The Sun. — London, England, 1806-11-26 00:00:00

ItiV :isliti/i.i.:IENt ttimakns RETURNED. itOXBURGITSIIIBE—JoIm Rutlferford, Esci. AYRSkIIRE—S.i Hugh Hamilton Dalrymple; MIDDLESEX ELECTIO2V, At the close of the Poll yesterday the.nUmbers Were—, For Mr. MtLLISII - 3 0 r9 Mr. BYNG - - 21 9 8 Sir F. Bui DETT 1016 • . • Mr. EYNG made his bow and retired. Sir FRAN - cis BuRDEtT then stepped forward, and addresied the Meeting nearly to the following effea : " Gentlemen, I cannot. forbear beginning the few words which I shall have to address to you this day, with an-expression of exultation at the volnntary and . honourable exertions _which the independence of the County has made in its own behalf and in mine, and •by which I am placed in so respectable a situation on the Poll. The alteration in the state of .the Poll Vithin the last three days, and the zeal manifested by you at this late period of the Elation, to come forward in my favour, convince me, that though the independence, of . the County. may have been stifled for a ,eason, it is not extina ; and that the . calumnies and misrepresentations propagated against if they could beat any time listened to lbr those - AiVho knew me, have now lost their effect, and are worn off. I can with- confidence assure you, that the number of Freeholders still. remaining unpolled• - is more than sufficient to turn the'Poll itr my favour, if exertions are properly clireeted to that .etlea. At • all events, whatever may hethe issue, you-shall find that I shall not fail, but shall attend het;e and.give an opportunity to theindependent interest of the County, of asserting its ,own. rights.- When see al unsolicited, .uninflueneed, independent, vo luntary suffrages. Stand on the face of the Poll in my - • favour ; _I cannot help-thinking that it is tc; me a tri, Umphant situation. . When I consider The influence • pf various kinds, justifiable and iniquitous, exercised an behalf of my opponents—When I reflect that 'stand on my own principles and declarations alone, • • tmaided.hy any thing- like, political, influence, orra ' flier, rnay say, opposed by every engine of the I 'cannot- help thinking that the state of the '• Poll fees the highest honour not on me only, but 1:311 the independence of the County.. I have, on two •or three different•occasions during the present Eke - tion, declared the , sentiments which I always have entertained, and do now entertain, QS to the situation of the Country: Jf your sentiments . are 'similar to •tninei•yon will gratify me, and. consult your own independence, in electing me your Representative : but if'you do not•agreeAvith me in those sentiments, Lam a very. unfit person to represent you in Puha . tnent. I have, from my very first entrance into political life, I#een decidedly of opinion, that the - system pursued in the administration of the of firs of this Country was one most inimical to its best interests. This opinion I have never made any scru . 'vie of declaring: I have, so far as my ability ex tended, done every thing in tny,power to remedy the • -evil, and; if possible, to bring back things to the si - - Nation in which they stood during the best days of • • our.old times. I have never understood, that Bas- • files, barracks, workhouses, soup.shops, and all the t't caliTas of the present system, formed- any. part of the appedakes of former times. [Disakprobation _.• lwried in applauses.] Certain persons near me, I Itave no doubt, think that I allude to them, and do .-mot wish to lear that system decried of Which they _• have been the supporters. An ulcei, however, to be cured, must be probed to the bottom. The evils . to - which .1 have alluded, and which I condemn, I • again - state, aie not, to my mind, of the genuine, g l i - owth or produce of the British • Clonstitution:— _ Having done every thing itYpy power to stop their . growth, I can'only hay, it thb Freeholders ate of a _ . , . - different opinion, they will clo"Well to support the Gentleman near me, who has uniformly approved •of the present system, and to desert me, who have as uniformly exposed it. In - retiring this day,. I can' with safety assure you that the result, be it one way, or the othet, will be perfeetly satisfaEtory to . Mr,MELLtsfi.-,-.-".Gentlernen, I.:return you thanks , for the great honour you have done me. On look ing at the poll, as the .. Hon. Baronet has at length requested you to do, you will see how great my ma jority is ; and I hope, you will continue your exer tions to make it still greater: . . 