The Sun.
London, England, 1818-01-13 00:00:00

SHIP NEWS;

PORTSMOUTH, JAN LZ.—Arrived the Oraca-
beza, from Port Maria, Jamaica ; left
the Union lOading for London.' The Harriet
was expected round in a day or two from King-
ston, to • load for London. Tile Isabella was to
sail from Aeratta -the 12th Nov. for England.—
Saw a two-decker on shore in the Gult, supposed
to be a Spanish ship. In ,lat. 34. 10. N. long.
66. W. saw three sail of men of wm-).supposed to
be English, but (bk.y strewed no colours. The
Oracabeza was beating to windward for 10 day;
after she sailed against a strong S. WV. wind, but
could not weatherJainaica, and was obliged to
bear up and run through the Gulf :—she expe-
rienced continual gales and very bad weather on
her passage, in which she lost her sails, boats,
and bulwarks.

DEAL, JAN. 12.—Arrived, and sailed for the
River, the Glory, PANUDER, from Bengal ; - Cape
Packet, from the Cape of Good Hope ; and the
Rosario and Florida sloops of war from the
Westward. Came down from the River the John
and Ann, for Havannah ; Orion, for Berbice ;
Ariadne, for St. Domingo ; Roebuck, for Siena
Leone; Marsh, for Jamaica ; and Spectator, for
St. Domingo.

FALMOUTH, JAN. 10 —Arrived the Francis
Freeling packet with mails from the Leeward
Islands, last from St. Thomas's, in 28 days.
ILFRACOM3E, JAN. 11 .—The ship Tobago,
WESTBOROUGH, from Demerara to London, has
been driven into the Bristol Channel, and obliged
to put into this port.

MURDER.—Last night a man named Evans, of
Falconball-court, Sutton-street, Soho, was taken
into custody and carried to St. Anne's watch-
house, charged with the murder of his wife. He
was taken to Marlborough-street Office this
morning, and, after ,a long examination, was re-
manded till Friday.

HALIFAX (NOVA SCOTIA), NOV. 15.—His Ex-
cellency the Lieutenant-Governor has been pleased
to appoint the following Gentlemen to be Sheriffs
for the present year :
Thomas Maynard, Esq. County of Halifax.
William Winniett, Esq. Country Annapolis.
C. H. Chandler, E-q. County Cumberland.
Henry Kaulback, Esq. County Lunenburg.
George Chipman, Esq. King's County.
Nathan Tupper, Esq. Queen's County.
Isaiah Smith, Esq. County wants.
-- Hunter, Esq. County Shelburne.
David M'Queen, Esq. County Sydney.

The fifth Anniversary of the Society of Anti.
Varies of Newcastle-upon-Tyne was holden on
Wednesday last, the 7tla inst. at the Castle, in
that town, when his Grace the Doke ot Nowrgum.
BERLAND was nominated patron of the Society,
which office was vacant by the death of the late
Duke; and the following elections took place for
the year 1818.

Sir John E. Swinburne, Bart. President ; Sir Chas. Monck,
Bart. James Lush, Esq. and C. W. Bigge, Esq. Vice-Presi-
dents: the Rev. J. Hodgson, and Mr. Adamson, Secretaries;
Mr. Adamson, Treasurer ; and Messrs. Jos. Forster, Thos.
Bell, Win. Clarke, J. T. BroCkett, E. Charnley, J. Stanton,
John Murray, Tins. Davidson, Bromell, Thos. Hodgson,
with sir R. S. Hawks, Knt, and the Rev. W. Turner,
Council.

FRAUD DETRCTED.—A man, who signs himself
W CooPER, has carried a pretended list of Sub-
scribers to respectable houses in the parish of St.
Clement's Danes, pleading distress, and inserting_
at the head of the list the names of the Reverend
Mr. GURNEY and other Persons as contributors,
none of whom have signed the list in question.
He even had the audacity to write a letter, recom-
mending his case in the name of Mr. GURNEY, to
strengthen his application. It is probable that
this man has attempted to carry on the same im-
positions in other parishes, and therefore we deem
it a duty to put people on their guard.

