The Sun.
London, England, 1817-11-15 00:00:00

SHIP NEWS.

PorersMotrrit, Nov. 14.—A1•riveci the Ocean
transport from the. Isle of France, the Cape, am
S'. Heleni.

DEAL, Nov: 14 --Th►e wind this, morning was
about South, and several of the outward-bound
turned away, but the wind soon, bBcking to the
S. W. and blowing fresh, they have all put back
again. Came doWn from the River the Colum-
bia, for Columbia River; Salisbury, for Sierra
Leone ; and the Margaret, for Buenos Ayres.
• TORBAY, Nov. 13.—Sailed his Majesty's ship
Tiber on a cruise.

BANFF, Nov. S.—Put hi here the shop Duchess
Of Gordon, from Firmachry to LondOn, with her-
rings, leaky, and,rnust unload.

WHITEY, Nov. 13.----Arrived last night the
Lively, SCOTLAND, of London, from Newcastle
for St.. Michael's, with damige, havin: been run
foul of bra brig on the night of the 11th inst. and
carried away her bulwarks, part 7t the gunwale,
and tore 'the main-sail.

PLYMOUTH, Nov. 13,—Came in the Sylvia,
JEWELL, from Palermo to Aut‘verp, in distre'SS.
On the 11th inst., to the Westward-of the Lizard,
she spoke the schooner Venus, of Sweden, %vitt)
the loss of fore-mdst, two boats, bulwarks, and
three of her crew was,cd overboard, in a gale of
wind. She also spoke, off the Land's End, yes-
terday, the French ship Constantia, front Rio Ja-
neiro for Havre, out 90'days.

HARWICH, Nov. 14.—Arrived the Jane packet
with a mail from Gottenhurgh, and Earl Leicester
packet with ditto from Cuxhaven. The schooner
Delaval, ELSTAL, was carried into Woodbridge
Haven on the 13th by two salvage boats, in a very
leaky state.

The folkiwing is from The Dublin Evenbig Post
of Tuesday last
" O'Cnis:Noit AND Stu FRANCIS BURDETT.—A
,paragraidi has appeared in some of the Dublin Pa-
pers, stiting that 0 Connor had received a letter
reran Sir Fraud, Burdett, desiring all intercourse-
should cease between. forgery to that
effect may hare been put in circulation, but we are
authorized most confidently to
.assert, no, such
lerter from Sir Francis Burdett has been re-
ceiv,d by O'Connor. A very err-•oeous ksti-
must the public have formed of the
mind and character of Sir Francis Burdett, coldd•
t•ltch an assertion be credited by any but those who
(Hight in the_abuse of public men, and in.sowing
dissiuinn. among friends."

The above, article is a proof that, notwith-
standiog all that has happened, Sir FRANCIS BUR-
DETT will not lose the credit of the connexion.

Admiral Sir HOME POPHAM is returped to town
from Chatham,. where he had been several days
On a isit of inspection tea the Syhille frigate, Capt.
MAccotst, appointed to convey her to the chief
command Nu the Jamaica station.
Sir JOHN Cox lIIPPESL'EY is arrived In Rome
upon someiniporiant business.
Thanhs- of the Court of Directors of the.
East India Company have been given to JOSEPH
TINIEWELL, Esq. of Charles-street,Soho, for a Va-
luable . communication for preventing Dry • not
in timber, and the fiubSect has been referred to a
Committee.

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We I..ef te,!:ret Vt) th't
thoile:Wl4 t'his had 1,,m5;
fl red imdei• t;f.ht-Aitli, and had

