The Sun.
London, England, 1815-11-09 00:00:00

ROYAL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF CORNWALL.

This part of Britain is so rich in' geological
stores, that our Readers Kilt recollect we noticed
with great sati,factio❑ the establishnient of a So-
ciety, whose views were directed to explore its
formation, and" the condescension of the PRINCE
REGENT in becoming the Patron of the infant
institution,

With the abilities which evidently belong to
some of the most active Members, and under the
Royal auspices, we have no doubt but that Gtto-
it.-,ry in general, and the Geology of the South-
%Vest quarter. of our native island in parcctilar,
will bt greatly benefitted from the labours of the
Cornwall society.
We observe fram the Cornwall Gozette, that it
he),l its second Anniversary Meeting ou the.loth
of October, at Penzance.; the Right Hon. Lord
De DuttivakriLLE, Vice-Patron, in the
On thi4..toicaqou Dr. PARIS read the Annual It C•T
port theCou,icii, which ;have an animating ac-
count of the progress Made in every depot went.
Sevetal-scientific papers Old communications were
read, but as we are not ftllly infom'ed of their
Ilak'are end value, we must confine ourselves to
this brief notice of a SoCiety, in whiCn, frOtn even
the.slight knowledge we havc, acquired of its ex,.
ertions and otjects, W much interwed.

The Earl of MALmssuev, we are sorry to learn,
is much indisposed at his house in Privy Gardens.
We are assured that M. the oeconcheur
of a distinguished Lady on the Continent, is now
in London, and snakes no scruple to declare, that
the supposed son of that Lady is, in reality, the
offspring of Madame Liktlr.s:
In last Saturday's Gazette a Fox and a Goose ap-
pear among the Bankrupts.
A Provident Institution has been established at
Winchester : when the investment amounts to
12s. fid., the party receives interest at 4 per cent.
The inhabitants of ,GoWes have been supplied
with very tine beef and mutton, by a neighbouring
butcher, at 4,11. per pound, much to their satis-
faction.
Ever since the Bellerophon anchored at Torbay,
EXMOUTH has been thronged with visitors. "psis
delightful watering-place. is Considered by the
Faculty the mildest spot in the kingdom_no
wonder, then that so many families remain there
during the winter. The Physician's la-it advice
to persons in a decline is, " If you can't afford
to .ro to Lisbon; try ES5100.11."

llt .1.N4 Do
Llintrick Atlecitt%ier)

SPECIAL SESSPONS AND SPECIAL COMMISSIONS.

On Wedtresday rbe Special Commission directed
to be holden for the Cot:nty and City of Lime-
rick, was opened before theaight lion. STANDISH
O'GRADY, •Lord Chief Baron.
'Since the commencement the following were
tried and cpuvicied
James O'Brien, fOr breaking into the house of Daniel Cal,
roll of Dromin, in this couLty, and robbing him of cash, and
several valutiltle art ieles—dettt h ; day not fixed.
John- ,latitieg, Phillip Tuohy., Edward Fitzgerald, and Wit=
bum o!Brien, for rub6in.:' _Edward Byrne, David Connell; and
niebardnt7,orald, oa the Highway at Barnaguile, on
the 7th of SAvember—to be hanged ; the day not fixed.
Michael ilohn White,htmes Palmer, Phillirfuol4,
William O'Brien, :Award Fitzgerald., Jt•ihti Jatlitrs, and
.latoes TrehY, uniawfuily assembling- by ni,ght With fire-arms,
Sze.:—not Senlent.ed.

