The Sun.
London, England, 1821-12-29 00:00:00

MERCANTILESIIIPPING) &c.

DEAL, DEC. 28.—Wind S.S.E.—It has blown a tremendous.
gale of wind from the S.S.E. great part of the day, and still
continues. A ship and brig arrived from the westward ; the
brig went to RamSgate Harbour, and the ship brought up in the
Downs,• supposed to be the Caledonia from Bengal. :slue. of
the ships in the. Downs have drove much, although riding with
2 anchors down and top-gallant masts and yards struck, parti-
cularly the William Fairlie Indianian and the Coromandel
American ship. Some of the vessels have suffered during this
tempestuous day. The Phoenix, for New South NVales, was
riding under Dungeness the 26th inst. all well.
St vEI.I O'CLOCE.—Wind S. more moderate.
ILFRACOMBE, DEC. 27.—PaSsed up Channel the Albion,
Price, from (iibraltar ; she passed a large quantity of balk and
deals on 2,lth inst.

PoitTsai° writ, DEC. 23.—Wind S.—lt has blown hard all
day from the S.E. and S., and no communication has been had
with the ships. The Ellen, Barton ; and Belle Alliance,
Rolfe, have drove, but the whole of the vessels appear to be
riding in safety.
HARWICH, DEC. 28.—Arrived the Sarah, Bell, from
Shields, with loss of anchor and cable ; and the Pauls of the
windlass upset ; Margery, Biggs, from St. Petersburgh for
London, with loss of anchor and cable ; she sailed on the 23d
inst., and has experienced dreadful weather. Several other
vessels have come in, some with loss of anchors and cables, but
it blows too hard for any boats to go off'. Sailed the Prince of
Orange packet, for Holland ; and Lord Nelson, ditto, for
Cuxhaven, each with mails.
DOVER, DEC. 28.—1 t has blown a strong gale last night
and to-day. At 1 P. as. the wind shifted from S.S.W. to S.E.,
and blew a tremendous storm, with rain, until four, when it
shifted to the S.W. and more moderate.

MARGATE, DEC.2:i.----Tfiell;;;Kich arrived yesterday,
reported she saw a large ship working up the Swin yesterday,
and from her description, some hopes are entertained that it
may have been the Juliana. A large ship parted from her
anchor, but has brought up again.
YARMOUTH, DEC. 28.--. The St. Louie, Coudin, from
Rochford for Havre, was towed in here yesterday, with loss of
mizen-mast, foretop-mast, and bowsprit, and otherwise much
damaged ; she must discharge. A collier, froth Newcastle to
Jersey, with bottles and coals, has come on shore at the back of
the Pier ;—she is the Industry, Dubois.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India
House, when the undermentioned Captains were sworn to the
command of their respective ships, viz :—Capt. John Barnett
Sotheby, London, Madras and China • Henry Andrew Drun--
mond, Castle Bundy, Bombay and ehina.
A Berwick smack arrived in the River yesterday, and reports
having SE:.r the wrecks of three vessels on the Yarmouth Sands.

DISPATCH.—The Triton, Bussey, sailed from
Boston, the 9th of September, arrived at Liver-
pool in 18 days; was there 25 days, and returned
to Boston the 21st ult. in 30 days, making the
whole time she was absent only 73 days, and she
had a full freight out and home.
DUNGENESS LIGHT HOUSE.---By farther infor-
mation of the awful effects of the lightning,
which, as stated in our last, struck the tower in
the forenoon of Sunday, we learn, that a chasm
two feet in width, in a gig-zag direction, has
been made in it from the top to the bottom.--
The rooms, through all of which the electric
fluid passed, were strewed with the rubbish of
bricks and mortar, the materials of its construc-
tion. Some old reflectors, and the tin utensils
for cooking, were, some melted, others rolled up
like a scroll. The small dwelling attached to
it below was wholly unroofed, and the en-
tire building so shaken as to render it dan-
gerous to ascend for the purpose of lighting,
although a light continues to be sheen; and it is
not improbable that the first violent gale from
the northward may tumble the whole fabric to

