who had been in the habit of
purchasing, &c. of him, recently going to pay him for; a bargain,
and urging the liberality of his landlord as a reason for having
a little compassion on him, the farmer readily made himan
abatement of 10s. per head.—These circumstances took place
within a few miles of Bath.
DRAWING INFERENCES.—TWO eleriml gentle-
men having called on a reverend brother in the country at rather
an early hour in the morning, found the minister in 66d, so were
ushered• into the garden to look about them till his-reverence
could get him.-.elf in a condition to receive them. Finctirg 'John,
the minister's man,' busy at work, one of them entered into a
familiar conversation with this lesser' prop of the chitrch, and
amongst other things inquired, " Weel, John, hoWlong ha'e
ye been wi' the minister ?" "Indeed," quo' John, " I ha'e
been twa-score years, Sir." "Aye, twa-score years !'then y'ell
be able to preach yoursel' by this time, John ?'t 'CI Na na,
Sir," replied honest John, " I canna preach, bu; I 'firma
think but 1 could draw a few inferences."%Wel, John,"
continued his interrogator, " what inference' Would ye
draw frae that portion o' Scripture which says, the ass snuffed'
up the east wind."! " lf.l were to draw any,", teplid the mi-
nister's man, shaking his head slowly and. significantly, " it
would be, that he would snuff lang at it ere- he would get fat
on't."

BARNSLEY NEW Cii4P-;On Tuesday last,
the new chapel at Barnsley, to which Lord FITZWILLIAM so
largely contributed,: was -opened for public service. The solemn
high mass was performed by the Rev. F. TRA'F.I4B; assisted
by the Rev. CHARLES LEFEBVRE, and the Rev. MICHAEL
TR.i.kPl'S. The prayers and sermon: were given by the
Rev. B. RAYMENT, froM Geneeis, xxviii. • 17,. and in
so impressive a manner as to arrest the attention. of a nu-
merous, and respectable audienee. What added not a little
to the solemnity of the ceremony was, the numbei,,of I;:iests
whoattended within the sanctuary, in their surplices•and stoles.
A very handsome collection was made after the. Gospel for the
benefit•of the establishment, both in the gallery and hi the body
of the chapel.
From the 9th to the 27th ult. inclusiVe, there were in all 13,192
passengers conveyed in the Forthalid Glide canal platage boats.
—During the corresponding days of the lastyear.-5;p92 were
conveyed, so that seven thousand five hundred May be con-
sidered travellers occasioned by the King's visit. The number
who went altogether, by the coaches forthe same periothnay be
calculated at two thousand five hundred ; but two-thirds of then
may be considered ordinary passengers ; so that the extra num-
ber would be about. one thoneand. 'lt is probable that
about one thousand went in post chaises ; perhaps an
equal number in noddies ; and as many more in gigs
and on horseback. The total of these, added to the-total by
the canal, amounts to nearly 12,0001. --This, however, is not for
Glasgow alone, but for the country, also to the west aid north
to which it is a thoroughfare. To this must be added ihe persons
who walked and went in carts or waggons but the humber of
these would not be very great. Supposing each individual on
an average to spend 51. the expenditure would probablsr be be-
tween 65,000/. and 70,000/.
THE LATE ACCIDENT AT DARNAt.— conse-
quence of the many incorrect riimours which have been circu-
lated about the accident at Darnal; we have endeavourectto gain
as correct a statement concerning it as we possibly ;cold. It
appears that two men had each A'leg broken, two !els receiv-
ed an injury on the hand, a Irian had his collar-bone broken, a
woman had both her collar bones broken, a man had his right
NI a good deal „lacerated,. and, 16 were otherwise bruised and
injured by the downfall of the planks. Twenty-lireeynineteen
males and four females, were taken to the Infirmary ; seventeen
were admitted into the house, some of whom were able tO return
home ontlce following day. Six were 'made out-patients, after
being dressed, &c. We have authority for stating that the se-
verest .cases are all going on favourably:-4Shefierd hec.
pendent.)

