The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-16 00:00:00

TERCEIRA.

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Letters from this island to the 21st of September,
Were received in this town on Monday last, from
these we learn that no occurrence of moment had
taken place since the 11th of • August. There was
a blockading squadron of five sail, among them the
line-of-battle ship the Don Joao IL, cruising off the
island. An order having been issued by the Go-
vernor, the Conde de Villa Flor, offering a reward
of a penny for every cannon ball fired from the Mi-
guelite squadron upon the island during the late glo-
rious.defence, about live thousand of these balls had
been collected and brought to him. During the at-
tack a party, consisting of sixty men of the 13th
Regiment of Portuguese Infantry, having been or-
dered to proceed in a boat to a particular point at
which they were directed to effect a landing, instead
of proceeding in the direction which they were or-
dered to take, steered for a different point, and
their boat striking upon a rock at some distance from
the shore, went down, and , every soul perished.
The bodies of those who were killed on board the
squadron, and in the boats attempting to land, being
carried away by the currents in various directions,
rendered it impossible to ascertain the number with
anything like precision. The body of the celebrated
Lieutenant-Colonel Docetel, Commander of one of
the Miguelite brigades, who was mortally wound-
ed during the action,. was washed on shore in
a coffin some days afterwards. As a proof
offthe violence which must have been employed,
and the reluctance with which the men employed
on this expedition have served against their legiti-
toate Sovereign Donna Maria 11., it is stated in
these letters, .that on examining the muskets of
most of the soldiers who, after landing, joined the
Queen's standard, the cartridges were found to have
been inverted, so as to potit out of their power to
injure those of their loyal countrymen against whom
they were led, and they now serve with exultation
that cause which force alone compelled them for a
time-to desert; it also deserves to be recorded, as
a convincing proof of their sincerity, that the majority
of them had got the uniforms of their old regiments
concealed within the lining of their new regimentals.
The same spirit is said to pervade every class of in-
habitants in the island; and so far are they from en-
tertaining any apprehensions respecting a repetition
of an • attemp t on their island, that there are few
things they so ardently long for as another oppor-
anity to signalise their valour, and exhibit to the
tvorld their heroic devotion to the cause of their
)egitimate monarch, the illustrious though unfortunate
Queen, Donna Maria de Gloria.—PlyntouMJuurnal

