The Sun. — London, England, 1802-10-09 00:00:00

CEYLON. WE have been favoured with The Ceylon Govern. punt Gazette, which has just reached Country. At a period when, in a larger portion , of the World, the Freedom of the Press is circumscribed or anni hilated, it must, to Englishmen, prove a high gratification to_observe, that the extension of the British Power in Foreign Possessions, naturally generates that free communication of opinion, .by means of the Press, which is at once both the off bpring and the safeguard of British Liberty. The first Paper was published in Ceylon, on the 15th of March last. A Number appears every Monday, and we have received the first Nine. From these we think our Readers will be grati fied by the following Extraas COLOMBO, MARCH Ij. The final Cession of this Settlement to His jesty has been the occasion of much joy to the Native Inhabitants, of which the Governor lately received a Stibllt testimony. On the ifst ult. an Entertainment was given at the house of Maha Mode Hat; at which many of the Civil and Military Officers and Most of the,Ladies in-Colombo were present. On his Excellency's tnirance he wAs cohtivaed to a Chair of State, to whiCh a Deputation of the Native Head Men, led by Maha Modeliar, ap proached and delivered the following Address : To HIS EXCELLENCY . The Honourable FREDERICK NORTH, 6ocr:U“Sit, CAPTAIN GENERAL AND COMMANDER. IN CHIEF d? THE BRITISH POSSESSION ON THE ISLAND OF CEYLON, &C. &C. &C. We IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY, • We the Malta Modeliars of your Excellency's gate and all Other Modeliars and Native Headmen , His Majesty's most Loyal Subjects beg leave to approach your Excellency on this joyful occasion that .Peace has again been re-established, by which Cevlon. the Country of our nativity has been finally ceded to Nis Britannick. Majesty our most Gracious Sovereign Lord, King George the Third. - Permit us then to offer to your Excellency as the Repre sentative of our said Lord the King, our sincere Congratula tions on this new accession to the Crown of Great 'Britain, by Which its Empire in India has been so Much, aggrandized and secured. - • •,• P e rmit us also to assure votir Excellency how much we rejoice In having become Subjects of so good, great and bent irolenta Sovereign., whose paternal care and solicitude for the general welfare of the Settlements in Ceylon, have already been fully Manifeited by his placing the Government of this Island in the hands of your Excellency, whose constant and humane endeavours have been, to put this Country into a flourishing state, and thereby to promote the happiness and welfare of the Inhabitants at large: which endeavours we have - already been so happy as to see crowned with success. We humbly, beg your Excellency to be persuaded, that animated by your Lxcellency's example, arid by the love for best of Kings - and our Country, that our utmost assiduity, (as becometh Loyal Subjects) shall be employed in assisting to prinnoteio much as lies in our power the general welfare of tits Majesty's Dominions on the Island of Ceylon, and to secure the happiness of the Islative Inhabitants of the same. We humbly and heartily . beseech Almighty God to endue (atm Inost Pracious Sovereign Lord King veorge plenteously With Heavenly Gifts, and to grant hire health and wealth, and a long life, for him to reign over us ' - in the like manner iv e p r ay that God, the fountain of all goodness, will prosper you with happiness, and allow us long to enjoy the fruits of your Excellency's auspicious Government. , - TO the protection and favour of your Excellency, as the Representative of our beloved Sovereign, and as our Governor, v 4 e beg leave to recommend our persons, and have the honour to be with due . respea, May it please your ExcellenCy, His Majesty's most loyal and dutiful Subjects, And your ExcellenFy's most obedient Obliged and humble Servants. Piffled) '113 , 74r - rue Narvve treadmem eihniba, Ire; . 