The Sun. — London, England, 1801-09-29 00:00:00

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Wait_ TH I NGTON, which is stationed to cruize between the South and North Forelands, to intercept all im proper correspondence between this Country and France, fell in with a Schooner bound to Boulogne, early yesterday morning, a few miles from the South-Foreland, and brought her into this Harbour. The master and one of the crew, after undergoing a very long examination before the Mayor, were Ent to prison. It appears that a man who passes as one of the crew, is a foreigner who a few months since was ordered to quit the Kingdom. DEAL, SEPT. 28. THE remains of the gallant Capt. PARKER, were this morning interred in the Chapel Burying-ground 4t this place, with all the honours duc to his rank and distinguished Charaaer as a Naval Officer. The Ships of War hoisted their colours half-mast h igh, and topped up their yards, forming a St. An drew's Cross, as emblematical of distress. The Funeral commenced at twelve o'clock from the. , Naval. Store.yaro, and was attended by the ledic l Staff; Admirals LUTW IDGE and NELSON, with their Secretaries ; the Officers of the Derbyshire Militia, and a firing parry 'of zoo privates ; the officers of Artillery from the-Forts, and the Com- Thanders of the Ships of War in the Downs. The 330 4 was carried by six Seamen, dressed in blue jackets and white troN,vsers ; and the pallbearers were Masters and Commanders. The Derby Band accompanied the procession, playing a solemn dirge, nd the interment was concluded with a solemnity which made a deep impressiOn on an immense crowd of spea.ators. His Majesty's Ship ilmazon fired Thinute_guns during the burial, which lasted nearly an hour, is Lor d NELsorr's feelings were much afreaecl, and "e shed tears nearly the whole time. Arrived the Acasto Frigate, with some Ships from Jamaica, which are sailed for the River. SHEERNESS, SEPt. iB. • LAST night came into Harbour the Blazer Gun_ br ig, to be repaired. This day arrived the Empress Mary Store ship, fro n l the River. The Laur e l hired Brig has gone Out of Harbour: YARMOUTH, SEPT. 28. A g • E D the Prince of Wales Packet, HEARN, "I Cuxhaven ; Hope, DAR BY, Alliance, USH ER - WOO •, , nu B l essing, MAXWELL, from Pctersburgh, bound to London. The cygnet, BRAY, from Amsterdam to Lisbon, With corn and goods, is sent in by His Majesty's Shit) Lyn x. • The De fortune, VRoOME, from sea, with her, rings and salt, bound . to Newpott, sent in by La 3.alouse. The Stephen, PAGET, from the Baltic ; is lost on the Coast of Norway, having struck on a rock.— "me Of her materials and part of the cargo are saved. • Arrived the Lynx Sloop and Harpy Brig, from a • led The Princess Royal Packet, HAMMOND, to .- 1 4441aVen. 1 ' he 'foll ow i ng i s an E xtra & of a Letter from a do entlattuan belonging to the Trinity House, Lon tou:,,t° his Friend in North Shields, giving an ac '' qa.Shoal laying near the Dudgeon Light : i, "D s -4 a SIR " Trinity House, .7uxe 26, 180 1 . thom ir , 14\Ing.laid your Letter before the Board, respeling a on Y i ng S. %V. from the Floating Light, upon the Well, k ! rat . Ich some Colliers were said to be a-ground ;, Co!.. °n, always attentive to remove every obruction in 41, Kann is and Coasts in the way of our Navigations, a.iti:Lottliately ordered a cursory survey to be taken of it and, tain logy r ugh not a very accui , te - one, is sufficiently so to ascer.. 'early its situation._: 1,. marks and bearings are as . bi ll! ek The Dudgeon Light N. E. about six mulles ; 1 - 1 0 4 10 1 2eY Church S, W.- Cromer Light S. by E. t E. and lh e Cant, Church S. W.—T4 North end is nearest kh ou 'gm, but not the iltoalest part ; the 'South end has ;lot t three fathoms at'a.lownapi.tide ; but at a low spring more than 1 4 feet : "kis i%eil'il)trlo'. 