The Sun.
London, England, 1825-08-27 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, AuG. 26.—Wind E.N.E.—Passed through from the
River the Mulgrave' Garbutt, for Malta ; and Emerald,
Nockells, for Buenos Ayres.
PORTSMOUTH, AUG, E.--Arrived
,his Ma_
jesty's ship Tweed, from Leith ; Basilisk cutter, from Chatham ;
Duchess of York transport, from Cowes for Chatham. Sailed
the Scorpion cutter on a cruize.
PLYmotrrir, AuG. 25.—Wind E.—Arrived the Industria,
Simonsen, from Longsound. Off the Port the Jenny, Donald,
from Cadiz.

FALMOUTH, AUG. 25.—Wind E. fresh breezes.—No arri-
vals or railings.
LIVERPOOL, AUG. 25.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived the Mount
Vernon, Rawson, from New York. Off the Port the Selma,
Long-field, from New I ork ; and the Hibernia, Green, frpn
Montreal.

ROTTERDAM, AUG. 22.—The two ships fitted out in the
spring, from this city for Greenland, have returned; one quite
empty, and the other with a barrel and a half of seal blubber.
That from Harlingen is also returned without fish, and with only
40 barrels of seal blubber.

NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.—AdmiraI Bingham is appointel
Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies, and to hoist his flag
on board the Warspite, of 74 guns, which ship Captain F. W.
Carroll is appointed to command. Capt. Pakenham is 19)-
Pointed to command the Harriet, of 18 guns, on the Irish
station; Capt. Rous to the Rainbow frigate, at Chatham. Com-
manders illarryat and Chads of the Larne and Arachne sl 'oPs,
in the East Indies, are promoted to the rank of Captains.

MATRIMONIAL ADVERTISEMENT.—Some young
men, who estimated well the force of vanity in their own sex,
lately agreed on an experiment. They drew up an advertise-
ment, as from a lady possessing youth, beauty, good temper,
and good fortune, and desirous to bestow them all, with her
hand, on a deserving object. This was inserted in several Daily
Papers, and brought not less than 50 answers. The next stela
was to make them all sensible of their folly ; and with this
view a second advertisement was inserted in the same Papers,
stating that the answer of A. 13. (or C. X. or whatever other
title the wooer chose) had been received, and in order to
cure a personal interview he was desired to be at Drury-lane
Theatre, in the boxes, on a certain night, in a certain dress, and
at the end of the play to stand up and apply a quizzing glass to
his right eye. At the time appointed the whole fifty were there:
all started—all raised their quizzing glasses, but almost at the
same moment each saw himself multiplied fifty-fold ; they be-
came sensible of the hoax, suddenly disappeared, and gave up
at once their hopes of enjoying a beauty and a fortune.

CHILD KILLED BY BEER.--A Mr. Heaps, a
salesman of this town, has a small brewhouse in a retired part
of Headingley, where he had some bricklayers employed on
Saturday last. In a dwelling adjoining the above, a tanner, of
) the name of Richard Archer, who works in Mr. Shipley's lan-
yard at a short distance, resides, and had, until the circum-
stance we are about to relate, a family, consisting of a wife
and two children. One of the latter is an infant ; the other, a
fine boy about six years old, went into die brewhouse on Sa-
turday, while the bricklayers were there, and they having
some beer to drink, gave the child about a pint of it. In the
course of the evening the boy became unwell, and about twelve
o'clock on Saturday night nis illness assumed the most alarm-
ing symptoms. Medical assistance was then obtained, but
every effort to save his life proved in vain, and he expired on
Sunday morning. The child was previously healthy, and his
sudden death from no assignable cause but drinking a larger
quantity of beer than certainly ought to have been given to
him, naturally. excited great astonishment in the village, and
a Coroner's Inquest was accordingly summoned on Monday,
and the circumstances of the case minutely examined. Mr.
Metcalfe, a surgeon, of this town, Mr. Al oxon, and two other
medical gentlemen attended.—The body, which in the mean
time had become much discoloured, was opened by Mr.
Metcalfe, and the appearances carefully noted, after which
several witnesses were examined by the Coroner's Jury. In
the course of the inquiry, some of the evidence given by
the professional gentlemen went to express a doubt that the
child had been poisoned, but nothing positive could then
be elicited as to the means which might have produced
that result. The only thing which the deceased was
known to have taken, was the beer, and without submitting
it to a careful analysis, it was impossible to say whether or
not it contained any deleterious ingredients. The Inquest,
in consequence, was adjourned to yesterday, to give time for
a careful decomposition of the liquor; but owing to the ab-
sence of one of the medical gentlemen from town, the further
prosecution of the investigation was subsequently postponed to
this day. Part of the brain, with the stomach, and some of
the intestines, were removed by the surgeons, who also have
had a small quantity of the beer, and of the sediment in the
vessel where it stood, under examination. It is, indeed, but
justice to Mr. Heaps to state, that he evinced not only the
greatest trouble and anxiety at the fatal event, but also showed
the sincerest desire to have the matter fully sifted, and the
beer most scrupulously analyzed. The opinions of the nit dical
persons, we understand, differ much as to the cause of the
child's death ; one or two asserting that it may be ascribable
to the agency of poison, without being able to say that any
thing of that nature can be detected in the beer. The difficulty
of ascertaining whether the liquid contained such an ingre-
dient is mentioned by others, who affirm, that however im-
pregnated with vegetable poisons, it would be impossible, by
analysis, to discover their existence. The subject is one which
already has created a deep interest, and which cannot, for the
satisfaction of all parties, be too patiently investigated. As
the Coroner's Jury have not yet come to a decision, we have
of course, given a mere detail of facts and
rumours, without
venturing an opinion upon the delicate question which it is now
their exclusive province to decide. Mr. Heaps makes the beer
at Headingley, which he retails in Leeds. What tie child
drank is sold at four-pence per pint, had been brewed from two
quarters of malt with sixteen pounds of hops, and was what is
termed the " first coming off."—( heeds Intelligeneer.)

, MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—A most melan-
choly occurrence took place about three o'clock
on Saturday last, at Saville-place, Dublin. A.
young widow lady, Mrs. Dillon, had 'latterly been
subject to a complaint in her stomach, for which
a friend recommended a prescription about three
weeks ago, which, however, she then declined
using. On Saturday she was again taken ill,
when the gentleman who first advised the media
tine, adm;nistered it to her. It was attended
with an instantaneous effect—the unfor.unate lady
expired. In two hors after her wkwe tram.!
became black, and swelled to an enormous de-
gree. how the accident occurred it is impossible
to say; but there is little doubt that the bottle
used by the deceased was poison; and it is a melan-
choly illustration of the necessity of using the ut-
most care in keeping medicines in the house unla-
belled, and without proper directions. Domestic
medicines are, in nine cases out of ten, dangerous.
What increases the affliction of this sad story is,
that the gentleman who recommended the
medicine was warmly attached to the lady, and
was to have been married to her in a few days.—
(Dublin Patriot.)

The establishment of a new linen-draper's shop
n Barnstaple has produced an unwonted com-
petition in the trade. The old established houses
not feeling disposed to have the attention of their
customers diverted by the low prices publish-
ed by the stranger, came to a determination to
make a sacrifice; immediately the windows were
seen filled with articles, ticketed at less than one
half their former prices; calico at 2d. a yard,
gloves ld. a pair, &c. And whilst the front of
" Scotland House" was covered with muslins,
prints, and handkerchiefs, pending from the attic
windows, and waving like streamers long and
gay across the street, the adjoining " London
House," with proud superiority reared a stand-
ard on its summit, from whence its banner float-
ed, not to excite to deeds of sanguinary conflict,
but peaceably to proclaim to the crowds that
gathered round it, the unrivalled cheapness of
the goods within. The stranger (who it seems is
a Scot) added to the attractions of his establish-
ment, by distributing from his upper windows
a liberal supply of cakes to the gaping crowd
below.

THE ,LONDON JO.UANALS.

DAILY

Extracts from the Morning Papers, Aug. 27 ,1825.

