The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-18 00:00:00

THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 18, 1827.

IS LOADING FAST, AND WILL POSITIVELY SAIL
ON THE 15th FEBRUARY,
ACONSTANT TRADER, for the MAURI-
TIUS and CEYLON, with leave to call at MADEIRA,
the fast-sailing A 1 Ship,
MORNING STAR,
Burthen 300 tons.
WILLIAM BUCT:IIAM, Commander.
Lying in the West India Docks.—Has superior accommodation
for Passengers.—For Freight or Passage apply to
JOHN LYNEY, Jun. Sworn Broker,
24, Birchiu-Lane, Cornhill.

WILL SAIL EARLY IN FEBRUARY, AND WILL CALL
AT PORTSMOUTH FOR NER PASSENGERS.
FOR MADRAS and BENGAL, with leave to
call at MADEIRA, the remarkably fine fast sailing new Ship
PROTECTOR,
GEORGE WAUGH, Commander, late of the Honourable Company's
Service.
Burthen 600 tons. Lyi❑g in the West India Export Dock.
Has a Poop with excellent Accommodation for Passengers, and
carries an experienced Surgeon.
For Freight or Passage apply to the Commander, at the Jerusa-
lem Coffee-house; to
Mr. HENRY BLANSHARD, 1, Broad-street; or to
JOHN LYNEY, jun. Sworn Broker,
Birchin-lane, Coruhill.

TO SAIL 15th APRIL, FROM GRAVESEND FOR
PORTSMOUTH,

FOR MADRAS and BENGAL, the remark-
ably fast sailing, coppered, A 1 Teak Ship
NEPTUNE,

Join: CUIDIEALEGE, Commander, late of the Hon. Company's

Service. _
Lying in the East India Docks. Burthen 700 Tons.
This Ship has a double Stern, with the Accommodation and
Equipment equal to any of the Hon. Company's Ships, and will
carry an experienced Surgeon.
For Freight or Passage apply to the Commander, at the Jeru-
salem Coffee-house ; or to
JOHN LYNEY, Jun. Sworn Broker,
24, Bircbin-lane, Cornhill.

Superb Chased Plate, Magnificent Clocks, an Indian Folding
Screen, rare old Indian China, Pictures, Landau, and costly
Effects.

TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION,
By Mr. WILLIAMS,

At the AUCTION MART, on WEDNESDAr next, JAN. 17,
and Two following Days, at 12 o'Clock,
SUPERB Chased Plate, a richly gilt Plateau,
Candelabras, a splendid or-molu Clock, with full-length
figures of Napoleon and Diogenes, and Fame crowning Napoleon
with Laurels; a. valuable twelvemonth pedestal Clock, and Re-
gulator, with astronomical movement, by the celebrated Tom-
pion; a gold musical box, with singing bird, set with tur-
quoises ; a capital gold chronometer ; fine old Indian China
jars and beakers, an elegant eight-leaved Indian japan folding screen,
Indian and Chinese curiosities, bronzes, a very curious piece of
needlework, representing some grand procession, brought from a
monastery, a collection of antique Roman gold and silver coins,
a costly B tenor flute, made in Vienna, in 1823, the tones are of
the most beautiful description, full sized billiard table, a small
cellar of choice old wines, in Champagne, Madeira, and Claret;
a capital double-barrel fowling-piece, in a mahogany case, by
J. Manton, a handsome town-built landau, a valuable collection of
paintings, of the Italian, Spanish, French, Dutch, and English
Schools, &e.
To be viewed till the Sale, and Catalogues had at the Mart ;
and of Mr. Williams, Throgrnorton-street. N.B. The Pictures
will be sold on Friday.

Tr CLARK'S GENERAL OUTFITTING
• WAREHOUSE, for the EAST:and WEST INDIES
and SOUTH AMERICA, EXETER 'CHANGE, STRAND.
Officers, Cadets, and Writers going to India, and Gentlemen
proceeding to South America, or any other part of the Globe,
will find in this Establishment the whole of their Military Ap-
pointments, Swords, Chacos, Sashes, Belts, Pistols, &c. toge-
ther with a large and well-manufactured stock of Sea Cots, Couches,
and Bedding ; Cabin Wash _hand Tables, Chairs, and Lamps ;
Sea Chests, Mule and Bullock Trunks, and every other descrip-
tion of Travelling Equipage.
AN ASSORTMENT OF CANTEENS, ready fitted with the
necessary requisites for India, and other tropical climates ; like-
wise a great variety of Silver and Plated Articles, Knives and
Forks, suitable for families going abroad; Military and Hindos-
tannee Books, Maps, &c.
A FASHIONABLE STOCK of Carriage, Curriele, Tandem,
Phaeton, Stanhope arld Chaise HARNESS, with every descrip-
tion of Saddlery, &c. &c. for home use, East and West Indies,
and South America, which merit inspection from their excellent
quality, first style of workmanship, and moderate prices.
All the Articles in this Establishment are warranted, and the
excellent plan of fifty years standing is still strictly adhered to, of
asking hut one Ready Money Price, from which no abatement
will he roads.

