The Sun.
London, England, 1821-12-18 00:00:00

MERCANTI i,E SHIPPING, &c.

DEAL, 17.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrived and sailed for
the River the Good Czar, Munroe, from the Cape of Good
Hope, - with part of the Royal African Corps on board ; left
the Cape the 18th of October, St. Helena the 3d of November,
and the Island of Ascension the• 9th of the same month, and
brings nails: left at the Cape his Majesty's ships Vigo and.
Shearwat:r, from whence they were to sail on the Ist of Nov.,
for St. Helena and England. Also left at the Cape the Sappho,
Euphenne ; and Mary Jane, loading for England, rand will be
ready to sail in a few days ; left at St. Helena the Prince of
Vales, delivering stores- from,Engiand ; spoke on the 2d of
November the Juliana, Ogilvie, from Calcutta, all well. The
Sir David Scott and William Fairly East Inchamen, with the
rest of -the outward.:bound, remain all well.
Poirrsmount, - DEC. 17.—Wind S.W. by S.—Arrived
the Coromandel store-ship from the East Indies ; the Eliza-
beth, Forernan, from Cape Coast Castle, went out of hathour
this day. _ _ - - - .

' Dov'Eri, DEC. TI.H.The Iris packet, with a mail froth
France, landed the bag in the ro3ds, returned several passage
vessels, and bore up for the Downs.
DAnTmou:r 11, DE c. 15.—A cask of fish oil, about 100
gallons, marked It. V. on one side of the bung, and I. R. on
the other, was taken up yesterday about 2 leagues off the Hart
Point, and delivered to the Officers of the Customs.

SC:V TIIAMPTON, DEC. 15.—Arrived the .Wittering, Rus-
sell ; and Prosperous, Lancaster, from Chichester ; Dart, Le-
verett, from Ilymout!i—Nancy, Smedmore, from London----
Good Intent, Lengdown, from Poole-,-Lady Wellington, Fuz-
zard; and Prince Coburg, Page, from Havre—Experiment,
Simon, from Alderney—Speedyacket,-Bazin, from Jersey.—
Sailed the Good Intent, Reed ; and James and Hannah,
Chandler, for Plymouth—Ann and Elizabeth, Mant, for Chi-.
chester-Maria,2 Norcett, for Bristol—Liberty, Blandh.trd, for
Cork—Perseverance, Shaw, for New York—hose, Payne and
Royal Charlotte, Godfrey, for Jersey-Prince Cobourg, Page
and Chesterfield, Wood, for Havre—Experiment, Sinion,
derney—fEolus, be Maitre, Guernsey.
I.vmfso Tog, DEc.l4.—Arrivedhis Majesty's ship Icarus,
from Portsmouth fir Jamaica; Waterloo, Leveque; and Nel-
son Dawson, from London for Jamaica ; Lord Hill, German ;
and Favourite, Hoare, from Loudon for Bristol; Albion, Pal-
mer, nom Lond.in for Exeter • Mary Anne, Morciev, from
Sunlerland ; Dispatch, Iladcocic, from London. Sailed the
Lively, Flaws, for Seville; Britannia, Vermeil, for Lancaster;
Favourite, Hoare, for Bristol; Albion, Palmer, for Exeter.

CORONER'S INQUEST ON MR. SLADE.

Yesterday afternoon, at two o'clock, the ad-
journed Coroner's Inquest on Mr. Abraham
Slade, purveyor of meat to her late Majesty, was
held at the Marquess of Granby, Percy-street,
Tottenham-court-road, before THOMAS STIRLING,
Esq. 'The following additional evidence was
produced :

Mr. T. R. Este, of 41, Portman-place, stated, that on the
29th November, he was returning to his residence at nearly
nine o'clock,, along the Edgeware-road : he perceived a stage,
coach drive past him with extreme fury towards Tyburn turn_
pike; he saw two women of the town on the pavement; they
ascended the coach by the invitation of the driver. In a
.few
minutes after he heard loud shrieks, and on running up A 017;:-
distance, he perceived a gig broken to pieces; the two women
were lying on the ground, surrounded by•several persons ;It,11A!
were fainting. At a short dittance he perceived the deceased ;
he was dreadfully lacerated. Ile- was removed into a house ;
surgical aid was procured. The witness went to the coach, bu:
the driver mounted the box and drove away; there was sufE2l-
- light for the coachman to see .the'gig. There are lamps
on the Marylebonc side of the road, on which side the accide:::
happened. The witness believes the driver was galloping his
horses.

Richard Saunders described the accident nearly in the sari*
,manner as the last witness. He knew the driver ; and on going
down stairs by direction of the Jury, he was strewn a coachman,
who, on his returning to the jury-room, he described as Leing
the man who drove the coach, and said his name was " Tor►
Stratford :" he had known him before, and saw him the morn.,
ing after the accident.

