The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-07 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE LfENDON JOURNALS.

In our ignorance what steps are About to be
taken by the King's Ministers towards R ussia,
as a requital for her double attack upon tiff: dig-
nity of the British Crown, and on the national
commerce, we must say, that if they do subroiS.
a
to the " untoward" affront which has just been
to them by his Imperial Majesty,
they are a very tractable set of gentlemen. For
it is not alone the substantial mischief to the
English merchants, or the open breach of faith
to his Majesty the King,
that has constituted
the whole of the
experiment upon the patience
of the Duke of Wellington, and his Grace's col-.
leagues (or rather subalterns), in the memorable
instance of the present blockade of the Darda-
nelles. The world are utterly mistaken in sup-
posing that Russia condescended to postpone
her blockade until she should have received the
acquiescence of the British Government. She
did no such thing. She confessed that she had
established her blockade already, before she
"by your leave'
toe Ever
rt,goloalendj the trouble
roucbolneseonftsayingisasked to the blockade as to the thing Cabinet was never
znfuturo.
Nicholas knew the men he had to deal with. Ik
t
first, without hinting a ward about the matter,
quietly blockaded the Dardanelles, being one of
a large description of measures which he had
pledged himself to his Majesty that he Nrould nut
adopt against Turkey; and on the English Minister
expressing some mortification, that after all ha
promises such a thing should be " intended" by
Russia, the answer of the Imperial Ambassador
-was to this effect :—" Intended, say you ? Why',
it is already done. Did, not you know it ?
Who could have fancied that you would not
highly approve of it. Why, really the blockade
was so natural and unavoidable a measure, that
you must have been aware of it. There
was no use in making a parade about a matter
of course. What's done cant be undone, and
therefore make the best of it." Our readers may
imagine that we are amusing them a little by a
reFrcsentation so cruelly insulting to English
men. We can assure them that it is a positive
fact that the Dardanelles were blockaded, before
the wishes or opinions of the British Government.
were consulted, and that this offensive act, when
questioned, was described by the Russian Minis-
ter to be a step no longer in posse but in we,
and one to which the consent of England
not asked, but only her acquiescence required I
Now, when it is perfectly well understood
that if England were to send half a dotes'
sail of the line, as many frigates, and half the
number of bomb-vessels, to throw shells and
321 b. Congreve rockets into the heart of the
Russian establishments on the Euxine,
of return for the blockade of the Dardanelles,
which our " ancient" ally, the Sultan, would mutt,
Imperial
assist this country in renderh;[,.! to hi..
Imperial Majesty, if, we say, such a little squi.a.rou
were gently to elbow aside the " blocakaspdeecrsie
move up the Dardanelles, and act as we have
stated upon the maritime communications of the
Russian army, we should like to hear what
would become of Odessa, and Admiral Greig,
and the Cossacks, the Cuirassiers, the Guards,
the siege of Varna, time passage of the Balkan;
the " Hurrah" upon the Bosphorus, and all the
Tartar paraphernalia of a triumphal entry by the
Autocrat and his host into the streets of Con-
stantinople, over an hundred thousand corpses of
the Moslem ? We ask, again—with a perfect.
knowledge on the part of Russia, that. any
British Government might do what is above-
mentioned with perfect ease—how little flatter-
thteheidesaoevieirteerigtanineadndbypethopeleCorcuprtresoefntSetd-
ing to the present Administration must have
iblZeseutleilrtsburgh, when it has ventured so to
by that Ministry, on the assurance that
no mischief would follow ? This is an
odious subject. We hasten from it merely
to observe, that long and loose accounu
are communicated from the seat of war, through
the Russian channels, of detached operations
undertaken against Varna by the besiegers, and
by the beleagured Turks themselves against their
enemies in front both of Varna and Shumla.
is possible that the statement may be true of the
Russian approaches being pushed successfully to
the counterscarp of 'Varna—though it is evident
that even there, the Turkish resistance is vi-
gorous and incessant ; but, on the side of
Shumla, it has been formally announced that
the Russian army is in the act of retreating.
thanherec the s c
The baggage hospitals were moving off to Jeni-
bazar about the 7th and the head-quarters
of' that army were immediately to follow. The
a fog and a dark night had been on other occa-
sions ; but we remark that not a word is said of
•
thevaGntraonfdf9 Vizier'srage'was' a ,
ewith
reinforcementsape
alarming move-
ments of the Turkish corps scope-goat—as
to Hussein Paella, or of the al
upon Little Wal-
lachia, and along the north shore of the Danube.
For this campaign at least, therefore, the Rus-
sians acknowledge that Shumla is out of their
reach. For further news from Varna we are not
a little anxious.—Times.
The Proclamation of the Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland, which we gave in the Morning Herald
on Saturday, is remarkably temperately worded.
It alludes to armed and organised bodies of mei',
parading in various parts of Ireland, and it calls
on the Authorities to prevent and oppose such
illegal bodies. Every one knows that Mr.
O'Connell and the Dublin Association caused
those bodies to arise, and it is not improbable
but that the Roman Catholic Clergy had some-
thing to do in the matter. Mr. O'Connell, the
Association, and the Catholic Clergy, did not
wish that such bodies should proceed to mis-
chief; they merely intended to show the Go-
vernment that they had it in their power to bring
about the question of Catholic •-
Emancipation,
should the Government net concede it. The
Catholic Question, at present, in Ireland, appa-
rently to us, is this—Nlr. sO'Connell and about
half-a-score of Barristers, some with briefs,
the greater part
without, wish that the Bar,
the Judges and Chancellor's seats, the King's
Government &c. should be thrown open, so
that they mi •
ght come in for their share of
the good things in Church and State.
Now, who can blame Mr. O'Connell and others
for wishing to bring about such a change as
this?—who can blame them for wishing to get
hold of sonic of the thousands and ten thou-
sands a year ? Sir Harcourt Lees, and other
stanch Protestants may blame them, because
they cannot like that any one should join them
in the good Church-and-King things. The
Catholic clergy, in all probability, are secretly
movers in the cry of Emancipation ; they must
sec that the
.linen trade of the North of Ireland
introduced Scotchmen and Presbytery, and that
Catholicism there is giving way rapidly. We had
an instance of this recently, when Mr. Lawless
was put to flight by the northern Orangemen,
which latter are no other than the Scotch linen-
bleachers, led on by the Protestant clergy ; and
again the Catholic I
cArgy must see that the cotton

