The Sun.
London, England, 1821-12-21 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING, &c.

DEAL, DEC. 20.—Wind -S.W. moderate.—The Juliana
East Indiaman. Capt. Ogilvie; and the William and Mary,
Worts; and Tobago, Westmorland, have sailed for the-Rive-,-.
The Atalanta and dr:. Prince Leopold, with several more Ships
from the River, are this evening turning into the thrA:ns. The
outward-bound still retrain.

DOVER, DEc.2o.—Wir.d-W.S.IV.—No Arrivals:---thir bar
is getting better very fast ; small vessels can now go'otit and
in. Sailed the Lady. Cockburn packet, with a mail; from

France.

PoriTsarovilt, bcc..lo.—Wind morning was N E., and
some of the outward-bound got under eigh, but it again shifted
to the S.E., when they came to anchor- again. Came into
harbour his Majesty's ship Grasshopper and Ontario. Arrived
his Majesty's cutter Quail, from a craize. Sailed the Come.
lean cutter on ditto.

WaTEnroiro, DEC. 18..—Yesterday the wind was S.S.W.
by E.N.W. and S.W. All the day clear, with flight
showers of rain, and moderate breeze; all this day. At night
heavy gales, which suddenly increasing, became at 8 P. ac. a
perfect storm, attended with thick darkness and heavy Kahl;
the sea all in a foam, and the tide running in and out of the
Docks quite irregular, which continued with unabated fury for
an hour and a half, during which time several houses were
dainagid, and many vessels driven on shore from their anchors,
but I hope none of them materially injured. All the remainder
of the night dreadful thunder and lightning, with heavy squalls.
A brig is on shore under the North Point of Broom Hill; and
as the sea is so very heavy, I fear she will be lost.
DUBLIN, Dnc. 18.—Nine o'Clock, r. as.—lt has blown a
gale all day, and still continues.
VARIVIO u Ty, DEC. 20.—Arrived the London, lliorbat; frOin
Ilarriburgh, in company with several others, having been six
weeks on their passage.
LIVEAPCOE, DEC. 19.---Wind W.N.W.—Arrived the
George, Guthrie, from Bahia; sailed the 28th of October.
Several ships have put back.
The Prospect, Hull, from Kiel to Hull; and Concordia,
with timber, &c., are totally lost, near Stromstadt, with their
Crews.

The Union, Jameson, of . Kincardine, from Petcrsburgh to
London, put into Copenhagen about the 7th inst. in a very
leaky state, and would be obliged to discharge great part of her
cargo.

The Union, Willshire, from Riga to Londonderry, ran ott..,
shore near Dragoc previous to the 11th inst.
The Concord, trotn Riga to 1., ado 1, driven on shore. it
Bornholm on the Ist inst., has gut ()a; after throwing Par.( of
her cargo overboard; carried into harbour.
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Thelrigkert, Lindt, from Newcas!le to Cbpenhagen, was
lost 14th inst. !IL-4r the craw.
±lllv-Woburn, -Mi. and Mi. Dougan, who were pas-
sengers in the Lady Lushington,. left her at ..11adras, and hive
arrived at Calcutta. .

MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECKS. •
EASTBOURNE, DEC. 19.:—Yeiterday. morning, about four
hours before day-break, a French trading vessel, -of that des-
cription called a chaSse-mar&, was driven.on shore by. the :607
lence of a tremendous gale, under part of the high cliff-near
Beachy Bead, known hereabouts by the appellatia of Belle
Tout, or Belt Out. Her 'nanie proved to b.: La Jettne 'Vani, •
of Vannes, last from Canteret, .a small port near Brest, bouriet
to Dunkirk, with a cargo rf salt. The night was utterly dark
—the wind blew a hurricane directly upon the 'tiore—the surf
rolled mountains high over the ;vcits—tiie vessel struck heavily,
—and, in the next instant, one huge wave swept the whole crew,
consisting of six persons, from the deck. Such was the irresisa
tible force of this mighty 'surge, that it threw four 'of the crew
completely high and dry upon the beach, and severely bruised
one poor fellow by rolling broken planks and spars repeatedly.
Over is breast and back. The Captain,whose name was Silvestre,
and his son, a lad of only eleten years old, were never seen from
the moment that this wavestruck.the 'vessel. The father and
the child must have perished together. A more miserable fate
seemed to await the survivori They had been thrown on shore
at a spot between Birling-Gap and Cow Gap, where; flir Pour
miles,. the cliff presents a wall of chalk, perfectly pdpen-:
dicular, without road or path, or any other means of t&ent,
in height from four tO eight hundred feet. The tide !rowed in
upon them like a race—the extreme points of the cliff, hOthelist
and west, were already, buried. in breakers; they, joined.thair
feeble voices together and shoufed for succour, but • the •rpAr-
ing of the tempest seemed to mock the effbrt ;• and they. had '
given up all hope of escape, when crawling alOng,`th:tr;triot...
of the precipice, they discovered a pile of broken fragratnts •
which had fallen from the mass of chalk above. Aiding each
other, they clambered to the top of this heap, and in a
few moments the surf ranged round the foot of it— a'fright- •.
ful cauldron of boiling and whirling waters. With dismal:ore-
botlings they awaited the result, clinging to each other,' and
trembling lest each successive wave, as it ook the fount/. t:On .
of their place of refuge, might roll the clumps of chalk from
underneath them. sor were they without fears that the • -
whereon they sat might be overfioWed when' the floOd-tftle.
should attain its height; until, in groping about, one of them
grasped a bunch of sea, cale, and this plant proving-the ocean
was not accustomed to reach the summit, was hailed
as the olive blanch,: that foretold their preservation. In: his: •
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situation, chilled. with wet and cold, a wide roaring ocean n front •.• •
and an insurmountable precipice behind, these four iniser,4le.
mariners sat huddled and aghast upon their precarious,peren,
for more than five hours, until the ocean slowly retedict,; anti
they were discovered by the centinels of the Coast Bloekatic
Service, whose establishment upon our coasts. is the i7eatrst••,..
blessing that ever a wise Government conferred upon those ,
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" that go down to the sea in ships, and occupy their busines iii
great waters." 'By these active and humane fellows -the-mor .
Frenchmen' were immediately conveyed to the watchlitense ,at
Birling Gap, placed by a rousing fire, clad in the EnOsli sea-
man's dry apparel, and fed from the platters of their ll'ontei
enemies. Too much praise cannot be bestowed upon .Meat:s..:
Brown, Wheeler, and Lethbridge, AdMiraity Midshipmert.of
his Majesty's ship Severn,. who, leading parties of 'seamen to
the spot, succeeded in collecting together • and removing to' a
place of safety, the anchors, cables, sails, maSts,cordage,. and
timbers, that lay scattered along the beach. The names of the
survivors, whom we have just seen, and who appear to be fast
recovering from the effects of their sufferings, are as follow
Guillaume Bariet, Guillaume Picard, Guillaume de Guignin,
and Jean Vincent Margate.

THE MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE; DEC. 21.

Our supply of this day is very short, and the best Corn fully
maintains last day's pnces, but the inferior not saleable witk-
out a great reduction. The present wet weather is much
against the damp corn coming to hand fit for use.