The Sun.
London, England, 1821-05-17 00:00:00

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DEAL, MAY l6.—Wind S. W.—Came down frOm the River
and remain the Nepos, Collins, for Philadelphia ; Union,
Laing, for Sierra Leone ;' Margaret, M‘Mair, for Virginia;
Vigilant, White, for Cadiz, &c. • and his Majesty's steam
packets, Lightning- and Meteor; for Holyhead. Arrived and
sailed for the RiVer the Marquis of Anglesea, Edwards, from
Cork; St. Patrick, Crosby; and Catharine, Payton, from Bel-
fast-;-John, Pritchard, from Jainaica ; and several more, names
unknown. Sailed for the River the Katharine Ste Wart, Forbes,
from Bombay.
GRAVESEND, MAY 1.6..:--Arrived the Scaleby .Castle,
Sotheby, from China.

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1-lAli‘Vlcli, 'MAY 16.—Arrived the Beaufoy packet, with a
mail from Holland. sailed the Lady Nepean packet for
Holland, and Princess Charlotte, do. for Cuxhaven, each with
a mail.

. MARGATE, MAY 16.=Arrived the James and Sarah, Coul-
son, frOm ,Southampton for London, with her. chain cable
broken. Arrived off Margate the Thomas' Coutts, Marjori-
banks, from China for London, with loss of anchor and cable,
and sailed again this forenoon.
DOVER, MAY 16.—An anchor and cable, belonging to the
Governor Carver, has been picked up and landed here this
morning.

LIVERPOOL, MAY 15.—Arrived the Calcutta, Stroyan,
from Calcutta ; sailed from the Sand Heads Ist January, and
from Madras Bth ditto. The John Taylor was to sail on the
7th January ' • the Duke of Lancaster oiA the 11th ; and Albion
on the 14th, all for Liverpool.

The following information relative to New South Shetland
has been received at Liverpool, from the ON:trge, of that port,
which has arrived at Cork The country is represented as
most terrific, and the sea-coast abounding with dangers. The
George left New South Shetland Feb.. 24. On the 23d she ex-.
perienced a violent hurricane, in which she lost her anchors, all
her boats, and great part of her sails, and was obliged to leave
the coast as the only chance of saving their lives, akhough eight
of the crew were on shore. It is feared that several vessels may
have sufferedin the hurricane, which is said to have been tre-
mendous. The seals were not in such great numbers as had
been represented, and:the breakers were so great that it was dan-
gerous to approach the shore in a boat."
A Dutch vessel has been picked up near Egmond, by a fish-
erman, without the crew, a little leaky, and taken to Rotter—'
dam ; it seems by her papers to be the Ilenderika, Ilugens,
bound from London to Amsterdam,

A Charlestown Paper, of the 1-Ith of April, says—" The
Columbus, line.of battle ship, Commodore Bainbridge, will, it
is expected, before her return to the United States, proceed to
the Mediterranean on a special visit to Constantinople. This
will be the second American man of war that ever an-
chored within the Dardanelles; and what.is more remarkable,
Commodore BAINBRIDGE commanded the first fzigate that
ever passed the Strait."