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

VATRAcTS FROM THE DAILY MORNING PIPERS,
September 3/, 1822,

,:MORNING POST.]
The new Ministerial Arrangements not being
yet completely formed, the Council which was
expected to be held yesterday by his Majesty
did not take place. The Earl of Liverpool and
the Lord Chancellor, however, had audience of
the King upon this important subject; and the
final arrangements will, in all probability, take
place this day or to-morrow at farthest. Mr.
Canning, we believe, has not yet returned to
town; so that all is still uncertainty with respect
to that Gentleman, though hopes 'continue to be
entertained that he will have a'diStinguished seat
in the Cabinet. We understand; that Mr. Ro-
binson will be promoted to a Principal Secretar-
yship, and have the management of the House of
Commons ; and that he will be succeeded by Mr.
Huskisson in the offices of Treasurer of the Navy
and President of the Board' of Trade.

[MORNING HERALD.]
All the Sovereigns will meet at Verona in the
beginning of October. It is again said that M.
Chateaubriant is to go to the Congress at Verona ; '
and that the Viscount Montmorency, who has set
out this evening, will act alone at the conference
at Vienna. During his absence, the business of
the Foreign Office is confided to M. de Villele.
We are assured that the Secretary to the'Eng-
glish Legation in Spain, who departed • for
London after the events of the 7th of July,
has brought most important despatches to' his
Government.----:The report at Madrid is, that
England has offered every assistance, as well as
troops to be embarked, in case that the Spaniards
shall be menaced with a foreign invasion.

MORNING CHRONICLE.]
In adverting on Saturday to the prObable ar-
rangements in the Cabinet before next Session,
we noticed • the manner in which public business
is conducted in the Colonial Department. A
circumstance connected with this subject has
been mentioned to us, which, though apparently
incredible, we fear some of our most respectable
Merchants have but too much reason for believ-
ing to be true. The public are doubtless aware,
that settlers going out to British Colonies, such
as the Cape of Good Hope or Van Dieman's
Land, are obliged in the first instance to obtain
licences at the Colonial Office. In granting
passports of this sort, it is, of course, in the
power of official persons either to afford facili-
ties to the emigrant, or to throw obstruc-
tions in his way. Men, too, however firm
of purpose or independent of principle, in
leaving their native homes, and perhaps
.em-
barking their whole property in a distant
and hazardous speculation, must naturally wish
to commence the enterprise on comfortable
terms with the influential agents in that office of
the State under whose immediate controul their
future fortunes are to be pursued. Can it be
possible, then, that these circumstances are taken
advantage of by any person holding an appoint-
ment of trust and responsibility under the Crown,
in order to promote the ends of private friend-
ship, or perhaps some improper object ? Can
it be possible that any individual in the Co-
lonial Office:dares to step beyond the limits
of his public duty, or to avail himself of the
accidental opportunity which his situation may
afford, to interfere in the remotest degree with the
private affairs of Emigrants.? We trust, upon in-
vestigation, it will turn out otherwise ; but re-
ports have been circulated tending to produce a
belief in the existence of the practice alluded to.
During Lord Bathurst's absence it would be well
if Mr. W ilmot were to inquire whether some
person in his department is not in the habit, when
an Emigrant applies for a license to settle (let
us say in Van Dieman's Land) to thrust upon
him a card with the address of a particular house
in the City, engaged in freighting vessels and
sending out passengers to that Colony ? We do
not profess to know who the identic:e person is
who is reported to act thus, if any one really
does so; but we ask Mr. Wilmot to investigate
the charge, and satisfy himself at least on the
subject. It is needless to say, that if the de-
linquency is committed, the consequences are
highly injurious to the emigrant, and unfair to
the mercantile interest concerned in that branch
of our colonial trade. Let the truth, ho ever,
be ascertained, and we shall be satisfied.

[NEW Tires.]
The Clergy- are accused, in The Morning
Chronicle, of neglecting their pastoral duties.--
This charge, indeed, does not apply to the case
of St. Andrew's Parish ; for there' the Rector is
uniformly admitted to be an exemplary character.
But to a general imputation we . feel it right to
make a general reply. An invidious comparison
is drawn between the Clergy of England and
those of Scotland. We are happy in bearing our
warmest testimony (from a pretty extensive per-
sonal and local experience) to the very admirable
character and very great efficiency of the Scottish
Clergy. A more respectable, a more venerable,,
a more useful body of men, in proportion
to their numbers, does not exist ; but it.
must be observed that they possess a vast
advantage over the Ministers of the English
Church, in those habits of deference and sub-
mission to their spiritual authority, which
have continued unbroken for above two cen-
turies among the mass of the Scottish people—
habits which never existed to the same degree
in England, and which the progress of modern
liberalism in this, part of the island
.has gone
very far indeed to extinguish. It is but of late
years that the infidel Press has made .any, and
that corbparatively a slight progress in Scot-
land : Nve need not say what dreadful encourage-
menrit has received in• England. Would Scot-
tish Juries have been found to shield the
blasphemies of Hone, or the obscenities of
Benbow ? Would the Magistrates-of Edinburgh
have tolerated for so many months the horrible
nuisance of a public and avowed ""Mart for

