The Sun.
London, England, 1817-02-11 00:00:00

SHIP NEWS,

EXTRACT OF A LETTe,R FROM THE AG7NT TO
. LLoyD'S AT BUENO,i AYRES, DATED 25TH NO..
vi,.mnee, 1816.
g‘ 'The : Portuguese brig Pensamento
sailififtedinilicuce for Rio Janeiro on the Bth inst.
with'Weirka'of hides and tallow, and was cap-
:
fitredllit 'same day by the Banda Oriental privateer
Induslria, and carried into Colcmia del Sa'era-
mento, where the cargo has been landed. On the
.23d hist: the Banda Oriental privateer Industr,a
and Dreadnought were cruising iu sight of this
port, with the view of intercepting the Portuguese
trade bound to this"place. It is said that a brig is
fittTi)iOni at Monte Video to cruise off Rio Ja-
e.r11:1 •
nem) The Portuguese squadron remain inactive'
11 at ,la `l"opado. An action of import has taken
place between ARTIGAS and the Portuguese
troops, which ended in favour of the former. The
Portuguese trade is freely admitted into this port,
and we do not hear there is any intention on the pert
-of this Government to molest them. The schooner
Leonidas, prize to the Hercules and Havock, was
captured a considerable time.sinee, and was fitted
out by them to crake against the Spanish trade
on the coast of C till, and_ in
,whielt she had no
success :.--she-brings ,no later intelligence of Ad-
miral BROWN'S squadron than what we stated to
have been received by the prize ship Consepien-
cia. A trader from Mendoza, however, states,
that advices had been received from the coast of.
Chili of Admiral Items's:, with the Hawk and
Hercules, having captured the Spanish ship Mi-
nerva, from Limit, very valualaly laden that be
hurl succeeded in selling the Cargo he bad trans-
shipoed from the Consequencia on board the
liewk on the coast of Chili ; that he bad after-
wards proceeded to and refitted at Otalreite ; and
that from thence he had gone to the Port of
Choco, in the Province of Pupagan, where she'
was with the squadron when the last 'accounts lett
that place. It is understood here that the private
vessel. of war Congress goes off Bahia with the
view of intereeptin several Spanish ships lying
there, and in the event of her not succeeding,will
..ernu!,• •
proceed to the coast of Spain : she has about 100
men on board. The Spanish brig Leonides, from
St. Jago de Cuba, bound to Cadiz with a cargo of
cotton, sugar, and .coffee, was captured off Cape
Finisterre by the private vessel of war Mammoth,
alias -La Independencia del .Sud,. about three
months ago. 'The Mammoth had captured four
other vesseli, two of which were given up, and
the others ordered fur. this port. It is said that
the Mammoth intended to proceed to the United
States to refit. There has been new regulations
issued by this Government for 'priVateering, of
which et copy is herewith annexed.
" Nor. 26.—Arrived the Spanish ship La I'ri-
meira, prize to the Mammoth, alias Indepen-
dencia (lel Sud, captured off Gediz ; she was front
the.tiavanna, and chiefly laden with sugar. The
Prize-master reports, that the Mammoth had in
all captured 19 vessels, all of which were ransom-
ed, except four, and that the Maar moth had pro-
ceeded to the United States...

Dane, FEB. 10.—Arrived the Thetis, l'Ave,
"rom Jamaica, in 15 weeks, with the loss of

►wizen-n►ast, boat, sails, &c. ; and Emperor, LA.,
TaN, from Rovigno. CAme down from the River
thelaue, f►►r Jamaica; James, an►i Charlotte, fur
and ,Swift, fur St. Aliehacl's.—Wind
N 117.1

Sr. IVPI. FRB. —Aniveil last evening the
Sophia, MAItiKIN, of Hull, from Dublin to Lon-
don, with provisions, with loss of sails and other

atbeigC.

DOVER, FEB. 10.—Arrived off here the Ja..
maica, 13nowN, from Batavia, in sixteen weeks
and four days.

The number of supernornerlay lions in the Navy
ro be redared.

The Bacchus, Captain IV. MI., arrived at
Calcutta an the 20th August—four mondoi from
st►ithead.

