The Sun.
London, England, 1815-06-21 00:00:00

NAVAL NE WS.

DEAL, JUNE ,20.—Arrived the Leveret sloop 'of
war arid Nymph
.packet from Ostend, with dis-
patches of importance.--Wind S.W.
JUNE 20. Sailed his _Majesty's
Ship Wrangler, with transports with troops for
Ostend.
JUNE 20.—Arrived the Prince of
Orange packet from Holland, and Henry Freeling
pacfict from Hamburgh—both with mails.—
Wind W,. . . . .
PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 20.--.-Arriveti his Majesty's
ship Lightning from .Cork. Arrived the Albion
and Enrupe transports with troops from Cork.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE' 19.-,--Camc in the Cephalus
brig- of war from La Vendee,. with two French
Ofsc.ers.

FALMOUTH, ,JUNE .18.--Saikd the Fok packet
for Corunna, and the Satidwkh packet for Ja-
maica. .

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o'Cl(Oc, p, Marlborough
,packet is arrived f;•otti Lisbon in cight.d.ays ;--no
news. The Fox packet has just put back, and
understand the Sandtvich packet-also.—Wind va-
riable from S. 'r. to S.Wr
TOUBAY, JUNE- 19.—Yesterday, after post,
came in his Majesty's ship Rhiii, anld landed a
Gentleman fro:i his Majesty:.s,s-hip Penguin with
dispatches. Sailed his Majesty's ship Hope on a
cruise.

CORK,,jUN.E 13.—Monday arrived the Aggres-
sor brig of ‘var ;—satne day sailyd the Insolent
sloop of war, Capt. KELLY, for.Plythouth.—Yes-
terday arrived from Plymouth the Surprise frigate,
38 gulls, Capt. COCHRANE ; also the Eclair sloop
of war, Captain I.32LLA.mY. Luis Majesty's shin
Castilian, Capt. liaemErt, sailed on a cruize.—A
detachment of the :12d „on board .a transport for
the Isle of Wight, have received orders for Ostend.
.Several (1-* the crew of the Tigrii frigate, sta-
tioned off Cork, -have lately been attacked by le.
ver, in consequence of tviiidi a considerable alarm.
‘Kas excited on board, but it has now subsided;
Fifty-hvo
,of the men have been • removed
can
board the, Trent Hospital Jhip, and are now
likely to do well.

EXTRAOR DINAR 41 PIIENOMENON

IN THE SUN.

Other papers, we understand, both in America
and England, have noticed the remarkable cir-
cumstance to which we are now alluding. The
following is an authentic and correct account, for
the truth of which Captain Haves, of his Majesty's
ship Majvstic, now lying in Plymouth harbour,
and the m hole of his officers and ship's company,
may be appealed to
On the morning of the 27th August, 1813, the
Majestic being then off Boston, the men on hoard
observed, at the rising of the sun, the complete
figure of a man in the centre of that luminary., ,
with a flag divided by three liirs!s in his hand. He
was at first on hiS hack, but as day advanced., he
gradually assumed an erect posture, and at mid-
day stood upright : towardS evening lie as gradu-
ally declined, descending wiih his • flag head-
foremost. We have seen a drawing of the phe-
nomenon, and nothing can be more correct than.
the human figure, its dress complete, and the 1
flag.

On the 2Sth it retained the same outline, but
had bPcome a skeleton.

' On the 29th the figure was disjointed, and its
parts gradually assumed the appearance of six se
partite flags, united in a circle by an apparent
cord or line. After this, nothing, more was ob-
served on the sun's disk but a few small spots.
The American Papers, we believe, notice only
the ex•;nordinary appearance of the Sun on the
above-mentioned days. , Perhaps the observers .on
drat continent were not in a position to catch the
- precise appearance which the particles of matter
presented to the ship's company of the Majestic.
fliere could be no optical delusion on the occa-
sion., as the phenomenon was observed
,Ity so
many 'different eyes, and for so !Ong a i ime.; The
first figure was seen during the whole of the 27th,
the skeleton the whole of the 28th, and the six
flags during a great part. of the
The.above is an occurrence which may merit
the attention of the philosophic. It is singular,
we conceive, but nothing miraculous or portcn-
, tons. Indeed, as the Sun is the centre of a sys-
tem of rlanets, several of which are much larger
and probably more important than our's, we do
not now why this common luminary should shape
his face, or have it shaped tor him, so as to in-
dicate the particular occurrences of this'eatth.
The Sun is no doubt a material, luminous body,
—perhaps liable to an internal irregular motion '
of its parts; at least tbk phenomenon would seem
to prove it so : and most people have observed
l 7 in
feequently the ignited cinders of a eotnon
fi
re present, at different times, the various ap-:
pearanCes of tnen, trees, horses, houses, &C. The
evidence, however, for the 'phenomenon
we must again add, is of the most Undoubted and
respectable kind. \V bare seen, and have by us,
copies of Dtawings made by Captain Hayes .tin
the. occasion,