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Icinoved,to, -aritrits places', in,' hopes thar .61411;2r
•it air would contrbitte to his:, ie'roverv, arid at
lent:th• obtained an appointment at the Cape (')I
1-10p.e, i.elieve by the kindness ut 'he
tit es, tu Nlinistry, who, tO theirltonotir, are re--
ot political aifterelice`i Wh'en lanilable
~Meet is in stew, atr.l who, inde'ed, are suopOsed
to be SO liberal as seldom to decline the (ipporiii:-
nity oroviding for their Ooponeatt, veer) when
her f'ri'ends have reasonable expectations. ti(iw-
eve. this m y he, the appointrneult Of Mr. THoirals,
.SHERID‘N Must have excited commendation. as
-it may be considered as a due tribute TO the pOliti-
cKl
consistency of his celebrated Father, who re-
mained firm to the general interests of his party,
:tut who ivas a iimated by a spirit of trite Patriot-
iisrn, and came forward in supporting the honour
Of his Country, when that Party meanly seceded
froM their public duty, or eudeavourel to
thwart those measures of • Government which
were esSential to the national Welfare and
Security. It was therefore a Sort of dignified
equity in Ministers to reward the father
in a provision for tlie son, as the former, aroid'st
all the pressure of-domestic ernbarrassinents, could
never be weaned from a staunch attachment to
his ifarty. We hope that ministerial patronage,
will always be founded On• the same just and
liberal priuciples. But to return to Mr. Pao-
MAS, SHERIDAN. This Gentleman poSsessed talents
that, if his health bad perMitted, might have
raised him at least to hereditary 'distinction, if he
had not been more fortunate •in his choice of
connexions. fie was a .good scholar.,
lie possessed talent, of the most promising de-
scription.. •As a -companion he was animated,
good-hunmured, and full of anecdote. Though
without fortune', or the hopes of fortune, he
was governed by•no sordid- impulse in chasing
a wife, shut selected a Lady whose only treasures
Were her virtues and good sense. The following
is given -as an outline of his history :

Mr. SHERIDAN has left a widow and several.
childten, two of are now at the cape,
and, we think, were born there. He was one of
the -rill of the venerable Dr. PARR, from whose
tuition he proceeded to• Cambridge. For a short
time he served in the army, and W 4.3 with the
Earl of MotRA, as his Aid-dc-Camp in Scotland,
when be formed an attachment to, the Larry he
has now left, the datighrer 'of a Scotch Gentle.-
man of the name of CALLENDER. Either iniMe-
tliately before or soon after his death, Mrs. Stte-
lIIDAti broke a blood vessel, but was recovering
when our account came away. The situation
held by .Mr. SHERIDAN is that of Colonial Pay-
master, the. duties of which are very slight, and
the emoluments one thousand pounds a year.; Al-
. though the state .of his health prevented his
sharing, in the usual way, the Itootries of the
table, his convivial faculties were as popular at
the Cape as those of his father were in Ent;-
land ; and his house was free" ,ented with parries
from the Garrison and the Civil Department.. lie
was the son of RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN by
his first wife, the daughter of Mr.-,LINLEY, and
was the only child of that marriage. Thus in
little more than a year have fallen three members
of the same family, all well known to the world—
the Orator, the widow, and his son.---Mr. SHE-
RIDAN is said to have departed this life on the
12th of lait September.
The only offspring now of this celebrated
family is• CHARLES SHERLDAN, BSI". the SOll
of the Right Honourable RrcnARD BRINSLRY
SHERIDAN by his second wife and from all
we haveheard of this Gentleman, he i 3 likely to
uphold its intellectual character. lie is esteemed
as a schOlar, and admired as a friend. It is un-
derstood that be haS devoted, himself to the
and, if so, we little doubt, arid we earnestly hope,-
that he will rise to high honours in the ',rotes-
, Sion, 01 whieti it is very...probable that he will at
'least become a distinguished ornament.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 14.—T.Ite. following Gentle-
men were admitted to degrees on Wednesday
last

NIV.TF.FS OF ARTS.

Charles Semple, of Clare-4 fall.
Thomas Henry Backhouse, of Pernbrolse-Hall.
Rev. Alfred Lawrence, of Christ College.
Rev. James [lost e,. of Christ College.

BACIIELf,R IN CIVIL LAW.

Edward Kinnersly, Esq. of

The s►►bject of the Nortisian prize essay for the
present year is,—". What confirmation does the.
credibility of ti,e Gospel History derive from the
number and Concurrence of the Evangelists ?"

A young woman who was sentenced to rleath in
1812 petitioned the ntroswr, through the medium
of the Princess CHA!tLQTTE ; her prayer.
,was
successful, and she Ir4s now turned ont to be'a
worthy member of r,ociety.. She had .been se-
duced, and committed the theft in consequence of
the desertion of her betrayer.
Two men, who were apprehended at Gainsbro'
on the sth inst. for selling crackers, being put•into
prison until the next morning, exhibited an in-
stance of 'mendicant ingenuity on the prison-wall
as follows :

" Farewell ny friends, for I must go,
" Crackers have proved thy overthrow ;
•
" my advice, and sell no more,
" .But beg yOur bread fetinn dotar to door."