ri
trade, at the bna of which are the Methodists,
is gaining ground ; and that, in fact, the Metho-
dists anti cotton are superseding and pushing to
the South and the West the linen manufacture
and the Scotch Presbyterians. By and by the
Lesds woollen Unitarians will introduce them-
selves. All these sects push out Catholicism.
The same kind of alteration began in the days
of Oliver Cromwell, and the pushing and -oust-
ing since then in England hai been so great,
that, at length, we have scarcely any Catholics
left. The Catholic Clergy, seeing this, must
fear that in time they will have no 'flocks; they
must, therefore, be eager to be put upon the
State books, and for that purpose they are se-
cretly working, by means of Mr. O'Connell and
other Catholics, and by Lord Plunkett and
other Protestants, to endeavour to bring about
what is called Emancipation, so that they may
be put upon the State books, and•thus be amply
provided for, in case the Protestants should in
time become the greater number im
Now who can blame the Catholic Clergy for this ?
John Bull, however, will be much to blame if
he suffers Lord Plunkett or • any other lawyer I
to bring about such a state of things as
that he should have to 'maintain two Churches.
One Church is quite as much as the people like.
As Mr. O'Connell and other Barristers, together
probably with the Catholic Clergy, have effected
this organization of the people, so the Govern-
ment must put it down ; and the latter have very
properly issued this Proclamation ; and if the
meetings are persisted'in, and disagreeable con-
sequences ensue, the Catholic Barristers and
Clergy will have AC; -thank 'themselves for such
consequences. For our part we hope that no-
thing unpleasant will arise ; but it is one thing
to rouse a body of the poor, another to put them
down, or to 'keep them from plundering the
rich. What would be said if in London- the
Protestant Barristers and Protestant Clergy were
to procure an assemblage of the St. Giles's and.
Whitechapel, and Lambeth and Limehousc, and
Rotherhithe and Westminster 'Protestants, 'and
to say to them, " Here you are in military
array, 100,000 strong—keep orderly—do not
drink•gin-s--you St. Giles's boys and Whitechapel.
boys, and Rotherhithe boys, and Westtninster
boys, be good friends, shake hands—bury in obli-
vion • party feuds—wear Church-and-king co-
lours—keep order—attend to the parish clergy;
abd the Select Vestries—the -Church and the
King are in danger, Wellington is ,going'to ad-
mit the' Catholics into power and emolument,—
Here• are 100,000; we willArsave similar bodies
in other parts of the tountry,. and if Wellington
attempts to adMit the Catholics to the thousands
and the ten thousands a-year, we will take our
stand." Now what would Mr. O'Connell say to
such an assemblage' in London ? would-he not'
say that such should be put down ? The Ca-
tholics of Ireland have been the cause of
Proclamation, and they must mace the -best of
it. If the Catholics -Wish fors Emancipatiou,
they ought to-ask it as a matter of favour-s-not
right. The Government of Great •Britain has
the right to say to either Catholic, Jew, or
Turk, " You shall not, on account of your
religious opinions, have to do with the Go-
vernment, in Church or State. The Govern-
ment of former days made oaths to prevent the
introduction into Parliament, or into offices, of
any other than- those belonging to the Protestant
faith." If the Government chooses to alter the
oaths, so that Catholics, Jews, or -Turks, 'may
take their seats in Parliament, or office, as it is
called—or rather take thousands and tens of
thousands a year—why the Government can do
so. But, if the Government will not consent,
the Catholics have no right to say, " We will
enter your Parliament, or take office—that is the
thousands and tens of thOusant:s a year-5..-Whe-
ther you will or not." A Catholic has no more
right to a seat in a Protestant Parliament, or a
place in a Protestant Government, 'of which the
Protestant Church is part•and pareeli than a Jew
born in England. We hope that the -Govern-
ment will resist Emancipation, as a matter of
right—concede it, if it thinks proper, as 'a Mat-
ter of favour, but not with a Clerical Wing at-
tached to it ; no scheme of Lord Plunkett and
Mr. O'Connell's hatching—but simply to alter
the oaths, one of 'which obliges a Member of
Parliament to say 'that " the Roman Catholic
religion is damnable and idolatrous."—Morning
Heredd.

