The Sun.
London, England, 1820-07-19 00:00:00

CARD to .;ci;i:; ii ii L, Esq.

HONEST Jons—You and I have not corre-
sponded for some time, in this season of public
doubt and disunion; yet, in other guise, I hav,e
not been unmindful of your intere'sts.

But, give me leave to tell you, JOHNNY, that I
shall not address you from any other columns but
those of THE SUN. 'Tis there, and there only,
that you will hear again from your old friend

SHIP NEWS.

GREENLAND FISHERY.

IGNOTUS.

Hutt., JULY 17.-4 Letter from Bremen received here,
states the arrival at that place of the ship .Brenren, from
Greenland, with six fish and 190 tons oil; slat left the Ice
23d June. The Captain states, th.tt the other Bremen vessels
have not been successful, one of them having but two fish.—
The following Hull ships are mentioned :—Ehor, Lee, 17th
June, eight fish, 15P tuns; North Briton, Allan, 17th June;
seven fish, 100 tons: Baffin, Sceresby, I9th June, 4 fish, 3i
tons: and Albion, Homphrey, 10th June, four fish, 30 tons.
PortTsmot,ru, JULY 17.—Passed by the Perseverance from
Gibraltar, with spice. Arrived the Regulus transport, from
the Mediterranean.

Cowes, JULY :S.—Arrived the Howard, Perkins, from Vir-
ginia ; the master reportS that be passed a ship off Portland,
with her masts gone.
DEAL, JULY 18.—Arrived and sailed for the River the
Rochester, Sutton.; and Forbes, Brown, from Bengal; and
Medway, Wright,' front Madras.
I'nt.atouTt4, Jui.Y 16.•—Arrived •the Camden packet with
,mails frOm Ncw York—sailed 9th June; and Halifax—sailed
41st June. On the 9th June' off Staten Island, spoke the
Magnet, Mackey, 80 days front Bristol, with two masts sprung;
17th June found at Halifax the Masey (Rear-Admiral Grif-
fiths), Phaeton, Castelleon, Drake, and Swift. The Princess
Elizabeth packet left there for New York an the 31st June.
Also arrived the William, Stewart, from Tarragona in So days
for Guernsey.—Arrived off the port and landed a passenger,
the George,' Hibberts, front Antigua for London, sailed Ist
June. .Arrived off the port yesterday, the James Lang and
Golden Grote, for Jamaica.—About 50 sail of vessels passed
up yesterday, chiefly ships and large brigs.
Iturrne, JULY 17.—Last night, during• a thick fog, three
brigs with coals, got on shore on our coast, namely,' the
Mary Ann Moody, of Sunderland, Thomas and Mary, of Lon-
don, and another. They ate said to be got off, and proceed-
ed. It is now very thick weather, and it is doubtful, many
more will get on shore.

The attempt to exclude Mr. Er.r.rs, the new
Member for Dublin, from sitting- in Parliament,
because he is one of the Masters of the Court of
Chancery of Ireland, gives rise to considerations
which cannot fail to impress on the public mind
the necessity of a general regulation to exclude
from the House of Commons, not only the Judges
for Wales and of other Courts of inferior Juris-
diction, but also the Masters of the Court of
Chancery of England and the Remembrancer of
the Court of Exchequer. In principle there is
no difference, and why this invidious distinction
has been made on the present occasion is not ob-
vious, unless it arises from the talent and ability
which Mr. Ems will probably spew in Parlia-
ment, and the zeal which he will evince, from
his well known attachment to the principles of
the Revolution of 1688, and his fixed determina-
tion to support the Protestant Establishments of
the United Kingdom. The concurrence of two
distinguished Members of the Administration in
this motion of the Member for Waterford will
naturally induce. the public to draw the same
conassion, which we cannot but regret, for rea-
sons not now necessary to state.—The Judges of
the Courts at Westminster—of the Scotch Courts,
and of the Irish Courts, are ineligible to sit in Par-
liament, and so ought all the Officers of these
and the inferior Courts in the three Kingdoms ;
and some legislative regulation should be adopted
to produce that constitutional result.

