The Sun.
London, England, 1819-04-13 00:00:00

PROTESTANT PETITION.

Every passing day serves more and more to
evince the truth of what we, have already taken
so many opportunities to state, viz. that the ,Cork,
Protestant Petition in favour of the Roman Ca-
tholic Claims woulel do worse than shew the
-weakness of the party and . the cause, that it
would ptomotc discontent ant: discord, anti awaken
enmity in a land of peace. Cork City and Liber-
ties alone contain more than 14,000 Protestants,
of whom a. large proportion are persons above the
common rank of life ; yet out of this grgat body,
and the additional. numbers resorting to town at
a crowded Assizes,-, all .the exertion of due and
undue influence has not..been able to procure, in
all. the places- where this ;Petition is :placed, so
Many as 150 signatures 1!! But it may be .said,
vo matter for their characters, their motives,
or their insignificance ; they have not been
formally contradicted, and. therefore the consent
of.the rest. should be inferred---,sjlepee gives con-
sent. So- Mr. Hunt or Major Cartwright may
procure Petitions for Annual -Parliaments and
Universal Suffrage, and because their sober-mind-
ed fellow-citizens deem it -unnecessary to come
forward with couriter-peritions, they are to enjoy
the triumptl• of universal • approbation, because,
forsooth, silence gives consent. In truth, a Coun-
ter-petition wo,old. be •full as absurd -in the case
above referred to•as in the case of Hunt and Cart.
wright, did we merely advert to any effect it way

The following is, we believe, the latest intelli-
gence from these Islands :—A vessel, named the
Macquarrie, Otaheite on the 24th of April,
1818, with a portion of her cargo, consisting of
fitly or sixty tons of pork, excellently cored. In
order to complete a full cargo of this, she had vi-
sited Murea (Eimeo), one of the Society Islands,
where the Missionaries have lately dwelt, but had
opened no trade with the natives. From thence
she went to Huaheine, and thence to Ulitea,
where she procured a further supply of the same
article of provisions. She afterwards touched
at Bolabola, where she received the principal
part of her cargo, and after visiting Mobiade, re-
turned again to Eimeo, and at length complved
it, after about 10 months, as she left Otaheite in
April, 1817, and did not finally quit-Eimeo un-
til February, 1818. - The difficulty of procuring a
cargo was extremely great, ()tying to various
causes, one of which was, that the women are
'limy allowed to eat pork as well as the men,
which formerly was not the case, and the con-
sumption is consequently increased, or perhaps
doubled. The war that has almost desolated the
main island of Taheite (Otaheite), in the next
place produced a universal lassitude with respect
:0 a property that was always open to spoliation
and destruction, and of course but little stock
was bred ; whilst the general state of poverty
that prevailed, scarcely left the means of sup.'
pew ing theMselves.. Their war was conduct-
ed perfectly upon a marauding system—bM•n-
ing and pillaging, but with the loss of a very few
lives. An army of 300 waslconsidered a numerous
force ; and although they .had a number of
muskets, and knew tolerably well how to use
them, yet they do but little execution with them,
and if two or three fall, the main body immedi-
ately give way and fly in all directions. They
have-a.great quantity of poultry, such as cocks
and hens, a few Muscovy ducks, and a number
of goals. The Missionaries have a few head
of hotned cattle, and a few sheep ; but bogs
and the bread- fruit con-silt-Ole- the--chief depen-
dence of the islands. The. banana .seems to
have been indigenous to the islands ; the sweet
tropical .potatoe, the pumpkin, and melon, are
cultivated with success ; and Captain Campbell
has, we understand, during his late excursion,
sown among the islands the loquet, the peach, the
celery, and other garden seeds. Cotton is of
spontaneous growth among most, or all of the
islands ; and its quality very various. The coun-
try, which is. beautiful in itself, has derived luxu-
riance from its intercourse with the British na-
tion ; the aborigines, who but a few years, or in-
deed but a few months since, were idolaters, are
now said to be converted to Christianity ; their
idolatry is past ; their wars are at an end ; and
under the guidance of their missionary friends and
brethren, they promised to become a good and
happy people. The inhabitants of Bolabola made
Captain Campbell a present of their Deity, which
consisted of a log of wood, from five to six feet
long, and two or three inches thick, wish a num-
ber of faces carved ;you_ it. They parted with it
as a proof of their reformation.—(Calcutta Paper.)