Et MASsE.—The Liverpool Mercury Contains
an advertisement for two or three hundred tailors.
---I.lles`s us ! what a fume there twist be where
such a number of cross•legged gentry pradii
their profession !
A case of bastardy, of a most atrocious de,
scription, has been heard at. the Sussex Eastern
County Sessions. The parents of the child
ware a labotuee at Rottingden, between 50 and
60 years of age, named Moefui•d, and his only
daughter !

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Writii)g, 1;f tht. rikoit eminent vret at,eil: cs 4.-
t'iculas th'e,bciti,l) and Irish, from the rarht t ere.,

the present time. c New Edition, _.reeiied and .11 I d
by LEX. CIIALNIEX3, F. S. A.; Thi ty•twO 0.

itiviravniNs, &C. &C.

The name of Mr. 'CHALMERS is Stlffirient in I,
coninl'end any work that collies from Ilia bend
.His 'leare'lii judgment, and -industry, beet! bree
• long •knOwn ,And. often di,played ' with eiadit to
himself and adVautage to the Public. Our Ijist-
V EtsITI 61 are itidehted to hie) for an Must:alum
of their history and, their merits.. The puddle arc
indebted to lion fora very interesting Memoir of
the Author of T/te 'Minstrel, a Poem. which, poi-
withstanding. the caarices of fashion, and etre
fluctuatiouS of public tasteawill always stand its
ground., and be the subject of admiratian and
• •synipathy with every Reader who has a jest value
tOr 'sentiment, feeling, and descriptive beauty.
Mr. Cataet4e,es haS also obliged the Public with
the• most 'complete Collection of British Poetry,
: and of British Essays, that have ever been present-
ed to it. But the merits of Mr. CHALMERS are
-not confined to !natters of learning, research,
diligence, 'and taste. . He hasprodeced in his
-Work entitled The Pr(rjector, three volumes
which abound_ in richness, of humour, phltel
irainy,:and Profound knowledge of -mankind. 'lbis
Work, coining from a single writer, affords extra-
ordinary
.proofs of fartility, acuteness, judgment,
and iinagination ; all, however, subservient to
the interests of morality, and powerfully cair's-
lated to, support. and promote them, under
the guise of pleasantry end 'amusement.
' But to the Work before, its. ' The' General
Biographical Dictionary, has long- been a work
of standard Merit, • and, 'front the' nature of its
subject, it must fur ever continue to he highly
interesting. Indeed, considering the characters
which it introduces, and the various subjects on
which it occasionally treats, witlereference to the
several spheres of action in which those charac-
ters have moved, such a work may be deemed
a library in itself. If we are rightly informed,
Mr. CHALMERS, besides the - high intellectual
powers, tied the comprehensive literary experience,
which he brings to the task, is qualified by ma-
terials of the amplest t-ind most valuable dtSCrip-
litio for the undertaking, since, if we are rightly.
informed, he possesses the most extensive bio-
graphical library in this kiugdom It is need-
less for us to enlarge upon the merits of the Work
in question, as it has heel) so long known to the
public, and' has been indebted', from-time to time,
to. many eminent literary Characters, who have
,all conttibuted towards its impiovement, and
the variety of its general contents. But we may
truly assert,. that as far as we have had
opportunity to-compare and collate, ...the Work is
uow,enriched with copious and most valuable ad-
ditio'ns. It has attained also a unity, of charac-
ter,
and whattaer has been omitted has bad its
- place abundantly supplied by _matter of ft 11111C.1.1
IllOrC importantartad.: iuterestiug nature., lo fact,!
as far as Mr. CIIALMEH'S' lalmurs are 'concerned,
it exhibits a rate example of patience and perse-
vete nce, j o :1g m cot in selection, candour' of in-
vestigation, accuracy and taste in s yle, an the
whole animated by 'a moral and philosophical
epii it which cannot litat excite the fullest confi-
dence inthe'lleader, and which renders the Work
altogether one of the most amusing and esimable
BiOgraptiieal Colleetions that has ever appeared in
the Republic of Letters.. We heartily thank Mr.
CHALMERS for the amusement which we have de-
rived •from his Volumes, and venture to assure
Our Readers that they may expect from Oleos the
most solid aunt ;ratifying infoametion that a
Work lit such a natere is so well calculated
to afford.—As our Readers will naturally wish
for a specimen, of the style and !Danner in
Which the . Work is executed, we shall .extract
a passage which must be. peculiarly interesting,
as it relates to persons of high celebrity, and to a
subject that had hitherto been wrapped in mystery,
It is well known that Pon had !Hinted, without
the authority or knowledge of Lord BOLINBROKB,
Isis Lordship*s Political Tract, outited "-The Pa
blot Is:ing." f'ai't:-has been unjustly censured on
that head, though ably vindicated by Bishop Wee- t
BU wrox and . Dr. Jo Eitii9N. It dues not app est.,
however, that either ot. those eminent VI titers
were acquainted with the facts which have come
to the keowledge of Mr, Cuaamuns, and whit,,
canot be disputed. The folloveing is the account
of this transaction, as given by Mr. CHALMERS,
and with that extract, which must now set the
subject at rest,. and with his just and liberal tri-
folic to the character of the late Bishop PoRTEUs,
we shall at present close' our notice of this
Biographical treasury :
-" Martha Blount, to whom he was tuos!- at-
(ached, deserted him ire his last illness ; and Bus-
linghroke,
whotn we have seen weeping over the
• dying bard, and pouring out the effusions of the ,
warmest affection for the friend he was about
to lose, .soon employed the hireling Mallet to .
blacken Pope's character in the very article for ,
which• lie thought him most estimable, the pu-
rityand honour of his friendships. •We Lave
already ooticed this affair, its our account of i
Mallet, and shall now only hi iefiy say that, on
Pope's death, it was desclosed to Lord Boling-
broke by Mallet, who had his information from
a winter, that Pope had printed an edition of the
Essay on a- ' Patriot King.' But as there has
been much misconception and misrepresentation •,,
respecting this affair, we are happy to be able,
in this place, to state the circionstances attend-
ing it on unquestionable authority, that of a gen- ~
demists to whom the following particulars were
more than once related by the late Eat I of March- t•I
moot, and who, besides the obliging connuttni- 4
cation of them, has ,conferted the additional 'fa- f;
your of permittiog us,,to 4.c his name, the Right f`l
Bon. George Rose, , .