The Eridanns, 42, Captain W. KING, sailed
on Thiirsday
,from Portsmouth, and the Ilope,
Captain JAUNCIIY, fin Friday, on, cruises.
Saturday sailed from Portsmouth, the Pictost
schooner,' Lieut. MORGAN, for. -Corti. The ship-3
at Spithead arc —Conqueror, Leander,
chill.--111 the harbour—Queen Charlotte, Koch-
fort, Irengeur, Itivoli (paying off), Larne, Cyrus,
Priiirote, Tyrian, and Sydney.
. The- Ilritomart, Hon. Captain PERCRVAL, is in
future-to be attached to the Plymotith station.
Sir DAI'ID Muria re-hoisted his flag on Wed-
'testily it, the Leander, 56, Captain CHET/LIAM,
for North America.

Theinstitiais to be broken op the Weser and
Miegara have been sold at Portsmouth. The
Eurotas (a nearly new frigate) has hewn brolien
up, and the Afrivaine and Indian sold at Dept.
ford. The PrintrOse and,Tyrinit are taken into
dock, to be repaired.for service in the West Indies,
Thelyne was paid. off on Friday. The Zealand,
64, 'fitted tip for the reception .of the convicts at
Sheerness, is to be called the Retribution.

The fOrloWitig Gvhderneh were yestert7 called
El the Der by the Hon. 6ociety of Lincoln's bilL:
A. hAval.n. Esq., 0. FlARGreumfe, Lq., Q.
I'IELYAR. ESQ.. S_ Rrttv's n 4.

'flll 1;J1 FOR OF THE SUN.

SECOND bETT Ell.

I►ublishecl my first Letter

give- me sufficient rtssimince to tl'Onhle with
another ;—it is merely to g,re you the stlbsianee
of a Cou'veliatioit after dinner yesterday 'with the
Vic o. of our parish., a ‘voithy, intelligent, but
not over talkative geutleinaii upon gencial sub-
jt:eti. Alter nay husband had diieusil
nt4tiel4,. and rung the changes upon ativae, re•
forth, corr,iptloo, and reirenci►ntenl ah aten
and us' tediously as the liuvrA do the saute
eliftnes, the poor lutes, as one of the sith•

