The Sun.
London, England, 1833-06-20 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 20, 1833.

GREAT BRITAIN AND BUENOS AYRES

The following correspondence, relative to the
occupation of the Malvinas by Great Britain, has
been published by the Government of Buenos
Ayres :

charged provisionally with the_ Department of Foreign
Relations of the Argentine Republic, has the honour to
address the Charge d'Affaires ad interim of his Britannic
Majesty in this city, to acquaint him, that the Government
has just learned that the Commander of his Britannic
Majesty's sloop of war Clio has taken possession of
the Island of La Soledad, in the Malvinas, hoisting the
British flag where that of the Argentine Republic waved.
This unexpected event has sensibly affected the
feelings of the Government of Buenos Ayres ; and although
it cannot discover anything to justify such a proceeding,
nevertheless, presuming that the Charge d'Affaires whom
the undersigned addresses is informed upon a measure
which openly compromises the dignity and rights of the
Argentine Republic, it his directed the undersigned to
request of the Charge d'Affaires of His Britannic Majesty
the competent explanations.
" God preserve the Charge d'Affaires many years.
" MANUEL VICENTE DE MAZA."
" To the Charge d'Affaires ad interim of his Britannic
Majesty."
No. 3. —(Copy.)
" Buenos Ayres, Jan. 17, 1833.
The undersigned, his Britannic Majesty's Charge d'Af-
faires, in acknowledging the receipt of the note, dated yes-
terday, of his Excellency Senor Don Manuel Vicente de
Man, Minister charged with the Department of Foreign
relations of the Argentine Republic, has the honour to
inform his Excellency that he bas received no instructions
from his Court to make any communication to the Go-
vernment of Buenos Ayres upon the subject to which his
Excsllenel's note refers.
" The undersigned will hasten to submit it to his Ma-
jesty's Government, and he avails himself of this oppor-
tunity to repeat to his Excellency Senor de Maza the as•
surance of his high and distinguished consideration.

" PHILIP G. GORE.
" To his Excellency Senor Don Manuel Vicente de Mau,
&c. &c."

ATTEMPTED INFANTICIDE.--On Thurs•
day last, a deliberate, but fortunately unsuccessful, act of
maternal cruelty was perpetrated by a young woman in
this town, of the name of MARY THORNTON, a servant of
Mrs. SOPPJT, Zion-street. It appears that she had formed
an illicit connexion with some young man in the town,
and bad become pregnant with a female child, of which
she privately delivered herself, in a back part of the pre-
mises, on the day above mentioned. As soon as the infant
was born, she inhumanly plunged it into a pail of water,
and kept it there until she thought it was drowned, after
which she removed it into an outhouse and partially buried
it amongst some coals. The mistress, surprised at her
long absence, went in search of, and found her, and
having ascertained the peculiar nature of her situation,
interrogated her as to what she had done with her off-
spring. Not receiving a satisfactory reply, she made an
immediate search for the child, which she found in time
to save its life. The young woman had contrived to con-
ceal her pregnancy from her mistress and the family.
As soon as she is sufficiently recovered, the case will be
subjected to judicial investigation.— Sunderland Herald.
MAN DROWNED.-011 the night of Wed-
nesday of last week, while the Venus of Stranraer, Ha-
vanah master, after having delivered a cargo of salt in
Buckie, was riding at anchor in the bay, two of her men
were sent ashore in the small boat, when they got intoxi-
cated and then disagreed. In consequence, one of them
took to sea in the boat without the other, and, by stand-
ing and skulling, as it is called, had almost reached the
vessel, but, missing a stroke of the water with his oar, he
lost his balance, and plunged headlong into the sea.
Though the master on board the ship saw him fall over,
yet, before the vessel could be brought near the spot, the
man had perished. It is lamentable that the number of
accidents, attended with loss of life, which every year
happen on this part of the coast, and, in the great majority
of cases, solely from intemperance, will he no warning to
seafaring people to abstain from indulging in spirituous
liquors. A singular instance of escape under such cir-
cumstances occurred during the other herring fishing sea-
son at Wick. A fisherman, belonging to Porteasie, in a
state of intoxication, got into an old crazy herring yawl,
and left Wick harbour by himself. When fairly under
sail, he saw that there was a large hole in the bottom of
the boat, through which the water was gaining upon him
very fast, but he took off his jacket and stopped the leak
with it in the best way he could. He then betook himself
to quaffing whisky from a large jar full of it, which he
had brought with him, and in a short time became per-
fectly unconscious. Wonderful to tell, however, man and
boat both reached Porteasie, which is about sixty miles
distant from Wick, in safety ; the former somewhat
awakened to a sense of the perils he had passed. Aber
dem Herald. _ _

