The Sun.
London, England, 1810-11-05 00:00:00

!SCOTLAND,

A. Letter from a correspondent at Loclifiaesid,
gives the following good account of the h&rring
fishery there :--;For the last six or seven weeks,
_there has been a -tolerable trade on the Ciinan
Canal. It -is chiefly • vessels going to, attic coming
from the hetting whit h in the North
Pighlands, has been uncommonly •good, this year,
anti still continues. For some weeks, the fishing
iu Lochfine has been pretty good,•. and still .aey
are getting some very fine herrings, much better
than those first caught. One small .beat, belong-
ing to two men, drew- the other night, '461. for
one night's fishing, and some othersdn the neigh-
bourhood have had very good success.
On Thilrsday se'nnight, his Majesty's :ships
Emerald and Saldanha, commanded by Captains
Maitland and Stuart (son of the hero of Maida)
anchored in Loughswnly, and sailed thence early-
On Sunday morning upon a cruize. A melancholy
accident happened on board the Emerald just be-
fore her arrival in Loughswilly : the Fi!-st Lieu-
tenant was crushed ',to death by one of the guns
,breaking loose. His remains were interred with
great solemnity, by the crews of the two ships, on
Saturday last, Fahan church-yard.
In' the garden of Mr. Roth well, of Harraby,
there is a great natural curiosity ; a jargonelle pear
tree in full blossom, also a fine apple tree, of the
species tpurtnonly >distingoishe3 by the name of
the black pippin, in full blossom, for the fourth
time this year, and has borne this "year no less three
sep nate crops'of fruit, viz. at Spring, Midsuminer,
and Autumn.

EDINBURGH, Nov,2.—A most lamentable acci-
dent happened in the neighbourhood of Peal',
Sunday Morning,' about nine o'clock. The Hon.
Captain Francis Hay Drummond, of Cloinlix, only
brother to the Earl of Kinnoul, in croz,sin4 the
Earn by a ford, 01) which the water had . been
deepened by the rain of the preceding eveniug, was
thrown ,froar his*horse into the r ver, where he pe-
rished. Iris conjectured,. trorn r'..e report Of a boy,.
who w,as in the Deighbun, horse hav-
ing goy beyond hiS Captain Drurnmond kept
back„lvhile-fie'swain bit Was unseated
.ip-thCviolent struggles of the terrified zinitnal to. get I.
tip the bank at a steep and OntavourAdeplace. Cap-
tain Drummond had §pvnt the preceding
,day With
Lord Iluthven, at his seat of Freeland,:andWas_pre-
Vented. by the badness of the evening fro,.n return-
ing, as he intended, to. Dupnlin Castle, where he'
lately arrived on a visit tb nis brother, after e`scaping
the dangers of lA'ar, both-in Walcheren and Porttt-
gal.- 'lt) the morning he was anxious to gq-h9nle
betimes, ?that he might accotni any his brOther ro
chute

LONG•EVITY.—Died, lately at Inverharitv, iii- the.
parish of Glenisla,- and county of Forfar, at the acl-
vanced age of .115., C310'611411 Robertson, •a, Tour.
wino'. She had lived in this parish almost from
her infancy; 'and her chief employment was. .knit-.
ging stockings, and by‘ be: own -industry, with. the,
aid of the benevolent : among whom she lived,. she
subsisted tolerably, tilt about 12 or 14 yeais ago,
when she began to go about begging, which, prac-
tice she continued till within, a week or two of her
death, and bore a good moral character all her, life-
time. She had no relations in that part of the coun-
try, and was never married, so that she, was indebt-
ed to the friendly aid of a benevolent public tor au'y
comfoi is 'she enjoyed. Her great age,- while it proves
that she-had been a temperate regular liver, demon-
strates at the same time the wholesomeness- of the
climate in that district, where she had reached. such
an advanced period.

A Gentleman 'who arrived at Ystadt, from St.
Petersburg'', has
.communicated sortie interesting
particulars respecting the Ex-King of Sweden. It
has already been stated, that on the aniv,l, of 'this
Monarch at Polangen, intimation was immediately
conveyed to Petersburg'' of it,
,and instru6tions
sought.' The messenger who was charged with the
dispatch, was detained four days in the Russian ca-
pital ;
,Alexander probably fluctuating between the
wish of yielding this unfortunate Sovereign an;
asylum, and thefears Of sundering, by So doing, the
existing but precarious* relations of aunty with,
France. Having come to is decision, he diSpatched
a Nobleman high in 'his confidence to greet the
'Swedish MonarCh in his name, and pay him every
personal attention. The progreis of Gustavus from
Polangen -to St. Petersburg'', was marked by the
most flattering diatin6lions. On his arrival he had'
Several interviews with--.Alext.m"der,. and at one of
them the Russian Autocrat proffered him an asylum
in any part of his dominion: Gustavus- is stated to
have declined this offer With suitable acknOWledg--
merits ; declaring that, in the'present degraded state
of his country, and of the blind submission of the
Continent to the will of the French RulLr, he had
no intention of continuing in Russia, but that his
only wish at present was, to Obtain a*safq annitipeedy
conveyance to England. Alexander dechiLd at
.
fording 4nin any facilities to carry his design into
exeCution.; but intimated; that during his stay in
his territories,' his conca& should not be impeded
either by restraint or-übservation.:

We are sorry to observe, that the Yellow Fever
has raged With considerable 'violence on the. Island
of Cuba, and that several vessels coming from the
Havannah bave lost numbers of their crew by that
afflicting disorder. Saturday night's Gazette con-
tains an Order in Council, for obliging all vessels
coining from the infeeted places to perform quaran-
tine.

The Grand Duke of FRAN KFCRT has ordered, that,
frOm the Ist of January next there shall be only one
newspaper published in his dominions.. It is to
.be
entitled the.' Gazette of the Grand Dochy of Frank-
fort,' and to be edited by a person appoinied by.the.
Minister of Police, and under his censorship.
It is a circumstance highly honourable to this, or
to any other Government, that a French seaman,
who was taken in a privateer in the-West Indies,
was liberated and sent to his native country,. to one
of the late cartels for Morlaix, because, on his pas-
sage from the West Indies, in the Fyllt,t, he jumped
overboard and saved the life of a British seaman,
who had accidentally fallen horn the yard!.arm.