The attention of Government to the we:l-being
of this County, 'and 'of the County of this city;
has been eininently merirorious, 'on the 311 of
November our winter approaches tinder ausp;ces
very different from these which impended on the
Ist of Otiober. Early' in that month, Serjeants
Johnson and Joy were sent down, 'to direct , con-
troul, and preside over the application of the in-
surrection Act, and from that 1110nlent until this,
we have not heard of an outrage in the count/.
We are not among these who are willing tight-,
ly to abandon any of the great privileges of our
constitution ibut we declare, before G6d and
flniti, that we consider the tribunal, under the Ili-
-inrt,:ctiOn Act, as now,constitnted in Our county
and city, to be espial in all respects; and in many
superior to the .trial by Jury.
But not limiting themselves to the prevention
or chastisement of offences, within► the purview
of the Insurrection Act, Government. has sent
down a Commission of General Gaol Delivery,
extend:ng to all felonies, that punishment might
follotv as speedily as possible tepou the comuns-
S;on of offences, which has been always found
in this couatry the most certain means of vertu-
long, long d.iy seems always to have
been the hope, .-arid a short one the terror of a
malefactor.

But Government appears not to have been lest
sedulous in doing the thing, than in diming the
instruments by which it had been effected. First,
upon the special commission appears the name of
the Right Hon. Standish O'Grady, Lord Chief
Baron of his Majesty's Court of Exchequtr,. lie,-
yond question (for we have ineasnred them all),
the ablest Judge upon the bench, for quickness
of perception, diligence of duty, consummate
knowledge of the htiman character in all its gra-
. dations, that invaluable quality of taking himself
the nearest road to his object, and of retrneh-
ing in others their wasteful redundancies ;—in
many respects similar, in sonic certainly infe-
rior, and in some, as certainly superior, to the
late Earl of Clare. But whether the qua-
lities of those two extraordinary men, be rela-
tive or positive, they have illustrated the county
of Limerick, the county of their birth, beyond
any other County in the Kingdom—We have seen
every great man who has sa't Orion his Majesty's
'Benches in. both countries for the thes,e List thirty
years, and except, perhaps, Judge we ne-
ver saw a Judge of the same qualities with either
of them in point of efficacy and energy. So far
as these commentaries are addressed to the grave,
they are addressed to a quatter that seldom elicits
the pen of prostitution, but so far as they are ad-
dresed to a living object, they gill have etftet,for
the whole Country knows that they proceed not
from the pen of a prostitute.
United in the Commission with the thief )3as
ron, appears the name of Set jeant Johnsbn. If a
man capable of sagacious observation, and stand-
ing in the hall of the Fotir Cubits, Was asked
what man in the hall has most the appearance of
a Law)er, he would answer, Set-jean( Johnson—
And the appearance is the just and legal represtr-
tative of its constitue it. For twenty years la-
bouring through the duties of -a contentious pro--
fession, we do not know that he made; or that
he has an enemy : with that knowledge of his pros
fess ion , which nothing but a sound natural
ment and extensive practice can bestow—with a
tone of eloquence, peenharly•forensic, and a int.
dulation, Which, though it may please the ear,
will never affect the mind, but when, as in his
case, the heart is at the bottom. of the organ—he
has risen, is rising, and no man who loves his
country will repine at his exaltation.
A man with a pen in his hand, and not entirely'
deficient in capacity; %viten deSignatiiig the features
of the present Commission, will pause fur a while
to collect himself; and 'loll hi his scattered senses;
before he mention's the 'frame of the Solieitor=Ge-
neral-4or it is not easy to say where to begin, or •
When to conclude—

Eleyated station is n,e'roud thing; the diguity of
science is 4 guhstan6al thing.; a fancy fertile of ori.,•
ginal tombitl;tions•is a splendid thing, !:,-tit there
:s somet'aing in the nom himself, exclusive of all
thqse more captivating than those. attributes put
together. We speak of him in his social circle;
wherein every thing that is delightful in the pri-
vate individual, we forget every thing that is daz.-
in the public character--.--When stating the
Case of the CroWn the first tiayof the Con mission
egaint the prisoner at the bar, we lamented that
this ignorant creature was incapable of the con
solation of Lord Lovat—" Such are the graces
of his. elocution,'' said Lord Loves, " that l'beard
him with delight, though powerfully pleading
against my life."
This sentiment fie applied to. Mr.. Murray then
Solicitor-General, afterwards Earl of 'Mansfield,
but not having seen that great man till in his de-
cline, we cannot, Iron) ourselves, assert that Etna-
logy of talents, which every thing we lrnve read
and every thing we have heard, induces us to sup,-
pose subsisting between what Mr. Murray was in
his_ best day, and what Mr. Bustle is at this 1110-.
ment.

