The Sun.
London, England, 1823-11-22 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.

Visccount Althorpc, from Mr. Coke's seat in Norfolk; Mrs.
Alellish, at her house in Arlington-street, from Hampton-court
Palace; Sir John and Lady G. Egerton, at their house, in
Grafton-street, from the Continent; Lord John Bentinck, from
a tour ; the Rev. Sackville Bale and Charles Bale, Esq. at
Long's, Claremont Hotel, from East Grinstead; Capt. Young
and Captain Foster, at ditto, from Paris; Sir Charles and Lady
Blois, at Fladong's Hotel, from Cockfield Hall, Yoxford ; Sir
Sir Thomas and Lady Phillips, and family, at ditto, from the
Continent.

CHANGES.—The Hon. Lieut.-Colonel Stannope, for Hemp-
shire ; Captain Buckley, of the 15th Hussars, for Canterbury;
Mr. Roger Hall, for Dublin ; Mrs. and Miss Calthorpe, from
Ramsgate, for Bath; Mr. John Greatheat, for Lawford Lodge,
Salisbury; Captain and Mrs. Howard, from Brighton, for
Bath ; Mr. and Mrs. Southcote, from Buxton IVells, for
Bath ; Captain Basingarde, of the llth Hussars, for Nor-
wich ; Sir Lewin Glynne, of the Royal Dragoons, for the Bar-
racks, at York ; Mr. J. White Melville, for Mount Melville,
Fifeshire ; Mr. Charles Rowley, for Paris ; Captain Millie,
for Rottendean, Brighton ; Sir Hedworth Williamson, on a
tour; Captain Callender, of the 7th Hussars, for town ; Major
Delamotte, for Blackwater, in Hampshire ; Major and Mrs.
Mordaunt, from Ramsgate, for Bath ; Earl of Bristol, Lord,
and the Ladies Harvey, for their seat, Ickworth-Park, Suf-
folk; Viscount and Viscountess Hampden, for their seat,
Glynde-Hall, Sussex ; Mr. and Lad► Jane Lawrence Peel, for
their seat, Fulham ; Sir Chas. Long, Bart. for his seat, Bromley
Hill, Kent ; Col. and Lady G. Lowther, at Earl of Lonsdale's
seat, Cottesmere, Itutlandshire, from Wesmoreland ; Lord
John Thynne, for the Marquis of Baths's seat, Longleat,
Wilts; Captain Neville, for the Duke of Rutland's, Belvoir
Castle; Hon. Mr. Eardley, for his father's (Lord Eardley)
seat, Belvedere, Kent ; Sir James Bland, from the Clare-
mont Hotel, Bond-street, for Brighton ; John Hamilton, Esq.
from ditto, for Southampton ; Sir James Donohue, from ditto,
for Ireland; Charles Barnett, Esq. from ditto, for Brighton;
Mr. and Mrs. Jenkin, and Miss Harvey, Mrs. Pendrill, the
Hon. Captain and Mrs. Fellow, Lieut.-Colonel Forbes, and
Major Fridrick, from Fludong'a Hotel, Oxford-street, on a tour.

FASHIONABLE PARTIES.
His Excellency Baron Fad entertained a distinguishes
party at dinner yesterday, at his house, Whitehall-place.
Count Lieven entertained a party of friends at dinner yester.
day at Ashburnhant House.