4 , and ranns. about th 04,4,4,1 S. in length, from sov , - - rrfitlaiNir s water to seven fa , - .s, about three - -•• gh ' , l .l7 ,° l lr own experience must ‘onvince you, that this . "Y§ fAt within tlAr :rack but prcibOlY they keep nearer the larul,tow fot fOar of the whose Pri vateers are fraquentiy hovering about the Floating Light, and thereby tall in amongaillesc.Shoak, viz. The Dausings, the all - we Shoal, Shec.r- iughant, &c., which abound on that Coast." C •A Letter received yesterday from a Passenger in one of the J;unitiCaFleet, arrived off Dover, con firms the loss ofihe Lowestoffe Ftigate s as stated in our Paper: of .yesterday ; and.adds-,:;;;-“: She bilged ten minutes after she struck. All her masts went over the side immediately,. but happily no lives were lost. Six Sail of Merchantmen were also lost at the same time. The only names of the Mer_ chantmen I tecollea were as follow : the 'Auspi cious, Faitny, Jason, &c. There is a fear of the. Bushy Park being lost, but this is only report. — P. S. We had 'a ten weeks passage, mostly fine weather." We are sorry to learn that the. Moreland, a fine new Ship belonging to Messrs. Stun/an and Co. of Leith, was set on fire by some Negroes in the at of stealing , rum, and blown up in Salt River, Jamaica, on the 22d of July, after being fully loaded for her voyage home. Upwards of 600 hogsheads of sugar and 300 puncheons of rum have been destroyed. The total loss is supposed to he upwards of 30,0001. - MISS ROBERTSON. THERE is so little of the " ideal notoriety" men tioned in the following Letter, in the charaEter and conduit of the Author, that we doubt not our Readers will derive some amusement from the com_ positions of a writer so distinguished. TO THE EDITOR. SIR, I have read your entertaining account of the new subject of consternation at Margate, without attempting to offer any hint for the taming of that indefatigable unruly member the tOngue.—=l. cannot help noticing the avidity with which the most pal pable absurdities are swallowed in the present period, particularly by the women. Had any wag present seriously asserted, on the entree of the swimmers from I?anzsgate, that they were just arrived in that situation from the Caspian Lake, or . Nova Zetnbla, Iwhich certainly was as probable as their swimming from Ramsgate,) I am well persuaded twenty out of the two dozen damsels present would have repeated it; withjhe strongest asseverations, that they had ocular demonstration of its authenticity. Nor might they think they " o'erstep'd the modesty of truth," in the assever ation ; for they might imagine the Caspian Lake, or Nova Zembla, were the proper names of the surf and waves .a-Margate on a coronation or stormy day. Permit me to add, I think we have less to fear from the invasion of the French than from the hostile attack of domestic-tongues: Would it not beta salutary ad of patriotism in the Legislature to pass an Edid, that each indivi dual should commit their words to paper ; or, in cases where the parties could not write fast enough, or spell ;heir words, a proper officer should be appointed in each distrid, daily to note down the diurnal reports and observations ? To reimburse the expences of time, paper, &c. a tax of one penny per word should be laid upon all reports and consultations made after ten o'clock at night, or before six.the subsequent - morning. Also upon all words spoken at card tables, races, rallies, bil liards, and on the church gossips, who talk during Divine Service. Thirdly, on all comments on the words or adions of others When the parties alluded to are absent, and of course incapacitated for.self defence, and unable to state the motives which in fluenced them to speak the words, or commit the ael, die Parties are debating on.—This, Mr. Editor would be a source of mental improvement ; and by the sea-side, where refledors are touch wanted, but very thinly stationed, it might prove a national benefit. lam persuaded it would tend to the good order and peace of Society, and the tax would bring an immense revenue to Goverment. I am inclined to think theetetvimmers from Rams gate to Margate, will be sooner exhausted than the Blackheath Sruiindiers of ideal notoriety; but as I have, through the medium of your Paper, challenged the propagators of that falsehood to maintain their ground—if they can !—I will not at present animad vert on that subject, but request you will not insert the answers of any who cannot state their MUMS and place.of abode. 