The Sun.
London, England, 1822-10-10 00:00:00

TRADE WITH SOUTH AMERICA.

The books of Lloyd's yesterday furnished se-
veral new examples of' the severity with which
Spain is enforcing the principle set up in the, me-
morable case of the Lord Collingwood,—that all
vessels proceeding from any port of her late
South American Colonies are liable to capture.
A letter from Philadeldhia, of the 3d of Sep-
tember, states that at St. John's, Porto Rico, five
privateers were fitting out for the purpose of in-
tercepting vessels employed in that traffic. The
following is the list of captures ascertained yes-
day :
The Zeta, of London, from Cadiz to Vera Cruz, which was
captured and carried into ,Ponce, Porto Rico, has been con-
demned with her cargo. _ _ _

The Phoebe, of St. John's, New Brunswick, from La Guayra
to Hamburgh, has been taken by a brig and two felucca pri-
vateers, carried into Ponce, and condemned with her cargo.
The General Jackson, Langdon, from New York to Curacoa,
was captured off St. Croix on the Bth of August, by the General
Pereira Spanish privateer, and carried into Ponce, Porta Rico.
A Danish and a Spanish sloop were carried into Ponce about
the same time.

THE DISCOVERY Snies..—Every day there" are
articles appearing in the provincial papers, copied again into the
London Journals, calculated to create alarm about Capt. Parry's
expedition. We venture to affirm, on the contrary, that nothing
has occurred since the expedition sailed to cause fear for its
safety, or to make us conclude it has been unsuccessful. The
discovery ships are not at all in the track of the whalers. They
were seen in July last year at the entrance of Hudson's Bay,
which is far to the southward of the fishing ground ; and it is
probable that Capt. Parry has chosen that route, to get to Cum-
berland Strait, or to some other "lead" to the westward. He
was not to go, north to Lancaster Strait again. The fishery at
Davis's Straits has failed so completely this year, because for
the two years preceding, the vessels having penetrated to the
inlets on the west of Baffin's bay, and having met great success
there, abandoned the old fishing ground this year, and lost their
time in attempting to get again to the west ; but a barrier of ice,
compact and impenetrable, extended from one end of the bay to
the other, and not a ship was able to proceed more than 20 or 30
milesfrom the land on the east side. KnoWing this,it is impossible
to keep our gravity, when we read:of a shipmagter having made
anxious hut unsuccessful inquiries about Captain Parry. There
is no one sanguine of his success, but no one need be alarmed
for his safety. This barrier was not owing to an uncommonly
frosty season, but to winds preVailing from the S.W., that is,
'right into the. Straits, thus preventing the ice from passing into
the main ocean : but these winds would serve to break up the
ice in the' inlets on the American side, and drive it into Baf-
.fin's Bay—the very thing to encourage the expedition to pro-
ceed. , The west side of the bay, there is every reason to sup-
pose, would he clear sea. The ships are provisioned for three
years, with every attention to comfort which the experience
gained by the former expedition pointed out as proper; and
supposing them to have made some progress last year, and some
this, if there is any chance of getting farther, they will winter
there again ; and even, if the attempt has been abandoned,. we
may conclude from what has hapPened on the former occasion
that the ice inland would not break up till August, and after
this there is a tedious navigation before they could reach the
sea. It was the month of November when the Heck passed
Aberdeen, from the last expedition. If they remain there this
winter, oar first accounts of them will probably be from some
of the Hudson's Bay or North West Company's. establishment;
in the interior.—(Aberdeen Chronicle. )
, THE ANCIENT VESSEL DISCOVERED IN THE RO-
THER.—Frorn the information of our intelligent correspondent
we learn that the idea of transporting it to London by sea, is
now abandoned, and it is intended to tow it up the main chan-
nel of the Rather, in which it lies, to Newenden-bridge, with
140 passengers, the number which was on hoard when it was
first floated from the branch of the Rother, where it was dug
out; From Newenden it is to be conveyed to London by land,
on a carriage constructed for that purpose, where it will be. ex-
hibited for some time, for the emolument of the man who found
it ; after which some persons of distinction, who have clearly
ascertained its antiquity, have agreed topurchase it. Our cor-
respondent adds—" Many false reports have been maliciously
or wantonly propagated by ill-minded and ignorant people, to
the serious, injury of the owner—such as' that the vessel is an.
old Rye barge, swamped up a few years ago, and that the seve-
ral articles which have been taken out of her, were first carried
thither by some of the labourers employed; who. have been
convicted of these lies, and of having sworn, or offered to swear,
to them. Besides all this, no little injury has been done by