HALES WORTH, SUFFOLK.—We have lately had a
sad instance of youthful depravity in our neigh-
bourhood. A farmer in Chediston had a child who
died very suddenly ; its mother found it dead in the
cradle, in which she had laic! it a short time before
in apparent health. She was so much affected by the
loss, that her husband sent her on a visit to her mo-
ther, in hopes that a change of scene might restore
her spirits. A few (lays after her departure, the re-
maining child, who was between 5 and 6 years old,
was found drowned in a pond near the house. This
affliction, added to the former, nearly broke the
heart of the unfortunate -mother. On Tuesday
se'nnight we were alarmed by the report that the
same tarmer's house was on fire. Every assist-
ance was immediately given, and it was extin-
guished without doing much damage ; but it was
soon discovered thatit had been wilfully set on fire
by the servant, who bad been nurse-maid to the two
children. She confessed that she had set fire to some
straw in the apple,chamber ; that her life was a bur-
den to her, and that she committed the act in the
hope that she might be hanged for it. (This has
given rise to a suspicion that she destroyed one, if
not both, of the children, but no proof can be
brought of it. She is now in Beccles gaol.

William Wolslenholme, the last of the State Pri-
soners confined in Winchester county gaol, was
last week liberated, on his own recognizance, to
appear in the Court of King's Bench the first day
of next Term.

On Tuesday se'nnight, Mr. W. WEST, of Farna
barn, Surrey, made a bet, for a considerable sum,
to shoot fitly-two pigeons, from boxes (one at a
time), in sixty-two minutes, which he completed
in twenty-two, being forty minutes within the
given time, having shot fifty-four birds.

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L \l'•'.10N.A."111" SOCIETY.

Proprikrir of Felix 'Farley's Pi-ISM-jou' mei!,
n (he inst. after a manly vindication of his
character from lie attacks of an snonythous
3ailla!,t, thus e,:2reqes his -tieniiinents Of the
above-named :society

OR the subject of the far-lathed Pt'iitest of
Mr. Archdeacon Thorakis, and the Church Mis-
sionary Society, as connected with it, 'I conceive
have sliewn as sufficient degree of impartiality,
by poblishing :vith his Protest the only authorised
and a.ithenticated answer that had appeared 'to it;
while tinder the inyossibility of printing 'even a
small portion of the a,uonytitous letters, daily
received on the subject, I have reserved to my.
self the liberty of selectiug such as .1 think
proper, and are most in unison with my own
fet;ings.
As to the Church Missionary Society itself,
am free to say, that my views of it have been
materially altered since its formation in this city,
not so much with respect to the principle as a
means of propagatiug the Gospel on the basis of
the Church of England, as to the method and de-
tails of its proceedings, and the conduct of several
Of its supporters amongst us. Ott this view I
may conscientiously contribute my subscription
to its general purposes, while I disapprove of the
amalgamation of a Church Society with every
party of Dissenters, and detest the low artifices
by which contributions to its funds are in a man-
lier extorted front children at school, from ser-
vants in families, and from the bard savings of the
poor ; and abhor the illiberality of imputing to
unehaiitahle and irreligious motives any refusal to
join the Society *.

4, 1 could addace proofs indispntable of all these charges
against the Society; but one shall suffice :—A child in a visit
to his parents from school, informed them, that it was his
master's with that he should subscribe, as his school-fellows
slid, his penny per week to the conversion of the heathen;
and, as an indhcement, he put into his hands some numbers
of the " Missionary papers for the use of the weekly and
~uontlily contributors to the Church Missionary Society ;"
in Nu. of which the following stimulant to contribution ;3
related :

