The Sun.
London, England, 1826-05-08 00:00:00

REJECTED EPIGRAMS.

relieved.

(We congratulate ourselves and our Headers upon receiving
another communication from our valued ,Correspondent. We hope
that in spite of all the rebuffs of whiclithe omplains, ho will not
be deterred from the.prosecution of bis laudable undertaking. We
'agree with the old though vulgar Age, that "good words, never
buttered anY' Poe/40.7 T 4.3 flunry speeches of the" country
Gentlemen will never till,the bellies of: our needy brethren with
bread.- —nor will their mealy mouthed discourse Convince the starv-
ing numuNcturers of thcintpolicy of making corn cheap.—En.]

7Wltt. Eof'roß.—Yotr cannot imagine bow many
rebuffs:and black looks I have met with in endeavour-,
ing to,pursue,l4 favourite plan of collecting from the
different newspapers the Epigrams which their Editors
had rejected. I have also become an object of sarcasm
with the witlings who buzz about these offices, They
call me the Comet, because, as they say, I collect fuel
for the 'Sun. Upon calling this morning at .a certain
Office in 'the Strand; the Editor put the following Epi-
gram into my hand; observing, that its political senti-
ment was incompatible with his creed ; but, adds he,
I give the Sun credit for independence; it shines
alike upon the just and the iin,just. The fruits of the
earth, I trust, will become fertile by-its powers ;. and I
hope that the measures of the Ministers will not avert
its prolific influence ; it will therefore suit your pur-
pose, and you are welcoMe to give it insertion.
These County Members are the people's bane,
Their words are floury, but their cry 'a no Grain,
The Lords are worse—How shall we then he fed ?
By courting Hume—lds notions are low bread.
'Tis from the ground 4,our nourishment must spring,
Then hail your friend, and " Humi tutus" sing.

,
WELSH SOLDIERS.--The merits of the Ancient
British Feneibles, or, as termed in Ireland, " Sir Watkin's
Lambs," are doubtless registered in the gratitude of their. country,
And need nu further laurels. One anecdote, hoWeVer, I may be
pardoned for relating.—About two Months after the rebellion was
supposed to be over, we were encamped at LoughlinStoun, about
7 miles from Dublin, reported unfit for service,. Another . at-
tempt of the rebels was on foot, and troops sent out to meet them.
Orner4 (afterwards Lord) Lake was then in command, and he
declared lie must have mane of the Ancient' Britons with him ;
and, 1%. 01 the greatest difficulty, about 60 men and horses, with
itecoutalnents complete; were mastered for the purpose. Sir
Richard Puleston was the Lienteiraa-Coloul of that gallant little
regiinent, which was raised and comm;futl I.y that gallant Welib-
man, Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, and in which. I had the hOri
our of being-a jolly ...1- ul tl ;1 t ` (my. =.-1,112...1.1'1, 0: our iflicors and privates
were killed in the Irish rehellion.of 1795, and full mme-half were
killed or wo nded. Sir hichard'S charger waykilled %puler him,
at the battle 9f Gamow, and his lift! way duly saved by. the intre-
pidity of a a Ible-boy of his own, who brought him a led-horse,
through the fire...-Nimrod.—Sporting Magazine.

NAV,AL INTMLIGENCE.

(From the Hampshire Telegraph.)
llis Majesty's yacht the Herald, on her arrival from Malta,
which is daily expected, will be fitted to attend upon his Grace
the Duke of Devonshire, during his visit at St. Petersburgh, an

the oteasion of his Imperial Majesty's ctironation. Capt. A. W.
Jas.'Clifford, C. B. will take the command of the Herald for this

apecial.service. •
The Pandora, IS, • Captain 'Jervoiae,- for the East Indies put
into Port Praya, St. Jago,:tregetoyettintfint the 6th of January.
Being heavily laden with starm,o4 Kguid9f rather a had passage.
On the 14th of December the tdliiiiVa.i-C.ing/ht in a white squall,
which laid her down and tillett Ate v'vido'f with water, when the

gunner, with great-prestmee of mind, cut- away the fore-sheet, a!!(-1
let fly tho main and mizen topsail *beets, and she righted. On the
19th of December,' in lat. 46.51.1 N., and lutig. 6. 41. 4tV.,' she

experieueed a dreadful gale from S.W.' From three till ol6ven

p.ru; their fate was doubtful;; but on cutting, away, two, anchors
from the bows, and throwing two guns overboard, the kip was

