The Sun. — London, England, 1816-11-11 00:00:00

EAST INDIES. The following is a Letter from an alicer be longing to the Cornwallis, 74, Crip<<►in ANncut:►v KING, reetutly ►o - Lived at Plymouth, ft oto the Lhst ladies " Cornwallis, Plymouth Sound, Nov. 6, 1816. " Wcsailed from Madras Roads oo the 20th of June, when perfect tranquillity reigned through out • India, the merchants .anticipating rich har vests from the. general peace. The Island •of Java had not been given up to. the Dutch Autho rities, . but order's were daily expected to that purposi.from Europe. The Volage was cruising Off the NAV. coast of the Island. The Island. of Ceylon, since the capture of the King of Kandy, and the subduction of the entire Island to the British force, has been in a progressively flsmrishing state of trade. Tire dethroned King was taken from Columbo to Madras in this ship, and from thence was escorted by a detachment of Seapoys . to Vellore, where he is to-reside. IVe left in Madras roads, the ratio, Captain Dtt.Lote ; Elk, Captain -; and the Cameleon, Capt. Lowe, all under orders for England. The 'l'yne, Capt. CURRAN, had sailed for England, but was afterwards obliged to put into Tt incomalee, to repair damages. The C 11141.. letteer, Capt. BRIDGES, had sailed for the Persian Gulf, to relief the Favourite, lion. Capt. MAUDE, which ship was to return to England. We touched at Trincomalee, and left at it on the 29th June, the Leda, Commodore SAYER; Iphigeeia, Capt. REY NOLDS ; wad Tyne, Capt. CURRAN. •••Tke Philo• Captain ,PococK, was.at Bombay whence ' the Amphitrite, new frigate, Captain PLUMRIDGE, Lad - recently sailed for Point 'tie Galle, on her way to England. The Melville, 74, was to be launched at Bombay in December (next month). ‘Ve arriv ed in Simon's Bay (Cape of Good Hope) on the llth August : found at anchor there the Revolu tionaire, Captain IVooLcomee ; Zebra, Captain FORBES ; Racoon, Captain litcu ; ,Spey, Captain LAKE ; the hired vessel Emio, Lieutenant FOSTER (from Botany Bay) ; and several Dutch ships of war and merchantmen. We sailed again on the lath, and anchored off James Town, Island of St. Helena, on the 5 It of Septem ber, when the Ne wcastle,• Rear-Admiral Sir PVLTENEY MALCOLM, GoiirOD, and Julia, were lying in the Roads ,; the Phaeton was at anchor off Lemon Valley ; the Podargus was cruising off the Island. The garrison_ was in good health, though provisions were very dear. BUONAPARTE hat) given an order that no strangers should be admitted to his presence. lie was continually • axpressing dissatisfaction with the rigour of his confinement. IVe touched at time Island . of As cension, and gave supplies of provisions to the igvarison there: a battery of twelve guns had been constructed for its defence : the Leveret VMS at senebor in the Roads. We sailed thence on the 13th of September, and anchored here on Mon flay last. The following came passengera with as from Madras •• Lieutenant-Colonel J. Johnson, 86th regiment; Lieu tenant-Co/one) C. tikuovell, and Lieutenant J. Perry, 30th regiment; Lieutenant It. Bulman, 17th Company's regi ment; Lieutenant G. Simpson, It. N. and GO inralided soldiers. •" From Trincomalse—CaptainAllan,noyal At Unary ; and )Irc. Cameron. " From I Cape—Lieutenant-General the Hon. It. Meade, Pon. Mrs. Meade, are children, and four servants; Captain C. ‘ , Veliii„ 7241 regiment._ _ " Profit St. Helena—Lienteorent Gregory, It. N." Tliv Cornwallis is the only line-of-battle ship ghat remains on Abe war establishmeut to be paid THE MARKETS. CMIN , EXCHANGZ, Nov. 11.--Our market was abundantly supplied this morning with all kinds of grain : New Wheat sold at . a decline of 2s. per qttart . er from Friday ( Ga. cheaper than this day vreelo ;, tine old samples sold at last Monday's prices, but towards the close of the market the sales were very heavy ; new Barley is so very in- ferior, it is 2s. per quart anti new licans rather la. Oats sold (till 33. per q shy week : in other artic Forel; '‘Vheat - 704. 725. Fine tO. - -94 a. —4. );+11:liglt Wheat - 721. Fine ditto Old ditto - - tO7 s. —s. Rye ----- 475. 53<. ditto sii. sois ,lLtrio7, • - - - 43.;. 4sis. intto 6 . 