11.0BEkTSON. Huntingdon, Sept. 231 iBOl. • .A private Letter from rerbay, in SWitzetiand, observes—" that the Country has nearly recovered itself from the ravages of War. Mr. BECKFORD has bought , the .Castle, of Chatelard, near Vevay, celebrated by the loves of Abelard and Eloisa.:. It is in a state of thorough repair ; but Mr. BECK FORD means to make many alterations in it, it being his intention to settle there for some time. The Queen Dowager of I i RIiSStA has bought the Castle of Chemenin, where her Highness intends passing the remainder of her days. It is situated about a league and a half. from the Castle of Cha telard. An English Gentleman of the name of ANK IN, is Vilding three magnificent houses at 'Vevay, one for his own residence, the other two for friends he experts from England. ."A vast num ber of English . travellers are now here ; many have taken houses and settled. A Mr. SMITH is build ing a.Chateau, -- peifeCtly Gothic, a few miles off. A new road is nearly completed, it is through the Simplon (a high mountain which divides the valley from the Milanese); by this road carriages will be able to pass with expedition - and safety into Italy. Three thousand men have been employed daily for twelve months past in accomplishing this vast undertaking:'' • Citizen LALANDE, *lit) .19 certainly . the most restless Astronomer that eve r y availed himself of the invention of GALLILco, having found nothing either consolatory or alarming in the Starsi to the present generation, has stepped back to the i ath century, and assures us, that the Planets spoke false when they predieted the destru4iori of the world in the year / 036. ,such information is Lighlj (valuable to those who hire in the 19th cen. &my, • - . EDINBURGA SEPT. i 4.. CR.kNb MILtTAKY,Y.XERCISE: • ON Tuesday morning, the grand military_ ma '• ntruvres took place; 9.11 the'Links.,and Sands, to the Eastward of Leitl4 • The four Battalions of Royal Edinburgh . Volum. teers, with the two Companies. of Royal Edinburgh and Royal •Mid Lothian Artillery, paraded regi mentally at seven o'clock, and marched by separate Battalions to Leith Links ; where they were joined by the Lanark, Dumfries, and Aberdeen Regiments of Militia, .from the Camp at Musselburgh, with the Light Company of the 3.d .West York from Edinburgh Castle, two squadrons of the 4th Dra goon Guards, from Piershill Barracks, nd two Squa drons of the Royal Mid Lothian Cavalry. Here they formed in a Line, extending the whole length of Leith Links, in a diagonal.direaion, and were then brigaded in the following order RIGHT BRIGADE, Brigadier-General AYTOI7I4. • Two Squadrons 4th Dxagoon i Lieut.-Colonel TittwLEs. Guards - ' Royal Edinburgh Volunteers (Blue) , - Lieut.:Colonel HOPE. Musselburgh and Porto Bello ? Lieut.-Col. WAvcaoi , E. Volunteers - ) , Royal Edinburgh Highland Z Lieut.-Colonel DEWAR. Volunteers - Royal Edinburgh Volunteer Lieut.-Colonel SrENS. Artillery, with four guns CENTRE BRIGADE. MajOr-Gen. Sir lAIVIES ST. CLAIR ERS'KINE, Bart, Royal Lanark Militia Colonel Lord ARCHIBALD HAMILTON. Aberdeen Militia - Colonel the Earl ofAisoyNx. Dumfries Militia - S Lieutenant-Colonel Lord E. Z LIBANK With their Battalion guns. LEFT BRIGADE. Brigadier-General His Grace the Duke of Buccizucu. First Bat. td Regiment Royal Col. CRzcwroN. Edinburgh Volunteers Dalkeith and Libberton Vo- Major BA IL L lE. lunteers - Second Bat. 2d Regt. Royal Major HOPE. Edinburgh Volunteers Royal Mid Lothian Artillery, Captain H. R. Midis ., s. with lour guns Two Squadrons of the Royal Mid Lothian Volunteer Ca- Lieut.-Col. DUNDAS. vairy - The Light Companies of the different Battalions were formed in detached Bodies in the Rear, under Colonel the Earl of DALKE ITH. After being thus brigaded, the Une broke into !three columns, and marched by different avenues to Leith Sands, where they deployed into tine with "great precision, having their Right at Mr. WOOD'S house, and their Left at the Pier of Leith. When the heads of the columns appeared on Leith Sands, the Gun-brigs under Capt. CLEMENTS were seen lying to, in a well formed Line of Battle a-head, on the larboard tack, prepared to cover the landing of the Troops supposed to be on board; While the. ,columns were deploying, the Light Infantry advanced, and extended themselves in front to cover the formation of the Line, and annoy the Boats as they approached the shore, the Gun-brigs keeping up a heavy cannonade to cover the landing. On the Line being formed, the Light Troops were called in by signal, and the Line commenced a very close tire by Companies, from the Right of Battalions, which was kept up for four rounds with -• great regularity—the Battalion guns at, tile same time : ple - serving 'a heavy cannonade. • ' The whole then advanced in Line for above a quarter, of a mile, and close to the water's edge, with wonderful accuracy, when another close fire, for fOur rounds, was commenced from the Left of Battalions by Companies. , On this fire ceasing, the Cavalry on the Right and Left charged obliquely itoward.s the Centre, • and many old Officers present declared they had .never seen so rapid and yet so regular a, charge.