The Sun.
London, England, 1828-11-25 00:00:00

iFRANKS and CO., PATENTEES for the
IMPROVEMENT of BEAVER HATS..
LONDON-140, Regent-street.
EDINBURGH-76, St. Andrew-street, South (next
Princes-street).
LONDON-62, Redcross-street.

Ilis Majesty having been pleased to sanction by Royal
Letters Patent the improved Manufacture of Hats in Braver,
of ROBERT FRANKS and Co., they most respectfully
announce to the Nobility, Gentry, and Public generally,
they have brought their Hats to that degree of perfection in
LIGHTNESS as scarcely to be felt on the head, few
weighing more than, five ounce.:; the NAP or COVERING
is made. of the shortest Beaver that can be procured, and
reduced upon the French principle, so as to have more the
appearance of a Genoa Velvet than the ordinary Beaver nap.
THE PATENT BEAVERS ARE MANUFACTURED

INTO
GENTLEMEN'S HATS LADIES' RIDING HATS
YOUTHS' Di•to Ditto BONNETS
BOYS' Ditto Ditto DRESS HATS
MI LITARY SHAMUS CHILD HEN'S BONNETS
NAVAL REGULATION Ditto HATS
HATS

LADIES BEAVERS.
Notwithstanding the large dimensions of Bonnets now
worn, few of the Extra Superfine Qualities of this Manu-
facture weigh more than four ounces, being halt' the weight
of Velvet Bonnets.
COUNTRY ORDERS.

Ladies and Gentlemen writing from the Country may
be correctly fitted by sending the circumference of their
Hats taken ever the baud in inches; where any peculiar
shape is required,.the depth of the Crown, width across the
top of the Crown, and width of Brim (or Leaf) is neces-
sary, and every direction will be regarded most minutely.

SIIIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23.—Wind W.S.W.—High
water 19 minutes past twelve..—Arrived the Ca-
nada packet, Graham, from New York ; Resolution,
NiNair, from .New York ; Richmond, Crabtree, from
Charleston; New England, Hind, from Charleston ;
, from Pernambuco; Charlotte, --,
(win Drogheda; Seneca, Pilsen, from Jersey ; Robert
Stewart, —, from Islenian.

CLEARED Our waans..--The Harmony, Ross, for
Demerara ; James, Maginnis, Lisbon ; Ivy, Robertson,
for Naples ; Edward, Libby, for Philadelphia ; Aurora,
Thorn, for Dramman ; Mary, Mann, fur Alaranham ;
Brothers, Spittal, for Brazil ; Elizabeth and Cornelia,
, for Rotterdam; Alexander, Adas, fur Sierra
Leone; Mow Castle, Cudd, for Africa ; Liverpool, --,
for Boston ; St. George, Taubman, for New York ;
Neptunus, ---, for Dordt; Mary, Smith, for Charles-
ton ; Jesus Nazarino, for Vigo; Elizabeth,
, for Demerara ; Vylt, De Vries, for Rotterdam ;
Factor, Phillips, for Valparaiso.

On Monday last two beautiful swans were
caught on the sea coast betwixt Stu&ld and Covesea.--
They were driven to the edge of the sea by the violence of
the storm, and not being able to ascend into the air from
the breakers, the one was killed by a stone, and the other
taken alive.—Elgin Courier.

We have it on the authority of a highly re-
spectable resident Magistrate, that several parte of the
County Tipperary are again falling into a most alarming
state of disturbance; insurrectionary parties are parading
the country every night, taking arms--houses have been
attacked near Thomastown and Tipperary and also plun-
dered of fire arms. Last week two Gentlemen shooting in
the latter neighbourhood, were forcibly dispossessed of
their fowling-pieces in the open day. Shots are heard every
other night, and fire arms appear to be in abundant sup-
ply with the peasantry. Many respectable families are
coming into town for the winter, afraid to remain the
long dark nights in the country. Lord LANDAFF has left
his residence at Themastuwn, and gone to Cheltenham.__
Cork Constitution.

