The Sun.
London, England, 1820-06-22 00:00:00

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DFAL, -Join 21.--Arrived yesterday the Prlithe
Blocher, Johnson, "from Calcutta, initead of the
Barossa, which vesllel was. teported by mistake
Arrivdd List night, and sailed this morning, with
the'whole of the hotheward-bontid, for.the River,
the ThOmas Grenville, Manning, from Aladras
and Bengal ; Asia, Morris, from Bombay ;
(Jodfrey Webster, Boyes, from Jamaica ;
Powditch, from Cadiz ; Prince Regent, Taylor,
from Tobago ; Donglatii, from New York for
Antwerp ; Colonist, from BArbadoes ; Granger,
Litchfield, from the South Seas; Anna, Phillips,
from Valparaiso, and two others (particulars un-
known. The Anna 'remains.

LIVERPOOL, JUNE 20 -7,Ar,ivcd the Echo,
Henderson, front Maranhao] ; Lint:Aster, Brut!ts.
from liarbadoes ; Iron)
Calcutta—sailed the 24t0 January, front Madras
the 9th February, and flop' the Cnpe the Bth
April ; left at Calctitta the Pri:;ces Charlotte,
NPRean, loading for Liverpool ; left at the Cape
•the Baring, Lamb, and Barton,. Goldsmith, for
London ; on the. 91t June, in I. 43. 5. long.
20. spoke the tirid!:es %duller, D4virs, with 100
tons oil ; on the 10th Jute spoke the General
Harris, from Chioa for Londou.

FALMOUTH, JUS:M 19 —:Arrived off this port
th 4 Lloyds, 111'1'herson, from Bengal and the
Cape, and proceeded for London.

ROYAL FREEMASONS' (:HARITY FOR FEMALE;

CHILDREN

The Anniversary Dinner of this Benevolent So-
ciety took place yesterday at Fr..eln .
The Duke of Sussex was in the Chair. The Doke
of Hamilton, the Earl of Pomfret, W. Williams,
Esq. Ole Member for Weymouth, lt ~tus-
bottom, Etq. Member for Wit►dsor, and a large
company of the most respectable Members, were
present. After dinner the Children, amount-
ing to the number of sixty-five, were led into
the room by W. Williams, Esq. Treasurer, and
the House Committee. They sang a Hymn, writ-
ten for the occasion, and coml►osed by Sir•GeoßGe
SMART, Grand Organist to the Institution, with
interesting effect, arid their general 'appearance
and simple attire strongly excited the feelings
of the audience.--The Doke of Sussex addressed
the Meeting in support of the Institution in a very
impressive and affecting manner, and spoke with
please►e of his Ion; friendship with the Duke of
Hamilton, wham he had introthscrd to the Fra-
ternity, as one endeared to b hit by a long connec-.
tion, and disposed to be a zealous Patron of the
Establishment. - The latter avowed his respect and
regard for -the Royal Duke, and atter eXptes•Ang
his high approbation of the Institution, decitired
his intention to endeavour to form a similar Esta-
blishment in Scotland. His Grace is Grand Mas-
ter Elect for that Country.—After au excellent
dinner and the removal of the cloth, Neu Yogis
Domitte was swig by the musical Illethren. The
health of his 'Majesty was given and received
with enthusiastic acclimation,. " Gott sa“.t the
King" followed, and was greeted, with the
most fervent tipplause. The galleries were filled
with beautiful and elegant retnales, who amply
contributed to the subscription co:lected on the
occasion, which we feel highly gratified in stating,,,
was most liberally supported by the company in
general; and after several i.,,urs of festivity, en-
ii‘'et,ed by bcnevolencc, the company leired,
warmed by th;.! consci.tosneis "1 lia P"'"
day devoted to the cause of Charity and the en-
couragement and protection of Female Infancy.

A letter from Bremen of the 10:1i inst. received
at states the arrival there of a vessel from
Greenland in a damaged state, and clean ; and
that three ships on the 10th of May had only
4600 seals.
Two additional detachments of the 52d foot
arrived here on Thursday and Friday (the• 15th
and 16th instant), the staff of the regiment
and banal.--(.Null Pt:cket )

A duel was fought yes►erday morning, on
Hounslow Heath, between Captain ll—e—t. and
Mr. S—NT, a Gentleman of fortune, in conse-
quence of a dispute on Hampton Race Course,
where an exchange of horsewhipping took place.
The Captain was shot through his hand, in the
second fire.