" The Es.ay(on the Patriot Kin) teas under-
taken at the pressimg instance of Lord Cornhory,
very w3rndy supported by the earnest intreatis
of Lord Alarchni.ont, tiith which Lord Boling
broke at length complied. When it was written,
it was she%vn to the two Lords, and one Other
confidenthd friend, who were so much pleased

with it, that they did riot cease their impprtuni-
ties to have it published, till his Lordship, after
much hesitation, consented to print it, with a po-
sitive determination, however, against a publi-
cation at that time, assigning, as his reason, that
the work was not finished in such a way as be
wished it to be, before it went into the wot Id.
" Conformably to that determination, some co-
pies of the Essay were printed, . which \vete .dis-
tribute(' to Lord Cornbnry, Lord Tvlarchmont, Sir
Wyndham, Mr. Lyttelton, Mr. Pope,
and Lord Chesterfield ; one only having been re-
served. Mr. Pope put his copy into the hands of
Mr. Allen, of Prior Park. near Bath, stating to
him the injunction of Lord Bolingbroke ; but
that gentleman was so captivated with it as to
press Mr. Pope to allow him to print a small
impression at his own expense, using such caution
as should effectually prevent a single copy getting
in 0 t:'e possession of any one, till the consent of
thy aothm should be obtained.

" U►ider a solcrun engagement to that effect,
Mr. Pope very reluctantly consented : the edif ion
was then printed, packed np, and deposited in
a separate warehouse, of which Mr. Pope had the
key. •
_ _ _

On the circumstance being made known to
Lord Bolingbroke, who was then a guest in his
own house at Battersea with Lord Marchmont,
to whom he had lent it for two or three years,
his Lordship was in great indignation ; to ap-
pease which, Lord Marchruont sent Mr. Greveu-
kop (a German gentleman who had travelled
with him, and was afterwards in the household
of Lord Chesterfield when Lord-Lieutenant of
Ireland), to bring out the whole edition, of which
a bonfire was instantly made on the terrace of
Battersea.',

