The Sun.
London, England, 1826-09-14 00:00:00

THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1826.

DINNER TO LORD MELVILLE.

(Prom the Edinburgh, Courant.)
On Friday a
.splendid dinner was given to .Lord Mel-
ville, by the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council, in
the Royal Hotel, for the purpose of testifying to his Lord-
ship the grateful sense they entertain of the important ser-
vices rendered•byliim to the city, in many, public mea-
sures connected with its prosperity, and especially in, the
arrangements recently adopted. respecting the port of
Leith. The company were numerous
.and respectable.—
About 90 sat down to dinner. The Lord Provost was
supported on the right by Lord Melville, and on the left
by Lord Abercromby. There were also present, Lord
Binning, the Lord Advocate, the Lord Clerk Register,
Baron Hume, the Solicitor-General, Sir John Hope,
Sir John• Dalrymple, Sir John Erskine, Sir Philip Dur-
ham, K.C.8., Sir Henry Jardine, Colonel Thackeray,
Colonel Thornhill, Keith Douglas,• Esq. M.P., Captains
Tait, Stoddait, Deans, Wauchope, and Hodgson, R.N.
the Commissioners. f the Leith Harbour and Docks, the
Hon.. Henry. Dundas, M.P. for Rochester, the Honourable
Charles Dundas, Mr. R. A. Dundas, Mr. Buller, Colonel
Farquharson, &c. &c. The Lord President and the
Sheriff were prevented, by indisposition from attending.
After the usual preliminary toasts, the health Of Lord
Melville was proposed by the Lord Provost, in terms of
great feeling and eloquence, in which he alluded to the
deep interest his Lordship had alwayotaken in every thing
relating to the welfare of Scotland, and of thismetropolis in
particular, and especially noticed the great personal labour
he had bestowed in making the arrangement now so hap-
pily carried into effect .respecting- the port of Leith—an
arrangement calculated to benefit the public at large, and
to increase the revenues. of the city of Edinburgh. The
Provostalso very feelingly adverted to the obligations Scot-
land owed to the father of Lord Melville, from whom he
might be said to havoreceived, as an hereditary succession,
that regard for its interests which he had so nobly and
amply exemplified.
Lord MELVILLE, in that dignified, powerful, and impres-
sive manner for which he is so much distinguished, re-
plied to the topics alluded to in the Lord Provost's ad-
dress. After personally complimenting the Provost for the
able and successful manner in which he had discharged the
arduous duties of his high office, he proceeded to state his
attachment to the interests of this metropolis,—his anxiety
to promote its prosperity by every exertion in his power—
his satisfaction at finding that what he had done had met with
approbation,--a satisfaction enhanced by the recollection
of the long and intimate connection that had subsisted be-
tween his family and the city of Edinburgh, and added,
that he should at all times be gratified by having an oppor-
tunity to exert any influence he possessed in favour of its
improvement and advantage.
The health of the Lord Register, the Member for the
City being drank, he made an eloquent and appropriate
reply, in the course of which lie dwelt upon his obligations
to Lord Melville, to whom he was much indebted for co-
operation and support whenever he had occasion-to apply
to him on the affairs of the city of Edinburgh.
To the toast of " His Majesty's Ministers," Lord Mat,.
VILLE returned thanks for himself and his colleagues, and
stated, in an energetic manner, the great anxiety they all
felt, in a time of no common difficulty, to adopt and pursue

those measures which seemed best calculated to promote
and secure the prosperity of theltation.
The healths of the Lord Advocate. Lord Abercromby,
Loral Miming, the Solicitor-General, and other distin-
guished characters present, were successively proposed, and
followed by appropriate replies. - To that of the University,
Professor Wilson returned the thanks of his Colleagues in
an eloquent manner.
The evening was spent with the utmost harmony and
conviviality, and- the noble' guest and his friends left the
room at a late hour, apparently much gratified with the
conduct of the entertainment, and the attention which had
been paid them.

