The Sun.
London, England, 1802-10-12 00:00:00

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IT is with much concern we have to state to the
Public, the loss of the Earl Talbot, East Indiaman,
commanded by capt. JOHN HAMILTOiI DEMPSTE.K.
This ship encountered a violent storm in the China
Seas about the end of the year iBOO, .in which the
ship was lost, and'every soul on board perished.—
Among the valuable lives lost on that occasion, was
Sir JAMES DALRYMPLE,.Bart. of flailes, the second
Officer.

GEORGE DEMPSTER, jun. only son of the above
Capt. bEMPSTER, died at Exmouth, in DeVonshire,
on the 17th of April,' zBol, of a -constirnption, in
the tsth year of.his age.
There was launched the beginning of 'last week
atKingholtu,
,a mile below Dumfries, a vessel of a
I. new construdion,,built agrgeable to a patent granted
to P. MILLER,.-E,q. of D.alswinton. The vessels
to he built under this patent are -intended for carry-
ing passengers only, and will be named L;fe Pacticti,
as they cannot sink. They afford much better ac-
coMModation than ships of any other ConstruCtion
of the Same length can give. They are -built-entirely
of fir wood, and draw. very little water. When
under sail, they are wrought and kept to windward
by means of gliders. They are moved through .the
water in calms and agai-nst light 'winds by wheels ;
and these wheels are so - contrived as to be rigged
or unrigged in a short time.
A Letter from Aberdeen, of Monday's date;
says

" I have to inform you of a dreadful accident
which happened here on Friday :—A-quarter before
two o'clock, while the workmen were :busily em-
ployed in completing the principal arch of the large
bridge now building to facilitate -the -entranca.to
the town froth the south," the cooms, by which the
arch is supported, gave way, and, in an, instant,
a great part of it fell in with a tremendous crash.

"The groans of the sufferers„buried under the ruins,
the number of whom could not be possibly ascertained,
were truly dreadful. People were immediately set to
wcark to remo"e thtstooes and wood; and seven per-
sons were brought out, with their limbs terribly-torn-
and mangle-1 Most of there were carried to the
Infi'mary ; two of them have had each a kg cut off;:,
there are but faint hopes of their "re.:Vvery. The
sufferers are yet,
.as far as I have beard ," all alive—.
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“. Two Qe)tlemin were on the top .of 'the arch-
when it fell ; they, of c(iurse, cattle •doWn.with
One of them, providentially, escaped' with little. in_
jury; the other had an arm brOke, and. was:other-
% ise a good deal bruised. It is remarkable, th;.lt
of all the wood in the extensive" arch, ':nor 'a. stick •
stood. Most of the arch has now been got down..,
These are the particulars that I have-been able
hastily to collea, but you mut watt for more 41•
curate information:" . -

SUDDEN DrATHS.7—Mrs, Thurston, the wife of
an Auctioneer at Bath, on Wednesday night retired
to rest in apparent health, ,but in the Morning was
discovered lifeless; her infantshild layat her ho_'
stun; and another about two yearS old, was .found
crying over its mother, and employed in utnaviiiiing
endeavours to awaken her. Mr. T. was absent on
business.—Mr. \Vebb, of Harrietshietn, in' Kent,
was cm Sunday sennight found dead in his bed ;, he
retired to rest the preceding evening, in his ;,T_
cusromed good health..—T. Burdass, a Stay-maker,
of Market Raising, seventy years of age, on Thurs-
day returning from Wragky Fair,,fell down on- the
road and expired.--r-On Tuesday, Mr. F. Tricker;
Silversmith, of Coalpit-lane, Sheffield, aged 75,
walked into his yard, apparently-well, and a few
minutes after was found dead.—A labourer a
Mansfield, -named Godfree, last week fell from his
chair while at ()intuit-, and soon after expired. The
Coroner's verdia was, died byexcess of eating and
drinking.—A Shepherd, named Wright, at Sleni-
got, near. Louth, while attending' his flock;. and
without any previous illness, felt on the ground
and
,expired.