The Sun. — London, England, 1812-05-01 00:00:00

TO THE .gpiToit. OF THE SUN. SIR, I should be glad if any of- your Readers who may happen to be a casuist, would answer the fol lowing question :--\V nether is it more culpable in a political party, not in power, to send out an ato-, bassador to counteract the operations of Govern ment ; or torthe Ministers of the Crown to make communications of the highest importance, to any part of his Majesty's subjects, without the know ledge, and in opposition to the known sentiments, of the Sovereign ?. Yours, &c.- A. B. VACCIN/17101.V. FOR THE SUN. I\IR. EDITOR, The candid manner in which your Paper •has been conduCted, respecting thetaEts and reasonings concerning Vaccination, has been of much service in propagating truth, and your late silence will be considered as one proof that the public are convinced . of the falla , •.y of the experiment. Be oleaSe - d. therefore, to inform the Deputies of the London Medical Colleges, that the daughter of Mr. Reynolds, an eminent' butcher in the nigh street, Southwark, who was vaccinated at five months old, is just recovered from the natural Small Pox, being now 7 years and aine months old. The attack of fever was violent, attended with de lirium,- but the eruption distinat, and not More, than 100 pustules. This case ..ccurring in the vicinity of Guy's Hos ,pit al, win' re Lectures_recommending the praaice of Cow , l'ox have been anowlly read, may, perhaps cheCk the ardour ofthose Professors who have been so long in error, for it is shocking to refleci, that the ignorance and onstinacy..of young Practitioners may he productive of so much mischief, as fre quently happens when the epidemic Small Pox ap pears it towns and populous places.. • If the Institution chose to wake inquiry after what has lardy happened at Granthan, in Lincoln shire, they will find enough to prevent any further petition to Parli'iment for money to continue an ex periment, which has for twelve years past annually produced more and more proofs of its absolute in ability to perform any of the benefits originally promised by the discoverer and his strenuous sup porters. I am, Sir, &c. &c. A series of Bombay Couriers, to the 22d of De cember, contain extraCts from the papers of the other Settlements. The intelligence is not of im portance. Lord MINTo returned to Calcutta on Tuesday, the 17th of November. A meeting of the Britishinhabitants of Madras took place or. the sth of December, to consider the best mode of con veying their public congratulations to Sir SAMUEL AUCIIMUTY; An address was ordered to be pre pared, a sword - proposed to be presented, and a re quest made that Sir SAMUEL would permit his por trait to be taken by an eminent artist, to be placed in an appropriate public situation with the portraits of other distinguished persons. Extract of a letter,: i dated Dartmouth, April, 27, 1812 :—" Tl)is morning arrived the J.ihn arid Sally, belonging to Sontlqmpton, Charles Scody, master. In her pa,sage froM Waterford to Southampton, off Falmouth, Sunday last, ten o'clock she was boarded by the row-boat privateer Sparrow, of St. Maloes, Captain Benger (a Portuguese) who put two French men and four Spaniards on board. Yesterday, about four leagues from the French coast, the master, C. SLody, prevailed on the Spaniards to assist him, when they secured the Frenchmen, and ran the ves sel here. The master informs me he saw the priva teer take two brigs soon atter they were taken, which steered for the French co Ist ; that the John and Sally was the first vessel the privateer had taken; her force four swivels and 'small arms." The Resolution arrived at Plymouth, on the 28th ult. from Majorca and Gibraltar, the latter of which she left on the 15th ult. She is said to have brought inteliigehce, that when she sailed from Gibraltar, an account bad been received there of a French 80-gun ship haying arrived at Malta„which was said to have been captured by a British 74 ; and that the French lost 400 men, and the British 200, in the aaion.. This seems to refer to the re ported capture of a French ship of war in the Adriatic. Fears ate entertained for the safety of the Psyche frigate, homeward-bound from the East Indies; she parted company from the Scipion, in the chops of the Channel, on the 1 ith ult. intending to bear up for Plymouth, but has' not