The Sun.
London, England, 1825-05-30 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

PARTICULARS OF THE LOSS OF THE COLUMBUS.
[ From the Agents to Lloyd's-at Cork, dated May 25.1
4"fhe crew of the large ship Columbus (72 in number) have
arrived here in the Dolphin, having abandoned that shin on
Tuesday, the 17th instant, in lat. 46. long. 29., in consequence
of her straining and_ making a great deal of water. The steam-
engine for pumpir:; got displaced, and was rendered useless► ;
her ballast also shifted, so that when they left_her, she was lay-
ing nearly on her beam ends, and had about 16-feet water in
her hold. the John Barry,. Roche, with emigrants for
Quebec.

7I) r., 111Ai• 29.—Wind 11%8:W.—Arrived the Mary
Francis, Wilkinson, and Pyrennees, Whitwell, from Sierra
Leone ; Janet, NlTilson, from St. :Vincent's. Passed through
yesterday with. the wind at N.E. the Commodore Hayes, Mon_
Grief, for India; Juno, Pritchard, for Jamaica; and Dian: ,
Jay, for Leghorn. Arrived from the River and remain, the
Elsdon, for North America; St. Lucia, Rawlins, for
St. Lucia; Wolf, Christie, South Seas ;,Jane, Wylie, St.
Lucia ; and Northumbria, Wright, Quebec.
PoitT'smourn, MAY 29.—Wind N.ll-.lVent out of
harbour his Majesty's ship Aurora.
PLYMOUTH, MAY 28.—Wind W.L—Arrived the Union,
Carder, from Lisbon. OW the Port, 'the Renewal, Cromarlie,
from l3arbadocs. Sailed the Percival, Richardson, for Quebec.
• FALMO It Tit, Mal. 28.—Wind N. N. We'4-Arri ved the Coun-
tess of Chichester packet from Carthagena, sailed the Bth April,
from Jamaica the 19th, and from Crooked Island the 26th ditto.
r:4i WE ft poor., MAY 23.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Phmnix,
Blakistim, from Philadelphia ; Tolson, Yeoward, from Per.
naMbuco • and the Clarissa Ann,. , from Mobil:.

ON Holyhead, the King George, Drysdale, from Jamaica.

On Saturday afternoon,- at two o'clock, the
('abinet Ministers assembled at the Secretary of State's Office
for Foreign Affairs, Downing-street. There wero present the
Lott n CIlANCEt.t.oit, the Duke of Wellington, the Earls of
Liverpool, liarrowby, Westmorland, and Bathurst ; Mr. Se-
cretary Peel, Mr. Secretary Canning, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, Mr. Wynn, Mr. Huskisson, &c. The Council Sat
till near fire o'clock.

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The Lords of the King's Privy Council, hold
a meeting on Saturday morning, at ten o'clock, at the Council
Office, Whitehall-place, to hear Appeals- from the Plantations.
The Lords present were—Lord Giffiml, the Chief Baron,
and Sir Henry Russell. Their !Lordships • were occupied in
hearing the arguments of Counsel; on two of the above cases,
6114 o'clock, when their -Loreships separated.
Yestekla y [wing the Anniversary of the Re-
storation of CHARLES IL, the • Park and Tower guns were
fired at one o'clock.
Tire Tribune, Captain Gutorg, is doily•expect-
.
ed from Gibraltar with Lord CITATHAIf, Governor of that for-
tress, whose state of health has compelled him.to return to Eng-
land.

•
• The Phaeton, Captain STEWART has been np.
pointed to convey the Right Hon. C. R. VAtrortaw, Minister
Plenipotentiary to. the :United States, to New York, and is ex-
pexted to sail in a few days.
We regret to learn from St. Peterfljurgh, that
Mr. WART), our Ambassador at the Russian Court, is so dan-
gerously ill of an inflammation in the lungs, that his recovery
is very doubtful.

