The Sun.
London, England, 1818-01-05 00:00:00

TO PRINCE LEOPOLD.

What though a Husband's happiness be gone,
And future prospects from the English Throne,
Yet, LEoroLn! is thine no common pride,
Thou weep'st—and not a. Briton's eye is dried.
Take, then, if
,aught can minister relief,
The general homage of a People's grief;
Thyself the Idol of a Nation's Love,
Thy Wife associate of the Saints a! lore !

The Earl of LIYEpPOOL, after` transacting busi-
ness at the Treasury, on Saturday morning, left
town, for his seat, Cornhe

Sir JOSEPH BANKS transacted business with the
Admiralty Board on Saturday, supposed to relate
to the intended voyage towards the North Pole,
on discoveries. The ships,' it is said, are to have
two years -provisions on board, and are also to be
supplied with warm clothing, &c. for the use of
the officers and men. Sanguine hopes are enter-
tained .of a passage being discovered to the North
Pacific Ocean. The crew, it is said, will consist
of 50 men, it-winding officers, ifteach vessel. They
will also be provided' with every appendage used
by the Greenland ships ; and some experienced
men in that service are to go in the vessels.
The. unaccountable Disappearance of Mr.D.—The
afflicted relatives, we are sorry to state. are still
without any information respecting the Gentle-
man who arrived in town front the Isle of Tha-
net, early in December last. Hints are now
thrown out, that, in a state of temporary mental
derangement, he probably may have thrown him-
self into the Thames ; and Putney-bridge, from
its exposed situation, is thought likely to he the
spot. Steps, we heard on Saturday, were then
taking to employ the drag across that part of the
river.—(Morriing Post.)
Yesterday being the Duke of RUTLAND'S birth-
day, their Graces gave a grand entertainment on
the happy occasion, to a numerous assemblage of
distinguished rashionables, at their seat, Belvoir
Castle. This evening they give a ball and supper
to their domestics and tenants, at which their
Graces, with their usual affability and condescen-
sion, join in the three first dances.

At the instance of the Rev. Dr. CRACKNELL, of
Weymouth, the Senatus Academicus of the Uni-
versity of Glasgow have conferred the gratuitous
degree of Doctor in Divinity on the Rev. ROBERT
Mon BISON, of Canton.—Dr. M. has greatly distin-
guished himself as an Oriental scholar. His
translations of the Holy Scriptures into that most
difficult language, the Chinese, and his Chinese
Dictionary, now in progress, and which is ex-
pected to be completed in four volumes quarto,
must insure to him in the literary world an im-
mortal reputation. The Doctor acted as Inter-
preter to Lord AMHERST in the late embassy to
China.
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SUDDEN DEMISE 0.35' COUNT ZENOBIO —On
Thursday night died, at his house in Duke-street,
St. James's, Count &NORIO,'is his 56th year.—
It is not many days since the 'writer -of this article
held a conversation with him, in the presence of
a large circle, every one in which was congratu-
lating the deceased upon the apparent good health
which he enjoyed. The Count, in the most
animated manner, replied to the various' compli-
ments passed, and added," I thank God I never
enjoyed better health than I done for a long
time past." The Count then • dwelt upon the
precarious tenure of his property. He was de-
scended from the first family in ,Europe among the
noblesse ; being not only a Prince in the Venetian
Republic, but also a Prince in the House of Aug-,
trio. Count Zenohio was also the nephew of
Emo, the late Admiral of Venice ; bt was the
owner of two of the finest palaces in the world,
Emo and Zenohio. The political bias of the
Count is well known. As a man of fashion and
gallantry he took the lead at Versailles, when
under the ancient regime ; at Baxter's Club, he
usually risked 50001. every night. This was 'about
the year 1790. The. house in Duske-street had
been just entered upon ; it having been previ-
ously furnished in e neat and tasteful style.—
(Morning Post.)

Yesterday the remains of the late Mr. ROBERT
PALMER, of Drury-Lane Theatre, were conveyed
to the church-yard of St. Martin•iu-the-Fields,
where they were deposited in a vault Rear the
church.—This last sad procession was attended
by the relatives of the deceased in two mourning
coaches. Five mourning coaches which followed
were filled by the principal of his late brother
Performers of Drury-lane. The coffin, which,
as well as all the necessary arrangements for his
funeral, had been executed according to his own
particular directions, was of plain English oak,
polished and lined with lead, but without any
ornament whatever. ,Mr.PALMISR was in his 6211
year.

Fitts —Abort half-past six this morning, at
Mr. SHAW'S, baker, opposite Newington Church
near the Elephant end Castle, which comtuuni-,
cated to three adjoining houses, and burnt com-
pletely down to the ground. Happily, by the
prompt arrival of the engines, it was got under by
ten o'clock without any other damage. No lives
were lost.

On Wednesday, as.the game-keeper of Sir En-
WARD SMYTHE, Bart. Of Acton Burnet, in Shrop-
shire, was endeavouring to reach a duck which he
had shot upon a pool; the ice broke in,- and he
was drowned.

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SHIP NEWS.
Dom, J. 4.---The stern of a vessel slrifred
on shore yesterday about a mile tp the Westward
of this port, having on it "'!'lie Friendship, of
Newcastle ;" the word Newcastle apparently
lately been written over that of London. Also
came on shore a cask of lamp black and part of
the deck of a vessel, apparently the quarter-deck

of a foreigner.
ILFRACOMBG, JAN. 3,—The Concord, CROSS..
COMBE, from 13ristol to Bideford, with a general

cargo, was last evening, at low water, run on
shore at the entrance of this.harbour, and sunk ;
part of the cargo has'been landed, and the vessel
is expected to be saved.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 4.—Sailed yesterday his
Majesty's. ship Tike on a cruise.