EBRITISH PRESS.
The French Papers which arrived yesterday
are for the most part filled with long dissertations
on the plans and conduct of the Ministry. The
Etoile complains that the Opposition Journals
are endeavouring to alarm the fundholders, by
circulating false intelligence and warlike rumours,
for the purpose of preventing the rentes from re-
covering themselves. The Etoilc assures its
readers that the political horizon was never more
unclouded than at present. The re-entrance of
the French army into the Peninsula is said to be
wholly a fabrication. The, camps forming at
Bayonne and Perpignan are, according to the
Etoile, merely camps of manoeuvre. No troops,
we are told, have been called together by the
Spanish Government, but for the expedition fit-
ting out at Ferrol. The Ministerial Journals of
Paris differ widely in their observations on the
proceedings of the Irish Catholics. The Etoilc
announces that the New Association is increasing
daily in numbers that influence, and comments
with evident delight on the energetic attitude
which the Catholic leaders have assumed with
regard to the Government. Their speeches are
praised, and the most seditious and inflamma-
tory passages are extracted as the genuine senti-
timents of the mass of the Irish population.—
On the other hand, the Drapeau Blanc states,
that the Catholics of Ireland have acknowledged
the entire failure of the New Association, which
has been dissolved almost before it existed. It
adds the following commentary:—" Never did any
political-party act with less prudence. The sincere
Catholics are compelled to admit the fact, and re-
gret that their cause was confided to hands so un-
skilful." The Drapeau Blanc is profuse of its
eulogies on the tranquil submission of the Irish
Catholics to the British Government. It
says, " they have shown themselves worthy
of the faith they profess. Before the law had
decided against them, all the Catholics were pre-
pared to defend their, rights ; but as soon as the
words of authority were spoken, they submitted
without a murmur, and the incendiary addreses
of Sheil and O'Connell were received with un-
equivocal signs of disapprobation." The news
from Greece is by no means favourable to the
patriots. Ibrahim is ravaging the country with-
out oppostion. The siege of I\lissolonghi is
pressed so closely that an express, it was reported,
had reached the Greek Government with the in-
formation, that unless that fortress was promptly
relieved it would of necessity fall into the hands
of the enemy. These reports, however, deserve
little attention.

[MORNING rosT.]
French Papers to the 25th inst. reached us
last night by express. They bring abundant in-
telligence from the Levant, but none which clears
up the real result of, the struggle in the Morea.
A plot, it appears certain, however, bad been
discovered at Napoli di Itotnania, which was
deeply laid, but in which, to the honour of the
Greeks let it be said, no individual of their na-
tion was involved. It was entirely carried on by
Turks, though from the cunning with which it
was formed, there is but too much reason to sus-
pect that it had originated with some of their
Christian friends. A Mussulman attired in
the European costume and possessing the Eu-
ropean languages and manners appeared five
months ago at Napoli as an ardent- friend
to the liberties of Greece. He had large
sums at his disposal and proposed to spend them,
like a true Philhellenian, in raising a corps for
the service of the country. Having passed some
time in gaining the confidence of the people and
the Government, he obtained the permission which
he wanted, and began to raise recruits. Amongst
these recruits he took care to introduce, other
Turks, disguised and practiSed like himself, and,
had not a letter of his been fortunately inter-
cepted, his object was to obtain the command
of some important post at Napoli when the
Egyptians should approach it, and to deliver
it up to them : or, according to other accounts,
to spike all the cannon on the ramparts, and
thus enable the enemy to enter the town with-
out a blow. It was the expectation of such a
co-operation which probably induced Ibrahim
Pacha to make his first reconnoisaflce of .Napoli
at the head of a small force , to excite less
.suspi-
cion. For it appears certain that. he twice ap-
proached that city, once without attempting any
thing, when he perceived that the plan had been
. discovered, or thought that his associates were,
not ready ; and the second time
.when he made
repeated attacks with half his army on the post of
the Mills, and was repulsed with considerable
loss. This is, in fact, what has afforded aground
for the Constantinople newswriters and their
friends at Vienna to assert that Ibrahim had suffer-
ed no defeat before Napoli, ,and, had only, lost
two men in his recon7l94synee. . They refer to his
_first appearance before that city, and .carefully
abstain from noticing the second. Rut notwith-
standing their finesse they have exposed them-
selves; for after declaring that Ibrahim had only
presented himself with 80 cavaliers and volunta-
rily retired to Tripolizza without meeting with
the least obstroction, they complain that " his at-
tempt on the Mills would probably have succeed-
.ed had. not the flglish and french assisted the
Greeks during the action." This.shews that there
must have been some fighting, and
,that the is-
sue of that fighting had been such as General
Itoche represented it, .unfavourable to the
Egyptians. Hence, from the accounts
.of the
enemy themselves, we find that the origi-
nal statement must be correct,..foc whilst o'sl
speak of One event alone, they show that theie
live been two. With respect to the,. Turkish
plotter at Napoli, he made a full confession after
having been put to the torture, which we ,are
sorry to see the Greeks have retained, and he
was ultimately condemned to parish in the flames.
Thirteen other Turks were discovered amongst
the recruits whom he had already incorporated,
but their fate is not mentioned. It is slated,
whether in consequence of this or not, is not ex-
plained, that the mass of the Greeks in ate

islands, fearing treachery in the Morea, had re-
paired in arms to that Peninsula, to support the
Government and the noble cause in which all
Greece is now engaged.