Reeve, a watchman, said he knew the two women ; and by
direction of the Jury he was sent to their residence at Lis.son-
grove, with directions to bring one or both of them.
The Jury, during the absence or this witness, took some re-
freshment, and had -a desultory conversation respecting the pro-
prietors of the coach, in which it appeared that the coach, &c.,
was in the hands of the assignees of Kinner, a bankrupt.
Thomas Stratford, the person sworn to as being the dri7er
of the coach on the night of the accident, was called by desire-
of the Jury, and on being informed by the Coroner that he need
not say any thing that would criminate himself, he said, on the
night of the accident he drove the coach from the Bank to Pad-
dington, and on to Nuttinghill ; on being questioned, he said
he did not know to whom the coach belongs—it might belong
to the King. The name of Samuel Kinner was written on the.
coach. Mr. Kinner resides at Kensington, and is a coach-
master. The accident was not caused through his neglect, the
night being miserably dark : he could not say through whose
neglect it happened. He took two passengers up at the Bank,
whom he took to Bayswater, "gratis :" he took up two females
at the Star and Garter.. Ile never received any wages while
driving that coach.
Mr. Wood, of the Star and Garter, Edgeware-road, saw Strat-
ford in his house treating. persons; he declined drinking any
thing himself, and remarked he would take his cattle home
quietly.
At six o'clock the jury were informed that Reeve had re-
turned with one of the women. She wa,s shewn into the jury-
room, and on being sworn, said her name was Caroline John-
son ; she mounted the coach at the Star and Garter, and said
the driver Was named " Tom Stratford," whom she had known
about two months : a young woman named Dickson also as,
' coided the coach ; he drove through the turnpike, to do some-
' thing to the coach, and gave her the reins to hold, which she
dropped before he mounted the boX ; but he succeeded in
' getting on the box, and before he could recover the reins, .the
coach came against the gig, and was overturned.
Cross-examined by several Jurors.—She had never seen Bays-
water, and her only object in going there was to see the place.
She was to pay a shilling : sh did not know the driver inti-
mately : she had never ridden on that coach before. She heard
no person cry out " Stop, stop the coach." The coachman was
thrown from the box : did not sec the chaise until after the ac-
cident. The coachman did not flog the horses. She did not go
to Bayswater, nor did she pay the fare.
This being the whole) o. the evidence, the Jury remained a
short dine in consultation, and returned the following verdict :
—" That Thomas Stratford is Guilty of Manslaughter : that
the coach and two horses are the property of Samuel Kinner,
and are of the value of 401.; are. deadand ; and are now in
the possession of Samuel Corder, linen-draper, of Charlotte-
street, Portland-plaee, Mary-le-bone.
On, the verdict being returned, the Jury, through their fore,
man, returned the Coroner thanks for his attention and excel-
lent conduct during the investigation.
The CORONER expressed his acknowledgments, and the
Court was dissolved.

A Mr. SMITH was attacked at night, about a
fortnight ago, in the neighbourhood of Ilexhan-i,
by three men, who dragged him from his hove,
and threw him on the ground, his face downwards. •
They made no attempt to rob him, nor did they
utter a syllable. Mr. S. also held his tongue
until feeling the teeth of a saw entering into his
flesh at the back part of his neck, he exclaimed,
" What are you doing with me ?" On hearing
his voice, one of the men observdd with an oath,
" It is not him!" and they all three immediately
departed. These barbarians had evidently been •
upon the look-out for some object of their re-
venge, whom they had intended to destroy by
means of the instrument we have mentioned.—
L(Durlzam Advertiser; Dec. 15.)

THE LONDON JOUItNALS.

DAILY• EXVIACTS FIIOM THE MORNING -P.I.PERS
December IS.

[NEW TIMES.]
We are' not of opinion that the foreign policy
of France will be much varied by a mere change
of the individuals who occupy seats in the Ca-
binet. If Russia, in the pUrsult of a mad and
-wicked ambition, or at the instigation of a fana-
tical bigotry, determines to attempt making her-
self mistress of Constantinople, the Continental
PoWers 'must be involved in warfare ; and
France, whoever are her'Ministers, must take
part in the general conflict. We should lament
this consequence ; but we' do .not believe that
any French Minister could do much to retard, or
even to alter the direction of hostilities. France
'Would probably side with Russia against Aus-
tria, and the more readily if the • latter power
were. supposed to act in union with'England.—
We conceive, howeVer, that the nature of the,
contest, and our insular position together, would
enable us safely to abstain from interference
illoCh longer than any other great power ; and,
0:ould we eventually be involved in the contest,
the party to which the French Ministers might
happen to belong, would be a matter of very
secondary consideration.