180 z. . To which His Elicellency was pleased to make the following Answer : RIAHK mopEWARs, NIONANDIRAMS, CHIEFS, AND NA- 'FIVE kIEADM/N OF TilE ISLAND• am highly gratified with your dutiful and affeetionate Address; and feel in common with you the Most devout and lively sense of the blessing which it hag pleased Divine Pro vidence to confer on this island in fixing it, by the present Prace, under His Majesty's paternal dominion. I am sincerely grateful for the good will which ydu have expressed towards My person and Government, and happy .to acknowledge the assistance which your integrity, Zeal ; and Intelligence have afforded me, in carrying Into effect the tne4uret Which t have adopted to secure the happiness of the Inhabitants of Ceylon ; that has been, and ever will be, - *bile I am intrusted' with their Government, the first object of my heart: •_-- After which Lancing commenced and continued, ' ivith the interval of supper, until two o'clock- the following niorning: COLOMBO, MARCH 7.1. His xeellency the Governor is at preseht of; progress through the British Territories under his GovernMent, during which he has passed a fort night, at Aripo, in order to dire& a survey of the Pearl Banks. On the iBth his Excellency laid the Foundation Stone of the Cottons and Other Build , ings about to be ereaed at Candaatzie, for the re tepition and washing of the Oysters, fished from the Banks in the Straits of ,Manar ; And the. same day his Excellency laid the First Stone of the Govern. went Lodge, preparing for the residence of •the Governor, during the time of the Pearl Fishery. - Ins Ecellency left that place on the 19th, and arrived at Manar the same morning ; from thence' he proceeds' by Sea, to Jaffnapatnam. The GOvernor is attended on this tour by Mr. Atbarthuor, Dr. Christie, Captain Moubray, Mr. Atkinson, Civil Engineer, and Mr. John Mac. dowall,Writer, on the Establishment. COLOMBO, APRIL 5. On Tuesday last, at two o'clock, his Excellency Vice -Admiral Rainier, landed from the Vietotious, under a discharge of nineteen guns from the For;. The Admiral was received ornthe Wharf, by Colo. net !Lillie, the Commandant, and by' Town. Major Wilson, who attended him to the house of Major- General Macdowall, on which a Guard of Honour was placed, on his Excellency's account. _ _ Yesterday Admiral Rainier, together with Gene. ral Nlacdowall and several of the Civil and Military Servants of Government, attended Divine Service, at the Government House. TitINCIONAALE, MAY 2. On the 3oth ult. anchored here His Majesty's Ship - La Sybelle, Captain AdaM, from Madras, by which came passenger Lieutenant Gillie, of the Artillery. Di.,,, at Liac'arza:e, (.4 the zed of May, Lieu' tenant IT'enry ot. His ?Majesty's late Le Sensible; COLOMBb, i 6. No accounts have been received of his Exc'elliitcy the Governor; of a later date than the iOth ult. His acellency ,had that day entered the Distrift of Batticaloa, at Anative, near the Pagoda of Wer. gel, where he wag met by Lieutenant John Jewell, ,Agent of Revenue and Conirnerce, and Mr. J. A. Barclay, his Assistant. _ Private Letters give the most satitfa&ory ac count of the improving state in population and agri culture of that distant province. The Governor has ordered arrangements to be made for , the establishment of a weekly Tappal be tween Trincomale and Batticaloa, which- will begin early in the month of June►. DAVID'S SONV--.-ORIGIN OP THE PHRASE.—".ti. few years ago, one David Lloyd, a Wetchman, who kept an inn at Hereford, had a.living sow with six legs; and the. circumstance being publicly known, great numbers of all descriptions resorted to the house. It happened that David.ha& a wife, who, was much additied to drunkenness„ and for which he used frequently to bestow on her a very sever:. drubbing. One day in particular,`. having taken a second extra cup, which operited in a very power fUl manner, and dreading the usual consequences, she went into the yard, opened the Stye,door, let out the sow,- and lay down An its place, hoping that a short unmolested nap would sufficiently dispel the fumes of the liquor. In the mean time, however, a company arrived to see the much talked . of anirnal ; and Davy, _proud of his office, ushered them to the stye, exclaiming, " Oki any of you ever see'so un. common a creature befOre ?" " Indeed, Davy," said one of the farmers, " I never beftire observed a sow so very drunk in all. my