A DRUNKARD.---A drunkard is one that will be a man
to-morrow morning, but he is now what you will make
him, for he is in the power of the next man, and if a friend
the better. One that bath let go himself from the hold
and stay of reason, and lies open to the mercy of all temp-
tations.. NO.lust but finds him disarmed and fenceless, and
with the least assault enters. If any mischief escape him
it was not his fault,for heivas laid as-fair for it as he could.
Every man sees him, as Cham saw his father, the first of
this sin, an uncovered man, and though his garment be on,
uncovered; the secretest part of his soul lying in the naked- 1
est manner visible : all his passions come out now, all his
vanities, and those shamefuller humours which discretion
clothes. His body becomes at last like a miry way, where
the spirits are beclogged and cannot pass; all his members
are out of office, and his heels do not trip up one another.
He is a blind man with eyes, and a cripple with legs on.—
All the use he has of this vessel himself is, to hold thus
much; for his drinking is but a scooping in of so many
quarts. Tobacco serves to air him after a washing, and is
his only breath and breathing while. •He is the greatest
enemy to himself, and the next to his friend, and then
most in the act of his kindness is but trying a mastery, who
shall sink down first; and men come from him as a battle,
wounded and bound up.• Nothing takes a man off more
from his business and makes him more wretchedly careless
what becomes of all. Indeed, he dares not enter on a se,
rious thought, or if he do, it is but such melancholy that it
sends him to be (trunk again.—Bishop Bade.

SittPwitEca.--Ii is our painful duty
----
to have EAvetopFrueeLord more distressing accounts of ship-
wreck, near this fatal atom, than on any other part of
the Yorkshire coast. The following are the particu-
lars of the dreadful scene which occurred her on Wed-
nesday last. The Esk, a Greenland vessel, bound to
Whitby, came on shore, during a tremendous gale of
wind, about eleven o'clock at night, nearly a mile from
Redcax, and adjoining to Mars k. The life-boat was
promptly obtained from Redear, and several indivi-
duals, at the imminent danger of their own lives, fear-
lessly hastened on board, and put off towards the ves-
attemrs
sel, with the hopes of thus saving some of their fellow
ereatnos from a watery grave • but after many fruitless
. , .
Limy
uent d• •
to gain the vessel, in which they were as fre-
-2_
~ y men back by the boisterous billows, and not
having sufficient bands on board to manage the boat,
affording the Wretched crew any.l
rocks,
1 were reluctantly compelled to give up the hope of ,
when she
source. The. ill-fated' assistance. from that
vessel kept beating against' the
81'ptaIrtntil_ nearly five o'clock the next morning,
into the foaming of
Lute of soon
t w
eei
Idt completely in two, and the crew, con-
sistin-seven persons were instantly precipi-
tatedunhappy beingsaming aeeP.
Twenty-three of these
Captain and I
floated
din
found . a watery grave, The
every attention via,
recovered, but the Paid
the. sailors were washed on shore;
to them, and the sailors soon
yards of the shore
timber which had flcoa
' was so severely'struck:by .a. log of
being taken up on the eh
fromon atrhriev ilw*rewckit,h within
thatfew
The Esk , , each, life was found extinct.
had on oottru fitlylnis of oil, seal-skins,
&c. &c. - Several of the casks
floated on shore, and the vesselc is 11°W a containing oil have
complete
wreck.— York, Courant, Sept. l2.

LIFE IN JAMAICA.