It is characteristic of our days, and our country
more particularly, to make the most of every
thing. Properties are discovered in objects of which
our more obtuse ancestors had no suspicion, and
of which they were too inert and sluggish, if they
had made the discovery, to derive the utmost
possible advantage. We may be assured that,
in our own inquisitive times, nothing will be left
unexplored from which benefit can be derived ;
and that whenever advantage can be taken, it will
be taken. We were much gratified by the com-
pliment unwillingly
paid to the superior acute-
nes§ 'of Englishmen,by John Neilson, Esq. to
whose evidence in the Canada Report we have
already alluded
Do the French Canadians • experience any obsu.
des in their attempts to get possession of new
lands ? Very great, indeed. The laws which pro„
vide for and regulate concessions or grants by the
Seigneurs to the actual settlers, have since the con-
quest, been suffered to be nearly a dead letter. The
Attorney-General ought to see that they are exe-
cuted. The King is authorised by law to grant to
real settlers upon the Seigneur's refusing. Nothing
of that kind has been done since the conquest; the
consequence is, that the English. Seigneurs, particu-
larly, have imposed onerous conditions upon the
settlers, conditions that they are not authorised by
law or usage to impose, and which a fresh settler is
unable to satisfy. They dare not venture to take
up the land's, and are confined in a narrow limit.
There is hardly any difference between .the system
that was introduced after the settlement of Canada,
under the French • Government, and the sys-
tem that was introduced under the English
Govequnent the old English Colonies; it.
was always, grlnting away land to any man that
would actually settle upon them, or cause them to be
settled,
and taking care that those that got posses-
sion of any quantity of land did actually set down
upon it, arid settle (tozir feii a Lieu.) Would not a
French Canadian, living in the country, naturally
settle upon the lands granted to him ? The Seig-
neur is like any other man ; people (Tee not looked
(?/. ; and they have
after, they will take advantage
taken advantage qf it, particularly the English mg_
ncursjor they arc the word of all. When they are
placed in the shoes of a Canadian Seigneur they
think that there is 110 limit to the raising of rents,
and every thing burthenseinc to the settler ; amid
they have not been compelled to observe the laws—
the laws have not been enforced that were intended
to preserve the advantages and encouragement to
the actual settlers; and that has kept the people
from extending themselves." •
But why were they not looked after ? It
would have been too much to expect that Eng-
lish., Seigneurs shall look alter the interests of
Canadian settlers; they looked after their own,
however,,,- and saw sources of advantage which the
French Seigneurs were unable to discover. " If
-
people arc not looked after (says Mr. Nelson),