life!" Hence the.terin drunk as David's sow. The public attention . in GerManY is now much devoted to the famous robber, called Schinderhannes, who at length has been taken and delivered up to the French, about two months-ago, .with several of his associates. A thousand anecdotes are related of this extraordinary man, who,is said never to have attacked the poor, but even, on the contrary, to have been their real friend and upporter; robbing the rich, the Clergy and Jews in partitulat, to afford them succour ; maintaining, amongst his as sociates, near zoo, in number, a severe discipline, and punishing, even with death, such of therti as transgressed..their voluntary submission to his con trol, After being all last year the terror of the left bank of the Rhine, andlaying under periodical contribution all the country between Mayence and Coblentz, he transferred his gang to the right bank of the river, in Franconia, and was at - length ar. rested as a suspicious charaaer, on coming into the Runkelischen distria one day, at .a little Market Town, in the character of a 'Pedlar,. with- a horse and . cart full of wares, as was .freqUently his prac tice upon a • reconnoitring . scheme : to avoid More minute investigation, he there , enlisted with the Austrians, and -. being sent.. to the general rendez vous.at Frankfort, was recognised and betrayed by an associate, He then acknowledged himself to be Schindel.. hannes, and was, at the reqtiest of the French Mi nister, delivered up to the Republic, and conduaed, with several of his associates apprehended in the interim, particularly' one called Black Jonas, in great notoriety, to May.ence, where he now re mains a close ,prisoner, as well as hid father and mother, peasants near' Rastadt,. his mistress, and many others, waiting their trial. His age is only 23, and his condna, if what is greedily published of him be true, almost modelled; on that -of Car/ Moore, in SCHILLERS' famous play of The Robbers, imitated lately pn the Eng lish stage, ,under the, title of Red Cross Knight:, and which would \ seem to have eletirified and given a wrong impulse to an ardent. imagination, which, in better pursuits, might have formed an heroic charaler. As Mrs. Sims, the wife of Mr. Sills, rope-maker, of London, was walking with her husband and sister on Ramsgate.Cliff, on Monday last, her foot slipped, and she was in the aft of falling down the precipice, when catching by her hands on the extreme edge, she suspended herself till- relieved by her friends. Sunday se'nnight, as the Rev. Mt. CROSSE was returning to Bath from Camerton, he was attacked near the three mile stone on Dunkerton-hill, by two footpads, who seiz'A his horse's bridle, and robbed him of all the cash he had about him. He had not proceeded far, before three others rushed on him, but his horse taking fright, he escaped.—Last Sun day evening, about eight o'clock, Mr. John Sandy was also' stoped by two footpads, near 'the same place; and rolbed of zl. I+6, in cash. - On Tuesday evening, Axtween six and seven o'clock, the Manchester, -MATsoN,, on coming out of Mt. GIBSON'S dry_dock, into the harbour, Hull, struck the rudder of the Nonsuch, Lincoln vessel, Capt.. RY.LAR, whose wife with 'a young child standing near 'the stern, the tiller came for cibly upon them, struck the child on the temples, by which its skull was fraCtured until part of 1 the' braids antic out ; . and with , a returning , blow, bruised the mother severely on the face, while endeavouring : to recover the child, breaking out some of her teeth. The child .died during the night in consequence of the blow. The mother is recovering from the effeetS of ~this shocking accident. On Sunday se'nnight, a sailor, in a fit of despair, plunged himself - into the Tay, at. the Bottle-work of Dundee, and was drowned. He had left a well fur nished house to the care of his sister, when he under took the last voyage. The sister, it appears, was ,addiEled to drinking, and to gratify her favourite appetite, had sold her brother's eircas piecemeal. Immediately before his return from the voyage, she decamped,. leaving only the four stoops of a be istead to be the melancholy witnesses of the ha tock she had made: The sight of this ruin hurried the poor man to the Cogunis:iion of the rash a 4 above mentioned. MANSION- ROUSE, OCT. 8. AN affair of cnnsiderable alarm and intricacy, was this day the subject of investigation before the LoILD MAYOR. I • Mr. MeitaerS, a ShipAitiilder, resident in Broad street; but carrying on an extensive business at Rotherhithe, received last week two different Let ters, announcing, that beciuse he employed in his Dock-Yard Shipwrights to . 