EX ECUTlON.—.4lexander Robertson was in the
list week executed at Glasgow, pursuant to the
sentence of the High Court of Justiciary, for rob-
bing a warehouse. He mounted the scaffold with
a firm step and a calm countenance, am,l, was
turned off at his own request (being a lig'r'tf.ian)
front a considerable height, and the -crash occa-
sioned great consternation among the multitude
ASSOM blvd, supposed to be not less than 30,000.
The unhappy sufferer was only twenty-four years-
of age, had been in business on his own account,
and made a voyage to America as a merchant ;
but, soon after his return home, had got into ,bad
company. •
~,SUICIDE.--An Inquest was held yesterday, be-
. fore_ltromas SH BLTON, Esq. at the New Betblem
Hospital, Surrey-road,. on the body of Mr. Joseph
Wells, late of _lslington. - The deceased was very
much deranged at times, and frequently had lucid
. inlet yak. Ile put a period to his existence by
hanging, himself. Verdict—" The deceased ,de-
stroy,d himself, being insane at the time."
A -dreadful accident happened at Bridlington
Quay, about half-past seven o'clock on ‘Vednes-.
day evening last. ln the course of the day, Cap-
tain GRIFFIN, of the Swan revenue cutter, had
come on shore, the weather being. at that time
favourable ; but during the afternoon a smart
breeze blew in front the sea, which as the even-
ing approached increased to .a storm. At the
time fixed for their return, the Captain and seven
of his crew stepped into their boat and pushed off
:for the ship ; but they had scarcely cleared the
shore before they were dashed with awful vio-
, lence.against the pier, and in.a.moment the boat
was shivered to atoms. Four of the crew.saved
their lives by clinging to piles in the pier, but the
Captain. and three of his men, one of whom was
his.black servant, proved less fortunate, and sunk
to xis& no. more. _ _

Last week a young man, named Peter Caulfield,
happened to be on the mountain; of Kilrooney,
in the neighbourhood:of Ross-trevor, where he
saw a large eagle alight and take up a lamb in its
talons, and carry it away in a low and straight
direction towards the mountains of Mourne. The
young man pursued it, and still kept in view ; at
length, being unable to
,soar up the opposite
mountain with its prey, it.dropped it at the tour
of Ross-trevor Wood, not Jar distant from the
Quay, quite unhurt ; the lamb is still living and
doing well, Whilst carrying the lamb, the length
of the eagle's flight, in its various windings, was
upwards of two miles.

ST. JAMES'S HAY MAIMEU, APttit. 10
Hay 5l Os Od to 71 15s Od----Average, 61 Is
04
Straw
Clover Ol Os Od to 01 Os 04----Average, ul Om

WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET. ,
14
Hay 6l 6s od to 71 7s od—Average, 6, •-s oil.
Nrw
ditto -
04
Straw 3l Os od to 31 6s od—Average, 31 -,,,' 01
Clover Bl Os Od to 9! Os 04--Average, SI I.
--..

•
RAW HIDES. la
Best Heifers & Steers, per st. Ordinary .... Is Sd to Is a
2s 4d to 2s 61: Market Calf .. each .• 95_04
Middlings 9.s Od to 2s 2d Eng. Horse Os Od to °' •

k •
SHEEP SKINS. a
Polled 7s Od to 83 6d 1 Shearlings ....Os "fld t-005 a
liowi ss tid to 6s 6d 1 Lambs se Od to 4,
..----'..