The KING held a Levee this day at two o'clock)
at his Palace in Pall-mall.
The SPANISH AMBASSADOR transacted business
at the Foreign Office on Monday.
Yesterday the Earl of LIVERPOOL had an au-
dience of the KING at his Palace in Pall-mall.

The Dukes of Youx, CLARENCE; and cAM-
BRIDGE visited his MAJESTY yesterday.
Yesterday the Duke of YORK held a Levee at
his Office in the horse Guards, as Commander-
in-Chief.

Monday night the Duke and DuChess of WEL-
LINGTON had a numerous party to a grand con-
cert at their house in Piccadilly.
Yesterday his Royal Highness the Duke of
YORK gave a grand dinner at York-house,Stable-
yard, St. James's, to his Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge, Prince' Esterhazy, Count Lieven,
and a large party of distinguished personages.
The Hon. GEORGE AGAR ELLIS, is arrived at
his house, Hanover-square, from Dropmore.
Lord W. RUSSELL and Mr. WHITBREAD pre-
sented an Address to her MAJ EST Y, at two o'clock
yesterday, from the llouseholdors and Inhabi-
tants of the Borough of Bedford, to which her
MAJESTY returned a gracious Answer.—Mr.
GREY, and a Deputation, accompanied by Mr.
Alderman WOOD, also presented the Newbury
Address.

PoaTsaiorTg, Jun, 17.—H. R. H. the Duke of Gt.ou-
ceszEa arrived here at six o'clock ; he was received by a
Royal salute. His Royai Highness will dine with our 'Go-
vernor Sir GEOROE CoOKE; Admiral Sir GEOROB CAMPBELL,
R. and Lord COMBERMERE will also dine. with the
Governor. The Royal George yacht is ready, and will go
out of the harbour this week. His MAJESTY is expected the
Ist or 2tl of August at this port, to embark on his sea ex-
cursion.

Considerable progress has been made in the
publication of the celebrated work of Mr. BEL-
zoNI on the recent discoveries in Egypt and
Nubia.

Mr. MOORE is editing the works of the late
Mr. SHERIDAN, which we understand will con-
tain much new and interesting matter.
ENGLISH OPERA /10liSt.—The Promissory
Note, as we predicted, is warmly accepted by the
Public. The Theatre overflowed with visitors
last night. Dan Giovanni was repeated, and de-
tained them by its diverting incidents till the 'very
dropping of the curtain.
I\'
sees,
p ppo
n? ais the the heroine of the
new
announced at
the English Opera. House, and the Author cer-
ipsise KELLY
LeL nYtitlietd
tainly could not have made a wiser choice for
genuine talents and unaffected simplicity.
Arrangements, it seems, are making to re-open
Drury-Lane on the first day of the ensuing
month, with a Company selected from the pro-
vincial Theatres.

FOR THE SUN.

A LONG PULL, A STRONG PULL, AND A PULL AL-

TOGETHER.

MR. EDIT on---llaving been brought up in the
printipleS of a Son of Neptune, I have often felt
a pleasure in admiring with my Messrnates the
style of building and improvements of our Ships
of War—combining from the experience of a
•
long war, a beauty of symmetry, with elegance
of accommodation for their Officers and CreWs,
and fitted for all the purposes of war. How they
performed the service during that period seems

more impressed on the memories of foreign Na-
tions Avg on Britain ! However this apathy may
have arisen I will Rot now inquire into ; having been
absent from those scenes for a few. years, I re-
solved, from professional inclination, to visit our
Naval Arsenals, in hopes of seeing naval archi-

tecture progressively improving. But what was
my astonishment and disappointment at behold-
ing piles of buildings, resembling the Dutch
Fly. Boats hi the days of VAN TROMP, or

the still more antique style of Noah's Ark ;
and on a more close inspection I could hardly
conceit myself in an English Dock Yard.—
Decks laid athwart instead of fore and aft, and
so many things so old or so new, and altogether
so much unlike what I expected. But the most
unaccountable thing that struck me was the great

