The Sun.
London, England, 1820-06-13 00:00:00

Salt than we can, and that during the past year
we should not have been able tt, compete with
them, had it not been tha. THIRTY-NINE
THuU-
SAND TONS oF SALT were carried Ow for almost
nothing in regard to freight, because the ship
0 -ners were certain of a home cargo ? Bur, if
the Colonial Timber Trade sulfur..., who will carry
out Salt except at a height equal to out and
home ? LI the good people ,tt N,inrwic,, Dr ,it-
wich, and all ,he other wif hes, recollect that it
needs no conjuror to 11-11 the consequences.
Let thy Friends of the Slave Trade abolition
ask themselves, how far that trade is still our-
,rured by tie market for Tropical Produce, every
day opening more and more in the North of En-
rope—not for produce of British Coloni,s, when
he trade is Anlished, and the expence of raising
produce hecominz greater every day, but for the
'produce of Cuba, the Braills, and other Colonies
of those Powers, woo are now carrying ou that
,mule to a greater extent !ball eVer was practised
by Britain ; in a way too that has increased the
rkk of oegrO life tenfold, yet still so luerativ, as
to enable them to deluge the Continent wi•li Cof-
fee and Supr, to the utter exclusion of British
Colonial Produce, except perhaps a little Punt.
Let the friends to the moral freedom of Africa
recollect, that to open our ports to Baltic 1 iinber,
upon a principle mote favourable titan at present,
must inevitAly shut them to the timber of Sierra
Leone 1. What then becotues of a Colony reared
at such expence, and from which such sanguine
expectations' have arisen ?

But I have trespassed far beyond your limits ;
therefore hasten to sign myself your's,
RALEIGH.

SHIP NEWS.

Dept., Jumc 12.—The Admiral Rowley, Gilmore, from Tri-
idad, put back yesterday, and lost an anchor acid cable ii

the Downs. Came down from the River last evening the
Angerstein, Thompson, for Bar hadoes ; William Pitt, Melia! d_
son, for Quebec ; George, Banks, fur Bordeaux ; and Me-
lautho, Gardner, from the South Seas; they have sailed with
the rest of the outward -boundr-with a light breeze from -th•
N. E.—Arrived and sailed for the River, the James Harris,
Jones, arid Augustus Cmsnr, Selby, from Jamaica; Marquis
Wellesley, Napier, 'front Grenada; Flero, Jenkins, from St.
Vincent's; Blucher, Kerr, from the Baltic for Oporto; and
Star, Leslie, from. ditto, for Lisbon.

Liverteoot, JuNE 11.—Arrived the Warren, Kealt, from
Pernambuco; Commerce, Gardner; and Aristides, Frmt,
from Savannah ; Warren, Webb, from Dover. The Prince
Madoc, from Charleston for the Clyde, was spokrn WI Point
Lyda yesterday, at two P.M. by a Liverpool pilot boat.
PORTSMOUTH, "ONE 1.2.-Put bark last night by contrary
winds, the Royal Sovereign, Cromarty ; and William, Spence.
They have sailed again to-day ; also sailed his Majesty's ship..
Hind, on a cruise; Nile, Manley, for Bristol ; Queen Eliza-
beth, for Halifax; and Prince Saxe Cohonrg, Smith, for
Madeira.

HAnwrctr, JuNr, t2.—Arrived the Prince of Orange packet,
with a mail from Holland.
VALmorrrit, JUNE 10 —Arrived the American brig Yana—
crew, Bates, from 80 days, atal received orders
to inrnnceed to Alit wel.). Sailed tine Marchioness of Saliabury
packet, for Jamaica, with a mail

CHESHtt,s YeoMANRY Saturday last, the
second regiment of the King's Lesion or Cheshire
Yeomanry Cavalry, were reviewed no the
Sands, near Chester, by Lieutenant-General Sir
J. Lyotsr, K. C. B. The regiment arrived on the
field of exercise about elevens o'clock, A. M. and
performed a variety of cavalry evolutions, to the
satisfaction of the General. This is the first as-
sembly of the corps siacetheir.beingrai•ed, and it
is but doing the officers and men justice to say, that
a fitter body of English Yeoman, and one better
mounted and accoutred, is not in his Majesty's
service, The regiment is tinder the command of
Colonel Cfarmmospat.P.Y, of the Vale Rovai, and
is now on permanent cloy w Cheshire for 10 days.
In consequence of the prom.,ti,u tit the Rev.
'Dr, MANI' to the Bishopric or Killaloe, be re-
ceived the present of a piece II plate, consisting
of a tery large circular salver, on feet, with a.
magnificent border of 'chased flowers. The in•
script ion is, " To the Rev, Richard Mant this
plate is presented, as a tokens of respect for his
character as a Christian Rector, the beneficial
influence of which the donors had :be happiness
of experiencing during his ministry in the palish,
of St. Botolph, Hist.opsgate."
The Rev. .Mr. Ceasoks, late Master of the
Chart, r- house in Hod, used to relate, that when
he was Citrate of St. Trinity Church at that
pore, he once married four couple at the same
time, and the following odd circumstances oC
correct during the ceremony :—fine first couple,
tire bridegroom had forgot the ring, and war
obliged to borrow out--rite bride of the second
bad lost the finger, on which the ring shutild
have been placed. A man violently shaking the
iron gates leading to the choir, charged the third
bride with having a husband living, and the
fourth bridegroom implored him (\Jr Clarke) tria
be quick, as the bride tiros in labour
SIR HARCOURT LESS.--Saturday night last was
arrested by that active Magistrate, Lennox
Biggar, Esq. Doctor Murphy, of the town of .
Dinidalk, on a charge of conspiring to murder that
true and firm ftiend of the Protestant
tution, Sir Harcourt Lees, Barr, in consequence
of his late publications to support the Protes.
tant interests of the country against intolerance
and bigotry. The Prisoner was lodged in the
gaol of Dont/141k, at nitre o'clock on Saturday
night.—(Hibernian Journal.)
We regret to state, that Holybrook House.
the mansion and residence of old Mr. Richard
Beecher, near Skihbereen, the' 'seat of hospi•
tality and the asylum of the distressed, was tied.
dentally burned down on Friday night last A
young man, one of the servants, and his mother,
were dreadfully burned, and are not expected
to recover. A great part of the furniture has,
however, been saved, and happily none of the
family injured, with the exception of the mart
and woman above-mentioned. This mistortuns
is universally lamented in that part of the collo•
try, as Mr. Beecher is generally respected and
esteemed by all that neighbourhood.--(cork .4cl•
verliser, June S.)

A tew days since G. HOWARD, master of the
sloop Thetis, of Knottingly, was thrown over-
boird by the boom, and klrowned, on entering
'he mouth of the 1.1.30)et, whit a cargo of bouts