The Sun. — London, England, 1801-12-29 00:00:00

Iron 1t course North. disco long to er, till appear term= vantame _3 it dis- revered ; lireeted or. hero F. and iste "PEALF Appeal with a lona to any on the oop of er, And .Admi. !edings argo of yes of nrs of North United proper. to the refuge he In That e firm Majes, jesty P S of the Pritai3 as tile of the ing --an it per, there., s ; and >art oY indutff, 'Spain, at Lila le part epepa,. Ls; aniL in the :lidraw omini- consi. i; of the ,der of °the; UL. :its/9/e s • Lord i▪ rcurn: :ntence ny fired tc.l WELLS be ob- ALLO- nce in D leave N, WO service 'as far jesty's kat the, 7s, an a c (WELL dopted Ilantr3r ley did ty ac. ed lc. by an Indi) of the Wales, itenang trated HANICe 0 New ch she I with in the Ivernor Nelsen; on the ihe was el was 7,, and of iot a yet kr con k was ate the oily rc ;it, and r° ',try is ii soon resting [Ps h E,457 LAT.LtS It appears by Letters from India,. which came by die overland Despatch received yesterday, that the disaffected Polygars, who haYe for some time past produced so much service for our Troops, are 'again in motion ; and unhappily they seem to have obtained at different times, and particularly of late, some advantages over the Corps sent against them. Letters from Bombay of the .z3d August, contain the following intelligence on this •subjeat : " The Polygars are again in serious rebellion..: — Our Troops, milder the command of Lieutenant :)colorlel AGNEW, have been obliged to entrench , :themielves near to Adams's Bridge, communi_ caring with Ceylon, being hemmed in by a force said to amount to 15,000 men : and these mis creants have dispersed hand-bilis through the Car_ vatic, inviting all the other Polygars to.join them. They are well armed, supplied; no doubt, from the arsenal of Seringaparam, by those traitors to their ring and Country, whose diabolical proceedings have but lately been discovered." Letters of the same date , contain the folloWing intelligence : " Four Hundred Officers and Privates of the 74th Regiment embark to-morrow morning on board of the David Scott, Captain Gt a, for Trail quebar ; it is expefted she will sail immediately, i n company with the Britannia, Captain STOUT, and the Clarissa, Captain JAMES, both of which carry followers and baggage. (c Report speaks of a revolution in Cabul, and of the death of ZEMAVN StrAw; hut letters from Calcutta of the 3oth July do not mention it. Mar quis Wet.", ESL E Y was expeCted to set out for Luck. now about the beginning of this month. " The Leopard, M. W. Capt. SURRIDGEj ar. riv e d here from the Red Sea on the 9th inst. and the MariaiJ Cornivallis Frigate, and many of the Tran_ sports, arc expected in the end of the month. " Sir Home POPHAM is gone to Calcutta in the Ponvu g , whence it is expeeted another Expedition is on toot." tXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM AN OFFICER. OF. HIS. MAJESTY'S 731) REGIMENT. " Caattp in:he Ceded Di:bias; about 3o milesW". E. of G:errAlefeo7lda, May 27 , ISsr. " We have been employed this six months past iti . taking possession of the very extensive Country teded tb the Company by His Highness the Ni z ; and when we thought every thing was done, and .• that we were to go into quarters, and rest from ou r labours; a number of refraalory Polygars started up, and for three months past we have not known more than one day's cessation from marching ar time. It is now said we have done, but the people in this country; called Polygars ; are so deceitful and treacherous; that there cannot be any certain conclusion drawn from appearances. In fad, I have seen - so mush of it; that I shall expert little or no Test till we get out of the country altogether. " In the course of out late excursions, the flank companies of the 73d; some Sepoys, and a detach ment of Cavalry, performed one of the , longest marches ever known to have been done in India by Europeans we made a march of twelve miles on the morning of the 9th. ult. over the sandy bed of at river, being the only road : the afternoon of the same day, we marched again, and continued marching the whole of that night, and till about ro o'clock the following morning, when we arrived at our objet, being distant bz miles from the first ground we mov_ ed from, and so from the last, which was performed in 29 hours altogether. . The time, you will say, Was sufficient, but you must know that we had to tradve with heavy scaling ladders, carried on Lascar's Shoulders, and guns over a road, the 'greater part of which wheeled carriages had never before gone. The distress in the course of the night I cannot describe to you : the want of water was one of .-ahe greatest, which the darkness of the night, ppd. the natural scarcity in that part of the country,. qaftevented our finding. The Lascars dropping dead 'from under the ladders, the Europeans and Sepoys tainting, and left apparently dead on the road, were sights that made me shudder, although pretty well accustomed to scenes of the kind within these last two or three years. Much to our satisfa&ion, the whole of the. Europeans recovered, and joined us soon after we got to the place, end the only loss in deaths was among the Lascars and Sepoys. The great - objeft Was etfeded, which was the surpriiing and taking prisoner a Mussulman, by name MAHOBIT CAUN, who had joined with otT:ers in shaking off their allegiance to the Company. - On the appearance o f the Cavalry, he made some chew of resistance, but understanding the Infantry were close behind, he surrendered. " Another night_march we had .of twenty miles, in which our success was equal to the other; but the people defending themseivCs, caused great slaughter among them, with the loss on our side. of a few natives and horses. . _ _ " An unfortunate, and I may say melancholy occurrence, has happened to the Southward, - near Pailamcottah, at a place called Pandalamcourchy, and as I am certain you will not hear of it from any public communication,. I will detail the hods of it. "About six months ago, a Polygar Rajah, con , fined in the Fort of Pallaincottah,contriVed to make his escape,' and the country people, according to a preconcerted plan, took up arms in his . defence. A Major i\el'CAtnAv, of the Company's Ser vice; Who commanded in that station, marched against them with what any persan would have . thought a su ffi cient farce to quell, or oblige them to 1 4 1 :-"take to the jungle;. much, however, to the -astonish :mem of every one they not only stood their ground, ' c•iba t compelled the Major to retreat, after losing some • hundreds of Sepoys killed and woundei, On this in telligence reaching Government, they ordered the light company and one battalion compmy of the 74th to reinforce the Major, who was nowsurrounded in hi s Fort. This handful of Europeans struck such a Panic into the deluded . Natives, that they imme- Aliatefy fled to the Fort of Pandalamcoirchy, which had cost the lives of a number of Oftlers in taking not twelve months before, and, stratge to tell, it h a d not been properly dismantledstnce. The Major -being reinforced by the Eutoitans, imme. diately advanced to thOpia..e, and after a fevr hours erriployed to make a breach, the storm commenced, led by Capt. CAMi't EiA, of the 74th.; The Enemy defended themselves desperately, the breach was found impraelicable, and, after a hard struggle, Our troops Were obliged to retire with great loss, four Officers and fifty Europeans killed, fifteen Officers, and nearly the remainder of the Europeans wounded, besides SePoys killed and Wounded in great numbers. Capt. CAMPBELL was wounded; and had the misfor tune to see his brother (a fine young man, and tenant in his brother's Company) killed by his side, and he is since dead of his wound. forgot to men tion, that previous to this attack of the Fort, a large body of the enemy, who had remthnedim,the outside, and attempted to stop the prbgres4 i)ur TroopS, were charged by the Body GuAriA,Cavplry, led on by a Lieutenant GRANTi wlio commanded them ; they stood very steady, and killed' and wounded a number of the troopers before they were .routed, which they were at last, and a number of them cut up in consequence: " Lieutenant GRANT was speared throtigh the lungs, and a Sebildar of Cavalry,-who saved Lord CORNWALLIs's life before Seringapa tam, was killed. Our lait. accounts mention the arrival of the 77th Regiment to the support of the Detachment, and Colonel ACNE w, the Company's Adjutant-General on this Coast, is on his way to take the command of the Troops, when, Imake no doubt, the too much elated Natives will suffer for their presump tion:" An account 0e..211 Crain, it,40.11 n....