— Only.one accident happened, by the fall of a horse of the 4th Dragoon Guards, occasioned by a hole in the Sands, butiortunately the man was very little hurt. After this the whole line changed its front to the right on a centre battalion, and formed a new line, if possible with greater accuracy than the first, on the Dumfries-shire Regiment, having their left at the Pier of Leith, their rear secured by the town of Leith, and their right by the Glass Works—the Royal Edinburgh Volunteers, blue, and the 4th Dragoon Guards, for want of room forming en potence. In this position the line fired four rounds by wings. During these mantetivres, the boats from the gun_ brigs, well manned, kept up a smart fire of musketry, under cover of their great guns from the shipping, and attempted to land, but were repulsed, and obliged to return to their ships. The gunboats noW filled, and made a feint as if they meant to attempt to land in Musselburgh bay ; on Which the line broke into open column, and marched from the right to Porto Bello sands. Here the whole formed line again under cover of the Sand Hills, This was perhaps the best executed, and certainly *as the most piluresque movement of the day ; the line being formed to humour the windings of the coast and Sand Hills. During this movement, the light troops constantly covered 'the flank exposed to the sea s and proteted the forma tion by a very close fire. On the word. being given, the Whole line ad vanced on the ridge of Sand Hills, having their right covered by the village of Porto Bello, and their left by the town of Leith, and immediately commenced a heavy fire by platoons from the right of corps. Another charge by. the Cavalry from the equally well executed with the . first, closed the manoeuvres ; after which the different corps marched home, by 'different roads, having been under arms some of them eight hours, and several of them nearly ten. There were eight complete battalions under arms, which, with the light company of the West York, the cavalry, and artillery, composed a force of nearly soon men, Perhaps the sarte movements might have been executed with more precision by troops long ac customed to of together, but the whole were per., formed without a single mistake, or the least con fusion; and with a degree of regularity that could hardly have been expeUed, Ali the movement; we're dii•26lcd icy his tkdeilerie Lieutenan-General Vy,se in person, and it reet.is 'additional `Credit on -the-troops, and marks the Ge neral's precision in giving his-orders, that the plan : of operations was not previously communicated to them,—the whole being direaed by orders circulated on the spot by the Stalf Officers: General Vyse charged in person at the head of the Dragoons. On this occasion the Lot'd ProVost i His Majesty's Lieutenant of the City of Edinburgh, received fiern hi's Excellency the Cormnander in Chief the f0110,,v -mg Letter P.iinhuret o Sept. 22, ; So 1. MY LOP.Di As I should think myself Very deficient in the discharge of my duty, as well as guilty of great injustice tl the military merit of all the several 1 , ens and Co pa of this City, if I did not communicate to them toy approbltiori of their appearance and conduet in the field tnis da% 3 t bzz leave to gratify myself by doing so, through the inedi um of this letter to your Lordship ; and, to my sin,erest wishes for their future prosperity and glz,ry, as the lle.lenders and Pro teciors of their CoUntry; mdst earnestly to recommend to them, a steady and attentive adherence to that system of dis cipline and manoeuvre which they have hitherto so success fully observed, and which has this day enabled them to co-Operate, with regularity and order; in a long extended line, composed of thrps of dilirent descriptions, that were. never before assembled. I have the honcur to be, With the greatest respell, Your Lordships most obedient and humble servant, R. VYSE, Lieut. Gen: The Right Hon. the Lord Provost Of Edinburgh. Mr, Crichton, Commander of the Dalkeith Vo, lunteers marched that corps into a small Park belong ing to Mr. Turnbull i of Porto-Bello Tower; where they regaled themselves. GUILDHALL: . , YEsTitb AY Mri. Martha Vagg, a beautiful young, Lady; Mary