The Sun. — London, England, 1817-11-06 00:00:00

pool 1 lodo sErl' i enabl4l a ine 11 r ago fO r e ,) 'dee , ,usv ei JO' 13 611 Ees 811, e. loof, on I d cam - ro .- it ft i " itesi s leo" Ilia °' g of (14 1 14 iirea , bd ri IC 1 05 13t 7'r t stilt° is VII e owl"' t. _~~~ SECOND E orrio,N. THIRD EDITION• Di v A 'r %~ A r after eleven o'clock. ." 3 CS , ~' r ~~ c'; ~ ~~ ~% o 0 ,t FURTHER PARTICULARS RESPECTING HER LATE ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE. The Labour began early on Tuesday morning-, when Sir R. CROFT elispatcheti Expresses to the Medical Attendants. At the same time, Ex- presses were sent to the Cabinet Ministers.—The Labour, it seems, was very slow in progress throughout that day.—On Tuesday, at midnight, or soon after, a Messenger arrived at Carl- top House with the intelligence that her . loyal Highness was under the influence of labour pains, and accompanied by a Bulletin, stating that every thing was proceeding, though stow, in the most satisfactory manner : this Ettlletin was immediately dispatched to the PRINCE R EGSNT, who, on the receipt of it, set out for town, and arrived at Carlton House at half-past three o'clock this morning. On his Royal Highness's arrival I,e received a Bulletin, announc- ink; that the Child was Still-born ; but with the consoling intelligence that her Royal Highness was going on remarkably well. His Royal Highness immediately dispatched one of his Gentlemen to Claremont, to ascertain further particulars of the progress of her Royal Highness, and to announce his Royal Highness's intention of proceeding to elermont with out delay. The Officer had just refl . Carlton-house when Earl BATHURST arrived with the heart-rending intelligence of the cala- Riity which the Country cannot cease to deplore. His Royal Highness the Duke of YORK, ac companied by Earl BATHURST, were, we under- Wand, immediately dispatched in one of the Prince Regent's carriages, to offer, in It's Royal Highness's name, an asylum. in Carlton-house to Prince LEoPorm, that he might be removed from the afflicting scene by which he is surrounded at Claremont, and apartments are preparing for the reception of his Serene Highness. The following additional particulars, respecting the event that must spread consternation and sorrow over the Empire, may be copfidently relied on : The ROYAL INFANT was alive 'till within a very few minutes before the Delivery, and is one of the finest- children ever seen. The PRINCESS bore the account of the frustra tion of her hopes of a living Offspring with asto-. tishing fortitude. The Cabinet Ministers had such full reason to believe that all Was safe frith respect to the PRIN.. c - us, that they departed from Claremont soon Between one and two her Royal Highness was seized with alarming depression, and so obvious art. exhaustion of strength,. that the Physicians immediately sent a Dispatch to Earl BATHURST, at Putney ; but just as his Lordship was prepar ing to depart for Claremont, another Dispatch arrived, announcing the Fatal Event. The Earl then went instantly to Lord SIDMOUTIT, at Rich wont! Park, and both of these Noblemen proceeded immediately to Town. When Prince LEOPOLD heard of the delivery, he instantly exclaimed, " Thank God the Mother is safe The ParNce REGENT, as soon as he was Infornied in Suffolk that her Royal Highness was in labour, immediately departed and travelled all night. The moment he arrived in town he dispatched Sir BENJAMIN BLOOMFIELD to Clare mont to announce his intention immediately to follow and when he was on the eve of quitting town, the melancholy tidings arrived, which at once put an end to his hopes and happiness. - TI a Theatres and all places of public entertain ment, will of course be shut this, evening, on account of the melancholy occasion. THE THEATRE..