The Sun.
London, England, 1818-07-30 00:00:00

SHIP NEWS.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the
East India House, when the ships Essex and War-
ren Hastings were taken up for China.

DEM., July 29.—Arrived and sailed fur the firer, the
Carsharlton Park, Clark, from Jamaica; Newcastle, Benson,
from do.; Providence, Green, from Bengal; Trent, Lmg-
bottom,from Quebec; Minerva, —, from do.; and several
more—particulars unknown.—Sailed the whole of the home-
ward bound for the River, that arrived yesterday.
PowrsmouTH, JULY 29.—Sailed his 'Majesty's ship Rosario
on a cruize.

FALmotivr, JULY 2.7.—Sailed the Lady Louisa pacliet,with
a tmall for Gibraltar and Malta.

HARWICH, JULY 29.—Arrivvd last night the Lord Nelson
packet, with a mail &c. from Holland ; Rover, —, with
passengers from Hatnburgh ; Hoffnung, Johanneson, from
Husum.—Sailed the Beaufoy packet, with mail, eec. for Hol-
land; and Nepeau packet, with do., for Cuxhaven.
CRAVESEND, JULY 29.—Arrived the Enistamlieskilva, Toss,
from Norway; Vrow Katherina, Holtman, from Bremen;
Vrow Mette. Belt, do.; Vrow Hendrica, —, from Amster-
dam ; —, Bass, from Lea; Vrow Robsina, from Rot-
terdam; Sirene, Pregger, from Calais; Young Arions, Haw-
kins, from Madeira; Good Hod-bung, Moldena, from Antwerp ;
Neptune, Strannack, from Ostend ; Thebis, Ellerby, from
Quebec; Brothers, Mearns, from Memel; Spring, Hendry,
from Pillau ; Marquis of Wellington, Gibbs, from Riga.—
Sailed the Intrepid packet, Thornton, for Gibraltar; Wel-
lington, Owen, for Quebec ; Friends, Kidd, for Maranhauu ;
Nancy, Stacey, for Mogadore ; Heros, Faillant, for Calais;
Vrow Gerina, Kate, for Amsterdam ; Flora, Pay, for Calais ;
Fame, Bullcn, for Malaga; and Invulnerable, Hudson, for
Antwerp.

CORONERS.—At the last Quarter Sessions for
Essex, held at Chelmsford, J. DISNUY, Esq.
of the Hyde, in Ingatestone, Recorder of
Bridport, delivered to the Bench a very forcible
and animated speech relative to the prac-
tice of the COUNTY CORONERS, in sending their
Clerks and others as Deputies, to administer
oaths to Jurors and take Inquests; in the
course of which the Learned Gentleman pointed
out, with much perspicuity, the great evil that
might arise from the want of judgment or care-
lessness
in those employed having no responsibi-
lity on themselves ; es also, that in the event of
an inquest so taken being traversed in the Court
of King's Bench, it would inevitably be attended
with unpleasant circumstances to the Coroner.—
It seems that the Coroners, being elected by Free-
holders in their respective Counties, are as nod)
baniid as a Member of the House of Commons or
a Verdnrer of the King's Forests, to execute their
functions personally, and that they legally have
no claiM for the County remuneratian unless their
Inquests be so taken.

PREVENTION OF FORGERY..—We mentioned on
Thursday that a Commisssion had been appoint-
ed under the Great Seal to inquire into the best
means of preventing the forgery of Bank-notes.
‘Ve understand that among the plans already sub-
mitted to the Commission is a new one, which
has as yet in no way been alluded to in the public
pricts, and which appears to be of a very simple
and efficacious nature. According to this plan,
the words necessary to express the obligation to
pay the bearer of the note are to be white, on a
black ground, but the black ground to consist of
lines of letter-press, composed with very small
types of a peculiar fount ; the face of the charac-
ter being made as large. .s the body, the lines of
the ground will appear compact and regular,
and Will still he perfectly legible when closely
examined. The whole letter-press may form
either a single story, or a collection or de.
tached sentences. The wortk of the promissory
part of the note are to be produced by cutting the
letters out of the black ground, so that when the
note is primed the white characters will et oNs
black lines in a great number of places ; the
points of intersection will be easily recognised by
the public, in consequence of the words. through
which they will pass being known, and thus a
means of detecting forgery on inspection will be
afforded.