Godsail, her servant, and a young man, named joiesh Cassia, were brught before the Sitting Alderman at Guildhall, under the following circumstances Police Officers hay, ing suspicion that nefarious practices were carrying on at a house in Cow-lane, West Smithfield, went there on Sunday night, and demanded admittance to. search the house ; but were refused by Mrs. Vagg ; who answered theM from the window, and desired they •would call the next Morning. The Officers immediately forced their way in, and, 'searching the house, found nothing that could warrant their sus, picions ; they, however, took these three persons into custody, and lodged them in the Poultry Compter. Some plate, and a pocketbook, contain:. ing three . 11. notes, were produced ; taken frora Mrs. Vagg. Mr. Ashmore, Churchwarden of the: Parish stated, that persons had resided in this house at different times, which is in a most ruinous state, but that the Parish had not been able to get any taxes for near four years:. The Magistrate desired Mrs: Vagg to account for being found in the house: She said, that she was lately married, without •the knowledge of her friends, to an Officer in the, Navy, who is at present absent on his country's service, and that the house belonged to Francis Carey, Esq . : of Dorking, in Surrey, who had giver - . her permis sion to reside in it until her husband came home.-- , She said the Officers had used her very ill, and threatened to 'cut her to pieces if she did not open :the door, and that being intimidated, she sent for the young man, Joseph Cassia ; who lived opposite, and, was an acquaintance of her servant, Mary Godsall, to protea her: The Magistrate observ, cd to her, that he should not do his duty; nor jus tice to her, without remanding them for a day or two, until he could hear from Mr. Carey respeCting the truth of her assertions. A Mrs. Match, of Johnson's, court, Fleet , .street, stepped forward and confirmed the - statement made by Mrs. Vagg : she being a house-keeper, and known to some of the City Officers, the Magistrate said he would take her word for the appearance of the parties to clear up this business on a future day; and in the mean time desired that Mrs. Match would write to Mr. Carey, and pro duce something confirmatory of what had been as. serted respeeting him. The parties were then dis. charged for the presento On the - rph instant an Inquisition Was taken at the George Inn, at Buckden, in the county of Huntingdon, on view of the body of Robert Fields, a servant belonging to Lord Carberry, who was going to Buckden on the preceding evening, about eight o'clock, and happening to meet the Gl asgow Mail coming down a hill between Buckden and Diddington, near Diddington, by some means of other he got entangled with the horses belonging to the said Mail coach, and was run over by the said coach, and so much hurt thathe expired about three hours after the accident happened. The lamps belonging to the said coach were lighted up, and therefore it is supposed that the said deceased must have been asleep upon his horse at the time the acci dent - happened.—Verdid Accidental Death. A letter from Savannah, in Georgia, of July 30 1 relates the following adventure :—" On the 21st instant a Negro man, on his way to Ogechee ; ob 4. served a large buck some distance a-head, running towards him. The Negro stepped into the bushes, ,and picking up a lightwood knot, threw it at him as he passed. The deer jumped into the ditch on the opposite side, and coursing along it the Negro pursued him, when the deer springing out,. made signal of battle. The Negro, a second Sampson, was not disposed to fly, whereupon a most terrible conflia ensued. The negro, almost exhausted, called aloud for assistance; but none coming to his aid, he, like the Jewish hero before-mentioned, summed up his remaining strength, and seizing the buck by the lower jaw and one horn ; with an Herculean jerk,. he snapped his neck in twain; The negro is much injured, and has been confined ever since. His name is Adam, arid he belongs to Messrs. Denis and Williams." The Rebecca, Reed, for London, is stranded at Tobago, On Saturday se'nnigilt some bricklayers and their men going into a public-house arßeverley to settle for their weekly wages, one of the,bricklayers and a labourer quarrelled, and proceeded to fighting, when the latter received a fatal, blow, and expired i n a fiyi hours after,