—A new farce, intitled A Friend Indeed ! followed the Tragedy of The Gamester last night at Covent-Garden Theatre, but as our feelings on the melancholy event, which we have this day the painful duty of recording, will not suffer us to enter into any critical notice, and as we are sure that the curiosity of our Readers I will be overwhelmed by sympathetic emotions, we shall- only say that it met wits► some dissen tient voices, but was announced forrepetitiou. FOR THE SUN. THE TIMBER TRADE AND FISHERIES. Mr. EDITOR,—The recent decision in the Vice- Admiralty Court of Halifax, by which the Ame rican fishing vessels have been restored, notwith - standing they were seized on the shores of the, King's Colonies, has excited great attention in British North America, and at Poole, Dartmouth, and various other places interested in the Fisheries at Newfoundland, and in the Gulf of St. Law rence ; more especially as the unequivocal and explicit declaration of LORD CASTLEREAGH, in an swer to a question from Sir JOHN *NEWPORT in the Sessions before the last on this subject, led the public to believe the Americans were to be considered in the same light as other foreigners, and that they would not be Allowed to fish nearer the coasts of any of His Majesty's dependencies than the latter, namely, than three leagues ; which are the limits laid down by all the writers nn the Law of Nations. if the Americans are thus to be encouraged, the Fisheries of the King's Colonies must be abandoned, and the subjects of other Nations will probably claim the same right to fish on these coasts, and how their vessels can be seized by His Majesty's Cruizers or Revenue Officers, and condemned, whilst the Americans are allowed to fish within the same limits with im- punity, is beyond our comprehension ; unless in order to conciliate the Americans, the Nation is prepared to quarrel with the other Maritime Powers whoSe subjects may be disposed to fish on these coasts and waters. We really did hope a more generous, firm, and decisive policy would have been adopt ed towards British North America. It should be recollected, that its inhabitants are the re mainder of the Loyalists —and the descend ants of Loyalists who quitted the other parts of that Continent on the breaking out of the FIRST American War—abandoning their property and adhering c?ith fidelity to their Sovereign and to the Country of their ancestors.—Surely these are not the people who ought thus to be treated ! For whilst the Americans are permitted t o inter fere with our Colonial Fishermen, the latter have no chance whatever of competition in the markets with the lot mer. On this subject and the Lumber Trade, a way ward policy seems likely to be pursued—alike in jurious to the Colonists, as it will be to many of the great trading and manufacturing interests at home. It wonld be much more dignified for the Government, to speak out and to state the line of conduct they intend to pursue with respect to these Fisheries and the Timber Trade, before the winter is further advanced, tha' to leave it to the uncertainty and doubt which prevail at the pre sent moment. It is well known to be the intention of the Merchants and the Agents of the Coloui:qs not to charter ships for Timber from British North Ame rica for the next season, front the apprehension that a duty will be imposed on all Cot.oNlat. Wood, and that alterations «re intended to be made in the duties on Foreign Timi)er. Now were it otherwise, and it was generally known that the Trade was to remain permcinently on its present footing, a much greater number of ships, we are assured, would be chartered this winter for the next spring for the King's North American Colonies, than during the last. By which the Ports .to which the ships belong. will , be relieved from an enormous increase of poor rates ; a general employment will take place in all the branches of 'Trade connected with the outfit of shipping ; orders will be given for goods for expnrtation to the Colonies, and a corres pondent beneficial operation created in every point of view, highly advantageous to the Nation. The grounds of objection to the importation of Foreign Wood have been so often before the Pub lic, and have been so universally, admitttd to be well founded, that we will not fatigue your Read , ers by their repetition, but it they bad not, and the policy of encouraging the growth of Timber in Foteign States, in preference to the growth of' it in the United Kingdom, or in the King's Depen dencies, was in any wise or at any time advisable or prudent, this is certainly not the period for snch a system, for, independent of the depression of shipping in general, there cannot strictly be said to by, at the present moment, a price for English Oak. In various districts the land is really groaning under its pressure, and the fami lies.who have for the