0 t New Molt Flue ditto -84 s. 91 . s. WhitePease (boilers) 645. 7og. Iritte ditto - • - 745. er lower ; Peas are dull, wer ; the inferior sorts of [tarter cheaper than this 'les no alteration. Grey Pease - -50 s. 565. Fine Grey Pease - sas. —s. 'tick Beans -50 s. 53. i. bill ditto - - 545. 60s, Small Tick Beans 565. Ms. Old ditto - fits. flits. Feed Oats - - OM. /7s. Fine ditto - - 335. 38s. tlolitpd ditto - -99 i. 445. Fine ditto - sec 41s. Potatoe ditto - 4t5.46i. Kaye Seed 421. 461. perlast. Fine Flour 85e, 90s. Seconds • • 80s. 855.. s3trrttrtst.n, Nov. it. This day's Market was well sup plied with prime Beasts, and the show of Cattle in other re spects Was tolerably good ; Veal was cheaper; Beef, Mutton, and Pork, were dearer; and the trade in general was pretty considerable. The sales in the Hay-market were somewhat lit sly ; straw has got up in price; Hay and Clover have fallen in, price. Annexed is a correct statement of the pricei and num- Ite TS To sink the Onl, per stone of 1311). Beef, as. 2d. to 4s. Bd. Mutton, 4s. ad. to 516 ad. Veal) 151. Od. 'to sc. 4d. Pork, Sc, ad. to Ss. 6d. J 3e ."ts , 320 0. Sheep, 18,500. Calves, 250. Pigs, 400. 11 Ay-Msti6nr.—Hay, I. as. to Si. lOs. Straw, 11. las. to IL Os. Clover, 51. 5,. to 71. Os. DARING Rosaaev.—A Gentleman, on whose 'veracity we can depend, futnisked us with the following particulars :—Going along Windmill- Streit, on Saturday list he saw a woman run out of a conk-shop in a very hasty manner, ": 1(1 /# 31 1 asking her the reason of her agitation, she iatormed him that a man bad come suddenly and slyly into the shop, and had stolen a whole goose, which , had not been many minutes taken from the spirt. But what seemed to grieve her 41 " re thiin the loss of the bird was, that he also ga.iichet4 her hornet from her head, with which he mad e Off at full speed, leaving her so astounded at hi% (Whig, that she could not stir fo — r a minute or two, during..whielthe had got out of sight. LORD MAYOR'S DAY. Saturday, being the day on which the Loan Malt - in annually t3ltes, upon himself the insignia 0 , office, Was, as usual, celebrated by a grand civic feast, the procession from7t he City to %Vest minster, and the other customary ceremonies. At half past ten the two new Sheri 6, Alderman Brydge, and Mr. lilrhy, went in their state car riages, which were hoched for the first time that morning;to the Mansion-house, where the Lord Mayor and the Officers of the Corporation - were prepared to - receive them. At eleven they pro ceeded front thence in procession—His Lordship in his state carriage, preceded by the City Mar shal, the Marshal's men, his footmen, and the pages of his household, to Guildhall to breakfast. The only Alderman present, a circumstance un precedented, was Alderman Birch. In the afternoon the procession, after going to Westminster by water, instead 'of returning, •as - usual, the same way, returned to Guildhall along Parliament-street, Whitehall, the Strand, Fleet -street, &c - . The procession to the water side was nothing different front that of former years. It arrived at Westminster Hall at two o'clock, and his Lordship immediately proceeded to the Court of Exchequer, where he was pre sented to the Chief Baron by the Recorder. He was supported by MI Alderrnan Birch and Mr. Alderman J.J. smith. The Lord Mayor having advanced to the bar, the Recorder introduced hint in these terms : "My Lords,--I have the honour of presenting at your Lord,hip's hat, Matthew Wood, •Esq. Alder Man and Fishmonget, who has been elected by a great majority of the Livery of London, and, by the sanction of the Court of Aldermen, has been again ,appointed to fill, during the year en siting, the high and dignified situation of Chief Magistrate for the first Metropolis of the British Empire. The citizens of London, by choosing this Gentleman, in the fair and full exercise of their chartered rights, to preside over the Magis tracy, and to fill the high office, and discharge the duties of Mayoralty for two succe‘ive years, have bestowed upon him a distinction which has not been conferred upon any other Chief Magistrate for a pe riod of more than 4 centuries. My Lords, you can not but he