DREADFUL PARRICIDE.—Extract of a Letter
from Vienna, dated Slily 15 :
" A dreadful parricide has lately been commit-
ted in one of the first noble houses in the county
of Pest. The wretched criminal, a youth of 20
years of age, seems to have grown up in every
kind of excess, and expressed to his father two
years ago his intention to shoot him. He was
upon this put into confinement, and having now
just returned from his confinement to his father's
house, a quarrel again arose between the fa-
ther and the •son. The latter went into his
room ; his father followed, hut had scarcely
reached the door when the son fired a double-
barrelled gun, which wounded the father in the
breast, and stretched hint on the ground. A stew-
ard, who had been present at the first dispute,
and had also gone into his room, hastened to the
spot, when the son discharged the second barrel ;
it wounded his dying Lather in the head, and also
the steward in the arm. Thereupon the mur-
derer shut himself up in his room for two days,
and did not open the door till it was represented
to hint, that he, as the present possessor of the
estate, had various orders to give. As soon as, he
came out he was seized and delivered over to jus-
tice."

DETERMINED ATTEMPTS AT SUICIDE.. —Sunday,
the wife of a cabinet-maker, residing in Broad-
court, Curtain-road, Shoreditch, was found
hanging in her room •by a cord, and almost
dead. She was cut down, and by medical assist-
ance placed out of danger, but on Tuesday the
landlady of the house was alarmed by hearing a
peculiar noise up stairs, and on going up to dis-
cover the cause, was shocked to find the unfortu-
nate woman again suspended in the same place.—
She was quite black in the face, and the
cord had sunk very deep into the flesh of her
neck ; the landlady immediately eat her down,and
again sent for a surgeon, who ristored suspended
animation. She is now in a fair tray of recovery.

OETRY.

ON SIR FRANCIS'S TRIUMPH.
On being Second on the Poll at Westminster.

While liultoErr in his high career,
Went On, till urg'd by dastard fear,
1-fe scaraper'd from the Tower;
Still was hefird in factious fame,
And yielded to no other mine,
The palm of Mischief's power.

But losing. fast the Peiple's love,
And class') w:th HUNT, or scarce above,
He sought new means to raise hint;
F,,r Universal Sldl;•age spoke,
And, though he thought it ail a joke,
Thus got some scrubs to praise hint.

I\uw bra Lawyer's frientfly 1)&1),
Ife goes in Parliament to yelp,

And is a Patriot reeliou'd:
Sad from the shame of I),.'ing worst,
And quite despairing to be/7rst,
Ile triumphs to be second.

POP.

ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF HIS ONLY CHILD,

By the Rev. JAMES HOLME,

OF SOUTIIMINSTER, ESSEX.

Farewell, sweet Babe! thy life's contracted span
Is finish'd, ere the dawn of reason's day;
Thine infant bud ne'er blossorn'd into man,
Ne'cr learnt thy lips the lisping prattler's way.

Yet happy thou! remor'd to bliss on high,
From human ills, and wretchedness below.
Their lot, than thine, mote claims the piteous sigh,
Whose " life protracted is protracted woe."

Thy sorrowing parents, dear departed Boy,
• Whose earthly hopes were built on thee alone;
To them thy absence deadens every joy :
'Tis all a dreary blank, fur thou art gone.

Their bread is ashes, and their drink is fears;
And groans the converse of the tedious hour.
Hope sickens, and the fate too hard appears,
That could destroy, alas ! co prized a flower.

Thy poor fond Mother, Whose enraptur'd heart,
Like circling iey.ronnd her infant twined,
Still hears thee, sees thee, from thee cannot part;;
Flee soul refuses comfort else to find.

