The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-23 00:00:00

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

James Finlayson, Allan, Ross-shire, cattle-dealer, Oct.
1, 15, at the Sheriff Court-house, Tain.
James Neilson, jun., Leith, merchant, Oct. 2, 19, at
the Sheriff Clerk's-office, Leith.

Thomat and John Scotland, West Luscar, Fifeshire,
writers to the signet, Oct. 22, at the office of Mr. Hunter,
Edinburgh. -
Edward Alexander, Powis, Patrick Connal, John
Thomas, Robert Thomson, and John and Peter Wright,
Stirling, an.l John Hutton Spite, Alloa, bankers, Oct. 12,
at the Court-house, Stirling.
William Charteris, Glasgow, tape-manufacturer, Oct.
5, 19, at the Sheriff Clerk's-office, Glasgow.
Vair Clirehugh, Edinburgh, perfumer, Sept. 28, Oct.
7, at Chulmer's Hotel, Edinburgh.
Lennox Blaikie, Edinburgh, merchant, Sept. 23, Opt.
17, at the Royal Exchange Coffee-house, Edinburgh.
William Crawford, Glasgow, surgeon, Sept. 25, Oct.
12, at the Stirling-square Coffee-room, Glasgow.
Robert Martin, Leith, corn-merchant, Sept. 28, Oct.
14, at the Royal Exchange Coffee-house, Edinburgh.
John Murray, Edinburgh, insurance-broker, Sept. 29,
Oct. 13, at the Royal Exchange Coffee-house, Edinburgh.
William Neilson, Leith, mu-chant, Oct. 2, 19, at the
Sheriff Clerk's•offiec, Leith.

The body of the lamented Capt. WATERS, of
the Hayford, of Swansea, which was lost with the whole
of her crew off the Devonshire coast during the late heavy
gales, was found on Friday morning on the shore
near the Mumbles. From the length of time the body had
remained in the water, its identity could only be ascertained
by the watch found in the pocket.—Cambrian.

The following is an extract of a private letter
from Calcutta, dated August 28 :—" The want of rain
in the lower provinces has already begun to injure the
Indigo, and, from all appearances, we shall have another
short crop. Opium here is on the advance, and fetches
full ten rupees per chest more than at our last advices.
We have had some heavy importations of European
goods, and the trade for these is generally dull. Twist is,
however, looking up, and in fair demand."

A BAD HELMSMAN.--A few days since the
Captain of a small coal vessel unloading at Cromarty hap-
pened to fall in with a few friends, all freemasons. The
conversation turning upon the " mystic tie," and the
charms and virtues of freemasonry, the Captain expressed
a strong desire to he enrolled amongst the gentle craft. A
meeting was accordingly called, and the worthy Captain
initiated instanter into the far-famed mysteries of JACHIN
and BOAZ. Pleased with such a signal mark of kindness,
the man of the deep insisted upon his companions accom-
panying him to his vessel, and drinking success to free-
masonry all over the world. The cabin was, of course,
well stocked with whiskey, and as the brethren were
nothing loth, divers hearty libations were drank in honour
of the cause. Business, however, must be attended to;
and though the Captain seemed to think with Dr. JOHN-
SON that a man is never so happy as when he is idle, he
recollected that he had engaged to go up the frith to the
small villige ofJemina to freight the vessel with pit props.
He then hoisted his sail and steered merrily onwards ; but
finding it next to impossible to quit his boon companions
below, the Captain committed the care and guidance of
the vessel to one of his friends, a tailor. The latter was
not accustomed to work without measures; and, as might
be foreseen without any remarkable sagacity, he speedily
went immeasurably wrong. The rudder was in the hands
of the tailor almost as awful an instrument as a drawn
sword in the hands of King JAHES or the Provost of Dun-
dee, and instead of going to the place appointed, the ves-
sel was steered straight across the frith. At last up came
the real Captain, rubbing his eyes to take an observation,
when he found the wonders of the deep realized, for Ins
bark was run high and dry upon the opposite shore. Every
exertion was made to get her off, but without effect. The
taikx had sewed them up completely with this new cut,
and so firmly was the vessel fixed, that several men have
since been employed to form a canal for admitting the tide,
in the hope of launching her once more into her native
element,..-4' wernm Courier.