The Sun.
London, England, 1812-01-11 00:00:00

Portsmouth.

Came down from the River, the danatella for
Aladeira, &c.

PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 10.--Siiled the Ilitii/071 on

a cruize.

FALMOUTH, JAN. his Majesty's ship
Rapid from the Downs ; Carteret packet from
Surinam and M irtinique ; 50 dais from the
latter place, brings one mail; the Carteret left
Surinam, sutti Wooer, Demerara, Bth November,
and Barbadoes, 14i11 November; the Express packet
left Barbadoes, i3tO November, for Martinique ;
the jidary /1.7 n packet for New York, will sail to-
morrow.

Mr. SOANE, in illustration of his Lecture on
ITlysrdav la,t, at the Royal Academy subiniited to
the obs.,:rvation oc his.:Aditors nearly a hundreki be. Le-
liful drawings, re;Jesen lug sections, ground-plans,.
and comple,e views of the several distinguished
buildings which were the admiration of anti-
quity, and which will he held in veneration as
long as taste, judgment, and knowledge of the
Fine Arts are properly valued, and duly cultivated.
The Professor signified that as th speCtwors could
have but a cursory view of toe drawiligs thus pre-
sented to them in illu4ratiOn of passing comments,
he should propose to the Academy to let them be
'laced around the loom for a certain period, in
order to give the Students a full opportunity of pro.-
fiting by a deliberate contemplation of the beauti-
ful and superb edifices which the drawings repre-
sent,. and of reflecting upon the principles on which
those edifices were erected. This liberal appropi ia-
lion of drawings so highly valuible, was, of course,
received by the whole of the audience with the
Warmest applause.

Mrs. C. K EDIBLE is still the subje& of anonymous
comments, though she has left the metropolis in
the lauJabie effort to exert her talent• for the ad-
'rant ige of herself and her family. She may well
say, with Beatrice, " Oh ! that I were a man!" for
then, perhaps, she would be exempt from these
covert assaults. Yet, indeed, her husband came
forward in public with his name, in answer to these
lush:fighting attacks, but the assaihnt perseveres in
his safe warfare.

Some of the public prints have sent Mrs. Sin-
?IONS, not to Coventry, indeed, but to Edinburgh,
though she has not yet let tow n, nor is likely to do
so till towards the end of the: present mouth. We
however reg,et that the public will not have an op-
portunny of itnessing her professional excellence
till she returns from the North.

A young Gentleman belonging to the Post-office
shot himself on 'Thursday morning, about seven
o'clock, but ineffectually. The report of the pistol
was heard in the adjoining office, from whence
one of the Clerks was going to inquire into the
cause, when he saw the Gentleman run out of the
office, and down the yard, in a disordered state.
He was pursued into Lcmbard-street, but turning
up .a court, the pursuers lost sight of him, and he
has not since been heard of, though persons were
sent out in various directions. It was evident that
he had wounded himself, as blood was traced for
some distance in Lombard-street. Tile unfortunate
Gentleman usually carried a brace of pistols, which
he was seen to load the preceding'evening, at the
Virginia Coffee-house, where he lodged. No cause
whatever 'can be assigned for this attempt, as he is a
Gentleman of regular and unimpeached character.
No account has yet been heard of whither he tied
after this rash attempt. The most anxious inqui-
ries were made yesterday, by his frieeds, after him.
but without avail. His father came yesterday to
town, and went to the Virginia Coffee-house, where
his trunk waa opened arid searched. Nothing,
however, transpired, to throw the smallest light.
upon the motives which .Irote him to this ad of
desperation, nor did any thing appear casting the
slightest slur upon his deportment while in the
Post-office. He has been frequently seen in a
very contemplative mood by his fellow Clerks, and
upon inquiring what was the matter, he complained
of the embarrassment of his pecuniary circum-
stances, and once or twice he said lie thought he
had better blow out his brains, since his affairs were
in such a low condition. Hand-bills were yesterday
circulated, offering a reward, by his friends, for the
produCtion of his nody, dead or alive. His coun-
tenance is a good deal remarkable, from the loss of
One of his eyes, which he sustained in childhood. •

IRISH BEEF.—The beef season closed in C.)rk on
the e st ult, and notwithstanding the great export of
live stock, the number of cattle slaughtered exceeded
that of last year by 1d25 head, The returns for the
crane-book for this and the last year are as follow
1810—,5774 oxen, t 0,086 cows, and 209 nulls.—
Total 16,069.-1811-4317 oxen, 13,026 cows,
and 351 bulls.—Tot,ll 17,694.
Early on Tuesday morning last, the houSe of
Lhomas Cobb, Esq. at Elstree-hill, was broken into,
acid robbed of plate and money to a considerable
amount.

The house of Colonel Strutt, M. P. in Upper
Grosvenor-street, was broken into a few nights past ;
but the fernale servants hearing ti;e noise, got up,
and tecasioned the robbers to decarnp without their
booty.