Still morbid fancy pictures to her eye
Thy nascent beauties opening by degrees ;
I❑ every breath she-hears the wonted cry,
In every hitting shade thine image sees.

That look, that smile, those little winning ways,
That beaming eye,, that cheek's vetthilliou bloom,
She views in reverie, and delights to gaze,
Till fancy's babble bursts upon the tomb.

Then heaves her bosom with acuter throes,
And ad the Mother Marts into her ;air :
" Those little lids shall never more unclose ;
" Nor little hands be twisted in her hair.

" Cold, cold, in death ; fast locked in that embrace
" Tenacious, which its prey resigneth not,
Those tender limbs must moulder in the place,
" Where all things are forsaken and forgot 1"

Nor let thy Father's moderated grief
To blunted feelings be ascribed alone,
Oft starts the tear unseen to his relief,
The lonely path bears witness to his moan ;

Then, when, to th' height of contemplation wrought,
He ownstbe brittle hopes of human kind,
Thy tor'd idea bursts the chain of thought,
And past endearments rush upon his mind.

He thinks how oft, beneath the rays of noon,
His infant treasure in his arms be bore,
And thank'd the bounteous skies for such a boon,
And little dreamt the-bliss would soon be o'er.

He thinks with anguish on that night of woe,
When roused from sleep by female shrieks and cries,
In wild alarm he rushed the cause to know,
And heard th' appalling words, " he dies, he dies!"

He thinks how, pillowed in his eager' ams,
Snatched from the nurse's grasp his darling lay,
And while the mansion echoed with alarms,
Sighed, gently sighed, its little life away.

Sweet soul, wherever placed, supremely blest,
Or in Elysian, or ewlestial bower,
(For heavenly touches in thy looks confest,
Bespoke thee Angel, from thy natal hour,)

Sweet spirit, hover nightly o'er the head
Of her whose dreams are clouded with despair,
And round her brows benignest influence shed,
A Mother's anguish claims a Cherub's care.

But dream I, and in hopeless hope secure,
Illusion's dupe, indulge a solace vain ;
As tho' to sense and faculties mature
1:11' unprisoned spirit could by death attain;

And infant soul, which scarely knew desire,
And knew concei ti for others not at all,
Enlarged affections should at once acyrire,
And hear, and listen to Affliction's call ?

Hush, ilnpious pride! perturbed sprite, be laid ! •
Nor dare the powers of Deity to seal: :
Who spoke the word, and Heaven cod Earth were made;
Gaa speak an infant spirit into man :

Can feelings give, essential to its bliss ;
Good will to men ; condolence with distress:
What daring sceptic but assents to this,-
-" Adsuit the greater, you admit the less ?"

Then fed I confident, that tho' entombed .
Thy mortal sleeps, net so thy better part,
But only then with life and vigour bloomed,
When the last pang convulsed that precious heart;

And confident that Heaven, the wretch's friend,
To wr;qched parents prompt support tvill yield;
And, in their babe, a guardian angel send,
Their mind:: from dark despondency to,sbield.

SHOOTER'S HILL.--The improvements which
were begun at this place about twelve months
ago are nom ctimpleted, to the great accommo-
dation cethe numerous travellers who have oc-
casion every day to pass over the bill. The
highest part of the road has been reduced about
nine feet lower than it was formerly. The work
commenced at the eight-mile stone, on this side of
the hill, and has been extended to the other side,
for the distance of near a mile. At this spot a.
very great steep, which was a perpetual obstruc-
tion to carriages, has been removed. A similar
steep has been cut away on the eastern side, and
with tlse gravel that was removed, the lower part
of the road, at the bottom of, the hill, has been
considerably raised. On the summit of the hill,
near the Bull Inn, the greatest cut of all has been
made. Indeed there is now such a deep hollow
in front of this and the adjacent houses be-
longing to private Gentlemen, that it has been
found necessary to place a railing along the edge
of the footway, to protect those who walk along
from falling down into the carriage road. .

O'Donnel, a first-rate pugilist of light weight,
has challenged Abbot, who beat Jones, for 50
guineas.