cond boy, who claims so exorbitantly, if he perseveres in his claim,
for a robbery, in snatching. the property, and to call the third
boy, who stopped the second boy, as a witness.
A constable was the fourth claimant. He really believed that,
but for him, the difficulty of recovering the property might have
been very great. He had interfered, and the 5001. note was in
his possession. He humbly submitted that be was entitled to
some share of the reward.

The LORD MAYOR said that be was willing to give his opinion
as to the claims of the parties, if they would agree to abide by his
decision. He should require security, however, that the boys
would be satisfied with his decision, as they were not of sufficient
age to be bound for themselves.

BOW-STEET.—Burleigh, who was sent from thin office a
few days ago to the House of Correction, for want of bail, was
brought up yesterday morning, prepared to enter into the secu-
rities required, namely, himself in 1001. and two sureties in 501.
each. It may be remembered that Burleigh went into a pawn-
broker's to purchase a pair of pistols, and that, from his incohe-
rent manner, the pawnbroker was afraid of trusting him with
them, upon which Burleigh became riotous, was taken to the
watchhouse, and the following morning brought up to this office,
where he acknowledged his object in purchasing the pistols was,
first to shoot his brother-in-law, Jones, and afterwards himself.

When he appeared yesterflay, accompanied by his wife, and his
two bail, Mr. Minsnor,L, considering the serious nature of the
charge, refused to set him at large, unless he gave security to
double the amount originally required, but, one of the bail re-
fusing to swear that he was worth 1001. when his debts were
paid, the Magistrate consented to receive the bail as first stated.
While Burleigh and his friends had retired to the Clerk's office,
to prepare the necessary documents, his wife related to the Ma-
gistrates the circumstances that had occasioned his extraordinary
conduct. It appeared by her account, that Jones, the landlord,
and brother-in-law of Burleigh, turned them out of their lodging
at ten o'clock at night; and, on their remonstrating with him on
his severity, and asking where they could get a lodging at that
hour, he told them they might go to a work-house or a watch-
house. In the irritation he was then in, Burleigh went to pur-
chase the pistols, was taken to the watch-house, there allowed to
send for liquor, and was in a complete state of intoxication when
brought up the next day before the Magistrate.
Upon hearing this, Mr. Minshull directed Burleigh to lodge an
information against the constable of the night, for allowing tip-
pling in the watch-house.

- Cousins and Dallas, the constable and beadle, soon after made
their appearance, and positively swore that the whole charge of
Burleigh was false; that he came to the watch-house in a state of
almost insensibility from intoxication, but that during the whole
night not a drop of liquor was allowed to enter the place.

A friend of Burleigh's came forward to swear that he called at
an early hour in the morning at the watch-house, where he
found Burleigh drunk, and that while he was there some gin was
brought in.
In consequence of these conflicting affidavits, the further exa-
mination of the constable's case was adjourned till next Monday,
when the watchman who took Burleigh, the landlord of the house
from which the liquor was said to have been fetched, and the boy
who brought it, are to appear as witnesses.
We understand that Sheriff's officers were in waiting to arrest
Burleigh for debt as he left the office.
MARYLEBONE.—IsabeIIa Martyrs, a modest young girl,
about 18 years of old, made the following complaint against her
master, Mr. Kean, of 2b, Portman-street, Portman-square. She
stated that she went into Mr. Kean's service so lately as Thurs-
day last. On the morning following she was much surprised at
his coming into the parlour, while she was cleaning, and remained
there upwards of a❑ hour, with no other dress on than his night
shirt and cap ; but she had nothing further to complain of his be-
haviour that day. On Monday morning last, while she was en-
gaged in the kitchen, Mr. Kean came to her, and rudely pressing
her to him, he kissed her several times, saying she was the pret-
tiest girl he had ever had in his house. She was much agitated
and distressed at his conduct, and-he, seeing that, offered her a
sovereign to buy ribands with, at the same time desiring her not
to tell her mistress, which she had threatened to do. The girl
wept while she described the other insults she had received from
her master. He afterwards offered her silver not to tell her mis-
tress ; but she had previously done this, and left the house to in-
form her friends as soon as Mr. Kean had gone from home.