86 the work .of Caulk- . ers, there Was . a conspiracy among - the Caulkeri to, assassinate him ; and that, to procure opportunity to execute the design, a person of the name of-Hin ton would soon call at his house to inquire for a Capt. Jones, and while that person Made the inqUiry, his accompliCes would rush in. Alarmed by this informa tion, Mr. Mestaers applied on Saturday last at the, Mansion-House, and the Lord Mayor ordered several. of the City Officers to : watch the consequences at his house in Broad-street. That very day,a woman called and inquired, as the letters had foretold, for Captain Jones.; At the mention of this name, she was seized by ithe officers who were in waiting. She proVed to. be a Mrs. Hinton ; she was detained, and tinder. went .an examination the same evening before the Lord Mayor: The woman denied the know . - ledge of any plan to take away. the life of Mr. • Mestaers, and proved that her husband had re ceived an anonymous letter, requesting- hini to go to Mr. Mestaers, at three o'clock, to meet a Capt.• Jones,- when he would hear something to his advantage ; if he was not there at the time mentioned, be was ;then -to request permis sion to wait for him till -six o'clock ; and her Ws_ band not being at liberty, she undertook the busi ness herself. His Lordship Ordered the Woman to be detained, and her husband to be brought before him as soon as he could be found. Her husband was immediately sent after, and taken, and on Monday last they were both brought before the Lord Mayor. The man was sullen, and in a state, as it seemed; of intoxication. Mrs. Hinton was discharged that day; while her husband Was re manded to prison, in the hope that he might an swer more satisfaaorily at a future examination. From. Monday till this Morning,- he ,was left in so,. litary confinement. To-day he was ptivately re-ex. amined.—His wife vtiltintarily attended, witli her father.—At sight of her husband, when he was brought into the hall, her agitation was extreme, and she fell into fits. Mr. MestaersandAlr. Fletcher, an other ship-builder, were present. Hinton gave similar. .account of the business as his wife had done, but added,. that he had reason, to apprehend that both the letters had been writ ten by some of the Shipwrights and Caulkers, whom he . had very much offended by gOing to work before the conibination was dissolved for raising their wages. He owned himself to be a membr of a benefit-societyof Working shipwrights, whose last meeting in 'which be was present, was at the Star ale-house, in 'Wapping, and whom he had knownalso . to meet at the Britannia. • He is himself a working shipwright, now employed in Mr.Fletcher'S yard. The pecuniary engagements of the Society are to pay each iwo shillings in the pound out of their weekly wages, into a common fund, out of which again any member, when he, cantata' find employinent; is to obtain temporary p.ssistance, such as his case shall. eppe;m to demand. Into -that fund Mr. Hinton had paid only seven shillings in all; hii receipts out cf it have amounted :to 51. The members whom he knew of have, at one time or another, met in the Society, might be, he said, from so to too. Of those to whom the con. tributions werepaid ;, of those by whom the allOw ances out of the fund were distributed ; in short, .of the Aging Committee of the Society, he had no personal knowledge. This is the sum of - the in formation obtained from him ; he was far from giv:: ing it with ready good ,will ; it .was, in fa&, only pumped out of him by dint of earnest and skilful in quiry, At the request of Messrs..Mestaers and Fletcher, two other working shipwrights, who were at their desire in waiting, were then called in and examined. Sutherland, the