SHOCKING MURDE --Yesterday everrii about
o'clock, a barbarous fiturder was cominitted on
Mrs. ligAstEir, the wife of 4 harrier, residing nt
Nd. 17, Belton...street, Drury-lane, by A inan whd
we understand had lodged hi the liaise, and who,
After having Wendy severed the heat+ from the
body, threw her down the kitchen-stairs, ‘fliere
she was found by the landlord, who saw the ruf-
fian escape from the house, exclainaing, a drunken
WOMAD laid there,

ItTAIIGATt, JUNt. Pr.:no.s3 of Wales,
Vz.nns, and Nancy packets, Lave ail arrived this
morni.tni from Oiteud : they state a.variety of re?
ts to be current there, the clilpf tenor of,wbich
appears to .he, ;that there has been a very severe
action in the t eighbourhood of Brns,els, hid]
we made Gerleral VANDAmms anal 1400 of the
French At my prisoners. Some of our Regiments
are said to be cut up snow severely ; atuo..igvr
those named are the 44th, 32d, and the Scotch
Greys... „

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Drartrf,•LANV.":rilC KEAR
iU w,character which the :d 'not previously per-
formed-, naturally ekcited tt,e,c;!rios.it,y
tits they. Cull, ti!.• iro t}(70.11:
pOrtiOfr ill the public,. tit',vi,s la r 'irght
illerOW3;7l)4lGfiijt a (I.P•A'dt'ti ;atiotence,-
his perfontnincerof Lean, :it) the eXCiflte.:;;l
of Rule a Wife cmd Hare a -11/ift; ithe
Comedy,- hicotev,er;:• tee ceocel%e, shcmiti be rei
versed; for, LeUn first obtains a';ie, and then
proves that lie knew how to ern i.er cons;stently
with honour. ,and, as, he say;;.,..
nity."- KEAN: is very,obvi, -ipiprwed
iii
his acting and as we were 'Ervin the first- not
among the. number of tic zealous admirers, we
feel pleasure in remarking his amendment. "Lie has
contrived .to rid hiniselt, of Much of that gest lett-
lation which might strike the million, but which
all Critics of taste and judgment coul:s not but
view with very ditrerentsenciments., Ira the ear_
her, or rather, -as. it may be deemed, the first
part of the. character., he displayed that archness;
amidst his simplicity., which inducts Juan to en-
tertain some :doubts of ills nature; and to say,.
that he cannot be all fool." :Yet there was rather
too boorish a cast in this'simplicity, which 'might
tend to excite disgust in a courtly Lady, however
she wished for ‘ a shadow, to 'conceal her ve-
nial virtnes,'!,, And here, we ,'confess, that we
never. understood the moaning of venial;-as intro-
duced in thiS passage. In the rest of
_the charac,
ter, where Leon assumes the spirit of ;he husband
deterniincd to support; his rights, Mr.K.EAN Was •
energetic and nopressive; and if he did not ade-
quately ,supply that dignity of manner -WhiCh all
Ills. predecessors have -been solicitous.to display;
and which seems, in our opinion, erroneously to
be ascribed ti) the palls yet IJr. KEA N'S iwrfor-i
mance may be deemed,: wore- characierittic; for
where could Leon be supposed to acquire ,such-
grace and elevation of manner ?Tills sister. was 4
servant to illaigdrita,. and he resorts; to a'trick in
order to obtain the latter for a' wife. Ile must
have been. indigent and obscure, and his very mode
of acqiiiiing a wife *slims that he could have no de.
ration ofsentiment, noros we have before observed,
-could he have had an- opportunity of obtaining•a
dignity of manner, for in that case-he would have
Wen known, and his plan might, have been fins-
trated. ~For these reasons, we consider the man..•
net. of Mr. KEBN -as more truly appropriate to the
character than that with which it has usually been
invested. I3y the way,, the
.authors of This pka.
sant Comedy have errea; in judgment, if we may
dare to say. .so, in ,making -Leon return to his,
cloWnish submission, after lie had: secured his
Wife, and had begun to display:l4e spirit of a -
husband. In many of the minor points Air. KCAIS
was very successful, and, .upon the: wholZ!, his
perforinanee,is well•calculated, to increase-his re."
putation us ,an actor. , Mr. I3M(TLEY bustled
through the Copper Captain tolerably well, and.
Mrs. GLOVE', wai,admirablc. in Est fruit(.