The Sun.
London, England, 1816-12-26 00:00:00

FILoAd THEKitIOSTON U. C. GAZETTE.

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" Ma. EptToti,—On taking up the"Netv York
Spectator of the 16th inst. I observed a paragraph
(avowedly copied into that Palter from the Water-
toWn American ,idcocate) to the following effect :
" It is stated, that about the Ist inst. a BritiA
deserterfrout Kingston passed through Sacker's
Harbour, and was soon' parstred by threetarmed
English Officers, who overtook and pursued hint
at Henderson. While the Officers were,conduct-
mg their prisoner hack to Kingston, a number of
ship-carpenters' and other cititent of Sacker's
Harbour interfered, and effected 11:s escape',"
Now, Sir, the facts to which the above have
allusion, are as follow :
" Two otrtari, belonging to the 70th regiment,
stationed at Kingston, were sent over by me t
Sacker's Harbour; not armed, nor with the,view
of seizing a deserter, but.. as private gentlemen
in pursuit, of a. villain, .who had committed the
most daring robbery out his master, and io whose'
detection and punishment every upright citizen,
of every nation, ought to have telt alike interested.
The sitid two gentlemen applied' in a regular
manner to the Civil Magistrate (paying the re-
quired fees), in order to the culprit's being
committed to prison, in the full eonfideuce
that the Atuericao laws would' deal justly by
the offender ; but, with regret do I publish to
the world, that the Civil Magistrate of that Sec-
tion of the United States, atter receiving the pri-
soner into his custody, and being paid for his
trouble, had the effrontery of winking at his
escape, followingup his duplicity by the degrad-
ing iseknowlelguonit that the prisoner's sescoe
was effected by the daring violence, of a lawless
mob. Thus. Mr, Editor, -by similar•
statements as the one inserted in the dmerican
Advocate, are rancorous feelings excited, :tool jett-
Inns sospitions begat, in the minds of the subjects
ofthe two nations, who have the stroagest pos-
sible incentives_ to reciprocal good °dices niid
durable friend,bip.—Your _obedient servant,
THOMAS EVANS. Lieut.-CO, Cum. 70th Itekt.",.

~rtaa.--.i3etween,three and four o'clock yester-
(lay hmeniug, a. fire broke out at the house ot Mr.
Daly, the sign of 'the Canterbury Armi, Lower
Lambeth. A number .of persons had been
keening Christmas 1.4.1 e, and they remained in the
house when the flames were seen bursting out of
the bar, which projected into the street. For-
tunately Alley all escaped utilunt; but the flames
spread so- rapidly;' that Dlr.•Daly saved very little
of his property. The whole of his citildren's
clothes Were burnt., and be was compelled to buy
covering for them after their removal. It was not
known yesterday bow the fire originated. The
alarm anti confusion which prevailed Marsh
when the fire was first eiiscovered cannot. be de-
scribed. The" nhabitants are all pool laborious
people,, and as the ancient buildings, )vhich have
been' standitig more than 'two hundred years, were
threatened with total destiuction.,. every one was
afraid of losing his Wile he flames soon re-
duced Mr. Daly's house to ruin, and the devOnr.
lug column of fire had darted through the lath
and plaster walls of the adjoining house, occu-
pied by Mr. Field, a wax-chandler, when the en-
gines arrived and checked the fury. o► the con-
flagration. Mrs. Field, whose accouchement oc-
curred about three weeks since, was carried out
in blankets, aid ii cunsegaentlyttuw iu a.state•oi
danget occasioned 'by the. fright. Her maid Ser.
mit had scarcely time to quit her bed, the flames
having seized the curtains. Forth:had)/ a quick
supply of water enabled the firenteo to extin-
guish the fire before eight o'clock, anti tg) save
half of Mr. Field's -premises. The public-house
is entirely destroyed,
,and the damage, indepen;
deat of Mr, Feild's house, is veil: considerable.

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And Jer6%' 1 IS'Aftrfutd.

STEPtir.s.—Holiday et tht flank, Exchcluer.Eust India
and south Sca Huuiu

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LONDON,
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, ISM

We Lave made a few extracts from the Paris
Papers of Sunday and Monday last, received this
morning, but they are devoid of all interest.

The American Papers which [arrived yesterday
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to the 27th ult., furnish a.few paragraphs for a
preceding column, but bring no news of conse-
quence. One of them contains an extract of a
letter from St. Bartholomew's dated Oct. 29, and
stating, that a dreadful fever then raged at Gua-
daloupe, of which great numbers of people daily
died. It was reported to have beet) broughtfrous
Malta, and was called " the black fever."

The Congo sloop of war and Dorothy mins-
port arrived at Hibbs the latter evil of October.
The Ceptain and all the principal Officers, except
the Master, 'died on' the coast of Africa, having
been 120 miles higher op the river than any other
vessel.