„ and Rice; imported into, and/ exported from Great Bri. tain, between the sth .of January, ISo', and the toth of Odoher following. IMPORTS INTO GREAT GRIT) IEOI, AND 10 'Qrs. B. 10„o67 4,600 4 539,709 2 39,39 8 2 9 2 , 6 93 7 4 0 ,47 1 2 1 ,035,7 1 4. 7 txrovrs FROM GI:LAT ERITA xeol AND 102 Qrs.. B. 1 , 22 4 2 2,E09 6 4, 1 94 1 652 1 38 0 37 8 3 2,689 6 2 ,4 8 3 4 AtN, BETWEEN 5-FH OF J AN. ,Tti OCTOBER. Barley Beans - Oats - Pease - Rye - Indian Corn - Wheat - Cwt. Qr. Wheat Flour 728,428 I Rye Meal - 162,410 2 Oatmeal - 63 2 Indian Meal - 107,667 2 Rice - - 245,136 3 IN. BETWEEN STH JANUARY. Ii OCTOBER. Barley - 13,1nS • Cwt. Qr. Wheat F - 55,606 3 Oatmeal 2 ;5 0 ' • 1 ,9 8 7 3 Rice,. 4,800 3 Oats - Pease - - Rye Indian Corn Malt - _ Wheat - We have to correft a misstatement, copied from a Morning Paper, xhich , appeared a few days ago, respecting the SPEAKER'S Service of Plate—lt was said in the Paragraph alluded to, that soool. was the sum allotved upon this occasion—this was a gross misrepresentation of the fad—The allowance to the SPEAKER is either two thousand ounces of Plate l or t fool. in money ; the latter has generally been taken, and though the above quantity of plate would at present cost above 16001. the SPEAKER Very handsomely took the money, instead of the more advantageous alternative, as he had previously ordered a Service on his own private account, which Will cost from 400014 to 50001. We are sorry it is not in our power to confirm the intelligence of the safe arrival of the De/ft at Portsmouth. The mistake' arose from a part of the passengers that came in the Delft from Egypt to Gibraltar, having been brought home in the Trusty; and, as they sent letters on shore, it was reported the Delft had arrived. The Foreign Papers talk of a secret Treaty con cluded at Madrid between the PRINCE of PEACE and LUCIEN BONAPARTE; This Treaty is said to have been communicated to Marquis C _ORNWALLIS. The objea of it is, to settle the affairs of Italy.— The DUKE Of PARMA iS to renounce his States, which are to be given as an indemnity to the KING of SARDINIA; and the KING of ETRURIA is to cede the Isle of Elba to France. The. First Surrey Militia are. under orders to march this day from Canterbury for'Shorncliffe. The South Gloucester Militiiii;at present at Shotn cliffe, in Kent,'have receivecLia tztjute fqr their own County. Sir JAMES DUFF has been presented with a Sword, value too guineas, and. General UNIACKE with another, value so guineas, by the City of Limerick, A Society is formed at Exeter for the purchase of sheep, &c. and which, after defraying all incidental charges, is retailed to the Members. ' Ten sheep were killed on Wednesday, they had been fatted with much care, and at more than ordinary cost, yet the expence to the subscribers was only 51d. per pound, being nearly 3d, per, pound below the current price of the market. . The Mayor of ' Exeter, .on Thursday, distributed amongst the Poor of that City, seven hundred loaves, being the produce of sundry fines levied for trifling offences, within the jurisdielion of that Corpora tion. _ _ Ice-boats were employed lately with, much ad_ . vantage and success, on the-Grand Canal to Dublin. These worked night and .day during the frost, for several miles, in keeping the centre of the Canal clear of obstruftions, by which means the Passage boats were able to ply. This • ,contrivance may furnislia useful hint,- perhaps, for the passage of Lighters on the Thames, during an extended frost. The Ilaxton, STEPHENSON, of Hull, which foundered in the Baltic in the storm of the 3d ult. has been picked up at sea by some Swedish Fisher_ men, and ,'carried. into Carlsham Harbour. She had received little damage in theAlij,:, out nothing was ' left upon deck except the f inijlte;i:s-4no t a bit of mast, or rigging, &c. f tis)ierriien . who took .her up, had unloaded part - 01.'41- - cargo, and laid claim to the whole, as well as to the vessel. Their claims, however, have been resisted on account of the Underwriters in this COUntry. Three men lately passed a number of forged Bank of England notes,. on the new paper, in the neighbourhood of Ruthin, in the purchase of horses and cattle the forgery was soon discovered,- and a pursuit commenced by three of the Yeomenry, who came up with one of them in the neighbourhood of Wolverhampton, whom they lodged in jail' on Thursday. • • THE TZ2ATRE; Covent-Gartiev; iN compliment to the tolitio; folkS, new Pan toini!ne vas-brought forward ,last night at this Theatre„under the title .of Harlequin's Alniaiiack, cr, The Four &easoni. PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS. Harlequin Mr. BoLoorlA, jun. Pantaloon Mr. DELPINI. Clown Mr. 80L0G:7... Booby Lover - Mr. L. BOLOGNA. Spring. • - MiSS WIiEATLEY. Summer Mr. KING. Autumn Mrs. DuiDim. Winter Mr. Coxy. - Peace Mrs. BASTER. Britannii. Mrs. St. LEDGER. Blight (an Opposing fiend) Mr. KLANERT. jailer 0;-,r -7,2,7 . Mr. ODDWELL. Black Servant - Mr. HARLEY. Huntsman - Mr. HILL. ' Greenwich Pensioner Mr. EMERY. Gardeners - Messrs. LITTLE , tv.c. Pamalina Columbine Master M E Mrs. Wyßß.ow. The Fable, such as it is, arises from an agreement. among the Four Seasons, to exert 311 their efforts to please their best friends, meaning the Public. For this purpose they combine their powers to produce the motley being who constitutes the hero of the piece. Harlequin rises in the midst of a flame, into which the Seasons have previously , cast their impregnating spells. When the motley hero is once brought into existence he soon becomes acquainted with Columbine, in the usual way, and is involved in difficulties, froth- which he of course escapes. His embarrassments princi pally arise from the hostility of Blight, 'an Evil_ Genius, who is necessarily an enemy to the Seasons, and consequently to Harlequin, their whimsical off spring. The Seasons, in succession, take Harlequin under their protdlion, and each preside over scenery suited to their respective qualities. At length, after Blight has sufficiently perplexed the Lovers, Peace interposes, puts an end to his mischievous ca reer, and induces the parents of Columbine to con sent to her marriage with her motley favourite. The scenery and changes were principally as fol lows : In Winter we are shewn the Palace of Win ter, and a beautiful scene of dissolving snow, paint ed. by Whitmore—a, street by moonlight and lamp light ; Pantaloon's chamber ; the Canal in Hyde.. Park, and a — Frozen :Lake, all by Hollogan—in Spring and Summer, we have Battersea.bridge (Hol logan); Greenwich (Whitmore) ; Kew . GardenS and A Sea l'nd Fleet (Cresswell)—in Autumn, a romantic Landscape, Cottage, Temple of Peace, &c. besides a variety of pleasing and pieturesque changes, &c. Among the principal mechanical transformations are : Lantern, to a Fiend—Piano Fort 6 to Covent Gar den Theatre=Handsetvord, to a Fiolin—Changeable Chairs—Rose-tree blighted—Sign-post, to Table and Chairs,t &c.—Quart Bottle, to a Post—Table, to a Prison—Stick, to a Snake—Snuf jar, to a Giant— Snuff - box, to Harlequin Little Highlander:— Greenrwicb Coach, to a Pair of Park- g ates and Lodges—Silver Cup, to a Pair of Handcuffs and Padlock—Glfoolpack, to a Sailing-boat---Seword to a Sickle—Keui Gardens, to Sea and Fleet—Wig, to Green-grocery—Dove-house, to a Cupid in his Car —Broom, to an old Witch—Sociable . to two . Gigs. The Scenery, upon the whole; was piauresque and beautiful. The Music is by Messrs. REEVE and WA' E. — It is light, airy, and suitable to the quick transi tions of Pantomime. Mr. T. Di uoiN is the In ventor of this Pantomime, and Young BOLOGNA the Director.. The Scenery was painted by Whit more, Hollogan, Cresswell, Morris, Hodgins, and others. "The Pantothime was very well received, and if