ELOPE/sIENT.—This mornincr) a considerable
mob was collected in Oxford-street, in ri
consequence of the
teseue of a young runaway female from the arms of an old
toted seducer. The circumstances of the case, as far as
they could be collected, are as follows. This grey-headed
reducer being lately liberated from durance rile, where he
Was confined on charges of a disreputable nature, had im-
mediately insinuated himself so far into the good graces of i
the lady, who has not
et completed her 18th year, that
Ole eloped this morning from her parents' house, who are
telPectable people residing in Newman-street, but not
Without taking the necessary precaution, confessedly under
the •direction of her admirer, of abstracting from her
Lather's coffers the sum of 5001. Two young men, her rothers, suspecting her design, immediately pursued her,
!tod coming up with the hackney coach, where the fugitives
were suspected to be sitting, the ungracious word stop !"
asi°odly pronounced, and the unwilling maid was dragged
hout of the vehicle and carried to a place of security. Three
undred pounds of the stolen Money were found on the
,b but the remaining two hundred were missing, for
tjle recovery of which, and the previous seduction, ac-
'on was threatened to be commenced against the seducer.
This morning, between nine and ten o'clock,
ip elderly woman,- who keeps a brothel in Marylebone,
,ade an attempt to drown herself in the Thames, near
Battersea-bridge. She had been observed picking up
tones and putting them into her pockets, which were fas-
tened round her in the usual manner, but outside her ap-
krel before she made the attempt, which was done in
the presence of some children. A man in the employ of
44. BRISTOW, of Lambeth, who was going down the
tiver in a. boat, repaired to the spot, and extricated her
fr orn the fate that awaited her. The depth of the water
*al not more than six feet, but she was never seen to rise
after she had plunged in. She had hem about four minutes
ill the water, and on surgical aid being rendered her, she
*as. with difficulty restored again to her senses, when she
unit into tears, and assured her deliverer that she had
',gen tot, much in this world, and that he had only given
net life a temporary respite.
The able and distinguished Member of the
_4te Cabinet, the Right Hon. Lord Viscount PALMERSTON,
rived here on Saturday on his way to Dublin. His
111511iP %gaited the docks, rail-road, and tunnel, Athe-
b°
t" ms New Cemetery, St. Luke's Church, &c., and ex-
131:essed himself most highly gratified with the magnificent
t;rk and astonishing improvements which the enterprise
the town is so well calculated to convey to the mind of
Cblitranger, but more particularly to the mind of a States-
men possessing the philosophical, enlarged, and liberal
en
~w p
s of his Lordship The hasty visit of his Lordship,
taBsan, prevented that attention which our worthy
t. Mazistrate would have willingly paid to such a dis-
:guished colleague of the late Administration ; identified
be is with the measures of our highly respected repre-
It!ntative Mr. HusyassoN. His Lordship embarked for
nblin on Sunday afternoon, and, we have no doubt,
ves the town under a strong io,pression of its enterprise
'tl growing importance.—Liverpool Courier.
LAUNCH OF IRON VESSELS.—Yesterday a
ik,Feewliat novel sight was witnessed in Wallasey Pool. An
h'a vessel had been constructed by Messrs. LAIRD and
b'°•, at' their extensive steam-boiler establishment, on the
ltllliern side of the Pool, and betwixt eleven and twelve
1,,10ck in the forenoon all was ready for launching. She
eeked
down the ways about ten yards, when she was
ttked in her descent by the shrinking of the cradle with- '
I,%hb few yards of the water's edge, where she stuck for a
121 t time, until she received assistance front a steam
1:t, which had brought a number of gentlemen from
trll'erpool to witness the ceremony. Thus aided by a line
1 the steamer, she descended into the water amidst the
slamations of the workmen and by-standeis. Some
~tiety had been manifested to ascertain the quantum of
'try
she would draw upon being committed to she
;titer), element. This was soon made apparent by the
Ittitister on her bottom only drawing .14 inches, being a
ti %draught than that of a vessel of equal tonnage built of
ktilber. She is a beautiful mould, anti looked exceedingly
It', and buoyant upon the water ; she measures 60 feet
L4'. 13 feet beam, 71 feet deep, measures 54 tons, car-
ctiter's measurement, and will carry about 90 tons dead
eeight. Previously to being launched she had received a
4ting of a cliyrnical cement, inside and out, to prevent
oxygenization of the iron. She is intended for the
I:land Irish Steam Navigation Company, recently esta-
*':shed by and under the management of C. W. Wicr.taars,
`N., and will, we understand, cost considerably less than
fl.
4t of equal size built of timber, and, in many respects,
;ti likely to possess advantages over flats built in the ordi-
04ry manner. This is the first vessel constructed in Cheshire
this material, but it will doubtless be followed by others
if a superior class, when their advantages shall be more
kIIIY appreciated. An iron steam-boat of a peculiar con-
;quction, having the paddles io the centre, built by
°least!. FAWCETT and Co., fur tl.e same company as the
'ove, was tried in the river on Monday, and we are glad
say that the result was highly satbfactory.—Liverpool
uourier of Wednesday.
nOCHDALE, LANCASHIRE, OCT. Il.—AP-
k•4elicklsioti pp- THREE CONSTABLES or THIS TOWN FOR
cl'ill'ir••••4 May, perhaps, be fresh in the recollection of
readers the circumstances of the dreadful riots at. R. och-
tie, in the month of April last, when several viduals
tillefurtunately lost their lives. Several of the club, called
ti Weavers' Union, were apprehended and tried as para•
kilt4turS in the riot, amongst whom was a tsian named
At-lt"Aw, who was tried at the last Lancashire 'Assizes.
itthe time KERSHAW was taken into custody the con-
-40,"1" of Rochdale took away with them the treasurer's
teibelonging to the Weavers' Society, containing the sum
'P,485/. in gold, silver, ind copper. On Friday last Mr.
wrcEs, attorney of Manchester, on the part of the
p:tvers' Union Society, applied to the authorities of
thr'lldale for the box, when it was discovered that the
true: constables, into whose custody the box had been en-
-44 true: constables,
had taken the liberty of breaking open the box
dig 4king free with the 1851. The Magistrates imme-
, st,,C,'Y issued warrants for the apprehension of the con-
tsk 'e* for the felony, and on Saturday last they were
illt:1 before the Magistrates, but no evidence was gone
thip, to consequence of the absence of witnesses ; and a
velt,"4 culprit, named STOCK, who hall gone out of the way,
1100 yet apprehended.

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ARRIVALS.

Earl Jermyn, in St. James's-square, from Ickworth Park, Suf-
-1,,1k ; Lord Somerset, at the Duke of Beaufort's, Grosvenor-
square, from Gloucestershire; Lord Fitzharris, at the Marquis
of Bith's, in Grosvenor-square, from Hants; Countess De
Grey, at her house in St. James's-square, from her seat in Sur-
rey ; the Dowager Marchioness of Exeter, at her seat at Roe-
hampton, from the Isle of Night; the Marquis and Marchioness
of Stafford, from their seat, Trentham Hall, Staffordshire; Sir
Lloyd Duckenfield, Bart. at Ellis's Hotel, St. James's-street,
from a tour; Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Mackay, at ditto, from
their seat, Bookham-grove, Surrey ; Captain and Mrs. Hudson,
in Bryanston-square, from the Continent ; Captain and Mrs. Sa-
vage, at the Brunswick llotel, Jermyn-street, from the Conti-
nent; - Colwell, Esq. at ditto, from the Continent ; T. Page,
Esq. at the Royal Hotel, St. James's-street, from Holly-hill,
Kent; Hon. T. Fiennes, at ditto, from Belvidere; Mr. Cun-
brery, at ditto, from Paris; Marquis De la C. Grange, at ditto,
from Brighton ; Sir Levis Versturme, Captain and Mrs. Ver-
sturme, and Miss Versturnie, at ditto, from the Continent; Mr.
Shand, at ditto, from Scotland; Sir H. Fane, at ditto, from
Hampshire ; Sir William and Lady Ousely and family, from
Brussels.