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they will take advantage of it." They who trust
to their interests being looked after by other
people, instead of looking after them themselves,
commit a grievous mistake. The principle is
now thoroughly understood, that wherever there
is power, it will be used ;' and, of course, where
there-is a power to take advantage of another, it
will be used. So thoroughly is this principle
understood' in practice, that in. many parts of
England you cannot safely employ a labouring
man without employing another man to watch
him. We remember reading a description in a
traveller hr the-East, of an old woman watching
some provisions, with a stick to beat off the°
monkeys lying in wait. The moment a.monkey
perceived the eye of -the old woman off' the
scene, he darted forward and made a snatch.
This is emblematical of an enlightened age. To
instance the superiority or our own age over
preceding ages, we may allude to the superior
knowledge possessed of the British Consti-
tution, many properties of which were hardly
known to our forefathers. Many of our ,Bo-
rough 3 are now mines of wealth to the fortunate
individuals who are in possession. of a trust with-
out responsibility. It either escaped our fore-
fathers that they might take every advantage, n
their power, or they had not the heart to act up
to their knowledge. We have before us a print-
ed statement, on the face of a large sheet, of the
Borough Rate Assessment and Gaol Expendi-
ture of the Borough of Leicester, extracted from
the Returns made pursuant to order of the
House of Commons, 23d May, 1826; from
which it appears, that the improvement in the
working of that Borough has been surprisingly
great of late years. The estimated population of
:the Borough of Leicester is sixteen thousand
souls, and there have passed through the
-Borough Gaol in eighteen years 6,105 persons,
which, deducting 3,000 for infants under 12,
make about the half of the male and female po-
pulation: ' The number of commitments in 1810
was 157 ;in 1826 .it was 755. The observa,
lions at the fuoL of the statement are very in-
structive on this point :—" You are re-
quested particularly to observe, that no Bo-
rough-rate was known in Leicester prior to
the recent date of 1767—that the fundS,
out of which the Borough Gaol was Main-.
tabled at all times prior to the above periods,
still remain, and are greatly increased in value—
. that the jurisdiction, patronage, &c. of the Bo-
rough Court, remain in the same Corporate
Body as formerly, and the legal liability to pro-
vide gaols, &c. also the same as prior to 1767,
when no Borough rate existed—that though the
police and gaol expenditure have increased, from
1810 to 1827, from 3991.9 d. to 4,1221. 195.8 d.,
the population of the Borough has increased in
no material degree—that the. value of money has
doubled in the above space of time, and, there 7
fore, measured in the : necessaries of life,
4;122/. 195.8 d. in 1827 is equal to -double
that sum in 1810, when the total expellees were
3391. 9d.—that in the annual increase of ex-
penditure
of 3,7231. 18s. lid., the increased
maintenance of prisoners amounts to only
:171/. 3s. Bd.—that though. in the Treasurer's
account, published in 1827, 2,8001. only is
given credit for . on behalf- of the Borough,
and a balance , rtilide accordingly, both in
1827 and 1828, in favour of the Trea-
surer, 1,2001. more was actually paid' into
his hands in 1827, &c.—that out of 6,105
persons committed to gaol, 697 only were con-
victed, at an expense of 6,0711. 19s. ld. for
prosecutions only—that these committals have
increased from 157 to- 670 within the year,.and
the expense from 399/. to 4,1221. per annum in
seventeen year S—that during the last four years,
2,617 individuals have been committed to the
Borough Gaol of Leicester, and 225' had been
convicted, at an expense of 2,2461.,- leaving'
2,366 'persons unconvicted of any crime, who
have thus received the rudiments at least of a
gaol education—that the demoralization of such
an education to so great a number of persons,
must spread widely among the people—that the
expense falls upon the householders of the bo-
rough—that the Magistrates are self-elected—
that of the 24 Aldermen, out of whom the
Magistrates are chosen, 10 reside within the bo-
rough, and 14- out 'of the borough." -These
are. the wonderful improvements of our times.
Archbishop of Canterbury and Church-rate jobs
cannot be confined to a narrow circle. Every
Select Vestry and Borough can and will imitate
such glorious examples. What will it be twenty
years hence ?—Morning Chronicle.