Tile Russian Government, it is stated, intends
to employ Greek llissionaries to concert to Christianity the sa-
vage hordes of the Caucasus, especially the plundering Tschet-
chenzes.

MILAN, MAY 16.--Zer Highness the Duchess
of Purina, his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke of Tuscany,
and his august sister, arrived' here yesterday. The Emperor
and Empress, the King and Queen of Naples; the Duchess of
Parma, the Grand Duke of Tuscany -and his sister, the Arch-
,Dlikpersi'nFcrytanalclids,pCrbirla;‘les.,,aenLiLegn.,ier and_ consorts, and
honoured. yritli the!r
Th sence the eatre Dena scala, which wait splendidly illuminated.
.1 crowded house received his, Majesty:-with transports and
most cordially greeted the august visitors who accompanied him.
On the 10th of this month, died at Venice,
after a long and painful illness, His Excellency the Marquis de
Chanteler, one of the moat distinguished men in the Austrian
umpire.—(Gazette PiMmorriese, May 19.)
We understand that a Meet of the Members
of the House of Lords, favourable to the late measure of ;he Ro-
man Catholic Relief Bill, took place on Saturday at the house
of the Duke of Buckingham, in Pall-Mall. It was attended by
almost every Member of the House of Lords who voted in the
minority on the late division on the Catholic Question, and by
many others who were not present on that occasion. The Duke
of Devonshire and Earl Fitzwilliam each proposed a series of re-
solutions, but we understand that another serious, proposed by
the Marquis of Londonderry, was finally agreed to. The adop-
tion of the Resolutions of the Noble Marquis was owing to the
necessity of carrying the measure being expressed in .strongey
and more emphatic terms than in the two other series of Ile- ,
solutions submitted to the Meeting.—(Bt Press.)
HARRIETTE WILSON.--A work, it seems, is in
preparation which, it is said, will fully develope the proceed-
ings of this AUTO-MooIIAPHIST, containing abundance of
her letters to many of the persons ivhorn she has introduced in
her Memoirs, by which it will be found that those who came
down handsomely were wholly unnoticed, or slightly passed
over, but those who had firmness to resist- her demands were
exposed to all the force of her obloquy and ridicule. Such a
work is really necessary, in order to check, at least, the assassi-
nation• of character that have disturbed the peace of many in-
dividuals and families throughout the country.
Film—Saturday a ftertioon, about four o'clock,
a fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Spratley, larop-contrac-
mr. bong-acre, which are situate in Rose-street, between New-
street, Covent-garden and Long.acre an are sorry to say,
that the consequences have been destructive to property of con-
siderable value. The fire originated in the bursting of a bottle
of essential oil, which communicated to' a forge in his smith's
shop, from thence to the back premise, of Mr, Rackham, coach-
maker, Long-acre, and to the hack of the houses occupied by
Mr. Page, pawnbroker, anti Mr. Staton, a tailor. When the
oil took fire, several men were at work in the Smith's shop. It
had stated, that one man who was working at the fore.e, was
burnt to death ; but we are happy to learn, that although much
injured, hopes are entertained of his life being preserved; and
we noticed two men carried to a surgeon's, in Bedford-street,
shockingly burnt, and one of th 7m appeared in a lifeless state.
The confusion and alarm that prevailed when the fire broke out,
was beyond description. Mothers were seen hastening with
their children, to a place of safety. Others were actively em-
ployed in throwing their goods from the windows into the street.
'At the pawnbrokers there was great consternation • the pro-
perty was hurled out of the windows into thestreet, and ithe whole
was removed before the
.back part of the premises', in which
it was deposited, caught lire. Three adjoining houses were in
a heap of ruins in less than hour. Five houses on the opposite
side of Rose-street, were also destroyed ; and the distress occa-
sioned to the poor inmates, chiefly lodgers with large families;
was heart-rending. A number of carriages, which were on the
premises of Mr. Rackham, were consumed ; and we learn lie
was not insured to the extent of his loss. By seven o'clock,
the fire was completely extinguished.
ALARMING FIRE —Soon after eleven o'clock
last night another tremendous fire broke out in the extensive
tallow melting premises of Messrs. Pit or•TirooT, jun. and Co.
in Queen-street, Cheapside, at the end next Upper Thames.
street. Owing to the inflammable description of property with
which the factory was stocked, the greatest alarm prevailed for
the safety of the valuable warehouses and stores that were con-
tiguous to the fire ; but fortunately by the timely arrival of
nearly all the metropolitan engines, assisted by an abundant
supply of the opposite element, the flame, were confined to the
premises in which they commenced, and before they could be
subdued, the whole of the stock in trade; &c. were completely
destroyed. The loss is very considerable, but we understand
the firm is insured. The origin of the fire is not yet ascertained.
TIIE RHENISH VINTAGE.—An article in the
Frankfort Papers, dated Heilbron, 17th may,
states -that a sharp frost on the night of the 15th
had done immense damage to the vines, both its
the mountains and in the valleys,--in that and the
eprodrueCivl ga s Thslol.°greence°rlalPl-ca.
tnieoitgi hobrouaritslign4dliestr:icigtsh.t
mischief. The accounts from Nickarsulm, ues_
sigheim, and the whole valley of Weinsherg, are
equally lamentable,