•
jeers of lax►tio anti grievanee,, came upon
the tank. You may be sure that the fonreabi-
,
listteal wo:d swere vehemently and incessantly
applied to them with onlyiriag triumph. At
'length tour taciturn Vicar, ia,better langrmge than
I can'tleacrine, remarked, that he lameoted the
necessity of poor Mites,' not so 11111 Ch toe the ex-
pellee git them,which were peaty. enough in all
conscience, as for the degradation into which
tkey hall thrown the peasantry of the country,
ant; d'estroying that spirit of independence amom4
them which was once the boast and the 'strength
of the country, acknowledgetithat the Poor
La,•...'s were not the original- occasion of degrad-
ing the feelings'of the poor, because helves old
. enntigh to remember the labourer's honest .pride
in exulting that lie had brought up a large family
without opplging to the Palish; but since the %veil
-meant oaackery of soup and other subscriptions,
not tot particular rdiel, but indiscriminate refuge
for those who dill and those•wlso did not Want,
nArll4l bileoess had got the hitter of honest in-
dt till the poor man applied to the
parish, hist with a bMsh, theo with open assor-
mice, and now with iusolent effrontery--arts) even
t hiswould have wino trway, mot the ohispirit,soight
have, revived, if the tanners, Whit wet e.ibetore
emitting eisott,:ll, had not grown moreiniwing
by agricult oral froeicties and publient Avhich
1 of producing the intended good, had
come the cure and the bane of the nation ; how'
does this apply to: pool. Estes you impatiently say,
, bold a little Mr. Htlitor, you are as impatient,as
my husband tells inc Vitinell always,
are—l ton coining to that point, have but it little
patience. The Vicar went on to say,,after many
.intitruptions from. my good man, such at Lbave
just given, yost a taste of,---the couutry, pastabes
oecnpy the lur.gcst space, and the greatest porOun
•..of population ; i,t them the farmers . art-the
ma'tragers of this poor rate,-7-they,pay their
labourers low.wages knob:plate to the Wolk per-
formed awl she sooport of their families, tlre're-
sisllie is• paidnut of the potil.irates, and the-poor
min of these degenerate days don't care under what
steal:: . it conies, so that he has the money. Upon
a snrrtierill view., the innotr only ret:4 us With
one hAnd what he disburses with the other; but,
that is not the' Rape, Among those who iiay in a
very large. sod disproportionate degree so these
rates are. the clergy, who keep few labsturers—
then these are. the ;;entry with as fete—the
keeper twirls none—the retired ott smith I I"."Pcrty,
the-aged and infirm oh very.scmity nie4ll,---011 of
whom pay to those rates out of which the tanner
gives a portiou of the wages'he rioght to pay Out-
of his 0011 pocket. • 'Ellis wants Hamm and Re-
trenchment, says my husband, and is abuse anti
cortup.-trite, itocrrupted the Vicar, and u reforn►.
is already. to be found in the existing Laws, as
other, reforms are. There is a Statute enabling:
the Magistrates. In their petty ats Well-as.ga4SPII
5eSSiOliS to settle the price of !Autt for, tkiiir;ilis-
trict or couniy.,--though ancient it is not obsttltve;
and it IS noW an imperious duty in them
to stand manfully forward, to rescue the labourer
from this degradation, to reform his mitpl, to put.
down this abuse and corruption, and to retrench
the coormoits, and unnecessary expenditure of the
poor rates.—My buslvtud started st little at this,
and, being a Mat..''istrate, began hemming. and,
grottoitig a little ;'but the Vicar proceeded,;.
know this would range a Stliall degree of.odinntst...
first, but at true patriot is ashamed of fearingtit;; .
and I will venture to assert, on the credit:o4.4o-
lemnity of my professional character, thatittelorin
in this case wrothd iio a more effectual, lasting, and
honourable good than all the wild reforms at.-10P-
don speculation.—Sir, said he, addressing my.
bush:toil entphatica'ily I call upon you to propoSe
this refot us to your Bench, before yon engage.in
that -of the stale. " Pall the •mote out of your -
own.eye before yost as tempt to take tile beam trorn
anothers ;" nosh then he muttered a sort of sacred
dedication, as if he had just tinisbed Isis sermon.
'Though tae subject was not quite so interesting
to me at millioery—yet, nut- jost :then twit% a
Ilontsce to retrends„,or 'chill to reform, :I nttcUd
et! rasher earnestly to it, and having the Winne of
half an hour, prefer scribbling to you rather than:
my. 1)1411; iit-in,dicr,---Messni.. Hoot anti Cobbett
are' f,irraers I believe ; pray recommend Ole sub-
ject to them. l should like to hear, the latter
Gentlemao's opinion, brat is Isis real and not his
trmtelliug, opinion,. on thcslegradation of- the poor
man, throng!' woos and subscriptions, and though
hist blot least,. throng!) the present management, of
the Poor Rates. Yost see, :Mr. Editor, lam be._
glossing to be it politician, but don't toternito,tun-
tibiae in, the sysient when not out of lea;slitig,,,
strings; as airily, sturdy, silly,' overweening
doess-I stun, it, your't,

CLLIA.

, ,
Edward Goodspeed, tt constable of tile patient or
St. Affitrew, floinpro, wits charged yesteulay rtt
tltL l'olioe Office, liatttn),,gattien, by Join' Man-
ley, foie of the hearnesmi tootle parish. with
terming to attend at the Watch-tantse..l as ht wos.
reirtired • 1 (.4 do. his •of constabic. T.he,-
ctiorge being joined, lie was cotiVii.:tco
many of '2.oc, tosts. ,

Saturday mons it.; its suitte lAbourent
‘eurit, digging the fonut;itituf for a house, near the
• ITition'puldie-tutita', Ktguivge• wag, -they (hilt up
a human sit4elototi,. stipirtyicti CO be ittle hotly Di 'a,
putt, but ‘vheria•t• ht was itturtkrtal,..or bow it'
came to be t6re, i s4ot klloWitV