it be not the best we have seen, it is calculated to answer the purpose of pleasing the usual visitors of a Theatre at this time of the year. The Play was Lover's Yows, and the Audience were at first so riotously inclined, owing to the vast number of persons present, that th;Comedy was much obstrkted,in-its earlier scenes. The followink Airs in the Pantomime were en cored : . - LONG, Huntsman—(W. W. AE). The world may go hunting. for money or fame, Let 'em chuse which they will, 'tis to me all the same, • • Tantivy, hark forward 10 ! I hunt health while I follow the fox and the hare, The death gives me life, while I banish dull care, With I ! tantivy.l. 0 ! Let. folks, false to honour, run down a good name, And of tears from the beauty they've blighted make game, Tantivy, hark forward, I 0 ! Of deeds so ignoble, I never will brag, No tears I delight in but those of the stag ; ' While I follow tantivy, IU 1 ' SONG, GREENWICH PENSIONER—CREEvE.) A Sailor I was born and bred, My father's name was Midship Ned, I doesn't tell a story ; . And when he died, says Mam, says.she, " Suppose, my lad, yon goes to sea," Says 1, " that there's all one to me, " If it's all tbr Britain's glory." I NI - Wm° splice, and reef, and clue, To drink my grog till all was blue, And tell a merry story ; And though I wasn't very big, Aloft I'd climb, nor care a fig, Or load a gun, ..or dance•a jig, And all tar Britain's glory. When I came home again, .1 found My mother she was left aground, - I doesn't tell a story ; Fer she was cheated by an elf, Who married her for father's pelf,. Then spent the cash, and hang'd himself, for, Britain's glory. I fought the Spanish, French, and Dutch, You know it doesn't matter much, To tell a tediOns story,;, While inother : liv'd, wily I kept.shc, And, now I Cannot go to sea, • The King, God bless him, he keeps me, And 411 for Britain's glory. Saturday a man was taken to Guildhall, charged with having taken' a basket, filled with straw, to the house of a Gentleman,, and pretending that it came by the coach from Norwich, obtained half-a. crown lor the carriage and porterage; he was, how. ever, discharged for want cf sufficient proof as to his identity. .„ . . A . 1 . , A few days -Igo an cx.!miciation took MarlboriTugh:street Police (Vice, of a ecrnon Ue cuSed of Swindling twO young women ou! of lout or five guineas each'.—Under pretence of marrying them, he took them at different times in -hackney: coaches, to Furnival's Inn, where, pretending he was going to his Attorney for the marriage-settle ments, he borrowed the above sums Of them to pay the eqence ; but never again appeared, leaving the damsels to sigh in the coach, "Oh me ! how I long to be. married !" _ _ Yesterday be was again examined at Marlbo rough -street, and severAl new charges were preferred against him: One Lady of easy virtue stated, that she accidentally became acquainted with him in the street about two months ago ; that he represented himself to her as an Officer in the !6th Light Dra goons, possessed of a good fortune. He called fre quently at. her lodgings in Marybone, where he borrowed, at different times, money to the amount of eleven pounds two shillings. One day he took • from her apartments a _silver nutmeg grater ; and, on another occasion, a silver .knife and fork. The first article she gave him ; but the last he took. out of her drawers, saying he WOUrcl return it as soon as he had got a Inife and fork made to the same pattern, as he wished to make a present'of them to his sister, whO was at a boarding-school, within a few - miles of 'town. He had, previously to the getting possession of the above property, promised to settle on her forty pounds a year. At the last interview, bee-ailed early in the morning, and took her in a hackney coach to Furnival's inn, for the purpcee, as he,said; to get a proper instrument drawn up for the settlement of the annuity. He then said the expence would be five pounds, which she must advance, as he was shdrt of cash. He went into the Inn, and soon returned, with a sheet of blank paper; pen; and ink, desiring her to put her name at the bottom. This the Lady objected to; but, on his saying it was a prelude to the settlement of the deed, she consented, and wrote her name.