The Sun.
London, England, 1819-06-18 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.

COKN-EXCHANGE, JUNE 18.—We have had no
Arrivals since. Monday, and there appearing many
buyers at Market, Wheat was extremely brisk this
morning; on.rather better terms than on that day ;
Barley is also looking up,..na fully supports
Mondays prices ; fine fresh Odts.sold on full as
good terms as on last Market-day. In Beans,
Peas, and other articles, there is no alteration.

.WORCESTER, JUNE 16.—0 n Saturday fifty-.
four pockets were weighed in our. market; the
prices averaged a few shillings. lower. In some
paKts,of our plantation the flies are lesi riurnerou6
and the plant thrives.

MYSTEMotrs occuRRENcB

IN THE BOROUGH.

In our Palier of yesterday we gave an account
of a dreadful attempt made by a man named KirbY.„
on his own life, and the sudden disappearance of

his wife and two of his children, under circum-
stances of great suspicion. On further inquiry,
We have beeti enabled to collect the following addi-
tional partitalars from authentic sources Sa.
turday Morning last Mrs. Kirby went to Mr. King;
one of the parish officers of Woolwich (to which
they belonged) who gave her 2s. and sent 'a letter
to her husband, requeiting hiM to bring hiS
faMily clown to the podr house at soon as pos-
'sible. Next morning (Sunday) they left their
lodgings in Bull-court, and all, except one of the
children, a girl nine years old, tiarted for the
avowed purpose of prOeeeding direct to Wool-
wich. However, about dusk the sanie evening,
the man returned home, Without either the
*When or the children, and entered his lodg-
ings as if he Wished to escape observation ; but
near the door he Was met by Mr. Mooney, the
landlord, who asked what had becoMe of his wife
and the children ? After a pante lie said, that he
had stripped at a public-bouse on the road to have
half a pint of porter, and that they had gone on-
wards towards Woolwich, but as It could not
afterwards come Op With them, he did not think
proper to follow them. Early on Monday Kirby
went into the country to seek for employment,
but returned in the course of the clay, and in a
conversation with a man in the house, expressed
some fear of going to Woolwich, for he said they
would certainly do sOmethlng to hied. On Tues-
day he cut his throat, a's We. have already stated.
...After he had been conveyed to St. Thomas's
Hospital, Kibsey, the constable, went to XVOOI-
- to tee Mr. King, from whom he learned

that neither the woman nor the children had at.;
rived there ; and a person was imnit!diately
dia-
patched troth Woolwich, to btiug the remaining
child to be taken care of. Mrs. Kirby, at her
departure, is supposed to hare had about Is. its
her possession, a sum too liitic to take her and
the children any distance ; and nut the slightest
trace of her could be discovered up to four o'clock
on Thtifsday. Kirby is in the Lloqital, and hopes
Are entertained of his recovery. Ile is silent ge-
nerally with regard to his wife and children.-
Every eiertion is making by the Gentlemen of
Woolwich, and others, to find them, dead or alive.
PIC iv Times.]

EXTRACT OF A LETTER ittOk TRINIDATi.

bated the 14th May, 181 e.

Since I wrote to you last, we have had one /tim
rival from Maturin, bringing accounts from the
Patriot Airily, in the neighbourhood at Archa-
guilt. A detaelinaetit of them bad fallen in
with a part Of the Royalists, on the 3(1 ultimo;
and, after ti sharp contest, had succeeded in
putting theth to the rout, 400 Royalists having
been left on the field of battle. Paez was much'
interier in point of numbers, and suffered severely
In officers, all of whom are named ; but 1 ant
happy to say, that there is not one English
name among the niimber. NVe have heard alsd
of the positive sailing of Col. Engli.sh from Mar-
garita ; as well as a report of his having landed
atOcuraare, and hiS marching diiect to the Ca-
raccaS. Both parties here have no doubt that he
is there by this tithe ; all agreeing that there is
no force whatever to oppose hiin. The whole
are under command of Colonel Needham. The
affairs of the Independents brighten in every direc-
tion ; and it is pretty evident now that they will
be in possession of the whole country before the
rainy season sets in ; provided they du not coai.i
mit some egregious blunder.

The New York Papers stare, that the mansion
house called Hyde Part:, at Hempstead Plains;
occupied by WILLIAiq CdBBETT, was burnt to
the grotind on Thursday, the 20th May,
Accounts have been received at LLOYD'S of art ,
Independent privateer having been lost in 1116
Gut of Gibraltar, near the Spanish coast. Th 6
crew, about 10 in titniiber, took to theit• boats;
for the purpose of escaping to the African side,
but bows pushing out from Tarifa, they were
captured by the Spaniards.--They chiefly
Englishmen and Americans.
On Sunday last Sir SAMbEt SIiFONEiID, the
late Attorney-General, left town to enter upoq
the duties of his new 6ppointment as Lord Chief
Baron of Scotland.
A it quisi ion has, it Is said, been signed and
presented to the Lotto MAYOR, for calling a Com=
mon Ilan to petition Parliament to adopt such
measures of retrenchment as will prevent the ne=
ceasity of ilormiag new taxes.

SCHOOLS IN THE HIGHLANDS
AND ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND.