yet arrived at any of the ports. The Scipion, Capt. JOHNSTONE, from the Cape, arrived at Spithead, brings an account of Admiral Sir S. HOOD having arrived in Table Bay on the 17th of January, and that he sailed again the day . following, to take the cowhand on the East India station. Thursday last, Mr. and Mrs. TILNEY LONG, WELLESLEY made their first visit at their seat at Draycor, in Wilts, since their-recent marriage, and were greeted by the inhabitants and poor of that place, and the neighbouring villages, with every de monstration of joy ; and on Saturday, Mr. WEL LESLEY, in the true style of English hospitality, gave a dinner to all his tenants; to whom he made a neat and suitable address, expressive of his good wished towards tbeM, and of his anxiety to preserve that harmony and pod understanding between land lord and tenant, which were so essential to the hap piness and comfort of both. Many loyal and appro priate toasts were given; and nothing could exceed the conviviality and heartfelt delight with which the day was passed. A Mr. Kneele, from Buckinghamshire, engaged yesterday, on Finchtey Common, to kill tirpigeons from 21, for a wager of 50. guineas. What is sin gular, the adventurer missed his first two birds, and killed the 18 following, but in shooting at the List bird to decide w ,Iger , , it was winged, and died - out of bounds, 100 yards from the trap.. ITOMEN OF 71175.E1. NOM THE ACCOUNT OF MR. GA T.] The state of the women-in Turkey is one of the greatest curiosities which the empire affords. Ac customed to , hear and to read of their secluded apart ments, and the danger and ditEerilty of obtaining access to them, I was rat..:er surprised to ,find, in much less difference in their condition, than that of our own females than I thought_ reconcilable to the doctrines of Mahomet.: It must ,always be held in mind, that the Turks-are a singUlarly grave people ; that they have no . public amusements -which the women frequent ; and that. even their meals are regarded in some sort with religious solernnity. This sedate decorum is not favourable to the liberty of the lighter sex; and the institutes of their reli ligion, by preset ihing limiis to those with whom the women may unveil their faces, imposes a restraint apparently as strong as that which seems. tp be the result-of the natural taciturnity of the men. Still, however, considering the state of the country, the women cannot be regarded as stinted in their free dom ; and the uniformity with which they - dress, when they go abroad, furnish the licentious with abundant opportunities of indtjlgence. No restric tion is laid on their intercourse with each other ; and I question' if scandal be less eloquently wor,liipo ped in the harems of Constantinople than in the _boudoirs and drawing-rooms of London - and Paris. The Turkish - ladies freely frequent ►he shops, and — chat ' ith the mercers; undervaluing the gaudy coin modiiies on which their heafts and eyes are set, with as many contemptuous tosses and accents as the best bargain-makers in Christendom. Nor are they without their due share of individual consequence and dignity, notwithstanding the polygamy which their husbands are Allowed. • .The second person in the state corresponding in rank to the Christian Queens, is the Sultana mother. Her public officers are - grandees .ot the first class ;- and her annual revenue is fully eighty thousand pounds sterling. The Turks may marry the sisters of their wives, but not more than one at a time.— Younger orothers may marry the widows of their elder, but the elder are not perMitted tp marry those of the younger. Elder brothers enjoy a supe rior rank, approximating to that of fathers. They .ire permitted to see the faces of the wives of the younger. Divorces - in Turkey may take place at'any time; by mutual consent; but whenever the husband re pudiates the wife, he is obliged to bestow on her a provision proportoned to his circumstances.. Di vorces are recorded in the same Chancery in which marriages are registerest. Adultery is a capitol of fence. The women are not permitted to frequent. the public moschs ; but there are priestesses who go from house to house on the purposes of religion, and who serve, in all respe&s, the duties of male ecclesiastics; an arrangement more delicate than that of the Roman and Greek churches. The