The Sun.
London, England, 1820-01-20 00:00:00

SHIP NEWS.

The Speculator, Goul), tor England, and
Lirna, to Patlatna, was captured 10th September,
(Ai Nenan►+i, by the Andes Insurgent frigate, and
earlier] to the Hand of Faraga, which the Andes

took possession of 101 h September.
The N. S. de la Merced, SENNA, from Main:to •fi
Havannah, has been taken by :he Liherlador
Venezuelian privateer. She landed the crew at
M"rucgo Hay, Jamaica, ti h November, and con-
tinued cruizin- oil
if,that port.
The Marianna, RiEvEaTz, was lost near Got-
tenhargh On the Ist inst. ; a passenger drowned ;
only ISS bundles of flax is saved, in a damaged
State.

The
r()11°w111E., an Extract of a Letter from
the Ageots to Lloyd's at Margate, dated 19111

" Two small boats are washed on shore near Birching on ;
'John Day' marked ono he stern RI uoe of them, and Con-

tnercial of Aberdeen, David Talbot,' painted on the stern of
the other."

follovVing is an Extract of a Letter from
11Ir. H. ALTOS, Agent to Lloyd's at Terceira,
slated 22(1 December :

" On Wednesday, the 15th init. we experienced a violent
gale of wind from the S.E. which continued for several days,
and caused much damalie among the shipping. At sun-set
cif that day, three signals' of distress were seen king. On
the following day, ;he Aurora sloop carried away her best
tower cable, and several guns were heard as signals of dis-
tress, hut it was impossible to send out assistance. At night
on the 17th, four vessels hoisted signals of distress, but only
one anchor could he got od. Same day, during a heavy sea,
the Portuguese schooner Santa Cbrista, and the English Po-
lacca, Concord, were abandoned by their crews, and both
shortly afterwards were totally wrecked. The Petit Auguste
trench ketch drove from her cables, and drifted athwart the
brig Thomas's cable ; she afterwards got on shore, and beat
to pieces. The isth at noon, 4 English, 1 French, and 1 Por-
tuguese vessels, were abandoned by their crews. The Sea-
flower and Speedwell schooners parted. The brig Thomas
asas abandoned by all the crew, except Captain Vidol, her
Owner ; no boats nor assistance whatever conk] be rendered
from the shore, the sea breaking mountains high. On the
50th the Thomas parted her cable, and fell on board the Sea-
flower schooner, and received considerable damage. At
night the Seaflower was dashed to pi, ee,,„ On the 21st, the
gale abating, boats and pilots were sent to render every as-
sistance possible. Such a gale has not been experienced dur-
ing the last 70 years; happily no lives were lost, but many
•vessels have received very considerable. damage."

SOUTHPORT, JAN. 17.—The sloop George and
Jenny, Hay, of Greenock, from Limerick, is
on shore here : the crew are saved, and it is ex-
,pected the vessel rutty he got OIL
Dam., JAN. 19 --Several vessels have arrived
from the Westward, and proceeded for the River
(Particulars unknown) ; among than wag the
Laurel, Spinks, from Charente. Remain iii the
bowns the Asia, Balderston, for India, and Tri-
umph, Street, from Bengal, all well.
HARw'rn, JAN 19—Sailed the Beaufoy packet
for liolland, and Lord Nelson ditto for Cuxhaven,
both with mails.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 19 We have had Very
neov
mY gales of wind during the night and this
orning from the S.W.
S ItAIdsGATE,J AN. 19.—Arrived the Quatre Scent-,
""ot pouch,•. 1 loss of anchor and ea-
tie ;
unkerytie, Le Clete, from Dunkirk, with
loss of dr
'with I-1°; Find Actke, Nosten, from Rouen,
Wl_ ter fore rigging damaged.
.F.stm
-"Ilia JAN U.—Arrived ihe 111.ochever
packet With a
and mail tram Jamaica, in -69 days,
the Lady Arabella packet, with a mail Limn
'shoo, in 15 days.
CLH

-sKtmtvett, SalsioNs.—We have the plea-
acre to stare, that a measure wasmadopted on
°oday last, at the proclamation for the dis-,
cut harge of those prisoners .against whom no prose-
ors appeared, or the bills had been thrown out
by the Grand Jury, which is not only culcolared
to mitigate distress but to produce moral heoefit
Lo the community. The Keeper of the Nev i-aeon stated, that he lied on order to give to
those prisoners who would accept it a shilling
'each, that, for want of means (0 procu,e food
or nightly shelter, they might have no tempta-
tion or excuse for committing fresh -depreda-
tkoss on the plea of immediate distress.—
The thankfulness with which the inionets re-
ceived this donation proves its beneficial ten-
dency. ?deny of them declared, that without such
I dirt. they might have been tempted to resort to
' a new .crime, merely to retire the -ante day to
the prison for nightly shelter, but that this pecu-
niary assistance would induce them to look in me-
diitely around for honest employment. We have
Le>ttn that the Worthy Chairman suggested the
plopriery of rendering this temporary uid an esta-
t;rhstied CUMILI On littlibr OCCI1Si011$•
....

LONDON JOURNALS.

rr.om THE 111();VAING 1,,,,1);;;1tti OF TIES DAY.

[Morning Chronicle j
DUKE OF KENT.

