The Sun.
London, England, 1826-12-18 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LLO'YD'S.—(Tnrs DA..)
GRAVihr. NO, Dec. lb to 17.—Arrived, the Adeoria,Stewald,
from Palermo ;, Nautilus, '!'repay, (rum Alimtnichi ; Cumberland,
Clements, from Seville; Assiduous, Brand, from Lisbon ; De-
spatch, Graham, from ditto; and Swift, —, from Seville.
Sailed, the James Laing, Sughrue, for Jamaica; Diana, Davis, fur
Para; Spanish Packet, Wrightson, for Malta; Surrey, Dixon,
for Jamaica ; and the Juno, Price, for ditto.
DEAL, Drc. I6.—Wind S.E. by E.—Arrived, the Tiger,
Richards, from Loudon to New South Wales; Fleetwood, Puck,
from ditto to Jamaica ; and the Sir E. Ranks, from the River,
and passed to Westward.

14mrsstowro, DEc. 17.--Wind E.—Arrived, the Ross,
Storey, from Dantzie in 34 days ; the Heroine transport, from
London to Lisbon; Maria, Bibbers, front Leghorn ; and, off the
Wight, the Erin, from Rio Janeiro. Sailed, his Majesty's ships
Romney and Pyramus, for Lisbon ; Greenwich, Dunn, for. the
South -Seas; Elizabeth, Walker, for Grenada; Nurna and Stentor
transports, for Cork awl Lisbon-; Anu, From, for Naples ; and
his Majesty's Ship Snap, for the Eastward. Hid Majesty's ship
Melville went out of harbour to Spithead.
• PLYMOUTI6 DEc. 15.—Wind E.—Sailed, the ;Mitchell, for
Oporto; Susan, Nicholson, for Naples; Henry, for St. Vincent's ;
and the Susan and Maly, Eastward.

I'matouni, to N N.E.—Arrived, the
Eclipse packet, Griffin, from St. Thomas's in 29 days, with loss
of two boats, &c. ; also the Tyriau packet, Dwyer, from Wool-
wich. Sailed, the Sprightly,Newton, for St. Michael's ; Louisa,
Cook,. for the South Seas; Starimer packet, Baker, for Lisbon ;
anal the Fisher packet, Barron, for Halifax and Bermuda.

It is usual for peasants in Sweden, whose horses are
travelling post, to run by the side of them, to see that they are
well used--a boy, with naked legs, being employed in driving
them. Some of these peasants will thus tun barefooted six miles
within t'he hour.

A few weeks since a poor widow, named Eliz. Silk,
aged 75, was rim over by a gentleman's chariot, opposite the
Church, in the High-street, Kensington. The liveries were green,
turned up with white The carriage never stopped, but the
coachman most unfeelingly kept on the pace at which he was be-
fore driving. The poor woman died yesterday in St. George's
Hospital from the injuries thus inflicted on her. This circum-
maxim is made puiblic in the hope that it may meet the eyes of those
who thus unfeelingly caused the death of a fellow-creature, leav-
ing to their own bosoms the remorse necessarily consequent there-
on.—Kensinton, Dec. 15,1826.
The wife of a shoemaker, residing at the corner of
Bartholomew-terrace, City-road, received the intelligence, oil
Thursday evening, that a long-litigated law-suit, respecting a large
amount of property to which she was entitled, in virtue of a
former marriage, had been decided in her favour. Overpowered
by the unexpected news; she retired early to bed, somewhat in-
disposed, and in the morning her husband discovered that she was
dead ; thus what had appeared, the evening before, the most for-
tunate event of his life, was rendered the most calamitous. His
wife having had only a life-interest in the property, hi will not be
benefitted one farthing by the decision.
DR. JOHNSON ON LUXURY.--The following ob-
servations of that Leviathan of Literature, the late Dr. Samuel
Johnson, ftintish a complete answer to the mawkish wailings of
those who are habituated to decry the actions and motives of their
superiors.—" Many things which are false," observes the Doctor,
"are transmitted from book to hook, and giiin credit in the
world. One of these is the cry of evil against luxury. Now,
the truth is, that luxury produces irmeh'good. Take the luxury
of buildings in London; does it not produce real advantage in
the conveniency and elegance of accommodation, and this all from
the exertion of industry? People will tell you, with a
melan-
choly face, how many builders are in gliol. It is plain they are
in gaol, not for building, far rents Are not fallen. A man gives
half a guinea fur a dills of green peas : how much gardening does
this occasion? bow many labourers must the competition to have
such things early in the market keep in employment? You will
hear it said, very gravely, "Why, was not the half guinea thus
spent in luxury given to the poor? To how many might it have
afforded a good meal? Alas ! has it not gone to the industrious
poor, whom it is better to support than the idle poor? You are
much surer that you are doing good when you pay money,to those
who work, as the reeuMpenee of their labour, than when you give
money merely in charity. Suppose the ancient luxury of a dish
of peacock's brains were to be revived, how many carcases would
be
made about
tDcheap
ruined by extravagance,
rate ? and as to the rout that is
it ie no mat-
ter to the nation that b9ttli individuals suffer. When so much
mthe peopleper at
wilo a
general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the na-
tion does not care .though there are debtors in gaol ; nay, they
would not care though their creditors even there too."