cus tom of allotting to women a separate part of the' house, though now peculiar only to the, profeSsors of the principles of Mahomet, %%as general over ad Europe till-the middle of the fifteenth century ; and the ancient domestic arrangement of the Grerks differed in nothing from that of their present mas ters. BRITISH NAVAL FORCE,—The following state ment is extra led from the Official Returns up to this day :—At sea, 86 of the line, t t fifties, 126 frigates, 105 sloops, 9 bombs, I 12 brigs, , 37 cutters, 50 schooners ; total 536. In Port and fitting, 31 of the line, 3 fifties, 33 frigates, 32 sloops, 2 bombs, 31 brigs, 7 cutters, t 6 schooners; total 155. Guard-ships, 5 of the line, 1 fifty, 5 frigates, 5 sloops!; total 'l6. Hospital. ships, &c. 37 of the line, 4 fifties, 3 frigates; total 44. In Commission 159 of the line, 19 fifties, 167 frigate%, 142 sloop, It bombs, 143 brigs, 44 cutters, 66 schooners ; total - 51. In Ordinary, 70 of the line, 1,2 . fifties, 7 sloops, 10 brigs ; total 64, forming a grand _total of 1024 vessels'of war, 264 of the line, 35 fifties, 245 frigates, 186 sloops, 15 bombs, 166 brigs, 44 cut ters, and 70 schooners. Of this force there are in the Mediterranean 103 vessels-32 of the line. Off ,Spain and Portugal- 76-18 of the line. In the English Channel, 72-16 of the line. In the North Sea, 65-6 of the line. In the Downs, 48-4 of the line. • By an account presented to the House of Com mons, it appears that the amount of Unclaimed Di vidends in the Bank, on the Ist of December last, was 1,23f,2331. of which a sum of 876,7391; was advanced to Government, pursuant to Adt of Par liament, leaving in the hands of .the Bank, at that date, a balance of 357,4941. The wife of a respetiable farmer, at a village in the neighbourhood of. Liverpool, died a few days ago under melancholy circumstances. About two years ago having had aquarrel with a female servant, the-young woman; after leaving the house propa gated a report, that an improper connexion had for some time subsisted between her late mistress and a man in the neighbourhood. This rumour reach ed the ears of her husband, who rook 'it so much to heatt that he quitted his home, and never re turned till a few weeks since. His wife 'was so affected by this desertion, and (he cause of it, that she fell into .a decline, and on her husband's return, was past recovery. She earnestly solicited an in terview, which having obtained, she assured him on the word of a dying person, that she was entirely innocent. He believed her, and a reconciliation took place, but too late, as she died a few days afterwards. The young woman being threatened with a prosecution, confessed her guilt, and attested the innocence of her mistress, and has in conse quence been excommunicated in the neighbouring churches. A dreadful. boxing match took place on 'Monday last, at Basing, near Hartly.row, in Hampshire, between James Colbourne, a bargeman, and Harry Willoughby, a coachman, for ten guineas a side.— Both were hit blind before they bad fought twenty minutes, but they were relieved by the lancet, and _ the combat renewed, until after fighting an hour and twenty minutes, they were too exhausted to set-to. They however recovered, and fought alto gether two hours. Colbourne won the battle, but tie is not expeeted to surNive. The loser bad not quitted his bed on Wednesday. LONDON FA S' WO S. FROM ACKERMANN I S REPOSITORY OF ARTS FA SHIONS, MANUFACTURES, &C. FASHIONS FOR LADIES. PROMENADE OR CARRIAGE COSTUME. —A rbUnd spencer robe of blossom-coloured sarsuer, trimmed' with tufted Chinese silk fringe; a drapery of deep Vandyke black lace, continued round the back and shoulders to the bottom, ill the louse Poldnaise style ; the spencer sitting close to the throat, without a collar, which is supplied by that of the morning robe of white muslin beneath. A provincial, bon net of the same material as the spencer, ornamented with two curled white ostrich feathers, placed in adverse direc tions in front. Half-boots of blossom-coloured kid; ridi cule to correspond ; and gloves of lemon-coloured kid, or pale tan leather. Dom'Esrie, oa MORNI NG Cos - rums.