SPIRIT of the PROVINCIAL JOURNALS.

(From the Dublin Freeman's Journal of Saturday.)

The Proclamation issued by the Irish Govern:
meat, is almost in so many words, an echo of

the Resolutions and . Address, previously for-
warded by the Catholic Association to the
county Tipperary. So palpable do we consider
the, humanity and patriotism of this official do-
cument of the Government, that if it
,hatl not
been sought.by the Brunswick Press, to .inter-
pret it into -a proof that " Lord Anglesea is de-
terminedlo act vigorously," we should have per-'
witted it to pass as one of. the ordinary demon-
strations of his Excellency's regard to Ireland.'
If it be deemed an act of decision in. the Vice-

toy, according to the Orange acceptation, to
have thus warned the peasantry, that is hot, as
the Brunswick scribes think, a symptom of Anti-
Catholicism in the Irish Government, inasmuch
as the ,Association in forbidding the assemblages
to which it refers, expressed their sentiments in
relation to their own power, quite as anthorita-
iively and decidedly. Lord Anglesea has there-
foreore than the Catholic
leaders d otnheeyinsoethh,elisi gain:
Before the Proelama--
tion appeared in the Gazette, the influence Web
generated the Tipperary meetings, caused them
to subside, and distributed each' component be-
ing of the great physical mass, into his former
privacy and singleness'
(From the Caledonian Mercury of Saturday.)
IRELsome time
AND.-4reland and its affairs are' aup pre-
sent; . -
sent; and will doubtless continue for
to come, an all engrosSing subject. of interest.—
The actual condition of that country is indeed
deplorable, while the prospect áf any change
f 0
r
the better is remote and contingent. Men's
minds and passions have been worked tip to a
state of frenzied exacerbation ; hatred and terror
have taken possession of all ; and such is the
madness and fury of the opposing factions, that
1 there is no crime however great, no atrocity
however inhuman, no evil however dreadful,
which may not be the sudden product of the
excitement- that now prevails. Unhappily, too,
there is Method-in this domineering madness; a
fiightful order reianS in the midst of confusion';
unity the most
systematic
and appalling has
grown out of and triumphs in the very centre of
discord. This may seem paradoxical in ex-pression, but every one knows it is true in reality.
Ireland is at the present moment 'one huge. and
monstrous . anOmaly. There is . nothing: in :it
'which does not exceed all precedent, transgress

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all ordinary rule's, contradict all experience, and
baffle all sagacity to divine the consequences to
Which the actual state of things may ultimately
lead. As to the regular Government, it has
been almost totally superseded, and may now be
considered as in abeyance. In a word, Irelatsd
is on the eve of a civil and religious war.