the assumed dates and positive opinions of persons of a sape-'
rior class, who have taken upon them to circulate and support
their absurd and improbable conjectures, with dictatorial and
confident assertions. Much research and investigation have
been bestowed upon the subject, and the result is conclusive in
favour of its antiquity, from five to eight hundred years."—
(Kentish Gazette.)
MARRIAGE AMONG DIFFERENT NATIONS.—
Marriage is in use amongst all people. The first inhabitants
of Greece lived together without marriage. Ctrops first insti,
tuted. marriage in Athens. The season of the year which they
preferred was winter, particularly the month of January,
called Gamelion. Children were not alloWed to marry
without the consent of their parents. The usual ceremony
was kissing each other, or giving their right hand. A Ro-
man might not marry. any, woman who was not a Roman.—
The most happy season for marrying was that which fol-
lowed the ides of June. In Germany they, have a kind of
marriage called Morganatic, wherein a man of quality
Contracting with a woman of inferior rank, gives her the
left hand instead of .the right; from this marriage the chil-
dren become bastards as to matters of inheritance, thouh
they are legitimate in effect. None but Princes and great Lords
of Germany are allowed this kind of marriage. The Turks have
three sorts of marriage and three sorts of wives—legitimate,
wives in kebin, and 'slaves. They Marry the first, hire the se-
cond, and buy the third. The people of Java marry their chil-
dren at 9 years of age. In Siam the espousals are concluded by
female mediation. On the third visit the parties are considered as
married. Royal marriages are sometimes incestuous, and the
King does not hesitate to marry his own sister. This'arises from
pride. Among the savage nations of Asia Africa, or America,
the wife is commonly bought by the husband froM the father.
Among the Abyssinians, the price varies from four horses down
to a bottle of brandy. The Araucans have as many wives as
they can keep. In China the bride is purchased by a present
tti her parents, and is never seen by her husband till after the
ceremony. In Circassia the bridegrocirie pays for his bride a
marriage present, but he must not see her, nor cohabit with
her without the greatest mystery. This reserve continues
through life. The ancient Medes compelled their citizens, in
one canton, to take seven wives ; in another, each woman to
receive five husbands ; according as the war had madb, in one
quarter of their country, an extraordinary havoc among the
men, or.the women had been carried away by an enemykfrona an-
other. The ancient Britons hid a singular kind of marriage or
rather polygamy. Any-number of them, as ten or a dozen, joined
in a society together, which 'was, perhaps, requisite for mu-
tual defence in those barbarous times. In order to link this
society the closer, they took an ,equal number,of wives, in com-
mon, and whatever children were born, were reputed to belong
to all of them, and were accordingly provided for by the com-
munity. In Peru they have several wives, but one, or princi-
pal, which is wedded with solemnity. Thei bridegroom esaroes
to the bride's house, and puts an ottayo, which is an open shoe,
on her foot ;if she is a maid, it is made of wool—if otherwise,
of reeds. This being done, he carries her home. In the Bra-
zils no marriage ceremonies take place; upon the
,consent of
the bride and her friends, he takes er home ;if unfaithful, the
:hatband may kill her. By the ancient law of England, if any
Christian man did marry with a woman that was a Jew, Or a
Christian woman did Marry with a Jew, it felony, and the
party so offending should be burnt alive (3 Inst. 89); or, as the
author of Flettesays, buried alive.
Yesterday .a Court Leet was 'lel& at the Town
Hall, Southwark, before the RECQUER of Loamoar, for the
King's manor (of which the Recorder is Lord for the time
being), for the
.purpose of electing, for the ensuing year officers
of the Court, Jurors, flesh-tasters, constables, &c. Formerly
prisoners for petty offences were tried at this Court, but the
practice has fallen into desuetude.
DELIBERATE ROBBERY.—A few days ago,
robbery was very deliberately committed in 'the counting-house
of a sugar-baker on Tower-hill. A customer called at the
counting:house, and paid the sum of 401. to the clerk, who de-
posited it in the desk, and soon afterwards left the office for a
few minutes, having locked the desk and hung the key of it be-
hind the door, in a place which he supposed to be unknown to
any but himself and the principal., On his return liehowever
foand that a visitor had been in the office who knew the secret.
—The desk was lying Open, the money was gone, and iii the
place of the 401. was left a piece'of paper, on which were these
words—" Don't leave the,key behind the door again, you care-
less fools." It is supposed that the thief had acquaintance with
some individuals about the concern, and that lie wrote the above
mentioned caution in order to prove that he Stole " in jest," in
the event of detection.—A shabby-genteel man had been seen
lurking about the premises..