The following is a portrait of a mansion of the first class
in the island, and a picture of every-day life of its inmates :
—" The house stands on an elevation,
perhaps 150 feet
above the sea,backed by everlasting woods and wildernesses,
commanding a most extenaive-view of the two harbours of
Port Antonio, part of the town, Titchfield, and a grand
expanse of ocean to the north. The mansion consists of
an entrance hall,. with sleeping chambers on each side--
and this hall leads to a piazza about fifty or sixty feet
long, which forms the nothern facade of the house. At
one end of the piazza is likewise a chamber, and at
the other end a dining apartment, or hall, where we are
accustomed to - take our meals. The piazza is about fif-
teen feet wide, furnished with a few chairs, made of
-
cherry tree wood, a spy-glass, a backgammon board, and
chessmen. The furniture of the dining-room, is much
of the - same character, except a set of tables, a sideboard,
and a dozen of chairs, all • of mahogany ; and the en-
trance hall contains a couple of The sleeping
rooms are furnished in the same simple, manner; a bed-
stead, with mammal ands pair of sheets, covered solely
with a lawn net, to keep off the mosquitoes; a chest of.
drawers, and two or three chairs, form the contents of
each apartment. There is a narrow piazza on the south,
side of the house, too hot to inhabit after sunrise ; and the
offices are all detached. Nature here requires but shelter
from the sun and rain. In many houses the rooms are not
ceiled, and all is on the ground floor, which is generally
built, as in this case,on stone buttresses. After a breakfast of
strong coffee, having a rank taste of oil, from being too new,
roasted plantains, and excellent cocoas, lubricated with salt.
butter, my old friend takes a ride to inspect his negroes at
work, or to hear the news et the bay, as the town is
called. He indulges in a nap (a siesta) sometimes from
one to two, and promenades, or plays a game at, chess in
the piazza, till three, when dinner is announced ; and
then another promenade, or -ride till dusk, fills up our
day. lie goes to bed at eight o'clock, and rises at
five. One day is much like another, except varied by
the appearance of an occasional visitor, who generally
stayed the night. In bad weather we read plays, novels,
and newspapers, play at picquet or backgammon; ogle
every sail through the telescope; and the old gentleman
smokes a cigar at dusk, as he says, to drive away the
musquitoes. We are waited on by a black butler, anti
two footmen, who 'wear each a shirt and white trowsers,
with a short blue jacket. The sable females who, make
the beds and polish the floors, are often clad in gayer and
more expensive apparel—very neat and -clean ; but none of
the servants, male or female, know the pleasures of shoes
or stockings. At night the females retire to their awn
houses, or to those of their parents, no accommodation
being thought of for servants ; the men seek the abode of
their wives, and the waitiug boys lie on the floor of the
hall, or at their masters' doors."—Cork Southern Reporter.

IMPORTANT PUBLIC INTELLIGENCE T
Brabant left on. Sunday last for town.--Brighton Ga•
zette.

CASE OF POISON FROM THE BITE OF A FLY.—
The following has recently been published by M.
Frank, Provincial Councillor and first Burgomaster of
M;n:deburg
"According to information communicated by a phy;
sirtian or this cite, a labourer died the day before yehter-
day,• in a neighbouring village, ontsida my arrondisse-
ment, in consequence of the sting of a Hy, which he
received on the ' back of his left hand, a few days
before. When a physician was called in the wounded
man's hand was already in a state of mortification, and
he was affected with a lock jaw. An inhabitant of my de-
partment has been attacked, in like manner, by an insect,
on the right hand, and the arm has mortified as far as the
elbow-joint, so that there is little hopes of title poor crea-
ture's life being preserved.
" It may be looked upon as nearly a certainty that the
flies which stung these individuals took the poison which
they communicated from an animal which (lied, or was sick,
of an inflammation of the spleen.
" The Government of this city has already, by a publi-
cation of-the I Ith of October, 1822, called public atten-
tion to the fatal consequences which may result to the
health of men and otheraninials; from the poison which pro-
ceeds from the inflammation of the spleen, when treated
without due caution in those animals which are attacked bi
it ; and it is. enough for me, therefore, now to refer to that
publication. To the instances already given may be added
the report of the Regency of Potsdam, which states that
several proprietors of cattle have' unfortunately, taken
the infection from having touched the mouth, or even
a wound in the back of the animals affected. And
there are other exemples of-people dying who merely bled
heifers attacked . with this disease. Their bodies were
opened and an internal gangrene was discovered with- the
spleen quite relaxed. At Spandau, a woman who had
drunk milk from a cow so diseased died. In fine, several
dogs and pigi have been found dead, 24 hours after
eating the flesh of animals that died of the mortification of
the spleen. The skins even of these animals communicate
this dreadful disease, and the Government of Koningsburg,
therefore, has ordered that none such shall be flayed for
the future."

