The Sun.
London, England, 1812-05-18 00:00:00

teStettiay, another. set of New iatitti \V de:4
Papers, to the tat December, came to hand; Gd;
vernor Mdi qu rrie aztd his Lady wece itlai.Olg
tour, of the southern settlements. they oinit;ed
Sydney on 'the 7th, on biard the Lady Aelson
schooner,- for Vau D'etnan's Land, ikon) ~vitenLe
they would proceed over to Port •Dalryo,t)lc.
On the Governor's return he would e:^A:unine the
'larious islands interspersed through Biss S'raits.
His Excellency was attended by captiin &vett,
L eut. Maclaine, and Mr. Meihm, Aeiug
General.

We understand that the 731 regiment on c'lty in
New South Wales is to be relieved by the Ow h;
now at the Cape; and that his Pilajesry's tibip3 Brij •
tot, Ardent,-and Leyden, are ordered to hold thet,l
selves in readineSs to convey the trOops;
The Admiral Oaiptier, with 197 male conv;as.l;
and 32' nien of the 73:1, arrived at Port Jatkson
Cktober.

It is supposed, that the pearl; fi4hery is sitoatQd tn.
the eastwatd of Olaheite. The p.eail oyster-shells
ar,,, worth,' in the Country, about 401.kper tin ; and
in China, bring go dollars a-pickel (133 it).)
The' ndtives dive for then), and generally obtain five
tons daily. •
C.ipt." Campbell, 'raw discovered 'this
for mcrly cermniinded the Barr/Von brig, which
traded to the East Indies; and was taken possession
of by soin'c •convi&s,- and carried out of, Pori
son. By this seizure he sustained a loss of 4nool.
We mention the circumstance,' to. shew how ne-
c6sary it is to have a small naval force at_ Port Jack-
sdn, As 'we undertand, when the New Zealand r'
sailed, similar attempts •were daily expeaed.
C ipt. J..Kuirov, a the .73d refiiment, has been
aPPoitiled, :by Colonel Macquarrie, Commandant
of the neW 9titivt-nent at ylobart's To4n, New
SiOh Wales. A newspaperi
,called 'the " Dc.l-
- Sia'f,". bas been published there.

Some days. since, Biinon Macdonald, Esq. of Mir
rar,.visiting a neighbouting family, had
.lald down
hisloaded'on bchind the sofa, and at his takirg
leave, with hiy hat.in onc.hand, took hold of Llte
barrel; near the muzzle, with the other, whcnthz
sofa caching the trigger, the gun wed otf,
.an 4
liilled him od the spot.

Satu'rday, at the Old Bailey, Mary Best was fopoi
guilty of tittering-.a number of forged Bank &Tug-
.land notes. The principal evidence against the prt-•
sorer was a giOcer in Tottenharn-coort-toacl, rty
whom she passed one of the _notes,
.g,ving Mat a
false name and address.--,-George Miller, steward
of a 'benefit society at Maidstone, and who ow .41';
keeps a public-house in SparroW-street, Spital-tiek•
was indicted (or forging a t'ansfer of -2001. 3 Per
cent consols, the property of the society, in the reA,'
.1807. The prisoner had accounted to the- Society
for the amount of the dividends up to Midsummer
lat. The broker by whom the trsnsf.er was nuclei'
being unable to identify the prisoner, and an
lent character of him being. given, the Jury recut-CO
their verdict, NotGuiliti.

Civil-104
ior.q Coincidence.—
The Earl of Ci
died in the House of Lords on the I rth May, 1778;
Mr, PEREVAt., Chancellor of the Exchequer, vi`as
shot in the lobby of the House of Colurrioutt tilts
lith of May, 18 12.