Mr. Kean declared that the whole tale was a fabrication. All
that he did was to put his hands round her neck, and call her a
pretty girl.. She then withdrew herself, and he, seeing this, said
she was a good girl, and left the room. This he declared was the
whole truth of the matter.

The uncle of the girl, who lives at No. 2, Shepherd-street,
Oxford-street, said that his niece was an orphan. He procured
this girl the situation, thinking, that as Mr. Kean had daughters
of his own, she would be safe in his house. On Monday last,
about twelve in the day, Isabella came home, apparently much
distressed, and described to his wife the way in which she had
been treated. She also said that Mr. Kean had appointed a
place distant from the house for her to sleep in ; but a fellow
servant haring told her that her master had had a bad design on
another young woman who had lived in the house, and who be
had wished to sleep in the same place, she refused to remain there
at nights.

Mr. RAWLINSON said he thought the girl's story was in the
main corroborated by the statement Mr. Kean had himself
made of the transaction; but whether it was false or not he
should leave a Jury to decide on, first taking care that the girl
was bound over to prosecute. The Magistrate then, turning to
the defendant, said—" Don't I remember your once coming be-
fore me to complain of the ill usage of one of your own chil-
dren ?I

Mr. Kean admitted that he had done so.
The uncle said that Mr. Kean had several daughters.

Mr. RAWLINSON repeated, that a Jury should decide on his
(Mr. Kean's) guilt or innocence, but, for himself, he believed in
the truth of what the girl had stated.

The defendant was detained for want of bail.

THAMES POLICE. Charles Seyward, a young man
fashionably dressed, was brought before WILLIAM BRODERIP,
Esq., the sitting magistrate, charged with returning from trans-
portation.

Carter, one of the officers of this establishment, stated
that on yesterday morning he Was passing through the Strand,
and at the corner of Essex-street, he observed the prisoner, in
company with a dashing female. He immediately attempted to
take him into custody, when the prisoner made a most violent
resistance, the female at the same time using her utmost endea-
vours to assist him in his escape. However one of the Bow-street
patrole coming up at the moment, with his assistance he secured
him, and brought him on board the Thames Police ship the Port
Mahon, where, on searching him, he found the silver watch he
now produced.
Mr.i
rfyßbninoso?
Cneta others were tried at Maidstone, in Eatr asked was there any person
present who could
d
Carter said that be could. He stated that the prisoner and
thee
September last; for
burglary in the house of a corn-dealer in Greenwich, and they
identify
were sentenced to be transported for life; they were subsequently
sent on board the Hulks at Chatham, from whence the prisoner,
inknown by the name of Swe-
dish had escaped. The prisoner, when on board the
Port Mahon, had confessed that he made his escape..—He was
company
Andrew, with another convict,
remanded.

UNION-HALL.— Thomas Hal, the driver of the hackney
coach, No. 601, was yesterday summoned by a person named
Levy,
e.
IC before M. SABEY, Esq. charged with using abusive lan-
g u
The evidence was shortly this :—The complainant hired the
coach in Aldgate, and got out at Rowland Hill's chapel. On
asking the fare, the coaclunan demanded 2s. 6d. The com-
plainant would not give more than 25., knowing that to be the
regular fare ; and on putting the money into the driver's hands,
was abused very much. Several people assembled to hear the
dispute, one of whom now came forward and swore that he heard
the defendant say to the complainant, in an abusive way, "1 will
not be robbed by you—that is not my fare."
The Magistrate convicted the defendant in 20s. penalty, and
6s. expenses, and told him if those sums were not paid, be would
be sent to Brixton for fourteen days.
The defendant, who is a young man, not having the money in
his possession, sent out to his friends to see if they would advance
it, rather_than suffer him to be committed to prison for the period
specified.

LITERATURE.