It ought to be known by our fair countrywomen
who think of making a trip to Paris for the purpose of
laying in a good stock of French silk gowns, and other
apparel, that the officers of the Customs now demand
duty upon all French articles, whether made up or
not.; even if they have been worn a Jittle, they are not
exempt from duty. This rigour has proved a sad dis-
appointment to many ladies who have arrived lately
with their trunks filled with French articles.

A person of gentlemanly figure and deportment,
who subscribed his name A. G. M‘Donald, attracted
much attention in this town on Friday last, as he
perambulated
man in the character
thestreets
i)fa
playing the Scotch bagpipes ;
a servant
walking behind
him. He was quickly recognized as the Wandering
Minstrel, of whom .the papers have spoken, having
undertaken for a wager of 1,0001. to travel for six
months in that character, and by voltintary contribu-
tions from the public,' collect sufficient for his own
subsistence, and reserve 1001. out of his receipts, clear
of such expellees. There it no reason to doubt but
.
this person was the character- he represented; he
played the pipes through the various streets, and as
said.by some, with much ability ; he did not himself
take money, neither did be who walked behind him
ask any, but accepted only such. as was offered, which
invited to several of the inns
wasm,til
obnualtd ,
however,triflin our observation. Mr.
in the town, where he was very courteously received.
d:,i,asring
He played much, and sung several songs with. good
effect, producing him in one house as much as fifteen
and in others ten shillings. The same person was at
Ipswich- on the 4th instant. Some thodght they re-
cognised in Mr. *Donald the celebrated Captain
Barclay ; but we are assured such is not the case.--
Essex Herald,

CANADA COMPANY.

The Committee of the Stock Exchange were occupied
several hours an Tuesday with the question concerningthe validity of certain bargains in the Shares ofthe Canada
Company. Many of the buyers, it is well known, have
refused ta.stand to their agreement, on the alleged ground
that the conditions under.. which they made their .pur-
chases, have not been fulfilled. The prospectus held out
the temptation of the transfer of. ctown and church lands
to the Company; but the Government have not been able
to make the promised assignment ; anti the Company has
been compelled to purchase lands which it is averred are of
a lees valuable description. The buyers of shares, there-
fore, considering that the acquisition of the former kind of
lands was a condition precedent, hold themselves exone-
rated from their contracts. On the other hand, the sellers
allege, that though-the prospectus certainly contained the
before-mentioned inducements, yet the deed which consti-
tuted and gave the first substantial and formal existence to
the Compitny, makes no mention of any. particular de-
scription of land. They argue that the prospectus became
a dead letter as soon as the more solemn instrument, the
deed, was framed aid .executed; and they add, that even
if the strict wordS of the agreement had been (which they
are not) of the nature contended for by the other side, yet
as the Company have acted with perfect.good faith, nei-
ther hanOur nor equity will allow such a construction of the
contract as is. desired by the buyers. The Committee,
after a long investigation, - have, on account of various ,dif-
ficulties, deferred their decision as to the validity of the
bargains.--Timer.

MARRIAGE.

TO THE EDITOR.

A correspondent, who reminds us that Lord Stowell
has declared that " a marriage in a .foreign country, accord-
ing- to the forms which are binding in that country, is a
valid marriage in England," asks---Whether an Enalish-
Man, going to Constantinople, there marrying a dozen or
two of Turkish girls, which he may do " according to the
forms which are binding in that country,".and then bring-
ing them to England, will here be allowed to enjoy them
all quietly, without danger of prosecotion for bigamy ; and
whether the husband and Wives would be entitled to con-
sider their union as " a valid marriage in England ?" Our
correspondent expresses considerable anxiety for informa-
tion on the. subject, as be states that he is on the eve of
sailing for Constantinople himself.

