The Sun.
London, England, 1821-10-10 00:00:00

MERCANTILE' SIIIPPINC, sic,

DEAL, OCT. 9.—Wind E.—Sailed the Henry Porcher,
Cunyngham, for India, and the whole of the outwatti-bound,
with a light breeze from the East Ward. ArriVed and sailed for
the River the William, Young, from the Cape of Gaol Hope ;
Briton, Tankersley, from Malaga ; Bruce, Bunco, from
Para ; and his Majesty's ship Alligator, from Portsmolith ;..the
latter remains with his Majesty's ships Severn and Brisk.
IlAnwlen, OCT. B.—Wind S.W.—The Swift Steam packet
sailed this morning, with the William Fairlie East Indianian
in tow.

HULL, OCT. 8.--Arrived the Brunswick, Blyth, from
Davis Straits, with 24 fish, 640 butts.
FAL 3I 0U T 11, OcT. B.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived the Cos-
mopolite, Nevin, from Nonnontier. Sailed his Majesty's ship
Glasgow for Ceylon ; Sally, Stevens, for Barbadoes ; and the
following packets with mails :—Duke of Kent, for Lisbon ;
Princess Elizabeth, for Jamaica ; and Lady Wellington, for
the Brazils. The rest of the outward-bound will, no doubt,
sail in the course of the day.
PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 9.--Wind S.E.--Arrived his Ma-
jesty's ship .Bustard from the Eastward. Sailed the Hester,
Gratton; Ann, Brace; and Acorn, Christie, for Oporto; New
Frederick, Rundle, for Cadiz ; William and Henry, Par-
tridge, for Jamaica ; Cincinnatus, Champlin, for New York ;
Tiger, Brash, for New South Wales ; Only Son, Green, for
St. Übe's; and Cornwallis, for the Cape of Good hope.
BRISTOL, OcT. 9.—The Providentia, Pellerin, from St.
Anders for this port, is wrecked at St. Agnes, Scilly ;—crew
saved, and also the cargo in a damaged state.
LIVERPOOL OCT. B.—The Eliza, Plummets, from
Greenock, which was on shore. ian Btirbo, has been gOt off; and
returned without damage. - The Furst Blucher, Engel, from
Dantzig for this port, was lost on the 29th ult. on Inch island ;
crew saved.

STItOMNESS, SEPT. 17.—A brig, of very suspicious de-
scription, came into this port on the 6th, with the quarantine
flag at her main, and having got a supply of fresh beef and
water, she again proceeded to sea, with a gale of wind from the
S. E. which was thought to be in consequence of one of his
Majesty's cutters making her appearance. Her name was the
Cognac, of Scarborough, from frapano, bound to St. Peters-
burgh, with a cargo of salt. She has not since been heard of.—
(Inverness Courier.)
NE WHAVEN, OCT. 7.—Two officers from the port of Lon-
don arrived at East Bourne on Friday last, and proceeded
immediately' to search the dwelling-houses of two persons
named Brown and French, wherein they found 'a considerable
quantity of French silks, &c. which they seized and conveyed
away, to be deposited in his Majesty's stores. The In-
dependence, Holden,- from Dieppe, arrived this morning,
with passengers and merchandize.

CITRWENTS Or THE OCE..--Extract from the Agents to
Lloyd's at Boulogne, dated. October s:—" We beg to enclose
a paper which has just been delivered to us in a bottle picked
up this morning at It/o'clock, on the shore at Dannes, between
this port and Estaples
The merchant ship Sir Joseph Banks, John Williams,
commander. At sea, Nionday, July 16, 1321, in gat 49 deg. 11
min. 16 sec. N. ; and longitude, by chronometer at noon, 11
deg. 27 min. 36 sec. west of Greenwich; being calm weather,
threw this bottle overboard for the purpose (if ever found) of
ascertaining the current about the entrance of the English
Channel. Whoever finds this will he good enough to acknow-
ledge it in some public manner.'
Mem.—The Sir Joseph Banks arrived in the river July
23, front Jamaica."
Extract of a Letter from Mr. WILLIAM PEMBERTON, of
Quebec, to his Correspondents, Messrs. Taos. Co RB IT T , and
Co. of Belfast, dated 18th August, 1821
" I have with great regret to inform you, that the British
King, Capt. Chambers, was wrecked on Anticosti, about the
26th ult. and the vessel totally lost. The crew have arrived
here with boats, &c., and I expect the Captain every tide ; he
is coming up in a schooner, with the cables, sails, &c. as I un-
derstand there is a chance of getting the ship oft:
" I shall write you as soon as Capt. Chambers arrives, with
further particulars, and also with protest, &c. I have no
'
doubt you are fully insured long ere this as your instructions to
me to that effect were promptly attended to. I particularly re-
gret the loss of this vessel, as I never took more pains with nor
ever shipped a better cargo in all.
. _

" I zirn, Gentlemen, your's, &c."
P. S. Dated 20th Auguzq, IWL—" CapLehambers has just
arrived; the ship and cargo will•be a total loss; they are to be
sold for account of the underwriters, or others concerned, on
the 24th inst., when I shall be able to forward you a copy of
protest, &c. &c. to enable you to recover from the under-
writers."—(Belfast News-Letter.)