first of those that was heard, works, as well as Hinton, in the dock yard of Mr.Yleteher. -He was at a meeting of the society, at the Star ale-hotise, on Monday, Sep. tember 2t, when Hinton was like Wise present. , He had paid into the funds of the society, when in eth ploymeOt, a cOntribUtion of 25. in the _ pound, : mit of his wages he had, at different times, received out of the fund pecuniary assistance, to an amount which he did not distially mention. He had paid his money to a Mr. Charles TownShenB, whOrn he understood to be a member of the Society's Acting Committee.' Gass was called in after the examination of Su, therland.- He was also' present at the meeting at the Star ale-honse on the 21s t of 'September. He had paid into the fund; in all, the sum of 14.5.; , he had received out of it between seven and eight pounds sterling. The money was paid to him by a Mr. , Gass. He .mentioned persons of the name of King, Charles Townshend, Hinton, and Sutherland, as being among others members .of the society. As nothing of all this tended to conviet Hinton of any design against the safety .of Mr. Mestaers, he was of course discharged. At the Lord Mayor's request, Mr. Fletcher agreed to receive him again to immediate work in his yard. Or► Thursday, at Guildhall, a man of the name of Mollings was brought before Sir WILLIAM LEIGHTON, charged by a poor Irish woman with having fraudulently obtained 7d. from her,, under the pretence of bringing her a letter, which she sup posed was from her husband. The post scrawl of a figure of seven was forged. The Prisoner, in his reply to this charge, said he was drinking In a' public-house with a man' of the name of Johnston,' who gave him the letter ' and direaed him to do as he had, but on the poor woman finding her;mis takeohe went to a neighbouring public-house and apprehended, the Prisoner ; he said Johnston made his-escape from the house as soon as the Prosecu:: trix came . in. ,The offence being committed in, Middlesex, the Magistrate sent him to Worship; street, from whence he was committed for re-ex amination: Notice was given to the Solicitor of the Post-Offivei in otdet that he might diret Prosecution• " SST ~ ~/ X.r. PUBLIC-OFFICE, BOW-1 Att ~t r~ r'RF,I:L A short time since; ;i petson of vety . genteo ;in.' pearance and address, nailing himself Capt: of the Royal Navy, bespoke'aiime.ki , ;eper ;it the shop Of Mr. Earnshaw; watch and clOck.riiak'er:i Holborn; which was to come to" siity:.fiv,e guineas. On WedneSday last he called f(4.,.it; and; in payment, gave tWo drafts foi - the 4rnotinNdrawii" dn; and purporting to be accepted by; MesSrk.flykesi: the .Navy Agents, in. Arundel-street, &rind who, on being applied to„ declared thein to be t0r,.7.,' geries: The next day, Thursday last; the san - 6., person offered the time-piece to pledge, at thc of Mr. Birkett, Pawnbroker, in Princes-street, ask; ing 3431:.dn it, and producing a-receipt; as from Mr: Earnshaw, to prove the Sutri he: had paid - fur iti Mr. Birkett not being able to open the titne-piece; he said he would 'take it away, gct it opened; ;. and return again; which he did; bat in the ioterini Mr: Birkett having received a hard.bill; deSerib.: ing the nianner in which it. had been obtained; ' caused hitri tO be. secured. The Saine,6vening he %was examined before Sir R. Fottn, at Bow-street -when several other persons; who had been defrauded in a similar - Way, appeared, and identified-his per. son: The Prisoner calls himself Francis Finley, but refused to tell there he lodged : he seems to he about 40 years of age, and although an Engiiihrnao, has much the appearance of an Italian: He was committed for tttrthtr examination: lakes Reli bei• was brotight into cnstodk ,on a Warrant of LOrd gLtEi4fiOROUGH'qj dated the 'Aid of July, iBo2, in'Order to give bail for his appearance next term, in the Court . Of King's_Bench, to answer to an Indianient found against Mtn for certain riots and misdemeanors, alluding , to the pitched battle he fought with Burke, At Hurley Bottoin; in Berk: shire and which had been ' removed by consent; from the Quarter Sessions for that County; to the Court of King's Bench, where it would;' probably; have rested, had