The Sun.
London, England, 1805-07-16 00:00:00

IMPORTS.

From Holland—Crain (if importable according to the pro-
visions of the Corn Laws), salted provisions of all sorts (not
being salted beef or pork), oak bark, flax, dot seed, clover,
and other seed, madder roots, salted hides and skins, loather,
rushes, hoops, saccharum faturni, lamina, smelts, yarn, saf-
fron, bitter, cheese, quills, clinkers, terrace, Geneva, vine-
gar, white-lead, oil, titrpentine, pitch, hemp, bottles, wains=
cot boards, raw materials, naval stores, lace and French
cambrics and lawns.

• From France—Grain (as above), salted provisions of all
sorts (not being.salted beef or pork), seeds, saffron, rags, oak
bark, turpentine, hides, skins, honey, wax, fruit, raw mate.
rials, linseed cakes, tallow,weld, wine, lace, French cambric.
and lawns, vinegar, and brandy.
From Spain—Cochineal, barilla, fruit, orchella weed,
Spanish Wool, indigo, hides, skins, shumac, liquorice juice,
seeds, saffron, silk, sweet almonds, Castile, snap, raw mate.
rials, oak bark, aniseed, wine, cork, black lead, naval stores,
vinegar, arid brandy.
And we arc further pleased to dired, that the foregoing enu-
meration may be added to, or altered by any order of the
Lords of our Council.

13y His Majesty's Comthand,
H.IWKESBURY.

THE S.I:VCrtZ4RY 4T WE S TMI lITS TER.

The building, called Westminster Market, is tohe
demoliShed, and on, its scite will be erected new
Guildhall. The workmen began their operationslast
week. • What they. have destroyed of the. Market
will not be regretted, but in digging below it they
toil at the foundations of the ancient Sant uary at
Westminster, which the Antiquary may now see for
the last time, and some of the Public will, perhaps,
hear of for the first.

Till 1750 the old building remained. •"‘ In that
year," says Dr. STUKELY, " I Went to survey the old
church at Westminster, called the Satitivary, which
they were then pulling down to make anew Market-
house. The building itself is as, extraordinary in its
kind 34 that we have no clear account concerning it
in the History: of Westminster. Abbey, to which it
manifestly belongs.—'Tis composed of two churches,
one over another; each in the form pf a cross.—
The lowest luxti+ he called -a double cross." Dr.
STUKELYI then discusses the date of the building,
which he supposes coeval with the first Abbey, the
work of EDNI{D the CONFESSOR. The peculiar pur-
pose of it was to be the „Asylum , Or Sanetuary, of those
that fled to the Cathedral for safety. Some parts of
the buildings were, however, later, for in the deMo-
lition a stone was found inscribed at,cccxxlm.'and
JOHN STOW, in his first edition, says, ‘! RowARD
the THIRD, about 1347, bnilded to the use of St.
Stephen's Chapel,(though out of the Palace Court)
some distance west, in the little Sanauary, a clochitni*
of stone and timber, covered with lead; and placed
therein three bells, about the biggest of which was
written _ ,

" King EDWARD made me
" Thirty thousand and three,
" Take me down and weigh me,
" And mere shall ye find me."

Dr. STUKELEY, speaking of the destruetion of it in
175 D, says, " They were a long time in demolishing
it with great labour and expence. It consisted mostly
of rag-stone from Sussex the mortar of the same
burnt into lime. No rock could be harder. And
sometimes they attempted to blow up part of it with
gun-powder. The door of the lower church, or
principal entrance of the fabrick, was covered with
plates of iron, I suppose to secure it from fire and
the violence of such as would attempt to carry off
any person who fled thither for sanetuary. The
esplanade at top was paved with fiat stones, when
we viewed it ; and had many tenements built upon
it, which no doubt yielded good rents from the un-
happy persons remaining there for life." ---Jo'nrt
srow says of the place, " The privilege of Sanc-
tuary was first granted by SEBERT, King of the East
Saxons, since increased by EDGAR, King of the West
Saxons, renewed and confirmed by EDWARD the
CoNPussoß."

* A Belfry,

DUBLIN, JULY 12.

On Friday night last a number of villains at-
tacked the house of. DAVID GORMAN, who holds a
farm under Lord Liss:man, on the lands of Mul-
finarainley, within four miles of Clonmel, and of
which he had lately got possession, and demanded a
servant in GOR MAN'S employment. On his being de-
nied them, they proceeded to burn a house of Lord
Lismoun's which stood on the ground, and which
they consumed to ashes. Lord Li smona hasoffcred- a
large reward for the discovery of the persons con-
cerned in this outrage.
On the same night a like party of ruffians went
to a house on the • lauds Shanbally (within
three miles of Clonmel), held by Mr. Wit.sox, of
Whitestown, and Mr. thoint.E, of Kiltneaden,
Co. Waterford, in Whose possession it has been
only: since May la.st, which, together with an ex-
cellent set of. out offices, titey immediately set lire
to and entirely consuthed. A Steward m the em-
plc)), meat of the above Gentletiten, who inhabited
the dwelling-house, had barely time to escape from
the flames, which he fortunately did unhurt.