'Kite Meeting then adjourned' . COUnt. STROGANOFF, the Russian Minister at our -- Conn, has left Lciadon for St. Putersburgh. The following is an Extr:n of a letter from a Gentleman in the isle b( France, to his Friend in Philadelphia, dated July 5; 1806 : " A French Frigate has arrived at - Tort South East, with ; very valuableprize'; an English East I 'Ala -Company's Ship,. bound from China to Europe, fully and richly ladeu. We have not heard what her cargo consisted of, but it is inuncnw, as she is a Ship of via, tons bortheii, well armed,, and fluor the Frigate, carrying .1 4 i s_ pounders, during tour - glasses and a halt. She w. s':.par.red from her consort (the Ganges) in a gale of wind: The frigate and a Privateer are out in search of the other." The above is supposed to relate to the capture of the Warrcn Hastings. The PRINCESS of WALES is said to have received letter from her venerable father, in which it is men 'foiled, that a proposition had beenitade to him by BONAFAIITE, to respe6t the neutrality of his territory ; and to acknowledge his independence as a Prince. on condition that he would retire from the Prussian ser vice ; to which the Duke gave the following short but magnanimous reply,." I will die asl have liveci- ! -- vithhonour !" 4. Comedy from the pen - of Mr. COLIVAN 15 to be one of the early novelties this season at Covent Garden Theatre. The new Romance of Tekeli was represented again last night at Drury-lane Theatre, and was very well received. It has been much shortened. NTS. I.3LANnis so - charming a singer that the Au " tbor. ought to give her another song or two. .This innrmng the following convi6ls were exe cuted at Newpte, viz: Joseph Ikesau/ood, for for gery ; Alex. Mackenzie, for the same offence .; 'J. Beasley, for returning from transpqrtation before his time had expired ; Charles Louis Languis, for for ge y ; and James Vaughan, foi representing himself as next cif kin to Corporal Leason;deceased, for the OrpOse of fraudulently °Wink% prize money. ~~~ w ~ rr Esq. INDIES, ~ . ritTRA . CT FROM THE DOMINICA .tOtifNA.II llossAtri SEPT.3 . O.—We again resume our Jo . ur;, Oh after an kr_tterruptioti occasioned by the COI: , fusion and log sustained in the,oflice during the late htirricane; one of the greatest calamities. this Colony has 'Sustained within the memory . . of the oldest inhabitants. To give a c:etail of all .the par ticulars of this disastrous event,would be a task im possible to fulfil with accuracy until things ,com mence to be a little more settled, and that a regular communication with the Country should be opened, the .roads being intirely destroyed; we shill, there fore, confine ourselveS' chiefly to the giving a gene ral idea of matters, as far as the intelligence yet re ceived from the different parts of the • Colony will enable us, - • • • On Tuesday, the gth instant, about seven o'clock in the evening, the sky became totally overcast, and tremendous flashes of lightning, accompanied by heavy puffs of wind, presaged to the more •experi • enced part of the inhabitants an approaching storm ; but few expeCted it would have been so fatal in its consequences. The wind contiuued'to increase un tit ten o'clock, when it began. to be accompanied by . a most dreadful fall of rain, the etiea of which, ac cOmparied by • a pitch-like darkness, each moment illuminated by a Sheet of livid fire, and the roaring of the wind, which' everyinstant became louder, was awful enough to impress a dread bpon the most intrepid. Soon after, to complete our• tnisfortuue, the river Roseau, increased by the heavy rains, overflowed its • banks, inundated the town, in. • every dire&ion, and then thy destrt6tion became generaL; [every house which,obstruCted its passage' was thrown down, or carried aavay by the aarrearn, and a great proportion of; the unfortunate inhabi tants perished. About ten o'clock, every veSsel , in the harbour was driven from its inoc.rings, except a small Swedish schooner, which was cast ashore. un der the fort irlittle after midnight ; and those which were driven out, generally met with the same fate ; • amounting in the whole to .16 sail, of different de scriptions. *Nu pen can paint the horrors of, that dreadful • night •; the tremendous • . noise occasioned by the wind and titin....;the roaring of .the waters, together with the, sliock of an earthquake, which was sensibly felt about midnight-the. shrieks