[THE TIMES.]
We have still to record the continuance of the
djsorders by which Ireland is desolated ; and as
yet can see nothing of the effect which should,
have been produced by the application of cor-
rective measures. All is still plunder, menace,
and mitrder. Any one on.seeing the Irish Jour-
nals might forget for a moment that he was read-
ing the acts of a people so near our own hearths,
and subject to the same Government with our-
selves; and would suppose, if the narrative were
iiot fabulous, that it related events which had
taken place amidst barbarous tribes in the heart of
Africa. That some falsehoods and ekaggerations
may adorn the tale, is far from improbable; but
enough of truth still remains to affect the mind
with sorrow and shame. The incessant demand for
arms, constantly repeated, would indicate the ap-
proach of yet greater disorders, were it not almost
certain that Government must at least be forward
enough to suppress evils, the preparations for
which are only now organizing. All that we
would caution the public against supposing, is
that the mischief is terminated, merely because
its ebullitions are suppressed by force. If tran-
quillity were at this moment restored, still the
causes which have provoked the tumult would
remain complete and undiminished ; and it is to
the removal of these that a provident and wise
Administration should point its attention. The
country seems to expect much from the talents
and experience of Lord Wellesley, and there is
enough in the present-state of Ireland to exercise
the greatest abilities.

[MORNING POST.)
The long expected explosion has taken place,
and the French Ministry is dissolved. The
boast and threat of the late Keeper of the Seals I,
'lave not been realised. He had opposed the
enjoyment of the King's confidence to the
di.'4lpprobation manifested by the Chamber,
and had menaced the Deputies with political
dissolution, if they did not speedily alter
heir conduct. Repeated defeats having shewn
that they were not to be intimidated, and that
the union formed between the Ultras and the
Liberals was of 'a more lasting nature than had
been anticipated, the Ministers learned at last
that in a free country something more than Royal
favour is necessary to support an Administration,
and that when it has lost the confidence of the
nation and of its representatives, it has lost the
only basis on which a Government can or ought
to stand. How the change which ensued was
effected, whether by voluntary resignation on the
pa:t of the Ministers, or at the express command
of the King, has not yet been clearly ascertained,
The former is the more probable, as his Majesty
Mime his return in 1815, had clung to the men of
the revolution with a degree of attachment which
betrayed no small fear and distrust of the Royal-
ists; The importance of the mode, however,
is ,nothing. when compared with that of the'
change itself. The Ultras are for the first
time in the full enjoyment of power in
the land of their forefathers. For them, the
Revolution- is at last finished, and the Mo-
narchy completely restored. Hitherto all was
dark before them: they had returned from the
lard of exile, but the mark of banishment was
still upon. them. They were admitted near the
Throne, but the Throne trusted them not. 'They
Lad seats in the" Legislature,- but it was to make
theit loyalty, subservient to the purposes of -the
Revolution. Caressed and trodden down by
turns,...they were holden- up, to the people rather
as enemies who had stolen into their bosom, than
as • persecuted men restored to the soil and the
air,:of;their, country, the only blessings which
they were allowed to enjoy. They were repre-
sented as. dangerous' because they had 'been in-
jured, and the ear of the peasant and the King
was poisoned against them. These days of
trouble and of injustice are passed, and that of
trial .and of proofis arrived.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.] " •
The King of Franeehas at•length found, him-
self under the necessity of dismissing his• Minis-
ters. A new AdMiniStration his- been' formed,
taken, as our readers will perceive, from the
party -of the:,'Ultra. Royalists, This. event has
been 'very generallyanticipated as the. necessary
result of- the Address "of- the Chambers ;_ for no
one could supposo-• that an overwhelming majo-
rity, produded“ by •the union of •the two great
parties which.divide.France between them, could
be:redecod-Ao a minority by the ordinary means,
or:thaVa •new Election under•the existing law
would.have altered, the matter; and the attempt
to ,overttgn the. Constitution, and bsubstitute ano-
ther- by Royal Ordonnarree,..with.a different plan
of aleetionj through threatened bythe late Minis-
tersovos evidently too -hazardous An .experiment,
pax-tie-Wally:lathe present posture of affairs in Eu-

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rope. This change 'will soon probably lead lei most
important consequences. in the first place the
Ultras are pledged to a foreign policy more suit-
able to the national glory and reputation. To be
consistent they must let the power of France be
immediately felt in Italy and in Greece. They
are pledged to this, and it is clearly their interest
to 'make good their pledge. They are opposed
to a party which even The Courier allows to con-
sist of " nine tenths of the people," and with
such fearful odds against them, it would be mad-
ness to run counter to the national feeling. if
they do not appeal powerfully to this feeling,
and endeavour to gain for France her old as-
cendancy in Europe, their rivals will obtain an
easy victory over them.