— The prisoner again left her to expedite the business; but she saw no more of him till he was in custody. A' person with whom the Prisoner lodged some months ago, said he went away without paying his rent, leaving behind him two trunks, which he begged the Magistrates would order to be brought before them, as he was well assured they contained nothing but rubbish. A Boot-maker, and several other tradesmen, who have been defrauded )3y the Prisoner, appeared, and identified his person. He was.committed to Tothill fields Bridewell for re-examination. The Prisoner, whose name is Reynolds, was for merly an Ensign in the Lincolnshire Militia. He is about five feet nine inches in height, is slight made, of a military , appearance, wearing powder. He had on a blue great coat, bound with red. By the last Insolvent Act he wa's liberated from the Fleet Prison. Governor BE NTI ck is mentioned as Sir J. WENT.. WORTH'S successor in the Government of Nova Scotia. Part of the Fleet which has sailed from Brest, and which is generally understood to be destined to St. Domingo, consists, of Spanish Ships of the Line. Thus poor degraded Spain is obliged to lend its own Ships to conquer its own territory fur its All)! An advertisement in the Canterbury Gazette of Friday, convenes the brethren of the Loyal Order of Odd Fellows, of Deal, to their annual. dinner, on the 3 tst instant, and the Secretary announces that amongst the dishes will be the ,following culinary novelties, viz. " A.fine roasted turtle, stuffed with' mincemeat; • two boiled pigs and caper sauce ; a roasted turbot, and sweet sauce ;. a boiled fawn, smothered with onions ; an olio, consisting of fried oysters, sweetmeats, jellies, pickled tripe, and red herrings," exc., A very extraordinary hare , was lately shot by Lieutenant HORSELEY, of the Royal Regiment of Horse GuardS, in Beeston-field, in the neighbour hood of Nottingham : she had four teeth in the front of her upper jaw, of uncommon length, greatly curved inwards ; the ends divided, and sharp pointed ; the , two front teeth in the lower jaw were two' inches and a quarter long, curved upwards, and one of them so much so, as to make a deep incision between the bone and gristle of her nose, and prevent her mouth from opening to its full width '; in consequence•of which, it is supposed t her inouth- was considerably less than in other hares. Her whiskers were four inches long, which is about two inches longer than usual. The Duke of BEDFORD purchased a quarter of the Prize Ox for his family at Woburn Abbey, and early last Thursday morning, as it was on its way to Woburn - , it was cut from the coach in St. John's-street, by a gang who infest that neighbour hood every morning, for the purpose of plundering the coaches that go out before day-light. • Thursday morning a lad about sixteen years of age, %vb . () was observed the preceding evening walk ing in a melancholy state, was found drowned in the most leading from Gosport to Stoke. He was dressed with•a. smock frock, and had the appearance of a farmer's servant. A person at Yarmouth has contrived a very sim ple apparatus, by which the reason why the moon, or any other celestial body, always appears much larger larger when near the horizon, than when on the meridian, is satisfadorily . explained. A few days •ago, as two young men were shoot— ing in Carmel Fell, one 'of them (named Rippon) . ,, received the contents of his companion's gun in one of his legs, which was obliged to be amputated, and he is since dead. A fire lately broke out in the house of Mr. Au stin, an eminent farmer at Easton, near &oxford ; so rapid were the flames, that it was with great difficulty Mr. and Mrs. Austin escaped diem ; a Mrs. Lovidge, who was about 8o years of age, and a fine little girl her grand-daughter, unfortunately were burnt to death. Upwards of too quarters of male were destroyed; the barns and rick-yard escaped, owing to their being to windward of the house.