CONSTABLE'S 111ISCELLANY. Vol. 1., Ilara.'s Voyages.
This is a very delightful publication, conceived in the
true spirit of genius, and executed—as far as we are yet
able to perceive—with proportionate ability. It professes
to be of a rambling desultory stature, to conic out in parts
of a shilling each, and to embrace all topics, whether of
fancy, science, criticism, divinity, voyages and travels, bio-
graphy, or even jurisprudence, as may best appear to suit
the taste of its subscribers. On referring to its prospectus,
we find the names of the first men of our times enrolled
among its contributors. Sir W. Scott, and Mr. Jeffrey,
stand forward in the same volume ; the one, as writer of a
series of Essays on " the Drama, Chivalry, and Romance"
—the other as a metaphysician in an analytical diSsertation
upon " Beauty." Macculloch, the Politicial Economist;
Mill, the Historian of India; Lockhart, the Editor of the
Quarterly Review; Humboldt, the Traveller; Wallace,
the Professor of Mathematics at Edinburgh ; all these
equally contribute their quota ; so that without further
recommendation, this " Miscellany" may rest boldly on its
own merits. The present volume is wholly taken up
with the voyages of Captain Basil Hall to China and Loo
Choo, and as a specimen of judicious selection deserves
every praise. Their author, it seems, set out in 1816, in
company with the celebrated Captain (now Sir Murray)
Maxwell, and the General Hewitt, Indianian, on an em-
bassy under Lord Amherst to China. He gives the de-
tails of his interviews with the Javanese in an amusing but
too sketchy manner, and then proceeds up the Yellow Sea
(which it seems is not to be a sea much longer, owing to
the vast accumulation of sand that rolls into it from the
Chinese rivers,) where he lands the embassy, and returns
with the Alceste along the coast of Corea, now for the first
time visited by any European. He paints the jealousy he
every where met with from the natives, as well as the oc-
casional interviews which took place betw era the ship's
crew and the Mandarins, with the spirit of a master. One
scene, in particular, we cannot refrain from giving; it is
too good to lose :
" Our seamen were greatly entertained with the oddity of the
Chinese dress and manners, and paid them the most obsequious
attention, escorting them round the decks like ladies, smoothing
down their long tails, joking and talking with them, apparently
unconscious, or, if conscious, not caring, whether John China-
man, as they called him, understood them or not. It is Jack's
custom, wherever he goes, to call every one he encounters abroad
a mere outlandish-man, forgetting that it is himself alone who is
so. Should the people he meets with happen to understand a
word or two of English, he is satisfied, and they are set down for
sensible people ; otherwise he pities their ignorance, and laughs
at the folly of their designating common things by names strange
to his ears. I remember once overhearing the conversation of two
of my sailors in the streets of Valparaiso, who had only been a
few days in the country; one said to the other, " What, do you
think of these people?" " Why," replied his companion, with a
look of thorough contempt, " will you believe it—the infernal
fools call a hat Sombrero !"
The only circumstance which threatened to disturb the har-
mony subsisting between us and our visitors, arose from a prank
played off upon them by souse of our youngsters. The strangers
were courteously invited to sit down in the midshipmen's birth ;
but when they attempted to rise, found themselves fixed like Gul-
liver, for their wicked entertainers had tied each by the long tail
tea the back of his chair. At first the astonished Mandarins were
much incensed; but the oddity of the scene was so irresistible,
that even the suffering parties presently joined in the laugh. The
story soon got abroad, and ever afterwards, the Chinese, before
venturing between decks, took the precaution of coiling their
tufts round their heads, out of the reach of such practical jokes."
On quitting Corea, and after threading the luxuriant
islands that cluster along its coast, our voyager pursues his
course to Loo-Choo, in the Eastern seas, where he meets
with a friendly and even enthusiastic welcome; from thence
he goes back to Canton, where a spirited detail, which we
cannot afford room to extract, is given of an attack made
by Captain Maxwell on its batteries. On his return to
England, after a protracted absence of two years, he makes
a brief stay at St. Helena, with the avowed purpose of
being introduced to the first man of this, perhaps, of any
age, we mean the late Emperor Napoleon. It is a curious
exemplification of the strong link that binds man to man,
as well as of the superior interest that human nature in-
variably possesses over even the most novel and magnifi-
cent landscapes; that Captain Hall, though but lately ini-
tiated, as it were, into the sublimest scenery in the crea-
tion, where every step was marked by vivid interest, and
every human being unknown even by name to the
rest of the world ; felt not half such emotion
as was inspired by the first appearance of Napo-
leon. Such are the attractions with which, as with
a glory, genius invests her favourites. Though fal-
len, degraded, and chained like Prometheus to his rock,
yet the very name of the Exile of St. Helena possessed a
strange solemn awe deep-rooted (for, however desirous,
the mind cannot shake off its feelings as it does its opi-
nions) in the soul of our accomplished voyager, which the
proudest monarchs of the day, with all their blaze of splen-
dour to boot, have since failed to inspire. They hare their
thousand and one admirers, it is true; Napoleon has but
one—the world. His appearance, as he first presented
himself to Captain Hall, is thus vividly pourtrayed :
"13tionaparte struck me as differing considerably from the pic-
tures and busts I had seen of him. His face and figure looked
much broader and more square, larger, indeed, in every way, than
any representation I had met with. His corpulency, at this time
universally reported to be excessive, was by no means remarkable.
His flesh looked, on the contrary, firm and muscular. There was
not the least trace of colour in his cheeks ; in fact, his skin was more
like marble than ordinary flesh. Not the smallest trace of a
wrinkle was discernable on his brow, nor an approach to a furrow
on any part of his countenance. His health and spirits, judging
from appearances, were excellent ; though at this period it was
generally believed in England, that he was fast sinking under a
complication of diseases, and that his spirits were entirely gone.
Isis manner of speaking was rather slow than otherwise, and per-
fectly distinct : he waited with great patience and kindness for
wasmy answers
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brilliant and sometimes dazzling expression of hie eye could not be