aware that the important ditties of this great public trust mast demand from the person in vested with it an entire devotion of his time and ta lents ; and that to uphold the doe splendour of his high office and dignity, and the conseiptettee of this great city met. which he presides, a large expen• d tore of his, privati fortune must be required. Under these considerations, the laws of the City of London have declared that no man who is ho noured by H second election'shall be compellable again to sere the office of Lord Mayor. My Lords, in grateful return, however, for the gra tifying testimony he has received of the afFection of his fellow-citizens, and with an ardent desire to render himself still more useful, this respect able magistrate has waved the exemption which would have applied to him, and has submitted himself to the anxious responsibility of this high office, and again u n dertakes to fulfil the dotiei at• tached to it, attendedby,the cordial wishes of the tizens of Loudon, that he may execute Ida trust dur 7 hug his second Mayoralty, as he bus done in his first,, is all its important bearings,' for the welfare of the whole empire, and the partienlar interests of the city of London ; and by so doing entitle himself to a still more extensive. claim .on the gratitude and approbation of ois fellow-citizens. He also attends to render an account of the issues of his high office ; and here an ample and gratifying scene would present itself, in speaking of his con duct during his past Mayoralty, hut his election for the succeeding teat speaks more fully and ef fectually than X can exprese.,l;how amply and sig tinily he has merited the Apprbbatiou of his fellow citizens.', LORD CHIEF BA My Lord Mayor,-T-The circumstances tioder which we now receive your Lordship at this, bar call for mote than ordinary congratulation to the Chief Magistrate of the City of London on his elevation to that ,ituation ; for in your Lordship's re-election we have the strongest testimony of the very high sense your fellow-citizens entertain of your meritorious ser vices already rendered in the discharge of the im portant trust,. the usual period of which has ex pired ; and it being understood no traces can be found, during the long perm& the Recorder has stated, of any other Chief Magistrate receiving the honour two successive years, which has at tended your Lordship, that circumstance would alone bear testintiniy to the unabated zeal antrat . - tentiOn with which your fellow-citizens consider you to have discharged every part of your labo rious and public du . ties. Your exertions have in deed been eminently conspicuous to the public at large, and they cannot be beheld without the highest gratification to the feelings of every one who can rightly appreciate such services. In is word, it appears that you have been the father of the poor, and the friend and vindicator of the op pressed. Your Lordship, in resuming the impor tant functions of your office, will, I ant sure, think the safety and security of the City of Lon don is again committed to your especial care, and your past conduct will afford to your fellow-citi zens a certain assuranceof what they may expect in future. A steady.perseverance, and an Inflexi ble and impartial course of jus' ice, we have every_ eeason to suppose, will not be waning on your part; and by such conduct, when you retire from the weight and cares of this arduous office, you will have the well-earned praises .of your fellow citizens, and, what will be the best testimony, the consolation of your own approving con science." The Lord Mayor then, in the usual form, ren dered the:accounts of the issues of his office ; and the Recorder having, in his name, intited the Barons to dinner at Guildhall, his Lordship, with the Sheriffs, Aldermen, and Livery, withdraw. The Lord Mayor, &c. then proceeded to the Courts ofiling's Bench and Common Pleas, and gave the same invitation to the respective Judges of these 'Courts., They then returned to their carriuges, which were waiting in Palace-yard, and from thence went back in procession to Guildhall, preceded, as last year, the men in armour, se verelpf the city