The Sun.
London, England, 1827-07-19 00:00:00

I%IEETINGS OF CREDITORS.

LONDON DIARY.—FRIDAY, JULY 20.--(At the Court of
Commissioners, Basinghall.street.)
Barker, S. and Co., Billiter Eddison, T., Romford 9
square ll Gates, P., Stanground, near
Burn, A., Love-lane lO Peterborough
Carpenter, T., East-ham ... 10 Hillier, C., Salisbury l2
Corbyn, J., Tokenhouse-yd 11 Thompson, L., Great St
Dowding, C., Shadwell l2 Helen's

COUNTRY DIARY.—Momtv, JULY I.
Blogg, W., Norwich—Norfolk hotel, Norwich 4
Corbett, J., Austrey—Queen's Head, Ashby ll
Field, J. and Co., Skelmanthorpe—Court of Requests, Hud-
dersfield ll
Jones, T., Shrewsbury—Red Lion, Chester 2
Knill, H., Cheltenham—Commercial rooms Bristol 2
Skyrme, W., Woraester—Rummer, Bristol
Spencer, R., Liverpool—Mr. Prest, Liverpool ll

INSOLVENTS APPLYINI
Petitions to be heard at Pertug
JULY 21,
Bygrave, T., Spitalfields
Franklin, R., Brentford
Fraser, J., Shadwell
High, C., Hoxton
Larkin, 8., Tarling-street, Corn-i
mercial-road
Ledien, J., Richmond-build-
ings, Sohe
Longstaff, W., Newton Castle,
Dorsetshire
Luckie, J., Oxford-street
Mansfield, J. and Co., Bethnal

G TO BE DISCHARGED,
al-street, Lincoln's Inn Field*,
AT NINE.
Moorey, G., Ratcliffe
Palmer, C. Oxford-street
Pilsbury, T., Chelsea
Rich, T., Cheltenham
Shaw, E., Coburgh-street, Cler-
kenwell
Skene, J., Streatham
Tayler, J., Salisbury
Tilner, J., Kent-road
White, E., Bishopsgate-street
White, S., Kensington

COUNTRY.---At the Court

at Ten
Buford, J., Loughborough
Bryan, J., Mountsorrell
Ilude, J. St. Margaret
Glover, C., Leicester
Horspool, R., Bardon
Runhain, Market Harbo-
rough

.house, at Leicester, July 24,
o'clock.
Revill, W., Loughborough
Shenton, T., Leicester
Sarson, R., Quorndon
Smith, S., Leicester
Turner, IL, Loughborough
Warden, J., Leicester

At Salisbury, .
Banks, 1., Trowbridge
Banks, J., Trowbridge
Blanford, J., Fisherton Anger
Bryant, J. Bradford
Eyers, S., Trowbridge
Freeman, J., Box
Hawkins, J. Jun., Keevil
Long, S., Bradford
Parrish, J., Trowbridge
At Newcastle-upon-1
Brewis, R., Morpeth
Cook, \V., Shields
Elliott, T., Toddlewood
Fenwick, G., Morpeth
Huntley, J., Howden
Peaps, G., Shields
Riddle, T., Woodburn
At Winchester,
Batchelor, J., Cosham
Blanchard, J., Gosport

uly 21, at Nine.
Perry, J., Colingbourne
Posey, G., Bishopstone
Pruce, E., Highworth
Redman, J., Milford
Richards, J., Devises
Rosier, W., Easton Piers
'Skilton, W., Salisbury
Stonall, G., Box
Wasphare, M., Salisbury
'yne, July 23, at Ten.
Spence, J., Shields
Stevenson, G., Warburton-
place, near Durham
,Swinbunie, J., Durham
'Ward, R., Staley
Weddell, G., Newcastle

July 14, at Nine.
IHeslop, R., Portsea

NAVAL PROMOTIONS.