of the poor suf-. ferers crying out for assistance—the terror of thoSe who in' their houses heard, and . dare not open the door or window to afford them succour, and' who • expe&ed every moment to share the same fate,. formed a scene which can hardly be coneeived,..and , . is still more dicficUlt to describe. Fortunately for the inhabitants of the town, and indeed the'whole Colony, the force of the wino and rain abated id?oni three o'clock * tike morning, and near the sarne time the water ^ began to tail ; if it had 'continued .. another hour in its altitude, there is tiodOubr but , the town would have been entirely destroyed. • The - speaacle which presented itself on'the re turn . of day-light, was horrid beyond every power of description ; heaps ,of alma and sand, in ,i6trie places five or six feet deep, through all parts of the town ; the forM of a street. hardly to be discerned. Five . large streams, or rather torrents, , running, through the town ; ' ruins of lii)iises blown 'down . ,l and others thrown down by the flOod, obstruaing every passage ; the bodies of several of the' unfor tunate vi&ims of this event drawn out from the ruins, and lying in the streets ; while nnnibers,'al most distracted, were searching fel- sonic near lation o r friend, who had perished in the storm ; the lamentations of those who had lost sonic of their nearest and dearest connexions, joined to the de spair of those who had lost their little all, formed al ; together-a scene ealCulated to draw tears from the eyes of the most unfeeling. . From the most authentic accounts which have keen gathered during the confusion occasione&by this fatal : occurence, 'there have been ascertained to have perished in the town of Roseau and its vi cinity eight white persons of different. sexes and ages,. 57 free persons of colour, and 63 . slaves, , form-, ing a total. of 131 (since foue,,l to amount to 240); besides numbers of others yet missing, anaseveral Wounded. On .Morne Bruce, where . that part of the garrison stationed in Roseau is quartered, the whole of the barracks were blOwn down excepting . one three . Inez' and one woman killed, and one. man wounded. . . The planters have,eqyally suffered with the inha-: bitants of the town ; every plantatien on the wind ward coast of the Island,,froM the River Tabarie to Marne Paix Bouche, are almost intirely de stroyed—only three mills standing in the whole extent, and those considerably damaged ; no other building left on either, sugar or ecifee estate, and the riumerous,inhabitants'of that' 'quarter llar for shelter four houses, - situated at some distance from the sea, to which most of the - white inhabitants have retired. On the different' estates On that coast, as far as accounts have reached town; there have pe rished about 30 uegraes, and upwards of 180 danger ously wounded. • •- . Round the coast, from the river Tabarie, by way of La Soye, the estate which bears the name of that river, is, perhaps, the only one that has not received any considerable damage in this general disaster.--- ,All the plantations on the coast, to the leeward of the island, have experienced the effeds of the. hur ricane ; every bouse. from the river Mahante down to Prince Rupert's; either laid flat, or greatly da maged-; the town of Portsmouth entirely destroyed; the greatest 'part of the barracks on Morne.Cabrit carried away and, in general, the whole island offers a scene of devastation and ruin. We learn that Martinique' has but slightly suffered. Grand Terre, in Guadaloupe, the:same. Maria Galante, and the Saints, have received considerable damage ; but that the other islands have entirely escaped.-- Though the whole weight of this misfortune seems to have fallen on our unfortunate island, we cannot help thinking it a subje& of rejoicing, that the other Colonies have been fortunate enough to escape this calamity ; as thus we have a resource open against the horrors of a famine, which, without the receipt of speedy supplies, would have been inevitable, the resources 'of the island being.entirely destroy ed in provisions of its own produaion, and the greatest part of those in town destrdyed or da maga . BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, AVG. 29.--Mr. FRANCIS CONSTABLE ) arnan naturally Of a gloOmy habit, but ;:trhese iirobii.y and placid manners fur several years :past had gained him•the tespeft and esteem of the inhabitants of.,thiS ill :Which he has long 1 - &- lived his 'store on Wednesday afternoon, and went - .home in AS apparent composure' as he had ',ever been: • He, however, in the course of the evening, evinced some degree of restlessness, and impatiently *desired the mother •of the three cOlour;.