The prevailing. north-east winds, no doubt, have prevented
Foreign arrivals at this port during the last fortnight, several

Ships from fbteign Stations being daily expected. At Spithead :
Dryad, for Rio Janeiro ; anti the Talbot, for Sheerness. In the
harbour :....Victory, and'Spartiate, guardships; Ganges,
for South America; Ariatine, forythe Mediterraneau; Espiegle,.
fur the West Indies; Heron, for South America; Contest, for
North America; Arrow, Dwarf, Asp, and Cracker, nutters, 'for
Channel service. ' • • • ; :
Appointments to .the Quarantine Service at. Milford
James George, to the Akbar ;"' Lieut. Robertson, to the Santa
Margaretha; Mr. Robert Salisbury, master, to the Hannibal vMr.
John Davis, master, to be first mate of the guard vessel ; Pr. ;4,
Williams, to be second mate and clerk. .

A patent has been taken out by Lieutenant Molyneux Simld-
ham, R. N. for a new method of working the sails of 'veisels,
by which manual 'labour is lessened to its: •' minimum."

This is effected by causing the masts:,to revolve on pivots, or,
for greater security, on circular sweeps. The masts may
be similar to ordir ry riiaafe, with' a standing rigging, but
it is preferred to construct them with three, four, or five
poles, forming the .outlines of .a..pyratriid; their lower ends
being secured to cross.treca, whit;h. become the base of the
pyramidal mast, and their upper ends united at the top to a block
of wood, composing either a cape to receive a top-mast, or a mast
head, according: to the nature of the rig—ad the yards and sails
are affixed within the pyramidal mast, and revolve with it. Fly
this arrangement, all the standing rigging, and almost the whole
of the working gear of a square rigged vessel are dispensed with,
and it is in the power of the man at the helm alone, without any
aid whatever, to put the vessel about. In fore and aft rigged yes-
eels the disagreeable and oftentimes dangerous expedient of jibing
the sail, is dispensed with ; as, for instance, in wearing a cutter,
the bowsprit would be brought round over the stern. A vessel
of five tons burthen, lugger rigged on this plan, will be at Ports-
mouth, in a few days, from Salcombe, and will pass up the Arun-
del, Canal to London, by which the invention will be fully exem-
plified ; her lugs will not require dipping, and the sails are re-
duced by reef bands attached to the foot of each. The plan is
well adapted to casting and other week-handed vessels navigating
in intricate.chennels.
Sumtateess, May 6.—His Grace the Duke of Devonshire has
been expected to embark on board the Gloucester this day. The
ship is fitted up in a state 'of superior elegance and splendour.
The fine band of .the Royal Marines is embarked, and with a
guard of honour, limn the,, same corps, accompanies his Grace
to St. Petersburgh. Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Moortsom has
been on board all this dey in waiting tie receive'his Grace.
DRVONVORT, May 5.-... Yesterday, a Court.lllaitild was held
on board his Majesty's ship Britannia, in Hamoue, Captain ED-
WARD Duaisvonn XING, of his Majesty's ship Windsor Castle,
President, for thetrial of Jelin Fox, a seaman belonging to his
Majesty's ship Blonde, for striking Mr. , Charles .Hopkins,
Mate of that ship, while ..,in the execution of his duty,: on
the 25th day of April last. The Court having heard the
evidence in Slipped bf the' 'Charge; es well 'as what the
loner had to urge defence; were unanimously of opinion,
that the charge agaipat,ttre, prisoner had been proved, and
did adjuth!:e bins, the said John; Ilex, to suffer'theath. The pri-
soner the sentenCerelativilth:6lmtiessecompostire and firm.
new ; the itetiutwitiadnuag:ft*i.tiieZnart, his feelings
On this nwitwelinit
.and a7kl eccasion could no longer h, re-
strained ;—and he tout bitterly. lblr wlw recalled into the
Court-room, where he was shut up far refew. minutes with the
MernberiOitM when he returned he seemed somewhat composed;
though bisrountetranefibetemytAltgre FRpish. . :, •
;The priseinr4 tyhFox, is a remaykzildy fine looking young
Man, about g 4 yeers:eglig ; and4hreiiri.serit commaniling-Officer,,
Lieut. Balloiiihdf }Mende; with Attlitrs, gars him the, highest
character:for,eohtiety,:tultivitwattention to his duty, and respect-
ful conduct, an all occasions, till the time whenthis unfortunate
circumstance occurred. •
Another Court. Martial : was immediately assembled, for: the
trial of Mr. Charles Hopkins, Mate of the Blonde, for strik-
idg the above John Fox, seaman of that ship, on the 25th of
April last.
Mr. Hopkins, in au Ole and well-written defence, stated that
he had no wish to vindicate, but to extenuate his conduct, by a
recapitulation of his long, faithful, and zealous services, and of his
general character fur hurnanity, which were ,eubetantiated by the
evidence of officers of the first respectability in the service ;
among, whom Captains Pyin, Paseo, and Lord William Paget,
bore testimony (in Court) to hie great merits, to his general cha-
racter for mildnesi, fiiibearatice, andliuntanity, and to his gen-
dem/tidy canduet.-
The Court having heard the evidence iu eupportof the pro-
seetution, as well as what the prisoner had to laiidngdifodr;rtedthicen.
his defence, were unanimously of opinion, that the elitirgea had
been proved against the said Charles Hopkins,
him to be severely reprimanded.
Wind N.E., fine• neither.--Sailed the Nightingale cutter,
Lieut. Kitchen. In b"Tbonr—Britannia,Windsor Castle, Aurora,
Java, Blonde, Forte, Success, Trinculo, and Vigilant cutter.---.
Between the Island and Main—Philomel and Beagle. In the
Soned—Cameliort.
The Aurora, Captain Maxwell, ,ia fitting, fur the West
anti will take out a tank-vessel for Jamaica.
The Blonde, Lord Byron, will be ready Tor sea in i• few (WS,
and when finished, will proceed to the eastward.
The Java is nearly ready for sea, anti when manned, she will
proceed to the East Indies.
DevoNroax, May Philomel and Camden sloops;
and arrived the William and Mary yachte.
APPOINTMENTS.