FELONIOUS SINKING OF VESSELS,
For the purpose of defrauding the Owners of the cargoes, and
the, Underwriters at LLOYD'S and Glasgow.
[From the Glasgow Herald, of Monday, May. 14.1
HIGH COURT OF ADMIRALTY, IDINBITRGII.
The Court met again this day (Saturday) at two o'clock,,
when the Jury, delivered in a written verdict, finding M'Dou-
gall guilty at common law of procuring mariners to sink the
vessel called the Friends, with the intent of defrauding the
' owners of the cargo and the underwriters. After hearing Mr.
Murray in mitigation of punishment, the Judge Admiral pro-
nounced sentence, ordaining the pannel to be transported be-
yond seas for the period of his natural life..
There must have been considerable diversity of opinion in
the Jury on this case, as they took three hours and a half to
make up their verdict. Had M'POugall been brought in
p,ruilty under the statute on which he was indicted, he must
have been sentenced to death; but the Jury having brought in a
special verdict, only finding him guilty at common law, the pu-
nishment ceased to be capital, and banishment for life was the
highest punishment the Judge conk! inflict. The following is
the clause in the Act under which M'Dougall was indicted :
" That if any owner of, or captain, master, officer, or ma-
riner, belonging to, any ship or vessel, shall, after the first day
of September, in the year 1789, wilfully cast away, burn, cr
otherwise destroy the ship or vessel of which he is owner, or to
which he belongeth, or in anywise direct or procure the same to
be done, with intent or design to prejudice any person or persons
that bath or shall underwrite any policy or policies of insurance
thereon, or or any merchrtat or merchants that shall load goods
therein, or of any owner or owners of such ship or vessel, the
person or persons offending therein, being thereof lawfully con-
victed before any Court competent to the trial of such crimes,
in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, shall suffer death,
as in other cases of capital crimes."
Two objections were taken to the applicability of the statute.
The first was, thatthe Court had:not thebest possible evidence
of M`Dougall being a partner in the vessel, the voucher present-
ed in proof of this material fact being a copy of the Ship's
Register in place of the Register itself ; the second was, that
the Act confines itself to " Owners," whereas M‘Hougall was
only a part owner. The Jury found that M'Dougall's case did
not come under the provisions of the Act, and accordingly re- '
stricted their verdict and saved his life. •
After sentence was pronounced, the Court next proceeded to
the trial of the same .John M'Dougall and Archibald 3l'Lach-
lan, for robbing and sinking the Mary, of Glasgow, in June
last, when M'Lachlan pleaded Guilty, under the common law,
and was sentenced to transportation for 1-4 years.—M'Dougall
pleaded not guilty, and the diet was continued against him to
the 11th of June.—lt is not supposed that the trial will be'
proceeded with.-

t.* The substance of thes:, Trials appeared. in TuE SUN o:
Tuesday.

THE ARMY.

The Regiment of Loyal London Militia, under the command
of Sir CLAUDIUS HUNTER, had yesterday morning a grand
field-day in the Artillery Ground, in the presence of several
officers .of distinction. They went through their evolutions,
&c. much to the satisfaction of all present.
The Hereford Militia meet on the 28th of May, for twenty_
one days training.
The Royal North Gloucester, June 27, for 21 days drill.
The Royal South Gloucester, July 7, - ditto. .
Worcester Militia - - Oct. 2, , - ditto.
Oxford Militia - - Oct. 3, - ditto.
The 4th royal veteran battalion, at present quartered in
Stirling Castle, have received orders to proceed on the 14th
instant to Ayr, for the purpose of being disembodied.---(Edin-
burgh Courant, May 14.)

Yesterday the Duke of YORK, the Duchess of
GLOUCESTER, the Princess AUGUSTA, and the
Princess SDPHIA, visited the KING.—The Duke
of YORK and the Princess AUGUSTA, and a nu-
merous party, dined with the Duke and Duchess
of CLARENCE yesterday.—Yesterday Princ Luo-
roLn dined with Earl DARNLEY 'to meet the
noble directors of the Concert of Ancient Music;
afterwards his Royal Highness accompanied their
Lordships to the performance of the Concerti at 1
the Hanover:square Rooms.
The LORD LIEUTENANT of Ireland landed at

Liverpool'on Monday morning at eleven o'clock,
from the William and Mary yacht, and proceeded
immediately for Staffordshire..
His Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON has most
generously transmitted one hundred guineas to
the Treasurer of the Hampshire County Hospital.
At the late Hants Sessions, GEORGE HoLms,
Esq. was re-elected Treasurer to the County, for
the year ensuing.

The Bishop of Cl/ESTER intends, in the course
of the ensuing summer, to visit every church and
chaple in his Lordship's extensive diocese.
FlRE.—Yesterday.morning, about half-past two
o'clock, a fire broke out at the Three Horse-shoes public-house,
in Pear-Tree-court, ClerkenWell-close,
,and raged with great
violence, threatening destruction to all • the adjoining houses,
which being very om, lave no party Walls ; but the flames were
subdued after the house in which the fire originated, and three
others, were consumed. The origin of the accident is not
known • but the conjecture is, that it was from.the. bar, the fire
having begun in the loWer part of the house, about an. hour
after the family had retired to rest. The smoke was discovered
by a watchman, who; unable at first to alarm the inmates,
broke open the door, when the flames burst forth into the
street. • The landlady was saved with difficulty, and the lodgers,
we are .happy to add, were also saved, by inea:ls of ladders,
from the peril to which they were exposed. In the adjoining
house, one of those-destroyed, lived a poor old woman, alone,
this habitation having been provided for her by the parish,: she
was taken out of her bed, and carried to a neighbouring house,
with only a few things around her, the rest of her clothis, and
what little property she had, having become a prey to the de-
vouring, element.