Many different accounts are given respecting the
erops.ot'wheat, &c. the,' American Papers
treat which we collect that they are but of En+
tiling qualities, and. it is ascertained that the erupt
of Indian corn had failed. Cotton had produced. •
an average crop,,,but the quality Yery.indiffereut,
being of unusually short staple. . , , ...-
The trial of the American Msjor4i'eneral
GAINE-S has closed, 'and the General was.boisour-
ably Acquitted on all the charges and specifica
tines:- The acquittal has been approved, and the
Conic Martial dissolved by the President. :Eke
Cowl, in giving its decision; pronounced most of
the charges to he frivolous,' and all of then) de.
stitute of support or foundation. , Tints has ter.
minated a trial which has cost ate United States.
from fitly to, a ,hundred thousand dollars! The
charges related principally to his report at the aile-
rstions before Fort Erie, and of the battle at that
Fort, in August, 1814.
•
A Courier from Vienna. itr said to an artl"-
fpraoticith
es relative Naples of
ttols e a 7N(l4,ie
1, to(el liivaevieedbisstytsighleit
AD,
vies:
rican Envoy 'in Russia, on the subject of die
Claim(lit sectu,, without al,llxy Statesttubs upon the Neapt'lit~.t
ranged. A Russian squadron is expected in the
Mediterranean. The story of America haviog
mantled the the cession of a Neapolitan putt,duels
demand was indignantly rejected, is •repeated.
An article from Bolin 10410, that the Prott".
Cant Church of Prussia is on the eve of being re.
modelled.
Among the Petitions to the French Chamber Of
Deputies, presented on Saturday, was one froth:iik
Sub-Lieutenant, EDouaan ANToists, who Mittel'
that he did not know who his parents were,
ltut
supposed lmL belonged to the' noose of Larubatleii
Upon this ground he prayed ..the Chamber to in,.
terest itself in procuring his promotion, but the
Chamber only laughed, and passed to the Order 411
the Day.
At Montreal, on the 9th Otitis°, a severe shock
of an earthquake was felt, and on the IGO, ano-
ther smart shock of about thirty sectnids duration.
The Duke of ,Vottx- yesterday Morning in-
spected the First Regiment of Foot Guards, an
the Parade in St. James's Park. On this °co.
*ion' the men appeared in their .new cloathing
his Royal Highness wore his regiMentals as CO*
Inuel,'and looked ',uncommtinly well. His Roy**
fligliness walked from his residence near the
Stable-yard to the parade, attended by one ,of leis '
Aid-de-Camps, and was cheered op his way by the
populace ; on appearing in the trout of the.litte•
the band immediately struck up the anthem of
• God save the Kinc," during the playing of
which many of the,spectators stood tmeot_ered..
The report that the Irish Militia Scads are to be
employed'ai a polit eis again revived, and in a
Attarter that there is no doubt but that the humid.
t ion :will take place. - •
A detachment, consisting of sixty privates and
a number pt. sub,wen, Officers of the 21 battalion
'of the 30th regiment, arrived in Cork, from
Tralee, on Wednes.tay, to embark to join Otte ~St
battalion in India,
The LORD MAYORhas relingaisbed the plan 01
receiving sub.,ictiptions at the, Mansion-house fur
the sale of manufactured, silks atilt shawls, and
has recommended Ladies to apply to their re* •
spective tradesmen 'as the brit FnetillS of encow+i
raging the silk trade.
N:t. PLATT is ?Ain confined to his bed the
swelling is abated, and he is considerable better,
liatonToN, Db.c. 25.--Chriitinas Day was R.
priately observed by the brave 51st regiment 0I
infantry. The Officers considered an arrange•.
mein indispeu.able, that all the men should IWO
roast beet and plumb podding. This rt:gimeat„
went to the Parish Church, and afterwards t'""
rye,' themselves with the .customary conviViali:y
of the day.
1-hr AI Aissry having Veen most gracipasiY,
'pleased:to permit the elegant IVorkon Seril"
titre Genealogy" to be published, tinder her M%."
'SESTYIS particuiar patronage, it will he mod)" ,a
i(!''
general sale its the course Of tov dais ,Itt NO. ."J
Strand.

DEAL, DiC. 25.-ArriVed; and retniiin, the
Violet, AL1,17,N, from Buenos Ayres, with loss of
anchor anti cable ; Raehael and Ann, CAs'e, and
Hannah, MoOa, from Quebec.. Came down froni
the River, and remain, the Sir S. Lashington,
Charles Grant, Inglis, and General Harris, for
India'; and Pilgrim for St. Kitt's. Arrived, and
sailed for the River, the Drumclary store-
Wind S.W.

PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 25.-4trived the Quest,
Venus, Trafalgar, and Juhu and Eleanor
trans-
ports, from Gternsey.. The Fox tratisport; froni
Guernsey, gut on shore ois Bainbridge 1.61;7,
big is expeocd to come cif without Much Atiinage
at high water.-;—Wind S.W.

FALMOUTH, DEC 25.--Arrived the Thomas
Brouch, NELSoN, from Virginia ; Chapman, from
Loudon for Cork and New South Wales ;
from Shields for Jamaica. Sailed the .Ana,
Diana, Tiope, Margaretta, Hester, Sally, and
Jenny, for London Mercury and Cribh for
Portsmouth. Tue brig Crown, WlLsort, attived
off the Lizard ,the 02d from Salo,in '23 days, all
well, ,tact prouedttl for Londop.—Witid

The country ship 14,Ard Castlereagh, Captain
J. B. LAI s'o, kit Por Ittstmth on the I4th of May,
and reached Bombay the 6th of August, having
consequently performed one of the quiehest voy-
ages' from England ever known. The Castle-
reagh made the Island of Jolt biIIDA in 69 days from
the Isle of Wight, and but for some light winds
loiter pansingJohanuir, would probably have re:l6,-
0 Bombay within 80 days: