The Sun.
London, England, 1823-12-27 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, DEC, 26.—Wind S.W.' by W.—Arrived and sailed
for the River the Stackton, Gibbi, from St. John's, N. B.
Put back the Spartan, Carmen,' for Havre. Arrived and re-
main the Claremont, Tolson, from Ham burgh,. for Rio Janeiro.
Several vessels have come down from the River this morning—
names unknown ; the outward-bound remain all well.
Powys's/I(unit, Dec. 28.—Wind arrivals or
sailings. The outwit& owl remain as before.
PLystouTti, 25.—Wind S.W.-..-Arrived the Dis-
patch, Shilcott, front Boston, in ti weeks; Ant, Bulls; and
Spring, Darken, from New Yarmouth., for Liverpool.
FALmouTit, Dee. 26.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Surly
cutter, Captain Rithardson. from London for Dublin ; Nancy,
Candler. front Yarmouth for Genoa; and Lady Wellington
packet, from Jameica, sailed 11th November.
bYsttxtyroar, Dee. Illl,Arrived the Doris, Bureham,
from N. Yarmouth for Naples, with loss of boats, and bul-
warks stove. Put back the Duckchtield, Weir, for Jamaict.
NonTn Smet.ns, Dec. 24.—Arrived the X. L., Marsh,
from Petersburgh ; she lost both anchors and cables in Filsinoro
Roads. The Master reports that the Hyperion, of Whitby,
was lost on the coast of Sweden; and the Andersons, of Wlnt-
by, was lost at Bornholm.
lisawten, Dec. 211.—The Stamfordliam, Worton, from
Landon, has put in here leaky, • having been on the Guntleet
Sand.

BENGAL, JULY 4.—The Circassian, Wass° bound to Lon-
don.
.grounded on the James and 31ary Shoal' in going down
th mar, where she remained three haunt acourvey has been
held can her, when she was reported not to have susuned any
damage, but she was detained. at Diamond harbour to shift
ha cargo, being found a little crank.
,lunyl2.—The Circassian still remains here shifting her
cargo.
The East India Company's undermentioned ships passed.the
Straits of Sunda, on their way to China., as follows :--viz. Born,
bay, on the 12th of July ; Lowther Castle, lat of August ;
Warren Dustings, 19th ditto; .Vansittart, leth ditto.

CAPTURE OF A DUTCH SIIIITGCLING CUTTER.
(Mutsu's. Ds c. J4..-...0n the lthh instant, the: -revenn
cruizer, the idapwing, commanded by Limit. Fegan,.R.N., fell
in with a smuggling cutter, about two miles from Whitby, at
four o'clock, A. 31 when the. Lapwing immediately made
chase, hoisted her. colours, and fired two unshotted muskets
and one rift-pounder, as a signal for the smuggler to bring to,
which she disregarded. A brisk fire was then commences)
upon her for on hour and n half, when she nicks(' and hove to,
with her head towards the cruizer I the firing then ceased.—
On passing within hall of the smuggler, she again made sail,
stoning W. N. \V., wind 'S. W., when a second fire corn.
menct,d upon her ; she set her graft topsail, arid altered her
course to N. W. and by N. Finding the crazier come up
to her she struck her Sails, near Robin Hood's Bay, after a
chase of about two hours. The name of the smuggling cutter
is the Dart, of and from Flushing, with 13 men, laden wi
brandy, geneva, tea, tobacco, cards, and Haarlem drops. Tile
prize is estimated at 4,0001. value. She is a fine sailing vessel,
about lio tons, only three months old, her rigging and stores
new, and full as li‘rge as the lapwing cruizer. One man was
woondect oh heard the smuggler by a ..musket shot, which r*
eti through between the akin and the sibs on his right side.-,
lie is likely to recover. The prize was brought into the pert-
of Orirtihy, and the cargo secured in !•i4 AlNesty's warehouse
there. One of the smugglers, named John litrts, was taken in,
the Nancy schooner by Lieut. Feiptri about three years ago,
when he commanded the Tiger cruiser on this siatio,L

A GENERAL BILL OF ALL TIDE CHRI
AND TRIALS ST"ING.;

VIII CITY Or LONDON AND BILLS OP MORTA-
LITY, FOOll DEC. 10, 1022, TO zystc.l7, 1993.
Christened in the 97 parishes within the walls, 1,059; bu-
ried, 1,189. Christened in the 17 parishes without the walls,
6,483 ; buried, 3,990. Christened in the 93 out-parishes in
31iddlesex and Surrey, 17,002; buried, 10,727. Cluistened in
the 10 parishes in the city and liberties oflVestmizater, 4,093 ;
buried, 4,708.
Christened { Mal" 1",'445 }lnll 27 679 Females - 13,734 I a ,• ,
Males 10,455
Buried - --- • -In all 20 38"
Females 10,142
IVher .of hay. died,
Under 2 years of age 6,905 I 80 and 70
Between 2 and 6 - 1,937 70 and 80 -
3 and 10 . • - 767 110 and 90 -
10 and 20 767 00 and 100 -
20 and 31) 1,376 100
30 and 40 - - 1,764 102 - -
.
41) and SO 1,002 107
60 and 80 - 1,932 109 -
Increased in the burials this year 1,722.
There have been executed within the bills of mortality 22;
only 14 have been reported as soil,.