FOR THE SUN.

NAVAL INVENTIONS.

AIR. EOlToll,—.—Lieut. JOHN COUCH having
been accused of ruining this Kingdom by inventions and im-
provements to benefit the British Navy, is desirous to inform
the Public, that he is employed in a number of useful ways ;
in particular, in forming a System of Astronomical Science,
shortening the operations in forming nautical Ephemerides,
from 0 to 11 figures in some instances, thereby preventing er-
rors, which system is the very foundation of a flourishing ma-
rine; for what can be more ridiculous than to behold the whole
of the naval officers of this great nation by the hours together
poring over false books, or books giving false results; but above
all, there are men who pretend to be so void of common sense
as to say that Sir RonT.SE'PrINGs, by hisingenuity in improving
his Majesty's ships, has made foremast men of the Captains of
the Navy ; he needs only state, that whatever adds to the su-
periority of the British man of war, in any situation or weather,
adds to the reputation and respectability of every officer in the navy,
by rendering them that assistance which causes the whole of the
Christians of this country to respect them ; so it is with the in-
vention of sails ; the crews even do not think of the inventor,
their attention is entirely directed to the person who applies .
them ; he alone gets all the praise ; so also with regard to navi-
gation in a ship making a good landfall • ; the books are not
praised; it is the man who uses them who obtains all the credit.
But in employing himself in the way he does, he is comply-
ing strictly with the desires, if not to say commands of his
Majesty, the Lords of the Admiralty, and the desires of the
house of Lords and the House of Commons, who have all,
upon OATH, offered him, or any ether person or persons, re-
wards for such inventions and improvements, knowing well that
this Kingdom could not exist as a State if those rewards were
set aside and nautical improvements discouraged ; to prove
which the loss of the; Perslitn Empirtrabont two thousand /Mir
hundred years ago, will amply suffice ; that Empire was in a
flourishing condition, she was immensely rich, her formidable
fleets extended all over the Mediterranean ; but they threw
away all useful knowledge, and put their trust in their riches :
the lonians and Eolians, a mere handful of men, took advan-
tage of their indignant rejectings, and took hold of every tiling
useful to Navigation, by which means they were able to con-
quer the formidable fleets of Persia, and at length to destroy that
vast Empire, which has not recovered the shock to this dry.—
Another Report, which is intended to suppress the ingenuity of
the Danes, is, that the improvement in making cables, which
cost this Kingdom sixty thousand pounds, is nothing more than
an hint taken from velvet-makerit and cloth-weavers. Lieute-
nant Cou nu is desirous to offer to• the notice of Officers and
seamen, a shifting lee-fore and main-lift, for the support'of the
lower yards in stormy, and in order to add to the man-
of-war-like appearance of his Majesty's ships, in fine
weather ; his lifts consist of two pendants with eyes ; one
to go over the boom-iron, the other to hook a tackle to from
the bollock eyebolt, because when led in this manner they will
not act so much against the braces when bracing up the yards,
as topping on the standing lifts does, and chafes the parts of the
purcnases against the foremast topmast shrouds.
And farther, to impress on the minds of young officers the
importance of helping the lower yards, he needs only add, that
he has known yards carried away in the slings when hauling
down the tacks, and bracing up the yards, for want of this kind
of support to the lee yard-arms.
The favouring the yards and masts on foreign stations beino-
so absolutely necessary, not only for the sake of saving the
country expense, but to form the complete officer, as masts
are frequently crippled in hot climates by extremes of dryness
and moisture; as a sure preventive he has invented an Hygro-
, meter and a scale for setting up the shrouds and swifters, and
occasionally casing the lanyards.
Chesterman-Place, Reading.
•
• Conspectus Telluris.

t And that the English velvet makers should have had the
i•iitty thousand pounds ifistead of the Dane.

THE SUN.

SOLEM QUIS DICERE F.ILSUM AUDEAT?

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1821.

We received this morning the French Papers
of Sunday. They do not contain any intelli-
gence of importance respecting the differences
between Russia and Turkey, and leave the
of peace or war as still doubtful. The ac-
counts from Spain are of a very afflicting nature,
not only with respect to the yellow fever, which
still rages in Catalonia, but also as regards the
political condition of that country, which appears
on the brink of a revolution. Extracts will be
found in our preceding colmuns.

