The Sun.
London, England, 1818-01-20 00:00:00

TOVAGE OF DISC.OVERY,

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Ca.p;alti DAVID BUCHAN, of, the. Pike, and Cap-
tail) JoliN ROSS, of tile Driver, are
conduct the enterprise for the di.,:covery of it
north-west , paisage. These officers, will have.
conimands of ships,with eaol a brig, commanded
Lieutenant, under them. *Captain lioss's
Division will take the course through Davis•s
Straits'; Whilst Captain Blidl4ll, witlr his y Wfo
vessels, will penclTate as far to the North Pcoic
possible.; The Dorothea (the late Congo, en's-
ployed e)yloririg Attica) is the ship Cap-
tai+► liuctik& is appointed to command. The
doubling o.f the ships for the service, is go-
log on at the im-rchaots' yards, under tl:e in-
lice:ion of. the Ring's fllicets from die Dock
Yards. Their bottom plank, ,of about two and
a half inches thick, has been taker, of, and is .
re-
placing by plank of about six inches thick ;
will be sheathed with board and then coppercd.
Their equipment, in every department, will he op-
on the most liberal scale; nothing will be with-
held that may he suggested, as likely to cant! i-
burr either to the success of the, enterprise, or the
comforts of those employed. The crews are to
be selected from aniong seamen who have' been
accustomed to the Greenland trade ; who
are to receive double wages, and a grat,ui..
tous ample supply of every necessary arti-
cle of warm clothing. As the c•ssels wilt
take no kind of ball;tst but what will serve
as Nei (coals, wood, &c.) th( y will have
a supply of this necessary, equal to five years
consamption ; the prosisions will be stowed.
amongst i't. The ships will he ready to proceed
early in March next.--(Plyniouth Telegraph,
Jan. 17 )

We learn from the supercargo and purser of the
ship Brilliant, Capt. FENN, which is just arrived in
the Downs from India, that, on the 4th Aug., the.
day before he left Calcutta, an alarming fire broke
out in the cotton screws of Mr. LAPRIMAUDAYR, of
Clive-street. The quantity of cotton consumed
Could tint be exactly ascertained, but it was esti-
mated at 15 to 20,000 manilas, besides a considera-
ble quantity Of sun hemp. Tile fire was hardly got
tinder at the time our informant left Calcutta.
The same Gentleman has been intrusted by the
Right I-lon. the Governor-General with a remark-
able beautiful animal (r lie moose-tleer) destined
as a present to her irate Royal Highness theTtio-
cess CnAtturTE.—(Morning Paper )
On Monday, the 12th instant, JOHN INN es,
Esq. of Edengight, was, before the Sheriff. .of
Banffshire, and by a most respectab!e Jury of
Gentlemen of that County, of which the Right
Honourable the Earl of FIFE was Chancellor,
unanimously served heir male in general_ of
the late Sir IVILLIAM IN N ES, of Balveni•,,
Bart. and is consequently now Sir Joust INtirt,s
of Balvenie and- Edengight. It was a Te-
mat kahle circumstance at!ending this s.rvice,
that the claimant traced his lineal cottnex,ort
with the original stock by a regular series of
tiiie-deeds, and other wtittot docnmewS, for
about three centuries, exeliicive of l:2
brought forward .the parole testimony of some of
the oldest and most respectable.. &OW- t"Cii 113 (114
h. seldom occurs in a matte.rof so great
antiquity, that evidence so clear, atof
socom-
pletely divested .of all doubt or difficulty, can be
snbmitted to the consideration of a Jury.—
(Edinburgh Courant.)
Art attempt was made a few d hack, by a
gang of desperate, ruffians, to cut open the iron
cases of the menagerie of wild beasts, now exhi-
biting in Cashel, in which are confined a lion and
a tyger, witli the mischievous view o 1 letting them,
loose. By the timely interference of the-Police,
this diabolical plan was prevented, and five of the
mains are in custody.

Sarah Wardle, who was sentenced to be trans-
ported at Stafford Assizes, escaped from the county
goal in the night of Sunday week. The apparent im-
possibility of ,a female effecting her deliveranc from
a building in which surety is made '' doubly sure,''
has excited much attention; and has given rise
to various conjectures. Art investigation has
taken place in the prison, before
.two neigh-
bouring magistrates and the under sheriff, but -no-
thing has transpired to elucidate the mystery of
the escape. A ladder was found on Nlonday morn-
ing against the front wall of the building ;
but that circumstance tended to increase. rat her
than abate the suspicion that some rdrson
in the interior of the prison was concerned in thq
transaclion.—Sarah ‘Vardie is a married woman,
and has three children, residing with her husband
near Leek.—(Birmirigham Herald, Jan. 17.)
Yesterday morning about nine o'clock, a roan
who was corning to town with a cart load of
ligy, had his thigh broken by the wheel of tire
cart going over hint, between Pond awi
Islington Turnpike: whether he fell from the •
shafts,or was knocked down by one of the horses.
is not known. The untor rtmate Wall was carried to
St. Bartholomew's Hospital in a very dangerous
state.

The last American Papers mention, as an ex-
traordinary circumstance, that of a pentiman'S
winning of the Printer in Pennsylvaniit, by a bet,
a Ticket which proved a Prize of Twenty Thou-
sand Dollars. But such evews frequently occur
in this country ; indeed, so recently as last July,
a Gentleman in the City gained a Tic!cet by a bet
on the rise, of Consols, whrch W'IS drawn a
10,0001. Prize the next day ; and the foHowing
success ot, Tn.() tirothers in Westmint4er is very
retitatkab!e : the late ?Ir. D. jones won
,by
game at cards, ri Sixteenth of Nfi. 6,401 which
was drawn a 20,000/. Piize, and, the very next
Lottery his Bro:fier, Mr. J. Jones. gained by a
simi!a'r game a Sixteenth of -No. 14,1ti7 which
.was ptlo drawn a Prize ot '20,0001. th»,e tee see
"efutrce is direction" of fort ‘,ne, and shonl,l be a
hint to !levers and. Card Players to hive aspoke_
in her Wheel for the Three Pi izes of 30,000 i. iii
the present I,,ttery, instead of playing for a mete
t-traiity of stake, which may tale a Thousand
Years to gain what can be acquired trotli the Lto..
tery in one (ley, on the 4th 01 March next, when
tb Dtatviug begins.