Sedition and gistspfiemy in the heart of that '
Metropolis ?" The English Clergy are re-
proached for not offering to their flocks the same
religious consolations which the Scottish Clergy
do. They are not generally found backward in
doing what the habits and feelings of the country
permit/ in this respect but were they to go
further their conduct would be resented as
impertinent interference with domestic con-
cerns/ or denounced as an insidious attempt to
establish sacerdotal tyranny. Far indeed are we
from justifying those Clergymen who neglect any
of their_ practicable duties, or who decline a
steady and persevering opposition to the growing
impiety and immorality of the times. But in all
such cases let the individual answer for his own
misconduct : and when we speak of the Church,
as a body, let us pay it that reverence and
respect which its many virtues, its great learning,
its piety, and its inestimable public utility,
demand.

[TILE TIM Es.]
The known preparations making for the de-
parture of the Duke of Wellington to the Con-
gress, have a curious coincidence in point of
time, with
,a story, that he is, or has recently
been, exposed to some risk of assassination. Ab-
surd as such a tale appears upon the face of it,
and unfounded as we trust it will prove, the Po-
lice Magistrates are said to have felt so much
alarm, that they have, for several days past (if a
Morning Paper can be credited), stationed their
officers in Apsley House. The Noble Duke
seems to have treated this unworthy danger
with the contempt inspired by his native intre-
pidity, and to. have been overruled by the
Magistrates in his reluctance to admit of
even the most simple and least troublesome
precautions. An anonymous letter is repre-
sented as the source of the alarm. Per-
haps this tale may have originated in the same
gossipping spirit as the. report that the Duke had
fallen by the vindictive hand of the son of Mar-
shal Ney. horrible as would be such an attempt
under any circumstances, or from any quarter,
the national feeling would be doubly,shocked,
if
Englishmen were found capable of undertaking
it. The account is probably the invention of
some idler, or of some tactician in politics, who
fancies that his Grace's popularity, on the eve of
his entrance upon rather a suspected work,might
be helped by raising an alarm for his personal
safety. We are not anxious to disguise our wish
that the mission to Vienna had been intrusted to
some other Minister. Military men are seldom very
sound or generous politicians. Their instinct is so
strong on the side of power, that they would (at
least nine out of ten among them) extend to whole
nations the discipline inseparable from an army,
and weigh the resistance of a people to oppres-
sion in the same scale with mutiny against the
articles of war. To what degree the mind of the
Duke of Wellington may have been affected by
this leaning towards the principles of despotism,
derived not only from professional prejudice, but
from the long exercise of discretiimary and almost
unbounded command, parties of course will
differ : but the main point will not be disputed—
that although at the head of an army no man
ever carried himself with more uniform regard to
equity, moderation, and humanity, than this great
and successful Commander, he has become less
admired and less popular, with every year that
he has formed part of the Civil Government,
and almost with every vote that he has given
on questions of National Politics. For his
own sake, therefore, it is that we are anxious
to see the Duke of Wellington less forward
in affairs of State. His administration of the
Ordnance has displayed, we are told, much of
that judgment and activity which might be ex-,
pected from one so familiar with all branches of
military mechanism : but at the Congress of
Vienna, with his tendencies and prepossessions,
what can he accomplish for his own fame, for the
interests of his country, or for the cause of free-
dom?