• " This plain unvarnished tale, our readers will
probably think, tends very much to strengthen
the vindication which Warburton offered for his
deceased friend, although he was ignorant of the
concern Allen had in the matter 3 but it will he
difficult to find an excuse for Bolingbroke, who,
forgetting the honourable mention of hint in
. Pope's will, a thing quite incompatible with any
hostile intention towards him, could employ such
a mau as Mallet to blast:the memory of Pope, by
telling a tale of " breach of faith,' with every ma-
licious aggravation, and artfully concealing what
hernust have known, since Lord Marchmont .knew-
- it, the share Allen had in the edition of the Pi-
triot King.
" Of _the editions of Pope's works, it is unne-•
cessary to mention any other than those.. of -War-
burton, and Johnson (the poems only), Warton,
and the recent one by Mr. Bowles, which contains
many additional letters and documents illustrative
of Pope's character and connections. •
Da. PORTEUS.-"" This worthy Prelate had-
for some years been subject to ill health, which
at length brought on a general debility, and
on the 14th of May, 1808, he sunk under the
pressure of •accumulated diaease, being in - the
seventy-eighth year of his age. He left behind-
him a justly-acquired reputatiOn `for propriety of
conduct, benevolence to the clergy, and a strict
attention to episcopal duties. As a- preacher, he
obtained the character of an accomplished -orator;
his language was chaste, his manner always se-
rious, animated, and impressive, and his eloquence
eaptivating. He seens!d to speak from conviction,
and being folly persuaded himself of the truth of
those doctrines which he inculcated, he the more
readily persuaded others. In private' life he was
mild, affable, easy of access, irreproachable in his
morals, of a chearful disposition, -and ever ready
to listen to and relieve the distresses of his fellow-
creatures. In his behaviour towards dissenters
front the Established Church he discovered great
moderation and candour. While he was a*sincere
believer in the leading doctrines contained in the.
Thirty-nine Articles, he could make allowance for
those who did not exactly come up to the same
standard. Toward the latter 'part of his life, he
was accused of becoming the persecutor of the
Rev. Francis Stone, a Clergyman of his own Dio-
cese, against whom he formally pronounced-a sen-
tence of deprivation for preaching and publishing
a sermon in direct hostility to the doctrines of the
church to which he belonged. Mr. Stone had for
many years avowed his disbelief of the articles of
faith 'which he had engaged to defend, and for
the support of which he had long received -a
handsome income, but no notice whatever was
taken of the unsoundness of his creed. He
preached the offensive sermon before many of his
brethren of different ranks in the Church ; yet
'perhaps even this attack, which could scarcely
be deemed prudent or even decent, would have
been unnoticed, had he contented himself with
promulgating his opinions from the pulpit only;
but when he made the press the vehicle of disse-
minating opinion's contrary to the Articles of his
Church, the Prelate took the part which was •
highly becoming the high office which he held. •
" The benefactions of the Bishop. of London
were numerous, public as well as private. While
lie was living, he transferred nearly seven thou- '
sand pounds in Three per 'Cents, to the Arch-
deacons of the Diocese of. London, as a permanent
fund for the relief of the poorer Clergy of his
Diocese: He also transferred stock to Christ's
College,-Cambridge, directing the interest arising
front it to be appropriated to the purchase of three
gold medals, to be annually contended for by the
Students of that College : one medal, value fifteen
guineas, for the best Latin dissertation on any of
the chief evidences of Chrisiianity.-; another of
the same value for the best English composition
on some moral precept in the Gospel; and one of,
ten guineas, to the best reader iu and most -con-
stant attendant at Chapel. He bequeathed his
library for the use Of his successors in the See of
London, together with a liberal sum towards the
. expence of erecting a building for its reception at
the.• Episcopal Palace at Fulham. At Hyde-hill,
near-Sundridge, in Kent, where the Bishop had; a
favourite rural retreat,., he built a chapel, under
which he directed his remains- to be deposited,
and he endowed it with an income of 2501. a year."

Thursday raorn.hig, as two young gentlemen
were shooting birds, on the borders of
tiornsey-wood, the gun of
,one of them on jump-
ing over a ditch went off, and shattered in kdread-
f.il iilanner the left hand. of hiscoinpanion, taking
off t ►vo of his fingeo. .