the ground. As soon as the state of the building
was perceived, Mr. Marshal, the Assistant Sur-
geon of the Coast Blockade, visited it for
the purpose of rendering any assistance that
might be required by the inmates; and although
the shock appeared to be most severe in the
room in which the Keeper of the Light House
and his family, consisting of eight or nine per-
sons, were assembled, it was gratifying to find
that, providentially, not the slightest injury had
been sustained by either of them. The Light
House is, we believe, the property of T. W.
Coat, Esq. of Norfolk, and must he taken down
and wholly rebuilt.—(Kentish Gazette, Dec. 28.)
CHRISTMAS Honsr. Snow.—The Yorkshire
Gazette says—" This show commenced last
Monday ; but as the Mart was confined prin-
cipally to the stables of the Inns both on Mon-
day and Tuesday, it was difficult to determine
what business was done. It, however, got
known that several buyers had arrived, and that
good horses of every description «ere likely to be
in considerable demand. One hunter was sold
from Mr. Hardcastle's stables, the White Swan,
for the high price of 200 gs. ; and coach .horses
and roadsters fetched freely from 50 to SOgs.
each. Great hopes were anticipated of Wed-
nesday. and Thursday, and in some measure
realised. The fair became general nearly over
:lie whole city. The supply of horses was im-
mense, and coach-horses and machiners were in
uncommon request. A fact came to light from
these purchases, worthy recording. It appears,
that the extra demand for coach-horses arises out
of the new regulations of the Post-office, which
it is said cause the death. of two horse son an
average in three journies of 200 miles. Horses
fit for the public coaches therefore met with full
prices, and much business was done in the
fair, by coach proprietors from all parts of the
kingdom."

There is a copper coin in the possession of
Colonel Ross, of Nigg, of a size somewhat less
than a farthing, which was found in the ruins of
his old farm offices. On one side of it the Scotch
thistle is easily traced, but the impression on

the other side seems difficult to ascertain. The
date, however, is perfectly distinct, being 918. We
cannot venture to affirm, that fhis is a Scotch coin,
the silver penny of Alexander 11., 1214, being
the oldest we have any knowledge of. The
coin in the possession of Colonel Ross, however,
deserves the attention of the antiquary, as it may
strengthen the belief that there are Scotch coins
of older date than that last mentioned.—(lm:er-
ness Courier.)

