The Sun.
London, England, 1826-11-18 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Lively frigate, Captain Wm. Elliott,• C. 8., is hourly ex-
pected here from Portsmouth, to be paid off.
In flaroom—Britannia, Windsor Castle, Thetis, and Industry
tender.

Brevet• Major Owen, late Pay Captain of the Portsmouth Divi-
sion of Royal Marines, is appointed Pay Captain of this division.
Dr. Patrick M'Ternan is appointed Surgeon of the Mariner
convict-ship (ordered to take out convicts front Cork to New
South Wales.)—Plfrtnonth journal.
Poarsmou'rn, Nov. 17.—The Spartiate is ordered to be com-
plett.sl for foreign service, with all despatch. Lisbon is supposed
to he her destination. The Dartmouth and Diathond are ordered
to be paid off at this port. The Lively has sailed for Plymouth,
to be paid off. The Romney troop ship is refitting for immediate
service. The Cordelia sloop has been fitted out at Chatham.

Commander Henry Eden has been appointed to the Herald yacht.
Mr. J. Noon has been appointed Surgeon of the Herald.
And Lieut. Henvey, late First Lieutenant of. the Herald, has
been promoted to the rank of Commander.

SulClDE.—Yesterday week, George Thomas, shoe-
maker, formerly or this town, who was acquitted on the ground
of insanity at the York Lent Assizes iu 1824, of the wilful murder
of his infant
.child, by drowning him in a tub of water, put a
period to his existence in York Castle, by rutting his throat in an
dreadful a manner as nearly to sever his bead from his body ; an
inquest was held mum the body, when ate Jury found a verdict
of insunity.—Leeqs Intelligeneer.

Day,aDruL Sutettw.—A more determined act of self-
destruction than the one we are about to relate is seldom to be
met with. On Sunday mottling last, a respectable looking young
man arrived in Oxford, by the 'Worcester mail, front London, and
immediately ordered a chaise, and proceeded to Dorchester, where
he paid the post-boy, and discharged hint ; it appears he then
tvent by a circuitous runt to Shillingfi►rd Midge, and having taken
off his coat, he cut his throat with a razor, and then threw him-
self into the river. The razor with which he perpetrated the hor-
rid deed was found on the bank with his coat and hat, and the
body was soon after discovered. It since appears that his wife
and two children were at an inn, at Basingstoke, to whom be
had written two letters by the previous night's post, stating that
he .had gnat a weight on his mind, that be could bear it no longer ;
and that his body would be found within a few yards of Shilling-
ford Bridge. Upon the receipt of these letters, the landlord at
Basingstoke immediately set off, and when he arrived at Streatly,
he was informed of the dreadful event having taken place. A co-
roner's inquest was held on the body, and the Jury reterned
verdict, "Found drowned." We have been informed, that the
unfortunate young man is a native of this town ; but as we are
not certain .of this, we decline mentioning his name.— Oxford
journal.

TUE DANGYA ov TAKINa SALTS,—Late on Wednesday
evening, an inquest was held in Clirtone-street, Marylebone,
before Thomas Stirling, Esq., coroner, tn enquire into the circum-
Bootees of the death of Mr. John Bacon, late of Reading in Berk-
shire, who died suddenly on Tuesday morning. It appeared that
the dammed arrived in Londen from Reading, on Monday morn-
ing, and went to the house of his win-in-law, Mr. Wm. Cook, of
Gray`e-inn-htne, Where he eat two fresh herrings, and left about
'Aner o'clock in the afternoon, to go to the house of Mrs. Eliza-
beth Clifton, another of his daughters, residing at No. 28,
1 !pper
Charlton-street, Fitzroy-square, where he arrived about ft o'dock ;
'about an hour after, he complained that be felt unwell, aml shutild
like to take some malts. An ounce was procured fns him, and he
took it about six o'eloek in the evening. It did not operate, and
the 4raased'heearne very restless, and complained to Mos. Clifton,
who recommended him to take some castor nil, which wag accord -
ingly l'''`ured- and taken, but did not produce the desired effect.
Betwegn five and six o'clock on the following morning, be became
dangerously ill, and Mrs. Clifton and family being alarmed, sent
fur Mr. Stratford Alford Eyre, a surgeon, who found the deceased
hut he made trips that he felt great pain in his bowels.
Zeer.etll7,l;P returned to his residence, at the earnest desire of the
deceased's daughter, to procure some medicine, although he was
convinced when he left thehousv, that the deceased was then dying,
and on his return, in a very, short time, found that he had ceased
rlie,i by the
ufantshehrulaseti
t,-(,)
vtuirytist
itte
or
fvitelwodir.tg„,.....th: body,
nanmvii
taw
erftytuoteniehd a verdict,
=t wait stated in the inquest-
living, at the extra-
or oor,dima,artyll atit4tvlatel4:lveir
aasseedu'af