—A French frock of fine plain India muslin, with demi-train, and long full Bishops' sleeves. Waggoners' culls, with gaged front, and shoulders to correspond. Tucker of double-rolled muslin, which also finishes the cuffs round the hands. A, Parisian mob cap of fine lace, confined round the head, and termi nating on one, side with a celestial blue or silver gre:: ribbon. Sash of the same, tied in small , bows and ends in tront. Hair in•waved curls, divided in the centre of the forehead. Spanish slippers of lemon-coloured kid, and gloves of the, same material. FASHIONS FOR LADIES, FROM LA tELLE ASSEMBLEE THE PRESENT MONTH, MAY, 1812. EVENING Da ESS.—An embroidered white crape, or fine India muslin frock, with long sleeves, and trimmed iound the bottom with .fine lace,.set on full, worn over a blush-co lour satin or sarsnet slip; the frock ornamented down the front of the skirt with beads and lace in the Egyptian style. Parisian mob, worn unfastened, of puckered 6ink, and white crape over pink satin. Small pink satin tippet, with full plaiting of lace. Cestus of pale pink, confined by a clasp of ppd. Pink satin slippers, with White rosettes. Thejew. eliery worn with this dress is the shaded cornelian, or large pearls. , WALKING DRESS, AN VARIOUS PARISIAN HEAD. DRESSES. . r C AT.-A ruby pelisse of sarsnet, with a collar ap plique of white, satin ; the pelisse confined by a silver belt; sempsrress bonnet of white satin, edged with 'Vandyke lace, and ornamented in front with a full bunch of red ranuncu lus ; old English ruff, edged with fine narrow lace of a Van dyke pattern. H An- Da EssEs.— f. Imperial bonnet of Maria Louisa blue, ornamented with straw-colour French trimming; three bows of ribband, the same et:dour as the bonnet, iii front of the crown, which •is high and spiral, the bows edged with the straw-coloured trimming ; the bonnet lined with white, and turned'uP in front. —z. The Norman bonnet - , of rose. coloured satin,,trimmed round the edge.with ivlute pitc,kered crape, the crown ornamented with alternate quiltings of white crape and rose-coloUred riband.-3. The Hyde Park. bonnet of white satin,- richly ornamented - with white fancy trimming,' a plume of four white ostrich feathers falling over the front.—q.Tke Lejeune cap of fine spotted-muslin, trim med next the face witha very broad French lace, and orna mented with nase , .coloured The c4likure disrotition, a mob of fine spotted muslin, with double border of clear book- muslin, edged with narrow lace, a broad - lace ornament falling from the crown towards thelace.-6. The peasant's 'cap of fine lace and muslin intermixed, d üble border of fine Fiench lace, and three rows of Maria LcuiSa blue rihand, with 'bows behind the sanne.-7. and S. ner caps pf white satin and lace intermingled,' made in the talu s ., or French College style. -- 7 §. Close bonnet - for mom.' ,ingyisiis,'of,amber satin, lined with white satin, powdered with-small spots, and which, by being turned up, forms an 'edge all roundthe botmer,.; two full bunches of white auri. culas are placed in front, separated by a rich fold of satin, the colour of the bonnet.— so. Dress bonnet, of The colour oticudle Fno,te, trimmed round the edge with striped rib band of the same colour, the crown ornamented fanciftilly with the saute •material ; an immense plume of white gos samer feathers falling over the front, which is turned quite up, finishes this headdress. The 2d Battalions of those excellent Reginients, ;the 6th, 40th, and 815 t; are' among the reinforce-: ments for Portugal. On Wednesday, the Bedfordshire Militia, which has been for the last sixteen months quartered at Little Hampton, in Sussex, commenced its march for Northampton, to which place it was ordered to proceed by forced marches. The Regiment pa'ssed Hyde Park Corner yesterday about three o'clock, in excellent order, and was to halt at night at Barnet, and go through to Northampton, making in the three days, a distance of about 120 miles. A meeting of Magistrates and neighbouring Gentry was held last week at Carlisle, which was numerourly attended by the townspeople and work men. Some of the weavers stated, that in conse quence of the low price of labour, they were com pelled to perform twice the former quantity of work, and• thus nearly double the quantity of goods was manufaCtured by the same number of hands, as other wise would have been ; that they had previous ly presented a petition.to the Magistrates for advance of wages; and that, though promises of an advance had, on A recent occurrence, been