precaution that seemed to be taken to prepare
them as retreating Arks (or, as the sea phrase is,
for running away); this perplexed me more than
any thing else, and I have been ruminating on
this circumstance ever since, and endeavouring to
find how such an idea could entki into -the con-

temptation of any Englishman ; even a Ship

Builder. I naturally concluded that no sailor
would have dared to submit such a models for
fear of being considered a little white.feathered,
a thing very rare in the profession. I still pon-
dered on this mysterious circumstance; but Time,
that unriddles all things, comes in aid to solve

his question ; for as I was looking over our Naval

History, the field of Mars, the lives of the Ad-
mirals, and considering that some action had
escaped my memory that had given rise to this
new old model, I certainly found the retreat of
Admiral CORNIV ALLIS, the Blanche frigate, and
many others ; but even those retreats were either
victorious or glorious ; when a young friend of
mine, just come from College, happening to come
in, and on seeing me surrounded with books, and
knowing they had no great charms for me, imme-
diately began rallying me for mis-spending my
time. I Was rather testy, but thought this a fa-
vourable opportunity to inquire of him how such
a monstrous thought could enter into the mind.
of any man as to construct the British Navy to
run away. Judge of my astonishment when my
friend laughed at my old-fashioned notions, and
calmly told me he thought-the British Navy of
no consequence. I stared at him, but he coolly
proceeded (for you must understand he is a Phi.
losopher) to inform me,, that the intention of the
Political Economists in both Houses of Parlia-
ment was to introduce a new theory, which would
employ foreign ships and foreign sailors in lieu
of British ships and British seamen, as they con-
sidered the latter were loo• numerous, that the
Ship-owners ought to withdraw their capitals, and
that the whole Navigation Laws should be super,
seded by a more liberal transit, which would dif-
fuse more satisfaction to foreign nations, and pre-
vent Great Britain from domineering over the
Ocean ! and that those liberal acts once accom-
plished would supersede the necessity of the
Congress, recommended by the Abbe de PRADT,
who is indignant that " England, swelled with
_ .

the spoils of the whole world, should rule over
every Sea and over every Colony, thereby de=
stroying the maritime 'equilibrium !" and that
this Congress should,have been directed towards
the restoration of some equality at sea, and to-
ward's securing safety on the roads that lead to
the Colonies.—On giving me this information my
Collegian walked off, leaving me nearly petrified ;

however, on recovering, I considered th-at he had
putme in possession of the grand secret or theory
of our Political Economists, And I concluded front
this, that the Ship-builders and Political Econo-
mists have had for some time a secret understand-
ing on this subject, and, should they succeed in
destroying- the breed of the British, and increas-
ing that of Foreign Seamen, and as I am a plain
man and consider wars inevitable, it naturally fol-
lows that those Retreating Arks will be resorted to:
on a defensive system, and I would recommend-
them to be manned with those Navigators that a,
gallant Admiral has denominated Wheelbarrow-
and Spade-men, well knowing that the otheri
breed would never turn their stern to their ene,
mies.

I grumbled what follows to myself, and desire
the Reader not to look at it.

If this is the intention of our Economists,(they
are penny wise and pound foolish), they might
have saved the expellee of building those Re-
treating Ships, for I will be
or will defend Britain but the regular-bred Sea-
The Theoricians may speculate; the Eco-
nomists may calculate, the Philosophers may ru
a,nd the great Aristocratic Wealth may
look tamely on, and the mass may think it con-
cerns them very little, but, as an Englishman, I
caution, them to be aware how therslfffer so ra-
dical a change ; for that change- once "accomplish-
ed, bOth the physical strength, and the. wealth of
the boys
with -t.
which we are in possession, will vanish like snow
under the sun's beams, and the round stern fly-
boatsthe will. Ni
lollng pull, the
not defend
strongthem Witido'u
pull,:and the pull
altogether.
Downs, July 14, 1E:O.

men.

NIUTICUS OW rAiiiNIcUS.