The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-16 00:00:00

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BRISTOL, SEPT. 15.

The late heavy gtles have caused considerable injury to
the shipping on the western coast ; much property hat,
been lost.

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The following notice was posted in the Commercia
Rooms this morning :
" Bideford, Sept. 12.

"Sir,—l am sorry to acquaint you that during a heavy
gale of wind, late last night or early this morning, the
hull of a large brig, coal-laden, was washed on shore, near
Braunston Burrows, and is gone to pieces; very little of
her materials has been saved. The stern of a boat has
been picked up, marked on the outside " Hawke of
Plymouth," and inside " William Tapscott," which is
supposed to belong to a vessel, the crew of which it is
feared are drowned, one body having been picked up.
" The sloop Ceres, of Padstow, coal-laden, and bound
from Newport to Padotow, was also driven on shore on the
Northern Burrows, and is gone to pieces. The whole of
the crew are saved.
" Also the ship Daniel, of Bristol, Thomas Williams,
master, bound from Bristol to Cork, with a general cargo,
is on shore on the Northern Burrows ; she brought up to
an anchor, but unfortunately struck at low water, and
filled. The master, crew, and passenger, eleven in num-
ber (including one female), were saved in the life-boat by
great exertions and risk of life.
" I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
" JOHN BURNARD.
" To the Master of the Commercial Rooms, Bristol."

Mademoiselle SONTAG quits Paris after the
present Opera season. She is permanently engaged as the
first chapel singer to the King of PRUSSIA at 20,000
francs per annum.
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WM. GORE and HENRY, the eldest and the
youngest sons of Mr. ELLtaxoN, of the Surrey Theatre,
sailed last week as passengers on board the Chatham, for
Van Diemen's Land. Wm. GORE is the gentleman who
last season came out as an actor at his father's theatre.
The two brothers are to land at Hobart's Town, and from
thence proceed up the country to follow the avocations of
agriculturists. They have taken with them an ample
stock of farming implements, and provisions for their es-
tablishment for a twelvemonth. They are provided with
a spacious tent to answer the purposes of a residence until
they get a house built, a portable copper boiler, capable of
being erected in the open air, for brewing, or other pur-
poses, a vast quantity of unwrought iron, a patent turn-
ing.lathe, muskets, and guns for defence and for sport,
and every necessary which experience has found requisite
fair a new settler in that country* The outfit, it is said,
cost Mr. Eia.ssrotr, ben. ainut 15004

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1829.

It appears by the Court Circular that des-
patches were received on Sunday night from our
Ambassador at Constantinople, and also from
Sir PULTENEY MALCOLM, who was with the
English Fleet at the mouth of the Dardanelles.
According to the Court Circular " two messen-
gers came with the despatches—one of whom
was sent from Ancona (only) seven hours after
the other." Something of great importance
must surely have transpired in the meantime to
occasion a second despatch—and this, we have
no doubt will turn out to be the occupation of
the Castles commanding the Dardanelles by the
English fleet, as stated in our Paper of Monday.
If the Russians seize on the passage of the Bos-
phorus, and manifest any disposition to overstep
their previous declarations, England can have no
alternative but to seize on the passage of the
Dardanelles, and thereby render that of the
Bosphorus useless for all commercial or
warlike purposes into the Mediterranean. It
will besides answer two purposes, save the
Turkish fleet, and prevent that of Russia in the
Mediterranean from entering into the bay of
Constantinople. All this depends on the
spirit with which General DIEBITSCH receives
the offers of the Porte to make peace. If the
Russians first insist upon taking Constantinople
before they negociate, then the course of
the English Ambassador is clear, for if the
Russians be sincere in their professions they can
as well negociate at Adrianople as in the capital.
This is the critical point which places the EM-
PEROR'S moderation on the two horns of a
dilemma.

We have a series of the Barbadoes Mercury
to the 29th of July. His Majesty's ship
Arachne arrived on the 27th, in thirty days
from Jamaica, with 100,0001., in specie, for
the pay of his Majesty's troops in that command.
Very severe thunder and lightning had been
experienced at Barbadoes on the 25th, and had
done considerable injury to the country, and one
near() man was killed out of ten struck down by
the lightning. The Hon. J. A. BEELES had
been appointed Chief Judge, in the room of
J. B. SKEETE, Esq., resigned. It was supposed
the Judgeship of the Court, thus made va-
cant, would be conferred on the Honourable J.
BRAITHWAITE. The headquarters of the
27th Regiment, now at St. Vincent, will, it is
said, be transferred to Grenada, at which island
they were daily expected.

We have letters from St. Michael's this morn-
ing to the 23d ult. It appears that notwith-
standing the defeat of the Portuguese squadron
at Terceira, the blockade was still kept up there
by the Perola frigate, Lealdade corvette, and a
brig and schooner. The Diana had been so

much injured by the red-hot balls fired at her,
that she had been compelled to go to Fayal to
refit. The entire loss of the squadron is esti-
mated at 1,800 men, killed, wounded and