Mr. Serjeant.Joy was an eleve of the Northern
Circuit, in our time die best nursery:of die law
‘vbicli-this country afforded, and Iris acquirements
vindicate the qualities of his seminary; his advance-
ment was regular, progressive and certain ; the
effect of -diligence and the effect of capacity. With
a good cause irresistable, with an indifferent one
not easily resisted, and even with a bad one not
yielding without every exertion consistent with
the Errnnt” of a tw;n, the researches of a lawyer,

tt() tne taatine-rs'ol .il - g.eiitieri•.ati—lie, too has
risen, and is rising with (Ile voice of his pr()fes-
sion, the hest And most unerring standard of prb-
fessionni merit.

Such are the features with which the present
Commission has been. adorticd and diguified, and
such is the attentoo which the Irish Goecrnftlent
IlaS.paid to the con&rns, unit to the peace of the.
rounty and city of Linieriek::".

We feel pleasure in giving. a place in 'our co,
lumps to the following to ter,addressed to the Pa
rish Pvir,“ of, Cahtle-Conneli

Dubi:7,l C:ast le, Ott. 31.
Sita,--The Lord Lieutenant has !Iva:, ..ed'of the very
laudable and useful exerti,ins which have. beau recently
you, to bring the inhabitants fit, your parish to a sense of
their duty, and to point out to tlieni tiiv danger_to which they
are ex,osed by a continuance in lawless habits.
Ala I hare great satiifathin in conveyint to your the Lord.
Lieutenant's ;mtilowledgmcols for a rine ut cooduct io every
respect so creuttatile In ycht, arl,lo3(fill to yonr 'country.
I have the honour to to,,
Your very cuedient Servant,
ROBEILT PEEL,:

The rar. Mr. Grotty.

SUDDEN DEATHS.

CORO.ZEItiS IN4UESTS.--17..!stet Ony thet-e was an
Inquest held at the house of M'f. Hensey,
the sign of the Golden Anchor, St. -John-street,
before GeOpos FlopcisoN, Esq. Coroner for. the
County of Middlesex, on the .view of the body of
Air. John Scattey. It appeared,on evidence, that
the deceased Was in the'6l.?:b year of his age, and
bad •rilie..efl from business that he formerly kept
the tl'►anet.nl Tavern in Chancery-lane, and lat-
terly the Coach and Horses Public-house, in St-
John's7'square ; thitt on last Filday evening, after
-coming home, being out on business, he complain-
ed of a sudden indisposition, and lay down on.
the 1)(1, and shortly afterwards he exclaimed,
" 0 Lot d what can ti). matter with me, 4
have a violent pain in my head," and almost in-
stantly expired. Verdict-,---Dieti by the Vititation
God.

Immediately afterwards, there was a "second Me.
Attest held before thesatact °renter, ar the house
of William S!ych, the sign of the Apple-Tree, in.
Coldbath-fields, oft the ol_Llizabeth Poynter,
Wife of Tilonias Poynter, abackney-coachntan,
living at N. 13, _Great Warner-stteet, who fell
down ioa fit, and expired in her chair; Mr. Pick-
ering, an apothecary, was .et.t for immediately,
but she was dead before he caure. Verdict—Died
Ly the Visitation Qf God. • •
There was a third Inquest Ikeld the same after
noon, before the same Cortiner, at the house of
Mr. :Glatt:lister, the sign of -the Red Lion, Mt.
Little 'Guildford-street) on- the body of Sophia
Baxter, ‘vho ‘rai seized with an apoplectic it oa
the preceding day, and expired. Verdict—Died
lxy the Visitation of God,