" A Missionary among the Indians in North America bring
one evening attacked with fever, resolved to go into his hut,
and lie down in his hammock. Just, however, as he entered
the door, he saw a serpent coming down on him from the roof
of the hut. The serpent darted at him ; and in the scuttle
which followed, the creature stung or bit him in tiro or three
places, and, pursuing him closely, twined itself several times
round his head and neck, as tightly as possible. ktpeetitig
tiow to be stung or strangled to d.ath, and being afraid lest
his fellow Missionaries, when the; found him, should sus—
pect that the Indians had murdered him, lie, a ii siogular
preset:ce of mind, wrote with chalk on the table (h: py el, -
cum tance that a piece of chalk was at hand) " A serpent
finS killed me." Suddenly, however, that promise of the 11,.
deemer darted into his mind : " They shall take up serpents,
and shall not he hurt." Encouraged by this declaration,and
lifting up his heart to our Saviour, he seized the creature
with great force, tore it loose from his body, mid flung it out
of the hut. • Ile then lay down in his lumnock, in tranquil-
lity and peace, praising God for his merciful care! !"
Credo Jurla-la Appella !!—I have contributed my mite to
the Bartlett's Building Society for the Propagation of the
'Gospel in Foreign Parts, and I have contributed a mite also
to the Baptist Missionary Society; but bare not heard of
Mean, like these being adopted, to swell their lists of sub-
scriptions, and to delude the ignorant and illiterate.

PLYMOUTH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

The niembert composing this valuable body
had their fourth anniversary meeting on the 30111
e'dtimo, when a very interesting report of the last
year's proceedings was presented by the manag-
ing Committee, and officers were Appointed for
the VilStliiig year, among whom we recognize
with pleasure the names of the Earl of Morley,
as Chairman, and Henry Woolcombe, Esq. as
Deputy Chairman, to whose activity of exertion
and zeal, as well as to those of the other
Members of the various managing Committees
since the Chamber was instituted, the port stands
deeply indebted for many important boons and
piivil~ges obtained from Government. ‘Ve per-
c:ive by the report, which has been printed, that
'the principal objects of the Committee's attention
tint lug the last year, were the construction of a
chart of the port, an. endeavour to remedy the
present defective system of lights and pilotage,
the furtherance of the pilchard fishery, the ac-
quisition of the long desired privilege of bonding
salt for the Newfoundland fisheries, a petition
for the privileges of the East India trade, an at-
tempt to rentove the wine prizage and butlerage
dues, and the protection of the tra,-, I fisheries on
the coays adjacent to the port, on all which
points the late managing Committee give infor-
mation more of less satisfactory. The formation
of a chart of the port, for general circulation both
at home and abroad, under the able superintend-
anCe of Mr. Sidley, the King's harbour-Master,
the counteraction of the views of some self-in-
terested persons, who wished to introduce into
the " for altering the laws of excise with re-
spect' to salt and rock salt" some provisions, which,
if passed into a law, must have proved highly
prejudicial to" the pilchard fishery, and the privi-
lege of bonding salt for the Newfoundland
fisheries, are the fruits of the last year's exec-

lions, independent of several minor benefits, in
tr her quarters. The Committee very Properly
congrarnlate the port on ti►e thriving state of the
South Sea Fishety, and the erection of a new Cus-
tom-House, and cot►clude with hoping that,
though " some speculations may not have an-
swered the too sanguine expectations of inexpe-
rienced adventurers, the general feeling of the
port is improved, and that a steady, persevering
conduct will, by degrees,, produce those mercan-
tile habits and that Prudent spirit of adventure,
Avhich can alone ensure a permanent commerce."
(The Plymouth and Deck Telegraph and Chro-
nicle, Jan. 10.)

AccIDENT..7-7Daniel Cartwright, the City Mar-
ihalman, whose accident, by a fall from one of
the Cambridge Coaches, was stated. in Friday's
raper. I
(..et. earl on Sunday morning.
ANOTFIER 13AaNvertt.L.—Yesterday John Smith,
lad ivho is about 17 years of age. was cbarged„
at Worship-street, with robbing his master of
linen-drapery to a large amount. lie confessed
his guilt, but pleaded, in extenuation, the influ-
ence of that bewitching sex whose very smiles
are fate ! According, to his statement of the case,
he had been instigated by a Miss Campbell, and
he %vas admitted to appear in evidence againSther.
for a misdeutncanour.

'LAW IN rEI. ii(l EN Ct.

COURT OF CIIANCERY, JAN:.

the 4,oan Caftwom,Loa, at half-past fen'ibis
morning, came into Court, and resumed his sit-
tings. There were a considerable number of
'Counsel and Solicitors ru'ecent.