One of the last acts of Lord Melville was the
promotion of Percy Hall, a relation of the late
Dean of Durham, and a very young Lieutenant
in the Navy, who was sent, as usual, previous to
his being promoted, to a foreign station. He
remained on that station a few months, not re-
lishing the climate, and retired on half-pay.
Having interest with the First Lord of the Ad-
miralty, he applied for promotion, although the
period of his active service was inconsiderable.
The application was immediately attended to : his
Lordship stated to his correspondent, that the
promotion could not be effected if Mr. Hall re-
mained upon half-pay ; but to remove that im-
pediment, his Lordship very kindly undertook to
appoint his applicant to the Victory, a flag-ship,
which was commissioned on the Ist of May, and
is stationed at Portsmouth ; so that this young
and inexperienced Officer received his appoint-
ment, and having walked the decks four or five
hours, was presented with his commission as
Commander.

The most experienced and worn-out Officers
in Portsmouth are totally at a loss for an excuse
for this sudden and unmerited elevation of a per-
son so much their junior, except, indeed, the in.
fluence of the Dean, who had so much patron-
age, with which he could retaliate, might be
considered the cause.

What renders this waste of patronage and
power, on the part of Lord Melville, more de-
serving of animadversion is, that about this very
period an old and experienced Lieutenant was
induced to relinquish an appointment in the pre-
ventive service, which produced 3001. a year,
under the assurance of the First Lord of the
Admiralty that he should be promoted: This
promise was broken, but the situation could not
be recovered by the unfortunate defendant, upon
the word of his Lordship. The contrast which
now exists in the department is so marked, that
the naval veterans loudly exult in the appointment
of the Lord High Admiral, who had no in-
fluence whatever under the late system, but who
had a thousand times expressed his determina-
tion, if ever he came into power, that he would
reform the abuses which abounded in the naval
department. The following circumstance will
prove that his Royal Highness's recommenda-
tions had but little effect indeed upon the late
Board :—An old Lieutenant, of eighteen years'
standing, who had lost his health in the service,
the son of an Admiral, and who had received
repeated refusals at the Admiralty to do justice
to his services, had given up all hope of the re-
cognition of his hard-earned claims. His aged
mother petitioned the Duke of Clarence, solicit-
ing his Royal Highness's interference with the
First Lord of the Admiralty on behalf of her
son. His Royal Highness wrote several recom-
mendatory observations upon the petition, for-
warded it to the First Lord of the Admiralty,
and begged that attention might be paid to it.
To the great surprise, however, of his Royal
Highness, not even an answer was sent, nor was
the slightest notice taken of the application. It
is needless to remark, that the officer alluded to,
who was actually in an hospital at the time of
the appointment of the Lord High Admiral,
was amongst the first of those veteran officers
who have been promoted.

SINGULAR PHENOMENON.--011 Thursday
last, at mid-day, a whirlwind suddenly took up a
large quantity of hay from a field at Shelf, near
Bradford. A considerable number of people
witnessed its ascent, and subdivision into innu-
merable parts, resembling a flight of crows, which
finally attained a degree of elevation the eye
could not reach ; but in about fifteen minutes the
largest portions re-appeared, slowly descending
into the field which they had quitted at the com-
mencement of their aerial excursion. It was
half an hour before the lighter portions of hay,
thus taken up, reached the ground.--Leeds
illercurg.

BIRTH.
On the 18th inst. the lady of W. Ainsworth, Esq. of
Sussex-place, Regent's-park, of a daughter.

MARRIED.

Yesterday, by the Rev. Dr. Barneby, Mr. D. Thorn-
hill, of Mile-end, to Sarah, daughter of the late W. Yooght,
Esq., of West-ham-abbey, Essex.
On Tuesday, Thomas Moulden Sherwood, Esq., par.
liament-street, to Anna, eldest daughter of R. Ray, Eq.
of Montagu-place.
On Tuesday, at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, W. Elridge.
of the Haymarket, to Catherine, daughter of Mr. AsßuithA
of Oxendon-street.