[BRITISH PRESS.]
If the alternative of oriental dignity on the one
hand, and of office at home on the other, were sub-
mitted to Mr. Canning,we cannot doubt, as he takes
the trouble to assure us, that his " decision would
be formed upon an honest and impartial review of
public considerations" alone, and that he would
be determined not by any thing so contemptible
as a consideration of his personal " interests"—
" but upon a balance of his duties;" but we
should not think him very censurable if his
judgment were eventually to decide that the
welfare of his country would be better promoted
by his remaining in England, and assisting the
rCouncil by his wisdom, than if he were to cross
the seas for the purpose of controlling the desti-
nies of our Indian empire.We strongly suspect that
the whisperings of early ambition would prompt
Mr. Canning to accept the high distinction of
being the Chief Secretary for Foreign Affairs,
to which, undoubtedly, his talents entitle him
far beyond any individual of the same party, but
will not speak plainly upon so delicate a topic ;
and while he complains in one part of his speech
that his silence at the former dinner was mis-
construed, as if he " ostentatiously abjured of-
fice at home," he expresses a hope in another part
that he may not be considered, in consequence
of what had fallen from him on this occasion, as
expressing an anxiety for a seat in the Cabinet.
We are not aware that any construction had
been put upon the silence or the words of Mr.
Canning, such as he seems to have apprehended,
nor are there, we believe, many persons in the
country who would attribute to him at any time
an unwillingness to accept of office ; but if such
an impression ever prevailed in any quarter, this
last speech of the Right Honourable Gentle-
man will no doubt effectually remove it. We must
confess that we should suspect the present Ca-
binet to be more than ordinarily deficient in
common sense, if in their existing emergency
they should decline to take advantage of Mr.
Canning's talents. It is, indeed, very possible
that some among them may think that he rates
these talents at too high a price, and that however
desirous they may feel of having the benefit of
them upon occasion of a hard-fought field in Par-
liament, they would yet be unwilling to purchase
them by making their proprietor one of the prin-
cipal Secretaries of State. But who are they

that affect to set a vaiue upon Mr. Canning ?
What higher claim does any Member of the Ca-
binet possess to a high and efficient office ? Com-
pared with him they sink for the most part into
utter insignificance., and he would undoubtedly
betray his own respectability if he were to join
their party as second in official rank to any of
them.

FROM SATURDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
W. Smith and W. C. Taylor, Greenwich, surgeons—J.
Whiteside and T. Waistell, Liverpool, coopers—W. Athcarn
and \V. Weir, Peckham, surveyors—R. L. Chance and J.
Dixon, Paul's wharf, merchants—J. Allan and R. Jones, Nel-
son-place, Fountain-place, City-road, Leghorn hat pressers—
C. H. and H. P. Moring—J. Pearson and T. Carver, Notting-
ham, hosiers—A. C. Johnston and 11. Mitchell, St. Martin's-
le-grand, coffeehouse keepers—H. Hodson and'J.
Lanebridge, Lancashire, ironfounders—J. S. Jackson and W.
Maurice, Stockport, merchants—D. Dunbar and T. Gillan,
Fore-street, Limehouse, wine merchants—E. and S. A. Moore,
and J. Hunt, Hanway-street,Oxford-street, mercers—G. and
Mr. Milward, and N. Skottow, Waterford—T. Fishburn and
T. Brodrick, Whitby, shipbuilders—J. B. Charlesworth and
J. B. Meggcson, Leeds, woolstaplers—R. Gibson and J. L.
Pasteur, St. Helena-terrace, Spa-fields, .jewellers—R. and T.
Partington, Stockport, timber-dealers.
DIVIDENDS.
Sept. 21, J. Reay, Mark-lane, wine merchant—Sept. 28, W.
Fromow, Great Yarmouth, chymist—Oct. 2, J. Lavers, Kings-
bridge, Devonshire, woollen manufacturer—Nov. 12, D. Mait-
land, New Bridge-street, merchant—Sept. 28, W. G. Jackson,
and W. Hardley, Great Surrey-street, linendrapers—Oct. 5,
H. Hudson, Cannon coffeehouse, Charing-cross, tavern keeper
—Sept. 23, W. Tucker, J. Fenton, and G. Machon, Sheffield,
silverplaters—Sept. 23, T. and W. Windeatt, Tavistock,
mongers—Sept. 28, W. H. Lawrence, Bath, linen-draper.--
Sept. 26, J. W. Keene, Birmingham, factor—Sept. 26, W.
Neilson, Liverpool, merchant.

•
CERTIFICATES, SEPT. 21.
T. PoWell, Old Forge, Herefordshire, corn-dealer—T. F.
and J. Gibson, Nottingham, .merchants—W. Wickham, jun.
Chichester, butcher—lL W. Dean, Sugar Loaf-alley, Bethnal.
green, brewer.