companies, with the banners un furled, bands of music, &c. The populace took tire. horses from the Loyd Mayor's carriage in Palace-yard, and drew it MI the way to Guildhall. A party of the borse•guards, dressed in half armour, joined the procession as parr of the spectacle, and accompanied it to Oui The procession arrived at Guildhall, soon after hint o'clock. Long. before this time a number of Ladies had arrive& at. the Hail, and most of the seats not set aside for particular guests were oc cupied. The Hail was brilliantly illuminated with gas, aPtd decorated, as usual, with transpa rencies, banncrs, &c. At six o'clock dinner was served up, rind consisted of every luxury of the Season. Amongst the cirmlitiny present were--- Lords Essex, Erskine, Montford, Ossulston, and Torrington ; Nlontford and Shaw ; the Master of the Rolls, Mr. Baron Ricisards, Justices Pat ke, Abbot, and Holroyd, the Attor ney and Solicitor Generals, Sir S. Roniilly, Sir Wm - . Scott, Sir Robert Wilson, the American Minister, the Hon. Grey Bennet, &c. Mr. Kean and Major Cartwright were also guests,' After the cloth was removed, Non Nods was sung by Messrs. Tyne, Gibbon, and: the other professional Gentlemen present ; and the usual toasts and songs were given andsung Lord ESSEx then gave the Lord Mayor and Lady Mavoresi. The LORD MAYOR returned thanks. His opi nions as to politics continued still unchanged, but throughout. the whole of last year he had endea voured so to conduct himself as to steer clear of all patty he should still persevere in the same course, and would not turn aside to the right, or to the left for any man. He was not conscious of having done any thing to offend his Majesty's Ministers ; but certain it was, that he had uncon sciously offended them, else why had they stu diously refused to attend, and do honour to his invitation, both on.the present and on the former occasion ? The Hon. Grey Bennett itnd the House of Commons, with three times three—(Applause). The American Ambassador, with three times three. , The AMERICAN AMBASSADOR returned his Lord ship thanks for the honour conferred on him, an honour which he, bad frequently .experienced, and in returning thanks now he could only repeat what he had said on former occasions. • Grati tode, however,. was :fond of repetition. The Citizens of Loudon hail recently proved the truth n 1 this assertion . ; they had shewn theirs to his Lordship by repeting this year the honour which . they conterro upon hint last. lie begged to thank the company for the honour they bad done him, and to give in return—. Prosperity to the City of London. • The Judges... , The Attorney-General. • The Menibers for the City of London. Mr. Alderman ATKINS returned thanks, Lord Erskine and the Trial by Jury. 1..,0rd ERSKINE acknowledged the honour done him by Lis Lordship, and observed, that in stand ing forward on the memorable occasion which gave rise to the toast Isis Lordship had just done him the honour of giving, he bad considered the liberties of the subject in danger; impressed with that idea, he had made a stand ; and should suck another,occasion occur, which he trusted never would, he hoped he should net even now forbear to,stimt_forward,..and contribute his feeble mid to, stern and defeat it. The Sheriffs of London. Mr. Sheriff KIIII0( returned thanks : be could not avoid adverting to an observation made by his Lordship, on the absence of his Majesty's Minis ters. He Ousted that his Lordship would feel that the title now conferred upon him, for the second time, by his fellow-citizens, would prove more honourable to hint than any title ur distinc tion which his Majesty's Ministers, or any other set of men, had the power of bestowing. • Some other toasts were given by the Lord Mayor anti others; and soon after 10 o'clock', the Ladlis haVing previously .retired to the Council Chamber to take tea, his Lordship quitted the chair ; most of the company followed him, and after promenading the rooms for a short time, se parated. There was no hall, as dancing Wm'sl have broken in upon the Sunday morning. Sir R. Wilson quitted the Hall about 10 o'cloCk : he was loudly cheered Ili the company both on coming in