The Sun.
London, England, 1826-01-09 00:00:00

THE SLAVE TRADE.

his Majesty's ship Ariadne, 28, Captain J. FLEMING CHAP.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 7.—On Sunday last arrived
stAtr, from the Cape of Good Hope station, baying been re.
herd by the Semarang, 20, Captain Dunn. The Ariadne left
the Mauritius, for the Cape of Good Hope, on the 25th August
last, and arrived at the Cape on the 2311 of September, touch-
ing at Tamatave, a port of Madagascar, on her way. After
refitting ar.the CaPe, she sailed from thence on the Slst of
October, leaving there Commodore Christian, in the Owen
Glendower; also the Leven, Captain Wm. F. Owen; Barra-
coots, Captain Vidal; and Albatross schooner, composing the
surveying squadron, about to proceed to the coast of Africa.—
The Ariadne arrived at St. Helena on the sth November, and
left the Bth. When' on a cruise, on the 25th of September, off
St: Lucia's Bay, on the weal end of Madagascar, the officer of
the watch announced a schooner being in sight in the roads of
that anchorage, on hearing which, Captain Chapman sent the
first cutter,• under the command of Lieutenant Eversfield, with
the second cutter in company, under the island of St. Lucia,
to board the said schooner, being under an impression that
she was a slaver. On the first cutter's heaving in sight of the
vessel, she set her fore-top sail, and cut her cables, and run
on shore on the beach ; on her doing so, Lieutenant Evers-
field ordered Mr. Nelson to fire a musket, but to be care-
ful not to fire on board her : this he rep eated and the%se-
conci cutter followed the commanding officer's motions. On
Lieutenant Eversfield boarding the schooner, lie observed seve-
ral bodies floating he then ordered the boats with a part
of the crew, to pick up those who were drowning, and they
succeeded in saving a great many of the unfortunate slaves.
On Lieutenant Eversfield's arrival nn board, he endeavoured
to quell the fears of the negroes, and the poor creatures soon
discovered, from the humane conduct of their captors, that
their lot was at least:to be ameliorated: they were released
from their confinement, and ate and drank of all they could
find on boatil, voraciously, as they were nearly famishing,
and suffered greatly from want of water; indeed, it is almost
impossible to conceive the dreadful situation in which these
slaves were when taken, cooped up in so small a vessel as
scarcely to be able to move, and deprived of air from 11:::ir
mode of confinement : the only food they had had was a kind
of common bean, and the little water allowed them was very
bad. It was really gratifying to see the joy now depicted en
the care-worn countenances of these poor beings. Lieutenant
Eversfield, with the assistance of the master. Sir. Thompson,
who had by this time arrived in the gig, endeavoured to get
the schooner off, but could not succeed, as she had been scut-
tled in the act of running on shore. No papers or documents
of any kind were found on board. She proved to be the
Walter Farquhar, a notorious vessel in the slave trade. The
slaves, furniture, &c. saved, were afterwards condemned by the
Admiralty Court at the Mauritius.—(Hampthire Telegraph.)

ST. PETER AD VINCULA is well known
that there is a small church within the walls of
the Tower of London, dedicated to St. Peter ad
Vincula, but it is not perhaps so generally known
what is the origin of this title. The following
extract from the Sarum Breviary will explain
it A certain Roman Captain, culled Quirinus,
had a daughter whose namewas Balbina, who had
a disease in her throat. This Captain kept Saint
Alexander the Pole shut up in prison. Thismaiden
his daughter, went oft to the prison where
blessed Pope St. Alexander was kept bound in
chains; and she kissed the chains wherewith
the Saint was bound, which she did hoping to
recover health thereby. To whom Alexander
said, " My daughter, do not kiss these'
chains, but go and seek the chains where-
with St. Peter was boUnd, and kiss them, and
thereby thou shalt be cured." She immediately
came to her father, and told him what she had
heard from the aforesaid Pope, which when her
father had heard he sent messengers to inquire
for the prison where the Apostle litid been
.hound, and from thence to bring with them
St. Peter's chain, which they (lid ; and the said
maid kissing them was presently perfectly reco.
vered. After this, blessed A lexander coming oat
of prison, appointed this solemnity to be kept on
the Calends of August in honour of St. Peter,
and in his name built a church which is called
Petri ad Vincula, in which solemnity they say
that his chains are devoutly kissed by the
people."

The canvass for the University of Cambridge
is proceeding with unabated activity. The AT-
TORNEY.GENERAL has a Committee sitting in
London, and another at Cambridge, where he
has, a second time, personally canvassed all the
resident voters. Lord PALMERSTON 13 flow at
Cambridge, and Mr. BANIERS returned there from
Norwich, a few days since. Mr. GOULBUIIN has
returned to Ireland, but he has u Committee still
assembled in London.