(From the Northern 'Whig of Friday.)

The state of the country at the present crisis
is truly awful. In the North a desperate and
armed faction, released from a temporary check,
exasperated by a partial rebuff, and thirsting for
blood, are daily excited against their Catholic
countrymen by the inflammatory harangues of
men, whose conduct more resembles that of
Priests of Moloch, than Ministers of Jesus. in
the South and West, a peasantry, the fiercest in
Europe, and proverbially reckless of life, are re-
gularly organized, and only restrained from rush--
mg into rebellion by the prudence, moderation,
or fear of the Catholic Association ! In the
North, Catholic blOod haS already been shed;
and, in the South, the peasantry have come into
collision with the Police, torn.. down their bar.
rack, and consumed everything in it to ashes.
We do not hesitate to assert, that the only alter-
native to granting Emancipation which is left to
the Government is rebellion and.civil war, the
most horrible by which any country was ever
scourged. We cannot, .however, conceive that
the Government will be mad enough to hesitate
any longer.

(From the Scotsman of Saturday'..)..

There is one feature in the condition of Ire-
land which may be considered as a most pecu-
liar one. In other countries factions are gene-
rally confined to a small portion of the people,
while the neutral and moderate, who comprise
the great mass, contribute in a thousand ways to
soften their mutual rancour, and allay their pro-
pensity to outrage. But in Ireland, unfortu-
nately, there is no neutral party to temper the
violence of the adverse factions. The latter em-
braces nearly the whole population, and the con-
sequence is, that their separatio❑ from one ano-
ther is more entire, and their hostility more in-
veterate than has been seen any where else in
modern times. What was wanting in such a
country to fill up the measure of public danger ?
Nothing but that the two parties should be regu-
larly organised, marshalled under leaders, and
provided with arms—put, in short, in the condi-
tion of two hostile armies, fully equipped to rush
into the combat which they both long to begin.
This has been nearly accomplished, for both
parties are banded together as one man ; and
though the Catholics want arms, the Orangemen
generally have them, and justly consider this ad-
vantage as a compensation for the inferiority of
their numbers.

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SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL.

gUNDAY, OCT* s.—Wind S.S.E.—High water five
minutes past nine.—Arrived the Joseph Hume, Rat-
ray, from Quebec ; Lady Cremorne, --, Bay Cha-
leur; Tagus, Berry, Lisbon ; Lee, —, Cork ; Mary
Ann; Malaga.
CLEARED 01.111VARDS..---.The Wellington, Robinson,
for Berbice; Brothers, Parkinson, Rio Janeiro ; Antonia
and Cornelia, Blom, for Amsterdam ; Vrow Elizabeth,
De Wyk, for Antwerp; Sophia, Reike, for Dantzic ; Jo •
banna Maria, Lange, for Dordt ; Elizabeth Ann, Paul,
for Eastport ; Planter, APDonnell, for New Orleans ;
Louisa, , for Havre de Grace ; Fursten Von
Lergaitz, Neuman, fur Stettin; Sceptre, Stewart, for Ba-
hia ; Jane, WatFon, for 113iramichi ; Atlantic, M'Farlane,
for Baltimore : Francis, Cillespy, for Barbadoes; John
Viana, for Lisbon.

MUSSELBURGH.--On Tuesday last, the
Town Customs of Musielburgh were let by Public Roup
in the usual form. The fish market dues fell a trifle, but
the common good let higher, and on account of the increas-
ing trade' of the. port, the harbour dues were from 1501. to
1801.—Scotsman.

CHOLERA MORBUS.—We regret to find that
there are at present nearly a hundred cases of this malady
in Inverness, and that it is increasing. It is attended by
great derangement of the live, and seems to have been in-
duced by the late variable state of the weather.—lnverness
Courier.