he not since fought another battli with Butke . . .recOgniiance taken, was; hitn;, self in zool.'and two sureties in idol. each. , SURREY SESSIONS. . . . THE 'Quarter Sessions for . the County of &I-I'6' commenced at Guildford on Tueiday last; Arid closed on Thursday — :' Though there was Much Cotinty sineis, the only trials worth publishing were the folloWing : . . , Bigley. Herniitag e . was indiled for ''assaulting William Cambers, and obstruaing'hitii in his duty as,Assistarit to Tho Mas Melbourn, who is . one of the Assistant Water Bailiffs fOr the City of London. Mr. MARRICiTT t as COUP;el.for the Preser.:tltion, stated the Prerogative of the City of London, as Co4ervators of the River Thames to put in forte the laws, for..ihe regUlation of which . thev were necessarily oblized, to have ,a 'Water Bailiff, and proper Assistants to support him in the execution of his duty.. , f\Totwitlistandipg. all the . vigil'ancti which those Officers, were,lnown to exerts they could not preserve the, rights and privileges of the City . upon the River Thames free from innoVation,l winch was chiefly to he . ascribed to such daring and violent persons as the PriSoner would be proved to be. 111eMourn, Cambeis, and several Others; were called, who severally deposed; that on . the loth day of September last, as they were going up the River in Mr. Melbourn's boat, nearly of Moulsey they discovered the Prisoner and four other men and a boy in a Peter-boat, dragging - the, River with an unlaWful and most destructive' net ; that from the known violent chara4ers which .the men generally .burc, they expeaed a desperate reSist, ance; and accordingly, rowed further tip the River; to obtain more. assistance, and on getting that, re. turned again down ‘ the River. When nearly op, posite Kingston, they again saw the Prisoner and, the other men still at work ; on their hailing them, the boat was immediately run, on shore on the 'Kingston side ; they followed them, and on ,their attempting to seize the drag, a terrible .fight en sued; the Prisoner and his companions were armed with pistols and blUdgeons, the others had only their oars, and were in the combat 'most se:.. verely beaten. The Withe:SS JCambers) was run through the arm, as he supposes, with a clasp-. knife; another had his head severely cat, and the whole of the party were much bruised: The Fri, soner, after wounding Cambers in the arm; umped into the water, and swam to the boat in the steam with which he escaped to the opposite shore. Thecharges being fully proved, he was sentenced to be imprisoned two years in Guildford. Gaol, and . to pay afine of six shillings. REPUTED TtliEV. lames* White; :John Bo4vrideb, James and Robert Briggs; were arraigned on an india.. 'merit which char g ed theni with being persons of evil. fame and ,reputed: thieves, and with being mi the:King's' highway with intent to commit felo; nies, &c. to . support which charge William Col lingvvood, James, Glumon, and Richard Bethel, three of the Officers belonging 'to the Bormigh Police * were called, who proved their having been severally conviaed and committed till the Sessions, and that they had also. been severally conViaed . of divers offences committed I ‘vithiri the County of Sur rei. The ConnSel for the Prisoner's atgued * that as they had already been committed,- and suffered in some sort the *penalty of the law, by iniprison, merit, &c. the/..were entitled, frOnt having suffer, ed such punishment; to be discharged. The Coun sel on the opposite sidd contended, that Itam the •known habits of life to which the Prisoners were •addided, rind from the sittiation in which they were' taken,. lurking by the side of t, e he road, th number of atrocious offences bird . ) , Committed in the Metropolis and its environs, and the adive part the Prisoners •were supp9sell to have taken on such bc. , casionsi tendered it absolutely 'necessary - that at this every legal Means should be exerted for the purpose of clearing the streets and roads of such de- Scription-of. people ; he therefore.. prayed that the Prisoners should be committed to hard labour, as the Ad 'dire - b.—They were accordingly sentenced to l - .iimprisontd six mOrithSi