Mr. Secretary Canning has...
The Times, 1824-12-24T00:00:00

Mr. Secretary Canning has' been confined to the Foreign Office, Dowvning-street, for the last three days with the gollt, liaving been seized with it on Tuesday morning. The Right loni. Secretary had taken up his residence at the Foreign Office on Mon34ay, and tvas attacked with a fit of the gout the next morning. M11r. Canning was very much indlisposed with it yesterday. The packetwship James Cropper, Captain Marshall, ar- rived off this port yesterday afternpon, in 18 days from New York, rhaving sailed on the evening of the 3d instant. She had 32 passengers on board. The letter-bag was land- cd at six o'clock, and the newspaper-bag at niine; but it having been carried by mistake to the Post-office, we could not obtaini our papers to make the usual extracts. We un- derstanid, that a file of papers, brought up by one of the passengers, was transmitted to London. We did not hear that it contained any news.-Liverpool Courier (Wednes- day.) His Majesty's ship Meidstone, and the Ruky schooner, were left at Ascension the 21st of October, by the Fatriy, arrived at Milford from the Cape of Good flope. 'I'he Corsair, Petrie, arrived at Liverpool on Tulesday, from1 Charleston, in only 18 days; and the Jamcs Cropper arrived there fotom Nevw York, in 20 days. VALI'AtAsso, Aug. 1.-The Royalist privateers havc been successful. There are two or three of them: tlhev have orders to capture vessels of all nations that approach within Sitt leagues of the coast. On Wednesday imierning, thc delivery of letters through the General Pdst-ofilce was delayedconsiderablyafter the usual heur, in consequentce of the Warwick miail having been accidentally upset near Windsor. DOVER, Dec. 22.-The ship Palmnyra, mentioned in our last to be on shorenear SirSidney Smith's Caves, this morning part. ed in the middle, andl the pieces of the wreck strew the shiore. Every exertion was made *o save her, by cutting away her main and miren masts, stancling rigging, &c., to Ho purpose. The violenee of the winid havingz driven her higher on the rocks,she soon broke her back. I am happy to say that the greater partof tie coffee and logwood has been got out, and storehoused. We arc still without arrivals fromi Calais, and our town is quite full of passengers, waiting to cross tbe Channel; but it now blowas a perfect hurricane, without much pros. pect of abating. RiOT AT 'THF. LivERPOOL THRATrE.-Extractofaletter from l iiverjiool dated Dec. 21:-"This outrage continued on Wed- nesday last, and assumied a more violent shape thani on the previous hlonday; a knife, penny-pieces, and other missiles, were thrown at the performers, the scenery, and the curtain - and the whole time - which rhould have been devoted to attention to the perfonnance of the afterpicce, was occrupied in riot and outrage. rhe reanagers had publicly answered l'ss Cramer's I Appeal,' sbowing her ztate. nient to be erroneous; to this Miss Cramer replied an"d this step induced the managers to publish the whole of their correspondence with the lady. Much tumtultwas expected on Friday, the last night of the season, being the -benefit of the vetei-an Banks, the stage- mianagcr, and partncr of Mr. Lewis in the tleatre. In the afternoon of that day it was publicly announced, that IU iss Cramier lhad sent an apology for her conduct to the mlanagers, which they had accept. ed, and wished her to join in the national anthem of "' God Save the King,' which is always sung on the company bidding their annual tarewell. The apology. and the manager's answer, were read bv Sir. Vandenhofl at the end of the play, and received with great applause. fiss Cramter appeared, and took a part in 'God save the King,' and I Rule Britannia.' The audietice manifested a desire to forget a tumult, and forgive the cause of it, and the cur- tain dropped, for the last time this season? in the midst of warn expressions of approbation at the termination of such oaurageoas anct mischievous proceedings as had for two nights disgraced the character of the Liverpool audience." 