In taken (verbatim) from a 'Greme Stone in the
rzal Ground yl..tie 014' Church, Boltou-k-Aloors.
John Obey, the servant of God, was born in London, 1603,1
came into this, town i 643, married Mary the Daughter of
James. Cromptim, cif 'Ai-eightmett, 16u5, with whom he lived
comfortably it) years, and begot 4 Sons and Six Daughters ;
since then he heed sole, tilt the day of his Death, in his
time were many great changes and terrible alterations 13
yeargtivil War in England, besides lily dreadful sea fights,
the crOwn and cominwid of Englirnd changed a times. ;,.;pis-
'copacy toyed aside 14 „years. London bin-tally Papists, and.
more tautly built again,. Germany, sestet 300 miles, 200,Du0
frateitonts Murdered iu Ireland by Papists, this Town t bile*
stortitedi, once taken 'and pluadered,: lie a ent.through many
troubles and divers conchticns, fielding joy and happiness only
in Holiness the faith fear and kve of Uod in Jesus Christ.
Ile died the 29th of
.April and Beth here buried 11584.
come Lord Jesus, come quickly.".

HIGHWAY ROBBERY.-00 • Monday se'linight;
A little after eight O'clock in the evening, a 'nose
•daring attack was made on Mr. GEORGE- ANGUS,
•of Mickley, carrier; as he was returning front the
Cow-hill fair. When he had arrived within fifty
yards of the houses at the bead of -G:diowgate,
in this town, he was turionsly assailed by three
fellows, who first dismounted him, and then.
jumping upon him with
.their feet and kin es,
wounded him desperately • io the face and
head, brake his col:at:bone, uisineated his
shoulder, and robbed him 'of his *purse,
containing 36. 18s. Bd. The cries of the poor
man---" Murder ! Don't kill me!" etc, were dis-
tinctly heard in the neighbourhood ; and some
young men; who happened to be standing in
the street, instantly ran to the spot. The young
man who got first up, seeing a person ntl
assisting the unfortunate man, concluded he had
been brought - Thitherfrom the same motive as
himself ; but on Angus stating that he bad bet-tt
robbed, the stranger immediately made off. The
yuting man followed and seized him ; but the fe:.
low being a powerful man, he would have soots
extricated himself, had there not been more as-
sistatite at baud. During the scuffle he was
observed to throw something front him ; and
on search being made, the purse of Angus was
found of the side of the road, but emptied of
its contents. The prisoner was scion discovered to
be a well-known character here and at Glasgow,
named Jas. O'Neit, and helms since been committed
for trial, at the next Assizes. 'His-two accomplices
made their escape, and have not as yet been dis-
covered. Angus remains in a. very weak state,
but is recOveriag.--,-(Neweastle Paper; Nov. 7.)

For a 'length Of time the navigation of the
River Thames, between the Eel Pie 17,1 and and
Rithmond shore, has been much imbed{e►l : At
length it vts determined to discover the cause;
and within these few days', after ballasting the
spot, And with • the assistance of a strong chaia
anti .twenty-four horSes, Was drawn fo►'th all
immense trunk of a tree, which is supposed
to, be a chesnnt tree, fronrthe circumstance of a
number of cliesnuts being found in a hollow of
the tree, in a perfect state; by one of the ‘vork-
men employed it is suppOSred to, shave lain there
at least 200 years; it is perfectly sound, and of A
black appearance on the outside, but the inside is
of .a dark brown..A gentleman residing at Twick-
enham has purchased a part of it for the purpose
of converting it into Articles of furniture. it was
claimed by the City of London, as Conservater of
the River Thames.

One day last week, Mr. DEmEzA, foreman of
the paper-mill at Lewes, caught an eel weighing
about a potmd, which had round its body, a little
above the vent, a brass curtain ring, an'd so tightly
fixed, that notwithstanding the slippery nature of
the fish, some force was necessary to remove it,.

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THE Slst WILLIAM cuicris PACKET.