The Port of Southampton having long possess-
ed a decided preference as the place of embarkation for passen-
gers and goods going to the Islands of Guernsey and Jersey, and
having derived great benefit therefrom, the trading part of its in-
habitants are highly interested, and we should hope will effectual-
ly exert themselves to prevent so lamentable a measure as the
transference of this trade to Portsmouth, by either procuring
the steam-vessel, now fitting out, to run between this port (in.
stead of Portsmouth) and the islands; or else by losing no
time in starting another complete steam-vessel of their own.
( Southampton County Chronicle.)
NEGRO WAY or DUNNING.— In Jamaica,
previous to the interment of a negro corpse, it is some •
times pretended that it is endowed with the gift of speech ;
and the friends and relatives alternately place their ears to
the lid of the coffin, to hear what the deceased has to
say. This generally consists of complaints and upbraid-
ing for various injuries, treachery, ingratitude, injustice,
slander, and, in particular, the non-payment of debts,
due to ie deceased. This last complaint is sometimes shewn
by the deceased in a more cogent way than by mere words;
fur, on coming opposite to the door of the negro debtor, the
coffin makes a toll stop, and no persuasion nor strength
can induce the deceased to go forward peaceably to his
grave till the money is paid; so that the unhappy debtor
has no alternative but to comply with this demand, or have
his creditor palmed upon him, as a lodger, for some time.—
Sometimes, however, the deceased is a little unconscionable,
by claiming a fictitious debt. In short, tliis sup( rs .itious
practice is often made subservient to fraudulent extortion.—
A negro, who was to be interred in one of the towns, had, it
was pretended by some of his friends, a claim on another
negro for a sum of money. The latter denied any such claim ;
and accordingly at the funeral of the deceased, the accustomed
ceremonies took place opposite to the door of his supposed
debtor ; and this mummery was continued for hours, till the
Magistrates thought proper to interfere, and compelled the de-
funct to flirego his claim, and proceed quietly on to his place of
rest.—(Stewart't Jamaica.)
SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF STOLEN PROPERTY.
—On Tuesday afternoon, a singular circumstance took place
in Charles-street, St. James's-square, which excited consider-
able attention to numerous persons. It appears that a num-
ber of young boys, armed with long poles having pitch at
• the end, and others with tongs, etc. were observed busily
engaged at the iron gratings in Charles-street, and bring-
up from thence several valuable articles of jewellery.-..
This singularity caused many individuals to inquire into the
matter, when they were informed that a quantity of stolen pro-
perty had been deposited there, it is supposed by some thieves,
who after committing a robbery, having been closely pursued,
had thrown the articles into the grating that runs into the coin-
mon sewer. The lads appeared very successful on the occasion,
and in consequence of many valuable stones being offered for
sale, information of the circumstance was communicated to
Mr. Thornton, a jeweller, in Dean-street, Soho, whose pre-
mises had recently been broken into and robbed of a vast
quantity of jewellery. That gentleman consequently, in
company with Valentine, an officer, instantly repaired to the
spot, and to his utter surprise and astonishment discovered
that part of the stolen property belonged to him. They were,
however, inconsiderable to the loss he had sm.tained, and were
only a few amethysts. Several valuable stones were also found,
but being broken made them completely useless. It was said that
several topazes, brilliant rings, Sec., had been found, which Mr.
Thornton, however, was not so fortunate as to secure. During
the last fortnight several daring robberies and burglaries have
been committed at the west end of the town, by gangs of
depredators; and although large rewards have been offered for
the recovery of the property anti apprehension of the
they have eluded the vigilance of the police.
CAuTtoN TO TitAnEsstm—Yesterday a well-
dressed man went to the shop of Mr. Low, the
perfumer, opposite Somerset-House, Strand, and
ordered several article., amounting to thirteen
shillings, desiring that they might be sent to the
Exchequer Office its Somerset Place. A boy
took the articles, and was ordered to bring
change for a live pound note. The latter pru-
dently took the articles back with him, and
returned %vitt) the aange. Ile met the man
on the stairs, who took the change, and de-
sired the boy to go up farther, and the servant
would give him the note. It then a ppeared
that the fellow had no connexion with the place,
and had made this artful use of the entrants, to
a public office.
SPRING GUNS.—The following circumstance
may be relied on as a fact:—On Saturday even-
ing last, shortly after the servants of Mr. ARCHER,
of Barton Place, had charged and set the spring
guns as usual, to protect the game in his plan.
tations adjoining his house, one of the guns went
off with a very loud explosion, but being about
five o'clock only in the afternoon, it was con.
sidered too early for poachers, and no particular
notice was taken of it. About eleven o'clock
at night a second was fired, and about half
an hour afterwards a third, and the watchmen
and servants were at first apprehensive a gang of
poachers had entered the plantations, but hearing
no noise of any description following the re-
ports of the gusts, they were soon satisfied that
their conjectures were 'without foundation. On
going round next morning, they found that the
first gun fired had killed a cock pheasant, evi-
dently as flying up to perch ; and that each of
the others had killed a hare, all of which were
found dead within a few yards of the muzzles of
the guns. Surely the narration of the above fact
insist be sufficient to deter any set of men, how-
ever hardy, from hazarding their lives in the
nightly pursuit of game, where such never-failing
fatal engines are placed to preserve.—(linty,
Norwich.)