The Sun.
London, England, 1821-08-03 00:00:00

NOTICE.

The Committee of the Ship Owners' Society, in concurrence
with the Committee for Managing the Affairs of Lloyd's, re-
corpmend in the strongest manner to Owners and Masters of
Ships, that Vessels should be provided with a dozen Rockets,
and three dozen Blue Lights, to be used in the following man-
ner, in all cases of distress ; as the means by which many Ves-
sels and Lives may be saved, viz.—First, a Rocket to be fired.—'
Secandly, Blue Lights to be burned, until relieved.
London, July, 1821.

LY3WNGTON, AUG. 2.—His Majesty, in his Royal yacht,
accompanied by the squadron and a great number of private
cutters and vessels, have just passed the Needles, with the wind
at W.S.W. The Forts saluted the squadron as they passed.

DEAL, Arc. 2.—Wind S.W.—Arrived and sailed for the
River the Duke of Manchester, Hood, from Jamaica; Ida,
Passmore, from ditto ; Cornwall, Robinson, from Quebec ;
Henry, Lang, from Honduras, and several more, .particulars
unknown. Came down from the River and remain the Perse-
verance, Gibson, for Madeira, &C. ; Brutus, Leickie, for
Demerara ' • and Hanover, Adamson, for St. John's, N. B. ;
the latter has sailed. Sailed the Minstrel, Barnes, for New
South Wales; Margaret, Johnson, for the Cape of Good
Hope, and the rest of the outward-bound, except the Martha,
Pomona, and Nautilus.
JULY 31.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Madras,
Wellden, from London for Bengal: Sailed the Missionary,
Davis, for London.
PORTSMOUTH, AUG. W.S.W.—Sailed the
Venus, Curtis, for Baltimore.
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PENzaNcr, JULY 31.—A ship is Teported to be on sliore
on the Stay Rocks, near the Lizard ;—assistance has been sent
to her.

CORN'-EXCHANGE, AUG. 3.—The supply short,
principally what was left over from Wednesday's Market, but
equal to the demand, as trade is very slack to-day, with little
variation in price. Flour rose 3s. per sack on Monday.

The Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE, accom-
panied by the reigning Duke of SAXE-MEININGEN,
went to BlackCeath yesterday, and dined with
the Princess SOPHIA MATILDA. Yesterday the
Princess SOPIIIA visited the Duchess of GLOU-
CESTER. The Royal sisters rode out together.
This day the Duke of 'WELLINGTON will leave
town for the Continent, in order to inspect the
whole of the new fortifications constructed and
carrying on throughout the' Netherlands. Ills
Grace will visit Paris previous to his return.

General Sir THOmAs MAITLAND arrived at
Portsmouth, on Wednesday morning. lie goes
out in the Niemen, 'Capt. SIBLEY, who has orders
to get ready for sea with all possible dispatch.
-Some of our contemporaries' have been stating,
with great apparent precision, the particular re-
ductions which are to take place in our Militar
Establishments. Tile fact is undoubtedly cor-
rect that the Government are occupied in making
arrangements for considerable reductions, in con-
formity with the pledge !riven, by the Address to
which they agreed at the close of the Session,
but those arrangements are not as yet sufficiently
matured to permit of any detailed statement of
their. nature and extent.—Cirornin,_9: .Post.)
Accounts have been received at Copenhagen,
from Christianburgit, the principal of the Danish
settlements onthe coast of Guinea. It appears
that Major STAFFENS, the Military Commandant
of that station, has recently had occasion to put
in force, in a very marked manner, the rigorous
orders he has received froth, his Government, to
prevent every sort of traffic in slaves. A Portu-
guese slave vessel, supported by another vessel of
the same class, but well armed, made itSTappear-
ance before Thamrna, a town under the Danish.
sovereignty, with the intention of, making some
purchases there. of slaves. Major STAFFENS im-
mediately occupied the place with one thousand
men, and made the Portuguese Captain and a part
of his crew prisoners. The Major has sent them
to Sierra Leone for trial. We are sorry to add,
that two Englishmen were seized at the same
time, for participating in the diabolical traffic;
they had been delivered to the Commander of
the English Fort of St. James, and will, it is
said, be sent to London' to be. tried. - The Chief
of the town is supposed to have had a secret un-
derstanding with the Slave Merchants. The
vessel which accompanied the Portuguese trader,
and whicfi is said to have been Dutch, effected its
escape.

Mrs. M. THORNTON, of Hull, lately deceased,
has left to the
Bible Scer..ty . . £BO 0 0
Church of England Missionary Society 80 0 0
London Ditto . . .. • 80 0 0
Baptist Ditto . . • . 80 0 0
Moravian Ditto . . 80 0 0
Hollerness Miision . 40 0 0
• Society for Deaf and Dumb Children 30 0 0

The Royal Academicians have liberally deter-
mined to form a collection of the finest works of
the old masters, which are to be placed in the
painting room of the Royal Academy for the
improvement Of students.