last thirty or forty yeats been husbanding their Wood cannot now sell it ! A Right Honourable Individual who, a few years since, bought a large Estate, with a great quan tity of full grown Oak upon it, has not been able to make a sale of any, and from the system intro duced of thinning instead of the old' practice of de vastating whole Woods, the quantity of Oak Timber now fit for use is far beyond the average consumption of it for shipbuilding, and in a fe w years will fat exceed the average War'Consnmp tion—that it is to be presumed, the Landed Inte rest will not in future be so supine on a subject so deeply affecting their welfare as they have been, under a delusion founded on the most gross mis, representations that ever were practised in any country.—Why this particular and important pro duce of the soil is not to rise in an equal ratio with other productions of the earth, we have never had satisfactorily explained to its. The price of Oak Timber in 1663 and 1756 was nearly the same and continued so until 1702. The rise which took place in 1793, and subsequently, was not from the want of Oak Timber, but from the before-mentioned delusion practised on the Public, and the want of that open general competi tion for the supply of THIS ARTICLE for the Naval Service, which with respect to all other articles was the uniform practice. On three Estates in Sussex, there is at this time more full grown Oak Timber (we do not mean to include Ornamental Timber) than would be required for two years. consumption, public and private, and that in j .• • ~ ~ other Counties equal quantities may be found, We have little doubt. We know many families who expected to have realised at this time on their fall of Timber, but who, not finding a sale for it, are experiencing much distress from the general depression of it in the Market. la proof of these remarks, we need only refer to the .Country Gentlemen in all the Wood Dis tricts, who. we are satisfied will add their con firmatory testimony to ours. Therefore, to re duce the Duties on Foreign Timber will ' tend to increase the pressure already felt at home, on o,ilt Timber, Larch, and other „woods, and to im pose a duty on the industry and resources of the Colonies, will augment that pressure by ITS RE COIL on the trade, manufactures, and navigation of the Mother Country. For as the trade to the Colonies under the Navigation Laws is altogether British, between 1100 and 1200 British built ships are employed in it, but which will be thrown out of employment, if. any duty is int• posed on Colonial Timber,—and by the annihila tion of this trade, will the (anthill exports to these Colonies of upwards of One Million Sterling in Home Manufactures be lost—and for what ? Why to get rid of the importunities of FOREIGN COURTS, grounded and. urged , on by the avarice and self interest of individuals and families who are " Citizens of the World," and who, from the long suspension of the Navigation Acts, and the mitigated manner in which the late war was unfor tunately carried on in an intercourse even with the enemies countries, have become rich, power ful, and importunate, and who, from their übiquity of character, are, (as may best suit their views) 'subjects of - different countries at the same time. We, however, trust his Majesty's Ministers will hesitate before they adopt any of the measures now so seriously apprehended, and that -they will, be fore the winter is too far advanced, make known to the numerous and various classes interested, the course which they intend to pursue, for the reasons we have before-mentioned. The disinterestedness with which your excellent raper is conducted by your gratuitions insertion of Articles on Miscellaneous topics, many of them of the highest importance, must be our apology for requesting that these Observations may appear on an ewly day, whilst your liberality; firmness, and patriotism cannot fail to excite a kindred feel ing towards yOu, and a fixed determination to give the widest possible circulation to your Paper. We are, Mr. Editor, Disciples of the Old School, though Dealers in Timber, And your very faithful Servants, lank Coffee-House, Nov. 4, 1817. T.W. J. Y. SUDDEN DEATH.