[MORNING HERALD.]
We do not think the fall of the late French
Ministry is to be lamented. They were mere
manceuvrers, with no real national support, hay-
ing at their back in the Chamber, for the most
part, actual or expectant Placemen, playing the
right and left against each other, until the two
adverse parties, like the English and French
armies in Shakspeare's King John, formed a mo-
mentary junction, in order to take the Ministerial
benches by storm from their actual occupants,
and afterwards determine who should be the
ultimate possessors. One important good is
likely to be the result. The Ultra party is
pledged to discontinue the Censorship of the
Press. It is true that promises made in oppo-
sition are frequently retracted, or eluded, when
the parties change places. But we believe the
Ultra Members will not violate their pledge.—
They possess several political writers of great
zeal and talent, and they exaggerate the in-
fluence which they will be able to exercise over-
opinion. The question respecting the Censor-
ship will soon come before the Chamber, and
resolve this important point. The Commission
of Members to which the projel of the late
Ministers for continuing the Censorship was
referred, has unanimously rejected it. For
some time the new Ministers will probably
have majorities in the Chamber—whilst they
propose, as no doubt they will, some popu-
lar measures. But as soon as they enter upon the
system of bringing back France to what she was
before the Revolution—a plan entertained by
them in I)Mo—the Chamber and the nation will
take the alarm, and the freedom of the Press,
should they permit it, as they have promised, will
be itself a main cause of their overthrow..

[BRITISH PRESS.]
, It would, we think, be too mach to expect
that because the present Ministers of France
have, condemned their predecessors for certain
acts of foreign policy, they are therefore bound,
on assuming the reins of Government, to disturb
the harmony now subsisting between France and
Austria, by requiring the latter withdraw her
armies from Italy. With regard to Turkey, in-
deed, there is still ample time to prove the power
and policy of France. A foreign war, no matter
for what object, would, we believe, be popular in
France, and there is no doubt that the Ministers
would'' win golden opinions" of the multitude by
giving the French armies an opportunity of win-
ning new laurels upon the great theatre of Eu-
rope. But it would be lamentable if the peace,
which has but just given a breathing time to the
world, should be endangered by the rashness of
inexperienced Ministers, or the ambition of mi-
litary adventurers ; or that a party having, by a
dexterous manceuvre, succeeded in removing their
political rivals, should, without having one
national cause for quarrel, or one principle to
contend for that required a sacrifice, think
it incumbent upon them, for the consisten-
cy of their characters, to plunge their coun-
try into the dangers of an unnecessary war.
It is probable that they who have helped
them to place expect to witness a great change
in the foreign relations of the French Go-
vernment, and possible that the Ministers may
be unwilling to disappoint their friends, and
thereby endanger the continuance of their au-
thority. There is certainly something to be ap-
prehended, and the juncture will demand the
utmost firmness on the part of the other Govern-
ments of Europe. It is said that the law lately
proposed for•continuing the Censorship of the
Press will be abandoned.

We hear that the mail coach from London to
Manchester is to perform the journey in twenty
hours; consequently the mail from Loudon will
arrive in Macclesfield at two o'clock, and in
Manchester at four. This alteration is, we hear,
likely to take place in -the cot:rse of a week or
two. Lighter coaches have been built for the
purpose, and.it is said that the Post-office is to
make some additional allowance for this extra
speed.—( Liverpool Mercurj.)
Mn. AND AIRS. TowEas.—Since our last, we
have received a few more particcaars of the me-
lancholy catastrophe at Kendal. It appears that
Dr. TOWERS, his wife, and his wife's mother,
Mrs. Gore, had spent the evening at a friend's
house, where some angry words passed.—
On corning home, they went into the, kitchen
(the parlour fire, probably, having gone out),
and there Dr. TOWERS saw one of his books
lying on the table. Ile immediately observ-
ed, that the servant had been to his book
case and taken out the book. Mrs. Towers re-
plied, that it was she herself who bad taken
the book out of the case and had left it on
the table. The Doctor, with a wildness which
indicated ,insanity, said, 44 I'll stop your prate,
madam," and went up stairs for a brace of
loaded pistols, with one •of which he shot his
amiable lady through the head, before the face
of her mother, and then attempted to shoot
himself in a similar manner : 'he fell, but the
ball only grazedhis ear and the side of his head.
The servant ran out for assistance, and when
some friends arrived, there lay Mrs. TOWERS,
dead ; her husband wounded, senseless, and
bleeding ; and Mrs. Gore under the influence of
a fainting fit—a:most distressing scene. The un-
happy man has since= been lodged in Appleby
gaol, under the coroner's warrant, on acharge
of wilful murder, .where he is at present watched,
bbth night•and. day, to prevent suicide.—(C ar-
ale Patriot.)