, TIMIDITY OF THIEVES.—As llerdsfield, the
officer who attends the Guildhall Justice-room,
was passing on Monday evening, in the City-
road, near where the Canal intersects it, he ob-
served three suspicious looking fellows with an
apparently heavy load in a sack : although Herds-
field is but a small man, and there were three
stout fellows to resist him, and in a place where
there was bat little chance of his procuring as-
sistance, no sooner had he challenged them and
required to know what they had got, than they
threw their load at him, and made off in different
directions. On examining the sack, it was found
to contain a roll of about 50 or 60 yards of fine
flannel, no doubt stolen from some shopkeeper in
the ❑eighbourhood.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOVV.STREET.—OzovAx2iI IN IRELAND.—Yeiltertiar,
eleven o'clock, Bond, the officer, against whom Mr. T. 'B
Cu; of Soho-square, preferred a charge of assault on Thurs-
day, attended before B. BIRNIE, with two persons, who he
said would prove all that he had stated with respect to the con-
duct of 'lllr. Cox, to be true. Those persons were, a publican
in Newgase-market. and a tradesman of the same place.
Mr. cox was called, but did not answer, nor did he appear
in the course of the day, and the matter therefore rests for the
present undetermined.
A man, pi respectable appearance, who did not give Ilia
min!, complained to the 11Iagistrate, that on the night of Mi.
Cox's affair he was in the two-shilling gallery, and feeling
much displeased at the piece, entitled " Giovanni in Ireland,
he hissed, and cried " Off, off:" Upon which a man, who
said lie was an officer, seized him by the collar, and dragged
bins from the seat, and he was turned completely out of tee
theatre. Ile was going again that (last) night, with a party of
friends, to the boxes, and he wished to know whether, if he should
think proper again to express his disapprobation, he would be
likely to experience similar treatment ?
The Magistrate said, that would deptned, of course, upon hie
own conduct. If he behaved properly he would not be molest-
ed ; but if he conducted himself in such a manner as to create
a disturbance, lie would most likely be similarly dealt with.
The applicant said, lie had not behaved improperly ; he con-
ceived he had a right to express his opinion, and he was anaa-
ous to know, before he ventured to go again, whether for sift-
ply doing so he was liable to be dragged from the theatre by a
constable ?
The Magistrate said he could give no other answer, that that
it would depend upon the demeanour of the applicant, and no
would do as he pleased about going.
The applicant departed, observing that he should try the
matter.
AaLEOITOUGII-STREET.—CRIeI. Cox.—Yesterday, a,
case came ass. charg.• from St. Anne's watch-house, of which th.,
following is an outline :--The parties are, a Gentleman, bald,
ing a situation in the E'cise, and the wife of a reapectalele
tradesman. The husband having a suspicion of his wife's infi-
delity, waited within view of an accommodating hotel in the
neighbourhood of Soho-square, when he saw his wife and her
cher ami come out. Ile commenced an attack upon the marl,
administered to him severe personal chastisement, and then cent
both to the watch-house.
The Magistrate had not the power of affording maltase to the
husband, and the case was dismissed.
The wife, who has three children, walked from the office un-
der her seducer's arm.
111assioNallousta—NOVEL CHARGE OF FORCERY.—A
man named James Henderson was brought up on a charge of
having feloniously altered the number of the sixteenth :thereof
a lottery-ticket, for the purpose of obtaining the amount of:the.
share in another ticket, which had been drawn a prize of P.OOOl.
Mr. Bish stated, that some time since there was a ticket,taern-
bered 18,8611, which had been drawn a prize of 20001., sad the
number and amount had been published in the usual manner.
About a week ago the prisoner presented a sixteenth, whicil: wait
marked 18,8611, and asked what the amount of the share gas,
and at the same time demanding payment for it. Upon exami-
nation, it was found that the number had been altered from
18,26 S to lthalfl. The clerk to whom the prisoner presented
the share detained it, but suffered him to depart. lie came,
however, yesterday morning, to the office, at Cornhill, and in-
sisted upon having the money for the ticket, whiCh he per feted
in declaring to be the same as he had bought, and that he IJ;d
not altered it in any way. Under these circumstances, Ale.
Bish said he was under the necessity of giving the prisoner into
the custody of an officer.—The prisoner voluntarily stated, is
his defence, that he had bought the share for 11. 4s. of
Bish's clerk, when he was interrupted by the Lord Mayor„wbJ
informed him that he was saying too much, and that, fur his
own safety, he had better reserve himself. The prisoner, }ow_
ever, declared that the ticket was the same that he had bought,
and that he knew no more of any alteration having been made in
it than the child unborn. Mr. Isish expressed his regret that the
prisoner had not had sufficient prudence to take himself off
when he was at liberty, and had called again, which gave him
(Mr. Bish) no alternative but to consign the prisoner to the law.
'l'lle Lord Mayor ordered the, prisoner to be remanded, that no-
tice of the ease might be given to the .Solicitor for the Stamp..
office. The prisoner, who did not appear at first to be aware of
the serious nature of the Charge preferred against him, scented
