The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-17 00:00:00

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FRENCH NAVY.

(IFFICIAL ACCOUNT of the PRESENT STATE
. . :. .
of the FRENCH NAVY.
No. of Vessels Vessels which
afloat Jan. 1, will be building
• 1829. Jan. 1, 1830.
Ships of the Line
Frigates 4l
Corvettes
Brigs, from 20 to 16 guns 25
Corvette Avisos of IS guns •••• S
. . Brig Avisos of 14 guns
Schooner Brigs of 16 gun 5...... 15
Smaller Brigs 2
Cannonieres (gun boats) Brigs... 6
Schooneers 34
Cutters, Lugeers, Avisos
• llotilla Vessels
Stearn Ves9eli
Corvette Store Vessels
Gaharre store Vessels
Tr/import% 4
Yachts

Total 279 73
Three vessels, one of which is a corvette, have been
fund sufficient for the protection of the fishery on the
'4nics of Newfoundland, in which from 250 to 300 ves-
le Is are employed every year. The West India station has
14 head- quarters at Poi t Royal. It is charged with the
I"pection of the coasts of Central America, of those of
Elkmbia, and the numerous Swedish, Danish, and Dutch
f7and", in the waters of which piracy goes on with in-
. easkng audacity. Four vessels are employed in hydro-
bra•Phic surveys on the coast of France and other parts of
• . • the globe.• There are three steam-boats at Toulon, at
lfthefort, and at Brest, and one at Rouen. They are
kept ready for whatever service they may be required for.
The cruisers in the colonies are employed to put down
-14111ggling and the slave trade.

.A FAMILY CONNEXION.—A gentleman of
",- al acqueintaive, while occupied in examining the sculp-
,, ' tures over. the burying-place of a noble family, observed a
. Person of the. lower class sidling up to him with an air of
Inuch importance. My friend thereupon, without seem-
., - tog to withdraw his attention from the insignia of the
. - illustrious dead, devoted part of it, nevertheless, in side
vat the stranger, wh ), after a preliminary cough,
i . 11424 eleion of hisbody so far beyond its previous heieht,
. Itit one might have fancied it composed of India rubber,
1. Ins delivered himself:—" I was connected, Sir, with that
.1111„i1Y" " Indeed !" said my friend, not a little surprised
''' •Z: the shabby appearance of this scion of nobility ; " how
Ore you connected with it ?" f' In the shoemaker line,
Aberdeen Observer.
I , n the early part of July last, when 'the wea-
ther was at its most inclement state, two boys, named
13" t, the sons of a labouring man of South Zeal, one
aged 13, and the other only six, were sent with a donkey
to a Part of Dartmoor, to gather heath. After they bad
e4ecuted the mission, one of those tempests which so fee-
I luently sweep over that desolate plain took place, and no
doubt hastened their return. It seems that the elder lad
sent his brother to fetch a bundle of heath, which had
been bound up for the purpose, a short distance from
1" ; he continued his way slowly home, accounting for
is hrother's not overtaking him by the supposition that
he 1'44 passed him unobserved, and had reached home be-
fore him. When, however, he got to his father's cottage,
e found that nothing had been seen of him, and it was
ezent that the poor little boy had lost himself upon
„:" ell to sea r Plains. Upwards of
no t l
raceo persof ons
him immediately
uch, b
co
,e;e1,"1, although
`"Y three months. Alsout three weeks since,
117,1:"nn it Was generally believed that the little fellow had
~ washtd away by the floods, a shepherd passing across
Ilinlietrtn""' nor more than a quarter of a mile from the spot
. e the cl-ild • s first missed, discovered a leather cap,
and
Upon 77 Via
~. . .
• . to tie searching further, the girth that had been used
abouie the heath, and 'the thigh bone apparently of a child
;{ i hi, ii,
xtestth the i wetness years'of age. There were no other remains;
etness of the season, and the immense number of
..•a_
Simon and birds of prey abounding on these desolate and
:,,,,,es . t interminable moors, rendered it too certain that the
at...,nild had been torn piecemeal by them, and that his
a
)Otlaes, tyliieta must have become' rotten, were dragged
1.4 ~. way with the human fiesh attached to them. It is the
1,143/4tl7t?irion of those who went in search of him, that neither
'T0...,:" Poor child nor any human being lost upon Dartmoor,
and scantily clothed as he was, could have lived through a
night so dreadfully tempestuous.---,Exeter Paper.