- ed children to put them all to bed (including a fine bov.of about fourteen years of age, his only soil by his late, wife) :' Sobn afterth ig i waS complied . with, the woMan heilself retired; : and he remained in the' hall, - pre** .for the. execution of hig purpose, which ivas too fatally, accomplished the fol lowing Manner, after one of his intended vie,. tims had escaped : When* the - stillness' of .the night Made him' believe his woman, and the children were fast asleep; he silently 'crept line the chamber, and began - the work of death, by an attempt to strangle the unsuspeCiing 'mother, giving her; at the / same instant,.a violent blow, on the temple with a boot-jack, to render her incapa ,, -ble of resistance. Fortunately the blew had not the desired effeet, but alarmed her so' Much, .that she struggled ,from the grasp he hrtd on her throat, and leaped through the window , to call its the neighbours, Another woman (her ..rela lion) in 'the house,' awakened by the noise, and equally alarmed at whit she saw, ,made her escape the same way, when Mr. C. deliberately •shutting' , himself closely in, began the 'horrid .tra ge'ly. Having previously • prepared cords, .he one round the. neck of each sleeping infant, and, it must be presumed, that, finding he could not effec- Wally wangle them', he Must have held them ,up suspended, in one .hand, while with ,the other .(hor rid to 'relke,e) he gave them repeated .stabs about the body, 'with a. pistol having . a spring . bayonet.== , The youngest (a. little girl not •three month's old) having one slight•-mark of the weapon on its lett pap, no doubt the tightness. of the cord had soon finished his purpose with her. His' son, .and the two other girl, had seven or eight stabs, many of which were mortal, and; it is'alsb supposed, froM h:s left hand being_much=bruiSed; and covered ; with blood,. that he did- not elfeeluate his purposit with the bigger children without considerable difficulty 3 it fat% one was said to have been overheard remon strating and endeavouring- to. avert the purpose of this cruel, father. After _the. women had got .out, the cry of Murder" resounded through the neighbourhood, and along the whole street, but did not meet fot' settle titre with . due•attemltion. By dint of perseverence, however, a tew at length crave ear to it,-and- Mr. Adlam, sen. Mr. Moore, Mr. limber, Mr. PoPplewell, Mr. Brownbill (Mr. C.'s _ clerk), and others, came to the house, The former: .. , Gentleman-galled to Mt. C. , requesting' he would 'open the door,as he had some business,tO transaa' with him. .The wretched .wan replied, with cArii composure, and as if in the ael of hushing one of the L children. to sleep, that that was- no ,time firqF , ing business, and.that -if he ,had any busine:is to, set 7 tle withhitn, to call in the morning—at the SaMe ; time disclaiming occasion. to use Mi. A.'s.reite rated offers of.-service; if lw could render atty.--- The door being at-length forced, ,he was seen lying on the. floor, huddled,. up L.frorn tivLich po=tion; how•eN.-er;, to imutedititely.ar.ose, sett:tingly ticir,ned, • tint' approached those, wild ertterel,atte:ing them - repeatedly •to quit the ; house, Seeing lz ill sLigger, Mr. Adlam and-Mr. Bro,wribill,sezed each an arut, and one saying, °`. .Goad Aod,. Consiable, what.have you done. r (not; knowing at thesame time, 'of the horrid transaEtion,in thc,tidjoiningroom) ; he Coolly replied, " Well, can you, help . and then en deavonred to draw them near: the table, on Which . (when the candle was raised), the fatal instrument of death was Alien,. and inuediately, secured.. He was then led to the soft, where, : behig . ,laid, lie al most instantaneously fell asleep .to wake .no more 1, On carrying the candle into the ..chaMber, , what a scene presetited itself'!