P.11.10E. OF LEATHER.
Butts, 50 to 56Ibs cad! per lb
Ditto, 56 to 1;611is each
Dressing Hides
Fine Coach Hides
Crop Hides, 35 to 401bs for cutting,
.... ........................................................................................................
Ditto 45 to 50Ibs
Calf Skins.. .;t) to 401bs
Ditt0...... 50 to 701lis
Ditto 7O to solbs
Stbail Seals (Greenland)
Largc ditto per dozen
Tanned Horse Hides
Spanish Horse Hides

PRICE OF RAW FAT, pi
As stated by the Tall.Melters.
St. James's Market .. 4s 2id
Whitechapel Market 4s Ed

Average

PRICES OF TALLOW
Town Tallow 7.3 s Od —s
Yellow Russia 705 Od —s Od
White ditto .. 61s Od
Soap ditto.... 64s (al —s Od
Melting Stuff 54s —s Od
Ditto Rough.. —s Od 34s Od

erN, tone of t• 9.
As staled by the Bcdthers!.
St. James's Market ..4s
Whitechapel Market 4s
o:
Clare Market ...... 06 a
INewete Market ...•°s
Average..L . 4s 3d
SOAP, F.x. per 1121 h. an.
Yellow Soap
Mottled lOl
Cord ......... .• • 1:1
Graves .........
Good Dregs...... lu. -

PRICE•OF CANDLES, from Tallow Chandlers' 1-1,!...7y,
Price of Cahclles, per dozen, 19. s ed—Moulds,
dozen allowed for ready money•

Thursday next the prisoners who stand reti
mitted on charges of felony, will be re`,","„e%
from the several gaols in London and
to Newgate, prepgratory to their takilli
trials at the ensuing Sessions at the Old inst'
which commence on Wednesday the 21st --„s,;nela
The Sessions for Westminster will cnt,ri,:iiesa
on Monday next, and the Sessions for PlP‘a,usef
on Tuesday the 20th inst., at the Sessions "7
Clerkenwell-green.
~vttstir
On Saturday five hackney-coachmen
atoned to Bow-st'reet, to answer the conlW3-t e
t
atonedS
Mr. ADOLPHUS, the Barrister, who stated, "I: to
Tuesday evening last, having occasion t° 6E, 011
the Temple in a hurry, be sent his, servsn bat
a coach from the stand nearest his louse iord
although there were five coaches, not
could be found until be went to a Deign° f
public-house, where he found the five defen-Ltia
carousing. The coachmen, who Made
excuses, were each fined 10 shillings and Cos-

MARRIED Fr 3"
On Saturday, at St. Margaret's, Mr. Thomas „Ott
Steward, of Great Dean's-yard, to Miss Ann Flea('Or,,,vorO
daughter of Mr—Richard Wilford,
;bluster.
Ati
DIED. ~,A4, M(1'•
On Sarn,lay Isst, the second. son of HarrY-141°- '
spploa
Montague-ce. .3ge, ~ d
On Sunday last, in the fourth year of Ile:, iteyne"logi
Maria, the you: daughter of Mr. 601.,1'-instatlts .
Chancery-lane. She was taken ill on the st'' -
survived her mother only six days.
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of Deau-strecr,
?,E,ATI.V;
PROYINCIAL BIRTHS, MARRIAGES. A"."— I.'
aillers
BlttplS.
On the sth instant, at Orehardhead,Scotlan4. . f's. 32. W
artois_
of a daughter.
At Colinton, near Edinburgh, on the e3d ult. Ivirs•P
of her I.2th son.
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, DIA I ED•
At Edinburgh, on the fith iltnstant, Patrick Ro I
berGtsaA'oo4
Advocate, to Mary, daughter of the Reverend P
Ross, Minister of Kiltnanivaig orinlls3s
At Edinhuigh, on the Gtli *instant, Mr. John 13 ,
to Jessy, third daughter of tl,- 'gr. Robert Scott' • •

instant, Mrs. Mary D(7:
DILL). . lath
At her house in Geor e's 4 . , .Edinhorg, on the '-
fit Edinburgh, on the 2
Esq. Ana
Martin,Dtlggan,
E'sq.'
printer, aged 65. \dr i-idnOsi:uvaat:et of theivir. late.lt i clin: roann:Gi s a
rS:9: t g,
Lately, at his lodgings, Grattan-street, Cork, PWir4l‘'
tr itli
Lately, Edward Copping, gentleman, of Hardwic"j a
Norfolk, who was Chief Constable of Del
tilltiurc
upwards of 56 years.
Lately, at his house, in St. George's Colegatey
John Nid• E
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