Mr. J. M.- Coffin and Mr. E. W. Polkington have been pro-
moted to the rank of Lieutenant, into death vacancies in. the
Boa Alicea, on the'East India station.
Mr. J. C. Weir, Agent' of the Hospital, at Jamaica, has been
appointed Steward of Haslar Hospital, vice Fox deceased, and Mr.
J. M'Leod, Purser, It. N. to be Agent to the Hospital at Jamaica.
Mr. Jolui Bryan, Purser, It. N. to the Trinculo. '

NORTH :AND SOUTH AMERICAN COFFEE-HOUSE,

(Tills D4Y.)

The followin Papers 6ve 'been- received this morning :—New
g
York, of the 11th of April ; Boston, 'Of the `l4th of April ; Rd-
t imore, the 6th of April;' Philadelphia, ' the Bth of April, Mon-
treal, the Ist of 'April ; (brave; ' the 'let of April ; Norfolk,; the
bth of April ;
Richindio4:the 6th -of-April ; Savannah, the MO-
of -Nlarek;:,Mobile,, thel37tli of igarqh ; CliarleAton, the, 31st of
March; Ralifax,,the, Ist .of April.
~ ;
LivearooLi nay. o.—Wiod N.L.--Arrived the Silas Bich-
anis, Holdridges from New York,
nailed April. 11; Francis ) lan,
rietta, White, London, at New. York, April 3; .4.easta, Chad-
wick do. do. April 3—Feb. 17, lat. 49. 59. long. 17. 10. ea*
an American brig standing East, with foremast and bowsprit

gone, white bent top and bright waist, sigea. 1 red, in a blue field ;
20th, lat 49. 'lcing: 16, ship Ileicyon,,24 days from Liverpool,
for Philadelphia.