—Last night Mr. JAMES TIDY way from London to Southgate, dropt down, and expired while in the act of crossing the road: near his' own house. His loss will be most severely felt by his wife and five children. Mr. O'CONNOR has served a Capias . or Latitat npon JOHN MOCKLER, Esq. a Magistrate of the county of Meath, upon the grounds of defamation. He lays his damages, it is said, at twenty thousand pounds.—(Patriot, of Dublin, Nov. 1.) Mr. INCLEDON arrived at New York in the ship John and Edward, front Liverpool, on the 12th of October. " To-morrow,' and To-morrow, and To-morrow, " Creeps on with stealing pace from hour to hour, " And soon•will be no more"— therefore delay not till " To-morrow" that which can be done To-day. " To-morrow" the Lottery commences drawing, '' To-morrow" some of the SIX Prizes of 20,0001. may be determined, and (‘ To-morrow"' will afford an opportunity of ob taining an independent fortune, at the Offices of G. CARROLL, the Contractor, 7, Cornhill, and 26, Oxford-street. 'l'o-dav is the first day of Term, and Westmin ster Half is in a bustle. To-morrow the Lottery commences Drawing, and the Offices are crowded. Those who have any thing to do with Law, com plain of the Law's delay, and their fears predo minate. Those who have adventured in the pre sent Lottery, fix their wishes on the SIX 20,0001., and their hopes predominate. Now there will be no " delay" in the drawing of the SIX 20,0001., which will, " without delay," be paiol as 5000, RS draWR, by J. and J. SIVEWRIGHT, 37, Cornbill, 38, Haymarket, 11, Holborn, and 141, Oxford-street. The unprecedented number of Six Prizes of 20,0001. in so small a Lottet y as the present—the evident advantage of the Scheme, which contains more Prizes than Blanks—and so great a portion of the Blanks being entitled to a second Chance, with the option of receiving 121. each instead— have all combined to create an extraordinary de mand for the Tickets and Shares, particularly at Swlyr:s old,and.fortnnate Offices, 1! , Poultry ; 12, Charing-cross ; and 31, Aldgate High-street; where two Prizes of 20,0001. and several others of 1,0001. &c. &c. &c. were sold. in Shares in the last and late Lotteries.—The Drawing begins To- Morrow. The last Lottery that commenced drawing the 7th of November, was, like the present, composed of Money and Stock Prizes : and it is no doubt in the recollection of the Public, that BISH sold Two Prizes of 50,000/. besides various minor Capitals. Since that period, there have been Two more .Stock Lotteries,' in which BISH's Offices again stood pre-eminent, having sold 1 Prize of 40,000/. 1 Prize-of 30,0001. 1 Prize of 20,000/. and 1 Prize of 15,0001., besides an immense number of . smaller Capitals; and during the same peiiod, the number of Money Capitals sold by BISH is too numerous for an Advertisement.— This continued success, though it only speaks for the past, yet it does not augur badly for the fu ture ; we, therefore, shall not be surprised if we have to ;announce, shortly, that BISH has sold the greater part (if not all) the Six 20,0001. Prizes, contained in the Lottery which begins To-morrow, the 7th of This Month. Wall the foreigners of distinction that have ar rived in this country, none has so numerous'and varied a Levee as that interesting Stranger, th e . Orang Outang, at Exeter 'Change ; the vast mul titudes that visit him daily is beyond conception. He is equally courteous to all ; even the most timid Lady or child is 'received by him with the greatest affability and condescentio-n ; and allranks retire from his presence with the most distinguish ed approbation and delight SUPPLEMENT to the LONDON GAZETTE OF TUESDAY, THE 4TH OF NuVEMBLE. WEDNESDAY, Nov. 5. INDIA BOARD, Nov. 5, 1817. Dispatches have been received at the East India House, addressed to the Secret Committee by the Governor in Council at Bombay, enclosing re ports of the measures adopted for suppressing the insurrection raised in the dominions of the Pcishwa, by Trimbuckjet Dainglia, of which re ports-0)e following are copies or extracts Extract from a Dispatch from the Hon. Mountstuart Elphin stone, the Resident at the Court of the Pastisra, to the Governor-General, dated Poona, April 7. Since I had last the honour to address your Lordship, Trimbuckjee has gone on increasing his force as usual. Ha has persons scattered through the villages for a considerable extent of country, recruiting for him, but finds some diffi culty in raising men ; some refuse