and going away. The men in armour were stationed at the upper end of the Hall, from the time the Lord Mnyor took his seat at the table until he quitted the chili!. Tuey were stat ioned 'upon pedestals raised several feet above the floor : the two men in brais armour at each corner of the upper part of the - Ball, and the man in the steel armour of Henry V. iu the centre, immediately behind his Lordship's chair. A pair of trumpeters, were also statinued behind his Lordship, and another pair at the bottom of the Hall; and previous to cash toast bring given, the trumpets behind his 'Lordship sounded a charge, which was replied to by those at the bot tom , of the Hall. Lord Essex sat at the, right: band of the Lord Mayor, anti Sir Robert \Vasa's' on the left of her Ladyship. Tuesday some soldiers of the Royal Staff corps, employed 'in taking down and retnoiing the ma gazine at Softwood Barracks, with a view to the diminution at labour, undermined one of the walls to throw it down, but which was effected se sud denly that two of the men were caught antler it, one of whom, Thomas'Day, was cruslietho death, H od the other so dreadfully bruised that it is feared he cannot recov e r. 'Th e d eceased was a married man, and bore an excellent character: There exists but little hesitation in our minds as to the proportion of the supply of load raised in England. We arc inclined to believe that the crop, together with the surplus of last year, is more than equal to the consuniption, notwithitanuing the partial failure and the gland ty of acres left in an uncnitivated state. We say this upon a conviction drawn from a series of calculations, founded upon authentic documents, that at the conclusion of the harvest of 1815 there *at a full six month consumption in hand, above the demand of the current year. We know, from the daily - reports - , that the middling Wheats continued ,unsaleable up to •a very late period and we Aso know that where the clop of the present year has been housed, it is almost universally abundant, though perhaps in ferior, in quality. -These cireumitanees form the basis of our opinion.—(Norundi UREA WWI. MURDER. On the evening of Mon,lay, -the 14th of Octo ber, betwixt the hours of six and eight olekek, the dwelling-house of Laurence sen. si toate in Howell. in the palish of Kilbeagh, in the County of Mayo, farmer, and of his son, rence O'Hara, jun. of Cloomueen, iu the sato Pa rish, about a (Nailer of a mile distant front each other, were successively entered by three persons, tinned with pistols and swords ; who, after tour tiering the said Laurence O'Hara, sen. by shoot ing hits through the h ea d, b rea ki ng hi s j aw -h one , and mangling his body in the roost brutal manner, rlpaired instantly, as is supposed, to t heb once said son, who had about an boor before returned, fatigued, from. the fair of Lougliglyn, about miles off, and had lain do upon the bed to rest himielf, when the first of the three persons rushed into his cabin, the door being open, and pre sented a pistol to his breast ; which, as be started up, he had the good luck to parry, arts) the halt missed him, and hit the wall at the back of the bed, on which it was found next morning. A secant person rushing in at this instant, made a cut at him with a large sword, which he also warded off, and had actually released himself front both of them, and was making out of the door, when he found there a third person (his own brother-in-law, whom his fatter and himself had been compelled to dispossess of his holding under them, about *ix or eight months ago, and was supposed to be at this time in England), which third person charged at him with a pitchfork and small sword to prevent his escape, anal made several prods at him with the foil*, wounding him in five or six 'different parts of the body ; but having got hold of the prong or fork, he wrenched it from the pole to, which it was attached, and was then dreadfully wounded by the small sword under the right area, The three- ruffians then attacked hint altogether, and threw hint on the ground at the dour but still struggling and crying out, he alarmed a neigh bouring house, and a woman happening