The Elizabeth, Henderson, Newcastle, at New York April 4; I
Cadmui, _Arm thivrel ditto; Stephauia, Pell, ditto, ditto;
Cost; diverpool, ditto ; Atlantic, Fosdick, • Belfast,
dittoiApril 5; :Queen Mab, Clarke, Havre, ditto April 6; Fame,
Shaddock, Liverpool, ditto, April 9; Trent, Bardstow, Havre,
ditto ; Martha, Edwards,' Amiterdam; ditto; William 'Thomp-
son, Bowne, Liverpool, off New York, April 111 and the George
Clinton,,llawson, Liverpool, ditto.
The Marcus, Drew, from Bremen, at Boston, Sd April; London
pncket, Mackay, from London, ditto, 4th April ; fell in with con-
siderable ice on the '24th and 25th March, and was obliged to run
under easy sail. Agenoria, Wintsor, from Flushing, at Boston,
4th April; Young Phoenix, Anthony, from Bremen, at Balti-
more,' 6th April ; Nassaw, Wilson, from Liverpool, at Phila-
delphia, Ist April; Constitution, Robinson, from Gibraltar, at
Philadelphia, 2d April ; Florian, Harrison, from Liverpool, at
Philadelphia, 4th April; Minerva, Mayell, from Liverpool, at
Philadelphia, 4th April; Prince Regent Packet, from Fal-
mouth; and • six-days from Halifax, at. New York, 9th April.
Lady Adams, Staples, Havre, at Baltimore, 31st March ; Samuel
Robertson, Choate, Liverpool, at Charleston, 23d ; Emily, Cook,
Boston, 27 days from Kingston ('Jamaica) at New York, Bth
April ; on the 24th March, off the savannah, spoke the schooner
Zenophon, 14 days from Baltimore, for Havannah ; on March 23d
passed in the night, off the Havannah, an American frigate and
sloop of war. We learn from a turtle boat, that an American
frigate had been on shore on the Islet of Pious, but got off again
in.l6.ltours, with the assistance of a turtle schooner, after throw-
ing over 500 thirty-two pound shot.
The Henry Tuke, Bliss, from Liverpool at Boston, Spoke on
The -17th' March Mary Catherine, Pace, for Charleston, in lat.
49i. len. 20.; also in. lat. 451. lon. 42. brig Leader, of Fair-
haven, 16 days from Bristol for New York; on 26th, lat. 43.
23. Ion: 50. brig Louisa and Hannah from Lisbon for Newfound-
land ; Arab, Stockman, from Gottenburg, sailed Jan. 6, at
Boston, April 13, spoke' 2d March lat. 47. lon. 25, barque
Bramin, Brewster; 32 days from Charleston ; Alexander, Bald-
win, Liverpool, 'at Philadelphia; April 9, Plutarch, Pike, from
`Liverpool at Charleston, April 1. ,
On the 30th March passed a large American ship ashore on
the S.E. end of Carrysfori Reef, with several wreckers around her,
appeared not to have been long in that situation.
Cowes, Marten 6.—Tbe ship Conyers, Kinsman, is detained

. . _
in the inner harbour byfresh N.E. winds.-The Brightim, Sebor,
sailed this morning for New YOrk, hawing been detained by pas-
sengers ; William Waller, eame out of harbour this morning, and
sailed far the westward.—Wind N.B.

'FROM LLOYD'S.]
DEAL, MAY 7.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrived the Vibelia trans-
port, frotn Gibraltar and Plymouth, and remain with the Diana,
from Sierra Leone, and Esther, Jowl, from Portniadoelc, and
Speke transport. Passed through from the River on sth instant
the Alexander, Richardson, fur Mauritius; City of Edinburgh,
Milne, for India ; England, Reay, and Marquis of Huntley, As-
cough, for New South Wales; and George and Thomas, Prout,
for Leghorn.
Ltvaaroot, MAY 6.—Wind E.N.E.—Lieut. John Reeve, of
his Majesty's ship Briton, landed at Holyhead with dispatches
;from South Amerien.—Arrived the Silas Richards, —,

from New York, &lat..: April 11 ; and the William, Fulford, from

Pernambuco.