'if'he death of a young lady of Devon, in her 15th vear, occun-i. a few days since, occasioned by a fright, in consequence st one of her sclhoolrmates throwing a splder at her, which crept dawn her back. This young lady's name was Eames, of Newton.BusbeL A similar instance orcurred at Axminster about a twelvemonth ago. -Taunton Courier. CAUTION AGAINST A LIGHT WOsIAN.-In Barrow 's IWerceste,' Journal is an adverusemert from a &eserted husband, cautioniing the tradesmen of that city against giving his wife, Alar *Annc, credit for ary articles whatever, " as she has an an;vle aT. lowance for clothes and pocket-money." He thus describes her :_ " The said .1iary-Anne CorlSeld is betweeN 40 and 50 years of age, a fair, fat, fl xid complexion, and weighs sevenicen stonte !" A MILITARY RErORT.-Frederick the Great asked a soldier, who had a deep cut acrosS his cheek, at a review, s" At wrhat ale-house didst thea get that scratch ?i "1 At Coslin, please your Majesty, where your Majesty paid the reckoning." The Ring was beat at Coslin, in the war of 1756; and in 1760 the Russians reduced the suburbs to ashes. An apothecary reproache(d an attorney with the number of strange words which the law indulged in, and among others ask- ed what was meant by the words "1 Docking an entail ?" " i*hy, doctor," replied the lawyer, - it is deibq what vou will not do vith your patients-it is suffering a recovery. RoBBrRY OF THE STIRLING BANI.-Saturday evening the Stirling coutch was robbed of a bank bag, containing money to a considerable amount. The robbery must lave been efTected with great dexterity, as the bag was deposited in the boxin meediately under the feet of the guard, who is never at any time above a wi- nute or two absent froml it. Thc police are on the alert in various di- rections, in search of the thieves. The following accoant of the ap. prehension of the robbers is from a private letter, dated York, De. cmiiber 21 :-" A few niinutes before we left Newcastlc, say two o'clock, a chaise and four arrived from the south. From iti speed several people flocked roundl, and I recognized in the inside, a friead, Mlr. E., of' the Bank of Scotlandt in EdinbuTgh. Mly imaginataon was immediately cxerted and I had only tinie to put a few queries, of which the first was, Where did you get himn ? e iiforniedme, at Thirsk, 20 miles northward of York, in hlis bed. At twoo'clock yesterday, the robbers had the horest audacity, to the utter astonish. iieit of the inhabitantsof Edinburgh, to pay Smith, the stabler, 401. for the gig they had destroyed oln Saturday. Thote is no doubt wouw this was to save pursuit of tho principal, wlho had quietly, as hb thought, dtopt at Thlirsk, probably to proceed atross to Liverpool, or sonie otlier port. The Batsk of Scorhand haye lost 2,5001. by- stolen notes." A melaniclholy occurrenlce took place about a fortnight ago, which has plunged a numerous family Into the greatest distress. Aa lhe servant of Alr. Willuiott, of Lewishanm, was riving h two elder boys to school, to Bromnley, near Bow, a drunken talTow caine out of oneof the public houscs m'Whitcclapel, and in crossing the :.*eet fell downn 'eftire 'the horme,'and the wihedl of the chaise went oyer him. The berVant implnediqtel' toplc the mai to a burge'on where it wtas ascertained le was not materially burt; w-vhilst how'. evcr, they were at the surgeon's, a crvowd of butchers, &c., collected about the chase, amd told the boys the mian was dead, and the groorr would be hung, which so aflcetel thle youngcst, wlho was only II years ol'age that lhe becaijie alarmed fell back in thsechaise, aud did not speaI againl till he got to school, when he becante gradually worse till the M onday following when he was taketi home to Lewis. ham; the fright, however, hat takcen such deep possession on thc system, that infliymmation of the bowels, and other alarming sytup. reins, caine on, aad all medicine proved, ineffectual: he lingered till Friday orniong, when he expired at four o'clock, perfectly resign. ed. Tl'huLs, by one indiscreet aet, has a fatimily been deprived ot' a most valuable member, hor a more promising bsy did net exist.- Evenitg paper.