to join him, unless he will chew a wavrant from the Peishwa, in whose name he recruits ; while others join him with less. difficulty, but desert whenever there is any report of an attack. Tritnbuckjee himself re mains separate from his troops, and often changes his ground. He is now stated to have retired across the Kistna, towards' Darwar, but the fact is uncertain. His troops are now chiefly in the district of Jut, between Punderpoor and Be lapoor ; troops also still continue, to be raised in Candeish. Copy of a Dispatch from Captain George Sydenham, Poli tical Agent in Berar, to Mr. Elphinstone (no date), with an enclosure. SIR,--1 have the honour to forward to you a copy of Captain Davies's report of a very bril liant and successful attack which he lately made on the insurgent horse in Candeis.h. As the enemy have lett the frontier, the troops engaged in the attack bare for the present been recalled to Attrungabad. IThe Risala, which was on the way to join them, has been stationed at Kannur, and the post at the Gootalla Ghaut in its front strengthened by a company of regular infantry. My hirkarrahs are watching the enemy's movements ;• add if they should again approach, the frontier, the Nizam's troops will be rein forced. I have the honour to be, &c. GEORGE SYDENHANI, Agent in Berar. Camp, April 21. 5111,.---I have the honour to report, that in pursuance of the intention expressed in my letter to your address of the 19th instant, I put the in tantry in motion for the Gootalla Ghaut at three o'clock that afternoon, following myself with about 600 horse at four o'clock, and reached Sea gaon, a village belonging to Moorteeza Yor Jung, about six miles from the foot of the Ghaut, at ten o'clock at night, where I waited one hour to collect the men, who had scattered, owing to the badness of the Ghaut. By the (1) patell of this village I was informed, that the enemy had stationed mounted videttes at every village be tween that place and their camp, which was about twelve ems distant , but there was a road leading to it through the jungle, frequented only by (2) Brinjurries, by which 1-might advance unobserv ed; and he offered to conduct me : I accordingly mounted him on a horse, and proceeding by the route he pointed out, arrived at the village they were reported to be encamped at, ten coss dis tant, a little after day-break, when I found 4bat they bad marched from thence the evening be fore to Gunnaispoor, about two coss. I ad vanced with five or six horsemen to reconnoitre, leaving orders with Captain Pedlar to bring up• the horse, and desiring Captain Pedlar to leave the knapsacks of the infantry in a ravine, and to follow with the utmost expedition ; I had ad vanced about a mile, when I discovered -one of the patroles of the enemy, whom I immediately pursued, and took two of them prisoners ; a third man escaped through the jungle to the left : from the two prisoners 1 ascertained, that the enemy had their horses ready saddled, but had not re ceived any information of our'approach. I sent back to desire Captain Pedlar. to advance at- a brisk pace ; he overtook me in a short time, and we pushed . on at a very smart canter, and in ascend ing a rising ground perceived the enemy drawn up to-receive us, their right flank protected by a strong (3) gurhee, into which they had thrown some infantry, and their front covered by a (4) ntillah wi li steep banks. As they considerably outnumbered us, being about two thousand strong, and chiefly armed With matchlocks, I determined upon instantly charging them with ,the sabre, and accordingly ordered the men to sling their match locks, and advance . in as compact a body as_tl ie nature of the ground, which was covered iqth low jungle, would admit of; on receiving this OA. der our line advanced at full speed, every man endeavouring to be first on the enemy ; they fired a few shots from their matchlocks as we were crossing the millah, which fortunately passed over us without doing any injury. The instant we got over the nullab the enemy broke - and fled in aIL directions, and were pursued upwards Of three a loss of a bout 200 m en killed, great number wounded ; a mongst the cosy, besides sustaining a latter was a person who appeared : to be a Chief of conseqmence, called by his own men Appall Sahib, and who, when wounded, threw dow n his