- 1,8;4
I,Aft!
- 688
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A melancholy accident occured on Monday
last in the river Medway. It seems that Captain
E. S'rrws.wr, of the Brisk sloop of 'tar, was re_
turning on board his own vessel from the Lieciy
frigate, Captain William Elliott ; the boat run
foul of one of the buoys, which, from its being
near four o'clock in the afternoon, was not very
distinguishable, when it unfortunately upset,
by which means Captain Stewart, the pur-
ser of the Brisk, and the captain's clerk,
with the boat's crew, WPM all drouned. Up to
Thursday none of the bodies had been found,
Another account states the accident to have OEI.
&atol as one of the men was going up the mast
to adjust the sail, a violent gust of wind in.
shindy upset the boat, and plunged the whole of
the unfortunate individuals into the water. The
first intimation of the catastrophe WWI given by
the finding of the boat, and it is said Captain
Stewart's body had since heen found

SI►HOCKING I?VFECT► or; INToxicATiam.--A
serable belt►c; .the for►u of a woman was this
day taken off to the Workhouse of St. Martin's
parish. It may appear incredible, but it is a fact
that, notwithstanding the inclemency of the night,
to the whole of which she was exposed, having
remained from 6 o'clock yesterday evening up to
o'clock this day, she remained wholly 'men-
sible', and wa►s taken away in a complete state of
leth►►rgy.

Michael Rock, who was last July tried in
Surrey, for the murder of Elizabeth Chamber.,
lane, at Bermondsey, and convicted of man-
slaughter, and sentenced to six months" impri.
somnent, on Christmas Darreceived a free par.
don from the Kixa, and was hi consequence lin-
mediqtely liberated. The petition in his behalf
was signed by all the Gentlemen that composed
the Coroner's Jury, and all the Common Jury
for the County, and nuttfrrespectairlo Inhabitant
Householders in the parish ofilermondsey.

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THE LONDON JOURNALS.

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DAILY
Extracts from the Morning Papers, Des. 27.

EitohNixtt rota.]
DiaIiOLUTION OR TEE FiIiENCH CIIAMBER.—An
Extraordinary Express brought us last ►night the
off" the day before, containing the long
expected and long delayed Ordinance by which
the Chamber of .wpiities is diSsolved, and the
Ele&orial ,Colleges are convoked, in Depart-
ments for the 25th of February, and in others,
-for the 6tli4i)f March. The lists of Electors are
to be published on the 16th of January, and
verified and closed by the 19th of February, and
thetnew Chamber is to open its Session on the
23d crf. March.—There is a second Ordinances
appointing the Presidents and Vice-Presidents of
the It:lectoral Colleges for the whole country. It
heeeral pages of the Moniteur and a Supple-
ment, but as it is a barren list of names, and has
no interest beyond the limits of France, we only
extract the first of the two.

We received last night Flanders Papers to the
24th and liamburgh to the 20th inst. The for-
flier only tinnounee that the Russian Merchants
haying experienced a great diminution of their
trade in consequence of the existing Tariff, had
petitioned the Emperor to moderate the duties on
importation of foreign goods: It was not
thought, however, that they would succeed, as
Many
,of the principal Nobility had embarked
larke capitals in the Russian manufactures, for
the protection of which those 'IVO% duties had
beill laid. The Hamburgh
.Papers only state
ttat ihe King of Denmark had issued an order,
infOrming the Duchy of Holstein that he intend-
ea to give it a Representative Constitution, and
directing Count Mane and four other persons
to repair to Copenhagen to meet a Commission
appointed to investigate the subject, and report
upon it.—(itui.)

[MORNING HERALD.]
'Beside the usual Paris Papers, WP last night
received, by
.express, the Aloniteur of Thursday.
it Contains the Ordonnance of the King, for the'
dissolution of the Chamber of Deputies and the
convocation of the Electoral Colleges. The New
Chamber is to meet on the 23d of March. This
mea.sure derives increased importance from the
probahility, that it is but the index of the deter-
mination of the French Ministry to try the feel-
iug of the people, through the medium of a new.
Parliament, and of one, at least, apparently less
pledged to the cause of Royalty than the present
chamber, upon the new scheme of modelling the
French Chamber after our house of Commons,
and maldng it septennial.

[NEW TIMES.)
Of all the absurdities ever displayed at a
Civic Meeting, the Resoultions of the Ward mote
of Farringdon Without are undoubtedly the most
original. The Members of the Wardmote as-
.semble s they choose sixteen Common Council-
men, and they reject a seventeenth ; but to soften
the painful blow, to the latter,.they gravely tell
him they regret that the enemies of liberty have
triumphed over him! if this had appeared 'as
the resolution of an frisll, Wardmote, what
chuckling. would there not have been at the
Bull ! it is the act of one and the same Ward-
mote to . expel Mr. Alexander Galloway from
the Common Council, and to tell him that they re-
gret his expulsion—to triumph over him, and to
algae those who obtained the triumph, as ene-
mies of liberty !--Never did men so stultify
themselves ! 1t is one and the same advertise-
ment, setting forth the acts of one and the same
Wardmote, which enumerates a majority of
votes for Mr. Butterworth, and a minority for Mr.
€4llloway and then, goes On irranediately to
say, '4 We cannot but.. regret that the enemies
of liberty, have triumphed." Where was the
Lord Mayor's acuteness ? Why did he not, as
.14resident of the Wardinote, say--`c Gentle-
Inert, you will be laughed :at---you are becalling
yourselves, and faintiting your own act. Who
i meant. by We in • these 11.esohitions? The
Majority no doubt. And who voted against
Mr. Galloway ? This satin! Majority."