SUICIDE.—One of the most determined sui-
cides, we believe, ever perpetrated in this quarter of the
country, was committed by a dissipated wretch of the
name of GEORGE KNOTTS, a nailer, and a native of Eng-
land, in a cell in the Gorhals Police Office, Glasgow, on
Saturday evening. The infatuated man resided in Nelson-
street, Tradeston ; and, for the last twelve years, had
been in the habit of using his wife, a very industrious
woman, in a most barbarous manner, and it was in con-
sequence of a family riot on Friday, about mid-day, while
in a state of beastly intoxication, that the police were
necessitated to interfere, and, for the safety of the poor
female, lodged her vagabond husband in the office. On
Friday evening and Saturday, after becoming sober, he
was, with the other prisoners, provided with his meals,
which he partook of cheerfully; but the surprise of the
visiting officer may be imagined, when on entering the
cell about eight o'clock, he found the ill-fated man sus-
spended by the neck from the frame work of the window
by the sleeve of his shirt, which he had, with the assis-
tance of his neckcloth, converted into a most secure
noose. He had first attempted to do the job with the
neckcloth itself; but it had given way. His feet were
touching the ground; and on being discovered, it is con-
jectured that he had been about half an hour death
A person in a neighbouring cell heard a noise; but
he considered it was only his brother criminal
amusing himself by jumping on the bench appro-
priated for a bed. KNOTTS would be about 50 years
of age ; and besides his wife in Tradeston, who supports
a family of three children by feeding cows, the deceased
had, it is said, another spouse in Belfast whom he occa-
sionally visited. On Sunday, a young thief, who was
only liberated from Bridewell on Saturday, in a moment
of desperation, made a similar attempt on his life in a cell
in the same office, and by exactly similar means ; but, the
alarm being given in time, the deed was prevented.—
Edinburgh Evening Post.
THE HURRICANE.—On Tuesday last this
neighbourhood was visited by one of the severest storms,
accompanied by a heavy fall of rain, that we ever reraem-
her to have witnessed at this season of the year. Coming,
as it did, unexpectedly, except to the diligent observers of
the barometer, the craft on the river Mersey were not
prepared for so tempestuous a visitation, and, in conse-
quence, the damage done to them will, we fear, be very
considerable. So great was the swell in the river that it
was with great difficulty that the steamboats employed at
the ferries could land their passengers; and, at one pe-
riod, all communication between this and the Cheshire
side was suspended. Towards evening the storm abated;
but, after 12 o'clock at night, it resumed all its fury
with tenfold violence. It blew a perfect hurricane until
four o'clock in the morning, and in its course carried de-
solation through gardens, orchards, and plantations. In
several places the roots and flowers were torn from the
ground, and every where the leaves and fruit were reft
from the trees, blasting the fair prospect of an abundant
supply. On Wednesday the roads and lanes had all the
appearance of autumn, for they were filled with leaves,
the trees on each side indicating October rather than
June. On the Cheshire side of the Mersey the hurricane
acted as an extensive blight ; the trees are all blackened,
and the vegetables look brown and withered. The cab-
bages were entirely uptorn. A brigantine was driven on
shore early on Wednesday morning, on the sands near
Bootle, and suffered some damage. Several ships were
obliged to put had; ; while others, several of which bad
sailed at daylight on Thesclay, wtre driven on the Lan-
cashire shore on the following night. From Formby to
the river Lune the beach was covered with wrecks.
Amidst the general wreck the fleating-hath oid not
escape;having made her way into the Prince's Dock
Basn, but,shesuffered but little damage, and is now, we re-
joice safely riding in her former station. A snore
useful
fixture does not exist, and her removal would fill
f.
lto see,
with regret the hundreds who owe health to the econo-
mical facilities she affords for bathing during summer.
The hurricane extended throughout the west and south
of England, but was not felt in the north.--Liverpool