SinMoUTH ROYAL MARIKR LIBRARY, JAM. 17.
We are extremely sort y to announce, that the
serious indisposition at his Royal Highness the
Duke of KENT sill contintles. The colt!' his
Royal 1-14:hjess Contracted has terminated in pleu-
retie inflammation, with cough. Mr. Maguire,
Lis itoril ilighness's surgeon, has been in con-
stant attendance, ail,' brSii!es three copious bleed-
ings from the a,rm, we understand his Royal
Highness has twice ittr'erconc the operation of
cupping. The Bulletin .4 Sunday announced the
increaser! OineSTS of the Duke, but that some re-
lief was obtained by sleep. The Bulletin of this
day is as follows

IV() Ilbrook Cottage, January 17.

" His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent's febrile symptoms
are considerably abattl. His Royal Highness complains this
morning of rather an oppressed respiration. In other re-
spects, his Ropl Highutss continues much as yesterday.

(Signed)

" J. %NILSON."

Dr. Almon, of Spring-garden, is this instant
arrived (tour o'clock) tr, attend his Royal High-

IIC3S.

'lt
is reported on the Stork Exchange. that it is
the intention of the Chancellor of the Exchegner
to fond ~even or eight millions of the Exclicgtier
Bills—and by prevailing on the Bank to hold over
the - payment of the sum for which he stands
pledged, to enable him to go on with the same
temporizing system as he has hitherto aced
fur another year, by merely taking twelve millions
from the Sinking Fund. This, at least, is the
rumour in the money mat ket.—(/bid.)

[The Times.]
By the Madeira packer, which left Antigua on
the 6th ult., the latest intelligence has been re-
ceived from the IVest Indies. The two Houses of
Legislature met at Antigua on the 25th _of Novem-
ber, being their first assembling since the accession
of the Hon. John Horsford to the chief coin-
:nand in the government ot the Island, when the
usual addresses were interchanged. A Pro-
clamation was issued on the 20th of October
by the Governor of Tobago, directing that all
vessels coming from the colony of Demerara, the
islands of Trinidad, St. Lucia, Martinique,
Cu-
ragoa, and all the ports and places on the banks
of the Oronoco, shall perform quarantine. The
Legislature of Tobago hate appointed Chas. A.
Franck Esq., their •.agent in Great Britain,
in the room of the late Sir Arthur Piggott.—
His Majesty's ship Euryalus, Captain Huskis-
son, arrived at Barbatloes on the 3 hat ot Octo-
ber from Bermuda, w here she passed the stor-
my months. The Euryalus, during her stay there,
lest a Lieutenant, four Midshipmen, and seve-
ral seamen. The House of Assembly at Barba-
does met on the 2d of November, when the Coun-
cil sent down a Bill, authorizing the Ordinary of
the Island to grant special administration, in cases
where the personal representatives of deceased
persons are without tile jurisdiction of the Court
of Chancery of the Island, in order to enable per-
soas hating demands, next of kin, or legatees, to
bring suits in said Court of Chancery, which
being read three times, passed the House. Sub-
scriptions received by the Treasurer' of the Bar-
badoes Society for promotiog Christian Know-
ledge amounted on the sth of -November to
4,3001. At St. Kitts, a Bill to suspeild the ope-
ration of the transient tax, with regard to foreign
vessels coming to the Island with cargoes, tinder
the Governor's proclamation, passed both Houses
of the Legislat.,re on the 12th of November.

SEDITION AND BLASPHEMY —This day the High
Court of Justiciary met to proceed to the trial of
Andrew Marshall, now or lately residing in Rot,
ten-row, Glasgow, and Margaret Wright, his wife,
accused of sedition and blasphemy, by circulating
and distributing certain publications of a seditious
and blasphemous nature, tendiug to produce in
the minds of the people a spirit of insubordination
and insurrection against the established Govern-
ment, and also tending to the malicious denial of
the authority of the Holy Scriptures, and the
troth of the Christian Religion. Neither .of the
defendants appearing, sentence of outlawry was
pronounced against them, and their bail bonds
declared forfeited. The Loan A.DVOCATF. shortly
stated his reasons for bringing these people to
trial. They were very extensive circulators of
the criminal publications of Richard Garble, bow
under sentence of imprisonment in England, and
in a short rime they bad sold no less than 16,930
copies of these publications, at so cheap a rare as
not to amount altogether to the sum of 1401.
(Editiburglt Courant, Jan. 17 -)

Letters have been received from Gibraltar of the
28th of last month. The communication between
that place and Spain was opened on the 23d by a
Prockmation from hiS Excellency the Governor,
it having been closed for several months to pre-
vent infecticn from the yellow fever, which had
been raging at Cadiz, the Isla de Leon, &c. Trade
at the British fortress, which had, for a long time,
been in the most deplorable condition, owing to
those restrictions, seemed to be improving.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the
E 4“ India [louse, when Captain F. ADAMS was
sworn into the command of the ship Buckingham-
shire, consigned to China direct.

Several hundreds of stout paupers were em-
ployed yesterday, under• the direction of the of-
ficers of the Niendicity Society, in clearing the ice
and snow front the pavements at the west end of
the ►oecn. These men were distinguished by a
tin-plate badge, bearing the stamp of the Society,
lied upon their left arm. We understand they are
to be allowed food and bd. a day each man, out
of the Society's it111:1.
DUBLIN BOOKSELLERS.—We mention, )to the
credit of this respectable boAly, that no sou
bad our observations on the abominable and ab•
surd libel called The lleu•e that Jack Built, made
(heir appeardneet than such of the Boc.ilist Hers as
were imposed upon by having this pro4hiction
transmitted to them from England, consigned it
to the dames, and not a single copy cat► now be
had for pureba!e.—(lliberuian Journal.)