The Sun.
London, England, 1823-10-11 00:00:00

AIEitCANitiLE N HIPPING.

•
FALmoulli, OCT. 9.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived off the
Port, the Tiber, Cruse, from Virginia; also arrived, the
Catherine, WC:artily, from Cadiz, in 20 days, with Lord
NUGENT, two Spanish Gentlemen and servants, passengers;
Marquis of Salisbury packet, from the. Leward Islands, last
from St. Thomas's : sailed the 2d of September ; and Lady
Arabella packet, from Lisbon. Sailed the Francis Freeling
packet for Jamaica.
PORTSMOUTH, S.S.W.—Arrived the
Enterprise, Gardner, from Havre.
PLYMOUTH, OCT. 9..--Wind W.S.W.---Arrived the
Earnest, from Liverpool, for Rio Janeiro. Put back the
Francis, Ash, for Teneriffe.
DEM., OCT. 10.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived and sailed for
the River, the Lord Cochrane, Sutton, from Alexandria ;
Countess Harcourt, Bonn, from Batavia, for Rotterdam ;
(hanger, Mair, from the South Seas :on the of September
lost two boats, three topmasts, and two top-gallant masts.—
Came down front the River and remain,the.Canadian packet,
—; Standard, Lotherington ; and Leander, Forster, for
Jamaica. Arrived and remain, the Diana, Bishop, from
Messina.

The Iris, (heated, from Demerara to London, was totally
wrecked the Ilth of August on the Cullers Huck, liarbadoes ;
crew saved.

The Henri, Lavignac, bound to Bengal, has put back to
Bordeaux Itiver, having sprung a-leak during a heavy gale in
the Bays and will be obliged to discharge.

The East India Company's ship Farquharson arrived at
Bombay on the 25th May last.

• Bow-STREET—('Pnts Lity).---The travellers
.on the Hornsey Wood-road have been indescrib-
ably alarmed by the appearance of suspicious
characters, and no less than three ditlerent infar.
mations had been given by persons who had been
stopped by two men. Last night an information
was given that two men had stopped a gentleman
but did not strike him, as he had the presence of
mind to attempt to draw a pistol, when one
of them retreated, and he spurred his horse
ost. The Patrol immediately pursued, and Over-
bok them, and on the one, named John Thomp-
son, they found a huge stick, and on the other,
JPWant Coulson, the ferule of an umbrella,'
having the appearance of a pistol barrel. They
were consequently brought before the I%lagis.
trate, when it appeared that they we're illhithit•
ants of the Refuge for the. Destitnte. They
both strongly protested their innocence, and a
gentleatin" from that establishment gave them
very goad characters. Neither of the persons
who were stopped came forward, and it appear-
ing that they had been provided with ships by the
Society, and were to leave England on Monday,
the worthy 'Magistrate having admonished them,
said he would not put any bar in their way'; but
if either of the gentlemen who had been stopped
wished to proceed further, they would be again
taken into custody ; but for the present he should
dismiss them, and let them return to their home.

cif A IMES TOF TwEiapes —At a
broker's shop in Vere-atreet has been for some
time past exhibited, to the delighted gaze of
the antiquaries of Clare-market, a huge pair of
jack-boots, furnished with a spur and a half of
heavy metal, and covered with that precious
serugo width • antiquity only can bestow. The
connoisseurs in that erudite neighbourhood have
been for some slam diVided, respecting their
identity, part inclining to the supposition that
they were originally OP property of Capt. Tobias
Shandy, and afterwards converted into demi-cul-
verins by the engennity of James Butler, better
known by the name of Trim; while others, who
deny the possibility of the fact, frinn the circum-
stance of nn vestiges of the Corporal's operations
being found upon. their superfices, were inclined to
consider them as, having once appertained to the
celebrated Mr. Thomas Thumb, the spoils of a
certain Ogre, whom he had decapitated. Con-
jecture, however, has at length been set at rest
by the discovery that they are, in fact, the very
hoots worn by the celebrated Charles XII.,
King of Sweden, at. the, battle of Pultnwa,
against Peter the Great, and which that hero'
is represented 'as never having pulled off for six
weeks together. A 'placard announcing this ion-
pottant fact has been, within these few days,
affixed to them, and these invaluable relics are
now offered to the piiblic by their spirited
owner at the cothraratively contemptible' price
o f fire guineas

The French have made such progress in the
manufacture of cashmere shawls, that an article
of that kind, which would have cost one hun-
dred and fifty franca in 1819, is now sold for 90
francs. There is also a great fall in the price of
silk gowns—what sold ut 1% francs au ell four
years ago, is now selling at 11.
We are sorry to learn that Thomas Glover,
whom we stated on Tuesday to have been stung
by a fish, and.whose arm was aroputated,oxpired
on NV ednrsday.----( Kentish Gazette.)

Yesterday evening a respectable young man,

word James Oliver, 9.1 years of age, son-in-law
it) Mrs. Alexander Wintosh, of Broad.stroei,
Golden-square, was on a visit to Mrs. Pink, 3,
Swan-place, Old Kent.road, when lie was sod.
,denly seized with illness, and became inset).
sible, every means was resorted to in order to
restore him, without effect, and on the maid
servant saying she saw him quit the shop of
on apothecary close by, just previous to coming to
the door, it was deemed necessary under the im-
pression that he had taken poison, to send him to
Guy's Hospital immediately, where he arrived
still in a stateof stupor, and notwithstanding every
possible effort to rouse him, he expired in a
short time. Disappointed love is supposed to
have led to the rash act as in his pockets several
papers were found, all beginning with 44 Dear
Mary"—one requesting permission .to Cali ern
her to disclose the grand secret ; others, it's in
your power to make me happy—remember the
keepsake," &c. The body has since been opened.