PORTSMOUTH, MAY 7.—Wind N.E.—Arrived the Mercury,
Warnwick, from Malta ; and Hope, Gregory, from London.
Sailed his Majesty's ship Talbot, for Sheerness.

PLYMOUTH, MAY G.—Wind N.—Arrived the Hebe, Brown,
from Memel,—Off the port the Puller,. Lundstron, from Itio Ja-
neiro, for Hamburgh.

Arrived off Penzance, the Mary, Case, from St. Michael's.
Tke Wear, Major, front Sunderland to London, was lost yes-
terday on the Shipwash Sand; crew saved.
Off Plymouth, the. Laura, Buckfelt, from the Mauritius, sailed
the 4th•Of January.
I)AArn.•.-..•Governor Turner, of Sierra Leone.

Extract of a ietter, from the Agent to Llpyd'a at Kinsale, dated
May 3 :-.T" The Elizabeth, Grierson, arrived hereyesterday from
Sierra Leone, sailed March 21, and brings advice of the death of
Governor Turner 'On the Ath of that month. His body was' to be
interred the day after the Elizabeth's departure.

The Elltaheth;•Greerson, from' Sierra Leone,•is arrived off Ply-
mouth, sailed in company with. the Catharine, Green, and Ayr,
Taylor, 9n the 12th hlareb, informs that the Governor General,
Turner, died there on the Bth March.

PRICES OF STOCKS' Tl-11
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pog tent.
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4er Cent. New 911 4
Dlttn Scrip
Bank Long Ann. lB 11. titlis
i India Stock tl3l 14'81
Ditto Bond,' 9 pm.

PRICES OF FOREIGN
Austrian Bonds, 5 per cont.-8514
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres Bonds
Chillan Bonds, 6 per cent.
Colombian Bonds
Ditto, 1821 114%4
Danish, 3 per cent.
Greek Rands
Ditto, 1826 ' 16 15% 16
Guadmala
Mexican Bonds
Ditto, 1825 Wt

AT ONE O'CLOCK.-
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General Mining Aaaociation £s • 1% 2
Pasco Peruyian Mining Company 5 5
Tlalpurahtta-Illintng COMpetly 80 87
United, Mexican Mininir Company 20 17
Wclch Iron and Coal Mining Company...— l2 it
New, Corn, Exchangn 3 2 IS

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PRICE OF IRISH STOCKS, MAY 4.
Bank Stock
Gov. Steck; Si per cent. Stiff Royal Irish Ditto, —
, Ditto New — National Ditto Oldil.
4 per Cent.. Sew 42 k Pathetic Ditto
liov.l)eb. 31 per mut. . ...... ...EN*, , Hibernian Bank .. 1-4 d—is.
,consols, 3 per cent. - Provincial Ditto
Royal Canal Stock 441 Royal lriali Mine —
Grand Canal Stack . - Imperial Mine —
City Deb. 4 Per cent.
Ballast-011ic*.f Deb.. 4 per cent.. New Brighton . .
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Morning 25 minutes after 3. EveningHlGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW.`
41 minutes attar 3.

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LONDON,
1/ 0 DiV I? VEXING, MAY 0, 1826.

In looking back on the events of the last few days,
and contrasting the present state and prospects of the
country with its situation at the commencement of last
week, we have ample subject for congratulation and
hope. Within that short period disturbances of an
alarming extent, and threatening the most frightful con-
sequences, had broken out in the populous districts of
I_.:ttleti
lrc,
being, the result of the distresses to which
the neunifacturing classes had been subjected from the
s
iligh price, of food and the want of employment. The
measures proposed by his Majesty's MiniSters to
allowing the corn now. in
reduce existing prices, by
bond to be brought into consumption, and to secure
the country from being 'to any
calamity during
the recess, either from the scarcity, or, excessive price,
of that essential article, were resisted in Parliament