The Sun.
London, England, 1825-08-25 00:00:00

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India.
House, when the following ships were taken up and thus si-a-
tioned, viz.:_
Castle Huntley of 1311 tons, H. A. Drummond, and Mar.
quis of Huntly of 1279 tons, J. S. 11. Fraser, for „Madras and
China.

Two new ships of 1300 tons each, John Innes and H. B. Bax.
for Bombay and China, early.
Thomas Coutts of 1334 tons, A. Christie, and Duchess of
Athol of 1330 tons, E. M. Daniell, for Bombay and China.
A new ship of 1300 tons, Charles Steward, for St. Helena,
Bombay, and China.
Marquis Camden of 1288 tons, G. R. Fox, for St. Helena,
Prince of Wales's Island, Singapore, and China.
Berwickshire of 1332 tons, J. Shepherd, and Thames of 1330
tons, W. Haviside, for Bengal and China, early.
Earl of Balcarras of 1417 tons, P. Cameron; Sir David
Scott, of 1342 tons, W. Hunter; :Mcqueen of 1332 tons, .1.
Walker; Dunira of 1325 tons, M. Hamilton ' • Lady Melville
of 1257 tons, R. Clifford ; and a new ship of 1300 tons, 'l'. W.
Barrow, for Bengal and China.
William Fairlie of 1348 tons, T. Blair ; Orwell of 1335
tons, W. E. Farrer ; London of 1332 tons, .1. B. Sotheby; and
Canning of 1326 tons, B. Broughton, for China direct.

NAVAL COURT MARTIAL.
COUR T-MAILTIAL on Mr. THOMAS GOBLET PURSER OF

H.M.S. AN DROMACIIE.

FIRST DAY.

Yesterday this Court-Martial, appointed by the Commis.
sioners of the Fleet, met, for the first time, to deliberate upon
and hear witnesses relative to the conduct of Mr. Thos. Goble,
the Purser of his Majesty's ship Andromache. The following.
the Post-Captains are the persons appointed to form the Court :
Captain White, President -Captain Sir C. Sullivan, Captain
Sir William Home, Captain Couch, and Captain Jlunday.-
111 r. Bicknell; Clerk. to the Admiralty, conducted the presecu.
don ; and Mr. Mincher, a legal Gentleman from Portsmouth,
appeared in defence of die accused.
The charges brought against Mr. Thomas Goble are divided
into five heads, though the whole appear to originate out of one
act committed by him, while Purser of the above-mentioned
ship. The first charge is--that of paying the ship's company in
rix-dollars at the Cape of Good none, at a higher rate of ex-
change than was really the case at the time' such monies were
paid. The second charge was—that of representing, betravn
the first day of April and the last day of May of the present
year, that the ship's company had not been entitled to any
savings money between the preceding Ist of November and the
7th of January ensuing. The third charge was—that of having
made payments to the ship's company contrary to the directions
that he had received, as purser of the ship. The fourth charge
was in allusion to a payment which the purser alleged that he
had made to Mr. Tate, the senior Lieutenant, on behalf of
some Madagascar lads aboard, the amount of which was 81. 7s.
Id. And the. fifth charge was his having accused Mr. Tate of
having received such sum of money, which was not really the
case.

On the opening of the Court, yesterday morning, the Com-
mission was read, and it was announced that Air. Twopenny,
solicitor, of Rochester, was appointed by the Court to be
Judge Advocate. After which the regular oaths were duly
administered, and the list of witnesses was called over pre-
vious to commencing the important business for which the
Court had been convened. At the desire of the President, a
messenger was dispatched forthwith to the Chatham dock-yard,
to require the attendance of an additional number of witnesses,
who were there to be met with.

