The Sun.
London, England, 1818-11-13 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD, Nov. 13.

Our show of Beasts this morning was very large, and sales
in Beef were brisk, and prices dearer than on Monday. The
supply of Sheep was uncommonly short, and all sales were
effected in the early part of the morning at higher prices than
last week. There was a good supply of Pigs at market, and
Pork was cheaper; but very few Calves, and prices nominal
as per last.—Little or no business was done in the Hay-
market this morning, there being but few buyers at market,
and what sales were got off were at the same prices as our
last quotations. Clover has drooped in price; Straw was Qs.
per load cheaper this morning; and the trade in general
brisk. The annexed is a correct statement of the Numbers
and Prices at market:—

(To sink the Offal; per Stone of Albs.)
Beef ls. Ad. to ss. Od. Veal 4s. 6d. to Gs. 8d
I
Mutton ..4s. 6d. to 6s. 2d. Pork 4s. 6d. to 7s. Od

CATTLE AT MARKET.

Beasts
Calves
HAY AND STRAW PER LOAD.
Hay.... k 5 0 0 to,CB 00( Clover.. ,C 6 00to k 9 0 0
Straw A:. 4 8 oto [2 18 0

Sir GREGOR M'GReGoa has sailed from the
Dovrns with his Staff, which is composed of Col.
O'HARA, Capt.:Lave, the Hon. Capt. SEMPLE,
Capt. COLCLOUGH, and several other fine young
men.

j The Coroner's Inquest met at the sign of the
Duke ot Wellington public-house, Cannon-street,
St. George's in the East, last night, between
eight and nine o'clock, on the body of L. George,
a child about two years old, son ot Mr. George,
butcher, whose house was burnt on Tuesday night
last, as mentioned in THa Surf of Wednesday.—
After taking a view ot tl►,e body, which lay at an
undertaker's in the neighbourhood, and hearing
evidence, they brought in their verdict " Acci-
dental Death." It appears the little sufferer, when
found, had his hand over his face, and was very
little burnt ; suffocation seemed to have caned his
death. It is supposed the fire was occasioned
through the carelessness of a servant.

ACCIDENTS TO MAIL COACHES.—On Monday
morning the driver of the Edinburgl► mail,wLile at
Huntingdon, having left the box; the horses sud-
denly ran off; but had not proceeded far before
the leaders both fell,and were soon secured,and no
no material injury sustained. A similar occur-
rence took place the same morning at Greetham :
but we are sorry to say was attended with more
serious consequences. The horses of the Glas-
gow mail took fright, and the driver, running
up to stop them, made a sudden snatch at the
reins, but was thrown down in the attempt ; and
the wheels passing over his neck, he (lied in a
few hours. Both mails were nearly an hour be-
hind their usual time of arriving at Grantham.
A new invention of considerable merit-bas made
its appearance in the manufacture, on an entire
new principle, of that most useful accompaniment
of the toilet, the Hair Brush. It is, we under-
stand, the invention of Mrssus. Ross and SONS,
of Bishopsgate-street.

A new musical keyed instrument has been in-
vented, called the CEdephone, which rivals the
Harmonica in brilliance and stability of tone, and
possesses such a rapidity of enunciation as will
execute any music. Its particular destination,
however, would appear to be, from its great
power of expression, to accompany a Piano-torte
in playing the parts usually given to the bowed in-
struments, or to play the words to any music what-
ever. It is unfortunate that a Professor cannot
immediately satisfy himself of the powers of the
CEdeplione, as a particular tact, compounded of
the difficulty of playing both bowed and keyed
instruments, and the acquisition of which can
only be expected from practice, is indispensable.
The Inventor himself seems unable to play any
thing but slow and simple music upon his own in-
strujnent, or indeed upon any other.

P 0 E T It Y.

WELLINGTON'S ADDRESS TO THE ARMY ON
QUITTING FRANCE;

ALTERED FROM "BRUCE'S ADDRESS TO HIS ARMY

BRITONS Who with MARLBRO' bled,
ye whom VvELL'SLEY often led,
Welcome to your peaceful bed,

• And to liberty.
Haii ! all hail this happy hour !
See your native mountains tower,
You who crush'd th' Usurper's power,
And set Europe free.

R.ho, that loves his Country's laws,
‘Vho, that sanctions Freedom's cause,
Dare oppose the World's applause

Of British Soldiery ?
Who, when King and Country call,
Battle's rage nor Death appal,
Nobly stand or nobly fall,
Merits to be free

Ye who, spite of woes and pains,
Ye who bled your dearest veins,
To unlink oppression's chains,

Setting thousands free;
See all nature wears a smile,
Myriads greet you void of guile,
Welcome to your native Isle,
Peace, and Liberty.

AI. D.

SHAKSPEARE.

As any thing that relates to our great Dra-
matic Bard must be interesting to every reader
of taste,-and who feels the laudable impulse of
patriotic pride, we copy the snhjoined article
from an Evening Paper ; but there have been so
many attempts at imposition respecting professed
Portraits of him, that we may he well excused if
we are sceptical as to the authenticity of the Pic-
ture to 'which it relates.` In the time of VAN-
DYCK. S,HAKSPRA46 was by no means so popular
as he has since become, and it is not very likely
that VANDYCK, a foreigner, should have employed
himself in the illustration of .a particular scene of
a Poet, who was then comparatively little talked
of, and whose excellence he could not possibly
understand. We therefore cannot persuade our-
selves, that though the work in question may be
' a good picture, that it was painted by VAN-
DYCK. We are rather inclined to consider the
story as an ingenious fabrication to draw atten-
tion to the Picture that it may be disposed of to
the greater advantage
SHAKSPEARE AND VANDYCK.
An English Gentleman residing at Brussels has
had the good fortune to rescue from oblivion,
and to become possessed of an original picture of
VANDYCK, representing the interesting scene of
our immortal SH AKSPRA RE—Hamlet contemplating
the Skull of 'Yorick. The picture was accidentally
discovered among the rubbish of a coach-house
at Brussels, but so completely covered with (lust
and dirty varnish, that it was scarcely visible.—
It was pronounced by some of the Flemish con-
noisseurs to be a picture of some merit—but the
story of a Doctor or an Apothecary examining a
hu►nan skull was considered to he triste, and the
picture was sold for a trifle. On its being care-
fully cleaned, it was found to be in perfect pre-
servation--the colouring as fresh and brilliant as
it came from the easel of the painter- It is halt-
length, the countenance of Hamlet full of expres
Sion, the hands touched with all the truth of na-
ture, and with the exquisite delicacy of the pencil
of VANDYCK. This inestimable picture, which
has excited much attention at Brussels, particu-
larly among the amateurs, is now ascertained to
have formerly belonged to the Count AYLESBURY,
who married the Princess of HORNE, and that it
was originally painted for CHARLES the First, by
VANDYCK, when he was in England. WALPOLE,
in his " Anecdotes of Painting in England," men-
tions, that after the Icing's eeath many of his
finest pictures were taken away by his servants
for their wages, and carried into Holland and
Flanders, where they were sold.

EXECUTION AT ABEnor.EN.-.—Friday, John Bar-
net, alias 111‘Barnet, was executed at Aberdeen,
for various acts of house-breaking and theft, pur-
suant to his sentence at the last Circuit Court of
Justiciary. He died with great struggle; and,
after hanging the usual time, the body was cut
down, and conveyed, under the attending escort
of the 38th Regiment, to a boat ready ti.) receive
it, in which it was carried out and sunk at sea.