The Sun.
London, England, 1822-01-07 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING, &c.

Dr_ t, JAN. N.E.—A number of the outward..;
bound etit f:oen their cables or slipt on Friday night and rester-7
day morning, and got away ; the Berwickshire, and Duke of
York Indiamen, and several- others, got their anchors, and
proceeded down Channel ; the reinaLder of them got away last
night. The Sneaton Castle, Brown, for St. Vincent's, lost an
anchor and cable. Pasied by a large fleet of vessels fn)rn.
Ilarnsgate ['arbour, and proceeded down Channel. Came
down from the River this afternoon and sailed the Dunira,
Hamilton, for BomLay and China ; and Thalia, Shand, for
Jamaica. -:al anchors and cables have been taken up in
the Downs to day belonging to the outward-bound.

Cowl s, JAN. s.—The Highland Lad, for the West
with troops, in going out of harbour, got on share; and s'tiit
remains there.

u .11. x. s.—Sailetl the liindostan, Kirkwood,
for Caleutta ; and Columbian, Sheeirrnan,, for Java.
11Aaw1ctr, J AN. 5 —Arrived the Leicater and Lord Duncan
packet, from Cuxhaven ' • and Prince of Orange, ditto, for
Holland, each with a mail. Put back the Emily packet far
Oottenburgh. Sailed'the Lady Nepean packet, With a 'mail for
Holland.

Po ILT smouTn, JAN. 6.—Wind N.N.E.—Sailed yesterday
the Eagle, Morrill, fOr Ltverpodl; Mellish, for Bengal ;
Bristol, for Lima; AVilhelmina, for Oporto; Flora, far
Bristol ; and his Majesty's ships Vigo for Plmouth, and
Brazen for Cork. Artived to-day the. Loyalist, Perkin, from
St. John's, N.B. for London,
.with loss of sails, chain cable,
&c. ; Lydia,• Thompson, from Copenhagen ; Neva, froM St.
Petersburgh ; Lively, Ritchie ; and' .Friendship, .Warner;'
from the Wwas : the three last have lost anchors and .cables,
Sitiktl his Maesty's ship Tees for Bengal, and the rest of the
outward-bound.

DovElt, JAN: G.—Came into Dover harbouryesterday, dur-
ing a heavy gale at N.E., the brig Iris of Liverpool, Captain
Smith, and the brig Nary, Capt. C. INoids, from iiamburgh,
having cut frOm both anchors in the DownS; also, the brig
Echo, Pameroy, from Dartmouth, and the galliot Ander-
necuAog, Flock, flan Cettc, bound to Antwerp, With wines
and v..niegris, last from the Texel, having been twice blown
past her port, with loss of sails, anchor and cable, and other
damage. T.:e Iris having been
.promptly supplied with an-
chors and cables, !tailed this, morning from our narbour, with a
moderate wind at bound for St. Vincents.—The bois-
terous weather yesterday and to day, has prevented any arrivals
from France.

RA NSGAT E, JAN. v.--=The• Doris, Voss, has been got intn
'the'harbour, and must discharge to repair.' Part of the wreck of
a round stern foreign vessel has been brought in here, with-
" Louise Charlotte," in gilt letters on the stern, from which
there is no doubt a Vessel was lost h.st night on the Kentish
Knock or Goodwin Sands ; a quantity of bulks of timber, spars
and deals, have floated past, supposed to be part of her cargo.
111AztoATE, JAN. 6.—Arrived the Jong Schnugden, Schzue-
den, from Amsterdam for Marseilles, with loss of two anchors
and cables. She saw ycstercla.y a yellow sided schooner of
about 120 tons, on the Kentish Knock and struck very
hard ;in the morning she had disappeared. A quantity of
timber has been washed on shore, and barrels of tar ; also a
cask of camphire, marked LP 5.3. The schooner Minerva, is
still on Ferne.ss rock, but expected to. be got off this evening.
VAR DLO eTri, JAN. 6.—The William, Palmer, from Lon-
don, is on shore at the Lack of the pier. Arrived the Success,
Findlow, from Boston, leaky.
PALstor; TII, JAN. ind N.N.E.—Arrived the Adel-
phi, Stewart, from Antigua for London. Sailed
.the Princess
Elizabeth packet, for America ; Osborne, ditto, for the Brazils :
and Marchioness of Queensberry, ditto, for Jamaica, each with
mails ; —also most of the outward-bound.

Nine hundred and thirty-five vessels of different descriptions
had arrived this year at St. Petersburgh up to the 24th of
November and 1910 had sailed up to the same period.
The Pheenix, with male convicts, bound to New South
Wales, for whose safety some fears were entertained during
the late very tempestuous weather, rode out the gales in Dunge-
ness Roads, and has since sailed to proceed to her destination.
—The Mary Ann, with about 130 female convicts, and nearly
70 children, which arrived at the Motherbank on Tuesday, pro-
ceeded on her voyage for New South Wales at the same time.
Most of the outward-bound merchantmen, which had been de-
t:ined by contrary winds and blowing weather, have also sailed.

The Duke of CLARENCE arrived in town on
Friday morning from Bushey Park. His Royal
Highness returned in the afternoon to dinner.
Four beautiful ostriches, standing, when erect,
five feet in height, of a dark colour, were brought
to town on Saturday from Portsmouth in a double
caravan, ha;iug been sent as a present from the
East Indies to his M .1J EST 1", and are to be con-
veyed to Brighton.

At the Anniversary Meeting of the Antiquarian Society of
Newcastle-upon-'Tyne, on Wednesday, the 2d inst., the follow-
ing Gentlemen were cleetcd Oflice-bearers for the ensuing
year:—President, Sir j. E. Swinburne, Bait. F.A.S. Vice-
Presidents, Sir C. M. Monck, Bart. 1 Charles . Birrge,Esq.
and James Losh, Esq. Secretaries, the Rev. John Hodgson.
and John Adamson, F.A.S Treasurer, John Adamson,
'Esq. Council, Mr. J. T. Brockctt, F.S.A., Mr. T. Iloilson,
Mr. T. Bell, Mr. J. tirray, Mr. Stanton, Rev. A. HedleY,
Mr. Charnley, Rev. W. Turner, 'l'. Davidson, Esq., Isaac
Cookson, Esq. sen., Let,. C. Thorp, and Dr. lieadlam.

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A single house in Philadelphia has, within nine
months, sold a million of dollars in gold, to be
shipped for Env,laud, to pay for foreign manucac-
tured goods.—(rlinorican Puler.)
The Members for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Sir
M. W. RIDLEY, Bart., and CUTHBERT ELLISON,
Esq., have each subscribed fifty pounds towards
the fund for erecting the new building for the
Literary and Philosophical Society in that town.
ThomAs WENTWORTH BEAUMONT, Esq., M. P.
for NorthUulberland, has subscribed fifty guinea;
for the same purpose.
On the Ist inst. two fresh-grown mushrooms
(about seven inches in circumference) were pulled
in a field near Chester-le-street, in the county of
Durham.

liiiss LYDIA KELLY is playing at the Bath
theatre. Mr. G. KEMBLE commences an engage-
ment there for eight nights, commencing on this
night.

SINGULAR. TENURE.—A farm at Brookhouse,
in Langsett;in the parish of Peniston, and county
of York, pays yearly to GODFREY BOSWELL, Esq.
" A snow-hall at Midsummer, and a red rose at
Christmas." -