held out, tbeae piomises were no longer regarded. The meeting brae 'up without doing any thing. A deputation •of weavers waited on Mr. CHRISTIAN, with a. pe tition, in which were abstracts from two Ads of Parliatrfent, asserting the power of the Magistrates to regulate - the price of manual labour. Mr. C. protnised them, that, as soon as possible, his fa ther, Mr. CUR \C'EN, would hold a meeting of the Magistrates, when their Petition should be duly "considered. Among thirty-two misguided.men, committed-to Chester gaol on various charges of tioting, is one to whom the deluded mob gave the appellation of General Ludd. Six,guineas were found upon the .person of this man, when he was taken into prison. The young German Gentleman of the name of RONTGEN, who left England about a twelvemonth since for. Africa, in order - to prosecute discoveyes in the interior of that country, has, it is siid, been murdered by. the Arabs, bo , 3re he had proceeded gadore, wlnire he.spent - any great distance trop? some time perfeaing itim.elf in .the Arabic lan guage. He wai . a promising young man, and an enthusiast in thecause in which he was lost, and suptc,secl to understand the Arabic .language 'better 'than any European who ever before entered Africa. At an early age , he formed the plan of going to that county, and gaVe up his connections and a compe tency .in Germany, to prosecute his intentions.-- His father was a character well known in Europe, who raised himself from obscurity to the greatest celebrity by his taie9t for mechanics ; he was at•cne time worth a - million, but ruined by the French Revolution.' Dawson, the man concerned with.Cecit Bishop, in poisoning the race-horses at Newmarket, same time since, has, it is said, made a voluntary con fession of every particular relatis to that nefarious ,transaction. At the last Sessions for the county of Middlesex, a true Bill was found against the Rev. FRANCIS LEE, for an assault on Major OLAQUIERR. ,SCOTCH. CiECUIT 11V7'ELLIGEIV:T. PERTH, APRIL 23.—Yesterday the Circuit Coort of Justiciary was opened here, by Lords AIImAnALY and GIGUES.' When, after the usual preliminary forms, Robert . Fenton,' flesher \ in With; aocused of stealing sheeri, the propeity of Robert Ditammond, at Friarton, was . ' brought-to the bar.—The panne' being called to plead, confessed the -charge,. and the .I,:ry tog withdrawn, broUght a verdi6l of Guilty. After the verdia was . read, Mr.- Hagatt, coon' set- fur the prisOner, stated to the Court, ill Mitiption of the punishment which might be inflicted, that he had' a family, and 'that ltd had, some years ago, been accessary to saving the live and property of a number of people at a fire in Perth, when he, to the asto:tishment of the rounding tuultitode, rushed through the flames 16 a plAce where two barrels of gunpowder were der' , sited, and after bringing out one in his arms, re - : - turned, nolwithstandiug the danger, and brought. out the other. This Eby he,was again brought info Court, and sentenced to be transported beyond soli , for seven year..., with the usual certifi. wion. . _ This day the Court prdceeded to the trial of Piero', Hoskins, shoemaker, it) Perth, for the inurcli:'r of ciiii‘:, a boy of four< years of age, on,the 17th of: September last, by repeated cuts with a knife. The, fact of the murd,r was•clearly established bye nurri ber of witnesses; but it appeared, in the course of the proof, that the prisoner had been a soldior , and had served in Arnerica and the East I-3' dies; that he had been occasionally subjei9 to firs of delirium after drinking; and that - the crime was committed while he was in a state of intoxi cation. Mr. Hagart, Counsel for the prisoner , brought witnesses to, prove' that his client W to be regarded as insane... The Jury having heen.ad dressed, on the part of the prosecution, by Mr..A o '; - well, King's Advocate-depute, and Mr. Hagar, 0 3 that of the prisoner, retired about an hour; and re turned a verdia all in one voice, finding (he prisoptl guilty' of hat-log inflicted the wounds which oce 3 " sioned the death of, his z clUld ; but that it was dune in a temporary fit of insanity. The Court there upon adjudged the pannel to be keo in prison till, he find bail for the safety - of the public against future fits of insanity. At the Curragh,Meeting, on Monday se'on:4'lt , Mr. Mark Brown's Pope won tire cup alit] I‘.?,t''-' guineas; a tine race over the course, beating 1-101!.F.' Bork. We understand- that the'nartel of bank notes anA, bills lately lost by the gOard of the mail-coach, Fe" tween Berwick and. ti>e COniinerc;al B tuk.of land, for which a reward of too guineas was has' been found. It was -picked,up on the morui: l of the accident by.a.butClier in Dunbar, on Ow between Press and - Berwic!