DETAILED ACCOUNT oF TUI Lo3S OF THAT VESSEL

sstso sTF, Nov. 6.—Yesterday areived here
the Lord Liverponl packet, from Ostend, which
port sh lett on Saturciay afternoon—kought se-
.veral (Acct.!. and passengers. By tais veasel, we
leant -there are hone,: of the Sir William Curtis
pack:t being got off. Letters are tdso recei'eed
tt 11.• verpwil (addresse4l to the owners of ire
Rantsgate packer), from passengers who were on
board the Sir William Curtis whet.' sie struck;
and who are very desi!tus of excelaating Captain
VALERA. the Colitimuuler, front any blame or. in-'
attention to tfic.VCSSel "r the lives of the pas-
. auneers on hoard, and therefere, unsolicited, have
written to the Ramsgate packet owners an ac-
, coant of the disastrObs circumstance.
The Sir William Curtis packet sailed from
Rantsgate for Ostend on Friday evening, Oct. 27,
allow nine o'clock, fine weather at that time; but
afterw,ar !s becoming unfavourable, she did not
arrive off Ostend until Sunday morning, too late
to get in that tide. In the afternoon a very severe
gale -sprung up at easterly, which made a great
sea at the cot ranee of the harbour. At seven
o'elock the light was• hoisted on the east pier,
which denoted a sufficient depth of water for the
packet to enter ; 'but Captain Falera being deter-
mined, if possible, to avoid any delayed
making for the harbour until nine o'clack; when
the vessel struck on the ground, about 50 yards
distant front the pier-head; and afterwards washed
up awainst the piles on the west side ; art attempt
was then made to get the boat out, but she stove,
and the vessel tilled with water. At this moment
Captain Fulcra attempted to fasten a rope to the
piles, that the passengers'might by that means be
assisted ; •but in endeavouring to this
Caw emir Fulcra was wished overboard by a tre-
mendous wave, and it was with ;;rest difficulty
tic sr he got on shore, and saved his own life.—
At this nuitnent it is most probable that the on.-
fortunate Ladies were -washed off the deck
also. The Steward of the ship caught hold of
Isliss Carleton with one hand, and With the other
held by one of the piles, when the vessel heeled,
and his lea; was jammed against the piles, and he
eot:151 keep his hold of the lady no longer, and she
sunk and was•seen no more, This man remained
on the piles front nine until two o'clock in the
initiating, before lie could get extricated from his
situation—l believe that his thigh was broken.—
Colooel Kinnaird was one of the passengers,"and
got on shore from the piles considerably hurt
several others escaped in the Same'svay.' Ales.
Carlerots (Mother of Lora - Dorchester) and her
(laughter, a young lady onwards of twenty, and
their female scream, naloetunately perished. The
liCdy of ;Vies. Carleton (only),, had been found at
the time the Liverpool left Ostend : the -young-
lady and female servant bad 'not been picked up
on Saturday last.-
endeavours.were wanting, either by the Cap-
tain for Mate, raj save the unlortimAte passengers
that eel ished, and their exertions on this melan-
choly 0, asion were highly meritorious, although.
fiat attended with the 'desired success. The Cap-
rein's it,a eutleavonrittg to make harbour of Os-
tend in the morning is universally acknowledged
to he good judgment; as, lie would then haye
been sore to have lost his vessel. •Nothiag'but
it most severe gale coming on at the time
he- Made the harbour, caused this •dreadful ac-
cident. The passengers, front whom the ac-
cfnut is received, say, that their. only motive
of wrltittg, this Statement- is to clear the Cap-
taita and 2clate of the Sir William Curtis packet
from censare, as no blame whatever can be al-.
leged against them. Besides the unfortunate fe-
male sufferers before-mentioned, there was a'
yowler utan perished, who was brother, it is said,
to a.person that %Vas lost in the Lord Wellington,
Doverpacket, near Ostend, a few months since.
the very extraordinary eireninstance.of there
heibe; several feet less water at the Pier Head on
Struday, than t bere'was the day before at the same
time, and the being deceived by the light being
hoisted, under the idea of there being the same
depth of .water. as usual, this dread:til accident
may be chiefly a ttributsd. Letters from Flushing
alo Mention the saute circumstance as very ex-
traoedioary, otethere being three feet less Water-
at that place oil Sunday evening, than there were
twelve hours before, owing to the gale Conlin,'
on so rapidly from.the eastward.