Sir--In answer to the gentleman, who, going to 'Con-
stantinople, wishes to know whether be may take unto
himself « a dozen or two" of Turkish Wives, I would beg
to inform him that I fear his " fond hopes" cannot be
legally realized.
Your correspondent has looked too exclusively on the
mere forms or ceremonies of the holy. state ;
.a little led
into the error, I doubt not, by the terms of the proposi;
Lion. The forms or ceremonies are, however, not the only

. .
essentials to a valid marriage, First, in the supposed case,
it seems
.extremely doubtful whether, according to the laws
of Turkey, A Mahomedan could ever be joined in matri-
mony with a Christian ; and if not, a marriage invalid
there, would not be likely to be carried as valid here. Sup-
posing, however, that your corre4ondent should feel difi-
posed to sacrifice a little of the spirit to the flesh, and
should actually, or iwo fem., put off the Christian and put
on the Mahemedan, he must at the same time remember
that temporal allegiance is not so easily put on and off. He.
must st dl, to his King and country, remain an Englishman,
and 4t: such, Intiq nut violat6 the Jaws of this realm.

I am of opinion if he should find it,impossible to resist
the influence of inclination, example, and climate, there is
no safe course—if he indulge in a hope of ever returning to
this country—but to turn,Turk at once, and in due form ;
so as to be able to plead his conversion in answer to an in-
dictment for bigamy. Q.—Times.

-
DISTRESS-DISEASE.---Fever
Fevei is dreadfully on the
increase in Limerick.—The distress among the poor
of Carrick and Carrickbeg.was of so. peculiar a nature,
that his • Excellency the Marquis Wellesley has hu-
manely' transmitted, through Mr. Goulburn, a private
subscription of 501. in aid of the Relief Fund. This
seasonable assistance has given an impulse to the Cha-
rity Committee ; the Rev. Mr. Grady has already
commenced a new subscription for Carrick ; and Mrs.
Wall, of Lodge, and Mr, .Power,; of Tinhallow, have
each paid in their second subscriptions, for the poor of
Carrickbeg.—Thomas Rochfort, of Garretstowii. Esq.
has given a donation of 100/. to the Relief Fund of
Cork ; and Colonel Roche, of Trabolgan, 521. 1080,—
Freeman's Journal.

AN AMUSING MISCELLANY.—We sometimes
hear of individuals of very opposite
,characters and oc-
cupations accidentally meeting together in particular
places, but perhaps there never was a more varied
group than lately occupied the outside of the coach
that runs between Durham and Sunderland. On
Thursday week, when the vehicle was on its return to
the former place, there were seated on it an eccentric
house-painter and his wife, a parson, too thieves and
a constable, a methodist, an attorney, a musician, and
an auctioneer Tyne Mercary,—N.l3. There want-
ed but one to complete the set----Jack Ketch ; and
then it would Have been perfect.
THE JURY SYSTEM IN FRANCL—It is known
that unanimity is not essential to a legal verdict in
France. The following verdict and sentence, lately
delivered at the Assize Court of Paris, will sheW the
weight of authority which attaches to the majority of
the jury :—Verdict, ,t Guilty, by a majority of seven
voices over five, of having, on the 30th November
last, as agent of police, committed an act of arbitrary
against the accuser Confine.
minority of., the jury, acquitted the accused, and con-
pSoewnteernaciel—d i(n,ltiTrlitsealClilioeutrat,' adopting the opinion of the
denmed the prosecutor, IVL Cornille, to pay the costs
'of the suit to the State, making his person liable for
the same I I

nicetyboipi
eooerarlain to
aaimni-leyrete.:ta.sar'tluioihgcesdi,viis3ion,
POOR' LAWS SETTLEMENT.--A case of some
has come before the Magistrates of Marylebone.
was about to be removed from Maryle-
Diss, in Norfolk. On his examma.
paddington, for a twelvemonth, which, by
tion, it turned out that he had rented a house at 24L
and given a bill
Bourne 's Act, entitled him to a settle-
parish contended that he had not paid
declared their joint opinion,
In fact, he hatdiecilma
for 141., of which 41. were still due. The Magistrates
that the Mall had gained a settlemei tand
1 , it the
of bill by the landlord,
acceptance a though not an
acquittance of the debt, was tantamount to an aban-
doning of Ms riet of distraint. A case was cited, in
his rent.
which the King a Bench had held a contrarydoctrine,
but the magistrates adhered to their dveisiou,