The Sun.
London, England, 1820-02-21 00:00:00

FOR Ti. 117, SUN.

THE LATE KINC.'S EDUCATION.

It may not he generally known, that doting
the progress GI N:Aiesty(then GRoaGa's)
Education, the late Sir WILLIANt (then Mr.)
MAC:Tr:STONE read his Lectures as Vinerian PrO•
lessor at Oxford, and that at application was
made to that excellent L,wyer, by the Noble
person who had the charge of his Royal High-
ness's education, to read his Lectures to his Royal
Highness. Mr. BLACKSTONE was at that time
vtig4V,Cd 41til a very numerous class of pupils,
and therefore declined the high honour, but he
transmitted copies of his Lectures to his Royal
Highness, who thus derived a part of his know-
ledge of our excellent Constitution and Laws
from those unrivalled Lectures, which were after-
wards published under the title of " Commen-
taries on the LA ws of En land,'' which may be

estimated to have passed through thirty Editions
in England, Scotland, Ircland, and other Coun-
tries, have been translated into Fietich, Dutch,
and German, and now form a part of the Edu-
cation of almost every foreign as well as Eng-
lish Lawyer.
Temple, Feb. 17, 1820. A LOTAL SUBJECT.

SHIP NEIL'S.

The following Extract of a Letter from Nassau
New Providence, dated the 13th Jativry, was re

ceived at LLON ID'S this. morning :

" Accounts having reached this that a piratical
schooner, with a Spanish felucca as her ptize,was
at anchor at Green Key (a small island in this
vicinity), the schooner Primrose, of this port,
was manned, armed, and sent in pursuit of 'her.
This vessel succeeded in taking the felucca and

schooner, but the men made their escape into the
woods. The Captaiu of the Primrose, riot consi-
dering himself authorised to lend his people in
pursuit of them, returned to port. 11is Majesty's
schooner Speedwell, Lieut. GEARY, having in the
mean time arrived from Jamaica, proceeded imme-
diately to Green Key, in hopes of being. able to
secure these people, but on her arrival it was
found they had put to sea in their boats, which
the Primrose very inconsiderately left behind on
the beach ; they are said to be 12 in number,
and will no doubt seize (In the small vessel that
COUICS in their way. Three men belonging to this
place have been taken up and put into jail on a
charge of aiding and abettii,g these people iu their
piracies.

" JAN. 15.—Since the above was written the
whole of the people belonging to the piratical ves-
sel have been taker) on Andros Island, where they
landed in their boats, and reported themselves as
seaolen belonging to an Ametican vesstl"thAt had
beer cast away on the 133118111 A Bank. Having
been brought to this place to-day, they were wow
identified, and fudged in jail."

DEAL, FEB. 20.—Came down from the River
yesterday and sailed the Brilliant transport, and
Aurora, Pearson, tor the Cape of Good Hope.
POETEM,,UTH, FEB. 20 —Arrived the Marshal
Blucher, Davies, from S. Michael's, and Ches-
tetfirld, Wood, Irons Havre.
PLYMOUTH, FEB. 19 —Arrived yesterday the
Bideford, AP-Namara, flout Lisbon ; the Bri-
tannia, Sharp, front Shields for St. Helena, was
off the Start the 15th inst.

(From " The Plymouth Telegraph," Feb. 19.)
We have been favoured with the following Ex-
tract of a Letter from St. Helena, dated the Ist
of December last, by which it appears that a ma-
terial contribution to the health and comfort of
our gallant seamen has been connived, which
may tender that station in in future more palatable
to them than it has been:—
" The Admiral has commenced a famous
Convalescent Hospital at the Naval Farm,
lliio Peak ; it is about eighty feet long, and
eighteen or twenty wide ; indeed is now nearly
boarded up, and I suppose about Christmas will
be ready to receive some of our weak subjects.
It will be of the utmost consequence to the sta-
tion hereafter, as a ship's company coining here
feels the climate very severely after being a few
months from England. Our people are now, I
ant happy to say, better than they have been at
this season the t_wo former years, and, I trust,
will not have the attacks of the last. We have
now no more than 26 or 2S men sick in the whole
squadron, which consists of Upwards of 1300 ; and
the year before last we had at least 100 in the
sick list.' _

Letters from Rio Janeiro mention that the Su-
perb,: 74, (Coi'DlTlotiore Sir THOMAS HARDY),
Captain WHITE ; Vetigellr, 74, Captain F. L.
MAITLAND ; and the Hyperion, Captain T.
SEARLE, sailed for the River Plate on the sth-of
December, to join the Creole, Captain Bowt.us,
and the Tyne, Captain FALCON:—Sir THOMAS was
sear t,r in consequence of the Buenos Ayres Go-
vernmvnt levying d Vexatious impost .on our mer-
'chants, which it was impo4sible for them to pay.
A .few hours before the late Duke tie BERRI
procreded to the Opera, his Royal 'Highness or-
dered the transmission of the additional sum of
1000 francs to be distributed among the poor of
Paris. Thus,, if his last words bespoke an innate
I principle of clemency—his last action was ODE of
k true beneficence !