—four, hapless iufants wet- • tering in their blood three of them' already dead; and the eldest girl, who had just lived long enough to be removed into the next room, to Say . she Was,. (Iying - , and .ask .for sonic water, when she jojnec( :her murdered brother and sisters ! Assistance,was. procured for the wretched father, bit happily sistance was in vain; he lived in convulsive agony till past eight yesterday morning, ~when he expired„ a horrid .speaaele to, behold ; as some pt the by standers who were present at the awfUl 'moment of. his entering a dreadful eternity, declare*. that he had more the ghastly appdarancc, cf a dernixi, ,than. of 4 fellow man. A Coroner's: Inquest was heldOn . thelindies of the. unfortunate infants, and the ver (l/.7t returned was, of courset--,Mardere'd 1y (he hand. ,j 7 iv,- Francis Constable. W lien the Inquest was: held on the body; of this wretched wan, the dread-. tirl verdict .of- 7 -Selkmarder was returned. Two. ;: papers were produced in evidence, one purporting to be a letter, .dtited! the ;us: of August, addressed to Tho Mas Pemberton. and Prichard - Ptiddie; Esqrs. wherein he names them trustees of a deed, exe cuted on the tOth of August. The other, apparent „lyiatended as a justification of his"conduCt in this last , act, is as follows : . , Poor wretched creature ! what halt thou brought thyself and that poor onfurtunate boy to ! • • “. When I yetlea• on the happy situation I was once in, and • look now to what I am ralitc,;(i to, 'lite becomes a burthen—not the most distant hope' or prospect of ever getting forward. AS 1. nmst fail, I had better give up while I can pay every one honestly their own, and not by ,delay injure those that might repose confidence in tne. " My poor untbilimatp boy ! my heart bleeds to see the misery I have brought you to ! This drives me to melancholy, despair, and maduess. Let us leave the world, my poor fellow, before you know the state you are reduced to. My poor dear child t, : I don't regret - the little settlement that is made on you; I wisn it had been • more. Had it remained in the hands of your fa titer, it would have been- wasted away, and you would beunprovided for. Your unhappy father feels ;for the pain it, must give you to hear of his horrid and tragical end, and that of your poor brother. .Forgive me, my dear child,though your sufferings will be great. I have nQ,ciortifude to bear up any longer. " You, other poor unfortunates! I have been the means of your .corning into the world ; nave not the means to leave you support: The poor womao, your mother, has neither abilitiestuor in- * His son by his late wife. .+. His daughter in England. Nis three co/our:Nl cxwep, duqqy to ieroktide for you. Shit.it icave you t peii , h on the faC'e'bf the earth ? )r6 it cannot be t Pity the poor' wretch who was drove to thil by tnelatiCholy and dusphir tv - SS nOt actuated by malice, anger, hatred, or reve4, but pity t 6 the poor unfortunates who would have been left to want and misery. I forgive every pne; arid beg fativerren of any that I may have injured'. " Put the poor unfortunates into the grave with decency, as soon as it can be lawfully done, that the horrid scene may be closed from the world. (Signed) " Fitiorms CONSTABL.R." The murdered infants *ere earned together; in one hearse,• to thdir graves, calling forth the .sj,mra thetie tear for their premature fate as it passed ; the remains of their unpitied parent were interred on a part of his land in New Town. LOSS OF THE GLASGOW' PACKET. The Glasgow Packer, Moses Jon N STOIZ , Master, eailed from Leith op Sunday the I Uth nee - . at five o'clock in the evening, with 2i passengers on hoard; At two o'clock next morning she struck upon a sunk rock, outside the Fearn islands, .and : the water im mediately. ushedin seeing *there was no possibility Of saving the Ship, the Captain ordered 'the Boat to be got out, and two Merl to gdt her to the lee-bow, to save the women, if possible, bet the wind and sea being:so strong, they lost, their hold, and inimedi ately the Boat was Out of sight ; the stern-boat had been stoves in pieces. The Ship being now full of made the sea ade a • fair passage over her; guns were fired so long as the Vessel Was above water ; there being,no appearance of any assistance, al on beard endeavoured tO catch the rigging, or any place where they could hold . theniselves thst—they conti nued in this state till day-light, when five of the passengers were missing. At this tittle three Holy Island Boats appeared, but could not come nearer the Vessel than twenty . yards, the sea running so high; they were called to, to heave their fishine - - lines• on board, which thy Captain flistened round the passengers, who threw themselves into the sea, and were drawn by the fishermen into their Boats. Captaiit jons:si.oN was the last that got off the wreck,- except a man, his. -wife, and a child, who could