all at once to be struck at his dangerous situation, and made an
unsuccessful attempt to escape from the officer on his way back
to prison.
CiI'ILDHAI.I.--Vesterday Mr. li Unitale, the Secretary of
the Coleserr cgiosae AssociaTiox, applied to the Sittig
Magistrate, Alderman Tno 'insole, for a warrant against see
other of Carlile's men, who had succeeded the two who had
been taken out of the shop on the day before, and on a charge
preferred by the same witnesses as in the cases of the latter, for
selling Carlile's Address to the Reformers of Great Britain,
which was sworn to be the same Work as that on which verdi,:ta
had been found, declaring it to contain blasphemous and sedi-
tious libels.
Alderman THOMPSON, without hesitation, granted the wive
rent, • and it,:was put into the hands of Leadbeater, the Marshal-
man, who went, accompanied by the two witnesses, to identify
the man, but returned shortly after without the prisoner. It
was understood that the man against whom the warrant had
been granted, had left the shop, and had been succeeded by
another.
lIATTON-GARDEN.—IMPOTITANT TO FARMF.It9.•—YeS.
terday, Mr. Teesdale, the Inspector of Pavements in Somers-
town, brought up to this office Richard Criblee, the driver of a
country waggon, for not having the name and address of the
owner and a number upon it.
Mr. Ilaiteinsi appeared for the defendant, and pleaded that
the owner's name was on the waggon. The plate was produced
before the Magistrate, but in such an obliterated state, that it
could not be seen sufficiently clear, according to Act of Parlia-
ment, to exonerate ttic defendant from the fine.
The prosecutor urged most strenuously the want of a num-
ber on the waggon tor a second conviction; but Mr. 1-lARxrat
successfully cc. -.tended, that as the waggon came from a great;r
distance than five miles from Temple-bar, a number was net
necessary : and after reference being had to several Acts of i'ae..
liament, it was decided by the Magistrate, that beyond tire
miles from Temble-bar a number was not required. ( crw-
quently, it is not binding upon farmers living more than five
miles from Temple-bar to have a number on the carts and wag-
gons which they may have occasion to send into town ; bht
their name and address must be inserted in legible characters
on a prominent part of the vehicle.
UNION-HALL.—ROBBERY OF A BLEACH-GREEN.—J.
Dillon, J. Miles, J. Bartlett, and J.lliennett, were brought be-
fore T. B. A LLEYN I: and It. limsomi, Esqrs., charged with
having robbed the extensive bleaching grounds of Mr. David
Dixon, at Mitcham.
Mr. Dixon stated, that on the night of the 20th November
last, his bleach ground was robbed of 20 pieces of unbleached .
calico. On tile 24th of the same month, he received an anony-
mous letter, charging the prisoners Dillon and Miles with hav-
ing been concerned in the robbery ; and in a few days after he
received information, on which he could rely, that the prisoner
Bartlett had been seen going towards his bleach grounds after
twelve on the night the robbery was committed: in consequence
of which he obtained warrants for the apprehension of all the
prisoners, Bennett being a known associate of the others.
Charles Shepherd, a printer at Mitcham, stated, that on the
night of the robbery he was standing near his door, *little alter
twelve o'clock at night, and the prisoner Bartlett passed hint in
the direction of Mr. Dixon's bleach-green. The witness spoke
to him, as they were acquainted, but Bartlett made no reply.
The witness added, that the direction in winch the prisoner
Bartlett was walking was in a contrary way to his home.
John West, a boy, apprentice to the prisoner Miles, who is
a chimney-sweeper at Mitcham, deposed, that on a Monday,
about three or four weeks ago, he went with his master front
Mitcham to London in a cart, and that near the turnpike they
were suet by the prisoners Dillon and Bartlett, who had a bag
with them, which his master assisted them to put in the curt,
and all came to town together. On coming to town, they drove
to Islington, where the bag was taken into a house and empti,a
of almost all its contents, in which state it was replaced in the
cart. The party then drove to iient-street, in the Borough,
where they dined on beef-steaks, and while at dinner one of the
prisoneis said to the witness c.Eat away, for your master has
done well with the soot atuff." his master desired him, if, on
his return home, he should be asked where they had been, to
say they had been sweeping the chimneys of a workhouse in
Streatham. The witness and his master went back the same
day to Mitcham ; the other two prisoners stopped at a public-
house on the road.
This witne,s was cross-examined by Mr. Ttirgroen who
was Counsel for the prisoners, but did net vary from his direct
evidence. Ile admitted that he did not see what was in the
bag the prisoners brought to Islington, but he knew it was not
soot by the feel.
Mr. TunToN contended, that there was no evidence on
which to commit the prisoners.
Mr. Dixon said that circumstances connected with the rob-
bery were coining to light daily, and if farther time were al-
lowed, he had no doubt he should produce conclusive evidence.
The Magistrates, after some consultation, remanded the pri-
soners till Tuesday week.

Thursday night MICHAEL CONWAY, a letter-
man in the London Docks, being on duty on
board a vessel, and walking on deck, was by a
sudden gust of wind blown oft and drowned, be-
fore any assistance could be rendered him. He
has left a wife and two children to lament his loss.