The Sun.
London, England, 1816-12-25 00:00:00

SIIIP NEWS.

PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 'M.—Arrived the Mercury,
Chas, front Newfoundland; Hope, PENTo?4,
from Yougball ; and Neva, ADAMS, from iv
wales. Sailed the Agnes, Boy LE; Charles For,bes,
MlLLett ; anti Minerva, SHARP, fur London. The
Mercury has on board the soldiers who ,svere
saved from the Harpooner transport.
DEAL, DEC. 24.—Cante down troththe River,
um; isal..o3a,
for St. Vincent's ; Pilot, ,for Botany Bay; end
Doncome for Jamaica. Arrived the Mary, Ta.r.7
Loa, from Quebec.—Wind W. S.W.
FALMOUTH, DEC • 22. Arrived the Ann,
Pumr, in 30 days front Quebec. Sailed-, the
Sandwich packet with a mail for the islands. tied
Mars, Hoasawat.r., for Teneritre.--Wind
PonstouTst, DEC. 23.---Carne in the Active,
TREGARTHEN, from Malaga ; Resolution, HIP"
Dear, front Berbice for Amsterdam ; Alexander
and Ocean transports, from Portsmouth for the
Cape of Good Hope:—Wind W. S.W.
HARWICH, DEC. 24.—Arrived the Hawk lie'
venue cruiser, WM. 'DEANE, Commander, with
smuggling cutter. Sailed the Castlereagh rat'
Office packet for Cuxhaven, in ballast.
HULL, DEC. 22.—Captain M‘Batna, of the
Harmony, of this port, which arrived t,etC en
Wednesday, picked up a seaman named Samaa
Dawson, in an open boat, off Filey Bay, test
miles from the shore, about two o'clock in the
afternoon of Monday last. He belonged to the
Alexander, JAMES, cf Sunderland, 60 tons bur-
then, laden with coals, for Burnham, which yes*
sel sunk about eight o'clock on Sunday evening.
I Of the crew on board, viz. the Muster, DAWSOH•
and 'a young man also. SADLER), the former
went down with the vessel ; the others got into
the boat, which floated on the deek,' and luckily
cleared the rigging as the vessel went down.o•-•
SADLER died from cold and fatigue about twelve
o'clock on Sunday night.

The Florida frigate, Captain HAWTAYNR, 110
arrived in Whitebooth Roads, after a three4eeks

cruise in the North Sea. tue
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held nt
East India House, when Capt. Yon NollusaANP
Was sworn into the command of the Lord Code'
reagh, destined to Bengal direct.

Letters received from Senegal mention, 1131
the expeditions to explore Africa would Woe 04°
settlement about the beginning of October.
The effects of the storm on Bitturiltty set-114101
Were evident among the tiers in ninny, P8,.11 „
Sussex, Particularly in little-park, and they''
powder Wood, belonging to Sir GODFREY 1 3°
ter-
;
vi
STER, wa
, where uprds of one hondred firshe; of
torn up by the roots. At Ninfield, a thetanunl
m
large trees shared the sae fate, Rod among
I.lits
'Was a venerable yew, which had Itmg- 311110 e
branches over the dead in the churchlard•bof it
Minister awarded the trunk to the sextun• co.
Was clAinicd, aud boitie away, bY o°lber cool.
•

'While national benevolence is exertionl, itself an
r
around us, in individual efforts to endeav Ur to
ameliorate that distress which falls so hes ily on
1 Y
our poorer brethren, it becomes the duty )IV all'
to offer their assistance, by advice, by subsCilp:
tion, and even by personal exertion; and if it can
be proved that the latter will considerably assist
the subscription, it is to be'hoped that some will
be found 'both able and willing • to•volunteer that
undertaking. • s -

'fbe-Sobieription has extended to Pa'rochial
Associations. Employment rather than gratuity
is most wisely recoMmended; but as it will be
found mast ditlicnlt to obtain employment for the
•
needy objects, the present, the easiest recourse ls
rel►eving distress by money.
Liberal as is that Idea, if it can be render-
ed more liberal, if a bounty of fourteen sll4-lings a week to a family can be made equal, by
personal exertion of the Committer of such Asso-
ciations, to fifteen shillings and fiveporce'half-
Trenny. it is to be hOped that none will refuse to
undertake it.
Bread alone will prove the truth of „what may
done by personal trouble. The present price
of Bread is lnd.; but Bread of the "same quality
anal weight may be purchased at 15d. by retail.
it is civilly demonstrated, that if time Committee
procured ilread of that_ description to be either
given instead of money, or even to be purchased
at their Workhouse, or any other place in the pa:-
rish, the gift of 15d. would be equal to that of
Ind. leaving in the hands of the relieved 24d.,
or mu time subscription purse the same value, thus,
enlarging the bounty to the poor, or increasing
the amount of the collection.