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THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

extracts. from the Morning Papers, May 30, 1825.

[THE TIMES.]
There is a certain technical language always
used in the House of Commons, whenever ap-
plication is made for more money for any of the
memberS of the Royal Family; which technical
language, as is indicated by many a shrug, is
' very much at variance with the feelings of men's
' minds in the House, and espresses a sense totally
the reverse of what is felt by the people of Eng-
' land upon these very painful subjects. it would
certainly be much better to make no settlements
whatever upon any of the members of the Royal
Family, but to suffer them to come to the Trea-
sury when they pleased, and to take what .mo-
ney they pleased, without any account or respon-
sibility, than to hold out the delusion of settle-
ments or allowances, which impose no restraint
whatever to the lust of expending. This re-
, mark, however, may be considered as of a gene-
ral nature. The case of the little Princess of
Kent is a peculiar one : she must be educated ;
and it may be proper, if the businesS were to
commence de novo, that she should be edu-
cated at the expeuce of the people of England :
but what, at the present crisis, then, when we
are called upon for that purpose, becomes of
the assurance that was given us by the late Lord
`Linndonderry, -that Prince Leopold would edu-
cale her=---that he would perform that fluty
which nature impoSed upon him, us the nearest
male relative to his sister's child, himself de-
riving funds, more than ten times adequate,
from the people of England ? Is all that he can
afford the royal child out of his fifty thousand
to year a Christmas or a birth-day present ?
If so, we ought not to have been deceived by
ostententatious promises, which the present ap-
plication proves to have been false and hollow.
The expence, then, of educatin; the little Prin-
cess, falls upon us. It is a new burden, at which
we must not repine. Neither' do we: we are in-
dignant only at being deceived. We do not
know that frugality is an injurious ingredientin the
education of Princes.
:Queen Elizabeth never acted
with less dignity in her high station becaUse her
youth was passed in unexpensive retirement. The
truth is, that solid attainments cannot be made is
the midst of hustle and splendour. As to the Duke
of Cumberland and his young Ascanius, which is
now put forth upon us, we can really consider
Ibises only a fresh effort to procure thesix thousand
a year which has been already twice refused to
his Royal Highness. We began, and Shall con-
clude with a general remark. It Will be. very
unadvised and indiscreet in Ministers, and even
inthe members of the Royal Family themselves,
.-,-now none of them young persons,—to let the
people of England feel very strongly the ex pences
of Royalty, at a period when republics are
.springing up over the world, founded by heroes
and patriots, conducted at but small expellee.
The advantages of an hereditary monarchy are
known and justly estimated only by the philo-
sophic few : its cost can be summoned up by all.