Since the late stir in trade, the coaches bet wren
Glasr,,ow and- Paibley have re Marl y at least a
third more pas,sengers than they gut tur some tionß
beture.

Mr. HARRIS opened his temporary Theatre in
the Rotunda, itt on Mootlay lasi, with
the comedy of the Belle's Stratagem, anti the farce
of the Spoiled Child, in -both of which Miss S.
BooTH sustained theprincipalcharacters.

HAMILTON, JUNE 12.—Ear or! Friday morning last, our
gaol was again broken, anti six prisoners made their escape;
tire of them wire accused of petty crimes, and the
sixth is a young man of the name of Carr, a well•known cha-
racter, who has been frequently apprehended and tried, but
from his dextcrity•in breaking prisons he has always escaped.

.
SINGULAR CructimsTANci:.-:--,lt Eastertown of Sliethin,
parish of 'Farces, Aberdeenshire, a girt who superintentted the
poultry, observing a turkey cock to sit on the eggs which were
laid by the hens, and who seemed very angry when they were
taken from the nest, placed twenty-one eggs under hint, smoe
time ago, which he has now hatched, and of which he takes
the greatest Care ; and what is siogular, he will not even
allow any of the female turkies to approach his nutnerotts
brood.

The extraordinary number of one thonsand four hundred
and seventy-tour uprieols, were plucked flow a tree last
week at Colynit Farm, near Ilearn, in Kent, in nyder to thin
it of fruit, that the remainder, about the same number, might
attain tbeir.full growth.

In the nen;bbourbood, of Canterbury, a viper, which mea-
sured three feel six inches, was.;aken alive on Tuesday last,
and on its heing billed and opelied,a toad of an onnsual large
size, and ill :t parka. state, was tound in the' body.
The only in.tance of FOUR '3o,oool.trizes be-
ing tleciden upon ONES DAY Will occur 00 Fnin.-.N.
NRXT, being the concluding day of the present
',nutty, and besides these Funk:. 'immense Capi-
tals, Filtreight others of 10001:5001. See in
Consols and Money, MUST BR ALL DHA W N I listi
'thy. For the Sale of 30,0001. tzea WP.BB'S
Office, J. Cornhill, must rank among. the luckiest,
Laving sold alttl shared THREE Of that aniu.nnt in
thirteen mouths, and Two (if 20,0001. in,' he last
Lottery Contract. A few Tickets and -Shares,
warranted uudravvu, on sikle at 9; Cot

i'6ri ttti,, SUN.

ON THE RECENT I'EFITIoNS Foa A rat': TRADE.

Mn. Ent•tdr.-the incapabilitY of the Colonial
Tio:ber Trade to compete with that Of the Baltic.
under tin equali at ion .ti Duties, has already been
alluded to in iny preceding comMunieation4, and
the, I fear, inevitable, consequences pointed out;
but as some proofs may be required to establish
those Conclusions, I shall, in :he first plisce, refer
to the well-known and incontrovertible fact, that
at this very men:rent, in consequence of Baltic
competition; the Ship-owners in the Colonial
Trade actually find it a lo'ing canerrii. Freights,
though higher than the Fair ptuportion of foreign
freights from Inc Baltic, are yet toil 16‘v to aiTord
a faii• profit, at idug, partly trout the absolute es-
pence of outfit, and also front !he longer.voyage.
l3qt this longer voyage, though incurious to the
Merchant, is useful to the Country at lArge, inas7
moat allit keeps up our supply of seamen; whilst
the differente of price, thence arising to the con-
stirner, when such exiers; is amply repaid to the
nation, and in whit>ti he partakes, by the trade
bvint: British iu all its vatious rimifioations, nou-
rishing Britain and her own offspring, instead of
feeding hungry foreigners.
It is evident, however, that a rile-in Colonial
Doty, or a loitering of Baltic Duty, cannot ba
met in tl;e home matket by reduced freights, by,a
reduction in the eqeuce at outfit, by a reduction
of seamen's Wages, which are too low already,
nor by any injurlicions attempt to save expence,
by victualling our bard-working tars in the man-
ner practised on board of foreign merchant ships*
'Tis not by black bread, callivances, Indian corn,
or salted shads, that we are to raise and to pre-
serve t hardy lace of seamen to man our flee's in
cases of sudden emergency. Two Worm days
in the week at-e enough for' leitlth or economy ;
but to make it banyan tity all the week round, or
to. attempt to feed our joliy Jael4 upon hurgoo or
that preparation of boiled peas'', Which they jo-
cosely term " dug's body,'' could only have the:
effect of creating louder complaints than those
which merchant seamen even now make at the
difference between man-of-war's allowance and,
the usual fare of a trawling russet.
If arty liberal menthers of the new school of
Fred Trade are still of opinion that a saving might
be made in nautical laxnriea, let them change
their bill of fare at the Loudon Tavern to sea
fare for a week, and I Will stake the credit of the
question upon thuir opinion ; unless indeed they
resemble the young lady of whom the story goes,
that basing visited a luau-of-war, and been re-
galed with salt beef and hard bkcoit, sate ex-
claimed—" La! matoma, is this what they feed
the sailors with ? Yirhy,it is quite too goad to
give to them !" , •
Nothing then remains but to insist upon a,
lowering of the first cost of Timbcr in the Colo-
nies ; bia as I have already 6hewn that the abao.
lute cost of TiMber in Canada, when brought
alongside the vessel, consists, in a greater pro-.
po.rtion than three-fourths, of actual manual lA.
hour, it would surely puzz?c " even a Philadelphia
Lawyer" to point oat Bony we shall meet the mar-
ket, when, in 1819,the difference of price bet teeets
Colonial and Baltic Timber was 21. per load int
favour of the latter, in consequence of the pre-.
ftwnce given to Fut sign Tinther ; so that the
Balti: Timber ha,, even now, not Only the saving.
in freight, but also the absolute difference of price
to support it.
_ . _