to come out, the villains suddenly made off—and as they passed the woman, one of them gave her a cut over her forehead, which has disabled her ever since. If appears, as•well LIT the information of the said Laurence O'Hara, jun. who is yet unable to move or to be moved, and Charles O'Hara, his brother, taken by Matthew Wyatt,' Esq. a Ma gistrate of the County of Mayo, as by'the evi dence of the snid Charles O'Hara, and several others given before a Coroner of the Soda county, at the Inquest held Un the body of the said Lao retire sen.. that the said murder was com mitted by Thomas Phillips,.the son-in-law of the said Laurence, and James Phillips and Myles Phil lip's, brothers of the said Thomas, with the privity of Michael Phillips, Patrick Phillips, and Simon Phillips (three other brothers of the said Thomas Phillips,) and that they are the same persons who also committed and abetted the assault with intent to murder the said Laurence O'Hara, jun. who owes his life, under Providence, solely to his own heroic exertions. The said Thomas, J'ames, and Myles Phillips, aftei committing the murder, took the road from Cloonmeen to 13allybaunis, where they were seen on Tuesday morning the 15th ult., passing to ward Dunmore. It was believed that they en. deavoured either to return to England, front whence they arrived incog, only a few days before the murder, and for that single purpose, for which it is supposed they were selected in preference to the other three brothers (who were known to be at home ) ) as being supposed to be still abroad; or to have proceeded to Galway, and thence to America or perhaps to take refuge in Conarneaa, They are natives of the Barony of Costello, pa rish of liilbeagh; the two latter were well known in 'England as hawkers of pottery, and it was sup. posed had a licence. They fre q ue n t e d Lane end, near Newcastle, Staffordshire, and here polchase r i their pottery. A SWINDLER. On Saturday afternoon a man of gentlemanly appearance went into Mrs. MORTON'S flidgre slurp, No. 94, in the Strand, and ordered a backgaminon,boerd, to be s en t to N o. 39, Taei stock.street, Brunswick•square, r.nd said an deli. very it would he paid for (twenty-five shillings). He stated that his name was Luny. A lad was accordingly sent with it. Ott his arrival near the house the swindler accosted him, and inquired ;ir he was not going to No, 39 Ti m l a d answered in the affirmative, and also recognised him to be the person who had ordeted the hoard; he de. li% erect it to him. On their arrival st rite doer of . No. 39, the swindler knocked, and while waiting for the door to be opened Ite ordered the boy to return and bring a board of a smaller size. The door Was opened, anti the boy saw the swindler enter the house, after which he re turned for the board us directed. On his arriving the second time at No. 39, he was answered by a female servant, who said no person of the name of Kenny lodged there ; an altercatinn having ensued between the boy and the servant, it brought the master of the house, Mr. Keene, into the hall, who stated, Unit there had been a 111A14 short ,time before with him, a person Who had a backgammon-board tinder his arm, lie on ly inquired it a Mr. Kenny lived there ; being informed in the negative, he went away. Thli gentleman stated, that in the course of the week 4 flower-woman had called upon him, anti said she had been defrauded by a person in a fimilar way, he having directed her to come to No. 39, for payment. The swindler was dressed in a blue great coat, with frogs instead of buttons, white web pan talcums, and Hessian boots. He is about 5 feet inches4 h air,anti height, a very a a iigltt, ;e m it: i l l e a thin re v ::. age, and dark The Parish Officers ,me I of I ...14H144, have pm.- chased a very large quantity of dottr and potatoes, and 400 chaldrons tit coals, which are to be sold to the poor in'intall quantities and at prime cost. They have also purchased three bullocks for the same benevolent purpose s and intend continuing to supply the poor of that extensive parish with meat, &c. on the above plan during the ensuing winter. We trust this laudable example will be folio wed.