not .at ; they, however, a little after, were got out: Other three pass'engers, arid one of the Ship's - servatits,• were, lost after day-light, and before any "person left the Ship ; the rest got safe on, cane : of she islands. The Vessel remained all day on the rock, and went to pieces daring the night Stnall part of the cargo, is saved. Another Acount of the loss of this Vessel con tains the following'particulars :—One man, a soldier, having his wife and two children on board, struggled about' an hour and a half with the children in ins 'arms, often under water, • and rendering what as sistance he could to save his wife ; but all seemed in vain, for he was at last ,overcome--his wife and. children 'were daehed from him, and with _much dif fiCultyhe saved himself. The children were drown ed in his sight ; but his wife was some time after 'found bn the wreck, with some life remaining, and it.is hoped that she will recover;, as likewise another weman, : who was found among the wreck by a-!aoat frord a Cutter : she was conveyed t o No r th Sun derland, and, proved to be the wife of a Gentleman, who, among others, had beeti brought, to Bain burgh Castle, in • great distress for her loss, as he was almost assured that she was nu more. Their joy and surprise at meeting_ may be better felt than :deseribed. Another poor woman -CiiMe ashore with •the first boat, who has lost a child seven weeks old, nail.. her husbeud, .Who, before his exit, had. ire , quently dragged her-from the water with her child, but et last, feiles prey to the dreadful element !—and timugh.tliecliUd was only seven weeks old, site had to struggle for the safety of it and herself' for near five hours, up' to the breast in w - ater, ofteteitolding 'it aboVe her to avoid the dreadful breakers, which ;seemeql toll:I - eaten' their destreaione till at last she wets overpowered ; her hushaed and child, at the same instant, were washed over the side, and seen no more I 'She is at the Castle in great distress. Another person Bad 'the 'good fortune to save his wife and child ; he secured Ins child (you his breast, and with hiS back downwards was dragged through the water fur some' considerable distance to the rocks ;' as was tire' case with'.all those that were saved : 'this, toeether with their former, sulThrings, • almoSt suffocated theta. Capt. l e esere and Capt. CAMPBELL, ,of the 9 I st . .regitnent, two of the pas.. 'sengers, were among the saved. When the tide flowed in the forenoon, the Vessel fell off over the :rock, and sunk .in deep water, the top, of her mast :only being seen at low water. She sailed from Lett-11 ; 0o the Sunday,afternotineand had a valuable cargo on board. Had not the Vessel providential ly remained on the rock, not one would have been saved:`. 'PUBLIC, OFFICE, tIATTov - GAnDEN.—Yesterday George Shields, alias Phillips, alias Gluier, sc6. was finally examined, being charged on suspicion of stealing a large quantity of silver plate froM the hothe WWI% FOrbes, in Brunswick-square, near the Found ling Hospital. While the servants were i,usily em ployed in cleaning the house, the Prisoner availed himself of the•opportuuity to go dOwn the area steps, and-take the plate, He. was stopped in the street with the.properzy .upon:him, .which being, sworn to, he was fully committed fur trial. Monday, about two o'clock, the Royal Yarmouth andipswich double coach-broke down, in Cheapside but though full of inside and outside passenger's, for= tunately none of them received any material injury. CORN EXCHANGE, Nov. 2G.—`-'leis day there are 'hardly any farther arrivals of grain in s g - ,eneral, and Owing to the inclemency of the weather, very few Bar lbyrieart6td; I\ l l 7- a i l l t ea F t re is each neari ' 'Y t:a a ti t i:f lu o t t l ) da elp ' e s r l ; 6 N ces os ; , and Beans of both sorts are nearly at last quoted prices ; ninny Cargoes — of Oats now arrive of the- description of gotatoe quality, -floe samples of whic . i tt increase on the currency Of about .<4s. or 3., per quaher ; in Flour little alteration fine Atnerican frOm 445. to 48s. per barrel. • Wheat 56s a 7oS a Szs od I>eJns - 444 ,a sis od Fine ditto -84 s a 87 ,,, o , ! Tick Beans 36, d 43s nu Rye - - 42 , . 46, od Oats. 22s a . 26s a 3os cd Earley - . 36s a. 435 cd. Poland ditto- 3 , .s a 32: od Malt • - -7 0 s a 763 od Rape Seed 24'. 281. 0 ,, . od White Pease 74s a 845 od Fine Flour 7,s a 75.; cd t . ; ley ditto 46s a sis od Seconds ....! 6s s a 7cos oki.