Memel imber,- 1 believe, at present is about
N. per load in the London .1119Iktt, and a redUC.
(101 l of 10$ in the duty would either put that sum
in the Merchant's pocket, or enable him to sell at
5/. 10s. But how is the Quebec Merchant to meet
his rival in the market, when ar present he can
only procure ,31. 10s. per load, 2/. 13s. of which
are swallowed up in freight and river expences,
leaving only' 17s. for the first cost, including also
all the Colonial labour employed upon it before
brought alongside in the St. Lawrence, or at the
()dier transatlantic ports ? If we take it on the
other tacit, and suppose the Colonial Timber to
have 10s. laid on it on a principle of equalization,
that will raise the price, or ought to raise the mar.
ket price, to 41. per load ; but is an increased
price the weapon with which we are to meet our
antagonists, who, even then, could still afford to
reduce their prices, and if only to tl,e extent of
ss. per load, would:thereby produce an actual
difference bt 15s. in regardio the comparative
prices on the scale of competition
If -the •allocates for what they call a « Free
Trade," hut' which would be really a Foreign Mo.
nopoly, can overturn thbse facts, we roust assume
other grounds for the defence of our Home anti
Colonial Trade ; but they most nor attempt to
wheedle or to force the Government into an adop-
tion of their system, either by private indoence or
by Parliamentary divisions. If there is one .tca-
titre by which his 'M jest y's present Ministers
are more particularly to be distioristied front
preceding Administrations, it is their strict atten-
tion to, and honest defence of, every thing that
bears the appearance of vested rights, whether by
absolute grant or by implication. On that prin-.
ciple they have, more than Owe, and in defiance
of public clamour, boldly and manfully resisted
plausible theories, and maintained justice. On this
principle they have already plainly told the '' Foa
reign Agents" that, with the exception of the
additional duty imposed in IS13" upon Foreign
Thnb,er, they conbider our nwn Colonies 14;4
our own Merchants as having a .vested right which
forbids repeal of existing- dot ; and upon their
honour and cOnsiStency we can, to that extent.
folly I ely. The only..pnint, therefore, on which
the new theorists can have the sliehttst chance of
success. is in regard 'to the repeql of that addi-
tiona duty, or to the imposing of an equivalent
duty on Colonial Timber.
On that - 'then, I conceive the Colonial
Merehauts are ready to meet theni, either in
niStcrial conference or Pa riiamenrary discussion ;
and opott 'that, Polo I shall he realty to enter Up
a few leadiitg orgiiMPlttS, shotild' your arrange.
Men s admit c 1 father iommuiriea (loos frotn
Your's,

RALEIGH.

*.y.* We loudly neeil aqsnrc this intelligent and
Cot respondent. that hisCorninuuicatiun's
are always higbly acceptable.