The business of the day then commenced, by the examina-
tion of witnesses, at about ten o'clock in the forenoon.
After an examination of several witnesses, in which nothing
very interesting or decisive occurred,
The PRESIDENT, it being a quarter past five o'clock, then
declared the Court adjourned till to-morrow (this) morning, at
ten o'clock. _ _ _

Mr. Goble, who was in the custody of the Provost-Marshal,
requested the indulgence of the Court to permit him to go on
shore for the night. The birth that he had had the previous
night he had found excessively inconvenient. especially as it
afforded no accommodation for his consulting with his legal ad-
viser. The Court consulted for some time on this request, and
at length informed the prisoner, that they did not choose to take
any steps in the affair themsclves, but as he was in the cus-
tody of the Provost Marshal, if that officer thought proper he
might take him on shore; but then it must be on his own re-
sponsibility, as he was answerable for the safe custody of his
prisoner.—The Provost Marshal feeling under no apprehen-
sion as to the safety of his prisoner, said that he had no objec-
tion to accompany him on shore, and therefore the matter was
finally arranged in that manner.—The Court then adjourned.

WEATHER.—The weather during the last few
days has been exceedingly sultry, but without rain. It is most
admirably adapted for the harvest, both for reaping and bring-
ing forward the fruits of the earth. If it continues but a short
time, the harvest in our neighbourhood will soon be concluded,
and the crops of every description secured. The mornings and
forenoons are generally cloudy, and the afternoons and evenings
serene and clear. On Sunday evening, from abotit ten till ele-
ven o'clock the Aurora Borealis was beautifully visible here.
The sky was without a cloud. A fine and strong arch of bril-
liant light, about three degrees in breadth, through which, in
the apparently best defined parts, the stars were perfectly vi-
sible, extended from West to N. E. by N. along the northern
quarter of the heavens. The centre was about 20 degrees above
the horizon, and above the bearing of the magnetic pole, from
which point the coruscations distinctly proceeded. Below the arch
the sky for some time appe fired almost of the colour of ebony,
but soon became irradiated by fine streams of light alternately
appearing and disappearing within the space. After remaining
above an hour, the arch began to separate into detached parts,
and gradually disappeared. The whole appearance was exceed-
ingly interesting and beautiful.—( Glasgow Courier, Aug. 23.)

On Saturday morning a hand of shearers,
amounting to about thirty, had come from the island of Rum
to the Lothians. They were all of one family or tribe, and
were conducted to Edinburgh by a venerable old man, the pro..
genitor of most of them. He took his followers to the house
of a countryman, of the name of Macdonald, in Baxter's Close;
they were hospitably received, and permitted to repose on the
floor of his house, each wrapped in a plaid or blanket. The
fatigues of a long journey soon threw these simple people into
a profound fleep ; but they were suddenly aroused by the groans
oo& unn, d
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ey thater
,w
supplied by charit):.—(Edinburgh Observer.) they
had only five s
of their ancient leader. They found him in the agonies of
death ! In a few minutes the old mart was no more. When
the first paroxysm of sorrow had subsided, the poor people de..
liberated astol;iiisliiinngs amongtermen
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THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY •
..;xtracts from the Moriang Papers,Aug. T. 5, 1825.

[THE TIMES:I
We have received the French Papers of Mon-
day. They are chiefly filled
.with angry discus-
sions en the strange declamation of M. Bellart,
against the Constitutionnel and Courier Francais.
The following apparently very innocent state-
ment of a most undeniable fact, composes one of
the passages quoted from the latter, as subversive
of the religion of the State The petition of
" the Protestants of Nerac, expelled from
" their church, was• laid on the -table of the
" Chamber of Deputies the day before yes-
" terday by General Foy." The articles se-
lected from the Constitutionnel as libels against
the Established Church amount to thirty-four,
and are spread over a space of three months,
from the Ist of May to the 31st of July. The
following is one of them-, and may be reckoned
no unfair example of the whole :—" But while
" the schools of the Freres lgnorantins are esta-
" bushed, and supported by means of taxes,
" pray allow Lancasterian schools to subsist by
" voluntary contributions." Irreligion must dis-
guise itself with most successful ingenuity in
France, if
ance, it can exist in the above quotation,
where, without the keen scent of a Crown law-
yer, it would be as difficult to detect it as to
trace the doublings of game without a pointer.