‹. A-knowledge-of 1) 4 - 4 -thara6.ler, and of his having beer on the road tl)'' t morning, and other circumstances, excited a susPl - Ci3ll against' him, arld, on a warrant to searc h house being obtained, one of the gentlemeir et bank,. accompanied bm y Archibald Campbell, city !: 1 ' firer, were :dispatched foal Edinburgh, when whole property w.,s foniid in his possession, exZept - , ing a few pounds which he bad spent. He is in custody. • n HOItSC.-UACEI AGAINST TlMlV.—rctraca of a ter from Mr. George Hiiton, at Brrerrni 'A ) his Mother, Mrs. Hilton, of King -street, Black` burn, in Lanc.ishire:— " I have to inform von - of a race which I po! - formed, never equalled in this part , of the world.-' Mr. Wanklyn, "trom Man Chester, bet 200 oovice s of gold that there - was an Englishman at Bu- to li 4 Ayres, meaning myself, who would ride 10 Span's" leagues, upwards of 30 English miles,lin an lrltir, mounting as many horses as he thought pro i .er."" This b.2'ng thought improbable by i the Spaniard s, bets to tire drnount of 5000 dollars were riike d agents! the performance. I was allowed to try th e , exploit as often as I:pleased during 18 days, and It once performed it in that given time, the wager %5 73 won. In my first attempt I exceeded the hour fiv e i minutes ; my second attempt was successful„ as went the distance in 28 seconds less than the boa 'About 12,000 people assembled to witness ib is equestrian fete. " I did not bet a farthing myself, neither Shoo I have rode the race, had it not been for the pride (1 ' my country." PRICE 0 LUN DON : Printed by 1 HOMAS WOOD, of No. 35, Maio oo -larWt Covent 7 gardent and Published by WI I 1,1 ANIA It Tv' !GE SCRIPPS, South Molton-sireet' l Groiveror-square, At the Suit OFFICE, No, 1.12, Strand, where ildvenisementsp Orders for the Puper, Litters for the Editor, (post-pazd), Luust.te addresstd. BIRTHS. On the 22d ult. At Dalhousie Castle, the Countess o f Val ° housic, of a Son. On Sunday . last, at Turnham Green, Mrs. Henry Thlrfe son, 'ot her third Daughter. . On Tuesday the zBth ult. at her father's house in G cester.place, the Lady of I. B. Rooper, Esq. of a Datig , ter. MARRIED. On Tuesday, at St: James's Church, Cha r les Day, EV . of Albany, to Frances Nlary, second daughter of the late S. Perreau, Esq. On the, zSth ult. at Bath, Richard Jones, Esq. or ron,l stOne, Herefordshire, to Niaria, daughter of the late SA!Ou" Brandrath, Esq. of Lee Grove, in Kent. 'DIED... h t - t k t i i r l o e u fi g t i h t e ult.. at thgs : ti ) e r i t,lnl i i n n t g irt ,9 ' f i I 1 13 i aadajez,m x b , y o f a l n . (Rifle; Regiment, third son ot.the late .1. P. A I lix, swalinain- House, CambridgcsitiAe, aged 23 - On the tat . i ult. at Mane, rex Manor liotlse,rn the Cool?' ty of Christiana, the wit of Grammer Ml;V ri , 'I he last week in Felituary, ts,2, at Minorca, Mr. ' el Brydge4; of His Nfzijesty's ship Malta, thirst son of ton abrydgesi of Lee Priori, ne.a . Canterbury, K. On the 23d ult. lane, secona daughter of j attics - B lett, 6 1' of Hanover_square. - On Friday last, at his house, Hermitage Park, Geddes, Esq. of the Edinburgh glass-wr,rks, Leith. On 'l uesday. of a deep decline, aged 2.0 years, Ann, daub" . ter of I.' Berne: s Flestow, Esq. of •Iterners-street. On Wednesda y , in . Upper -Guildford-street, Jacob , man,. Esq. aged 67. . . The same morintig, after a long Ind painful illness, Cc l. s - Henry Fits, Esti'. • aged 64 years, sugar-retine?, bree2er Hill, Ratchil Highway. STOCKS YESTERDAY. ;tank Stoek,.227i :129 zzBi India Stock, 176' 1 ,- N peytent. 9Z slit I ndta'Bonds, is 3s. pr. . Irish 5 per Cent. South Sea St ~ c k, 4 per Lent. nit .7 . 5 xcheq. Bills, is. dis. 3 per Cent: l< eo. 6c4K Omniurn, per Cent. Cons. 6 tif Imperial 3 per Cent. Bank L. Anti: 15.7- i(t r-tb Cons. for zph May, 6ili3 HIGH WATER AT LONDON 13RIDGL TO-Mol4' ROW. Mornir7, 3 - c, min. a . fter .5. Evening, min. after 6.