Sc We

Extract of a Letter from Boston2Sept.S
are informed that the American Mission to the
Court of Brazils has terminated, in consequence
of the removal of that Court to Portugal, and
that JOHN APPLETON, Esq., Charge des Affaires,
will shortly return to America.—Capt. CtLisv,
from Aux Cayes, brings information that the
piratical boats, the principal rendezvous of which
is at Cape Tiberoon (the west end of Hispaniola),
are very troublesome, and cause great destruction
amongst the foreign commerce ; indeed very few
vessels of any description escape their vigilance;
and whenever they board a vessel they are sure
to rob it. Every thing remained quiet at Aux
Cayes, but there was a general depression of
commerce."

NEW ORLEANs, AUG. 17.—(Received this
morning.)—But little of the last year's cotton
remains to be shipped,but the growing crop pro-
mises to be abundant.

The letter of Sir RourniT WILSON to his Royal
Highness the Duke of YORK, of the Bth inst.
expressly declares that the writer (Sir ROBERT
WILSON,) has been " subjected to the severest
punishment which can be inflicted upon a British
Officer, without being told of what he is accused."
In the same letter, Sir ItoncitT al.io says, " To
defend myself against charges which, if they exist
at all in a tangible shape, are studiously concealed
from me, is evidently impossible."--It certainly
is impossible for any man to withhold assent from
the truth of this conclusion, and it is in our
humble judgment equally impossible for any man
to doubt that the infliction of punishment, under
such circumstances, must be in all cases a very
dangerous and improper exercise of authority.
On this subject we cordially subscribe to the
reasoning of the British Press, (See our extracts
from the Morning Papers). Whatever motives
may be supposed to have induced Government to
withhold a statement of the charges from the
public, there cannot be any good reason for with-
holding a statement of them from the party ac-
cused, and who has been so severely punished, as
he says, in utter ignorance of the offences imputed
to him. Sir ROBERT solemnly declares that he
cannot even " conjecture their nature, nor by
whom they are preferred, nor on whose state-
ments, misrepresentations, or fancies they may
rest ;" and with respect to the rumours which
have gone abroad regarding him, he says, " I
declare, upon my honour, that every one of these
allegations is utterly false, and that, in every
instance where the mention of names has enabled
me to trace those statemenWto their supposed
sources, their falsehood has either been at once
exposed and acknowledged, or they have been
disavowed by the parties said to have made
them."—We cannot but allow that this is very
like the language of a man conscious of inno-
cence. It by no means follows, we admit, that
he is innocent. But how are the Public, in the
absence of all information, to decide ? Until
Sir ROBERT WiLsoN has been convicted of an
offence, no one can refuse credit to assertions
made upon his honour. This credibility can
only be destroyed by the proof of the charges
imputed to hint. In the absence of proof, we
are compelled to think it more probable that
Government has been deceived—has been be-
trayed into unintentional error, and has acted
upon erroneous information, than that Sir Ro-
BERT WILSON has been guilty of wilful false--
hood. We really hope that not only the nature
of the offence, but the specific charge or charges
preferred, will be communicated to Sir ROBERT,
and an opportunity of vindication still afforded
to him.

ItivEttroor., OCT. B.—Copy of a Treasury
Letter, relating to the Importation of Wood from
British American Colonies :
" Treasury Chambers, Sept. 13.

" GENTLEMEN,—It having been represented to the Lords
C,omrnissioners of his Majcsty's•Treasury, that the •Officers of

the Customs in British North American Colonies have declinied
ganting Certificates, as required by the Section 9 and 11 of thd
Act of the Ist and 2d of George IV., Chap. 37, on the ground
of their not having received any instructions on this subjects
I have it in command from their Lordships to desire that the
necessary directionsPon this subject may be forthwith transmit;
tcd to the said Ofitcers lay you." And as it appears that, in con
sequence of the reeusals of the Officers of your department to
grant Certificates, several vessels have lately arrived in
country from the British North American Colonies .
these documents, and that they have, in consequence thereof,
not been admitted to Entry, I have further to desire you Will
direct your Officers to dispense with the produCtion of such Cer-
tificates, in all cases of vessels arriving from such Colonies pr
vious to the Ist day of December next.
(Signed)
" ARBUTHNOT.
" To the Commissioners of Customs."

NO E.—The Certificates required by the above-me.ntionea
Act were, that the wood or timber imported was really anti
bona fide the growth or production of some (specified) British
Colony or Plantation in America. •

CORN-EXCHANGE, OCT. 10.-Our supp;y of
this day was very large, with what was left over on Monday,
and a considerable fresh supply of New from Essex and Kent,
which made it difficult to obtain Monday's prices for Wheat ;.
Barley a large supply for the .early season, which met with IL
heavy sale, at a decline of 6s. per cplarter since Monday ;
Pease and Beans little alteration ; Oats a good supply, wl
little demand, but no variation since Monday in the pries:: ,