The Sun.
London, England, 1821-11-27 00:00:00

tterefore, even on a fair calculation 0.7 profi't and
loss, a matter worth serious consideration, wile-
tiler it would not he,more for the advantage of
the country to buy up tie comalifOons, to paY
the amount from the public • monel', and thits
save the Half-pay of two Cornets and;five En-
atnountipg to 3511.105. a-year. The an-
nuities these gentlemen (all of them young) have
purchased exceed 10 percent. This is a subject
which ought earnestly to occupy the attention of
an economical Government.

It is somewhat remarkable, that of the sub-
scription for Sir ROBERT WI Ls.° N, which at pre-
sent amounts to between seven and eight thou-
sand pounds, no less a sum than 1413/. Ss. should
have been subscribed in the county of Dur-
ham, and by persons immediately connected
with it ; and that 1390/. of such amount should
have been bucked up by only 'nine indivi-
duals. There must be something very remark-,
, able in the character and disposition of the
Whigs of thiS county, who alone have subscribed
on such an occasion one-fifth of the amount raised
by the whole United Kingdom. To what are
we to attribute this liberality ? That surely can-
not be termed loyalty which impugns the consti-
tutional conduct of the King,—for We cannot
find that those who subscribe to shew their dis-
approbation of the dismissal of the Ex-General,
have ever denied ..the right of the King to dis-
charge a disobedient officer
,from his service.—
( Durham Advertiser, .Nov. 24 )
MYSTERIOUS tiISCOVERY.--(SIOCkhO/M,Nov.i.)
—The following account has been in circulation
here since yesterday :—" A very loud noise was
lately heard during the night, in the castle ofl
Upsal.. lii consequence, some persons -.scut to''.
the place from whence the noise came, and dis-
covered that a stone having become loose, had
fallen down, by which an opening was disclosed
that led toa. vault under the castle, the existence
of which was entirely unknown. After going
• down into it, they found, it is said, beside other'
things, two large iron chests, with considerable
treasures. Near these chests was found the
skeleton of a person who had been hanged, with
some old articles of clothing ; the skeleton, as
well as, the clothes, crumbled into dust when
they were touclied."—Another account says—
" Two iron chests have been sent to the Govern-

ment, which were dug up out of a hill near
Upsal, and which are to be opened here. There
were found with them the skeleton of a person
hanged, and some clothes which fell into dust on
touching them."
GALVANIC PIIENOMENA.—The body of George
Thom, who was executed at Aberdeen last week,
having, agreeably to his sentence, been given for
dissection to Drs. Skeene and Ewing, was. sub-
jected to a series of galvanic experiments,of which,
with their results, we give the following brief
account body was brought into the•dis-
secting-room about an hour after suspension,
and still retained nearly its natural heat. The
upper part of the spinal cord andl'zhe sciatic
nerve were immediately laid bare, and a galvanic
arc was then established by applying the positive
wire to the spine, and the.negative to the sciatic
nerve, when a general ConvulOve Starting of the
body was produced. Another communication was
then made between the spine and the ulnar
nerve, and considerable contractions took place
in the arm and fore-arm. When the circle was
formed with the spine and radial nerve, both at
the elbow and wrist successively, powerful con-
traction's of the muscles of the whole hand and
arm were
,produced. The hand was closed with
such violence, as to resist the 'exertions of one of
the assistants to keep it open. When a connexion
was established between the radial nerve and the
supra and infra orbita nerves, strong contractions
of the muscles of the brow,Tace, and mouth, were
produced, so as to affect the under jaw, and to
distort the countenance in a very singular manner.
The eye-lids were strongly contracted ; and %-vben
the wire was applied directly to, the ball of the
eye, the iris contracted and dilated very sen-
sibly. A galvanic circle being formed, first be-
tween the parvagum and diaphragm, and then
between that muscle and the great sympathetic,
little obvious effect was produced. After applying
galVanism directly to the nerves above-mentioned,
the skin of the face was moistened with water,
And upon running the wire over different parts
of it, similar effects.were produced in the muscles
of the face, as by direct communication made
with the nerves. The tongue also moved in
all directions, by touching the surface with
the galvanic Wire. The whole experiments
were performed in abont an hour and a quarter,
when the heat of the body was conSiderably.di-
minished. A powerful galvanic apparatus (con-
sisting of about 300 pair of plates) was used ;
but from not being insulated, a considerable
quantity of the galvanism escaped ; to that every
metallic stibstance about the table was highly
charged.—(Edinburgh Paper.)
TRICKS UPON TRAYELLERS.—The post-boys
who drive into London have lately,hit upon a
new scheme for raising the wind. It appears
that
,certain Hotel-keepers have submitted to the
imposition of paying half-a-guinea for every fa-
mily driVen to their house ; the consequence is,
that when a Noblerrian or Gentreman directs the
post-boy to drive to any of -the Hotels that do
not subscribe to the whip tax, he is informed
that a fever rages in, or the Hotel is quite
spit, or
undergoing repair, or some such insinuation, and
by this means they succeed in driving the cus-
tomer into their own direction. 'We understand
that some of the most respectable Hotel-keepers
at the west end of the town have had a meeting
on the subject, and are determined to make an
example of the first that it can be clearly brought
home to.
SUPERSTITIOLTS BARBARITY.—LateIy a mon-
ster in human shape, in the neighbourhood of
Dorchester, who had a disease in his neck which
is supposed to be the evil, but which was not. so
severe as to confine him at home,. cut open a
puppy a month old, and held it to his neck till
it died.—(Bath jcurnal.)
A meteor was observed at Southampton' on
Thursday, descending vertically in the north.
It was of conattlerable size, and created,'for Ap
seconds, a great light.