FALMOUTH, JAN. 2 —Sailed the Princess Char-
lotte p:cket with a mad for the Leeward Islands.
Ptit back yesterday the Fox and Eliza transports,
bound to Cork.

HAawrcir, JAN. 4 —Arrived the Henry Free-
ling packet with a mail for Holland, the Castle-
reagh and Lord Nelson packet, with a mail for
Cuxhaven.

A Dutch Mail arrived last night. It contains
a curious reference to the Holy Alliance, in an
article from Petersburgh, and statement from
Vienna, respecting regulations to be agreed upon
between Austria and Prussia, relative to the pub-
lic press in Germany, which probably have also a
reference to the_Holy Alliance, &c.

It is now ascertained that the Lady of Major.
General SEYMOUR, the Governor of Saint Lucic,
her nine children, and her brother, Mr. PINCK.•
NEY, the Governor's Aide-de-Camp and Secre•
tary, were extricated in safety from the ruins in
which tue barracks of that Island were laid by the
late dreadful hurricane.

A Letter from Ramsgate, dated the 211 instant,
says, " The hull of a wreck (a brig), was seen this
morning on the Goodwin Sands ; and the boat•
men who have been off report that she is supposed
by the people of the Light Vessel to have gone on
shore on Monday night. She appears to be Hull
built, with yellow sides., One of the boats here
hooked up a barrel of lamp-black out of her. We
cannot learn her name or more particulars at
present. An anchor, weight 14cwt. 2 qrs. 71b.,
marked Fowler and Co. No. 29. has been landed
here, taken up in the Downs."
It is reported that more than half a million was
paid on Friday, at the Custom-house, for sugar
duties : of this sum one West India-house is said
to have paid 80,0001. in one check.
Last week, as the constable of Alvingham was
conveying a. woman to Louth House of Correc-
tion, to be confined twelve months, for having had
three bastard children, they stopped at a
public-house to take some refreshment, when the
woman stepped out of the door, leaving a child
she had in her arms with the constable, and has
not since been heard of.

K IDNAPPE RS.-A few days ago Daniel and Sarah
Sullivan, the children. of a poor man residing
in Red Lion•alley, Cow-cross, the girl about nine
and the boy about seven years of age, were
enticed away by. a woman, who was seen purchas-
ing apples for them in Smithfield; and who took
them down Barbican. The poor children's parents
hare made every inquiry in vain for them ; and
although a reward has been offered by the parish,
they have not yet been heard ot.
On Monday se'nnight, the drums of a detach,
meat of three companies of the 58th regiment,
marching oitt of Sunderland for Hull, so frighten-
ed a horse in a cart in the High-street, that it
ran the shaft of its can into another horse stand-
ing close by, which dropped down and expired
immediately ; it belonged to a poor man. A mer-
chant of that place collected in a few minutes a
suns exceeding five pounds of the bystanders,
which he presented to its owner, when be was
thanked with blessings and a flow of tears, drawn
by surprise and gratitude at the promptness of the
action.

VIGILANCE OF WATcnmetsr•--Friday night .a
fellow was stopped by the watchmen with 501 b.
of pork, which they suspected he had stolen. They
took him to Norton Fa'gate watch-house, where
the constable of the night perceiving him very
cold, permitted hint to sit by the Are, leaving two
watchmen to guard., hilt,: : "The. watchmen both
(ell asleep, and the prisonetAnding a pair of hand-
cuff's in the -place, he handcuffed them together,
and escaped, taking with him both the cutlasses,
and also .. •
ACCIDENT.,—The Coik Mail Coach, by
way,of .Cashel, to Dublin, on Thursday morning,
upset, near Castledurrow, and with much regret
We'have to state, that the coachman was killed
on the spot, the two Guards were severely hurt,
and a Lady, an inside passenger, ,sustained some
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injury.
A few clays since, as a man at the Abercombie
Inn, at Arundel, was making some detonating
crackers for sale, he inca►►tiously let fall some of
the mixture. (fulminating silver), about the quan-
tity of the size of a pea, when another man acci-
dentally stepping on ►t, it exploded, and tore off
three of his toes, and shivered his shoes in frag-
ments.

The following Letter has appeared in several
Morning Papers,
Sir,—Observing a paragraph in your raper respecting the
cure of an Hernia, performed (of a large size) by the Medical
Board, at Charlotte-House, Great Charlotte-street, Block-
friars-road, in justice, Sir, to Messrs. COOPER and Co. I beg
to add my personal • testimony.
.1-laving been afflicted .near
'twenty years, and deemed incurable by eminent Surgeons, I
patiently bore my affliction, expecting every hour to be my
last ; I at length applied to the Medical Board, And have rea-
son to pray for that excellent Establishment, for although I •
am near 50, I was perfectly elated in a few Weeks, and now,
thank God, enjoy good health.
I think, Mr. Editor, all who know me will ailow that I can
have no other motive for this communication than a public
benefit. I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
C. CIiEVELAND.

Dog and Stile, near London-toad,
St, George's Fields, Oct. 1617.