[NEW TimEs.]
The Etoile takes as much pains to convince its
readers of the stability of peace as if any man of
sense could dream that the peace would be in.
terrupted. However, its answer to the Journal
des Debats is tolerably conclusive. " The camps
of Bayonne and Perpignan are but camps of
exercise ; the Spaniards have collected no troops
but for the Ferrol expedition ; and the English
naval station in the Tagus has not been rein-
forced." In other words, the Journal des Debats
is wrong in every one of its statements—which
is not very wonderful, nor very uncommon. The
latter paper is nearly three-fourths filled with a
long tirade of M. Fievee on that never-end-
ing, subject, the conversion of the Renles. M.
Fievee had formerly said, " Five per Cent, is
the most French expression in our financial lan-
guage." There is the fact staring him in the
face, that the Three per Cent. are at 72.1, which
is little more than Four per Cent., and yet M.
Fievee sticks to his text as boldly as Cob-
hett to his Gridiron. But the French writer
deals in dogmatic assersions—" The newspa-
pers, says he, have no force against the truth."
which is as much as to say, that every man
who reads a newspaper is a man of sense.—
It may be so within the circle of this gen-
tleman acquaintance, but then we fear that
circle has a very short radius. The fact is, that
the French newspapers have talked an infinity
of nonsense on these said renter, but as it was
a sort of nonsense very agreeable to the preju-
dices and interests of a great number of their
readers, its truth or falsehood was but little con-
sidered. The Qiwtidienne is principally occupied
with a long and not uninteresting account of the
College of the Sorbonne, which has been re-esta-
blished. It is contended that this in,,titution in
its revived state, is to differ materially from its
former system. We should rather- think it must ;
for it ;s altogether impossible to expect that so
great a pillar of darkness as the Sorbonne
formerly displayed itself, should again affront
the daylight. The annals of that University are
curious, as exhibiting perhaps the most complete
history of the absurdity of the human mind. Its
character is admirably hit off in the two lines of
Butler : _ _

" He a rope of sand could twist
As tough as learned 6orbonnist."

[THE PUBLIC LEDGEft.I
The faction which now domineer in Spain
refuse to be guided any longer by Ferdinand, or
by the French. They want to have every thing
in their own way, though a state of anarchy,
far exceeding the present, would be the imme-
diate and inevitable consequence. 131 it they
are too blind to see the danger, and i❑ their
presumptuous heedlessness too prone to despise
it. The French Ministers, however, perceive
the peril, as well as the scandal, and are
anxious to check the faction in time. In this
attempt they have probably the concurrence
of all the other leading Powers in Europe, and
of the English Cabinet in particular, which, both
from motives of policy and humanity, must ish
to see Spain restored to some kind of order. The
wishes of our Government, when they are direct-
ed to so good and wise an end, have almost the
force of law ; for it has, in the first place, the
means of enforcing them, if -necessary ; and, in
the next, its motives are above all suspicion.
Its prudence, besides, offers a pledge that it
will make no unreasonable demand ; and,
under all these circumstances it may be truly
said to exercise a paramount influence at this
moment. That this influence is directed to
procure some relief for the unfortunate
Spanish nation, it would be almost superfluous
to say ; whilst we may confidently add,
that it ►trill not be wielded in favour of any wild,
though specious, project. However, Spain can-
not but receive some benefit from the conjoint
efforts of the French and English Cabinets in her
favour ; and the probable result will be, the
establishment of a mitigated for the present fero-
cious despotism.

[MORNING HERALD.]
There is a renewed report that Parliament will
be dissolved soon after the harvest. For ourselves
we do not believe it.. Without being at all in the
secret, we probably know just as much about the
matter as those who profess-to-know the most--
viz. nothing at all. Were we to hazard an opi-
nion, we should say, that if the question of an im-
mediate dissolution of Parliament is again agi-
tated (which we should think is not likely to be
the case, with the real Prime Minister,„ Mr.
Canning, so far from London), it must have its
rise in the struggle which has long been going on
between the Catholic and Anti-Catholic parties
in the Cabinet ; the latter wishing to confirm
their late victory by means of the strong impres-
slop which the Catholic Leaders had produced
throughout the country ; and the former wishing
all temporary warmth to subside before the people
are appealed to upon the subject. The latter ap,
Tears to be the more wise and Statesman-like,
course, and that which we hope will be adopt-
ed. We should think but meanly of any
man, much less of a Minister of State, who
should attempt to take advantage of clamour,
and to enlist warm and irritated feelings into any
qrstion of Government. There may, however,
be other reasons in favour of dissolving Par-,
liament this year. The questions of the Corn
Laws and the Currency, would probably be
treated with more calmness in a New Parlia-
ment than by an old one. Added to which, the
general state of the country singles out this
year as a desirable one, in point.of policy,. for
such a measure. Still as long as the Septennial
Act lasts, there ,seems nothing snfficiently im-
portant either in the times, or in the character
of the present Parliament, to require that its ex-
istence should: be cut short, or that should
induce Ministers to disregard the old.maxim of
letting well alone."