Btit with personal trouble Bread may be pro-
em-eft at even less than 15d. by contracting for
certain triautities, as is done for the supply of the
Household troops in Portland street and other
Barracks, where the contract for the loaf of 411)8..
h under Bd.: The loaf is of good household or
Ilrowit Bread, of as good a quality as that sold by
the cheapest Baker at 13iti. for the loaf of 4 lbs.
31; or the quarters loaf.
ft may he urged that the poor can' purchase
cheap Bread. themselves ; the reply is,
.that the
distance ton great, and that Airy cannot leave
their homaand their children ; therefore it is An
act of charity to bring it within their reach, and
a poor person could go for'Bread in the parish in
which they dwell, when they could not go to one
mote distant. •
It may be objected, that as there are Parish
SobFeriptions, such a measure inight be offensive
to the tradesmen of the parish, and create bicker-
ings, div.isiens, and heart.baroings. The reply
its, the magnitude of the distress, the numbers to
be relieved, the necessity of husbanding the fond,
soul that being a voluntary poor.rate, it is the
property of the Subscribers, and their concern to
ssake it hold out as long as possible, to protract
a second application, or an involuntary increase
of it,. poor-rate, •
fr could he wished that subscriptions would
still extend further than Parish Associations, and
lone cookihe more italtul than among the nume.
rolls congregations with which this. metropolis
&haunt's. They hive a- more intimate knowledge
of the trite situation of their poor than the rest,
end one has set the% exatunle II) the city of Lon.-
don, by,purchasing xu ox to give among the dis-
tressed at Christmas, which was slaughtered and
hrepared for ,then by one of the trade of the
ighest respectability in his proleSsion. Christian
charity Most hope that so praise-worthy an'ex.
ample may be followed, and that every congre-
gAtiOti in London may associate in like manner,
and pros ore Bread and 'Meat for their poor, at
prices on a level with their income, which would
relieve those who have already fallen into
po-
oeety, and be a support to those ready to fall into
that dreadful calamity.
It could be wished that this Association would
extend to intlividitals. A most worthy Magistrate,
possessing the highest talents, and well known
to the Public, has set a bright example. When
a poor female supplicant applies to his jurisdiction
for relict, instead of sending her to the Pariah
Beadle, the Overseer, or Chutchwiirden, with
true parental kindness, he replies to her soliaite.
lion; " here, my good Woman, is a ticket ; go
to that shop roood.the corner; it will produce .you
tea, sugar, bread, and butter, and take it to that
loose, which my officer will point out to you,
where you will find water boiling, and a good fire
for an hour to warm you and your poor infant ),"
while to the pour Man, he takes from a basket,
which he has behind him, some potatoes, and re-
plies, at that house you will flint the pot eon-
ii-taritly boiling, dress the there, and refresh
yoUrself with the half pint of porter this ticket
will produce you."

Some hdndreds of otherwise- unemployed la-
bowers have been already set to work no the
Calton-hill, in the North Loch; and in. Brun's-
field Links. They receive one shilling —a day of
ititiges, and those who have families are to be sup-
plied with certain articles of food, according to
the number of those depending on them for sub-
sisteoce. At the dose of each day's labour, they
receive thtir shilling each, with a recommcnda-
,
IlAto to-atz who can fiti'd better wages from ant
P;rivate' Ployer, to accept of it, and when it
to return to the Committee.—(Edinburgh
Paper.)

' The .Students of the University of Glasgow,
amounting in number to • nearly 1700, met last
week in their respective class roon,,i, rand 'instil-
=coly agreed to enter into a subscription for. the
relief of the poor in that city, and a'emourit tee was
appointed for the purpose of procuring subscrip-
tions. We arc happy to learn these meetings re-
ceived- the approbation of the Professors, who also
subscribed liberally, in addition to a grant of 105/.
trout the funds of the University. - •
The Officers, 'Non-commissioned Officers, and
Privates of the gallant 94th Regiment, or' Scotch
Brigade, SO distiuguished in the field and so ex-
mplary in qoarters, sulncribecl each one
daY's ply for the rtliefof the poor of Kilkenny.

'the courier of Friday nt contaiws the follow-
ing paragraph t 7-!" At Chester a Meeting was.
held on Tuesday last, to consider the most effee;
teal means of
.relieving the mapufacturiog and
industrious poor. A large subscription Was col-
lected forthwith, to which the Earl of Grosvenor
ad led 20001."—A donation well suited ,to the
wealth of the noble donor—had it been given 1
But what will the Editor of the Courier say, when
he hears, that this same Noble Earl, who in the
year 1812 lavished seventy thousand pounds in a
yarn and fruitless attempt to destroy the inde-
pendence of the City of Chester, in the year 1.816,
to relieve the patient sufferings Of the industrious
poor of the same City,,subseribed what ?
_Twenty
Guineas!! ! ,
in the Courier of Saturday there appears a long
account of a Me4ting said to have been held in the
Town-hall in this city, on Tuesday last, and in
which is enumerated, as speakers, a number of
respectable intlividitals of the city. Earl Grosve-'
nor is also stated to have subscribed 20001.1
Every line of the composure is, an arrant untruth
and a base imposition. No Meeting of the kind
alluded to was held in Chester on Tuesday ; and
no other intention could hove induced the scribbler
•(whose head seems wore etilighteiied than his
heart) of the malignant, article, to engage in so
contemptible an employment, than that of hold-
ing up to vulgar ridicule eight or nine exemplary
characters. The wit is of a despicable' spedes;
and instead of Creating merriment, will be exe-
crated by'every matt of common sense and under-
standing. We would recommend reformation to
tlie unfortunate writer before it be too late. He
oust be in a woeful plight.—(Chester Courant.)