ohowever, a permanent lustre, for it was
reoonly
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remarkableLlt when‘vas not,he was excited by some point of particular
interest. It is impossible to imagine an expression of more entire
inildness, I may almost call it of benignity and kindliness, than
that which played over his features during the whole interview.
If, therefore, he were at this time out of health and in low spirits,
his power of self-command must have been even more extraordi-
nary than is generally supposed ; for his whole deportment, his
conversation, and the expression of his countenance, indicated a
frame in perfect health and a mind at ease.
With this slight analysis we here take leave of Captain
Hall. His voyages, we do not hesitate to say, are, with-
out even the exception of Captain Cooke's, the most de-
lightful we ever read; for, instead of being filled, as is the
case with most others of this class, with cold abstracted
description of scenery or zoology, they teem with sketches
of human character, interesting under any circumstances,
but doubly so when they present themsels unsophisti-
cated by European society. Occasional scenes of humour
too are hit off with the ease and freedom of a Hogarth,
quiet, it is true, but arch and racy, 'while a few Shakspe-
riot' touches of pathos, unassumingly interspersed—as in
the anecdote of the poor old Corean Chieftain in tears,
link the work more cordially to our feelings, and lend it
quite a dramatic interest. We hope Captain Hall has yet
to make a fortune by literature.

LISI)ON, JAN. 1, 1827:

Extract of a private letter from Lisbon :—I arrived here in the
Melville, after a passage of eight and a half days.—The 63d
Regiment, Sir Edward Blackney, Sir Thomas Arbuthnot, and
their respective staffs were on board—the whole including officers
and men, with the ship's company, to upwards of 1,100 persons,
besides 11 horses.

Here we now arc, however, all in good health and high spirits,
but as the Spanish Government has recognised the Constitution ;
there will, I presume, be little or nothing for us to do, except
garrison duty here for some time, to give stability to the new
order of things. The Marquis of Chaves is in the mountains
with some force, and I understand that the people of that part of
the country are devoted to him.
I do not think, however, that our army will interfere in the
internal commotions of the country. The regular troops of the
Portuguese army are all absent from Lisbon, where the duty is
performed by volunteers. I have been told that this rebel Mar-
quis boasts that he will drive the English into the sea, but when
the once great and powerful Napoleon failed in realizing a similar
boast, we have very little to apprehend from this would-be hero.
The people here are very civil, and every thing seems as quiet as
if we were in one of our own ports, yet, I believe from what I
can observe and learn, that the inhabitants are not altogether
lakased at our appearance. This, however, is only human na-
ture, for if ever an individual were to seek the assistance of one or
two persons to protect his house from any apprehended attack of
thieves, he would feel the inconvenience of it, however much his
safety might be insured by it—at all events, a little time will de-
velope what we are to do. The troops are to commence disem-
barking to-day, and by the next packet I shall be able to give you
a correct account of the formation of the army, and how they are
to be arranged. Transports have arrived- with cavalry and artil-
lery, the 10th Hussars are on board some of them.

PROLONGATION OF LIFE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR—Observing in many of the London Papers an
Eastern anecdote of " two very thick skulls," I will fur-
nish you with an equivalent instance of superstition from
the Commentaries of Taimar or Tamerlane. One of the
mistresses of his Harem lying at the point of death, and
the physicians having abandoned hope, the Monarch
gravely resorted to the dervishes. These pious ascetics
finding human means unavailing, resorted to their Inn
Illahin, and besought the Deity to deduct one year from
each of their lives, and confer it on the invalid. The
number of dervishes was twelve, and the prayer or conju-
ration was heard, and the history authentically states, that
recovering, she lived the twelve years, and died at their
expiration.

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