HIGHGATE ARCHWAY.—The public gene-
rally are probably unaware, that by an act which received
the Royal assent just before the close of the last session of
Parliament, the rate of toll for passing under the above
archway will, after the 31st of December next, be doubled.
The act in question is entitled "An Act for improving
the Road from London to Liverpool, and from London to
Holyhead." For this purpoae his Majesty's Treasury is
empowered to advance 37,0001. to certain commissioners
named in the act, who are to employ it as therein specified.
The money is to be returned to the Treasury, with interest
at 4 per cent. ; and to enable them to do this, additional
tolls are to be taken on the line of road. These are to
cease when the money has been repaid ; the improvements
are afterwards to be kept up out of the ordinary tolls :
14,0001.: is to be expended in improving Highgate Arch-
way Trust road ; for the repayment of which au additional
toll is to be taken on and after the Ist of January next, of
ld. for every foot passenger, horse, &c. passing under the
archway. These tolls are to be kept separate, and paid
annually to his Majesty's Treasury. If they fall short of
500/. per year, the difference is to be made up out of the
original tolls. The present toll for a foot-passenger is Id.
and the probable effect of the additional one will he to induce
most pedestrians to take the more circuitous but untaxed
road. The remainder of the 37,0001. is for improvements
at a distance from the metropolis.
ENTRAORDINAIa: ESCAPE AND LAMENT-
DrATIL-On Tuesday last, as Mr. F. AITLEVARD,
of this place, bricklayer, was crossing the Humber to
Barrow in a boat, accompanied by JOHN SUTTON, he be-
came involved in one of the moat distressing adventures it
has been our lot to relate. Owing to the state of the-
wind they were obliged to make several tacks. On en-
deavouring to reach Barrow haven, a sudden squall threw
the little vessel omits beans ends, and filled it. with water.
It of course sunk, the shock dislodging both its masts,
which floated. In this emergency, SUTTON contri ed
to get on to the back of ArpLEVARD, who is a most
excellent swimmer. The latter, however, very na-
turally in his perilous circumstances, requested the
former to let go his hold, and seek assistance from one of
the masts. This he did; but in less than ten minutes, to
the great grief of his companion, was seen with his face
immersed in the water, to all appearance dead. The tide
running down rapidly, and there being also a great swell
on the river„irPLEYAnD, aided by the buoyancy of
the other mast, had enough to do to take care of himself,
and with all' his skill was, after all his efforts, obliged to
relinquish the idea of reaching the Lincolnshire shore, and
to leave himself to the mercy of the stream. Thus situ-
ated, he drifted down, seeing at the distance of two or
three miles, the Barton steam-boat pass him twice. After
he had been for nearly three hours at the mercy of the
waves, and had reached within a short distance Skitter
point, he was fortunately seen by the master of a coal
sloop, on her way to Wisbeach, and taken up nearly ex-
hausted. The sloop is called the Nine Brothers, and the
humane master, Mr. B. WATSON, to whom, and to three
women on board, the unfortunate sufferer will feel him-
self, as long as he lives, deeply indebted. They put bins
on their own bed, rubbed his body with their flannel gar-
ments, comforted and cherished hint, brought him to his
friends, and restored him to his employments. To his cre-
dit, it must not be forgotten that on being laid on the
floor of the cabin, his first thought was of his compa-
nion; and, strange to relate, in a very short time his -body
was seen floating near, and 'immediately secure&—a very
singular circumstance, as the poor fellow must have been
dead a very considerable time. At this period -a gold-
duster came alongside the sloop, the men offering to take
charge of the sufferers ; but the humane master would not
allow his patient to be disturbed, and foregoing his voyage,
made tbe best of his way to Hull with his own vessel.—
We are happy to say, that APMEYAILD has recovered, and
is now following his usual occupation. We trust that
WATSON will be, by some means or other, amply reward-
ed. His conduct, and that of his female companions, de-
serve every praise. An inquest was held on the body of
SuTTGX on Wednesday, at our Mansion-house, before
German COULSON, Esq., and a verdict returned consistent
'with the facts of the case.—Hull Rockingham,