The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-29 00:00:00

CAPTAIN HEWITT.

Our attention has been directed to some remarks in
the Shipping Gazelle, founded on the presumed loss of
all the drawings, observations, &c., resulting from a
ten years' survey by the late Captain- Hewitt, of the
Fairy, and which the writer asserts have perished with
that unfortunate vessel. As every person having the
slightest pretensions to information on naval concerns
must be aware that the result of each year's survey is
transmitted to the Hydrographer's office at the close of
the season, we should not have deemed it necessary even
to notice the palpable absurdity of this report, did not
the aforesaid journal seize every occasion to misrepre-
sent naval matters whether from ignorance or
design we cannot say, we charitably hope the
former. If a tender leaves a port with but a few-
volunteers, after an unsuccessful attempt at re-
e we are sure to find the case blazoned
forth ; but when the Avon leaves Liverpool with
more than one hundred seamen, or the Nightingale quits
Leith with nearly an equal number (and this has oc-
curred within this week) the fact is either suppressed
altogether, or noticed in some obscure corner. We ima-
gine it would better suit the interests of a journal strug-
gling for a questionable existence, to
.report truly and
impartially upon naval affairs when it sees fit to meddle
with thorn, and that such a course would be the most
congenial to shipowners and others to whom it owes its
support. The truth of the story, which our Contemporary
has ingeniously worked up into a charge against the
Hydrographer and the Admiralty is this—That Capt.
Hewitt, at the pressing request of many persons, devoted
such portion of his time as he could spare from his more
active duties, to revising his surveys;, with the intention
of publishing, as soon as possible,' an improved chart of
the North Sea ; and no doubt he had with him on
hoard copies of many, if not ail his reports. But, so
far from the labour of ten years having been lost, a
great portion of it has been actually published. The
su;veying instruments are lost with the vessel, and
much valuable private property belonging to the ta-
lented Commander ; but the public loss of surveying
miter is comprised in what was accomplished last sea-
son, and which would have been revised and recorded
during the winter months, as on former occasions, had
not the melancholy event occurred.—Naval and
Lary Gazelle.

CASE, OF MRS. SARAH YOUNG

AND THE TITHE ACT OF 1835.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE.
SIR,-1 hog to tender you my thanks for the manner
in which your widely circulated paper has taken up the
cause of the poor widow, Sarah Young, now in our
prison for alleged contempt of the Ecclesiastical Court
of Llandatf, whore she was illegally cited at the suit of
the Rev. Dr. Lyle, for 3/. 10s., said to be due for
tithes, and, through you, to the press in general, for
giving publicity to it. I scarce need say it has made
glad the heart of the poor widow to find that a ray of
hope has darted through the gloom of her long and al-
most hopeless imprisonment, and she desires to express
her thanks for the sympathies manifested towards her.
The more immediate object of my writing to you is to
say that I was this morning sent for by Mrs. Young,
to the prison, where I found a gentleman from Llandaff,
who said he was the bearer of Mrs. Young's discharge,
and a paper, which he stated was a " mere matter of
form" for her to sign, but that she had refused to do
so until she had seen me. I accompanied him to her
cell, and on examination I found it was a paper to be
signed by her, acknowledging " that she had been lawfully
cited to the Ecclesiastical Court, had been contumaci-
ous, was sorry for what she had done, extolling the cle-
mency of the Rev. Dr. Lyle towards her, in sending her
discharge, promising to give him no farther trouble, and
to pay the amount as soon as she was able." On read.
ing such conditions, I advised her not to sign it. On
her refusing, he offered to strike out the last sentence
as to the payment ; this still I objected to, on the ground
that she had been falsely imprisoned, and therefore
could make no acknowledgments to one who had so
persecuted her. If I have done wrong in the advice I
gave her, I did it from the best motive. As an in-
ducement for her to sign, he produced a copy of the
same document, stating that John Mason, the person
mentioned in my note to you, who was confined for the
same offence at the same suit since the Bth of April,
had signed it, and was consequently discharged this
day. We are taking the best advice as to the means to
be pursued for Mrs. Young's liberation, and in the
course of two or three days a Committee will be formed
for the purpose of receiving subscriptions to carry any
thing that may be adopted into effect, of which I will
give you notice.—l remain, Sir, your's faithfully,
EDWIN RICHARDS.
Monmouth, Dec. 24, 1840.

As the nerves of one perpendicular half of the
body arc connected with one half of the brain or spinal
marrow, it is not surprising that we often see a loss of
motion= or of sense, or the reverse, viz. spasms or convul-
sion 3, or even an excess of sensibility, in one perpendicular
half of the body. But we have examples of ague affect-
ing only one perpendicular half of the body of persons
who sweated on one perpendicular half only; and of a:child
that became pale and emaciated in one perpendicular hall,
while the other remained plump and healthy. Still, as
we have paralysis and convulsions also in a horizontal half,
so instances are on record of ague, affecting a horizontal
half ; and of one horizontal half sweating ; and as we have
also examples of paralysis and convulsions affecting a
limb only, so ague is said sometimes to have seized but a
single limb.—Dr. Elliotson's Humam Physiology.
The Merlin. of Monmouth, states that the
suffering of the unemployed poor in the neighbourhood
is extremely severe. By the stoppage of the Uuck works
there alone, 350 families were added to the unusually large
number before out of employ.