The Sun.
London, England, 1821-08-14 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING, &c.

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Pots t3arotrTir., A up. I3.—Wind S.S.W.Came into
Harbour his Majesty's ship Euryalus flom Spithead, to be paid
off. Sailed, the Mary, Tyren, for Sheerness ; and Medusa,
Hutchinson, for the Eastward.
SHEET:NE:4s, AUG. 13.—Sailed. from Standote Creek for
London, the Turkish frigate Diana, Capt. Cavilla.
FALMOUTH, AUG. ll.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived
y tar-
day the Duke of Kent packet, with a- mail, from Lisbon ; the
Ex-Neapolitan General WTET.Tom PErE came passenger in
her. Sailed the Doris frigate for South America, and tne.fol-
lowing packets with mails :—Lady Arabella, for Lisbon ; Fox,
for the Mediterranean ; and Nocton, for the BraziLS.
DEAL, Ann. I3.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived and sailed for
the River the Thomas Boach, Mach; and Beaufort, &Malvin,
froM Jamaica; Peggy, Hunter, from Quebec; Nelson, Camp-
bell, front Cape Breton; Lavinia, Brooks, from Brazils; and
Juno, Hutchinson, from Havre; the two latter remain. Came
down from the • River and remain the Robert Edwards, Sher_
burne, from New York; British Tar, Palmer, for St. John's,
N. B. • Kingston, Binnev, for Halifax ; Cyprus, Nicholson,
for Malta ; and Elizabeth, Mather, for Messina.
PLYMOUTH, Ann. IL—Sailed the Dotis frigate for South
America ;.and the Helicon for Milford. Earl Spencer arrived
here on. Sunday, from Ryde. James Ley, Esq. Banker, of '
Bideford, has purchased Durrant, the elegant seat of Admiral-
Sir Richard Keats, K.C.B. Nine small tenements were burnt
down on Sunday last, at Newton Abbott and Newton Bushell,
by accident.

The ship British Amy, Stevens master, from %marl, laden
with timber, for Portsmouth Dock-yard, arrived there on
Wednesday, and was released from quarantine on Thursday.
Mr. W. 11. 11. N. Mills,rand _Mr. E. J. Armstrong, Mid-
shipmen, of his Majesty's ship Spey, are prome:ed to the rank.
of Lieutenants.

THE STOLEN CIIIIDREN.—The account of the
abduction of two children, named BENJAMIN and
GEORGIANA lIAWTHORN, which appeared in our
Journal of Thursday last, led to their restora-
tion, as will be seen by the followinf, letter :
To Mr. Hurrill, Boot and Shoemaker, 311, Goodge-street," and
Upper Ogle-street, Marylebone.
Billesdon, near Leicester, Aug. 12.
Sia--llaving seen in the newspapers. that a Mrs. Hurrill ap-
plied to the Magistrates at Hatton-garden to recover two Of her
children who were surreptitiously taken away from her, I have
to inforirr you that I have them now in safe etiatody in Mlles-
don, and have committed the impostor to Leicester gaol. If
you, or any one duly empowered by you, will come for them,
I will deliver them up, and you- must determine how to pro-
ceed against the offender. My direction is " The Rev. Dr.
Tiaismasl Billesdon, near Leicester."
(Signed) EDWARD THOMAS.
The poor-mother, we understand, has been-
compelled to make away with every article she
was possessed of, in order to defray the expences
incurred •by her husband in travelling in pursuit
of her children, and is now, therefore, without
the means of going down to Leicester to reclaim
them.

The contract made for 600 quarters of wheat
on Thursday last, for Government, was at 1.51. 10s.
per load—a mouth since the same was obtained
at 121. 10s.

Among the many relics, indicating the transi-
tory character of human greatness, which the
convulsions of late years have scattered over the
earth, and, in numerous instances, far from the
situations they originally embellished, we recol-
lect none which have interested us so much as
a family picture, painted under the direction,
and but a very short while ago, the property of
CHIUCTOPHE, the ill-fated Monarch of _Hayti.
It is, in fa ct, a group of portraits, representing his
sable MAJESTY, the QUEEN, the PRINCE ROYAL,
and the 9. daughters of CHRIS ropur, ; possessing,
we understand, great fidelity of resemblance, and
certainly conveying very favourable impressions of
the personal appearance of the ci-devant KING
and his family. The countenance of CIIRISTONIE,
we particularly observed, while it most unequivo-
cally displays that rigidity of purpose, which we
know to have formed the strongest feature in
his singular character, is far from uapleasing, and
is equally remarkable for possessing no traces
of that sanguinary disposition, for which he was,
at least, as notorious. The ex-queen is a good-
humoured looking personage, as tine as the repre-
sentation of diamonds and lace in profusion can
make her : the elder of her two daughters has
handsome features : those of her sister are not so
good, and have withal a considerable spice of the
vixen in them : in the appearance of the Prince
Royal, who perished in the revolt, there is no-
thing at all worthy of remark. The picture.
which is a very respectable performance, in its
present state, is about five feet in breadth, and
three in heigl►t, and is the production of an
English artist of the name of EVANS, who went
out under a liberal engagement, to fill the office
of portrait painter to the sable Monarch. In the
devastation of the Royal Palace, it was rudely
torn from its splendid frame, and was purchased
by its present owner for a dollar! The canvas
was of course mutilated, and a figure of a black
cherub, descending to crown the brows of tilt
llaytian King with a wreath of laurel, so much
injured as to be incapable of restoration. The
only other peculiarity about this picture to which
we have not adverted, is the costume of Chris-
tophe, which is a plain British naval uniform.
with a star on the left breast. Altogether, we
may safely pronounce the performance unique.
and fertile in associations of the strangest kind.
It is now in the possession of Captain MAXTON,
of the King Henry; of this port.—(Greenach
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