The Sun.
London, England, 1827-08-18 00:00:00

ALVA MARINA.

On this subject the following letter has been
addressed to the editor of the Times :-
3, Catherine-court, Trinity-square.

Stu,—A paragraph in the Times of the 6th instant,
mentioning the new material lately introduced for stuffing
cushions and mattraeses, cor rains a misrepresentation, in
stating, that a Mr. Warburg, merchant, of the North of
Germany, is the person who first brought it into use, which
is likely to be productive of considerable inconvenience and
loss to me. .

From the high and honourable character which your
Journal bears (having for a long time been supposed never
to admit an interested paragraph without pointing it out to
be such), I have no doubt that you have been miskd, and
that you will now readily repair the injustice you have done
me, by inserting this letter. I can prove, by original and
official documents, that I am the first and only person who
introduced the article, and these documents I now invite
you and the public to inspect.
Mr. M. S. Warburg, like any other individual, is quite
at liberty to import that article, and to offer and sell it ;
but if he claims to be the person who first brought it into
use, it is but a repetition of the attempts made at the
Royal Hospitals, to which he addressed circular letters un-
der his own hand-writing, in which he states his partner-
ship with Mr. G: A. Cohen—styles himself the first in-
ventor--pretends to have supplied his Majesty's Ordnance
--and to give an Extract of the Report made to the Ho-
nourable Board. Of these letters I annex a literal copy,
the originals having been simultaneously sent to me from
the different Hospitals, and upon referring one of Mrs.
M. S. Warburg and G. A. Cohen's statements to the Ho-
nourable Board of Ordnance, whom I, and no other per-
son, have supplied with the article, I received the follow-
ing reply :

" Office of Ordnance, March 23, 1827.

" SIR—In reply to your letter of the 12th inst., refer-
ring to your proposition forwarded in August last, to supply
sea-grass as a proper material for stuffing barrack palliasses,
&c., and requesting information as to the genuineness of
an accompanying extract from a Report stated to have been
made by the Officers of his Majesty's Ordnance upon the fit-
ness of this.article which has been forwarded by Mr. G. A.
Cohen to the Steward of St. Thomas's Hospital,
" lam commanded by the Board to return you the pre-
tended extract, and to state, that it is a fabrication
highly discreditable to the parties concerned in it.
" I am, Sir, your most obedient Servant,

_ .
" R. BYHAM.'
" Mr. John Beit, 3, Catherine-court, Trinity-square."
Presuming this to require no further comment,
" Sir, your most most obedient Servant,
JOHN BEIT.

The Thames this morning was covered with a
film of an oily nature, which has proved destructive to the
river fish in a great degree. An immense quantity of eels
and flounders are brought to Billingsgate alive every morn-
ing, and this morning shoals were found floating dead
upon the surface of the water, supposed to have been
killed by it, or some deleterious drug. The Dutch eels
which are brought alive to the market in vessels, at the
bottom of which are holes to admit the water, died imme-
diately on entering that part of the Thames, on which the
oily fluid appeared. A complaint, we believe, is about
being made to the Committee of City Lands, under whose
controul the Billingsgate Market is. It is a fact, that
prior. to the establishing of Gas Companies, the Billings-
gate Market, in the course of a-year, was supplied from the
Thames with nearly three thousand salmon, in the taking
of which, and other fish, 200 fishermen were employed;
but at the present period there are 4nly two fishermen on
the river, and to take a salmon iA tie num 4 as rare
at t 9 etch 4 stwzon,