N.B. Five Civil Medical Practitioners dead.
Total admitted. into Hospitals and medical treatment
(Civil and Military)
Dead

09
2,121

Discharged cured, and rem.,ining under medical treatment 3,583

It will be observed that this report is made up
to the sth instant, the latest possible period for us
to obtain intelligence ; the accounts which we have
received are melancholy beyond belief. About the
lath of August, it seems a fever of a most malignant
nature broke out in a district numbered 24, near
Prince Edward's Wall ; the result was a mortality
which swept away Mimic families, and crowded the
civil hospitals with patients driven thither from their
own spacious apartments to an atmosphere already
crowded with the sick, where they rapidly sank
under the distemper. About the sth of September
General Miranda, commanding at Algeziras, sent
several Spanish physicians to ascertain the nature of

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the disorder, and on the following day a cordon
sanitaire was resolved on, and established ; from the
Oar. to the 14th of September three British Regi-
mkts were encamped on the neutral ground, (a
lo4swampy situation) but continued to do the.
to duty : and the unfortunate effect of this
su . a transition may be best judged by the fact, that
frole
the hour of this encampment every guard re-
turnr)ig from town sent in from six to ten fever cases,
andin less than three weeks 071 C hundred and twenty
fine fellows, soldiers of the 12th, 42d, and 43d Regi-
ments, three of the finest corps in the service, died ;
7000 of the, inhabitants were also encamped close to
the troops, and from this encampment from 40 to
50 coffins were daily deposited in the graves. The
surface of the sand, on the neutral ground, is scarcely
three feet from the water, and the heat of the sun
causes such powerful evaporation, that after four
o'clock in the afternoon a fog arises, which in less
than
.a quarter of an hour involves the whole en-
astaknient in darkness, and completely saturates the
outar canvas of the tents ; this continues all night,
and before the morning the arms of the soldiers, their
clothes and accoutrements, are in the most wretched
state of dampness, and when the sun rises the
exhalations are in the, highest degree offensive.
The officers who have stiffered and sunk, are not in
anything like a just proportion to the men who have
fallen victims to this sad mortality, because they
have been defended through the night by the double
vitirvas of the marquees ; but even these precautions
_
havesiNen insufficient to secure them altogether.
Sir George Don has exhibited the most active kind-
ness and consideration for the sufferers, and has fur-
nished the men with boards, mattrasses, and blan-
kets; however, the long hoped-for rains will cover
this neutral ground two or three feet deep with
water, which will remain for several weeks, so that
the officers upon similar occasions are in the habit
of amusing themselves with wild duck shooting on
the very spot where the tents are now pitched. It
seems to be thought that if the troops had remained
in their barracks in town, with about 30,000 inha-
bitants encamped, the mortality would not have
been of one-fifth of its present extent; in fact, the
23d, 73d, and 94th regiments are now on the south
side of the rock, encamped on an elevated spot
(Windmill-hill and Europa flats) and in these regi-
ments the deaths do not exceed a fifth of the number
of casualties which have occurred in the regiments
encamped on the neutral ground. The general
opinion of the faculty is, that miasma prevails
more on the high grounds, over swampy land,
than in the swamp itself; but experience and
practical results -in the present case, at all
events most strikingly tend to awaken the theory.
The reason why this subject is so strongly pressed
by us, upon the notice of influential persons, is, that
although the experiment has been tried, and has
failed, it has been resolved to encamp the troops
annually on the neutral ground, a measure, which
independently of the danger to human life, will en-
tail upon Government an expense of 50,000/., in-
curred by the total destruction of the materiel of a
vast encampment, produced by the mixture of lime-
stone dust collected upon the tents with the power-•
ful dew which has before been described. But
there is another and a much more important ques-
tion to be asked, involving the subject of health
and convenience at Gibraltar—in the year 1782,
during the siege, the number of inhabitants, exclu-
sive of the Garrison, was three hundred; at this mo-
ment the number has reached thirty thousand! ! !
Talk of Don Miguel's bad accommodation for pri-
soners, or Mr. Vickery's apology to the inmates of
the House of Correction for uncomfortable apart- ,