The Annual Meeting of the Auxiliary Society
for the support of Schools in the Highlands, watt to
take place on Tuesday last at Greenock. We are
indebted to The Greenock ddvertizer of the I Ilb
inst. for the following Letter on this subject from
Dr. SAMUEL JOHNSON. We have often seen imi-
(eclat's of the language of the celebrated Moralist,
but none that bore any resemblance to the force
• and dignity of his sentiments. The following
Letter bears the indubitable stamp of originality,
and we shall adopt the introduction of it from the
Paper that revived this valuable document, on a
subject highly interesting :
• At such a period, it may not he irrelevant to
quote the high authority of Dr. Jot-moat in sup-
port of a cause which our townemen may then be
called upon to promote. The origin of this de-
claration of the Doctor's sentiments was as fol-
lows :—Some of the members of the Society itt
Scotland for propagating Christian Knowledge,
baying, in the year 1766, opposed the scheme of
Translating the Holy Scriptures into the Erse or
Gaelic language, from political considerations of
the disadvantages of keeping up the distinction
between the Highlanders and the other inhabit-
ants of North Britain ; Dr. JOHNSON beieg in-
formed of this, wrote as follows to Mr.iWteeteet
Deutetenern, bookseller in Edinburgh, a Gentle-
man with whom Dr. J. was acquainted.'
" TO MR. WILLIAM DRUMMOND.
" SIR—I did not expect to hear that it could
be, in an assembly convened for the propagation
of Christian Knowledge, a question, whether any
nation, unitistructed in Religion, should receive
Instruction; or whether that instruction should
be imported to them by a Translation of the Holy
Books iota their own language. If obedience to
the will of God be necessary to happiness, and
knowledge of his will be necessary to obedience,
I know not how he that withholds this knowledge,
or delays it, can be said to love his neighbour as
himself. He that voluntarily continues ignorant,
is guilty of all the crimes that ignorance produces;
as to hint that should extinguish the tapers of a
Lighthouse, might justly be imputed the calami-
ties of shipwrecks. Christianity is the highest
perfection of humanity; and as no man is good
but as he wishes the good of others, no man can
be good in the highest degree who wishes trot
to others the largest measures of the greatest
good. To omit for a year, or for a day, the most
efficacious method of advancing Christianity, in
compliance with any purposes that terminate on
this side the grave, is a crime of which I-know
not that the world has yet had an example, except
in the practice of tire Planters of America, a race
of mortals whom, I suppose, no other man wishes
to resemble.
" The Papists have, indeed, denied to the laity
the use of the Bible ; but this prohibition, in few
places now very rigorously enforced, is defended
by arguments which have for their foundation, the
cat eof souls. To obscure, upon motives merely
political, the light of revelation, is a practice re-
served tor the reformed ; and surely the blackest
midnight of popery is meridian sunshine to such
a refermation. 1 ant not very willing that any
language should be totally extinguished. The si-
militude and. derivation of languages afford the
most indubitable proof of the traduct ion of nations,
and the genealogy of mankind. They add often
physical certainty to historical evidence ; and of-
ten supply the only evidence of ancient migra-
tions, and of the revolutions of ages which left no
Written monuments behind them.
" Every man's opinions, at least his desires,
are a little influenced by his favourite studies. Aly
zeal for languages may seem, perhaps, rather over-
bested, even to those by whom I desire to be well
esteemed. 'fo those who have nothing in their
thoughts but trade or policy, present power, or
present money, 1 should not think it,necessary to
defend my opinions ; but with men of letters I
would trot unwillingly compound, by wishing the
continuance of every language, however narrow
in its extent, or however incommodious for corn-
moon purposes, till it is reposited in some version
4.1 a known book, that it may be always hereafter
examined and compared with other languages, and
then permitting its disuse. For this purpose the
translation of the Bible is most to be desired. It
is nut certain that the same method will preserve
the Highland languages, for the purposes of learn-
lee, and abolish it from daily use. When the
Highlanders read the Bible, they will naturally
Wish to have its obscurities cleared, and to know
the history collateral or appendant. Knowledge
always desires increase : it is like fire, which
must first be kindled by some external agent, but
which will afterwards propagate itself. When
they once desire to learn, they mill naturally have
recourse to the nearest language by which that
desire can be gratified ; and one will tell another,
that if he would attain knowledge, be must learn
Eoglish.
" This speculation may, perhaps, be thought
more subtle than the grossness of real life will
easily admit. Let it, however, be remembered,
that the efficacy of ignorance has long been tried,
and has not produced the consequence expected.
Let knowledge therefore take its turn ; and let the
patrons of privation stand a while aside, and ad-
mit the operation of positive principles.
Yost will be pleased, Sir, to assure the wor-
thy Mau tvino is employed in the new translation,
that he lots my wishes for his success ; and it here
or at Oxford I can be of anynse, that I shall think
it more thee honour to promote his Undertaking.
" am sorry that I delayed so long to write.
" I am, Sir,
" Your most tumble Servant,
" SAM. JOHNSON.

" Johnson's Court, Fleet-street,
August 13, 1766."

Dort —A mecling took place near Ballyahan-
non, io the county of Leitrim, on the morning
of Friday the I Ith instant, bettseen C. J. Al-
liognam, Esq. and John O'Neill, Eq. ; the tor-
attemltd thin Ain CulrinAn, and the latter
by Terence Conolly, Esq. After an exchange of
Iwo shuts each, without injury to caller porty, a
ttcuociliatiou tuuk place.