[Tttr TuNiEq-i
The public are entreated to read with atten-
tion the report of certa;tt proceedings at Mail-

borough-street police-office, contained in our
paper of this day. It will there appear how very '
extensive are those regions, where, according to
a worthy sugar or salt merchant,—for he was,
we apprehend, a dealer in both commodities,—
what has been hitherto simply and somewhat dis-
respectfully termed a 44 sugar-cane," turns out
to be a far more generous and prolific vegetable,
yielding saline matter in great abundance, and
of admirable quality. A Mr. Blake of Broad-
street, was brought forward to answer a charge
of favouring his customers with a larger amount
of salt than they thought necessary for the pur-
pose of sweetening their breakfast. The salt,
after some coquetting on the part of the honest
grocer, stood confessed and palpable to the
Magistrate, and to Mr. Joyce, the chymist,
by whom it had been analyzed. It was in-
deed from that same new-discovered salt-cane,
which grows with such luxuriance on the shores
of Berbice. Mr. Blake went far towards ascer-
taining the growers of the precious article—or at
least its importers—naming four or five wholesale
houses, for which we refer the reader to our Marl-
borough-street report. Thus it is with the happy
consumers of Great Britain, who were rejoicing
with all their might at the repeal of the old salt
duties. The Chancellor of the Exchequer little
_thought, nor did the most scientific lecturer of the
day prepare us for such a phenomenon, that what
the Right lion. Gentleman had supplied to his fel-
low subjects as a necessary of life at id. per lb. was
so soon to be cooked up fer them in the shape
of a luxury, and sold for 7d. or 8d ! Who, after
this, would be at the expence or trouble of send-
ing salt provisions to the West India colo-
nies ? Let them cure their own food : they
have the'raw material just at their doors. A
single sugar hogshead at this rate will suffice to
corn a whole herd of bullocks ; and if a strong
pickle be wanted for use, it is but sousing the
meat in a bucket of XX molasses. Ridicule
apart, we never heard of any fraud more pro.
yoking, disgusting, or, for the public health,
much more to be feared, as well as reprobated.

EMORNING CHRONICLE.]
The Money Market was in a very depressed
state yesterday. The fall in the English Funds was 8 per
cent. from the highest price six months ago ; and, if we take
Brazil Scrip as a criterion of the Foreign, the depression is 11
per cent. within six months, the Scrip having been once sold at
4 premium, and yesterday morning at 7 discount. Consols,
which were 97 six months ago, were yesterday 89. This state
of things must be occasioned by some very serious local cause,
as there is no political event whatever. The best-informed monied
men now confidently assert that the Directors of the Bankof Eng-
land have produced a mischievous effect on the currency by having
issued paper heretofore, so freely as to make " accommodation"
of all sorts easy, and induce extensive speculations in merchan-
dize, in Foreign Funds, and in Shares, and by now having li-
mited (as it is reported), their issues in a mudded manner, have
produced the present convulsion. Such is the general opinion,
at least, in the Money Market. Consols for yesterday (the
Settling) opened at 09hi, and afterwards fell to 89 ; for next
Account the quotation was 89, showing what is termed a
" Bull Account" as the continuation increases. In the Foreign
Funds there was a further depression. Brazil Scrip, 7 dis. ;
Danish, at 5.:1; ; Mexican, at 5. Colombian Bonds, 82g. Greek
Scrip, 16 ; Austrian, 98 ; Russian, 96. The Shares were nearly
unsaleable ; even in the minor Associations there was nothing
doing, and the Steamers were at a stand. Still two new Com-
panies started yesterday morning ; the one a London, Madeira,
and Batbadoes ; the other, London and Isle of Wight—both at
a small premium.